'hardknocks' poems - Hello Poetry

Alina Katura Burniston-Perez Aug 2014

Ima boffo buffoon tryna buff up my boons
But you know I'm a loon I'll deflate your ego balloon
I'll howl at the moon and pretend I'm someone new
Because your voodoo's got me hoodooed and I don't know what to do
My identity is constantly being renewed
tryna fit into the box of hardknocks
and punch some sense into my tune
because every time you pass me by I swoon
And everyday I'm feelin more like a goon

Your comradery is as fictitious as cartoons
I'm attuned to your thoughts but never immune
We commune with such intensity
Incessentantly
Feeling better than I can bare to be
Colliding the plate of our brains
We shoot out thoughts to accelerate the seismic waves
Sending the Earth to a fit of shivers
And the accolade of your presence cascades
Filling me up with a beautiful haze
But gloom consumes the room
when I resist the urge to importune

I search the dark nights for meaning
but the positions of the stars give little light to character and feelings
the sequence of animals coming to Budda's feast
Cannot tell me how to outline this beast
This recursion inversion has me wrapped in a cocoon
Harpoon me, spoon me, it all ends too soon
But my monkey men keep me feeling maroon
They are the calm in the eye of the typhoon
In my whirlwind of destructive desire
The fire in my volatile emotions is like war paint
Splattered across the canvas of my face
But I cannot hide behind the barricades
When your love for me is washed away

The rage possesses me in these dunes
The heat and wisdom of the desert is hard to impugn
But it dries up my mind and I dream of Neptune
I love getting lost at sea
but I'm drowning in this inability to ask
when I feel like I already know the answer
it's a self-fulfilling prophecy
That I blame on our intrinsic nature
to climb inside the stereotypes
live a life of comforting obliviousness
just as long as there's someone to share it with
but label me as you wish I will not label you
you have torn my heart in two
but I still love you
I’ve been so far in this deep blue sea
I couldn’t see the forest from the trees
All this time I’ve been avoiding the shackles and chains
Of predispositional pain
When it was a invitation for change
It resounds in my head
Evolve or be dead
I may not love myself yet
But loving you was my first step

Mike Hauser Jun 2014

Pleased To Meet You

Mike Hauser Jun 2014

Pleased To Meet You

Please allow me to introduce myself
In case your new to the scene
I am the thought that brings on the doubt
At the edge of all your dreams

I am lost confidence in the making
With deception on the side
The shiver in the shaking
The turning over of time

I am the spot closest to the end
When you have no where else you can turn
The front door to the school of hardknocks
When there's a lesson needed to learn

I am the dust that's on the shelf
Of your life's ambition
The torn out page if nothing else
Of the part that you are missing

So please allow me to introduce myself
Just in case your new to the scene
When it comes down to it above everything else
I am all you and you are all me

Ricknight May 2015

10 years and runnin'....

Ricknight May 2015

10 years and runnin'....

They say its all about the destiny,
Whatever’s meant to be,
All I need was a little air to breathe,
First, it didn’t make sense,
Time to make a few cents,
No pretence,
I left it at the last airport,
Though I had hope,
Coz life had come at the cross roads,
Where I met a few lost souls
Equally confused,
Exploited and abused,
Even my own blood,
I had to open the third,

Its getting cold
And I don’t mean weather,
But hopeful for the better,
And that’s not when I never did dope,
My only ray of hope,
Had me going against the world
Its all about the word,
Like two pieces of puzzle,
Will I ever learn to hustle?
I passed on,
From the school of the hardknocks,
The battle was long and hard fought,
I m still ready for whatever,
Hail or high water,
The trouble was never with the bent,
It was God sent,
It made me who I am,
All part of the plan,
To you it may seem nothing,
10 years and running….

Mike Hauser Jun 2018

Pleased To Meet You

Mike Hauser Jun 2018

Pleased To Meet You

Please allow me to introduce myself
In case you're new to the scene
I am the thought that brings on the doubt
At the edge of all your dreams

I am lost confidence in the making
With deception on the side
The shiver in the shaking
The turning over of time

I am the spot closest to the end
When you have no where else to turn
The front door to the school of hardknocks
When there's a lesson needed to learn

I am the dust that's on the shelf
Of your life's ambition
The torn out page if nothing else
Of the part that you are missing

So please allow me to introduce myself
Just in case your new to the scene
When it comes down to it above everything else
I am all you and you are all me

Bloodline of King Yashayah Jun 2020

Thiz Iz Iht!! {What!?}

Bloodline of King Yashayah Jun 2020

Thiz Iz Iht!! {What!?}

No jokes to tell I'm not a comedian or African American
There am I again arguing over the sips of gin religions
Tryna play in the corners of the hearts full of stones
Clones don't understand the battlezone hold my own
Guns Iverson who's liver son? Rapper don critics stun
From the underweight hitter that was never outdonned
Feel the wrath raging thunder cat swords yells holy grail
Caught my foes creeping like a snail evil parallel
To the goods smoke blacks woods over understood
They say they love you but hate you when you making venues
I'm smashed ya cable views Amazon prime time
Caught a shine from glimpse of shadow killin' battles
Shooters to my intruders love big ******* looters
Of the body snatcher grim reapers on a spatula spectacular
Performance way pass a boxers endurance better have insurance
*** whooping the deductible i trouble you or crews
Quick to bruise shots like Lewis in the pocket can't stop it
As I drop it gems freaking girls badder than lilKim
Circle 'em like Indy 500 rituals it's habitual clicking miracles
No clocks I live off nature's time works carefully aligned

Chain ya brain of thoughts with no chainsaw raw
From my maw like eyes surprised from what Moses saw
Black sheppard herding the sheeps I'm gods peeps
One of kind stand in line five loaves fish scales with no spine
Check it we hitting all of the people seekin' peepholes
Of a new sequel see the evils unravel still travel
Like I'm out of bound desert birds causing gerds
Fools leaving dry cuz my words magnify holy saint
Third eye dripping like wet paint fresh on the scene
Count the feds greens no if or ands in-between cop fiends
Looking for a o-ring of a drug sting broke from hells ring
Torch the tiki let the blunts blaze til I'm spliffy jiffy and jiggy
Hardknocks makes for the hardest clocks of time rewind
See the grave master design broke the feline of the cats
Cheese left for the rats I'm lace em with Capones gat
Typewriting over sniping still **** in the name of Jesus will
Naw I got my own appeal blast at any blue shield
Navigate like Sienfield what's the deal? Squeeze a squeal
With no pressure under a new codex texture lecture
Only to to complex mental cells *** sanes only get vexed
Girls catch a glimpse of my intellect
stuffs em like beam
from a period sentence kotex

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