#pepper
"Lend an ear"
"Listen close"
"Take this to heart "
"Pay attention"
"Hear me out"
"Things are good, I guess"
"I'm sorry"
"I don't want to cause you trouble"
"You go on without me"
"Oh, it's nothing really"
"..."
"..."
"..."
Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM UTC
You shook your head in sadness at the sight of my scars,
not knowing that you had held the knife that caused them.
Aug 27, 2025
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM UTC
I think that in the winter
my stutter must get worse,
because lately,
I can't say anything right.
Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM UTC
Creepy Dolls
In my room are three dolls.
One tall,
Two short.
The short ones
have soft blonde hair.
The tall one is fancy.
It rests with a smile
unlike the somber twins.
A long time ago,
they were put into storage
and never taken out,
until an old granny died
and they were set
on the dusty shelves of Goodwill,
overlooking the cracked and ***** dolls
just like them.
I picked them up because
I know how it feels
to not be wanted.
People call them creepy,
and haunted,
but I call them mine.
And now they have a home.
Nov 10, 2024
Nov 10, 2024 at 10:21 AM UTC
Our Angel
“We found her bones under the stairs,”
He said to me.
They were fresh,
dripping with ichor
and smelling of sunshine.
That day,
my heart was ripped out of me
and buried with the bones.
Because without those bones
breathing
and smiling
and telling me sweet lies,
I don’t know how to live.
“It’ll be okay,”
He continued.
Not knowing that I was the one,
I was the one who had to tell them,
“Our Angel is gone.”
And I know that once I tell them,
amidst their tears they will **** me too.
Nov 9, 2024
Nov 9, 2024 at 11:03 PM UTC
*****
Everything is so, so *****
Everything is of mold,
or rust,
or flies,
or rot.
Gosh, am I ***** too?
I want to find something nice to wear,
something that will make a stranger think,
“I wonder who she is.”
Yet, all my sweaters have holes.
The black sandals I got on clearance
left stains on my socks.
How am I supposed to be loved?
How am I supposed to do well?
How am I supposed to live
if I am so *****
Nov 9, 2024
Nov 9, 2024 at 11:01 PM UTC
Legends be told, and written in tomes of a creature which roams the residence of the family: Lee-
Through shrubs and trees, though silent and unseen, it seeks seeds-
Ones of fire. Ones of sweet.
The creature seen only when: upon them, it feeds, simultaneously.
Its form of a boar with a tongue of alchemy, ignites in a spectrum of brilliancy. Hovering eyes remain but for a moment and weep vehement tears; crystallizing with the essence of harvest.
May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 11:07 PM UTC
If gloom descends; Capsicum appends:
Removing dooms in plumes of red lumens.
Biological conversion from stagnation to movement.
Shaman, brother, lover, friend.
Bold holistic resolute.
Unequivocally coalesced in this; a magnificent fruit.
May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 10:58 PM UTC
As a small child
I constantly seek any kind of discovery
But things get wild
With what the kitchen cupboard brings
Without my shepherd
I grab the pepper
I don’t know what it’s meant for
So in my hands it’s centered
My eyes start to tear up
My nose starts to tingle
My fingers will clear up
This temporary wrinkle
I rub my eyes
Bringing demise
Violent cries
Follow pries
All I feel is pain
Surging to my brain
In my eyes torrential rain
Burning me until I’m insane
All I see is red
Inside my head
From pepper fed
To my eyes of dread
Father grabs me
And holds me under a faucet
I think he’s attacking
I think he’s lost it
Help he’s killing me
I’m going to drown
With water he’s filling me
So he’ll no longer frown
But he pulls me out before I die
Much to my surprise
There’s no pain in my eyes
And I can see my father is wise
I mistakenly
Thought he had forsaken me
And was murdering me blatantly
But he was actually saving me
So it’s him I trust
Because I must
But I have a lust
For wild gusts
So I am his student
Yet not as prudent
I’m always truant
Ignoring influence
But I pick it up along the way
Just before my life decays
I recall a helpful phrase
Or words of praise
I get lost
But then I am found
The only cost
Is to think I have drowned
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019 at 6:11 PM UTC
One of the best feelings
The first bite of my favorite meal.
It's hard to decide if it's hunger
Or anticipation.
All of this savored in smile.
The spice of salt, pepper among things
The aroma coming from plate to spoon,
The simplicity of it all.
I live for this feeling,
This warm cozy feeling,
A tight hug from meal to lips.
Theres no better feeling.
Tight hugs
Followed by her kisses
Jan 14, 2019
Jan 14, 2019 at 9:15 AM UTC
One afternoon, 'neath the shed,
mr. groundhog waited...
nothing in sight, not a cat, nor a leapfrog
just the fading sound of walking clogs
"oohhh, she's gone! time to burrow
.....my path is still short and narrow."
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
mr. groundhog started digging.....up to the rotting log
of the wide, cut-up oak tree, upon which, a bull frog
landed...then, leapt to a hidden garden bog.
fine rains started to wet the soil...at last, mr. groundhog,
emerged from his hole on the grassy center
he popped his head out.....suddenly, great fear
enfolded him, he felt a rushing wind...whatever, whoever,
could be watching....then, an odd scent filled the air,
it persisted...that stinging smell...of pepper
lucky woodchuck! the scent dispersed in the ether
its tiny granules got soaked in rainwater.
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
mr. groundhog sighed..."i'll leave it to the weather,
i'm kinda tired...........october, is almost over."
Sally
Copyright Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
October 24, 2018
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 11:49 AM UTC
I shall not call myself
a poet
to thee
Instead
I shall allow you
to walk by
and judge me
like the bottle of wine
you did not buy
because my label
appears plain.
Simple
on the outside
I may be
but within
I'm bursting
with flavors
you can't even begin
to see.
And I won't whisper
all
your misgivings
I'm sure
Muscato
is sweet
I know
fancy
and perhaps
giving
You won't know all
by looking at me
even once you're in
tasting to try
the lingering spice
leaves you
craving
drinking me dry.
and even then..
Feb 15, 2017
Feb 15, 2017 at 11:09 AM UTC
pink pepper berries,
invite to pluck and partake;
at one's peril of course.
Aug 13, 2016
Aug 13, 2016 at 2:30 PM UTC
It's duller now
I only see you in my suggested friends list... or in tagged posts.
Or in your sister's comment threads.
But I still remember when seeing you on my timeline made me burn up. At first it was ginger, spicy and sweet. Talking to you made me feel like I had the universe in my head; probably because you told me you were studying the string theory and you knew how stars formed.
After a while I didn't feel a burn anymore. I didn't feel anything in my head except empty and I didn't know how to remedy it, except by putting all of myself towards keeping you from feeling the same. I lost myself; you found me, absorbed my strength, and said you had none to give back when I needed it.
The night you tried to **** yourself wasn't ginger, cayenne, or even the weak sting of crushed black pepper. It was pure peppermint oil: molten silver and acidic. I have no other words for it. It hurt almost as bad as when, after weeks of not knowing if you were dead or alive, you texted me.
"So, your cousin is pretty amazing... we've only been talking a week but I think I'm in love with her?"
That was cayenne...
But now I guess I've built up a tolerance.
Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 8:39 PM UTC
Once I chased a girl in Calicut,
Her diet, just pepper, not her fault,
Wooing her I'd plead,
"You are hot, I am glad,
But burn just my mouth, understood?"
May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM UTC
I knew an old man who swallowed a peach,
A peach is a pepper a pepper a peach, a peach is a fruit,
My what a toot to have eaten such fruit, he swallowed the
Pepper to follow the peach but I don't
Know why he swallowed the peach,
Let's make some pie!
I knew an old man who swallowed a plum,
A plum is a cherry a cherry a plum, a plum is a fruit,
My what a toot to have eaten such fruit, he swallowed the
Cherry to follow the plum but I don't
Know why he swallowed the plum,
Let's make some pie!
He swallowed 'em whole...! Gasp...
Apr 14, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 at 1:15 AM UTC
Sam Pepper posted a video
on YouTube. It showed one
friend pretending to be
kidnapped, and shot and
killed in front of his best
friend. His best friend,
believing that he'd watched
the other die, said,
"Please, no, he's all
that I have."
Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015 at 4:07 PM UTC
Someone stole the last piece of my turkey sandwich.
I bet the ************ put some pepper on it.
I hope it was pepper from that
***** *** pepper-shaker that is no longer see-through.
That ******* left me with one poker-chip pickle slice and
Those pieces of potato chips that you
Have to spear with a fingertip to eat.
That son-of-a-bitch!
I am sure he put mustard on that last piece of turkey sandwich;
In that delicate delicatessen squiggly pattern that is all in the wrist.
-And, speaking of wrist, that ******* forged my signature perfectly.
He even put another Lone Star bottle on my tab then
Neatly arranged the bottle caps next to four toothpicks.
*That suave ************
To honor him, when I get home
I am going to smoke his ****
**** his girlfriend and take his ****
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 1:59 AM UTC
What will it be today?"
" I'll have some garlic, pepper and coke. "
" will that be all?"
"Yes."
Log: Ship Orinas last:
121299€
I made a short stop on planet earth. I am back in route toward home. Of course it's not every day one gets to stop and have the best spices and drink in the galaxy.
Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 10:08 AM UTC