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Oct 2024 · 80
Baby Boomers
Train rolls on down the line
takes me miles back in time
when life was an easy living
of just us taking and giving.
Now much more is at stake
MacArthur Park ruined cake
left out in the rain all night
spurned lover denies delight.
Slits wrists dies in bathtub.
Death's feather is final rub.
Oct 2024 · 78
Lum
Lum
Forever student at Ohio State,
brilliant or simple who knew?
Never bathed smelled of B.O.
so bad his nickname was Phew.
Mascot of comp sci department
everywhere on every spectrum
pity and love together arrived
we all learned to respect him.
Oct 2024 · 48
Confessional Coffin
I confess and eat penance
having sinned I must dance
again with my true mistress
awed as you slowly undress
tempting Eve in the garden
God is lost no way to win.
The waves blood clots deliver
  whatever narrative he desires
  1984 2020 brick stacked on brick
  build this awful factory of lies.

  Row deep for truth below our feet
  beyond safe buoys mermaids sing
  wind can tear you from your seat
  your arms remain strong rowing.
Oct 2024 · 45
Love's Blind Eye
You're a looker
and a ******
love's blind eye
just do or die
pay the rent
message is sent
fill any hole
my ***** mole.
Sep 2024 · 39
First Confession
Bless me, Father
for I have sinned.
I had *** with a nun
tasted priests' ***
took god's name
in some kind of vain.
Lied to mom and dad
was just kinda  bad.
Say 3 Our Father's and 3 Hail Mary's.
Sep 2024 · 51
80 is Next Stop
All the good things from my past are past
and my future looks like a ghost empty vast.
Tremors are worse, memory is going too fast
Clocks are breaking and time will never last.
Sep 2024 · 39
Wish I Were Here
I live my life in tiny parts
steal pieces of my heart
reluctant in fits and starts
wish I were here  for my part.
Sep 2024 · 81
Dumpster in the Driveway
My memory is less than it was before.
I can't remember my five wives names.
I can't forget thunder of  slamming door.
I will never heal my cruel inflicted pains.
Sep 2024 · 31
Seduce the Devil
Her fingernails grow
like vampire teeth
bleed your back slow
when I come I seethe.
The hottest heartbeat
explodes in lust flame.
You're my kindest treat
no sin left for any blame.
Sep 2024 · 51
Love's Regret
It's getting worse
memory fading
away each day
grow old curse.
I know I know
but I just forget.
Were we in love
with love's regret?
Sep 2024 · 47
My Family
My bike was broke
dad fixed the spoke.
My heart was broke
Jeanie gave me smoke.
Eileen walked forever
listened to my bother.
Kevin bailed me free
I stole dimes for candy.
Terry looked other way
while I ****** the day.
Sep 2024 · 210
Bar Fight
Is apathy
ever free
civil war
in the bar
drunks fight
for the right
take a stand
**** the band
bury the hate
never too late
bury our dead
drink instead.
Sep 2024 · 72
Autobiography
Empathetic. Tear stains.
  Heart afire and broken.
  Youth. Broke vows. Broke
  family. Round the drain.
  Angel saved me. Broke her
  heart. Angels saved me.
  Broke their hearts. Devil
  saved me. Broke her heart.
  Queen Jayne saved me as
  stars in our dark night
  alone together we do it
  til we create new light.
Sep 2024 · 169
White Widow
White widow dances free
Sapphic lover's get a key
*** toys no longer hidden
bigger is better for kitten.
Sep 2024 · 45
Betsy Winters
I try drawing you from  old memories
   but can't get your eyes right. I don't see
   the body that destroyed my earnest vows.
   I can't see your warm young ******* and
   ******* that grew so hard by my caress.
   I can't see us dancing naked in the dark.
   I wish I'd kept the photos. I cremated us
   in an ashtray and I can't see us anymore.
Sep 2024 · 81
Change
We live and we change,
some easy some strange.
I can't rhyme it tonight
maybe tomorrow's light?
Maybe there's no rhyme
or reason the last time.
Sep 2024 · 40
Chaos
I lost you in my chaos
some hurricane attitude.
I've felt the sacred loss
inside painful solitude.
I look for you everyday
in the out of way places
we always seemed to stay
searching all our spaces.
Always holding hands
just smelling your hair
dream of wedding bands
We haven't got a care.

Act I and II are powerful
I never have an Act III.
Love always turns awful.
I have no choice but flee.
Sep 2024 · 35
Smile or Scream?
Maybe somewhere in between?
****** in *** or Beauty Queen?
Living our middle class dream
or maybe vomiting Opera Cream.
Christ broke my Catholic heart
promises we could never keep.
Sep 2024 · 50
Let's Play Dead
I'm still as a corpse
cold beside you now
an old dead horse
or a lazy crazy cow.
We **** we scream
pleasure's intense now.
Sep 2024 · 120
Quincy
I have a cat with one eye
can't control her eating
I can't tell you why
eats when heart's beating.
Leaves ***** art on floor
to clean it up seems cruel
she always leaves more
it turns into a puke duel.
Sep 2024 · 128
T & A
The Greatest thing
I will never learn,
is just to love and
be loved in return.
Uncle Jim what did they do with
your special **** collection?
Sep 2024 · 103
Blink of an Eye
Life is Blink of an Eye
      
I was born through time and space
      landed in this crazy bright place
      furious at light and white beasts
      with no faces but ******* and feces.
      I lived parts dealt me rich or poor.
      Bully or bullied Methadone *****.
      AA and AlAnon LGBTQ and straight.
      I always struggled most with weight.
      I had visions through time and space
      in Hospice in Morphine dreams place
      light's candle abandoned the living
      accepting a blink of eye forgiving.
Sep 2024 · 174
Lust is Raw
Lust is brutal and raw
   heart in a shark's jaw.
   Absolutely pure desire
   humans' procreation fire.
   We devoured us forever
    then found a new lover.
Sep 2024 · 74
Imposter
I'm an imposter
pretender of me
cannot get closer
but I want to be.
I can't fix it now
just set me free
I don't know how
In dark I can't see.
Sep 2024 · 52
Huge Mistake
Life was a huge mistake
turn we should not take
choice we should not make
hearts we always break.
Sep 2024 · 68
Crawling to Death
It's ugly as mortal sin
as we crawl to our end.
Bette clued me in.
Blood thin as vapor
skin parchment paper
toothless beauty queen
we were so beautiful.
We sing this Hymn.
Sep 2024 · 58
Rusty
I never believed in anything
as much as I believed in us.
I'll never forget dog breath.
You taught me how to trust.
You taught me patience and
humility and to be kind when
it wasn't deserved but atone.
I need you more than ever to
show me the way back home.
Sep 2024 · 51
How to Save a Life?
I don't know how to save a life.
Yours or mine life of any kind.
Fragile hearts will die by knife
cut wrists until they bleed blind.
Sep 2024 · 64
Downsizing
Throw a final dart
place to live to die.
Final beat of heart,
final kiss goodbye.
Cremate me I learn
be happy in an urn.
Sep 2024 · 31
I Love Love
I'm an undying romantic.
  My heart has been broken
  time and time again. I always
  go back for more Love's token.
Sep 2024 · 108
Ice Cubes
I splash around the ice
while I drink box wine
write this broken verse
nothing could be worse.
Sep 2024 · 47
Proselytize
Communism
Socialism
Karl Marx
Eat your own
let the world burn
even the worms turn.
Catholic Catechism
Baptism, Confessional
gun fights, last rights.
Incense and Myrrh.
Sep 2024 · 41
Rod McKuen
Poetry snobs can kiss his ***
and beg his fans for a pass
into his simple connection
an honesty of real reflection.
Sep 2024 · 54
Hedonist
I was ****** and drunk at 3am.
My conscience called my phone.
We ****** and never answered.
I crawled back to my quiet womb
with black light in a little room.
I woke in hell's sun naked tomb.
Sep 2024 · 47
Holy Days
I know I should repent but I
  gave that up long ago, like
  candy for Lent. Mortal
  sins have been my savior.
  We bumped Ugly's drunk,
  fell in love a week to savor.
Sep 2024 · 59
I'm Made of Wood
Pretend boy made of wood.
Call me whatever you would.
I love you with splintered heart.
Burn me down from our start.
Sep 2024 · 91
Marriage the Crime
Life starts in a **** farm
smelling like day old fish.
The oldest boy with charm
the parents get their wish.

PTSD father's nervous love
nurtures Junior's anxiety.
War hero shot down above
prays for son's sobriety.

I am cruel and I am kind,
hate me most of the time.
Lust is love is just blind.
Marriage the worst crime.
Sep 2024 · 125
Too Soon
Don't go back in the deep end
for a breath or two, be real
don't break in two just bend
hearts need time to heal.
Sep 2024 · 203
Our Souls
Our souls bright light
in sin's darkest night
expose our true delight
as death takes it flight.
Trite. Slight.First grade poetry!
#t
Sep 2024 · 48
I'm a Monster and a God
I bring you pain and hope
let you hang noose rope.
Bible predicts your world
future's truth flag unfurled.
Sep 2024 · 41
Pretend Lovers
Flies red eye tonight asleep
for love's sad lost kingdom.
******* flaccid long ago
Libido victim of boredom.
Christ we sleep sexless
pretend love more or less.
Sep 2024 · 49
Bond Villains
The myriad Bond Villains
made an unholy alliance
wealth bigger than God
built a Laser appliance
to burn America to hell.
Our guns are useless now
only chance is a blue roof
and learning to kowtow.
Sep 2024 · 62
Dear, Katie
You are finally facing
demons I left behind.
I am now facing yours
I've always been blind.
Thick as a ******* brick
just following my *****.
Sep 2024 · 52
Communism
It's huge
melodious centrifuge
stealing rhythm
with no misgiving
from each to give
to each to live
fabulous Commune
a marvelous tune
share our beds
lice in heads
millions die
millions cry
starvation
is salvation.
FUBO
Sep 2024 · 52
75 and a Half
So close to the last breath
I just want the final ending
knowing my little death
through time's bending.
Sep 2024 · 51
War's Brothers
War is hell they say
but carry on each day
good days fight again
in carrion's awful sin.
War is deafening loud
never give in be proud
cry for dead friends
war's baptism's ends.
Sep 2024 · 62
Third Eye Blind
Stares forever at me blind
not sweet or unkind.
Just watches over me
I finally lose my mind.
Sep 2024 · 42
Love is a 4 Letter Word
Love is everywhere
the light is unless
you eat my pets or
**** my kin again.
Welcome to America
Land of the free
with weapons for
you and for me.
Walter Cronkite died
buried with truth.
My brother's bible
New York Times
makes communists
socialists and Nuns.
Sep 2024 · 60
Do You Know What You Are?
You're a burr in my saddle
a stone in my shoe
annoying rattle
driving to you
in my **** box car
held together with glue
to remove a spider
for my love of you.
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