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Somedays my thoughts shriek so loud that they congest the rest of my mind other days they chant lullaby's as if nothing traumatic has ever happened one moment i'm up the next im crumbling to my knees one or the other its consistent drowning with no one to rescue me I'm keen on telling myself its all in my head at times, but doctors tell me its all me but for gods sake do they realize what horrid phrases the voices scream? death would be so heavenly I long for the passing of sides im awaiting to go home where its all white and peaceful i have days where im so narcissistic; I swear I can commence the world as if every millisecond is a luxury of sighs and sounds at moments my dispute comes out so rapid all i get is crooked looks and mumbles some days, I love him other times I swear he's the devil in disguise during my manic episodes you spoke soft as if I was a fallen angle that was overflowing with life. You had mentioned a world that disculded me was a world you cannot exist in You said I influenced your heart to skip beats, that I saved you, I was your fresh air Once he witnessed myself during a dreadful episode you declared loving me was exhausting and space is what you desired for hell could i control this? he was the one isolated concept I could ever make my ******* mind up about I loved him; I love him he said that his devotion to me was similar to staring into a black hole but seeing the reflection of the delicate sunset it never made sense to him BUT HELL DID IT MAKE SENSE TO ME? when he stranded me, i couldn't help but dissolve in tears i was nowhere adjacent to happy but that's all I've ever comprehended my doctor says they've observed a change maybe its the sleepless weeks and collection of mood stabilizers consuming pills in hopes to not feel so ******* empty anticipating on my next manic episode waiting for the door to open to go home If I have learned anything from living with BPD it is im constantly dilapidated upon everything one day soon I hope to recover from this disorder that replicates a loud room without recognizing how loud it was and all I hear is the ringing in my ears that doesn't seem to have an end some day this will be over some day my lover will stay I pray to fall in love with another angel again
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 2:27 PM UTC
Living with BPD( Bipolar Disorder)
Somedays my thoughts shriek so loud that they congest the rest of my mind other days they chant lullaby's as if nothing traumatic has ever happened one moment i'm up the next im crumbling to my knees one or the other its consistent drowning with no one to rescue me I'm keen on telling myself its all in my head at times, but doctors tell me its all me but for gods sake do they realize what horrid phrases the voices scream? death would be so heavenly I long for the passing of sides im awaiting to go home where its all white and peaceful i have days where im so narcissistic; I swear I can commence the world as if every millisecond is a luxury of sighs and sounds at moments my dispute comes out so rapid all i get is crooked looks and mumbles some days, I love him other times I swear he's the devil in disguise during my manic episodes you spoke soft as if I was a fallen angle that was overflowing with life. You had mentioned a world that disculded me was a world you cannot exist in You said I influenced your heart to skip beats, that I saved you, I was your fresh air Once he witnessed myself during a dreadful episode you declared loving me was exhausting and space is what you desired for hell could i control this? he was the one isolated concept I could ever make my ******* mind up about I loved him; I love him he said that his devotion to me was similar to staring into a black hole but seeing the reflection of the delicate sunset it never made sense to him BUT HELL DID IT MAKE SENSE TO ME? when he stranded me, i couldn't help but dissolve in tears i was nowhere adjacent to happy but that's all I've ever comprehended my doctor says they've observed a change maybe its the sleepless weeks and collection of mood stabilizers consuming pills in hopes to not feel so ******* empty anticipating on my next manic episode waiting for the door to open to go home If I have learned anything from living with BPD it is im constantly dilapidated upon everything one day soon I hope to recover from this disorder that replicates a loud room without recognizing how loud it was and all I hear is the ringing in my ears that doesn't seem to have an end some day this will be over some day my lover will stay I pray to fall in love with another angel again
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I remember, My usual nonchalant demeanor going completely bananas in my cubicle of a room After enlisting to deliver you ice cream. No, not just any ice cream, Strawberry with bananas and gummy bears. I thought it as an awkward combination But when I got in the car, The sparrows were flying in two adjacent v-shaped formations. Slightly puzzled, I pondered if maybe one day I'll meet a sparrow, or anything with enough courage to brave the skies, Soaring, knowing in time, their wings will tire, and locating a perch is then of importance. Because life's goal, humans and creatures alike, Is to find a whisper of a nightingale's song, Or, possibly, the eccentric taste of a spoonful of their favorite ice cream.
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 2:20 AM UTC
Strawberry with Bananas and Gummy Bears
Sweet is the village home With the overhanging trees With the open well on the east With the kitchen adjacent to the well.. The coconut trees giving shade The Jack fruit and the mango trees Decorating the land beside The peacocks roosting on the trees The red Mangalore tiles Giving protection from the sun and the rain The green chillies and the bananas The drumstick tree and the climbers Ginger and Curry leaf tree The Coccinia and the Turkey berry Plants and climbers Giving all the vegetables in-house The long verandahs The corridors The wooden stairs The large dining hall It is not just a home But a life itself With nostalgic memories Which will never die at all... The house that has seen Various happy moments Various sad events Which has seen birth and death It is not just a home But a life itself With nostalgic memories Which will never die at all.....
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Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015 at 2:19 PM UTC
The Village Home
Adjacent heart, Segregating the mind. Differing opinions. An argument, On line. Segregation of the mind and heart, Different from the soul. All do battle, To decide your fate. In this world.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 8:49 AM UTC
Adjacent Segregation
to exonerate the clippings they took the back road to oswega the tudor house rabbits had long lost their heads (presumably to the ***** and what remained of the landscape was dead and dry and orange that happy home on the brink of cattle loop was now gull grey the needles and stragglers from shady bay remained (in growing numbers) on the outskirts of the driven back park the once fabled town of horse drawn tours and dignitaries was stone washed ~ on the back of it's government docks sat decrepit toppers set against the high tide beside the lighthouse and its measured song flutes and fiddlers and acoustic sitars ride the accompaniment nose rings and signage in the hands of staged protesters the sickly spit strewn with tidal run and ocean bags hedgerows trimmed along the sea side rolling hills fade adjacent the chuck mint juleps and flop hats peak on the parade clydesdales and royals blinded in the back
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 2:41 PM UTC
beacon hill pass
inspired by https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5120189/love-cannot-be-controlled-or-confined/ <> Love is Meant…… and there, I stop… <> nnnnyup; continuing on, this phrase a self~sufficiency, is it not? no conditional clause, dangling particle, no conjunction peg upon to hang your wintered hat, no adjacent adjective for summer's ending sadness, no preposition to lead us to sunny places, where we search more for nouns and pronouns, or to project/protect, in adjectives to clothe our irrationality in logic-e, logic to define, logic to confine, illogically love permits one to say to another human, you mine, hu-mine, [an aside: "you mine,' (really?)] a preposterous prepositional insanity notion, that needs no explication, love is meant, love is meant, love is mean, dream & yet, meant! stadium sized. concert hall big, mini pup tent, love is clean+dirty s i m u l t a n e o u s l y don't you see the self~sufficiency in that? yet you still seek definition, reasoning, seasoning, love is meant to-be bent irregular straightaway, love is meant, to be/not, cold 'n bot, silly hot, lover is inert, hurt, ert,(1) love is every point of, of a sword's length hilt & blade, yet ironic, the tip alone is a self sufficient ***** to be full~on damaging enough to **** to fully comprehend, that  love is meant needs no further modifying defying pointless phrasal modification of explanation… s u n d a y (if the week did not commence with a sunday, hu-mans would have needed to create one, to understand, love is meant) 4:39am Sun Aug 10 Twenty Twenty Fidelio (5) in a new york city frame of mine
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Aug 17, 2025
Aug 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM UTC
A Sunday Declaration: Love is Meant...
inspired by https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5120189/love-cannot-be-controlled-or-confined/ <> Love is Meant…… and there, I stop… <> nnnnyup; continuing on, this phrase a self~sufficiency, is it not? no conditional clause, dangling particle, no conjunction peg upon to hang your wintered hat, no adjacent adjective for summer's ending sadness, no preposition to lead us to sunny places, where we search more for nouns and pronouns, or to project/protect, in adjectives to clothe our irrationality in logic-e, logic to define, logic to confine, illogically love permits one to say to another human, you mine, hu-mine, [an aside: "you mine,' (really?)] a preposterous prepositional insanity notion, that needs no explication, love is meant, love is meant, love is mean, dream & yet, meant! stadium sized. concert hall big, mini pup tent, love is clean+dirty s i m u l t a n e o u s l y don't you see the self~sufficiency in that? yet you still seek definition, reasoning, seasoning, love is meant to-be bent irregular straightaway, love is meant, to be/not, cold 'n bot, silly hot, lover is inert, hurt, ert,(1) love is every point of, of a sword's length hilt & blade, yet ironic, the tip alone is a self sufficient ***** to be full~on damaging enough to **** to fully comprehend, that  love is meant needs no further modifying defying pointless phrasal modification of explanation… s u n d a y (if the week did not commence with a sunday, hu-mans would have needed to create one, to understand, love is meant) 4:39am Sun Aug 10 Twenty Twenty Fidelio (5) in a new york city frame of mine
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I am in a box As I reach out Touch the walls This strange barrier that separates me From the other Anything external Different Other A hand from the box adjacent to mine appears Splayed against the wall I reach out mine The dark and light contrast Like the Chinese symbol Ying and yang Other clearly Other Even a child could tell the difference But, Who does it take to look past the differences?
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Jul 14, 2018
Jul 14, 2018 at 10:13 PM UTC
In a box
Earlier today, painting was the activity that we had planned I have a support teacher who would always lend a hand She had left the class to get the paint all mixed While I stayed behind to get the toys and props all fixed She came back and bore bowls of red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Lunchtime I visited a store and neatly displayed on low shelves Arranged so immaculately as if magically done by elves Were cases upon cases stitched together with only zips They almost instantly bent a smile to my lips Their colours shone brilliant red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Passed by a shop selling accessories and apparel Merchandise dangled on wall hooks and some in a jumble On the adjacent wall something caught my eye Carried all the neat little tote bags one could ever buy One peeking from a corner was red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Walked by a building, so modern-looking and new Down on one side almost obscured from view Were these horizontal rows of dancing neon lights Stopped for a minute just to soak in the sights Then I realised that they flickered red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Waited for the bus to get home at my usual bus stop Whilst waiting, I shifted and from my bag something did drop Bent over and picked my coin pouch that had fallen out Looked up only to see another commuter lingering about On his pack was a sticker which boasted red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Bus was packed, found a seat in the back row Sat myself down, I peered briefly out the window Engine under me, I scanned around to those who were seated Observed the floor beneath my shoes as it vibrated My pair of Adidas, oh my, they're red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Got home, put my bag down and sank into the sofa Switched on the telly, on was the Food Network's "Barefoot Contessa" Surfed through the channels, caught a real estate commercial Promoting prime land in a country not anywhere regional Splashed on the screen, a flag - red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. End of the day, it is best that I hit the sack Allow some rest for my poor aggravated back But not till I complete the words you're currently reading I'm thinking, dreaming and furiously typing How do I end this? Hmm...red, white and blue? I'm thinking and dreaming...and wishing I'm with you.
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 9:08 PM UTC
Red, White & Blue
Earlier today, painting was the activity that we had planned I have a support teacher who would always lend a hand She had left the class to get the paint all mixed While I stayed behind to get the toys and props all fixed She came back and bore bowls of red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Lunchtime I visited a store and neatly displayed on low shelves Arranged so immaculately as if magically done by elves Were cases upon cases stitched together with only zips They almost instantly bent a smile to my lips Their colours shone brilliant red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Passed by a shop selling accessories and apparel Merchandise dangled on wall hooks and some in a jumble On the adjacent wall something caught my eye Carried all the neat little tote bags one could ever buy One peeking from a corner was red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Walked by a building, so modern-looking and new Down on one side almost obscured from view Were these horizontal rows of dancing neon lights Stopped for a minute just to soak in the sights Then I realised that they flickered red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Waited for the bus to get home at my usual bus stop Whilst waiting, I shifted and from my bag something did drop Bent over and picked my coin pouch that had fallen out Looked up only to see another commuter lingering about On his pack was a sticker which boasted red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Bus was packed, found a seat in the back row Sat myself down, I peered briefly out the window Engine under me, I scanned around to those who were seated Observed the floor beneath my shoes as it vibrated My pair of Adidas, oh my, they're red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. Got home, put my bag down and sank into the sofa Switched on the telly, on was the Food Network's "Barefoot Contessa" Surfed through the channels, caught a real estate commercial Promoting prime land in a country not anywhere regional Splashed on the screen, a flag - red, white and blue Made me think of...well, made me think of you. End of the day, it is best that I hit the sack Allow some rest for my poor aggravated back But not till I complete the words you're currently reading I'm thinking, dreaming and furiously typing How do I end this? Hmm...red, white and blue? I'm thinking and dreaming...and wishing I'm with you.
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The shortest distance between two points of travel. The fastest method for achieving a result. Quickest answer for a resolution. Marrying equals.   All terminology meaning essentially the same thing; synthesis. That is what the two-party system is meant to be doing. It is the point of checks and balances. A check is a stopgap. A balance is a measure.   No one wants to ban personal firearms. No one wants mentally-ill people to own them. No one advocates violence by school teachers to assuage future potential violence. No reasonable person wants children to grow up in a police state school system. No American believes that State and Federal government can agree on what should be done in all states.   We will not be arming teachers. Nor will we be banning guns. There will never be armed guards at public schools. States and the Federal government disagree on so many levels there will never be consensus on change when it comes to this issue. So, change the issue in a way that offers a stopgap as a measure.   The President of The United States issues a proclamation that all land directly adjacent to the front of all public schools will be bought by the federal government at today's market price. That price will be fixed provided the states do two things. Use state eminent domain laws(every state already has them) to file a claim on said properties and assess the value thereof for the federal government.   Secondly, establish police precincts on said property.     Ask yourself; "How many children would die if the local police were directly across the street from the school at the time of the shooting?" And, "Would Conservatives or Liberals be against this proposal?"    Also, We should all remember that these shooters plan their attacks and would have to plan around the police being there immediately after they begin one.   Problem solved...                              ...and no one touched a gun(right) to do it.
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Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018 at 3:04 AM UTC
A Gun Essay
The shortest distance between two points of travel. The fastest method for achieving a result. Quickest answer for a resolution. Marrying equals.   All terminology meaning essentially the same thing; synthesis. That is what the two-party system is meant to be doing. It is the point of checks and balances. A check is a stopgap. A balance is a measure.   No one wants to ban personal firearms. No one wants mentally-ill people to own them. No one advocates violence by school teachers to assuage future potential violence. No reasonable person wants children to grow up in a police state school system. No American believes that State and Federal government can agree on what should be done in all states.   We will not be arming teachers. Nor will we be banning guns. There will never be armed guards at public schools. States and the Federal government disagree on so many levels there will never be consensus on change when it comes to this issue. So, change the issue in a way that offers a stopgap as a measure.   The President of The United States issues a proclamation that all land directly adjacent to the front of all public schools will be bought by the federal government at today's market price. That price will be fixed provided the states do two things. Use state eminent domain laws(every state already has them) to file a claim on said properties and assess the value thereof for the federal government.   Secondly, establish police precincts on said property.     Ask yourself; "How many children would die if the local police were directly across the street from the school at the time of the shooting?" And, "Would Conservatives or Liberals be against this proposal?"    Also, We should all remember that these shooters plan their attacks and would have to plan around the police being there immediately after they begin one.   Problem solved...                              ...and no one touched a gun(right) to do it.
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Perhaps, We have a worldview, that has turned a bit myopic. Perhaps, We need a checkup from a doctor for Our optics, Perhaps, We need for them to write Us out a new prescription, then Perhaps, We'd see the truth in life that's written in inscription, Perhaps, the Earth is weeping somberly, but We don't care to listen, Perhaps, it warns us of Our doom when global profits are our mission Perhaps, the World is run by men, whose only drive is for themselves Perhaps, the few will **** the many, just for monetary wealth, Perhaps, We're all too blind to understand the implications, Perhaps, a future fraught with poverty and war is what We're facing Perhaps, a different train of thought, is faintly running by adjacent, Perhaps, it's one that wrests its life from the stagnation of complacence Perhaps, We're living forms of life that have been cast inside a mold Perhaps, estrangement from each other causes Our Hearts to grow cold Perhaps, all concentrated power's an illusion, We behold, Perhaps, We all could take it back, if We'd stop doing what We're told Perhaps, Our Being is unique, and isn't something predefined, Perhaps, Our priorities in life should they themselves be redefined, Perhaps, Our voices are of import, and should not be undermined, Perhaps, We all should organize, and build a world of new design Perhaps, it is the Media that keeps Us all divided, Perhaps, We should act neighborly and strive to be united, Perhaps, in living as a People, We would find Ourselves delighted, and Perhaps, We'd change the status quo, if We would only try to fight it.
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
Perhaps
Perhaps, We have a worldview, that has turned a bit myopic. Perhaps, We need a checkup from a doctor for Our optics, Perhaps, We need for them to write Us out a new prescription, then Perhaps, We'd see the truth in life that's written in inscription, Perhaps, the Earth is weeping somberly, but We don't care to listen, Perhaps, it warns us of Our doom when global profits are our mission Perhaps, the World is run by men, whose only drive is for themselves Perhaps, the few will **** the many, just for monetary wealth, Perhaps, We're all too blind to understand the implications, Perhaps, a future fraught with poverty and war is what We're facing Perhaps, a different train of thought, is faintly running by adjacent, Perhaps, it's one that wrests its life from the stagnation of complacence Perhaps, We're living forms of life that have been cast inside a mold Perhaps, estrangement from each other causes Our Hearts to grow cold Perhaps, all concentrated power's an illusion, We behold, Perhaps, We all could take it back, if We'd stop doing what We're told Perhaps, Our Being is unique, and isn't something predefined, Perhaps, Our priorities in life should they themselves be redefined, Perhaps, Our voices are of import, and should not be undermined, Perhaps, We all should organize, and build a world of new design Perhaps, it is the Media that keeps Us all divided, Perhaps, We should act neighborly and strive to be united, Perhaps, in living as a People, We would find Ourselves delighted, and Perhaps, We'd change the status quo, if We would only try to fight it.
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In impulsive scenes, in adjacent moments when eyes are locked and hearts are ardent then passion strikes, a threat is posed the lover's heart becomes opposed astounded by the wondrous fact Affections - real, just so intact! a brilliant pause; the story alters the lover finds love the moment he stutters.
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Apr 10, 2015
Apr 10, 2015 at 11:40 AM UTC
when thee falls in love
Parenting organizing the day, while the baby room adjacent makes dreaming rock n' roll noises siren calls to lay in bed, semi-alert, on guard duty, scheming about dis n' dat, you are sleeping, dreaming, wide awake seeing, multitasking eyes closed simultaneously. lesser of a poet, more a notate-er, list keeper, note taker, arguing with yourself inside the head, actually feeling the thoughts coursing, lurking, seeing both sides now, parentally, washing the dishes of the hours and years ahead. while the woman-mother makes her soprano dreaming noises, you laugh at the orchestra of ******* sighing somnolent noises, a cadenza of love dancing in your irresistible wide awake dreams. paying the bills, lying in the dark, you wonder-worry about the agenda unknown that will overgrow you, fast creeping up the grain of your skin, ivy on stone skin walls. lala lala you borrow baby's lullaby, yourself calming, keeping time, silly rhyming, organizing the days ahead in you head, while, recording the harmonies of sensory inputs. the dark provides the cloak where you alone feel and hear the worry and laugh lines knitting into a single stitch of parenting. 1/20/2013
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 11:02 AM UTC
Parenting (the baby monitor)
There's a nail, he's set up camp in my brain. Hammered with daylight, held infuriatingly fast by night. Even the stiffest claw would be of no use, not anymore. His presence would herald slumber, were I of a normal stock. But no. He brings attention to the tick. The tock. If I inch him further, with fervour, maybe he will abdicate, adjacent to his entry. But I know he'll return, pitching by the morn, leaving my rest completely, utterly, torn.
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 9:27 PM UTC
zo|/_ sleep
.*i guess a loss of subscriptions is, somehow, a badge of honor, namely? i somehow managed to attach a screwdriver to my words... why? read below... English women consider motherhood to be a job... how ******* demeaning! gone are the days of womanhood attaining the stature of god, in the Christian methodology of encompassing the pivot of lady Madonna... perhaps a too high peddle-stool? i guess so... i'm not usurping the female status, but elevating a female stature, deeming motherhood an UNESCO status? seems it's too much... for some people... who make it necessary to befriend their shadow, and travel to the hinterlands.* just your atypical pedantry, a translator's subscript comment - who's richard rojcewicz's... regarding what? heidegger...        das volk,       and the three derivatives - volkhaft (populist),        volklich (communal) und?            völkisch (folkish) - i'm starting to suspect that i'm tapping in the all things folk.... unconsciously, favoring folk music...    see, us central europeans, we bunch together and share the most odd similarities -    i never thought that the song herr mannelig could be translated from Swedish - as it was translated into German... then again... Vikings founded Kiev... and all these loan-words of Germanic origin in Polish...     the only Anglo loan-word that i know of, is, weekend... hence, das volk, people -    by the way... German has "too many" definite articles,    and only one ein - or eine - is that the same rule as in Ęnglish? i.e. N                  in an example,    rather than in a counter example?    two vowels adjacent in separate word, sitting across from the grand chasm of... a spacing itch? but look at German, i never get it... DAS DIE DER...              is there an aesthetic difference, and only an aesthetic difference to mind?         bewildering... if there is such a thing as a western civilization...    that sometime     pompous obnoxiousness, fair enough... no problem:    but learn to hide it,            feel it, rather then feed it... it's not a question of a civilization, but more...     an answer to what is less civilization, and more... a chore... just like western women, notably the english women call motherhood a, "job"...                    it's a... wait... a job? doubt was big in classic philosophy of the Cartesian schematic... so no one knows that the French existentialists brought in negation,     as the driving force to replace doubt?               who the hell sees doubt these days?     either the know it alles - or the hush-hush crowd...            motherhood is a... job? well... then i guess, being a man... western civilization, by that standard of logic...    can't be anything more...    than a.... ******* chore!
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 8:33 AM UTC
das volk (translator's note)
.*i guess a loss of subscriptions is, somehow, a badge of honor, namely? i somehow managed to attach a screwdriver to my words... why? read below... English women consider motherhood to be a job... how ******* demeaning! gone are the days of womanhood attaining the stature of god, in the Christian methodology of encompassing the pivot of lady Madonna... perhaps a too high peddle-stool? i guess so... i'm not usurping the female status, but elevating a female stature, deeming motherhood an UNESCO status? seems it's too much... for some people... who make it necessary to befriend their shadow, and travel to the hinterlands.* just your atypical pedantry, a translator's subscript comment - who's richard rojcewicz's... regarding what? heidegger...        das volk,       and the three derivatives - volkhaft (populist),        volklich (communal) und?            völkisch (folkish) - i'm starting to suspect that i'm tapping in the all things folk.... unconsciously, favoring folk music...    see, us central europeans, we bunch together and share the most odd similarities -    i never thought that the song herr mannelig could be translated from Swedish - as it was translated into German... then again... Vikings founded Kiev... and all these loan-words of Germanic origin in Polish...     the only Anglo loan-word that i know of, is, weekend... hence, das volk, people -    by the way... German has "too many" definite articles,    and only one ein - or eine - is that the same rule as in Ęnglish? i.e. N                  in an example,    rather than in a counter example?    two vowels adjacent in separate word, sitting across from the grand chasm of... a spacing itch? but look at German, i never get it... DAS DIE DER...              is there an aesthetic difference, and only an aesthetic difference to mind?         bewildering... if there is such a thing as a western civilization...    that sometime     pompous obnoxiousness, fair enough... no problem:    but learn to hide it,            feel it, rather then feed it... it's not a question of a civilization, but more...     an answer to what is less civilization, and more... a chore... just like western women, notably the english women call motherhood a, "job"...                    it's a... wait... a job? doubt was big in classic philosophy of the Cartesian schematic... so no one knows that the French existentialists brought in negation,     as the driving force to replace doubt?               who the hell sees doubt these days?     either the know it alles - or the hush-hush crowd...            motherhood is a... job? well... then i guess, being a man... western civilization, by that standard of logic...    can't be anything more...    than a.... ******* chore!
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Friend Rockstar,             Listen, yield to a robust think-tank,             earlobes skidding against wheat and grain. Terrible story, yes, what happened to that little girl. Sterile teddy nightgowns weeping in the squad car windows. Teacher – Teacher, do you harken my yodels for grace?             I’ve never been maternal.             Put the game on. Abortion.             That’s what I’m about.             Grab a bra. Sling some weight.             That’s what I’m about. Some housefly wings on a weathered corn cob. Some downhome, homegrown twang for those fancy, fussy britches.             Muddy workboots. Sweat-soaked collars.             That’s what I’m about. Him done made me read, sir. What sacraments did we write today?             I can still remember my first broken bone.             I can still remember my first broken *****                         That could be what this is all about. Mary, Mary, you can be contrite,             so knife – so critter – so laze – so stalked.     Who fertilized your seeds? Who reared your sprouts?             Cockle shells and silver bells, honey,             can’t grow up             to be pretty little maids all in a row. Sterile teddy nightgowns – green bells in gaseous gardens. Friend Rockstar, you may have to sleep. This restless harbor is a shivering anecdote spilled from a belly,             a vast, deep cavern with love notes written in milk. Your fried, stern smile was a flaking fingernail adjacent to the crack in the flowerpot. Some garden, I say.
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 7:12 PM UTC
Friend Rockstar
Friend Rockstar,             Listen, yield to a robust think-tank,             earlobes skidding against wheat and grain. Terrible story, yes, what happened to that little girl. Sterile teddy nightgowns weeping in the squad car windows. Teacher – Teacher, do you harken my yodels for grace?             I’ve never been maternal.             Put the game on. Abortion.             That’s what I’m about.             Grab a bra. Sling some weight.             That’s what I’m about. Some housefly wings on a weathered corn cob. Some downhome, homegrown twang for those fancy, fussy britches.             Muddy workboots. Sweat-soaked collars.             That’s what I’m about. Him done made me read, sir. What sacraments did we write today?             I can still remember my first broken bone.             I can still remember my first broken *****                         That could be what this is all about. Mary, Mary, you can be contrite,             so knife – so critter – so laze – so stalked.     Who fertilized your seeds? Who reared your sprouts?             Cockle shells and silver bells, honey,             can’t grow up             to be pretty little maids all in a row. Sterile teddy nightgowns – green bells in gaseous gardens. Friend Rockstar, you may have to sleep. This restless harbor is a shivering anecdote spilled from a belly,             a vast, deep cavern with love notes written in milk. Your fried, stern smile was a flaking fingernail adjacent to the crack in the flowerpot. Some garden, I say.
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The woman poured herself another glass of wine, Like another night alone. The house was empty, And the humming of the dishwasher bounced off the walls. She sat by the window and pulled the black heels off her feet. This was beginning to get old. People outside paced in pairs. Her house was dark. The only light came from the kitchen, glowing out to the adjacent ro0m. She sipped at her wine, and rested the glass on her knee. With an exasperated sigh, She threw the wine glass against the opposite wall. The glass flew, sparkling in the dim light And merlot ran down the white wall. She dusted off her hands, and undressed silently. In the bathroom, she started water for a shower. In silence, once again, she stood under the rush of water. An hour's time went by, and the water was shut off. Without bothering to dry herself, she stepped out, And fell into bed.
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Jun 27, 2010
Jun 27, 2010 at 3:19 PM UTC
Loneliness Repetetive
Our trajectory was so like no other.   so linear within it's silhouette, gazing upon the others                                         gravity. We had a cycle of moments that were like                 s                     t                        a                            r                               s Weaving between our paths, serenading our motions entwined within the others graces. There was nothing between us but space, a gravity of affections. But some times a distance can expand                                                  in time, Even though we once eclipsing each other. Gazing at each other as our horizons descended you were the gravity of my yearning for so long. I could count the stars that shot upon our forms, still I feel the effects, but our stars descend less often. Maybe ours were answered previously but dreams                                                                  only come true once. You'll always be within my orbit, but never as close as what gravity lingered before. I see you, but we are just motions no longer adjacent in the stars of our hearts.
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 11:41 AM UTC
Always Within My Gravity
1291 Until the Desert knows That Water grows His Sands suffice But let him once suspect That Caspian Fact Sahara dies Utmost is relative— Have not or Have Adjacent sums Enough—the first Abode On the familiar Road Galloped in Dreams—
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Until the Desert knows
I thought                                         you'd left us, long ago desolate on a swing                        rocking stale, dry grass and still air                                              crossing never quite                  the hurdle                                                                                                                    lost unaware sweating youth in this humidity I thought we'd never make it past the rusty red and brown of weathered fences                             like               felt                        moun    They                                                                                        tains                                                                   Made of dirt                                                                                        (guilt) and an endless turmoiling scent, still fresh I thought you'd forlorned us                   h     e     a     v    y       r  a  i  n   and warm bodies standing next to oxidized hoops                                                           one adjacent to the other The haze of the heat hard, but not impossible to withstand                swaying like the gust of wind, swaying                                               the blazing sun and my open palms swaying Why was it here                                         that it felt like you left us                                                                                                             stumped,   unaware, consuming  with no                                                 idea of the Greater 2.                                                 W H A T was it about inner cities And skin that would tan Or resist the sun    that made you  mutter murky words   judgement                    that made me hike a                                   K                        A             E P that for so long made feel like a (lost) traveler unable to come find my way   D O W N. Still on a mountain top Never quite crossing the hurdle. That’s how you wanted me A      B           A                 N                      D  O N E D. 3. But my tongue made sounds copper pots and plastic measuring cups became the pious  accompaniment of a song sung inwardly until it manifested Words on lips                             Lips willing to kiss the purple clouds made out of strange fruit and a high border walls over my hand and back 4. A Swimsuit and a pool that could cool me small children see the cicatrixes       But I walk towards the water; I have long abandoned shame.
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 11:24 PM UTC
Abandoned (dream poem. 1 )
I thought                                         you'd left us, long ago desolate on a swing                        rocking stale, dry grass and still air                                              crossing never quite                  the hurdle                                                                                                                    lost unaware sweating youth in this humidity I thought we'd never make it past the rusty red and brown of weathered fences                             like               felt                        moun    They                                                                                        tains                                                                   Made of dirt                                                                                        (guilt) and an endless turmoiling scent, still fresh I thought you'd forlorned us                   h     e     a     v    y       r  a  i  n   and warm bodies standing next to oxidized hoops                                                           one adjacent to the other The haze of the heat hard, but not impossible to withstand                swaying like the gust of wind, swaying                                               the blazing sun and my open palms swaying Why was it here                                         that it felt like you left us                                                                                                             stumped,   unaware, consuming  with no                                                 idea of the Greater 2.                                                 W H A T was it about inner cities And skin that would tan Or resist the sun    that made you  mutter murky words   judgement                    that made me hike a                                   K                        A             E P that for so long made feel like a (lost) traveler unable to come find my way   D O W N. Still on a mountain top Never quite crossing the hurdle. That’s how you wanted me A      B           A                 N                      D  O N E D. 3. But my tongue made sounds copper pots and plastic measuring cups became the pious  accompaniment of a song sung inwardly until it manifested Words on lips                             Lips willing to kiss the purple clouds made out of strange fruit and a high border walls over my hand and back 4. A Swimsuit and a pool that could cool me small children see the cicatrixes       But I walk towards the water; I have long abandoned shame.
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They print their lives on a price tag, Those big fat numbers, All they do is brag. My daughter’s a neurosurgeon, Graduated from Johns Hopkins, Saving lives by the hundreds. My son a number-crunching accountant, A career that keeps his wallet thick, And his pockets filled. They wonder what I do, I tell them I work with words. They gasp, Eyes widen. I tell them that, I can count the spaces between adjacent letters in a word, String words together to build a sentence, Layer each sentence above another like bricks, Place a single powerful mark of punctuation in between, The glue that holds the bricks intact and forms a wall. A wall of stanzas, Connected by commas and semicolons. A wall of paragraphs, Big enough to block numbers out. Because words fill souls while numbers fill pockets. Words are immeasurable. Infinite.
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 11:22 AM UTC
Numbers
A bag of potatoes and a baseball bat. Is merely a sack of starchy vegetables and a sculpted metal stick. But on this blustering evening a bag of potatoes and a baseball bat meant an infinity more than that. In this fleeting moment, I felt solidarity with the fact that life doesn't make sense. I looked at you in your adjacent flesh ridden essence and smiled at this opportunity to connect. The bat clashing with the pock eyed potato skin. Our existences colliding with ebb and flow of a maniac pulsation. This is not merely a hackneyed show of baseball bat on a bag of potatoes. This is a boy and a girl realizing that this ever sacred moment holds more gravity than merely a bag of potatoes and a baseball bat. It's just that we can't conjure what makes it so rich and ever splendid... so thus it must be rich and ever splendid as the potato is launched into flight igniting the curiously enraptured mind of boy and girl witnessing baseball bat on potato
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Dec 17, 2016
Dec 17, 2016 at 2:28 AM UTC
Bag of potatoes and a baseball bat
People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 8:34 AM UTC
Boots and Shoes
People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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birches and tastsy jerky wood.  resin in the immediate shubbary.... and dust and cobwwebs growing adjacent to the jerky wood.  Myraid of birds, ranging from small birch-types to crows.  A lingering dominant hawk.  A giant possum crossing between borders carrying unborn infants.  Dusty walls with abandonded spiderwebs- insect carcassases dangling, still.  Pool motors revving in every direction lets of a subtle hum that compliments the planes descending and ascending oer-head the water is grainy yet cool and healing.  the sprinklers function at midnight and sometimes on the weekend.  Maintinance trucks, expensive commuter vehicals, modest vehicls, unmanned vehicles, arrowhead trucks, macdonalds trucks, safeway trucks.... the earth is still wheaty and chalky adjacent the jerky trees, the jerky trees have little hairs and appetizing off red color, the bark saddles off with grace and with a satisfying tare.
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Jul 18, 2018
Jul 18, 2018 at 6:24 PM UTC
LANDSCAPE JULY 18th, 2018- SANTA CLARA COUNTY