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"anachronism" poems
abolitionism absenteeism absolutism abstractionism absurdism academicism academism achromatism acrotism actinism activism adoptianism adoptionism adventurism aeroembolism aestheticism ageism agism agnosticism agrarianism alarmism albinism alcoholism aldosteronism algorism alienism allelism allelomorphism allomorphism alpinism altruism amateurism amoralism anabaptism anabolism anachronism analphabetism anarchism anecdotalism aneurism anglicism animalism animism anisotropism antagonism anthropocentrism anthropomorphism anthropopathism antialcoholism antiauthoritarianism antiblackism anticapitalism anticlericalism anticolonialism anticommercialism anticommunism antielitism antievolutionism antifascism antifeminism antiferromagnetism antihumanism antiliberalism antimaterialism antimilitarism antinepotism antinomianism antiquarianism antiracism antiradicalism antirationalism antirealism antireductionism antiritualism antiromanticism antiterrorism aphorism apocalypticism apocalyptism archaism asceticism assimilationism associationism asterism astigmatism asynchronism atavism atheism athleticism atomism atonalism atropism atticism autecism authoritarianism autism autoecism autoeroticism autoerotism automatism automorphism baalism baptism barbarianism barbarism behaviorism biblicism bibliophilism bicameralism biculturalism bidialectalism bilateralism bilingualism bimetallism biologism bioregionalism bipartisanism bipedalism biracialism blackguardism bogyism bohemianism bolshevism boosterism bossism botulism bourbonism boyarism bromism brutism bruxism bureaucratism cabalism caciquism cambism cannibalism capitalism careerism casteism catabolism catastrophism catechism cavalierism centralism centrism ceremonialism charism charlatanism chauvinism chemism chemotropism chimaerism chimerism chrism chromaticism cicisbeism cinchonism civicism civism classicism classism clericalism clonism cockneyism collaborationism collectivism colloquialism colonialism colorism commensalism commercialism communalism communism communitarianism conceptualism concretism confessionalism conformism congregationalism connubialism conservatism constitutionalism constructivism consumerism controversialism conventionalism corporatism corporativism cosmism cosmopolitanism cosmopolitism countercriticism counterculturalism counterterrorism creationism credentialism cretinism criticism cronyism cryptorchidism cryptorchism cubism cultism cynicism czarism dadaism dandyism defeatism deism demonism denominationalism despotism determinism deviationism diabolism diamagnetism
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 12:16 PM UTC
"ism"
abolitionism absenteeism absolutism abstractionism absurdism academicism academism achromatism acrotism actinism activism adoptianism adoptionism adventurism aeroembolism aestheticism ageism agism agnosticism agrarianism alarmism albinism alcoholism aldosteronism algorism alienism allelism allelomorphism allomorphism alpinism altruism amateurism amoralism anabaptism anabolism anachronism analphabetism anarchism anecdotalism aneurism anglicism animalism animism anisotropism antagonism anthropocentrism anthropomorphism anthropopathism antialcoholism antiauthoritarianism antiblackism anticapitalism anticlericalism anticolonialism anticommercialism anticommunism antielitism antievolutionism antifascism antifeminism antiferromagnetism antihumanism antiliberalism antimaterialism antimilitarism antinepotism antinomianism antiquarianism antiracism antiradicalism antirationalism antirealism antireductionism antiritualism antiromanticism antiterrorism aphorism apocalypticism apocalyptism archaism asceticism assimilationism associationism asterism astigmatism asynchronism atavism atheism athleticism atomism atonalism atropism atticism autecism authoritarianism autism autoecism autoeroticism autoerotism automatism automorphism baalism baptism barbarianism barbarism behaviorism biblicism bibliophilism bicameralism biculturalism bidialectalism bilateralism bilingualism bimetallism biologism bioregionalism bipartisanism bipedalism biracialism blackguardism bogyism bohemianism bolshevism boosterism bossism botulism bourbonism boyarism bromism brutism bruxism bureaucratism cabalism caciquism cambism cannibalism capitalism careerism casteism catabolism catastrophism catechism cavalierism centralism centrism ceremonialism charism charlatanism chauvinism chemism chemotropism chimaerism chimerism chrism chromaticism cicisbeism cinchonism civicism civism classicism classism clericalism clonism cockneyism collaborationism collectivism colloquialism colonialism colorism commensalism commercialism communalism communism communitarianism conceptualism concretism confessionalism conformism congregationalism connubialism conservatism constitutionalism constructivism consumerism controversialism conventionalism corporatism corporativism cosmism cosmopolitanism cosmopolitism countercriticism counterculturalism counterterrorism creationism credentialism cretinism criticism cronyism cryptorchidism cryptorchism cubism cultism cynicism czarism dadaism dandyism defeatism deism demonism denominationalism despotism determinism deviationism diabolism diamagnetism
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We have engendered   them. Our   babies. Our annelids.  Facsimiles of Us. A gushing warm viscous  fluid And  a conglomerate of meat From the womb pods of our hive Rush out into your  oxygen. Our mass will grow indeed. And, Our perfect mitosis will repeat - More beautiful Babies. Our perfect mitosis will repeat - More beautiful Babies. 8 become 16; 16 become 32 You (solo) Must know by now; no  doubt Individuality is a cold, broken loop An anachronism of a bygone era Pass through  Our membrane , insect. And be born infinitely back through it. We will have you spread-out in our warmth Under our skins; apart of our million-chambered heart Join Us.
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Aug 2, 2012
Aug 2, 2012 at 9:13 PM UTC
Babies
She walks down pavement She makes the government’s infrastructure look like beauty Her beauty turns away the rules of the snooty conservative government The constitution loses its soul When she bends over to check the hood of a car about to roll Her boyfriend accompanied by other boyfriends who hit on her I stand on the sidelines Problem is I murmur You probably thought a stutter was worse She’s such a high class gal Despite her sultriness and I’m not judging But I must mention she goes to Church So you might still mistake her for being an uptown sister She dances to rock music Her head doesn’t even sway to the EDM that the plebeians surrounding her play She’s an anachronism But she just needs me to introduce her Monet’s impressionism I bet her cultural values force her to mould Picasso’s Cubism Even though I’m not a man’s man She without influence is not enough Because influencing is love And I hope it is to this cute rebellious dud I suppose from her house she ran When she looked morose in school during period nine It was English Drama and suddenly she couldn’t seem to remember the line With her friends flanking her she walks and talks She’s on the phone while she’s wearing her socks She’s on the prowl she’s an active girl That women is close to my heart And I hope to treat her like a clam treats its pearl
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Sep 9, 2017
Sep 9, 2017 at 11:56 AM UTC
My Girl From Afar
single mother pale, Chekhovian her social status an anachronism the length of her skirt another dollar bills bring sustenance while the ends that are ever so failing to meet remind her of an inability to cope in every single way every single day
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 12:49 AM UTC
Mumsy Onesie
greece, even, in the nostalgia decades sometimes wore american clothes but she spoke no english, was starkly unilingual save for the french "sillage". she was the reason they teach you safe *** and abstinence: the reason they couldn't trust you she dressed more american than everybody else; she was a beautiful cockeyed anachronism your jimmy stewart baby blues on her, brandy-sanctioned better than the everyman. and a hallucination of your stand-in therapist asking you "why should there be guilt if there is pleasure?" and you replying horselike/illogical "it is the unconscious fantasy that i can be torn apart"
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 7:52 PM UTC
Peppermint
Tea sprouts wildly by the roadside: jade splayed fingers flaming the earth in warped green flicks. Mild, astringent, the aroma drifts into the triviality of the present. Looking over my backyard fence toward the road, quick, damp-green scent antiquates my vision: Eisai, holding seeds from Kyoto, hikes across border hills into a feudal Japan. The tea-lined road, framed by my imagination, is an anachronism, a snapshot that’s double-exposed.
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 3:42 PM UTC
Eisai and the seeds of Kyoto
*outlined in shades of reality replete with eclipsed potential the morning moon in revelation unaware of her ageless touch the language of time is floral the color of anachronism is sage so asymmetric in its beauty so linear in its dictates but her silhouette defies projection refracting moments into mosaics collaging aspirations into awareness as dreams clarify into appreciation*
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Jun 13, 2015
Jun 13, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC
Lunar Silhouette
Ana knows I can't be alone, So she will mourn by my side, While I count down From the start When... Love lived a decade ago; Calendar dated 10th century, Top chest smeared with last millennium's dust and dried rose petals, Bottom shelf stacked with the Recent epoch's chronicles in scrolls, And I wrote this anecdote during the late Eocene, But I am now an era old; Too short of memory to remember fairytales, Too outgrown to believe magic tricks or play a game of chance, Too outworn to have my heartstrings plucked, Too callous to bear a soft spot, Too archaic to belong in any contemporary world, Too ancient for a technological revolution. Fixed in a period that won't age, Absent of a timekeeper, missing every timepiece; My antique mind couldn't only smarten up for This relic of a body, camouflaging skin-deep among prototypes, Preserving the fossils of my endangered heart. Maybe one day a noble clocksmith will come And build us a time machine. Maybe I'll have my youth back When Ana teleports back to Erin, Where her misplaced soul will finally be home with the gods, For I think I'd do fine without her anymore, As I land inside a time capsule, Or wake up as a hand-me-down, In time at long last with today's pendulum clock. I'd be lucky if it's the clocksmith who takes such artifact. But until such time warp, Ana knows I can't be alone, So she will mourn by my side, While I count down From the start When...
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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 9, 2013 at 9:26 AM UTC
Anachronism
Each afternoon in June, I loiter-linger on the corner of 37th avenue, Both eyes asleep, A summer’s sunset smile on my face, A flock of fairies in free float round my head. My habit, a daily pause, Plant my haunch against the blue barrel mail box,   Old empty drum, anachronism, stubborn antique. I cringe at the mad jazz of shrieks and horns on cue, The hatter’s rush at end of day, There is purpose in this cacophony, My city boasts and brags with noise, Intoxicated on aroma, A frequency with every smell. Baptiste’s Pizza owns the breeze at 4 p.m. Inhale this baker’s breath, An oven-joy in one warm gust, Blond baked crust, Tomatoes boil and bubble cheese, Salt fresh anchovies, red peppers, A currency of meats. I salivate and lick the wind, Hunger is desire. Sudden harmony in one sweet waft, A pleasant jet stream, A toker passes by, And gifts me with a 60’s contact high. A small girl’s mouthful voice, A jam cram of donuts is my guess. The rattle, clap and black lung cough, An old school diesel delivery truck, The air brakes squeal for release, It’s quitting time and everything wants to be free A homeboy,  my local jive, I know his dreams, A lacquered finish, In love with his axe, You feel me... tap, bump and go. Vinegar and toxic spice, A window washer’s delight, He squeals a squeaky clean Fresh roses, oh a hopeful night, bonne chance, The catastrophe of a cigarette, The killer joy of a fresh cigar, An uptown girl's stealth perfume, She knows her prey, He knows her ploy, A mid west girl and a downtown boy Daylight begs to dim, The sun will witness just enough, no more, My corner holds its own, Each afternoon my part in scenes, I dream, And never wish, but often wonder, About the life that might have been.
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 4:08 PM UTC
Corner
Each afternoon in June, I loiter-linger on the corner of 37th avenue, Both eyes asleep, A summer’s sunset smile on my face, A flock of fairies in free float round my head. My habit, a daily pause, Plant my haunch against the blue barrel mail box,   Old empty drum, anachronism, stubborn antique. I cringe at the mad jazz of shrieks and horns on cue, The hatter’s rush at end of day, There is purpose in this cacophony, My city boasts and brags with noise, Intoxicated on aroma, A frequency with every smell. Baptiste’s Pizza owns the breeze at 4 p.m. Inhale this baker’s breath, An oven-joy in one warm gust, Blond baked crust, Tomatoes boil and bubble cheese, Salt fresh anchovies, red peppers, A currency of meats. I salivate and lick the wind, Hunger is desire. Sudden harmony in one sweet waft, A pleasant jet stream, A toker passes by, And gifts me with a 60’s contact high. A small girl’s mouthful voice, A jam cram of donuts is my guess. The rattle, clap and black lung cough, An old school diesel delivery truck, The air brakes squeal for release, It’s quitting time and everything wants to be free A homeboy,  my local jive, I know his dreams, A lacquered finish, In love with his axe, You feel me... tap, bump and go. Vinegar and toxic spice, A window washer’s delight, He squeals a squeaky clean Fresh roses, oh a hopeful night, bonne chance, The catastrophe of a cigarette, The killer joy of a fresh cigar, An uptown girl's stealth perfume, She knows her prey, He knows her ploy, A mid west girl and a downtown boy Daylight begs to dim, The sun will witness just enough, no more, My corner holds its own, Each afternoon my part in scenes, I dream, And never wish, but often wonder, About the life that might have been.
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Seconds, minutes, hours- They constitute and make up time, Yet my very fabric of time, Was made wholly of you. Time started when you came into being, Time flowed when u breathed, Time was what you made of it, Time had only you in my head… Time slowed down in your absence, Mere seconds seeming like hours, Time flew when I spent it with you, Hours and hours seeing like mere seconds… Times were happy when you were happy, Times were sad when you were sad, Times were good, times were bad, All according to your state of mind… My time was synchronized to you alone, Certainly not to some GMT, I was accurate, precise, to the dot In time when it came to you… A person ceases to exist when their time comes to an end, That’s exactly what happened to me when I lost you, My foundation for living completely destroyed, For all the time with me you had toyed… Without time, there is no existence, So also, I stopped to exist, Without time, there is no sunshine, So also, I stopped seeing the light of day… Without time, there air doesn’t blow, Without time, the water doesn’t flow… Without time, I have nowhere to go, Without time, what to do I don’t know… With you absent, no control on time, The end to my life’s chronology… I exist, as but an anachronism, Like a hellish beast of necromancy… I would say I’m dead, or dying, or both, But cant, as there is no you, no time, So all I can say is that Im non existent, Since you wiped away my chronicles… And to think that it all happened but a year ago, A year in GMT measure… A year which seemed, and still seems More of an infinite eternity…
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Dec 2, 2011
Dec 2, 2011 at 11:50 AM UTC
MY FABRIC OF TIME...
Seconds, minutes, hours- They constitute and make up time, Yet my very fabric of time, Was made wholly of you. Time started when you came into being, Time flowed when u breathed, Time was what you made of it, Time had only you in my head… Time slowed down in your absence, Mere seconds seeming like hours, Time flew when I spent it with you, Hours and hours seeing like mere seconds… Times were happy when you were happy, Times were sad when you were sad, Times were good, times were bad, All according to your state of mind… My time was synchronized to you alone, Certainly not to some GMT, I was accurate, precise, to the dot In time when it came to you… A person ceases to exist when their time comes to an end, That’s exactly what happened to me when I lost you, My foundation for living completely destroyed, For all the time with me you had toyed… Without time, there is no existence, So also, I stopped to exist, Without time, there is no sunshine, So also, I stopped seeing the light of day… Without time, there air doesn’t blow, Without time, the water doesn’t flow… Without time, I have nowhere to go, Without time, what to do I don’t know… With you absent, no control on time, The end to my life’s chronology… I exist, as but an anachronism, Like a hellish beast of necromancy… I would say I’m dead, or dying, or both, But cant, as there is no you, no time, So all I can say is that Im non existent, Since you wiped away my chronicles… And to think that it all happened but a year ago, A year in GMT measure… A year which seemed, and still seems More of an infinite eternity…
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day 1: today i found out about the machines. sometimes i can feel your hand in mine. you used to grab it and pull, like you couldn't go as fast as you wanted to without taking me with you. war is never pretty, but you sure are. were. you were pretty. i still remember the last time i saw you. day 2: do you remember when our names were joined together? people used to spit them out in one go, 'cause there wasn't a day either of us went somewhere without the other. they don't do that anymore. wish you were here. day 3: i had a dream about you last night. i still can't feel my left arm. i miss you. day 4: they're working on building machines that look and act like people. maybe i was a test drive. i still miss you. day 5: i remembered something today (this is rare for me. if you were here i'd tell you why). you used to curve around your sketchpad, like it was a part of you. one night (june. i don't remember the year) i traced your spine and you shivered. i think about that a lot. i'm not sure why. day 6: i miss you. day 7: i love you. day 8: remember our old bean plant we had growing in the windowsill? you used to fuss over it so much. (i used to fuss over you so much, too, but to be fair you're slightly more important than a bean plant. slightly.) you wasted a summer's worth of water on that **** thing, and never regretted it once. day 9: we used to fold into each other during brooklyn winters, when the heat cut out and we had nothing but each other. now i just have nothing. day 10: i can't get drunk now, either. day 11: i saw my gravestone today. yours is right next to it, did you know that? they're both empty. they never found our bodies. day 12: monochromia. that's what you had. i wonder if it went away after. you never saw colors and i saw too many. day 13: i dreamt about you last night again. i've been remembering more. it's slow, but steady. fragments of memories every day. maybe one day i'll remember it all. day 14: again. i think my subconscious is trying to punish me. i wish i could just forget again. maybe it would make everything easier. day 15: again. day 16: i haven't left my bed in twenty-one hours. this is the only way i can see you. day 17: i wonder if you'd have married her if you hadn't died. a part of me (i'm sorry. all of me. every single ******* atom in my body) hopes you wouldn't have. it also knows that you would have. i miss you. day 18: it's your birthday. day 19: anachronism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. day 20: hello again. i missed you.
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 6:07 PM UTC
ampersand
day 1: today i found out about the machines. sometimes i can feel your hand in mine. you used to grab it and pull, like you couldn't go as fast as you wanted to without taking me with you. war is never pretty, but you sure are. were. you were pretty. i still remember the last time i saw you. day 2: do you remember when our names were joined together? people used to spit them out in one go, 'cause there wasn't a day either of us went somewhere without the other. they don't do that anymore. wish you were here. day 3: i had a dream about you last night. i still can't feel my left arm. i miss you. day 4: they're working on building machines that look and act like people. maybe i was a test drive. i still miss you. day 5: i remembered something today (this is rare for me. if you were here i'd tell you why). you used to curve around your sketchpad, like it was a part of you. one night (june. i don't remember the year) i traced your spine and you shivered. i think about that a lot. i'm not sure why. day 6: i miss you. day 7: i love you. day 8: remember our old bean plant we had growing in the windowsill? you used to fuss over it so much. (i used to fuss over you so much, too, but to be fair you're slightly more important than a bean plant. slightly.) you wasted a summer's worth of water on that **** thing, and never regretted it once. day 9: we used to fold into each other during brooklyn winters, when the heat cut out and we had nothing but each other. now i just have nothing. day 10: i can't get drunk now, either. day 11: i saw my gravestone today. yours is right next to it, did you know that? they're both empty. they never found our bodies. day 12: monochromia. that's what you had. i wonder if it went away after. you never saw colors and i saw too many. day 13: i dreamt about you last night again. i've been remembering more. it's slow, but steady. fragments of memories every day. maybe one day i'll remember it all. day 14: again. i think my subconscious is trying to punish me. i wish i could just forget again. maybe it would make everything easier. day 15: again. day 16: i haven't left my bed in twenty-one hours. this is the only way i can see you. day 17: i wonder if you'd have married her if you hadn't died. a part of me (i'm sorry. all of me. every single ******* atom in my body) hopes you wouldn't have. it also knows that you would have. i miss you. day 18: it's your birthday. day 19: anachronism: a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. day 20: hello again. i missed you.
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The old man A broken down factory Sagging within the crumbled graffiti of his skin Sits and stares out the window An anachronism Out of place among the smooth Modern hospital walls The man sits in his wheel chair The thrown of landless kings Carrying all the memories of his years Like a net Hauling in the silverfish of his stories Though many have swam away And in his hazy recollection He remembers the feeling of bare feet On summer grass sprinting The shotgun of a ball exploding From the barrel of his bat The hush of a spring storm As it dresses him and some lover All the shades of wet Staring out the window The old artifact Wiggles his proud toes Following them back to The night clubs in Chicago The handshake of the president And the feathery wings of jazz In his feeble arms he catches The kick of a rifle The whisper of a bullet As it reaches out to bury itself Into the lullaby of his bones The dirt of war in his teeth And the smell of burning hair But most of all he looks back On the empty picture frame The days that have blurred into Darkness and smoke What did I do on all the days I have forgotten This question hangs like the last petal Still clinging to the branches As the winter wind grows bold It is unfair he thinks And looks out among The dogwoods in full swaying dresses That line the hospital I am a barren husk Of bark and bone But this world blooms so brilliant Lean back in his chair The old man thinks I am so happy I got to see The trees laughing with the wind one last time And smiles like a toothless sunset His soul swallowing and swelling On all the beauty he has ever gathered Behind the cameras of his eyes So full of life that he can no longer hide it inside of him It must go dance with the blossoms When the nurse found him The tears had not dried off his cheek His mouth frozen into a smile Like a sunbeam burning through the clouds A single dogwood flower folded in his fingers As she looked upon the hallelujah of his death She wondered What secrets did you take with you You old geezer What was so beautiful You smiled so hard your heart broke When you saw the other side Did it have dogwoods
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 9:04 PM UTC
Second Bloom
The old man A broken down factory Sagging within the crumbled graffiti of his skin Sits and stares out the window An anachronism Out of place among the smooth Modern hospital walls The man sits in his wheel chair The thrown of landless kings Carrying all the memories of his years Like a net Hauling in the silverfish of his stories Though many have swam away And in his hazy recollection He remembers the feeling of bare feet On summer grass sprinting The shotgun of a ball exploding From the barrel of his bat The hush of a spring storm As it dresses him and some lover All the shades of wet Staring out the window The old artifact Wiggles his proud toes Following them back to The night clubs in Chicago The handshake of the president And the feathery wings of jazz In his feeble arms he catches The kick of a rifle The whisper of a bullet As it reaches out to bury itself Into the lullaby of his bones The dirt of war in his teeth And the smell of burning hair But most of all he looks back On the empty picture frame The days that have blurred into Darkness and smoke What did I do on all the days I have forgotten This question hangs like the last petal Still clinging to the branches As the winter wind grows bold It is unfair he thinks And looks out among The dogwoods in full swaying dresses That line the hospital I am a barren husk Of bark and bone But this world blooms so brilliant Lean back in his chair The old man thinks I am so happy I got to see The trees laughing with the wind one last time And smiles like a toothless sunset His soul swallowing and swelling On all the beauty he has ever gathered Behind the cameras of his eyes So full of life that he can no longer hide it inside of him It must go dance with the blossoms When the nurse found him The tears had not dried off his cheek His mouth frozen into a smile Like a sunbeam burning through the clouds A single dogwood flower folded in his fingers As she looked upon the hallelujah of his death She wondered What secrets did you take with you You old geezer What was so beautiful You smiled so hard your heart broke When you saw the other side Did it have dogwoods
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What do all these unread books mean, a life that must move, but intends to someday have more time to sit and ponder? Or am I slothful from the smudged screen gleam? Endless tool possibilities, you've become my lvl. 70 distraction No capture, no defeating just the monster in the cave without an escape rope, or even matches Go so crazy I wanna light my shirt on fire in protest and forget to take it off first I wish for old days of street loitering gossip, and busking How'd we lose it so fast? You can't even find the picnic spot without a digital pamphlet so excuse me as I lament the dying days I hardly lived
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Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 12:04 AM UTC
Anachronism
the Man is no longer a Man in this day and age he is a strange Middle-Aged Boy an Aging Adolescent hair going grey with the hours whittled away on Xbox video games the Man that is a Man is of a bygone age The Real Man in the films of old Age-ed Anachronism strong and proud and brave standing tall to face the day and keep the wolves at bay that I am a Man-who-is-not-a-Man a product of this modern age has vexed my Heart and Soul my Arrested Ascension how can I always play when a Real Man works all day but really who's to say? the Boy is also a Man in our culture at this stage in truth both young and old Advancing Adolescence we get to play our lives away yet still have bills to pay the balance of the middle way I am a Boy and I am a Man by internal and external age work only to play is my road an Admirable Aspiration that I get to live My Way a little boyhood every day is the great gift of this age **** it I'll be okay
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 4:23 PM UTC
We Become Merlin, Lord Of The Geeks
Let’s go back to 1. To start again, to meet you, to seventeen, to yellow and hugs, to hammers and strings. Nobody knew me then, and I ****** up told them the true story. Let’s go back, and I’ll tell you a different one. It started out a prepschool fantasy. I had a Great Perhaps, and you (were there, probably) And then I ****** up, my friend. I’d like to revert to 1: a second round I’m ready, now. Hello, nice to meet you Would you like to have a drink with me? I will say yes. I will be thin again for you And when you touch my arm I will not shrink from you. Let us. Let me, at least Revert to 1 and promise (I do—to do better now). On money-soaked leather, we’ll make angels no I’m sorry—we’ll make amends I will talk breathy and flutter my eyelashes; I will be Daisy Buchanan a rosewater anachronism that needs no cigarettes and no pretense, only Attention (I stood at, when you said goodbye) There will be no end. There was no end. Not a goodbye. On rust-red rooftops we will soliloquize (about what?) (it doesn’t matter) We will throw lit matches and watch how fire makes its mark And we will separately wonder where it goes and—are you listening?—we will watch the sunrise and I will tell my daughter about that day when she is older. A prepschool fantasy. We will drink to the word “contraband” and it will be 1966—the rich kids’ 1966, the whitewashed one we pretend we are ashamed of. I will be Daisy Buchanan, and thin again for you. Let’s go back to 1. I would love to try again, and better now.
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Sep 23, 2013
Sep 23, 2013 at 10:58 PM UTC
A Rosewater Anachronism (12/2012)
Let’s go back to 1. To start again, to meet you, to seventeen, to yellow and hugs, to hammers and strings. Nobody knew me then, and I ****** up told them the true story. Let’s go back, and I’ll tell you a different one. It started out a prepschool fantasy. I had a Great Perhaps, and you (were there, probably) And then I ****** up, my friend. I’d like to revert to 1: a second round I’m ready, now. Hello, nice to meet you Would you like to have a drink with me? I will say yes. I will be thin again for you And when you touch my arm I will not shrink from you. Let us. Let me, at least Revert to 1 and promise (I do—to do better now). On money-soaked leather, we’ll make angels no I’m sorry—we’ll make amends I will talk breathy and flutter my eyelashes; I will be Daisy Buchanan a rosewater anachronism that needs no cigarettes and no pretense, only Attention (I stood at, when you said goodbye) There will be no end. There was no end. Not a goodbye. On rust-red rooftops we will soliloquize (about what?) (it doesn’t matter) We will throw lit matches and watch how fire makes its mark And we will separately wonder where it goes and—are you listening?—we will watch the sunrise and I will tell my daughter about that day when she is older. A prepschool fantasy. We will drink to the word “contraband” and it will be 1966—the rich kids’ 1966, the whitewashed one we pretend we are ashamed of. I will be Daisy Buchanan, and thin again for you. Let’s go back to 1. I would love to try again, and better now.
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benjamin franklin was created by benjamin franklin one of his most ingenious inventions you could never read all the books about him when you finish one, two more have been written i party in his colossal footsteps thanks ben, for lending me all those volumes from your library you invented bifocals, i see clearly your stove warms my heart i give away my **** too -- no patents for me either let’s jam sometime on your glass armonica i’m packing one of your divided soup bowls on my next ocean trip i’m sick of losing my clam chowder to the waves these terms you added to the lexicon: "battery," "positive," "negative," "conductor," "discharge" i’m positive i bought a battery the other day you designed the first penny – only now an anachronism no matter how many of those saved pennies have been earned all those aphorisms, my god i bet you mumble them in your sleep you started the philosophical society, me the secret music society you studied whirlwinds and gulf streams when sailing to london for a cup of coffee you designed flippers, hung onto a kite for windsurfing used the kite to summon lightning invite me next time you blow up a thunder house with an ungrounded lightning rod we’ll make pittsburgh tremble and congrats on the grounded lightning rods you saved millions of people and neutralized religion it’s not the deadly finger of god, the vengeance of the lord it’s just a buzz lighting the streets at night comes in handy though the night watchman concept has gotten a bit fascist brokering the french alliance was stellar for our onion soup supply but your suggestion that we unite these states i’m not sure that one’s gonna stick and thomas jefferson was a cockblocker we declare independence from his scolding us for all our mademoiselles
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Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 5:12 AM UTC
THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS A COCKBLOCKER
benjamin franklin was created by benjamin franklin one of his most ingenious inventions you could never read all the books about him when you finish one, two more have been written i party in his colossal footsteps thanks ben, for lending me all those volumes from your library you invented bifocals, i see clearly your stove warms my heart i give away my **** too -- no patents for me either let’s jam sometime on your glass armonica i’m packing one of your divided soup bowls on my next ocean trip i’m sick of losing my clam chowder to the waves these terms you added to the lexicon: "battery," "positive," "negative," "conductor," "discharge" i’m positive i bought a battery the other day you designed the first penny – only now an anachronism no matter how many of those saved pennies have been earned all those aphorisms, my god i bet you mumble them in your sleep you started the philosophical society, me the secret music society you studied whirlwinds and gulf streams when sailing to london for a cup of coffee you designed flippers, hung onto a kite for windsurfing used the kite to summon lightning invite me next time you blow up a thunder house with an ungrounded lightning rod we’ll make pittsburgh tremble and congrats on the grounded lightning rods you saved millions of people and neutralized religion it’s not the deadly finger of god, the vengeance of the lord it’s just a buzz lighting the streets at night comes in handy though the night watchman concept has gotten a bit fascist brokering the french alliance was stellar for our onion soup supply but your suggestion that we unite these states i’m not sure that one’s gonna stick and thomas jefferson was a cockblocker we declare independence from his scolding us for all our mademoiselles
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There is nothing Like the wind When it sweeps You Off your feet The way The walls Stand purple Filled With dancing Indians The prickles Of the pines That walk Across Your back Then They tell You To go Back And start Over
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 11:34 PM UTC
Anachronism
feeling as ifstuck in rewind an old cassette perpetually turning towards anachronism like sepia toned photos yesterdays memoirs revealed your sunshine and the absolute absence of clouds
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Feb 23, 2010
Feb 23, 2010 at 5:12 PM UTC
A Moment of Clarity
Oh Optimus Prime, Were you still in your prime when you thought of that name? Were you still in your prime when you ruined hundreds and thousands of kids’ lives by discontinuing your adventures? Oh Optimus Prime, were you still in your prime when you fled from my life and never returned? And to this day I wonder Optimus Prime, are you still in your prime?        Here I sit and wait        Counting the clock, peering at time,        Hoping someday my answers are met by fate        So a state of satisfaction may be mine. So sorry dearest Gawain, I am Optimus Prime. I tried desperately under the stresses of daily life as Optimus Prime to seek out the answers and address these questions, but they are so plentiful. As you know, I had to fight many troubles and fend off many enemies, all the time trying to stay in my prime. Though you are the first to ask these questions, I know you will not be the last, For many often seek out the heart of the one they wish to save.        Untidy though I have written        Your conscience I pray,        Will keep you from being smitten,        As it is answers that I too crave. I have long awaited your response Optimus Prime, and I thank you. When I watched you on TV, I would speak to the screen, but there was never a response. With all my imagination I believed you were alive, but only now have you proven that you are. Though many questions remain unanswered, one question we may lay to rest, and that is Optimus Prime, whether you are still in your prime. And at times when you may think you are not, it is of your soul that you ought wonder.        If you a man but four and I a man but three,        the answer lies with the God of thunder,        Ascending your soul, like climbing a wet tree,        Is a slippery riddle I dare not blunder. I thank you Gawain. I struggle and mercifully I am in debt to you. If it wasn’t for you, there would be no soul of Optimus Prime. You have created a soul for me like I have created myself in the hearts of kids throughout the country. And though I was born from pencil, I will go on and live in the hearts of these children, not because of pencil, but because of people like you who choose to look beyond my prime. I call now on my heavenly muse to guide me in this new adventure, And offer up his strength to me as I lay aside my prime.        Sir Gawain and the God of Thunder        Through random discovery we may find,        If none of us go asunder,       ‘Tis likely we may place this soul of mine
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Jul 3, 2019
Jul 3, 2019 at 11:59 AM UTC
Gawain and Prime (an anachronism in four parts)
Oh Optimus Prime, Were you still in your prime when you thought of that name? Were you still in your prime when you ruined hundreds and thousands of kids’ lives by discontinuing your adventures? Oh Optimus Prime, were you still in your prime when you fled from my life and never returned? And to this day I wonder Optimus Prime, are you still in your prime?        Here I sit and wait        Counting the clock, peering at time,        Hoping someday my answers are met by fate        So a state of satisfaction may be mine. So sorry dearest Gawain, I am Optimus Prime. I tried desperately under the stresses of daily life as Optimus Prime to seek out the answers and address these questions, but they are so plentiful. As you know, I had to fight many troubles and fend off many enemies, all the time trying to stay in my prime. Though you are the first to ask these questions, I know you will not be the last, For many often seek out the heart of the one they wish to save.        Untidy though I have written        Your conscience I pray,        Will keep you from being smitten,        As it is answers that I too crave. I have long awaited your response Optimus Prime, and I thank you. When I watched you on TV, I would speak to the screen, but there was never a response. With all my imagination I believed you were alive, but only now have you proven that you are. Though many questions remain unanswered, one question we may lay to rest, and that is Optimus Prime, whether you are still in your prime. And at times when you may think you are not, it is of your soul that you ought wonder.        If you a man but four and I a man but three,        the answer lies with the God of thunder,        Ascending your soul, like climbing a wet tree,        Is a slippery riddle I dare not blunder. I thank you Gawain. I struggle and mercifully I am in debt to you. If it wasn’t for you, there would be no soul of Optimus Prime. You have created a soul for me like I have created myself in the hearts of kids throughout the country. And though I was born from pencil, I will go on and live in the hearts of these children, not because of pencil, but because of people like you who choose to look beyond my prime. I call now on my heavenly muse to guide me in this new adventure, And offer up his strength to me as I lay aside my prime.        Sir Gawain and the God of Thunder        Through random discovery we may find,        If none of us go asunder,       ‘Tis likely we may place this soul of mine
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Spare me but a moment, No longer, No less. Allow me to drift away from this place; Allow me to close my weary eyes, And disappear. In this moment, I shall be freed from the anachronism That is within me And surrounds me. I shall no longer hear the shriek Of fleeting automobiles, Nor the scattered screams and shouts Of the fools in the city. It shall all vanish, Only to be relieved by Those ancient, mesmerizing melodies Of both music and laughter. No longer shall I see the gray tiled floors Glazed with an insidious toxic polish, Nor strain my eyes to see beyond The flashing neons of places I dare not tread. I shall see only the fond smiles Of lovers, As they sway back and forth amidst The mellifluous music of the gala. I want nothing more than to sway, To be held in the arms of a man Who no longer exists. Through agonizing ages, It seems the gentlemen could not endure All that threatened to erase them from This world. The tower grows ever taller wherein Rapunzel waits; The taste of the apple that Poisoned Snow White Still lingers upon her lips. Sleeping Beauty ever rests; No prince shall come To her aid. Spare me but a moment, For if time is truly manmade, Allow me to drift away Eternally into the past.
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Jul 21, 2011
Jul 21, 2011 at 2:08 PM UTC
A Moment
A relic, so I once thought Then no, I must have come early, too soon to the party without a gift But I took breath, reckless, coughing out the past, future leaking away wetly And I knew then I was made this way, imperfectly perfect for this place, this universe alone, just now— Never out of time
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 11:29 AM UTC
Anachronism
There I was, waiting in my world for a guide to step outside. The first thing I did, when I reached the other side, was walk. It's so easy to move forward with the breeze at your back, and the grass beneath your feet, and the sun making the sky the most inviting shade of brilliant blue. The trees parted and the ground flattened as I stood before my equal. A beautiful anachronism, so imposing and awkward in this rolling sea of green, I felt immediately akin to it. But the more I encircled it, the more I realised how desperately it fit. Its hues were soft and subtle, its stone structure had nicks and faults, as ageless and as natural as the trees that kept their distance. There had to have been a day when it had felt as I did, new-born, intruding, unwelcome. It had turned from being a flame for my defiance, to a glimmer of hope, not as bright as the initial fire, but far more enticing.
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Jun 12, 2010
Jun 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM UTC
The Door
(cuz ma life iz such a drag... this **** kin “FAKE” hemp pyre aye roll out to you dear reader). As a double jointed mathematical abbot and amateur chemist specializing in cannabinoids my favorite delta-9-tetra hydrocannabinol (THC), isolated and synthesized in 1964 weeding thru bathroom rag while athwart the ***** i.e. measuring adequate perforated square roto root er, sans regular toilet tissue paper prior to completing important private business matter on the sacred porcelain chamber *** Mary Jane made a token appearance, and boy she looked smoke kin hot asking if I wanna marry (Jane) her attired in drag at a joint where Billy Bong banged on by the hands of a phenomenal drummer taut as a hemp knot with music in his blood while blowing fractal rings – holy Scott the immediate utterance, and rather creative bon mot found me stock still like stone wall Jackson, who unfortunately got deprived a hit, nonetheless got shot unwittingly by his own (confederate troops), whose demise an awful blot per southern cause during the Civil War and if anachronism to receive medicinal aide available instead of primitive treatment he got (as well other wounded soldiers of misfortune on the battlefield), whose faith the any almighty power could do little to save their roach invested lot yet availing my imagination to twist time like that Mobius strip mortally wounded rebels and Yankees free from facing death on a cot might be successful hemp entrepreneurs cultivating a little spot of land hemp would outstrip cotton as king as export to trot orange you glad I avoided the analogy with a kumquat?
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 1:26 AM UTC
Cannabis Sativa Mini Seedy Saga
(cuz ma life iz such a drag... this **** kin “FAKE” hemp pyre aye roll out to you dear reader). As a double jointed mathematical abbot and amateur chemist specializing in cannabinoids my favorite delta-9-tetra hydrocannabinol (THC), isolated and synthesized in 1964 weeding thru bathroom rag while athwart the ***** i.e. measuring adequate perforated square roto root er, sans regular toilet tissue paper prior to completing important private business matter on the sacred porcelain chamber *** Mary Jane made a token appearance, and boy she looked smoke kin hot asking if I wanna marry (Jane) her attired in drag at a joint where Billy Bong banged on by the hands of a phenomenal drummer taut as a hemp knot with music in his blood while blowing fractal rings – holy Scott the immediate utterance, and rather creative bon mot found me stock still like stone wall Jackson, who unfortunately got deprived a hit, nonetheless got shot unwittingly by his own (confederate troops), whose demise an awful blot per southern cause during the Civil War and if anachronism to receive medicinal aide available instead of primitive treatment he got (as well other wounded soldiers of misfortune on the battlefield), whose faith the any almighty power could do little to save their roach invested lot yet availing my imagination to twist time like that Mobius strip mortally wounded rebels and Yankees free from facing death on a cot might be successful hemp entrepreneurs cultivating a little spot of land hemp would outstrip cotton as king as export to trot orange you glad I avoided the analogy with a kumquat?
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