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"apricots" poems
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked and loved the way she told him things that seemed true but were not, and he knew the color of each of her dresses and her shoes-he knew the stock and curve of each heel as well as the leg shaped by it. and she was out again and whe he came home,and she'd come back with that special stink again, and she did she came in at 3 a.m in the morning filthy like a dung eating swine and he took out a butchers knife and she screamed backing into the roominghouse wall still pretty somehow in spite of love's reek and he finished the glass of wine. that yellow dress his favorite and she screamed again. and he took up the knife and unhooked his belt and tore away the cloth before her and cut off his ***** and carried them in his hands like apricots and flushed them down the toilet bowl and she kept screaming as the room became red GOD O GOD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? and he sat there holding 3 towels between his legs no caring now wether she lft or stayed wore yellow or green or anything at all. and one hand holding and one hand lifting he poured another wine
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Freedom
apricots and cigarette smoke: your smile is infectious. heat leaking through the little slit in the window: melt like cool frosters on a hot summer day - melt into me lets become solvent in this little car; (I wouldn't mind.) combine together, like our parents and parents before them. molecular; everything, anything - we are science. I am not afraid, it is you who takes the air from my gasping lungs; - look! at his beauty; divine. © A. Leigh
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Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM UTC
Chemistry
They set off from white rocks, red geraniums, blue tile, and let the green sea lift and drop their ships far above the white foam waves. The stony islands that were home were swallowed in minutes by the hungry Atlantic but they hunted the big fish, the giant whales  with human eyes who rolled and sang and swam in oceans a continent away. They came from Sao Jorge, Sao Miguel Faial, Pico, Terceira, Horta - Nine island emeralds set in a black volcanic chain, neither of the old country nor the new: Halfway there and halfway gone - secret jewels of the Portuguese sailors. They sailed into unknown waters, south around tropical shores where dragons smoked and writhed on the rocks and birds with brilliant red and yellow plumage rose in clouds around their heads. Then north, and north, north again to colder waters where sea lions barked and lunged at the strange massive wooden beast that coursed the waters, strung with brown bodies swaying on the lines and cursing the sails. North still they swept casting contemptuous eyes on the cheap turquoise waters and monstrous slow turtles of the Sea of Cortez. Coming up from the desert, past the palms and the yucca, the Joshua tree and Spanish daggers, they chased their smooth grey prey, riding the vast Pacific on their wooden island, herding the leviathans onto their spears, adventurers with an audience of only gulls and sky and seal. Until they sailed too close one day to a rock-strewn shoreline and saw the golden hills. Gnarled oaks like grandmothers from home with orange poppy jewels at their feet, missions strung like beads in a ruby marked rosary. The boats slowed, ****** in by a Scylla of soil rich and brown and loamy waiting to be seeded with grapes and apricots peaches, avocados, lettuce, alfalfa, fertile and heavy with sweet promise. And the whales sang and the lions barked and the gulls cried but the sailors were entranced, encharmed, ensorcelled. The treacherous sea, the mysterious deep, the stony jewels of home, called and wept and waited in vain for the sailors   - beached and grounded - cutting not waves but earth, tracking seasons not whales, seduced by dirt.
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 9:51 PM UTC
San Joaquin Sailors
They set off from white rocks, red geraniums, blue tile, and let the green sea lift and drop their ships far above the white foam waves. The stony islands that were home were swallowed in minutes by the hungry Atlantic but they hunted the big fish, the giant whales  with human eyes who rolled and sang and swam in oceans a continent away. They came from Sao Jorge, Sao Miguel Faial, Pico, Terceira, Horta - Nine island emeralds set in a black volcanic chain, neither of the old country nor the new: Halfway there and halfway gone - secret jewels of the Portuguese sailors. They sailed into unknown waters, south around tropical shores where dragons smoked and writhed on the rocks and birds with brilliant red and yellow plumage rose in clouds around their heads. Then north, and north, north again to colder waters where sea lions barked and lunged at the strange massive wooden beast that coursed the waters, strung with brown bodies swaying on the lines and cursing the sails. North still they swept casting contemptuous eyes on the cheap turquoise waters and monstrous slow turtles of the Sea of Cortez. Coming up from the desert, past the palms and the yucca, the Joshua tree and Spanish daggers, they chased their smooth grey prey, riding the vast Pacific on their wooden island, herding the leviathans onto their spears, adventurers with an audience of only gulls and sky and seal. Until they sailed too close one day to a rock-strewn shoreline and saw the golden hills. Gnarled oaks like grandmothers from home with orange poppy jewels at their feet, missions strung like beads in a ruby marked rosary. The boats slowed, ****** in by a Scylla of soil rich and brown and loamy waiting to be seeded with grapes and apricots peaches, avocados, lettuce, alfalfa, fertile and heavy with sweet promise. And the whales sang and the lions barked and the gulls cried but the sailors were entranced, encharmed, ensorcelled. The treacherous sea, the mysterious deep, the stony jewels of home, called and wept and waited in vain for the sailors   - beached and grounded - cutting not waves but earth, tracking seasons not whales, seduced by dirt.
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Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 9:49 PM UTC
A Coastal Sunset: transitional beauty
Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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She has a heart of cedar color And dreams in shades of peony and lotus stems. She leaves the smell of cyclamen and ripe apricots Behind her, Those who are crying in the shadows of Magnolias Are finding a shelter within her. Sometimes I imagine that I'm the sea foam That is touching her ankles And the air that envelops her lips, Absorbing her every move, That is reflected in the mosaic of her pupils. Her thoughts are sleeping in the depths of my veins, In every pore that absorbs her voice I can hear her breathing. I remain frozen in her existence And in the contours of her shadow, All of what I have seek so far I have found in every thing on which she brushed. After all, I'm just a pale reflection of the stars In her night sky, The dying firefly in her garden Of white poppies and wild rose hips.
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 6:08 AM UTC
Love No. 3
it was the Cubist who created the space and color that everywhere today assails our eyes in    uniform architecture and monotonous design; the various branches of modern art through tedious & exhaustive experiment      & research creating a massive cultural sinkhole whose banal discoveries unveil for all the sameness of form, line and color; Quote from Gorky's 'Camouflage', 1942: I like the heat; the tenderness; the edible; the lusciousness; the song of a single person in a bathtub full of water.                            I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings    of Seurat and that man Pablo Picasso;                I measure all things by weight.                In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series,                26 June 1942 I love Mougouch, Gorky's wife.                What about papa Cézanne; I like the wheat fields, the plow, the apricots, those flirts of the sun.    And bread above all. My lever is the purple; About 194 feet away from our house in Armenia on the road to the spring my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired                              from giving fruit; this garden was identified as the _'Garden of Wish Fulfillment'_ often I had seen my mother and the other village women exposing their naked bosoms, taking the soft, dependable ******* in their hands & rubbing them on the rocks; above all this standing an enormous tree all bleached under the sun, rain & cold,  deprived of leaves. This was the Holy Tree [quoted in 1942] In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series, 26 June 1942 I don't like that word 'finished'.     When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness; I never finish a painting –   I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I can never come to the end of; sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out.    Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time; I do that       b/c I want to – b/c I change my    mind so often; The thing to do is      always to keep starting to paint;      never finishing the painting [quoted in 1948]
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 4:39 PM UTC
Արշիլ Գորկին, տանիքի այծերը
it was the Cubist who created the space and color that everywhere today assails our eyes in    uniform architecture and monotonous design; the various branches of modern art through tedious & exhaustive experiment      & research creating a massive cultural sinkhole whose banal discoveries unveil for all the sameness of form, line and color; Quote from Gorky's 'Camouflage', 1942: I like the heat; the tenderness; the edible; the lusciousness; the song of a single person in a bathtub full of water.                            I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings    of Seurat and that man Pablo Picasso;                I measure all things by weight.                In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series,                26 June 1942 I love Mougouch, Gorky's wife.                What about papa Cézanne; I like the wheat fields, the plow, the apricots, those flirts of the sun.    And bread above all. My lever is the purple; About 194 feet away from our house in Armenia on the road to the spring my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired                              from giving fruit; this garden was identified as the _'Garden of Wish Fulfillment'_ often I had seen my mother and the other village women exposing their naked bosoms, taking the soft, dependable ******* in their hands & rubbing them on the rocks; above all this standing an enormous tree all bleached under the sun, rain & cold,  deprived of leaves. This was the Holy Tree [quoted in 1942] In text for MoMA, describing the 'Garden in Sochi' - series, 26 June 1942 I don't like that word 'finished'.     When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness; I never finish a painting –   I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I can never come to the end of; sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out.    Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time; I do that       b/c I want to – b/c I change my    mind so often; The thing to do is      always to keep starting to paint;      never finishing the painting [quoted in 1948]
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you swallowed prunes as if your life depended on it, and to your mental state, they were better than any gateway drug or needle implanted into your muscles the rough exterior cracked and ripped apart your lips unforgivably; tearing down your esophagus with the force of a peach pit you rubbed dried apricots onto your skin as if that could cure you of all your sadness; as if it could take the need to get away and drown yourself until you were buried deep into the soil and there are flowers nestled into the crooks of your bones and you tasted of sweat, ***** and tears when at night you sit on the edge of your bed contemplating life or death between sobriety and a drunk that lingers for days on end clinging under your nails and to all the people who roll their eyes at you and say ‘you’ll get over it’ tell them to **** themselves; tell them that when they see apricots, they see sunshine, but you see death to infinity and beyond; you see all the broken promises that were whispered into the knots in your back you see the lily pads of roses that dripped with regrets and words that were never said words that gripped your lungs like a vice in the back of a car when you thought of love, you thought of apricot kisses rubbed against your lips; of rolled up aluminum foil of lighters drained of their fluids in a week time of the close to boiling water that invaded your personal space and reached the tip of your nose and of peach kisses from Georgia that dug its way into you; promising another day
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 1:20 AM UTC
apricot kisses
you swallowed prunes as if your life depended on it, and to your mental state, they were better than any gateway drug or needle implanted into your muscles the rough exterior cracked and ripped apart your lips unforgivably; tearing down your esophagus with the force of a peach pit you rubbed dried apricots onto your skin as if that could cure you of all your sadness; as if it could take the need to get away and drown yourself until you were buried deep into the soil and there are flowers nestled into the crooks of your bones and you tasted of sweat, ***** and tears when at night you sit on the edge of your bed contemplating life or death between sobriety and a drunk that lingers for days on end clinging under your nails and to all the people who roll their eyes at you and say ‘you’ll get over it’ tell them to **** themselves; tell them that when they see apricots, they see sunshine, but you see death to infinity and beyond; you see all the broken promises that were whispered into the knots in your back you see the lily pads of roses that dripped with regrets and words that were never said words that gripped your lungs like a vice in the back of a car when you thought of love, you thought of apricot kisses rubbed against your lips; of rolled up aluminum foil of lighters drained of their fluids in a week time of the close to boiling water that invaded your personal space and reached the tip of your nose and of peach kisses from Georgia that dug its way into you; promising another day
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I am afraid to be afraid too afraid         to be still but still healing still afraid to open all my heavy doors that         he has seen too much unkempt skin                  that I am afraid of him that we are broken that he was always broken but we are nothing          but bandaged apricots in the rotting August sun and he is afraid we have too much or not enough time          afraid of us afraid of me afraid to speak but he                  breathes hot scorpion-kissed lullabies into my neck into scarlet corners of my pituitary          poisons all my wearied nerves I used to call him master used to master our loose laundry I         refused to fold used to master our loose smiles                  in front of people I refused to fold for I used to accept his virulent apologies after business trips         I used to be afraid of him he used to be afraid of my amphibian temper afraid of how I         waxed and waned through tempestuous waters afraid                 that he was always drowning I am afraid of the dark blue ghosts their red         angry heat I am afraid to eat cartridged bullets of my own words silver gunpowdered         shrapnels if I eat them all lead like you would seep into the insides of my abdomen my insides are unreachable have a little         too much sunshine to carry along when spring arrives I am scared because the light         comes in with brilliant blazing eyes                and sees everything                             October 8, 2014 7:04 AM
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 5:09 AM UTC
Shame
I am afraid to be afraid too afraid         to be still but still healing still afraid to open all my heavy doors that         he has seen too much unkempt skin                  that I am afraid of him that we are broken that he was always broken but we are nothing          but bandaged apricots in the rotting August sun and he is afraid we have too much or not enough time          afraid of us afraid of me afraid to speak but he                  breathes hot scorpion-kissed lullabies into my neck into scarlet corners of my pituitary          poisons all my wearied nerves I used to call him master used to master our loose laundry I         refused to fold used to master our loose smiles                  in front of people I refused to fold for I used to accept his virulent apologies after business trips         I used to be afraid of him he used to be afraid of my amphibian temper afraid of how I         waxed and waned through tempestuous waters afraid                 that he was always drowning I am afraid of the dark blue ghosts their red         angry heat I am afraid to eat cartridged bullets of my own words silver gunpowdered         shrapnels if I eat them all lead like you would seep into the insides of my abdomen my insides are unreachable have a little         too much sunshine to carry along when spring arrives I am scared because the light         comes in with brilliant blazing eyes                and sees everything                             October 8, 2014 7:04 AM
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my belly grows the size of a bag of apricots there is a will at the bottom of a lake that needs retrieving the car sank but the body made it to the shore and changed her name by midnight come springtime the ice melts and the water is back crawling upon shy ankles there are growing pains who find a home between nettles and the hives of adobe wasps i never could cohabitate with nature when they ask at parties where i've been things that are at rest stay at rest
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:20 PM UTC
law of inertia
Nana thinks the magazine is the devil. “THE PEOPLE WHO DREW THE BLESSED ****** MOTHER OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST IN A BIKINI ARE GOING TO HELL.” Whatever you say, Nana. When we left my Nana made us tacos and tamales. She gathered all the food in the house to send us off and took all the cash she had and stuffed it in my pocket. She purged the cupboard of all the bananas, plums, nectarines, and apricots and placed them in a bag with two bottled waters a coke, a diet coke and sprite. She told me that she loved me and that she hated to see me go. That, “I had just gotten there” and that she would “miss me so much.” Before we left she sent me with a card that was “very important”. It was a picture and a coin embossed with my guardian angel that she bought at the church gift shop. My nana loves me more than anything else in the world. My nana still calls you my friend.
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Jun 28, 2013
Jun 28, 2013 at 5:33 PM UTC
Nana thinks the magazine is the devil.
Vanilla vowels and creamy colored consonants Naughty or nutty nouns of almonds, apples, apricots Aphrodisiac adjectives and very berry adverbs Passion fruit phrases pirouette like peaches in thought A pomegranate patter that pronounces a pronoun Or perhaps in veiled vines velvet verbs purr Wondrously whipped words of love Salacious sentences with strawberry stirred A mellowed musk melon of a metaphor A salubrious simile sits like a sapote crown Amorous alliterative adventures with romance and raisins An ooh la la of orange oomph onomatopoeic sounds An orchard of the alphabets in a fruity potpourri of speech A bearish pearish play and plum pun on words The language of love written with love In this hash mash bonhomie Valentine verse
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Feb 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017 at 8:56 AM UTC
A fruity poet potpourri of a Valentine's Verse
*Strip into segments the colours of life At the birth of my sons, loving my wife, Like the moment of truth when, whilst shivering clear, I went eyeball to eyeball with that, which I fear. Like the time when the engine went dead in the plane And I ditched in the pines to confirm the insane. When my Father collapsed and died in my arms And childhood departed with God and his Psalms. When I first kissed a girl’s soft velvety lips And felt, with wild rapture, my hands on her hips. Discovered ripe apricots fresh from the tree Taste sweeter than nectar collected by bee. Felt the presence of death compellingly near Though the body was wracked, the thinking was fear. Climbed impossible peaks that I dreamt I perceived To weep the hot tears in a life’s goal achieved. Laughed loud and long with the wind in my hair Yet cried when an enemy lost to despair. Pondered the mystery of what’s round the bend Concluded beginnings are part of the end. Compiling the rules to maintain my space Lie in keeping the oddballs out of my face. Clasping friends, so few, to my breast Embracing the true and to hell with the rest. Committing my time to my one darling wife And thanking the Gods for this colourful life!* Marshalg Sitting in the long summer grasses 3 Decemeber 2012
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 9:34 PM UTC
A Colourful Life
Animals abolishing apples and apricots, angry astronauts abandon Abraham's automobile, algae acting after ant at Ally alligator's aunt's apartment Aching antsy alpha aardvarks arranging afternoon arguments After Amanda ate anchors, Anna attacked Alabama at Abbey Road Alice anounced an aristocrat arriving. An acceptable antonym!
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Apr 16, 2010
Apr 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM UTC
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there are some things, that just smell so good: corn freshly shucked, potatoes roasted in campfire coals, carrots fresh from the ground, then washed and stovetop roasted basted with butter and lavender honey. the nape of my toddlers neck, that clean fresh hopeful little boy smell. coffee, straight up, freshly brewed caramel warming, passionfruit, strawberries, citrus any type, zested. freshly planed fennel curls, mint crushed for a mojito, roast lamb and rosemary gravy. the smell of planed wood in the palms of my man's hands as i kiss them. frangipani, coconut tanning oil, earth newly rained upon. popcorn popping, chocolate melting, jasmine, orange blossoms, a grove of pine trees. warm gingerbread and mulled wine. salt tang on the morning breeze. the smell that lingers after the lovin. garlic and ginger in a hot wok. salt tang on the evening breeze. prawns all sea salty and a crisp cold beer. sandlewood and citrus aftershave lotion on your smoothed cheek. nectarines, apricots, a yellow juicy peach, freshly bitten. apple scented shampoo daphne & lilac my nana's smell, bay *** newspaper print and palmolive soap, my pop's study. rose petals crushed. earl grey tea, toast just before burning damper and cocky's joy crisp fresh linen warm from the sun. so many scents, so many smells... these are my favourites please feel free to add your's, as long as it's clean and above board.
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 7:10 AM UTC
e-scentually good
Disentangling abstractedy, A bee returning crazily along the path of least resistance Flying home. Through the orchids, flax and irises Lilacs dripping promises, Mist-laced and mapped with honesty He goes home. Morning recriminations Bitter sprinkles in the milk, Stood there; his mind is wandering to apricots and silk Desire twisted hungrily, A door slammed...... home overthrown by silence. Storm clouds horizon kissing Dark thoughts of something missing, ........then nothing more.
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM UTC
Abrupt Ending
I am making steel cut oatmeal Would you care for some? It is high in soluble fiber And has essential vitamins and minerals too Perhaps an avocado Some raisins or dried apricots Would be good too I also have yogurt Toast and peanut butter Sugar plum tomatoes too I could also make you hot chocolate With whipped cream Or chamomile tea If you prefer to drink a bit more healthy Please enjoy your breakfast with me
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 1:15 PM UTC
Please Enjoy Some Steel Cut Oatmeal
You were freer than a free verse And even sonnets could not keep you. Tonight we got drunk on papayas, Sitting on the sidewalk sipping drinks, careless laughter exploding from our mouths when the moon split itself Down our throats. In the messy medley of the night I felt you on my skin, remember: How I lost myself in the fine lines Of your lips where you claim Your flaws fall into. How I tried to swallow them like apricots and how - in almost exact reciprocation Of the same passion - your eyelid moves which say: I love you as much as I love God. You are four light years away And tonight I got drunk on papayas. This is not a poem because Sonnets could not keep you safe And free verses compete but lose Their flame, for Like a landslide you let love slide, I let love leave then.
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 5:25 AM UTC
This is not a poem
I used to hang out with a bunch of food radicals this was back in ’78 or so popcorn with brewers yeast, loads of pepos dried apricots that looked like vaginas blocks of cheese, raw nuts, 80 grit corn meal I belonged to food coop and read diet for a small planet it was a constant indoctrination as soon as you thought you had this nutrition thing settled bam some new roughage was required it must have worked I thought as I added tofu to a wok filled with seven count ‘em seven steaming vegetables this very night overall I do eat healthy and I always have now get off my back and make me a double bacon cheeseburger
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 10:20 AM UTC
The Politics of Food
Freedom rang, bang   bang   bang and we traversed the dense foilage of my Sepia Jungle Populated by Spirited faeries Whose lives came and went with the blowing wind. And Time dissappeared beneath the sublte sunshine As we entered Apricot Village Where twisted, sappy leaves gnarled between Milky white blossoms that decorated fetal fruits, Whose crowning golden heads pushed petals fresh, From budding limb, Now kidnapped by the wind, a lazy sloshing sea of air, The ground garnished by its aged spices. It was a village where cottages grew among the Trees. Devoid of holiness & Dogma, but steeped in the rife Purity of Nature, No Man was to be seen, rotting fruit about the feet of Trees, The floors of cottages strewn with Apricot pits, fleshy fruit half eaten By the Birds, nestled into fertile Earth, and sprouted Life rising fresh from pichest soil. We ate of the fruit, now rested in the Golden Afternoon, which Reached beyond the fringe of Time, The fleshy pulp of Apricots the strands of bygone Universes, Which taught us how to slumber there among The petals and the Wind.
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 2:18 AM UTC
Sepia Jungle: Apricot Village
There, in the light of a summer, long gone, lie shadows of laughter, remnants of love. There in the dust rings, echos of recall, sunspots flaunt blue yonder above . Recalling eyes that wept for the fun of it, cried with the tragedy,. Teardrops of crave Surges of memory washing in wavelets cleansing, scarring,  riding the wave. Oh for that feeling of splendid simplicity running in sand at the surge of the tide No place to be, no timetable proffered, freedom on little boys giant slippery slide. Ice creams, apricots, luscious and juicy frolic with maiden’s free blonde, tousled hair, Frothy short petticoats bounce in the sunshine, youth without traces of worry or care. Breathless in nights of gathereing twilight, breathless falls this magical  air, Wondrous in such lilting beauty, soft hanging tones of Autumn fair. There in the light of summer gone, shadows of laughter, remnants of love, Memories flood to overflowing, indigo glints the starlight above. M. The Satins of Autumn Approacheth… February 21 2019
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 11:28 PM UTC
Shadows of Laughter, Remnants of Love,
While waiting at the river Styx, in twisted time untaught, from branches of the gallows tree, in recollections wrought, your soul, a beggar’s blanket, hangs in crazy quilted knots, with dangling pearls and diamond studs in dripping crimson clots, midst gaping wounds and bulging eyes like fouling apricots, for wrapped like rope around your throat’s the Reaper’s grim garrote.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 9:48 PM UTC
While Waiting at the River Styx
Umbrella green rain upset  harmless stripped And because of thunder children snapped their fingers like jazz enthusiasts Milk obsessed rats rant and render their own insanity Passing three winged' angels in the street flowing serenity Friends are best left in the mind and in the heart But do not stray too far from them For loneliness is a cold touch without love or hate We are lucky to be feeling anything at all The dead lie still The weak do too The strong move The courageous seek The other side of The hill Music moves underneath the fog of the sun Near the flower garden the tourists roam free A minds eye is a terrible thing to waste Getting to know yourself through sleep is revealing When is the next time for tea? Your gibberish speaks things to me That nothing in this world has ever done What is the color of genius? What is the feeling of epiphany? Where do the dead flowers grow? Packaged up Sent off Read up The critics scoff Growing old near the swamp the shanty town sways Old culture rusts blood brown and neon orange The bills are on the fridge and being cashed yesterday Another day passes as the clock strikes 13 A friend brushes past another in a party and they smile They do not speak for there is history there Marking calenders for future experiences in all planning aside There is nothing like chaos to introduce you to yourself As I walk down the sidewalk, pass the cleaners, I see fiction Moving under the trees, breathing the sea, I see narration Talking to the barista, laughing lines, I see dialogue Shakespeare penned the highest and the lowest of us all And I think Bukowski was right there with him too Watch a marble roll down the street Observe each crack and the path it takes We are very much the same way Define your cracks, your bumps, your potholes And see where they have taken you See what became of you after the hard times. This year Apricots will writhe in the trees Like a worm on a fishing hook. The sea is foaming at the mouth, And we are children All over again.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 2:08 PM UTC
All Over Again
Umbrella green rain upset  harmless stripped And because of thunder children snapped their fingers like jazz enthusiasts Milk obsessed rats rant and render their own insanity Passing three winged' angels in the street flowing serenity Friends are best left in the mind and in the heart But do not stray too far from them For loneliness is a cold touch without love or hate We are lucky to be feeling anything at all The dead lie still The weak do too The strong move The courageous seek The other side of The hill Music moves underneath the fog of the sun Near the flower garden the tourists roam free A minds eye is a terrible thing to waste Getting to know yourself through sleep is revealing When is the next time for tea? Your gibberish speaks things to me That nothing in this world has ever done What is the color of genius? What is the feeling of epiphany? Where do the dead flowers grow? Packaged up Sent off Read up The critics scoff Growing old near the swamp the shanty town sways Old culture rusts blood brown and neon orange The bills are on the fridge and being cashed yesterday Another day passes as the clock strikes 13 A friend brushes past another in a party and they smile They do not speak for there is history there Marking calenders for future experiences in all planning aside There is nothing like chaos to introduce you to yourself As I walk down the sidewalk, pass the cleaners, I see fiction Moving under the trees, breathing the sea, I see narration Talking to the barista, laughing lines, I see dialogue Shakespeare penned the highest and the lowest of us all And I think Bukowski was right there with him too Watch a marble roll down the street Observe each crack and the path it takes We are very much the same way Define your cracks, your bumps, your potholes And see where they have taken you See what became of you after the hard times. This year Apricots will writhe in the trees Like a worm on a fishing hook. The sea is foaming at the mouth, And we are children All over again.
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Looking at the rainbow The colours envelope your mind Rubies, ambers and turquioise Peach skins and orange rind. Strawberries and lemons in the sky with apricots inbetween. A strip of violets in the cloud Like tea from Devon with cream. A kind gentle soul emerges with roses in abundance. Petals scatter on her path and fairies lead in dance. She is wonderful, she is graceful words without end. She is a light shining on my dull day She is Sally, my new friend.
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 3:54 AM UTC
For Sally
i am nine and learning by osmosis secret women's business or the art of  pie making production line style to the uniniated i sit perched on a stool in the corner, out of the way boxed in by fruit it is a heady place to be as scents of apricots(bought) blackberries and apples mingle sweet woody and exotic, with the citrus tang of  zested lemon that sits in an ever growing pryamid on the table. ginger and cinnamon motes float in the oven warm air and flour clouds the room and settless in drifts and dusts the collection of bowls on the table my mother aunt and mrs blunt,the neighbor, bustle about the room.... my aunts girth designates her as chief baker and she rolls out pastry with gusto...fat arms swinging penduously, humming to herself. mrs blunt is the pie filler adept at judging the mix and making the gelatonious gooey syrups filled with sugar and spice, chopped crab apple and lemon zest. mother is the friuter, she peels destones and cores chopping up apples, apricots and peaches... leaving berries and cherries intact(sans pips) and then later she mans the ovens   watching for the golden crust and bubble of pie juice... before removing them to cool on poppa jacks old oval dining table... me I sit in wonder, snacking on fruit, and balls of leftover dough swooning with the smell of stewing friut. Next year my true apprenticeship will start.... Until then, I listen to the murmer of gossip the passing of secrets, the bonding of these women....
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 5:00 AM UTC
baking day
The patches of autumn colors engraved on the land outweighing the brown soil like an anchor sinking deep every soul losing its will to survive as it dries up into the color of the earth the smell of the apricots and dried leaves, old vintage keys rises up like grey smoke from the chimney in a futile attempt to grab safety and hold it in its sinewy hands hoping that it would save them from the beginning of the end. (c)
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 3:47 AM UTC
autumn fields