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"armchair" poems
There used to be a bottle on the wall. It was very green. I'm sure it was the loneliest green bottle that I had ever seen It used to sit on the wall all day and all night And every day, when I looked out of the window, it was always in my line of sight Then one day, a cat came along. Something was going to happen; I could tell The cat then accidentally nudged it and off the wall, it fell When it had fallen off the wall it had dropped with a very loud sound. There were all these little pieces of the green bottle all over the ground Then the cat yelped and I knew it had gotten hurt I could quite obviously see its paws were caked in blood and dirt The bottle wasn't harmful in the beginning it did not look the slightest bit treacherous but after a nudge in the wrong direction it became very dangerous Now I look back at you smiling next to me on the big armchair Your fingers running through your soft locks of hair. You remind me a lot of that green bottle. In the beginning, you were harmless you were all sorts of fun. Now you hurt me. Could you tell me why as I don't quite know what I've done
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Jun 5, 2019
Jun 5, 2019 at 4:34 PM UTC
Green bottle
i am seven and in your living room with antiques & photographs of family that are more like strangers and handshakes at christmas there is a jar of circus peanuts by the armchair and i remember being told that these are here because they are never out of stock and that *they are the only things children will not want to take from me* i still do not like the color orange. i am eight and round the bannister to an upstairs that reminds me of heaven in that place i can't go sort of way & i am knuckle deep in your pumpkin pie wiping it on my uncles suede jacket our hands still shake but the jury is still out on if he looks at me and napkins the same i hope you do not sleep with my apologies under your fingernails i will not say them out loud i know i should have mowed your lawn i should have been a home for second hand smoke if i could go back i would be your ashtray i remember the day you forgot who i was i bound into the room and throw my arms around you like an armistice and you ask who i am we are not in church but everyone stops singing i am passed from child to child while we all laugh but my lungs feel like they've been mugged in an ally who's son does he look like, mom? my father says like gospel you pull on your cigarette sip from your watered down wine and shrug and i am neck deep in forgetfulness i imagine alzheimer's as being born again every day so, we will spend ages looking at captions to photographs telling your stories to strangers as my father begins to forget and when i imagine probate an unfamiliar hand unfolding a will to be read to wayward angels i want to burn down the house and sleep in the ashes
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 3:00 PM UTC
hallelujah
i am seven and in your living room with antiques & photographs of family that are more like strangers and handshakes at christmas there is a jar of circus peanuts by the armchair and i remember being told that these are here because they are never out of stock and that *they are the only things children will not want to take from me* i still do not like the color orange. i am eight and round the bannister to an upstairs that reminds me of heaven in that place i can't go sort of way & i am knuckle deep in your pumpkin pie wiping it on my uncles suede jacket our hands still shake but the jury is still out on if he looks at me and napkins the same i hope you do not sleep with my apologies under your fingernails i will not say them out loud i know i should have mowed your lawn i should have been a home for second hand smoke if i could go back i would be your ashtray i remember the day you forgot who i was i bound into the room and throw my arms around you like an armistice and you ask who i am we are not in church but everyone stops singing i am passed from child to child while we all laugh but my lungs feel like they've been mugged in an ally who's son does he look like, mom? my father says like gospel you pull on your cigarette sip from your watered down wine and shrug and i am neck deep in forgetfulness i imagine alzheimer's as being born again every day so, we will spend ages looking at captions to photographs telling your stories to strangers as my father begins to forget and when i imagine probate an unfamiliar hand unfolding a will to be read to wayward angels i want to burn down the house and sleep in the ashes
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***Crossing the room in slow motion She watches his muscles move in the moonlight Oh how they glisten in anticipation Sit my pet, in a whisper At her feet he waits with bated breath So pleased at his obedience Proceed Such a simple command He inches closer His eagerness evident in his silence In his omission of a proper response An outfaced palm and he stops short Sitting back on his feet, hands in lap, eyes to the floor I'm sorry Ma'am, he says That is evident by his failure to respond He knows what is coming Grabbing the back of his hair she forces his eyes to hers Position, she says disgustedly She leans back in the armchair as he pulls her hips to the edge He lifts one leg and gently places it over the arm Then he positions the other in the same manner Sitting back on his feet, facing the floor His arousal is evident, as is his moist anticipation Respire. The word is grunted through gritted teeth He leans into heaven Hovering an inch away Slow deep breaths He breathes in her essence wanting nothing more Than to bridge the gap with his tongue White satin and peekaboo lace She runs down the rules of his punishment Will you touch the Goddess No Ma'am Will you drool on the Goddess No Ma'am Will you move without permission No Ma'am How long will you hold your position As long as my Goddess sees fit...Ma'am Good boy His breath is slow, deliberate, and heavy The heat of it permeates the thin fabric She runs her hand over the object of desire Accentuating the outlines of what lies beneath An accidental whimper Silence! A gruff command Followed implicitly In a slow and graceful motion A hand slips under the fabric Opening her flower releasing a hint of nectar The scent grows exponentially upon the unfurling of petals A glistening finger touches him just above his lip Is that what you want? It's a rhetorical question Yes please What will you do to get it Such a simple question with but one answer Anything you please, Goddess Stick out your tongue He does so in silence, careful that he does not touch her She uses his wet flesh to wipe her finger clean Closer she whispers Now, within a half inch he breathes her in deeply Mesmerized by the dewy goodness held behind the smooth satin Watching desire grow in painfully slow motion He blows out on the growing dampness As he waits for her next command***
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 11:20 AM UTC
Rules of Engagement
***Crossing the room in slow motion She watches his muscles move in the moonlight Oh how they glisten in anticipation Sit my pet, in a whisper At her feet he waits with bated breath So pleased at his obedience Proceed Such a simple command He inches closer His eagerness evident in his silence In his omission of a proper response An outfaced palm and he stops short Sitting back on his feet, hands in lap, eyes to the floor I'm sorry Ma'am, he says That is evident by his failure to respond He knows what is coming Grabbing the back of his hair she forces his eyes to hers Position, she says disgustedly She leans back in the armchair as he pulls her hips to the edge He lifts one leg and gently places it over the arm Then he positions the other in the same manner Sitting back on his feet, facing the floor His arousal is evident, as is his moist anticipation Respire. The word is grunted through gritted teeth He leans into heaven Hovering an inch away Slow deep breaths He breathes in her essence wanting nothing more Than to bridge the gap with his tongue White satin and peekaboo lace She runs down the rules of his punishment Will you touch the Goddess No Ma'am Will you drool on the Goddess No Ma'am Will you move without permission No Ma'am How long will you hold your position As long as my Goddess sees fit...Ma'am Good boy His breath is slow, deliberate, and heavy The heat of it permeates the thin fabric She runs her hand over the object of desire Accentuating the outlines of what lies beneath An accidental whimper Silence! A gruff command Followed implicitly In a slow and graceful motion A hand slips under the fabric Opening her flower releasing a hint of nectar The scent grows exponentially upon the unfurling of petals A glistening finger touches him just above his lip Is that what you want? It's a rhetorical question Yes please What will you do to get it Such a simple question with but one answer Anything you please, Goddess Stick out your tongue He does so in silence, careful that he does not touch her She uses his wet flesh to wipe her finger clean Closer she whispers Now, within a half inch he breathes her in deeply Mesmerized by the dewy goodness held behind the smooth satin Watching desire grow in painfully slow motion He blows out on the growing dampness As he waits for her next command***
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*~ **Him sits in an arm chair slouched and relaxed, watching her with a glass of whiskey in his hand** ~ Her lays on the bed naked, long legs spread watching him watching her. ~ **Him asks her to do what he had been dreaming of even before seeing her naked. Beautiful scenery** ~ Her strokes light and feathery, at first delicate fingers tracing up and down while the other hand on her breast tipping her nip ~ **Him mesmerized by the show he takes a sip of whiskey the burn does not compare to the burn growing in his pants** ~ Her dips a finger inside, spreading the glistening liquid found across her inner lips increasing the pressure and moving from side to side ~ **Him doesn’t know where to look as she concentrates on her ****** pulling at the tip she gnaws her bottom lip he settles on her eyes** ~ Her picks up speed, the circles of her fingers smaller and smaller, focusing on her pearl shallow breaths growing rapid as she nears her peak ~ **Him slips out of his shirt he starts to sweat unbuckling his pants to release the growing pressure** ~ Her tilts her hips finding the optimal position to intensify her pleasure ~ **Him holds his breath to hear the gasping of her breath** ~ Her eyes on him, longingly, back arches, head falls back and lips part “Oh God” in heavy breath ~ **Him “Amazing” whispers unsure he said it aloud** ~*
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM UTC
Armchair Whiskey Scene
Hunting has a noble heritage, for sure Bringing us together, it forged a species Keen-eyed, communicative, feared by the fierce                So who am I to begrudge you your sport? I, too, love wide open skies, tramping over bog and fen, I even quite like dogs! I imagine nature might reveal herself to you In signs jealously guarded from the armchair carnivore. I can almost reconcile your harsh percussion With the croak of the raven, the sloshing tide And the chewing and mooing of cattle. But the pheasant!  For the love of God, the pheasant? It can hardly be a battle of wits! I've seen him as he sits, a big, red bullseye On fences and ***** Startled by every day he survives. How stirring can it be, Picking off the ones the cars and lorries never got? When you carry him home, Better off dead, Hang him in your garage for a week Feeling like Henry VIII, Cut him down, slit him open and find the crop Stuffed not with heather shoots and beetles But with half a pound of store-bought grain (Generously laced with antibiotics) - I hope the realisation creeps up That you may as well have asserted yourself In the hen coop, Blasting away at befuddled poultry And saving yourself a walk.
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Nov 24, 2010
Nov 24, 2010 at 1:33 AM UTC
The Pheasant
There, in the corner, staring at his drink. The cap juts like a gantry's crossbeam, Cowling plated forehead and sledgehead jaw. Speech is clamped in the lips' vice. That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic- Oh yes, that kind of thing could start again; The only Roman collar he tolerates Smiles all round his sleek pint of porter. Mosaic imperatives bang home like rivets; God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. A factory horn will blare the Resurrection. He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.
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Docker
Ski Jumping Leaning forward, body parallel to the skis arms neatly by the side hands pressed in tight; flat down the slope he goes into the unknown flying free for a few moments landing as far as he can then arms aloft in triumph. How do you begin such a journey? Armchair bound we are never to speed down the icy slope eyes and goggles peering down and down ready to fly, see the sky. Yet in a moment we can be there down the slope in our minds unburdened from reality no years of practice or skis to heft no chance of failure. We can fly on the ski slope of the mind an adventure of the imagination synapses firing neurons glowing and so let it be with death and life down the slope jumping, arms aloft into tomorrow, into the unknown alone, down the slope, jumping. Malcolm F. Davidson October 11th 2013
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 8:09 AM UTC
Ski Jumping
Now, moving in, cartons on the floor, the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled squares where paintings were, and something reminding us this is like all other moving days; finding the ***** ends of someone else's life, hair fallen in the sink, a peach pit, and burned-out matches in the corner; things not preserved, yet never swept away like fragments of disturbing dreams we stumble on all day. . . in ordering our lives, we will discard them, scrub clean the floorboards of this our home lest refuse from the lives we did not lead become, in some strange, frightening way, our own. And we have plans that will not tolerate our fears-- a year laid out like rooms in a new house--the dusty wine glasses rinsed off, the vases filled, and bookshelves sagging with heavy winter books. Seeing the room always as it will be, we are content to dust and wait. We will return here from the dark and silent streets, arms full of books and food, anxious as we always are in winter, and looking for the Good Life we have made. I see myself then: tense, solemn, in high-heeled shoes that pinch, not basking in the light of goals fulfilled, but looking back to now and seeing a lazy, sunburned, sandaled girl in a bare room, full of promise and feeling envious. Now we plan, postponing, pushing our lives forward into the future--as if, when the room contains us and all our treasured junk we will have filled whatever gap it is that makes us wander, discontented from ourselves. The room will not change: a rug, or armchair, or new coat of paint won't make much difference; our eyes are fickle but we remain the same beneath our suntans, pale, frightened, dreaming ourselves backward and forward in time, dreaming our dreaming selves. I look forward and see myself looking back.
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Autumn Perspective
Now, moving in, cartons on the floor, the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled squares where paintings were, and something reminding us this is like all other moving days; finding the ***** ends of someone else's life, hair fallen in the sink, a peach pit, and burned-out matches in the corner; things not preserved, yet never swept away like fragments of disturbing dreams we stumble on all day. . . in ordering our lives, we will discard them, scrub clean the floorboards of this our home lest refuse from the lives we did not lead become, in some strange, frightening way, our own. And we have plans that will not tolerate our fears-- a year laid out like rooms in a new house--the dusty wine glasses rinsed off, the vases filled, and bookshelves sagging with heavy winter books. Seeing the room always as it will be, we are content to dust and wait. We will return here from the dark and silent streets, arms full of books and food, anxious as we always are in winter, and looking for the Good Life we have made. I see myself then: tense, solemn, in high-heeled shoes that pinch, not basking in the light of goals fulfilled, but looking back to now and seeing a lazy, sunburned, sandaled girl in a bare room, full of promise and feeling envious. Now we plan, postponing, pushing our lives forward into the future--as if, when the room contains us and all our treasured junk we will have filled whatever gap it is that makes us wander, discontented from ourselves. The room will not change: a rug, or armchair, or new coat of paint won't make much difference; our eyes are fickle but we remain the same beneath our suntans, pale, frightened, dreaming ourselves backward and forward in time, dreaming our dreaming selves. I look forward and see myself looking back.
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My back touched the fabric of the couch as I slouched and tilted my head. I let my elbow fell on the armchair as my thumb flew between my lips and my teeth perched on its flesh. My forefinger ran back and forth, restlessly, on my nose bridge as I inhaled the details of your head thrown backward, your hair suspended in midair. some strands draping down your chest, your mouth half open, your secret self and your entire being all seducing my peripheral vision.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 6:08 PM UTC
Stalking Stars
In Vienna there are ten little girls, a shoulder for death to cry on, and a forest of dried pigeons. There is a fragment of tomorrow in the museum of winter frost. There is a thousand-windowed dance hall. Ay, ay, ay, ay! Take this close-mouthed waltz. Little waltz, little waltz, little waltz, of itself of death, and of brandy that dips its tail in the sea. I love you, I love you, I love you, with the armchair and the book of death, down the melancholy hallway, in the iris' darkened garret. Ay, ay, ay, ay! Take this broken-waisted waltz. In Vienna there are four mirrors in which your mouth and the echoes play. There is a death for piano that paints little boys blue. There are beggars on the roof. There are fresh garlands of tears. Ay, ay, ay, ay! Take this waltz that dies in my arms. Because I love you, I love you, my love, in the attic wherethe children play, dreaming ancient lights of Hungary through the noise, the balmy afternoon, seeing sheep and irises of snow through teh dark silence of your forehead. Ay, ay, ay, ay! Take this "I will always love you" waltz. In Vienna I will dance with you in a costume with a river's head. See how the hyacinths line my banks! I will leave my mouth between your legs, my soul in photographs and lilies, and in the dark wake of your footsteps, my love, my love, I will have to leave violin and grave, the waltzing ribbons.
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Little Viennese Waltz
the narrative does not cling to classicalism of stating whether the pronoun usage is either singular or plural or both to allow an armchair of expression; after all... there's enough for us to bypass the classical philosophical debate about subject and object, simply investigating pronoun usage in relation to singularity or pluralism. there’s a theory where poetry came from, one read: cleopatra wanted to hear sweet-nothings calibrating a razor with a viper’s kiss... another read: she báthory? she báthory? she the one that turned milk into blood? she can burn in hell. i thought we were un-dialectical in the realms of concern? no... you see... poetry came from punctuated-impressionism... or a fear of it... punctuation of course, not from the impressionism... poets fear punctuation... give them a semi-colon and they treat it like a sidelined line of verse. this is poetry in mathematical equations: i had a pear(,) it was a spare(.) i had a care for traffic(-) so i missed( ) the expressions and started using an obelisk to quarter up the mammoth into chop suey... poets simple say: next line! when prose says next paragraph and the prized execution of the 100m sprint . . . (.) that’s universal alpha romeo with alfa bravo charlie delta (echo)... come on in the u-turn... give us a smile......... :), poets says... i need breathing space without sentenced timing of silence, for the toad to feed inspiration and envy! no wonder you came with the alpha - zulu alphabet given that you used ɪɡ and zoʊ... so tell me... where’s this copernican west upside down (this heliocentric west with east being the big bang)?! i'd swear the thing stopped orbiting in circles and a thing that's on it's thought started to become orbital... a fashion sense of the 60s 70s 80s 90s repeated - that's right, the whole thing became heliocentric and we became narcissists instead of solipsists in the geocentric system of worked-up plagiarism with adequate excuses.) it's here it the poets apprehensive of punctuation symbology and instead writing "sparingly," to write, e.g.: i hate         this love                 affair claimed                      to be           the world...                  i rather                          chisel chequers                          into geometry                      of x4               90º. makes sense poets begot fear of punctuation and not grammar, they serviced to explore nothing else, leaving grammar open long enough to ***** mathematics in... remember... poets are firstly concerned with punctuation... secondly with grammar... philosophy for poets is grammar; **** i'm um um so drunk i'll need to revise.
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Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 9:27 PM UTC
what poets fear
the narrative does not cling to classicalism of stating whether the pronoun usage is either singular or plural or both to allow an armchair of expression; after all... there's enough for us to bypass the classical philosophical debate about subject and object, simply investigating pronoun usage in relation to singularity or pluralism. there’s a theory where poetry came from, one read: cleopatra wanted to hear sweet-nothings calibrating a razor with a viper’s kiss... another read: she báthory? she báthory? she the one that turned milk into blood? she can burn in hell. i thought we were un-dialectical in the realms of concern? no... you see... poetry came from punctuated-impressionism... or a fear of it... punctuation of course, not from the impressionism... poets fear punctuation... give them a semi-colon and they treat it like a sidelined line of verse. this is poetry in mathematical equations: i had a pear(,) it was a spare(.) i had a care for traffic(-) so i missed( ) the expressions and started using an obelisk to quarter up the mammoth into chop suey... poets simple say: next line! when prose says next paragraph and the prized execution of the 100m sprint . . . (.) that’s universal alpha romeo with alfa bravo charlie delta (echo)... come on in the u-turn... give us a smile......... :), poets says... i need breathing space without sentenced timing of silence, for the toad to feed inspiration and envy! no wonder you came with the alpha - zulu alphabet given that you used ɪɡ and zoʊ... so tell me... where’s this copernican west upside down (this heliocentric west with east being the big bang)?! i'd swear the thing stopped orbiting in circles and a thing that's on it's thought started to become orbital... a fashion sense of the 60s 70s 80s 90s repeated - that's right, the whole thing became heliocentric and we became narcissists instead of solipsists in the geocentric system of worked-up plagiarism with adequate excuses.) it's here it the poets apprehensive of punctuation symbology and instead writing "sparingly," to write, e.g.: i hate         this love                 affair claimed                      to be           the world...                  i rather                          chisel chequers                          into geometry                      of x4               90º. makes sense poets begot fear of punctuation and not grammar, they serviced to explore nothing else, leaving grammar open long enough to ***** mathematics in... remember... poets are firstly concerned with punctuation... secondly with grammar... philosophy for poets is grammar; **** i'm um um so drunk i'll need to revise.
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I really think that it is just a sin. That when there is trouble The Big Boys join in. They all come across saying that they'll make a change and then somebodys World they will then rearange. The US and Russia along with us Brits don't want it that way so we blow it to bits. We give guns to him, supply arms to another. Then we sit back and watch as Brother kills Brother. Who are we to guide? Who are we to preach. When we cling on to their assets like a blood ******* leach. We should leave others alone till our own house is done, yet we watch as our schools become run by the gun. Where now it's the norm to be shot as we learn, just as long as big commerce is able to earn. Those who should know better don't know how to behave Happy to see another Child in a Grave. So you Big Boys go elsewhere because it's well known that if you come to play you come armed with a Drone. While you're sitting back comfy in your armchair. You can relentlessly **** from a place that's not there. Then when you pull the plug and remove your devices we are faced with a problem of people making bad choices. We have made problems worse! We have let people down and when we get a world crisis we'll react with a frown. We don't want them here. They cannot go there. A whole host of humanity who is welcome Nowhere. We created this problem! We created this way. So in the future keep The Big Boys away.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 1:56 PM UTC
The Big Boys
I am in such a **** mood, the mountains have no meaning. Big ******* rocks. **** you, dad. **** you, Fox News. **** you, Indiana. None of you ******* know what irony is. Google that **** Jesus Christ. There are yellow streams-- that's poetic **** There are ruby stained sheets-- that's blood, obviously, and, I dunno, maybe somebody died on a bed? Everyone can **** my **** To be or not to be, that is the shut the **** up. Rapists are disgusting people. They aren't people. ******* idiots. Romanticizing everything you wish you had because suicide, mental illness, and eating disorders make you cool, riiiigghhhttt? **** you. If you do this, you aren't interesting. You're just you. Get used to it. There are people that go through these issues and they don't think it's ******* rad, ******* I hate 75% of the south. The south will rise again? Get the **** out of here. Stalin was a **** Most writers are ***** Most of them **** I don't care. For the love of "God", if I read one more poem about what poetry is or how to define a poet, I'll slam my head against a ************* knife. Some people are so dumb. Most ******* people. ******* pseudo-knowledge. Armchair philosophers. If you guys wanted to **** yourself, you could jump from your ego to your IQ. Something, something, imagery. Metaphor.
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:18 AM UTC
**** Mood
Fire Walker Angel Talker Tree Hugger Technicolor Dreamer Imagination Jumper Long time Barber Recent Photographer Twisted Big Sister Missus of the Mister Wicked Stepmother to Some Auntie of Others Armchair philosopher Always a Poet and my Friends mostly think a Know- It-All but in a nice way:) Karen Newell
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 6:10 PM UTC
Who I Am
i have paid the fines of dozens of overdue library books i never finished reading. i love reading. i love curling up in a big leather armchair while the sun reaches out to me through the window as time slows and my coffee grows cold. but tolstoy and fitzgerald sit on my shelves or in my purse carried everywhere and collecting dust. i can see the silhouette of who i would like to be. the curve of her hips the stillness of her limbs. she grows her own herbs and tries out new recipes while her husband is at work. she doesn’t mind driving for hours alone and enjoys singing along to the radio going five under the speed limit. she is not in a hurry. she is proud and sure and poised. she reads books and returns them on time. she gave up on dreaming and hoping and longing and finally began living.
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Sep 25, 2018
Sep 25, 2018 at 3:46 PM UTC
her thirties
Love blossomed in the darkest night Morn's gilding beams to spite Night Primrose preened by tender blight As Sphinx Moth, soft tips caress; sugary nectar slight Perfumed aroma doth prating, intoxicated courtier incite Glazed petals with dewy fans stream delight Golden cup a succouring armchair from which passions alight  Delicate, cream veil eclipses pallid, stolid moonlight With availing breeze your dreamy parasol on Cupid's wing takes flight
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Aug 10, 2011
Aug 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM UTC
Primrose: Love's Sprite
Next door’s cat, alone as they’ve gone away on holiday, slouched on the lawn, our garden. A monochrome tube flops over, turns over, liquorice eyes peer up, a rolling pin kneading the green. Thinks it owns the place, can lounge about wherever it pleases drizzled in June honey, ‘round ours for a week. It knows when I am close, a mewling baby, rises like an overweight man from an armchair and asks to be loved.
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Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 11:51 AM UTC
Next Door's Cat
stay fight cataclysm summary resistant eyebrow crackle dinner fishhook blunt tribute margarine widow **** scar glory elephant planet swallow forget blanket fear smooth black vent curvy translation smooth warrant concussion fluid red airway postmark testament carpet denial flex touch real married armchair sink ebb soft touché foam stone float torn away see tremor marrow bright side god deep hurry inject wither moon noun full stop wild year done everyone enough disco skin same dream chest roses proof tacit dire soul posit wide shy city run
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 11:52 AM UTC
For Your Consideration
I used to have a puppy His eyes were big and brown He messed upon my carpets And knocked my ornaments down He ate my favourite slippers He chewed my armchair too But I miss my little puppy I really really do If only I,d been more careful Remembered to close the door I,d still have my little puppy That I have,nt got anymore I still have his little collar And his dog chews in the drawer Still see his little scratches On the back of the kitchen door I thought of getting another dog With a cute little face But I used to have a puppy That no dog could replace So if you,ve got a pet Please look after and take care Cos I miss my little puppy Now that he,s not there
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM UTC
I used to have a puppy
..............there’s such a clamour          so much choring     memory thread I sit armchair rocking head receiver of motion     bleaker of putty trauma                 creator of mammary craving .....best take up knitting or wood carving the fortress of thought (in strict connivance with a bewildered host) compiles the 'person idea' protects the fragile calculator                from biting at its own exposed                   and useless self mating psychology                from glutting on its own tail                     and merry going mad                         in a tune of hoops... ..stammering to achieve valuation for our decent management projector may you continue operations falser still defeating our own polygraphs and making fools of our internal courtrooms i sit on this chair things go still thoughts occur elsewhere am i left to not be ?....................
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May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021 at 10:00 PM UTC
...........thread...........
He asked if I'd stay, and my silence trapped him like a mosquito in amber. The seconds rumbled past, unhurried glaciers, two hurricanes, a drought, and a war came and he was still rolling his joints, tapping on shoulders, asking soldiers for a light. When the sea rose and flooded the town, he sat in his swollen armchair exhaling smoke bubbles, while parrotfish gnawed at the carpet, and later, his eyes glazed with a tired sort of expectation when the manatees swam past in their solemn triumph over the suburbs, as if any one of the lumbering sea cows might come bearing my yes.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
Flood
On the winter night of December, A girl sits near the fireplace with her mother, The mother on an armchair with the girl's head on her lap, Slowly caressing her hair, as they talk. "My Dear little girl, I love you so much, I want you to have a perfect life. You'll face hardships and sorrow, happiness and joy, But through it all, hold your head high and never forget to smile. "Never run away from your problems and such, Speak the truth as it's all worth It, at the end you'll have no fear or regret, And you'll remember everything with a big smile on your face. "You'll have to pass many tests, But no matter what, we'll always be there, For you, my precious little jewel, are worth Dying for, and I'll protect you for as long as I can." Quietly listening, the girl speaks now, "Oh mother, I love you too. I'll never forget the things you've said. And I hope you hear me clear and loud, For one day, my dear mother, I'll make you proud."
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 9:38 AM UTC
I'll Make You Proud
Sitting in white shirt (Loosened yuppie Windsor knot) Armchair laughing Having realized the grand joke of life Satisfied little Sanskrit honey Is it a bohdi tree or burning bush (When really are one and same) Don't think too hard Suburban white boy dreams of trap houses With tie over shoulder As the tv says it prevents ***** on tie Little air planes Round and white Hard pressed (to explain) Make one fly at high speed Get it? (never mind inside joke laughing) Talks like a gang banger Can't take it seriously Little big boy equals not shook Drinking rot gut tallboys Days after and minutes away Zehaf-Bibeau war memorial Winchester repeater in hand Supposed ideological threat needed Expand the police state
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC
Loosened Yuppie Tie
I only have one photo of Grandad from his years of service in the Great War, and in it he’s wearing a leopard-skin leotard. My paternal grandfather, Grandad, was brought up in Brockley, South-East London In his teens he was conscripted and became a gunner sergeant in the Royal Field Artillery. I still have his stirrups and his French/English phrase book which includes useful words, like dysentery, (think of the movie, ‘War Horse’, and you’re almost there). He fought in the mud in France and put a lot of horses out of their misery. Apparently, he enjoyed the stage – a song and a dance, and almost went professional after a string of successful nights at the local Roxy, all of which makes me want to have known him better, but he died in my teens. He laughed a lot, loved his vegetable garden and had a collection of handy-sized, hard-back books giving details of how various circuits and wiring worked. I recall his bear of an armchair and how it was in easy reach of a slim stack of shallow drawers from which he would take slender tools or small curios and sit and explain their significance to my bemused child self. I have the brown photo somewhere - it’s not one I’d like to frame as it raises too many questions for me. Like – is that bloke next to grandad meant to be Robinson Crusoe? Like – what prompted grandad to ‘black up’ from head to toe – is he Man Friday? And now, I stare at the photo handed to me by my friend of his grandfather, complete with rifle and medals, and again I silently ask my grandad – why?
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Jun 19, 2022
Jun 19, 2022 at 3:11 PM UTC
Grandad’s leopard-skin leotard
I only have one photo of Grandad from his years of service in the Great War, and in it he’s wearing a leopard-skin leotard. My paternal grandfather, Grandad, was brought up in Brockley, South-East London In his teens he was conscripted and became a gunner sergeant in the Royal Field Artillery. I still have his stirrups and his French/English phrase book which includes useful words, like dysentery, (think of the movie, ‘War Horse’, and you’re almost there). He fought in the mud in France and put a lot of horses out of their misery. Apparently, he enjoyed the stage – a song and a dance, and almost went professional after a string of successful nights at the local Roxy, all of which makes me want to have known him better, but he died in my teens. He laughed a lot, loved his vegetable garden and had a collection of handy-sized, hard-back books giving details of how various circuits and wiring worked. I recall his bear of an armchair and how it was in easy reach of a slim stack of shallow drawers from which he would take slender tools or small curios and sit and explain their significance to my bemused child self. I have the brown photo somewhere - it’s not one I’d like to frame as it raises too many questions for me. Like – is that bloke next to grandad meant to be Robinson Crusoe? Like – what prompted grandad to ‘black up’ from head to toe – is he Man Friday? And now, I stare at the photo handed to me by my friend of his grandfather, complete with rifle and medals, and again I silently ask my grandad – why?
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God **** will you all stop with your pseudo-intellectual ******** please You're killing me So busy trying to fit fancy vocabulary Into the structure where your heart should be! There's no heart I see, and **** you with the argument That swears are not intelligent At least they invoke some sort of feelings Instead of 18 stanzas of irrelevance Your aristocratic airs are pathetic and irreverent Come back down to earth now, you drink coffee like the rest of us Another armchair poet pizza stained can stand among the best of us I want to feel the pain you try desperately to convey Not spend 20 minutes looking up definitions in a dictionary I want to know who you love and why Describe the scene around you at the moment that your friend died Stop it with your intellectual ******** please Simply describe to me how your heart did bleed Upon the lack of the presence of your lovers touch You try too hard and harp too much
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Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 11:12 PM UTC
Hey poet, you're not that smart