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"balks" poems
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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Mar 18, 2013
Mar 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM UTC
the barbecue
bespeckled, blotched & blokey feminine in aspects only little ****** hair patches two chins, or rather a sloped one the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose, torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region. a mass a blob of bulges on spindly legs he leans on the wall stubby in hand he balks (he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery) at the suggestion that the Pies will do better & that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!) the man ***** his head back & cackles (the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles) & decides his arms need a rest, (a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching)) so he places his beer down on a sloped surface, & therefore it slips down…. he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory, …..but he is too slow it smashes on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures, and the shards they impart their misery on his toes. The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy. he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws (an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual) the moisture feels degrading (as it would within a man's pants) the pain from the cuts it is worsened by the smirking gazes of others about he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene off to retrieve a band aid to mend his ego and his foot simultaneously
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Every day you see him on the streets His lifes possessions in his cart You look at him and turn away Is that the way you want to start? He walks around the streets all day HIs world is only where he walks But, when he gets too close to you You find that you're the one who balks He's never done no harm to you In fact your lives may be the same He may just feel the same for you And you're the one who should feel shame His life is in that shopping cart It's full of years of where he's been He may not have a home like you He may not have a next of kin He may live like this willingly Though you look at him as mad You see, he's not the issue here It's you and that's what's sad He's searching for a better life Or is he...no one knows For no one takes the time to see Just where this poor soul goes He doesn't want your pity But a hand up would be kind A hand out he's not looking for But they're so hard to find He lived up in the ivory towers With a family, working hard Now he lives among the forgotten folks With his boots re-soled with cards You can ask him if he needs a hand But you wouldn't dare to speak Because that would put you near him And that's not ground you seek Is he harmless, well you just don't know Is he mad or lost his way Is he loony, well that's doubtful He found a cart to push this way His life is in the boxes And the bags inside the cart Next time you see him, don't avoid him Show him just a little heart I knew a man, this independent He showered at a self serve bar While he cleaned, I'd leave a coffee And then I'd attend to the next car He always smiled as he was leaving A whistle always on his lips You never knew where he was headed As he left to go out on his trips Three times a week, just like clockwork He would show up just to wash Three times a week I'd leave him coffee And each time he'd leave feeling posh You see him daily in your travels He's the king of where he's been So if you see him while you're walking Give a smile, don't look so mean For, he's the one who has no problems Maybe he has got it right It may not work for you or me though But it works for him tonight Each day you see him with his old cart But you turn away from view Handicapped...he isn't..but just maybe The handicapped one here is you..
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 12:04 PM UTC
Street Walking Man - (The Street - poem 7)
Every day you see him on the streets His lifes possessions in his cart You look at him and turn away Is that the way you want to start? He walks around the streets all day HIs world is only where he walks But, when he gets too close to you You find that you're the one who balks He's never done no harm to you In fact your lives may be the same He may just feel the same for you And you're the one who should feel shame His life is in that shopping cart It's full of years of where he's been He may not have a home like you He may not have a next of kin He may live like this willingly Though you look at him as mad You see, he's not the issue here It's you and that's what's sad He's searching for a better life Or is he...no one knows For no one takes the time to see Just where this poor soul goes He doesn't want your pity But a hand up would be kind A hand out he's not looking for But they're so hard to find He lived up in the ivory towers With a family, working hard Now he lives among the forgotten folks With his boots re-soled with cards You can ask him if he needs a hand But you wouldn't dare to speak Because that would put you near him And that's not ground you seek Is he harmless, well you just don't know Is he mad or lost his way Is he loony, well that's doubtful He found a cart to push this way His life is in the boxes And the bags inside the cart Next time you see him, don't avoid him Show him just a little heart I knew a man, this independent He showered at a self serve bar While he cleaned, I'd leave a coffee And then I'd attend to the next car He always smiled as he was leaving A whistle always on his lips You never knew where he was headed As he left to go out on his trips Three times a week, just like clockwork He would show up just to wash Three times a week I'd leave him coffee And each time he'd leave feeling posh You see him daily in your travels He's the king of where he's been So if you see him while you're walking Give a smile, don't look so mean For, he's the one who has no problems Maybe he has got it right It may not work for you or me though But it works for him tonight Each day you see him with his old cart But you turn away from view Handicapped...he isn't..but just maybe The handicapped one here is you..
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I live my life for the jolts and tingles the prickling of skin and the involuntary wrinkles I live my life for instances of bliss and euphoria the experiences that floor ya for the moments of clarity when I make plans with sincerity whether or not accomplishment, may indeed be a rarity I live my life for the sensular shudder of the feminine other for the flashing and thrashing and skin-tingling flutter for those shots to be made without use of a putter I live my life for new connections and epiphanies for misdirections and the mysteries for all the questions without answers like, why does life give you cancer? according to the state of california. I live my life through a miasma of sidewalks and ticking clocks through drunken walks and forgotten talks for the chance of a Win and the inevitable balks I live my life sometimes for him or for her in sin or while pure and without hope of a cure for the human condition "the human condition?" you know, when the world says, "assume the position!" and your teacher says "are you even listenin'?" I live my life for zoning out and finding Rules to flout for the workings of my mind the ability to rewind analyze the times and uncover the blinds I live my life
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 6:49 PM UTC
the zone of positivity
like some jealous future self, my writer's clock balks at this moment with you, i can't explain, so i give up listening. (i have an app for that) the writing only stops as degustation ends ~ thank you, though ~ i'd like you to hear regardless of the meanings lent ~ the gymnolexical fear appearing ornamental far and near. google files us away, omniscient acumen of o's and ones ~ words sing to me their luring promise of a lasting hold, but less and less as plastic griming fingers sync with what it seems to be, a new world search- -engine culling info freely do i still believe in order? striving for the fitted words, a love imprinted input thus on crystal pixel page, your effect on me distilled-- refracted throng associational fantastic server metacomfort for an audience swimming past into this, now always ever-new you appear, bursting at the seams my vision churning ...effluent sourcing, blurry self of others ~ heart-charming river-nymphs! bolt-hurling sky-satyrs! reeling nations are subtended by your words that walk, trod, swim across what poetry, dance with this ever-blooming techne-earth as i mark your plasmic eyes we flow and let flow, we dance our farmer's mud into the beryl-winding paths of othernets and cyberplay, the restful ends reborn bright white lacing lattice-scopic fibrous scatters of another wi-fi interlife ~ we stream and let stream, river-tress girl, your eyes summon a great coalescence in me, we dance into the channeled delta of spring beauty here across the keyboard; it cascades a slow attentive phosphene striking pointed notes of color, ring beneath and through the green, sylvan silicon throw of mossy html so that even rocks and sprawling tree-trunks sing within the disembodied vortexes of arrowed imagery to browse my virtual belongings to you, alone in your sorrow-joy fighting free love in an all-world-breath before the screen
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Aug 1, 2012
Aug 1, 2012 at 11:40 PM UTC
multipathing processor
like some jealous future self, my writer's clock balks at this moment with you, i can't explain, so i give up listening. (i have an app for that) the writing only stops as degustation ends ~ thank you, though ~ i'd like you to hear regardless of the meanings lent ~ the gymnolexical fear appearing ornamental far and near. google files us away, omniscient acumen of o's and ones ~ words sing to me their luring promise of a lasting hold, but less and less as plastic griming fingers sync with what it seems to be, a new world search- -engine culling info freely do i still believe in order? striving for the fitted words, a love imprinted input thus on crystal pixel page, your effect on me distilled-- refracted throng associational fantastic server metacomfort for an audience swimming past into this, now always ever-new you appear, bursting at the seams my vision churning ...effluent sourcing, blurry self of others ~ heart-charming river-nymphs! bolt-hurling sky-satyrs! reeling nations are subtended by your words that walk, trod, swim across what poetry, dance with this ever-blooming techne-earth as i mark your plasmic eyes we flow and let flow, we dance our farmer's mud into the beryl-winding paths of othernets and cyberplay, the restful ends reborn bright white lacing lattice-scopic fibrous scatters of another wi-fi interlife ~ we stream and let stream, river-tress girl, your eyes summon a great coalescence in me, we dance into the channeled delta of spring beauty here across the keyboard; it cascades a slow attentive phosphene striking pointed notes of color, ring beneath and through the green, sylvan silicon throw of mossy html so that even rocks and sprawling tree-trunks sing within the disembodied vortexes of arrowed imagery to browse my virtual belongings to you, alone in your sorrow-joy fighting free love in an all-world-breath before the screen
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in a studded wood, you river sapless stream of spruce bark -no ailment -no midwife for the sediment in a black mirror, the seer needled to the tree- two ravens I know what my future holds watch as the horse balks white rind eyes hopeless as stars
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 2:19 AM UTC
Untitled
A vulture of voluptuous a curator of curves he walks and stalks and talks then balks like I'm the one absurd
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 2:13 AM UTC
Schmuck
A thunder in a crack of the ceiling A shift of lifts A slit of drifts A lightening in the blanket of the cloud A ghost in an alley of the monument A walk of talks A well of balks A shadow in the groovy path of an ago A cupid stuck and struck by a serpentine A tale of the past A pale hue of trust An arrow aimed at the kernel of the nut
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 5:47 PM UTC
Kernel of the Nut
Mid-winter solstice, cold dawn, The shortest day is the longest night. Day grey skies, walking on rain empty beach. Night bright carolling and mulled wine warming, Friends’ festive mood balks bank depression, The world turns and the days get longer, On this 3rd rock from the sun In snow-cold Dublin.
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 9:26 AM UTC
December 21
Your trailing starlight woven with silver needles Enters the mundane life of human days; And magical tongue recounts miracles uncounted, In magnitudes of unexpected ways. Your vision never balks at walls or ceilings; An artist's heart is not like other things, The words like hope in slowly burning censors Take to the sky, once given freedom's wings.
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Jul 30, 2010
Jul 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM UTC
Yelena
try to imagine your own death at first your mind just balks at the idea but once you concentrate you may get puzzled at the endless opportunities you have   of dying warming to the subject now images start flitting through your mind like you were flipping TV channels you see yourself dead   with a trickling bullet wound   in some dark street   victim of street crime unpredictable or have a vision of a scene of accident where white-clad helpers carry a distorted body to a waiting van in vain or you are in a clinic rigged to electronic gear the nurses look discouraged slowing beeps flattening curves on monitors and you feel darkness creeping in or you blow-dry your hair with the old dryer and the bathroom floor is just a little bit too wet a plane falls from the sky in a fireball a stone gives on the mountain path you ski into whiteness the railing breaks lightening flashes a snake bites what.... - all of a sudden   options explode your mind reels from the truth that death is all around in infinite variety and may be yours now or a second later imagine
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 7:13 PM UTC
imagine your death
Unwelcome tears Intruding upon my relative Calm Never make it to the surface But wreak Havoc inside Something is wrong Something is a bit off And I must live with it The problem cannot be within Its cause must reside outside This fragile charade Something caused a crack Something ruptured Life as we know it As we live it Is false And serves no purpose Even love The fearless protector Balks at this truth God help us all.
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Feb 28, 2011
Feb 28, 2011 at 12:39 PM UTC
Stirrings
The same newspaper... A picture oozing guileless joy Eyes wide with laughter, eyes filled with happiness; Hands clasped together, feeling kinship with each other; Happy tears rain down on cheeks, frozen in this colorful sheet; Loud cries of delight, silent and muffled in my reality; Big bright colorful light cover the expanse of the background, not adding much beauty to the sight at hand; Chaos and order dare not to stand side by side, they would rather mix together and collide; There is no need to breach any peace, its already within a hand's reach; Children yearn not for peace, but for a chance to be part of a celebration delivered by peace; Nothing would be more sweeter than to remain in this blissful state; Determination marked their faces, but only to win fame and prize; Dancing, and reading national poems should be admirable, but it balks when at contrast with my previous sight; Haplessness engulfs me yet again, where am i needed here? Where can I make a change? I could add to to an already existing happiness, will it be fulfilling? How Can i make something complete, more complete? Where is my purpose here? I settled for a prayer, For such happiness not be stolen, For the children to always delightfully smile, to know nothing of the horrors of war; The picture remain as it is, nothing to add...nothing to extract
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May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 12:37 PM UTC
Contrast (Part two)
Always talks you down no religion in his frown He's bigger than you or me loves to see you down on knee He's backed you into a corner He's isolated you as a loner Accuses you of assualt If you protest he balks Always your fault he says Turns your thoughts to maze I've said too much Between his thumb's touch I said too little Calls all attempts piddle I thought I heard you laughing Just him slashing It must have been a dream or so it seemed The beginning was the end The remains are prayers and amens Just the distance in your eyes Just the mask of your disguise The no answers to all of my whys . . . Now I've said enough
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Nov 2, 2024
Nov 2, 2024 at 2:26 PM UTC
Alpha-Omaga man
A newspaper.. A picture oozing desperation.. Eyes wide open in horror, eyes filled with terror; Hands clasped together, seeking console from each other; Sad tears walk a path down on cheeks, frozen in this white and black sheets; Silent cries of agony, loud and clear in my reality; Green trees cover the expanse on the background, softening not the sight at hand; Chaos and order stand side by side, divided by a barbed fence to keep strangers at hand; Peace is so close to reach, yet its so hard to breach; An extended hand through the fence's opening reach, cries for help and beseech; Defeated children stood on higher ground, wistfully yearning for a safety beyond the line to be found; One land they share, the same landscape everywhere, divided by that one line there; Nothing would be more sweeter than walking to the other side, to be engulfed in the safety of the other land, to stumble across its ground; Defiance marked the eyes, determination marked their faces; Climbing over barbed wires, is a thing to admire; A hole in the fence surly is an offense, but the notion balks under constant threat of imminent death; Helplessness engulfs me, so to my mind's fantasy I flee; I grab them all in the palm of my hands, transfer them to a far away land; To a place where they live in peace, nothing to drive them away from a home that ease; Where I can see smiles on children's faces, nothing to steal away the innocent race; Again at the picture I look, and my mind excitedly shook; The picture remained, and the people no longer were in pain; For the picture only contained, the land, the trees and the barbed terrain; It became but a picture of a landscape, a speck of history draped in mystery.
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May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 12:16 PM UTC
Contrast (Part one)
A newspaper.. A picture oozing desperation.. Eyes wide open in horror, eyes filled with terror; Hands clasped together, seeking console from each other; Sad tears walk a path down on cheeks, frozen in this white and black sheets; Silent cries of agony, loud and clear in my reality; Green trees cover the expanse on the background, softening not the sight at hand; Chaos and order stand side by side, divided by a barbed fence to keep strangers at hand; Peace is so close to reach, yet its so hard to breach; An extended hand through the fence's opening reach, cries for help and beseech; Defeated children stood on higher ground, wistfully yearning for a safety beyond the line to be found; One land they share, the same landscape everywhere, divided by that one line there; Nothing would be more sweeter than walking to the other side, to be engulfed in the safety of the other land, to stumble across its ground; Defiance marked the eyes, determination marked their faces; Climbing over barbed wires, is a thing to admire; A hole in the fence surly is an offense, but the notion balks under constant threat of imminent death; Helplessness engulfs me, so to my mind's fantasy I flee; I grab them all in the palm of my hands, transfer them to a far away land; To a place where they live in peace, nothing to drive them away from a home that ease; Where I can see smiles on children's faces, nothing to steal away the innocent race; Again at the picture I look, and my mind excitedly shook; The picture remained, and the people no longer were in pain; For the picture only contained, the land, the trees and the barbed terrain; It became but a picture of a landscape, a speck of history draped in mystery.
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transmitted ****** talks (partially presented pablum pertaining particularly - president ***** (PAC - ******* action *** mitt tee) portfolio ******* philandering) baneful boorish boastful bullheaded Brobdingnagian beastie boy balks. conspicuously cavalierly crudely curtly cavorts, capitulating, claiming, championing crying chauvinistic concupiscence, ****** cupidity caul king crooked cowboy cakewalks. Donald daringly, dastardly, defiantly, demonstrably, deplorably, deprecatingly, devilishly, divinely dumbfounded, duplicitously desultory, debauched, duckwalks. eccentric effrontery, egregiously enervating, excitedly exculpatory, extremely evil eyestalk. "fake," faultily fervently fiendishly flagrant fool, frightful. gaffe galling, gamesome gawker, generating gerrymandering. harboring hectoring heinously hellishly hideously horrendously horrible hulk. ignominious illicit ilk, imbecilic immodest immoral impetuous, impishly impudent, incarcerate, incinerate indecently, indecorous, iniquitous, intently intolerant, irascible irksome, itching ii incite iv iiiiii ix *********** izards. jowly ******* jackdaw jackknifing jaywalking jumping **** jilting jinn. knowingly keeping kryptonite, ***** Kardashian kvetches, kris kringle ken kool, kissing kitty, kosher kumquats kippered, k-nine kooky korps, kowtowing ku klux **** kinsfolk. legal leafstalk lawlessly locked, lacerated, lambasted, languished lost lively lust, limped, legal levity limited. menfolk made macho mission. many moons monthly mandate marked maybe mars, mercurial maladroit monkey manumission modified modus mystifying maze moonwalk.
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Mar 23, 2018
Mar 23, 2018 at 6:43 PM UTC
traduce tis trademark Trump's traitorous...
transmitted ****** talks (partially presented pablum pertaining particularly - president ***** (PAC - ******* action *** mitt tee) portfolio ******* philandering) baneful boorish boastful bullheaded Brobdingnagian beastie boy balks. conspicuously cavalierly crudely curtly cavorts, capitulating, claiming, championing crying chauvinistic concupiscence, ****** cupidity caul king crooked cowboy cakewalks. Donald daringly, dastardly, defiantly, demonstrably, deplorably, deprecatingly, devilishly, divinely dumbfounded, duplicitously desultory, debauched, duckwalks. eccentric effrontery, egregiously enervating, excitedly exculpatory, extremely evil eyestalk. "fake," faultily fervently fiendishly flagrant fool, frightful. gaffe galling, gamesome gawker, generating gerrymandering. harboring hectoring heinously hellishly hideously horrendously horrible hulk. ignominious illicit ilk, imbecilic immodest immoral impetuous, impishly impudent, incarcerate, incinerate indecently, indecorous, iniquitous, intently intolerant, irascible irksome, itching ii incite iv iiiiii ix *********** izards. jowly ******* jackdaw jackknifing jaywalking jumping **** jilting jinn. knowingly keeping kryptonite, ***** Kardashian kvetches, kris kringle ken kool, kissing kitty, kosher kumquats kippered, k-nine kooky korps, kowtowing ku klux **** kinsfolk. legal leafstalk lawlessly locked, lacerated, lambasted, languished lost lively lust, limped, legal levity limited. menfolk made macho mission. many moons monthly mandate marked maybe mars, mercurial maladroit monkey manumission modified modus mystifying maze moonwalk.
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