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"banker" poems
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Your's truly, Travelogue.
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Blue Monday BY DIANE WAKOSKI Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts and clacking together in her elbows; blue of the silk that covers lily-town at night; blue of her teeth that bite cold toast and shatter on the streets; blue of the dyed flower petals with gold stamens hanging like tongues over the fence of her dress at the opera/opals clasped under her lips and the moon breaking over her head a gush of blood-red lizards. Blue Monday. Monday at 3:00 and Monday at 5. Monday at 7:30 and Monday at 10:00. Monday passed under the rippling California fountain. Monday alone a shark in the cold blue waters. You are dead: wound round like a paisley shawl. I cannot shake you out of the sheets. Your name is still wedged in every corner of the sofa. Monday is the first of the week, and I think of you all week. I beg Monday not to come so that I will not think of you all week. You paint my body blue. On the balcony in the softy muddy night, you paint me with bat wings and the crystal the crystal the crystal the crystal in your arm cuts away the night, folds back ebony whale skin and my face, the blue of new rifles, and my neck, the blue of Egypt, and my ******* the blue of sand, and my arms, bass-blue, and my stomach, arsenic; there is electricity dripping from me like cream; there is love dripping from me I cannot use—like acacia or jacaranda—fallen blue and gold flowers, crushed into the street. Love passed me in a blue business suit and fedora. His glass cane, hollow and filled with sharks and whales ... He wore black patent leather shoes and had a mustache. His hair was so black it was almost blue. “Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. “Mr. Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. So I saw there was no use bothering him on the street Love passed me on the street in a blue business suit. He was a banker I could tell. So blue trains rush by in my sleep. Blue herons fly overhead. Blue paint cracks in my arteries and sends titanium floating into my bones. Blue liquid pours down my poisoned throat and blue veins rip open my breast. Blue daggers tip and are juggled on my palms. Blue death lives in my fingernails. If I could sing one last song with water bubbling through my lips I would sing with my throat torn open, the blue jugular spouting that black shadow pulse, and on my lips I would balance volcanic rock emptied out of my veins. At last my children strained out of my body. At last my blood solidified and tumbling into the ocean. It is blue. It is blue. It is blue.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 7:31 AM UTC
Diane Wakowski
Blue Monday BY DIANE WAKOSKI Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts and clacking together in her elbows; blue of the silk that covers lily-town at night; blue of her teeth that bite cold toast and shatter on the streets; blue of the dyed flower petals with gold stamens hanging like tongues over the fence of her dress at the opera/opals clasped under her lips and the moon breaking over her head a gush of blood-red lizards. Blue Monday. Monday at 3:00 and Monday at 5. Monday at 7:30 and Monday at 10:00. Monday passed under the rippling California fountain. Monday alone a shark in the cold blue waters. You are dead: wound round like a paisley shawl. I cannot shake you out of the sheets. Your name is still wedged in every corner of the sofa. Monday is the first of the week, and I think of you all week. I beg Monday not to come so that I will not think of you all week. You paint my body blue. On the balcony in the softy muddy night, you paint me with bat wings and the crystal the crystal the crystal the crystal in your arm cuts away the night, folds back ebony whale skin and my face, the blue of new rifles, and my neck, the blue of Egypt, and my ******* the blue of sand, and my arms, bass-blue, and my stomach, arsenic; there is electricity dripping from me like cream; there is love dripping from me I cannot use—like acacia or jacaranda—fallen blue and gold flowers, crushed into the street. Love passed me in a blue business suit and fedora. His glass cane, hollow and filled with sharks and whales ... He wore black patent leather shoes and had a mustache. His hair was so black it was almost blue. “Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. “Mr. Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. So I saw there was no use bothering him on the street Love passed me on the street in a blue business suit. He was a banker I could tell. So blue trains rush by in my sleep. Blue herons fly overhead. Blue paint cracks in my arteries and sends titanium floating into my bones. Blue liquid pours down my poisoned throat and blue veins rip open my breast. Blue daggers tip and are juggled on my palms. Blue death lives in my fingernails. If I could sing one last song with water bubbling through my lips I would sing with my throat torn open, the blue jugular spouting that black shadow pulse, and on my lips I would balance volcanic rock emptied out of my veins. At last my children strained out of my body. At last my blood solidified and tumbling into the ocean. It is blue. It is blue. It is blue.
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My unrequited golden dove, you are a merchant banker them bloomin' groovy bars are sad tonight but given the chance I wouldda gotten cash & carried & spent me porridge knife loving your mince pies had I not known you'd treat me golden dove thus & yes, been your trouble & strife with all me Horse & cart....... I know, not smart I know, not smart Translation: ( In English tis not a very impressive poem... it's just amusing how you can make cockney rhyming slang into a poem, so I've been experimenting.... I really want to send this to the guy I'm unrequitedly in love with actually... & leave him (hopefully)confused & in the dark as to what I wrote....mostly I just really want to call him a ' merchant banker' e.g ' wanker' & get away with it!! xD ' Wanker' is a particularly offensive term to use when referring to a man!) * My unrequited love you are a ****** them ****** stars are sad tonight but given the chance I would have gotten married & spent my life loving your eyes had I not known you would treat my love thus & yes, been your wife with all my heart I know, not smart I know, not smart*
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Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 7:16 PM UTC
A Cockney Love Poem
We, the people of this country, in your eyes are: babblers, bachelors, bafflers, baiters, barkers, beakers, beaters, brawlers, blamers, beggars, bloaters, bloopers, bombers, boozers, blunders, bruisers, bafflers, bluffers, burglars and burners. That's why you feel compelled to keep your foot on our heads keep us down, put us down, push us down subjugate us, belittle us, berate us. We, the people of this country, in our eyes are: butlers, bouncers, bakers, buyers, barbers, cake-makers, delivery-takers, cocktail-shakers, taxi drivers, cancer survivors, employers and hirers, music makers, entertainers, window washers, foster takers, plasterers, carpenters, scaffolders, sparks and builders, boxers, carers, coaches, tailors, shoe makers, designers, illustrators, multi-language facilitators, dog walkers, dog trainers, bikers and cycle couriers, doctors and nurses and all the emergency services. We are the People, the reason you are where you are now you sometimes forget that we exist as people, somehow locked in your ivory towers with gold plated showers and MP expenses and investment banker pretenses this is not theater, its real life drama, its not just a bluff its time to stand up and say enough is enough.
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM UTC
Another Angry Voice
~ June 2023 HP Poet: Patty Mager Country: USA Question 1: Welcome to the HP Spotlight, Patty. Please tell us about your background? Patty M: "I was born an only child in a 3 generation household. I loved books, and playing imaginary games, and chasing my mom with really long nightcrawlers, my Grandpa raised in a washtub. I was a banker, and a financial banker for many years. I quit to do hospice for my Dad when he was to go into hospice. My husband had heart problems and my little Mom eventually got Cancer. So I nursed and loved them all. My Dad for a year, the others over an 8-year period. I saw the transition of each and the way each handled their ending, and I was there for them all. I consider that a special blessing." Question 2: How long have you been writing poetry, and for how long have you been a member of Hello Poetry? Patty M: "I always wrote, but I found a poetry site 20 years ago, and began to write seriously. I've been published in many anthologies both in the US and abroad. I was nominated for the coveted Pushcart Prize twice and I once had a three-page spread in our local newspaper. I came to HP in 2014 and I love this special place with amazingly wonderful poets who have become really great friends." Question 3: What inspires you? (In other words, how does poetry happen for you). Patty M: "Sometimes poems seem to write themselves, almost like automatic writing." Question 4: What does poetry mean to you? Patty M: "Poetry is spiritual, and a lifesaving rope that carries me through both good and the horrible times of my life." Question 5: Who are your favorite poets? Patty M: "My favorite Poets are: Sylvia Plath, Neruda, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, Poe, Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, and Longfellow." Question 6: What other interests do you have? Patty M: "I love to cook, do crossword puzzles, read, and play card games like canasta, and spider solitaire. Being with family is my heaven." Carlo C. Gomez: “Thank you so much for allowing me to interview you, dear Patty! I learned a great deal about you!” Patty M: "Thank again Carlo. Thanks so much for all your help and kindness." Thank you everyone here at HP for taking the time to read this. We hope you enjoyed getting to know Patty a little bit better. I indeed did. It is our wish that these spotlights are helping everyone to further discover and appreciate their fellow poets. – Carlo C. Gomez (aka Mr. Timetable) We will post Spotlight #5 in July! ~
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Jun 1, 2023
Jun 1, 2023 at 5:56 PM UTC
HP Writers Spotlight: Patty M
~ June 2023 HP Poet: Patty Mager Country: USA Question 1: Welcome to the HP Spotlight, Patty. Please tell us about your background? Patty M: "I was born an only child in a 3 generation household. I loved books, and playing imaginary games, and chasing my mom with really long nightcrawlers, my Grandpa raised in a washtub. I was a banker, and a financial banker for many years. I quit to do hospice for my Dad when he was to go into hospice. My husband had heart problems and my little Mom eventually got Cancer. So I nursed and loved them all. My Dad for a year, the others over an 8-year period. I saw the transition of each and the way each handled their ending, and I was there for them all. I consider that a special blessing." Question 2: How long have you been writing poetry, and for how long have you been a member of Hello Poetry? Patty M: "I always wrote, but I found a poetry site 20 years ago, and began to write seriously. I've been published in many anthologies both in the US and abroad. I was nominated for the coveted Pushcart Prize twice and I once had a three-page spread in our local newspaper. I came to HP in 2014 and I love this special place with amazingly wonderful poets who have become really great friends." Question 3: What inspires you? (In other words, how does poetry happen for you). Patty M: "Sometimes poems seem to write themselves, almost like automatic writing." Question 4: What does poetry mean to you? Patty M: "Poetry is spiritual, and a lifesaving rope that carries me through both good and the horrible times of my life." Question 5: Who are your favorite poets? Patty M: "My favorite Poets are: Sylvia Plath, Neruda, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, Poe, Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, and Longfellow." Question 6: What other interests do you have? Patty M: "I love to cook, do crossword puzzles, read, and play card games like canasta, and spider solitaire. Being with family is my heaven." Carlo C. Gomez: “Thank you so much for allowing me to interview you, dear Patty! I learned a great deal about you!” Patty M: "Thank again Carlo. Thanks so much for all your help and kindness." Thank you everyone here at HP for taking the time to read this. We hope you enjoyed getting to know Patty a little bit better. I indeed did. It is our wish that these spotlights are helping everyone to further discover and appreciate their fellow poets. – Carlo C. Gomez (aka Mr. Timetable) We will post Spotlight #5 in July! ~
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"Beep-beep. BANKERS TRUST AUTOMOBILE LOAN You'll find a banker at Bankers Trust" Advertisement in N.Y. Times When comes my second childhood, As to all men it must, I want to be a banker Like the banker at Bankers Trust. I wouldn't ask to be president Or even assistant veep, I'd only ask for a kiddie car And permission to go beep-beep. The banker at Chase Manhattan, He bids a polite Good-day; The banker at Immigrant Savings Cries Scusi! and Olé! But I'd be a sleek Ferrari Or perhaps a joggly jeep, And scooting around at Bankers Trust, Beep-beep, I'd go, beep-beep. The trolley car used to say clang-clang And the choo-choo said toot-toot, But the beep of the banker at Bankers Trust Is every bit as cute. Miaow, says the cuddly kitten, Baa, says the woolly sheep, Oink, says the piggy-wiggy, And the banker says beep-beep. So I want to play at Bankers Trust Like a hippety-hoppety bunny, And best of all, oh best of all, With really truly money. Now grown-ups dear, it's nightie-night Until my dream comes true, And I bid you a happy boop-a-doop And a big beep-beep adieu.
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If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan Would Sit on the Midget's Lap
Retail-hunter gatherers pick clean processed bones, digging graves with their shiny teeth, studious in their reveries as they drone past worlds dumped in the thresher; the trucked-in fields of film-wrapped gore splayed lustily before the managers wound tight in Machiavellian design. A shepherd herds his flock of wreathed iron back to its pen, its skeletal tangle lit in riotous gold by swords flung from lambent eyes of pre-dawn’s shunting chariots Cages shunt and bobble like tugboats chugging stoic up swimming pool lanes of nondescript tile, cheered on by shouting colours to float through archipelagos of paper towel and chocolate blocks past the vegemite diaspora, and the arctic wastelands cased in sliding glass fields of perfect steady storms as wraiths baked in halogen ask silent questions of the silverbeet, while Lana Del Ray’s voice falls like nightshade—slutty and serene—coating shelf stackers in a Piaf sadness as the shelves reach their arms out for more. The check out chick hatches a sense of déjà vu as carrots and biscuits drone towards her mind berEFT of any twitching sense of POSsibility that wised up and flew this leering coop and deep in her catalogue of grey folds something stillborn and waxen is perched on gleaming steel, reeling out her guts like cassette tape with jerky nightmare arms and laughing like a banker watching ***** films, mornings dull cerise an invocation through auto-jaws as she bursts out to warble with magpies in car park’s climbing fire.
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Jul 25, 2013
Jul 25, 2013 at 9:23 PM UTC
supermarket
Retail-hunter gatherers pick clean processed bones, digging graves with their shiny teeth, studious in their reveries as they drone past worlds dumped in the thresher; the trucked-in fields of film-wrapped gore splayed lustily before the managers wound tight in Machiavellian design. A shepherd herds his flock of wreathed iron back to its pen, its skeletal tangle lit in riotous gold by swords flung from lambent eyes of pre-dawn’s shunting chariots Cages shunt and bobble like tugboats chugging stoic up swimming pool lanes of nondescript tile, cheered on by shouting colours to float through archipelagos of paper towel and chocolate blocks past the vegemite diaspora, and the arctic wastelands cased in sliding glass fields of perfect steady storms as wraiths baked in halogen ask silent questions of the silverbeet, while Lana Del Ray’s voice falls like nightshade—slutty and serene—coating shelf stackers in a Piaf sadness as the shelves reach their arms out for more. The check out chick hatches a sense of déjà vu as carrots and biscuits drone towards her mind berEFT of any twitching sense of POSsibility that wised up and flew this leering coop and deep in her catalogue of grey folds something stillborn and waxen is perched on gleaming steel, reeling out her guts like cassette tape with jerky nightmare arms and laughing like a banker watching ***** films, mornings dull cerise an invocation through auto-jaws as she bursts out to warble with magpies in car park’s climbing fire.
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49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels—twice descending Reimbursed my store— Burglar! Banker—Father! I am poor once more!
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I never lost as much but twice
This is a song to celebrate banks, Because they are full of money and you go into them and all you hear is clinks and clanks, Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills, Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills. Most bankers dwell in marble halls, Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits and discourage withdrawals, And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it, Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. I know you, you cautious conservative banks! If people are worried about their rent it is your duty to deny them the loan of one nickel, yes, even one copper engraving of the martyred son of the late Nancy Hanks; Yes, if they request fifty dollars to pay for a baby you must look at them like Tarzan looking at an uppity ape in the jungle, And tell them what do they think a bank is, anyhow, they had better go get the money from their wife's aunt or ungle. But suppose people come in and they have a million and they want another million to pile on top of it, Why, you brim with the milk of human kindness and you urge them to accept every drop of it, And you lend them the million so then they have two million and this gives them the idea that they would be better off with four, So they already have two million as security so you have no hesitation in lending them two more, And all the vice-presidents nod their heads in rhythm, And the only question asked is do the borrowers want the money sent or do they want to take it withm. Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks, the ********* who go around saying that health and happi- ness are everything and money isn't essential, Because as soon as they have to borrow some unimportant money to maintain their health and happiness they starve to death so they can't go around any more sneering at good old money, which is nothing short of providential.
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Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
This is a song to celebrate banks, Because they are full of money and you go into them and all you hear is clinks and clanks, Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills, Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills. Most bankers dwell in marble halls, Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits and discourage withdrawals, And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it, Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it. I know you, you cautious conservative banks! If people are worried about their rent it is your duty to deny them the loan of one nickel, yes, even one copper engraving of the martyred son of the late Nancy Hanks; Yes, if they request fifty dollars to pay for a baby you must look at them like Tarzan looking at an uppity ape in the jungle, And tell them what do they think a bank is, anyhow, they had better go get the money from their wife's aunt or ungle. But suppose people come in and they have a million and they want another million to pile on top of it, Why, you brim with the milk of human kindness and you urge them to accept every drop of it, And you lend them the million so then they have two million and this gives them the idea that they would be better off with four, So they already have two million as security so you have no hesitation in lending them two more, And all the vice-presidents nod their heads in rhythm, And the only question asked is do the borrowers want the money sent or do they want to take it withm. Because I think they deserve our appreciation and thanks, the ********* who go around saying that health and happi- ness are everything and money isn't essential, Because as soon as they have to borrow some unimportant money to maintain their health and happiness they starve to death so they can't go around any more sneering at good old money, which is nothing short of providential.
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Black is your coffee Toasted and buttered your bread Half past seven, A quick peck on the cheek off you go to the bank one solid day you spend at the bank a loyal servant of the bank of commerce Your lover number one, the bank..always the bank... you'd be at the bank till all workers gone home you'd be at your desk checking the accounts making it balance , counting the profits recovering the loss... If there is an award for the banker of the year The outstanding achievement and the bla... bla... bla... The winner is you, without a doubt... While you're making your accounts pretty Perfecting your financial reports The dinner is getting too cold The kids are growing up so fast   Your cat is getting too old Your wife is sulking too long Your house is getting too far Your family is slowly vanishing... not physically of course... the souls of love and life is  disappearing little by little... Dear banker, If you happen to listen to this banker's wife blues...today Hope you'd throw the balance sheets in the basket and sit with your wife and kids in a garden, drinking a cup of English tea Eating some home made biscuits... How much bonus is more worthwhile than watching your kids growing up before your eyes... kissing your wife good night tasting the love doses... Tell me, after listening to all these? Will you still worry about your imbalance bank accounts?
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
Banker's Wife Blues
Ragged mountains and rough terrains, Withstanding storms and heavy rains. Warm rays of sunshine bring light. Bearing hues of black and white. To the touch it feels like a freshly mowed lawn. A promise of tummy tickling at dawn. A relaxing walk in an uninhabited forest. A tempestuous hike to the top of Everest. You could be a renegade or a mad scientist An investment banker or electric guitarist. A biker's beard could be just as immaculate. Rough as sandpaper or soft as velvet.
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 8:00 AM UTC
BEARDS REMIND ME OF...
Peak temperature water levels fake diagnoses white psychopaths starving hunger jingoism violence [systems that deprive us] guns entitlement shots fired accidents grief/mourning choking hazard corporate mascots corporate favoritism corporate bailouts corporate people ideology without monitor nationalism patriotism conservatives patriarchy murder-rape-suicide victim silence lack of conviction religious ********** false history infant mortality job insecurity invisible hands trickle down economics union busters corporate police brutal police evil police secret police debt bankruptcy foreclosure homelessness lost confused prisoner criminal banker war preparations propaganda ballots commercials advertisements campaigns money power puppets figureheads armies genocides **** bomb gas fire no survival violence wealthy lawyers assassinations heart complications death sleep.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 1:40 PM UTC
"Jawbone; Prescription Assisted."
The forgotten gem among the precious Your love is too dark for a child Also precious Yet pure like a diamond Diamonds are so common Garnet, you are rich Richer than most in quality Perhaps a banker or lawyer would remember you But no, sapphires are rich Richer than dull gold, not rich enough I say You reach new depths, Garry Like an ocean trench filled with the remains of the unknown's lunch Not as deep as the amethyst, apparently That is spiritually charged and better for the soul Your violence is a stain, but I say it is a warning Garnish, you lack value Topaz is the quality they seek The eye of the sun, so bright Too bright The eye of Jupiter is too much, I say enough Oh Garnet Forget Ruby, your sister Forget Emerald, your opposite Forget Opal, all in one, the God of the gems You are Alfred the Great, so great, yet forgotten
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 4:31 PM UTC
Garnet Forgotten
i can't believe i'm living out my life's 10 seconds of stupidity with an un-payable debit account security of future credit, loans, debt and moaning... **** me double twice blind with a joker in hand... of course i'm stupid, i got educated in a world that pays you back with menial labour, to look pretty... seriously, don't do the stupidest thing imaginable and get yourself a university degree, unless you're a woman, that's fine, you'll get to meet and voluntarily wet your ****** with the next president of Romania, but we need idiot mechanics, and believe me, i'd rather oil up car pistons like stroking giraffe necks of Myanmar women.... from **** generals cited through to Epicurus' citation... believe me, i wish i was smarter, most of posthumous fame is a regard of obstructive i.q., we were believed to not take offence at our exposure to systematisation which educated both thief and banker... none of the two differ... both excusable buffers... we trusted people... trust was our biggest idiotic remark... and now the earth in spin... for endless maxims: it's like that... and that's the way it is; no wonder i end up watching serial killer documentaries.
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 6:17 PM UTC
Giraffes and Maynmar women
He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. "At length I realize," he said, "The bitterness of life!" He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister's Husband's Niece. "Unless you leave this house," he said, "I'll send for the police!" he thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week. "The one thing I regret," he said, "Is that it cannot speak!" He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. "If this should stay to dine," he said, "There won't be much for us!" He thought he saw a Kangaroo That worked a Coffee-mill: He looked again, and found it was A Vegetable-Pill. "Were I to swallow this," he said, "I should be very ill!" He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed: He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. "Poor thing," he said, "poor silly thing! It's waiting to be fed!"
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A Strange Wild Song
before existentialism, and nietzsche in mind, philosophy was written or spoken of accepting the socratic rigidity of words, the rigidity of words known through the socratic method of inquiry: the simplest of questions imposed on the meaning of words; e.g. what is virtue? but with existentialism this old method of inquiry, the poised posing bewilderment lost its quality, in that the new method of inquiry was given to stress not a method of questioning but that of ambiguity, even though this new method that simply said the reverse of what is virtue as the preservation of a narrative: "virtue" concedes many variations exampled true, e.g. - this dittoing going against - previously said / as above - became staged against a brick wall - since this method, the existential method of brushing aside inquiry and entering the realm of ambiguity was already present - the pluralism of meaning found in certain words; it isn't a question whether red or blue can be ambiguous, this allocation of noun and quality is all too pervasive - so when an ambiguity is allowed to exercise its stressor posit - the word in question is allocated a verb orientation in its exercise of use and example, further diluted by the quantity and lack of example, and ascribed contorting adjectivity due to the dilution of meaning: with lessened recognition of sought out qualification to sentence an enzymic perfection of: banker and philanthropist, priest and maximilian kolbe, poetry and lack of envy. even though these examples are idealistic, they provide the obvious ambiguity already apparent, hence the double ambiguity of opposites, ideal opposites. in shorthand - if socrates were to come upon reading existentialism - his questions regarding the virtues would be bound to free floating terms in the ditto bubbles of flimsiness of non-inquiry - bewildered by the number of prompts to question, there would be no necessary ambiguity to many other terms of inactivity - such as the previously mentioned red and blue, dog and glue, but too many, it would seem, should a strict belief in categorising virtue as a noun but not a verb be kept - for categorisation of such nature only provides a linear cascade without due action or cared for imitation - ending with the only chance of virtue chanced and seen as an unvirtuous person doing crossword puzzles in silence - and already virtue's opposite is engaged in defending itself and justifying its ills by first forcing many synonyms to cover it in ambiguity, and asserting itself as an adjective within a noun framework blunt: virtue v. unvirtuous will only confiscate siamese phonetic mingling to ease the definition; i guess that's how rhyming was born, the opposite of alphabetical ordering: a, aardvark                              the violet's blue                                                                    ****** a doughnut with you.
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC
the last line in a difficult poem is always fun
before existentialism, and nietzsche in mind, philosophy was written or spoken of accepting the socratic rigidity of words, the rigidity of words known through the socratic method of inquiry: the simplest of questions imposed on the meaning of words; e.g. what is virtue? but with existentialism this old method of inquiry, the poised posing bewilderment lost its quality, in that the new method of inquiry was given to stress not a method of questioning but that of ambiguity, even though this new method that simply said the reverse of what is virtue as the preservation of a narrative: "virtue" concedes many variations exampled true, e.g. - this dittoing going against - previously said / as above - became staged against a brick wall - since this method, the existential method of brushing aside inquiry and entering the realm of ambiguity was already present - the pluralism of meaning found in certain words; it isn't a question whether red or blue can be ambiguous, this allocation of noun and quality is all too pervasive - so when an ambiguity is allowed to exercise its stressor posit - the word in question is allocated a verb orientation in its exercise of use and example, further diluted by the quantity and lack of example, and ascribed contorting adjectivity due to the dilution of meaning: with lessened recognition of sought out qualification to sentence an enzymic perfection of: banker and philanthropist, priest and maximilian kolbe, poetry and lack of envy. even though these examples are idealistic, they provide the obvious ambiguity already apparent, hence the double ambiguity of opposites, ideal opposites. in shorthand - if socrates were to come upon reading existentialism - his questions regarding the virtues would be bound to free floating terms in the ditto bubbles of flimsiness of non-inquiry - bewildered by the number of prompts to question, there would be no necessary ambiguity to many other terms of inactivity - such as the previously mentioned red and blue, dog and glue, but too many, it would seem, should a strict belief in categorising virtue as a noun but not a verb be kept - for categorisation of such nature only provides a linear cascade without due action or cared for imitation - ending with the only chance of virtue chanced and seen as an unvirtuous person doing crossword puzzles in silence - and already virtue's opposite is engaged in defending itself and justifying its ills by first forcing many synonyms to cover it in ambiguity, and asserting itself as an adjective within a noun framework blunt: virtue v. unvirtuous will only confiscate siamese phonetic mingling to ease the definition; i guess that's how rhyming was born, the opposite of alphabetical ordering: a, aardvark                              the violet's blue                                                                    ****** a doughnut with you.
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I killed myself today. It was too much. The debt, The expectations, The hippies, The stonefaced Unsympathetic Vietnam vets asking me if I was a ***** To tell you the truth, Gus, You've got to be pretty **** ******** to slit that throat, To pull that trigger, To hang that corpse from a rafter high. But I did it classy. Yeah. I died like a Roman who had plotted against great Caesar. I went home, Slipped into the tub wearing a suit I pieced together from Uptown Thrift. As the scorching water flowed, I sipped wine and read the bible. King James Version only, mind you. As the water approached my neck I shut it off. I laughed at the hypocrisy: A suicide scene with a bible strewn about. I muttered, Then took the knife and opened up my veins. I bled out. My thoughts drifted to depressing things: My 2 year old brother working a night shift at Walmart holding back his tears while being yelled at by a balding middle aged man who never did anything with his life, A dog corpse ***** and mutilated by some ******* A banker smoking a cigarette and laughing in an infant's face, And the world turning on. As it always does. As it always will.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 6:11 PM UTC
Die Like A Roman
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, The bitterness of Life!' He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister's Husband's Niece. 'Unless you leave this house,' he said, "I'll send for the Police!' He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!' He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. 'If this should stay to dine,' he said, 'There won't be much for us!' He thought he saw a Kangaroo That worked a coffee-mill: He looked again, and found it was A Vegetable-Pill. 'Were I to swallow this,' he said, 'I should be very ill!' He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed: He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. 'Poor thing,' he said, 'poor silly thing! It's waiting to be fed!' He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage Stamp. 'You'd best be getting home,' he said: 'The nights are very damp!' He thought he saw a Garden-Door That opened with a key: He looked again, and found it was A Double Rule of Three: 'And all its mystery,' he said, 'Is clear as day to me!' He thought he saw a Argument That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was A Bar of Mottled Soap. 'A fact so dread,' he faintly said, 'Extinguishes all hope!'
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The Mad Gardener's Song
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. 'At length I realise,' he said, The bitterness of Life!' He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney-piece: He looked again, and found it was His Sister's Husband's Niece. 'Unless you leave this house,' he said, "I'll send for the Police!' He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!' He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus. 'If this should stay to dine,' he said, 'There won't be much for us!' He thought he saw a Kangaroo That worked a coffee-mill: He looked again, and found it was A Vegetable-Pill. 'Were I to swallow this,' he said, 'I should be very ill!' He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed: He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. 'Poor thing,' he said, 'poor silly thing! It's waiting to be fed!' He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny-Postage Stamp. 'You'd best be getting home,' he said: 'The nights are very damp!' He thought he saw a Garden-Door That opened with a key: He looked again, and found it was A Double Rule of Three: 'And all its mystery,' he said, 'Is clear as day to me!' He thought he saw a Argument That proved he was the Pope: He looked again, and found it was A Bar of Mottled Soap. 'A fact so dread,' he faintly said, 'Extinguishes all hope!'
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*Deadly deluded deceitful demon's of:  inter-racial racism; murderous religiosity; frightful jealous hackings; tribally usurping genocides;  atrocious political strength-of-arms; invading ferocity; selfish presidential reasoning; Springs cut Irises - dripping vital red not purple, far from my window; self-effacing prime ministerial decrees of war; sanctioned moves by greedy banker pawns; designer labelled terrorism; War, a game now called 'Texas Billionaires Commodity'; a countries paid survival; seeded maniacal jealousy; globalisation's murdering grandiose; grandiloquent made walking bombaster(s) ; revenger mob leaders; our taxed Fools World !? Globalisation - orchestrated profiteers, betting our losses*
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May 21, 2010
May 21, 2010 at 11:16 PM UTC
Monsters
I have read too many poems From those of you who want to die. I read the words, I hear your voice, Yes, I hear your desperate cry, I am torn and heart-sick at your plight; Yet, I have to ask you why? For when you close your eyes forever, The hurt and pain won’t go away, It crawls inside all those you love, Where it kills them every day. Were you jilted by a lover? Are you an addict, beaten down? Or is it that you don’t fit in On the ‘right’ side of the town? Does no one understand you? Or “It doesn’t matter anyway”, Because when you try to tell us, We listen not to what you say? No, I cannot feel the pain you bear But I understand it’s real Is there anything that I can do, To try and help you heal? Do you want someone to hold your hand? Do you want a shoulder for your tears? Do you want someone to scream at you? Or hold you tight and calm your fears? Do you need a teacher?  Or a coach? Or a banker for your debt? Do you want a job that’s interesting, Or any job that you can get? Do you want to make somebody proud? Or find someone to share your life? Or do you only want a yes-man To hand you the pills, give you the knife? You may say, “Shut up old man! – Don’t want to listen to your **** You’ve always had it easy, You always won, you never had to quit. You don’t have a ******* clue.” And you’re right I probably don’t But if you keep it all inside, No one will, and I sure won’t. Please seek some help, I beg of you You each have talents, and a heart There’s a remedy or cure somewhere For the pain that’s tearing you apart I’m not a doctor, or a shrink But I’ve seen suicide up close, It hurts and devastates the ones Who loved the victim most. Phil Lindsey  6/8/15                      **1-800-273-8255 **
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Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 8:14 PM UTC
Death by Self
I have read too many poems From those of you who want to die. I read the words, I hear your voice, Yes, I hear your desperate cry, I am torn and heart-sick at your plight; Yet, I have to ask you why? For when you close your eyes forever, The hurt and pain won’t go away, It crawls inside all those you love, Where it kills them every day. Were you jilted by a lover? Are you an addict, beaten down? Or is it that you don’t fit in On the ‘right’ side of the town? Does no one understand you? Or “It doesn’t matter anyway”, Because when you try to tell us, We listen not to what you say? No, I cannot feel the pain you bear But I understand it’s real Is there anything that I can do, To try and help you heal? Do you want someone to hold your hand? Do you want a shoulder for your tears? Do you want someone to scream at you? Or hold you tight and calm your fears? Do you need a teacher?  Or a coach? Or a banker for your debt? Do you want a job that’s interesting, Or any job that you can get? Do you want to make somebody proud? Or find someone to share your life? Or do you only want a yes-man To hand you the pills, give you the knife? You may say, “Shut up old man! – Don’t want to listen to your **** You’ve always had it easy, You always won, you never had to quit. You don’t have a ******* clue.” And you’re right I probably don’t But if you keep it all inside, No one will, and I sure won’t. Please seek some help, I beg of you You each have talents, and a heart There’s a remedy or cure somewhere For the pain that’s tearing you apart I’m not a doctor, or a shrink But I’ve seen suicide up close, It hurts and devastates the ones Who loved the victim most. Phil Lindsey  6/8/15                      **1-800-273-8255 **
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A perturbed philosoper perches precariously atop a pedestal, preaching in poetic prose of the pernicious pitfalls of man's avowal to avarice; as a braindead banker bellows "BUY BONDS!" and boasts boisterously of his brand new Bugatti.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 6:33 PM UTC
Alliteration #2
Every morning at 9 She puts on the banker's disguise puts her poetry in a sacred jar next to the ashes of her husband her dad her mom. She's a river of currents behind the smile darkly ****** phantasims fly and flower She not only carries the keys to the vaults, but also the keys to wisdom sublime She can see right through you when she wants to She can read your mind Smilies Metaphors Haikus Rap Manifestations of all that makes us human, These are the currents she rides while she files e-mails signs floats loans defaults default swaps The whole time she's got on John Prine's illegal smile She's watching secret movies inside she's alive. It took many years to learn to hide the images the colors thought dreams which flow inside - while in meetings behind her eyes flows the poetry from herself, she cannot hide. The commute ends The day ends She unscrews the sacred jar pen to paper the currency of poetry resurrected she comes alive, All disguises hide.
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Dec 12, 2015
Dec 12, 2015 at 10:28 AM UTC
The Banker's Disguise
your "friends" that we meet, i forget their names, my calloused palms are greased, by their  squeezing hands i remember one's a banker, or he could have said a thief, his ******** words were flanked, by my misbelief i was held hostage, you were a smiling drone, i remember when i lost to Stockholm Syndrome their Heirloom Suffix changes, on tuxedos and trust funds, my rental wears just fine, i'm not the danger shorting stocks on tuesday, while playing ball in hand, what a shame to lose me, busted seams this man I am not a banker, I am not a saint, I cannot to be trusted, I won't place the blame. I am not a proxy, I am an astronaut, But this distant world you live on, Is far from my plot
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May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018 at 9:04 PM UTC
Heirloom Suffix