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"behemoths" poems
The line didn't move, though there were not many people in it. In a half-hearted light the lone agent dealt patiently, noiselessly, endlessly with a large dazed family ranging from twin toddlers in strollers to an old lady in a bent wheelchair. Their baggage was all in cardboard boxes. The plane was delayed, the rumor went through the line. We shrugged, in our hopeless overcoats. Aviation had never seemed a very natural idea. Bored children floated with faces drained of blood. The girls in the tax-free shops stood frozen amid promises of a beautiful life abroad. Louis Armstrong sang in some upper corner, a trickle of ignored joy. Outside, in an unintelligible darkness that stretched to include the rubies of strip malls, winged behemoths prowled looking for the gates where they could bury their koala-bear noses and **** our dimming dynamos dry. Boys in floppy sweatshirts and backward hats slapped their feet ostentatiously while security attendants giggled and the voice of a misplaced angel melodiously parroted FAA regulations. Women in saris and kimonos dragged, as their penance, behind them toddlers clutching Occidental teddy bears, and chair legs screeched in the food court while ill-paid wraiths mopped circles of night into the motionless floor.
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Flight to Limbo
The great New York metropolitan stretching its  vibrancy trafficking its wears. Car horns combating in contemptuous arguments habituated eardrums unwittingly pulsating Great buildings upward; towering behemoths in grandiose splendor This great asphalt jungle sprawling its electricity for blocks, for miles The jazz of the city continues the chanting; the sounds of bass and the blowing of the **** sax, the horn, the piano and the drums drumming on its rhythmical beat Beating hearts feeling the vibrancy; the shock waves of nuances echoing the great hustle Multitude of voices singing praise to the different tongues; vibrant in diverse rejoicing, the poetry of men and women Metropolitans claiming the world condensing into small blocks and listening to its RHAPSODY.
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 7:29 AM UTC
VIBRANT HUSTLE A jazz-poem
A Few lines etched where no words give weight. Good riddance say the veterans Of a nation gone sour with grief Like a lemon slice evaporating onto the tongue of the sick. But when the young yearn for White Nights, The old claim they are blinding lights to the cold sugary substance That supplants an easy path. The bullithole rush of renewal and loneliness and progress thwarted and abandoned, Inertia seeping through Into a cold summer's day. Between the cursing slant of sleek paved roadstrips, And the burning briars that thresh the border's haunt, What is picture postcard emerald Is in that same instance soviet architect gray. These are the sleepers bereft of the dream whose twenty-five stories high or ghost estates are domes to cast out the howling banshees, those suffrage of the real to be re-thought as mere props which surround the haloed glowing screen. So sheen the Motherland glows in untarnished eyes Familiar solely with glass behemoths parading with their reflections In grey water-drizzled streets, Only to be replaced by iridescent rainbows that foster a hope. A hope that was packaged and sold two decades back Since it was not worth carrying into the New World. The water-trough falls to where the electric line banishes, connects a spike, "rejuvenate the breakfast table"-some far-off God reports, Hades still waiting, Intel-chip Blue, epiphany at the gates.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM UTC
Emerald and Scarlet as They Merge Into Grey
Partly darkened and part in light A time when the stars and sun shared the sky Bear witness to two behemoths wielding might Impending clash foreseen to go awry Two trains of thoughts charging from opposite ends Each bearing their own solid ideals Their flags that flew with conflicting brands Convictions they carry on beaten, weary wheels Almost an eternity, the time is soon Seconds lasted before they finally would meet Feeling of dread like the cloud covered moon With war cries of whistles, they would greet No possible way that they could miss War waged in steeled wills and forged metals Anticipate the moment, their couplings would kiss Unleashing a barrage of predestined reprisals Sheer destruction as they ate into each other All in tow haphazardly derailed A clash made of brute strength and power A result of when decisiveness had failed All was motionless save for the light of day The two lay dead; spent currencies in coal Fire and smoke had emerged from the fray Signifying that the two have met their goal Their cargo now freed, engaging in petty skirmish Lunging and wrestling as they fought for dominance Determination to overwhelm; never to languish Jousting fists fueled by pent-up vengeance Almost at end this long drawn battle Much like a storm to be patiently ridden out When the last of the debris should settle Then would be lifted the dusty veil of doubt The sun has now risen revealing the aftermath Shedding light on the devastation incurred Dark thoughts possess the most potent of wraths But nothing could beat the muscle of the written word Looking back I've realised the harm I've caused Found great solace in the dark words I've governed Life still hurls; it can never be paused Just dust yourself off for you're better off enlightened
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 5:14 AM UTC
Collision Course (III)
Partly darkened and part in light A time when the stars and sun shared the sky Bear witness to two behemoths wielding might Impending clash foreseen to go awry Two trains of thoughts charging from opposite ends Each bearing their own solid ideals Their flags that flew with conflicting brands Convictions they carry on beaten, weary wheels Almost an eternity, the time is soon Seconds lasted before they finally would meet Feeling of dread like the cloud covered moon With war cries of whistles, they would greet No possible way that they could miss War waged in steeled wills and forged metals Anticipate the moment, their couplings would kiss Unleashing a barrage of predestined reprisals Sheer destruction as they ate into each other All in tow haphazardly derailed A clash made of brute strength and power A result of when decisiveness had failed All was motionless save for the light of day The two lay dead; spent currencies in coal Fire and smoke had emerged from the fray Signifying that the two have met their goal Their cargo now freed, engaging in petty skirmish Lunging and wrestling as they fought for dominance Determination to overwhelm; never to languish Jousting fists fueled by pent-up vengeance Almost at end this long drawn battle Much like a storm to be patiently ridden out When the last of the debris should settle Then would be lifted the dusty veil of doubt The sun has now risen revealing the aftermath Shedding light on the devastation incurred Dark thoughts possess the most potent of wraths But nothing could beat the muscle of the written word Looking back I've realised the harm I've caused Found great solace in the dark words I've governed Life still hurls; it can never be paused Just dust yourself off for you're better off enlightened
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A Few lines etched where no words give weight. Good riddance say the veterans Of a nation gone sour with grief Like a lemon slice evaporating onto the tongue of the sick. But when the young yearn for White Nights, The old claim they are blinding lights to the cold sugary substance That supplants an easy path. The bullithole rush of renewal and lonliness and progress thwarted and abandoned, Inertia seeping through Into a cold summer's day. Between the cursing slant of sleek paved roadstrips, And the burning briars that thresh the border's haunt, What is picture postcard emerald Is in that same instance soviet architect gray. These are the sleepers bereft of the dream whose twenty-five stories high or ghost estates are domes to cast out the howling banshees,those suffrage of the real to be re-thought as mere props which surround the haloed glowing screen. So sheen the Motherland glows in untarnished eyes Familiar solely with glass behemoths parading with their reflections In grey water-drizzled streets, Only to be replaced by iridescent rainbows that foster a hope. A hope that was packaged and sold two decades back Since it was not worth carrying into the New World. The water-trough delving where the electric line banishes,connects a spike, "rejuvenate the breakfast table"-some far-off God reports, Hades still waiting, Intel-chip Blue, epiphany at the gates.
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Jun 12, 2012
Jun 12, 2012 at 5:24 AM UTC
Emerald and Scarlet As They Merge Into Grey
Near a town of history untold Where everyone knows each name Wooden behemoths - obliviously old Each unique but each the same It was meant to be a perfect day Of tranquility through the trees Instead, the sky is brood with grey And the leafs flow as they please Alone, in nature's splendor spilled In a rainy wilderness, seldom seen The birds and insects grow suddenly still In a spread silence of the green Like eyes embedded in your back You sense the stare of something sour The mood hurries to horrid black As you quiver into a cower In bending branches blended Creeping in creases - camouflaged Nature's imbalance to be amended In the forest's full mirage Witness a terror appearing Frantically floating from afar Emerged in echoes and vaguely veering Black, bleak and bizarre A malevolent, monstrous maw Snarls of hunger, habit, and hate A malodor of meat, reeking raw A violently increasing heart rate From frozen still to fearfully shaking You are manically mesmerised Your pupils promptly dilating As you and the beast lock eyes Your meaningless attempt to run From a stride to a collapse The beams above crown the sun As the twigs around you snap A soar of pain as you hit the ground Chest cavity cracked open As you faint, you hear the sound Of a language never spoken. Gutted and gargling gore Eaten by nature's nightmare Convulsing on a forest floor Indifference chokes the air It's just another perfect day Of tranquility in the trees The rain has stopped, the leafs still sway With the cooling, comfortable breeze
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Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018 at 3:46 PM UTC
A Perfect Day
Near a town of history untold Where everyone knows each name Wooden behemoths - obliviously old Each unique but each the same It was meant to be a perfect day Of tranquility through the trees Instead, the sky is brood with grey And the leafs flow as they please Alone, in nature's splendor spilled In a rainy wilderness, seldom seen The birds and insects grow suddenly still In a spread silence of the green Like eyes embedded in your back You sense the stare of something sour The mood hurries to horrid black As you quiver into a cower In bending branches blended Creeping in creases - camouflaged Nature's imbalance to be amended In the forest's full mirage Witness a terror appearing Frantically floating from afar Emerged in echoes and vaguely veering Black, bleak and bizarre A malevolent, monstrous maw Snarls of hunger, habit, and hate A malodor of meat, reeking raw A violently increasing heart rate From frozen still to fearfully shaking You are manically mesmerised Your pupils promptly dilating As you and the beast lock eyes Your meaningless attempt to run From a stride to a collapse The beams above crown the sun As the twigs around you snap A soar of pain as you hit the ground Chest cavity cracked open As you faint, you hear the sound Of a language never spoken. Gutted and gargling gore Eaten by nature's nightmare Convulsing on a forest floor Indifference chokes the air It's just another perfect day Of tranquility in the trees The rain has stopped, the leafs still sway With the cooling, comfortable breeze
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no bison on the menu at the Buffalo; this diner never served it   Big Mike, long gone named it for the high shelf   on the prairie behind it   where Lakota learned to stampede beasts over the edge, massacring hordes without bow or sweat the gully below, their forgotten bone yard, left little trace of them save half a skull Mike exhumed and hung on the wall in the time of polio before the wide whizzing interstates when truckers still landed on his dusty lot   their rolling behemoths content in pasture in a new millennium, the cafe highway is but an accidental detour; the shack guarded by thistles, long departed the Detroit steel the truckers now in the ground, their bones free from pillage, but the Cyclops on the wall remains, eyeing the vacant prairie they all once roamed
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May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 at 8:05 PM UTC
the Buffalo Cafe
By: Cedric McClester The first black president Must have made one hell of an impression On the man who followed him Directly in succession He seems to want to unravel Whatever is at his discretion In order to rob the legacy Of the man whose name means blessing He did his best to chase Obamacare away Without an adequate replacement To make its absence okay Now it’s gas emissions Being lowered by the EPA I guess fossil fuel behemoths Are sadly here to stay And on the international scene The man has been a wreck He left the Paris Climate Accord And gives our allies no respect Then ***** up to Vlad Putin A man of greater intellect And pulled out of the Iran Nuclear deal To spite Obama I suspect And when he can denigrate him He never misses a chance Much like a woman scorned Caught in a bad romance People are getting tired Of this dismal dance They can predict his moves Four moves in advance Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2018.  All rights reserved.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 3:08 PM UTC
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!
Flower beds in every nook was Bangalore's delight for long long years, even before the time Winston Churchill lived there as a young British soldier. Salubrious climate turned it then in to a pensioner's paradise, full of quiet tree lined streets. The one time cool "Garden city" one finds now with a new itch, in its mad rush to get hitched with the so called" flat world" every which way possible, it kills the symphony of colors, both willingly and otherwise; trees fall, monstrous flyovers rise, technological behemoths, which fast become dinosaurs as economic down turn hits hard, stand daunting us, adding green house gases now, its all kitsch and concrete **** everywhere.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 8:41 AM UTC
Bangalore's new itch
Cal-i-fornia (verb) the state of being golden. Can you see the way the sand sparkles on the shore? Golden shards of glass, or broken dreams. Who possesses the Midas touch now? The crushed gates of Atlantis on our shores. Aphroditic bronze goddess of the sea, Hair blown by the breeze. Sea air & salty & more than anyone could need, or was used to. Giant sequoias stand As mighty and proud protectors Behemoths of lifetimes past. Explosion of seeds inside Fireworks waiting to explode Pinecones, little grenades of life. Ghost towns reminiscent of the Wild West Mining camps from the Gold rush days. Tumbleweeds & reptiles & powder fine dust. Some say the earth is red from the natives’ blood spilt, and sunk in, Reality – Oxidation turns iron in the dirt to rust. So that’s why Mars is red. After a bad storm in San Diego Dollars lie broken & shattered on the shore A bankruptcy of marine proportions! Just go see for yourself, The sand dollar apocalypse. We were echinoderms too. Life gone dormant, and violent beginnings. As if Calliope’s harp needed to be retuned, Sun god, Apollo & Helios with his chariot in the sky When did we become so heliocentric? Solitary white cross on the hill. Never did anything to harm anyone, yet they fear you so Enough to try to remove you from our presence. Mount Soledad, or their SOLEs-are-DeAD. - You know San Onofre is a power plant right? - Radiation, is that a problem? - Only if you want to have kids or stay cancer free. - 25 foot sea wall -- To keep the waves out, or the kraken in? - 4,000 tons of nuclear waste, who’s gonna get rid of that? Ghostly tendrils of death Blown fifty miles down the coast. They call it SONGS, how quaint. A symphony of catastrophe. The greatest arias of death and destruction.
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 12:19 AM UTC
The State of Being Golden
Cal-i-fornia (verb) the state of being golden. Can you see the way the sand sparkles on the shore? Golden shards of glass, or broken dreams. Who possesses the Midas touch now? The crushed gates of Atlantis on our shores. Aphroditic bronze goddess of the sea, Hair blown by the breeze. Sea air & salty & more than anyone could need, or was used to. Giant sequoias stand As mighty and proud protectors Behemoths of lifetimes past. Explosion of seeds inside Fireworks waiting to explode Pinecones, little grenades of life. Ghost towns reminiscent of the Wild West Mining camps from the Gold rush days. Tumbleweeds & reptiles & powder fine dust. Some say the earth is red from the natives’ blood spilt, and sunk in, Reality – Oxidation turns iron in the dirt to rust. So that’s why Mars is red. After a bad storm in San Diego Dollars lie broken & shattered on the shore A bankruptcy of marine proportions! Just go see for yourself, The sand dollar apocalypse. We were echinoderms too. Life gone dormant, and violent beginnings. As if Calliope’s harp needed to be retuned, Sun god, Apollo & Helios with his chariot in the sky When did we become so heliocentric? Solitary white cross on the hill. Never did anything to harm anyone, yet they fear you so Enough to try to remove you from our presence. Mount Soledad, or their SOLEs-are-DeAD. - You know San Onofre is a power plant right? - Radiation, is that a problem? - Only if you want to have kids or stay cancer free. - 25 foot sea wall -- To keep the waves out, or the kraken in? - 4,000 tons of nuclear waste, who’s gonna get rid of that? Ghostly tendrils of death Blown fifty miles down the coast. They call it SONGS, how quaint. A symphony of catastrophe. The greatest arias of death and destruction.
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i. caren forgot about her morning.  caren forgot it was wednesday.  caren had an event and she was not there. caren is a shadow.  caren is an absence of space.  caren is a gap that people shy away from, women in black dresses sidestepping past her memory. caren is a woman with a streetcar.  caren is a woman with an office job.  caren is a woman with a social network.  caren goes to functions.  caren is no longer a function, but a product of her own actions. caren forgot herself. ii. shattered windshields. broken glass like triangle teeth. more monsters lurk in mirrors than in the recesses of the closet.  behemoths wait by water coolers, demons sit in sweaty three-by-fours.  the devil wears a motorcycle helmet and caren hasn't learned from her mistakes. iii. run a red light.  it's december and she's egging on the new year.  frosted features and blinkers hide hot flashes.  she's impatient for her age, a businesswoman at her best.   a shift in gear. a change in mood.  road rage, road rash.  a few words from a dark knight on a whinnying bike. iv. lane changes and unintentional nudges. motorcycle launches the devil like a dove to heaven. caren stays earthbound, blood spilled to nourish the ground.  fertilizer runs through her veins, and vampire trees in city parks drink it up. bystanders drink it up. v. caren is a casualty.  caren is the victim of her own habits. caren is a corpse in a coffin. caren is an elephant in the viewing room.   caren is to blame in eyes and minds. caren is condemned in whispers, but caren is lamented out loud, so caren is proud. caren got **** done.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 8:19 PM UTC
sinner
i. caren forgot about her morning.  caren forgot it was wednesday.  caren had an event and she was not there. caren is a shadow.  caren is an absence of space.  caren is a gap that people shy away from, women in black dresses sidestepping past her memory. caren is a woman with a streetcar.  caren is a woman with an office job.  caren is a woman with a social network.  caren goes to functions.  caren is no longer a function, but a product of her own actions. caren forgot herself. ii. shattered windshields. broken glass like triangle teeth. more monsters lurk in mirrors than in the recesses of the closet.  behemoths wait by water coolers, demons sit in sweaty three-by-fours.  the devil wears a motorcycle helmet and caren hasn't learned from her mistakes. iii. run a red light.  it's december and she's egging on the new year.  frosted features and blinkers hide hot flashes.  she's impatient for her age, a businesswoman at her best.   a shift in gear. a change in mood.  road rage, road rash.  a few words from a dark knight on a whinnying bike. iv. lane changes and unintentional nudges. motorcycle launches the devil like a dove to heaven. caren stays earthbound, blood spilled to nourish the ground.  fertilizer runs through her veins, and vampire trees in city parks drink it up. bystanders drink it up. v. caren is a casualty.  caren is the victim of her own habits. caren is a corpse in a coffin. caren is an elephant in the viewing room.   caren is to blame in eyes and minds. caren is condemned in whispers, but caren is lamented out loud, so caren is proud. caren got **** done.
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Sweat sweet with mid-day summer sun. Skin burns red to blister. It permits no resistance. Insistent on shining. Eyes squint for shadow. All to rare in this lonely atmosphere. Rarer breezes blow to tease relief, But all this provides for view beyond belief. The city erupts in the Sun's Rays. Reflecting infinite daily cloud-play off Glassy faced behemoths. Every ripple sparks diamond waves. And sometimes this place doesn't seem so bleak.
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 10:10 AM UTC
"June" A section of a string of poems written on a handrail on a bridge.
Have you heard the words spoken by the ocean, when the cliff tops call its name with disparaging diatribe? And how do you fare as the undulating waves tell tales of a million generations of fish? I sat there as the days wore on like so many jazz men beating holistic drums and blowing those crazy brass horns as if possessed by the demons of some ancient tribe way out in the Kalahari, masked by the illuminating stares of wonderment and the children in the darkened bar, silent, speculating. I see the waning wood through magnificent trees, behemoths in the dusk skies. I see the ground too, for it is stable and true. As true as one could attest to its objectivity, I often ponder the relevance of truth and whether the whole concept is but a twisted lie fed by the men before us. Quite cruel these thoughts, and barely worthy of the hours I waste. The ocean too speaks truth but its truth is one I have faith in. Sure as I am, sitting here, witnessing the waves as they mourn the changing sands and the rubble they sift, sure as I am, that the gently faltering ripples will retreat before attacking the shore once more. I am sure of these acts, as I am sure that I will die with laughter on my lips and a tear in my eye. Take your water and let it flow through the bodies of man, take it, take it and do good. Let those clear drops circulate and bring about true knowledge in one and all. Let your rocks fall to the ground, erosion of the city and decay of the populace. Let them fall with dignity, while we scream from the Atlantic and feel tumultuous waves of apathetic foreboding ripple into our skin and bring us to ****** These rocks in the sea, these rocks in you… and in me. Has the land seen distress like its inhabitants, or have they been the harbingers of such malcontent abuse to these fare isles? Have you, You, have you seen the sea when its tranquil repose turns to solemn spite at the ego of the cliff face? I have heard the ocean speak, and it told me to fall to its mercy and ebb into the unified conscious. Have you heard the words spoken by the ocean, or do you too stand with your back to the truth and one leg bowed cocksure over the top of some deteriorating construct?
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Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM UTC
With Softly Spoken Words and a Wandering Eye, The Tide Will Confide and Reveal Unto You The Truth
Have you heard the words spoken by the ocean, when the cliff tops call its name with disparaging diatribe? And how do you fare as the undulating waves tell tales of a million generations of fish? I sat there as the days wore on like so many jazz men beating holistic drums and blowing those crazy brass horns as if possessed by the demons of some ancient tribe way out in the Kalahari, masked by the illuminating stares of wonderment and the children in the darkened bar, silent, speculating. I see the waning wood through magnificent trees, behemoths in the dusk skies. I see the ground too, for it is stable and true. As true as one could attest to its objectivity, I often ponder the relevance of truth and whether the whole concept is but a twisted lie fed by the men before us. Quite cruel these thoughts, and barely worthy of the hours I waste. The ocean too speaks truth but its truth is one I have faith in. Sure as I am, sitting here, witnessing the waves as they mourn the changing sands and the rubble they sift, sure as I am, that the gently faltering ripples will retreat before attacking the shore once more. I am sure of these acts, as I am sure that I will die with laughter on my lips and a tear in my eye. Take your water and let it flow through the bodies of man, take it, take it and do good. Let those clear drops circulate and bring about true knowledge in one and all. Let your rocks fall to the ground, erosion of the city and decay of the populace. Let them fall with dignity, while we scream from the Atlantic and feel tumultuous waves of apathetic foreboding ripple into our skin and bring us to ****** These rocks in the sea, these rocks in you… and in me. Has the land seen distress like its inhabitants, or have they been the harbingers of such malcontent abuse to these fare isles? Have you, You, have you seen the sea when its tranquil repose turns to solemn spite at the ego of the cliff face? I have heard the ocean speak, and it told me to fall to its mercy and ebb into the unified conscious. Have you heard the words spoken by the ocean, or do you too stand with your back to the truth and one leg bowed cocksure over the top of some deteriorating construct?
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Henry says you can’t write poems about whales. It’s too obscure a metaphor, the biology of behemoths Is too exact. Too much science going on. I like whales. The smooth dorsal curves of their fat bodies Arching and twisting towards the depths, The salt spray of their powerful breath, And their positively massive hearts; They understand that they are great Yet there is something still more awesome than they. There’s more mystery and poetry to biology than people would like. Especially realists. Life isn’t straightforward and they hate it. We have some very basic, very general patterns that we follow, But they’re far too broad to say ‘always’ ever. Every rule, every law, has been or will be broken. And the world will keep on turning (until the day it doesn’t), And the whales will keep on swimming (until the day they don’t). Henry says you can’t write poetry about whales. I don’t like Henry very much. I think he’s wrong.
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Mar 28, 2012
Mar 28, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
Whales
Seen something move out the corner of my eye Can’t tell the difference between dreams and real life Maybe that’s why I got such unrealistic visions They tell me to create a real list of things I could be But I ainte a realist, because life’s too silly to sit around waiting for the reel to end They don’t see what I see These pupils are blood shot with conformity stuck up their rear ends They just live a broken hope smothered in icing, while I sit on the ledge My brains got no drive these days, see it flies eh, I’m livin’ on a flaming jet They keep asking me to flash my knowledge Maybe that’s why they call it a mind-set But hell, I only know ledge, never seen over the hedge Is the grass greener? I don’t know, I haven’t smoked it yet I felt high above but then life got plain and crashed into the edge Of the Earth And I rose again like smoke does when things get heated And I know the Earth isn’t flat, it’s got a nice set of behemoths Ones Mount Everest And then there’s me mounting every verse until I’ve fulfilled my thirst Eating creativity alive and only leaving behind the skeletons So when they pile up you can identify their behinds and come find me in my cabin Would you like to see my trophies mounted? Dates below from when they were founded? They weren’t found, they were downed And only a fool would mount’em I’d rather stack’em and climb’em like a mountain And prove I’m the chest of the world Look inside and find golden albums … What the **** that was a weird dream REM sleep sure knows how to deceive And it left me with such a cliff-hanger too Or should I say aircraft hangar To store my fly art in ‘er Feels like I was at a witch-craft banger I’m feelin cursed as I spell Feels like the devils got my voodoo doll Maybe that’s why I’m on fire I’m so tired my words tie together in red The line between my dreams and reality is ceasing to exist My two worlds dance, my thoughts prance and draw blood, in a beautiful dissonance It’s only when I’m half asleep that I’m truly awake to my passionate presence Insomnia is a curse and a blessing
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 12:47 AM UTC
Night Terrors
Seen something move out the corner of my eye Can’t tell the difference between dreams and real life Maybe that’s why I got such unrealistic visions They tell me to create a real list of things I could be But I ainte a realist, because life’s too silly to sit around waiting for the reel to end They don’t see what I see These pupils are blood shot with conformity stuck up their rear ends They just live a broken hope smothered in icing, while I sit on the ledge My brains got no drive these days, see it flies eh, I’m livin’ on a flaming jet They keep asking me to flash my knowledge Maybe that’s why they call it a mind-set But hell, I only know ledge, never seen over the hedge Is the grass greener? I don’t know, I haven’t smoked it yet I felt high above but then life got plain and crashed into the edge Of the Earth And I rose again like smoke does when things get heated And I know the Earth isn’t flat, it’s got a nice set of behemoths Ones Mount Everest And then there’s me mounting every verse until I’ve fulfilled my thirst Eating creativity alive and only leaving behind the skeletons So when they pile up you can identify their behinds and come find me in my cabin Would you like to see my trophies mounted? Dates below from when they were founded? They weren’t found, they were downed And only a fool would mount’em I’d rather stack’em and climb’em like a mountain And prove I’m the chest of the world Look inside and find golden albums … What the **** that was a weird dream REM sleep sure knows how to deceive And it left me with such a cliff-hanger too Or should I say aircraft hangar To store my fly art in ‘er Feels like I was at a witch-craft banger I’m feelin cursed as I spell Feels like the devils got my voodoo doll Maybe that’s why I’m on fire I’m so tired my words tie together in red The line between my dreams and reality is ceasing to exist My two worlds dance, my thoughts prance and draw blood, in a beautiful dissonance It’s only when I’m half asleep that I’m truly awake to my passionate presence Insomnia is a curse and a blessing
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A bold pirate vanquished King Phillip’s hapless galleons, bathed himself in gold peso coins manic fingers feverishly caressing the lucre. Mindless with greed he sailed into rough waters where great whales watched as gales ripped the grommets that held the cords that secured the sails and the great sheets collapsed like canvas shrouds. Still the pirate caressed each coin ignoring the rogue waves oblivious to the grand schools of whales gathering around. Singing in chorus the great behemoths mused patient in their knowing man’s treasure destiny is always on the floor of the deep ocean. The captain sank with his ship his pockets laden with lustrous gold and his silk shirt billowed in the current like a flag announcing his descent to a place where he could not breathe and nothing could be bought and the whales slaps their flukes on the water’s surface in thunderclaps of applause.
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May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013 at 7:08 AM UTC
GOLD AT THE BOTTOM
what we fear as death is just decor. victorian, french country, industrial, rustic; doesn't matter. the bones are the same. some people expire smiling in neon pink plastic lawnchairs or pierce the veil ******** themselves on dove-grey french provincial settees from the 18th century. we have numbed ourselves in our endless pursuit of complexity; walked off the precipice of that final ecstatic unraveling while wide-eyed and trembling at the sight of aesthetics, as cheap as they are fleeting. we must garder à l'esprit that it all burns to ash, singular in characteristic, that is scattered by winds indifferent to any distinguishable feature in the many beliefs twisted into the teeth of sleeping behemoths dreaming of feasts they had yet to awaken to. it, what we fear, is shapeless. the absence of all accumulated delusion, confusion, or fluid lucidity. ancient. a non-locality that is the total sum of the All collapsing in on it's most basic components also collapsing in on...elsewhere? i'm done. please, come and sit. tell me how you like your tea?
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
all dark but the parlour
My aglets are wearing thin from the miles crossed by the traversing of my soul rivers run in valleys unseen and unheard of from the cockpit of horseless carriages fair Columbia boasts of beauty untold ancient Gaia all the more Psyche prevails topography of the mind vast and uncharted with room for leviathans and behemoths lurking in the recesses of our soul my aglet is wearing thin Jupiter can never measure Neptune can never fathom nor Hades bind the content of my character I have perceived mysteries unheard before a quarter past awake from slumber your aglet is wearing thin
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Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011 at 8:28 PM UTC
Aglets
On the beach waves collide with the shore, coming from above and slamming down battering the sand. As the ocean retreats back into itself it claws the beach and rips away its skin. Clouds huddle together and through sheer mass, hue black. Screams bellows and the pummeling sound of behemoths in disrest. Tiny daggers drop from the riot, denting the crust, softening it. And finally the sand is pierced by the feet of a hundred stampeding tourists, failing to outrun the bullets of a ****** in a rage.
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Jan 31, 2010
Jan 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM UTC
Punching Sand
Jim socks and honestly I bet a bigger better bag of eat and oh maybe I'll say excuse me tonight a la mode and or load in the shorts so the courts find me guilty I'm filthy. I'm famous for **** **** me off **** my hands send me off like a band of behemoths. A squeamish man is-not-a-man or a mammal malice towards a camel lake ocean and babbling brook Anne Frank handled it well Academically Flu epidemic. Lee Harvey Oswald. Waldo Donde estas? Where's your dad? Is he happy? For you I'll adaptively choose to be tactical Lisa is moaning for you.
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 10:24 PM UTC
soup soup soup
She’s a dimple and a drag, corner of Worth and Magpie, French Vogue idioms and her mother’s red flowery hoop earrings. Aloha! Aloha! Oopty-oops in contract loot thru streets and backyard parties, concrete larders, her eyes lie like presidential promises, a slipknot of licorice around her neckline to keep her rising tide from the Menarche Moon. Anything to keep the little penny featherweight dancer from slipping. Her siblings poke fun at her funny way of speaking, her bath tub is just an excuse for chiseling at her innards, taking a drag at her lungs and punching her duck-billed platypus in the kidneys; a heavy-weight champion of the worm. That until all the saints come writhing off the fishing lines. Until the ballerina’s edema coexists with Tokyo extremists, serial killer behemoths that keep body parts and *** toys in the freezer. Here, here! Wrath goes to the fella with the wicked demeanor. In an area of limited sight, this country, it’s people are sickened at the sights of themselves, and the wackos are coming out in large swaths, minerals and dimples strapped to their waist belts in the throes of a menopausal demagogue heaving OxyContin down El Camino Real.
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Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 4:34 PM UTC
Bell Pepper B.M. & People’s Republic of ****
Behemoths of stone Surround us as we huddle close The chill whips at our backs Our numb bodies our the only hope of warmth Still we labor on As they are running wholly fearful Of the sleeping giant waking To find a world in disrepair They took it all away Our electricity and heat The drone’s of the established Corrupted aristocracy
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Oct 29, 2011
Oct 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM UTC
Protest
The poetry It has spilled Like the blood of a great massacre And it has diluted To a near transparent film Over the 21st century Over Miley Cyrus' *** Over grotesquely distorted salaries It lingers in the grey concrete behemoths of utilitarian cities It's on your cat It's in your parents hair It's in Angela Merkells teeth And this omnipresent film That only few can see Is evaporating into a backdrop incandescent beauty It's vaporising into an intoxicating nectar It's what slavery was to the blues Or the reconstructions of war to bauhaus Or what the crusades were to the renaissance So twerk on Miley Your artlessness Makes art stronger by the day
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 5:24 PM UTC
Untitled
Might the years have betrayed me? Not that I didn't know her but her lights knew not the catches of my eye-- mighty concrete behemoths of mid nineteen hundred something littered my view in quaint newness while myriads of roaring metal beasts not without their own masters lunged forward in a sea of people... Mockup shops and street food scents nudged my wallet into sharing a little folded bill of blue, all while market clamour played next to the banter lining the streets. Alas! More than a humble string of words nailed on a poem the night hence are needed to line her canopy of neon lights a masterful description capable of nesting all that was there in a neat lingering thought!
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Mar 31, 2023
Mar 31, 2023 at 8:40 AM UTC
In the Heart of the City
Beautiful bearings of broken bonds Bound, bewildered and bitter. Break backs of blind behemoths Being better, beating backlash Booming boldness, and bombs Brains battle blighted beast Bribery brews boiling blood Building bastions buried by bombs Brought by belief, but betrayal beckoned Bastille bells burdened by beheadings Behold beginnings birth bloom.
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM UTC
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