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"bobs" poems
I say I live as a burden, My mouth sealed shut. So that I may not utter the words, Of my weighted thoughts. These truths weigh a ton, And I've far too many for just one head. For even mine. My head bobs to my shoulder, Weakened necks can't hold this. Now I'm shaking, Trembling. Because I gave you the rocks, The stones that broke my neck. And you are fading, Drifting all at once. Give me your boulders, And we will be even. Give me your mountains, So I can rest easy. My burdenous brain Broken neck Heavy thoughts I never meant to break your neck too
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 12:04 AM UTC
Burden girl
Found myself at a dental clinic... He was the best there was. Unorthodox and eccentric, But to the specialised craft, he was boss. Ran through the bits and bobs Like any normally would. The poking and prodding and the mandible X-rays. Everything cold and clinical, so was the mood. Strange was what happened next... Specialist and I then stood facing each other. He leaned close and pressed his palms against my rib cage. Held them there over a few breaths before it was over. Then a brief chat, small talk initiated by the man. Bespectacled and exceedingly chatty, small in stature. Talks of politics and odd human behaviours... What started off as friendly turned into a heated banter. I then realised that along with his decorated credentials, Was his propensity to be condescending and arrogant. Him being the best, I thought I could let it all slide, But soon enough I opted out of being a willing participant. Couldn't stand his abrasive cockiness! I snapped out of being cordial and passive thought. I wanted him to just stop talking! I went, "Well, are you going to fix my teeth or not?!" He was stunned momentarily... I suppose he hadn't seen that coming. Then his features softened to a blank I could almost read the unspoken words he was conjuring. With an exasperated sigh of resignation, He uttered his next words swollen with regret "There's no need...for you only have four years left." It dawned upon me that my timer has been set. And then I woke up...
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 2:21 PM UTC
Strange Dream
the other day we were in a bookstore in the mall and my woman said, "look, there's Bob!" "I don't know him," I said. "we had dinner with him not too long ago," she said. "all right," I said, "let's get out of here." Bob was a clerk in the store and his back was to us. my woman yelled, "hello, Bob!" Bob turned and smiled, waved. my woman waved back. I nodded at Bob, a very delicate blushing fellow. (Bob, that is.) outside my woman asked, "don't you remember him?" "no." "he came over with Ella. re- member Ella?" "no." my woman remembers everything. I don't understand it, although I suppose it's polite to remember names and faces I just can't do it I don't want to carry all those Bobs and Ellas and Jacks and Marions and Darlenes around in my mind. eating and drinking with them is difficult en- ough. to attempt to recall them at will is an affront to my well- being. that they remember me is bad enough.
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Bob
the urban ecosystem breeds the urban beast; the two-legged feral brute they board their clockwork motorcages the young ones in predatious packs the old, too weathered to care animal autonomy born from sweatshop routines i imagine myself as a metropolitan jane goodall observing and assimilating taking note of the cacophony of hoots and and hollers the city-born mating calls the high-topped courtship dances ******* civility born from enslaved mindsets a young, dark-skinned boy let's rhyme flow freeformed to the rhythm of a young girls dancing feet stomps and claps excite the celebration of abandoned social etiquette and of my foreign presence i resemble some exotic missing link a mix of this, that and the other my skin, a rare quilt and this draws more attention than a gold-dusted african queen i place myself in the back peering through the windows of this transit jungle feeling my heart skip beats boom...boom...shhhh... i must've left my rhythm in my other heritage because i can't catch the ancient flow but my neck leads my head in bobs my brain rattles with old soul memories and i see these young folks on the train held back by centuries of black struggle but forever rejoicing in african pulse forever embodying our ancestoral pride and i think, how peculiar on the outside looking in like a fishbowl exiled from my own brown-skinned tribe with my oppression fitted like a glove my blackness a mere disguise my blackness camouflage my blackness not quite black enough
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Feb 1, 2012
Feb 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM UTC
Transit Jungle
the urban ecosystem breeds the urban beast; the two-legged feral brute they board their clockwork motorcages the young ones in predatious packs the old, too weathered to care animal autonomy born from sweatshop routines i imagine myself as a metropolitan jane goodall observing and assimilating taking note of the cacophony of hoots and and hollers the city-born mating calls the high-topped courtship dances ******* civility born from enslaved mindsets a young, dark-skinned boy let's rhyme flow freeformed to the rhythm of a young girls dancing feet stomps and claps excite the celebration of abandoned social etiquette and of my foreign presence i resemble some exotic missing link a mix of this, that and the other my skin, a rare quilt and this draws more attention than a gold-dusted african queen i place myself in the back peering through the windows of this transit jungle feeling my heart skip beats boom...boom...shhhh... i must've left my rhythm in my other heritage because i can't catch the ancient flow but my neck leads my head in bobs my brain rattles with old soul memories and i see these young folks on the train held back by centuries of black struggle but forever rejoicing in african pulse forever embodying our ancestoral pride and i think, how peculiar on the outside looking in like a fishbowl exiled from my own brown-skinned tribe with my oppression fitted like a glove my blackness a mere disguise my blackness camouflage my blackness not quite black enough
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The flickering lamp in your hand sways as if to swim in peace to me the lily scenting a warm ponder ripples from the apple of my eye and bobs across to bid approach blooming with a soft absorbing sigh which enters an essence close to reach Your touch colludes in a light lashed usher enticed to where my heart will sing of finding lithe spirit mute from flesh I slide into choral waters with longing for the wonder of a parting life wish Drumming soft as butterfly strokes swishing in the night so close and so remote she could vanish into poppy fields at any moment but will never leave my sight fluttering I swim onward.. I swim out..
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM UTC
The Lady with the Lamp
I notice the tiny pulse of frustration in the back of his neck I notice the way that he sighs and slumps over I notice how his elbows splay out so his face bobs lightly over his desk A buoy dancing over a wave I notice the way he glances at his friends before he answers I notice the way he shapes his mouth into a grin before he speaks I notice how his eyes squint a little when he laughs I notice how they dull when he doesn’t want to listen I notice how his shoulders hunch when refuses to hear I notice the boredom in the lines of his back as he considers I notice the way his leg jiggles as he bounces his foot lightly The ever-present dichotomy of professionalism fighting immaturity Of a thirst to learn, fighting against ignorance, justice calling I notice this inner battle of boyish nonchalance and masculine defensiveness I notice how his eyes dart lightly over his chosen comrades before he writes again I notice the way he presses his forehead into his hand As though he could pull ideas out And read his thoughts printed back on his palm I notice the consistent rubbing against his face with his fingers Phalanges to stimulate the thought process I notice the hesitation before his pen scratches the page Piercing the paper with words he must call his own I notice the claim of responsibility and the toll it takes on his physique I notice the fatigue of struggling to create To feel, to create, to feel, to feel I notice, throughout all the time I’ve been noticing him He has not noticed me once
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Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
On the Cremation of My Classmate
I notice the tiny pulse of frustration in the back of his neck I notice the way that he sighs and slumps over I notice how his elbows splay out so his face bobs lightly over his desk A buoy dancing over a wave I notice the way he glances at his friends before he answers I notice the way he shapes his mouth into a grin before he speaks I notice how his eyes squint a little when he laughs I notice how they dull when he doesn’t want to listen I notice how his shoulders hunch when refuses to hear I notice the boredom in the lines of his back as he considers I notice the way his leg jiggles as he bounces his foot lightly The ever-present dichotomy of professionalism fighting immaturity Of a thirst to learn, fighting against ignorance, justice calling I notice this inner battle of boyish nonchalance and masculine defensiveness I notice how his eyes dart lightly over his chosen comrades before he writes again I notice the way he presses his forehead into his hand As though he could pull ideas out And read his thoughts printed back on his palm I notice the consistent rubbing against his face with his fingers Phalanges to stimulate the thought process I notice the hesitation before his pen scratches the page Piercing the paper with words he must call his own I notice the claim of responsibility and the toll it takes on his physique I notice the fatigue of struggling to create To feel, to create, to feel, to feel I notice, throughout all the time I’ve been noticing him He has not noticed me once
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∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ Promenade of Colors reality ought to fade watermarks on evening lake the Lad idling was awake Torments of Agony the fear of ambiguity a broidery of epitaph toiling the stars up the top Free of Delusions impassive feelings strut to the unknown that fogs and hems over the mutt Dashes of Silver passing vessels of desolate coxswain sighting out for love moon bobs from the lake Willows of Empathy humming of Mississippi -a friend that greets the lake gave its peace Signs of Eve the breeze whispered a wisp of eyes uncluttered the Lad unshackled Artistry of Sky as spirits begins to fly I was full astound my purpose, now I found
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Aug 20, 2017
Aug 20, 2017 at 11:04 AM UTC
The Lad On The Lake
i live in a ******** so boring tractors roam the streets in the usual traffic, but i found that you can wizen up to a title of wizard by finding inanimate things entertaining and thought provoking, because the internet will not become the next scapegoat of goldfish memory - not the next box of entertainment - it will be what god’s green earth indented. out here, where you’re far from trafalgar sq. you get crows circling back to the origin of the woods with odin on the lyre venting out against too much pigeon **** coo coo of the attired men and women marking karma with the no. 13 and being ******* on from on high, you get seagulls, even, seagulls so far into dry land... imagine! and you get the autistic zoning in of the cat’s eye, those cats are very autistic, their eyes tell the sad sad story of encapsulated solipsism - snap your fingers or meow and they look at you passing you looking at some randomised point of entering their sleeping pattern - very autistic those cats, they look at you almost cross-eyed when you try to snap them out of it - out of it being: ****** off at being awake. very autistic those cats, those cats are very autistic, they look at you looking past you, looking almost cross-eyed - don’t blame me for the zigzag or the w! so as i said, it’s so boring where i live you see tractors and crows, and the only solidification of your presence is either provided for by an addiction to television eager for the flicker - or drinking... watching bricks, thinking bits and bobs out for the torrent of slavic plumbers building the great ****** of london. lo... upon the yonder... there it blooms ******* i like places where trees tower over man's handing man brick on brick - makes the sky a bit bigger and less asthmatic.
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Oct 6, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
cats autistic
i live in a ******** so boring tractors roam the streets in the usual traffic, but i found that you can wizen up to a title of wizard by finding inanimate things entertaining and thought provoking, because the internet will not become the next scapegoat of goldfish memory - not the next box of entertainment - it will be what god’s green earth indented. out here, where you’re far from trafalgar sq. you get crows circling back to the origin of the woods with odin on the lyre venting out against too much pigeon **** coo coo of the attired men and women marking karma with the no. 13 and being ******* on from on high, you get seagulls, even, seagulls so far into dry land... imagine! and you get the autistic zoning in of the cat’s eye, those cats are very autistic, their eyes tell the sad sad story of encapsulated solipsism - snap your fingers or meow and they look at you passing you looking at some randomised point of entering their sleeping pattern - very autistic those cats, they look at you almost cross-eyed when you try to snap them out of it - out of it being: ****** off at being awake. very autistic those cats, those cats are very autistic, they look at you looking past you, looking almost cross-eyed - don’t blame me for the zigzag or the w! so as i said, it’s so boring where i live you see tractors and crows, and the only solidification of your presence is either provided for by an addiction to television eager for the flicker - or drinking... watching bricks, thinking bits and bobs out for the torrent of slavic plumbers building the great ****** of london. lo... upon the yonder... there it blooms ******* i like places where trees tower over man's handing man brick on brick - makes the sky a bit bigger and less asthmatic.
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Ko Ko to Go Go a prelude to a kiss dance with Chubby Checker lift a slo gin fizz Head bobs to Be Bop flip the B Side now mellowtune in monotone two ears for stereo wow! Wonderment of Duke and Miles swinging kool birthin boplicity urban crush the hipsters rush jazz joints cross the city Firery sax emote a clash strain ears of credulity Lester leaps creative heat nips harden on my ******* Max taps exotic wax Django's quick pickin finger snaps flip my lid lips deliciously sippin Eurozone a Zen zone a blue infinitive smokin big peeps dig don pink wigs fat spliffs hot token My new suede shoes walks west end blues Pop's cornet got me tippin his open blast first to last I like cornbread, barbecue and fine home jazz cookin jbm Oakland 3/12/10
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Nov 6, 2011
Nov 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM UTC
I Like Jazz
The crew of ****** all hide their own secret loneliness. At every port the deserted dance halls beckon, and there they dance with familiar ghosts. At twelve midnight sharp the spirits disappear along with the tuxedoed band and the music dies leaving red white and blue tinsel, miniature plastic flags, and balloons that glide and bounce to a solitary, prolonged note. The sailors cease spinning and their arms drop to their sides. They drown in bottles of *** in search of solace. They rarely find barely a taste. And so, in frustration they fight and draw first and last bloods. Now, in scuffed shoes and torn clothes, with damaged pride, they stagger arm in arm back to ship. The water laps and licks it’s tongue like a cat at cream and the crew whisper breath rings in the chilly air. Master Chief Petty matron mother waits on deck, rolling pin in hand, kicking backsides into cabins. The ship bobs and dips in rhythm to sailors heaving snoring chests, and there they sleep, fly catching open mouthed, hugging their pillows in desert island dreams. Copyright Marc Hawkins 2009
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Sep 11, 2017
Sep 11, 2017 at 3:24 PM UTC
AB
This looks very strange to me. I am from the Island, And... You never see it. This blue sky spreads a beautiful Calmness amongst everyone and everything. The birds chirp, the people do their gardening And speak nice things about their neighbours. And yet, In the corner of a dark room, There I sit. Alone. Alone and angry. The path has split and cracked And I stagger with drunken fury. All the way home. This endless rage burns, And burns through my words. But at who? What for? The sea is dark, blue and empty. The ship bobs in the churning water, As one man pulls endlessly at fishnets, But vultures circle above waiting for him to starve. GRAHAM MURPHY
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 7:31 PM UTC
Sailors
Choruses of songbirds lift my eyelids for the fourth time since five. The harmonies tenderly resonate in my ears Singing me to life Purity where I house guilt, the songbirds spout glorious praise, Honestly awake when I lie still it is no wonder I hide from the light. With a beautiful song, he bobs through the light that he wears on his wings Unafraid to be heard and no reason to fear for he is not broken, for he has not sinned. The songbirds sing me to wake And I soberly stare at the shadows of trees where they perch so fleetingly, and I long to sing in the innocence of morning.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
Morning Songbirds
The loneliest librarian is in the heart of darkness I saw him, old, bearded on three sides book cases on the open side, a desk he faces outward into the darkness drawing notes at their best. Look away! in the distance an army and her generals gather Up ahead, a conqueror metal jangles, saddles horse Cries the pony boy: I miss my mother let me go back what does this all mean? Studying now, the librarian, notes in check, own pen scratching, no metals only and only his mind and an ink-filled well Spearhead, arrowhead formation a king and his khanate lean forward into the permafrost, snow lashing wind blows against but cannot stop fierce wild will and only the willows weep Cries the pony boy: Radically, may I be afraid of the dead, arms asunder so much love! so much love! what does this all mean? And far, far ahead of this army librarian sits, silently loving nothing, everything beside him he scribbles notes A love letter? tiresome if so upon closer inspection... At the center of the dark dark forest where a lonely man rides in his kayak lantern fixed upon a frame, making his boat top-heavy he bobs back and forth across his body of water he is haunted he is lonely he is a skeleton Now grand general crosses the Styx Ice clumps brushing gently against his ships cold enough to **** a horse, set blood aglow with blue, so cold it could not rot. To valley forge! to valley forge to forge a future. And pony boy cries: What does it mean? my father is gone, gone before this war, he once said, it must be, be, Did he mean... Finally, up ahead, the librarian draws untraceable lines, he knows the army is at his door lonely, shaking, only the conqueror made it and he is almost dead too. Scared, sacredly, he finally hands the librarian his match and sobs, softly, under breath "Time, time is, time without, time too starts anew."
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 12:42 AM UTC
Between the Lines
The loneliest librarian is in the heart of darkness I saw him, old, bearded on three sides book cases on the open side, a desk he faces outward into the darkness drawing notes at their best. Look away! in the distance an army and her generals gather Up ahead, a conqueror metal jangles, saddles horse Cries the pony boy: I miss my mother let me go back what does this all mean? Studying now, the librarian, notes in check, own pen scratching, no metals only and only his mind and an ink-filled well Spearhead, arrowhead formation a king and his khanate lean forward into the permafrost, snow lashing wind blows against but cannot stop fierce wild will and only the willows weep Cries the pony boy: Radically, may I be afraid of the dead, arms asunder so much love! so much love! what does this all mean? And far, far ahead of this army librarian sits, silently loving nothing, everything beside him he scribbles notes A love letter? tiresome if so upon closer inspection... At the center of the dark dark forest where a lonely man rides in his kayak lantern fixed upon a frame, making his boat top-heavy he bobs back and forth across his body of water he is haunted he is lonely he is a skeleton Now grand general crosses the Styx Ice clumps brushing gently against his ships cold enough to **** a horse, set blood aglow with blue, so cold it could not rot. To valley forge! to valley forge to forge a future. And pony boy cries: What does it mean? my father is gone, gone before this war, he once said, it must be, be, Did he mean... Finally, up ahead, the librarian draws untraceable lines, he knows the army is at his door lonely, shaking, only the conqueror made it and he is almost dead too. Scared, sacredly, he finally hands the librarian his match and sobs, softly, under breath "Time, time is, time without, time too starts anew."
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bobs his head to a swinging beat donning that same purple sweater as we shake the music room walls with each jazz-infused note
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 4:32 AM UTC
Mr. Symer
A worst-case-scenario mentality Breeds emotional nightmares of what-ifs Methodically feeling the pain in each possibility Preparing for Hell, knowing it is impractical, improbable, and unkind Each reaction gauged Smiles erupt in each better choice A familiar road traveled often Lead only by a history of pain It ebbs and flows, bobs and weaves at will This reality is organized, easy to understand Random thought of an unlikely, unfathomable future **Vivid like a film Unwavering, persistent There is no control**ling its outcome Forced to watch the images forged in a broken mind Tears burn flesh and a naked heart bleeds Stop rolling, just...stop No amount of pleading slows the images The pain is overwhelming Far beyond self-inflicted, torturous, methodical thoughts Uncontrollable, inconsolable True and real So very real There is but one way to stop that future The one shown in visions of just deserts The future that smolders through present joy Preemptive pain is just not an option I've seen the future my heart has built **The shards of a shattered soul Offer no comfort** My worst-case-scenario was but a benign freckle on the elbow of a body invaded by metastatic melanoma
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 5:00 AM UTC
My Cancerous Soul (or Premonitions, Predestination, Psychosis, and me) spoken word
അ**  Getting closer, to the just bloomed flower that bewitched him in an instant, the honey bee gets intoxicated by the web  of love, the sweet flower threw around, it felt more like a gentle caress to which his heart jumped! He  starts to do an ecstatic dance, never thought he could, till this sweet moment arrived, merely touching her soft petals he flies high as if to proclaim his pleasure buzzing a new tune he composed for this special moment, he circles the flower as if to adore her beauty form all possible angles making the moments of love so special for them both.. ആ** A butterfly enchanted by the flower,next has a dance of love so different, he would flit around and hover above adore her beauty in a more relaxed pace, he appreciates her silence to his soft declarations, his love songs have no words, on air written by the sprightly moves of his colorful wings, he knows she loves it and his dance tells it all. Like a kite on the waves of wind, he bobs on air gently descending,looking at her eyes. ഇ**  The tailor bird who never misses mother nature's children all,big and small, in their myriad ways of loving and living watches what's going on, without batting an eye lid, she has a doubt "Who among these   lovers are more intense?" she thinks aloud.** ഈ** The sonorous singer, Bulbul watching it all from the hanging branch of a Champak, flowered in riotous profusion answers: ഉ   "Both are poets, no doubt, of  distinction too, each of their deeds spontaneous demonstrates, with hearts full of love they wave poetry around us in ways ingenious paired with flowers. why compare them? Mother nature's brush dexterous paints each one of us with such loving care  and kindness to infuse celebratory spirit,to the world, never forget that,learn from the bees and butterflies."*
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 12:07 AM UTC
Nature paints her poetry around us
അ**  Getting closer, to the just bloomed flower that bewitched him in an instant, the honey bee gets intoxicated by the web  of love, the sweet flower threw around, it felt more like a gentle caress to which his heart jumped! He  starts to do an ecstatic dance, never thought he could, till this sweet moment arrived, merely touching her soft petals he flies high as if to proclaim his pleasure buzzing a new tune he composed for this special moment, he circles the flower as if to adore her beauty form all possible angles making the moments of love so special for them both.. ആ** A butterfly enchanted by the flower,next has a dance of love so different, he would flit around and hover above adore her beauty in a more relaxed pace, he appreciates her silence to his soft declarations, his love songs have no words, on air written by the sprightly moves of his colorful wings, he knows she loves it and his dance tells it all. Like a kite on the waves of wind, he bobs on air gently descending,looking at her eyes. ഇ**  The tailor bird who never misses mother nature's children all,big and small, in their myriad ways of loving and living watches what's going on, without batting an eye lid, she has a doubt "Who among these   lovers are more intense?" she thinks aloud.** ഈ** The sonorous singer, Bulbul watching it all from the hanging branch of a Champak, flowered in riotous profusion answers: ഉ   "Both are poets, no doubt, of  distinction too, each of their deeds spontaneous demonstrates, with hearts full of love they wave poetry around us in ways ingenious paired with flowers. why compare them? Mother nature's brush dexterous paints each one of us with such loving care  and kindness to infuse celebratory spirit,to the world, never forget that,learn from the bees and butterflies."*
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crammed in corrals hissing whispers of escape and hoping their size and shade captivates the next sticky-fingered cart rider mother's mind so mobbed and arms so grocery-laden that the ribbed and loosely coiled ribbon remains unknotted, unbowed to slip from pudgy-fingered grips the orb bobs and sways– laughing, helium-high as it makes its getaway unknowingly following Icarus to a solar ****** that is, if beak or plane doesn't reach it first POP! shattered and tattered, irreparable it plummets back to earth its noose still dangling from its neck
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM UTC
Balloons
The lotus bobs to the current's cursive, a snow sud residue tracing atop listless riverwater. When it brushes against my ankles a petal splits like a broken letter, your goodbye. There was so much left unsaid.
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM UTC
Lotus
Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** The moment I laid eyes on you I knew it was true love You were sharing a root beer float with your friends Down at the soda shop I looked debonair in my Pompadour You cute in your poodle skirt I took out my comb to slick down the sides As you smiled, giggled, and twirled I asked if you'd like to go out Just you and me on a date I picked you up at seven o'clock In my 56' Chevrolet Your father gave me a stern look Your mother a gleam in her eye He asked where we were going Why to church sir, I said with a smile Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** I took you to the drive in Bobs Burgers and Late Night Shakes Afterwards we both went dancing At the Hop just down the street You had my heart all in a flutter As we slowed danced all night It was then I knew for certain That I would make you my lovely wife I got you home way past your curfew Your dads silhouette by the front door You said I can't go back to that I pressed the peddle to the floor So here we are these many years later Me as your husband you as my wife With our grand kids playing about our feet Thinking back to that fateful night Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, ***
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Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 7:58 AM UTC
A 50's Poem
“that’s a Simpson’s sky,” you say, pointing to the fluff strewn across the highway sky, I smile and nod, concentrating on the music we’re driving to Cornwall in the curb lane, pointedly avoiding what’s uppermost, halfway there from Toronto “driving makes me think,” I think to myself and turn up the volume on Buddha Bar III and talking fades into the rearview mirror black Firebird, racing stripes, eager to pass me I hold steady – he should know how to use the passing lane! he bobs and weaves and nips at my fender it washes in waves over you so palpably I feel it crash on my shoulder - your father passed away yesterday rolling the window down slightly, you light a cigarette I roll down mine and light up, too our ritual – one feeding off the other we’re driving to Cornwall, to family, to mother, alone now among children “what will you say to her?” I ask you silently we’re driving to Cornwall towards loss, towards hope with a black Firebird close behind I move the wheel slightly to avoid a can of Pepsi rolling in the lane the rear-view mirror catches the firebird deliberately swerve to hit it and exlode its contents in a little puff of vapour - highway music bonaventure saptel
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Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM UTC
Driving to Cornwall
Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 1:14 AM UTC
Spanish Guitars
Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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Once I knew a place, a place I never truly found significant. A vast stretch of abandonment and history - long forgotten and left to be consumed by Time himself. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly understood. Decorated by Mother Nature with an asortment of trees and shrubs and an abundance of flowers it's only scar which betrayed it to the present was a solitary man-made structure, tattoed with the bold letters of "FALCON SECURITY" - surely an untold testimony to this place's past life. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly acknowledged. Ocassionally it would become the temporary haven of hobbos and hermits alike. Living in mutual homelessness they sort comfort under the trees, in the confines of the hideous building or simply amongst the long, billowing grass of the place. They would build thingie-ma-jigs, what-ja-ma-call-its and thing-a-ma-bobs and sell them to the curt passerbys of their place. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly appreciated. Surrounded by infastructure, and industry it stood out like a rose amongst the thorns and brought beauty and clarity back into the otherwise monotonous, morbid environment. It stood defiant and strong against the hungry, salivating greed of humanity - yet someday it was bound to succumb to our over-powering ambition for development. Once I knew a place, a place that no longer exists. In the blink of an eye that place was destroyed - uprooted and upheaveled. Every tree, every shrub, every flower ripped out and now gone. No longer a haven but a grave yard where the dead lay scattered like fallen soldiers across the battlefield. Victims against the War of Industrialisation they fell prey to mans' heinous desires. "Collateral damage" for a "brighter" future they say. I say, who needs another vehicle retail outlet. Once I knew a place, and I will never know that place again.
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 4:14 PM UTC
collateral damage
Once I knew a place, a place I never truly found significant. A vast stretch of abandonment and history - long forgotten and left to be consumed by Time himself. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly understood. Decorated by Mother Nature with an asortment of trees and shrubs and an abundance of flowers it's only scar which betrayed it to the present was a solitary man-made structure, tattoed with the bold letters of "FALCON SECURITY" - surely an untold testimony to this place's past life. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly acknowledged. Ocassionally it would become the temporary haven of hobbos and hermits alike. Living in mutual homelessness they sort comfort under the trees, in the confines of the hideous building or simply amongst the long, billowing grass of the place. They would build thingie-ma-jigs, what-ja-ma-call-its and thing-a-ma-bobs and sell them to the curt passerbys of their place. Once I knew a place, a place I never truly appreciated. Surrounded by infastructure, and industry it stood out like a rose amongst the thorns and brought beauty and clarity back into the otherwise monotonous, morbid environment. It stood defiant and strong against the hungry, salivating greed of humanity - yet someday it was bound to succumb to our over-powering ambition for development. Once I knew a place, a place that no longer exists. In the blink of an eye that place was destroyed - uprooted and upheaveled. Every tree, every shrub, every flower ripped out and now gone. No longer a haven but a grave yard where the dead lay scattered like fallen soldiers across the battlefield. Victims against the War of Industrialisation they fell prey to mans' heinous desires. "Collateral damage" for a "brighter" future they say. I say, who needs another vehicle retail outlet. Once I knew a place, and I will never know that place again.
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The Blue Falcon, cross the spire, Waits in the gables of the white House. Wounded in youth by crush Of air, spent, a wisp perched In the aerie dark with a view of mountains Blue as ice under glacier. The wooden Church from the other side clutches The sky but the Falcon blue is lost In a tuft of cloud that bobs but never Kills. On this strike he is sheathed in stealth The dull talons slip as they dry In the tented air, the songbirds at play In the high-ground underneath warble And chide but the Falcon cannot hear The Falcon near. His heart is soft And muted in the breast, his ears Are dumb to their tickling-songs. Before the Falcons time, over The tilling fields, dropped his world In the spoils where splendour burst in green, Rain meant the feathers ran and the woods, A banquet of game, were bounty's breach Fording blue currents he was A fisher in the sun, but the sun Sank in his drowning sky no store From plateau to quarry the drought of days Moved a castle felled in the dancing Dust, his wings broke in the shuttered Eye of the sun and etched his form Into grey silhouette. Now, the Blue Falcon, jeered In the branches of the rooted air Above the yellowed grass, under the pines And a great blue mountain, stirs a Druid Shape, vaporous, in the cauldron Of the attic in the white house A throw of stones crossways from The sacred yews of the steeple spire.
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Oct 13, 2013
Oct 13, 2013 at 1:06 PM UTC
The Blue Falcon
Stuffed in every drawer Just in case. Carrier bags, hundreds in every available space. She says they will come in handy They never ever do, do they? "Keep it, it will come in" the usual things she will say. Candles, that is another one If we never had electricity again We would survive, I am absolutely certain. We have more tins of beans and packets of dried up peas If I ate those I'd have enough wind to keep us going for years. Oh and the secret drawer full of old coins, beer tops and springs. You never know, you know when you want bits and bobs and things. But old supermarket bags, The elderly save them in case In case of what I'd like to know There are bags all over the place.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 8:21 AM UTC
Supermarket Bags