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"brassy" poems
In Nero’s private stage, Disaster was His audience. Rome mimics fallen Troy in play. What was reflected in Nero’s eyes when he sang of the swirling patterns of fire? When Rome was caught burning; When conspiring led to its fall. Fire engulfed Rome with fiery teeth. The clouds hide or faint into black smoke. The skies bleed heavily with rust Its brassy color mixing with the *** of burning seas, like oceans melting Could you not feel the sun’s weight? Now it is incomparable to Molten seas and softened lead! Blood spilt from sea-point, waves wallow the cries Of the fallen. Like a bellowing sound marching Against caverns of ears, Copper soldiers Melt into clouds oozing with emotion, Shattering their now empty metal hearts, Hollow hearts that outlive the muteness. It is awakened when Spark and light is absent. (Paolo Jerome D. Cristobal / June 26, 2009 - Alabang)
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 7:09 AM UTC
In Neros private stage
This is winter, this is night, small love -- A sort of black horsehair, A rough, dumb country stuff Steeled with the sheen Of what green stars can make it to our gate. I hold you on my arm. It is very late. The dull bells tongue the hour. The mirror floats us at one candle power. This is the fluid in which we meet each other, This haloey radiance that seems to breathe And lets our shadows wither Only to blow Them huge again, violent giants on the wall. One match scratch makes you real. At first the candle will not bloom at all -- It snuffs its bud To almost nothing, to a dull blue dud. I hold my breath until you creak to life, Balled hedgehog, Small and cross. The yellow knife Grows tall. You clutch your bars. My singing makes you roar. I rock you like a boat Across the Indian carpet, the cold floor, While the brass man Kneels, back bent, as best he can Hefting his white pillar with the light That keeps the sky at bay, The sack of black! It is everywhere, tight, tight! He is yours, the little brassy Atlas -- Poor heirloom, all you have, At his heels a pile of five brass cannonballs, No child, no wife. Five ***** Five bright brass ***** To juggle with, my love, when the sky falls.
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By Candlelight
My caressing hands have stopped trying to tame the strings. They move now more to harmony than to melodious things. Brassy bands, drunk sailors and the sound of laughter. The D string, the rough bar-stool clamp and clatter. The sound of voices, raucous and hoarse with song. The sound of voices, laughing as they all yell along. It's a barstool anthem; It's great and it's loud. There're no classics here... but Bach would be proud.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 9:16 PM UTC
Fiddles and Violins
At the money table, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, And neither one cares how you’ll pay as long as it is not a check, Brassy appendages obversely curl to abruptly angular truncated legs-upon-his-lek, And the proof of who he represents hangs weightily about his Plouton neck, See the cotton-wafer stacks shuffled as bricks in rows to the translucent deck, The waiver now giving its woe whence once wished-for upon the Great Molech? Mr. crooked hook-nose at his compose will take on any bet, As Sheol will have it, many lament, being in his debt, A Canaan cursed and tribal descendant, the relative of Set. For with misery and suffering well you get what you beget!
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 3:42 PM UTC
The Gamble
Precious Metals She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. She’s got a smile that turns me upside down, Inside out and every which way And I hope I’ll get to see that smile Every morning, every new day. When she laughs the world’s ecstatic When she’s angry they look out, Cause she’s precious metals all mixed up And here’s what she’s about: She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. She’s got a dynamite body that’ll knock you out Sometimes she says things without thinkin’ And she likes a good martini, So she’s fun to take out drinkin’. She sets her goals and standards high, Not afraid to chase her dreams She’s precious metals all mixed up And this is how she seems: She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. Yeah, She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. PwL 12/06
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 1:17 AM UTC
Precious Metals
Precious Metals She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. She’s got a smile that turns me upside down, Inside out and every which way And I hope I’ll get to see that smile Every morning, every new day. When she laughs the world’s ecstatic When she’s angry they look out, Cause she’s precious metals all mixed up And here’s what she’s about: She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. She’s got a dynamite body that’ll knock you out Sometimes she says things without thinkin’ And she likes a good martini, So she’s fun to take out drinkin’. She sets her goals and standards high, Not afraid to chase her dreams She’s precious metals all mixed up And this is how she seems: She’s got steel-blue eyes and an iron will A lead-foot when she’s driving A silver tongue but she never lies, Brassy bold when she’s conniving. She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. Yeah, She’s precious metals all mixed up And I’ll love her till she’s old…. Cause the precious metal I love best Is her heart made out of gold. PwL 12/06
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With the frailty of a butterfly Books for warmth, fading out like old photographs Antique white skin Brassy bloodied cheeks A swarm of dragonflies laces my face Ancestry nightfall, ghosts of the drowned Faded gnarled patchwork, eating away my  mind Limbs of the tree growing out of me Divided from everyone else Inside the pinwheel blindfolded    Wading through hours and days A slave to this disease It's the only one that I breathe
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Nov 10, 2018
Nov 10, 2018 at 12:56 AM UTC
Antiqued Disease
It's that time again. When rangey youth in wounded utes are sent to pick up tin. Eyes peeled for shiny mangled bikes and steely bits of thing. I want to see the crucible they put it in. Behold the pearly metallurgic mess unfold. A gleaming steaming mass of brassy storm So cooked and cooled and coaxed and clicked and jewelled into mercurial form Then moulded bright and fine once more. This is the Copper loop of life we mine. Eternal Circulated Alchemy Divine.
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 2:30 AM UTC
Metallurgic Circle
Amber drips from the 60’s-style lamps on two end tables. Brassy-orange and bulbous, they illuminate the tangled tracks. The light spills onto the floor like heavy freight abandoning its car. It spawns the locomotive shadow cast by my grandmother’s sunken-in couch. I nestle myself snug between the pillows, dense and flattened by years of Sundays. Sundays that bring my father close to his brother, not a brother at all. I peer over the edge and heave a hushed “all aboard.” Grandma sleeps to unwind the day’s knot of exhaustion. Each bone-bleach white fiber frays from the chemotherapy that robs her gnarled hands of their strength. This one-way ticket marks the end of a journey of a once well-oiled machine. The exhales of a CSX spout its peppery breath out in opaque puffs. I am a conductor, tearing the ticket of tonight’s traveler. Rising to my bare feet now, I sink into the cushion like wet sand. The train thrusts and in a single bound, I leap from the ledge and leave my lone passenger. The cars whir and hum alongside me. Deafening metallic wind rusts the edge of the rug. I’m still waiting for her return, and in denial that it was her last train.
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Sep 23, 2013
Sep 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM UTC
Couch Conductor
I All all and all the dry worlds lever, Stage of the ice, the solid ocean, All from the oil, the pound of lava. City of spring, the governed flower, Turns in the earth that turns the ashen Towns around on a wheel of fire. How now my flesh, my naked fellow, Dug of the sea, the glanded morrow, Worm in the scalp, the staked and fallow. All all and all, the corpse's lover, Skinny as sin, the foaming marrow, All of the flesh, the dry worlds lever. II Fear not the waking world, my mortal, Fear not the flat, synthetic blood, Nor the heart in the ribbing metal. Fear not the tread, the seeded milling, The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade, Nor the flint in the lover's mauling. Man of my flesh, the jawbone riven, Know now the flesh's lock and vice, And the cage for the scythe-eyed raver. Know, O my bone, the jointed lever, Fear not the screws that turn the voice, And the face to the driven lover. III All all and all the dry worlds couple, Ghost with her ghost, contagious man With the womb of his shapeless people. All that shapes from the caul and suckle, Stroke of mechanical flesh on mine, Square in these worlds the mortal circle. Flower, flower the people's fusion, O light in zenith, the coupled bud, And the flame in the flesh's vision. Out of the sea, the drive of oil, Socket and grave, the brassy blood, Flower, flower, all all and all.
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All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever
I have developed a twitch in my body-brain. It jerks at my organs and my violet thoughts. I can control it to make it work, Use it to dance on your rusted metal cogs. It's like a spinning tree, With interwinding pine cones of Gold that hang from satin branches He is perched up there again! Tall and proud. Not a bird like other animals. Not an animal like other animals. I know your most shameful thoughts, Let me tease out the guilt and despair Pull it out in worm string from your Bloodied Guts, Your gilded towers where you lock them away Shame on you. Bell chimes three times: Death call But blue tears still cling like sharp thorns to brassy plumage plumes plumes plumes Frère Jaques, Frère Jaques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Slumber not next to the satin tree, Layered under the shrieks of your old loves Where they suffer timeless tortures that make your tongue Taste like fish feed. Poppy breathed inside his beak-jaw, mongrel! White faeces stain the satin branches again. Bloodied, bloodied, bloodied. Pandora makes you bleed White faeces. Leech, your brain is a leech-vampire. White faeces. Quick, walk around the tree three times in clockwise motions, Not like a tick-tock more like the flap of a wing. Do not forget the tear ink, Her tears were ink, they were ink, ink, ink, ink. Sink into the poppy field! Churn in your toxic nutrition Choke on your reflux Do not taste. Do not see. Do not smell. Do not touch.
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 6:08 PM UTC
Ink
SUMMER MARCHES IN (Movement no. 1) It comes crashing down like doom. A martial fanfare begins a long conversation questioning fate, arguing for the human condition, and for death's open invitation, which we dare not deny. WHAT THE MEADOW FLOWERS TELL ME (Movement no. 2) Their blooming voices are oboes and lush violins. The sun is surely brassy bright in the sky above. Radiant alpine flowers and woodwinds from deep within their burrows make the case for a music well tended and serenely fed by sweet springs emerging from the depths here below. WHAT THE CREATURES OF THE FOREST TELL ME (Movement no. 3) The life force tends to run amok. Yet things do not fall apart, the center still holds. And though it is mundane - pedestrian, at times - we cannot deny the joy in this life, nor do we wish to. But know, traveler, that submerged in every caldron of joy is a small *** of darkness. And it will find you or you will find it - not only because it is fated, but for the sake of your sanity. WHAT MAN TELLS ME (Movement no. 4) Here darkness sings. Again the plucked string. O Mensch! You tell the tale! You take this story back to the mountain. A woeful tale you bring, but it is gilded with joy. A chorus exalts your condition. Deep is its grief, but joy is deeper still. WHAT THE ANGELS TELL ME (Movement no. 5) Bimm Bamm Bimm Bamm the children's choir sweetly intones. And what, pray tell, do Angels have to say to us? I've heard about love I've heard about emptiness I've heard about absence without presence, about nothingness and the void. But I have never heard such singing! WHAT LOVE TELLS ME (Movement no. 6) Sweet the air we breathe. Pleasant the sights before us. Words are stilled, anxious thoughts banished. There is nothing on Earth or in Heaven that disputes this sweet resolution all the parts made whole Nothing that could possibly speak against it (though French Horns will have their interests heard). But here it is. The end. O Mensch come to your last and best resting place. Also sprach Gustav Mahler.
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 9:19 PM UTC
Mahler's Third Symphony
SUMMER MARCHES IN (Movement no. 1) It comes crashing down like doom. A martial fanfare begins a long conversation questioning fate, arguing for the human condition, and for death's open invitation, which we dare not deny. WHAT THE MEADOW FLOWERS TELL ME (Movement no. 2) Their blooming voices are oboes and lush violins. The sun is surely brassy bright in the sky above. Radiant alpine flowers and woodwinds from deep within their burrows make the case for a music well tended and serenely fed by sweet springs emerging from the depths here below. WHAT THE CREATURES OF THE FOREST TELL ME (Movement no. 3) The life force tends to run amok. Yet things do not fall apart, the center still holds. And though it is mundane - pedestrian, at times - we cannot deny the joy in this life, nor do we wish to. But know, traveler, that submerged in every caldron of joy is a small *** of darkness. And it will find you or you will find it - not only because it is fated, but for the sake of your sanity. WHAT MAN TELLS ME (Movement no. 4) Here darkness sings. Again the plucked string. O Mensch! You tell the tale! You take this story back to the mountain. A woeful tale you bring, but it is gilded with joy. A chorus exalts your condition. Deep is its grief, but joy is deeper still. WHAT THE ANGELS TELL ME (Movement no. 5) Bimm Bamm Bimm Bamm the children's choir sweetly intones. And what, pray tell, do Angels have to say to us? I've heard about love I've heard about emptiness I've heard about absence without presence, about nothingness and the void. But I have never heard such singing! WHAT LOVE TELLS ME (Movement no. 6) Sweet the air we breathe. Pleasant the sights before us. Words are stilled, anxious thoughts banished. There is nothing on Earth or in Heaven that disputes this sweet resolution all the parts made whole Nothing that could possibly speak against it (though French Horns will have their interests heard). But here it is. The end. O Mensch come to your last and best resting place. Also sprach Gustav Mahler.
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Don't discard mismatched pieces of your life Let your colors speak proudly whisper pinks brassy reds gritty blacks and soulful sapphires Live wisely but love foolishly Kiss morning dew Smell golden sunshine Drink summer breezes Embrace the heavens Inhale ocean depths and exhale life Until each piece of your life is stitched with tender memories to warm loved ones on cold winter nights
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Nov 21, 2011
Nov 21, 2011 at 2:59 PM UTC
Patchwork Quilt
My grandfather's not dead but you act like he is the way you tiptoe around the closed oak door way you whisper in a scratchy voice when you talk about the future way you pop in your set of pearly whites and bare your teeth too easily when he asks you for a glass of water and your brassy trumpet tells him of course, dear, are you feeling okay? You think that I've caught on and know better than to trade him secrets beneath the cracked door to your bedroom like copper pennies for freedom and that I don't remember him throwing diving sticks at the bottom of the pool then snatching them up and waving them above his head far from my six-year-old reach or when sitting upon his knee as a child I would pick at the edges of the sepia photos as he traced the veins of our family back to seventy-second great-aunts and royalty I help you count the red pills as I recall my favorite hiding place (your fireplace) and you shake your head and scold me that was an awful place to hide what if there had been cinders? I tell you we live in Texas and tuck my wishes back into my pocket and mention that Granddad thought it was a fantastic place to visit and that I would sit there for hours and pretend I was a phoenix from the old mythology books in the musty back of your closet You laugh as you slip him his pills you can't possibly remember that But I remember and I insist on discussing college while he's in the room his wrinkly eyes smile when I plot out my dreams and he knows that I know but I keep our secret anyway you simper at my mother oh, isn't she precious hopeful and hoping a cure will be found but you don't realize I've already discovered it: Pretend like nothing has happened Don't let them see the ticking hours on the mantelpiece As long as we know that we're not older beneath these transcripts and chemotherapies the real world doesn't matter not really, not at all My grandfather's alive even if you think he isn't but he is and he's sitting in your drawing room so why don't you pop by for a visit? we're only pretending, anyway.
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Aug 8, 2010
Aug 8, 2010 at 8:33 PM UTC
copper pennies
My grandfather's not dead but you act like he is the way you tiptoe around the closed oak door way you whisper in a scratchy voice when you talk about the future way you pop in your set of pearly whites and bare your teeth too easily when he asks you for a glass of water and your brassy trumpet tells him of course, dear, are you feeling okay? You think that I've caught on and know better than to trade him secrets beneath the cracked door to your bedroom like copper pennies for freedom and that I don't remember him throwing diving sticks at the bottom of the pool then snatching them up and waving them above his head far from my six-year-old reach or when sitting upon his knee as a child I would pick at the edges of the sepia photos as he traced the veins of our family back to seventy-second great-aunts and royalty I help you count the red pills as I recall my favorite hiding place (your fireplace) and you shake your head and scold me that was an awful place to hide what if there had been cinders? I tell you we live in Texas and tuck my wishes back into my pocket and mention that Granddad thought it was a fantastic place to visit and that I would sit there for hours and pretend I was a phoenix from the old mythology books in the musty back of your closet You laugh as you slip him his pills you can't possibly remember that But I remember and I insist on discussing college while he's in the room his wrinkly eyes smile when I plot out my dreams and he knows that I know but I keep our secret anyway you simper at my mother oh, isn't she precious hopeful and hoping a cure will be found but you don't realize I've already discovered it: Pretend like nothing has happened Don't let them see the ticking hours on the mantelpiece As long as we know that we're not older beneath these transcripts and chemotherapies the real world doesn't matter not really, not at all My grandfather's alive even if you think he isn't but he is and he's sitting in your drawing room so why don't you pop by for a visit? we're only pretending, anyway.
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I have an old farmhouse inside my chest, wooden siding rotten in places and windows fractured from too many winters, the roof of which sags near the chimney-- faint smoke-clouds rising, and a light glowing yellow inside the kitchen, a beckoning invitation into the faded blue walls full with portraits of four--my mother, father, and little sister--brassy frames hung close together above the wooden table, nicks and scratches connecting each placemat like dots of the coloring book page left magnet-stuck to the refrigerator. The countertops have grown dusty. fruit-bowl collecting gnats and mold, but the zinnias over the sink flourish, replaced daily and blooming red as the teakettle rusting on the only remaining stove-top burner, the others broken, tossed into the garbage beside the back door, which leads to a forest-- rib-like oaks bent and bowed over the farmhouse, ivy vines coiled ‘round each trunk, stretching limb to limb, weaving webs tangled as the unruly branches from which they hang, caressing the slumped rooftop as if to remind the battered, tired building how, despite everything, the hearth still smolders.
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 9:18 PM UTC
Foundations
We marvel at the smell of the white clover. It is a baked in smell right now, the heat is oppressive, crushing The smell of the clover, and this cigarette are the only reason we’re out here. Smarter, healthier people are inside, in the air-conditioning, nursing a beer or a lemonade, watching whatever might be on HBO. Returning to our respective homes, we rejoin their much more comfortable ranks. (I’m curious what’s on HBO anyway.) When the need for nicotine rises again; cigarette in hand, opening the door, seeing the pavement has darkened with rain. The smell of the clover has been muted, replaced with the brassy, metallic breeze that rises like steam from the hot driveway, lingering under the nose like a warm childhood sip from the spigot. That steam has its own odor, rich and febrile, rising from the superheated surfaces of our cars. It smells like squirt-gun suicide, a child’s drink from the barrel of plastic ordinance. (Do you remember doing that?   I do.) How terrifying that must’ve been to parents; to see their children, in swimwear or skivvies, ******* on the end of a gun. Perhaps they gave it less of a thought than I do now. I’d wager they were inside, in the air-conditioning, nursing a beer or a lemonade, watching whatever might be on HBO. Out of the early summer heat. *** -JBClaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2016
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Jun 26, 2016
Jun 26, 2016 at 10:48 AM UTC
White Clover, Cigarettes, and HBO
The priest puts his trust In martyrs and miracles Clutching his rosary and his celibacy To his bursting breast And humanity walks Through a series of cages Every day The ***** puts her trust In bordellos and bodies Clutching her money and her condoms To her brassy breast And humanity walks Through a series of cages Every day The lawyer puts his trust In regulations and rules Clutching his charters and his decrees To his dusty breast And humanity walks Through a series of cages Every day We each put our trust In roles and rituals Clutching convention and convenience To our timid ******* So humanity continues to walk Through a series of self-made cages Every day By Phil Roberts
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May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 4:25 AM UTC
EVERYDAY CAGES
His hair is poofed, 8 out of ten Teeth polished soft white Back is naired, nails all clipped Underwear still clean He is bouncy and blathy A brassy baritone rips across the set Co-anchor all Xanaxed and blonded Can’t feel her glowing red mouth About to show their favourite clips Starving umber skinned babies Distended bellies, chopstick arms Fly clouded eyes, light fading Mothers with vacant grey faces Collapsed buildings, bodies sprawled Terrified animals dying Video Head man turns to the camera Mouths the teleprompter tales Without meaning Can’t feel his heartbeat He’s thinking about his ********* Of 17 year old Crack babes locked in his suite ‘N Just as he starts to get jazzed up The lights go down and he knows He knows He’s just a digital clown FFFTTT… The electrons are gone. Songs of the Illustrated Zombies 2010
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Nov 10, 2011
Nov 10, 2011 at 5:04 PM UTC
Video Head
explore the forest of my eyes understand my bones study my body all my brassy undertones surf through my skin where the ocean ripple like an overflowing river and you've had more than a tipple learn all my head like I'm your mother tongue as though you're addicted to venom and you've just been stung
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May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM UTC
Mother Tongue
cobwebbed coffee mind, my cacophonous current, oh, rusty heart you have played too long, again to fall down the rabbit hole in search of that brassy circumference that governs your life and every breath that escapes your lips propelled into the deep, dilation of your synaptic being.
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Feb 7, 2012
Feb 7, 2012 at 12:26 AM UTC
espresso tock
I spilled open my heart Dug a blade through bone to find you Blood and fury spilled out and I screamed your name into the dark Brassy glow of the light in the next room Reflected off the burgundy Pooling around my toes I splashed it aside Searched for your name But the thick hot mess Started to disappear Vision blurred And finally I saw your name But it wasn't within me And frankly It never was I spilled for you and now I'm through No goodbye Just empty and alone
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 7:34 PM UTC
A note to everyone and no one
I watched him hop down the cobbled streets that young brassy robin of mine, I wanted to keep with his wings all a fluttering he cheeped his voice called his freedom, that one day all will repeat To see him dance by the Vale Green pond to see with his beak, did a worm he pronged some sorrow it will be and some joy when I have to say goodbye to my boy I had found him in the gutter all muddy and tattered I stayed with him day and night just so death he could fight My heart is so full of joy beating so hard ,I fear of it stopping for it's all for him to be free as I bid farewell to my little **** robin By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris By NeonSolaris © 2013 NeonSolaris (All rights reserved)
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Sep 21, 2013
Sep 21, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
My Little **** Robin
This glass with a stem, filled with brassy liquid, sloshing It's sweating and dripping down the stem I imagine a summer day--opposed to a late fall evening Where this sweating would be more appropriate. I lift the glass after wiping away the condensation and tip it elegantly to my lips. I imagine the glass slipping from my hands and shattering on the floor... I cringe. The wine is sweet and feels like a headache, It warms my throat and stomach. I look at it in the light and drink again, finishing it. I will drink five more glasses then run home downhill. I will wake with aches and bruises and a ****** lip. I will cry for the mistakes i have made, although i had a blast making them. But right now i am enjoying the second glass, and the shape of it. I can feel a pimple on my chin, and then i can feel the warmth and rush of DRUNK I stand up after glass 3 and fall into the bathroom door. I crash on the toilet and laugh at the cold porcelain. I fall after glass 4 and knock over a chair. I pick it up quickly and ask for glass number 5. I don't remember drink number 6, but the pains in my body say it was not worth remembering.
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 6:11 PM UTC
Wine will whisk you wayward
My mother likes to hang bells On the front door, And I always wondered What they were for. They would jingle Whenever someone made entry, and glitter With the light from the lamppost On the street. But they became dull Hanging all day, And the giggling clatter Mulled and dulled to a brassy bray. Mom has a small wedding bell Of a silver boy Holding flowers With a smiling grin. He’s asking her to ring him And bring back memories. But father’s guitar glistens Whilst the sun lays low. With one pluck The vibration hums Smooth and mellow. But can you hear it Sitting on the steps? This house is so large But there still lays unrest. And through The corridor Clacks the patter Of greyed canine feet. But some of us Lay silent And reap the past From the sounds That do dare speak. the living room clock Drones with That of a distant chime, Because the living arrangements Have changed overtime.
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
Doorbells
Wasp addendum More than out of and Quote the finality, well to avoid... A sting that churched a brassy man Wasp substantial Adding the heed, of couth and comparison Does a reach for time, understand arousal? Quiet time searching for youth, that knows the question... Wasp divine Kiss and kindred, the tools of solemn tone? Enchastened with a host, too cursory to be orders vision We hear the spoil of the wind, become a new loan Wasp merciful Craving a thought, to tell a tale kept By the unity we foresaw, a heard bliss still... Was a chance meeting with a yearning fate, bereft? Wasp earthen Where souls intertwine, the taste of home Is a careful wish, foreseen in the earning? Or should might, take the time to intend guidance as done? Wasp witnesses The tow of commonness, in the voice of salutations Memory served, the break of justice in a winds shade Here to fore, timidity is a challenge, for a truer intuition...
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May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023 at 9:29 PM UTC
Marvel With Speed, And Patiences Will Come...
What would it be to be a soldierTo seek the God of war,To make your mind a death machineTo long for peace no more.To make your sinew hard as ironYour muscle ripcord tough,To bend your thinking mercy freeYour soul enshrined in rough.Conformity in dress attireMeticulous black shine,The gun oil on your sidearmThat rigid stance in line.The taughtness when you march en massThe crunch of boots on stone,The flash of steel with bayonet thrustThat splash of blood on bone. Your hatred for the enemyA lust for ****** war,Abhorrence for a personal styleJust compliance with the corps.The stare that sees a thousand yardsThe spines are ramrod straight,The disciplined magnificenceThe Corps d’Esprit is great! Afghanistan & GazaMogadishu and TehranThe terror strips are globalAnd they’re hell for beast and man.To imagine you’ll enjoy yourselfIs madness to extreme.If you’ve seen a man's face liquefyIn a flailing shrapnel stream.If you’ve felt the fear of God nearbyWhen tribals mount a charge,With the shriek of “Allah Ahkbar”And the stench of death at large. “See The World”, the poster said“Free Training for a Trade”,Develop stiffness in your spineWith the army you’ll be made.Comradeship, companionshipIs the essence of the force,A fast, pack march of twenty clicksAnd chanting till you’re hoarse.The Sergeant kicks your backsideThe corporal licks your boots,Lieutenant has you dodging leadWhist digging trenching routes.The Major trims his moustacheThe General drives right past,Dismissing all the riffraffWho are well beneath his class. This-is-the-Army All khaki and brassy shine,You get to brandish riflesAnd wear berets when in line.So pull that chin in soldierKeep the thumbs straight when you march,Or we’ll have you peeling spuds or worse,...We’ll ream your young white **** You wanted to be manlyYou longed to make your mark,You signed up to be countedNow you're Army, hard and stark.So give it all you’ve got young manBend your back and be a knave,the alternative is purgatoryEngulfed, consumed, enslaved.Now you're in for the durationMake the most of what you’ve gotOr they’ll Court Marshal you tomorrowAnd with pageantry.. YOU'LL BE SHOT!MarshalgMangere Bridge27th April 2008
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Feb 26, 2010
Feb 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM UTC
The Recruit
What would it be to be a soldierTo seek the God of war,To make your mind a death machineTo long for peace no more.To make your sinew hard as ironYour muscle ripcord tough,To bend your thinking mercy freeYour soul enshrined in rough.Conformity in dress attireMeticulous black shine,The gun oil on your sidearmThat rigid stance in line.The taughtness when you march en massThe crunch of boots on stone,The flash of steel with bayonet thrustThat splash of blood on bone. Your hatred for the enemyA lust for ****** war,Abhorrence for a personal styleJust compliance with the corps.The stare that sees a thousand yardsThe spines are ramrod straight,The disciplined magnificenceThe Corps d’Esprit is great! Afghanistan & GazaMogadishu and TehranThe terror strips are globalAnd they’re hell for beast and man.To imagine you’ll enjoy yourselfIs madness to extreme.If you’ve seen a man's face liquefyIn a flailing shrapnel stream.If you’ve felt the fear of God nearbyWhen tribals mount a charge,With the shriek of “Allah Ahkbar”And the stench of death at large. “See The World”, the poster said“Free Training for a Trade”,Develop stiffness in your spineWith the army you’ll be made.Comradeship, companionshipIs the essence of the force,A fast, pack march of twenty clicksAnd chanting till you’re hoarse.The Sergeant kicks your backsideThe corporal licks your boots,Lieutenant has you dodging leadWhist digging trenching routes.The Major trims his moustacheThe General drives right past,Dismissing all the riffraffWho are well beneath his class. This-is-the-Army All khaki and brassy shine,You get to brandish riflesAnd wear berets when in line.So pull that chin in soldierKeep the thumbs straight when you march,Or we’ll have you peeling spuds or worse,...We’ll ream your young white **** You wanted to be manlyYou longed to make your mark,You signed up to be countedNow you're Army, hard and stark.So give it all you’ve got young manBend your back and be a knave,the alternative is purgatoryEngulfed, consumed, enslaved.Now you're in for the durationMake the most of what you’ve gotOr they’ll Court Marshal you tomorrowAnd with pageantry.. YOU'LL BE SHOT!MarshalgMangere Bridge27th April 2008
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