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"brigade" poems
Ignore the itch you can't scratch deep in the palm of your hand. Ignore the morning alarms, just sleep right through them. Ignore the sound of the coffee bubbling over, let it spill. Ignore the toothpaste stain on your new shirt. Ignore the voicemail notification, who listens to them anyway? Ignore the mailman at the mailbox, he didn't really say hello. Ignore the stare of the drunk man in your lobby. Ignore the morning brigade of children running behind you. Ignore the damage your heels are doing to your feet. Ignore the whistle from the man half your height. Ignore the traffic light, the cars are going the other way. Ignore the loud honk from the trucker as he speeds off. Ignore the liquor store, and the desire to take a shot. Ignore the "Baby let me talk to you," from the **** wannabe. Ignore the text message, don't let them know you have a phone number. Ignore the cigarette smoke invading your lungs. Ignore the baby boy getting slapped by his mother. Ignore the bakery with the tres leches cake you like. Ignore the bank, you're probably broke. Ignore the homeless woman, she just wants to buy drugs. Ignore the Facebook notification, just another ALS challenge. Ignore the time, you're at work early. Ignore the habits, listen to your conscience and speak loudly and clearly. You are so much more than ignorant.
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 8:51 AM UTC
Ignorance
well... she didn't want me... because i didn't want to do **** with her... and because i cooked better than her; or as one homosexual said: **** *** isn't really the norm in homosexuality, most **** *** takes place between heterosexual couples; maybe i just don't feel like talking about curtains and napkins growing old in front of a television screen? i think it's called companionship, without the authority brigade to get alimony and other stipends for a degree designating milking-it... as might require a woman shackling a partner with a few witnesses, like priest, lawyer... psychiatrist; god they're scared... they don't even fear murdering you, and when they try to, they just bellow out: 'my brother is dead! my brother is dead!' no, he's alive, he should have been dead 8 years ago, but you miscalculated; they're just scared of something that doesn't resemble a cage, as every housewife might tell you: a duck in a cage kept for petting rather than sloth for quickened fattening and eating will make the one eating it loose the plot... the duck will just pretend to be stupid.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 3:36 PM UTC
bony ****
There is a vicar from Chelsea Who alas is not very wealthy Often he dines on communion wine And curried bat from the belfry He lights a lot of incense To hide his flatulence He gets a bit high Perhaps that is why His sermons never make sense --The vicar gets his knickers in a twist-- The old church roof had seen better days The pressing need was a serious fund-raise So the vicar abseiled down the tower As the village watched by the graves and flowers With a flurry his cassock flew up in the air Shocking pink he wore under there Flapping around it covered his face As he dangled there in embarrassed disgrace Someone called the fire brigade A turntable ladder came to his aid When at last they got him down Humbled and grateful he kissed the ground
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 3:18 AM UTC
Vicar limericks
This isn't about front lines and deep mud, it's not about sacrifice and bands of brotherhood. It's not calling for silence or for national pride, it's not about cenotaphs and those left behind. No, this a thank you to one Ernest Page, Gunner Sergeant, Royal Field Artillery, 182nd Brigade. Thank you for ducking, thank you for dodging, thank you for lasting, thank you for living. Thanks for returning back home to Brockley. Thanks for asking Gran and building a family. Thank you for dad and for little Aunt Betty, for Pam and for Pete and for cousins aplenty. Thanks for Rose Cottage, for trips round the lake, thanks for loud laughter and sleepy eyed late mugs of hot chocolate and medeira cake slabs. Thanks for my sisters, thanks again for my dad. Thank you for surviving, and all that implies. I owe you it all, I owe you this life.
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Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 6:17 PM UTC
This is not a war poem
Pounding bass. Sub-sonic strobes. Synthetic smoke. Alone on the dance-floor I was glad to see another clubbers curves move in rhythm; Uninhibited by the foot tapping brigade who watched with intensity. You edged ever closer Till our smiles became infectious. An uncertain bond of understanding, amid an endless rush of acidic bleeps. Uncluttered. Uncrowded. Mystically shrouded in transient beats, we strangers come together in unity Your hips move to the pneumatic bass as transient hardhouse and tribal breakbeats embrace, The foot tappers again resume, Spontaneous rushes and some sulphur that is sour to taste. We may have unzipped and consumed to electronic tunes, but the tune remains the same - Beautiful stranger dream a dream for me because now all we have between us is Rain.
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:09 AM UTC
Clubbers Paradise
ever since you sold your soul to the devil, you haven't been the same. your lips keep telling me one thing, but your eyes won't do the same. i watched your innocence fade, i saw you build your brigade, so i couldn't move in. i wasn't pushed, i was shoved. though we touched, we never loved. i didn't feel, i created illusions, hoping that you could fulfill them.
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 10:45 PM UTC
the pit
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we are of you. From shearing shed and cattle run, From Broome to Hobson's Bay, Each native-born Australian son Stands straighter up today. The man who used to **** his drum", On far-out Queensland runs Is fighting side by side with some Tasmanian farmer's sons. The fisher-boys dropped sail and oar To grimly stand the test, Along that storm-swept Turkish shore, With miners from the west. The old state jealousies of yore Are dead as Pharaoh's sow, We're not State children any more — We're all Australians now! Our six-starred flag that used to fly Half-shyly to the breeze, Unknown where older nations ply Their trade on foreign seas, Flies out to meet the morning blue With Vict'ry at the prow; For that's the flag the Sydney flew, The wide seas know it now! The mettle that a race can show Is proved with shot and steel, And now we know what nations know And feel what nations feel. The honoured graves beneath the crest Of Gaba Tepe hill May hold our bravest and our best, But we have brave men still. With all our petty quarrels done, Dissensions overthrown, We have, through what you boys have done, A history of our own. Our old world diff'rences are dead, Like weeds beneath the plough, For English, Scotch, and Irish-bred, They're all Australians now! So now we'll toast the Third Brigade That led Australia's van, For never shall their glory fade In minds Australian. Fight on, fight on, unflinchingly, Till right and justice reign. Fight on, fight on, till Victory Shall send you home again. And with Australia's flag shall fly A spray of wattle-bough To symbolise our unity — We're all Australians now.
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'We're All Australians Now'
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we are of you. From shearing shed and cattle run, From Broome to Hobson's Bay, Each native-born Australian son Stands straighter up today. The man who used to **** his drum", On far-out Queensland runs Is fighting side by side with some Tasmanian farmer's sons. The fisher-boys dropped sail and oar To grimly stand the test, Along that storm-swept Turkish shore, With miners from the west. The old state jealousies of yore Are dead as Pharaoh's sow, We're not State children any more — We're all Australians now! Our six-starred flag that used to fly Half-shyly to the breeze, Unknown where older nations ply Their trade on foreign seas, Flies out to meet the morning blue With Vict'ry at the prow; For that's the flag the Sydney flew, The wide seas know it now! The mettle that a race can show Is proved with shot and steel, And now we know what nations know And feel what nations feel. The honoured graves beneath the crest Of Gaba Tepe hill May hold our bravest and our best, But we have brave men still. With all our petty quarrels done, Dissensions overthrown, We have, through what you boys have done, A history of our own. Our old world diff'rences are dead, Like weeds beneath the plough, For English, Scotch, and Irish-bred, They're all Australians now! So now we'll toast the Third Brigade That led Australia's van, For never shall their glory fade In minds Australian. Fight on, fight on, unflinchingly, Till right and justice reign. Fight on, fight on, till Victory Shall send you home again. And with Australia's flag shall fly A spray of wattle-bough To symbolise our unity — We're all Australians now.
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.*oh forget Disney H'america... technicolor H'america was the bomb... gentlemen prefer blondes... oh **** no... the seven year itch... the Rachmaninoff scene... bell, book & candle scene... whoever the genius was behind the technicolor project, outmatched the Disney in 1950s H'america... little town America... big little ******** worth of Europe... eddi reader...more like: keep the cats, a woman may desire luxury, but a man a freedom... keep the town, the summit, the fireplace... keep your luxury... just give me the shadow, the sun, the moon, and the road: perpetually greeting me.* oh forget looking for scapegoats these days... full blown schizophrenia, happening, all over the anglophone world... me? i'm just looking at the lampoons... sorry... lemmings... and the English? top the table in western world... they thought they'd be bailed out by the H'americans... good luck rolling that pin-ball... not gonna happen... they have their own **** to deal with...    it could have... but now it will never work out, no anglophone alliance bail-out plan... it's a ******* farce... it's a bogus in the bogie in the ******* coalmine... forget the canary...    **** i'm seriously flipping the coin on phrases... FDR contra DJT?   magic! no... the politicians were always going to place the card... the joker... free-fall dance-loose feet...          my bet is... it'll fall flat on its face... the eastern European Achilles heel of the europhiles... that's a supposition, not a proposition...                      or thereby, pre-.... but i do love being a spectator of rare sport... en masse schizophrenia... a nation, divided...              what a load of ******** the English thought that their anglophone alliances would last, would encrust them in a new globalization mechanism... even the ******* Icelandic people think they're European... what did the English think? just east of Las Vegas?!            an island surrounded by a massive prehistorical lake "facility"?! no one is looking for scapegoats these days, there's no one to blame... mea culpa, mea culpa...     these days?! everyone is looking for the lampoon brigade! - and let me tell you... mea culpa mea culpa... no one is looking for a scapegoat worth kristallnacht; people are looking for a lampoon...      or...         karmesinrotherznacht, the night of... broken hearts; broken, crimson hearts.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 6:54 PM UTC
FDR contra DJT times
.*oh forget Disney H'america... technicolor H'america was the bomb... gentlemen prefer blondes... oh **** no... the seven year itch... the Rachmaninoff scene... bell, book & candle scene... whoever the genius was behind the technicolor project, outmatched the Disney in 1950s H'america... little town America... big little ******** worth of Europe... eddi reader...more like: keep the cats, a woman may desire luxury, but a man a freedom... keep the town, the summit, the fireplace... keep your luxury... just give me the shadow, the sun, the moon, and the road: perpetually greeting me.* oh forget looking for scapegoats these days... full blown schizophrenia, happening, all over the anglophone world... me? i'm just looking at the lampoons... sorry... lemmings... and the English? top the table in western world... they thought they'd be bailed out by the H'americans... good luck rolling that pin-ball... not gonna happen... they have their own **** to deal with...    it could have... but now it will never work out, no anglophone alliance bail-out plan... it's a ******* farce... it's a bogus in the bogie in the ******* coalmine... forget the canary...    **** i'm seriously flipping the coin on phrases... FDR contra DJT?   magic! no... the politicians were always going to place the card... the joker... free-fall dance-loose feet...          my bet is... it'll fall flat on its face... the eastern European Achilles heel of the europhiles... that's a supposition, not a proposition...                      or thereby, pre-.... but i do love being a spectator of rare sport... en masse schizophrenia... a nation, divided...              what a load of ******** the English thought that their anglophone alliances would last, would encrust them in a new globalization mechanism... even the ******* Icelandic people think they're European... what did the English think? just east of Las Vegas?!            an island surrounded by a massive prehistorical lake "facility"?! no one is looking for scapegoats these days, there's no one to blame... mea culpa, mea culpa...     these days?! everyone is looking for the lampoon brigade! - and let me tell you... mea culpa mea culpa... no one is looking for a scapegoat worth kristallnacht; people are looking for a lampoon...      or...         karmesinrotherznacht, the night of... broken hearts; broken, crimson hearts.
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Romilda was an old lady, She had no small baby, So she petted her sisters daughter, Who only drank milk but not water, Little baby had a nice name which was Angelina Geolly But her life was a worry, She never went for the studio, Never had Romeo, She was brought up at a village, But had a wide knowledge, Her old aunt was always frank, But Angelina Geolly use to prank, One morning Angelina knocked her head on the wall, And started dialing a call, It was to none other than the fire brigade, Hello, Come asap for our gate, Fire! Fear! Fire! After an hour they reached in, It was all about a recycle bin Angeline had only meant, fire at her aunts cooker, But they responded you little sucker! The poor Aunt Matilda had to pay, For their visit all the way But still the house wasn’t grey! Some people, few people started to blame Angelina Geolly! She ran into her trolley, And Angelina Cried Cried Cried, But later she was Fried Fried Fried
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 11:30 PM UTC
NEVER NEVER PRANK
She used to be your sun by day And your moon at night You never ran out of light Your happy meal at the end of a long day She never left your side Not even for a single day And when the night is deep And you're short of sight She became your extra eye That kept you safe like a knight She loved you with everything She gave you everything And gave up everything Including her pride and sense of being She gave you her heart And offered her soul But nothing she could ever give Was ever enough to satisfy Your perpetually gnawing greed and empty soul You've lost that girl Now you have to live With this monster you created in her You broke her fragile heart into a million pieces And now you must make peace And collect those broken pieces And forget all about the beautiful morning kisses Now she's nothing more Than a collection of warning signs And all the signals You get in a danger zone She's all the wrong turns you've ever made And all the U-turns you never made You ignited a spark within her But that wasn't enough You added gasoline to it in open air A bonfire without stories That's how lonely you left her A bonfire that turned to a bushfire She engulfs everything in her wake in flames And you can't even take the blame She's gone out of control And you can't even call a fire brigade She's the loss to every bet you've ever made All the coins you've ever tossed And she's all the lines you've ever crossed And she's going to burn you With the fire you started within her Such is the beauty of a Goddess You refused to see beyond her flaws Now you're forced to see the beauty She created out of them And smell the fragrance That oozes out of her pores With somber elegance And a tactful nonchalance And embrace the fact That you're not even worth a second chance Perhaps you'll learn to find pleasure In the mischief that lurks In the dark sky of her beautiful eyes And decipher the mystery in her smirk But until then keep on scratching the surface because her heart is cold as ice.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 2:58 AM UTC
A bonfire without stories
She used to be your sun by day And your moon at night You never ran out of light Your happy meal at the end of a long day She never left your side Not even for a single day And when the night is deep And you're short of sight She became your extra eye That kept you safe like a knight She loved you with everything She gave you everything And gave up everything Including her pride and sense of being She gave you her heart And offered her soul But nothing she could ever give Was ever enough to satisfy Your perpetually gnawing greed and empty soul You've lost that girl Now you have to live With this monster you created in her You broke her fragile heart into a million pieces And now you must make peace And collect those broken pieces And forget all about the beautiful morning kisses Now she's nothing more Than a collection of warning signs And all the signals You get in a danger zone She's all the wrong turns you've ever made And all the U-turns you never made You ignited a spark within her But that wasn't enough You added gasoline to it in open air A bonfire without stories That's how lonely you left her A bonfire that turned to a bushfire She engulfs everything in her wake in flames And you can't even take the blame She's gone out of control And you can't even call a fire brigade She's the loss to every bet you've ever made All the coins you've ever tossed And she's all the lines you've ever crossed And she's going to burn you With the fire you started within her Such is the beauty of a Goddess You refused to see beyond her flaws Now you're forced to see the beauty She created out of them And smell the fragrance That oozes out of her pores With somber elegance And a tactful nonchalance And embrace the fact That you're not even worth a second chance Perhaps you'll learn to find pleasure In the mischief that lurks In the dark sky of her beautiful eyes And decipher the mystery in her smirk But until then keep on scratching the surface because her heart is cold as ice.
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The silent assassins came floating down, Tiny but deadly they came. Two thousand dead mice, Stuffed full of Tylenol, On the island of Guam they deplaned. To **** off the snakes That are killing Guam’s birds Tylenol should do the trick A mere 80 milligrams Can **** a grown snake Or at least make them terribly sick. I hope this works better Than the Mongoose Brigade We deployed on Hawaii’s fair shores. They were sent to **** rats But instead took long naps And the birds are more rare than before.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM UTC
The Silent Assassins
Gauging the time on my ever ready Timepiece, I would be vacant without it Guessing the minutes that miss out As the second hand moves smoothly Locking onto with its demonstration powers How to mark time successfully, second by Second, a prelude to the minute minder Merging in with the big guns, the 'On The hour Brigade' of salutes and silences Schedules and deadlines. The.....gong The chime The clang The beep The moment to be woken from our sleep It's a curse at 'times' (excuse the pun) The engagements starting point and Finale. I wonder what time it is right now? Would we lose ourselves scurrying to find Our 'timepiece'. Do we pick up our redundancy In favour of technological time and motion? Even though the 'Wonder World' has not dreamt of.... And cannot conceivably equate.....powerful potent Possibilities of fake time in an unknown spatial Rhombus, conspiring recklessly to promote individual Unreality; time spinning out the hour, through The minutes, towards the last seconds..... of our unreal lives
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 1:43 PM UTC
Timepiece
Annapolis (DDH 265) decommissioned warcraft clean severed lines steam gusts belt from a cavernous shell the ghost ship settles on a drift ridge perfect tide rhythm on a salt washed shore calming nuance in passive time *weaving through channels and crest waves* white sands warming at a high point beyond the breakers and porteau pins gazers and dreamers (and sleepy fiords) rest softly up the straight froth folds skim and linger on the wide eyed wanderers of the sound cove seals settle at the inlet their symphonies backing on the bowen brigade ripples and patch makers hold sheets to the wind markgraf lines find electric blue sky stealth shadows haunt the seascape the dragon fly hovers in fits and starts
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Jun 11, 2017
Jun 11, 2017 at 11:15 AM UTC
Sinking in Halkett
**** mit ein(e) gernierung of... ****** MACDONALDS for the protestants MCDONALDS for the catholics... and **** the rest of it whoop di do d'ah whoopsie!    **** it...   i always called the IRA the ginger ninja brigade... ******* ***** ha ha! is that even permitted? like... oopsies?!    oh **** the steam-roller is giving it a shot at reading the earth,.. flat...    map on paper? **** me... no app....              ****** you ever navigate a car through the German Rhine roundabout? what's in it? Dortmund.. Essen...              you know that constipated part of the road map of Europe...                ever navigate that trippy conundrum ******** of navigation? beside me...               can't speak german, won't navigate in german, no matter how many Mercedes-Benz they pump out from the Henry Ford institute of the reclining chair, supposing    die krupps to be squidgy clean... i think the european translation reads: die Dortmund Ringe... das Rhine Ringe... **** allocating yourself to a rally car...    navigate through that sort of German ********           achtung achtung... autobahn ende!                vorwärtskreis might as well salute for a second coming of... hítlear!     shaking Stevens?   huh?!                knee on the no contra the know: bother... the english won't know... isn't that nay?    i listen to too much lawyer jargon...              i'd love to listen to poetry... but... i figured...    lawyers play the slight of the sly of hand that poets exasperate into toying with words to accomplish art... lawyers? the impasse of judgement?   **** me!                   apparently the argument goes: down syndrome... psychopaths... 'ere by god's grace...    much grace, my lord...              too much grace...          two salvation pointers: (a) i won't drink with them... (b) i won't eat with them, (c) there is no "c" that isn't a "d" that isn't an "e" "f", etc! you get a zebra... you get a null bonus! a ******* safari of an automated anti hamster Boston outfit!
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 8:23 PM UTC
schlang
**** mit ein(e) gernierung of... ****** MACDONALDS for the protestants MCDONALDS for the catholics... and **** the rest of it whoop di do d'ah whoopsie!    **** it...   i always called the IRA the ginger ninja brigade... ******* ***** ha ha! is that even permitted? like... oopsies?!    oh **** the steam-roller is giving it a shot at reading the earth,.. flat...    map on paper? **** me... no app....              ****** you ever navigate a car through the German Rhine roundabout? what's in it? Dortmund.. Essen...              you know that constipated part of the road map of Europe...                ever navigate that trippy conundrum ******** of navigation? beside me...               can't speak german, won't navigate in german, no matter how many Mercedes-Benz they pump out from the Henry Ford institute of the reclining chair, supposing    die krupps to be squidgy clean... i think the european translation reads: die Dortmund Ringe... das Rhine Ringe... **** allocating yourself to a rally car...    navigate through that sort of German ********           achtung achtung... autobahn ende!                vorwärtskreis might as well salute for a second coming of... hítlear!     shaking Stevens?   huh?!                knee on the no contra the know: bother... the english won't know... isn't that nay?    i listen to too much lawyer jargon...              i'd love to listen to poetry... but... i figured...    lawyers play the slight of the sly of hand that poets exasperate into toying with words to accomplish art... lawyers? the impasse of judgement?   **** me!                   apparently the argument goes: down syndrome... psychopaths... 'ere by god's grace...    much grace, my lord...              too much grace...          two salvation pointers: (a) i won't drink with them... (b) i won't eat with them, (c) there is no "c" that isn't a "d" that isn't an "e" "f", etc! you get a zebra... you get a null bonus! a ******* safari of an automated anti hamster Boston outfit!
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I write this from a library under the watchful gaze of Voltaire, Having read that the future of Earth's water is being debated in Morocco. Isn't there a Utilitarian part of us all that strives to save our home, And rejects the notion that we must **** where we eat to make progress? Gambling becomes dangerous when you begin to stake declining resources. There is no turning back, and there is little optimism from Millennials who shall inherit the rotting infrastructure. Nothing is dramatic or blown out of proportion when the President can't acknowledge that there's something seriously wrong with a giant hole in the ozone. Herr Trump, where is the ice going? Would you sell the penguins for profit? Tell the Polish Brigade that legal workers will restore this country's ideal greatness. Tell them sincerely. Reagan spouted that it was Morning in America, and I imagine the Trumpites feel the same. What is morning, anyway, when you can't see the sun for the smog?
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 1:49 PM UTC
Marrakech. (On the Future of the Environment.)
In your past, this past they weren't valued no one said they were members of the family what walks on four legs and is furry and cute is only to last as long as nature intended and then to be disposed of Veal calves in crates, taken from mothers on the day of their birth to make more milk for humans, horse slaughter for glue and foi gras, ducks and geese locked in a vice grip of their cages metal tubes rammed down their throats and force fed until a liver disease develops, painful, but given no respite and served as a delicacy and fur coats from animals skinned alive right here in America still when mink farms are outlawed in the Netherlands and two million dogs and cats skinned in China every year not to mention other horrors and no one cared or looked their way because they are only animals, and voiceless and helpless and no one cared to give them a voice or advocacy "that's why they're there, for our use, people still say" who profit from an industry of suffering And today, there are people who try to give them a voice and there are veterinarians who will try to help you with your member of the family, as he suffers, in his old age a bag of fluids hangs from my exercise bike, and intermixed with my medications is the painkiller and anti-nausea pills for my dear old friend whose pancreas is failing and father, this is foreign to you you pretend it is a crime silence is the only thing connecting us now I hope you enjoyed your last barrage of unkind words I think you did. The saddest thing I've learned about people like you is you feel better after such an attack, to see me reeling, bleeding on the ground and you feel better, calmer and purged. A kind of misbegotten peace settles over you an exploitive peace from another's tears and pain And yes, father, there were no agencies to give a voice to children when you were young no CPS, to aid my nine year old ***** friend as a code of silence enveloped her attacker to protect him, the one who destroyed her But today there is a small brigade of a modern kind of love to give a voice, protection, soothing to the ones who can only suffer at our hands and not protect themselves from our wrath and exploitation and it is a better world for that, father for my furry pancreatic friend and for any other nine year old **** victims here
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Mar 24, 2013
Mar 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM UTC
A Modern Love
In your past, this past they weren't valued no one said they were members of the family what walks on four legs and is furry and cute is only to last as long as nature intended and then to be disposed of Veal calves in crates, taken from mothers on the day of their birth to make more milk for humans, horse slaughter for glue and foi gras, ducks and geese locked in a vice grip of their cages metal tubes rammed down their throats and force fed until a liver disease develops, painful, but given no respite and served as a delicacy and fur coats from animals skinned alive right here in America still when mink farms are outlawed in the Netherlands and two million dogs and cats skinned in China every year not to mention other horrors and no one cared or looked their way because they are only animals, and voiceless and helpless and no one cared to give them a voice or advocacy "that's why they're there, for our use, people still say" who profit from an industry of suffering And today, there are people who try to give them a voice and there are veterinarians who will try to help you with your member of the family, as he suffers, in his old age a bag of fluids hangs from my exercise bike, and intermixed with my medications is the painkiller and anti-nausea pills for my dear old friend whose pancreas is failing and father, this is foreign to you you pretend it is a crime silence is the only thing connecting us now I hope you enjoyed your last barrage of unkind words I think you did. The saddest thing I've learned about people like you is you feel better after such an attack, to see me reeling, bleeding on the ground and you feel better, calmer and purged. A kind of misbegotten peace settles over you an exploitive peace from another's tears and pain And yes, father, there were no agencies to give a voice to children when you were young no CPS, to aid my nine year old ***** friend as a code of silence enveloped her attacker to protect him, the one who destroyed her But today there is a small brigade of a modern kind of love to give a voice, protection, soothing to the ones who can only suffer at our hands and not protect themselves from our wrath and exploitation and it is a better world for that, father for my furry pancreatic friend and for any other nine year old **** victims here
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For therapy i call the fire brigade to to inform them Westminster bridge here i come and daydream of pushing  nannies and their charges towards  tumbling waterfalls and with my friend Judy we watch tall men jump over ditches of dahlias in the foggy dew for no other reason than we want to be amused.
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 4:29 PM UTC
Dahlia avenue.
we danced in the streets as the days were long only recess and reckoning while water crept in this city of dead, our place, where the stench lives and bodies float, lying above the crypt's graves   hurricane red absinthe & hand grenades slugging the gulf like a shooter's brigade a forecast shifts, flooding any escape so we fire our motors with boats on em.
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 2:04 AM UTC
fema $
It's Sunday The Mexicans are all doing their laundry Little girls with shiny bows, sweatpants and sequined tops Happy smiling faces Lead the brigade Mothers follow Shopping carts on the brink of exploding The wheels about to blow Tuxedo shirts, soccer uniforms with the words ***** PAN monogrammed on the front, mismatched socks, and pajamas with feet Colors A mess Cheap laundry detergent stuck on top I rush down to the laundry They always take the best machines I find my place Throw my little load in One person does not have that much I never realized how alone I was Until that moment
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 12:54 AM UTC
Sunday Laundry
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismayed? Not tho' the soldiers knew Someone had blundered: Theirs was not to make reply, Theirs was not to reason why, Theirs was but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there, Charging and army, while All the world wondered: Plunging in the battery smoke, Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reeled from the sabre-stroke Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not-- Not the six hundred. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that fought so well, Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of the six hundred. When can their glory fade? Oh, the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred!
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The Charge Of The Light Brigade
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 1:45 AM UTC
A Memory
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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"…ours is not to reason why." that is the only fragment of the light brigade? call the philosopher for a meme: Ah, we need an axiom, some hope for humanity, Christmas isn't working as well as it did, Chanuka and Kwansa are distant also rans, Where is hope if the wise have all been infected with… "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not utterly absurd." that's the meme sir, but nothing clicked. Bertrand Russell wait Ah, more, eh, a semi colon not a point of completion. That's the secret in all symbols to sibyls, my boy, know what you meant when you imagined them meaning anything "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not utterly absurd ; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.” ― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals From <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/172166-the-fact-that-an-opinion-has-been-widely-held-is> In the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, it makes everything better. Merry Christmas, may the messages you trust be true.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
The I'll go rhythm isn't working
quanta is better understood outside of physics, on a grander scale - quantum is a quality suggestion that makes two (to, too) things auto-suggestive as pertaining in the matter - never mind - take the concept of quanta out of physics and you get a man readying himself for a controlled coma having his wisdom teeth removed, with the anaesθetician asking about the readers' digest, the patient replying quo vadis? / dokąd idziesz? then the great sleep plateau - 'where are you going?' puts any man off, whether boxer, or paediatrician - ****** lays dead floored for a minute, plays the dog game: play dead, tongue hanging ready for a guillotine. CHOP! and there goes the tail of a Doberman (jamnik / dachshund on stilts) and a ρoττł-                     y                     woo woo woo chim chimney                     cha cha cha ooh the rotting wail - rottweiler -                                                     -ειλερ; you never mention the u with the v due to the chisel ease, then again, you don't say double-o'h but say double u - too shay frowning at a shave; ****** i'll make your language my playground given all these post-colonial ***** aiming for a signature and credentials, this **** could pass the London brigade, but take it to York, it would be a massacre of a bureaucratic lapse of credentials... a viking invasion more-or-less; oh **** quantum physics, Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era - Jack the Ripper the antonym, both are the desired cages of energy requiring expression to make testimony that such an age existed, a particular congregate of expression, never universal, boxes and pockets, however much inside one is a question of your dietary requirement, quantum physics is better explained with history than hard science, and atoms, or the craze of subs, people need a bigger picture, not everyone own a ******* microscope or a telescope, teach quantum physics using history: Philippe Augustus of France mattered, at the Battle of Bouvines - Otto IV? not so much.
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Jun 26, 2016
Jun 26, 2016 at 7:45 PM UTC
Doberman and a Dachshund on stilts
quanta is better understood outside of physics, on a grander scale - quantum is a quality suggestion that makes two (to, too) things auto-suggestive as pertaining in the matter - never mind - take the concept of quanta out of physics and you get a man readying himself for a controlled coma having his wisdom teeth removed, with the anaesθetician asking about the readers' digest, the patient replying quo vadis? / dokąd idziesz? then the great sleep plateau - 'where are you going?' puts any man off, whether boxer, or paediatrician - ****** lays dead floored for a minute, plays the dog game: play dead, tongue hanging ready for a guillotine. CHOP! and there goes the tail of a Doberman (jamnik / dachshund on stilts) and a ρoττł-                     y                     woo woo woo chim chimney                     cha cha cha ooh the rotting wail - rottweiler -                                                     -ειλερ; you never mention the u with the v due to the chisel ease, then again, you don't say double-o'h but say double u - too shay frowning at a shave; ****** i'll make your language my playground given all these post-colonial ***** aiming for a signature and credentials, this **** could pass the London brigade, but take it to York, it would be a massacre of a bureaucratic lapse of credentials... a viking invasion more-or-less; oh **** quantum physics, Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era - Jack the Ripper the antonym, both are the desired cages of energy requiring expression to make testimony that such an age existed, a particular congregate of expression, never universal, boxes and pockets, however much inside one is a question of your dietary requirement, quantum physics is better explained with history than hard science, and atoms, or the craze of subs, people need a bigger picture, not everyone own a ******* microscope or a telescope, teach quantum physics using history: Philippe Augustus of France mattered, at the Battle of Bouvines - Otto IV? not so much.
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Happy Birthday Heather I will not state your age If people want to know it They can go visit your page You run a band of poets A band of Lunatics at heart But, you saw something in us And you saw it from the start We all write different styles Some are funny, some morose Some of us have stories And sometimes, we get gross But, Heather, you're our leader And on behalf of all us vandals Don't put the fire brigade to work ....so don't light your ****** candles!!! Happy Birthday Hev! Best wishes We share more than just a last name in my book. All the love Roger and Megan Turner
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 5:46 AM UTC
Heather's Birthday
I’ve now seen this rerun some obscene sum. Gone, I’m off staring at the sun a tad too long. The part that focuses the fun was last seen wrong. Worn, like the cliches you so casually parade. Me? I got cataracts to the hate. I’m dodging them cats, while you’re stuck stalking their tracks. Once again I’m late, but this time I think I’ll stay. I could cut you with a blade of grass. I’m nice. Brigade both sides of The Crusades with a laugh. I’m tight. It’s all in the way you read the light, but sometimes that sun be too bright. Got drive though, won’t stop 'til they say DeadBeat can write.
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 12:51 PM UTC
A Twist of Liquor