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"bulls" poems
I am from VapoRub, From Goya And morisoñando. I am from the traffic And loud horns, From the Caribbean heat, And the city lights, From the buildings And the towers. I am from the palm trees And the coconut trees, Dancing bachata And merengue In the beach, From yaniqueque Y plátano, From tostones And fish. I am from Sunday gatherings And loud family members, From Jose, Maria, and Primos, And the hardworking Payamps clan. I am from the Madera’s baseball team, From Canó, Sosa, y Ortiz, From the long summer rides To ***** Cana And Samana’s beach. From “work hard Cause life is not easy” And “family before friends.” From Christianity And Saturday morning sermons, From God is good And He brings joy. I am from Santo Domingo And Monción, From Santiago And Spanish ancestors, From mangú con salami, From rice and beans. From the grandpa Who owns the village Surrounded by Chickens, cows, and bulls, From the business owner And the well known uncles In my hometown. I am from the only flag With a bible. From the red, blue And white. From the most beautiful Island in the Caribbean, From Quisqueya y Libertad. I am from the Dominican Republic, The country that holds The people I love and Miss the most. I am from the Little Paris box I keep next to my bed, Filled with precious Gifts and letters That make me feel A little closer To them.
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Aug 18, 2017
Aug 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM UTC
"Where I'm From"
t*he girl she makes the world so beautiful she had come to rule but she was never given the chances equal she was forced to silence forced to smile give those people another glance even when she will be overlooked this while the girl did it all she made big from real small learned the smooth and the rough but she was given another bluff her, she was thrown around laughed and joked about but she smiled throughout her tears for herself when she drowned she went ahead, even behind at times she fought for herself at every step her thoughts evident in every line well thought, did have a bite. the girl, her success was a victory not hers alone, from all bulls she rose to make a history*.
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Mar 7, 2018
Mar 7, 2018 at 1:22 PM UTC
the girl
I remember a night patrol, we were sweeping some streets &  we happened upon a basketball game being watched on an ancient television. It was the Chicago Bulls vs. the Pistons, none of the locals watching it paid us a bit of attention, their eyes never left the picture. Basketball seemed more important than this War on Terror. That was just another time that the ludicrousy (or fruitlessness) of our mission seemed apparent. **** it, Go Bulls!
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Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015 at 6:32 PM UTC
Basketball In A Combat Zone
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
I non Q
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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The Peace Process I don’t know where I'm going with this but there is peace in Colombia, the Marxist rebels lost and their **** women soldiers in green fatigue and weapons in arms will hand it all in for fashion magazines Hair- dressing salons and babies in arms. For women, a change from war to peace is easy to make it will be worse for men who feel inferior without guns. If Texas as an example had been a gun free zone you would have ended up with tall queens as cowhands, or what do I know left their oil wells and gone to Montana So why did the Marxist lose, ******* I think more economical beneficial, cash in hands better than a Marxist bible on the roof 28 years of peace the political parties in Colombia will have no consensus as the blamed is car mechanics or ranchers Everything is possible from the first female president in Colombia or and openly gay governor in Texas. Festive dresses and bulls with flowers on horns will be marching down the Avenue in Houston.
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Sep 3, 2016
Sep 3, 2016 at 4:57 AM UTC
the peace process
All I do is win, for I'm an Ace Painting a bulls-eye on everyone in the place In my plane I leave everyone else bailing out of the fight in disgrace If I was a horseman, I'd be War 'Cuz like the card game I win against Kings and Queens and take them out of the deck like the Joker on the sidelines, alone and bored. I don't need a Diamond to win you Heart, and I don't wanna join your Club, this was skill and not luck from the very start I am the Ace of Spades, and I'll use my ***** to dig out your graves I've been painted on the sides of planes cars and trains helicopters, submarines, and the munitions that deal out the pain I'm a trick shot Ace with the pool stick As a quarterback, I've yet to throw a pick As a pitcher, I make the other team sick The starter and the backup plan the Ultimate Ace in the Hole The best card in a poker hand lay me down and the money's in the bag I run solo, streaking across the land You only need to hold me in your hand and your enemies will become **** and I'll give 'em a taste of this whirling dervish's mace Leave them breathless upon the ground as I rob the air from out of this place you'll stand in awe of my greatness take a picture, make a statue Fill up every empty space with my name For I am an Ace!
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Oct 5, 2011
Oct 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM UTC
Ace of Spades
Around the table, Literacy discussion turned elitist... Bemoaning some poor Johnny, Son of a plumber who does not read Beyond the practical need, And has no desire to. I stopped to check my sense of what I had just heard... Was transported to a prairie farm; Thought of my Father, then in his eighties Who felt no need and no sense of loss For not having read Shakespeare nor Kant For missing Milton's Paradises and Hemingway, For by-passing Black Elk Speaks and C.S. Lewis. Every morning, he read his Bible; Some nights he read the mail's Motley collection of literature: Ads and politicians and fanatics, Demanding money and his time, But mostly money. "I don't have time to read!" He'd shout when I suggested a novel. What literature he had was in his head, Poems memorized when he was a boy In a two room school, or His own lines, written as a young man, Describing work and friends Long distant now, but still alive In memory. Dad taught me how to read In different literacies and different texts: Nuances of sky to read the weather - What chill or storm or drought was on its way ("Storm's coming, boys! Let's get that hay!"); Cows and calves and bulls, (Which one was sick or well, dry or bred); Ways to diagnose mechanical ailments ("Start with the easiest options first"); Metals, to know which welding rod applied ("Aluminum sags, and cast iron cracks"); Grain, rolled crisp between hard hands, (a test of ripeness); Cement, to blend the perfect mix, ("Clean gravel/sand, no dirt, not too much water!); Conservation, ("Always keep some grain on hand" &   "Keep your fuel above half-tank"). So many literacies... Dad, the Master Reader of them all... No wonder he'd no time for books.
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Dec 20, 2011
Dec 20, 2011 at 9:26 PM UTC
RR No Time For Books
Around the table, Literacy discussion turned elitist... Bemoaning some poor Johnny, Son of a plumber who does not read Beyond the practical need, And has no desire to. I stopped to check my sense of what I had just heard... Was transported to a prairie farm; Thought of my Father, then in his eighties Who felt no need and no sense of loss For not having read Shakespeare nor Kant For missing Milton's Paradises and Hemingway, For by-passing Black Elk Speaks and C.S. Lewis. Every morning, he read his Bible; Some nights he read the mail's Motley collection of literature: Ads and politicians and fanatics, Demanding money and his time, But mostly money. "I don't have time to read!" He'd shout when I suggested a novel. What literature he had was in his head, Poems memorized when he was a boy In a two room school, or His own lines, written as a young man, Describing work and friends Long distant now, but still alive In memory. Dad taught me how to read In different literacies and different texts: Nuances of sky to read the weather - What chill or storm or drought was on its way ("Storm's coming, boys! Let's get that hay!"); Cows and calves and bulls, (Which one was sick or well, dry or bred); Ways to diagnose mechanical ailments ("Start with the easiest options first"); Metals, to know which welding rod applied ("Aluminum sags, and cast iron cracks"); Grain, rolled crisp between hard hands, (a test of ripeness); Cement, to blend the perfect mix, ("Clean gravel/sand, no dirt, not too much water!); Conservation, ("Always keep some grain on hand" &   "Keep your fuel above half-tank"). So many literacies... Dad, the Master Reader of them all... No wonder he'd no time for books.
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Red, the color of your lips. Black, the color of your smile. Red, the passion that you share. Black, the whole within your heart. Red are roses in the fields. Black the clouds that give them life. Red's the blood within your veins. Black's the meaning of your life. Red's the love that people share. Black the dresses when they die. Red. The devil lies in hell. Black. In space there is no life. Red the reason you're alive. Black see people who are blind. Red makes bulls go wild. Black makes metalheads go wild. Red your blood stains on the floor. Black your future after life. Red, the color of your lips. Black, the color of your faded smile.
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Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013 at 7:54 AM UTC
Red And Black
I hate the beach I'm eighty six and I hate the beach Hate the sand, not a fan of the surf Face it, I hate the beach Last time I went there I had just turned 18 years old June sixth, Nineteen Hundred Forty Four God, I hate the beach I was in the 5th Regiment Régiment de Maisonneuve and I've never been to a beach since I'm from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Not many beaches around there Thank the lord for that I say We'd been training for six months Operation Overlord it was called We were coming in on troop carriers It was to be a beach head landing I'd never seen a beach before At least not for real Never want to see another We arrived early June 6, 1944 I think I said that already You must forgive me, I'm 86 years old and I hate the beach fourteen thousand Canadian Troops Bursting out of armoured troop ships Like, the young, virile, brahma bulls we were Coming in, all I could hear was the waves I was in front, well...close to the front I remember, there were no birds who ever heard of that? A beach with no birds At least not at this beach I could smell the salt in the air And I knew I could hear the surf And my heart, I could **** well hear that But, no birds, I couldn't hear the birds Gunfire, nope...cannons and mortars But birds and guns, not a sound Weird huh? I remember running forward Always forward, past blocks Wood barricades and barbed wire And bodies, lots of bodies I knew that I knew some of them I just didn't have time to stop And say goodbye, I just ran Emptied my weapon at least once I only know this, because it was empty when I hit the beach God, I hate the beach You know in the movies or in those flowery books where they talk about someone being shot and how "there was a bloom or they're chest flowered red where they were hit" I never saw that, never looked back Just ran forward, saw the "bloom" in their backs Don't like red, or flowers or the beach I don't remember much after that Could still hear my heart That's a good thing, I guess I got tore up good with the wire but I never got shot Never, "bloomed" for anyone A few of my buddies were lost I toast them every year Never at the beach though I hate the beach Wife and kids used to go I never did, never will I remember the 50th anniversary though Wife and kids went back Not me, Went into Montreal to see a ball game Montreal Expos 10, Houston Astros 5 I remember Will Cordero hitting a homer It was the sixth inning, I toasted the hit I thought about that day 50 years before And went back to watching the game I hate the beach My name is Gilles Roquefort I'm eight six years old And I can still feel the sand and taste the salt On a bad day.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 7:06 PM UTC
I hate the beach ...a recollection of war
I hate the beach I'm eighty six and I hate the beach Hate the sand, not a fan of the surf Face it, I hate the beach Last time I went there I had just turned 18 years old June sixth, Nineteen Hundred Forty Four God, I hate the beach I was in the 5th Regiment Régiment de Maisonneuve and I've never been to a beach since I'm from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Not many beaches around there Thank the lord for that I say We'd been training for six months Operation Overlord it was called We were coming in on troop carriers It was to be a beach head landing I'd never seen a beach before At least not for real Never want to see another We arrived early June 6, 1944 I think I said that already You must forgive me, I'm 86 years old and I hate the beach fourteen thousand Canadian Troops Bursting out of armoured troop ships Like, the young, virile, brahma bulls we were Coming in, all I could hear was the waves I was in front, well...close to the front I remember, there were no birds who ever heard of that? A beach with no birds At least not at this beach I could smell the salt in the air And I knew I could hear the surf And my heart, I could **** well hear that But, no birds, I couldn't hear the birds Gunfire, nope...cannons and mortars But birds and guns, not a sound Weird huh? I remember running forward Always forward, past blocks Wood barricades and barbed wire And bodies, lots of bodies I knew that I knew some of them I just didn't have time to stop And say goodbye, I just ran Emptied my weapon at least once I only know this, because it was empty when I hit the beach God, I hate the beach You know in the movies or in those flowery books where they talk about someone being shot and how "there was a bloom or they're chest flowered red where they were hit" I never saw that, never looked back Just ran forward, saw the "bloom" in their backs Don't like red, or flowers or the beach I don't remember much after that Could still hear my heart That's a good thing, I guess I got tore up good with the wire but I never got shot Never, "bloomed" for anyone A few of my buddies were lost I toast them every year Never at the beach though I hate the beach Wife and kids used to go I never did, never will I remember the 50th anniversary though Wife and kids went back Not me, Went into Montreal to see a ball game Montreal Expos 10, Houston Astros 5 I remember Will Cordero hitting a homer It was the sixth inning, I toasted the hit I thought about that day 50 years before And went back to watching the game I hate the beach My name is Gilles Roquefort I'm eight six years old And I can still feel the sand and taste the salt On a bad day.
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I thought the guy dressed up like a kingfisher Didn’t really look like a kingfisher His beak too long His legs not yellow enough But still he did a pretty good job of diving into the water And coming up with a guy dressed up like a fish Even though his fins looked a little too stiff to me (No wonder the kingfisher caught him) And the bull facing that matador (who even had a pigtail like the one Hemingway kept mentioning -- Oh, I mean the real man not the man dressed as a bull) He just looked too scared for a bull Well that’s what I thought And I’ve been to a lot of bullfights Real bulls got more bravery than that Sure they’re confused But I’ve never seen one turn tail and run Oh yeah -- and he forgot to put a tail on his bull suit All in all it was a wash wasn’t it Wetter than the guy in the kingfisher suit. Still it was nice for us to dress up in animal costumes To give the animals at least one day to have a day off Maybe next year we’ll figure it out better Both in our costuming and their cries
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM UTC
The Day The Humans Got Dressed Up In Animal Costumes (To Give the Real Animals a Rest)
Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
AFRICA
Algeria a rich land poor people, Angola seems to have kings, Benin is blessed with voodoo, Botswana blood bulls diamonds, Burkina Faso can't cope coups, Burundi twelve years a slave, Cape Verde has half a million, Cameroon got cocoa, Chad's lake is shrinking, Comoros has under a million, DRC is third largest, Congo is it's neighbour with capitals facing, Côte d'Ivoire has few elephants, Djibouti's on the horn, Egypt has mummy's, Equatorial guinea struck oil in 95 but didn't loose change, Eritrea has 5000 running annually, Ethiopia's great rift is pretty ****** Gabon is subject to black gold, Gambia got a peace of it after 65, Great Ghana oasis of peace, Guinea is diverse, Bissau too, Kenyans have beautiful smiles, Lesotho is SA's baby, Liberia oldest republic, Libya needs liberty, Madagascar where are the penguins! Malawi has warm hearts, Mali is 8th, Mauritania is 11th, Mauritius marvel, Morocco fine leather, Mozambique keeps the dugongs, Namibia Windhoek ah, Niger after a river, Nigeria makes zuma rock, Rwanda listen, Sao tome and principe 2nd smallest, Senegoals, She sells Seychelles, Sierra Leone free? Somalia loose, S. Africa reign, South Sudan independent? Sudan - black, Swaziland more than solo men, Tanzania trade, Togo up down, Two knees yeah, Uganda teacher come simeon, Zambia's peace? Zimbabwe got rid of Mugabe. Always thought zed was co.za but we're actually co.zm, so what's zim? One way we'll loose change is when the overseers begin to acknowledge the under looked. -nyanta
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the child's house domicile of estrangements his parents dressed him like a little girl against his will a pox of gender confusion glum aura he ascended by violence and lived through the logic of a mirage except for copulating with demons which of course was ruined by the good Christians they who always hate *** not wanting to be reminded they are animals too their heaven withheld their halo's sullied the vulnerability of desire their crime Eros a disgrace still beating their genitals until a wicked thunder the pro-creative an affirmation of paradox between the continuity of life and the dread of death ***** resurrections a second ******* **** flood without redemption Satan standing on their necks while God pulls them up by their hair rebels to reason bewitchers of wit deranged by the myth of dolls wood and plastic painted corpses staring and a blossom throated Goddess ham handed monkey fist jerking off in search of a bulls eye anyway eyes bleeding on bare legs; lifting a white cotton dress a bulwark of erections like canons blasting puce spats under his frilly skirt; a red rain haunted by dead girls dancing like homeless hip bones sway a bewildered phantasm in a doll house dream
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Jul 23, 2017
Jul 23, 2017 at 2:32 PM UTC
NECROMANCER
Her eyes burned from ammonia and snow as she shoveled the driveway in the parts where the cat litter failed to appropriate traction. This is what cars are for she said before she slipped away onto a twin mattress next to pile of laundry and a pillow of books. Sleeping with dryer hot clothes is only comfortable until you realize you are still alone and loneliness is only formidable when you know it is indefinite. So she folded each item into a pile and wondered if a suitcase wouldn't be better than her dresser. But running away is not an answer like pit bulls and vipers having daughters, even though they ran out of formaldehyde and jars.
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Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:17 PM UTC
One Night Stands with Ex's
if you told a baby bird he couldn't fly he'd walk around and wonder why left foot right foot left foot right a flightless bird envys a kite to let the world determine fate is wearing the nose ring that bulls seem to hate
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 5:12 PM UTC
nose ring
Dear, hold your heart close. Avoid bulls in china shops; their thrill is short-lived.
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 3:08 PM UTC
adulthood haiku #5
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
We Make Our Own
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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March in the streets But I urge you beware They’ll still butcher the sheep With the arms that they bear Private properteers part with No slave cropper’s share So this Northern aggression's Like Freeman’s red scare   All the colors of wind Through the head-shavers’ hair The Guevara adventures These pigs wouldn’t D.A.R.E. The Arabian knights In the grand wizard’s lair The denaturalized dreamer’s Recurring nightmare Of the Stalingrad ghost Still witch-hunting like Blair The projects to the precincts’ New modern welfare The post-trauma disorderly’s Empty screen stare The savages they thought Were waaaaayyyy over there The debt clock ticky tock In the heart of Times Square The 1st world problem-children Who commonwealth care Because some barely EAT And we’ve so much to spare But these cowherds still like their calves Medium rare And the bulls try to sell you Their laissez-faire snare Till your trapped in a minimum cage’s Last prayer And the only escape Is upgraded software Like automaton autobahn’s In disrepair In this fascist facade’s Fragrant breath of fresh air Just as toxic as stocks Of the mock billionaire So I shock ‘em like Tesla’s Bolt-action Voltaire And I leave it to you To go **** it out there
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Mar 25, 2018
Mar 25, 2018 at 6:27 AM UTC
Weaponized Enlightenment for the Youth in Revolt
Oceans couldn't keep me away from you, distances aren't reachable, I'll swim to you, love, street-fight or die trying, the stars and the infinite galaxies won't keep me from your love, it's the same old story, guy meets girl, but I am a fighter and a lover, I'll fight Bulls with no sword, I won't cheat, I'll use my hands, I'll run and ride wild horses to be by your side, I'll swim with sharks with no cage, fearless heart made with fiery stone, our love is deep, and I'll stop at nothing to die by your side, the same old story ... This story is endless, I'll conquer kingdoms, **** them with love to make you mine, till I crawl bare-boned ****** ravished to hold your hand and make you mine...
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Aug 29, 2015
Aug 29, 2015 at 3:25 AM UTC
Lover & Fighter
Oh Mr Sentinel ***** you *** with the bullwhip and echo tongue For four hundred years they had your fathers and mothers toiling the sugar and cotton fields no better than oxen and horses They were all beasts together without rights or gain All you knew was what Babylonians put in your heads Your perceptions are nothing but that of a slave As bright as those of the oxen and ***** That were your mates Now you sit here thinking you're Bob Marley without stringed guitar you may have a pen in hand but nothing much has changed what you call a brain is just a dusty mirror from ***** in the Plantation mansion you are just the *** overseer who gives your *** to ***** at night payment for echoing his words and ******* a **** on Saturday Who are you really but a mindless carcass with no class Your momentum comes from ***** and is ***** it's 21st century and you are still a Sentinel on the cotton fields You come cracking your bullwhip talking trash your ****** *** still has a ten dollar price tag hanging off it the mixed blood of your ancestors fight for dominance in vain four hundred years of slavery and you're still in chains mind asleep there's freedom in the sun whether in tropics or in snow town freedom is a mind unchained to massa's bulls and stunted **** Show me the freedom of a ******* Sentinel the mottafucker chicken Go find your ******** radicals and do your worst, how did your  pimping go in Liverpool. or where you too busy spinning your **** in Birmingham Alabama.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
Your Echo ***** Sentinel.....
Oh Mr Sentinel ***** you *** with the bullwhip and echo tongue For four hundred years they had your fathers and mothers toiling the sugar and cotton fields no better than oxen and horses They were all beasts together without rights or gain All you knew was what Babylonians put in your heads Your perceptions are nothing but that of a slave As bright as those of the oxen and ***** That were your mates Now you sit here thinking you're Bob Marley without stringed guitar you may have a pen in hand but nothing much has changed what you call a brain is just a dusty mirror from ***** in the Plantation mansion you are just the *** overseer who gives your *** to ***** at night payment for echoing his words and ******* a **** on Saturday Who are you really but a mindless carcass with no class Your momentum comes from ***** and is ***** it's 21st century and you are still a Sentinel on the cotton fields You come cracking your bullwhip talking trash your ****** *** still has a ten dollar price tag hanging off it the mixed blood of your ancestors fight for dominance in vain four hundred years of slavery and you're still in chains mind asleep there's freedom in the sun whether in tropics or in snow town freedom is a mind unchained to massa's bulls and stunted **** Show me the freedom of a ******* Sentinel the mottafucker chicken Go find your ******** radicals and do your worst, how did your  pimping go in Liverpool. or where you too busy spinning your **** in Birmingham Alabama.
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I'm speechless That's my approach as you approach me And usually I'm too focused on finding the perfect words To penetrate the simple space I provide So when beautiful girls intentionally invade my atmosphere My need for speech is satisfied Your beauty speaks sufficiently for two So while I'm struggling for oxygen, I hope you recognize Your presence is all I've ever needed to breathe easily I'm stuck Between unexpressed elegance And helplessness My mouth is screaming out But frozen completely shut I'm worried my compliments May be complications That my suggestions Might suppress my objective here We typically rely on our words To settle the score As if you and I are in overtime Of a tie ballgame Looking for phrases to frame the scoreboard With an absolute victor But I was hoping that you'd be willing to join forces To break through the proverbial force field That prohibits rivals from overthrowing obstacles Because I've always believed the input overpowers the outcome What if it were possible To eliminate our speech So our ears could erase the need to draw conclusions We don't etch our words in pencil Our words are enunciated in permanent marker Brutally beating through our eardrums Rhythmically reminding us That silence can be more sweet sounding than any set of syllables All I know is I'm hell-bent on remaining a straight shooter My arrows will always be designed for the bulls-eye But lately I've been questioning my targets They haven't been painted red and white for all the world to see They've been camouflaged by constricted communication Secretly searching for statements that haven't met the airwaves yet So I'd much rather absorb your definite thoughts Than accept your remarks as absolute    The truth is I'm not sure What needs to be said. The syllables I've learned to form Don't apply to situations where Words remain inherently absent. And too often we force our hand To make phrases appear Where they don't belong. But something about Silent speeches is appealing to me. Because the power in your eyes reduce The need for any type of sound. And the shock waves your steps make As you inch closer to mine Create the sweetest melodies. So all I will tell you is this: Let's leave words out of this.
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 6:53 AM UTC
Silent Speeches
I'm speechless That's my approach as you approach me And usually I'm too focused on finding the perfect words To penetrate the simple space I provide So when beautiful girls intentionally invade my atmosphere My need for speech is satisfied Your beauty speaks sufficiently for two So while I'm struggling for oxygen, I hope you recognize Your presence is all I've ever needed to breathe easily I'm stuck Between unexpressed elegance And helplessness My mouth is screaming out But frozen completely shut I'm worried my compliments May be complications That my suggestions Might suppress my objective here We typically rely on our words To settle the score As if you and I are in overtime Of a tie ballgame Looking for phrases to frame the scoreboard With an absolute victor But I was hoping that you'd be willing to join forces To break through the proverbial force field That prohibits rivals from overthrowing obstacles Because I've always believed the input overpowers the outcome What if it were possible To eliminate our speech So our ears could erase the need to draw conclusions We don't etch our words in pencil Our words are enunciated in permanent marker Brutally beating through our eardrums Rhythmically reminding us That silence can be more sweet sounding than any set of syllables All I know is I'm hell-bent on remaining a straight shooter My arrows will always be designed for the bulls-eye But lately I've been questioning my targets They haven't been painted red and white for all the world to see They've been camouflaged by constricted communication Secretly searching for statements that haven't met the airwaves yet So I'd much rather absorb your definite thoughts Than accept your remarks as absolute    The truth is I'm not sure What needs to be said. The syllables I've learned to form Don't apply to situations where Words remain inherently absent. And too often we force our hand To make phrases appear Where they don't belong. But something about Silent speeches is appealing to me. Because the power in your eyes reduce The need for any type of sound. And the shock waves your steps make As you inch closer to mine Create the sweetest melodies. So all I will tell you is this: Let's leave words out of this.
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Around the table, literacy discussion Turns elitist... Bemoaning some poor Johnny, Son of a plumber who does not read Beyond the practical need, And has no desire to. I stop to check my sense of what I have just heard... Am transported back to a prairie farm And think of my Father, now in his eighties Who still feels no need and no sense of loss For not having read Shakespeare or Kant For missing Milton's Paradises and Hemingway, For by-passing Black Elk Speaks and C.S. Lewis. Every morning, he reads his Bible; Some nights he reads the mail's Motley collection of literature: Ads and politicians and fanatics, Demanding money and his time, But mostly money. "I don't have time to read!" He shouts, when I suggest a novel. What literature he has is in his head, Poems memorized when he was a boy In a two room school, or His own lines, written as a young man, Describing work and friends Long distant now, but still alive In memory. Dad taught me how to read In different literacies and different texts: Nuances of sky to read the weather - What chill or storm or drought was on its way; Cows and calves and bulls - Which one was sick or well, dry or bred; Equipment to diagnose mechanical ailments; Metals to know which welding rod applied; Grain, rolled crisp between his hands, a test of ripeness... Cement to find the perfect mix, So many literacies... Dad, the Master Reader of them all... No wonder he'd no time for books.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
No Time for Books
We all wish we could skip our chores like we skip cut-scenes in a video game Or songs on our internet radio Trust me, the Bulls wish they could skip the rodeo. I wish i could skip the pauses in the stereo.
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Oct 24, 2015
Oct 24, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
Skip
-Kaitlyn A. Warnken 'I try hard to block myself from sadness but it breaks free and gets to me. The Bad things are shot at me like bullets and With Me being the target, the hits make me sink so deep. Sometimes as to were i don't think i could live to see another day. While the world keeps revolving, i wish to keep myself from evolving this way. So No matter what or how hard you say it, we both know things are never going to be okay.'
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 10:01 AM UTC
Bang the Bulls Eye
Once I looked to the Bard for words profound; ageless, his wisdom ran unabated. Yet Hamlet is now ideologically unsound, “the slings and arrows” historically Iocated. I wept for the creature of Frankenstein, spurned by his master, forced to roam the Earth. But I’d been subjectively positioned in a paradigm by Mary’s anxiety about childbirth. I read Balzac, Hardy and Henry James describing “worlds” which seemed quite sensible. Now Eagleton’s exposed their bourgeois games I find them morally reprehensible. I dreamt of being Robinson Crusoe or proud, fierce Hawkeye in his buckskins dressed, but Fenimore and Defoe have to go, they’re culturally encoded and empirically obsessed. Inspired by Guinness, did James Joyce sit down to see what magic flowed when he was ****** The stream of Ulysses floats Bloom-about-town dreamthinkingnever : “I’mamodernist”. I’d gladly give Woolf a Room of Her Own and be one of the boys with Hemingway, but sensitive guys leave their bulls alone say de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray. No more fun with Wordsworth being daffodilly, no simple pleasure reading Mickey Mouse; Steamboat Willie can’t help but look silly dissected by Foucault and Levi-Strauss. The Bible shows intertextuality says the two Jacques, Lacan and Derrida. Judas, a construct of bisexuality? The **** fixations of Herod are? It’s got so bad I deconstruct a holiday brochure. I can’t even **** without Roland Barthes and Ferdinand de Saussure.
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 12:06 AM UTC
LAMENT FOR LOST LITERARY COMFORT
Why the sudden alarm I ask? Because you've eaten a horses *** For years we've eaten all kinds of meat Mixed with things you find in paint A list of E numbers a sentence long Who knew if they where doing wrong Colouring from crushed beetles shells Or other insects as well Artificial raspberry sounds yum yum Yeah it's made from beavers *** So here's a tip to help you shop Look under the bar code at numbers lots This may stop you getting cross If it starts with 5 sling it out ! Its Asian chicken bleached and vile From roadside **** or any source boiled in salt of course So we now protest at a bit of horse Years to late we've eaten worse. On holiday you eat bulls ***** Your hotdogs could be his other smalls! Sweetbreads eyeballs hooves the lot So diced, reclaimed or added in You've no idea what's gone in Mad cow mad horse or confused pig I wonder if I've eaten each The veggie options just as bad With GM foods Monsanto's bag MSG enhancers to to stop the food from tasting goo So wine or beer for me tonight As foods now a depressing sight Bacon butty anyone?
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 2:25 PM UTC
Ode to a Horsemeat burger