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"catwalk" poems
Living is a cross That any one of the rock-faces Comprehends. We are drawn To many seas. We drown wholesomely In the failures of confrontation. The rain Drenching Our doorsteps Has nothing to do With the simplest desires And lacerations We bring To the smallest acts Of living. The child On the broken catwalk Hearing the sounds of our hunger Without understanding Throws echoes back To the earliest abandonments Of love. Minor devastations preceding Horror Resonate the ineffable. The mothers that wake At the slightest sound And the fathers that Smoke all night And the rest of us who are Vigilantes from the demons Of oppressed sleep Find at dawn the clearest Images of bewilderment. Even the best things Collapse beneath the weight Of ignorance. Living is a fire That any one of the wave-lashes Comprehends. _________ Source: http://www.universeofpoetry.org/nigeria.shtml
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Living is a Fire
You pose and pout, Seduction by superficial sauciness. You tell me of your day With that simpering voice, Raising each last word Long and loud. You show me your flash cars, Your sumptuous wardrobe And who knows what else? You and your kin call yourselves “Influencers” – A great word, But all you do is make people: People who have grafted long and hard For a little spare cash, Go buy things they Do not really need. Right Said Fred was Right: The global catwalk Is a sham. I too would love to be an “Influencer”, Such a fine word, But I would be one to encourage folk To Love others, Stop all this Conflict Between polar opposites and extremes, Fight only for the Common Good, And make the world a better place For All. Paul Butters © PB 15\1\2021.
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Jan 15, 2021
Jan 15, 2021 at 5:21 PM UTC
Influencer
I adore women I refuse to apologize for it I like the way their voices squeak in the upper registers I like the fashions I like the makeup I like the aromas Not the silly runway catwalk Biz that relegates them as awkward mannequins adorns them in  the impractical and cloaks them in the  absurd overreaching  of  the tired  clamoring for something new and unique that which exploits  their  lithesome anorexic perplexing job requirement I like the way they can shape shift, alter and assume new identities I like the fact that some have mood swings and *** I marvel that they can give birth I like being aware that their  'water-weight' make's  them grumpy I'm astonished that they innately ovulate with  the cycles of the moon and that the Huntress Diana inherently  acquired her namesake Doesn't bother me a bit that "it's a lady's prerogative to be late" or that opening a door for them is considered 'sexist' I was raised with a sister and a mother with lace and dainty  frilly things I caused them a lot of aggravation and consternation I think they enjoyed it - nonetheless somewhat I refuse to apologize for it
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM UTC
a male's misgivings
Enter the designer: *"Move gracefully while ties bind you suspended  with 2 swords pointing at your throat don't forget to show your fierce face while upside down and flopping uncontrollably you must be my definition of perfection. Now lose 5 pounds for my needle and thread cannot conform to your body! It is my garment you must fit not the other way around! Walk the catwalk and toss your hips to and fro, you are not good enough! Chin down darling it is so much more becoming. Oh how I'd wished you wore a shorter top making your legs run on for miles and miles. Your plunging neckline becomes you since you have nothing up top. Stick to greens mostly, a little mint and sage should spice up that lettuce bowl and drink nothing but water now I wouldn't want you to spoil the seams I've sewn for you"* Truth: Bone structures and pouting lips, thigh gaps and protruding hips, tiny waist lines and judding shoulders You are Barbie, plastic as can be you are a paper doll majesty Dressing you up, dress you down   Don't dare grow old so don't let your hair down There shall be no relaxing for you From your high cheek bones to your flawless skin tone. **Modeling icon of anorexia for generation upon generation for little girls with dyslexia of the natural body image Creating dysfunction in societies views of what health and beauty is to all girls.**
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 3:15 PM UTC
Barbie
The rustic sheet of a door screams as we pull it like a scab We step inside this warehouse can Two floors - we're holding hands His eyes lit like a crescent Moon - excited, he yells "daaad!" Our head, like swaying swing We see it all, tongue in cheek Like controls without the freak It's so much fun it stings An asymmetric wasteland Convenient and distorted The walls - bleak and boarded A symbolic sleight of hand This is where we feel My father's on the catwalk Like paranoia paraphernalia My son's grip tightens, it's the only thing that's real Absolute felicity To realize what I have in the confines of my hand Imperfection in the making - he doesn't understand Skylarking permissably A reverie to remember His smile - sifting through his eyes Warm, he maneuvers like the flies He was born in December Moving closer to my father He's amidst the in-between Consistently foreseen His motion is no bother He steps along the ply Somehow keen in his demeanor Four-years-old, but greener Tossed and turning - it's the gleaner The sheet has been disturbed He's falling to his death I'm blanketed in sweat This cannot be deserved My father's eyes - they match my own I tear through the distance Foreseeing and consistent My father is a witness The fear - he's fighting falling We've never known it more His tiny hands just wishing there were nails Collective - we're losing all things I grasp a finger as he falls but not enough to bring him back My son approaches pavement as it fills my throat the same I look him in the eyes as they melt away in pain My body wakes without my mind - hysterically screaming  "DAAAD!"
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 3:00 AM UTC
Dreamboy
The rustic sheet of a door screams as we pull it like a scab We step inside this warehouse can Two floors - we're holding hands His eyes lit like a crescent Moon - excited, he yells "daaad!" Our head, like swaying swing We see it all, tongue in cheek Like controls without the freak It's so much fun it stings An asymmetric wasteland Convenient and distorted The walls - bleak and boarded A symbolic sleight of hand This is where we feel My father's on the catwalk Like paranoia paraphernalia My son's grip tightens, it's the only thing that's real Absolute felicity To realize what I have in the confines of my hand Imperfection in the making - he doesn't understand Skylarking permissably A reverie to remember His smile - sifting through his eyes Warm, he maneuvers like the flies He was born in December Moving closer to my father He's amidst the in-between Consistently foreseen His motion is no bother He steps along the ply Somehow keen in his demeanor Four-years-old, but greener Tossed and turning - it's the gleaner The sheet has been disturbed He's falling to his death I'm blanketed in sweat This cannot be deserved My father's eyes - they match my own I tear through the distance Foreseeing and consistent My father is a witness The fear - he's fighting falling We've never known it more His tiny hands just wishing there were nails Collective - we're losing all things I grasp a finger as he falls but not enough to bring him back My son approaches pavement as it fills my throat the same I look him in the eyes as they melt away in pain My body wakes without my mind - hysterically screaming  "DAAAD!"
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Tight roping the catwalk of life's hopes and dreams I  tiptoe through trying to avoid hurting myself upon Jagged pieces of broken glass Obstacles to my aims and desires Atop the saffron walls of my blue sky thinking. From here I could allow myself to fall into blackness containing all possibilities Or stay safe aloft and on high Continuing to follow my narrow path My feet tire of this peregrine journey And yearn to search for colours new To allow myself to pass through deepest black Through to purest white And enter the rainbow Where in life's spectrum All souls glow within its flow.
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Jul 31, 2016
Jul 31, 2016 at 12:09 PM UTC
The rainbow
A private jet to Paris Selfie at Eiffel tower Catwalk on a runway Pose for a magazine Celebrate with caviar Jet lag... eyes closed Snoring on the bed A happening dream Sweet success starts with first... a dream.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 10:34 PM UTC
A dream........
somehow I managed to cram my *** into these fashion pants so I can make it to the days sales meeting to check my fleeting self esteem somehow this all got out of hand I misunderstand what I misunderstood this sick trip down becoming Johnny Hollywood champagne glasses and next years denim learning to look just right like them just to get tight with em learn right now that you are small and you can never be like them so learn to eat everything they're feeding and pick your teeth clean with the bones of those you're cheating this is Hollywood red carpets and models' stares This is Hollywood designer drugs on designer rugs up spiral stairs this is Hollywood rich ***** kids with tempers flared this is the top of the world in your dreams and no one else really cares somehow I managed to fight this depression looking for a job in a recession my hair lines recession partying like it's an obsession somehow this rip off called growing up has me over a toilet throwing up gagging on everything I misunderstood becoming Johnny Hollywood model chicks posing and poser friends learning to look at them both with the same fake grin learning right now that you will live to lie and do it again you'll bite your tounge to the powers and when your dream fails you'll buy new friends this is Hollywood ******* business cards and winks this is Hollywood everyone talks but nobody thinks this is Hollywood hit top but beware if you sink when you're number one everyone loves you and stares but when you're Johnny Hollywood nobody else really ******* cares
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Apr 26, 2012
Apr 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM UTC
CATWALK
somehow I managed to cram my *** into these fashion pants so I can make it to the days sales meeting to check my fleeting self esteem somehow this all got out of hand I misunderstand what I misunderstood this sick trip down becoming Johnny Hollywood champagne glasses and next years denim learning to look just right like them just to get tight with em learn right now that you are small and you can never be like them so learn to eat everything they're feeding and pick your teeth clean with the bones of those you're cheating this is Hollywood red carpets and models' stares This is Hollywood designer drugs on designer rugs up spiral stairs this is Hollywood rich ***** kids with tempers flared this is the top of the world in your dreams and no one else really cares somehow I managed to fight this depression looking for a job in a recession my hair lines recession partying like it's an obsession somehow this rip off called growing up has me over a toilet throwing up gagging on everything I misunderstood becoming Johnny Hollywood model chicks posing and poser friends learning to look at them both with the same fake grin learning right now that you will live to lie and do it again you'll bite your tounge to the powers and when your dream fails you'll buy new friends this is Hollywood ******* business cards and winks this is Hollywood everyone talks but nobody thinks this is Hollywood hit top but beware if you sink when you're number one everyone loves you and stares but when you're Johnny Hollywood nobody else really ******* cares
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Teen model Shonali Khatun strutted the catwalk as the audience cheered at a fashion show in Bangladesh's capital. But Shonali is no ordinary model, and this was no ordinary show. She and the 14 other models are survivors of acid attacks, common in this south Asian country, where spurned lovers or disgruntled family members sometimes resort to hurling skin-burning acid at their victims. The fashion show, held Tuesday night in Dhaka and attended by fashion lovers, rights activists and diplomats including the US ambassador to Bangladesh, aimed to redefine the notion of beauty while calling attention to the menace of such attacks. For 14-year-old Shonali, the event was nothing short of empowering. She was attacked just days after she was born amid a property dispute involving her parents, and was left with burn scars on her face and arms. She spent nearly three years in a hospital and underwent eight operations. Her attacker has never been caught. "I am so happy to be here," she said. "One day I want to be a physician." The models, including three men, walked the catwalk, dancing and singing and showcasing woven handloom Bangladeshi designs. The show was choreographed by local designer Bibi Russel. Organisers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often overlooked, are a vital part of society. They deliberately chose to hold the event on the eve of International Women's Day. "We are here today to show their inner strength, as they have come a long way," said Farah Kabir, country director of ActionAid Bangladesh, which organised the show. "I often take inspiration from them. Their courage is huge." Bangladesh has struggled to deal with acid attacks in recent decades, and has instituted harsh punishments for the perpetrators, including the death penalty. The country has also trained doctors to treat such sensitive cases and attempted to control the sale of acid, but has failed to eliminate the scourge entirely. In 2016, some 44 people were attacked with acid in Bangladesh - an annual number that has remained relatively stable. "I am ashamed of having such things in the country," Kabir said. "Unfortunately, in Bangladesh we do have acid victims because of either gender discrimination or violence, or because of greed. And we want to remind everyone the kind of injustice that has been meted out to them."Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 8:57 PM UTC
Bangladeshi fashion show sees acid attack victims take to the catwalk
Teen model Shonali Khatun strutted the catwalk as the audience cheered at a fashion show in Bangladesh's capital. But Shonali is no ordinary model, and this was no ordinary show. She and the 14 other models are survivors of acid attacks, common in this south Asian country, where spurned lovers or disgruntled family members sometimes resort to hurling skin-burning acid at their victims. The fashion show, held Tuesday night in Dhaka and attended by fashion lovers, rights activists and diplomats including the US ambassador to Bangladesh, aimed to redefine the notion of beauty while calling attention to the menace of such attacks. For 14-year-old Shonali, the event was nothing short of empowering. She was attacked just days after she was born amid a property dispute involving her parents, and was left with burn scars on her face and arms. She spent nearly three years in a hospital and underwent eight operations. Her attacker has never been caught. "I am so happy to be here," she said. "One day I want to be a physician." The models, including three men, walked the catwalk, dancing and singing and showcasing woven handloom Bangladeshi designs. The show was choreographed by local designer Bibi Russel. Organisers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often overlooked, are a vital part of society. They deliberately chose to hold the event on the eve of International Women's Day. "We are here today to show their inner strength, as they have come a long way," said Farah Kabir, country director of ActionAid Bangladesh, which organised the show. "I often take inspiration from them. Their courage is huge." Bangladesh has struggled to deal with acid attacks in recent decades, and has instituted harsh punishments for the perpetrators, including the death penalty. The country has also trained doctors to treat such sensitive cases and attempted to control the sale of acid, but has failed to eliminate the scourge entirely. In 2016, some 44 people were attacked with acid in Bangladesh - an annual number that has remained relatively stable. "I am ashamed of having such things in the country," Kabir said. "Unfortunately, in Bangladesh we do have acid victims because of either gender discrimination or violence, or because of greed. And we want to remind everyone the kind of injustice that has been meted out to them."Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/red-carpet-celebrity-dresses
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Beneath the water lived a nymph, beautiful as A flower, if you like woman with petals Growing from out of their face And lips adorned with myriad metals Moving silently with infinite grace. Fishermen who caught her, in alarm Tossed her back with dismayed cries Fearful that she would do them harm When she exposed her fangs, darting from her eyes, Forked tongues from each palm. But apart from all that, she was a delightful creature As proud as a catwalk model Sexuality impressed into each feature Death in each cuddle, Poison injected from each freshly opening suture. At the sea’s dark bottom lived the nymph Devouring fish raw, terrifying sharks and barracuda, Dining on shellfish and prawns for lunch; Darting amongst Angel Fish and eels, a hungry aficionada, Tearing into shreds what she could not crunch. Gentle with her own kind until coition Was complete, when if hungry she devoured Her temporary mate without undue consideration, No please or thank you. Feeling duly empowered By her actions, as confirmed by her explosive, acrid indigestion. No longer young, her children dead, She glides through the water from China to France A preposterous seaweed hat upon her head And in several places, impaling her scaly flesh a serrated coral branch. Her sartorial taste filling even the sharks with fin-quaking dread. The last of the kind. The others are (literally) toast. Protected by animal charities here and abroad She gladly subsists on ambitious swimmers who venture far from the coast All she can now catch or afford. A capricious tyrant until the last, when, victim of a fisherman’s boast She was hoist up like iniquitous cod Out of the sea, paraded on the deck while she struggled for breath. Shot at. Abused. Poked and speared with a steel tipped rod, Dragged into the harbour, pummelled close to death. Screaming out, as she in unexpected agony died: “I thought, I truly thought, I was god!”
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 2:06 PM UTC
THE NYMPH
Beneath the water lived a nymph, beautiful as A flower, if you like woman with petals Growing from out of their face And lips adorned with myriad metals Moving silently with infinite grace. Fishermen who caught her, in alarm Tossed her back with dismayed cries Fearful that she would do them harm When she exposed her fangs, darting from her eyes, Forked tongues from each palm. But apart from all that, she was a delightful creature As proud as a catwalk model Sexuality impressed into each feature Death in each cuddle, Poison injected from each freshly opening suture. At the sea’s dark bottom lived the nymph Devouring fish raw, terrifying sharks and barracuda, Dining on shellfish and prawns for lunch; Darting amongst Angel Fish and eels, a hungry aficionada, Tearing into shreds what she could not crunch. Gentle with her own kind until coition Was complete, when if hungry she devoured Her temporary mate without undue consideration, No please or thank you. Feeling duly empowered By her actions, as confirmed by her explosive, acrid indigestion. No longer young, her children dead, She glides through the water from China to France A preposterous seaweed hat upon her head And in several places, impaling her scaly flesh a serrated coral branch. Her sartorial taste filling even the sharks with fin-quaking dread. The last of the kind. The others are (literally) toast. Protected by animal charities here and abroad She gladly subsists on ambitious swimmers who venture far from the coast All she can now catch or afford. A capricious tyrant until the last, when, victim of a fisherman’s boast She was hoist up like iniquitous cod Out of the sea, paraded on the deck while she struggled for breath. Shot at. Abused. Poked and speared with a steel tipped rod, Dragged into the harbour, pummelled close to death. Screaming out, as she in unexpected agony died: “I thought, I truly thought, I was god!”
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(G) Life as a burden is decent Treading in hatched up waterways Swimming in the green brine ebbing tides Drowned in emotive stances A being intensified in rapid torrents Ohh my…fickleness soaked in curiosity (J) Decent sounds pretty substantial I lay acquainted to swampy lowlands My footsteps have tasted salty waters Stepped, wadding inside the muddy landscape Inch by inch, halfway, fully submerged Overloaded by the tide gasping for oxygen (G) Populaces catwalk with intellectual deficit Footsteps bereft of creativity and eloquence The grounds lay dry strangling the in-between The desert begging to lose their sandy dry skin The forest whispers with a revolt of transformation The luscious green splash life sparking drones (J) Your analogy sways the natured array of trees The inspiration stings the sun to radiate warmth All patched in the blueness of bellowing skies My lungs deflate even on intense inhalation I tarmac on the passage of time, differently wired Intermittently cyanosed in faded lived moments (G) For poetry and art scaffolds and shapes reality It sparks life and eliminates the drone mentality Artists arouse inspiration and boost human nature It bridges the narrowing ledge of ( human diversity/ instead of/ diverse species) It drives conversation and deepens basic pleasantries Rotating notions, promoted to a present and active human (J) I object not, for human essence is essential A foundation of humanity that inspires and frees A deed that dips in the depth of a lush oasis Most sunk and waving “a celebration of celebrities” Falsified lionization, a control of master puppeteer Amused by insight, the reciprocal contract of empathy G= Graff1980 J=SassyJ
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Jan 18, 2016
Jan 18, 2016 at 7:01 AM UTC
No.2 Reciprocal Contract of Empathy- Collaboration with Graff1980 (#one-a-week-series)
(G) Life as a burden is decent Treading in hatched up waterways Swimming in the green brine ebbing tides Drowned in emotive stances A being intensified in rapid torrents Ohh my…fickleness soaked in curiosity (J) Decent sounds pretty substantial I lay acquainted to swampy lowlands My footsteps have tasted salty waters Stepped, wadding inside the muddy landscape Inch by inch, halfway, fully submerged Overloaded by the tide gasping for oxygen (G) Populaces catwalk with intellectual deficit Footsteps bereft of creativity and eloquence The grounds lay dry strangling the in-between The desert begging to lose their sandy dry skin The forest whispers with a revolt of transformation The luscious green splash life sparking drones (J) Your analogy sways the natured array of trees The inspiration stings the sun to radiate warmth All patched in the blueness of bellowing skies My lungs deflate even on intense inhalation I tarmac on the passage of time, differently wired Intermittently cyanosed in faded lived moments (G) For poetry and art scaffolds and shapes reality It sparks life and eliminates the drone mentality Artists arouse inspiration and boost human nature It bridges the narrowing ledge of ( human diversity/ instead of/ diverse species) It drives conversation and deepens basic pleasantries Rotating notions, promoted to a present and active human (J) I object not, for human essence is essential A foundation of humanity that inspires and frees A deed that dips in the depth of a lush oasis Most sunk and waving “a celebration of celebrities” Falsified lionization, a control of master puppeteer Amused by insight, the reciprocal contract of empathy G= Graff1980 J=SassyJ
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a bedtime story In the distance stands a lighthouse seeing all with cyclops eye once a beacon, now a hollow, dead in misted moonlit sky. Proudly once she ruled the headland, warning all of crag and shoal trusted friend to salt scoured sea dogs, smugglers caught within her glow. Beauty lived as Keepers mistress 'till one day her love did bloom walking clifftops with her lover brought her ending, far too soon. Bloodied, torn by cliff face ragged screaming for the life she craved, Beauty held her rounded belly As fury deep hit waters grave. Beauty stands alone in darkness there above the tempest sea bloated souls of those who perished now her only company.  When the moon is high above us wrapped in rags and witching stare Beauty stands atop the catwalk weeds 'a winding through her hair.
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
The ballad of Beauty
I was deep in the land of shadows Halfway between the living and dead In the awful silence of void The atmospheres soft And it’s people plastic Mephistophelean and astute When a band of ruffians stormed The inferno beneath With volcanic tremor Sweeping down like a tidal wave Of so terrific Tsunamic magnitude Spurning all restraint Slowed down my pace By reciprocal math of wizardly Substituting the direct proportion for inverse I dragged and they almost flew Corpsic form and tattered cloth Is all I see and Gaping mouth oozing blood Grotesque creatures tinting hell After me and almost done I should out loud voiceless I reach for the nothingness And there’s no thing I stretch still to scale it down Wishing I had wings And take flight Or superhuman like Superman Hopping I possessed metaphysical force Like the Matrix upgrade version To disembody and dematerialize And so vanish into stillness To hang in space out of sight By the trickery of magic To cast spell like lady of the Voodoo And freeze plant herbage and the human Instantly and give a diabolic glean Make a catwalk of villain trump To the disgust of victim And ultimate flown of the gods That hardly smile anyway But I am human and my powers feeble My infinity lies bound within Time and daylight The parameters of finite In a rat race so unfair Distances too close and defeat too plain I die out and awoke within To brace another day with headache Devil, I escaped Gehenna That gives me surety I will outpace you For what I saw when I slept Hail Tartarus I am Morpheus
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:29 AM UTC
I Slept and Saw
I was deep in the land of shadows Halfway between the living and dead In the awful silence of void The atmospheres soft And it’s people plastic Mephistophelean and astute When a band of ruffians stormed The inferno beneath With volcanic tremor Sweeping down like a tidal wave Of so terrific Tsunamic magnitude Spurning all restraint Slowed down my pace By reciprocal math of wizardly Substituting the direct proportion for inverse I dragged and they almost flew Corpsic form and tattered cloth Is all I see and Gaping mouth oozing blood Grotesque creatures tinting hell After me and almost done I should out loud voiceless I reach for the nothingness And there’s no thing I stretch still to scale it down Wishing I had wings And take flight Or superhuman like Superman Hopping I possessed metaphysical force Like the Matrix upgrade version To disembody and dematerialize And so vanish into stillness To hang in space out of sight By the trickery of magic To cast spell like lady of the Voodoo And freeze plant herbage and the human Instantly and give a diabolic glean Make a catwalk of villain trump To the disgust of victim And ultimate flown of the gods That hardly smile anyway But I am human and my powers feeble My infinity lies bound within Time and daylight The parameters of finite In a rat race so unfair Distances too close and defeat too plain I die out and awoke within To brace another day with headache Devil, I escaped Gehenna That gives me surety I will outpace you For what I saw when I slept Hail Tartarus I am Morpheus
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you see, i'm not so good with words, and cannot weave lines that rhyme, or compose brilliant poems. my words, if only i could find them, will tell you how much you're beautiful, about your sweet smile, and your beautiful hair. i can't wait, for when we get to hold hands, when i get to catwalk in your size 42 high heels, go to a spanish club together, and reminisce why we don't talk about bruno. i feel so lucky, thinking about the randomness of how we met, how you caught me in a way i'll always remember, or maybe we really are meant to be together? i always blush, when i think about your sweet smiles and beautiful hair, the standing girl emoji and the doll from squid game, the too many times to count i stare at your beautiful pictures.
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Feb 27, 2022
Feb 27, 2022 at 2:35 AM UTC
i thought you wanted a love letter
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 4:38 AM UTC
Catwalk ****
Dear, Pa – it’s your once-son Danny – or better known as Sandy, or Annie or; Ann-Marie and to some folks on 19th Street, I’m known as a sinner, a ****** My life is a movie, like a catwalk model; and I play a very special person, who’s got no-one to lean on, no mommy to hold, and; Wait, I know her. She’s familiar to me like, I’ve known her since the beginning of time, but right now, in physical form, she stands in front of me in the; mirror, Pa. Yes, I am her reflection, no I mean she’s my reflection and I realize that; all along, this whole time, I told myself a big-fat lie; as a child, hatred and anger were the tears I cried. So – this one’s for you, my king, my liege; this one’s the promise that we’ll keep; this one’s the bond between our sheets; but this one’s the one that’ll point at you; before I lift the middle one, to say, ***** You!” But hey, Pa – here I am. A woman, not a man. A bonafide, sophisticated lady in minx with, real diamond earrings and fierce wings; those nails, my nose and my lips – make me feel like I’ve power at my fingertips. Tonight is my show – it’s my time to shine. And I’m going to **** it like I know I can – so thank you Pa, and thank you, ma’am. For giving me the strength to be who I am.
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Feb 10, 2021
Feb 10, 2021 at 7:13 PM UTC
Transparent Now
You’ve moved a step forward And life won’t be the same. But after the round of applause Your daydream is abruptly ended. Now, take your turn To walk the stage After the microphones echoes Projecting your name. (3/21/14 @xirlleelang)
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May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 at 12:41 AM UTC
Your Catwalk of Triumph
*yeah, they cut out my third ****** from my shoulder blade and i turned into a bond girl; oh god, you're not one of those bulletproof people confused about love like a nurse confused by a disease? you are? oh god help me... you'll go far! straight to daddy's pocket purse and saturday night... you'll throw stilettos at chandeliers and expect a catwalk blackout... god forbid that should happen with everyone biting their toenails.* between us we share the bathroom and the bedroom, we sit on the stilt framing see-through of it admirably airy and welcoming stars: wishing for foxes and women respectively, all you can hear is a meow... meow... meow... meow meow... moo... µ... meow... meow interchange between these two rooms in the garden air, it’s like a fetish orchestra giving ‘prior to sleep’ crescendos, and it makes sense to write a forgivable poem of this least content, content with the least as me writing it; well d'uh, of course i had to write it, i wasn't going to stage a boxing match with stella artois losing care for words and taking care of action, i was going to mediate the page like a kite being passed on with paddington bear's secret inscriptions to get from london to sydney; i hope it worked. the drunkard? oh... he's either silent, crying, laughing, or simply reading.
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 7:19 PM UTC
sarcastic impromptu with quarus
She gazes down on a daily sea, Of expectant lesson hungry faces, The teacher uses a carrot not a stick, To prove these cast-off kids stomachs, Will love them when they cook creatively. Vogue-like poet on the catwalk of life, She sees life in little things each day. Weekend dates in the big smoke, Will blue suit and red shoes work, With him again, again tonight?
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 9:14 AM UTC
Struggle
I fear I've become formulaic and dishonest though honesty has never flown freely when I bleed. I instead inscribe insolence, decadence dolled up in demand and hand picked participles to show my snappy wordsuits down this two dimension catwalk. I've tasted the fraudulent freeverse fantasy and washed out what I've done years past, former lives, servitude to scheming rhymes and tracking down the feet meter by meter. See! I own the jargon, jot it down freely with a casuality undeserved. Read carefully, cause herein spouts my effort. Slink back to default, once in whiles, show them that you got it still. Baring teeth or gleaming smiles differ at souls' windowsills. And simply so, it seems again like pox against my aching skin I simply substitute some time to rhyme and let it all begin...
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 12:58 AM UTC
F5
well it was the alternative to gregory isaac’s night nurse... but then the bouncer on the catwalk with flares... skidding up on a rhyme and cooling it with an edge of the appropriately cut fashion... chased it. innit kamikaze (rap’s shortchange in shaken pears for martini bond and chanced cockney slang in shakespeare, all 90’s groove though) lyric’o gangsters in the mollusk slush two’s up freed with the sly sly s.o.s. sloth chinning up to the chariots of nero’s double for portrait: naa na na na na na na na na na na na na naa, naa na na na na na na na na na na na na naa (i miscounted... didn't i?) - where kurt cobian’s yeah yeah yeah used to be along with r.e.m.’s cowboy astronaut. come mike jagger with me the liszt skeleton of b & w’s worth of crescendos tipping lazy waitresses with a toreador’s worth of breezy napkins folded, flapped and sneezed into - i’ll be dumping my shadow into splits for extras to boot frying it in the hiroshima of paparazzi’s blinking. failures are worth other people’s success when playing the lyre to a burn out of capitals: anyway, edinburgh is the ultimate cameo in the literary bloodline begot by paris for the 20th century ultimatum of identity scripted.
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Oct 9, 2015
Oct 9, 2015 at 8:38 PM UTC
burrow it up in the redribdge borough, it’s called flimsy on the sly
A bone meets another bone And you have a joint ! Joints are allright ! Cartilage ! Without them you couldn't possibly dance ! Imagine only your sacrum and your ilium and no sacro-iliac joint And no innominate bones Imagine just a second a pelvis without coccyx And your seven cervical Your twelve thoracic And your five lumbar vertebrae Hanging loose ! How could you possibly swing your pelvis From one side to the other Without your pelvic floor ? No more grand plié No more passé développé à la seconde No more attitude en avant on pointe Farewell penché Farewell attitude derrière ! See what I mean ! That's why I always say I'd rather be with no bone No skull no heart Ï 'd rather be a hurricane Wind has no skeleton Wind needs no joint Wind goes naked No shoes, no underwear And despite of all that Wind is a ballet dancer, a danseur étoile With no dimples in the back. Wind can lie supine and stand upright Feet parallel, legs stretched Wind has no greater nor lesser trochanter Wind has no right gluteus maximus muscle No feet flexed, no ****** femoris muscle Wind never gets pinched, stuck nor jammed Wind is constant ricochet, yo-yo, meanders Gulf Stream ! Wind is a catwalk model Dancing its swinging walk
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Aug 27, 2019
Aug 27, 2019 at 6:50 PM UTC
A bone meets another bone
Sly: The Duffle bag part 1: His Days Were Not Like Most! It was a typical summer night, not a single cloud to gloom the gloomy sky. The sidewalks reeked of a smell that most would consider disgusting, the smell of prostitution eclipsed by drug infested buildings highlighted by the scent of ***** made for a fun night out on the town. Sly was the type to take advantage, and he did. His rough external features were perfectly matched his all black outfit and black trench coat. He was a man of few words, few emotions, and few delights. Each step he took that night echoed through the streets so loud the wind it self would stop. His eyes were red, drained, tired, he had been up all night thinking, wondering, but now he was ready for action. The old warehouse downtown had been abandoned for sometime now. Its cold and unfriendly, a place Sly could call a home, an urban retreat of sorts for him and his duffle bag. His red duffle bag, that duffle bag housed an arsenal, an arsenal of weapons so treacherous, it had intent to inflict immeasurable amounts of misery for a common denominator. Sly was Hungry, angry; his scope was set at the top of the old warehouse. Sly had climbed the catwalk with precious percussion. He set the red duffle bag down next to him. Sly sat down on a beam that barley supported his weight. A large window 45 degrees to the right of him, made a great position. He opened his red duffle bag! A ****** riffle laid cold and dormant waiting and wanting the touch of existence. The energy felt by his emotional bond to his riffle was indescribable. He loaded the piece. Each bullet loaded the clip as if tenors were in harmony with the alto. The voices that sang revenge sang with an unholy cry, yet the confidence in his faith would serve him as he uttered the symbol of his determination. Slowly he made love to his weapon, cleaning and feeling it’s every corner. Across the road no more than a mile, stood a house. House where political propaganda represented it’s housing guests. Senators of Satin! See Sly was in a very particular business; a business most don’t even know exist…Sly was in the business of killing Demons! .
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Aug 5, 2010
Aug 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM UTC
Sly: The Duffle bag part 1:
Sly: The Duffle bag part 1: His Days Were Not Like Most! It was a typical summer night, not a single cloud to gloom the gloomy sky. The sidewalks reeked of a smell that most would consider disgusting, the smell of prostitution eclipsed by drug infested buildings highlighted by the scent of ***** made for a fun night out on the town. Sly was the type to take advantage, and he did. His rough external features were perfectly matched his all black outfit and black trench coat. He was a man of few words, few emotions, and few delights. Each step he took that night echoed through the streets so loud the wind it self would stop. His eyes were red, drained, tired, he had been up all night thinking, wondering, but now he was ready for action. The old warehouse downtown had been abandoned for sometime now. Its cold and unfriendly, a place Sly could call a home, an urban retreat of sorts for him and his duffle bag. His red duffle bag, that duffle bag housed an arsenal, an arsenal of weapons so treacherous, it had intent to inflict immeasurable amounts of misery for a common denominator. Sly was Hungry, angry; his scope was set at the top of the old warehouse. Sly had climbed the catwalk with precious percussion. He set the red duffle bag down next to him. Sly sat down on a beam that barley supported his weight. A large window 45 degrees to the right of him, made a great position. He opened his red duffle bag! A ****** riffle laid cold and dormant waiting and wanting the touch of existence. The energy felt by his emotional bond to his riffle was indescribable. He loaded the piece. Each bullet loaded the clip as if tenors were in harmony with the alto. The voices that sang revenge sang with an unholy cry, yet the confidence in his faith would serve him as he uttered the symbol of his determination. Slowly he made love to his weapon, cleaning and feeling it’s every corner. Across the road no more than a mile, stood a house. House where political propaganda represented it’s housing guests. Senators of Satin! See Sly was in a very particular business; a business most don’t even know exist…Sly was in the business of killing Demons! .
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We birds find food near end of day springing from the ground to shake wild seeds afree See low a cat creeps now so near We are the subject of his walk Leap to the meager air we fly Safe from hunter's stalk
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 11:37 PM UTC
Catwalk