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"clogs" poems
You agree When you want to shout, curse, and swear The Almighty....answer this weeping willow Made of concrete air Of unfeeling movement You cower behinds browned bodies, montezuma minds, and your license Power to go as you please, be as you please, please help me to see The inner child trapped in mordant cornerstones, and sitting on your own weight To grasp the folly by the throat and twist him into existance Not so much absolution In agreement with other fancies Prayers unanswered Dwelling on ginger hands and knees In *********** when his course has never enter into being....real Or really close His path to plunge thick into purple passionate trance His path askew from my own Though a followed trendy line A drink When it makes your journey into trees, and speed, and gluttony A laugh When scorned mouth spewed and sput into russet wounds already ***** A smoke When it clogs your memory into patchwork and quilted thoughts unwoven Youre unspoken! You agree?
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Feb 22, 2018
Feb 22, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
Just you
*Yeah, I'm at a point where I'm handicaped by fear When stimulant sadness clogs my eyes but can't shed a tear A point when I'm afraid of both the future and my past Feeling tethered to bad karma,feeling cursed Stuck in this minute with the clock ice paused On the fringes of life where all doors are closed And heated so that not even opportunity can dare knock Seated in the quiet of the noisy silence watching the clock Frozen to a single moment yet seasons are ticking And there're signals that rest of the world's moving on I'm picking I'm living like a ghost that died a million years ago One whose owner ailed of an incurable syndrome pride A disease born of a blood ******* vector called ego One from which the wondering soul's holder died I'm at a point when I ask myself why I was born When It's clear I have to work my fingers to the bone But not even myself can get me to my feet to start the journey I'm at crossroads, and I know I have to choose Because I've got rest of my life at stake, everything to lose At now, and thing about now is knowing the actual value of having money I'm at a point when a have to make the big calls, hold or move on Keep being a cry baby or put the badass pants on Looking back to the age when I was afraid of Gekkos And it's how I feel calling out and feedback's my own echoes I'm at a point where I don't need spectacles to see my mistakes Yet it still feels like I'm not ready and haven't what it takes*
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Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM UTC
CROSSROADS
The Christmas rush has started, and the countdown has begun Advent doors are opened, but look what you have done You've ridiculed the Bounty bar, and your spoiling all the fun Why buy a Celebration, if your not happy after one ? What's behind the cardboard doors, what did you all expect A gold ring perhaps, or the keys for a corvette? Why bother with an advent, when you have no respect There's no need for chocolate genocide, or coconut neglect You shouldn't be so outraged, with your Christmas Celebrations I don't understand the malice, or the advent hesitations If you don't want a bounty, buy heroes or sensations It's hardly a matter for Interpol, or the united nations Celebrations are your choice, there's no cause for your regret The outcome is quite obvious, why are you so upset Are the pictures not a clue, to what your gonna get ? No rarity of Bounty hunters, so don't mess with Boba Fett Are Maltesers that much lighter, in a Galaxy far away Maybe you will find Mars, in between the Milky Way A Twix or Galaxy Caramel, they we're for a different day But you've dissed your celebrations, and no longer want to play Some YouTube clips have surfaced, and I have read the blogs I think it's just pathetic, seeing chocolate thrown down bogs Your creating your own misery, as well as yule time logs You won't be very happy, when your toilet blocks and clogs On day two you still complained, and you wanted to resist Is that because the chocolate, was not on your Christmas list Would you be pleased with mistletoe, if you never did get kissed Christmas spirit has been lost, with your Snickers in a twist Some people are just morons, that's the message that they've sent Their expectations are to high, and cruel jokes are never meant Why is Bounty not as good, to start of an event A Snickers in your calendar, doesn't mean a ruined advent
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Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 at 1:58 PM UTC
Advent hesitations with your Christmas Celebrations
The Christmas rush has started, and the countdown has begun Advent doors are opened, but look what you have done You've ridiculed the Bounty bar, and your spoiling all the fun Why buy a Celebration, if your not happy after one ? What's behind the cardboard doors, what did you all expect A gold ring perhaps, or the keys for a corvette? Why bother with an advent, when you have no respect There's no need for chocolate genocide, or coconut neglect You shouldn't be so outraged, with your Christmas Celebrations I don't understand the malice, or the advent hesitations If you don't want a bounty, buy heroes or sensations It's hardly a matter for Interpol, or the united nations Celebrations are your choice, there's no cause for your regret The outcome is quite obvious, why are you so upset Are the pictures not a clue, to what your gonna get ? No rarity of Bounty hunters, so don't mess with Boba Fett Are Maltesers that much lighter, in a Galaxy far away Maybe you will find Mars, in between the Milky Way A Twix or Galaxy Caramel, they we're for a different day But you've dissed your celebrations, and no longer want to play Some YouTube clips have surfaced, and I have read the blogs I think it's just pathetic, seeing chocolate thrown down bogs Your creating your own misery, as well as yule time logs You won't be very happy, when your toilet blocks and clogs On day two you still complained, and you wanted to resist Is that because the chocolate, was not on your Christmas list Would you be pleased with mistletoe, if you never did get kissed Christmas spirit has been lost, with your Snickers in a twist Some people are just morons, that's the message that they've sent Their expectations are to high, and cruel jokes are never meant Why is Bounty not as good, to start of an event A Snickers in your calendar, doesn't mean a ruined advent
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They say jealousys the ugliest trait,but, I can't help but feel the disgusting ping of envy when your smiling at her . My throat clogs up with thirst for your attention .It angers me when you let there nasty slutty hands go up and down your biceps . When they call you crazy red is all I see . Don't you see what you do to me ?
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM UTC
Jealousy at heart
cigarette smoke clogs her arteries twelve packs a week bleeding teeth and nails dawdle in her broken hallucinations the cloud of harsh chemicals mask the iron in dust it coats her tongue and hands and feet the minerals latch onto the crevasses of her flesh refusing to relinquish their rightful territory she knows all of this all it took was ages in a bathtub overcome with mildew for their stubborn tendencies to become evident she's since abandoned attempting to scrub the brine away
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May 1, 2018
May 1, 2018 at 4:54 PM UTC
smoke
Life is my grave Yet I don't rest in peace Dirt clogs up my windpipe Bugs crawl into my ears The blackness engulfs my vision And I gasp for breathe As the bitches stab me Relentlessly in the back With cruel whispers and rumors Predatory glints in their eyes Finally choking me With their hypocrisy
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Sep 3, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 at 12:41 PM UTC
Grave
Once I loved to act. Do impressions, impress others with my whim now I don't do that my ability to charm is slim I would laugh, and make faces in all kinds of places and in all kinds of spaces I'd go do these faces Now I don't do that when I try I fail my throat clogs with phlegm and my jokes have gone stale Once, recently I tried I got a laugh, it was great my heart fluttered with excitement it might not be too late I went on and on, having a great time when the day was over I went to bed Thought about how great things were thought about how I would be back for sure I haven't tried since then my one shot at revival I am lonely again my whit is archival
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 7:34 PM UTC
Impressions
The London* underground Shoes Chatterbox Choo Choo train Mr. Earl Gray Greyhound Doing cartwheels Head over heels Milk the Cow "Going Moo" in her Jimmy Choo Yahoos Kickapoos The Odd Mom Cocker Doddle Doo Goody Two shoes 'Peekapoo" The women living in her shoes All Mighty God    The dog to chew Her most expensive shoe Lasous The genius La Cruz Goody two shoes That's show biz Vacation Dr. Seuss John Hughes The master of clues La mousse Love truce X-File Instagram, please smile In her ballet slippers He's at the Hub drinking beer In the London Fog Her wooden clogs Ladybird chirper He's down to his goulashes? Got sidetrack hot fever lovesick La muse shoes Cozy at the caboose Playing golf in the Gulf of Mexico You ain't got a thing if you don't have the shoes to swing Kick up your shoes and start to sing
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Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019 at 11:53 AM UTC
Goody Two Shoes
On a green leaf For frogs Illuminated by the surface under There she sits on A part A piece I looked as a picture Dazing wondrously and scouring with pairs My sandals my feet my hands All my fingers and nails My ears My toes of ten and legs Knees and my shoulders The missing piece or so i thought under The afterthought Full of doubters For the plants grew all tall None could be any taller Dazzling danglers A field under the stars. Girly willed as am I Which could not seem possible Acceptance aches Belief breaks Even the words I speak, write or sing, (Shall I Hear it...) over there it only echos against the busy chatter and travels back home Clogs ******** Reminding me that a life can be extinguished with mere disbelief. Disbelief and ignorance another pair... Girly willed as I am Nodding behind books Fiction, fiction, fiction They neigh So here I go... Thankful prayer as it did happen to us.. And all of it did That it was I who did it. Fuels of her pair by flying passion and wild innocence Now... A human being Limitless like the others Why don't they not see? The rest, the stops, The same scene, there is exactly the same scene...of falls. If they just went out and did it, for a stretch and a walk, Just grow out of leaves, be the branches printed of feathery crease Because I am girly willed Golden meadows lost to become treasure. Fearless of rags she is as I am, Laying afloat of the clouds, linen skies, seas and drifting through the weightless sand Fearless forever.
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Oct 27, 2018
Oct 27, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
Where the girls are
On a green leaf For frogs Illuminated by the surface under There she sits on A part A piece I looked as a picture Dazing wondrously and scouring with pairs My sandals my feet my hands All my fingers and nails My ears My toes of ten and legs Knees and my shoulders The missing piece or so i thought under The afterthought Full of doubters For the plants grew all tall None could be any taller Dazzling danglers A field under the stars. Girly willed as am I Which could not seem possible Acceptance aches Belief breaks Even the words I speak, write or sing, (Shall I Hear it...) over there it only echos against the busy chatter and travels back home Clogs ******** Reminding me that a life can be extinguished with mere disbelief. Disbelief and ignorance another pair... Girly willed as I am Nodding behind books Fiction, fiction, fiction They neigh So here I go... Thankful prayer as it did happen to us.. And all of it did That it was I who did it. Fuels of her pair by flying passion and wild innocence Now... A human being Limitless like the others Why don't they not see? The rest, the stops, The same scene, there is exactly the same scene...of falls. If they just went out and did it, for a stretch and a walk, Just grow out of leaves, be the branches printed of feathery crease Because I am girly willed Golden meadows lost to become treasure. Fearless of rags she is as I am, Laying afloat of the clouds, linen skies, seas and drifting through the weightless sand Fearless forever.
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The machinesed drones droning ozones made of homogenised genes by replicants from clinical doctrines and empirical indulgences Soulless and efficient, bred for duties destructives Capitalist fodder, programmed ready for earth's **** Regulate as required, inputted subs with pigs hearts Made followers with voracious appetite for blood mechanised barbarians on leash with one track mix Human shire horses in designer shods and faulty gauges Manufactured manufacturers limited and corollated Factories, dormitories partnered with like, watered and bedded till tomorrow, audiod to the Sterling whip Given ample ales, keep blinded and chained Distract and cater to baser instincts, *** *** *** Free 'love' free *** valueless values, what values Enjoy kids must return to work desk seven on the dot Time is money, clogs and production waits for no man, do or your pleasures denied Money, money money, honey for bees, honey for drones Soulless, dehumanised, pale, aged at thirty, heart attacks next Vacuous ghost programmed dunces Malfunctioning entities devoid of humanity Superficial plasticated robots, destruction default Industrial pieces with industrial minds Chemicalized drunks with wired brains They roam around screaming freedom and power!
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 8:28 PM UTC
Our Erstwhile Robots in Gucci......
Life’s an upward struggle, and it makes it so much rougher when the ladder you find yourself climbing is beset by lonely weather. When every other rung is off doing other things, the solitude and altitude bring to mind desolation and the emptiness that brings. No matter the genius emanating from ivory minds, the smartest man among us often finds that brilliance unfiltered clogs up the system, when others must consume the lonely perfume of conceits kept alone, while the common thoughts stay collected like so many sheep in a pen that’s separated from self-same lonely thoughts, that genius oft encounters, left only amongst the happiness that fills up life’s happy coffers. So it goes that lofty ideals become frostbitten by snowcapped mountains of emptiness. Others seek the heights together only during pleasant weather, while those who trounce through snow-packed trails must brave the climes alone tempted only by fate, to descend to summits more frequent than the peaks of accomplishment. Gangrenous lips cannot utter the chilled revelations of those left above too long. So it is left to those below, not inferior from the altitude, just more likely acclimated to the difficult, dull journey of those who spare pristine slopes for the sullied, muddied slush on the tourist trails below.
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 2:49 AM UTC
The Heights of Madness
Days are not smooth! Start with the news of conflict accident, enmity, extortion, inflation and starvation! Clogs everything at night with music of friendship and snigger in the platform of virtual union! But it is full with the misfortune of physical aloofness and cloaked darkness! Napping on With a belief to get light at dawn !
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 2:40 PM UTC
Day of reality- virtual blending and aloofness
"Where's the *** gone?" "I've got a jar of dirt!" "So you are all going to fight them, and you are all going to fight them all on the account of him wanting to **** him?" "Jack. Where's Elizabeth." "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for it just like you promised. So we're all men of our word, really... except for Elizabeth, who is, in fact, a woman." "The lies I told you were not lies" "You lied to me by telling me the truth?" "Yes" "That's good, can I use that?" "You know when you are standing in a high place and suddenly have the urge to jump? …I don't have it" "And that was without even a single drop of *** "You have a cruel mind, Jack Sparrow." "Cruel is a matter of perspective" "You know, for all that pirates are clever clogs, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things." "Aye, the original plan was to use nine pieces of eight to bind Calypso, but when the first court met the Brethren were, to a one, skint broke." "So change the name!" "To what? "Nine pieces of whatever we happened to have in our pockets at the time?" Oh yes, that's very piratey!"
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Jan 4, 2015
Jan 4, 2015 at 8:05 PM UTC
get the reference? [series]
wandering across the splinters of squandered seasons the Hajj of the lost ones completes a broken circle returning with hope to burrow back into the safety of desecrated graveyards welcomed home to the embrace of a cadaverous cloak and the kiss of carrion smudged lips, Hajji's eye the decrepit visage of criminal depravity germination of this Arab Spring mocks us aromas of jasmine elude us emulsified concrete clogs our nostrils burning eyes filled with asbestos dust form grateful blinders to the ruination of reason betrayed arcane remnants of our life lay inert in the open ****** of fractured habitations amidst jumbled rubble the decaying carcasses of razed buildings boast grotesque sculptures of twisted rebar cradling artifacts of a past life pink hair curlers splashed with sickly blood grown mold scavenged bicycles limp on banished parts smashed skulls of dolls weep, her dismembered limb reaches for a lost child’s nursing hand the charred remains of a Persian rug maps the scale of a city’s deconstruction and a frayed regions disconsolation electric luxury flowing water the friendly bustle of the street bespeak expired memories foretelling an unimaginal future sectarian strife enforces  a communal solitary confinement in cold blood we willingly murdered compassion we butchered trust we euthanized our common humanity constructing buildings is easy rebuilding ourselves impossible Music Selection: Segovia, Capricho Arabe Oakland 5/13/14 jbm
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 11:56 AM UTC
Return to Homs
Those dog days of summer Near forgotten and gone, Are stored for the winter, And remembered in song. The dogs' days of winter Tell a different tale, Of dogs pulling sleds In Alaska for mail; Or searching the Alps Bringing whiskey and ale, Panting and pulling In hills, waters and dales. Siberian Huskies, The Great Pyrenees, The Alaskan Malamute, Run off their tails Battling death and disease. The Keeshond   Doesn't wear Wooden clogs, Like the Newfie And Wolfhound, They're winter work dogs. If working in snow Isn't enough to freeze fur, Look to the Lab, In frigid waters In layers of warm flab Helping fishermen, Or retrieving a lad. These warm furied friends Will work til their end. The dog days of summer Ran off with the pack, Leaving the dogs Of our winters To haul, trail and track.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM UTC
The Dogs' Days of Winter
"The tallest poplar I'll grow to be," said the young tree. "Standing above the rest, I'll be crowned the best. Fortified and grown, the forest will be mine to rule alone." Ripped from the roots, and cut down by a man in boots, the dreams quickly faded. "There's not much to make of me now" Thought the tree, whose complexion quickly changed from wide-eyed to jaded. Hauled onto a truck   Off he went. To the lumberyard, the young tree was sent. Chopped to pieces, stripped of his bark. Our young poplar was afraid his life, would never leave a mark. "Some wooden crates they'll make of me" "The peaks of the other trees I'll never see" "I'm useless, I'm broken" "In the forest my name will never be spoken" The story doesn't end though, it's only just begun. For the life of this tree, is one that's not yet done. The lumber was chopped, cut, and carried. To a town of a man named Jack, who was poor but newly married. "I've got little money, but I make good shoes" "I've got to take care of my wife, I've nothing left to lose" "I'll open a store, and become a cobbler" "And with the money I make, I'll buy my family something proper." So Jack took his life savings. And off he went, to open a store, To make enough money to pay the rent. Our poplar was still together, chopped into many pieces. Next to some hardware supplies, and a vendor selling fleeces. "I'll take that lumber, it'll do the job." "Just take my money, and I'll be along" Years passed by as Jack labored hard. A few kids came along, a house, and a fenced in yard. One day a special man came to town. Not the type of man that you see every day, for this man wore a royal crown. "Wooden clogs I need for my feet" "To keep them dry as I walk along the damp street" A chance to make shoes for a king, this was enough to make Jack sing. He looked through his supplies, they weren't enough. To build shoes fit for a king, would be quite tough. "I have just the wood, " he thought to himself. "From when I first built my shop, there is some left on the top shelf. So he took the remaining scraps, and he made new shoes. Shoes for royalty, clogs fit for a man more special than me. And now our poplar finally got his chance. To join in the royal dance. And on the king's feet he stays. Helping him rule the land for the rest of his days. So, if you find yourself cut down before you grow. Just remember, and make sure you know. Your chance will come, sooner or later. To become a part of something greater.
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Mar 4, 2018
Mar 4, 2018 at 7:49 PM UTC
The Poplar Tree
"The tallest poplar I'll grow to be," said the young tree. "Standing above the rest, I'll be crowned the best. Fortified and grown, the forest will be mine to rule alone." Ripped from the roots, and cut down by a man in boots, the dreams quickly faded. "There's not much to make of me now" Thought the tree, whose complexion quickly changed from wide-eyed to jaded. Hauled onto a truck   Off he went. To the lumberyard, the young tree was sent. Chopped to pieces, stripped of his bark. Our young poplar was afraid his life, would never leave a mark. "Some wooden crates they'll make of me" "The peaks of the other trees I'll never see" "I'm useless, I'm broken" "In the forest my name will never be spoken" The story doesn't end though, it's only just begun. For the life of this tree, is one that's not yet done. The lumber was chopped, cut, and carried. To a town of a man named Jack, who was poor but newly married. "I've got little money, but I make good shoes" "I've got to take care of my wife, I've nothing left to lose" "I'll open a store, and become a cobbler" "And with the money I make, I'll buy my family something proper." So Jack took his life savings. And off he went, to open a store, To make enough money to pay the rent. Our poplar was still together, chopped into many pieces. Next to some hardware supplies, and a vendor selling fleeces. "I'll take that lumber, it'll do the job." "Just take my money, and I'll be along" Years passed by as Jack labored hard. A few kids came along, a house, and a fenced in yard. One day a special man came to town. Not the type of man that you see every day, for this man wore a royal crown. "Wooden clogs I need for my feet" "To keep them dry as I walk along the damp street" A chance to make shoes for a king, this was enough to make Jack sing. He looked through his supplies, they weren't enough. To build shoes fit for a king, would be quite tough. "I have just the wood, " he thought to himself. "From when I first built my shop, there is some left on the top shelf. So he took the remaining scraps, and he made new shoes. Shoes for royalty, clogs fit for a man more special than me. And now our poplar finally got his chance. To join in the royal dance. And on the king's feet he stays. Helping him rule the land for the rest of his days. So, if you find yourself cut down before you grow. Just remember, and make sure you know. Your chance will come, sooner or later. To become a part of something greater.
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ice water clogs up my veins, chilling me, as most rises from my skin at dawn. cerulean lips that match my eyes spread over bared diamond teeth, as I convulse and writhe on the steel table. ribs crackle and split so suddenly that not even a sharp gasp can knive itself past my throat. organs fails and shrivel together, abandoning me, as gloved hands rip them out from the incision along my belly. my once silky tresses fray and dry before eventually falling out, outlining my spasming figure. grey brain matter numbs and electrical impulses cease to a halt. no more thoughts... no more movements... just a dead body with a beating heart.
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 5:56 PM UTC
cold
Along a winding meadow way Circuitous and pebble strewn Towards a brook and down a slope As morning sun outshines the moon An expectation clogs the air And all about the flowers turn To face a wave of tidal light To catch ablaze but not to burn A dusky fragrance lingers still And gathers calm as mercury In solemn spots beneath the boughs It lies in perpetuity The weaving breeze is powerless And banished by the canopy Abiding there a myriad Of all of natures panoply Drift along now deeper still A clearing basks amid the shade An isolated paradise A lonely little woodland glade Where early spring regains the lead And ferns uncurl a welcome hand The nettles bare their jagged teeth And offer up a reprimand A dragonfly takes up my path And leads me into humid heat She weaves amid the reaching grass And safely guides my straying feet Between the rocks and rabbit holes That litter my vicinity The creatures in my path retreat All sensing my proximity A fallen trunk now blocks my course Like driftwood on the shoreline, beached Its peeling bark is spiraling And pale in the sunlight, bleached Enfolded in its limbs I am As if they shaped themselves to me As though a plan of ages hatched And formed a place for me to be **
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Dec 21, 2013
Dec 21, 2013 at 9:02 PM UTC
Something Warm
Men and women for election, Listen to the crowds, Reflect desires to perfection, Echo murmurs loud. Elected, the voters exult If their candidates win, Curse under losing result... Plot to get themselves in. Either way, time isn't long, Voters lose first love; Officials begin to look wrong, And politics gives 'em a shove. We never quite see We're electing ourselves; Candidates riding on mirrors; Shiny reflections scream while we yell Our demands or feed on our fears. Soon plans we've made turn to dust; Politicos fail us; The system breaks down; The party clogs with inertia and rust, Until the next campaign comes 'round. Want to see what we'll get? Take a look in the mirror... What we see gives us reason For fretting and fear. True mirrors, our best politicians; Can only reflect what they see... If we kneel to offer petitions, Ourselves will pay for our pleas.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 8:41 AM UTC
**** Politicians?
I put this cigarette between my lips in the foolishness of maybe it could make me poeticize. Ingenuous thought when I know the only drug able to mess with all my system is you. More effective than nicotine, fogging all my mind More dense than an smoke that I stubborn to take to my lungs, your smell clogs my aerial vias. More rough than the cigarette material rubbing my fingers, your words scratch my skin. More agonizing than abstinence, *your distance makes me writhe inside my own body,* facing an intern fight that always end in riot because I can’t decide between leave you on your own luck or convince you that we can be the lucky of each other. And here is the living proof, here is the poetry that i’m only able to extract from the collateral damage caused by you.
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Jul 14, 2016
Jul 14, 2016 at 9:05 PM UTC
Abstinence
When you ask the right question and get the answer you hoped wouldn't come When you find the truth and it's what you wished you'd never see You can feel it in the back of your mind The tension That feeling in your head that things aren't what you thought and they probably never were It's something you gotta sweat out before it clogs up your brain and your heart All learning is alleviation of tension All decisions too You can't run from it and you shouldn't want to In dialectics you have thesis, antithesis, and synthesis What is, why it shouldn't, and what must come next I promise that I'll never come to a final conclusion about what Anarchism really means Because anarchy means standing up for your neighbors Anarchy means letting the people you care about have the choice to not have you in their life Anarchy means embracing what you love even when it kills you And maybe it's up to me to make each day worth living To get out of bed and have a good reason for doing so Because some of us have to carry the baggage of being awake each day And some of us live their days painfully sober carrying the pain of emotions unhindered But the pain I feel now is as meaningless as the imaginary lines that separate countries or the flags that fly over them My pain is meaningless compared to the knowledge I stepped back so that you could live life according to what you want Because being an anarchist means living life in accordance to what you think And that's always been hard for me For once I knew exactly what I wanted But I also knew deep down you weren't ever as sure as I was And here we return to the tension The tension that has kept me up a few nights and forced be to go on long walks until my feet hurt instead of my heart The tension that left me feeling like nothing, but not in the way Max Stirner intended it So instead of hiding this tension or letting it eat away at me like so many times before I have to live according to what I think So we have the thesis: looking for stars through a wall of clouds and the hope I had in my heart The antithesis: uncertainty and a sentimental past two steps ahead of me The synthesis: Realizing that I need to let you go
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Jun 16, 2017
Jun 16, 2017 at 1:05 AM UTC
The Anarchist Tension by Alfredo Bonanno by Daniel Robinson
When you ask the right question and get the answer you hoped wouldn't come When you find the truth and it's what you wished you'd never see You can feel it in the back of your mind The tension That feeling in your head that things aren't what you thought and they probably never were It's something you gotta sweat out before it clogs up your brain and your heart All learning is alleviation of tension All decisions too You can't run from it and you shouldn't want to In dialectics you have thesis, antithesis, and synthesis What is, why it shouldn't, and what must come next I promise that I'll never come to a final conclusion about what Anarchism really means Because anarchy means standing up for your neighbors Anarchy means letting the people you care about have the choice to not have you in their life Anarchy means embracing what you love even when it kills you And maybe it's up to me to make each day worth living To get out of bed and have a good reason for doing so Because some of us have to carry the baggage of being awake each day And some of us live their days painfully sober carrying the pain of emotions unhindered But the pain I feel now is as meaningless as the imaginary lines that separate countries or the flags that fly over them My pain is meaningless compared to the knowledge I stepped back so that you could live life according to what you want Because being an anarchist means living life in accordance to what you think And that's always been hard for me For once I knew exactly what I wanted But I also knew deep down you weren't ever as sure as I was And here we return to the tension The tension that has kept me up a few nights and forced be to go on long walks until my feet hurt instead of my heart The tension that left me feeling like nothing, but not in the way Max Stirner intended it So instead of hiding this tension or letting it eat away at me like so many times before I have to live according to what I think So we have the thesis: looking for stars through a wall of clouds and the hope I had in my heart The antithesis: uncertainty and a sentimental past two steps ahead of me The synthesis: Realizing that I need to let you go
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Warming up like an electric orchestra, the sound of your dad’s band practice seeped through the vents from the basement. Drums vibrated from the floor into my feet, And we tapped our toes together, thump thump thump. Drowning out the 80’s punk, your mom plays polka in the kitchen, making pasta. I stand over the sauce stained stove watching the *** of water sizzle to accordion cries and the idea of clogs. We sway from side to side. Your hands hang off my hips. Retreating, back to your blue room, we wait for the wafting smells of garlic, grilled onions and peppers to call us for dinner. You pull out your keyboard, a pen, a pad. Pressing buttons, I hear synthesizers and song samples through your headphones. We smile, bobbing our heads in sync, Bump, bump, bump. ~ Finding myself in a foreign living room, I am alone. The TV is on mute and a “motivational” speech muffles through his speakers. There are no basement bands. No pasta, no polka, or clogs and cries. Only sounds of silence. I press my feet against the floor. I can’t hear the bumps, I can’t feel the thumps
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Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 2:18 PM UTC
Polka & 80's Punk
I've felt it down deep inside. For how long I just don't know. It clogs up natural function. Drives me to seek it out, to show. To dig. To pillage. To plunder. From the onset of the morning sky. I lie and I wonder. A vibrant mass of warm air Becomes overshadowed By a green devil of no affair de coeur. Of salty and putrid flair. Pure evil I'm sure. I blow and blow but away it does not go. Fighting and scratching and snorting and spitting. Plucking and pulling and pressing and fitting. Oh here it comes, such a wonderful feeling. Yea tis truly sweeter than sugar. Guess it wasn't some existential, angsty feelings from a relationship gone sour. Nope, just a ******
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 8:40 PM UTC
Green Salty Matter of Affair
Under the family banner talking about my nana who was not fat, I would say more rounded than that and a Victorian lass pince nez on her nose and a tin of snuff,a pinch of which went.. but that enough.. Did I say,she was not fat? she was grounded in the roots of cotton mills and rolling hills and hobnailed clogs and miners boots,she's now long gone but fair play to her, she lived a good few years after reaching ninety one,I guess it was the Mackeson that helped her to live so very long. Grandad,dad of my dad fought in the great war which brought him ****** all except a medal from the military for being outstanding in the fields of bravery,he battled Passchendaele each and every day until like all good men and soldiers he faded,faded slowly,slowly,slowly and marched quite vaguely somewhere far away. My dad was a great dad a wait and then we'll see dad,a make your Sunday tea dad,but you never see the greatness when you're stood upon its shoulder,that only happens if you're lucky when you get a little older and I'm older now,able to look back and see how this family handed down to me,that look back into history.....
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 7:53 AM UTC
Unfinished...
i may drift off at random moments upon seeing poetry in a serendipitous seemingly miraculous landmark occurrence if i'm lucky enough to notice it but it's the muse of the mundane the poetically banal that speaks to me in a clearer voice it tells of the hair that clogs the shower the washing left out forgotten on the line in yet another downpour of two dogs keeping me company while i work it is here      forever here that the truest moments of beauty will be found
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM UTC
musings