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I'd like to think that she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?" As she sits on the corner of her bed, Listening to the soft buzz of his battery-powered toothbrush. I imagine her, Running her fingers through her clumsy, coagulated hair. Glancing at her chipped, crimson toe nails, Then looking to her class ring, Made entirely of imitation ingredients, Wondering when is the proper time to trash it. When she was still a friend of mine, I never saw her wear make up, I never saw her show off in tight jeans or low-cut tees. But as he spews the toothpaste into the sink, Skinny jeans lay tussled on the floor, Next to the side door that leads to his sister's side room. The make up she wears is from the night before. It's skewed and shows evidence of running, Like a wasted watercolor. I'd like to think he isn't that handsome, And that he's obsessed with Paul Walker. I'd like to think when he re-enters the room, He's in grey sweatpants, He's wearing a black tank top, With a Confederate flag backdrop, With two barely dressed babes looking ****** in the foreground. His hair, unwashed and greasy. He rubs his belly, And bears an idiot grin on his face. Looking like he just learned how to smile at this pace. "Did it feel good?" feel good. After he asks, he scans her body, Beginning at those crimson toes, And Ending at that clumsy hair. Every second he scans, He still wears that drawn-on Idiot grin. I'd like to think at this point she thinks of me. Of my warnings and prophesy. Her eyes start at the chipped toe nails, Course over her tanning bed-inspired legs. And finally reach the only thing she has on, A t-shirt that belongs to his sister. A t-shirt, when given by him, It was mentioned, "thanks, mister". Though she didn't satisfy all his redneck intentions, During last night's expedition. He still paid her back with a morning one-sided session. "It felt good" she says. In reference to the ten minute ********** When her body was strummed and plucked, Underneath his sister's Terri Clark T-shirt. As she sits in the filth and the ****** fallout, On a bed that is six days ***** While he is grinning, Being everything but wordy. I'd like to think she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?"
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Jun 4, 2010
Jun 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM UTC
She was a Friend of Mine
I'd like to think that she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?" As she sits on the corner of her bed, Listening to the soft buzz of his battery-powered toothbrush. I imagine her, Running her fingers through her clumsy, coagulated hair. Glancing at her chipped, crimson toe nails, Then looking to her class ring, Made entirely of imitation ingredients, Wondering when is the proper time to trash it. When she was still a friend of mine, I never saw her wear make up, I never saw her show off in tight jeans or low-cut tees. But as he spews the toothpaste into the sink, Skinny jeans lay tussled on the floor, Next to the side door that leads to his sister's side room. The make up she wears is from the night before. It's skewed and shows evidence of running, Like a wasted watercolor. I'd like to think he isn't that handsome, And that he's obsessed with Paul Walker. I'd like to think when he re-enters the room, He's in grey sweatpants, He's wearing a black tank top, With a Confederate flag backdrop, With two barely dressed babes looking ****** in the foreground. His hair, unwashed and greasy. He rubs his belly, And bears an idiot grin on his face. Looking like he just learned how to smile at this pace. "Did it feel good?" feel good. After he asks, he scans her body, Beginning at those crimson toes, And Ending at that clumsy hair. Every second he scans, He still wears that drawn-on Idiot grin. I'd like to think at this point she thinks of me. Of my warnings and prophesy. Her eyes start at the chipped toe nails, Course over her tanning bed-inspired legs. And finally reach the only thing she has on, A t-shirt that belongs to his sister. A t-shirt, when given by him, It was mentioned, "thanks, mister". Though she didn't satisfy all his redneck intentions, During last night's expedition. He still paid her back with a morning one-sided session. "It felt good" she says. In reference to the ten minute ********** When her body was strummed and plucked, Underneath his sister's Terri Clark T-shirt. As she sits in the filth and the ****** fallout, On a bed that is six days ***** While he is grinning, Being everything but wordy. I'd like to think she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?"
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Coagulated blood dried out from the sun, footprints pressed into the mud from a night on the run, chased and ravaged, pressed against a tree with emotions gutted. Mutilated and dying, I'm laying under falling stars, saturated skies and underlying scars, every conversation with you feels like being run over by a highway full of cars. Blood screaming from a cautourised wound travels farther than your ability to listen to reason, wide eyed, your pasteurized white eyes seem cold but searing like the flesh of a steaming heathen. Necrosis sets in on the heaping pile of me drudged upon the roots of my personification, watch the black blood slipping through the dirt like molasses as it climbs over your teeth and grips the lips before it passes, blood loss is creating a hallucination. Watch as I become hollow from your cannibalistic lifestyle. Your desperation, human flesh you defiled, mindless separation, our family's bodies stuffed in a corner and piled, you became a Wendigo, a wicked transmorgification.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 9:01 PM UTC
Wendigo Psychosis
As I beheld a flower of rare beauty In the silence choked heart of wilderness The facsimile of a pretty woman came alive From the coagulated heap of images A woman…….! Isn’t she God’s supreme handiwork An animated form of chiseled art A joy to behold A figure of curvaceous ups and downs God’s beautiful calligraphy Her skin glowing as satin Hands and fingers of creamy softness Eyes reflecting love and gentleness Voice musical and sweet Moving with measured cadence And walking with fluid ease One who smoothens the rough edges of life But Alas! A treasure rarely valued. A loving daughter to her parents An adorable mate to her man A forgiving mother to all The fountain spring of new life The lovely mother to her children! Though she is branded by many As frail or fickle, infirm or impish How empty is a man’s life Who hasn’t known a woman, Either as a mother, sister or daughter Or a lover, companion or wife This marvel of creation, This miracle worthy of adulation!
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 8:14 AM UTC
A Woman
In a dream I shall feel The wings of the world unfolding, and Worlds spinning on the axis of mad journeys; And the seas breaking turquoise, upon their rippled surface. In the heart of the ears I shall hear the shivering willows, dreaming their Wood-smoke dreams, full of sap and  funneled sunlight; Pierced by light for a thousand years And the flowers sleeping nestled in stars; Gathered in the deep, among the wood-thrushes, In coagulated violet forests, all shadowed and dark: And a whispered peace barely rustles this world.
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Apr 28, 2010
Apr 28, 2010 at 2:44 PM UTC
In a Dream
The light quit working in the jukebox, the melodies' surrender, a commonplace extinction, against the salt and the breeze of your false Mediterranean. The burden of your rational soul in a world of extremes has torn your spirit to tatters- tatters littered across your Toronto abode. Divided amongst the heirlooms and emptied bottles. This desolation you sought to translate for the harmonious pulse of the dial tone. Hazy, is this ancient mind, a smoking fallout of yesterday's parties to be discussed over lukewarm coffee and cigarette butts, while the shivering streams and green plains become commodified for a higher power. Dan, my dearest friend, I loved you ferocious and freely, fanged and supremely, and as your mind coagulated on a couch, microphone in-hand, I felt nostalgic for your clumsy alcoholism, and clumsier guitar strumming. The white fog descends, the city is hungry-- no longer can it expand. Toronto eats itself with you inside, shall I write you a postcard? Shall I kick down your door? Shall I let you join the bones you so beautifully alluded to? Whisper, my friend, amidst the soft croon of the saxophone, whisper, my friend, of a Europe gone defective, whisper, my friend, for an apocalypse of sun to release us all from the white fog slowly burying our Toronto.
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Feb 9, 2011
Feb 9, 2011 at 7:18 PM UTC
Toronto Hawk (for Dan Bejar)
So there I saw- and then I curled into my fetal ball of envy my happiness had coagulated and chilled like a refrozen popsicle at the back of the freezer. even if you melted my stale cracked enclosure you would still smell the jealous- like hangover on my breath I swear it even exploits my muscles my tendons grimace like massive internal pulley systems. when my mind frowns condescendingly at my juvenile grievances, the follies laugh their disassembled modulations and ignore my pleas no-it takes more than that. my every yellow Laureling becomes a necessity to coax, soften my serpentine charity from whence I have locked it.
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Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013 at 2:31 AM UTC
Jealousy
You are a brass framed feather bed in the middle of a dilapidated forest white waxen cadaverous arms and metacarpals outstretched screeching praise to Father Fumigated Sky a tie dyed atmosphere embodying the ambiance of some apocalyptic rose garden bled gold, wine, & liquid ecstasy and leaked through chemical clouds or the coagulated tears of God... my strange, creaky comfort. may we watch it all crash down in peace.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 2:23 AM UTC
Billet-Doux, The Doomsday Dreamscape Romantica
At trees reunited or the Great Timber-yard in the sky There are certain branches who remember the incisions made to fell their growth. spurts & seasons, and the wind rustling through imagined leaves of appendages long gone All the gunge symptomatic of sap coagulated won't replace the holes in the sky © Copyright David Bosworth August 2013
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Aug 24, 2013
Aug 24, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
the tree-fearers
I woke up to a nightcalm-shattering cell phone ringtone. "Can I come over, baby?" "What time is it?" "I don't know 3, 4." **** eyes roll, sigh,"yeah I guess so." "Don't sound too excited," Molly said, Molly laughed. "Are you going to be long?" "Nah, I'm already outside." "Awesome. Okay, let me put on some pants." I opened the door. Her hair was up. Her skin was the color of milk. Her eyes were grey. She held keys in the palm of her hand. "I like your hair," Molly said, Molly laughed. I said it was getting ridiculous, she put her hands on my chest, the tension in the tips of her fingers grew, exploration, exploration. "Do you want something to drink?" "Nah, can we just sit on the couch?" "Sure." "How's your fella do-" She kissed the words, to lock them in. She started to tear at my shirt, I stalled her advances, turned the tables, I'm done with being prey. I pulled her up gracelessly, I fell through her crimson shirt, through her black bra, I drank each ounce of her chest, I grabbed her nape gracelessly, her eyes briefly frightened, turned sinister, turned to validation, turned to encouragement. I mapped her stomach, made quick work of her cotton shorts, I bit the waistline of her lace, she clung to my coagulated hair, I laid her to the ground, we warred atop notebooks and ***** t-shirts, kissing vigorously in an attempt to stay far ahead of morals, of reasoning. I feasted on her hip bone, she tugged at my shirt, no,no,no. I removed the lace with my teeth, her breath was exciting, I feasted on the insides of her thighs, she convulsed, cursed, grabbed tight to shirt, to hair, to every piece of furniture near. Molly's pupils, irises, all grew. Molly's panting ******* moans all rose. Howling. Peaking, breaking, releasing, falling, sighing, sighing, breathing. I wiped my lips with the back of my arm, got up, went to the bathroom, used some mouthwash, Molly walked in behind me, "Things have been going better with him, lately, actually." "I'm ******* happy for you guys."
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 2:45 PM UTC
Molly Howls (Pt. III)
I woke up to a nightcalm-shattering cell phone ringtone. "Can I come over, baby?" "What time is it?" "I don't know 3, 4." **** eyes roll, sigh,"yeah I guess so." "Don't sound too excited," Molly said, Molly laughed. "Are you going to be long?" "Nah, I'm already outside." "Awesome. Okay, let me put on some pants." I opened the door. Her hair was up. Her skin was the color of milk. Her eyes were grey. She held keys in the palm of her hand. "I like your hair," Molly said, Molly laughed. I said it was getting ridiculous, she put her hands on my chest, the tension in the tips of her fingers grew, exploration, exploration. "Do you want something to drink?" "Nah, can we just sit on the couch?" "Sure." "How's your fella do-" She kissed the words, to lock them in. She started to tear at my shirt, I stalled her advances, turned the tables, I'm done with being prey. I pulled her up gracelessly, I fell through her crimson shirt, through her black bra, I drank each ounce of her chest, I grabbed her nape gracelessly, her eyes briefly frightened, turned sinister, turned to validation, turned to encouragement. I mapped her stomach, made quick work of her cotton shorts, I bit the waistline of her lace, she clung to my coagulated hair, I laid her to the ground, we warred atop notebooks and ***** t-shirts, kissing vigorously in an attempt to stay far ahead of morals, of reasoning. I feasted on her hip bone, she tugged at my shirt, no,no,no. I removed the lace with my teeth, her breath was exciting, I feasted on the insides of her thighs, she convulsed, cursed, grabbed tight to shirt, to hair, to every piece of furniture near. Molly's pupils, irises, all grew. Molly's panting ******* moans all rose. Howling. Peaking, breaking, releasing, falling, sighing, sighing, breathing. I wiped my lips with the back of my arm, got up, went to the bathroom, used some mouthwash, Molly walked in behind me, "Things have been going better with him, lately, actually." "I'm ******* happy for you guys."
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A clay *** holds your happiness. It's halfway tall, reaching up to your thigh, Narrow, blown up in the middle, narrow. Simple lid with a spherical dot for fingers to grasp, and a black drawn line that curls from base to lip, and over. Insides encumbered by sweet darkness, shaded glory, because outside, gleaming. Spiraled gold that must have dribbled off the sun's ice cream cone leaked through the bottom where the end had broken and flavor escaped to land on your mirthful urn. Blue so clear, the sky surely lost a piece of itself as a crack appeared and a fragment cascaded downward to shatter along your pleasant chalice. And in between, are lines of green that could have only originated on pinewood trees in a forest so dark that monsters beware. Bordering a little town where children played and only truth was called, never dare. Because there is red on your delighted decanter. Spattered droplets of coagulated sparks. Jaded needles saturated, with pine fresh essence emanating from your zesty flagon. And a single spot, Barren. Bereft of treasure. Parted from cerulean. Robbed of Viridian. And severed in the roots of a blushing Amaryllis. Occupying there, a white blemish, a shape of infinite corners immaculately defined and so small, you will never find it                                                                                                                on the canister that harbors your smile.
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
Contained Jubilance
A clay *** holds your happiness. It's halfway tall, reaching up to your thigh, Narrow, blown up in the middle, narrow. Simple lid with a spherical dot for fingers to grasp, and a black drawn line that curls from base to lip, and over. Insides encumbered by sweet darkness, shaded glory, because outside, gleaming. Spiraled gold that must have dribbled off the sun's ice cream cone leaked through the bottom where the end had broken and flavor escaped to land on your mirthful urn. Blue so clear, the sky surely lost a piece of itself as a crack appeared and a fragment cascaded downward to shatter along your pleasant chalice. And in between, are lines of green that could have only originated on pinewood trees in a forest so dark that monsters beware. Bordering a little town where children played and only truth was called, never dare. Because there is red on your delighted decanter. Spattered droplets of coagulated sparks. Jaded needles saturated, with pine fresh essence emanating from your zesty flagon. And a single spot, Barren. Bereft of treasure. Parted from cerulean. Robbed of Viridian. And severed in the roots of a blushing Amaryllis. Occupying there, a white blemish, a shape of infinite corners immaculately defined and so small, you will never find it                                                                                                                on the canister that harbors your smile.
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it lies in wait in the sighs after a statement in the pause between words hanging in the air it looms overhead thickening with each passing second coating the lungs with heavy silence yea, the silence 'tis wear dreams go to die for when exposed to another it's the silence that is coagulated disillusionment and it is in that place that the silver in the clouds begins to tarnish
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 8:17 PM UTC
the birth of disappointment
hark near! speak knives upon ears... make them plea, and beg upon swollen knees. for we are truly so, the ones in which we sow coagulated clots into a beaded necklace, blood berries--blood berries of an aching vocabulary's. waiting. begging. pleading for one swipe. aching for someone to hurt, and hope they fully bleed at night. we merely want to help, aide the eulogies and add a scissor kiss, to the concoction of labor, and amalgamation of agony, in order to spice, and to cease. nothing but a sweet disease for the white blood cells, and wish you deep luck, on a tall grass journey. we simply wish for **** after **** and smile when you still go up running, blood stained grin after blood stained grin, and spitting saucers of cut lips upon your hurt cheeks. spit teacups and an half full glass have nothing to do with a child or years of class. you may think we're nothing but a nuance, and don't mean anything but to watch you cook your own brain, but we are simply here, to help you on the chair, and tighten your own noose. save the ache of being petty, and moans of disgrace, we're here to swallow your pity, and make you drink your own **** simply--surely--simply and surely so, but we don't mean anything but to guide you to the ditch, with slices of paper from rusted scissors, and help you die with your pitch. you're one of those, are you not? a ********* and nothing more? you'd best be reminded, that what is a song, without its poem? you have nothing to fear but your own tongue, and your own blood, and your own tears, and make you think you're nothing but clod. but you'd best be sweating salver if you really are what you say you are. a place with no shelter? no story to show? no roof and no halter? no place to know? for the earth mirrors the heavens and you place what lays between. you are truly pathetic--but you scribble that. you are truly meaningless--but you bleed that. you are truly wordless--but you speak them. and no one--not even us--can tell you what you really are. and if you really are what you say you are--then show us. but don't prove it. remember, you have a noose that is tight. all you need is a chair to kick over... and paper--and pencil--and keyboard--and mind. now, go ahead and tell me what you are... the naive scholar for all mankind.
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Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 11:15 AM UTC
Sadist.
hark near! speak knives upon ears... make them plea, and beg upon swollen knees. for we are truly so, the ones in which we sow coagulated clots into a beaded necklace, blood berries--blood berries of an aching vocabulary's. waiting. begging. pleading for one swipe. aching for someone to hurt, and hope they fully bleed at night. we merely want to help, aide the eulogies and add a scissor kiss, to the concoction of labor, and amalgamation of agony, in order to spice, and to cease. nothing but a sweet disease for the white blood cells, and wish you deep luck, on a tall grass journey. we simply wish for **** after **** and smile when you still go up running, blood stained grin after blood stained grin, and spitting saucers of cut lips upon your hurt cheeks. spit teacups and an half full glass have nothing to do with a child or years of class. you may think we're nothing but a nuance, and don't mean anything but to watch you cook your own brain, but we are simply here, to help you on the chair, and tighten your own noose. save the ache of being petty, and moans of disgrace, we're here to swallow your pity, and make you drink your own **** simply--surely--simply and surely so, but we don't mean anything but to guide you to the ditch, with slices of paper from rusted scissors, and help you die with your pitch. you're one of those, are you not? a ********* and nothing more? you'd best be reminded, that what is a song, without its poem? you have nothing to fear but your own tongue, and your own blood, and your own tears, and make you think you're nothing but clod. but you'd best be sweating salver if you really are what you say you are. a place with no shelter? no story to show? no roof and no halter? no place to know? for the earth mirrors the heavens and you place what lays between. you are truly pathetic--but you scribble that. you are truly meaningless--but you bleed that. you are truly wordless--but you speak them. and no one--not even us--can tell you what you really are. and if you really are what you say you are--then show us. but don't prove it. remember, you have a noose that is tight. all you need is a chair to kick over... and paper--and pencil--and keyboard--and mind. now, go ahead and tell me what you are... the naive scholar for all mankind.
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that tiny **** cloth for a worldly affectation worn for vanity grew without any cessation engulfing my being swiftly in total negation. turned now a cloak black of inhuman sedation a second skin becoming skin itself, then seeped to the very bones and a coagulated heart reaped of consequence,truth layered the real concealed, the self an image, just mirrored slick in Gucci attire a fig leaf terrible now hiding the whole,wise tree entire! PS-no offense meant for Gucci designs or the beautiful people who wear them!
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Dec 26, 2012
Dec 26, 2012 at 5:21 AM UTC
Cloak of Vanity Naturalized.( A fashionable Image.)
The libraries and bookstores of the world Are stocked with pleasantries: Prim, proper, peach juice-oozing volumes That made the grade. These books are all well and good, And are not unworthy of examination, Simply because they were deemed so By a jury of your peers. Make note, however, Of the myopia inherent In limiting yourself To the savoury. Observe: Past the shelves of Well-lit, Worn-covered Thoroughly thumbed delicacies, There is more to be seen. Do not hesitate to approach the shelves Wreathed in thorns and security tape And kept under dim bulbs. The books that lurk there Are sealed tight And wear jackets plastered in sludge: Sludge laid thick by heavy-handed brushstrokes. Prying open the padlock Will sometimes reveal Further grime coagulated upon the pages. Further prying, however, Will split open tomes Scrawled with fractures of light, Lending to the eye An illumination unique To such tarred works. Do not fear these banned books, These veiled wonders, For they contain pure, unscreened scrawlings Soulfully wrought upon simple scraps of paper. It is within these that truth can be found.
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 7:58 AM UTC
Banned Books
Cannibalistic animals Feeding off of each others pain Blood ******* leaches Reaching for their own personal gain Civilized savages Educated fools Empire of vampires Rearranging the rules Disguised in neckties Briefcases and smiling faces Cloaked in lies Spiritual wickedness in high places Coagulated rivers Calculated killers Cryptic crimes Comprised by Gifted minds Concrete jungle Play the game "or be the game The weak who stumble Are hunted down and maimed If you can’t beat ‘em -join ‘em It’s the only way to survive Stepping on the heads of others Just to stay alive Its dog eat dog And every dog has its day Today is mines- so be smart When you hear the bark Stay the hell out of my way
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 12:45 AM UTC
Civilized Savages
Just a drink of water, to quench my thirst for your presence for ever--- A loving pat on one cheek for all the love on me you showered, and softly, ever so softly on the other cheek give  the parting kiss for keeps. That's all I ask for, all the love we shared between us never fully contained in whispers and kisses all night conversations and caresses. Taking a deep breath, look in to my eyes, and pour all your blues, for me not to forget, we are a coagulated scented mass, rare no one in this world could separate. Let me  emulate the wind, that rustles leaves well before leaving without telling anything and in return shuffle my hair, like before, I will leave smiling, without thinking. even when my heart is in fire hissing: "Ah! this is how it all ends, never to repeat" I 've learned the art of containing pain, quite early in my life, without much effort, a white fluffy haired pup,my dad's first gift, that made happy beyond my little heart's content, the one I bathed cared and fed, day and night left for ever, in one cold  after noon... heart broken I wept, tried to wake him up Dad consoled "Let's buy another".It didn't help, a bit. But when the pet parakeet, that flew around our home was made his meal by our own rouge cat the scattered wings, feathers and bones scared, I didn't cry or panic, the pain died down within I was learning a lesson then for a path strewn with thorns. I'll walk away straight, with a smile, like many smiles went past you, but now, I know  you'll whimper, But don't,  please don't shed that drop of tear at the corner of your eye, hold it there, it'll mutely tell you about a love divine, for ever.
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 9:39 AM UTC
Let's walk away smiling
Just a drink of water, to quench my thirst for your presence for ever--- A loving pat on one cheek for all the love on me you showered, and softly, ever so softly on the other cheek give  the parting kiss for keeps. That's all I ask for, all the love we shared between us never fully contained in whispers and kisses all night conversations and caresses. Taking a deep breath, look in to my eyes, and pour all your blues, for me not to forget, we are a coagulated scented mass, rare no one in this world could separate. Let me  emulate the wind, that rustles leaves well before leaving without telling anything and in return shuffle my hair, like before, I will leave smiling, without thinking. even when my heart is in fire hissing: "Ah! this is how it all ends, never to repeat" I 've learned the art of containing pain, quite early in my life, without much effort, a white fluffy haired pup,my dad's first gift, that made happy beyond my little heart's content, the one I bathed cared and fed, day and night left for ever, in one cold  after noon... heart broken I wept, tried to wake him up Dad consoled "Let's buy another".It didn't help, a bit. But when the pet parakeet, that flew around our home was made his meal by our own rouge cat the scattered wings, feathers and bones scared, I didn't cry or panic, the pain died down within I was learning a lesson then for a path strewn with thorns. I'll walk away straight, with a smile, like many smiles went past you, but now, I know  you'll whimper, But don't,  please don't shed that drop of tear at the corner of your eye, hold it there, it'll mutely tell you about a love divine, for ever.
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The stage lights fade Supporting cast All dispersed No applause to echo No encore heard From the empty stadium. Two stars remain Upon the empty stage As the colors fade To black and white. "You's" flew Like shurikens With expert Accuracy; "I's" were daggers Digging deep. From the endless trill of Stab words That began in pleasantries, Their hearts lay Beating, Bleeding And With each weakened throb Love life, Love lusts, Loves lost Oozed and coagulated Till at the others' feet.
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Nov 7, 2013
Nov 7, 2013 at 9:54 PM UTC
Swan Song
The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Heard from the bathers that- The Princess had been abducted By the Dark Beast. A bounty of thousand gold coins was announced If you brought her back alive and the beast dead And Death if you brought the beast alive and the Princess dead. The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Hung their drums around their necks And drummed their way Through the Forest Dark When the Elder Brother drummed the sleep-inducing roll, The storks that roosted in the trees Dropped as if they were one big bunch. He picked them up one by one While the younger one, Elated, Shouted 'Pelicans!' and drummed the defeathering roll Upon which the plumage came off The Elder Brother drummed the roasting roll And the birdflesh caught fire. On the second day a leopard that looked- More like a boulder in leopard's clothing Lurched at the brothers. The Elder Brother drummed the age-reversing roll And the poor old leopard grew younger and younger Until it became a watery foetus which- The Drummer Brothers ate, Dabbing crushed chillies, and sprinkling salt. On the third day a bear of grisly proportions Ambled, roaring, into their sight The Younger Brother drummed an organ-enlarging roll that- Stretched the bear's mammaries far too long- They dragged on the ground like two pythons. The Elder Brother drummed the light-the- candle roll And the oily **** caught fire like wicks. Having vanquished the two deadly beasts The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku met, On the fourth day of their journey, The Dark Beast. The Dark Beast, as it turned out, Was no beast as such But an Outcast once expelled Into the heart of darkness Who wrapped himself In the dark of the Dawn And became one with All the Beasts And rumbled. The Princess' pygmy horse was impaled With the stake coming out of its mouth Grossly gory, its hindlegs missing And the blood, coagulated, hanging like icicles. Near it was the Princess herself, Naked, except for the gold waist chain And the anklets. The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Drummed a very ordinary roll, Steady and throbbing. The Dark Beast who listened to it Was transported into his past, His memory of listening To the old drummers of Ikku Ukku. Excited, He spun on his heels and stretched out his arms He gyrated and pirouetted- And on reaching the peak of his frenzy Exploded, like a watermelon The pieces flew in all directions. The Drummer Brothers picked them up And licked While the Princess, shaken out of her languor, Rose and sauntered towards them. Holding out her honey hands She said, "Now I belong to both of you." The Younger Brother came up with a plan: The elder one would have her from the waist up While he would have her from the waist down. The Elder Brother approved. Vain and coquettish, The Princess rammed her fists into either drum And said: "I loathe their sound- too unrefined." On the fifth day, The Drummer Brother drummed a jazzed up roll On their new drumhead Made of the Princess' hide.
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Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 6:15 AM UTC
The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku
The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Heard from the bathers that- The Princess had been abducted By the Dark Beast. A bounty of thousand gold coins was announced If you brought her back alive and the beast dead And Death if you brought the beast alive and the Princess dead. The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Hung their drums around their necks And drummed their way Through the Forest Dark When the Elder Brother drummed the sleep-inducing roll, The storks that roosted in the trees Dropped as if they were one big bunch. He picked them up one by one While the younger one, Elated, Shouted 'Pelicans!' and drummed the defeathering roll Upon which the plumage came off The Elder Brother drummed the roasting roll And the birdflesh caught fire. On the second day a leopard that looked- More like a boulder in leopard's clothing Lurched at the brothers. The Elder Brother drummed the age-reversing roll And the poor old leopard grew younger and younger Until it became a watery foetus which- The Drummer Brothers ate, Dabbing crushed chillies, and sprinkling salt. On the third day a bear of grisly proportions Ambled, roaring, into their sight The Younger Brother drummed an organ-enlarging roll that- Stretched the bear's mammaries far too long- They dragged on the ground like two pythons. The Elder Brother drummed the light-the- candle roll And the oily **** caught fire like wicks. Having vanquished the two deadly beasts The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku met, On the fourth day of their journey, The Dark Beast. The Dark Beast, as it turned out, Was no beast as such But an Outcast once expelled Into the heart of darkness Who wrapped himself In the dark of the Dawn And became one with All the Beasts And rumbled. The Princess' pygmy horse was impaled With the stake coming out of its mouth Grossly gory, its hindlegs missing And the blood, coagulated, hanging like icicles. Near it was the Princess herself, Naked, except for the gold waist chain And the anklets. The Drummer Brothers of Ikku Ukku Drummed a very ordinary roll, Steady and throbbing. The Dark Beast who listened to it Was transported into his past, His memory of listening To the old drummers of Ikku Ukku. Excited, He spun on his heels and stretched out his arms He gyrated and pirouetted- And on reaching the peak of his frenzy Exploded, like a watermelon The pieces flew in all directions. The Drummer Brothers picked them up And licked While the Princess, shaken out of her languor, Rose and sauntered towards them. Holding out her honey hands She said, "Now I belong to both of you." The Younger Brother came up with a plan: The elder one would have her from the waist up While he would have her from the waist down. The Elder Brother approved. Vain and coquettish, The Princess rammed her fists into either drum And said: "I loathe their sound- too unrefined." On the fifth day, The Drummer Brother drummed a jazzed up roll On their new drumhead Made of the Princess' hide.
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The summer before her chest hollowed out, ribs bowing around vacuums, her lungs ballooning new geometries. The summer seas invaded body cavities, feral and chemically sweet. Her body became a gondola ferrying pale, diminutive hopes across the wide strait of your pelvis. Oceans shifted gingerly, unborn into the intimate dark of throats, heart chambers, marshes between thighs. She drew the shores around her close, paranoid. When they got to her she’d filled her mouth deep with different types of char: love, anorexia, Quaaludes. Marrow coagulated and stopped ebbing with the orbit of the moon. Her heart smelled like day-old fish.
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Dec 20, 2012
Dec 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM UTC
La Mer
A man at my local zoo Once showed me how snake venom Effected human blood. While dripping a drop of the acrid mess with one hand, He held a small container of life in the other And with a drop and a swirl of his wrist, The blood was coagulated And obviously unable to flow. In that moment I knew That love Was the venom And I Was the blood, Slowly congealing and Falling at my only purpose: Staying alive.
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 12:34 PM UTC
My Trip to the Zoo
Like honey, cloyingly, sickeningly sweet You cling, coagulated, dripping Sticking and I find you between my fingers caught in the corners of my lips Taste of clover stinging and No matter how hard I Try to scrub, clean, lick you away, You remain ever present and I find that I am helpless Stuck solitary and motionless within A candied cocoon
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Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4, 2012 at 4:18 AM UTC
Oh, Honey
There is a boy bathed by the light of the full moon I wrote about it, then I burned it Now.. sitting in the shade of the budding lime trees I realize that which is once written..cannot be destroyed An oddness is abroad I believe An oddness that allows for the purchasing of warm apricot juice An oddness that produces groundless but powerful fears An oddness producing an impulse to run away An oddness that weaves itself into a shape among the sultry and coagulated air An oddness in the shape of a boy Captured by the blue light of a full moon in the middle of the day I shut my eyes but the vision flutters before me As if it is impressed on tissue paper Blown gently by a soft breeze The boys face though beautiful is one made for derision I think to myself..this can't be.. but alas it is For when I now open my eyes the hallucination For that's what I believe it to be Still flutters before me as a candle flame flickers My heart is beating in a wild desperation I am about to scream The mirage dissolves itself and the boy vanishes The fear that has griped me evaporates I put the whole episode down to the drinking Of warm apricot juice on a very hot day But am I wrong am I wrong...that would be an oddness
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Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM UTC
An Oddness
His hair grew as coagulated blood His scalp perpetually trying to reach his eyebrows Skin greased and calloused His eyes soulless Yet seemed searching Everybody was not afraid of him. I gave him food once I placed it on the ground where He stood outside the church’s door He barely moved He slowly stooped It was like watching a snail’s body melt when you put salt on it I wonder if he has ever uttered a word in his life Of course I never expected him to say thanks He was still slowly bending but I knew he Wouldn’t get it unless I was not in sight. But I desired to see him get it I wanted to see if his face would ever change a bit So I just went away thinking I starved him with my presence I went back after a moment The container lay on the floor, no chicken bones. His eyebrows twitched no more But the eyes were looking…somewhere. Somehow. I was baffled, have always been. How is he supposed to live? I can’t always give him food. The priests might be busy too. The altar boys might have been annoyed by his stench So they would not get near either. My house’s far from the church. That wounded man would just keep staring at him from up the cross. I wonder if the ***** ever asked the man to come down from his cross And give him something to eat. Or did he ever contemplate on bringing him down?
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Jan 26, 2012
Jan 26, 2012 at 7:50 AM UTC
The Church’s *****
morning light angels proud of themselves red sunset look in the mirror see the damp infants limping history is a seedling feed it or free it hours ago she left for coffee and company do you care to see her again clearly its a butterfly hungry for the caterpillar’s food blood is used reduced and coagulated the storms are raging in the attic pornographic finger-painting panting and smashing she lashes out in anger lanterns are her favorite these trees are our brothers deepen and soften kiss and listen to these secrets you are sullen and forlorn the impermanance of mourning goats are born to roam and eat freedom seeks meaning while history is dreaming and i am all alone in her company
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 1:45 PM UTC
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