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"commas" poems
making love with no love (kissed her with his freedom) <•> a new person in an overnight stay in a strange, aptly named, bed and breakfast and you do all the same things that just feel good, careless loving that comes from practiced renewable remembering, kiss her neck for hours, drink in her crescendoing cooing rename her Appalachia, bemused, wondering why, she gasp-asks, when your tongue traces her odyssey body from her Georgia to her Maine, then no need to explain it all feels familiarly strange, imbalanced, shaky, loving the thrill of your first solo bike ride, an invisible hand letting go, the wow of walking the line of new freedom and old responsibility that you have walked on both coasts carry on, love is coming to us all lyric, enacted-recalled, loving yet another long cool woman in a black dress with unquestioning how to explain to her, how to yourself, loving with no loving, and the best you can stammer is it is like writing a poem with too many commas or none at all she laughs you up with one mouth lingering, then one amazing kiss on your heart and nose, grabs a piece of toast and gone girl, then you are returned to alone, to the dreams that may or may not have occurred and two hands overflowing with too many commas and none to keep <•> 11-18–17 2:54am, somewhere
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Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 10:13 AM UTC
making love with no love (kissed her with his freedom 11/17)
A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The literary Chankley Bore, The paths are hard, for you are not A literary Hottentot But just a kind and cultured dame Who knows not Eliot (to her shame). Fie on you, aunt, that you should see No genius in David G., No elemental form and sound In T.S.E. and Ezra Pound. Fie on you, aunt! I'll show you how To elevate your middle brow, And how to scale and see the sights From modernist Parnassian heights. First buy a hat, no Paris model But one the Swiss wear when they yodel, A bowler thing with one or two Feathers to conceal the view; And then in sandals walk the street (All modern painters use their feet For painting, on their canvas strips, Their wives or mothers, minus hips). Perhaps it would be best if you Created something very new, A ***** novel done in Erse Or written backwards in Welsh verse, Or paintings on the backs of vests, Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests. But if this proved imposs-i-ble Perhaps it would be just as well, For you could then write what you please, And modern verse is done with ease. Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes With 'strumpet' in these troubled times, And commas are the worst of crimes; Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter. Never be lucid, never state, If you would be regarded great, The simplest thought or sentiment, (For thought, we know, is decadent); Never omit such vital words As belly, genitals and -----, For these are things that play a part (And what a part) in all good art. Remember this: each rose is wormy, And every lovely woman's germy; Remember this: that love depends On how the Gallic letter bends; Remember, too, that life is hell And even heaven has a smell Of putrefying angels who Make deadly whoopee in the blue. These things remembered, what can stop A poet going to the top? A final word: before you start The convulsions of your art, Remove your brains, take out your heart; Minus these curses, you can be A genius like David G. Take courage, aunt, and send your stuff To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff, And may I yet live to admire How well your poems light the fire.
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A Letter To My Aunt
A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The literary Chankley Bore, The paths are hard, for you are not A literary Hottentot But just a kind and cultured dame Who knows not Eliot (to her shame). Fie on you, aunt, that you should see No genius in David G., No elemental form and sound In T.S.E. and Ezra Pound. Fie on you, aunt! I'll show you how To elevate your middle brow, And how to scale and see the sights From modernist Parnassian heights. First buy a hat, no Paris model But one the Swiss wear when they yodel, A bowler thing with one or two Feathers to conceal the view; And then in sandals walk the street (All modern painters use their feet For painting, on their canvas strips, Their wives or mothers, minus hips). Perhaps it would be best if you Created something very new, A ***** novel done in Erse Or written backwards in Welsh verse, Or paintings on the backs of vests, Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests. But if this proved imposs-i-ble Perhaps it would be just as well, For you could then write what you please, And modern verse is done with ease. Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes With 'strumpet' in these troubled times, And commas are the worst of crimes; Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter. Never be lucid, never state, If you would be regarded great, The simplest thought or sentiment, (For thought, we know, is decadent); Never omit such vital words As belly, genitals and -----, For these are things that play a part (And what a part) in all good art. Remember this: each rose is wormy, And every lovely woman's germy; Remember this: that love depends On how the Gallic letter bends; Remember, too, that life is hell And even heaven has a smell Of putrefying angels who Make deadly whoopee in the blue. These things remembered, what can stop A poet going to the top? A final word: before you start The convulsions of your art, Remove your brains, take out your heart; Minus these curses, you can be A genius like David G. Take courage, aunt, and send your stuff To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff, And may I yet live to admire How well your poems light the fire.
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*** is a four lettered word flaunted by very bad vowels fevered to ecstacy by all tangled-up adjectives Then pounded into submission by perverted nouns that take their free liberty of the subjective Once surrounded by the iniquity of the parentheses you will only utter commas at the Benediction
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May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 at 5:16 PM UTC
***
Practicality is the reality of ignominious totality the devices of all sizes and the grammatical mentality of systematic duality. Punctuation is the ********** the *********** of every generation the permutation and saturation of wordsmith temptation for re-calibration the aberration and consternation that leads to misinformation and condemnation and annihilation of the constellation colloquial conversation the abomination of language urbanization the fermentation and ionization of linguistic complications the desolation of commas and semi-colons the affirmation of their vs they're the augmentation of amalgamation is just the lyrical ************ of a hooded basketball top nation the culmination of devastation the gestation and interpolation that leads to appreciation isolation and justification acceleration the modification and assimilation of poorly-worded implementation and the contamination of myriad exploration alienation in illumination punctuation is the salvation of documentation against the tides of violation and the extermination of regurgitation the classification of discrimination and last but not least the liberation of misrepresentation.
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 10:49 AM UTC
Linguistic Augmentation
The trellis of oak trees winked, captured my soul in a spinney, chalked whispers of free promises breathy like a silken shawl trailing Those wise men of old, withered skin of bark, tall and strong, waving their introduction. They bowed to me in free form, in humble escapism. Sun had stroked their warm palms, fed them sweet sap. To my left a stray leaf, rested amid invisibility, caught the air train, and spiralled free. Twizzled to the green painted rug basking under my cotton covered feet. Reaching out, it blew away, I chased the freedom fields. The brook teased it and set sail under the woody bridge, green from seasonal tears. Lost sight as it spun the space between us. The grass sprung its beginnings in full Spring, tall in parts, summer not yet wrapped and ready to visit us, much less invited to the summer ball where shadows are ten a penny, and sunshine bought on every street corner.  I am among spring devoured in daffodil eiderdowns, elbowing out the crocus, snowdrop chandeliers. I seagull my way, swaying in step with willow, blossoming surprising myself, how I let go of school day shivers, tinkering my brain into gear for terms talking tightness, cramming commas, fat full stops.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 7:47 AM UTC
The Park in Spring
I'm going off like a Koala I anti got no time for this drama I am high off this Llama I do my best to please my mama I work hard and chase the commas
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 2:29 PM UTC
Freestyle
Sleep depravation leads to many fun things, Like commas, And sea dragons, And low self esteem, Being happy leads to several exciting things! Like exclamation marks! And dolphins! And a sexually transmitted disease! Anger leads to lots of frustrating things. Like periods. And humans. And bullets handed out for free. So with all these great feelings, creating such magic! How in the world could life be so tragic.
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May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
,!.
I've got poetic licence So I can right however I want. Even if whatever I right doesn't make sense I kan right with whichever font. I use my poetic licence in whatever I right An sometimes, de thins I right does not look write I have de power power 2 repeat rhymes Over and over countless of times I use abbreviations in de mst unusual ways My, commas, and!!!!!, escalations, marks come!!! as they may!!!! I've got poetic licence cos I am a poet I use it in odes, elegys, ballads, epitaphs, and sometimes in sonnets. I am never rong. And with my poetic license I will remain strung.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 3:54 PM UTC
PoETiC LiCeNCe
reverence in poetry.                             everything to every person. reader claims they can                         a necessary skill for uncover the reverence.                         successful hypothecating and in the scripts that                       (buying)poetry-creation outta nothing, life straight hands me,                          tell them what thy want to hear, for collection & correction,           and they’ll call you laureate,                       secretarial transcribing,                        instead of good listener binding, typo correction                       or just a keen observer-fakir mundane are the tasks,                          just take what they give ya, that’s all them muses ask,                     dress it like Joseph in a don’t interfere, taken what’s given,     coat of many colors, bow, curtsy, show respect,                     don’t let on your plagiarism treat its aspects/instincts correctly       is all them, redressed legally you’re just the pass through agent,   true you, gotta be smart about it, patient for no payment expected,    variant spellings, swinging verbs, be our adherent, not our truant,      be discreet, they’ll call your script we appoint don’t disappoint,          a real keeper and give love or sun, accept our patent, render legit        mucho poem emojis accoladeya as for this reverence thinge        devil in a blue dress, walk the streets if I do my job ok, on any day,     grabbing snatches of overhearings, any poem could save a life,        pressed into a single tunic, you think, if I get the commas placed,         he a genius, knows my thinking, just right, the periods period,     exactly,  what a great poet and while obeying the speed limit    con/hu-man par excellent them muses so **** pleased     even fool muses, too full themselves, by this true confession released, muses who think we stink and and self deprecation,                     couldn’t do it without them they call me reverend,                   great pretenders by stealing imagine them silly folk,                everything in everybody and calling a big fat liar.                       all thieves and cape riders, reverend, duh, the end                 original liars, pants on fire before midnight and after 3:20am April 7~8, two oh nineteen any message you send becomes my intellectual property, fool....
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Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 at 5:24 AM UTC
reverence in poetry. (2) everything in every person.
reverence in poetry.                             everything to every person. reader claims they can                         a necessary skill for uncover the reverence.                         successful hypothecating and in the scripts that                       (buying)poetry-creation outta nothing, life straight hands me,                          tell them what thy want to hear, for collection & correction,           and they’ll call you laureate,                       secretarial transcribing,                        instead of good listener binding, typo correction                       or just a keen observer-fakir mundane are the tasks,                          just take what they give ya, that’s all them muses ask,                     dress it like Joseph in a don’t interfere, taken what’s given,     coat of many colors, bow, curtsy, show respect,                     don’t let on your plagiarism treat its aspects/instincts correctly       is all them, redressed legally you’re just the pass through agent,   true you, gotta be smart about it, patient for no payment expected,    variant spellings, swinging verbs, be our adherent, not our truant,      be discreet, they’ll call your script we appoint don’t disappoint,          a real keeper and give love or sun, accept our patent, render legit        mucho poem emojis accoladeya as for this reverence thinge        devil in a blue dress, walk the streets if I do my job ok, on any day,     grabbing snatches of overhearings, any poem could save a life,        pressed into a single tunic, you think, if I get the commas placed,         he a genius, knows my thinking, just right, the periods period,     exactly,  what a great poet and while obeying the speed limit    con/hu-man par excellent them muses so **** pleased     even fool muses, too full themselves, by this true confession released, muses who think we stink and and self deprecation,                     couldn’t do it without them they call me reverend,                   great pretenders by stealing imagine them silly folk,                everything in everybody and calling a big fat liar.                       all thieves and cape riders, reverend, duh, the end                 original liars, pants on fire before midnight and after 3:20am April 7~8, two oh nineteen any message you send becomes my intellectual property, fool....
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Two men, one poem. This day, on this site. Two men wrote to me. One called me brother. The other, an arrogant ***** Called me little. One shared his life, With humility and gratitude, Then, I lost it. Wept. Baby like. Honored me with trust. Swapped spit stories That bled into my brain, And a tattoo appeared on my Writing arm, one word, Humility. One boasted of his beans. His bean counting reads. Analyzed his trends, Predicting by Christmas (!), He would have this many. His **** poems he informed, Would be published. What need did he have For punk-u-ation, His rants, his **** stream of words. Better than mine, Just cause his stuff I said, Not my cup of tea. What a crazy place this place. Holy and ******** sided. Humble humble, always humble. He invoked, this arrogant one, God's name. Not knowing I talk to Him. So I rang Him up and said, How did a little peenus-genius Find his way onto this Holy Place, HP, of kindness. He smiled in brevity. Did I not create both, Angels and devils? I love God's brevity. His commas, his question marks, His pointed punctuation. I love that He could create A man whose sight of Me, unseen, but found capacity To love me in ways Undreamed. Because I peered in to the man's reveal, Saw quality, value, Saw humility. So of arrogance, I said, I would write. But it is of humility I will sing, Of loving human kindness extraordinaire. Of weeping endless. At the joy afforded me To read so many lovely poems, Here. If my poems never see the Imprimatur of a publishing house, It matters not, For I have seen a human being Weep real tears reading mine. I have shed rivers of my own Upon discovering yours. Humble, humble. If it is glory you seek, You will find it, All alone. ************ Me, I live here, in the midst of a Good Company. Sept. 7th, 2013
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 4:49 AM UTC
Two men, one poem
Two men, one poem. This day, on this site. Two men wrote to me. One called me brother. The other, an arrogant ***** Called me little. One shared his life, With humility and gratitude, Then, I lost it. Wept. Baby like. Honored me with trust. Swapped spit stories That bled into my brain, And a tattoo appeared on my Writing arm, one word, Humility. One boasted of his beans. His bean counting reads. Analyzed his trends, Predicting by Christmas (!), He would have this many. His **** poems he informed, Would be published. What need did he have For punk-u-ation, His rants, his **** stream of words. Better than mine, Just cause his stuff I said, Not my cup of tea. What a crazy place this place. Holy and ******** sided. Humble humble, always humble. He invoked, this arrogant one, God's name. Not knowing I talk to Him. So I rang Him up and said, How did a little peenus-genius Find his way onto this Holy Place, HP, of kindness. He smiled in brevity. Did I not create both, Angels and devils? I love God's brevity. His commas, his question marks, His pointed punctuation. I love that He could create A man whose sight of Me, unseen, but found capacity To love me in ways Undreamed. Because I peered in to the man's reveal, Saw quality, value, Saw humility. So of arrogance, I said, I would write. But it is of humility I will sing, Of loving human kindness extraordinaire. Of weeping endless. At the joy afforded me To read so many lovely poems, Here. If my poems never see the Imprimatur of a publishing house, It matters not, For I have seen a human being Weep real tears reading mine. I have shed rivers of my own Upon discovering yours. Humble, humble. If it is glory you seek, You will find it, All alone. ************ Me, I live here, in the midst of a Good Company. Sept. 7th, 2013
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They print their lives on a price tag, Those big fat numbers, All they do is brag. My daughter’s a neurosurgeon, Graduated from Johns Hopkins, Saving lives by the hundreds. My son a number-crunching accountant, A career that keeps his wallet thick, And his pockets filled. They wonder what I do, I tell them I work with words. They gasp, Eyes widen. I tell them that, I can count the spaces between adjacent letters in a word, String words together to build a sentence, Layer each sentence above another like bricks, Place a single powerful mark of punctuation in between, The glue that holds the bricks intact and forms a wall. A wall of stanzas, Connected by commas and semicolons. A wall of paragraphs, Big enough to block numbers out. Because words fill souls while numbers fill pockets. Words are immeasurable. Infinite.
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 11:22 AM UTC
Numbers
It's all part of a bigger problem, namely the dollar sign Our wealth we're given is merely determined by our blood line The rich sit mighty high in the sky and dine While the lessers scour for nickels and dimes They spend all day wondering which car to drive While we wonder if we have enough food to survive They crack wise about their expensive wine While we sit and buff our dishes that can't shine We all dream of conquering the wall too steep to climb while the affluent boot steps on those not of their kin To clean the grime of the needy takes more time They think an innocent gesture amounts to a crime They're convinced we brought this on ourselves and give more to themselves to stack on tall shelves Unfortunately the wealthy control the people's power Our greatest empires built by the common man's hours Yet they are treasured the simple man's eye The glitz and glamour are merely an illusion, an ally. No matter how many thick gold bricks, I am not falling for their dubious tricks I wish to rid our society from the shackles of the dollar But the commas add up and debt restrains like a collar Until we can all break free from corporate's tight chain They'll stay to drain the remains from our withered veins
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 10:56 PM UTC
Money Means Power
*** is a four letter word Flaunted by very bad vowels Fevered to ecstacy By tangled adjectives And pounded Into submission By perverted nouns That take their free liberty Of the subjective Once surrounded by Iniquity of the parenthesis You will only utter commas In Benediction
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May 18, 2015
May 18, 2015 at 7:23 PM UTC
*** Is A Four Letter Word
I read him one of my poems He complemented my mechanics And although part of me laughed Wondering how he heard me breathe the commas Heard my spelling bee winner's letter placement Still The notion stuck Steadfast Push-pinned in my memory In the neglected space where kind gestures live I told him how I appreciated it I should've told him Boy no no You don't understand My mechanics need fixing No not my grammar boy I should've told him to volunteer Sweet boy I know hands are easier to work with than words Touch me with both Shhhh sweet boy Fix me with your good nature Let it wash over me Wash away my grime You needn't a good speaking voice But a good intention Warming arms To thaw me Couldn't hurt But sweet boy Too bad We all grow sick of licorice And I broke you Like the mantelpiece momma told me not to play around I broke you For a less sweet boy With a politician tongue And words soaked in muddy motives I broke you Hardened you Into a less sweet boy With a polititia- err Salesman tongue And words soaked in muddy motives I left you Gone with the wind You were the Rett In the search for my Ashley But he broke me Like the soldiers countenance heading to combat He left me Wondering Where all the sweet boys could have gone
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 11:11 AM UTC
Sweet boys
Start with a word, any word. And then a year later you might find a hundred pages. A story just begun, a tale, that, in reality, needs some editing. But I didn’t find myself in these pages I’d written, like the inspirational quotes say. I found my characters, I found a few bad habits too, Like how I bite my fingers as I stare at my computer in frustration, Or stare at the wall in blank fixation. Once the word is picked, don’t bleed out onto the screen, Hold yourself together, else you won't have to lips to pour forth a single key. Some old dude told you to bleed, didn’t he? I’ve found, I don’t bleed until page 71, When I have bonded with Jonathon, And now I must watch him mourn his fiancee, Who never got to propose. Be careful about your planning. Too methodical, And you’ll lose yourself in the untold parts, Too spontaneous and you’ll see your story turned from An epic dragon escape to a horror filled romance. Find a medium of crazy that suits you, and remember the details Of the night you tried marijuana and coughed as the smoke hit your throat. Hug the computer tight, don’t let anyone see Until you’ve determined the story strong. Some people open up at the blank page, While others hide it away until it’s a polished four hundred and sixty two, front and back. Say, here’s an idea—don’t forget to study your grammar too. Unless, of course, you’re poetry demands to be free, then flow round the corner and hesitate not with commas theyll be no use for you. After all this advice, I’ll tell you one thing. Forget all of it, it’ll be nothing to you. We storytellers like to go on and on about how to write, When we barely ever write a real story of characters in between speeches. If the only thing I could tell you, the only important fact I can say with utter certainty is, For god’s sake, Write.
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 10:11 PM UTC
How To Write
Start with a word, any word. And then a year later you might find a hundred pages. A story just begun, a tale, that, in reality, needs some editing. But I didn’t find myself in these pages I’d written, like the inspirational quotes say. I found my characters, I found a few bad habits too, Like how I bite my fingers as I stare at my computer in frustration, Or stare at the wall in blank fixation. Once the word is picked, don’t bleed out onto the screen, Hold yourself together, else you won't have to lips to pour forth a single key. Some old dude told you to bleed, didn’t he? I’ve found, I don’t bleed until page 71, When I have bonded with Jonathon, And now I must watch him mourn his fiancee, Who never got to propose. Be careful about your planning. Too methodical, And you’ll lose yourself in the untold parts, Too spontaneous and you’ll see your story turned from An epic dragon escape to a horror filled romance. Find a medium of crazy that suits you, and remember the details Of the night you tried marijuana and coughed as the smoke hit your throat. Hug the computer tight, don’t let anyone see Until you’ve determined the story strong. Some people open up at the blank page, While others hide it away until it’s a polished four hundred and sixty two, front and back. Say, here’s an idea—don’t forget to study your grammar too. Unless, of course, you’re poetry demands to be free, then flow round the corner and hesitate not with commas theyll be no use for you. After all this advice, I’ll tell you one thing. Forget all of it, it’ll be nothing to you. We storytellers like to go on and on about how to write, When we barely ever write a real story of characters in between speeches. If the only thing I could tell you, the only important fact I can say with utter certainty is, For god’s sake, Write.
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I talk in commas and periods, you talk in italic subtitles.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 8:02 PM UTC
How we talk
An imprint on your face and my mind, Your dimples curved like gentle commas demanding I pause to trace those lines Between kisses of every genre
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 12:32 AM UTC
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Apr 6, 2012
Apr 6, 2012 at 9:50 AM UTC
Echoes of Muidic Art Found on Digital Shoal
Save My Soul, (But First), Rub My Feet thus a poem auditorialy conceived, but! the sexuality of the deceiving dualities, irritates erogenous, exogenous perceptiveties, plethora of intensifying variables, a not-serious, harmless remark yet bring us to myriad of marauding reversals, add-venturing into harm’s way… much to discuss, but this topic bettered by much trading of traditional bantering brevity bettering our wordless battering insinuating, sensational signals bring us backwards & forwards to an exploratorium of wide boulevards back to new unfamiliar venues, narrowing alleyways & places we were before, places before we were before where, no unnecessary commas to separate, distingué, distinct tween the instinct of old and new, an uncommon commonality experiential revisionism now I understand what you said to me, a tenderizing of the sole synapses directing the brain, the old ooh ‘s, aah’s reigniting what what lay dormant, at long last, by opening doors to alternations, ven diagram of digressing yet intersecting old & new pathways, from the souls of her feet, to, too, two, we become diamond on souls of our heat
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May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM UTC
Save My Soul, Rub My Feet
I. This is just another bad poem Just vomited-thoughts-left-on-paper poem This is a collection of grammatical errors This would surely make my English teacher cringe But no worries, I didn’t write this for her II. This bad poem is for you May my subject and verb disagreement remind you of all those misunderstandings that lead to raised voices and nights where I cried myself to sleep Sentence construction was never my strength, it still isn’t, maybe that’s why you never truly understood me— called me difficult and bipolar You said that I was too much Did it ever occur to you that you might just misread me, like homonyms, same words but with different meanings misread my jealousy with accusations, my concern for excessive affection You said that I loved you too much but darling, did you even love me at all? Did I put too much meaning on your words, turned them into similes and metaphors? Turned your literal statements into figures of speech You told me that you liked me, so I blissfully interpreted it as a hyperbolic expression— called it love when obviously it wasn’t III. I was never good at using punctuations I put too much commas, unnecessary, misused, I kept trying to hold on Afraid of the inevitable end, Switched to semi-colons in an attempt to make it a few words longer Because despite all our grammatical errors no matter how shameful our piece of literature was to the English language It was beautiful to the untrained eye, To those who read poetry as it is To those who don’t dig deep in search of true meaning behind the metaphors It was beautiful to me But I eventually learned that infinitives and infinities are different, in spite of sharing infinite as the root word Like our love, started with something so promising but unlike most novels, there’s no happy ending So I accepted defeat, accepted the inevitable and bitter end No more committing the same mistakes over and over again, the same words over and over again, Accepted the fact that synonyms existed, words with the same meaning but also entirely different new and unfamiliar, foreign and peculiar IV. I accepted defeat No more commas or semi-colons We have reached the couplet of our free formed sonnet— I was never good with endings, I don’t think I’ll ever be, So darling I hand you the pen, set us both free.
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Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016 at 7:31 AM UTC
Untitled
I. This is just another bad poem Just vomited-thoughts-left-on-paper poem This is a collection of grammatical errors This would surely make my English teacher cringe But no worries, I didn’t write this for her II. This bad poem is for you May my subject and verb disagreement remind you of all those misunderstandings that lead to raised voices and nights where I cried myself to sleep Sentence construction was never my strength, it still isn’t, maybe that’s why you never truly understood me— called me difficult and bipolar You said that I was too much Did it ever occur to you that you might just misread me, like homonyms, same words but with different meanings misread my jealousy with accusations, my concern for excessive affection You said that I loved you too much but darling, did you even love me at all? Did I put too much meaning on your words, turned them into similes and metaphors? Turned your literal statements into figures of speech You told me that you liked me, so I blissfully interpreted it as a hyperbolic expression— called it love when obviously it wasn’t III. I was never good at using punctuations I put too much commas, unnecessary, misused, I kept trying to hold on Afraid of the inevitable end, Switched to semi-colons in an attempt to make it a few words longer Because despite all our grammatical errors no matter how shameful our piece of literature was to the English language It was beautiful to the untrained eye, To those who read poetry as it is To those who don’t dig deep in search of true meaning behind the metaphors It was beautiful to me But I eventually learned that infinitives and infinities are different, in spite of sharing infinite as the root word Like our love, started with something so promising but unlike most novels, there’s no happy ending So I accepted defeat, accepted the inevitable and bitter end No more committing the same mistakes over and over again, the same words over and over again, Accepted the fact that synonyms existed, words with the same meaning but also entirely different new and unfamiliar, foreign and peculiar IV. I accepted defeat No more commas or semi-colons We have reached the couplet of our free formed sonnet— I was never good with endings, I don’t think I’ll ever be, So darling I hand you the pen, set us both free.
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I've made graphs, charts & labels I've taken tests, quizzes, solved equations with functions & facts & limits & rules & statistics I've put commas where commas go, I've used all of the laws of punctuation But I still don't know why it is that I am me.
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM UTC
Ignorance
Don’t leave me alone, because every time you smile, the dimples in your cheeks come out like commas drawn in my life reminding me – this is not the end. Don’t leave me alone because your whispers add background music to my otherwise quiet life, Your fingers choreograph the perspective of my eyes and make sure hope clings to each corner, and I learn to hallucinate better than before- it is beautiful. Don’t leave me alone because I promise when next time you sit next to me, my incessant words won’t transform into question marks, only my eyes will look at you occasionally in case you miss the talk. Don’t leave me alone because I promise this too, on the days when you heart is too full to accommodate the memories of the past, we will go to your favorite river side and let them find their way out into the endless stream. Don’t leave me alone, because staring at horizon alone is boring, besides nobody talks about the expanse of these abbreviated colors into our lives. Don’t leave me alone because I refuse to have a life without you, may be I should have told you this in the beginning, instead of writing a poem.
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Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 8:32 AM UTC
Don't Leave Me Alone
Charge forth into Dis-topi Ah, City of Kanye-esque antics and Oxford commas looking for lovers Bliss-ful dive and conquer in Shakespearean soliloquies thus Learned to romance on the breast of Juliet and *** ******** despite plaque Toe the line, Lady Macbeth, let your murderous rhythm sing harmonic Matthew 18 rendition on the dias of Gatsby, 1920 Thousand and fifteen we still age inappropriate Lee, Spike jump rage against God Hates **** yet black lives live without crack ******* Kublai Khan to the sanctified Amazons.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 9:49 AM UTC
Ceramic Virginity
This letter, is to inform you, about a bomb threat that we received this, morning. Name of a Name Unified Consolidated ISD, a State-Recognized School of Somethingness, Where Kids Come First under the theme of All The Kids All The Curriculum All The Time is committed, to the safety and education of all our students and We Are Number One, Go #Thundercatbears!, ‘Cause We are #All-Hashtagged in Unity and Oneness. We also, want to clearly communicate with split infinitives And crazy commas all over the place to parents about safety issues when they get found out arise. This morning, a phone call, was received, by the receptionist at The-Latest-Name-Held-in-Place-with-Velcro-Until-the-Next-Name-Change Elementary School and Essential Spirit Dreams New Dawn Progress Learning and Technology Center of the Future stating a bomb was present, on the campus. After conferring with the Threat Assessment Team, The Standard Response Protocol team, the Chinkypin-Lizard Lick Police Department parked in the handicapped spaces at Tia Jolene’s Goremay Eats ‘n’ Bokays out next to the Interstate, the cheerleader sponsors, Facebook, Twitter, our attorneys, and Superintendent Dr. Hamestus Goodoleboy “Spike” Ponsonby III, the students were rapidly, and efficiently evacuated to a safe area up in the football bleachers where they would be more obvious targets and the school was professionally and thoroughly swept for anything suspicious and untoward. During this time, when no students were in danger, another call was received stating that  gunshots were fired in the school. There were no gunshots, fired in the school and no children were in danger at any time. Currently, we’re are is allowing students, who were never in any danger, to return to school as usual where there was never any danger at any time. We will have extra counselors and therapists available if students or parents needs supports are counsolining in spelling ‘n’ sentence structure. The students were never in any danger at any time. All threats to our school where their was never any danger and students who were never in any danger will be taken seriously immediately and thoroughly and investigated thoroughly and fully except for that call last week that we managed to keep covered up. We wanted to inform you of the correct facts because our correct facts are the only facts so you can discuss them with your child/ren Of any race, *** color, creed, religion, or gender identification or not and emphasize the seriousness of our facts, which are the only facts. If you discover Any facts untoward or out of place please contact us At the district office at *** *** xxxx ext *** or the Chinkypin - Lizard Lick Police Department immediately and thoroughly. No children were in, danger at any time.
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 5:07 PM UTC
No Students Were Ever in Danger at Any Time
This letter, is to inform you, about a bomb threat that we received this, morning. Name of a Name Unified Consolidated ISD, a State-Recognized School of Somethingness, Where Kids Come First under the theme of All The Kids All The Curriculum All The Time is committed, to the safety and education of all our students and We Are Number One, Go #Thundercatbears!, ‘Cause We are #All-Hashtagged in Unity and Oneness. We also, want to clearly communicate with split infinitives And crazy commas all over the place to parents about safety issues when they get found out arise. This morning, a phone call, was received, by the receptionist at The-Latest-Name-Held-in-Place-with-Velcro-Until-the-Next-Name-Change Elementary School and Essential Spirit Dreams New Dawn Progress Learning and Technology Center of the Future stating a bomb was present, on the campus. After conferring with the Threat Assessment Team, The Standard Response Protocol team, the Chinkypin-Lizard Lick Police Department parked in the handicapped spaces at Tia Jolene’s Goremay Eats ‘n’ Bokays out next to the Interstate, the cheerleader sponsors, Facebook, Twitter, our attorneys, and Superintendent Dr. Hamestus Goodoleboy “Spike” Ponsonby III, the students were rapidly, and efficiently evacuated to a safe area up in the football bleachers where they would be more obvious targets and the school was professionally and thoroughly swept for anything suspicious and untoward. During this time, when no students were in danger, another call was received stating that  gunshots were fired in the school. There were no gunshots, fired in the school and no children were in danger at any time. Currently, we’re are is allowing students, who were never in any danger, to return to school as usual where there was never any danger at any time. We will have extra counselors and therapists available if students or parents needs supports are counsolining in spelling ‘n’ sentence structure. The students were never in any danger at any time. All threats to our school where their was never any danger and students who were never in any danger will be taken seriously immediately and thoroughly and investigated thoroughly and fully except for that call last week that we managed to keep covered up. We wanted to inform you of the correct facts because our correct facts are the only facts so you can discuss them with your child/ren Of any race, *** color, creed, religion, or gender identification or not and emphasize the seriousness of our facts, which are the only facts. If you discover Any facts untoward or out of place please contact us At the district office at *** *** xxxx ext *** or the Chinkypin - Lizard Lick Police Department immediately and thoroughly. No children were in, danger at any time.
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Scared,  to let the words die, he hid, amid the languid luxuries of solitary structuring, lavished of the jaded and anguished lines, for lines melodrama, of the deviled days, of state, of mind, in fate, in kind, of the nether commas, devoid in honest ignorance of written words, dying on the caterpillars, cocooned, in all that's assumed, lost, in metamorphosis, never knowing this, is a dream, within a dream, of hope, clinging with stinging fingertips, ears ringing in the ripplits of a synesthesic pulse of visual signals, subliminally sounding the sirens, of solidarity, in the silent screams, of the sun rising, writhing in wanton seduction of my functions laying the heartened words of dead birds, falling from the sky, hardened in sloven cries, to justify, the means, tapping out on the screens, of a misnomer, a loner, in a coma, phoning you from the corner to warn ya, of the storm, in words prone to patience, in imaginit immaculance of the limitless limits, of livid lovers loving each-others lullabies, lolly-gagging in the illegibility, of our lucidity in the pity of leveled lofts, lovely-ly, levitating in elevating thought, fraught with passionate poetry, of ghostly words, blurred in the debilitating reasoning of reasonable reason, seasonally.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 2:14 AM UTC
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