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"commonplace" poems
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
the common place... (for Kim Johanna Baker & Edmund Black)
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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When I enter, the black holes of myself, they are located, transcribed upon the blackboards of our unified bodies, the magnification of energy transversed, principles demonstrated by the unconcluding conclusion of the expansion of creation, the rebirthing of one universe never ending When I enter a woman, the discovery sought, the definitional needed, the proofs equational, the factors constant, not the variable truths, the demonstrations positive, the constants of the universe, combinational, all within, a single point glistening to gentle comfort this knowledge of my wasting, the foresight of my limitations from the day of birth my matter, matters, my energy neither destroyed or created, illimitable, my decline inevitable and yet! cannot alter my atomic structure. my future guaranteed, my inner light, traveling so fast, it has yet to arrive When I enter a woman, the laws of physics become special theories of relativity, we are motion in time, force and energy nucleotides rawest refined, elemental and particle nuclear, packets of light exclaimed When I enter a woman, organic, chemistry, interdisciplinary my body and its life force shaped as electric current transceivers crossing galaxies, there can be no deceivers, there but and only the birthing of heat, a byproduct of interjection, conjunction creation of creativity <> she is my proof long after the log normal of my nerves, now parceled to the invisible of an oscillating log natural, fertilizes the sea grasses that so intoxicate, flying, carried, by the invisiblity of the winds, all-where I have chosen as my shifting shape, when this container leaks and crack'd, in sentry reentry orbit, to the nearest garbage strewn construction-dead lot When I enter a woman, physics far beyond the commonplace, physical transition to knowledge of life ever after death and fear are time sensitized passing notions, crushed by the consolation of physics, the eternality of a time once begun, cannot end, and therefore this, my one theory of everything, the God I worship, of course, he is invisible!
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC
The Consolation of Physics (When I Enter a Woman) Nov. 2014
When I enter, the black holes of myself, they are located, transcribed upon the blackboards of our unified bodies, the magnification of energy transversed, principles demonstrated by the unconcluding conclusion of the expansion of creation, the rebirthing of one universe never ending When I enter a woman, the discovery sought, the definitional needed, the proofs equational, the factors constant, not the variable truths, the demonstrations positive, the constants of the universe, combinational, all within, a single point glistening to gentle comfort this knowledge of my wasting, the foresight of my limitations from the day of birth my matter, matters, my energy neither destroyed or created, illimitable, my decline inevitable and yet! cannot alter my atomic structure. my future guaranteed, my inner light, traveling so fast, it has yet to arrive When I enter a woman, the laws of physics become special theories of relativity, we are motion in time, force and energy nucleotides rawest refined, elemental and particle nuclear, packets of light exclaimed When I enter a woman, organic, chemistry, interdisciplinary my body and its life force shaped as electric current transceivers crossing galaxies, there can be no deceivers, there but and only the birthing of heat, a byproduct of interjection, conjunction creation of creativity <> she is my proof long after the log normal of my nerves, now parceled to the invisible of an oscillating log natural, fertilizes the sea grasses that so intoxicate, flying, carried, by the invisiblity of the winds, all-where I have chosen as my shifting shape, when this container leaks and crack'd, in sentry reentry orbit, to the nearest garbage strewn construction-dead lot When I enter a woman, physics far beyond the commonplace, physical transition to knowledge of life ever after death and fear are time sensitized passing notions, crushed by the consolation of physics, the eternality of a time once begun, cannot end, and therefore this, my one theory of everything, the God I worship, of course, he is invisible!
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“death everywhere, not age or ancient, just an infiltrated lack of life” a puzzling, troubling line in a personal message, instantly isolated for further review, needy indeedy for a second medical opinion, for it’s a description of two, an actual place and a state of being a place where death seems more commonplace, not from agedness or honor, but from a madness drunk from a special cocktail of heat, guns and pseudo-rock stars, with beer chasers imbibed by those who imagine themselves INRL   in a movie genre of specialized urban cowboys, subset horror flick, self-appointed angels part of a world view so pervasive that it infiltrates the mental water supply and modifies the pure children early on demeaning existence, with a sense, a sendup, life is unreal, cheap, so taking it-is ok, justice delivered, for we angels, are subset, angels of death in a country where seven out of ten believe in angels, and one in four confident that the sun revolves around the Earth look to blame polluted water the ever-overheated atmosphere, bringing typhoon and storm, I do not know *how be sun and water, the essences, the originations of all life today come to the planet days still clear and warm, yet can not infiltrate our personal mystery, respire, re-spark the notion of the spirit,* the simple sanctity of life peculiarly human
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 12:59 PM UTC
Texas: “death everywhere, not age or ancient, just an infiltrated lack of life”
Muted, muffled, dull thud on concrete, Staggered, drunken, half conscious nobody, Starved, seeking, worried about payments, **** in hand, knocking on the wrong doors, Fire and brimstone stoked in the belly, Mad, strange, appetizing burlesque eyes, Obnoxious smacking and licking of parched lips, Rolling on half rationed legs, Quiet, sullen, mournful footsteps, Presently placed awkwardly one in front of the other, Memory serves correctly, destitute, reprise, Thunderclaps and crashing roars, Almost forgotten, with great relief, Soon, very soon, to be lost forever, Candlelight, sobbing vigils, no power, Nail, Nail, Nail, Praise in the box, graffiti walled, Like a bathroom stall, just as ****** Docile dissolving vessels, Brought to the commonplace dropoff, Settled down and greatly relieved.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 11:38 PM UTC
DEADBEAT
why a poet? because a poet hears the words which sing the purest harmonies because a poet paints their portraits in pastels of phrases because a poet dances their agonies into leaps of faith and pirouettes of passion because a poet sees the beauty in the commonplace and captures the moment in a snapshot of ink and white because a bloodless world cuts itself a thousand times and the poet bleeds
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 7:07 PM UTC
why a poet?
She seems pretty queer Yes she does Something odd Something peculiar Is it in her insouciance Is it in her audacity Is it in her pirouettes Spun with such vivacity Is it in her defiance Is it in her nonrepentance Is it in her reveling so free A form full of glee Sometimes impetuous All times ingenuous Aflame with passion An immersive intoxication Cracking down on this mystery A perplexing dichotomy Let's remove the misfitting pieces In sync with commonplace notions Alas what dismantling of a girl at peace with her pieces What uprooting of a girl at home in her body
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 1:22 AM UTC
At Peace With Her Pieces
Daisy, Daisy, how lovely to be a banal child. Safe from harm and hurt and death, your roots do hold you wild. Your life doth last some while as you carry on nourished by your parent ground; shan't your woes be gone? But oh, how lovely it would be to be the blessed Rose; what charm, what awe, what livelihood one of that kind knows. Daisy, Daisy, how lovely to live a mundane while. Your beauty lies in lengthy life, your commonplace beguiles.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 8:43 PM UTC
The Daisy
When did Wishes become as commonplace as pennies in Fountains? When did Unicorns stop dreaming? In a place where Unicorns can Dream And Stars are Paths And Fat Orange Cats are Sullen Irish Dancing Potatoes With Biscuit Legs and Waterfall Eyes With an Everything complex Due to feeling the Absence of all Whilst having felt an overwhelming Nothing And Ant Butt's full of Honey and Air Pirouette and bend their slim Amber eyed head backwards To see such hopeless Unicorns Dreaming of Trollops and Almosts who don't know what Mermaids are Mermaids that only Sing Underwater And watch Sullen Irish Dancing Potato Boy With Biscuit Legs and Waterfall Eyes And an Everything complex Because Garfield can't figure out If Fat Orange Cat is okay with loving Selfish Harlot Mermaid Or not Maybe we should all just stay Honey-Eyed Harlots And Hero Twin Flames Maybe the penny can be a Wish And the Star's dust pathways And Unicorns can see black instead of Dreams.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 9:05 PM UTC
Mermaids and Ant Butts and Unicorns and Garfields
Distant learning courses in the heart Irrelevant actions have left us all apart Acquisitions decaying those stray minded people It's no longer a commonplace to feel peaceful Simultaneous occurrences have our mind in disarray Through our pasts they begin to replay All these calamitous activities brought through maleficent eyes Disintegrate what's left sending us in a fools paradise We reap to elope from these rigorous bearings we call home Only to find ourselves cast away into the unknown We strive to survive in a world full of abhorrence Being seen transparent just as worthless corpses Those few who prevail are not left without detriment They are forever severed a mental delinquent **Nevertheless our story lives on In this godforsaken marathon** -Joseph B Schneider
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC
The Marathon Man
The world's on fire, peace is extinct Look how fragile peaceful minds can get All hostile minds are having a ball right now. It's like peace got embellished in chaos. Where's peace at, what happened to her? Regional, global local, peace is in short supply. This is the renaissance of a new world order Where partial peace coexists with total chaos People only search Google for mostly facts Not for solutions to some distorted peace What is peace then, how can it be? Just a routine rhetorical question Coming from the disturbed mind in me Listen, One-minute partial peace Bang, another minute total chaos! Nowadays, Instability everywhere is commonplace As unscripted hate rhetoric freely echos, From jihadic podiums to confused minds. The conspicuous birthplace of premeditated evil. The mind, soft spots of those totally confused Call it the hotspots and playground for the devil. I, the skeptic, to say the very least, See this quiet storm as a distorted peace! twitter @ivaclappers
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Jan 15, 2018
Jan 15, 2018 at 12:44 PM UTC
Distorted Peace
~ *She stands on the roof of the world, a ship in a bottle. She likes to wave at passing boats, inviting 120 volts to raise their sails. Words unbosomed -- her attempt of blotting out the sun and those bloodletting habits. Her eyelids say, "Only the disquieting muses have time for me." So she writes like an umbrella, shading reality; remembering pluck and luck stories about bumblebees, lovingly wrapped in Tiffany-blue ribbon and paper. Father used to solve her every contemplation. Now indecisiveness in what she asks. Now indecisiveness in arbitrary tasks. And she and her negative capability are the last two awake at a slumber party, giving commonplace words the allure of secrecy. You see, she is only harmless when she sleeps.* ~
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Dec 9, 2023
Dec 9, 2023 at 7:49 PM UTC
Pieces of Sylvia
You brothers, who are mine, Poor people, near and far, Longing for every star, Dream of relief from pain, You, stumbling dumb At night, as pale stars break, Lift your thin hands for some Hope, and suffer, and wake, Poor muddling commonplace, You sailors who must live Unstarred by hopelessness, We share a single face. Give me my welcome back.
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Lonesome Night
*Dear heartache, I cannot say that I know you well, I have never been in love But I have loved, Have loved deeply and quickly and without question, Have loved quietly and cowardly, Have been loved back. Dear heartache, I just wanted to know why you're still Hanging around here, Why you keep dropping by When I have guests over, They never stay once you show up. Dear heartache, I've only known you on the surface, Have never known the right questions to ask But I have memorized the structure of your being, Can describe the color of your eyes down to every fleck of red-brown, Can still feel every callous on your palm when I think about you, You have become so commonplace. Dear heartache, I think I know what you're doing, Think I have thought my way through your facade, I think you are in love with love; Think you have been following her around for so long That you couldn't bare to let her go now, Think you always show up too late, Show up just as she walks out the door. Dear heartache, I cannot say that I know you well, Cannot say that you have made a home for yourself Somewhere within me, Can only stand within your reach And hope that someday while you are chasing love She will find me.*
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 12:06 AM UTC
Dear Heartache
A thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea- a thousand dashes and whirls and swoops. A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea, to break apart, to come to me in fragments like a snowflake fractal. How many mermaid miles till she hands that glass to me? For I've taken out my very-ness, for you. - And my crossness. My judgement and wrath. I've taken out slight hot breathe                (for you to melt the ice on your whiskers.) I've taken out my toes when they are reaching for yours in the cavernous blanket world  through the forest of our lazy limbs. I've taken out my righteousness and my second guessing. I've taken out for you (a surprise, I was going to surprise you!) all the times you were going to be wrong to me-           and to wrong me... taken them out to sea, you see? In that bottle, pretty bottle. Broken now like too many vows. I've taken out my knowing best and finding better. I've taken out the half moon of your thumbnail as well ...I will miss that in my night sky- (perhaps I'll keep that after all.) I'll take out the complacency of holding your hand getting out of a chair. and the mindless strokes as you explain my commonplace crazy to simpler minds- I'll take out the very-ness of me, and the we-ness of us. and fill a bottle with a the brine of a thousand tears from hundred slights not slighted quite yet. I fill the bottle and gift the sea with the softness of you and the brashness of me. A thousand turnabouts it takes to reach you on the beach, a sea glass diamond ring, engage me you engaging man- and the tides tickles my feet in anticipation, marry me. marry me. just a sea glass promise for a mermaid bride waiting for the sailor man to sing her sweetly with salt on his lips Just a sea glass lullaby from the man who loves me so. Marry me, marry me And we drink sparkling water from a sea glass flute and we drink all the us and we drink all the we for sea glass could never hold a second in, sea glass is far too vain not to shine in the sun fanning your invite out in a spectrum of color that a small child's hand creates when he holds it up to the rays. Spills out all of my intentions Spoiled child, loved child, Spills out all of my intentions carelessly on the sandy floor for the tides to swallow whole. My sea glass prism chucked unceremoniously back to sea and me the mermaid bride left at her own alter... But a seashell to your ear and her my wailing sorrow calls, 'marry me, sailor. marry me.' sahn 8/5/14
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 11:42 PM UTC
Sailor Groom and Mermaid Bride
A thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea- a thousand dashes and whirls and swoops. A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea, to break apart, to come to me in fragments like a snowflake fractal. How many mermaid miles till she hands that glass to me? For I've taken out my very-ness, for you. - And my crossness. My judgement and wrath. I've taken out slight hot breathe                (for you to melt the ice on your whiskers.) I've taken out my toes when they are reaching for yours in the cavernous blanket world  through the forest of our lazy limbs. I've taken out my righteousness and my second guessing. I've taken out for you (a surprise, I was going to surprise you!) all the times you were going to be wrong to me-           and to wrong me... taken them out to sea, you see? In that bottle, pretty bottle. Broken now like too many vows. I've taken out my knowing best and finding better. I've taken out the half moon of your thumbnail as well ...I will miss that in my night sky- (perhaps I'll keep that after all.) I'll take out the complacency of holding your hand getting out of a chair. and the mindless strokes as you explain my commonplace crazy to simpler minds- I'll take out the very-ness of me, and the we-ness of us. and fill a bottle with a the brine of a thousand tears from hundred slights not slighted quite yet. I fill the bottle and gift the sea with the softness of you and the brashness of me. A thousand turnabouts it takes to reach you on the beach, a sea glass diamond ring, engage me you engaging man- and the tides tickles my feet in anticipation, marry me. marry me. just a sea glass promise for a mermaid bride waiting for the sailor man to sing her sweetly with salt on his lips Just a sea glass lullaby from the man who loves me so. Marry me, marry me And we drink sparkling water from a sea glass flute and we drink all the us and we drink all the we for sea glass could never hold a second in, sea glass is far too vain not to shine in the sun fanning your invite out in a spectrum of color that a small child's hand creates when he holds it up to the rays. Spills out all of my intentions Spoiled child, loved child, Spills out all of my intentions carelessly on the sandy floor for the tides to swallow whole. My sea glass prism chucked unceremoniously back to sea and me the mermaid bride left at her own alter... But a seashell to your ear and her my wailing sorrow calls, 'marry me, sailor. marry me.' sahn 8/5/14
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I liked you when you didn't swear, When innocence was commonplace; Maybe we're all growing up, Lost in life's cold embrace.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 11:18 PM UTC
Swear
I **** the mood in a sour June, opulent misery, scorched Earth, exchanging platitudes with old faces, full of ******** full of hot air. Both sides of the fence at war with themselves, feigning inner peace and profit across the beer garden table. I talk of hangmen and floods, child brides and dressing gowns, my hometown under the mythic spell of collective memory loss. We have forgotten our place in the comfort of our urban sprawl; sirens caterwaul past the high-rise, past the vacant church with locked doors and the homeless on the street. A commonplace emergency, young male suicides, women ***** in the safety of their homes, taught a kindness through physical force, the way the gun drops to civilians in countries saved through the filter of television screens; of dust and distance. I sit and write and think of **** of old loves, anxieties- they call me crazy all the while for not committing to the scene. Now Afghanistan is a blueprint, extended diagram of steady-state destruction, a conspiracy of white man dreams, farmlands bruised by machines of war, by the Big Black Boot, the feeling we have been here before. All the while, the illusion persists, car parks filled with smoke, professional escapists with their 9% lager, bags of tobacco, and the megalomania of art. I **** the mood of a whitewashed June, advertised freedom, a mortgaged Earth, exchanging currency for a chance of peace, the zen garden smoker, the looted mind. Both sides of the fence are collecting bones, at war with themselves, whilst my eyes are red and my philosophies, ****** They call me crazy for dreaming of escape, whilst never leaving the confines of home.
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
Stoner.
I **** the mood in a sour June, opulent misery, scorched Earth, exchanging platitudes with old faces, full of ******** full of hot air. Both sides of the fence at war with themselves, feigning inner peace and profit across the beer garden table. I talk of hangmen and floods, child brides and dressing gowns, my hometown under the mythic spell of collective memory loss. We have forgotten our place in the comfort of our urban sprawl; sirens caterwaul past the high-rise, past the vacant church with locked doors and the homeless on the street. A commonplace emergency, young male suicides, women ***** in the safety of their homes, taught a kindness through physical force, the way the gun drops to civilians in countries saved through the filter of television screens; of dust and distance. I sit and write and think of **** of old loves, anxieties- they call me crazy all the while for not committing to the scene. Now Afghanistan is a blueprint, extended diagram of steady-state destruction, a conspiracy of white man dreams, farmlands bruised by machines of war, by the Big Black Boot, the feeling we have been here before. All the while, the illusion persists, car parks filled with smoke, professional escapists with their 9% lager, bags of tobacco, and the megalomania of art. I **** the mood of a whitewashed June, advertised freedom, a mortgaged Earth, exchanging currency for a chance of peace, the zen garden smoker, the looted mind. Both sides of the fence are collecting bones, at war with themselves, whilst my eyes are red and my philosophies, ****** They call me crazy for dreaming of escape, whilst never leaving the confines of home.
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As a maze is to the eye, I am to all. Winding and wearing, my walls impossibly tall. Here, turns are the Words and dead ends the Actions. Spirals are the days, and red herrings, my                                                                                                                   Attractions.                                                                                                                                      With each                                                                                                                  Who dare                                                                                                               Enter,                                                                                             Two Paths                                                                              They All                                                                 Choose.                                        One abandons                        All Hope    The Other, Nothing To Lose. But none have made the journey,                                      none to the                                             core.               For all who enter,                                            leave and say            "no more! no more!"                      Here I have planted this garden that others accuse a maze.                                                                                                  A beautiful creation covered by haze. But all that is seen is monstrous,                                                           a trick of the daze. Months and years at the center have been all of my stays. Here I will watch and wait for the One who makes it, and is amazed.                                                                                                               By all I have built, all I have dreamed and every aspiration and desperation has seemed                     to build this                                                              wonderful,                                                               wandering                                                                   place.                                                   You who hear my case,                                               I invite you to take that space.               Be the One who makes it, leave all others to be commonplace.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 12:37 PM UTC
A-Maze
As a maze is to the eye, I am to all. Winding and wearing, my walls impossibly tall. Here, turns are the Words and dead ends the Actions. Spirals are the days, and red herrings, my                                                                                                                   Attractions.                                                                                                                                      With each                                                                                                                  Who dare                                                                                                               Enter,                                                                                             Two Paths                                                                              They All                                                                 Choose.                                        One abandons                        All Hope    The Other, Nothing To Lose. But none have made the journey,                                      none to the                                             core.               For all who enter,                                            leave and say            "no more! no more!"                      Here I have planted this garden that others accuse a maze.                                                                                                  A beautiful creation covered by haze. But all that is seen is monstrous,                                                           a trick of the daze. Months and years at the center have been all of my stays. Here I will watch and wait for the One who makes it, and is amazed.                                                                                                               By all I have built, all I have dreamed and every aspiration and desperation has seemed                     to build this                                                              wonderful,                                                               wandering                                                                   place.                                                   You who hear my case,                                               I invite you to take that space.               Be the One who makes it, leave all others to be commonplace.
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Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones— In fact, he’s remarkably fat. He doesn’t haunt pubs—he has eight or nine clubs, For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat! He’s the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impreccable back. In the whole of St. James’s the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we’re all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to By Bustopher Jones in white spats! His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational And it is against the rules For any one Cat to belong both to that And the Joint Superior Schools. For a similar reason, when game is in season He is found, not at Fox’s, but Blimpy’s; He is frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen Which is famous for winkles and shrimps. In the season of venison he gives his ben’son To the Pothunter’s succulent bones; And just before noon’s not a moment too soon To drop in for a drink at the Drones. When he’s seen in a hurry there’s probably curry At the Siamese—or at the Glutton; If he looks full of gloom then he’s lunched at the Tomb On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton. So, much in this way, passes Bustopher’s day- At one club or another he’s found. It can be no surprise that under our eyes He has grown unmistakably round. He’s a twenty-five pounder, or I am a bounder, And he’s putting on weight every day: But he’s so well preserved because he’s observed All his life a routine, so he’ll say. Or, to put it in rhyme: “I shall last out my time” Is the word of this stoutest of Cats. It must and it shall be Spring in Pall Mall While Bustopher Jones wears white spats!
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Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones— In fact, he’s remarkably fat. He doesn’t haunt pubs—he has eight or nine clubs, For he’s the St. James’s Street Cat! He’s the Cat we all greet as he walks down the street In his coat of fastidious black: No commonplace mousers have such well-cut trousers Or such an impreccable back. In the whole of St. James’s the smartest of names is The name of this Brummell of Cats; And we’re all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to By Bustopher Jones in white spats! His visits are occasional to the Senior Educational And it is against the rules For any one Cat to belong both to that And the Joint Superior Schools. For a similar reason, when game is in season He is found, not at Fox’s, but Blimpy’s; He is frequently seen at the gay Stage and Screen Which is famous for winkles and shrimps. In the season of venison he gives his ben’son To the Pothunter’s succulent bones; And just before noon’s not a moment too soon To drop in for a drink at the Drones. When he’s seen in a hurry there’s probably curry At the Siamese—or at the Glutton; If he looks full of gloom then he’s lunched at the Tomb On cabbage, rice pudding and mutton. So, much in this way, passes Bustopher’s day- At one club or another he’s found. It can be no surprise that under our eyes He has grown unmistakably round. He’s a twenty-five pounder, or I am a bounder, And he’s putting on weight every day: But he’s so well preserved because he’s observed All his life a routine, so he’ll say. Or, to put it in rhyme: “I shall last out my time” Is the word of this stoutest of Cats. It must and it shall be Spring in Pall Mall While Bustopher Jones wears white spats!
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You Are untamed Reckless blood and wit intertwined A twisted, brazen
 mind. Your mind Is so clearly different It leaps and soars, so acrobatic And your thoughts appear to me so hazy and enigmatic Your mind is simply not pragmatic Yet your perception knows no bounds. You have thoughts that come close to insanity That sometimes flow in the form of profanity.    Your spirit Is either very high or very low Up and down, to and fro There is no in between for you Some say you are stupidly crazy The dull ones say that, the ones too lazy To see beyond the rugged surface. The subdued and vapid ones Will never understand the magnetism Of your sweet, exquisite devilry. On your face you often wear A fierce and restless stare A wan, discontented expression As though you're always awaiting Something bigger, Something better. You Are fluid, swaying fire And I will never tire Of watching you burn I can see you brain boil and churn As it reels into into areas of
 madness and chaos. Your psyche Is an endless field of dark reverie, Of fear and vagary. I know your night terrors Your savage dreams of death Screams and bated breath Unutterable visions The grotesque world of horror thats spins itself out And dribbles into your drawings All those creatures, skeletons gnashing and clawing... You Are gentle and thoughtful Yet you are terrified Of this dark thing that sleeps within you. Your eyes - they’re stunning They’re tempestuous, Wild, like some fierce animal peering out of a rusted cage Oh, your eyes They are something beautiful, but annihilating Like Autumn crocus flowers, innocently poisonous Lids splaying delicately like its violet leaves. You are tall and strong And uncontrollable, And your smile Is the biggest paradox I've ever encountered Childlike And fatal. You are not A creature of the commonplace You are not a slave of the ordinary You are not a mindless drudge of the mundane You are free. Or bewitched, what's the difference
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 5:21 PM UTC
You Are Insane
You Are untamed Reckless blood and wit intertwined A twisted, brazen
 mind. Your mind Is so clearly different It leaps and soars, so acrobatic And your thoughts appear to me so hazy and enigmatic Your mind is simply not pragmatic Yet your perception knows no bounds. You have thoughts that come close to insanity That sometimes flow in the form of profanity.    Your spirit Is either very high or very low Up and down, to and fro There is no in between for you Some say you are stupidly crazy The dull ones say that, the ones too lazy To see beyond the rugged surface. The subdued and vapid ones Will never understand the magnetism Of your sweet, exquisite devilry. On your face you often wear A fierce and restless stare A wan, discontented expression As though you're always awaiting Something bigger, Something better. You Are fluid, swaying fire And I will never tire Of watching you burn I can see you brain boil and churn As it reels into into areas of
 madness and chaos. Your psyche Is an endless field of dark reverie, Of fear and vagary. I know your night terrors Your savage dreams of death Screams and bated breath Unutterable visions The grotesque world of horror thats spins itself out And dribbles into your drawings All those creatures, skeletons gnashing and clawing... You Are gentle and thoughtful Yet you are terrified Of this dark thing that sleeps within you. Your eyes - they’re stunning They’re tempestuous, Wild, like some fierce animal peering out of a rusted cage Oh, your eyes They are something beautiful, but annihilating Like Autumn crocus flowers, innocently poisonous Lids splaying delicately like its violet leaves. You are tall and strong And uncontrollable, And your smile Is the biggest paradox I've ever encountered Childlike And fatal. You are not A creature of the commonplace You are not a slave of the ordinary You are not a mindless drudge of the mundane You are free. Or bewitched, what's the difference
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stand(ing) here alone in the dark like a head of tack pirouetting away to no music - only acrid scruple of this being with and not being with, one is always alone. space occupies the potteries in the garden as a steady arm of light stills in its mouth, a flowering dark. it is only 3 o'clock in the morning and the heat clambers the wall of the vacuously atrabilious moment of just plainly existing. the slender harlequin of moon, like an old lover having its own way with me, a child's yelp coming home — the hermetic air crushing the light, slivering it revealing all the ensconced phantasms too commonplace like a fork in the road that i know, or the wayward metropolitan that teems with a concatenation of roads and gutters bilious with the squall of day. a figure moves entering a warm miasma, receiving the star of aloneness, vacillating between place and placelessness telling this originary of repossessing the moon with a hand in my hand, pressing a question of where have you been all the raging while.
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM UTC
Night's Metonymy
Drinking a Guinness Extra, an empty gesture, Beset truly by the words of Joyce, I am sick of the turning from text To annotation. I wish only to read A text as it was meant, With the knowledge not aside But present already in my blasted skull It's like the modern appreciation of Shakespeare —At best an approximation. The words that were Common, fallen out of usage. The words then invented, now commonplace. Thither and hither again I will look Tracking the details Researching the clever allusion Trying not to miss & missing anon what's right in front of me D.B. Guy
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 3:07 AM UTC
Interrupted Reading
The lights all up around me They dance and flicker Swirling up and down each tree As the music gets quicker What a colorful holiday Something new around each bend We climb into Santa’s sleigh And begin to ascend The clouds fall below us As we are launched into the sky The turns we took were brusque But the heavens never felt so nigh… ... ... I cover you with a quilt For the sleigh keeps climbing higher Towards your hometown we tilt I wonder, what will transpire? There’s something big in the back Is it full of coal? Perhaps there’s something else in that sack A doll, a plane, a little toy troll? Perhaps we will find out Your hometown draws near Rudolf raises his red snout Followed by the rest of the reindeer… ... ... They shift their gaze Towards a landing strip People down there in a craze We must look like a spaceship They angle their flight Right down the middle It is quite the sight And the thrill makes us giggle What’s going on down below? I ask Santa sitting up front “I don’t really know” He says as a reindeer grunts “They must be waiting for you Down there, to see what took place For you came back with her, That’s not exactly commonplace” I look back at you, and you meet my gaze Together we’ll get through Of that I have no doubt The sleigh is landing now There is no backing out… ... ... Santa pulls up on the reins On the landing strip the sleigh glides Only stepping out remains As we do, the crowd divides There in the middle Surrounded by curious people Stands a man with thumbs he twiddles He looks more nervous than you or I I grab your hand and look back again This is it, we feel suddenly shy Now’s not the time, so confidence we feign We look forward and meet his eye He looks at us and gives a sigh “Dad?” you say You look back at me, with display Introductions are made Feelings are conveyed We no longer stand in a masquerade Everything is out The closet has swung open We have nothing left to hide You squeeze my hand I coincide As we look to your dad and wait … … He looks at you with love Then he looks at me squarely Before he can say a word Santa breaks in and shouts “let’s all be merry!” The crowd breaks into laughter As Santa sates the air with a magic And joy fills everyone’s thoughts Your father looks at us again This time, with a smile, he simply nods
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 10:53 AM UTC
Christmas Adventure
The lights all up around me They dance and flicker Swirling up and down each tree As the music gets quicker What a colorful holiday Something new around each bend We climb into Santa’s sleigh And begin to ascend The clouds fall below us As we are launched into the sky The turns we took were brusque But the heavens never felt so nigh… ... ... I cover you with a quilt For the sleigh keeps climbing higher Towards your hometown we tilt I wonder, what will transpire? There’s something big in the back Is it full of coal? Perhaps there’s something else in that sack A doll, a plane, a little toy troll? Perhaps we will find out Your hometown draws near Rudolf raises his red snout Followed by the rest of the reindeer… ... ... They shift their gaze Towards a landing strip People down there in a craze We must look like a spaceship They angle their flight Right down the middle It is quite the sight And the thrill makes us giggle What’s going on down below? I ask Santa sitting up front “I don’t really know” He says as a reindeer grunts “They must be waiting for you Down there, to see what took place For you came back with her, That’s not exactly commonplace” I look back at you, and you meet my gaze Together we’ll get through Of that I have no doubt The sleigh is landing now There is no backing out… ... ... Santa pulls up on the reins On the landing strip the sleigh glides Only stepping out remains As we do, the crowd divides There in the middle Surrounded by curious people Stands a man with thumbs he twiddles He looks more nervous than you or I I grab your hand and look back again This is it, we feel suddenly shy Now’s not the time, so confidence we feign We look forward and meet his eye He looks at us and gives a sigh “Dad?” you say You look back at me, with display Introductions are made Feelings are conveyed We no longer stand in a masquerade Everything is out The closet has swung open We have nothing left to hide You squeeze my hand I coincide As we look to your dad and wait … … He looks at you with love Then he looks at me squarely Before he can say a word Santa breaks in and shouts “let’s all be merry!” The crowd breaks into laughter As Santa sates the air with a magic And joy fills everyone’s thoughts Your father looks at us again This time, with a smile, he simply nods
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the middle commonplace      poor dears weak of voice           making minimum wage for all the       billionaire investors making up Wall street           holding in servitude    the poor dude trying to pay his          child support with no health care     when he gave his sanity in Iraq. or the single mother          sharing with the desolate faces the disgrace of      going to the food bank:            the land of the free home of the brave            has turned into the home of the rich: oligarchy entrenches,           that is why i gave up     a long time ago. I looked back, once there was a middle class.
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 1:32 AM UTC
Home of the Brave
One Click Away Every dream fulfilled       A steady stream of pleasure No pain        Ethereal sensations and situations too sticky for keys to shift into locks           After dark I sit stuck and watch                Perfect bodies in perfect motion no preconceived notion of love          Only instant lust     A lack of trust is commonplace when a face and name is just a waste compared to her waist        No stretch marks looming Perfect teeth and a crooked twisted desire          All within reach at the touch of a wire              I perspire from the fire in my stomach          Unquinched thirst and unrelenting hunger                    Skin on a whim is nothing more than another filthy playground we play in      And sometimes we play too hard and get caught up in the facade we don't have flaws because we dont press pause     We don't step away from the daily play of getting off and making way          For false standards We all fall short when not on camera       We scar we bleed and we all dont understand        You're not perfect but I love you, I'm ready to be a man... And leave this filthy playground behind.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM UTC
Filthy Playground