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E Aug 2020
TikTok comps
Russian bots
Makeup tutorials
"I'm not like other girls"

Trolls and incels
BuzzFeed articles
Gay fan fiction
Many a pun

Demonetization
Censorship
People hiring hitmen
Buy some hair clips

Twitter ramblings
Anti-vaxxers
Flat earthers
And a partridge in a pear tree
Eileen Prunster Nov 2012
computers gone bananas
it's driving me insane
the pages scrolling up and down
then down and up again

replying to the poems
is taking me an age
I click onto the comment box
go to another page....:o(

so if I'm seeming tardy
please do not take offence
it isn't that I'm snubbing you
comps down is my defence
Having frustrating issues with my comp the last handful of days
solEmn oaSis Feb 2016
creator, creations, creatures,
chance, choose, changes,
poems poet poetry
above and beyond infinity

Earth Wind Water and fire
through our eyes, we can lire
British or French language
Filipino, American, has own luggage

everyone weighing its burden
somebody carrying that origin
coming from nowhere
existing and now here

Just like the "r e m i n d e r" by Christina
and the fact about the "5 SENSES"
by Craig Harrison who gave me stamina
for me to wreck those concrete fences

le comps in her "Learn something new every day,"
"Maybe It Is Just An Idea" by Christian Danner
and "when the words flow" of SoulSurvivor
helps me to realized "the cycle of eternity"
it feels good to be back :)
Hephzibah May 2020
Joy
Searching through the comments
Wandering through the photos
Maybe in the compliments
Or perhaps in the responses?

Where is this joy
My heart so longs for?
Why does it deplete
Ever so often?

But I know of everlasting joy;
Not found in the comments,
Nor in the responses or comps
But in the never changing Father,
The I AM that I AM.
Chuck Jan 2013
Sonnets, impromptu speeches,
Conclusions of comps
Happiness = loving career!
This is work because it is an example. I am a lucky man.
Nothing would be better
Nothing could be more
That life of empty wine bottles
Rom comps on the tv
You nuzzled deep into my chest
arms around your waste
A filled living room couch
So drunk
Dreaming thoughts
of you, and you of me
So drunk
****** oathe I am cool, mate
Don’t ya think
I am the coolest dude in Canberra
Don’t ya think
I really oh really the coolest dude around
I am cool very cool yes indeed
****** oathe I am very cool
Don’t ya think
I know how to be very cool
Don’t ya think
Everyone in this town
Thinks I am so cool
****** oathe I am cool
Don’t ya think
I am into watching football
I am into watching Netflix
I love life when I go out anywhere
I like watching sports like skateboarding comps
Because that kind of sport makes me cool
I have memories of being at the skatepark having fun
I never could ride a board mate
But I still had fun
Everybody knows I am the coolest dude around
And nobody can take my cool away
****** oathe I am cool mate
Oh yes I am
I used to party in the clubs drinking gross drinks
What I can’t understand why people choose to follow in my footsteps
Maybe it is because I am so cool
****** oathe I am cool
Everyone
I know people like me, ****** oathe.
I know ****** is rude but it is still cool oh yeah
I am cooler than everyone
yeah everybody
peep me and my scenery
in the ghettos
where y'all find me
sippin' cheap brewery
with the flossin jewelry
breakin the slavery
mentality placed on me
since I was a baby
I knew something was wrong
white superiority
think they got the authority
to rule ove us blacks
as a minority but majority
waking up
to the *******
blacks folks history
ain't start on no slave ships
that's just a cover
to keeps us under
the thrills of the concrete jungle yeah we rumble
as problems grow
thicker than Louisiana gumbo I know
I'm infinite with this rhyme I kick
like cement laid to bricks
I'm building foundation
unification to the black nation
fist in the air
guns right here
waitin for their infiltration cuz....


breaking suspense
cuz I'm angelic sent
In the forms of embezzlement
hell naw this ain't
embellishment
tryna ****. The racist ***
establishment they got me bent
crooked I in the media eyes lies
told on the tv screen
Envisions us in a prisons dream
and it seems
they get off on
the blacks  man's bling
but hate it when we sing
about the cultural things
that destroy our demeans
I'm after the cream
with my team
yeah we taking over
better discover nations
soon to uncover
the lost treasures
my black skin is a curse and blessing got em stressing
and guessing
my next moves which proves
my point
let gun anoint
ya mind body and soul
I see you growing cold
that's just the entrance
through hells vestibule
knocking out comps
like Marciano
black as Othello
paint a perfect ******
call me the rap Michelangelo
if you ain't feelin my flow
meet ya wifey
death it's six feet below
come on....
Ken Pepiton Apr 2020
Two old men in my magi class, were

walking in a public garden, during the scare in the air,

they touch at few common points, five years experience

more or less, in any given field of function,

they share in broad bubbles of common comps, experience wise.

One marriage... both have had one, not the same one

Exposure to radio music and commentary from birth... not the same music,
not the same commentary

Aware of war roles and support roles, from first words onward, aware of being
one of a we, who are the children of the winners,

except, the enemy remains, they shoulda stomped Stailin into Hell,
ever'body knew, we did, too... though

my 1948 vintage, was leavened with Hiroshima, in vitro, and

in seed, touched a bit by events near Alamogordo, where my daddy

participated in war ending events, this other old dude, he never saw that way,
what I mention seeing, today.

Hell is for heros. I think aloud.

My dad was an accountant, with a night school degree, four kids,
woulda been five, but Peggy died,
infant cancer,
some anomoly in the wind, was the rumor, where we lived,
south of the Nevada desert through which our
northern breezes list, licking up dust devils to twist novel

substance into threads of thought to think in time,

as the virus spreads, peace takes its chance, right on or

dead on, dead center, spot on, too right, smack
dab

hit it, and the skier rises from the vortex, towed by that line

linking me to the countenance, encountered, mirror neuron

tronic magi-missed spells, dangling

mod
if I were yous used as iusta use pennies behind fuses,

I owe you, nothing, but to define my terms, ere I dare con
verse
with you. Okeh?

Same page, two old men walking along, talking often,

one to the other, one to himself, each knowing himself,

each wondering the other saw what each noticed,

with a nod, saying, yeah, I was thinking you mighta noticed that.

Life's fun. But near the end, it becomes so believable, that it works,

despite our own seeming disfunction.
Nothing that crumbles can with stand, in a proper dust devil, in my mind
R B M Jan 2020
I love it when
In the middle of your chorus class
You break down crying
Because today is the day you pick songs for comps
And you knew it was coming
And you sit back
Debating whether or not you should go for it
Pick a solo

And while you're there debating this,
You slowly realize
That you're not good at singing
You'd fail so easily
You're so bad at it
And you don't deserve a solo
And you'd literally break if you failed
And so you shouldn't
You just shouldn't go for it
Even though this--singing--is one of the biggest, most important things to you
You sing every day and music is practically your life
But you don't believe in yourself
So yeah, you just shouldn't go for this moment

And you hadn't even started crying yet
You are just slowly getting there
Slowly realizing that you **** at this
You don't believe in yourself
But you hadn't started crying
Just on the edge
Of tears

But you do start crying because the last thing you wanted to do
Was talk about how you don't believe in yourself
And then your friends come over and sit next to you
And you can tell that they're expecting you to say something
Tell then why you look like you're about to cry
And then you do--- cry.
And you don't want to explain why

So you just sit there waiting for the last five minutes
Before you get to go home early
Crying
Shaking your head no, and crying
Because the one thing you want to be good at
The one thing you work so hard for
You don't believe in yourself for

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