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"constructions" poems
"Stoner's Poem" I see your snapstories, I see your ask profile. I see how you comment and reply and flaunt your English skills. Trust me, I love your rebuttals, More than Biryani and the Lebanese pornstar. I see your Facebook posts, I see your WordPress, And I see, how you craft your poems flamboyantly, And then, and then, Pilfer my breath, And rob my me. Sometimes, just sometimes, Your deportment bewilders me, More than Lowry-Bronsted's theory. I see how you dance in the rain, Like "All, sin, tan, cos", do in my brain. I see how you frequent every segment of my cardiac muscle, And then desert it, like it's one of the many dilapidated constructions. My reminiscences about your thingness, Escalate me to a higher spiritual level, More than **** does. Oh, that smile, Oh, that look, Oh, the mystique in you. And again, I am writing of Love. And the pen doesn't seem to stop soon, For I have taken a greater risk, Than asking my friend about cathodes and anodes and electrolysis, while I took my last chemistry exam, When the invigilator was around.
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May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016 at 3:55 AM UTC
Stoner's poem
1. Nymphomaniac-addicts, Overweight bisexual vegetarians Climbing trees to stay fit and eating 80’s fried chicken ******* 2. just imagine Aquarians full of class valedictorians Swimming on display for graduation ceremony… reverse-symbolism of how Moolch drowned His ***** 3. Better yet, just imagine Holy wars, Beautiful words written to describe the burning pains Of holocaust...the Kristallnacht nights Under the mistletoe, Watching Hall of fame ball hawks on pivot toes Driving through hoes After the whistle blows 4 College Literacy classes teaching basic: Ideas that good questions leads to good answers, Reading reminders Free association conceptual constructions 5. But ************ professor: free association **** shticks misfires, false alarms are all art, too, Like sticking a dagger into an apple, Not the edible, but the technology. 6. Go head, deconstruct the philosophy Of oral cute-tification, according to the Tautology of Leviticus, With the same three half truths, pogroms against biological deviant... FLAGS! 7. Cryptic gospels of a ************ Where three F.F.F’s Stands for six six six Like how 1mg of juxtaposition And a dose of metamorphosis is the repertoire of a king of curmudgeon ‘cause even the Holy Ghost drinks from the cup of Christ’s blood. 8. Reading, Self-flagellation gospel-manual of Pope John Paul II, At shrink sessions under the daze of heron Piper methysticum blunts With sweet phat butts like lit lickerish that droop eyes Like the psalm of Valeriana officinalis root extract.
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Feb 12, 2012
Feb 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM UTC
Phrenology of SAMO (from 1.Amativeness to 8. Acquisitiveness)
1. Nymphomaniac-addicts, Overweight bisexual vegetarians Climbing trees to stay fit and eating 80’s fried chicken ******* 2. just imagine Aquarians full of class valedictorians Swimming on display for graduation ceremony… reverse-symbolism of how Moolch drowned His ***** 3. Better yet, just imagine Holy wars, Beautiful words written to describe the burning pains Of holocaust...the Kristallnacht nights Under the mistletoe, Watching Hall of fame ball hawks on pivot toes Driving through hoes After the whistle blows 4 College Literacy classes teaching basic: Ideas that good questions leads to good answers, Reading reminders Free association conceptual constructions 5. But ************ professor: free association **** shticks misfires, false alarms are all art, too, Like sticking a dagger into an apple, Not the edible, but the technology. 6. Go head, deconstruct the philosophy Of oral cute-tification, according to the Tautology of Leviticus, With the same three half truths, pogroms against biological deviant... FLAGS! 7. Cryptic gospels of a ************ Where three F.F.F’s Stands for six six six Like how 1mg of juxtaposition And a dose of metamorphosis is the repertoire of a king of curmudgeon ‘cause even the Holy Ghost drinks from the cup of Christ’s blood. 8. Reading, Self-flagellation gospel-manual of Pope John Paul II, At shrink sessions under the daze of heron Piper methysticum blunts With sweet phat butts like lit lickerish that droop eyes Like the psalm of Valeriana officinalis root extract.
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So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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Mar 15, 2014
Mar 15, 2014 at 8:25 PM UTC
****** (slam poetry #4)
So, what's the deal with ****** Why is it that there's this whole weird thing associated with being unclothed, as if we don't wake up and each of us strip down for a completely naked shower, and under our clothes, we're completely naked. Why is it we spend so much time pretending our bodies don't exist and fragilely hiding behind these pointless social constructions about what and whom you should and shouldn't be, why do we lie about who we are and cover it up because it's not safe for children? CHILDREN ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS US. THEY ARE THE SAME SHAPE. They get naked too. and if they're not quite the same shape yet, why do we hide what they're going to become? It's completely pointless to build walls and act as if they were set there by someone other than ourselves, we've given each other amnesia, it's always 'they', it's always 'society', that did it. Why do we create all these rules and desperately struggle to follow them as if we weren't the ones who wrote the rule book and we aren't the ones who can erase it? Why does he cover his emotions because he's scared to be called gay or too feminine? Why does she wear long sleeves or look down when you talk to her? It's not because of some conniving voice in all of our heads, an imaginary force, It's every time you made a sarcastic joke about people who defied the norm and every time you yourself were afraid to break it, you built the walls and now you're suffocating within them. I see you, there, hiding, just like me, and it's painful to repress it, isn't it? It hurts because there's something more we're longing to do, somewhere else we're longing to be. What is it that is so broken within ourselves that we can't be raw and we can't be free and we can't kiss random strangers when we want to? ****** isn't dangerous if you don't hurt and you don't make someone else feel vulnerable or like they're trash for displaying the image of God. Why are we hiding the image of God? Why do we cover our hearts like they're shameful to show? We are born into this world naked and our parents try to instill this ridiculous idea in our heads that we can't share our innermost thoughts, we mustn't display, "society won't like that" YOU. ARE. SOCIETY. I am a member of this universe, just like you, and I was born naked and I take showers naked and when we get up on stage, we're naked and late at night, we're naked, and when we cry, we're naked. WHY ARE THERE ANY SECRETS LEFT WHEN WE ARE ALL HUMAN? I have pain and joy, just like you, so show me. My goal is to unclothe the knights in shining armor because I don't care about the armor, I care about his heart. I will strip down these walls dividing you and me, because I want to know everything about all people. I want to unravel the secrets deep within God's mind. I want to open the doors that are locked, and I want to see you naked.
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Hell no, you don't want to be compared to one of those models idolized in magazines. True beauty lies outside the fashion industry’s visual constructions. Fall in love with what you never expected to love, imperfection. Brand-less self expression. There are no cameras or flashing lights there or visual effects. We come in different range of sizes. Shame on shallow marketing. A pretty face can have nasty vices. Hearts of Gold, now those aren't sold. - C.Ek
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 5:18 PM UTC
Untitled
These golden sunglasses Appeared on my doorstep The last day of The spring semester, Sitting in a plastic pumpkin. They weren’t mine But when they break I get them fixed And when they don’t sit straight I keep them Because they remind me Of how finals were over And I slept through so many goodbyes. The night before We lay in your room Sounds flowing through us like Waves in the ocean, Then moved to the grass outside Watching more shooting stars than I could count. The wood by the dorms was dark And we ventured in in fits and starts, The shadows of authority figures Dancing around us. The gazebo was silent. And we journeyed across campus, A pilgrimage through abandoned constructions To see the church alight in the dark, But the power was out and it was nothing. I woke up in the afternoon And knew that spring wouldn’t be back For us. The sunglasses weren’t mine But someone left them at my door And I keep them.
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 6:55 PM UTC
Beltane
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, please come flying, to the rapid rolling of thousands of small blue drums descending out of the mackerel sky over the glittering grandstand of harbor-water, please come flying. Whistles, pennants and smoke are blowing. The ships are signaling cordially with multitudes of flags rising and falling like birds all over the harbor. Enter: two rivers, gracefully bearing countless little pellucid jellies in cut-glass epergnes dragging with silver chains. The flight is safe; the weather is all arranged. The waves are running in verses this fine morning. Please come flying. Come with the pointed toe of each black shoe trailing a sapphire highlight, with a black capeful of butterfly wings and bon-mots, with heaven knows how many angels all riding on the broad black brim of your hat, please come flying. Bearing a musical inaudible abacus, a slight censorious frown, and blue ribbons, please come flying. Facts and skyscrapers glint in the tide; Manhattan is all awash with morals this fine morning, so please come flying. Mounting the sky with natural heroism, above the accidents, above the malignant movies, the taxicabs and injustices at large, while horns are resounding in your beautiful ears that simultaneously listen to a soft uninvented music, fit for the musk deer, please come flying. For whom the grim museums will behave like courteous male bower-birds, for whom the agreeable lions lie in wait on the steps of the Public Library, eager to rise and follow through the doors up into the reading rooms, please come flying. We can sit down and weep; we can go shopping, or play at a game of constantly being wrong with a priceless set of vocabularies, or we can bravely deplore, but please please come flying. With dynasties of negative constructions darkening and dying around you, with grammar that suddenly turns and shines like flocks of sandpipers flying, please come flying. Come like a light in the white mackerel sky, come like a daytime comet with a long unnebulous train of words, from Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying.
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Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, please come flying, to the rapid rolling of thousands of small blue drums descending out of the mackerel sky over the glittering grandstand of harbor-water, please come flying. Whistles, pennants and smoke are blowing. The ships are signaling cordially with multitudes of flags rising and falling like birds all over the harbor. Enter: two rivers, gracefully bearing countless little pellucid jellies in cut-glass epergnes dragging with silver chains. The flight is safe; the weather is all arranged. The waves are running in verses this fine morning. Please come flying. Come with the pointed toe of each black shoe trailing a sapphire highlight, with a black capeful of butterfly wings and bon-mots, with heaven knows how many angels all riding on the broad black brim of your hat, please come flying. Bearing a musical inaudible abacus, a slight censorious frown, and blue ribbons, please come flying. Facts and skyscrapers glint in the tide; Manhattan is all awash with morals this fine morning, so please come flying. Mounting the sky with natural heroism, above the accidents, above the malignant movies, the taxicabs and injustices at large, while horns are resounding in your beautiful ears that simultaneously listen to a soft uninvented music, fit for the musk deer, please come flying. For whom the grim museums will behave like courteous male bower-birds, for whom the agreeable lions lie in wait on the steps of the Public Library, eager to rise and follow through the doors up into the reading rooms, please come flying. We can sit down and weep; we can go shopping, or play at a game of constantly being wrong with a priceless set of vocabularies, or we can bravely deplore, but please please come flying. With dynasties of negative constructions darkening and dying around you, with grammar that suddenly turns and shines like flocks of sandpipers flying, please come flying. Come like a light in the white mackerel sky, come like a daytime comet with a long unnebulous train of words, from Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying.
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The Rent-a-Mob loonies, the gangsters and the Racists damaged scums of society and contemporary politics Ignorant arrogant sociopaths who want it all for nothing Indulgent wasters in nation awashed with opportunities In idle union they scream, feed us poor and **** the Rich Strangers come Poland, Bulgaria, India and all over to work in farms, hospitals, hotels and Constructions Building futures and faring in endeavours with sweat Crimson gangs and Renta Mobs states we serve nobody **** the wealth makers, **** the parasites and let's drink Our shyster gangs of Revo-comrades and malcontents See killing fields, whereas strangers toil and find rich pickings Our Revos Distract, confuse, sow seeds of dissent, make strife Blame all others, lie and decieve, fling indulgent political turds Rent brainwashed Mobs,into ***** bridgard to do their ***** work We all know life is unfair and even roses have imperfections Some are born to riches in spades and some born to beggars in dusts Those with time, sit and ask God why, just a fact of life to accept But from dust has risen billionaires, whilst riches have made duds Insane Crimson sits in spurious guise and odious fallacy playing God Yeh, **** the Rich and feed the poor, why hide and use Rent a mob Why not air your case in broad daylight and stand your conviction The coward you are knows it hold no sanity for those with sense Except for thieves, the workshy and wasters who cheat to survive In your city of merits aplenty, Revo-crimson is beneath contempt
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Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 at 9:56 AM UTC
Rent-a-Mob fable of Fallacy..........
The Rent-a-Mob loonies, the gangsters and the Racists damaged scums of society and contemporary politics Ignorant arrogant sociopaths who want it all for nothing Indulgent wasters in nation awashed with opportunities In idle union they scream, feed us poor and **** the Rich Strangers come Poland, Bulgaria, India and all over to work in farms, hospitals, hotels and Constructions Building futures and faring in endeavours with sweat Crimson gangs and Renta Mobs states we serve nobody **** the wealth makers, **** the parasites and let's drink Our shyster gangs of Revo-comrades and malcontents See killing fields, whereas strangers toil and find rich pickings Our Revos Distract, confuse, sow seeds of dissent, make strife Blame all others, lie and decieve, fling indulgent political turds Rent brainwashed Mobs,into ***** bridgard to do their ***** work We all know life is unfair and even roses have imperfections Some are born to riches in spades and some born to beggars in dusts Those with time, sit and ask God why, just a fact of life to accept But from dust has risen billionaires, whilst riches have made duds Insane Crimson sits in spurious guise and odious fallacy playing God Yeh, **** the Rich and feed the poor, why hide and use Rent a mob Why not air your case in broad daylight and stand your conviction The coward you are knows it hold no sanity for those with sense Except for thieves, the workshy and wasters who cheat to survive In your city of merits aplenty, Revo-crimson is beneath contempt
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Derk! The Harold angels sing. The muffin is my savior. Jesus lies. Pacific Islands. The screaming of fires. Rulers. Words. Meters. Feet. The magnetic field is the only field. If I could trust baseball, I would. But cereals, Vonnegut, lies. -ectomy. The ubiquitous suffix. Suffixes make the world hell. -ism, -itis, -like, -tude, cease your silly constructions! Constructions are power I will smash bye bye now
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 6:51 PM UTC
Cowboy
****** **** Gay these words cut through queer youth like their razors through their wrists words that cause the list of queer youth committing suicide seem like a revolving door queer youth of color forced into a two doored slaughter house The army or the pen Queer youth of color being harassed, beaten, and killed While gay marriage is the sign of equal rights for gays I CALL ******** There is no equal rights for gays when gay people are given the “privilege” to enter the heteronormative social constructions of the American Dream, to believe in the American Way There is no equal rights when the blood of gay youth floods America’s streets!
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Apr 6, 2012
Apr 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM UTC
Equal Rights For Who?
Scribbles on a yellow notepad, this ink won't last Letting sweat dry from a long walk, half way there I didn't notice it on my first passing, or my second Third time is the charm they say, don't they? Now I sit in this scummy drainage ditch, writing A tree, growing from a pile of waste concrete Dumped carelessly by rough, tired, hands Green leaves adorn it, this oddity, only a sapling Like a flower on the peak of Mount Everest Or an ice cube in the middle of the Gobi This is not so grand, this urban contradiction Some day it will be as tall as me, maybe taller Stretching its limbs, eroding its base Praising sun rays through photosynthesis Pushing down roots through man made constructions Reclaiming the soil from which all life springs & returns
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 5:12 AM UTC
Deep Rooted
Free fall sensation in the dark invited dizzy dreams spark singed skin the last time I felt like I do when you touch me I had stuck a necklace in an electrical socket to try and figure out how the lights work I thought I could take the energy I thought by touching it I could understand Except for that hurt, and you are the opposite of hurt on the same intensity just with fingertips except for I understand alternating current now but not this You make me want to make sculptures and bad jokes you make me write but the words come out like dogs off the leash in the park Next to you is the place where I fell asleep at the beach and woke up warm and sun-washed where my body felt like it belonged to me and the waves had washed away the smell of wet cities and old growth trees Next to you is banana pancakes with strawberries and silence is a round comfortable thing like hobbit feet like blanket forts safe and temporary constructions inventive nomadic shelters lovely places to spend rainy days You are like aloe-vera gel and I've been forgetful and spent to much time in the sun trying to breath in life but got hurt but it doesn't feel raw when you slide over my skin instead its tingly bits of mint and blue like gypsy wind chimes and spicy food
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Oct 25, 2013
Oct 25, 2013 at 7:16 AM UTC
Blue Minty Things, Dinosaur Wings
The home you miss, is my burden; the longing of distance and miles is not there. Concealed within living bone and spiral, no conquered land can I long winter, and longer yet retain. Would you miss it - if it were always near? Those crude constructions composed of flora's corpses and Oran's nails; compose another, and... Still ye dismay: "The house is similar, but the home is not the same." A home requires a heart, but man has long since lost theirs; so crawling, I wonder: "What difference is there?"
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Oct 10, 2021
Oct 10, 2021 at 10:58 AM UTC
The Snail.
I favour the deep, impenetrable truth of the jungle Over the smooth ride over sleek black rubber; The ***** disturbing, demented disorder; The distortions of the lights we bathe on, Over outward alignments and the staleness of systems. I favour the cheap, rugged, bittersweet taste Of a late night's substandard drink, In the midst of true lights and shadows And the uncertainty they cast upon us, Over the orderly and satisfactory-- The dead pleasures and securities that Exist nowhere but in feeble projections. I favour the basic, primeval, animal grunt-- The dirt, the dizziness of true treading Across the muddy shallows--, Over the clattering of an overflowed, Certain mind. I favour doubt, earnest doubt, Unpalatable doubt, inescapable doubt-- A smile in a pitch-black room, A journey on a lukewarm air balloon, A half-finished sentence in a half-serious gloom--, Over hasty conclusions and tainted allusions. I favour the endearing messiness of reality; The chaos of light and dreams; The mystery, so out of reach, Of you and me and the space in-between; The stained, torn, shattered, burnt, Twisted texture we find ourselves upon, Over the smooth, marble-white, Sterile surface where false certainties Slide, grinning, before they find themselves On an impending collision with the infectious hesitation of the ground. I favour the acknowledging look Straight into the eye; A ladder with one step; A race with no competitors; A contentment without resentment; A bread on your table that's good enough, That doesn't tease you and promise you more, And more, And more, So that you forget what you should really care for, What lies deep under your skin, What stirs up the dormant contents of your guts-- You climb to the hilltop Which finally allows you to have A peek at the next one. I favour uncertainty and risk, And walking too close to the edge; I favour barely enough, And cutting it too close; I favour throwing all excess over the board, And lowering standards; I favour the taste of imminent failure And the adrenaline of a heart-wakening sprint; I favour meagre means And big dreams, free of currencies; For they all remind me what the world Really looks like, Who I really am, And what the winter-night winds Really feel like. I favour the ways of nature, often erratic, ***** ugly and convoluted, Often dumbfounding, Unintentionally intelligent and mysterious, Over the ways of fear-ridden constructions, For there is no such thing As a straight line.
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Jan 9, 2019
Jan 9, 2019 at 2:31 PM UTC
Wednesday Manifesto
I favour the deep, impenetrable truth of the jungle Over the smooth ride over sleek black rubber; The ***** disturbing, demented disorder; The distortions of the lights we bathe on, Over outward alignments and the staleness of systems. I favour the cheap, rugged, bittersweet taste Of a late night's substandard drink, In the midst of true lights and shadows And the uncertainty they cast upon us, Over the orderly and satisfactory-- The dead pleasures and securities that Exist nowhere but in feeble projections. I favour the basic, primeval, animal grunt-- The dirt, the dizziness of true treading Across the muddy shallows--, Over the clattering of an overflowed, Certain mind. I favour doubt, earnest doubt, Unpalatable doubt, inescapable doubt-- A smile in a pitch-black room, A journey on a lukewarm air balloon, A half-finished sentence in a half-serious gloom--, Over hasty conclusions and tainted allusions. I favour the endearing messiness of reality; The chaos of light and dreams; The mystery, so out of reach, Of you and me and the space in-between; The stained, torn, shattered, burnt, Twisted texture we find ourselves upon, Over the smooth, marble-white, Sterile surface where false certainties Slide, grinning, before they find themselves On an impending collision with the infectious hesitation of the ground. I favour the acknowledging look Straight into the eye; A ladder with one step; A race with no competitors; A contentment without resentment; A bread on your table that's good enough, That doesn't tease you and promise you more, And more, And more, So that you forget what you should really care for, What lies deep under your skin, What stirs up the dormant contents of your guts-- You climb to the hilltop Which finally allows you to have A peek at the next one. I favour uncertainty and risk, And walking too close to the edge; I favour barely enough, And cutting it too close; I favour throwing all excess over the board, And lowering standards; I favour the taste of imminent failure And the adrenaline of a heart-wakening sprint; I favour meagre means And big dreams, free of currencies; For they all remind me what the world Really looks like, Who I really am, And what the winter-night winds Really feel like. I favour the ways of nature, often erratic, ***** ugly and convoluted, Often dumbfounding, Unintentionally intelligent and mysterious, Over the ways of fear-ridden constructions, For there is no such thing As a straight line.
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*throughout the day, most oft at night, start to say, stop short, painful for crying out loud thoughts, shoutouts to any passing god things that need to the air be exposed, but not to ears that well, what could they say... so stutter-stop the bottling inside, periodic fizz escaping, and even poetry cannot help for it does over and over again, end up as crumpled papers, litter of the head, halves, this's and that's, even this one dies here and now* ~~~~~~~ irony delicious, that litter sounds so literary, so added débris, lest my mangy constructions manage to confuse you the litter in question, is your host's hors d'oeuvre nibbles of works, half-started, half-finished, like rooms to let, that come only half-furnished, not a single morsel worthy serving up, all half-satisfactory poems, of course... the wrong write ***** clogged, resting in peace, Works In Progress (WIP) unlike the poet, who's just plain whipped un-crumpled awaiting an episodic finale, if ever they should be televised, they are needy for cumberbitches, a birth or death certificate sore lacking pick up put down new titles pop, essays in need of love, naught fruited, dead pits, hanging on the tree till gravity takes them prisoner on and on for weeks the side stitch does not disappear, but does grow aching familiar perhaps the topic offends you the most, cloying, suffocating self-pity of your own hands around your neck wrapped...
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Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 3:21 PM UTC
Start and Stop / litière et débris (litter and debris)
A SESTINA FOR BRIAN How being born on Christmas Day can make some people think that you have this passion for being so compassionate and construct all sorts of things like Christ the Great Carpenter did for living spaces of all levels of human dwelling. You have always had to create things for dwelling spaces and you always change It’s like you have been going in your innate passion since you were a baby. I saw you in winter, to make a snow igloo. You had everything planned and constructed this igloo right by the side of the house. It had this level of true sophistication for a boy of your age. You could create wonderful things: towers and tree forts and then change to art work to decorate our house. Brian, I’ve known you to go out of your way to make breakfast for us. I remember the strange passion you had and made us peanut butter and banana constructions of pancakes. You did all sorts of culinary things on the level of perfection to even make the best chefs just create something to quench their envy of you. You never change Now, when you got older, you still possessed this desire to make you went through Penn State Ogontz and kept up this passion to create other things and learn enough to construct buildings but you needed the education to earn a living to create things with your hard-earned degree and actually change and re-arrange houses or interior of places on a different level Why your inner mental and emotional makeup came out in such passion that all who came into contact with you when you failed to construct a certain project to your own perfectionistic liking and it made you very angry and you used such profanity and it just changed you from this compassionate and soft hearted soul into creating a raving demon out of you. The way that you used to go out of your way and created A wonderful family unit from a wife to a pair of children made you bring out another facet of your personality: the father level The two children came out of that union as some construct from your desire to keep on creating through this passion to keep up on revising and re-building so that you always change @2006 Linda Barrett
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 10:28 PM UTC
A Sestina for Brian
A SESTINA FOR BRIAN How being born on Christmas Day can make some people think that you have this passion for being so compassionate and construct all sorts of things like Christ the Great Carpenter did for living spaces of all levels of human dwelling. You have always had to create things for dwelling spaces and you always change It’s like you have been going in your innate passion since you were a baby. I saw you in winter, to make a snow igloo. You had everything planned and constructed this igloo right by the side of the house. It had this level of true sophistication for a boy of your age. You could create wonderful things: towers and tree forts and then change to art work to decorate our house. Brian, I’ve known you to go out of your way to make breakfast for us. I remember the strange passion you had and made us peanut butter and banana constructions of pancakes. You did all sorts of culinary things on the level of perfection to even make the best chefs just create something to quench their envy of you. You never change Now, when you got older, you still possessed this desire to make you went through Penn State Ogontz and kept up this passion to create other things and learn enough to construct buildings but you needed the education to earn a living to create things with your hard-earned degree and actually change and re-arrange houses or interior of places on a different level Why your inner mental and emotional makeup came out in such passion that all who came into contact with you when you failed to construct a certain project to your own perfectionistic liking and it made you very angry and you used such profanity and it just changed you from this compassionate and soft hearted soul into creating a raving demon out of you. The way that you used to go out of your way and created A wonderful family unit from a wife to a pair of children made you bring out another facet of your personality: the father level The two children came out of that union as some construct from your desire to keep on creating through this passion to keep up on revising and re-building so that you always change @2006 Linda Barrett
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I could drown myself in cups of coffee, in nicotine, old books, and whiskey. But that won't make me crave you any less. I could immerse myself in the deepest of enthralling literature, poems, a sea of colloquy, Waves, strangling the current of my mind. But you'd still be the resonant word. I could listen to the sweetest of voices on repeat, golden like honey, sticky, But my ears would only ever truly answer to yours. Serpents tend to bite their own tails, a mythological and alchemic symbol of the cyclic nature of the universe: creation out of destruction. But I'm not breaking my heart, loving you. Swollen, yearning, daydreamed astray, gathered fast by night. Curiosity deniable no more, innocence lost, hands wandered exploratory below. Clambering desperate over themselves, those hands fell over folds of warmed flesh, over forgotten nooks and unfound crevasses, over trembling thighs and aching calves. Astounded by the vast array of fresh delicacies, of unencountered sensations and deepest pleasures, she stood by loyal as those hands swiftly accustomed themselves to pursuing true ecstasy. What divine rapture. What soaring heights of pleasure to ascend to. And what a delicious revelation to encounter such unimaginable ecstasy. That twelfth year become a fourteenth, a fifteenth, a sixteenth. And with the passing of each came a series of ever more adventurous trysts, the sorts of which Cousteau, Armstrong, and even Columbus could all be truly proud of. Depths sounded, crevasses plundered, self’s nectars tasted and devoured, the pleasures of the flesh went unearthed. Elaborate constructions lovingly shaped, waxed and honed, years of heady experimentation, trial and errors, fantasy and dreaming, all in the pursuit of even harder, better, faster, stronger ******* Perhaps it was that, or was it more a case of welcomed companionship? Ambidextrous frustration? A carnal appetite, most terrifying in its magnitude? Isn’t it time then, you tried a little tenderness? Be good to you.
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Dec 6, 2013
Dec 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM UTC
Columbus
I could drown myself in cups of coffee, in nicotine, old books, and whiskey. But that won't make me crave you any less. I could immerse myself in the deepest of enthralling literature, poems, a sea of colloquy, Waves, strangling the current of my mind. But you'd still be the resonant word. I could listen to the sweetest of voices on repeat, golden like honey, sticky, But my ears would only ever truly answer to yours. Serpents tend to bite their own tails, a mythological and alchemic symbol of the cyclic nature of the universe: creation out of destruction. But I'm not breaking my heart, loving you. Swollen, yearning, daydreamed astray, gathered fast by night. Curiosity deniable no more, innocence lost, hands wandered exploratory below. Clambering desperate over themselves, those hands fell over folds of warmed flesh, over forgotten nooks and unfound crevasses, over trembling thighs and aching calves. Astounded by the vast array of fresh delicacies, of unencountered sensations and deepest pleasures, she stood by loyal as those hands swiftly accustomed themselves to pursuing true ecstasy. What divine rapture. What soaring heights of pleasure to ascend to. And what a delicious revelation to encounter such unimaginable ecstasy. That twelfth year become a fourteenth, a fifteenth, a sixteenth. And with the passing of each came a series of ever more adventurous trysts, the sorts of which Cousteau, Armstrong, and even Columbus could all be truly proud of. Depths sounded, crevasses plundered, self’s nectars tasted and devoured, the pleasures of the flesh went unearthed. Elaborate constructions lovingly shaped, waxed and honed, years of heady experimentation, trial and errors, fantasy and dreaming, all in the pursuit of even harder, better, faster, stronger ******* Perhaps it was that, or was it more a case of welcomed companionship? Ambidextrous frustration? A carnal appetite, most terrifying in its magnitude? Isn’t it time then, you tried a little tenderness? Be good to you.
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He was equipped with a fine vocabulary Far in excess of his intellectual needs An entertaining fool Stocked with dictionaries Obscure constructions Medieval verbs Circumlocutory, verbose Impenetrable A simple mind hid amongst A confusion of entangled phrases As if using a foreign language Assembling hopefully meaningful phrases Where a listener may find coherence A simple message Every request Every Statement Observation From his mouth, no matter how mundane Appeared decorated Embellished, almost.. Baroque In this wordy fog It was hard to know Hard to find Traces of a real person A tangible, relatable identity Something predictable. In the swirling wind of Constantly shifting Complex expressions Seeming riddles. He was a prisoner A lifer Doomed to remain Incarcerated in his usage Dense, cloying, exaggerated, unyielding Usage He could not avoid Unconscious, reflexive, merciless He did not struggle, That ended long ago.
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 2:15 AM UTC
A Fine Vocabulary
I long for what I’ve never known: a word that captures the foreign feels of speech surging from my throat, the ways they shake and crack with fury and failure as I break away from the safety of silence, in jagged and fragmented sentences–I’m desperate to seize meaning, trying words like puzzle pieces, I’ll force them to fit together to form the spaces of pieces missing. My greatest fear is to be incomplete. And I’m constantly reminded of this over coffee-talk and shared politics as I recoil shyly in forced defense of each vowel, and every consonant and the myriad of their constructions: they are stuck behind my eyes. I am left apologizing for my vagueness and for the grey shades of embarrassment and finite language–when a dictionary is never a long enough read for the lone, longer walk around the circumference of my head–or any red eye flight I have ever caught that takes me from thought to thought: the moving belts of baggage claim don’t have to tell me of the luggage I lost. As possessions were plucked from circuitry I clung to the emptiness as if it was mine and took it home as leverage. I write in circles ’til I’m motion sick. I write myself into thought-asylums where silence is another language: a slow germination of roots lacing down the bell-curve of my spine. A foreign tongue, An othered alphabet.
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 4:58 AM UTC
Hypologia
Time is an illusion of the motion of objects in space, and the past is a record of the motion of objects in space, so the present moment is not a moment, it is eternity, therefore time does not exist, and growth is a function of the motion of objects in space, and these objects are mass which is none other than energy, and no energy can leave space, and death is only transformation of energy, and all mass/energy is life, and all mass/energy is neither natural nor artificial, as these are only thought constructions, so everything is alive, therefore, welcome to eternal life.
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May 3, 2012
May 3, 2012 at 8:46 AM UTC
Spiritual Physics
Mos Def addict practicing my mathematics multiplying gross deaths stacking high in my attic banishing, your batting eyelashes in my hatchet brandishing a reflection of death nothing can match it, a packet of matches, three cans of gas am I mad ***** I’m a man mastering cracks of dark arts from a sad witch, tears of evil, blasting apart marked hearts, sew they can’t stitch, so I can cross your eyes and harvest every last inch of your body I’ve got hauled high with my crass winch. Dangling like abattoirs meat hanging upside down by your feet, never is the time that I will retreat, secreting discreetly in your petite physique, desecrated secretly I never cease with the heat. I’m a clever beast with the sweet smile of a pre-school teacher I’m a leach, I’m an evil preacher, I’m worse than a priest with someone not quite senior in reach. I beseech you to keep my smile in mind when I breach the regular limits of sin, an when the victim begins spinning within the rhythm of my limb precision positions a physician would think weren't natural constructions. Causing concussions with my bone crack percussion discussing the disgusting repercussions of being obstructive with a kind as destructive as mine its reductive to imply that I’m stuck with a mind superior to thine, let the subtleties shine, you’re an inferior design, obsolete, so the premise is supremacist there’s no preventing this, the evidence is left in every crevice of the premises.
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Mar 29, 2013
Mar 29, 2013 at 6:14 AM UTC
A Killer Verse.
LIFE IS SHORT AND WE'RE A LONG TIME DEAD Whether we are riding a unicorn Across a rainbow While the wind blows majestically Our lustrous eye haloed by seagulls We may act and act Like we are tall And our finger nails have A big heart of their own We may play kittens or puppies And get excited about plastic bones We may get lost in the grammar constructions and commas of sunset In and out of our comfort zone We may want to belong to two life clubs And finish a movie every seven ten days Always up for subtitles Be it old sci fi 30's 40's 50's 60's noir war We may try with a pair of scissors or a broom To put death sleeping in socks  and plan ahead endless possibilities of karma If we're wildly in love with life And understand that life isn't a pie That being in life isn't a sport And that faith on life is a little like a full time job But that death is like a hook living just around the corner whom we share With the same post code. Life is short, life is petite Life is a ****** a dwarf, a suckling Life is fast as a snap of our fingers Life is a bait, a worm Life is sparks And we're a long time dead So let's fish capers and mangoes In and out the apparences In and out the distance While the harvest season is booming Up there in the blooming volcanoes of sunset.
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Sep 13, 2019
Sep 13, 2019 at 2:43 PM UTC
Life is short
Call me stricken by her my favorite color. I want to fill my ears with static to give my thoughts some room to move and my eyes monochromatic with an artistic side to prove She writes like shes giving Noah Webster a ******* her labyrinthine constructions of consonants and vowels, leading in circles obliterating disbelief, and I AM the words. She tastes like *** and nostalgia nauseating my pages, wearing thin over keystrokes, repetition, the mother of decrepitude so my muse decimates my thoughts one in ten one in ten one in ten CRACK
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Sep 12, 2013
Sep 12, 2013 at 2:06 PM UTC
Myriad - A Compendium of Inspiration
Metaphors like similes Alluring alliteration Onomatopoeic sounds Swish swash through its creation Full of figurative constructions To skyscrapers of the soul That rise to a crescendo Then with bathos quickly fall So what is it I have written? Just a stream of consciousness? For if I claim a classic poem Then you’d be right to take the …. :)
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Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM UTC
A poem with pretensions
Drifters, sick with Now, Swell and crowd the Elm Streets. We, the self-anointed secretaries of culture war, Parallel-parked car poets trapped in suburbia, We claw our generation forward. We seep from shifting city to evergreen forest, to Seek answers from the grave-stone gods before us, Learn of what they knew of man-- His vacuous constructions and his ash fortunes, How to be martyrs and what makes us worth it.
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM UTC
Flecks of Gold in this Age
I build sandcastles in my mind. I've done it since a child. As the dark thoughts they do run wild. In my mind I build. An architect I am for it makes me feel fulfilled. These constructions I create. In a world filled with hate. They distract me from the norm. And help me through life's storm. In the dentists chair I lie. Building in my minds eye. For the bus I sit and wait. To build I do not hesitate. I go to a place where nobody knows. On a sunny beach the warm wind blows. Ruffles my hair, takes away my despair. I hear gulls call as I construct these walls. The tide never changes, hence they never fall. Made of sand they are, and they're in my mind so far. Fortresses with moats, where I can float a tiny boat. All my worries fade away as I shape my hope. Any tricky situation or when I lose my motivation. I'm back beside the sound once more, of the crashing ocean.
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 10:20 PM UTC
Sandcastles.