"contemptibly" poems
I hate writing in pentameter,
That nagging old parameter reduces
The breadth of expression's diameter.
It's a barrier, a boundary, a cage built around me.
I'd rather cast off the impediment and
Allow my thoughts to sediment freely,
Really, I just can't dig it, ya feel me?
After a while, it gets so **** repetitive, and
I'll bet it did drive Shakespeare nuts
When he wrote all his sonnets, back
When lords rocked big wigs and their
Ladies wore bonnets. That's another thing
It's been used and abused for like six *********
Centuries, contemptibly does this old relic
Haunt us and daunt us and taunt us
Writing's not meant to be a chore,
It shouldn't bore and indenture me, but
Rather, set me free me and
Instead be adventure, see?
Wow.
I'm Somehow,
Feeling much better now.
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 9:15 AM UTC
(by Bruce Bawer)
In Sønderberg the other day
A teenage girl used pepper spray
To rout a randy “refugee”
From somewhere far across the sea
Who threw down and molested her.
The cops arrested her.
As part of a jihadist plot,
A brute assailant took a shot
At a fine Copenhagen man
Who'd deprecated the Quran.
When the brave soul who'd nearly died
Then publicly identified
The **** who'd tried to **** him, he
Was charged with grave delinquency:
Breaching privacy.
In Mölndal, a Somali teen
Plunged a long blade into the spleen
Of a young Swedish altruist
Who'd yearned to do one thing: assist.
The land's top cop went on TV
And trumpeted his sympathy.
For the poor girl who'd lost her life?
No. For the kid with the knife.
At one time it was understood
That a devotion to the good
Didn't mean one should be blind
To evil, or pretend to find
Some virtue in sheer villainy.
To see what isn't there to see
Is not a sign of rectitude.
To point out evil isn't rude;
To fight it is good.
You can't, however hard you try,
Mistake for a speck in the eye
A loaded *** in the hands
Of some rough beast from foreign sands
Intent on taking out a child.
You'll win no points for being mild
To members of a desert creed
That seeks to make the heathen bleed
And preaches that the kind and meek
Are contemptibly weak.
Christ said to turn the other cheek.
But what if it's not just your cheek?
Feb 20, 2016
Feb 20, 2016 at 1:58 PM UTC
As I was driving
down the country road
the moon seemed to chase me
swiftly I drove
It came without warning
it came with haste
a blinding white spotlight
blazed in my face
Next thing I knew
it couldn't be
I was not where
I was supposed to be
a long way from home
alone in the trees
my car sitting idle
I feel ill at ease
How did I get here
where could I be
confusion and pain
coursing through me
Bruises and cuts
as if I were dragged
all over my body
feeling so drained
who will believe
what happened to me
they will all laugh
contemptibly
I alone know
the reality
another experiment
performed upon me
They have been coming
since I was thirteen
little doctors choosing
to steal from me
All that I am
and what makes up me
keeping for themselves
for their own need
I wonder if they
will be here for life
taking what they want
escape in the night
I know I am not
the only one
to suffer in silence
beaten and robbed
There have been others
and there will be
even more victims
long after me
Maybe some day
they will agree
we're all the same
our species....
Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 8:19 PM UTC
Not that i claimed to have really known u back then
cause even then i had not the slightest clue
but theres still something about u i tend to defend
..that simplistically complex creative beautiful truth
Enigmatic at many times,
but not frighten instead keen
magnetic with my smile
some may even call it incomprehensible obscene
Fraudulent but fragile for i love and hate at once
mellifluously i beg for my own sanity My mind, my heart disputatious ...lacking complete clarity
Still i feel as though i knew me better then in comparison to now awe-inspiring,
and inexplicably My distorted distracted me is wowed
For ive come to realize i know me less today this person ive turned out to be...
nothing short of decay
...Contemptibly delighted to say is me
May 31, 2014
May 31, 2014 at 5:58 AM UTC
Through your eyes. I could save the world.
Leap across tall buildings and catch crashing planes.
But that look, Empty?
Contemptibly?
Cuts deep,
and stops me dead in my tracks.
I was helpless.
A smile to die for,
I'd die to see one last time.
Mar 7, 2012
Mar 7, 2012 at 11:55 AM UTC
Would've if we could've
But lust has a cost,
Shouldnt've and wouldnt've
Until trust was lost,
Contemptibly, preemptively
We forced it at first
Predictably, restrictively
Left in the lurch,
Precisely, concisely
The sneer pulled it down
Impeccably, delectably
Turned laughter to frown
Conclusively, Intrusively
We both spat the dum
Then Sadder but gladder
Decided to run.
You sprinted East and I legged it West
Both relieved to be free
Devolved and absolved now,
Both, contemptible we!
M.
North Queensland
1968
Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021 at 2:06 AM UTC