Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Ken Pepiton May 2019
to me? Real with a certified S.King filtered -ly mod,
by god,
as the oh myers say. On Writing sans Shining.
Needful fiction,
Liars prosper. Okeh. Thus,
the poor we have with us, always.

Truth t' tell.

Entshallah allathat, OMG samesame
good mastah willin' creeks don't rise

Do the work. Come Sunday, someday,
we, all us, say.

You ever finish your own work one day and jest

sit back lax - lacks a daisy, taken easy,
laxative action,
gut synapse
synch-up, cinch that saddle on my wildest
old Nightmare, beat my plow
back to a oil drum,

set some feats t'dancin' in some ol'lady minds.

old man's angels seen t'be jiggin' on
the head o' some pen
in the hand

worth two in the bush.

Who know what ever mean, okeh.

period. point made signal.
that was said and it's writ.

set it aside, let it dry

crumble to dust and be scattered to the five great gyres
to settle
as sands
ifiable quant, to mortal mind, weighable
any worth assigned as
sought or ought,
a grain,
a mote,
as seen with five gee augmented
lenses
prestandards beeing raised in the buzz
from Utah

as an erranded boy's sail bike lifts into if
from the saline shore.
Bike tires adhered to passive-ly

by molecular
memories of being
in truth, as if
once and ever,
salt of the earth, see in the distance,
Lot's wife

as tiny as can be

Na and CL, for ever,
deja wuwuish it were possible… dream… or die…

no don't. There is a reason. I for get it can not right now but these
keys can be

used right by the sober one in the batch.
God, I love this process. This is the work. Living.
You can do it as long as you can pay attention…

selah

then it, the algorithm, I'll go rhythm, pauses,
Spelchkovian spells masters seem sorry we ever agreed she'd
leave me leavened as dust
lying around
on white linen
in the streets of Laredo, as cold as the clay,

back in the day,
we sang that song in school. We sang
in movie theaters, along with a
bouncing ball and other people,

big bio jump here. My step-brother was murdered,
and it never seemed relative…

my father married a wombed man with one leg,
whose family sang along with Mitch,

and played Spit in the Ocean.

Such experiences ificate possibilities few knew
some survive.
There could be a contributory flow…

This ever lasting book of life.
See, a shore, sand bar
snag a thought rainbowing true to you

hang-ups from way back

Any boomer bubble popped too soon. Manifest at will.
P-pickup from scratch and
make a point
to infect the next pun unknoticing kid,

old -time slow hand-eye coordination special ed, Big Ern,
kicking chalk dust in far right field, noticing
patterns
in the leftmost vector straight home--

grand children, for the joy of knowing they happened,
caused,
to all outward appearance,
by my survival of several unbelievable

periences ex nihilo only
if "It don't mean nothing".

link link link something has broken, what do we con tribute tributary flow
too dammed salty, got to puddle around

waiting. waiting. waiting for one point
to be made
edged on all angles, to each mea culpa assured
quantifiability of reason,

inquizical sequence surpast
glistering

whetted and furbished for ever,

the keenness
the cut, precision decision

and how swiftly forms the scab,
a touch,

capillary seals, the grain, at HD,
one pixelish crystallin charge

change that,
by taking thought. It does nothing to your stature,

think allusive butterflies of lifenshit

it gets tiresome. A body wants some rest from ever
meaning ever and never was known
or heard
a dis cora zone age word, like

troglodyte or luddite Denisovan bracelet breaker,
ropemaker union with certain silky
threads
to which a little leaven always sticks
as would caterpillar spit.

Meandering, right, it's the play. My role.
I manifest the dance
as seen on the surface, from Jim's POV,

then my own POV,
then my own rivers of no return,
tribute

'ary a day goes by I don't re call that feeling,

flow is moving paster and paster the walls are
higher
shade deeper
colder'n'hell fersher, rapids.
Ah,

Kern River, I remember this.
Almond trees, Columbus clouds…
Hey, readerman, paperbackwriter wannabe,

we survived. What'sa-hell, right's right.

clap. there is a - an  STD joke there.
But those aren't funny

right,
standup guy says right's right, does a
Johnny Unitas stiff arm
and gets a case of
clap from the left, worse than meaningless

neo **** non clapping on the right.
Repent or perish.
****** if it don't feel good to say that.
It's true, once you know,

Gertrude Stein, I got it from her. Lesbian Jewish leaven
in passover brownies dipped in Mogen David,
she made me stand and say a rosary.

By any other name,

a rose is a rose and so on
it's like when the universe sends little blue men in cheesehead hats with...
clues from the fat guy on the subway in Heroes... "Do the Work. make war not art... life is a sequel we already got paid for. Maybe." I just learned hp stars out *** not if spelt o*m*g
Nat Lipstadt Jul 2021
muse,
she/her has no master, only a mastery;
she, comes compulsing, a physical pounding,
a throbbing impervious resistant to logic or medicine,
which is the so very ever, the peculiar throbbing
of a principled particular “present participle,”

write of compulsing is her mocking suggestion.

a presence, punishing urging, pas de choix, obey,
submission; write freely but not free, compose or
decompose; is there a difference, no, not, and so ordered,
demand surrendered, how? how? this taking and giving,
can a single act dichotomy be so fulfilling and so emptying?



<>

wake daily to water canvas, the waves, dabs of paint
protruding, irritating. provoking yet presented silenced,
repetitiously calming, motioned framed within the
white edged sand, the bound-surround of the living painting.

eyes alight, eyes delight, this daily emergence unto
a tapestry devoid of human interference suggests
a differentiating reality; now I understand the how of a
world’s imperfections constituting, tooting its own perfectionism.

this is not lake water; no single flat stone skipping nor
a concentric rippling to a slow death; this is seaward-
bound, an oceans subservient tributary, contributory,
a river, bay, sound - precursors to a vast atlantic infinity.

this is metaphor; this a still life of the perpetuation metamorphosis.

<>

the muse exhales; as do I subsequently; what difference?
none, she replies to herself, tween painting artist and
verbalizing poet, the un-still life creation, always, always,
different, the essence of diversity in a singularity sameness



                                                     ­     






7:13 AM Thu Jul 29
2021
S. I. Sound
when you are given the choice of no choice,
you write again and again of the same vision,
the same view that presents upon awakening.
Joshua Adam Jul 2015
Hate is an Evil Within

You have feelings of hate for someone or something. Sometimes you don't even know why. Even against your will, you might not know it, or even understand it, but it plagues you. It controls you. It eats you up inside. You want to come to terms with it. Desperately you seek to put your finger at what it is that is making you feel so unhappy inside. Then, you realize it's a feeling of having "no control" over something that brings you pain. Perhaps subconsciously you're afraid that if you cannot control it then it will continue to bring you pain and /or suffering. Your ego needs a balance and this fact is causing an internal chaos you so much need to repair. To HATE, it is the most bitter of pills that we all, at one point or another, are forced to come to terms with.

Nevertheless, hope exists!

The secret to that equanimity you so need and desire is in knowing how to control, direct, or redirect this hate to make it work for you--Not eat you up alive. The best way is acknowledge that it serves no great positive purpose to hold on to it. Since anger and hatred are first cousins (never removed), it could be that there is an element of fear or the unknown is a contributory factor. If you want to overcome your hatred or dislike for someone, the best way to do so is to attach yourself to them. Give them something, or do a favor for them. Even by saying hello with sincerity and focusing on giving that hello or smile from your heart will necessarily affect that person and you as well. In fact, don't be surprised if you actually start to have misgivings and realize that the hatred and negativity was, not only misplaced, but perhaps even wholly unjustified from the outset.

Hatred is ugly, and we, as human beings, must learn how to remove it from our character traits in toto. It has even been suggested that anger leads to heart disease and shortens a persons life in general. I hope we never have to find out!

**consumes like desire
devours everything like fire
death will you acquire
Here is a haiku which attempts to capture the prisoner of hate. We've all been enslaved, at one point or another, to this very harsh and dangerous of emotions. Once caught in its clutches, even a Harry Houdini would have a difficult time breaking free.
theblndskr Jun 2017
The last clear chance,
Is always mine
T o   t a ke.

For if not,
It' l l  be deemed
Contributory negligence:
As if I am the one
who lacks diligence,
As if I you are
the one damaged.

It is cruel,
When your only
S o l ut i on
is other's
Pr e cl us io n.
Doctrine of Last Clear Chance:
Part of the law of torts.
onlylovepoetry Nov 2024
for Richard Shepherd who wrote to tell me
one of my babies, (1) made him:
Oh my, speechless

my stated aim, my purposed gain,
is to write of only love poetry,
oh too human am I, going astray
the most human contributory trick,
is when “she,” temptation,
oft cajoles,
“this way please” and I easygoing
and submit obligingly

your words spontaneous, mark &
make me, likewise spit out gratitude
of words simple, informing you that
you are too, too kind, then pause reflective
does such a thing even exist?

bemusedly, smiling silent at my silliness,
as I debate~contemplate, the potent notion if kindness can ever be measured as in excess, by what  measuring cup system could we
contrive to ascertain if there be lines drawn,
for the most best of human attributes?

it is Monday Morning and such silly peculiarities have no busily business populating my gray matter, but compulsory
demands state forthright you cannot retreat
from this windrowed wonderland hedgerow,
for when seeing these deep waters,
can easy sink a poet
for a funking, dunking, nay, a drowning!

but I am only dancing around the edges
of a fire upon the beach, and gingerly admit
that there is no limitation to this conceptual,
can we be too human, could one ever not say

your loving, your essences~senses fragrant,
are airborne and therefore unlimited,
beneath this shared sky~sphere.
yet never my intent
to rob a human of
the power of speech

but this statement of de~unlimited awe
too much,
and therefore my understanding deepens,
when and what a heart feels
is without definition,
without lineage,
every time reborn,
and my loving of your kind words,
overflowing will be my
principled purpose
this day

that every person whose path
intersects mine,
shall be greeted with
the tools in my possession,
which thanks to you,
are identified as an undefined
unlimited
too, too much
kindness
and my one job is to
be a proof
of this
raison d'être
for all ofour
existences


this hen issue
now resolved,
be a lovely
au naturel love poem
and obedient
to my
only truest mission
Blunt force instrument
Blunt force instrument
Hectoring tones fill my front room
Blunt force instrument
Merging fact and fiction
A shotgun marriage bride and bridegroom

Scurrilous accusations
Satan get thee behind
Yes, my lawyers are watching
Better prove what you find

Blunt force instrument
Blunt force instrument
Weight in no direct proportion to size

If Governance stands idly by
Through fear, collusion or nefarious intent
The mindless habit of obedience a contributory
Suggest 1924 and 1933

Blunt force instrument
Anti Asian attacks
Another virus ignored
Therefore condoned
Blunt force instrument
Embrace the chaos
There’s currency in fear of the unknown

Lie Lie Lie Lie
Lie Lie Lie
Lie Lie Lie
Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie Lie
Lie Lie Lie

Blunt force instrument
Blunt force instrument
Swimming in the shallow end
Another rebrand of a Facistic blend
Written about our friend across the pond. Sad thing is, I wrote this in 2018.

— The End —