"couped" poems
A white porcelain
Porcupine
Sits atop
The stool
Beside a resting
Toilet and silent sink
Drains are clogged
Must be the fog
Airing up
Inside the room
Thick and heavy
Full of cream
Like a hot
French Pastry
Soap melts
Into a fine cappuccino
Skin is soft
Not smooth
Rugged
Tired of the water's touch
Lips separated
Leaking drool
An earlier soft drink
Makes its appearance
Sake makes my soul
Gold and sublime
A snowball I received
To the face
Magical cocktail
Island tragedy
In Paris
Couped up
Stuck in a bathroom
Head bobbing
Up
And Down
Swaying
Side to side
Direction unchosen
Ears sweetened
By a tranquil
Heavenly sound
A song
Heartfelt poem
Layne's voice
Shouting from the void
Guitar strings
Beats of a drum
Native quotas
Unremembered
Just peace
No hate
Possible gain
***** to be given
Snowflakes
Fall upon my brow
Hissing in the heat
Chilling a man-made sea
Fingers tingle
Fabricating a jingle
Eyes swell
Blochted art on the walls
Feet numb
Deciding to stick around
Like a sore gum
Withered with gin
My armor
Solid arms
Continue to fall
Down with my divinity
I am Lucifer
Shining meteor of false hope
Chest heaves
I begin to grieve
Hope for a dawn
Pray to hear a new song
But here he comes
I am bleeding
Shaken by the storm
Overcome
Laughter
And crying
This means
I am dying
But,
Is the time right?
Feb 15, 2018
Feb 15, 2018 at 11:35 PM UTC
Learned more from this pain than i ever did from a church.
Listening to your gut but make sure you detox it first.
**** be killin me softly, leave me in a Hearse,
Never a good thing when i hear from you first.
Be careful what you see,
even salt look like sugar,
Maturity is not throwing salt when you know you could've,
And not smackin ******* when you know you should've.
People Be like "oh i miss you"
**** i miss me too.
Had to use these teflon tissues to get me thru,
You not alone, **** i wanna be with me too,
Deadass On some days , smiles were too good to be true.
I be business minded when i be minding my business.
And ****** be ******* and ******* be on some ***** ****
Overcame this novocain,
Recasted the impression of depression,
Ring around the rosary,
Never relying on religion.
Im from a home of funny bones
And My elbows been ashy,
I knew It would take more than macaroni art to kraft me,
And i been itching for this platform
If you ask me,
I used to wonder if i was a real person.
I used to wonder like what's my real purpose?
When i was young ,I taught my shadow to stick to my toes,
When lifes a battle, I fought to stick to mottos.
As a poet i never looked at it this way,
I never booked myself for this reading.
I was overbooked.
I bookmarked my favorite moments ,
I been forever overlooked.
And never understood what "more" ment,
I been overcooked.
The preheating of this season left me bleeding.
This farenheit left me heavy breathin
No fear of heights but Excuse me while I fall from
- grace -
me with your presence and
These broken promises,
Never been transparent to this degree,
Had to leave that monster house.
That was my American horror story.
I used to be couped up,
Had to tell double d to get outta my laboratory,
See mfs want my jazz but not my blues,
They Wanna be in my class but aint payed they dues,
Yall be Morally incorrect,
....More or less...
Lately i been Moralless,
Need to get saved no church bells ,
Put me on the zach Morris list,
These rhymes be like my confessions,
Front row seat to my ascension,
Carry out this life to which we've been sentenced,
Delivery me from evil - with even more incentives,
I dream in MLA format.
Double spaced a letter to my younger self,
Just some **** I wish i told the older me
A ***** laundry list of things I thought ought to be owed to me,
My OCD be blowin me,
Need all my ducks in a row,
My prolonged silence been leading this Crescendo,
Im not playing NO GAMES, fuxk you and your Nintendo.
Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 at 10:00 PM UTC
My face has left
With the sun,
Leaving the moon in my chest
To rot with the
Dark in the rain.
A sickness has stricken me,
My body upside down.
A breathless existence
Couped into a rain cloud.
Sep 12, 2017
Sep 12, 2017 at 5:23 PM UTC
It is an era that need be forgotten, yet not be forgotten
Isolated by the rest of humanity for forsaking humanity,
The lives of no mere mortals were sacrificed on the promise of freedom,
While in some town couped up by hate, anger and despair
Families were left an unsolvable puzzle, in infinite pieces
It was an era that they told us was over,
And yet in a trench somewhere near the tip of a continent
Men whose bodies are covered by a dark pigment no different from mine,
Different to that of the man commanding them to dig deeper,
Whose behaviour and attitude seems no different to that of his father,
And his father, and his father’s father, and their forefathers
On whose behest a mark on a people was heavily branded
A sense of nostalgia overwhelms my body
And so while I walk past these men working in the trenches
I look upon them with a face contorted by disgust
Not toward them nor the pale skinned man who dictates their every movement
It is towards those of the same pigment as the men in these very trenches
Whose stomachs have been fattened by the labour of these very men
Whose every lie they have forced them to believe
With the talk of an era that still instills fear and instigates hate
Misdirected towards still figures who have as much life in them as the men they honour
It is an era that is still not yet over
Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 2:08 PM UTC