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"cynics" poems
Fulfill the dreams of yearning heart Under the arch lights, bathed in glory Reminiscing the path that you took Forlorn and strewn with hurdles At times an effortless glide ahead Blended with mixed fortunes Inching towards the destination Trial of patience as going gets tough Dreams will be fulfilled, after tribulations Don’t stop dreaming just yet Ignore the furtive glances of cynics Dreams are to be nurtured and fulfilled
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 11:23 PM UTC
Achieving Dreams
Was it an illusion? Words that trigger an attraction A reply that lays a connection Was it an illusion? A look that exposes a sensation A whisper that defines an emotion Was it an illusion? A touch that pushes a button A kiss that captures a moment Is it an illusion? To transform words into reality To turn moments into eternity It is an illusion When words are lost in silence When affection is met with fear When All is subsumed in memories Whilst memories may fade The illusion remains We hope for those moments again Poets love the illusion Though  Cynics judge us weak We shall silence their mocking speak Thank goodness for poets
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 7:09 AM UTC
Illusion
Let us be cynics together. We can talk about how love ruined the best of us, how it could never last. We can sit around the park and laugh at the couples holding hands. Let us be cynics together. And maybe, just maybe, we can fall in love.
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Jan 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 at 1:21 AM UTC
The Hopeless Romantic Cynic
A hymn to paired planethood: Venus hits Pluto as death, in cold orbit, collides with biology smashing to fragments: demonic astrology (more a black hole than a love-star, it’s true though). Cynical cure for Eve’s womanly grievance Concupiscent consequence: lust’s bitter fruit – ah the thought… changing Sin into mere inconvenience. Margaret sang her seductive refrain about weeding the garden and progress and light. Her sisters should view her with scornful disdain but instead have adopted her murderous rite. With sang-froid she promoted her racist eugenics (as if she had never herself been a fetus), condemning her heirs to postmodern polemics while nurturing ardent desires to defeat us. Suppressing the lives that she flushed down the drain she would liberate Death – and resistance was vain. As a midwife to modern life (though on the “anti” side) Old Matron Margie racked up quite a legacy singing the praises of sanctioned infanticide calling the shots for the coming sick century. Planning, quite calmly, to “cleanse” certain races her zeal was empowered by murderous graces. She labored to bring us such pearls of subduction: “dilation and curettage”, “women’s autonomy” “viable fetus”, “procedure”, a “suction” Hippocrates retches to hear the taxonomy; words that turn Life into mere reproduction. She enters the realms of the ****** and the motherless roundly condemned by her feminine otherness. Man’s first protection: the God-given womb which no infant should have to regard as their tomb. Dismembered dark cherubs, assembling, greet her as demons (in scrubs) holding baby-parts meet her. Long may she burn with the medical cynics this mother of Moloch, this founder of clinics. Convenience is king when abortion’s the Queen and the profits swell big with each nubile teen… yet the fruit of such carnage remains to be seen. I send her this song as a funeral wreath and a card inked in blood. You may read what is there: “To the Matrix Supreme of our culture of death from the souls of the infants you slew on the earth. May your torment increase with the children you bear.”
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:09 PM UTC
Margaret Sanger’s Entry Into Hell
A hymn to paired planethood: Venus hits Pluto as death, in cold orbit, collides with biology smashing to fragments: demonic astrology (more a black hole than a love-star, it’s true though). Cynical cure for Eve’s womanly grievance Concupiscent consequence: lust’s bitter fruit – ah the thought… changing Sin into mere inconvenience. Margaret sang her seductive refrain about weeding the garden and progress and light. Her sisters should view her with scornful disdain but instead have adopted her murderous rite. With sang-froid she promoted her racist eugenics (as if she had never herself been a fetus), condemning her heirs to postmodern polemics while nurturing ardent desires to defeat us. Suppressing the lives that she flushed down the drain she would liberate Death – and resistance was vain. As a midwife to modern life (though on the “anti” side) Old Matron Margie racked up quite a legacy singing the praises of sanctioned infanticide calling the shots for the coming sick century. Planning, quite calmly, to “cleanse” certain races her zeal was empowered by murderous graces. She labored to bring us such pearls of subduction: “dilation and curettage”, “women’s autonomy” “viable fetus”, “procedure”, a “suction” Hippocrates retches to hear the taxonomy; words that turn Life into mere reproduction. She enters the realms of the ****** and the motherless roundly condemned by her feminine otherness. Man’s first protection: the God-given womb which no infant should have to regard as their tomb. Dismembered dark cherubs, assembling, greet her as demons (in scrubs) holding baby-parts meet her. Long may she burn with the medical cynics this mother of Moloch, this founder of clinics. Convenience is king when abortion’s the Queen and the profits swell big with each nubile teen… yet the fruit of such carnage remains to be seen. I send her this song as a funeral wreath and a card inked in blood. You may read what is there: “To the Matrix Supreme of our culture of death from the souls of the infants you slew on the earth. May your torment increase with the children you bear.”
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How is life on lsd? Well come on this trip with me. Drugs are bad kids, they open your mind. They allow you to reason, and see through the lies, Losing reality, achieving duality, The effects might be harsh, cause abnormalities. Seeing your world and life differently, Flowing through your brain so quick so swiftly. When your eyes dilate, you no longer procrastinate You get to pick between reality and your inner state. Seeing that the small things are what matter, Satisfying our thirst, for knowledge over matter. Because on drugs you might enjoy walking, You might enjoy smelling the grass or even talking Expressing your mind, reasoning a thought, And not being a cynics narcissist while you internally rot. The experience on it impairs your mind, And may leave you always behind Behind with love, adventure, and discovery Instead of hate, restrictions and agony. But drugs are bad kids don’t take my advice, the commoner lowlifes like us will someday pay the price. The price of thinking differently, and enjoying life, Walk this amazing world, with no need for strife. Drugs impair your mind kids they do, but what happens during them only chances what’s inside of you…
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Oct 4, 2013
Oct 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM UTC
Life on LSD
Every night was tortellini when were roommates. I complained about my chapped feet; you bought me the wrong socks. Black, mens, I clarified, but you kept buying the women's. Then one day you got it right, only they were for you because black is a warmer color than white, and the socks of a man felt like cherubs. I complained about my chapped feet, you the heart of the world, its cold silence. But we remained "alright". You bought new pajamas every night and painted a beauty mark on your face to match. Years of x-marked places on our bodies which no one saw because we were cynics, I the most. No roses at our mat--we grew our own bushes, ordered the ones with the extra thorns. I charmed that snake, you bit me on its behalf. That I'd do such a thing was shameful. We were girlfriends in a can of salt, tears in our eyes, mouths and ears. We drank wine in bubble baths in our clothes for three days straight, or even four, after that guy dumped you. From then on every night was tortellini, La Dolce Vita, and-- and the freckle below your ear, the horns growing from my forehead, the way your falsies touched your cheeks, late nights looking brighter than they should, than they normally would. Pretending to be goddesses awaiting their gods-- while I awaited you. Then you felt them too, touched my head as though it were a fever. I always knew you hated the suburbs, and I did listen when you complained about the gray rooftops and the saturated green lawns-- "Give them a chance, please. Then we'll get away--" I begged, I relented-- The wine, finally, fermented. You remember what I said next, because after that you broke my heart. I never doubted it was a bad idea to say it but I said it and you left.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 8:15 PM UTC
Roommates
Every night was tortellini when were roommates. I complained about my chapped feet; you bought me the wrong socks. Black, mens, I clarified, but you kept buying the women's. Then one day you got it right, only they were for you because black is a warmer color than white, and the socks of a man felt like cherubs. I complained about my chapped feet, you the heart of the world, its cold silence. But we remained "alright". You bought new pajamas every night and painted a beauty mark on your face to match. Years of x-marked places on our bodies which no one saw because we were cynics, I the most. No roses at our mat--we grew our own bushes, ordered the ones with the extra thorns. I charmed that snake, you bit me on its behalf. That I'd do such a thing was shameful. We were girlfriends in a can of salt, tears in our eyes, mouths and ears. We drank wine in bubble baths in our clothes for three days straight, or even four, after that guy dumped you. From then on every night was tortellini, La Dolce Vita, and-- and the freckle below your ear, the horns growing from my forehead, the way your falsies touched your cheeks, late nights looking brighter than they should, than they normally would. Pretending to be goddesses awaiting their gods-- while I awaited you. Then you felt them too, touched my head as though it were a fever. I always knew you hated the suburbs, and I did listen when you complained about the gray rooftops and the saturated green lawns-- "Give them a chance, please. Then we'll get away--" I begged, I relented-- The wine, finally, fermented. You remember what I said next, because after that you broke my heart. I never doubted it was a bad idea to say it but I said it and you left.
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Once upon a time, there was me: A simpleton of no account, A dunderhead by word of mouth, An addle-pate, a cracking crock, A crazy who deserved a lock. Not pretty, brainy, or well-bred, Bespectacled, a short redhead With hands too small and far too pink Who’d trip or fall as soon as think. Not many prospects, they declared With such conviction I was scared. But the cast was short one role, The one who’d make the halfwit whole . . . Once upon a time, there was you: A lord of state, of high esteem, The answer to each maiden’s dream, A strong man, raven-haired, and tall? No, not this person, not at all. You had glasses just like me, And freckles where your skin should be. Your clothes were rumpled, torn and tattered Not as though that even mattered: You walked on set and came to me You got down on one gawky knee You took my pink hand in your red And, as you fixed your glasses, said: “I love your hands, your height, your hair, I love you up, down, everywhere. And I hesitate to ask you this . . . But could I maybe have a kiss?” And, for once, my tactless lips Did not resort to stumbling slips; I gave you one, I gave you two, I gave every kiss I had to you. Once upon a time, there was us: Two simpletons of no repute Two dunderheads whose names were moot: Prince Not-So-Charming and his ***** And much as cynics tried to drench The flames of addle-pated glee I found in you and you in me, As much as they enjoyed pretending, They could not harm our happy ending.
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Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012 at 1:28 AM UTC
Fairytale
Once upon a time, there was me: A simpleton of no account, A dunderhead by word of mouth, An addle-pate, a cracking crock, A crazy who deserved a lock. Not pretty, brainy, or well-bred, Bespectacled, a short redhead With hands too small and far too pink Who’d trip or fall as soon as think. Not many prospects, they declared With such conviction I was scared. But the cast was short one role, The one who’d make the halfwit whole . . . Once upon a time, there was you: A lord of state, of high esteem, The answer to each maiden’s dream, A strong man, raven-haired, and tall? No, not this person, not at all. You had glasses just like me, And freckles where your skin should be. Your clothes were rumpled, torn and tattered Not as though that even mattered: You walked on set and came to me You got down on one gawky knee You took my pink hand in your red And, as you fixed your glasses, said: “I love your hands, your height, your hair, I love you up, down, everywhere. And I hesitate to ask you this . . . But could I maybe have a kiss?” And, for once, my tactless lips Did not resort to stumbling slips; I gave you one, I gave you two, I gave every kiss I had to you. Once upon a time, there was us: Two simpletons of no repute Two dunderheads whose names were moot: Prince Not-So-Charming and his ***** And much as cynics tried to drench The flames of addle-pated glee I found in you and you in me, As much as they enjoyed pretending, They could not harm our happy ending.
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Ebola Sars and *** sounds like a big deal to me Isis recruits Australians, Russia bombs Ukrainians Economic bubble crash is starting to give me a rash Tumblr just gets really mad when you say a word they think is bad Hyper fervent slactivism causing me a social schism Picking up the pieces of a shattered governmental system Cliches of a topic piled up into a rhyming pattern Pundits pumping such hot air they might as well just move to Saturn Tumblr just gets really mad when you say a word they think is bad Post Modern kids all broke it down as something they could deconstruct Idealists will polish turds, while cynics just don't give a **** Focus on your social status, eating healthy, getting hotter Better drink my own **** cause we're quickly running out of water Tumblr just gets really mad when you say a word they think is bad
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
Not Tumblr Approved
I was sad for a long time, 12 long months ticking by, not sad all the time of course, but the hue of my first year was definitely tinged blue I fell in love, carelessly, but I couldn't quite let him in, amongst the tears and the other boy kisses; he just wasn't welcome in my heart my head had overruled it. And they say to you, when you least expect it, it will happen and it did someone else came and kissed me better, patched me up and made my kidneys shiver And now, I'm not sad anymore, I am still lost and misguided for sure but I have all of these lovely feelings hanging above me like a starry night And I am riddled with cliche, I want him and only him; this is an ode to sadness, for it treated me well; it taught me to let people in, whilst maintaining a cynics heart and a fickle brain. this is an ode to sadness, I am just sorry to the boy I loved at the wrong time.
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Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
An ode to sadness
******* on the lozenge of illogical orbit, we whirl like intergalactic pinwheels. Metamorphosed , we are Martians—caring not for mortal notions. Celestial beings with curt dispositions, Making men the cynics that they are. For that which exists is doomed to be doubted. So it seems our duet is the demise of devout humanity, my dear. Us, in artless cotton blankets, Inhaling the infectious essence of Eros.
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Dec 25, 2011
Dec 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM UTC
Falling Skyward: Defying Dogmatism
I often find that the people I know are polarized, they range from, positive to negative, you have your optimists, your idealists, your cynics, your nihilists, and oddly enough, everyone else. Optimists believe in Hamilton's Principle, but they tailor it to our own fabric, they believe that for some unknown reason, the current situation is the optimal one, everything will be alright, que sera sera, carpe diem. Idealists believe in truth, they understand what is ideal, and what is not, they attempt to apply such principles to the observed world, and more often than not, they fail, but that's alright, they tried their best. Cynics view the world as it is, they observe and make rational judgement, realism at its finest, a time tested trait, pragmatism has served them well. Nihilists believe that life is without intrinsic meaning, there is nothing that cannot be observed, a craft of existentialist theory, they assert that morality is a figment of mankind's imagination, and for all we know, they could be right. And finally we have the remainder, those of us we have no idea what we believe, no path traced in the sand, no trail blazed in the years prior, and sometimes I think that perhaps this group is right, there are limits to human understanding, and so I ask, how can we know, oh, how can we know?
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 6:30 AM UTC
How Can We Know?
~ You strange **** You ****** **** You‘re something else, you You might not be well The self-preaching Was getting old Even when it was new They all knew There is something Wrong about your English Something makes them wonder If you‘re really all in there When one said you were trash You thought the cynics would Make everything better It never did last ~ Scary girl with big buns On her shrunken head Thinks you better quiet And only listen instead ~ The dwarfs cursed you To the ******* ground You slime, you puke They burn and bury You to the very ground Those kisses were curses You stupid slime, you The guardian never watched Over you to stop the blackness Which crept unto you Now you‘re some tainted **** And they all know you‘re untrue And they drool acid on you ~ When the brain deters From all that filth in your mind You‘ll realize the bacteria Will make you go blind And as you sink in the water You've once walked on Your stupid ****** up fans Will all be gone
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 10:43 PM UTC
Livid Companionship
Sitting in a run down bar Toasting Christmas' once again Making New Years Resolutions That in eight days I'll amend Watching Christmas Specials On what happened this past year All the while waiting For another glass of beer Commercials for electronic this and battery powered that Pill that **** your acne Machines that **** your fat Little plastic whatzit whos That vibrate and make noise Not one **** ad of one **** thing For Christmas...girls and boys Where did Christmas go to? When did Christmas die? When did Amazon take over? Telling us just the things to buy Where is Christmas spirit? In a movie or a play? At an office Christmas party? It's all saved for Boxing Day The beer arrives, we look about The bar is filling fast Most talking of the better days The days of Christmas past People on the tv set On that **** show TMZ Reality folks, who don't know real At least not like you and me I harken back to days of yore When Christmas was so real When there'd be fifteen aunts and uncles At our house for a meal When charity was normal Cynics..few and far between When Christmas trees dropped needles And all had a slight lean Where did Christmas go to? When did Christmas die? When did Amazon take over? Telling us just the things to buy Where is Christmas spirit? In a movie or a play? At an office Christmas party? It's all saved for Boxing Day It's getting on for closing time It's time to get on home Where, I am not sure of It's nice...I'll think I'll roam A bench, perhaps, inside the park I think I'll be all right I'll pick one near a walkway By a nice and shiny light Oh, most of us are homeless We hit the missions for our meals We drink some down at this old bar We just like the way it feels We spend Christmas Day together Our extended family grows each year But, before I go and find a bench I think I'll throw back one last beer Merry Christmas
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 7:55 PM UTC
One last beer before Christmas
Sitting in a run down bar Toasting Christmas' once again Making New Years Resolutions That in eight days I'll amend Watching Christmas Specials On what happened this past year All the while waiting For another glass of beer Commercials for electronic this and battery powered that Pill that **** your acne Machines that **** your fat Little plastic whatzit whos That vibrate and make noise Not one **** ad of one **** thing For Christmas...girls and boys Where did Christmas go to? When did Christmas die? When did Amazon take over? Telling us just the things to buy Where is Christmas spirit? In a movie or a play? At an office Christmas party? It's all saved for Boxing Day The beer arrives, we look about The bar is filling fast Most talking of the better days The days of Christmas past People on the tv set On that **** show TMZ Reality folks, who don't know real At least not like you and me I harken back to days of yore When Christmas was so real When there'd be fifteen aunts and uncles At our house for a meal When charity was normal Cynics..few and far between When Christmas trees dropped needles And all had a slight lean Where did Christmas go to? When did Christmas die? When did Amazon take over? Telling us just the things to buy Where is Christmas spirit? In a movie or a play? At an office Christmas party? It's all saved for Boxing Day It's getting on for closing time It's time to get on home Where, I am not sure of It's nice...I'll think I'll roam A bench, perhaps, inside the park I think I'll be all right I'll pick one near a walkway By a nice and shiny light Oh, most of us are homeless We hit the missions for our meals We drink some down at this old bar We just like the way it feels We spend Christmas Day together Our extended family grows each year But, before I go and find a bench I think I'll throw back one last beer Merry Christmas
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Friends, Think not of terror in the night Of wayward wandering careless fright. Think not of hatred in the morn, Of owness lost and past left scorn. Think not of guilts Dead to the wind, Think not of ills You've beaten still. Think not of the spectres of your mind, Of days destroyed, of thought decline. Think not of angels Escort the dead. Think not of challenges, haunt ahead. Think not of blanket Bleaching sorrow. Think not of heartache soared tomorrow. Think not of panic in the dark, Of where your friends and foes reside, Of what they say or what they mind, Or whether they think you cruel or kind. Think instead, Of all you are. Of where you've come from, Crawled this far. Think of your talents, Of your shine, Think of the world in terms of rhyme. Think not of fear, of mindless dread, of panic ransacked Quaking head. Think all too clear of love itself. Of simple life in raging health. Never question what you are, But freely count the fading scars. Question malice, idle, stubborn, judging hearts, Question tired cynics, Mouthing barbs to better grow into themselves, Question injustice, and condemn to swell All those who'd dare To make you shrink into a lesser, hardened shell. Never wind your steps back over tread, Already stepped. Hold firm and fast White knuckle raging burning grasp Your fingers to the rail And grimace menace To all that failed To break you.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM UTC
An Open Letter To Troubled Souls
hey God! how ya doin' up there? perhaps You are tired and might use a chair? to sit, relax and maybe think it over you know, time flies and You are getting older... You're Time itself You are the Music and You are the Lyrics I know: You are my inner self I care not for stoics or for cynics there are no sinners as there are no saints we all but little misbehaving children the Love bestowed on us from high above is mirky Evil's deadly foe - the Lantern I fear not what future holds for all I know there is no future if we go on like this - forlorn - our selfish thoughts are Devil's fav'rite nurture they said You don't exist they said You're dead and buried they kicked and crucified Your Son their arrogance was their only merit but You forgave 'em all - knaves, foolish in their pride... I thank You for the caring guidance of those who do believe and those who don't and if You're gone forever... well, good riddance the image of my sword will haughty haters haunt 23.5.2012
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Jun 17, 2012
Jun 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM UTC
hey God!
Often the news gives me the blues I really ought to choose to simply refuse I mean really, what will I lose Schadenfreude? no that isn't it truth is stranger than fiction more like a fascination with the surreal or a blinded self-affliction with the scroungy real deal Talking heads that speak for work punctuate sentences with erratic head jerks nobody normal talks that way, they ask rhetorical questions when the answer's are known, they’re killing time “rephrase the question, run the clock out a commercial will spare us the embarrassment of doubt.” Take’s a special person to face each new day with zillions of prying eyes hanging on every word you say the mendicant voyeurs of utter destruction’s charming new day the slashing machete melt down of the abject speakers foray "Oh say, can you see by the dawns early light" What's become of your people and their obsession with fright desensitization is paramount to achieve an abeyance of light Frankenfoods, and "side affects" hideous monsters in the making high resolution mayhem require victims for the taking awaking half-dead like Dracula’s each dusk they'll find a cure, there's another vaccine, there’s always dumb luck maybe you won't be the sucker that makes that dreadful scene bludgeon your mind with a another faker, a different fresh news team fobbing your leery eyes you ponder “they can’t possibly all be the same!” different day, different month, different year, same game
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 1:03 PM UTC
4,5,6,7,8, Cynics countdown
Fools may pine, and sots may swill, Cynics gibe, and prophets rail, Moralists may scourge and drill, Preachers prose, and fainthearts quail. Let them whine, or threat, or wail! Till the touch of Circumstance Down to darkness sink the scale, Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. What if skies be wan and chill? What if winds be harsh and stale? Presently the east will thrill, And the sad and shrunken sail, Bellying with a kindly gale, Bear you sunwards, while your chance Sends you back the hopeful hail:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Idle shot or coming bill, Hapless love or broken bail, Gulp it (never chew your pill!), And, if Burgundy should fail, Try the humbler *** of ale! Over all is heaven's expanse. Gold's to find among the shale. Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. Dull Sir Joskin sleeps his fill, Good Sir Galahad seeks the Grail, Proud Sir Pertinax flaunts his frill, Hard Sir AEger dints his mail; And the while by hill and dale Tristram's braveries gleam and glance, And his blithe horn tells its tale:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Araminta's grand and shrill, Delia's passionate and frail, Doris drives an earnest quill, Athanasia takes the veil: Wiser Phyllis o'er her pail, At the heart of all romance Reading, sings to Strephon's flail:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Every Jack must have his Jill (Even Johnson had his Thrale!): Forward, couples--with a will! This, the world, is not a jail. Hear the music, sprat and whale! Hands across, retire, advance! Though the doomsman's on your trail, Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. Envoy Boys and girls, at slug and snail And their kindred look askance. Pay your footing on the nail: Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.
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Double Ballade Of Life And Fate
Fools may pine, and sots may swill, Cynics gibe, and prophets rail, Moralists may scourge and drill, Preachers prose, and fainthearts quail. Let them whine, or threat, or wail! Till the touch of Circumstance Down to darkness sink the scale, Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. What if skies be wan and chill? What if winds be harsh and stale? Presently the east will thrill, And the sad and shrunken sail, Bellying with a kindly gale, Bear you sunwards, while your chance Sends you back the hopeful hail:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Idle shot or coming bill, Hapless love or broken bail, Gulp it (never chew your pill!), And, if Burgundy should fail, Try the humbler *** of ale! Over all is heaven's expanse. Gold's to find among the shale. Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. Dull Sir Joskin sleeps his fill, Good Sir Galahad seeks the Grail, Proud Sir Pertinax flaunts his frill, Hard Sir AEger dints his mail; And the while by hill and dale Tristram's braveries gleam and glance, And his blithe horn tells its tale:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Araminta's grand and shrill, Delia's passionate and frail, Doris drives an earnest quill, Athanasia takes the veil: Wiser Phyllis o'er her pail, At the heart of all romance Reading, sings to Strephon's flail:-- 'Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.' Every Jack must have his Jill (Even Johnson had his Thrale!): Forward, couples--with a will! This, the world, is not a jail. Hear the music, sprat and whale! Hands across, retire, advance! Though the doomsman's on your trail, Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance. Envoy Boys and girls, at slug and snail And their kindred look askance. Pay your footing on the nail: Fate's a fiddler, Life's a dance.
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Too many mediums. The simplicity of conversation, died today. Died after the eighties, because, the neon lights, and lines of coke, wouldn't last forever. You can't buy a cup of coffee. Take your drink from the counter. Move out of line. There isn't a payphone inside. You couldn't order a large. It's a Starbucks. Ask the homeless man in the bathroom, shooting his dreams, into his arm, if you can borrow his iPhone, to make a call. And **** it all to hell, if he asks you for change. You only have a card. Your piece of mind, comes with a receipt. But give him credit, because he'll take an I.O.U. Light your cigarette with the same hand, holding the coffee. Pass by people that do, and people that do not. Exhaling smoke, some to which is blown, up an *** or two. Today is Tuesday, or Friday, and you have work, or you don't, but right now, you are where you are. At this moment, there aren't any expectations, but your own. And when payphones, become fewer, and fewer, You can take solace in knowing, that calls will come, less frequently. But a business card is mandatory.
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Aug 26, 2012
Aug 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM UTC
Payphones Are For Cynics
No crocus' will bloom at the bed of this hill as Orcus attends the open chest, spilled into a lake that drowns these broken oaths. Along with the words pronounced the most in pages of prose spoke in endeavor. Like the perpetual lie, "I'll love you forever."
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Jul 9, 2011
Jul 9, 2011 at 12:43 PM UTC
for the King of the Sceptics, in the land of Cynics.
At his face it got harder to stare But in his truth he would glower Into this looking glass That looks right back At the years of age That washed his face Over that disgraced fortnight and it’s dragging scrape What was his counted, that ruffling came natural In a sentiment of the innate and the inner mechanics of his climate Co-Walkers, he thought viewed him a cynics ornate From then on, became perpetually discounted Though his face got harder to look at by its contents, Optics inflamed and wrinkles elongated to his whiskers growing skyward a striking true spruce in essence to become Nevertheless a bedraggled authentic Just before a flooding pooled his lids or the dawning of his tears Until this vanish to enhance These characters took on relevance Apropos of what he saw looking back The girl, his love, the spirit inside his drive She could see all directions, like hands on a clock, Every hour the dialed sun would tower Giving her all his angles, She could anticipate all of this, including all opposites She could see all that To her, His face was not hard to stare Still chiseled but shaved, like polished marble glare Her love was true for years Opposing claims would be intercepted when asked if during she dabbled in deception Then immediately accepted their quiz, taking near comfort as she’s done for years  placing her lips closer to his eyes, she kissed his cheek and licked his tears
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Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018 at 11:08 PM UTC
The Dawning of His Tears
it is 2:23 am the fan is set on high, despite the fact that the weather outside is -20° fans are good for these sorts of things white noise drowning out the silence the thoughts the beer brings thoughts of fools in love in coffee shops and cynics in tears in basement rooms and once brave men in coffins the dog chews on a rawhide bone and I unbraid my hair untangling each knot with trembling fingers I undress slowly removing each piece of clothing like a memory I put on that shirt I bought for you I crawl into bed smearing plum lips and black eyes on an off-white pillowcase and I think of once great loves of cynics I think of coffins I think of you in light blue
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 2:49 AM UTC
Keeping Up Appearances For The Dog
There it was - Among lost flowers And drained cups of espresso. Among corrupt cabinets, And torrid affairs. Among the soldiers and the artists, Among the philosophers, The drag queens and the disasters, And T.S. Eliot and his mermaids. There, in a smoky haze Of toasts and time, I found meaning. Friends, lovers, actors, Huddled together one cold October, Not for pay, not for fame. Drawn together merely to drink our fill On the intoxicating elixir of humble creation. It was there, In those chilly nights Of backyard theatrics, In the raw camaraderie Of presenting art for art's sake, That I found myself, Whole and true. So many plays and shows I have oft participated in, And many days have passed Since that blissful October, But the vivid memory forever remains Of the perfect cast of players bound together In the pure glee of organic imaginings As we explored the dark against the light. Did we know? Did we comprehend, then, The magnitude of beauty to be found Within the ties that held us together? Perhaps the rest never did quite feel the current Of the electric wonder we evoked beneath the stars; Not only in our karaoke-laden performance, But in our offstage whisperings and antics - Friendships forged in a campfire flame. I cannot speak for the others, But as for myself - A girl now disillusioned By Louisiana cynics And toxic hometown politics - I am nostalgic for those nights That I spoke of Michelangelo.
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Oct 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM UTC
The Cups, the Marmalade, the Tea
It’s like passing a ******* kidney stone that doesn’t even exist, one that lingers and claws on your minds eye like a cyst upon creation it’s a focus shift, a pool of indifference, a cry before an inner audience uninterested in the parchment, too jaded to focus and too faded to care it’s an outside perspective on your own ******* process, “this guy’s mouthing off like he’s got something to say, who is this ******* and why should we care” it’s when the ratio of happening to happenstance breaks the mold of your monotonous grind, when the words set to define the sounds of a generation fall into a digital pool of overpopulated subterfuge It’s a deflated message and an idealist’s shift to anarchism, too ****** off at the cynics and too distraught to bother with a response It’s like starting to **** off, giving yourself blue ***** and not calling yourself back for a second date
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM UTC
Writers block (tell us what is!)
I can’t believe many want us To starve, to sicken and die. I can’t believe they hate dark skin And I bet even they don’t know why. I can’t believe they think it is fine To tease friends who are different And that they hate women and claim What clearly is discrimination isn’t. I refuse to believe your insistence That you are a member of a church That is fine with blocking our laws And leaving the land in the lurch. I don’t accept the standard cant That all our young must go to war, Then watch people act as if veteran’s aid Is not part of what government is for. It hurts to hear that you hate welfare But gleefully grant it to the very rich And buy aircraft and warfare equipment As our highways fall into a ditch. It is far beyond shameful to see The number of our American cynics Who would vote for a liar, and a thief A draft dodger, a cheat and a bigot. What has happened that we got stupid Enough to not be able recognize A narcissist that is in it for himself Who is neither a statesman or wise? How sad it has become for this land The example of truth and wisdom Has pitched its camp with an uncaring fool And those who agree with him.
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Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 8:18 PM UTC
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