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my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He’ll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
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My Love Is Building A Building
It's 3:09am I'm im the library Desperately trying to write a research paper: 'LGBT Familes' How fitting. Caffeine courses through my veins Coffee overloads my bladder Bathroom. I hate bathrooms. When you have no gender The simple act of relieving yourself becomes a chore The heavy weight of that key decision Chokes your lungs as you stand outside the doors Two doors. Men. Women. Not me. The choice becomes simplified: While I sometimes pass as a man I often do not. I can choose the men's bathroom The consequence of which could end in physical violence The same hate I explain through my essay. The same fear that plagues my community. The women's restroom is also an option The consequences likely less dire than the former: Heavy side eye and the potential of yelling. A much safer choice. Obviously. Per usual, I walk into the women's room. I take three strides inside. Then I stop. I've never used the men's room. My fear of violent reactions has always won. Yet at a time like this How likely is it that someone is inside the men's room? Now is my chance to face my fears. Now I have a safe chance at peeing in peace. In a bathroom potentially more suiting Of my gender identity So I turn around. Let the door slam behind me. Half a step into the men's room The smell of rancid ***** hits my senses Toilet paper liters the stalls I have missed absolutely nothing in my years in the women's room Women have nicer facilities A significantly more advanced hand dryer Cleanliness Air freshener Men do not have these luxuries Now I question, Do men not take as good of care of their bathrooms as women do? Do the workers intentionally prioritize women's sanitation? What causes this undeniable divide? Is the messiness of the men's room a result of their conscious decisions? Or simply a response to societal expectation? Regardless, I think I'll stick to the women's room While I add bathrooms to my compilation Of more discrete gender inequality
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Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 2:23 PM UTC
My First Time Using the Men's Bathroom
It's 3:09am I'm im the library Desperately trying to write a research paper: 'LGBT Familes' How fitting. Caffeine courses through my veins Coffee overloads my bladder Bathroom. I hate bathrooms. When you have no gender The simple act of relieving yourself becomes a chore The heavy weight of that key decision Chokes your lungs as you stand outside the doors Two doors. Men. Women. Not me. The choice becomes simplified: While I sometimes pass as a man I often do not. I can choose the men's bathroom The consequence of which could end in physical violence The same hate I explain through my essay. The same fear that plagues my community. The women's restroom is also an option The consequences likely less dire than the former: Heavy side eye and the potential of yelling. A much safer choice. Obviously. Per usual, I walk into the women's room. I take three strides inside. Then I stop. I've never used the men's room. My fear of violent reactions has always won. Yet at a time like this How likely is it that someone is inside the men's room? Now is my chance to face my fears. Now I have a safe chance at peeing in peace. In a bathroom potentially more suiting Of my gender identity So I turn around. Let the door slam behind me. Half a step into the men's room The smell of rancid ***** hits my senses Toilet paper liters the stalls I have missed absolutely nothing in my years in the women's room Women have nicer facilities A significantly more advanced hand dryer Cleanliness Air freshener Men do not have these luxuries Now I question, Do men not take as good of care of their bathrooms as women do? Do the workers intentionally prioritize women's sanitation? What causes this undeniable divide? Is the messiness of the men's room a result of their conscious decisions? Or simply a response to societal expectation? Regardless, I think I'll stick to the women's room While I add bathrooms to my compilation Of more discrete gender inequality
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Warning: Use dis list in context. You decide on which side you fall. disappear disregard disaster displace disqualify disrepair disturb dissipate disability dispose dismal distribute distrust disturb discriminate discuss disdain disguise dishearten disinherit disown disparage disagree disgruntle disclose discolour dispute disarm discover disassemble disadvantage disallow dispossess discontent discontinue disrespect disincline discomfort disrepute dishonest disillusion dishonor dismiss disobey disjoin disappoint discipline discord discern discrete disfigure disconnect disapprove discharge disbar disease discord disfavor disengage disassociate discipline discount disembody displace dissaray disembowel discombobulate discredit discourse disentangle disenfranchise disembark discard disburse disbelief discover disable disagree disintegrate dismay dispense dislodge disclaimer disapprove dissatisfy disrupt dispel dislike dismantle disloyal disbatch disrobe disperse display disaprove disciple disavow disconcert disinfect disorder dismal dismember displease dissemble disunity dislocate distort distrust distress dissolute disassociate distill discect (?) distemper distain distasteful distraught dissolve dissonant dissuade And dis isn't de end.
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Aug 22, 2015
Aug 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM UTC
Is Dis Good or Is Dis Bad (a partici-poem)
by Desmond Makatu, Your visits are unpredictable. like a ghost, you're invisible. The attacks are inevitable. You come like a thief at night. You seize me day and night. "Epilepsy: an inevitable thief" Cruelty unrestricted to age. Victimising even toddlers. Unrestricted to ethnic groups. My life has time gaps. Gaps, like discrete graphs. Cracks depict thin line between life and death. Grace bridges the gaps and life prevails over death. Seizures still haunt me like a demonic wrath. "Epilepsy: an inevitable thief" Attacks are brief, bruises lasts forever. You offer questions only God can answer. Quest for answers is like probing for cure of Cancer. Death seemed to be the answer but God thought otherwise. First seizure shook like multiple earthquakes. Followed by a pool of darkness. woke up confused, crowd's ****** expressions said a thousand words. Migraines raided my head, exposed to enormous pressure. Officially baptised by wrath of seizures. "Epilepsy: an inevitable thief" You're a physical and psychological culprit. Like a Yoyo, you take me into a roller-coaster of emotions. Aftermaths of your theft are etched in my mind as if they’re on stones. Behind my “poker face” lies devastating pains than physicals seen by the  crowd. "Epilepsy: an inevitable thief" Watch video on YouTube. https://youtu.be/VggXerYLOHY
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 8:02 PM UTC
Epilepsy: an inevitable thief
Sweet and seductive The twilight Can I come in? No need to worry Frustrated moments Tempting lies Please don't scream I'll be discrete Caresses recollected Old embraces ********** and bathos Fur instead of hair Movements in a mirror Time for breakfast The appearance of a peach Fried sentences Scrambled words Rhyming couplets Tea and coffee Contradictory conversations Flee from open mouths.
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 12:47 AM UTC
Virtuosity
From white canvass, a blank ledger of potent expectation, awaiting form and function. The artist invokes shade and light. The seminal swirl of her brush signals simple hue, discrete structures. Then flesh strokes imbue sanguine blush of satin seams and outstretched limbs; spring greens and rampant peaks, reaching high into gossamer nimbus. Calm swells, abundant bosoms, beckoning fields of luxuriant temptation. From an eternal cool, the (all too) temporary warmth of her embrace lies just beyond: enticing, luring, teasing into torrid desire. From whence, the dream unfolds...
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 7:54 PM UTC
Flesh Strokes
White, Yellow, and Brown Different shapes, sizes, and textures Curly, straight, and wavy You look at your reflection and do not see it You're brown You’re slim, light, and skinny Your body does not resemble what it means to be a woman in your culture A Latina woman has curves A Latina woman's skin glistens underneath the sun She contains an inner glow that resembles the strength she holds. A Latina women speaks fluent English and Spanish The purr that rolls off her tongue when she rolls her “R’s” Her accent is what blows men away Her accent is seen as exotic and from another world But yours is different You look at your reflection and do not see it There is no purr because you can't roll the “R’s” off your tongue Your slight accent is what worries you Afraid your accent is going to get you a stare instead of a wink. Afraid to speak you stay quiet and become discrete You look at your reflection and see brown sugar that’s sweet and fine Your skin contains different specks of color which makes you different The sun captures the qualities that you contain within. You look at your reflection and see A woman that speaks the language of romance The language that distinguishes you from the crowd The language that brings you strength and courage The accent you once feared would bring you shame is the same one you have come to love. You look at your reflection and see A woman that has grown internally to love herself for the way she is you contain the inner glow that resembles the strength and knowledge you have attained. The eclipse has finally passed the sun and your  time to shine has arrived. White, Yellow, and Brown Different shapes, sizes, and textures Curly, straight, and wavy You look at your reflection and see A Latina woman.
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May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 6:13 AM UTC
Brown Sugar
White, Yellow, and Brown Different shapes, sizes, and textures Curly, straight, and wavy You look at your reflection and do not see it You're brown You’re slim, light, and skinny Your body does not resemble what it means to be a woman in your culture A Latina woman has curves A Latina woman's skin glistens underneath the sun She contains an inner glow that resembles the strength she holds. A Latina women speaks fluent English and Spanish The purr that rolls off her tongue when she rolls her “R’s” Her accent is what blows men away Her accent is seen as exotic and from another world But yours is different You look at your reflection and do not see it There is no purr because you can't roll the “R’s” off your tongue Your slight accent is what worries you Afraid your accent is going to get you a stare instead of a wink. Afraid to speak you stay quiet and become discrete You look at your reflection and see brown sugar that’s sweet and fine Your skin contains different specks of color which makes you different The sun captures the qualities that you contain within. You look at your reflection and see A woman that speaks the language of romance The language that distinguishes you from the crowd The language that brings you strength and courage The accent you once feared would bring you shame is the same one you have come to love. You look at your reflection and see A woman that has grown internally to love herself for the way she is you contain the inner glow that resembles the strength and knowledge you have attained. The eclipse has finally passed the sun and your  time to shine has arrived. White, Yellow, and Brown Different shapes, sizes, and textures Curly, straight, and wavy You look at your reflection and see A Latina woman.
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I have two persona with very different duality, I have too extreme of a personality, And I have a hard time expressing myself to your factuality. Only veiled my discreet personal past with thin layers of exclamation, To diverge, veer, or in discrete my own expression. To die within my own words to save my honor, Or to stay translucent to dye my tongue in fake color. For I have failed myself in becoming true to my belief, For eye to eye I can't seem to meet any sort of relief, Are these my real eyes point of view, Or have I realized I been dreaming of you, Or were they simply all real lies of my personal skew? This desire to raise your understanding, But your voice raze my defense to oblivion, And heavenly rays depart like the moons with wolf howl with your gaze! Was there nothing of me that sparkled to your kindred spirit, Was I that loathing of your presence to lose your smile? No matter as past are like the whim of a sail, I Know that happiness has no sale. Believe me when I say I want you to be happy, But my hunger to eat this precious apple pie will hurt me more, Much more than my desire to be fit like those men in commercials. Sorry possibly good looking ads, But I must cheat on you for good! Those eight pies, I ate them with pride and prejudice! For my temptation was hubris!
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Nov 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015 at 11:15 PM UTC
Temptress Pride and all Hubris!
With the familiar blur of familiar frames - Wearied, we wait discrete Worried that we cannot breathe for the wind is yet to take us away… do you think much longer? — We blend in to the scene like a sail in the overcast, lingering in our subconscious - striving, aching for the sting of summer to melt us in the sun… when is it coming? — The frost bits our lips, Fastening the deadly silence A fascinating mind, hidden in fearsome chambers - Collapsing with the dead leaves of our own trees… How much longer? — We hesitate to bloom, Blinded to our own beauty. Another day, another season Believing we are better by ourselves, the world is bitter… Spring is shunned by the silence - — But we are fine; The wind will take us away, Summer’s sun will melt us, The leaves will fall, and nature will bloom. But we are more than we seem… we breathe.
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Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 at 3:25 AM UTC
WE ARE MORE
Whenever  I am not seeing you Lethal void is my heart Like the monolithic art Of a sculptor; Like the figures of Mona Lisa, I tried to engrave you Again and again in my heart And rehearsed you many times In my memories. To reconstitute Your beautiful image Inside of my mind I behold you thousand times, Yet all loving and languishing Nothing could be captured To match your perfection As you were seen in person Nor could be remembered To your many dimensional figure Of youth unclaimed. You are just beautiful but demure, Seductive but unrevealing A love that slips down Near your lips were forbidden? And be never told? Like two balsam flowers unfold Opening from their buds, Your eyelids are open wide. Like two bees ******* honey My eyes were seeking yours To ferret out the secret Of your true love and desires; Neither did they come out Nor did they flutter And never reached out My beehive safely. Seeking out for your true love In your eyes, in your lips, Cheeks and chin far and near, Everywhere  all over you, Looking at you all the time. You are open to interpretation Of your true intention Of your love and desires Like the secret smiles Of Mona Lisa. Until you make confession Of your true love, I will behold you thousand times, You are just beautiful but demure Looking for you all the time. You make me dream about you While in my sleep or I am awake. My discrete memories Are overshadowed by time, I cannot fight with my feelings Whenever  I am not seeing you, Lethal void is my heart, Come and meet me in person!
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Oct 27, 2018
Oct 27, 2018 at 4:17 PM UTC
Behold You Thousand Times
Whenever  I am not seeing you Lethal void is my heart Like the monolithic art Of a sculptor; Like the figures of Mona Lisa, I tried to engrave you Again and again in my heart And rehearsed you many times In my memories. To reconstitute Your beautiful image Inside of my mind I behold you thousand times, Yet all loving and languishing Nothing could be captured To match your perfection As you were seen in person Nor could be remembered To your many dimensional figure Of youth unclaimed. You are just beautiful but demure, Seductive but unrevealing A love that slips down Near your lips were forbidden? And be never told? Like two balsam flowers unfold Opening from their buds, Your eyelids are open wide. Like two bees ******* honey My eyes were seeking yours To ferret out the secret Of your true love and desires; Neither did they come out Nor did they flutter And never reached out My beehive safely. Seeking out for your true love In your eyes, in your lips, Cheeks and chin far and near, Everywhere  all over you, Looking at you all the time. You are open to interpretation Of your true intention Of your love and desires Like the secret smiles Of Mona Lisa. Until you make confession Of your true love, I will behold you thousand times, You are just beautiful but demure Looking for you all the time. You make me dream about you While in my sleep or I am awake. My discrete memories Are overshadowed by time, I cannot fight with my feelings Whenever  I am not seeing you, Lethal void is my heart, Come and meet me in person!
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Once I knew a spider wore Doc Martens on his feet, eight holes on eight hairy legs he wasn't too discrete. He rode a lengthy shadow while he stomped around the floor this micro “muy macho” unabashedly cocksure I trapped him in a glass one night And told him at the door “My wife she doesn't like you don’t you come around no more” But spiders rarely listen and ignoring my request next evening he returned once more our octo-booted guest
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 7:57 AM UTC
Spider
It’s the morning after the last heart session Eyes open but brain still crackling with static and white noise When I try it again Hoping to get pen to paper Before consciousness can recover sufficiently to intervene And proffer pretty syntax to the poem Hold the mind blank And stack the words in rows of green growth Like garden beds That only need time and attention to bear fruit Let truth come from some other place Than reason or left brain Or the extensive vocabulary Meticulously indexed in the cranial cavity Somewhere near the brain stem Or maybe in the DNA As C, T, G, and A Storing data like binary only twice as complex The recall mechanism operating in the darkness of our comprehension Apprehension of its failure threatening to leave the poem unfinished Unillustrated Uncalibrated Un-fact checked Like that matters somehow Like the facts are important in art Like the right brain has no sense of propriety Just as surely as the heart tells lies in gibberish A chattering maelstrom of syllables in a cyclonic vacuum And yet somehow the heart speaks with perfect clarity Uncluttered rhythm Timing and flow So you know there is more going on here than we fully understand Lend a hand to help decipher the intentions of a part of yourself wayward from the rest of you Leading to a collapse of the ego And a blurring of the lines between you and I Turning discrete data into continuous On the fly On the run Under sun and and moon and sky Until the day that even death fails to be discrete Or even an event any more important than a fire Converting energy from one form to another
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM UTC
Heartbeats & Mathematics
It’s the morning after the last heart session Eyes open but brain still crackling with static and white noise When I try it again Hoping to get pen to paper Before consciousness can recover sufficiently to intervene And proffer pretty syntax to the poem Hold the mind blank And stack the words in rows of green growth Like garden beds That only need time and attention to bear fruit Let truth come from some other place Than reason or left brain Or the extensive vocabulary Meticulously indexed in the cranial cavity Somewhere near the brain stem Or maybe in the DNA As C, T, G, and A Storing data like binary only twice as complex The recall mechanism operating in the darkness of our comprehension Apprehension of its failure threatening to leave the poem unfinished Unillustrated Uncalibrated Un-fact checked Like that matters somehow Like the facts are important in art Like the right brain has no sense of propriety Just as surely as the heart tells lies in gibberish A chattering maelstrom of syllables in a cyclonic vacuum And yet somehow the heart speaks with perfect clarity Uncluttered rhythm Timing and flow So you know there is more going on here than we fully understand Lend a hand to help decipher the intentions of a part of yourself wayward from the rest of you Leading to a collapse of the ego And a blurring of the lines between you and I Turning discrete data into continuous On the fly On the run Under sun and and moon and sky Until the day that even death fails to be discrete Or even an event any more important than a fire Converting energy from one form to another
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There are many definitions of pride, All in which, are perceived from a side, Notable opinions indeed when we’re addressing the dogma that arise when mind project words that express one; wise, However, it’s all contrary to me, Pride isn’t something relating belief, It can’t be put aside if it’s beyond side; choice/time, Egoist defined when declined, rejoice inclined, I can’t respond to a situation, There’s no resolution when living unconditional and uncertain, I am beyond interpretation, I do not allude in illusions and wonder why they’re certain, Abracadabra Hocus-Pocus... Omm, “This State Farm jingle isn’t workin,” AHP; “Magic”; Ouroboros, Analytical Hierarchy Perspective on Serpent, “They have power; They influence the course of events with supernatural forces” That’s Magic? The law of attraction; influencing life with thoughts; Quantum Mechanics, Force is, Say “attract it,” Demographics defining diplomatic, power be to the tree that’s aristocratic, Problematic if geographic determines what’s democratic, Tragic when ethnography constitutes what’s archetypal and habitual; A classic ritual opposite of obsolete; of course bigotries automatic, Bring back the art of holographic, I’m leaning back like Crack if it’s dogmatic, I do not understand how we understand species before intelligent and acknowledge intelligence like we never had it, As if dyslexia was a natural condition; as if this ability was somehow previously hidden so with awareness became magic, Freedom of speech, “But I don’t like your words, sir” Freedom to be, “Those are not the clothes I prefer, sir” Being discrete, “He’s not in my position, he must concur” Oh, What is believed? They’re obligated to assumptions, so they infer most- Too much pride will **** a man, By picking a side he’ll lose a hand, If using his pride he’s sure to win, If losing his mind; insane a friend, Clueless of time; he’ll never die, Til P take a Ride, and replace his pride with another man’s.
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 5:30 PM UTC
Pride
There are many definitions of pride, All in which, are perceived from a side, Notable opinions indeed when we’re addressing the dogma that arise when mind project words that express one; wise, However, it’s all contrary to me, Pride isn’t something relating belief, It can’t be put aside if it’s beyond side; choice/time, Egoist defined when declined, rejoice inclined, I can’t respond to a situation, There’s no resolution when living unconditional and uncertain, I am beyond interpretation, I do not allude in illusions and wonder why they’re certain, Abracadabra Hocus-Pocus... Omm, “This State Farm jingle isn’t workin,” AHP; “Magic”; Ouroboros, Analytical Hierarchy Perspective on Serpent, “They have power; They influence the course of events with supernatural forces” That’s Magic? The law of attraction; influencing life with thoughts; Quantum Mechanics, Force is, Say “attract it,” Demographics defining diplomatic, power be to the tree that’s aristocratic, Problematic if geographic determines what’s democratic, Tragic when ethnography constitutes what’s archetypal and habitual; A classic ritual opposite of obsolete; of course bigotries automatic, Bring back the art of holographic, I’m leaning back like Crack if it’s dogmatic, I do not understand how we understand species before intelligent and acknowledge intelligence like we never had it, As if dyslexia was a natural condition; as if this ability was somehow previously hidden so with awareness became magic, Freedom of speech, “But I don’t like your words, sir” Freedom to be, “Those are not the clothes I prefer, sir” Being discrete, “He’s not in my position, he must concur” Oh, What is believed? They’re obligated to assumptions, so they infer most- Too much pride will **** a man, By picking a side he’ll lose a hand, If using his pride he’s sure to win, If losing his mind; insane a friend, Clueless of time; he’ll never die, Til P take a Ride, and replace his pride with another man’s.
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For translational           invariant functions                        The Lebesgue measure is an            example of such a function;                                                           In geometry, a translation "slides" a thing by a: Ta(p) = p + a.            In physics and mathematics, continuous translational symmetry is the invariance of a system of equations under any translation. Discrete translational symmetry     is invariant under discrete translation; Analogously an operator A on functions      is said to be translationally invariant      with respect to a translation operator {\display style T_{\delta }} T_{\delta } if the result after applying A doesn't change if the argument function is translated.         More precisely it must hold that:                 {\display     style \for                       all \delta \                                                          Af=A(T_{\delta }f).\,}                                                         \for             all \delta \ Af=A(T_{\delta                                                        }f).\,                                                             Laws of physics are translationally invariant                                                under a spatial translation      if they do not distinguish       different points in space.                                  According to Noether's theorem,     space translational symmetry of a physical system       is equivalent to the momentum conservation law. Translational symmetry of any woman means that a particular translation does not change her.          For a given woman, the translations          for which this applies form a group,          the symmetry group, or, if the women          have more kinds of symmetry,                           a subgroup of the symmetry group.
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
Translational symmetry
For translational           invariant functions                        The Lebesgue measure is an            example of such a function;                                                           In geometry, a translation "slides" a thing by a: Ta(p) = p + a.            In physics and mathematics, continuous translational symmetry is the invariance of a system of equations under any translation. Discrete translational symmetry     is invariant under discrete translation; Analogously an operator A on functions      is said to be translationally invariant      with respect to a translation operator {\display style T_{\delta }} T_{\delta } if the result after applying A doesn't change if the argument function is translated.         More precisely it must hold that:                 {\display     style \for                       all \delta \                                                          Af=A(T_{\delta }f).\,}                                                         \for             all \delta \ Af=A(T_{\delta                                                        }f).\,                                                             Laws of physics are translationally invariant                                                under a spatial translation      if they do not distinguish       different points in space.                                  According to Noether's theorem,     space translational symmetry of a physical system       is equivalent to the momentum conservation law. Translational symmetry of any woman means that a particular translation does not change her.          For a given woman, the translations          for which this applies form a group,          the symmetry group, or, if the women          have more kinds of symmetry,                           a subgroup of the symmetry group.
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The poem was inspired by a particular photo of the WT C, and after that by my first visit to the 9/11 Memorial.  On the day of 9/11, I was working about a diagonal mile away, and from our windows, we could see people jumping to their death. Open sky annulled to bordered lines of uptown edges, worldview momentarily forcibly redefined by memories of buildings and sadder days, recollections of pillars of biblical smoke rising A photograph makes me look up, and sit down historically, need to catch a breath, to rest mentally, upon a storied small bridge's steps, that I well recall, a disappeared street stoop. all were rubble then and once upon that day. Wear, tear, and older eyes distill perspective, but the hardy heart is hardly stilled by the recognizable gray upon bon vivant gray reflective surfaces of memories of buildings and sadder days So today, on a reborn street, I rest upon reconstituted speckled curbstone, the city's lowered down ledges, the city's lowered down-town boundaries, constantly redrawn, but nonetheless, always rebuilt from their own regenerated stony compost, and the NY passersby doesn't even notice a man, head in hands, silently weeping, thinking that: We throw away so much we should have kept. We keep so much we should have thrown away. Lose keepsakes, but keep our mysterious sadnesses locked away in compartments that open only to benedictions uttered in ancient tongues. Make your own list, be your own curator, catalogue visions of sophomoric triumphs, museum mile pile those early poetic drafts, be unafraid of memories raw and ungentrified, overlaid, buried underneath postmortem of dust-piles of senior critiques Finally went downtown to see where the blessed water falls into catacomb pits that once were the foundations of buildings that ruled the cityscape, downtown anchors for a modern city that exists only because it was built on million year old granite bedrock Stone monuments are stolid, discrete. Memories are of grayed, frayed edge consistency. Negatives resurrected that survive digitally, all blend synthetically, layer upon layer, essence distilled in a single, black and white photograph that serves to disturb complacency,   awaken stilled pain, reflections suppressed, are restored
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM UTC
9/11 Distilled
The poem was inspired by a particular photo of the WT C, and after that by my first visit to the 9/11 Memorial.  On the day of 9/11, I was working about a diagonal mile away, and from our windows, we could see people jumping to their death. Open sky annulled to bordered lines of uptown edges, worldview momentarily forcibly redefined by memories of buildings and sadder days, recollections of pillars of biblical smoke rising A photograph makes me look up, and sit down historically, need to catch a breath, to rest mentally, upon a storied small bridge's steps, that I well recall, a disappeared street stoop. all were rubble then and once upon that day. Wear, tear, and older eyes distill perspective, but the hardy heart is hardly stilled by the recognizable gray upon bon vivant gray reflective surfaces of memories of buildings and sadder days So today, on a reborn street, I rest upon reconstituted speckled curbstone, the city's lowered down ledges, the city's lowered down-town boundaries, constantly redrawn, but nonetheless, always rebuilt from their own regenerated stony compost, and the NY passersby doesn't even notice a man, head in hands, silently weeping, thinking that: We throw away so much we should have kept. We keep so much we should have thrown away. Lose keepsakes, but keep our mysterious sadnesses locked away in compartments that open only to benedictions uttered in ancient tongues. Make your own list, be your own curator, catalogue visions of sophomoric triumphs, museum mile pile those early poetic drafts, be unafraid of memories raw and ungentrified, overlaid, buried underneath postmortem of dust-piles of senior critiques Finally went downtown to see where the blessed water falls into catacomb pits that once were the foundations of buildings that ruled the cityscape, downtown anchors for a modern city that exists only because it was built on million year old granite bedrock Stone monuments are stolid, discrete. Memories are of grayed, frayed edge consistency. Negatives resurrected that survive digitally, all blend synthetically, layer upon layer, essence distilled in a single, black and white photograph that serves to disturb complacency,   awaken stilled pain, reflections suppressed, are restored
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That unexpected surge of passion who knows from whence it came But we just had to have each other over and again Barely time to make it through the door before clothing it got shed no time to waste on buttons things just got ripped off instead fumbled for a light switch staggered 'long the hall moonlight through the windows as family photo's started to fall dining table cleared in a single one armed sweep who cares about the noise it's too late to be discrete skirts lifted to save time ******* just pulled to one side belts undone, zippers ripped open so suddenly inside a display so animal in nature as your nails dug in my back groans of passion fill the air patience was all we lacked Eventually its over ****** acheived, ****** shared panting in the moonlight bodies naked, passions bared This doesn't happen every day and maybe never will again That unexpected surge of passion who knows from whence it came
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Aug 27, 2010
Aug 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM UTC
Unbridled passion
Why am I so attracted to you I've never thought the the cheerleaders or popular girls were attractive I think a person with depth and flaws is beautiful People with substance attract me People who are passionate about life and not so caught up in this egotistical world that we all find ourselves drowning in attract me To me, finding an emotional connection is far more valuable than a simple physical attraction Intrigue me with your thoughts and you can have my body There is such a discrete difference between attraction and connection Don't be so easily fooled by what catches your eye because beyond a pretty face may lie an ugly soul But if you want to talk attraction then explain to me how a bland mind is so attractive Tell me about the conversations that you carry with this person Are the meaningful? Do they mean anything at all? I want someone who will tell me about their scars and where they come from I want that emotional connection that is so rare to find these days
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Sep 23, 2013
Sep 23, 2013 at 12:22 PM UTC
Attraction
this peculiar notion transmigrates into a startling potion, one that creates, not slakes human thirst, a consequential first position for those who are in possess of a direct line to gods who hide in the pitch black, perforce one must make discrete deferential inquiries avec une politesse indirecte just in case we are wrong (honest aside: as composition proceeds, ear buds fill me with Music of Transmigration, notably Op. 11, of S. Barber making contradicting souls passing through me tenable and malleable) naturellment, loud radio silence, was I naive to expect otherwise? perhaps god is not the subject of this poem but perhaps the author(!)  who's just  keeping his "hand" in the poem game, spoofing human memes, with a spot of fun even in New Z--l-and-other domiciles after all who has more nominalistic titles, is cursed and blessed, by almost everyone at least once a day, and in a thousand different names with an impishly cruel sense of what this human gig it created. is about tonight I am a composer, tomorrow’s decomposer, or just a funny named follower ah, the answer is in the data
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 4:55 PM UTC
god is a follower says the data
Just your hot heart, nothing more. My Paradise, a field, no nightingales, no strings, a river, discrete, and a little fountain. Without the spurs, of the wind, in the branches, without the star, that wants to be a leaf. An enormous light that will be the flow of the Other, in a field of broken gazes. A still calm where our kisses, sonorous circles of echoes, will open, far-off. And your hot heart, nothing more.
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Wish
Is it not magical, fantastical, terrible the way my body expands and contracts like a peach balloon the more or less I digest. If I wind mental stitches through my oesophagus - my bones call to the skin, reel it in. ten million krill trapped in the suction of the line of a fisherman. In gluttony, the same line spills, the tide swells and multiplies cells Lipids blossom and my waistband leaves a discrete red line of rubble on the shore.
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Mar 11, 2012
Mar 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM UTC
Counting
True or false, when you stood behind me with your hands on my face and mouth to mine, I was sitting on the floor, but my feet were no longer on solid ground. I wonder if the distance between us is not from something as innocuous as miles or hours but the more discrete variable- past open legs leading to closed hearts. I'm not asking you to open your front door to me, unwittingly there is no need, you've already found a spot in the sheets from me- conveniently forgetting you've already let me in. And while you are speaking in operational terms to create what we are not, you have quietly defined what we are. Counting the statistics of it all, if we are the 95th percentile in our sample size of damaged goods, 5 percent is still unaccounted for- I place my hope of you among the population of those still yet to fall. I can count those invisible scars when my lips are on your neck and you remind me it's too hard, but when placed elsewhere the rule is no longer valid. True or false, it is only too much when my breath can trail thoughts closer to your heart where my intimacy is harder to un-feel. True or false, some distances are so deep within our heads they become simply not real.
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 2:40 PM UTC
Statistical Methods
I'm buried inside of my thoughts. I have a dark secret hidden deep inside my thoughts. Close, very close to telling it. The urge to tell someone with trust. Should I spill it? I shouldn't, then what would be the point of it being a secret? A horrifying secret, to keep a secret. Locked inside, to never be revealed to anyone but if trusted. Secrets are suppose to be discrete. They're secrets, that are to  stay secrets, to stay very discrete. Once told, ruined the trust. They will tell. To tell is to never be forgiven, trusted. They have told your deepest, darkest secret. Never trust, but forgive.
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 3:25 AM UTC
Dark Secrets
*I read never to trust in our own understanding and I believe that. So I continue learning from the only source or line possible, a faithful and discrete slave, one who does not lie; one who is consistent and continually searching and researching for truth. It is not something within me, but external I listen to.  A light that grows ever brighter through a humble channel and it makes sense. I enjoy a feast of knowledge, a wonderful stream I can drink from and my roots stay strong because of it. Grateful and privileged I endure in a state of joy.*
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Oct 2, 2013
Oct 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM UTC
Grateful
Black- soil-stained hands, Weaklings at my feet, Today we thin beets So the others grow strong. The beet is my spirit animal In food form, but Not the weak kind- I am the strong one that is good enough to eat. The beet is discrete The beet is a vicious vegetable The beet is humble, ***** Beneath most humane things The beet is ugly, absurdly Colored. I often wonder how it could be natural But the I remember Hell is natural too. I dream of beets They are at dusk and dawn In the desert monsoons, In menstrual cycles, In the blood of my enemies I want to slaughter, Then taste. When I roast and handle my beets, they are the blood on my hands I can't rinse off The black soil remains under my nails indefinitely When I’ve forgotten about the beet, The beet has not forgotten nor forgiven me I **** and **** and spit red The beet never leaves me Beet, please, never leave me.
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:45 PM UTC
Lucifer's Favored Fruit
**** YOU HEAT..... You cause my *** to get burned by my seat! Every time my cheeks & the leather meet Feels like hot coals under my feet Right through my shoes.....fuck you too concrete & that's the sidewalk not even the street Swimming.... A refreshing treat With ice cream to eat Mission keeping cool complete Adios hot weather I won't be beat You're so sweet Thinking you could defeat ....instead you're running away in retreat Hopefully you don't attempt to repeat .....risking to become obsolete & I won't be discrete Leaving the seasons incomplete Then spring & fall can finally greet Erasing summer as quickly as CTL ALT DELETE .....this Facebook status was a rhyming top of the top elite & it deserves a retweet Flowing on a roll like tires on sleet Or wind through holes in a sheet If I want a retweet, I better go send out the first tweet **** this flow is neat When I finished & read it, I was like "awwww **** ***** *****
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 8:07 AM UTC
Good Old Valley Summer & .....the HEAT!!