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"dollops" poems
Those little streaks of light I gathered carefully in a bottle A few drops of time Dollops of love Shaken and stirred Gently holding your cheeks Drop by drop I feed you Your lips consume You bloom You are the morning
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 7:32 PM UTC
Morning
Quaint pink curtains and tablecloths. White walls. The sugary smell of almonds, pistachio and butterscotch skip around the room, playing hopscotch and Mary Mack. The display is impressive, I can smell each grain of sugar in these petit cupcakes and dollops of icing. And then a little girl wails! Mommy won't buy her anymore sweet treats. Bawling-- the girl does an angry-stomp-dance- and then a woman, livid-- storms up to the counter. I said half dozen almond biscotti. I can't take these to my book club. Isn't anyone here competent? Her booming voice has no effect on the lone, tired African-American woman behind the counter. She seems disassociated from the present chaos. The dark circles under her eyes and the surrounding pursed lip wrinkles say everything. Excuse me, but I've been waiting on a refill of the complimentary coffee for over ten minutes now an uptight gent in a business suit complains. When the woman behind the counter pulls out out a shotgun-- there is silence. This ain't what I wanted she whimpers just before the weapon gracefully slides under her chin-- --!BAM!-- As I walk out the door, I wonder how long it will take for someone to realize that's not red icing or sprinkles on the cupcakes.
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Aug 13, 2011
Aug 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM UTC
Happy Little Cupcake Store
in our besieged republic snipers are popping up everywhere taking *** shots ending lives with a well placed head shot active shooters star in world premier events jokers rise like dark knights casting large looming shadows on real 3D cinemax multiplexed screens sprinkling overpriced buckets of popcorn with generous dollops of blood others head back to school still ****** about missing recess and excessive sentences to detention halls where bullies tortured scrawny inmates with wedgies and painful ***** twisters they’ve come back to even the score leaving bullet hole pockmarks on Sharpie smudged   smart boards declaring endless summer vacations for classrooms of children who don’t give wedgies and only dream of soft ***** these urban guerillas are now working to liberate airports from the tyranny of TSA agents fulfilling PATRIOT ACT duties for 10 bucks an hour and last night the latest active shooter showed up at the Garden State Plaza, -my hometown mall of america- mumbling about his Grand Theft Auto score, strung out and crashing from an unfilled pharma addiction script he grew up as a Highwayman in Teaneck a former classmate working at Nordstroms said he was a really good kid he was, one of the good ones, he could have shot some people but the only person he shot in the head was himself legions of police officers surrounding the mall stood down grateful for overtime milling about in the flashing red strobes inhaling the heady blue fumes rising to commend Bergen County Blue Laws and next Sunday’s time and a half active shooter training day Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Oakland 11/5/13 jbm
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM UTC
active shooter
in our besieged republic snipers are popping up everywhere taking *** shots ending lives with a well placed head shot active shooters star in world premier events jokers rise like dark knights casting large looming shadows on real 3D cinemax multiplexed screens sprinkling overpriced buckets of popcorn with generous dollops of blood others head back to school still ****** about missing recess and excessive sentences to detention halls where bullies tortured scrawny inmates with wedgies and painful ***** twisters they’ve come back to even the score leaving bullet hole pockmarks on Sharpie smudged   smart boards declaring endless summer vacations for classrooms of children who don’t give wedgies and only dream of soft ***** these urban guerillas are now working to liberate airports from the tyranny of TSA agents fulfilling PATRIOT ACT duties for 10 bucks an hour and last night the latest active shooter showed up at the Garden State Plaza, -my hometown mall of america- mumbling about his Grand Theft Auto score, strung out and crashing from an unfilled pharma addiction script he grew up as a Highwayman in Teaneck a former classmate working at Nordstroms said he was a really good kid he was, one of the good ones, he could have shot some people but the only person he shot in the head was himself legions of police officers surrounding the mall stood down grateful for overtime milling about in the flashing red strobes inhaling the heady blue fumes rising to commend Bergen County Blue Laws and next Sunday’s time and a half active shooter training day Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Oakland 11/5/13 jbm
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Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
We Make Our Own
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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The forest green of the trees contrasts so greatly against the soft pastels in the sky; Did someone paint this neighborhood? The odors of garlic & parsley wafting from across the charcoal street. Hums of today's news, all the latest gossip, ooh'ing and ah'ing; endless snippets of candlelight chatter. Occasional dollops of light peering up from sedans passing by. Sounds of zooms blocked out by the steady pulsating of white earbuds. Dogs yipping, sometimes a real bark. Neighbors come and go, reciprocating cordial hello's. Street lights slowly coming alive, for at 8:37, the sun has begun its transition to slumber. They always say, TGIF, thank god it's Friday. As day slips to nigh', the crackles and pops of vinyl come alive behind a slightly rusted window pane. Tonight's secrets not yet revealed, a couple strolls by holding hands, sipping coffees, decaffeinated. A man drunk with regret and a 40 in his belly, he breathes a clumsy, "Hey." Malted liquor questions, their smell & sound, unmistakable gurgling. Street lights now fully illuminated, glances exchanged from passer-byers. He opens the car door for her, and into the dusk they drive. Vehicles come by in even greater numbers, and still searches the young man for $9, a toothbrush, and a shower, even cold. Just another night of just another day, in just another city, in just another neighborhood on just another street. Silence, loud, ominous silence, filtering the senses, the stories, the magic; Isn't ordinary extraordinary?
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 8:52 PM UTC
(EXTRA)Ordinary Old Lou
The forest green of the trees contrasts so greatly against the soft pastels in the sky; Did someone paint this neighborhood? The odors of garlic & parsley wafting from across the charcoal street. Hums of today's news, all the latest gossip, ooh'ing and ah'ing; endless snippets of candlelight chatter. Occasional dollops of light peering up from sedans passing by. Sounds of zooms blocked out by the steady pulsating of white earbuds. Dogs yipping, sometimes a real bark. Neighbors come and go, reciprocating cordial hello's. Street lights slowly coming alive, for at 8:37, the sun has begun its transition to slumber. They always say, TGIF, thank god it's Friday. As day slips to nigh', the crackles and pops of vinyl come alive behind a slightly rusted window pane. Tonight's secrets not yet revealed, a couple strolls by holding hands, sipping coffees, decaffeinated. A man drunk with regret and a 40 in his belly, he breathes a clumsy, "Hey." Malted liquor questions, their smell & sound, unmistakable gurgling. Street lights now fully illuminated, glances exchanged from passer-byers. He opens the car door for her, and into the dusk they drive. Vehicles come by in even greater numbers, and still searches the young man for $9, a toothbrush, and a shower, even cold. Just another night of just another day, in just another city, in just another neighborhood on just another street. Silence, loud, ominous silence, filtering the senses, the stories, the magic; Isn't ordinary extraordinary?
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i know, it's not exactly mesmerising such bounties with such curdling crudeness, but that's how it is, with eyes vectoring into the above, cobalt, the highest pinnacle of the depths, a shade like any other, and then seeking the horizon, the dilution of the formidable shade into Arctic... a near white, but not exactly white, not exactly worth metaphor that's a kindred of white & black as lack & lack... just the see-through colour for the allowance of possessing eyes, not near melted mirrors of mercury, but by day, the highest peak blue in hue of cobalt, and when walking from the mountain's peak, the eyes spot the Arctic and Adriatic mist hues outlining a bordering of all things elemantal... the transparency of the whole dynamo on being grounded from all elevations, before dipping into the seas' shrubbery... for indeed the sky makes use of the close-up, apparent green shades of the sea, or the Thames grey without an earl on a royal gondola worthy a parade, nearer then the grander colour scheme, but up from space, indeed, all is blue and all is green, and all is sandy suntanned bronze and seemingly serene; lest we forgot the dollops of skeletal, floating in cloud - those scouts of Antarctica; but from the elemental blue of the sky receding into the seas of mirrors via arctic into white if not seemingly see-through, there too i spot the antidote of white nearing the pristine state of claiming being see-through, a crow's bleak colour of being shrouded in celebratory mourning: the pupil of my eye, black, and all the world around me, the flattened earth of my iris, for no astronaut i am to imagine it otherwise, from a perspective of such heights reached by fellow man, if i am to be so humbly grounded, i'll imagine it counter-productively as thus.
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC
cobalt, cozumel, botanical tint, adriatic mist, arctic
i know, it's not exactly mesmerising such bounties with such curdling crudeness, but that's how it is, with eyes vectoring into the above, cobalt, the highest pinnacle of the depths, a shade like any other, and then seeking the horizon, the dilution of the formidable shade into Arctic... a near white, but not exactly white, not exactly worth metaphor that's a kindred of white & black as lack & lack... just the see-through colour for the allowance of possessing eyes, not near melted mirrors of mercury, but by day, the highest peak blue in hue of cobalt, and when walking from the mountain's peak, the eyes spot the Arctic and Adriatic mist hues outlining a bordering of all things elemantal... the transparency of the whole dynamo on being grounded from all elevations, before dipping into the seas' shrubbery... for indeed the sky makes use of the close-up, apparent green shades of the sea, or the Thames grey without an earl on a royal gondola worthy a parade, nearer then the grander colour scheme, but up from space, indeed, all is blue and all is green, and all is sandy suntanned bronze and seemingly serene; lest we forgot the dollops of skeletal, floating in cloud - those scouts of Antarctica; but from the elemental blue of the sky receding into the seas of mirrors via arctic into white if not seemingly see-through, there too i spot the antidote of white nearing the pristine state of claiming being see-through, a crow's bleak colour of being shrouded in celebratory mourning: the pupil of my eye, black, and all the world around me, the flattened earth of my iris, for no astronaut i am to imagine it otherwise, from a perspective of such heights reached by fellow man, if i am to be so humbly grounded, i'll imagine it counter-productively as thus.
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I ain't afraid to tell the world, That you make me, What I hate most. That the jellybean drops, Slippin' from your lips, Spread like, Dollops - Sweet butter, On toast. Can't hide my sticky fingers - Drippin' your, Candy residue. Though, I plan to make, The best of it, Before the moon is new. My sternest strategies, 'neath the night's eyes, Light my ***** little schemin', My plot to watch, Your every step, Before the moment, That I steal you. -- I've been eatin' jellies, Since I was little - Today, I've tasted so many, But, the ones that slip, (And, sometimes, skip) From that head,   Drive my thoughts, Out, much, Too selfishly.
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Jul 30, 2011
Jul 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM UTC
enchanted
Every dainty dish of love she rapturously serve him has an unmistakable  distinct flavor! He repeatedly wonder, often aloud, that what would be the magic she applies, in her smashing haute cuisine ensemble. When, it's love, like butter, pure and dense in large dollops,with it's flavor invariable, is the one constant major ingredient, in every which dish she  cooks; for all his questions, persistent and curious, her answer would be just a smile mysterious. In their love life enviable,  this one thing still remains the million dollar question!
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 10:21 AM UTC
Her Haute Cuisine of Love Dishes
consider the field is never always smooth; there are times that the grass turns brown and the flowers wilt and their petals return to the ground …consider these things… what was a frolicing maid becomes a hag; the virulent man shrivels and becomes incapable and so the sky, never always clear and boundless and so the clouds, not always childhood pleasantries but they come into chaos and dreariness and pile dollops of dark humor and so our lives, darlings, O sweet ones - regard these things well - and so our lives too pass from radiant days to gasp below dreary shades from a happy, happy song to a dirge over the dale – and not all our rosaries and beads and prayers and faith nothing will halt, in spite of stories they recite, nothing will halt the sun and the passage of time and so like the artist it is best to observe like the artist in the field capture the moment, savor the life and if anything, make of one’s life a beauty that others may pause to gaze at as pausing to gaze at a rose, the cherry blossoms… be you makers of beauty, darlings, O darlings, consider these things O sweet ones…
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Jul 19, 2012
Jul 19, 2012 at 7:57 AM UTC
withered field
Neon lights from salt rusted beach buggies, gypsy camels and a faint memory of dollops of colour reflect under the milky moon that hangs unnaturally low. In the car window, the reflection of her pensive eyes are overlaid with the mischievous moon, and a vendor selling animated light toys skip like stones that never sink - ceaseless ripples in the unconventionally eerie and curious night. They say the moon has this unnerving attraction to the earth - a pull, compelling and persuasive. Like a tangled ball of yarn it is unkempt, woven out of threads of enigmas. Each of us having a loose end of the intermingling threads tied around our waists, like our own invisible axis. Every time our thread is tugged, almost like a reflex we are compelled to look up like a reminder that we might live on earth - on the ground, but our eyes, minds, and our souls are infinite.
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Jun 21, 2014
Jun 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
Preface - Eyes in the Skies
I’m not a botanist, or an avid gardener. The horto I culture consists of two pots, sits on a narrow sill and soaks in its one-hour slit of sunshine. This makes me unfit to label much less fathom the encroaching sublime, which sprouts, shoots, creeps, clings and endures from far reaches beyond me. It has spines supple and rigid, skins coarse, spiked, and silky, quivering tips that are spidery, and bunched as small dollops, jagged teardrops and jigsaw puzzle pieces. I’m not a botanist, but if I were I should still be struck dumb by these numbing instances a protesting tongue insists it won’t box up such greenery with the genial trappings of a scientific classification, or even the oddly folksy catch-all **** I can’t always tell what’s a **** what not. l know those greedy intruders growing at the heart of a meticulously turned earth to spoil the well-ordered plots of a barely adequate vocabulary. It gets more complicated with the thrilling misfits and their sturdier notions of choking life from inhospitable beds poured and paved to the detriment of meeker plantings. Yesterday I met the peeks of ten woody red stems poking through a patch of chunky white gravel spread thick between two steel rails that fled to a horizon. I watched the breeze shake their candelabra arms dressed in sparse leaves and denser seed-packed sleeves, and they welcomed it. I'm not a botanist and I can’t name these plants, but I can admit, I admired them.
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM UTC
Consolation of weeds
A decomposer of brutish sins oft repeated, I worm past the pretty germs shut tight in candied shells, bursting to birth untapped corruptions. It's on the sawdust dollops buried deep I feed, biting bits from soiled skins riddled by regrets of not offending good more. Turning their oaken flavors o'er gently, my mouth will work them down to a relish of soft, black leavings.
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Apr 2, 2010
Apr 2, 2010 at 8:35 AM UTC
Repeated, I Worm
I see the head Atop the mirror Nine tails out of ten An exhale through tram Steam Red ******* up the dining room Stairs colored bread Not here Not now Theft knows Not the proud I am in love with the words Feel the fingers itch In Wait as time Tries to peck at my skin Like the Raven to roadkill Laughing underneath Black winged' beak I am what I was born to be Forever/Always/Fortuned to be Miss-fortuned Destiny rapping on the doors of uninformed Creative Productivity A conveyor belt for our sins Best Seller's and wine mules I yawn So to breathe Feeding a mind Whose only wish Is to live To continue And to fold out The creases Glass atop tables Conversation infused Beer stains old rumors A nod so the needy smoke Wafts of  Freudian mistakes Make-up for the dollops Of misplaced rouge bright red Mahogany & jet black purple; The lie is not the fault, but The natural fear Of truth.
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 8:25 PM UTC
Forever/Always/Fortuned to be Miss-fortuned
Paper cuts on wrist linger:      like trickles of pain,      bearable to hold;      with trickle of tears,      little to be told. Invisible abrasions:     on skin so precious,     patches of triumph;     the battle rages on,     wince at every sting. Unnecessary bandages:     don't elevate pain,     hide struggles under;     to embrace each scrape,     takes more than courage.      Petroleum jelly helps:     fingertips cover,     dollops to ease itch;     sometimes humans need,     catalysis to heal.
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May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 2:25 AM UTC
Petroleum Jelly
Many a times, when I am alone I just find myself thinking of the fun Collecting pouring water, drenching in the rain Sailing my paper boats in the small drain Catching frogs from puddles of water, in matchboxes And throwing them on young and old with giggles and smiles Smearing the silver, golden color on my friends Of the butterflies that we picked in the sunny garden Feasting on dollops of homemade icecreams and chuskies (ice lollies) Listening to stories of kings n demons by granny How could I forget that fight with parents To stay awake all night during summer or winter break To watch uncountable movies on the rented video player Or to read Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton in just one sitting There was a different story all the time for each of my tantrums and fantasies alike And a unique reason for enjoying every season Oh! How I wish I could have a time machine To take me back to my childhood innocence I really miss being a little kid O my Lord! With no stress, worries or care in the world...!!! © Neeloo 'NeelPari'
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 9:54 AM UTC
Time Machine
barely it was swaying terrifically in cotton wind of sharp niggling wafers that flummox specially the growling infant sea, this lake, where i am by and satting with my soft particular femme who's metal slithers from her very roundest nostrils glinting rather unobtrusive and stubbornly silver. and jousting by in meager dollops college children blatantly. a basic scent of nonsense huddles on the 2's and 3's (or mayhaps more) they slant upon the dappled lazy soil reticent and uncouthly tread upon with flats little souls. their heads are fat with gullible churning knowledge. they farted from the dusted books. that stately chord of mugging music. that lays in bricks and mortared sighs. on the hillest of tops over looking the cordial bay.
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Mar 5, 2011
Mar 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM UTC
WWU 2
the day near finished and the night aglet as if day; what came first - cliff richard's devil woman (chicken) or the eagles' witchy woman (egg)? cockerel via ****** already took the opera seat, and the soprano slit open the larynx of the castrato... just so the chandelier and windows shattered in practice... if your poetry isn't musical, not rhyming, just write about music, that's what bukowski conveyed... make poetry an interest in music, don't make it this trollop-cod-whipped-turd self-interest... if you can't sing because an elephant stomped on your ear or you never had enough money to buy a saxophone, don't make complex musicology of symphonies cute with "adoration" using the rhyming technique, forget it, it's not cute, it's damnable... true virtue isn't afraid of critique... write about what you love so i can look it up and share it, don't write self-love walking sticks of decrepit fidelity of marathon runners that wheeze out after the 100th meter in goldfish dollops of addictive lungs gulping for breath... no technique in poetry will ever be music in terms of actual music... ever heard tenacious d's one note song? most poetry sounds like that: sound around             orange peel             foot massage that turned into zest of extra sound around             a tambourine tabernacle             with st. thomas ********* a rib cage kangaroo pouch cunt's ouch                              five multipliers mono ******** softy                      doughnut                                                peach; 'bitch where's the cream?!' 'oh boy it's coming, coming with the flying scotsman's                                 steam;                                                choo choo!' puff up you puffing puffin ************ well, i was always going to be an extension of her doing the triceps choo choo dangle motion; morph into a church bell uvula morph into a church bell uvula... of a-ding-along-for-a-ding-dong of st. ursula's interpretation of english police officers deviation from the standard: 'allo 'allo 'allo.... n'est-ce pas pas ce comme ce?
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 11:28 PM UTC
scarborough fair conveyed
the day near finished and the night aglet as if day; what came first - cliff richard's devil woman (chicken) or the eagles' witchy woman (egg)? cockerel via ****** already took the opera seat, and the soprano slit open the larynx of the castrato... just so the chandelier and windows shattered in practice... if your poetry isn't musical, not rhyming, just write about music, that's what bukowski conveyed... make poetry an interest in music, don't make it this trollop-cod-whipped-turd self-interest... if you can't sing because an elephant stomped on your ear or you never had enough money to buy a saxophone, don't make complex musicology of symphonies cute with "adoration" using the rhyming technique, forget it, it's not cute, it's damnable... true virtue isn't afraid of critique... write about what you love so i can look it up and share it, don't write self-love walking sticks of decrepit fidelity of marathon runners that wheeze out after the 100th meter in goldfish dollops of addictive lungs gulping for breath... no technique in poetry will ever be music in terms of actual music... ever heard tenacious d's one note song? most poetry sounds like that: sound around             orange peel             foot massage that turned into zest of extra sound around             a tambourine tabernacle             with st. thomas ********* a rib cage kangaroo pouch cunt's ouch                              five multipliers mono ******** softy                      doughnut                                                peach; 'bitch where's the cream?!' 'oh boy it's coming, coming with the flying scotsman's                                 steam;                                                choo choo!' puff up you puffing puffin ************ well, i was always going to be an extension of her doing the triceps choo choo dangle motion; morph into a church bell uvula morph into a church bell uvula... of a-ding-along-for-a-ding-dong of st. ursula's interpretation of english police officers deviation from the standard: 'allo 'allo 'allo.... n'est-ce pas pas ce comme ce?
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Swirly tufts of white Flaking from the sky They sting my hands red but I couldn't be happier Sprinkles of icy fluff Blanketing all in pearly dust They numb my cherry nose but Nothing could be daintier Whipped dollops of frozen frosting Piping up wedding cake houses They bite my cheeks raw but This snowy night couldn't be prettier
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Jan 11, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 at 1:44 AM UTC
Snowy Night
Your shoulders, sturdy, hold me, heavy, I am groggy but awake. Push at a rock and hope it will move. You reap what you sow but I did not plan for your barren lands, I hadn't thought of the desert, I have not been able to dream, I have yet to fall asleep. Watch me fall into the abyss of my own unconscious,  salvaging dollops of conversations we have not had. Look at you ramble... uneasy, too afraid to let a comfortable silence sit between us, too insecure to share anything but emptiness disguised as words. I did not believe in the power of company, and their influence. Now all I can do is stare inertly at the fallow lands of my nightmares Only to awake, heaving, still heavy, gesticulating wildly, reaching for familiarity. I hate this obstinate reality. We are friends by habit not love.
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 6:25 PM UTC
Better Company: Miles Ahead
the road gathers itself like a drained old woman, hunched over rags, beneath the gloomy crag, sintering as it nears the beach, worn out through time, impoverished it has become reflective in the chittering half-light. Eviscerated by the pawing waves, contradictory cracks like entrails, hanging out crushed into solitude , it redefines its continuous retreat. In the reductive shade it circumvents the cove, its tarmac withered, a battered host to foreign weeds. Sunrise chides the posturing sky, the sulking universal remnants vanishing in the fenestrated glare. In the near distance, air unravels, the moving storm exhaling slips of cloud rapidly swarming like furious flecks of phlegm-sneezed out in perpetuity between heat and cold. The road lies entombed beneath a scree, tumbledown stones and dust. Ramblers and cars have sought and found an alternative route. The moistened rubble creaks as liquid gathers in its shifting heart, crawling out in rivulets-the rain descending like spit, emolliating the countryside, shifting dollops of fetid mud, enveloping like a furious aneurysm. Sea and land entrenched in conflict, a war of attrition always won by seas, unleashing energy of mindful apocalypse in the manner of a gentle sigh. The gaping abscess of scarred promontories tottering like feverish drunks. The mouthed obscenities of carnivorous birds radiates throughout the cove pinpointing local drownings encrusted with salt. Sea upon sea impose themselves enviously on rampant shorelines feasting on sand and rock. Never ending! Plunging ever forward like a barren plough, receding, only to re-site its casual fury-implosion upon explosion. The road in its sullen retreat stumbles through narrow valleys speckled with gloom; trees with yellow flowers blooming in crinkled shadows, deer leaping through high-standing grass, mincing between tall thin trees. Loping down into the cities, it becomes a tousled high street full of immigrants, all yearning for the sea.
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Jul 27, 2017
Jul 27, 2017 at 12:59 PM UTC
THE ROAD
the road gathers itself like a drained old woman, hunched over rags, beneath the gloomy crag, sintering as it nears the beach, worn out through time, impoverished it has become reflective in the chittering half-light. Eviscerated by the pawing waves, contradictory cracks like entrails, hanging out crushed into solitude , it redefines its continuous retreat. In the reductive shade it circumvents the cove, its tarmac withered, a battered host to foreign weeds. Sunrise chides the posturing sky, the sulking universal remnants vanishing in the fenestrated glare. In the near distance, air unravels, the moving storm exhaling slips of cloud rapidly swarming like furious flecks of phlegm-sneezed out in perpetuity between heat and cold. The road lies entombed beneath a scree, tumbledown stones and dust. Ramblers and cars have sought and found an alternative route. The moistened rubble creaks as liquid gathers in its shifting heart, crawling out in rivulets-the rain descending like spit, emolliating the countryside, shifting dollops of fetid mud, enveloping like a furious aneurysm. Sea and land entrenched in conflict, a war of attrition always won by seas, unleashing energy of mindful apocalypse in the manner of a gentle sigh. The gaping abscess of scarred promontories tottering like feverish drunks. The mouthed obscenities of carnivorous birds radiates throughout the cove pinpointing local drownings encrusted with salt. Sea upon sea impose themselves enviously on rampant shorelines feasting on sand and rock. Never ending! Plunging ever forward like a barren plough, receding, only to re-site its casual fury-implosion upon explosion. The road in its sullen retreat stumbles through narrow valleys speckled with gloom; trees with yellow flowers blooming in crinkled shadows, deer leaping through high-standing grass, mincing between tall thin trees. Loping down into the cities, it becomes a tousled high street full of immigrants, all yearning for the sea.
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You can find me in the fields, catching water bugs, and small red beetles. You will find me in the grass, sifting through all of the things I have left. sifting through dollops of honey and gin sifting through well-rusted lockets and tins o’er high hills comes sweet-smelling winds carrying over pollens from yore, drifting from to city to city once more... twenty years later i sit in my yard with my cats and my children in the heart of new york, new york a faint, yet audible buzzing awakes me from my nap, and as i wake i see a flow‘r on my lap. how could this be? how could this happen? i’m surrounded by non-ornamental hedge plants! i look to the sky and see a faint glisten, for i've seen it now as i’ve seen it before i breathe in the sweet smell of my youth from yore, drifting from city to city once more.
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Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019 at 4:40 PM UTC
commenbees, pollen-sifters
You make me seek out sharp Dixon Ticonderoga pencils with thick dollops of pink cream on their tops, to write in the smudged lead; as words dance across starchy parchment, smeared by more than the base of my hand. I want to see the thin, bold lines of black ink from a satisfactory pen; loop and curve into the twisting characters of your name. I want a sharp pencil, and a good pen. One in each hand; to clear my mind.
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Jul 10, 2012
Jul 10, 2012 at 1:10 AM UTC
To Write About You.
*leaves ecstatically ***** on the dollops totter with the melody of the patter pass the cascades one upon the other invite the soil to join in the chorus! dance in merriment their joyous heart drink it all up not a drop to go waste between each thunder while the clouds part hold the sky's treasure deep in the breast! sing the note of life buried in the ground nurture each seed for the unbroken chain scatter the dreams string them skybound what's once here would come back again! when the blue returns tinged with gold leaves would glisten in pearly necklace they won't be there when the story is retold yet veins would throb in the rain's embrace!*
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 9:58 AM UTC
Intransient
They say she was molded from Angel wings, that her face was brushed with star dust. That she was bathed in a meteor shower, And alloyed in an asteroid crust. There was an eclipse each time she blinked and when she cleared her throat an earthquake. They say her heart was so big it could empty the Atlantic ocean, that her smile was silver marinated with pure gold. She caused solar flares when she flirted, global warming when she farted... Her presence, osmium-strong, held so much weight, that all marveled at her, as sapphires were her eyes and her mystic gaze held the aurora in their depths. Her feet were cosmic, galaxies born with each step, Her mind a black hole of infinite wisdom, some thought her alien, others titan, for she clutched the universe in her palms... and her handshake was a bridge to uncharted realms. Her hair flowed in dollops of molten amber and liquid silk, and her hug they say was a gentle breeze across the desert sands.
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Aug 13, 2023
Aug 13, 2023 at 4:45 PM UTC
Flares
A girl dressed in a diaphanous gown, spun  from the ethereal combination of dollops of moon shine and star light of the past, visited me in secret, spent together one long night. We had memorized each other's heady scent smeared all over us in an earlier journey together. like two trained sniffer dogs on a robber's trail. We were overwhelmed by the wish fulfillment seemed like we are in a life within a dream. No way we won't meet as the hearts beat so close and I was having visions of her all the time day and night. On those encounters I wrote two poems with my blood. As I was addicted to the  recounting of those moments, I wanted to smelt it  in my imagination's golden crucible thought that would make the alliance immortal but forgot the fact that human follies never end! "You are lucky,a rare flower she is" they'd tell me and make  me feel elated calling me a poet, on account of just two poems for which,all  I was worth. Should I have known it's a dream,that takes a lot to go on. On her strong wings she flew back to green hills above. If I weren't a love fool, I'd have seen it coming from a distance. after abandonment and the long night after,sun still reigns. They still call me  poet, I am hesitant to respond to it, a melancholy poet of grief's wonder land, in non stop dance with the experiences that illuminate transient existence? Still do not know what to make of this two poem life!
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Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 10:52 AM UTC
A two poem life