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"facto" poems
See those red windows by Midland Park Where the schoolyard stands empty in the frozen dark See that Neon motor in 21st gear And the only question is "why are we here?" In memory motel with unchanging rates I still see the Moon Glow in your face By the edge of the stream with bread in hand Two doves chase the wind to a foreign land As our voices are carried to a teenage past In naïve reclusion we knew couldn't last With a palette of hate I still can taste I still see the Moon Glow in your face Weathered storms on a Parisian stage The book can't be written unless you turn every page On a worn out, de-facto, company car The diamonds will promise to make you a star In sovereign rule of my mind's estate I still see the Moon Glow on your face On Ebony's wings coming down from the sky Miracle rides close behind The waves from Mexico have long since passed No moment is forever and it won't be the last With ocean eyes and a passioned embrace I still see the Moon Glow in your face
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM UTC
Moon Glow
A mere trifle, this thing that troubles the lid. Forever in fear, unable to compose Vision stoops to comprehend this failure, Pride doesn’t. A glimpse of blindness, With the ardor of helplessness. De facto, it is in the eyes of another Where you were mistaken. The red in between Defining ties of the wicked, wise In stupor and pain, in insomniac lethargy The poisoned gaze, returns quietly. Sun shades, remember Anger cheats as much as it destroys. The flaming ash of a cigarette, Another excuse for a Gimlet.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 6:09 PM UTC
Conjunctivitus
I am clueless as to how I have dug a hole in this concrete ground, 60 feet deep. The dust I’ve been choking on does not bother me no more, layers piling upon my lungs like snow upon an exposed carcass. The slightest upheaval of my chest and tingling in my lungs reminds me that I still breathe. I’ve met scaffolds of bones down here. As I stare into their hollow sockets, I could never figure if they were ever esurient for something I held. They taught me how the ocean is never blue but only a de facto reflection of the sky. They said many mistook the sea for the sky, but never once mentioned the salt that contaminated their lungs- the impetus that drove their feet 60 steps into the waves. A reconciliation it must have been. I doubt it made any difference, when their hearts were bleeding out; a pity it doesn’t make it any lighter. Down they sank. I wonder if I mistook these soils for the sky. As I looked up, I realised that the sky only seemed further away. There’s something peculiarly comfortable down here, the little bumps on the walls and contours of the craters looked like jawlines of a new-found friend. The sun is so blindingly high in the sky. I preferred how sometimes I could see the man in the moon- shadows cast by imperfections on the moon’s surface. In the vague moonlight and scrawny silhouettes, the fact that the moon always has a dark side makes it tangible a thousand miles away. Sometimes, I lay on this wooden receptacle discovered upon excavation and gaze at the empty skies with my friend as he tells me what lies outside this trough. Happiness is a pack of hungry wolves and when they are done, you are left with only your marrows. I see things clearer down here, than above where they are smothered by smoke from the trees they burned to the ground. Sometimes the skies are dark with no hint of dusk, sometimes the sky is filled with white nebula; but most of the times, the days are shorter than the nights. But it never gets any darker down here. I figured I could never mistake this hole for the sky. I was just chasing these broken pieces like I used to chase happiness. I have no idea how I’ve gotten this deep while trying to pick up these pieces that I don’t recognise. But the struggle tells me it’s real, and the pain keeps me awake. They say if you spend enough time with someone, you will fall in love. I guess that’s what happened between sadness and me. I’m staying here.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM UTC
I'm sorry for romanticizing sadness.
I am clueless as to how I have dug a hole in this concrete ground, 60 feet deep. The dust I’ve been choking on does not bother me no more, layers piling upon my lungs like snow upon an exposed carcass. The slightest upheaval of my chest and tingling in my lungs reminds me that I still breathe. I’ve met scaffolds of bones down here. As I stare into their hollow sockets, I could never figure if they were ever esurient for something I held. They taught me how the ocean is never blue but only a de facto reflection of the sky. They said many mistook the sea for the sky, but never once mentioned the salt that contaminated their lungs- the impetus that drove their feet 60 steps into the waves. A reconciliation it must have been. I doubt it made any difference, when their hearts were bleeding out; a pity it doesn’t make it any lighter. Down they sank. I wonder if I mistook these soils for the sky. As I looked up, I realised that the sky only seemed further away. There’s something peculiarly comfortable down here, the little bumps on the walls and contours of the craters looked like jawlines of a new-found friend. The sun is so blindingly high in the sky. I preferred how sometimes I could see the man in the moon- shadows cast by imperfections on the moon’s surface. In the vague moonlight and scrawny silhouettes, the fact that the moon always has a dark side makes it tangible a thousand miles away. Sometimes, I lay on this wooden receptacle discovered upon excavation and gaze at the empty skies with my friend as he tells me what lies outside this trough. Happiness is a pack of hungry wolves and when they are done, you are left with only your marrows. I see things clearer down here, than above where they are smothered by smoke from the trees they burned to the ground. Sometimes the skies are dark with no hint of dusk, sometimes the sky is filled with white nebula; but most of the times, the days are shorter than the nights. But it never gets any darker down here. I figured I could never mistake this hole for the sky. I was just chasing these broken pieces like I used to chase happiness. I have no idea how I’ve gotten this deep while trying to pick up these pieces that I don’t recognise. But the struggle tells me it’s real, and the pain keeps me awake. They say if you spend enough time with someone, you will fall in love. I guess that’s what happened between sadness and me. I’m staying here.
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The fakeness of fake reality is in reality ... fake and is of no consequence. If you, in reality, are fake the consequence of the fakeness is - your reality, Ipso facto, this consequence, your - fakeness should cease, in reality or - prepare for consequences which - in reality - won't be fake. The Fakeness Of Fake Reality   Michael C Crowder 17th March  2019
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Mar 18, 2019
Mar 18, 2019 at 8:43 AM UTC
The Fakeness Of Fake Reality
There is a tendency among those poets who may be very young frequently to put in verse those foreign phrases, or much worse the now dead words of oh so ****** Latin to boast of classrooms that they’ve sat in. And just in case you’ve never heard ‘em, Let’s reduce a few to ad absurdum. It was amore a prima vista until he left her for her younger sister for, after all, who could resist her, so moving on to secunda vista he took that step and boldly kissed her, behaviour that is hardly utopista. The trouble with modus vivendi is that it sometime rhymes with eye but there are those who don’t agree and think that it must rhyme with tea. Who cares? It’s all the same to I. Or should that be the same to me? You may say it is not de rigueur that I defend with so much vigour what surely is no more than hubris that I attribute to Confucius for he surely ha detto tutto albeit un po convoluto. And everyone’s heard of carpe diem. If not, then I have yet to see ‘em. But I prefer to seize a waist which may be thought somewhat unchaste though far more likely to have shocked ‘em would be to carpe in the noctem. Perhaps you think it’s ipso facto that I’m intolerant of lacto unless it comes directly from the breast. I think it’s better that the rest of this is left to your own opinatus for which I offer no blank cartus. Then there’s the modus of my own vivendi that I indulge in cacoethes scribendi the itch to write for which I daily scratch myself or play my ukulele which is my form of modus operandi before I pour myself a king-size brandy. And thus we leave this boring dull citare, by this time you have certainly grown quite weary of any further venture into tedium Or as ***** Harry might say, fac ut gaudeam For after all a day senza sunlight Might altrettante facilmente be night
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 6:15 PM UTC
Pig Latin
There is a tendency among those poets who may be very young frequently to put in verse those foreign phrases, or much worse the now dead words of oh so ****** Latin to boast of classrooms that they’ve sat in. And just in case you’ve never heard ‘em, Let’s reduce a few to ad absurdum. It was amore a prima vista until he left her for her younger sister for, after all, who could resist her, so moving on to secunda vista he took that step and boldly kissed her, behaviour that is hardly utopista. The trouble with modus vivendi is that it sometime rhymes with eye but there are those who don’t agree and think that it must rhyme with tea. Who cares? It’s all the same to I. Or should that be the same to me? You may say it is not de rigueur that I defend with so much vigour what surely is no more than hubris that I attribute to Confucius for he surely ha detto tutto albeit un po convoluto. And everyone’s heard of carpe diem. If not, then I have yet to see ‘em. But I prefer to seize a waist which may be thought somewhat unchaste though far more likely to have shocked ‘em would be to carpe in the noctem. Perhaps you think it’s ipso facto that I’m intolerant of lacto unless it comes directly from the breast. I think it’s better that the rest of this is left to your own opinatus for which I offer no blank cartus. Then there’s the modus of my own vivendi that I indulge in cacoethes scribendi the itch to write for which I daily scratch myself or play my ukulele which is my form of modus operandi before I pour myself a king-size brandy. And thus we leave this boring dull citare, by this time you have certainly grown quite weary of any further venture into tedium Or as ***** Harry might say, fac ut gaudeam For after all a day senza sunlight Might altrettante facilmente be night
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They wanted a curriculum vitae In absentia I decided to ad lib Ad nauseum Ipso facto, lie and deceive Exaggerate, mislead et cetera Hardly a bona fide Modus operandi They caught me in flagrante delicto Requiescat in pace, (RIP) my chances Now I'm persona non grata Mea culpa
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 9:45 AM UTC
Semper in excretia, sumus solim profundum variat
Sloane swallows. ***** is **** I execrate extraterrestrial. We are all kaput to conk out. Pollyanna is singular hanky—panky. Little green men are unpatriotic, perverted and naughty. I verily don’t grease a ***** Oojakapivvycum. If you are amphibious that means you are an effervescent ventriloquist capable of Cannibalism, cannibalism and cannibalism. The fluid inside the android is so gothic and naff It is knock—kneed in the face of flashing ********** I do not feel that I am on the shoulders of cobber doggies. I am protoplastically lassoed abutting penetrating vampire and pervert That penetrate ***** creature. I have pricked little green men myself and taken pleasure in it. It is only with the help of bad hair days of groupies that I have not been in Sing Sing. We are all sadomasochistically decomposing in a heap of our own meconium. I bore stiff to outstrip yours truly as much as I have room to swing a cat from Ku Klux **** But I am as complicit in the android’s ****** abuse as it were android *** Little green men ***** me as I ***** myself. I ***** bug—eyed men’s ******* types as I have perpetually vomited Molotov cocktail. I smell little green men’s filth televised on their ******* types. I feel like I am inside a crust of cancers who delight in smelling others bonk upstairs, Ad hominen id. Ex post facto, I am too much of a dastard to throw cold water on myself. I coagulate gungily to my menstrual gibbering ****** Castrating anti—Semite to flash me abutting crème de la crème. Strenuously, my ***** gluts under one’s nose because that is all there is.
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Mar 21, 2010
Mar 21, 2010 at 6:27 PM UTC
We Are All Sadomasochistically Decomposing In A Heap Of Our Own Meconium
Sloane swallows. ***** is **** I execrate extraterrestrial. We are all kaput to conk out. Pollyanna is singular hanky—panky. Little green men are unpatriotic, perverted and naughty. I verily don’t grease a ***** Oojakapivvycum. If you are amphibious that means you are an effervescent ventriloquist capable of Cannibalism, cannibalism and cannibalism. The fluid inside the android is so gothic and naff It is knock—kneed in the face of flashing ********** I do not feel that I am on the shoulders of cobber doggies. I am protoplastically lassoed abutting penetrating vampire and pervert That penetrate ***** creature. I have pricked little green men myself and taken pleasure in it. It is only with the help of bad hair days of groupies that I have not been in Sing Sing. We are all sadomasochistically decomposing in a heap of our own meconium. I bore stiff to outstrip yours truly as much as I have room to swing a cat from Ku Klux **** But I am as complicit in the android’s ****** abuse as it were android *** Little green men ***** me as I ***** myself. I ***** bug—eyed men’s ******* types as I have perpetually vomited Molotov cocktail. I smell little green men’s filth televised on their ******* types. I feel like I am inside a crust of cancers who delight in smelling others bonk upstairs, Ad hominen id. Ex post facto, I am too much of a dastard to throw cold water on myself. I coagulate gungily to my menstrual gibbering ****** Castrating anti—Semite to flash me abutting crème de la crème. Strenuously, my ***** gluts under one’s nose because that is all there is.
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AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 8:52 PM UTC
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL?
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Before I know you You are already there,de facto But to me, you didn't exist Now I know you You know me We coexist But before you know me I was't even there in your mentality We are both present and absent from reality It all boils down to quantum mechanics.
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM UTC
Schrödinger's cat
*We lose so much talent to addiction Some of you may not care, but I do This is my tribute to them* **Alan Wilson Canned Heat Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience Janis Joplin Jim Morrison The Doors Brian Cole The Association Billy Murcia New York Dolls Danny Whitten Crazy Horse Gram Parsons The Stooges Gary Thain Uriah Heep Elvis Presley Gregory Herbert Blood, Sweat & Tears Keith Moon The Who Sid Vicious *** Pistols Lowell George Little Feat Jimmy McCulloch Wings John Bonham Led Zeppelin Darby Crash Germs James Honeyman-Scott Pretenders Pete Farndon Pretenders Paul Gardiner Tubeway Army Gary Holton Heavy Metal Kids Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy Andrew Wood Mother Love Bone Brent Mydland Grateful Dead Steve Clark Def Leppard Johnny Thunders New York Dolls David Ruffin The Temptations Kristen Pfaff Hole Shannon Hoon Blind Melon Bradley Nowell Sublime John Kahn Jerry Garcia Band Jonathan Melvoin The Smashing Pumpkins Billy Mackenzie Associates West Arkeen The Outpatience Nick Traina Link 80 John Baker Saunders Mad Season Bobby Sheehan Blues Traveler Wes Berggren Tripping Daisy Allen Woody The Allman Brothers Band Carl Crack Atari Teenage Riot Layne Staley Alice in Chains/Mad Seasons Kurt Cobain Nirvana Dee Dee Ramones Robbin Crosby Ratt John Entwistle The Who Howie Epstein Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Jeremy Michael Ward De Facto Tim Hemensley GOD Dave Schulthise The Dead Milkmen Rick James Kevin DuBrow Quiet Riot Ike Turner Gidget Gein Marilyn Manson Jay Bennett Wilco Michael Jackson The Rev Avenged Sevenfold Paul Gray Slipknot Mike Starr Alice in Chains Amy Winehouse** *We are not bad people, we just have bad ways Yet, not many understand*
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 4:49 PM UTC
Forgotten and Appriciated
*We lose so much talent to addiction Some of you may not care, but I do This is my tribute to them* **Alan Wilson Canned Heat Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience Janis Joplin Jim Morrison The Doors Brian Cole The Association Billy Murcia New York Dolls Danny Whitten Crazy Horse Gram Parsons The Stooges Gary Thain Uriah Heep Elvis Presley Gregory Herbert Blood, Sweat & Tears Keith Moon The Who Sid Vicious *** Pistols Lowell George Little Feat Jimmy McCulloch Wings John Bonham Led Zeppelin Darby Crash Germs James Honeyman-Scott Pretenders Pete Farndon Pretenders Paul Gardiner Tubeway Army Gary Holton Heavy Metal Kids Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy Andrew Wood Mother Love Bone Brent Mydland Grateful Dead Steve Clark Def Leppard Johnny Thunders New York Dolls David Ruffin The Temptations Kristen Pfaff Hole Shannon Hoon Blind Melon Bradley Nowell Sublime John Kahn Jerry Garcia Band Jonathan Melvoin The Smashing Pumpkins Billy Mackenzie Associates West Arkeen The Outpatience Nick Traina Link 80 John Baker Saunders Mad Season Bobby Sheehan Blues Traveler Wes Berggren Tripping Daisy Allen Woody The Allman Brothers Band Carl Crack Atari Teenage Riot Layne Staley Alice in Chains/Mad Seasons Kurt Cobain Nirvana Dee Dee Ramones Robbin Crosby Ratt John Entwistle The Who Howie Epstein Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Jeremy Michael Ward De Facto Tim Hemensley GOD Dave Schulthise The Dead Milkmen Rick James Kevin DuBrow Quiet Riot Ike Turner Gidget Gein Marilyn Manson Jay Bennett Wilco Michael Jackson The Rev Avenged Sevenfold Paul Gray Slipknot Mike Starr Alice in Chains Amy Winehouse** *We are not bad people, we just have bad ways Yet, not many understand*
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All perish whence they quest for immortality, Such foolish dreams will result in fatality. Critters struggle in nets of ersatz reality, Hormonal clashes unbalance our morality. Under the influence by budding, ravishing thyme, Oft' that sunny beam leaves me doing pantomime. Chaste clues and envy droughts left me mellowing, Such pain ipso facto I can't kiss this porcelain. My seat of notions drives me to calculate, While undead, fatigued, I falsely formulate. Floundering in viscous fluids, I am drowning... My verdant sail is half-mast: lonely, frowning. Within moon-lit meadows, shadows flow cursively, Beyond the kaleidoscope lay a rustic key. Beg you pardon the rust and blackened fissures, Pardon those slights to open eternal treasures. To crave two heart beats align in synchrony, To sluice my fingers through the strands of memory. Embracing silvery asps soaring on the breeze, My sight spies thy adieu and I shatter apiece. Un-writing errors, distantly, unstumbling, The abyss: now a star, wings unfurling. 'Tween the heavens fell meteoric golds, Sinusoidal cascades of such sublime codes. Traversed steadily upon the gilded firmaments, Was so small, blind to the unseen monuments. To be offered aristocratic absolution, From my humble plebeian resolution. I am sublime. 'Hold my dichotomous, nay, Such cantankerous introversion within, eh?
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Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM UTC
Dichotomy of Insanity
I see you blinking in the summer sun. I take you drinking in the gutter slum. You sit there and you read your poems and you stare where, you stare where you should just go! No Morse code! No Morse code! Gotta find three of these- three of these that fit...an angel couldn't laugh- I would laugh! I would laugh! No Morse code! I figure the fragments are all black; I figure the fragments are all stagnant and all black! No Morse code! No Morse code! Ex facto! I see you blinking in the summer sun. I take you drinking in the gutter slum. You stare where... and you stare where...
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Sep 5, 2012
Sep 5, 2012 at 10:19 PM UTC
No Morse Code
Sparkling, Still or Tap? Water. A profound subject. Of which, we are all expert. Therefore, I permit myself to write upon it. Water. When I offer you Sparkling, Still or Tap, think carefully for the path to happiness is confusing, you can be mislaid, strayed, betrayed if you imbibe the wrong path. The definition of each is not my responsibility. Like poetry, drink what you will from each, but drink you must, pas de choix (which is sparkling for no choice). Getting drunk on the wrong water is very bad. You have washed your system out, after flooding it. Give an engine the incorrect quality of oil, and it will grind itself willing, having been tricked, into emoting itself into gear lock suicide. Now go back to the first line, and star(t) over, because you are no longer silly but afraid, and that is the proper way to be when first cog-nizant that this is an earnest subject and you are a fool. So I ask, not again but for the first time, Sparkling, Still or Tap? You say. You are. Poor. Tap is the only option. Save the environment from plastique explosives. Clear as colorless water (another sujet, for another self important foolishness) you lie.  Is Sparkling and Still not found naturally, while Tap is unnatural-now water transmogrified by rust pipes, fluorescent fluorides, that when drunken, tap you out and for which, You pay heavily when the water bill comes? What am I? Your cheek!   As a ****** passenger-reader-human unsurpassed. So typical. My credentials? I am human-reader-passenger-voyeur so ***** your impudence! I am still, but underneath, I am effervesceing, like the band, whose goth I am too, but don't be an idiot, for all we know, is tapped into us and out of us from birth ~ until death/ Was there water in your mother 's body when she breast fed you, was there water in your formula? Was it organic (idiot), from a crystal spring from polluted China, and isn't it tool ate (auto correct for too late) now anyway? So I rescind the question, for we are provisioned but poisoned long before we have adult cash or credit card bills to answer properly this waiter's question, Sparkling, Still or Tap? (Nonetheless, if you have progressed to this sad conclusion, as I wait upon you and,) Your Reply, **Water is the clear space that surrounds the letters and words We write, thus all words float to the surface on your unique percentage of body of water, that oils the brain.** Ergo, Ip So Facto, I, the waiter *** writer, already know. Now start from the top, Again, yes, And answer me, Sparkling, Still or Tap?
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 9:48 AM UTC
Sparkling, Still or Tap?
Sparkling, Still or Tap? Water. A profound subject. Of which, we are all expert. Therefore, I permit myself to write upon it. Water. When I offer you Sparkling, Still or Tap, think carefully for the path to happiness is confusing, you can be mislaid, strayed, betrayed if you imbibe the wrong path. The definition of each is not my responsibility. Like poetry, drink what you will from each, but drink you must, pas de choix (which is sparkling for no choice). Getting drunk on the wrong water is very bad. You have washed your system out, after flooding it. Give an engine the incorrect quality of oil, and it will grind itself willing, having been tricked, into emoting itself into gear lock suicide. Now go back to the first line, and star(t) over, because you are no longer silly but afraid, and that is the proper way to be when first cog-nizant that this is an earnest subject and you are a fool. So I ask, not again but for the first time, Sparkling, Still or Tap? You say. You are. Poor. Tap is the only option. Save the environment from plastique explosives. Clear as colorless water (another sujet, for another self important foolishness) you lie.  Is Sparkling and Still not found naturally, while Tap is unnatural-now water transmogrified by rust pipes, fluorescent fluorides, that when drunken, tap you out and for which, You pay heavily when the water bill comes? What am I? Your cheek!   As a ****** passenger-reader-human unsurpassed. So typical. My credentials? I am human-reader-passenger-voyeur so ***** your impudence! I am still, but underneath, I am effervesceing, like the band, whose goth I am too, but don't be an idiot, for all we know, is tapped into us and out of us from birth ~ until death/ Was there water in your mother 's body when she breast fed you, was there water in your formula? Was it organic (idiot), from a crystal spring from polluted China, and isn't it tool ate (auto correct for too late) now anyway? So I rescind the question, for we are provisioned but poisoned long before we have adult cash or credit card bills to answer properly this waiter's question, Sparkling, Still or Tap? (Nonetheless, if you have progressed to this sad conclusion, as I wait upon you and,) Your Reply, **Water is the clear space that surrounds the letters and words We write, thus all words float to the surface on your unique percentage of body of water, that oils the brain.** Ergo, Ip So Facto, I, the waiter *** writer, already know. Now start from the top, Again, yes, And answer me, Sparkling, Still or Tap?
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Filha, filho, Filhos… Quando me levanto com vontade de ver alguém com seu sorriso, não escolheria mais ninguém senão tu… No mundo que Deus nos deu não existe puro e imaculado amor igual ao teu. Depois de tanto tempo de vivências, compromissos, viagens pelo mundo fora sempre tive presente a dádiva de te ver nascer e crescer em sabedoria. Tu sim tens a magia da lua comprometida com um mundo feito de bem que parece ao mesmo tempo teu e de mais ninguém…. No coração tu tens a doce melodia das harpas de Jacob, nas mãos a gentileza de quem faz tudo com mestria e exatidão. Tantas filhas, filhos nascem pelo simples facto de o homem querer se multiplicar, procriar… Tu nasceste por um terno amor, por uma vontade que dois seres tiveram em elevar na terra através da matéria o poder da alma. Neste mundo de injustiças, guerras económicas, sociais, políticas nascem todos os dias filhos, filhas com leveza e amor de dois seres. Tu, hoje fizeste me pensar na abundância que Deus nos dá, nas oportunidades que muitos não têm, nos que sofrem por não terem filhas, filhos… O ciclo da vida me ajuda a amar, a compreender e a tolerar quem não consegue sentir força Para caminhar e fazer uma descoberta diária da beleza da vida e da companhia de nossas filhas, filhos…. O meu legado não teria sentido sem ti, o meu ser nunca seria completo em harmonia com o Deus criador. O nosso futuro quer filhas, filhos melhor do que nós pais que tentamos apreender o constante evoluir da sociedade humana. Não poderia deixar de estar grato a Deus, meus pais e meus antepassados pelo que me deram e continuam a dar. A vida de todos nós seria muito melhor se a nossa preocupação fosse dar sem lembrar e receber nunca esquecendo. A ti nem sei que dizer… sei que nunca vai haver nada que por ti me faça desfalecer. Por ti se cair vou pedir a Deus que me ajude a erguer… Victor Marques
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Sep 25, 2013
Sep 25, 2013 at 6:24 AM UTC
Filha,filho , Filhas
Filha, filho, Filhos… Quando me levanto com vontade de ver alguém com seu sorriso, não escolheria mais ninguém senão tu… No mundo que Deus nos deu não existe puro e imaculado amor igual ao teu. Depois de tanto tempo de vivências, compromissos, viagens pelo mundo fora sempre tive presente a dádiva de te ver nascer e crescer em sabedoria. Tu sim tens a magia da lua comprometida com um mundo feito de bem que parece ao mesmo tempo teu e de mais ninguém…. No coração tu tens a doce melodia das harpas de Jacob, nas mãos a gentileza de quem faz tudo com mestria e exatidão. Tantas filhas, filhos nascem pelo simples facto de o homem querer se multiplicar, procriar… Tu nasceste por um terno amor, por uma vontade que dois seres tiveram em elevar na terra através da matéria o poder da alma. Neste mundo de injustiças, guerras económicas, sociais, políticas nascem todos os dias filhos, filhas com leveza e amor de dois seres. Tu, hoje fizeste me pensar na abundância que Deus nos dá, nas oportunidades que muitos não têm, nos que sofrem por não terem filhas, filhos… O ciclo da vida me ajuda a amar, a compreender e a tolerar quem não consegue sentir força Para caminhar e fazer uma descoberta diária da beleza da vida e da companhia de nossas filhas, filhos…. O meu legado não teria sentido sem ti, o meu ser nunca seria completo em harmonia com o Deus criador. O nosso futuro quer filhas, filhos melhor do que nós pais que tentamos apreender o constante evoluir da sociedade humana. Não poderia deixar de estar grato a Deus, meus pais e meus antepassados pelo que me deram e continuam a dar. A vida de todos nós seria muito melhor se a nossa preocupação fosse dar sem lembrar e receber nunca esquecendo. A ti nem sei que dizer… sei que nunca vai haver nada que por ti me faça desfalecer. Por ti se cair vou pedir a Deus que me ajude a erguer… Victor Marques
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NOT LOOKING AT OURSELVES August 7, 2009 - Damascus Ayad bin Izzet Why is it so hard to think of ourselves? Why is it so hard to change bad habits that seem to possess us? It seems to be a near certain fact, that humans do not like to think of themselves; certainly, very few seriously, deeply think about themselves. Who asks himself: “How do I look like to people?” “How do I sound to people, when I say this and that?” “Why is it people like certain aspects of my behaviour?” When you open up such a subject to people in general, it is common to hear: “Look, I don’t care what people may think of me”. But an answer like that will not help you go far in this world. You do need to pay attention to what people think about you, otherwise you will be, de facto, behaving like a tyrannical dictator – you are, in effect, alienating and restricting the advancement of your varied self interests. Why you ask me? Because we all need people if we are going to succeed in our professional and social lives. Without the agreement of people you cannot succeed, unless if your work can survive within a hermit’s context. So why are people so antagonistic to change themselves? I think that for people they are scared of thinking about themselves because they fear what they might find out the nature of what is existing within themselves. Another reason, is addiction. A person may simply be compulsively addicted to the harmful personality he has – yes, even if he knows that his personality is harmful to his own self interests. I talk about this subject because we all do need to change our selves, our personalities - since all the troubles of our entire lives emanate from one source: we dysfunctional humans! Where else do they come from? And yet, anyone who has ever tried to explain to another person their faults will surely go nowhere. No one is interested. I know one lady who I call the ‘Pharmacist’ because she lovingly showers everyone else with advice, while she herself cannot bear to hear one word with respect to her faults. And then, as the years passed, I came to realize, why all people are basically ‘Pharmacists’! People have an obstinacy that harder than leather, colder than an icicle; we simply will not improve, as human beings, if we remain this determined not to reform our minds. And there is nothing else to add on this sorry subject. How pathetically sad. A fine epitaph on Humanity’s grave.
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Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010 at 8:02 AM UTC
Not Looking At Ourselves - Ayad Gharbawi
NOT LOOKING AT OURSELVES August 7, 2009 - Damascus Ayad bin Izzet Why is it so hard to think of ourselves? Why is it so hard to change bad habits that seem to possess us? It seems to be a near certain fact, that humans do not like to think of themselves; certainly, very few seriously, deeply think about themselves. Who asks himself: “How do I look like to people?” “How do I sound to people, when I say this and that?” “Why is it people like certain aspects of my behaviour?” When you open up such a subject to people in general, it is common to hear: “Look, I don’t care what people may think of me”. But an answer like that will not help you go far in this world. You do need to pay attention to what people think about you, otherwise you will be, de facto, behaving like a tyrannical dictator – you are, in effect, alienating and restricting the advancement of your varied self interests. Why you ask me? Because we all need people if we are going to succeed in our professional and social lives. Without the agreement of people you cannot succeed, unless if your work can survive within a hermit’s context. So why are people so antagonistic to change themselves? I think that for people they are scared of thinking about themselves because they fear what they might find out the nature of what is existing within themselves. Another reason, is addiction. A person may simply be compulsively addicted to the harmful personality he has – yes, even if he knows that his personality is harmful to his own self interests. I talk about this subject because we all do need to change our selves, our personalities - since all the troubles of our entire lives emanate from one source: we dysfunctional humans! Where else do they come from? And yet, anyone who has ever tried to explain to another person their faults will surely go nowhere. No one is interested. I know one lady who I call the ‘Pharmacist’ because she lovingly showers everyone else with advice, while she herself cannot bear to hear one word with respect to her faults. And then, as the years passed, I came to realize, why all people are basically ‘Pharmacists’! People have an obstinacy that harder than leather, colder than an icicle; we simply will not improve, as human beings, if we remain this determined not to reform our minds. And there is nothing else to add on this sorry subject. How pathetically sad. A fine epitaph on Humanity’s grave.
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The Comeback snapped the ball and looked desperately for somebody open-- I stood in the endzone franticallywaving my handsjumping sporadicallyyy HEY! I'M OPEN!!! With an eye-roll hardly concealed within a muddy helmet, he begrudgingly tossed me the ball-- The buzzer sounded and the fourth quarter ended just as the ball was in my sweaty clutch-- But the visiting team had already clapped each other on the backs and my team waited for me in the locker room smelly and defeated. Alas, I was the most distressed, standing on the field alone with the winning boon a moment                                  too late.
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Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 10:16 PM UTC
Comebacks Issued Ex Post Facto
<|> “***IF we are each created in His image, how glorious is the diversity of our deities***, *each of us a tiny drop of paint on a tableau of a small planet, insignificant but uniquely beautiful intelligent species of godlike creatures,* “deities~human”* <|> wise enough to know mine philosophical shortcomings, for they are many, insufficient wisdom, more than sufficient laziness, but sometimes even the o b v i o u s strikes a rhyming chord, even so, delving into God’s image is for the foolhardy, ergo ipso facto, I am that, that fool but the boundaries of common sense poetry, offer healthy delimitations, and as rhe day wanes, eyes go blurry, I am content to laurels~rest: I do not count the times, I’ve called out my beseeching deities, I do not count the numbers of names, we have designated and available for them, or how many I’ve employed, and which replied or the varied shapes they assumed, to get my attention, but this is a poem, cannot leave you hanging, if you paid your dues for joining me this far: the due is due you: them (their ONLY pronoun), keep their answers short and oft inexplicable, yet strangely satisfying, for being a deity they employ common sense, and the answers frequently found on a list of Frequently Answered Questions (FAQ‘s) the most common response, “but you already knew that!”
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Sep 23, 2023
Sep 23, 2023 at 8:26 AM UTC
If we are each created in His image, glorious the diversity of our human~deities...
It was social experimentation To be locked away, windowless Four walls, perpetually fixed - as his figure in a lightless room Ears removed, mouth sewn closed Eyes blinded, no light, no sound Muted humanity, no dignity He happened upon a laughing child before the procedure and that sound echoed inside Deep within his bowels it reverberated Through his blood Distorted in his stomach Youthful innocent laugh, it grew monstrous It began to talk and the beast within was personified Day one he lost his mind Day two was still day one (how irresponsive time becomes) Day three the laugh became a growl Day four the voices started Day five in absentia Day six he was done Day seven, bizarre interim - that between life and death Profoundly lost in swingin' psychosis Met by the devil in detailed cerebellum Watched memories deteriorate like some reel-to-reel burning, spluttering His wife now only a hydrogen hallucination Do you, the reader, know true loneliness? The observation deck was packed on day eight Muted, yet guttural screams of anguish from deep within his throat Were haunting reminders of the damaging effect of psychological studies and the fragility of humanity The cataract voids in his stoic face they betrayed fear, and begged captors for some respite from this hellish dream Until in a tormented blinded haze, the voice was clear His ears still dead, though this voice was true Spoke but three subtle words The subject experienced simultaneous neurological Joy and fear He had heard the de facto vocalisation of some supreme he spoke them aloud his only utterance and the teary eyed scientists gathered sterile needle no words dead.
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 11:04 AM UTC
Know Not What You Should Say, But Know What Should Not Be Said
It was social experimentation To be locked away, windowless Four walls, perpetually fixed - as his figure in a lightless room Ears removed, mouth sewn closed Eyes blinded, no light, no sound Muted humanity, no dignity He happened upon a laughing child before the procedure and that sound echoed inside Deep within his bowels it reverberated Through his blood Distorted in his stomach Youthful innocent laugh, it grew monstrous It began to talk and the beast within was personified Day one he lost his mind Day two was still day one (how irresponsive time becomes) Day three the laugh became a growl Day four the voices started Day five in absentia Day six he was done Day seven, bizarre interim - that between life and death Profoundly lost in swingin' psychosis Met by the devil in detailed cerebellum Watched memories deteriorate like some reel-to-reel burning, spluttering His wife now only a hydrogen hallucination Do you, the reader, know true loneliness? The observation deck was packed on day eight Muted, yet guttural screams of anguish from deep within his throat Were haunting reminders of the damaging effect of psychological studies and the fragility of humanity The cataract voids in his stoic face they betrayed fear, and begged captors for some respite from this hellish dream Until in a tormented blinded haze, the voice was clear His ears still dead, though this voice was true Spoke but three subtle words The subject experienced simultaneous neurological Joy and fear He had heard the de facto vocalisation of some supreme he spoke them aloud his only utterance and the teary eyed scientists gathered sterile needle no words dead.
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Taunting Teasing Has become de facto Flirting Coquetry. I'm gonna hit on you I'm gonna smack you a kiss I'm gonna crush your lips You don't need a haircut it's perfect You're such a hot mess I hate love you.
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM UTC
Hindsightly Implications
FRENCH KISSING ON VENUS(A little nonsense ) Just coming to life. Was up til three. Playing silly sods. Hopped into my baby son's spaceship. Found myself on Venus. Don't know how I got there. Maybe I was seeking love. Venus has a purpose, in matters of such trivia. In the silly world of love. Met a few Venusian chaps. Funny things they were. Their hands were wandering everywhere. Too many of them you know. Far too many hands that is. One went in for a French kiss. Guys from Venus like to kiss. His tongue was very very long, with it my tonsils tickled. Irksome tongue, it made me choke. Ipso facto,  that mega tongue, made me rather sick. That rampant guy from Venus,  well he ripped of all my clothes. Used them as a hand kerchief, on which he wiped his runny nose. Somehow. Method as yet unknown. Landed outside my front door. What a shock that was. For my poor unfortunate neighbours. Who saw all my naked bits. A weird situation,  created by a kiss.
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 5:05 AM UTC
FRENCH KISSING ON VENUS(A little nonsense )
The Dark Pariah and The Mouth Breather went to go get a jump start on their blackmail and their payback All the kissup's All the suckup's Who think they're the best thing since sliced bread with the crust cut off Who pick on people's foibles and leave their self-image in shambles Not to mention all the narcissists who claim to have coined certain phrases we all use, then pucker up to the ***** of those who can keep up with the Joneses They were going to make this world go belly up Remove all of the potholes and speed bumps in life The Dark Pariah wrote his plan in chicken scratch And The Mouth Breather wrote his in calligraphy The Mouth Breather's plan was to kick start a new denomination of hero worship All followers must give themselves rug burn and stick up three banks in thirty minutes then put their plunder in the collection plate on Tuesday mass The Dark Pariah's plan was to create music to their ears That would make them hopscotch off a cliff and free fall to their deaths This was part and parcel for his sham to exact his vengeance But ipso facto they never followed through with their plans due to sheer laziness And now they're both dominated by remorse and online FAQ's
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 5:10 PM UTC
The Dark Pariah and The Mouth Breather
El amor es una cosa muy bella es una cosa que no entiendo sobre que no puedo poner mi dedo de que quiero correr por miedo pero, la felicidad en mi corazón solo puede correr en un dirección a ti No tengo la decisión Había hecho para mi ¿Por quién? No sé. Tengo miedo, sí, pero solo hay una mujer a quien quiere correr y es tú solo tú La verdad en mi corazón es objetivo ¿Mis temas? subjetivas Quiero su amor, solo sus abrazos, solo sus besos Solo tú Habías robarlo a mi corazón, no sé cómo y no sé cuándo, pero lo tiene ¿me gusta que lo tiene? Si, tengo miedo, pero es un facto Mi corazón es contigo. ¿Puedo decirte todo de este? No, no puedo, hasta que estamos casados.
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 2:22 PM UTC
El amor es bella
I was a shadow then a silhouette ( all that's    in the universe    is a process) I dissolved into mist- next I dispersed transformed into a vapour then disappeared nothing I became nameless from nothing there could not be anything a state of emptiness in space nothing can touch or capture  emptiness as it's not there- and ipso facto it's beyond death and decay at the beginning I had no form I was nothing now the process has taken its course and I return to nothingness and being nothing is to be in timelessness and lastly eternity is that state that brings the demise of time and temporality- that which at the start was nothing returns to its source the Universal Nothing.
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Sep 17, 2017
Sep 17, 2017 at 9:19 AM UTC
FANTASIA*
******  Come back, you faithless little cock-tease, Muse, you maddening author of my abuse. Please don't amuse yourself this way. I know it's love-hate, de facto, inchoate. But don't you know I seethe for seed and writhe to write? I love you, Muse. There must be some mistake. So end this wretched heartache and for art's sake, light my ******* fuse! Mike T Minehan
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Oct 30, 2012
Oct 30, 2012 at 6:02 AM UTC
The Muse
He smashed  his toy gun in seventy four. Desperation - his face soured. The shopkeeper knew he was more than kaput and as for missing the xmas disco ~ he world never walk under the moon of love from that day beyond. The bullies had ran their cause carefully formulating the groundswell. Who were they his enduring question? .
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Jun 6, 2013
Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM UTC
De facto.