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"fashionably" poems
She'll come to you, you don't have to go to her. She initiates the dates and puts up with the waits, As you always seem to arrive "fashionably" late. And say you want to get her in bed, that's a piece of cake. She doesn't even put up a wall for you to break. It's just so easy for you to take, take, take. It's just too easy to not appreciate.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 3:46 AM UTC
Taken for Granted
the politics of mirrors lies out of sight while the frogs in the pond fashionably late sing the swan song of separation no-mind-all-one the ******* tree fruits teeth and eats itself on impact leaving behind no trace of heart beat or throbbing veins but instead remembers itself on the earth as a skeleton bones made of the finest silver set of dining wares for to feast on the slack remaining weightless brain of a thing that spins the circles is sails like a tailor in a fire
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Jun 19, 2012
Jun 19, 2012 at 6:00 AM UTC
Shiva
You're late for the party Late for the ball Late in your red dress Late for it all Late for summer latest update is your late but we are still waiting For you to blow us away Your high fashion sense Has left us in suspense and your beauty is so immense That I want you as my present in present tense But you drive us mad round the bend but the thought of you makes us pretend that it would be great but you are always So... So... Late...
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Dec 26, 2016
Dec 26, 2016 at 6:51 AM UTC
You are always fashionably late
Lost my way in these salad days, started to drown in your salad ways, this distance keeps me from feeling whole, causing disparity of the soul, Cordially invited to share my fate, you didn't show up, you were fashionably late, Id packed my burdens in a trunk of desire, but you stamped on the embers, put out the fire. And if credence could talk and was given a face, it would be my companion in this fall from grace, but for now I’ll just accept my plight, take a walk in the shadows, avoiding the light.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 2:15 PM UTC
Salad days
inappropriate name at it's best--- because they refuse to hold halves together and hammers aren't the best choice of tools and who nails a fingernail? like twilight on icy mountains, although the sky's colors come from flesh and not reddened sunlight, and the snow is empty as air inconspicuously (fashionably) hidden skyline--- by color, but still there, granted half-moons, waiting for dimethyl ketone relief small as they come unappreciated, underlooked--- as common and human as blood.
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May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010 at 3:58 PM UTC
ode to a fingernail
the skull and spine of seventy seven men, extracted. retribution far past putrefaction. a pile of bones in the center of town, at the corner of washington & rochambeau. gather around. do you believe in the boogeyman? a glitch in the darkness. an echo of rage, high chroma bacteriophage. every faithless father, every sister spared, every ritual sung just right, a brief blackout, reconfigured pixels of outer night. [bobby’s sega genesis awakens on its own] thirty three years to the day, he died on that suncrest boulevard, returned today just to say “hey.” graveyard family tree and the moon. first as a manifestation of electromagnetic phenomena in a videogame’s cpu. 1993. second as a fully-fledged entity materialized via videocassette, hungry for pizza and pure vengeance. 2001. third from beneath bedrock, the quarry belly baste, a body buried thrice, undead toxic tumescence, a walking corpse heaving black plasma. 2020. the sequel. the son. the spectral chosen one, he rips out a throat or two, quite fashionably so, a man about town throttled and disemboweled, as friends and neighbors stumble and sprint to escape with their own godforsaken skin. let the bone collection begin. emerged in afterschool hallways to **** old classmates turned teachers. emerged in afterhours offices to devour old buddies turned bankers. emerged in the quiet dark homes of neighborhood flesh and folk. blood soaked socks. why? you ask, must all these people die? vengeance? no. that was a lie. he killed those people for a laugh & that’s that.
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM UTC
night terror
the skull and spine of seventy seven men, extracted. retribution far past putrefaction. a pile of bones in the center of town, at the corner of washington & rochambeau. gather around. do you believe in the boogeyman? a glitch in the darkness. an echo of rage, high chroma bacteriophage. every faithless father, every sister spared, every ritual sung just right, a brief blackout, reconfigured pixels of outer night. [bobby’s sega genesis awakens on its own] thirty three years to the day, he died on that suncrest boulevard, returned today just to say “hey.” graveyard family tree and the moon. first as a manifestation of electromagnetic phenomena in a videogame’s cpu. 1993. second as a fully-fledged entity materialized via videocassette, hungry for pizza and pure vengeance. 2001. third from beneath bedrock, the quarry belly baste, a body buried thrice, undead toxic tumescence, a walking corpse heaving black plasma. 2020. the sequel. the son. the spectral chosen one, he rips out a throat or two, quite fashionably so, a man about town throttled and disemboweled, as friends and neighbors stumble and sprint to escape with their own godforsaken skin. let the bone collection begin. emerged in afterschool hallways to **** old classmates turned teachers. emerged in afterhours offices to devour old buddies turned bankers. emerged in the quiet dark homes of neighborhood flesh and folk. blood soaked socks. why? you ask, must all these people die? vengeance? no. that was a lie. he killed those people for a laugh & that’s that.
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Wrong Wrung Ring Ring my doorbell, Wring my neck, Rid me of this mortal wretch. ***** Wrench Can you fix it? Get your toolbox You're ill-equipped I don't qualify Quality Quantity I am not enough For this. Too tough To kiss. Rough life I've lived. Live Life Lie Lay back. Just take it. Let it happen. Swallow Swallow me up. Swallow me whole. Throw me down into a hole. Wholly Holy Even God forgot me. Oh his drones did try. Saxophone & sweat Promised hell when I die. Choir girls & Inquisition Tore my words, tried to burn me alive. Then the good chaplain, Samaritan? Charlatan. Daddy out of the way, Me on the streets, Mommy where he wants her Worship at his feet. Fret Bet. I am not afraid. My debt is paid. In blood, in tears. Lost dreams, lost years. Country roads, cold beers. Bare Bear Burdens I am brave. Strength Truth Power You'll have to cut them from my flesh. Fresh Blood Brooding o'er my funeral, Don't worry about my death. I still feel pain, I still draw breath. My hearts not cold, My soul is still old. I haven't set a thing in stone. ****** Skipping rocks. Flying planes, Sail away from the docks. Shoot me into outer space, If this is Hell, Heaven can wait. I'm dancing with the Devil & God is always fashionably late. Create. Tell Tales Tails I'm not done yet. Evolving Incomplete Completely me. Pecan pie & sweet tea. Nature Treks Blessed Be. Naked Exposed Second for the money, First for the show. This is a test, No time to be gauche. Gross Shocking grace. There's still sand in my grave. This cannibal inside Still has a taste. Human body beneath my tongue, It's essence still fills my lungs. Chest Heart Beats against this cage. I'm too young to feel this age, So don't you dare save the date. Once the wolf works with the mirror It's finally free. Then I promise, You'll be seeing me.
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM UTC
Almost, Not Quite.
Wrong Wrung Ring Ring my doorbell, Wring my neck, Rid me of this mortal wretch. ***** Wrench Can you fix it? Get your toolbox You're ill-equipped I don't qualify Quality Quantity I am not enough For this. Too tough To kiss. Rough life I've lived. Live Life Lie Lay back. Just take it. Let it happen. Swallow Swallow me up. Swallow me whole. Throw me down into a hole. Wholly Holy Even God forgot me. Oh his drones did try. Saxophone & sweat Promised hell when I die. Choir girls & Inquisition Tore my words, tried to burn me alive. Then the good chaplain, Samaritan? Charlatan. Daddy out of the way, Me on the streets, Mommy where he wants her Worship at his feet. Fret Bet. I am not afraid. My debt is paid. In blood, in tears. Lost dreams, lost years. Country roads, cold beers. Bare Bear Burdens I am brave. Strength Truth Power You'll have to cut them from my flesh. Fresh Blood Brooding o'er my funeral, Don't worry about my death. I still feel pain, I still draw breath. My hearts not cold, My soul is still old. I haven't set a thing in stone. ****** Skipping rocks. Flying planes, Sail away from the docks. Shoot me into outer space, If this is Hell, Heaven can wait. I'm dancing with the Devil & God is always fashionably late. Create. Tell Tales Tails I'm not done yet. Evolving Incomplete Completely me. Pecan pie & sweet tea. Nature Treks Blessed Be. Naked Exposed Second for the money, First for the show. This is a test, No time to be gauche. Gross Shocking grace. There's still sand in my grave. This cannibal inside Still has a taste. Human body beneath my tongue, It's essence still fills my lungs. Chest Heart Beats against this cage. I'm too young to feel this age, So don't you dare save the date. Once the wolf works with the mirror It's finally free. Then I promise, You'll be seeing me.
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Secretly believing someone is watching And will benevolently arrive, relieve the pain When planets collide, lots of stuff goes awry Every breath you take implicates you deeper The constant cry of babies being born Expect monsters worse than you can conceive There is a dark alley deep in hell Where strangers go She was swallowing a horse who Stomped its hooves Kicked her in stomach pregnant with you As soon as you enter Someone points a finger Hollers, “Horse child, ****** child!” Hen-pecked men and angry haughty women Shame is the only love i know A murdering mob descends upon Somebody lynching Christmas tree ornaments Why isn’t there God? It’s disturbing to think We’re all acting out of chump sensibilities Explain to me again about sociology and greater good How long can a smell last? A week? A month? Thousands of years? What if higher powers exist Unbeknownst to themselves? Death fashionably attired without face The importance in showing teeth “Caw, caw!” old crow calls, anticipating winter’s squalls I fire up cigarette, blow smoke in the faces Of those who said no to my dreams I’m glad i didn’t know then what i know now The cost of joy Tomorrow is magnificent new beginning If only everything hadn’t happened
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 11:22 AM UTC
Endless Nights, Endless Days, Or, A Flying ****
*Oh my.... What a ******* **** sight you are About 5'11" in your ******* hot *** ***** pink dress along with your **** long, gorgeous black hair and your fashionably seductive hoop earrings, enticing, Spanish green eyes and smile Well you did tell me you were Spanish/Italian like Selena Gomez Definitely lit my ******* soul up and I felt myself losing my breath You asked me what my name is I said "Xoaquin what's yours?" "Just call me little wet **** you said with your **** wet breath as you whispered into my ear So then I said "Ooooh ok little wet **** You're so naughty." I said "Listen you see that girl up there? Well I was thinking about getting a dance from both of you." You said "Oh ok well let's go." You escorted me to the stage in the center of the V.I.P. to watch the other girl until her song was over. The three of us went into the V.I.P. and you both climbed on top of me. I started grabbing her ***** but I started grabbing yours too. I was actually more into you. You're way sexier. I believe I told you that as we were by the stage You said "You're very **** I said "Thank you." I then said "Well I know you don't need me to tell you because you already know that you are **** You said "Thank you baby." Fast forward back to the moment. Kaylie started putting​ her **** ******* in my face while you grinded your soft **** Latin *** up and down my **** You have great rhythm. Loved the touch/feel of your skin. I loved​ how both of you rubbed your ******* and ***** all over. You both have very thick round juicy tender ***** and I loved every inch of them. Every inch of skin. Every inch of thickness within my grip You both smelled very good. I loved your scent especially between your ***** Felt/smelled so nice. Hope I see you again "little wet **** Even moreso I hope that I get to taste you next time*
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Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 6:34 PM UTC
Little Wet ****
*Oh my.... What a ******* **** sight you are About 5'11" in your ******* hot *** ***** pink dress along with your **** long, gorgeous black hair and your fashionably seductive hoop earrings, enticing, Spanish green eyes and smile Well you did tell me you were Spanish/Italian like Selena Gomez Definitely lit my ******* soul up and I felt myself losing my breath You asked me what my name is I said "Xoaquin what's yours?" "Just call me little wet **** you said with your **** wet breath as you whispered into my ear So then I said "Ooooh ok little wet **** You're so naughty." I said "Listen you see that girl up there? Well I was thinking about getting a dance from both of you." You said "Oh ok well let's go." You escorted me to the stage in the center of the V.I.P. to watch the other girl until her song was over. The three of us went into the V.I.P. and you both climbed on top of me. I started grabbing her ***** but I started grabbing yours too. I was actually more into you. You're way sexier. I believe I told you that as we were by the stage You said "You're very **** I said "Thank you." I then said "Well I know you don't need me to tell you because you already know that you are **** You said "Thank you baby." Fast forward back to the moment. Kaylie started putting​ her **** ******* in my face while you grinded your soft **** Latin *** up and down my **** You have great rhythm. Loved the touch/feel of your skin. I loved​ how both of you rubbed your ******* and ***** all over. You both have very thick round juicy tender ***** and I loved every inch of them. Every inch of skin. Every inch of thickness within my grip You both smelled very good. I loved your scent especially between your ***** Felt/smelled so nice. Hope I see you again "little wet **** Even moreso I hope that I get to taste you next time*
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i) up the stairs red scarves and tight skirts loose slacks and grey shirts my how the landscape has changed I can’t say that I love to be dipped into this *** of pretty where the lipstick liner queens supreme and the coffee is brewed to mitigate the colostomy retch so I try a yellowed paper backed beat but it held nothing to the shoebox diorama of national care where the alphabetised gates of ingress more or less double as departure lounge for the broken and spent where their god might sit them on fashionably backed chairs for the percentile of misplace repairs or is it me that smells of warm **** ii) down the travelator a troll lives under the MRI, moved on from the bridge by the gruffest of beards, now working externally of the fable beneath the table of the magnetic eye
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 3:39 PM UTC
whilst waiting
fat monkey's with beady little eyes wander back and forth along the kitchens edges licking their lips and hungrily kneading their hands while i tend the pots and kettle wearing my best low rent apparel and listening to only the finest of garage grunge its miami gardens in springtime and all the pretty people are strutting the boardwalk looking for backwater bargains at cheap motels she is here with me in her barley there bikini fashionably perfect in all the politically correct ways its perpetual summer in miami gardens all the sour hearts on the phone making travel arrangements the snowbunnys are out in force this year can't step one foot to a western wind with treading on some ugly mug but they are oh so friendly don't you want to cuddle up with some furry little monster its wintertime in miami gardens she strips down to her birthday suit and the monkeys start getting itchy in their mohair leisure suits   its hard to get comfortable in your own skin in the land of picture perfect bodies on the sand so lets all sit down to eat share a meal and a mile of road maybe we can find enough in common to keep out the cold thinking about miami gardens in spring
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 6:17 PM UTC
miami gardens
The glow of neon lights illuminates the spot he stands, It is raining and their reflections are quite clear on the ground, Using one hand propped up against a street sign, The other holding an almost invisible, dark umbrella, One leg crossed fashionably over the other, Long coat, hood up, shadowed face underneath,     He waits. Cars go by, all of any color, but really just one color; darkness, They reflect the seafoam green, and cherry red lights of the lining shops, The venders are fast asleep, for the hour is late, Their shops are closed, but the lights show on, The nearby pedestrians glance up at the man, the signs, but walk on, But one girl, white coat, black hair, face in her phone,     Walked     Right     Into him. He felt it, she felt it; there was a shock between their hearts, For one split second, they shared a soul, a past, a future, Neither said anything, they just, stared into each other, The light shined in her stormy blue and his oak brown eyes, Mouths agape, he slowly started to smile, “It’s been awhile since I saw an angel on Earth,”     She gleamed. “I knew I was waiting for something, didn’t know it was you- Come with me.” She went.
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Sep 29, 2013
Sep 29, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
Streetlights
thinned blood of the sickly infused with my own sweet rattlesnake venom given to a dreamer with shaman visions of a redhead and a drunk genius painted upon the stone walls of my reincarnated soul, an aged difference who will write the stories after all the tales have been told and time ages into the grave can a voice remain an echo through times unfolding wing or shall our fashionably late arrival but announced in silence and longing stares from skull eyes the myth of the snake god climbing up that mountain surrounded in south american gold composed in the hands of the star trusting emerald isle pagan with sleeves of green who loves to play every game except this one. when they bury us i don't want to feel anything, just the rattlesnake inside of me singing
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Apr 2, 2011
Apr 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM UTC
history
the snow falls sincerely sorry, like a pale yellow skirt at the foot of your bed- i always said, "i didn't mean it". but i meant it. it's that time of the year, where you'll wrap yourself in wool and leathers, in hopes no one will feel just how cold you truly are, but i can feel it. you drink your whiskey straight, yet feel too inhumane to rest your lips on the same bottle as the only people who've ever loved you drink from. your glass gets frosty. you blow hot, pungent air between your teeth like steam, in hopes we'll see you as some frightening machine, instead of how you really are when you forget that you should be holding up your fashionably unfashionable walls. you're just another washed up actor, who somehow lost the ability to differentiate between being on-set, and being alive. so you lie. frantically, frivolously, and frusterated, that nobody you trust can trust you to be you. the scenes that you build get muddled and confused, rendered too busy by your lack of attention and over-use of the exact same hues. you used to seem so beautiful, until i found your pallet under your worn-down mattress... you only paint with grey. oh, how you tried to hide the colors that i am under a tweed cloak of comfort ability, but i don't fade, and i most certainly do not run. i change every day, and when i begin to hate the direction that my masterpiece is heading in, i change course entirely. i abandon the compass, and the guide books, and stampede across the pages, until i become the new and improved version of who i was yesterday. stop pretending, and just be. you wear your "fight" face everyday, as if you may have to chase a pride of giggling hyenas away at any given moment. put down your knife and act right, no one here wants to hurt you. you hurt me, you tried to hide me, and you lied to me. still,  all i want to do is teach you. teach you to let go of your charade, to embrace the life you've made, and how to paint the sunset as a sunset- not a eulogy.
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Nov 19, 2012
Nov 19, 2012 at 3:16 PM UTC
snowmen and flame throwers.
the snow falls sincerely sorry, like a pale yellow skirt at the foot of your bed- i always said, "i didn't mean it". but i meant it. it's that time of the year, where you'll wrap yourself in wool and leathers, in hopes no one will feel just how cold you truly are, but i can feel it. you drink your whiskey straight, yet feel too inhumane to rest your lips on the same bottle as the only people who've ever loved you drink from. your glass gets frosty. you blow hot, pungent air between your teeth like steam, in hopes we'll see you as some frightening machine, instead of how you really are when you forget that you should be holding up your fashionably unfashionable walls. you're just another washed up actor, who somehow lost the ability to differentiate between being on-set, and being alive. so you lie. frantically, frivolously, and frusterated, that nobody you trust can trust you to be you. the scenes that you build get muddled and confused, rendered too busy by your lack of attention and over-use of the exact same hues. you used to seem so beautiful, until i found your pallet under your worn-down mattress... you only paint with grey. oh, how you tried to hide the colors that i am under a tweed cloak of comfort ability, but i don't fade, and i most certainly do not run. i change every day, and when i begin to hate the direction that my masterpiece is heading in, i change course entirely. i abandon the compass, and the guide books, and stampede across the pages, until i become the new and improved version of who i was yesterday. stop pretending, and just be. you wear your "fight" face everyday, as if you may have to chase a pride of giggling hyenas away at any given moment. put down your knife and act right, no one here wants to hurt you. you hurt me, you tried to hide me, and you lied to me. still,  all i want to do is teach you. teach you to let go of your charade, to embrace the life you've made, and how to paint the sunset as a sunset- not a eulogy.
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sirens blare and shutters close, we sit calmly in our humble abode until we smell the smell I’ve smelled a thousand times and going strong. we joke and skip idly around the stairs in a fashionably orderly manner, like in an empty amusement park. “the fire smells good”, says someone, and i nearly choke at the absurdity, but i have to agree, it smells like nostalgia, the plumes of charred plastic filaments, remnants of 3d printers bringing me back to better days. as the chaos rolls along in the background, we order truffle pasta from the vending machine, giggle at the firemen who lost their way and watch the sorry-excuse of a smoke trailing away into the blindingly blue sky as the exhausted sirens blare once again.
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Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM UTC
char
We shot the movie in chrome-based Black and White Thinking we were '80's hipsters with a sharp postmodern overbite And three days later we were cracking up in the editing room over a three-way monologue on horrible lighting in midday TV living rooms Well that was July and now August is ******* us off My fashionably long hair is turning mulleted and I've picked up an off-season cough And now you're somewhere in Brooklyn trying to catch a break Your hair's been cut into a schoolboy's bob and your new friends all look like fakes I'd never thought it'd be you when I'm staring at a screen it's funny how later in life we focus on what we once thought were inbetweens Our old friend is working like a robot trying to make the weekend fit I guess he supposes it's better to be lit up just for christmas than for the constant party graveyard shift And I guess I'm supposed to believe you when you tell me "it's all still pretty fun" eating beans for breakfast and supper and spending Saturday nights on your own But maybe I'm just jealous there's probably a lot of truth in that I suppose i'm just getting nostalgic for the days when I was the only boy who could make you laugh The three of us never cut it off too severely so I'm banking on that long weekend were we'll meet up in some ex-undergrad hangout and pretend we're all still best friends "If we were born five years earlier" Remember, I used to tell you "We all won't be so cursed I guess you were right in saying, "our lives are going to take on the plot of Metropolis, but in reverse"
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM UTC
Metropolis, in Reverse
We shot the movie in chrome-based Black and White Thinking we were '80's hipsters with a sharp postmodern overbite And three days later we were cracking up in the editing room over a three-way monologue on horrible lighting in midday TV living rooms Well that was July and now August is ******* us off My fashionably long hair is turning mulleted and I've picked up an off-season cough And now you're somewhere in Brooklyn trying to catch a break Your hair's been cut into a schoolboy's bob and your new friends all look like fakes I'd never thought it'd be you when I'm staring at a screen it's funny how later in life we focus on what we once thought were inbetweens Our old friend is working like a robot trying to make the weekend fit I guess he supposes it's better to be lit up just for christmas than for the constant party graveyard shift And I guess I'm supposed to believe you when you tell me "it's all still pretty fun" eating beans for breakfast and supper and spending Saturday nights on your own But maybe I'm just jealous there's probably a lot of truth in that I suppose i'm just getting nostalgic for the days when I was the only boy who could make you laugh The three of us never cut it off too severely so I'm banking on that long weekend were we'll meet up in some ex-undergrad hangout and pretend we're all still best friends "If we were born five years earlier" Remember, I used to tell you "We all won't be so cursed I guess you were right in saying, "our lives are going to take on the plot of Metropolis, but in reverse"
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I once laid in my bed content With mama’s prayers tucked in Listening to trains far off across River trestles on rails stretched To places I could only dream of. Beginner’s luck The magic strong. Reality and dreams Synonymous. Early the seeds of wanderlust Planted. Talents forged of Cardboard boxes and Old trunks in the attic And of games with friends In woods and streets. Old Mr. Robling’s eyes looked Beyond . . . Child’s play would end Someday. That day eventually came in Linear time But much longer to this Wandering mind That thought beyond the grade School desk when my adolescent Peer’s noses were buried deep. Wander and travel lust left this Boy Rootless and restless when time Came to stop chasing mirages of Greener pastures. He then looked up and saw His little one’s grown up With a somewhat similar Bittersweet taste of chasing Elusive islands Of emerald green Seen as lush vivid images On their Built-in larger-than-life Neural GPS screens Programmed to ****** the Wanderer into the delusion that They can take extended or even Permanent excursions far from The Great Gray Banal Sea. Not very long ago this ageless Boy was forced into settling for Stark reality. But he is slowly Growing a bit more comfortable In his own skin. The grass is still a bit green But parts are a bit dry Patchy and crabgrass ridden. At least it fashionably matches His soul . . . Poetic justice for trading Most of your life for the elusive Obvious. I still cling tight to my childhood   In my own non-linear time of One hundred years ago But far too young in linear time To be residing in A tired old body Which defines age as value was Once Measured by quality not Quantity And as those running the track And roaming free over Thousands Of acres of wide-open plains As opposed to those put out to Pasture Or waiting in line At The Glue Factory.
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Jan 30, 2017
Jan 30, 2017 at 11:33 AM UTC
Mr. Robling's Time
I once laid in my bed content With mama’s prayers tucked in Listening to trains far off across River trestles on rails stretched To places I could only dream of. Beginner’s luck The magic strong. Reality and dreams Synonymous. Early the seeds of wanderlust Planted. Talents forged of Cardboard boxes and Old trunks in the attic And of games with friends In woods and streets. Old Mr. Robling’s eyes looked Beyond . . . Child’s play would end Someday. That day eventually came in Linear time But much longer to this Wandering mind That thought beyond the grade School desk when my adolescent Peer’s noses were buried deep. Wander and travel lust left this Boy Rootless and restless when time Came to stop chasing mirages of Greener pastures. He then looked up and saw His little one’s grown up With a somewhat similar Bittersweet taste of chasing Elusive islands Of emerald green Seen as lush vivid images On their Built-in larger-than-life Neural GPS screens Programmed to ****** the Wanderer into the delusion that They can take extended or even Permanent excursions far from The Great Gray Banal Sea. Not very long ago this ageless Boy was forced into settling for Stark reality. But he is slowly Growing a bit more comfortable In his own skin. The grass is still a bit green But parts are a bit dry Patchy and crabgrass ridden. At least it fashionably matches His soul . . . Poetic justice for trading Most of your life for the elusive Obvious. I still cling tight to my childhood   In my own non-linear time of One hundred years ago But far too young in linear time To be residing in A tired old body Which defines age as value was Once Measured by quality not Quantity And as those running the track And roaming free over Thousands Of acres of wide-open plains As opposed to those put out to Pasture Or waiting in line At The Glue Factory.
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Drove past a mansion the other day, high on a hill, grand and stately, with manicured lawns, and wrought iron fences, adorned with Morning Glories. Then I drove on, to a cozy little house, swingset in the yard and a trike in the driveway. It may not be much, but it's mine. Walked past a gym the other day, sculpted forms of the human physique, active and graceful, growing strong and healthy, fashionably decorated with the latest workout attire. Then I walked on to a medical center, examined and tested a barely passing grade. This body may not be much, but it's mine. I went to the park the other day, a cheerful young woman, pushing a giggling child in a swing, while another built castles in the sand. I may not be much, but I'm theirs.
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Feb 19, 2010
Feb 19, 2010 at 11:07 PM UTC
Mine
She is accompanied, by either mild disdain or comfortable curiosity, but always with magnetic eyes that do not spot the glints of time traversing through the shadows to pass her. Eyes glued to the screen, as two reflective sequins, shining opposite of the captivating screen that has momentarily captured her attention. Often squinting with head tilted slightly to the side, unable to give in to the crowd which fashionably wears the smirk of approval. Or with eyes drowning in the hatred of the Legion of Gerasenes, yet still yearning to not be cast aside. Tangible threads begin weaving the cloth of empathy, as each falling grain of sand counts another responsive brain wave reacting to the current. Unsure if these words filtered through the mechanisms of defense forced upon an individual after so many disappointing tributaries, or if rushing claret and voltaic storms of lucidity invited the passing guests. Unsure if you can overcome the luring request of the daughters of Achelous to settle the sandy shores of contentment, or, for just once, endure the salty trials with enough zeal to alter course and navigate to the unfathomable.
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Feb 2, 2012
Feb 2, 2012 at 11:24 PM UTC
Fighting Sirens
* Fashionably Unexpected* the devil had arrived but as the sun was at it's peak the invitation was for nine, but in the evening of next week... he was naked save the toga, and his flaxen locks of gold and a massive crop of wings, slightly mussed; - adroitly posed. i had just been in the garden, plucking apples from a limb with my pruning shears and sherry and no clue it might be him.... but there i stood astounded, having thought - " I heard the bell ? " and again by ' Who'd ' Come knocking on my mallet chain from Hell. the devil held a mirror and a silver box, ornate with the likeness of a lotus and an acorn on a plate... the gilding was perfection, and the mirror was opaque but the fallen one was flawless as the smile upon his face... and how i broke the silence in my simple garden threads was to ramble at the Serpent as I handed him a Jacket. Amused by my conceit that any custom i condone were applied with an epoxy Only carpenters from Rome, that were spotless and And from Nazareth with a Father and a Ghost - A Mother without Blemish and Disciples in a grove... And blessed be the Mercy of the Lending of the glue by the resurrected Handy Man and King of all the Jews ! The Morningstar obliged! But held the blazer in rebuke He grimaced His Displeasure And instantly for proof He dismembered my regalia and assembled it anew Into such a splendid Toga There was nothing I could do - but simply step aside as all the sting had let the ruse. I received the Prince of Darkness Wearing gloves and dirt and boots
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Oct 3, 2011
Oct 3, 2011 at 10:59 PM UTC
Deliver us from Neither [ canto I ]
* Fashionably Unexpected* the devil had arrived but as the sun was at it's peak the invitation was for nine, but in the evening of next week... he was naked save the toga, and his flaxen locks of gold and a massive crop of wings, slightly mussed; - adroitly posed. i had just been in the garden, plucking apples from a limb with my pruning shears and sherry and no clue it might be him.... but there i stood astounded, having thought - " I heard the bell ? " and again by ' Who'd ' Come knocking on my mallet chain from Hell. the devil held a mirror and a silver box, ornate with the likeness of a lotus and an acorn on a plate... the gilding was perfection, and the mirror was opaque but the fallen one was flawless as the smile upon his face... and how i broke the silence in my simple garden threads was to ramble at the Serpent as I handed him a Jacket. Amused by my conceit that any custom i condone were applied with an epoxy Only carpenters from Rome, that were spotless and And from Nazareth with a Father and a Ghost - A Mother without Blemish and Disciples in a grove... And blessed be the Mercy of the Lending of the glue by the resurrected Handy Man and King of all the Jews ! The Morningstar obliged! But held the blazer in rebuke He grimaced His Displeasure And instantly for proof He dismembered my regalia and assembled it anew Into such a splendid Toga There was nothing I could do - but simply step aside as all the sting had let the ruse. I received the Prince of Darkness Wearing gloves and dirt and boots
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She’s a tragic prodigy of her time, hammered nails and spring posies Playing peek-a-boo to keep the cards from running out Beautifully highstrung forming charts out of tomorrow Ghosting sunsets waking up with clubs and spades What is the the horizon but a roll of the dice, 1’s and 5’s She’s cloaked with grey roses spun out of lace Stars tell the future reflected in the dewdrops resting on her pillow Fashionably awkward and impeccably immaculate Swansong embodied
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 4:30 AM UTC
For the forgotten woman.
sitting in my seat all I do is think saving every breath counting every blink thinking fashionably about death I watch their eyes begin to wander up and down each others’ bodies I close stick a hand into my thoracic cavity and pretend it’s a clock to wind backward through time like they do in magazines and in front of well lighted storefronts and downtown mini malls across America. any beauty column will tell you the tricks and what you have to trade, every weight has a balance and every product has a price. hands in your pockets chin in the air eyes on the pavement— almost there, almost there button your buttons string your shoes "I think I can, I think I can” you can’t, of course, but the emptiness of cleared out commercial blocks and brown brick buildings and wide streets that are empty in the night they all call out antagonizing you with imposing angles narrowing density constricting construction walk away from it all hide your naked figure alone and cold in the crippling dark
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 3:48 PM UTC
I close
don't text him right away wait a year, get married, keep him guessing. arrive fashionably late to your dates wait an hour, or 2, or just don't go, keep him waiting. flirt with other guys kiss other guys, **** other guys, marry them, that'll make him jealous. tease him don't let him touch you, don't let him **** you, hell get a mastectomy, that'll drive him crazy. don't be the first person to say I love you don't be the second, don't want to seem desperate.
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 9:50 AM UTC
How to get the guy
Hear the motions of the engines, Speed South to North, As well North to South, Care not they, the sounds they make. It is a confession. They speed in the land of **** It increases, then decreases, As they travel past, the open window, Winterless blast, a confession, It feels close to spring. Care not a bit that sounds, rude, to those who tomorrow, Will wake up to snow, while the blizzard sounds here, Are the rush of thoughtless trucks and cars, Which are driven at speeds above the posted limit, Even if they don't have to travel so far, To get home in the drizzle, to their green grass. Maybe snow would slow them down, Or keep them off the road entirely, No, no, not them, they are rude, They have this attitude, Drive like this, no matter what the weather, They are better than the conditions, they drive in. Another confession, they are in it to win, and no one else knows there is a contest and contestants. What a surPrize! Hand him a sextant as he drives at night, after all he has to navigate, Through Facebook and Likes and texts and bytes of downloads from YouTube...would not want to be fashionably late in reply otherwise Your social life, and status, may die. Trafficking bad habits, Instead of "look out for the other guy or gal" The phone and the life it holds, can be dropped, "worse than a dropped call", is all the sirens wail as they go by, Life in the balance, ghosts White knuckling it with one hand, While eyes are fixed, to a deathly white screen And fingers dance solo in some sexless act, The result is the same a distracted fact, The mind is no longer in the car, It has left the body already, Waiting for it to die, Watching from above and reaching to all Who have fingers and a phone Wanting to be ghosts and sticking to the life, Which will make it happen.....by accident. Drive defensively, Leave your phone in the trunk.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 1:47 AM UTC
I hear dead people driving cars and they don't know it...
Hear the motions of the engines, Speed South to North, As well North to South, Care not they, the sounds they make. It is a confession. They speed in the land of **** It increases, then decreases, As they travel past, the open window, Winterless blast, a confession, It feels close to spring. Care not a bit that sounds, rude, to those who tomorrow, Will wake up to snow, while the blizzard sounds here, Are the rush of thoughtless trucks and cars, Which are driven at speeds above the posted limit, Even if they don't have to travel so far, To get home in the drizzle, to their green grass. Maybe snow would slow them down, Or keep them off the road entirely, No, no, not them, they are rude, They have this attitude, Drive like this, no matter what the weather, They are better than the conditions, they drive in. Another confession, they are in it to win, and no one else knows there is a contest and contestants. What a surPrize! Hand him a sextant as he drives at night, after all he has to navigate, Through Facebook and Likes and texts and bytes of downloads from YouTube...would not want to be fashionably late in reply otherwise Your social life, and status, may die. Trafficking bad habits, Instead of "look out for the other guy or gal" The phone and the life it holds, can be dropped, "worse than a dropped call", is all the sirens wail as they go by, Life in the balance, ghosts White knuckling it with one hand, While eyes are fixed, to a deathly white screen And fingers dance solo in some sexless act, The result is the same a distracted fact, The mind is no longer in the car, It has left the body already, Waiting for it to die, Watching from above and reaching to all Who have fingers and a phone Wanting to be ghosts and sticking to the life, Which will make it happen.....by accident. Drive defensively, Leave your phone in the trunk.
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Dreams are polka dotted at Walmart they say. And though this is true they do not taste sweet but Acidic like those Models plastic like Paris's **** you Know what I mean the Stringy ******* and diet Coke **** diet Coke and oil in bottles we are no machines whatever Happened to green leaves and sun burned skin our Words and tattooed bones when Did we become dumpsters dressed in Black Or silk chemically nourished and fashionably Stern **** fashion and You too your Oversized coat and Brainwashed **** we Need to start dreaming of Creations in the night in Every string of hair and treacherous stem I hate Bleached hair and red lips more than I Hate Bloomberg Oh ***** my smoked breath I’m lying again and So is he and You and Those polka dotted dreams.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 6:04 PM UTC
I Made Soup From the Horns of a Unicorn