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"fussy" poems
It’s something that try we should To provide the parrot its basic food Apple minus seeds mango banana Grape orange guava papaya As for vegetables cooked dried bean With beet broccoli its heart you can win Cucumber carrot and cauliflower They surely love like they love a shower Corn on the cob is fun for parrot They aren’t fussy as them you thought Hot peppers peapod lettuce For them delicacies you can choose Sweet and baked potato well cooked yam They devour in delight add to their glam Parrots are cute friendly and nice Give them oatmeal millet brown rice They’re not greedy from you they won’t beg Though these birds love scrambled boiled egg The parrot is innocent gorgeous and sweet Can’t call them carnivore yes they like meat Must talk to them and not keep your mouth shut Your loving pet the parrot loves occasional nut. Now words of caution what don’t do them good Candy and chocolate and all junk food I know you are smart and not at all mean To offer this wonder bird mushrooms caffeine Believe my words they aren’t my opinion Use them in your food don’t give them onion Dairy products for them are a big ‘no’ ‘no’ You surely want them to healthily glow Give the parrot shower keep its cage clean Give them just fresh foods no sugar no caffeine Say ‘no’ to pesticides choose only organic See in their bowel nothing goes toxic Follow what I’ve said the task is not hard Spend your time well with this beautiful bird.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
Parrot Care
All what fussy ***** had got, Something that started to rot, Is nothing else but lofty tails. Her most horrible trot, Got her inside the slot, Of someone called ****
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 9:27 PM UTC
Lofty Tails
did you know that the self effulgent light of God it self is **** shaped as above so below the inner revelation ******* above...light woven *** hole below ...flesh woven does this not infer a magical operation perhaps a hermetic ritual of adoration perhaps a puja to the **** with ornate kaleidoscopic mandalas replete with wrinkles and folds emerald toilet bowls silk *** wipe with full color florals to be ingratiated by **** art prints and to be fussed over and judged by certified ******* clergy then to cleanse with fragrant ointments that it may remain unsullied by its birthing labors voluptuous smoldering fecundations for purities sake as god remains free of limitation it too must remain free of its forgetful tarnished children i build  temple of **** high above the people the little ***** do they even know where they come from how they may devote themselves to the grandeur of the solar **** and its bestowals of clumpy torpedoes the catechism of the  solar **** to know to adore to prostrate to proselytize the glory of **** to the for corners of the earth to be faithful unto it to be obedient and present your ******* for ritual manicures by the true initiates the fussy ******* faeries   those who have the secret knowledge and remain true to the lore and precepts set forth of divine correspondences to fully appreciate its eminence its glory and have no God before it that mercy will follow them all the days of there lives*
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Jul 16, 2016
Jul 16, 2016 at 8:35 PM UTC
Temple of **** ...explicit...adult...social relgious commentary
Friend Rockstar,             Listen, yield to a robust think-tank,             earlobes skidding against wheat and grain. Terrible story, yes, what happened to that little girl. Sterile teddy nightgowns weeping in the squad car windows. Teacher – Teacher, do you harken my yodels for grace?             I’ve never been maternal.             Put the game on. Abortion.             That’s what I’m about.             Grab a bra. Sling some weight.             That’s what I’m about. Some housefly wings on a weathered corn cob. Some downhome, homegrown twang for those fancy, fussy britches.             Muddy workboots. Sweat-soaked collars.             That’s what I’m about. Him done made me read, sir. What sacraments did we write today?             I can still remember my first broken bone.             I can still remember my first broken *****                         That could be what this is all about. Mary, Mary, you can be contrite,             so knife – so critter – so laze – so stalked.     Who fertilized your seeds? Who reared your sprouts?             Cockle shells and silver bells, honey,             can’t grow up             to be pretty little maids all in a row. Sterile teddy nightgowns – green bells in gaseous gardens. Friend Rockstar, you may have to sleep. This restless harbor is a shivering anecdote spilled from a belly,             a vast, deep cavern with love notes written in milk. Your fried, stern smile was a flaking fingernail adjacent to the crack in the flowerpot. Some garden, I say.
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 7:12 PM UTC
Friend Rockstar
Friend Rockstar,             Listen, yield to a robust think-tank,             earlobes skidding against wheat and grain. Terrible story, yes, what happened to that little girl. Sterile teddy nightgowns weeping in the squad car windows. Teacher – Teacher, do you harken my yodels for grace?             I’ve never been maternal.             Put the game on. Abortion.             That’s what I’m about.             Grab a bra. Sling some weight.             That’s what I’m about. Some housefly wings on a weathered corn cob. Some downhome, homegrown twang for those fancy, fussy britches.             Muddy workboots. Sweat-soaked collars.             That’s what I’m about. Him done made me read, sir. What sacraments did we write today?             I can still remember my first broken bone.             I can still remember my first broken *****                         That could be what this is all about. Mary, Mary, you can be contrite,             so knife – so critter – so laze – so stalked.     Who fertilized your seeds? Who reared your sprouts?             Cockle shells and silver bells, honey,             can’t grow up             to be pretty little maids all in a row. Sterile teddy nightgowns – green bells in gaseous gardens. Friend Rockstar, you may have to sleep. This restless harbor is a shivering anecdote spilled from a belly,             a vast, deep cavern with love notes written in milk. Your fried, stern smile was a flaking fingernail adjacent to the crack in the flowerpot. Some garden, I say.
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Look upon all my beauty I'm a traditional rhyme Written so elegantly Perfect in every line! No, look at my free verse style! I'm not prissy or fussy I'm free as a bird with a free spirit That flies within the realm Of so many possibilities and directions! Much less inhibited than you! Nonsense! The camera flashes! They are taking pictures of me! Lovely, poetic form of old Style, as pure as can be! You're out of your mind! You traditional snob! All the oohs and aahs Are really all for my poetic genius! Move aside! And so they soon got into a tussle, words flying everywhere....that is according to Free Verse Traditional Rhyme felt so robbed Free Verse, you trouble maker! You may be the rage of the day! But to me you are a faker! Free Verse had such a harsh choke hold On the throat of Traditional Rhyme I can rhyme too... but not like you! Perfectly? No! Not all of the time! Traditional Rhyme called a truce Finally accepting both ways Sure, she had grace and she had style But Free Verse would not go away
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Jul 29, 2010
Jul 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM UTC
Rhyme and Free Verse Walk the Fashion Runway
going to the horror films at ten years old i wanted to be bitten by the vampire ladies you know the ones red brides from the netherworlds with heaving ******* divinities of evil with that dah look in silky white gowns a little messy from sleeping in the dirt culture vulture goth girls with upside down crosses slags all gauzy bats in the belfry deranged but after all they where dead and dreadfully appealing and I'm pretty fussy so what the hell they walked like floats in marshy air never touching the ground above frozen dark crypt terrains with twinkly bare feet and black high glossed toenails staring out of blood spilled eyes drooling cloudy mouth hollows and a yearning hungry countenance encouraging me to get closer to bite me all over pierce me with needly fangs puncturing little holes in tender me making me leak like bad plumbing until i sloped into the bog below of course, i was panicked all trembly but i had a big one for these evil shadowy ******* too so i thought yes no yes no yes no are you gonna **** me? i asked they drooled ooow okay, i thought is it gonna hurt? they shook there heads yes! and drooled real bad? i inquired further ah ha they lingered glaring drooling i guess, waiting for me to make up my mind oh okay anything for you you dark dreamy girls dilapidated queens of hell with ballet derrières "down and down I go round and round I go in a spin, lovin' the spin I'm in under the old black magic called love" after all at ten years old, i already knew i was a horror ***** and just a little turned on
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 11:58 AM UTC
HORROR ***** ...IM JUST A LITTLE TURNED ON
going to the horror films at ten years old i wanted to be bitten by the vampire ladies you know the ones red brides from the netherworlds with heaving ******* divinities of evil with that dah look in silky white gowns a little messy from sleeping in the dirt culture vulture goth girls with upside down crosses slags all gauzy bats in the belfry deranged but after all they where dead and dreadfully appealing and I'm pretty fussy so what the hell they walked like floats in marshy air never touching the ground above frozen dark crypt terrains with twinkly bare feet and black high glossed toenails staring out of blood spilled eyes drooling cloudy mouth hollows and a yearning hungry countenance encouraging me to get closer to bite me all over pierce me with needly fangs puncturing little holes in tender me making me leak like bad plumbing until i sloped into the bog below of course, i was panicked all trembly but i had a big one for these evil shadowy ******* too so i thought yes no yes no yes no are you gonna **** me? i asked they drooled ooow okay, i thought is it gonna hurt? they shook there heads yes! and drooled real bad? i inquired further ah ha they lingered glaring drooling i guess, waiting for me to make up my mind oh okay anything for you you dark dreamy girls dilapidated queens of hell with ballet derrières "down and down I go round and round I go in a spin, lovin' the spin I'm in under the old black magic called love" after all at ten years old, i already knew i was a horror ***** and just a little turned on
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Even though they control my ***** claim over my lootie, and they attempt to gaslight my sovereign multifrequency I haven’t forgotten I am a certified Duesy! You’re bumming off me, little mousie. Even if you thought I was a loosy, I adore my ***** I mean just look at the way it oozes, sweet nectar that makes you goosey! I’m too busy keeping you alive from my ***** Orgasming at light speed to my divine presence, to behold you’d require a diamond koozie. Call yourself a flouzy for not respecting this sequency. If you truly had one too, you’d understand why I am reclaiming my dignity. They want to own what they do not revere in secrecy. I can’t be bothered to slow down for you to drain my juicy. I am too in love with my ***** They try very hard to downplay my power, so sussy. Bow down or drown in this ***** Ordained into structured flowies, life is mine, fulfillment With me can be so easy. But if you’re not with this ***** don’t get too close you Will get dizzy! So much life is brewing inside my ***** It’s ironic, all these dictators came through my ***** My lips spit you out even though you pretend to be so bossy. True Power can’t be manipulated you fool, I’d be triggered too if my mind was that lousy! Are you put off yet, ***** Awww, don’t be so fussy! Thaw that heart out it’s too icy. GET OUT of my ***** go elsewhere to be pissy! Just not on my planet crazy, you’re on your last mercy!
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM UTC
these lips can't be owned (even if you tried)
Before I take one last bow Plunge it hard deep it go I beg *When history writes its page Mark me not a savage But one who loved his girl well Till to the trap he fell Of being too fussy In love’s jealousy A trait that breed Possessive greed Pay reasons no heed In love blind and mean Doubt the ****** And end up Spilling misery’s cup Cursing fate Realizing too late An act badly done Killing the beloved one Losing patience To see her innocence And then beg The history’s page Not to mark him a savage*
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 5:27 AM UTC
Savage
tootsie pops, pop rocks, rock candy sweet tarts, smelly farts, war-heads, sour patch kids reeses pieces, reeses stix, snickers lickers fudge pile, chocolate smile, peanut butter bile, sugary style baby ruths, almond joys, soy bean sauce, creamy steam ill give u a payday, mayday, hay tastes good with parfai milkyways stay gay to play games with sunrays icing splicing with knife dicing makes cakes, cook steaks, rumcakes ****** sprinkles, rip van winkle, diddily dinkle gummy worms, germs impregnate firm, permed urns angel food, carrots, pineapple upsideways fruits, ***** parachutes, scooters, jello shooters goobers, corn on the cobbers, veggie wedgies, pepper leppers, squash boxes, fry foxes, fleet rocks', carrot tops', dishes of fishes, witches brew platypus and fat kush pushy slushies riding skateboards on gary busy fussy hussies getting blushy about cussies cereal made of creoles, bread straight from dreads, rice is nice with spice, yeast is beast, last but not least, wheat is a treat, kiwis, shmiwis, dodos on go phones, starfruits, bartlejuice, grape drank, sushi stinks. ill eat anything.
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 4:50 AM UTC
candyland jam
I will wait for you on a crowded street I will wait for you on the busiest bridge I will wait for you on a fussy platform I will wait  for you near the rushed office gate I will wait  for you near a temple I will wait for you near your house entrance I will wait for you wherever you assure to come
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC
I will Wait For You
i have a little budgie and i call him tweet he his very tidy and keeps cage so neat he his very fussy and dosent like a mess anything he spills puts him in distress he his always busy. cleaning when he can it his fun to watch this house proud little man he polishes his mirror till it gets a sheen a house proud little budgie i have never seen
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Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013 at 12:07 PM UTC
house proud budgie
I Think I'd Make A Good Principal is just one of the stories within these pages, but you'll also find a recess superhero, some suggestions on where to time travel, a tiny guy that can't sleep, a fussy grandpa that lives upstairs, a zombie mouse, and several other funny and imaginative poems sure to delight both kids and adults. (Complete with wonderful illustrations by artist David Lee) It's something that wouldn't be typical, But I think I'd make a good principal. The first thing I'd cut would be funding for math, Maybe not fully, but at least in half. Next on the list would be killing off science Proudly shaking my fist in defiance. Social studies is sure to get axed, And geography class prob'ly won't
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 7:39 AM UTC
irshaad's best
my feelings don't matter, did they ever i question? where was your intention...im scrambled like eggs. did you enjoy the taste? simply wanted to lay? "oh it's no fussy!" too often I say i'm used to this way. i've been cracked at the seams and tossed out in the hay with nowhere to go except further misplaced. but aren't we alone at the end of the day....? that's probably why we never will stay. so again - i pray. relinquish these emotions that are blocking my way.
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Apr 16, 2023
Apr 16, 2023 at 2:24 AM UTC
farming love
It all began as an observation, a mere innocent study, to watch people in cars, from cars. First, the tired workers, who glared and stared in the road in front, who slumped in their seats, who held the steering wheels in a glum manner, who had dark circles under their eyes, who had cans of beers at the back seat, tired, weary, drained, exhausted,spent. The cheeky children, who yelled at their siblings, who wrestled with siblings, who sat listening to lectures, who texted with their phones, who went tippy tappy with their laptops, who ignored the world; reading, innocent, busy adolescents. Of course, there are mothers, who glance at their sleepy children every few minutes, who smile at their babies dotingly, who gave loud lectures to kids, who smoked cigars, who was on the phone,or was just driving ahead, loving, fussy, unleisured. There were the out-going, who head-banged furiously to booming music, who sang aloud to radio, who chatted enthusiasticly with passengers, who smiled the whole way through the journey, who stuck their hands out to feel the wind, who had nothing to worry about, free, wonderful, liberated, loose. Also, some were fretful, who needed to visit hospitals, who had their heart broken, who got rejected at interviews, who lost someone, who is obviously in anxiety, who were simply drunk, worrysome, tired, sad. And then there's me, who had nothing better to do, than to watch and observe, and felt many things should be changed, eccentric, weird.
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 3:37 AM UTC
People In Cars
It all began as an observation, a mere innocent study, to watch people in cars, from cars. First, the tired workers, who glared and stared in the road in front, who slumped in their seats, who held the steering wheels in a glum manner, who had dark circles under their eyes, who had cans of beers at the back seat, tired, weary, drained, exhausted,spent. The cheeky children, who yelled at their siblings, who wrestled with siblings, who sat listening to lectures, who texted with their phones, who went tippy tappy with their laptops, who ignored the world; reading, innocent, busy adolescents. Of course, there are mothers, who glance at their sleepy children every few minutes, who smile at their babies dotingly, who gave loud lectures to kids, who smoked cigars, who was on the phone,or was just driving ahead, loving, fussy, unleisured. There were the out-going, who head-banged furiously to booming music, who sang aloud to radio, who chatted enthusiasticly with passengers, who smiled the whole way through the journey, who stuck their hands out to feel the wind, who had nothing to worry about, free, wonderful, liberated, loose. Also, some were fretful, who needed to visit hospitals, who had their heart broken, who got rejected at interviews, who lost someone, who is obviously in anxiety, who were simply drunk, worrysome, tired, sad. And then there's me, who had nothing better to do, than to watch and observe, and felt many things should be changed, eccentric, weird.
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At the back of the cupboard I skulk You don't need me any more So I sulk Discarded and alone Getting dusty Hardly used any more Smelling musty There was a time long ago When you loved me You showed me off When you made your friend's tea You used to wash me and dry me Make me feel smug Now you've replaced me With a tea bag in a mug But today might be My lucky day I hear your Mother's On her way I know how fussy she can be I know she'll insist On a proper *** of tea She'll turn up her nose At your common mug She'll want a nice tea *** And a china cup With some milk From a proper milk jug Nicki Tilston
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 8:24 AM UTC
Neglected Teapot
What's a guy to do, when he encounters you?, It's not even your looks, your nose is like a hook, And inner beauty is void, you leave me so annoyed. You prey on young men, luring them to your den, Then you **** their funds dry, and will bid them goodbye, You just toss them aside, god woman where's your pride?, I can see what you're doing, it's not me you're fooling, My man's not for the taking, you make no mistaking, He sees what you're like, he calls you the town bike. So move along ***** my love's really fussy, He likes girls with class, not some cheap ****** Avert your eyes elsewhere, look, there's a teen, over there.... (c) eileen mcgreevy 2009
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Feb 4, 2010
Feb 4, 2010 at 4:45 AM UTC
She Devil
I hate you But I need you You break me Yet I pursue you You burrow deep into My soul Weeding Weeding out all My inner fears And presenting Them to me proudly Ev er Y Day I fear your power Yet long your presence You claw your way into My guts I purge you out So many time Yet every time You remain within me I pray for freedom Yet hold the key Scared you'll leave Scared you'll stay I need draining Detoxing Filtering Burning To rid your presence from My time ... What scares me most Is how you grow And pass among The lonely souls I long for a day Where you are no more A fleeting nightmare A sickening joke You've taken friends Of many sorts Never fussy For your curse Bulimia. Anorexia. EDNOS. Binge Eating So many masks you own I pray a day when mine Is Thrown ..... !Eating Disorders need bombing!
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
Eating kryptonite ....
At eighteen I'm the scent of second-day hair with perfume in it It smells like your bed, and my sweat, and your exhales, and my Juicy Couture Viva la Juicy . How middle school of me. I'm the cool touch of unwashed sheets on bare skin because the thermostat is fussy and I like sleeping naked Just me, you, and this body that I don't like so much right now, but I'm eighteen, and I'm working on that. I'm leggings while they still pass for pants, and the chewed up ends of pens in twenty different colors Chinese homework has really turned me into such a biter, and I claim to love all those darling pens equally, but I show my blue pens the most love I've teethed them half to death I'm not even close to halfway to death assuming things go well for me. Oh, please let things go well for me. At eighteen I'm the taste of chai and menthol because that's what's **** these days I'm all about what's **** these days. Apathy, really bad electronic music, bare midriffs. Funny since at eighteen I don't want anyone to touch me This body is my project, please don’t even look at me like this, all insecure and exposed. Please just let me curl up, and please let me be by myself. I wish my mother were here to bring me a popsicle. My throat hurts from all the screaming I do these days. At eighteen I guess I'm still a little angsty, but I just want you to love me God, do I want you to love me. I want you to patronize me with the warmth of your arms and undress me with strong, resolved hands Don't touch me, just look at me and tell me that I'm perfect and naive because at eighteen I'm still milky white, soft, and broken I'm a sight for sore eyes, a new sight, your sight For god's sake Just love me.
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 11:39 PM UTC
October 2, 2013 -- At eighteen
At eighteen I'm the scent of second-day hair with perfume in it It smells like your bed, and my sweat, and your exhales, and my Juicy Couture Viva la Juicy . How middle school of me. I'm the cool touch of unwashed sheets on bare skin because the thermostat is fussy and I like sleeping naked Just me, you, and this body that I don't like so much right now, but I'm eighteen, and I'm working on that. I'm leggings while they still pass for pants, and the chewed up ends of pens in twenty different colors Chinese homework has really turned me into such a biter, and I claim to love all those darling pens equally, but I show my blue pens the most love I've teethed them half to death I'm not even close to halfway to death assuming things go well for me. Oh, please let things go well for me. At eighteen I'm the taste of chai and menthol because that's what's **** these days I'm all about what's **** these days. Apathy, really bad electronic music, bare midriffs. Funny since at eighteen I don't want anyone to touch me This body is my project, please don’t even look at me like this, all insecure and exposed. Please just let me curl up, and please let me be by myself. I wish my mother were here to bring me a popsicle. My throat hurts from all the screaming I do these days. At eighteen I guess I'm still a little angsty, but I just want you to love me God, do I want you to love me. I want you to patronize me with the warmth of your arms and undress me with strong, resolved hands Don't touch me, just look at me and tell me that I'm perfect and naive because at eighteen I'm still milky white, soft, and broken I'm a sight for sore eyes, a new sight, your sight For god's sake Just love me.
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Normal and I dated for a while, Normal was a little high-maintenance, Normal asks you not to laugh too loud, that's not very lady-like you know, Normal tells you to always wear lipstick when you go out, Normal demanded perfection. Normal doesn't like it when your hair is messy or your nails aren't done, Normal gets fussy when there are creases on your shirt, Normal says, straighten that wrinkle, scrub that spot and align your smile, Normal means business, there's no time to be sad, Normal won't let you show your weaknesses, you must be perfect, Perfect posture, perfect smile, oh! and don't forget that lipstick. Normal unfortunately, wasn't for me. So, we called it quits a while ago. Last I heard, normal was seen trying to adjust the smile of his current love, As for me, I fell in love with wanderlust and he's been good to me so far.
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 6:44 AM UTC
Normal and I
The old man sits on the park bench. He feeds the birds. He plays chess with an old Navy Buddy... Memories shared with tenderness to valor of the yester year that become fussy and dirty,muddy. Flashbacks to the battles fought. Families built on foundations of their own family names. Defining the future of the grandchildren and children. Humor adds to clear the pain of a lost yesterday. As the elder whipes a misquito flying from near his ear. Stories in the fashion of "Forrest Gump." brings color as crowds listen in the park. To listen to the wisdom of those who helped shape their "today" Intrigued by their topics, they fail to leave, they pull up a chair and stay. The two chess playing elders sharing whimiscal tales of old... Scrolls of the writings of confus of fortunes fortold come to light as people become warm through listening to great memories and avoiding the void of connection which was the cold.
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 7:24 PM UTC
Elders
♀  ♀  ♀ Hey you! In the vagina-hat, frumpy feminist dressed in pink; we men (what do you make of that) would love to know just what you think. We've heard of "ass-hats", anyway. But we can see the other side: it's orificial bombs away as bridegrooms now behold the bride. Gynecology on parade: how weird. You think it makes your point? It's more a vaginal charade, and promises to disappoint. You say your cap evokes your ***** feline foolishness, I say. It's cat in bag when fems get fussy showing patriarchs the way. Show us yours and we'll show our own. Well actually, it's kind of cold to whip it out right here downtown... We'll grant you this: you chicks are bold. Your choice-aborted progeny, disposed of in the clinic's trash, might blame you for misogyny— though spared the curse of diaper rash. We'll keep abreast of all you do, chanting, marching, fists in air... yet still, you seem a silly crew aflush with zeal (and ***** hair). But must it always come to this: biology devoid of God ? Exteriorizing, hit and miss, the secrets of your aging ***
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Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 9:42 AM UTC
Stoking the Pussyfires
I can't help but dream of you and me, sitting, drinking cups of tea. Talking, mildly discussing, of the color blue; all its hues and its philosophy Alone without the fussy world distracting. To Be, no fear, simple. And in the crashing waves of endless Time we could stop.
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM UTC
stop
Messy Bessy Pouty fussy Screaming crying always ***** Ugly Bessy Huffy Puffy Yelling punching kicking kitty Silly Bessy Loudy mouthy Mommy madly gives a slappy
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Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010 at 12:57 PM UTC
Oh Bessy
Watch out, the stove is hot. White iron teeth that will bite your tongue, split chapped lips, then eat salt and vinegar crisps. Sharp streaks of nerves, grinning with missing incisors drip in lines down your chin of green and brown copper. If I had a fish pond to throw these dimes into, I would never have to know where they came from, why they didn't fall out of my coat with the turned up collar. Unwashed wool wraps and rots round warped shoulders, gnarling strained fingers between ball and socket joints. Fussy tea cakes and strands of hair relinquished to the wind hobble up and down outdoor train stations, old-fashioned floral prints swept aside, a puppet show of sickly chicken legs pocked, potholed and pickpocketed. Lost in the war, between couch cushions, baked into blackberry crumble in go egg whites, out come memories of snow that tightroped power lines, good dogs that stayed, coauthors of the oxford english dictionary. Badly rolled cigarette smoke in the streets writes gregorian poetry for darned socks snagged on shoddy repair jobs, splintered wooden bones. Pour yourself a stiffer drink, it’s going to be a gangrenous winter.
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 2:38 AM UTC
Ghost Limbs
A Poem for June Just why a cucumber should be so cool Eludes the logical; a cucumber’s just A vegetable a-lying on the ground Awaiting consumption.  But let’s accept This vegetarian cliché’ simply To get on with this cool descriptive task: Whatever’s cool in the falling June sun Descends through oak leaves, dark and summer green And dancing down the air falls happily Upon this cool cucumber cave where sits Upon a wooden bench a lazy man Who should be taking now another turn With lawnmower, shovel, or shears against The wild greenness of happy midsummer. But, oh!  Persephone surely won’t mind If her allotted garden tasks are paused By her appointed minion rustic who Takes now his ease in her delightful shade. For summer after all is more than work; She calls for dozing too, and dreamily Watching busy bees buzz among the flowers, Like fussy matchmakers arranging marriages, And hummingbirds humming in and out of leaves, Their sanctuary leaves, to argue at The nectar-feeders, as if there weren’t Enough for all.  The squirrels in the trees Would never condescend to chitter there; They glare at humans disapprovingly, Like old teachers unhappily aware That, oh, somewhere, somehow a child might be Enjoying life, and that would never do! Even the ribbon of smoke from the morning’s Trimmings and cuttings and sawings appears To be taking a nap in the summer noon, There gently snoring up wisps of ashes Instead of roaring, hissing manfully As it did in the early hours.                                                      The bench Along the fence where the tired old man sits Creaks as he shifts his weight, and watches His backyard world doze in the leaf-laced sun; He lights a well-deserved cigar, and sees Its soothing smoke join with the ******* fire Ascending heavenward with peaceful thoughts.
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Jun 1, 2019
Jun 1, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
A Cucumber-Cool Cave of Green but without any Cucumbers
A Poem for June Just why a cucumber should be so cool Eludes the logical; a cucumber’s just A vegetable a-lying on the ground Awaiting consumption.  But let’s accept This vegetarian cliché’ simply To get on with this cool descriptive task: Whatever’s cool in the falling June sun Descends through oak leaves, dark and summer green And dancing down the air falls happily Upon this cool cucumber cave where sits Upon a wooden bench a lazy man Who should be taking now another turn With lawnmower, shovel, or shears against The wild greenness of happy midsummer. But, oh!  Persephone surely won’t mind If her allotted garden tasks are paused By her appointed minion rustic who Takes now his ease in her delightful shade. For summer after all is more than work; She calls for dozing too, and dreamily Watching busy bees buzz among the flowers, Like fussy matchmakers arranging marriages, And hummingbirds humming in and out of leaves, Their sanctuary leaves, to argue at The nectar-feeders, as if there weren’t Enough for all.  The squirrels in the trees Would never condescend to chitter there; They glare at humans disapprovingly, Like old teachers unhappily aware That, oh, somewhere, somehow a child might be Enjoying life, and that would never do! Even the ribbon of smoke from the morning’s Trimmings and cuttings and sawings appears To be taking a nap in the summer noon, There gently snoring up wisps of ashes Instead of roaring, hissing manfully As it did in the early hours.                                                      The bench Along the fence where the tired old man sits Creaks as he shifts his weight, and watches His backyard world doze in the leaf-laced sun; He lights a well-deserved cigar, and sees Its soothing smoke join with the ******* fire Ascending heavenward with peaceful thoughts.
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