"gels" poems
Route 84 would not lend me
the light of a star last night
Radio blazing at 75 mph
nonsense noise to chew gum by
Crackling political commentary
Static of distance and thick clouds
Invisible mountains blocking
Memories seeping through the cracks
coating the music in a film
I rub my eyes
watch myself punch alert buttons
But it’s the angels’ jukebox tonight
Roll down the window
Watch the heat escape
Summer again
I am building a castle of ancient stones
pulverized by relentless tides
Dragged across maps by mastodons
and mammoth glaciers
The scouring hiss
the ocean sighs
Time has lulled these smoothly
rolling them in the softest hands of sand
and gels of life’s comings and goings
tenderly tumbling
in the millionth moonrise—
Time deposits them here
wet and glistening
For the girl with the plaid two-piece to gather
Shoulders sun-burnt barely say
one week only,
one week of the fifty two
“It’s the time of the season…”
and daddies on the beach are watching….
She has chosen yet another stone
And the castle continues—
in oblivion to all but her legend…
The queen will be safe here
from the rabble
The disgraced Tristan will surely seek her
Among these lofty cliffs
Between the raging circuit of the tide
Here winds forbid the vengeful mob
Here lovers learn
the debt of love’s bad timing
“Drink ye all of it!”
--the potion that assigns our sorrow….
She will not sleep—
while I chew this gum-- GUM?
Roll down the window!
Angels escape with the heat
Waking me with the brush of their wings
As that eighteen-wheeler hugs my flank
And leans on the horn
Lights flashing
Rude rumbling under right tires
Tantrum of snow
In the draft of mass and velocity
…and the angels?
They’ve chosen another good one!
They must’ve liked the 80’s
Their wings slapping the windshield madly
Their hands steady the wheel
Sep 13, 2016
Sep 13, 2016 at 1:20 PM UTC
After Danez Smith's Dinosaurs in the Hood
Let's make a movie called Lil Peep In Heaven
Transpotting meets 8 Mile meets six xanax bars
There should be a scene where Lil Peep climbs up a few flights of Stairs and makes it to the pearly gates, because there has to be pearly Gates
Don't let Bella Thorne star in this.
In her version she tongue-kisses Peep,
Chews scenery in platform boots and bright pink
Ripped jeans. **** that, Peep has a tattoo removed
By a saint, his laser is proof of all that is good
I want a scene where Peep throws his pill bottles
At Ganesha, a scene where Allah tells Peep he'll
Rot in his grave forever if he doesn't stop
His antics. Don't let GothBoiClique hold a
Funeral for Gustav. I don't want any of that
Sentimental **** about love and how life is too
Short. This movie is about a man/boytoy/ugly and dying thing,
Restarting his life with all the real-ass gods and patron saints and
Deities
Of every religion and every afterlife
I don't want some funny, dreadhead living in LA with a tattooed stick And poke commanding presence. This is not a vehicle for someone to Play Peep, this is a vehicle for Peep to play himself.]
I want his ******* white or not, praying. I want them far from their Knees.
I want Lil Peep to ride in a Benz truck down from the clouds, Screaming with spittle flying from his mouth the entire time.
I want Layla to post another video of Gustav slapping pans together Like a child. And I want Peep to see it all.
But this can't be a death movie. This can't be a death movie. This Movie can't be dismissed because it's too dark, or that a dead man is Playing the leading role. This movie can't be about crying, or cause people to cry. This movie can't be about a long history of emo coming To an end. This movie can't be about dying.
No one can say Peep is a pill-popping ******* who deserved his death Who wouldn't say it to his cadaver. No big pharmacy jokes in this movie. No bar, capsules or gels in the heroes, and Lil Peep never dies & Lil Peep never dies & Lil Peep never dies. Besides, the only reason I want to make this movie is for the first scene anyway; Lil Peep climbing up the cloudy stairs, his eyes dilated & empty
the heaven before him filled with congratulations
Nov 17, 2017
Nov 17, 2017 at 10:47 PM UTC
Have you ever had a ****** stuck inside your nose?
You blow so hard, you get pain down in your toes.
You try your best, and you try with all your might.
It refuses to come out, all of the day and night.
The ****** has made a home, in your head it seems.
You blow some more, and even try some creams.
No matter what you do, the thing will not come out.
You pull your hair, then scream and shout.
How desperate you become, to try something new.
But what on Earth, could you possibly do?
Maybe if you stuck your finger in? No, that would be insane.
Or stick your head upside down, out in the freezing rain?
You have tried creams and gels, and a Q tip or two.
But nothing is working, and nothing will do.
And then one day, without even a thought.
You sniff real hard, and BEHOLD something caught!
Down the back of your nose, and into your throat it will ride.
Now it's in your stomach, where it can happily hide.
But you swallowed it! That's really, really gross!
Do you even care though, as long as it's out of your nose?
Nov 11, 2010
Nov 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM UTC
It's a matter of choice
as I pick through the basket
Alluring, **** Servicable
Barely there, You Asked For It
My choice
As my fingers pluck at Silk
and Satin and Lace
I can imagine your face
In the shower scents arise
Chosen gels floral a surprise
I've picked an outcome
as scented by my skin
I'm hoping to be outdone
by the choice of fabric
One small scrap of fabric
stands between
Begin
and
End
Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 5:51 AM UTC
There is no love in *** honey
Here we only do it for the money
We do it before we become old hags
We do it for that feel good drag
Bang, bang, choo choo train
Wrap her up into those chains
Give her your best shot
What about those gels you bought?
Maybe we should play a game
You be the bad boy I should tame
Teach you a lesson
No asking any questions
Make her moan
She’ll make you groan
Until a knocking at the door
And the next day she’s called a *****
So says the media
Everyone wants a piece of ya
*** shorty shake it down
Show them how you run the town
She’s the queen bee
There on her knees
Hey, he said down in front
So now she’ll have to make him grunt
**** that, I make them say please
They all think I’m just a tease
But I like it
So I won’t quit
**** me like a rolling stone
Go ahead feed me the bone
Nice girls finish last
Good thing nice girl’s in the past
Oct 26, 2011
Oct 26, 2011 at 11:44 PM UTC
I'm not religious.
I'm not even spiritual.
I'm just a cold, soft Vulcan.
The system of the down
has isolated me here
to think, which is what a Vulcan
does all the time.
It's really pointless.
It is desert, hot and cold
served in deprivation,
meditation, and
solitude.
The system has been doing
this for eons.
It's called increasing
systemic risk when stressed.
I make a cognitive chunk
for you to cogitate
over coffee.
Picture this.
Wandering Boy Scouts (BS)
in their pickup trucks,
helpful, strong,
vicious when aimless,
efficiently cruel,
mechanized abattoir makers
mass pit diggers,
merit badge takers.
Smell the BS.
It all goes into baking
gooey brownie BS,
repugnantly pungent,
and redolent of sweet
burning flesh.
Stressed, the down system
spits BS out
randomly to nucleate,
and procreate if possible.
Breeding a new Brand,
with Cult leader Classes
and all the -isms.
Visionaries with their caries;
Pushers with agendas hidden;
Leaders steadfast in conviction,
taking a nation, against
all odds, in Battling Bulges,
****** lines hidden
within clean, pleated
leather skirts
that still reveal penciled
seams up straight
shaved bare legs.
This is how the system
shakes itself; auto
****** asphyxiation.
Vulcan's never shake
the bars of their cells
because there's no barring
except Great Walls
forbidding, with a wink,
killing each other.
To be thy Greek brother's keeper,
is to cut not that brother man,
but the other brother man
down with BS fervor and S&M;
madness, before bondaging
his wounds in mummified
State, taped shut
with a healing kiss.
To have dominion
over the animals
means a bludgeoned
pleasure, or
transplanted
desire.
Dominion to exploit
blunted, unconditional,
emotional resources,
until the system
gels again, vaginally
or astrolly whole.
Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 11:11 PM UTC
I am here and it is the day after.
I lift a pile of unread mail off of a chair and open the blinds,
And watch the sun boil the dust in the air. I set and I take it in.
The room smells of old corsets and perfumed talcum powder.
An antique Lady Schick Consolette hair dryer
Hides partly obscured under the heavy frame of the carved mahogany bed
Along with stacks of magazines and catalogs and…………
God knows what else lurks there.
And I realize that I am the only one now lurking,
Looking into a room that had been forbidden to me
The soul domain of the lady of the house.
But she in not here to make things tidy for this impromptu visit.
She would be so shamed by my eyes taking this all in,
Her secrets, her pills, her special candies, her oils, her perfumes -
All of the alchemical accruements of femininity in jars and tiny boxes.
And the symbols of her wizardry, her diamond encrusted Eastern Star ring,
Pendants, broaches, earrings, necklaces, bobbles, bracelets, clasps, loose pearls-
From a strand I broke long ago during happier days.
The sun dust boils from this cauldron now,
This stuffy, over stuffed chamber of perfume and chocolate,
Of daybeds and special treatments, laxatives, gels, powered and pills.
I dream…..a can of gas and a match would be a fitting end
And then I see it on the dresser, an old photo of a family, a pretend family
And a face is cut out of it, his face…….and so I feel, for a moment
Her pain and see the world has she may have seen it. So be it. It is done.
Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 11:01 PM UTC
Binges, binge this, binge that.
Never tried twack, nor crack,
40+ Unisom Sleep Gels,
Put me in some intense sleep spells.
Tried my first Xan,
ate all 14 blues in my hand.
Still hadn't even had ***
Didn't have a phone to text.
I ate 63 Unisom this time,
but I knew I felt fine.
Walked in the night through my town,
till those Webb City cops had to put me down.
Got a really awesome plug,
taught me how to deal and ****
Tried twak, crack and sold it to my city,
I could get a gram for fifty.
Caught my first DWI,
dude I'm not drunk! but I was high.
I sat in the Jasper County Jail,
read all the bible while I was in my cell.
Got my best friend pregnant,
man life was really pleasant.
4 months my seed dies,
only God could hear my cries.
7 bottles of cough suppressant,
God came to me in my coma segment.
I had no intentions of turning away,
I was living my life day for day.
Shot my first handgun,
I started my life on the run.
I hated the world and I hated myself,
I had everything except for help.
3 hits of acid, 1 bottle of cough syrup, some **** DMT, and Hash.
My 20th birthday had to be a bash.
I saw a dragon hatch from the sky,
I swore we all were gonna die.
I couldn't wait for the world to end,
I had not a single friend everyone was for pretend.
Started going by Okey Dokey,
caused more mischief than Loki!
I wound myself down with a girl,
I thought she was my world.
We thought we were in love,
but we just loved to rub.
Left her after a week of being locked up,
I wanted to be like a lotus that grows from the muck.
I found a relationship with my Lord and Saviour,
I couldn't believe that what he had set for me later!
Turning the age of 22 and confined,
I was started to see becoming less blind.
I was baptized in the jail,
I gave up my feelings to fail!
Now here I am,
becoming a man.
I live in a Church now,
may peace and love be with you, Chow!
Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
I love you. All of you. Including your flaws. Maybe especially them. It is to the point where I wonder if I'd love you at all if you were perfect. I love you for everything that you aren't, for every hiccup in your genetic makeup, every nick on your face, everything that they make gels and scrubs to get rid of. For every time you fell short of the mark, every time you almost did but didn't. I love you for all the things you could never love about yourself, all the skeletons in your closet, all the things you'd rather no one ever know enough about to love. And you are completely ignorant to that fact, and perhaps that is another flaw that has me falling more and more in love with you.
Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 3:19 PM UTC
We come looped back and forth
infinite upon this plane.
All experience gels into itself
catalysis gooing
yet remains ungoo'ed.
Who we are is figments
of this basket and that
collecting from this
dimension and that.
One spike strikes the mind
affecting conscious mental
aether electifies, plucking
synapse physically
reroutes emotional body
looping back into itself and out.
Perpetual film flowing
through lens
stamped and projected
onto screens of life
for viewing.
Movement may come from
any beginning, middle or end
looping is not linear
unless the loop is cut.
Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 9:04 AM UTC
A friend dropped by my shop today
looking for some grooming muck
I told him where to find it
And that he was just in luck
I said "is it a present?"
He said "no, it's for me"
I said, it's cream and shaving gels
You're talking stupidly
He told me that he manscaped
What the hell is that I said
It's a man's way of new grooming
From his feet up to his head
He told me he got waxed "down there"
I cringed and just said ouch
With out hair on our *****
Men just slide off of the couch
He said he kept himself real clean
In case the situation did arise
where his tan lines were quite visible
and showed white down on his thighs
He talked to me of ointments
and of implants in his pecs
i started going la la la
when he started talking ***
i told him do not tell me
of the grooming down below
we're friends, but there are some things
even friends don't want to know
i told him that my father
told me keep it clean down there
and never, ever, ever,
take a scissor to that hair
a woman wants a manly man
and i am certain of this sir
a woman will not ***** you
if you're prettier than her!!!!
Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 5:21 PM UTC
Boris likes to stroke his Mogg
Merkel loves a hot Macron
David Davis hates to Barnier
Keir Starmer gels with Garnier
May adores her slimy Gove
While Corbyn woos the Abbott
Liz Truss? Such angry sourpuss
Herself to champion loudly fuss
And Greening's not for leaning
Against the Brexit so opposed
Sajid wants a blimp of Trump
Which has given Donald the ****
Whilst in the gilt historic chair
We’ve a bent partisanal ******
Cash grabbing John the squeaker
Bercow! How in hell are you still Speaker?
Now when speaking of selfish greed
Travel. Duck houses. Second homes, and such
Let’s remember; as not to would be unfair
That glib arrogant war-monger; Blair
I’ve had enough of all of them
The Blunts. The Hunts. The useless…
Pieces of flotsam and jetsom
Don’t even start me on Leadsom!
©pofacedpoetry (Billy Reynard-Bowness 2018 – All rights reserved)
Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 8:14 AM UTC
creeping madness slicks black and manic
spider high up on the wall
eyeballing me nervously, "who are you?
why are you stalling? whats come crawling back?
you know how this ends don't you?"
swift answers and an amniotic happiness installation.
speaking of stone, wired the lilies grow and the intrepid sank there was quite a stillness in the air.
sunken sand around my feet water cold and green.
out to meet the entity
her languorous form so ravenously tempting
so utterly repulsive and unspeakable.
looking for lights offshore
heretics of the unimaginable disciples of the moon
chemical ooze gels burns in the stomach
lit on up and walked out over the water.
after his peak, went heat seeking to the east and he ceased his babble easily, stuffing his mouth with pennies and bits of charcoal. we called him land-lubber and left him for said.
there is no part to this.
there is no heart in this.
blistering and out of control the fever spins.
wandering tills the level.
filtering cold and pushes me out into the yarns.
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 17, 2020 at 2:17 PM UTC
who designated
the negative and
abstract term of
the
*****
to represent
the race of
our beautiful
multi-tribal
Black People
the *****
represents
something that is dead
and insignificant but
Black People
are full of life
love and happiness
what gives
other people
the moral authority
justification or
the moral right
to define
Black Folks or
to tell us
what to think
Black Women
must stop purchasing
crazy hair products'
weaves extensions
for their hair and
creams and gels
to lighten up
their skin
to look
more European
with sraight hair
so we must define
our own beauty
within us
because we
always possessed it
stop buying
unecessary
Black hair products
from Asian shops and
making them rich
from our hard earn cash
no other racial groups
would come into our
Black communities
to support or
buy goods and services
from Black own businesses
we must take care of
our own
first and formost
Black Women
must develope
a more
natural look
in harmony
with God
and display
our healthy
curly kninky
shiny natural dynamic and
beautiful black hair
we must consolidate
our financial resources and
build Black own businesses
and products
to take care of our own needs
God made us
in His
own image
our Black Women
have always been
the beautiful queens
of the River Nile and
only we
can determine
all of that
furthermore
no other race
on this planet
shall define us
let me
tell you something
about them Negros
logically and scientifically
if we go back
far enough
from here
to Timbuktu
the Chinese
come from China
an Irishman comes
from Ireland
Frenchmen come
from France
an Englishman
comes from England
Germans comes
from Germany
so on and so forth
but
where in the hell
did the *****
come from
logically
he comes from
Negroland
however
this is
just a plain old fashion
cotton-picking lie
bigotry ignorence
prejudice and stupidity
at work here
Black People
are the
original people of
this earth and created
from the black soil of
Mother Africa
we are
stolen people
taken from
Mother Africa
against our
free will
Black People
did not volunteer
to come to America
but we have
every right
to live or die
in the pursuit of happiness
just like any other group
that successfuly made it
in America
and we help
to build America
and turned it
into a superpower
rich nation
yet
for the
love of money
greed and power
capitalism
thus created
a monster
called racism
towards
people of color
Black People
are the
original People
evolved from
Mother Africa
thus
we are made from
the image God
rejoice upon it
born with black skin
is not a curse but
a blessing
from God up above
Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC
When I confessed my love for her,
She instantly settled back scores,
How well she gels along myself.
Often I weigh the mutual feelings,
Really complex is this truer love,
I come to the conclusion daily.
Not at all felt this way previously,
Truest love is once in a lifetime,
Merrily falls the tide of time.
Now it is her exclusive domain,
A name now rattles in my heart,
Emptiness filled my heart earlier.
Loving her is a mistake I'd repeat,
Not only once but infinite times,
For it is the sweetest mistake.
Mar 26, 2014
Mar 26, 2014 at 5:47 AM UTC
Acapulco, the 1950's jet set age
of glamour and allure
a bay of high rise flats
edged along the shore
A golden bay of sandy grains
the longest beach it's famed
with glistening lights upon the shore
reflecting window panes
I find a puffer on the beach
and dive for large pink shells
my soul is filled with adoration
for this city gels
At night the city is on fire
with mariachi sounds
silver blue sombrero hats
colourfully spinning round
The soul is beating loud and wild
inside there is pulse
I feel it pressing me inside
true and never false
The colour hits you like a bolt
vibrant in it's treasure
a spicy flavour on my tongue
Acapulco's been a pleasure
Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC
A row of letters
written
attracts other words
as in all else
I strive to make a whole
like ants around a heap
they gather in my mind
some put on hold
as later they will come to use
but not before they're weighed
judged apt
then they're considered
their rhythm
rhyme and meaning coincides
a flash of recognition gives them impetus
they play their subtle game
running round the corridors of my brain
then out they pour in unison
a choir of random thoughts
gels into a poem unexpressed
the letters gather on the page
to my surprise
I recognise their message
develop it
to sit back and sigh
was it truly I who wrote it
it must be a new life before I die
Margaret Ann Waddicor 18th December 2015
Dec 20, 2015
Dec 20, 2015 at 11:55 AM UTC
*Autumn gels come to life with November
Sun , with a bluesy sky , with Sycamore mannequins
Red shapes parachuting into brown , cool weather
grass
I'm wearing my brown hooded coat once again
Reading bubble gum cartoons perched on a granite
retaining wall , Mother calling her kids to lunch
Leaving black Hush Puppies at the front door
Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches , butterscotch
pudding , midday naps
Awakened by the swirling wind of Fall , with cobalt blue canopy and
hardwood giants* ...
Nov 17, 2016
Nov 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM UTC
What’s the point
in dressing a fake plastic tree with warm lights and shiny *****
in wrapping up perfumes, candles and strawberry-scented shower gels,
in exchanging smiles and Merry-something
with that family friend who has been knowing you since you were born
and who has taught you how to tie your shoes,
with that girl who was your best friend when you were fifteen,
who shared with you the first Lucky Strikes
and who used to wipe your cheeks
when your black make-up left wet trails.
What’s the point
if you cannot wrap up a warm wool sweater
or some after-shave lotion
or ties, socks, gloves
or whatever you feel like wrapping up
for your dad.
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 5:04 PM UTC
Shellac looks real pretty
It’s also tough and gritty
But when it’s chipped and ******
You have to again dive into your kitty
Which is a pity
You can’t just whip it off
For that varnish is ****** tough
It’s made of very strong stuff
And a chisel ain’t enough
Which is rough
It requires professional help
Heavy duty acid to make it melt
Then they scrape it off which is hell
Every chunk when it’s peeled can be felt
Which makes you yelp
So you pay them to put it on
And you wear it a while which is fun
But when you’re finally done
You must pay again to make it gone
Which is a con
So enough of shellac have I had
For the expense is driving me mad
Never again will I succumb to this fad
Unless a lottery win do I have
Which is sad
It’s a waste of tinfoil after all
To have your mitts so adorned
You could almost plug them into a wall
And power the entire street from dusk til dawn
Which could cause a fireball
Then you’d be totally fried
And have no need for shellac which once tried
Is so addictive it bleeds your bank dry
Until you wake up and see the light
Which is right
Traditional nail polish is best
Though the fumes do play hell with your chest
And it don’t last as long as the rest
But at least it’s not much to invest
Which is the test
So I’m sodding the shellac
Giving gels the sack
To basics I’m going back
Using the old laq
Which is cheaper, albeit crap
And that is that.
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 2:56 PM UTC
Separation
Spread my limbs
Across a globe
Dipped in gels
Like laughter swells,
For the dawn
Whose shadows stick
To a country’s search
For misplaced bones
A scorned people see
The sea’s exchange
Of sound degrees
For tides at ease
© Matthew Goff
May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 11:45 AM UTC
i’m mellow and my
hair roars and
commands
it secretly envies
pin straight hair
but ella es orgullosa
she won’t say so
i scrunch and apply
leave-ins
and butters
and serums
and locking gels
wash day is a great day
but she needs so much
every curly spring needs tending to
wash day
where i scrub my scalp and
am never surprised when i find
stray bobby pins
falling to the base of the tub..
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019 at 11:01 AM UTC