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"gimmicks" poems
What's it take These days To write a poem That makes the world go mad That brings the crowds to their feet That spreads like wildfire Through a dry winter forest Is it those excessively long words? The ostentatiously loquacious Platitudinous ramblings Of an insecure mind aspiring To authentic intellect? Is it perhaps...      the "creativity"                of      varied      spacing   or...    could it be..... the lack                               of capitalization                the loathsome little letters                screaming out                          hey, look at us!          ... or maybe it's                the punctuation marks,      littered, haphazardly           through the text                     (whether used correctly)                or, theyre not?!      despite worrds mispeled           and a grammar might is broken    can these gimmicks increase interest         though miswritten or misspoken? Is the trick alliteration Whose bite brightly bids us To center on the snappy sounds? Although all along      unvoiced underneath Ideas idle in the isles    (or perhaps the aisles) Of the mind To meld and craft and bind Our thorough thoughts And worthy words Into lines Which Heard by herds Raise the                   Praise for which we                   Privately, desperately                   Pray Maybe it's a magical mix Of splendid in-your-head rhythm Marvelous meter that perfectly clicks Flowing smoothly without schism Well-spaced stanzas Well-used time Well-crafted phrases Well-thought-out rhymes Well, maybe not...      those gems are often ignored      cast-aside, unread, even abhorred Why? Because the modern world doesn't need your rules your restrictions your regulations your misguided boundaries your oppression your antiquated ideas    of "the right way"    to write    to speak    to act    to live    to (fill in the blank) No, what the modern world needs is Negation! Contradiction! Resistance! Revolt! And poetry whose words Say the same thing Repeat the same meaning Echo the same lyrics Rephrase the same thoughts But in an ever-so-slightly Different Varied Altered Adjusted Changed up way Line After line Of synonyms           over                and                     over                          and                          over                          again ----- What's it take These days To not give in To narcissism's spiral? But more importantly: What's it take To make my poem go viral?
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 12:17 AM UTC
Viral
What's it take These days To write a poem That makes the world go mad That brings the crowds to their feet That spreads like wildfire Through a dry winter forest Is it those excessively long words? The ostentatiously loquacious Platitudinous ramblings Of an insecure mind aspiring To authentic intellect? Is it perhaps...      the "creativity"                of      varied      spacing   or...    could it be..... the lack                               of capitalization                the loathsome little letters                screaming out                          hey, look at us!          ... or maybe it's                the punctuation marks,      littered, haphazardly           through the text                     (whether used correctly)                or, theyre not?!      despite worrds mispeled           and a grammar might is broken    can these gimmicks increase interest         though miswritten or misspoken? Is the trick alliteration Whose bite brightly bids us To center on the snappy sounds? Although all along      unvoiced underneath Ideas idle in the isles    (or perhaps the aisles) Of the mind To meld and craft and bind Our thorough thoughts And worthy words Into lines Which Heard by herds Raise the                   Praise for which we                   Privately, desperately                   Pray Maybe it's a magical mix Of splendid in-your-head rhythm Marvelous meter that perfectly clicks Flowing smoothly without schism Well-spaced stanzas Well-used time Well-crafted phrases Well-thought-out rhymes Well, maybe not...      those gems are often ignored      cast-aside, unread, even abhorred Why? Because the modern world doesn't need your rules your restrictions your regulations your misguided boundaries your oppression your antiquated ideas    of "the right way"    to write    to speak    to act    to live    to (fill in the blank) No, what the modern world needs is Negation! Contradiction! Resistance! Revolt! And poetry whose words Say the same thing Repeat the same meaning Echo the same lyrics Rephrase the same thoughts But in an ever-so-slightly Different Varied Altered Adjusted Changed up way Line After line Of synonyms           over                and                     over                          and                          over                          again ----- What's it take These days To not give in To narcissism's spiral? But more importantly: What's it take To make my poem go viral?
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finding fake joy in little lies finding fake self worth in some shoes new branded item no one looks up on you for them just wait 'til the mud tear them down tell me who what do you see when you look into the mirror is it someone you like? is it someone you wanted to be? the kid in you says hi to me asking you to grow up so that he can too to face the real world like a real man should armed with ammunition that is real self-confidence stemming firmly on the ground of wisdom not fake accessories and marketing gimmicks clink another glass because that's how you face your problems pout another story for your non-existent friends to tell inflated self image inflated ego who you gonna fool with your little bell
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 9:52 PM UTC
Dear Boy,
So much for superheroes saving the day; Every good guy's epilogue is a cliche. Tedious compulsory celebrations For all their mundane actions. A villain's portrayal is what excites me. Ever since a kid I could already see; Creativity in all those gimmicks, Geniuses of ***** tactics. It is never easy to become the antagonist. The object of all hate and blacklist; The one that is destined to fail, To fulfill a comic's holy grail. Yet the bad guys do most of the heavy work, Perfecting their schemes with an evil smirk; But every time they're about to win, The plot will smash their plan to ruins. They say some people are destined to be heroes; It's a fate preordained a long time ago. But the truth is that everyone needs a villain, To finally uncover their life's meaning. What the world generally calls as criminals, In reality are just misunderstood equals. They taught me more about the cruel life, Better than any superhero's strife.
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Aug 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016 at 7:54 PM UTC
I Grew Up Rooting for the Bad Guys
Fandango we danced was second to last or was it tango? we all are too clumsy to move too rigid to see things without limits we need no gimmicks just a direction or a simple question to be answered prevent brain cancer become decent dancers to get to know there’s nowhere to go if we don’t want to but when we are about to we need some fuel to fill our engines with pride the heart and the mind are never good friends in the world of dollars blue collars dark on the inside breaking their stride to fight the poor not the poverty so unfair but it’s the reality of our lives human hives ideology of the masses ruling classes thy neighbour to despise catch them by surprise rot one from within soon to take ‘em in lose someone you love to understand there’s an undeclared war that we can’t bystand take part start to act, preach, teach, bleach dye, cry find an ally before long our song will be that of joy tactics we employ are peaceful spare no enemy **** one - get one free the tree of life having tea at five some things never change we are acting strange conceived in liberty created to be loved but still in puberty continuously starved of little things we need there’s just too much greed open your heart take my hand for a start we all have one goal Sweet Lord help us all! 22.10.2010
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 1:55 AM UTC
escapada
For the days when your ego slaps itself as if it’s playing hambone, remember: there’s a name for the smell of rain on pavement. And every photograph is like Stockholm Syndrome, where subjects fall in love with their captors. You are no victim. That’s why I still don’t know whether you’re photogenic. All I ask is that you keep photographing my self-portraits, so that I may love you through the way I view myself. Because my ego is more like that potato clock from the science fair: surprisingly electric, yet full of holes. My skin is pierced with nails, but I am no Christ. It’s just my job to keep time. That’s why first place goes to the skateboarding rat. The judges don’t like me because I don’t believe in gimmicks. But when you look at me--alligator clips and all-- your eyes become blue ribbons, letting me know that I have won and you intend to claim your prize. “Let’s take a photo,” I say. You say no, that taking pictures will make us like everyone else. I ask why it matters if we know we’re not. You look down at the newspaper. In my mind, I say your name. And when you look up from the politics section, I snap a photo for good measure. This plan seems completely doable until I realize I’ve never called you by your name. You call me by mine, and attach it to sayings like “No one will ever bring half a smile to my face like you do” or “Hi” or “How are you?” or “I love you.” Is this because there’s only me or because there’ve been others besides me? If I were to succeed in capturing you, I imagine you’d have red eyes in the photo. Red ribbons to let me know I’ll never top second place, that there are other girls you’ve been inside of, but you are my only. No contest. And yet you ask if I’ve awarded any other blue ribbons. You don’t believe me when I say, “No.” I know you asked as a way to boost your ego, but for the days when your ego slaps itself as if it’s playing hambone, remember: there’s a name for the smell of rain on pavement, and that your wish to feel special should never be at my expense.
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Aug 5, 2012
Aug 5, 2012 at 2:06 PM UTC
Petrichor
For the days when your ego slaps itself as if it’s playing hambone, remember: there’s a name for the smell of rain on pavement. And every photograph is like Stockholm Syndrome, where subjects fall in love with their captors. You are no victim. That’s why I still don’t know whether you’re photogenic. All I ask is that you keep photographing my self-portraits, so that I may love you through the way I view myself. Because my ego is more like that potato clock from the science fair: surprisingly electric, yet full of holes. My skin is pierced with nails, but I am no Christ. It’s just my job to keep time. That’s why first place goes to the skateboarding rat. The judges don’t like me because I don’t believe in gimmicks. But when you look at me--alligator clips and all-- your eyes become blue ribbons, letting me know that I have won and you intend to claim your prize. “Let’s take a photo,” I say. You say no, that taking pictures will make us like everyone else. I ask why it matters if we know we’re not. You look down at the newspaper. In my mind, I say your name. And when you look up from the politics section, I snap a photo for good measure. This plan seems completely doable until I realize I’ve never called you by your name. You call me by mine, and attach it to sayings like “No one will ever bring half a smile to my face like you do” or “Hi” or “How are you?” or “I love you.” Is this because there’s only me or because there’ve been others besides me? If I were to succeed in capturing you, I imagine you’d have red eyes in the photo. Red ribbons to let me know I’ll never top second place, that there are other girls you’ve been inside of, but you are my only. No contest. And yet you ask if I’ve awarded any other blue ribbons. You don’t believe me when I say, “No.” I know you asked as a way to boost your ego, but for the days when your ego slaps itself as if it’s playing hambone, remember: there’s a name for the smell of rain on pavement, and that your wish to feel special should never be at my expense.
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-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:41 AM UTC
Smoke & Mirrors
-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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All Blatant Critics Depicting Egotistic Fishing Gimmicks Hissing Ignorant Jipping Kissing Lying Missing ****** Obviously Picturing Realist Sickest Technician Utilizing Visions Witness Xenogenic Zeal Adjectives Build Courage Determined Earning Faith Giving Hidden Illiterate Jilted Kindred Living Mission Nitwit Oblivion Picking Resentments Sickening Tension Ultimately Vigilance Xray in Zillion
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 12:35 PM UTC
A-Z
We’re in this, no limits, no gimmicks, no scrimmage, no sewage, no sadness, no losers, so tragic, the truth is, abusers, abuse but, their tactics are madness, so when they step, we make them back track with, apologies “So sorry please, I didn’t mean to try to take, all of your Light Energy.”, ok I accept their pleas, then tell the fickle fleas “Peace, I think it’s time that all you flee.”, And their gone, along the whispers in the wind, and we’re in the hammock again, Scarlet and I off the mark and still high, gone like the wind our world continues to spin, distracted by our addictions, which is apparent from the scars I wear on the body I’m currently in, With red eyes, no bullseye, no bullSh!t, just true facts, think about the best thing you could ever do in your life, and rest assured we’ve done are doing or will do that... ∆ Aaron LA Lux ∆ Volume 1 The H Trilogy City of Angels I just published a new book. If you could take a moment to check it out, and even write a review it'd be most appreciated. All profits go to a charity that prevents child abuse and ****** assault. So not only are you getting an epic book of poetry, but you're also supporting a good cause. Thank you SO much! ∆ https://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-City-Angels-Aaron-Lux/dp/1535054328
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 10:21 PM UTC
∆ In It ∆
Deep ridge, deplete elitists. Gold flows, layers, Dbridge, enriched tone, gates golden, heavenly. San Francisco, incomplete, switch robes. Can't be beat, Klitchschos, barking up the wrong tree, rich tones. Switch flows, risk it, rich tea, gifted. Unwritten, no gimmicks, smooth months, pale ale Guiness. Wrap presents, gift wrapped, signed sealed delivered. Dispatched, Spit fires, spit facts, die for the art. Mismatched. Calamity believe, nose dive. Kamikaze. No harder, fuel, nose powder. White knight in shing armour. 1688, Spanish Armada. Cut sharp like barber, bananas, permanent like markers, malleable like lava, pop like cava. Polova. Inscribe minds, magna carter. Magnificent bars, gold tales told. Slaves sold, reigns over. Cold shoulder, rainbow coloured mistakes, shoulders shudder, steer clear brother, execute rudder. Destitute, Scuppered. Destination under breath muttered. Spread like wildfire, butters, blindman, blackout, blinds again, shutters. Dunces, run **** Jump **** loose lips, loosing grip. Tip of the iceberg. Tip of the tongue, no nice words. Stigmata. Godfather, go harder for our forefathers. The time is ours.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 4:35 AM UTC
Strictly Speaking Strictly Kamikaze
Glued to my computer screen Is this called living I'm hooked to this show Filled with people I don't really know And every minute of it is killing And I push my life to rott , willing Is this called living When I leave all my worries Just to fill my mind with their worries Is this called living ? Fangirling over made up gimmicks
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 10:55 AM UTC
is this called living
From Aries to Pisces, herein lies the golden-orbed saviors, grunting and hustling across the globe to find a pious zealous man and bring him to visit the Dark Angel below the sea, herein lies a dead leader in a red country inhabited by sunken cheeks and the optimism and fear in their hollowed eyes, herein lies a dead inventor of overrated gimmicks men consider wonders and substantial of life herein lies the tragedy of a man starry-eyed at the red blinking lights of the street light, having the jovial thought of a fat jolly white bearded man leaving gifts next to his pink plastic tree near the garbage disposal where he resides, herein lies life taken... and life given... and never noticing the forward momentum of which time goes by
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Dec 20, 2011
Dec 20, 2011 at 2:20 AM UTC
2011.
Snaking through the cities roads into highways that connect people from all suburbs to a central spinal cord of lanes that take you up and away from slum to slum. The upmarket stores are full of bright lights and little else that is elegant its a cosmetic upbringing, mirage that rises over the city's mist and clogs up the minds magic as it swerves and rustles up the the energies of other super cities where commerce and hard labour have equally sculpted a life of crime and distance. Watch out for the airport which swings in between the mountain of rubble and municipal mania and parthenium **** what finds every possible nook and cranny to manifest itself. The politicians mumble and jumble their way through manifestos and gimmicks that endorse themselves as saviours of greed. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 4:05 PM UTC
Bangalore
independent minds and critical thinkers led to the gallows and burnt on stakes. but without dissent, valid or not, there is no progress, just stagnation. life is too easy and people complacent. numbed by gimmicks that steal our time. a downward spiral of mediocracy ensues. all leading to a tyranny of the few and ****** revolutions when their lies collapse.
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Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021 at 9:29 AM UTC
"don't let it happen"
You need sunglasses when your staring at me Cause the light I emanate scars the retina of my enemies There is no cure for the blindness you will endure A pain perpetuated by the ignorance so perniciously procured Squared against an inevitable death I easily steal your breath from the barrel of my Smith and Wess Watching your hollow tears bleed on the canvas I project a cataclysmic disaster wrapped up in a dismal death We sit here at the pinnacle of our lives speaking in shadows Masking our mouths from what we oblige Stop and listen to the earth as it decries The subtle architecture of this worldly demise So as we kick back and sorely reside I’ll be the change in the coming tide Caged inside tortured flesh I search for rest to keep the human condition suppressed But all I find each time that I design a new quest I become a servant of death Invigorated by the test I stretch my consciousness to tear the limbs off your chest and beat you senseless I won’t stop there, I’ll slit the throat leaving you without hope and then drown it in Everclear While I may seem like a cynic I’m not through with these gimmicks Lacerating your heart with the bones I striped from your tendons I’m not an advocate of violence but Sometimes the pilot of peace needs to be reached by setting loose the destruction we inherently seek We sit here at the pinnacle of our lives speaking in shadows Masking our mouths from what we oblige Stop and listen to the earth as it decries The subtle architecture of this worldly demise And I’ll hide my words with silence And I’ll no longer become violent Just another subservient machine lost in a sea of tyrants I won’t be blunt here I’ll keep dropping metaphorical bombs onto your ears Until all my peers understand the imminent plan that needs to be adhered: Stop short cause change is impossible to purport Don’t dream cause it’ll get shattered with a corporate hammer Stay sinking in a world that raises a stagnant banner Assimilate with the overzealous overweight materialism that manifests in the minds of the poor and is perpetuated by strip malls and ******
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Mar 20, 2010
Mar 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM UTC
American Animosity
You need sunglasses when your staring at me Cause the light I emanate scars the retina of my enemies There is no cure for the blindness you will endure A pain perpetuated by the ignorance so perniciously procured Squared against an inevitable death I easily steal your breath from the barrel of my Smith and Wess Watching your hollow tears bleed on the canvas I project a cataclysmic disaster wrapped up in a dismal death We sit here at the pinnacle of our lives speaking in shadows Masking our mouths from what we oblige Stop and listen to the earth as it decries The subtle architecture of this worldly demise So as we kick back and sorely reside I’ll be the change in the coming tide Caged inside tortured flesh I search for rest to keep the human condition suppressed But all I find each time that I design a new quest I become a servant of death Invigorated by the test I stretch my consciousness to tear the limbs off your chest and beat you senseless I won’t stop there, I’ll slit the throat leaving you without hope and then drown it in Everclear While I may seem like a cynic I’m not through with these gimmicks Lacerating your heart with the bones I striped from your tendons I’m not an advocate of violence but Sometimes the pilot of peace needs to be reached by setting loose the destruction we inherently seek We sit here at the pinnacle of our lives speaking in shadows Masking our mouths from what we oblige Stop and listen to the earth as it decries The subtle architecture of this worldly demise And I’ll hide my words with silence And I’ll no longer become violent Just another subservient machine lost in a sea of tyrants I won’t be blunt here I’ll keep dropping metaphorical bombs onto your ears Until all my peers understand the imminent plan that needs to be adhered: Stop short cause change is impossible to purport Don’t dream cause it’ll get shattered with a corporate hammer Stay sinking in a world that raises a stagnant banner Assimilate with the overzealous overweight materialism that manifests in the minds of the poor and is perpetuated by strip malls and ******
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Gimmicks and shenanigans Are altogether lame. Overt meanings of a poem Are meant to be more tamed. Puns and plays on ev'ry word, Or rhymes and playground taunts, Lack a subtle nature; Alliteration flaunts. For free lines feel unforced, And poems portray with power. But not with gaudy gilding, Like petals on a flower. No, poems are not much better When written tongue-in-cheek. In fact, for all those reasons, This one's considered weak.
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Jun 13, 2010
Jun 13, 2010 at 3:46 PM UTC
Sardony
Ya, I got my limits Been here since hell and back breathless from carrying Blood and flesh Bone-World curved to welcome back Shape-dependent gimmicks tracing   fresh tension lines followed right on track. Invisible Limits.....    /   /     /    / ....... Can't see em, so I cant follow back Right on track, tongue-tied and strapped up with a strep throat still, its my turn to step up else Lady luck might step back, all clammed up **** I Just hoping this note will... Curse hope, bless action See its My cipher to rap now My meaning to unpack; but how? Courage and Care is a fact plowed Strength in the face of what we can bear Samsara, its a Wheel of time turning back now The only time I show me limits is always Vulnerable. still hanging in ghetto hallways Your place safe and sound, you need but call me I show me, I mean all ME. I mean All Men, I mean Amen. Ah man... Living shadow, ghost abode, the heart just saying love me love me, love me,  love me, lord. Keep me warm. I've never been so cold as looking at the tribe around the fire's with that fine glow. Where Freezing feels like final. breathless from carrying Bone, Blood and Flesh, flush chested Do your best, Dont love any less See your smile, its a breath to me ...(and Im swimming seas till im Seasick, waves painting a scene sick) Those curves like Pieces of music, Kicking hard as I can swimming like im Sea-kick movement aligned to life and death. my hide or hair, which can these save? Music lines and strings of words, its like church to all of us You see its Cake or death not willing to lose it, like the chirps of birds seem to follow up as the morning fights for breath.
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Feb 14, 2022
Feb 14, 2022 at 7:52 PM UTC
Soar throat
Ya, I got my limits Been here since hell and back breathless from carrying Blood and flesh Bone-World curved to welcome back Shape-dependent gimmicks tracing   fresh tension lines followed right on track. Invisible Limits.....    /   /     /    / ....... Can't see em, so I cant follow back Right on track, tongue-tied and strapped up with a strep throat still, its my turn to step up else Lady luck might step back, all clammed up **** I Just hoping this note will... Curse hope, bless action See its My cipher to rap now My meaning to unpack; but how? Courage and Care is a fact plowed Strength in the face of what we can bear Samsara, its a Wheel of time turning back now The only time I show me limits is always Vulnerable. still hanging in ghetto hallways Your place safe and sound, you need but call me I show me, I mean all ME. I mean All Men, I mean Amen. Ah man... Living shadow, ghost abode, the heart just saying love me love me, love me,  love me, lord. Keep me warm. I've never been so cold as looking at the tribe around the fire's with that fine glow. Where Freezing feels like final. breathless from carrying Bone, Blood and Flesh, flush chested Do your best, Dont love any less See your smile, its a breath to me ...(and Im swimming seas till im Seasick, waves painting a scene sick) Those curves like Pieces of music, Kicking hard as I can swimming like im Sea-kick movement aligned to life and death. my hide or hair, which can these save? Music lines and strings of words, its like church to all of us You see its Cake or death not willing to lose it, like the chirps of birds seem to follow up as the morning fights for breath.
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Let these windows be the theatres, Where the play is wild and original, Where every cast is a superb actor, Where the story is the best fiction, Like a farm boy on an old tractor. Let these eyes be the camera, Where the view is sharp and shaped, Where every object gets an imperfect finish Where the image is at its crown grace. The portrait of the lost gimmicks. Let these skies be the shower, Where from the rain falls to cleanse, Where the head gets a awe spin, Where its virtue had always been, The roof over a million dreams. So I care not, If I am the blind for this earth, The ghost of an enemy, With no eyes, I still feel, The rewarding gift of eternity.
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 4:28 AM UTC
The Blind
gimmicks are silly i just refuse to stop loving them
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 4:55 AM UTC
goofy (10w)
Rebellion – for too long the status quo, is, in our day, a predictable show. Antichrist irony, absurdity shockingly daring incongruity no longer shock the bourgeois, you know… Alone in the temple of glass with a rock, you’re out of traditional symbols to mock. Surrealists did it much better than you – and it meant a lot more in ’32. You chew your cud on the cattle-wagon overused shock-tactics (moo ! ) now draggin’ (or herding) aboard the iconoclast train (b)lowing through boxcars your bovine refrain: “to, um – make people think…” Oh Lord, how uncouth. Nihilist narcissus – tell me, what’s Truth? Must creative always be subversive? I discern, in your frenzied discursive, a dull and predictable lack of life. While you brandish that plastic butter knife I seem to note, in your constant ****** dearth of artistic ability. Must bohemian acolytes (some yawning) ever be deer in the headlights, fawning before the ironic gesture? It’s sad; the bitter is sweet but the art is bad… They circle hors d’oeuvres on opening night like moths around white wine in candlelight, cerebrating in a modernist void: contemporary aesthetes, overjoyed to know once more that life has no meaning; the planet is doomed; that kings are queening; that chic just arrived, escorting philosophy (Forgive us, Duchamp, for all this monstrosity). I long for Hudson River School sunsets Old Dutch Masters, religious art, portraits, Red, green, or black propaganda-art? NO ! The view does not merit the price of the show. I’m dada-ed to death, beyond the surreal. Conceptual gimmicks have failed to conceal your want of ability, values, and faith In the book you despise it is written: “thus saith the fool in his heart: that there is no God…” You: Postmodern Art – to the firing squad!
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:57 PM UTC
Dada Dethroned
Rebellion – for too long the status quo, is, in our day, a predictable show. Antichrist irony, absurdity shockingly daring incongruity no longer shock the bourgeois, you know… Alone in the temple of glass with a rock, you’re out of traditional symbols to mock. Surrealists did it much better than you – and it meant a lot more in ’32. You chew your cud on the cattle-wagon overused shock-tactics (moo ! ) now draggin’ (or herding) aboard the iconoclast train (b)lowing through boxcars your bovine refrain: “to, um – make people think…” Oh Lord, how uncouth. Nihilist narcissus – tell me, what’s Truth? Must creative always be subversive? I discern, in your frenzied discursive, a dull and predictable lack of life. While you brandish that plastic butter knife I seem to note, in your constant ****** dearth of artistic ability. Must bohemian acolytes (some yawning) ever be deer in the headlights, fawning before the ironic gesture? It’s sad; the bitter is sweet but the art is bad… They circle hors d’oeuvres on opening night like moths around white wine in candlelight, cerebrating in a modernist void: contemporary aesthetes, overjoyed to know once more that life has no meaning; the planet is doomed; that kings are queening; that chic just arrived, escorting philosophy (Forgive us, Duchamp, for all this monstrosity). I long for Hudson River School sunsets Old Dutch Masters, religious art, portraits, Red, green, or black propaganda-art? NO ! The view does not merit the price of the show. I’m dada-ed to death, beyond the surreal. Conceptual gimmicks have failed to conceal your want of ability, values, and faith In the book you despise it is written: “thus saith the fool in his heart: that there is no God…” You: Postmodern Art – to the firing squad!
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Moments of bliss in the pain and truth in the fables, All I need is some honesty honestly, “Stormy seas make the most skilled sailors..”, or so her tattoo reads so sinful it feels Godly, she says she only likes black men, and they say “Once you go black you never go back.”, but I’m white and when she came she came with me, and since she arrived she hasn’t left, sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, quit drugs got clean, so now she is my only addition, on a rooftop in a cool spot sipping champagne, in the pool got a true shot at some real fame, feeling like the hero and the villian, half Joker have Bruce Wayne, the truth is I feel like a mix of all the Bruces, Bruce Jenner Bruce Banner Bruce Lee, Bruce Willis all in it no limits or gimmicks, Born in the USA raised on Backstreets of Philly, an American Dreamer living The Dream, Born To Run call me Bruce Springsteen, found the Fountain of Youth this girl with this tattoo’s the proof, so now I bath in the rainbows of this spring, life so exciting sometimes I just want to scream, like I do right now as we dance ecstatically, unconditionally above the world on this rooftop under this star light, which makes sense since she is a dancer by trade, we dance and sweat and let out everything that’s inside, we spread our arms we extend our tongue, we seize the moment this moment of life, because we know everything goes in an instant, life passes by in the blink of an eye, but without the bitter the sweet ain’t as sweet, trying to wake up from this dream Vanilla Sky, and sure these waters are rough, but hey at least we’re enjoying the ride, as we find moments of bliss in the pain and truth in the fables, All I need is some honesty honestly, “Stormy seas make the most skilled sailors..”, or so her tattoo reads so sinful it feels Godly… ∆ LaLux ∆ Free Book: https://www.scribd.com/document/388173677/The-Holy-Trilogy-Volume-2-Mandalas
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Jan 16, 2019
Jan 16, 2019 at 5:16 AM UTC
Stormy Seas Make The Most Skilled Sailors
Moments of bliss in the pain and truth in the fables, All I need is some honesty honestly, “Stormy seas make the most skilled sailors..”, or so her tattoo reads so sinful it feels Godly, she says she only likes black men, and they say “Once you go black you never go back.”, but I’m white and when she came she came with me, and since she arrived she hasn’t left, sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, quit drugs got clean, so now she is my only addition, on a rooftop in a cool spot sipping champagne, in the pool got a true shot at some real fame, feeling like the hero and the villian, half Joker have Bruce Wayne, the truth is I feel like a mix of all the Bruces, Bruce Jenner Bruce Banner Bruce Lee, Bruce Willis all in it no limits or gimmicks, Born in the USA raised on Backstreets of Philly, an American Dreamer living The Dream, Born To Run call me Bruce Springsteen, found the Fountain of Youth this girl with this tattoo’s the proof, so now I bath in the rainbows of this spring, life so exciting sometimes I just want to scream, like I do right now as we dance ecstatically, unconditionally above the world on this rooftop under this star light, which makes sense since she is a dancer by trade, we dance and sweat and let out everything that’s inside, we spread our arms we extend our tongue, we seize the moment this moment of life, because we know everything goes in an instant, life passes by in the blink of an eye, but without the bitter the sweet ain’t as sweet, trying to wake up from this dream Vanilla Sky, and sure these waters are rough, but hey at least we’re enjoying the ride, as we find moments of bliss in the pain and truth in the fables, All I need is some honesty honestly, “Stormy seas make the most skilled sailors..”, or so her tattoo reads so sinful it feels Godly… ∆ LaLux ∆ Free Book: https://www.scribd.com/document/388173677/The-Holy-Trilogy-Volume-2-Mandalas
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My heart gushing gallantly Leaking long lists of lyrics trying to have your heart without games or gimmicks You’re like an ambient alien a new, but beautiful being my eyes engrossed in awe because of sight I am seeing I have lived a loveless life and continued completely content because before I met you I never knew what love meant
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Nov 1, 2010
Nov 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM UTC
Eyes Engrossed In Awe
I'm always trying to get you to understand me I'm always screaming, always hoping, yet, You have blinders over your eyes preventing you to really see Maybe I should just quit, and accept the fact that we'll never be the same It's really sad to say, I've tried so hard to make it work, But I can't deal with this pain One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough Your God has no sympathy, He doesn't even exist You do nothing but pretend, Going to the confessional just to sleep with the priest Please, I'm done hearing your excuses I've spent my whole life just trying to make you happy It's all over now, I'm telling the truth One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough (Please, just meet me halfway) (Please, just tell me you'll stay) You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough I've finally had enough
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 5:02 PM UTC
Death Is A ******
I'm always trying to get you to understand me I'm always screaming, always hoping, yet, You have blinders over your eyes preventing you to really see Maybe I should just quit, and accept the fact that we'll never be the same It's really sad to say, I've tried so hard to make it work, But I can't deal with this pain One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough Your God has no sympathy, He doesn't even exist You do nothing but pretend, Going to the confessional just to sleep with the priest Please, I'm done hearing your excuses I've spent my whole life just trying to make you happy It's all over now, I'm telling the truth One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough One day I'll leave, be gone forever, never to return And you'll still be sitting at church Selling your sins to be sure you stay "pure" This is it, I've had enough (Please, just meet me halfway) (Please, just tell me you'll stay) You tell me you try, but you're just selling me gimmicks and lies One day you'll pay for your destruction, and it'll be one big surprise You live in a box, with no way of thinking for yourself You think you're doing good, Sitting all day reading lousy "self-help" Well this is it, I've had enough I've finally had enough
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It's not like the movies, or shows the books and the novels. hollywood's way of cheesy gimmicks. It's not like the Hunger Games! Where people are injected with sweet venom of credulous lies. Where 2 tributes disappears. Every year. Because, right now, right here, we have more. It is 2053. Promises long gone. Contracts expired and conspiracy failed. Betrayed. Lied to. Indoctrinated. Abandoned. Hands over heads. We, at the mercy of the Red Dragon. His highness roams. We, losing our grasps, collapsing. I dreamed a home of peace, safe, with freedom. But it crumpled into a million pieces. No more teases. When they had won. Some people fled. Unbearable of the roads, tainted red. They got lucky. But I'm just a fuming middle aged worthless powerless whatshername. Talk about pity. "I'm young!" But you'll grow old. And I tell you of this. I warn you of this! Because I see it so clearly, so vividly, in your eyes. I see no future of us. Just our minds twisted. Blood and gore mixed with all that we witnessed. Just healthy looking robots. Patriotic robots. Who has forgotten everything.
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
This is about Politics, Freedom and Struggle
i'm not writing, more or less simply knitting, a jumper - which is more than just a mere poem. the comfort allowance, listening to delta goodrem       and i love pop,                       more than a rugby player aged ~20,                        mind you, sometimes labouring over one selfie with 20 Chinese to match makes you feel oh so good -                    it took those 20 Chinese the same effort - pretty white girl and blonde syndrome,                         eastern Europe gets a sniff and simply says: well, that' **** isn't it?                       the days that came with the motto: we need astronauts more than tourists...                      days like these i rather take selfies of the sleeper than write something...                 and i do... i fiddle on the roof                                           and cartoon the rest...                    because that matters.                             pristine Australian and the gimmicks worthy of South Korean singalongs....                                           next in line ***** duped Jews...                                      whenever the gentleman lost hist top-hat and the confectioner glyph typo -                        me and an audience? as in a day job?                                   i don't mind...                         d'ah la la la...                                               and the piano....                 these days are rare....                                                 having enough words in-tune with all others...                                                      of such days i say: sometimes a picture revitalises the lost words....                and when encouraged                                          a slip-up of beckoning... readied for an avalanche -                                    to make writing into knitting a jumper or a scarf...                                            equivalent... in a society that deems Japanese culture                   inquiries                                      as the righteous standards to avoid the jobs of nursing and dentistry -                         well...                                         we're in sure need of robotics to ease off stress that our societies have themselves halving demand...                    sure, she's still there, crazy naked and starving a kaleidoscope hope                     of reminiscence                              concerning a fear of spiders: that do not weave webbing...                                         the size of your palm...         those ones, scary...                                           that context of x, between agoraphobia minor                                                 (in an urban setting)                                         and agoraphobia major in an countryside setting -                            phobia: or the intricate fear when an antidote is due because of too much rationalism -                            agoraphobia minor:               fear of being in an open space with too many people... agoraphobia major:                                fear of being in an open space anticipating a congregation that never comes...                        i'm enthralled by these compounds: kindred of: lithium salts - or other compounds.                      sometimes just a day with a selfie... or a poem like this: an exercise in utilising language                                   to no grand scheme of making a profit: rather an indentation, and nothing more.
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 8:55 PM UTC
Wendy West Crazy
i'm not writing, more or less simply knitting, a jumper - which is more than just a mere poem. the comfort allowance, listening to delta goodrem       and i love pop,                       more than a rugby player aged ~20,                        mind you, sometimes labouring over one selfie with 20 Chinese to match makes you feel oh so good -                    it took those 20 Chinese the same effort - pretty white girl and blonde syndrome,                         eastern Europe gets a sniff and simply says: well, that' **** isn't it?                       the days that came with the motto: we need astronauts more than tourists...                      days like these i rather take selfies of the sleeper than write something...                 and i do... i fiddle on the roof                                           and cartoon the rest...                    because that matters.                             pristine Australian and the gimmicks worthy of South Korean singalongs....                                           next in line ***** duped Jews...                                      whenever the gentleman lost hist top-hat and the confectioner glyph typo -                        me and an audience? as in a day job?                                   i don't mind...                         d'ah la la la...                                               and the piano....                 these days are rare....                                                 having enough words in-tune with all others...                                                      of such days i say: sometimes a picture revitalises the lost words....                and when encouraged                                          a slip-up of beckoning... readied for an avalanche -                                    to make writing into knitting a jumper or a scarf...                                            equivalent... in a society that deems Japanese culture                   inquiries                                      as the righteous standards to avoid the jobs of nursing and dentistry -                         well...                                         we're in sure need of robotics to ease off stress that our societies have themselves halving demand...                    sure, she's still there, crazy naked and starving a kaleidoscope hope                     of reminiscence                              concerning a fear of spiders: that do not weave webbing...                                         the size of your palm...         those ones, scary...                                           that context of x, between agoraphobia minor                                                 (in an urban setting)                                         and agoraphobia major in an countryside setting -                            phobia: or the intricate fear when an antidote is due because of too much rationalism -                            agoraphobia minor:               fear of being in an open space with too many people... agoraphobia major:                                fear of being in an open space anticipating a congregation that never comes...                        i'm enthralled by these compounds: kindred of: lithium salts - or other compounds.                      sometimes just a day with a selfie... or a poem like this: an exercise in utilising language                                   to no grand scheme of making a profit: rather an indentation, and nothing more.
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Between two minds my mind flips Why do you feel so empty sometimes Do you float above your body and are robotic action Are your thoughts your actions Are they all the same, are they different Are you everything at once Once warm the next seemingly cold If emotions could be that easy to separate How easy would I be to dissolve I am losing my grip on my perceptions because I am the manipulated I am clay Use me use me and abuse me I will beg for more Because I am a sacrifice I give myself even when I have already given everything And I realize in a quick shudder that The closer I get the faster I might let it fade But I hate the space How did I let this confusion overwhelm me in its toxic cloud I am a delusion An illusion All is illusion I am the audience Gasping at magical feats That are smooth gimmicks I am the happiest fool.
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM UTC
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