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"gripes" poems
I thought the ***** would make me stop feeling it But instead I just felt it more intensely. I kissed a girl and I liked it Not like that Katy Perry song describes. I am not some **** straight girl with a boyfriend Who is trying to impress other dudes at a washed up bar. I just don't get it Maybe I never will How I can be some Christian child of God And feel this simultaneously? I will never understand How some will continue to harp on the idea That this whole spectrum is a plea for attention And does not exist. What the hell are they talking about? Do they think I like walking around every day With a stigma attached to my chest Even though most people do not even know the truth? Do they think I enjoy Lying to my parents, day in and day out Saying I am this pure, straight Presbyterian teen Who's secrets are all out in the open? There is a ton they do not know This is just the tip of the iceberg. Do they believe that I find pleasure in Hiding a huge part of who I am From my school, my church and my community? They cannot judge me That is God's job. These are just a few of my classic gripes About being a closeted bisexual In a conservative family.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 9:32 PM UTC
Bisexual
*Most of the time He's the lord of the jungle Everyone grins while he gripes Usually he's found just Lounging around in his stripes His tiger lady's A superfine feline Just what his highness deserves A sweet purring pussycat Proud of her pussycat curves He's a tiger in the rain It's the thunder and lightnin' He can't explain A tiger in the rain Who's frightened Caught in the storm he came Searching for shelter Right up to me and my spouse We both stroked his chin and Invited him into the house He's a tiger in the rain It's the thunder and lightnin' He can't explain A tiger in the rain Who's frightened He's a tiger in the rain It's the thunder and lightnin' He can't explain A tiger in the rain Who's frightened* *****************************************************
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 7:51 PM UTC
"Tiger in the Rain" by Michael Franks (lyrics)
Encroaching satellites High voltage saturation and shade And an obtuse synopsis of cognitive psychology Condensing your threshold Searching for hand outs Ripping the railings out of the walls In the stairwells in the doctor's office on the way to your colonoscopy   Laying on the futon with and your therapist writing down everything you say "Go on" "Mhm" "I see" "How does that make you feel?" Skid-marked underwear Delving, dumpster diving for food In the lonesome twilight In the rippling rainstorm People shelling out gripes Squinting, doing a double take at you Followed by a wavering tumult They're gonna have you capped That is, unless you purchase this love seat -Tommy Johnson
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 11:04 PM UTC
Psychoanalytic Mumbo Jumbo
when we remember what the times have been that made us into what     and who     we are today we travel deep into our past to hear our mother’s voice our father’s not so friendly gripes when we fouled up a task he gave to  us our friends, our teachers, our loves whose interactions shaped who we eventually have become   while we believe that we have always been      so independent and  autonomous it may be worth a moment to reflect      upon the influences      we are inclined to casually neglect and recognize the fact      that we are always part      of that great whole      which we so desperately try      to disavow for individuality only to recognize a few years later the minimal common denominator life is a wonderful excursion into space and time always surprising, turning on a dime, leaving us puzzled well unto the end always intent to look beyond the next bend of the river …….
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Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:46 PM UTC
who we are
Your voice is something that has me in a trance. I'm the snake in the basket .....now watch me dance. It's been said that music calms the savage beast....well the sound of your voice provides me with a inner peace. The day has been hectic .....people with mean faces and gripes. This is supposed to be The City of Brotherly Love.....but some are not so polite. It seems everyone becomes a little bit nicer .....once day turns to night. The alcohol starts flowing and the girls are looking right. The guys are in a huddle like a pack of wolves....admiring a female who is modeling her curves in a selection that's tight. The music is blaring from the speakers and girls are dancing with each other. A brother attempts to dance with one and leaves the floor with her crew ......she said "We are not dancing anymore....we we were just having fun." It's a long walk back to the bar....it feels like slow motion. You replay the interaction several times like a referee under the hood... but this call won't be reversed.....a few more drinks and your heart is coasting......now you are a tad bit enibriated from too much toasting. Inappropriate comments on Twitter and Facebook......but you continue posting. When I end the night ....I come home to you. You make my day worth living. Before I go to sleep can you sing to me? The day was tough...my friend embarrassed themselves....it was so bad I really wanted to yell. I just took sometime and remembered your voice .....the words turned into musical notes as they left your lips. I'm no longer present.....my mind is taking trips....I don't reside in one.....I have many different zips. So before you ever decide to quit....Can you please .....sing for me? The beast that resides inside....told me to ask you.
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Oct 7, 2012
Oct 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM UTC
Sing for me.....
Your voice is something that has me in a trance. I'm the snake in the basket .....now watch me dance. It's been said that music calms the savage beast....well the sound of your voice provides me with a inner peace. The day has been hectic .....people with mean faces and gripes. This is supposed to be The City of Brotherly Love.....but some are not so polite. It seems everyone becomes a little bit nicer .....once day turns to night. The alcohol starts flowing and the girls are looking right. The guys are in a huddle like a pack of wolves....admiring a female who is modeling her curves in a selection that's tight. The music is blaring from the speakers and girls are dancing with each other. A brother attempts to dance with one and leaves the floor with her crew ......she said "We are not dancing anymore....we we were just having fun." It's a long walk back to the bar....it feels like slow motion. You replay the interaction several times like a referee under the hood... but this call won't be reversed.....a few more drinks and your heart is coasting......now you are a tad bit enibriated from too much toasting. Inappropriate comments on Twitter and Facebook......but you continue posting. When I end the night ....I come home to you. You make my day worth living. Before I go to sleep can you sing to me? The day was tough...my friend embarrassed themselves....it was so bad I really wanted to yell. I just took sometime and remembered your voice .....the words turned into musical notes as they left your lips. I'm no longer present.....my mind is taking trips....I don't reside in one.....I have many different zips. So before you ever decide to quit....Can you please .....sing for me? The beast that resides inside....told me to ask you.
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Really? Why don’t we just Break it off? This must be a test Of endurance Or self-sacrifice even. We both don’t know the waters around us anymore. There are no safe coves or humble islands. So we drown in the fishbowl of our little whims And tiny gripes. That keeps us together. I know that every-time You get into bed, You think **** this guy, again? I hope he chokes on a cheerio.” And I’m thinking **** this girl, again? Why can't it be socially acceptable to **** someone with a spoon?” So why are we still here? Why do we remain When everything else has left in boxes. We eat our sorry cheerios in silence. In bed you keep mentioning a bowl, that separates the milk from the cheerios, like I'm not good at code. And I feel us growing closer in scales.
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Feb 18, 2012
Feb 18, 2012 at 1:41 PM UTC
Humble Waters.
Though it's easy to speak of great joy and remember my Savior I am baffled sometimes yet amused by my own strange behavior I know, like rawhide I can be rather rough sand the edges, I've tried, but enough is enough Let's just cut with the gruff and hang onto the stuff that we favor. somewhere between nothing and something I'm feeling indifference to spare you the details I speak in the vagueness of inference. It's not everyday that we love and we lose but it happened to me and it's time that I choose so I'm taking a break cause at stake is my peace and my patience. I stand at the doorway of reason and see that I'm failing I know that it's not the right season but want to go sailing. the edge of the keel will cut through the ice and time out for healing is always so nice so besides your advice I will take what is best for my ailing. Let me drift though the sorrow and sort through the things that I'm feeling and back here tomorrow I'll help you to paint up the ceiling. you find yourself working and that is the way you hold it together and get through the day but I pray that in play we will both find a good kind of healing. We all have to cope with these things and we know that it's coming our lives are like houses, emotions are just like the plumbing. you plan it all out and try not to rush keep the lines clear and remember to flush but all of my gripes are like pipes, clogged and so unbecoming. Though it's easy to speak of great joy and remember my Savior I'm baffled sometimes yet amused by my own strange behavior
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM UTC
Time Out for Strange Behavior
Though it's easy to speak of great joy and remember my Savior I am baffled sometimes yet amused by my own strange behavior I know, like rawhide I can be rather rough sand the edges, I've tried, but enough is enough Let's just cut with the gruff and hang onto the stuff that we favor. somewhere between nothing and something I'm feeling indifference to spare you the details I speak in the vagueness of inference. It's not everyday that we love and we lose but it happened to me and it's time that I choose so I'm taking a break cause at stake is my peace and my patience. I stand at the doorway of reason and see that I'm failing I know that it's not the right season but want to go sailing. the edge of the keel will cut through the ice and time out for healing is always so nice so besides your advice I will take what is best for my ailing. Let me drift though the sorrow and sort through the things that I'm feeling and back here tomorrow I'll help you to paint up the ceiling. you find yourself working and that is the way you hold it together and get through the day but I pray that in play we will both find a good kind of healing. We all have to cope with these things and we know that it's coming our lives are like houses, emotions are just like the plumbing. you plan it all out and try not to rush keep the lines clear and remember to flush but all of my gripes are like pipes, clogged and so unbecoming. Though it's easy to speak of great joy and remember my Savior I'm baffled sometimes yet amused by my own strange behavior
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I could toss my cares over a rainbow Let it hang there a while and dry out its sorry behind As I squeeze some slices of brackish time to research the deliberate contours of your patience Swerving its way past concealed match sticks Bend at the so definite behest of none. Slurring backwards Tentative graphica Huge baskets of winding fun Sketchy image pencilled in, for now Details come later in -------- a terminal (hopefully) Charcoal drawings offer the sweet sound of breaking cumulus and sudden wax of orange come to life on a sullen bed of love apples shapes are p-p-p-pulled to painstaking proportion deep lines stippled drastic dragged along on unwieldy wagon strokes        Art never really tastes ink but celebrates ephemerae yet trapping half understood and beautiful pictures beneath mocking glass panels smudged with such deep knowinggggg You can do something to stop this **** blood impasse beset more so with counterfeit decline blind bull rage too ready and bloodthirsty acts bay half crippled and on its knees, how your land cries see the (over)spill of rightly invective remain unresolved    See the deprivation at the lake all gall thirsty, yet none to drink just a hapless event smarting   On a downward cyclic turn no more will sing voices when old gripes unheard scream in the long, red lines bulleted across that holy floor   albeit the wicked general holds the trussed up cards he won’t bother scraping the dried salt of kin later it grows ever more in sad mounds on the little green book awaiting missing miracle inflections of a restless mind within the ***** creep retorts from peerless craft forge   entangled moans in briars and sundry resort to savour within disyllabic silence    Can you but count the ways in which these coins of seeking do ****** across an afflicted floor of red lines to an exculpated heart, un(cor)rected ? Unprocessed miracles are items of constant bewonderment in duress living
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 2:57 AM UTC
Red Lines
I could toss my cares over a rainbow Let it hang there a while and dry out its sorry behind As I squeeze some slices of brackish time to research the deliberate contours of your patience Swerving its way past concealed match sticks Bend at the so definite behest of none. Slurring backwards Tentative graphica Huge baskets of winding fun Sketchy image pencilled in, for now Details come later in -------- a terminal (hopefully) Charcoal drawings offer the sweet sound of breaking cumulus and sudden wax of orange come to life on a sullen bed of love apples shapes are p-p-p-pulled to painstaking proportion deep lines stippled drastic dragged along on unwieldy wagon strokes        Art never really tastes ink but celebrates ephemerae yet trapping half understood and beautiful pictures beneath mocking glass panels smudged with such deep knowinggggg You can do something to stop this **** blood impasse beset more so with counterfeit decline blind bull rage too ready and bloodthirsty acts bay half crippled and on its knees, how your land cries see the (over)spill of rightly invective remain unresolved    See the deprivation at the lake all gall thirsty, yet none to drink just a hapless event smarting   On a downward cyclic turn no more will sing voices when old gripes unheard scream in the long, red lines bulleted across that holy floor   albeit the wicked general holds the trussed up cards he won’t bother scraping the dried salt of kin later it grows ever more in sad mounds on the little green book awaiting missing miracle inflections of a restless mind within the ***** creep retorts from peerless craft forge   entangled moans in briars and sundry resort to savour within disyllabic silence    Can you but count the ways in which these coins of seeking do ****** across an afflicted floor of red lines to an exculpated heart, un(cor)rected ? Unprocessed miracles are items of constant bewonderment in duress living
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The solution to pollution Is to cease affluent effluent. In other words make the rich Live in their ecological excrement. Force them to drink only from Their permanently poisoned pipes And turn a deaf ear, as they did To any of their constituent’s gripes. The enemies of the anemones Fought their way to the deep To censure and make sure The sea creatures had no sleep. It seems the corporations Don’t realize what they’re doing. If we **** off the plankton, then We’re headed for planetary ruin. It was bad enough when someone, Without telling us, sold our land And then they chopped down trees For a reason anyone can understand; Greed. That was the proper word. They wanted more money in the bank. So when the land erodes and dies We’ll have the corporations to thank. They cover up their eco-crimes By declaring illegal military forays And pretend they are taking us back To those good old, happier days. But in between bombing villages It can always plainly be seen That we and our country are Slowly being picked totally clean. And when we object, cry out loud That something is wrong with all this; They start to call us unpatriotic, Call us who starve are the neurotics. So, don’t listen to their lying rhetoric, Instead look at what they are doing. The sonsabitches are Macbeth’s witches, And they have a lot of poison brewing.
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 10:44 PM UTC
POISONING THE WELL
When I was a child they let me run wild but soon chores and schoolwork and clothing were piled and lest I forget parental laws set my freedom the ruler and routine defiled. Take all my blues and send me away "Your time is coming", she said, " one fine day" Inside I'd be singing that simple refrain: "and I'll never be back here, EVER AGAIN!" If somebody told me I'd wind up back home I'd reckon them crazy and slam down the phone. Got a couple of years now to pay of this loan and a couple beers down I'd sit and I'd moan in spite of my troubles in spite of my own in spite of the fact that I'm thin as a bone In time I will harvest the seeds that I've sown I am not goin' back there So LEAVE ME ALONE! But one day back here I did surely arrive my kit and caboodle five-oh Barton Drive reluctantly settled back into the hive for no other way I could see to survive... Well to be sure this is just how it goes tonight I caught Dad folding up all my clothes He makes sure I have eaten and socks on my toes And of course all my business everyone knows! I've ransacked the bedroom and clogged up the pipes Let down my hair aired all my gripes Reliving my teens never one of those types and finally come clean that I LOVE Wesley Snipes. Thanks Mom and Dad for all your direction you hold up the fort and offer correction I've not always taken your timely advice Resented the hair cut in the midst of the lice. You know me quite well I'm one bitter pill but I love you now and so I always will and when the door opens and I take my leave on me arm I'll be wearing a damp snotty sleeve. I thank you both for taking my crap for all of your years, never seen such a sap once sense and stability I can regain I'll never be back here EVER AGAIN!
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Sep 24, 2013
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:38 AM UTC
payin' homage
When I was a child they let me run wild but soon chores and schoolwork and clothing were piled and lest I forget parental laws set my freedom the ruler and routine defiled. Take all my blues and send me away "Your time is coming", she said, " one fine day" Inside I'd be singing that simple refrain: "and I'll never be back here, EVER AGAIN!" If somebody told me I'd wind up back home I'd reckon them crazy and slam down the phone. Got a couple of years now to pay of this loan and a couple beers down I'd sit and I'd moan in spite of my troubles in spite of my own in spite of the fact that I'm thin as a bone In time I will harvest the seeds that I've sown I am not goin' back there So LEAVE ME ALONE! But one day back here I did surely arrive my kit and caboodle five-oh Barton Drive reluctantly settled back into the hive for no other way I could see to survive... Well to be sure this is just how it goes tonight I caught Dad folding up all my clothes He makes sure I have eaten and socks on my toes And of course all my business everyone knows! I've ransacked the bedroom and clogged up the pipes Let down my hair aired all my gripes Reliving my teens never one of those types and finally come clean that I LOVE Wesley Snipes. Thanks Mom and Dad for all your direction you hold up the fort and offer correction I've not always taken your timely advice Resented the hair cut in the midst of the lice. You know me quite well I'm one bitter pill but I love you now and so I always will and when the door opens and I take my leave on me arm I'll be wearing a damp snotty sleeve. I thank you both for taking my crap for all of your years, never seen such a sap once sense and stability I can regain I'll never be back here EVER AGAIN!
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I told him often and I couldn’t have made it clearer. He needs to stop looking At himself in funhouse mirrors. His nose is too wide His body is just too skinny. Good looking body parts He believes he hasn’t any. He seldom smiles Even when a comic falls down. He doesn’t like comedy. Not even good circus clowns. He doesn’t read poetry Unless it is written about him And his taste in music Is all based on a passing whim. He’s thirty years old But he acts like an adolescent, Playing the same games From childhood to the present. He still dresses like he did When he was ten years old And doesn’t clean his room Not ever, unless he is told. He plays on the computer And keeps dead-end employment, Then gripes about his life And his total lack of enjoyment. His ambition level wrecked Because his family still pays his bills And lets him hide in his room That’s the kind of situation that kills. He has no ups or downs And takes pills to keep his mood. He buys toys and gadgets And lives on his mother’s food. But, nothing in life calls him To achieve or excel or to win In the halfhearted game of life That he finds himself stuck in.
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 12:37 AM UTC
PITIFUL PETER
At the ends The ends of my wits I am But lost Beyond help The fear of the unknown I do not know What I don't know And the knowledge I possess Gripes me How much Do I really need to know What do I do When everything and everyone points But the directions Are random Assorted in multitudes of angles The masses of things and the burning fear Running through my mind It confuses me And consumes me whole Like A mouse Walloped By a snake A pebble Swallowed By the tides Day and night I think of what and how To face this problem The lack of knowledge And destitute of time I ain't sure What the root Or roots Of this problem is I simply know I'm rooted to this ground With no escape out With the exception Of pure hard work
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Aug 14, 2013
Aug 14, 2013 at 5:27 AM UTC
Affairs of Magnitude
Tonight I took a risk And once again sliced my wrists But instead of five I did ten And little blood came out when I pressed a little harder And the blade cut a little farther I looked like a tiger with it’s stripes And I’m willing to face all the gripes You’ll probably leave me when you see my scars Because you’ll realize all the harm It stings a little but still feels good You didn’t understand and you never would You can’t handle a basket case To you I’m just a waste Let’s see how they look tomorrow Because tonight they filled me with sorrow They didn’t bleed like I’d hope Maybe next time I’ll try the rope I’m a ***** up and don’t deserve life I argue with myself about what to do and with which knife I lay here now wrists stinging The sandman with sleep he’s bringing I’m upset at myself more than you are at me So don’t yell or use harsh words during your plea I’m sorry for what I’ve done There is nothing more I can do, none Maybe it’s more than ten I stopped counting around then You’ll leave me tomorrow I know it Whether or not I refuse to show it The scars will still remain And you’ll think of me with cruel disdain Hate me for all I care This heavy cross I’ll always bare Give me another reason to hate my soul and body Give me another bad habit to proclaim as a hobby I’m an artist by nature and I paint with my blood And when I’m done my sharp edged paint brush will drop with a thud I don’t care anymore and I wish life was simpler I suppose T.S Elliot was correct: this is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 1:19 AM UTC
Late Night
Tonight I took a risk And once again sliced my wrists But instead of five I did ten And little blood came out when I pressed a little harder And the blade cut a little farther I looked like a tiger with it’s stripes And I’m willing to face all the gripes You’ll probably leave me when you see my scars Because you’ll realize all the harm It stings a little but still feels good You didn’t understand and you never would You can’t handle a basket case To you I’m just a waste Let’s see how they look tomorrow Because tonight they filled me with sorrow They didn’t bleed like I’d hope Maybe next time I’ll try the rope I’m a ***** up and don’t deserve life I argue with myself about what to do and with which knife I lay here now wrists stinging The sandman with sleep he’s bringing I’m upset at myself more than you are at me So don’t yell or use harsh words during your plea I’m sorry for what I’ve done There is nothing more I can do, none Maybe it’s more than ten I stopped counting around then You’ll leave me tomorrow I know it Whether or not I refuse to show it The scars will still remain And you’ll think of me with cruel disdain Hate me for all I care This heavy cross I’ll always bare Give me another reason to hate my soul and body Give me another bad habit to proclaim as a hobby I’m an artist by nature and I paint with my blood And when I’m done my sharp edged paint brush will drop with a thud I don’t care anymore and I wish life was simpler I suppose T.S Elliot was correct: this is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper
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do you not have any thoughts or ideas? besides how to stop someone else besides the constant gripes and ******** after all, i just met you playing billiards you asked me how i made the cue ball do all that crazy stuff that's what started this conversation and now you say you're done conversatin' it's conversing...ah...nevermind sorry that i didn't want to discuss politics or **** or jesus or your neighbor's wife or ford trucks or hunting it's not that i think i am better than you it's just that i have a different outlook now think new, and discuss new things not material new things after all, i just met you playing billiards you asked me how i made the cue ball do all that crazy stuff it's called english how i made the cue ball do all that crazy stuff it's called english...ah...nevermind
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Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021 at 1:31 PM UTC
parlor games
Lily White lives in an apartment castle Because mansions are a such a hassle. He doesn’t need a chauffeur or a car And he likes things the way they are. But Lily White turns out has ambition And won’t confine himself to his kitchen Or the gold faucets of his gaudy john. No, he has plans he is insisting on. He wants to be the king of the land Make everything his and splendidly grand, Well, at least in his ridiculous opinion But isn’t that ambition’s definition? As much as it gripes him to enlist aid (He knows that means they must be paid), He gathered around himself a few; A set of seven J.O.R.F.s that would do. Do, in this case, means what he may dictate Whether or not it’s an ethical mandate Because they are members on a mission From the American J.O.R.F. coalition. The name is an acronym, in gold ink; When spelled out is for **** Off Rat Finks And they set about hiding behind the tails Of Lily White, thinking they can’t be jailed. With the disgusting plans made and done It’s almost like they used a golden gun To mow down the rights of the many And fear began that we wouldn’t have any. But, Lily White is a liar and a greedy *** It is our job to see that they all get some Tar and some feathers and a rail to ride To a federal prison with them all inside.
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Mar 6, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 at 5:09 PM UTC
LILY WHITE AND THE SEVEN J.O.R.F.S
Jesus hanging with nails in his feet "Oh father why have you done this to me?" God says "cause" Jesus asks "why?" God answers "you must die" "To show the people how much I care" Jesus screams "get me down from here!" We all know that conspiracy The assassination of John F. Kennedy It was pinned on o'l Lee Harvey Who was suspiciously whacked by Jack Ruby I guess you sow what you reap But tell me just one thing, so I can sleep Why was Kennedy taken from us? But LBJ we got to keep? It was a cool, early September morn No one was ready, no one was warned The planes crashed then the country was torn To turn the other cheek or march to war We headed out with a paranoid red, white and blue look in our eye We did what we did but was it right? There were no MWD's so someone lied        -Tommy Johnson *** used to be America's biggest cash crop But somewhere, I don't know where that stopped And the oppressive gavel of defamation dropped Now we smoke joints in a dark garage with the fear of getting popped It does more good than harm, so what's the deal? Twenty years for a half ounce are you for real? Got busted with bud now I lived behind bars and get served ****** meals Is there some law that we can appeal? A science teacher must at some point face The topic of "evolve" and "create" And put in logic and reason and keep out faith It's the curriculum but some parents get so irate Man, just let them do their job These professional bickering moms It's the battle of Darwin and God -Tommy Johnson
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Jun 7, 2014
Jun 7, 2014 at 9:05 PM UTC
Gripes and Grumbles
Jesus hanging with nails in his feet "Oh father why have you done this to me?" God says "cause" Jesus asks "why?" God answers "you must die" "To show the people how much I care" Jesus screams "get me down from here!" We all know that conspiracy The assassination of John F. Kennedy It was pinned on o'l Lee Harvey Who was suspiciously whacked by Jack Ruby I guess you sow what you reap But tell me just one thing, so I can sleep Why was Kennedy taken from us? But LBJ we got to keep? It was a cool, early September morn No one was ready, no one was warned The planes crashed then the country was torn To turn the other cheek or march to war We headed out with a paranoid red, white and blue look in our eye We did what we did but was it right? There were no MWD's so someone lied        -Tommy Johnson *** used to be America's biggest cash crop But somewhere, I don't know where that stopped And the oppressive gavel of defamation dropped Now we smoke joints in a dark garage with the fear of getting popped It does more good than harm, so what's the deal? Twenty years for a half ounce are you for real? Got busted with bud now I lived behind bars and get served ****** meals Is there some law that we can appeal? A science teacher must at some point face The topic of "evolve" and "create" And put in logic and reason and keep out faith It's the curriculum but some parents get so irate Man, just let them do their job These professional bickering moms It's the battle of Darwin and God -Tommy Johnson
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Plain n' simple true, Dread is wholesome and Speaks in quakes, here. For the Monster fear looms ever near. Slow it creeps, wagging tongue Dripping lies like maggots Spill from the bloated dead. Vigor and lust are well eaten And moths and dust are all That remain of 'love-making'. But tracing at first, golden At the very last glimpse. Wet eyes, hushed gripes at nothing: Behold, I'll march. I'll march well-receded upon The dusk. I'll march well-seeded Upon the morn'. I'll march well-sympathised Upon the wine-smooth caresses of dawn. For a ghost longing for death, I am What is plain. What is simple. What is True.
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Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017 at 12:22 AM UTC
Plain, Simple & True
Forget your petty woes and gripes 0f who said what- to whom and why. there is another life beyond where millions all live and die. He loves me or he loves me not, does it matter? not one jot. Get out there gal and sieze the day. your heart is broken, it will heal. You were betrayed, come on, get real! Rejoice and live, you will feel pain. but think of what you stand to gain! life and love, all interwoven, ballet, opera, Brahms, Beethoven! think how fortunate you are, how insignificant your woes, think of children without love lacking shelter, food and clothes. put it all into perspective seek a friend that you can trust, friendship is so all important, without it love is only lust! Don't marry the one that you can live with, marry the one you can't live without. Life is there just for the taking, Time is passing don't delay. A leap of faith, a little courage, Lookout gal your'e on your way....!
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 11:30 AM UTC
For heavens sake get a life.
Please excuse me Sir. While I allow you the floor. I'll just be over in the corner. As you dissect me to my core. Tell me what I should be. What I could be but am not. How I should address you because it seems I have forgot. How foolish of me to think that being me could ever please, the likes of such a man as you. The one that no one sees. You sit so high upon your throne. Your servants they barely reach. Poets, prophets, gurus, gods. They should listen to you preach. Tell us all, oh mighty, all knowing man. Enlighten us to your ways. We'll try our best to understand. What should be said and in what tone. How to respond to your gripes and groans. Just remember this dear Sir. It gets lonely at the top. Where being right is what comes first. But are you really right? Or not?
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Apr 4, 2013
Apr 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM UTC
So high he sits
The light glows off her sleek hair, the tint of her skin, divine and deliciously fair - she's stood at the newsstand paying by debit card, her smart mini satchel clasped in her hand. I watch cautiously from the nearest side-street, through frosted up glass, jumping now and then at the occasional car that might pass. She's beautiful - moving so effortlessly and strangely angelic, the chemical lag of this non-present world makes it all seem so... psychedelic. Oh, will she see me stood here with those inquisitive blue eyes, will she see through my insidious disguise? 'Cause I crave food on a daily basis, many people stroll past me sniggering and laughing with disgusted faces. I lounge on the London streets, my beds are the floors, I curl up beside the twisted lepers and next to the infected ****** And so as the woman exits the shop I feel my hand twitch, and drop to the little surprise tucked in my belt - after all these years I never wanted to know how killing someone felt, but my stomach gripes in pain from starvation, my bowels are always tight with constipation, it seems everyone lives so grand but not me, oh no - I just want that bag clasped in her hand.
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 5:06 PM UTC
Ballad Of The City-Street ****
‘I always wanted to see your face,’ she said, She was teasing me, I’d gone along to our twentieth wake Since we’d been divorced, and free. We got on better than ever we had When chained together in time, That piece of paper had choked us both But being apart, sublime! I looked across at the massive cake They had wheeled across the floor, ‘Now that’s what I call a giant bake,’ I said. She said, ‘There’s more!’ There were twenty candles around the top And seven around the lip, The twenty since we had been divorced And seven for when we flipped. The seven year itch was what it was When we ended up in court, We really should have got over it But we’d given it little thought, For the plumber lasted a month or two She confessed, in one of her gripes, For she got bored with him on the floor Checking her taps and pipes. And I got sick of the Dolly Bird Who had lisped, she would be mine, Who liked to strip to the Beatles hits When her head was full of wine, It all fell flat when the passion died And we stopped to get our breath, There was nothing she had to say inside So she bored me half to death. We came together just once a year As a mark of our mistake, And every year with the slightest tear We would share a Parting Cake. I’d never seen one as big as this It was white, and frilled with lace, And that’s when Jennifer said to me, ‘I wanted to see your face!’ The lid flipped up and the stripper rose As I dropped my jaw, and gaped, She stood a moment and struck a pose, ‘That’s my present for you, Jake! It’s a bit too late to apologise For making that awful scene, But I think we’re older now, and wise, And you get to lick off the cream!’ The girl was covered in cream all right On her thighs and hips and breast, ‘You get to lick what you want tonight And I’ll scrape off the rest.’ She laughed, I laughed, and I saw her then As the face of one I’d missed, There was little thought of the stripper then As we both leaned in, and kissed. David Lewis Paget
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 10:24 AM UTC
The Last Kiss
‘I always wanted to see your face,’ she said, She was teasing me, I’d gone along to our twentieth wake Since we’d been divorced, and free. We got on better than ever we had When chained together in time, That piece of paper had choked us both But being apart, sublime! I looked across at the massive cake They had wheeled across the floor, ‘Now that’s what I call a giant bake,’ I said. She said, ‘There’s more!’ There were twenty candles around the top And seven around the lip, The twenty since we had been divorced And seven for when we flipped. The seven year itch was what it was When we ended up in court, We really should have got over it But we’d given it little thought, For the plumber lasted a month or two She confessed, in one of her gripes, For she got bored with him on the floor Checking her taps and pipes. And I got sick of the Dolly Bird Who had lisped, she would be mine, Who liked to strip to the Beatles hits When her head was full of wine, It all fell flat when the passion died And we stopped to get our breath, There was nothing she had to say inside So she bored me half to death. We came together just once a year As a mark of our mistake, And every year with the slightest tear We would share a Parting Cake. I’d never seen one as big as this It was white, and frilled with lace, And that’s when Jennifer said to me, ‘I wanted to see your face!’ The lid flipped up and the stripper rose As I dropped my jaw, and gaped, She stood a moment and struck a pose, ‘That’s my present for you, Jake! It’s a bit too late to apologise For making that awful scene, But I think we’re older now, and wise, And you get to lick off the cream!’ The girl was covered in cream all right On her thighs and hips and breast, ‘You get to lick what you want tonight And I’ll scrape off the rest.’ She laughed, I laughed, and I saw her then As the face of one I’d missed, There was little thought of the stripper then As we both leaned in, and kissed. David Lewis Paget
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(The Chaos) Sing your blues in rap, let restive feet start to tap, rap'n tap your gripes! a touch of humor should lighten..ease discontent, learn to rap...and tap! words and steps can rhyme find tempo ’midst the chaos chin up......rap, then, tap! in the Christmas air rap your blues...sky will hear, as, heels, toes ...touch the floor the world suffers, too, find ways to save our planet speak...dance...let's rap-tap! :::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::: Sally Copyright Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan December 24, 2019
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Dec 23, 2019
Dec 23, 2019 at 5:52 PM UTC
Rap-Tap
Aunt Paddy and Uncle Mike Chicken curry, rice. Catch up, nothings new, except clothes, and many same old gripes.
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 11:42 AM UTC
many gripes
Read a poem about anti bullying online Noted the writer wanted to be impartial Pointing out those that continued their assault would be dealt with by 'serious' threats all of their own *When called out they disappeared.... All. On. Their. Own.* Met a couple of Daily plagiaristic personas It was a shock to see two in a row One disappeared with little to no fuss (It is nice when the trash takes itself out) The other continually claims what they don't own... Deleting comments but hopefully suffering guilt, no doubt! There's been a few snipes, some gripes, some snaps and grabs of other sites But you have to be quick with them! They disappear quicker then what's acceptable as a modest lady's hem... Overall? There has been fantastic poetry Some marvellous writes A great deal of Awesome you can take to bed at night So much to read and to ponder, to listen to and contemplate I'm going to give HP a 9 out of 10 this week It's the best I can rate!
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Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 5:54 AM UTC
What's New on HP this Week?
You keep my mind off the things I want to forget The ******** in my life that tells me I'm not worth it The reasons why I should **** myself You remind me that I'm special That you love me And when you tell me that I don't need to cut myself I don't need to try to drive off the bridge I forget those feelings altogether I forget the terror that comes with the rain I forget the anxiety that comes with sitting next to strange men I forget the tears that come with feeling unlovable I forget the hangover that comes from yesterday's gripes I ******* forget it Because you look in my eyes And tell me that I'm special That you love me And for the first time in my life I believe it I don't have to lie to myself While waiting for the next best thing Because you're it
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 3:17 PM UTC
Wandering Mind in Love