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The Equalist! RE: The guerrilla girl’s poster 5% women artists yet 85% of the models are female. This poster was heralded as a feminist rebuff of misogyny and the male gaze. It is my opinion: one of the reasons females are more sexualised than males in Western society; is because the majority of women working in a sexualised industry such as modelling, dancing, fashion or *********** choose to perpetuate that role and the connection between *** and femininity; often in industries where females outnumber the men six to one; I'm also aware that the majority of the hierarchy in theses industries are male, it seems their gender solidarity is more concerned with the money; than notions of ****** inequality; thus perpetuating the issue. Vernacular test: Step one - Question one: I took a survey of 30 fellow artists asking what is a misandry? followed by what is your gender? Step two - Question two: I took a survey of 30 fellow artists asking what is a misogyny? followed by what is your gender? I did offer any information or allow any of the subjects to see the survey paper, or overhear the question. Results: 30 subjects took part in the survey; One female knew both words and their meaning, and one female didn't know what Misogyny was. (Two females approached refused to take part in the survey, all men approached engaged.) Step three - Question three: I then gave all the subjects the dictionary definition and asked why they thought the vernacular misandry is not as well known as the word misogyny? (I should add that I too couldn't recall the vernacular meaning of: Misandry; though I could recall the meaning or definition of Misogyny.) Answers: Female... "I don't care" Female... "It's due to a gender economic imbalance" Female..."Blokes just don't like it when women speak out about it" Female..."I don't get involved in protests" Female..."I don't know" Female..."Men just think with their ****** Female... "There's more misogynists" Female... "Because men are pigs" Female... "Why does it mater" Female... "It's just a word" Female... "I'm not interested" Female..."Try being a women" Female... " It's ******** it's just a vernacular" Female..."You wouldn't understand your a man" The other 5 Females... chose to offer no explanation. Answers: Male..."I don't know" Male... "who cares" Male... "Yeh that's interesting" Male... Why does it matter" Male... "Let me think about it" Male... "Who gives a **** Male... "What's this about" Male... "Can I see the results later" The other 2 males... Chose to offer no explanation. I personally identify as human; and don't wish to be defined, labeled or marginalised; I also don’t believe that secularism in any measure is healthy or meaningful in an inclusive society. I question why 29 out of 30 subjects had heard of Misogyny; and just one person had heard of Misandry. Sexism is not as the dictionary suggested prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women. Everyone is effected buy prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination. The subtleties of which is played out every day.
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Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 11:32 AM UTC
The equalist
The Equalist! RE: The guerrilla girl’s poster 5% women artists yet 85% of the models are female. This poster was heralded as a feminist rebuff of misogyny and the male gaze. It is my opinion: one of the reasons females are more sexualised than males in Western society; is because the majority of women working in a sexualised industry such as modelling, dancing, fashion or *********** choose to perpetuate that role and the connection between *** and femininity; often in industries where females outnumber the men six to one; I'm also aware that the majority of the hierarchy in theses industries are male, it seems their gender solidarity is more concerned with the money; than notions of ****** inequality; thus perpetuating the issue. Vernacular test: Step one - Question one: I took a survey of 30 fellow artists asking what is a misandry? followed by what is your gender? Step two - Question two: I took a survey of 30 fellow artists asking what is a misogyny? followed by what is your gender? I did offer any information or allow any of the subjects to see the survey paper, or overhear the question. Results: 30 subjects took part in the survey; One female knew both words and their meaning, and one female didn't know what Misogyny was. (Two females approached refused to take part in the survey, all men approached engaged.) Step three - Question three: I then gave all the subjects the dictionary definition and asked why they thought the vernacular misandry is not as well known as the word misogyny? (I should add that I too couldn't recall the vernacular meaning of: Misandry; though I could recall the meaning or definition of Misogyny.) Answers: Female... "I don't care" Female... "It's due to a gender economic imbalance" Female..."Blokes just don't like it when women speak out about it" Female..."I don't get involved in protests" Female..."I don't know" Female..."Men just think with their ****** Female... "There's more misogynists" Female... "Because men are pigs" Female... "Why does it mater" Female... "It's just a word" Female... "I'm not interested" Female..."Try being a women" Female... " It's ******** it's just a vernacular" Female..."You wouldn't understand your a man" The other 5 Females... chose to offer no explanation. Answers: Male..."I don't know" Male... "who cares" Male... "Yeh that's interesting" Male... Why does it matter" Male... "Let me think about it" Male... "Who gives a **** Male... "What's this about" Male... "Can I see the results later" The other 2 males... Chose to offer no explanation. I personally identify as human; and don't wish to be defined, labeled or marginalised; I also don’t believe that secularism in any measure is healthy or meaningful in an inclusive society. I question why 29 out of 30 subjects had heard of Misogyny; and just one person had heard of Misandry. Sexism is not as the dictionary suggested prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women. Everyone is effected buy prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination. The subtleties of which is played out every day.
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***"Watching The Wheels" - John Lennon People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing, Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin, When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strange, Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game, People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away, Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me, When I tell that I'm doing Fine watching shadows on the wall, Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball? I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go, People asking questions lost in confusion, Well I tell them there's no problem, Only solutions, Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind, I tell them there's no hurry... I'm just sitting here doing time, I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.*** "Mind Games" - John Lennon **We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla Chanting the mantra, peace on earth We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil Doing the mind guerrilla Some call it magic, the search for the grail** **Love is the answer and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you got to let it, you got to let it grow** **So keep on playing those mind games together Faith in the future, outta the now You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind Yeah we're playing those mind games forever Projecting our images in space and in time** **Yes is the answer and you know that for sure Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go** **So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel Keep on playing those mind games forever Raising the spirit of peace and love** ***Love... (I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)***
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 12:25 AM UTC
"IMAGINE" this, two by John Lennon!!!!
***"Watching The Wheels" - John Lennon People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing, Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin, When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strange, Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game, People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away, Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me, When I tell that I'm doing Fine watching shadows on the wall, Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball? I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go, People asking questions lost in confusion, Well I tell them there's no problem, Only solutions, Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind, I tell them there's no hurry... I'm just sitting here doing time, I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.*** "Mind Games" - John Lennon **We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla Chanting the mantra, peace on earth We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil Doing the mind guerrilla Some call it magic, the search for the grail** **Love is the answer and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you got to let it, you got to let it grow** **So keep on playing those mind games together Faith in the future, outta the now You just can't beat on those mind guerrillas Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind Yeah we're playing those mind games forever Projecting our images in space and in time** **Yes is the answer and you know that for sure Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go** **So keep on playing those mind games together Doing the ritual dance in the sun Millions of mind guerrillas Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel Keep on playing those mind games forever Raising the spirit of peace and love** ***Love... (I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)***
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*where are women really safe? how is it that society-collect FAILS as humanity stumbles yet again.. and again? our lady-folk are not safe*.. Amaya-bai finds little comfort but in sibilant-twin as no eye of sun nor ginoo laid eye on this binukot Olga is the silent-saint; believes in charity at home yet chaos ensues too easily - she is wronged and just gets.. lost in the system Zandile fetches precious amanzi in her sun-soaked calabash her vigilant-sister falls.. roving guerrilla-men from the river's edge Michelle, la petite belle, survives the daily-grind via low-coin tubes to Champs-Élysées as assistante-de-pharmacie Aadita,  from the outset at 15, dons a veil hiding ****** acid-burns she has some relative-luck to escape sati later on Amy with downtrod-heart, grabs the tram to downtown family wearing dark glasses and gloves on rainy-day blues Emiko graced (yet cursed) with beauty struggles with ancient-practice despite the ban, silent-suffering lotus-gait in the tiny village Aisha may be alive but not well from ethnic-marking tragedy as irugu are outcast from all-too prevalent gishiri-cruelty *might as well take a trip to Vladivostok or be dumped in a sarcophagus beneath the Pyramids safer there* S T - 27 sept 2013 - freitag
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Sep 27, 2013
Sep 27, 2013 at 3:59 AM UTC
Trip to Vladivostok
This is to all those misfits To the Romeo car-washing in Inglewood inlets To the Hippy selling crystals on the Venice boardwalk The Magician swallowing 8-balls at the Huntington Beach peer The Rapper selling CDs in the Ranch Market parking lot The **** tatting in a makeshift garage The Poet slinging chapbooks at cafes and rec centers… Not androids pontificating from lecterns But grimy roots burrowing deep Seismic rumblings toppling down Insured ivory towers Smashing pilled-paradigms beneath Docs Hustling and slinging In the forbidden outshacks of civilization In tents, over barbed-wire, beside shards Desperate and burning For neither Truth or Beauty But for LIFE They do not tap wrists No,  they thump chests To feel it beat To feel it rage For fugitive fugues For new eternities They embrace ********** romance Graveyard necromance The holy hunger for change Defying commercials and charts Shivering and howling on streets Waging guerrilla war Liberating cubicled-hearts
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Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 at 8:20 PM UTC
Ode to Misfits
When you approached me, I was smoking a cigarette listening to Macklemore outside my favorite coffeeshop in the rainy city You said something, but I didn't hear you, so I removed my headphones as you asked "Could you help a veteran out by giving him a cigarette?" I said yes, asked you where you had fought you told me Saigon "Oh yeah? Vietnam." you looked at me dressed in a coat that was a color of blue not found in nature face of canyons and told me "We got those ******* good. We did. We got those ******* good. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." and you walked away. I was stuck in a trance of What the **** was that and yeah, we did get them but I don't know if I'd lay down Agent Orange and call it "good" Take Civil and Guerrilla warfare and try to tie it next to butterflies and welfare checks I don't know what you think is good But me? I can't find any other words for 1.9 to 3.9 million casualties in a war that should never have been fought Than sad and wrong I wonder how many Vietnamese women gave birth to half American babies That they never wanted that didn't even desire to participate in the act of child making I wonder how many Loved their children anyway how many were honest with them how many of those children burnt that odd color of blue that should never exist in nature But then again neither should the bombs children are still unearthing in the North and South of Vietnam I want to know how many of their parents learned that American is another word for a ************ How many of these parents grew up telling their children never trust an American until you know where his gun is pointed because he's always got it pointing somewhere I want to know If you would understand where Saigon, now ** Chi Minh city is on a map if you had never fought there Would you be on the streets of Portland alone asking a college kid who was not alive when you fought in Southeast Asia for a cigarette I wonder where are you going? How many people did you **** how many are you sorry for killing? and then I realize I really don't want to know.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 12:43 AM UTC
To the Veteran That Needed a Cigarette and Got One
When you approached me, I was smoking a cigarette listening to Macklemore outside my favorite coffeeshop in the rainy city You said something, but I didn't hear you, so I removed my headphones as you asked "Could you help a veteran out by giving him a cigarette?" I said yes, asked you where you had fought you told me Saigon "Oh yeah? Vietnam." you looked at me dressed in a coat that was a color of blue not found in nature face of canyons and told me "We got those ******* good. We did. We got those ******* good. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise." and you walked away. I was stuck in a trance of What the **** was that and yeah, we did get them but I don't know if I'd lay down Agent Orange and call it "good" Take Civil and Guerrilla warfare and try to tie it next to butterflies and welfare checks I don't know what you think is good But me? I can't find any other words for 1.9 to 3.9 million casualties in a war that should never have been fought Than sad and wrong I wonder how many Vietnamese women gave birth to half American babies That they never wanted that didn't even desire to participate in the act of child making I wonder how many Loved their children anyway how many were honest with them how many of those children burnt that odd color of blue that should never exist in nature But then again neither should the bombs children are still unearthing in the North and South of Vietnam I want to know how many of their parents learned that American is another word for a ************ How many of these parents grew up telling their children never trust an American until you know where his gun is pointed because he's always got it pointing somewhere I want to know If you would understand where Saigon, now ** Chi Minh city is on a map if you had never fought there Would you be on the streets of Portland alone asking a college kid who was not alive when you fought in Southeast Asia for a cigarette I wonder where are you going? How many people did you **** how many are you sorry for killing? and then I realize I really don't want to know.
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.........as the sun just went for his nap, I woke up disturbed; in the middle of turmoils, on the edge of disasters......... Even though I wanted to, I couldn't sleep; I couldn't cry out for company, for I had known long back that my words were weak... There was some sleep in my eyes, some emptiness in my heart, and hunger in my soul... The situation here was chaotic, people killing each other for the sake of some long lost freedom... I wish I could turn back the clock, and bring the wheels of time to a stop. But time is obnoxious; then human lust for power, and some frivolous ideologies about freedom, make existence even more dangerous... And when hope runs out, we become merely living dead creatures.... And such had the conditions worsened in this area, that all was lost... Each night I slept without a single hope of seeing tomorrow's sunshine... Each time I went out, I filled myself with the sight of my beloved ones, as if it is the final meeting with them... So I couldn't find much difference between today and the other days....It seems like all was imprinted on me; My birth, which brought me here; My journey, which was neither much in favor, nor much against my stable, yet conflicting mind; and My end, which was too stubborn to accept me.... I was neglected by everyone, from everyone, and that's what solidified me...                     "I hid my pains even from myself,                      I revealed my pains only to myself..." I was unaware of what I was headed to, or whether I'd make it or not....that was unacceptable to all, I was unacceptable to all....                    "My days are keeping on getting bad                     My nights  are keeping on getting worst,                     I don't know the truths, just I guess I'm thirsty,                     But unaware of what would quench my thirst..." This area is a battlefield, and my battle here is with the guerrilla force, my battle here is with the terrorists....
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Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 12:51 PM UTC
A DAY IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR
.........as the sun just went for his nap, I woke up disturbed; in the middle of turmoils, on the edge of disasters......... Even though I wanted to, I couldn't sleep; I couldn't cry out for company, for I had known long back that my words were weak... There was some sleep in my eyes, some emptiness in my heart, and hunger in my soul... The situation here was chaotic, people killing each other for the sake of some long lost freedom... I wish I could turn back the clock, and bring the wheels of time to a stop. But time is obnoxious; then human lust for power, and some frivolous ideologies about freedom, make existence even more dangerous... And when hope runs out, we become merely living dead creatures.... And such had the conditions worsened in this area, that all was lost... Each night I slept without a single hope of seeing tomorrow's sunshine... Each time I went out, I filled myself with the sight of my beloved ones, as if it is the final meeting with them... So I couldn't find much difference between today and the other days....It seems like all was imprinted on me; My birth, which brought me here; My journey, which was neither much in favor, nor much against my stable, yet conflicting mind; and My end, which was too stubborn to accept me.... I was neglected by everyone, from everyone, and that's what solidified me...                     "I hid my pains even from myself,                      I revealed my pains only to myself..." I was unaware of what I was headed to, or whether I'd make it or not....that was unacceptable to all, I was unacceptable to all....                    "My days are keeping on getting bad                     My nights  are keeping on getting worst,                     I don't know the truths, just I guess I'm thirsty,                     But unaware of what would quench my thirst..." This area is a battlefield, and my battle here is with the guerrilla force, my battle here is with the terrorists....
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Text her. Send her messages that she won't know how to respond to. she'll read them and put her phone down. Stare at the read receipt for hours until you realize she's not picking the phone back up, she doesn't have anything to say to you. Eat lots of chocolate. It has serotonin in it, the happy chemical. When you cuddle with her, your brain releases oxytocin. As long as you eat enough chocolate (and throw it up) you won't miss the oxytocin one bit. Bleed. When she tells you that she cuts herself, cut deeper. This is guerrilla warfare now, and for every shot fired you must fire back. Read your messages. Laugh at the nicknames she used. "Princess". "Baby". "Darlin". You were never her princess, never her baby. She was the child and you were merely her plaything. Make art. Write dumb poetry about falling in and out of love, take photographs of your ****** thighs, paint a picture using only shades of red. Let her figure out what all these things mean. Drink. Green tea, ***** over-priced lattes. Stay up all night crying. Wear stilettos. Sit in art museums all alone and wonder if being a starving artist is as much fun as it sounds. Take long showers and harmonize with your favorite songs through your tears. Use heavier, blacker eyeliner. Spend time on yourself. Adopt a cat. But most of all, remember this: You can only love one person. Choose yourself
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 2:43 PM UTC
How to fall out of love
the wind whispers to you in furious ways, ominous notes, like a dusty violin stenciling finality into the air. the percussion of foot-soldiers trembles the grass.   you have grown, my war-child,   from the days of ****** tea parties   to a diva guerrilla,   terrible and well-rehearsed,   your bulleted libretto close to your chest-- and as trumpets sound in the offing, the curtain draws back. AK-47, pizzicato-- gasoline breeds fire, incinerates woodwinds, the wine of the coloratura soprano melts into blood.   witch, ***** daughter of gunpowder,   bella contralto, your   deep and tremulous vibrato is a   grenade, and as death crashes to a crescendo, mortality in the tin frequency of cymbals-- the only armistice is annihilation.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM UTC
shotgun opera
Destination delayed, off course. Life is a city bus. For some, at least. On schedule, same route, Never a trip. Strange people sleeping next to you, the creepy man in a Trench coat that always stands up. And the smell of ***** from the child sitting alone, a tired look on their face Before they realize their mother already got off. They are an orphan now. Wandering between places that they are supposed to think Of as family. The attitude kicks in, drugs and suicide, Soon it will all end. Abducted by demons left as inheritance, her mother was a ***** Time to accept her legacy, Escape from what she has dealt with and run, a savage salve now, New York ********** The city bus she started in has crashed, Off course and alone. She has no path. She writes poetry to keep herself sane. She isn't really a ***** She releases about them. Really, she lives on the streets, robbing from book stores and using old chalk from Abandoned garages to paint her emotions. Guerrilla artist, known by many, but not known at all. Shaved her hair off and dressed as a man, cheaper than the designer **** That is expected of women. I blame the city bus.
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Nov 7, 2013
Nov 7, 2013 at 10:38 AM UTC
City Buses
Eyes cast down I see the flaws, All of mine, all of yours. Stains; I wipe away at them daily, Guerrilla janitor, They don't pay me But they pain me. So what if I strive for perfection? mop or mope away, squeeze out the infection, but its a fiction the clean slate don't exist when you work in the permanent they'll be no ExtINKtion. So I guess I'll take the flaws, All of mine, all of yours. Clear some flaw space as I take the floor Make my acceptance speech And explore this imperfect notion. Pry back the boards and discover that They keep us grounded and In their absence We wouldn't be who we are.
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 1:16 AM UTC
Flaw Space
1991 I realized We were both born in rotting soil, plastic toys fed by Arabia's oil. Eyes closed, ears behest to broadcasts, we, could NOT protest. That was the beginning of our mass destruction, but cribs offsides, we slept soundly, thanking our stars, proud to be Americans. 10 years dormant, the lyrics laid, enough to stick, but their irony to fade. Until grade school, recess goaded, as burning buildings on our side exploded. The imminent threat preloaded, in airports we shed shoes, forever coded. The broadcast — our center was the theorem that planes, oil, and Arabs risked everyone's freedom. But when we raised hands, to ask why, teachers said hail red, blue, and especially white. We forgot our roots, because the Ellis Island trip was obviously cancelled. So we read headlines, instead of Orwell, the day 911 called for a police state. Trusted the government and ****** Muslims, the day turbans meant hijacking planes. Pledged allegiance disguised as freedom, the day war was declared on Saddam Insane. Our flag revealed a sham feeding flames, angst-ridden teenagers we became. With raised middle fingers, instead of hands, to Green Day lyrics, **** Amuricans. Because only idiots press a red button twice, when mass destruction is the price. And only villains make children orphans, while victims drown in New Orleans. And only gluttons eat caviar with silver spoons, tainting forever a nation's youth. Entrenched in dunes, we boarded blind, to debt, death, and jaded minds. Blamed by perpetrators in dollars and change, for a guerrilla war fought in vain! Voted Obama, with Osama slain, and soldiers withdrawn, we hoped for change. PLEASE, we cried, JUST STOP! We are CHAINED — to a bulldozer that has NO BRAKES! … So the broadcast said recently: We are losing control of the Middle East. And Al-Qaeda is far from weak — ISIS: THE PHOENIX OF HUMAN GREED, We just turned off our TV's and looked up, the kids who gave up, thanked Musk — our atlas, not yet shrugged, whose vessels of stars will rocket toward Mars, from this godforsaken civilization built on hate. And when you tell me, *** "We were both born in 1991," I can only sigh, and breath sympathy, for our dark history.
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:57 PM UTC
1991. @Justin Wampler
1991 I realized We were both born in rotting soil, plastic toys fed by Arabia's oil. Eyes closed, ears behest to broadcasts, we, could NOT protest. That was the beginning of our mass destruction, but cribs offsides, we slept soundly, thanking our stars, proud to be Americans. 10 years dormant, the lyrics laid, enough to stick, but their irony to fade. Until grade school, recess goaded, as burning buildings on our side exploded. The imminent threat preloaded, in airports we shed shoes, forever coded. The broadcast — our center was the theorem that planes, oil, and Arabs risked everyone's freedom. But when we raised hands, to ask why, teachers said hail red, blue, and especially white. We forgot our roots, because the Ellis Island trip was obviously cancelled. So we read headlines, instead of Orwell, the day 911 called for a police state. Trusted the government and ****** Muslims, the day turbans meant hijacking planes. Pledged allegiance disguised as freedom, the day war was declared on Saddam Insane. Our flag revealed a sham feeding flames, angst-ridden teenagers we became. With raised middle fingers, instead of hands, to Green Day lyrics, **** Amuricans. Because only idiots press a red button twice, when mass destruction is the price. And only villains make children orphans, while victims drown in New Orleans. And only gluttons eat caviar with silver spoons, tainting forever a nation's youth. Entrenched in dunes, we boarded blind, to debt, death, and jaded minds. Blamed by perpetrators in dollars and change, for a guerrilla war fought in vain! Voted Obama, with Osama slain, and soldiers withdrawn, we hoped for change. PLEASE, we cried, JUST STOP! We are CHAINED — to a bulldozer that has NO BRAKES! … So the broadcast said recently: We are losing control of the Middle East. And Al-Qaeda is far from weak — ISIS: THE PHOENIX OF HUMAN GREED, We just turned off our TV's and looked up, the kids who gave up, thanked Musk — our atlas, not yet shrugged, whose vessels of stars will rocket toward Mars, from this godforsaken civilization built on hate. And when you tell me, *** "We were both born in 1991," I can only sigh, and breath sympathy, for our dark history.
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They protested war in the sixties Today we occupy the 1% and their wealth Times haven’t changed in accordance with public opinion But the police state has grown more authoritative Media output is under corporate thumbs Social media is a lie proportioned from mass de-intellect Intellectualize the comeback of systematic rational thought Distraction of disaster is distasteful destruction Defined, refined, combined, combed in A darkened bomb shelter to hide in The enemy ambushed in guerrilla warfare Has the benefit of never seeing the enemy coming Taken to the streets in prolific protest Condemning the condemnation of a capitalist nation It’s party time to destroy the two-party system
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Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 9:41 AM UTC
It's Party Time
Iodine damnation cleanses Alice--rock-and-roll medusa alone in the field, she waits for the flies to eat the spider --the third testament of law divinely christened as low as $19.95. Hell is where Schrodinger throws the bodies. Revived Alice is in a burlap sack embedded in the cubbyhole of a mortal anthro-rubix, the small garnishes that spot livers during cancer. "Hello and welcome to the resting place of all Blues songs." speaks the curbed lips of Gluttony. A name that vomits up rebellion, like cleansing the glucose off fish-cleaning tables. Alice touches her eyes rolls them --fortunate galleries, broods deeply on the jaws of her receptors. "After the last drop, the hard boiled spoil and the cats won't eat 'em. Neither will I," Gluttony spews, "You all show up as do I, magnifying the cruelty of digging, digging, digging that follows me and you to the bitter stem and rough petal--throwing this rose, that rose, here and there inside the carcass of lust. The scalding photograph of a guerrilla war playground hangs over the mantle of a prideful garden. "Pulp wisdom looking back at the names of thieves/murderers of simple thought over-turning scars of fallacy in that garden. "Picking, picking, picking out the best arrangement so it doesn't look like I went through a drive-thru for what to say. 'Hey.' 'Yes?' 'I love you.' 'You too.' Something in between what you, I, and the others were looking for has uprooted bushes--the tilled chest of my sister and lover--disarrayed, dirt thrown to the side. Fibonacci colors patterned across the moist earth to distract you and I, all from the dread, and all the relief of ripping apart the white, pink, black, and red."
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Feb 27, 2013
Feb 27, 2013 at 8:48 PM UTC
The Basilisk Verses (part one)
Iodine damnation cleanses Alice--rock-and-roll medusa alone in the field, she waits for the flies to eat the spider --the third testament of law divinely christened as low as $19.95. Hell is where Schrodinger throws the bodies. Revived Alice is in a burlap sack embedded in the cubbyhole of a mortal anthro-rubix, the small garnishes that spot livers during cancer. "Hello and welcome to the resting place of all Blues songs." speaks the curbed lips of Gluttony. A name that vomits up rebellion, like cleansing the glucose off fish-cleaning tables. Alice touches her eyes rolls them --fortunate galleries, broods deeply on the jaws of her receptors. "After the last drop, the hard boiled spoil and the cats won't eat 'em. Neither will I," Gluttony spews, "You all show up as do I, magnifying the cruelty of digging, digging, digging that follows me and you to the bitter stem and rough petal--throwing this rose, that rose, here and there inside the carcass of lust. The scalding photograph of a guerrilla war playground hangs over the mantle of a prideful garden. "Pulp wisdom looking back at the names of thieves/murderers of simple thought over-turning scars of fallacy in that garden. "Picking, picking, picking out the best arrangement so it doesn't look like I went through a drive-thru for what to say. 'Hey.' 'Yes?' 'I love you.' 'You too.' Something in between what you, I, and the others were looking for has uprooted bushes--the tilled chest of my sister and lover--disarrayed, dirt thrown to the side. Fibonacci colors patterned across the moist earth to distract you and I, all from the dread, and all the relief of ripping apart the white, pink, black, and red."
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while the young kids burn their lips on unfiltered cigarettes and the poets are distracted, i'm kneeling in an alley flushed with desire clutching your number on a napkin. while the children and the saints are crying in dysentery behind guerrilla masks and guns i'm imagining the flesh of your stomach folded over the length of my thigh and the roar of a volcano in your heart.
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 9:32 PM UTC
roar
the Ethiopian woman shunned for pulling rope from between her legs in a manner suggesting the rope has a beginning… whose dead newborn has the attention span of the sadness we register as patience in the guerrilla museums of health we are apt to attend on the backs of men who smoke during so they can chat after the cesarean.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 9:47 PM UTC
deceptively simple abominations (i)
I've heard it goes, "all is fair in love and war" I'm not sure I agree When localities become marginalized Despite the lack of knowledge That guerrilla warfare comes in waves Like crashing tides against foreign beaches The ones I've never seen I'm not sure if he'll lose his life Upon his first deployment But there isn't much to lose when you've already sold your soul Can you enlist half a person? If that were the case, I'd sign up too And **** the only part of me That's still in love with you
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 2:06 PM UTC
guerrilla warfare
it's really something how quickly things can change how one poem ago you were back in my bed in my heart how one poem ago you accidentally called me honey in the middle of a flirtatious conversation and every time after that was on purpose if you ask me there are no such thing as accidents I would tell you there is no such thing as coincidence that you are only setting yourself up for failure by choosing to believe in miracles if you asked me I would tell you a long time ago many many poems ago I believed in love at first sight and soul mates and fate but the truth is these beliefs are built on a quicksand foundation of lust and naivety and sheer stupidity love is the hardest part of living the deadliest war to sign up for your heart is not a soldier you are not a battleground this love is guerrilla warfare that wink this grin those hands on my hips these lips on my neck your breath in my ear my name on your tongue this is war one poem ago we were asleep like lazy lovers on a sunday afternoon one poem ago the sound of you moaning my name has seared itself back into my brain one poem ago I love you so much that I say I will never let you go and this morning you are severing your own arms just to escape from my grasp
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 1:09 PM UTC
this is war
Who are we if not the purveyors of justice my rifle, my knife, these limbs. Who are they if not the intruders of peace; their terror, our lives, death looms. I am hollowed: rebuilt and refilled. My scarred face remembers what I need not. Their faces and fear lie killed; ****** with mandate, bullet hole signature.        The trigger finger -                             is not mine, it’s yours. You **** guerrilla forces, burn villages and conquer; linger and pause. Teach them what you had us learn, cut them from their cage, and coax them to our ways. They, purveyors of peace; you, intruder, enforcing justice.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 9:22 AM UTC
Pawn To King
Acaso él mismo fuera en parte responsable, Por el afán de parecer un ángel, eterno adolescente, De aquel diminuto familiar en exceso con el mozo, De sabor desdeñoso para el hombre, Con el cual en privado y en público llamaban Unos y otros, amigos como extraños, Con esas peculiares maneras españolas, Al cincuentón obeso en que se convirtiera. En el poeta la espiritual compleja maquinaria De sutil precisión y exquisito manejo Requiere entendimiento, y no tan sólo En quienes al poeta se aproximan Sino también en quien detenta a aquélla. Mas él, siempre movido por el capricho irrazonable del infante, No quiso, tal vez no supo manejarla, Ayudando a los otros, contra él, en el desdén artero. Porque en la cuenta debe entrar la idiosincrasia indígena Que jamás admitiera cómo excelencia puede corresponder a varios: Su fanatismo antes mejor prospera si se concentra en la de uno. Así tantos compadres del Poeta en Residencia, Sin excluir, por su interés en la guerrilla, a éste, Quisieron consignar al olvido su raro don poético, Cuidando de ver en él tan sólo y nada más que a "Manolito" Y callando al poeta admirable que en él hubo.
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Supervivencias tribales en el medio literario
Sleep on me like memory foam never forget like September eleven snow flurries are the forecast today with a little bit of hopelessness a new nasa study which I read on facebook suggests that modern civilization will crumble upon itself within the next two decades so the cold wind blows across the dusty plains and the litter strewn streets rest easily like guerrilla militants pay homage to the blazing skies another day waiting for the bite to come another day praying like mad men the nostalgic characters we created are haunting us we are all being called home supper is getting cold and we are all in need of a solid night’s sleep before what is to come
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
sleep now
Twist sound into verse keep the frequency high Vibrations will synchronize and the new world will arise
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM UTC
Guerrilla Consciousness
I can see, in your sea what I threw, went right through your lack of class, so get to class you flea, you flee fear will show, fear the show for busted acts, four battle ax an eerie moan, an eerily mown level plane, yet too plain so start the rite, so start to write your words to savor, you worried saver and this I saw, and with this saw cut to sear, seek the seer a spirit pryed, an unleashed pride giant gorilla, stealthy guerrilla so send the pros, we speak in prose you leave your prince, you leave your prints simple minds racked, simply mind wracked so slow your roll, know your role kneel and pray, kneel you prey you maid from Rome, you'remade to roam with worn sole, with warn soul spirit's cold, under coaled start the fire, weapons fire send the horde, send the ****** forget the gaffe, remember the gaff speed for the gate, speed is the gait if death feign, or if death fain let you pass, or may you pass
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Jan 29, 2011
Jan 29, 2011 at 5:56 PM UTC
Seas Steal, Seize Steel
after years of fending Mathematics, hiding disastrous test papers as guerrilla tactics,   lolling in the shame of discovery,   followed by parents' sherlockian commentary, how they came upon the dreaded documents, accidentally,   I thank the gods who gave writers nibs, quills, ink,   how their tales became shields,infused life in print, these angelic saviours from Darth Vader menace, famed rescuers from teacher disguised fiends, dear, beloved school education, I forgive you all your sins...
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 11:43 AM UTC
Mathematics, Stories & I
Light a fire under your assmove boy, moveno time to catch your breaththe fires closing fastthe tree line approachingthe horizon line2 more hoursto the drop zonefreedom at lastto burnthe place downtorch all the animalsVengeance at lastThe small village scaredthey run for their livesno chance at survivalthe ****** blastskin blisters and peels awayscorched bodies fallthe smiles of the killersslowly fade awaynot a guerrilla outpost they thought it should bethe bodies writhingthe faces of the burningwill never leave their memories
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Feb 24, 2010
Feb 24, 2010 at 1:35 PM UTC
Freedom isn't free!
it is not the tier of enmeshed leaves nor the zither of green. none is their duty to discover the lunar hook of moon. — the old bamboo is the mistral danseuse tonight. whatever the etcetera of it, whatever the birds demand from it. a sling of breath is far-flung into the sky announcing merriment before the child beheads the tulip, before the creature chokes the pistil, before the light enters slow-churn of synthesis. hearing the giggling of bush in the mire of wind, heaving in all kinds of sleep, the children, the weather, together; synapses drunk in translation and we feel no longer the secret of a guerrilla behind the foliage. it is only the heraldry of the world when the morning unclips its wing, as monsoons continue their bushwhack amongst petty citations. past oceans gleaming and away from hills dreaming — by the river, dead of heart, riveting silence of land, past the battered bridge in Marilao tracing deathlier waters, all gone in recall, something i scour to find only pining away from scarcity of remember. it is never their duty to bring back its image to dance with me again.
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 9:04 AM UTC
Even Deathlier Waters