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"guillotine" poems
629 I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane— She stopped—a Traveller’s privilege—for Rest— And there upon I gazed—as at a stranger— The Lady in the Town Doth think no incivility To lift her Glass—upon— But never Stranger justified The Curiosity Like Mine—for not a Foot—nor Hand— Nor Formula—had she— But like a Head—a Guillotine Slid carelessly away— Did independent, Amber— Sustain her in the sky— Or like a Stemless Flower— Upheld in rolling Air By finer Gravitations— Than bind Philosopher— No Hunger—had she—nor an Inn— Her Toilette—to suffice— Nor Avocation—nor Concern For little Mysteries As harass us—like Life—and Death— And Afterwards—or Nay— But seemed engrossed to Absolute— With shining—and the Sky— The privilege to scrutinize Was scarce upon my Eyes When, with a Silver practise— She vaulted out of Gaze— And next—I met her on a Cloud— Myself too far below To follow her superior Road— Or its advantage—Blue—
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I watched the Moon around the House
With both of us standing Infront of the guillotine, Why did you take her Instead of me? I'm trying to find the reason. Why did I deserve to live? What kept me here And took her away? I'm not even close To deserving half a life. But she did nothing wrong, Still she's the one you took. Maybe it's survivors guilt, And maybe i'm being stupid. But I don't understand, Why God would take a soul like hers And leave me to live.
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May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015 at 7:56 PM UTC
Survivor's Guilt
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
I non Q
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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I don't know who you are I don't know what you do I don't know where you are But I know that You have wrecked me Mentally, psychologically and socially Rendering me incoherent in speech And incapable of action Reduced to a blundering mass Of bloated bones and sinew Ready to collapse like a pack of cards At the slightest hint of a crisis I don't know who you are I don't know what you do I don't know where you are But I know that You have wrecked me And you shall pay dearly for it Whether it be death by a thousand cuts Or a pill of cyanide in your cup of tea Or a bullet right in your temple Or a mighty fall from the tallest tower Or a bite from a venomous serpent Or a decapitation by the mighty guillotine Or even, having your soul ****** out From your filthy mouth I don't know who you are I don't know what you do I don't know where you are But I know that You have wrecked me And I shall not rest Until I finish you, once and for all And the world is rid, of your menace
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Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 5:51 AM UTC
You have wrecked me
Perfect little ******* crowd Laugh your lungs out Swear humiliation Sweat indifference Salt your licks Sever empathy One death rattle One night only ******* entertain me Entertain me* Pillow talk massacre Conscience guillotine
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Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 3:44 AM UTC
repulsive entertainment
The tavern roof was smokey with a pall of blueish ash. The juke box was a- booming as it played "The Monster Mash". A giant puffed a burning witch whilst smoke rings he exhaled.... While victims of our neighbor, Vlad...on stakes were all impaled. The Faceless Man was grinning... from ear to missing ear. The hanged man turned his twisted neck to sip a mug of beer. The Headless Horseman shouted for an aspirin or three. He popped them down his gullet where his head was meant to be. The zombies waited tables and the werewolf tended bar. Mothra was the carhop and took orders car to car. Godzilla worked the griddle and served burgers ala carte. Dracula complained about the steak caught in his heart. Ghosts and ghouls were dancing with abandon on the stage While cyborgs did "the robot" 'cause they thought it was the rage. The mummy came unraveled as we took him for a "spin" As Frankenstein played tuba to contribute to the din. Igor brought "the monster" and then Freddie brought his claw. Jason brought his butcher knife and his buddy from "The Saw". The guillotine was working and the raven refereed So nevermore would pardons be allowed to intercede. The pendulum was swinging to the beating of my heart. I hoped that I would wake up soon... then did so...with a START! Halloween is coming.  So, I guess I should prepare. Watch out for bars with men from Mars... 'cause BEASTIES party there!
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Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017 at 6:45 AM UTC
The Tavern of Terror
The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. Its running is useless. At nightfall there is the beauty of drowned fields, Dawn gilds the farmers like pigs, Swaying slightly in their thick suits, White towers of Smithfield ahead, Fat haunches and blood on their minds. There is no mercy in the glitter of cleavers, The butcher's guillotine that whispers: 'How's this, how's this?' In the bowl the hare is aborted, Its baby head out of the way, embalmed in spice, Flayed of fur and humanity. Let us eat it like Plato's afterbirth, Let us eat it like Christ. These are the people that were important ---- Their round eyes, their teeth, their grimaces On a stick that rattles and clicks, a counterfeit snake. Shall the hood of the cobra appall me ---- The loneliness of its eye, the eye of the mountains Through which the sky eternally threads itself? The world is blood-hot and personal Dawn says, with its blood-flush. There is no terminus, only suitcases Out of which the same self unfolds like a suit Bald and shiny, with pockets of wishes, Notions and tickets, short circuits and folding mirrors. I am mad, calls the spider, waving its many arms. And in truth it is terrible, Multiplied in the eyes of the flies. They buzz like blue children In nets of the infinite, Roped in at the end by the one Death with its many sticks.
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Totem
Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 7:20 AM UTC
Revolution : Part one
Revolution: Part one. The first French King sentenced to death, Must have a new execution invented; So that this day shall be forever remembered. The execution of your King, this invention of evil; This is how he will finally meet his end and go to the Devil. The man behind the mask, the executioner; Will lead us to change to a new world order. A declaration of civil war, to stop the oppression, Has lead France to say, we must fight to stop the aggression. We must be revolting and begin the revolution; To put an end to the executions. The fall of the guillotine, for a life time spent, Writing the encyclopedia, which lead to his death. There is no place for God, in an encyclopedia of Man; This writing is illegal, you are blasphemous! God **** So the time has come, to take your last breath. Remember when you see the guillotine... don't lose your head. Until it's chopped off and ends up in the basket; Another case of basket case madness. No fiction necessary, for us to live here on Earth; But this execution, you surely don't deserve. So the poets leave France, before the revolution; All of them heading, back to England. These prison bars to entrap the young. Taken prisoner for writing a book. Follow their rules; free thinking is wrong. The encyclopedia is evidence enough. Man is born free and grows to imprison himself; Then he must follow the orders, of somebody else. Frances revolutionaries, said let it be, let it be; But the nation is ruled, by the monarchy. Imprisoned for what they think, the poets and the artists; But there are no walls, in the prison inside their heads. Begin the revolution and make us all classless, Because they’re chained by society, For the thoughts that they think. A fight for equality, a modern day philosophy. Man is born to think for himself; a revolution is on the way. Liberty! Liberation for one free state; A jaded nation must make a change. Revolution began, after the fall of the blade; Now the guillotine of power will stop us being slaves. Preaching revolution, we must free ourselves of these manacles. Preaching liberation for the masses And freedom for the individual. This new guillotine, the machine of death, Makes the severed head fall into the basket, As they take your last breath; But they can't take your words, from the books you have written. So fight the power! Revolution! Revolution! We must have a revolution, that is televised. Che Guevara, Malcolm X, me, myself and I. All of us willing to join the fight; All of knowing our view is right. (C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.
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this veil over your dreams may as well be a guillotine
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 5:34 PM UTC
death of an individual
Once at the guillotine Now an out-of-focus angel "Crime is shame, not the scaffold!" She's got a '45 strapped To each of her thighs Speaks French with a Martian accent Wishes she was a siren When bathed in happy thoughts Wishes she was the ladybird When her wings Confuse amuse transfuse Into dreams of blood Lukewarm prisoner Detained for seven years Now lies beside her Asking for a helping hand She loosens her corset But tightens her grip
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Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022 at 9:10 AM UTC
Calypso
You held a promise over my head like a guillotine, I'd be safe as long as I did what you asked, I'd survive so long as I gave you what you wanted, I saw God in the face of Satan, because there was no other way for it to be, and you want my thanks and gratitude for being my saviour that night? when you would put me in a prison, for the rest of my life...
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Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023 at 7:33 AM UTC
God vs Satan
You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because, in one of the spun sugar fragile sequences of the events in your life, it works out. There is a place, somewhere amidst star stuff and cosmic collisions, where you are not the problem daughter or the biggest disappointment or the most regretted kiss. There is a place where you sink into a desk in your eight a.m. class and a boy with bags under his eyes and a hole-y sweater pulled over his knuckles says, "hi." There is a place where your father comes back from the war with sand grit in his eyes, blood under his fingernails and lets you save him.  There is a place where you live in India, where you aren't afraid to love, where everything hurts less, where you stopped punishing yourself for the faults of your parents. You are a girl. Not a dart board or a guilty verdict or the final, desperate ****** of a sword through someone's chest. You are made of the same stuff as Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great and Elizabeth, and you can command the winds too. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because no one ever asked you about the scars on your thighs but that doesn't make them nonexistent or unimportant. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you've grown: stronger in some ways and weaker in others, but you are still a result of rhapsodies in violet and trees bowed to the sea and soldiers with wind burn on their cheeks. Tonight, you are going to wrap your own arms around your own chest and breathe, swaying silently to no music. You are going to memorize the sound of silence, and you are going to listen hard for the even, jagged, pitter patter of your heart. You are going to thank your body for waging war against itself, you are going to apologize to your head for bruising your heart. You are going to feel the roughness of the floor and the vastness of the entire world and all of the eventualities spread before you. You are going to remember that this is only one, that atoms and molecules are flighty, whimsical, prone to selfishness and longing for the promise of stability. You are going to press your lips to your own wrists and know, as surely as Anne Boleyn knew when she walked to the guillotine, that no one can save you but yourself. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you are not an accident of the multiverse. You are purposeful and beautiful and young and reckless with your feelings, but you are not a mistake. Listen to the trembling of your heartbeat and breathe. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 12:51 PM UTC
Why You Aren't Going to **** Yourself Tonight
You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because, in one of the spun sugar fragile sequences of the events in your life, it works out. There is a place, somewhere amidst star stuff and cosmic collisions, where you are not the problem daughter or the biggest disappointment or the most regretted kiss. There is a place where you sink into a desk in your eight a.m. class and a boy with bags under his eyes and a hole-y sweater pulled over his knuckles says, "hi." There is a place where your father comes back from the war with sand grit in his eyes, blood under his fingernails and lets you save him.  There is a place where you live in India, where you aren't afraid to love, where everything hurts less, where you stopped punishing yourself for the faults of your parents. You are a girl. Not a dart board or a guilty verdict or the final, desperate ****** of a sword through someone's chest. You are made of the same stuff as Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great and Elizabeth, and you can command the winds too. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because no one ever asked you about the scars on your thighs but that doesn't make them nonexistent or unimportant. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you've grown: stronger in some ways and weaker in others, but you are still a result of rhapsodies in violet and trees bowed to the sea and soldiers with wind burn on their cheeks. Tonight, you are going to wrap your own arms around your own chest and breathe, swaying silently to no music. You are going to memorize the sound of silence, and you are going to listen hard for the even, jagged, pitter patter of your heart. You are going to thank your body for waging war against itself, you are going to apologize to your head for bruising your heart. You are going to feel the roughness of the floor and the vastness of the entire world and all of the eventualities spread before you. You are going to remember that this is only one, that atoms and molecules are flighty, whimsical, prone to selfishness and longing for the promise of stability. You are going to press your lips to your own wrists and know, as surely as Anne Boleyn knew when she walked to the guillotine, that no one can save you but yourself. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight because you are not an accident of the multiverse. You are purposeful and beautiful and young and reckless with your feelings, but you are not a mistake. Listen to the trembling of your heartbeat and breathe. You aren't going to **** yourself tonight.
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stuck pig injecting in a tiny house on a green island raining a jungle of cable internet a septic tank I run a maze grow bananas wait for delivery departure line up for my plastic sippy cup eat pancakes stack Bromantane for breakfast nootropics family replacement new tropical smoothie maker prime member of the Amazon got to stimulate my work in the garden see that water feature it’s a duck pond no it’s an empty kiddy pool but on a tree I’m over it an antler bromeliad hunting trophy a certification of my triumph the plot next to it my head in the mail a miniature guillotine to repatriate my body and tail still moving
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 10:45 PM UTC
SQUEALING
Just as you are different to me, I cannot understand you. Every move you make Every thought, expression That passes across your eyes; They say eyes are the window into the soul But your eyes are expressionless Blank as a stone slate Cold as a stone slate How could you **** someone? Don't you feel guilty? The dark malice hidden away in those beautiful eyes Spur-of-the-moment thoughts, uncontrollable impulses. How did I fall for you? People still ask me, every day. Do you still love her? How do I answer that? All those memories we shared, Every photo taken, I still look back at them, sometimes. And feel the toxic rush of happiness Of fondness, of love. Love for a serial killer. While you comforted me, Gently held me, Assuring me, Everything was going to be alright, You tortured, tore apart others Who were different from me. You're a murderer, a criminal. You took a life, intentional Every move and calculated plan All executed like a falling guillotine. Unstoppable. Deadly. How did I fall for you? People still ask me. I still remember, the memories we shared. Every gentle word and loving touch, Filling me with toxic happiness. How did I fall for you? How do I answer that? The best answer, I think, Is that you were different.
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Dec 7, 2020
Dec 7, 2020 at 9:38 PM UTC
different
A girl by the name of Josephine was once destined to be a great queen married off to a prince, a boy but never let her true feelings show for she was in love, this was true but not with the prince, a boy her true love she could not enjoy there were stolen kisses snuck out at night for passion so vicious don't get caught my sweet Josephine for the two of you they will get in between you see Josephine's love was forbidden with a girl by the name of Rosaline, so it's best to keep hidden they spent countless nights enjoying eachother with no cover but the warmth of the two lovers but eventually everything must come to light during an encouter of the sweetest kind a night of moaning and arching of their back, everything felt so right when the prince, a boy caught both of them in the middle of their throws while the girls were still clutching hard at the bed he screamed ****** ****** "off with her head!" So the his guards grabbed Rosaline and led her to the guillotine Josephine looked at her lover for the last time "Rosaline" her deep brown eyes,golden skin, a girl so divine before the blade was let loose, not even a scream Josephine swore, she cried a whole stream she drowned in her tears of sorrow and pain the girls blood on the floor it did stain when Josephine took her last breath upon the pool of her tears she felt Rosaline's hands around her waist and her breath in her ear saying "My sweet josephine, don't worry I'm here." She believed that Rosaline did not die at the guillotine but they died together without fear and completely serene.
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 2:16 AM UTC
My sweet Josephine
A girl by the name of Josephine was once destined to be a great queen married off to a prince, a boy but never let her true feelings show for she was in love, this was true but not with the prince, a boy her true love she could not enjoy there were stolen kisses snuck out at night for passion so vicious don't get caught my sweet Josephine for the two of you they will get in between you see Josephine's love was forbidden with a girl by the name of Rosaline, so it's best to keep hidden they spent countless nights enjoying eachother with no cover but the warmth of the two lovers but eventually everything must come to light during an encouter of the sweetest kind a night of moaning and arching of their back, everything felt so right when the prince, a boy caught both of them in the middle of their throws while the girls were still clutching hard at the bed he screamed ****** ****** "off with her head!" So the his guards grabbed Rosaline and led her to the guillotine Josephine looked at her lover for the last time "Rosaline" her deep brown eyes,golden skin, a girl so divine before the blade was let loose, not even a scream Josephine swore, she cried a whole stream she drowned in her tears of sorrow and pain the girls blood on the floor it did stain when Josephine took her last breath upon the pool of her tears she felt Rosaline's hands around her waist and her breath in her ear saying "My sweet josephine, don't worry I'm here." She believed that Rosaline did not die at the guillotine but they died together without fear and completely serene.
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Darkness peaks beneath your mask, Eternal lying smothers your task, To be accepted by commercial greed, It stimulates your mindful need, Of personal gain and broken dreams, Place your brain inside a guillotine, To feed your craving for nicotine, Among the thoughts in your caved-in mind, The wind tickles your troubles in and out of time, Your plastic-eyed dolls and cruel songs, Is a portrait of your desire to walk along, All the beauties in the magazines, Drench your face in gasoline, Ignite a match to force humility, Upon your flesh and your stupidity, You used to poke fun at the lifeless on the streets, Now, take a bite of that forbidden bittersweet, Juices of past one nightstands and lost lovers, Enjoy what is less taken to be discovered. There is an insatiable claim to your brain, Alongside your coffee, pills, and bags of ******* Wicked **** sour ***** and dedicated fake, It is your bones against stones karma will break. Liar, cheater, deceptive soul eater, Tis’ the future in the light of tomorrow’s eyes, Where in Hell your soul shall eternal lie.
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Jul 16, 2011
Jul 16, 2011 at 6:21 AM UTC
Wicked ****
My voice is nestled within a river of transitions, positioned in endless sets of pre- and post- parentheses. Pre-revolutionary, post-Missing Link. Post-postmodern, pre-postmodern revival. I sit in a somersaulting purgatory sandwiched between evocation and paralysis. My hatred is exhausted, shoulders hunched over a guillotine, cursing with its tongue sprawled dead and dry at an imaginary hunter, a mass of bones clumped under the rug I keep pulling from my own two feet. Will you hack through this cocoon? Have you got the muscle and the patience? Nevermind that bedtime story. There must be some wounds of yours, those placed beyond the verbal tanline, that need immediate bandaging. Can I get you anything?
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Feb 4, 2012
Feb 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM UTC
Auxilio
Bury me in Paris, when my heart stops and my eyes open wide, next to Beckett or Sarte & de Beauvoir, ménage à trois. Bury me in Paris, where the tourists go, on the Champs-Élysées, or near the home of Picasso. Bury me in Paris where the Seraphs scoff and roll their brown eyes and the saints sell paints on the edge of the Seine’s grime. Bury me in Paris between the pavement and le Métro, take my body to whatever stop, just go. Bury me in Paris on a winter’s night, beneath the Louvre pyramid light. Bury me in Paris with Lady Liberty in tow, make my bed next to de Balzac, next to Marceau. Bury me in Paris at the foot of l’Obélisque accompanied by pharaohs, exhumed. Bury me in Paris, leave me there, I guess, in the hotel room overlooking the Arc. I, fully dressed. Bury me in Paris while listening to Robespierre’s final scream, the silence drowned out only by the guillotine. Bury me in Paris, Montrouge, your angel calls to me, that one who serves macarons at the head of the Tuileries. Bury me in Paris, with the Angel, unimpressed, next to her, I, in eternal rest. Bury me in Paris, toss me off Bir-Hakiem, splashing, or under tour Eiffel in the springtime night, waking. Bury me in Paris, my body yearns to be free and true, but if I am to die in New Orleans, bon Ange de Montrouge, Bury me there with the jazz worms, singing: “Angel, come to me, come to me, Angel, come.”
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 3:26 PM UTC
bury me in Paris
rats run through the walls scratching and chewing and fighting over my crumbs. i know your there... i see your tails and hear your nails skittering across the broken tiles a inch or two of plaster between you and me. you chewing through right by my tossing and turning head. the sticky traps catch dust the poison would **** the dog so we are left to the old rusty snaps the blood stained guillotine sticky with caked blood and hair of your fallen brothers and sisters and god knows how many other relations. i hate the snap i hate the painful squeals in the night i hate the ones that catch but dont die. i hate all that but not as much as i hate rats.
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Jul 23, 2010
Jul 23, 2010 at 9:31 AM UTC
all the other roommates
the museum of my heart has a blurry picture of his green eyes the boy whose I name I never knew there's a special exhibit of all the bathrooms I had a breakdown in there's polaroid pictures hanging of all the friends I lost through the years and all the friends who lost me there's the poetry I wrote about them words written in red ink and messy handwriting there's statues of copper and tin of all the lovers who couldn't love me there's a constant humming of white noise and lo-fi echoes of unspoken words I kept and ones I never heard there's a selection of wingless butterflies and a collection of blunt pencil sharpener blades there's a basket of fortune cookies and every single piece of paper carries the same aphorism: "amidst the loneliness, the things you loved will forever haunt you." there's old tv sets and a stack of DVD's of all the films I wish I'd seen there's all the skeletons I've hidden secrets written on napkins and snuck between the wall cracks there's a brand new guillotine and a golden noose carefully kept for anyone who tries to hurt me there's blackberry trees, an open ceiling and dark splatters covering the ground beneath it there's a chapel with empty seats and burned bible verses rose petals and pink, lilac and blue candles where an altar waits for a future love's mementos there's a fountain of sweat, blood & tears there's me standing in the corner waiting to hand you your ticket and lure you in there's angels and devils praying that you make it to the end of the tour
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Jan 29, 2023
Jan 29, 2023 at 8:19 PM UTC
the museum of my heart
the museum of my heart has a blurry picture of his green eyes the boy whose I name I never knew there's a special exhibit of all the bathrooms I had a breakdown in there's polaroid pictures hanging of all the friends I lost through the years and all the friends who lost me there's the poetry I wrote about them words written in red ink and messy handwriting there's statues of copper and tin of all the lovers who couldn't love me there's a constant humming of white noise and lo-fi echoes of unspoken words I kept and ones I never heard there's a selection of wingless butterflies and a collection of blunt pencil sharpener blades there's a basket of fortune cookies and every single piece of paper carries the same aphorism: "amidst the loneliness, the things you loved will forever haunt you." there's old tv sets and a stack of DVD's of all the films I wish I'd seen there's all the skeletons I've hidden secrets written on napkins and snuck between the wall cracks there's a brand new guillotine and a golden noose carefully kept for anyone who tries to hurt me there's blackberry trees, an open ceiling and dark splatters covering the ground beneath it there's a chapel with empty seats and burned bible verses rose petals and pink, lilac and blue candles where an altar waits for a future love's mementos there's a fountain of sweat, blood & tears there's me standing in the corner waiting to hand you your ticket and lure you in there's angels and devils praying that you make it to the end of the tour
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the art of nothing more has not been lost, i know it well it has been mine to serve Othello to the guillotine and poppies the myriad are gathered to the helium and Harpies and a gallon of miraculous is accidentally wasted the meaning of the soul is how you love someone, distracted by the loving for the loving was the loving that you loved bind me more than set me free and that be love exactly and the comet in your hand is my heart
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Sep 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011 at 10:44 AM UTC
Bind Me More Than Set Me Free
We were equally matched Until a plan was hatched You became the subtle aggressor By making appearances lesser Using your passion aggression To steer a passive direction You perform a vanishing act By canvassing flak Balancing black Against a sky so blue Teaching me that which is true Is different from what I knew So my anxiety naturally grew You launch a resistance By remaining silent On this plane of existence Where you're the pilot Not taking the right angle Into the Bermuda Triangle That is your social sphere Where you disappear From committal fear Of love being near So I throw a search party But your presence is tardy Because you're departing On the journey you're starting Without me Slouching From my submission To your anti-admission Splitting our position Like nuclear fission The air has become radioactive Through light that is refractive Through ways which are retractive Living this ugly way to live Sharpening my shiv To escape this cell of decay Where flowers bloom and fray But can't see the light of day Not one ray Stuck in the marked moor Of this dark war I use parkour To avoid aggressor attacks Never cutting me any slack Bringing pain back Until I crack Lost in your blank expression I make a grave concession Enslaved to your impression Yet afraid of your aggression Caught between Taking heed And fulfilling needs Born from greed I'll only impede You scream aggressively Like you're ********** me Just by addressing me After making a mess of me With deafening quiet You attack with a diet Of a steady riot And I won't buy it You left when you were here But stayed once you weren't near You switched to a guillotine gear Based on how you wanted to appear Striking me from the equation By utilizing deflation For a sinister elation You removed our relation
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 3:23 AM UTC
Passive Aggressive
We were equally matched Until a plan was hatched You became the subtle aggressor By making appearances lesser Using your passion aggression To steer a passive direction You perform a vanishing act By canvassing flak Balancing black Against a sky so blue Teaching me that which is true Is different from what I knew So my anxiety naturally grew You launch a resistance By remaining silent On this plane of existence Where you're the pilot Not taking the right angle Into the Bermuda Triangle That is your social sphere Where you disappear From committal fear Of love being near So I throw a search party But your presence is tardy Because you're departing On the journey you're starting Without me Slouching From my submission To your anti-admission Splitting our position Like nuclear fission The air has become radioactive Through light that is refractive Through ways which are retractive Living this ugly way to live Sharpening my shiv To escape this cell of decay Where flowers bloom and fray But can't see the light of day Not one ray Stuck in the marked moor Of this dark war I use parkour To avoid aggressor attacks Never cutting me any slack Bringing pain back Until I crack Lost in your blank expression I make a grave concession Enslaved to your impression Yet afraid of your aggression Caught between Taking heed And fulfilling needs Born from greed I'll only impede You scream aggressively Like you're ********** me Just by addressing me After making a mess of me With deafening quiet You attack with a diet Of a steady riot And I won't buy it You left when you were here But stayed once you weren't near You switched to a guillotine gear Based on how you wanted to appear Striking me from the equation By utilizing deflation For a sinister elation You removed our relation
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All lies diminish me --- As a card carrying member of the human race, I consider it a disgrace, when truth is subverted, truth is diverted, puts a frown on my face, puts me in a bad place, when truth is perverted in any way. Lies weaken the laws of modern man-- If it's a shell game of opinion while avoiding fact, modern society might as well take a giant step back. To the plague days, to the guillotine ways, when might was right, carry a big stick. I dont want to go back to that. Each lie told damages the soul --- Are we here on earth to be false to each other, to con with words or sister and brother?   To smother or dignity,   break it and fake it, knowing wrong from right but go ahead and forsake it? I think no. And the outcome of lying--- When those you trusted lie, but don't  get busted - cry.   Consider it the day truth died.   And down with the ship of truth goes honesty        respect,               rules,                     civilization will fall.   Tears to lend, prayers to send,  lies will be the beginning, the middle, the end.   Lies will be the death of us all.
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 8:04 PM UTC
LIES
Despair unrequited asked of me; *where do proverbs, poems... such wisdom's go to die?* do they expire with the ink of thought penning themselves out of imagination? or simply tire of expectation? tell me & i would scourge that unenlightened grave-site, guillotine its immoral keeper, & decapitate him upon a writer’s block! show me & i will breach earths bowels wrenching words from darkness' depths with the light verse of celebration & a calligrapher’s paragraph of praise. only then should i rest in piece from wordy passion scribed with its, novel pleasures & when spent,  upon my epitaph do write; *'she was consumed, birthing words to life'* © Qwey.ku
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Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 12:06 AM UTC
Fallen Words