"harumph" poems
don't belittle me this.
why a kiss with a fist?
"cuz he loves me", as if.
"its with passion he hits"
sure to keep you on his.
"why do you care of it"
because I care of you.
"all you want is a *****
then why have I spent these years waiting for you?
knowing full well id be tainted by you?
the act you assume of me binds me to you.
I'm a pacifist willing to take pain from you.
"hes all that I need"
you need only to bled?
hes no job, your the funds.
hes a slob, cleaning fun?
hes a cheat, gave you ******
yet you defend him on all these.
........"but I love him."
is that all that maters?, no surely....
"it is and that's that!!!!"
may I use the term brat?
"you may is that all?"
sure lets **** tell we fall....
Jun 19, 2012
Jun 19, 2012 at 3:15 PM UTC
i refuse to believe
this is the real you.
might this mean i'm refusing reality?
maybe.
might i rather refuse reality than refuse you?
harumph. no.
so long, you. i'll take my reality
crushed and for-now sullen
as it may now be.
i refuse to believe
this is the real you.
i can see you, vividly,
inside that cast,
vastly smaller than the man you are.
some sudden and swift
injury has befallen you and you've retreated.
even you refuse to believe
this is the real you.
you are foolish but not stupid
and can tell truth
and reality from falsehood and false hoods.
you are scared but not weak
and from this you will emerge (victory!)
emboldened to emblazon new trails.
shall we tread them together?
harumph. no.
i'll meet you along the way, i'm sure.
(we'll see
about an us
when there's really
a you.)
Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM UTC
I do feel good doing good
makes a tear come to my eye but a
tear of happiness when I say something
nice to the old man brutally scowling
and smile at his Harumph
when I deliver a valentine to
that old woman down the road with the hundred cats
a valentine of a bag of feed for her brood
good I feel when I put another man's shoes on
look through his eyes for a second
walk 100 feet in them
good when I see a mom that really cares
for her children
the smiling health care workers
overcome by heartrending stories and
dead patients
and they keep doing it
the teachers
who daily come up with clever ways to teach our future
with limited resources
the garbage man
mundane and stinky task who smiles
as he totes the refuse
from here
the baker the police the
calm helpful voice
on the help line for my cable company,
almost apologetic for the latest outage,
the workers who after a storm go out and repair our lifelines in bad
weather,
any of you retail clerks , who smile through the increasing workload week after week within shorter hours,
the receptionist
at any office.
It takes patience..
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017 at 10:55 PM UTC