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Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM UTC
Redneck Family Reunion
Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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I AM BEAUTIFUL I am beautiful; but my heart is locked from the pains of yesterdays in knowledge, I do have the good and the bad I get happy and sad I get overwhelmed with emotions of feelings that cut so deep within me, oh, how my heart bleeds out in ink for all to read about me what it is that I feel and what isn't seen on the eyes of hate, from my own hatters I stand up for who I am no matter the pain that comes my way, I am Beautiful within my soul I am elegant yet brave but at times I am afraid I am a woman of knowledge I know I have so much more to learn as this life keeps on turning, I will keep doing what it is I love even when I am aging with time I will keep on writhing and fighting for me while the old pen bleeds the ink of me. Poetic Judy Emery © 1990 The Queen Of Darken Dreams Poetic Lilly Emery
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 10:13 AM UTC
I AM BEAUTIFUL
so here we Are: Arnold......Shortman, Shorty......Meeks, Mr......Meeseeks, Ezekiel......Whitmore. Morphine,,,,,,Morpheus, Neo......Geo, OG......Sour, Sour......Diesel. DeeDee's......Brother, Cousin......Vinny, Vinny's......Lover, Brothers......Grimm. Grim......adVentures, Billy......Madison, Hansel,,,,,,Gretel, Chelsea......Grin. Grimace,,,,,,Misery, Mister......eBonic, Bonny,,,,,,Clyde, Kyle,,,,,,Kenny. Kenny......Powers, Powder  Puff  Girls, "Girls  Girls  Girls", Girls  Gone  Wild. Wilee......Coyote, Coyote......Ugly, Ugly......Betty, Betty......Crocker. Doctor......Parnassus, Doctor......Krieger, Doctor......Horrible, Doctor......Evil. Evil......Knievel, Felix......the  Cat, Captain  Jack  Sparrow: "Captain......my  Captain". Tinman,,,,,,Scarecrow, "Rowrow  Rowyer  Boat", Bo......Burnham, Earnest,,,,,,Vern. Verdict,,,,,,Votive, deVotion,,,,,,Vengeance, aVenging......Evey, V,,,,,,Vendetta. Denace......the  Menace, Crystal......Globes, Snow,,,,,,Aesthetics: Skeletal......Shedding. Head,,,,,,Tail, Sally,,,,,,Jack, Jack......Rabbits, Magic......Hatters. Shattered......Glass, Glasgow......Smile, Guile,,,,,,Vega, Akuma,,,,,,Ryu. You,,,,,,Me, Beneath......the  Bleacher: Jeepers,,,,,,Creepers, Reapers......of  Seeds. Seeds......of  Chucky, Chuckie......Finster, Principal......Muriel, Yuri......Gagarin. ©  Copyrighted  Jesse  James  Adams
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 12:44 PM UTC
Heroes
captain kirk ate kittens. the azaleas marched in the dark and no moon wept snow. it was that dark. all quiet rot, healing now... we clay inside but dis-urn we have no kiln. no kin. we move like a dreaming fetus in the womb of all prisms. like lightning on a pin. we have ever been the king's vassal. star chattel in the manger . happy mad hatters.
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Nov 17, 2012
Nov 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM UTC
captain kirk ate kittens
That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgement-day And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, The worm drew back into the mounds, The glebe cow drooled. Till God cried, “No; It’s gunnery practice out at sea Just as before you went below; The world is as it used to be: “All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters. “That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them’s a blessed thing, For if it were they’d have to scour Hell’s floor for so much threatening. . . . “Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).” So down we lay again. “I wonder, Will the world ever saner be,” Said one, “than when He sent us under In our indifferent century!” And many a skeleton shook his head. “Instead of preaching forty year,” My neighbour Parson Thirdly said, “I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.” Again the guns disturbed the hour, Roaring their readiness to avenge, As far inland as Stourton Tower, And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.
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Channel Firing
tight are the waxers with gelatin scrub their alcove smiles paired on a check-board slate dive jackets and coveralls mark the blue persuaders stuffed lockers and lattice straps for a cold pilgrim's stare cork boots and poly rot rest in the C block rank and file mask a heavily worn charade windows wide and curtains thread bare greasers and **** rats pardoned on principle chain link and tether held firm in the grasp bead bites and castle tops slip in the **** steam chants and speakers blast from the back wall elements stacked wide for tainted leaners strummers and pickers held high on the jimmy jack a chilled base breeze at the ****** hole rogues and hatters stir at the mixer an imitation face closing in on the feast maiden hands clasp hard at the inseam scuffed heals shuffle on the peripheral scene a cloaked man scurries (chilled in his double sock) moonshine and mickeys turned up in the jar light streams blind the paranoid eyes laggards peeled from the wretched framework veneer shattered on a point strip groove an overwhelming trauma from slaughter harbor
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Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 3:16 PM UTC
on a cold linoleum floor
one undead sed to one too undead: "id **** for a romancer whos a necromancer."     Well, abracadabra with just an ounce of my magic i produce half a cadavre and then the other half grab it and shake it until it blabbers: "well im awake but id rather be underground with dead matter." and though ive never been sadder i had to grab her and stab her a thousand times in such patterns that all was left were mere tatters, talk about beaten and battered as all the pieces were scattered (i made em smaller and flatter til they looked good so i blabbered): "you look amazing"- "im flattered" she sed but that didnt matter. im just a ****** whos madder than Hell oh well whats it matter the feelings of a mad hatter madder than other mad hatters collaboratively dont matter in fact the maddest just happens to have had all his dreams shattered. evacuate bowels and bladder. souls eaten, demons get fatter, eternal state of dead palar, dying in Hell, almost had her. god ****
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 3:59 AM UTC
The Magic Mike!
I am getting older and my body is in tatters My Doctor's say, "You're fine, You're fit" I think they're mad as hatters Each day a new pain rears it's head My body falls apart My Doctor's say, "You're fine, You're fit" As they listen to my heart My bladder's my new stop watch Each night I rise to *** I get up once at half past ten And then just after three I'm cold and then I'm sweating Sometimes both in  one breath It makes me feel I'm crazy It's a slow, nervewracking death My knees ache every morning And my hips pop as I walk I have to work my jawbones Just so I can start to talk I've had surgeries on my body Just to help me stay alive I can't see where I am going I'm can no longer go and drive But, my Doctors say I'm healthy They say I'm healthy as a horse But isn't "Flicka" served in restaurants? His flesh is now a new main course I use a cane when I go walking I have a seat to go upstairs I wear a wig when I'm in public I seem to dress myself in layers I need a pill to wake myself up I need another so I sleep But because my bladder's my new stopwatch I never go to sleep too deep Today I'm going to get tested To check the hearing in one ear Please excuse me for a moment What was that you said my dear? Now my Doctor's keep insisting That there's nothing wrong with me Like I said, I think I'm crazy They're the nuts and I'm the tree. they've got me tricked out special I've got orthotics and a cane My bursititis hurts like crazy And I think it's gonna rain My oxygen tank is empty And my voiding bag is not But I'm still having those flashes I still feel cold and hot With the bag I sleep much better I don't get up twice to *** But it wasn't fun last birthday Having a colostomy But, my Doctor's say Don't Worry Your'e as fit as fit can be But I tell them it's distressing For I'm not yet thirty three I'm sick of always hurting Each day more vigor do I lose But today I am excited I'm getting velcro for my shoes I think some exercise might help me With all my aches and all my pains It may help me to feel younger Feel like thirty two again But my Doctors, Oh my Doctors Say there's nothing wrong at all It's just a natural part of aging It's mother nature come to call But I know, I 'm getting older and it's just a part of life I'm just glad I have a drug plan To help me with this strife Now, my O2 tank is full now And I've got a buzzing in my head That means my battery is running low So...Goodnight...I'm off to bed...
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May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 at 7:36 PM UTC
Aging
I am getting older and my body is in tatters My Doctor's say, "You're fine, You're fit" I think they're mad as hatters Each day a new pain rears it's head My body falls apart My Doctor's say, "You're fine, You're fit" As they listen to my heart My bladder's my new stop watch Each night I rise to *** I get up once at half past ten And then just after three I'm cold and then I'm sweating Sometimes both in  one breath It makes me feel I'm crazy It's a slow, nervewracking death My knees ache every morning And my hips pop as I walk I have to work my jawbones Just so I can start to talk I've had surgeries on my body Just to help me stay alive I can't see where I am going I'm can no longer go and drive But, my Doctors say I'm healthy They say I'm healthy as a horse But isn't "Flicka" served in restaurants? His flesh is now a new main course I use a cane when I go walking I have a seat to go upstairs I wear a wig when I'm in public I seem to dress myself in layers I need a pill to wake myself up I need another so I sleep But because my bladder's my new stopwatch I never go to sleep too deep Today I'm going to get tested To check the hearing in one ear Please excuse me for a moment What was that you said my dear? Now my Doctor's keep insisting That there's nothing wrong with me Like I said, I think I'm crazy They're the nuts and I'm the tree. they've got me tricked out special I've got orthotics and a cane My bursititis hurts like crazy And I think it's gonna rain My oxygen tank is empty And my voiding bag is not But I'm still having those flashes I still feel cold and hot With the bag I sleep much better I don't get up twice to *** But it wasn't fun last birthday Having a colostomy But, my Doctor's say Don't Worry Your'e as fit as fit can be But I tell them it's distressing For I'm not yet thirty three I'm sick of always hurting Each day more vigor do I lose But today I am excited I'm getting velcro for my shoes I think some exercise might help me With all my aches and all my pains It may help me to feel younger Feel like thirty two again But my Doctors, Oh my Doctors Say there's nothing wrong at all It's just a natural part of aging It's mother nature come to call But I know, I 'm getting older and it's just a part of life I'm just glad I have a drug plan To help me with this strife Now, my O2 tank is full now And I've got a buzzing in my head That means my battery is running low So...Goodnight...I'm off to bed...
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I dont support any kind of war. Dont care how important, Killing evens no score. Keep the aura as bright as you can, Take down the rope From the ceiling fan. Do anything different, And we're all mad hatters. On the inside is what counts But on the outside Is what matters. I'm not a fighter, Im usually a lover. Feeling like a foreign spy Who's about to lose his cover. But since im just an evil soul Cause I believe in a moral goal, I'll throw my penny in the wishing well And I hope they serve beer in hell.
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Oct 19, 2012
Oct 19, 2012 at 1:43 PM UTC
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
We nestle into chaos like an old friend’s embrace, Spitting fire-encrusted words sharp as the smack of my palm on freckled skin, Under skyline bespeckled night like ebony, hearts like stone, We became a self-consuming ever-implosive volcano. ***** slithered through our veins igniting synapses into eruption, Your fingernails dug into my palm, your name hoarse on my throat, We crave these embittered words, these scorched nights. Mad as hatters, we beat on, drunkenly gulping down saltwater tears. In the morning I’ll kiss your temple, love. We forget our sins.
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM UTC
calamity
I don't care if you are the water or the groove of the stone. I want a place In your arms that feels succinctly like home. I want to be encircled like an old oak tree, with a breeze in the air that smells radiantly of you and me. I don't care if you are the tongue or the groove. I want a place within which all these walls I can remove. There is a river that cascades between us that keeps us far from home, but I don't care if you are the cancer or the broken bone. I don't care if you are the sweetest peach or the rattle of the snakes tail. All I want is for you to arise each time you fail. I don't care of you bruise easily or become yellow from the inside out. I don't care if you walk away silently or you scream, stamp your feet and shout. I don't care if you are the water and I am the stone. I do not care if for your secrets I have to atone. I want to you to seek the hiding places I hold so tightly,  and I want you to seek them daily and nightly. I don't care if you think this is overdressed, or I show too much flesh. I want you to see how I look for you when I calmly undress. I don't care if you are the thunder in my storm. I don't care if you call this safety or if you call me home. I don't care if you are the salt or the falling tear. I want you to know that me not caring is not what I fear. I want you to know that true love is true acceptance In it's ultimate form. I don't care to know if you're broken or you are torn. These words I asked you, but they are routine and true. I could repeat , dry my face and carry on, but I don't care to do that for you. I don't care if you are weak and strong together. I care about you whatever the whatever. I don't care if you wish to compete and you have won. I want you to know that those secrets were already awake and done.   I don't care how many times you walk away, I care about the how many times you stay. I don't care, because In the end nothing matters, and in here, we're all mad as hatters.
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Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014 at 6:43 PM UTC
Caring too close to the end
I don't care if you are the water or the groove of the stone. I want a place In your arms that feels succinctly like home. I want to be encircled like an old oak tree, with a breeze in the air that smells radiantly of you and me. I don't care if you are the tongue or the groove. I want a place within which all these walls I can remove. There is a river that cascades between us that keeps us far from home, but I don't care if you are the cancer or the broken bone. I don't care if you are the sweetest peach or the rattle of the snakes tail. All I want is for you to arise each time you fail. I don't care of you bruise easily or become yellow from the inside out. I don't care if you walk away silently or you scream, stamp your feet and shout. I don't care if you are the water and I am the stone. I do not care if for your secrets I have to atone. I want to you to seek the hiding places I hold so tightly,  and I want you to seek them daily and nightly. I don't care if you think this is overdressed, or I show too much flesh. I want you to see how I look for you when I calmly undress. I don't care if you are the thunder in my storm. I don't care if you call this safety or if you call me home. I don't care if you are the salt or the falling tear. I want you to know that me not caring is not what I fear. I want you to know that true love is true acceptance In it's ultimate form. I don't care to know if you're broken or you are torn. These words I asked you, but they are routine and true. I could repeat , dry my face and carry on, but I don't care to do that for you. I don't care if you are weak and strong together. I care about you whatever the whatever. I don't care if you wish to compete and you have won. I want you to know that those secrets were already awake and done.   I don't care how many times you walk away, I care about the how many times you stay. I don't care, because In the end nothing matters, and in here, we're all mad as hatters.
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Dreams, that's where I have to go fulfill my fate and reach my destiny, so. Focus on things that matte,r isolate myself from all those mad hatters To see your beautiful face no longer I distance myself and let reality conquer consume every bit of me, uphold and devour. I sit down in alienation and let the music linger. Scenario's of your absence is rather different from your presence. I then just realize, that your presence upholds hope's essence. Hope, hope there's a conversation between you and me, just us for the whole duration. I must drift and set myself apart it's what's best, it's mine to take part. If you ask me, how I'm doing? I would say I'm doing just fine, resisting. I would lie and say you're not on my mind. But I go out and I breakdown for I'm blind. Finally I'm forced to face the truth, no matter what I say I'm not over you...
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 6:37 AM UTC
The Sad Truth
A sunny serenade of Cyan Skies On a Strangely soothing Sunday afternoon In the south wing The White Rabbit tells me about Beautiful Butterflies batting their wings To the beat of a bohemian movement and I blush at the gesture And The Mad Hatter tells me about The Kevorkian crawdads clawing at each other Under the crystal clear stream Bent like a Candy Cane And I cry for the dead. I hear her, I hear her But I also hear the Marsh Hare And The Marsh Hare tells me about The analytical anarchists armed with arms Marching around the inner atrium screaming "All hail Anarchy!", "All hail Anti-Society!" Aiming for the heart And I amaze myself I hear her, I hear her And because of her I hear The chains and restraints The Queen of Hearts tells me about My fantasies of White Rabbits My dreams of Mad Hatters My imaginings of Marsh Hares And how only she is real The straps are too tight The clothes too thin The walls too thick And she stabs me With a Red Rose All in white, The Queen of Hearts Says Wake Up Alice And now I can see My sunny afternoon is shady And I am barred from my butterflies.
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Jun 27, 2011
Jun 27, 2011 at 12:07 PM UTC
Wake Up Alice
We arrive at the place Water running off our faces; Looking like disgraces Glibly explaining That it is still raining. Just a smattering patter. Not that it matters. We'll just sit and chatter Like social Mad Hatters At a move-down afternoon tea. We're all hooked on surreality. The ladies-who-lunch bunch; Character assassination over brunch. Some gossip while we munch Embroidering on a hunch. Anything to stay in out of the rain. After all, it's not our personal pain. It's some other sucker's sorry. We will forget it by tomorrow. For today, while we quickly forget We just sit and watch the streets get wet.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 3:39 AM UTC
SOCIAL GRACES
If you go chasing white rabbits, you could fall down a rabbit hole, And enter a world like none other and take a stroll. Now you’re stuck in a Wonderland of malice, A place where we are all Mad Hatters, and we just killed Alice. So walk some more and go explore, Soon you’ll find that the Queen is just a ***** You can wish to get out of a land like this, But it brings you a little bliss. It seems like you’re getting a disturbing little smirk, Because you realize you have this twisted kind of quirk. Where the idea of pain, Has become very plain, So you decide to turn everything to ash, Burn it all down before the high wears off and you crash. Just then, you open your eyes, only to realize that mere minutes have passed, And it was just your imagination that you harassed. People start to notice that you’re truly insane, A situation you can’t change, a situation you can’t explain. They put you in a padded room to keep control, But all they’ve done is dropped you down another distorted rabbit hole, Will you be willing to take another stroll?
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Wonderland
I often find myself in wonderland Talking to cheshire cats And rabbits in waistcoats I feel normal here, For nothing is normal here. The land is peculiar And the earth feels unstable I wish to leave this obscure place I wish to go home. Then I am brought back to reality My wishes have been granted And I have found what I was looking for. Yet now it seems unwanted I feel unnormal here For everything is normal here I wish for cheshire cats And rabbits in waistcoats A place where I can be accepted And explore. I wish for adventures With strange creatures that can only be imagined A place that seems like a dream And is full of dreams. Where a mushroom can cause a change of perspective Where hatters are mad And the queen has no heart. A wonderful land I often find myself reminiscing Talking of cheshire cats And rabbits in waistcoats Of a place where I seemed normal For everything was unnormal I wish for a land that is peculiar And the earth feels unstable I wish for wonderland.
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 6:57 PM UTC
A wonderful land, called Wonderland
A clothes hanger                    clutches a line                    of paper lanterns                                      lighting my next step                                      on streets my shoes stick to                                                from wheat beer I hear the ‘Pit'                      coursing through cracks                       &                        inebriating aged clay bricks                     ‘Pat”                      of rain on rooftops                                    & falsely take it                                        for Charlie Parker's                                                      'Hot House' but it’s 2am near Tulane   & they’ve graduated to                   tracks from Tremé;                   Brass jazz & barflies;                   Mad Hatters & Mademoiselles                                      dancing barefoot                                      in the French Quarters                                             under red fluorescent lights                                                under cloud-covered stars; She gets them drunk off dance & song; Guaranteed to make locals                       late to last call;                       shows them back-country gems,                         the beautiful ruins known only                                                       by bayou gals                                                             & city folk outside,                                              in search of sirens where the ceiling's missing, dancing 'till their bodies taste like rain They 'crash'                     &                        'splash'                                        .....breaking through worn wooden floors                                                                      & cracks in plaster walls lead by the ‘Pit’                                                     back to the street,                         &                       ‘Pat’                               as other strange drops join the dance,                               descending from skies to rooftops;                                                      Finding lower highs                                                      in search of Bourbon Street                                                                     lost & looking &                                                                 near Tulane at 2am my blue suede shoes are dying of thirst,                                  stuck upon each step;                                           lacking direction &                                         looking for jazz waiting to drown       in the 'Pit'                  & 'Pat'                      & splash                          of this daily rain dance;                          Lose myself in this listening                          as dreamers do                              on the streets near Tulane                              At 2am;
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Apr 26, 2017
Apr 26, 2017 at 9:29 PM UTC
2am near Tulane
A clothes hanger                    clutches a line                    of paper lanterns                                      lighting my next step                                      on streets my shoes stick to                                                from wheat beer I hear the ‘Pit'                      coursing through cracks                       &                        inebriating aged clay bricks                     ‘Pat”                      of rain on rooftops                                    & falsely take it                                        for Charlie Parker's                                                      'Hot House' but it’s 2am near Tulane   & they’ve graduated to                   tracks from Tremé;                   Brass jazz & barflies;                   Mad Hatters & Mademoiselles                                      dancing barefoot                                      in the French Quarters                                             under red fluorescent lights                                                under cloud-covered stars; She gets them drunk off dance & song; Guaranteed to make locals                       late to last call;                       shows them back-country gems,                         the beautiful ruins known only                                                       by bayou gals                                                             & city folk outside,                                              in search of sirens where the ceiling's missing, dancing 'till their bodies taste like rain They 'crash'                     &                        'splash'                                        .....breaking through worn wooden floors                                                                      & cracks in plaster walls lead by the ‘Pit’                                                     back to the street,                         &                       ‘Pat’                               as other strange drops join the dance,                               descending from skies to rooftops;                                                      Finding lower highs                                                      in search of Bourbon Street                                                                     lost & looking &                                                                 near Tulane at 2am my blue suede shoes are dying of thirst,                                  stuck upon each step;                                           lacking direction &                                         looking for jazz waiting to drown       in the 'Pit'                  & 'Pat'                      & splash                          of this daily rain dance;                          Lose myself in this listening                          as dreamers do                              on the streets near Tulane                              At 2am;
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Here you are here you are, yes you are yes you are you are here you are here and here you are. Aye indeed in the flesh you do appear, yes my friend you are indeed, certainly here. Don't judge a book by it's cover, but what's inside is what matters, I leave that to philosophers and their stones, I say they're all just as mad as hatters! Here you are, where ever you may be, there you are, for everyone to see. Reading from some screen, because this won't make the front news, on the technology we all love, to make and use. There you are, showing off your prowess, all the while you're thinking, "Boy, i'm a mess!" Well, be it as it may, not that I'm one to say! You are a testimony of only you, and a testimony that only you can do. How you sit, stand, approach another, or flee, no matter how you walk, talk, or sound, you're still apparent to me. You are a testimony, of God's Grace, or perhaps you are, a testimony of truth and hypocrisy, of the human race. How you live, is none of my concern, it matters not to me, what you make, or what you earn You are who you are, oh how true this really is, from the ol' boy from the hicks, to the golly gee biz kids. So today, be a testimony, for all the people to see, that when they look to you, it's you they want to be. Because you can do good, or better than that, with only a start of a smile, and a tip of the hat. You are a testimony, of you got here, so take off the shades, enjoy the sun, it's time to make your life clear. Be strong, and virtuous, diligent and mindful, be passionate, and courageous, but most of all be faithful! I wish you well, in the coming years that does run, I wish you the best of luck and health, and some better days under the sun! So testify yourself, in all things you do, because in the words of Dr. Seuss, "No one can be you-er than you!"
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Aug 7, 2014
Aug 7, 2014 at 3:31 PM UTC
Testimony of Why You're Here
Here you are here you are, yes you are yes you are you are here you are here and here you are. Aye indeed in the flesh you do appear, yes my friend you are indeed, certainly here. Don't judge a book by it's cover, but what's inside is what matters, I leave that to philosophers and their stones, I say they're all just as mad as hatters! Here you are, where ever you may be, there you are, for everyone to see. Reading from some screen, because this won't make the front news, on the technology we all love, to make and use. There you are, showing off your prowess, all the while you're thinking, "Boy, i'm a mess!" Well, be it as it may, not that I'm one to say! You are a testimony of only you, and a testimony that only you can do. How you sit, stand, approach another, or flee, no matter how you walk, talk, or sound, you're still apparent to me. You are a testimony, of God's Grace, or perhaps you are, a testimony of truth and hypocrisy, of the human race. How you live, is none of my concern, it matters not to me, what you make, or what you earn You are who you are, oh how true this really is, from the ol' boy from the hicks, to the golly gee biz kids. So today, be a testimony, for all the people to see, that when they look to you, it's you they want to be. Because you can do good, or better than that, with only a start of a smile, and a tip of the hat. You are a testimony, of you got here, so take off the shades, enjoy the sun, it's time to make your life clear. Be strong, and virtuous, diligent and mindful, be passionate, and courageous, but most of all be faithful! I wish you well, in the coming years that does run, I wish you the best of luck and health, and some better days under the sun! So testify yourself, in all things you do, because in the words of Dr. Seuss, "No one can be you-er than you!"
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I might as well be a madman Drive that rusty red truck straight up Into a brick wall at breakneck speeds What does society need with another romantic A hopeless dreamer dreaming of a better world Just throw out the tonic and fill my life with gin Hand me the poison I’ve taken worse swill in There is no way I am going to win Against the corporate interest and the hate mongers The powerful money makers that make us monsters Just give me a good sixty to eighty miles per hour Then watch me turn into a gooey blood shower A swollen then exploding rare crimson flower As my body shatters cause it never seems to matters The politicians and the mad hatters run this show And I don’t see this life getting any better Cause I don’t believe society will heals it wounds We’ll just be open sores for all to see
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 8:32 AM UTC
Wounded Society
I didn't feel so conflicted till I got in the moment holdin' strong egos, like chessin' opponents who could hold out and show they're the strongest of love tryin' to hide they ever felt any but how could they when everyone's the enemy why would I trust you, when I'd do to you, what you might do to me? So cat n' mouse chase won't look ya right in the face lying to myself that I don't miss the ****** embrace why even care when its just a race for that feel good first hit when it aint found claimin rights to quit quit ******* what life? ya man I'd be the first to tell ya I've written a verse on sacrificing myself for the own good of the ******* earth but hands on the shoulders stopping the ****** from the right to shed skin they're own contraband n' now its tough everyone thinks they're the diamond on the ruff but told true to dwelling in the soul hard n gruff keepin to the sunrise, lookin to the set under nights hand guard everyone's a threat guns in the temple consider em mental for resenting the present social norm of talking to everything and everyone just to mold n conform light n dark is a misconception cuz there's lots of beautiful **** to be let in by your own definition thas what matters can't be bothered by other mad hatters perception give what you need n always be freed from the chains set in place by societies greedy ****** need and its all to god **** beautiful to the human hating anti social to admit they'd slice the life to their own sacrificial right not abandoning light but the body gifted to the sight of others that's what brings the sadness cuz from the dirt, leaves and trees is this made up ruling tyranny madness to take flight n life is just plain beautiful sadness
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Jun 15, 2013
Jun 15, 2013 at 2:14 PM UTC
I tried to say I miss you, but this came out instead
I didn't feel so conflicted till I got in the moment holdin' strong egos, like chessin' opponents who could hold out and show they're the strongest of love tryin' to hide they ever felt any but how could they when everyone's the enemy why would I trust you, when I'd do to you, what you might do to me? So cat n' mouse chase won't look ya right in the face lying to myself that I don't miss the ****** embrace why even care when its just a race for that feel good first hit when it aint found claimin rights to quit quit ******* what life? ya man I'd be the first to tell ya I've written a verse on sacrificing myself for the own good of the ******* earth but hands on the shoulders stopping the ****** from the right to shed skin they're own contraband n' now its tough everyone thinks they're the diamond on the ruff but told true to dwelling in the soul hard n gruff keepin to the sunrise, lookin to the set under nights hand guard everyone's a threat guns in the temple consider em mental for resenting the present social norm of talking to everything and everyone just to mold n conform light n dark is a misconception cuz there's lots of beautiful **** to be let in by your own definition thas what matters can't be bothered by other mad hatters perception give what you need n always be freed from the chains set in place by societies greedy ****** need and its all to god **** beautiful to the human hating anti social to admit they'd slice the life to their own sacrificial right not abandoning light but the body gifted to the sight of others that's what brings the sadness cuz from the dirt, leaves and trees is this made up ruling tyranny madness to take flight n life is just plain beautiful sadness
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Asphalt, steaming screams swear words The offensive smell of pavement post downpour I think I’d like life better if it rhymed The chatter and clatter mad hatters me Sleepless and hopeless with Romans And their online roads and aqueducts They slither and snake but there is no more wild in the west Automated scarecrows with AR-15’s stand guard O’er amber waves of grain Eyes open for outlaws and injuns Cattle ranching of the future Feeding the world one cubic meter of methane at a time
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Dec 5, 2021
Dec 5, 2021 at 4:53 PM UTC
Asphalt
Expectations of others still holding me at gunpoint. Everyone and their mothers, I know I'll disapoint. Not everyone can win if this internal battle continues. But everyone could win if we stop the abuse. The abuse of others, the society around, Could become productive if we listened through the sound. Listened to the people but not the words they say, Because everyone communicates in their personal way. If we listened to ourselves and followed what we feel, Maybe everyone in this world could go home to a meal. Maybe someday we will love and the fighting will cease, and maybe someday we will be people of peace. For now Im alone and considered slightly mad, For straying from the norm apparently Ive gone bad. Someday we will all stray from the norm. We will all become "mad" rather than conform. When that day comes the norm is gone for good. People will be free and I will be understood. With just a free spirit you can help to release, A whole new world for the people of peace.
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Nov 21, 2010
Nov 21, 2010 at 12:49 PM UTC
A World of Mad Hatters
Kicking and screaming children With their troubles and complaints Force words from minds of dreary states Realizations some won't meet the date A bitter taste enters the air Cloudy grey **** tangerine Brightening to the tune of the loon A broken down *** with a gun But faster then we are here we are gone A fatalistic but hopeful parody Cracking glass jars in the twilight moon As my sister brunette watches the toons Littering through the concrete sidewalks As the grandma's sagging sit down to talk These registers are filled with monopoly money And I just watched a movie of ******* Bunnies An eccentric with one hundred ways to love a woman A man that gave the game plan To a high hearted man glittering sands Ziggy the man with the amazing hands For we are on a high and mighty moving picture trip now Caught in the lit lie of the illusion Asking the nurse for another freebie transfusion And a peek from the geek under her sheet A silly break in the world is the only thing a mad man CAN do Because sometimes the only sky I see is slightly hued blue And the men that elude to hatters that are mad Playing with words in rhyme just make me sad Brought up as a back door man by my own accord I caused mischief and terror like every other outlaw A foreigner in a seemingly "comfortable" land Nowadays everything seems to have a ****** plan Where tomorrow is that day and the next will be that And the guy who you get take out from is wearing the same hat But the hate you feel deep and preach onto the electronic page May drearily, hopefully, perhaps distastefully give you a wage Oh where does the madness stop if it only ends with money! For these worries are from a sagging face watching bunnies And eluding to grandeur nearing signs of a menstral manager And a cosmopolitan back break with the blackening beauty of a snake Lo, Here I wait, For sweet mornings embrace
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Mar 2, 2011
Mar 2, 2011 at 8:57 PM UTC
Lo, Here I wait
Kicking and screaming children With their troubles and complaints Force words from minds of dreary states Realizations some won't meet the date A bitter taste enters the air Cloudy grey **** tangerine Brightening to the tune of the loon A broken down *** with a gun But faster then we are here we are gone A fatalistic but hopeful parody Cracking glass jars in the twilight moon As my sister brunette watches the toons Littering through the concrete sidewalks As the grandma's sagging sit down to talk These registers are filled with monopoly money And I just watched a movie of ******* Bunnies An eccentric with one hundred ways to love a woman A man that gave the game plan To a high hearted man glittering sands Ziggy the man with the amazing hands For we are on a high and mighty moving picture trip now Caught in the lit lie of the illusion Asking the nurse for another freebie transfusion And a peek from the geek under her sheet A silly break in the world is the only thing a mad man CAN do Because sometimes the only sky I see is slightly hued blue And the men that elude to hatters that are mad Playing with words in rhyme just make me sad Brought up as a back door man by my own accord I caused mischief and terror like every other outlaw A foreigner in a seemingly "comfortable" land Nowadays everything seems to have a ****** plan Where tomorrow is that day and the next will be that And the guy who you get take out from is wearing the same hat But the hate you feel deep and preach onto the electronic page May drearily, hopefully, perhaps distastefully give you a wage Oh where does the madness stop if it only ends with money! For these worries are from a sagging face watching bunnies And eluding to grandeur nearing signs of a menstral manager And a cosmopolitan back break with the blackening beauty of a snake Lo, Here I wait, For sweet mornings embrace
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We crashed into this world Punching and Kicking, A promise and a fortune clenched hard Between our teeth. I've been a sinner and a beast before, A lost meaning in a world full of lies And policy haters, A ****** for experience With a blood lust for love and life. I've never been one To try new things But I've found comfort in those You've brought to me. Within all the lies and misfortune, The world seems brighter through your eyes And I thank god every day I awaken That there are people like you alive.
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:43 AM UTC
Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters Part III
The world has stepped into a whole new kind of era, Plastic islands float through oceans claiming they're neo-terra. They scream 'get on board or sink like land masses before us' While the tides rise in all directions drowning beaches. They know the whole globe will cook in the sun and when its done, the plastic will melt and the surface of the earth will have a rubbery pelt. Plus the water that washes the land is so toxic the airs getting harder to breathe. Fish go to death the way of mad hatters, cackling with bubbles that make the sea appear boiling. So much toiling. Then those fish float to shore where they're bought in a store And poison becomes a pick-up only service, no delivery Mankind shows mother nature no chivalry. Tough times for plants to survive as we squeeze out their lives, and besides... We all do agree that the end has come near, but we don't say it in fear, we just concede to what appears. So the strength we dig deep for is important to share, Like atlas' shoulder for the people who care, Because if we go down then it's all in together, So keep your heart strings to others tightly tethered And when it ends, our loved ones will make it feel better. Terra nouveau.
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
Terra Nouveau