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"headdress" poems
And if you think I'm oppressed, covering my hair with a silken headdress- And if you think I'm forced, beaten, to lengthen my sleeves and elongate my shorts- And if you think I'm afraid, cowering under the protection of black linen shade- You 'most certainly take note of the society's improprieties, that the abaya I wear is thrusted upon me, that the niqab my sisters practice is only for he; No. My hijab is my personality, my promise to honour my femininity, to never allow anyone, any man, to use me; I am a woman, a human, a feminist: no man will control me.
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May 23, 2015
May 23, 2015 at 9:13 AM UTC
Hijab
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend 5 years ago - other furies other losses - America's trying to control the uncontrollable Forest fires, Vice The essential smile In the essential sleep Of the children Of the essential mind I'm all thru playing the American Now I'm going to live a good quiet life The world should be built for foot walkers Oily rivers Of spiney Nevady I am Jake Cake Rake Write like Blake The horse is not pleased Sight of his gorgeous finery in the dust Its silken nostrils did disgust Cats arent kind Kiddies anent sweet April in Nevada - Investigating Dismal Cheyenne Where the war parties In fields of straw Aimed over oxen At Indian Chiefs In wild headdress Pouring thru the gap In Wyoming plain To make the settlers Eat more dust than dust was eaten In the States From East at Seacoast Where wagons made up To dreadful Plains Of clazer vup Saltry settlers Anxious to ********** The Mongol Sea (I'm too tired in Cheyenne - No sleep in 4 nights now, & 2 to go)
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Bus East
Sleep, darling I have a small daughter called Cleis, who is like a golden flower I wouldn't take all Croesus' kingdom with love thrown in, for her --- Don't ask me what to wear I have no embroidered headband from Sardis to give you, Cleis, such as I wore and my mother always said that in her day a purple ribbon looped in the hair was thought to be high style indeed but we were dark: a girl whose hair is yellower than torchlight should wear no headdress but fresh flowers
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Cleis
Just as dark rolls back and the sun rises nigh And dawns light can be seen in the eastern sky. From his forest home comes carefully and shy The deer with his headdress held proudly so high. His keen, bright eyes look sharply and true For danger learks but that's nothing new For the experience he has his rack does shew Ten terminating ends that his antlers do He steps forth, onto the grassy clearing Sensing no threat that he need bewaring He continues farther out, more bold and daring Making sure the grass is safe before sharing And just as he is about to feed On tender grass his most favorite indeed It hits his side and he starts to bleed For it has pierced him causing dire need Unable run, to the ground he does fall He coughs on his blood, losing it all And in the distance, hears a cheerful call "Hooray! I got him!" From a tree so tall What remained unknown to the wise, old buck The threat in a tree, such bad luck Waiting to tie a deer to the top of his truck A hunter, by who's bullet, the deer was struck. Please don't think that I am against hunting It's just the facts of life that I am confronting Because you'll see me here quietly munching On a deer steak I fried and am now lunching!
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 11:08 PM UTC
The Deer
Feels like slavery With weight our shoulders Havent We endured enough? From One Bolder To The Next? Like needles draining  our blood for energy The White Gold of  Saturn Using Led from congress Our Spring Streams Have Run Dried Directed into a Different lines and Process Guarded by Projects With Capitalism at its finest Racism and favoritism. The Collective Body Shivers . With stretch lines on her skin with her magnitude of her tears. The stages of legions unleashed. Souls in battle using a leash. Things have been disowned and blown. The Headdress will take its throne. The Shield Into El-dorado that is known. Grids awaken from the Amerindian parts of the jaguars tradition. Collective religious cultures unleashed from its disposition. The beauty that brings a new position.
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Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 7:10 PM UTC
El-dorado
The headdress danced in the sun On the Indian's hollow And eyeless skull. It was framed in feathers Brightly-colored serpents in the Salty air flames licking at Dancing and ***** bare feet. Dark-skinned, tall, high cheekbones And solemn eyes full of Wisdom--he surveys the Badlands, Moses's rigid face Blank and silent in a Heatwave desert. Beyond the teepees and the Black bonfire smoke and The buffalo rhythm, the plateau has Risen, bleached bones Litter the plains as a constant Reminder.
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May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014 at 2:44 PM UTC
Headdress
Children of the Moon! Abandon your worn shoes And frolic freely, barefoot In Her midnight light; Let down your lovely locks And bare your ashen skin To allow Her celestial lips Kiss your collar bones; Let Her blanket of shadows Drape over your shoulders, While She crowns you with A headdress of night diamonds.
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Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 6:08 PM UTC
Sovereignty of the Somber
I stood in line to be weighed in the bathroom of the nursing home Anne crutched herself behind me you haven't got a chance in hell of winning that chocolate bar Kid she said I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil stuck behind his ear might win I said might fly she said   the kid in front of me got on the green metal scales and the nun moved the weight along the top not you Malcolm she said the kid got off sulkily I got on the scales and the nun moved the weight I looked at her black and white headdress her pinched features not you Benny she said I got off and walked away Anne awkwardly got on the scales holding herself on her one leg the stump of the other hanging there best so far Anne the nun said told you Kid you didn't have a chance guess not I said as she crutched herself along side of me not to worry if I get the choco bar I’ll give you a quarter for being a good friend no other in this **** hole gets a look in we went along to our rooms come in Kid she said I hesitated come in I want to ask you something I stood swaying uncertain what if one of the nuns comes along?   what if I don't give you quarter of the choc bar? she said I followed her in to the girls dorm no one else was there just she and me she closed the door with her backside right Kid I want you to do me a favour favour? I said sensing uncertainty hit my gut yes I want you to sneak along to the kitchen tonight and liberate some biscuits liberate? I said biscuits? yes you know what biscuits are don't you those hard things with cream in the middle or chocolate on one side I know what biscuits are I said but what do you mean liberate? take some from the big tin they have on the shelf in larder take? I said you mean steal? steal take liberate whatever word you want to use Kid what if I get caught? don't get caught but what if I do? Anne sighed sat on the edge of her bed I thought you were someone I could rely on Kid not some cowardly custard yellow belly I looked at her leg stump sticking out the other leg reached to the floor if you're really good I’ll let you touch my stump she said no need I said I'll try tonight sneak down after lights out good Kid she said she took my right hand and lay it on the stump and held it there it felt warm and soft she let my hand go good huh? wish the rest was there she said off you go and don't get caught I nodded and backed out of the room seeing her cover the stump with her dress and smile see you I said you bet she said I walked away thinking of the big steal of biscuits unthought through by my 10 year old brain as yet.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC
ANNE AND THE TASK.
I stood in line to be weighed in the bathroom of the nursing home Anne crutched herself behind me you haven't got a chance in hell of winning that chocolate bar Kid she said I've seen more meat on a butcher's pencil stuck behind his ear might win I said might fly she said   the kid in front of me got on the green metal scales and the nun moved the weight along the top not you Malcolm she said the kid got off sulkily I got on the scales and the nun moved the weight I looked at her black and white headdress her pinched features not you Benny she said I got off and walked away Anne awkwardly got on the scales holding herself on her one leg the stump of the other hanging there best so far Anne the nun said told you Kid you didn't have a chance guess not I said as she crutched herself along side of me not to worry if I get the choco bar I’ll give you a quarter for being a good friend no other in this **** hole gets a look in we went along to our rooms come in Kid she said I hesitated come in I want to ask you something I stood swaying uncertain what if one of the nuns comes along?   what if I don't give you quarter of the choc bar? she said I followed her in to the girls dorm no one else was there just she and me she closed the door with her backside right Kid I want you to do me a favour favour? I said sensing uncertainty hit my gut yes I want you to sneak along to the kitchen tonight and liberate some biscuits liberate? I said biscuits? yes you know what biscuits are don't you those hard things with cream in the middle or chocolate on one side I know what biscuits are I said but what do you mean liberate? take some from the big tin they have on the shelf in larder take? I said you mean steal? steal take liberate whatever word you want to use Kid what if I get caught? don't get caught but what if I do? Anne sighed sat on the edge of her bed I thought you were someone I could rely on Kid not some cowardly custard yellow belly I looked at her leg stump sticking out the other leg reached to the floor if you're really good I’ll let you touch my stump she said no need I said I'll try tonight sneak down after lights out good Kid she said she took my right hand and lay it on the stump and held it there it felt warm and soft she let my hand go good huh? wish the rest was there she said off you go and don't get caught I nodded and backed out of the room seeing her cover the stump with her dress and smile see you I said you bet she said I walked away thinking of the big steal of biscuits unthought through by my 10 year old brain as yet.
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There Is Only One Race, The Race Of Reality There Is Only One Race, The Race Of Humanity, Someone's Color Does Not Bother Me, It Is There Heart That Matters, They Could Have Skin White As Can Be, But A Heart That Is Black And Battered Race Does Not Exsist, It Was Made By Humans To Create Control, I Could Be Racist, But The Only I Color I Judge Is That Of Ones Soul, I Don't Mind A Headdress, It's Simply Just Clothes, Im Tired Of Peoples Heartlessness, Over What Someome Else Chose, If Someone Speaks Another Language, That Is Fine With Me, English Is Average, With Words I Don't Know All I Hear Is Beauty You Should See The Beams Of Hatred, Towards Anyone Of A Differnet Color, Good Friendships Wasted, Or Maybe Even A Lover, I Don't See Myself As White, I Don't See Myself A Caucasian, I Don't See My Self As Light, I Dont See Myself As American, All I See Is Who I Am Inside, I Wish Other People Could See It Too, I Wish People Could Confinde, In The Person Inside Of You, Behind All The Clothes, Behind All The Skin, Or Whatever Comes And Goes, Just The Person With In, I'm Not A Hippie I'm Just Saying, People Should Ignore The Faces, And See What's So Amazing, Ignore The Races, And Stop All This Creating
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 8:19 PM UTC
Race
comely, maybe but not beautiful my features are as round as vowels and I carry the moon in my hips I am an unpolished beauty smooth pebbles resting at the bottom of a cold clear stream with an empty purse imagination my only currency in this world I am a shrinking violet occasionally a rose february-white caught in your button-loop long-stemmed red roses stalk runways hollywood bombshells are bubbly as champagne and full of flesh and light but *** sans love is still an empty bathtub whatever happened to pin-up girls long cigarette holders and muted photographs? I am distorted in the fish-eye view of the modern lens in my fantasies I am no longer sand and loam I glow like a tall slim candle though I am often numb and dumb and my girls are as absent as long lost unicorns I am the bohemian princess I travel through foreign lands clothed in exotic costume a jewelled headdress, and indian pyjamas coloured sapphire, turquoise and cayenne-red my feet are near bare and my hippie hair is a mass of blonde curls I take a sojourn in southern california warm desert air soft against my skin I surf in the salty sea held buoyant by the waves a sunset stains the sky tangerine the palm trees black against the orange light click teasingly in the breeze
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 9:27 AM UTC
In My Fantasies
sing my song. use the angels tone as you remember our hands touching like the feathers of a dove. hold on to the fact that this isnt love. this isnt lust this is the human holding on to the strings of its own reality . the ideas of hate fading into the background. use your hands to craft amazing things. but use your voice to proclaim your stunning ideals. make me fall for you. like the feather of a dove i will soon fall away. dont give me the memory of your hand if you plan to pull it away. because as the feather falls it might soon be picked up to be put into the headdress of women with just enought time to make it fit. but our shared emotions might be enough to engulf me in the passions of flame more powerful that the strength of my frail form. and nobody wants a burnt feather in there headress. if you plan on extending your hand to me. then do so knowing that i am a fragile feather, attached to you, because every angel needs a set of wings. When you grow tired of me, make sure to let me fall slowly. so that when i am used in the lining of someone elses memories, they can use me as they need. I am a feather. something that is used for other peoples needs and desires. when you grow old and remember me, just remember to sing the feathers song. it starts with your name. and ends with mine. sing my song.
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 11:35 AM UTC
the feathers song
She ***** on a milkshake through a metal straw. Strawberry. The place, Tom's on Western, is bare. Ash falls outside. It's sticking to the glass windows. Glass and steel frames and white paint and white chairs and ash outside. A taxi cab goes up over the curb. A black woman in a headdress gets out and tosses money, red money, blood money. I'm here too sitting by the bathroom, noting the length of Strawberry Milkshake's boy shorts. Is this objectification or object reduction or reverse personification? The siren in the distance winds down, sounds like it's melting. Do sounds melt? She, Strawberry Milkshake, doesn't seem bothered by what's going on outside. I want to sink my teeth into her shoulder. Ash sticks to the glass, and a kid, eight or nine, runs by, newspaper up over his head. He's crying. I can see this, but I don't hear this. Water starts leaking then pouring then falling in sheets. Ceiling tile and insulation float at my feet. Strawberry Milkshake pulls her wet hair back into a ponytail. I clear my throat. She raises her middle finger. I walk over and tell her there's this song she reminds me of. And a bomb hits just down the street. There goes the glass, crashing all around us, slicing past forearms and skipping through empty space. The steel frames bend. She puts her hand to my face. My face becomes her face, her hand my hand. She and I half-hum, half-sing "Oh Destructo, you're so destructive. You're so destructive to me."
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 12:34 AM UTC
Destructo
i am in an intelligent concrete room while familiar silhouettes switch direction in the balmy wind there is a dim stone portal spending a light so still and small and dissolving into the sunless wall under the scattered ruin of the sacred world its gaunt mind studies beneath hieroglyphs and into oblivion it is later in the night and i am riding on an unsettling crucifix doused in drugs and hammocks and the blind face of eternity is wearing a headdress filled with plumes of indecipherable intellect and she has transcended my ego with holy dreams
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 11:31 PM UTC
balmy wind
come on darling take a chance with us our meat is on the seams of a blue-blooded funeral a **** body burial, and the volcanoes laugh the thumbs shake as the fingers dance makes the rain pull its roots on for the showcase the generic plants will perform a feral routine every **** a command-stop forwarded the nucleus inside of a vitrified half-assed colon and if they shiver they will find their saw tailored to the head of that aurulent god a caterpillar reads the braille and follows my wrist he condescends, and breaks notions causing new alarm they are all special, green feet and orange sinewy lines he casts his blame he curses across the myriad storms gold minarets in the distance serpents living under man-made rocks counting down the seconds on armageddon's clock a lion counts his livestock he puts his socks on, he wears a headdress in the shape of a flame just outside the shadows of an autumn day
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 5:07 AM UTC
umbilical
The next time you want to ban brown skin from your white land , consider the crimson floods spilt on burnt clay from red flesh. You want brownfolk in this country like we wanted pox in our quilts. As our history is ripped to tattered patches and replaced by a white silken sheet.  But this is the land of the free and this is the home of the brave. And when I say brave I don't mean that caricature drawn on the front of a baseball jersey, with buck teeth, a bird feather and  a tomahawk motion. I mean the brave souls that took a last stand against the Custers and the Mayflowers and colonial white powers. I mean the Sitting Bulls and Geronimos who’s histories are rewritten in Old Spaghetti Westerns. Where John Wayne is always the hero, and our people aren’t even cast to play our own roles.  Hollywood won't stoop to blackface but red face is PC.  Perfect Aryan models advertise American Apparel, one authentic-looking headdress and fifty-dollar native design crop top tank tops are like spoils to the victor. It's enough to make one sick. This is America, where they steal your culture and sell it back to you at ten times the price. Those faux hide moccasins, **** on old tradition, turn centuries old struggle into a fashion faux-pas.   I once had a conversation with a girl whose skin was made of privilege. She said, ”I thought Native Americans wanted to live on reservations..?” Let that resonate. Repeat. as if we were getting a room at the Four Seasons. It was called the trail of tears not the trail of whimsical wonder. But in this white washed world invasion is called settling genocide is industry and poverty is tax-free. Our heritage is endangered, our veins are booze-diluted but at least we have those scholarships which, I suppose, we’ll use to cram our brains with a history that never belonged to us. Perhaps, all of those centuries ago, we should have thought to build a wall, you know, to keep the immigrants out. We could have stood at the border with picket signs of self-deluded righteousness lungs filled with hate for a different colored human shouting, "Go home, Alien, your dreams are illegal here!"
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Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013 at 9:42 AM UTC
Native American
The next time you want to ban brown skin from your white land , consider the crimson floods spilt on burnt clay from red flesh. You want brownfolk in this country like we wanted pox in our quilts. As our history is ripped to tattered patches and replaced by a white silken sheet.  But this is the land of the free and this is the home of the brave. And when I say brave I don't mean that caricature drawn on the front of a baseball jersey, with buck teeth, a bird feather and  a tomahawk motion. I mean the brave souls that took a last stand against the Custers and the Mayflowers and colonial white powers. I mean the Sitting Bulls and Geronimos who’s histories are rewritten in Old Spaghetti Westerns. Where John Wayne is always the hero, and our people aren’t even cast to play our own roles.  Hollywood won't stoop to blackface but red face is PC.  Perfect Aryan models advertise American Apparel, one authentic-looking headdress and fifty-dollar native design crop top tank tops are like spoils to the victor. It's enough to make one sick. This is America, where they steal your culture and sell it back to you at ten times the price. Those faux hide moccasins, **** on old tradition, turn centuries old struggle into a fashion faux-pas.   I once had a conversation with a girl whose skin was made of privilege. She said, ”I thought Native Americans wanted to live on reservations..?” Let that resonate. Repeat. as if we were getting a room at the Four Seasons. It was called the trail of tears not the trail of whimsical wonder. But in this white washed world invasion is called settling genocide is industry and poverty is tax-free. Our heritage is endangered, our veins are booze-diluted but at least we have those scholarships which, I suppose, we’ll use to cram our brains with a history that never belonged to us. Perhaps, all of those centuries ago, we should have thought to build a wall, you know, to keep the immigrants out. We could have stood at the border with picket signs of self-deluded righteousness lungs filled with hate for a different colored human shouting, "Go home, Alien, your dreams are illegal here!"
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You found me staring, hair full of sand: I had tried to embrace the water as my blood and was reprimanded by a wave for my daring. Around us the thick grass like palm-sunday fronds and the path of boards lifted from a painting dissolved into steel wool. The rest of the scene has been redacted, smeared from my mind with an inky thumb. You found me between sleep. I am still waiting to be returned to , or wherever the quarter-light carved your back into soft photograin beneath my childs hands. You said, " ", words warming me with the bloom of a chrysanthemum beneath my chest. Does the crown of petals still ***** like the cigarettes off that balcony, overlooking ? I burned my body into your imagined contours. The space between ours folded over and again, an origami figure slowly taking on mass and attitude. It sat on my shoulder, Incan headdress grown solid one day, stock right foot the next. It cleaved and cleaved. We joined at or maybe , in the rain. Or was it? My face was wet, and hands or moths fluttered against an aquarium window. If dreaming, I awoke when : the train flattened its memory like a penny. Here it is, squashed between my fingers. The face pushed like putty, smoothed like the faces of and and of course , who remains only as a scratchy, juvenile voice.
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May 12, 2010
May 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM UTC
case report
Arapaho Bride, Chieftains Dearest. Early Fortnight,  Gros Ventre Headdress.   Indian Jubilee, Kindred Lavishment. Mornings Noontide Oluksak Pulls Quiet River Streams, Terrapins.   Unabated Vas deferens Wedding Xyris Young-begetting, Zea mays rugosa.
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Sep 17, 2012
Sep 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM UTC
A Native Marriage to Z
Fluorescent flickers illuminate the stained cement floors of the hallway. Your slippered feet music an uneven pad and scuff. This ***** city is home, whatever that means. This ***** city holds you like you're someone else's child. A burst of joy and music reaches for you through the window; someone bangs a door and you turn on the tap. As water sputters onto your toothbrush you catch a whiff of Dakota Jim's racist southern drawl, a puff of his ketamine breath. You walk to the window, toothbrush dangling. [Oh London, I know you love no one, but nights like this I feel your heartbeat in your embrace.] History swells beneath your feet. Your eyes land on a seated figure, his grand headdress of feathers overpowering the tableau, his gaze calmer than the other mad happy swirls that make up the crowd. It makes you wonder what he sees. Probably nothing. You will learn that when he seems profound it is usually an accident. You are penned in by jagged skyline hieroglyphics. History swells. Your heavy hearted story is a speck consumed in all this history. All the history you were taught in school was death, you remember your mother bemoaning this war generals and battle dates history. You wonder at how much death this place has seen, how many lives the city has birthed and eaten, hungry mother staving off starvation. We all write our stories on other people's bones. Of course the greatest cities would leave the greatest scars. And what did you come here looking for anyway? [Hello Momento Mori city. I see you. I see your rooftops straining to **** stars. Do you mourn for your dead? Are they heavy in your belly? Are you going to eat me, too?] But now, if you drag your little mind back from the immensities, everything around you is alive. Everyone is dancing, happy to be caught in her belly. Or her womb. Not one of you knows which, but there you are. In the courtyard, the small, steady figure of Freddie Stitz brings a lit cigarette to his lips and smiles up at you in the window. Wipe that toothpaste off your face, you look ridiculous. Go back to bed.
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 4:57 PM UTC
This is a love letter.
Fluorescent flickers illuminate the stained cement floors of the hallway. Your slippered feet music an uneven pad and scuff. This ***** city is home, whatever that means. This ***** city holds you like you're someone else's child. A burst of joy and music reaches for you through the window; someone bangs a door and you turn on the tap. As water sputters onto your toothbrush you catch a whiff of Dakota Jim's racist southern drawl, a puff of his ketamine breath. You walk to the window, toothbrush dangling. [Oh London, I know you love no one, but nights like this I feel your heartbeat in your embrace.] History swells beneath your feet. Your eyes land on a seated figure, his grand headdress of feathers overpowering the tableau, his gaze calmer than the other mad happy swirls that make up the crowd. It makes you wonder what he sees. Probably nothing. You will learn that when he seems profound it is usually an accident. You are penned in by jagged skyline hieroglyphics. History swells. Your heavy hearted story is a speck consumed in all this history. All the history you were taught in school was death, you remember your mother bemoaning this war generals and battle dates history. You wonder at how much death this place has seen, how many lives the city has birthed and eaten, hungry mother staving off starvation. We all write our stories on other people's bones. Of course the greatest cities would leave the greatest scars. And what did you come here looking for anyway? [Hello Momento Mori city. I see you. I see your rooftops straining to **** stars. Do you mourn for your dead? Are they heavy in your belly? Are you going to eat me, too?] But now, if you drag your little mind back from the immensities, everything around you is alive. Everyone is dancing, happy to be caught in her belly. Or her womb. Not one of you knows which, but there you are. In the courtyard, the small, steady figure of Freddie Stitz brings a lit cigarette to his lips and smiles up at you in the window. Wipe that toothpaste off your face, you look ridiculous. Go back to bed.
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I like that girl in the cutoff jean jacket who always goes out with intent to make a racket All that tribal black light paint that you'd think would look cliche until you see how well it illuminates her face I want someone who still makes me feel young Who isn't in a hurry to be all grown up She's not afraid to say yes to rock a neon headdress and she always thought it cool to stretch her flesh She rocks the shutter shades down in her V-neck All summer long she's on the festie trek She likes her wooden spiral plugs her pieces shaped like bugs and her most favorite thing is to give free hugs From Triple Rock back to The Cabooze Electric Forests and Bonaroos She doesn't think that she'll ever grow old with music, friends and stories to be told Hemp and glass are her silver and gold However, I am not quite like you I'm just biding my time with this rowdy crew I haven't yet committed to keeping my youth and that's why my skin's still clear of tattoos The longest lasting scars, forever proof: You were once wild and young but afraid to face the truth
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM UTC
My hippie-crust-hipster lust and the one reason it could never be enough
He was in hospital for a short op a one day event and then home the nurse said if you could undress Mr Hawkins and put on that gown on the bed and so he looked around and got to the bed and she drew the green curtains around him and he stood there and began to undress and folded his clothes and put them on a chair and put on the blue gown which did up at the back and stood there wondering what to do next how long would he have to wait? he lay on the bed and opened the book he'd brought to read his back ached his hips too how long would he be? a nurse drew back the curtains and said I need to take your temperature? can you tell me your name please? he looked at her in her blue two piece like a motor mechanic rather than a nurse what happened to those neat uniforms? he wondered name? she asked again Mr Benedict Hawkins he said she ticked her list date of birth? he told her how much do you weigh? she asked he told her she ticked her list again she put a thermometer in his mouth and took his wrist and looked at her watch he looked at her hand her fingers holding his wrist the thin white fingers the pink nails he looked at her ears not too small or large no earrings no small holes where they might have been he studied her lips wondered who kissed them if any she took out the thermometer   and shook it with a lovely wrist action and gazed at it then she put it in her top pocket just above her left *** or impression of such and she looked at him you're 3rd on the list she said OK he said and off she walked her swaying behind like some gay mechanic guy going back to the pits no lovely neat uniform or black stockings encasing cool legs or black sensible shoes or tidy white headdress to set it all off just a trained nursing mechanic in the blue two piece nothing to inspire another look so he opened the pages of his child psychology book.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 3:55 PM UTC
HOSPITAL FOR A DAY.
He was in hospital for a short op a one day event and then home the nurse said if you could undress Mr Hawkins and put on that gown on the bed and so he looked around and got to the bed and she drew the green curtains around him and he stood there and began to undress and folded his clothes and put them on a chair and put on the blue gown which did up at the back and stood there wondering what to do next how long would he have to wait? he lay on the bed and opened the book he'd brought to read his back ached his hips too how long would he be? a nurse drew back the curtains and said I need to take your temperature? can you tell me your name please? he looked at her in her blue two piece like a motor mechanic rather than a nurse what happened to those neat uniforms? he wondered name? she asked again Mr Benedict Hawkins he said she ticked her list date of birth? he told her how much do you weigh? she asked he told her she ticked her list again she put a thermometer in his mouth and took his wrist and looked at her watch he looked at her hand her fingers holding his wrist the thin white fingers the pink nails he looked at her ears not too small or large no earrings no small holes where they might have been he studied her lips wondered who kissed them if any she took out the thermometer   and shook it with a lovely wrist action and gazed at it then she put it in her top pocket just above her left *** or impression of such and she looked at him you're 3rd on the list she said OK he said and off she walked her swaying behind like some gay mechanic guy going back to the pits no lovely neat uniform or black stockings encasing cool legs or black sensible shoes or tidy white headdress to set it all off just a trained nursing mechanic in the blue two piece nothing to inspire another look so he opened the pages of his child psychology book.
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Sweet Catherine Eddowes, Second lady one of two, On a night of grisly finds in the square of the bishop's headdress, In London's not so fair city, On this the Sabbath's tragic night, 'Kate' tragic shrew was tamed, not by Petruchio, This murdered lady from tragedy of night walk, Tatooed lady, hazel eyes and fiery auburn hair, Bonnet left on after death, protected her beautiful hair, Perhaps the ripper cared, Kate filled usually with vile temper, Her temper not apparent on that sad night, Appeared to put up no fight, Her beautiful face was sliced to ribbons, Cruelly disfigured by this evil, Usually was a jolly gal, loved to sing and dance, Unable to make a flight to escape the merciless wrath of this mystery man, Carotid artery slashed and dashed, No blood left on the ground, Smeared foul faecal matter all around, As ripping evil stole, her bowels, Lain, like sleeping naturally , Still warm corpse discovered, Fellow passing by saw a woman pass, May have been her with a chap, fair haired,looking shabby, Different description from the others, Poor Kate left family of three behind, A daughter and two sons, The sun had set for the last time, For their poor dear mother. The forth ripper victim! By ladylivvi1
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 5:33 AM UTC
Catherine Eddowes (KATE)
I wish to one day be interesting But what is it I should do - Perhaps I'll wear a vibrant headdress and stay here as my skin burns away in the desert and my bones deteriorate My face will remain in the shape of this gaping half smile, trying to lure you in And my eyes will be lost in this wild attempt And you'll be lost with them, as you stare into the darkness that was once their home and realize this is all that I ever was Would this intrigue you
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Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 12:39 PM UTC
Jealousy
The structure of pillars are built left and right Thirteen Thirty One Terminal tool of the sun The Moon  together as One The Ownership of the flag and the headdress in the middle of the tent of the one Constructed and process of this hidden process Fallen and risen, both hands as they go. Chains balanced thru the crosses Past foundations built placed into this process Linguistics of stages Past memories of this address in phases Wheels that protects and repairs its course Used variables from this source Spheres reaps from their plantation. Authorized application Sensation of this automation The red bird that flies that sights its location. Squared into existence that creates manifestation.
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Mar 5, 2018
Mar 5, 2018 at 5:40 AM UTC
Thirteen Thirty One
And when I molt you make a headdress of the selves that have fallen from me with time. Like you, they are colourful and cautious. And as you carefully creep skyward, I throw myself down in the cool grasses of your lengthening shadow. I was tired. It made sense to rest. And so we played with feathers and inches as children do. Running in circles and circles until we fell asleep holding hands. What were we, but our love?
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM UTC
The Break, Part V: Feathers, Inches.
i. Thither soon The harvest Moon; September, mine month of birth Me and mine Reyna shalt swoon. ii. Asunder the leaves Through the fall lit tree's; Me and mine dame Shalt gyrate the amour that we bleed. iii. The moon to be red Ourn eye's to giveth vision's; Of me and mine sweet Jane Making love in celestial kitchen's. iv. On the grass In the sea of thought; Ourn affection unearhtly Not to be store bought. v. Ourn headdress Made from peacock quill; A medicine woman and man shaman of autochthonous skill. ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Earl Jane nagley dedication
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 9:59 AM UTC
shaman of autochthonous skill