"impecunious" poems
Thanks thespis for another muse anew,
Filliping my soul with the spirit of a song,
To chant for the young world in these pepperish letters,
before my callous eyes on the skull of historical future
on my pykitonic torso of I another African pykin,
as I finish my coffin for the cadaver of poetry
that the law of poetry is a distorting neurosis,
neurotic abnormality its baseboard of time
giving classical balance for wondrous poetry.
Compensatory motivation a charm of its seed,
Taking dear eyes from the skull of Demodocos
Leaving songfull mouth his legacy for humanity,
Warped physique not short of history,
Teaching the world to drink in full pyrene spring
As hunchbacked dwarfism of Alexander Pope
was not in any sense dwarfism of his poetry,
nor club foot of Byron in ******* to Maugham
Byronic heroism to Europe of yester times,
That sired Proust, the Jewish neurotic
And Keats the most dwarfish and Wolfe the tallest
Of man and woman to the cultural matrix
Of Europe, the mother of art, poetry and synaethesia,
From which was born Pushkin that took poetry
Out of his nymphomaniac heart, to the solace of czars,
And Shakespeare the dear thief, luckily converted
Childhood kleptomania into royal theatre of King Lear,
The parallel of four brothers from the house of Karamazov,
Their father; impecunious penny penchant muzhik
In the name of Fydor epileptic Dostoyevsky.
A lull of the time to escape from world of rent and tax,
Gripped nerves of the duo to a new realm of art
wherein sensuous glory from ***** and Indian hemp
propelled the souls of Coleridge and De Quincey
to grandiose highness of poetry in the dreams of *****
bordering on the teutonic greatness of ritualistic breed,
poetry that transcended from rotten apples in the writing desk
of Fredriech von schiller the begotten son of Germany,
writing under the arms of Balzac dressed in monkey clobus,
that along with Milton in the lost paradise, gave him swaddles
only when the poetic vein of Milton flowed happily from nothing,
but from the ritualized autumnal equinox to the spiritual vernal,
as Coleridge was in full recondite of marquetry,mosaic and miracles,
the miraculous white male sheep, the white ram of Wole Soyinka,
that he gave as a gift to Achebe at the last anniversary, evil decoy
that become a car which deathly crushed Chinua Achebe
down to demise in the catacombs for the law of poetry
as abnormal human neurosis an equation of perfect art.
Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:26 AM UTC
As the inclement weather crash all over the city,
I discovered the untitled disc of a lost movie
I turn the t.v on and saw the family
Gaining something in return called ‘sympathy’
Surreptitious pictures of the impecunious
Propitious time for those opulent
Impudent behavior, Gratuitous violence
Amorphous hope and lucid nightmares
Misery, anguish, sorrow and pain
Hapless child hold tight to God
Pathetic story will end soon
as the morning sun dissipate the fog
Worry less, pristine day will come to heal your soul and broken heart
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 6:41 AM UTC
When death’s errand boy arrives to collect the grocer's bill,
The balance will have remained unanswered.
The mythology of life is death,
And like tales dispensed in the oral tradition—
The Iliad, Beowulf, the Odyssey—
The story of death changes with nearly every recitation.
The order that I seek is something more like chaos,
And it perpetuates despite all reasoned inhibition.
Like the machinations of a tired Proteus,
Being accosted at unawares.
It will surface and speak to my indignation,
This, while the soul concedes to my self-effacing tradition.
Yet, it cannot be mine, and it cannot be yours.
I too often return to evaluate my position,
And still find it impenetrable—
Unmoved by any fool’s tepid fears.
But death’s account grows continuously nearer,
And one cannot pretend that accounts of its comings and goings,
Were ever disseminated by a man who, in his egocentric violence,
Was anything like sincere.
This reality in which I squander spiritual and moral trust,
Achieves its most cutting sentiment,
When it proposes that I change into it,
And I lean now on a bleeding altar,
The last bastion of an impecunious star child--
A false conduit.
Feb 7, 2018
Feb 7, 2018 at 9:43 PM UTC
Subtle solace savvy like a suave and sultry specter surreal
Augmenting audible augar with its accidence ambiance acoustics appeal
Torridly tactile transpicuous from its tacitly tractive terrestrial seal
Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM UTC
that's the thing about missing you.
the days feel alright and I think I'm ok until I'm alone and then the days start to feel like months and the hours feel like seasons and the minutes feel like years until I'm only one half, incomplete, impecunious in every sense of the word. every second of the day.
Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM UTC
Thirsty for tasty spicy
Tardy latter days of visualisation
yearning of our souls, albeit impecunious
longing incessantly to own a *** of tarmasalata
Norms beheaded, of course we ain't the wretched son of a pauper
plastic spoon turns silver, someday the table will turn
we will own pakora and samosa
with a tantalising subtle lemony taste
oh-oh-one our language
But soon, we'll throw a birthday party
with hamburger patty
Rays on our green pasture
The sun will smile, moon will grin
Then, our murmur will transmute into voices
Quenched! our thirst for tasty spicy.
Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020 at 10:39 AM UTC
"The link with exiguities was abundantly clear,
It exists there in the cloth's she wore,
It takes currency to purchase what one wears,
Exiguity is in the language they speak,
Present in the language or words spoken,
Speech begins to feel as currency to one as they interact,
It is everywhere it stains everything as it hovers about,
It oscillates about It watches from every corner of the page,
Exiguity is not something one can leave behind,
A child born into exiguity will always feel its presence,
At the edges of everything existing matter that shared,
At any moment they can feel the fractures of exiguity,
It is in there gaze back to others as it seeps and oozes in ataraxy,
These abhorrent things of exiguity as the daily impecunious,
Even right now its presence is apperceive surrounding thee,
As you fear it is in thy words these tiny fractured words of dearth,
Fear not for you shall ascertain knowledge free from EXIGUITY"
By Andrew Guzaldo © 3/08/2021 Posted HP #197
Feb 8, 2021
Feb 8, 2021 at 7:04 PM UTC
Not just the absence of light
It’s much worse
An inhabited netherworld
Feel it immerse
You in lonely, forlorn
Raging storms
Of despair
Impecunious
Broken hopes
Beyond repair
To awake
The nightmare
And to dream
The escape
From desertification
You can’t cultivate
A thirst you can not sate
No, despite how the torrential
Rains inundate
The virulent,
Unruliest
Throngs of diseased
Masses begging
And praying
On prostrated knees
The gods still send their plagues
Further north from the jungle
As millions enslaved
Still
To climate-change hunger
Succumb to the rumbling of tummies
Imploding
The bloating unsightly
An air of foreboding
Still looms over me
Not a cloud in the sky
And when blinding
The sun in it
Opens my eyes
To a scenery
Stretching and rolling
Serenely
I can’t help but stare
And at peace
Give a sigh
I suppose there are places
Much worse
I could die
Nov 29, 2019
Nov 29, 2019 at 3:27 PM UTC