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"ironical" poems
Eve of Holi A spring eve that’s all different from others Zephyrs blowing away the leaves Orange sky adding the flavours Blooming flowers nodding in a rhythm So Ironical is nature of this evening That all these beauties act as ornaments of Kali On a normal evening man would work They would work appraising weather They know it will not last long, they enjoy Today they as if ignore it, of morning celebrations Morning is gayest morning of the year Every reason to see every man Mankind being unanimous Evening on contrary balancing it to a usual day An unexplainable soundlessness, vacuum of thoughts A day depicting environment without men on work Streets still hold colours on their chest But this colour no more is a sign of happiness People meet each other, everyone has a smile But that doesn’t match with nature suit There smiles have scope within its sight Body of people walking on street enjoy zephyr Their mind stay startled of unusual quietness Standing on my entrance, I observe A swinging litchi tree, missing sound of saw mill Smiling flowers, orange cloudy sky Empty streets, parked wagons, and utterly silence
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM UTC
Holi. The festival of colours?
a draper is someone who creates garments or patterns by draping fabric directly onto a dress form (Wikipedia) ~~~~ I am a draper, by trade, by nature, by instinct; a fling of one arm across her body, while she dreams and sleeps, rambles, mumbles, and even convulses, to hold her tight with two, with both, soon grows discomforting as the blood ceases to flow, the heat breeds unsweetened sweat, and the snuggling impact, is too fast subsumed by the pins and needles numbing, deadening, and ironical attenuation this is my pattern, how I address her, how I dress her, draping my contiguous, drawing five fingers upon her form, reshaping her in her sleep, the arm flung, there, and then there, to be hung, at varied places across her body, higher lower, above below, but her face, free and clear, so not to interfere with her sensory preceptors and as I draw my pattern upon her skin, her body whole, listening her to indeterminate utterances, to determine which pitter patter pattern to which. she feels best suited, then, I prepare my invoice for her, for services rendered, to present upon awakening, demanding in voice, by her voice, payment in words, of her own chosen amuse-bouche, mmmm, will it be? good morning my love? hello you! or just an indiscriminate but yet, a discriminating sound of having been pleasured by unknown forces in her deeper sleep, using her lips to say, to hum, to sing, a genteel unspecific but, and yet, a terrific, deep from within guttural remittance, the sound of a delicious, mmmmmming greeting a new equinoxal gale of a refreshing fresh birthing, fulsome already satisfying draping of the day
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM UTC
The Draper (draw my pattern upon her skin)
a draper is someone who creates garments or patterns by draping fabric directly onto a dress form (Wikipedia) ~~~~ I am a draper, by trade, by nature, by instinct; a fling of one arm across her body, while she dreams and sleeps, rambles, mumbles, and even convulses, to hold her tight with two, with both, soon grows discomforting as the blood ceases to flow, the heat breeds unsweetened sweat, and the snuggling impact, is too fast subsumed by the pins and needles numbing, deadening, and ironical attenuation this is my pattern, how I address her, how I dress her, draping my contiguous, drawing five fingers upon her form, reshaping her in her sleep, the arm flung, there, and then there, to be hung, at varied places across her body, higher lower, above below, but her face, free and clear, so not to interfere with her sensory preceptors and as I draw my pattern upon her skin, her body whole, listening her to indeterminate utterances, to determine which pitter patter pattern to which. she feels best suited, then, I prepare my invoice for her, for services rendered, to present upon awakening, demanding in voice, by her voice, payment in words, of her own chosen amuse-bouche, mmmm, will it be? good morning my love? hello you! or just an indiscriminate but yet, a discriminating sound of having been pleasured by unknown forces in her deeper sleep, using her lips to say, to hum, to sing, a genteel unspecific but, and yet, a terrific, deep from within guttural remittance, the sound of a delicious, mmmmmming greeting a new equinoxal gale of a refreshing fresh birthing, fulsome already satisfying draping of the day
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Words and letters are written on walls Some as vandalization others as messages Words and letters are written on walls Words and sentences are written on billboards Some serve as advertising others to arouse awareness Words and sentences are written on billboards Words and paragraphs are written on my brain Some serve as inspiration others to support guidance Words and paragraphs are written on my brain Words are the weapons I use in a society that controls my image Words are the only thing that can divide me from being ghetto or educated My words are the only thing that I can vouch for like my ***** My words are the root of the intelligence that propels this sentence Letters in my words stand close to each other eager to make a statement If I do not show my words, my letters of cheerfulness begin to fade away Sentences are the compound of the mind that begs to be understood Sentences are made up of a tyranny chained down by a trendsetters mood My sentences contain verbs, nouns, adjectives and subjects that explain a lost purpose My sentences define the meaning of an ironical imagery that leads me to dream Sentences paint a picture that any blind character can see If I do not paint my sentences how will I ever show my brains art gallery Picasso used the paint brush to express his moods and feelings on a canvas Shakespeare and Allan Poe used ink to utter their thoughts on a sheet of paper Somewhere in my mind the collision of words and paint occurred Where I fused the essence of writing with the masterfulness of painting My words and sentences have met a significant other called paint Paint and words are my new best friend Paint and brushes are splattered and used upon walls Some are called vandalization while they represent artistic skills Paint and brushes are splattered and used upon walls Paint and words are written on subways So the eyes of the young and old can see the traveling message Paint and words are written on subways Paint and words smack up at my face So that the world sees who conveys this message Paint and words smack up at my face Paint gives visual to what words cannot picture My Paint serves as a method of expressing the mind’s tears and smiles My Paint becomes a tour guide through the loops of divine wonders Paint is just a stepping stone to the magnificent path of beauty A brush is just a brush depending on who holds it A brush is like the keyboard I constantly battle with to unleash my mind A brush can combine negativity and positivity and make peace A brush unites celibate beliefs with those whom are perverse Words and sentences along with paint and brushes help explain my motive Jonathan Pizarro Lost Cause © 2011 April 17th, 2011
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Sep 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011 at 12:42 AM UTC
Words and Paint
Words and letters are written on walls Some as vandalization others as messages Words and letters are written on walls Words and sentences are written on billboards Some serve as advertising others to arouse awareness Words and sentences are written on billboards Words and paragraphs are written on my brain Some serve as inspiration others to support guidance Words and paragraphs are written on my brain Words are the weapons I use in a society that controls my image Words are the only thing that can divide me from being ghetto or educated My words are the only thing that I can vouch for like my ***** My words are the root of the intelligence that propels this sentence Letters in my words stand close to each other eager to make a statement If I do not show my words, my letters of cheerfulness begin to fade away Sentences are the compound of the mind that begs to be understood Sentences are made up of a tyranny chained down by a trendsetters mood My sentences contain verbs, nouns, adjectives and subjects that explain a lost purpose My sentences define the meaning of an ironical imagery that leads me to dream Sentences paint a picture that any blind character can see If I do not paint my sentences how will I ever show my brains art gallery Picasso used the paint brush to express his moods and feelings on a canvas Shakespeare and Allan Poe used ink to utter their thoughts on a sheet of paper Somewhere in my mind the collision of words and paint occurred Where I fused the essence of writing with the masterfulness of painting My words and sentences have met a significant other called paint Paint and words are my new best friend Paint and brushes are splattered and used upon walls Some are called vandalization while they represent artistic skills Paint and brushes are splattered and used upon walls Paint and words are written on subways So the eyes of the young and old can see the traveling message Paint and words are written on subways Paint and words smack up at my face So that the world sees who conveys this message Paint and words smack up at my face Paint gives visual to what words cannot picture My Paint serves as a method of expressing the mind’s tears and smiles My Paint becomes a tour guide through the loops of divine wonders Paint is just a stepping stone to the magnificent path of beauty A brush is just a brush depending on who holds it A brush is like the keyboard I constantly battle with to unleash my mind A brush can combine negativity and positivity and make peace A brush unites celibate beliefs with those whom are perverse Words and sentences along with paint and brushes help explain my motive Jonathan Pizarro Lost Cause © 2011 April 17th, 2011
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i want you to beat me up real bad please please let me bleed completely before infancy clots at the back of my mind don't wait for me to be tired break me all at once grind my feelings into a powdery mess so that when someone enters our bedroom they slip on the floor and see a stretch mark-ed ceiling to not know pain but just how ironical numbness is                       and then hug me like you would a voodoo soft toy with the scratched leather wings of a bewitched witch who has seen it all sober but still can't tell a sheep's wool from snakeskin caress my dilapidated knees without once telling me to stand up on my own or for myself all i want from you is to **** me at dawn i'll know that i was loved enough or.... at least.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 9:17 AM UTC
i want you to beat me up
Sing a song of Tajmahal a fine nazm or a ghazal Of this landmark for lovers Ah, a lover's edifice Complete with medieval bowers It's a Mecca for tourists! Tis sensational, tis exceptional tis truly a touristy place. Watch the shimmer of its magnificent marbled dome Moonlight or sunlight, it glimmers of imperial chrome It's ironical then that though Indian-Arabian I am I haven't yet been to this touristy place It is truly as they must say, a lover's shrine a place where hearts duly incline They find it steamy I find it dreamy Oh, I've got to see for myself this touristy place. Each of the marbled minarets conceal such romantic secrets for lovers to silently explore to admire and to adore A place human lovebirds couldn't ignore. Ah you've got to visit this touristy place! Two famed lovers lie in the legendary vault below and the stream too it has a romantic flow It's a lovers haven and paradise on earth Even dead passions there undergo a rebirth Ah, rekindle my love for you in this touristy place! Extol I may this awesome imposing edifice A greed for pure love is perhaps better than avarice Löng live the legend of Shah jahan and Mumtaz mahal Long live love and love like a Moghul so forever we have this monumental grace! Yeah take me my luv to this touristy place!
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Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 2:11 AM UTC
Sing a song of Taj Mahal
Can we believe -- by an effort comfort our hearts: it is not waste all this, not placed here in disgust, street after street, each patterned alike, no grace to lighten a single house of the hundred crowded into one garden-space. Crowded -- can we believe, not in utter disgust, in ironical play -- but the maker of cities grew faint with the beauty of temple and space before temple, arch upon perfect arch, of pillars and corridors that led out to strange court-yards and porches where sun-light stamped hyacinth-shadows black on the pavement. That the maker of cities grew faint with the splendour of palaces, paused while the incense-flowers from the incense-trees dropped on the marble-walk, thought anew, fashioned this -- street after street alike. For alas, he had crowded the city so full that men could not grasp beauty, beauty was over them, through them, about them, no crevice unpacked with the honey, rare, measureless. So he built a new city, ah can we believe, not ironically but for new splendour constructed new people to lift through slow growth to a beauty unrivalled yet -- and created new cells, hideous first, hideous now -- spread larve across them, not honey but seething life. And in these dark cells, packed street after street, souls live, hideous yet -- O disfigured, defaced, with no trace of the beauty men once held so light. Can we think a few old cells were left -- we are left -- grains of honey, old dust of stray pollen dull on our torn wings, we are left to recall the old streets? Is our task the less sweet that the larve still sleep in their cells? Or crawl out to attack our frail strength: You are useless. We live. We await great events. We are spread through this earth. We protect our strong race. You are useless. Your cell takes the place of our young future strength. Though they sleep or wake to torment and wish to displace our old cells -- thin rare gold -- that their larve grow fat -- is our task the less sweet? Though we wander about, find no honey of flowers in this waste, is our task the less sweet -- who recall the old splendour, await the new beauty of cities? The city is peopled with spirits, not ghosts, O my love: Though they crowded between and usurped the kiss of my mouth their breath was your gift, their beauty, your life.
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Cities
Can we believe -- by an effort comfort our hearts: it is not waste all this, not placed here in disgust, street after street, each patterned alike, no grace to lighten a single house of the hundred crowded into one garden-space. Crowded -- can we believe, not in utter disgust, in ironical play -- but the maker of cities grew faint with the beauty of temple and space before temple, arch upon perfect arch, of pillars and corridors that led out to strange court-yards and porches where sun-light stamped hyacinth-shadows black on the pavement. That the maker of cities grew faint with the splendour of palaces, paused while the incense-flowers from the incense-trees dropped on the marble-walk, thought anew, fashioned this -- street after street alike. For alas, he had crowded the city so full that men could not grasp beauty, beauty was over them, through them, about them, no crevice unpacked with the honey, rare, measureless. So he built a new city, ah can we believe, not ironically but for new splendour constructed new people to lift through slow growth to a beauty unrivalled yet -- and created new cells, hideous first, hideous now -- spread larve across them, not honey but seething life. And in these dark cells, packed street after street, souls live, hideous yet -- O disfigured, defaced, with no trace of the beauty men once held so light. Can we think a few old cells were left -- we are left -- grains of honey, old dust of stray pollen dull on our torn wings, we are left to recall the old streets? Is our task the less sweet that the larve still sleep in their cells? Or crawl out to attack our frail strength: You are useless. We live. We await great events. We are spread through this earth. We protect our strong race. You are useless. Your cell takes the place of our young future strength. Though they sleep or wake to torment and wish to displace our old cells -- thin rare gold -- that their larve grow fat -- is our task the less sweet? Though we wander about, find no honey of flowers in this waste, is our task the less sweet -- who recall the old splendour, await the new beauty of cities? The city is peopled with spirits, not ghosts, O my love: Though they crowded between and usurped the kiss of my mouth their breath was your gift, their beauty, your life.
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a quote from the movie "The Big Short" ~ *a screen provocation, you laugh out loud, mime hating yourself that you are joiining in tacitly acknowledges the truth of abbreviated wisdom you, disguised minority of modest disagreers, c'mon, admission submission, more truth in it than deserving of argumentation a one liner throwaway, neatly designed, leaves you disturbingly probed, thoughtfully tormented and aroused poetry just a vehicle, your vice for revelation, the critical door to open is this: do people hate the truth? inescapable reality ironical probability, truth well disguised, in plastic shell of lying from the Hollywood's would be poets, an escapade from the escapists let us not pretend that you and I uncaring, for by virtue of your reading this, you are poetry aficionado, required to deny the lie, and yet, accept the granular view that we are rising writing thru the wronged end of a telescoping microscope so I scare scar a tissue sample from my tongue and the cells spell this rejoinder: all your lies are poems, incomplete truths, and that's why people hate poetry*
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 11:10 AM UTC
Truth is like poetry. And most people f**king hate poetry.
Days go with you and bid goodbye Hours slide down and die And drape down The innocence of the Noun! With the experience of Adverbs Of place, time and frequency, the Verbs Replace the endearing use of Nouns (Slowly moving from lisping sounds ) To the stable use of personal Pronouns! Individuality stands alone keeping the Subject alone Sometimes with a defiant adolescent tone Distractions, doubts in the use of Determiners A shaky ground for the beginners! Disagreement with the Subject-Verb agreement begins Early during this period and lurks within, and at times springs With the Nouns like mathematics, rhetorics and news Without any tension to meddle in don’ts and dos! What I wish to say in a few sentences Is not enough about life’s infinite time and tenses! To deconstruct the grammar of growing up is not enough As adolescence is a diamond in the rough; It is a living discourse; both simple and tough Ironical, unpredictable, surprising, puzzling stuff Needs patience, pardon, perseverance and fun To handle its substance for every daughter and son!
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
A Grammar of Growing Up
I adore my country. Sometimes enough to sacrifice its own(?)
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Aug 15, 2012
Aug 15, 2012 at 7:55 AM UTC
The ironical facade of jingoism (10W)
Maybe i am not so perfect But i know how to reflect Maybe i represent a faded picture But my life is such a great mixture Maybe i lie and die everyday But my smile never departs for a day Maybe i have alot of tough dares But with them i have people to care Maybe i am not in a perfect mood But i have a situation to tackle and crude Maybe life is full of lost games But it also sometimes provide us fame Maybe life is sometimes abhorrent. But its wonderful if we are adherent...! --A.A.
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Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 5:54 PM UTC
IRONICAL VERSION
Empowering the synergy of this day 70 years ago That called for the times When unity had all the faith And transfer of power marked the Independence Day Since then the nation has evolved Talking about Samvidhan Which taught the art of Self Pradhan Creativity talked about Democracy That we walk shoulder to shoulder That all Humans are equal Be it cast,religion or *** Everything creates a nexus Time elapsed and things changed Here we move in 21st century With the heart full of victory Where in a developing country We fight society To win over society Instead of ironical criticism And in the ambit of feminism I look forward to wonderful creatures That so blissfully Compliment each other To move along from place to place Work in their own pace Explore according to their grace And Live out of their mind's cage.
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM UTC
CELEBRATING FREEDOM
Walking a lonely road, stepping over the dry leaves; Waiting for the sunset, to leave me alone with my thoughts; Observing the reality is not simple, but feeling it is even harder; This always follow a change, when u feel theory in real; For every stand u took, for every right u did; For every step you took back, for every voice that was suppressed; A laughing comment may be the reason, or a smile or a ignorance; Good’s became good joke, deeds became dramas; Prophets preach love everyone, reality ends in loving ourselves; No sorry no thanks, rude a person becomes without acknowledgements; Follow your heart, stop taking free advices, ironical part we do; Edison said 'value in disaster, start all over again', how hard it is to do; Ideal is a word that has no practical example; Even Mahatma Gandhi was only close to ideal; Resistor to transistor, ideal behaviour has bookish domains; And what a irony, even great of greatest are running towards this misconception; Fooling someone is an upcoming talent; Your last laugh, was it on a ***** act or someone loss??; Listening advice is a harder job than firing suggestions; Selfish is a attribute necessary to adopt; Opening book on a regular day sometimes become crime; Everyone pretends to be last day hero; Hardly one dares to take a stand, for someone unknown, for public benefit; Forgetting, one could be in same place; Here conscience becomes a vital part; Doing what it allows, or changing it accordingly; Does varying conscience have a value? Choice enters in play; Choice to be what you should be or what you are accepted to be;
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Oct 20, 2010
Oct 20, 2010 at 9:46 PM UTC
Reality
Walking a lonely road, stepping over the dry leaves; Waiting for the sunset, to leave me alone with my thoughts; Observing the reality is not simple, but feeling it is even harder; This always follow a change, when u feel theory in real; For every stand u took, for every right u did; For every step you took back, for every voice that was suppressed; A laughing comment may be the reason, or a smile or a ignorance; Good’s became good joke, deeds became dramas; Prophets preach love everyone, reality ends in loving ourselves; No sorry no thanks, rude a person becomes without acknowledgements; Follow your heart, stop taking free advices, ironical part we do; Edison said 'value in disaster, start all over again', how hard it is to do; Ideal is a word that has no practical example; Even Mahatma Gandhi was only close to ideal; Resistor to transistor, ideal behaviour has bookish domains; And what a irony, even great of greatest are running towards this misconception; Fooling someone is an upcoming talent; Your last laugh, was it on a ***** act or someone loss??; Listening advice is a harder job than firing suggestions; Selfish is a attribute necessary to adopt; Opening book on a regular day sometimes become crime; Everyone pretends to be last day hero; Hardly one dares to take a stand, for someone unknown, for public benefit; Forgetting, one could be in same place; Here conscience becomes a vital part; Doing what it allows, or changing it accordingly; Does varying conscience have a value? Choice enters in play; Choice to be what you should be or what you are accepted to be;
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I mixed liquid nitrogen With my *** juices Now I'm cool as **** Interested in interesting intellectuals Bringing bacon back, bread-bringing ******* Alliterating alliterative allocutions allowing abusive acronyms For goodness and badness And for some ugliness Here’s the facts and I’ll lay them down right: I’m a ************* sorcerer And I don’t finish lists Irony in the ironical first-person I left someone behind when they told me to And now I’m better off, Know this poem’s for you. Every time I see your face, I really hope you’re doing well But deep in my mind I know that nothing’s changed And you’re still the same, as I’m trying to change To be a better person than I was when we met But it’s something that you never noticed, yet Something inside of me says we’re polar Opposites and what really happened Was for the best, for both of us So I still keep in touch with Friends around you And I hope secretly That you fall in Unending mercy And that I’m wrong.
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 10:43 PM UTC
Cramps
I walked my walk, learnt people aren't permanent. Remember this my tree, you'll just die in peace. Must have been cold to get uprooted for nothing, while they say it's for their own thing. Would be ironical if they make a diary out of your leaves. And sure will they in joy, whilst leaving you to torment. Rot you my trrrrrree.....
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Sep 25, 2019
Sep 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM UTC
Rot you my Tree!
The abstraction of that day was ironical. The sun shone and yet I felt no warmth. The underlying freeze forever coating my flesh made it so. The perpetual aura of filth that accompanied death, that integrated throughout my protective membrane, made me trash, an anomaly cast into the world’s garden. I had once heard the term of life described as a savage garden. Indeed the sardonic cynicism of the very phrase made me to feel like a worm weaving between each green shoot. I am the necessary horror, and my only purpose is to find the dying flower wrinkling about the edges, smudging the atmosphere of closeted peace, or wrapping myself around a **** that threatens the delicate balance between what humans choose to see and what is tangible. In this I strive for perfection. I am the worm, the earthen worm sliding amongst the filth and nutrient of soil. And yet still I am the gardener wielding my *** to rake out plants that give the impression of being beautiful. Yet appearances can never hide the truth, and like I, the stench of filth and stagnated death (me!) always hovers over those who think themselves above the rest.
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 7:46 AM UTC
The Torture of A Murderer: Prelude II
VERY IMPORTANT I'm quitting poetry (Part one) I don't belong here Nor do i belong there Am not an author Nor am i a writer Am not a poet I can't even write a sonnet I don't write out of will B'coz am not in a mission to heal My pieces are not pure So don't for cure My poetry doesn't have a theme Nor does it rhyme I have done wrongs i can't undo I need to apologize to my pen too The paper need to take a revenge 'Cos i got no leverage I have confused folks with my metaphor But i can promise you this is now over I tried to find solace behind my pen It was futile it has just made my sorrow to deepen I have lived a life of lie Telling the truth i didn't even try I have pretended i can write Whereas i can't differentiate wrong from right Someone called me tomorrow's wole soyinka But now i realized it was an ironical moniker I have been a shame to poetry I should have tried the art of pottery This are my confession As i quit this proffesion #kenyaismybeat
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 1:18 PM UTC
I'M QUITTING POETRY
*when I turned eighteen sadness filled my cups, for carefree was now gone, laying side by side with all my companion figurines, off to rest in a boy's toy chest in a backyard cemetery hid, certainty assured all that I was, so far, all that I will be, uncalming coming forevermore, unwilling borne upon the newly time redesigned, heavy load shoulders of adult responsibility when I turned thirty, sadder now by the means and meaning of accumulation, having thrice now measured the length of a stick of life, denominated as a decade, wiser now that the children underfoot, certainty assured, would have to pay bills of lading for cargoes, not of their own choosing, indeed, selected unwisely, by men like me, and men before, all too old or too gone, to be prosecuted now for the short sightedness of reckless timidity when I turned fifty, the shoulders slightly stooped and gently curved, my gait and pace slowed by weight, pockets laden with undesired memories, unfinished arguments, dreams that morphed and morted into failed schemes that with the certainty assured, the tallied ache of known losses will always weigh greater than the unknown of opportune now with seventy, so near, onrushing to the sounds of old men and their noisy excuses of babbling, ironical, eerie similar to the parental smiling hushing of a newborn's squeaking, a youthful brook, happily to an open sea arushing, hurrying in the fullness of innocence to it's demise the line of sight to the horizon, far shorter now than ere before, with greater certainty assured, that near my god than thee, my sadness daren't hope to dissipate, nor lift as once it did, an early morn mist rising off the river,  freshly sun burnished, then miracle banished, sacrificing itself as a hopeful oracle of a new born day recurring haunted words like rest, best and tried, the only legacy remaining to gift, but one thing yet measures a comforts, a red cross blanket round the shoulders thrown that with certainty assured, the marvy joy of life all in, be our given right to err and learn wisdom at our own pace so here I freely confess with wry, sly smile that we proved ourselves to be victims of our unintended tendencies, successful in being* all too human
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Jan 11, 2017
Jan 11, 2017 at 7:35 PM UTC
when I turned eighteen, with certainty assured
*when I turned eighteen sadness filled my cups, for carefree was now gone, laying side by side with all my companion figurines, off to rest in a boy's toy chest in a backyard cemetery hid, certainty assured all that I was, so far, all that I will be, uncalming coming forevermore, unwilling borne upon the newly time redesigned, heavy load shoulders of adult responsibility when I turned thirty, sadder now by the means and meaning of accumulation, having thrice now measured the length of a stick of life, denominated as a decade, wiser now that the children underfoot, certainty assured, would have to pay bills of lading for cargoes, not of their own choosing, indeed, selected unwisely, by men like me, and men before, all too old or too gone, to be prosecuted now for the short sightedness of reckless timidity when I turned fifty, the shoulders slightly stooped and gently curved, my gait and pace slowed by weight, pockets laden with undesired memories, unfinished arguments, dreams that morphed and morted into failed schemes that with the certainty assured, the tallied ache of known losses will always weigh greater than the unknown of opportune now with seventy, so near, onrushing to the sounds of old men and their noisy excuses of babbling, ironical, eerie similar to the parental smiling hushing of a newborn's squeaking, a youthful brook, happily to an open sea arushing, hurrying in the fullness of innocence to it's demise the line of sight to the horizon, far shorter now than ere before, with greater certainty assured, that near my god than thee, my sadness daren't hope to dissipate, nor lift as once it did, an early morn mist rising off the river,  freshly sun burnished, then miracle banished, sacrificing itself as a hopeful oracle of a new born day recurring haunted words like rest, best and tried, the only legacy remaining to gift, but one thing yet measures a comforts, a red cross blanket round the shoulders thrown that with certainty assured, the marvy joy of life all in, be our given right to err and learn wisdom at our own pace so here I freely confess with wry, sly smile that we proved ourselves to be victims of our unintended tendencies, successful in being* all too human
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My youth indecisiveness scares me It’s a safe journey to the grave One with a sole focus of making all the right decisions But it’s not a matter of not knowing It’s a habit of not choosing Ironical Because the answer, not the answers, is right in my face Within my reach I Have Full Control I’m learning To yield from pondering upon rightful choices And rather act sharp about one confident choice Opportunities will continue with time But before I know it My wave will close out
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Jun 22, 2010
Jun 22, 2010 at 3:21 PM UTC
Habit
We are creatures of habit, believe this is true. For we are the sum of the things that we do. So if I adopt the thousand yard stare, Who will I be but the mask that I wear? What would I be but the role that I act? A remorseless killer, devoid of tact, For fear that through kindness his weakness will show, So the spaces between him and others would grow, As if to match the point of his focus. His thoughts all bearing an inward locus. His life desolate, its body cold, Loving no one, and growing old. Just as well I could try on a charming smile, The kind that says, “Sit down, stay a while.” And as with a fire, others would find it meet, To huddle around me and draw on my heat. Assuming that there was some magic within, Causing my cheeks defy gravity with a grin, As if to propagate life’s paradox, Who with ironical grin entropy mocks, As a river flowing against an eddy, Removing its basis when conditions are ready. This in mind, clever Judases would know, That through my kindness, my weakness would show. So which should I wear, Thalia, Melpomene, Exists there a mean between your extremes? Whichever the case, this much we should trust: That what we do without urging, speaks most of us.
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 6:03 PM UTC
Balance
Now……..all over me, fly these treacherous bullets and bombs, I have got no other option, but to tussle in this Satan’s home. His hazy silhouette, his jagged bayonet........                                                  somehow, withholding that emotional torrent; covertly, cowardly, I did what I was supposed to do,        eased his misery, I freed his soul.                          Deep down I can’t accept that my hands are now defiled, but Mother shed no tear for me……….please, don’t you cry. Father, I still remember that toy gun,         which you had bought for my birthday.         Its ironical that even after several years,          I play with my gun, night after night, day after day. But when I realise that it can never be that toy I had, the clatter it produced, which  is now the theme song of my life, dismay is all I got, it kills me from inside,                                        but father shed no tear for me....... please, don’t you cry. Brother, do you remember that day , when I had pushed you from behind,     you bruised your knee on the ground, in dust lay your broken bike. Forgive me , for the sake of those good old times, Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, when we walked in the wild, hiding from mother, and running away from the frets of our lives. I am sorry that I will never be able to see u rise and shine, but brother shed no tear for me....... please, don’t u cry. Sitting here , in my  garrison ,          I think about all those things that I have done.       It is my choler that I can no longer contain,    because this may be the last time, when I lift my pen.     I have to accept this reality with great composure composure         but I have made u proud, haven’t I?                    So Mother please smile, as my last breath will be for you,         in your arms I shall die.
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Feb 10, 2011
Feb 10, 2011 at 1:12 AM UTC
Mother
Now……..all over me, fly these treacherous bullets and bombs, I have got no other option, but to tussle in this Satan’s home. His hazy silhouette, his jagged bayonet........                                                  somehow, withholding that emotional torrent; covertly, cowardly, I did what I was supposed to do,        eased his misery, I freed his soul.                          Deep down I can’t accept that my hands are now defiled, but Mother shed no tear for me……….please, don’t you cry. Father, I still remember that toy gun,         which you had bought for my birthday.         Its ironical that even after several years,          I play with my gun, night after night, day after day. But when I realise that it can never be that toy I had, the clatter it produced, which  is now the theme song of my life, dismay is all I got, it kills me from inside,                                        but father shed no tear for me....... please, don’t you cry. Brother, do you remember that day , when I had pushed you from behind,     you bruised your knee on the ground, in dust lay your broken bike. Forgive me , for the sake of those good old times, Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, when we walked in the wild, hiding from mother, and running away from the frets of our lives. I am sorry that I will never be able to see u rise and shine, but brother shed no tear for me....... please, don’t u cry. Sitting here , in my  garrison ,          I think about all those things that I have done.       It is my choler that I can no longer contain,    because this may be the last time, when I lift my pen.     I have to accept this reality with great composure composure         but I have made u proud, haven’t I?                    So Mother please smile, as my last breath will be for you,         in your arms I shall die.
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The days grow longer And there is sleeping somber Happiness in hearing your voice Has no chain reaction and has lost its poise. Even with my own troubles, then hearing yours Drought became springs of offerings. Unknowingly you mended my soul to follow detours, In spite of ironical sufferings. But despite that claim, and the ground untold Paths have laid stones away from the bend. Unheard, unsure the view of the fenced abode This remains forever unanswered at this end I tried to get to you; I left all I can mark Assurance, regret but admire; my last true remark I once felt, like I was trapped within a cell But I seem to no longer hear your name,
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Feb 21, 2010
Feb 21, 2010 at 7:27 AM UTC
half
When poetry describes the historical, One refrains from becoming hysterical. However by use of the judicial rhetorical A Poet makes full use of the allegorical! So when writing poetry I remain stoical, That though some may think me radical, Employing words they considered lyrical, I try never to appear, irrational or critical. To write about the mystical and cryptical, Using strict rhythm?  Can be diabolical! As for themes regarded purely mythical, I shy from words too pictorial or technical. My approach to topics humourously comical, Is to compose lines thoughtfully satirical. In turn this allows me to remain sceptical, Whilst appearing not too fanatical or cynical! So, if with words I am reckoned economical? I hope my rational thoughts are not illogical, But in using descriptive words, is it ethical To ensure Poems not be too whimsical? Now, without appearing to be pontifical, Though I'm always careful to be veridical, I'm allowed at times, to wax philosophical, As I attempt to depict matters paradoxical. Doubtless some will find my words inimical: Fanatically methodical and chronological? But in attempting the facetious or ironical, I'll avoid the pitfalls of being too graphical. Should poetry be left to the technological? One might find it becomes too puritanical. And suggest the Poet was unduly practical! Such is the way of the biased hypocritical! If my poetic lines appear to be egotistical? Then readers must understand, that's logical. But please I beg of you, never be heretical, When lines concern the canonical or political. Will a Poet's thoughts be considered farcical, If a reader is left bemused and quizzical? Or should he stick to the unequivocally canonical? Personally, I'm happy if my poems are grammatical! So I'll conclude thinking poetry may be symbolical, And my many rhymes, in quantities numerical, May not satisfy the purist nor the global ecumenical, But they deal with topics that are never hypothetical! Rhymer.  July 10th, 2018. (Your turn Jim!)
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 4:40 PM UTC
A Clerical Lexical.
When poetry describes the historical, One refrains from becoming hysterical. However by use of the judicial rhetorical A Poet makes full use of the allegorical! So when writing poetry I remain stoical, That though some may think me radical, Employing words they considered lyrical, I try never to appear, irrational or critical. To write about the mystical and cryptical, Using strict rhythm?  Can be diabolical! As for themes regarded purely mythical, I shy from words too pictorial or technical. My approach to topics humourously comical, Is to compose lines thoughtfully satirical. In turn this allows me to remain sceptical, Whilst appearing not too fanatical or cynical! So, if with words I am reckoned economical? I hope my rational thoughts are not illogical, But in using descriptive words, is it ethical To ensure Poems not be too whimsical? Now, without appearing to be pontifical, Though I'm always careful to be veridical, I'm allowed at times, to wax philosophical, As I attempt to depict matters paradoxical. Doubtless some will find my words inimical: Fanatically methodical and chronological? But in attempting the facetious or ironical, I'll avoid the pitfalls of being too graphical. Should poetry be left to the technological? One might find it becomes too puritanical. And suggest the Poet was unduly practical! Such is the way of the biased hypocritical! If my poetic lines appear to be egotistical? Then readers must understand, that's logical. But please I beg of you, never be heretical, When lines concern the canonical or political. Will a Poet's thoughts be considered farcical, If a reader is left bemused and quizzical? Or should he stick to the unequivocally canonical? Personally, I'm happy if my poems are grammatical! So I'll conclude thinking poetry may be symbolical, And my many rhymes, in quantities numerical, May not satisfy the purist nor the global ecumenical, But they deal with topics that are never hypothetical! Rhymer.  July 10th, 2018. (Your turn Jim!)
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why is it that at 38,000 feet above the sea, the words come steady easy? ~~~ heart and head soundlessly conversing, as the body southernly traversing, along the Atlantic Seaboard latitude, quiescent, his manners and attitude, sure where he is physical destined, unsure where he is living bound this time, his designated place, a blue leatherette stoop, identifiable as Seat 23C three seats, rowed across, four letters, aisle down, the crossword question; what rhymes with "don't y'all know it" - must be that word, poet why is it that at 38,000 feet above the sea, the words come steady easy? almost as if, they grow excited by their return to the angelic upper atmospheres, from whence they fell, to a planet where mundanity revels nothing to say, plenty to feel, like I said, the head and the heart confer, a baby born poem emerges bawling and crawling, lolling and drawling, southern style poem does not state a particular, direction unknown, disposed to the philosophical, it forms, then reforms, stymied but satisfied ironical, posing while reposing, the newborn's query repitiously millennial, why? the answer too, an airborne pollen perennial, just because march 8, 2016 somewhere between nyc & Fla. 11:20 pm
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Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 4:54 PM UTC
why is it that at 38,000 feet above the sea, the words come steady easy?
how ironical is it to fall in love with someone who only wants to break your heart?
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 8:42 AM UTC
irony
I wish, I could cry it all out let the tears roll Ironical as it seems I felt everything , The sadness in the eyes. The happiness in the smile. The affection of the arms. Everything. Yet I have nothing   The sadness in my eyes nor fear. The happiness in my smile nor disgust. The affection of the arms nor anger. Nothing. Like sponge, Easy to slice and slash and simply burn to ash And I know it is I barely alive Numb.
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May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 at 10:43 AM UTC
NUMB