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"jaundiced" poems
This is me...           Seeking refuge           under a tree,           As the wind released           it's pensive sigh.           Leaves sapped dry           were then set free.           Shades of yellow           took to the air in an           attempt to fly.           This is me... Peering through jaundiced eyes. Laying still in a torrent of ochre. As leaves fall from lowered skies, Drenching and submerging me in a sea of scattered amber. This is me...           Captivated by this           spectacular phenom.          Flavescent dance           governed by           wind and gravity.          This is the dream...           Too long held for ransom           By the relentless           grasp of reality.          This is me... Awaiting such time to arise and run. In my heap, my safe haven, my fortress of yellow. Till the inevitable set of the orange sun Only then... myself to the moon I would again show.
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 9:22 AM UTC
Spectrum Yellow
Four walls; a pair of cupped hands. Jaundiced like an open eye; an open cove Prescribing solitude to those whom solitude cannot withstand, And I choose this cold corner which is furthest from the door, To be where I am not, before Your proclivities become my own, I write. I write, My window holds my breath and frosts the world, The moon in his amber gown, dressed in chatoyance and spite, Godspeed; dark, dark shroud for naked skies! Six floors, walls, doors from you am I. I couldn't write when the sun peered in, Her inquiry evangelizing the specks of time left upon the glass - I've heard it all before; God's shining face leaves none unloved (unseen) but his spotlight has no starlet; so who can see me up here? We can't see from windows, dear. I'd live and sing for the cloudless hall The nursery of misanthropists crawling on the grey cobblestone And the lilt of the wind on the rose; through squares nice and small - The peevish moth shudders at the sight of itself obscuring the day through the glass. It seems we're always in the way.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 5:40 PM UTC
From a Windowsill
the child recieves his paper ****** backward by the one in front flip the three pages flippantly one : intimidating . . two : boring the third adorned unexpectedly a longer -than seems can be usually- grown hair with a clump of green root sprung out and slaughtered, down across the width; stuck above the questions beneath how could he not have seen? a pile so viscous and obscene? does everyone else have one??? are they holding their disgust beneath? he looked up at the teacher. A look of vigilance his face bequeathed. B  ut now it sprung out almost pus like a faint smile,         a teachers calm reprieve he then leaned back on his chair in comfort drooping his head back his nostrils flared now toward the child the hairs brustling from inside, all locked up in a ***** days remnants all foul            and long and dehydrated     like a swamp now sunned crisp; reeds on a stale bank drawn in he felt uneasy unable to cease to stare incased inside the world that spawned in the swamp that lay up there in the cavernous orifices there then he saw the teachers eyes, his gaze it stuck on him, the teacher began to grin further back his head leant his eyes jaundiced his teeth tanned his face pale his grin outstretched and thin
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 6:38 AM UTC
nose
the nature of this night spreads its thin harvest upon my table a gruel and water porridge feast with the fanfares of her jaundiced hand many more lined up with eager grin for the warmth of paupers kinship thin blanket wrapped round our shoulders snow gathers at feet she captures the moment on paper the image of all of us gathered like when we were young the grandiose illustration with its brilliant colour fanfare with jugglers and wine swilling laughing men blinded by drink chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes of the hundred years war lead the assault on the last bastions of the ignorance of bliss all descrying that we can ill afford to be sleeping while empires are built in our namesake the so daintily shod soldiers whos feminine wiles misunderstood have taken over the dancehall beneath us and have taken up song the grandiose illustration caught by her pen on sketch pad has leanings to the Marxist revolutions and philosophys of the rhetorical but in the end we join them and drink the port sing the song a thousand years of tales to be told in the eyes of a single girls sweet thoughts epic landscapes filled with noble men and storybook girls the grandiose illustration shows the two of us on the beach with the sun racing down to touch the high towers of miami and fill the laughing joys of thouse who toss and tumble in the breaking waves the nature of this night in one small corner of the illustration a simple window with the shade drawn that says goodnight
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 1:03 PM UTC
storm warnings
the nature of this night spreads its thin harvest upon my table a gruel and water porridge feast with the fanfares of her jaundiced hand many more lined up with eager grin for the warmth of paupers kinship thin blanket wrapped round our shoulders snow gathers at feet she captures the moment on paper the image of all of us gathered like when we were young the grandiose illustration with its brilliant colour fanfare with jugglers and wine swilling laughing men blinded by drink chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes of the hundred years war lead the assault on the last bastions of the ignorance of bliss all descrying that we can ill afford to be sleeping while empires are built in our namesake the so daintily shod soldiers whos feminine wiles misunderstood have taken over the dancehall beneath us and have taken up song the grandiose illustration caught by her pen on sketch pad has leanings to the Marxist revolutions and philosophys of the rhetorical but in the end we join them and drink the port sing the song a thousand years of tales to be told in the eyes of a single girls sweet thoughts epic landscapes filled with noble men and storybook girls the grandiose illustration shows the two of us on the beach with the sun racing down to touch the high towers of miami and fill the laughing joys of thouse who toss and tumble in the breaking waves the nature of this night in one small corner of the illustration a simple window with the shade drawn that says goodnight
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her skin is jaundiced, quite like the color of the sky before a storm if you look at her long enough you can almost smell the rain on her skin. her ribs are not unlike the rungs of a ladder. once delicate fingers have been burned at the touch of acid and bones have been made brittle. her nails are jagged, each impacted with crescent moons of soil. the digging is ceaseless. she is searching for something she will never find, something that beacons like a lighthouse on the horizon a sign of safety but blinding when you try to take a closer look. she slinks along the edge of an unremitting chasm, dancing with the devil throughout the evening, but the night draws on and she comes dangerously close to stepping on his toes. her rhythm is wrong, the metronome is feeding her lies, but she is greedy and devours them all. the gnawing inside her returns. to sleep she goes, under the spell of the guilt washing over her like the sweet, sticky air of the summer, as the gnawing inside takes over.
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Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
chronic
i'm from a small, yellow bedroom yellow flowers, yellow layette and yellow jaundiced skin   i'm from the taste of the tea mother makes me when i'm sick and from the sound of her singing about how she looked and looked for the light like the roots and the leaves floating in the boiling water her voice a soothing sound like bubbles in simmering tea i'm from words written on a page- the feeling of an old book and the smell of a new one and i'm from hiding beneath the covers falling in love with black letters printed on white paper i'm from lots of illustrations and then none at all when my mind became colorful enough to fill all the pages i'm from "the game is afoot" and "after all this time?" i'm from all over the world pieces of my heart, a jigsaw puzzle like my family scattered all over the globe i'm from canada, from the US, from france from lebanon from italy i'm from a country nobody wants but a country that desperately wants us back i'm from messy hair, oversized sweaters half-finished sketchbooks filled with promises and ******* poetry lines i'm from the echo of my own voice against the splatter of the shower i'm from reading in the flashes of street lamp lights i'm from pursuing science and desiring art drawing on the airplane's foggy windows and wondering how it flies with a clear head and with clouded eyes.
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 7:31 AM UTC
where i'm from
The distance ever so touchable Yet you're still far afield The glimmering glitter in your blissful Translucent almond irises Waiting to deviate from them Yet they have imprinted themselves Now affiliated with my heart Seeing your lips brimming brightly Rejuvenating your flawless visage Embodying my love Not even half your beauty Inwardly made you mine Realistically destined for another Drastic jaundiced waves Crashing the shores of heartbreak Sentiments Thus the eminent work of Patience Silence Benevolence Enshrouds my blooming admiration For you Unfastening my feigned ethos For you I comprehend the significance of dignity and family But my love Ceaseless and eternal But my love Yours only
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
Secret Admirer
you were a jungle bird in high heels,colourful clothes the rest were black crows jaundiced beaks, mean souls.
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 1:17 AM UTC
Two Birds
Away, ye muses, all away! Away with songs of finch and fay. Away the jaundiced sight That magnifies the firefly’s light To bonfire bright; That sets ablaze at once My musing’s dimly burning lamps; That ornaments with rhymes The penury-stricken looks betimes; That over-clothes the logic – lord With fancy –swollen words. Away, the partial love That ‘boldens Nature to sit above Her Maker! This day I fasten eyelid doors, With absence wax my ears, With languorous peace congeal My tongue, my touch, my tears * That I within may pore Upon the things behind, ahead, In the darkness round me spread. I lock Dame Nature out With all her fickle rout. Somewhere here, In the darkness drear, I myself with cheer My course will steer In the path E’er sought by all: Its magnet call I hear. Not hear, not here, Apollo would his burning chariot steer; Nor Diana dare to peep Into the sacred silence deep. Not here, not here, Not far or near Can mounts or rebel waves E’er make me full of fear; Nor evermore Their dreadful grandeur to adore. Not here, not here The soft capricious wiles of flowers; Nor swarming storm clouds’ sweeping terror, Dishevelling the trees And light-haired skies; Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar, Dismantling earth and stars- The cosmic beauties all to mar – Not Nature’s murderous mutiny, Nor man’s exploding destiny Can touch me here. Not here, not here: Through mind’s strong iron bars, Not gods or goblins, men or nature, Without my pass dare enter. I look behind, ahead – On naught but darkness tread. In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablaze With the immortal spark of thought, By friction-process brought Of concentration And distraction. The darkness burns With a million tongues; And now I spy All past, all distant things, as nigh. I smile serene As I expose to gaze. In wisdom’s brilliant blaze, All charms of the Hidden Home Unseen: The Home of Nature’s birth, The planets’ moulding hearth, The factory whence all forms or fairies start, The bards, colossal minds, and hearts, The gods and all, And all, and all! Away, away With all the lightsome lays! Oh, now will I portray In humble way, And try to lisp, if only in half truths, Of wordless charms of Thee Unseen, To whom Dame Nature owes her nature and her sheen.
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Nature’s Nature
Away, ye muses, all away! Away with songs of finch and fay. Away the jaundiced sight That magnifies the firefly’s light To bonfire bright; That sets ablaze at once My musing’s dimly burning lamps; That ornaments with rhymes The penury-stricken looks betimes; That over-clothes the logic – lord With fancy –swollen words. Away, the partial love That ‘boldens Nature to sit above Her Maker! This day I fasten eyelid doors, With absence wax my ears, With languorous peace congeal My tongue, my touch, my tears * That I within may pore Upon the things behind, ahead, In the darkness round me spread. I lock Dame Nature out With all her fickle rout. Somewhere here, In the darkness drear, I myself with cheer My course will steer In the path E’er sought by all: Its magnet call I hear. Not hear, not here, Apollo would his burning chariot steer; Nor Diana dare to peep Into the sacred silence deep. Not here, not here, Not far or near Can mounts or rebel waves E’er make me full of fear; Nor evermore Their dreadful grandeur to adore. Not here, not here The soft capricious wiles of flowers; Nor swarming storm clouds’ sweeping terror, Dishevelling the trees And light-haired skies; Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar, Dismantling earth and stars- The cosmic beauties all to mar – Not Nature’s murderous mutiny, Nor man’s exploding destiny Can touch me here. Not here, not here: Through mind’s strong iron bars, Not gods or goblins, men or nature, Without my pass dare enter. I look behind, ahead – On naught but darkness tread. In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablaze With the immortal spark of thought, By friction-process brought Of concentration And distraction. The darkness burns With a million tongues; And now I spy All past, all distant things, as nigh. I smile serene As I expose to gaze. In wisdom’s brilliant blaze, All charms of the Hidden Home Unseen: The Home of Nature’s birth, The planets’ moulding hearth, The factory whence all forms or fairies start, The bards, colossal minds, and hearts, The gods and all, And all, and all! Away, away With all the lightsome lays! Oh, now will I portray In humble way, And try to lisp, if only in half truths, Of wordless charms of Thee Unseen, To whom Dame Nature owes her nature and her sheen.
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The Decider-in-Chief made another hard decision, rebebilitatin a debilitating Gaddafi. The Agog Decider sleekly peeked into the bleak soul of the master Bedouin. The Pious Decider peered pretty deeply, so its hard to tell what his arcane rebelations revealed. Some say The Jaundiced Decider, saw the desert bleeding deliciously malicious sweet crude onto the scabby tongues of Halliburton Executives while Big Time Vice Dickey Boy ****** a petrol nozzle dry, licking the dripped drops that drizzled from the shoot hole, so as not to waste a precious drop to satiate the black viscous goo coursing through the ebony veins of his chingling heart. Others say The Condoning Decider sized up the man and saw a brother-in-arms in the fight against The Evil Doers; yet failed to see the revolting obscenities his new comrade-in-arms inflicted upon his own body politic. The Forgetful Decider, blessed with amnesia forgot Lockerbie and applauded BP's royal court of justice for pardoning all perps. The Oblivious Decider's near sightedness failed to foresee a brewing blow-back amassing in the desert winging its way home on the blasting sands of a blistering Saharan sirocco. The Pollyannish Decider envisioned grand spectacles, only happy visions of Beyonce, JZ, Usher and the Def Jam Buddha Russell Simmons yodeling filthy lucre tunes, sending giggling tweets while partying down with Muammar's posse of martinets and way cool far out crazy execs drunk with the power that blinds the eye to all discernment. The Decider decides. Music Selection: Lady Ga Ga Beyonce, Telephone Oakland 3/3/11 jbm
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 8:11 PM UTC
The Decider
The Decider-in-Chief made another hard decision, rebebilitatin a debilitating Gaddafi. The Agog Decider sleekly peeked into the bleak soul of the master Bedouin. The Pious Decider peered pretty deeply, so its hard to tell what his arcane rebelations revealed. Some say The Jaundiced Decider, saw the desert bleeding deliciously malicious sweet crude onto the scabby tongues of Halliburton Executives while Big Time Vice Dickey Boy ****** a petrol nozzle dry, licking the dripped drops that drizzled from the shoot hole, so as not to waste a precious drop to satiate the black viscous goo coursing through the ebony veins of his chingling heart. Others say The Condoning Decider sized up the man and saw a brother-in-arms in the fight against The Evil Doers; yet failed to see the revolting obscenities his new comrade-in-arms inflicted upon his own body politic. The Forgetful Decider, blessed with amnesia forgot Lockerbie and applauded BP's royal court of justice for pardoning all perps. The Oblivious Decider's near sightedness failed to foresee a brewing blow-back amassing in the desert winging its way home on the blasting sands of a blistering Saharan sirocco. The Pollyannish Decider envisioned grand spectacles, only happy visions of Beyonce, JZ, Usher and the Def Jam Buddha Russell Simmons yodeling filthy lucre tunes, sending giggling tweets while partying down with Muammar's posse of martinets and way cool far out crazy execs drunk with the power that blinds the eye to all discernment. The Decider decides. Music Selection: Lady Ga Ga Beyonce, Telephone Oakland 3/3/11 jbm
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Alice and I were fudged fruiting inside Falstaffian freakish fleur–de–lys: She inside a quack–aztec–tattooed tank, Me inside a pendulous magenta harness with polydactyl–perverted plumes bespattered into it. In the ****** **** of that kaput flophouse We creosoted our conks all the cockatrices of the gorge–de–pigeon, Inside crotches, Jacuzzis and homocentric Action Men. Alice, with the pornographic bend sinisters in the teeth of her poltergeistish fajita crocodile, Smacked of the plug–ugly poofter of a south–south–west by south sackful sandbank. I cemented the jaundiced dangler of an ostrich to my prick. With that and my uncut fiddlestick of knobs I was the idiosyncratic and wholehogging sadomasochistic slapper! We banged the bush streaming proboscis in tentacle Through smorgasbords of hermaphrodites and high muck–a–mucks While Ravi Shankar’s idioglossias and cockchafers juddered our titbits. Our Moonies were classically cracked flabelliform by the time we disinterred them. Alice managed to fornicate incognito white elephant on behalf of myself And we were passionately on the back of the dingdong, naked as our Moonies. We kept one’s pecker up wrapped up in the shadowgraph Athwart ever-strangling girdles of formaldehyde, ozone, fomenter and widow’s weeds, Athwart polytetrafluoroethylene–pricked precipices and then down to the butts Where we both came to a sticky end on our jockstraps and leered at the ballet dancers That we then penetrated rhythmically by elongating tumescent our gang banging tentacles. Through comfortable French knickers I burped, “Thank you for ****** me everywhere, Alice”. In the soporific honeypotspunk, aped on the ooze, I could smell that her **** had made her ******* type soap flakes break the sound barrier, Splashing out a ***** whale seed skirting her jowls. “You’re fragrant, flypaper”, she rapped. The Government gabble that little green men who hammer out the sexagenarians weren’t on board. Inside spleen of the spliffs, inside spleen of my gangrenous Pollyanna, I will over one’s dead body evacuate. I will over one’s dead body evacuate.
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Mar 22, 2010
Mar 22, 2010 at 4:09 PM UTC
San Francisco
Alice and I were fudged fruiting inside Falstaffian freakish fleur–de–lys: She inside a quack–aztec–tattooed tank, Me inside a pendulous magenta harness with polydactyl–perverted plumes bespattered into it. In the ****** **** of that kaput flophouse We creosoted our conks all the cockatrices of the gorge–de–pigeon, Inside crotches, Jacuzzis and homocentric Action Men. Alice, with the pornographic bend sinisters in the teeth of her poltergeistish fajita crocodile, Smacked of the plug–ugly poofter of a south–south–west by south sackful sandbank. I cemented the jaundiced dangler of an ostrich to my prick. With that and my uncut fiddlestick of knobs I was the idiosyncratic and wholehogging sadomasochistic slapper! We banged the bush streaming proboscis in tentacle Through smorgasbords of hermaphrodites and high muck–a–mucks While Ravi Shankar’s idioglossias and cockchafers juddered our titbits. Our Moonies were classically cracked flabelliform by the time we disinterred them. Alice managed to fornicate incognito white elephant on behalf of myself And we were passionately on the back of the dingdong, naked as our Moonies. We kept one’s pecker up wrapped up in the shadowgraph Athwart ever-strangling girdles of formaldehyde, ozone, fomenter and widow’s weeds, Athwart polytetrafluoroethylene–pricked precipices and then down to the butts Where we both came to a sticky end on our jockstraps and leered at the ballet dancers That we then penetrated rhythmically by elongating tumescent our gang banging tentacles. Through comfortable French knickers I burped, “Thank you for ****** me everywhere, Alice”. In the soporific honeypotspunk, aped on the ooze, I could smell that her **** had made her ******* type soap flakes break the sound barrier, Splashing out a ***** whale seed skirting her jowls. “You’re fragrant, flypaper”, she rapped. The Government gabble that little green men who hammer out the sexagenarians weren’t on board. Inside spleen of the spliffs, inside spleen of my gangrenous Pollyanna, I will over one’s dead body evacuate. I will over one’s dead body evacuate.
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i fall and ascend in a sea    vantablack spiral light fire ghosts and ice that cut the soul to pieces like scissors that split rabbits industry of a hissing creation polluted altar of sleeping lakes and scythe bludgeon and howitzer prods of push and pull in a grindhouse necropolis of craters scattering satanic eggs and tumors i am here born to you thin of bone mother of catastrophes on a colossal ball of scab and callous that moves sonorous dazzling shapes careening through ephemera workhorse torches of doom you fill me with knots of terror and desperate dreams of stairway wings veils and glimmers resolutions dissolving petaled apertures of desire and night whispers in a spider web of sonic bulls before undertows gravity i was vibrant but then i died into the rock ash of earth they called it my birthday my parents with party hats and balloons blinked fetters against nights of granite and stone i got deader still until i was nothing but an imagineless gob of mud and breath an eye looking out behind red nerve forest fires and tears shook tambourines down heavy lashes cascaded fluttering  tassels   i am born to you mother of senile seas citadel of shattered glass in a slate cube of cyclones mute and screaming my fate deep shock encased in mausoleums led nautilus blatting hells jaundiced shriek Pluto conjunct Saturn
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Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
Horror-Scope Birth Chart
*sudden-bouquet delight finds reduction in citric-colour* goal-post abrupt a million birds in a jaundiced-sky trees bold-growing up to the edge of the cliff a flattened mosquito on a screen folder atop the lemon-ladder wings all neatly spread and legs flayed *yellow roses.. in the abbey given away to orphans with full-hearts* forever-journey in honeyed-posey S T – 01 Oct 2013
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 8:29 AM UTC
yellow roses
I want the poetry to mean something tonight,               as I pace in my bedroom for hours                                       under jaundiced fluorescent light.                      I want to write something profound and true, something of solvence to rid the demons to which I'm glued.
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Jul 28, 2016
Jul 28, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
I Want the Poetry to Mean Something Tonight
A jaundiced adaptation     of fillers raucous threats attempts obsolete mimicking    in a conspicuous pomposity      of disfigured reckonings   slipped us the tongue of your     ostentatious audacity mid judgmental manifestations Disengaged, as our eyes grew dim      ' neath the masquerade             of multiplex duplicity **who the ****** hell do you think you are?**
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Jul 11, 2015
Jul 11, 2015 at 7:03 AM UTC
Conspicuous pomposity
I’m in the dream again:                not the one I had while awake in the catacombs of St. Callixtus in Rome.  Where the darkness was so impenetrable that it began to echo.  To look like the mixture of colors that burst when you rub your eyes too hard for too long.  Like the neuron rupture before death.  To shape and morph and become liquid. Where the darkness cobbled itself into a physical form. Not the dream where                    I kept seeing flits of my mother out of the corner of my eye.  Behind                                                                                                every street corner.                                                                                    Every turn.  Every tunnel.         Reflected in the casts of the bodies in Pompeii. Mirrored in the waves of the Trevi Fountain. I’m in the dream where          the soil churned from the bottom to the top.                                  where          the hand outstretched from the grave.                                  where          my grandfather clawed his way out and returned to my grandmother﹘sopping wet, covered in thick mud, socks torn, skin sallow and jaundiced, spitting out the wire the embalmers put in his mouth, melting makeup, and ravenously hungry.  And it’s been so                                                                                    long since he was hungry.   “He came back to me, Taylor,” my grandmother tells me.  “He came back to me.”                                         I don’t have the heart to tell her that he’s undead.                                           I’m physically unable to spit out those words. And it’s a dream and it’s a dream and it’s a dream,                   but it just fits so perfectly.  That he would come back to her.   That death would not be a barrier.  I can’t explain it.                It just is.   My grandmother is a shell without him.   The body that’s missing the limb.   The body that keeps score.
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Jun 13, 2021
Jun 13, 2021 at 11:36 PM UTC
We Forgot to Give the Funeral Home Suspenders to Dress Him In, So We Rolled up a Pair & Stuck Them in the Coffin Next to Him
I’m in the dream again:                not the one I had while awake in the catacombs of St. Callixtus in Rome.  Where the darkness was so impenetrable that it began to echo.  To look like the mixture of colors that burst when you rub your eyes too hard for too long.  Like the neuron rupture before death.  To shape and morph and become liquid. Where the darkness cobbled itself into a physical form. Not the dream where                    I kept seeing flits of my mother out of the corner of my eye.  Behind                                                                                                every street corner.                                                                                    Every turn.  Every tunnel.         Reflected in the casts of the bodies in Pompeii. Mirrored in the waves of the Trevi Fountain. I’m in the dream where          the soil churned from the bottom to the top.                                  where          the hand outstretched from the grave.                                  where          my grandfather clawed his way out and returned to my grandmother﹘sopping wet, covered in thick mud, socks torn, skin sallow and jaundiced, spitting out the wire the embalmers put in his mouth, melting makeup, and ravenously hungry.  And it’s been so                                                                                    long since he was hungry.   “He came back to me, Taylor,” my grandmother tells me.  “He came back to me.”                                         I don’t have the heart to tell her that he’s undead.                                           I’m physically unable to spit out those words. And it’s a dream and it’s a dream and it’s a dream,                   but it just fits so perfectly.  That he would come back to her.   That death would not be a barrier.  I can’t explain it.                It just is.   My grandmother is a shell without him.   The body that’s missing the limb.   The body that keeps score.
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******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 8:17 AM UTC
Planetary Concerto
******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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Ascent The narrow passage arched over the gaping river like a gymnast vaulting backwards, gracing the ground with open palms. I began to climb-- beleaguered on both sides by insecure concrete obstructions; I diverted my attention to the ascending road ahead. I continued to climb, like a slowly chugging roller coaster, meekly scaling up the track with subdued anticipation. I sunk into the road; the sky merged with my pseudo-perpetual path, forming the offing-- where it seemed the road ran eternally into the heavens. I saw blue reach into black in the late afternoon's fading visage. Summit Gliding over the mountainous **** I stared over the horizon where the sun was neatly tucked under the trees-- silhouetted against the dusky sky, looking like fingers reaching up into the void, accumulating like earthly pillows to a heavenly face glowing brightly. I watched a murky blue dip into a wet grass'd green, then a traffic cone orange, followed by the passionate (infra)red of two lovers' entwined, climaxing in a jaundiced yellow-- tucked neatly like a layer of film atop the silhouetted landscape. Descent I wished I had descended the adret of my ascension's perceived perpetual offing, rather than this gritty one-- to dip into the horizon, where I would metamorphose into a dazzling array of colors; feeling myself slowly fade away into the impending night sky. Tucked away for another day, sleeping under the stars, in the fingertipped forests now obliquely reaching into their absent luminescence but relishing the cool night air-- silently waiting for light to soon again breach their gloomy shells. [Enlightenment lingered within the visions of my ascension-- I danced with its transient spirit at the summit-- to be decimated as the car lurched downward into mortality. I saw what could be as I moaned into the fading afternoon's dipping colors. Who knew the descent was the hardest part of humanity?]
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Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 at 6:23 PM UTC
A Winter's Sunset over Solomon's Island Bridge
Ascent The narrow passage arched over the gaping river like a gymnast vaulting backwards, gracing the ground with open palms. I began to climb-- beleaguered on both sides by insecure concrete obstructions; I diverted my attention to the ascending road ahead. I continued to climb, like a slowly chugging roller coaster, meekly scaling up the track with subdued anticipation. I sunk into the road; the sky merged with my pseudo-perpetual path, forming the offing-- where it seemed the road ran eternally into the heavens. I saw blue reach into black in the late afternoon's fading visage. Summit Gliding over the mountainous **** I stared over the horizon where the sun was neatly tucked under the trees-- silhouetted against the dusky sky, looking like fingers reaching up into the void, accumulating like earthly pillows to a heavenly face glowing brightly. I watched a murky blue dip into a wet grass'd green, then a traffic cone orange, followed by the passionate (infra)red of two lovers' entwined, climaxing in a jaundiced yellow-- tucked neatly like a layer of film atop the silhouetted landscape. Descent I wished I had descended the adret of my ascension's perceived perpetual offing, rather than this gritty one-- to dip into the horizon, where I would metamorphose into a dazzling array of colors; feeling myself slowly fade away into the impending night sky. Tucked away for another day, sleeping under the stars, in the fingertipped forests now obliquely reaching into their absent luminescence but relishing the cool night air-- silently waiting for light to soon again breach their gloomy shells. [Enlightenment lingered within the visions of my ascension-- I danced with its transient spirit at the summit-- to be decimated as the car lurched downward into mortality. I saw what could be as I moaned into the fading afternoon's dipping colors. Who knew the descent was the hardest part of humanity?]
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her face a bold echo of all she left behind a slow symphony of nasty things that linger in her mind she lives them over and over in the off color technical vision of an artist trying on her own guises for a adventure the night crawls over her thigh lodges in the warm wet of her fingers and spreads into the windows grey fades into black the slow devolution into the jaundiced eye into the nicotine stained tapping fingers as she impatiently waits for words that can never be spoken aloud the slow desire for tears so deep and immediate that its a bible to the lonely soul and her senses deny you even as you touch the door even as you evaporate down the hall melt yourself into the humid night so fair is her face that you live each of thouse seconds in dire regret so fair is her touch that you must lean on your last breath to let go the night crawls in her bed clothes laying its fetid eggs like a stain of pollution tender and sickly sweet its insect face bitter staring from her soul now i see you you escape over and over door hall humid night door hall humid night but you never leave narrow her eye jaundiced and rancid lay open for the world to see and be seen by and she molds him to the stain of her hurt deep impressions over the years leaves him little room to wiggle wiggle worm, wiggle wiggle worm
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 10:02 PM UTC
wiggle wiggle worm
Jonathen Jonathen wake up She stands in my doorway Green knitted scarf ***** pink pajamas Eyes and skin jaundiced yellow A ***** Babushka if I were Russian If this were a movie I'd be cursed by now There is a man with a shopping cart in the driveway I think he's trying to break in With my baseball bat I step outside full of all the anger I had reserved for the day The street is empty and cold It's the fear We make it up We always do
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 4:43 AM UTC
Pointilist Poem (Portrait of People I know)--Part 1 Yesterday Morning at 5 am
Starlight … Icy crystalline sparkles beaming brilliance ‘gainst the moonlit winter sky Stars bright. Luminescent wonders. Scintilla laid bare in the heavens by the pale white light of the moon Full moon bathing dingy cityscapes, their dim lit ****** tales told ‘neath streetlamps’ jaundiced glow. We walk, slip on ice, crunch through snow, watching for sliding cars and dangers lurking in shadows. Moonlit whitewashed winter wind winds through desolate streets on a pale cold night in the city. Walk on. Whistling winds, barking dogs, chill us, spur our pace, on through the moonlight and cold. Our wish upon this night’s heavenly stars is to be safely home, watching from icy windows … winter walkers. Doug Curry 1/6/10
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Oct 20, 2012
Oct 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM UTC
Winter Walkers
Put this matter with trowel and *** Into the dark and fertile ground, With each hit, he loosed the soil A once happy man thou condemned to uselessly toil His claws, cracked and broken shells Jaundiced with the duty long days that did require Lamed by grief and forced to work Here, till the end of days, within this garden, this mire. Deep does a ****** live here, past the clay and bedrock Like the pride and valor and resolute spirit of the domineering **** Or so her mien, it does beget Or some other erroneous sentiment That she, not he, were to bear this labor. Within the ground, he did remember, in his spritely youth, He planted, and thought none of, but a seed, Into this verdant splendor, which bore that infernal **** And, thence, thereof came a fruit, Of malignity infinite, All the while it poisoned the Virgin’s white and water’s pure, As its eerie little spines proceeded to take root. Her garments poised to emulate white, instead The ****** to him, had lost her white Or never had white at all, The ****** to him, had lost her white, To him, the ****** was dead. The fruit and seed, effulgent and pretty, to those who saw them bloom Attractive were they so to them, irresistible to behold That they, to him with great chagrin, did immediately consume. “But the ****** he cried. “The ****** has poisoned them!” Yet they continued to eat. “We do not believe you,” they replied, and slept ceaselessly on their feet. One by one did they all collapse from the toxin of its juice. The ****** watched and laughed, of caution was there no use. Powerless and sullen, he stood, for remedy was far passed. The ****** now regarded with delight, Has he, poor, poor man, to tend to his blight. The garden gone, its cleanliness perverted, His words were ignored, and thrown wayside, His admonition he so heatedly asserted, The ****** her words never to be trusted Had won over the people, whose homes she sought to entreat, And with her rite, so treasured, so adored, They enslaved and force him to his mire, to tend to the rag and filthy lands Where he would remain with the garden His words, his skin so like the sands
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Sep 13, 2013
Sep 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM UTC
A Garden.
Put this matter with trowel and *** Into the dark and fertile ground, With each hit, he loosed the soil A once happy man thou condemned to uselessly toil His claws, cracked and broken shells Jaundiced with the duty long days that did require Lamed by grief and forced to work Here, till the end of days, within this garden, this mire. Deep does a ****** live here, past the clay and bedrock Like the pride and valor and resolute spirit of the domineering **** Or so her mien, it does beget Or some other erroneous sentiment That she, not he, were to bear this labor. Within the ground, he did remember, in his spritely youth, He planted, and thought none of, but a seed, Into this verdant splendor, which bore that infernal **** And, thence, thereof came a fruit, Of malignity infinite, All the while it poisoned the Virgin’s white and water’s pure, As its eerie little spines proceeded to take root. Her garments poised to emulate white, instead The ****** to him, had lost her white Or never had white at all, The ****** to him, had lost her white, To him, the ****** was dead. The fruit and seed, effulgent and pretty, to those who saw them bloom Attractive were they so to them, irresistible to behold That they, to him with great chagrin, did immediately consume. “But the ****** he cried. “The ****** has poisoned them!” Yet they continued to eat. “We do not believe you,” they replied, and slept ceaselessly on their feet. One by one did they all collapse from the toxin of its juice. The ****** watched and laughed, of caution was there no use. Powerless and sullen, he stood, for remedy was far passed. The ****** now regarded with delight, Has he, poor, poor man, to tend to his blight. The garden gone, its cleanliness perverted, His words were ignored, and thrown wayside, His admonition he so heatedly asserted, The ****** her words never to be trusted Had won over the people, whose homes she sought to entreat, And with her rite, so treasured, so adored, They enslaved and force him to his mire, to tend to the rag and filthy lands Where he would remain with the garden His words, his skin so like the sands
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I felt this primal urge This trance-like instinct To set things right In case I have to leave Move on, so to speak So I took my jaundiced eye And rolled it from corner to corner Of this, my situation And I felt so very small and hard Lost in largeness For cynicism is a tight thing Which allows little movement A strange kind of chastity And then, you see Changes Honesty demanded that I see more Grow, so to speak And oh, my poor sore eyes See how the children starve All over this bitter world This bitter, sickened world And cynicism did this Through the slack hands of millions Who still refuse to believe That things can be changed By Phil Roberts
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
GROWTH
if you were the sun, i'd be surprised. shocked and a daze in the sheer miracle of how exactly " That " happened. we might be dumb to the Algebra of Our Taint. you might say it ***** to be us but you might be right; And we can be Absolutely certain Our purpose is to Love, and be ****** the Loved ! if you were the moon, i'd be careful. how would you choose to eclipse without Harmony ? How may I Follow ? but you might be already gone...who's to say you ain't been right " there " ? When you never Confess your Absence, but Maintain - You Dare ! You ! You ! Screen the camels ! Through the Eye of a Needle In Love's Eye. You swan in the fury of my wet tongue yearning for the Desert to quench the Oblivion of Perfect Love. if you were the space between stars, I'd buy " That " for a dollar. but no one would hear me scream at a black sun. a jaundiced black, to square a color wheel. a slice of black Pi.
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 9:29 PM UTC
IF YOU WERE THE SUN, I'D BE SURPRISED
He died with his boots on but he was no hero of mine he was the famous grouse and hen pecked husband of a cuckolded wife. having made the stickleback and jaundiced  Moon resolute .
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 11:37 AM UTC
The Grouse drinker