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"lecturing" poems
I could have gone to the cemetery, or back to my high school lab, find him lecturing from a podium, bony finger raised, demagogue of the dead. I could break him down piece by piece, cram him in a duffle, a femur jutting the zipper. Ignore the groan- Skeletons are by nature never satisfied. Instead I found myself in the carnival lot, The dog was long dead, the sign kept guard. Rusty rides slouched like tumbleweeds. Cotton candy in memory- blue tack crunching my teeth. Lewd. Skeletons fixed on poles, spiked up through pelvis and spine. Use **** Grip shoulders. twist. lift. When one slid free, he collapsed into my arms all bone-light, lovely, mine at last. I just brought him home. Sat at the kitchen table. Named him Curly. Zoom howled: WAG’s gone weird! What’s his name? What’s his name? His name is Curly, I said, but I knew his name was You. We drink wine by the pool. He never sips. Sometimes I pour a second glass for the glint. Sometimes he tells me Danny Elfman wants to play his ribs like a xylophone. Sometimes he sighs, he hates Oingo Boingo. I laugh. Obliging. So do I. When the wind kicks up he smells of sugar and rust. Sometimes he rattles the glassware. Sometimes he won’t sit still. Skeletons are by nature never satisfied.
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM UTC
Curly
High school life makes me quite weary, history can be quite dreary, More than once the class has given me a cause to snore, While I sat there, fingers drumming, some modern tune I started humming, I didn’t see the teacher coming, coming in the classroom door. Normally, she was quite cheerful, humming from the classroom door, But today she gave a roar. All the class sat still and silent, knowing that she could turn violent, And all fearing lasting indent that she could leave upon their head. All that time I watched with worry; - wishing I had thought to scurry Out the door in fit and flurry - flurry from the pending dread - From the sure and ceaseless source of impending dread - I hid ‘neath my desk instead. And the roaring, raving, ranting teacher started in on chanting; Save me - brave me couldn't handle this kind of class; Now I sat there, my mind wandering, all my thoughts were set on squandering All she spoke, my brain was pondering, my attention couldn’t last - As she spoke my brain was pondering and my attention couldn’t last - I could never hope to pass. All around me kids were shaking, but no move toward freedom making, I began to wonder if they had a clue what was in store; Maybe they had heard her coming, while I had been busy humming, Fingers on the desk were drumming, drumming so I wouldn’t snore Maybe they had had a warning - of whatever was in store; - I hoped that she wouldn’t roar. Sitting there in constant terror, worried I would make some error, And thus bring about her wrath upon my mortal head; But she made no move to strike me, showed no sign she planned to spite me I doubted that she’d think to bite me, maybe growl at me instead? This thought made me shiver slightly, i’d rather her roar instead - At least I could keep my head. She began to motion towards me, I knew it wasn’t to award me, Perhaps she had noticed that i wasn’t wide awake? Either way, She’d given order, so i began my journey toward her Maybe some day I’d adore her? How many classes would it take? How much of her pitiless lecturing would it take? My own life was now at stake. Now that I had done her bidding, she was at her desk, just sitting, Watching me with those eyes and her never blinking stare; Never once her gaze shifted, the corners of her mouth weren’t lifted It was as if a sense of humor had never been formed there - As if her face had never shown the signs of laughter there - I pretended to not care. All the while, my thoughts racing, I was at her mercy, pacing, The room of classmates I was facing, but they had begun to snore; i thought she was a fluke in staffing, until i heard her laughing Now her sullen, cold, and serious mood I had no reason to deplore - Those heartless hoards of homework were no reason to deplore - I was scared of her no more!
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Aug 28, 2012
Aug 28, 2012 at 5:43 PM UTC
The Teacher: A Raven Parody
High school life makes me quite weary, history can be quite dreary, More than once the class has given me a cause to snore, While I sat there, fingers drumming, some modern tune I started humming, I didn’t see the teacher coming, coming in the classroom door. Normally, she was quite cheerful, humming from the classroom door, But today she gave a roar. All the class sat still and silent, knowing that she could turn violent, And all fearing lasting indent that she could leave upon their head. All that time I watched with worry; - wishing I had thought to scurry Out the door in fit and flurry - flurry from the pending dread - From the sure and ceaseless source of impending dread - I hid ‘neath my desk instead. And the roaring, raving, ranting teacher started in on chanting; Save me - brave me couldn't handle this kind of class; Now I sat there, my mind wandering, all my thoughts were set on squandering All she spoke, my brain was pondering, my attention couldn’t last - As she spoke my brain was pondering and my attention couldn’t last - I could never hope to pass. All around me kids were shaking, but no move toward freedom making, I began to wonder if they had a clue what was in store; Maybe they had heard her coming, while I had been busy humming, Fingers on the desk were drumming, drumming so I wouldn’t snore Maybe they had had a warning - of whatever was in store; - I hoped that she wouldn’t roar. Sitting there in constant terror, worried I would make some error, And thus bring about her wrath upon my mortal head; But she made no move to strike me, showed no sign she planned to spite me I doubted that she’d think to bite me, maybe growl at me instead? This thought made me shiver slightly, i’d rather her roar instead - At least I could keep my head. She began to motion towards me, I knew it wasn’t to award me, Perhaps she had noticed that i wasn’t wide awake? Either way, She’d given order, so i began my journey toward her Maybe some day I’d adore her? How many classes would it take? How much of her pitiless lecturing would it take? My own life was now at stake. Now that I had done her bidding, she was at her desk, just sitting, Watching me with those eyes and her never blinking stare; Never once her gaze shifted, the corners of her mouth weren’t lifted It was as if a sense of humor had never been formed there - As if her face had never shown the signs of laughter there - I pretended to not care. All the while, my thoughts racing, I was at her mercy, pacing, The room of classmates I was facing, but they had begun to snore; i thought she was a fluke in staffing, until i heard her laughing Now her sullen, cold, and serious mood I had no reason to deplore - Those heartless hoards of homework were no reason to deplore - I was scared of her no more!
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Okay, It goes like this you see. 10pm, on a late thursday evening. I was sweating like a ****** in church. I grabbed my armbands and turned on the shower. It was cold as ice to the touch, but begun to warm up eventually. Thank god my wife remembered to turn the geezer on or else I was going to slap a ***** create waves of flesh on that ugly *** face of hers. Anyway. After stripping down to my birthday suit, I popped on some shampoo and spreaded that **** in my hair. Creating a burning sensation, tingly, like ants crawling in my head. Suddenly I was smacked like an unwanted child by the smell of burnt toast in the air, with the shampoo still sitting in my hair. I turned around and right before me, something was coming out of the plug hole, like something out of a b-rated horror movie. Looking like my wife's homemade cooking, **** was alive, and then it lunged at me. I tell you, if it was not for those Tom Cruise movies lecturing me in the art of total *** kicking, I would be a dead naked man with armbands in a tub, being eaten by the unholy guacamole. You gotta believe me, when I tell this story, This was not all in my head, You can't just write off what I have said. I know it must sound insane, But a mexican's lunch crawled out of the drain, I beat it's *** like a drum, like Lars Ulrich at a metallica concert , and sent the **** back down the hole it crawled out of. The devil wanted to bring me down to the deep end, It is a good thing I bought my arm bands.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 7:05 PM UTC
Unholy Guacamole
Okay, It goes like this you see. 10pm, on a late thursday evening. I was sweating like a ****** in church. I grabbed my armbands and turned on the shower. It was cold as ice to the touch, but begun to warm up eventually. Thank god my wife remembered to turn the geezer on or else I was going to slap a ***** create waves of flesh on that ugly *** face of hers. Anyway. After stripping down to my birthday suit, I popped on some shampoo and spreaded that **** in my hair. Creating a burning sensation, tingly, like ants crawling in my head. Suddenly I was smacked like an unwanted child by the smell of burnt toast in the air, with the shampoo still sitting in my hair. I turned around and right before me, something was coming out of the plug hole, like something out of a b-rated horror movie. Looking like my wife's homemade cooking, **** was alive, and then it lunged at me. I tell you, if it was not for those Tom Cruise movies lecturing me in the art of total *** kicking, I would be a dead naked man with armbands in a tub, being eaten by the unholy guacamole. You gotta believe me, when I tell this story, This was not all in my head, You can't just write off what I have said. I know it must sound insane, But a mexican's lunch crawled out of the drain, I beat it's *** like a drum, like Lars Ulrich at a metallica concert , and sent the **** back down the hole it crawled out of. The devil wanted to bring me down to the deep end, It is a good thing I bought my arm bands.
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did it work? I give a useless tug on my skin, done to reassure me instead it reaffirms to me: I am, again, inconsolable. is the mask I wear today sealed on tight? too tight? does it hurt to pretend so much? does it seem clear to anyone else that there are loose ends I've yet to tend to? backdoors I've overlooked? transparencies?    can they see through me? I bare my teeth. canines, canines from the days of carnivores. am I that carnivore? in my genes I am. and in practice? inconsolable, uncontrollable barely a threat in her form. this question comes to me under many guises: an old man asking me: are you that of practice or are you that of genes? a professor lecturing: are you that of cultivated identity or that of inherited form? my concerned friends crying: who are you? is your mask anything like you? and then i wake. it's a terror turned nightly chorus. recurring nightmares, doctors offer. i admit i know the content of my dreams to be unfounded: in life there are no physical masks that do the jobs my terrors depict. no veil to hide the contours of each flawed personality, no mask to others, just me, weeping-in-the-bathroom, never-myself me and those attempted favours to be like one another i'll be like you so you'll like me i'll like you because i'm like you so the body charges on in this society like a mirror cross your left leg when she crosses her right, fold your arms when she's folded hers, raise your hand to say hello, raise your hand to say goodbye a kiss on the right cheek, a kiss on the left, one more on the left this is how you show love and a greeting all at once fold your arms over each other, this is sympathy, this is greeting, do you take comfort in this too? so you learn to speak with your arms, and you learn to speak with your legs, and you learn to speak with your face, and you learn to speak with your head. soon your eyes are apprentices of acquaintances, learning to borrow looks like library books, take on others' stories like they've read them end to end. so in the middle of this process you learn to effectively say: i see you, i hear you, i perceive you. and in these attempted favours, at the end of your night terrors, is the parrot that they want to see. the parrot that you argue, can't really be me.
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Aug 9, 2018
Aug 9, 2018 at 6:14 PM UTC
the anthropomorphism of people pleasing
did it work? I give a useless tug on my skin, done to reassure me instead it reaffirms to me: I am, again, inconsolable. is the mask I wear today sealed on tight? too tight? does it hurt to pretend so much? does it seem clear to anyone else that there are loose ends I've yet to tend to? backdoors I've overlooked? transparencies?    can they see through me? I bare my teeth. canines, canines from the days of carnivores. am I that carnivore? in my genes I am. and in practice? inconsolable, uncontrollable barely a threat in her form. this question comes to me under many guises: an old man asking me: are you that of practice or are you that of genes? a professor lecturing: are you that of cultivated identity or that of inherited form? my concerned friends crying: who are you? is your mask anything like you? and then i wake. it's a terror turned nightly chorus. recurring nightmares, doctors offer. i admit i know the content of my dreams to be unfounded: in life there are no physical masks that do the jobs my terrors depict. no veil to hide the contours of each flawed personality, no mask to others, just me, weeping-in-the-bathroom, never-myself me and those attempted favours to be like one another i'll be like you so you'll like me i'll like you because i'm like you so the body charges on in this society like a mirror cross your left leg when she crosses her right, fold your arms when she's folded hers, raise your hand to say hello, raise your hand to say goodbye a kiss on the right cheek, a kiss on the left, one more on the left this is how you show love and a greeting all at once fold your arms over each other, this is sympathy, this is greeting, do you take comfort in this too? so you learn to speak with your arms, and you learn to speak with your legs, and you learn to speak with your face, and you learn to speak with your head. soon your eyes are apprentices of acquaintances, learning to borrow looks like library books, take on others' stories like they've read them end to end. so in the middle of this process you learn to effectively say: i see you, i hear you, i perceive you. and in these attempted favours, at the end of your night terrors, is the parrot that they want to see. the parrot that you argue, can't really be me.
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Zen monks sit quietly on stern pillows of effervescent soul. I do not, My patchwork pillow is filled with styrofoam-- artificial. Hasidic Rabbis rub their tired pious books adding more wear marks from years worrying which appear like a foreign tongue on the cover. My book is full of yellowed, empty pages sitting, dust-ridden on a abandoned shelf. The head of the Shiite rests against solid stone The penitent countenance like a mirror of Mecca. My forehead bears only the reddened mark of my forearm from the vibrant narcolepsy of life. The Atheist sits in the coffee house lecturing the disinterested Baristas about the tomfoolery of religion. I sit alone, nodding sagely, sipping wine that tastes flat against my tongue. What does a depth of spiritual belief offer? There is an unwritten, unquantifiable, essence that belief gives the human. A depth of meaning, like a shot of penicillin to a case of chlamydia.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 2:29 PM UTC
Zen Monks
Hair stands upon jolted skin folds. You never could eat a salad. You look pregnant with a fat pig! Large enough to eclipse the sun! Large enough to cause nuclear winter for everyone! Grass ceases to grow with every step that you take! The earth weighs a percent more whenever you ingest! Your rolls could warm the Eskimos! An orchestra of clapping flesh fills the room with every movement you make! You don't seem to care about the people you run over when rolling in the street. You say it is their fault for getting in the way. They all look like Indiana Jones trying to outrun a boulder. Too many happy meals can make a lot of people unhappy. Man sized pancakes dot the side walks that we all used to tread. Skinny people no longer exist, they are all dead. You mistook them for French fries. You are just as imperfect as me, So who are you to point a chunky finger. You think you are so big behind that screen. Lecturing me about body standards when you look like you washed up on the beach this morning. Stop crushing your high horse and come down just a little bit. Time for you to get a serving of your own medicine. Gape those ears wide and give a listen: I don't live to look good for some fat *** greasy, disgusting pig on the internet, jerking off to ********** **** while his mother makes microwave pizzas upstairs! So jam that finger up you ***
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 6:51 PM UTC
Tenth Planet
a liar once told me that i write good poetry i laughed and continued drinking, the sudden rush of despair, the wicked beast, the dry pages the man had no credentials but he persisted, declaring me an inspiration like seeing a strand of hair attract a magnet or amber jewels lolling in a dimly lit case imagination is a felony, i wagered as i poured another a combustion i know like the back of my hands i told him i dreamt of a morgue where everyone i ever loved sat upright as sunflowers, declaring their love for the sun and of a newspaper rife with disease and the passion of a janitor there is a raccoon near a river somewhere cleaning an apple with a heart as big as an artist in drunken euphoria taking better care of it than me when i sit down at a typewriter it's wearing a cape just like edgar allen poe and having better conversation with an oak tree than i've ever had at a party about the sunday crossword puzzle he completed   yesterday i drank myself into a masquerade ball arriving in a limousine being driven by a bearded mickey mantle i was the guest of honor, sword fighting on table tops and lecturing the guests about shakespeare through a garbage disposal while a horse played backgammon with my father's brother and there was a girl there behind the facade of an owl who danced like the wind and everlasting light and no one could stop her or look her in the eye i am the only connection between my mind and the paper merely a vessel, a john boat clearly breaching it's depth either drowning like a fish in a sand dune or being bounced like a baby on the knee of god slavery, i call it, and hand him a glass of warm bourbon as the splashing of my journal pages slap my crushed trachea the typewriter is padlocked and painted over with cement the metamorphosis trapped inside a bullet, boiling with sheer fury
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 11:23 PM UTC
imagination is a felony
a liar once told me that i write good poetry i laughed and continued drinking, the sudden rush of despair, the wicked beast, the dry pages the man had no credentials but he persisted, declaring me an inspiration like seeing a strand of hair attract a magnet or amber jewels lolling in a dimly lit case imagination is a felony, i wagered as i poured another a combustion i know like the back of my hands i told him i dreamt of a morgue where everyone i ever loved sat upright as sunflowers, declaring their love for the sun and of a newspaper rife with disease and the passion of a janitor there is a raccoon near a river somewhere cleaning an apple with a heart as big as an artist in drunken euphoria taking better care of it than me when i sit down at a typewriter it's wearing a cape just like edgar allen poe and having better conversation with an oak tree than i've ever had at a party about the sunday crossword puzzle he completed   yesterday i drank myself into a masquerade ball arriving in a limousine being driven by a bearded mickey mantle i was the guest of honor, sword fighting on table tops and lecturing the guests about shakespeare through a garbage disposal while a horse played backgammon with my father's brother and there was a girl there behind the facade of an owl who danced like the wind and everlasting light and no one could stop her or look her in the eye i am the only connection between my mind and the paper merely a vessel, a john boat clearly breaching it's depth either drowning like a fish in a sand dune or being bounced like a baby on the knee of god slavery, i call it, and hand him a glass of warm bourbon as the splashing of my journal pages slap my crushed trachea the typewriter is padlocked and painted over with cement the metamorphosis trapped inside a bullet, boiling with sheer fury
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Mount Kenya University; our school Has really scaled the heights Climbed the mountains of education In and outside the country. However, we as students have to sweat it out To climb personal mountains of education. That’s why am not happy From Monday to Friday My precious time and fare Gets wasted So that I can attend lectures. Here I am A digitalized engineering student Who has designed a robot For taking me up there above the clouds To punish they who brought All this book-struggling to us. The robot is climbing up The steep steps of the atmosphere. In heaven I am now Holding a cane. I dispenses three hot strokes of the cane On Eve’s buttocks Then advances towards her husband. But Michael the Arch-angel Kicks me back to my seat At Uniafric house Where am listening to a lecturer Who is possibly lecturing for eternity He does not seem to understand That my dry throat needs some unlocking That my lover Is waiting for me. Have a look at Nairobi city! Lit like a bush Full of countless glow worms. Look at the beautiful Gleaming lights of Tribeka club! At the cheap hotels Located at Odeon Cinema Am forced to take lunch Of chips which cost thirty bob They say it’s usually prepared Using some poisonous electricity transformer oil. My pockets are really too small for the likes of Java. But my fellow mountain climbers Let’s fold the sleeves of our shirts To hold onto the mountain’s tricky walls for guidance To climb all the way to the top. And of course We will have plenty to enjoy In the snow capped peak of the mountain Armed with huge jackets For preventing the destructive advances Of the then present world. ©2013 Vetelo Ngila The writer is a Journalism student at Mount Kenya University, Nairobi campus, Kenya. Contact: [email protected] OR [email protected]
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Jun 27, 2013
Jun 27, 2013 at 6:31 AM UTC
Climbing the Mountain
Mount Kenya University; our school Has really scaled the heights Climbed the mountains of education In and outside the country. However, we as students have to sweat it out To climb personal mountains of education. That’s why am not happy From Monday to Friday My precious time and fare Gets wasted So that I can attend lectures. Here I am A digitalized engineering student Who has designed a robot For taking me up there above the clouds To punish they who brought All this book-struggling to us. The robot is climbing up The steep steps of the atmosphere. In heaven I am now Holding a cane. I dispenses three hot strokes of the cane On Eve’s buttocks Then advances towards her husband. But Michael the Arch-angel Kicks me back to my seat At Uniafric house Where am listening to a lecturer Who is possibly lecturing for eternity He does not seem to understand That my dry throat needs some unlocking That my lover Is waiting for me. Have a look at Nairobi city! Lit like a bush Full of countless glow worms. Look at the beautiful Gleaming lights of Tribeka club! At the cheap hotels Located at Odeon Cinema Am forced to take lunch Of chips which cost thirty bob They say it’s usually prepared Using some poisonous electricity transformer oil. My pockets are really too small for the likes of Java. But my fellow mountain climbers Let’s fold the sleeves of our shirts To hold onto the mountain’s tricky walls for guidance To climb all the way to the top. And of course We will have plenty to enjoy In the snow capped peak of the mountain Armed with huge jackets For preventing the destructive advances Of the then present world. ©2013 Vetelo Ngila The writer is a Journalism student at Mount Kenya University, Nairobi campus, Kenya. Contact: [email protected] OR [email protected]
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You don't know me. I read books, listen to music, watch movies, meet friends. I cook, I bake, I drink,  sometimes to much. I learn new things, sometimes not enough. I work, eat, sleep , repeat. I draw, I wirte, I exercise. I try to date to the date. I have good days and I have bad days. I struggle everyday, more than you can see. I do all these things, trying out new ways to be me,   that you know nothing about. Now you don't get to look down on, Don't you dare try lecturing me. For you left when I was a child and didn't care to visit. Now you're back in my life but it's not for my good, is it? I owe you nothing. Keep your distance.
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Feb 15, 2021
Feb 15, 2021 at 8:43 AM UTC
No debts to pay
It's the old Blah Blah Blah it's gonna drive you mad It's the Blah Blah Blah every time you turn your head. The mouths are moving but you're not hearin a word their saying, like a dog listening to Russian it's all Blah Blah Blah Bingo Blah Blah Blah My partner's complaining My children are whining Your parents eyes are dialating The teacher is lecturing the bosses are gesturing the customer is complaining, irate the salesman with smiles is bombing your face. You're told you're not good enough fast enough right enough tough enough too slow too late you know what they're saying but all you are seeing is the old Blah Blah Blah I'm looking into every one's eyes they all seem surprised, I'm not really sure what it is they are all really doin', all I'm hearing and probably saying is the Blah Blah Blah
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 12:18 PM UTC
It's the old blah blah blah
Swamy Downey was passing by The table where SIRI was lecturing about love To her friends on a meal Suddenly, You know why Love is said to be the positive force? Asked Swamy Downey Because people buy iPhones For the love of Apple Replied SIRI Haughtily Thus spake Swamy Downey Love is composed of light It lights up the souls It removes darkness When darkness disappears You can see the right path
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 1:30 AM UTC
Love is Light
Poems about love, Walking through an evergreen forest Leaves of yellow and orange and red The morning sky bursting through the canopy as we sit in our tent drinking coffee Excited with what today's hike will bring When you love nature you always want to be close it Because I love you , I always want to be close to you The engagement ring in my pocket gives me inspiration I want to be as tough as the diamonds that crown its head I want to be for you, as consistent and unending as the ring itself So here we are, getting closer to nature, closer to each other. You, unaware of even how much closer, I want to get to you. Hues of black and blue with ambient lights of vintage setting. Nights in Paris and Marseilles near the water,  candles lighting our dinner, The flame giving my eyes the gift of seeing your beautiful face. Cheese and grapes, chocolate and wine Yet, the only taste I crave is that of your lips To smell your perfume and touch your smooth skin. Your smile , rivaling every star in the night's sky Your soul, lecturing the moon on how to glow Your heart, teaching me how to pray. Because you exist, I know there must be a God out there. Because you are here with me. I must pray, that God allows me to stay. Bright lights and tall buildings as far as the eye can see. We walk along the Hudson hand in hand. We keep each other warm. The autumn winds are cold but I hold your hand in mind. your sweet precious fingers grasp mine You may not notice it, or maybe you do? You stare into the horizon but here, I pull you close I kiss you, as if we were in a movie Nothing in the world do the Angels pay closer attention to than this kiss Because as I surely live, so would I die for you. As surely as my heart beats, it skips a beat when I am with you.
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Jan 21, 2020
Jan 21, 2020 at 6:42 AM UTC
As easy as a love poem
Poems about love, Walking through an evergreen forest Leaves of yellow and orange and red The morning sky bursting through the canopy as we sit in our tent drinking coffee Excited with what today's hike will bring When you love nature you always want to be close it Because I love you , I always want to be close to you The engagement ring in my pocket gives me inspiration I want to be as tough as the diamonds that crown its head I want to be for you, as consistent and unending as the ring itself So here we are, getting closer to nature, closer to each other. You, unaware of even how much closer, I want to get to you. Hues of black and blue with ambient lights of vintage setting. Nights in Paris and Marseilles near the water,  candles lighting our dinner, The flame giving my eyes the gift of seeing your beautiful face. Cheese and grapes, chocolate and wine Yet, the only taste I crave is that of your lips To smell your perfume and touch your smooth skin. Your smile , rivaling every star in the night's sky Your soul, lecturing the moon on how to glow Your heart, teaching me how to pray. Because you exist, I know there must be a God out there. Because you are here with me. I must pray, that God allows me to stay. Bright lights and tall buildings as far as the eye can see. We walk along the Hudson hand in hand. We keep each other warm. The autumn winds are cold but I hold your hand in mind. your sweet precious fingers grasp mine You may not notice it, or maybe you do? You stare into the horizon but here, I pull you close I kiss you, as if we were in a movie Nothing in the world do the Angels pay closer attention to than this kiss Because as I surely live, so would I die for you. As surely as my heart beats, it skips a beat when I am with you.
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I grew up between bookends with the holy word held between one fell off the shelf with no amends now the shelf is filled with words unseen So I read of other options now I question the thread of these fairy tale adoptions which have been so deeply embedded Christian school, weekly church, prayers before bed my childhood filled with these epic tales of a guy who died and then rose from the dead and if you don't believe, well, see you in hell They are good stories, some even great but that's all they really are to live by them is to live a life castrate burning bush and a man inside a whale, a little bizarre I am not mad I grew up this way, but now I live a life of questioning of what's beyond the pearly gates without all of the one sided lecturing
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 9:59 AM UTC
Bookend(s)
I don't know how this came to be How I forgot myself in your eyes Something happened after I left that day That made all of the good things vanish Or is this my illusion? You said you cared and I believed What is wrong with me?! How could I forget who you really are So fickle and indecisive Unable to face up to what you feel Though what it is I'm not entirely sure That you even know I listened to you, even after you were gone I listened so hard that I changed I understood things I hadn't before I grew up Every day I would hear your voice Chastising, lecturing And still you were right About everything So I changed, and I learned, and I listened. Then you couldn't let me go I was content to smile at you To talk to you To be friends once more But then you kissed me And all of that easy complacency Was out the door It was wild, and it was fun And I'd never take it back Because no matter what you say I know how you feel Even if you won't admit it I listened to the words you said And the ones that you didn't I listened when you would start to speak And I listened when there was silence I have been listening to you Because you asked me to But I didn't change for you I changed for me To be happier, brighter, bubbly To find myself again To do it I had to listen And you were right, all along Why can't you see that? I changed, and I learned, and I listened. Didn't you hear me? I LISTENED
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Oct 21, 2011
Oct 21, 2011 at 1:40 PM UTC
I listened
I had every reason to pack up all my stuff And just leave Cause every morning I felt like I was never good enough It's just me I never really had it figured out But **** no one really knew what I was about Just the black sheep that couldn't fit in with the crowd Couldn't really deal with the anger and pain at once I need to stop thinking of myself in the back seat with cuffs Cause I see myself as the one with the 9mm in his hand No way out, a clean slate not a sense of hope or second chance I feel myself laying in the bottom of mud Why me? When everyone on the streets is making money selling drugs No one took the time to catch me when I fell Should've known better, I'm already living in hell All I ever see is people crying tears of red People **** each other everyday I don't need that thought process in my head Jenny was a sweetie but she let herself go The whole time she was sticking needles I didn't even know What the f*** She had me, she was never all alone A single mom, she was pregnant on the floor I knew I had the right feeling but I wasn't at the door It's hard to see all the people from my school All my friends doing nothing really nothing they can do No school or work, nothing given life is so cruel Can I really blame life? Is it ignorance or a right? If I can go back in time I'd give it everything I had Give it all I got with the level that I'm at Without the second guess and sacrificing everything I have Could've been a brighter light Instead I'm sitting with my dad whiskey on the rocks Same thing every night lecturing me about the life I almost had.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 3:10 PM UTC
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I had every reason to pack up all my stuff And just leave Cause every morning I felt like I was never good enough It's just me I never really had it figured out But **** no one really knew what I was about Just the black sheep that couldn't fit in with the crowd Couldn't really deal with the anger and pain at once I need to stop thinking of myself in the back seat with cuffs Cause I see myself as the one with the 9mm in his hand No way out, a clean slate not a sense of hope or second chance I feel myself laying in the bottom of mud Why me? When everyone on the streets is making money selling drugs No one took the time to catch me when I fell Should've known better, I'm already living in hell All I ever see is people crying tears of red People **** each other everyday I don't need that thought process in my head Jenny was a sweetie but she let herself go The whole time she was sticking needles I didn't even know What the f*** She had me, she was never all alone A single mom, she was pregnant on the floor I knew I had the right feeling but I wasn't at the door It's hard to see all the people from my school All my friends doing nothing really nothing they can do No school or work, nothing given life is so cruel Can I really blame life? Is it ignorance or a right? If I can go back in time I'd give it everything I had Give it all I got with the level that I'm at Without the second guess and sacrificing everything I have Could've been a brighter light Instead I'm sitting with my dad whiskey on the rocks Same thing every night lecturing me about the life I almost had.
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I am exhausted by the endless pontification from Professional apologists for every form of Bad behavior from the protected class of the day. I am tired of hearing from people for whom Race / *** / color / creed / disability / ****** orientation Is a hammer and the whole world is a nail. I am weary of politicians passing laws They neither read nor understand And of the media that gives them cover. I am fatigued by the endless lecturing from talking heads About the need to strictly adhere to political correctness And their attempts to quash speech and rewrite history. I am haggard from having to deflect the constant, blatant, Insidious efforts at indoctrination from the self-appointed Thought police peddling propaganda masquerading as news. I am burned out from the galloping gall, Of apologists portraying criminals as victims, While ignoring the harm done to their actual victims. I am tuckered out by the double standard, Of some racists who hide behind a perpetual cry of racism, As the only acceptable answer to every difficult question. I am petered out by having to listen, To the mad ravings of newly arrived Representatives, Barely out of diapers proposing ideas from The Twilight Zone. I am drained by the injustice of heroes attacked as monsters, Monsters treated as heroes and proudly worn on T-shirts, And those who stand for nothing but take a knee for the National Anthem. I am sapped by traitors who marry terrorists, Name their children after other terrorist warlords, Then demand the right to to come home to the country they betrayed. I am worn out by life in a world ruled by madness that expects me to Nod, pump my fist in the air and march in lockstep to an imposed Drumbeat while ignoring the man behind the curtain orchestrating the show.
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 1:27 AM UTC
Exhausted [By those who sacrifice reason at the altar of political correctness]
I am exhausted by the endless pontification from Professional apologists for every form of Bad behavior from the protected class of the day. I am tired of hearing from people for whom Race / *** / color / creed / disability / ****** orientation Is a hammer and the whole world is a nail. I am weary of politicians passing laws They neither read nor understand And of the media that gives them cover. I am fatigued by the endless lecturing from talking heads About the need to strictly adhere to political correctness And their attempts to quash speech and rewrite history. I am haggard from having to deflect the constant, blatant, Insidious efforts at indoctrination from the self-appointed Thought police peddling propaganda masquerading as news. I am burned out from the galloping gall, Of apologists portraying criminals as victims, While ignoring the harm done to their actual victims. I am tuckered out by the double standard, Of some racists who hide behind a perpetual cry of racism, As the only acceptable answer to every difficult question. I am petered out by having to listen, To the mad ravings of newly arrived Representatives, Barely out of diapers proposing ideas from The Twilight Zone. I am drained by the injustice of heroes attacked as monsters, Monsters treated as heroes and proudly worn on T-shirts, And those who stand for nothing but take a knee for the National Anthem. I am sapped by traitors who marry terrorists, Name their children after other terrorist warlords, Then demand the right to to come home to the country they betrayed. I am worn out by life in a world ruled by madness that expects me to Nod, pump my fist in the air and march in lockstep to an imposed Drumbeat while ignoring the man behind the curtain orchestrating the show.
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It's just me here Speaking to the void that appears as a blank page in front of me Any words I speak to others that contains any meaning only reflects negativity The glimmers of me I let shine through the holes of my shell are always quickly denied It seems no one wants to even look at me It's clear I don't fit anywhere in this world If actions speak louder than words then the world has preached novels to me Lecturing me to leave It's just me here A cast away holding onto the last thread Consciousness desparately dangling I wish something would grab me and tell me it's okay I'd be content with being pulled towards either direction I just need to be told I'm meant to be somewhere That I'm wanted
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Mar 26, 2019
Mar 26, 2019 at 10:20 PM UTC
The last thread.
adrenaline palpitating hands shaking mind racing so mad I can't even speak when you talk about how my mother was a killjoy or when that boy says im beautiful texting because talking about us is too truthful realign my smile into a numb glare fixated on who doesn't even ******* care my anger issues are obviously becoming a problem with you lecturing me about how I get very aggressive and that my life has fallen. well guess what, I grew up and I can't change i get it from my killjoy mother who likes to tell me I'm strange and you wonder why I get irritated but our generations just too overrated life's just overwhelming in this day in age us adolescent hot heads can't even play sports if we have died hair or dreads so don't sit there and tell me I have issues, when you're the one with the problem.
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Anger I can't fix
Feeble-minded brains begin at youth, Starting across bridges of developmental growth. Family teaches us the norms and values, Instructing kids to walk the proper line through discipline. Educators preach the knowledge from books, Lecturing the learned skills needed to reach logical paths. Living is a continuous cycle of discovery that never ends, Due to an overpass that leads to unlimited information. Share your wisdom with the younger generation, So they can evolve into wise people while minimizing mistakes.
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Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016 at 6:50 PM UTC
You Live, You Learn
There is that failure of communication, At least of that soft civilized kind, the Type that doesn’t involve blackened eyes And broken teeth and bruises like fallen Apples. She tries to hide her face behind Her scarf, pulls up the collar of her coat To conceal the bruises to her throat, pulls The sleeves down to cover up discoloured Arms and long skirts to mask the beaten Thighs from her neighbours prying eyes. He is full of jackshit and self-pity and Mopes and sulks and blames her for the Messy house, the kids crying, the bills high, His fists flying. Unconditional love is the Only real love, her mother said, lecturing To her on her wedding eve, pushing the Rosary beads between fingers and thumb. Nights he doesn’t come home are best, she Can sleep and unwind and rest. Even the kids Can feel the peaceful air when he isn’t there. His apologises are fake notes, they bring her Nothing, reveal nothing, cast false hopes like Wasted seeds, open up the pretending dreams That life is always better than it is or seems.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM UTC
PRETENDING DREAMS.
People are too concerned with self, said Father Higgs. His aged face as if hewn from Rock, sat before you on broad shoulders, the lips labouring with the words. Too much worried how self will feel, how self will benefit. He hunched forward, his large eyes moving over you like tired slugs. The symbol of the cross, he said with a movement of his head, is to cut through the I, the sign of the self. You noticed one high brow, grey, larger than the other, hair in nose like insects in hiding. He breathed out deeply. Self denial is the essence of the message of Christ, he said, a left inclination of his head, his teeth (not his own) large and discoloured. You wanted to ask questions, but he raised a hand. The word I is stated too often in conversations, he said, or self too much brought in as myself or herself or himself or such as may be used in talk. You understood this was his way of lecturing. His black monastic habit was stained about the neck by food or dribble or dried up phlegm. We ought to be concerned with others, he stated, wheezing, face reddening, eyes enlarging. Where is my inhaler? he wheezed, I really must be off, this smoker’s cough, my poor old lungs, must get myself a stronger inhaler and he was off, out of the common room he had caught you in some hour back. All you saw was his hand and inhaler and departing monastic habit of black.
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Jul 9, 2012
Jul 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM UTC
TOO CONCERNED WITH SELF.
By Arcassin Burnham Long flowing hair full of deep memories , remedies and ferral galleries, She has beautiful pictures, Black and purple hair, Black lipstick, Black skirt and collared shirt, Describing an emotional human being is not easy, An "emo" as they might say, Darker than the light in hades eyes , The stars just don't seem align for me, Crying in the bathroom just to let your conscience free, Freedom wasn't in the question, Neither was her therapy sessions, And guidance counselors attention, No I ain't your blessin', But, What do you feel when no ones around, Who in your life has been lecturing and putting you down, She Wouldn't Tell Me, To much sorrow brings death, Let's just hope your not too crazy, People find you interesting like Kevin Spacey, The devils taunting with you, Telling you , "face me", Vampire skin, Very cold and pastey, I just wish you could trust me enough to tell me.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
"Too Much Sorrow" (Freebies mEP)