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"licorice" poems
Glistening with wetness, fingers fitting in like Tetris. Cream dripping on the mattress. Pillow firming press against your **** gyrating to the thoughts of being licked. Then ****** on like a twisted piece of licorice. Pleasure leaking from your body through your hips Desire holding your body captive like a hypnotist Your skin crawling with desire screaming it's fix Drowning your finger in a pool of your juices Your hips ****** and twist, and mind, lift and dip. Our bodies working a full shift, like we were built for each others fit. You biting on the sheets, I'm biting on your lip, ****** at the same time; when our world eclipse- our-space doesn't exist. Off to another world, a briefly escape to, a pleasure abyss.
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Jun 25, 2016
Jun 25, 2016 at 9:24 PM UTC
Filthy Fingers
the planets. the peaches. pruned. picked. for the reaches. the centuries. a second to the eternities. you can have it. say laugh when. you hear the jazz note. the voice of all that i spoke. the saxophone. like dialing digits of truth. on the telephone. come on. say one and two. up and down. the diversity in one single crown. upon the ears of sound. it's the heart's listening device. toss it like rice. at a wedding. human genes get paired up. and twisted. so simple. it comes in flavors of licorice. red and black. off and on. check the track. when the needle skips. we find all these differences. let me bring it back. for diversity. zeroes and ones. spread the spectrum. across high and low frequencies. it's so easy. let the record speak. can you stay on beat. the principles of the high. the sincerity of the meek. whatever lies between. is one or the other. blended across the centuries. and all mothers. give birth to the last. man to the first. follow that. discussion of high low. mid ranges get blown. saxophone pace the flow. get pricked by the tweeters. soul from the bass feeders. save the appetite. for the words that i write. and then speak. you you. not me. splitting hairs. atoms. quarks. and light. beams. like a smile. across a broad spectrum. either off. always on. high low. then get gone.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
diversity
Glistening with wetness, fingers fitting in like Tetris. Cream dripping on the mattress. Pillow firming press against your **** gyrating to the thoughts of being licked. Then ****** on like a twisted piece of licorice. Pleasure leaking from your body through your hips Desire holding your body captive like a hypnotist Your skin crawling with desire screaming it's fix Drowning your finger in a pool of your juices Your hips ****** and twist, and mind, lift and dip. Our bodies working a full shift, like we were built for each others fit. You biting on the sheets, I'm biting on your lip, ****** at the same time; when our world eclipse- our-space doesn't exist. Off to another world, a briefly escape to, a pleasure abyss.
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Apr 20, 2018
Apr 20, 2018 at 10:49 AM UTC
Filthy Fingers
Here. Attempting to write something To match your eyes. Something that will make you see things The way I see things. Noticing. Every mark. Torn by  fences climbed To get away from those who didn't take your hand And fly. They left intricate laddered rips in your jeans, Though you try to hide the fact that you know, That I know that is the case. We play childish games of denial Because all romance is to be transported to a time when we were innocent. Back to a place where ‘I love you’ is what your parents said When all the screaming, laughter And the innocence of loud noises stop And is replaced by silence. ‘I love you’ made that warm feeling Growing and radiating out Eventually finding the tips of your fingers and ends of your toes And bursting out, Moving through to the next person you touch. *Contrary to popular practice, ‘I love you’ is not just three words to be said When you are trying to break the awkward silences Left between two people who have simply gotten used to each other.* I love red licorice. It gives me a warm feeling of sugary goodness. Though artificial, In the times when the weight of the world is the weight of your sheets That lay a top of your body Which you tell yourself over and over and over It is not good enough for that person Who gives you the inner warmth That a campfire gives your shins; I find that artificial red licorice warmth is good enough. And sometimes good enough is the best we can get. Here. In the hope that the words that must be said Stream from ink to page. I hope my hand moves so fast over the page That smoke starts flowing and my words mean something... But no words come. No letters. No ink scratches the page. I just want you to see the way I do.
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Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012 at 7:48 AM UTC
6. Cavil In The Moonlight
Here. Attempting to write something To match your eyes. Something that will make you see things The way I see things. Noticing. Every mark. Torn by  fences climbed To get away from those who didn't take your hand And fly. They left intricate laddered rips in your jeans, Though you try to hide the fact that you know, That I know that is the case. We play childish games of denial Because all romance is to be transported to a time when we were innocent. Back to a place where ‘I love you’ is what your parents said When all the screaming, laughter And the innocence of loud noises stop And is replaced by silence. ‘I love you’ made that warm feeling Growing and radiating out Eventually finding the tips of your fingers and ends of your toes And bursting out, Moving through to the next person you touch. *Contrary to popular practice, ‘I love you’ is not just three words to be said When you are trying to break the awkward silences Left between two people who have simply gotten used to each other.* I love red licorice. It gives me a warm feeling of sugary goodness. Though artificial, In the times when the weight of the world is the weight of your sheets That lay a top of your body Which you tell yourself over and over and over It is not good enough for that person Who gives you the inner warmth That a campfire gives your shins; I find that artificial red licorice warmth is good enough. And sometimes good enough is the best we can get. Here. In the hope that the words that must be said Stream from ink to page. I hope my hand moves so fast over the page That smoke starts flowing and my words mean something... But no words come. No letters. No ink scratches the page. I just want you to see the way I do.
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She, a cavernous champagne glass, he, a weary pony, who ate the neighbor's grass-- her name Ms. Wesson, his name Mr. Smith, they died on a slow Tuesday-- and stop looking Wesson clan, if looking for a lesson. Mid-afternoon midst a love bent 69 Mr. Smith and Ms. Wesson committed murder-suicide-- Mr. Smith turned from a man back into a stain, Ms. Wesson turned from a woman back into a chain. And the artist-in-neighborhood did rejoice, subject matter for a painting to hang above his licorice-colored memorial of a prisoner dove. And the police did gossip, was it love? was it *********** What a fine piece of *** that could be living. And it took the families two weeks to find out, they wiped their feet on dead leaves, daydreamt open caskets and planted juniper seeds. Talk of another woman, talk of another man, but God himself would tell you, they were simply bored of each other's drugs, they were simply bored of each other's barrels, so, they barred each other from being, and headed west on erosion's dime.
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM UTC
oil paintings of ****** picnics
*all my life i held a dream of a woman i would love of course she would be alluring supple a charming countenance erudite, with an angelic face her body a muscular stretching willow arching her legs over head kissing her own curving soft feet a graceful contortionist in confetti colored sparkle pantyhose stretching towards me silken hair draping a perfect symmetry with spun sugar kisses wafting the scent of vanilla and candied vaporous breath lips like cherry lozenges but one never knows ones destiny i met her my girl destiny and except for a faint look of languor and ruin with a tinge of withering she was without doubt unbearably titillating with razor-thin blackened lips mascara slits for eyes hair pulled straight back jet black jelled like hardened licorice with satanic blood rivulets and pitch fork tattooed **** a vice of lechery a malefaction of moral turpitude her *** scarred from orgiastic beatings her **** became like a large wrinkly mouth resembling the face of a bullfrog from pleasuring  herself with tableware cutlery her soul a broken creel suffering bouts of anxiety like a weeping moon having  been institutionalized in Mother Marys Hell House from a ghastly bout of parricide her father, a hobbling gloomish troll while the dark veins of mother ran through her soul leaving little choice but to dispatch the parents abandoning their corpses in the kitchen like strewn litter turned out just my kinda girl d e s t i n y
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May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 9:14 AM UTC
MY GIRL DESTINY
I nearly fell out of my comfortable chair when I heard some sexologist declare: “The scent of licorice in the air makes men and women want to pair. Far more effective than cologne, Use licorice or you’ll sleep alone.” Some say Chocolate gets you “Honey”- I say try some “Good and Plenty” Remember Charlie? he was an engineer He didn’t drink coffee and abstained from beer “Charlie had an engine and he sure had fun He used “Good and Plenty” candy cause it made his “train” run” For all I know, this tale is baloney Licorice may leave you ***** and lonely. But if you are lonely and feeling forlorn, candy’s much cheaper than rhinoceros horn.
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Apr 21, 2012
Apr 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM UTC
Good and Plenty- an aphrodisiac????
Strangers known by shared room Honey voiced , high cheek ***** no less, no more Licorice words pounding on a chest scrambling to wrap fingers around a single perfumed breath Two days dragging on pulled through mud stuck in fog seconds are hours too long Then ringing came answered by drops of syrup pouring out a reply, yes! drinking it in with big gulps. Mirror reflects practiced hellos swishing hair put in place teeth and lips splitting breaking through stone face Pacing back and forth frantic footsteps pounding crushing carpet in a line south, north, south, north No ring, no change red blushes fad grey phone silent, gaze up stare blank Is the swooshing hair the wrong way? Is the grin too toothy? Is the face not constructed right? Stood up and let down sailor on a ship already sunk and drifting off the starboard bow Stood up and let drown by the honey voice the high cheek bones Failure in hindsight sighing “I should have known I should have known…”
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 3:31 AM UTC
Honey Voice
The Lollipop King, with his mighty staff, Flavored all the colors of the rainbow, Enticing me with what he has To places where I must not go. His lust-soaked pheromones masked with licorice Entice the hearts of the fair maidens of the land. While I too have fallen victim to his confectionary wishes, Of this courtship and this romance became something unplanned. I have now found my way into this lollipop dynasty, Becoming another member of this sisterhood of sugar. But the difference with me, if you’ll lean close, you see, Quoth the Lollipop King, “I do not want to lose her.” And always alone I’ll say to myself: When will his time come to place me on the shelf?
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 7:43 AM UTC
The Lollipop King
I don't know what he was to others—    fireworks, lemonade, ants crawling on a picnic blanket—    but I always knew him at his worst. He was sleep cycles shaped like carnival pretzels,    days that bled together, weeks that clumped like a rat king    under floorboards in the beach house. He spoke in clouds    swollen with diluvian rain, daggers of lightning    cracking the river in half, the language of a muggy body in sticky room    staring out a window at absolutely nothing.    The sort of stuff that makes me think he didn't know his own strength,    most of the time. As always, when he died this year    he died by degrees, bedridden in the hospice of September.    I listened to his death rattle  of rustling yellow leaves    and watched the last of the fireflies crawl from between his parted lips.    When he went cold for good I built a pyre out of his firewood bones.    The ashes fell into the soil like seeds in waiting, and I watched    the moon grow so large that it stretched the nighttime like candy licorice    and made it longer than before. My duty done, I turned to go.    The smoke rose up to embrace the sky, and at the time, I could have sworn   that from the corner of my eye I saw it curl around    and wave at me.
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Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 at 9:27 AM UTC
Equinox
He wants a sugar spun girl- no lemon ***** no licorice, no peppermint. Hard rock candy. You gotta be sweet for him to crave you. Sweet on the tongue, sweet on the eyes in a package easy to tear, pop, unfold. He likes it dayglo and with sprinkles, marshmallow soft, moldable and meltable , milk chocolate, white chocolate. He shies away from bitterness. Don't you dare fill him up. He has a real meal waiting, somewhere else, later. Your job is to be consumed. What you need doesn't matter. He wants candy, girl, not a meal. Better sugar coat it, or he won’t buy you and you want to be bought, don't you?
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM UTC
Candy Girl
Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" and throws him across the room. Mind you, she never laid a hand on him. He gets red roses in different places, the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river, the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow, the arm like a diamond had bitten it, the leg, twisted like a licorice stick, all the dance they did together, Blue Lady and Tommy. You fell, she said, just remember you fell. I fell, is all he told the doctors in the big hospital. A nice lady came and asked him questions but because he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell. He never said anything else although he could talk fine. He never told about the music or how she'd sing and shout holding him up and throwing him. He pretends he is her ball. He tries to fold up and bounce but he squashes like fruit. For he loves Blue Lady and the spots of red roses he gives her
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Red Roses
Things were looking up that day Not a thing could get in my way I was making my way through the town When the clouds rolled in and rain came down I thought, “Okay, don’t make my day nice and sunny, I’ll go find a movie that’s funny.” I went downtown to look around, No good movies were to be found! I looked inside a movie store All I found were sad movies galore “A real tearjerker,” one proclaimed “Heartbreaker?” I exclaimed “No good movies, just my luck. I guess I’ll go feed the ducks.” I walked there and what did I meet? Twelve angry geese that attacked my feet “Well, that’s just fine and dandy, You can’t go wrong with some candy,” Once I got there, lo and behold, Black licorice and butterscotch, getting old. “Well ***** it, I’m going home. Maybe I’ll make a latte with foam.” What did I find there in the complex? Old Man Carruthers died with a hex ****** ****** his wife cried out She screamed and screamed and ran all about. ****** I tell you, And I know who!” And with grace, she pointed at me and yelled, “YOU!” They called the police and took me away Now here I am clutching my cafeteria tray I have advice, walkaway when things get rowdy, And remember, sunny days can turn cloudy
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 3:39 PM UTC
Sunny Days Can Turn Cloudy
She is My cream nicotine The Surging through our blues The fluidity of divinity Juxtapose Whoever said love was easy… Yeah 'Ol Chap, they Sure had it right, Because no man or lady can ever Subtract Once their hue has mixed it can never go back. 2 Whipped Cream and Other Delights. And why would you? The dregs are bitter, The milk too sweet. If you water it down then All flavor retreats Life is just better off Bitter-Sweet, Cream never asks coffee On how it should mix Why do we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? The intrusion is dilution of the Makers choice Through imperfection comes the lesson Learned perception with each sip The air red dried truth The Words stuck to the lips Tasters Digest the last drink drips Yet I question why I am so subject to infusion Her meaningful quips Why we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? Still I question why I am so subject to the infusion of Her Dips Sometimes I call it Love Sometimes I call it Quits For You My Dear Let's Cheers Another Grip of Seared Buds and Belly Aches and Lactose Licorice So Pour Another! while the Argument still in Air and While Dilutions of gratification Grind into Frothy Despair
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 8:13 PM UTC
Cream Nicotine
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM UTC
Luscious
Each individual jelly-belly jellybean in a clear bag tied with a red wire is so different from each other individual jelly-belly jellybean in that clear bag. The one that I find, without fail, without fault, is always the one that tastes like black licorice. The sticky, overly sweet, bitter black gunk that junks up my perfectly good bag of jelly-belly jellybeans, and I am never paying enough attention to catch myself before I pop it into my mouth, unaware that I will be receiving: not cotton candy, not coconut, nor cherry or lime, but a black piece of bitter-sweetness, whose taste always seems to linger.
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 3:18 PM UTC
The Breakup
There’s a place, where licorice vines have climbed, Deep in the night, that only children can find; Where leaves of waxed paper on trees are hung, And what grows on the branches is sweet to the tongue. Garlands of butterscotch, chocolate, and mint, In their bright wrappers, sparkle, and glint; Bubbling springs of sarsaparilla, through the valley are poured, Washing sugar beaches with reeds of sour chord. Swedish fish swim in soda geysers with bliss, While fizzing pop-rocks spurt, spittle, and hiss. Sunset clouds of cotton candy sweep past in the sky; Trees sway in the delicious breeze that smells like apple pie. Skies will rain down skittles, when there is a storm, Pelting molasses window panes in a giant swarm; Sour gummi worms are dug up, free to take, In the grainy, nutmeg layers of the coffee cake. Carmel creams, Mary Janes, Black Jacks, and Almond Joys, Coconutties, Jawbreakers, Carmel Rolos and Long Boys-- All these grow, in lines straight as peppermint sticks, Planted in brown sugar, on fields of cinnamon toothpicks; But when the sun lets out its first ray, The entire land just melts away And children don’t remember where they’ve been, That whole night asleep, but they wake with a grin; And through the whole day, their dreams will entice, Until they visit again, the Land of Sugar and Spice. 8/9/11
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Jul 10, 2012
Jul 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM UTC
Sugar & Spice
coupon for Granny's Original 32% All Natural Oatmeal® cart-to-cart down aisle 48 and this man's an affront to khakis and this woman's brain runs off a child's complaints BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy 80 pounds of rock salt from The Home Depot®, more saving. more doing.™ more rock salt. more doing BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy two-weeks-worth of tuna, a pallet of Pepsi Max®, and four loaves of Baker Good's NeverMold Bread® all for $21.99 with your Sam's Club® Rewards Card BLIZZARD 2013 cart-to-cart down aisle 62 where once there was soda, now an I.O.U. and I read on the internet that the preservatives in diet cola will keep my body from decomposing and I read on the internet that these dented, discount tuna cans will give me botulism BLIZZARD 2013 one jug of water from a spring in Mountain View, Arkansas one jug of water from a spring in New Iberia, Louisiana picking between Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana the pitter-patter on the warehouse roof reassures time for eenie meenie miney mo BLIZZARD 2013 and the intercom desperate for a cart wrangler customer service now open for checkout don't leave your toddlers alone in shopping carts they're choking on free samples with an echo, raindrops strike parking lot pools just past the intersection an ambulance grumbles BLIZZARD 2013 in a room with a view wishing the windowpane weatherized beers bought by volume, candles forgotten, six months of licorice, EverFluff® popcorn, and hand warmers of chemical kind remembered BLIZZARD 2013 will not be landing in the city, watch out for that rain though if the temperatures drop below 32 degrees it could ice over and if the temperatures don't, well, it won't News 7's coverage of Blizzard 2013 brought to you by The Home Depot®, more saving. More doing.™ and Sam's Club®, savings made simple.™
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 2:40 PM UTC
the blizzard of 2013
coupon for Granny's Original 32% All Natural Oatmeal® cart-to-cart down aisle 48 and this man's an affront to khakis and this woman's brain runs off a child's complaints BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy 80 pounds of rock salt from The Home Depot®, more saving. more doing.™ more rock salt. more doing BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy two-weeks-worth of tuna, a pallet of Pepsi Max®, and four loaves of Baker Good's NeverMold Bread® all for $21.99 with your Sam's Club® Rewards Card BLIZZARD 2013 cart-to-cart down aisle 62 where once there was soda, now an I.O.U. and I read on the internet that the preservatives in diet cola will keep my body from decomposing and I read on the internet that these dented, discount tuna cans will give me botulism BLIZZARD 2013 one jug of water from a spring in Mountain View, Arkansas one jug of water from a spring in New Iberia, Louisiana picking between Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana the pitter-patter on the warehouse roof reassures time for eenie meenie miney mo BLIZZARD 2013 and the intercom desperate for a cart wrangler customer service now open for checkout don't leave your toddlers alone in shopping carts they're choking on free samples with an echo, raindrops strike parking lot pools just past the intersection an ambulance grumbles BLIZZARD 2013 in a room with a view wishing the windowpane weatherized beers bought by volume, candles forgotten, six months of licorice, EverFluff® popcorn, and hand warmers of chemical kind remembered BLIZZARD 2013 will not be landing in the city, watch out for that rain though if the temperatures drop below 32 degrees it could ice over and if the temperatures don't, well, it won't News 7's coverage of Blizzard 2013 brought to you by The Home Depot®, more saving. More doing.™ and Sam's Club®, savings made simple.™
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Hold it! whole *** whale fitting room bowing walls expanding spandex seams stretched out of shape lurid – disturbed images play across the screen biggest loser season MCMXVII American dream with heavy cream and spleenwiches cleaning the crumbs, bums long for an extra morsel gnawing on dorsal fins grinning, toothless, at least they have their figures that figures says the emaciated diet queen leave it to the homeless to be the only group worthy of the runway – starvation date only the grumbling cuts the uncomfortable silence empty bellies howl for nourishment instead are fed meds and red licorice which is immediately vomited for fear of caloric inconsistency – breathing adds blubber to thighs and midriffs marital spiff over the last cookie sugar substitutes substituting themselves for love and compassion lashing out at the one above fat girls with teary eyes cry for just five more pounds the dress fit in 1978 –
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 4:07 PM UTC
tirade against obesity
I read him one of my poems He complemented my mechanics And although part of me laughed Wondering how he heard me breathe the commas Heard my spelling bee winner's letter placement Still The notion stuck Steadfast Push-pinned in my memory In the neglected space where kind gestures live I told him how I appreciated it I should've told him Boy no no You don't understand My mechanics need fixing No not my grammar boy I should've told him to volunteer Sweet boy I know hands are easier to work with than words Touch me with both Shhhh sweet boy Fix me with your good nature Let it wash over me Wash away my grime You needn't a good speaking voice But a good intention Warming arms To thaw me Couldn't hurt But sweet boy Too bad We all grow sick of licorice And I broke you Like the mantelpiece momma told me not to play around I broke you For a less sweet boy With a politician tongue And words soaked in muddy motives I broke you Hardened you Into a less sweet boy With a polititia- err Salesman tongue And words soaked in muddy motives I left you Gone with the wind You were the Rett In the search for my Ashley But he broke me Like the soldiers countenance heading to combat He left me Wondering Where all the sweet boys could have gone
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 11:11 AM UTC
Sweet boys
If I knew you were a super-villain i wouldn't have cared. I would have a rationale. A flower behind my back to tempt you from your weakness for black licorice and white lies. I would find an excuse to love you. If I had known you were a super-villain I would have spiked your drink with Love Potion No.9 and finding you impervious; consider my options and hope for the best. IF i had known this would never work out, you and me, you being a total ***** me being a fool; i would have stayed the course and seduced you to make you mine my very own special pain in the *** that has bewitched me.... I would have thrown myself under the bus; sipping a dry martini with a rye smile i would have succumbed to what i knew you could be; if only... I'd let us happen anyway.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM UTC
Super-villain
She hopes, silently, that he will chase her, catch her in his embrace and smother her with feverish kisses. He wants to glance back, towards the stinging sun, towards the opposite direction she has stayed in and beacon her with words of licorice. She wishes to let her voice drown the antagonistic opposition to their current disposition and listen attentively to reciprocated admissions. But they cannot, will not, because this is not a fairy tale, this is not a fantasy, this is the sad reality of both decisions. And so torn apart between letting go or catching to, they walk away towards opposite directions.
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Mar 24, 2014
Mar 24, 2014 at 12:18 AM UTC
Misconceived reality
They're a funny lot, some of these poets, feisty feminists, dreamers, anti-money, and even some who are very self-defecating about themselves. And then there's the literary, learned allusion lot, and some who've got their eye on eternity, that's what, and others who rub too much turps on the **** of their imagination. But it's the long-winded poets who make me squirm, and for god’s sake, give me a bottle of red wine when the ones with blue-rinse hair get up to have their turn. They're terribly nice, but they need an echidna stuffed right up you know where - at least once, if not twice. And give me another bottle of the red, even if it's rough, or better still a whole case of that stuff, just to protect me from those who bleed too much in poems. Psychoanalytic stuff makes me paralytic and I have to stifle groans. But most of all, I like the poets with their tongues on fire, the ones who lick lightening before they write and who throw a sizzling poem down like a thunderbolt from Zeus. I like poems marsh mellow soft and bitter-sweet, too, and those oozing with the juice. And if a poem's loud and flash, so what? I like a bit of swagger, with shameless **** and *** And sometimes, I just like words that rhyme with licorice, Dionysius, Priapus, Bacchus and preposterous! Also, what the **** a poem can even give offense. Poets sometimes need to do this to stop indifference. They call this poet's license, but really, indifference is the only hell from which us poets need deliverance.
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Oct 30, 2012
Oct 30, 2012 at 6:56 AM UTC
Poets
They're a funny lot, some of these poets, feisty feminists, dreamers, anti-money, and even some who are very self-defecating about themselves. And then there's the literary, learned allusion lot, and some who've got their eye on eternity, that's what, and others who rub too much turps on the **** of their imagination. But it's the long-winded poets who make me squirm, and for god’s sake, give me a bottle of red wine when the ones with blue-rinse hair get up to have their turn. They're terribly nice, but they need an echidna stuffed right up you know where - at least once, if not twice. And give me another bottle of the red, even if it's rough, or better still a whole case of that stuff, just to protect me from those who bleed too much in poems. Psychoanalytic stuff makes me paralytic and I have to stifle groans. But most of all, I like the poets with their tongues on fire, the ones who lick lightening before they write and who throw a sizzling poem down like a thunderbolt from Zeus. I like poems marsh mellow soft and bitter-sweet, too, and those oozing with the juice. And if a poem's loud and flash, so what? I like a bit of swagger, with shameless **** and *** And sometimes, I just like words that rhyme with licorice, Dionysius, Priapus, Bacchus and preposterous! Also, what the **** a poem can even give offense. Poets sometimes need to do this to stop indifference. They call this poet's license, but really, indifference is the only hell from which us poets need deliverance.
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We run blind, Hair blowing, arms flailing as Blithe heart’s make a blind start Into the sweet unknown. Stop. Taste the tangy so-its-sore, Make-your-eyes-screw-up More-than-your-contorted-face Sweets. Such as licorice sherbet straws. Poor blind hearts. Caught in the net of Time, Sickly sweet now obsolete, My heart starts to beat Away from my running feet. I don't like those straws no more.
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Oct 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM UTC
Sweets
Inside your little mouth, a crucifix and a hula hoop plant great capers on the short hash marks on your glossy pinkish lips. Like a boardgame I can't win all by myself or a song without a tune, like the melody that chases strangers, or any words that precede goodbye. The future is coming quickly now, serfs lining up to set fire to their nostrils, take the cue ball and whet their mass wicks for the apostles. Anecdotal anomaly that J-walk over crosswalks whose life then becomes an apostrophe. Morbid fixture on the substrate, creatures limitlessly nodding. A grape-sized egg fills its own unit and erupts to shape the outlet. Your verb-legs may appear demonstratively while you crowd surf, we should play the music louder while we practice all our dance work. Sunday morning we wake up stiffly, my jowl hurts from mouthing softwords, the nights' adventurous perversity of thwarting dinosaurs with Cobra Starship. Even the back room closet manager gave us enough bleach to see our eyelids, frothy nictitating flitters drop freshly severed lashes that inspire wishes and sultry playlists. Consecrated mien market of company meals. Underneath the cable cars the dye blunders sores in my eyes. Said I had to go, said I had to die. Said I had an itch but I couldn't get in front of all of this and unwind. Between all of the bees and buttered flies he made it hard for us all to survive, or service this state of our lives. I recall schoolyards where children paid to their dimes for us to see the spaces in the middle of lines, the circles on the circles we liked, stuck in bubble baths with crayon all on their hands. For the price of staying alive I deliver a bribe to sway eyes from the crimes of street dwelling inner-city sinners with stomach contents' upsetted by the rough ********* of heavy petting. She eats red licorice rope with with my fingers rubbing on her tongue. A pedagogy I use to teach, but pretty much no longer have a use.
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM UTC
Heavy Petting
Inside your little mouth, a crucifix and a hula hoop plant great capers on the short hash marks on your glossy pinkish lips. Like a boardgame I can't win all by myself or a song without a tune, like the melody that chases strangers, or any words that precede goodbye. The future is coming quickly now, serfs lining up to set fire to their nostrils, take the cue ball and whet their mass wicks for the apostles. Anecdotal anomaly that J-walk over crosswalks whose life then becomes an apostrophe. Morbid fixture on the substrate, creatures limitlessly nodding. A grape-sized egg fills its own unit and erupts to shape the outlet. Your verb-legs may appear demonstratively while you crowd surf, we should play the music louder while we practice all our dance work. Sunday morning we wake up stiffly, my jowl hurts from mouthing softwords, the nights' adventurous perversity of thwarting dinosaurs with Cobra Starship. Even the back room closet manager gave us enough bleach to see our eyelids, frothy nictitating flitters drop freshly severed lashes that inspire wishes and sultry playlists. Consecrated mien market of company meals. Underneath the cable cars the dye blunders sores in my eyes. Said I had to go, said I had to die. Said I had an itch but I couldn't get in front of all of this and unwind. Between all of the bees and buttered flies he made it hard for us all to survive, or service this state of our lives. I recall schoolyards where children paid to their dimes for us to see the spaces in the middle of lines, the circles on the circles we liked, stuck in bubble baths with crayon all on their hands. For the price of staying alive I deliver a bribe to sway eyes from the crimes of street dwelling inner-city sinners with stomach contents' upsetted by the rough ********* of heavy petting. She eats red licorice rope with with my fingers rubbing on her tongue. A pedagogy I use to teach, but pretty much no longer have a use.
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