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"mitts" poems
3 X 5 index card poems 3 smallish poems in five minutes ~ reheating honey can I make you something to eat? ***no babe, you know I hate to see you cooking, frying standing over pots and stirring sauces trying to brush wisps of bangs from your eyes   while wearing kitchen mitts*** What I would prefer is something leftover, reheated served with a smiling grin from my ear to wayover down under there, next to you <•> old words are better than than new ones hey, hi! how you doing, old friend? “yo, out of the hospital feeling so much better; had some kind of ‘itis’ which they cured with an ‘yisis’!” ***glad to hear; impressed by all those new big scientific words; frankly preferred your old ones,  that were rediscovered and reoriented in new ways in your poems verses; me? never better cause to hear from a man whose optimism has yet to meet a match that he can’t best,*** heals all our wounds <|> if you told me ***that I could spend three successive rainy days in almost all silence, perfectly contented by myself, i’d said you crazy,*** isn’t that true babe?
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 12:53 PM UTC
3 X 5 index card poems
I’ve been going to this boxing gym and training every week. And everyone there is fighting something You can see in their Eyes They’re punching their dad Or they’re punching Whoever their wife is sleeping with Or they're punching Their kids who ignore them Or they’re punching Themselves. Their boss Their job Their alcohol problem Their poverty And every week we get to fight our problems together And we’re exploding inside. What? You can’t fight your problems? It’s not only that I can. I will. And do. Because crying alone isn’t good enough Because all that fire you build up inside you has to go somewhere Or it’ll burn you alive. So you throw it into the heavy bag Or into the guy you’re sparring Or into the ground you run on. We’re all fighting something So what about you? What are you fighting that’s so god **** important? No, don’t tell me. Tell that heavy bag. He listens. He listens when your wife doesn’t give a **** He listens when it doesn’t even matter Tell these padded mitts. That one-two punch says more than a twenty-four volume encyclopedia And speaks more concisely than Churchill or Hemmingway or Ghandi ever did. Don’t tell me how it feels. Don’t even try. Let that punching bag know. Because you know he’s listening. And he doesn’t have anything else more important to do.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 1:31 AM UTC
Fighting
I met this geezer down the frog Who said mate you gotta have a butchers So we went into the rub a dub And I couldn't Adam and Eve it There before me mince pies Stood a treacle all sugar and spice She was a bleeding treat For this London boy with sore plates For I had been walking for quite a while But now I was beginning to smile Watching her with a pigs ear in me mitts Boy I was chuffed to bits
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Mar 2, 2016
Mar 2, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
Cockney Am I
I hate how they never warn little girls to beware the pretty boys with eyes like gleaming jewels. The boys with soft smiles and music in their laugh. They never warn of boys with pretty faces and blackened hearts. The boys that leave little girls crying in the dark. The ones with words like honey, sickly sweet. The princes with big money, who we dream of sweeping us off our feet. They never speak of boys with danger in their eyes. But beauty true blue. Little girls are never told of boys of silver and boys of gold. The little kings, with angel wings. The little beast neither soft nor sweet. The beauty bombshells, the golden adonis’s. They never speak of boys who run like the winds under their feet. The boys who shine like the stars in the sky. The boys with the world in their grubby mitts. The boys with lips like cotton candy, and sins warm and rich. The ones who have our stomachs doing flips. The ones who seem to have it all shoulders back, standing tall. They never caution of little boys with clever minds and nimble fingers. Of boys with Shakespeare's sonnets in their hair and love songs in their whispers. But little girl, I am telling you now. Beware the pigtail pullers, fear the little Romeos. Heed the heartbreakers Shun smooth talkers. Little girl, don’t give in. Little girl, fear their sins. Little girl, run away. Little girl, don’t stay to play. Little girl, don’t stop and stare. Little girl, don’t twirl your hair. Little girl, please, listen to me! Little girl, loath the charming pretty boys. For they are like roses and like roses they have thorns.
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Apr 12, 2017
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:51 PM UTC
Pretty Boys
I hate how they never warn little girls to beware the pretty boys with eyes like gleaming jewels. The boys with soft smiles and music in their laugh. They never warn of boys with pretty faces and blackened hearts. The boys that leave little girls crying in the dark. The ones with words like honey, sickly sweet. The princes with big money, who we dream of sweeping us off our feet. They never speak of boys with danger in their eyes. But beauty true blue. Little girls are never told of boys of silver and boys of gold. The little kings, with angel wings. The little beast neither soft nor sweet. The beauty bombshells, the golden adonis’s. They never speak of boys who run like the winds under their feet. The boys who shine like the stars in the sky. The boys with the world in their grubby mitts. The boys with lips like cotton candy, and sins warm and rich. The ones who have our stomachs doing flips. The ones who seem to have it all shoulders back, standing tall. They never caution of little boys with clever minds and nimble fingers. Of boys with Shakespeare's sonnets in their hair and love songs in their whispers. But little girl, I am telling you now. Beware the pigtail pullers, fear the little Romeos. Heed the heartbreakers Shun smooth talkers. Little girl, don’t give in. Little girl, fear their sins. Little girl, run away. Little girl, don’t stay to play. Little girl, don’t stop and stare. Little girl, don’t twirl your hair. Little girl, please, listen to me! Little girl, loath the charming pretty boys. For they are like roses and like roses they have thorns.
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Mouse’s are a famous breed, From lines of kings they come. They have a mousey song, and a mousey creed; They love mousey cheese, and mousey *** Mouse’s love spirits, wine, beer, and ale; They love to chew on cheesy things. And when they’re drunk, they will regale, Spouting stories of mousy kings. In mousey castle, in mousey town, Lived a mighty mousey king. And his mousy eyes, looked up and down, On every big, and little thing. But his mighty mousy features, Were struck by mousy mope. For all his fellow creatures, Were bereft of *** and hope. “No *** No rum!” They cried, To the king as he passed by. They wept, and sobbed, and sighed; “Oh my, oh my, oh my”. In the kingdom of the mouse, There can be no greater woe, Than to find no *** in house; It lays the mouse’s low. “No *** can be got”! Stated the advisor to the king. “We’ve all got up, and drunk the lot; 'Tis a sad and sorry thing”. All the mousy heads, Hung low in grim defeat. They played with mousy threads, With mousy hands, and mousy feet. But the king of mouse’s rose Standing tall upon his mitts. Wriggled in his mousy hose, And strained his mousy wits. “Who can build new *** Asked the mighty mousey king. But all the mouse’s were dumb, On this mighty mousey thing. Then from out the bleachers; Stumbled little Georgey mouse. A smirk bestruck his features, He was happy; he was ****** With mousy hands he gript A bottle tall and fine And from its neck he sipped; A liquor; so divine. “I shound it through zzat wall”, Announced little Georgey mouse “Theresh enough for one and all; Enough to build a housh”. He sipped the liquor fair, And shouted, “What a corker”! He flashed the bottle in the air; Black label Johnny Walker. And all the mousey squeaks, Wrung cheer from misery. And the cheers went on for weeks; “Whiskey! Whiskey! Whiskey!
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Jun 8, 2010
Jun 8, 2010 at 8:19 PM UTC
Of Mouses.
Mouse’s are a famous breed, From lines of kings they come. They have a mousey song, and a mousey creed; They love mousey cheese, and mousey *** Mouse’s love spirits, wine, beer, and ale; They love to chew on cheesy things. And when they’re drunk, they will regale, Spouting stories of mousy kings. In mousey castle, in mousey town, Lived a mighty mousey king. And his mousy eyes, looked up and down, On every big, and little thing. But his mighty mousy features, Were struck by mousy mope. For all his fellow creatures, Were bereft of *** and hope. “No *** No rum!” They cried, To the king as he passed by. They wept, and sobbed, and sighed; “Oh my, oh my, oh my”. In the kingdom of the mouse, There can be no greater woe, Than to find no *** in house; It lays the mouse’s low. “No *** can be got”! Stated the advisor to the king. “We’ve all got up, and drunk the lot; 'Tis a sad and sorry thing”. All the mousy heads, Hung low in grim defeat. They played with mousy threads, With mousy hands, and mousy feet. But the king of mouse’s rose Standing tall upon his mitts. Wriggled in his mousy hose, And strained his mousy wits. “Who can build new *** Asked the mighty mousey king. But all the mouse’s were dumb, On this mighty mousey thing. Then from out the bleachers; Stumbled little Georgey mouse. A smirk bestruck his features, He was happy; he was ****** With mousy hands he gript A bottle tall and fine And from its neck he sipped; A liquor; so divine. “I shound it through zzat wall”, Announced little Georgey mouse “Theresh enough for one and all; Enough to build a housh”. He sipped the liquor fair, And shouted, “What a corker”! He flashed the bottle in the air; Black label Johnny Walker. And all the mousey squeaks, Wrung cheer from misery. And the cheers went on for weeks; “Whiskey! Whiskey! Whiskey!
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In the linoleum dungeon Sparkling swiffer creature Squirts the floor Calls polyphemic odors Opening And the crazy stench of allspice Biting lime and draconian breath Burning the nostril coins Copper shield bending the cilia Oven mitts plastered with narcotic grease and decomposing meals Of yesteryear Unclear She speaks between steaming inspirations Hoo-huh Exhale the fire It's'a hotta pasta lasagna As the helicopters flap their handy rotories Fast fractal birds In circumfereferential motion Cool down our mouths Ice cubes in the juice Plop a shot of gin With that silly child's grin And the room slowly cants Begins to spin As we laugh at the spots we cannot Pin Staring at the stellar mountain chains Thrusted stone Busted metal Stabbing up into the sky Competition Where is the home beyond the horizon Where we ate good meals Not made alone With parental guidance As the days were stolen By the erosive time That spinning wheel Well, It's deep in us now And the cells metastasized Realized That heaven is hell.
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 3:51 PM UTC
Nobody's Dinner
Lars lifts opens the toilet seat. The hinge squawks and he mimics the sound with his mouth. A dumb smile folds out on his face like someone unrolling a beach towel. He sits without dropping his pants or underwear. The cops are just about to leave through the screen door. Maggie offers a departing sacrament of right out of the oven of crispy flakey Pillsbury biscuits. They wave their hands parallel to the ground refusing. Maggie pulled the biscuits out too early. The bottoms are tan and dimensional but the tops are sloppy. They look like they have a glaze but they don’t have a glaze. They are pasty but still hot to the touch. The pan is hot. Maggie is wearing maroon oven mitts. One of the cops gets his foot snagged on the throw rug. They walk with their heads down but don’t notice the curled edges of the throw rug. They notice a black pug named Roger instead and nearly avoid fumbling over him. The cops scatter outside quickly like ducklings crossing the street. Lars’ dumb smile lingers and he laughs with a shushing lisp. He reaches between his legs into the toilet bowl. His hand disturbs the water. His nose is bleeding. Maggie closes the doorwall after the cops leave. The cops left the screen open. Maggie reopens the doorwall, closes the screen, shakes her head, and then closes the doorwall again. The kitchen is humming with improper wires. The light is electric pastel blue. The linoleum is too ***** to sleep on. Maggie’s ******* can be seen through her shirt. Lars wipes his nose with his arm and shoulder. He is hunched digging into the toilet bowl. He pulls out a baggie with a twist tie on top. The baggie looks reused. Maggie enters under the frame of the door and her lips roll out like a beach towel. The ******* in the baggie is very very dry.
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Sep 16, 2016
Sep 16, 2016 at 7:56 PM UTC
Hideaway
Lars lifts opens the toilet seat. The hinge squawks and he mimics the sound with his mouth. A dumb smile folds out on his face like someone unrolling a beach towel. He sits without dropping his pants or underwear. The cops are just about to leave through the screen door. Maggie offers a departing sacrament of right out of the oven of crispy flakey Pillsbury biscuits. They wave their hands parallel to the ground refusing. Maggie pulled the biscuits out too early. The bottoms are tan and dimensional but the tops are sloppy. They look like they have a glaze but they don’t have a glaze. They are pasty but still hot to the touch. The pan is hot. Maggie is wearing maroon oven mitts. One of the cops gets his foot snagged on the throw rug. They walk with their heads down but don’t notice the curled edges of the throw rug. They notice a black pug named Roger instead and nearly avoid fumbling over him. The cops scatter outside quickly like ducklings crossing the street. Lars’ dumb smile lingers and he laughs with a shushing lisp. He reaches between his legs into the toilet bowl. His hand disturbs the water. His nose is bleeding. Maggie closes the doorwall after the cops leave. The cops left the screen open. Maggie reopens the doorwall, closes the screen, shakes her head, and then closes the doorwall again. The kitchen is humming with improper wires. The light is electric pastel blue. The linoleum is too ***** to sleep on. Maggie’s ******* can be seen through her shirt. Lars wipes his nose with his arm and shoulder. He is hunched digging into the toilet bowl. He pulls out a baggie with a twist tie on top. The baggie looks reused. Maggie enters under the frame of the door and her lips roll out like a beach towel. The ******* in the baggie is very very dry.
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Creased felines crossing lines, Pressing claws into dust. Western hemisphere, Reviving the pilgrimage. Bubbles and logs Satiate their under garments. Enhancing hair follicles Resembling shards and spurs. At a woodsy bar, A tabby liberated the fangs He rented last holiday. The bartender shook with perplexity. Reacting simultaneously- A minor character, Little Leon. The dusty town called him Leon, for he was alone. Little Leon got taller In a basement full Of water. The dusty town Was an adjustment. The tabby and Little Leon Faced off for recognition. Leon wretchedly charged The floor boards with sopping ends. Crayon versus colored pencil; They chose their weapons Anxiously.  It was Bring your son to work day. The bent bartender Spared his child’s eyes. “I’m not your little boy,” The child shrilled at him. “I don’t want trains, Or fake guns meant for play. I miss my mom, And dresses on Sunday.” Cats on a pilgrimage, Rarely stop from Slurping a drink. Pity refilled Cups, as tails twitched in trial. The tabby and Leon Came to a halt, seeing as Punishment was engraved atop The bartender’s grungy mitts. The clowder gathered, As the Tabby scolded the man Behind the bar. “Remember where you leave your beverage.” And that was that. Leon’s internal complexity, Being left with only himself, Dissipated. There are others Who feel more alone. Tabby picked up his crayon. His spurs clanked And spun, as his guided His feline friends out the front. Tumbleweed skidded Outside the bar. The bartender finally saw That his son was not a son.
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Mar 18, 2012
Mar 18, 2012 at 5:10 PM UTC
Role Theory
Creased felines crossing lines, Pressing claws into dust. Western hemisphere, Reviving the pilgrimage. Bubbles and logs Satiate their under garments. Enhancing hair follicles Resembling shards and spurs. At a woodsy bar, A tabby liberated the fangs He rented last holiday. The bartender shook with perplexity. Reacting simultaneously- A minor character, Little Leon. The dusty town called him Leon, for he was alone. Little Leon got taller In a basement full Of water. The dusty town Was an adjustment. The tabby and Little Leon Faced off for recognition. Leon wretchedly charged The floor boards with sopping ends. Crayon versus colored pencil; They chose their weapons Anxiously.  It was Bring your son to work day. The bent bartender Spared his child’s eyes. “I’m not your little boy,” The child shrilled at him. “I don’t want trains, Or fake guns meant for play. I miss my mom, And dresses on Sunday.” Cats on a pilgrimage, Rarely stop from Slurping a drink. Pity refilled Cups, as tails twitched in trial. The tabby and Leon Came to a halt, seeing as Punishment was engraved atop The bartender’s grungy mitts. The clowder gathered, As the Tabby scolded the man Behind the bar. “Remember where you leave your beverage.” And that was that. Leon’s internal complexity, Being left with only himself, Dissipated. There are others Who feel more alone. Tabby picked up his crayon. His spurs clanked And spun, as his guided His feline friends out the front. Tumbleweed skidded Outside the bar. The bartender finally saw That his son was not a son.
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Girl turns three on a homemade cake She had candy balloons and plastic grass bits Toy princesses and marscapone rakes And mom burnt her finger because she forgot the mitts Girl turns five on a store bought cake This time it was shaped like jack and jill And she wondered if it was a fake It was the month mom got ill Girl turns seven on a cupcake And mom could barely get up let alone bake Dad taught her baseball that week She peeped at her parents through the little door creak Mother. Other. Her. Girl turns nine on a chocolate bun Mom gave her blessing through the grave That was the year dad knew no fun And they kept telling her to be brave Girl turns eleven on a self made cake Mom was back but her ******* were fake Dad was googly eyed, yes He neglected that his baby was depressed Girl turns thirteen on a seven layered cake It was all this posh she couldn't take This year new mommy and daddy started fighting And she'd turn up the music and dim the lighting Girl turns sixteen on a birthday card This year, dad started drinking And life felt hard, really hard Deep down she knew she was sinking
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 10:07 AM UTC
Happy Birthday.
as the coffee cup is rinsed, the filthy little ******* lands on the counter to my right. immediately, seeking a bludgeon, his demise is envisioned. however, this housefly stays in my periphery for just a moment longer and I cannot help but notice his tiny little mitts, working and fretting. imagining the tiniest string of rosary beads wrapped around his housefly fists, it occurs to me that he might be making his peace with God. offering up his little housefly benedictions, contritions; apologies for all the sugar bowls, he’s puked in during his miniscule little life, all the little maggots that he might have fathered and subsequently abandoned. I think, without thinking really, to chide my little countertop cohort, saying: “Ah, give it up little one, He isn’t there, He never was, and if He is, He doesn’t give a second’s thought to the likes of us.” the housefly looks at me; still furiously working his unseen beads. “You fool.” he says. “God has obviously heard my contrition, my apologies, and has granted me a reprieve, however brief.” interrupting his novenas, the housefly continues: “You, my friend, are so great, and I am so small, yet you’ve heard my voice, seen my beads, given me reprieve, however brief. I had asked God to give to you, just one golden moment of true, honest belief. And, so He has, and now you understand that the prayers of a housefly have stayed your hand. So, it doesn’t matter how great or how small, God listens to each of us, one and all.” *** -JBClaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2016
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Sep 9, 2016
Sep 9, 2016 at 10:38 AM UTC
Hearing The Prayers of A Housefly
as the coffee cup is rinsed, the filthy little ******* lands on the counter to my right. immediately, seeking a bludgeon, his demise is envisioned. however, this housefly stays in my periphery for just a moment longer and I cannot help but notice his tiny little mitts, working and fretting. imagining the tiniest string of rosary beads wrapped around his housefly fists, it occurs to me that he might be making his peace with God. offering up his little housefly benedictions, contritions; apologies for all the sugar bowls, he’s puked in during his miniscule little life, all the little maggots that he might have fathered and subsequently abandoned. I think, without thinking really, to chide my little countertop cohort, saying: “Ah, give it up little one, He isn’t there, He never was, and if He is, He doesn’t give a second’s thought to the likes of us.” the housefly looks at me; still furiously working his unseen beads. “You fool.” he says. “God has obviously heard my contrition, my apologies, and has granted me a reprieve, however brief.” interrupting his novenas, the housefly continues: “You, my friend, are so great, and I am so small, yet you’ve heard my voice, seen my beads, given me reprieve, however brief. I had asked God to give to you, just one golden moment of true, honest belief. And, so He has, and now you understand that the prayers of a housefly have stayed your hand. So, it doesn’t matter how great or how small, God listens to each of us, one and all.” *** -JBClaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2016
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I knew her for a little ghost That in my garden walked; The wall is high—higher than most— And the green gate was locked. And yet I did not think of that Till after she was gone— I knew her by the broad white hat, All ruffled, she had on. By the dear ruffles round her feet, By her small hands that hung In their lace mitts, austere and sweet, Her gown’s white folds among. I watched to see if she would stay, What she would do—and oh! She looked as if she liked the way I let my garden grow! She bent above my favourite mint With conscious garden grace, She smiled and smiled—there was no hint Of sadness in her face. She held her gown on either side To let her slippers show, And up the walk she went with pride, The way great ladies go. And where the wall is built in new And is of ivy bare She paused—then opened and passed through A gate that once was there.
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The Little Ghost
The lightning forks forth Shoots Up north Like spindly shafts in Perfect formation. Strange synchronization In Martian formalization-- Grasped in nightmarish, Garish mitts of particular Deviant sensations... Little Alice enters her Wonderland, Not by the rabbit’s hole-- Rather a guillotine’s hand... Her Wonderland; This dreamscape quicksand-- With snakes writhing; convulsing on lurid Inferno bandstands, Pushing the limits of your understand-- With preposterous and impossible socks; Technically causing bruising on acid brains. Meanwhile The Martian walks the streets Of the Big Apple in A deep diver’s suit, Picking along his way, low hanging and Chromium laden passion fruit... And Alice, she like what she sees. She likes the alien’s helicopter breeze-- She’s all about melting clocks draped upon Bristlecone Pine trees-- And she’s going to fly into the mouth of the Martian’s galactic lion, and **** on it’s liver.
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 12:43 AM UTC
Dali & Cooper
I'm nothing more than a delusionist, making you see things that don't exist. In this imperialist nation, i'm something more than an extortionist, making my money off these stolen and sold-souls, taken from anyone who resists, 2 birds with one stone - i collect these broken bones and use them as collateral against these religious drones. I am a little less than an illusionist - my hand's being faster than some people's witts. The cards i clutch within my mitts. Dealing out the hands i think should exist. Counting these cards with little trouble, i'll put out some cash and make it double
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Apr 2, 2010
Apr 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM UTC
its me
Your brain is plugged and foggy; Your mind is on the freaking fritz; The poetry is lost and boggy; You hold your pen in woolen mitts. Try a senryu about your life Or a haiku on the froggy pond; Cut through bloc de l'auter with a knife, And slog out of the slough, Despond. Sometimes it helps to focus long On a single spot on the wall of life And see what image comes along... (I like to think of my pretty wife). This writer's block's a funny thing Tied somehow to the lives we lead, And sterile writers need a fling To let their stubborn poems breed. So walk a while, or take a Jeep; Visit the county fair... Milk a cow or shear a sheep; Wear flowers in your hair. Or be like me and go take a nap; Read a good book, or call an old friend; Some poems are babies not yet in the lap, Developing elsewhere, somewhere in the When.... Be sure they'll show up when they're ready to shine; They'll trip off your fingers; they'll flow like red wine; They'll sparkle or spark, or they'll whimper and cry, But your poems will arrive, and I'm telling no lie. Be patient, Good Allys..., the block's not an end, Your poems are waiting ahead, 'round the bend.
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 11:36 AM UTC
bloc de l'auteur (for Allyson)
When I die Don’t be sad It won’t change a thing And I’m not coming back If you care so much Lets be happy now Together When I go, don’t pick pretty things Sweet petaled flora Piling the dying on the dead Instead, plant me something colorful Make sure it gets water, and sun When I leave Don’t whisper angry should-haves Or wish you’d let me know Start writing I would love to hear from you Read more Help a stranger, or someone you hate Commit yourself to something Quit a self-destructive habit When I’m gone Talk to me I’ll listen Think about things that make you cry And be braver than you are numb Pray, even when you've stopped Believing or think it’s dumb When I’m done Don’t march in black, or be scared to use my name Celebrate your own vitality Tell stories and remember I hope I made you laugh Drink and hug and live And say to that creeping specter That ever looming doom To **** off Not today Don’t hold grudges All love comes from forgiveness Of self Challenge your ideas It’s alright to be wrong After me Keep living When you are empty When you are down When your winter soul is a frigid void Feel my mitts on your tense shoulders And the warmth of my arm’s cocoon Swim in my eyes Let me heal you, let me soothe When you doubt it most When there is only sting and ache I will be with you I will love you You will never be alone
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Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 4:35 PM UTC
171. Remember 7/27/13
My night, under opaque wraps, collects my candid questions — unkept before the walls crept back up on me and crammed my thorough thoughts into sufficient suffocation and disallowed my dislocation from total cerebral closure — and covers cognative wonders with a dense fence-like stone cure. The clean-cut cold sheets, tucked beneath the bed springs spring my curiosity through layer after layer of teeming tides of blockades and prohibition but someone sits at the edge of the road, just before crack drops to cliff and he catches my despair, tangled in the rye, and before my in-experience allows me to cry, he hurls my candid questions back my way and continues my disallowance of detaching myself from purity. But despite his baseball mitts, he can’t catch my verbal fits so I scream, “My wants can’t be blocked forever and Holden, I’m holding onto my life for the sake of avoiding strife with you but celibacy of the mind can only lead to our true demise.” He looks me in the eyes, scared he’d been outdone, so he tries to run but the cliff leaves him hanging and I reach for his undemanding hand that swats my offer with a backwards hat. But his fear subsides in his recollection of his misinterpretation of a silly old poem that led him to believe he could catch our innocence. So wear your hat straight, Holden, ‘cause in the rye, you’re not the groundskeeper, but keep your ground and catch yourself before you fall off the cliff and lose yourself in your selfless tantrums and your disregard for your need for wondering. Let me break through my caul, ‘cause it’s burning of decay and I’ve overstayed my welcome in this amniotic gate, devoid of vitality, and I like my life in my own hands, so I’ll tell you now: I’m holdin’ on, Holden. Get a grip and hold on, yourself.
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 3:54 PM UTC
I'm holdin' on, Holden
My night, under opaque wraps, collects my candid questions — unkept before the walls crept back up on me and crammed my thorough thoughts into sufficient suffocation and disallowed my dislocation from total cerebral closure — and covers cognative wonders with a dense fence-like stone cure. The clean-cut cold sheets, tucked beneath the bed springs spring my curiosity through layer after layer of teeming tides of blockades and prohibition but someone sits at the edge of the road, just before crack drops to cliff and he catches my despair, tangled in the rye, and before my in-experience allows me to cry, he hurls my candid questions back my way and continues my disallowance of detaching myself from purity. But despite his baseball mitts, he can’t catch my verbal fits so I scream, “My wants can’t be blocked forever and Holden, I’m holding onto my life for the sake of avoiding strife with you but celibacy of the mind can only lead to our true demise.” He looks me in the eyes, scared he’d been outdone, so he tries to run but the cliff leaves him hanging and I reach for his undemanding hand that swats my offer with a backwards hat. But his fear subsides in his recollection of his misinterpretation of a silly old poem that led him to believe he could catch our innocence. So wear your hat straight, Holden, ‘cause in the rye, you’re not the groundskeeper, but keep your ground and catch yourself before you fall off the cliff and lose yourself in your selfless tantrums and your disregard for your need for wondering. Let me break through my caul, ‘cause it’s burning of decay and I’ve overstayed my welcome in this amniotic gate, devoid of vitality, and I like my life in my own hands, so I’ll tell you now: I’m holdin’ on, Holden. Get a grip and hold on, yourself.
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Imagine if you can I say, the certainty on Christmas Day If Infinite Wisdom should decree, Christmas Day to be snow free. Happy children need Christmas snows, (Ask your parent, they already know); To use their skates, sleighs and skis, And mitts and coats so they don't freeze. History dictates outside toys Combine quite well with outside clothes. Skates match well with socks and toques, Sleighs slide faster warm in boots. Snow awakens sleepyheads, gets kids outside riding sleds. They'll ride their sleds down downy slopes, begging brothers to man sled ropes.  For smiling Cherubs on Christmas morn, hope and pray for snowy lawns. There in safety they can mold a fortress or a snowman bold. HA! Now listen to my homily, snow's not for kids only. What would we do on Christmas Day, with ready kids, no snow for play. Imagine kids - your very own - doing everything at home. Your son, too eager with his horn, playing Gabriel in the early morn. Recall the rush for toys and games, the push of crowds gone insane. "Why won't she play outside at all?" Instead she cartwheels down the hall.  SCREAMS OF LAUGHTER - RESOUNDING;  PEELS OF JOY ECHOING; HAPPY SHRIEKS RESOUNDING on silent Christmas morn.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 10:37 AM UTC
A Christmas Prayer
Are you ready for the main course? Prepare the condiments Thin oven mitts Teas cozies Lace doilies It's just a decoy Here lies the kid who was left home alone while is parents visited The North Pole Try to consolidate the front door And here's a laxative called LSD to aide your constipated mind Now go on with the insurrection And fight Parliament for the sake of the proletariat Who's names are always written in lower case lettering The limousine drivers The skrimpers The savers The single mothers with bad habits who have to dance off skimpy clothing to buy formula for their babies because they're milk is tainted with junk The weary recipients of justice obstructions And catch 22's Who have been singled out because they have monetary deficits Console them Until Eureka! Grab some Q-tips and clean out your ears Stop gritting and grinding your teeth A new realization  is in bloom When did be aware turn into beware? When did alertness become fear? Forget and get over your Remanding-accursed-sweet-tooth-fatigue-that you let in Because it's all in your head along with the idea that hyphens make things look more important and scary I contest all that ********
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
A Little Tab of Insight
The snow in my backyard mildly thunders below my feet Making a statement of solidarity with her fallen brethren, the autumn leaf. I make the choice to hear her untimed song, rather than the complaining chorus of popsicle fingers. Our ball of rain’s most miraculous makeup, hiding the blemishes of men and gods, In my backyard, on a snowed-in, slow and lovely Tuesday afternoon, the snow paints the moment perfect, and freezes it for just a flashing moment. But perfection is too hot, even with mother nature’s Achilles-strength oven mitts adorned. The moment melts. The deer have been here, perhaps an hour or two prior Based on the gentle, temporary fingerprint of existence they left behind. They are perfect today, and I like to think them well-fed and basking in the holiday spirit. The coffee is likely ready by now, And the driveway is not going to shovel itself. I’ll walk out my front door And the snow will be stained with 21st century existence. There is no known cure And it is terminal to dreams, But at least for these few frozen frames I can pretend that the whole world Is like the snow in my backyard.
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 9:13 PM UTC
White Dress Weather
When winter came with blankets of mist A cover of cloud through the day Skies would stretch in endless grey No dancing rays of an ochre sun Then, what comfort and sweet bliss - Was a cup of tea with cinnamon. All wrapped in scarf, cap and mitts Warming hands and toasting toes Singing rhymes or talking prose We'd whisper tales that winter spun Tucked at night in layered quilt - With a cup of tea with cinnamon. With happiness, memories sing Of smiles of youth that teased the cold Battled wars that could be won - To gloat in glory when grey and old Oh, what comfort it still brings - That cup of tea with cinnamon
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Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM UTC
Cinnamon
Ding Ding Ding enter the ring Now introducing the fighters, and the sting they will bring I look in his corner his shorts are blue I can smell he’s in fear, of what I’m about to do Touch mitts to mitts People start thinking, what if he quits Fighters are you ready? Let’s get it on Time to put the brass, up against the brawn Moving my feet, as quick as I can Silence from the crowd, the mouths of every fan I jab with the left, follow with the right Prepare to raise the hand, of a new champ tonight Put my hands down, give him the taunt Trying to see, what he’s got to flaunt He swings a wild hook But I read it like a book I dodge and I duck When I get him in the corner, we both know he’ll be stuck Fire back at his nose Look at his toes he’s froze Giving him, combo number one Now I’m just, having a little fun Combo number two Look at his corner, look at his crew They rave and they rant Knowing their fighter can’t Take this beating all night It’s a sore site They grip the towel He begins to growl One final burst of energy As he swings his fists at me My last punch connects like a boom Sending him back, to his dressing room By the time he begins, to realize The rolling of his eyes Seeing the back of his head People wonder..is he dead? Should have taken up another, sport instead Now he’s on the ground Can’t hear a sound The ref counts to ten Ring the bell my friend Still laying on the mat, and he felt the sting Ding Ding Ding now get out of my ring
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Jul 12, 2010
Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM UTC
Ding Ding Ding
Ding Ding Ding enter the ring Now introducing the fighters, and the sting they will bring I look in his corner his shorts are blue I can smell he’s in fear, of what I’m about to do Touch mitts to mitts People start thinking, what if he quits Fighters are you ready? Let’s get it on Time to put the brass, up against the brawn Moving my feet, as quick as I can Silence from the crowd, the mouths of every fan I jab with the left, follow with the right Prepare to raise the hand, of a new champ tonight Put my hands down, give him the taunt Trying to see, what he’s got to flaunt He swings a wild hook But I read it like a book I dodge and I duck When I get him in the corner, we both know he’ll be stuck Fire back at his nose Look at his toes he’s froze Giving him, combo number one Now I’m just, having a little fun Combo number two Look at his corner, look at his crew They rave and they rant Knowing their fighter can’t Take this beating all night It’s a sore site They grip the towel He begins to growl One final burst of energy As he swings his fists at me My last punch connects like a boom Sending him back, to his dressing room By the time he begins, to realize The rolling of his eyes Seeing the back of his head People wonder..is he dead? Should have taken up another, sport instead Now he’s on the ground Can’t hear a sound The ref counts to ten Ring the bell my friend Still laying on the mat, and he felt the sting Ding Ding Ding now get out of my ring
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A cherry pie, homemade by my wife. An apple pie, cut, opened, sliced. An oven with a turkey, croutons sprinkled on western fresh lettuce, oven mitts, salad dressing, the works. Lemon lime juice- squirted on the meat. After meal deserts. Garlic bread, the tastes, butter smothered, my wife's lips covered, in icing from handmade cakes. A little chill outside, the old fireplace burning. Wood hot the fire heated. Love making at midnight. Passion yearning.
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM UTC
Love at midnight, feasting turkey day