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"mongrel" poems
Send my dreams to the paper press I've got too much to confess This whole mind is a mess And it's mine It's all I could find As I was spending too much time Screaming and crying **** my brothers in the Middle East Let their souls be released As the mongrel dogs have a peaceful feast On our blood Down in the mud When it's someone you don't love You don't even shrug Break my bones over color pride Don't you see what I have inside? For my thoughts, I must die Or else I'm a joke Lost within the smoke If I'm not rich then I must be broke A dying man unknown Make the streets a place of peace Instead of hate and bombing grease Power only makes us weak To ourselves To you and myself Take a long look at yourself And you can tell The morning comes and someone's gone Sent away to a funeral song They lost their life being young And still bright Now they only see the night As their mother tries to sleep at night Without life I'm dead and gone someday soon But still I love each sun and moon As they pass over my room I kneel down I start to look around I start to love everything I've found And I'm proud
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Nov 26, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 at 8:40 PM UTC
Death and Apathy
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide, He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside; He was not aristocratic, being mostly ribs and hair, With a hint of spaniel parents and a touch of native bear He was very poor and humble and content with what he got, So we fed him bones and biscuits, till he heartened up a lot; Then he growled and grew aggressive, treating orders with disdain, Till at last he bit the butcher, which would argue want of brain. Now the butcher, noble fellow, was a sport beyond belief, And instead of bringing actions he brought half a shin of beef, Which he handed on to Fido, who received it as a right And removed it to the garden, where he buried it at night. 'Twas the means of his undoing, for my wife, who'd stood his friend, To adopt a slang expression, "went in off the deepest end", For among the pinks and pansies, the gloxinias and the gorse He had made an excavation like a graveyard for a horse. Then we held a consultation which decided on his fate: 'Twas in anger more than sorrow that we led him to the gate, And we handed him the beef-bone as provision for the day, Then we opened wide the portal and we told him, "On your way."
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A Dog's Mistake [In Doggerel Verse]
Sequacious demonstrative mongrel fantastication Overt fantasias and monstrance clarification Rhetorical rote of empirical justification Whimsical enervations elicit ramification Incite legendary fables of rectification Tempestuous mendacious erudite personifications Endemic epistemological semantics of edification Evocative illuminism engenders mortification Judicious spontaneous phantasms of gratification Numinous salutatory statutes of ratification Heuristic existentializing empiricisms alleviate confusion Adamant machismo machinations eliminate delusion Eulogizing enigma entity’s illustrious illusion Torridly allusive revelries of reverie effusion Educing morose maniacal moribundity’s inclusion Epitomizing empathetic revulsions to corroborate elusion Probitous erudite solicitations evade contusion Raunchy riotous accoutrements appreciate exclusion Optimizing subjunctively torpid recalcitrant collusion Scenario syntactics of mythically epic allusion
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM UTC
Dream Divination
She hates that she is a woman The putrefying weakness perceived in the curves of her body The naivete shown in her blues With the unintentional flutter of butterfly lashes That refuse to meet the glances of those that pass by The fear-- Of what? That stereotypes are true? She doesn't even know And it sickens her. She sickens herself. She hates that she is white The blandest vanilla The marble statue Somehow revered Worshiped Privileged But simultaneously overlooked Boring Unimportant The Caucasian mongrel In light of the fact that her People Have no proud history Which she can name herself heir to She hates that she is middle class Not poor enough to struggle Not rich enough to be free Just situated dully in the middle A footnote in the statistic That they tell her she must use To identify herself She hates that her belief system Has to be called by a name That she has to choose To be a part of a group As part of her "identity" And she is not allowed To stand by her own integrity She hates that she is American The pudgy, loud-mouthed, laterally-speaking nation The brashly jumps into conflict Guns blazing As its political system decays In the stench of its overwhelming debt and corruption But in truth She hates That they force her To whittle her essence down Into Gender, Race, Class, Religion, and Nationality A vomit-inducing statistic As if there was nothing more to her Than the facts surrounding her existence
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 6:11 PM UTC
Her Statistic
He lets her touch him intimately, without emotion                         when in some pretext she is alone, in his cubicle with him, discussing  things inane,                      a software environs need not be  concerned some times when she passes through,                      her longing crosses limits, these days it has become frequent, to the extent others to  notice.                     she found silly excuses, fifth time this morning but he can't hurt her feeling, a team member valued,                       she contributes to his success, as the team leader   He can see her need for comfort,                under her tired eyes dark shadows of sleepiness   lay curled like a depressed mongrel,                      yet another duel she had with that nincompoop    she calls her husband, all through last night;                       a sudden pang he feels calls his wife   asks if she is fine, to ease his guilt that raises                         its head like  a snake from under the cover of grass.   "A housewife has a thousand things to do, why don't you                       find a buxom colleague to flirt, if that is the need"   she banters and teases him on his illogical concerns.                       Through the glass parting he discreetly watches her face    heard a murmur arising inside,"the ***** plans the next move"                            panicked he tried to concentrate on the screen    that looked frightening, the deadline getting nearer and nearer                        by each hour, he heard the heavy foot fall   at that moment he heard a thud, as if something fell down                       everyone was running towards her workstation.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM UTC
The burden
He lets her touch him intimately, without emotion                         when in some pretext she is alone, in his cubicle with him, discussing  things inane,                      a software environs need not be  concerned some times when she passes through,                      her longing crosses limits, these days it has become frequent, to the extent others to  notice.                     she found silly excuses, fifth time this morning but he can't hurt her feeling, a team member valued,                       she contributes to his success, as the team leader   He can see her need for comfort,                under her tired eyes dark shadows of sleepiness   lay curled like a depressed mongrel,                      yet another duel she had with that nincompoop    she calls her husband, all through last night;                       a sudden pang he feels calls his wife   asks if she is fine, to ease his guilt that raises                         its head like  a snake from under the cover of grass.   "A housewife has a thousand things to do, why don't you                       find a buxom colleague to flirt, if that is the need"   she banters and teases him on his illogical concerns.                       Through the glass parting he discreetly watches her face    heard a murmur arising inside,"the ***** plans the next move"                            panicked he tried to concentrate on the screen    that looked frightening, the deadline getting nearer and nearer                        by each hour, he heard the heavy foot fall   at that moment he heard a thud, as if something fell down                       everyone was running towards her workstation.
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from a distance, I thought you might be a wolf   straying from the high country, confused by the cacophony of scents, but no, ‘twas my vapid vision, you were   only a mongrel, perched high on the mound   the odors of suburban fast food ghosts     and tuna tins familiar to you   you stood atop the reeking remnants your right front paw resting on   the shredded files of a grand embezzler   your left rear on the ear of a headless teddy bear   another on an orange rind until you shifted your weight and found footing on a crinkled crushed water bottle one of about…33,448,899 in the heap, or maybe 33,448,900   and the last on the ubiquitous cell phone that heard its final voice a fortnight before, when its master spoke his last light words before he tossed it into a dark dumpster   and replaced it with another plastic confessor   whose fate would ultimately be the same   after some sublime texting  and sexting and a few vain words to other deaf dogs
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM UTC
the cur at the landfill
**No canine companion  has ever questioned me, cheeky mongrel, you cross the line too often, don't forget this; an animal is still alive within me, though an animal rights activist I remain officially.**
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 9:26 AM UTC
To the rebellious dog
Past rolling hills green valleys and beautiful woods. Over falls wondrous and meadows gold. Through towns and villages snow covered and cold. Over oceans vast and jungles deep Lies, the mountain mammoth. Great stones mere bones before its sprawling feet. Standing in awe at its Gothic magnificence. All creations lying under the shadow of this monstrous heap. They dance in reverence they bask in the terrible embrace, of the mountain mammoth. This far away mountain oh fiery fountain. Oh ginormous mongrel oh hideous evil. Enveloping all life purging all love. Decimating madness the end of all things. Fear erupts from it like water from a spring. Darkness covers the mountain darkness blacker then pitch. Darkness that no light ever can touch not even the stars those resilient lanterns. All hope is dashed at the walls of the mammoth mountain. All hope is forsaken at the foot of the great fiery fountain.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 12:14 PM UTC
Mammoth Mountain
two little ugly creatures astride me shhhh-oulders residers and deniers, opinion~haters, into each ear, they whisper~creep, do don't do don't you'll be sorry,* ***never~good~enough~ and~you~know~it*** *never in uni~sons, now look how sorry~sad you are... dear old dad when done with the outside torturing, slip right in and down the ear canal, up to the brain, thought~mongers, (what's a monger anyway?) the voices of my depression, you can't, you couldn't, you lose, yo yo you lost you are o v e r, my body snatched, my past erasing, turn me into mongrel, half~man, half~dead a monger-el, a contemptible god, contempted, contemptible that's the word refrain of the men in my head*
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Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 12:41 AM UTC
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
oh i can tell you why Brexit happened... apparently in light of the European i was not European enough, a mongrel, a ******* Mongol... eastern Europeans are Mongols, mind you...                 i'm pretty sure the Brexit vote happened... because the A8 joined...         when the Eatern European joined the old post-colonial powers... plenty of Pakistanis...      do i mind? do i ******* care?! i don't care... you deal with: the minding!     no...   i have an inheritance tax without any ceremonial                                 past... your **** is your ******* **** plus the Arab, and the curry... **** off!             i'm no ******* *vierte ***** pussy-whip... you ******* yo-yo oreo!         mind you? put me down on this one... i hate the Poles... i ******* hate the Poles...    what they did to the Chernobyl me? i hate the Polacks...     don't like them...                i'd rather spit than talk to them...    i've learned my lesson...                     i hate them more than the Germans, or the Russians... i hate them with the sort of hatred reserved for               patriots...   Judas Priests...    i abhor the ****** catholicism... it makes me... cringe...                 then i think: thickens the thong - better than the Islamic crap to mind making a boot... Brexit only happened because of the supposed invasion of the A8...    the Pakistani mobile gave off a jitter - somehow the "excess" Europeans migrated...               whites combined with whites... Europeans mingled... big problem for the Pakistanis... Brexit only happened because "eastern" Europe joined the *vierte *****   well... "joined"...       some of us had enough sense as to keep the currency...   ******* Pakistani bullshitters...   what?! i thought English girls loved being gang-rape-fucked?!   no?!    my bad...                 the joining of the A8 disrupted the presence of Britain in the EU...          thumbs up on the curry-sauce... thumbs down on the Baltic sauerkraut.... guess what?!                           **** you! you ******* British Empire bonkers...   relief contra racism with an Empire disintegrating!   wankers...                    sure, beseech alliances outside of Europe...   seek them, find them, govern them...       the next time you come shoveling your **** into my: awareness... i'll be asking... so... Rotherham...           no, not really... don't bother me with that sort of **** you deal with your ******** before shoving your ***** into my mouth expecting me to gargle on the produce...                you're closer to Pakistan than i am to Mongolia... you draw the the postcard... i'll draw the pretty picture. don't get me wrong, thought, i hate the Polacks... i don't belong between them...    i'd prefer to be strapped to a Hydra of homeless dogs... than exercise the humanity of a shared tongue with these... mongrels; mind you... the British are just as bad... when it comes to their, mongrel stature.
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 6:54 PM UTC
the Mongols are coming! / scenes from Warsaw
oh i can tell you why Brexit happened... apparently in light of the European i was not European enough, a mongrel, a ******* Mongol... eastern Europeans are Mongols, mind you...                 i'm pretty sure the Brexit vote happened... because the A8 joined...         when the Eatern European joined the old post-colonial powers... plenty of Pakistanis...      do i mind? do i ******* care?! i don't care... you deal with: the minding!     no...   i have an inheritance tax without any ceremonial                                 past... your **** is your ******* **** plus the Arab, and the curry... **** off!             i'm no ******* *vierte ***** pussy-whip... you ******* yo-yo oreo!         mind you? put me down on this one... i hate the Poles... i ******* hate the Poles...    what they did to the Chernobyl me? i hate the Polacks...     don't like them...                i'd rather spit than talk to them...    i've learned my lesson...                     i hate them more than the Germans, or the Russians... i hate them with the sort of hatred reserved for               patriots...   Judas Priests...    i abhor the ****** catholicism... it makes me... cringe...                 then i think: thickens the thong - better than the Islamic crap to mind making a boot... Brexit only happened because of the supposed invasion of the A8...    the Pakistani mobile gave off a jitter - somehow the "excess" Europeans migrated...               whites combined with whites... Europeans mingled... big problem for the Pakistanis... Brexit only happened because "eastern" Europe joined the *vierte *****   well... "joined"...       some of us had enough sense as to keep the currency...   ******* Pakistani bullshitters...   what?! i thought English girls loved being gang-rape-fucked?!   no?!    my bad...                 the joining of the A8 disrupted the presence of Britain in the EU...          thumbs up on the curry-sauce... thumbs down on the Baltic sauerkraut.... guess what?!                           **** you! you ******* British Empire bonkers...   relief contra racism with an Empire disintegrating!   wankers...                    sure, beseech alliances outside of Europe...   seek them, find them, govern them...       the next time you come shoveling your **** into my: awareness... i'll be asking... so... Rotherham...           no, not really... don't bother me with that sort of **** you deal with your ******** before shoving your ***** into my mouth expecting me to gargle on the produce...                you're closer to Pakistan than i am to Mongolia... you draw the the postcard... i'll draw the pretty picture. don't get me wrong, thought, i hate the Polacks... i don't belong between them...    i'd prefer to be strapped to a Hydra of homeless dogs... than exercise the humanity of a shared tongue with these... mongrels; mind you... the British are just as bad... when it comes to their, mongrel stature.
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What was her name? **** I can’t remember. It was a boy’s name made feminine with a little “i” at the end like maybe hearing it would make you think of some fat guy making pizzas until you see it spelled out or until it becomes attached to her lips and hair and skin. The “i” was not dotted with a little heart, (not her style at all) but I should have a picture in a box some where with more pictures. I don’t. I’ve got little notes, tiny thoughts scribbled on empty match book covers, on the backs of pretentious business cards, in the borders of the mutilated, amputated flesh of decrepit used up yellow pages,   ripped from a dead and disjointed phone book. I woke up from this dream and groped for something to scrawl on, anything, because it seemed significant at 2:38 am. In the desert somewhere, (I’ve never even been) you were looking out the window and the way the parched dry light crackled around you you might have been an angel or a sign partially occluded by glass advertising something I could never afford like family or god when suddenly you were not a silhouette, not back lit, but glowing. You were so in love, with who I don’t know, and you went into free fall back onto the bed pulled your knees up to your chest and kicked your legs giggling. I was part dead, half ghost and still happy that you were so happy. I said, “you’re pregnant?” knowing the way you know things without really having a way of knowing in a dream. You laughed again grabbed your little dog up in your arms, (I’ve no idea where the pup came from), and baby-whispered, “You’re going to cut the umbilical, aren’t you?” and I woke with the image of that mongrel chewing through the cord. I am waiting at the pharmacy and the… technician, is reading the cryptic symbols penned in indiscernible Latin, my prescription. She is not beautiful but very fuckable And in my mind I am constructing an image of her ****** likening   the shape, size, color, etc., to her mouth, when I see my own writing on the back through her precise fingers. The tech,   she is holding a snapshot of her. It might as well be a picture of me vomiting or ************ or defecating. This is what I have left, my version of a photo, my dream, scrawled on the back of my medicine. **** getting better.   I ****** it from her hand. I leave fast.  I will never go back. This is no chemical imbalance. This is not my inheritance. The loss and pain, sometimes, that's the pill we need to swallow.
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Oct 30, 2011
Oct 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM UTC
Disjointed
What was her name? **** I can’t remember. It was a boy’s name made feminine with a little “i” at the end like maybe hearing it would make you think of some fat guy making pizzas until you see it spelled out or until it becomes attached to her lips and hair and skin. The “i” was not dotted with a little heart, (not her style at all) but I should have a picture in a box some where with more pictures. I don’t. I’ve got little notes, tiny thoughts scribbled on empty match book covers, on the backs of pretentious business cards, in the borders of the mutilated, amputated flesh of decrepit used up yellow pages,   ripped from a dead and disjointed phone book. I woke up from this dream and groped for something to scrawl on, anything, because it seemed significant at 2:38 am. In the desert somewhere, (I’ve never even been) you were looking out the window and the way the parched dry light crackled around you you might have been an angel or a sign partially occluded by glass advertising something I could never afford like family or god when suddenly you were not a silhouette, not back lit, but glowing. You were so in love, with who I don’t know, and you went into free fall back onto the bed pulled your knees up to your chest and kicked your legs giggling. I was part dead, half ghost and still happy that you were so happy. I said, “you’re pregnant?” knowing the way you know things without really having a way of knowing in a dream. You laughed again grabbed your little dog up in your arms, (I’ve no idea where the pup came from), and baby-whispered, “You’re going to cut the umbilical, aren’t you?” and I woke with the image of that mongrel chewing through the cord. I am waiting at the pharmacy and the… technician, is reading the cryptic symbols penned in indiscernible Latin, my prescription. She is not beautiful but very fuckable And in my mind I am constructing an image of her ****** likening   the shape, size, color, etc., to her mouth, when I see my own writing on the back through her precise fingers. The tech,   she is holding a snapshot of her. It might as well be a picture of me vomiting or ************ or defecating. This is what I have left, my version of a photo, my dream, scrawled on the back of my medicine. **** getting better.   I ****** it from her hand. I leave fast.  I will never go back. This is no chemical imbalance. This is not my inheritance. The loss and pain, sometimes, that's the pill we need to swallow.
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I have developed a twitch in my body-brain. It jerks at my organs and my violet thoughts. I can control it to make it work, Use it to dance on your rusted metal cogs. It's like a spinning tree, With interwinding pine cones of Gold that hang from satin branches He is perched up there again! Tall and proud. Not a bird like other animals. Not an animal like other animals. I know your most shameful thoughts, Let me tease out the guilt and despair Pull it out in worm string from your Bloodied Guts, Your gilded towers where you lock them away Shame on you. Bell chimes three times: Death call But blue tears still cling like sharp thorns to brassy plumage plumes plumes plumes Frère Jaques, Frère Jaques, Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous? Slumber not next to the satin tree, Layered under the shrieks of your old loves Where they suffer timeless tortures that make your tongue Taste like fish feed. Poppy breathed inside his beak-jaw, mongrel! White faeces stain the satin branches again. Bloodied, bloodied, bloodied. Pandora makes you bleed White faeces. Leech, your brain is a leech-vampire. White faeces. Quick, walk around the tree three times in clockwise motions, Not like a tick-tock more like the flap of a wing. Do not forget the tear ink, Her tears were ink, they were ink, ink, ink, ink. Sink into the poppy field! Churn in your toxic nutrition Choke on your reflux Do not taste. Do not see. Do not smell. Do not touch.
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 6:08 PM UTC
Ink
The Hispanic breeds are being scared off lately, They don’t speak much English, I don’t speak much Spanish, But I remember when I was a little boy, White boy in a brown body, Nestled in a blanket in a slum apartment, Surrounded by grizzly, Mexican men, All with breath of stale beer, They’re faded blue like their work shirts, And I was young and golden, They were all my friends, The air, oily with the smell of fried tortillas, My own eyes wide, My hair long, over my ears, A worn, mongrel, Mexican boy.
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Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 2:06 AM UTC
My Name Is Juan
You smell like laundry detergent, mongrel, and marijuana
wrapped in strawberry cigar papers. The way
the couch smells warm of people
prior to the heat and sweat we produced
on its rough synthetic fibers
that left me brush burns. Of French fries and cheesy steak hoagies caked to your apron as big golden grease stains. You smell
of a soft shower, the nothingness
smell of water, that is still a smell.
Of loofah drenched with cobalt body wash
that your mother bought, not quite
feminine enough, but nothing you picked out yourself.
Of turquoise Listerine, the first and last time I had to wash you out. Pineapples and watermelons, latex and the salty smell that could be sweat or ***** When the air is mixed with gasoline and ***** ground winter snow, filled with rock salt. That’s what you smell like, in case you were wondering, her jacket smells of you.
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Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:01 PM UTC
The Last Day of November at a Bus Stop
volcano the rat popped out of the sewer and ran down the road gnawing on a crooked table leg. the pin up girls have been crying in the chapel over strange men with belly problems. it is very early and the sky is still a black mongrel rolled in waves of silence. i was king midas for forty minutes in a dream last night, i held a crazy unspeakable microphone and i slapped myself in the face. buy me a soapbox just like jesus had, hang posters of houdini and exist in silence. i have the mad pulse of a child, a rosy cheeked poet am i. last night i secretly tried to chop down the church steeple, "down with enthusiasm."
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Jan 11, 2012
Jan 11, 2012 at 7:28 AM UTC
king midas dream
i've learned how to smell the circus i've watched a black mongrel turn into a weasel tonight the moon's nickname is crooked betty and the stars are bleeding adam's apples shining like a volcano i wield a hacksaw and terrible excuses my mouth is wet with jingle jangle and situational confusion everything is temporary.
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Feb 3, 2012
Feb 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM UTC
untouchable
Sister, I've been to your chambers, I've seen that Holy Bible Kept ***** with your tomes. I know that you're secretly A nun, or a Catholic schoolgirl. But that's impossible, Because I've never seen you Flustered pink like A fragile glass of Lemonade On a thirsty, Sinful, Sabbath day. You can't be celibate. You are way too beautiful for that. And such beauty left to waste Is proof enough that my God is Absent. He is spending His time Dodging deadlines to watch Every move you make. There are always Judgments to be made. I beg of you, Cleanse this ***** Get on your knees and pray, But do it slowly. Kiss the shaft of your Savior Renounce your title to Him So we can both go to Heaven. You might think I'm just a mongrel, Filthy in the eyes and mind. Love is a pearl born from nature, And yours is due to be polished. -Juan Carlos Gomez
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Oct 26, 2011
Oct 26, 2011 at 2:04 AM UTC
Hot Nuns
for Thomas Raine Crowe ...These nights bring dreams of Cherokee shamans whose names are bright verbs and impacted dark nouns, whose memories are indictments of my pallid flesh... and I hear, as from a great distance, the cries tortured from their guileless lips, proclaiming the nature of my mutation. NOTE: My “mutation” is that my family appears to contain English, Scottish, German and Cherokee blood, meaning that my ancestors were probably at war with each other. Did my English ancestors force my Cherokee ancestors to walk the Trail of Tears? I have recently created these new translations of Native American poems, proverbs and sayings ... What is life? The flash of a firefly. The breath of a winter buffalo. The shadow scooting across the grass that vanishes with sunset. —Blackfoot saying, translation by Michael R. Burch Speak less thunder, wield more lightning. — Apache proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch The more we wonder, the more we understand. — Arapaho proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Adults talk, children whine. — Blackfoot proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Don’t be afraid to cry: it will lessen your sorrow. — Hopi proverb One foot in the boat, one foot in the canoe, and you end up in the river. — Tuscarora proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Our enemy's weakness increases our strength. — Cherokee proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch We will be remembered tomorrow by the tracks we leave today. — Dakota proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch No sound's as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail. — Navajo saying, translation by Michael R. Burch The heart is our first teacher. — Cheyenne proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Dreams beget success. — Maricopa proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Knowledge interprets the past, wisdom foresees the future. — Lumbee proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch The troublemaker's way is thorny. — Umpqua proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 6:33 AM UTC
Mongrel Dreams
for Thomas Raine Crowe ...These nights bring dreams of Cherokee shamans whose names are bright verbs and impacted dark nouns, whose memories are indictments of my pallid flesh... and I hear, as from a great distance, the cries tortured from their guileless lips, proclaiming the nature of my mutation. NOTE: My “mutation” is that my family appears to contain English, Scottish, German and Cherokee blood, meaning that my ancestors were probably at war with each other. Did my English ancestors force my Cherokee ancestors to walk the Trail of Tears? I have recently created these new translations of Native American poems, proverbs and sayings ... What is life? The flash of a firefly. The breath of a winter buffalo. The shadow scooting across the grass that vanishes with sunset. —Blackfoot saying, translation by Michael R. Burch Speak less thunder, wield more lightning. — Apache proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch The more we wonder, the more we understand. — Arapaho proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Adults talk, children whine. — Blackfoot proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Don’t be afraid to cry: it will lessen your sorrow. — Hopi proverb One foot in the boat, one foot in the canoe, and you end up in the river. — Tuscarora proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Our enemy's weakness increases our strength. — Cherokee proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch We will be remembered tomorrow by the tracks we leave today. — Dakota proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch No sound's as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail. — Navajo saying, translation by Michael R. Burch The heart is our first teacher. — Cheyenne proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Dreams beget success. — Maricopa proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch Knowledge interprets the past, wisdom foresees the future. — Lumbee proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch The troublemaker's way is thorny. — Umpqua proverb, translation by Michael R. Burch
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I’m sick and tired of people rabbiting on a load of **** About their ******* duty and fighting for freedom For the fat ugly patriotic selfish folks "back home" And pathetic ****** neo-fascist ******** like that And gabbling on a load of sentimental horsedung About giving their all for their ******* useless country When honestly they’d rather be at home in some ugly provincial hick town Patting their nasty mongrel dogs and groping their neighbours’ wives' arses And eating mumsy-wumsy’s over-cooked meat and stodgy apple pie Whilst ensconced on the sofa watching sodding Celebrity Big Brother. How can a soldier nowadays say he didn't want to be there? Are people so ******* thick or blind or moronic not to realise A person volunteers to be in the armed forces in most countries nowadays? There’s no ****** press gangs or ****** conscription any more; People become soldiers because they choose to do so (exceptions include filthy ******* shit-holes like Israel where the young men queue up to **** Palestinian babies for fun) . Therefore soldiers DO want to fight, they DO want the chance to **** And they willingly risk their own ugly unwashed redneck necks. So they have no right to whine and bellyache when they get asked To earn their daily state-paid bread and do a spot of killing Instead of sitting on their overweight arses at MY expense. Or course, they could show some real guts and resign instead, But what the **** why pass up on a chance to do some Legalised ****** and get paid handsomely at the same time. Just in case you think I forgot, I am totally and fully aware That 'he' includes 'she' in this context now that women Have an equal chance to have their military buns blown off pointlessly. So don't whinge or expect sympathy when your body parts come home in a bag. Personally, I am of the belief that the only good soldier is a dead soldier, And the more the merrier. RIP military thugs and up yours.
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 12:39 PM UTC
Patriotic Puke
I’m sick and tired of people rabbiting on a load of **** About their ******* duty and fighting for freedom For the fat ugly patriotic selfish folks "back home" And pathetic ****** neo-fascist ******** like that And gabbling on a load of sentimental horsedung About giving their all for their ******* useless country When honestly they’d rather be at home in some ugly provincial hick town Patting their nasty mongrel dogs and groping their neighbours’ wives' arses And eating mumsy-wumsy’s over-cooked meat and stodgy apple pie Whilst ensconced on the sofa watching sodding Celebrity Big Brother. How can a soldier nowadays say he didn't want to be there? Are people so ******* thick or blind or moronic not to realise A person volunteers to be in the armed forces in most countries nowadays? There’s no ****** press gangs or ****** conscription any more; People become soldiers because they choose to do so (exceptions include filthy ******* shit-holes like Israel where the young men queue up to **** Palestinian babies for fun) . Therefore soldiers DO want to fight, they DO want the chance to **** And they willingly risk their own ugly unwashed redneck necks. So they have no right to whine and bellyache when they get asked To earn their daily state-paid bread and do a spot of killing Instead of sitting on their overweight arses at MY expense. Or course, they could show some real guts and resign instead, But what the **** why pass up on a chance to do some Legalised ****** and get paid handsomely at the same time. Just in case you think I forgot, I am totally and fully aware That 'he' includes 'she' in this context now that women Have an equal chance to have their military buns blown off pointlessly. So don't whinge or expect sympathy when your body parts come home in a bag. Personally, I am of the belief that the only good soldier is a dead soldier, And the more the merrier. RIP military thugs and up yours.
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You have been barking too much and you seem to have lost touch with what is acceptable behavior ignoring the example of any Savior. The community is also sick and tired of the noise you make that’s inspired by the standards you wish to impose on other people to follow your nose. You think that when barking you don’t drivel expecting those whom you bark at to shrivel by the magnitude of the noise that you make so as to impress all others for your own sake. You’re really nothing but a mongrel after all and don’t give a **** about others who call often out to you to shut up and stop barking but continue with a selfish clamor marking. Could it be those whom you bark at are being a threat to your own position you’re seeing? Or is it perhaps due to the diminishing customer base as the neighborhood is now aware of your sad case? The time’s coming when you’ll get a kick up the **** so the incessant dreary noise you now make will pass. __________________
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 5:41 PM UTC
A Doggerel to the Local Dog(s)
Come For Me Come for me In darkness Like all cowards Come for me When I am starved And deprived of Comfort Come for me when I am crazed For want Of a woman's lips Come for me When my days Have outlasted The portion in my Beggar's bowl Come for me When I have Watched the mongrel Suffer in the ditch Come for me on Lorcas's birthday And Akhmatova's Wedding night Or Bastille Day Come for me In my darkness And I will show You how I write poetry
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 10:52 PM UTC
Outsider's Poem
(I) People used to light candles to ward off
 prophesies such as this. Stopping, each motherly representative, for 75 seconds 
or less, to tip match-spark to wax-thread and hope for the best. What ceremonial significance now 
do we seek for to slow the approach 
of what we know is waiting? Oncoming march of death-knolls and unhappiness 
bound up in silence 
where once we laughed uncensored at and for
 the characters who spun throughout this town, that school, the city, our lives. All being, understandably, becomes 
efficiently replaced with obvious simplicity.
 From effortless performances 
of what made our lives important
 back in childhood years when living was stable and guaranteed,
 now to this mongrel era of constant migration 
beckoning....
 The familiar is no longer our youth’s careless summer holidays.
 The Familiar is now a land where 
people don’t bother with any ideas 
of an ideal existence beyond 
what lottery tickets may bring. Those who inhabit here are 
more alerted to the purpose of lighting 
coals in winter to shelter the children 
and to keep the windows from cracking. 
In summer find these same awaiting with
 patient ears to heed any advice which keeps them from going completely insane. (II) Go now, away
,begin your quest, foolish schoolboy.
 An entire adolescence’s
 comeuppance is due. 
 Time now to seek recompense for the years you waited
 for anything significant to happen. 
 Time to seek girls with inviting eyes 
and lilting vowels to offer favors to. Abled with a catalogue of charmed 
intoxicants. All softened by a plentitude of weekdays waking at three in the afternoon. 
(Does “afternoon” exist in layman’s terms? Does 
he simply made do with morning, day and night?) Then on your flight make haste 
to ensure your visit merely brief.
 Like only one dimension of
 your day-persona be a hawk
 that delivers messages 
back to the ivory towers of 
new central HQ, while remaining 
 all cloak and whisper. Messages from where people live 
but no longer speak, 
as result of an assigned sense 
of failure,or complimentary 
wrongdoings sought, what sorrow achieves. 
Shattered lives, Ending dreams.
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM UTC
Forecast In February
(I) People used to light candles to ward off
 prophesies such as this. Stopping, each motherly representative, for 75 seconds 
or less, to tip match-spark to wax-thread and hope for the best. What ceremonial significance now 
do we seek for to slow the approach 
of what we know is waiting? Oncoming march of death-knolls and unhappiness 
bound up in silence 
where once we laughed uncensored at and for
 the characters who spun throughout this town, that school, the city, our lives. All being, understandably, becomes 
efficiently replaced with obvious simplicity.
 From effortless performances 
of what made our lives important
 back in childhood years when living was stable and guaranteed,
 now to this mongrel era of constant migration 
beckoning....
 The familiar is no longer our youth’s careless summer holidays.
 The Familiar is now a land where 
people don’t bother with any ideas 
of an ideal existence beyond 
what lottery tickets may bring. Those who inhabit here are 
more alerted to the purpose of lighting 
coals in winter to shelter the children 
and to keep the windows from cracking. 
In summer find these same awaiting with
 patient ears to heed any advice which keeps them from going completely insane. (II) Go now, away
,begin your quest, foolish schoolboy.
 An entire adolescence’s
 comeuppance is due. 
 Time now to seek recompense for the years you waited
 for anything significant to happen. 
 Time to seek girls with inviting eyes 
and lilting vowels to offer favors to. Abled with a catalogue of charmed 
intoxicants. All softened by a plentitude of weekdays waking at three in the afternoon. 
(Does “afternoon” exist in layman’s terms? Does 
he simply made do with morning, day and night?) Then on your flight make haste 
to ensure your visit merely brief.
 Like only one dimension of
 your day-persona be a hawk
 that delivers messages 
back to the ivory towers of 
new central HQ, while remaining 
 all cloak and whisper. Messages from where people live 
but no longer speak, 
as result of an assigned sense 
of failure,or complimentary 
wrongdoings sought, what sorrow achieves. 
Shattered lives, Ending dreams.
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so the *** debate is raging like a Californian wildfire in the forests, people are "presumed" missing... i'm sat watching back to the future (beats star wars, every, single time: the ****** is more obvious) and then drinking... i always wanted to taste a lobster... and listening to the best of billy joel... scratching my mustache... BELGIANS IN THE UK! then fiddling with my bead... my beard... i have a beard?!i **** i have a beard! i took, fiddling with my ***** the wrong way... after all ****** airs have the same feel as ***** hair... a bit like cleavage... so... you're donningv     the buttock crack up-front?! funny, eh? making fun of the phallus... how about feeding a Donnie Disney with your, puppies?! how about that? ***             if women do need no men... do what we do... **** off anal-style... we do the **** projective... you cut out utilizing the ****** look... 'appy bunnies" if ai am about to turn into a ***** the female right... all the rights you require... sure... have them... but what sort of right is it, when there's no existentialist argument? go on... please... make your dodo               and your mixed-raced argument... mono-racial is the new neanderthal... call it... we're not progressive enough... we're too ******** to mingle ethnicity... call it!        call me halfway house between down and the ****** call it!                        call it! ***** better call it!         (through gritting teeth): call it! i said... call it! be your progressive "self"... call it!          i'm ******** for not mingling adequately enough with crafting a trans-ethnicity populace... neanderthal...    *****                       call it! guess what... i love the laced take on history via the Anglophone re-reinterpretation of Darwinism... i love the neanderthal take on thiongs... i'm bilingual, schizophrenic, the sort of mongrel that... has no place among the duo-ethnicity... "mongrels"... lucky you, lucky me...   i'm sorry... the F extends just so far... two languages, orange man, bad... but a congregation of a dual ethnicity, green man, god, and "the" good...      whatever suits your favor... i should care, i won't care, i don't care, i will, to never ever give a **** about caring; like god "said": on your own;         i much prefer the freedoms of the jungle, than the restrictions of a zoo. it's billy joel, "by the way"... life will go on... obviously a life much ******** than the intelligent people are used to... but... if that's what you allow... then you're deserving it.
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Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 9:24 PM UTC
likened to the photographs of my exeses
so the *** debate is raging like a Californian wildfire in the forests, people are "presumed" missing... i'm sat watching back to the future (beats star wars, every, single time: the ****** is more obvious) and then drinking... i always wanted to taste a lobster... and listening to the best of billy joel... scratching my mustache... BELGIANS IN THE UK! then fiddling with my bead... my beard... i have a beard?!i **** i have a beard! i took, fiddling with my ***** the wrong way... after all ****** airs have the same feel as ***** hair... a bit like cleavage... so... you're donningv     the buttock crack up-front?! funny, eh? making fun of the phallus... how about feeding a Donnie Disney with your, puppies?! how about that? ***             if women do need no men... do what we do... **** off anal-style... we do the **** projective... you cut out utilizing the ****** look... 'appy bunnies" if ai am about to turn into a ***** the female right... all the rights you require... sure... have them... but what sort of right is it, when there's no existentialist argument? go on... please... make your dodo               and your mixed-raced argument... mono-racial is the new neanderthal... call it... we're not progressive enough... we're too ******** to mingle ethnicity... call it!        call me halfway house between down and the ****** call it!                        call it! ***** better call it!         (through gritting teeth): call it! i said... call it! be your progressive "self"... call it!          i'm ******** for not mingling adequately enough with crafting a trans-ethnicity populace... neanderthal...    *****                       call it! guess what... i love the laced take on history via the Anglophone re-reinterpretation of Darwinism... i love the neanderthal take on thiongs... i'm bilingual, schizophrenic, the sort of mongrel that... has no place among the duo-ethnicity... "mongrels"... lucky you, lucky me...   i'm sorry... the F extends just so far... two languages, orange man, bad... but a congregation of a dual ethnicity, green man, god, and "the" good...      whatever suits your favor... i should care, i won't care, i don't care, i will, to never ever give a **** about caring; like god "said": on your own;         i much prefer the freedoms of the jungle, than the restrictions of a zoo. it's billy joel, "by the way"... life will go on... obviously a life much ******** than the intelligent people are used to... but... if that's what you allow... then you're deserving it.
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There is something about seeing a woman in a man's clothes that hints at recent sins, for where are her own clothes and why does she choose to wear a man's shirt? A man's stink? His salty passions, faded nights written sartorially in drink? The wood of his wardrobe and his love of meatballs? Jackets are overcoats, clothes lie, skin peeks from behind rolled up sleeves pants are dated, we say, **** pants. There is a sense that what I've been wearing has never seen better days. I study this creature with a cat's grace masquerading in a mongrel's wrinkled skin. It is then I decide that these clothes are no longer mine, that they belong to she who they've chosen and that I'd rather be naked than feel the shame of being second best for my own things. Quietly, I peel her like an orange, tongues singing like electricity.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 9:29 AM UTC
Androgyny
*Bus poems are shorties written on the way home, riding the M31 thru Manhattan. Often silly, often not...* There is a contest that does not involve my P.S.F. (Preferred Sport Franchise) this weekend, truly don't give a good ****** who wins, but that is no excuse to deny me my sir sore-losing, victim status, so richly deserved. A triumvirate of doctor, g.f. and medical tests, have on the field ruled, once a year, a conjugal visit permitted, tween my arteries and chicken wings. there will pigs in blankets demanding attention, potato knishes, and cole slaw juices,  and a foreign dignitary, Sayyid Cous-Cous, lining up along side the quarterback  who will be 'winging' honey and spicy passes to his favorite receiver, this couch coach and impartial observer. This is my Sunday fare. If insufficiently highbrow, for all you poetic aesthetes, have no fear, this athlete gastronomic,, victim of his victuals, will prepare mentally by hanging with King Lear once more, sharing a verbal tasting menu, the day prior, who once called me, at a Giant super bowl party, *“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel ***** one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.”* ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
Bus Poems: Victuals Victim
*Bus poems are shorties written on the way home, riding the M31 thru Manhattan. Often silly, often not...* There is a contest that does not involve my P.S.F. (Preferred Sport Franchise) this weekend, truly don't give a good ****** who wins, but that is no excuse to deny me my sir sore-losing, victim status, so richly deserved. A triumvirate of doctor, g.f. and medical tests, have on the field ruled, once a year, a conjugal visit permitted, tween my arteries and chicken wings. there will pigs in blankets demanding attention, potato knishes, and cole slaw juices,  and a foreign dignitary, Sayyid Cous-Cous, lining up along side the quarterback  who will be 'winging' honey and spicy passes to his favorite receiver, this couch coach and impartial observer. This is my Sunday fare. If insufficiently highbrow, for all you poetic aesthetes, have no fear, this athlete gastronomic,, victim of his victuals, will prepare mentally by hanging with King Lear once more, sharing a verbal tasting menu, the day prior, who once called me, at a Giant super bowl party, *“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel ***** one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.”* ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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