"nicolas" poems
Around me architectural mastery:
sycamores, embankments, enduring ionic pillars.
I round a walkway bordered by trees,
enamel thawing, gliding off their low leaves.
Beneath the late-May’s pounding sun,
through the glittered trees’ reaches,
a gazebo crackles into sight.
Children in their prime, sunbathers, a wistful portraitist
encircle it carelessly:
a leisured chimney; the billows of life.
The foliage escapes into the river,
purplish, palpitating, cyclic creases
receive the dewy notes.
Kayaks licking acacia-gum-edged
ripples sputter and slip
through reverberations
of leveled white-water terraces.
Blackcurrants in clotted cream
slide on the plush lips of a young passerby.
The 8 above a doorway
dances motionless, silent in my periphery;
“Nicolas Cage just sold the spot”
pops from unknown lungs
inside the Circus crowd.
Unacknowledged, half-proud
hands built the Roman baths
alone, closed-in by such grace,
forgotten, then as now.
I wander these ancestral lanes
more or less alone, the same.
Jul 4, 2012
Jul 4, 2012 at 7:55 AM UTC
Muelle de Binondo Street,
Barangay San Nicolas,
Old Manila.
My dad's fate
Will always be muddled
With nostalgia:
The mid-afternoon
Traffic of fruit vendors,
The toothless strains
Of my grandfather's voice,
Bouncing off
The warehouse walls
Like folding cardboard,
The ceramic gallops of horse-
Drawn kalesas taking him
From school to
My grandfather's offices,
Every day and back,
Up and down
The cardboard box river
To Tondo. There, he hurriedly
Buys ten
Asado buns
From a stall across the
Street from their
School - a voracious
Schoolboy
Forever late for class, forever
Putting on basketball jerseys
Too wide for him,
Basketball shorts too
Short; body
Always too gangly,
Too long-limbed, wide eyed
And fleet footed
For his dreams to catch.
He once could dunk.
He is still a baby boomer -
Scared of firecrackers,
Weird penchant
For popped collar shirts,
Pointed shoes, and
Sequins - he, was an avid
Lover of stars - his old
Dust-strewn bed posts
Giving way, I imagine,
To iron bars caging
The luminous starry night,
Floating high above
The sewage
And the freight trucks
That weigh him so.
They sang to him.
In the tune of
My mother's voice -
The only album
He ever possessed.
Song set from
His favorite band.
"Apo Hiking Society."
His favorite word,
Was "leap."
A disciple
Of MJ, Dr. J,
And Magic,
Samboy, and Jawo,
Icarus on hardwood
And leaping
From the free throw line.
"Son," he once told me,
"You gotta leap
"If you wanna live."
He was always afraid of heights.
It wasn't until 41 that
We made him ride a roller-coaster,
That he had even seen a roller-coaster.
"You gotta leap
"If you wanna live."
I think my favorite
Memory of my dad
Is still him wringing my fingers
At Space Mountain with
Eyes so tightly shut
That we forgot
Our fears,
And screamed instead:
So.
This,
Is how the stars look like
When unbolted
By folding cardboard,
And iron bars.
Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM UTC
Yeah it's one shot one ****
Plottin' against my enemies will soon to be killed
Bullets feedin' ya last meal
Dope rhymes sedatin' like pharmacy pills
Since hataz got no chill heads I'll drill now you leakin' out like oil spills
Or a radiator angelic caters none could create a
Flows nasty as mine poppin' a multiplicity of shells I'm one of a kind
Thoughts intertwined
****** into a demons intervention contenders in suspension from the soul lynching
Caught in the realms of heaven and hell & you can smell
The ashes burning fermentin'
time runnin' slower than molasses
My murders be classic enemies dramatic causin' static
Shoot more than Bird combined with Magic
Workin' my Johnson on the tracks tonsils sittin' as a hip hop consul underground magul
**** longer than Repunzels hair follicles
Cookin' up sigils into a *** of gold no rainbow snortin' sir nose
D'void of Funk rattlin' the earth from the bass in my trunk blazin' skunks
Abraxas I'm embracin' one of my goetias when facin' ain't no replacin'
Fools givin' chase
and to tastes of demonic faces
My flows replenish like **** laces
Blunts turn into ashes dump it out on the masses
Epidemic mase deaden your pace hazardous like toxic waste
Adversaries don't wanna face
Off like Nicolas to Travolta livin' in an ultra violent culture
Cleatin' into ya flesh I be the stalkin' Vulture mulchin' ya
'til ya
A dissembled particle blank photo in the article from curvin' emcees with my surgical
lyrical sickle stare into ya eyes as the blood trickles
Down ya body you easily brickled rhymes artificial
My soul sour as a pickle no tickles
Could move me or influence thee my legacy
Lay cinematography like A. Hitchcock in the 50s huh
Ya soon to be a death reel for thrills
Rememeber
All I need is one shot one **** forreal!!!!
Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 4:57 PM UTC
One Cuil = One level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation.
Example: You ask me for a cat.
One Cuil: If you asked me for a cat and I gave you a rhino.
Two Cuil: If you asked me for a cat, but it turns out I don't really exist. In the place where you perceived me to be standing is a picture of a large cat. On it's collar are the words: "I am a large rhino."
Three Cuil: You are a cat. You begin to scream, only to realise that you are meowing. You scratch just under your ears and begin to purr.
Four Cuil: Why are we wearing dinosaur outfits? A light breezes rolls over our bodies but you only have one arm. Suddenly, the wind begins to howl and an alternative universe is created where we are dinosaurs wearing human outfits. I have cats for arms, and as you notice this you meow again.
Five Cuil: You ask for a cat; and I give you a cat. Your pull it to your chest and begin to pet it. Your nose begins to run and you wipe it on the cats tail. On the other side of the world a bank is robbed by a woman who has 7 sisters. In her wallet is a picture of you, in your human form. Your ears are pierced in this picture and they were in your human form as well, but something is different about them. The cat purrs and grabs a hold of your earring, ripping it from your ear. Milk drips out of you wound and the lady robbing the bank is arrested. Her oldest sister is climaxing while having *** with my brother. I give you a cat and it is poisonous. I am dead.
Six Cuil: You ask me for a cat. Mark Whalberg tells me he will not **** and he hands me a cat. The cat is smoking a cigarette, I develop liver cancer. I die. The wind blows on you again and the cat does not have a left rear leg. It puts its cigarette out on my eye. MGMT plays softly and you meow to the moon which is a pizza. The pizza has olives on it which displeases you. Your displeasure causes the woman to rob the bank so she can buy you Hawaiian pizza. The gravitational pull of the olives causes a flood to reach your house. You cry and your tears become lakes. The Earth is flooded. Uranus ignites suddenly, engulfing Neptune in flames. A civilization of Nicolas Cage's living there are destroyed. Obi Wan says that there has been a disturbance in the force. A cat hands you me.
Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 2:56 AM UTC
Tepid summer nights and
holes in the soles of your feet.
Holes in your wrists, no?
Soft fluttering of dusted eyelashes and
the pale pink of morning sun as you turn your cheek.
Blushing like a schoolgirl, no?
***** fingertips on dirtied skin and
toothy smiles, moth-eaten pillowcases, stale whispers.
'Pour susurrer des mots doux', non?
Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 7:15 PM UTC
En 1987
J’ai joué à touche-pipi dans la caravane de mes parents
Il s’appelait Nicolas et sentait bon la fleur d’oranger
C’était assez agréable
Nous passions des vacances dans le Cantal
Il n’a cessé de pleuvoir
Le camping était en pente avec en diagonale un interminable vide
Mes parents jouaient aux cartes avec les parents de Nicolas
Je ne sais pas qui ce jour-là a baisé qui
Ceci étant
Nicolas m’avait demandé si je pouvais manger un bout de sa viande avariée
Je devais avoir huit ans et des poussières d’étoiles dans les yeux
Le soir à l’apéritif mon père a vomi dans la bouche de la mère de Nicolas
La soirée se termina ainsi
Et tout le monde à bout de ses envies alla se coucher dans sa caravane respective
Pause
Ce furent de belles vacances
Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 7:37 AM UTC
Sometimes, I don't know what is the problem of my so called colleagues... There are so many issues worth tackling in the movie industry where as a movie maker u invest so much finance, time and energy and get back very little or nothing... Yet, what concerns our youths is celebrations, parties, function attendance and all... The so called movie ambassadors came up at the period of political campaign... Will this gathering still stand after they are bn used for political campaigns... That's a question that I'm sure can't b answered... D crazy aspect, s dt every name now goes first with Ambassador lagbaja or Ambassador tamedu... So crazy.... Rebranding starts from our selves... No group whatsoever, has d power to influence a corrupt, mis-managed, malfunctioning industry that needs urgent attention... I'm surprised to even find respected movie makers sleeping and putting heads in same direction... If we want to speak in one voice, I believe... There's an existing body, when d music sector got its branding and uplifted its current face to d very level its today, D's were not d measures and procedures takn.... Even in Hollywood, I have nvr heard of Ambassador Nicolas Cage, Ambassador Angelina Jolie etc... Neither in bollyhood have I heard of Ambassador Shakiru Khan or Ambassador John Abraham. What a pity..., even the newly experienced movie makers that doesn't even know what D's game is all about bear Ambassadors... I hear, there's fine for misbehaviour at events and all... Hmmmmmm, those that have sumfn upstairs, let them start thinking... Don't b used for sumfn that u will end up not benefitting and later b d glory of sum people that knows where this is going and the aim behind it.... However, if the motive is truly for d upliftment of D's great job that we all do with great passion... God help us all.... Tokunbo Awoga
Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 10:23 AM UTC
you were never an artist;
I'm sorry but it is true.
once, you sketched me
(sharpie on loose leaf, 2013)
and while I was touched by the gesture
[labor of love that it was]
it really looked more like your older brother.
now, your art is shared for mere
moments
(stylus on snapchat, 2014)
but you are still no artist.
you are an auteur, a lover, a curator,
finessing your homages to your youth
[pokemon, zelda, batman]
you may not be an artist
but I love you all the same.
Mar 4, 2014
Mar 4, 2014 at 11:22 AM UTC
Let's play word association, brain
Sure
Anger
Carrots
Vegetables
Parachute Pants
MC Hammer
Sub Prime Mortage
Are you even trying?
Nicolas Cage. Oh wait...that one actually made sense
You can be an ******* sometimes
Says the guy playing word association with himself
...Touché
Lenny Bruce
Feb 11, 2012
Feb 11, 2012 at 1:35 PM UTC
Alphabet Christmas
A is for advent calendars
B is for boxes
C is for carols
D is for donkey
E is for everyone
F is for festive
G is for gifts
H is for happy
I is for icicles
J is for joy
K is for kings
L is for love
M is for merry
N is for Noel
O is for orange
P is for presents
Q is for quiet
R is for reindeer
S is for St. Nicolas
T is for Turkey
U is for under the tree
V is for visiting
W is for wine
X is for Xmas
Y is for Yuletide
Z is for Zzzzzzzz
Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 2:21 PM UTC
We made a saint out of Nicolas
when we lost him.
We lost him
somewhere down Baja-way.
He was spinning his yarns there,
making magic in the desert,
a peyote fox,
then vanished
into thin air.
The last time we saw him
he was dancing circular
into the pitch,
waving his arms madly,
wildly speaking
in an ancient tongue.
Some of us believe
the mother ship came back.
I don't.
I think he turned feral
and continues
to cavort
on
the sabbath eves.
May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 6:14 AM UTC
They judge of how you look
Should I look like brad Pitt or Nicolas cage
We forgot the importance of the jewel inside that make the beautiful look ugly and the ugly so pretty.
The soul is the core that we should judge not by the looks cause the looks are from God.
A woman can look ordinary but her soul is so beautiful that it shines a light that just blinds. It makes you forget her ordinary looks and see her as the most beautiful woman you have laid eyes on to.
When you judge how people look . Look at yourself in the mirror and judge what you see. Are you handsome do you look even nice , do you deserve people love do you deserve there respect. They say don't judge a book by its cover isn't that so true but we only hear and say but we never do.
Look at people souls and you will see imaginary beauty that your eyes want believe. This world has taught us to judge the people and what they wear and how they look like and didn't tell us how pretty people are from inside.
Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 9:11 AM UTC
There is a madness about me
With ungovernable impluses
That borrow my tormented mind
It is aflame a conflagration
Burning more intensely than the sun
Consumed by unlimited time and space
An imposed barrier of perception vanishes
Gives way, gives way, my god gives way
To the cause of violating the imagination
One that does not recede but flows, flows
more powerful due to such defiable infringement
Flames of excitement entice me toward
A trajectory that swings out over the void
My god I see him, see him, see him
Sitting smiling, smoking a pipe
Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud
Vanish, vanish, now all is gone, disappeared
Perhaps later, yes later, perhaps
Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM UTC
(Sur l'air de Malbrouck.)
Dans l'affreux cimetière,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Dans l'affreux cimetière
Frémit le nénuphar.
Castaing lève sa pierre,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Castaing lève sa pierre
Dans l'herbe de Clamar,
Et crie et vocifère,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Et crie et vocifère :
Je veux être césar !
Cartouche en son suaire,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Cartouche en son suaire
S'écrie ensanglanté
- Je veux aller sur terre,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Je veux aller sur terre
Pour être majesté !
Mingrat monte à sa chaire,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Mingrat monte à sa chaire,
Et dit, sonnant le glas :
- Je veux, dans l'ombre où j'erre,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Je veux, dans l'ombre où j'erre
Avec mon coutelas,
Etre appelé : mon frère,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Etre appelé : mon frère,
Par le czar Nicolas !
Poulmann, dans l'ossuaire,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Poulmann dans l'ossuaire
S'éveillant en fureur,
Dit à Mandrin : - Compère,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Dit à Mandrin : - Compère,
Je veux être empereur !
- Je veux, dit Lacenaire,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Je veux, dit Lacenaire,
Etre empereur et roi !
Et Soufflard déblatère,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Et Soufflard déblatère,
Hurlant comme un beffroi :
- Au lieu de cette bière,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Au lieu de cette bière,
Je veux le Louvre, moi
Ainsi, dans leur poussière,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Ainsi, dans leur poussière,
Parlent les chenapans.
- Çà, dit Robert Macaire,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
- Ça, dit Robert Macaire,
Pourquoi ces cris de paons ?
Pourquoi cette colère ?
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Pourquoi cette colère ?
Ne sommes-nous pas rois ?
Regardez, le saint-père,
Paris tremble, ô douleur, ô misère !
Regardez, le saint-père,
Portant sa grande croix,
Nous sacre tous ensemble,
Ô misère, ô douleur, Paris tremble !
Nous sacre tous ensemble
Dans Napoléon trois !
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look i'm a castaway i don't play by the normal games
i'm a castaway i don't like to stay the same
i'm a castaway i don't care what anyone has to say
i'm a castaway i don't fit into the society
i'm a castaway i don't like the fakes
i'm a castaway i'm just trying to make a change
i'm just going to be myself regardless what the world has to say
i'm a castaway sure i'm in constant pain & the anxiety+depression never fades
but i made a promise to myself that will get rid of all the evil in this cruel world
so my Friends & Family can live a better safe life with no fear at all
so yeah i'm a castaway & guess what i'm never going to change
Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019 at 6:55 PM UTC
“What are you most looking forward to this summer?”
said the chalkboard at Caribou Coffee.
Someone had written TEXAS in huge letters.
I saw those giant letters as Nicolas and I walked in
for a variation on “The Ritual”,
my weekly festival of pen and ink.
What I failed to see,
was my little boy sneak over
to that chalkboard,
erasing those letters
and replacing them
with NICK.
Everyone’s got an end date,
TEXAS’ end date was today.
End Date
We’ve all got one.
All I want to do
is last long enough
to see
that they can cash a check
that they’ve earned,
get into a car that has their
name on the title
and get lost
if they want to.
Expiration date
on the old man,
the rhino with the ink pens
will be long passed one day.
In between,
there must be a handful
of dates that might mean
something,
maybe hold some memories.
But, really, none of those dates matter much.
What matters is that they get to use
it all up
by their own
end date.
***
- JBClaywell
© P&ZPublications; 2017
Feb 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017 at 10:04 PM UTC
She changed her status every hour
Little, broken hearted quotes
Maybe because she felt that
Social media listens when people don't
She was expressive, emojis and all
Seemed like a pretty happy soul
Because there, she could be something
That she wished was actually her own
Her pillow was the only thing
That could absorb her tears at night
She would feel a stupid boy
Could describe what she was like
She once felt the need to dress up
Because she believed in her grace
Until he came along, made her feel unworthy
And so she put on clothes in haste
She was sarcastic all through the day
But at night when alcohol filled her veins
She'd wonder and wonder - why?
Why was she the one to endure the pain?
And when her friends would force her
To watch a Nicolas Sparks movie
While you all will be drooling around
She'll chuckle in disbelief
Because she knew it was propaganda
That love was just as fake
And all the fairy tales stuffed inside our brains
Were all ******** for God's sake
Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 at 11:44 AM UTC
If, I were to find you
a different place
a different time
I, would still be certain
that your hand belongs in mine.
Though if I found myself
and could speak
of winds to come,
I'd back away
to distant space
and never meet my love
for whichever current guides,
or whatever whisper's heard,
it brought me near
far from fear
straight to your backyard
I once was poor
not knowing love
drunk on living free
your eyes found mine
our souls entwined:
I now know how to be.
Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 4:29 PM UTC
On dit communément
"La plus belle fille du monde
Ne peut donner que ce qu'elle a"
Dixit Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort. Et il poursuit :
"Ce qui est très faux : elle donne précisément ce qu'on croit recevoir puisqu'en ce genre c'est l'imagination qui fait le prix de ce qu'on reçoit"
Voilà ce que tu me fredonnes en boucles
Pour me faire comprendre que tu es ma muse
Et tu me chuchotes que tu es généreuse
Et ce généreuse-la génère en moi des génies et des elfes et des étoiles
Géantes
Tu me donnes des ailes et je me gonfle et m'élève et je me fais Musc.
La plus belle Muse du Monde ne peut donner que ce qu'elle a.
Ce que tu possèdes, Muse, c'est ce venin de ton ombre qui m'empoisonne
Et moi Musc, je t'apporte en dot son antidote dont je foisonne.
Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 11:35 AM UTC
yes,
he spoke of the language of flowers,
this man of Gaul,
he spoke and, as he spoke,
i looked out of his window,
i saw my thoughts trail across
a sky as blue as that in his first film.
i stood, naked, as he shined his light on me,
it picked out the old, the new,
it bathed me,
it made me feel beautiful again,
as any human, being, gone, to become.
he asked me to do what i wanted to do,
i laid on his floor,
i looked up,
into his eyes,
i saw that he knew
i was doing what i wanted to do,
i was speaking the language
of romance, poetry, of stories new and old,
my body twisted this way, that way,
the way it used to,
i was speaking la langue,
l'ancienne langue,
des fleures,
d'amour,
d'une vie,
une vie de la beauté,
oui.
Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 3:23 AM UTC
L'église Saint-Nicolas
Du Chardonnet bat un glas,
Et l'église Saint-Étienne
Du Mont lance à perdre haleine
Des carillons variés
Pour de jeunes mariés,
Tandis que la cathédrale
Notre-Dame de Paris,
Nuptiale et sépulcrale,
Bourdonne dans le ciel gris.
Ainsi la chance bourrue
Qui m'a logé dans la rue
Saint-Victor, seize, le veut ;
Et l'on fait ce que l'on peut,
Surtout à l'endroit des cloches,
Quand on a peu dans ses poches
De cet or qui vous rend rois,
Et lorsque l'on déménage,
Vous permet de faire un choix
À l'abri d'un tel tapage.
Après tout, ce bruit n'est pas
Pour annoncer mon trépas
Ni mes noces. Lors, me plaindre
Est oiseux, n'ayant à craindre
De ce conflit de sonneurs
Grands malheurs ni gros bonheurs.
Faut en prendre l'habitude ;
C'est de la vie, aussi bien :
La voix douce et la voix rude
Se fondant en chant chrétien...
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