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"pantomime" poems
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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Jan 4, 2017
Jan 4, 2017 at 1:12 PM UTC
The Recruit
Leg off the table you red face recruit! put on the offensive and break down the bolted door! you are the soul saver the peddle maker the calibrator with colored handbills and front line rhetoric join the masquerade in ivy league style! politicking with cunning guile invisalign smile blackened vile bleeding the funnel with gold plate omega and crocodile shoes get on stage and dance you fool! you are the headline maker the pantomime juggler the compromised closer pull out that 5 page review (bullet points only please) and polish those weathered lines! did you give it your all? the door tags and pleasantries the tidings and clippings the irrevocable claims and postured blames all those impressionable basics put to the test? you know the call (straight from those cold academics) the pie chart gurus and contract killers (complete with bone in finger) whipping their frenzied crew in an all night charade old yellar and the gatekeeper sure seem amused (sharpening their inquest behind closed doors) firing up the shiit storm with those hostile priicks and a slew of insatiable cures there’s laughter from the back room the dripping nose and wavering hand the cut white lines and checkpoint tales the pipeline romance and lacking form (of a basic essential character!) soundboard and narratives for logging time slouching on the steel case over moot points ready to play the 3 weight butter card (if need be) might I remind you it’s only an inquiry (with a slight hint of concern!) surely no malfeasance or deception intended so step back from the melt down and cut to the chase! headlines to breadlines penthouse to outhouse those immoral pursuits have taken their toll (haven’t they?) madman or rogue (you take your pick) for the scores and tabulations are final shame on you for the foul play the bold hypocrisy and order desk games the back stabbing blames and spurious names just sign on the dotted line ~ this banter is killing me
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Don't cry, this kiss is a kiss goodbye. Don't cling, it's time to part. Don't look at me nor ask me why I've taken back my heart. No questioning, no pleading; No door remains ajar. No doubt your heart is bleeding Now, and wounds of love will scar. Don't hope to ever turn back time, Nor resurrect the flame Of what became a pantomime Of love, in all but name.
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Mar 21, 2011
Mar 21, 2011 at 3:15 AM UTC
Pantomime
The beloved country Africana can boast of is Ghana. The manana of Africana black star is Ghana A nation rich in culture and natural pasture. Its nature reflects the creatures’ caricature We are black reflecting our true beauty. And we are packed with captivating ability. The typicality of our nationality brings unity. Who knows whether our safety lies in our variety? This unity amidst our diversity is our reportage. About twenty-four million are surviving in our age. Over sixty ethnic groups and fifty-two major languages. There are hundreds of dialects which are to our advantages. In W/A, Ghana records the highest percentage of Christianity… Yet the modernity of our sanity portrays minds of malignity. But the fraternity of our humanity builds our community. The variety of our morality and privity builds our society Who said Ghana cannot be capaciously superfluous? We have the very illustrious and exuberant resources. The elites and the voracity are harnessing the recourses. The destitute remains poor and the gentry linger the forces Our democratic government is an African paradigm. Our peaceful political regime is of no pantomime. Who of course would help us measure corruption? The whole nation would have tensed up to eruption. If not the gargantuan wayomelogy of the wayometer. Who knows whether the next tool would be attameter? Who wouldn’t love to be a proud Ghanaian to enjoy our hilarious fila and jargons tongue can employ
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Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 7:52 PM UTC
GHANA IS CAPACIOUSLY SUPERFLUOUS
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird
I am with you here in this place scanning with cool and radiant eyes Causing silver haired women to pantomime The Thing Thats Wrong With Us: their heads shake and their thumbs waggle in the air like worms. Our thumbs irk them, patience wearing thin as their lips. They are so sad for us, for our murderous stupidity. They know what is wrong: because our empty carcasses litter their living rooms the busses they ride the classes they teach slumped in the seats where we left them. Heidegger said that attention creates access to the world, And we've crept away to the edge dangling our attentions over the inviting precipice like the sorcerer's apprentice unsure of how it all takes place but certain of it’s awesome power. The well overflows and we are swept away as the women look on
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Thumbs
Where you going? What d’ya see? A hundred thousand polka dots A comin’ after me Polka dots and tater tots And french fried onion skins A priest in a confession booth Forgivin’ all our sins Two or three gorillas And an elephant in the room Someone tell the maitre’ d He’d best be leavin’ soon Cuz the waiter and the waitress Have figured out the plot And if he hangs around much longer He’s liable to be shot By a psychopathic mushroom Or a ****** off pizza pie While the rabid rocket scientist Wonders how he got that high The ********** with bedroom eyes Looks the other way, and The specialist in pantomime Does not know what to say. A hundred thousand looks at love Not a single one survives Yet, with regret and toil and sweat We go on with our lives. pwl 5/20/15
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 11:46 PM UTC
Polka Dots and Tater Tots
Pantomime parrots Rabbit sick carrots a polar bear's merits And a porcupine forgetting his cue An ant reading tarot Chess master ferret A moose's beret And gallons of seahorse drool All of these things And those in between Are something for Your mind to chew. Yum :-)
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 4:46 PM UTC
Bubblegum
There is a very secret place That exists between day and night If you're patient then some day You may see the land of Twilight. The gates to enter are so slight If you see them it may seem A trick of the sunset's light A fairy's passing dream So pay heed to the change of time For lilac hues of coming night Truly love to pantomime The secret land of Twilight You'll know when you've timed it right For the spangled fairy wings Will lend a softly shimmering light To a host of other things Pregnant dew drops standing by Patiently awaiting night Stars twinkling a lullaby Before they take their dazzling flight The creatures of the dark that bite Are sharpening their pointy teeth On the last of sunset's shards of light Surveying what's beneath Should the Moon, empress of this land See you taking in these sights She will take you by the hand And lead you gently into night And you'll wonder all your life Was it real or just a dream For in the secret land of Twilight Things aren't ever as they seem.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 8:02 AM UTC
The Secret Land of Twilight
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight. What bold grace Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace! Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry, With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye Of purple batteries, every gun in place. Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread, With torches burning, stepping out in time To some quick, unheard march. Our ears are dead, We cannot catch the tune. In pantomime Parades that army. With our utmost powers We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.
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A Tulip Garden
A whole new spiral, Trees upon a coil, Ink from leagues, Written feathers, Drizzled down as oil, Evermore, Nevermore, Less is more, All. Reverse inside-out, Springs before fall, Trojan powered horses, Mother Nature's fickle, In life we really are all, Trapped within a pickle... Steal the base, Capture the flag, Always run the risk, Chess played on a checker board, Hands turned into fists... The endless stairs, Rise & fall, Chutes & ladders, Poles, Elevated, Reciprocated, Orbital magnetic pull... This way, That way, Three rights make a left, Two of either, Horizontal shift, Four times, Stuck in circles... Full Moon, Half Moon, Crescent Moon, **** cheeks... Face cheeks, Two lips, Uranus, **** facts... The Owl asks "Who?" Not how many licks, Cracked. Tongue twister, Riddle fister, ******* fcking dcks... Creation. Destruction. Under construction, Living life, Chasing death, Don't forget to function... Playing hooky, Hooked on phonics, Telephone, Hello? Lose the "O", Cheerios, Rolled away, Hell. Pacific Bell, Pack Bell, Liberty Bell, Cracked. Xs, Os, Hugs, Kisses, Followed crumbs, Smacked... Cacophony of words, Magnified to deaf, Pantomime, Mr. Mime, Jynx, Hypnotic crest... Abra, Kadabra, Apply directly to the forehead... Water your brain, Fertilize, Extra fries, Exercise... A to Z, 1, 2, 3... F*cking A, We say... Today is here, The end is near, All come here to stay... Escape rope untethered, Weather altered sky day. Gaze at stars, Hollywood floor, Rich, Poor, More... Life is great, Life is crap, You decide, Not me... Cause all I see, Is cacophony... No sense inside of "we"... Here we are, We've come so far, RELAX... Have fun at last... Half full, Half empty, Shattered... At least we have the glass......
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
Cacophony of words
A whole new spiral, Trees upon a coil, Ink from leagues, Written feathers, Drizzled down as oil, Evermore, Nevermore, Less is more, All. Reverse inside-out, Springs before fall, Trojan powered horses, Mother Nature's fickle, In life we really are all, Trapped within a pickle... Steal the base, Capture the flag, Always run the risk, Chess played on a checker board, Hands turned into fists... The endless stairs, Rise & fall, Chutes & ladders, Poles, Elevated, Reciprocated, Orbital magnetic pull... This way, That way, Three rights make a left, Two of either, Horizontal shift, Four times, Stuck in circles... Full Moon, Half Moon, Crescent Moon, **** cheeks... Face cheeks, Two lips, Uranus, **** facts... The Owl asks "Who?" Not how many licks, Cracked. Tongue twister, Riddle fister, ******* fcking dcks... Creation. Destruction. Under construction, Living life, Chasing death, Don't forget to function... Playing hooky, Hooked on phonics, Telephone, Hello? Lose the "O", Cheerios, Rolled away, Hell. Pacific Bell, Pack Bell, Liberty Bell, Cracked. Xs, Os, Hugs, Kisses, Followed crumbs, Smacked... Cacophony of words, Magnified to deaf, Pantomime, Mr. Mime, Jynx, Hypnotic crest... Abra, Kadabra, Apply directly to the forehead... Water your brain, Fertilize, Extra fries, Exercise... A to Z, 1, 2, 3... F*cking A, We say... Today is here, The end is near, All come here to stay... Escape rope untethered, Weather altered sky day. Gaze at stars, Hollywood floor, Rich, Poor, More... Life is great, Life is crap, You decide, Not me... Cause all I see, Is cacophony... No sense inside of "we"... Here we are, We've come so far, RELAX... Have fun at last... Half full, Half empty, Shattered... At least we have the glass......
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I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. - Wallace Stevens (not me)
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 11:04 PM UTC
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - by Wallace Stevens
There are some people, Who will always do the right thing. These are the people, though, That seem to judge others, so harshly. good people, you see things so clearly, Too clearly. Surely, one mistake, however monumental Doesn't warrant condemnation, evermore? I want to be with the baddies, right now, because I am one. I feel like a pantomime villain. I want to hang out with Snow White's evil stepmother, or the Ugly Sisters, Down tequila with the Wicked Witch of the West. Fit company, for me. Not really, I don't believe that, but in my darkest moments, I do feel like a monster. Whose moral code did I defy? And does it matter? What does it matter, I don't care what matters, any more. Just call me Cruella, and **** me to Hell, It's nothing I'm not doing to myself, already. Drop a house on me, (The ***** is dead) Ding ****
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Sep 24, 2013
Sep 24, 2013 at 4:39 PM UTC
Pantomime villain
I laughed in places Where Laughter was not asked for, In granite market towns Beneath refugee palm trees shivering. Running from giant hands That were covered in car wash fluids, The back of children's heads imprinted On their palms. I laughed during disciplinary procedures, Before authority figures With cornflakes in their red beards And my laughter crept over the edges of their flowerbeds And the grass laughed with me. I laughed at funerals, The sounds of horses beyond the churchyard And a messenger ran down the aisle panting and exhausted, He had a message for my laughter ' Quick you must come at once'. I laughed during marital feuds, Laughter rising out of its own body above broken guitars and dried up bonsai, Above all the things I said That contradict me now. I laughed during serious films, The tulips drooping on top of the T.V. The sun slumped against the door, Behind heavy curtains I mistook for pigs on hooks. I laughed over exercise books, Above algebra and history Behind impossible bra straps That appeared out of acne and ink flicked backs. I laughed at the swimming pool Hiding birthmarks like stains, Drowning above the water saying 'I am a fish I must get back in!'. I laughed in surgeries among migraines and told my mother that robots were taking over, in the same rooms where they removed my brothers' verucas And I saw the doctors small blade escape through the window. I laughed during friends confessions, In between the silences of repeated songs While pantomime dames walked past windows make-up running in black and yellow rain. I'm laughing while making coffee in a campervan, I'm laughing because its a monday morning, Because everyone else is busy, Because we have an oil lamp from a pound-shop Burning beneath the sound of rain on the roof, Because the radio's silent….. And because sausages are best done slowly.
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 11:05 AM UTC
i have eaten sausages in many countries
I laughed in places Where Laughter was not asked for, In granite market towns Beneath refugee palm trees shivering. Running from giant hands That were covered in car wash fluids, The back of children's heads imprinted On their palms. I laughed during disciplinary procedures, Before authority figures With cornflakes in their red beards And my laughter crept over the edges of their flowerbeds And the grass laughed with me. I laughed at funerals, The sounds of horses beyond the churchyard And a messenger ran down the aisle panting and exhausted, He had a message for my laughter ' Quick you must come at once'. I laughed during marital feuds, Laughter rising out of its own body above broken guitars and dried up bonsai, Above all the things I said That contradict me now. I laughed during serious films, The tulips drooping on top of the T.V. The sun slumped against the door, Behind heavy curtains I mistook for pigs on hooks. I laughed over exercise books, Above algebra and history Behind impossible bra straps That appeared out of acne and ink flicked backs. I laughed at the swimming pool Hiding birthmarks like stains, Drowning above the water saying 'I am a fish I must get back in!'. I laughed in surgeries among migraines and told my mother that robots were taking over, in the same rooms where they removed my brothers' verucas And I saw the doctors small blade escape through the window. I laughed during friends confessions, In between the silences of repeated songs While pantomime dames walked past windows make-up running in black and yellow rain. I'm laughing while making coffee in a campervan, I'm laughing because its a monday morning, Because everyone else is busy, Because we have an oil lamp from a pound-shop Burning beneath the sound of rain on the roof, Because the radio's silent….. And because sausages are best done slowly.
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My heart, it's hands Reaching for his soul My wrists snap, retreat back I guess now we'll never know Hung up, strung out Just searching for a sign Horror, misanthrope Astrological pantomime Visions clear, so near Like vines we intertwined Incompatible, at the core Who was feeding me those lines?
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 8:15 PM UTC
Astrological Pantomime
Oh Brexit! Where is the Exit? You can’t make your money You Tory Grandees, Nor can you Remainer MPs. We’re running right into a very hard cliff; Before we get out we’ll all be so stiff. There’s no majority for any option And Theresa May’s deal is but a concoction. Vote after vote and endless debate. March twenty ninth is the Closing Date. Can we escape? I really don’t know. The media are loving this pantomime show. This sorry charade is filling the news, We’re all sick of hearing everyone’s views. Please get me out of here I hear you say Surely, surely there must be some way! So come on politicians Get your fingers out And show these Europeans We still have some clout. If we can’t do that then just pack it in And throw the whole thing right into the bin. Whatever we do I’m just past caring But I hope you’ll tell me thanks for sharing. Get on with it! That’s the yell. For until we resolve this We are in Hell. Paul Butters © 30\1\2019 (Written in the early hours!).
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Jan 30, 2019
Jan 30, 2019 at 5:05 AM UTC
Oh Brexit!
Once upon a time In a land full of pantomime There was this girl called Tink Meeting her Peter in a blink The time they had was filled with fun Laughter and banter like no one. Their bonding growing to soul transmission Until Captain Hook made it his mission To destroy their love and affection Leaving back hurt and destruction. And then it all turned complicated Tink and Peter Pan got so frustrated. Their love and affection taking the toll Of a twisted evil mind on a roll. A promise to be different And yet turned out irrelevant With sadness in her heart she looks back on a past Of a friendship and bond that didn't last.
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 4:28 PM UTC
Neverland
1    **My dad suddenly walks in,   as if nothing has happened,    and he hasn't gone anywhere, leaving six of us behind, notwithstanding- all these years of absence and pain unimaginable that changed us all to see life in a new light that gets dim without the lamp he held in front of us.        A shadow transparent gets in to the room, he stands near mom sitting inside her cocoon, lost in an ancient evening, pensive, forlorn as if she feels an absence, tangible right there. Dad's absence stands silent, perhaps curiously looking at her with loving eyes that's how he was, after a period of absence. The pantomime, tears my sense of reality                    in to shreds, I sit upright, with my hands pressed against my palpitating heart. Do I see it really or hallucinate him looking, wistfully at the coconut groves dancing beyond the extending rice paddy billowing, in front of our farm yard, sleepy these days, for a moment I think time has taken liberty to flow back and everything is right there where we'd love it to be.              2 The absence was a hollow, in the middle of everything, breaking the mirror of reality in to smithereens, the dark space, in between sprang- opening its mouth to swallow, wherever one turned, it stood in front defiantly, posing a challenge at times, it came behind hollering noiselessly, bringing unbearable memories, from moments hard to forget spent in his company, in my palmy days of yore.                     3 Absence was fire within, that needs no fuel to burn, flood waters without a source, that can wash away, till one becomes nothing; then little by little, one comes in to terms with the absence and at last it too is laid to rest, and that eats a part of the soul, causing bleeding in slushy green, transparent white and blobs of sad black.**
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 8:11 AM UTC
Tangible Absence Of My Father Comes Home
1    **My dad suddenly walks in,   as if nothing has happened,    and he hasn't gone anywhere, leaving six of us behind, notwithstanding- all these years of absence and pain unimaginable that changed us all to see life in a new light that gets dim without the lamp he held in front of us.        A shadow transparent gets in to the room, he stands near mom sitting inside her cocoon, lost in an ancient evening, pensive, forlorn as if she feels an absence, tangible right there. Dad's absence stands silent, perhaps curiously looking at her with loving eyes that's how he was, after a period of absence. The pantomime, tears my sense of reality                    in to shreds, I sit upright, with my hands pressed against my palpitating heart. Do I see it really or hallucinate him looking, wistfully at the coconut groves dancing beyond the extending rice paddy billowing, in front of our farm yard, sleepy these days, for a moment I think time has taken liberty to flow back and everything is right there where we'd love it to be.              2 The absence was a hollow, in the middle of everything, breaking the mirror of reality in to smithereens, the dark space, in between sprang- opening its mouth to swallow, wherever one turned, it stood in front defiantly, posing a challenge at times, it came behind hollering noiselessly, bringing unbearable memories, from moments hard to forget spent in his company, in my palmy days of yore.                     3 Absence was fire within, that needs no fuel to burn, flood waters without a source, that can wash away, till one becomes nothing; then little by little, one comes in to terms with the absence and at last it too is laid to rest, and that eats a part of the soul, causing bleeding in slushy green, transparent white and blobs of sad black.**
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there's a hard silence here and there is a fresh echo of the dim kitchen light in the ***** linoleum tiles that zigzag the floor even the air feels broken as it limps slowly through the room i stop near the door upon entering and gather myself like a ragman gathering the tattered remains stitching the fragments of self with the thread of awareness weave the image of self into the reality of the moment with the hesitations of someone who has lived this moment too many times' it will come to naught she is alive but her heart is dead the dust on my worn coat is from the graves of my fallow field where we once laid a crop of hopes but i cannot abandon her to this barren place i know i perceive only the narrow sunstricken pages faded and stained with the words legible only to the hardy eye but its the deeper tale which even the gardener of times bloodstained trophy's would fear to tread his leather shod hands worry the intricate gears of the mechanical face she wears he manipulates it to wear a lopsided grin pantomime of happiness for my birthday but i watch the vacant places behind the face and see that with a blemished mechanical eye she looks out over the oncoming evening through the livingroom window its cracked and ***** surface turns the setting sun into a parody of dawn she greets me but just stares out the window as if she is waiting a lovers return i stand infront of her blankly we wait for the hours to pass i fix her tea even though it isn't broken and make small talk as she makes mechanical sounds till she sleeps i leave with the dawn and make my way to my own bed at last to fend off dreams that something somewhere could be different and wake to the sorrowful song of a passing bard his thin feet dancing on a moonlight hilltop meant for lovers only and he is dancing alone alone
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 8:45 PM UTC
the mechanical face she wears
there's a hard silence here and there is a fresh echo of the dim kitchen light in the ***** linoleum tiles that zigzag the floor even the air feels broken as it limps slowly through the room i stop near the door upon entering and gather myself like a ragman gathering the tattered remains stitching the fragments of self with the thread of awareness weave the image of self into the reality of the moment with the hesitations of someone who has lived this moment too many times' it will come to naught she is alive but her heart is dead the dust on my worn coat is from the graves of my fallow field where we once laid a crop of hopes but i cannot abandon her to this barren place i know i perceive only the narrow sunstricken pages faded and stained with the words legible only to the hardy eye but its the deeper tale which even the gardener of times bloodstained trophy's would fear to tread his leather shod hands worry the intricate gears of the mechanical face she wears he manipulates it to wear a lopsided grin pantomime of happiness for my birthday but i watch the vacant places behind the face and see that with a blemished mechanical eye she looks out over the oncoming evening through the livingroom window its cracked and ***** surface turns the setting sun into a parody of dawn she greets me but just stares out the window as if she is waiting a lovers return i stand infront of her blankly we wait for the hours to pass i fix her tea even though it isn't broken and make small talk as she makes mechanical sounds till she sleeps i leave with the dawn and make my way to my own bed at last to fend off dreams that something somewhere could be different and wake to the sorrowful song of a passing bard his thin feet dancing on a moonlight hilltop meant for lovers only and he is dancing alone alone
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Step by step a kite ascends to the sky regains  memory of transcendence of once being the echo of a cloud sailing speedily westwards. the kite remembers another life and strays far beyond it's distance permitted, when the string rudely pulls it back,controls, the young cloud, narcissistic still keeps it's love for the echo, in swirling wisps of vapor as gently caressing wet touch The lone woman who suppresses deep inside her chest, the tumultuous waves of love and passion, imbuing the emotion sunset spews, suddenly breaks down the startled sea breeze is the only witness to her outburst. the sky slipping fast in to the gloom of darkness stands frozen, silent, as if melting in the pain love causes, when one bids final good bye to the beloved, vowed never to part.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM UTC
The Pantomime at Sunset
Everything she said hit his eardrum like a rimshot. Maybe he was losing his hearing or she was just losing his attention. Dinner conversations across a two foot table flew past him like houseflies. With her soft, blonde hair blanketing his collarbone, her mouth seemed to pantomime more the closer he leaned in.
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 10:07 AM UTC
Ears
shuffled into the hallway the laughing ignorance stews in its bathrobe and cigar at the edge of its own manicured lawn with a pale eye it it calculates with a thin cold lip it ponders he makes his lazy way to his bed among the spilled leaves makes his way to the comforts of eyes closed visions the laughing ignorance proverbial fool in ragged cloth dancing a jig on a spring moon's grave flowers in hand and wreaths of holly adorning his head like a crown of soft thorns his skilful laugh echoes across the barren field littered with the passing of days strewn with the formulations of nights bitter embrace no mere words can delay or mislead the way that darkness creeps into the mind when alone with its own devices done with his jig he sits on the springs moons grave and sips at the christmas wine savoring its crisp life on his tongue the laughing ignorance still wearing the dancing fools leather shoe is a hobbled prisoner of his laughing jest no other time or place has room for his kind for his pantomime of long lost victory's on beachheads of distant sandy shore his rancid eye calculates me in all my rumoured mistakes and he speaks to that dream not to me so i will leave him here standing in manicured existence of his own sour pain the fall will find him sleeping sweetly on the spring moon's grave and it will renew him leaves swirling down as the world steals the crown of the tree above he will be a young man once again renewed by the promise of maidens dancing and the dance of winterlight on snowbound fields
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM UTC
spring moon's grave
shuffled into the hallway the laughing ignorance stews in its bathrobe and cigar at the edge of its own manicured lawn with a pale eye it it calculates with a thin cold lip it ponders he makes his lazy way to his bed among the spilled leaves makes his way to the comforts of eyes closed visions the laughing ignorance proverbial fool in ragged cloth dancing a jig on a spring moon's grave flowers in hand and wreaths of holly adorning his head like a crown of soft thorns his skilful laugh echoes across the barren field littered with the passing of days strewn with the formulations of nights bitter embrace no mere words can delay or mislead the way that darkness creeps into the mind when alone with its own devices done with his jig he sits on the springs moons grave and sips at the christmas wine savoring its crisp life on his tongue the laughing ignorance still wearing the dancing fools leather shoe is a hobbled prisoner of his laughing jest no other time or place has room for his kind for his pantomime of long lost victory's on beachheads of distant sandy shore his rancid eye calculates me in all my rumoured mistakes and he speaks to that dream not to me so i will leave him here standing in manicured existence of his own sour pain the fall will find him sleeping sweetly on the spring moon's grave and it will renew him leaves swirling down as the world steals the crown of the tree above he will be a young man once again renewed by the promise of maidens dancing and the dance of winterlight on snowbound fields
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Rush around in circles like a headless chicken running Diminishing to spirals in a blue encircled churn Giddying to balance in unsteady equilibrium, Whilst canting to the left on a gyroscopic turn. Vaulting to the heavens in gymnastical maneuvering, Launching into ether in fanatical escape, ****** features grimacing through muscular contortion With abdominal contractions in a pantomime of **** Yowling to the darkness in a feline form of vocalness Hissing through the teeth in a serpentine display, Bellowing the bellicose of bovine innuendo And bleeding feet in gumboots on a ****** raining day. Rush around in circles like a headless chicken running With ****** features grimaced on a ****** raining day, Yowling to the darkness with abdominal contraction In a bovine innuendo of a serpentine display. Bellowing the bellicose of bleeding feet in gumboots, Vaulting to the heavens in fanatical escape, Giddying to spirals in contracting equilibrium Just a ****** innuendo of a gyroscopic shake. Marshalg Victoria Park Tunnel On a ****** raining day. 7 August 2010
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Aug 6, 2010
Aug 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
On Gyroscopic Turn
Life is a pantomime light hearted and plain. It's behind you they shout but it's all part of the game. The villain is booed by the on-looking crowd but there is nobody there when you decide to turn round. You think that you know, you think you will solve, but the answers are gone when at last you revolve. Is it the king? Or perhaps that old aunt? Who's got two ugly daughters who would tear you apart. The boy with the buttons, is he evil or good? Or is it that carved out puppet with that long nose of wood? Who is the goody? Who is it best to know? Well we really can't say till the end of the show. Life is no pantomime not so light hearted and plain. Full of caring and good but also vile and insane. No one shouts he's behind you. Villains do not get booed. You cannot always see them as you're plied and you're wooed. They are not always ugly. they may never seem nauseous so the only advice here is to always be cautious. Trust takes time to endear. Trust is something to earn. Trust is something that you need very quickly to learn. Never hand it to quickly to anyone in the line cause we all need to realise, life is no pantomime.
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 5:45 PM UTC
Life's Pantomime
I'm standing close by a river of rhyme, where words cascade, in endless pantomime, each line is a ripple, on the rugose water's crest, but the chaotic current seems a randomized mess. I see waves of words riding swells of sonnet, into concrete verse, only to crash upon it. There are dark plaintive whirlpools of elegy and swirling haikus kissing off sharp envoi. This river of rhyme could wash me away, with its desperate currents of poetic dismay. Its sensual verses can become a toxic wine, oh, God, don’t let me drown in the river of rhyme.
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Jul 29, 2023
Jul 29, 2023 at 1:39 PM UTC
the river of rhyme
objects moving through space and time, at a distance as silent as pantomime, people too travel straight lines, their geometry, their temerity, to stay true to that orbit, some fly in parallel paths, chance has its own math, but when two paths cross, there may be gain or loss, but when two in orbit meet at the same place and the same time, the same ship, a relationship, ... not the mothership, in orbit.
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 12:17 AM UTC
Orbit