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"pantomimes" poems
We are absurd You and I Fragments   We have created a fermentative reality, Where words are symbols of relation That you and I falsify   And Bingo was his name-o!   Ah!   Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon   What do you mean? And how shall we bargain?   And mora is but a half step to a whole   Eek gad!   January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August, Sept Oct Nov Dec   Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge?   12345 12345678 12345 12345678   12344 12344556 12344 12344556   “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy     Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?”   Together we fall! United I stand.   Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar   What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour   Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms!   Repitition Exclamation Annunciation tions…   verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such   True or False? Hide and Seek   Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down.   Black hat, white shoes, and I’m red all over.   Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand   Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue   Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise   You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance *(asterisk) A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard.   **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 7:08 AM UTC
Sermon Monsieur
We are absurd You and I Fragments   We have created a fermentative reality, Where words are symbols of relation That you and I falsify   And Bingo was his name-o!   Ah!   Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon   What do you mean? And how shall we bargain?   And mora is but a half step to a whole   Eek gad!   January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August, Sept Oct Nov Dec   Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge?   12345 12345678 12345 12345678   12344 12344556 12344 12344556   “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy     Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?”   Together we fall! United I stand.   Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar   What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour   Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms!   Repitition Exclamation Annunciation tions…   verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such   True or False? Hide and Seek   Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down.   Black hat, white shoes, and I’m red all over.   Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand   Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue   Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise   You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance *(asterisk) A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard.   **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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We are absurd You and I Fragments We have created a figmentative reality, where words are symbols of relation that you and I falsify And Bingo was his name-o! Ah! Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon What do you mean? and how shall we bargain? And mora is but a half step to a whole Eek gad! January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August 28th Sept Oct Nov Dec Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge? 12345 12345678 12345 12345678 12344 12344556 12344 12344556 “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?” Together we fall! United I stand. Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms! Repetition Exclamation Annunciation tions… verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such True or False? Hide and Seek Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down. Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance Asterisk* A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard. **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:26 AM UTC
Sermon Monsieur
We are absurd You and I Fragments We have created a figmentative reality, where words are symbols of relation that you and I falsify And Bingo was his name-o! Ah! Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon What do you mean? and how shall we bargain? And mora is but a half step to a whole Eek gad! January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August 28th Sept Oct Nov Dec Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge? 12345 12345678 12345 12345678 12344 12344556 12344 12344556 “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?” Together we fall! United I stand. Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms! Repetition Exclamation Annunciation tions… verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such True or False? Hide and Seek Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down. Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance Asterisk* A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard. **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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we both work in the postal service but neither one of us has ever sent a single love letter maybe it's the drill of the job maybe its the grind of the machines or the clack of the keyboards grind turns to a drone and i look around to what we thought were industrialized patents were actually what we had once considered our friends was that where they disappeared to? instead of quitting the dead end i had assumed too fearful to follow the leap they hid away in mail bins and P.O. boxes i thought i was alone maybe i was maybe they really did leave their souls gone with empty shells of bodies remnants of what once was yes i am still alone those who i knew have fled the building in search of a more meaningful existence winding in up in god knows where anywhere but here these gluttonous pantomimes only accept hopefuls midlife crises who leap at the opportunity for promotion like increasing payroll would reduce their age same as the twenty five year old liberal art grads who need a filler to help pay rent while they work on what will collectively become hundreds of thousands of volumes unpublished here i stand twenty eight years old and strip off my badge as it falls to the floor i walk out the door say hello to the next boarding train (last stop your hometown) and goodbye to the dead end road.
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Feb 24, 2014
Feb 24, 2014 at 6:43 PM UTC
postal
“I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” (*) Puts me in mind Of a man who embodied our eternal, sometimes fruitless search And why the heart is a lonely hunter. John Singer, you silently sang, Of heartbreak and devotion to someone And the eternal search for those elusive qualities Those missing puzzle pieces we all look for Happiness Acceptance Love Always seem out of our grasp Like a puddle of water On the sunbaked, summertime highway of our lives Traveling Always looking for something Hunting for anything To let us know we’re human We’re loved But still our lonely hearts search on “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” (*) The heart is a lonely hunter. Staring out the window of the bus Thinking about the ones I love And wondering if it is all worth it. I wish I could’ve sat down with you, Mr. Singer, And compared notes through pantomimes Written words of your struggles Maybe I could’ve understood you better than others Deaf and mute, you Couldn't communicate with words, Couldn't hear what other said, Instead you communicated with looks of compassion Serenity, Composure Masking a single-minded devotion to one person And you let others who lean on you Attaching what meaning they may To the nonverbal cues you say to them. When some of it wasn’t what you really intended. Believe me, Mr. Singer. I know all too well the misunderstandings That come up in the name of simple love Or the search for it. “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” You think you have something special But does the other person really understand you? And when others need you, and vice versa, They fail to see behind the wall masking Your true heart What you’re really trying to tell them And even with the powers of speech and hearing Would you still have made yourself understood? Misunderstanding, it’s so easy Words are woefully inadequate Because people will see what they want to anyway They attach their own meanings to the words you say Mister Singer, I can understand why you blew a hole in your chest Sometimes that gaping hole is more preferable To the gaping hole left by a broken, misunderstood heart “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away. And if you think that you are only A shadow in the wind Blowing around but when You let somebody in They might fade away.” (*)
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Aug 15, 2011
Aug 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM UTC
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
“I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” (*) Puts me in mind Of a man who embodied our eternal, sometimes fruitless search And why the heart is a lonely hunter. John Singer, you silently sang, Of heartbreak and devotion to someone And the eternal search for those elusive qualities Those missing puzzle pieces we all look for Happiness Acceptance Love Always seem out of our grasp Like a puddle of water On the sunbaked, summertime highway of our lives Traveling Always looking for something Hunting for anything To let us know we’re human We’re loved But still our lonely hearts search on “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” (*) The heart is a lonely hunter. Staring out the window of the bus Thinking about the ones I love And wondering if it is all worth it. I wish I could’ve sat down with you, Mr. Singer, And compared notes through pantomimes Written words of your struggles Maybe I could’ve understood you better than others Deaf and mute, you Couldn't communicate with words, Couldn't hear what other said, Instead you communicated with looks of compassion Serenity, Composure Masking a single-minded devotion to one person And you let others who lean on you Attaching what meaning they may To the nonverbal cues you say to them. When some of it wasn’t what you really intended. Believe me, Mr. Singer. I know all too well the misunderstandings That come up in the name of simple love Or the search for it. “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away.” You think you have something special But does the other person really understand you? And when others need you, and vice versa, They fail to see behind the wall masking Your true heart What you’re really trying to tell them And even with the powers of speech and hearing Would you still have made yourself understood? Misunderstanding, it’s so easy Words are woefully inadequate Because people will see what they want to anyway They attach their own meanings to the words you say Mister Singer, I can understand why you blew a hole in your chest Sometimes that gaping hole is more preferable To the gaping hole left by a broken, misunderstood heart “I know why the heart gets lonely Every time you give your love away. And if you think that you are only A shadow in the wind Blowing around but when You let somebody in They might fade away.” (*)
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In Farmington the misfit suffers the jukebox and dances to an unknown song. He dances on the pool table. He wears black—black skull cap, black duster, black shirt, black slacks, black boots. He's in Farmington and the women here drink Bud Light. He dances slow. It's similar to a dance you've seen before. You have that friend that climbs on couches after a few and half staggers, half sways. The women here watch him with unhappy eyes and hands stained blue from the textile mill. He seems to mouth the words although he clearly doesn't know the song. They, the women, dig their elbows into the bar. Pocked and graffiti'd, the bar soaks up spilled beer and ash and nail polish. Behind the bar a sign reads: Free Beer Tomorrow. And for some reason, you must admit, this sign's effect never dulls. The Misfit pantomimes a dance with a pool cue. His face is severe, serious. He's in Farmington dancing with a pool cue on a pool table to a song he doesn't know like a drunk friend of yours and the women are watching. Next, he does something amazing. He removes his cap. He's got shocks of bleached hair and burn scars run like rivulets between the patches. He tosses the cap toward the bar. One lucky woman catches it and summons herself to the pool table. You want them to have a bit of dialogue here, to say something oblique and innocent. Instead the lucky woman dances at the man's feet. He surrenders a smile and he's got small tracts of bleached hair and burn scars and he's in all black and he's dancing. The lucky woman, she's in a canary yellow patch dress. Her dance, although clumsy, still mesmerizes you. It's without ego, without shame. She is a child. She is the light in the room. She is, in this moment, the world entire. He pulls her onto the table. It's time to appoint the Misfit and the lucky woman names, you think. His name shall be Joshua. Her name shall be Anna. Palms together, her head resting on his chest, they sway. The smoke and the tracers of light meld and Joshua and Anna's outlines become muddied. Their bodies merge and they are both yellow and black and covered in burn scars and bleached hair and the women are still watching. As the song starts to fade, someone—maybe it's you—drops a few coins in the jukebox and it begins again.
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Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 12:13 PM UTC
The Misfit
In Farmington the misfit suffers the jukebox and dances to an unknown song. He dances on the pool table. He wears black—black skull cap, black duster, black shirt, black slacks, black boots. He's in Farmington and the women here drink Bud Light. He dances slow. It's similar to a dance you've seen before. You have that friend that climbs on couches after a few and half staggers, half sways. The women here watch him with unhappy eyes and hands stained blue from the textile mill. He seems to mouth the words although he clearly doesn't know the song. They, the women, dig their elbows into the bar. Pocked and graffiti'd, the bar soaks up spilled beer and ash and nail polish. Behind the bar a sign reads: Free Beer Tomorrow. And for some reason, you must admit, this sign's effect never dulls. The Misfit pantomimes a dance with a pool cue. His face is severe, serious. He's in Farmington dancing with a pool cue on a pool table to a song he doesn't know like a drunk friend of yours and the women are watching. Next, he does something amazing. He removes his cap. He's got shocks of bleached hair and burn scars run like rivulets between the patches. He tosses the cap toward the bar. One lucky woman catches it and summons herself to the pool table. You want them to have a bit of dialogue here, to say something oblique and innocent. Instead the lucky woman dances at the man's feet. He surrenders a smile and he's got small tracts of bleached hair and burn scars and he's in all black and he's dancing. The lucky woman, she's in a canary yellow patch dress. Her dance, although clumsy, still mesmerizes you. It's without ego, without shame. She is a child. She is the light in the room. She is, in this moment, the world entire. He pulls her onto the table. It's time to appoint the Misfit and the lucky woman names, you think. His name shall be Joshua. Her name shall be Anna. Palms together, her head resting on his chest, they sway. The smoke and the tracers of light meld and Joshua and Anna's outlines become muddied. Their bodies merge and they are both yellow and black and covered in burn scars and bleached hair and the women are still watching. As the song starts to fade, someone—maybe it's you—drops a few coins in the jukebox and it begins again.
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Jingle Bells and Mistletoe Christmas songs galore Plastic crap marked down again Sales in every store Santa Claus in Shopping Malls Photos for the hoards Teenage girls dressed up like elves Looking rather bored Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze Get me through the Christmas Craze Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze I can not take much more Christmas shows and pantomimes Put on by theater groups Old actors who we used to know How low will these folks stoop? Boxing Day and crazy crowds Houses lit up like the park Even when the power's off They're still glowing in the dark Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze Get me through the Christmas Craze Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze I can not take much more Charity is on the wane People confuse want with need The population's gone insane They're full of Christmas greed Snowmen out in the front yard Decorating Christmas Trees Carolers from up the church ...that is Christmas Time to me Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze Get me through the Christmas Craze Hollydaze, Oh Hollydaze I can not take much more
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 3:58 PM UTC
hollydaze
I see the pantomimes In France, on the sidewalks The frowns and the smiles But all painted over by Such pretentious acts They put for all to see Like our lives We are no different Just becoming strangers again I once bluffed you through lying teeth Saying "I'm okay" When I'm really not Wasn't that like the pantomime We saw circa 2001? So much truth behind all the acts To create this perfect lie To make you believe That maybe this could work But when you walked off Giving me no face I could finally wipe off All the thick heavy makeup Of the lies I had created.
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May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
Pantomime
this is the news: a strange to do with all strange. some other kiwi in the hissing bliss of a fine day. the spoils of bounty are ludicrous in disarray. a jumble of lumpkin, festooned in prayer-wheels and Tibet. a fountain of open hands. on the brink... on the terrace of counterfeit pantomimes a man of days darning socks and ultraviolet, with quasars for aspic. a drunk pirouette - bereft. love is the one jungle you know when you're lost, and the last thing that made sense. All day. the spoils of bounty are numinous, always. a trundle of frump-kin, immune to what feels like a guess. " i refuse to sell my daddy's ranch! " if you blink... i might tell you where you lost your mind. an ace of spades a Goldilocks and ultra violence, with ****** for aspirin. a defunct smidgen of less.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 1:18 PM UTC
The Spoils Of Bounty
Chase the emerald fairy Around the Eiffel Tower of France Shadows swagger an acid dance Of Hollywood trances and diamond glances We’ll spout poetry beneath a glamoured moon amour Drink whiskey and absinthe by the gallons And wash it down with the finest wine Grown from sultry ***** countryside A poet’s star will drive jealousy mad In famous graveyards of prostitutes and prose Our night will be spent in gothic debauchery Eyes once spoke the tale of flesh and lust Pouting over torrentially voracious desires Decadence deceived promises Bewitched with voluptuous tongue The playwright types at his typewriter Typing funeral dirges of sitar and violin duels The contravention of dawn’s chorus Erupts behind curtains of pantomimes Charms lost in the end of magnificent performances Your whispers in my ear are the last I hope to hear The last beautiful gasp of breath I hope to hear Will be your whispers in my ear (*Death sits before his typewriter pounding keys in a ravenous lunatic frenzy electing the end to our story we have no contribution only dealt the parts we act upon and our scripts to speak*)
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Oct 17, 2011
Oct 17, 2011 at 5:50 PM UTC
Le Dramaturge (et le poète)
misunderstanding flows, like beer on tap and as we drink it down, pint after pint, all reason is spilled onto the table, wiped up by the ***** bar mop that stinks of yesterdays brew the proprietor of this establishment stands at counter, smiling his knowing smile that sadness in his eyes which can only come from seeing pantomimes like this one play out before him on every night of his long, long career
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Nov 11, 2011
Nov 11, 2011 at 2:36 PM UTC
human folly
I’m outside and the air is so crisp it’s turned brittle When I move, my hair cracks with electricity As if with each step I take, I displace And crinkle the wafer oxygen. My hair, it is poised like a snapping electric halo, And I think how many angels have also had feet Which knew this frozen, frosty soil like mine do. What a shame we could not have met and compared notes. Above is a ceiling, nearer than people credit to be. There is no navy shroud tonight, Seasoned with the universe. It is not even a black curtain, But instead a piece of smoke fogged glass, graying. Above the briery penthouses of the evergreen boundaries, Against which the glass rests, Is a blush of light, to the North, tattle of a city. They call it light pollution, a lightening of the sky Due to artificial, phosphorescent, perpetual pantomimes of noon: streetlights And I see two electric halos, One belonging to me One the heavens, And I think how funny that Without the dry, horrid winter air, or the residue of a wasteful city of men, No halos would exist.
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Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC
Halo
What does a poet do When words fail them? When the vernacular They so heavily relied on To convey every navy blue, Indigo, violet hue of the midnight sky, Dies on the tip of their tongue? When the morphemes That gave life to the phantoms And pantomimes in their heart Come out as Neanderthalic grunts? What does a poet do? When the discourse once so comfortable Becomes stilted, halting, and forced Because their brain has blanked On their particular patois? When not even the thesaurus or lexicon Or revered Oxford English Dictionary Can provide the adequate locution So as to appease the poet's need To be Understood, Acknowledged, Fathomed, Decoded, Interpreted, Heard. Because that's all we want. And that's the impossible When we have writer's block.
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 10:42 AM UTC
Blocked
The ineffaceable stain Allegorical refrain Dictates the wily antidotes for a newfound sane They hector from a distance Muted but militant resistance magical hobgoblins the lifeblood of their persistence Heterodoxy enters the stage Cognizant of ignominy, a potent repressed rage Succor sought, corporate media bought A pyrrhic limelight is certainly not what was sought I defer to dignified exemplars I confer with callous company at vapid bars Concluding thereby the inverse proportionality of authenticity to success The articulations of divinity imply rigidity sweltering soul burgeoning with light sweating an evanescent humidity If blind before, partial and total sight reconstitute the core omnipresent paparazzi deplores Past pities insuperable even with pithy witty Future pieties irrelevant to ineradicable ignominy and purported dignity Cupid and cupidity must be related because gold-diggers alerted to my fair share would be elated Begrudged at every tick, tantalized by a slow torture lurid flit I cast my ambitions into the fathomless depths I amass provisions for a restive hibernation, enduring schlep Redemptive powers yet articulated Should ease the prospects of being matriculated But is cloistered suffering an inexcusable plight When the deep coffers derelict a modest gesture of making grievous inequities once again right? Must I swim to distant shores Past the barnacles beneath and the urchins on submerged sand, very sore Landmines at the beach, pantomimes and their garbled preach Past scattershot invective fortified by intransigent misers of conscience, the balmy resort out of reach. Bleak bleats, meek feats, good eats I think it is about time for a tyrannical psychology to let me off the incapacitating leash, letting me focus on actions rather than on incomprehensible speech
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Jan 4, 2016
Jan 4, 2016 at 7:49 PM UTC
Begrudged at Every Tick
The ineffaceable stain Allegorical refrain Dictates the wily antidotes for a newfound sane They hector from a distance Muted but militant resistance magical hobgoblins the lifeblood of their persistence Heterodoxy enters the stage Cognizant of ignominy, a potent repressed rage Succor sought, corporate media bought A pyrrhic limelight is certainly not what was sought I defer to dignified exemplars I confer with callous company at vapid bars Concluding thereby the inverse proportionality of authenticity to success The articulations of divinity imply rigidity sweltering soul burgeoning with light sweating an evanescent humidity If blind before, partial and total sight reconstitute the core omnipresent paparazzi deplores Past pities insuperable even with pithy witty Future pieties irrelevant to ineradicable ignominy and purported dignity Cupid and cupidity must be related because gold-diggers alerted to my fair share would be elated Begrudged at every tick, tantalized by a slow torture lurid flit I cast my ambitions into the fathomless depths I amass provisions for a restive hibernation, enduring schlep Redemptive powers yet articulated Should ease the prospects of being matriculated But is cloistered suffering an inexcusable plight When the deep coffers derelict a modest gesture of making grievous inequities once again right? Must I swim to distant shores Past the barnacles beneath and the urchins on submerged sand, very sore Landmines at the beach, pantomimes and their garbled preach Past scattershot invective fortified by intransigent misers of conscience, the balmy resort out of reach. Bleak bleats, meek feats, good eats I think it is about time for a tyrannical psychology to let me off the incapacitating leash, letting me focus on actions rather than on incomprehensible speech
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his loudspeaker thinking shot through my eye as he passes me in the crowded room its over-speed thought process painted on his sweating face he fingers loudly the moist pages of his life wishing to replay the better moments but just like everyone else cant relive the moment but you can live in the pain of its regret for the rest of your life if that's what you want he's a follower of the herd he sits with with them and pantomimes their moves with precision she sits in the exact centre of the same corner each day making notes of the coming and goings and draws the faces the funny faces spiral notebooks full of faces her glasses held together with scotch tape her mind held together with reruns of nineteen seventies sitcoms and heavy medications she is lonely but will never admit it she watches him and wonders at the days end she convinces him to walk her home and together they set out hand in hand the sky and world around them a tourist picture perfect whitewash he fingers her medicated mind prying out the soft meat looking for the dark stuff that tastes like chicken her misfire engines let him get only so deep before her childhood memories of a beautiful blue dress and a apple pie brings enough reality to his palate to end his fascination they will end up married because being misfit is better than being alone
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 2:17 AM UTC
spiral faces
trust me she assured in the fading glow as though trust came tied with thoroughly tested knots intertwined with love. hear me she pleaded as the past abruptly revealed itself in the present and communications became pantomimes in the dark. help me she screamed to the night stars who shone glowering at her lusterless attempts to be elevated and live. hi, its me I whispered to her as the sun crept through the morning curtains and caused her smile to glow.
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Oct 29, 2011
Oct 29, 2011 at 3:40 AM UTC
forgiveness
I think you should have made me say sorry Before I had to come to the realization myself. All the backs rubbed, padded fingers Bruised in futile comfort Came from you doing, living you, yourself, Your normal of **** it, **** happens*. No, I'm not angry at myself, because You plant these seeds yourself and let them Diffuse into your acidic tasting soil, Dirtied by all of the forgotten questions And Dismembered, overcarressed words. Stuffing filled ******** you shoveled Over your shoulder, Back onto the pile. There's value you tirelessly overlook In ending a fight, Finishing a thought, Having emotions, Being a human. It's your well deserved turn now, You can do it, Just inhale Languages ****** expressions Subtitles Paraphrases Gestures Pantomimes With fluidity as each atomic being sifts through continuing passages And go. Exhale, No, you're doing it wrong. Breath. Out. What you feel, Release, Allow me passage inside, I've only wanted to help all this time. I guess we'll just start here.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 11:33 PM UTC
Caring to Care
On starry nights the mind is like To step on board a vision; To climb the enigmatic steps – The liquid path to heaven; Fast to ascend – for some too fast – And then to stop and ponder For here the mind holds precedence Revelling in wonder. For minds behold what eyes cannot, So stop to gaze in awe At shooting stars, at swirling mists And worlds not seen before; At light-filled cosmic pantomimes That never cease their games And ever-changing paradigms Of constellation frames. But then too soon the vision halts Its journey into space, While falling fast the mind clings on But has its fate to face. For back in its imprisoned home It cannot wander free But lives within the narrow-world That only eyes can see.
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 4:36 AM UTC
A Mind Set Free
We step away and then, you close the door (you always knew how to close) The palm of your hand (I) shut(s) my eyes and I imagine you must be thinking that my head is spinning only, it’s not. I’m tired this time around and all that we’ve had, in cups, in pantomimes, in black bottles at the back of your grandfather’s closet, is beginning to weigh me down. I am an anchor lightly kissing the bottom of an abyss in a sea. But you don’t swim and I know you never will. No, my head isn’t spinning, but the world is. Before, I thought it ceased to halt when I found myself alone with you in that enclosure I craved from the back of my throat. I was possessive of your presence without good reason. Never had any good reason and here again, I’m without it but I no longer allow myself the delusion of believing in the immortal exceptionalism that I once painted on your face. The auto-intoxication has stopped. We step away and you engage my mouth once more. It has never been the way I’ve wanted. I gave you permission and you close the door. (I am now closing my eyes). I was blind now I ignore the way this body has never been more than a robust instrument. I use it as such. You dismiss my thoughts, that is your mistake. Your hand on the back of my neck, pulling down to devour. We always speak of *** as in hunting terms. A predator hunts his prey. The prey traps her meal. But I no longer resist and I admit that violence no longer shines. It is nothing and makes for one hell of a drowsy exchange. You disrobe me, these mechanics are boring. The choreography of two relative strangers (I hardly know you in the end, we don’t talk) moving their bodies in a badly needed rhythm. Pure imagination. We dance for the other without listening and you step on my toes. I crave the scratching halt of the song. Your tongue is metallic. This has been ugly since day one. I shut my eyes, my head not spinning, and its only now that I see. I no longer wish to force stimulation through the filter of my body. You shut the door and I shut out the world.
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 10:28 AM UTC
the back room
We step away and then, you close the door (you always knew how to close) The palm of your hand (I) shut(s) my eyes and I imagine you must be thinking that my head is spinning only, it’s not. I’m tired this time around and all that we’ve had, in cups, in pantomimes, in black bottles at the back of your grandfather’s closet, is beginning to weigh me down. I am an anchor lightly kissing the bottom of an abyss in a sea. But you don’t swim and I know you never will. No, my head isn’t spinning, but the world is. Before, I thought it ceased to halt when I found myself alone with you in that enclosure I craved from the back of my throat. I was possessive of your presence without good reason. Never had any good reason and here again, I’m without it but I no longer allow myself the delusion of believing in the immortal exceptionalism that I once painted on your face. The auto-intoxication has stopped. We step away and you engage my mouth once more. It has never been the way I’ve wanted. I gave you permission and you close the door. (I am now closing my eyes). I was blind now I ignore the way this body has never been more than a robust instrument. I use it as such. You dismiss my thoughts, that is your mistake. Your hand on the back of my neck, pulling down to devour. We always speak of *** as in hunting terms. A predator hunts his prey. The prey traps her meal. But I no longer resist and I admit that violence no longer shines. It is nothing and makes for one hell of a drowsy exchange. You disrobe me, these mechanics are boring. The choreography of two relative strangers (I hardly know you in the end, we don’t talk) moving their bodies in a badly needed rhythm. Pure imagination. We dance for the other without listening and you step on my toes. I crave the scratching halt of the song. Your tongue is metallic. This has been ugly since day one. I shut my eyes, my head not spinning, and its only now that I see. I no longer wish to force stimulation through the filter of my body. You shut the door and I shut out the world.
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You can hear them Stories that turn into pantomimes Shadows dancing in his mind Joining hands in the quiet Breaking free when the voices come back
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Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 5:08 PM UTC
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Aye, aye, b-b-, AYE! - I try to rhyme ten syllables at a time, Whoops I meant eleven, isn’t that a crime. To make poetry is proving nothingness, Oh I meant something-ness, what a ****** mess! Let’s just shut the hell up and be pantomimes! ~
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Dec 10, 2017
Dec 10, 2017 at 12:55 AM UTC
“Words through Actions: A Comedy...? Nope!”
The Elephants At The Zoo The elephants at the zoo, lumbering in their cells, like deadwood floating downstream, where the mouth is closed. When kids arrive they put on a show. It brings them minute happiness to see the smiles, hear the laughter and to look into the eyes of freedom. As the day moves on, it's a blur, as the sunny disposition is weathered and fake. Each movement of the trunks, calculated, silenced and each passing face, a tear. Such sadness their eyes Windows wide open to see Pantomimes of hope Logan Robertson 9/16/2019
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 2:06 PM UTC
The Elephants At The Zoo
The skill through which you maneuvered between skyscrapers of lust and longing through dense forests of future dreams through intertwined hands and hearts and picnic pantomimes and love letters dinners and dances were all a mirage being built up to elude the truth manacled in the mystery of what you really wanted. When you left you sliced a part of me wrapped it all up in pain and vanished into the thick night of excuses How foolish I was to believe that you would return to claim the territory you conquered and cherished for so long, defeating contenders to their kingdom through wily ways.You laid waste a landscape of emotions and vanished into the mythical realm of external attractions. You have won. I lost my sanity for a short while until I awoke one morning to find that you really won nothing but an artificial heart with no heavyweight knockouts. Good luck. I am free. Author Notes Bile and beauty co-exist. Figure. © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ag
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
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Gathered up the sticks and stones, metalic chains that tied down  bones. twist gibberish from  mithered mind, poisonous scolpamine that makes it bind. throw in  angst,  grief ,abuse and pain, the manic , depressed clown, sudden sane, projections coloured, in black and blue, silvered mirror, which reflects you too, tapping feet, to tell his story, vibrating, whirring, hate and gory, tangled hair, in love and war, left the house, she went too far, Eve's cursed with all  honest, gentle, meek, an act of love, was taught to seek, not in public, lies, their great shame, it's ***** ops, they got it covered, none Independent to Post, All is hidden in the Sun, With ***** Mirror, one cannot find junk Mail sings to tapped Telegragh. none Express the Times, News reels out fear, in pantomimes, bowed to the fiddle player, President, Minister, Senator , Mayor, dressed in copper, gold, inked paper, bit coins, buried in weighted tonnes, aground, strawman arguments,  plentiful found, mutter mumbo jumbo, about survival of fittest, serfs was born, to be that hitlist, elequent etonians, buzzing fabian tales, once bolting cheetahs, now, well fattened snails, More occult jibes, from outer polished cups, with poisoned inner, She passes up, If sinning became winning, patient, with time locked down, spinning, weaving multicoloured threads, of too man-y voices in her head. Found alchemical gold  in solitary cell, Thanks to the Fathers Heavenly spell, unravelled her story, from sickness to well. Omnipresent, all round, all high, nothing hidden from his all seeing eye. Good things come, for those who wait, lockdown will serve the meek and kind, the architects soon stricken blind, believe their own lies, think their bots are real, love is truth, for those who feel.
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Feb 12, 2022
Feb 12, 2022 at 12:50 AM UTC
Rumplestiltskin a Halloween cauldron of coloured threads from the jungle
Gathered up the sticks and stones, metalic chains that tied down  bones. twist gibberish from  mithered mind, poisonous scolpamine that makes it bind. throw in  angst,  grief ,abuse and pain, the manic , depressed clown, sudden sane, projections coloured, in black and blue, silvered mirror, which reflects you too, tapping feet, to tell his story, vibrating, whirring, hate and gory, tangled hair, in love and war, left the house, she went too far, Eve's cursed with all  honest, gentle, meek, an act of love, was taught to seek, not in public, lies, their great shame, it's ***** ops, they got it covered, none Independent to Post, All is hidden in the Sun, With ***** Mirror, one cannot find junk Mail sings to tapped Telegragh. none Express the Times, News reels out fear, in pantomimes, bowed to the fiddle player, President, Minister, Senator , Mayor, dressed in copper, gold, inked paper, bit coins, buried in weighted tonnes, aground, strawman arguments,  plentiful found, mutter mumbo jumbo, about survival of fittest, serfs was born, to be that hitlist, elequent etonians, buzzing fabian tales, once bolting cheetahs, now, well fattened snails, More occult jibes, from outer polished cups, with poisoned inner, She passes up, If sinning became winning, patient, with time locked down, spinning, weaving multicoloured threads, of too man-y voices in her head. Found alchemical gold  in solitary cell, Thanks to the Fathers Heavenly spell, unravelled her story, from sickness to well. Omnipresent, all round, all high, nothing hidden from his all seeing eye. Good things come, for those who wait, lockdown will serve the meek and kind, the architects soon stricken blind, believe their own lies, think their bots are real, love is truth, for those who feel.
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i aspire to be a kaleidoscope, a useless commodity, many bits and pieces merged together harmoniously. the vessel holds sturdy, regardless of my peccant deeds to have you glance inside of me, observe all of my colors bleed. see easily my artistry, view the roots surround my arteries painted with every color of the palette of sublimity, forming iridescent trees of immaculate coruscation, appraising the vestige of my aberrant nature. everything i will ever be is dripping down like watercolour, pastels falling off the page and landing on another surface. i beseech your ardor and tendency to be besotted, but omit your yearning to examine my detachment. i am corroding under your duplicity, sinking in your inertia drowning in your astringent disorder of ignoring my existence. you attempt to dissimulate the deterioration of your artifice and ruminate the feasible consequences of mild adulation. what do you envisage as you imbibe from the silky waters of my fluid emotions, and my convoluted pantomimes? my enigmatic essence is slowly decomposing and hovering intermittently in detrimental cessation. you constantly contravene with the archfiend within yourself and wage onslaughts in your mind on your impertinent abstractions. and i am afraid it is interminable, but i will still hold dear my sanguine complexions and continue to hope for auspice. you articulate your pronouncements with ease, and implore that your austere endeavors are deeply earnest, but the significance of that word unravels on your tongue, and is meaningless, turning to ash in your mouth. i supplicate for waves of benevolence, ardent winds and ingenuous conversations. anchor me, or disengage.
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 9:03 AM UTC
Untitled
i aspire to be a kaleidoscope, a useless commodity, many bits and pieces merged together harmoniously. the vessel holds sturdy, regardless of my peccant deeds to have you glance inside of me, observe all of my colors bleed. see easily my artistry, view the roots surround my arteries painted with every color of the palette of sublimity, forming iridescent trees of immaculate coruscation, appraising the vestige of my aberrant nature. everything i will ever be is dripping down like watercolour, pastels falling off the page and landing on another surface. i beseech your ardor and tendency to be besotted, but omit your yearning to examine my detachment. i am corroding under your duplicity, sinking in your inertia drowning in your astringent disorder of ignoring my existence. you attempt to dissimulate the deterioration of your artifice and ruminate the feasible consequences of mild adulation. what do you envisage as you imbibe from the silky waters of my fluid emotions, and my convoluted pantomimes? my enigmatic essence is slowly decomposing and hovering intermittently in detrimental cessation. you constantly contravene with the archfiend within yourself and wage onslaughts in your mind on your impertinent abstractions. and i am afraid it is interminable, but i will still hold dear my sanguine complexions and continue to hope for auspice. you articulate your pronouncements with ease, and implore that your austere endeavors are deeply earnest, but the significance of that word unravels on your tongue, and is meaningless, turning to ash in your mouth. i supplicate for waves of benevolence, ardent winds and ingenuous conversations. anchor me, or disengage.
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