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"parlour" poems
Oh1 Durga, the symbolic victory Over the worldly evil You can **** any devil And you are the most benign As you are divine Shiva (goodness) is your inseparable half Mahishasura’s ( Man’s evil) death Is your valour’s proof Goodness and valour are made For each other It is paradoxical that Man stands for goodness And woman for valour But it is true in divine parlour Hindus believe in Durga’s divine force Even others can not deny the cosmic source Even the staunchest atheist Can not deny the women’s collective fist
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Dec 28, 2010
Dec 28, 2010 at 4:43 AM UTC
Vijaya Durga,the divine force
Something about the woven leather Reminds me of sandals you once wore, In the garden enjoying the sun. Your shorts and that old cotton vest the one that was probably once white, but Nanny wasn't around to do your whites anymore, and so it grew greyer as your hair grew whiter. The sun's rays danced through the waves of your hair and into the garden, Filling it with light, shining down upon plastic flowers planted among coloured stones. Smells of stale cakes from bargain stalls and the sugar from flat lemonade in murky cups wafted out the back door and clashed with that overpowering cooking smell as you sat in your sun lounger and baked yourself in vegetable oil, cooking your Irish skin to a crisp! The flower patterns of your walls in the garden and cast iron patio furniture, The plastic mat that covered the carpet and always managed to trip us, The halogen heater in the parlour and blanket on your knees, The clumps of bullseye sweets in your locker and Quality Street tin of empty wrappers, The damp and stale smells of the kitchen in your care, The holy pictures and moving Jesus on the stairs, The bath marbles we loved to play with and how they'd smash upon collision, And the pink, silk quilt that enveloped your bed, They're all pieces in the mosaic that illustrates your memory now and they'll never be broken. I've glued them so tightly together it's as strong as your jaw! Your jaw, always known to make eyes water when you'd turn during a goodbye kiss on your cheek and crush our noses! Even when we tried to approach with caution! But oh what anyone of us wouldn't give to feel that again, just to say goodbye and think we'd be over to the Bluebell to see you again. So now I sit and look at the woven leather on my sandals and remember all the details, all the memories that are woven together to make you. Sometimes I wish I could click the heels together. Bluebell Bluebell Bluebell And be back in that garden, once more.
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Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 5:41 AM UTC
Grandad Kinsella's Sandals
Something about the woven leather Reminds me of sandals you once wore, In the garden enjoying the sun. Your shorts and that old cotton vest the one that was probably once white, but Nanny wasn't around to do your whites anymore, and so it grew greyer as your hair grew whiter. The sun's rays danced through the waves of your hair and into the garden, Filling it with light, shining down upon plastic flowers planted among coloured stones. Smells of stale cakes from bargain stalls and the sugar from flat lemonade in murky cups wafted out the back door and clashed with that overpowering cooking smell as you sat in your sun lounger and baked yourself in vegetable oil, cooking your Irish skin to a crisp! The flower patterns of your walls in the garden and cast iron patio furniture, The plastic mat that covered the carpet and always managed to trip us, The halogen heater in the parlour and blanket on your knees, The clumps of bullseye sweets in your locker and Quality Street tin of empty wrappers, The damp and stale smells of the kitchen in your care, The holy pictures and moving Jesus on the stairs, The bath marbles we loved to play with and how they'd smash upon collision, And the pink, silk quilt that enveloped your bed, They're all pieces in the mosaic that illustrates your memory now and they'll never be broken. I've glued them so tightly together it's as strong as your jaw! Your jaw, always known to make eyes water when you'd turn during a goodbye kiss on your cheek and crush our noses! Even when we tried to approach with caution! But oh what anyone of us wouldn't give to feel that again, just to say goodbye and think we'd be over to the Bluebell to see you again. So now I sit and look at the woven leather on my sandals and remember all the details, all the memories that are woven together to make you. Sometimes I wish I could click the heels together. Bluebell Bluebell Bluebell And be back in that garden, once more.
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Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal Huge Principles appear. The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of Arboreal life, how from earth's salty lap The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness Enacted by leaves' fall and rising sap; But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance Of sun from shadow where the trees begin, The blessed cool at every pore caressing us -An angel has no skin. They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it Drink the whole summer down into the breast. The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest. The tremor on the rippled pool of memory That from each smell in widening circles goes, The pleasure and the pang --can angels measure it? An angel has no nose. The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes On death, and why, they utterly know; but not The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries. The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves, Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges. —An angel has no nerves. Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be. Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior, This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares With living men some secrets in a privacy Forever ours, not theirs.
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On Being Human
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal Huge Principles appear. The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of Arboreal life, how from earth's salty lap The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness Enacted by leaves' fall and rising sap; But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance Of sun from shadow where the trees begin, The blessed cool at every pore caressing us -An angel has no skin. They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it Drink the whole summer down into the breast. The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest. The tremor on the rippled pool of memory That from each smell in widening circles goes, The pleasure and the pang --can angels measure it? An angel has no nose. The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes On death, and why, they utterly know; but not The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries. The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves, Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges. —An angel has no nerves. Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be. Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior, This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares With living men some secrets in a privacy Forever ours, not theirs.
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Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly, would you like a cup of dew or a slice of cricket pie. Locust is for dinner, Roach's served for tea it should be really comfy cause there's only you and me. Perhaps we both can surf the web or talk about the weather. We could go out and try on clothes, I look real good in leather. But first of all let's go inside. That's it my dear fly and now that you have entered here it's time to say goodbye.
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Sep 15, 2014
Sep 15, 2014 at 8:17 PM UTC
Goodbye Fly.
Said the Prince unto his raven-haired Lady as he rode and galloped away, He leaned back and this is what he had to say: “Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return.” Jack O’Lantern prowls and haunts the frosted hills hunting to ****** for fresh meat. This monster, this dark beast creeps down from upon the heath! Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the Lord of this warm and happy house?” says Jack O’Lantern with claws tapping. “Gone to London town,” says the Nurse the coins from Jack receiving. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the lovely Lady of this house?” smiles Jack O’Lantern mouth full of jagged teeth. “She’s in her red chamber,” says the Nurse asking for a treat. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the delightful baby of the house?” says Jack O’Lantern purring like a cat. “Asleep in the cradle,” says the Nurse accepting Jack’s gold sack. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “We will pinch him, we will ***** him, we will stab him with a long pin! Nurse, you will hold the basin for the blood all to run in.” Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. So they pinched him and they pricked him, then they stabbed him with a very sharp pin. The false Nurse did hold the basin for the blood all to run in. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Lady, come down the stairs, come drink this tasty gin,” says Jack O’Lantern dripping sin. “How can I see thee in the dark?” says the Lady unto him. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “I have silver bracelets and rings fashioned out of gold,” says Jack O’Lantern bowing. “Lady, pray sail down the stairs and come see them glowing.” Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. Down the stairs the radiant Lady gently glided without alarm, thinking there to be no harm. Black-eyed Jack stood ready to snap her in his arms. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. There is blood in the kitchen and blood on the chamber floor, there is blood also in the hall. There is blood upon the open door and blood upon the wall. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. There is slippery blood in the parlour and bedroom too where the Lady did slip and fall. Now Jack will be caught and hanged and punished in hell’s hall. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. And the false Nurse will be broken and burnt in the fire raging scarlet and black. Said the Prince unto his Lady dead as he rode back: “Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! O why did you unlock the door? My heart will now forever twist and turn!”
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Mar 10, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 at 1:33 PM UTC
The Ballad of Jack O’Lantern
Said the Prince unto his raven-haired Lady as he rode and galloped away, He leaned back and this is what he had to say: “Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return.” Jack O’Lantern prowls and haunts the frosted hills hunting to ****** for fresh meat. This monster, this dark beast creeps down from upon the heath! Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the Lord of this warm and happy house?” says Jack O’Lantern with claws tapping. “Gone to London town,” says the Nurse the coins from Jack receiving. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the lovely Lady of this house?” smiles Jack O’Lantern mouth full of jagged teeth. “She’s in her red chamber,” says the Nurse asking for a treat. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Where be the delightful baby of the house?” says Jack O’Lantern purring like a cat. “Asleep in the cradle,” says the Nurse accepting Jack’s gold sack. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “We will pinch him, we will ***** him, we will stab him with a long pin! Nurse, you will hold the basin for the blood all to run in.” Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. So they pinched him and they pricked him, then they stabbed him with a very sharp pin. The false Nurse did hold the basin for the blood all to run in. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “Lady, come down the stairs, come drink this tasty gin,” says Jack O’Lantern dripping sin. “How can I see thee in the dark?” says the Lady unto him. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. “I have silver bracelets and rings fashioned out of gold,” says Jack O’Lantern bowing. “Lady, pray sail down the stairs and come see them glowing.” Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. Down the stairs the radiant Lady gently glided without alarm, thinking there to be no harm. Black-eyed Jack stood ready to snap her in his arms. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. There is blood in the kitchen and blood on the chamber floor, there is blood also in the hall. There is blood upon the open door and blood upon the wall. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. There is slippery blood in the parlour and bedroom too where the Lady did slip and fall. Now Jack will be caught and hanged and punished in hell’s hall. Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! Be concerned! Lock and bolt the door until I return. And the false Nurse will be broken and burnt in the fire raging scarlet and black. Said the Prince unto his Lady dead as he rode back: “Beware the moor, beware the fog, beware the nightly shadow of Jack O’Lantern! O why did you unlock the door? My heart will now forever twist and turn!”
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*standing on the threshold of change, I await a fresh-line but the universe may be unready if not, I may take to choppy-waters all by myself* 1. if we are all stuck in the jam of time perhaps, if we spread it out real thin some of us could actually lift off and catch a ride.. out free some hostage from the twisting temporal-joints and the wool-gatherers mind their business and footsore beggars dine on exotic-things deep in the heart of the jungle where Nebuchadnezzar parked his dreams of old by saving your surprise for a weekday jaunt we limp on in the vacant-dust of paradox yet get unavoidably detained by the present undo the ribbons and the package may unfold its.. things espy the tick-tock riding the margin of fright common sense of morn lies delightfully unfinished and the wrong side of a bold idea gets squashed the brain-weary ingest their lot and plough on through thickets of tricky-fate while tiptoeing silent on the farthest-blades of brimstone holding subtly aloft.. the frankness of aiding-spectres 2. balloon of green, balloon of blue hold out your hand and pray you get no inequalities of flame easy catch of the sound of science scoffing in the parlour when we try to do something different; take a chance uncivilised-humour will argue the rings off your punctured-lobes any germ of new plan must needs be nurtured let any frenemy go; intolerant-ilk do better by their vacuous selves remarkably convenient there's almost enough water in the well to soak up the ivory-rays and let them fly and there's a breeze lifting the needle off the ancient-groove spinning reels on the bay *no, you will never convince me that the time-keeper holds all keys 'cos I snuck out furtive.. late one night and sawed through.. for a whole decade and well, guess what I have here..* :) S T - 24 Jan 2014
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 8:24 AM UTC
stuck
*standing on the threshold of change, I await a fresh-line but the universe may be unready if not, I may take to choppy-waters all by myself* 1. if we are all stuck in the jam of time perhaps, if we spread it out real thin some of us could actually lift off and catch a ride.. out free some hostage from the twisting temporal-joints and the wool-gatherers mind their business and footsore beggars dine on exotic-things deep in the heart of the jungle where Nebuchadnezzar parked his dreams of old by saving your surprise for a weekday jaunt we limp on in the vacant-dust of paradox yet get unavoidably detained by the present undo the ribbons and the package may unfold its.. things espy the tick-tock riding the margin of fright common sense of morn lies delightfully unfinished and the wrong side of a bold idea gets squashed the brain-weary ingest their lot and plough on through thickets of tricky-fate while tiptoeing silent on the farthest-blades of brimstone holding subtly aloft.. the frankness of aiding-spectres 2. balloon of green, balloon of blue hold out your hand and pray you get no inequalities of flame easy catch of the sound of science scoffing in the parlour when we try to do something different; take a chance uncivilised-humour will argue the rings off your punctured-lobes any germ of new plan must needs be nurtured let any frenemy go; intolerant-ilk do better by their vacuous selves remarkably convenient there's almost enough water in the well to soak up the ivory-rays and let them fly and there's a breeze lifting the needle off the ancient-groove spinning reels on the bay *no, you will never convince me that the time-keeper holds all keys 'cos I snuck out furtive.. late one night and sawed through.. for a whole decade and well, guess what I have here..* :) S T - 24 Jan 2014
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Ocean calm but for moonlight now flickering the wake of the playful children of the sea here in secretive parlour they lift their heads up high and sing profound longing to Orion with star filled eyes their solemn songs with kind indifference they click and cry in holy matrimony of cool waters joined with black velvet skies. By Christos Andreas Kourtis By NeonSolaris © 2008 NeonSolaris (All rights reserved)
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 9:10 PM UTC
Where Dolphins Dwell
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 1:08 AM UTC
Piano (by D. H. Lawrence)
She'll brew a *** of bliss and then she'll pour it in your cup She'll dance around the room until the gloom is all drunk up She's not your normal angel, boy and of that you should be glad For she fills a parlour naked more than many girls do clad She's an angel from Newfoundland and St. Andrews knew her well She's certainly no Flatrock as Tickle Harbour's boys can tell And Jackson's and Chapple's Arms they both have been in her's She's even been to Merasheen don't tell the other girls Her "H"s have an "H" in them and her voice a lilting sound But if you want sincerity no better can be found Her love's as pure as dynamite she'll blow you off the shelf She'll make your whisker hairs stand up and your little man an elf She's an angel now in Tor-onto, On-tar-i-ario She moved there when her parents died and she didn't know where to go Ah, Mississauga knows her well and so does Hamilton But Toronto is the place to be when she is having fun She says she works a fancy bar called the Iron Cross Cha-pel Where pretty men come in all dressed up and cuss and kiss as well She cannot find a boyfriend there but she has lots of dates They give her lots of Ecstasy and tell her it's not **** She's an angel from Newfoundland and St. Andrews knew her well She's certainly no Flatrock as Tickle Harbour's boys can tell And Jackson's and Chapple's Arms they both have been in her's She's even been to Merasheen don't tell the other girls
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Jun 28, 2012
Jun 28, 2012 at 7:05 PM UTC
Angel From Newfoundland
It's torture, The way that he stalks her, Mina, Mina, Like some childish chant, He calls her name, We chant too, Master, master, notice us, Love us, want us, worship us, Because we worship you, And I have seen seasons pass in an unblinking eye, How can I sleep when you are always awake? Entertaining guests in the parlour room, My pallor turns deathly when you speak her name, Your next engagement is the chill in my tomb, The fear I feel in her heartbeats makes my teeth hurt, They turn into fangs with the bitterness I spit, When you take her throat, I see red, But I cannot admit these things to my absent soul, By you I am vilified, Like Christ I'd rather be crucified, My wedding dress you nullified, Let light stream in and burn me alive, Burn me dead, After aeons since the first I thought this bond was unbreakable, 1, 2, 3, women you have guided into your hell, Still your thirst is unslakeable, - But what did I expect? Denn die Todten reiten schnell. (Translation: Because the dead travel fast.)
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 5:40 PM UTC
Dracula's Bride
The Chef As the Bourdain said a cook is nobody he has no power no one cares what he has to say some of them are gifted with a natural talent for food and its ingredient and flashes of inspiration can fire the spark that is godlike. I knew of a restaurant which was always full at lunch and dinner, Where the chef? I asked a waiter. Oh, he is somewhere in the back. Back of the food place an open door, the chef stood to smoke a cigarette. I looked at me sourly, but when I expressed interest and when an order came in of a bacon omelette he made it with the flourish of a craftsman. The manager of the establishment said the chef had worked here for Six years but he- the chef- was impossible to work with. The chef suddenly quit and drove a taxi. Less stress that way. The restaurant faltered until the penny dropped, a chef is a star In the firmament of catering without a flawed genius in the kitchen, it is better to run a pizza parlour
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 4:46 AM UTC
too many cooks
'Listen, now, verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty.' 'Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil That goes like blood to the poem's making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust. Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.' 'You speak as though No sunlight ever surprised the mind Groping on its cloudy path.' 'Sunlight's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen.' So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.
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Poetry For Supper
A is for atom Rotten to the core Melting down below the ground just outside the door Where presidents and statesman continue to play with hot core rods in a box of sand forgetting where they've buried them From Kazakhstan to New York they walk away and wipe their hands Now all young boys like hot apple pie but uranium cake is hotter and those who've tasted such elation will tell you that it's nearly sinful the way the warmth slowly infil- -trates you to the bone Hear! Hear! A noble cheer for the best warm dish served in years... Soviet meltdown in hot sause There's a piece for brother and sister and you There's a piece for mom and dad who chatter in the parlour like a geiger counter going mad Now the nuclear family eats plutonium pie and triple scoop reactor splits melt and drip from every bodies spoon Cheer noble! Good men! Cheer noble! Please stand tall solicit applause Cheer noble!! You'll get your rewards and your just deserts with a noble cheer CANDU!!! Roosty
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Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 10:07 AM UTC
Chernobyl
it's funny the things you forget when asked for an 'interesting fact' -- you sleep on them for days and exhume them from the ground because they matter! so deeply!! there's no metaphor that does them justice!! it's poetry because it isn't!!! i don't know my siblings. my parents sleep in my dead grandad's bed and i received his cupboards: yeah, we're pretty much begging to be haunted. let's be positive, it'd be nice to see him again. thanks to reinforced childhood superstition, i still pick up pennies from the ground (yup, even with my germ phobia). i used to write to the tooth fairy! she warned me about gum disease. her name was tiffy, but it turned out to just be mum writing with her left hand. as an internet-addicted hermit, little me hated going abroad since the only friends i felt i had were online. there's thus a list of places to someday re-visit - rotterdam is one. i'd like to be somebody's muse. if my life plan fails, i want to work in a funeral parlour: it feels as though i'd do it justice. watching the same film more than once just isn't something i do -- except grease -- exceptions can be made when it's on TV. i mean, c'mon, it's grease.
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Apr 18, 2018
Apr 18, 2018 at 11:28 AM UTC
parts of my life that can't be turned into poems (but i stubbornly persist)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few find him pleasant enough. His mind is concrete and fastidious, His nose is remarkably big; His visage is more or less hideous, His beard it resembles a wig. He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, (Leastways if you reckon two thumbs); He used to be one of the singers, But now he is one of the dumbs. He sits in a beautiful parlour, With hundreds of books on the wall; He drinks a great deal of marsala, But never gets tipsy at all. He has many friends, laymen and clerical, Old Foss is the name of his cat; His body is perfectly spherical, He weareth a runcible hat. When he walks in waterproof white, The children run after him so! Calling out, "He's gone out in his night- Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!" He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill; He purchases pancakes and lotion, And chocolate shrimps from the mill. He reads, but he does not speak, Spanish, He cannot abide ginger beer; Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
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How pleasant to know Mr. Lear
I. You can always tell the Virgins from the way they Glide—cerebral giddy with nectarfilled Hearts and earlobes full of Wax/ Wane moonshine turf if you’re not Dying for astronomers’ loves and what makes Ptolemy different from Claude is Given prove: Equal and opposite reaction. II. Shove knife down pork Wasn’t so hard, was it. III. TWO SOLIDS INTERSECT In a plane. In the bathroom, to be exact. What follows is not Essential to the proposition; Calculate the spatial (surface area, volume of cubicle, conclude insufficient is < where escape velocity is ) useless to resistance factor 7 [prepare for lift-off landing taxi To the Bronx of course where else would I Be on a night like this it’s raining in the parlour Wont you step outside? III. anemic & half- starved half- sandwich go on, have a bite. IV. in arm will undulate bloodcellspouroutcantstoptoowide are you just imagining this? What would they tell you in school blood is thicker than water i’m not sure they eat carnivores here. CARNIVAL festival of meat. Flesh LIVE trembling quiver SWIFT shoot through air DUCK dead swandive nosedive outplug BOOM go the couple in the cabin lavatory laboratory? Rats go bang in the night crash & burn debris over Detroit is our favorite way to die colorful isn’t it rainbow— brushfire— bruises and fire storms out and around the populace to decimate seems like mating by a factor of ten V; or. X^2+i(70x7)= aftermath: my ex squared with me seventy times seven equals in fortitude (labor-intensive) tea costs sixpence in dallas what about you so integral to my being that sometimes I wonder if you’re just imaginary or if what it takes to be transcendental is beyond what’s rational or even what’s real to me: eight is enough for the eggs.
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Sep 12, 2013
Sep 12, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Vestiges, XI.
I. You can always tell the Virgins from the way they Glide—cerebral giddy with nectarfilled Hearts and earlobes full of Wax/ Wane moonshine turf if you’re not Dying for astronomers’ loves and what makes Ptolemy different from Claude is Given prove: Equal and opposite reaction. II. Shove knife down pork Wasn’t so hard, was it. III. TWO SOLIDS INTERSECT In a plane. In the bathroom, to be exact. What follows is not Essential to the proposition; Calculate the spatial (surface area, volume of cubicle, conclude insufficient is < where escape velocity is ) useless to resistance factor 7 [prepare for lift-off landing taxi To the Bronx of course where else would I Be on a night like this it’s raining in the parlour Wont you step outside? III. anemic & half- starved half- sandwich go on, have a bite. IV. in arm will undulate bloodcellspouroutcantstoptoowide are you just imagining this? What would they tell you in school blood is thicker than water i’m not sure they eat carnivores here. CARNIVAL festival of meat. Flesh LIVE trembling quiver SWIFT shoot through air DUCK dead swandive nosedive outplug BOOM go the couple in the cabin lavatory laboratory? Rats go bang in the night crash & burn debris over Detroit is our favorite way to die colorful isn’t it rainbow— brushfire— bruises and fire storms out and around the populace to decimate seems like mating by a factor of ten V; or. X^2+i(70x7)= aftermath: my ex squared with me seventy times seven equals in fortitude (labor-intensive) tea costs sixpence in dallas what about you so integral to my being that sometimes I wonder if you’re just imaginary or if what it takes to be transcendental is beyond what’s rational or even what’s real to me: eight is enough for the eggs.
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_The light is dim, but I'm accustomed to working in the dark. Besides, it's safer this way. My eyes are not what they used to be, but it has become second nature to me - the pull of the needle, the tension in the thread.   I stitched my first collar when I was six years' old, sitting on my grandmother's knee in the parlour of the old house at Innsbruck. ‘Isaac,’ she used to say, ‘you have your father's gift. Use it well.’ Ah, Papa, if you could see me now. Such expectations you had for my talent, but I assure you that the occasion for invisible seams and fine beadwork is over. Nowadays I work with a different fabric. A cloth perforated with ****** fire and riddled with shrapnel. The wounds - forgive me - resemble red Venetian silk embedded with black pearls; the bone like the baleen strictures of a dowager's corset. And the red dye runs. God help me, how it runs. As I work, Papa, I imagine that you are standing in the shadows, your frayed sewing tape draped around your neck. I am praised for my quick hands and my ability to embroider life into abbreviated limbs. And I pray that you are not too disappointed in what I have become._
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Jun 2, 2019
Jun 2, 2019 at 8:35 PM UTC
The Tailor of Innsbruck
nothing as sobering as a cop stopping your vehicle even when you are riding completely legitimate and even then with the latest figures of stop and search you very may end up in the funeral parlour, if your black **** offends
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Aug 15, 2015
Aug 15, 2015 at 11:54 PM UTC
riding legitimate and a suspect in custody... dead
You want this conversation Well let's take the ******* out You call for independence So let's see what that's about You're gonna need the banks for money Gonna need the toffs for land Well that's a kind of independence That I just don't understand So who are you kidding now, who are you kidding, Nothing's going to change With the same old queen and the same old scene and the same old parlour games This ain't no custody battle, you're not taking the kids to the zoo If we don't want central government then why would we want you? Now I find you quite convincing when you say that things are wrong But it seems that your solution Is the same old same old song And a suit in Edinburgh Could be a suit in London town Because you're all a million miles away from the **** that's going down Ah, who are you kidding now who are you kidding, Where's the brand new dawn It's the millionaires and the stocks and the shares That'll keep on keepin' on And this self-determination Might catch you by surprise The united states of me and my mates Curse every flag that flies.
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Mar 4, 2012
Mar 4, 2012 at 12:11 PM UTC
Independence Referendum Blues
Seaham now has a marina Boats bobbing up and down Bringing new life To this seaside town There are also shops Where you can have a treat A cup of coffee Or something to eat My personal favourite Is the ice-cream shop 13 different flavours With things on top I must be carful About what I eat But my doctor tells me Don't deny yourself a treat The Nicey Icey parlour Passes the test It beats competition Because it’s better than the rest
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Mar 22, 2014
Mar 22, 2014 at 6:45 AM UTC
Ice Cream Parlour
***Sometimes when ev'ning lamps are ebbing low And all the earth lies hushed in solemn sleep Within my lonely heart there burns a glow, As lengthening shadows about me creep. My weary glance falls o'er the dismal room Where with rapturous eyes I seem to see Beyond thick cobwebs, dust and direst gloom A merry host of friends-my own library! Worn musty books on shelves from olden days, Brittle pages yellowed by hands of time, Illuminating night with gladsome rays, Lifting my bleak spirit to realms sublime. Trooping merrily before my rapt gaze Into flick'ring lamplight I watch them come, Quaint men and ladies of forgotten days; Golden laughter echoing in my home. Into my eyes they smile, murm'ring with grace Aerial speech they blithely chat with me, They seem to belong to another race Wakening in my heart sweet melody. Dying lamplight sputters and they are gone. Vanished! I stare about but find I none Save a drowsy thrush flutes with hush of dawn Only myself in the parlour alone.*** ~Hilda~
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 10:50 PM UTC
My Library
what we fear as death is just decor. victorian, french country, industrial, rustic; doesn't matter. the bones are the same. some people expire smiling in neon pink plastic lawnchairs or pierce the veil ******** themselves on dove-grey french provincial settees from the 18th century. we have numbed ourselves in our endless pursuit of complexity; walked off the precipice of that final ecstatic unraveling while wide-eyed and trembling at the sight of aesthetics, as cheap as they are fleeting. we must garder à l'esprit that it all burns to ash, singular in characteristic, that is scattered by winds indifferent to any distinguishable feature in the many beliefs twisted into the teeth of sleeping behemoths dreaming of feasts they had yet to awaken to. it, what we fear, is shapeless. the absence of all accumulated delusion, confusion, or fluid lucidity. ancient. a non-locality that is the total sum of the All collapsing in on it's most basic components also collapsing in on...elsewhere? i'm done. please, come and sit. tell me how you like your tea?
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
all dark but the parlour
All the times you roll over in the middle of the night and whisper the sweetest words I'll ever listen to. The waking-up smirks, yawns, and hand-holding. The scent of your plaid shirts draped over my shoulders on all the walks back from the ice cream parlour. Each beer can that was tossed away, and clammered onto the kitchen floor. I have bad aim. The growing pile of shared space and objects and gifts, exchanged for no reason at all, other than our love, also shared. The time I fell asleep with my finger in between your lips, comforted by the closeness that one finger had with your heart. The hours spent driving to and from and circling seemingly endless parking lots. The cigarettes shared, second-hand while holding hands. The second glances, "what" "what?" "nothing, I just love you so much."
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 7:53 PM UTC
Sweetest Memories
/              sitting on your leg almost ingesting a tongue-like presence into your **** on a window-sill? miracle, when it comes to bowel movement; and what a pristine piece of **** that was...      i hope homosexual *** feels... just as good. p.s. esp. while listening to brooke c's drum covers... and to think... some people read books on the throne of thrones... on the odd occassion a game, but sometimes: watching videos, thinking to myself: this takes the bollocking - it's d'ah **** i guess that's what you might call cognitive massage parlour additive to compensate for... the deconstructive post-modernist, derrida spreschen of modern lawyers... brick is a brick isn't a brick type of scenarios... i thought they stopped as a thesaurus sensibility? guess i was wrong, all along.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 8:06 PM UTC
bowels