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"pinstripe" poems
Crazy passion fast deep soul kiss warnings word breathe reckless love devastated desk art struggle pinstripe attempts drunk ghost lost wind beauty hunger soul smile elegance latte knowing containment bond ink shallow identity measure chaos stumbling darling life dance frenzy sweat hole paper haunted only dreams ****** vandalized scars Achilles proceedings bare deep still pain inside lied courts darkness wind step empty rocky soul whisper eyes alone wrapped inside Athens love smile abuse truth lies time mind  bungalow knowing liar violated Pandora’s entanglement flashbacks ****** self-preservation private suit weakness baklava hide lips ******* played deserve hold earth destruction haunted coffin judgment dreams hands eternity sleep  sunset lips hidden kissed desire champagne stars taint lovers fallen what **** PR glistening intense echoes seeing taste depth care finally beach rolling salt binding heat lost quietly resumed park come believe myself arms world you skin love stranger now
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 12:43 PM UTC
Just Words
i love you when we're alone because you eviscerate me in front of your friends but alone you kiss the veins in my arms press your small hips into my hips & sigh into my neck & blink so slowly that i can hear your eyelids whispering you won't hold my hand in public because you blatantly want to seem available to other men but when it's only you & it's only me we lie on our backs letting the summer rain collect in puddles in our bellybuttons & you swear to god there's only one way this can end you say i can't meet your parents but everything i do reminds you of your father that tall strong man of your childhood singing sinatra to your mother in the kitchen just like i do when i sneak behind you & tickle your neck with my tongue you're giggling as i carry you like a bride into your bedroom for naptime or playtime you only miss me when you're by yourself like a flower hidden in a fenced-in backyard but you ignore my texts most days because when your friends are around you're busy dancing toward the sun & lying to them about where you spent last night & the blueberry pancakes you ate for breakfast you don't mention the ticklish new rib spot i found or the quiet music we make together at night or the stars we wished on with our pinky fingers tied together i love you most when we're sticky asleep alone you humming in turquoise ******* snuggled into my armpit with your warm hand melting into my chest & me in the pinstripe boxer briefs you bought with my arm under and reaching for your exposed breast
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 8:38 AM UTC
blueberry pancakes
i love you when we're alone because you eviscerate me in front of your friends but alone you kiss the veins in my arms press your small hips into my hips & sigh into my neck & blink so slowly that i can hear your eyelids whispering you won't hold my hand in public because you blatantly want to seem available to other men but when it's only you & it's only me we lie on our backs letting the summer rain collect in puddles in our bellybuttons & you swear to god there's only one way this can end you say i can't meet your parents but everything i do reminds you of your father that tall strong man of your childhood singing sinatra to your mother in the kitchen just like i do when i sneak behind you & tickle your neck with my tongue you're giggling as i carry you like a bride into your bedroom for naptime or playtime you only miss me when you're by yourself like a flower hidden in a fenced-in backyard but you ignore my texts most days because when your friends are around you're busy dancing toward the sun & lying to them about where you spent last night & the blueberry pancakes you ate for breakfast you don't mention the ticklish new rib spot i found or the quiet music we make together at night or the stars we wished on with our pinky fingers tied together i love you most when we're sticky asleep alone you humming in turquoise ******* snuggled into my armpit with your warm hand melting into my chest & me in the pinstripe boxer briefs you bought with my arm under and reaching for your exposed breast
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Keen little neons playfully jump around, colliding with her mind and she sits there, legs crossed, her ***** aroused, but it gets doused as the Wall Street pinstripe type walks by she utters a sigh, looks at the sky, the ending's nigh, and it's night. Skyline looks pretty beams and lighted apartment block kitchens and real pop-up ads, them keen little neons, her eyes flicker like those hanging lights in horror films, perpetuate fear, the skeletons are in the clear. I told you, you schmuck, the end is near.
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 3:28 AM UTC
Skyline Stickball
White collared men in pinstripe suits sit casually across from one another, completely indifferent. They discuss ways to obtain power and how to silence the opposition. The opposition being women. Power being the rights to our own bodies. These are the men who make laws against abortion to disguise their ulterior motives. Trump’s America they call it. Where belittling women is somehow a “trend”, Where this type of thing has become “okay”. Where the women’s rights movement has been threatened time and time again. All of this, In efforts to silence our war cries. But here’s the thing about us that even history seems to have forgotten. We Are Women. Our mothers have been crafting our battle armour since before we were born. Gave it to us the day we were first interrupted in the middle of a sentence. They told us to be brave, to be bold, to be unapologetic. To speak our truth and remain strong even when we feel utterly defeated. You see, We don’t really do submissive. Won’t sit back and let you do as you please. Rather, we’ll continue to challenge your authority. Make you wish you kept your laws off our bodies in the first place. To those who continue to undermine our capability, I say to you this. This body, is my own. This body, is power. In fact, I don’t blame you for being afraid. Because you and I both know that this body is capable of things so extraordinary that only God Himself can envision them. You can try to silence us, To take away our voice. But we will only grow stronger, Grow louder. Angrier. You will hear us And you will listen. My body, My rules.
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 9:19 PM UTC
My Body, My Rules
White collared men in pinstripe suits sit casually across from one another, completely indifferent. They discuss ways to obtain power and how to silence the opposition. The opposition being women. Power being the rights to our own bodies. These are the men who make laws against abortion to disguise their ulterior motives. Trump’s America they call it. Where belittling women is somehow a “trend”, Where this type of thing has become “okay”. Where the women’s rights movement has been threatened time and time again. All of this, In efforts to silence our war cries. But here’s the thing about us that even history seems to have forgotten. We Are Women. Our mothers have been crafting our battle armour since before we were born. Gave it to us the day we were first interrupted in the middle of a sentence. They told us to be brave, to be bold, to be unapologetic. To speak our truth and remain strong even when we feel utterly defeated. You see, We don’t really do submissive. Won’t sit back and let you do as you please. Rather, we’ll continue to challenge your authority. Make you wish you kept your laws off our bodies in the first place. To those who continue to undermine our capability, I say to you this. This body, is my own. This body, is power. In fact, I don’t blame you for being afraid. Because you and I both know that this body is capable of things so extraordinary that only God Himself can envision them. You can try to silence us, To take away our voice. But we will only grow stronger, Grow louder. Angrier. You will hear us And you will listen. My body, My rules.
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Arise Great Britain, swell wi pride this is no time tae split, divide, a hero needs us on his side a man apart Brave Osbourne comes wi manly stride and lion heart When danger ca’s, he stauns and fights He’ll haud the baddies bang tae rights Nou in their een he sees the whites and yells, “Attack!” He’s got oor mojo in his sights – He wants it back! Let’s cheer his valour tae the roof Condemn the wans wha’d cry him couff And pray oor Geordie’s bulletproof As on he flies Then fit him wi a parachute and wave guidbye. This GM perfect Tory clone need not rely on un-manned drone He’ll tackle ISIS on his own their fight dissolve His pores squirt pure testosterone his eyes, resolve Just watch the baddies turn and flee as George, wi patriotic glee wreaks vengeance for democracy a one-man dojo And cries, “Come, Britain, flock to me, and feel my mojo!” Or mibbes we should check this twice. Although the image may be nice The blood we risk on his advice may never stop - But Geordie will not sacrifice one ****** drop These profiteering pinstripe ****** wha ken no life but politics Are no the first tae play these tricks while deals are made Why no just wave a crucifix and shout “Crusade!” So hooses burn and horror grows A stream o misery outflows While braggard Geordie struts and crows, "Ye want a fight?" I’d dump him on Damascus road tae see the light Ye plot the death o innocents Tae score yir points in parliament Yir fascist mocking o dissent it suits ye well George Osbourne, ye're a proper gent **** ye tae hell.
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Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 at 5:54 AM UTC
To Saint George
Arise Great Britain, swell wi pride this is no time tae split, divide, a hero needs us on his side a man apart Brave Osbourne comes wi manly stride and lion heart When danger ca’s, he stauns and fights He’ll haud the baddies bang tae rights Nou in their een he sees the whites and yells, “Attack!” He’s got oor mojo in his sights – He wants it back! Let’s cheer his valour tae the roof Condemn the wans wha’d cry him couff And pray oor Geordie’s bulletproof As on he flies Then fit him wi a parachute and wave guidbye. This GM perfect Tory clone need not rely on un-manned drone He’ll tackle ISIS on his own their fight dissolve His pores squirt pure testosterone his eyes, resolve Just watch the baddies turn and flee as George, wi patriotic glee wreaks vengeance for democracy a one-man dojo And cries, “Come, Britain, flock to me, and feel my mojo!” Or mibbes we should check this twice. Although the image may be nice The blood we risk on his advice may never stop - But Geordie will not sacrifice one ****** drop These profiteering pinstripe ****** wha ken no life but politics Are no the first tae play these tricks while deals are made Why no just wave a crucifix and shout “Crusade!” So hooses burn and horror grows A stream o misery outflows While braggard Geordie struts and crows, "Ye want a fight?" I’d dump him on Damascus road tae see the light Ye plot the death o innocents Tae score yir points in parliament Yir fascist mocking o dissent it suits ye well George Osbourne, ye're a proper gent **** ye tae hell.
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Hi . . . This is about the kinds of people who work in corporate big money office buildings . . . Imagine them at lunchtime, how they interact and picture the scene in any . . . Busy little bistro Sharp - sharks - circle - the - pack Pinstripe finned and eager Snapping their snacks back with ease Points to prove with nothing to lose No cracks in their creases They're keen to return to the fray. These boys play with girls Aren't yet uncles with nieces Just unproven throwaway pieces . . . In shiny . eat ***** . suited up . Chelsea boots Bidding for ***** with cute looks and loot Touting with confident ***** . . . As mobile as their smart devices Loose Next . . . ? And fresh from a mornings abuse And fifteen years of fear . . Beleaguered older shirts sit . . Flogged dogs with weak barks Parked packed into packs. Tongue tied ties tied together Safety is numbers Get each others backs These partially satisfied cats Know today is NOT their day . . That was yesterday . . . Obliging lives and mortgages The reasons why they stay Passing Cabs cruise . . . Seen it all before. Sat in the back a high class ***** Glazed eyes glancing away From her play-away payday Nibbles in the boardroom . . Napkins . . for the dribbles A working lunch for this Girl Her money-shot a wrap without applause Was just a . . . pause . . . between paws . . Then Dora on reception John, who minds the door Evie in the IT room Or dave . . who buffs the Marble Sparkles glinting in the floor . . And the guards . . who guard . . what exactly . . ? All of this . . ? Networking . . !!! Everybody's selling something It doesn't quite stink But it definitely smells A little high As time whiles by Seems this Is the state of our nation And in this state Defines our aspirations And yes . . this state's a splinter Taunting my imagination . . . Do I stake my place within this game Or sit in observation Commentating on a race Where human nature fakes it's place Where people sit as players Yet no one wears their own face
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 12:20 PM UTC
Busy Little Bistro
Hi . . . This is about the kinds of people who work in corporate big money office buildings . . . Imagine them at lunchtime, how they interact and picture the scene in any . . . Busy little bistro Sharp - sharks - circle - the - pack Pinstripe finned and eager Snapping their snacks back with ease Points to prove with nothing to lose No cracks in their creases They're keen to return to the fray. These boys play with girls Aren't yet uncles with nieces Just unproven throwaway pieces . . . In shiny . eat ***** . suited up . Chelsea boots Bidding for ***** with cute looks and loot Touting with confident ***** . . . As mobile as their smart devices Loose Next . . . ? And fresh from a mornings abuse And fifteen years of fear . . Beleaguered older shirts sit . . Flogged dogs with weak barks Parked packed into packs. Tongue tied ties tied together Safety is numbers Get each others backs These partially satisfied cats Know today is NOT their day . . That was yesterday . . . Obliging lives and mortgages The reasons why they stay Passing Cabs cruise . . . Seen it all before. Sat in the back a high class ***** Glazed eyes glancing away From her play-away payday Nibbles in the boardroom . . Napkins . . for the dribbles A working lunch for this Girl Her money-shot a wrap without applause Was just a . . . pause . . . between paws . . Then Dora on reception John, who minds the door Evie in the IT room Or dave . . who buffs the Marble Sparkles glinting in the floor . . And the guards . . who guard . . what exactly . . ? All of this . . ? Networking . . !!! Everybody's selling something It doesn't quite stink But it definitely smells A little high As time whiles by Seems this Is the state of our nation And in this state Defines our aspirations And yes . . this state's a splinter Taunting my imagination . . . Do I stake my place within this game Or sit in observation Commentating on a race Where human nature fakes it's place Where people sit as players Yet no one wears their own face
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Her fingertips loosed the glass bottle, which had of late gathered rain like the hands of paupers. Glitter in a heartbeat. to be collected by old battered shoes or car tyres and streetwise magpies. it joins a city evensong this oceanic roar of nothing fusing chords of cars and smoke and lonely dogs with hacks and throngs of perambulating suits and suitors trampling athwart broads of concrete As swifts in summer. We swim in it through open atriums and barren rooms of magnolia and magnolia and magnolia. All the while if you look harder you see through chinks a sepulchre in each greying tower ranging higher and higher still. Machines and machinations stacking life upon life to build pyramids to gaudy kings in pinstripe or herringbone. Flumes of fumes ***** like floods Into and out of train stops and bus stands. Circling lungs like hungry crows. Crows which haunt Bombed out chapels made new resuscitated with waxen ivy and ivory lilies. And the leaves of saintly oak trees chatter in shrinking crevices of green story telling Of how people and things grow old. And you can walk these streets And dive too like cormorants into The platitudes of city living. Soaked to the skin in sound to tell your story like the shards of a broken bottle.
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Jun 2, 2015
Jun 2, 2015 at 6:10 PM UTC
Cityscape
it was that i was. gurgling a valorous *** of cells at the bottom of the notched brick habitat of sickly algebra. and i and. with all the dirt meticulously skeletal. trenchant chaotic lips blathering skinny vocal animals. the smooth monkeys pinstripe about the square in my needle city. well and i am an we. with your habitual pocket of blood and dust in correct lumps small and large proportionately spitted on your ideal, at my hips your hips(hand in hand). we walk bythe specific straights towering sky breakers hollering reflective skin. the neon electric residue of light smacks my eyelets. and some ****** **** with the night air agreeably. but i,m a yours and only. yes. so let's make some drips of clear tremulous benedictions to this vibrant lovely hell
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Oct 6, 2010
Oct 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM UTC
it was that i was
A thousand night trains rattling through a wrestling match of junctions and burnt out- razed to the ash and soil as a field of maize in the dry season. Chaos. The lipstick from corner to corner were meticulously painted, a new hardware store in town. She reminded me of an article I read in the Baltimore sun about a woman who kidnapped herself to steady her supply of whiskey and cigarettes because her husband caught on to her taking money from his cash register at Rich’s Shoe Horn, a leather boot specialist in town right on the corner of Second and Hickory. I couldn’t trust her. Her chaos. I ran into two guys not from around here, wherever that is, with some fine lookin’ pinstripe suits and I automatically new they weren’t looking for grub or a shot of ***** Sometimes a guy won’t put his fingers on a cold bottle of beer, and that’s when you know fingerprints could become an issue later. I’ve seen it. Chaos. I’ve two-stepped chaos across the planks with the chairs up many a time. Shut off the neon, it’s time to nibble on the muzzle of a 38 until these guys dry you out like a broke *** *** I just think of Bukowski every time they drain me for all my cash. I know it’s only going towards coke or some **** I’m not too fond of (due to past experiences). I’ve done it all. Chaos. Well, you don’t go into the pool hall business with dancing shoes and a three piece suit. Roll up them sleeves boy. It’s dirt. It’s grime. It’s… Chaos.
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 6:38 PM UTC
Kay-Ahs.
Noon, I’m next in line behind an old man. “I want to withdraw fourteen dollars,” he says. The teller, a young woman with a soft sweater, says “There’s only—let me check—yes—fifty-two cents.” “Are you sure?” “Yes.” She tilts her head. “Sorry.” The sorrow is genuine. He wears a pinstripe suit, frayed, wafting an odor of smoke and earth. A smartly folded handkerchief, breast pocket, has a dark stain. His silver beard is neatly trimmed. On one wall above the safe is a giant mural of teamsters driving a stagecoach. The man says, “There might be—” “No. It’s always the same.” For a moment he closes his eyes, a slow blink while indignities of a lifetime pass. Without a word, the young woman slides a sandwich over the countertop through the teller window. “Blessings on you,” the man says with a nod, and he walks away with a limp. I cash my check, a big one from three days of messy labor for a matron of the horsey set. “He lives by the creek,” the teller says without my asking. “Under a bridge.” Outside the bank, in the parking lot of glistening cars, I look around for the pinstripe suit, the silver beard. I might offer the man something. He might refuse to take it. Anyway, no matter: he has disappeared like the last stagecoach. Only the blessing remains.
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Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017 at 12:35 PM UTC
Wells Fargo Bank
Sunday morning and I’m tucking piano sonatas in my skirt. He’s setting the gun and I’m making peace blankets. He is war. I am I am I am air. Tuesday night and he’s floating candles on lily pads off the canoe. I’m wetting my feet. He’s rowing soundlessly dreaming of geography and I’m hitching my skirt to jump into the water. His pinstripe jacket looks better on the floor Wednesday afternoon he’s apologizing but I’m too late pressing my lips to the door I throw open the IamIamIam air prayer he’s apologizing but setting the gun clicking in ammunition aiming aiming at my heart… When he pulled the trigger I bet I bled music notes.
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Oct 5, 2010
Oct 5, 2010 at 8:22 PM UTC
Bleeding Music Notes
The cold sun beats on gold pinstripe pants. Between the same fingers that grip a pen a physical form of smoke; cancerous, like divisive rhetoric dictating dialogue between red and blue threads; white in the middle turned a depressed gray. Stand, stare at a  stale banner; salute 50 blank stars, the right choice follows like a thief with forlorn hands for feet. Dead in the water, Freedom drowning, shouting in a salty blue tune. The sun watches from its godly golden throne. Out, uttering among   waves of stars, speaking with nothing to say. Freedom sinks to the depths of Hell as if but smoke trying to make waves.
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Sep 1, 2016
Sep 1, 2016 at 6:01 PM UTC
Freedom in 2016
We wrote our names on the beach in animal bones as a vivisection, on our love. there, she’s whispering into shells into their Fibonaccian, trumpeted, dresses and full-cheeked into a razor clam flute. I, too, gave my blood to grease our domestica and hung names on stars over the nighttime sea always accompanied as I were with the shark-eye, death, of her looks. We dressed up the walls of home in black and pinstripe, filled the place up with lit and lightless places, Shadowboxed, shadowfucked, and silently argued. Spent hours inside, laying floorboards and then laying on them to stare at the sodium lights and discuss the inkblots on our eyes. We vivisected our lives, and splashed it on the walls and carved it into the carpets. We set alight to christmas trees when the kids were sleeping upstairs. We dressed in each-other’s reddening horror and answered the door. Valentines day was full of bone bouquets,   the gripper rods grew through the carpet so on them we danced. I prayed for the first time in the first year and every one hit me subesquently like I was its anvil. I should have gone to war. Because it makes forever shorter things can only happen right now.
 I watched everything in our domestica, like when the static moved off the television and played on the window gutting me of my escape. The smiles hung on our faces like lupus, We had people round, we cooked and coughed and choked And their faces peeked round from the doorframe and laughed. The domestica lives only to be a bit of fun, but in the very same span of time that decided to **** the birds on my windowsill and my children’s love for me and my dexterity. We’ve happened to the whole world too I promise you, my love, my little hospice fire, my flat tire at night at nowhere, the lie you recognise means it’s over, A field of a thousand three-leaved clovers, the brightest night when you’re hiding, your heart attack on holiday, your bloodstained bed sheet And sleep, whilst outside the sleet and snow makes every emergency harder to get to, and still the morning much more beautiful. I, you, we happened.
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 12:02 PM UTC
Domestica
We wrote our names on the beach in animal bones as a vivisection, on our love. there, she’s whispering into shells into their Fibonaccian, trumpeted, dresses and full-cheeked into a razor clam flute. I, too, gave my blood to grease our domestica and hung names on stars over the nighttime sea always accompanied as I were with the shark-eye, death, of her looks. We dressed up the walls of home in black and pinstripe, filled the place up with lit and lightless places, Shadowboxed, shadowfucked, and silently argued. Spent hours inside, laying floorboards and then laying on them to stare at the sodium lights and discuss the inkblots on our eyes. We vivisected our lives, and splashed it on the walls and carved it into the carpets. We set alight to christmas trees when the kids were sleeping upstairs. We dressed in each-other’s reddening horror and answered the door. Valentines day was full of bone bouquets,   the gripper rods grew through the carpet so on them we danced. I prayed for the first time in the first year and every one hit me subesquently like I was its anvil. I should have gone to war. Because it makes forever shorter things can only happen right now.
 I watched everything in our domestica, like when the static moved off the television and played on the window gutting me of my escape. The smiles hung on our faces like lupus, We had people round, we cooked and coughed and choked And their faces peeked round from the doorframe and laughed. The domestica lives only to be a bit of fun, but in the very same span of time that decided to **** the birds on my windowsill and my children’s love for me and my dexterity. We’ve happened to the whole world too I promise you, my love, my little hospice fire, my flat tire at night at nowhere, the lie you recognise means it’s over, A field of a thousand three-leaved clovers, the brightest night when you’re hiding, your heart attack on holiday, your bloodstained bed sheet And sleep, whilst outside the sleet and snow makes every emergency harder to get to, and still the morning much more beautiful. I, you, we happened.
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spin—for a moment even some yarn in which we both give a **** and we spend long, quiet evenings quoting out of biographies of JFK or Bryan Ferry and forget for a while all the things we hate about each other, the things that make us spit on the ground when they come to mind; forget them and maybe make love like normal people. not against the counter before work lifting your pinstripe skirt—rolling it up, really, over your *** to gird the top of your hips. (chaffing crown of ****** thorns) maybe instead give me more than 5 minutes and let me bury my face down in you and you can wrap your legs around my head to keep me there as long as you please. and maybe later i'll laugh, sitting against the headboard, long-hand writing, at something one of my characters has said and looking up from an account you're working on you won't understand my laughter but you will be glad of it.
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 11:26 PM UTC
could we
I watched you turn into A punching bag Until the sand worked to settle in pit of your stomach It’s the kind of love so heavy and jagged now Like a kidney stone that you thought would never pass Until it passes Painful and ****** And you think “How could such a small thing like that Hurt me so badly” And you finally understand forgiveness Like the pinstripe scars on your back You have to feel the metal leave you Before you can let anything go And you have to remind yourself Someone is always going to love you Despite your broken record Skipping at the spot where Your song hits its chorus You have to remind yourself That eventually The thin metal fibers will Find the next groove And then you can groove Into the beat breakin’ happy Of your constantly confused smile And settle your doubts Into the arms of someone Who doesn’t have all the answers But knows exactly when to hold you You have to remind yourself How often the right thing to say Is sitting between a bitten lip And deep breath And finally a smile A laugh A tear Don’t offer answers to the questions you never wanted to be asked Don’t tan the leather Of the thickest parts of your skin Even punching bags break Don’t hang your head to watch How your feet pace towards the end The end is always gonna be there And remember Someone Is always going to love you
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Sep 5, 2011
Sep 5, 2011 at 7:49 PM UTC
Someone is Always Going to Love You
It was long years ago, I took the fifteenth day to suffer hour on hour, the usual way: Deduce the bottom line in dollars, even cents. It makes no sense, no sense. And even worse the guilty pang - The overwhelming sturm und drang that one day soon, the pinstripe suit, the man that makes my machinations moot will tap tap tap on my metaphorical door and I will be at liberty no more!
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 11:18 AM UTC
Tax Day Cometh.
It’s fifteen below And a fat buck lurches, Spindle legged, four pointed, And cardinal - Fishtail and brake. I don’t trust this road. I don’t trust these tires. I don’t trust these ditches, Smoothed and driven with snow. I’m a six-layered pig at the wheel - Unsleek unchic - But I’m warm, **** I’m warm, And the road slides like pinstripe On white gabardine. And the waning moon, The waning moon, Low in the rise, Gibbous and garish, Scabbing a cloud, Spills the whole thing blue. I don’t trust the red eyes of mailboxes, Always willing to dive the grill. I don’t trust the farmer That lives on the hill, Behind the blue spruce line, Behind the blue flickered window, Counting on futures, Clumsy as mittens, Still as the finger drift Thudding the glide Like dull scissors Snagged in gridded giftwrap guides. I still taste the coffee Down under the tar. I trust my smokes. Yes, I trust my smokes. I trust my hat. I trust my boots. I trust I’ll never find my roots. I trust the jumpers, there in the trunk. I trust every single roadkill thunk. I trust every knuckled ill-advised ride To tell me yes, oh yes, I'm alive, I’m alive.
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Dec 12, 2019
Dec 12, 2019 at 5:26 PM UTC
It's Fifteen Below
Commuters, traffic stuck in various jams yes we have all been there. Exhaust fumes choking passengers enjoying coffee in the square. Market stalls set up crates of fish align the pavement cauliflowers and cabbages blocking stairways on basements. school children being awkward in four by fours dominating the single traffic lane meanwhile platform two at the station annunces the arrival of the early train. The departure lounge at the airport cross legged pinstripe suits wait eye balling the screens for the appropriate gate. Taxis called, and then whistled for wet, cheerful postmen frog march to your red painted door. The milkman has been the bread has risen and been cooked. Toll roads are heaving and the motorways over-booked. Queues for tickets, the cars have been parked time to compose yourself from the drive get through day with relief and then it all starts up again at five!
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 2:58 AM UTC
Rush Hour
Cosmic Ball Dressed in a suit of pinstripe stars, He’s discussed war and played chess with Mars, Far, in foreign solar systems, He chuckles with their planetary distortion, He’s gambled for the diamonds of Neptune, Bowled infinite starlit lanes with Jupiter, Witnessed sacred scry’s and change from Saturn, Witnessed lies, severed ties, Much he has seen, he who walks starlit skies, Martini’s of primordial soup, With a scoop of star, Shared in lieu of chaos, with Venus, Knocking back a few, so far, He’s raced Mercury around the sun, Every lap done, feeling victory, whether he’s lost or won, praises they sung, harmony rung, He’s sat on the surface of Sol, sunglasses dawned, Other then growth and to learn he has no defined goal, Just playing a role, Breaking energetic chains, And immortal bars, He slow dances with a myriad of stars, Celestial bodies of divine will, power, grace, Orbiting around him in suits, silk, suede nylon and lace, All dancing to a distant interstellar song, A long distant echo of light, A throng of stars creating the constellations mighty heights, A universe locked in constant cosmic push and pull, Never empty, never full, He reflects, riding the back of a wild cosmic bull, Riding back to mother, back to varied perspectives of what is true, Back to a planet of green and blue, Till the next invitation come queue, To another night in primordial stew of sights and seeings, Another quaint Ball with fantastic cosmic beings..
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May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 at 9:12 PM UTC
Cosmic Bull
Its autumn biloma And spring-bile holocausts-- I love them both differently- While we scream at mountains To hiccups that show-the-buds- Of leaves to lions. This love is pinstripe -Daggers making femur bone Candles, With silk weavers and- Asterisk ribbons, But one-- Is more ​Friend than Louver.
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 1:59 PM UTC
Pinstripe Louver
Rapt by prognosis, sterile elocution Acute halitosis, banal delusion Digital notice of distant retribution Thrombosis will move you before revolution Brash adolescent right-side part, Strand obsolescence, abstract art Pinstripe filaments, two turned backs Bowed in benevolence, borrowing slack Hieroglyphic ruminations, Plastered protestations. Muscle memory incantations, Aquifuge of patience. Future shock, feminists ride-centaurs Skin-tan hedonists reside-indoors Tin-can telephone spinal chord, Sings-an injured semitone final word 40 years since you were a punk
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Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 6:01 AM UTC
Thrombotic Erotica
Pinstripe Suit When I'm an old lunatic I shall wear a black and white pinstriped suit I'm trapped inside the prison walls That used to be my mind The wallowing woman that I used to be Has long been left behind There are times I'm quite alert My memory’s still intact Then there are days when I shall disappear And no it’s not an act With an anesthetic air to it The squeaky doors My mind flows like a never ending pit And creaky carpet bare floors The halls as silent as a morgue Pill meals to which I never want They're like a cardboard box that kicks you numb My old memories still do haunt Blindly walking the paths laid out for me When I'm old I shall be completely crazy I'll scream and shout loudly to make sure you hear me clearly I'll ramble on and on about my past times When suddenly I am old and start to wear black and white pinstriped suits
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 10:56 PM UTC
Pinstriped Suit
The colorful lighted Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Thousands of tourist who want to see Radio City Music Hall with the Rockette’s heels in the air New York City at Christmas time, which no other city can compare The department stores with their individual window Christmas Themes The philosophy of Christmas in knowing what it means I just got a news bulletin that Santa has been seen wearing a business suit It wasn’t the red and white It was Santa looking like an Executive in pinstripe and had a handkerchief like a handiwipe and was smoking a pipe It was a superior brand from Saks However let me think back There was some assortment with both Bergdorf and Saks Santa was seen shaking hands with the Mayor Of New York This was a sight too see But this is between the reporter and me Yes it was Santa with a whole new business attitude But there was a candy cane pin attached to his lapel on his suit That was an attire to sweeten a business deal to pursuit I can’t believe Christmas is almost here Everything will be hung with special loving care Those misfortunate will surely get a share Christmas in New York City Coldness in your nose A look on your face as a perhaps in suppose Then a surprise of a Christmas ornament engraved with your name Special preparation being the aim Look its snowing and lets have a game Our hearts filled with joy and our minds concentrated on tame As the sun goes down The night becomes with all the stars around A night to fall asleep and eyes closed in a sandman’s trap of bound Finally sleeping with quiet and nowhere is a sound.
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK CITY
The colorful lighted Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Thousands of tourist who want to see Radio City Music Hall with the Rockette’s heels in the air New York City at Christmas time, which no other city can compare The department stores with their individual window Christmas Themes The philosophy of Christmas in knowing what it means I just got a news bulletin that Santa has been seen wearing a business suit It wasn’t the red and white It was Santa looking like an Executive in pinstripe and had a handkerchief like a handiwipe and was smoking a pipe It was a superior brand from Saks However let me think back There was some assortment with both Bergdorf and Saks Santa was seen shaking hands with the Mayor Of New York This was a sight too see But this is between the reporter and me Yes it was Santa with a whole new business attitude But there was a candy cane pin attached to his lapel on his suit That was an attire to sweeten a business deal to pursuit I can’t believe Christmas is almost here Everything will be hung with special loving care Those misfortunate will surely get a share Christmas in New York City Coldness in your nose A look on your face as a perhaps in suppose Then a surprise of a Christmas ornament engraved with your name Special preparation being the aim Look its snowing and lets have a game Our hearts filled with joy and our minds concentrated on tame As the sun goes down The night becomes with all the stars around A night to fall asleep and eyes closed in a sandman’s trap of bound Finally sleeping with quiet and nowhere is a sound.
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Strutting Out I love wearing a well tailored suit. Strutting in my sartorial repute. Crisp spread shirt collar, matching tie And dimpled half Windsor knot All with puffy pocket square to eye. Dark navy with a faint pinstripe Two button coat and Four button sleeve Blood red silk lining type British tailored elegance to perceive Slacks cut just a half inch to the back Stepping out lady on my arm Copyright 2014 Richard L Ratliff
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
Strutting Out