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"platitudes" poems
A sigh in the dark. Past my jaded lips it rises like a ghost, and I the host of thoughts enamoured but unwanted, unresolved. Night takes my sight and unleashes vision I watch (not my decision) the memories bloom to life. Ethereal and hazy, those lazy summer days Of hasty plans, promises, platitudes made; childish to dream it could have stayed the same. Polite and awkward we shuffle in the light of day, you think before you act and mind what you say and if lucky enough you might get away without blurting a thought from your head gone astray. Why do eyes so bright bring such dark thoughts? Why do we fear to take what we want? A sigh in the dark. Across chilled skin it spreads like fire, this unspoken desire between whispering sheets. Fingers grasp and twine, I feel hers, she feels mine, as we search in the dark together. This night air we’ll share; it's vice, and with vigour, seeking the trigger to release. To resolve.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM UTC
Seeking
teacher sent me to the doctor's office teacher sent me home teacher sent me to the place where all the foul things roam teacher gave me tic-tacs to swallow when i'm sad teacher said the chemicals will make me sorta mad teacher dries my eyes up with platitudes enough to even console all the kids who are made of smarter stuff teacher says confusion is not a cause for shame i'm not quite sure what teacher means but i listen all the same teacher treading tip-toed lowering the tone: "i'll help you with the theory here but you'll practice on your own."
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 6:29 AM UTC
He's Primary School Depressed
come sit on my words dear reader like outdoor furniture for thin hips while spooky poets peer up under gaudy umbrellas nervous about making a good impression all of your hosts snuffed candles burning-out for metaphors and alliterations begging one poem at a time for a light that we will never see go ahead antagonize me you, who live in an idealized passed fear the future and ignore the present while i hide like a little girl   behind the bare legs of poetry that will show you! my head a hanging web that feels words like cosmic storms tumbling stone heads onto boulders of terracotta shards my ink smells like stinky saliva a dragging wet tongue of ambiguity a kabuki fight to the death unwinding paper machete viscera and plucking out make-believe hearts while gobbling fortune cookies containing   jokes, platitudes, and fortunes that never come true in a dreamland of masturbation's i'm trying to break something in you!
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 4:45 PM UTC
Spooky Poets
Emerging economies. What they’re emerging from I don’t know. My guess, the depths of hell. From the frying pan, right into the fire, or worse; a well. A deep hole stronger than gravity, the force. To be forever under the thumb of remorse. A modern era of endless acts, policies and bla bla bla. Shut up with all your platitudes. I see what’s really going on. Aha! You speak of sustainable development. Nice to know that you’ve led by example. Carried the mantle for all these years. Centuries of ruthlessness, now veiled in sheep’s clothing. But you won’t shut up. Because you don’t speak. You never have. You just do. Each day that goes by, you carry on anew. Behind all the talk of hope, equality and more progress, it seems the wolves are lurking. Cooking up the next tool to subdue countless. This time, not behind closed doors. But in plain sight. It’s scary to imagine such spite. Each year that goes by it becomes clearer that you never cared. You sold guns, drugs and all kinds of war. And each time, you kept coming back for more. You’ve built up antibodies that ensure your survival. But sometimes I wonder if you’re alive at all. But what do I know? Maybe you’re more alive than ever. Doing what you do best but always more clever. That not even the most stable of geniuses can evade your pressure. A strong enough foundation that each break makes you stronger, So strong that not even the Gremlin can take you under.   Against this dreary background, foregrounded is nothing short of magical. Beyond hope, prayers or a thoughtless radical. Or maybe this is all just fake outrage. An attempt to evade the boredom of this endless monotony and baggage. Or maybe, the term is out of date. Like every other, that makes me increasingly more irate. In which case, this poem is at least ten years late. Or maybe there are too many maybes’. And I’m perfectly suited for this time of vague uneasiness and indifference. In which case, my imagination probably needs more sociology and less a lesson in rhymes.
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 1:44 PM UTC
"Emerging Economies"
Emerging economies. What they’re emerging from I don’t know. My guess, the depths of hell. From the frying pan, right into the fire, or worse; a well. A deep hole stronger than gravity, the force. To be forever under the thumb of remorse. A modern era of endless acts, policies and bla bla bla. Shut up with all your platitudes. I see what’s really going on. Aha! You speak of sustainable development. Nice to know that you’ve led by example. Carried the mantle for all these years. Centuries of ruthlessness, now veiled in sheep’s clothing. But you won’t shut up. Because you don’t speak. You never have. You just do. Each day that goes by, you carry on anew. Behind all the talk of hope, equality and more progress, it seems the wolves are lurking. Cooking up the next tool to subdue countless. This time, not behind closed doors. But in plain sight. It’s scary to imagine such spite. Each year that goes by it becomes clearer that you never cared. You sold guns, drugs and all kinds of war. And each time, you kept coming back for more. You’ve built up antibodies that ensure your survival. But sometimes I wonder if you’re alive at all. But what do I know? Maybe you’re more alive than ever. Doing what you do best but always more clever. That not even the most stable of geniuses can evade your pressure. A strong enough foundation that each break makes you stronger, So strong that not even the Gremlin can take you under.   Against this dreary background, foregrounded is nothing short of magical. Beyond hope, prayers or a thoughtless radical. Or maybe this is all just fake outrage. An attempt to evade the boredom of this endless monotony and baggage. Or maybe, the term is out of date. Like every other, that makes me increasingly more irate. In which case, this poem is at least ten years late. Or maybe there are too many maybes’. And I’m perfectly suited for this time of vague uneasiness and indifference. In which case, my imagination probably needs more sociology and less a lesson in rhymes.
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i imagine pulling over at a canyon seeing the day they took all the pictures off the wall when she died i stop for a picnic on a scar from getting too close to the junk but you made it and making it is all that matters i see the ends of your hands as 15th century cartography talks to the hierarch a promise of platitudes flat and lacking grandeur how on that plane it knows when you turn them over like pages of a book and secrets pour out they don't tremble like they used to haven't had an earthquake in years not even a tremor not even happenstance could stop me from gawking at the pile up on 64 how outwardly looking in you don't look like a "wreck" your hands remind me more of a car crash without the quotation marks
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Jan 20, 2014
Jan 20, 2014 at 9:44 AM UTC
post heat stroke hands
This poem casts a line from insomnia to morning On the wind of a prayer that whatever bites, holds on. See I have counted eleven score and ten, with rainbow like curves of my neck - contemptuous beasts leaping in formation each bleating out a preach of vague platitudes; A narrative for the night sky. My hands clamour at keys for escape until I tumble headfirst into a web so vast it has ensnared the whole world wide - millennials are living in-ter-net over in-the-world; a new ultraviolence against humanity. I beat my words into the screen until it breaks; shattering scarlet emoticons like confetti pouring over language as if it were a compliment. My mind massages shapeless polypous thoughts like tight constricted muscles aching for release. 3am casts these philosophies into horses, whipping them into shape and speed before the eyes of this statuesque ****** This anxious wakefulness begs my manic self to dance; suggestively ********* tickets to ride like cleavage. Sleep is fast becoming a neglected former engagement; as my mind trips over fallen heroes wades through my favourite mistakes in a wonderland unfolding faster than I can fall while the world beyond my window remains dark.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
Insomnia
whom do you trust solider, sailor, tinker, tailor.... what eyes see the meaning of the blind what tongues listen...which lies in the picturesque morning beauty spins its deceptions with golden hued sunlight weaves its hand puppet theatricals made of fleeting wisps of smiles kissing gestures weakly delivered     solider,  sailor,  tinker,  tailor...     they gather round the dead man     some come to mourn the lost     some come to rifle through his pockets     some come to silently wait for their own fate he sits in his worn chair in a pool of lamplight with a small hammer in hand his spectacles on bridge of his nose tapping tapping ever so gently the thin metal mask tinker...tailor...sailor...solider the uniform of his mind shifts according to his lie his tool is always the deceptions and misdirections a sly smile...firm handshake...a signature style 'to whom do you trust' is a phrase that troubles him her perfume lingers in the air years have buried the cold war but not its warriors not their handiwork      they dress the dead man for his burial      with his decorations and platitudes      with his shiny sword and neat uniform      with honors they lay him      with truths his secret they bury him      why did he do thus....to whom did he answer      to the tomb with his truths and lies      to the tomb he gathers the long coat and the umbrella walks out in london's chill spring night to a bridge and throws a small box into the river long years after the cold war died these men of shadows still play these keepers of the gate still watch for hannibal and his horde solider,  sailor,  tinker,  tailor whom do you trust
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 11:03 AM UTC
solider, sailor, tinker....
whom do you trust solider, sailor, tinker, tailor.... what eyes see the meaning of the blind what tongues listen...which lies in the picturesque morning beauty spins its deceptions with golden hued sunlight weaves its hand puppet theatricals made of fleeting wisps of smiles kissing gestures weakly delivered     solider,  sailor,  tinker,  tailor...     they gather round the dead man     some come to mourn the lost     some come to rifle through his pockets     some come to silently wait for their own fate he sits in his worn chair in a pool of lamplight with a small hammer in hand his spectacles on bridge of his nose tapping tapping ever so gently the thin metal mask tinker...tailor...sailor...solider the uniform of his mind shifts according to his lie his tool is always the deceptions and misdirections a sly smile...firm handshake...a signature style 'to whom do you trust' is a phrase that troubles him her perfume lingers in the air years have buried the cold war but not its warriors not their handiwork      they dress the dead man for his burial      with his decorations and platitudes      with his shiny sword and neat uniform      with honors they lay him      with truths his secret they bury him      why did he do thus....to whom did he answer      to the tomb with his truths and lies      to the tomb he gathers the long coat and the umbrella walks out in london's chill spring night to a bridge and throws a small box into the river long years after the cold war died these men of shadows still play these keepers of the gate still watch for hannibal and his horde solider,  sailor,  tinker,  tailor whom do you trust
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I'm writing this poem to be ignored like many of you I enjoy being a poet of keen irrelevance a literary luminaire of solitude a lost writing ghost a megalomaniac haunting himself a waiting oracle waiting for the occult muse door mouse to tap dance whispering night  babble or having a cooked chicken fly into my mouth while i take searing snapshots of erratic images puzzling them into words from boundless burdens of heaping intestinal bluesy aftermaths exodus of conscience   bruising my self like a ********* in heat on out of control run-on rants and blood razor drenched mysticism while real men drive earth movers drink bruskies and kick *** hustling time share Chinese handcuff contracts and up sell social justice platitudes fit for pie in the sky levitating hysteria lives shatter like red ice in endless cacophonies of skull clobbering effacement I'm writing this poem to be ignored and no one lets me down
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Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019 at 3:32 PM UTC
Ignored
christmas lights have a smell as does freedom, hatred, and ugliness of heart headaches have a smell, clarity has a smell home smells like new wood and sand, both growing up and childhood smell like smoke, fear smells like my sister's old bathroom sleep smells like my mom's perfume love is warm and smells like sleep anxiety smells like Pure Sport Old Spice deodorant, work smells like a gym, familiarity smells like the locker room when the trash hasn't been taken out, lost love smells like grass on the lakefront, nostalgia smells like a cappucino, comfort in isolation smells like the fur of a dog, purpose smells like a church, platitudes smell like mildew, tears smell like rotten wood but joy smells like that too, jubilation smells like a fire crackling, discomfort smells like that attic smell when the Halloween decorations are taken out, new beginnings as well as things we leave behind smell like airports and morning dew, risk smells like a hot tub, liberty smells like a public pool, a broken heart smells like the mountains, but a healed heart smells like them too.
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Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 at 11:33 PM UTC
smell
By: Cedric McClester Thanks for never giving up on me You always kept your cool Even when it was plain to see I was acting like a fool You’re the one who believed in me When there was no one else And your encouragement was the key To making me believe in myself Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent How can I ever thank you enough For all you do and have done For being there when it gets rough I’m just so proud to be your son At times you even were my crutch That’s what everybody said They even thought you were too much From what I’ve heard and read Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent I never would have come this far Had it not been for you So you deserve these accolades And every word is true It’s little more than the gratitude That you’re deserving of These are heart-felt platitudes That are used to express my lov Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent You brought me closer to the goal That I had set for myself Right from the start you were sold Long before anyone else You’re the rock that gives me strength Because of you I persevere And I would go to any length To thank you I’m sincere I never would have come this far Had it not been for you So you deserve these accolades And every word is true It’s little more than the gratitude That you’re deserving of These are heart-felt platitudes That are used to express my love Thanks for never giving up on me You always kept your cool Even when it was plain to see I was acting like a fool You’re the one who believed in me When there was no one else And your encouragement was the key To making me believe in myself Cedric McClester,Copyright © 2015. All Rights Reserved.
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Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 11:59 PM UTC
...FOR NEVER GIVING UP ON ME
By: Cedric McClester Thanks for never giving up on me You always kept your cool Even when it was plain to see I was acting like a fool You’re the one who believed in me When there was no one else And your encouragement was the key To making me believe in myself Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent How can I ever thank you enough For all you do and have done For being there when it gets rough I’m just so proud to be your son At times you even were my crutch That’s what everybody said They even thought you were too much From what I’ve heard and read Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent I never would have come this far Had it not been for you So you deserve these accolades And every word is true It’s little more than the gratitude That you’re deserving of These are heart-felt platitudes That are used to express my lov Thanks for all your time and energy And everything that you invest in me Thanks for your words of encouragement Especially when my head is bent You brought me closer to the goal That I had set for myself Right from the start you were sold Long before anyone else You’re the rock that gives me strength Because of you I persevere And I would go to any length To thank you I’m sincere I never would have come this far Had it not been for you So you deserve these accolades And every word is true It’s little more than the gratitude That you’re deserving of These are heart-felt platitudes That are used to express my love Thanks for never giving up on me You always kept your cool Even when it was plain to see I was acting like a fool You’re the one who believed in me When there was no one else And your encouragement was the key To making me believe in myself Cedric McClester,Copyright © 2015. All Rights Reserved.
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In a fit of pique truths were written. In a moment of reflection all was deleted. Platitudes were written back instead. Who am I to speak of the dead? A wife was ungrateful with truth. Did a pen pal want what the sacred vows of marriage Make unacceptable realities? For whom would I have written? Who would it have pleased? Staring at a fresh e-mail in humbled wonderment that someone would give decent pretense to care I -safely back from war- now ask: what do you want to know? Do you really want to know? Is it my place to tell of seeing a man's insides on the outside of a vehicle who's occupants he unwittingly saved by stepping on the landmine instead? The mine splattered the survivors' vehicle in red. Is it my place to tell Of listening to the medic's confession? Hearing him speak of tasting the blood in the air like pennies on his tongue. There's a tale I haven't heard sung! I met my Shadow I embraced him so deeply that I As I had existed before Ceased to be. The naive child thinking it was Light The Predatory Survivor others (cowards!) may judge as Dark Were forged together Stronger perhaps Time will tell As the alloy of two selves is unified by a personal hell Cheering at outgoing steel rain Laughing after the whizzing of bullets is a memory Running, racing to donate more blood Mourning the fallen while bathed in the dim red glow of chem lights Watching honored corpses loaded in near darkness for their last helicopter flights Is this what you wanted to hear? Perhaps you knew. Perhaps you imagined you knew. Regardless For your consideration Thank you For your innocent Well-intentioned Beautifully petty Gloriously naive And honest letters Thank you. Truly
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM UTC
Dear PenPal,
In a fit of pique truths were written. In a moment of reflection all was deleted. Platitudes were written back instead. Who am I to speak of the dead? A wife was ungrateful with truth. Did a pen pal want what the sacred vows of marriage Make unacceptable realities? For whom would I have written? Who would it have pleased? Staring at a fresh e-mail in humbled wonderment that someone would give decent pretense to care I -safely back from war- now ask: what do you want to know? Do you really want to know? Is it my place to tell of seeing a man's insides on the outside of a vehicle who's occupants he unwittingly saved by stepping on the landmine instead? The mine splattered the survivors' vehicle in red. Is it my place to tell Of listening to the medic's confession? Hearing him speak of tasting the blood in the air like pennies on his tongue. There's a tale I haven't heard sung! I met my Shadow I embraced him so deeply that I As I had existed before Ceased to be. The naive child thinking it was Light The Predatory Survivor others (cowards!) may judge as Dark Were forged together Stronger perhaps Time will tell As the alloy of two selves is unified by a personal hell Cheering at outgoing steel rain Laughing after the whizzing of bullets is a memory Running, racing to donate more blood Mourning the fallen while bathed in the dim red glow of chem lights Watching honored corpses loaded in near darkness for their last helicopter flights Is this what you wanted to hear? Perhaps you knew. Perhaps you imagined you knew. Regardless For your consideration Thank you For your innocent Well-intentioned Beautifully petty Gloriously naive And honest letters Thank you. Truly
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~ each intersection, a crossroad made, every answer, a question began; each wrong, a right opposing, every song, a note composing, after darkness, the light again! angry words won’t heal the pain, apologies like ointment’s rain; flood-washed roads a crossing need, no line in sand, a bridge instead, points me north, your heart to claim! i am no island, though often seems, my pained retreat, a blood trail leaves; i find my greatest strength of all, within your heart’s loving embrace, held firmly in your grip of grace! there is no strength in platitudes, cliches are weak, like worn out shoes; the darkened bank cannot hold sway, o’er lighted bridge that leads the way, points me north, and back to you! ~ *post script. learning something of defense mechanisms, mine in particular;   sadly, when brokenness is too acute to hide, the retreat is not bloodless. bridges built of simple three-word sentences greatly needed ...  not a crafted flood of well-worded, defensive responses. “i am sorry!” and “i love you!”... two, eight-letter, three-cord ropes, requiring no word-smithing, yet are sound-ly engineered for mending souls and building hearts-bridges not easily broken... each capable of bearing (baring) great weights. and yes, there are notes composing here, for it is said, “a song solidifies the heart’s passionate decisions!”*
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 1:08 PM UTC
bridges
The glitter of strobe gratuitous gaiety platitudes and sanctimonious guile ******* cocktails on the menu an ingratiating mask a gratified grin Contorted vocal chords lots of laughter no time for irony look at me.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 8:02 AM UTC
Hysteria Means Hilarity
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Mother Nature broke her water But the baby never came Our inundated world Will never be the same We watched slowly With a growing sense of impotence As an elemental army Took our innocence Some left their homes and died In another place They never did return To their own space Politicians waded 'round In their wellingtons What nerve they had to even show Their sorry skeletons Pontificated platitudes Filled the element of air And those who had been flooded Didn't really care To hear the sly sermon Those words were barely heard Though so well-written Practised and rehearsed Mother Nature has retreated now To her slumber state One day soon she'll wake again We do not know the date Windermere 2016 February 14th
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 4:36 PM UTC
The Flood
I **** the mood in a sour June, opulent misery, scorched Earth, exchanging platitudes with old faces, full of ******** full of hot air. Both sides of the fence at war with themselves, feigning inner peace and profit across the beer garden table. I talk of hangmen and floods, child brides and dressing gowns, my hometown under the mythic spell of collective memory loss. We have forgotten our place in the comfort of our urban sprawl; sirens caterwaul past the high-rise, past the vacant church with locked doors and the homeless on the street. A commonplace emergency, young male suicides, women ***** in the safety of their homes, taught a kindness through physical force, the way the gun drops to civilians in countries saved through the filter of television screens; of dust and distance. I sit and write and think of **** of old loves, anxieties- they call me crazy all the while for not committing to the scene. Now Afghanistan is a blueprint, extended diagram of steady-state destruction, a conspiracy of white man dreams, farmlands bruised by machines of war, by the Big Black Boot, the feeling we have been here before. All the while, the illusion persists, car parks filled with smoke, professional escapists with their 9% lager, bags of tobacco, and the megalomania of art. I **** the mood of a whitewashed June, advertised freedom, a mortgaged Earth, exchanging currency for a chance of peace, the zen garden smoker, the looted mind. Both sides of the fence are collecting bones, at war with themselves, whilst my eyes are red and my philosophies, ****** They call me crazy for dreaming of escape, whilst never leaving the confines of home.
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
Stoner.
I **** the mood in a sour June, opulent misery, scorched Earth, exchanging platitudes with old faces, full of ******** full of hot air. Both sides of the fence at war with themselves, feigning inner peace and profit across the beer garden table. I talk of hangmen and floods, child brides and dressing gowns, my hometown under the mythic spell of collective memory loss. We have forgotten our place in the comfort of our urban sprawl; sirens caterwaul past the high-rise, past the vacant church with locked doors and the homeless on the street. A commonplace emergency, young male suicides, women ***** in the safety of their homes, taught a kindness through physical force, the way the gun drops to civilians in countries saved through the filter of television screens; of dust and distance. I sit and write and think of **** of old loves, anxieties- they call me crazy all the while for not committing to the scene. Now Afghanistan is a blueprint, extended diagram of steady-state destruction, a conspiracy of white man dreams, farmlands bruised by machines of war, by the Big Black Boot, the feeling we have been here before. All the while, the illusion persists, car parks filled with smoke, professional escapists with their 9% lager, bags of tobacco, and the megalomania of art. I **** the mood of a whitewashed June, advertised freedom, a mortgaged Earth, exchanging currency for a chance of peace, the zen garden smoker, the looted mind. Both sides of the fence are collecting bones, at war with themselves, whilst my eyes are red and my philosophies, ****** They call me crazy for dreaming of escape, whilst never leaving the confines of home.
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******* hoes, crazy, ***** Catch me on a friday night, and I might say them all. But what I say and what I feel is a different thing. Because ******* hoes, womps, don't have vocabularies like boulders. They can't destroy. And with a new mindset, I can say a few things. A ***** is a girl without hope. A *** is a girl that likes **** and doesn't like love. A crazy one is a girl that gets by. A **** is a girl that doesn't know the difference between the three and operates on a thin line; because ******* have treated her like **** and no new ****** can make her think any different. But a girl, alas a girl. A girl is full of love and platitudes. A girl has her hands on your heart all the time. She has a vocabulary and says **** a Webster's because she's got a new dictionary that didn't even exist before she let it out her mouth. A girl makes you re-define the word love, with all its futile resentment and disenchantment, because she'll keep you coming back for more, even as she says "no, you're talking crazy, you gotta go." So trust me when I say this, I could **** with a girl's head before, but this girl she's maneuvered me into thinking about how ****** up I really am. And that's as smart as I've ever been.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 11:29 AM UTC
If you can make it through the first few lines, you can make it through me.
1                                                                    4 she offers me,                                             a spot of dust she raises me                                              under the couch, on platitudes and warm bread                I know it’s in return for my devotion                         there she loves me like the boats                       today, I start spring-cleaning, she keeps out on the ocean                      (this alone she loves me to be molded,                      should receive not to be unfolded                                     more recognition than it will)                                                                       I pull out the couch she bore me bones                                     the vacuum doesn’t quite the lacrimal bone                                       reach the dust lying the breastbone                                            on unused carpet, all the cervical vertebrae                          the head I use them to simulate                              keeps hitting the wall her expectations                                        unproductive                                                                      I put the furniture back 2                                                                   in place I have names,                                             no one will see the lack I wear them like badges                           of progress inspired by something not quite earned yet                                                   5                                                                      while lucid dreaming I assigned                                                   constellations were on each name                                                  my skin a compartment                                          and freckles in of me                                                           the night sky If I name them maybe they will become                                       pollution drowned out real, not just necessary                             two thirds                                                                      even if most imploded                                                                      before they were seen 3                                                                   6 with enough necessity                             were it not for shadows anyone can tell a lie                                  I would surely learn to                                                                      hate the light
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 6:43 PM UTC
on deception (vignettes)
1                                                                    4 she offers me,                                             a spot of dust she raises me                                              under the couch, on platitudes and warm bread                I know it’s in return for my devotion                         there she loves me like the boats                       today, I start spring-cleaning, she keeps out on the ocean                      (this alone she loves me to be molded,                      should receive not to be unfolded                                     more recognition than it will)                                                                       I pull out the couch she bore me bones                                     the vacuum doesn’t quite the lacrimal bone                                       reach the dust lying the breastbone                                            on unused carpet, all the cervical vertebrae                          the head I use them to simulate                              keeps hitting the wall her expectations                                        unproductive                                                                      I put the furniture back 2                                                                   in place I have names,                                             no one will see the lack I wear them like badges                           of progress inspired by something not quite earned yet                                                   5                                                                      while lucid dreaming I assigned                                                   constellations were on each name                                                  my skin a compartment                                          and freckles in of me                                                           the night sky If I name them maybe they will become                                       pollution drowned out real, not just necessary                             two thirds                                                                      even if most imploded                                                                      before they were seen 3                                                                   6 with enough necessity                             were it not for shadows anyone can tell a lie                                  I would surely learn to                                                                      hate the light
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Look at all the parrots-- Parroting the words Of all the other parrots-- Of all the other birds-- Parroting profusely All the same refrains-- Parroting the constant patter In their parrot brains-- Parroting the preaching From the pulpit to the pews-- Parroting their parents' And their parents' parents' views-- Parroting their leaders And their pompous platitudes-- Parroting their peers' Pretentious attitudes-- Parroting the patriarchs' Proselytizing that'll Put your teeth on edge With their pathetic prattle-- Parroting the poppycock Of trite pontifications-- Parroting pernicious And sly manipulations-- Parroting the pretty birds Whose pageantry and glory Appeal to their prurient tastes In each pathetic story-- Parroting the songsters With parasitic pleasure And counting out the rhythm Of every pitiful measure-- Parroting the powerful Whose ploys are so profuse, Leaving the powerless Pummeled with abuse-- Parroting with passion Presumptuous prophesies With putative contrition, "Humbly" on their knees-- Parroting themselves-- Together all in sync-- How they love to parrot So they don't have to think! - by Bob B
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Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM UTC
Look at All the Parrots!
Ground zero again. Ghost ties to old moods now that you have found happiness, or at least the line of best fit. Lips interlocked incessantly on the astral beach, over the September permafrost where I held up the chains of my cell just long enough to kiss you. Chambers of blue blood, of blue feathers interspersed in the lining of our pockets: I felt I could fly when I finally met you. Heard the callousness, the human history of suffering, when the chains overwhelmed, when I fell back to the ground. You were my fortune in the wishing well, but now our tongues are rearranged, all passions now platitudes, another name or witness to wish me well. Ground zero again. The foundations exposed on what might have been love. Monoliths of steel and scorched earth. Broken vessels sail by in the night, influence of wine; words are tempered but the intent remains. You remain. Extinguished shadow in the skyline, phantom limb of loving arms. I cannot find the stars. I cannot reach out to anyone in the space you left behind.
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 2:32 PM UTC
Ground Zero (What Might Have Been Love)
# shackled to a notion rubbing through wrists in rusted remains of beautifully easy it's a slow bleed through insults slung in fear the unmaliciois only noticed in hindsight calling the innocent a ***** doesn't breed hate from love the duke-yeilding cowardly lion flings back like a monkey ## breaststroking a marathon in tears wading through pain I never caused pelted with double-barrelled denial THIS IS NOT WEAKNESS there is no waver on my solid ground torn flesh and compound fractures cannot break harder than history still, gavel strikes in sucker punched cracked ribs that look like a past that ain't mine ### keep hacking off pieces maybe I'll fit into those pretty boxes your liars left as gifts nasty reminders that trust has sharp teeth maybe that's just you biting back any hand that gets too close pandering in placating platitudes ain't my bag flattery fails to flounce from unfettered friends #### can't be beat into submission with unspoken broken rules can't run from a truth in plain view this is what it looks like to believe what you know over what you've lived I'm not running I'm not biting back I'm not going anywhere then again, why would I I'm not the one afraid to love you https://soundcloud.com/user-166761247/a-fourth-in-time-to-cracked-selections-of-music
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Dec 25, 2018
Dec 25, 2018 at 8:04 AM UTC
a fourth in 3/4 time to cracked selections of music
These streets are postcards. Moments of my youth, My loves. Each park bench enveloped within, Licked and pressed to My forehead. Return me to those times. I want my streets back. My memories Present and my friends Still readied for me. Pour moi. Pour me another drink Whilst I forget the ones I had. Red wine has long since replaced My blood, My skin; gone stale. The streets press in on My chest. I can’t breath for the dizzy memoirs, Yowling at the moon in My brain. The simple sway of a tyre swing, You and I, The chains. The simple fog of your ice machine, You and I, The cider. The simplicity of you and me, You and me, The years. These streets are ghost ships now. Bounty once abound, now gutted. Do not tease me with your platitudes Oh town, And just let me be on my way.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
Small Town
Different strokes for different folks, but if I stuttered when I spoke, there is a reason why I wrote, and if you think that I'm a joke, then stroke me, stroke me... Empirical lyrically virile and viral a warrior reborn like he's gone out of style, a rage unabated both non-syncopated and internal/external no meter's abated! You wanted an anthem? You wanted a cause? You wanted a figure to even the odds? You thought I was kidding but now you're admitting that I am the chosen whose broken the clause! Rising in status, my main apparatus, the attitude: platitudes lack the finesse! I'm searching for perfect not anything less! I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! Melding the milieus of millions and millions of masses who clash for the chance for the cash, when all that was needed was truth to believe in, significance outed, you puppet let's dance! No bragging, no lagging, and no more sandbagging, the hustle is over, your tussle is weak! For soon we will savor the end of your flavor, fifteen minutes over, your outlook is bleak. I'm nobody's pigeon hole, nobody's fool, I've seen quite my share of arrogant tools, but here are the statements that lead me to greatness: love me or hate me, go on instigate me, ignore me and gasp when you hear of my rule! I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! Now join me in raising a fist to the sky, and pound upon pressure to powers that lie. Make diamonds of rhyme-ends and squelter your silence to pierce through the casket that left us so quiet. Their reign is run dry, and nobody buys it, let's hit this at home so they cannot supply it. Prepare the artillery pack in your fire, you're gonna need it , if the bars get any higher, now hear from the jokee, I dare you provoke me, you still talking **** well stroke me, stroke me. I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! **I'm willing to take it for me and for you, THERE'S NO ******* LIMIT TO WHAT WE CAN DO!**
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Dec 3, 2012
Dec 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM UTC
Effusive Eruption (A backlash to trash talk)
Different strokes for different folks, but if I stuttered when I spoke, there is a reason why I wrote, and if you think that I'm a joke, then stroke me, stroke me... Empirical lyrically virile and viral a warrior reborn like he's gone out of style, a rage unabated both non-syncopated and internal/external no meter's abated! You wanted an anthem? You wanted a cause? You wanted a figure to even the odds? You thought I was kidding but now you're admitting that I am the chosen whose broken the clause! Rising in status, my main apparatus, the attitude: platitudes lack the finesse! I'm searching for perfect not anything less! I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! Melding the milieus of millions and millions of masses who clash for the chance for the cash, when all that was needed was truth to believe in, significance outed, you puppet let's dance! No bragging, no lagging, and no more sandbagging, the hustle is over, your tussle is weak! For soon we will savor the end of your flavor, fifteen minutes over, your outlook is bleak. I'm nobody's pigeon hole, nobody's fool, I've seen quite my share of arrogant tools, but here are the statements that lead me to greatness: love me or hate me, go on instigate me, ignore me and gasp when you hear of my rule! I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! Now join me in raising a fist to the sky, and pound upon pressure to powers that lie. Make diamonds of rhyme-ends and squelter your silence to pierce through the casket that left us so quiet. Their reign is run dry, and nobody buys it, let's hit this at home so they cannot supply it. Prepare the artillery pack in your fire, you're gonna need it , if the bars get any higher, now hear from the jokee, I dare you provoke me, you still talking **** well stroke me, stroke me. I'm raring to stage an incredible coup, there just ain't a limit to what I can do! **I'm willing to take it for me and for you, THERE'S NO ******* LIMIT TO WHAT WE CAN DO!**
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