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"prehensile" poems
~~~ “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”  Henri Bergson well in that case, I’m either the most immature teen here, or Rip Van Winkle the re-creation process is six, nearly seven, decades long (you thot days, ha, no way), can’t recall the last name I called myself the delving, the researching, the forgetting, the fifty first dates of no short term memory, the checkdown, throwback Thursday of did I write that? no recollect, the pretense of prehensile strength to touch you and me simultaneously might, could be true, if you claim I authored it, ok with me and all that life taught me this, the one who oft  hangs around very young kids learns a lot, and soon recognizes maturity indeed endless but not senseless just a poem-of-the-day process indeed every sense says the minute difference between this morning and this approaching midnight, an opportunity to grow up, stand straighter, uprighter, write down my failures one more time, cause that is the sterling hallmark impressed upon thyself, ourselves, that is genuine maturity, the courageous wisdom to start all over again the clock has transgressed, moving past the 12:00am digits, which for cause makes me giddy, it’s permission to write a new one, of course, maturely thinking I still got one within, a newbie, an aged day-old brand new baby, a poem, of course god bless, I’m all grown n’ growled up, with wisdom to know I don’t got nada, but own the immature youthful courage of maturity, to keep on trying, endlessly, being your obedient-servant ~~~ *p.s. this is kind of love poem of thanksgivings, a love poem with no misgivings, a thank you for the fragments of sharing - hold so dear, the best reason to mature, the best reason to change, the best reason to write right now, here comes the mojo my newest oldest friend, reminding for the last and first time that I’m all growed, using the bigliest words I’ve known to say baby, hey baby, good night good morning write us a poem, a thank you note, from one who blessedly forgets his name, day in and year out* For that guy, you, that ancient kid, That poet-in-retrograde so rewrite the title, a refresh, are you immature enough to write? 1:12am ~for the crew~
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Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 1:28 AM UTC
Are you (im)mature? The best reason to write
~~~ “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”  Henri Bergson well in that case, I’m either the most immature teen here, or Rip Van Winkle the re-creation process is six, nearly seven, decades long (you thot days, ha, no way), can’t recall the last name I called myself the delving, the researching, the forgetting, the fifty first dates of no short term memory, the checkdown, throwback Thursday of did I write that? no recollect, the pretense of prehensile strength to touch you and me simultaneously might, could be true, if you claim I authored it, ok with me and all that life taught me this, the one who oft  hangs around very young kids learns a lot, and soon recognizes maturity indeed endless but not senseless just a poem-of-the-day process indeed every sense says the minute difference between this morning and this approaching midnight, an opportunity to grow up, stand straighter, uprighter, write down my failures one more time, cause that is the sterling hallmark impressed upon thyself, ourselves, that is genuine maturity, the courageous wisdom to start all over again the clock has transgressed, moving past the 12:00am digits, which for cause makes me giddy, it’s permission to write a new one, of course, maturely thinking I still got one within, a newbie, an aged day-old brand new baby, a poem, of course god bless, I’m all grown n’ growled up, with wisdom to know I don’t got nada, but own the immature youthful courage of maturity, to keep on trying, endlessly, being your obedient-servant ~~~ *p.s. this is kind of love poem of thanksgivings, a love poem with no misgivings, a thank you for the fragments of sharing - hold so dear, the best reason to mature, the best reason to change, the best reason to write right now, here comes the mojo my newest oldest friend, reminding for the last and first time that I’m all growed, using the bigliest words I’ve known to say baby, hey baby, good night good morning write us a poem, a thank you note, from one who blessedly forgets his name, day in and year out* For that guy, you, that ancient kid, That poet-in-retrograde so rewrite the title, a refresh, are you immature enough to write? 1:12am ~for the crew~
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I hate school because teacher Giraffe is always picking on me in his high and lofty manner He's always pointing at me with his prehensile tongue and snorting: *"Maybe you'd like to stop laughing and share your joke with the rest of animal class?"* But I don't know no joke; I just laugh
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 6:16 AM UTC
hyena kid hates school
I stare, intently. He glances momentarily. With its big calf eyes, the skin peeling away from its lids and its hides. They float by, I gaze quickly at their popped peepers which are skinned like white grapes, and they go about their day. I love them, them and their color palate, their unique selection. Bloated and baggy, bubbling up, it looks so goofy that I cannot stand it. My mouth gapes at the dazzling gold bands, the alternating tan lines, the glow-in-the-dark marks, the cool blues and the light blues alike. They seem startled and pouty. But what to do about the **** They cannot leap the glass and twirl with us, dance with me, fly past the current ripping by. Poor things…how they wish they were wild, undomesticated and free. They want to be near us. I see it in the gestures of their prehensile ***** that smear the glass as they press in, trying to chart our turbulent patterns. I wonder in my head how they breathe so easily, flopping about their blue-tinted box, drinking deep the LOx fed in through a tube somewhere as the world morphs and vibrates between us. It is full of grey energy. Like a cloud in a lightning storm. Ever changing.
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Aquarius
Sombre, pensive, disquietude Disconnected, subtle, lewd All emotions rolling 'round Shattered glass on holy ground Silver lining made of stone Face of darkness set alone Wings of sulphur, ashen down Butterflies stitched in her gown Queen of sacrilegious lies Blood and fire stain black eyes Lips like poison, dripping lust Serpent tongue that whispers trust Silken skin of granite gray Sparkles stone when in the day Prehensile tail and wicked strength Ebony hair of staggered length **** woman of the night Seeking prey and seeking fight Lay you down on holy stone Death by *** though not alone When her eyes light on your skin Flames of lust lick up and in Against her charms you've not a chance So open wide and join her dance
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Sep 16, 2012
Sep 16, 2012 at 5:24 AM UTC
Succubus Rising
Part 1 "How about some long beautiful hair" the Santa says The little girl rubs her head bald and veiny She looks like a baseball "No. It doesn't get in my eyes anymore when I play basketball" she says The bunch of us Sunken eyed and balding In wheelchairs and on crutches Some of us holding our I.V. stands for support I can only imagine how the Santa feels The tiniest zombies All waiting for a turn Me I have silver caps on my top front teeth And dentures Look like an old Cadillac Insides all rust and rumble We all want to know if we were good this year Part 2 Cut to the bunch of us Watching the Blue Angels air show All getting pictures with a man dressed as Shamu He is supposed to write something on the backs of all the pictures I try to imagine What you could possibly write To a group of kids that looked like us Each photo In shaky black ink Because whales aren’t prehensile He writes I love you Part3 When the circus came to the hospital We all gathered on a balcony The news was there Clowns painted our faces I asked if they had room for me Told them I could be like that guy From the 007 movies With the silver teeth that could bite really big stuff They said I might miss my folks I told them I wouldn’t Then took off my gown To show them my scars They weren’t impressed Ever since I’ve wanted to join the circus Part 4 Despite our qualifications We could not join the circus But that is okay All we wanted really Was to know if we were good And that somebody loved us We were And somebody did
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Oct 14, 2012
Oct 14, 2012 at 11:26 PM UTC
Little Zombies No Circus
Part 1 "How about some long beautiful hair" the Santa says The little girl rubs her head bald and veiny She looks like a baseball "No. It doesn't get in my eyes anymore when I play basketball" she says The bunch of us Sunken eyed and balding In wheelchairs and on crutches Some of us holding our I.V. stands for support I can only imagine how the Santa feels The tiniest zombies All waiting for a turn Me I have silver caps on my top front teeth And dentures Look like an old Cadillac Insides all rust and rumble We all want to know if we were good this year Part 2 Cut to the bunch of us Watching the Blue Angels air show All getting pictures with a man dressed as Shamu He is supposed to write something on the backs of all the pictures I try to imagine What you could possibly write To a group of kids that looked like us Each photo In shaky black ink Because whales aren’t prehensile He writes I love you Part3 When the circus came to the hospital We all gathered on a balcony The news was there Clowns painted our faces I asked if they had room for me Told them I could be like that guy From the 007 movies With the silver teeth that could bite really big stuff They said I might miss my folks I told them I wouldn’t Then took off my gown To show them my scars They weren’t impressed Ever since I’ve wanted to join the circus Part 4 Despite our qualifications We could not join the circus But that is okay All we wanted really Was to know if we were good And that somebody loved us We were And somebody did
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I am an earthquake In the desert Working the rough sand to settle In my belly So that the ache in the pit of my gut Might lose its shape These shoulder blades feel like wings sometimes Too bad these hands are prehensile Not feathered or webbed Just full of chemo-quake And tremble Unless I can hold your hand Hold my hand I’ll reverberate your ***** soul to settle Till we’ve shaken the dust a firmament Big enough to stand on I need redemption enough That stuck in the filter of my cleansing Is enough dirt to build a hill to stand on Forget heaven When I can stand on the land of my past mistakes And revel in the beauty I left behind Don’t get left behind And don’t go to heaven Just stay with me in the middle Where I have managed to compact this broken to solid Like a ghost in a landfill Haunt these hollow halls of filth with me Until ***** is all that’s left ***** is all that is left I understand that you might want to bathe sometimes Not everyone can live like I do Not everyone shares my infatuation With broken things like I do Let me get you just a little ***** Let me break you too Let me recycle our fuckery Till the filaments fit I am a “found” artist Making the broken beautiful What everyone keeps forgetting Is that even we are recyclable And there isn’t anything that cannot be rebuilt So let me make a new heaven So that I can be like a ghost Haunting a landfill
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 4:59 PM UTC
I Wish I Could be a Ghost Haunting a Landfill
MY HEART is sick because of all the eyes That look upon you drinkingly. They almost touch you with their fever look! keep your beauty like a mystic gem, Clear-surfaced--give no fibre grain of hold To those prehensile amorous bold eyes! My heart is sick! O love, let not my heart Corrupt the flower of your liberty-- Go spend your beauty like the summer sky That makes a radius of every glance, And with your morning color light them all!
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Eyes
The prehensile snout of a Tapir is  posturally renowned, but  I am no caricaturist unless I required Rhinoplasty Neither am I an Air Force Major or a Fireman, never having shot or doused in anger never clanged quid pro quo, I am a wordsmith, without  a necessarily  dangerous  course, a wedgeless door stop this side of juxtaposition, trying for a profile, riding on a buzz, to think so few images could  conjure so much verdure
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM UTC
No Conjurer
In vain, I searched my apartment instantly upon your departure. My anxious eyes and prehensile hands hoping and searching for a forgotten item, a trace of your presence: an old shirt, a half-finished book, even a bobby pin. Until I gave up, I found nothing. Retiring to my bed, however afforded me the greatest find imaginable, my temporal security complete: your scent lingers still in my sheets.
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Jul 20, 2011
Jul 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM UTC
Holding on
Fog only hides the external from the external: A prehensile lighthouse never found anyone worth finding. so yes my dear the night is dark
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Apr 2, 2012
Apr 2, 2012 at 12:42 AM UTC
Vegas
as i slipstream, unseen in red leaves golden in the dun i writhe in no horror, collapsing figments of ennui with the tip of my prehensile tongue i know not how the rivers run, but joy is not dead... it capers in the laser lilies of our fire i know from stone the story of the mountain but i drink stones and cut bread with breaking waves, anyway.
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Oct 16, 2011
Oct 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM UTC
Crash Test Prodigy
In the age of aquarius I saw In a tank of caged creatures A pair of little seahorses. They aren’t like in the movies, You know. They’re really in love. You can tell by their tails Which are helpfully and carefully Joined gently as they lead and Follow each other around the Little space they have to share. They say that these horses are Both the same. They’re male or Female or female or male or Maybe even just two of them. In the room outside my doctor’s Office, I saw a birthing seahorse. In Their tail, now only a pair of arms and A warm, sleeping lap, a baby cradle Or a breast made of prehensile love, Was a baby horse, gasping while Its other one was finding out their Role. In the cubic inches of a Cage, it would be so simple. They say that these horses are Both the same. They’re male or Female or female or male or Maybe even just one of them. © Lewis Bosworth, 7/2018, revised
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Jul 4, 2018
Jul 4, 2018 at 7:53 PM UTC
Seahorse
*Divine heavenly sanguinity blessed prehensile thoughts of two souls sitting atop floating clouds basking in sun’s glory. Travelling as the drift takes us…sometimes kissing mountain tops or dancing in the vale, flowing along with the gurgling stream, touching each pebble so gently caressing each fern, each shore. Sea the ultimate destination merging into nothingness, yet you and I granted immortality unending mirth and laughter. Heaven and earth our abode Of two bodies and one soul.* **Our divine heavenly bodies bless us with my red rainbow our two souls floating in the different shades, translucent of my colors with sweet rain on our lips kissing the ultimate of desire, as we try and stay within the lines somehow we drift, into the others being, with each stroke of your hand you always bring me back to you with each touch you transform my blank canvas to blend with yours as the red returns back in my soul…**
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 2:10 AM UTC
Eternal bliss
Rustic charms Deep in the barrio where the carrion crow carry on, if ever there was light it's long gone and the darkness like a rash creeps up on your skin, where they take their teeth out and they put the trash in, a place to be aware of in the moonlight where you dare to put on show but only in the barrio beside the hooded crow. And deep the knife that splits the corn to sharpen razors, reap the dawn and sow the seeds of raging wolves and pimps that lead us further in, the barrio is grim, no fairy tale or pun intent just iron bent into sharp hooks and even sharper cutthroat looks from residents who fit the bill of psychos, cracks the crow if crows can crack at all. I steer clear and always will, the barrio's a bitter pill to swallow, but unless your mouth's been opened wide how can anyone see inside, active pro and ****** crow and those who know don't know or never go to see. Deep in the barrio where time goes fast and life is slow and death rides walls of steel I feel affinity, a certain ****** prehensile proclivity and where the hell's divinity but sat behind the crow.
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 7:04 AM UTC
Santo Domingo
Flesh and face and circumstance and Cracked unlovely countenance--it's nothing to Disappear when the stars dim down, still less to Return when the moonlight slows. Ah, here it is. The moonlight slows. Honour and promises and Envelopes to birds, and now I'm awake. I'm awake I'm awake and my fingers Seize in woven knots recurved, Recurved and then recurved again and Finally, recurved once more, my Whickering prehensile claws unsheathe From fingertip to elbow's lap. Rotten cogs and motor oil and Mince and copper wire, black And tangled clockwork arcs in blue Bouquets of ozone tracery--speaking presently, Sleep never came and you never came and This is so crazy but I'm virtually convinced I'm Possessing of the incorrect number of limbs.
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 2:25 PM UTC
Excision
By Dee Debbie Brooks Divine heavenly sanguinity blessed prehensile thoughts of two souls sitting atop floating clouds basking in sun’s glory. Travelling as the drift takes us…sometimes kissing mountain tops or dancing in the vale, flowing along with the gurgling stream, touching each pebble so gently caressing each fern, each shore. Sea the ultimate destination merging into nothingness, yet you and I granted immortality unending mirth and laughter. Heaven and earth our abode Of two bodies and one soul. Our divine heavenly bodies bless us with my red rainbow our two souls floating in the different shades, translucent of my colors with sweet rain on our lips kissing the ultimate of desire, as we try and stay within the lines somehow we drift, into the others being, with each stroke of your hand you always bring me back to you with each touch you transform my blank canvas to blend with yours as the red returns back in my soul… Debbie Brooks 2014
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM UTC
Eternal Bliss In Collaboration with Dee
Frederick I wanted soldiers eight feet tall and some people believe they can commune with the dead, or with birds, as if it is not the height of arrogance - having innovated the opposable thumb, and with it everything from the arrowhead to sure, eight-foot tall sentinels on servomotors - to now want to move things with our minds. The kingdom of animals would hate this hubris, would Marx our prehensile hands and Mao Tse-Tung our nimble larynxes if they could. As in moments of great distress some panicked parents lift buses for love of kin, who hasn’t - in moments of pain - wanted the dissolution of their love which certainly feels immortal to prove itself so, by evaporating every living thing in the vicinity? What human heart, trembling or melting, has not wanted to cry a galaxy, or call down a flock of birds on an errant spouse? Who doesn’t want the kind of heartbreak that requires that FEMA intervene? Well, for one, not I. The better moments are the ones where absentminded you look out past the dashboard and have lost a second or two. Given it to nothing specific, as tribute. You’re giving seconds back to a hungry mouth and gut, already full of seconds and the crumbs of seconds. You know that. But it feels appropriate to bleed a bit, and wonder. That corium elephant’s foot goes stomping in all directions and the town deserts or flees, but lead contains it; and the town, its Ferris wheel still moving, but only with the earth’s rotation, is inhabited once more by grass, then birds, then adventure seekers with DSLRs, then real, honest people who have wanted to live here again for a long time and it is the coming back which feels best and is only harder with great disasters.
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Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 10:29 AM UTC
The Supernatural
Frederick I wanted soldiers eight feet tall and some people believe they can commune with the dead, or with birds, as if it is not the height of arrogance - having innovated the opposable thumb, and with it everything from the arrowhead to sure, eight-foot tall sentinels on servomotors - to now want to move things with our minds. The kingdom of animals would hate this hubris, would Marx our prehensile hands and Mao Tse-Tung our nimble larynxes if they could. As in moments of great distress some panicked parents lift buses for love of kin, who hasn’t - in moments of pain - wanted the dissolution of their love which certainly feels immortal to prove itself so, by evaporating every living thing in the vicinity? What human heart, trembling or melting, has not wanted to cry a galaxy, or call down a flock of birds on an errant spouse? Who doesn’t want the kind of heartbreak that requires that FEMA intervene? Well, for one, not I. The better moments are the ones where absentminded you look out past the dashboard and have lost a second or two. Given it to nothing specific, as tribute. You’re giving seconds back to a hungry mouth and gut, already full of seconds and the crumbs of seconds. You know that. But it feels appropriate to bleed a bit, and wonder. That corium elephant’s foot goes stomping in all directions and the town deserts or flees, but lead contains it; and the town, its Ferris wheel still moving, but only with the earth’s rotation, is inhabited once more by grass, then birds, then adventure seekers with DSLRs, then real, honest people who have wanted to live here again for a long time and it is the coming back which feels best and is only harder with great disasters.
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Taking stock And making judgment calls, All. We are that chemical burn in the world . Monster in the woods . Sober-suited in the mad house . Dream/drag Middletide.Equinox
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Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023 at 6:44 PM UTC
Prehensile thing in the universe