"prehensile" poems
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“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
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*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~
Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 1:28 AM UTC
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
Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 6:16 AM UTC
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.
Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
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
Sep 16, 2012
Sep 16, 2012 at 5:24 AM UTC
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
Oct 14, 2012
Oct 14, 2012 at 11:26 PM UTC
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
Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 4:59 PM UTC
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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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
Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM UTC
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.
Jul 20, 2011
Jul 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM UTC
Fog
only hides
the external
from the external:
A prehensile lighthouse
never found
anyone worth finding.
so
yes my dear
the night is
dark
Apr 2, 2012
Apr 2, 2012 at 12:42 AM UTC
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.
Oct 16, 2011
Oct 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM UTC
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
Jul 4, 2018
Jul 4, 2018 at 7:53 PM UTC
*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…**
Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 2:10 AM UTC
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.
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 7:04 AM UTC
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.
Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 2:25 PM UTC
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
Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM UTC
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.
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018 at 10:29 AM UTC
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
Dec 15, 2023
Dec 15, 2023 at 6:44 PM UTC