"pulps" poems
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.
Abortions will not
Let you remember the child
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
Dec 28, 2016
Dec 28, 2016 at 3:46 PM UTC
I dream of you in ten shades of blue,
belly as beastly as the moon as tarred as the rounds of your eyes, I bud feathers beneath the bulbs of my lungs as your chin crepes down to the sun, I dream of you as the cold bites my blossoming cheeks, palms as big as the sky, as bold as my tongue during a spat over and over again, love and hate and versa and versa, I dream of you during my wake as I lay shaking, bones glued to the pulps of my skin, I dream of you but only as I breathe and so then what of my death, will you leave me as she left you and he, I and her and we, baby, baby, tell me, do you often dream of me too?
Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 at 10:29 AM UTC
*I unload your god in that laissez-faire way
where the bandages mend and have no need to be placed,
formidably, regret to admit the moonshine in my hair
looking Gothic, but beautiful:
sober the men’s breath as it falls, falls, falls
not more mild than a snowstorm in its final lapse.
Sat there to be dreamt. He put his hand to his beard,
and I would have kissed if had I believed
that he was not merely trying to haunt my body,
the hair I kneaded into air.
It flowers, and flowing these marzipan sands
where God lays man next to his wife,
she bears the peaches: juicy, ripened, but not to eat
expecting us to swallow ourselves in turn, spin the bottle.
I could not care less for the braces in his lips –
or their fur, but gums beneath like peaches.
**** it out until the pulps mirror,
you have the skin of a four fruit, or an eighty,
flames high as kites. But suffering for each flicker-knob
and dating a girl who smokes cigarettes in bed,
I know he could not support that, your god.
Morning comes with a glare, now eating her hair
the involvement of some odd raconteurs. I beat them
and they beat my ******* for their heat –
God is a cabin boy with genitals in his palms,
said he would love the women as long as they are gone;
if he does not see me, the flames, I cannot exist
not more than falling falling falling hair.*
Nov 6, 2012
Nov 6, 2012 at 11:07 AM UTC
Leaves' dancing shadows on the piece of sun
missing the keen eyes
rebound on the vacant space.
The man played with shadows
weaving them into whimsy shapes
before most of them were pulps of paper
gone into the bin of night.
If not for light
would be no shadows
he was always churning in his mind
probing dark holes of moon
going into shady nooks
seeking playfully alive shadows.
The dead casts no shadows
he brooded
on the space he would leave
but he wished
they had
when he wasn't around.
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 8:38 AM UTC
choo choo
next stop.....perdition
(no, not really...no-one believes this Stygian opacity)
1.
look how Time doth ravage thee
look what it did to thy visage
in smithereens, lies youth
it so artfully takes away
what is held so dear
rivers and streams
valleys and hills
arching to ecstatic heights
plunging to abysmal lows
into the ravine of chance
stirred by the spoon of Time
slowly around the cauldron
brews the self-same mixture
then poured into chasms of forgetfulness
using the eternal sledgehammer
it
smashes the foundation of thought
grinds the nutmeg of speed
pulps the fruit of mentality
slows the pulse of sensation
and pardons none.
2.
what was once sensuous and voluptuous lips
now are merely two dry slits on your face
once stared-into eyeballs, now glass over
vitreous cataracts steadily grow, weed-like
toned into lithe elastic bands now stretch
away into forever, a pale platform to walk on
life's morn is encompassed by years' slanting
clouded and bedimmed by mists of age
butterfly's existence outweighs a man's
by mere night-veiled windowpane of true sight
draw the curtains; close the shutters; screen the eyes
the time has come to shed all blinkers and face the sun.
3.
crimp
sag
limp
drag
mud cracks down a dipping dale
scalding pain sears sore half-foot
yes, time is but a disease
ravaging all
without fear or favour
sunken eyes
slower reflexes
tardier mind
scraggly body
hides not
condescends not
forgets not
the glimmer of ....
a time of ...
4.
cathedral invites the walker in
cool and calm recesses
sit silent
wait....
then they walk in, carrying
one who had but a lucky half-score lot
clear soprano note becomes a rudderless bleat
announcing the folly of stifling ego
now shorn of burning frost of circuitous fervour
beams of mercy cast a final look-see
jump the barriers of
time
to
carry thee off.
pipe organ-stops are pulled out
(art thee ready? platform number 5)
S T, 9 May 2013
May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM UTC
We crossed paths after a few snowstorms
And my nerves screeched at the edge of a cliff.
I tugged at my turtle-head hood in an attempt to look good
And a whir of frosted air caked my burning ears.
We exchanged overlapping synonymous greetings,
Your spontaneous recognition and caught-up voice like needlepoint
Left a juicy blackberry stain on my tongue, and I keep licking its
Mystery bittersweet flavor. You fine-tuned your silvery signal
To target the seeds of my darkened pulps
And conduct a lightning strike.
***** minds think alike.
Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 12:08 AM UTC
African woman
She is the strongest woman
The cradle of all human
She tends softly her man
As well as all her children
She aint seeking for equity
She is seeking for prosperity
Growth, of all her generations
She knows well her traditions
Not to be in combatant competitions
Not to fight the physical equal wars
But to strengthen the spiritual-mental walls
And they call her in tough titles-submissive and foolish
All she does is, a sit-home mum, bear and then perish
But she knows well all she wants-her family to flourish
In the hearts of the matters there you will find her
Strong and willed to build and leave her legacy
Moral men and wise women-humans of substance
She is a pillar to her home
African woman
She is the strongest woman
The cradle of all human
She sits on her sack, in her arms
A giant club to clobber her farms-
Her fields fat yields of yams
And she beats their pulps till powders
They are all ground refined white dusts
Pu! Pu! Pu! Goes her game's rhythms
Pu! Pu! Pu! Shakes her shoulders
Pu! Pu! Pu! Her biceps fats dances with each fast beatings
Pu! Pu! Pu! Strong, on, urges her throbbing breast chest
Pu! Pu! Pu! Comes back the hard works echoes
Like her man in mines and farms and fields she, too, salty sweats
African woman
She is the strongest woman
The cradle of all human
On her back is a bundle of woods
On her head balanced, is a load of loads
On her back is a can of waters
On her back is a baggage of belongings
On her back is her children
On her bent back she is a farmer weeding her fields
All in a day’s daily work without complains
African woman, who stronger woman, than you?
She is the backbone of her family
She is the umbilical cord of her folks
She is their heart and soul and spirit
She doesn’t retire until she expires
Early she is up-late she is asleep, O Mama-African woman!
Even with all gone, she still as a mother chicken them all broods
She still them all remembers as my dear little children
Mama, African woman! Mama, who there be like you?
African woman
You are the strongest woman
The cradle of all human
When they all walk naked-liberal
She has a wrapper for her *****
A cloak to guard her gold-her fertile groins
She knows, good honey is deeply hidden in hives
And inside these hidden hives are strong stings
Bad eyes are a sight for witches-evil ruins
Her petals plains she must by all means protect
Until right comes the most suitable honeybee
Until right comes the sweetest singing hummingbird
Until moral comes the most beautiful butterfly
Until then, her nectar is not for every eye-tongue
Gathered she covers her fine curves
For she is the most beautiful of the divines-African Woman!
The strongest woman-the cradle of all human!
© Kìùra Kabiri. All rights reserved.
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 4:52 AM UTC
Progress
by Michael R. Burch
There is no sense of urgency
at the local Burger King.
Birds and squirrels squabble outside
for the last scraps of autumn:
remnants of buns,
goopy pulps of dill pickles,
mucousy lettuce,
sesame seeds.
Inside, the workers all move
with the same très-glamorous lethargy,
conserving their energy, one assumes,
for more pressing endeavors: concerts and proms,
pep rallies, keg parties,
reruns of Jenny McCarthy on MTV.
The manager, as usual, is on the phone,
talking to her boyfriend.
She gently smiles,
brushing back wisps of insouciant hair,
ready for the cover of Glamour or Vogue.
Through her filmy white blouse
an indiscreet strap
suspends a lace cup
through which somehow the ****** still shows.
Progress, we guess, ...
and wait patiently in line,
hoping the Pokémons hold out.
NOTE: This poem is almost entirely fiction. There was a Pokemon craze when my son Jeremy was a little boy, and I did see birds and squirrels foraging in parking lots from time to time (and sometimes fed them myself from my car’s window), but everything else is fiction. On the rare occasions that I went to a Burger King, I would go through the drive-in, so I wouldn’t have known who the manager was, or how much time ***** spent on the phone. I think the poem probably started with the image of birds and squirrels squabbling for scraps of food in a parking lot as I waited in a line of slow-moving cars, then evolved as I imagined the hassle of going inside to “speed things up.” Keywords/Tags: America, Americana, American, culture, society, vanity, youth, progress, fast food, video games, Pokemon, MTV, music videos, glamour, models, supermodels, fashion, transparency, see-through, bra, breast, *******
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 9:43 PM UTC
"I'm sorry, forgive me"
"I'll never raise my hand at you
I swear"
"I love you"
These bruises on my face that
I tried to conceal are finally
Wearing me
Not all the make-up in the
World can beautify the tallies
Of your anger that adorn my
Skin
Your heart beats anger
And it courses through your veins
Pulps of blood I tried
To hide with layers of clothes
Have finally stained
And I can't lie anymore
You call this love?
Is love the purple bruises
Plastered across my pale skin
That have been left behind
By the velvety hands I used
To yearn for?
You love me
It's okay
I should not be afraid
You were just blowing
Off steam
You love me
I've been swimming in this
Pool of denial long enough
To know that I can't really
Swim, I'm drowning
And my feet are firmly
Fixed on the ground
I am afraid of
The monsters lurking
Behind the iris of your pupil
The demons that lurk
Behind your shadows
I haven't seen my mother
In a few months
I'm scared she'll see behind
The facade I put on
She'll tell me
"Baby, you need to leave"
And I don't want to leave
He doesn't want me to leave
My head has been banged
Across the kitchen walls
More than it has been raised
These walls have been repainted
Repainted, and repainted
My scalp has been snatched
More times that I've cared to
Admit
I'm ashamed to say
I've traded parts of me
For shambles of trust,
A lot of bruises,
Rough ***
Infatuation,
And called it love
Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 1:53 PM UTC
*Marmalade trees tangerine skies
Honeyed rays from the sun
My citrus feelings are starting to peel
Orange emotions started to run
Riding the peaches
Round and round we go
The seeds in the middle
The sweet juices flow
Pulps around my melon thoughts
Or cinnamon flesh
You and i both know
Our caramel love forever fresh.*
Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:59 AM UTC
To my unborn son - I can imagine what your palms would look like covering my eyes from seeing past the wonders written in their lines
I can imagine how your fingers would tangle around my thumb silently wiping tears from under your fingernails after they've caressed my cheekbones.
How your toothless mouth would form a smile for every birthday you'd ever awaken
to the sound of a fireplace heating the brisk morning,
son I promise I'd never expose your birthmark to the brisk morning.
How I'd tell you rhyming stories of statues coming to life at night
wandering through the city's neon light
and how they'd stay out of sight
because they'd scare the people with their might,
just to hear your slowing breath as your eyes close and your mind wanders off into the night alongside the statues.
I can imagine seeing your mother in the way you'd pour orange juice into your glass and
ask me to remove the pulps.
In the way you would argue that fruit loops aren't candy, that I have your eyes when truth be told
I'd go blind at the sight of me inside of them.
How every comment on our resemblance would be brushed aside to later be pondered in a night where statues have grown claws tearing my throat.
Son I want you to know I'd love to wander of into the land of statues with you.
Long for your fingers grasping mine.
But I have seen your palms son, and I fear for you. They look so much like mine.
Wonders have nothing to do with it.
Feb 15, 2013
Feb 15, 2013 at 12:20 PM UTC
It doesn’t come on a horse-drawn carriage.
It doesn’t come as tall, dark, and handsome.
It doesn’t come with a prince’s crown.
It doesn’t come with magic fairy dust.
Forget the chick flicks.
Forget the old school fairy tales.
Forget the Nicholas Sparks novels.
Forget playing M.A.S.H. when you were six years old.
I’m not sure how it works
(Because, trust me, I wish I did).
But this culture has brainwashed our intelligent minds
To writhing pulps obsessed with “love.”
You do not love.
You love to love. And there is a great difference, my dears.
For when you truly love, you don’t feel it.
You do it.
And whoever told you that:
“Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.”
Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.’”
…
Well, they have foolishly blundered.
For you don’t “need” to be in love.
Mature love should say, “I love you because I love you,
And I have no explanation for why that is,
But I will always choose to do right by you.”
I don’t have the answer,
So I don’t ask the question.
But I’m not silly enough to believe what the world screams at me.
Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 8:48 PM UTC
somewhere in my
treasure cove
I've taken you
out of my mouth,
aligned you to the
pulps of my lips
and have begun to whisper
to you, all of the ways you've
made me
pulse.
Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 6:04 PM UTC
Gently landed
At my side
A butterfly in golden light
Warming wings
That kiss their dust
From tip to tip
Barely touching
Your hollow limb
At my elbow
Resting there
My soft net sweeps down
I am your gentle prison
I lift you out
It feels like oil
The dust at my pulps
I circle it there
A moment
It has no smell
I press your chest
To stop you moving
Pierce you with a pin
To keep you there forever
Frame you on my wall
In all this you did nothing
But look with love
Touching me lightly
Leaving nothing but dust
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 20, 2023 at 6:07 AM UTC
You,
you are the cause of your own demise
shelling yourself away in
a mere attic of your marvelous mind
selectively mute
& self-paralyzed.
Shake your self awake now!
I just can't seem to understand
how such a beautiful soul
can be so strung out of sorts
when my tiny heart
pumps all of it's oxygen to provide
some sort of love & support.
Heart beat, fingers on your pulse
lets race our hearts
till we've nothing but beaten pulps.
In all of my small wounds
I've made, remind me
to fill them with salt.
I've slit my throat
here's your perfect American movie scene
slow, merciless & know, if
it helps you breathe-
every time your name escapes my cracked lips,
I bleed.
Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 11:39 PM UTC
crocus mist
jump on snow pulps
for early zebras
Jan 25, 2021
Jan 25, 2021 at 5:06 AM UTC
Every single thing has a beginning
Ecah consonant starts with a single star
Every matter pulps from atoms
Each dream errupts from a single hope
Just like that
You grow with the beginning
From the first cry
Your first smile
The little frown of your yawn
Gazing the dream like nights
Thinking of the mystical feelings
Everything has a start
And so do you.
It palpalates into your demons
It creates your angels
It beats your heart
It aches your muscles
It dwells on your liberty
It suffocates your laughter
It propounds your ecasty
It needs you
It helps you
It eats you
It parasites you.
Thing is
You let it.
Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 9:32 AM UTC
Today I saw them
With heavy loads of favored wood pulps
Weighing them down to the earth
The deceased might of their gods
Pushing hard to open the library door
Today I saw them
Protocols mechanizes their existence
Sniffing the dust as they walk
In-between lines of old forsaken books
Gently touching the back covers
Today I saw them
As their feet march in accordance
Empty Buckets of sands to quench fire
They’ve come for the obituary of dead men
Reading their books to their ears
Today I saw them
The chirping birds that made it in
Build a nest with tattered fluffy cottons
Chirping in slumbering pitch
A Lullaby to this already sleeping generation
Today I saw them
Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 10:34 AM UTC
We planted seeds today
Pulps filled with different ridges dusted with the earth's breath,
were planted.
Each earthy fetus protected by the palms of their alpha tripped off their fingertips and glided their way into the dimension that lies under our feet.
A dimension where our ancestors whisper in sacred tongues and where the other half of our trees play in the mud.
This, is where our spirits are born.
This, is where your training begins
little one
earthy one
mystic one
This, is where you begin.
Where the trees' veins inquisitively tap on your shell
poke at your lifeless liveliness
Where the ancestors rattle your cage with their hums
Guiding you to taste your own rhythm
This, is where your spirit buds.
...
We planted seeds today.
The pulps resting in the dimension below your skin,
below your heart.
A dimension where your thoughts gossip and where your ancestors sleep.
This, is where IT begins
This, is where it breathes
where it sees
gracious one
fleshy one
cosmic one
This, is where we bleed.
...
We planted seeds today.
We, planted OUR seeds today
OUR seeds were planted today
we...
WE, were planted...
Today.
Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019 at 5:51 AM UTC
Breathing blossoms, smile
daily at the nurturer
Kissing blooming lips
The petals touch each other
Crazy breeze pulps in romance
©sim
Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 9:32 AM UTC
bring me back to
pulps of milkweed
floating in the
wind
bring me back to
the night we all
took shelter in the barn.
the storm that shook
god off his feet.
the laughter we shared.
these tender
memories,
are tinged with
palpable heartache
and nostalgia.
i crave
the unspoken
synchronicities
of us all.
May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017 at 8:16 PM UTC
Listening to I Want You and F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.. Looking at you. "I feel like we are in the middle of these two Pulp songs," I told you.
You said, "I feel the same." Then you teased and asked me, "If you had any words you wanted to say to me, but was too scared to say them."
"No," I said. "I'm not scared to tell you." Then you waited for me to say the words. Your look prompted me. I told you, "I like you." The smile on your face was my treasure.
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 7:51 PM UTC