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Light train chugging, working to outrun Over exerting, pulling along your freight Sand is running out under the diminishing sun Fastidiously you tug on your enormous weight Segmented equal in seven hulking proportions Weaving between sleeping rocky giants Assertion in your drive gifted from the high heavens Borne of light your cargo load of tenants Silver blurred rays glinting back as reply As you power your way through Defying seconds, before the last rays should die Against odds, delivering what is due Questing to alleviate my inflicted darkness Spear of brilliance slicing through my mind Illuminating the farthest and tiniest of crevices Nook and crannies that willed me blind Careful manoeuvring to keep your balance Through scenic views fraught with treachery Furiously working to keep your cadence Hopeful of unloading the load you carry What lies dormant in that cargo of yours? What sleeps easy within those boxcars? What stokes the fire to diligently run your course? What promises you bear, travelling near and far? Bales of hope and crates of strength Supplies of kindness and self-worth Reside within your immense length Intact and lay quiet within your formidable girth Reliant on the light that fuels and feeds Your axles seem tireless guiding forth those wheels Thundering over land with the power of a thousand steeds Armed to your teeth with alloys and steels Expelling grit and dirt as you pummelled across Grey-white fumes, shoot up to the sky Flag flogged by wind, billow and toss Blaring your whistle as you race on by Propelling forward, horizon up ahead There it is...in all its tenebrous glory Darkened locomotive seething mad with dread Brace for the clash and the loads the two carry
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 8:03 AM UTC
Light Train (II)
Light train chugging, working to outrun Over exerting, pulling along your freight Sand is running out under the diminishing sun Fastidiously you tug on your enormous weight Segmented equal in seven hulking proportions Weaving between sleeping rocky giants Assertion in your drive gifted from the high heavens Borne of light your cargo load of tenants Silver blurred rays glinting back as reply As you power your way through Defying seconds, before the last rays should die Against odds, delivering what is due Questing to alleviate my inflicted darkness Spear of brilliance slicing through my mind Illuminating the farthest and tiniest of crevices Nook and crannies that willed me blind Careful manoeuvring to keep your balance Through scenic views fraught with treachery Furiously working to keep your cadence Hopeful of unloading the load you carry What lies dormant in that cargo of yours? What sleeps easy within those boxcars? What stokes the fire to diligently run your course? What promises you bear, travelling near and far? Bales of hope and crates of strength Supplies of kindness and self-worth Reside within your immense length Intact and lay quiet within your formidable girth Reliant on the light that fuels and feeds Your axles seem tireless guiding forth those wheels Thundering over land with the power of a thousand steeds Armed to your teeth with alloys and steels Expelling grit and dirt as you pummelled across Grey-white fumes, shoot up to the sky Flag flogged by wind, billow and toss Blaring your whistle as you race on by Propelling forward, horizon up ahead There it is...in all its tenebrous glory Darkened locomotive seething mad with dread Brace for the clash and the loads the two carry
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Nope, don't do it show me mountains I can't climb Don't, dare a darer and tell me, it won't rhyme Can't be a place on earth I can't go, examine, or explore Holding, or finding the keys I'll open each, and every door Willingly not an option dropping thoughts or words, into my mind Questing for perplexing if it can't be prosed, a way, is what I'll find
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 10:43 AM UTC
Enigmatically Imperfect
The paper boats sail upon the stream. Curious like vagabonds questing for dreams. On they float through bends & turns, Over silt mountains & valleys of fern. Glide with butterflies, Caper past toads. Not a clue where leads the watery road. Caressing the earth, Savoring the rain, Drawn into the rapids, Broken free again. The tempest, the calm, All the vistas unknown. Horizons they cross. To beyond, they've flown! A paper boat I hold Only one to spare Place it in the water A small white corsair. She kneels beside me, on a bed of grass. Points at the boat & throws me a glance. Smiling, she asks, "Leaving? Where to?" "Let's find out", I say "My boat is for two."
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Apr 8, 2016
Apr 8, 2016 at 1:10 AM UTC
Paper boats
I’ll protect the innocent even while I may proclaim my deep regard for who they are controversy may be exclaimed guiltless stated for my friends this word is used at its most broad when all children of the divine deserve their refuge from abuse even while I seek to proclaim my admiration for their grit stepping outside confining realms leading the way for this questing one on the shoulders of the perverse this is how the public may respond declaring wisdom I don’t share when I see threads of commonality in my heart I know we are the same seeking power in our own way being true to ourselves while expressing how we live humanity searching for a voice I’ll add mine to the chorus admitting that I’ve fallen far while ascending to the heights spectrums ranged in pursuit my honest nature at last found though at first I wrongly thought I was alone when I was not the free spirits led the way I wish my voice could exclaim and still I hold back my breath protecting innocent like myself. © 2018. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20180909.
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Sep 9, 2018
Sep 9, 2018 at 10:57 PM UTC
Protecting Innocent
*Exquisite honey you were, found only in hives on mountain tops, all five senses and sublime power of cognition sprang alive, took you in deep and let you be there long enough to discern, your dense sweetness sank in, on the wings of wonder I soared, a honeybee in rapture.*
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Sep 1, 2013
Sep 1, 2013 at 8:37 AM UTC
Exquisite mountain honey and the honeybee questing for it.
I can feel you near me Whenever you are close. You're like an overdose on E My tank is on F I want to swim past your knees And take one last deep breath before Submerging myself Into the salacious, incredulously insatious, Caribbean Sea-warm Oasis At the apex of your thighs. I will set sail ships in your eyes Questing for you to magnetize me in the direction towards the destin of my fate. The question is Once I'm in Can your Vaginal Strait Navigate me In the deep dark cavity of your hips Or can your lips Narrate Irrigate me to the waterfalls of your heart I want to split your valves apart and Let Love Pour. I want to anchor permanently on the sink-sands of your shores; I want to be closer to you than I've ever been before... I want you to feel me.
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM UTC
Ocean Potion
I wrote this for a slam to explain who I am It's PoetryByMAN Yes I am a pseudonym Mystery I provoke Take it in let it soak Word playing every stroke Savor every **** Next level set the tier I'm here to make it clear Though Twisted is the mirror Rhymes you shouldn't fear Competition vital Here questing for the title Who shall be my rival In this game of survival Hit with love Vibrating like a hub Ba doom Ba doom Hit like a Sub...Woofer... Heart full not hallow LIKE ME! If there was a button would you follow? Messenger I am Also I'm a fan Diggity **** he thinks he's a rapper man Simple..direct Vocabulary wreck All due respect.. Don't want to be correct Commercial break watch me pop my snapple Many skills acquired hope my talent is ample Kung fu poet Choose style I'll flow it Talent the seed Nurture grow it From my bones A melodic tone Comfort comes from coming home Shaman Buddha Hybrid to school you Sand a vibe Runs right through you Play my part In this world of art Butterfly to a new start Blow nose with prose Words without flow Stand on stage Put on a show Hope you enjoyed PoetryByMAN Spoken in 3rd I am Blogs on tumblr..Facebook can't stand Throw all in the air top rope poetry SLAM!!
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 7:03 PM UTC
SLAM
High up above the open, welcoming door It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim. Once, long ago, it was a waving tree And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves Of forest trees, in a thick eastern wood. The winter snows had bent its branches down, The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers, Summer had run like fire through its veins, While autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs, And strewed the leafy ground with acorn cups. Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among Its branches, breaking here and there a limb; But every now and then broad sunlit days Lovingly lingered, caught among the leaves. Yes, it had known all this, and yet to us It does not speak of mossy forest ways, Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch; But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea! An artist once, with patient, careful knife, Had fashioned it like to the untamed sea. Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light. Among the flashing waves are two white birds Which swoop, and soar, and scream for very joy At the wild sport. Now diving quickly in, Questing some glistening fish. Now flying up, Their dripping feathers shining in the sun, While the wet drops like little glints of light, Fall pattering backward to the parent sea. Gliding along the green and foam-flecked hollows, Or skimming some white crest about to break, The spirits of the sky deigning to stoop And play with ocean in a summer mood. Hanging above the high, wide open door, It brings to us in quiet, firelit room, The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes, Where heaping, sunny waves tumble and roll, And seabirds scream in wanton happiness.
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A Japanese Wood-Carving
High up above the open, welcoming door It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim. Once, long ago, it was a waving tree And knew the sun and shadow through the leaves Of forest trees, in a thick eastern wood. The winter snows had bent its branches down, The spring had swelled its buds with coming flowers, Summer had run like fire through its veins, While autumn pelted it with chestnut burrs, And strewed the leafy ground with acorn cups. Dark midnight storms had roared and crashed among Its branches, breaking here and there a limb; But every now and then broad sunlit days Lovingly lingered, caught among the leaves. Yes, it had known all this, and yet to us It does not speak of mossy forest ways, Of whispering pine trees or the shimmering birch; But of quick winds, and the salt, stinging sea! An artist once, with patient, careful knife, Had fashioned it like to the untamed sea. Here waves uprear themselves, their tops blown back By the gay, sunny wind, which whips the blue And breaks it into gleams and sparks of light. Among the flashing waves are two white birds Which swoop, and soar, and scream for very joy At the wild sport. Now diving quickly in, Questing some glistening fish. Now flying up, Their dripping feathers shining in the sun, While the wet drops like little glints of light, Fall pattering backward to the parent sea. Gliding along the green and foam-flecked hollows, Or skimming some white crest about to break, The spirits of the sky deigning to stoop And play with ocean in a summer mood. Hanging above the high, wide open door, It brings to us in quiet, firelit room, The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes, Where heaping, sunny waves tumble and roll, And seabirds scream in wanton happiness.
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about pictures of bears without any fur, and they look horrendously terrifying. Like ****** space gorillas you see in poorly done sci-fi movies. Do you think panda bears are still the cutest bear without any fur? I wonder if dragons get lung cancer from all the smoking they do. I'd rather think about a hairless panda bear breathing fire--it's jaws sinking into the underbelly of a mortally wounded dragon and as it starts munching on the dragon pancreas, it accidentally sneezes causing it's lunch to incinerate to ashes. That's probably why dragons are extinct. Hairless panda bears donned armor, riding horses; questing to eat dragon pancreas. They also thought amor prevented lung cancer. It was the middle ages, people or animals didn't have modern technology to explain diseases, let alone where babies came from. Except for dragons, and look at how their species turned out. **** I'm throwing my phone in the toilet right now.
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Jun 6, 2013
Jun 6, 2013 at 2:58 AM UTC
This morning i was thinking
I chased the first rays of an autumn morning but to my sorrow when I arrived at the urgent place the sun had already risen breathing a crowning glory of a seasons brilliant splendor alighting the glowing amber of golden woods shining like gleaming constellations of dazzling morning stars... though I desired to find ascendent beauty the ubiquitous glow of transfigured leaves immersed me in a divine chrome... as I traversed the woods, my solitary steps found companionship with a sullen mistress singing a sad rustle of dry fallen leaves and as the drone of cars faded from the receding road I searched myself for courage and found resolve I pondered truth and discovered the wisdom of resolution... yearning  to realize a deeper faith I hiked further up the wooded hill, visiting the gay playfields of my youth and received an epiphany of wholesome closure opening new timeless doors... still questing for more light a prophetic wren whirred a pliant secret into my ear she bespoke a symphony of avian improvisations conversing in a thousand luminous tongues, relating a sonorous elegy teaming with the brightest joys of life raising bold proclamations celebrating a seasons radiance imploring me to join the chorus... though the canopy of the woods still boasted boughs of green the infant hues of spring had run its course the glory of an expiring season strewn on the forest floor covering the mouldering stags inching back into the compost of life breeding blankets of furry moss feeding on the primal organica of seemingly expired flora here, in this darkened moment I realized the transcendent miracle the loam of life incubating churning   in concert with the turn of seasons... to my sorrow I missed the first rays of the morning the first peeks of light a breaking day gracefully bespeaks upon a sleeping earth awoken in new light yet I am filled I am transcendent I am the first ray of an eternal light I am the first ray of my earthen gloaming... on the morrow the best of me is in the marrow of all who loved me and all whom I loved these rays of me will forever rise in an eternity of dawnings For Joey Godspeed Beloved Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending Oakland 101313 jbm
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 12:13 AM UTC
First Rays of an Autumn Morning
I chased the first rays of an autumn morning but to my sorrow when I arrived at the urgent place the sun had already risen breathing a crowning glory of a seasons brilliant splendor alighting the glowing amber of golden woods shining like gleaming constellations of dazzling morning stars... though I desired to find ascendent beauty the ubiquitous glow of transfigured leaves immersed me in a divine chrome... as I traversed the woods, my solitary steps found companionship with a sullen mistress singing a sad rustle of dry fallen leaves and as the drone of cars faded from the receding road I searched myself for courage and found resolve I pondered truth and discovered the wisdom of resolution... yearning  to realize a deeper faith I hiked further up the wooded hill, visiting the gay playfields of my youth and received an epiphany of wholesome closure opening new timeless doors... still questing for more light a prophetic wren whirred a pliant secret into my ear she bespoke a symphony of avian improvisations conversing in a thousand luminous tongues, relating a sonorous elegy teaming with the brightest joys of life raising bold proclamations celebrating a seasons radiance imploring me to join the chorus... though the canopy of the woods still boasted boughs of green the infant hues of spring had run its course the glory of an expiring season strewn on the forest floor covering the mouldering stags inching back into the compost of life breeding blankets of furry moss feeding on the primal organica of seemingly expired flora here, in this darkened moment I realized the transcendent miracle the loam of life incubating churning   in concert with the turn of seasons... to my sorrow I missed the first rays of the morning the first peeks of light a breaking day gracefully bespeaks upon a sleeping earth awoken in new light yet I am filled I am transcendent I am the first ray of an eternal light I am the first ray of my earthen gloaming... on the morrow the best of me is in the marrow of all who loved me and all whom I loved these rays of me will forever rise in an eternity of dawnings For Joey Godspeed Beloved Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending Oakland 101313 jbm
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Batteries destroys the mind You achieve next to nothing with your plug in baby muse But here you lay, yet again, questing for a Stone Ring that gives a +1 to all of your skills as a sorceress When somewhere else in the world a kid just made it to the next round of american idol and who knows, maybe next year you'll be jamming to his hit track on your ipod while your sitting in the library busting your *** to get the grades to become somebody you dont even know if you want to be But I'm sure Einstein would agree with me that being something makes more sense than being nothing Even though when your nothing your something, unless your a giant whole ******* me, Asia, and Justin Beiber into you to fill the void But at the end of the day, when you really think about it, it's not even about whether or not you did your best, you just need to be able to sleep that night, and accept the day thats passed...not that you have a choice Because the PVR doesn't work on the LIFE Network You can't skip back to the beginning of the track, if you could, why not scratch the CD and listenin to a different remix every time But Jacob knows it's never too late, there's always tomorrow. So turn off the screen close your eyes and think for a bit, or at least until that late night ice cap wears off. Are You going to find your call of duty? or spend another day wishing your brain had built-in bluetooth.
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Feb 16, 2011
Feb 16, 2011 at 8:34 PM UTC
Man VS Machine
Dear Emma Watson - Shall we make love The object of Our spiritual quest Together? Surely an altogether Better option Than pairing you off In a commentary box With one John Motson Discussing twenty two Pairs of socks Chasing a piece of leather? If spiritual questing Is not for you I will make do With tightly tied pairs of shoes Existential emus, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Whilst hoping you find Your Sherlock Holmes, Miss Watson I will content myself with Cataloguing my collection of Black and white combs. I also have plots on Which I need to work - Wednesday Addams's love of Moon dried tomatoes Or Erica Roe Somewhere in Portugal Growing sweet potatoes For sale. Don't let anyone tell you There ain't no perks To being an Omega Male.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:01 AM UTC
Emma Watson Receives A Proposition From An Omega Male
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Creeping vines climb crisscrossing the cracked clay Crumbled brick shards collect at the base of the tower Essential oils permeate the air Invisible liquid fire Inflaming all feeling skin bubbling and peeling Grotesque **** oozes from ragged ripped flesh Itching is incessant Swollen red eyelids Tear drop elicits twitching A scream of unfulfilled urges Vines encircle the neck countless green nooses contaminate flesh Breath becomes brutality swollen esophagus Red and green monster stalks searching for someone with skin thin enough to climb underneath into the innermost layer Death brings an end to the maddening agony Body a bulging red ball already collects maggots Creepy vines questing never ending searching not satisfied until they find the next target Cycle continues no escape from the ivy.
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Jun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012 at 5:56 PM UTC
Poison Ivy
School urges us ever to accumulate yet what dawns in maturity is selectivity not bulk - how I soon began to seek white chickens and essence of red wheelbarrow glazed with rain. (c) C J Heyworth July 2014
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM UTC
Wheelbarrow Questing
for Nave Busyness makes one idiotic and forgetful. And we nearly sunk the night didn’t we darling, leaning on the wrong swing. (It is always the peach tree.) Katrina doing her Harpy on Fullblast thing with such deftness and professionalism she leaves us no room to respond to legs and offers of spread cheese. And poets cave in like lonely black holes if they cannot response as fully as they have peaches in their coffers to do so, or at least they think so and so do we so I escaped to shower, and tried to make the water hot enough to round me straight again, but my skin still gets in the way. I wanted to peel off everything and douse my soul straight in the hot and the lavender, questing for a readiness beyond the pale, some state rare, and infinitely usuable. It was only when, and this is true, when I decided to make a list of why I love you that the water went in and the lavender grew instantly between my toes. And Rosemarey Clooney danced you in to me and you were a happy Papa at last, and we knew enough. And there was finally room enough to mambo home.
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 7:07 AM UTC
Last Ditch Mambo
The destination of a questing flame, The concealed invincible core. No longer able to hold back the emotions, that once the flood has subsided, herald a new future . Your concealed invincible core fidelity arrives, bearing trust, that once accepted, will not end. Obliterating sadness, magnifying love. Fidelity has arrived. Take his trust. It will erase the confusion, you know what you feel. Let it obliterate your sadness, magnify love, and pleasure. The wheel of doubt and accusations, stops right here. You can erase the confusion, you know what you feel. Fostering love, when you need it more than everything. The wheel of doubt and accusations, stops right here. you are destined to rise up to the zenith. Let me foster love, when you need it more than anything Don't hold back your emotions. You are destined to rise up to the zenith, the questing flame of love, has arrived at your core.
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Aug 12, 2012
Aug 12, 2012 at 8:57 AM UTC
Fidelity
Freely accepted, constraints that bind The senses can free the mind. And so I knelt before her latitude. Her choker became the horizon, The light from her eyes a silent beatitude. “What do you feel?” asked the voice of the wind. I tried to answer, lips rapt and spellbound, Eyes questing, but made no sound. Enlarged by desire, encircled by pain, I felt the fire and the rain. I watched the walls of the room Dissolve into clouds As a crack in the sky beckoned, Opening wide. I was pulled upward into a swelling storm And watched all around as I climbed A mirror world form, Like the universe rhymed. Then calm.  I found myself at a steely gate. A sign read “The Labyrinth of Language.” The path began straight Then forked into uncountable branches. Words took shape and tried to dance But hung Captive on my soundless tongue. They have remained there ever since. Free them, goddess, Let these words find flight. Take them from the shadow of my tongue. Release them into your luminous night.
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Sep 2, 2015
Sep 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM UTC
Submitting to the Muse
memory comes knocking on wood mocking my childhood wild neighbourhood withstood flinching nostalgia after all this time lynching at the alpha crime in my mind for not wanting to clinch, to cling,to cringe on the past, old cast. Watch as it passed with a blast at last. I wonder if it was some test but I detest test they stress me out. No doubt I rather go questing for my destiny be the best me I can. But I can't cause I am discontent, all spent no cents, feels like I'm bent and dent without my consent I'm sorry to vent, but does represents me in the best light? Slight blight on society ignore my anxiety Mr Bigotry tried to be bigger tree towering over me, think you're some oak but it's hoax soon you'll choke on your smoke as you take that last croak while I leave you burning with my words afterwards nothing but ashes and burnt branches. Then what? I lashed out with an aged rage But methinks this does not change anything. and that's the sting.
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Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015 at 2:51 PM UTC
Stressed
<> “Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?” Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman                                                             §§§ *A night of reckoning, calculations repeated-checked, sums divided, did I use too many, or not enough, words to be understood, verbiage eloquent, did daytime reveal my poetic meanings, or double-occlude it’s essence? I have reckon’d Manhattan Isle, circumnavigated its riverbed boundaries, a younger me, by kayak rounded it, from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Battery, 14,500 acres give or take, a lifeatime to complete a dead reckoning, an unfinished full configuring. but haven’t reckon’d that Earth and I will be entwined/entombed in each other’s arms, until such time, one of us or both, will be reduced to cosmic dust, our pride, our poems, will be equally unimportant and irrelevant, I reckon. in retrospective rear view perspective, come to understand that we spend every moment of our lives, reckoning, determine the odds of which fork we will take, laugh out loud, for each moment, a poem  is titled, the resultant, a poem - who needs a muse, you’ve got choices! So, yes, Walt, the questing  answers you’ve requested: Aye, yes, yup, but no to pride, for pride and poetry in one sentence is a death sentence at multiple levels, pride, poetry, ego, suicide,...sins, so better no proud for it is the entree, the invitation to fall-fail...*                                                          §§§§§ 12:03AM  Frieday May 15th my deadline missed, but what is three minutes, but empty pride... Manhattan Island
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May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 at 8:51 AM UTC
Whitman: “Have you reckon’d?”
<> “Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?” Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman                                                             §§§ *A night of reckoning, calculations repeated-checked, sums divided, did I use too many, or not enough, words to be understood, verbiage eloquent, did daytime reveal my poetic meanings, or double-occlude it’s essence? I have reckon’d Manhattan Isle, circumnavigated its riverbed boundaries, a younger me, by kayak rounded it, from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Battery, 14,500 acres give or take, a lifeatime to complete a dead reckoning, an unfinished full configuring. but haven’t reckon’d that Earth and I will be entwined/entombed in each other’s arms, until such time, one of us or both, will be reduced to cosmic dust, our pride, our poems, will be equally unimportant and irrelevant, I reckon. in retrospective rear view perspective, come to understand that we spend every moment of our lives, reckoning, determine the odds of which fork we will take, laugh out loud, for each moment, a poem  is titled, the resultant, a poem - who needs a muse, you’ve got choices! So, yes, Walt, the questing  answers you’ve requested: Aye, yes, yup, but no to pride, for pride and poetry in one sentence is a death sentence at multiple levels, pride, poetry, ego, suicide,...sins, so better no proud for it is the entree, the invitation to fall-fail...*                                                          §§§§§ 12:03AM  Frieday May 15th my deadline missed, but what is three minutes, but empty pride... Manhattan Island
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Hanging her head into depths of an oubliette, the toilet bowl grieves inside muddied ruin. An early avocado and piles of bile simmer inside porcelain wastelands. Her face, a dark fillet, fat like a flea questing on skin. Fingers joust her drawbridge mouth. Cavaliers cannot rescue. Tiny talons scratch the back of her throat, distant organs heaving during the battle of the bulge. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels. She tastes it twice. Flecks of spit singe cheeks like undersink chemicals. Her imperial belly wails, a damsel distressed.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 3:43 PM UTC
Queen of the Eyesores
.             it's like... listening to the freddy krueger soundtrack... and then... coming across ashleys abundance videos... you seriously can't make the **** up! handshakes with your shadow, all the way through, in not making diary inquisitions, of dietary requirements. look at me? i know... creepy as the **** that isn't, even closely related to punk; i had to relate to alternative impromptus... i was raised on original *** Godzilla movies... i was questing for an alternative to **** can i confiscate an teenage girl with raspy voice? yes? no? fuck it... lets go! tits for bagpipes! god almighty, this alternative to **** late teen girls merely talking... about their dietary schematics... oh yeah... date no. 1... me? i already have my issues... i'm a heavy drinker... i'm not looking for a date, i'm looking for a ******* dog.
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 11:06 PM UTC
joke contrast
Prophecies of the Ancient’s decree, Dark Pariah shall face the dragon, In the Universal arena, heart’s quail, Worlds tremble as giant forces clash. Cloying Darkness is stirring, awakening, Shadows shifting within Darker shadows, Snake-like tendrils slithering, pulsing, A menace daring to reveal true purpose. Brandishers of Light must stand and fight, Resisting all temptation of offered power, Battling against foul corruption: death, Halting the slide into dank, filthy, pits. Monsters stalking the innocent; feeding, Drenched in blood of pain and suffering, Spawn of Dreadnoughts bring carnage, Will any stand against the slaughter? The fabled sword twisted in torment, Calling, calling; seeking a champion, Searching out those who would dare, Questing for the brave of the Light. Light heeds the need, offers strength, Dragon heart’s beat, Champions arise, Drums of war, thunderous, deafening, As the Clysm screams to be birthed. ©Paul M Chafer 2014
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Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014 at 5:12 PM UTC
Dreadnoughts and Chosen
"God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." But what if God did? What if I showed you the lost book in that cramped hand some call Moses', right to left (you read Hebrew, right?), the Book of Steve? Stefan, if you're Orthodox. Esteban if you also worship the ****** of Guadalupe, but never mind those dark madonnas. The Book of Steve: it's much like the rest of the Pentateuch, you'll recognize the style, except that it was before Genesis 1 when Steve became a living soul. A lively, friendly soul: when those animals came questing, Steve was thrilled. He scratched their ears as he named them, puled their ticks, asked them what they thought they should be called. So he was scratching and chatting, naming away, when up came Adam (Yahweh had been practicing men). *"Hey, dude." "Hey, Adam. You think this looks like a crocodile?" "I dunno. More like a fox?"* They had a few beers (Yahweh's work of the day), named five kinds of ants: Steve got carpenter, leaf-cutter, sugar; Adam took fire and soldier. Probably they made love, probably a lot (the world Was young then), but the Book of Steve is demure; Moses, or someone, drew the curtain of discretion. When the curtain comes up, the snake Still has brief feet, but Adam is changing the names To better ones, and Steve’s not there. It seems There were complaints. Stave talked to much, always on About feelings, food, the slant of the light; sometimes he wanted to be on top; he took the remkote, and didn’t give it back when Adam glare. And his chest wasn’t nearly enough like a pillow. It ws all too much. The end of the book is torn out; there are marks of fire. No one knows who defiled the Book of Ssteve, But in some stories it is said that Eden has other quadrants And that Steve is in one of them. Stevek and the snakes with feet, and other people Who missed the next book: the roc preening its iridescent plumes, The unicorn lipping apples, the manticore haveint a dustabth. They say that somewhere among the leaves of western Eden was found a helpmeet for Steve, who was not fruitful, who did not multiply, who had no dominion over the earth.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM UTC
"The Book of Steve" by Catherine Carter
"God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." But what if God did? What if I showed you the lost book in that cramped hand some call Moses', right to left (you read Hebrew, right?), the Book of Steve? Stefan, if you're Orthodox. Esteban if you also worship the ****** of Guadalupe, but never mind those dark madonnas. The Book of Steve: it's much like the rest of the Pentateuch, you'll recognize the style, except that it was before Genesis 1 when Steve became a living soul. A lively, friendly soul: when those animals came questing, Steve was thrilled. He scratched their ears as he named them, puled their ticks, asked them what they thought they should be called. So he was scratching and chatting, naming away, when up came Adam (Yahweh had been practicing men). *"Hey, dude." "Hey, Adam. You think this looks like a crocodile?" "I dunno. More like a fox?"* They had a few beers (Yahweh's work of the day), named five kinds of ants: Steve got carpenter, leaf-cutter, sugar; Adam took fire and soldier. Probably they made love, probably a lot (the world Was young then), but the Book of Steve is demure; Moses, or someone, drew the curtain of discretion. When the curtain comes up, the snake Still has brief feet, but Adam is changing the names To better ones, and Steve’s not there. It seems There were complaints. Stave talked to much, always on About feelings, food, the slant of the light; sometimes he wanted to be on top; he took the remkote, and didn’t give it back when Adam glare. And his chest wasn’t nearly enough like a pillow. It ws all too much. The end of the book is torn out; there are marks of fire. No one knows who defiled the Book of Ssteve, But in some stories it is said that Eden has other quadrants And that Steve is in one of them. Stevek and the snakes with feet, and other people Who missed the next book: the roc preening its iridescent plumes, The unicorn lipping apples, the manticore haveint a dustabth. They say that somewhere among the leaves of western Eden was found a helpmeet for Steve, who was not fruitful, who did not multiply, who had no dominion over the earth.
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