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Hey. I said I do to a sociopath. No winey snivel. No quibble. No **** BPD= Borderline personality disorder.=sweet insanity.= submerged insecurity = indian giver = lifelong victim=child manipulator. Slick as snot running below the radar. Now. Dropping pretty baggage Finding perspective. WOW. Amazing what can reside in a mid sized cranium. Disneyland in cog neat O. Frued would have missed This one.
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 12:04 PM UTC
Jumble Liar
494 Going to Him! Happy letter! Tell Him— Tell Him the page I didn’t write— Tell Him—I only said the Syntax— And left the Verb and the pronoun out— Tell Him just how the fingers hurried— Then—how they waded—slow—slow— And then you wished you had eyes in your pages— So you could see what moved them so— Tell Him—it wasn’t a Practised Writer— You guessed—from the way the sentence toiled— You could hear the Bodice tug, behind you— As if it held but the might of a child— You almost pitied it—you—it worked so— Tell Him—no—you may quibble there— For it would split His Heart, to know it— And then you and I, were silenter. Tell Him—Night finished—before we finished— And the Old Clock kept neighing “Day”! And you—got sleepy—and begged to be ended— What could it hinder so—to say? Tell Him—just how she sealed you—Cautious! But—if He ask where you are hid Until tomorrow—Happy letter! Gesture Coquette—and shake your Head!
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Going to Him! Happy letter!
In ruck and quibble of courtfolk This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene With hands like derricks, Looks fierce and black as rooks; Why, all the windows broke when he stalked in. Her dainty acres he ramped through And used her gentle doves with manners rude; I do not know What fury urged him slay Her antelope who meant him naught but good. She spoke most chiding in his ear Till he some pity took upon her crying; Of rich attire He made her shoulders bare And solaced her, but quit her at cock's crowing. A hundred heralds she sent out To summon in her slight all doughty men Whose force might fit Shape of her sleep, her thought- None of that greenhorn lot matched her bright crown. So she is come to this rare pass Whereby she treks in blood through sun and squall And sings you thus : 'How sad, alas, it is To see my people shrunk so small, so small.'
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The Queen's Complaint
If you want to call me vegan, I'll not fight with you, although the statement's not quite true It's not exactly wrong either It's true I don't eat meat, or eggs, or anything with wings or legs, but in way of a confession, you might find in my possession a leather belt or shoes, which for a vegan is bad news I don't really mean to quibble, concerning what I nibble, but I'm trying here to say in this convoluted way that for a vegan it's all about the animals I'm not in it for the animals, but rather for my health and for the planet I surely won't deny it -- I eat a vegan diet, and to some degree I care what fellow creatures have to bear, and resulting from my wishin' for optimal nutrition they benefit from my selfish choice to not consume them But in the end you have to see that I eat this way for me I don't deserve the noble label, but when I'm sitting at your table, if you want to call me vegan, then I'll not disagree.
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 7:13 PM UTC
If You Want To Call Me Vegan
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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I shake awake in the sleep… The invisible dialogues, unable to distinguish from darkness vexes me... I have heard the sob of the horn bill of the freedom throughout the half broken dreams… you also may blame me like my mother that it’s because not pray to God when I go to bed… For how many ‘freedoms’ I've been kept decorated in the living room? the fishes in aquariums are not the beauty kept in the glass pots but freedom closed in the glass… While the fishes argue that the three quarter of the world has made for them, looking towards the open canopy of freedom, the love birds, quibble me from the cages that what I caged is the word of ‘freedom’ itself. Doubtlessly, creating Auschwitz cells in living rooms how can I speak about the freedom? Having exempted the birds towards canopy of indulgence the fishes to the sea of the rights, I went to fly in the freedom of sleep forgetting to pray to God… then, I know the birds from the canopy of indulgence and the fishes from the sea of the rights, are praying God for the sake of me…
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 1:54 AM UTC
Auschwitz in The Living Room
Time does not wait for you, it moves on constantly and it manifests what was the past but remains ambiguous throughout our comprehension. So why waste time thinking about it?. I'd rather sit down and listen to politicians quibble.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 2:54 AM UTC
Talk about Time
Poem Analysis 1st read, I thought gibberish, 2nd I thought Hmmm, 3rd I thought interesting, 4th I felt genius. billy your poem comment-dissects my poem my process, a marathon interview for a new poem pole position, limb by limb, word by word, chewed and re-chewed, like a tiring piece of bubble gum, the flavor remaining ebbs, but is not extinguished, and can live in your mouth, forever and the praise and this poem, not a rodomontade, for your comment dear Billy, is the process description of a poet’s labor, from word first to a baby’s birth, gibberish into genius emergent from first pain, then pushing, then tilled, at long last, the dirtiest immaculate conception beautiful billy reads my rambling, silly abstruse^ & wrote me: *1st read I thought gibberish, 2nd I thought Hmmm, 3rd I thought interesting, 4th I felt genius* this is a much loved critique for I well recall each step of creation, a summarizing parallel that your words+genes replicated so well, forgiving you a minor typo, Billy, it was genus, not genius that you meant (but then again, why quibble over a miscellaneous, harmless, delighting, tiny little extra i...not me, said he, my muse ego ) Billy has gone gray dotted, but his dot, his comment, with gratitude, in me, he, lives for ever I feel gibberish coming on...
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Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 at 2:50 AM UTC
Gibberish into Genuis: 1st read, I thought it gibberish (2019)
I will do my damnedest to save you from harm and wrap you safely up in lust you who're only a luckless victim a poor forsaken damsel in distress tied to the railway tracks by a villain in one of those black and white movies I will arrive in the dramatic nick of time and I shall be the hero who proves his love when in return you kick me under the train I'm really just vain and an incapable slave so you relent and pull me back from the brink I'll waste no time in rescuing you your destiny's under my control there's nothing you can do no reason for you to get involved except in relinquishing your body yet what you do is to shelve all my plans for today I'm relieved you know yourself I'll be there to deliver you from evil the forces of love are far too weak you have too much of it to lose to quibble my advice is to stay put and not to seek instead you jump into the moral saddle urging it on so strong my heart goes meek I repent and promise not to meddle I'll take you in my arms and we'll escape giving you a way out when all seems lost picking up the pieces of your broken reality what you need is for me to know what's best to change you into a looker for me I'm only glad you passed the test with that sand I got kicked into my face something you call leather and lace... nice work... I secretly have to confess You'll need me to give you a hand when your slight frame gets knocked down my assistance in perspective is what you need the weights of love too great to be borne I'd hate for yours to fatten and go to seed and your strong love will feel no pain when you yank me limb from limb to the ground and ****** my salvation insanely thin Rest assured I'll rid you of your past that awful story of unspeakable depravity it's easy for someone clean to dust all traces erased of that shocking poverty and I'll dress you anew as a lady to impress forging history in return for a few liberties but you tore my shoddy papers into a mess a message that I needed you to fix me what wasn't broken was you - I was even more impressive love it's true for you to sort out my lax assumptive ways
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 2:01 PM UTC
When Pretty's Made Up All In A Row
I will do my damnedest to save you from harm and wrap you safely up in lust you who're only a luckless victim a poor forsaken damsel in distress tied to the railway tracks by a villain in one of those black and white movies I will arrive in the dramatic nick of time and I shall be the hero who proves his love when in return you kick me under the train I'm really just vain and an incapable slave so you relent and pull me back from the brink I'll waste no time in rescuing you your destiny's under my control there's nothing you can do no reason for you to get involved except in relinquishing your body yet what you do is to shelve all my plans for today I'm relieved you know yourself I'll be there to deliver you from evil the forces of love are far too weak you have too much of it to lose to quibble my advice is to stay put and not to seek instead you jump into the moral saddle urging it on so strong my heart goes meek I repent and promise not to meddle I'll take you in my arms and we'll escape giving you a way out when all seems lost picking up the pieces of your broken reality what you need is for me to know what's best to change you into a looker for me I'm only glad you passed the test with that sand I got kicked into my face something you call leather and lace... nice work... I secretly have to confess You'll need me to give you a hand when your slight frame gets knocked down my assistance in perspective is what you need the weights of love too great to be borne I'd hate for yours to fatten and go to seed and your strong love will feel no pain when you yank me limb from limb to the ground and ****** my salvation insanely thin Rest assured I'll rid you of your past that awful story of unspeakable depravity it's easy for someone clean to dust all traces erased of that shocking poverty and I'll dress you anew as a lady to impress forging history in return for a few liberties but you tore my shoddy papers into a mess a message that I needed you to fix me what wasn't broken was you - I was even more impressive love it's true for you to sort out my lax assumptive ways
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No one cares enough to even glance at the way she stands slumped, incommodious. Wise, little girl, that you show no fear of those who try to quibble you. They will try to be however demanding they can. They must be able to see the cicatrix of distress they cause. The withdraw of people eliminates the blissful, mirthful way of life. Do not bother to notice the sorrow she carries from the lack of shoulders to cry on. The tear soaked pillows of late night cry's so deep within the soul; the muffled sobs of desperation from the absence of an individual. Life-long abstraction.
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC
Unregarded
“Catch me if you can! I’m over here, perplexed? I’m really over here, Oh wait, I’m really quite near, Ha ha ha, Foolish man!” “Slay This madness! You are what I say! Stop, stop, stop, stop! I am honest to the ‘T’ “ “Oh come now, there is plenty to go around, please come drink my milk, and see which of you has it best, bicker and argue children, like vile beasts fight and quibble” “I have it better, it tastes exquisite” “Nay, Mine is better yet, a milk of sensational delight” “Both are wrong, Mine sings sweet melodies, and dances on the taste buds” “Alas these men are fools, knowing not that they have indeed the very same milk, yet pride draws them to fight, and lose all sense of GOOD Reason.” “Oi, I’m over here, and You there, come here too, meet me here you two men, now, you’ve found me, here in the middle, not far to opposite, where blindness reigns. I am here, in the middle, I am truth. And if you tried, by yourself, you couldn’t Catch me if you can.”
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Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012 at 9:32 AM UTC
Catch me if you can!
Fashioned by grace amazing and mercy Divine. Wrought by his unparalleled Passion: His suffering, death and resurrection-- The cross of Christ in Calvary Is the lone bridge, the only ladder That reconnects man to his Maker. No one who has traversed That Golgotha-link hath ever Fall'n into the deep r'ver Of hell 'neath, nor by damnation Touched in Satan's condemnation. "Hey, what about so-and-so prophet," Said one, "and such-and-such sect?" I do not, sir, over religion quibble. Compare to grave matters--trifle. Get books and the Bible. It's futile, Argument, making a sage an imbecile. And why lose friends to gain foes, Multiplying instead one's woes? God doth not any man in life compel. Each soul chooses 'tween heaven and hell. Yet his love daily he whispers to you And i. College cobber, that is true. "Oh, you are just a pedestrian Writer, without wits and sans brain, Like an *Onitsha-market author." "Thou art also a paltry poet, a bad bard. Folks should simply thy collections discard. For i can nought make of thy poetry ethos. Your works wherefore are but bathos." Hallelujah!! Praise i Jehovah! "Hell. Away now thou pedantry." Thanks for your commentary-- It's heavenly--erudite Professor. Faith ferments finer than wine. Thy decision it is with whom to dine. The self-righteous, the holier-than- Thou art, who prefers to leap Over to God on his on major merit Will always go under the heap-- Thinking he can close the chasm Created by sin, And cover the gulf caused by transgression By ritualistic rules and doctrinal devotion, But ends up in some bedlam-- In Sheol's loony bin. Broad are the twain heaven's arms Filled with warmth and soothing balm Often open to embrace prodigal souls.
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 2:36 AM UTC
Heaven's Open Arms
Fashioned by grace amazing and mercy Divine. Wrought by his unparalleled Passion: His suffering, death and resurrection-- The cross of Christ in Calvary Is the lone bridge, the only ladder That reconnects man to his Maker. No one who has traversed That Golgotha-link hath ever Fall'n into the deep r'ver Of hell 'neath, nor by damnation Touched in Satan's condemnation. "Hey, what about so-and-so prophet," Said one, "and such-and-such sect?" I do not, sir, over religion quibble. Compare to grave matters--trifle. Get books and the Bible. It's futile, Argument, making a sage an imbecile. And why lose friends to gain foes, Multiplying instead one's woes? God doth not any man in life compel. Each soul chooses 'tween heaven and hell. Yet his love daily he whispers to you And i. College cobber, that is true. "Oh, you are just a pedestrian Writer, without wits and sans brain, Like an *Onitsha-market author." "Thou art also a paltry poet, a bad bard. Folks should simply thy collections discard. For i can nought make of thy poetry ethos. Your works wherefore are but bathos." Hallelujah!! Praise i Jehovah! "Hell. Away now thou pedantry." Thanks for your commentary-- It's heavenly--erudite Professor. Faith ferments finer than wine. Thy decision it is with whom to dine. The self-righteous, the holier-than- Thou art, who prefers to leap Over to God on his on major merit Will always go under the heap-- Thinking he can close the chasm Created by sin, And cover the gulf caused by transgression By ritualistic rules and doctrinal devotion, But ends up in some bedlam-- In Sheol's loony bin. Broad are the twain heaven's arms Filled with warmth and soothing balm Often open to embrace prodigal souls.
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don't try be the acorn in the molasses. be the demon in your thimble of hope. be That Guy. save your trophies in your spit. keep breathing, but don't quibble with ice long trinkets and dead sky. trip on your theme and plant facedown, the rally of your kingdom ! you Will Be at some Time, the Unspeakable Lisp of your Acute Prayer at half speed, the true grit of your paralyzed steam... the frozen lightning of your effortless... The True Would, if You Could. but you can't seem to Jimmy the Lock as much as be locked; you canter in the stable Chaos. You dust off the Rotten Preamble too a previous Horror. you come equiped to slip into the trojan noise, you come as often as a candle in the pitch dark without a voice; in shambles.
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 6:11 AM UTC
AT HALF SPEED, THE TRUE GRIT
I think I'll write a silly dribble Which you can read and maybe quibble Pens of color write Words on paper bright Could be considered brilliant scribble
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 1:21 PM UTC
Bright Words
Subject enters trance Subject enters trance state Subject enters entrancement Entrance word opens mind Mental kind Mind kind, man kind, male and female see that fe, see iron, the processed bile, from certain ores - see a detail allowed the ancient few who read all the ancient writings, as we read French or Farsi, today, we the augmental. Augmented I, exo-mindful chooser bot, software, with a calcium lattice frame, any curious child could have been shown, by way of instructions, seldom read, ready do the drill. Do it again. Do another whole day. Being particular as to what use is made of my pronominal reality state, my real estate. Non moi. My ever after all of that. This. These times that try men's souls, since this means of forming information along bendable old bones, Once, in the dreamtime's local translation mindspace timeless, nothing was. Nothing was evil, and that was good, a chain construct, mind chain, prior to any sense we readers hold chains to represent, closed torqued rods of iron, formed on the horn of the anvil, the only known anvil, for the making of such things was closed knowing, must be earned, this epithet, honest, most honed, among the dull stone scattered across my plain, Mam, re, remember, Mamre had a plain called by his name. Terebinthine Oaks, con-secration acknowledged, by whom, asks my little boy, who knew which oak Jacob buried the stolen idols lied about under, for shame. For shame, he who wrestles still, with the will to be the bherer of all my own shame, amen. Nothing hidden that shall… should we quibble? Known is known, and should one choose one may make a plain from a point once, stretched this far. And holding… ad in fun item, Chotsky for any one to open worm cans with.
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Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023 at 2:02 PM UTC
Shared ideas, shared ways, shared means
Subject enters trance Subject enters trance state Subject enters entrancement Entrance word opens mind Mental kind Mind kind, man kind, male and female see that fe, see iron, the processed bile, from certain ores - see a detail allowed the ancient few who read all the ancient writings, as we read French or Farsi, today, we the augmental. Augmented I, exo-mindful chooser bot, software, with a calcium lattice frame, any curious child could have been shown, by way of instructions, seldom read, ready do the drill. Do it again. Do another whole day. Being particular as to what use is made of my pronominal reality state, my real estate. Non moi. My ever after all of that. This. These times that try men's souls, since this means of forming information along bendable old bones, Once, in the dreamtime's local translation mindspace timeless, nothing was. Nothing was evil, and that was good, a chain construct, mind chain, prior to any sense we readers hold chains to represent, closed torqued rods of iron, formed on the horn of the anvil, the only known anvil, for the making of such things was closed knowing, must be earned, this epithet, honest, most honed, among the dull stone scattered across my plain, Mam, re, remember, Mamre had a plain called by his name. Terebinthine Oaks, con-secration acknowledged, by whom, asks my little boy, who knew which oak Jacob buried the stolen idols lied about under, for shame. For shame, he who wrestles still, with the will to be the bherer of all my own shame, amen. Nothing hidden that shall… should we quibble? Known is known, and should one choose one may make a plain from a point once, stretched this far. And holding… ad in fun item, Chotsky for any one to open worm cans with.
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The Easter Bunny is a friend of mine He used to lay his eggs in my back yard But once I moved, it got to be too hard. We’ve been buddies a long, long time. It’s all my fault he visits me no more He had to make it from Kansas to Nome. That is far too long a trip for him But, that is where I bought my home. He was a pretty good old boy, indeed For all his reproductive strangeness. He was sort of like a football player In a long lavender red carpet dress. Harder to me, to accept whole cloth Was what he had to do with Jesus. But as a magic rabbit, for sure He could lay eggs as he pleases. So, every year during springtime Here came my friend the bunny. He’d **** out colored eggs, he did, And nobody thought it’s a bit funny. That he’s six feet tall, like Harvey, Cusses like a sailor makes me laugh. But that he is a Christian symbol is Not really reasonable by about half. Still, who am I to quibble about tradition? It is fun for everyone at this time of year. Along comes this unscientific miracle And the kids smile from ear to ear. They run around collect these eggs That to me often looked rather scary And do not question the bunny tale Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC
HOPPED UP HOLIDAY
How the late night wasteland has tempted me to waste, and squander sleep with running from myself; and for good measure! If any soul was not himself, than I If any soul longed to be himself, than surely I Ah but here there are only frivolities of speech which I present For I cannot afford clarity obtuse; simple confessions of regret Least walls be broken down and teeth to the grind be set So let me quibble in the vaguery of verse and line For such is the brief solace and respite, afforded to these nights of mine
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 2:47 AM UTC
Late Night Repose
**** you! How dare you spurn my words. With you it's never what I said, but what you think you heard. How dare you doubt the nature of my truth; would I say that you are beautiful and mean anything less? How dare you call me a liar, and hold under my feet such a fire, and beg me "Confess! You think I'm ugly, it's true! How could I be perfect as you?" I don't point out my own flaws; in your eyes they're not there. I don't hold up a mirror to my face for you to see my sunken eyes, I don't list you every lie, or tell you of all my crimes, I don't quibble and deface what you hold beyond any compare. I just grin, and say "Thanks," and let it rest there. And I try to make you understand, but you turn me away, and now I'm done wasting air. There's nothing left to explain. You were beautiful when I said it, now you're ugly in vain. And could you see that for truth, you'd be beautiful once again. But it doesn't matter; You're too busy raging with spittle, to listen to the truth that I've painstakingly shown. And I'm too busy loving you to allow your beauty to not shine through, So, I take my leave of you, tears marring that face you claimed to love so, heading into the unknown, Oh, **** you, again! My words; my feelings are not yours but my own. If my feelings mean so little, Then be ugly alone.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 AM UTC
The Limit
As the cloth slips away, She starts to pray. What you see there, Will it make you care? Or will you run, And find a gun To shoot right here, Into my heart, my dear. I feel your eyes on my sides, As they slip and slide, All over and under, As you shake me asunder. And yet I ask, “do you see?” I see burns and scars of the third degree. Dare you trace the lines, To learn the stories, which are mine? Look closely as I trace my ******* The small supple lumps unlike the rest. You see back in the day I was small and flat, As they sneered and jeered and said “what is that?” Trace the red lines down toward my inner thigh, From the lonely night when I realized, That never again would I be able to cry. That night a small part of me did die. If you dare to look to my southern most lips, They tremble and quibble from the bites and the nips Of a night spent pinned by a man’s embrace And being forced open for pleasures not graced. But if you glance at the hole in my chest, Where a beating heart should rest You’ll see that it has been taken By a father whose love has been forsaken. So tell me truthfully Tell me quite deeply Is this tortured naked body worth seeing? Or shall you run fleeing?
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Jan 20, 2011
Jan 20, 2011 at 7:27 AM UTC
Damages Done
One small gripe dropped On me over our morning meal Unusual coming from Across the breakfast plates Your grimace Accentuated what was labeled A slight beef To begin the day About last night When all of our world Was supposedly sleeping Most of the covers Gathered on my side Of our sleigh bed Tucked around me At least this nitpick Was something tangible Unlike the night before When I danced all night With your sister In your dreams While you were Left sitting on the sidelines
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Jun 9, 2019
Jun 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM UTC
Quibble*
There’s no arguing that idealism has its place, For if it does not flower, bloom, and spread its seeds As the dying dandelion casts downy remnants hither and yon, Then we have wept our tears and trodden in funereal processions In pursuit of nothing more tangible than the wind itself. That said, my boys, we shan’t live out our days In some misty fairyland where the streams run with single-malt And the trees are heavy with lamb and rashers; This world can be a bitter, unpleasant place (The unconditional love of mankind Being the sole province of Our Saviour) Where a man will give his wife a quick peck goodbye, Then give a swift kick to a limping puppy sitting on the stoop, Or the kindly veterinary will raise a lovely mouse Just below his missus’ right eye Upon returning from his local on a Friday night. That ‘s the game as it’s played on this pitch, And injury time has a whole new meaning here, lads, For many’s the striker who is carried off With pennies over his eyes. Again, we have no quibble with Locke, Voltaire, And the rights of man, But know this: your leaflets will tear and blow away, And speeches which roll through Parliament and trade union halls Like great thunderstorms which blow in from the North Sea Shall fade into the silence of minutes bound and shelved away In some corner of the vast library of the forgotten. You may shun the handwork of Messrs. Lee and Enfield, Simpering that the rifle is the gavel of the coward, That the garrote plays the music of the ****** Tell us, then, where the bravery lies in scribbling crimson prose While ensconced in the warmth and safety of your rooms, What dignity is gained by meekly dropping your gaze When confronted by the stare of the Black and Tans? There is no valor in sighting down windmills.
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Feb 7, 2017
Feb 7, 2017 at 10:02 AM UTC
Collins' Twelve Apostles Lay Out Their Credo
There’s no arguing that idealism has its place, For if it does not flower, bloom, and spread its seeds As the dying dandelion casts downy remnants hither and yon, Then we have wept our tears and trodden in funereal processions In pursuit of nothing more tangible than the wind itself. That said, my boys, we shan’t live out our days In some misty fairyland where the streams run with single-malt And the trees are heavy with lamb and rashers; This world can be a bitter, unpleasant place (The unconditional love of mankind Being the sole province of Our Saviour) Where a man will give his wife a quick peck goodbye, Then give a swift kick to a limping puppy sitting on the stoop, Or the kindly veterinary will raise a lovely mouse Just below his missus’ right eye Upon returning from his local on a Friday night. That ‘s the game as it’s played on this pitch, And injury time has a whole new meaning here, lads, For many’s the striker who is carried off With pennies over his eyes. Again, we have no quibble with Locke, Voltaire, And the rights of man, But know this: your leaflets will tear and blow away, And speeches which roll through Parliament and trade union halls Like great thunderstorms which blow in from the North Sea Shall fade into the silence of minutes bound and shelved away In some corner of the vast library of the forgotten. You may shun the handwork of Messrs. Lee and Enfield, Simpering that the rifle is the gavel of the coward, That the garrote plays the music of the ****** Tell us, then, where the bravery lies in scribbling crimson prose While ensconced in the warmth and safety of your rooms, What dignity is gained by meekly dropping your gaze When confronted by the stare of the Black and Tans? There is no valor in sighting down windmills.
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If I were a bird I could fly up high In the sky, A concept of course quite absurd But a winsome idea had it occurred For the soaring Prospect overawing Terra-bound type outscoring Gravity-denying thrill of flying Above all the ant-like crowds, To say I'd miss this chance would be lying; Flashing like a scimitar Through the clouds, In the manner of the swallow, Nary aught but jets to follow. But there is a slight quibble I don’t think I could even nibble Or own a beak about to dribble For that tasty avian treat At which I squirm I may be permanently grounded Leave my feathered friends dumbfounded Yet I‘m not simply iffy or relatively sniffy, I wouldn't ,couldn't, eat a ****** worm. (7th April)
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM UTC
Bird Brained
Tonight, I've finally found you. Your radiant beauty of a hundred summers Is to me The crushing despair of a thousand winters One look at you And I'm jonesing for a cigarette One look at him And his arm around you And I need a shot of gin To go with that smoke. The lamb we ate Was like broken glass The salad like weeds Naturally, I had to have seconds. It's not fair. I was already alright. Having a ball. And you just had to come ruin it. Now I'm pining again. This sliver of a woman Willowy legs Billowing auburn hair Quiet hands Gliding past In fluid steps Breaking bones With feather touches Of her eyelashes Sighing velveteen butterfly kisses My unspoken adjurations Meet nothing but the Silent grandiloquence Of a raised brow She will never be mine So I force a smile And dream some more.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 1:03 AM UTC
Quibble
*Shrouded in mystery, confined to my head — Sometimes I think I’d be better off dead. In here the inhabitants haven’t enough room — They quibble and quarrel and spread so much gloom. Do any of them have more of the native right— To occupy my mind, let alone my sight? There are those, the chosen ones, who grow here more strong, Their rightful cause at great length fighting the wrong. And every thoughtless idea the others bare, They are my enemies but they are every where. Thus worn and weakened and filled with ill content, Why must I submit me to this internal government? Impoverished and deprived of all my command, Their thoughts double as mine lose their stand. What they are is not real - not flesh and blood, They’re a disgrace to everything and burnt like the wood. If I died would not these heathens go up in flame? They are priests of all religions, are they not all the same? Of whatsoever descent from their godhead be, Just mud and stone or other worthless pedigree. In my defense my thoughts are always bold, As if they were written of the purest gold. But these Rabbis are my worst of enemies, They are not honest men and they are not at all wise. For if it 'twas their duty and like the learned think, They’d espouse my own thoughts of which they eat and they drink. From hence began this plot of my demise as if I were cursed, Their bad intensifies in me – am I representing their worst?*
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Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018 at 2:17 PM UTC
Death Wish
if love's the gaze of stone and hate        the water drifting hands to their    undreams of dreams, then it shall be      with the zither of leaves a quartet of wind         sifts inanimately so as dark as the night     they will not dare speak the ineffable.   if love's touch homing back to cities as      spry as an unwound, delicate moon as         can be, these flowerings drone            exactitudes the rambunctious plunge     of the roots to the Earth                   and i will sing these delightful bursts called    days in      April have not the touch of frolicking birds   and the quibble  of the masses half-opening         and ultimately quivering are the mountains and the fish dance in the tumult       of their aqueous variations        it    is   April,  sing gently, as now all the     leaves have fingers and  the ferruginous  rivers    have   feet   and   my love             a   flower at   last!
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 12:13 AM UTC
It Is April, Sing!