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"reformed" poems
eye did.   As my prejudices expected, the odd assortment of "characters"were all present and not to be unaccounted for...a romantic comedy on a good Friday, attracts the believers, the well wishers, the ones who think if only the world was.. and I was not re or so tired of life, unemployed, lonely, damaged in some manner of being... not too many young, just a few... theater darkness is a masque, with a risqué chance of oh no, I've been witnessed by the non-believers. the infirm with their mobile caretakers and paraphernalia were there.  Odd couples, were there.  If there was one unifying common characteristic, I selected this one.  We all needed haircuts. eye don't know why but it made me think about going to get one's haircut, and the rituals that requires....and it is and is not a bit like being in a almost totally private world inpublic, where you, the individual and some outside force majeure, hairdresser, movie screen engages and temporarily transforms you.  That is why, I, went to the movies on a Friday afternoon, to be transformed and not reformed, in public, in private...
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 4:30 AM UTC
Who goes to an early afternoon movie on a Friday?
Can anyone tell me why I let myself live in this? Am I stuck in a room with no windows or doors? I used to bang on the walls with bruises on fists over tattooed wrists and faded scars that led to a hole in my chest that I filled with love for myself. “Love for myself”: You probably think that sounds conceited, right? But in all truth, it is the bitter opposite. I didn’t need any of you to save me. I figured it out on my own, like I always do. The fight in my gut emerged beyond skin, but I was never good enough here. I will never be good enough here. I spend my weeks on a seesaw between the highest praise and the lowest blows. Every word that takes off from my lips must turn and tumble in flight before reaching your ears. You hear me. You don’t listen. You twist me. You don’t illuminate. No, I am not like a daughter to you, and if you were my mother, I would have disowned you long ago. In fact, you really don’t know **** about me, because I don’t want you to. Too many people try to tell me how to live, as though I haven’t come to learn what is best for myself. I think, as someone who used to fantasize about her own death but has overcome that obstacle and must continue to work to keep that fight alive in herself every **** minute of her existence, I have the right to write you off as an imbecile to my life. You don’t own me. You don’t know me. You don’t even see me. I ripped away the heart sewn tightly to my sleeve a while ago and placed it in a treasure chest kept in a safe haven to which few hold the key. I hold the key. But I don’t go there often. You see, I never really get the chance. I just want the chance, just a little bit of time to hear the quiet hum of a life reformed, to stop and feel the breath in my chest, to feel each lung fill to the brim, and picture it nourishing every inch of my body as I press the “release” button. Can I press the “release” button? Can I close my eyes and be… just be, not do. Can I whisper my desires to the wind that moves around me? Can we tell secrets of our confusion, our struggles, our victories? Can I reside to the treasure chest, simply to fill back up? “E” is for empty. I was designed differently than you. I wasn’t made for this.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 12:38 AM UTC
Loyalty
Can anyone tell me why I let myself live in this? Am I stuck in a room with no windows or doors? I used to bang on the walls with bruises on fists over tattooed wrists and faded scars that led to a hole in my chest that I filled with love for myself. “Love for myself”: You probably think that sounds conceited, right? But in all truth, it is the bitter opposite. I didn’t need any of you to save me. I figured it out on my own, like I always do. The fight in my gut emerged beyond skin, but I was never good enough here. I will never be good enough here. I spend my weeks on a seesaw between the highest praise and the lowest blows. Every word that takes off from my lips must turn and tumble in flight before reaching your ears. You hear me. You don’t listen. You twist me. You don’t illuminate. No, I am not like a daughter to you, and if you were my mother, I would have disowned you long ago. In fact, you really don’t know **** about me, because I don’t want you to. Too many people try to tell me how to live, as though I haven’t come to learn what is best for myself. I think, as someone who used to fantasize about her own death but has overcome that obstacle and must continue to work to keep that fight alive in herself every **** minute of her existence, I have the right to write you off as an imbecile to my life. You don’t own me. You don’t know me. You don’t even see me. I ripped away the heart sewn tightly to my sleeve a while ago and placed it in a treasure chest kept in a safe haven to which few hold the key. I hold the key. But I don’t go there often. You see, I never really get the chance. I just want the chance, just a little bit of time to hear the quiet hum of a life reformed, to stop and feel the breath in my chest, to feel each lung fill to the brim, and picture it nourishing every inch of my body as I press the “release” button. Can I press the “release” button? Can I close my eyes and be… just be, not do. Can I whisper my desires to the wind that moves around me? Can we tell secrets of our confusion, our struggles, our victories? Can I reside to the treasure chest, simply to fill back up? “E” is for empty. I was designed differently than you. I wasn’t made for this.
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I HATE THE IDEA OF SUFFERING, BUT WITH ME THE WAY I AM, I MUST SUFFER, BUT I SUFFER THOUGH BEING TREATED LIKE A LITTLE YOUNG DUDE CAUSE I WORRY ABOUT GETTING TREATED LIKE THE ONLY ONE IN MY FAMILY THAT WILL GET THREATENED AND KILLED, YOU SEE I BECAME A BUDDHIST BECAUSE I WANT TO BE SAVED IN MY BELIEFS, EVEN THOUGH ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE PEACE, YOU SEE I LIKE BUDDHISM, CAUSE, I CAN EXPLAIN MY PREVIOUS LIVES, LIKE GREAME THORNE AND PATRICK DUNBAR, 2 8 YEAR OLD BOYS THAT WERE KILLED, BUT I AM STILL SUFFERING BY THE CROWD UP IN THE HEAVENS GETTING GHOSTS OF ED GEIN AND STEVEN BRADLEY AND TED BUNDY, COMES OUT AND FORCES ME TO THROW MYSELF IN GARGAGE HOPPERS AND TIE MYSELF UP WITH VINNIES ROPE IN MITCHELL, SAYING KIDNAP ME TO AN ADULT, YA SEE, I AM A MAN WHO FOLLOWS THE PATH OF BUDDHISM, WHERE, I AM WILLING TO UNDERSTAND OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS, I AM SUFFERING THROUGH PATRICKS COOL KID, BECAUSE I COMMITTED A CRIME BACK IN 1990, HE CAN’T SEEM TO EXCEPT, TO LEAVE ME IN, WE ARE NOT AT SCHOOL ANYMORE AND I DON’T DO WHAT I USED TO DO, I LIKE LEARNING HOW TO BE AT PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM FIND ME INNER HAPPINESS UMMMMMMMM TAKE MY MATES OUT OF MY HEAD UMMMMMMM ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY SAY, MY BROTHER’S NOT AROUND ANYMORE UMMMMMMMM I WANT TO LIVE IN ADELAIDE SOME DAY UMMMMMMMM CAUSE IT’S A VERY FESTIVE CITY FOR ME UM,MMMMMMM TAKE DAD OUT OF MY HEAD, I AM NOT LIKE A YOUNG DUDE TO A **** UMMMMMMMMM LET ME BE REFORMED UMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE, UMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE I DON’T WANT TO TRY AND BE THE ONLY ADULT OUT OF MY OLD MATES I DON’T WANT THAT VOICE WHEN ALL MY PREVIOUS LIVES MY FAMILY PATRICK AND DANIEL AND THE KIDS OF THE PAST ARE FLYING AROUND MY HEAD I HATE PEOPLE TEASING ME IN MY HEAD, UMMMMMMMMM I WANT TO BE A PEACEFUL BUDDHIST MAN I AM NO LONGER A KID OR A LADY, AND I AM NO LONGER A MAN TO A FIGHT I DON’T WANT TO BE A LITTLE YEAH MATE YEAH KID, UNLESS IT’S SHOWING OFF MY STORIES AND **** I AM A BUDDHIST, ARTIST WRITER YOUTUBE ENTERTAINER AND COOL PERSON COMING TO THE MALL WITH HIS COKE UMMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE ONLY YEAH MATE YEAH KIDS OR NERDS CONCENTRATE ON BUDDHISM , I KNOW I AIN’T A NERD I BELIEVE BUDDHISTS MEND EVERY BLADE OF GRASS AND LIKE ME THEY BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 4:57 AM UTC
I HATE SUFFERING, BUT BUDDHISM IS ABOUT SUFFERING TO SAVE THE WORLD, I LIKE SUFFERING TO SAVE THE WORLD
I HATE THE IDEA OF SUFFERING, BUT WITH ME THE WAY I AM, I MUST SUFFER, BUT I SUFFER THOUGH BEING TREATED LIKE A LITTLE YOUNG DUDE CAUSE I WORRY ABOUT GETTING TREATED LIKE THE ONLY ONE IN MY FAMILY THAT WILL GET THREATENED AND KILLED, YOU SEE I BECAME A BUDDHIST BECAUSE I WANT TO BE SAVED IN MY BELIEFS, EVEN THOUGH ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRYING TO KEEP THE PEACE, YOU SEE I LIKE BUDDHISM, CAUSE, I CAN EXPLAIN MY PREVIOUS LIVES, LIKE GREAME THORNE AND PATRICK DUNBAR, 2 8 YEAR OLD BOYS THAT WERE KILLED, BUT I AM STILL SUFFERING BY THE CROWD UP IN THE HEAVENS GETTING GHOSTS OF ED GEIN AND STEVEN BRADLEY AND TED BUNDY, COMES OUT AND FORCES ME TO THROW MYSELF IN GARGAGE HOPPERS AND TIE MYSELF UP WITH VINNIES ROPE IN MITCHELL, SAYING KIDNAP ME TO AN ADULT, YA SEE, I AM A MAN WHO FOLLOWS THE PATH OF BUDDHISM, WHERE, I AM WILLING TO UNDERSTAND OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS, I AM SUFFERING THROUGH PATRICKS COOL KID, BECAUSE I COMMITTED A CRIME BACK IN 1990, HE CAN’T SEEM TO EXCEPT, TO LEAVE ME IN, WE ARE NOT AT SCHOOL ANYMORE AND I DON’T DO WHAT I USED TO DO, I LIKE LEARNING HOW TO BE AT PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM FIND ME INNER HAPPINESS UMMMMMMMM TAKE MY MATES OUT OF MY HEAD UMMMMMMM ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY SAY, MY BROTHER’S NOT AROUND ANYMORE UMMMMMMMM I WANT TO LIVE IN ADELAIDE SOME DAY UMMMMMMMM CAUSE IT’S A VERY FESTIVE CITY FOR ME UM,MMMMMMM TAKE DAD OUT OF MY HEAD, I AM NOT LIKE A YOUNG DUDE TO A **** UMMMMMMMMM LET ME BE REFORMED UMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE, UMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE I DON’T WANT TO TRY AND BE THE ONLY ADULT OUT OF MY OLD MATES I DON’T WANT THAT VOICE WHEN ALL MY PREVIOUS LIVES MY FAMILY PATRICK AND DANIEL AND THE KIDS OF THE PAST ARE FLYING AROUND MY HEAD I HATE PEOPLE TEASING ME IN MY HEAD, UMMMMMMMMM I WANT TO BE A PEACEFUL BUDDHIST MAN I AM NO LONGER A KID OR A LADY, AND I AM NO LONGER A MAN TO A FIGHT I DON’T WANT TO BE A LITTLE YEAH MATE YEAH KID, UNLESS IT’S SHOWING OFF MY STORIES AND **** I AM A BUDDHIST, ARTIST WRITER YOUTUBE ENTERTAINER AND COOL PERSON COMING TO THE MALL WITH HIS COKE UMMMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE UMMMMMMMM BRING ME PEACE ONLY YEAH MATE YEAH KIDS OR NERDS CONCENTRATE ON BUDDHISM , I KNOW I AIN’T A NERD I BELIEVE BUDDHISTS MEND EVERY BLADE OF GRASS AND LIKE ME THEY BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION
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I'm a reformed man my habit has been cast out a good woman showed me how to bring it about with her understanding ways she helped me give up the grog and life is so much better now that I'm no longer in a grog fog on the path back to sobriety her hand guided me with its never ending patience and solidity she is a redemptive angel in my eyes she gave me reason to see a clean sunrise the grog couldn't stay in my addled life cause it had imparted much too much strife for the rest of my days I'll be a reborn man for a wonderful woman took hold of my hand her love and care showed me how to kick the grog and she has lead me out of it's fog
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Aug 19, 2013
Aug 19, 2013 at 10:13 PM UTC
Sobriety
Consisting of grown, persisting as shown and unknown. Insisting entities, rivalries and sworn enemies! Deformed, forewarned, formed, informed, mourned, performed, reformed and scorned. Dates of great storms! Family tree of hate, horns and thorns. My family tree of gore, horror, more, poor and sore. Perhaps of mishaps galore. Briefly sit back! I’ll roughly take you back… Heck! Back to a time of attack, blacks, slacks and whacks. My family tree of practical, tactical, methodical Aztec. Some beckon and reckon in seconds. A family tree of crime, grime and rhyme. A nation of communication, dedication, dissemination, motivation and procrastination. The splendor of sin of my corruptive, disruptive kin. They rely more on the color of one’s skin. My family tree of abuse and misuse that misuses and seduces! Family tree of warfare and welfare legalities, moralities and family-prodigies. Picture this scriptural twist! Some assist on a kiss. I insist some are idealities in social technicalities. Alcoholics, diabetics, ****** exotic, fantastic, Catholics, eccentric, horrific and poetic. I persist… some gnomes, some roam, some in poems, some with no homes. My family tree of adventuresome, awesome, handsome and troublesome. My family tree of beautiful and bountiful! Some are a handful some handicap some locally and vocally-rap. Some slap, gift-wrap and yap! Some are snuggly, pretty, witty or ugly. In my family tree, some crippled, some with pimples, some with freckles and some that heckle. Some belittle and little, some wrinkled and old. Some are bold and pray to the lord! Some are Frio, meaning cold we were told. Some I say, are poor with no Amor. Some are here no more, in my family tree of Amor.
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Mar 29, 2012
Mar 29, 2012 at 9:37 PM UTC
POEM ENTITLED: “MY FAMILY TREE OF AMOR”
Consisting of grown, persisting as shown and unknown. Insisting entities, rivalries and sworn enemies! Deformed, forewarned, formed, informed, mourned, performed, reformed and scorned. Dates of great storms! Family tree of hate, horns and thorns. My family tree of gore, horror, more, poor and sore. Perhaps of mishaps galore. Briefly sit back! I’ll roughly take you back… Heck! Back to a time of attack, blacks, slacks and whacks. My family tree of practical, tactical, methodical Aztec. Some beckon and reckon in seconds. A family tree of crime, grime and rhyme. A nation of communication, dedication, dissemination, motivation and procrastination. The splendor of sin of my corruptive, disruptive kin. They rely more on the color of one’s skin. My family tree of abuse and misuse that misuses and seduces! Family tree of warfare and welfare legalities, moralities and family-prodigies. Picture this scriptural twist! Some assist on a kiss. I insist some are idealities in social technicalities. Alcoholics, diabetics, ****** exotic, fantastic, Catholics, eccentric, horrific and poetic. I persist… some gnomes, some roam, some in poems, some with no homes. My family tree of adventuresome, awesome, handsome and troublesome. My family tree of beautiful and bountiful! Some are a handful some handicap some locally and vocally-rap. Some slap, gift-wrap and yap! Some are snuggly, pretty, witty or ugly. In my family tree, some crippled, some with pimples, some with freckles and some that heckle. Some belittle and little, some wrinkled and old. Some are bold and pray to the lord! Some are Frio, meaning cold we were told. Some I say, are poor with no Amor. Some are here no more, in my family tree of Amor.
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“Pick up the pen son, and put her at ease.” Get-well cards for my healthy and reformed Mother. Hospital gowns will cloak scarred wrists, but wedding rings shine, now more than ever. “Our love
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Jul 11, 2010
Jul 11, 2010 at 7:13 AM UTC
holds her together.”
<•>   For A: The Pleasure of Infection 10:53 pm our all about is to be the whittler of our personage, to both hold the knife with care, but with risky, reckless artistry, as we shape of what raw materials we are possessed, into our own reshaped, reformed most prized bejeweled possession never mind the shavings and cutaways fallen, they are fast away, castaway choices made and cannot be retrieved, for when we whittle, whether our shape desired which may be prior envisioned or a vision from the discovery of performing, they matter no more, let them go, in their absence too, they are part and a whit of you, but not of you, no longer our commonality in this: everything, in everything else, so little but your honesty and crafted, almost dishonesty both ring true, and infect us with pleasure of recalling when we being cut designed and preparing our statue for an unveiling, but with no date yet set, and the loveliness of our mistakes, were precious do-over opportunities seek out the infection, the infection of discovery, the risk of pleasure exposed and your poetry may be either   the antibiotics when the result is red and unpleasant, or a celebration, an invitation to us to be a semi-silent beholder of your artistry infections heal after pain and discoloration but new skin always forms, but at a different pace for each of us I see the faces in my carpet nodding agreement, "always new skin" oh boy. time to go to bed go seek out the pleasure of infection, sadly, happily, it is the only way good night from an old man who dreams and schemes of new skin nightly but never mind me, my piece long ago writ and in need of just a tweak here and there, call it one too many close shavings, his poem's treasure trove, a list of life's minor irritations and major lifts <•> 11:16pm
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Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 11:36 PM UTC
For A: The Pleasure of Infection
<•>   For A: The Pleasure of Infection 10:53 pm our all about is to be the whittler of our personage, to both hold the knife with care, but with risky, reckless artistry, as we shape of what raw materials we are possessed, into our own reshaped, reformed most prized bejeweled possession never mind the shavings and cutaways fallen, they are fast away, castaway choices made and cannot be retrieved, for when we whittle, whether our shape desired which may be prior envisioned or a vision from the discovery of performing, they matter no more, let them go, in their absence too, they are part and a whit of you, but not of you, no longer our commonality in this: everything, in everything else, so little but your honesty and crafted, almost dishonesty both ring true, and infect us with pleasure of recalling when we being cut designed and preparing our statue for an unveiling, but with no date yet set, and the loveliness of our mistakes, were precious do-over opportunities seek out the infection, the infection of discovery, the risk of pleasure exposed and your poetry may be either   the antibiotics when the result is red and unpleasant, or a celebration, an invitation to us to be a semi-silent beholder of your artistry infections heal after pain and discoloration but new skin always forms, but at a different pace for each of us I see the faces in my carpet nodding agreement, "always new skin" oh boy. time to go to bed go seek out the pleasure of infection, sadly, happily, it is the only way good night from an old man who dreams and schemes of new skin nightly but never mind me, my piece long ago writ and in need of just a tweak here and there, call it one too many close shavings, his poem's treasure trove, a list of life's minor irritations and major lifts <•> 11:16pm
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This was my sand yesterday, Hot and gritty, Yet comforting, embracing Under my towel. Troves of precious shards of shell Mapped into mind With the jellyfish abandoned By the tide Just out of reach of cool waters And a pool carved With ramparts and towers, An ambitious child's construction Proudly pronounced eternal. But we took pictures To remember, Anyway. Now, after breakfast, Into blue too perfect This morning's sun rose To a sky spilled Cloudless and clear Over new land Reformed by night swells Gulls and terns blown on, Friends' footprints cleared, The castle lost By waves or wind's gusts. It seems alien now. My toes dig ever deeper To discover if warmth Is still here, hiding below The surface of what I can see. Morning's winds fling Biting bits chipped From far-off mountains Cheek and legs sting In force of anger born Far offshore, While the children nestle My jacket for shelter It can't give them today. The tourists left - the sand is ours To reshape, imprint with feet again. And plan for tomorrow - Umbrella, blanket, pails, Embrace sea's eternal rhythm. We'll stay.
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Sep 19, 2009
Sep 19, 2009 at 3:36 PM UTC
An Eleventh of September
they hit you everywhere, bruises, slow faders, pretty much all over, spaced out, body and time some, they come back, months, years later, enticing, devising, with revelations perfect, you melt with helpfulness some claim they are born with only questions and an insatiable quest for knowing, but line in the soil tween rows is there for you not to cross some proffer their pain, asking for ablution and absolution, from demons they wish to share, but refusing the smoke of my offering, that could cleanse both our inhalations like highway men of yore, they hit everyone, below the belt, stave breaking into the heart, slow bleeding, with answers received in absentia and silence until the till needs refilling, and they renewed, reappear, reformed, with perfect words, even better questions: my portfolio of replies mostly go/grow old, noting the obvious, we are socially distance by age and geography and degree, I free and clear to provide while they just free to hit and run, one more time
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Aug 6, 2020
Aug 6, 2020 at 9:11 PM UTC
hit and run women (one more time)
You’re your own idea written in blood and electricity. You’re Pulcinella. You’re judy. You’re someone else’s description of light imagined alive. You’re temporary. You’re the dream in a Jivaro head. There’s the ceiling of a skull just above your clouds and even further out there's another. You’re pock-marked, wood-wormed with thoughts, words, that you’ve been taught on you, like tattoos and shared birthmarks. 
You’re picture-framed in my eye sockets flipped and made understandable and only some of you oozes through like the sun below the surface of the sea. You’re me and i’m you swirling in each other’s boundaries like the Tao and oily water and the point between the colours in rainbows. You’re infinite to mayflies. You’re an explosion’s leftovers. You died last time I saw you and reformed in the doorframe when I came around again. You’re the world’s re-used love letter from ****** to organised organism incubated in original sin the kiln making Russian dolls from living things. You’re the seed of a ghost. You only existed since this morning and yesterday’s you woke up and is now out haunting. You’re both here, and there, and here a string vibrating a seismograph a tree ring Earth’s music playing and playing and playing.
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 1:40 PM UTC
A poem about you
You couldn't possibly accept my intuition of you. Intricately weaved into my benevolence. To me you seemed sincere and candy-coated. Your eyes gleamed too prominently of an untouched type of innocence. As a huntress, with one agile manipulation of the gale beneath my wings I could have forever reformed your fate I respect who you are too much too much to value your attractive but-not-so-much intriguing chemical attributes Your underlying hopes and dreams through feats of meaningless lust and future out-of-spite clashing I saved you the soul mind and body ache of being broken and tossed beyond my most selfless act is something you couldn't possibly accept.
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 12:27 PM UTC
Acceptance.
I WANT TO TEASE YOU, TEASE YOU I SHALL, YOU ARE SPASTIC, DUDE I HATE YA HANG ON, YOUR NOT LIKE YOUR NANNA, LET’S TEASE THIS SHYPERSON, BUDDY HE IS FALLING ASLEEP, TEASE THIS SHY PERSON I SAID, I WILL FALL ASLEEP, YA SEE, I WILL FALL ASLEEP, AND ALLOW YOU TO TEASE ME WITH THE COSMOS YOU SEE, LET’S TIE THE SHYPERSON UP, AND THROW HIM TO THE ALIENS’ YEAH, I AM HAVING FUN TEASING BRIAN ALLAN DEAR CHILD YOU SEE, I CAN SEE THE MEDICATION MAKING YA TIRED YOU SEE, ATHENA CAME UP AND PUT METHANE IN MY MOUTH AND TOLD THIS DWEEB THAT YOU REALLY CAN FIX YA TEETH IN THE COSMOS, IF YA TAKE THE RIGHT MEDICATION I SAID, I AM WATCHING SOME SNACK OFF COOKING SHOW, IT’S PRETTY RADICAL IT’S ABOUT THE LATE NIGHT SNACKS PEOPLE HAVE, AND WHO CAN MAKE THE BEST MEAL THE TEASER SAID, TRY AND BE LIKE YOUR NANNA, CAUSE YOUR NOT LIKE YA NANNA YA LIKE US, CAUSE YA HOUSE IS MESSY, I AM SURE OF IT BRIAN ALLAN SAID, CAN YOU LET ME GO, AS HE WAS TIED UP IN THE NEPTUNE PUB BY OSAMA BIN LADEN AND THE GUY WHO NICKED HIS LINCH IN THE 1970S IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO GET HIM, REALLY, WELL, IT’S NOT, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO, YA KNOW DO HARM YA SEE BRIAN JUMPED UP AND SAID, **** OFF, YA NOT GETTING ME, YA **** AND THEN THE GUY WHO NICKED MY LUNCH SAID, NO BUDDY, YOU ARE WITH ME FOREVER WE’LL MAKE YOU TIRED, AND THEN SEND YOU TO HELL, WHICH IS THE SUN BUT EVERYONE SLEEPS THEIR WAY TO FIGHT THE PERSON WHO IS KILLING BRIAN WHERE THEY WANT HIM YOU SEE THEN SLIM DUSTY SAID I GUESS IT’S LONESOME AWAY FROM YOUR KINDRED AND ALL FROM THE DUSTY OUTBACK TO THE GREAT CONCERT HALL,THERE IS NOTHING QUITE LIKE A DRINK WHICH IS MORBID OR DREAR, IT’S SITTING PLAYING POOL IN A PUB WITH NO BEER I AM GOING BACK AGAIN TO NEPTUNE PUB, YEAH, NEPTUNE PUB, YEAH WHERE WE HAVE FUN, YEAH WE’RE GOING BACK AGAIN TO NEPTUNE PUB, THE PLACE WITH THE MOST METHANE SMOOTHIES, YEAH I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH BRIAN, I WOULD LOVE TO DRINK BEER WITH HIM WE DRINK IN MODERATION, DUDES, AND NEVER, NO NEVER, GET ROLLING DRUNK WE DRINK ALL OVER THE COSMOS, WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS SUPERB I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH BRIAN, CAUSE THAT’S FAR FROM ABSURD AND THEN BARRY ALLAN CAME UP AND SANG 1 2 3 4 YOU SCHITZOPHRENIC, FROM YA FIRST DIAGNOSIS TO YA CURRENT SITUATION WITH MEDICATION, YOU CAN GET REFORMED, OH YEAH MATE YEAH YOUR SCHITZOPHRENIC DAD SAID, I AM NOT GOING YOUR LIKE ME AND MUMMY, ANYMORE, DON’T BE SHY BRIAN, TEASE MY NEXT LIFE’S NAME I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU TEASE, ME, BUT DON’T FORGET THAT GIRLS AND BOYS ARE EQUAL, OK THEN THE GUY THAT NICKED MY LUNCH SAID, OK, WE’LL LEAVE YA ALONE, YA NOT LIKE US, BUDDY, OK JUST REMEMBER, ME, IF YA EVER TRY TO BE LIKE US, YOU WHEN YA LIVED IN WOODBERRY, I’LL TEASE YA AGAIN, OK
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Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 6:49 PM UTC
A TEASE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS COSMICALLY
I WANT TO TEASE YOU, TEASE YOU I SHALL, YOU ARE SPASTIC, DUDE I HATE YA HANG ON, YOUR NOT LIKE YOUR NANNA, LET’S TEASE THIS SHYPERSON, BUDDY HE IS FALLING ASLEEP, TEASE THIS SHY PERSON I SAID, I WILL FALL ASLEEP, YA SEE, I WILL FALL ASLEEP, AND ALLOW YOU TO TEASE ME WITH THE COSMOS YOU SEE, LET’S TIE THE SHYPERSON UP, AND THROW HIM TO THE ALIENS’ YEAH, I AM HAVING FUN TEASING BRIAN ALLAN DEAR CHILD YOU SEE, I CAN SEE THE MEDICATION MAKING YA TIRED YOU SEE, ATHENA CAME UP AND PUT METHANE IN MY MOUTH AND TOLD THIS DWEEB THAT YOU REALLY CAN FIX YA TEETH IN THE COSMOS, IF YA TAKE THE RIGHT MEDICATION I SAID, I AM WATCHING SOME SNACK OFF COOKING SHOW, IT’S PRETTY RADICAL IT’S ABOUT THE LATE NIGHT SNACKS PEOPLE HAVE, AND WHO CAN MAKE THE BEST MEAL THE TEASER SAID, TRY AND BE LIKE YOUR NANNA, CAUSE YOUR NOT LIKE YA NANNA YA LIKE US, CAUSE YA HOUSE IS MESSY, I AM SURE OF IT BRIAN ALLAN SAID, CAN YOU LET ME GO, AS HE WAS TIED UP IN THE NEPTUNE PUB BY OSAMA BIN LADEN AND THE GUY WHO NICKED HIS LINCH IN THE 1970S IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO GET HIM, REALLY, WELL, IT’S NOT, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO, YA KNOW DO HARM YA SEE BRIAN JUMPED UP AND SAID, **** OFF, YA NOT GETTING ME, YA **** AND THEN THE GUY WHO NICKED MY LUNCH SAID, NO BUDDY, YOU ARE WITH ME FOREVER WE’LL MAKE YOU TIRED, AND THEN SEND YOU TO HELL, WHICH IS THE SUN BUT EVERYONE SLEEPS THEIR WAY TO FIGHT THE PERSON WHO IS KILLING BRIAN WHERE THEY WANT HIM YOU SEE THEN SLIM DUSTY SAID I GUESS IT’S LONESOME AWAY FROM YOUR KINDRED AND ALL FROM THE DUSTY OUTBACK TO THE GREAT CONCERT HALL,THERE IS NOTHING QUITE LIKE A DRINK WHICH IS MORBID OR DREAR, IT’S SITTING PLAYING POOL IN A PUB WITH NO BEER I AM GOING BACK AGAIN TO NEPTUNE PUB, YEAH, NEPTUNE PUB, YEAH WHERE WE HAVE FUN, YEAH WE’RE GOING BACK AGAIN TO NEPTUNE PUB, THE PLACE WITH THE MOST METHANE SMOOTHIES, YEAH I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH BRIAN, I WOULD LOVE TO DRINK BEER WITH HIM WE DRINK IN MODERATION, DUDES, AND NEVER, NO NEVER, GET ROLLING DRUNK WE DRINK ALL OVER THE COSMOS, WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS SUPERB I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH BRIAN, CAUSE THAT’S FAR FROM ABSURD AND THEN BARRY ALLAN CAME UP AND SANG 1 2 3 4 YOU SCHITZOPHRENIC, FROM YA FIRST DIAGNOSIS TO YA CURRENT SITUATION WITH MEDICATION, YOU CAN GET REFORMED, OH YEAH MATE YEAH YOUR SCHITZOPHRENIC DAD SAID, I AM NOT GOING YOUR LIKE ME AND MUMMY, ANYMORE, DON’T BE SHY BRIAN, TEASE MY NEXT LIFE’S NAME I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU TEASE, ME, BUT DON’T FORGET THAT GIRLS AND BOYS ARE EQUAL, OK THEN THE GUY THAT NICKED MY LUNCH SAID, OK, WE’LL LEAVE YA ALONE, YA NOT LIKE US, BUDDY, OK JUST REMEMBER, ME, IF YA EVER TRY TO BE LIKE US, YOU WHEN YA LIVED IN WOODBERRY, I’LL TEASE YA AGAIN, OK
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A LATE 1962-ISH PUDDLE It was a late 1962-ish puddle. A Curragh puddle to be exact but you ...wouldn't know that. A moon had fallen asleep in it with scattered silver stars nailing it to the ground. I was 6-ish by then & had encountered more puddles than you could ever splash about in. But, this was the first puddle I ever remember. An Ur-puddle. To the rest of the world it was as if it had never been & existed only for me. A robin stood at my side. Us both...staring at the puddle. Suddenly the robin made up its mind & stepped defiantly into this miniature ocean. The robin stood on the moon which shattered & reformed itself about its tiny feet. It was the first robin I'd seen walking on the moon. The puddle lived inside my head for many many years until these words came along and took it away. It was like the hand of a man long long before history was invented pressed against the flickering cave wall leaving a sooty hand print in celebration of himself. "This mark means me!" My late 1962-ish Curragh puddle and that robin walking on a watery moon is my handprint on the cave wall of my mind in the long long ago. I laugh at the me-ness of me!
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 12:36 PM UTC
A LATE 1962-ISH PUDDLE
He writes as if he invented the word 'yearn' Wistfulness and want in every line. It's as though he's been starved of words his entire life And now he's drowning in the dictionary, Gorging on adjectives and language A reformed wordarexic Flooding the pages with need And everything I want to read. I hope he writes forever For I, too, love to feed.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 5:07 PM UTC
Word Sustenance
I am a man ya see Better than everyone else I am a real real man who enjoys His life in every way that he can I watch the footy and I have a kick and I watch a concert And enjoy every bit People say I ain't a man Because I sit on my own And watch tv or YouTube And enjoy life you see I am a real man who loves fine music just as long as it is heavy metal I will go to poetry slams and Slam out a poem which is liked by the men who drink and smoke I used to do that but now I am reformed just like a real man is I drank my beer and smoked my ciggys and that is what made me happy You see I am a real man and when I see someone doing it tough I throw some money his way I am a real man who loves his life watching the afl and nrl And in summer I watch the baseball and big bash cricket And mate I feel like a real man I am just a reformed character of a man I am radically awesome dudes I am a real man
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 8:53 AM UTC
i am a real man
some 4.5 billion years ago the atoms that would coalesce to ***** your evanescent features detoured to a lonely chunk of rock aimlessly adrift in the Milky Way Galaxy you stayed alive by pure instinct fight or flight you could not thrive yet you survived nature's attempts to crush you in her fearsome jaws bits of you walked with dinosaurs bone fragments ground to dust and reformed over eons of evolution until you stood upright and found a tongue to describe planet Earth remnants of those dead languages live on to this very day they inhabit the ink stains i leave upon this yellowed page while folk tunes croon over my shoulder and Dallas Green breathes a city in multicolor a map of the universe is etched across your face and i cannot escape the smirk that spread with mirth nor erase the memory of eyes like interstellar space staring back at me unblinking for 4 minutes that felt simultaneously like a lifetime and the space between 2 fractions of a millisecond you came from the Big Bang when the cells that would form our bodies were forged in the cores of supernovas exploding across the cosmos and we've been on a collision course ever since an unstoppable force and an immovable object for matter can neither be created nor destroyed
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 4:14 PM UTC
matter
Squall comes in due to differences of pressure Evolved by temperature, But when it appears everything reformed to neutral Calmness creates new ground for creation. So they always tell that squall is required for creation Because new creation evolved after destruction. Let’s pray for squall To wipe out the felony and annoyance To prepare the ground for creation!
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Sep 29, 2015
Sep 29, 2015 at 2:51 PM UTC
Squall for creation
Angels melt like candlewax upon their pedestals And I stand here to find with you this heaven of mine has flown Though some may find me ignorant of more than apparent facts I still find myself in the man who carried out such acts You helped me though you broke me and I must thank you for this My body is somewhat stronger from the virus in your kiss And these angels made of candlewax can be reformed with just a flame Though, in sorrow, something was lost which will never make it the same So who am I to get down on bended knees when tears come to my eye Pray tell me soon if tears will help my journey to the sky For though your intent may have been to break me, in survival lies my will And I may not be flying soon, but I'm not standing still
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 11:37 AM UTC
Candlewax Tears
"Papa. Read my the four little pigs and the BIG BAD POUF." With emphasis on the big bad "POUF", we begin the fascinating journey of the pigs and the rehabilitation of the "Pouf". My granddaughter (age 2) loves the story and when ever we come to the Big Bad she says the "POUF" part. It rather sounds like a French pastry. The fourth pig, as everyone knows, is Momma pig, she sent the defenseless little pigs out the door with a warning, "the BIG BAD "POUF" likes to eat little pigs." Seems to be a common malady of "Poufs" and Humans. The BIG BAD "POUF", we are told, watched from the top of the hill where he lived. He was a considerate "Pouf"... letting the little pigs build their straw, sticks and bricks houses before offering to be a building inspector to test the strength of straw and sticks. The "Pouf" condemned the first two houses... huffing and puffing and all of that. All the hair on the little pigs chin could not stop the tinsel strength test performed by the Big Bad "Pouf". Everyone knows that brick is stronger than straw and sticks but we have a Big Bad "POUF" that begs to differ.  Consequently, he ends up in hot water, much like Humans who make bad decisions.  Not the brightest and smartest choices made in Pig/"Pouf" Land.  At least this pig did not put the lid on the *** and have "POUF" for lunch. The "POUF" became a reformed "Pouf" staying on his hill top.  No more Big Bad for him.  Kind and gentle. A NEW "POUF"! Now 60 years ago the Building Inspector in this story got into hot water and became the lunch of the brick house pig. The other two pigs became lunch of the "POUF" but I suppose I will not be telling that to my two year old any time soon.   There are many versions of the story. Things have changed over the years.  The Three Little Pigs live happily ever after and the "Pouf" now stays up on the hill and is a GOOD BOY.  Getting into hot water can be a life changing moment... provided the lid is NOT put on the kettle.  Moral to this story... stay away from pigs who carry hammers, trowels and squares. Or.  Don't be a blow hard. (c) 02/14/2012 by John Stevens
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Feb 14, 2012
Feb 14, 2012 at 7:14 PM UTC
Four Little Pigs and you know Who
"Papa. Read my the four little pigs and the BIG BAD POUF." With emphasis on the big bad "POUF", we begin the fascinating journey of the pigs and the rehabilitation of the "Pouf". My granddaughter (age 2) loves the story and when ever we come to the Big Bad she says the "POUF" part. It rather sounds like a French pastry. The fourth pig, as everyone knows, is Momma pig, she sent the defenseless little pigs out the door with a warning, "the BIG BAD "POUF" likes to eat little pigs." Seems to be a common malady of "Poufs" and Humans. The BIG BAD "POUF", we are told, watched from the top of the hill where he lived. He was a considerate "Pouf"... letting the little pigs build their straw, sticks and bricks houses before offering to be a building inspector to test the strength of straw and sticks. The "Pouf" condemned the first two houses... huffing and puffing and all of that. All the hair on the little pigs chin could not stop the tinsel strength test performed by the Big Bad "Pouf". Everyone knows that brick is stronger than straw and sticks but we have a Big Bad "POUF" that begs to differ.  Consequently, he ends up in hot water, much like Humans who make bad decisions.  Not the brightest and smartest choices made in Pig/"Pouf" Land.  At least this pig did not put the lid on the *** and have "POUF" for lunch. The "POUF" became a reformed "Pouf" staying on his hill top.  No more Big Bad for him.  Kind and gentle. A NEW "POUF"! Now 60 years ago the Building Inspector in this story got into hot water and became the lunch of the brick house pig. The other two pigs became lunch of the "POUF" but I suppose I will not be telling that to my two year old any time soon.   There are many versions of the story. Things have changed over the years.  The Three Little Pigs live happily ever after and the "Pouf" now stays up on the hill and is a GOOD BOY.  Getting into hot water can be a life changing moment... provided the lid is NOT put on the kettle.  Moral to this story... stay away from pigs who carry hammers, trowels and squares. Or.  Don't be a blow hard. (c) 02/14/2012 by John Stevens
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Dawn will soon be embraced for treasures beyond the curve of the earth now brought to hand wanton actions then expressed the mold is broken and then reformed sensuous defined by each one far-flung stars gazed in sleep Scorpio waiting for a chance when emotions churn within private dreams foretold the way those secret urges beyond the veil brought to waking in the light morning risen to exclaim what the night hid away the slumbering to be roused or should arousal be the term for dispassion put aside in response to nature’s urge vocal ***** and stirring hens or reversed and transposed now awoken from their sleep ask for strokes to greet the day more than enough to awake achieve release not found in sleep. © 2018. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20180930.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 5:07 PM UTC
Morning Risen
Dirt Figment Breeding flies Sweet charity Hot, stagnant breeze Doves in a stale autumn wind An entity so dense Holding such little weight Topicality Technicality Revelation and rendition Something so malleable Yet so rigid Reformed Thick like honey but smoldering Grey paste Emotions breeding anxiety Still getting by Not saying, but just saying
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 9:15 PM UTC
Morality
She was fascinated by the way the beard floated across his face and disappeared without a trace into his ears and thought it was a camera trick. The camera doesn't lie is a lie, though we still believe what we can see,no longer polaroid the humanoid is now devoid of all reality, the photoshopper shops and crops,lops the tops and bottoms of his pics,sticks in bits that don't belong,digitised, giving verbal to the lies in view and finding few who disagree with the elements,reformed and shaped, the new caped crusader,tints,tone raider, I saw Douglas Bader with two legs but peg a negative and hold your tongue,I like to watch the colours run on the drip dry line,processing time. I don't like the fact that numbers attacked this art in forms of decimals it makes us vegetables relying on the cut and crop of photoshop must stop. I told her that it was no trick,he had the beard but the camera was sick,she listened to me in disbelief and from her briefcase took out a camera and snapped a picture of his face, and now I'm fascinated in a way as to whether we can photoshop a rainy day and turn it into something good I wonder if we could or not,must take a look at photoshop.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 5:43 AM UTC
Tango time
there is a broken thing reformed in amber disarranging the spectrum of sensical causal motion nail biting following migration patterns of neural activity and we bless the few who cut clean and learn early those bespectacled masses cannot intuit the limited scope of aversion to blurry pink clouds gussied up in peripheral vision the pineal gland controls circadian rhythms gushes dmt when we die i wonder i wonder what that (vestigial) little pinecone knows that we don’t cased in spongy grey matter and i don’t think much of time as metaphor but my watch strap broke yesterday i hope that is important i do nothing so simple or complex as love but(i carry it in my heart)
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 8:44 PM UTC
Dualism in a Wicker Tree House