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There are over a million things To do in the name of pleasure. Over a million more that involves Company. The person I could be, The person I’d love to be, Over a million things that could go wrong. This thought a wave pattern found In an ocean of sheets, The shore of the mattress bare. The meeting of my fingers interlocked With yours, The earth rotates & bends sideways. Without hesitation we are poured Up down left & right, Over a million things that could go wrong. Lost at sea in complete darkness I cling to you to keep warm. Lost in the earth, you blush morning. Shedding light to infinity. Your face a cathedral of a million things That could go right. Smushed & paused in excitement. Finally. A religion that doesn’t require A curriculum. The earth rotates & bends, I am baptized in the liquid from Your lips & like a fish I am alive, & like a fish I can breathe without fear That you’d be stolen & renamed Without fear that you’d be stolen & renamed. Robbed of over a million things That could go right, Between the sheets we hide. I cling to you to keep warm, lost in the earth You blush morning. Shedding light to infinity. Finally. A religion that doesn’t require A curriculum. The person I could be, The person I’d love to be, Without fear. I wander you freely
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Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021 at 11:24 AM UTC
Freely
6:30 PM 15/10/18 slam poem "What's her name?" An excited voice whispered. My benchmate asked me, Just as the new girl entered, With all her glowing ebony beauty. I thought about something, Ignored him and simply so, Continuing my reading of the drama. He prodded on like a nagging child, *"Tell me, Atul, what's her name? Who's that **** girl?"* His whisper was loud enough now, The girl heard it as she climbed, Climbed higher on the back seats and how. I glared at my benchmate, In disappointment & disgust, It was him who I had befriended. 'Him! I befriended him!! Out of them all!!!' I thought about my vulnerability in our society, But I did not react to him out of that anger. I just said, "What's in a name?" He raised his eyebrows and moaned, "Huh?" I said with mirth, "Yes! Someone like you will get her renamed!" 7:00 PM
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Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 at 6:20 AM UTC
What's In A Name
and as the wilderness song turns (and loveliness) we are gathered we by the spirit we we in the wilderness ........ dabbled sky song she she who remains free ..... remain free ....... love! ...... love! ...... ...... remaining renamed "seed" we remain in purity in the wilderness we sing of all possibilities ...... we are strong .......
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Aug 24, 2011
Aug 24, 2011 at 7:20 PM UTC
wilderness
I’ll have you know that this started out as a love poem but then I got lazy and distracted when the dog started biting my leg and I decided that this process wasn’t worth it all together and went outside for a smoke that’s when I tried to call you but you didn’t answer I guess it’s Valentine’s Day and you’re probably with some other guy who’s more sensitive than me but can he smoke as **** as me? or cough as loud? or breathe as heavy? well probably ******* not and maybe that’s a good thing that he’s healthy and doesn’t smell like the inside of a Texas Roadhouse before they decided that smoking killed everyone and no one could do it there no not even the good looking people you always said I was good looking well above average and I cooked good too and that one Valentine’s Day you said If you asked me to marry you right now, I’d say yes that was after I killed the bat in the attic bought you a bouquet of bleeding hearts and brought home the puppy since then my typewriter has busted and you have left P.S. I still have the dog and I renamed him Juniper because that’s what happens when you’re drunk and sad and alone but now I’m happy smoking a cigarette listening to my neighbor’s massive wind chime conk and sway in the crosswind and I feel as alive as ever knowing that you’re wiping off that red lipstick with a poem I wrote you because your date just got done and he’s not sleeping over and you’re just about to walk to the back patio and smoke a cigarette because you want to die just as bad as I do
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 5:36 PM UTC
Dear ex-lover
I’ll have you know that this started out as a love poem but then I got lazy and distracted when the dog started biting my leg and I decided that this process wasn’t worth it all together and went outside for a smoke that’s when I tried to call you but you didn’t answer I guess it’s Valentine’s Day and you’re probably with some other guy who’s more sensitive than me but can he smoke as **** as me? or cough as loud? or breathe as heavy? well probably ******* not and maybe that’s a good thing that he’s healthy and doesn’t smell like the inside of a Texas Roadhouse before they decided that smoking killed everyone and no one could do it there no not even the good looking people you always said I was good looking well above average and I cooked good too and that one Valentine’s Day you said If you asked me to marry you right now, I’d say yes that was after I killed the bat in the attic bought you a bouquet of bleeding hearts and brought home the puppy since then my typewriter has busted and you have left P.S. I still have the dog and I renamed him Juniper because that’s what happens when you’re drunk and sad and alone but now I’m happy smoking a cigarette listening to my neighbor’s massive wind chime conk and sway in the crosswind and I feel as alive as ever knowing that you’re wiping off that red lipstick with a poem I wrote you because your date just got done and he’s not sleeping over and you’re just about to walk to the back patio and smoke a cigarette because you want to die just as bad as I do
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Timbeck Tyu,  Timbeck Tyu Great City Timbeck Tyu Coloured Walls Nicely Painted Arts and Drawing Everywhere Artifacts on every crossing People's representatives feel like king Magnificient buildings here and there Bridges and flyover everywhere Toll tax booth here and there Statues standing everywhere Banners hanging here and there Hoardings, posters everywhere Malls and Hotels here and there Dance Bars and Casinos everywhere Citizens always in Crisis Struggling with poverty Economical condition bad Politicians has gone mad Nationalism in Slogans Here and there hooligans Real nationalist are renamed They are called anti-nationals Corruption is on the peak You need license to speak Crowd imposes censorship System respects the crowd Mouse catches the Crow Everything on the show Real news not covered Real issues are untouched Fake news are implanted Press and Media on sale Laws are being twisted Burden of proof shifted Culprits are honoured Innocents are hanged Farmers are in debts Their families are starving They can't even pay their loans Neither Principal nor interest They either commit suicide or land in jail for not paying loans Hospital competing with hotels Doctors busy in making money Patients treatment is on Sale Get cured only if you pay Stray Animals on the rise What you can do if you cry? Black money in circulation White money is called pollution Rapes, Murders and theft on rise Law and order is on the papers Lawyers are with Politicians Politicians are with Criminals Criminals are with the Police Police is with the Capitalists Only the God is with the victims That too only, if he really exists Population almost exploding Environment full of pollution Fights and quarrels here and there Religion and faith always on stake Caste and Classes everywhere Race and Religion everywhere Common people struggling for food Saints consuming wine and drugs Rallies and protests uprising The system has turned deaf Goddess of law weeping and bleeding Judges busy in process law and rules Timbeck Tyu,  Timbeck Tyu Such a great city Timbeck Tyu Have you liked Timbeck Tyu? Want to live in Timbeck Tyu? If you liked, Timbeck Tyu Want to live in Timbeck Tyu First apply for passport in your country Then apply for visa from Timbeck Tyu Hurry Up, Hurry Up, don't be late Visa's are limited so take care
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May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019 at 6:28 AM UTC
Great City
Timbeck Tyu,  Timbeck Tyu Great City Timbeck Tyu Coloured Walls Nicely Painted Arts and Drawing Everywhere Artifacts on every crossing People's representatives feel like king Magnificient buildings here and there Bridges and flyover everywhere Toll tax booth here and there Statues standing everywhere Banners hanging here and there Hoardings, posters everywhere Malls and Hotels here and there Dance Bars and Casinos everywhere Citizens always in Crisis Struggling with poverty Economical condition bad Politicians has gone mad Nationalism in Slogans Here and there hooligans Real nationalist are renamed They are called anti-nationals Corruption is on the peak You need license to speak Crowd imposes censorship System respects the crowd Mouse catches the Crow Everything on the show Real news not covered Real issues are untouched Fake news are implanted Press and Media on sale Laws are being twisted Burden of proof shifted Culprits are honoured Innocents are hanged Farmers are in debts Their families are starving They can't even pay their loans Neither Principal nor interest They either commit suicide or land in jail for not paying loans Hospital competing with hotels Doctors busy in making money Patients treatment is on Sale Get cured only if you pay Stray Animals on the rise What you can do if you cry? Black money in circulation White money is called pollution Rapes, Murders and theft on rise Law and order is on the papers Lawyers are with Politicians Politicians are with Criminals Criminals are with the Police Police is with the Capitalists Only the God is with the victims That too only, if he really exists Population almost exploding Environment full of pollution Fights and quarrels here and there Religion and faith always on stake Caste and Classes everywhere Race and Religion everywhere Common people struggling for food Saints consuming wine and drugs Rallies and protests uprising The system has turned deaf Goddess of law weeping and bleeding Judges busy in process law and rules Timbeck Tyu,  Timbeck Tyu Such a great city Timbeck Tyu Have you liked Timbeck Tyu? Want to live in Timbeck Tyu? If you liked, Timbeck Tyu Want to live in Timbeck Tyu First apply for passport in your country Then apply for visa from Timbeck Tyu Hurry Up, Hurry Up, don't be late Visa's are limited so take care
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Let my words trace your silhouette, a phantom’s caress, lingering yet. Each syllable a brush of desire, kindling sparks, igniting fire. Lines flow like molten gold, writing secrets your skin won’t withhold. Every curve, every plane, etched in whispers that call your name. They cascade down, slow and sure, filling spaces you long to endure. A tempest builds, fierce and untamed, branding softly, your soul renamed. Breathless heat, a searing tide, our untold story where passions collide. My words, a map, a lover’s art, binding you fast, heart to heart.
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Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM UTC
"Ink and Fire"
**The allure of everything bad The allure of vices that nullify circumstances which make living seem sad The 'Hollywood' cigarette, the hard liquor... ******* crystal **** All very romanticized but in reality, isn't that really just a self-induced slow death? We don't talk about it, until we watch from the sidelines If only for a second When partaking one repeats quotes like 'it is what it is' 'I am not a quitter' You've built up a tolerance for one, so you beckon The bartender to pour you a second Social trend like a hot topic on twitter So now you want more You ignorantly jab the needle inside you like you don't know what your signing up for In a sense you don't, for you choose not to Addiction entraps... but who? Not you And the moment you decide to go cold turkey It appears more enticing in another movie, or in the hands of a fellow druggie Impossible to reject Relapse... rubber band effect Yet even he that doesn't use gets a little curious One day the stress becomes too much to handle, he's peeved He's furious He's heard of pills sold over the counter, and also of those available from dusty cobwebbed shelves By dealers with hollowed out eyes, ghosts of their former selves In an alternate reality Where 'it's all good' It's all about finding solace in one happy, high family... 'It's all hood' A distorted image of zoned out smiling faces Floating around in temporary elation These vices have comforted and haunted many, way before our so called 'X-rated generation' The druggie, the alcoholic or the *** addict you see... could be your's or someone else's dad Or it could very well be you or me Seduced by the allure of everything bad I write this expecting it to be misunderstood by many... For a judgement between bad and good I myself could be affiliated to one of these vices... or many Someone reading this may have already renamed it 'The allure of everything good'.**
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Mar 29, 2012
Mar 29, 2012 at 4:01 AM UTC
The allure of everything bad
**The allure of everything bad The allure of vices that nullify circumstances which make living seem sad The 'Hollywood' cigarette, the hard liquor... ******* crystal **** All very romanticized but in reality, isn't that really just a self-induced slow death? We don't talk about it, until we watch from the sidelines If only for a second When partaking one repeats quotes like 'it is what it is' 'I am not a quitter' You've built up a tolerance for one, so you beckon The bartender to pour you a second Social trend like a hot topic on twitter So now you want more You ignorantly jab the needle inside you like you don't know what your signing up for In a sense you don't, for you choose not to Addiction entraps... but who? Not you And the moment you decide to go cold turkey It appears more enticing in another movie, or in the hands of a fellow druggie Impossible to reject Relapse... rubber band effect Yet even he that doesn't use gets a little curious One day the stress becomes too much to handle, he's peeved He's furious He's heard of pills sold over the counter, and also of those available from dusty cobwebbed shelves By dealers with hollowed out eyes, ghosts of their former selves In an alternate reality Where 'it's all good' It's all about finding solace in one happy, high family... 'It's all hood' A distorted image of zoned out smiling faces Floating around in temporary elation These vices have comforted and haunted many, way before our so called 'X-rated generation' The druggie, the alcoholic or the *** addict you see... could be your's or someone else's dad Or it could very well be you or me Seduced by the allure of everything bad I write this expecting it to be misunderstood by many... For a judgement between bad and good I myself could be affiliated to one of these vices... or many Someone reading this may have already renamed it 'The allure of everything good'.**
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*This poem is dedicated to the memory of Admiral Albert ***** Potter who displayed amazing bravery by wearing full drag through several major sea battles.  He was cashiered for insisting the Admiralty rename his ship HMS Butch instead of HMS Fearless. In fact the vessel was eventually renamed HMS Damp **** because it was full of ****** A life on the ocean wave, ** In the olden days of sail When England's ships were proud and brave And their crews were very male. The Captain stood upon his bridge Looking smart and flash; But below the decks, the orders were *** and *** and the lash. The bosun went to the main gunroom, **** Deadeye at the ready; Initiation time had come For little midshipman Freddy. "Strap him o'er that cannon, lads!" Roared the hirsute fellow, "Gag his mouth securely, lads, In case he tries to bellow!" The sailors did as he had bid - Refused and they'd be punished - And they knew their turn would come After the bosun had finished. The bosun went up the poor young lad And soon was going strong; Midshipman Fred looked rather pained - The Bosun was THICK and LONG. Then came the turn of the other men And they set to with a will; Little Fred could not say no Until they'd had their fill. What a life our sailors had then, Always singing shanties; When men were men and big and butch And cabin boys wore silk ******* A life on the ocean wave, ** With the rolling sea and the spray. Sinking the Frogs and murdering Wogs Kept England's sailors so gay. OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 6:37 PM UTC
Sea Shanty
*This poem is dedicated to the memory of Admiral Albert ***** Potter who displayed amazing bravery by wearing full drag through several major sea battles.  He was cashiered for insisting the Admiralty rename his ship HMS Butch instead of HMS Fearless. In fact the vessel was eventually renamed HMS Damp **** because it was full of ****** A life on the ocean wave, ** In the olden days of sail When England's ships were proud and brave And their crews were very male. The Captain stood upon his bridge Looking smart and flash; But below the decks, the orders were *** and *** and the lash. The bosun went to the main gunroom, **** Deadeye at the ready; Initiation time had come For little midshipman Freddy. "Strap him o'er that cannon, lads!" Roared the hirsute fellow, "Gag his mouth securely, lads, In case he tries to bellow!" The sailors did as he had bid - Refused and they'd be punished - And they knew their turn would come After the bosun had finished. The bosun went up the poor young lad And soon was going strong; Midshipman Fred looked rather pained - The Bosun was THICK and LONG. Then came the turn of the other men And they set to with a will; Little Fred could not say no Until they'd had their fill. What a life our sailors had then, Always singing shanties; When men were men and big and butch And cabin boys wore silk ******* A life on the ocean wave, ** With the rolling sea and the spray. Sinking the Frogs and murdering Wogs Kept England's sailors so gay. OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!  OLÉ!
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Some say, we don't need black history month. When in truth we do. Would the contribution of African American be taught truthfully. If we had to depend on you know who? Obviously, they very unaware of several successful black that contributed to America's greatness. We, very well aware they edited down facts to be turn into fiction. Like that president that chopped down that cherry tree. Many doesn't know the plight of Washington, Dubois, Carver. Let alone know their first name. It's hardly taught, if it's about us. George Franklin, Grant-dentist Ernest Everett, Just.-Scientist Josh Gibson, one of the greatest baseball player. We know very well about George, Thomas and James and John Q. Some say, we all Americans And in truth, they completely right. But for reasons very well known. We are not all equal in sights of others. When needed, they call upon us to join in. Some still, say-why do Black history month exist? But all cultures knows none was eliminated through times. Than those captured to come here and renamed after their masters. And facts be told, this cultures lives to embrace into their children's if nothing is ever mention by certain teachers about their cultures. Than they will keep it before them. Matthew Alexander, Henson-Explorer Billie Holiday-singer Duke Ellington and Count Basie and Cab Calloway. Greatness, we can't let fade. Vernon Jordan Shirley Chilsom And hosts of present days teachers that push the issues to educate. Those that say, we don't need Black History months. Be crying , if we try to eliminate theirs. Cause that's all they ever known. Howard University. Tennessee State and Fisk and various others came to be because of discrimination. And has turned out some brilliant African Americans. So our history is needed. Cause it's about us. Like Latin History and various others is about other cultures.
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Feb 7, 2016
Feb 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM UTC
Some Say, We Don't Need Black History
Some say, we don't need black history month. When in truth we do. Would the contribution of African American be taught truthfully. If we had to depend on you know who? Obviously, they very unaware of several successful black that contributed to America's greatness. We, very well aware they edited down facts to be turn into fiction. Like that president that chopped down that cherry tree. Many doesn't know the plight of Washington, Dubois, Carver. Let alone know their first name. It's hardly taught, if it's about us. George Franklin, Grant-dentist Ernest Everett, Just.-Scientist Josh Gibson, one of the greatest baseball player. We know very well about George, Thomas and James and John Q. Some say, we all Americans And in truth, they completely right. But for reasons very well known. We are not all equal in sights of others. When needed, they call upon us to join in. Some still, say-why do Black history month exist? But all cultures knows none was eliminated through times. Than those captured to come here and renamed after their masters. And facts be told, this cultures lives to embrace into their children's if nothing is ever mention by certain teachers about their cultures. Than they will keep it before them. Matthew Alexander, Henson-Explorer Billie Holiday-singer Duke Ellington and Count Basie and Cab Calloway. Greatness, we can't let fade. Vernon Jordan Shirley Chilsom And hosts of present days teachers that push the issues to educate. Those that say, we don't need Black History months. Be crying , if we try to eliminate theirs. Cause that's all they ever known. Howard University. Tennessee State and Fisk and various others came to be because of discrimination. And has turned out some brilliant African Americans. So our history is needed. Cause it's about us. Like Latin History and various others is about other cultures.
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I was on bed then clueless about my life. I remember three years ago, it was a strife. I was made to realize by pain of being alive. The procedure of tracheotomy was done. The other nose was cut into my windpipe. The lower end of my throat was bandaged. The two navels are located on my stomach. The second navel was gained at the hospital. The upper navel is not always here to be seen. Blankly I stared at the world in front of me. Bluntly I stared at a big wall in front of me. Bleakly I stared at people coming to see me. They would come few in numbers initially. That time is something I can't recall clearly. Then I was home worriedly waiting for him. The eternal-seeming torture period started then. The dreaded physiotherapist used to come then. The kind man was renamed ***physio the ****** He caused me great pain, I was like a 3-year old. He saw me writhe in pain & I begged for mercy. He continued coming & I remained terrorized. I used to ask my parents if they're actually mine. I was made to disbelieve in them as my parents. I took numbing pills directly into my stomach. I used to remain in sheer terror all day long. I took offence at the sound of the doorbell itself. I was asking my parents if someone would come.
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 8:37 AM UTC
A Struggler's Perspective
*if charles chooses a coronation name that isn't his baptismal name, he'll be ****** after all: we need that name for a hope of patronage and idiocy when politicising saudi arabia as a "reliable" ally.* why is it that cats love listening to handel? well, when active during charles ii's reign he was the cream of the crop, and a cherry on top; the cats say: handel over bach any daydream to come! they should have never renamed big ben (after benjamin disraeali) as the queen elizabeth tower... she's got the ****** bridge at dartford! what's next, Lizzy of Stonehenge?!
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 10:47 PM UTC
Lizzy of Stonehenge
Composing Hallelujah Fractious lines crack, holiday decorate the spirit inferior, while each note upon the priest's guitar penetrates the aspirin roughened interior, face slaps me, daggers and accuses, you're not composing hallelujah. So I mislead, big deal, composing the anti-hallelujah, yeah, I was ******** with you, as you sit across from me electronically pretending, me to you, you to me. Lie to each other with smiling faces, you too have reaped, been emotionally ***** by what our minds see and sow, scowls and howls, we've both grown our own demons. My secrets, maybe are all there, maybe, writ loud and clear, in the songs I choose to share, and in the unrevealed ones, buried alive, held in reserve, but not, for your average, rainy day, could be today, you have no say. Are we not all veterans of a kind, don't we all have ribbons on our chest, stripes and stars on our khaki blouse, a record of our own great campaigns, including the war to end all wars, the never ending one, the one the psycho-historians renamed, "The 24/7 Year Conflagration"? It used to be just my secret, no more don't need a cartoonist to tell me that's the enemy is us, and there are moles, traitors, hidden deep in our intelligence organization, planting seeds, urges, pushing to out the identity of our communist friend, Depression I don't mean the ordinary, garden variety, a mere moody blues recession, when funk is sourced from gray clouds, served up proper, cold and wet, then travels on when sun warmth clarifies temporarily, the aspirin kicking in. So I misled, composing the anti-hallelujah, yeah, I was ******** with you, sit across from me and lie to me, lie to each other with smiling faces we reap what we own, scowls and howls. A chorus of harmonious poseurs inside your own City Center, vocalize the lyrics of the anti-hallelujah, a composition of questions directed at whomever in tonight's audience deserves it, asking, nerving, to sing too loud, at decibel speed: Are these verses, curses about D, our mutual acquaintance, or just research notes for further followup, part two of a pas de deux, and, did you go this time, too far, or still not far enough? -
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 7:29 PM UTC
Composing Hallelujah
Composing Hallelujah Fractious lines crack, holiday decorate the spirit inferior, while each note upon the priest's guitar penetrates the aspirin roughened interior, face slaps me, daggers and accuses, you're not composing hallelujah. So I mislead, big deal, composing the anti-hallelujah, yeah, I was ******** with you, as you sit across from me electronically pretending, me to you, you to me. Lie to each other with smiling faces, you too have reaped, been emotionally ***** by what our minds see and sow, scowls and howls, we've both grown our own demons. My secrets, maybe are all there, maybe, writ loud and clear, in the songs I choose to share, and in the unrevealed ones, buried alive, held in reserve, but not, for your average, rainy day, could be today, you have no say. Are we not all veterans of a kind, don't we all have ribbons on our chest, stripes and stars on our khaki blouse, a record of our own great campaigns, including the war to end all wars, the never ending one, the one the psycho-historians renamed, "The 24/7 Year Conflagration"? It used to be just my secret, no more don't need a cartoonist to tell me that's the enemy is us, and there are moles, traitors, hidden deep in our intelligence organization, planting seeds, urges, pushing to out the identity of our communist friend, Depression I don't mean the ordinary, garden variety, a mere moody blues recession, when funk is sourced from gray clouds, served up proper, cold and wet, then travels on when sun warmth clarifies temporarily, the aspirin kicking in. So I misled, composing the anti-hallelujah, yeah, I was ******** with you, sit across from me and lie to me, lie to each other with smiling faces we reap what we own, scowls and howls. A chorus of harmonious poseurs inside your own City Center, vocalize the lyrics of the anti-hallelujah, a composition of questions directed at whomever in tonight's audience deserves it, asking, nerving, to sing too loud, at decibel speed: Are these verses, curses about D, our mutual acquaintance, or just research notes for further followup, part two of a pas de deux, and, did you go this time, too far, or still not far enough? -
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how i forget to cherish these little moments of our togetherness; making an early meal of sauteed vegetables and eggs, "froached" like i used to call them when i was your little chef and would bring you breakfast on special occasions, and sometimes on sundays, just because it was sunday and dad didn't have to leave for work long before the crack of dawn even set its alarm. we'd all sit in bed together, squished into sharing a cozy comfort, sandwiched between you two and my old buddy gladly the bear who still sits on your bed upstairs in his pink- and-green striped shirt. but then i guess somewhere along the way i grew up; the move happened-- i didn't visit gladly anymore, or you for that matter. today you asked me to get the big jar -- the carnation                       (top) jar, from the shelf of the kitchen    cabinet while i     explained my oddly convoluted thought process, and we talked about how my granddad danced you down the aisle to django on a whim of a kooky family friend, and how i finally realized how little i actually know of you-- but that's normal. i might be growing up now, and i might not visit that little bear anymore, but what i never really told you, or anyone, is that i have my own now, a blue one who used to be called blueberry, renamed as joseph stalin, because i'm a big boy now, and my sense of humor dried out long ago. i may not be your little chef anymore, but i can still make you breakfast, and bring it to your bed on sundays, and sit with gladly, and quietly chat until late morning like we used to (never) do.
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Dec 8, 2012
Dec 8, 2012 at 6:01 PM UTC
breakfast and teddy bears
how i forget to cherish these little moments of our togetherness; making an early meal of sauteed vegetables and eggs, "froached" like i used to call them when i was your little chef and would bring you breakfast on special occasions, and sometimes on sundays, just because it was sunday and dad didn't have to leave for work long before the crack of dawn even set its alarm. we'd all sit in bed together, squished into sharing a cozy comfort, sandwiched between you two and my old buddy gladly the bear who still sits on your bed upstairs in his pink- and-green striped shirt. but then i guess somewhere along the way i grew up; the move happened-- i didn't visit gladly anymore, or you for that matter. today you asked me to get the big jar -- the carnation                       (top) jar, from the shelf of the kitchen    cabinet while i     explained my oddly convoluted thought process, and we talked about how my granddad danced you down the aisle to django on a whim of a kooky family friend, and how i finally realized how little i actually know of you-- but that's normal. i might be growing up now, and i might not visit that little bear anymore, but what i never really told you, or anyone, is that i have my own now, a blue one who used to be called blueberry, renamed as joseph stalin, because i'm a big boy now, and my sense of humor dried out long ago. i may not be your little chef anymore, but i can still make you breakfast, and bring it to your bed on sundays, and sit with gladly, and quietly chat until late morning like we used to (never) do.
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Everybody knows of Istanbul in Turkey, This poem will only lay some light on it, Through the history & mankind's irony. Istanbul was settled as a Greek colonial city, 'Twas named Byzantium after a Greek king, And the Old Greek king's name was Byzas. The Romans under Constantine won over it, Now it was their turn to rename the city, After the emperor as Constantinople. The great Turks captured it in 1453 AD lastly, The fabulous fortress was renamed yet again, The present name Istanbul descended in 1923.
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 2:15 AM UTC
A City's Tale On History's Trail
Peace draws itself out...leaving an informed emptiness in its wake. As light leaves room for everything... what is let be, comes to itself. Peaces draws itself out...leaving an informed emptiness in its wake-- a flowering beyond namesake. As anything can be renamed, any shape altered...light...in peace, transfigures. Dormancy's wayshowing can not be filled with anything but itself...peace beyond body and mind.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 11:50 PM UTC
Flowering Beyond Namesake
aggression must be denied. ****** Pol *** The Duke, Kim Jong, Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Saparmurat Niyazov, the living bad the dead. XiJinping proudly announces in November 2013, the year of our lord, they are doing away with labor camps in China. ******** total, renamed them drug rehabilitation centers. evil must be refuted. who will call them out? not us. coming home from the opera, some big **** SUV, played chicken with me. I refused to let him cut in the line. He followed me for ten blocks, honking his ******* till he quit, cause I would not give the satisfaction of letting him spit and sputter. Took the woman home. Went out looking for him. searched hundred blocks. found him, took out my jack. (trust me I did not key his car). when he saw what I had done, I quoted him Verdi's Rigoletto: He is crime, I am punishment. you see opera ain't for ******* aggression must be denied locally, before it becomes a national treasure.
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Dec 8, 2013
Dec 8, 2013 at 4:23 AM UTC
Rigoletto: He is crime, I am punishment
sweeping over, under streams me into humble yearning me you me cosmic accident renamed in fullness found, an instant birth rebirth along excitement's wonderment why is it that those lines you share exact the very beat my being was before i knew it as it is? those words are tender arrows painful tips of beauty shone these lips have given that eternal kiss before your instep scent instilled from lung to spinal arch roots can spiral chaos of this love for all i care, there is no end to order forming you me you a bright flame to crystallize in time, shatter lust beneath our nails endless endless vibrant moan, i hear you once again beneath the grass the union hums a sameness of delight in sameness seeded by another unknown love when perhaps we were of other forms and spiraled in a sun akin to throbbing star remembered there
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 12:07 PM UTC
and the impact
before~after / conception~completion (my coordinates) <•> for the caretakers of the next generation <•> comes the everyday, the mundane, the profane, meeting at the X,Y ordinates of ordinary sweat and struggling tears oh! this stuff of life, makes me groan and wonder out load, what is the purpose beyond the existence of being a constantly in need of maintenance, sustenance machine then I hear but do not see the hallway pitter patter, the thrumming of purposed direction certain, four little feet who between them don't posses even a decade yet on their way to the sunroom, now renamed, the playroom, expropriated by their toys of eminent domain, on their way to the life between the before~after / conception~completion and this point, of a single moment, an invisible sound, of this particular life, this extraordinary ordinate, this X,Y locus, this precision perceived location of something real, it is a realized abstraction, the exact point, where my coordinates are harmonized 9/2/17 5:11am SI
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Sep 2, 2017
Sep 2, 2017 at 5:21 AM UTC
before~after / conception~completion (my coordinates)
They tried to bury Yahushua Alef Tav behind a nice Platonic, less Jewish facade Renamed Him Jesus the Alpha Omega and chanted many HEP HEP Hoorahs ... beside His feminist-friendly god/mother to the tune of many hail Marys even freed Him from His own Torah despite "think not I came to replace it" But see, He's risen now from every holy papal place from every charismatic falsity that preached pew-warming prosperity He's restoring Israel not gentiledom... one lost sheep at a time back into twelve chaste tribes just as she was under Sinai's hupa before the separation He's elbowing aside modern pharisees who refuse to know Moses and therefore can't know Him or follow His commandments who really aren't into feeding lost sheep Egyptians hate sheep It reminds them of plagues Leaven goes better with bacon
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Aug 26, 2010
Aug 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM UTC
Gentile Pharisees
Shoulda gone sooner, Mighta helped, he said, it's going to all come down, ground up. All the concrete and asphalt and plastic, maybe even leave a little of that won't hurt, could help build randomness back in the the path of least resistance But no bigger than the biggest pieces left at Jerusalem, fill all the holes. that was a stutter, that double the there, 3 lines up, I stutter when I write, not as bad as some But I pretty much tamed spelchek when I renamed her. She likes being thought of as Spelchek, my servant, as opposed to evil Spellchick who bewitched by keys, made my tittalk sound plumb dumb. So Spelchek respects some of my stutters as honest ensamples of thinking wait. What am I saying Selah Like the psalmist, right? The the thing is oddly broken lines are part of the meandering mode of meaning being found under rocks, aha Sisyphus, we're in your book!, Too cool! Happy whatever, Jah, you, too. Back to Cousin Kenny, who went to inspect the city, seeking some good he might do. He laughed when he got back, 'said maybe we can find them guys that let on they was able to levitate the Pentagon, back then, you know, they was steeped in lies, and they loved to tell 'em, loved to lie, prospero, ever **** one prosperous liars. But, now, their old age, they coulda stopped believin' some big lies by now. Who would know? Any way, the cities, as built, must be un built, NOT DESTROYED, those are the good hard labour of good people, doing the best with what they had, we take apart mistakes, we destroy lies. Angelic beings, aliens, without papers, if you would give us half a chance we could show you what a good idea possessed human can do… Trust me, don' laugh Close your eyes How would this world look if it were designed for life, and that, more abundantly. An idea, not a dogma. Life, have it… how? Lest, now, now is living, and we can do it better if we find a reason to hope, which was why cousin kenny went to the city, in the first place.
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Nov 7, 2018
Nov 7, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
cousin kenny went to the city
Shoulda gone sooner, Mighta helped, he said, it's going to all come down, ground up. All the concrete and asphalt and plastic, maybe even leave a little of that won't hurt, could help build randomness back in the the path of least resistance But no bigger than the biggest pieces left at Jerusalem, fill all the holes. that was a stutter, that double the there, 3 lines up, I stutter when I write, not as bad as some But I pretty much tamed spelchek when I renamed her. She likes being thought of as Spelchek, my servant, as opposed to evil Spellchick who bewitched by keys, made my tittalk sound plumb dumb. So Spelchek respects some of my stutters as honest ensamples of thinking wait. What am I saying Selah Like the psalmist, right? The the thing is oddly broken lines are part of the meandering mode of meaning being found under rocks, aha Sisyphus, we're in your book!, Too cool! Happy whatever, Jah, you, too. Back to Cousin Kenny, who went to inspect the city, seeking some good he might do. He laughed when he got back, 'said maybe we can find them guys that let on they was able to levitate the Pentagon, back then, you know, they was steeped in lies, and they loved to tell 'em, loved to lie, prospero, ever **** one prosperous liars. But, now, their old age, they coulda stopped believin' some big lies by now. Who would know? Any way, the cities, as built, must be un built, NOT DESTROYED, those are the good hard labour of good people, doing the best with what they had, we take apart mistakes, we destroy lies. Angelic beings, aliens, without papers, if you would give us half a chance we could show you what a good idea possessed human can do… Trust me, don' laugh Close your eyes How would this world look if it were designed for life, and that, more abundantly. An idea, not a dogma. Life, have it… how? Lest, now, now is living, and we can do it better if we find a reason to hope, which was why cousin kenny went to the city, in the first place.
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In 1968, she poisoned her father, 1970, her mother-in-law and 1971, her husband. 1986 was her boss-turned-lover-turned-boyfriend and by 1989, her attention was focused on her second husband. Exhumation became so common that the local cemeteries were renamed as her landfills. She sits across from me–shoulders squared and gaze relaxed–waiting for any question I might come up with.      What ran across your mind the very first time? Her breath flees from her lips and she says to me      freedom. I look her in the eyes–      see a monster. She looks me in the eyes–      sees herself.
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Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 3:22 PM UTC
0288088: the Black Widow
We were never a fan of dialogues. At the other end of the street I would watch her
 Each Monday, carrying a new book every time. I didn't like to read.
 I preferred music, in my opinion Was the equivalent of a book Each telling a story. The cup of coffee in my hand felt as warm as my heart As I blew the hot liquid from the brim of the cup
 And take a picture of her with the smoke that frames her body. I wrote short poems of how captivating her beauty was On the greasy table napkins provided for the coffee tables 
Producing a different piece each time. Her mouth would move as she read the words, Mumbling lines of incoherent sentences I could not decipher.
 At times I would see a smile break out on her face And I would find myself consumed in slight envy. Would she have smiled at the words I've written for her? She was a song, I was a poem. She was first written on smooth paper, A thoughtless idea jotted in messy handwriting Soon expanding into a verse and chorus Written over and over again, Revised by experts, reviewed until perfection,
 Interpreted by bassists, guitarists, drummers, and vocalists Appreciated repeatedly through the stereos of listeners As they capture each beat and tempo. She was flawless. I was a poem. I was rewritten in a single document copy Renamed and revised From the greasy fingers tapping away on keyboards Typed and deleted, Typed and deleted. 
Frustrating the writer as they could never get an idea out of me Leaving me in a file hidden in the folders of an old computer Unfinished and waiting to be opened. I was a mess in unorganized stanzas of ideas,
 Lines which no one will have the audacity to read, 
A waste of time, Flawed. She was the perfection in every imperfection An artwork that you could only love through the eyes. A piece which I Wanted in my own. I watched her again silently and wondered Is it possible to love someone you've only admired from afar?
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Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 at 11:02 PM UTC
Muted
We were never a fan of dialogues. At the other end of the street I would watch her
 Each Monday, carrying a new book every time. I didn't like to read.
 I preferred music, in my opinion Was the equivalent of a book Each telling a story. The cup of coffee in my hand felt as warm as my heart As I blew the hot liquid from the brim of the cup
 And take a picture of her with the smoke that frames her body. I wrote short poems of how captivating her beauty was On the greasy table napkins provided for the coffee tables 
Producing a different piece each time. Her mouth would move as she read the words, Mumbling lines of incoherent sentences I could not decipher.
 At times I would see a smile break out on her face And I would find myself consumed in slight envy. Would she have smiled at the words I've written for her? She was a song, I was a poem. She was first written on smooth paper, A thoughtless idea jotted in messy handwriting Soon expanding into a verse and chorus Written over and over again, Revised by experts, reviewed until perfection,
 Interpreted by bassists, guitarists, drummers, and vocalists Appreciated repeatedly through the stereos of listeners As they capture each beat and tempo. She was flawless. I was a poem. I was rewritten in a single document copy Renamed and revised From the greasy fingers tapping away on keyboards Typed and deleted, Typed and deleted. 
Frustrating the writer as they could never get an idea out of me Leaving me in a file hidden in the folders of an old computer Unfinished and waiting to be opened. I was a mess in unorganized stanzas of ideas,
 Lines which no one will have the audacity to read, 
A waste of time, Flawed. She was the perfection in every imperfection An artwork that you could only love through the eyes. A piece which I Wanted in my own. I watched her again silently and wondered Is it possible to love someone you've only admired from afar?
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After all the carnage I did imparte The gypsies thought I had mastered the dark art When I left that  wretched gypsy caravan Anyone that had wronged me, their blood spilled on the sand With their tongues like parchment They told darkened stories, and I was their target And as I slowly roamed the land To seek out about my mother first hand The villagers seen my burnt skin And knew I was the one the gypsies said carried great sin Every human treated me badly, to scared to get close they threw their stones So I sought out a place where no human ever goes I found a forest but to sunny for my mood It had to be darker, it had to be crude So I started out simple and enchanted the vines I made them all twist entangle and entwine next was the trees I made them grow branches to cover the sky so even from the keen eye of the hawk I could hide But not done with them yet the bark I made bare Thorns that would reach out and scratch and tear The sand I made quiken to entrap in and ensnare So anyone caught in my wicked trap could no longer breathe the air My wonderland was soon renamed the Black Forest all that dared entered claimed they heard the demon's chorus And so my legend was born The gypsies through their stories warn Of a dark hearted witch that the fires couldn't burn Even though their fires burnd white hot and the coals they churned That I the black hearted witch had escaped and layed waste In despite their fear they had given chase So now alone I roam my beautiful dark place With the gypsies warning story no one will give chase But in my roaming before the forest I had heard a great tale Of a witch who had put her baby under a spell That upon it was put a curse That would work in reverse
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 9:40 AM UTC
The Black Hearted Witch (Part 2)
After all the carnage I did imparte The gypsies thought I had mastered the dark art When I left that  wretched gypsy caravan Anyone that had wronged me, their blood spilled on the sand With their tongues like parchment They told darkened stories, and I was their target And as I slowly roamed the land To seek out about my mother first hand The villagers seen my burnt skin And knew I was the one the gypsies said carried great sin Every human treated me badly, to scared to get close they threw their stones So I sought out a place where no human ever goes I found a forest but to sunny for my mood It had to be darker, it had to be crude So I started out simple and enchanted the vines I made them all twist entangle and entwine next was the trees I made them grow branches to cover the sky so even from the keen eye of the hawk I could hide But not done with them yet the bark I made bare Thorns that would reach out and scratch and tear The sand I made quiken to entrap in and ensnare So anyone caught in my wicked trap could no longer breathe the air My wonderland was soon renamed the Black Forest all that dared entered claimed they heard the demon's chorus And so my legend was born The gypsies through their stories warn Of a dark hearted witch that the fires couldn't burn Even though their fires burnd white hot and the coals they churned That I the black hearted witch had escaped and layed waste In despite their fear they had given chase So now alone I roam my beautiful dark place With the gypsies warning story no one will give chase But in my roaming before the forest I had heard a great tale Of a witch who had put her baby under a spell That upon it was put a curse That would work in reverse
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I discovered roller coasters for the first time after I saw my therapist She told me I had OCD, DID, ADD, and an eating disorder She told me to keep it simple and stop trying to please others I told her to set herself on fire I decide to take my damaged ass to an amusement park and tell the drive I’m allowed I’m 5’4 You’re a ***** I spit on him and jump into the car I defy gravity by myself on this tipsy turvy future mobile I go up and into space and ride through clichés until my overalls Snap off and set me free where I float without medication Snap out of it, you hairy **** You never know how it feels to lose control until you’ve lost all control She never Knew With the giant pebbles and water cascading downwards in a freefall And the terrible feng shui that parts her massive thighs point my eyes into her pant stain while my entire head falls down for the bottom A sick endless cycle of torture just like the Mexican chanting annual melodies …at a Tucson establishment …sitting on truck tables at the doctor’s office …cutting off DNA into style …fighting off fever with drive by flu shots So I count to 5 while I make hot cocoa And tap the doorway I try on 4 different pairs of pants eat an entire bag of Cheetos and throw up It’s all situational and relative and ridiculous I don’t care if some 14 year old wears orange lipstick and ***** off her math teacher Tell me Doctor what’s the diagnosis for my sick bluish foot Oh you’re right I guess I do need to vacate the premises The Land of the Lepers exists and we have renamed it “America”
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Mar 11, 2010
Mar 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM UTC
But How does that make you feel?
I discovered roller coasters for the first time after I saw my therapist She told me I had OCD, DID, ADD, and an eating disorder She told me to keep it simple and stop trying to please others I told her to set herself on fire I decide to take my damaged ass to an amusement park and tell the drive I’m allowed I’m 5’4 You’re a ***** I spit on him and jump into the car I defy gravity by myself on this tipsy turvy future mobile I go up and into space and ride through clichés until my overalls Snap off and set me free where I float without medication Snap out of it, you hairy **** You never know how it feels to lose control until you’ve lost all control She never Knew With the giant pebbles and water cascading downwards in a freefall And the terrible feng shui that parts her massive thighs point my eyes into her pant stain while my entire head falls down for the bottom A sick endless cycle of torture just like the Mexican chanting annual melodies …at a Tucson establishment …sitting on truck tables at the doctor’s office …cutting off DNA into style …fighting off fever with drive by flu shots So I count to 5 while I make hot cocoa And tap the doorway I try on 4 different pairs of pants eat an entire bag of Cheetos and throw up It’s all situational and relative and ridiculous I don’t care if some 14 year old wears orange lipstick and ***** off her math teacher Tell me Doctor what’s the diagnosis for my sick bluish foot Oh you’re right I guess I do need to vacate the premises The Land of the Lepers exists and we have renamed it “America”
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