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Clicketyclick — sickly screens, shooting sixty picture-frames per second Tickety ticktock, rapid-fire photon cannons, ripping holes through our faces rectangles, riddled with anxiety ridden read scripts the resultant retinal scarring Wicketywicked, weary eyes, dripping with serrated pixels triple dotted, typing-awareness indicators create silly suspenses, inducing temporal dramas, emotional micro-traumas every second a slice through my, now practically nonexistent, patience Am I a server, or am I a servant? Eyes, sunken, with withered skin I'm waiting for my fix Ding-ding Bloop! Pinggg Here comes the dopamine! — —Clicketyclick
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Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM UTC
Dystopian Screengazing
for Harlon Rivers the river potion, the river portent, the river potent it is all of these and not one he is bank sided, observing the false idols, the image mirrored in the glass of the river transfigured molecularly he becomes something ferried frothily, forcefully as if a twig or a small thing of human manufacture, an object tossed up airborne-repeatedly his poetry: the clash of particles at the many junctions of objects and water, eddies and the currents, ceaselessly circumnavigating,   searching revisionary pathways directed, but randomized, prisoner of the flows, servant to the wind's directives and the earths magnetic indivisible undulating waves thinking, this life, its unsteady gait,  the irreverent wavering of drunkenness resultant from potent potions, portents of inopportune position in him, my own histories,  my poetic recordings also become water borne, watermarked, replayed back for me, for erasure, censure, closure and rededication this River is a tapestry, a torn map, drawn on broken shards of slivered water, living with all the others but we, are the untitled, we, are the un-entitled, and he is the Rivers <•>
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 2:36 PM UTC
For Harlon: The River Potion
<> you pout and defer, dancing backwards, claiming, blue is now blackened from underuse, incapable and incapacitating revival *saying  eyes cannot see, distinctly, neither near or far, the tremble of love, forgot & distantly absent, but I know, a heart’s sensory muscles never die, though weaken they might, underused, un-exercised denying  that inspiration   no longer resides with in thy sensitivities, has fled, undercover of smoking forest fires all the diurnal hazards that invade, occupying my internal spaces once filled by poems you conceived, birthed, in a pleasured haze, came so fast, you bare recall agony accompanied, but not the ecstasy of the end resultant!* ***you know it’s you of whom I write, but, a note not shaming names, but messages countless private messages have I sent begging, beseeching, give me your gifts*** once more, you owe me not, though I oft irritate with my deafening pleas, yet only denials continue, my pleas ding but dent not, the tired fear of your exposition so speak to you plain, feed my soul selfish like in years gone past, there are holes in mine that require your elixir, creamy softness that moistens my face with tears of your words originating, astound, enfold** not later, not soon, not excusals, write for me NOW, WRITE FOR YOURSELF, but leave me not forsaken and thirst un-slackened,** Answer! To whom do you owe your poems?
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Jun 11, 2023
Jun 11, 2023 at 11:30 AM UTC
The Ink in Your Blood Never Dies! (To whom do you owe your poems?)
*Pride, personified, Satan. Lucifer's pride his desire to compete with God his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan. Pride personified, but what of us, the humans,not Angels What pride are we guilty of? The original and most deadly of the seven. The original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, the source of the others Pride is sometimes viewed as excessive or as a vice. Pride, Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbour", but Pride involves exhilarated pleasure and a feeling of accomplishment. What accomplishment? That one is better than others? Our social and economic standing? Our supercilious ego's? A better house? The pride that comes with snobbery? Our arrogance at believing in only ourselves? Yet, through negativity,positivity can come of pride, results from satisfaction with meeting personal goals; Family, friends, education. Amplified and multiplied, pride takes a satisfied place in all our hearts. A complex secondary emotion. The first and strongest emotion being love Love cannot be prideful Yet, pride comes before a fall. And we as humans fall in love*
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 2:05 PM UTC
Pride (Latin,Superbia, Greek, Hubris)
-for Zukiswa Mvunguse~ and for ~ Jul, who once again, loved each line best~ having already deduced that: “the unplanned is his plan, it’s his faceted flaws that refract his coloratura”^ the titled alliteration teases him into thinking there, is more to be said, more to be prayed, the unplanned lesser lesson is as-of-the-yet unlearned, and the sunburst of a full fledged lying-in-bed born from a static spark of kinetic energy, awaking in an unfamiliar bed or a too familiar state of mind, begs for birth and vainglorious death-by-anon/amity of another poem   I have written poems commissioned, “write about suicide,” asked a friend, “take this word and artfully knead it,” once, was once an oft request, twisty manipulate your scheming resources into finely assaying a field rock raw, laboratory mind-mine it into an essay that delve dives where you fear to treacherous tread, resultant, an awkward prayer, now, a valued mineral no poem is truly planned and no prayer ever truly answered, but as you compose, pushing the last, next word ever farther to the right, you self-confess, expecting no absolution, that the poem, this one as well, and the next, and the next, and the next has always been planned since your inception, always a prayer asked, and in creation conception, answered even if not directly answered, for in the bare minimum asking, is the answering, is the planning, is the poem and the prayer, is his owned alliteration
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 8:16 AM UTC
poetry, planning and prayer (and answers)
Many a company makes each employee practice yoga during recess to de-stress cope with distress endure strain and be back again to workplace with no stress! a good therapy for if ever the company lays off an employee, he she could absorb the distress of the resultant long-term recess its pains many like a yogi!
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 2:46 AM UTC
Yogi
there is no privacy anymore tinker with your settings, imaginary dragons, but to no true avail, your scathing privacy has since sailed, only to return for another sinking what you forgot, is very well remembered in a some very overlooked place see me in my summer camp class photo, blonde crew cut and goofiest of grins, find my poems of eons ago, in living tricolor, to my now better understood "eternal" embarrassment, they writ on, vainly looking for a way to enjoy a natural unnatural aging, a wordlessly, self-destructing death on a someday, though the probability is that someone's gigabytes will cloud store them forevermore because accumulation is cheap and easy and whatever everything you need but didn't want, the tangled webs, births and deaths, multiple divorces and successes, ancestors, progenitors, children who no longer acknowledge parenthood, the detritus of lives writ even larger than the original reality life show confrontation tween my suppression of long term memories that   are dangling participles, going gone being been, confusion resultant in the tenses of existence, I was therefore I still must be but no longer the me I pretended to be *there is no privacy anymore, especially, not even from thine own prying eyes and faulty memories...* when they ask what is my name, to better trace my leavings, I will like Jehovah to Moses respond, I Am that I Am (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה,  ehyeh ašer ehyeh)
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 11:55 AM UTC
There is no privacy anymore/I am that I am
Transiting through and true My coming and going has now become my undoing From one place to the next Never giving a rest The constant vibration of my body cells The resultant energy drain Hunger pangs like ringing bells Now a friendly foe. Time passing by Dashing out of every corner and place With tongue covered in dry dust And arms filled with heat of the weather To give me a lick and a hug Oh, what a bother Jumping from bike To cars To busses and trains To a destination unknown Just a movement with time With memories worth more than a dime From one place to the next Never giving a rest Come hunger and sun Come Weakness and rain With the freezing cold of greying age Indulging time with its uncaring gaze I will persist For all I know is I am in transit.
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Jan 4, 2019
Jan 4, 2019 at 3:43 AM UTC
In Transit.
The truth is turning plastic And politicians spastic As they dream up fantastic Ways to be bombastic. The anti-intellectuals, Their rhetoric effectual, Demand a perpetual And lucrative processional To a place they know the score Where they can amass more Of money and stores In disregarding the mores They were elected for And continue waging war Like high-priced political ****** The truth has no chance In this genocidal dance Of unfortunate circumstance Created to enhance Resultant happenstance When, by the seat of his pants When we happened to glance Away for a particular moment And were swamped by the foment Of eight long years of torment; Freedoms arteries turned to cement And any chance of sanity For American humanity Got buried in some inanity About hanging chads and counts Giving a fool a chance to pounce; To squeeze the last pure ounce Of dignity out of the Presidency By merely taking up residency.
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Nov 25, 2015
Nov 25, 2015 at 6:07 AM UTC
WHIRLPOOL
<> “Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?” Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman                                                             §§§ *A night of reckoning, calculations repeated-checked, sums divided, did I use too many, or not enough, words to be understood, verbiage eloquent, did daytime reveal my poetic meanings, or double-occlude it’s essence? I have reckon’d Manhattan Isle, circumnavigated its riverbed boundaries, a younger me, by kayak rounded it, from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Battery, 14,500 acres give or take, a lifeatime to complete a dead reckoning, an unfinished full configuring. but haven’t reckon’d that Earth and I will be entwined/entombed in each other’s arms, until such time, one of us or both, will be reduced to cosmic dust, our pride, our poems, will be equally unimportant and irrelevant, I reckon. in retrospective rear view perspective, come to understand that we spend every moment of our lives, reckoning, determine the odds of which fork we will take, laugh out loud, for each moment, a poem  is titled, the resultant, a poem - who needs a muse, you’ve got choices! So, yes, Walt, the questing  answers you’ve requested: Aye, yes, yup, but no to pride, for pride and poetry in one sentence is a death sentence at multiple levels, pride, poetry, ego, suicide,...sins, so better no proud for it is the entree, the invitation to fall-fail...*                                                          §§§§§ 12:03AM  Frieday May 15th my deadline missed, but what is three minutes, but empty pride... Manhattan Island
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May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020 at 8:51 AM UTC
Whitman: “Have you reckon’d?”
<> “Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?” Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman                                                             §§§ *A night of reckoning, calculations repeated-checked, sums divided, did I use too many, or not enough, words to be understood, verbiage eloquent, did daytime reveal my poetic meanings, or double-occlude it’s essence? I have reckon’d Manhattan Isle, circumnavigated its riverbed boundaries, a younger me, by kayak rounded it, from the Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Battery, 14,500 acres give or take, a lifeatime to complete a dead reckoning, an unfinished full configuring. but haven’t reckon’d that Earth and I will be entwined/entombed in each other’s arms, until such time, one of us or both, will be reduced to cosmic dust, our pride, our poems, will be equally unimportant and irrelevant, I reckon. in retrospective rear view perspective, come to understand that we spend every moment of our lives, reckoning, determine the odds of which fork we will take, laugh out loud, for each moment, a poem  is titled, the resultant, a poem - who needs a muse, you’ve got choices! So, yes, Walt, the questing  answers you’ve requested: Aye, yes, yup, but no to pride, for pride and poetry in one sentence is a death sentence at multiple levels, pride, poetry, ego, suicide,...sins, so better no proud for it is the entree, the invitation to fall-fail...*                                                          §§§§§ 12:03AM  Frieday May 15th my deadline missed, but what is three minutes, but empty pride... Manhattan Island
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"Biblical texts from all historical periods & in a variety of literary genres demonstrate that in Yahwistic circles, that is,    among people who worshiped Yahweh as the chief god, God was always understood as the one who alone created heaven, earth & all that is in them; Yahweh, the Israelite god, had no rivals, & in a world where nations claimed that their gods were the supreme beings in the universe & that all others were subject to them, the Israelites' claim for the superiority of Yahweh enabled them to imagine that no other nation could rival her. Phrases such as 'Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth'   & related phrases for Yahweh as creator &                                almighty master of the cosmos have parallels in earlier Canaanite terminology for the god El; In fact, the Israelites did not create these phrases but inherited them from earlier Canaanite civilizations; moreover,                  later editors of the Hebrew Bible used them to serve their particular monotheistic theology: their god is the supreme god, & he alone created the universe."      The canon of the Hebrew Bible       was formed of diverse writings composed by many men or women over a long period of time,    under many different circumstances, & in the light of shifting patterns of religious belief & practice.  Indeed, the questions under investigation in   this book concerning the end of an individual's life, the nature of death,    the possibility of divine judgment,   and the resultant reward or punishment   are simply too crucial to have attracted   a single solution unanimously accepted over the millennium of biblical composition."
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Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 9:47 PM UTC
The Untitled Book
"Biblical texts from all historical periods & in a variety of literary genres demonstrate that in Yahwistic circles, that is,    among people who worshiped Yahweh as the chief god, God was always understood as the one who alone created heaven, earth & all that is in them; Yahweh, the Israelite god, had no rivals, & in a world where nations claimed that their gods were the supreme beings in the universe & that all others were subject to them, the Israelites' claim for the superiority of Yahweh enabled them to imagine that no other nation could rival her. Phrases such as 'Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth'   & related phrases for Yahweh as creator &                                almighty master of the cosmos have parallels in earlier Canaanite terminology for the god El; In fact, the Israelites did not create these phrases but inherited them from earlier Canaanite civilizations; moreover,                  later editors of the Hebrew Bible used them to serve their particular monotheistic theology: their god is the supreme god, & he alone created the universe."      The canon of the Hebrew Bible       was formed of diverse writings composed by many men or women over a long period of time,    under many different circumstances, & in the light of shifting patterns of religious belief & practice.  Indeed, the questions under investigation in   this book concerning the end of an individual's life, the nature of death,    the possibility of divine judgment,   and the resultant reward or punishment   are simply too crucial to have attracted   a single solution unanimously accepted over the millennium of biblical composition."
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A reflection on birthdays, friends departing this world, and surveying ones life ~~~ this one poem is not lurking,(1) turmoiled bursting, shaking, quaking, release aching write it in droplets, my chest speak squeaks, each thought, a stanza, each moment, a bonanza of  the doled, muddled mix of tremblings on this my extravaganza, renaissance day of birth upon this earth sixty five calendars, this space, so gulf and so narrow, (2) for what profit this man for himself, others? a Judgement Day of sorts, where the man~poet is efficiently prosecutor, defender, judge and jury, as is he not, his one true peer? let his biases be betrayed, his fault lines be paraded, let his deeds be the unlawful legal coda by which he is remanded if found guilty of a ledger imbalanced, more sins than glory, only one sentence permitted, life imprisonment even the NYC weather clued in and deity cooperative, wakes me up to this advisory: Overcast. Slight chance of a rain shower. High near 65F. High near 65. what portent this oracle, a warning guide to this morass of a contradictory, crevassed man full of mea culpa poetic messes, his old is his high... or are these just winking, birthday instructions from an observer on high? this space of years, this life, so gulf and so narrow, engulfed, yet so sparse is his barrow, his first minutes of the day a lean inventory taking, for better or worse as he overcasts a full review, plus a bonus (!) a forward progress prognosis there is a fresh formed Cain mileage marker upon his brow, a check-mark scar, resultant of his self-checkup upon the tree rings of his tiring body weeping only because a mistrial is declared and no verdict returned and he rises for coffee, promising himself someday an honest resolution before... these the acts of sixty five calendars, of this, his-space, so gulf and so narrow, subjected to a now daily interrogatory: *for what profit this man, his actions, his loved words, for himself, to others, to this world?* October 1, 2015 ~~~ (1) http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1417203/there-is-a-poem-lurking/ ~~~ (2) *but I can't stop for each hour of the last 72 has witnessed a new poem in-between minute one and minute sixty five written for you, writing for life, writing of this moment,* this space so gulf and so narrow *in and between the unity of us* http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1413760/for-ernesto-l-gonzales-aka-the-dedpoet-the-in-between/ ~~~
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
this space, so gulf and so narrow
A reflection on birthdays, friends departing this world, and surveying ones life ~~~ this one poem is not lurking,(1) turmoiled bursting, shaking, quaking, release aching write it in droplets, my chest speak squeaks, each thought, a stanza, each moment, a bonanza of  the doled, muddled mix of tremblings on this my extravaganza, renaissance day of birth upon this earth sixty five calendars, this space, so gulf and so narrow, (2) for what profit this man for himself, others? a Judgement Day of sorts, where the man~poet is efficiently prosecutor, defender, judge and jury, as is he not, his one true peer? let his biases be betrayed, his fault lines be paraded, let his deeds be the unlawful legal coda by which he is remanded if found guilty of a ledger imbalanced, more sins than glory, only one sentence permitted, life imprisonment even the NYC weather clued in and deity cooperative, wakes me up to this advisory: Overcast. Slight chance of a rain shower. High near 65F. High near 65. what portent this oracle, a warning guide to this morass of a contradictory, crevassed man full of mea culpa poetic messes, his old is his high... or are these just winking, birthday instructions from an observer on high? this space of years, this life, so gulf and so narrow, engulfed, yet so sparse is his barrow, his first minutes of the day a lean inventory taking, for better or worse as he overcasts a full review, plus a bonus (!) a forward progress prognosis there is a fresh formed Cain mileage marker upon his brow, a check-mark scar, resultant of his self-checkup upon the tree rings of his tiring body weeping only because a mistrial is declared and no verdict returned and he rises for coffee, promising himself someday an honest resolution before... these the acts of sixty five calendars, of this, his-space, so gulf and so narrow, subjected to a now daily interrogatory: *for what profit this man, his actions, his loved words, for himself, to others, to this world?* October 1, 2015 ~~~ (1) http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1417203/there-is-a-poem-lurking/ ~~~ (2) *but I can't stop for each hour of the last 72 has witnessed a new poem in-between minute one and minute sixty five written for you, writing for life, writing of this moment,* this space so gulf and so narrow *in and between the unity of us* http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1413760/for-ernesto-l-gonzales-aka-the-dedpoet-the-in-between/ ~~~
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Tonight I have decided That love should be indicted Because I am not the final "Z" But alas I am free. Yesterday I said good bye I'm deserving of a wise guy Because I am not a bourgeoise But alas I am free. Tomorrow I may just weep It's hard to feel incomplete Yes, I don't flow like the ocean sea But alas I am free Currently I am exultant For this is the resultant I am a bel esprit (But) Alas I am free
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 8:05 PM UTC
Alas I am free
*Life's an adventure made of surprises a journey to places you're never told one day you're where the sunset's old the next you're underneath sunrises Life's a plant that does flower and fade don't keep cursing the rough you've led for today you're only seeing the thorns but with the calm of the April showers comes the bloom of scented flowers Life's body and mind, flesh and bones the emotional are as well instrumental in the holistic architecture as the mental Life's humanity's dough, destiny's bake a tricky big gamble we all must take Life's salted by fate, but other spices in the broth are a resultant of choices*
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Jun 4, 2016
Jun 4, 2016 at 7:15 AM UTC
Spices
He— Her ginger. Limp handshake. Cacophonous  laugh. Features, disproportionate. In most ways- narrow minded. Exceedingly self-assured. Without money he is No better than I. Loving she: Always. -Me Yet here I stand. Clinging to the bottle. Watching the years pass by. Alone atop this cold, cobble, stoop; Coat covered in cigarette ash. I don’t think of  you— or  at  least  I try  not to. Not quite dead… However, not entirely alive either. And I made a sincere effort to climb out of the plot you left me in; but darling that hole you dug me was  ******* deep!* And the only tool you’d left me was that **** bottle; which for a short while helped. Until eventually, like you, it consumed me.         Now I  awaken, only to find that I’m no longer capable of feeling; and what a great disappointment this is to me. It would seem as though my receptors, synapses, neurotransmitters, etc- have flickered and fried. Dopamine, will no longer travel within these useless,  dried-up,  old veins of mine. Evidently my demise, resultant of a life lived alone in a faster lane.
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 4:26 AM UTC
Rot-Gut, Romantic
They say I suffer from retrograde cash flow and it is afflicting me with anterograde anxiety so they let me go bleeding money from every pore leaving a red paper trail behind me A memetic virus of unprecedented scale has everyone pale and empty-pocketed their haunted eyes reflecting the fear of an exofiduciary reaction The resultant melancholy proves infectious. My sad-sack coworkers, drained from the same numismatic disease seek alternative medicine but I am hooked on the slow copper drip and wait patiently for the bag to empty before I even realize I should have seen another doctor before my internet support's been pulled.
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 11:20 PM UTC
Selectively Employed Contagion
Suddenly the world stood still Erupting goose bumps chill Piloted by those who terrorize Twin Towers they'd jeapardize Emotions of shock, disbelief Mourning, moaning and grief Bombed by aircraft killing all Extraordinary sorrow ... pall Resultant heroes came to call Eleviating pain where they could Lifting to safety as they should Everyone who could be saved Venom's evil could not be staved Even would we wish it to be so Numbers trapped perished tho' They will be forgotten not ever ... Honored in tribute, remembered forever. © Carmela M. Patterson, All rights reserved.
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 11:25 PM UTC
SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH [Acrostic]
fidelity, understanding empathy, caring unconditionally failing descriptors of life's most sought feeling reason, felt as purpose for existence—love time spent seeking, sadness at depriving either youthful bliss or aged wisdom emotion's hold unconstrained by seniority consuming our hopes and dreams those which drive drawn breath found true amongst family in peer only seldom never a nation, only the few love guiding all, the key to a perfect civilization to create a people of programmed emotion woven strands DNA's complex beauty reduced to binary code's rigidity heartstring circuit wiring free will replaced by java script exception not soul but operating system's disaffection mechanical allegiance an imperfect love found in robotic adherence fealty unfettered good intention forced subjection creation resultant a society hollow in perfection an empty hull of truth love lacking substance, fictitious in merit absent the tribulation the moon by which the sun's effect strengthened loyalty absolute the greater plan stalwart and without grievance love free of expectation a golden emotion impossible to automate true love organic by nature fluid in its implementation dynamic and unpredictable to understand the value of light a man must lose himself in the night a hard road to learn the better way by the world's cold we might know a Kingly castle's warmth the answer to evil's allowance free will to choose our citizenship a nation whose flag represents the most excellent way meaningless without choice left led by our own feeble perception too oft to misunderstand His intention a perfect love made perfect by imperfection
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
Mechanical Allegiance
fidelity, understanding empathy, caring unconditionally failing descriptors of life's most sought feeling reason, felt as purpose for existence—love time spent seeking, sadness at depriving either youthful bliss or aged wisdom emotion's hold unconstrained by seniority consuming our hopes and dreams those which drive drawn breath found true amongst family in peer only seldom never a nation, only the few love guiding all, the key to a perfect civilization to create a people of programmed emotion woven strands DNA's complex beauty reduced to binary code's rigidity heartstring circuit wiring free will replaced by java script exception not soul but operating system's disaffection mechanical allegiance an imperfect love found in robotic adherence fealty unfettered good intention forced subjection creation resultant a society hollow in perfection an empty hull of truth love lacking substance, fictitious in merit absent the tribulation the moon by which the sun's effect strengthened loyalty absolute the greater plan stalwart and without grievance love free of expectation a golden emotion impossible to automate true love organic by nature fluid in its implementation dynamic and unpredictable to understand the value of light a man must lose himself in the night a hard road to learn the better way by the world's cold we might know a Kingly castle's warmth the answer to evil's allowance free will to choose our citizenship a nation whose flag represents the most excellent way meaningless without choice left led by our own feeble perception too oft to misunderstand His intention a perfect love made perfect by imperfection
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Wipe that teardrop from your cheek Smooth the worries from your brow, Go buy yourself that pretty frock 'Cos the Court Injunction's come through now. All the hassle, all the fight Evaporates and that's a fact..... He gets to toss and turn tonight For you're the cream that got the cat! You turned it all around my pretty lady, You saved the savage beating for the end. You played a little ploy that emulated joy But in fact it was a trap to make him bend. And bend he did, my pretty, Oh how he did bend, When the object of the exercise was clear, He exposed his top ace card with unfortunate disregard To resultant amputation's near and dear. Now I'm not saying you are cruel little lady I'm not saying you are anything but fair, But the savageness of swipe does seem just a little trite For he no longer brags about, what isn't there. Moral of the story is simple, sweet and true It's as plain as the nose upon your face, If you're going to play about keep your trouser firmly out Of the razor swiping range of lady space. *As a poem this reads terribly...but it was an absolute giggle to create! M.*
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 1:05 AM UTC
Juxta.
i have swallowed the cosmos whole. the resultant morning sickness informs me that perhaps i am now its mother-- for a mother may devour her children but never digest them. my jaw splits with the swallowing & my hunger, never rational, sets this meal in motion: i feel it squirm in my stomach as the acrid burning of gastric juices sears the sphere of the fixed stars like cigarette burns on a tapestry. somewhere a möbius strip rips itself in two.
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 7:56 PM UTC
timaeus
Silence upon other silence grows; Taller than any skyward cathedral, Wider than divisions, between two brothers. The only sincere silence is natural, Or found by a flickering candle’s flame, And the latency, of a sleeping child. After a death, some silence may roar Down zigzagging corridors, of dazed; Haunting midnight's vertiginous dreams. Numbness opens vast reservoirs of quiet And in the resultant- preternaturally stilled- Silence sometimes finds its earthly voice. I now present to you, Silence itself- Bereft of courtesies, or dignified flourishes; Bare as a babe at death- or birth.
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Jun 28, 2010
Jun 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM UTC
Introduction to Silence
a statue the envy of Michelangelo destiny unknown, the medium—perfection, growing with age and process, moulded by the hands of an unworthy artist the sculptor a paragon of ambition to be, with enamoured eyes the living stone watching me a selfish chisel striking cruel and careless, driven by a hammer of regret, tears resultant unknowing confused questioning and blameless staining the surface as sadness' garment the err of inexpert hands curse by marks impossible to be unmade despite a love absolute for the victim of his craft a father undeserving his son mouth to match heart, hands to mirror soul my failure to see through promise made in reply to infant breath by youth's eye the world so meagre my blessing to be king by innocent observer a man, by title defective an artist in whom little may be redemptive words a patchwork of reparation futile to hide errant strike, reclamation of relation so daunting subsequent degeneration your each tear my sorrow's weight my son, forgive me— forgive your father's abate
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 7:42 PM UTC
An Unworthy Artist
Loose ends. You are all I ever am. Jealousy squirts through my narrow veins. Effortless sickness plagues my every guess. And I wake up, look at my only Self And dazedness fades hatred as each blanketed flaw thaws to visibility. All tasks ask for failure and preparation is an unprecedented burden. The hands that cradle the Earth are the same ones that feed me... only later to shield my eyes from the resultant memories. It seems as if every relation from past, present, and futures bleed into each other. So I stand behind a screen, wanting to look at everything being kept out. Too bad it's woven with holes. Every circumstance bleeds and seeps through to each other from these openings, seeing me as the middle-ground. Now I'm overwhelmed and under-appreciated. I shall stand still- unsure- until I wash up on shore with everyone's repaid debts buried next to me in the wet sand. It would be unintelligent to swim out into new territory until the waters calm.
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Jan 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011 at 8:49 PM UTC
Loose Ends
Come to me, Lady of Summer, Hold me fast with blossom’d arm Kiss me like a lover And whisper floral words like I’ve known no other You’ve given me the strength I seek To grow my spirits vernal To flee my love, all for naught No union e’r eternal And yet you linger to torture me Witness me mortify To shrivel up in your callousness Let to air to fin’ly die. With each passing Of every hour Your embrace grows cold’r still Still am I to find the vitals Which you try to **** You’ll succeed because I let you I long to feel your touch And pray to false gods, the gods of hope That you will feel as such When that lonely woman comes The Lady of the Snow And blesses me aptly She’ll show me you were just a phantom Without I am truly happy Yet she will leave They always do And abandon my love once more You come again, my love anew Yet again I’ll grieve Resultant of my petty wish That I’m your only lover Though disenchantment is my blessing To see beneath the lie I’ve always wanted to enjoy your grace Yet void of sky awaits me nigh No normal man would grovel And incense your waning passion As I do AS I do As I will always do For you abandon me And give my gifts to better men To those I call normal And leave me leveled like Foot of crushed hill So now I retreat Into my head, my hand My eyes I blind, my mouth grows dumber I spurn thee I love thee Oh, Lady of the Summer
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 3:27 PM UTC
Lady of Summer
Betrayal and heartache are the resultant of the most sorrowful of circumstances It comes from losing yourself in the one you love the most And losing them as a result of being a complete fool This duo has a way of eating at the soul It sneaks up in the most beautiful of disguises It uses you for your love and your generosity Planting itself in the thing that attracts you most It makes you need it to survive Takes all advantage of you and ***** you dry Leaving you for dead without a way to sleep, breathe, or function You've become a soulless body And a heartless being A dark feeling of anomie Depressed and meaningless
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 12:26 AM UTC
Anomie