"rigorously" poems
I’ve been told by a friend to wait here.
As long as I stay here, you’ll be back past five o'clock.
I’ve waited—you came and opened the door.
It’s true; now I will dedicate my nine lives to you.
"She drinks her tea by midnight and lulls herself to sleep. You should waggle your tail and lie beside her. Every day except for Saturday." My friend laughed rigorously when she finished that statement.
“Why can’t I play with her every Saturday?” I asked her, trying to grasp her evading eyes.
"Just because," she shrugged and tried to climb the tree.
"Wait!" I hissed, but she’s nowhere to be found now.
I did everything she told me to do. Eat my food past lunch, play with my worn-out toy, and wait for her to be home.
At the exact moment the cruel sun rose and the light hit my body, I waggled my tail and lied beside her. Unfortunately, I forgot it was Saturday today.
I called her name, distinctively meowing in a weird manner. I cackled slightly; she wouldn’t understand. Biting slowly with her calloused hands and licking the side of her face, she still won’t wake up.
And I meowed until there was no sound left of me. My dear Celia, wake up, for you have to give me food now.
You still need to bathe me and play with me at the park. We’ll still wait for the night to come and watch TV.
Oh, Celia, I’d still spend my nine lives with you. Where have you been since I slept last night?
I’d still wait for you here at the table, near the window. Where the trees dance the delicacy of their sickening leaves. Oh, how we both hated the crispness of those brown leaves.
Oh, how you knew how much I hate autumn and how much I undoubtedly love the breeze of winter. The screeching of the winds and the snow falling onto the ground, where we both scrutinize its unique aspect. We were the same.
How you were covered in snowdrops, and you’d throw me inside the snowpack. I’ll hiss, and you’ll laugh.
"I told you not to play with her every Saturday," my friend whispered, almost with a faint cry. There was a hint of longing in her voice.
"You haven’t told me the answer, Ong."
"She grieves in her dreams, my friend. He visits every Saturday, spends a day with her, and goes home at exactly midnight. She’ll wake up tomorrow, bud," she answered in agony.
Who's he? " I turned to her, but she vanished once again.
Celia, I will love you for the rest of my nine lives. I’ll wait for you tomorrow. It’s okay to grieve for now.
I’d still wait for you here at the table, even though it’s autumn. We both got to accept that winter is already over.
It’s my first life with you in autumn.
Sep 9, 2023
Sep 9, 2023 at 3:10 AM UTC
In the heart of the city of peace, a sinful act occurs:
Blue bruises of love beautify my neck, just as hers;
Colouring this grey canvas of gloom with divine thuds,
It is then, when they rush into us: the filthy bloods.
Stain me with sins, and paint in white over me vigorously,
Let the gods who created us, design our hell rigorously,
Let knees rumble, red eyes tumble, and virtues stumble,
Stumble into a chaotic loss of heads: a loss humble.
Aug 28, 2021
Aug 28, 2021 at 7:39 AM UTC
Rippling waves bursting through
Encaged chests springing, smashing
and smashing as all love is
rolling over
In the Love of the abandoned ocean
Breaking shells and all packaging
a packaging
Love never wanted
All love being free
Its depths to be accessed
For all to see
Oh the great Sea
The abandoned ocean
No one can see
Whispering sweetly it tickles
Relaxing all our stresses
Soothing our shores
As it lovingly caresses
Enticing us all in
How the abandoned ocean
tries so hard to get us
All to just jump in
Foolishly men with their
backs to the ocean stare sadly
in dismay at empty rock faces
rigorously searching under
pebbles and hidden places
With all the love of the abandoned
ocean sitting behind them
Lifting itself up and over
The ocean pours its
Love all over
Giant Whales start calling
Comeback comeback
We are all waiting
In an eternal forever
rhythm no stalling
just keep on pouring
Waves smash and bash
breaking our cliffs and edges
That push away the Love
Of this vast abandoned ocean
May the Love of this ocean
find its way as it smashes
through hard places seeping
through hidden spaces
As it penetrates us all
so very very deeply
Let us all return to the
LOVE OF THIS
ABANDONED OCEAN
Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 2:07 PM UTC
As the sun reaches it zenith & the moon becomes full,
Soldiers are deployed at various point,
Allowing their thought to wander away into ephemeral violence,
Well armed,
Red pointers at human sight,
killing in the pretence of liberation,
Defenceless civilians murdered in sight,
I don't have the adequate vocabulary to constructively & emotionally create that atmosphere,
As a poet they don't mind if I make a sound
But it's a real problem
if I ever get too loud,
It enrages me,
I'm bitterly miffed,
Imagine the agony, stress, depression & tension they are
going through,
Let's be factual,
Their based desire & legitimate purpose is to associate ,affiliate & standardize us as terrorist,
They come in front of our tv & give us speech our forefathers have never heard of,
Humanity in it eternity have been blindfolded & deviated from the truth,
They have become the fixed & Luminous center around which innumerable lifestyle revolves,
Civilization will not lead mankind to insanity,
It feels good to be in power ,
But a day will come when they will ponder, reflect & introspect,
but their reflection will be to no avail,
Reflect over what I say,
In silence & tranquillity,
We may be on a Long arduous journey,
But victory is to the oppressed,
Categorically & selectively speaking ,
It will become a practical reality,
Innocent souls are been lost everyday,
In pakistan,Syria,Iraq,Iran
Yet the conference continues,
Killings intensifies,
Women are murdered,
Fathers are slaughtered,
Kids are held captive some rigorously excluded,
Without them labouring humanity searching for peace will perish,
It's a sad time we live in,
Educated leaders with no heart of human sympathy,
Acting upon their based desires & ego,
You may call this character assassination,
I call it supreme words of justice
Only time will tell who is the true terrorist
Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM UTC
Humans
I need not necessarily
your flesh to multiply
but your brains to think rigorously, strategically
artfully a way
to tear down your Tower of Babel
painstakingly and indifferently built
from the bones and blood
of a few amongst your kind
now as my mercenaries be enslaved
suffer from undiagnosable symptom called
Murderous
On clock but not grid they gather
be summoned
by the cry of their ancestors' resentment
spill unto this Earth I breed
unto your downfall I feed
For I come in greater numbers
I am Legion
May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 3:00 AM UTC
Prolificus II
another day has come and gone
without a thought lingering
while the clouds of meloncholy
strum the magic harp
and the jester dances
with the bells on his toes
his words still ran freely
like a mountain stream
and his knowledge of
nothingness
flowed
endlessly
continuously
unwillingly
his logic still unlogical
rows after rows
not a rhyme or a prose
without adjacent adjectives
or proverbial adverbs
though sometimes a breeze
whispered the name
from the lips of Louise
distance and disdain
crossed their faces
like wheelbarrow races
meandering
thoughtlessly
rigorously
unending
pour me another one
would you barkeep
I ain't going nowhere
Gomer LePoet....
May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
I stopped a girl at school one day
Just to tell her how pretty she looked
And a smile swept across her face.
She seemed surprised I’d ever say that,
As I am “flawless”.
I tossed my head back,
Laughed rigorously,
And pretended that the situation didn’t make me sad.
I told her I wax my upper lip
Because my pale white skin highlights my black hair
Perhaps a bit too much.
I told her my ******* haven’t grown since I was 12,
And I dye my hair deep red
Because I feared my black hair was too boring.
Not to mention my skin isn’t in its best condition
And blemishes pop up here and there.
I put unnecessary amounts of effort into keeping them to a minimum
Because I’m just sixteen
And they will never go away.
It’s not just my face, though,
It’s my back, arms and chest, too.
The blemishes are simply on parts of my body
That not everyone gets to see.
But those flaws are only skin-deep, I said,
I’m overly emotional.
I over-think and analyze,
Thus hurting people I don’t mean to hurt.
I’m often self-centred, too,
And forget the interests of others.
But for an analyst, I said,
I often forget to think a little harder about things.
I’m overly anxious and stressed out.
I want to change, but I never do.
I’m hardly serious about anything.
Never look into the mirror and cry.
You may not be flawless,
But neither am I.
Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 8:49 PM UTC
You can die from their tears
I check the board to find out
who has passed away the previous night
and then don my personal protective equipment
Everything has been rigorously sterilised
I have forty five minutes to treat and care
as we sometimes collapse from heat exhaustion
I care for the weakest
first those who cannot move from their blood
**** and *****
They look at me with such pleading sorrowful eyes
babies, children, adults, , some have the courage to smile
I smile back with my eyes
Care is compressing and feeding
to keep up their strength
They must fight this devastating disease alone
I disrobe and painfully flick my elastic band
every time I touch my face
We sterilise and sterilise but you can never be sure
Rarely there is a ray of sunshine
I have been singing and dancing with little Kaita for days
behind the yellow fence
and now she is free to go home
We celebrate any little victories to carry on
Dear God, I beg you, please make terrifying Ebola gone
This poem is a tribute to those with Ebola and the thousands of workers who help them. In January cases are set to rise to a staggeringly sad 1.4 million.
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014 at 10:55 AM UTC
I watched as your chest rose
And descend
In silent intervals
I drew closer to you
Our noses brushed,
And oh how my blood rushed.
Through the course of my veins they flowed
like a tsunami.
I remained motionless
My fingers laid gently upon your cheek
I began to trace the meticulously sculptured structure of jaws
Before I met your lips
Your lips
They were the Devil's prized piece
and God's miraculous work of utter flawlessness.
They were parted slightly
And my fingers found their way to the tip of your lower lip.
I looked on intently
As your lips quivered subtly with each paced breath that you took
How I battled the urge to press my lips against yours.
I looked on to your hair that rustled so delicately
with the passing journey of the wind
I gave myself the luxury of mildly stroking each piece off your forehead rigorously
And watching as how they folded back in compliance.
Your eyelids were laying perfectly on one another
Hiding away the jewels.
Jewels that shone so magnificently that nothing could be in comparison to its rare elegance
That it had to be sealed behind the locks of your eyelids.
Your slumber had made you peaceful and serene
And I could watch you as you were;
You were naked
And I could see all of you
No bars barred,
No walls built up.
You were bare,
Vulnerable and defenseless
Yet, that has made you even more majestic.
k.m.
Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 9:49 AM UTC
you are a bathtub of balloons.
lines of tears angels left on
the counter above the cabinet
your prescribed reasons used to stay.
a hot shower away,
from fixing your lovers face
with teeth cut lips.
blaming the steam
for all the red in
your half truths.
teachings of sorcery
mothers enchant their wombs in.
a lesson to the future
of how destiny was born
tied to
something greater.
two fingers looked for god
in the galaxy between your legs.
an altered state of awareness
passed around like the last hit
everyone wants.
you are 'fuck it'
you are 'fuck me'
you are 'fuck this'
a function unto yourself,
embraced
unashamedly by passion.
you are ******* revelry.
politeness tiptoes
at the edge of your spirit,
tamed tirelessly through stares
and the longing of freedom.
you do not have the keys.
we are candor,
casually exchanging giggles
at fear's table;
ravaging silliness naked.
splendor sprawling back,
upwards to you and i.
i,
a gang of sighs and of panting.
a church of wonder;
a held promise of sequels.
together our names produce dua;
an etched ancient time.
society:
a middle finger
we **** rigorously.
the lust of nations who dared
before us and are yet to come.
we lived in visions.
a moment from forever will appear,
with us deemed illegal.
chests pressed to eternity,
the melody will
thud
thud
thud
risks are for lovers.
Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 5:46 PM UTC
The bored mold grows old,
rigorously boring mostly into the gorge,
moaning, groaning its barge jigs -
the mole roars at its grim bowl.
Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 8:07 PM UTC
Convinced that there is no life after death,
Convinced that no god watches over me,
Convinced my actions never really count.
I don't believe.
But for some blasted reason there is one person,
Tried true and tested rigorously,
And this one woman I trust. I believe.
I believe in love.
Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 4:03 PM UTC
I want to pull a Jack Kerouac
A car
A friend
And the open road
Now my mom will probably **** herself when I tell her this
But I want to go 80 across America
I want to drive with the wind sending chills down my spine
I want to go
I want to leave this **** hole of South Haven
I want to cruise coast to coast
Just stopping to urinate, defecate and get gas
Jamming to the Beatles, The Stones, and Cat Stevens the whole way
***** the AC we won't need that
No point with the top down
Collecting bugs in my mouth
And a smile on my face
Writing rigorously like a mad man with no money but the singles in my pocket
I want to break the sound barrier with a Volvo 240
Just me her
The wind
pavement
Sleeping at the ********* motels money can buy
Stomaching on spam and whatever's on sale
Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 10:05 PM UTC
Those old school friends with their cigarette lips
They don't think of the likes of me or you,
Up on the golden screen.
We weren't quite quiet or reckless
We trialled in something temperate but restless.
Something we bore down to bone,
A noisy belief in man, blurred like a Monet, believed to be etched in stone.
But those old school friends, like you and I, had frames to contain their Icarus flight. Now, follow on in your new momentary monetary monastery you now call home.
The curious truth is the note is a note regardless of the flute. The credits close, the air stalled, and most rigorously life itself cares not for the "who", but slitheringly moves on.
Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 11:48 PM UTC
Sometimes
It's easier to keep your mouth shut,
Because the words you're searching for -
The ones that explain
Exactly what you feel,
Exactly what you want,
Exactly what your gut tells you,
Your exact intuition -
They don't exist,
And no matter how long and rigorously you scour every possibility,
Nothing can explain.
And you realize there is no need to,
As long as you know what lies within your heart.
Sep 11, 2011
Sep 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM UTC
Why do I deserve this?
How do I deserve this?
What did I do and in which
Lifetime that has lead to
Me receiving such prodigious love?
Your face beaming upward
Backward hat left ear bent
Your eyes scale my
Adam's apple
Chin
Bottom Lip
Top Lip
Philtrum
Tip of Nose
Bridge
Bottom Lash
Pupil locked
You smile
Then wink
In that way I said I hated
Because I thought it was cheap
And I'm glad I said that
Because now I love it
And the ****** expression
And words that follow
Every Single Time
"Sup?"
Can I read you a poem?
Our inside jokes
Build
Rigorously
Congruously
Correlationally
To our love,
Pesto.
But you already know that.
You inspire me
Blue flame fire in me
You will agree
To a large degree
Is on account of our
Souls' connectivity
Meant to be
My heart dances on the bridge
That connects tears of laughter
And tears of shear happiness and
Gratitude and as my heart swells
To rugby ball bloat
I ask: What am I going to do with you?
You say: Love me.
Well?
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I'm in love with you.
Pesto, let's go home.
May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 10:11 PM UTC
this deep devotion in abstract tends to break loose
reclining in air.
it may be even that the face is water
and the eyes, basins. should the heart endure dank
seasons, there will be new skin thereafter.
the favorable light sways outside the house,
stilled settings of rife adjustments, the objects are in
study: the fluent is stone. the trees automaton.
demand for sought after thrills, the plenary hall
of moon. wider than any light, drunkenly, frothing by
the gutter of this body.
sometimes when solemnity incises
there is image of death in mirrors. yours is diffident
surrender over the haze of hastily contending moments
and such truth is that the escape is yearned for
by a body – stiffening to become so rigorously false.
listening to the infinitesimal sound of body
take this music to the trees, their lignified arms akimbo
yellowing, grandiloquent from the seizure of old fevers,
the maddened, thorough tune mistakes your
anatomy as cartography. if your deepening, secret parts
are known, we will assume all conditions
and give variables for metaphors. Sometimes escape is coveted
by the body, its indistinct signs neglected as beacons,
there are other things happening, say, a hand meeting a face,
or the feet converging in trembling altitudes. A limit is set here.
Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 7:38 AM UTC
we are
lost
in a world we meant to build
bigger than ourselves.
we are
breathing
ink
but they wouldn't know,
that the ink we bleed
is so much darker than
our sins.
but in this world —
that is not quite round anymore —
we have seen peace in the eyes of
the dead, but i —
i am falling apart
too rigorously
to be defined in words.
we are
still
in the most literal sense.
almost synonymous with
stilted oceans. my heart is a
planet. and my heartbeat
is a jagged meteor
almost singeing
in its warmth.
i am only transiently whole enough so long as i
will myself to hold together
within the chains.
my hands are a
constellation
of your heart;
it is not quite as big as a planet,
but fairly so.
fifteen years
and you crash,
desperate and drenching in January rain
and as old as 1627.
but my world is not encapsulated
in 146 square feet of space.
i am tired
in my bones,
in my skin,
in my soul,
in this body
that seems too limiting.
i am so tired
that you would not
be able to recognize me
anymore,
i have become so different
but so have you.
there is a hard way of learning
how to stitch flesh without pain,
but i — i exist on the underside
of the ocean's surface.
it feels like my home.
and then the sky falls
into my home,
collapses like it had been standing
for far too long.
*
sway ever-so-slightly to the left
only then could you feel the sunlight,
pleasant in its glow of starbursts
littering the sky with scattering silhouettes
of shadows pressed flat,
and shoved mercilessly into the closets
of sleeping children; their hair made of
flakes,
their hands reaching out innocently
to touch my face.
a giggle on your left,
of the child who has managed to break
through your frigidly cold soul.
*
stay behind the fault line,
do not step toward me
if you don't want to drown.
i am a writer, you see,
endlessly delirious
in my never-ending dolor.
a state of pretenses,
where everything exists behind lies.
fall into the dead end instead,
i —
— i —
i am not meant to be whole, i swear i
— i never existed as a whole, never
once in my seventeen years.
and there is so much more than
falling in love,
in this world full of wonders
where you wouldn't know
about how i'm
far more real
than you can ever be.
simply because i know who i am
and you, friend,
you are trying to find your reflection
in someone else.
but haven't you learned
that you are different?
(that i am too?)
and that we belong
in the void?
that we are
meant
to be the void?
May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017 at 8:24 AM UTC
She loved me
When no one else did
When no one cared
And darkness lid
When tears poured
And eyes bleed
When alone I cried
And a pain, splendid
She loved me
When everyone left
When a wreath of emotions
Were rigorously felt
When I was the culprit
And her love, a theft
She loved me
When I lost confidence
When I doubted my worth
And questioned my existence
When the agony mourned
And became demon, to her innocence
She loved me
When I felt undeserving
Undeserving of any love
Undeserving of any care
Undeserving of anyone’s smile
That I often did spare
She loved me
When I was into remorse
When moans seemed torrents
When only words were throes
When impudent I acted
With no proper course
She loved me until
When she made me feel loved
She loved me I know
Ending my eternal sorrow
She loved me, I know
But, she knew not, I didn’t know
StrangeR_Rufah
Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 12:48 PM UTC
an old dusty box left in the corner
in the nook of never stepped hallway, like a boulder
all alone in there, it could be a mourner
stayed in, for what felt like an eternity
isolated from being, morbidly
exploring the tantalizing sound of
silence
wondering its mesmeric and ecstatic balance
that left her, delirious and lustful for guidance
lights shined through the window, sooner
the wind came, rigorously blew dust further,
old ***** dust flew sporadically in every corner
that She could watch
float flawlessly forever
an old dusty box left in the corner
She begged to be a no longer.
Dec 3, 2017
Dec 3, 2017 at 4:13 PM UTC
This is the only thing
That I am not indecisive
Or unsure about
Don't make me second guess,
Because I will
I will overthink
And analyze
Until my brain is splattered on the wall
So let me be sure of this one thing
This one small thing
I know
For a very fact
In the deep recesses of my heart
I like girls and boys
I am not confused
Nor am I calling for attention
Let my love
Love how it wants
Let me love
Who I yearn to love
Love looses her beauty
When she is rigorously controlled
Let my love be beautiful
Nov 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018 at 2:53 PM UTC
Beauty: qualities that satisfy the human eye.
Why is it that the word beauty rigorously refers to physical appearance?
To the naïve at least.
A Girl lavished in compliments when she wears make up, but they vanish the day she shows up with a bare face.
All of a sudden she feels less because she thinks she exposed too much of herself.
As if telling the truth was a sin.
She convicts herself by not allowing her eyes look directly into the eyes of others.
Flaw: an imperfection.
What about the reflection of what radiates within the body?
There is no guideline book written stating what human should look like, only a mental one.
Is it possible with something with no universal meaning to exist?
That would make the aesthetic value of a person’s visible figure imaginary.
Faces don’t have to be symmetrical.
Skin doesn’t have to be crystal clear.
Hair doesn’t have to be silky smooth.
Bodies don’t have to be proportional.
Eyes that are afraid to see what is in the mirror, have minds that fail to realize they’re perfectly imperfect.
Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 9:46 PM UTC