"riting" poems
~one more for the r man~
almost Monday
and its weighty five day oppressive lead poisoning on the horizon,
is but a thirsty thirty six minutes away from its fortified Sumter, first shot to be fired at midnight, how we love to mark the commencement of hostilities and killing
but I am already wounded, a casualty of having spent evening with pleading, pleasing timer eating, reading of your work,
r
the sounds of inestimable admiration and infectious jealousy
make this old man eager to discard a lifetimes work and
begin fresh, but only as a copyist of you,
r
I know you’re thinking "what in the hell is he blubbering about?"
so I willingly will my confessional offering in the dark of the
holy bedroom; for you make me eat my words, and
spit them out as wastage, in dumbfounding humility
god you and yours, make me frail and blessed that I stumbled
upon your abbreviations of the human life,
r
shut up and accept my three r’s
reading ‘riting and rising
up to sing hymns of praise
for a man with a historical perspective and
whose few occasionals
are carved in the granite bench
of what makes my life
worthy of load bearing;
more than bearable,
all are soul-enlightened by
baring our humility, our admiration
11:24pm 4/15/18
nyc
Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 11:53 PM UTC
******* essay
who needz ******* academic riting n e way
i kin rite
im atriculate
ur jus jelly
******* *********
least i kin spell cuss words coreectly
**** of
Feb 25, 2013
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:00 PM UTC
Desperate to grab the grail of words
we decide to share our joint thoughts
to introspect our vision together
of what it takes to write two at this hour
Pen and paper, one
writes witness into the mind of the other
and meets the timid point of punctuation, followed by
the exasperation of words
it only follows
rules do not apply
nor does a simulacra of similes
the enjambment is our language
that we create we can
misplace
is it our native tongue so much so that
poetry never needs to be learned?
The friendship of thought to process
Relays poet to poem
to poet
And poem again
It's with you now
I walk
Our eyes along the same path to troth
It's truth is spoken
Between lines, it's in the heart
Our paths, alone, come together
Its friendship Is art
Dialogical process fill in
the blanks at 1:01 4:01
p.m, hey aim
For the sweet link we proudly
discovered and shared in eyes and ink
Both black.
It's lack of light
Where the sun of the one seeks the night of the other
It's days and nights; mark hours... asunder under calendar
And daydream of once and again seeing the same sun face the marvel of the other
We are time traveling, air traveling through words
book a seat at the airline company of poetry
What the other sees in the sun sky above her
the other thinks of under his night sky
the thought of one never cancels that of the other
We trod on the same path
Me with Ginsberg, you with Plath.
Written jointly by Appoline Romanens first, third, seventh and ninth paragraph at 1:00-1:27 pm, Lyon, France and by Jesse Altamirano, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth 4:00- 4:30 am, Riverside, California
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017 at 7:40 AM UTC
wear do we learn the rules?
the rules
of riting
who says we have to
stay
in
the
lines
why Should it matter
where
i write
How I spelll
weather; I use the right punctu
a-tion
where is the Creativity
if y ou always
the
follow
?rules
Mar 20, 2010
Mar 20, 2010 at 10:16 PM UTC
Hallelujah To The Lord
M - e and
Y - ou in
S - ilent
W - riting
O - ut of
R -hythmic
D -ialogue
Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 1:16 AM UTC
i hate to break it like this, it's not a metaphor's worth of sentence that could become a riddle: it's not exactly a - why is a raven like w riting desk? because you're hunched, sitting over it, and scribbling with a pen, like a raven might with its claw(s)?
i wish i could make the following observation into a similar
riddle, but i can't, simply because it's too obvious...
what bird, could possibly be a far removed cousin
of a sparrow?
i have two families of sparrows building
nests just outside my window...
so i notice the fidget and the "anxiety" of their
little bodies...
but the link is in their tails...
the tails aren't exactly like flowers blooming in spring,
opening like a peacock's tail for courtship...
nor like the raven's tail... nor like woodland pigeons' tail...
they're sharp, pointy... never unfolding,
simply because the sparrows are little spitfires...
they require a sharp tail that doesn't unfold, for greater speed,
like a shark's fin...
the natural aerodynamic addition to their little bodies...
so who could possibly be the sparrows' cousin?
answer? magpies!
and because of the longer sharp tail that doesn't unfold,
like the sparrows,
i dare say, i'll call magpies the aero resemblance to the their aqua
cousins that are, stingrays.
come on... we've differentiated far enough,
poetry can't differentiate... the "only" thing poetry can
do is integrate... to make language, so dismembered: a whole;
doubly stressed: it's about making associations...
not about making dissociations...
so yeah... sparrows... magpies... stingrays.
May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 3:02 PM UTC
What's that riting on your walls?
Just some thoughts that all
Just some thoughts?
Why I'm appalled
These are an amazing collage
A wonderful sensory barrage
Have no worries just write
To the world say ***** you
Fly your finger like a kite
And do what you do
To my fellow poets
In your works be proud
Your souls beautiful show it
And write your words loud
Do not desist
In what you're creating
Nor be remiss
Tons of us are relating
May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 7:10 PM UTC
Used to be
Simply
Reading 'riting 'rithmetic
Little kids sat and dreamt
But seems now
Since Columbine
Those letters stand
For running 'rithing react
Quickly to loud bangs
Lock the doors
Hide under desks
Wait for swat
Pray you make it.
Let's thank all the drugs
Given to kids
Since birth when they
Cry too much
Or throw a fit
Thank the NRA
And your on the dole
Senators and representatives.
Thank the mental health cutbacks
In the budget
Thanks deadbeat parents.
Thanks to society for
Making life the things we
Value least.
But hero's and martyrs
Have been made too,
Along with all the dollars
For reelection campaigns.
So, next time your child heads off
For school
Hug the ******* hell
Out of them.
It just may be
The last chance
You ever get
To tell them
That you love them.
Feb 17, 2018
Feb 17, 2018 at 5:14 PM UTC