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"scone" poems
Holi, a hearty enthusiastic festival in horizon Colours curdling, water washing every ***** Out of us evil ever going and playing on Land of character cherished by coloured lawn. What a scene to see! Gracious glory gone If you miss this mesmerizing festival upon A folly. Foolish will be called such a conn. Holi, a hearty enthusiastic festival in horizon Holy played in school is highly pleasing crayon, For Kinar, Aayushi, Kunal. Aryan or John. Monorhyme has one colour, holi many micron. Mital, Mitesh, Vaikhu, SIddhu, Saurabh are don. This day even principal thinks to prevent throne And join joy with teachers - see anxiety thrown. Holi, a hearty enthusiastic festival in horizon Songs, screams; dance, D.J.; homage and hymn on; This day with Holika heavy burdens and sins thrown. Cruel Hiranyakashyapa was killed; glory was won. Kunal, Arpita, Sandeep, Amit and Shreyas on lawn Play water and colours with cool Pari’s scone In Jalgaon, Agra, Kanpur, Karanja, Surat or Bonn. Holi, a hearty enthusiastic festival in horizon
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Nov 19, 2017
Nov 19, 2017 at 4:22 AM UTC
HOLI FOR SCHOOL ASSEMBLY IN ALLITERATION
Tea Talk (or Taking Tea) Jam comes first And then the cream Said the scone from Cornwall To one ‘n’ all Taking tea Milk jug blinked. The teaspoon gasped, Who would have linked The layers of bliss that sweetly kiss With their order between the halves of a scone From Cornwall Where one ‘n’ all Know that the milk is churned Until it’s solid Then we say the cream is clotted. The teapot looked at the scone from Devon Who knows that cream and jam is heaven But only if the cream comes first And then the jam . . . . . My thoughts exactly said the ham From between its sandwich fingers Where it lingers Until it’s time for tea. ‘Are you sure?’ the teacup said To ham within its breaden bed. Saucer asked the cucumber salad, ‘Should jam come first?’ ‘But does it matter?’ said cucumber salad. ‘It’s a ballad So red and white, A symphony of taste Into which to bite. It is so right For those who are taking tea,’ ‘Jam then cream, is what you do,’ Insisted Cornwall’s scone who As we know likes cream to be clotted. But tomato blushed and quickly said, ‘With cream from Devon I am besotted Because we know it’s clotted. . . . . Too. Onion, hearing Cornwall and Devon Knows that cream and jam are heaven . . . . . But jam and cream are bliss Sealed with a kiss that is heaven . . . . .too. The dilemma of order fuels onion’s frustration And onion’s tears lead to prostration For those who are taking tea. What is to be done To solve the question of order Jam first . . . . . or cream? The issue borders On the ridiculous As the layers sweetly intermingle Like the lovers’ kiss As those who are taking tea Bite . . . . . Ouch! said onion The scone from Cornwall And the scone from Devon ‘Either way is heaven. David Applin Copyright …David Applin (2015)
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 7:13 AM UTC
Tea Talk (or Taking Tea)
Tea Talk (or Taking Tea) Jam comes first And then the cream Said the scone from Cornwall To one ‘n’ all Taking tea Milk jug blinked. The teaspoon gasped, Who would have linked The layers of bliss that sweetly kiss With their order between the halves of a scone From Cornwall Where one ‘n’ all Know that the milk is churned Until it’s solid Then we say the cream is clotted. The teapot looked at the scone from Devon Who knows that cream and jam is heaven But only if the cream comes first And then the jam . . . . . My thoughts exactly said the ham From between its sandwich fingers Where it lingers Until it’s time for tea. ‘Are you sure?’ the teacup said To ham within its breaden bed. Saucer asked the cucumber salad, ‘Should jam come first?’ ‘But does it matter?’ said cucumber salad. ‘It’s a ballad So red and white, A symphony of taste Into which to bite. It is so right For those who are taking tea,’ ‘Jam then cream, is what you do,’ Insisted Cornwall’s scone who As we know likes cream to be clotted. But tomato blushed and quickly said, ‘With cream from Devon I am besotted Because we know it’s clotted. . . . . Too. Onion, hearing Cornwall and Devon Knows that cream and jam are heaven . . . . . But jam and cream are bliss Sealed with a kiss that is heaven . . . . .too. The dilemma of order fuels onion’s frustration And onion’s tears lead to prostration For those who are taking tea. What is to be done To solve the question of order Jam first . . . . . or cream? The issue borders On the ridiculous As the layers sweetly intermingle Like the lovers’ kiss As those who are taking tea Bite . . . . . Ouch! said onion The scone from Cornwall And the scone from Devon ‘Either way is heaven. David Applin Copyright …David Applin (2015)
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ARTICHOKES are very nice roasted with pine nuts Who likes BANANA cream pie? They say that eating CARROTS improves your eye sight Along the river Nile there are many DATE palms ELDERBERRIES make a flavorsome wine Piths from a FIG can easily get stuck between your teeth Nape tape and shape all rhyme with GRAPE HORSERADISH has a hot tangy taste ICE-PLANT is a much used vegetable in Chinese cookery The oil extract from JUNIPER BERRIES produces quine My sister likes KALE steamed with lemon rind It is so nice to munch on a LETTUCE leaf MANDARINS are presently plentiful at the green grocer's NEEPS can be mashed or left whole On a hot summer day chilled ORANGE juice goes down well Has anyone got a good PUMPKIN scone recipe? Lashings of QUINCE jam were spread on my toast The lady next door grows RHUBARB SPINACH gave Popeye much strength Smothering sausages in TOMATO sauce is sensational UGLI is a member of the citrus family In New Orleans you'll find fresh VELVET BEANS WATERCRESS salad is so easy to prepare XIGUA is a type of WATERMELON YAMS are a staple of the New Guinean diet ZUCCHINI bread is delicious fair
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 2:32 AM UTC
ABC Poem (Fruit and Vegetables)
1. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window. Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing, now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks. And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin. 2. The Seed Cutters They seem hundreds of years away. Brueghel, You'll know them if I can get them true. They kneel under the hedge in a half-circle Behind a windbreak wind is breaking through. They are the seed cutters. The tuck and frill Of leaf-sprout is on the seed potates Buried under that straw. With time to **** They are taking their time. Each sharp knife goes Lazily halving each root that falls apart In the palm of the hand: a milky gleam, And, at the centre, a dark watermark. Oh, calendar customs! Under the broom Yellowing over them, compose the frieze With all of us there, our anonymities.
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Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
“Good afternoon” Light kisses on the cheek Walk gracefully to your seat Cross your legs at the ankles                     Never the knees! “May I have a cup of tea, please?” A porcelain teapot pours With grace, three quarters full And, as not to cross the paths of love                     Milk is always last A silver spoon in glistening pride An inverted reflection Of your well-bred smile Stir, ever so carefully, from 6 to 12                        Never ***** the sides! Take a sip, looking into, never over The cup. Laugh, smile, and converse Indulge in a skon (not scone) With clotted cream and raspberry jam                          Always parted in two As you say your farewells, praise yourself You have made Queen Catherine proud With your lady-like poise and elegant charm At afternoon tea
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 6:51 PM UTC
The Tea Party
Among all there is a wholesome son. His name, we feel pride in, Shauryan. On 20 November was the jewel born. So precious that all want him as a pawn But parents not ready to give for scone. Without looking at him there’s no dawn Chess playing at different levels is on. All are sure of his ability family to conn In a perfect direction without any con. He is the best known and virtuous icon Wishing best for his overall solon.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 11:14 PM UTC
Shauryan - My dear Nephew – Part 2
These berries are bruises Fading birthmarks I have still Fresh from that morning you opened my curtains Rolled down your window Promised me honey and a candy-colored life. These berries are bruises You made me breakfast in bed. Too early you lifted my tent, brought a full spread: Fruit, toast and black coffee-- But when I tilted my lips You drunk first of my womanly cup. Pouring out hot, bitter slick My lips swelled blue blister I stiffened under your dead weight, I killed my tongue. I tried to keep dreaming of Hands to knead me And butter the softness of these Blueberry scone hips, But instead you picked all the berries out Your greed a mouthful, The growing woman inside me leavened-- Watching you stain my girlhood, Popping one fruit bead after another ******* the seeds from my teeth.
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Jan 31, 2012
Jan 31, 2012 at 2:25 AM UTC
Breakfast in bed
My dearest sister has a son. We call him dearie Shauryan. Healthy, wealthy and pawn Of parents, demanded scone For eating in evening or dawn. Chess playing at state level on Till nation or inter forgone. Never is lazy, never is con, Is the best known icon Wishing best for solon.
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 11:12 PM UTC
Shauryan My dear Nephew – Part 1
The glory of failure. It’s just **** with sugar on Jam and cream without the scone. Because when I’m begging out in the street And my eyes happen to meet those eyes that look down To me on the ground, and you put a coin in my cup, Just remember you’re looking down I’m the one looking up. And for those who pass by while shedding a tear Don’t worry yourself none I’ve made enough for my gear And more than enough for a couple of beers. I know what you’ll say You’ll say, I waste life away Like I’ve wasted this day. But I’ll say, I made enough to pay for my addiction. The seduction which leads me to say That’s the glory of failure. I saw an advert for a job and this job was paying quite a few bob. But I wouldn’t have got it…no sugar just **** So I didn’t bother trying I went back to lying on my bed I went back to getting out of my head. When all’s done and said I’m just a no hoper A drug fiendish doper. That’s the glory of failure. If I could have a chance, a second chance, a last chance To get my brain round to thinking To think I’ll stop drinking. I could get off the gear, I could get off my rear. I could send my C.V to employers Those employers who are known as the unemployment destroyers. I could have a meaning instead of this leaning I have, Towards self destruction. I could get a job on a site become involved in construction. So many things on the doorstep right here But really I much rather prefer getting ****** on the gear. Oh yes that’s the glory of failure. I should get myself well move out from this hell But what the doctors have said is, in six months I’ll be dead So I’m going to make tracks. No,not those made by the needle I’m going to wheedle My way into a hospice which could be quite nice. I think that’s the glory of failure But what the hey I’m a guardian reader But unlike other guardian readers those centre right bleeders I’m totally anarchist, often totally tanked up and ****** But in reading the guardian I just cannot lose It makes such wonderful padding for the holes in the soles of my shoes. And I’ve had plenty of dates with several girlfriends of mates But when they’re looking down there and they see nothing stir. That may be the glory of failure. Perhaps when I’m old and I’m ready to die I might cast my mind back and I might wonder why, Every time I have failed the boat seems to have just sailed. But I was never a sailor. I was just a participant in The Glory Of Failure.
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Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 3:13 AM UTC
The Glory of failure.
The glory of failure. It’s just **** with sugar on Jam and cream without the scone. Because when I’m begging out in the street And my eyes happen to meet those eyes that look down To me on the ground, and you put a coin in my cup, Just remember you’re looking down I’m the one looking up. And for those who pass by while shedding a tear Don’t worry yourself none I’ve made enough for my gear And more than enough for a couple of beers. I know what you’ll say You’ll say, I waste life away Like I’ve wasted this day. But I’ll say, I made enough to pay for my addiction. The seduction which leads me to say That’s the glory of failure. I saw an advert for a job and this job was paying quite a few bob. But I wouldn’t have got it…no sugar just **** So I didn’t bother trying I went back to lying on my bed I went back to getting out of my head. When all’s done and said I’m just a no hoper A drug fiendish doper. That’s the glory of failure. If I could have a chance, a second chance, a last chance To get my brain round to thinking To think I’ll stop drinking. I could get off the gear, I could get off my rear. I could send my C.V to employers Those employers who are known as the unemployment destroyers. I could have a meaning instead of this leaning I have, Towards self destruction. I could get a job on a site become involved in construction. So many things on the doorstep right here But really I much rather prefer getting ****** on the gear. Oh yes that’s the glory of failure. I should get myself well move out from this hell But what the doctors have said is, in six months I’ll be dead So I’m going to make tracks. No,not those made by the needle I’m going to wheedle My way into a hospice which could be quite nice. I think that’s the glory of failure But what the hey I’m a guardian reader But unlike other guardian readers those centre right bleeders I’m totally anarchist, often totally tanked up and ****** But in reading the guardian I just cannot lose It makes such wonderful padding for the holes in the soles of my shoes. And I’ve had plenty of dates with several girlfriends of mates But when they’re looking down there and they see nothing stir. That may be the glory of failure. Perhaps when I’m old and I’m ready to die I might cast my mind back and I might wonder why, Every time I have failed the boat seems to have just sailed. But I was never a sailor. I was just a participant in The Glory Of Failure.
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strike my eyes lovely for S. B. by way of introduction, when you have gone to confession, freely admitting you have nothing left for others to harvest, no seed to plant a new crop, and lies and laughter, interchangeable, there is no poetry left, not even raisin scone crumbs, one good friend informs that a forgotten five month old poem, a computer has selected & resurrected, for distinction so months later you snicker for you have been seriously self-kicked away from writing, all your vocabularies, trite and yellowed overused, and you read really good poetry and are slapped-seen-outed by the impoverishment of your own no-winsome word-smithy, no delusions, even this, but a-quick script, more a thank you note, and it’s the only lasting quality is the genuine nature of its intent but the poem itself falls bottom of the cliff, short on quality, a victim of your dissatisfaction let me explain better she messages you while the time difference works in her favor, she reads while you sleep the sleep of the soul-exhausted, she, scoffing at your claims of motivation deprivation, as she cherishes this forgotten one, with words that cannot be ignored the poem**                  strikes her eyes lovely daggered, this morning phrase cannot go unchallenged   for this a compliment that any poet would weep for, be inspired by, stung into action, provoked, ego flattered and challenged to-do more-better, what writer could want for anything more! who can own this ability   accept this ultimatum of success, a cross-word crucification to strike down lovely the readers eyes, almost all once, almost excuses me forever for trying and failing so many times you smile but not in the chest where lovely needs to strike you for if you cannot strike the readers eyes again and again, then... let the moment gleam, and then disappear, again and again, stored but not restorative 11/21/18 Miami
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Nov 22, 2018
Nov 22, 2018 at 7:49 AM UTC
strike my eyes lovely
strike my eyes lovely for S. B. by way of introduction, when you have gone to confession, freely admitting you have nothing left for others to harvest, no seed to plant a new crop, and lies and laughter, interchangeable, there is no poetry left, not even raisin scone crumbs, one good friend informs that a forgotten five month old poem, a computer has selected & resurrected, for distinction so months later you snicker for you have been seriously self-kicked away from writing, all your vocabularies, trite and yellowed overused, and you read really good poetry and are slapped-seen-outed by the impoverishment of your own no-winsome word-smithy, no delusions, even this, but a-quick script, more a thank you note, and it’s the only lasting quality is the genuine nature of its intent but the poem itself falls bottom of the cliff, short on quality, a victim of your dissatisfaction let me explain better she messages you while the time difference works in her favor, she reads while you sleep the sleep of the soul-exhausted, she, scoffing at your claims of motivation deprivation, as she cherishes this forgotten one, with words that cannot be ignored the poem**                  strikes her eyes lovely daggered, this morning phrase cannot go unchallenged   for this a compliment that any poet would weep for, be inspired by, stung into action, provoked, ego flattered and challenged to-do more-better, what writer could want for anything more! who can own this ability   accept this ultimatum of success, a cross-word crucification to strike down lovely the readers eyes, almost all once, almost excuses me forever for trying and failing so many times you smile but not in the chest where lovely needs to strike you for if you cannot strike the readers eyes again and again, then... let the moment gleam, and then disappear, again and again, stored but not restorative 11/21/18 Miami
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needing refreshment in oswestry, later rather than sooner, crept up the chalk painted staircase, seems to work well, in this case. i note the dstressed nature of the furniture. this place. having regular coffee, a fruit scone will certainly do, i listen to the server, who clasping the china teapot, tells us revelations of those who live, who divorce and warm the *** i have to say that the scone was lovely. later i bought a potting bench. sbm.
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 2:30 AM UTC
. pickles .
The bread crumbled in your fists 'But, I made that for you.' Your grimace made me wince You threw it on the ground And you spit on it You spit on the bread I had baked For you 2 years ago And you called me pathetic Because I had baked you bread And I cried, because, You made me feel pathetic Later that night, You gave me a ring on the phone, And you apologized But what you didn't realize, Was that I had already Burned my hands From placing them on the oven In a sense I couldn't feel my fingers, I couldn't feel anything All I knew was that I would not bake again
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM UTC
A Scone Heart
There is nothing quite like a Caramel Apple Thumbprint Scone I bought two tonight, one for the road and one for home. Sometimes I buy one for me and one for Mum, Didn’t bother to tell her I ate them both…every… last… crumb. Tonight on my way home I decide to buy a baker’s dozen The trouble with that is I ate six and got an upset stomach Now here I sit upon this throne, tootin’ and thinking all alone That there’s nothing like a Caramel Apple Thumbprint Scone….hic! K.E. Carman 2017
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 5:10 PM UTC
Caramel Apple Thumbprint Scones
Latte and scone please Henry said with jam and cream? the barista said no jam or cream Henry said just plain the barista said I like scones but I love them with cream and jam she looked at Henry plenty of cream he smiled yes cream has it's place I guess he said she poured his latte and placed a scone on a plate and took his money and gave him change yes sometimes cream makes it special she said smiling he carried his tray to his table and sat and stirred his latte and spooned off the top cream and eyed her as she served the following customer she was an Italian (the barista) who spoke good English and had the darkest of eyes and black curly hair the scone was good and he enjoyed each mouthful without jam or cream and he captured in mind the barista for his night-long dream.
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 4:21 PM UTC
HENRY'S NIGHT-LONG DREAM.
From a pavement bistro, enjoying an alcove espresso and jam scone After fresh rains, scenic smiles yet the road is of red sand Young children play ball in park adjacent, some teen skaters pass by Skirt-tugger hangs on for dear life, while she perambulates the baby. The little, old man places with care, two stones behind his back wheels His car stuck on the muddy, wet road A small, slow push by stranger passing; it rolls easily from soft, red ruts A wave of thanks, a friendly smile and off he goes. Anna steps in ruddy hope, septuagenarian in jaunty hat and Sunday best Ready to meet the one of a lifetime, widow of a decade Correspondence long-time with namaste-man, final reward Ribcage busy, beat in mouth, eyes flit eagerly, hearty salutes. But nobody knows that someone is being watched, From across the distance of the park, a clutch of strangers Their beady eyes, hooded expressions, they wait Fate is sealed when car drives by; irrevocably red. S T, 11 May 2013
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
R E D Road
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY! Darling daughter refusing to eat so, I: sea shanty her. "Oh what do ya think we'll have for supper?" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Oh maybe we'll have alligator!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Oh but I couldn't eat a whole alligator!" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Well...eat only half and keep half for later!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Eat alligator before he eats you!" My little sailor suited girl opens her mouth to laugh and in pops Mr. Spoon. Hmmmmmm.....yum yum. Soon alligator becomes her word for any eatables whether it be ice cream or scone. Now she sings heartily to self my three year old salty sea dog 'EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!"
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 6:25 PM UTC
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY! Darling daughter refusing to eat so, I: sea shanty her. "Oh what do ya think we'll have for supper?" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Oh maybe we'll have alligator!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Oh but I couldn't eat a whole alligator!" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Well...eat only half and keep half for later!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Eat-alligator-before-alligator-eats-you!" My little sailor suited girl opens her mouth to laugh and in pops Mr. Spoon. Hmmmmmm.....yum yum. Soon alligator becomes her word for any eatables whether it be ice cream or scone. Now she sings heartily to self my three year old salty sea dog 'EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!"
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Apr 28, 2019
Apr 28, 2019 at 4:41 PM UTC
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!
They left you on a shelf Beneath the bricks and a cloudy sky As we waited for your date with a field of grass. The gentleman who dressed you was nice enough And he rolled you out when I arrived to say “Good-bye”. You rested in the center of the room As I recalled the plastic flowers On our dining room table years ago. All of us plus Pops and Nana too Thanking God for all His gifts And the Sunday meals you made. *** And this as well. On a beautiful summer day You put on a white blouse and skirt And took me to the blueberry fields. You laughed as I pretended to take A broken drum Out the door for the berries. Then you sang a song just for us As cool breezes charmed my senses While goodness found mercy Next to a stream and gave a little boy A picture that would last until now. *** This morning I went to Starbucks After watching the river at dawn, Immersed in making photos with pastel shades of sky And bushes that seemed blue in the early morning air. I ordered coffee To awaken my frozen limbs And a blueberry scone. The berries are sweet. I find them more delicious Than chocolate Or wine.
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 1:24 PM UTC
The Blueberry Fields
i enjoy england with its little houses hips brushing, faces smushed together to revel in quaint rumour among gentrified lilies and pink lady apples that blush in the summer its walkways and alleys dribbles of soft lamplight guiding the drunkard, moth-brained and ill with silk threads to a blind spot of amber where muck can be spilled the people on transport with their airy talk, their mindless silence, heads lolling idly on windows, eyes crumpling like napkins against the leaking crumbs of warm scone sun pretty little England where exploitation is vintage and runs like rosé down the dusty store windows here we are free to stumble down streets with sweat in our hair and manic karaoke reverberating off the walls glee drinking is government protected I'm quite in love with england, this field of dew and white roses fed by gore and sweet tradition where fresh-faced, sunny children play.
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May 10, 2020
May 10, 2020 at 9:48 AM UTC
national romance
One juice box One scone One apple for Noble and a pita for Peter One sandwich One coke One green pea for  me and a pita for Peter One fanta for Santa One pizza for Caesar And extra mozzarella for Ella The spare is for you And as for the bean Put that in the bin and a pita for Peter One ice-cream One pie One pasta for Busta and a pita for Peter One cake One steak One milkshake for Shriek and a pita for Peter One pita for Peter? Give each one their own and a pita for Peter
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Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 6:04 PM UTC
A pita for Peter
What he will give is the incipient  bare minimum of his heartbeat He’ll reveal just  the washed out clamoring of his  horded desire all because there would be nothing left in his own perception of a universe that may reduce his secret lust to nothing. implode like terrorists on the fantasy of his greatness yet to come… although we are born magnificent;  which then gets blinded out by all the hearsay of our original sin he won’t go too far with a notion of blissful ‘otherness’ nor squeeze too many lemons he’s got no room for confidence sugar stored on his empty shelf *however negative space can be a good thing* (he has heard) he’s dumbfounded when he wants more from someone and expects the best of their yet to be born mind reading abilities to: just understand who he is or “be gone I say!” …(hehehe) -writer could not help it- scathed in baby blisters by his choices so far... it was of course! all the: ****** babble of growing up in his _Family of origin_/original sin where he learned to swim so comfortably in precious Aloneness -----  -Aloofness- and  there he became more real than ever ---Ahh well...it’s the grand excuse for most of his life until he feels the scratch of his riotous ‘settling for’ is bleeding ****** ****** and then one day he looks in the mirror and a ghost like stroke (not yet manifested) spotlights his over bearing mind to feel what it has ~done did~ disconnected with deeds of the heart and foresight/manipulation for naught he then finds out his heart needed more than a cup of tea and a scone (mid 40's) he finds out his emotional impasse was so **** false  (almost 50) and that his lack of allowing others in was truly a waste of mental constructs (Solid 51) this I know like my own dry eyed nodding I was him (the now pleasure of hindsight... 55) but all the 'do right' stuff is cohesively on time all the contrast that created a calling for again and again   this leaning to love Linaji 2011
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Nov 9, 2011
Nov 9, 2011 at 12:58 AM UTC
original sin
What he will give is the incipient  bare minimum of his heartbeat He’ll reveal just  the washed out clamoring of his  horded desire all because there would be nothing left in his own perception of a universe that may reduce his secret lust to nothing. implode like terrorists on the fantasy of his greatness yet to come… although we are born magnificent;  which then gets blinded out by all the hearsay of our original sin he won’t go too far with a notion of blissful ‘otherness’ nor squeeze too many lemons he’s got no room for confidence sugar stored on his empty shelf *however negative space can be a good thing* (he has heard) he’s dumbfounded when he wants more from someone and expects the best of their yet to be born mind reading abilities to: just understand who he is or “be gone I say!” …(hehehe) -writer could not help it- scathed in baby blisters by his choices so far... it was of course! all the: ****** babble of growing up in his _Family of origin_/original sin where he learned to swim so comfortably in precious Aloneness -----  -Aloofness- and  there he became more real than ever ---Ahh well...it’s the grand excuse for most of his life until he feels the scratch of his riotous ‘settling for’ is bleeding ****** ****** and then one day he looks in the mirror and a ghost like stroke (not yet manifested) spotlights his over bearing mind to feel what it has ~done did~ disconnected with deeds of the heart and foresight/manipulation for naught he then finds out his heart needed more than a cup of tea and a scone (mid 40's) he finds out his emotional impasse was so **** false  (almost 50) and that his lack of allowing others in was truly a waste of mental constructs (Solid 51) this I know like my own dry eyed nodding I was him (the now pleasure of hindsight... 55) but all the 'do right' stuff is cohesively on time all the contrast that created a calling for again and again   this leaning to love Linaji 2011
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The kettle whistles plaintively as if it knows it's time for tea but the time is only five past three, far too early and she's the one who put the kettle on but she, went back to sleep leaving me to keep my ears awake until I rise,get up and make a brew. I don't know what to do, should I make the tea? would she thank me If I woke her with some toast and tea upon a silver coaster? I think not. She's got me wrapped around her little finger,slinging me a crumb or two and leaving me to make the brew. Sod the kettle let it whistle on, she chose the tune,she knows the song,meanwhile this hungry boy is gone to get some coffee and a scone, in a diner down the street. Let her wake and wonder why the kettle's dry,there is no tea let her wonder what became of me but she, will take it in her stride she's got her pride and that won't slip. I think this as I sip my drink and wonder if she'd ever think just how much'brew a man can take how many tea's a man can make before he cracks. I keep my back against the wall lest she should fall from a great height and beat me senseless, it would serve me right but this I do not let her know I go to work whistling.
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 1:15 AM UTC
Sunrise
One hundred years of solitude and Marquez still couldn't shut you up, your words tear down the walls of Macondo, heckling the Buendías, poking fun at Aureliano and his golden fishes. The circular history spins to a halt, and I fold down the corner of a page, as if closing the book could save the city built on paper, on the Formica tabletop of an old café with a broken clock A few chapters back, you were chastising time, saying one day you'd crack your watch open, rearrange the gears, twirl the dials and steal back from the ticking hands that steal so much from you. On page 178, you committed abominations, spooning sugar into espresso, and declared your love for Dali because the man melted time, didn't care for anything not molded to the back of a horse. Cranberry scone finished, you ruffle the newspaper, bemoaning the stockbrokers who grow fat and complacent on the crumbs of seconds, chewing chronological cud, you called it, but you said nothing could ever pin you down, much less some cheap Timex on a nylon strap. Cast out of the fourth dimension, Marquez scribbles graves for the Buendías, in death, they've forgotten the original sin and the Colonel forges fish from the gold fastenings on his casket ad infinitum.
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 1:11 PM UTC
Arcadio
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY! Darling daughter refusing to eat so, I: sea shanty her. "Oh what do ya think we'll have for supper?" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Oh maybe we'll have alligator!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Oh but I couldn't eat a whole alligator!" "Eat Tilly eat!" "Well...eat only half and keep half for later!" "Eat my Tilly girl...eat!" "Eat-alligator-before-alligator-eats-you!" My little sailor suited girl opens her mouth to laugh and in pops Mr. Spoon. Hmmmmmm.....yum yum. Soon alligator becomes her word for any eatables whether it be ice cream or scone. Now she sings heartily to self my three year old salty sea dog 'EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!"
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 3:02 AM UTC
EAT YOUR ALLIGATOR TILLY!
Is a poem not just a song with rhyming verse that’s not yet sung? With repeated chorus not yet stuck inside one’s head, amongst the muck? Is a poem not just a song? A daisy chain of verse not yet strum around a fire among some friends deep in the woods on away weekends. Is a poem not just a song not yet proclaimed by a choir’s tongue? But uttered silently in a bed-lamp’s light at early hours of the night. Is a poem not just a song that peacefully rests in black ink upon a white page inside a book, upon a library shelf until it’s took? Is a poem not just a song quietly set to lips that read along on a train, on the way back home from visiting gran for tea and a scone? Is a poem not just a song unset to keys and not yet begun? Not yet major, and not yet minor. Just metered in beats and little other. Is a poem not just a song? I suppose it could be but not this one.
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Sep 1, 2023
Sep 1, 2023 at 9:16 AM UTC
A Song