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"scowling" poems
They slither around cob webs and hide in the crook of my elbow attached to me like a child clinging to his mother on the first day of Pre-K hideous and scowling but then beautiful and glowing either way I keep it pressed to my chest i breathe in the putrid smell but I am now used to the scent it purrs and snuggles closer and I don't pull away
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 8:58 PM UTC
the demons of a bipolar mind
Ever had that feeling that no one cares even the people who constantly say things like am here for you but is never around the ones who say just call me and when you do they don't answer , people who make promises and never commit but isn't a promise a comfort to a fool , then call me stupid cause I  fell for it several times  am way pass the stage of a fool . I got trust issues!! and its way pass crazy when you find that you  don't even trust your mother when you can't look at her and crack a smile for a few seconds because in the blink of an eye she takes it away. I had a nightmare last night and I wake up trying to ketch my breathe but the truth  is it was my reality standing in front of everyone and no one can see me dying . My alarm went off and this time I didn't  even know what for, screaming and beating ,cursing and scowling my mother went off from 6 -8 in the morning, lord know this my favorite way to wake up  giving me enough energy to go through my day all gloomy and **** but he always seem to cheer me up with the sound of his voice cause its a Cole world and all I gotta do is CHEER UP . cause even through the joy i feel the pain even when it sun i feel the rain even when am  high i feel the low likes that's all I know and lord knows i can't complain cause even when i do it feels the same getting high just to fight the lows cause that all i know ..... So cheer up #NanaJustice
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
Cheer Up
Standing perplexed Vigorously stabbing button Scowling at passing traffic Prodding repeatedly Slapping neon display like a defective vending machine Arms flailing in impatience Fidgeting on kerb edge. He's the cross crossing man.
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Nov 27, 2010
Nov 27, 2010 at 3:40 AM UTC
Pelican
There is pressure in society That judges how your looks should be And when I hear a girl proclaim "I'm fat!" As though there was something wrong with that, Such thoughts, I tell you, just won't do When the opposite is clearly true Because with big girls there is more to love, And they won't break with a playful shove. And although I'm not one for body shaming, And don't wish to sound like I'm complaining, Thin girls simply lack the cellulite To keep somebody warm at night, Their bones protrude in awkward places And they have gaunt, unhealthy faces They regularly seem in a foul mood (Which is probably caused caused by lack of food), And you can't get anything to eat Without them scowling at the treat, That you, yourself, have chose to order, While they dine on salad and water, Until they scream "I've had enough! You have no idea how tough It is to keep this slender figure And stop myself from getting bigger!" As if it was somehow your fault That they won't eat sugar or salt, Or that they'll spend 3 hours at the gym As a compromise for staying thin. So while I'd love a girl however she looks (As long as we like similar books, And can talk for hours at a time, Or not at all and still be fine) There's very few (indeed, if any! Although their numbers may be many), Skinny girls I've ever met That a big one hasn't beaten yet! If you must lose weight I do implore You know it's yourself you do it for And while I must concede it doesn't matter, To most if you're thinner or fatter, No songwriter, I'll think you'll find Wrote a song about a small behind No artists brush strokes ever found Joy in painting girls that were not round And the best words found in poetry Are about big girls it's plain to see Like voluptuous, buxom, and well-rounded With thin girls how would they have sounded? Although I must- again- make haste to add That no truly self-respecting lad Would ever dream of judging you By how you look, not what you do, So if shedding pounds makes you feel great Then go ahead and lose some weight, But ignore what shallow fools may say, As they'll just keep judging anyway, Because the best people, you'll always find, Will love you for what's in your mind.
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Jun 5, 2016
Jun 5, 2016 at 7:43 PM UTC
Big Girls Are Awesome (Skinny Ones Are Quite Nice Too)
There is pressure in society That judges how your looks should be And when I hear a girl proclaim "I'm fat!" As though there was something wrong with that, Such thoughts, I tell you, just won't do When the opposite is clearly true Because with big girls there is more to love, And they won't break with a playful shove. And although I'm not one for body shaming, And don't wish to sound like I'm complaining, Thin girls simply lack the cellulite To keep somebody warm at night, Their bones protrude in awkward places And they have gaunt, unhealthy faces They regularly seem in a foul mood (Which is probably caused caused by lack of food), And you can't get anything to eat Without them scowling at the treat, That you, yourself, have chose to order, While they dine on salad and water, Until they scream "I've had enough! You have no idea how tough It is to keep this slender figure And stop myself from getting bigger!" As if it was somehow your fault That they won't eat sugar or salt, Or that they'll spend 3 hours at the gym As a compromise for staying thin. So while I'd love a girl however she looks (As long as we like similar books, And can talk for hours at a time, Or not at all and still be fine) There's very few (indeed, if any! Although their numbers may be many), Skinny girls I've ever met That a big one hasn't beaten yet! If you must lose weight I do implore You know it's yourself you do it for And while I must concede it doesn't matter, To most if you're thinner or fatter, No songwriter, I'll think you'll find Wrote a song about a small behind No artists brush strokes ever found Joy in painting girls that were not round And the best words found in poetry Are about big girls it's plain to see Like voluptuous, buxom, and well-rounded With thin girls how would they have sounded? Although I must- again- make haste to add That no truly self-respecting lad Would ever dream of judging you By how you look, not what you do, So if shedding pounds makes you feel great Then go ahead and lose some weight, But ignore what shallow fools may say, As they'll just keep judging anyway, Because the best people, you'll always find, Will love you for what's in your mind.
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A gray hippopotamus lived in a zoo At the end of the Tropical Line, Harry the Hippo lived next to the loo Right by the Northern confines. With his wide toothy smile, And his great double chin, He greeted his neighbors With a great hippo grin... Made friends with the deer, Made friends with an owl, Avoided the white scowling bear, Avoided the family of wolves, (He'd heard they liked to eat meat). Decided to friend a great, walloping moose, A challenge, his neighbor seemed rather elite. Tall and severe with a beard on his chin, He stood like a tree on his heavy brown hooves, And branches of antlers stood heavy and grim. "I see we are neighbors,"said Harry the Hippo, "Name's Harry," he said with a grin, "Since it looks like we'll be here a while, ya' know, I figure we ought to be friends!" "Bull" Moose only chewed a bit more on his cud, Burped in the gray hippo's face, Turned his wide antlers for well and for good... He spurned the whole hippo race. But Harry had patience, Had nowhere to go, So he waited a week and a month and a day For Otto the Moose to come 'round, And he did! And now the two of 'em play. Our Harry's advice to you is be nice, And after a while, it comes true.... The balkiest neighbors will have to think twice And fall into friendship with you. (0=
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 10:58 PM UTC
Harry the Hippo and Otto The Moose
To say the darkness Does indeed Dwell inside of me Becomes the pride of me Would underscore The fact That the madman’s eyes Loosens my lunatic tongue The scowling beast His drooling jowls The anguished cries How he howls The hunger Left unsated The feast For which he waited The beast will have his Ways with Life and all of her bounties And then what lies within Will settle once again The foaming mouth will pass The hunger is not meant to last And I will be me Once more
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
The Beast's End
I’ll take the left side, you take the right cause I’d rather not be the one who broke your parents’ “genuinely antique” bed I heard the wood give way just now when we sat on the edge and I know, tonight, it’s coming down. I should probably be more of your gentleman, but I think that’s what put us into this mess when we got to the cabin I complimented your ma, “Natasha is such a unique name in this age” Her reply, flat through the grimace “its an old and ugly Russian name, call me Nat.” Your dad invited me to walk in the woods, where I tripped over a root, ten feet in and threw your father head first into poison oak. It’s hard to tell through the swelling, but I’m pretty sure he’s still scowling. Then trying to help after dinner I knocked their “two-hundred-dollar, honest-to-jesus, Napa Valley’s Best” bottle a’ wine onto their “ten-thousand-dollar, straight from Andkhoy.” Afghani carpet. So, I’m sorry but I can imagine you’d forgive me your boyfriend, who loves and adores you, for sleeping this day off and letting the night drop out from under you.
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Mar 16, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 at 7:48 PM UTC
So Much for First Impressions
A dozen fellows draped in threadbare tread densely, Profligating goons in obsidian gowns gathered under rainbow moonshine shaking bronze hands, howling and ******   in the shambles of the moon,   rap'n and nod'n to the notes of midnight. The mellow marines mourned over malice, lionizing over lost ones, many howled venerated, exalted in wonder in  favor of their thrilling grace, and delight, and brilliance, and might! but some neighboring sticklers,     behaved haughty and in disdain,   of the crowdy Cavaliers bellowing echoes signaling out                  to the seers of the sea, singing to the wands overwatching the wedding, and ravens listened,    roving like noble patrolsmen. Traveleres and trainees at sea    humble and bright niave, and frieghtened in traverse,            volatile and toiling,            tireless, Lunatics, (laughing, laughing, laughhing,) Rumaging through rain, fireciely, rallying and rableroused, through towering halls of mohogony,      hefty and wholesome were their hearts though, beast of the woodsy edifice were foul and benumb scowling with contempt, haste to devide and devised to hindrance. Hence the heroes heed    to the valleys of rose, and violet, and strawberry fields of forever,  seeking Saint Nicholas, in the bustling Byzantium,       in the murky shadows of doubt.
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Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 10:08 AM UTC
A Dozen Cavaliers At Sea
It's the music, the alcohol it's my situation won't improve it's vices it's smoking bidis it's coughing from addiction it's having talent but no outlet emotion without expression it's wondering if it's depression it's insecurity it's am I happy it's advice when only I am me it's drinkin brew things I thought i knew downing downers to cheer me up it's a powdered nose secrets no one knows gambling with tomorrow it's waiting tables it's sore shoulders it's scowling behind a smile it's lifting weights it's bad first dates limp from drinking from the bottle it's my ex lady it's lusting it's wanting what's in the past it's a broken car it's public transit it's fearing that I am them it's lovers cheat talk is cheap promises wash off my bed sheets it's my breaking point this broken joint trying to calm my loathing it's the ecstasy that only fixes me for one pill at a time it's the president pay the rent work and school until I'm spent never sleep no cash to eat feed my heart with dreams I never see holding on and letting go walking fast and running slow out of place out of patience job ******* placement alcohol and strippers **** dignity and throwing fits trying not to slit my wrist when everything comes down to this moment and I miss it's insanity everything all around me it's me
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Apr 26, 2012
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:20 PM UTC
ATMOSPHERE
I am never enough In your scowling eyes, Your voice is coarse and rough, No care for how the blood dries. No care for my welfare, Just how it affects you. Remember when you said 'she left you because of the drugs'? Well **** you too. And **** when you told me 'I never said that' Where is your sympathy You gas lighting rat. Go ahead and press my buttons To see me light up, And when I do, You play victim. The meds I take Are to deal with you. Your care is fake, You pretend you don't have a clue. When I try and tell you How I feel, The words don't get through, Responsibility not so quick on your heel. You make dinner For everyone but me, My patience is growing thinner, Your hate is like a tree Taking root under my family, And now I am the wretch, The cans in my room, so pretty, You self absorbed ***** Not big on self regulation, Or object permanence, Day on day commotion Starts again, what a performance. The rage I have for you, You taught me well, I am black all the way through, And water does not quell. Alcoholic, Just like you taught, This life is chaotic K cider 7.5% store bought. Why does Dad have to die of cancer And you continue to breath? You death dodging dancer, Every sip is a seethe. You shouldn't be allowed around children, You dangerous psychopath, A hateful haven, Blood soaked epitaph. So here is wishing You a swift death, Or maybe go missing, I don't want to hear another breath. You won't get a funeral. You are being cremated. And I won't be there To bring you back from the crematorium.
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Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023 at 4:20 PM UTC
Mother
I am never enough In your scowling eyes, Your voice is coarse and rough, No care for how the blood dries. No care for my welfare, Just how it affects you. Remember when you said 'she left you because of the drugs'? Well **** you too. And **** when you told me 'I never said that' Where is your sympathy You gas lighting rat. Go ahead and press my buttons To see me light up, And when I do, You play victim. The meds I take Are to deal with you. Your care is fake, You pretend you don't have a clue. When I try and tell you How I feel, The words don't get through, Responsibility not so quick on your heel. You make dinner For everyone but me, My patience is growing thinner, Your hate is like a tree Taking root under my family, And now I am the wretch, The cans in my room, so pretty, You self absorbed ***** Not big on self regulation, Or object permanence, Day on day commotion Starts again, what a performance. The rage I have for you, You taught me well, I am black all the way through, And water does not quell. Alcoholic, Just like you taught, This life is chaotic K cider 7.5% store bought. Why does Dad have to die of cancer And you continue to breath? You death dodging dancer, Every sip is a seethe. You shouldn't be allowed around children, You dangerous psychopath, A hateful haven, Blood soaked epitaph. So here is wishing You a swift death, Or maybe go missing, I don't want to hear another breath. You won't get a funeral. You are being cremated. And I won't be there To bring you back from the crematorium.
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trapped in a ribcage frail and fretting and fettered hummingbird heart beats harder and harder your skeleton fingertips tilling the ground combing for the catacombs of all your past lives look what i have done for you teeth marks to chart your growth black red purple sky no stars no light no for thine is the kingdom, the dead leaf diadem battle-ready raccoon eyes, scored and scowling if you do not run you will be left behind.
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 2:49 AM UTC
wild
You at least went. so that meant the party could finally be awkward. that's homeroom at your personal Harvard your low self esteem was the head dean [ claimed you had promise ] then promptly vomits but you promised to maim your lollipops with hot topic's most goth night-shade of hemlock iron-on, henna tattoos for your thin lips. like two gates to a birdcage where you keep ravens... pecking the tip of your tongue where your brave words die for lack of oxygen... pecking the flesh off the skeleton key to the heart of your insightful comment,... stymied - a black raven savors the succulent eyes of your hurricanes, so braille maps for blind rage fly off the shelves... fly like led zeppelins to fresh hell. you lose your window seat on the wing of a prayer to Charles Bukowski. now you're scowling a gilded smile at all the Ed Hardlys'... good thing you brought Jello Biafra Shots to the shindig... cubes of gelatinous absinthe each with a sugar box lodged in supermax insecurity prisms... fey emeralds. monochrome rubicons you pop when cross. like wainscoting the panic room that came with a deejay who thinks you're a boy who got lost.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 7:10 AM UTC
When Shrinking Violets Shrink To Misfit In Doc Martins
It is docking it is tocking in the winter garden locking over still and heavy knocking that defies the very dew. We see storms and angels crumbling under load of dearest kindling and the fire and gases burning in the skies where clouds are churning and the snow, hail, sleet, and ices come to split the air in slices as it settles over houses, villages, shoes. Waiting huddling drawing the blankets hot and heavy with a fear of powerful nature in the windy savory few. Now we see and hear the howling like a wolf entangles scowling as she tries to say her fowl and angry message to the blew. I am never quite so settled as when all around me crumbles and the anger of the desert makes the inner anger moot. And the people seem to gather in their individual lathers but they all believe the madness that the storm will never pass.  But pass it does and finding with the dawn a calm descending, yes, a calm that is so different that it seems to crush our ears.   We are happy to look outward and even hear a skylark and to see the streaming sun rays flitter over piles of snow. Ever angled up in heaven we almost see a dragon or a cannon that's protecting rampart walls. And we know that we are safe here but it was such a battle that the scars are not quite healed.
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 2:17 AM UTC
Winter Storm
Laying in the land of lies. Kissing broken butterflies Knows what she wants. A tigress on the prowl. Howling and squawking. Howling and scowling. Pawing, cat calling. Pussycat growling. Love laid roses on the path. Tangled thorns and demon horns. Thought she'd have a laugh. Love she chooses lonely pawns. Howling and squawking, Howling and scowling Pawing,cat calling. Pussycat growling. She snatches sweethearts. Creating works of art. Living on cupcakes. Cementing works of art. Breaking hearts and crushing bones. Howling and squawking. Howling and scowling. Pawing, cat calling. Pussycat growling. Fingertips tips as razor blades. Razor blades are on the **** Love dies screaming silently. At wicked women's will. Said goodbye. Howling and squawking No more talking. Pussycat cat cuddles. Snuggles and kittens. (C) LIVVI
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 5:13 AM UTC
PUSSYCAT
They say Birds of a feather flock together. But what if I’m fly With no feathers I’m more of a social butterfly. So when I pull up You say with scowling face You have no feathers So you cant flock with me. I try to explain that I came out of my cocoon I just learned how to fly But some would brush it off. And say, Be glad I did not devour you. Leave while you still have the chance. So I guess I do that. And then you go up in the air And get chased by a bird of a different feather Who seeks not to talk but to feed. The only feathers it cares about is yours to eat. I wonder when you are up there Trying to fly around a feather that sees at night like its day. You say out of breath, I could have flocked with the butterfly But I was obsessed with feathers And feathers just might be my end. But it would not be mine. Because remember, I'm a butterfly.
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Sep 23, 2018
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:33 PM UTC
They say birds of a feather flock together.
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To consume and rejoice Without creeds and utopias, I, for unknown reasons, Surrounded by the books Of prophets and theologians, Of philosophers, poets, Searched for an answer, Scowling, grimacing, Waking up at night, muttering at dawn. What oppressed me so much Was a bit shameful. Talking of it aloud Would show neither tact nor prudence. It might even seem an outrage Against the health of mankind. Alas, my memory Does not want to leave me And in it, live beings Each with its own pain, Each with its own dying, Its own trepidation. Why then innocence On paradisal beaches, An impeccable sky Over the church of hygiene? Is it because that Was long ago? To a saintly man --So goes an Arab tale-- God said somewhat maliciously: "Had I revealed to people How great a sinner you are, They could not praise you." "And I," answered the pious one, "Had I unveiled to them How merciful you are, They would not care for you." To whom should I turn With that affair so dark Of pain and also guilt In the structure of the world, If either here below Or over there on high No power can abolish The cause and the effect? Don't think, don't remember The death on the cross, Though everyday He dies, The only one, all-loving, Who without any need Consented and allowed To exist all that is, Including nails of torture. Totally enigmatic. Impossibly intricate. Better to stop speech here. This language is not for people. Blessed be jubilation. Vintages and harvests. Even if not everyone Is granted serenity.
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A Poem For the End of the Century
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To consume and rejoice Without creeds and utopias, I, for unknown reasons, Surrounded by the books Of prophets and theologians, Of philosophers, poets, Searched for an answer, Scowling, grimacing, Waking up at night, muttering at dawn. What oppressed me so much Was a bit shameful. Talking of it aloud Would show neither tact nor prudence. It might even seem an outrage Against the health of mankind. Alas, my memory Does not want to leave me And in it, live beings Each with its own pain, Each with its own dying, Its own trepidation. Why then innocence On paradisal beaches, An impeccable sky Over the church of hygiene? Is it because that Was long ago? To a saintly man --So goes an Arab tale-- God said somewhat maliciously: "Had I revealed to people How great a sinner you are, They could not praise you." "And I," answered the pious one, "Had I unveiled to them How merciful you are, They would not care for you." To whom should I turn With that affair so dark Of pain and also guilt In the structure of the world, If either here below Or over there on high No power can abolish The cause and the effect? Don't think, don't remember The death on the cross, Though everyday He dies, The only one, all-loving, Who without any need Consented and allowed To exist all that is, Including nails of torture. Totally enigmatic. Impossibly intricate. Better to stop speech here. This language is not for people. Blessed be jubilation. Vintages and harvests. Even if not everyone Is granted serenity.
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After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the village of Chokan: Two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I married My Lord you. I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Why should I climb the lookout? At sixteen you departed, You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies, And you have been gone five months. The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. You dragged your feet when you went out, By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses, Too deep to clear them away! The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind. The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, Please let me know beforehand, And I will come out to meet you As far as Cho-fu-sa.
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The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Skipping through the forest, Laughing with delight, Glimpsing my sweetheart, Off to the right. Sneaking up closely, Taking a peek. Watching him moving, I do not speak. Silently climbing, Up and out on a limb. Taking some acorns, And grinning down on him. Watching him move, unaware of my perch. Thinking how funny, He's going to lurch. Taking careful aim, Then glancing about, I whack him on the head, And he gives a shout. Laughing, and swinging, Out on a limb. Hanging upside down, And grinning at him. First he was scowling, Looking quite mad. Now he is smiling, And, boy, am I glad. Still hanging there, My knees over the limb, He approaches me slowly, And I get a kiss from him. His hands on my face, His heart in his eyes. Kissing so sweetly, With fun undisguised. Slipping from my perch, I settle in his arms. Feeling so safe, Loving his charms. Not a thing could be better, than being this close. with his heart to my heart his nose to my nose
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Nov 6, 2010
Nov 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM UTC
Being Cheeky
a stripe of asphalt on the blanket of green I stare wordlessly out into other people's lives peeking past the violet-tinted windows of the freeway as your chat-chatter spills from your coffee cup filled to the brim with handshakes and impatience You clutch your earpiece tighter, scowling as I trace the horizon across the glass smudgy fingertips that sigh boredom and the Mexican workers in orange vests peer back at me curious and wave turn to their left and shout something in Spanish tongues dancing, slick with dust I smile as they crumple their lunch sacks and pitch them down into the rubble then hoist brick by brick, stone by stone no natural-made boundary into the chalky air and perch for a while to mop the sweat from their brown creased faces and sing rowdily to their neighbors and the immobile in the SUVs You lock the doors fast and pat your hair into place I've got no time for this construction you say, can't they build this highway somewhere else? as you drum your fingers along to the siren song of CEOs and business connections You're just the same as the rest of them. Man forever building bridges that will only topple down.
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Jun 23, 2010
Jun 23, 2010 at 7:26 AM UTC
Construction.
‘The rebels always find each other,’ the old men used to say, scowling at us and our feral-haired friends in the slums of Nairobi. Tell my people I love them. The rebels do not know who they are but they know who they are not; they know they are breathing bad air, they know something is not quite right here. The rebels always find each other, communicating on some soul-dimension of revolutionary called to understand, called to speak, called to live and live well the cause of peace. Let them be alone if they must. They will empty their pockets for the freedom of the world and feel themselves the winners of some crazy cosmic sweepstakes-- tell my people I love them. The rebels always find each other far from home, far from other. They find each other and remind each other: to tell despair to **** off, to reach for light, to stay up all night seeking, because the rebels will find each other and be found-- tell my people I love them by Teej Mali
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Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 8:19 PM UTC
The Rebels by Masikani Crocodile
My friends complain to me They tell me their sorrows And tear filled litanies. I nod along and offer advice Scowling inside. Oh so now finally the guy you like doesn’t like you? So no you finally get hurt? You dare complain to me who would **** To feel that pain to feel that love burst? You finally feel rejected huh, Left on the street? Welcome to the real world ******* Welcome to the meat. Rotting and corroding, sick filled heart, That we call rejection. Beating furiously As a thousand bulls on the range Feel our pain. Now you’re alive. How does it feel when you’re lucks ran out? But still you have fond memories. Kisses to look back on nostalgically What do I have… Well I have you. What a friend you turned out to be.
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Jan 10, 2011
Jan 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM UTC
Complain To ME
The sky: an ever-changing canopy, Endless variety. Black at night, Punctuated only by stars and moonlight, And clouds by day. Cloud-ships sail along an invisible sea, Scowling black clouds, Or fluffy white palaces of snow. No end of shapes and forms, Yet sometimes formless mists. Clouds that are net curtains In the window to space, Or growling black monsters Firing deadly lightning-forks. If we’re lucky, There aren’t any clouds at all, Just blue from horizon to horizon Everywhere you see. Golden-red dawns and sunsets Contrast well with deepest blues All colours and hues. By night and day, Moon and Sun Play Peekaboo behind those clouds. And stars forever twinkle and swirl Along the Milky Way. No words can adequately capture The beauties of the sky, It just gives God’s Believers Every Reason Why. Paul Butters
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Aug 17, 2015
Aug 17, 2015 at 4:17 AM UTC
Sky
I have to go To fight a war I have to go But I'll return There is a sorrow creeping on a lonely soul Sitting a raven on a statue of Aphrodite Buzzards and doves Buzzards and doves I have to go A call to arms I have to go But I'll return When all the battles are won There is a grey cloud with a terrible face Menacing eyes and scowling jawls A feeding vulture A bird of paradise Buzzards and doves Buzzards and doves I have to go But never leave I have to go But you are with me In all the battles won In the peace of a soldier marching home I have to go But I'll return Buzzards and doves Buzzards and doves And me a crow Fighting for a soul
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 3:27 PM UTC
Buzzards And Doves
I walk across to Hannah's flat in Arrol House and knock at the door Mrs Scott opens the door and stands there she's a short thin woman with a face of granite with a slit where her mouth is whit is it? she says her Scottish accent rough as stone is Hannah home? I ask I dunnae kinn she replies HANNAH she bellows over her shoulder Benedcit is haur fur ye she adds scowling at me jist coming Hannah replies from back in the flat yoo'll hae tae bide Mrs Scott says and walks back inside leaving me on the red tiled step I look into the interior of the flat and smell breakfast having been cooked I look back into the Square kids are playing near by on the pram sheds and over by the wall girls are doing handstands their feet against the wall dresses falling over their heads showing underwear sorry about Mum she has a mouth on her Hannah says where we going? she asks thought we'd go to the South Bank see the Thames and boats and have ice cream I say do I need money? she asks just about 2/- I say for bus fares and ice cream I'll ask Mum for a handout but wait for the answer Mum have you 2/- I can have? Hannah asks fa dae ye hink Ah am Rockerfeller? nae Ah huvnae her mother replies no problem I say to Hannah I'll have enough for us both are you sure? yes don't aggravate your mother more than you have to so Hannah gets her coat and we walk off through the Square she's like that sometimes Hannah says she's as tight as a wing nut we walk down the slope and up Meadow Row I ask her how her father is she says he's Ok but in the doghouse more often as not with Mum but he's a softy to Mum's hardness but Mum says he's soft in the heed but he's lovely really Hannah says -I know her old man he's English and a bit simple after helping to empty out Belsen camp in 1945 where some he told me were more dead as alive- we wait at the bus stop she with her dark hair pony tailed with a tartan skirt and white blouse and me in blue jeans and white shirt and quiff of brown hair and hazel eyes she with a budding beauty with her mother's touch of tongue who if roused could give words full lung.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 3:25 PM UTC
MEETING WITH HANNAH 1960.
I walk across to Hannah's flat in Arrol House and knock at the door Mrs Scott opens the door and stands there she's a short thin woman with a face of granite with a slit where her mouth is whit is it? she says her Scottish accent rough as stone is Hannah home? I ask I dunnae kinn she replies HANNAH she bellows over her shoulder Benedcit is haur fur ye she adds scowling at me jist coming Hannah replies from back in the flat yoo'll hae tae bide Mrs Scott says and walks back inside leaving me on the red tiled step I look into the interior of the flat and smell breakfast having been cooked I look back into the Square kids are playing near by on the pram sheds and over by the wall girls are doing handstands their feet against the wall dresses falling over their heads showing underwear sorry about Mum she has a mouth on her Hannah says where we going? she asks thought we'd go to the South Bank see the Thames and boats and have ice cream I say do I need money? she asks just about 2/- I say for bus fares and ice cream I'll ask Mum for a handout but wait for the answer Mum have you 2/- I can have? Hannah asks fa dae ye hink Ah am Rockerfeller? nae Ah huvnae her mother replies no problem I say to Hannah I'll have enough for us both are you sure? yes don't aggravate your mother more than you have to so Hannah gets her coat and we walk off through the Square she's like that sometimes Hannah says she's as tight as a wing nut we walk down the slope and up Meadow Row I ask her how her father is she says he's Ok but in the doghouse more often as not with Mum but he's a softy to Mum's hardness but Mum says he's soft in the heed but he's lovely really Hannah says -I know her old man he's English and a bit simple after helping to empty out Belsen camp in 1945 where some he told me were more dead as alive- we wait at the bus stop she with her dark hair pony tailed with a tartan skirt and white blouse and me in blue jeans and white shirt and quiff of brown hair and hazel eyes she with a budding beauty with her mother's touch of tongue who if roused could give words full lung.
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I could not make love to a woman, no matter how pleasing to my easy eyes, who possesses a scowling soul of no depth, a sour heart containing no eagerness to love this world, or a dark mind shut to wonder, light, and beauty.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:59 PM UTC
I Could Not