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"scraggly" poems
What poem will you wear, when first we meet? How will I recognition-you, when you transverse my land? Unknown our faces, our voices, Only silent words electronic exchanged Will lantern, it be: one, if by land, two, if by sea? Will your ID badge, passport stamped and state, Your chest bear a witness-sign? The Arrivals Board flashes:                     une poétesse est arrivé                     eine Dichterin ist angekomme                     a poetess has arrived                     una poetisa ha llegado Will there be a haiku in your hair, A limerick exposed by raucous grin, Or just ten words allotted for your entire visit? **Desperate to locate Urgent to sensate Matters I take Into two cupped hands, On the shoeshine stand Climb and recite-shout** Know me by my words, Know me by the lilt lyrical Of my American accented, Canadian Tongue of my mother Know me by my words, Carved by time on my forehead, Poetry is the blood of this fool's soul, Hear me, find me, look upon me slamming Poems are the thorns in my palms, See me crucified, bleeding stanzas Upon my shoeshine stand cross Recitation resuscitation welcoming: Benedicting Gloria, Gloria, Gloria But if this should fail your attention to secure, Or the TSA unappreciate my second coming, Look for the crowd gathered round, A man of moderate height, in a tall hat, Beard scraggly, looking sorrowful Reciting the Gettysburg Address Either way, Should be easy peasy to find me, Grab your bag, off to short-term parking This is how an Americana poet meets n' greets Arriving poetess from a foreign land Is there any other way? ------------------------------ Postscipt **Alas, five years on and I know in my heart that you are not coming...**
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 3:17 AM UTC
What poem will you wear, when first we meet? (Aug. 2013)
What poem will you wear, when first we meet? How will I recognition-you, when you transverse my land? Unknown our faces, our voices, Only silent words electronic exchanged Will lantern, it be: one, if by land, two, if by sea? Will your ID badge, passport stamped and state, Your chest bear a witness-sign? The Arrivals Board flashes:                     une poétesse est arrivé                     eine Dichterin ist angekomme                     a poetess has arrived                     una poetisa ha llegado Will there be a haiku in your hair, A limerick exposed by raucous grin, Or just ten words allotted for your entire visit? **Desperate to locate Urgent to sensate Matters I take Into two cupped hands, On the shoeshine stand Climb and recite-shout** Know me by my words, Know me by the lilt lyrical Of my American accented, Canadian Tongue of my mother Know me by my words, Carved by time on my forehead, Poetry is the blood of this fool's soul, Hear me, find me, look upon me slamming Poems are the thorns in my palms, See me crucified, bleeding stanzas Upon my shoeshine stand cross Recitation resuscitation welcoming: Benedicting Gloria, Gloria, Gloria But if this should fail your attention to secure, Or the TSA unappreciate my second coming, Look for the crowd gathered round, A man of moderate height, in a tall hat, Beard scraggly, looking sorrowful Reciting the Gettysburg Address Either way, Should be easy peasy to find me, Grab your bag, off to short-term parking This is how an Americana poet meets n' greets Arriving poetess from a foreign land Is there any other way? ------------------------------ Postscipt **Alas, five years on and I know in my heart that you are not coming...**
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This was just published so it is copyright 2015 by Holy Cow Press ~ mce Poverty is the fence around your life. Poverty wakes you up at 4 AM only to whisper meaningless slogans in your ear. It is the school of Piranha nibbling at the back of your brain. It is two hours waiting in the anteroom of despair for $22 worth of food stamps and being glad to be there. It is changing your phone number frequently because bill collectors are such boring conversationalists. It is the empty space your heels used to fill. It is letting your hair grow long and scraggly and your grizzled beard sprout because you know that although you sleep in rented rooms tonight, the street is not far off, and you want to fit in when you arrive. Poverty scalds the lint from your pockets. It is your private Treblinka within which you rage but are crushed. It is desperate prayers against dental catastrophes, blown tires, surprises of any sort. Poverty is when everything you own is frayed including your nerves from sleepless moments spent trying to solve the equation that will make X number of dollars cover X + ? number of bills, knowing that such math would defeat Newton or Einstein. Poverty is eying the cat's kibble imagining that with a bit of sugar and a splash of milk it might be fine and then eyeballing the cat himself thinking of protein of last resort and trying not to measure him against the microwave door. You ration your cigarettes; whiskey is a fading memory. Passing a diner on the street, you catch a whiff of burgers too expensive to consider and experience a Pavlovian moment. Poverty is trying to keep your head up and then remembering you pawned your neck. Poverty is watching the needle eat your last few gallons of gas. Poverty is the archeology of despair. It portends the death of irony. There is nothing ironic about a car with 217,000 miles and no insurance on it. Facts are facts in the world of poverty. Poverty is the last quarter reclaimed from beneath the cushions. It is too much time and not enough quarters. It is the specious logic of the self-righteous proclaiming that you deserve to be poor because you are, which in Amerika passes for wisdom. Poverty makes each day like the next because nothing does not vary. It is who you are and where you are going, although you won't get far. It is the life you lead inside the fence. It is the sum of what you lack. It just is. - mce
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 7:54 PM UTC
Poverty At Sixty
This was just published so it is copyright 2015 by Holy Cow Press ~ mce Poverty is the fence around your life. Poverty wakes you up at 4 AM only to whisper meaningless slogans in your ear. It is the school of Piranha nibbling at the back of your brain. It is two hours waiting in the anteroom of despair for $22 worth of food stamps and being glad to be there. It is changing your phone number frequently because bill collectors are such boring conversationalists. It is the empty space your heels used to fill. It is letting your hair grow long and scraggly and your grizzled beard sprout because you know that although you sleep in rented rooms tonight, the street is not far off, and you want to fit in when you arrive. Poverty scalds the lint from your pockets. It is your private Treblinka within which you rage but are crushed. It is desperate prayers against dental catastrophes, blown tires, surprises of any sort. Poverty is when everything you own is frayed including your nerves from sleepless moments spent trying to solve the equation that will make X number of dollars cover X + ? number of bills, knowing that such math would defeat Newton or Einstein. Poverty is eying the cat's kibble imagining that with a bit of sugar and a splash of milk it might be fine and then eyeballing the cat himself thinking of protein of last resort and trying not to measure him against the microwave door. You ration your cigarettes; whiskey is a fading memory. Passing a diner on the street, you catch a whiff of burgers too expensive to consider and experience a Pavlovian moment. Poverty is trying to keep your head up and then remembering you pawned your neck. Poverty is watching the needle eat your last few gallons of gas. Poverty is the archeology of despair. It portends the death of irony. There is nothing ironic about a car with 217,000 miles and no insurance on it. Facts are facts in the world of poverty. Poverty is the last quarter reclaimed from beneath the cushions. It is too much time and not enough quarters. It is the specious logic of the self-righteous proclaiming that you deserve to be poor because you are, which in Amerika passes for wisdom. Poverty makes each day like the next because nothing does not vary. It is who you are and where you are going, although you won't get far. It is the life you lead inside the fence. It is the sum of what you lack. It just is. - mce
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Dog in a bush. Dog lights a smoke. Dog has long scraggly hair. Dog sleeping on streets. Dog scratching her face. Dog picks at her skin. Dog lights up again. Dogs hair is in tangles and messy. Dogs skin is ashy and broken out. Dog cries at nights. Dog wonders how to get her hands on the monster. Dogs skin is becoming more flawed with every run up with the monster. Dog hears wispers at night. Dog still wanders ally ways. Dog lets people do stuff with her in order to get in contact with the monster. Sometimes the monster is laced with one of its friends. The dog never really does pure stuff anymore. Dog told herself she would never get addicted. Dog is addicted to the monster. Crank Monster Crystal **** Oh yes! Dog does **** And dog loves her **** Dog signed a contract with the monster the very first time it enter her system. Dog has a life long relationship with **** Dog ****** up. Now her life is uncontrollable. Dog isn't stupid. The monster controlled her. Dog was smart loving and sweet. Monster was controlling addicting and very very Very Very Veryyyyyyy Persuasive. Dog holds hands with the monster now.
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM UTC
Dogs And monster
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 1:44 PM UTC
In My Salad Days
In My Salad Days Salad Days **Wikipedia: Modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person's heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities, not necessarily in that person's youth.**                         ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Salad Hints of tints of golden pear skins, combine with ruby'd cranberries each a face, the cheeks of alcoholic old men, each wrinkle, a life's recording. All are mates for the marcona almonds nestling, playing hide n' go seeking tween silk sheeted leaves of butter lettuce. All dressed to the nines, underneath a top hatted, cravatted, Fred Astaire marinade. Coated, bathed, loved, protected by a vinegar of balsams, aged grape must, pressed, a lovely, desirable color, a brown and bronzed rust, pressed, then left, to easy rest for oh so many years, like I do, easy resting, when  you feed me in My Salad Days. The Days Though it was a life,  decades destructed Millenniums of de minimus, Forty plus Seders of exile, of hell, Marked by promises, whispers, horseradish tears of Next Year and Jerusalem, Time steeped in a tradition of patient waiting. Each year, recorded by a spot of red wine Purposely Spilled, By my father on unbleached Passover tablecloth, To example, to symbolize that Messiness in life, Is O.K. The Salad Days Salad served with irony generous, When beard greyed and scraggly, White speckled, wisps of sea salt, All my youthful greenery, long wilted. Yet the words herein writ are my Afikomen, my just dessert, My victory song of Hallelujah Just before we eat, celebrating My Feast of Ascension, marking a Delayed Arrival, yet right-on time of My Salad Days. It was only when I was resurrected as two bodies, A pair of cuffed links coupled, In My Salad Days, With the taste of freedom, A first-born infant survivor, Was I rebirthed, and to the fore, risen. When words fell from smiling lips, and Rain and tears flew upwards, and Each and every breath was an Amen.
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Scraggly curl hair bounces in the air wagging with whisky eyes breezy pleasing the eclectic electric hectic now mind like finding a papaya inside an oyster battery powered like a pomegranate passionfruit flower growing and glowing around my trinity heart with the noise of a sphere's galactic ****** Crystal Citrine Mountains provide water fountains of sunlight as so tye-dye t-shirt hip-cat hippos smokin' coconut shisha bathe in barrels of bourbon. Lion snakes spit words of worlds hurling nebulous timeline's spiraling and crashing and splashing baptism ripples together painting Pollack Splatters with the aroma of Byrd Jazz Jam on rye-whisky bread. Fractal Berries served by the Far Out Faerrie Ferryman Skeletan with bejeweled emerald eyes winks while I read in the reeds panting in pan-flutes while water rabbits scamper into clay enclaves to bathe in pinecone designed sand-tubs. The hieroglyphic phoenix twists and skip-scats neon green vinyl turning the wind inside out to x-ray flames of fireworks.
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Dec 6, 2013
Dec 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM UTC
Untitled Realm # 4-Triangle.7u
Shimmer and flow Wood Lake at sunset seems to emit a  soft glow. Waves like edges move and dip Feathering out, tumble and flip. I hear the giggling of happy little girls Dunking heads underwater and wetting their curls. Scraggly young boys jump off a long pier Showing their bravado that they have no fear. Mallard ducks and tan little birds soar and float. Passing patient people fishing off docks, or in a boat. As I watch natures glory a gentle breeze caresses my sleeve. I am at peace with myself with nothing to grieve. I am very grateful for the time I spent here. It gave me the chance to think with a mind that is crystal clear. I was in my own world relaxing on my inflatable chair With the sunshine as my companion floating here and there. This quaint little lakehouse is a Godsend to friends Who need  some time to heal, make changes or amends. The owners are loving in spirit, generous and kind. They open their home as a haven for the heart, soul and mind. Copyright *CindyRenouf @2010 www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/Cindy1128
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Jul 27, 2010
Jul 27, 2010 at 7:32 PM UTC
The Lakehouse
### today I went to the beach in search of epiphany. I was hoping to find her among the clouds, witnessing her morph into an ivory shape that would probe my unconscious into fashioning some big epiphany out of her silver linings, relentless against the beating winds. or perhaps unearth him beneath the patterns of cracks in rocks; and he would weave a veiny trial to lead my psyche into navigating the big epiphany after testing his infallible focus, relentless against the beating waves. instead I felt the sea spray tease my toes the maritime breeze whip my face the scraggly sand stab my heels the roaring waves crash against the jagged cliff I did not find epiphany. all I found was that again I felt small.
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 5:15 AM UTC
a big epiphany
When I look in the mirror in the morning, I feel fine. I brush my hair. I am fine. I brush my teeth, And I am fine. Then I notice how my teeth aren’t as white as they could be. But I'm still fine. Then I put on my clothes and I notice how I spill over the sides. But I am fine. Then I notice how my hips jut out And my jeans are never long enough in the ankles. Then I spend ten minutes thinking of changing my jeans, Because this shirt is too tight But I opt for a hoodie instead. Then I am lost in the hoodie. I feel like a blob of fabric. And then just a blob. I get in my car and look in the mirror to adjust And notice how dark under my eyes are. When I’m pretty sure they weren’t that dark earlier. As I drive to school, I notice my hands on the steering wheel And ponder how they can be both fat and scraggly at the same time. I get to school and notice people staring at me at the red lights While I begin to cross the road. I pass windows and with each one, I notice my thighs grow larger with each step. I notice how wide I am when I pass other girls Then I think about my ankles and I swear I can feel them swell. By the time it is twelve o’clock, I have convinced myself that I am a Bulging, Suffocating, Beast Who tramples everyone in the room. And the Earth is suddenly too small for someone as big as I am.
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Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018 at 3:17 AM UTC
Body Dysmorphia
"speak quietly" ah, but how would the people living on the scraggly edge of the mountain cliff ever hear us if we did?
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 2:45 PM UTC
Prudence
Meet me where the rising sun won't glow on our faces When the hour strikes time aghast as hurried hands tie laces Meet me at the scraggly wharf by the river Where lips whisper on each others breath and trembling tongues quiver Take me in the darkest corner of the the old abandoned shed Love me like no other man or I shall have your head
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May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015 at 6:50 PM UTC
Black Widow Wharf
choo choo next stop.....perdition (no, not really...no-one believes this Stygian opacity) 1. look how Time doth ravage thee look what it did to thy visage in smithereens, lies youth it so artfully takes away what is held so dear rivers and streams valleys and hills arching to ecstatic heights plunging to abysmal lows into the ravine of chance stirred by the spoon of Time slowly around the cauldron brews the self-same mixture then poured into chasms of forgetfulness using the eternal sledgehammer it smashes the foundation of thought grinds the nutmeg of speed pulps the fruit of mentality slows the pulse of sensation and pardons none. 2. what was once sensuous and voluptuous lips now are merely two dry slits on your face once stared-into eyeballs, now glass over vitreous cataracts steadily grow, weed-like toned into lithe elastic bands now stretch away into forever, a pale platform to walk on life's morn is encompassed by years' slanting clouded and bedimmed by mists of age butterfly's existence outweighs a man's by mere night-veiled windowpane of true sight draw the curtains; close the shutters; screen the eyes the time has come to shed all blinkers and face the sun. 3. crimp sag limp drag mud cracks down a dipping dale scalding pain sears sore half-foot yes, time is but a disease ravaging all without fear or favour sunken eyes slower reflexes tardier mind scraggly body hides not condescends not forgets not the glimmer of .... a time of ... 4. cathedral invites the walker in cool and calm recesses sit silent wait.... then they walk in, carrying one who had but a lucky half-score lot clear soprano note becomes a rudderless bleat announcing the folly of stifling ego now shorn of burning frost of circuitous fervour beams of mercy cast a final look-see jump the barriers of time to carry thee off. pipe organ-stops are pulled out (art thee ready?  platform number 5) S T,  9 May 2013
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM UTC
time is but a disease
choo choo next stop.....perdition (no, not really...no-one believes this Stygian opacity) 1. look how Time doth ravage thee look what it did to thy visage in smithereens, lies youth it so artfully takes away what is held so dear rivers and streams valleys and hills arching to ecstatic heights plunging to abysmal lows into the ravine of chance stirred by the spoon of Time slowly around the cauldron brews the self-same mixture then poured into chasms of forgetfulness using the eternal sledgehammer it smashes the foundation of thought grinds the nutmeg of speed pulps the fruit of mentality slows the pulse of sensation and pardons none. 2. what was once sensuous and voluptuous lips now are merely two dry slits on your face once stared-into eyeballs, now glass over vitreous cataracts steadily grow, weed-like toned into lithe elastic bands now stretch away into forever, a pale platform to walk on life's morn is encompassed by years' slanting clouded and bedimmed by mists of age butterfly's existence outweighs a man's by mere night-veiled windowpane of true sight draw the curtains; close the shutters; screen the eyes the time has come to shed all blinkers and face the sun. 3. crimp sag limp drag mud cracks down a dipping dale scalding pain sears sore half-foot yes, time is but a disease ravaging all without fear or favour sunken eyes slower reflexes tardier mind scraggly body hides not condescends not forgets not the glimmer of .... a time of ... 4. cathedral invites the walker in cool and calm recesses sit silent wait.... then they walk in, carrying one who had but a lucky half-score lot clear soprano note becomes a rudderless bleat announcing the folly of stifling ego now shorn of burning frost of circuitous fervour beams of mercy cast a final look-see jump the barriers of time to carry thee off. pipe organ-stops are pulled out (art thee ready?  platform number 5) S T,  9 May 2013
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Call delicate sirens of the working class! half-bum minimum wage poverty line subsidy sages hollow of materialism devils, devoid of darkness internal fire strike rage and hellion god bowels light flickering shallow men. The rich men. The truly poor men living in clouded manors on Ignorance Avenue. Delicate sirens not so poor after all, not so empty or so full. God is the prayer call and siren droll and *** roll-in-sleep afternoon shore-breeze faint of hope approaching winter-fall showering divinity flowers the same material as Peter's scraggly beard while he coughs his angelic bronchitis wheezes, purifying the western air. Peter is apostle his snores are their own gospel the doves in his dreams will always be there. The battle goes on the bottle goes up the rattle hollers out the chatter not without. Sirens call! Call with short breaths as the world cyclones through universal woe.
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM UTC
Sirens
*** starved and aging badly Too many cigarettes and 'dank *** weed' Bad tattoos and ****** hair so scraggly He's called in sick to work all week He set his high score four years ago But she broke his heart last June Now he's stuck in his parents basement Doing speed runs on Halo 2 She has no cash to feed her cats But she bought two wigs on Monday She dresses up like anime girls And thinks she'll be famous someday She'll tell you she's just keeping it real While dressed like someone from science fiction She meets the boy at some comic con And they go to her hotel room to make friction ... Edgelords and meme queens Addicted to the obscene Spewing hateful words With no care for what they mean It seems that even the regals                                    Are doing their kegels
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM UTC
The Edgelord & His Meme Queen
you had two tattoos, long brown hair and brown eyes that had green flecks in the sunlight you had big dreams and a scraggly beard and a love for me that I didn't understand you had an acoustic guitar and calloused fingers and strong shoulders you had a love for poetry and a hate for your dad and a strong nicotine addiction you had my heart in your hand and my secrets in your mind and my fingers intertwined in yours you had a lot of hopes but they were never enough because you took them and shot them down with silver bullets using the same gun your mother used to escape
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 10:36 PM UTC
Silver Bullets
*I feel like river water. And I don’t belong to stagnancy, yet I’m caught in a lake. ••• *I’m destined to move silt and sediment. And overturn submerged pebbles so they won’t see the green of moss. I’m meant to surge and eat into banks so I could be split - to make more of me... My reach would extend far and wide - like scraggly fingers grabbing at the face of the earth. My energy channelling through careless forks and into slimmer branches.* ••• My soul is river water.... And my heart renounces the throne to idleness. Yet I am, but a lake.*
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Jan 17, 2018
Jan 17, 2018 at 9:47 AM UTC
River Water
I see you daily and I've come to realize that nothing of you is flawed. These past years I have been privileged to see you: receive letters from division I athletics blossom from the flower of puberty and live in a gorgeous home. But as I broke through your flawless facade, I saw hurt and vulnerability, I no longer saw perfection. Your mother- lost to cancer, your father- an angry man, your siblings- hateful. I have been puzzled to see you: deny admissions to division I schools let your hair grow scraggly, your face become oily and your house be foreclosed. You are not what I thought you were. You are like me you are weak hurt abandoned. You, like me, are not perfect.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM UTC
Flawed Perfection
Cracked pavement stretching ever on, Rolling hills no longer majestic, Scraggly plain bushes all the same, clooudless sky a dull dull blue, and that stupid song on the fuzzy radio for the millionth time. God this is boring.
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May 31, 2014
May 31, 2014 at 4:49 PM UTC
I Hate Roadtrips
"Bring your gumboots and rain coat, we're going on an adventure" Lost, going around in circles; embarrassing. Rainy, sick, "Let's go". Pizza! Closed... cue more embarrassment. Car rides along the main street, soft music playing "Can I borrow that towel for my hair?" Picks place to eat. "Let's become humans again" Dry hair, deodorant, changing shoes. Struggle... Horn blaring. "This looks weird. Windows fogging, horn going, scraggly hair" Awkward belly laughs. Best avocado burger and aioli chips ever.
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Sep 8, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 at 3:12 AM UTC
Today I tried to be spontaneous.
THE BRIDGE says: Come across, try me; see how good I am. The big rock in the river says: Look at me; learn how to stand up. The white water says: I go on; around, under, over, I go on. A kneeling, scraggly pine says: I am here yet; they nearly got me last year. A sliver of moon slides by on a high wind calling: I know why; I'll see you to-morrow; I'll tell you everything to-morrow.
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Potomac Town in February
for Drumhound, whose poems make me weep in the early morn. Which drop in the salt sea can say I am better, I am the best, only the visceral, vis-a-real, truth from the vision. This drop we cherish, this drop is serious, this drop, we keep. No man is a poet to his wife and child. First Foremost, he is just theirs, Then the world can have him as just a poet, after they are done, loving him for his totality. Drumhound has no definition in the dictionary. So I wrote this, my own, my visceral, my virtual one, my vision real and realized, his word vise on me, surreal. Plain among poets, a salt sea drop I keep. Once anything is defined, it exists forever. like a single scraggly blade of grass of a poem I once memorized, about a child I did not know, but know so well, a human-memory survives perennial, once defined, forever lives.
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 5:00 AM UTC
Plain among poets
Hekyl and Jyde Dr Hekyll was a strange old sort dabbled in physics and reform of tort took things serious as a heart attack never smiled much hardly ever a crack he worked every day from dawn to dusk research from rhino horn to sweet corn husk when he sipped on his brew stumbling in a haze colors flashing everywhere fell into a daze his hair bouffant and his collar flipped behind the wheel of his corvette he slipped checking his pretty face in the rear view mirror Yes he was cool Mr Jyde couldn't get any clearer down to the nite clubs he would saunter in order himself a tall boy of tonic and gin the ladies would flock all seeking his attention checking his supply of disaster prevention by two a.m. his reserves running thin time to get back to his laboratory again before his hair and good looks disappeared they would all get a look at his scraggly beard as the sun arose he staggered to his feet dressed in his fancy suit Italian shoes on his feet rubbed his eyes and in the mirror he winked threw himself a kiss and never even blinked yes he was a contrast of demeanor and style his somber face covering up his smile back to his dreary life of barely alive he was Dr. Hekyll and Mr. Jyde Gomer LePoet....
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Sep 29, 2013
Sep 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM UTC
Hekyll and Jyde
When you hear stalls emanating sobs In cracked, ***** bathrooms, in between jobs Drunk, gritting his teeth and getting buttfucked By black men, grunting, as you stand dumbstruck, Do you wonder how a man could be so down on his luck? In a truck-stop graffiti-tiled bathroom in his white frock, Trying to ignore the incessant crow of the **** Gagging between unforgiving ticks from the clock. Sipping on beer, the **** bleeds from the cell Spreading dollar bills over the ghost where he fell. Pale-white, scraggly, he bends down for his cash Using mental math to make the conversion from bills to crack. Rope still dangling between his teeth, he drops the syringe, Dragging a cigarette and counting his next binge. Do you wonder if on the way to help, he just lost His way? But he looks up to ask "the **** you want? Are you throwing out an ad hominum argument? Slipping into something like aluminum garments. Throw me face down into the edge of a tar pit, What are friends for?" Kaysea, turn back, you don't want to touch it Your lungs will turn black and your soul will be rusted Over by doubt, self-deprecation and shame You'll realize everyone else is exactly the same Only you've changed. You don't need the shot Lie sprawled, get sick naked in one spot (and rot) Lest we forget the chains of superstitious fear, The two of us would be lending bleeding ears. Gotta wait for the grenadier to return With the test results What have we learned? Gotta find the truth from within the turntables What have you earned? Misery loves company, and this is your catch. You desire the freedom of looking at mirrors to retch But it's not lucidity (you'll forget that a lot), Just impulses revealing that which is not. Your father'd die twice if that was your insight. Do we all have the right to be in hell for a night? There is a never ending layer of nicotine in my throat And nostril scabs, and that's all she wrote, I hope.
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Feb 8, 2011
Feb 8, 2011 at 1:38 PM UTC
New Razors
When you hear stalls emanating sobs In cracked, ***** bathrooms, in between jobs Drunk, gritting his teeth and getting buttfucked By black men, grunting, as you stand dumbstruck, Do you wonder how a man could be so down on his luck? In a truck-stop graffiti-tiled bathroom in his white frock, Trying to ignore the incessant crow of the **** Gagging between unforgiving ticks from the clock. Sipping on beer, the **** bleeds from the cell Spreading dollar bills over the ghost where he fell. Pale-white, scraggly, he bends down for his cash Using mental math to make the conversion from bills to crack. Rope still dangling between his teeth, he drops the syringe, Dragging a cigarette and counting his next binge. Do you wonder if on the way to help, he just lost His way? But he looks up to ask "the **** you want? Are you throwing out an ad hominum argument? Slipping into something like aluminum garments. Throw me face down into the edge of a tar pit, What are friends for?" Kaysea, turn back, you don't want to touch it Your lungs will turn black and your soul will be rusted Over by doubt, self-deprecation and shame You'll realize everyone else is exactly the same Only you've changed. You don't need the shot Lie sprawled, get sick naked in one spot (and rot) Lest we forget the chains of superstitious fear, The two of us would be lending bleeding ears. Gotta wait for the grenadier to return With the test results What have we learned? Gotta find the truth from within the turntables What have you earned? Misery loves company, and this is your catch. You desire the freedom of looking at mirrors to retch But it's not lucidity (you'll forget that a lot), Just impulses revealing that which is not. Your father'd die twice if that was your insight. Do we all have the right to be in hell for a night? There is a never ending layer of nicotine in my throat And nostril scabs, and that's all she wrote, I hope.
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Such a short time in which this feeling of fear has grown enough to control my life. I "woke" each morning, eager for the day, eager for that class. Acceptance, and laughter- a place where we all look like fools and our problems are left on the coatrack outside the room. I thought, maybe I can do this, maybe, I can be happy, just for a little bit. I went so far as to socialize. I thought this could be the year to turn things around, to finally be happy, but then I made a mistake. Socializing with someone whom I would see in class, outside, and online. Talking to me out of pity or to make a fool of me I know not which, but I know now it was a mistake. I was so happy, just for a little bit, and he made me happier, but now fills me with fear and an uncontrollable nervous shake as we talk. Chill, relaxed, lucky for him as he makes my heart beat fast and not in a good way, in a way that makes me self conscience and close to tears. Carefree personality, but the way he speaks of women, When he speaks, like males often do, of the petite sort of girl. Bouncy and bubbly, with short dyed hair flowery skirts, and spunky with a perfect figure. She's perfect! He'll exclaim, as his sort always do, and I have to then hide my tears. I go home and fall to the ground curled in a ball of my own pathetic tears. Body overrun with the knowledge that no man will ever lay back at the end of a day and think "I'm glad she's in my life" "She makes me smile" "I can't wait to see her again" "How beautiful she is" I'll never know that feeling. I'll finish my starved and shaky day by confronting my plain, fat self in that cracked mirror. Now I "wake", dreading the one class I really liked. Fearful of the irrational self loathing he causes. Looking around to see a terrifying standard of what is desirable. Observing those beautiful girls who know how to match their clothes and style their hair who leave school to live their lives, while my mismatched cloth and scraggly hair goes home to read books on how to fix a speech impediment, on how to socialize, on how not to be me. How pathetic I am. I'm not even sure why I'm scared, or why his words hurt, I just know that being there kills me. It rips me apart and leaves my lifeless body broken on the floor, begging for death.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 2:39 AM UTC
Amard
Such a short time in which this feeling of fear has grown enough to control my life. I "woke" each morning, eager for the day, eager for that class. Acceptance, and laughter- a place where we all look like fools and our problems are left on the coatrack outside the room. I thought, maybe I can do this, maybe, I can be happy, just for a little bit. I went so far as to socialize. I thought this could be the year to turn things around, to finally be happy, but then I made a mistake. Socializing with someone whom I would see in class, outside, and online. Talking to me out of pity or to make a fool of me I know not which, but I know now it was a mistake. I was so happy, just for a little bit, and he made me happier, but now fills me with fear and an uncontrollable nervous shake as we talk. Chill, relaxed, lucky for him as he makes my heart beat fast and not in a good way, in a way that makes me self conscience and close to tears. Carefree personality, but the way he speaks of women, When he speaks, like males often do, of the petite sort of girl. Bouncy and bubbly, with short dyed hair flowery skirts, and spunky with a perfect figure. She's perfect! He'll exclaim, as his sort always do, and I have to then hide my tears. I go home and fall to the ground curled in a ball of my own pathetic tears. Body overrun with the knowledge that no man will ever lay back at the end of a day and think "I'm glad she's in my life" "She makes me smile" "I can't wait to see her again" "How beautiful she is" I'll never know that feeling. I'll finish my starved and shaky day by confronting my plain, fat self in that cracked mirror. Now I "wake", dreading the one class I really liked. Fearful of the irrational self loathing he causes. Looking around to see a terrifying standard of what is desirable. Observing those beautiful girls who know how to match their clothes and style their hair who leave school to live their lives, while my mismatched cloth and scraggly hair goes home to read books on how to fix a speech impediment, on how to socialize, on how not to be me. How pathetic I am. I'm not even sure why I'm scared, or why his words hurt, I just know that being there kills me. It rips me apart and leaves my lifeless body broken on the floor, begging for death.
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Shave your hair Grow your beard Make it scraggly Stop riding your bike So you put on 10kg Drink more coffee And whisky Change your cologne And stop showering Take up smoking Don't brush your teeth Thanks, much easier now Yours Sincerely
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Jul 10, 2012
Jul 10, 2012 at 1:52 AM UTC
Must have been true love
It came from deep In the Florida swamp Draped in unknown covering The gray of southern moss Its hair was said Long and scraggly The deep green of cypress trees Moving through the fetid water Tall cutting saw grass Brushed tops of its knees Some say they have seen The elusive giant creature On warm tropical nights Striding slowly into watery woods Cautiously Golden eyes shining bright Frightened hunters Upon encountering the huge shadow Run in panic Left and right Shivering with fear and terror Told exaggerated stories of pursuit and flight Now and then on an orange moon His massive foot prints can be seen So of course the tales grow Of the moss covered monster That lives in the world of black water With gleaming eyes of gold This poem is copyrighted and stored in author base.  All material subject to Copyright Infringement laws Section 512(c)(3) of the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. S512(c)(3), Tammy M Darby
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 7:02 PM UTC
The Monster of the Swamp