"shpeel" poems
TV iconoqueens,
late night show,
and mystery.
Newscast shpeel of oh rockafeel,
Where’s yo money now?
Wrapped up in a blinded bull,
grazing Wall Street pastures,
Black Sunday visits again,
in lack of green backs and jobs.
And the people, the mobs,
line up in 21st century bread lines
Only wanting to live,
And be free again,
From mortgage voodoos
and the Repo man's song...
Jan 3, 2011
Jan 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM UTC
Chaos of the trolls of Mars
Havoc wrought by fallen stars
Terror flailing, caught by night
Pawns move one space, born to fight
Women make a frightful pact
Carry babes into the act
The stench of bodies as they pile
Questions not for rank and file
Bouncing Betty's horror, aye
Shrapnel flung to meet an eye
Bullets dodged, and bullets met
The Bomb's the best idea yet... !
Men sit desks behind the scenes
Living on the blood of spleens
Generals spew their jingo kant
Presidential "patriots" shpeel their rants
All the King's horses, all the King's men
Do things WAY beyond OUR ken
Mother's sons get GI Joes
Daddy dies... and on it goes
A testament to heartless greed
*A bride's trousseau is widow's weeds.*
SoulSurvivor
(C) 1/26/2017
Jan 26, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 at 2:31 AM UTC
She ties her hair up infront of a mirror.
She puts her glasses on to see clearer.
She brushes her teeth and her hair.
Maybe one day she can feel beautiful everywhere.
Only certain things she does like, only certain things she doesn't joke of loosing sight.
She isn't perfect.
She is a flaw.
She has accepted this, once and for all.
She will never be beautiful, not even to her, she will never be pretty, not even to Sir.
She knows her place in the world.
To be backstage behind the curtain, where she can not be seen.
To help from the sidelines, for moral support.
All in all her looks are cut short.
Not up to standards, not even in the minimum.
Maybe someday people could see her potential within?
As for now she is under everyone else, something no one realizes her helpfulness until she leaves this earth.
She tries so hard, helping every soul, but all in return she receives the looks of cold.
She got a complement.
Did they lie?
Did they even think or try?
Was it just a shpeel to help her stay? Something that would keep her from going away?
She knows her place in the world.
It is behind the scenes.
Even she is okay with what that means.
She keeps her chin up, everyday, and always finds the means to say "I am proud to be here, and here I will stay."
Sep 20, 2017
Sep 20, 2017 at 9:20 PM UTC