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"sinews" poems
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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Lovesong
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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Loneliness is a pain, Not the pain of a knife cutting through skin, sinews, muscles,and drawing blood. Not the pain of a tooth in your mouth throbbing and sending shocks of horrors through highways of swollen nerves.. Not a fatal pain of a dying cell being devoured by a cancerous growth that thrives on the death and the pain of the very cells that produces its been. Not the pain of the prisoner s body been tortured by men who see no wrong or feel no shame as they insert sharp hot instruments into natural and man made orifices in their captives helpless, hopeless bodies. Not the pain of age as the body's functions start their natural march towards unreliability , Hips, knees knuckles, elbows and all the other joints as they begin to slowly dry up and rub against each other like stones rolling down a hillside. Not the pain of hearts slowing, livers hardening,lungs wheezing like ripped accordians bellows . Not the pain of childbirth. Not the pain of accidents that show no fairness to the person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not the pain of self inflicted wounds that can fool you into thinking that that pain is the answer to your problems. Not the pain of the young healthy times when the body, and mind could accept it and overcome it Not the pain of hunger or thirst. Loneliness is the pain of the soul . Loneliness is the pain of dreams that are dreamt when your asleep and when you'r awake. Loneliness is the pain of memories . Some half forgotten some that are so clear you could almost touch them. Some you'd rather forget. Some you would spend the rest of your life reliving over and over again. Loneliness is the pain that at times can be part relieved momentarily through the bottom of a whiskey bottle or a point of a syringe filled with a concoction of juices from plants poisonous to both the body and the soul. Loneliness can never be cured by earthly things. Loneliness is a pain that can only find peace through a kinderd spirit. Pat Rooney 2013
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 2:24 AM UTC
Loneliness is a Pain
Loneliness is a pain, Not the pain of a knife cutting through skin, sinews, muscles,and drawing blood. Not the pain of a tooth in your mouth throbbing and sending shocks of horrors through highways of swollen nerves.. Not a fatal pain of a dying cell being devoured by a cancerous growth that thrives on the death and the pain of the very cells that produces its been. Not the pain of the prisoner s body been tortured by men who see no wrong or feel no shame as they insert sharp hot instruments into natural and man made orifices in their captives helpless, hopeless bodies. Not the pain of age as the body's functions start their natural march towards unreliability , Hips, knees knuckles, elbows and all the other joints as they begin to slowly dry up and rub against each other like stones rolling down a hillside. Not the pain of hearts slowing, livers hardening,lungs wheezing like ripped accordians bellows . Not the pain of childbirth. Not the pain of accidents that show no fairness to the person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not the pain of self inflicted wounds that can fool you into thinking that that pain is the answer to your problems. Not the pain of the young healthy times when the body, and mind could accept it and overcome it Not the pain of hunger or thirst. Loneliness is the pain of the soul . Loneliness is the pain of dreams that are dreamt when your asleep and when you'r awake. Loneliness is the pain of memories . Some half forgotten some that are so clear you could almost touch them. Some you'd rather forget. Some you would spend the rest of your life reliving over and over again. Loneliness is the pain that at times can be part relieved momentarily through the bottom of a whiskey bottle or a point of a syringe filled with a concoction of juices from plants poisonous to both the body and the soul. Loneliness can never be cured by earthly things. Loneliness is a pain that can only find peace through a kinderd spirit. Pat Rooney 2013
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You're like spiderwebs, Like thick wind entangling, Every single **** one of you I ever met Is wrapping around my memory as I struggle.     I obsessively map out       Every time I made you smile          With a twitch of my leg, I needlessly outline    The dances we did with         Every tug of my wrists against the silk. As I twist deeper into your clutches      I remember when we were happy         And spinning in soulkissed sinews. Without you I'd be free But you're worth the OCD.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM UTC
Love Like Spiderwebs
complexity bias how you love to criticize my poems as too long and overly complex poor me, I’m no genius, don’t prosper by exploiting unrecognized simplicities, rather deconstruct the intricate complexities that I flatter myself are the me-sinews Writing is a **** temptation - we focus on the 10% that is complex and ignore the easy 90% perhaps this once I will surrender my bare bones put aside the rich, satisfying of cave diving, urban spelunking word caressing tongue verbiage rich tapestry exploring - give you the plane of plain where nestles my destiny: nesting near motionless where the couch is my kingdom and cold cereal is easily digested and there are no consequences I am a member of a discriminated-against minority we have no charismatic leader, no marchers anywhere, and government programs say hey you’re free white and twenty one plus, get the crap out of our faces,  you useless piece of rhymes with **** and includes dirt, though I shower twice a day to keep myself occupied 25 years old, a high school dropout, of course I’m white, my occupation is playing video games and making sure my supply of opioids is adequate in these great United States where I was born there are fewer jobs than none that my application survives a first glance discardation, and now my disability preempts any demand to pretend there is gainful employment in store in my future this reductio ad absurdum is a technique to expose the fallacy, ah what’s that you say no interest in hanging about, on your way out, of course, of course, we are the wrong flavor of downtrodden my life is simple - simplistic in its a chaotic entropic way, order slowly declines into disorder my rituals are a fight against slip sliding down, falling off the the Herzog continuums and the poems are desperate hand holds to prevent my going, gone under so forgive me if I tax you without possessing not the requisite taxing authority you hone in on the obvious disparities and my contradictions resenting my sending you this bill of extravagant length compose with me and a mean will be located and to sleep I go, perhaps to undress my dreams and explicate the wealthy multiples of complexity in the simplicity of a junkies life
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Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 3:56 PM UTC
complexity bias of a ******
complexity bias how you love to criticize my poems as too long and overly complex poor me, I’m no genius, don’t prosper by exploiting unrecognized simplicities, rather deconstruct the intricate complexities that I flatter myself are the me-sinews Writing is a **** temptation - we focus on the 10% that is complex and ignore the easy 90% perhaps this once I will surrender my bare bones put aside the rich, satisfying of cave diving, urban spelunking word caressing tongue verbiage rich tapestry exploring - give you the plane of plain where nestles my destiny: nesting near motionless where the couch is my kingdom and cold cereal is easily digested and there are no consequences I am a member of a discriminated-against minority we have no charismatic leader, no marchers anywhere, and government programs say hey you’re free white and twenty one plus, get the crap out of our faces,  you useless piece of rhymes with **** and includes dirt, though I shower twice a day to keep myself occupied 25 years old, a high school dropout, of course I’m white, my occupation is playing video games and making sure my supply of opioids is adequate in these great United States where I was born there are fewer jobs than none that my application survives a first glance discardation, and now my disability preempts any demand to pretend there is gainful employment in store in my future this reductio ad absurdum is a technique to expose the fallacy, ah what’s that you say no interest in hanging about, on your way out, of course, of course, we are the wrong flavor of downtrodden my life is simple - simplistic in its a chaotic entropic way, order slowly declines into disorder my rituals are a fight against slip sliding down, falling off the the Herzog continuums and the poems are desperate hand holds to prevent my going, gone under so forgive me if I tax you without possessing not the requisite taxing authority you hone in on the obvious disparities and my contradictions resenting my sending you this bill of extravagant length compose with me and a mean will be located and to sleep I go, perhaps to undress my dreams and explicate the wealthy multiples of complexity in the simplicity of a junkies life
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Tyger Tyger. burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat. What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp. Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile His work to see? Did he who made the lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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The Tyger
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak. Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge. We then, at first encounter, should be silent; Not court the cortex but the epidermis; Not work from inside out but outside in; Discover each other's flesh, its scent and texture; Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends, The hands, the hair - before the inept lips open. Instead of which we are resonant, explicit. Our words like windows intercept our meaning. Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush. Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated. Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy ... While always under all, but interrupted, Antennae stretch ... waver ... and almost ... touch.
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Meeting
Little lamb, lone in the brush Without a mother’s feed. Who is to groom the gloss Of her delicate clothing? Little lamb, who sings to me, Unlettered melodies, Why does she wag forth These eyes of rust— In pensive gloat ache Sipped sinews of her throat? Little Lamb, bleating to bleed, Ventures frail, tender limbs Deep within Tophet’s Vale. Meek, she slips in buried sheets. Little Lamb, orchid chewed to root Bask and bathe the moon Twixt her thighs. Splayed upon pastures Nourished with tears. Wine spilled into the milk of being. She drinks the rich grain.
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Jul 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021 at 4:42 PM UTC
To The Earth
In the dour ages Of drafty cells and draftier castles, Of dragons breathing without the frame of fables, Saint and king unfisted obstruction's knuckles By no miracle or majestic means, But by such abuses As smack of spite and the overscrupulous Twisting of thumbscrews: one soul tied in sinews, One white horse drowned, and all the unconquered pinnacles Of God's city and Babylon's Must wait, while here Suso's Hand hones his tack and needles, Scouraging to sores his own red sluices For the relish of heaven, relentless, dousing with prickles Of horsehair and lice his ***** ***** While there irate Cyrus Squanders a summer and the brawn of his heroes To rebuke the horse-swallowing River Gyndes: He split it into three hundred and sixty trickles A girl could wade without wetting her shins. Still, latter-day sages, Smiling at this behavior, subjugating their enemies Neatly, nicely, by disbelief or bridges, Never grip, as the grandsires did, that devil who chuckles From grain of the marrow and the river-bed grains.
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A Lesson In Vengeance
~~~ My memory of grandpa Was that his hands were red Showing me some pictures A kid's book before bed. The bones were raw and gnarled The sinews looked all sore The skin was thickly callused Spotted, lined and scored. They showed wear and tear They echoed his toil Grandpa was a farmer A tiller of the soil. Grandpa couldn't read But we could laugh and look His hands delicately turning The pages of a book. SoulSurvivor (C) 5/12/2015
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 12:31 PM UTC
Grandpa's Hands
when i want inspiration to write poetry i watch a heaving tempest of kisses they have a better flavor than cooking shows what's prettier than pretty pretty in pigtails shaking her delicious derriere whipped Soufflé? i'm kissing butter princess witchy ****  spread lickity splits eating her with a big wide **** eating grin like an open face dagwood whats more poetic than that hopeful glaring of Adonis's plumper in paradise filling Cleopatra's slathered meringue? ga-ga-ga-gag me, daddy merciless, pa-leazze fluttered big wet talking eyes like pools of blue honey getting it zigged zagged hard against a redraw mouth throttling fluted gullet while eager throat gasps a symphonic music of the spheres in relentless staccato chokes lovin her big devil **** splashing all gym built wonder-boy a litter of ****** and tongues licking pig greedy rapturous milkshake waterfalls whimpering mmmmmm oooh big daddy oh my ****** god pillar of colossus you Tunisian donut you pierce me like a spoon through summer guava who screams like that eating lunch but a half ate apricot? better than a football game I'd rather take her greek more fun than math or small talk preferable to a pat on the back at work or a ridged procession at a funeral oh beautiful dark fig squatting crotch candy bubbling tapioca *** queen of spun sugar ****  all pyrotechnics and fluttering sinews if you asked most do they watch **** they'd grow smug like a senator or punch you in the mouth outwardly high-minded refusing the blessing of a video **** parade of pirouetting vaginas and glistening areolas for the glory of the secret ************ ceremony the *** moralists only good for a secret ****** living their lives with passions submerged and nothing to confess except for guilty offerings as they wander through dreamland shopping malls wanting to know Victorias ***** little secret seduced but not caressed by a mouthpiece for castrated dreams
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Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 4:05 PM UTC
****
when i want inspiration to write poetry i watch a heaving tempest of kisses they have a better flavor than cooking shows what's prettier than pretty pretty in pigtails shaking her delicious derriere whipped Soufflé? i'm kissing butter princess witchy ****  spread lickity splits eating her with a big wide **** eating grin like an open face dagwood whats more poetic than that hopeful glaring of Adonis's plumper in paradise filling Cleopatra's slathered meringue? ga-ga-ga-gag me, daddy merciless, pa-leazze fluttered big wet talking eyes like pools of blue honey getting it zigged zagged hard against a redraw mouth throttling fluted gullet while eager throat gasps a symphonic music of the spheres in relentless staccato chokes lovin her big devil **** splashing all gym built wonder-boy a litter of ****** and tongues licking pig greedy rapturous milkshake waterfalls whimpering mmmmmm oooh big daddy oh my ****** god pillar of colossus you Tunisian donut you pierce me like a spoon through summer guava who screams like that eating lunch but a half ate apricot? better than a football game I'd rather take her greek more fun than math or small talk preferable to a pat on the back at work or a ridged procession at a funeral oh beautiful dark fig squatting crotch candy bubbling tapioca *** queen of spun sugar ****  all pyrotechnics and fluttering sinews if you asked most do they watch **** they'd grow smug like a senator or punch you in the mouth outwardly high-minded refusing the blessing of a video **** parade of pirouetting vaginas and glistening areolas for the glory of the secret ************ ceremony the *** moralists only good for a secret ****** living their lives with passions submerged and nothing to confess except for guilty offerings as they wander through dreamland shopping malls wanting to know Victorias ***** little secret seduced but not caressed by a mouthpiece for castrated dreams
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~the heart of (the) matter~ ~~~~~~ an essential phrase, that concentrates the instincts not to sway away,    be focused on, by the always present algorithm of the essences but my version preferred is that "the heart of matter" with skill and effort, one can learn, to shoot arrows honed to be near an-almost-bullseye every time but to understand that the heart is matter, the mother of our body parts, the little engine that could, can and does, and asks only refresh it with fresh blue blood, every second (not to much to ask for) what are/is the sinews of the heart? what are its secreted corpuscular (1) composed of? why words, you silly! each beat, a letter,       the heart doth register its creativity incessant, never ceasing to rest for composition is its goal, to sing to write, to weep from pleasured thoughts and deepest fright, and you say you need inspiration? then listen to your writing vibrations that from thy center emanate, you who toil laboriously when all that matters is the matter, the wonderful matter of who when where and why that chatterbox in your body never ever pauses ***and that is why in the matter of god, have no doubts only a god could have conceived of a world of billions of composers where each one of us matters***… 5:19am Wed Sep 10
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Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM UTC
the heart of matter
The trail rose up through the sand and sage covered hills following the sinews of a land scoured by fire and flood. Even the most severe carving here was nothing compared to the city below- its concrete grid glaring over my shoulder- sprawled out, ******* on its dingy comforter of smog- ******* up the dust of the desert around it. The trail led me up. Up past twisted juniper bones, past pale green yuccas curling fine white filagree from their dagger blades, past sandstone boulders swirled like confections, past ancient cooking pits nested with ash, and ghost-like hands outlined on stone- to a white cliff face up-thrust beneath the cloudless sky. From a lone stump a pinyon jay squawked drawing my eyes down. A sentinel to its comrades- who rose up from the draw to my left and sailed in twos and threes sinking down into the draw on my right. Right before me, around me, behind me, first two- then six, then tens of metallic blue wings beating heavily against the unfamiliar desert air. They had come down. Down from the scrubby forests of pine. Down from snow covered slopes. Hungry, they searched the green fingers of the washes- the winter forcing them down across the trail that was drawing me up. They passed close by, wing beats feathered my ears, first up, then down- the sentinel keeping an eye . Listening, suddenly hearing my breath beat against the wind- I stood motionless, perched beyond starting and destination- blue wings lifting the hunger within. Tom Spencer © 2017
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 8:53 AM UTC
Pinyon Jays
The trail rose up through the sand and sage covered hills following the sinews of a land scoured by fire and flood. Even the most severe carving here was nothing compared to the city below- its concrete grid glaring over my shoulder- sprawled out, ******* on its dingy comforter of smog- ******* up the dust of the desert around it. The trail led me up. Up past twisted juniper bones, past pale green yuccas curling fine white filagree from their dagger blades, past sandstone boulders swirled like confections, past ancient cooking pits nested with ash, and ghost-like hands outlined on stone- to a white cliff face up-thrust beneath the cloudless sky. From a lone stump a pinyon jay squawked drawing my eyes down. A sentinel to its comrades- who rose up from the draw to my left and sailed in twos and threes sinking down into the draw on my right. Right before me, around me, behind me, first two- then six, then tens of metallic blue wings beating heavily against the unfamiliar desert air. They had come down. Down from the scrubby forests of pine. Down from snow covered slopes. Hungry, they searched the green fingers of the washes- the winter forcing them down across the trail that was drawing me up. They passed close by, wing beats feathered my ears, first up, then down- the sentinel keeping an eye . Listening, suddenly hearing my breath beat against the wind- I stood motionless, perched beyond starting and destination- blue wings lifting the hunger within. Tom Spencer © 2017
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We, the rescued, From whose hollow bones death had begun to whittle his flutes, And on whose sinews he had already stroked his bow- Our bodies continue to lament With their mutilated music. We, the rescued, The nooses wound for our necks still dangle Before us in the blue air- Hourglasses still fill with our dripping blood. We, the rescued, The worms of fear still feed on us. Our constellation is buried in dust. We, the rescued, Beg you: Show us your sun, but gradually. Lead us from star to star, step by step. Be gentle when you teach us to live again. Lest the song of a bird, Or a pail being filled at the well, Let our badly sealed pain burst forth again And carry us away - We beg you: Do not show us an angry dog, not yet - It could be, it could be That we will dissolve into dust Dissolve into dust before your eyes. For what binds our fabric together? We whose breath vacated us, Whose soul fled to Him out of that midnight Long before our bodies were rescued Into the arc of the moment. We, the rescued, We press your hand We look into your eye- But all that binds us together now is leave-taking. The leave-taking in the dust Binds us together with you Nelly Sachs
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Aug 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016 at 5:26 AM UTC
"Chorus of the Rescued"
And death shall have no dominion. Dead mean naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion. No more may gulls cry at their ears Or waves break loud on the seashores; Where blew a flower may a flower no more Lift its head to the blows of the rain; Through they be mad and dead as nails, Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
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And Death Shall Have No Dominion
One star lit night I sat down to write, A Little short poem about dragons and kites Though In nature they do differ still the similarities remain, One’s found in a fairy tale adventure the other in a child's small hand to entertain.   One has sharp teeth and a mouth that spits fire, One holds a boys dream of a future aviator to inspire. They both have long tails, though ones lined with ribbons the other lined with scales And magic wings that lift them up higher over the highlands and vales While catching a ride on the back of a strong wind gale One lives in a cave and the other a toy box, One sleeps on a rock and the other hangs from tree tops. One’s tamed by the pull of a kite runner’s string, The other steered by a dragon rider straddled between its wings. One’s made from myth, legend, folklore and fear, The other made from the design and blueprint of an inventor's mind's idea. Ones made of sinews, muscles, flesh and bones, The others made of a cross wooden stick frame over which cloth is stretched, and sewn. Ones enchanted by wizards and knighted by kings, The other’s to cheer up a child's heart and fulfill all his wishes and dreams. And now out of my head my subjects take flight, Now I do find there's no more to write, Of the different and likes between dragons and kites.
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 1:26 AM UTC
Of Dragons and Kites
The western sky sweeps Darkness to back yards The dawning east keeps Designing with hues Mornings greeting cards. Nice to see the crews Active in writing Fresh magic haikus Deep in creating Textures and sinews With unique mixing Of color and lures Interspersed musings On honeycomb verse Soft snowflake rhymings Draught on fragrant wings Beams of rainbow waves Fuse sweetness and light Deeds of Devine Inc Wrought in suntan ink Duty with delight In morning twilight
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Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 10:16 PM UTC
Duty in Twilight
allocation of supreme alliteration illustrates perpetual contemplation and concentration that dictates a maligned mastication of federal incarceration of elongated complementary probation leaving you cuffed and based on baseless accusations conducted in aboriginal abbreviations masked task force concluding a course of brevity conducted in coordination then coordinating and copulating condemnation for a homeostasis of thought bought scolded eroded and shot inefficacy perpetrating cultural holocaust irrelevance somersaults galactic static of mathematical bombastic smack addict glued shut in a craft attic floral resurrection gartered section of ****** selection she moves fluid through unaltered perfection of cosmic bypass past the point of extemporaneous infinitude reciprocating fortitude of sinews congregating fabricating visuals of vitality soldering axonal membranes on the cerebellum and cortex simulation of sensual vortex demented fusion more blessed I am that which stands to understand the incomprehensible unconsidered options of racial conflicts the screaming round of unaltered copper fiber severing life from the living only now can we debunk the years
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Apr 17, 2013
Apr 17, 2013 at 9:01 AM UTC
White Demon
Have you forgotten? The Iron The Fire The hammer and anvil of it all The pile of **** and scrap metal The dirt ore heap in the corner of your soul The useless heavy burden On your shoulders, and in the heart of you Have you forgotten the forging and the beating The sweating and the bleeding The swing and the crash, And the pain and the smash; The heat from the fires that purify And the hiss from the waters that solidify Have you missed the bending and folding and the way that you're constantly molding? Have you forgotten You are the hammer You are the anvil You are the iron and the forge fire That creates the steel of your character The sharp sweeping sword of your soul For no one else can change you Except for you So slam the hammer down! Swing it without flinching Tense yourself, your muscles your nerves and sinews Grit your teeth and clench your jaw Grip the metal like a white knuckled vice of certainty Focus on the spot and Slam the Hammer Down! Beat it into something useful Beat if into something beautiful Beat it with meaning for it is meaningful! Did you forget that! No, You did not forget You dreamed of throwing it off, You dreamed of being rid of it You  hoped to wake one day And find that it had melted away But “You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.” ― Henry David Thoreau
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Jun 9, 2012
Jun 9, 2012 at 11:22 PM UTC
Character
How distasteful you are, With your sundry splotches and jarring imperfections. Oh, you taunt me so! Whether your anathemas are reflected through the mirror or my own eyes. Oh horrible, hateful, heinous thing! I cannot bear to stare any longer. How sickly your color is-- A pallid yellow, like one giant bruise That has budded and blossomed In some unnaturally grotesque fashion. My blood boils, my pulse races And I raise my weapons to fight-- Two talons--claws honed to perfection. Be gone, you wretched scab! And so I tear, scratching furiously, Until no more of you is left. The blood is stuck beneath my fingertips, Or what is left of them. My sinews tremble, ****** and bare, As the last of my wallpaper Is ripped from my bones.
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Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 7:04 PM UTC
Yellow Wallpaper
686 They say that “Time assuages”— Time never did assuage— An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age— Time is a Test of Trouble— But not a Remedy— If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady—
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They say that “Time assuages”
Voice resounding in my head (timpani) Melodyharmony everythinginbetween harmonymelody In the bloom of your sprite-like youth. You were His first creation Women constructed from your broken ribs and all else from dust as you shall be. Bodies of cracked red earth and Sunshine Of absent goodnight kisses and cigarettes. Skin to skin Sweat to sweat (whose is whose) You made of Brittle bones rattling through your sighs Pulsing through the sinews of your legs hidden beneath thin skin pale beating, feeble heart Who can tell from my lying eyes behind the blackandwhite bandanna (peekaboo) Of a folded diaphanous paper moon amid a field of stars.
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Jul 25, 2011
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM UTC
Paper Moon
Muscles clench like knots on rope prior to any wintry water droplets dripping on my scarecrow frame. There's a moment of cautious pause, my mind waivers the rest of me-- uncomfortable with the atypical developments insisting through western culture's handbook bathing is meant to be relaxing. I agree. So after a thoughtful inhale we dive in. oo! The siberian shock of the frigid liquid landing on warm, pale-rose flesh slowly erodes with an exhale... My mercurial movements and conscious unravelling of the constricting sinews offer a peppermint bliss-like salvation! The chill fades, water wanders down, allowing my body to interact with the clear solution, allowing myself to be and breathe with each cold moment of wide-eyed cool-headed serenity.
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 12:54 PM UTC
Cold Shower
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
Utopia
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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A bile seeps into the crevis of my soul Nausea and dyspepsia infest the sinews of my being Death would be a welcome reprieve from the pain Then my mind wanders to you And I dance among the flowers of euphoria
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 12:52 PM UTC
Dance
[Crime-scene. Time ceases to exist for YOU, the necrophile. YOU are on top of the corpse.] YOU: Cadaver, corpse, a body's just a body and yes, I'm guilty, sleeping with the dead it loves me, then it doesn't love me.                                                               [Beat] The rosary you must! To rest in peace, so transfigure me baby while warm on my bed. Cadaver, corpse, a body's still a body. Indulge me; martyr to your livid beads please intercede for me, oh, please I beg for it loves me, then it doesn't love me.                                                               [Beat] Now shall I exorcise you; set you free, from the purgatory found between my legs? My body, yours a corpse, but still a body, And when your sinews loosen, skin erased by time who shows no mercy for the dead, will you still love me then, or won't you?                                                               [Beat] To resurrect is daunting, but you shall have the body that my kiss declares undead. Cadaver, corpse, a body's just a body, which loves me, 'til it doesn't love me.                                                               [Exeunt]
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Mar 31, 2020
Mar 31, 2020 at 3:03 PM UTC
The Necrophile's Soliloquy