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"slime" poems
I was walking down the street Had an urge to ***** Saw a ***** dumpster this looks nicer than the girl I dumped'r I unzipped my pants shat on the plants got nice and hard and shot off harder than a pornstar. **** THAT DIDN'T RHYME) I have too much time because all I do is shoot slime all over the back of a president who is black. I like ***** I bang ***** I make them *** faster than a game of putt putt. ****** I CANT ******* RHYME) All of you poetry snobs are more stupid than calvin and hobbes You will never be as successful as Steve Jobs. End of story. Because I am about to write another ****** poem.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 4:06 PM UTC
*** Dumpster
they emerge from the wooded neighborhood ridge and fringe at dusk into breadth of lawn & limb. witchy chicks casting banter n bitchcraft. teenage dead end dreamers tipped in black magick lip gloss & glitter, their genderfluid familiars &/or wayward boyfriends apparate in the street pink cloud spinning wheel, & hawking bile. ****** stella smile. swallow a hex, send a snap, tongue along his neck promising to fold bodies before sunrise. the effervescent gasp of post-ritual clarity. in the house, is a kid. a gig. the devil with a younger grip. & the kid thrills on a bit of the ol’ u l t r a v i o l e n c e. ****** videogames, ****** anime, ****** mayhem n melodic music. he is a conduit of dark energy. a pure blooded offering of the stone age/video age, mind in a kind of kaleidoscopic way. he is me. bred on televised bucket slime ceremonials. she checks her purse. drugs & snacks & juul & a pretty dead bird. a daughter of delphi watching your kid. tending to him. trending him. popcorn smelling him, the texas chainsaw massacre on vhs just before bed. palace of teeth n twigs. just a short walk to the edge and then its bath time. the demon version is grisly and cruel. the angel version is starry-eyed and adventurous. to conjure some thing, at the cliff jumping. it was fun.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM UTC
babysitters on acid (eat, pray, love, conjure satan)
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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Explosion
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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Reunited Walking down a path, where no man should ever go, its dark, cold, damp and I'm moving very slow. Feeling the walls that are covered in slime, too many things happening at the same time. So much hidden deep down in my soul, not sure if I can escape this black hole. Things I've done can never be told, Sometimes life gets put on hold. If only these things, I could mention, it would relieve so much tension. So many things, I just can't say, if I did I'd be put so far away. I've reached the point of no return, next one who gets in my way, I'm gonna burn. Getting more angry by the minute, bought some guns in case I have to shoot. This giant duffle bag is getting quite heavy, I wish I still had my 57 Chevy. Back then life was great, Wife, kids, house, fence with a gate. Then one stormy night, a car went off the road, since that night my brain started to overload. Fell into a deep depression, lost my job, thanks to the recession. Lost my house, lost my car, all my dreams are now to far. Walked into the place, I used to work, hated my boss, he was such a **** Grabbed my guns and started to shoot, all the blood was staring to pollute. Shot as many as I possibly could, don't know why, just thought I should. Losing everything drove me insane, I'm not making excuses for my brain. Not long after there were hundreds of police, there was no offering of a sign of peace. They barged in and I resisted arrest, I was shot several times in the chest. I wanted to die, but always in style, all I could see was my families smile. Now we're back all reunited, I have never been more delighted. No one I shot that day ended up dying, just some blood and a lot of crying.
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 12:14 PM UTC
Reunited
Reunited Walking down a path, where no man should ever go, its dark, cold, damp and I'm moving very slow. Feeling the walls that are covered in slime, too many things happening at the same time. So much hidden deep down in my soul, not sure if I can escape this black hole. Things I've done can never be told, Sometimes life gets put on hold. If only these things, I could mention, it would relieve so much tension. So many things, I just can't say, if I did I'd be put so far away. I've reached the point of no return, next one who gets in my way, I'm gonna burn. Getting more angry by the minute, bought some guns in case I have to shoot. This giant duffle bag is getting quite heavy, I wish I still had my 57 Chevy. Back then life was great, Wife, kids, house, fence with a gate. Then one stormy night, a car went off the road, since that night my brain started to overload. Fell into a deep depression, lost my job, thanks to the recession. Lost my house, lost my car, all my dreams are now to far. Walked into the place, I used to work, hated my boss, he was such a **** Grabbed my guns and started to shoot, all the blood was staring to pollute. Shot as many as I possibly could, don't know why, just thought I should. Losing everything drove me insane, I'm not making excuses for my brain. Not long after there were hundreds of police, there was no offering of a sign of peace. They barged in and I resisted arrest, I was shot several times in the chest. I wanted to die, but always in style, all I could see was my families smile. Now we're back all reunited, I have never been more delighted. No one I shot that day ended up dying, just some blood and a lot of crying.
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I remember the history well: The soldiers and politicians emerged With briefcases and guns And celebrations on city nights. They scoured the mess Reviewed our history Saw the executions at dawn Then signed with secret policemen And decided something Had to be done. They scoured the mess Resurrected old blue-prints Of vicious times Tracked the shapes of sinking cities And learned at last That nothing can be avoided And so avoided everything. I remember the history well. 2 We emerged from our ******* mounds Discovered a view of the sky As the air danced in heat. Through the view of the city In flames, we rewound times Of executions at beaches. Salt streamed down our brows. Everywhere stagger victims of rigged elections Monolithic accidents on hungry roads The infinite web of ethnic politics Power-dreams of fevered winds. The nation was a map stitched From the grabbing of future flesh And became a rush through Historical slime 3 We emerged on edge Of time future With bright fumes From burning towers. The fumes lit political rallies. We started a war Ended it And dreamed about our chance. Fat fish eat little fish Big ones arrange executions And armed robberies. Our ******* shapes us all. I remember the history well. The tiger’s snarl is bought In currencies of silence. Eggs grow large: A monstrous face is hatched. On the edge of time future I am a boy With running sores Of remember history Watching the stitches widen Waiting for the volcano’s laughter In the fevered winds Hearing the gnash Of those who will join us At the mighty gateways With new blue-prints With dew as seal And fire as constant And a trail through time past To us Who remember the history well. We weave words on red And sing on the edge of blue. And with our nerves primed We shall spin silk from ******* And frame time with our resolve. ________ Source: http://www.universeofpoetry.org/nigeria.shtml
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On Edge of Time Future
I remember the history well: The soldiers and politicians emerged With briefcases and guns And celebrations on city nights. They scoured the mess Reviewed our history Saw the executions at dawn Then signed with secret policemen And decided something Had to be done. They scoured the mess Resurrected old blue-prints Of vicious times Tracked the shapes of sinking cities And learned at last That nothing can be avoided And so avoided everything. I remember the history well. 2 We emerged from our ******* mounds Discovered a view of the sky As the air danced in heat. Through the view of the city In flames, we rewound times Of executions at beaches. Salt streamed down our brows. Everywhere stagger victims of rigged elections Monolithic accidents on hungry roads The infinite web of ethnic politics Power-dreams of fevered winds. The nation was a map stitched From the grabbing of future flesh And became a rush through Historical slime 3 We emerged on edge Of time future With bright fumes From burning towers. The fumes lit political rallies. We started a war Ended it And dreamed about our chance. Fat fish eat little fish Big ones arrange executions And armed robberies. Our ******* shapes us all. I remember the history well. The tiger’s snarl is bought In currencies of silence. Eggs grow large: A monstrous face is hatched. On the edge of time future I am a boy With running sores Of remember history Watching the stitches widen Waiting for the volcano’s laughter In the fevered winds Hearing the gnash Of those who will join us At the mighty gateways With new blue-prints With dew as seal And fire as constant And a trail through time past To us Who remember the history well. We weave words on red And sing on the edge of blue. And with our nerves primed We shall spin silk from ******* And frame time with our resolve. ________ Source: http://www.universeofpoetry.org/nigeria.shtml
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Down in the bayou where the mangroves grow There's talk of black voodoo, like Marie Leveau The Swamp Witch, is legend, she has magic so black That those who have seen her, have never come back There;s tales of the noises that come from the dark Of werewolves and zombies as rough as the bark The mangroves are sentinels, to where the magic resides Where even a longboat has no room to glide Bodies go missing from the graveyards most nights And there's always a fog shading the fireflies lights The Swamp Witch is ruler and Queen of this world Where souls are all taken and spines can be curled They say that she came here from Canadian lands She was a metis they say, from the Western Tar Sands A mystic by nature, a dark witch by blood She lives deep in the swamp, protected by gators and mud The gators respect her, they do as she bids They keep watch on the waters, they're her reptillian kids She keeps zombies as gendarmes, collecting bodies to turn Just how black is her magic, no one can discern The Swamp Witch is legend, she is as old as all time The air in the bayou is as thick as the slime The cajuns say voodoo is the core of her heart They avoid fishing where the mangrove trees start The Swamp Witch, a legend ? or is she truly the Queen She's the Louisiana Witch, no one survives once she's seen.....
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
Swamp Witch
i felt like talking that night reciting poetry to your big blue eyes and raw pink mouth smiling high as a wind whipped kite discussing art, ontology, and existentialism sitting like lotus at the Cafe Figaro on McDougall st in the west village belly of a ghost lost in a vagrant memory afterwards we went to a little one bedroom flat in the east village haunted by the vapors of its history a slight stench of **** and dingo tongue dripping toilet all peeling walls intimating births, cheer and squalor after a hot bath of lathered torsos we followrd each other naked winding around a table into a swaying bed that beckoned **** here my darlings and i licked and drank out of your drenched rose red blossom for hours it licking back I salvaged the loneliness of my soul between your thighs like a desolate dog whimpering thanking God with every graze and ****** of your all supple shifting limbs your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm we looked in the mirror reflecting on my glistening face all red raspberry my lips like blood hydras laughing our ***** off at how artsy we looked smeared with your rouge painted thighs appearing as if half eaten you growled swallowed and licked big butter piggy till your nose ran like the Ganges gagging eyes bloodshot pools of fire cooing and oowing driving me maniacal with every ****** of your wild flicking tongue we poured our selves into each other viscous creels gushing coursing like slime silver radiating and finally used to the marrow we found ourselves drooping sails our eyelids  leaden the night mist fell upon us   muttering shadows and our *** shriveled like cast-off umbilici and we fell to sleep steep steep buoyant like two buttermilk clouds adrift your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM UTC
CAFE FIGARO
i felt like talking that night reciting poetry to your big blue eyes and raw pink mouth smiling high as a wind whipped kite discussing art, ontology, and existentialism sitting like lotus at the Cafe Figaro on McDougall st in the west village belly of a ghost lost in a vagrant memory afterwards we went to a little one bedroom flat in the east village haunted by the vapors of its history a slight stench of **** and dingo tongue dripping toilet all peeling walls intimating births, cheer and squalor after a hot bath of lathered torsos we followrd each other naked winding around a table into a swaying bed that beckoned **** here my darlings and i licked and drank out of your drenched rose red blossom for hours it licking back I salvaged the loneliness of my soul between your thighs like a desolate dog whimpering thanking God with every graze and ****** of your all supple shifting limbs your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm we looked in the mirror reflecting on my glistening face all red raspberry my lips like blood hydras laughing our ***** off at how artsy we looked smeared with your rouge painted thighs appearing as if half eaten you growled swallowed and licked big butter piggy till your nose ran like the Ganges gagging eyes bloodshot pools of fire cooing and oowing driving me maniacal with every ****** of your wild flicking tongue we poured our selves into each other viscous creels gushing coursing like slime silver radiating and finally used to the marrow we found ourselves drooping sails our eyelids  leaden the night mist fell upon us   muttering shadows and our *** shriveled like cast-off umbilici and we fell to sleep steep steep buoyant like two buttermilk clouds adrift your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm
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Everything is a paradox From the fireflies to the boondocks There is no paradigm No pattern to be followed You have to climb Through the slime the crime the grime. Time? None. Everyone will be outdone In a world where anyone Gets a trophy for their shelf It's all about yourself Relax while you can Doctors, rapists, the businessman Set fire to the bible This is it, you're tribal **** until you die! Drink, steal, lie. Because nothing matters. Now go, run, scatter.
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Jan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013 at 3:14 AM UTC
Existentialism
If I sung you to sleep, what would you dream? of mystery and madness? of love and revenge? of spiralling staircases, culminating swiftly in a pool of swirling fear? Starfish – sleep slowly, sleep soundly. Stretch bubbly limbs that are kissed by the shore, hugged by the sea. This cove of creeping creatures, they slip and slime like a plastic bag of goldfish. What will you dream? of memories: when you were swept away from the sea to dry on the sand like a limpet? Bubbling, giggling, blobbing starfish: sleeping, sliding, slipping out of place, slipping out of starfish dreams.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
Starfish Dreams
the slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull and if my stomach would contract because of some explicable phenomenon such as pregnancy or constipation I would not remember you or that because of sleep infrequent as a moon of greencheese that because of food nourishing as violet leaves that because of these and in a few fatal yards of grass in a few spaces of sky and treetops a future was lost yesterday as easily and irretrievably as a tennis ball at twilight
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April 18
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun. Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell. There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies, But best of all was the warm thick slobber Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring I would fill jampotfuls of the jellied Specks to range on window-sills at home, On shelves at school, and wait and watch until The fattening dots burst into nimble- Swimming tadpoles. Miss Walls would tell us how The daddy frog was called a bullfrog And how he croaked and how the mammy frog Laid hundreds of little eggs and this was Frogspawn. You could tell the weather by frogs too For they were yellow in the sun and brown In rain. Then one hot day when fields were rank With cowdung in the grass the angry frogs Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through hedges To a coarse croaking that I had not heard Before. The air was thick with a bass chorus. Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped: The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.
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Death Of A Naturalist
Why in Baste Eyes my Form checks expect Yet cast my Security for his Expense Which, I suppose, that Report I prefect Was a File un-welcomed for my Good Sense Though, I assure, was all to contribute For his Sweets added to his Nationed Chest That, to chillax, take Tidbits absolute And brisk the New Day for his Talent's Best Now this, resolved to wax Slime and Conflict Thus put my Loyalty to Terms reset More fruitful, more pruned, from Pride's Tome inflict Then this Orrery - strike Rocks to Sky's bet. In turn perhaps recover from this Fling On Muted Clouds do those Falcons still Sing.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 3:18 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - NINETY-THREE - TOM DALEY: M'AM DEBBIE DALEY - REASONS
Well, she looks like a witch, Her pointed nose does twitch. As she frowns upon the grocery list, Then scrunches in a timely twist. Bidding her straw broom, Which she doth groom. Hovers away into the gloom, Over a pond she doth loom. To frogs, rats, snakes and slime, Quoth she, "All in good time!!" Soon they'll be no room, For the impending doom. Her cauldron happily hissing, As she adds to the seething, Her black cat begins meowing, After the rats, he begins running. Slowly cooling the putrid portion, She applies the lovely lotion. The moles, warts and silver hair, Disappear into thin air. Her velvet apparel now lace, Not a blemish does one trace. Fondling her silky Siamese, She heads home with ease. To the little candy castle, Awaiting Hansel and Gretel.
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 10:21 AM UTC
The GW*
Previous commemorative memorials of positivity drown in radioactive slime. Disperse chi like flooding water Contaminated, laminated with oily tears. "How is pain controlled?
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM UTC
Disposing Livid Memories
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind its barrier less than five miles from my house. Lord be with us say the makers of a nation. Lord look down say the builders of a harbour. They came and cut a shape out of ocean and left stone to close around their labour. Officers and their wives promenaded on this spot once and saw with their own eyes the opulent horizon and obedient skies which nine tenths of the law provided. And frigates with thirty-six guns, cruising the outer edges of influence, could idle and enter here and catch the tide of empire and arrogance and the Irish Sea rising and rising through a century of storms and cormorants and moonlight the whole length of this coast, while an ocean forgot an empire and the armed ships under it changed: to slime **** and cold salt and rust. City of shadows and of the gradual capitulations to the last invader this is the final one: signed in water and witnessed in granite and ugly bronze and gun-metal. And by me. I am your citizen: composed of your fictions, your compromise, I am a part of your story and its outcome. And ready to record its contradictions.
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The Harbour
He strides up to my desk, beaming like I'm the winning lotto ticket he wants to rub off in his truck-- "Well, aren't you as cute as a button." Puke creeps up my throat while his creased eyes clearly try to conjure the image of my naked **** I thought I cleverly disguised by a collared grandma blouse. "Is there anything else I can help you with, sir?" Heart racing from the effort to keep my mouth shut and my cheeks pale, I see other people whisper, widen their eyes at his use of "cutie" and "dearest" while he winks repeatedly-- apparently a Morse code for I'd-do-you-baby. I practically feel the slime slipping down my outsides, but I give him a smile. -because I have to-
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 6:06 PM UTC
Job Market Killed the Feminist Me
I need only to smirk and you’re mine Anytime If it’s god that you want I have dozens in mind Devilishly divine Bending time like a grandeur delusional Spine   In a mad hatter ectoplas-mystical slime A prismatic drug addict’s first nursery rhyme Of accursed hearse verses of graphic design Now to lay to rest intellect spectacles musing Of selves glorified more than those of my choosing To deify Destiny’s Deathly serenity Plentifully sending me vibrant surprises And penning my ending in violent demises Disguises surmised by the climate arises Girl always there riding my similar waves As I try to save face digging mechanized graves But the cloud tentacles To the depths Drag me down To demented ascension Black holes in the ground Where disciples of light And my huntress in white Vivify me by day Resurrect me at night To instruct and deduct Reasoning in a state Of a being supreme Contemplating its fate
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 4:52 PM UTC
The Sentience on Acid
There is a ladder that I climb And climb I shall through all of time The wood is rough and splintery And so the task is hard, you see And as I climb my arms grow weak My bones, like the rungs, bend and creak Sometimes resolve abandons me My head goes down and I can't see When climbing in this careless way I lose my hold and slip away So, quickly I fall ten feet down I tell myself to not look down I grab hold of the rung again Then meditate and rest my chin The rung has now a coat of slime It feels I'll slip another time I push the thought out of my head For if I fall, then I'll be dead I wipe away the dreadful slime And climb again, step at a time And though the top I'll never see, I keep my gaze ahead of me. "Why do you climb", a man once asked "...If you cannot complete the task?" "There are two worlds", I said to him "...And one of them is filled with sin Within that world, you'll find no light Your soul is bound by fear and spite In the other, you can see Your heart's made whole and you are free The line between these worlds is broad That is the world on which we trod But even here amidst our strife You'll find there are two sides of life We start between and go one way By choices we make every day This road we take is gradual We slowly fall as blinded fools Unless we climb the other way And so please hear these things I say As I climb, the light gets brighter And the load on me becomes much lighter The truth's revealed and my heart made full As I climb away from sin's dark rule So, where's this ladder that I climb? He's here; take hold. He's yours and mine"
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 4:05 AM UTC
The Ladder
There is a ladder that I climb And climb I shall through all of time The wood is rough and splintery And so the task is hard, you see And as I climb my arms grow weak My bones, like the rungs, bend and creak Sometimes resolve abandons me My head goes down and I can't see When climbing in this careless way I lose my hold and slip away So, quickly I fall ten feet down I tell myself to not look down I grab hold of the rung again Then meditate and rest my chin The rung has now a coat of slime It feels I'll slip another time I push the thought out of my head For if I fall, then I'll be dead I wipe away the dreadful slime And climb again, step at a time And though the top I'll never see, I keep my gaze ahead of me. "Why do you climb", a man once asked "...If you cannot complete the task?" "There are two worlds", I said to him "...And one of them is filled with sin Within that world, you'll find no light Your soul is bound by fear and spite In the other, you can see Your heart's made whole and you are free The line between these worlds is broad That is the world on which we trod But even here amidst our strife You'll find there are two sides of life We start between and go one way By choices we make every day This road we take is gradual We slowly fall as blinded fools Unless we climb the other way And so please hear these things I say As I climb, the light gets brighter And the load on me becomes much lighter The truth's revealed and my heart made full As I climb away from sin's dark rule So, where's this ladder that I climb? He's here; take hold. He's yours and mine"
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. I keep an imp:    It dangles limp, And sleeps away its time,    Only arousing    To go out carousing, Painting the town with slime. O.O
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Slimer
How many chairs have we parked ourselves on, side by side in these 6,205 days of marriage? Side by side at our wedding reception principals’ offices school graduations courtrooms funerals new baby nurseries counselors’ offices new cars and bars. In lawn chairs pews rockers couches backseats and airline seats. The size and shapes of the imprints we leave behind changing over time. The faces of others seated with us coming and going. Always, we have tried to leave a trail of love, like the slime of slugs and snails. And for each other, an extra measure.
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Jan 30, 2013
Jan 30, 2013 at 6:32 PM UTC
On the Occasion of Our 17th Wedding Anniversary
I Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore, The snake has left its skin upon the floor. Key West sank downward under massive clouds And silvers and greens spread over the sea. The moon Is at the mast-head and the past is dead. Her mind will never speak to me again. I am free. High above the mast the moon Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain Of this: that the snake has shed its skin upon The floor. Go on through the darkness. The waves. fly back II Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, in the ever-freshened Keys, Her days, her oceanic nights, calling For music, for whisperings from the reefs. How content I shall be in the North to which I sail And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand ... III I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here on the deck in the dark and say Farewell and to know that that land is forever gone And that she will not follow in any word Or look, nor ever again in thought, except That I loved her once ... Farewell. Go on, high ship. IV My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime Both of men and clouds, a slime of men in crowds. The men are moving as the water moves, This darkened water cloven by sullen swells Against your sides, then shoving and slithering, The darkness shattered, turbulent with foam. To be free again, to return to the violent mind That is their mind, these men, and that will bind Me round, carry me, misty deck, carry me To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on.
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Farewell to Florida
I Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore, The snake has left its skin upon the floor. Key West sank downward under massive clouds And silvers and greens spread over the sea. The moon Is at the mast-head and the past is dead. Her mind will never speak to me again. I am free. High above the mast the moon Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain Of this: that the snake has shed its skin upon The floor. Go on through the darkness. The waves. fly back II Her mind had bound me round. The palms were hot As if I lived in ashen ground, as if The leaves in which the wind kept up its sound From my North of cold whistled in a sepulchral South, Her South of pine and coral and coraline sea, Her home, not mine, in the ever-freshened Keys, Her days, her oceanic nights, calling For music, for whisperings from the reefs. How content I shall be in the North to which I sail And to feel sure and to forget the bleaching sand ... III I hated the weathery yawl from which the pools Disclosed the sea floor and the wilderness Of waving weeds. I hated the vivid blooms Curled over the shadowless hut, the rust and bones, The trees likes bones and the leaves half sand, half sun. To stand here on the deck in the dark and say Farewell and to know that that land is forever gone And that she will not follow in any word Or look, nor ever again in thought, except That I loved her once ... Farewell. Go on, high ship. IV My North is leafless and lies in a wintry slime Both of men and clouds, a slime of men in crowds. The men are moving as the water moves, This darkened water cloven by sullen swells Against your sides, then shoving and slithering, The darkness shattered, turbulent with foam. To be free again, to return to the violent mind That is their mind, these men, and that will bind Me round, carry me, misty deck, carry me To the cold, go on, high ship, go on, plunge on.
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As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss. One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. I savoured the rich crash when a bucket Plummeted down at the end of a rope. So deep you saw no reflection in it. A shallow one under a dry stone ditch Fructified like any aquarium. When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch A white face hovered over the bottom. Others had echoes, gave back your own call With a clean new music in it. And one Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection. Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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Personal Helicon
But why did I **** him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and throb with his cry, And his eyes goggle under his hair, As my fingers sink into the fair White skin of his throat. It was I! I killed him! My God! Don't you hear? I shook him until his red tongue Hung flapping out through the black, queer, Swollen lines of his lips. And I clung With my nails drawing blood, while I flung The loose, heavy body in fear. Fear lest he should still not be dead. I was drunk with the lust of his life. The blood-drops oozed slow from his head And dabbled a chair. And our strife Lasted one reeling second, his knife Lay and winked in the lights overhead. And the waltz from the ballroom I heard, When I called him a low, sneaking cur. And the wail of the violins stirred My brute anger with visions of her. As I throttled his windpipe, the purr Of his breath with the waltz became blurred. I have ridden ten miles through the dark, With that music, an infernal din, Pounding rhythmic inside me. Just Hark! One! Two! Three! And my fingers sink in To his flesh when the violins, thin And straining with passion, grow stark. One! Two! Three! Oh, the horror of sound! While she danced I was crushing his throat. He had tasted the joy of her, wound Round her body, and I heard him gloat On the favour. That instant I smote. One! Two! Three! How the dancers swirl round! He is here in the room, in my arm, His limp body hangs on the spin Of the waltz we are dancing, a swarm Of blood-drops is hemming us in! Round and round! One! Two! Three! And his sin Is red like his tongue lolling warm. One! Two! Three! And the drums are his knell. He is heavy, his feet beat the floor As I drag him about in the swell Of the waltz. With a menacing roar, The trumpets crash in through the door. One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell. One! Two! Three! In the chaos of space Rolls the earth to the hideous glee Of death! And so cramped is this place, I stifle and pant. One! Two! Three! Round and round! God! 'Tis he throttles me! He has covered my mouth with his face! And his blood has dripped into my heart! And my heart beats and labours. One! Two! Three! His dead limbs have coiled every part Of my body in tentacles. Through My ears the waltz jangles. Like glue His dead body holds me athwart. One! Two! Three! Give me air! Oh! My God! One! Two! Three! I am drowning in slime! One! Two! Three! And his corpse, like a clod, Beats me into a jelly! The chime, One! Two! Three! And his dead legs keep time. Air! Give me air! Air! My God!
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After Hearing A Waltz By Bartok
But why did I **** him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and throb with his cry, And his eyes goggle under his hair, As my fingers sink into the fair White skin of his throat. It was I! I killed him! My God! Don't you hear? I shook him until his red tongue Hung flapping out through the black, queer, Swollen lines of his lips. And I clung With my nails drawing blood, while I flung The loose, heavy body in fear. Fear lest he should still not be dead. I was drunk with the lust of his life. The blood-drops oozed slow from his head And dabbled a chair. And our strife Lasted one reeling second, his knife Lay and winked in the lights overhead. And the waltz from the ballroom I heard, When I called him a low, sneaking cur. And the wail of the violins stirred My brute anger with visions of her. As I throttled his windpipe, the purr Of his breath with the waltz became blurred. I have ridden ten miles through the dark, With that music, an infernal din, Pounding rhythmic inside me. Just Hark! One! Two! Three! And my fingers sink in To his flesh when the violins, thin And straining with passion, grow stark. One! Two! Three! Oh, the horror of sound! While she danced I was crushing his throat. He had tasted the joy of her, wound Round her body, and I heard him gloat On the favour. That instant I smote. One! Two! Three! How the dancers swirl round! He is here in the room, in my arm, His limp body hangs on the spin Of the waltz we are dancing, a swarm Of blood-drops is hemming us in! Round and round! One! Two! Three! And his sin Is red like his tongue lolling warm. One! Two! Three! And the drums are his knell. He is heavy, his feet beat the floor As I drag him about in the swell Of the waltz. With a menacing roar, The trumpets crash in through the door. One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell. One! Two! Three! In the chaos of space Rolls the earth to the hideous glee Of death! And so cramped is this place, I stifle and pant. One! Two! Three! Round and round! God! 'Tis he throttles me! He has covered my mouth with his face! And his blood has dripped into my heart! And my heart beats and labours. One! Two! Three! His dead limbs have coiled every part Of my body in tentacles. Through My ears the waltz jangles. Like glue His dead body holds me athwart. One! Two! Three! Give me air! Oh! My God! One! Two! Three! I am drowning in slime! One! Two! Three! And his corpse, like a clod, Beats me into a jelly! The chime, One! Two! Three! And his dead legs keep time. Air! Give me air! Air! My God!
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I feel messy Full of swirling colors Blue red green black orange blue Sad and angry and happy and apathetic and anxious All at once Mixing into brown slime at the bottom of my chest Dried blood Three new scars Another night spent sobbing awake and trying to breathe Three more Messy things, emotions.
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Apr 27, 2014 at 11:32 PM UTC
Messy