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"snooping" poems
When shall we learn, what should be clear as day, We cannot choose what we are free to love? Although the mouse we banished yesterday Is an enraged rhinoceros today, Our value is more threatened than we know: Shabby objections to our present day Go snooping round its outskirts; night and day Faces, orations, battles, bait our will As questionable forms and noises will; Whole phyla of resentments every day Give status to the wild men of the world Who rule the absent-minded and this world. We are created from and with the world To suffer with and from it day by day: Whether we meet in a majestic world Of solid measurements or a dream world Of swans and gold, we are required to love All homeless objects that require a world. Our claim to own our bodies and our world Is our catastrophe. What can we know But panic and caprice until we know Our dreadful appetite demands a world Whose order, origin, and purpose will Be fluent satisfaction of our will? Drift, Autumn, drift; fall, colours, where you will: Bald melancholia minces through the world. Regret, cold oceans, the lymphatic will Caught in reflection on the right to will: While violent dogs excite their dying day To bacchic fury; snarl, though, as they will, Their teeth are not a triumph for the will But utter hesitation. What we love Ourselves for is our power not to love, To shrink to nothing or explode at will, To ruin and remember that we know What ruins and hyaenas cannot know. If in this dark now I less often know That spiral staircase where the haunted will Hunts for its stolen luggage, who should know Better than you, beloved, how I know What gives security to any world. Or in whose mirror I begin to know The chaos of the heart as merchants know Their coins and cities, genius its own day? For through our lively traffic all the day, In my own person I am forced to know How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love. Dear flesh, dear mind, dear spirit, O dear love, In the depths of myself blind monsters know Your presence and are angry, dreading Love That asks its image for more than love; The hot rampageous horses of my will, Catching the scent of Heaven, whinny: Love Gives no excuse to evil done for love, Neither in you, nor me, nor armies, nor the world Of words and wheels, nor any other world. Dear fellow-creature, praise our God of Love That we are so admonished, that no day Of conscious trial be a wasted day. Or else we make a scarecrow of the day, Loose ends and jumble of our common world, And stuff and nonsense of our own free will; Or else our changing flesh may never know There must be sorrow if there can be love.
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When shall we learn, what should be clear as day, We cannot choose what we are free to love? Although the mouse we banished yesterday Is an enraged rhinoceros today, Our value is more threatened than we know: Shabby objections to our present day Go snooping round its outskirts; night and day Faces, orations, battles, bait our will As questionable forms and noises will; Whole phyla of resentments every day Give status to the wild men of the world Who rule the absent-minded and this world. We are created from and with the world To suffer with and from it day by day: Whether we meet in a majestic world Of solid measurements or a dream world Of swans and gold, we are required to love All homeless objects that require a world. Our claim to own our bodies and our world Is our catastrophe. What can we know But panic and caprice until we know Our dreadful appetite demands a world Whose order, origin, and purpose will Be fluent satisfaction of our will? Drift, Autumn, drift; fall, colours, where you will: Bald melancholia minces through the world. Regret, cold oceans, the lymphatic will Caught in reflection on the right to will: While violent dogs excite their dying day To bacchic fury; snarl, though, as they will, Their teeth are not a triumph for the will But utter hesitation. What we love Ourselves for is our power not to love, To shrink to nothing or explode at will, To ruin and remember that we know What ruins and hyaenas cannot know. If in this dark now I less often know That spiral staircase where the haunted will Hunts for its stolen luggage, who should know Better than you, beloved, how I know What gives security to any world. Or in whose mirror I begin to know The chaos of the heart as merchants know Their coins and cities, genius its own day? For through our lively traffic all the day, In my own person I am forced to know How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love. Dear flesh, dear mind, dear spirit, O dear love, In the depths of myself blind monsters know Your presence and are angry, dreading Love That asks its image for more than love; The hot rampageous horses of my will, Catching the scent of Heaven, whinny: Love Gives no excuse to evil done for love, Neither in you, nor me, nor armies, nor the world Of words and wheels, nor any other world. Dear fellow-creature, praise our God of Love That we are so admonished, that no day Of conscious trial be a wasted day. Or else we make a scarecrow of the day, Loose ends and jumble of our common world, And stuff and nonsense of our own free will; Or else our changing flesh may never know There must be sorrow if there can be love.
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Friday is pizza night, usually but today is my birthday, I told my Dad, I asked, “Dad, can I have a skateboard?” That was couple of days ago, but its Saturday. I want the kind with big wheels; the kind the big boys ride own the hill on, the big hill. I can’t do any tricks. I want it to be blue and red, but mostly blue, my favorite color, I hope Mom and Dad wake up soon so I can get out of bed and be my birthday I will be eleven I think I saw my present in the closet last night, Not that I was snooping, I don’t, I just think I saw it. When I get up it will be my birthday and I will be eleven and Dad can make pancakes for breakfast and I can get my present, and later on tonight is pizza and hopefully he makes bacon too and I am going to ask for bacon for my pizza tonight. It’s later on the same day, it’s a sunny day and still it’s my birthday and my friend and me, I mean I, we are at the top of a hill the big boys ride down on their boards, and since it’s my birthday and my board I get to go first, but I’m not going yet because I will in a second. Mom gave me a helmet so I have that on too, it’s blue too, so I like it But the board is more red than blue, but it’s okay because the wheels are blue and You see the wheels all the time but I’m going down the hill on my board now. It going fast and I am smiling and yelling and my friend is waving back at me, It’s a long hill down and the bottom turns a little but I didn’t make it to the bottom, My board slipped and my face, my cheek and forehead under where the helmet was, Slid on the pavement, I cried home and my neighbor doctor called me a road pizza.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 5:04 PM UTC
Road pizza
Friday is pizza night, usually but today is my birthday, I told my Dad, I asked, “Dad, can I have a skateboard?” That was couple of days ago, but its Saturday. I want the kind with big wheels; the kind the big boys ride own the hill on, the big hill. I can’t do any tricks. I want it to be blue and red, but mostly blue, my favorite color, I hope Mom and Dad wake up soon so I can get out of bed and be my birthday I will be eleven I think I saw my present in the closet last night, Not that I was snooping, I don’t, I just think I saw it. When I get up it will be my birthday and I will be eleven and Dad can make pancakes for breakfast and I can get my present, and later on tonight is pizza and hopefully he makes bacon too and I am going to ask for bacon for my pizza tonight. It’s later on the same day, it’s a sunny day and still it’s my birthday and my friend and me, I mean I, we are at the top of a hill the big boys ride down on their boards, and since it’s my birthday and my board I get to go first, but I’m not going yet because I will in a second. Mom gave me a helmet so I have that on too, it’s blue too, so I like it But the board is more red than blue, but it’s okay because the wheels are blue and You see the wheels all the time but I’m going down the hill on my board now. It going fast and I am smiling and yelling and my friend is waving back at me, It’s a long hill down and the bottom turns a little but I didn’t make it to the bottom, My board slipped and my face, my cheek and forehead under where the helmet was, Slid on the pavement, I cried home and my neighbor doctor called me a road pizza.
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The more we know, the less we say All the spoken words have its consequences The more is told in silences The words omitted but heard clearly What we listen, the words crafted carefully They deceive the ears that surrounds Every other agenda works on What favours whose manipulation The smile contains no smile The efforts put to take another mile Snooping and buttering on sides Friends and foe, no one decides Act so nice, what is inside no one knows till the very end Dress so good, please all eyes Give help when it is noticed Out of sight then eyes vanished Deceptive tricks up the sleeve It matters not whom we believe All playing game with roll of dice Keeping friends close, enemies closer.
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Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 at 3:38 AM UTC
Game of vice
When she says she hears voices rattling and battling in the deepest recesses of her mind, then it's time to beware, take care, and make choices saddling you and leave her behind.      Shes a case study of its kind. That even Freud would throw up his hands, make a grand stand in his frustrations and demand a vacation to unwind. She's all that and more. She'll wrap a man around her fingers  make him putty in her hands, leave him babbling in his mirror trying so much to understand. He should feel something, but just can't comprehend, left a mute, numb, mumbling... carcass, of a man. She's like an itch that becomes a scratch that's becomes a pestering, festering **** till you look down horror bound as the ****** swollen thing has taken on a life of its own... then it starts maxing out your cards, throwing your clothes out on the yard, yelling hard. Snooping on your phone. Won't go home. Won't leave you alone. Is it a wound or a woman or a woman or a wound or both  simultaneously, concurrently?  Yes and no. Oh the trials and tribulations I've known! You can really pick em. Daddy used to say, in his haphazard way, and really lay it on me in the harshest of phrases,  meant to dazzle and daze me, rile and faze me, knock me a kilter off my normal day. Son, you stimulate and exhilarate  the spirit of an untamed, pained, wild child woman and it'll be the same, and here this, as an insane drain on the brain most personally and certainly and most notably and you can quote me.  It'll leave you feeling like the beach storming at Normandy.
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Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 5:38 AM UTC
"Son, you can really pick em". Dad used to say.
When she says she hears voices rattling and battling in the deepest recesses of her mind, then it's time to beware, take care, and make choices saddling you and leave her behind.      Shes a case study of its kind. That even Freud would throw up his hands, make a grand stand in his frustrations and demand a vacation to unwind. She's all that and more. She'll wrap a man around her fingers  make him putty in her hands, leave him babbling in his mirror trying so much to understand. He should feel something, but just can't comprehend, left a mute, numb, mumbling... carcass, of a man. She's like an itch that becomes a scratch that's becomes a pestering, festering **** till you look down horror bound as the ****** swollen thing has taken on a life of its own... then it starts maxing out your cards, throwing your clothes out on the yard, yelling hard. Snooping on your phone. Won't go home. Won't leave you alone. Is it a wound or a woman or a woman or a wound or both  simultaneously, concurrently?  Yes and no. Oh the trials and tribulations I've known! You can really pick em. Daddy used to say, in his haphazard way, and really lay it on me in the harshest of phrases,  meant to dazzle and daze me, rile and faze me, knock me a kilter off my normal day. Son, you stimulate and exhilarate  the spirit of an untamed, pained, wild child woman and it'll be the same, and here this, as an insane drain on the brain most personally and certainly and most notably and you can quote me.  It'll leave you feeling like the beach storming at Normandy.
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Marching, hopping, running, waddling down the street, people with working feet oblivious to the stares of the woman in a chair. Why would they see her? She's not even their height! They are just people plodding and plotting, lives rotting slowly away. But, back to the woman in the chair Snooping on the crowd Watching the mothers tug at toddlers reins. Rowing teens shouting "bruv" a lot! She's mocking the crowd in her own way She has become them, just invisible. She likes it like that, knowing of you Yet them not knowing of her. Her awareness is acute, sees the businessman in his suit. The homeless man in his home called box, the elderly matrons moaning about bingo. The drunk with his bottle clutched as tight as the baby clutches her bear. The smokers all congregated at the altar of tar The shopkeeper eyeing the kids, missing the thief The security guard, guarding the pretty Little things, no, not the jewellery the teenage girls! Oh, his eyes are popping! His legs are twitching. His fingers itching to touch! Along with the sights are the sounds, shouting, laughing, heckling and coughing Smell,also plays a part in people watching fast food, sweat, the great unwashed. All plodding along, flocking like birds clogging the street, swapping gossip, unaware as always of the young woman in a wheelchair.
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 5:02 PM UTC
People watching
Took 287 South to a Borders Goin Outta Biz Sale. Books may be anachronisms, relics from yesterdays analog age, but literacy's bankruptcy does have advantages. Take an additional 30% off on any orphans pleading release from the discount racks. Snooping down the literature isle Samuel Beckett's somber face arrested my roving eyeballs. A stern stare printed across 5 spines of his shrink wrapped oeuvre commanded my arm to rise to liberate the face from the dismal shelf. In mid flight my reach was hijacked by a Kris Kringley red snow flaked trim tome standing open face next to earnest Beckett. It was "The Christmas Sweater" by NYT Best Selling Author, Glenn Beck. Clasping at Beck's book, it inflicted a nasty paper cut to my ring finger. My mind recoiled, thinking, "serves you right. Like Martha, I shoulda chosen the better thing." I'll never make that mistake again. Borders Books Riverdale 2/20/11 jbm
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Nov 6, 2011
Nov 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM UTC
Choose The Better Thing
Below, blades are not safe from snooping golden glares. And at night, the moon.
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 11:02 PM UTC
Komorebi
Examining the accuracy. Exploring the brightness. Hunting for certainty. Inquiring the directness. Inspecting the lucidity. Investigating the precision. Pursuing purity. On a quest for simplicity. Researching transparency. Chasing articulateness. Frisking comprehensibility. Going over conspicuousness. Inquesting a definition. Rummaging for distinctness. Scrutinizing the evidence. Shaking down the exactitude. On an expedition for explicitness. Working the legs towards intelligibility. A perquisition for legibility. A wild-goose chase for limpidity. A witch hunt for obviousness. Interrogating openness. Probing the palpability. Prosecuting the penetrability. Racing perceptibility. Raiding perspicuity. Coursing the plainness. Following the prominence. Hounding the salience. Meddling in the tangibility. Prying into the unambiguity. Reconnaissance in the cognizability. Seeking decipherability. Snooping for explicability. Sporting limpidness. On a steeplechase for manifestness. Studying the overness. Tracing unmistakability.
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Dec 22, 2013
Dec 22, 2013 at 10:14 PM UTC
Searching for Clarity
In an ocean of night, dreaming of a closed dining space / We were snooping in on a harsh conversation of strangers that we knew / Towards dawn you spoke / as real in the dream as an apparition in the real / of Father and Mother / of them cruising off on a road trip / You faltered at a word I recollect but won't spell / It absorbed into whale song ticking to a time piece / itching to signal morning / and I could feel the depth of many fathoms floating over a waking to Spring / like being pressed against a cherry blossom trunk / in a tug of war, a push and pull / Let's go Jungian on this, he is much more pleasant / I did see a bumble bee yesterday, not a golden scarab, although that could have been a circadian premonition / and I woke up to a shower of blossoms //
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May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021 at 8:44 AM UTC
In the Blubber of Dreams
They like it. When it's positive. They can't stand it. When it's negative. It's fame. Oh, the publicity game they play. Receiving many, many free type things. Smiling and attending many events. Least when they first starting out. As the fame continue to grow. Soon, within time they become inclusive. As, if fans are too good to know. This I don't sign autographs. I guess they under the impression. They made themselves. It's the fame that has them thinking this way. Scandals, affairs and the snooping of the press. Now have them pretending to be someone else. They might be Sophia Sunshine or River Jones. Just to keep the scandals , from being known. Spokes people speaking. And trying their best to spin a lie. Should have advised their client to be truthful up front. The very first time. Rehab. Rehab on drugs legal and illegal too. We all know of some famous person going through this.
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 7:19 AM UTC
Fame
Dear Mom, I know I shouldn’t have been snooping, but when looking for some socks on a day when I was still living with you and had neglected to do my laundry, meticulously paper clipped in your drawer, I found a 26-page document that made my insides curl when I saw the name of Dad’s mistress printed blatantly on the front cover. Yes, I looked through it (and I know I shouldn’t have) and I don’t know what made me more disturbed—the fact that you took the time, ink and paper to look up the woman who destroyed your marriage on public records, and neatly annotated the highlights of her messy divorce prior to meeting Dad—or that this 26-page monstrosity sat innocently beside his old Valentine’s Day cards, still painstakingly arranged by year, mixed in with your daughters’ decade-old crayon drawings captioned by the loopy letters of a child’s handwriting next to little plastic baggies with worn edges containing baby teeth, the roots yellowed by age and decay. You never let anything go, do you? You hold time captive by the wrists until the soft skin bruises, and even when it finally jerks itself away, you still manage to sweep up every speck of dust its presence left behind, and store it perfectly labeled in your archives like some neurotic historian, where you think your daughter, who was only looking for a pair of socks, would never just happen to stumble upon this hoarded material record of every ******* thing that torments you.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 11:25 AM UTC
"Letter to my Mother"
(Dear Friends, reacting to the latest TV Report about China’s claim of the Himalayan Range this verse got composed. Hope you like it.) CHINA’S VAULTING HIMALAYAN AMBITION ! By Raj Nandy From Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’: “vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.” ………………………………………………………………………. China, having infected the entire world by unleashing the deadly Corona virus, Have now started to measure the height of the mighty Himalayas! Having begun a dispute with Nepal, her peaceful southern neighbor, By trying to claim that entire Himalayan range as part of China! Ignorant about Macbeth’s ‘vaulting ambition’, - which led to his downfall and destruction! In the Tibetan portion of this mountain range, An unmanned radar device was earlier set up by China for air surveillance. Now under the pretext of monitoring air traffic over Tibet, Two more radars devices are being set up on the Himalayas once again, Which will also act as snooping devices upon her peaceful southern neighbors! China already has her jaundiced eye upon India’s Arunachal Pradesh, Not forgetting her earlier illegal occupation of India’s Aksai-Chin region. She also has full co-operation from her ‘boot-licking friend’ present across India’s western borders. Unfortunately, only Historians remember the rise and fall of ambitious Empires. China too shall one day realize her Himalayan Blunder! -Raj Nandy, New Delhi; 16 May 2020
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May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020 at 7:54 AM UTC
CHINA'S VAULTING HIMALAYAN AMBITION!
(Dear Friends, reacting to the latest TV Report about China’s claim of the Himalayan Range this verse got composed. Hope you like it.) CHINA’S VAULTING HIMALAYAN AMBITION ! By Raj Nandy From Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’: “vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.” ………………………………………………………………………. China, having infected the entire world by unleashing the deadly Corona virus, Have now started to measure the height of the mighty Himalayas! Having begun a dispute with Nepal, her peaceful southern neighbor, By trying to claim that entire Himalayan range as part of China! Ignorant about Macbeth’s ‘vaulting ambition’, - which led to his downfall and destruction! In the Tibetan portion of this mountain range, An unmanned radar device was earlier set up by China for air surveillance. Now under the pretext of monitoring air traffic over Tibet, Two more radars devices are being set up on the Himalayas once again, Which will also act as snooping devices upon her peaceful southern neighbors! China already has her jaundiced eye upon India’s Arunachal Pradesh, Not forgetting her earlier illegal occupation of India’s Aksai-Chin region. She also has full co-operation from her ‘boot-licking friend’ present across India’s western borders. Unfortunately, only Historians remember the rise and fall of ambitious Empires. China too shall one day realize her Himalayan Blunder! -Raj Nandy, New Delhi; 16 May 2020
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Here's another story that I just made up That just can't wait to be told About a weary prospector, down on his luck That gave his life for his gold He was way up yonder in the hills, they say Just him and his scrappy old mule That poor old mule didn't have no teeth So he'd sit around the camp and drool Now that prospector, who we'll call Jake Was as secret as he could be He didn't like people snooping around So he wasn't much for company See, Jake had been on that mountain For nigh on twenty years But he never did hit the mother load With all his sweat and tears Then, one day he decided to go fishing A fish pulled him right in the river He tried to hang on with all of his might It's hard to do when you shiver Jake looked up and was headed toward the falls So he decided he'd better let go When he dropped that line, he sunk like a rock And started thrashing to and fro Now, Jake was a real good swimmer He was on the prospector's Olympic team But, everytime his head went under All he could do was scream Now Jake had prospected his whole life But now, he was getting pretty old He didn't know the reason he was drowning But his pockets were full of gold When he figured it out, he had gold fever And he refused to let it go All poor old Jake could think about Was he finally hit the mother load See, when that old fish had ****** him in He was dragging him on the bottom There was gold just laying everywhere And that's where his pockets got 'em Poor old Jake drowned that day Richest man in the world, I think His old mule was standing on the bank Drooling, as he watched him sink They fished his body out of that river The next morning before dawn But they found both pockets as empty as could be It was stolen by a leprechaun Well, I guess it's time for me to go I can see as I look at my clocks But if you really wanna protect your prospector's gold Then let me suggest Fort Knox
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Feb 7, 2011
Feb 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM UTC
Gold Fever
Here's another story that I just made up That just can't wait to be told About a weary prospector, down on his luck That gave his life for his gold He was way up yonder in the hills, they say Just him and his scrappy old mule That poor old mule didn't have no teeth So he'd sit around the camp and drool Now that prospector, who we'll call Jake Was as secret as he could be He didn't like people snooping around So he wasn't much for company See, Jake had been on that mountain For nigh on twenty years But he never did hit the mother load With all his sweat and tears Then, one day he decided to go fishing A fish pulled him right in the river He tried to hang on with all of his might It's hard to do when you shiver Jake looked up and was headed toward the falls So he decided he'd better let go When he dropped that line, he sunk like a rock And started thrashing to and fro Now, Jake was a real good swimmer He was on the prospector's Olympic team But, everytime his head went under All he could do was scream Now Jake had prospected his whole life But now, he was getting pretty old He didn't know the reason he was drowning But his pockets were full of gold When he figured it out, he had gold fever And he refused to let it go All poor old Jake could think about Was he finally hit the mother load See, when that old fish had ****** him in He was dragging him on the bottom There was gold just laying everywhere And that's where his pockets got 'em Poor old Jake drowned that day Richest man in the world, I think His old mule was standing on the bank Drooling, as he watched him sink They fished his body out of that river The next morning before dawn But they found both pockets as empty as could be It was stolen by a leprechaun Well, I guess it's time for me to go I can see as I look at my clocks But if you really wanna protect your prospector's gold Then let me suggest Fort Knox
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Hello, Hello Poetry! My name is ORLA, as you can see: There's my little name, up there. It's funny, see, 'cause I don't care If my poems stink or **** As much as does my ****** luck, Because you'd never tell me true, You'll trend my poems, like you do, And make pretend it's a big deal When - Hello Poetry, get real - I don't deserve this great fanfare, Me or my little name up there, Which isn't actually my name. I go by ORLA just the same Because I pour my heart out here, And don't want snooping friends to hear How much my heart is hurt by HIM Or how I can't stand HER or THEM . . . I actually hate ME, to boot! You see? Now, if I gave a hoot About what anybody thought, What they believed, or what they bought, Do you think I'd let this poem get This long and tiresome? You can bet, I wouldn't. I'd have never written Something when I was this smitten With fatigue, grief, guilt, depression - But I must end this griping session: Goodbye, Hello Poetry! My name is ORLA - This is me.
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 10:52 PM UTC
The Poem You Will Not Trend
I've seen pictures of your old girlfriend on the laptop you let me borrow, I was snooping, looking for something to accuse you of. You told me they had all been deleted (I hadn't asked) you told me everything was gone. I've read messages, happy, hinted, flirtatious coy poetry played between two parts which haven't been officially scripted. "It's weird between us now, isn't it?" berated friendship, bartered love offered in the gaps which remain unspoken yet. He does not speak of her anymore. I have not asked. Was it, unsolicited? Or does she tickle your decadent fancy; you do the honourable thing now and flirt with her behind her fiances back. Each trial has been blond and I fail at not hating every single golden glinted thief who stole something before it was even mine to take. You rise and I darken; I smile sticking needles in your misadvised tongue. Still, these words burn sweeter than those in my head. Something whispers about that girl who just walked past. Inside my crypt things do not look good for me.
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Nov 27, 2016
Nov 27, 2016 at 5:54 PM UTC
Consume me.
Lately I've been wondering If the truth is really worth it If my curiosity really paid off Was it better to be innocent Or to be informed? But I've realized something: No matter what I find out Wether knowing was really worth it in the end I still try to find out Even knowing That my curiosity has revealed Things I didn't always like I still find myself Snooping and digging around Again and again Success or failure Answer or only uncertainty I keep finding myself trying again Because my curiosity Is instinctual And for better or worse I can only be A curious little cat
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 4:40 PM UTC
Curiosity
people snooping around, won't stop until bombs hit the ground, always in someone's business, I just hope they will keep their distance I am tired of the drama, they will meet my friend karma, taking their anger out on my friend, soon it will meet its end leave them alone, I can handle this on my own, step up to the plate, and say what you want to say before it is too late.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 5:10 PM UTC
Nosy
We climb the ropes and ladders to success, Jumping from rung to rung, assuring our social status. But the wood is slick and so often we fall. The bars drop and we are caught by material things. We are trapped, restrained from our normal snooping. The community drives the wedge home, and individuals are born. Next envy sprouts and slowly twists up the body. We are left boxed in, restricted, yet seemingly empty and unfulfilled.
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Nov 21, 2011
Nov 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM UTC
Detachment
You started as a girl With wavy blonde hair, worn long (for religion) And sea green eyes. You always wore a skirt (also the religion) And hated it, railed against it every day. That girl didn't last long, The quiet girl who wanted out. You were still a girl after With short blond hair and green eyes, But now the skirts were gone And so was the quiet. You began to rebel, But only in small ways. Hair And skirts And secrets never told, except to me. This girl became a leader, Strong and proud, MY leader. Next you were dangerous. Hiding yourself with Cuts and the cuts with Long sleeves and harsh words. I tried to help, hide, anything at all But it was hard, With parents snooping, Checking my email, They discovered The cutting and Everything else. I was ordered to talk to you and In doing so, Smashed your trust in me. You never forgave me for that, The dangerous girl I knew. Next you were hard and sharp With dyed hair and A slash for a smile, And new-minted bisexuality. I tried so hard to balance On the edge of your affection And my confusion, To find a way to be "normal". But why try? Normal doesn't exist. I couldn't do it, so I Gave up and Flirted back At, you, the girl I loved. Now you're a boy And I worry for you. Your mother won't speak to you And your father ignores you And I had to move And there are too many things I worry about. You can take care of yourself. I know that much to be true. After all, you cared for me When I was younger, And for that I thank you, The boy you've now become.
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM UTC
My Best Friend
You started as a girl With wavy blonde hair, worn long (for religion) And sea green eyes. You always wore a skirt (also the religion) And hated it, railed against it every day. That girl didn't last long, The quiet girl who wanted out. You were still a girl after With short blond hair and green eyes, But now the skirts were gone And so was the quiet. You began to rebel, But only in small ways. Hair And skirts And secrets never told, except to me. This girl became a leader, Strong and proud, MY leader. Next you were dangerous. Hiding yourself with Cuts and the cuts with Long sleeves and harsh words. I tried to help, hide, anything at all But it was hard, With parents snooping, Checking my email, They discovered The cutting and Everything else. I was ordered to talk to you and In doing so, Smashed your trust in me. You never forgave me for that, The dangerous girl I knew. Next you were hard and sharp With dyed hair and A slash for a smile, And new-minted bisexuality. I tried so hard to balance On the edge of your affection And my confusion, To find a way to be "normal". But why try? Normal doesn't exist. I couldn't do it, so I Gave up and Flirted back At, you, the girl I loved. Now you're a boy And I worry for you. Your mother won't speak to you And your father ignores you And I had to move And there are too many things I worry about. You can take care of yourself. I know that much to be true. After all, you cared for me When I was younger, And for that I thank you, The boy you've now become.
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They asked us to write a poem in class I thought about my B2 yellow pencil and the way it used to move easily It was like if my words would flow submerged in a labyrinth and come up to breathe now and then to show off in front of my face that I would never place them in paper again I knew I had to find another source of thoughts and I asked I was told that they'd seen my poem hidden in dead end streets and alleys where most of the best stories go to die they told me that Vincent Van Gogh used the street as his canvas and that Nicholas Copernicus found his passion within the streets of a starry sky I found my poem with a case of severe amnesia lost in an alley snooping between the leftovers of the things that he once saw me living He said he got lost a few months ago when he started to feel unwelcomed around me I convinced him to go back home and fed him and asked him to return to my hands or at least to let me place him in paper But he decided to leave he grew arms and legs and kicked down my door and he was gone again I knew there that everything that comes back never does it not even as remotely as how it was and I'm here thinking why did he leave again? I think he found his color and shape in the streets far too faraway from me
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 9:48 PM UTC
The day my Poetry lost itself
I dragged it in Made it my business Stuck my hand in a hole in the ground With my fist Grabbed a wasp's nest Even this I felt Was a sacrifice worth making I had no business there Or did I? Am I not the one responsible? For this incredible talent For this broken shell This anvil I've forged my will upon Appreciated, rejected, denied, rightfully placed in the trash bin I made the choice to peer Into dark places I once shed light into Before hated age extinguished No longer needed Less still wanted But there I am The pain in my right hand is excruciating What power you possess To strike back Seemingly glad to inherit The misery I have nurtured (like a fool) This perverse love of darkness But I swear I risked dipping into this Pandora's Box For one reason One reason alone Because I love you with all that I Am I cannot bear to tolerate my reflection In your life Because my soul longs to know you As I once knew you As I can never know you again Because my instinct is to protect
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 3:53 PM UTC
Snooping
Milka waited by the gate of the farmhouse for him to arrive her brothers waited also for he was their friend first even if she had drawn in him with her emotional tide I showed him how to drive a car one said and I showed him how to ride a motorcycle said the other in a field Milka said just in a ****** farm field they sniggered what have you shown him? the oldest brother asked yes what fine skills have you taught him? the other said laughing wouldn't you like to know she said stormily folding her arms and avoiding their stares they guffawed in the background then proceeded to practice their judo until he arrived she turned and glimpsed them now and then but all she wanted was for him to arrive just a quick word and maybe kiss before her brothers collared him for the judo practice the last time he came and practiced he had them both down on the ground in minutes and she stood and clapped and cheered what had she shown him? that was between she and him not for her snooping brothers to know she looked up the narrow road that led to the farmhouse but he wasn't in sight just a car then a tractor slowly moving along whose driver waved (and she embarrassed waved back) one of her brothers was on the ground the other stood triumphantly hands in the air she looked away she caught the summery air the sight of birds in flight but not him and she'd put on her new jeans and top( too tight her mother said) with a flowery pattern then he was coming over the hill riding his bike and the ****** of excitement ran through her being and she stood expectantly by the gate trying to appear casual unconcerned and he dismounted his bike and came over his Elvis style quiff his jeans and shirt and despite herself she stood there on tiptoes her body tingling and he smiled and shyly kissed her cheek and touched her hand then walked to her brothers and they came at him with their judo moves and taunts and laughter and she stood there watching sensing the kiss on her cheek burn into her skin and light a fire of passion within waiting and watching feeling his touch on her hand (not to be washed off) and she rubbed her finger along where he had laid his touch and inwardly she mused and thought o God o too much.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 2:33 AM UTC
OH TOO MUCH.
Milka waited by the gate of the farmhouse for him to arrive her brothers waited also for he was their friend first even if she had drawn in him with her emotional tide I showed him how to drive a car one said and I showed him how to ride a motorcycle said the other in a field Milka said just in a ****** farm field they sniggered what have you shown him? the oldest brother asked yes what fine skills have you taught him? the other said laughing wouldn't you like to know she said stormily folding her arms and avoiding their stares they guffawed in the background then proceeded to practice their judo until he arrived she turned and glimpsed them now and then but all she wanted was for him to arrive just a quick word and maybe kiss before her brothers collared him for the judo practice the last time he came and practiced he had them both down on the ground in minutes and she stood and clapped and cheered what had she shown him? that was between she and him not for her snooping brothers to know she looked up the narrow road that led to the farmhouse but he wasn't in sight just a car then a tractor slowly moving along whose driver waved (and she embarrassed waved back) one of her brothers was on the ground the other stood triumphantly hands in the air she looked away she caught the summery air the sight of birds in flight but not him and she'd put on her new jeans and top( too tight her mother said) with a flowery pattern then he was coming over the hill riding his bike and the ****** of excitement ran through her being and she stood expectantly by the gate trying to appear casual unconcerned and he dismounted his bike and came over his Elvis style quiff his jeans and shirt and despite herself she stood there on tiptoes her body tingling and he smiled and shyly kissed her cheek and touched her hand then walked to her brothers and they came at him with their judo moves and taunts and laughter and she stood there watching sensing the kiss on her cheek burn into her skin and light a fire of passion within waiting and watching feeling his touch on her hand (not to be washed off) and she rubbed her finger along where he had laid his touch and inwardly she mused and thought o God o too much.
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I was "hands are tied" denied by a Bloatfly with two eyes, four wings, six feet, and no ***** A gene splicing brainchild high on the benzene manslaughter fuming up from the shores below. He was snooping through a kaleidoscope Excavating my frontal lobe when he noticed the furious drone of an active anthill catacomb. Next thing you know Jealousy's backbiting nag is setting it's sites on his uninviting neck, going in for a quick pulse check. Ready for war, no need for cures attitude he grabbed a scalpel and evened the score.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 7:44 AM UTC
Banished Selenite
by Arcassin Burnham you and me were rebels, you and me were *** addicts, you and me were against the world, trying to take a stab at it, you use to have this habit, of walking down the street, and chasing me down, begging for forgiveness sweetly, your family were all jerks, saying this wouldnt work, but little did they know, sooner or later you were gonna give birth, so we kept it a secret, and waiting til the time was right, with your sister snooping around, i just stayed away for some nights, looking at the next day, thinking this would be over, just to see your face again, choosing different closures, ill never make that mistake again, blue hair, covered my chest, without a single regret, remember that time you were single, feeling desperate, lights on all your walls, pictures with all the phone numbers, settings that couldnt be relapsed, wishing she was a dog lover, or my lover.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 11:37 PM UTC
"Put It All Behind"