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"speared" poems
Welcome the new day As night lifted her screen The sun had brought its palette Boasting of colours never before I've seen Rays like paintbrushes As they dove into the water Light explosively burst into emeralds Ripple and eddies would sparkle and shimmer Bolts from the orange orb Speared the tops of trees and sprawling ground Tinting their leaves with green of olives And grass with freshness abound Its wand touched the tip of the distant lighthouse Turning it the brightest green It brought life back to my surrounding Layered my eyes with the greenest of sheens Such beauty laid bare The difference was literally night and day But my heart is also green To readily accept what my mind has to say As if a child Or yet still a greenhorn I should ignore the stains of yellow And enjoy this new day that had just been born
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 11:35 AM UTC
Spectrum Green
the seagull diddled when he perched on my dock, though no invitation extended, no offense was taken, when in observation, of the foolish humanish varietal, did it opine *"dude, u need to move more and exercise those legs, eat right, many small meals, like me, write your-poetry while in airborne motion."* all this was spoke while he speared and swallowed a little river perch, in my face, flying off contentedly, just to drive his point home - directly into my gut so should the next pedestrian creation, be typo'd plenty, though, I can walk and talk, even chew gum simultaneously, advice from seagulls, who defecate on my dock, should be taken as well, in small sized portion control poetry is best served, proudly prone-ly though I did thank him kindly, and went back to bed...
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Jun 22, 2014
Jun 22, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
The Seagull Said
Hear ye, hear ye hearken from the medieval times of old where knights in the round once roamed jousting with deeds fought in truth and honor to protect the weak, the helpless, the oppressed with an ideology lurking since the dawn of time that all are born free, unshackled from contrived ordeals only to soar high with the eagles to become one with the heavens and bask in the glory of serving the frailty and holiness of mankind Hear ye, hear ye it’s Merlin conjuring a magical spell for the spirit to behold, to marvel, new stages of self-enlightenment where the essence of the King invades sleeping visions possibly foretelling ominous events awaiting new missions or predestined journeys one must endure to become so bold in knowledge and wisdom offered, living in this world’s mold not necessarily realized, instead shrouded with unimpeded urges akin to the signs found in youth, immaturity, the close-minded Hear ye, hear ye the quest to sip from the Carpenter’s silver chalice and taste charitable love for family, friends, and foes where reckless pride and hatred are speared with the arrow forged in devotion of a noble belief, tempered with selfless feats where the sun rises and sets on the wicked actions of human nature slaughtering the divine lights prematurely, locked within many souls yet crusades against evil continues, no retreat, no regrets, no surrender price to uphold the spirit of Camelot, payment in full, services rendered.
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Jul 9, 2017
Jul 9, 2017 at 1:36 AM UTC
In Search of Camelot
Far narwhaled silly monkey speared aquatic creature cucumbered another mammal tonight On the fishing boat, they reeled in both bodies the monkey frozen solid narwhal flapping harmlessly They asked the monkey how it happened his reply was this: So they took his wide-eyed frozen stare as for an admission of guilt. his shock spoke volumes like a speaker being blown out. Tonight, the sailors drink moonshine.
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 12:12 AM UTC
Glacier
Midnight encroaches like a Lion. As Darkness swallows the Light. Temperatures soar to new Heights, on a Cold and Wintry Night. She treated Me to Her Velvet Kisses, and traced Her Lipstick on My Chest. Her lofty Passions kept pouring. On My Body, that was full of Zest. I speared Her, with My Desires, as She impaled Me, with Her Lust. She Moaned away My Whispers, at the end of every Golden ****** We woke up at Dawn, next Morning. As the Sun showed up it's Head. The Sun, was a bit jealous of Me. Coz at Night, I had the Moon in Bed.
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Jan 14, 2023
Jan 14, 2023 at 10:36 AM UTC
The Night I had, the Moon in Bed
I was a shape in my cosy little shell, I stayed... I nestled. My cookie-cutter thoughts would occasionally rebel... And stray to the windows. But still they were imprisoned by the walls that surrounded. I would steal bashful peeks out a window. I'd let my senses take unrestricted flights, as I stared into the grandeur of the carnival that seemed to have sprouted overnight... Just beyond the confines of my home. "What a marvellous circus!" I'd think... I'd gawk with child-like adoration and never blink. The universe lay sprawled in a celebration of systematic chaos. It stretched far into the horizon... A delight to the senses, perceived through such young eyes. The world had told me stories. They were like fireworks that speared up to the sky. I wanted to be a part of the jubilee... I longed for the validation of my existence. I wished to claim the gift of life bestowed upon me. I'd resent being held hostage by my indoctrinated ignorance. I was a shape. I knew I was a square. I knew I had a home... But not within those four walls. Simply because... My heart wasn't there.
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Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 8:32 AM UTC
Heart wasn't Where the Home was...
if the sinking-of-boat …ice-cream by name be deducted from the swept-off-in-flood … by name roll no 31 then would the wings of the comics cease to exist what says the uninterrupted sound of water-falling from the stomach of the moon what writes the pus and blood what writes the fuming-hot rice the creepers and the herbs grow continuously in the insomniac bath-tub the sounds of the horse-hoof floated by the river used to change the velocity of its clothes both in the morning and evening the birds from the cornice go to school by dip-swimming it may come one day when the fishes become very angry and in the tale of the sweet-meat the potter will destroy the jointly-built bee-hive then all hurricane would be habituated to dinner sans saliva then there would be no such morning-walk in the body of the trees from which such a bore could be found out through which an elderly saral may fly into the blue translation of a squirrel the magnetic field of the orange-pulp and the productivity of the open window reside in the same locality if their frequency be touched   then the the antenna of the mermaids speared with sleeping-oil may be injured by burnings their eyes the crow-birds knocks at in the soap-foams produced by the afternoon the pond with a jumping deer wants to make bite   it is not known by this way when a white hyphen sticks to the palate of the shirt now put off all the whispers and let it be talked on the will-paper of the bees why the pages from the honourable ash-trays be excluded those bunch of waters that come out from the churning of the anises and the jumps born of their ***** also make friends with the group-photos now let this other night sends its best wishes to the future candles through a cell-phone
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM UTC
soap-song
if the sinking-of-boat …ice-cream by name be deducted from the swept-off-in-flood … by name roll no 31 then would the wings of the comics cease to exist what says the uninterrupted sound of water-falling from the stomach of the moon what writes the pus and blood what writes the fuming-hot rice the creepers and the herbs grow continuously in the insomniac bath-tub the sounds of the horse-hoof floated by the river used to change the velocity of its clothes both in the morning and evening the birds from the cornice go to school by dip-swimming it may come one day when the fishes become very angry and in the tale of the sweet-meat the potter will destroy the jointly-built bee-hive then all hurricane would be habituated to dinner sans saliva then there would be no such morning-walk in the body of the trees from which such a bore could be found out through which an elderly saral may fly into the blue translation of a squirrel the magnetic field of the orange-pulp and the productivity of the open window reside in the same locality if their frequency be touched   then the the antenna of the mermaids speared with sleeping-oil may be injured by burnings their eyes the crow-birds knocks at in the soap-foams produced by the afternoon the pond with a jumping deer wants to make bite   it is not known by this way when a white hyphen sticks to the palate of the shirt now put off all the whispers and let it be talked on the will-paper of the bees why the pages from the honourable ash-trays be excluded those bunch of waters that come out from the churning of the anises and the jumps born of their ***** also make friends with the group-photos now let this other night sends its best wishes to the future candles through a cell-phone
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They say that lightning strikes are one in a million. Then how is it that every time you hold my hand or stare into my blushing face, that a jolt, of pure electricity runs through our shared connection, bound in tiny intricacies in our veins, restless in our hearts, our minds? I would love to believe that, that lightning only strikes at impossible odds- but I can't, not while I am touching you; my own heart is a live wire and jumping into my throat with the raw voltage coursing through me- terrifying, exhilarating, breathtaking- and belies the science I know will disagree with me. It can never know the passion of traveling at love's breakneck speed believing in someone else, trusting them to catch you when you burn up or to push you up when you can't remember the light. It could never know the terrible loss of energy when the one you love hurts, speared by insensitive sparks. It could never know life in all its tiny fractured facets, believing that one answer is all that is needed- that lightning is impossible to contain. I laugh at the sheer ludicrousness though- Me? A human lightning strike? ABSURD. But you take my hand again, promising so many good moments ahead, so many beautiful ideas and dreams together, and my heart leaps- flying and flipping in ecstasy- and I know- Lightning strikes are one in a million, and I was lucky enough to be struck by yours.
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 6:54 PM UTC
Lightning
selfishness in misery my ribs are breaking and I can't breathe my arms are beginning to freeze my tongue, too numb to speak my arteries and intestines speared with anxiety I will keep saying I'll never stop this Twenty years I've tried accounting for all the broken notches of my spine twenty years I've cried, or tried to twenty years the most important part is the part where you give up give up give up do your work
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Apr 27, 2014
Apr 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM UTC
untitled 112
Beneath the water lived a nymph, beautiful as A flower, if you like woman with petals Growing from out of their face And lips adorned with myriad metals Moving silently with infinite grace. Fishermen who caught her, in alarm Tossed her back with dismayed cries Fearful that she would do them harm When she exposed her fangs, darting from her eyes, Forked tongues from each palm. But apart from all that, she was a delightful creature As proud as a catwalk model Sexuality impressed into each feature Death in each cuddle, Poison injected from each freshly opening suture. At the sea’s dark bottom lived the nymph Devouring fish raw, terrifying sharks and barracuda, Dining on shellfish and prawns for lunch; Darting amongst Angel Fish and eels, a hungry aficionada, Tearing into shreds what she could not crunch. Gentle with her own kind until coition Was complete, when if hungry she devoured Her temporary mate without undue consideration, No please or thank you. Feeling duly empowered By her actions, as confirmed by her explosive, acrid indigestion. No longer young, her children dead, She glides through the water from China to France A preposterous seaweed hat upon her head And in several places, impaling her scaly flesh a serrated coral branch. Her sartorial taste filling even the sharks with fin-quaking dread. The last of the kind. The others are (literally) toast. Protected by animal charities here and abroad She gladly subsists on ambitious swimmers who venture far from the coast All she can now catch or afford. A capricious tyrant until the last, when, victim of a fisherman’s boast She was hoist up like iniquitous cod Out of the sea, paraded on the deck while she struggled for breath. Shot at. Abused. Poked and speared with a steel tipped rod, Dragged into the harbour, pummelled close to death. Screaming out, as she in unexpected agony died: “I thought, I truly thought, I was god!”
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 2:06 PM UTC
THE NYMPH
Beneath the water lived a nymph, beautiful as A flower, if you like woman with petals Growing from out of their face And lips adorned with myriad metals Moving silently with infinite grace. Fishermen who caught her, in alarm Tossed her back with dismayed cries Fearful that she would do them harm When she exposed her fangs, darting from her eyes, Forked tongues from each palm. But apart from all that, she was a delightful creature As proud as a catwalk model Sexuality impressed into each feature Death in each cuddle, Poison injected from each freshly opening suture. At the sea’s dark bottom lived the nymph Devouring fish raw, terrifying sharks and barracuda, Dining on shellfish and prawns for lunch; Darting amongst Angel Fish and eels, a hungry aficionada, Tearing into shreds what she could not crunch. Gentle with her own kind until coition Was complete, when if hungry she devoured Her temporary mate without undue consideration, No please or thank you. Feeling duly empowered By her actions, as confirmed by her explosive, acrid indigestion. No longer young, her children dead, She glides through the water from China to France A preposterous seaweed hat upon her head And in several places, impaling her scaly flesh a serrated coral branch. Her sartorial taste filling even the sharks with fin-quaking dread. The last of the kind. The others are (literally) toast. Protected by animal charities here and abroad She gladly subsists on ambitious swimmers who venture far from the coast All she can now catch or afford. A capricious tyrant until the last, when, victim of a fisherman’s boast She was hoist up like iniquitous cod Out of the sea, paraded on the deck while she struggled for breath. Shot at. Abused. Poked and speared with a steel tipped rod, Dragged into the harbour, pummelled close to death. Screaming out, as she in unexpected agony died: “I thought, I truly thought, I was god!”
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[Intro: Quavo] **** man. Brrrrtttttt Hello? What the hell you mean Ma? I ain't did **** **** [Hook: Quavo] Feds hit the spot man I ain't saying nothin They came around about 5 o' clock this morning (12!) They telling me I'm copping contraband from informants Channel 2, Fox 5, I'm America's most wanted! (Ooh!) Hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy Hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy Feds hit the spot say I'm copping from informants Channel 2, Fox 5, I'm America's most wanted! (Ooh!) [Verse 1: Quavo] Yeah, yeah, Quavo I pick up my **** and then hit the door (Oh **** **** 12!) Surrounding my house and they kick the door (Boom! Boom!) "Don't move, get on the floor!" I hit the window and fell on the curb I'm trying to get up and take off, the officer speared me, like Goldberg Say "Where were you 3 o clock on the dot?" "My Momma's house" "You a ******* liar" Have you heard about your new worker? (Nah) Know I put him in your circle I witnessed you purchase the pound (nuh uh) I witnessed you purchase the brown (no you didn't) I witnessed you purchase the white (no!) Say goodnight down the road for a long flight [Hook] [Verse 2: Takeoff] Hot Boy like Silkk the Shocker, pull up on your blocka with the Waka Flocka Momma hit me on my cellular told me that Quavo got caught by the coppers **** They say they've been investigating and Migo gang we connected with the mobsters (Huh?) Can't talk to you ****** my lawyer talk. **** the prosecutor Mr. Marcus **** Lookin out of my window, I see a black truck and it's empty Walk to the door check the peephole (what that is man?) Then I start hearing a noise and it makes me paranoid **** Thinking what the **** is going on? (What the **** All of these tools like it's Autozone If I get caught I ain't coming home (No!) [Hook] [Verse 3: Offset] Offset! They said that I sold to informants I told them I just got off touring They circle my house like an orbit **** He telling me he gon extort me (huh?) 50% of my income, unfortunately he not gon get none Life sentence or freedom so pick one **** ***** you trying the wrong one **** ***** Quavo call my phone, his spot got raided it just got kicked in We all met up in the Westin Who know what the **** going on it ain't making sense (who know?) The police talking they got evidence I told you ****** bout serving them Mexicans (I told you ****** **** There go 12 **** I picked up my **** and I moved out the residence [Hook]
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 9:13 AM UTC
Hot boy
[Intro: Quavo] **** man. Brrrrtttttt Hello? What the hell you mean Ma? I ain't did **** **** [Hook: Quavo] Feds hit the spot man I ain't saying nothin They came around about 5 o' clock this morning (12!) They telling me I'm copping contraband from informants Channel 2, Fox 5, I'm America's most wanted! (Ooh!) Hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy Hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy, hot boy Feds hit the spot say I'm copping from informants Channel 2, Fox 5, I'm America's most wanted! (Ooh!) [Verse 1: Quavo] Yeah, yeah, Quavo I pick up my **** and then hit the door (Oh **** **** 12!) Surrounding my house and they kick the door (Boom! Boom!) "Don't move, get on the floor!" I hit the window and fell on the curb I'm trying to get up and take off, the officer speared me, like Goldberg Say "Where were you 3 o clock on the dot?" "My Momma's house" "You a ******* liar" Have you heard about your new worker? (Nah) Know I put him in your circle I witnessed you purchase the pound (nuh uh) I witnessed you purchase the brown (no you didn't) I witnessed you purchase the white (no!) Say goodnight down the road for a long flight [Hook] [Verse 2: Takeoff] Hot Boy like Silkk the Shocker, pull up on your blocka with the Waka Flocka Momma hit me on my cellular told me that Quavo got caught by the coppers **** They say they've been investigating and Migo gang we connected with the mobsters (Huh?) Can't talk to you ****** my lawyer talk. **** the prosecutor Mr. Marcus **** Lookin out of my window, I see a black truck and it's empty Walk to the door check the peephole (what that is man?) Then I start hearing a noise and it makes me paranoid **** Thinking what the **** is going on? (What the **** All of these tools like it's Autozone If I get caught I ain't coming home (No!) [Hook] [Verse 3: Offset] Offset! They said that I sold to informants I told them I just got off touring They circle my house like an orbit **** He telling me he gon extort me (huh?) 50% of my income, unfortunately he not gon get none Life sentence or freedom so pick one **** ***** you trying the wrong one **** ***** Quavo call my phone, his spot got raided it just got kicked in We all met up in the Westin Who know what the **** going on it ain't making sense (who know?) The police talking they got evidence I told you ****** bout serving them Mexicans (I told you ****** **** There go 12 **** I picked up my **** and I moved out the residence [Hook]
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For the Dragon hissed as the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss as the night subsides, Python’s bliss as naiad’s cried, And the wailing woe’s on a weathering tide, Water-wall from Kētos scream, tsunami crash, swallow everything, Rolling clouds and the pouring rain and the serpent dying writhing in pain, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo kissed away the night time sky, And the Python’s bliss as his naiad’s cry, The Sun awoke at the wheel-house berth, armor gold, chest-plate of Earth, And valiance choked, squeezed by Ladon’s girth, As the serpent swelled with the stormy seas, To collapse great hero upon his knees, Apollo, Cadmus and Hercules. Reborn by fire, Father-Lion’s roar, returned each night to even-up the score, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss ward off night time skies, Oh the wailing woe of ominous tides, The scythe or club, boulder at night, rocks from heaven and the perilous fight, Black-oil venom, heart of a beast, starry night’s runner split from the east, Noxious breathe, flame-seared teeth, smell of death from a ****** feast, Speared at the neck, pinning head to earth, then celebrated as a day of birth, The serpent on his shoulder, or dangling from the tree, Arising from the waters, from the depths beneath, Cast out under a mountain, yes underneath, then wear his skin and sow his teeth! And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss as the fight subsides, And Python’s bliss as his muses wailed, between the horns where Argo sailed, Call it a man or Charybdis, Scylla, rock, a multi-headed beast, Or just two horns with a middle disk and Apollo’s fire, Sun’s dawning kiss, And the Dragon hissed as the Dragon dies, And Apollo’s kiss create the day time skies, And the Python’s bliss at his naiad’s cries, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died!
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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 at 12:56 PM UTC
Pythian Ode
For the Dragon hissed as the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss as the night subsides, Python’s bliss as naiad’s cried, And the wailing woe’s on a weathering tide, Water-wall from Kētos scream, tsunami crash, swallow everything, Rolling clouds and the pouring rain and the serpent dying writhing in pain, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo kissed away the night time sky, And the Python’s bliss as his naiad’s cry, The Sun awoke at the wheel-house berth, armor gold, chest-plate of Earth, And valiance choked, squeezed by Ladon’s girth, As the serpent swelled with the stormy seas, To collapse great hero upon his knees, Apollo, Cadmus and Hercules. Reborn by fire, Father-Lion’s roar, returned each night to even-up the score, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss ward off night time skies, Oh the wailing woe of ominous tides, The scythe or club, boulder at night, rocks from heaven and the perilous fight, Black-oil venom, heart of a beast, starry night’s runner split from the east, Noxious breathe, flame-seared teeth, smell of death from a ****** feast, Speared at the neck, pinning head to earth, then celebrated as a day of birth, The serpent on his shoulder, or dangling from the tree, Arising from the waters, from the depths beneath, Cast out under a mountain, yes underneath, then wear his skin and sow his teeth! And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died, Apollo’s kiss as the fight subsides, And Python’s bliss as his muses wailed, between the horns where Argo sailed, Call it a man or Charybdis, Scylla, rock, a multi-headed beast, Or just two horns with a middle disk and Apollo’s fire, Sun’s dawning kiss, And the Dragon hissed as the Dragon dies, And Apollo’s kiss create the day time skies, And the Python’s bliss at his naiad’s cries, And the Dragon hissed and the Dragon died!
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They were broken children Their scissored minds ran them In spirals Until they sat with crossed legs And crossed lips To press themselves flatter They were cut-strings marionettes Who danced In an attempt to wring calories From their balsa-wood bones Which refused to give And who pinned their painted smiles A little tighter each morning They were snapped-spines picture books Who’d been warped too far by society And had had their pages torn from the crease So that words hung like razor blades And spliced from each vertebrae They took them to the circus Where they were the **** of every joke But when the clowns speared them with dripping eyes And artificial mouths that were stretched over grimaces Like the dust-jackets from different stories They stared back glassily Because how can you be afraid Of the broken clockwork of your reflection?
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Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 2:28 AM UTC
Broken
The light, so bright. Hovering over me tonight, I look away as I float away. My feet lose touch to the solid ground, I am in air now. Humming entering my ears, hoping I won't be speared. Entering as I close my eyes, knowing that I was the chosen one tonight. Laying down on a steel table, hearing buzzing and drilling. Fear and confusion swirled in my head. As two big black eyes appeared in front of I, the feeling of calm and safe calm me down, as I felt a slight pain on my left arm. Not scared nor confused I knew what is going on as I learn. Slightly I fall asleep, knowing that it isn't a dream. Waking up as I lay, softly in my bed. My body is all so sore including my head as I bore. Slowly sitting up, trying to remember what I saw. Mind blink as I awake, sighing and feeling pain. If only I could remember the dream I had and the sores on my body.
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 5:14 AM UTC
Abduction
Within my mind are heavy thoughts, They do not let me feel at ease. Everything i'd failed to do Is coming back to haunt me. Body withered and my mind Is trapped awaiting for relief - Heavy duty machines above Will serve as bridge to a new life for me. Heavy brain is in the skull, Drinking blood that flows in veins, The blood is pumped by a heavy heart - A heavy heart is all that's left of me. LONG WAITED ΣXTRACTION OF BRAIN IS COMMENCING, Heavy heart has been put to rest. As narcotics put me to sleep i imagine What future holds for me. What was it that made me who i had thought i was? Which parts of self will be put to rest? After-bodily life may just show me the secrets of who I am. Is life within a machine equivalent to death? Vivid images i had not seen Yet imagined like they're real - The brain is fed through metal tubes With tar-like liquid that flows within, The brain is speared by electric spikes - They cut their way through every part of it. THE DREAM STATE DISRUPTED BY A HEAVY DESTRUCTIVE SHOCK, What are these sings i'm receiving? I can't make sense at all. The feeling of dread is suppressed by machinery, i don't even feel any pain. Yet heavy thoughts haven't gone away. More than ever before i am wondering if a choice i had made was correct - Eternal existence without a future or hopes and no right to be welcomed by death.
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Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 10:39 AM UTC
ΣXTRACTION
People would tell me I looked skeletal Not necessarily in an overly skinny sort of being But in an organic, carbon matter fashion Bone colored Grooved Plated My ribs shone through my abdomen, still My stomach protruded tightly Translucent skin like a lampshade revealing Three beams of muscle tissue I should have been observed in a science class I thought this while walking down the hall, away from the shower I left behind Into my cave colored bedroom Head first, body soon to follow An archaic method- My stack of literature playing the role of mammoth About to be speared and eaten by my fingertips
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Jun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM UTC
Caveman
“Why talk? If you do not listen to me?", he asked. He spoke to her in Kurdish, the language of her misty childhood memories. Simon had guessed, but did not know, could not know, how deeply she was speared by this simple statement, spoken flawlessly by a man she thought she knew. She ceased her melody, and as the chords faded away, so her warmth disappeared. Her eyes watered...cleared, darkened. Memories long buried, embalmed with religious care, rose again out of the shadows she had banished them to. "How dare you speak to me like that. Who do you think you are? How do you know my language, my childhood?" "You talk in your sleep..." She leaned forward and slapped her friend across the face. She knew there was something wrong with him, knew that there could be no such thing as unconditional companionship, as real altruism. How stupid she was, how naïve to believe that she might have found someone who didn't want something from her, who didn't have a price. Simon, who knew the alleyways and alcoves of the past like a lover knew his partner's body, should have been more concise. But it wasn't in his nature to approach personal history with spotlights and pragmatics. Ta'ra was accusing now, calling him hideous, a betrayer, one who steals sweet things in the dark from lack of courage. "It's not like that Ta'ra, not an ugly thing like you make it," he tried to explain. But she did not want to hear, did not want to listen as he tried to tell her how she cried in her sleep on the long drive from Cadiz, how Clara told him a little of their history together in Morocco. "So Clara told you so much did she? I should've known she'd pout to somebody as soon as she could, as soon as I wasn't listening! So what else does she tell you? What else does she say about me when I'm not around? Or do you do more than talk hmm?" She was standing over him now, guitar abandoned like an orphan, her green sweater all askew. So close to him he could smell her. "It's not like that Ta'ra, she cares for you, wants the best for you, and I...I..." he trailed off. "You what? You fantasize about me, you put my face on those ****** you find in the bars and cafes?" She slapped him again, crying in earnest, and he knew that the choice now was his.
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Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 6:58 PM UTC
Resumption
“Why talk? If you do not listen to me?", he asked. He spoke to her in Kurdish, the language of her misty childhood memories. Simon had guessed, but did not know, could not know, how deeply she was speared by this simple statement, spoken flawlessly by a man she thought she knew. She ceased her melody, and as the chords faded away, so her warmth disappeared. Her eyes watered...cleared, darkened. Memories long buried, embalmed with religious care, rose again out of the shadows she had banished them to. "How dare you speak to me like that. Who do you think you are? How do you know my language, my childhood?" "You talk in your sleep..." She leaned forward and slapped her friend across the face. She knew there was something wrong with him, knew that there could be no such thing as unconditional companionship, as real altruism. How stupid she was, how naïve to believe that she might have found someone who didn't want something from her, who didn't have a price. Simon, who knew the alleyways and alcoves of the past like a lover knew his partner's body, should have been more concise. But it wasn't in his nature to approach personal history with spotlights and pragmatics. Ta'ra was accusing now, calling him hideous, a betrayer, one who steals sweet things in the dark from lack of courage. "It's not like that Ta'ra, not an ugly thing like you make it," he tried to explain. But she did not want to hear, did not want to listen as he tried to tell her how she cried in her sleep on the long drive from Cadiz, how Clara told him a little of their history together in Morocco. "So Clara told you so much did she? I should've known she'd pout to somebody as soon as she could, as soon as I wasn't listening! So what else does she tell you? What else does she say about me when I'm not around? Or do you do more than talk hmm?" She was standing over him now, guitar abandoned like an orphan, her green sweater all askew. So close to him he could smell her. "It's not like that Ta'ra, she cares for you, wants the best for you, and I...I..." he trailed off. "You what? You fantasize about me, you put my face on those ****** you find in the bars and cafes?" She slapped him again, crying in earnest, and he knew that the choice now was his.
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saw his mother while they buried him. her hair --with sorrow as flint-- smoked and caught fire. the world began to cave in up and around the swollen fist of regret that punched through my stomach --the fire spread-- speared my gut with blame. all the while a cacophony of strings and trumpets cried parting and a soul flew on golden banners towards heaven those stone white graffitied gates. --the fire grew too much to handle-- in agony I flailed and screamed. rolled down tall mountains clawing at bone and dirt and flesh. gilded chariots breaking free. shepherding the beautiful from the leperous, riddled atrophy that controls the living. the dying and the burning. how everything burns dies. fire smoke guilt regret. oh sweet death. death in the summertime. death in the morning, the evening, death of everything. always. eyes open --a crisp, cluttered autumn hillside-- fall back upon his mother reality stricken and grave. blink twice. refocus. a tear falls from her face followed by one from mine. the fire is out.
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Feb 27, 2013
Feb 27, 2013 at 7:15 PM UTC
Angels in the Electric Chair
Dotta swung and he missed Time for him to cease and desist After Ren went ballistic Because he couldn’t resist The allure of a battle Using words like their fists Landing blow after blow Without a beat to assist We witnessed a burial An end to a reign But all that king Dotta was.. Was a true royal pain A husky, sad, clout chaser Vanilla, quite plain Who failed in his attempt To perform; entertain Ren showed his ferocity, his ability, his skills He speared his first whale Despite Dotta not having gills But Ren gave him a lifeline Without showing any ill will Offering all he can eat On a buffet filled with krill One million subscribers Sent to consume and digest King Dotta’s music Of which I’ve been unimpressed But the message from Ren Was really quite clear As the words spilled from his lips “A rising tide, lifts all ships”
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Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023 at 5:21 AM UTC
King Dotta/Ren Rap Battle Take
***** Twirling like the devil's baton a cyclic cul de sac 'round the positronic menagerie, speared from stem to stern, floor to ceiling, arched bowed bent backs saddled ridden tools adolescent ne'er-do-wells and prepubescent fools all desiring to sit nowhere but by me, by me, by me- My friend of cosmic dawn, take my hand and traipse like a runner in a blind alley. Lead me to my quiet stead, walk and stamp about, my cloven-hoofed associate, sarcastically devout, and show me that everything in this whole world is presented via legerdemain, deceitful cleverness, but it cannot cure my lightheadedness, felt by me, by me, by me...
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Mar 27, 2010
Mar 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM UTC
Carousel My Soul
He came as an orphan June 26th, 1865 Having seen the death of his mother Chased and speared by a hunter First African elephant in Europe At the London Zoo All alone in all of Europe How he broke and wore his tusks In the iron of his enclosure In night pain from toothaches From many rotten teeth Caused by his only grass hay diet Given whiskey and beer to calm Shared with his keeper Matthew Scott, a difficult man With no close friends But with a deep empathy for animals Who drank whiskey with Jumbo Into the late, lonely night Jumbo liked whiskey, beer and lots of sticky buns A problematic elephant With a Jekyll and Hyde character Sold for 2,000 pounds To PT Barnum as a star attraction Jumbo tearing his chains away Then sitting like a mule Until he knew his keeper Would also ride the boat Across the big pond Barnum’s Scott Made a deal Queen Victoria wasn’t happy Her children had sat And rode upon his back Jumbomania in America Accompanied his arrival 20 million saw him alive Brooklyn bridge opened in 1882 A year before Jumbo arrived Then 17 May, 1884 Twenty elephants marched across All the way to Brooklyn led by Jumbo The bridge vibrated and rebounded In St Thomas, Ontario, Canada was his suffering demise The day the circus train came to town Tom Thumb and Jumbo Were waiting to get loaded Perhaps bumped in the **** By the speeding freight locomotive Internal bleeding and a slow death Tom Thumb only a broken leg Jumbo in a slow death Scott in a slow death afterwards Having witnessed the last breath Of his best friend Photographed (a recent novelty) just after his death in B&W Poor dead Jumbo Scott at his head Weeping inconsolably Although PT Barnum In pure PT Barnum invention Says Jumbo ran headfirst Into the freight locomotive To save his keeper and Tom Thumb Jumbo died at twenty-four still young and growing in size and girth His stuffed mounted skin burned at Tufts University except the unbroken bones plus the end of his tail “And this is what remains of Jumbo” Yesterday, I saw wild elephants on the banks of the Zambezi river near Victoria Falls Tomorrow I’m hoping to touch Jumbo’s bones in New York City And walk the Brooklyn Bridge ©  2017 Jim Davis
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Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 12:42 PM UTC
Hello Jumbo
He came as an orphan June 26th, 1865 Having seen the death of his mother Chased and speared by a hunter First African elephant in Europe At the London Zoo All alone in all of Europe How he broke and wore his tusks In the iron of his enclosure In night pain from toothaches From many rotten teeth Caused by his only grass hay diet Given whiskey and beer to calm Shared with his keeper Matthew Scott, a difficult man With no close friends But with a deep empathy for animals Who drank whiskey with Jumbo Into the late, lonely night Jumbo liked whiskey, beer and lots of sticky buns A problematic elephant With a Jekyll and Hyde character Sold for 2,000 pounds To PT Barnum as a star attraction Jumbo tearing his chains away Then sitting like a mule Until he knew his keeper Would also ride the boat Across the big pond Barnum’s Scott Made a deal Queen Victoria wasn’t happy Her children had sat And rode upon his back Jumbomania in America Accompanied his arrival 20 million saw him alive Brooklyn bridge opened in 1882 A year before Jumbo arrived Then 17 May, 1884 Twenty elephants marched across All the way to Brooklyn led by Jumbo The bridge vibrated and rebounded In St Thomas, Ontario, Canada was his suffering demise The day the circus train came to town Tom Thumb and Jumbo Were waiting to get loaded Perhaps bumped in the **** By the speeding freight locomotive Internal bleeding and a slow death Tom Thumb only a broken leg Jumbo in a slow death Scott in a slow death afterwards Having witnessed the last breath Of his best friend Photographed (a recent novelty) just after his death in B&W Poor dead Jumbo Scott at his head Weeping inconsolably Although PT Barnum In pure PT Barnum invention Says Jumbo ran headfirst Into the freight locomotive To save his keeper and Tom Thumb Jumbo died at twenty-four still young and growing in size and girth His stuffed mounted skin burned at Tufts University except the unbroken bones plus the end of his tail “And this is what remains of Jumbo” Yesterday, I saw wild elephants on the banks of the Zambezi river near Victoria Falls Tomorrow I’m hoping to touch Jumbo’s bones in New York City And walk the Brooklyn Bridge ©  2017 Jim Davis
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An unsound disorder takes host In a body for years I’ve loved Memories becoming all but ghosts Cell by cell with blackness she rusts In each vessel of her sclera In each fold of her fine vocals In each tear of her mascara The feat of a smile totaled From a world all but brightening Living in walls crafted by fear Each breath, a scream of lightning New evenings; old muscles speared The feat of a smile totaled Amidst an eerie, white speech In each fold of her fine vocals A desire for love beseeched
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May 25, 2013
May 25, 2013 at 12:34 AM UTC
+ Blackberry Mascara -
Breathless, Wondrous, My soul is gripped in awe. She twists and writhes Beneath the sheet, And dreams a little more. I'm sure she dreams of me, you see, I feel my soul aflame. When she sleeps And sees me there, She smiles and feels the same. My spirit Was consumed, In death I found my bane; Twisted deep, And borne from sleep My soul was lost in pain. For in my sin, I died, you see, While she did cast her spell. My soul was Tore asunder; Cast feet first into hell. Bound by Chains of love, Made from another's mold; She speared Me through the side, And locked me in her fold. The love she cast She didn't know Had caught my soul In death. But now I haunt her dreams Life unending, without breath.
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Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 8:00 AM UTC
Dreams Under Cotton Sheets
Have I lost my way been tossed astray depraved and often caught in shame I am Phi Kenzie suspend all your envy I’m plenty unfriendly and tense up when sensing The touch of another to shutters and covers and run for the river, ride rough with the rudder Flown under the radar I hoped it would stay dark but no, it’s the day and it breaks the equator I could go on about my fears they won’t disappear peerless endearment from people jeering for years Eerie queries in tears near and dear to mine own ears rearing iridescent essence empirically in spirit Hear it speared into the ether reverberating meter ceaselessly tinker on the readers need to reach eureka neater
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 9:56 AM UTC
Who am I