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"spewed" poems
i wish we'd met under different circumstances, in a beautiful parallel universe. where the dull blue skies we dwell under now were light, and the hatred we respire no longer spewed from our mouths. i want the air to be cleared and our brains fogged from the heartless reality we maintain. i want our imperfect utopia to be untouchable, a place of perfect imperfection, where i can love you with all my heart.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 9:05 PM UTC
i wish we'd met under different circumstances
Faking Bad In anticipation of my Evaluation to be declared Non Compos Mentos I slept under a bridge For three days "Getting into character," But on the morning of My intake interview My hair fell perfectly, I mean I looked like A ******* rock star. College girls on the bus Were giving me their Numbers and my skin, Which I'd purposely sunburnt And caked in the finest filth, Glowed like an Australian Chippendale dancer named Weegie And even the female Assisstant D.A. Who had busted me for vagrancy Waved her ******* from The third story building Of the Courthouse. No matter how much I Tried to speak gibberish Poetry and philosophical Tracts spewed from my mouth. Shuffling past the park I beat eight Grand Masters At chess on move 1 Inadvertently I solved The Phi Epsilom Theorem By kicking stones Into an algorythym. When I arrived they didn't Make me wait at all. My caseworker giggled like A schoolgirl while I told her Each day was like an endless shift In a Chinese fish- gutting Sweatshop and every one of my fellow Employees was motivationalist Richard Simmons. She ungirdled her enormous **** and as they spilled Like fishguts onto the desk She began to howl **** me, **** me, oh **** Me right here in Front of the open window On State Street as everyone Watches me ******* the strongest, Healthiest, smartest, most popular, Well-adjusted man in the world. The rest of the examination was Also a success. But as I left the Mental HealthCenter feeling marvelous I accidentally bumped An old woman with the door: "Watch out you manic-depressive Schizoid with Socially Avoidant Features klutz." -Thomas L. Vaultonburg
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 5:05 PM UTC
Faking Bad (Outsider Poetry)
Faking Bad In anticipation of my Evaluation to be declared Non Compos Mentos I slept under a bridge For three days "Getting into character," But on the morning of My intake interview My hair fell perfectly, I mean I looked like A ******* rock star. College girls on the bus Were giving me their Numbers and my skin, Which I'd purposely sunburnt And caked in the finest filth, Glowed like an Australian Chippendale dancer named Weegie And even the female Assisstant D.A. Who had busted me for vagrancy Waved her ******* from The third story building Of the Courthouse. No matter how much I Tried to speak gibberish Poetry and philosophical Tracts spewed from my mouth. Shuffling past the park I beat eight Grand Masters At chess on move 1 Inadvertently I solved The Phi Epsilom Theorem By kicking stones Into an algorythym. When I arrived they didn't Make me wait at all. My caseworker giggled like A schoolgirl while I told her Each day was like an endless shift In a Chinese fish- gutting Sweatshop and every one of my fellow Employees was motivationalist Richard Simmons. She ungirdled her enormous **** and as they spilled Like fishguts onto the desk She began to howl **** me, **** me, oh **** Me right here in Front of the open window On State Street as everyone Watches me ******* the strongest, Healthiest, smartest, most popular, Well-adjusted man in the world. The rest of the examination was Also a success. But as I left the Mental HealthCenter feeling marvelous I accidentally bumped An old woman with the door: "Watch out you manic-depressive Schizoid with Socially Avoidant Features klutz." -Thomas L. Vaultonburg
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You agree When you want to shout, curse, and swear The Almighty....answer this weeping willow Made of concrete air Of unfeeling movement You cower behinds browned bodies, montezuma minds, and your license Power to go as you please, be as you please, please help me to see The inner child trapped in mordant cornerstones, and sitting on your own weight To grasp the folly by the throat and twist him into existance Not so much absolution In agreement with other fancies Prayers unanswered Dwelling on ginger hands and knees In *********** when his course has never enter into being....real Or really close His path to plunge thick into purple passionate trance His path askew from my own Though a followed trendy line A drink When it makes your journey into trees, and speed, and gluttony A laugh When scorned mouth spewed and sput into russet wounds already ***** A smoke When it clogs your memory into patchwork and quilted thoughts unwoven Youre unspoken! You agree?
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Feb 22, 2018
Feb 22, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
Just you
Two ticks click through my ears fuego leapt from steel grasp to burn destroying as it flares across the valley Smoke billowed into the clutches of hard, purple plastic pressing in from all sides funneled into sacks of tendrils. They cringe grey swirls choking off pipes and blood lines Veins bursting with new chemicals Spewed out over the burnt plains But the valley is just a small groove on a burnt out, tired brain
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 3:55 AM UTC
Stoner Poem
*** *** ~ ♡ ~ A dark day has befallen the Court of Hello Poetry How it saddens me to see the good Queens and Kings to suffer at the hands of jealous enemies who seek to destroy others and their Kingdoms. Though she was exquisitely dressed, she had a humble heart; many had a good word about her, though I did not get to meet her, though I did not see her, I could see the light she had shine in the hearts of others. She had a wonderful smile but invaders; false Kings and Queens spewed nothing but abuse, and it made her surrender her crown ~ ♡ ~ I could only watch as she grabbed the ends of her silk skirts and run out of the bustling halls, tears down her soft face.     I could not reach her but at the dawn,        from the balcony,          I saw the ship sail away,         towards the sunset into the unknown.      How my heart is so heavy ~ ♡ ~ To see a true artist, a true queen leave forever. At seeing her tears, her crying soul staining the floral marble floors, and the invaders   feeling   satisfied   at her    pain   and her 'destruction' Those   who   dare   to  denounce are   never  Kings  or   Queens. To be so jealous, so insecure and think you led her to her 'destruction' ~ ♡ ~ I will say this - you may have won the battle but  you will NEVER win the war. Because the true   Kings and Queens will band   together,  we  will  stand together    to protect our haven  for we see, we know who the true artists are.  I will continue to shed tears of pain and   sorrow for the loss of this artist,  but I will always hope that when the sun rises she   will return to us once more. She  will never leave our minds, she has touched so many hearts. Her legacy, her reign, her   kingdom will always    stand eternal, will stand immortal now and always. ~ ♡ ~ *** ***
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 9:37 AM UTC
She Leaves...
*** *** ~ ♡ ~ A dark day has befallen the Court of Hello Poetry How it saddens me to see the good Queens and Kings to suffer at the hands of jealous enemies who seek to destroy others and their Kingdoms. Though she was exquisitely dressed, she had a humble heart; many had a good word about her, though I did not get to meet her, though I did not see her, I could see the light she had shine in the hearts of others. She had a wonderful smile but invaders; false Kings and Queens spewed nothing but abuse, and it made her surrender her crown ~ ♡ ~ I could only watch as she grabbed the ends of her silk skirts and run out of the bustling halls, tears down her soft face.     I could not reach her but at the dawn,        from the balcony,          I saw the ship sail away,         towards the sunset into the unknown.      How my heart is so heavy ~ ♡ ~ To see a true artist, a true queen leave forever. At seeing her tears, her crying soul staining the floral marble floors, and the invaders   feeling   satisfied   at her    pain   and her 'destruction' Those   who   dare   to  denounce are   never  Kings  or   Queens. To be so jealous, so insecure and think you led her to her 'destruction' ~ ♡ ~ I will say this - you may have won the battle but  you will NEVER win the war. Because the true   Kings and Queens will band   together,  we  will  stand together    to protect our haven  for we see, we know who the true artists are.  I will continue to shed tears of pain and   sorrow for the loss of this artist,  but I will always hope that when the sun rises she   will return to us once more. She  will never leave our minds, she has touched so many hearts. Her legacy, her reign, her   kingdom will always    stand eternal, will stand immortal now and always. ~ ♡ ~ *** ***
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An island of ash signs of a past life Melted black rock Scars of the last breath When this land gave it's all Red hot passion spewed from its lips And swept over everything that made this land A volcano thought dormant Tried to love again Poured it's hearts out Even as the magma scorched all the good That once called this land home now marks this dead earth With this one last eruption One last confession This volcano died And took everything with it forever in torment This volcano is now forever dormant
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Dec 25, 2015
Dec 25, 2015 at 7:51 PM UTC
Dormant Volcano
Suicidal serial killer bashes the bones hoping to feel nothing because that would be something A Swelling self-image pops in the distance is chewed, then inflated over and over this routine never fails to cycle, disappoint, and please Ethanol injections cuz oral doesn't do **** give it to me ******** ***** I'll munch your muffin just fo nuthin like I'm ****** with y'all Cuz I surf to fall and smoke to die In the high where life is inconsequential to question and I feel less than short Of supernatural Who are these new kids? They dress in tights and pick fights I can't see your face but I trust the feeling Damsel's are rescued blood is spewed Yet insanity is gushing The drugs are running out We might just be super We might just be heroes Entropy enters me ripping the glamour and with a stammer I know This isn't a comic book Marvel In awe at these elaborately induced fabrications and schemes to change the pecking order or chisel the universe to perfection The line of schizophrenic and degenerate flees for the hills that now have eyes
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 5:44 AM UTC
Suicidal Serial Killer
You were a giant garden, growing beauty as I, the small bug, admired all that you were and everything you became. I saw the air you breathed in and the seeds you spewed out; my spots and wings were nothing magical to you. You made life, with help from the sun, and all I did was eat everything you created. I destroyed your flowers, slowly and softly - but it took a bigger toll than I had thought it would. I thrived off the misery I caused you. You lived for life and I lived for destruction; for chaos is the only disorder that keeps us sane.
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 8:13 PM UTC
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order” (M.C. Escher)
*eking out the ultimate gasp in my last breath of impulsion i collapse without a touch of grace at race's end how i made it i will never know dazed and in bewilderment i reminisce upon my journey an aggregation of barricades assailed me with iniquitous decadent delight seeming to writhe in triumph at my possible demise capitulating as it devoured and spewed me out the other side i humbly reassembled fragments of my near annihilation temporarily rehabilitated i recommenced the toilsome climb to the treasured peak atop the mount when in would come the tempest with its furor and render me asunder mere exhaustion is not the word for death experienced recurrently ground to mulch and back again screaming, pleading, surrendering proved futile as i newly met the same demise near incapacitation i miraculously emerged and scraping pulled myself with broken heart and bones scratching my way through the darkness toppling at the pinnacle to victory's end with exhilaration it dawns on me the long dark night is over i passed the test to realize it is not the finish line but only the beginning ©2016janetaylor
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 5:22 PM UTC
the long dark night is over
While looking for a costume, just some fun to be had, I found it at a thrift store. High collar, sophisticated, the train stretching out a foot long lace trimming, still mostly white, with delicate flowers. Only one stain, on the end of the train, makes a light brown blot. Perhaps a guest spilled coffee walking up behind her, or maybe a drop of tobacco spewed out of her grandpa’s mouth. She was just my size. A perfect fit. I will take it to the cleaners. It will look like new.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 12:20 PM UTC
Wedding Dress
I have left, pig-mudding drunk, having sipped from stock to stock on fraying cheer, stages. I have stood in foreign basements; sweaty cellars of youth; begot by attitude breeding spaces of the hip; drawn circles searching for love in recreating nonsense: a silly pupil, moon-eyed, out of breathe. I have heard them quack, reveal their cords; heard them whisper a thousand and one secrets, heard them deconstruct their circumstances as pilgrims, penniless and sick. I have their memories now, an image of a depressed, ass-imprinted pillow soaked in liquor and a feeling of nausea where ribs sleep on this couch tonight, every night. I have heard one refute the weight of living, ****** on the banks of his best friends hospitality, and thought How much is it worth? And I have envied every **** greasy pored hipster, the ones fixing on makingitnew now kind of clan; stared blankly at fashion, a culture back door where pink fish scales sparkle high from runway halters to the tops of grown men, bearded and chesty. And your mothers pearls sit, not your mother’s pearls but your mother’s, mother’s pearls, that old world clout ornamented around those hairy ******* Oh yes, I have seen men become peacocks, charmed animals of ********** seen them teeth at discourse in the noise they create, wide-mouthed and pointed; I have seen them masked like frantic felines: wooly bully cats trying-to-roll their own meter, their tobacco stained black charcoal over soft bricked lips quiver to their beats: those painted lemmingings, without a parachute: kamikaze felons. I have desired absolute sterility: white china, in the egg of a toilet bowl I spewed out, shut-up my exuberance for the night; sorry-pleaded my resolutions to gag out the naughty nouns in my life. I have quit; turned in my lust for performing the lioness, paw-licking, snarly creature: the predator of my youth, and now, I am pretty-headed, tamed in bath oils and schedules; a spotted fox, in plain view, one medium-sized mammal getting by.
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 5:05 PM UTC
From the Barn
I have left, pig-mudding drunk, having sipped from stock to stock on fraying cheer, stages. I have stood in foreign basements; sweaty cellars of youth; begot by attitude breeding spaces of the hip; drawn circles searching for love in recreating nonsense: a silly pupil, moon-eyed, out of breathe. I have heard them quack, reveal their cords; heard them whisper a thousand and one secrets, heard them deconstruct their circumstances as pilgrims, penniless and sick. I have their memories now, an image of a depressed, ass-imprinted pillow soaked in liquor and a feeling of nausea where ribs sleep on this couch tonight, every night. I have heard one refute the weight of living, ****** on the banks of his best friends hospitality, and thought How much is it worth? And I have envied every **** greasy pored hipster, the ones fixing on makingitnew now kind of clan; stared blankly at fashion, a culture back door where pink fish scales sparkle high from runway halters to the tops of grown men, bearded and chesty. And your mothers pearls sit, not your mother’s pearls but your mother’s, mother’s pearls, that old world clout ornamented around those hairy ******* Oh yes, I have seen men become peacocks, charmed animals of ********** seen them teeth at discourse in the noise they create, wide-mouthed and pointed; I have seen them masked like frantic felines: wooly bully cats trying-to-roll their own meter, their tobacco stained black charcoal over soft bricked lips quiver to their beats: those painted lemmingings, without a parachute: kamikaze felons. I have desired absolute sterility: white china, in the egg of a toilet bowl I spewed out, shut-up my exuberance for the night; sorry-pleaded my resolutions to gag out the naughty nouns in my life. I have quit; turned in my lust for performing the lioness, paw-licking, snarly creature: the predator of my youth, and now, I am pretty-headed, tamed in bath oils and schedules; a spotted fox, in plain view, one medium-sized mammal getting by.
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In this, my last hour of rhyme, with stains uncontainèd by shaking hands Spreading like red soldiers running wartime untempered by generals shouting commands Then laughing like drunkards, drowning in wine that rich purple spills out from its barrels Then lying on bartops, eyes shine porcine and unheard soft voices hiss curses and carols. O, woe be on me if I speak out of time; out-tumbling come innards, spewed from a mouth Which whispered sad prayers in corners of grime: hints of spring-season on trips to the south; Watch them out-tumble, watch horri-divine like the death of the tragic, acted but true Yet laughing old minstrels declare it quite fine: and friends ensure royal-men breathe not from the blue. Hours fly past on wings of the Sun who turns misted eyes from child-fight below And lives lives of many, but cares not for none not least merchant servants, throttled in the snow. I fade and I fade: a blossom once watered and love of the stage is clogging my throat It changes my words: I fight it, I fought it and hot-wet floods up with drowning and choke. This minute, these words: I defy death. And cold, outward slipping: my slow final breath.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 5:14 AM UTC
Death of the Poet, Mercutio
It was nightfall, I felt very sleepy, And I dozed-off To the stud in my Dreams-Dreams. Oh how strong he was! All muscle unlike my body, Stiffer, stronger & ***** he was! She gave a bath, And a massage too, To the stud in my Dreams-Dreams. She caresses it sweetly, And she kisses it too, Yes, the stud in my Dreams-Dreams. She kissed my stud, A bit too much and, The stud spewed its stomach Out on her face, In my most wild Dreams-Dreams. The girl's eyes were, Teeming with tears, To the stud in my Dreams-Dreams. As she was happy, Tears were of joy, To the stud in my Dreams-Dreams.
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Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013 at 1:53 AM UTC
The Stud In My Dream (36-Lined Nelson)
Pretty (adj): 1. pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness; "Pretty" is a word that's been spewed at you since the day you were born, A social standard set upon you that you had yet to even hear, but it was being used to describe you instantly; A "pretty little girl", a "pretty face", "pretty eyes", "pretty smile", "pretty outfit", Did anyone ever stop to wonder if you'd have a pretty soul? What about the way you could be brought to tears at the thought of shaming homeless people or victims of abuse, how your heart felt like it was ripping out of your chest when you heard about someone who was struggling, They didn't seem to care that you tested highest in compassion, they just wanted to know where you got your dress from. As you grew older the adjective turned from an innocent compliment to what seemed like a snide remark, The word "pretty" began to eat you from the inside out every time it was said like you should measure your worth in how delicate others find you; You stopped accepting "pretty" as a compliment when it turned into an adjective that was only associated with girls that were more than average but less than beautiful, You stopped accepting "pretty" as a compliment when it became an antonym of strong, like "pretty" girls were things that would break if you talked too loud, as if loving a "pretty" thing could never be synonymous with loving a durable or sturdy or resilient thing. D.A. Sharp once said "You weren't meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just "pretty"." And so when someone kindly placed the word in a sentence referring to you you learned to automatically put it into quotations because they were just trying to be nice, They didn't know they were reducing you to outer beauty, that "pretty" seemed less like a compliment the more it was said, like people couldn't figure out another way to describe you, As if God hadn't already intricately woven the threads of your DNA, as if he hadn't perfectly tinted every hair on your head to be its crisp burnt color or hand painted the irises of your eyes, No, "pretty" could no longer cut it. Because you had been made for bigger and better things, Those "pretty" eyes of yours will one day see things that God hadn't originally intended anyone to have to see, and those "pretty" hands of yours will have to pick up the pieces of a heartache that God had never wanted you to know and put them back together, and those "pretty" lips of yours are the same lips that will stand in front of sin and tell it that you have chosen Jesus. Because "pretty" is fine, but you have been fearfully and wonderfully made, a masterpiece of the Creator.
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 7:26 PM UTC
Pretty
Pretty (adj): 1. pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness; "Pretty" is a word that's been spewed at you since the day you were born, A social standard set upon you that you had yet to even hear, but it was being used to describe you instantly; A "pretty little girl", a "pretty face", "pretty eyes", "pretty smile", "pretty outfit", Did anyone ever stop to wonder if you'd have a pretty soul? What about the way you could be brought to tears at the thought of shaming homeless people or victims of abuse, how your heart felt like it was ripping out of your chest when you heard about someone who was struggling, They didn't seem to care that you tested highest in compassion, they just wanted to know where you got your dress from. As you grew older the adjective turned from an innocent compliment to what seemed like a snide remark, The word "pretty" began to eat you from the inside out every time it was said like you should measure your worth in how delicate others find you; You stopped accepting "pretty" as a compliment when it turned into an adjective that was only associated with girls that were more than average but less than beautiful, You stopped accepting "pretty" as a compliment when it became an antonym of strong, like "pretty" girls were things that would break if you talked too loud, as if loving a "pretty" thing could never be synonymous with loving a durable or sturdy or resilient thing. D.A. Sharp once said "You weren't meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just "pretty"." And so when someone kindly placed the word in a sentence referring to you you learned to automatically put it into quotations because they were just trying to be nice, They didn't know they were reducing you to outer beauty, that "pretty" seemed less like a compliment the more it was said, like people couldn't figure out another way to describe you, As if God hadn't already intricately woven the threads of your DNA, as if he hadn't perfectly tinted every hair on your head to be its crisp burnt color or hand painted the irises of your eyes, No, "pretty" could no longer cut it. Because you had been made for bigger and better things, Those "pretty" eyes of yours will one day see things that God hadn't originally intended anyone to have to see, and those "pretty" hands of yours will have to pick up the pieces of a heartache that God had never wanted you to know and put them back together, and those "pretty" lips of yours are the same lips that will stand in front of sin and tell it that you have chosen Jesus. Because "pretty" is fine, but you have been fearfully and wonderfully made, a masterpiece of the Creator.
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From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apron age When no mouth stirred about the hanging famine, All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk. And earth and sky were as one airy hill. The sun and mood shed one white light. From the first print of the unshodden foot, the lifting Hand, the breaking of the hair, From the first scent of the heart, the warning ghost, And to the first dumb wonder at the flesh, The sun was red, the moon was grey, The earth and sky were as two mountains meeting. The body prospered, teeth in the marrowed gums, The growing bones, the rumour of the manseed Within the hallowed gland, blood blessed the heart, And the four winds, that had long blown as one, Shone in my ears the light of sound, Called in my eyes the sound of light. And yellow was the multiplying sand, Each golden grain spat life into its fellow, Green was the singing house. The plum my mother picked matured slowly, The boy she dropped from darkness at her side Into the sided lap of light grew strong, Was muscled, matted, wise to the crying thigh, And to the voice that, like a voice of hunger, Itched in the noise of wind and sun. And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain, To shade and knit anew the patch of words Left by the dead who, in their moonless acre, Need no word's warmth. The root of tongues ends in a spentout cancer, That but a name, where maggots have their X. I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded. One wound, one mind, spewed out the matter, One breast gave **** the fever's issue; From the divorcing sky I learnt the double, The two-framed globe that spun into a score; A million minds gave **** to such a bud As forks my eye; Youth did condense; the tears of spring Dissolved in summer and the hundred seasons; One sun, one manna, warmed and fed.
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From Love's First Fever To Her Plague
From love's first fever to her plague, from the soft second And to the hollow minute of the womb, From the unfolding to the scissored caul, The time for breast and the green apron age When no mouth stirred about the hanging famine, All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk. And earth and sky were as one airy hill. The sun and mood shed one white light. From the first print of the unshodden foot, the lifting Hand, the breaking of the hair, From the first scent of the heart, the warning ghost, And to the first dumb wonder at the flesh, The sun was red, the moon was grey, The earth and sky were as two mountains meeting. The body prospered, teeth in the marrowed gums, The growing bones, the rumour of the manseed Within the hallowed gland, blood blessed the heart, And the four winds, that had long blown as one, Shone in my ears the light of sound, Called in my eyes the sound of light. And yellow was the multiplying sand, Each golden grain spat life into its fellow, Green was the singing house. The plum my mother picked matured slowly, The boy she dropped from darkness at her side Into the sided lap of light grew strong, Was muscled, matted, wise to the crying thigh, And to the voice that, like a voice of hunger, Itched in the noise of wind and sun. And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain, To shade and knit anew the patch of words Left by the dead who, in their moonless acre, Need no word's warmth. The root of tongues ends in a spentout cancer, That but a name, where maggots have their X. I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded. One wound, one mind, spewed out the matter, One breast gave **** the fever's issue; From the divorcing sky I learnt the double, The two-framed globe that spun into a score; A million minds gave **** to such a bud As forks my eye; Youth did condense; the tears of spring Dissolved in summer and the hundred seasons; One sun, one manna, warmed and fed.
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If mirrors were made to be looked into And people deserve to be loved Why didn't I feel good peering into The merciless glass? Why was I told that my body No matter how wonderful I felt Was disgusting? Why did my eyes veer away from the truth As I stood, body prominently shown Even when I felt beautiful? When a society gets to the breaking point Where a girl can try her absolute best to be healthy And someone asks "who are you doing this for?" As if the answer is something other than herself There is a problem. Spending most of my life absolutely loathing my reflection was pointless Those telling me I need to change Telling me I should be ashamed Looking me up and down with a disgusting countenance that spewed hatred and the only words they could make out was "how much do you weigh?" They were wrong. There's no need to bring the happy down And baby, I was soaring before you came around I WILL LOOK TO MY REFLECTION AND ALL BUT FROWN I WILL EMBRACE MY CURVES AS THE WINDING HILLS THEY ARE MY BEAUTIFUL STRETCH MARKS MAKES MY BODY MORE INDIVIDUAL THAN ANY IRON-BOARD I WILL REJOICE FOR RECOGNIZING MYSELF AS THE GODDESS I TRULY AM STRUCK DOWN FROM HEAVEN ONLY TO RISE AGAIN MY BODY THE SACRED TEMPLE OF THE GODS AND WHEN ASKED HOW I BEAT THE ODDS I WILL SAY, "We have been taught to hate Those that appear a certain way By an unqualified teacher. And one day, alone with my mirror I peered into it to see my body clearer And I realized my beauty was there all along I was just looking through clouded lenses."
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Nov 28, 2016
Nov 28, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
The Naked Truth
If mirrors were made to be looked into And people deserve to be loved Why didn't I feel good peering into The merciless glass? Why was I told that my body No matter how wonderful I felt Was disgusting? Why did my eyes veer away from the truth As I stood, body prominently shown Even when I felt beautiful? When a society gets to the breaking point Where a girl can try her absolute best to be healthy And someone asks "who are you doing this for?" As if the answer is something other than herself There is a problem. Spending most of my life absolutely loathing my reflection was pointless Those telling me I need to change Telling me I should be ashamed Looking me up and down with a disgusting countenance that spewed hatred and the only words they could make out was "how much do you weigh?" They were wrong. There's no need to bring the happy down And baby, I was soaring before you came around I WILL LOOK TO MY REFLECTION AND ALL BUT FROWN I WILL EMBRACE MY CURVES AS THE WINDING HILLS THEY ARE MY BEAUTIFUL STRETCH MARKS MAKES MY BODY MORE INDIVIDUAL THAN ANY IRON-BOARD I WILL REJOICE FOR RECOGNIZING MYSELF AS THE GODDESS I TRULY AM STRUCK DOWN FROM HEAVEN ONLY TO RISE AGAIN MY BODY THE SACRED TEMPLE OF THE GODS AND WHEN ASKED HOW I BEAT THE ODDS I WILL SAY, "We have been taught to hate Those that appear a certain way By an unqualified teacher. And one day, alone with my mirror I peered into it to see my body clearer And I realized my beauty was there all along I was just looking through clouded lenses."
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The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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Oct 4, 2011
Oct 4, 2011 at 12:10 AM UTC
The Funeral Train
The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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*the ring of fire burnt my soul to nothingness just when i thought….. ‘death’ a breath drew me in and spewed me out not gone now but pure essence ©2016janetaylor
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 12:11 PM UTC
pure essence
My heart was found guilty Of witchcraft by my brain He dragged her and beat her Spewed his hatred for her Tied her to a wooden stake My brain couldn't comprehend The magic of my heart Why she never wavered How she always loved He started this persecution Because he couldn't understand I always felt her growing Beautifully and powerfully With every beat she won me over All I did was want to protect her But my brain called it heresy My punishment was to watch As he burned her alive I heard the shrieks of hope die The smell of her love stung My nostrils and it haunts me still I walk around pretending As if nothing had ever happened My brain condemned me to live This life without my heart Without the love and only With the memory of that night Every day I burn like she did As every day I hate like he did I was unable to convince him That she just wanted to love But my brain was too afraid Of the powers of my heart
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 12:10 PM UTC
The Witch, The Persecutor and The Heretic
If your mouth spewed lies, They could slit my skin like knives Sharper than You could imagine. They would be Unstoppable, Unbreakable, Unpredictable. Before that could ever happen, I surrendered Taking my own knife, And hurting myself Before you ever could
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 6:46 PM UTC
Hurt
There is a consumer product demon in the trash underneath my sink. The other day, I tossed in a wrapper from a Quest 20-protein-gram nutrition bar and a hand reached up to grab it. Thinking I was daydreaming I pulled out the white plastic Rubbermaid trash basket; no hand, but the ¼ cup of Kraft Fast Mac tossed in yesterday was moving, undulating. It made a distinct voice-y sound like “You’ll like Mac-a-lot, so eat me!” Thinking this was just my overactive poetic imagination I turned to the sink. My JetZScrubber had wrapped around a spoon dancing in circles around the In-Sink-Erator drain while the Ajax Easy-Hands Dishwashing Liquid spewed bubbles in unison. Now convinced I took too much acid in college I ran upstairs where my dog Mr. Brown sleeps on his 44” x 36” leopard-print GoodDogBed. “Howdy, partner,” Brown chimed. “Sure is a fine day to go for a walk using that Halti multi-loop leader and Sprenger prong collar. Yes, I love ‘em.” I took Mr. Brown to the dog park. the one with the Safe-Steel chain link fence and the pine trees without labels. He pooped in the sawdust and vocalized in his hound voice. I could have sworn he said, “Glad I didn’t do that on the L.L.Bean Woven Nylon Area Rug,” but I wasn’t sure. Nothing moved except the wind in the trees. and I wondered what to call it.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 7:09 AM UTC
SOMETHING IN THE TRASH
It happened that cool & sunny day. I met you sitting in the grass Outside the art building, Drawing your squares and smiling so nice. I sat myself down and you Told me a sad story of Middle school and an incurable disease. I sat quiet and listened, right there In the cool grass, Right by the art building bushes As you quietly spewed the truth, All the while diligently drawing your squares, Noting their imperfections, As you told that sad story and I recognized your brilliance. We sat there for fifteen minutes and then You realized you were late for class. So you left me, sitting there, Thinking about things, Outside of the art building, Squareless in the grass.
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Sep 23, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM UTC
Drawing Squares
You infectious parasite you diseased my heart I hope all this guilt tears you apart You played me like a video game and made me believe the lies that spewed from your lips Now my heart is slowly dying from the disease you called your love If you wanted me dead you should have made it quick instead of loving me and making me sick
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Feb 11, 2012
Feb 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM UTC
Parasitic love
Dozing on a hammock Strung between two towering palms With the sky above- color washed in turquoise blue and the waters below reflecting that heavenly hue, you came to me sailing in a dream like the strains of a symphony causing endless vibrations in my solitary heart you showed up all too sudden like a rainbow on my vacant sky after a cloud burst of cloistered grief to blaze it with iridescent shades Your smile embalmed my bruised spirit with the coolness of a  summer drizzle falling, like manna over starved Israelites in their arduous odyssey through blistering sands Your passionate breath, spewed on my face bore the scent of opening buds in the mazy tangle of wild creepers growing dense in nearby woods. Your amorous whispers fell in my ears with the sweetness of the melody from Krishna’s flute with Radha near ,love sick her lips curled in an immaculate smile. Your soft footsteps like the jingle of a court dancer echoed in the silence of my soul with a hundred evocations As the jingles came nearer in synchronizing rhythm I held out my arms to clasp you in tight embrace and reel you in frenzied jig But you vanished, vanished, with the swiftness of bubbles rising and breaking in a beer glass, leaving me to my desolate zone The sky overhead had changed into another shade Still I lay in mid air, with my eyes sealed tight to re-live that dream once again!
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM UTC
A Fantasy Come Alive