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"spinach" poems
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots And Brussels in a cake, Carrot straw and spinach raw, (Today, I need a steak). Not thick brown rice and rice pilaw Or mushrooms creamed on toast, Turnips mashed and parsnips hashed, (I'm dreaming of a roast). Health-food folks around the world Are thinned by anxious zeal, They look for help in seafood kelp (I count on breaded veal). No smoking signs, raw mustard greens, Zucchini by the ton, Uncooked kale and bodies frail Are sure to make me run to ***** of pork and chicken thighs And standing rib, so prime, Pork chops brown and fresh ground round (I crave them all the time). Irish stews and boiled corned beef and hot dogs by the scores, or any place that saves a space For smoking carnivores.
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The Health-Food Diner
What's up is the sky and I'm up for the stars and down for a cave expedition. I'm game for a used copy since time is literally killing me while I got pizza in one hand and an energy drink in the other so the tree that is my life goes chop chop chop. The only chip on my shoulder is a potato chip because I got a dozen for every dime I spent, which is a drop in the bucket of change I'm saving for Coinstar. My son Jack has made many trades, from CDs to movies to videogames to trading cards and he just so happens to be a Pokemon master, thank you very much. Resisting a piece of cake is no piece of cake, even when the recipe --complete with a photogenic picture-- is comprised of over a thousand words. Don't cheat on your diet, the spinach is always watching and that Rolex will feel so tight you'll be praying for thousands of slaps on both wrists. When things get hot you can bang against a clock to see how long you last. Just don't crack 'em up too much, clocks are fragile devices. My motor's a Cobia yours is an Evinrude but otherwise we're in the same boat. Whenever I fail I don't go to the drawing board, I get out my scrap book. I prefer its texture and it is, truly, the first square. When my frustration becomes too much I might have to beat the bush instead, after all it can't be a sightseer forever. Don't throw me a bone, I'm not dog, merely a curious cat still on his seventh life. I'd rather be close than be stuck with a cigar-- smoking's bad and I hate the smells. If I'm left with nothing, I'll cry like a wolf. Wolves are hunters, wolves are survivors.
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 12:16 AM UTC
Idiom
What's up is the sky and I'm up for the stars and down for a cave expedition. I'm game for a used copy since time is literally killing me while I got pizza in one hand and an energy drink in the other so the tree that is my life goes chop chop chop. The only chip on my shoulder is a potato chip because I got a dozen for every dime I spent, which is a drop in the bucket of change I'm saving for Coinstar. My son Jack has made many trades, from CDs to movies to videogames to trading cards and he just so happens to be a Pokemon master, thank you very much. Resisting a piece of cake is no piece of cake, even when the recipe --complete with a photogenic picture-- is comprised of over a thousand words. Don't cheat on your diet, the spinach is always watching and that Rolex will feel so tight you'll be praying for thousands of slaps on both wrists. When things get hot you can bang against a clock to see how long you last. Just don't crack 'em up too much, clocks are fragile devices. My motor's a Cobia yours is an Evinrude but otherwise we're in the same boat. Whenever I fail I don't go to the drawing board, I get out my scrap book. I prefer its texture and it is, truly, the first square. When my frustration becomes too much I might have to beat the bush instead, after all it can't be a sightseer forever. Don't throw me a bone, I'm not dog, merely a curious cat still on his seventh life. I'd rather be close than be stuck with a cigar-- smoking's bad and I hate the smells. If I'm left with nothing, I'll cry like a wolf. Wolves are hunters, wolves are survivors.
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Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Guitar Sauce
Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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Homework, oh homework, I hate you! You Stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink. If only a bomb would explode you to bits. Homework, oh homework, You're giving me fits! I'd rather take baths with a man eating shark, Or wrestle a lion alone in the dark. Eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, Then tackle the homework my teacher assigns. I get more and more angry as I turn the next page, Homework, oh homework, You fill me with rage! Homework, oh homework, You're last on my list, I simply can't see why you even exist. If you just disappeared, it would tickle me pink. Homework, oh homework, I hate you! You stink!
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Sep 4, 2017
Sep 4, 2017 at 5:28 PM UTC
I Hate Homework.
the clay patio was baking just hot enough for the dough to rise and crisp and for you to spread your blanket in the sun perfect for a picnic with the kids and observing the man on that really tall bicycle it’s times like these when you think why doesn’t everyone just shut off and bake in the sun with a glass of peach tea and a pair of well behaved kids who share life like it was their job to love each other their mother dad and especially the old dog even the young lovers get jealous as their gaze from the park to your front patio witnessing that there is something more to love than just body heat chocolate-dipped strawberries and jazz clubs that children grow like spinach flowers in mellow medallion heat until the training wheels come off and they feel earth’s balance for the first time and the peaches! they shackle the branches like juicy bombs and you decide that mothers are like fruit unbruised unwashed and perfect something that God herself keeps in her finest crystal bowl and replants in the summer mother sister friend shoot me some of that peach tea you’re drinking that sun you are soaking that air you are breathing the world needs more of you and you deserve the last taste of its summer light
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Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 4:55 PM UTC
summer
Poppy fields grow seeds make ***** ****** and morphine dreams and the leaves can cure leprosy and answer all your needs. Poppy leaves boiled taste like spinach, and could be used in a fragrant dish, fit for a king. They made their graves and layed in them too, in the poppy fields. They didn't cook. They didn't shoot up. They didn't have leprosy. They just died amongst the flowers and bullets and shrapnel and smoke. They were sent to die. They were our kings.
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Feb 8, 2011
Feb 8, 2011 at 4:12 PM UTC
Poppy
first I smell myself. the deep bass tonality of my musk, hot, creamy, sweetness unique, of coffee and creamy, my owned sweat oiled secretions massaged into her skin emplaced by vigorous parts rubbing and tongue caressing, under the fading shadows of my glancing, desirous admirings then I smell herself. sinking sunset glimpses of last nights parfume parfait, scattered in random strategic locations architecturally planned, some flavors come over me like modest waves, others spelunking found in crevices, cracks and caves, where humans tread in guileless search of guiltless pleasure then I smell our sharings. lemon and thyme, paprika, sea salt and pepper, a basted rub laid upon animal skin consuming, and consumed, the vinaigrette balsamic and California yellow raisins, pine nuts, decorating leaves of red soil spinach and spicy arugula, word salads, so miraculously ingenious, you swear off eating flesh then I smell our combinations. the air conditioned atmosphere that blends us properly chilled, the olive oils pressed from two colored differing skins, the mortal and pestle finely grinding our own fresh crumbled dirt, appearing in places where dirt is wet panko crumbs encrusting us, our combined liquidity, shaken and stirred, drying in martini tandem it is 8:17am and this recipe of reciprocity, at its most pungent peaking, for soon raining waterfalls of potable city water and the sophistry of French soap, the pseudoscience of modern chemical shampoo, together erasing, scrubbing away this poems aromatherapy tapestry, your perplexed complexing nostrils will mock you once more, for ever disbelieving, thinking you could no longer write of only love poetry that crested high above the trite Friday, March 29 2019
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Mar 29, 2019
Mar 29, 2019 at 8:40 AM UTC
The Aroma of Us
first I smell myself. the deep bass tonality of my musk, hot, creamy, sweetness unique, of coffee and creamy, my owned sweat oiled secretions massaged into her skin emplaced by vigorous parts rubbing and tongue caressing, under the fading shadows of my glancing, desirous admirings then I smell herself. sinking sunset glimpses of last nights parfume parfait, scattered in random strategic locations architecturally planned, some flavors come over me like modest waves, others spelunking found in crevices, cracks and caves, where humans tread in guileless search of guiltless pleasure then I smell our sharings. lemon and thyme, paprika, sea salt and pepper, a basted rub laid upon animal skin consuming, and consumed, the vinaigrette balsamic and California yellow raisins, pine nuts, decorating leaves of red soil spinach and spicy arugula, word salads, so miraculously ingenious, you swear off eating flesh then I smell our combinations. the air conditioned atmosphere that blends us properly chilled, the olive oils pressed from two colored differing skins, the mortal and pestle finely grinding our own fresh crumbled dirt, appearing in places where dirt is wet panko crumbs encrusting us, our combined liquidity, shaken and stirred, drying in martini tandem it is 8:17am and this recipe of reciprocity, at its most pungent peaking, for soon raining waterfalls of potable city water and the sophistry of French soap, the pseudoscience of modern chemical shampoo, together erasing, scrubbing away this poems aromatherapy tapestry, your perplexed complexing nostrils will mock you once more, for ever disbelieving, thinking you could no longer write of only love poetry that crested high above the trite Friday, March 29 2019
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ARTICHOKES are very nice roasted with pine nuts Who likes BANANA cream pie? They say that eating CARROTS improves your eye sight Along the river Nile there are many DATE palms ELDERBERRIES make a flavorsome wine Piths from a FIG can easily get stuck between your teeth Nape tape and shape all rhyme with GRAPE HORSERADISH has a hot tangy taste ICE-PLANT is a much used vegetable in Chinese cookery The oil extract from JUNIPER BERRIES produces quine My sister likes KALE steamed with lemon rind It is so nice to munch on a LETTUCE leaf MANDARINS are presently plentiful at the green grocer's NEEPS can be mashed or left whole On a hot summer day chilled ORANGE juice goes down well Has anyone got a good PUMPKIN scone recipe? Lashings of QUINCE jam were spread on my toast The lady next door grows RHUBARB SPINACH gave Popeye much strength Smothering sausages in TOMATO sauce is sensational UGLI is a member of the citrus family In New Orleans you'll find fresh VELVET BEANS WATERCRESS salad is so easy to prepare XIGUA is a type of WATERMELON YAMS are a staple of the New Guinean diet ZUCCHINI bread is delicious fair
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 2:32 AM UTC
ABC Poem (Fruit and Vegetables)
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened the woodstove one last time and shoveled the remains of those long cold nights into a bucket, ash rising through shafts of sunlight, as swirling in bright, angelic eddies. I shoveled out the charred end of an oak log, black and pointed like a pencil; half-burnt pages sacrificed in the making of poems; old, square handmade nails liberated from weathered planks split for kindling. I buried my hands in the bucket, found the nails, lifted them, the phoenix of my right hand shielded with soot and tar, my left hand shrouded in soft white ash -- nails in both fists like forged lightning. I smeared black lines on my face, drew crosses on my chest with the nails, raised my arms and stomped my feet, dancing in honor of spring and rebirth, dancing in honor of winter and death. I hauled the heavy bucket to the garden, spread ashes over the ground, asked the earth to be good. I gave the earth everything that pulled me through the lonely winter -- oak trees, barns, poems. I picked up my shovel and turned hard, gray dirt, the blade splitting winter from spring. With *** and rake, I cultivated soil, tilling row after row, the earth now loose and black. Tearing seed packets with my teeth, I sowed spinach with my right hand, planted petunias with my left. Lifting clumps of dirt, I crumbled them in my fists, loving each dark letter that fell from my fingers. And when I carried my empty bucket to the lake for water, a few last ashes rose into spring-morning air, ash drifting over fields dew-covered and lightly dusted green.
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Sacrifices
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened the woodstove one last time and shoveled the remains of those long cold nights into a bucket, ash rising through shafts of sunlight, as swirling in bright, angelic eddies. I shoveled out the charred end of an oak log, black and pointed like a pencil; half-burnt pages sacrificed in the making of poems; old, square handmade nails liberated from weathered planks split for kindling. I buried my hands in the bucket, found the nails, lifted them, the phoenix of my right hand shielded with soot and tar, my left hand shrouded in soft white ash -- nails in both fists like forged lightning. I smeared black lines on my face, drew crosses on my chest with the nails, raised my arms and stomped my feet, dancing in honor of spring and rebirth, dancing in honor of winter and death. I hauled the heavy bucket to the garden, spread ashes over the ground, asked the earth to be good. I gave the earth everything that pulled me through the lonely winter -- oak trees, barns, poems. I picked up my shovel and turned hard, gray dirt, the blade splitting winter from spring. With *** and rake, I cultivated soil, tilling row after row, the earth now loose and black. Tearing seed packets with my teeth, I sowed spinach with my right hand, planted petunias with my left. Lifting clumps of dirt, I crumbled them in my fists, loving each dark letter that fell from my fingers. And when I carried my empty bucket to the lake for water, a few last ashes rose into spring-morning air, ash drifting over fields dew-covered and lightly dusted green.
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emerald, olive, viridian oh how you perplex me forest, jade, chartreuse why do you tease me so cyan, verdigris, moss such excitement arises to be a word to be a meaning is there such a thing, to have a feeling to see a vision, phthalo, pine, teal are you the same mint, myrtle, laurel you make me envious to be blooming, to be healthy to be young, to be clumsy are you callow, how about credulous? but such a conservationist unquestioning, so trustful, tenderfoot and common the tree, the lawn, the willow though ecological and crude a sage in all but name apple, spinach, pea aren't you scrumptious, lime, kelly, bice are you nature, how about luck you're pungently rotten though with such dark beauty and hope, love and lust ensues you're the jolliness of balance and the creative intelligence; of evil, and decay of money and safety, will you resurrect me, are you immortality? such jealousy arises high goals and honor so so allusive healing and vitality you're calming though fast lush spring stability, abundant generosity, vert vegetation; witchcraft an aphrodisiac I hear, are you youth or fading youth? sunrise and life, growth and fertility sacred ideology, eroticized though shameful so romantic and humble I see the third ray or is the the fifth ray, the third eye are you truth, are you vision it's becoming a science, so much compassion the fourth chakra, the heart, the centre of us all a higher consciousness such a harmonious aura a hunter, a nurse, a solider, an outdoorsman villains and superstition misfortune and prosperity with toxicity, sickness and death, recycle and reuse oh so powerful you exude auspiciousness just a holiday mystical fairies and spirits though also devilish, cancer in the stars a renewal of paradise, biliously tranquil are you refreshingly soothing, peacefully restful, a naive novice, very understanding, is there truly a term for you? what do you really convey, countless representations a definition of name, or do you signify the feeling, the specimen the aspect? though some have no locution for you here I am, stepping around the issue you are you, in any word yet with a different meaning
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM UTC
To be Ao
emerald, olive, viridian oh how you perplex me forest, jade, chartreuse why do you tease me so cyan, verdigris, moss such excitement arises to be a word to be a meaning is there such a thing, to have a feeling to see a vision, phthalo, pine, teal are you the same mint, myrtle, laurel you make me envious to be blooming, to be healthy to be young, to be clumsy are you callow, how about credulous? but such a conservationist unquestioning, so trustful, tenderfoot and common the tree, the lawn, the willow though ecological and crude a sage in all but name apple, spinach, pea aren't you scrumptious, lime, kelly, bice are you nature, how about luck you're pungently rotten though with such dark beauty and hope, love and lust ensues you're the jolliness of balance and the creative intelligence; of evil, and decay of money and safety, will you resurrect me, are you immortality? such jealousy arises high goals and honor so so allusive healing and vitality you're calming though fast lush spring stability, abundant generosity, vert vegetation; witchcraft an aphrodisiac I hear, are you youth or fading youth? sunrise and life, growth and fertility sacred ideology, eroticized though shameful so romantic and humble I see the third ray or is the the fifth ray, the third eye are you truth, are you vision it's becoming a science, so much compassion the fourth chakra, the heart, the centre of us all a higher consciousness such a harmonious aura a hunter, a nurse, a solider, an outdoorsman villains and superstition misfortune and prosperity with toxicity, sickness and death, recycle and reuse oh so powerful you exude auspiciousness just a holiday mystical fairies and spirits though also devilish, cancer in the stars a renewal of paradise, biliously tranquil are you refreshingly soothing, peacefully restful, a naive novice, very understanding, is there truly a term for you? what do you really convey, countless representations a definition of name, or do you signify the feeling, the specimen the aspect? though some have no locution for you here I am, stepping around the issue you are you, in any word yet with a different meaning
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Citrus trees, tomatoes, and fertile soil Garliconiongingersoy and ant spray Contentment Cigarettes and hate Aqua Net White school paste Bitter slimy spinach and blue ditto ink Confusion Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Baseball glove Mown grass Fresh popcorn Sadness Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cramped, stale cars Claustrophobia and Cat litter Loneliness Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Petroleum Locker Rooms and Perfume Indifference Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Cigarettes and hate Smoggy skies Salty beaches Beer trucks at each end of the block Love And... Blessed... Divorce
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Nov 20, 2011
Nov 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM UTC
Life, in Smells, Part One
THE RETURN OF DUM MAARO DUM ( for Driftwood ) She dances upon her tippy toes upon my toes whirling 'bout the room to DUM MAARO DUM she my little Bollywood queen. "Again...again....again!" she squeals mad with childish delight. Asha sings to us and we...dance! Sunlight throws itself at our feet. We dance upon it. Summer gasps holds its breath. There is nothing but the music....and us! She is all of three screaming: "Bollywood me...Bollywood me!" "This...won't....get the dinner done!" screams Mum above the fun. The record screeches and scratches ...ouch...off! I cut cucumbers into tiny tiny pieces. Tilly washes spinach and lettuce. But when Mum goes to answer the phone it's her best chum she will be hours we sneak Asha back into the kitchen. The return of. . . "Dum maaro dum Mit jaaye gham Bolo subaha shaam Hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna Hare Ram!"
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 2:41 PM UTC
THE RETURN OF DUM MAARO DUM ( for Driftwood )
I don't want to go a gentle journey, from convoluted to convalescence. I quit drinking again; found love in the psych ward. She's my broken-winged angel. So much pain behind that sweet smile. She's drinking again, and I can't fix her. It hurts, like an arrow through the stomach. I have a rabbit that comes to my yard. She lies in the same spot every day. So much so, that she has worn down a place for herself--the surrounding grass grows around her. She feels safe. I feed her spinach, and my brother sings her show tunes. That's what we get for having a drama teacher for a father. Thanks, Dad. It's been an unseasonably cold April. I feel sorry for Harvey; That's her name, thanks again Dad. I talk to her softly. "Hi, baby--what are you doing? Do you want to come in?" She doesn't answer.  I'm sober. I want to take care of her... Both of them... My two little bunnies. It's cold, and the wind is blowing hard, beneath a mean grey sky.
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May 1, 2022
May 1, 2022 at 6:11 PM UTC
Two Bunnies Beneath a Cold Grey Sky
Vivid cultures dancing like jellybeans in a frying pan. Pop like a violin flow with the rhythm of the sandstorm. Spinach leaves sway in the depths of the ocean like worms hooked through one of its many stomachs filled with plastic bottles. ****** honey bombs flavour the ink that spills across the landscapes.
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Sep 4, 2014
Sep 4, 2014 at 10:40 AM UTC
Untitled
I keep my head up, lips snarled and puckered, teeth show, nose high, squinted eyes, you can see death in them. I look to the left, I look to the right, now it's time to fight, 3-2-1 take flight, we go all night, keep my fist packed tight, and if I lose I'll be back looking through my iron sight. This is the law of the land, dog eat dog, tooth for tooth, an eye for eye, kill or be killed, I'm a killer with a blood instinct. Came up in the mafia vicinage, we live life this ain't no scrimmage, live by Omerta it ain't no image, living life without problems is a privilege, when you start talking to cops you finished, that's how we get down in my evil village, nothing changed we all living vintage, I can see you coming in with your gimmick, don't try to test my limit, I'm Popeye on steroids and spinach. Rimani persone reali.
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Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 5:51 PM UTC
Evil Dead
They talk, don't listen Don't listen, for what they say isn't true Their heartlessness can't break us It's not your fault They don't see What I see in you Set petty judgments aside Your value is insurpassable, Undeniable. Your tenderness against my tongue Tender, but never too sweet, Almost bitter. No sugar coated lies Just fresh and raw. Honest and genuine, You provide what I need.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 1:30 AM UTC
Ode to Spinach
OR The Child Is Father Of The Man, But Not For Quite A While So Thomas Edison Never drank his medicine; So Blackstone and Hoyle Refused cod-liver oil; So Sir Thomas Malory Never heard of a calory; So the Earl of Lennox Murdered Rizzio without the aid of vitamins or calisthenox; So Socrates and Plato Ate dessert without finishing their potato; So spinach was too spinachy For Leonardo da Vinaci; Well, it's all immaterial, So eat your nice cereal, And if you want to name your ration, First go get a reputation.
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Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib
A kilo of fish brinjal pumpkin Cauliflower raisin and bean Washing soap and eggs one crate Need to buy bring from market! Mustard oil some milk and rice Cashew nut and a horde of spice Gourd and potato spinach cabbage The list is long fills a page! Feel confused from where to start How to pile and stack on a cart Shoeshine cream to adhesive glue All calculations and maths to do! Ticked what’s got unticked what’s not Cash dwindles with much unbought Trudge back home in sweated daze She checks items and fumes in rage!
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 10:55 AM UTC
From Market
Quit smoking and excessive drinking, It was supposed to help with healthy thinking. That day I made it clear to myself It's also time to quit you. Gone hard on greens, had spinach, kale daily. Worked out every other day, I even had a schedule. On weekly basis: abs, some arms and lots of *** My selfie game was on point, I got a tonne DMs. Until a day I saw you holding hands And heard you called her 'girlfriend'. You never called me that in front of your best friends. It really hurt, I couldn’t stop it. That day I started smoking cigarettes again And drinking wine, I had no schedule. I've made a lot of calls and texts Quite clearly, I couldn't quit you. I liked you when you’ve had a ‘few’ tequilas You’d talk things intimate, it felt as if you mean it. I really hope you go back to heavy drinking And start to feel instead of thinking.
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018 at 5:39 AM UTC
I Quit You (not)
The expendable existence. That uncomfortable rat on your skin. The cut in your gums that bleeds when you chew. The last feasible member to fit on an ascending elevator. Warm. Hot. Itching. The spinach in your teeth. The tear in your jeans located too close to “there” The treacherous unzipped jean fiasco. That crumb on your face. Where is it? ‘To the left’ Is it gone? ‘A little more’ How ‘bout now? ‘Got it.’ The untied shoe. The untucked shirt. The eyelash stranded on your face. The rainy wedding day. The gold earring under the fridge. The luggage thats flying to London instead of Zimbabwe. These are the unwanted little honeybees of everyday being. cracked mirrors, guitar-snapped strings, welts of fire and third wheel things.
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 7:04 PM UTC
Third Wheel Things.
My Lighthouse Poem 4/4/2014 You make my toes tingle, I never noticed them before. You're like my hit single, in my mind every time I walk out the door, to start my day. You brighten my soul and one touch makes me feel a million different ways. One more positive than the other, but each heading in the same right direction, to you. I can't wait to trace every single millimeter of your body, like I am on a treasure hunt. And all I can find at each spot I come into contact with is golden beauty. Your words are pure and unadulterated, like the low sodium soy sauce and fresh ginger with sushi. Ooo, there's just something in your smile, and no it's not spinach. It's a reflection of a happier me, knowing that I could be with you and be happy. I'll call you my lighthouse, and nobody will understand. They'll think I was a lost ship, and that you helped me reach the sand. Really it's because you are a stable structure, out at an emotional sea in a dark sky night. Really it is because none of the others compare, to your special kind of shine bright, with that light, that I'm fixated on. On our first date we played bingo and shuffleboard. On our second date, sushi and tarot cards. Who knows what crazy adventures any future dates will be, but who really cares when they include you and me? Yeah, that's right, it's enough with just you and me, my lighthouse.
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 6:27 AM UTC
My Lighthouse
Never forget there is poetry in dirt in greens, in beets, especially in rutabagas. Three-dollar-a-bag spinach, you are a symphony of compost with which an old man’s teeth are smitten; Rosemary sprig, beneath all your flavor you are the staff-lines of a madrigal written in loving anticipation of the mason jars, weighed down with water where you will grow and swell and bud and spread out strong purple flowers which elate that you are part of a song which sings every year a little louder. My beautiful, daredevil vegetables, This coming September, I will miss you dearly. I will be days of travel away from your world of roots, of mist, of six-in-the-morning-before-classes tonic of rain which saturates my skin so good I’m surprised when I shake the dirt from the leeks all over my bare feet, that you don’t crop up green & white from between my toes, that my arms don’t grow heavy with peppers after they cake with jalapeno & bell seeds from all the half-rotten miracles to whom I have given baptism in shallow plastic tubs of water floating like elations of fire in the grayness of the morning. Know how to tell if a pepper’s rotten? Wash it & shake it & if you can hear the water swishing inside, if you can make a maraca of its innards, then give it back to the dirt. This is the wisdom of peppers: when you grow soft when you have been chosen & plucked, & washed & thoroughly loved & shaken, when you have called out like fire beside your brothers in a basin, lay down in the compost the kindly compost, & listen, just listen, (there will be nothing left to do but listen) to the poetry of dirt.
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 4:15 PM UTC
The Wisdom of Peppers
Never forget there is poetry in dirt in greens, in beets, especially in rutabagas. Three-dollar-a-bag spinach, you are a symphony of compost with which an old man’s teeth are smitten; Rosemary sprig, beneath all your flavor you are the staff-lines of a madrigal written in loving anticipation of the mason jars, weighed down with water where you will grow and swell and bud and spread out strong purple flowers which elate that you are part of a song which sings every year a little louder. My beautiful, daredevil vegetables, This coming September, I will miss you dearly. I will be days of travel away from your world of roots, of mist, of six-in-the-morning-before-classes tonic of rain which saturates my skin so good I’m surprised when I shake the dirt from the leeks all over my bare feet, that you don’t crop up green & white from between my toes, that my arms don’t grow heavy with peppers after they cake with jalapeno & bell seeds from all the half-rotten miracles to whom I have given baptism in shallow plastic tubs of water floating like elations of fire in the grayness of the morning. Know how to tell if a pepper’s rotten? Wash it & shake it & if you can hear the water swishing inside, if you can make a maraca of its innards, then give it back to the dirt. This is the wisdom of peppers: when you grow soft when you have been chosen & plucked, & washed & thoroughly loved & shaken, when you have called out like fire beside your brothers in a basin, lay down in the compost the kindly compost, & listen, just listen, (there will be nothing left to do but listen) to the poetry of dirt.
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I quite like the virginity of a fresh notebook the way my wrists and palms drag across its leaves breathing life between lines in pink magic marker or the severity of red ballpoint I like the prickly practical meticulousness of a shopping list: a dozen eggs one pineapple one bag of fresh spinach one bag of English muffins one bottle of dish soap I like the tender impressions of curlie cues and firty cursive communicating endearments placed on counters such as: TAKE OUT THE RECYCLING YOU LAZY OAF ******* <3 XOXOXO <3 I enjoy the audacity of a wandering doodle meandering cartwheeling hopskotching between and under and over indices and spaces between shopping lists and death threats i enjoy the lingering ghost of prose shaped caverns carved onto seemingly empty sheets that carry on for pages until they fade like whispers into an evanescence I crave the obnoxiousness absurdity of a to do list daring me to take a day off from procrastination until tomorrow call Gramma rent due on the first of the muuuuuuuunth take the GRE update resume be awesome. like a boss. most of all I love the pain and joy of a poem the way it slowly leaks from heart to mind to hand to paper staining spaces urgently faster than muses whispers barely escaping onto lines prolific terrific poetry sporadic spacious atrocious poetry I croon over the denial of the last page of a beat up notebook the way the paper hangs onto spirals haggard littered with stringy remnants of lists and reminders and death threats and poems and goodbyes
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Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM UTC
Notebooks
I quite like the virginity of a fresh notebook the way my wrists and palms drag across its leaves breathing life between lines in pink magic marker or the severity of red ballpoint I like the prickly practical meticulousness of a shopping list: a dozen eggs one pineapple one bag of fresh spinach one bag of English muffins one bottle of dish soap I like the tender impressions of curlie cues and firty cursive communicating endearments placed on counters such as: TAKE OUT THE RECYCLING YOU LAZY OAF ******* <3 XOXOXO <3 I enjoy the audacity of a wandering doodle meandering cartwheeling hopskotching between and under and over indices and spaces between shopping lists and death threats i enjoy the lingering ghost of prose shaped caverns carved onto seemingly empty sheets that carry on for pages until they fade like whispers into an evanescence I crave the obnoxiousness absurdity of a to do list daring me to take a day off from procrastination until tomorrow call Gramma rent due on the first of the muuuuuuuunth take the GRE update resume be awesome. like a boss. most of all I love the pain and joy of a poem the way it slowly leaks from heart to mind to hand to paper staining spaces urgently faster than muses whispers barely escaping onto lines prolific terrific poetry sporadic spacious atrocious poetry I croon over the denial of the last page of a beat up notebook the way the paper hangs onto spirals haggard littered with stringy remnants of lists and reminders and death threats and poems and goodbyes
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THE RETURN OF DUM MAARO DUM ( for Driftwood ) She dances upon her tippy toes upon my toes whirling 'bout the room to DUM MAARO DUM she my little Bollywood queen. "Again...again....again!" she squeals mad with childish delight. Asha sings to us and we...dance! Sunlight throws itself at our feet. We dance upon it. Summer gasps holds its breath. There is nothing but the music....and us! She is all of three screaming: "Bollywood me...Bollywood me!" "This...won't....get the dinner done!" screams Mum above the fun. The record screechs and scratches ...ouch...off! I cut cuecumbers into tiny tiny pieces. Tilly washes spinach and lettuce. But when Mum goes to answer the phone it's her best chum she will be hours we sneak Asha back into the kitchen. The return of. . . "Dum maaro dum Mit jaaye gham Bolo subaha shaam Hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna Hare Ram!"
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Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 12:19 PM UTC
THE RETURN OF DUM MAARO DUM( for Driftwood )