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"squares" poems
The Squares lived happily, in their square houses, in their square yards, in their square town. One day, a family of Circles moved in from the west. "Get out of here, roundies!" shouted one of the Squares. "Why?" asked one of the Circles. "Because this is a metaphor for racism!"
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 6:25 PM UTC
The Squares
Nan, I wrote this poem for you to keep As you lie peacefully asleep To share the stories you once told Sat in your chair growing peacefully old I will always remember those days When I sat up to the table studying the maze Of thousands of puzzle pieces in my gaze However I was never fazed Because you were always there to guide the way. I will always remember your trips out and about Although never adventurous I felt, McDonald's and M&s; without doubt, Were you favourite places to walkabout I will always remember your creative flare, Your knitting needles and you cross-stitch squares, how you could sit and chat, yet knit with care Always seemed so unfair But most of all, I wrote this poem to say thankyou Not just from me but from all the family too For the wisdom and knowledge you once shared For showing you loved us and that you cared I wrote this poem to say goodbye As you watch us from up high I remember all the fun times we had As my friend and as my Nan And I miss you more than words can say I hope we can meet again someday
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
Nan, may you rest in peace
I am in math class I hate adding up the squares Take me home to sleep
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
math (haiku)
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be. High above the gutter A silver knife sinks into golden butter, A glass of milk stands in a meadow, and Well-balanced families, in fine Midsummer weather, owe their smiles, their cars, Even their youth, to that small cube each hand Stretches towards. These, and the deep armchairs Aligned to cups at bedtime, radiant bars (Gas or electric), quarter-profile cats By slippers on warm mats, Reflect none of the rained-on streets and squares They dominate outdoors. Rather, they rise Serenely to proclaim pure crust, pure foam, Pure coldness to our live imperfect eyes That stare beyond this world, where nothing's made As new or washed quite clean, seeking the home All such inhabit. There, dark raftered pubs Are filled with white-clothed ones from tennis-clubs, And the boy puking his heart out in the Gents Just missed them, as the pensioner paid A halfpenny more for Granny Graveclothes' Tea To taste old age, and dying smokers sense Walking towards them through some dappled park As if on water that unfocused she No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near, Who now stands newly clear, Smiling, and recognising, and going dark.
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Essential Beauty
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:27 PM UTC
Becoming Raleigh
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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maybe the buildings are hollow, occupied only in facade on the first floor of storefronts maybe this whole town is a hologram of neon against puddles on the pavement. maybe the citizens are ghosts floating by in circles, or squares of city blocks, around a routine, or droning through on electric scooters as if on muted theme park rides to the next sensory diversion; to the nearest gastronomical pleasure; toward the weekend and its next party celebrating the loss of time, I see their tired faces staring out from the glass of coffeeshop windows on every block. I see their piles of beer cans beside the trash chute. I hear them singing on booze-cruises to nowhere What part of this cycle that turns days into dust moves us closer to heaven? What feast from what new restaurant downtown will feed our souls? From which lonely night do we finally emerge beside the one whose presence fills these hollow buildings to the top-most floors? Which of the empty lots between us do we fill with a conversation about how this is all a dream, or how we'll keep each other awake on a bench beneath a street lamp before dawn waiting for the first bus to take us home.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 12:25 AM UTC
Ghost Town
You don't know strength until you have been a real *** You have no idea how deep this **** really goes, Its not for the faint of heart nor you squares, Too much of the game is not being sold but shared, The cold breeze that chills your bones at night, The dark eyes of other girls standing under the streetlight They don't understand our struggle or see our strength They only know the bad and try to stop it at any length Yet we all share the same vision with similar goals Inspired to stay down by his game that has no holes We have all been given instructions to carry out fast Breakin a trick make him give you his very last Show him your down for him add it up He will take care of your trap and stack it up Every real 304 stands up when her folks is around Every real p loves a real one who's down for his crown Some say its silly to pay a **** your hard earned doh But it races through our veins so when he sends me I go Maybe I'm a dreamer and he is the merchant of dreams And I am investing in our future crazy as it seems But when he speaks I believe in the words that are spoken And I make sure that I don't get too deep in my emotions A **** is a born and from day one he is already game To build himself a stand up *** and and get his fortune and fame. So a message out to those of you who don't know They say pimpin ain't easy but it takes true strength to be a real ***
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Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 9:23 PM UTC
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tiny glowing squares penetrate my retinas and spike into my brain quick-fix pleasure migraine [a drug, almost] six-inch screen turned shrine temple television: be my proxy mother father friend and lover digital aura glow comfort and sedate me: tell me i'm beautiful tell me i'm right tell me you love me tell me you'll never leave my side
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 8:03 AM UTC
::pixelate::
I want you to put me on your tongue and let me dissolve into you like the tiny white squares that turn those glossy hazel marbles into black holes and intense stares. I want you to kiss me and see negative colored rulers in the corner of your vision and I want you to have trouble making a decision between kissing me and observing me while I'm sitting on your chest and I want you to laugh like you did with your cherry colored lip curled over your childish grin over and over and over again and I want you to forget the conversation topic every time you close your eyes because the world inside of your mind is filled with blinking images that you can't quite explain aloud so you settle for little talks about Rosa Parks and Indian style kisses and how the ocean is the Earth's thing or the complexity of butterfly brains and whether or not they remember their caterpillar memories (they do). Describe to me the first time you saw your favorite color and what developed the affinity for it: yours, a glacier blue toy that resembled the ocean and mine, a lavender Easter dress that twirled when I spun. Tell me about your school crushes when you were four and what you got your clothespin moved to the sad face for and I'll write it all in ink on my knee caps because "God, we're such writers" and you'll check the clock in the gaps and search for tunes or lighters and I'll want time to slow down because the nights spent with you usually seem as though minutes are just a few seconds shy of sixty, which turns the little hand pretty quickly. I want hours, weeks, decades, to analyze the freckles on your face or the pace at which you move your tongue and precisely how it tastes. I want you to tell me that your brother would like me and about the mountains in Tennessee and maybe next time I'll try to stay awake, unless you want to listen to the way I breathe so fully when I dream. When I close my eyes, I want to be able to see what you see. I want you to keep burying the numb parts of you into the warm parts of me.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 4:32 AM UTC
LSD
I want you to put me on your tongue and let me dissolve into you like the tiny white squares that turn those glossy hazel marbles into black holes and intense stares. I want you to kiss me and see negative colored rulers in the corner of your vision and I want you to have trouble making a decision between kissing me and observing me while I'm sitting on your chest and I want you to laugh like you did with your cherry colored lip curled over your childish grin over and over and over again and I want you to forget the conversation topic every time you close your eyes because the world inside of your mind is filled with blinking images that you can't quite explain aloud so you settle for little talks about Rosa Parks and Indian style kisses and how the ocean is the Earth's thing or the complexity of butterfly brains and whether or not they remember their caterpillar memories (they do). Describe to me the first time you saw your favorite color and what developed the affinity for it: yours, a glacier blue toy that resembled the ocean and mine, a lavender Easter dress that twirled when I spun. Tell me about your school crushes when you were four and what you got your clothespin moved to the sad face for and I'll write it all in ink on my knee caps because "God, we're such writers" and you'll check the clock in the gaps and search for tunes or lighters and I'll want time to slow down because the nights spent with you usually seem as though minutes are just a few seconds shy of sixty, which turns the little hand pretty quickly. I want hours, weeks, decades, to analyze the freckles on your face or the pace at which you move your tongue and precisely how it tastes. I want you to tell me that your brother would like me and about the mountains in Tennessee and maybe next time I'll try to stay awake, unless you want to listen to the way I breathe so fully when I dream. When I close my eyes, I want to be able to see what you see. I want you to keep burying the numb parts of you into the warm parts of me.
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Independent is the word they all use, They tack it on me, Let it hang a crooked ribbon. Seeing all the things I already knew Transcripted on the blanks of stacks of white and black, Reverberating off chapped pink lips, Takes me aback, shoves me into the corners of myself, Tastes new like bird meat ****** off the bone tastes new. I want to cut it up into little squares and abandon it in tupperware. At least for a few days.
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Nov 29, 2011
Nov 29, 2011 at 12:58 AM UTC
Independent
Four walls; a pair of cupped hands. Jaundiced like an open eye; an open cove Prescribing solitude to those whom solitude cannot withstand, And I choose this cold corner which is furthest from the door, To be where I am not, before Your proclivities become my own, I write. I write, My window holds my breath and frosts the world, The moon in his amber gown, dressed in chatoyance and spite, Godspeed; dark, dark shroud for naked skies! Six floors, walls, doors from you am I. I couldn't write when the sun peered in, Her inquiry evangelizing the specks of time left upon the glass - I've heard it all before; God's shining face leaves none unloved (unseen) but his spotlight has no starlet; so who can see me up here? We can't see from windows, dear. I'd live and sing for the cloudless hall The nursery of misanthropists crawling on the grey cobblestone And the lilt of the wind on the rose; through squares nice and small - The peevish moth shudders at the sight of itself obscuring the day through the glass. It seems we're always in the way.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 5:40 PM UTC
From a Windowsill
WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO THE NEXT GENERATION IS GET A FLAMING COMPUTER, GET THE INTERNET, AND PAY TV AND YOU CAN BE AS COOL AS ME, IF YA HAVEN’T GOT A COMPUTER YOU ARE A COMPLETE LOSER, WHO IS A TAD BRAINLESS NO THE COMPUTER IS THE SIGN OF THE NEXT GENERATION NOT LITTLE YOUNG DUDES WHO ARE JEALOUS OF YA NEH, THE COMPUTER IS THE GATEWAY, TO THE NEXT GEN, BABY NOTHING IS GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE QUICKER, THAN A COMPUTER A COMPUTER IS COOL, CAUSE IT SHOWS YOU WHERE ALL THE GREAT PARTIES ARE WHEN YOUR FAVOURITE FOOTY TEAM IS PLAYING IT SHOWS KIDS HAVING A BALL WITH YOUTUBE, BY PUTTING ON VLOGS AND WRITING BLOGS AND YOU CAN DISPLAY YOUR ART ON A COMPUTER THE WORLD GETS TO SEE IT, AS WELL AS WRITING, IT’S ****** FUN FACEBOOK IS COOL AS WELL, YOU CAN DISPLAY ART ON THAT AS WELL SO IF ANYONE SAYS COMPUTERS **** AND NOT THE NEXT GENERATION THEY CAN GO AND **** A LEMON, AND I WILL BE AS CHEEKY AS I WANT TO SHOW, THAT COMPUTERS, CAN TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT GEN FASTER THAN ANY JOB THAT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE IN I WANT TO BE AN ENTERTAINER, I AM BETTER, BUT DIFFERENT TO OTHERS WHEN IT COMES TO STYLE HEY BABY, OOH YEAH, COMPUTERS CAN SLIDE YA TO THE NEXT GEN, YEAH HEY BABY OOH YEAH, COMPUTERS CAN SLIDE YA TO THE NEXT GEN YEAH YA SEE AS I SEARCH AROUND CYBER SPACE I SEE SOME NICE LOOKING CHICKS, YOU MEAN, NICE, I SAID YEAH NICE THEY ARE SO PRETTY, VERY PRETTY, HEY BABY, OOH YEAH OH YEAH I WANNA PARTY WITH THE COOL PEOPLE HANGING ON CYBER SPACE YOU SEE COMPUTERS ARE THE GATEWAY, TO THE NEXT GEN YEAH AND WE OPEN UP A NICE COLD BEER, SHE’S SO BEAUTY WONDERFULLY, DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION YEAH COMPUTERS ARE FUN, NOT FOR THE SQUARES, WHO JUST WORKS IN DEAD END JOBS FOR ME, COMPUTERS ARE THE KEY TO MY FUTURE I AM NOT LIKE MY BIG KOOMARRI MAN OF A MATE, LYLE I LOVE SOCIAL MEDIA, I AM COOL MAN, UP IN COMPUTER TERRITORY NOW, BUDDY BOY
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Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015 at 10:27 PM UTC
COMPUTERS ARE PART OF THE NEXT GEN
WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO THE NEXT GENERATION IS GET A FLAMING COMPUTER, GET THE INTERNET, AND PAY TV AND YOU CAN BE AS COOL AS ME, IF YA HAVEN’T GOT A COMPUTER YOU ARE A COMPLETE LOSER, WHO IS A TAD BRAINLESS NO THE COMPUTER IS THE SIGN OF THE NEXT GENERATION NOT LITTLE YOUNG DUDES WHO ARE JEALOUS OF YA NEH, THE COMPUTER IS THE GATEWAY, TO THE NEXT GEN, BABY NOTHING IS GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE QUICKER, THAN A COMPUTER A COMPUTER IS COOL, CAUSE IT SHOWS YOU WHERE ALL THE GREAT PARTIES ARE WHEN YOUR FAVOURITE FOOTY TEAM IS PLAYING IT SHOWS KIDS HAVING A BALL WITH YOUTUBE, BY PUTTING ON VLOGS AND WRITING BLOGS AND YOU CAN DISPLAY YOUR ART ON A COMPUTER THE WORLD GETS TO SEE IT, AS WELL AS WRITING, IT’S ****** FUN FACEBOOK IS COOL AS WELL, YOU CAN DISPLAY ART ON THAT AS WELL SO IF ANYONE SAYS COMPUTERS **** AND NOT THE NEXT GENERATION THEY CAN GO AND **** A LEMON, AND I WILL BE AS CHEEKY AS I WANT TO SHOW, THAT COMPUTERS, CAN TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT GEN FASTER THAN ANY JOB THAT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE IN I WANT TO BE AN ENTERTAINER, I AM BETTER, BUT DIFFERENT TO OTHERS WHEN IT COMES TO STYLE HEY BABY, OOH YEAH, COMPUTERS CAN SLIDE YA TO THE NEXT GEN, YEAH HEY BABY OOH YEAH, COMPUTERS CAN SLIDE YA TO THE NEXT GEN YEAH YA SEE AS I SEARCH AROUND CYBER SPACE I SEE SOME NICE LOOKING CHICKS, YOU MEAN, NICE, I SAID YEAH NICE THEY ARE SO PRETTY, VERY PRETTY, HEY BABY, OOH YEAH OH YEAH I WANNA PARTY WITH THE COOL PEOPLE HANGING ON CYBER SPACE YOU SEE COMPUTERS ARE THE GATEWAY, TO THE NEXT GEN YEAH AND WE OPEN UP A NICE COLD BEER, SHE’S SO BEAUTY WONDERFULLY, DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION YEAH COMPUTERS ARE FUN, NOT FOR THE SQUARES, WHO JUST WORKS IN DEAD END JOBS FOR ME, COMPUTERS ARE THE KEY TO MY FUTURE I AM NOT LIKE MY BIG KOOMARRI MAN OF A MATE, LYLE I LOVE SOCIAL MEDIA, I AM COOL MAN, UP IN COMPUTER TERRITORY NOW, BUDDY BOY
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when i was young ammi packed me lunch one strawberry jam sandwich cut neatly into squares as i grew older and my tummy much bigger (along with my appetite) one turned into two two to three and finally for some unknown reason there were no strawberry jam sandwiches but ammi still packed me lunch it was tuna or chicken maybe tomato and cheese sometimes a pastry i wasn't hard to please and it never occurred to me that my strawberry sandwiches were gone till one completely random day i'm sitting with my friends taking the first bite of my sandwich a burst of strawberry fills my mouth sweet, rich with sugar it tastes red, good bright red my strawberry jam sandwich came back and i was bombarded by my childhood playing on the swings sandwich in hand red coated crumbs dotting my shirt running out of class as soon as the bell rings to munch munch munch on my strawberry sandwiches strawberry jam was never my favourite filling but it filled me with memories so occasionlly when i'm feeling nostalgic i'll pick up a slice, butter it up spread my gooey, red friend and share a sandwich with ammi.
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 5:28 AM UTC
.strawberry jam sandwiches
Life often speaks in rhythm & blues whispering trumpets to bended ears, while reminding us that smiles belong only in photographs; and tears behind the curtain of an indifferent face We walk fine lines, between tragedy and genius, lines so rarely straight we seek balance in mediocrity and solitude in unfinished lifes We become incomplete puzzles forcing squares into circular places by tearing away pieces of the whole and conforming to the empty spaces some things were never meant to be changed We place people into boxes, neatly organizing them by the labels we give their cracks and flaws seldom ever realizing that broken has a beauty all it's own, and... some things were never meant be mended
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Jul 13, 2014
Jul 13, 2014 at 10:02 PM UTC
Life, Lines, and Labels
circles squares and triangles shapes I learned as a kid I trace them on your spine I smile as you wiggle your best attempt not to move fingers move to make 3 points like sliding on silk my fingers skate across your body tracing shapes from memory
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Jun 22, 2014
Jun 22, 2014 at 7:22 PM UTC
"triangles walk"
the cosmos a web of plantary oppositions squares and triangulations curses and blessings demons, humans and gods friends and enemies each a constituent a revolving carousel of heavens and hells the macro, an umbrella of spilling stars like shattered glass in flames outer and inner stone & gas planets wandering infinitely like strays others in tight gravitational ellipses and eclipses the elements of fire air earth and water from the most subtle formless to rocks flames oceans and the air we breathe disjuncture in a   a mix-meister a gruesome churning mouth swallowing our delicate membranes and we wonder why we are in pain why we are nourished by flesh as we ourselves are consumed filled with blood and nothing and deadened by marking time all hungry shells and why we wither to dust as do suns and moons and gods themselves all of us children of monsters and corpse eaters born of magnitudes episodic collisions and  harrowing creative destructions the dead living and the living dead with eyes that flicker only on half a landscape at a time a holloween of pyramids and bones always running from wolves because we are meant to be eaten okay my darlings now lets try focused breathing, and boundless light lets try being Hindu
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Sep 16, 2018
Sep 16, 2018 at 2:23 PM UTC
HINDU
We spend one day together, in the park and now the sun reminds me of you. It was 29 degrees and the sun still couldn’t match your brightness. 29 degrees and you were still the brightest star in my sky.   I think back to my diary, when I told her we would forge a picnic from the empty living room and yet here we are. The cream carpet, now green grass and my heart melts in your hands. Sizzling air beats down on our pale skin as my heart beats a mile a minute. Sometimes I like to play pretend. Cast myself as the role of your love interest. So during my game I was shocked. When we step foot in your local corner store, when the cashier muttered a “you too, together” I thought I’d alternated reality. Or at least I did for that second and a half. Before you fumbled over your words and tried to find the ones that would break my heart the least. You settled on she’s out of my league, you joked about it once we’ve left. Then I pretended again. I cast myself as your laid back friend, As the girl who has better things to think about then a cashier wrong assumptions. Reality didn’t shift this time. — p.d.e
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 10:09 PM UTC
Parks, Squares and Alleys
It's dark outside except for the pale glow of a fingernail moon sailing through the starry sea of night. The wind has tucked itself to sleep with the birds, weary of bustling about and playing with my hair. The whippet snuffles his way along the rabbit trails, delighted with this late night walk, white tail wagging in the air. I wander down by the edge of the swamp, grass all soft and dewy 'neath my feet and spy the pallid uoow reflected upside down, between the reeds along the creek.   The constant, shrilling chorus of frogs and crickets drills my ears yet I find it strangely soothing -  a well known voice across the years. I turn to walk back, whistling the dog and notice in the low fields,  the usual ethereal  fog begin to form.   I look up at the dark shape of the house and see light from my kitchen window painting squares upon the lawn. Amphibean bodies seek the brightness, bellies pressed against the glass and if you warm them with your finger on the other side, they move.   My man and I  bet kisses on whose frog would move the most -  one of those silly games you play when you're in love. As I close the door behind me, grabbing logs to feed the fire, the dog flops down upon the hearthrug letting warmth dry swampy mire. I make cocoa in my blue mug then pull down the kitchen blind - cutting off the froggy light source - abruptly silencing the choir.
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Apr 27, 2017
Apr 27, 2017 at 8:42 AM UTC
Last walk of the day
I’ve never understood the pull of the nightlife. I was always content to hang in my cave and enjoy the homelife. Every now and then I do wag my tail and purse the trail of the pack, Always lingering right at the back of the queue. I follow their scent when they descend into the night, While they ascend the social status stairway. From my perch at the bar I watch the social sheep dancing to the beat of popularity: The girls show off their twirls and brunette curls, Inviting you into the funhouse down under that never shuts for festivities. The boys weigh up their options with the biceps on display and perfect quiffs held up by ten tins of hairspray. Hunting through the flocks of feet trying to find themselves a piece of meat for an all night feast. When he finally finds his muse he bites her lip and grabs her hair, pulling her in without a care about those who stop and stare. They kiss for seconds and he whispers in here ear, “I think we should get outta’ here.” She giggles grabs his hand and leaves through the exit at the rear. His friends give him a clap and cheer, whilst his jealous rivals sulk and sneer. After a few too many drinks I leave through the front, holding my head low to avoid a fight. Bearing the brunt of another unsuccessful night with no young light to take home and ignite. I fall on my floor with a case of helicopter head as the room spins in circles and squares in front of my eyes. My lasting thoughts are of the day ahead; hanging dry and feeling as if I’d rather die. It's just another day in my nightlife.
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Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 4:30 PM UTC
Another Day In My Nightlife.
I’ve never understood the pull of the nightlife. I was always content to hang in my cave and enjoy the homelife. Every now and then I do wag my tail and purse the trail of the pack, Always lingering right at the back of the queue. I follow their scent when they descend into the night, While they ascend the social status stairway. From my perch at the bar I watch the social sheep dancing to the beat of popularity: The girls show off their twirls and brunette curls, Inviting you into the funhouse down under that never shuts for festivities. The boys weigh up their options with the biceps on display and perfect quiffs held up by ten tins of hairspray. Hunting through the flocks of feet trying to find themselves a piece of meat for an all night feast. When he finally finds his muse he bites her lip and grabs her hair, pulling her in without a care about those who stop and stare. They kiss for seconds and he whispers in here ear, “I think we should get outta’ here.” She giggles grabs his hand and leaves through the exit at the rear. His friends give him a clap and cheer, whilst his jealous rivals sulk and sneer. After a few too many drinks I leave through the front, holding my head low to avoid a fight. Bearing the brunt of another unsuccessful night with no young light to take home and ignite. I fall on my floor with a case of helicopter head as the room spins in circles and squares in front of my eyes. My lasting thoughts are of the day ahead; hanging dry and feeling as if I’d rather die. It's just another day in my nightlife.
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don't understand me. this is not for you. It's for you. my Gemini shin splints are pirates. hopeless Romans, romantically dismantling the things you Undo. the things you You. I Doctor in your Seuss canal. with a frontal lobe, more Job than a postage stamp - in this Day and Age. It's grey and rage - with the tooth torn out ! Out through the probable snout of the next mummified god-king of our interlocking rot... our chamber pots spotting the oft begot good of our evil Mummenschanz we are crepes' rue; yet we roulette best in Typhoons from murk placid. with 2.8 kids and damp matches. we are struck in a gale of flaccid dumb as a Belle of the Ball that Squares a Rube with an Ism.... from Ix. sometimes.
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May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 at 8:38 PM UTC
STRAIGHTEN UP AND PYRITE
walking down park amsterdam or columbus do you ever stop to think what it looked like before it was an avenue did you ever stop to think what you walked before you rode subways to the stock exchange (we can’t be on the stock exchange we are the stock exchanged) did you ever maybe wonder what grass was like before they rolled it into a ball and called it central park where syphilitic dogs and their two-legged tubercular masters fertilize the corners and side-walks ever want to know what would happen if your life could be fertilized by a love thought from a loved one who loves you ever look south on a clear day and not see time’s squares but see tall Birch trees with sycamores touching hands and see gazelles running playfully after the lions ever hear the antelope bark from the third floor apartment ever, did you ever, sit down and wonder about what freedom’s freedom would bring it’s so easy to be free you start by loving yourself then those who look like you all else will come naturally ever wonder why so much asphalt was laid in so little space probably so we would forget the Iroquois, Algonquin and Mohicans who could caress the earth ever think what Harlem would be like if our herbs and roots and elephant ears grew sending a cacophony of sound to us the parrot parroting black is beautiful black is beautiful owls sending out whooooo’s making love ... and me and you just sitting in the sun trying to find a way to get a banana tree from one of the monkeys koala bears in the trees laughing at our listlessness ever think its possible for us to be happy Nikki Giovanni, “Walking Down Park” from The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1996 by Nikki Giovanni.
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May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 at 1:17 PM UTC
Walking Down Park
walking down park amsterdam or columbus do you ever stop to think what it looked like before it was an avenue did you ever stop to think what you walked before you rode subways to the stock exchange (we can’t be on the stock exchange we are the stock exchanged) did you ever maybe wonder what grass was like before they rolled it into a ball and called it central park where syphilitic dogs and their two-legged tubercular masters fertilize the corners and side-walks ever want to know what would happen if your life could be fertilized by a love thought from a loved one who loves you ever look south on a clear day and not see time’s squares but see tall Birch trees with sycamores touching hands and see gazelles running playfully after the lions ever hear the antelope bark from the third floor apartment ever, did you ever, sit down and wonder about what freedom’s freedom would bring it’s so easy to be free you start by loving yourself then those who look like you all else will come naturally ever wonder why so much asphalt was laid in so little space probably so we would forget the Iroquois, Algonquin and Mohicans who could caress the earth ever think what Harlem would be like if our herbs and roots and elephant ears grew sending a cacophony of sound to us the parrot parroting black is beautiful black is beautiful owls sending out whooooo’s making love ... and me and you just sitting in the sun trying to find a way to get a banana tree from one of the monkeys koala bears in the trees laughing at our listlessness ever think its possible for us to be happy Nikki Giovanni, “Walking Down Park” from The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni. Copyright © 1996 by Nikki Giovanni.
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My head is lacking the capacity to think in straight lines and squares.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 1:17 AM UTC
Finals
My soul's hot pink, like them bubble gum squares, cool, strawberry fizzy drinks, and a thick candy ice cream. Those warm, glazed over doughnuts, cupcakes with light sprinkles, jelly beans, tufts of cotton candy, and a tub of small macaroons. My soul's hot pink, like them candy hearts, sweet or **** chocolate coated easter eggs, lolipops, and sugar rocks. Those creamy cakes, fruity tastes, of gum drops, frozen pops, of sno-cones drizzled, cookie wafers, and sweet marshmallows; smoothies.
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Oct 10, 2015
Oct 10, 2015 at 4:30 PM UTC
Hot Pink Soul
Yeah, dad, I love Math class cos something is always adding up there like just the other day the teacher’s plants at the window started growing square roots The teacher reckons that’s cos “the windows are squares, if you notice” - but I reckon it’s cos we’ve mostly got squares in class And the teacher when she thinks someone has done something good, she says: “Oh, you are an angle!” and when she’s cross she goes: “I’ve told you n times” or “I’ve told you n+ 4 times” Yeah, we learn lots of stuff in Math class like next week we going to learn about Algeria; but I’m not sure if my Math teacher is OK in the head though cos one day she tells us 3+2 = 5 and another day she insists 4+1= 5 (is that what you mean when you say mum can never make up her mind?) And she tells me not to use my tables and she scolds me then when I do my division on the floor But I’ll say one thing about her though - she’s so passionate about Math my teacher is she carries around a picture in her wallet of a big plus sign with a guy nailed to it
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 1:35 AM UTC
happenings in the Math classroom
“My sole goal in life is to keep racing down the interstate without a clock so I can keep going until people forget who I am.” In my head I knew I was wrong hypocritical, insane, illogical, but above all I was still humane! This, yes, this sole fact is what keeps me separated from you draw a straight line down the road we lived on the squares and the circles. You, with your fancy plaque and NHS bumper sticker With the family of four and no reason to feel failure With your perfect scores and magnificent vernacular Who let you have it so easy?! Me, with my Jimi Hendrix poster family of who knows how many and the chance to earn my GED in a few years Why was it me?! You met your wife in the 10th grade You gave her a promise ring and everything Even took her with you on spring break Who said you didn't have to try?! I was placed in the wards that year they said it was insanity I thought I was just thinking ahead Why can’t they understand?! BUT THEY ALWAYS UNDERSTAND YOU! You, your Shakespeare perfect jargon Mr. Right, Perfect, next coming of Beethoven You were made to please everyone and become important! And that’s what separates us. Even though it’s the same street that raised us I bought the Harley and your parents got you the Chevy. And I recall the one time I was flying down the interstate And caught up to you as you were going nothing higher than 70. I stared at you and you kept your eyes on the road. I don’t blame you, I knew that you just wanted to see my bomber jacket I have a skull on fire on the back of it So I gave you a great view hope you enjoyed it.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 1:40 AM UTC
Superficial Neutrality
“My sole goal in life is to keep racing down the interstate without a clock so I can keep going until people forget who I am.” In my head I knew I was wrong hypocritical, insane, illogical, but above all I was still humane! This, yes, this sole fact is what keeps me separated from you draw a straight line down the road we lived on the squares and the circles. You, with your fancy plaque and NHS bumper sticker With the family of four and no reason to feel failure With your perfect scores and magnificent vernacular Who let you have it so easy?! Me, with my Jimi Hendrix poster family of who knows how many and the chance to earn my GED in a few years Why was it me?! You met your wife in the 10th grade You gave her a promise ring and everything Even took her with you on spring break Who said you didn't have to try?! I was placed in the wards that year they said it was insanity I thought I was just thinking ahead Why can’t they understand?! BUT THEY ALWAYS UNDERSTAND YOU! You, your Shakespeare perfect jargon Mr. Right, Perfect, next coming of Beethoven You were made to please everyone and become important! And that’s what separates us. Even though it’s the same street that raised us I bought the Harley and your parents got you the Chevy. And I recall the one time I was flying down the interstate And caught up to you as you were going nothing higher than 70. I stared at you and you kept your eyes on the road. I don’t blame you, I knew that you just wanted to see my bomber jacket I have a skull on fire on the back of it So I gave you a great view hope you enjoyed it.
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