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"studio" poems
"--you know, I've either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way but now I've sold my house, I've found this place, a large studio, you should see the space and the light. for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and the time to create." no baby, if you're going to create you're going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you're going to create in a small room with 3 children while you're on welfare, you're going to create with part of your mind and your body blown away, you're going to create blind crippled demented, you're going to create with a cat crawling up your back while the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment, flood and fire. baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don't create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.
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Photography, Photo journalistic, Everyday, realistic. Commercial, architecture, landscape, artistic, Industrial, fashion, ethnographic, pornographic. Big Brother, fallace, stealer of souls, vouyer. News seller, instant gratifier, man pleaser, woman abuser. Barthes, Sontag, Cindy Sherman, Virginia Woolf, Warhol. Weegie, Francesca Woodman, Leibovitz, Adams, Arbus, Tina Modotti, Nan, Evans, Hoffer and even the Paparazzi. Cheap ***** digital manipulator, image poser, Center fold, coupons, Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe. Where did they go: Lifeless paper product, painter's picture mess, C-type, digital archival, Sepia, black and white, hard drive retrival. Image addict, Image taker, Image maker, image seller, image buyer. Newspaper, magazine, graphics and ads, TV, dreams, even the trash. Billboards, subways, phones and buses: Utopia: Surreal, crop, stretched and air brushes. Modern ideal. Surface manipulator. Brain conditioner. Consent manufacturer. Oh Photography, I got you in my eye. A few thousand dollars, A BFA, A critical scholar. Or maybe a nerd, Just boys with toys. Telephoto genitals, with motor drive action. Studio lights, umbrella traction. Oh Photography, You proprietor of obscene. Detailed, de-sensitized. Court ordered, jury analyzed. Click, image, copy, edit, paste, print or post. Myfacespace, twitter, flicker, An internet media overdose. Pry, spy, your friend's friend's acquaintances. Parties, picnics, reunions and shows. Visits, vacation, style, shoes and clothes. Pics, photos, images, jpegs and giffs. Snap shot, portrait, panoramic, Kodak kiss. Exacerbate: Divorce, break-ups, jealousy, envy, love and fears. Devour and captivate society for years. Slaves to Western and Capitalist desires, Destruction of Earth with psychological, monetary empires.
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Jan 11, 2010
Jan 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM UTC
On Photography
Photography, Photo journalistic, Everyday, realistic. Commercial, architecture, landscape, artistic, Industrial, fashion, ethnographic, pornographic. Big Brother, fallace, stealer of souls, vouyer. News seller, instant gratifier, man pleaser, woman abuser. Barthes, Sontag, Cindy Sherman, Virginia Woolf, Warhol. Weegie, Francesca Woodman, Leibovitz, Adams, Arbus, Tina Modotti, Nan, Evans, Hoffer and even the Paparazzi. Cheap ***** digital manipulator, image poser, Center fold, coupons, Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe. Where did they go: Lifeless paper product, painter's picture mess, C-type, digital archival, Sepia, black and white, hard drive retrival. Image addict, Image taker, Image maker, image seller, image buyer. Newspaper, magazine, graphics and ads, TV, dreams, even the trash. Billboards, subways, phones and buses: Utopia: Surreal, crop, stretched and air brushes. Modern ideal. Surface manipulator. Brain conditioner. Consent manufacturer. Oh Photography, I got you in my eye. A few thousand dollars, A BFA, A critical scholar. Or maybe a nerd, Just boys with toys. Telephoto genitals, with motor drive action. Studio lights, umbrella traction. Oh Photography, You proprietor of obscene. Detailed, de-sensitized. Court ordered, jury analyzed. Click, image, copy, edit, paste, print or post. Myfacespace, twitter, flicker, An internet media overdose. Pry, spy, your friend's friend's acquaintances. Parties, picnics, reunions and shows. Visits, vacation, style, shoes and clothes. Pics, photos, images, jpegs and giffs. Snap shot, portrait, panoramic, Kodak kiss. Exacerbate: Divorce, break-ups, jealousy, envy, love and fears. Devour and captivate society for years. Slaves to Western and Capitalist desires, Destruction of Earth with psychological, monetary empires.
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All I know I have learned from anime. I have learned that intelligent high schoolers and unbelievable power sources should be kept far apart, That there is a harem out there for everyone, That ***** are the ultimate source of power in the universe, and that nothing in all the world can not be improved by the addition of giant robots. I have discovered that studio gainax has a huge stockpile of LSD, and that I must discover its location. I have learned that Makoto Shinkai loves the taste of your tears, and that Satonshi Kon is the thing the boogie man checks under his bed for. But most of I have learned that you should always take that swing, That if you stand strong you can pierce the heavens, That if you stand together with those who mean the most to you, you will never be defeated, And that true love can span the galaxies, knows no boundaries, and never dies. Otaku forever.
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Sep 3, 2013
Sep 3, 2013 at 2:45 PM UTC
All I Know I Learned From Anime
i dreamt you could love me again, that you had a big studio apartment in the city and you bought her lots of gifts, made her go thrifting with you to buy strange clothes, but she knew you loved someone else, she knew you missed me and that you would always be mine, and although i woke up and not a bit of it was true (because i know you love her and that you don’t think about me) it was still nice to live in a world where your heart had not forgotten my name.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
760 days later, 212 days since
My dear summers dream was to the taste cream Pass me the triple beam the microphone fiend Back on the scene simplicity is your complexity So amazingly like grace I be rockin' the place Like we Studio 54 shut down the doors Once the bubbly pours and the **** adores Ya mental **** ya sentimentals and these new aged millennials They too satirical I make miracles flow potholes Creatin' mass mayhem your an inconvenience Cuz of ya hesitance my presence is known Without even being shown paragraphs of stone Hard to crack waxing tracks like a shark attack Felonious acts we never back down Til my soul drown in the core of the earth Royalties since birth new my worth they tried to mirth At my pain tryna change the game cuz all these cowards Saying the same thang got dang got dang Time to chess box like Wu Tang leavin' a stain On ya reign no tears though I'll be on solo Rippin' up instrumentals ya know how we do so...yeahhh From the Sunny to bees that make the honey Sticky icky like my spliffs be call me smokey Puttin' fire to mother natures forests check the creases I unleashes Rap game mafiaso so so better back back Or else get dropped lika Domino so here we go! Here we go! With the ghetto jams love girls with the derriere's of Pam Got **** once again it's time to slam Mics harder than Shawn Kemp ya flows shrimp That's why ya girl calls me Mr **** no limp Slick as Rick hello young world tilt and a whirl Catch the swirl of Qatar Pearls on the neck of ya girl Suckas better know I'm coming with a blow Harder than Bowe combined with a super glow black Saiyan raps slayin' turntables layin' So I can get wicked lyrics Pickett like Wilson Flows in unison formation of words Herds a violent surge feel the purge We high rising no disguisin' knockin' out Suckas who jivin' ain't none survivin' ?
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 11:09 PM UTC
Even Though Why We Do Wrong??
My dear summers dream was to the taste cream Pass me the triple beam the microphone fiend Back on the scene simplicity is your complexity So amazingly like grace I be rockin' the place Like we Studio 54 shut down the doors Once the bubbly pours and the **** adores Ya mental **** ya sentimentals and these new aged millennials They too satirical I make miracles flow potholes Creatin' mass mayhem your an inconvenience Cuz of ya hesitance my presence is known Without even being shown paragraphs of stone Hard to crack waxing tracks like a shark attack Felonious acts we never back down Til my soul drown in the core of the earth Royalties since birth new my worth they tried to mirth At my pain tryna change the game cuz all these cowards Saying the same thang got dang got dang Time to chess box like Wu Tang leavin' a stain On ya reign no tears though I'll be on solo Rippin' up instrumentals ya know how we do so...yeahhh From the Sunny to bees that make the honey Sticky icky like my spliffs be call me smokey Puttin' fire to mother natures forests check the creases I unleashes Rap game mafiaso so so better back back Or else get dropped lika Domino so here we go! Here we go! With the ghetto jams love girls with the derriere's of Pam Got **** once again it's time to slam Mics harder than Shawn Kemp ya flows shrimp That's why ya girl calls me Mr **** no limp Slick as Rick hello young world tilt and a whirl Catch the swirl of Qatar Pearls on the neck of ya girl Suckas better know I'm coming with a blow Harder than Bowe combined with a super glow black Saiyan raps slayin' turntables layin' So I can get wicked lyrics Pickett like Wilson Flows in unison formation of words Herds a violent surge feel the purge We high rising no disguisin' knockin' out Suckas who jivin' ain't none survivin' ?
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[Intro: Honey ******* You ******* ******* stink Go take a ******* shower Schwag. Asian ******* [Verse 1: Honey ******* ****** I ain't got time for a stupid broad Cause bro I'm 'bout to beat a ***** and probably lose my job **** I'm a bubble Listen, ***** I tell you cool it off Cause acting smart'll get you deaded ***** I rule the spot Now, homie, I ain't ******* down to catch a charge, bro Now her body found the same place she had parked, bro. (Whoops! [x3]) I forgot my ******* ride for me Cause these ******* that drive for me Are these ******* flying for free I gain mine. There's a difference. You remember that Cause I'm always hungry for the **** that I ain't never had This here is baby food and be all like, ***** **** a snack! " See ****** who said I'm crap is asking me to hit 'em back ***** **** that! [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ******** [Verse 2: Honey ******* Oh, here I go. There they go in this here game again Now these ******* praying they gon' never hear my name again But look, I'm a stay around even although they acting like I can't I don't sleep at all cause it'll always be my time again That means I work hard, homie. I don't play around, dawg Better cut this ******** or your face'll meet the ground, dawg But after all, it's for the haters and the groupies, though Find me at the studio The smart ***** with a stupid flow **** delivery. Got fans who in the dance Now my enemies got plans They just searching for a chance **** friends cause I'm married to the music ***** cause I gained the world and die before I lose it So cool it [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ******** [Verse 3: Tyga] ***** back, back. Why your *** so flat? Tell your best friend I want that I don't pretend, ***** and I don't act Why you all up in my chat? Telling people that you know him If I lend you all on my back Criss-cross, you wiggedy-wack! (Aghh!) Duplicating my racks Introduce you to my life Yeah, my gold heavy metal You can't rock out on my level Yeah, yeah. That's a red Ferarri And I'm dancing with the devil ***** testing me, you get answers **** a ***** quick fast, like cancer. (Aghh!) (Well, well) Make a ***** rubbin money on my **** till it swell, swell And ya money, money shorter than a elf, elf And I keep cool J's like LL (Hell yeah) I don; t wanna start nuttin' ***** lemme finish All in a ***** net ***** mouth like a dentist (Dennis) Rodman. Come on, come on ***** is you with it, with it? Cause I ain't [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ********
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Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013 at 1:05 PM UTC
********
[Intro: Honey ******* You ******* ******* stink Go take a ******* shower Schwag. Asian ******* [Verse 1: Honey ******* ****** I ain't got time for a stupid broad Cause bro I'm 'bout to beat a ***** and probably lose my job **** I'm a bubble Listen, ***** I tell you cool it off Cause acting smart'll get you deaded ***** I rule the spot Now, homie, I ain't ******* down to catch a charge, bro Now her body found the same place she had parked, bro. (Whoops! [x3]) I forgot my ******* ride for me Cause these ******* that drive for me Are these ******* flying for free I gain mine. There's a difference. You remember that Cause I'm always hungry for the **** that I ain't never had This here is baby food and be all like, ***** **** a snack! " See ****** who said I'm crap is asking me to hit 'em back ***** **** that! [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ******** [Verse 2: Honey ******* Oh, here I go. There they go in this here game again Now these ******* praying they gon' never hear my name again But look, I'm a stay around even although they acting like I can't I don't sleep at all cause it'll always be my time again That means I work hard, homie. I don't play around, dawg Better cut this ******** or your face'll meet the ground, dawg But after all, it's for the haters and the groupies, though Find me at the studio The smart ***** with a stupid flow **** delivery. Got fans who in the dance Now my enemies got plans They just searching for a chance **** friends cause I'm married to the music ***** cause I gained the world and die before I lose it So cool it [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ******** [Verse 3: Tyga] ***** back, back. Why your *** so flat? Tell your best friend I want that I don't pretend, ***** and I don't act Why you all up in my chat? Telling people that you know him If I lend you all on my back Criss-cross, you wiggedy-wack! (Aghh!) Duplicating my racks Introduce you to my life Yeah, my gold heavy metal You can't rock out on my level Yeah, yeah. That's a red Ferarri And I'm dancing with the devil ***** testing me, you get answers **** a ***** quick fast, like cancer. (Aghh!) (Well, well) Make a ***** rubbin money on my **** till it swell, swell And ya money, money shorter than a elf, elf And I keep cool J's like LL (Hell yeah) I don; t wanna start nuttin' ***** lemme finish All in a ***** net ***** mouth like a dentist (Dennis) Rodman. Come on, come on ***** is you with it, with it? Cause I ain't [Hook x2: Honey ******* Now, I ain't got time for ******** If I ain't getting mine, then that's ******** Why you all up in my face with this ******** Ew. ***** you smell like ********
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Eating mushrooms, to her is yet another art she loves to perfect, in my ear she whispers with such visible pleasure,"I want to be a connoisseur in this" Her studio smelled herbs and wild flowers of inner forest, brought me back to the cardamom and cinnamon garden I played in my days of boyhood; spices build a  bridge for us. More of a herbalist than a paint smelling artist, she seems, mounted on the wall on irregular fashion were the mushrooms she painted with a passion rare, and a precision mirroring life; the paintings  brought her past in to the studio, only trained eyes would discern the cryptic symbolism, a consummate artist she certainly is!  The woman who smoked cigars in succession and untiringly danced, she said was her favorite, along the lake front we took a long walk comparing notes;  there were parallels that met, we found soon enough. "You too knew her so well, I am aware", she said. A room filled with smoke where we dance, make love, grow tired, fall down and sleep, wasn't it our life? No one can miss the signature smell of her dense cigar smoke on my dress!" I loved the smell of cloves she exhaled while eating mushrooms. though detachment she pretended, eating mushrooms never was that! I kept looking down at her eyes, a sailor about to sight the land, any panting moment that rushes with a monsoon song for me and her.
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
Eating mushrooms
Our love can never be No matter how dearly you love me Others have no clue Of how empty I feel without you You'll forever be the Juliet to my Romeo Always we shall meet up in that small one bedroom studio Our love is greater than the gods Maybe it can one day defeat all odds But alas for now it's hidden For now our love is forbidden
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
forbidden love
It was not, by any means, a loss of faith; Indeed, her devotion was a boundless, unfettered thing Beyond proscription, beyond rote chant and catechism, And what she found as a novitiate Were shuttered gates and gossipy confessionals, Standoffish priests, pig-eyed and pinch-lipped Sisters who thought life’s commerce No more than mechanical prayer and spotless linens, The whole enterprise Smacking of the exclusion of Heaven’s bounty. So she demurred when the time came to take her orders, And she returned to the world of pavements and lesser pieties, Free to seek God on park swings and barstools, In pleasures of the pastoral and the profane, Though her faith is no Dionysian walkabout, As she is passionate to the cusp of maniacal When it comes to the Book of James’ admonition upon works; She is often found among the sisters she once tiptoed alongside At food pantries and clothing drives (She is scrupulous about ministering to only secular needs, As the Bishop is not happily disposed towards those Who choose not to take the veil, And the specter of excommunication is a prospect Too awful to contemplate) Afterwards clambering onto some vaguely roadworthy MTA bus Back to her studio apartment in Green Island, Where she often walks down to the Erie Canal lock nearby, Praying for those who have travelled  near and upon the water, Convenience store clerks and ragged Irishmen fleeing famine, Feral kittens and insufficiently mourned mules.
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM UTC
the thursday nun
Cricket is the only game which lures me so much; And then engrosses me so much. That craze would never drive out of me… My inspiration was ‘Yuvraj Singh’, Only then I arose to identify that King. Once Yuvi’s record of six sixes in six ***** The firmament was incredible for certain minutes: That was the first time I witnessed cricket, And India’s triumph provided me a mind-blowing buzz to watch cricket, Nevertheless continuing with ***** and wickets. I would turn crazy when Indian cricketers approach the ground, And that would certainly not halt lest they are made proud. This T20 shadowed by IPL, Made me to by stand that awe-inspiring sport. Chennai Super Kings-my favorite, Followed by Royal Challenges Bangalore … And lots more hilarious teams and cricketers. When Chris Gayle approaches… Tsunami warning must be lifted and “Gayle” (gale) warning must be given! That’s how cricket relocates… Most matches concluding in the closing over And some others in the finishing ball… The most exhilarating sport Read more →and the format- IPL is all fun for me… With cheer leaders and the draped studio; With cameras and videos And at last the much awaited IPL trophy- Cricket is all that it needs!!!
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 12:43 AM UTC
T20 Too IPL
*Onward, soldier. Onward.* That’s what they all tell me, but let me slow down for a moment. There’s a little something I gotta say, Thank you. To that swing set in Greenhills Music Studio San Juan City, without you, I’d never have learned that sometimes it’s the other way around— feet in the sky and head on the ground. Mrs. Arambulo, the swing set’s owner, who made sure I was well versed in sonatinas and arpeggio scales before I found out they’d already made a piano that didn’t need tuning, and Ma, who’d test my memory by asking me if I could recite whole paragraphs at age four, she’s why I remember things like the smell of pilmeni, the color of our first house’s carpet, and nine page spoken word poetry, to everyone behind that old kids’ show, Bayani, watching it in my second grade HEKASI class would bring me to tears each time — no kidding, you all paved the way for my homeland’s history to make its home in my heart, my English teachers from sixth all the way to eleventh grade, who all believed and still believe in the words I put down on paper and spew out on dark stages armed with imagery and the Spirit, you made me fall deeper in love with the way words can be waves or flames, Dad, who taught me to climb mountains, to read books, to let myself run free among the nations but to always remember to leave a part of my heart at home, to the four little boys I met in Hong Kong, if we meet again, I owe you a better explanation to your question, “Why do you dance?” thank you for asking me that, and I’m sorry for my cowardly answer back then but I’m braver now, and I promise it’s for more than just fun or exercise, it’s for this God I hope you get to know, and to every Philippine history teacher I’ve ever had, keep teaching like that, we need more young ones who’d be willing to die for their homeland, you taught me that there is so much more to this country than its own people tell me, so burn on. and make sure they catch fire. *Onward, soldier. Onward.* I’m not sure where I’m headed, but I’d rather be uncertain of the road ahead than forget where I started. I’ve told you mine, now tell them yours.
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM UTC
I'll Tell You Mine
*Onward, soldier. Onward.* That’s what they all tell me, but let me slow down for a moment. There’s a little something I gotta say, Thank you. To that swing set in Greenhills Music Studio San Juan City, without you, I’d never have learned that sometimes it’s the other way around— feet in the sky and head on the ground. Mrs. Arambulo, the swing set’s owner, who made sure I was well versed in sonatinas and arpeggio scales before I found out they’d already made a piano that didn’t need tuning, and Ma, who’d test my memory by asking me if I could recite whole paragraphs at age four, she’s why I remember things like the smell of pilmeni, the color of our first house’s carpet, and nine page spoken word poetry, to everyone behind that old kids’ show, Bayani, watching it in my second grade HEKASI class would bring me to tears each time — no kidding, you all paved the way for my homeland’s history to make its home in my heart, my English teachers from sixth all the way to eleventh grade, who all believed and still believe in the words I put down on paper and spew out on dark stages armed with imagery and the Spirit, you made me fall deeper in love with the way words can be waves or flames, Dad, who taught me to climb mountains, to read books, to let myself run free among the nations but to always remember to leave a part of my heart at home, to the four little boys I met in Hong Kong, if we meet again, I owe you a better explanation to your question, “Why do you dance?” thank you for asking me that, and I’m sorry for my cowardly answer back then but I’m braver now, and I promise it’s for more than just fun or exercise, it’s for this God I hope you get to know, and to every Philippine history teacher I’ve ever had, keep teaching like that, we need more young ones who’d be willing to die for their homeland, you taught me that there is so much more to this country than its own people tell me, so burn on. and make sure they catch fire. *Onward, soldier. Onward.* I’m not sure where I’m headed, but I’d rather be uncertain of the road ahead than forget where I started. I’ve told you mine, now tell them yours.
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Have you considered being a *** worker? You have a body. I know you never sleep there, spend less time breathing than associating with your own ribcage. You're an actress no script, just a character summary. Limp, age 12, non-verbal marionette. *Snaps her strings when forced to dance. Clings to the ceiling tiles, like the shadows she hallucinates. Let's the puppet fall numb under strangers. Ragdoll to be used for kindling.* When you play your part You'll inherit enough money to afford a studio apartment in Washington, or Las Vegas; anywhere with men paid large enough salary to afford your vacant body, three phone plans, a hotel room for you to stay awake in Listening to dull thuds against your wrongfully warm corpse Invited hoping the stinging could form tendons adhere together like rubber bands Snap you back into your skin. You cling helpless to the ceiling tiles Watch the ragdoll make mistakes. *"Have you considered being a *** worker?"* A homeless woman asked me, *"Unoccupied bodies should start charging rent. Let a man who can afford it pay for utilities. You might be homeless but you won't be wasted space".*
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Oct 18, 2016
Oct 18, 2016 at 1:56 PM UTC
Have you considered being a *** worker? (Rough Original edit)
Name: Falen Acon Residence: San Diego California Age: 15 (almost 16) Birthday: Jan 4, 2000 (Capricorn) School: Don't worry about it! Grade: 10th (Sophomore) Class Of: 2018 Favorite Color: Ballet Pink, Gun Metal Gold and Burgundy Favorite Flower: Wild Flowers, Roses & Sunflowers Hobbies: Dancing and Poetry Favorite Food: Pizza Favorite Drink: Strawberry and Root Beer Soda Favorite Dessert: Ice Cream (Shakes) (any flavor) Happy Place (place that makes me happy): Beach or Dance Studio Career Path: Professional Dancer Lucky Day: Saturday Lucky Number: 3 Favorite Number: 7 Friends: Christan Zeal, Elsa Angelica and Drevon Young Goals:  Find true love, Find happiness and Travel World Favorite Artists: Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd, Drake, PartyNextDoor, Post Malone, ILoveMakonnen, Rae Sremmurd, RDGLDGRN, Kyle, A.$.A.P Rocky, G-Eazy and Zayn Malik Celebrity Crushes: Zayn Malik, Justin Bieber,  RED (from RDGLDGRN) and Steph Curry (GSW) Favorite NBA Team: Golden State Warriors (GSW) Favorite NFL Team: North Carolina Panthers Favorite MLB Team: Chicago Cubs Favorite College Football Team: LSU Tigers Favorite Nascar Driver: Kasey Kahne Future College: Texas State University (TSU) or Something :) Future Sorority: Delta Sigma Theta (DST) /_\
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 11:56 PM UTC
About Me (Bio- Non Poem)
Wimbledon’s playing on the TV in the living room. Dad and I are watching on the sofa. In the kitchen, Mom cuts carrots and cucumbers with a long blade. She slices the vegetables one by one. Orange pieces. Green pieces. I glance over Mom chops up the carrots and cucumbers without a cutting board, taking each long carrot and cucumber and slices it with precision, as though she’s a professional like the film with Natalie Portman and Jean Reno. But she’s not a little girl and she’s not a Frenchman. She’s like a mix-in-between, like the asphalt in our driveway and the grass sprouting in between the cracks. Dad is a computer engineer. He used to be an artist. Used to study technical drawing in a university in Saigon. He met mom when he was working on a play. She was the lead actress. Shakespeare had said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” He’s right, but right now I can’t tell what act I’m in. Dad focuses on the TV. Watches Federer and Djokovic, his eyes, darting from left to right like the mood of a young boy that crosses back and forth from light to dark, and back again. Blade in hand, Mom makes longer and deeper cuts across the cucumber, cutting away the skin, leaving deep cuts in the vegetable. Dad turns his head towards her, his neck cracking like the forehand swung by Federer. He clears his throat, softly, soft as gas leaking out from a stovetop from a studio apartment, like the scene in Fight Club, a match about to be struck. Mom sets the blade down on the table, and bites her lip. Her nostrils flare. I press down on the couch arm, and stand up, my head bent, my eyes wandering to the doorway.
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 11:29 PM UTC
Blue Tennis Court
Wimbledon’s playing on the TV in the living room. Dad and I are watching on the sofa. In the kitchen, Mom cuts carrots and cucumbers with a long blade. She slices the vegetables one by one. Orange pieces. Green pieces. I glance over Mom chops up the carrots and cucumbers without a cutting board, taking each long carrot and cucumber and slices it with precision, as though she’s a professional like the film with Natalie Portman and Jean Reno. But she’s not a little girl and she’s not a Frenchman. She’s like a mix-in-between, like the asphalt in our driveway and the grass sprouting in between the cracks. Dad is a computer engineer. He used to be an artist. Used to study technical drawing in a university in Saigon. He met mom when he was working on a play. She was the lead actress. Shakespeare had said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” He’s right, but right now I can’t tell what act I’m in. Dad focuses on the TV. Watches Federer and Djokovic, his eyes, darting from left to right like the mood of a young boy that crosses back and forth from light to dark, and back again. Blade in hand, Mom makes longer and deeper cuts across the cucumber, cutting away the skin, leaving deep cuts in the vegetable. Dad turns his head towards her, his neck cracking like the forehand swung by Federer. He clears his throat, softly, soft as gas leaking out from a stovetop from a studio apartment, like the scene in Fight Club, a match about to be struck. Mom sets the blade down on the table, and bites her lip. Her nostrils flare. I press down on the couch arm, and stand up, my head bent, my eyes wandering to the doorway.
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I love when the sun paints a golden hue on everything before it disappears into the obsidian night. Its rays are like an artist's brush, delicately covering the world's canvas with luminosity. When its glow eventually fades, and the stars barely light up the sky, it's like an artist shutting off the studio lights after a long day's work. Temporarily departed, but soon to return to paint the canvas with incandescent light once again.
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 4:46 PM UTC
Golden Hour
How could you leave me so unexpected? I was waiting, I was waiting For you but you just left me I needed you, I needed you Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to ***** But I do know what it's like to be a witness it kills You told me you love me, I'm thinking this isn't real I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah Welcome to the bottom of hell They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell You say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well Sit in my room, tears running down my face and I yell Into my pillowcases, you say you coming to get me Then call me a minute later just to tell me you not, I'm humiliated I'm in a room with a parent that I don't barely know Some lady in the corner watching us, while she taking notes I don't get it dad, don't you want to watch your baby boy grow? I guess that ***** is more important, all you have to say is no But you won't do it will you? You gon' keep drinking 'til the ***** kills you I know you gone but I can still feel you Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me here? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Oh, Hey I got this picture in my room and it kills me But I don't need a picture of my dad, I need the real thing Now a relationship is something we won't ever have Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had? You shoulda been there when I graduated Told me you love me and congratulations Instead you left me at the window waiting Where you at dad? I was too young to understand where you at huh? Yeah, I know that alcohol  got you held captive I can see it in your eyes, its got your mind captured Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing What you don't realise and what you not grasping That I was nothing but a kid who couldn't understand I ain't gon' say that I forgive you cause it hasn't happened I thought that maybe I feel better as time passes If you really cared for me, then where you at then? Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Hey Our last conversation, you and I sat in the living room Playing our video games, you started slurring and I broke down in front of you You started crying, telling me this isn't you Couple weeks later, guess you were singing a different tune You Drank that ***** for the last time, didn't you? It took you from me once, guess It came back to finish you Crying my eyes out in the studio is difficult Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you It took everything inside of me to not scream at your funeral Sitting in my chair, that person talking was pitiful I wish you were here dad but every time I picture you All I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you They found you on the floor, I could tell that you felt hollow Gave everything you had plus your life to those jack bottles You gave everything you had plus your life to them jack bottles Don't know if you hear me or not, but if you still watching why Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Hey
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 5:29 PM UTC
Why would you leave me
How could you leave me so unexpected? I was waiting, I was waiting For you but you just left me I needed you, I needed you Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to ***** But I do know what it's like to be a witness it kills You told me you love me, I'm thinking this isn't real I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah Welcome to the bottom of hell They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell You say you proud of me, but you don't know me that well Sit in my room, tears running down my face and I yell Into my pillowcases, you say you coming to get me Then call me a minute later just to tell me you not, I'm humiliated I'm in a room with a parent that I don't barely know Some lady in the corner watching us, while she taking notes I don't get it dad, don't you want to watch your baby boy grow? I guess that ***** is more important, all you have to say is no But you won't do it will you? You gon' keep drinking 'til the ***** kills you I know you gone but I can still feel you Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me here? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Oh, Hey I got this picture in my room and it kills me But I don't need a picture of my dad, I need the real thing Now a relationship is something we won't ever have Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had? You shoulda been there when I graduated Told me you love me and congratulations Instead you left me at the window waiting Where you at dad? I was too young to understand where you at huh? Yeah, I know that alcohol  got you held captive I can see it in your eyes, its got your mind captured Some say it's fun to get the high but I am not laughing What you don't realise and what you not grasping That I was nothing but a kid who couldn't understand I ain't gon' say that I forgive you cause it hasn't happened I thought that maybe I feel better as time passes If you really cared for me, then where you at then? Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Hey Our last conversation, you and I sat in the living room Playing our video games, you started slurring and I broke down in front of you You started crying, telling me this isn't you Couple weeks later, guess you were singing a different tune You Drank that ***** for the last time, didn't you? It took you from me once, guess It came back to finish you Crying my eyes out in the studio is difficult Music is the only place that I can go to speak to you It took everything inside of me to not scream at your funeral Sitting in my chair, that person talking was pitiful I wish you were here dad but every time I picture you All I feel is pain, I hate the way I remember you They found you on the floor, I could tell that you felt hollow Gave everything you had plus your life to those jack bottles You gave everything you had plus your life to them jack bottles Don't know if you hear me or not, but if you still watching why Why would you leave me? Why would you leave me? How could you leave me here? How would you leave me? Why would you leave me? Hey
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silver flute sits in the case Studio awaits, soul suppress Space slammed silver flute rests on the stand Insecurity of melody Gasping for air Trembling, closed off silver flute plays a sweet song once, yesterday For Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, & for Uriel Resonance, chord floating, pure revelation last song of hope, courage last wild witch prayer Last organic sound, unplugged silver flute sits in the case Great Open Outdoors awaits, soul regenerates Have we arrived to the sacred tree? Silver flute will play Naked, wild, free! All ears wide open Open eyes, Open hearts, Open minds True human connection returns CODA Silver flute floats in my heart & hand
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
Silver Flute
Hollywood is dead and gone It died a lonely death It's just too bad no one was there When it took it's final breath Forget the tales of yesteryear Of junkies and of ****** The Hollywood I speak of Is behind the golden doors Warner Brothers and MGM United Artists and 20th Century Fox Are now owned by conglomertates With more cash than Fort Knox Film is just an extra In a business it once ruled With the advent of computers The industry's re-tooled CGI and Green Screen Let them do more at great cost But, without the use of actors There is something that is lost The tie in with it's history We only see each year When they memorialize those who passed At the Oscars....shedding tears There is now just two places To process film itself When, way back in it's heyday Of these there was a wealth No new ideas forthcoming Movies get rebooted or remade And the startlets in the pictures They're the one's who're getting laid Merchanidising movies That is where the real cash lies If you're not attached to a food chain Your bottom line will die Hollywood died in it's sleep It died with dignity The funeral will be shown though On reality TV It smothered in it's excess A victim of it's greed It gorged on people's wallets Forgetting peoples needs Old Hollywood is magic It lives on in peoples hearts Too bad the studio system Was sold off in such small parts The western died, musicals next Then came the comedy You can't see them in the theatre But they're on your big tv I stand here and salute her She put pictures in our heads But, now thanks to her avarice Old Hollywood is dead...
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May 17, 2012
May 17, 2012 at 6:40 PM UTC
Old Hollywood
Hollywood is dead and gone It died a lonely death It's just too bad no one was there When it took it's final breath Forget the tales of yesteryear Of junkies and of ****** The Hollywood I speak of Is behind the golden doors Warner Brothers and MGM United Artists and 20th Century Fox Are now owned by conglomertates With more cash than Fort Knox Film is just an extra In a business it once ruled With the advent of computers The industry's re-tooled CGI and Green Screen Let them do more at great cost But, without the use of actors There is something that is lost The tie in with it's history We only see each year When they memorialize those who passed At the Oscars....shedding tears There is now just two places To process film itself When, way back in it's heyday Of these there was a wealth No new ideas forthcoming Movies get rebooted or remade And the startlets in the pictures They're the one's who're getting laid Merchanidising movies That is where the real cash lies If you're not attached to a food chain Your bottom line will die Hollywood died in it's sleep It died with dignity The funeral will be shown though On reality TV It smothered in it's excess A victim of it's greed It gorged on people's wallets Forgetting peoples needs Old Hollywood is magic It lives on in peoples hearts Too bad the studio system Was sold off in such small parts The western died, musicals next Then came the comedy You can't see them in the theatre But they're on your big tv I stand here and salute her She put pictures in our heads But, now thanks to her avarice Old Hollywood is dead...
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We love to chase the wind through streaks of blinding bliss, Tagging the glorious ideals of love, peace, friendship, even The meaning of life, to weeping willows and pensive pebbles. We admire the monochrome sky in all its barren blue or pregnant purple; Hues of burple and plue are dismissed as being tedious, or just confused. Fear not, photoshop will rectify this pigmented aberration. We giggle at clouds that resemble kitchen utensils or mystical creatures; “Hey look a teddy bear in a spacesuit with a flowerpot on his head wielding the Sword of Gryffindor!” We declare sagely, with the acumen of a legendary bird watcher. We resurrect grass angels by launching into horizontal jumping-jacks, and, Just as a disclaimer, no flower was harmed in the process. Not that it matters, As long as we did not soil our Lacoste and Burberry. We spin a mixtape out of the torrential downpour, our tracks pitting The pitter of regularity against the patter of inconstancy, synchronizing The symphony of splashes to an undercurrent of nostalgia. We kiss against the bark of an elm, and if a tree is not available in the vicinity, We throw ourselves down a nearby hill, tumbling into a ball of moist romance, Panting, as we bask in the studio lighting of the approving sun. Every still is captured by a Lomo, Every scene arrested in sepia motion, Every moment ravished by the chichi Bohemian in us.
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Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 2010 at 4:03 PM UTC
In the Indie Moment
I want to go live in a cottage in the woods By myself with a few pets here and there My friends would live not too far and would visit every day My family would visit once a month and only on holidays, Except for my extended family who would not ever come to my house, I’d only see them at theirs I would have a cat, a bunny, and a dog Maybe a chinchilla I could bake cakes, cookies, and pies by the window in the kitchen I could have a garden filled with flowers and fruits I could have a stone pathway leading to my house I could practice my witchcraft in peace and live happily on my own I usually close my eyes to imagine this perfect place Where I can dance in the rain and watch Studio Ghibli every day I hope that I can have that one day, To live peacefully on my own without a care in the world
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 12:23 PM UTC
A cottage in the woods
humans paint the galaxies; stars poured by the gods on a piece of dark, endless canvas. the nature talks about freckles and moles on a maiden's skin and how interesting connecting dots into intricate shapes is. humans boast about love. all the mediocre melodies to woo, cupid unleashing arrows, and the cries written on minor scale; blacks and whites of the piano. the unexplainable look on one's eyes. things they left unrecorded though— ones the studio of the universe releases an album of: motorbike roars as a boy speeds through countless others that are deemed insignificant, compared to the thought of his mom waiting at home. for centuries and more centuries, the poets go on about emptiness. the caging abyss, they said, of sadness. a dark place. but seasons whisper the stark difference of breeze nibbling on your skin and of the dropping temperature of winter harshly piercing your senses like knives. dancers waltz to the moonlight, reenacting silent screams and insanity. but withering flowers' petals got themselves caught up in a game of tag with their own kin. it's funny how humans talk about the comparison (as i am doing right now) of the art we make and the art that is already there before us. when the universe tries again and again to teach us what kind of little majestic things we are, what kind of little majestic things surround us. (must say, we're quite dumb. unable to understand.)
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Feb 20, 2016
Feb 20, 2016 at 10:53 AM UTC
"just a speck of dust within the galaxy."
Romilda was an old lady, She had no small baby, So she petted her sisters daughter, Who only drank milk but not water, Little baby had a nice name which was Angelina Geolly But her life was a worry, She never went for the studio, Never had Romeo, She was brought up at a village, But had a wide knowledge, Her old aunt was always frank, But Angelina Geolly use to prank, One morning Angelina knocked her head on the wall, And started dialing a call, It was to none other than the fire brigade, Hello, Come asap for our gate, Fire! Fear! Fire! After an hour they reached in, It was all about a recycle bin Angeline had only meant, fire at her aunts cooker, But they responded you little sucker! The poor Aunt Matilda had to pay, For their visit all the way But still the house wasn’t grey! Some people, few people started to blame Angelina Geolly! She ran into her trolley, And Angelina Cried Cried Cried, But later she was Fried Fried Fried
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 11:30 PM UTC
NEVER NEVER PRANK