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"stumpy" poems
be conceited love yourself love every single aspect of yourself your thunder thighs, your braces your back fat, the way your jaw clicks whenever you eat something crunchy your allergies, your stumpy fingers the hair on your arms, and the way that you always click your pen even when people ask you to stop love yourself love yourself until the day you die and if anyone ever calls you conceited you tell them                                                     **** yes i am                                                              why arent you?
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 11:56 PM UTC
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Truth is, I suppose I really would like to be one of those girls who frollicks in the sun in white dresses and ballet slipper pink cardigans. But I can't. Something inside me fears it, I don't feel... safe in those colors. They don't fit me. I'd like to look like Kalel from Wonderland Wardrobe, but she's like every other girl, tiny and naturally cute. I'm too big to wear those clothes. I have a big head and big arms and a long torso and strong horse legs. I'd like to be a lady, cute and sweet, but I was born unfeminite. I was born ugly. A goblin amongst humans. I'd like to wear my hair like that and flaunt just like all of them, but I could never do that, for I was not made like that. I wasn't made for lace and ribbons I was made for leather and chains even better, a box, a cardboard box suits me best as it'd hide all my features and keep my hidden from the world. Phantom of the opera, I do love the opera, covering my pig face in a mask and stumpy body in a black shroud. I'm doomed to be like this. I wanted to be like the other girls so bad but I couldn't and I started to hate it, hate those colors and stupid flowers and ribbons and makeup- because they didn't look good on me, made me look like a fool. And now I'm trapped in black, black, black, black and more black only ever black black and bulky because my body isn't like theirs and my head is big and like that of a pig, so I'm stuck hiding knowing I'll never be able to wear white dresses or those Ballet Slipper Pink cardigans.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM UTC
White and Ballet Slipper Pink
Truth is, I suppose I really would like to be one of those girls who frollicks in the sun in white dresses and ballet slipper pink cardigans. But I can't. Something inside me fears it, I don't feel... safe in those colors. They don't fit me. I'd like to look like Kalel from Wonderland Wardrobe, but she's like every other girl, tiny and naturally cute. I'm too big to wear those clothes. I have a big head and big arms and a long torso and strong horse legs. I'd like to be a lady, cute and sweet, but I was born unfeminite. I was born ugly. A goblin amongst humans. I'd like to wear my hair like that and flaunt just like all of them, but I could never do that, for I was not made like that. I wasn't made for lace and ribbons I was made for leather and chains even better, a box, a cardboard box suits me best as it'd hide all my features and keep my hidden from the world. Phantom of the opera, I do love the opera, covering my pig face in a mask and stumpy body in a black shroud. I'm doomed to be like this. I wanted to be like the other girls so bad but I couldn't and I started to hate it, hate those colors and stupid flowers and ribbons and makeup- because they didn't look good on me, made me look like a fool. And now I'm trapped in black, black, black, black and more black only ever black black and bulky because my body isn't like theirs and my head is big and like that of a pig, so I'm stuck hiding knowing I'll never be able to wear white dresses or those Ballet Slipper Pink cardigans.
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A crazy ************ got in my face the other day. "This is my shop!, I put the work in this ************ see ya'll young people come in here trying to mess up my shop, this is MY SHOP!" "Mmhmm," a fat **** in the corner affirmed. Crazy ************* are often your barbers. He's pulled this **** before, I've seen him do it. He'll just throw the clippers down and get in somebody's face, while they flip dumbly through Sports Illlustrated. It's funny as hell. He had spittle in cakes at the corners of his mouth that wiggled like eggs on an unbalanced beam and fat lips that looked like rotten peach slivers; all brown and ugly pink. He's in his forties and stumpy. But all he ever does is yell. I punched him right in his lips. His teeth were hard and scratched my knuckles, but he backstepped, gave me one of those crazy people "I might just cut your head off" looks and walked to the bathroom to clean himself up. Crazy ************* think they're the crazier than everybody else.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 9:28 AM UTC
Not so funny when it happens to you.
Tree, your veins are in your earth my veins are inside me the years are old in you and your leaves are fresh you remind me of the tree part in my right foot My bedroom's in the bushy head in my mind in my solar brain, my ankle is the shoulder to the stumpy central branch of my leg heavy layers of red aged mountain, my earth is the most pages the place where nerve lines swim again young immortal creases through thousand piles a networking for only the soul, the mind, the heart geometric thoughts that string out the tongue making crosses between finished rock, hardness too late and fresh like skin I am more inner than stone, thinner, longer, loopier nerve lines tiny things turn into staffs in the air in my arms different than tree parts I am rimmed and mudding with water my rippling veins at the bottom of my foot, is the surface of my sea upside-down I bet you feel good I'm calling your earth the sky I am full of stuff, the way dirt packs together to create things without hands and your earth is where some of my veins should stand up too I am always alive like you the lines in the earth of me and my earth holding up the living wooden door standing from my ankle walking on the earth like my veins are not there like you stand on the earth like your veins aren't even there yet you are the earth, brown and green and you base the earth starry swimming in the deep black earth
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Jul 11, 2013
Jul 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM UTC
tree poem
spanish rose lingers in the corner with some french sailor who is just a breathing caricature illustrated in ink and animated by alcohol his four letter word vocabulary with deluxe cardboard delivery but its his eyes that capture you swimming in hundred proof they are wise with miles of years and wicked in a smoky dark room way but she is too busy to notice flirting with the stranger across the room a traveling salesman with boxes of rusty trinkets for crafty sale meanwhile old jack is swinging on the gibbet talking away the hours with his old flame and friends he is a threadbare imitation of me and that suits you fine long as its three meals and a slice of pie the essentials of easy living wrapped up in a lace hanky its a little ***** and on the down low but the whole digging in some rich kids ***** laundry for loose change never appealed to you all that much so attached to old jack come to make your stand both barrels smoking hot and ready to let loose should any fool step to the line we all watched with amusements as the magician open his show with a shock and awe that sputtered and fell but we all loved his punch lines so much that we cheered him on all night the chorus girls got us all up and dancing little past three and the suave singer had us cheek to cheek by dawn it was another night to remember to be sure memorable as stumpy swimming with the gators we all shuffle barefoot in the sand to our dusty beds and dream sweetly of fiveash romance novella endings and the beauties of dawn we will be up to no good once more all loud and proud young and full'a ***** as a spring moon crests over seaside town
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
french sailor
spanish rose lingers in the corner with some french sailor who is just a breathing caricature illustrated in ink and animated by alcohol his four letter word vocabulary with deluxe cardboard delivery but its his eyes that capture you swimming in hundred proof they are wise with miles of years and wicked in a smoky dark room way but she is too busy to notice flirting with the stranger across the room a traveling salesman with boxes of rusty trinkets for crafty sale meanwhile old jack is swinging on the gibbet talking away the hours with his old flame and friends he is a threadbare imitation of me and that suits you fine long as its three meals and a slice of pie the essentials of easy living wrapped up in a lace hanky its a little ***** and on the down low but the whole digging in some rich kids ***** laundry for loose change never appealed to you all that much so attached to old jack come to make your stand both barrels smoking hot and ready to let loose should any fool step to the line we all watched with amusements as the magician open his show with a shock and awe that sputtered and fell but we all loved his punch lines so much that we cheered him on all night the chorus girls got us all up and dancing little past three and the suave singer had us cheek to cheek by dawn it was another night to remember to be sure memorable as stumpy swimming with the gators we all shuffle barefoot in the sand to our dusty beds and dream sweetly of fiveash romance novella endings and the beauties of dawn we will be up to no good once more all loud and proud young and full'a ***** as a spring moon crests over seaside town
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My ***** have dropped My legs are stumpy My face is drooling as well! My nose is running down my face I'm potbellied too My clothes don't fit My hair is gone I'm freezing off my **** ! My eyesight is crap I can't hear a thing Lets face it folks If I wasn't snow I'd be on Jeremy Kyle! With 15 kids and a wife that sleeps around Thank Christ I'm gone when the sun comes out and she doesn't take me home!
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 7:21 AM UTC
Snowmans blues
The life I am living is Slithering into ambiguity It's nothing But a ruined temple Around the soul There are hemps and weeds Preventing humanity The life I am living is A stumpy tree having Neither birds on the top Nor passers by below The life I am living is Like a pathetic ********** That bearing the burden Of seduced dark nights Conceiving inevitability . The life I am living resembles The valiant on spider's web The blood is evaporated The body is withered . The life I am living Seems to be the corpse Ready for funeral Receiving Final praises and curses . The life I am living is Irrelevant to the world The life I am living is AN AMBIGUOUS SONG
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Jan 14, 2019
Jan 14, 2019 at 11:20 AM UTC
AN AMBIGUOUS SONG
This poem, I pen, for a dazzling ***** a putrid beauty, a gilded deceiver, who plays me around and tosses me out as whenever she feels. No heart beats inside her, she is harsh and uncaring, she's cold and unfeeling, passion-inflaming, setting fire to thoughts of her and none else. Leaves me restless, powerless, doting upon that big nose, those sweet lips, her stumpy legs, her luscious hair, her gentle face, that lovely smile- her, her, her, in a word- her, that hideous girl! I am lost, dazed, unsure-   Is this love? Is it hate? Or is this something, in between?
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 8:39 PM UTC
Ambivalence
"it’s time to go to bed NOW, right NOW right this second, or you are going to get a spanking." bubbling up with happy glee the stumpy little legs ran and danced around ignorning this stern sound booming, this stern sound looming. "get upstairs, NOW, get into bed, i’ll be up in a minute, to give you that spanking." Uh oh! her fat little squishy three-year-old legs carried her up as she ran up the stairs. heart beating fast with fear of impending doom. coming into the room she looked about desperately, spying a book, into her bed she took. shoving that book inside her jammy bottoms, and covered her bare little *** but, good. lying there waiting, with layers of help so thickly, so comfortingly, spread in between, that big hand, and her little *** filled with dread. The little one, so happy just moments ago, not so happy now, just lying there waiting. filling with looming fear. oh what a life, an eternal seesaw of happy and sad mad and glee. book and pajama bottoms, sheet, and blanket. he’ll never see, that book that’s, a covering me. waiting with dread, the minutes ticking in the dark, ever so slowly, an  eternity. the huge giant finally came up, big shoes, booming each step of the way. he gave a good swat, then out he went, closing the door, shaking a finger and saying, “i don’t want to hear any more." giggled did she, and thougth to herself, i didn’t even feel that and he didn’t, even know. hee hee hee.. pulling that book away from her be-hinny, she stretched out on her back so comfortably, so calmly, and very peacefully. so happy was she, with her, Oh So Smart 3-year-old little self.
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 6:54 PM UTC
Thanks to a Book
"it’s time to go to bed NOW, right NOW right this second, or you are going to get a spanking." bubbling up with happy glee the stumpy little legs ran and danced around ignorning this stern sound booming, this stern sound looming. "get upstairs, NOW, get into bed, i’ll be up in a minute, to give you that spanking." Uh oh! her fat little squishy three-year-old legs carried her up as she ran up the stairs. heart beating fast with fear of impending doom. coming into the room she looked about desperately, spying a book, into her bed she took. shoving that book inside her jammy bottoms, and covered her bare little *** but, good. lying there waiting, with layers of help so thickly, so comfortingly, spread in between, that big hand, and her little *** filled with dread. The little one, so happy just moments ago, not so happy now, just lying there waiting. filling with looming fear. oh what a life, an eternal seesaw of happy and sad mad and glee. book and pajama bottoms, sheet, and blanket. he’ll never see, that book that’s, a covering me. waiting with dread, the minutes ticking in the dark, ever so slowly, an  eternity. the huge giant finally came up, big shoes, booming each step of the way. he gave a good swat, then out he went, closing the door, shaking a finger and saying, “i don’t want to hear any more." giggled did she, and thougth to herself, i didn’t even feel that and he didn’t, even know. hee hee hee.. pulling that book away from her be-hinny, she stretched out on her back so comfortably, so calmly, and very peacefully. so happy was she, with her, Oh So Smart 3-year-old little self.
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I would rather be a wanderer a belongerer to no body to no country a loose end ​ than to bob eagerly at every tug of the yarn's end whose wound-up mass amasses me a wriggled up ball of wriggles ​ I would rather be alone than scooped up in a basket with others of my supposed ilk and held in by the over-under wicker edges domed up for containment ​ ominous clicks and scrapes of my destiny clattering and chattering above ​ fraying frizzled frazzled bits smoothing out as my length is tugged up and up like a long slurpy noodle ​ I would rather be loose and scrappy and stumpy and ragged the one that nobody loves the discarded refuse of a more discerning eye ​ than be made surreptitiously into somebody else's jumper © 2017 Adelaide Heathfield
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Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 8:21 AM UTC
A Loose End
That's why scientists use lawyers for experiments instead of rats Stumpy replied, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out- But ten dollars is ten dollars Don't listen to him- he isn't even your father But when I woke up in the morning I was on that guy's mustache again If she isn't good enough for her own family- She sure as hell isn't good enough for you. The parrot said, ''I give up, What'd you do with the ship?'' NASA responded with a one-line memo: "Thaw the chicken." I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you! When I'm driving around, my zip code keeps changing. The cop asked, "What's he like?" The little boy replied, "Beer and women with big **** Frustrated the man said, "Put the cat on the phone, I'm lost and I need directions." The stoner looks at him for a second, smiles And says, "You're an ambulance!" That felt good, but my hand still hurts like crazy! You idiot! Now we have to **** in the boat! “But I'm not pregnant,” she says. “Well, you're not out of the ditch yet,” he says. The boy started off, "Hi, my name's Chuck… --" and the farmer shot him. 'Hey, I don't mind you ******* my wife, But can you stop using my *** as a scoreboard!?!' The police are looking for some hardened criminals 'Dear baby Jesus. If you ever want to see your mother again..' So the crocodile bit his legs off. And the string says, "Nope- I'm a frayed knot."
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Mar 18, 2010
Mar 18, 2010 at 8:09 PM UTC
Punch Lines: A Memorial
AN EVENING At the time of evening She was at opposite roof of him And he was other side of road Eyes were on each other They were smiling for no reason. Aware with the others, yet… Hearts blooms when he sends flying kiss She catches it Cover her face with same hand. When mislead wind play with her hair That time her DUPATTA hovering Making trouble She tries it to hold properly He smirked on her blend behavior Girl snidely got angry Stumpy turn around Then he caught his ear with queer face And she burst into laugh. ©copiright SAddAM HuSeN 2014
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 4:16 AM UTC
AN EVENING
a spanish rose, she lingers in the corner with some french sailor who is just a breathing caricature illustrated in ink and animated by alcohol his four letter word vocabulary with deluxe cardboard delivery but its his eyes that capture you swimming in hundred proof they are wise with miles of years and wicked in a smoky dark room way but she is too busy to notice flirting with the stranger across the room a traveling salesman with boxes of rusty trinkets for crafty sale meanwhile old jack is swinging on the gibbet talking away the hours with his old flame and friends he is a threadbare imitation of me and that suits you fine long as its three meals and a slice of pie the essentials of easy living wrapped up in a lace hanky its a little ***** and on the down low but the whole digging in some rich kids ***** laundry for loose change never appealed to you all that much so attached to old jack come to make your stand both barrels smoking hot and ready to let loose should any fool step to the line we all watched with amusements as the magician open his show with a shock and awe that sputtered and fell but we all loved his punch lines so much that we cheered him on all night the chorus girls got us all up and dancing little past three and the suave singer had us cheek to cheek by dawn it was another night to remember to be sure memorable as stumpy swimming with the gators we all shuffle barefoot in the sand to our dusty beds and dream sweetly of fiveash romance novella endings and the beauties of dawn we will be up to no good once more all loud and proud young and full'a ***** as a spring moon crests over seaside town
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 8:24 AM UTC
shock and awe
a spanish rose, she lingers in the corner with some french sailor who is just a breathing caricature illustrated in ink and animated by alcohol his four letter word vocabulary with deluxe cardboard delivery but its his eyes that capture you swimming in hundred proof they are wise with miles of years and wicked in a smoky dark room way but she is too busy to notice flirting with the stranger across the room a traveling salesman with boxes of rusty trinkets for crafty sale meanwhile old jack is swinging on the gibbet talking away the hours with his old flame and friends he is a threadbare imitation of me and that suits you fine long as its three meals and a slice of pie the essentials of easy living wrapped up in a lace hanky its a little ***** and on the down low but the whole digging in some rich kids ***** laundry for loose change never appealed to you all that much so attached to old jack come to make your stand both barrels smoking hot and ready to let loose should any fool step to the line we all watched with amusements as the magician open his show with a shock and awe that sputtered and fell but we all loved his punch lines so much that we cheered him on all night the chorus girls got us all up and dancing little past three and the suave singer had us cheek to cheek by dawn it was another night to remember to be sure memorable as stumpy swimming with the gators we all shuffle barefoot in the sand to our dusty beds and dream sweetly of fiveash romance novella endings and the beauties of dawn we will be up to no good once more all loud and proud young and full'a ***** as a spring moon crests over seaside town
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I could feel him staring, his eyes piercing the flame whilst clenching the head of a bottle. I looked up from twisting the new Flemish string I was making. “Will” I said with a sneering lift in my cheek and keeping my tongue stiff to force back a chuckle. He kept staring, I guess it was amazingly beautiful, the warming fire we had. The travel we had endured from the south had been long and challenging. Rain to fill god’s own goblet had been upon us for days and the wind was no maiden of help. I let him stare just a while longer because this part of the land we were in was damp, and not from the rain, it was damp with people like me. “William, behind you!” I shouted with such the ferocity of a lone wolf fighting of it's own pack from the **** that the stumpy boy shot awake his eyes, coming back into this world of living and stood abruptly to his feet, spinning on his heel and slicing with a dagger that he unsheathed in one simple motion. Before his arm could fully extend he kept turning and stopped looking straight at me. Just watching how fast he did all of that was impressive, but his dancing was even more of a show. “No need to laugh, old man. I didn't know you were lying”. He said sharply in a rough welsh filled with annoyance after I made him wake from his fiery gem. Once my shoulders stopped jiggling up and down from laughter, I came back to crafting my string whilst giving him my reason. “Look around boy, or don’t, you just did a perfect spin for me, I do say it was a perfect motion that even the princess of the eastern lands would be jealous of”. His eyes tensed with a stabbing look and sat on his **** next to the great oak that sheltered us from the rain. I knew he would listen to me now as I had made his face turn redder than his hair. To be continued..
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Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 5:47 PM UTC
Will the Scarlet
I could feel him staring, his eyes piercing the flame whilst clenching the head of a bottle. I looked up from twisting the new Flemish string I was making. “Will” I said with a sneering lift in my cheek and keeping my tongue stiff to force back a chuckle. He kept staring, I guess it was amazingly beautiful, the warming fire we had. The travel we had endured from the south had been long and challenging. Rain to fill god’s own goblet had been upon us for days and the wind was no maiden of help. I let him stare just a while longer because this part of the land we were in was damp, and not from the rain, it was damp with people like me. “William, behind you!” I shouted with such the ferocity of a lone wolf fighting of it's own pack from the **** that the stumpy boy shot awake his eyes, coming back into this world of living and stood abruptly to his feet, spinning on his heel and slicing with a dagger that he unsheathed in one simple motion. Before his arm could fully extend he kept turning and stopped looking straight at me. Just watching how fast he did all of that was impressive, but his dancing was even more of a show. “No need to laugh, old man. I didn't know you were lying”. He said sharply in a rough welsh filled with annoyance after I made him wake from his fiery gem. Once my shoulders stopped jiggling up and down from laughter, I came back to crafting my string whilst giving him my reason. “Look around boy, or don’t, you just did a perfect spin for me, I do say it was a perfect motion that even the princess of the eastern lands would be jealous of”. His eyes tensed with a stabbing look and sat on his **** next to the great oak that sheltered us from the rain. I knew he would listen to me now as I had made his face turn redder than his hair. To be continued..
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Breaking barriers, beyond the brain. A mindless mind, is a foolish game. Beyond the brains waves, a smile saved. Mother Nature grins, we have sinned. The chainsaws growl, a horrific song. Teeth tear into wood, this feels so wrong. Looking at a forest, and seeing a profit. As Frost once told, "Nature's first green is gold." The minds behind the mindless, that chop, cut, and **** Corrupt money makers, bending the workers will. Will we ever yield, turning forest into stumpy field? Or does money dictate the mind? Only time can tell.
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 9:53 PM UTC
Minds Behind the Mindless
*There was no way out of this She manoeuvred her body between a stone and a hard place Picked up her hurting bones And sighed Relief ... Anticipation and fear running through her veins How it came to this she couldn't even explain shivering as a cold chill ran down her spine Like the stumpy finger of jack frost etching out a delicate and elaborate design   Not a night to be out hunting or waiting around But needs must The sweet smell of redemption hung tantalizingly on a moment Time was for surrendering all Never looking behind Stepping on stones There was no way back from now She turns quickly A need to hold her breath has her in a suffocating embrace A shadow creeping the walls Beckoning Lost souls will sell their souls on nights as cold as snow cover mountains She breathes in Closes her eyes and surrenders to the moment She will awaken only when it is time No cracks of light lye here Not even from the broken street lamp A shiver and a fall from grace* ****
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Aug 23, 2015
Aug 23, 2015 at 7:48 PM UTC
Dark places
Gaggling gaggles are bluffing, and they can imagine being immersed in screens in five-minute positions; they burst like imaginary greats with low IQ! They're shrewd! Navel peeps and self-appointed snowmobile self-propelled! “They maniacally print little-known relationships as they turn from *** lovers to consolations! The World puffing on stilts stands for hijackers of hope!   The pumpkins of grandparents swim like yellow rotting fruit in the buzzing idiocy! S rhinoceros-brain gorillas boldly stab their fangs while it lasts a night of artificial seance! Only the suddenly attacked lizard millionaires and fake Predators still bask in the golden sands! For every other livelihood, an enduring creature is dying with its wind-lined wind cramps exploding daily into an arrogant phlegm-like!   World-beautiful mermaids also all pass out; thirsty intellect has already escaped the conversion and another stumpy **** is being made in electric brains! Man stands as a selfish carnivorous pond and the Executioner's Time Index also returns! The constantly functioning Brain is constantly shrinking and cannot feed more Estonians; the outrageous free thinking thickens on a pinhead! Airborne dirt poisons the drying up possibilities!   In the lap of lasting Peace before Man, the suddenly attacked, crowded camp of penniless caresses clings to, while thinking intellectuals can shovel fu… diligently after others!
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Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021 at 2:58 AM UTC
Anti Genesis
All of out questions, Their trembling hands comes out Of its fury of Wanting to know it all To simply see again: Grandma, one slipper on, Hair a mess, Both dogs by her lop-sided side, Watering dead plants In the afternoon sun. Father, stirring grease-thick bacon With a fork on a cast iron pan, About to get his stomach tucked For reasons of a few more years, A few more days, A few more breaths before the last. Uncle, lost uncle, long-haired ****** willow tree legs to short and Stumpy to reach the pavement On the motorcycle you stole, You couldn't afford, you borrowed, Uncle, lost and never found Uncle. Mother, world traveler, both eyes set On the outstretched hand of the Southern Pacific, The Solomon and the Coral, Clouds your new children, roll, and rocks Between your tanned feet, Your sunburnt, too-tough-to-die-yet, toes. Sister sorrow, sojourner of the mind, Ok, see, hear this: There will never be enough time. North, South, West, and now the East Is calling you again - listen; Cypresses and Red Maples are as good As any brother who knows your real name. I, I, I Is for Another time.
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Feb 9, 2022
Feb 9, 2022 at 1:54 PM UTC
No Need For I
I'm nothing. I will forever be nothing. How could He? Why would He send me here to feel doubt and lack of self worth? I have no purpose, I have no emotion. Just raw me. Just skin, salt-water and tears. Just a stumpy body with no brain trying to prove something to someone who's not even paying attention. Self worth out the window- starting from scratch. How would I like my life to go? That idea- its far away out of reach where I cannot grasp it. I'm not tall enough or smart enough I'm not good enough; I'll never reach the moon or fall among the stars, I'm just falling constantly falling and failing everyone around me... Everyone knows I'm not good enough, but they don't want to say it. I've disappointed, let down, and lost loves Don't pay attention to this small breeze blowing by I am but a mist.
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Mar 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016 at 2:01 PM UTC
Last Night.
Your like, look at the bloke with no legs,       I be like,  I can run faster than you mouth. Yes I many be stumpy and do these shorts       look big on me, but I'll never be shorter than your short mindedness. Running your gob like your mouth,                                                    matches your shoesize. Dam why would you even admit that..   well I haven't got height but boy I have length not like you... Do you shop at baby gap for then tiny toes, I'll always be higher than those belittling                                                                       others. for there short term gratitude. My strength isn't vertical, its that I can stand taller               than all the misgivings that others stigma me with. Before they realise the truth, that  is I can see a lot              more truth than you can, the taller they are the more noise                                they make when they fall.
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Feb 8, 2020
Feb 8, 2020 at 11:25 AM UTC
I'll Stand Tall
The milk spills and spills and spills, The table still set in neat little rows - too long for the runner - Dripping onto chairs and floor in swathes of ivory, But the milk is always spilling in this house Running from eyes and mouths and ears - This is what it means to grow up, Crying years of spilled milk Like they'll help fill the seats with warm bodies Or light the candles's stumpy wicks, Where you sleep just to keep the weeping at bay, in the hopes that somehow, it's all just a dream, But you wake up every morning at 7 on the dot with milk crusted in each eye and bottles surrounding the bed, milk teeth standing guard beneath the pillows, Like maybe you were a mother, once, or a child, Like you still are.
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Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 2:06 PM UTC
Don't Cry
It was Donna Darling’s annual dinner party A Cotillion approved eatery Six spoons and six forks The wrong one, and all the glares one bore And then waddled in Miss Pillsbury Her stumpy feet too short to Do anything but waddle Uninvited she was As she always was Squelching her way through the narrow doorway. As fourteen perfectly styled heads Shuffled their feet under the table. Boom! Clash! Six spoons crashing Six forks attacking Poor old lady Judith’s knee As she groaned in pain. Donna scratching her head Eyes darting through her invite list Top-to-bottom, Top-to-bottom Screech! Went the chair, Scratching Donnas hand polished marble floors Like nails on a chalkboard. Oh, and what she did next, Almost sent Donna to her upstairs bedroom To pop some unprescribed ****** As the stout woman grabbed soup with her chubby hands And started gulping it down Before it ran through her fingers. Frazzled Donna tried, oh she tried To salvage the integrity Of her fancy dinner party Unfortunately, at the moment it was running down the table From Miss Pillsbury’s double chin. Swooosh! Went old lady Judith As she skated across the marble Like an Olympic figure skater Only to crash into Donna’s perfectly organized stainless steel kitchenware. Donna ran out screaming and crying Nobody’s seen her since. And as for Miss Pillsbury, I’d be surprised if she noticed any of it
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Jul 18, 2019
Jul 18, 2019 at 12:42 AM UTC
Dinner Dramatics
What God has put asunder, I have joined together. He chuckles at this somewhat self-consciously, His clientele comprised primarily of gentlemen of a certain age, Most of whom have stepped off to the altar Twice or thrice, some even more, Whose wives will be, at least pro tem, The mistresses of the Moorish bastardizations Being commissioned by their husbands, Vaguely Iberian grotesqueries Christened Sin Cuidado and Villa Tranquilla Festooned with cornucopias of cornices and cupolas, Featuring vaulted cathedral ceilings and open-prairie floor plans, Impossible to cool in the ninety-degree dawn of August Or heat during the all too frequent cold snaps, (Such being noted to him by a visitor From a staid Boston architectural firm, To which he replied, *Save that for the classrooms, pal. I give the people what they want, dad, And these folks are first, last, and forever All about the façade.*) It is not, however, his effort to turn Florida’s East Coast Into a giant movie set for the stories of Don Juan or El Cid Which inspires him to utter his inversion of the marital vow. He has moved beyond being a mere designer; He is a man of substance, a builder in the larger, cosmic sense, And so he is here, in this sticky, sweltering venue Which disappointed Spaniards named after a rat’s oral cavity, To make a new Venice, complete with electric gondolas, Cloisters which would put any in the Old World to shame, Gesturing, bellowing, and cajoling, A Prospero of sawhorses and steam shovels, As displaced Seminoles and colored laborers Sweat and swear and stumble As they dredge swamps and hack down stumpy mangroves In the service of his vision, the aggrandizement of his bottom line, Arm-twisting the caprices of drought and hurricane To serve the pricier whims Of a gaggle of DuPonts and Wanamakers. It’s not that I don’t believe in a higher power, he will demur, I’m simply not averse to some slight enhancement of His plans.
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Aug 20, 2021
Aug 20, 2021 at 10:18 AM UTC
Addison Mizener In The Swamps
What God has put asunder, I have joined together. He chuckles at this somewhat self-consciously, His clientele comprised primarily of gentlemen of a certain age, Most of whom have stepped off to the altar Twice or thrice, some even more, Whose wives will be, at least pro tem, The mistresses of the Moorish bastardizations Being commissioned by their husbands, Vaguely Iberian grotesqueries Christened Sin Cuidado and Villa Tranquilla Festooned with cornucopias of cornices and cupolas, Featuring vaulted cathedral ceilings and open-prairie floor plans, Impossible to cool in the ninety-degree dawn of August Or heat during the all too frequent cold snaps, (Such being noted to him by a visitor From a staid Boston architectural firm, To which he replied, *Save that for the classrooms, pal. I give the people what they want, dad, And these folks are first, last, and forever All about the façade.*) It is not, however, his effort to turn Florida’s East Coast Into a giant movie set for the stories of Don Juan or El Cid Which inspires him to utter his inversion of the marital vow. He has moved beyond being a mere designer; He is a man of substance, a builder in the larger, cosmic sense, And so he is here, in this sticky, sweltering venue Which disappointed Spaniards named after a rat’s oral cavity, To make a new Venice, complete with electric gondolas, Cloisters which would put any in the Old World to shame, Gesturing, bellowing, and cajoling, A Prospero of sawhorses and steam shovels, As displaced Seminoles and colored laborers Sweat and swear and stumble As they dredge swamps and hack down stumpy mangroves In the service of his vision, the aggrandizement of his bottom line, Arm-twisting the caprices of drought and hurricane To serve the pricier whims Of a gaggle of DuPonts and Wanamakers. It’s not that I don’t believe in a higher power, he will demur, I’m simply not averse to some slight enhancement of His plans.
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Roberts came over a big kid broad shoulders. We were over by the far end of the sport field waiting for the PE teacher to come over and arrange us for teams. See that wood over there he said pointing with his stumpy finger. We looked over to woods near the playing field. We nodded. Well I had some bit up there the other lunchtime he said. Bit? said Trevor. Girl you ****** nice piece quite willing and all that. All what? another kid asked. *** if you know what that is Roberts said. What was it like? Trevor said. Like falling into a warm bath Roberts replied. The PE teacher was crossing the field. The kids looked towards him. Roberts made gestures with his plump hand and smiled. I shrugged my shoulders and looked away wondering what position the PE prat would want me to play.
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Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017 at 9:49 AM UTC
ROBERTS' TALK 1962.