"subscribing" poems
no one is subscribing
to the universal affection
draining subconscious ailment
that needs no treatment
quaking with fear
shaking with revulsion
looking to prolong
an hour, a minute
stretching one second
into ten seconds
where are we going,
past the streetlights
the crossroads
the commotion
inside the canal boat
that surrounds and accompanies
this road -
will it ends one day,
sometimes, somewhere
and brings an end
to the entire's generation
guilt and disease?
Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 7:33 PM UTC
Women
are not mysterious.
We are not shrouded
in cloaks made from the night sky.
We are not anomalies
or irregularities in the data.
Our nature has been hidden
from men, by men.
We have not been studied;
Not extensively, thoroughly, over centuries.
Not the way men have been, either.
There was no equal footing in
analyses.
Women were test subjects, when men were patients.
When we were "relevant" at all.
This pattern literally kills us quicker.
In medicine, and love.
In the office and the bedroom.
In the workshop and the nursery.
In the kitchen.
In the kitchen.
Some food for your soul:
Everyone is magical.
You don't need a pointy hat and a ******
Everyone is intellectual.
You don't need spectacles, white skin, or a *****
Everyone is environmental.
Just go outside.
You just need to be you.
Subscribing to the binary
and rejecting it completely:
One ties your hands,
the other your feet.
Be all the parts of you. Then you can feel
Whole.
Mar 15, 2017
Mar 15, 2017 at 11:30 PM UTC
A book shouldn't be judged by its cover they said.
A person should be judged on their heart they said.
Plenty of books go unread
They are too small
Too thick
Too old
Too beat up
People and love have the same fate as a book.
Love is hypocritical.
How can an emotion, that is said to be
Judged by the heart,
Consider the optical cortex's opinion.
Before it weighs a soul
Hypocrites.
Predators are lead by their sight as well.
Killing off prey
In blood lust
That is interesting.
Perhaps lust is the issue
Their eyes devour what they want
While the heart is left empty.
If I lose weight am I subscribing to this belief?
Am I not fit enough to be loved?
Would being devoured by predators truly mend my heart?
My windowless soul bleeds.
While their eyes ignore me.
Am I changing myself to be loved, or
Can love change itself to find me?
Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 3:16 AM UTC
Ahhh poets of an age
words and line so smooth
keeping art the focus and rage
with nothing left, too prove
Wild and free beyond repute
no cares for meanings now in vogue
playing as piper, devout astute
now and then, going pure rogue
The rebels that we know and love
not subscribing to rote or known
hands that guide, in velvet gloves
not what they hide, but shown
Heed the call my friends and scribes
remember why you're here
as each and all imbibes
the pains and scars inscribed
with all the love and yet still
all the fear
Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 12:40 AM UTC
Dear Mark,
You have an uncanny ability to make me laugh.
So many times I have been in the darkest of places,
To be brought back up by another video of yours.
You thank us, me, for subscribing and supporting you,
But really, you shouldn't be thanking us.
We should be (and are) thanking YOU
For helping us
For saving us
For making us laugh
For making us happy
For making us forget our troubles
For your continued dedication
For your hilarity
For your generosity
For everything.
Sep 9, 2013
Sep 9, 2013 at 8:40 PM UTC
We are slaves
to the techno-autocracy.
A faith of subscribing,
of retweeting,
of liking things
we never loved.
We chant into the feed
and call it presence.
We echo to the void
and call it voice.
The liturgy is noise.
The sacrament is scroll.
We kneel before timelines
like altar rails
and take communion in pixels.
We have traded prophets for influencers.
Revelation for reposts.
Scripture for screen time.
The holy ghost got a firmware update,
but still can’t answer support tickets.
We stare at our gods,
glowing in our palms,
and ask to be known—
but only if it fits in the caption.
There is no silence.
Only the dull roar of monetized despair.
The din that keeps us deaf.
The bombast of uninformed certainty.
The drivel that drips down our chin
while we think we’re being fed.
We are full of nothing,
and still we chew.
Apr 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM UTC
I'm uncomfortable
And always tense
In observational
Desire
From my corner coffee shop
Spot.
Unnoticed,
I see simple embrace
One for which
my body aches.
My body breaks
I realize
I'm alone and
In doing so actualize my own fate.
People are aliens
Foreign and speaking a language which seems eerily
familiar but forgotten
years ago.
It seems I am not getting
better at conversing
just daily Rehearsing
The same rhetoric
Stoic lows
recycled and recited
to a new day, a new ethereal face
Inadequate Inadequacies
Inadequately Inscribed,
,described and, imbibed.
Please, oh Lord,
Let me imbibe
before subscribing
to speak to you, me, every and anyone.
Send Help!
Send Anyone!
A person
to make my lips feel
a little
less caustic.
Casual conversation
by the wayside
I want what I had
Not what I can or could have.
I don’t want love.
I’d rather have a dog to put to sleep
than no dog at all.
Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015 at 7:41 PM UTC
I don't know which is better
So I'm tossed by the wind, feeling light as a feather
I keep flirting with sin, keep subscribing to this earthly pleasure
Finding joy in the moment, but losing my forever.
I don't know which way to go
I wanna go home but where is home? i don't know
So I follow the flow, the flow of the river
I want to swim again'st the current but no strength in me, only growing weaker.
I want to find peace
It rains in the jungle, the nights are cold, and there's only a few trees keeping me shelter
I look out between the trees and I see eyes aglow staring me down, I sense imminent danger
Should I run or should I stay here? Cause it's only worse out there
Soaked, tired, alone and afraid, I wonder
Should I pull my blade? Or myself should I try barricade?
Why am I afraid? I know I should've prayed and probably should've weighed the actions I made, now in the wind and rain I have little shade
I should not have strayed, that course I should've stayed and now I have no aid as darkness sings to me it serenades, it looks beautiful it masquerades. It wants to make me believe, and feel, a beautiful feeling like Christmas eve, so that I can be deceived and caught unaware.
unaware, I mean there was never any light in darkness,
I just feel the cold, rain and wind on my skin left bare
and I know it's bare because I feel this air, my eyes fixed out into the wilderness and looking back at me is still a stare and at this point I'd swear, that I was all alone, no hope, not even a prayer
and nothing could compare, to that feeling of despair out in the wilderness,
But behold, out of nowhere I saw a light appear
piercing through the darkness, signaling me like a flare
And a song! A song filled my ear! singing "yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of evil, nothing shall I fear" And not just that valley, but anywhere, and then no sweeter words had left my lips as I whispered the Lord's prayer as I was delivered from my wilderness
In the name of Jesus, in his warmth, his care
Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 3:05 PM UTC
1
Defined by an intense need to
apostrophize and to tether, dictated by nothing
but your definitive space’s lissome address,
when visited, opens up to a closing, or sizing a gap
if syndetic, and reaching out for a retreat a frail gesture
meaningfully pursuing a link, a strain that is
2
When you were alive because you felt it, subscribing
to a phenomenon, granted by a sovereign of our difference
unconsciously at first it was statutory to a fault but then conceding
to it and accepting, fit in this meeting as if too relaxed
that it may sleep or bear noise even – your incidence of me sees clearer
than any lens, and when fond of, you will
make out of my clenched fists, when put together, a diptych with
your hands taken into, receiving constantly the burden of days
3
As destination of a truth
that is if you listen that there is something inaudible in this
reality – your dream will make an apparition out of its center,
said when it is too comfortable to even slouch at a constant day,
setting this faculty tranquil the face of a punctual eve
somnambulating through towns triggered by dim white light,
forcing windows to contract, the body somewhere afloat, contacting
the precision of something as rescue,
your life seen with value when peril touches your deepest parts,
almost daily in this location as if you were shorn out of
difficulty, looking for me to halve all of this.
May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 2:59 AM UTC
The man is mad but, he is fair
The hostages' fate flips in the air
The coin tumbles, two sides, a pair
Gravity steers to the man in his chair
"Fate" says the man, "is in our hands"
Result occluded, desperate strands
The verdict of nefarious plans
"We all want--NO! We demand!"
"We all believe there is something owed"
"A cache of treasure just for us, stowed"
"Our wealth for subscribing to control"
"A fruitless and folly toll"
The man of madness makes his reveal
The future of the captives it did seal
Heads or tails, bound they reel
Hopes palpable of a favorable deal
"It seems that you will all be set free"
A sigh emanates amongst the captive company
Bonds removed, Stockholm comradery
A passing dismissal to the powers that be
"Free from 'freedom', this was your chance"
"To escape this tired song and dance"
"You could have been heroes, not this stance"
"To return to comfortable circumstance"
"The path you celebrate was the failure state"
"Decency and humanity to arbitrate"
"I cannot harm a life doomed to wait"
"More than the misery in your own stake"
"I have achieved nothing but, you have lost"
"A life with no meaning worth the cost"
"A Hallmark version of Faust"
"A reality casually glossed"
The hostages promptly depart
All aside from this seeming upstart
Younger then the rest, set apart
Comes inquisition from the heart;
"Did you think these people would change their minds?"
"Where fed insipid mediocrity is all there is left to find?"
"A people who measure themselves in how far they are behind?"
"Zealots perpetuating ego with no concept to be kind"
The man takes the coin of 'governance' and reveals the truth:
It was blank on both sides.
Jul 25, 2024
Jul 25, 2024 at 5:05 AM UTC
some are battle hardened
but most in the end are broken down
- a strange kind of peacekeeping
the leaving of the gun behind
but never truly subscribing to peace
just broken down
Aug 6, 2015
Aug 6, 2015 at 7:23 AM UTC
gender
neutral pronoun
application,
and...
and an awareness
for the "concept"
of... space...
like...
being
inquisitive
of
a spatial
standard...
of...
he:
ought to do
and
she: ought to take...
men do better cooking
than women...
i am to blame,
as what point?
now?
**** you, cubicle
Humphreys!
i die by the solid tactic
of
subscribing to
paying tax...
you *******
increment
of i.q. worth!
i'm your friend,
am i?
friendly as a *******
mosquito...
i don't want
to be part of this,
"war",
no more than
i want to be involved in, "it"...
savvy?
i forgot to chant...
is that a "bad" thing?
i keep forgetting
to ensure...
that...
piling on skulls
in a pyramid fashion
was a...
good "thing"!
**** "wasn't, wasn't?!"
afghan rebels,
all readied
to misgender
the crop
of...
waiting for the vagina-cock
****** & ****
dynamic in the obstruct
format for teenagers...
but hell...
let's rebel contra
grammar...
you are,
dear, mother,
your father's wishbone...
and what am i?
wish...
a...
hotel
abdandoned to
encompass filming
the shining...
you are,
most, most, welcome,
in claiming to focus
on a diatribe;
yes?
i call it a leisure...
to fake anti-gravity
levitation
tactics...
activity...
a streisand-hoffman
effect...
born a jew:
never die a redford...
or a tony curtis...
or a newman...
blue eyes...
blue tongue...
ate more testicles'
worth of a circumcision
in the parade of humor....
gimmick than...
the allowance
of extracting ********
for...
the skin leaving scoop
of allowed tattoos!
plenty of
alt-fiction
sci-fi
b-movie templates...
and
that house is in order...
do we have to fake
playing bargain economics
for the remains of
Damascus?
no? good...
i don't want to visit
tel aviv either.
Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019 at 9:48 PM UTC
Glamour, health and politics,
are ideal morning topics
blending well with hot coffee,
and, these early risers...share openly
their impassioned accounts, simultaneously
seething, with a dark and strong bubbling sea,
making the most, out of a few hours of bonding,
breakfasting, after morning chi kung
(sometimes, with family, reuniting...)
they have moved with the times and days,
subscribing to both old and acceptable new ways...
anger and dislike are voiced gently
no despair hidden...i believe, not a tad of ennui,
.......surely...
these ladies have no fancy hats,
flowered, feathered, or with colored tats
no jewels crown their heads...........just
plain hair: black, brown, long or bobbed,
no pearls grace their necks.....or gloves
that are trimmed, to hide overworked
hands, or wrinkled knuckles......they're
past their golden years, prim and proper,
their own sets of rules are flames burning,
steam rising, like those of coffee brewing
deep in their minds...their values, churning,
their inner beauty, transcending...
their mornings are like a coffee maker,
brimming with bubbles and dark swirls,
tamed, paled in mugs, when cream is added in twirls...
complex issues considered taboo,
sometimes, even plain tattoos
are discussed in hushed tones
voices agree or disagree...until froth is gone
and bubbles have simmered down...
the hours are fleeting, time passes so swiftly
one has gone...but these enterprising ladies
excitedly plan ahead, for their next assembly...
Sally
Copyright November 2, 2016
Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
Feb 17, 2018
Feb 17, 2018 at 7:58 PM UTC
love and all, but truly a form of distancing, love among distances, and if in close affection, a love loved for an ideal rather than coherent practice of your biological conquest of history, really, darwinism chose a wrong sparring partner, instead of theology it should have chosen history! love and all, but truly a form of distancing.
words aren't enough to decipher what i saw,
a tearful girl
on my moonlit path...
ever look at a moon with sunglasses?
i can't love you enough,
because i simply can't love you...
i don't get agitated as such, prostitutes don't lie...
among them i the truth-teller...
i have fewer words to say to encapsulate this...
and poets are indeed the unaknowledged scribblers
of events, so shaded so whole in eyes being
pardoned... i, she, the street moonlit,
i was there once, with a fox she walked past
with mutual calm... why do i have my mother's eyes
to cry with! the guilt of not subscribing
to a mortgage or car insurance i mind to know avoided,
avoided -
and the killer ate with me... i want his mother's eyes!
Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 6:51 PM UTC
Being, behind the words
Feels a sublime ease
With a calm memory
A sense of being alive
In no Man’s land
Subscribing a new world order
With a sacred realm
Encrypted hope
Where,
The soul speaks
The Heart listens
An Ancient script,
In a native tongue
Don’t get it, Regardless?
A native tongue,
Same syllable,
Stammer astray
Misspelled, misunderstood
Those celestial pieces
Being, gracefully rude
Phenomenal,
All in Innocence.
Feb 6, 2018
Feb 6, 2018 at 2:32 AM UTC
If there's one thing I know best
It's My obsession
Which lay deep down
In a room with shackles
Waiting for that uncontrollable period
To exhibit it shape
I know for sure
it changes shape
To be satisfied with figure
For obsession show's
With out knowing
It stain without showing
Just like a phone with password
I tell you it always a reminder
As date is.
It's certained that obsession leads to
Desiree's
Some can't be spoken of
Nor to be believed
For to know an individual
Know his obsession
And to know his desire
Hook up to his obsession
Like subscribing to YouTube...
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020 at 7:08 PM UTC