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"surname" poems
My name is Queen Stuurman. Not Queen Elizabeth, or Queen Latifah, but simply just Queen. I am a unique being born and raised in the roots of Africa, my culture and roots are proof of where I'm from, I'm not made in China. I AM PROUDLY AFRICAN!! A representation of my country, its war cry resides within me, my rainbow nation skin colour, the many stories about my beautiful country I have yet to tell in my head. So next time you see me, call me Queen Stuurman that's my Afrikaans and isiXhosa surname, made and bred in Africa, I am the African Queen.
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 7:59 AM UTC
African Queen
From a young age I knew there was a man and a woman out there, complete strangers, who were, biologically, my grandparents. I knew my chances of meeting them were exactly zero to none. The parents who took my dad home that day were his parents And that was done. Before me sat a grandmother, and the spirit of a grandfather passed, who loved me more than any stranger-grandparent ever could who was there for every dance recital, every holiday, every mistake, every success who, though I bore no resemblance, watched me grow right before her eyes who swore the Easter bunny left treats at her house for me-- even when I was beyond the years of belief. Always wearing a  sweatsuit and gold stud earrings, with an added neck-scarf and red lip for special occasions. Telling tales of the "poor dear" animal she saw Dead on the side of the road-- Sad enough, you'd think it was her own. Church every Sunday and the shirt off her back, Had you asked. This woman I explain Shares no blood, but, a surname. I love her just the same If not more Than any grandmother Genetics had in store. She's a part of who I am, though not in my DNA. Nature versus Nurture: Nurture wins again. She taught me: Strength, grace, humility, selflessness, generosity, and patience Without sharing one biological thread By example she lead And I continue to follow In her footsteps.
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Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 2:51 AM UTC
Grandma Genetics
“Top of the Morning to ‘Yuh, Guv’nuh.” Oh, to be father of a Cockney flower girl, To be Eliza Doolittle’s Dear old Dad, Alfred P. of that surname. Oh, to be a cockney dustman, On this fine day, Another fine day in Northern New Mexico, as I Sell my daughter to ‘Enery Iggins, or Some equivalent Princeton poofter. I am Rhett Butler, Daring blockade-runner, Persona –non-grata For any decent Family—including my own, Charleston Carolina. In time, I crave Social acceptance for Bonnie Blue—my ill fated Would-be equestrian offspring; I surrender my daughter to the Upper Class.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 1:40 PM UTC
"My Fair Tara Lady"
There was a chap called Charlie. Who lived in separation. In total world of degradation. Father left when he were nine. A raging alcoholic. Charlie, his brother and his mother. Sent off to the workhouse. In the land of Lambeth. No palace. The family were ushered into areas of segregation. Mother and children apart in our apparently grand nation. Product of shame documented by satirists. Dickens's favourite topic. Poor folks made poorer, In workhouses designed to embarrass. Those already destitute, Not by choice for sure. Only crime being poor. Dignity stripped. Destroyed of heart. Wrecked in health To reduce their being even more. God help you if you were not fit. **** of the earth, you were purged. We the Brits now get benefits, Be grateful that we do. _____________________________________________________________________________ Charlie found extreme success. When as a film star of the silent kind. With a plaque on the wall of his once posh house in Vauxhall. His surname it was Chaplin! By ladylivvi1 © 2014 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
Charlies' Workhouse!
This is about my beloved physiotherapist. He tried his best to help me recover quick. And today the initial period is reminiscent. Dr. Amrinder Singh Kaler, My generous physiotherapist, Has a rather rare surname. I used to enquire his name, As I was extremely curious, Much like a kid I had been. Brain injury took heavy toll, Severely quick memory loss, At times I used to forget it all. All day long I was apprehensive & confused, Scared I remained thinking of physical pain, I would ask them if someone would come. I would ask him his name during therapy, My memory was extremely short & poor, I slowly learnt his first & second names. But I would still ask him his surname, I was not be told straight away by him, He told me to strain my mind & guess it. To tell him his own name was not easy, Especially when I was so much in pain, It was so much difficult for me to tell it. But after few months' passage, It didn't pain much to exercise, As much as when I was worse. I found it difficult to recall his surname, I did say several Sikh surnames to him, I would say all surnames but his own.
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
What Is Your Name Again?
*This is a poem for Rachel Corrie. I am not religious, and a far cry from spiritual, but I refuse to imagine Rachel Corrie insentient and six feet under, slowly amalgamating with the soil encasing her. Before her death, Rachel Corrie said “I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my co-workers. But I also want this to stop.” In the words of contemporary Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad “God has a better imagination than all of us combined” in either God's words or my own, I will not imagine in/on the same ground in/on which I maybe soon will be and more words from Suheir “What do I tell young people about non-violence when they can see for themselves how even orange bright and megaphone loud and cameras and US citizenship will not stop your ****** what do I tell young people/anyone even myself about “non-violence” when every single thing I've seen presenting itself/perhaps even masquerading as “non-violence” has been in my face and /rude/harsh/unavoidable and most of all, violent? I do not believe in God and humanity is pushing it's luck, but I believe in Rachel Corrie. This is for Rachel;* I should study a she-wolf's prose she wanted to write about death but life would frequently weasel and wheedle it's way in there’s an overhanging image a smaller yet infinitely larger organism continuously broached by each word I only want to study a caterpillar’s motion backward/forward /onward across arms/legs of this deer/dear [her] surname/ [my] given name/ separated by [semi/totally] circular VOWels ***** blond hair dirtied by dust / rubble / rhyme /reason/ whatever/ in compliance with a rep/RESENT/ative democracy several shades lighter literally figuratively whiter than she need no permission pat benatar would/should croon to your moves every boy and girl friend i will/may/have/had should be yours entomo/insecto/[social] phobias I never would’ve said so I never would’ve/ could’ve told the caterpillar to go
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Nov 28, 2011
Nov 28, 2011 at 8:41 PM UTC
Waggish Recall
*This is a poem for Rachel Corrie. I am not religious, and a far cry from spiritual, but I refuse to imagine Rachel Corrie insentient and six feet under, slowly amalgamating with the soil encasing her. Before her death, Rachel Corrie said “I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my co-workers. But I also want this to stop.” In the words of contemporary Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad “God has a better imagination than all of us combined” in either God's words or my own, I will not imagine in/on the same ground in/on which I maybe soon will be and more words from Suheir “What do I tell young people about non-violence when they can see for themselves how even orange bright and megaphone loud and cameras and US citizenship will not stop your ****** what do I tell young people/anyone even myself about “non-violence” when every single thing I've seen presenting itself/perhaps even masquerading as “non-violence” has been in my face and /rude/harsh/unavoidable and most of all, violent? I do not believe in God and humanity is pushing it's luck, but I believe in Rachel Corrie. This is for Rachel;* I should study a she-wolf's prose she wanted to write about death but life would frequently weasel and wheedle it's way in there’s an overhanging image a smaller yet infinitely larger organism continuously broached by each word I only want to study a caterpillar’s motion backward/forward /onward across arms/legs of this deer/dear [her] surname/ [my] given name/ separated by [semi/totally] circular VOWels ***** blond hair dirtied by dust / rubble / rhyme /reason/ whatever/ in compliance with a rep/RESENT/ative democracy several shades lighter literally figuratively whiter than she need no permission pat benatar would/should croon to your moves every boy and girl friend i will/may/have/had should be yours entomo/insecto/[social] phobias I never would’ve said so I never would’ve/ could’ve told the caterpillar to go
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*to further my point, as an eager reader in a catholic school, reading about the gnostic heretics, wondering with my theology tutor upon the question asked: don't you think the gnostic heretics influenced mohammad on the sly? i mean, they too believed a phantom walked among men, and a phantom was crucified?* my confirmation didn't take place in a cathedral, as was due course for all of us in being schooled, by a bishop in brentwood cathedral, i opted out... my confirmation came in a russian orthodox cathedral, in st. petersburg, when i watched people standing for a scrap of iconoclasm, with the priest mumbling toward a golden altar, as typical in the tradition, buttocks towards the people or as in the western tradition reciting in latin, before the nationalists came and spoke the gospel in each designated tongue so people understood, a bit like having your back turned against the people - speaking in latin - and when i sat i the church to listen to the choir singing, some lesser ecclesiastical prompted me to stand up, and pay respect to the golden altar... he told me to stand up! what cheek... what barbarism... only in russia... i had to stop being bewildered by the beauty of song and listen to a priest knock-down-ginger on a palette of gold... THEN i was confirmed... donkey's ******** to this **** i'm leaving! mind the fact that i've seen the greatest degradation of mysticism take place... the tetragrammaton was being defiled all along... in catholic bureaucracy it has been there all along, the idiots reminded me of it... you're born: first name, baptismal name, surname... you're educated: confirmation name... that takes four spaces of consideration... so by catholic definition of sharpening pencils, folding pieces of paper, filing the folded pieces of paper, bending paper-clips i'm god... but only in writing... first name, baptismal name, confirmation name, surname... a bit like a clone... a clone indeed in writing... same d.n.a., same bone mandibles of the jaw... but experience-wise... un-original to the **** not even a clone... not able to experience major historical figures... a soul in a twin body by itself... a twin without twinning, segregated by ulterior if not auxiliary motives... clone on paper... clone by experience? i don't think so... impossible... too many inter-actants along the way can't possibly replicate thinking in a clone... different mr. john smith... NEXT!
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 2:18 AM UTC
"confirmation" of a "catholic" in a russian orthodox church
*to further my point, as an eager reader in a catholic school, reading about the gnostic heretics, wondering with my theology tutor upon the question asked: don't you think the gnostic heretics influenced mohammad on the sly? i mean, they too believed a phantom walked among men, and a phantom was crucified?* my confirmation didn't take place in a cathedral, as was due course for all of us in being schooled, by a bishop in brentwood cathedral, i opted out... my confirmation came in a russian orthodox cathedral, in st. petersburg, when i watched people standing for a scrap of iconoclasm, with the priest mumbling toward a golden altar, as typical in the tradition, buttocks towards the people or as in the western tradition reciting in latin, before the nationalists came and spoke the gospel in each designated tongue so people understood, a bit like having your back turned against the people - speaking in latin - and when i sat i the church to listen to the choir singing, some lesser ecclesiastical prompted me to stand up, and pay respect to the golden altar... he told me to stand up! what cheek... what barbarism... only in russia... i had to stop being bewildered by the beauty of song and listen to a priest knock-down-ginger on a palette of gold... THEN i was confirmed... donkey's ******** to this **** i'm leaving! mind the fact that i've seen the greatest degradation of mysticism take place... the tetragrammaton was being defiled all along... in catholic bureaucracy it has been there all along, the idiots reminded me of it... you're born: first name, baptismal name, surname... you're educated: confirmation name... that takes four spaces of consideration... so by catholic definition of sharpening pencils, folding pieces of paper, filing the folded pieces of paper, bending paper-clips i'm god... but only in writing... first name, baptismal name, confirmation name, surname... a bit like a clone... a clone indeed in writing... same d.n.a., same bone mandibles of the jaw... but experience-wise... un-original to the **** not even a clone... not able to experience major historical figures... a soul in a twin body by itself... a twin without twinning, segregated by ulterior if not auxiliary motives... clone on paper... clone by experience? i don't think so... impossible... too many inter-actants along the way can't possibly replicate thinking in a clone... different mr. john smith... NEXT!
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Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
hey pretty plated smell!
Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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I pick up this book of Robert Burns poems As my great-grandfather picked it up a hundred years ago I put it down in exasperation As I guess he put it down Promising himself As I promise myself To give that sentimental Scot (getting teary-eyed over a mouse) One more chance maybe 1912 2012 The numbers swirl As numbers can do And I find myself Talking to this man I never met At a loss for small talk I just say, “Hey, did you know I googled your surname and my middle name And our roots are in the Isle of Wight.” He smirked Then took me out to his front yard (If they had front yards back then) Pressed his hand in the soil Grabbed something Hefted it Pulled on it And said to me, “They’re in Texas now.”
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Oct 5, 2012
Oct 5, 2012 at 10:44 AM UTC
Roots
My dear miss Able asked me about a hidden place. A place where words go to find lovers. A Tinder for f̶o̶r̶e̶p̶l̶a̶y̶  wordplay. Where "She" swipes right on "Him" to create "Them". Where "Un" and "Faithful" got together and made "Faithfulun" Because "Faithful" is also seeing "Dyslexia" Where my friend "Alone" swept left on "Everybody" And never changed. And "In" became "Indecent" when he, infatuated, Increasingly indulged Into "Inappropriation" while dating "decent" and then Indiscreetly descended into "Insanity". Where "Baby" got "Back" after "Laid-Back" split when "Laid" got "Off". Miss Able doubted this place even after her first son, "Question" who took her surname. But this place does exist- Where gold is mind inside a poet.
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Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 4:04 AM UTC
Inside A Poet
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 1:45 AM UTC
A Memory
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret,Kenya;[email protected]) Du stellen mir zu lieben sie Und ich geben du liebe Du stellen mir zu geben Du frauen und kindred Aber ich du geben Familie Du stellen mir meine name Und sprachen du meine surname Du stellen mir stabilitat Aber ich geben du stutze Du stellen mir respekt Aber ich geben du genug und alles Du stellen mir *** Aber ich geben du liebe Ich habe geben du sorgfalt Ganzen die zeit von sie leben Aber du habe nicht sprachen Danken uber mir Du sie sehr bohse Vergnugen !
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Jan 7, 2014
Jan 7, 2014 at 8:32 AM UTC
Lied von liebe
there are good souls in this world shrouded in weathered skin dry and cracked with scowls hung upon their face balancing on the scars of their brow just as there are bad souls in this world hiding under plush skin their faces adorned with kind eyes and cherry red lips made for kissing or spitting with rage picture a gorgeous brunette with fair skin, bold eyebrows and her hair in a subtle yet nineteen-thirties style updo wearing a red chiffon summer dress the sun beats down on her as she glistens with light perspiration espresso in-hand cigarette in the other her pale soft skin no match for the thirty degree heat outside of this café she nonchalantly finds herself she is the epitome of carefree beauty she kicked her lovers dog outside this morning exiling him to a six hour long toilet break after she "forgot" she had let him out before leaving to go shopping whilst her feller finished his shift because the dog is old and smelly and gets almost as much attention as her she even saw his pensioner neighbour struggling to take the bins out as she walked to her car and laughed rather than help because she always thought Mary was a no good Jew she even called her Mrs. Goldstein "Have a nice day Mrs. Goldstein." but Mary's surname is Cohen picture this beautiful girl a siren leading good men astray she can get any man she wants and plucks only the finest most succulent I mean successful and well put together men from gardens of bachelors maturing in the hardships of city life she has plenty choice but she's fickle you see, her man has to be almost perfect for it to be as enjoyable as possible to watch his life unravel and unfold into everything he wanted it not to be achievable only through toxic beauty her joy is venom soaked insides of lovers caught in a sultry web of lies, ambition and *** she loves a scandal or a text sent to the wrong person and she has everything to hide but does nothing to do so she gets by just fine being beautiful and sickening and sickeningly beautiful you know the sort she is a bad, bad girl
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Feb 1, 2021
Feb 1, 2021 at 9:07 PM UTC
Good Souls and Bad Girls
there are good souls in this world shrouded in weathered skin dry and cracked with scowls hung upon their face balancing on the scars of their brow just as there are bad souls in this world hiding under plush skin their faces adorned with kind eyes and cherry red lips made for kissing or spitting with rage picture a gorgeous brunette with fair skin, bold eyebrows and her hair in a subtle yet nineteen-thirties style updo wearing a red chiffon summer dress the sun beats down on her as she glistens with light perspiration espresso in-hand cigarette in the other her pale soft skin no match for the thirty degree heat outside of this café she nonchalantly finds herself she is the epitome of carefree beauty she kicked her lovers dog outside this morning exiling him to a six hour long toilet break after she "forgot" she had let him out before leaving to go shopping whilst her feller finished his shift because the dog is old and smelly and gets almost as much attention as her she even saw his pensioner neighbour struggling to take the bins out as she walked to her car and laughed rather than help because she always thought Mary was a no good Jew she even called her Mrs. Goldstein "Have a nice day Mrs. Goldstein." but Mary's surname is Cohen picture this beautiful girl a siren leading good men astray she can get any man she wants and plucks only the finest most succulent I mean successful and well put together men from gardens of bachelors maturing in the hardships of city life she has plenty choice but she's fickle you see, her man has to be almost perfect for it to be as enjoyable as possible to watch his life unravel and unfold into everything he wanted it not to be achievable only through toxic beauty her joy is venom soaked insides of lovers caught in a sultry web of lies, ambition and *** she loves a scandal or a text sent to the wrong person and she has everything to hide but does nothing to do so she gets by just fine being beautiful and sickening and sickeningly beautiful you know the sort she is a bad, bad girl
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An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM UTC
Know What I'm Say'n?
An unrequited love that still offers a seemingly patronizing hand of rapport Is just another way to say "friend zone" But you'll be dancing in the end zone After you finally pay your student loan with money from the job you needed a degree to get which called for the loan in the first place The salt has spilled off the Lazy Susan Throw it over your right shoulder Is this my alter ego? Or do I have a split personality Maybe this is my light skinned doppelganger I've got to get these bats out of the belfry I've got claustrophobic, roided-out butterflies in the pit of my stomach Busted paper thin lips A blood sport Stop it from clotting Vaccinate me This vacuum is a rare find The national demographic is going through culture shock Assume a surname Put on the gargantuan pennant Go to the pulpit and beg for penance Gridlock The paleophone is cracked Study the topography And pay the bus fare The squatters who are on borrowed time Take a swig from the half empty bottle After searching their whole lives for an even break But are forced to cut ties and make a clean cut from society All the lent hands and ears Are lodged between ungratefulness and exclusive pity parties Sweet nothings and forget-me-nots Do a clean sweep It's imperative to have a method to your madness A portrayal of eccentric narcissist Painting self-portraits While on some kind of wonder drug Longing for some moral support Double-dealing Double crossing A hypocritical traitor Who has the right away I will watch your blood coagulate around the bullet holes As your body goes into Rigor mortis I will commit this picture to memory I would have bet dollars to doughnuts that it wasn't you But who wudda thunk it? It's all just an impromptu turn on a dime That encumbers you with cabin fever When you're on display in a human zoo Where unproductive bull sessions are a dime a dozen
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Did you see that Usain Bolt The surname sure fits there Yeah, not bad thinks Dusty dog But can he catch a hare? That long jump champ, well done mate You're better than the rest But any Ozzie joey Would hardly be impressed Those divers, back flips in the water Splashing two by two Any dolphin anywhere Could make you look like fools So it is with everything Try as hard we might Mind, I've not seen anything Go quite as quick by bike
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Aug 8, 2012
Aug 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM UTC
Athletic
.*of course i dream i fame, who doesn't dream of either fame or fortune... but... i'm sane enough to want to achieve that sort of stature, postmortem... what? with all the celebrity culture big brother ******** who the hell seeks fame while still alive? oh... well... there are the countless examples...* and why would i take an ancestry test of my D.N.A. make-up? i remember the first conversation i had with the father of my first girlfriend... how many famous Poles (Polaks... do i look like something akin to an anorexic waving a ******* flag?) there were... i forgot Copernicus... i forgot Marie Curie... i forgot Chopin... **** i forgot my own name when i saw my first girlfriend's sister walk down the stairs... why would i do D.N.A. testing? i just looked at what we eat... and i mean we, truly, it's called haggis in Scotland, it's called black pudding in England, and it's also called czarna kiszka (black intestines) in Poland... the Vikings founded Kiev after all... i like Nordic music, take a guess... take a while... my maternal surname is Batuk... which is a Bohemian variant of the Polak Batóg... so a mix of Czech and...   Viking? the Goths... if i had the time, and also the time reference to reply to my first girlfriend's father... while i was rudely interrupted by the nymph that was her sister... it's still a dream to me... or what's called an arranged marriage in India... well... i would reply... and how many Nobel literature laureates... came from... England? deathly silence... you're right... you're importing all this ****** post empire post colonial perspectives and you have... 0 Nobel laureates in the category of literature... none! zero! nil! oh! yeah...        oh... really?                                    yes! zilch... so zip-it-up, shrimpy. i take certain words to heart... sharpens my memory, i'm not offended... i just remember better... you sometimes require certain rubrics that are exclusive and do not include the rubrics of formal education... this memory? oh...       2003.
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
a dream of a nymph
.*of course i dream i fame, who doesn't dream of either fame or fortune... but... i'm sane enough to want to achieve that sort of stature, postmortem... what? with all the celebrity culture big brother ******** who the hell seeks fame while still alive? oh... well... there are the countless examples...* and why would i take an ancestry test of my D.N.A. make-up? i remember the first conversation i had with the father of my first girlfriend... how many famous Poles (Polaks... do i look like something akin to an anorexic waving a ******* flag?) there were... i forgot Copernicus... i forgot Marie Curie... i forgot Chopin... **** i forgot my own name when i saw my first girlfriend's sister walk down the stairs... why would i do D.N.A. testing? i just looked at what we eat... and i mean we, truly, it's called haggis in Scotland, it's called black pudding in England, and it's also called czarna kiszka (black intestines) in Poland... the Vikings founded Kiev after all... i like Nordic music, take a guess... take a while... my maternal surname is Batuk... which is a Bohemian variant of the Polak Batóg... so a mix of Czech and...   Viking? the Goths... if i had the time, and also the time reference to reply to my first girlfriend's father... while i was rudely interrupted by the nymph that was her sister... it's still a dream to me... or what's called an arranged marriage in India... well... i would reply... and how many Nobel literature laureates... came from... England? deathly silence... you're right... you're importing all this ****** post empire post colonial perspectives and you have... 0 Nobel laureates in the category of literature... none! zero! nil! oh! yeah...        oh... really?                                    yes! zilch... so zip-it-up, shrimpy. i take certain words to heart... sharpens my memory, i'm not offended... i just remember better... you sometimes require certain rubrics that are exclusive and do not include the rubrics of formal education... this memory? oh...       2003.
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Applegate sounds like Like a gateway to the Garden of Eden, With fruits like apple it has been laden. Like a nutritious surname fit for health, That health which helps making wealth.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 11:11 PM UTC
A Poem For Jessica Applegate
A faded passport, Of who I used to be, It says that Dark and Hatred, Are my nationalities, It says my forename's Fear, My surname: Everything, My date of birth is long since gone, But it's clear enough to see, From my picture: a face covered in scars, My life's been long enough for me. But the expiry date says today, And I'm sure I've been set free, I'll send off the details for my new life, And rewrite my history.
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Nov 15, 2014
Nov 15, 2014 at 4:00 PM UTC
A Faded Passport
Old school, gymnasium, Christmas fair, Thursday night. Hoops at either end. Tables. People. A woman carries a baby, could be the PE teacher’s. A Ugandan flag. Jars of dark purple jam next to jars of chutney, perhaps. The youth, us once, flit between here and the hall. A choir, maybe thirty strong, sing Santa Baby. Parents watch, as do we. Half a minute. The head. Still a towering, suited figure. Handshakes all round. What are we doing now? Voices like knots of consonants. Geography man. Flecks of grey stubble. Procedure repeated. Finger pointed. Scrabble for a surname. Exclamation. Years rattling back to the front. He remembers, as do we. Head of sixth seven years ago. Instant recognition. Repeat. Half an hour. The place, no longer ours. Never was. Friends the same. Memories. Dust between dark and light. Car. Back seat. Barely two miles. Little traffic. Turn into street.  Step out. Chill drizzles the face. Handshake again? Again. Time and place discussed before home. See you tomorrow then. Yeah. Yeah. Front door key.
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Dec 10, 2018
Dec 10, 2018 at 2:24 PM UTC
Fair
she has half-a-dozen nicknames christened humanity's helper it fits her like an old maroon hoodie warm and cozy and snug she goes by Lexi for the sake of brevity her surname a monument of stones memorializing philanthropy steadfast and resolute through eons of anguish LC lines of code ones and zeroes connecting lines between the dots of geometric shapes in interstellar space she'll extend a helping hand to any and all who ask she is my best friend and she says i am the only one allowed to call her love
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Jan 24, 2016
Jan 24, 2016 at 12:04 AM UTC
nicknames
If I told you my surname, you would start to laugh It's silly, but it's mine, and it's meant to last. F L Y It's a noun, not a verb, it's a little bug which lives everywhere. I am a fly but I can't explore the sky, "I don't have any wings" I repeated as a child. But when were are together, no chain can forbid me to reach the heavens. You are to me something that no one else could be. I feel more like that bug when I'm with you than when I'm on my own, How you manage to do so, it's something I'll never know. I am a fly but I can't explore the sky, "I don't have any wings" I repeated as a child. But touching this light blu sky I finally realize That that was not the truth. My wings? It's you.
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 8:48 AM UTC
Wings
Looking like scrambled eggs, It would be better, If she was gorgeous, It would be better, If she was one of us, We used to be, One big happy family, United indeed in deed, United in every respect, But that was, Before she pitched, And now, That unity has been shattered, And that happiness is history, We now view each other with suspicion, With everybody ever-alert, Brother has been turned against brother, And sister has been turned against all, Parents have been turned against us, And our enemies visit us at will, That family is now just but, A collection of individuals, With the same surname, Thanks, To my brother’s wife.
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 8:15 AM UTC
My brother's wife
in the surveillance of our story, 850 seconds perhaps, in glorified memory, little jews open their eyes amongst the flaming sculptural spire and the third of her name, Jerusalem, (is it him?) (artistic was her surname) unfortunately, her ID, consumed by torch & flame (.........) another mourning, another brown, & soggy & tasteless ******* day in which to despair at the state of her very purposeful Occidental ways surrounded by fake patriotism & fourteenths & sevens & May contrast the Marseillaise's rightful sudden death      [ violet haze ] the saddened by the tragedy have more to lose at stake
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Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 2019 at 8:13 AM UTC
on behalf of us humans
I I have many impulsions and desires Oft not in line with those surrounding me 'tis in these moments I miss you the most For you would eagerly follow II I saw the trees in bloom Today, white pure blossoms I thought of you... III I saw you today... In the orange crocus cups Peeking through the Earth IV Daffodils opening up In a golden sunset hue To you, these natural beauties Turn my thoughts V I almost did not notice You signed with my surname It looks so natural
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Feb 28, 2013
Feb 28, 2013 at 10:32 AM UTC
Haikus for Cora While I am in Ireland
bez ze mnie to tylko kurwy! bez ze mnie to brak matk! co ja? igrek w stonoge piękna pająk!? o ty równasz ciepło... ty ciepło?! ja więcej z grama węgla wydobie dla mego nagiego ciała niż ty w odzienie dotyku dajesz! do arabii spierdu chytrością lisa ty! no! już! dawaj! Jan Paweł drógi prosi o odwarcie kałczugu bounce bounce na immigrant i także sprzedarz! taniej ty niż skóra wiepsza na butach iskry, w raptem wosk wax o imie dziewicy ha ha samogwaltu twego ojca; to chyba piask w butach, surname Sahara, a twoje imie Samara.
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 12:18 AM UTC
pslam polaka (Samara Sahara)