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"tawdry" poems
And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom— feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The ****** veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind . . . !
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Arrival
*break astonishment at perception of a third-world child making it up that totem-pole amidst paltry conditions even beyond the half-way mark* 1. a standing man in silent message and the woman in red with thin-sling shoulder-bag holding lipstick, weekly-ticket and purse oh, how she frightens honchos out their skull draped round her sister's head shroud eternal coughing sore 2. grannies recount lively griot-tales where hope is never barren young boys play in swamped dirt-trails drawing absent father-figures in the sand the wind has carried them off to mines deep in the crust of earth's ire adolescent future sits on labour-farms where keen spirit is dulled with worthless hops keeps the sly farmer happy and he tells them the fruit is free yet they've already paid for it manifold when she reaches twenty she will have at least two kids whose lives lie in the granny's luxury while she runs off to the golden city-lites to jump through higher hoops for ****** spoils all cheapened by long-term neglect 3. there lies hope unlost in every girl-child who goes to school who finds encouragement from words kindly given if but from a stranger *no hand-me-outs no forlorn begging* she... the empowered mother of boys will help them to grow into young men of such sensibility as to keep their hands to deeds of honour who, in turn become fine fathers to daughters they love and cherish raise to be luminary *each step up from that totem-pole such a steep climb strengthens invisible wings and unworldly rewards and when final rung is reached heralds untainted take-offffffff*...... S T,  27 aug
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM UTC
totem-pole
*break astonishment at perception of a third-world child making it up that totem-pole amidst paltry conditions even beyond the half-way mark* 1. a standing man in silent message and the woman in red with thin-sling shoulder-bag holding lipstick, weekly-ticket and purse oh, how she frightens honchos out their skull draped round her sister's head shroud eternal coughing sore 2. grannies recount lively griot-tales where hope is never barren young boys play in swamped dirt-trails drawing absent father-figures in the sand the wind has carried them off to mines deep in the crust of earth's ire adolescent future sits on labour-farms where keen spirit is dulled with worthless hops keeps the sly farmer happy and he tells them the fruit is free yet they've already paid for it manifold when she reaches twenty she will have at least two kids whose lives lie in the granny's luxury while she runs off to the golden city-lites to jump through higher hoops for ****** spoils all cheapened by long-term neglect 3. there lies hope unlost in every girl-child who goes to school who finds encouragement from words kindly given if but from a stranger *no hand-me-outs no forlorn begging* she... the empowered mother of boys will help them to grow into young men of such sensibility as to keep their hands to deeds of honour who, in turn become fine fathers to daughters they love and cherish raise to be luminary *each step up from that totem-pole such a steep climb strengthens invisible wings and unworldly rewards and when final rung is reached heralds untainted take-offffffff*...... S T,  27 aug
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[From Fragments,  The Following...] ... so it was that the Urth bled less. The Birch Moot was becalmed by the Anvil Cloud of Impending Deluge. The Young Gods made sport of Their Names, and aimed to Oblique the colony of clever flesh groping at the tender roots of an insipid devastation. The First Ones had vanished. But Time was born and the Mortal Whirl released the Hounds of Change. Transition fused - with the Eternal; and the offspring of unloved Spirits, roamed the Tangible. All Suffering was amplified in the diamond lungs of a divine corpse, dreaming. ... for when the iron heart of The Cast Out was retrieved, the Legion of Heaven poured unseemly Grace upon the Fathoms and the High King of Doubt, forced his blade ' Nimue ' into the soft palette, of the First Mouth.  The Stars were born and The Void overheard the First Naming. A solid drizzle of enchantment cloaked the oaken Yggdrasil and The Pattern unleashed the folly of Pattern to mask the virtue of succinct Chaos. The Children of The Lower Sky ate their Masters and thereby swollen - gathered in the underbrush of the Fecund. They came to Know Regret by Answering Prayers. The Kingdoms of Wane were waning in the fearsome riot of Creation and not a boy, a man from no woman and no woman a man. ... the siege lights of the petty stars, babbled in the wake of yawning eruption and nullification. the ****** theater of blood was made Holy by way of forcing camels into eyes of needles in constant dystopian joy. ... and that's how the rain gets in. [ From the ' Kingdoms Of Wane ', a Lost Tome from Antiquity and Dada ] What ?
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 7:07 PM UTC
LOST TOME LULLABIES, THE KINGDOMS OF WANE [ WITH COMMENTARY ]
[From Fragments,  The Following...] ... so it was that the Urth bled less. The Birch Moot was becalmed by the Anvil Cloud of Impending Deluge. The Young Gods made sport of Their Names, and aimed to Oblique the colony of clever flesh groping at the tender roots of an insipid devastation. The First Ones had vanished. But Time was born and the Mortal Whirl released the Hounds of Change. Transition fused - with the Eternal; and the offspring of unloved Spirits, roamed the Tangible. All Suffering was amplified in the diamond lungs of a divine corpse, dreaming. ... for when the iron heart of The Cast Out was retrieved, the Legion of Heaven poured unseemly Grace upon the Fathoms and the High King of Doubt, forced his blade ' Nimue ' into the soft palette, of the First Mouth.  The Stars were born and The Void overheard the First Naming. A solid drizzle of enchantment cloaked the oaken Yggdrasil and The Pattern unleashed the folly of Pattern to mask the virtue of succinct Chaos. The Children of The Lower Sky ate their Masters and thereby swollen - gathered in the underbrush of the Fecund. They came to Know Regret by Answering Prayers. The Kingdoms of Wane were waning in the fearsome riot of Creation and not a boy, a man from no woman and no woman a man. ... the siege lights of the petty stars, babbled in the wake of yawning eruption and nullification. the ****** theater of blood was made Holy by way of forcing camels into eyes of needles in constant dystopian joy. ... and that's how the rain gets in. [ From the ' Kingdoms Of Wane ', a Lost Tome from Antiquity and Dada ] What ?
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# A lively debate that inside I create A seemingly simple state But this state of affairs Is like a ****** affair* The details I wish not to share Please, don’t stare For inside I’m scared Am I prepared? Do I have the ***** to do what I really care? Or am I going to stay on this ship of self-despair Where I can scream my lungs ****** into the air But does anyone care? Do I even f@cking care?? Maybe a life spared but ***spare me the retched bullsh@t*** of self-pity I’m self-giving It wreaks up the air It’s noxious scent is not one I care to ever encounter or fair Let’s “clear the air” and take on what I want from now on No longer a pawn who is living the tired joke of some *pathetic love song* No, THIS is my “Swan Song” Where I belong This sh@t is ON! Climbing the mountain strong Bellowing a chant a song That’s been so deep within for so long It can only come out Right Because “wrong” does not belong **This virus is airborne** No longer forlorn All the darkness is gone You have been forewarned Are you ready? Because it’s coming Sounding the horn Sacrificed the firstborn The “storm” Once icy and cold Now simmering warm Going to bubble into volcanic ash scorned This Oath hath been sworn Tattered and torn **** cloth all that is worn But forward my path What’s behind me **My *** The past *Worn out, decayed, and shriveling trash* All that is gone as I head towards the dawn Through the darkness I’ve trekked The Sun rises ahead And with it My song My Swan Song I am reborn withered and worn But still strong I belong ***I am one with the Universe*** The path before me is brightly lit with happiness and joy No more patheticness All the grit and the spit Broken teeth All that sh@t It all meant something It was THIS *Every bruise Every break All the “wrongs” and “mistakes”* Are what it takes You can call it fate or simply short of fatal but since neonatal through this day till Every day I thankfully say “Thank you” for showing me the way Because now I have A love that stays A true love One that can’t get away Because I value Me One ‘hopes’ or ‘prays’ But like a house Each brick is laid Onto the next Foundation made A sturdy house Can’t blow away Hard work put in Made it this way The same for me The price I paid But end result A saving grace #
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Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 at 5:08 AM UTC
Swan Song
# A lively debate that inside I create A seemingly simple state But this state of affairs Is like a ****** affair* The details I wish not to share Please, don’t stare For inside I’m scared Am I prepared? Do I have the ***** to do what I really care? Or am I going to stay on this ship of self-despair Where I can scream my lungs ****** into the air But does anyone care? Do I even f@cking care?? Maybe a life spared but ***spare me the retched bullsh@t*** of self-pity I’m self-giving It wreaks up the air It’s noxious scent is not one I care to ever encounter or fair Let’s “clear the air” and take on what I want from now on No longer a pawn who is living the tired joke of some *pathetic love song* No, THIS is my “Swan Song” Where I belong This sh@t is ON! Climbing the mountain strong Bellowing a chant a song That’s been so deep within for so long It can only come out Right Because “wrong” does not belong **This virus is airborne** No longer forlorn All the darkness is gone You have been forewarned Are you ready? Because it’s coming Sounding the horn Sacrificed the firstborn The “storm” Once icy and cold Now simmering warm Going to bubble into volcanic ash scorned This Oath hath been sworn Tattered and torn **** cloth all that is worn But forward my path What’s behind me **My *** The past *Worn out, decayed, and shriveling trash* All that is gone as I head towards the dawn Through the darkness I’ve trekked The Sun rises ahead And with it My song My Swan Song I am reborn withered and worn But still strong I belong ***I am one with the Universe*** The path before me is brightly lit with happiness and joy No more patheticness All the grit and the spit Broken teeth All that sh@t It all meant something It was THIS *Every bruise Every break All the “wrongs” and “mistakes”* Are what it takes You can call it fate or simply short of fatal but since neonatal through this day till Every day I thankfully say “Thank you” for showing me the way Because now I have A love that stays A true love One that can’t get away Because I value Me One ‘hopes’ or ‘prays’ But like a house Each brick is laid Onto the next Foundation made A sturdy house Can’t blow away Hard work put in Made it this way The same for me The price I paid But end result A saving grace #
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Are we all fake? Are we all getting baked? Are we all looking? Are we all searching? For a simple solution To shake the focus from this illusion Finally looking up to the sky Stars shining and twinkling in your eyes Or is it just the glare Pining over your cell phone in despair Comparing yourself to others Moments that look like perfection Also lead us in a misdirection Down a path of self doubt All because of some dude's clout Putting the most in every post To answer all the above questions We be searching for the real And be looking to get baked ;) At least that's this ****** dude's opinion
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Jul 10, 2022
Jul 10, 2022 at 1:02 PM UTC
Instabotok
A desolate shore, The sinister seduction of the Moon, The menace of the irreclaimable Sea. Flaunting, ****** and grim, From cloud to cloud along her beat, Leering her battered and inveterate leer, She signals where he prowls in the dark alone, Her horrible old man, Mumbling old oaths and warming His villainous old bones with villainous talk-- The secrets of their grisly housekeeping Since they went out upon the pad In the first twilight of self-conscious Time: Growling, hideous and hoarse, Tales of unnumbered Ships, Goodly and strong, Companions of the Advance, In some vile alley of the night Waylaid and bludgeoned-- Dead. Deep cellared in primeval ooze, Ruined, dishonoured, spoiled, They lie where the lean water-worm Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides Bulge with the slime of life. Thus they abide, Thus fouled and desecrate, The summons of the Trumpet, and the while These Twain, their murderers, Unravined, imperturbable, unsubdued, Hang at the heels of their children--She aloft As in the shining streets, He as in ambush at some accomplice door. The stalwart Ships, The beautiful and bold adventurers! Stationed out yonder in the isle, The tall Policeman, Flashing his bull's-eye, as he peers About him in the ancient vacancy, Tells them this way is safety--this way home.
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A Desolate Shore
. ***there once was a girl from France who danced on stage with no pants she showed off her **** but never her bush and she left the crowd in a trance***
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 11:26 AM UTC
A ****** Limerick Called A Girl From France
~ ***TRAVEL TIME   TROPICS TRIP    TOURIST TOWN   TUNNEL TOLL   TICKET TAKER TAXI TOKEN   TRANSIT TRAIL   TRANSPORT TRUCK   TRACTOR TRAILER   TRAIN TRACK   TROUBLE TEST   TERROR TRAP   TRIBAL TURF   THINK TALK   TRY TRANSLATE   TONGUE TIED   TEMPER TAMPER   TIMEBOMB TICKING   TRINKET TRADE   TARIFF TERMS   TWINKLE TAX   TREASURE TOTAL   THEFT TAKEN   TWISTING THROBING   THIRSTY THROAT   TECATE TAVERN   TWO TEQUILA   TRES TACOS  TASTY TORTILLAS  TEN TEQUILA   TABLE TAB TIP TINA TAWDRY TROLLUP   TATTOO TABOO    TOE TAP   TICKLE TEASE   TERRIBLE TUNES   TENOR TONES    TRUMPETING TROUBADOURS   TWENTY TEENS   TICK TOCK   TARDY TIME   TIRESOME TESTIMONY   TOTALLY TRANSGRESSED   TUMULTUOUS TRAVELER***
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
THE TUMULTUOUS TRAVELER (revised)
It was Tucson in the endless dog days of an endless summer. The heat was inescapable, pooling in the window frames and the air as it coughed from the vents: A fever that would never break. Two weeks we lay there, knee deep in the throws of a heat that would never subdue, a summer that would never end. You would knock on my door, laying there on the bed, staring holes into the dripped and melting ceiling. You held a paper bag of cheap wine between your ****** and tarnished fingers, clinking against the rings you wore like trophies. I don’t know where I found you, golden brown and beautiful out amongst an vast eternity of ugliness. We took mescaline we had gotten from your cousin living back out on the reservation. Laying there passing back the wine you told me how the desert was alive, how it had been swallowing you your whole life. You told me that the dryness and the heat had consumed you, burnt you through until you couldn’t bear to be yourself anymore. The scorching heat overcame you and you told me there had been no choice but to become the desert. I had only been in the southwest two months, but I saw it, although I was untouched. You had grown here, you said, wilting to ash together with the desert. The mescaline had me by the throat and I saw you from dust to dust. I saw you at one with the desert. You were beautiful amongst the red and ochre blood of the sand and at once I wanted to melt to ash and burn into the desert alongside you. I told you and you laughed and I laughed and we made love to the heat and to the sweat driven out from underneath our pores, inflamed by the drugs and the inescapable heat. The room was aflame and the great desert was alive and ripping at us through the open window with claws of heat that slashed at our backs. I awoke and you were tying your shoes. Just like that, the fever had broken, and already you could feel autumn coming in with its swathes of chilled air sweeping across the plains. I had been in love those two weeks. With the sun and the dust and the ash and the desert and all of it being one with you. As it all collapsed around me I felt saddened at its loss. You were out the door and the summer was over. I moved back east where the winter came faster and colder and the desert was of a different kind.
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Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 4:36 AM UTC
Heatwave
It was Tucson in the endless dog days of an endless summer. The heat was inescapable, pooling in the window frames and the air as it coughed from the vents: A fever that would never break. Two weeks we lay there, knee deep in the throws of a heat that would never subdue, a summer that would never end. You would knock on my door, laying there on the bed, staring holes into the dripped and melting ceiling. You held a paper bag of cheap wine between your ****** and tarnished fingers, clinking against the rings you wore like trophies. I don’t know where I found you, golden brown and beautiful out amongst an vast eternity of ugliness. We took mescaline we had gotten from your cousin living back out on the reservation. Laying there passing back the wine you told me how the desert was alive, how it had been swallowing you your whole life. You told me that the dryness and the heat had consumed you, burnt you through until you couldn’t bear to be yourself anymore. The scorching heat overcame you and you told me there had been no choice but to become the desert. I had only been in the southwest two months, but I saw it, although I was untouched. You had grown here, you said, wilting to ash together with the desert. The mescaline had me by the throat and I saw you from dust to dust. I saw you at one with the desert. You were beautiful amongst the red and ochre blood of the sand and at once I wanted to melt to ash and burn into the desert alongside you. I told you and you laughed and I laughed and we made love to the heat and to the sweat driven out from underneath our pores, inflamed by the drugs and the inescapable heat. The room was aflame and the great desert was alive and ripping at us through the open window with claws of heat that slashed at our backs. I awoke and you were tying your shoes. Just like that, the fever had broken, and already you could feel autumn coming in with its swathes of chilled air sweeping across the plains. I had been in love those two weeks. With the sun and the dust and the ash and the desert and all of it being one with you. As it all collapsed around me I felt saddened at its loss. You were out the door and the summer was over. I moved back east where the winter came faster and colder and the desert was of a different kind.
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A Barry Hodges poem by Edna I remember a girlfriend called Mary Whose ***** was exceedingly hairy; She came from Newcastle; And the stench of her ******** Converted me into a fairy. Thus I rejected your Glorias and Glendas In frilly white bras and suspenders; And sought sweet catharsis From the nice juicy arses Of poofters and other gay benders. Redemption came to me from Millie: A big girl, a well-padded filly; She was just a Geordie And really quite ****** But her **** smelled as sweet as a lily.
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 12:43 PM UTC
Memories of Mary and Millie from Tyneside
... Dear Mr. P - [stop] - ... I was your knife in the water, a credit card kept exclusively for killing - [stop] - I was a gingersnap on your sugar train, a flower-filled glory box to swallow your whole wide world - [stop] - I was night, night of the electric insects, praying mantis and ladybug — nervous animals, lotus eaters, enjoying a ceremonial after meal - [stop] - I was slivers of pseudoscience poisoned by man-made seasons — a new and beautiful and interesting disease - [stop] - You and me, we are now the same — snapshots in sheared time, before the closedown of our impossibly ****** impulses - [stop] - ... Best wishes, V ···
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Feb 16, 2022
Feb 16, 2022 at 12:20 PM UTC
Telegram From an Angry ******
Here Is a timely Noun to consider From the Merriam-Webster page. "Trumpery." Note (at bottom) the list of near-antonyms; what is the opposite of trumpery? [Popularity: Bottom 40% of words] trumpery noun trum·pery \ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē\ Definition of trumpery 1 a : worthless nonsense b : trivial or useless articles : junk <a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving> 2 archaic : ****** finery Origin of trumpery Middle English (Scots) trompery deceit, from Middle French, from tromper to deceive First Known Use: 15th century Examples of trumpery <claims for weight-loss products that are based much more on Madison-Avenue trumpery than on bariatric science> Related to trumpery Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or ******** claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, ******* senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, nonsense, twaddle Related Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus Near Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom By: Robinson Bolkum
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Jan 3, 2016
Jan 3, 2016 at 6:44 PM UTC
Trumpery
Here Is a timely Noun to consider From the Merriam-Webster page. "Trumpery." Note (at bottom) the list of near-antonyms; what is the opposite of trumpery? [Popularity: Bottom 40% of words] trumpery noun trum·pery \ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē\ Definition of trumpery 1 a : worthless nonsense b : trivial or useless articles : junk <a wagon loaded with household trumpery — Washington Irving> 2 archaic : ****** finery Origin of trumpery Middle English (Scots) trompery deceit, from Middle French, from tromper to deceive First Known Use: 15th century Examples of trumpery <claims for weight-loss products that are based much more on Madison-Avenue trumpery than on bariatric science> Related to trumpery Synonyms applesauce [slang], balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blah (also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or ******** claptrap, codswallop [British], crapola [slang], crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel [British], flapdoodle, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers [slang], humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts [slang], nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, ******* senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, nonsense, twaddle Related Words absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy; absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; hoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole); double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus Near Antonyms levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness; common sense, horse sense, sense; discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom By: Robinson Bolkum
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Words, once obedient servants Now claim suzerainty over ideas. The age of meaningful verse has yielded To gobbledygook. Poetry, a grey mist half-understood Through which I stumble blindly, A mirage I chase through the sands... The wells of creativity run dry. Neither outpourings of emotion nor tender murmurs; Mere craftsmanship remains. Lines dolled up in ****** baubles Literary ****** soliciting passing readers, Fireflies, impotent In the face of the darkness within. The autumn harvest of verbosity is ripe For the scythe of the Grim Reaper
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Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM UTC
Autumn Harvest
Starlight … Icy crystalline sparkles beaming brilliance ‘gainst the moonlit winter sky Stars bright. Luminescent wonders. Scintilla laid bare in the heavens by the pale white light of the moon Full moon bathing dingy cityscapes, their dim lit ****** tales told ‘neath streetlamps’ jaundiced glow. We walk, slip on ice, crunch through snow, watching for sliding cars and dangers lurking in shadows. Moonlit whitewashed winter wind winds through desolate streets on a pale cold night in the city. Walk on. Whistling winds, barking dogs, chill us, spur our pace, on through the moonlight and cold. Our wish upon this night’s heavenly stars is to be safely home, watching from icy windows … winter walkers. Doug Curry 1/6/10
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Oct 20, 2012
Oct 20, 2012 at 11:50 AM UTC
Winter Walkers
Vile photos and sounds play on 'palace' walls; mud in her fingernails form shapes of the night's sticky, grubby events- a twisted, ****** Rorscharch-esque blot. Knee-deep in grit and grime, soot on her feet, she sludges on, puking night after night on assorted side-walks with soaked, soily calves. 'Just pretty pictures' painted on a wall show her a true reflection of her mind; she seeks familiarity, hides/searches in them for herself. In distorted jumbles, she looks for her kind. The splayed stuff stutter and splutter and stop and grind. Insomnia and intoxication, a victim of lack of inspiration- life falls into a slow degradation. Nothingness swallows all once more. She thrusts against the shoddy shut doors while the slimy sticky dross glues her shoes to gory floors. -she trails off with a wince at the hat man's scoff. Foul filth fills the squalid air; and sullied and smoky, sighing, she (s)tumbles halfway to sleep.
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM UTC
(sleep)less
**I Found The Belladonna In Nana’s bedside drawer I slipped some in my pocket To even up a score Later He came knocking With that smirk upon his face Yet another ****** night of being Defiled and Debased** *My Lovely I Call My wicked Ways are always here Taking you for granted Having my way Because There is Nothing You Can do* **I set the scene In such An Alluring Seductive Way** Fool **Thought I was finally coming out to play Incense swayed Candles burned He drank the drink Then Tables turned Vermillion visions slice through the stagnant air Cleansing me of Ignorance Naivety Despair** *She doesn't know That bottle of wine That We Drink That her Glass Holds A Cyanide pill So This smile She thinks Is For seduction Hides The plans In My Head* **Something’s not quite right I have a Strange sensation Why am I experiencing Hell Fire & Damnation Evil starts to slither on my heated skin Maybe he just slipped me a ***** Mickey Finn? Feeling now bedeviled I take another sip of wine Bachus sits there laughing Regal and divine** *Where did this migraine come from? But I am here laughing As she drinks her fall **** I feel sleepy Could she have? No! She wouldn't be that shrewd Women can't out think a man So she smiles with me Rubbing her eyes I ask her to dance It will be her last dance* **I sense strong arms caress me Music fills the air Fluidity of movement Lays my soul stark bare I beseech the cold dark eyes of this man that I abhor As We Slowly Slowly Slowly . . . Concertina to the floor**
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Sep 29, 2010
Sep 29, 2010 at 6:25 AM UTC
Pills and Wine - A collaberation between Chris G J Smith & Bathsheba
**I Found The Belladonna In Nana’s bedside drawer I slipped some in my pocket To even up a score Later He came knocking With that smirk upon his face Yet another ****** night of being Defiled and Debased** *My Lovely I Call My wicked Ways are always here Taking you for granted Having my way Because There is Nothing You Can do* **I set the scene In such An Alluring Seductive Way** Fool **Thought I was finally coming out to play Incense swayed Candles burned He drank the drink Then Tables turned Vermillion visions slice through the stagnant air Cleansing me of Ignorance Naivety Despair** *She doesn't know That bottle of wine That We Drink That her Glass Holds A Cyanide pill So This smile She thinks Is For seduction Hides The plans In My Head* **Something’s not quite right I have a Strange sensation Why am I experiencing Hell Fire & Damnation Evil starts to slither on my heated skin Maybe he just slipped me a ***** Mickey Finn? Feeling now bedeviled I take another sip of wine Bachus sits there laughing Regal and divine** *Where did this migraine come from? But I am here laughing As she drinks her fall **** I feel sleepy Could she have? No! She wouldn't be that shrewd Women can't out think a man So she smiles with me Rubbing her eyes I ask her to dance It will be her last dance* **I sense strong arms caress me Music fills the air Fluidity of movement Lays my soul stark bare I beseech the cold dark eyes of this man that I abhor As We Slowly Slowly Slowly . . . Concertina to the floor**
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She was my non sequitur; Like that hottie From the south of Ecuador, So nice yet so ****** But this one was my interrobang Questionable excitement, To her laughter my ears lent Cautious echoes that sang, Of the skies sunny and blue Where the beaches were Anything but mild And the babes They were so wild, Yet the endless raves Seemed so few. As she was my turbulence Distraction under calm seas, ****** cadence With a purr Like a swarm of bees, No other will equate to her, Why I met her; and never will again I'll never know for sure, but then Aren't those the ones we yearn the most for‽ APAD13 012 - © okpoet
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 10:18 PM UTC
Interrobang...
So many words between us— The caustic breech of abatement, ruin Runs atonal, in recitals of indifference, How even the ****** birds now sound Discordant and rain crushes as it falls, Ballistic. The pinprick stars are merely eyes Undraped to the worn soul's veil And gorgon time roils setting our feet In the crust of wishes and delusions Kept. The bullet riddled skies in absence Of colour are but particulates of lime To the moonless night. Words have no Eyes, they can only finger. O the sorrows of the untouched— The cruelty of the sightless and bent blind, Drab vermillion stars felled like forced tears.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM UTC
Smoke
there are words in me always there blood is at my lips ****** burning to release the distillation of their sting into such sweet pollen a whole garden might from them stagger into finite blithe smoothly muslined night crocus poppy thistle
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM UTC
Untitled
. Scurrilous birds fly by, To nest in the little painted Houses left clear for them, In awkward circles they romp Their peculiar dramas With ****** wings. Do they even witness The skies revolving canvas, New masterpieces each day, How the light shimmers In the sparkle rays of sun, How the golden fields, Of vales in sighted sweep And dance, airy etudes, By the windfall gusts So suddenly arising? These visions are marks For but few, who hear time As it plays in stepped quartets Of the spiraling seasons song, For the lone mercies, gifts, To ones most gentle, merest, Spirited eyes who gaze deftly, Deep in sacred days, From a window. .
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Dec 22, 2018
Dec 22, 2018 at 7:36 PM UTC
From a Window
. So many ****** birds, Grey, brown and black, Suited as they sully in sun, In feather and windy-speak And dream, drifting to profit Points, marring the globe, They have so many ways Of singing on their swings Behind bars, murky birdies, Gawking in the crowded fields, Fielding, flighty questions without Answer, winging all souls to oblivion, Who fly, flustering, dusting with song Twisting the air into pure falsehoods, Curious, grounded pets for kingdoms, For masters, fly-hoping in their cages.
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 4:27 PM UTC
Politicians
A ****** girls stands on the corner. She's to young to be this aged. Flirty winks and forced smiles draw the suited men in. Heavy makeup, short skirt Drugs to forget her misdeeds Reminds herself not to flinch, their ***** hands ghost across her skin. She throws away her morals to please a corrupt man. For the price of disobedience Is her fleeting life.
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
The Oldest Profession
 Liquid lavender eyes behind a slight disguise I feel the pulse with quickened gait spell bound I stare into a certain fate spirit image and magic call into those eyes I do fall lavender eyes Liquid  Big brown beautiful eyes bewitching brazen eyes I glance then gaze they hypnotize her tawny ****** ***** bedroom eyes they tantalize they mesmerize sultry sweet smiling eyes beautiful eyes Big brown  Pretty baby blue eyes open wide to see inside pulsing like ocean’s crystal tides bottomless pools like Caribbean cove hypnotized I fall deep in love swimming in her soulful baby blue eyes Pretty 
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 10:17 AM UTC
HER EYES
The second amendment might As well be the sixty-ninth, for all The life-long days it saves by The transparent and glossy shields Adorning blue-skied uniforms. The strike zone is limited to the Mobility-enhanced limbs, out of Reach of the cardiac plateau, in A line guarded by “I heart NYC” Leftover campaign buttons. Crowds question the timeless yet Disintegrating rhetoric, and they Sing along with misspelled threats To sanguine attempts at love and War, while grade schoolers watch. What’s missing from this libretto Is a slogan like “if they go low, we Go high” and the money to borrow It, or the right to use the copyright, As long as it doesn’t get ****** “Now hear this,” bellows the man in The crow’s nest, stepping in front Of his stepson who brandishes a BB gun proudly in his arms, “the Curfew starts at midnight!” Dona nobis pacem, a canon of Faith, is hummed by the last ranks Of veterans in camouflage, hoping To initiate a temporary calm among The bleak and ****** crew. A clown-faced poet attempts to draw A smile, as she calls for an absentee Ballot, a circuitous frontage road Away from destiny, some think, And a short breath of recess. “Take away their weapons,” hollers A very pregnant woman, who goes Into labor, blaming the guns for her Untimely reward, and for a moment, Just minutes, the midwifery begins. All this while a small coterie of men Gathers, silently taking in the show, Unnoticed in their pretense, but Sporting the heritage caps of the NRA, stars and stripes in their lapels. The disingenuous players in this sad Drama are about to fold their tents, To chicken out, to return to tacos And beer, when stillness breaks, So much so that crickets rule. A small boy crosses the street, his Smile contagious, his gait strong As he approaches the men and Says “I am you before now, be Of peace and good cheer. “My commandments have no Amendments, no magic exceptions, No golden calves, no wicked step- Mothers, only a heart and soul, I am the moral of your story.”   © Lewis Bosworth, 2016
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Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016 at 12:40 AM UTC
Rubber Bullets
The second amendment might As well be the sixty-ninth, for all The life-long days it saves by The transparent and glossy shields Adorning blue-skied uniforms. The strike zone is limited to the Mobility-enhanced limbs, out of Reach of the cardiac plateau, in A line guarded by “I heart NYC” Leftover campaign buttons. Crowds question the timeless yet Disintegrating rhetoric, and they Sing along with misspelled threats To sanguine attempts at love and War, while grade schoolers watch. What’s missing from this libretto Is a slogan like “if they go low, we Go high” and the money to borrow It, or the right to use the copyright, As long as it doesn’t get ****** “Now hear this,” bellows the man in The crow’s nest, stepping in front Of his stepson who brandishes a BB gun proudly in his arms, “the Curfew starts at midnight!” Dona nobis pacem, a canon of Faith, is hummed by the last ranks Of veterans in camouflage, hoping To initiate a temporary calm among The bleak and ****** crew. A clown-faced poet attempts to draw A smile, as she calls for an absentee Ballot, a circuitous frontage road Away from destiny, some think, And a short breath of recess. “Take away their weapons,” hollers A very pregnant woman, who goes Into labor, blaming the guns for her Untimely reward, and for a moment, Just minutes, the midwifery begins. All this while a small coterie of men Gathers, silently taking in the show, Unnoticed in their pretense, but Sporting the heritage caps of the NRA, stars and stripes in their lapels. The disingenuous players in this sad Drama are about to fold their tents, To chicken out, to return to tacos And beer, when stillness breaks, So much so that crickets rule. A small boy crosses the street, his Smile contagious, his gait strong As he approaches the men and Says “I am you before now, be Of peace and good cheer. “My commandments have no Amendments, no magic exceptions, No golden calves, no wicked step- Mothers, only a heart and soul, I am the moral of your story.”   © Lewis Bosworth, 2016
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Zoom Clank That sound you hear When trying to cause fear And doubt Within me You threaten And tease Torturous And ****** Tremendously tactless Terror Zoom Clank It goes again What is that sound You're hearing You're fearing It's an omen of what's to come I have always been patient Can you say the same? Your patience is similar To how you love. It's fast, and burns bright A shooting star It felt so right But I realize You've done this all before The only difference is This time you have the ultimate weapon You have my daughter You will not be forgiven You will not be apologized too You are the embodiment of poison But beware My power has risen My future is clear Vast are my choices I am no longer scared Zoom That's a bullet fired by you Clank That's the bullet Striking true You fire your guns But I'm bulletproof
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Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 at 2:28 PM UTC
Bulletproof