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"tenths" poems
ken not the vive la différence! entre les deux, these two bed and head chambers, for all poets are seducers, regardless of *** race, creed or color when first we employ our working, yeoman vocabulary, we plain start, to relate but not to regale, the whom we are, hoping our moments unique, will breach the boundaries of our collective commonality connectivity, and find human receptivity thus, the seduction of self commences though every possible combination of words has somewhere been inscribed and committed, we ****** ourselves (the seduction of poetry) with potions of notions that we are and always be our first, and now soon forever, yours as well of course, we are, it's true, our very own first admirer & lover, having conquered the hillock of self, see the universe expanding and the ****** need to conceive and prowess to please beyond the beyond with the poetry of seduction do not want your body, heart or soul, commitment, allegiance, vows, sacred or profane, all such in vain crave your everything, not even a legal nine-tenths satisfactory dare not call me arrogant or presumptive, gaze upon the mirror that cannot lie, rereading thy words assemblage, and deny to lie to yourself want you, you want me, my adoration, we want to be in a poem together, lovers at the molecular level where words dissected into letters, then again, into guttural sounds where a simple outcry is an elegy, a love poem, a wound, a denouement, a preface, a tear, a welling, a heaving, a sigh, an exhalation, all, an entrance to where the need for words is long since past the sin and crown of seduction completed, unanimously now breathe out and then, breathe in
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Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 3:54 PM UTC
the poetry of seduction, the seduction of poetry
ken not the vive la différence! entre les deux, these two bed and head chambers, for all poets are seducers, regardless of *** race, creed or color when first we employ our working, yeoman vocabulary, we plain start, to relate but not to regale, the whom we are, hoping our moments unique, will breach the boundaries of our collective commonality connectivity, and find human receptivity thus, the seduction of self commences though every possible combination of words has somewhere been inscribed and committed, we ****** ourselves (the seduction of poetry) with potions of notions that we are and always be our first, and now soon forever, yours as well of course, we are, it's true, our very own first admirer & lover, having conquered the hillock of self, see the universe expanding and the ****** need to conceive and prowess to please beyond the beyond with the poetry of seduction do not want your body, heart or soul, commitment, allegiance, vows, sacred or profane, all such in vain crave your everything, not even a legal nine-tenths satisfactory dare not call me arrogant or presumptive, gaze upon the mirror that cannot lie, rereading thy words assemblage, and deny to lie to yourself want you, you want me, my adoration, we want to be in a poem together, lovers at the molecular level where words dissected into letters, then again, into guttural sounds where a simple outcry is an elegy, a love poem, a wound, a denouement, a preface, a tear, a welling, a heaving, a sigh, an exhalation, all, an entrance to where the need for words is long since past the sin and crown of seduction completed, unanimously now breathe out and then, breathe in
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This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind its barrier less than five miles from my house. Lord be with us say the makers of a nation. Lord look down say the builders of a harbour. They came and cut a shape out of ocean and left stone to close around their labour. Officers and their wives promenaded on this spot once and saw with their own eyes the opulent horizon and obedient skies which nine tenths of the law provided. And frigates with thirty-six guns, cruising the outer edges of influence, could idle and enter here and catch the tide of empire and arrogance and the Irish Sea rising and rising through a century of storms and cormorants and moonlight the whole length of this coast, while an ocean forgot an empire and the armed ships under it changed: to slime **** and cold salt and rust. City of shadows and of the gradual capitulations to the last invader this is the final one: signed in water and witnessed in granite and ugly bronze and gun-metal. And by me. I am your citizen: composed of your fictions, your compromise, I am a part of your story and its outcome. And ready to record its contradictions.
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The Harbour
The straw that broke the camel's back Was auctioned off on Ebay And bought by an amnesiac Who liked collecting hay. If possession is nine-tenths of the law All I need to do now Is buy the final straw And then he was sectioned And taken away.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 7:16 AM UTC
Groundhog's Day For A Piece Of Straw
In the book Going Solo, Roald Dahl wrote about a woman Who refused to eat anything with her bare hands Instead, everything had to be handled with utensils Knife in one hand and fork in another She described the satisfaction of fruit cutting The inexplicable joy at cleanly cleaving peel from flesh Skill precise as a surgeon Cutting it up according to Nature's dotted lines I tried it on the same fruit Somehow it just didn't feel right Too refined, too silent Unlike the practised deft peeling with bare fingers Fingernails digging into the fruit, both refusing to compromise Until eventually, the rind gives way and a cut is made And from that same opening, tearing outwards Sounding like strips of velcro are slowly being separated The uneven globe of translucent orange flesh coming naked Its pith shielding you from its full bright glory Pulling it apart by halves, and then quarters, and then tenths Each crescent shaped carpel in its mouth sized perfection Sacs accidentally bursting, fingers sticky with juice That is how an orange ought to be peeled.
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 10:24 PM UTC
How Do You Peel An Orange?
i used to think - how disloyal, and slovenly, and unjust of you. the great king loved you! but i understand, now, what it's like, to belong so totally with someone - your arthur and my sweetheart - and to want someone so much that it makes your whole body hurt - your lancelot and my agony. nine tenths of my heart is yours, but the other part is his through and through, and it's going to be this way, always. i may love you all i like but i cannot escape him.
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 7:19 PM UTC
for my part, i sympathize with guinevere
I. there is a sort of ephemeral longing you can only find in the heartbreaks of grown-up girls (old tracks, cleaned room, messy hair, simplicity) thinking back on the glowing days of adolescence when bad flicks brought you places IV. back then, the anticipation of being older was almost tangible enough to cut in halves, fourths and one-tenths now the mere thought turns you off; lemon cakes taste as bitter as the sugar poured in your third afternoon coffee V-III. your love of chocolate was left at the beach along with pink heart-shaped sunglasses (i rented that semicentennial-old russian novel to convince myself that dreams aren't real and until the skin breaks, your past stays intact at least that's what H.H. taught me) VI. looking back, your childhood was not as bad as you make it out to be, truth be told fascinated by your infatuation with the place where you always belonged; II. today the world is cold, punctuated by the sore troubles of reality that friends, majors and late-night talks both compose and mend and heaven knows how much you have to say.
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Aug 8, 2013
Aug 8, 2013 at 2:12 AM UTC
vintage sugarhigh
You're gone. It's my fault. I'm deadened. la lumiere it's gone I'm bereft. the choice to fan the ember to blazing flame was there I ran I'm empty. match-perfect, close to narcissism I can pretend we were torn apart by Fate it is I who did the tearing we're deleted. I'm a coward oh, mon chéri seul please find in your heart to forgive me. You're perfect but poison I'm nine-tenths to numb Don't forget me.
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC
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yeah, the serious ones have babies, and finalise being single by becoming hubby or hub hub hub hubby dub da'h satisfied cupcakes (bake 'em while they're monkey do dah dough)... and the ones never originating for a replica had their poems treated by a pop orchestra as unplayable, because of the profit margins... and the necessity of power being kept for a country a fraction of the tenths' of monaco, because, after all... not everyone nerved to tie a bow-tie for the occasion.
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Feb 6, 2016
Feb 6, 2016 at 7:19 PM UTC
ah loo ah loo ah loo
There is light climbing up on the horizon where the day puts another disguise on and I have the kettle on. The bells haven't started to ring yet but a debt I must pay is on the way, Sunday and the faithful are beaming. The older I become the more salt I throw over my shoulder, protection is nine tenths of my religion. It's a join the queue and take a pew the sermon begins about ten and then we'll be healed for next week when we're sealed back into the city again. An accordion player smokes a long cigarette sat on the seat where he's slept with his feet on the ground I've seen him before in East Ham, a short rather fat man who carries his tunes rather well and sells people a song for the price of a tea, he doesn't see me. A refugee? an immigrant? back bent with the weight of his cross. I toss another egg in the pan and wonder who's loss and what kind of man can stand and ignore what shouts in your face outside the door. No one goes somewhere to get nowhere. We travel on with the scarecrow, the one that puts straw in our ears.
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Aug 14, 2016
Aug 14, 2016 at 2:17 AM UTC
Pigeon holes
Poem a day, day 2 It's all fun and games Until someone loses a heart. Take it from me. Well, he did. Great fun, good times Next thing you know... You turn around and Someone's stolen your heart. I only took my eyes Off of it for a minute And it was gone. Possession is 9 tenths of the law. The law of attraction. I liked him, I love him. **** didn't see that coming. Or maybe I did. I couldn't have stopped it if I had. Pickpocket skill level 100 Item: 1 heart.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM UTC
Stolen
O' brother     Today is the anniversary     of the day you were born     But Fear not     for I have a Present     It is a cake obviously     Never doubt me     never     Either way     cake     For you should feed your Gluttony     And though I ate nine-tenths of the cake     you still ate     O how kind I am     How much more Retribution     truth     But I am higher of that     Regarded as Saint     that is what kindness I have     O' brother     I write to you today     for my anniversary of the day     I died came     I have seen a ******     I have seen a robbery     I have seen the cruelty of humanity     But all I am and is a bystander     who keeps His Head down     With mediocrity     and hypocrisy     Ego dominant     while the Id is miniscule     Either way     It seems that     I can't show my kindness no more     O' mineself     I have a confession     I may see the trash     out of all the trash     and though the foggy mirror     blurs it     I Still See     Mineself     For even though     I have saved a kittens life     I have saved a boys life     I have saved a girls life     I have saved an adults life     I have saved my ego     I have saved my Id     How more trash could I be     I can't say sorry     no     I can only say that I am no more     a saint     a bystander     just the trashiest     of all trash
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Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 at 12:53 PM UTC
The Trashiest of All Trash
O' brother     Today is the anniversary     of the day you were born     But Fear not     for I have a Present     It is a cake obviously     Never doubt me     never     Either way     cake     For you should feed your Gluttony     And though I ate nine-tenths of the cake     you still ate     O how kind I am     How much more Retribution     truth     But I am higher of that     Regarded as Saint     that is what kindness I have     O' brother     I write to you today     for my anniversary of the day     I died came     I have seen a ******     I have seen a robbery     I have seen the cruelty of humanity     But all I am and is a bystander     who keeps His Head down     With mediocrity     and hypocrisy     Ego dominant     while the Id is miniscule     Either way     It seems that     I can't show my kindness no more     O' mineself     I have a confession     I may see the trash     out of all the trash     and though the foggy mirror     blurs it     I Still See     Mineself     For even though     I have saved a kittens life     I have saved a boys life     I have saved a girls life     I have saved an adults life     I have saved my ego     I have saved my Id     How more trash could I be     I can't say sorry     no     I can only say that I am no more     a saint     a bystander     just the trashiest     of all trash
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Hello, My Beautiful Black Hole It's been a bittersweet minute since we last engaged The circularity's had me freezing out the frame Systematic collapses happen whenever I check mark my passion I'm grasping at static captions lagging from an attic packed with distractions I've been trying to refrain from seeping down the drain but for some reason that **** just keeps calling my name Face to face with the drips I wonder how my cysts will taste If possession is nine tenths of the law I'll take you legally bound to my tongue I'm a repulsive cultist proposing voltage engrossed by the most revolting poet
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Aug 24, 2017
Aug 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM UTC
My Repulse
The tenths of milligrams of saturated fat, The letters of words of a cereal box, The colors of the eyes of my big, fat cat, The sound of the door when she knocks, knocks, knocks. The shape of the curve of that one perfect wave, The rising of the smoke of our back yard fire, The itch of my brain from that all-essential crave, The pain of a word heard passing by her. The fear of a hand that’s always swinging, The red of my heart when I just can’t take it, The grasping of the smoke that’s never staying, The blue of my eyes when you just keep faking it.
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Apr 30, 2013
Apr 30, 2013 at 10:42 PM UTC
Details, Details, Details
Today I eschew all matters political and examine a subject I consider quite critical. The greatest invention in man’s history is, IMHO, the apostrophe. You must admit it’s quite impressive even if sometimes it’s a tad possessive. Suppose, if you will, you need to drop one small letter (because somehow shorter is always better) ’tis the thing that shows any gal or feller That you’re not just a miserable, terrible speller. So go on, drop your letters with wild abandon and know the apostrophe will be there to stand in. Just one other thing before I call it quits– concerning the fuss about its and it’s. It’s an issue for some that is really quite raw Because they think that possession’s nine tenths of the law. But I tell you now without any deceptions In life there will always be some small exceptions. “It” owns an apostrophe, I hear some of you cry, But its apostrophe’s useless unless it loses an I.
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Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017 at 1:10 PM UTC
Concerning Apostrophes
i thought you were with me so tender so human so fresh absolutely into me. easily you say you think you love me(you think!) “let’s go for a walk, baby,” you console me then you blow me a kiss through the fibers of your eyes. you blew it, for god’s sake! and you slip into yourself ever deeper. bit by bit you’ve been fading away so tender so human so fresh just slipping away. possession is nine tenths of the law just doesn’t apply just can’t apply to things that can’t be owned. you’re one step ahead while i’m out of step(with myself with you with all) “memories don’t come cheap,” i realize and you’re too absent to relate. so tender so human so fresh(to me) so cold so phony(to others) you’re so you(to you). persistently we go on with our walks. there’s days we go to the park and feel the flowers and there’s days we don’t go to the park at all. i’m so ready to grab life by its throat and rip it open and let all this fakeness spill out until its last drop.
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May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012 at 4:24 PM UTC
i thought you were with me
I need a guy that swoons when I play the piano. He needs to love the way my long fingers reach for octaves, ninths and tenths. He must grin when I nail my tricky sixteenth note runs and he must support me when I perform ill-preparedly.
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 10:37 PM UTC
When I Play Piano
When pop was a boy Iz pride and joy Was just to have wheels wiv a mota Tricked up didn’t play, not in their hood Even though you could End result wouldn’t lift the skin - off a rice pud Real quick in that day Only came by the way Of serious a serious wedge of pay Aston, Ferrari, you could take to the bank Hemi, Stang and Vette for the yanks For most just wall posters and wanks These days it different, back from the dead Universal balance has got out of bed And delivered justice for the poor petrolhead You can strut your stuff, in your supa caa But the kid in a Rex or an EVO jam jar Gonna embarrass you, you fucken rockstar We quikka N you - its no pop quiz These days turbos and nitrous is the biz Nuffink about the money just how big your ***** is Want to put up your half million Mclaren Thats just a few tenths quicka, than a subbie wagon Equipped wiv a teenage ****** called Darren? We quikka N you - even with your cash One real aspect in life, where design and dash Triumphed over money and flash We quikka N you And don’t you forget it Now get out of my way
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 1:34 AM UTC
We quikka N you
Though the distance between the star and the earth be a thousand light years I would gladly walk on rough pebbles till I get to the stars feet. If heaven were a physical city in some distant land, I would hold your hands and surmount the mountains between. If depression were an island in the Pacific, I would hang you on my shoulder and swim across. If fun were a drop of water, I would rain on you showers of memorable moments. I will take you to the moon and dance with you on those barren rocks. We'll visit Mars and stand on Olympus Mons At night we'll watch the stars Pitching our tenths in space we would never grow old. I would rather hold your hands, than steal your heart. I just want you to be fine, Even if you aren't mine.
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Apr 7, 2018
Apr 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM UTC
Innocent love
Reflections are tricky things Man didn't create them Only trapped them Hung them on a wall for his own vain glory The glassy stillness of a lake Was first To echo reality above it Distorted It ripples like a gateway At the kiss of a stone It calls, it beckons l have mystery lurking What will happen if you Little you Dared to pass through With no intention of return? One might find oneself upside down Standing in the sky And brushing their feet against the stars Or there might be monsters Real ones Which we can touch and feel and fight And see while fighting The seeds of monstrous things Separate themselves from us In the last few seconds of life And we see them laid out Even knowing this The water calls To the nine tenths of us it possesses Enticing us With the idea of a world Identical to ours I think Have you ever stopped Looked Counted the branches? It would be impossible So we assume And as the water accepts you Feet Waist Hands Shoulders Hair, drifting like seaweed in the tide It whispers to you Just a little deeper now So you go on On Until you discover, or drown Or Until you are pulled upwards Arms grasping you around the chest As your lungs burn with the ache of tipped scales, the balance within you lost And you hear the voice whisper Breath warming your ear Not like this My friend Not like this
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 11:04 PM UTC
Backlog 1
I am several more times more than then and ten tenths more than most men you'll meet but I can't meet you in the day because you'll take my breath away and leave me wondering if I am,ten tenths more than any other man, why can't I look you in the eye and say I love you more and more than any other day that I've walked through and again I wonder do you understand how fallen,shallow is the man who stands before unable to raise his hand to knock at your door. did you dream of me and if you did why was it that I could not see that what you saw once more I try to knock upon your door and if I am the cancer would you answer yes or no? Toe to toe and cheek to cheek if you would seek the truth of me open up your eyes,deep brown and see me. In my humility I am that familiarity that you would yearn, turn away look into the brightness of another day and tell me,say go away. you're not welcome here I fear you do not trust your tongue or words of yours that would run unchecked and free look at me tell and feel just what you see just be.
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Jun 30, 2013
Jun 30, 2013 at 3:01 PM UTC
Questions on the answer page
"Sonnets From a Conversation With a Friend XII " Possession is nine-tenths of the fall to Captivity of spirit. Many times You've said those words to these selective ears And i've heard nothing but your voice. Now, through Some grating shift of cells, cause unknown, a Newly perceived response enlightens some Hitherto unlit portion of the dim Pre-conscious realm. Which from here on casts a Shadow interwoven with the many Other shadows in the vast and blood warm Ocean called the mind. And i see the harm You speak of threatening, purely, clearly. To hold is to close and occupy a sheaving Of brain, which does empty its use for living.
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Nov 27, 2017
Nov 27, 2017 at 12:06 AM UTC
Sonnets From a Conversation With a Friend XII
nothing hurts more than what you havent got possession is nine tenths of the law but its the other part that you can never have whole in your hand or your heart that will sear as it tears you apart
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Nov 28, 2013
Nov 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM UTC
seer (see her)