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"terse" poems
The gilded opening is terse and with age defined, Locking away the pathway from a golden mind, Hairlike roots of tiny letters form a braid, Ficus-ing along stretching prongs of Purple and Jade, Pushing they gather and spider around its ovate curves, occasioning sprouts from cracks lips perturbed, grammarized rain fertilizing delicate pods of flesh, blossoming frosty lemon blooms of T's R's come to rest, The bunched words hanging, dangling like grapes, of frailty, dipping on fickle branches barely holding on to reality, threatening to fall like daggered swords, But alas are some silently whispered Jamaican words
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM UTC
The Gilded Opening
The doctor sat before me Said "Take your trousers off" She reached inside my boxers "now , turn your head and cough" I thought this little grabfest With her hand upon my kit Was a little south of normal But, I stood and did my bit She asked me a few questions And now me....getting rather terse Said" I went through this already" "out front talking to the nurse" "I'm not sure what you're doing" "And I do not think it's right" "Get your hand out of my trousers" "I'm just here to fix the light!"
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Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016 at 11:55 AM UTC
Doctor's Office
"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM UTC
"A love poem is a kiss, whispered sweetly"
"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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My smartphone got an upgrade, now, between us, things are tense: Siri, knowing she's superior, has abandoned all pretense. I asked Siri to hail a cab when I was in New York She told me I was getting fat, and advised me I should walk. Often Siri drops my calls proclaiming I'm a bore. (True, she's heard me tell that tale a dozen times before.) I wrote a *** text" to my love while walking in the park. Siri sent it to my mother and thought it quite the lark. I bought this phone because her apps are very useful things, Now I live in constant dread each time the **** thing rings. My Smartphone got an upgrade and, between us, things got terse, but we're married by the contract for better or for worse. I should have bought an Android phone- I'm sure we'd get along- My iphone's much too uppity- something's Siriously wrong
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Aug 22, 2012
Aug 22, 2012 at 7:59 AM UTC
My Sirious Problem
The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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Oct 4, 2011
Oct 4, 2011 at 12:10 AM UTC
The Funeral Train
The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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There should be a genre of poetry called waste verse tasteless and terse like the khaki pine needles that litter the space underneath your porch. a neglected place, where the broken blue bottles and dew marry in early morning , attended by a congregation of woodchips, beers cans and guinea pig **** dancing easy with the morning breeze, and carried like the currency of an early dreamer's reverie, morning. morning. morning is gluing a teacup together knowing that it will be broken tomorrow. and day by day, the absence in form will grow until that once teacup becomes nothing but empty space, with its base designated in place of the back porch ash tray. when i turned back one day, there was nothing left of its body nothing left of it that i could see but paint dust, a couple of cuts and some blood covered by a bandaid that doesn't stay on because feet sweat a little too much. morning is repetition for comfort but breaking routine is starting to feel more appealing than keeping it, because I know one morning I will wake alone, with a rusted infrastructure and fractured backbone, and have to look upon a screen with thousand texts that read, "there are other fish in the sea" well, **** you, maybe he was my sea. i mean, he is my sea, maybe. there is a genre of waste verse called poetry, and the simple syllogism of it all leaves me reeling. but after i finish my cigarette over the khaki pine needles beneath your porch and go inside, "good morning", i say. "good morning", he said. i cannot remember what was so important just a few moments ago. morning.
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM UTC
Variations on Waste Verse (Morning)
There should be a genre of poetry called waste verse tasteless and terse like the khaki pine needles that litter the space underneath your porch. a neglected place, where the broken blue bottles and dew marry in early morning , attended by a congregation of woodchips, beers cans and guinea pig **** dancing easy with the morning breeze, and carried like the currency of an early dreamer's reverie, morning. morning. morning is gluing a teacup together knowing that it will be broken tomorrow. and day by day, the absence in form will grow until that once teacup becomes nothing but empty space, with its base designated in place of the back porch ash tray. when i turned back one day, there was nothing left of its body nothing left of it that i could see but paint dust, a couple of cuts and some blood covered by a bandaid that doesn't stay on because feet sweat a little too much. morning is repetition for comfort but breaking routine is starting to feel more appealing than keeping it, because I know one morning I will wake alone, with a rusted infrastructure and fractured backbone, and have to look upon a screen with thousand texts that read, "there are other fish in the sea" well, **** you, maybe he was my sea. i mean, he is my sea, maybe. there is a genre of waste verse called poetry, and the simple syllogism of it all leaves me reeling. but after i finish my cigarette over the khaki pine needles beneath your porch and go inside, "good morning", i say. "good morning", he said. i cannot remember what was so important just a few moments ago. morning.
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woman you are dazzle, powdered stomp of colours, mist dew bright of song, melody of a hum when you speak, clear eyes sparkle on the surface, delicate, serene, today you said softly, budge a little in the path of   an evening sun, it gets into my eyes, you shall be the death of me, should I be left with words and rhyme, these stiff laces of device I call poems, of what use are they, you will not be here, my heart gnaws, twists, caught in perils of desire oh garbage words, you are a beggar's lament be away, let me gaze at her while time benignly spins a top, soon it is bound to topple this alphabet string, pearl scatter of a necklace, be away, verse, futility, to live in a papered world when loveliness shrivels to another lost moment, be away, illusion let me see it as it is her yellow dress, gathering light, her terse shades, her yellow dress   let dreams tarry a little, speckled, hypnotized, sunshine,   her yellow dress shall be the death of me
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May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 11:08 AM UTC
her yellow dress
1285 I know Suspense—it steps so terse And turns so weak away— Besides—Suspense is neighborly When I am riding by— Is always at the Window Though lately I descry And mention to my Horses The need is not of me—
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I know Suspense—it steps so terse
1561 No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay— A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity Pursuing Winds that censure us A February Day, The Brother of the Universe Was never blown away— The Snow and he are intimate— I’ve often seem them play When Heaven looked upon us all With such severity I felt apology were due To an insulted sky Whose pompous frown was Nutriment To their Temerity— The Pillow of this daring Head Is pungent Evergreens— His Larder—terse and Militant— Unknown—refreshing things— His Character—a Tonic— His future—a Dispute— Unfair an Immortality That leaves this Neighbor out—
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No Brigadier throughout the Year
August is a time for remorse. A time for memories, swelling up and distorting one's vision. The ripeness of summer has withered under the harsh July heat, leaving behind a shriveled skeleton of time. August is a time of love. Emotions that have been accumulating through June, subtly burst through the seams, oblivious to the Goodbyes, lurking right beyond the bend. August is a time of forgotten promises, of the misled see you later, so often mumbled from lover's lips. The scent of leaving lingers in the air, creating a bitter aftertaste, mixed with the flavor of devotion. For, forever doesn't mix well with farewell. August is a time of silence. A time where a single word might betray a hidden feeling, that is swelling up beyond the bend of casual conversation. August is a time of noise. Where "I love you" and "see you soon", drown out the static of reality. Where loneliness is judged by the tangible, and everyone is afraid of being left. August is a time of leaving. Minutes become muddled with sentiment, moving like molasses, dripping slowly into the oncoming hour, overflowing with empty formalities. August has no tolerance for long goodbyes; which fester like an open wound in the middle of the day. No, August is parting in silence, with one's final words uttered in the darkness, the moon and stars as the only witnesses. August is a time of closure, not the type seen in movies, full of mundane routines. Accompanied by tears and terse observations, "Your coat appears worn thin, my dear". August is the closure that comes in the middle of the night, when it is least expected. It is neither welcomed, nor is it pushed aside. It comes as easily as sleep, nestling into the deepest corners of one's soul. Sometimes August isn't recognized, until December. After it has faded into the hazy realm, which all past months inhabit. Its only legacy is etched upon our souls, haunting our every thought, in the most lovely way: August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever's, full of the sweetest intent.
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Jul 30, 2011
Jul 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM UTC
August
August is a time for remorse. A time for memories, swelling up and distorting one's vision. The ripeness of summer has withered under the harsh July heat, leaving behind a shriveled skeleton of time. August is a time of love. Emotions that have been accumulating through June, subtly burst through the seams, oblivious to the Goodbyes, lurking right beyond the bend. August is a time of forgotten promises, of the misled see you later, so often mumbled from lover's lips. The scent of leaving lingers in the air, creating a bitter aftertaste, mixed with the flavor of devotion. For, forever doesn't mix well with farewell. August is a time of silence. A time where a single word might betray a hidden feeling, that is swelling up beyond the bend of casual conversation. August is a time of noise. Where "I love you" and "see you soon", drown out the static of reality. Where loneliness is judged by the tangible, and everyone is afraid of being left. August is a time of leaving. Minutes become muddled with sentiment, moving like molasses, dripping slowly into the oncoming hour, overflowing with empty formalities. August has no tolerance for long goodbyes; which fester like an open wound in the middle of the day. No, August is parting in silence, with one's final words uttered in the darkness, the moon and stars as the only witnesses. August is a time of closure, not the type seen in movies, full of mundane routines. Accompanied by tears and terse observations, "Your coat appears worn thin, my dear". August is the closure that comes in the middle of the night, when it is least expected. It is neither welcomed, nor is it pushed aside. It comes as easily as sleep, nestling into the deepest corners of one's soul. Sometimes August isn't recognized, until December. After it has faded into the hazy realm, which all past months inhabit. Its only legacy is etched upon our souls, haunting our every thought, in the most lovely way: August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever's, full of the sweetest intent.
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We write endlessly about the sensuous things in life, it's tit-for-tat, some rat-a-tat-tat, for us that's where it's at. It ain't like chess, gin rummy or even go fish, it's the real hot-deal in penmanship. We're restless souls, dreaming & wishing, confessing & bleeding our ruptured-hearts out in erotic-like steamy-words. Hell no, we ain't terse, we're just darned loose with the sexy-verses.... read them & believe it, kindred spirits!
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Feb 8, 2014
Feb 8, 2014 at 1:39 PM UTC
****** Writers Ain't Terse (We're Just Loose with The Sexy-Verses)
They found her sprawled back there in the alley. Dead.  Asleep in the Lily of the Valley. She was obscene and cold, flat on her back, All for a **** hit of five dollar crack. Beneath the grime and the blood and the gore, The innocence, before she was a ***** Could not be seen for she met her maker, A one hundred percent street-wise faker. Dead blue eyes, peroxide hair, a wild vine, Earrings in her nose, tongue; defiant sign To the world that she is a wild child, Who many years ago learned not to smile. There was one thing which stood out about her, Where everything thing else was an ****** blur. A gold cross on a chain under her throat. It looked out of place, as a sable coat. A gold cross, from her unknown, murky past? A present from someone she held onto fast? A detective, hardened to scenes such as this, He shuddered, covered her with a low hiss. Blue strobe lights lit up the night near the dump, Police milled around the unmoving lump, Keeping the official face was a test, Sheet covered her body, outlined her breast. Each man, woman, working the dreadful scene, Spoke terse, if at all, about the *** queen. Many times they'd been called out in the night To look at and ponder similar sights. How much can one take before giving in To the horror and suppress it with gin? The one, lying still, sculptured by a fiend, Wicked hand carving out her end, not clean. She came to this end living the life she did, But she was much than a ***** on the skids. God, a detective screamed at the slaughter Please don't let this happen to my daughter. ©August 4, 2003 / Jerry Pat Bolton
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Jan 2, 2012
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM UTC
A Female Unknown
They found her sprawled back there in the alley. Dead.  Asleep in the Lily of the Valley. She was obscene and cold, flat on her back, All for a **** hit of five dollar crack. Beneath the grime and the blood and the gore, The innocence, before she was a ***** Could not be seen for she met her maker, A one hundred percent street-wise faker. Dead blue eyes, peroxide hair, a wild vine, Earrings in her nose, tongue; defiant sign To the world that she is a wild child, Who many years ago learned not to smile. There was one thing which stood out about her, Where everything thing else was an ****** blur. A gold cross on a chain under her throat. It looked out of place, as a sable coat. A gold cross, from her unknown, murky past? A present from someone she held onto fast? A detective, hardened to scenes such as this, He shuddered, covered her with a low hiss. Blue strobe lights lit up the night near the dump, Police milled around the unmoving lump, Keeping the official face was a test, Sheet covered her body, outlined her breast. Each man, woman, working the dreadful scene, Spoke terse, if at all, about the *** queen. Many times they'd been called out in the night To look at and ponder similar sights. How much can one take before giving in To the horror and suppress it with gin? The one, lying still, sculptured by a fiend, Wicked hand carving out her end, not clean. She came to this end living the life she did, But she was much than a ***** on the skids. God, a detective screamed at the slaughter Please don't let this happen to my daughter. ©August 4, 2003 / Jerry Pat Bolton
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Be afraid of the bohém, they may write you a silly little poém to make you love 'em. Or even worse, in reverse, with their verse, coerce your mind and soul to converse. And even if their ascent is traverse and the obstacles adverse, routes to them are diverse. They refine their craft to give you a raft, don't be daft, they rehearse for the terse, tiptoeing over the perverse, not wanting to averse. They wanna choke the horses of your hearse. They have no need to beg and plead. Just a wish to slap your *** your steed. They just wanna make fear disperse for it they accurse, knowing well it's a curse. No need to look for your purse. Your courage will theirs reimburse and your smile their swollen fingers nurse. See, the reaper wants the tails of coins thus places them on eyes faced reverse. The bohém kick groins and leave traces but from coins take a print of the obverse. Why? Cause they want not heads, but what's in them. They want your head to stay ahead. Cause when a head is spiked by tails and filled with flashy tales, it is as good as dead. They want to help you stay afloat - forget about the raft, think bigger, think of a boat. Like evergreen crickets they ask you to disburse your fears and reverse your tears. They ask not for a penny, just a thought or two, not many. Like the ***** eyed and slightly sane miss Moneypenny. Some call it a gift, many a curse. A curse the bohém can inverse cause they submerse spirit in a lyrical sea and lower the stars for you to see. Remember and beware, if you reward them with something as simple a stare, you could be blinded by a hearty glare. Now you've been reminded, all's fair and square. So why not just stay there? It's just your spirit they may ensnare like a hare, only to mend it's wounded knee so that it can again hop away and be free. Art is the heart of the bohém and their heart is their art. So if you ever want to, thank them not with money but with a snack, sprinkle a piece of your heart with honey. They'll bite it and give you two back. Eat one too and make like a dove to flee to the place you really want to be. Ride the waves like Nikolai's bumblebee and fulfill your uncharted destiny.
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Dec 7, 2011
Dec 7, 2011 at 4:44 PM UTC
Beware the Bohém
Be afraid of the bohém, they may write you a silly little poém to make you love 'em. Or even worse, in reverse, with their verse, coerce your mind and soul to converse. And even if their ascent is traverse and the obstacles adverse, routes to them are diverse. They refine their craft to give you a raft, don't be daft, they rehearse for the terse, tiptoeing over the perverse, not wanting to averse. They wanna choke the horses of your hearse. They have no need to beg and plead. Just a wish to slap your *** your steed. They just wanna make fear disperse for it they accurse, knowing well it's a curse. No need to look for your purse. Your courage will theirs reimburse and your smile their swollen fingers nurse. See, the reaper wants the tails of coins thus places them on eyes faced reverse. The bohém kick groins and leave traces but from coins take a print of the obverse. Why? Cause they want not heads, but what's in them. They want your head to stay ahead. Cause when a head is spiked by tails and filled with flashy tales, it is as good as dead. They want to help you stay afloat - forget about the raft, think bigger, think of a boat. Like evergreen crickets they ask you to disburse your fears and reverse your tears. They ask not for a penny, just a thought or two, not many. Like the ***** eyed and slightly sane miss Moneypenny. Some call it a gift, many a curse. A curse the bohém can inverse cause they submerse spirit in a lyrical sea and lower the stars for you to see. Remember and beware, if you reward them with something as simple a stare, you could be blinded by a hearty glare. Now you've been reminded, all's fair and square. So why not just stay there? It's just your spirit they may ensnare like a hare, only to mend it's wounded knee so that it can again hop away and be free. Art is the heart of the bohém and their heart is their art. So if you ever want to, thank them not with money but with a snack, sprinkle a piece of your heart with honey. They'll bite it and give you two back. Eat one too and make like a dove to flee to the place you really want to be. Ride the waves like Nikolai's bumblebee and fulfill your uncharted destiny.
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Vaguely Blunt and Bluntly Vague- these are the explanations which i gave- words too deep for sorrow, i utter from which i made- i am vague yet blunt, trying to out live this stunt- Terse, I am called rude, I mean, I am real, Blunt- while I am Vague- to not indicate the offenders, whom we all see and suffer throughout the day- I can not disclose my feelings, uncomfortable with their sins- I tarry quickly to shut the door , before their wickedness begins- It is not a game, it's real , at least to me- excuse me if i am rude or blunt or don't make sense because i am vague=
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM UTC
Vaguely Blunt and Bluntly Vague
How do I love you - in poem or prose In a story, a eulogy, aubade or an ode? I could love you in a sonnet A senryu, though terse I'd spill my heart - drop by drop Or ink it verse after verse I could write a terzannelle A villanelle I could chance Tapping on the refrain of love The feet of romance I could weave metaphors and similes Sweet and sublime Or trip down the keys Playfully alliterate each line How do I love you? I can love you as I do - In simple words that are writ - From a heart that is true
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 9:36 AM UTC
How Do I Love You?
When you write Your next verse, The active voice Is a better choice. The passive voice Isn't as terse, Your readers get lost, They may curse, Or worse, Disperse. Will I... Should I... Could I.. Might I... Start a line that might lie, Start a line that might die. Can I... May I... Would I... Do I... Start a line sounding sly, Start a line that won't fly. Be pro-choice With the active voice. Be the action, Not receiver, We'll be believers, And you'll Be briefer.
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 11:56 AM UTC
Active vs. Passive
I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, but really I’m just a regurgitation of the adolescent caste system with academic anxiety and a learned fear. Well, I suppose that is a bit harsh. I used to be social ***** now I am a lowly intrapersonal custodian (let us never mind my inter-personal mess-managing, please?), though I am far from clean. __________ I have found myself flitting back to this page from time to time and mentally inserting here a terse, self-degrading statement that could re-catalyze my pitiful little verse, but never actually writing it. I hold it heavy in my head where it shall remain, apparently. Apparently I don’t feel the need to read my flaws, transgressions, and fallibilities back to me. Perhaps I haven’t yet articulated them, and they’re just skulking around—hunched apparitions haunting my subconscious. (Death smells like dog treats: perplexing, but you want to touch your tongue to it so long as no one will know). I must slay them all, eventually, or else perish. But! It is not the transgression itself that I fear—my behaviors are observable, even tangible, I can stare at them for hours. It is the dark implication of the transgression—the churning matter only detectable for its outline of illumination—that gives me trepidation. How will I move-on? How will I grow-here? Like an impossible little spur that nestles between resistant skin and unknowing fabric? Can I penetrate the protection? My security is maniacal; it is evidence of crazed disillusion. I am the raven clawing through infinite veneers; I am tangled… Out ****** spot! Out, I say! I must regress to becoming the white blanket. I must know nothing but God. A simple cloth. A towelette. Rags! Rags! Rags! … …. …God? …Hello? …Is it too late to become …plain?
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 10:40 AM UTC
"The Fall of the Watchers"
I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, but really I’m just a regurgitation of the adolescent caste system with academic anxiety and a learned fear. Well, I suppose that is a bit harsh. I used to be social ***** now I am a lowly intrapersonal custodian (let us never mind my inter-personal mess-managing, please?), though I am far from clean. __________ I have found myself flitting back to this page from time to time and mentally inserting here a terse, self-degrading statement that could re-catalyze my pitiful little verse, but never actually writing it. I hold it heavy in my head where it shall remain, apparently. Apparently I don’t feel the need to read my flaws, transgressions, and fallibilities back to me. Perhaps I haven’t yet articulated them, and they’re just skulking around—hunched apparitions haunting my subconscious. (Death smells like dog treats: perplexing, but you want to touch your tongue to it so long as no one will know). I must slay them all, eventually, or else perish. But! It is not the transgression itself that I fear—my behaviors are observable, even tangible, I can stare at them for hours. It is the dark implication of the transgression—the churning matter only detectable for its outline of illumination—that gives me trepidation. How will I move-on? How will I grow-here? Like an impossible little spur that nestles between resistant skin and unknowing fabric? Can I penetrate the protection? My security is maniacal; it is evidence of crazed disillusion. I am the raven clawing through infinite veneers; I am tangled… Out ****** spot! Out, I say! I must regress to becoming the white blanket. I must know nothing but God. A simple cloth. A towelette. Rags! Rags! Rags! … …. …God? …Hello? …Is it too late to become …plain?
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Seeing such said-to-be veracity made spurious by truer voracity left me in a downward maudlin spiral caught in the gravity of pejorative thoughts. (They were right about you) Shown to be mendacious and meretricious with such audacious and ignominious cupidity that is, apparently, insatiable by external stimulation. These words are for thee. (They were right about you) A Mistress of Verisimilitude Sorceress of Perdition Goddess of  Rapacity Nugatory Luddite Fatuous Epigone Specious and unctuous Girl of gratuitous turpitude These puerile and rather flavorful words fueled by seemingly insuperable motifs arranged in a terse, inimical verse for a rather insipid person who will likely never even know of them, and yet; such sweet felicity.
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 2:04 PM UTC
Iterative, Incredulous and Infectious
You seem to know where you're needed to whom this command addressed is a crazy me-man, a street walking big DaVinci ibearded mumbler, the kind you would cross the street before the smell is close enough to sending you running, not just politely walking fast but a souped up hi-yo silver away! this guise no surprise, you must and do already know where I’m needed, sealing the pact with a yellowtine post-it writ in simple block letters ordered in a brewed cafe, my latte arrive states my name as** come see me come to the time the place and the date and prepare oneself for twenty and fours of rigid interoperability as our systems interface reach the pure state of 100% ultimate wordless dialogue communicating in with by perfect silence heaven you will write a verse, my reciprocation is already prepared this terse repartee will many spawn poems generational for your family amazing and extended an elephnat never forgets, his servers are a rolling stone with no direction home, capacity unknown every blade sighted retained, and every sensate glance a phrase seeded departure will find me clean shaven, pressed jeans neat, and shod in well worn dockers, cloaking my innate invisibility when the children ask who was that, you’ll sage reply one new who knew where one was needed
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Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 at 10:18 AM UTC
You seem to know where you're needed.
.. girls talk with God and God talks with girls girls in silk stockings, studded leather and pearls girls between jobs and girls between boys girls all grown up and girls from hanoi girls for all seasons and girls for the spring girls for the winter and girls from beijing girls coming first and girls coming last girls from the future and girls from the past girls on film and girls on waterskis girls on one leg and girls named louise girls who pretend and girls who must fake it girls who steal and girls who just take it girls in magazines and girls in books girls in between and girls' fully cooked girls fast and girls slow girls high and girls low girls in ivory towers and girls on the street girls on their backs and girls on their feet girls who remember and girls who forget girls who have found jesus and girls who haven't yet girls who own and girls who rent girls on full throttle and girls who are spent girls running and girls walking girls biking and girls talking girls who like girls and girls who like men girls who prefer to be left alone and girls without friends girls who write prose and girls who write verse girls who are extremely,exactingly,not to mention incredibly,over the top verbose and girls terse girls on vacation and girls on the job girls who swim laps and girls who....bob girls who like basquiat and girls who like haring girls who like warhol and girls who like sharing girls in wet raincoats and girls in full drag girls playing drums and girls playing tag girls who john cale and girls who lou reed girls who plant bulbs and girls plant seeds girls who don't and girls who do girls that are nice and girls that are true girls from the bottom and girls from the top girls who keep writing and girls who know when to stop
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:52 AM UTC
wine with dinner
.. girls talk with God and God talks with girls girls in silk stockings, studded leather and pearls girls between jobs and girls between boys girls all grown up and girls from hanoi girls for all seasons and girls for the spring girls for the winter and girls from beijing girls coming first and girls coming last girls from the future and girls from the past girls on film and girls on waterskis girls on one leg and girls named louise girls who pretend and girls who must fake it girls who steal and girls who just take it girls in magazines and girls in books girls in between and girls' fully cooked girls fast and girls slow girls high and girls low girls in ivory towers and girls on the street girls on their backs and girls on their feet girls who remember and girls who forget girls who have found jesus and girls who haven't yet girls who own and girls who rent girls on full throttle and girls who are spent girls running and girls walking girls biking and girls talking girls who like girls and girls who like men girls who prefer to be left alone and girls without friends girls who write prose and girls who write verse girls who are extremely,exactingly,not to mention incredibly,over the top verbose and girls terse girls on vacation and girls on the job girls who swim laps and girls who....bob girls who like basquiat and girls who like haring girls who like warhol and girls who like sharing girls in wet raincoats and girls in full drag girls playing drums and girls playing tag girls who john cale and girls who lou reed girls who plant bulbs and girls plant seeds girls who don't and girls who do girls that are nice and girls that are true girls from the bottom and girls from the top girls who keep writing and girls who know when to stop
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A touch of sadness ten years gone Like a midnight's voice of a far away song Caught me unaware when I thought I no longer cared A sudden spark that flew into eternity A dance done then now done in effigy A poetic terse taughtly strung deligently At first dawn fades away
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
Souther Passages
Baffled this was a question you’d have to ask, I sat tremulous.  I’m insular; I’d be enamored with even the most amorphous love, but I’m not inept, and won’t preclude that answering the question is salient.  And although I’m not taciturn, I’m rarely extemporaneous, so please excuse my need for verbose prose in answering said question. You’re attractive.  Your strong jaw, small chin and cheekbones were sculpted to make your own eyes glow and an artist’s eyes expostulate dreaming of anything else. Don’t dismiss this as delirium, but rather relish this recondite fact—my first crush came in the fifth grade.  It was on a diminutive, outspoken girl, and I was enormous and timid, which developed into a village girl vs. Mowgli, me Tarzan you Jane, King-Kong-Ann Darrow complex.  And although I believe with zealous fervor in your strength, your size still incites the young jungle boy inside me.  And I hope I can say, without being terse, I’m afflicted with a mysterious affinity for red-hair.   Although I could dwell in the obvious all day, I’ll redirect from the blasé. Abandon beats within us both like hearts to the same pulse, we don’t coax smiles, we let them slip, we aspire to happiness like falling of a log. I have to pry open time’s lockbox and plunder the night just to relegate the dawn.  Bliss becomes a tangible ****** making even the most existentially exasperated docile.  Knowledge that every other thought is dominated by one another without it attenuating the magic. Knowing that if all I have to say is it’s raining outside, you want to hear it.  Twenty-one years of my life I thought I’d have to hunt love with a knife but you showed me roaming where you like to wander can wake the irreverent gods.  It’s your superlative honesty that’s only for me; that virile smile in your eyes that bid doubt vacate my mind Knowing that if I went catatonic, one reproving look from you would cause my heart to break and force my hands to put the pieces back before I stopped breathing.  If I could, I’d dawn you like a blanket before every dinner, dusk and dream.  And most importantly, we both like crowns.
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Jun 10, 2011
Jun 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM UTC
What is it about me, besides my vocabulary?
Baffled this was a question you’d have to ask, I sat tremulous.  I’m insular; I’d be enamored with even the most amorphous love, but I’m not inept, and won’t preclude that answering the question is salient.  And although I’m not taciturn, I’m rarely extemporaneous, so please excuse my need for verbose prose in answering said question. You’re attractive.  Your strong jaw, small chin and cheekbones were sculpted to make your own eyes glow and an artist’s eyes expostulate dreaming of anything else. Don’t dismiss this as delirium, but rather relish this recondite fact—my first crush came in the fifth grade.  It was on a diminutive, outspoken girl, and I was enormous and timid, which developed into a village girl vs. Mowgli, me Tarzan you Jane, King-Kong-Ann Darrow complex.  And although I believe with zealous fervor in your strength, your size still incites the young jungle boy inside me.  And I hope I can say, without being terse, I’m afflicted with a mysterious affinity for red-hair.   Although I could dwell in the obvious all day, I’ll redirect from the blasé. Abandon beats within us both like hearts to the same pulse, we don’t coax smiles, we let them slip, we aspire to happiness like falling of a log. I have to pry open time’s lockbox and plunder the night just to relegate the dawn.  Bliss becomes a tangible ****** making even the most existentially exasperated docile.  Knowledge that every other thought is dominated by one another without it attenuating the magic. Knowing that if all I have to say is it’s raining outside, you want to hear it.  Twenty-one years of my life I thought I’d have to hunt love with a knife but you showed me roaming where you like to wander can wake the irreverent gods.  It’s your superlative honesty that’s only for me; that virile smile in your eyes that bid doubt vacate my mind Knowing that if I went catatonic, one reproving look from you would cause my heart to break and force my hands to put the pieces back before I stopped breathing.  If I could, I’d dawn you like a blanket before every dinner, dusk and dream.  And most importantly, we both like crowns.
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A Comet passed too near the sun, and was filmed disintegrating.. Perhaps its G.P.S. was off or just recalculating. The solar skimming comet surely melted in the heat. Old King Sol, our yellow dwarf Enjoyed his slurpee treat. Astronomers were quite tight lipped When asked to speak upon it All I got from one stargazer Was a terse” No Comet!”
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Dec 28, 2011
Dec 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM UTC
Comet Icarus
Paint me a picture with the minimum of words. Sing me a song through syllables and verbs. Compose me a serenade with colourful verse. Create me a dream with metaphor - but terse. Somewhere my mind can escape through rhymes where my heart can dance to your rhythmic lines. Paint me an ocean with your deep penned emotion. Add a little sun that will set me in motion. Colour me a sky with shades of natural beauty, so can I bathe in its splendour you've created for me. Place me on a cloud so I can drift through your vision and roam through the worlds that all poets imagine. ©Jon.London 2010 Copyscape Protected
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Jul 30, 2012
Jul 30, 2012 at 8:06 AM UTC
When Poets Dream