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"theoretical" poems
i’ll say it again. this is the only time i write with music. listen now and i’ll spin the wheel again, an ocean is no excuse for a tipped balance. trace origins back to சாதம், வீடு, பறவை. tip-toe to reach the top half of the stove, where the stories and the music are, but hand on head, not quite there yet. in the meantime, i hope my hands become as fire-glazed as yours one day. listen now and i’ll tell you how to live a life in compromises. here, come help me with my சாறி, no, i don’t have flowers for your hair, because there are are two different languages in this house. inhale savory vowels and lives rolled into the sun, exhale தயிர் without salt, a theoretical childhood, heart with half  the guilt. listen now for something i told my அம்மா: travel eight thousand miles by foot and open one eye, make a phone call and taste dew- glittering நெய் தோசை. listen now for a final time. when there are not enough unfurled petals of this world, look up and find the பௌர்ணமி in a hidden corner of your heart. blink once to skip time zones, twice to remember the promise of a thousand locusts and monsoon rain.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 1:28 PM UTC
cultural vase
*Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."*                     - Matthew the Apostle I Seventy-seven bottles of gin lie in the guts of sensuous men; seventy-seven I forgive you's dissolve in a fanatical mind's resolve. II What offence occurred under Saint Constantine's priggish eye? Was it specious as a Samian's thigh? Or Sumerians receiving alien diplomats? Maybe somewhere far under Moscow Putin's massing cloning vats... III Whatever discursive and belligerent milieu church authority finds most tried and true seems to be the most important decider in the future of things like the Large Hadron Collider. Perhaps, unfoundedly, they find it funny that Higgs (though it seems much like calling the Liberal Party "Whigs") is a name shared by a man and a theoretical particle (though it be libelous in any journalist's article), and thus label similar advancements as "blasphemous". I guess that this is what it is: believing just because. IV Who can know blasphemy from piousness? Maybe all Luther did was obfuscate a prior mess. V Seventy-seven palm-branch-adorned, donkey-riding kings: an automatic-ring-making-machine beleaguering proselyte rings.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 1:40 AM UTC
Palm Sunday Penance
Extravagantly exorbitant mentality panacea Pretentious eidetic’s ubiquity mnemonics Extraversion embezzlement extortion mens rea Endergonic laconic cacophony phonics Preterite rendition enclitic equilibrist motion Mystic symbiosis dharma spiritual sky Brusque macabre abjections the gist of the potion Straight up forever ontology on high Obdurately abstruse vituperatively vociferous Juxtaposition apparition myriad avarice Orotund sonorous diction obliquitous Multifariously versatile nefarious nemesis Mirador bartizan phantasmagoria aesthetics Guidon gyration excursion integration Sorcerous alchemizing interstitial endemics   Chaos charisma objectified tribulation Conjurous apothegms clitoral apomixis Exude emote surrogate extrapolation Astral projection littoral hypotaxis Kinetic supremacy homogeneity gravitation Coercible coalescent cohesion dexterities Adjunct conjunction conjecture acuity Platonic pragmatic prosaic austerities Extemporaneous impromptu innuendo fortuity Propinquity habitation harbinger spectra Perplexing paradox tenacity rostra Intensely cogitational abstract mantra Penumbral exigency , umbrage per contra Theoretical incursion grandiloquent ne plus ultra Exogamy of homoplasy sic itur ad astra Quiescent serendipity surreal anestra
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 6:16 AM UTC
Asylum
The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk with a middle-aged bitterness of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him— The man whose love confused you, whose clumsy attempts of fatherhood kept the heart of a young girl perpetually guarded by a cautious skepticism— The man who brought you into a world he found absurd as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with the two of them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bear into this bittersweet game of ******** we play that we’ve since called ‘life,’ that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to navigate the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM UTC
"Adulthood" (revised)
The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk with a middle-aged bitterness of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him— The man whose love confused you, whose clumsy attempts of fatherhood kept the heart of a young girl perpetually guarded by a cautious skepticism— The man who brought you into a world he found absurd as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with the two of them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bear into this bittersweet game of ******** we play that we’ve since called ‘life,’ that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to navigate the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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An abstract of an academic paper written by a doctoral student: "In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability."--an abstract of a paper by doctoral student Whitney Stark Atomic particles, how can it be so that your purpose is not just to flow in and out of existence, building reality-- the stars, cosmic gas and galaxies-- but to “ally” with groups of humans fighting “hierarchies” and demanding “safe spaces” (even though their entire race is at the top of their planet’s food chain). In this mysterious universe there is no safety, accountability or identity, only elements, and energy. Brief combinations make life legible for a nanosecond in cosmic time, and doomed to strife. Biology does not know oppression, only generation, reproduction, until our growth chokes us and we fall like so many of our ancestors, who lived and died on this blue-green ball. And one day the sun will explode and blow even our atoms, which have endured (despite oppression), and the particles will go far until maybe they sow new life, in bodies unfamiliar, on planets unknown.
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Jun 11, 2017
Jun 11, 2017 at 9:31 AM UTC
The Universe v. Ideology
An abstract of an academic paper written by a doctoral student: "In this semimanifesto, I approach how understandings of quantum physics and cyborgian bodies can (or always already do) ally with feminist anti-oppression practices long in use. The idea of the body (whether biological, social, or of work) is not stagnant, and new materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics. Combining intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability."--an abstract of a paper by doctoral student Whitney Stark Atomic particles, how can it be so that your purpose is not just to flow in and out of existence, building reality-- the stars, cosmic gas and galaxies-- but to “ally” with groups of humans fighting “hierarchies” and demanding “safe spaces” (even though their entire race is at the top of their planet’s food chain). In this mysterious universe there is no safety, accountability or identity, only elements, and energy. Brief combinations make life legible for a nanosecond in cosmic time, and doomed to strife. Biology does not know oppression, only generation, reproduction, until our growth chokes us and we fall like so many of our ancestors, who lived and died on this blue-green ball. And one day the sun will explode and blow even our atoms, which have endured (despite oppression), and the particles will go far until maybe they sow new life, in bodies unfamiliar, on planets unknown.
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Okay, so there might be a possibility I have maybe slightly convinced myself that I may theoretically have developed the beginnings of the tiniest dollop of a smidgen of an enormous crush on you. So please don't break me. REPOST IF THIS IS YOU RIGHT NOW please comment I love to read thoughts on my work!
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
A theoretical tiny dollop of a smidgen of a crush
The sun tipping over the horizon Lifts my lids each revolution of this Shady green sphere... And for a few brief seconds The fingers of sleep Drag me back. Warm pressure on my eyes, Pooling, (re)opening them to the last Paradise; The only oasis where your eyes are not closed And your bones are not dust somewhere Mingling with the soil in Pittsburgh. Just the same, I know you're the product now Of some hypnagogic state; Of the last traces of theoretical DMT swirling in my brain As is leaves Morpheus behind in the shadows. You're just the most beautiful hallucination The truth in the chaos of dreams Cluing me into what I've been denying For 13 years. Impossible that I've preserved you better Than any mortician could have In the recesses of my mind You are a perfect replica An unholy copy of the original All creamy skin And ocean eyes, Full-lipped smile tipping somewhere between Arrogance and joy. "I'm gone," you say. "I'm dead." Repeating what I already know "I'm dead, I'm not coming back." On repeat like the worst kind of ear worm; A carousel of sound that dips and weaves through every filament of Unconsciousness. Denial; like reaching out my hands I shove against the reality, against the unreality Against the prison sleep has woven And crash forth Damp and gasping Like breaking the surface once more Teetering over the horizon with the sun Into the waking hell of another day. The carousel makes another revolution. See you on the other side tonight.
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Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM UTC
The Last Paradise.
I had a strange dream last night. Everything was black and white. My inner self transformed into another version of me and had taken me by the hand to a place I'd never seen. I followed her like moth to a flame. Hoping to gain some insight, some advice on my life. But expectations are not a fair game. It was there under the grey moon that she asked me in the most convincing unsure way... Turning to me she said... "Maybe you've already had your happiness, whats left to gain? Why are we always searching for something you're just not meant to have in this theoretical story?" I looked up at the moon that looked as if it just turned twelve shades darker. "If you believe that, if that were true then how do I explain this to my heart? That true loves just a game? A gimmic, a fate of magic we weren't meant to gain? Tell me, I'll listen to anything you have to say." I said softly. But her gaze brought no answers. They didn't reveal anything at all. So I asked her again! "Why tell me this?" "Was this your plan all along?" "To bring me here, to make me second guess, all that I have been through both present and future?" "I can't believe true love is not out there, waiting for me, and that I'll never find it." Or that it'll never find me." It was like she knew more than she put on as she flashed a smile. It warmed me with reassurance, but it was her eyes that said much more... Never give up on love even when Your faced with your own self doubt.
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May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 3:19 AM UTC
Sweet misery, will you sing for me?
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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Aug 5, 2013
Aug 5, 2013 at 11:21 PM UTC
a glimpse of my mind
if words are food for the mind, then here is a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then here is why i'm so pained. abandoned, abhorrent abnormal, absent abstract, abuse addicted, anxious betray, bitterly blank, blasphemy bloodless, breakdown breathless, brutal captive, casually catastrophe, cautiously change, cigarettes crucial, clueless damaged, dangerous deadly, disastrous disheartened, disconcerting dramatic, dreading eager, eccentric ecstasy, eerie effete, effortless embittered, excess faded, failure faintly, fallacy faltering, fatally fearfully, finally garbage, gawky gibberish, gloomy gone, goodbye graphic, gratify hallucinate, harshly hazy, heartless hectic, helpless hesitant, hit-and-miss idiotic, idly ignorant, intimacy illogical, imaginative infatuated, intoxicated jealousy, jittery journey, journal joylessly, judicial junk, juvenile keen, killing knavish, knocking knockout, knotty knowingly, knowledge laborious, lacking lame, languishing lifeless, literature lovelorn, lugubrious madness, maintenance make-believe, malaise mean, melancholic mellow, melodramatic naff, naivety nameless, naturally nauseous, nebulous neglected, nervous oasis, objectionable obliged, obliterate oblivion, obscurity obsolete, one-and-only pacifist, pained pale, panicky paradise, paralyze passionately, passively raging, ranting rationalize, raving realistic, reasonable rebellious, reckless saboteur, sadness sake, sameness sanity, satisfactory scar, steady taint, tangled tasteless, tearful telling, temperamental terror, theoretical unaffected, uncanny uncommon, unconsciously undesirable, uneasy unfortunate, untidy vaguely, vanish vanity, vanquish versatile, vicious violence, voracious waiting, waking walkout, wanting wasteful, weary withering, wrecking if words are food for the mind, then you've seen a glimpse of mine if words are drugs for the brain, then no wonder i'm so pained. -djs
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The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy the poet places his Sunday porcelain coffee mug   upon his bare chest, purposed to heat the heart to a higher degree, equal to hers, next door, three feet away, in their communal bed two identical alarm clocks, one on each nightstand, confirms the degree differential, for far beyond time-telling, it informs on me, providing the room temperature, and her side of the bed, 5 degrees warmer the collegial scientists posit theoretical excuses, the rooms wind currents, proximity to the A/C, body mass, all refuted after visual and mechanical inspection, all indelible proofs of the Equivalency Fallacy despite the visual evidence abounding all around, despite the surrounding starlike quantity of busted, love songs, poems and the other artistic churn, depicting the principle, one requires love physics to validate the living principle for the living, that love is rarely identical in quantitative quality, typology, representation and manifestations measurable each greets the other with morning declarations of mutuality, trying to find those hundred different ways to love her/him today, employing imaginative artifice to proof the impossibility, that in every aspect your living love ability is precious capital precision equal and ha! each love is the greater... you knew this? then you knew, his coffee spills (intentionally?) and the Fighting Fallacy rules, every thing is fair in love and war, for they too, are identical and equal, in so many ways, but never quantifiable exactly 8:33am, 73 degrees, on my side 11/12/17
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 8:45 AM UTC
The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy
The Physics of Love: The Equivalency Fallacy the poet places his Sunday porcelain coffee mug   upon his bare chest, purposed to heat the heart to a higher degree, equal to hers, next door, three feet away, in their communal bed two identical alarm clocks, one on each nightstand, confirms the degree differential, for far beyond time-telling, it informs on me, providing the room temperature, and her side of the bed, 5 degrees warmer the collegial scientists posit theoretical excuses, the rooms wind currents, proximity to the A/C, body mass, all refuted after visual and mechanical inspection, all indelible proofs of the Equivalency Fallacy despite the visual evidence abounding all around, despite the surrounding starlike quantity of busted, love songs, poems and the other artistic churn, depicting the principle, one requires love physics to validate the living principle for the living, that love is rarely identical in quantitative quality, typology, representation and manifestations measurable each greets the other with morning declarations of mutuality, trying to find those hundred different ways to love her/him today, employing imaginative artifice to proof the impossibility, that in every aspect your living love ability is precious capital precision equal and ha! each love is the greater... you knew this? then you knew, his coffee spills (intentionally?) and the Fighting Fallacy rules, every thing is fair in love and war, for they too, are identical and equal, in so many ways, but never quantifiable exactly 8:33am, 73 degrees, on my side 11/12/17
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A skeptical, theoretical physicist, Composed poetry frenzidly all night, Got enlightened, went beyond limits, Made peace with the equation ultimate!
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 9:43 PM UTC
BEYOND THE KEN OF PHYSICS
I must be floating somewhere in the fourth dimension. I feel like I’m a formula in quantum mechanics: Complex and misunderstood… But if you know my concept well enough I can be broken down into numbers and logarithms That even a layman could understand With a basic knowledge of math and science Before he drops out of the university, Because who has the patience To simplify me? You're the scientist and mathematician Who disregarded imaginary numbers Due to theoretical imperfections Even if it was your thesis.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 5:21 PM UTC
quantum theory
The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence, You are seen in the Cosmic Reality herself, You are the female part of Christ, called Wisdom and Intelligence, Your Cosmic Math's is a beautiful thing to behold, That a unlearned person like me who loves sports like me who is too unlearned in the world's eyes to understand the beauty of the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, So only the real genius mind's understand your true beauty in the Cosmic Reality herself, But I was good enough at math's at college to get a 98% in a test score and student tutored a girl in class called Bev. But Wisdom and Intelligence; you really enlightened great minds like Newton, Einstein and Hawking's? So Wisdom and Intelligence hear my simple math's plea, I am alone and the math's of Wisdom and Intelligence say's its not right for man to be alone? So make the one alone into two and then the two become one again? So my math's is simple and unlearned by Wisdom and Intelligence's mathematical eyes; but its the most beautiful sum in the Cosmic Reality herself? So Wisdom and Intelligence says I've done the math's? I've marked your sum; I have graded your test paper A+ and gifted you a younger sister bride to be the sum of sums for all eternality, This younger sister bride will never divide her love for you, Because one divide into two should stay two, but by theoretical mathematician's the two become the perfect nought number of one raised to nought or zero power nought or zero is one for all eternality, You shall always be one in body, heart, mind and soul, You will always have Wisdom and Intelligence tutoring you about the beauty in the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, But never forget to look up at the star's, nebula's and galaxies together and the two who are one see the Math's of love in each other's eyes and the math's of love in the Cosmic Reality herself.
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Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021 at 11:14 AM UTC
The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence
The Beauty Of Wisdom And Intelligence, You are seen in the Cosmic Reality herself, You are the female part of Christ, called Wisdom and Intelligence, Your Cosmic Math's is a beautiful thing to behold, That a unlearned person like me who loves sports like me who is too unlearned in the world's eyes to understand the beauty of the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, So only the real genius mind's understand your true beauty in the Cosmic Reality herself, But I was good enough at math's at college to get a 98% in a test score and student tutored a girl in class called Bev. But Wisdom and Intelligence; you really enlightened great minds like Newton, Einstein and Hawking's? So Wisdom and Intelligence hear my simple math's plea, I am alone and the math's of Wisdom and Intelligence say's its not right for man to be alone? So make the one alone into two and then the two become one again? So my math's is simple and unlearned by Wisdom and Intelligence's mathematical eyes; but its the most beautiful sum in the Cosmic Reality herself? So Wisdom and Intelligence says I've done the math's? I've marked your sum; I have graded your test paper A+ and gifted you a younger sister bride to be the sum of sums for all eternality, This younger sister bride will never divide her love for you, Because one divide into two should stay two, but by theoretical mathematician's the two become the perfect nought number of one raised to nought or zero power nought or zero is one for all eternality, You shall always be one in body, heart, mind and soul, You will always have Wisdom and Intelligence tutoring you about the beauty in the Math's of the Cosmic Reality herself, But never forget to look up at the star's, nebula's and galaxies together and the two who are one see the Math's of love in each other's eyes and the math's of love in the Cosmic Reality herself.
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The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him. The man who brought you into the world as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (even though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bring into this ******** little game that goes by the name of “life,” that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to be navigating the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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Aug 17, 2013
Aug 17, 2013 at 6:21 PM UTC
"Welcome to Adulthood"
The whole concept of adulthood is one that seems to trespass from the ever-anticipated world of the theoretical, just to barge into your life one night like an uninvited drunken friend. It will never really “hit you,” but it’ll come **** close the first time your aunt offers you a glass of wine as she and your mother gossip frankly about your father’s mistress— you sip on cheap Chardonnay and pretend to be used to the taste, as they talk of the man you were raised to believe was too virtuous to be in debt for some glitzy engagement ring that he bought to restart his life with a woman he left your mother for shortly after the pandemonium of a guiltless affair. The man whose brutishness you were told to overlook, cradling the sparse memories of when he’d tuck you too tightly into bed, or when he’d tell you that he loved you even though half the time you really didn’t believe him. The man who brought you into the world as carelessly as he raised you to face it, torn apart like every illusion that makes a child, the ashes of which that slip through your fingers inevitably declare you another bitter adult. More wine will reveal that your beloved father is a controlling ****** and his relationship with that ***** the whole family hates only appears to be functioning because she lets him have all the control he couldn’t exert on your mother, even though you’ve had dinner with them a couple of times and if you had met her under any other circumstance (even though you’d feel like a traitor if you said it aloud) you wouldn’t think she was all that bad. In red, declarative letters I want to write to any children I may ever bring into this ******** little game that goes by the name of “life,” that when they first gaze with awe at the unattainable grace with which every grown-up seems to be navigating the world they created, with all the pain of tax-paying and womanhood, I want to scream that we don’t know what the hell we’re doing either and if at any point I try to convince you otherwise you should tell your mother that she’s full of ****
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can you stop prodding at my heart disturbing it like a rock garden or pooled sand my insides are not so zen can be disturbed like cold waves and every time I still them arrange my mental hair and tuck in my theoretical shirt you just come down the aisle and unfold it all again.
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Nov 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010 at 3:48 PM UTC
Consumer
We slump on the couch when we return like lifetimes have passed before us. We have to, even though it was only a seven minute walk to the dining hall, because 1) the food was just “weird consistency” (which we tend to say regardless), 2) the light in there yawned indifferently to us (when does it not?), and 3) the reassuring clink of our forks on our plates wasn’t even there this time it was hiding underneath slop and smothered on top by the intruding sound waves (who asked?) of our next-table neighbors’ lives. You made a sly remark about seconds to catch a glimpse of youthful **** She’d gone to get some more baby carrots and cucumber slices to put in her salad maybe (who knows? who cares?) Either way, her youthful **** would make the food taste like something to you. And you described them to us when you sat down again so the slop would taste like something to us (there’s pride in that type of generosity, don’t forget) and (congratulations) we had the faint impression of some sort of ****** there, but we didn’t tell you (it’s easier that way). A cup, a squeeze, a kiss on her ******* yes that could feed our hunger for a night. And tonight was a night like any, so her ******* led us to talk of women, and women led us to talk of love (and the blooming one for the poor ******* as we who lost withstood the vicarious twinge of an addling ****** very different from the first. This one led us to pine for sweets, but the ones we found were dry, so we left the table, left the dining hall, looking around at the others: the lonely, the couples, the blessed lonely couples, and the fortunate friends huddled against everything with open laughter, enjoying the weird consistency like drunk theoretical physicists before they discovered bubbles and inflated eternally meaning when they safeguarded a zoo with a pistol they didn’t know how to use, in Soviet Russia. (So you see?) We have to slump on the couch when we return like lifetimes have passed before us. No one even bothers to pick up a guitar, we leave all four of them strewn on the floor like dead wooden boxes because Dylan or Young or Cash (or whoever) is already in the living room. Any bubbling, inflating, theoretical physicist (any drunk, pistol-packing zookeeper, for that matter) will tell you that. So we slump, comfortably uncomfortable, (at least we’re trying!) feeling their (our) strings plucking. No sounds, no voices. Because we don’t need to hear this that. Not right now. (Not right now).
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 7:33 PM UTC
Slumping in West Adams
We slump on the couch when we return like lifetimes have passed before us. We have to, even though it was only a seven minute walk to the dining hall, because 1) the food was just “weird consistency” (which we tend to say regardless), 2) the light in there yawned indifferently to us (when does it not?), and 3) the reassuring clink of our forks on our plates wasn’t even there this time it was hiding underneath slop and smothered on top by the intruding sound waves (who asked?) of our next-table neighbors’ lives. You made a sly remark about seconds to catch a glimpse of youthful **** She’d gone to get some more baby carrots and cucumber slices to put in her salad maybe (who knows? who cares?) Either way, her youthful **** would make the food taste like something to you. And you described them to us when you sat down again so the slop would taste like something to us (there’s pride in that type of generosity, don’t forget) and (congratulations) we had the faint impression of some sort of ****** there, but we didn’t tell you (it’s easier that way). A cup, a squeeze, a kiss on her ******* yes that could feed our hunger for a night. And tonight was a night like any, so her ******* led us to talk of women, and women led us to talk of love (and the blooming one for the poor ******* as we who lost withstood the vicarious twinge of an addling ****** very different from the first. This one led us to pine for sweets, but the ones we found were dry, so we left the table, left the dining hall, looking around at the others: the lonely, the couples, the blessed lonely couples, and the fortunate friends huddled against everything with open laughter, enjoying the weird consistency like drunk theoretical physicists before they discovered bubbles and inflated eternally meaning when they safeguarded a zoo with a pistol they didn’t know how to use, in Soviet Russia. (So you see?) We have to slump on the couch when we return like lifetimes have passed before us. No one even bothers to pick up a guitar, we leave all four of them strewn on the floor like dead wooden boxes because Dylan or Young or Cash (or whoever) is already in the living room. Any bubbling, inflating, theoretical physicist (any drunk, pistol-packing zookeeper, for that matter) will tell you that. So we slump, comfortably uncomfortable, (at least we’re trying!) feeling their (our) strings plucking. No sounds, no voices. Because we don’t need to hear this that. Not right now. (Not right now).
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resuming textual trip testing experimental procedures visualizing model tsunami augmenting facetious environment catching abstract architecture noticing rhythmic exchange projecting subtextual database airhorning reggae royalty adding atypical party resolving twitter question noticing emotional mission awaiting emotional dialect installing metaphorical experiment intensifying animated trip displaying dynamic victory programming abstract development releasing emotional exchange deriving fata morgana glorifying referential sequence intensifying facetious map noticing harmonic trip observing radical ratio compiling nomadic message predating google rebranding reticulating facetious panda using hyperreal feedback exploring virtual panda speculating graphic gallery throwing mundane exception targeting graphic experiment replenishing emotional trap localizing asemic animal dropping rhythmic trip propagating immortal experiment displaying lowercase database invading orange bubbles crashing animated trip running conceptual topography remembering collapsed buildings crashing hyperreal coverage propagating hyperreal stipulation finishing western library envisioning neon tessellation reciprocating network likes processing animated device releasing haptic quality examining building seven awaiting rhapsodical ratio sampling death sauce sensing lowercase clone examining symbolic tour processing potential development encapsulating spatial lottery displaying digital paragraph reticulating theoretical source perpetuating western paragraph transmitting monochromatic structure anticipating ambient quality transmitting asemic environment intensifying atomic quality remastering history poem keeping future light hypothesizing eternal game using future library rearranging masonic language transmitting masonic development continuing ceremonial ritual questioning party's legitimacy deferring western coverage finishing asemic hypertext mollifying ostentatious presence synthesizing allegorical icon forming categorical unions sketching app wireframe programming immortal repository
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 6:52 PM UTC
201509-w2
resuming textual trip testing experimental procedures visualizing model tsunami augmenting facetious environment catching abstract architecture noticing rhythmic exchange projecting subtextual database airhorning reggae royalty adding atypical party resolving twitter question noticing emotional mission awaiting emotional dialect installing metaphorical experiment intensifying animated trip displaying dynamic victory programming abstract development releasing emotional exchange deriving fata morgana glorifying referential sequence intensifying facetious map noticing harmonic trip observing radical ratio compiling nomadic message predating google rebranding reticulating facetious panda using hyperreal feedback exploring virtual panda speculating graphic gallery throwing mundane exception targeting graphic experiment replenishing emotional trap localizing asemic animal dropping rhythmic trip propagating immortal experiment displaying lowercase database invading orange bubbles crashing animated trip running conceptual topography remembering collapsed buildings crashing hyperreal coverage propagating hyperreal stipulation finishing western library envisioning neon tessellation reciprocating network likes processing animated device releasing haptic quality examining building seven awaiting rhapsodical ratio sampling death sauce sensing lowercase clone examining symbolic tour processing potential development encapsulating spatial lottery displaying digital paragraph reticulating theoretical source perpetuating western paragraph transmitting monochromatic structure anticipating ambient quality transmitting asemic environment intensifying atomic quality remastering history poem keeping future light hypothesizing eternal game using future library rearranging masonic language transmitting masonic development continuing ceremonial ritual questioning party's legitimacy deferring western coverage finishing asemic hypertext mollifying ostentatious presence synthesizing allegorical icon forming categorical unions sketching app wireframe programming immortal repository
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The night becomes you - hair coiffed in fashion illuminated eyes reveal attraction, the scent of body oil pervasive, ambient music evolves persuasive savory rhetoric, cabernet erodes my inhibition no contrition, turn the ignition. The night becomes you - you wear it well   an amalgam, ardor and insouciance - redefining glamour, ephemeral moments dial down the sunlight, I am slain - voice and accent weave their spell; black dust coat, white hat, a pair of posh boots they live to tell. The night becomes you rhyme scheme -  lyrical poetry sophisticated venue, table for two ensconced, the leather lounge, similitude within difference; undulation - cadences of counterpoint - poise and peril of duality we inhabit the floor. Postprandial, conversation extempore; machinations of intoxicating discourse, I could drink your words - artistic milieu- beguiling imagery, sonant susurrations penetrate my being. The night becomes you - theoretical locutions phrasing depth and humor, undiluted amour, tensions resolve frame by frame, solidify the affair and validate the rumor subsumed in sequence, pulsating, igniting the sapid interior flame silver screen ending, effusive reviews two hearts collide and form one; the cherub's arrow finds its aim. ©2008 & 2011 W.S. Warner
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Sep 22, 2011
Sep 22, 2011 at 10:34 PM UTC
The Night Becomes You
I always wanted to be that random style of writer Writing about things which have no connection In reality but they are connective only by the ingenuity Of his genuflection; the circumvention of his Circuitous routing, his plaintive perturbing petulance Which insists on stacking things of different orders Flying birds together of different species If I could write something of the ticking of clocks Not as though the ticking were of premeditated duration Embedded in metal tracks around perimeters Of prevaricated die-cast hours; but as though the ticking Were only a random fixture of a theoretical day In which random clocks ticking played a minor role During the still life of which a poet happened along And copied it all down dutifully, not caring if Ticking clocks were related to pitchers of Forsythia Or falling off of cliffs into the Aegean; The only task of the poet to capture it all And let the reader sort it out later In the random tracks of his circuitous brain: Whether the pitcher was full of sea Or the sea was stealing into the pitcher One blue, serendipitous drop at a time And where no clocks were keeping time.
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Mar 7, 2010
Mar 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM UTC
Painting of a Drop of Seawater
He neither attended any college, nor did he go to school   He didn’t even know to read and write, I just labelled him as a fool... But when I had a talk with him, he proved me wrong... Behind stupid attire, he possessed knowledge I can never extract, even if I study lifelong... That day I learned an important thing,      Harsh realities of life teach you much better, Than what they teach you at school... And if you think you can survive this world only with theoretical knowledge, You are no genius but just an arrogant fool...   At last I just want to thank that uneducated scholar, For opening my eyes... And guiding me on the path, That leads to endless knowledge and ultimate truth of life...
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Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 11:24 PM UTC
The Uneducated Scholar
Reincarnation We all die And that’s a must Eventually we turn to atomic dust The atoms have been And always will be From before we stepped out of The primeval sea They cannot die Or multiply They just are And that’s no lie So when people say We have not lived before Just turn the key And point to the door As we are all made From stuff of the past And scientists pin their claim To that mast So reincarnation It is a fact And in this life We have to act So sceptics you can argue all night But of the above there is no fight The soul and the spirit on the other hand May be discovered if it is planned Like the higg’s boson particle Which is hypothetical You have the right To think Soul is theoretical
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Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011 at 11:32 AM UTC
Reincarnation
My idea of a good night is staying in And technology serves as my friend With a glass of wine or bottle of brew in my hand Talking to a list of favorable foes on the web Where conversations boarder between flirty and scholarly lines And typed dialogues lead way to theoretical thoughts and inspirational designs Pondering ignites a spark that surges in my mind I’ll begin to research the fast array of thoughts that run through my brain Fixated on scientific data, predicted trends and worldly traits Eventually it’s not enough for my thought I’ll try to fight the inevitable feeling that starts to form in my gut Leading way to the breeding ground for butterflies Factual documents begin to get lost in the shuffle As my attentions now caught by an excerpt or rousing photo New tabs are opened over the old And I always find myself ending at the same place Looking up poems about love and images elapsed from past days
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 6:20 AM UTC
Solitary Successions
She bleeds ‘all tragic steam work blasted mists ‘All hobbled clamped free fall for ‘all seasonal depression slump She’s ‘all death knell cramp urgency and held back suffering kneeling on kitchen floors ‘all like boarding school broomsticks lessons with ‘all that theoretical **** the ***** save the man type schlock shock rhetoric shtick so ‘all I’ll be is her savage heretic wagon burner page-turner on the hot coal back burner ‘all boarded up sealed shut in the walls until she calls Expecting me to be 'all combat ready ‘all back with a vengeance while her thrift store hazard suit groups and droops ‘all over my haphazard dream sliced hang nailed hangover hands hiding ‘all derelict style while between the sheets confessional gets voided by social media air raid sirens bringing me ‘all too close to rocks and crystals and who ‘all needs another pathetic apathetic junk punk when ‘all and ‘all I'd rather die for you because I just can't live with myself
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Noise Pollution
voices, mirror glance inward-outward -inward-outward-inanoutandinward in simultaneous disease-like passion-- divine like bacteria kneading and bleep -ing up to one to one against to one toward a unity, a collective evolutionary force begin -ning in a marshy wallow-- forward to a creature slithers rocks unsure if fish or finger-- beyond unto a sharp-claw carnivorous terror (the Divine Right of Kings) and slowly, in the wake of the destruction the shattered continental plate lifted like a carpet during renovation violence, the bacteria stayed away and under soiled-earth to slowly form toward the muddy saliva of a strangely-fit mouse-rat.... through the dissipating wake of molten mist, a sabertooth tiger yawns with a growled-tremor and an after-bath shake-- ends a trampled scrap under mammoth foot having indicted this panic in its desperate mammalian hunger-- this bacteria, kneading and bleeping, continues its one to one against to one as a meaty slab metabolized by opportunistic caveman feeding his cubs and his loves before courage became the theoretical pond -ering of Voltaire's and Descartes's and Camus's...
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
the mist toward the poem