"tittles" poems
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Apples will be cantaloupes
depending on their nurture;
and so I cherish rainbow hopes
for our collective future.
Oranges elect their hue
improving Nature’s seal,
while pronouns stifle what is true
suppressing the appeal.
Fruits may choose to change to nuts
and fowls select their plumage.
Why settle in Tradition’s ruts?
Such rigid roles do damage.
Nuts in turn, may feel like flowers,
picking how and when to bloom.
So ambisexual thought empowers
androgynes to court their doom.
A leopard, too, may change his spots
(or turn into a vegan bunny)
No law’s tittles, neither jots
make Speciesism funny.
If you decide to see it so
the sky above is yellow.
Perceive as pink the grass beneath
and better times must follow.
Gender? Merely social constructs –
preach it to the masses
until tradition self-destructs
and *** takes off her glasses.
Babies need no Dad (nor Mother):
sexist labels, obsolete.
Love is blind. There is no other.
Bats must bark and chickens bleat.
Integrated water closets
show how far we have evolved:
urinary bank deposits
(with no member account involved).
Foolish thinking from the past
(like water being wet, and such)
calls for re-education, fast.
The State will lend its human touch
compelling all to sing the hymn
with genderfluid motions…
so birds can preen their scales and swim
in dry and waveless oceans.
(Yet “hymn” sounds sexist said out loud –
we ought to sing a “her” instead…
no – make that “us”, since we are proud,
lest misconceptions be misread.)
Shake a healthy dose of salt
upon this strange post-modern food.
May God re-set us to default
with human common sense renewed.
Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 11:05 PM UTC
I am writing a new story,
but don't look here for the narrative,
because
I am not writing it with these words you think you are reading,
or the patience that I have found.
I am penning this new manuscript,
and all the illuminating circumstances that make those reading
wish they were the characters in the joy-tear-jerking plot,
the parts everyone passes eyes over in order
to make their own lives richer...
I am scribing my way through to the end
not with words, letters, jots, tittles,
but with
actions.
Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
Joseph's sons are still in Egypt
All is not fulfilled as yet
The elder child, Manasseh
calls himself a Christian these days
and still seems mightier than Ephraim
as foreseen by Israel
but has this small problem
keeping Father's commandments
having been suckled on
papal leaven
with that false gospel
girlfriend he likes to call
prosperity ...
I'd rather remain a gentile, thanks
Invite me to the wedding
I'll come visit every Sukkot
He really needs his younger brother
to come of age and stop fussing ...
to stop copy-catting Judah
and feed Yeshua's lost sheep
from that double redeemer's portion
Jacob blessed him with ...
that which speaks of BenDavid
and the keeping of true Torah
which is the tittles and jots
'Jesus' said would remain
a blessing till all is fulfilled
till His Torah shines forth from Zion
once again
Jealous Judah awaits him too
Prays each day the prodigal will come home
and tell him who Meshiach is
There really are no Gentiles or Greeks
except in diaspora
No, not even Jesus freaks
Just a faithful, obedient remnant
in Jacob's trouble
going to the promised land
Jul 14, 2010
Jul 14, 2010 at 8:38 PM UTC
I am one thing to myself.
to you I'm another....
to the mirror
I am broken reflection.
to my dad,
I'm a visitor.
to guys
I'm just a toy.
to girls
im the one they only want sometimes.
to the church
I am a ****** up teen that's made too many mistakes.
to society
I am the shy one, that shows her self sometimes.
the one always looking for the lost sheep only realizing that i am that lost sheep among many.
where do i find my self in all these tittles?
i was raised here
i watched people come and go seen them grow old here...
I've watched my dad walk away from here.
through the years I've only grown further away.
how come church is where i always feel ashamed.
how come church is where I'm criticized.
HOW COME YOU EXPECT SO MUCH FROM ME?
on Sunday that's the one day I'm good enough....
then on Tuesday I'm a disappointment.
and I'm only good if i am on the worship team.
**** wheres me?
Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 3:47 AM UTC
If we were two books who happened to cross covers
Or over lap tittles,
In a momentary lack of structure
You would find us stacked back to back
As unlikely as a tragedy with star struck lovers..
Happened upon the other
in a library archiving
Written word and lives, and eons worth of soft
Text typed,
I would be a book of Russian poems
Roughly speaking of beautiful things,
With a bare textured cover, a soft sea foam green.
And you would be lost in the meaning,
In the reflections of your wealth
I would give you all the answers you hide inside your self,
You would be of another breed,
Your italic headings speaking of vastly different things,
You would show a thousand places I wish to know,
With a hundred hand drawn maps
Filled to the indentation with
realities greater than my own imagination
with pictures
That capture you, whisper liberation,
You would be the inspiration every trapped
lower class individual looks upon while dreaming up
Vacation homes.
You are the window to the places everyone
Everyone wants to know
Your pages crisp but warm, smelling of vanilla
Not a single scuff, crease, you are not torn.
A soft Carmel brown cover where
A hundred careful fingers hover.
You are probably thinking we don’t belong together.
Not in a library alphabetized and
Split into sections,
Good thing great librarians
Know better, she
Stole us and set us together in her own
Private collection.
There is no where I fit better than
Next to you, pressed cover to cover,
we are becoming a story of
unlikely lovers,
We are best friends,
Penned from different ink
Speaking different themes
meeting
Resting between book ends designed
Out of clever minds set out to
To fuzz the line between actuality
And your aspiration,
We are just the perfect combination of
Drive and a dream,
The fact you are here means something
And the more I read the more it seems
Together we'll achieve great things.
Oct 23, 2013
Oct 23, 2013 at 5:52 PM UTC
somewhere beyond
my ego...
lies the poet
who writes for,
the love of the sound,
of pen scribbling thoughts
upon fine lined paper.
the writer,
who devles into
the murk of the
morass of thoughts
rowing across the swamps
of the disordered mind.
the scribe,
who takes photographs
with words
deftly framing light and shade to produce
thought provoking images
so good, yet,
so hard to define.
the racounter,
who can spin a tall tale
on the edge of a dusty dime.
the truthseeker, soothsayer
not afraid to speak,
even when speaking
is condsidered a crime.
the jonguleur,
who plays with words
of six syllables or more, keeping them flowing, creating rhythm and rhyme.
somewhere...the earth mother lies
distilling truth into jots
and tittles
and sowing them into
lines...
somewhere...beyond
my ego...somewhere
Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 6:17 AM UTC
Went to bed and dreamed of getting my *** kicked by the Queen of Earthquakes.
Six hours later and I'm waking up with a headache.
Hid from the sun beneath sweaty sheets.
The only thing that gets cold here is the space in our chest.
Road the bus with a load of automatons withered with rust.
Scanning the seats with dead-beat eyes.
Hey, would you mind if we traded places?
I like the window seat best.
Paperclip trebuchets wage war in front of ignored spreadsheets.
Just another day in paradise,
but now I think I feel a stirring between my legs.
Here we sit waiting on a disaster to speed up our slow demise.
But all that aside, the thing is that when I stare into her eyes I can feel my feet sliding -
Carrying me toward the tittles in the middle with a gliding force that can't be avoided.
i think i might like her a little.
Nov 28, 2016
Nov 28, 2016 at 11:27 PM UTC
i found this little poem
sitting unattended,
alone,
on a bench at
the bus station.
when i said hello...
the relief and elation,
on this little poem's face,
made me feel protective
of this, orphan creation.
so i took this little poem
home...
no longer lost,
it thrived
from three lines to five
and before
we wished it
happy cinquain
it had doubled in size,
again.
full, rounded verse,
in cursive copperplate.
as it entered puberty
its moods swung,
between...
love, anger, hate
and then struggled gamely through
depression angst and fear..
all jots and tittles,
with future, unclear.
but eventually it matured
as we all do....
into a thoughtful expression
of beauty and love,
a strong and independant
statement of grace.
and then it was time,
to say goodbye....
the little found poem,
needed to leave
and find it's place,
in the wider world.
needed to find
and impress a girl.
it said it needed,
to make a splash...
grab some cash...
it promised not
to become, just a jingle...
and to write when
he could....
but til then.... anon...
Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 5:58 AM UTC
Hi i’m Sebastian
i’m an addict
Addicted to frantic
Spastic language
After ages
Of Procrastinating
i lacked the panache.
But as of lately
That is changing
My imagination
Have replaced the
Manic ************
The crass habit of
Having laughs
From dating
A relaxing
Callous lady
Validated
By an affidavit
Now i’m Exasperated
i amass amazing
Paragraphs’ saturation
A translucent human
Finds a hue soothing
Like my time as a youth spent
School bench-doodling
i pulled the blue pen
Through the movements
Maneuvered cerulean loops
Drew crude dudes and
Exuberant protruding *****
For a youths amusement
Freud’s lament meant that
A pen is a *****
i comment these tittles of i’s
Are eyes at a zenith
With these i see things
Don’t ask what an asterisk is
But believe me i’ve seen it
May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 6:18 AM UTC
Lady Godiva.
She rode through the streets.
Fully undressed.
Oh such a treat.
For the fellows around.
Chuckles and tittles.
Tantalizing *******
Obscured by her flaxen falling hair.
Lady Godiva.
I realise today.
So many fellas were wanting to play.
Twiddling *******
Watching ******* ripple.
Tickled.
A plaque hung about her neck.
Written in red.
Notice me please.
Oh what the heck.
(c)LIVVI
Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 8:04 AM UTC
All spun out like the chaff,
the fire breathing drags on,
clever little jots and tittles thrown in anger.
But nothing good ends well,
as the saying went.
I never wanted anything
but your happiness,
and I will not reciprocate the attacks.
I am not like the others,
and you know it.
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
Life is a story book filled with us playing as characters in our on pages . Our lives tangled up in sentences but yet so connected with the same emotions.
Pain
Love
Lust and Hope are all tittles in some beginnings of our chapters.
One day will get to read the full book , with our stories , with our flaws and strengths all in pieces of paper heart.
Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 9:51 AM UTC
hey mister museman
float an idea my way
you see my brain is tired
and the creatives gone away
hey mister museman
give my some words
to play with
on this wet and grey
old day
and I will try to
string them together
so they have
something grand to say
hey mister museman
don't turn away
need me some
jot's and tittles
to chase these blues
and black grey hues
out into the middle
of Sunshine Bay
thanks mister museman
for taking the time
to help me rhyme
and float some words
out into the stratosphere
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 7:27 AM UTC
there is a man of
gentle genteel nobility
who writes in quiet
anonimity
words that give the
soul wings to soar
an the is a rough and
ready workman
who writes his life
warts and all
with a pen that
drips literary gems
there are a couple of young guns
ready to change the world
one poem at a time
and one has nailed
the knack of the pithy rhyme
the other a thinker
gears grinding all the time
some, two or three, at life's end
or at least on that very street
that share wisdom, the art of writing
both joys and defeats
old soldier's in the war of rhyme
defending the bastion
against the tyranny of time..
then there is the man,
such a clever soul
that deals almost soley
in wit and folderol
his pieces have
such a rollicking style
and always cause a chuckle
and sometimes leave you
rolling in aisles
one who delves into
the art of the rondelle
his mastery of the form
keeps me underaliterary spell
I know of a man
to whom sonnets are bread
to him, I take off my hat..
to write iambic pentameter
just does in my head!
I find myself three shy of the dozen,
not of wont but becuase my head is full
of the many worthy scribes that could fit the bill
each man who writes of love won or lost,
each man who puts pen to paper
and has paper tossed, toward the round file or floor
each man who writes with simple eloquence
of what is out side his front door,
or inside a turbulent heart,
who tries with words to explain
the workings of life..
or the tumult of his brain.
could take a place in this dozen.
has already become,
one of this glorious coven.
he, who takes letters,
syllables, jots and tittles
and creates swirls of alchemy,
magic to the souls of readers
and to the hearts, cartograhpy
maps of fairy dust and well could be
so to these nine, and three more again
to all men who have placed the sign
'writer within these brain walls'
on their heart and in their minds
I thank thee all
Your work has been, an inspiration to mine...
Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 at 6:08 PM UTC
Slow as a growl
Go some verses from a folio,
Like little frogs in dozens wake up on a lily pad,
And I'm singing them inside.
Cloaked is an owl,
Toads converse as roams an embryo
Like fiddle logs and cousins make up on a silly path,
And I'm singing on a ride.
Float does the vowel,
Go some verses from a folio
Like tittles fog in fuzzes flakes up on an ill leafed pad,
And I'm reading them with pride!
Slow as a growl
Go some verses from a folio,
Like little frogs and cousins make upon a lilly pad,
And I'm reading on a side.
May 28, 2022
May 28, 2022 at 9:10 AM UTC
we come to rest in peace awaiting answers and
I slip after to the land of Nod...
woke, for a joke, we hope...
we see dis
similarities, I am shackled
standing five ten before
a trio of judges
in wigs, Shirley Temple wigs.
I grow three feet, or about two cubits,
and I stare my judges in the eye
my chains expanded with me, as bindings,
worthless, I conclude.
I can just, if I wish,
walk out, chains and all, standin tall.
---
being holy is easier than being sane in interesting times.
crazy
un mented real ization in
matters,
such as these: do we rule or obey or is there
another way
,
would seem holy right, hidden, for none to see, save
believers
who have been bred to the task of telling this story
holy story, jots, tittles, pimples and farts and all
standin' tall.
---
Drama of dharma, don't we know more good than evil as we grow?
Who would hinder knowing growing good?
An evil being, or a lie believed?
The lie, right? I know, Easy.
Answers come so easy some times, we forget the questions
on the test.
Jun 15, 2019
Jun 15, 2019 at 8:40 PM UTC
Toy poems with metre measured in secret
mathic rhythms to mask the chthonic excuses
hidden in couplets and twice twisted sevens
jots and tittles known only in song
Cantor sing of alleluia, jah jah siss boom bah
Yah, who lifted us from slavery and brought us back
on track to be conjoined in
twin snaking tales of things that work, well
function for the good
in the principle
idea of be, aimed at
am-ing, ping, ding, ****
the witch is dead,
which old witch?
the wicked witch, ding **** the wicked witch is dead.
And that past as a flash- back to the future,
home again, home again,
higgs-idy lickity split,
you remember. We are old… working out
Silver sneakers, so Hermes-ish, I wish
to find that character playing the guesser guessing
something like the common sense
some folks scorn for simple use,
in times of electricity, whispering revealing the insanity,
in order
to lieve be the madmen, wombed and un, effected
by the tribal lie, used to shape a nation
from a ritual story retold to fit the pleasure of the tyrant
of the time,
time sold for membership in the mess,
a seat at the table….
imagine the aftermath of hate, juxt
now,
oppose the forethought,
say no,
the worst is not to come,
not from my agreeing with those fools
who
accuse me of lying in wait to take your soul,
and keep it safe,
wished you knew the secret of secrets, did you?
what do you know?
Death can be imagined more often than possible,
truly, once is enough,
truly, fleshed out with characteristics common-
found as basic features in life's
entertaining devices used to hold the oxen in line,
daily grind, grease the squeeks, see the wish
wish wish
all the stories speak of ever after this,
then that we know
yes,
know,
some sudden how, now
we know…
nothing.
F'sure, like I said. God, make me like Socrates,
and Jesus, suddenly
I know
nothing. But I'm alive.
And life still works, asking no further effort from me.
Dec 21, 2020
Dec 21, 2020 at 12:15 PM UTC
And maybe
the bright among you
will have seen
that the last eight tittles
in reverse order
make
yet
another poem
If I ever
You have to Admit
WHEN
My claw hand runs deep
If you look for an answer
Do not give me that
I OFTEN FEEL
Ladies do as they please.
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM UTC
That is me
Y
E
S
thought of both
within
the
word
global.
Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:06 PM UTC