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Lady, your room is lousy with flowers. When you kick me out, that's what I'll remember, Me, sitting here bored as a loepard In your jungle of wine-bottle lamps, Velvet pillows the color of blood pudding And the white china flying fish from Italy. I forget you, hearing the cut flowers Sipping their liquids from assorted pots, Pitchers and Coronation goblets Like Monday drunkards. The milky berries Bow down, a local constellation, Toward their admirers in the tabletop: Mobs of eyeballs looking up. Are those petals of leaves you've paried with them --- Those green-striped ovals of silver tissue? The red geraniums I know. Friends, friends. They stink of armpits And the invovled maladies of autumn, Musky as a lovebed the morning after. My nostrils prickle with nostalgia. Henna hags:cloth of your cloth. They tow old water thick as fog. The roses in the Toby jug Gave up the ghost last night. High time. Their yellow corsets were ready to split. You snored, and I heard the petals unlatch, Tapping and ticking like nervous fingers. You should have junked them before they died. Daybreak discovered the bureau lid Littered with Chinese hands. Now I'm stared at By chrysanthemums the size Of Holofernes' head, dipped in the same Magenta as this fubsy sofa. In the mirror their doubles back them up. Listen: your tenant mice Are rattling the ******* packets. Fine flour Muffles their bird feet: they whistle for joy. And you doze on, nose to the wall. This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket. How did we make it up to your attic? You handed me gin in a glass bud vase. We slept like stones. Lady, what am I doing With a lung full of dust and a tongue of wood, Knee-deep in the cold swamped by flowers?
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Leaving Early
Lady, your room is lousy with flowers. When you kick me out, that's what I'll remember, Me, sitting here bored as a loepard In your jungle of wine-bottle lamps, Velvet pillows the color of blood pudding And the white china flying fish from Italy. I forget you, hearing the cut flowers Sipping their liquids from assorted pots, Pitchers and Coronation goblets Like Monday drunkards. The milky berries Bow down, a local constellation, Toward their admirers in the tabletop: Mobs of eyeballs looking up. Are those petals of leaves you've paried with them --- Those green-striped ovals of silver tissue? The red geraniums I know. Friends, friends. They stink of armpits And the invovled maladies of autumn, Musky as a lovebed the morning after. My nostrils prickle with nostalgia. Henna hags:cloth of your cloth. They tow old water thick as fog. The roses in the Toby jug Gave up the ghost last night. High time. Their yellow corsets were ready to split. You snored, and I heard the petals unlatch, Tapping and ticking like nervous fingers. You should have junked them before they died. Daybreak discovered the bureau lid Littered with Chinese hands. Now I'm stared at By chrysanthemums the size Of Holofernes' head, dipped in the same Magenta as this fubsy sofa. In the mirror their doubles back them up. Listen: your tenant mice Are rattling the ******* packets. Fine flour Muffles their bird feet: they whistle for joy. And you doze on, nose to the wall. This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket. How did we make it up to your attic? You handed me gin in a glass bud vase. We slept like stones. Lady, what am I doing With a lung full of dust and a tongue of wood, Knee-deep in the cold swamped by flowers?
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i am  not your ****** nor your sister. i do not know the meaning of these words, mister. except in instances where i hate us like they hate us. a putrid loathing sprouting from different colored grounds but a dangerous flower nonetheless. they are not just words, they are drops of blood spilled from the lashed backs of our enslaved triple grandfathers and mothers. our slang replaces hoses pushing us back during marches and righteous riots. aggression equals regression equals deppression. and now, it's all our fault. now it's black on black assault. now it's fly shoes and ghetto booties. poppin' bottles and poppin' caps, running through nights like street ******* rats. what would W.E.B. DuBois say if he'd seen this backstep taken after we'd come this far, after reaching for stars and dropping the ball? now i love this color. i love this color and prefer no other. all i'm saying is, let us pick one day when we put the negroidian away put ****** back in it's roots. no, not the movie, don't me toby. let us get the dream rollin' Mister King style, not Master P style. no big rims, or leather seats. none of that **** for awhile. i'm saying takeover. i'm saying african-america makeover. i'm saying, let's take our pride back, like our homeland lions. let us make black a taste not so sour. i'm saying, Black Power.
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Nov 18, 2010
Nov 18, 2010 at 8:03 AM UTC
My ******
1 I see you, ya I may be finger-punching my smart phone at the dining table - but darling, I see you, yeah We’re seated at the table you say something but you think I’m listening to Taylor Swift on Youtube True - but hey, I see ya, I hear you I hear both of you I multiply, I multi-task you see 2 I’m walking along the shops I’m pushing the pram with my baby inside and I’m updating status on the phone too and getting that download – but hey, stranger round the corner I see you, ya, don't ya worry; yeah I see my baby and I see you stranger round the corner – but hey, watch where your going 3 hey - I see you guys, I see you no doubt all day I sit in my couch tapping away on my new supersize phone but I’m smart hey – I see you guys I see you my darling at the kitchen – get me another coffee, will ya And I see the kids glued to their sets and little Toby our kitten curled at my feet – why, thank you for the coffee; darling, can you put a few cans of beer in the fridge – see? I see ya, yeah…I see you all
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 11:28 PM UTC
I see you, yeah
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 5:22 AM UTC
The Toadstool Man
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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When you look at me Do you look at me as an individual or a stereotype? Do you think of me as an independent person with personalities? Or must I be the same as another because of my skin? Who am I? Am I forced to be a patriot of my birth country? Am I forced to act like my own "kind"? Who am I? What must I do to prove? What must I do to prove myself? I am patriotic to America. Not Korea. I never have and never will. But will people see me as an American or Korean? I have lived more than half of my life in my home state Ohio, but am I an Ohioan? I want to go to West Point and serve my country. Do people see that I have no other motives than loyalty? Or do people see me as a spy? I want to be an US Senator. Will I be called the first Korean Senator? Why can't I be me. Why can't I choose who to be loyal to? Why am I destined? I have loved my country. But why? Why? Please answer me why? Why do you break my heart America? You see me as a Korean, but I never was a Korean. I am full One-Hundred Percent, Toby Keith Lovin', Terrorist Hatin', Semper Fi Yellin', Flag Salutin' Till Death do us part Patriot, But yet, You call me a foreigner. You call me an outsider. You call me an outcast. I read US History, I memorized the Pledge of Allegiance, I know and love my country from Jamestown to Now. At school I am made fun of for being more patriotic than actual citizens. But yet, You deny me, You say you don't know me, You rejected me. Why? I gave my life to you. Why? I sacrificed my world to serve you. Why? Why do you do this to me? I beg you! Please do not look at me as a Korean. Please do not look at me as an Asian. Please do not look at me as a Foreigner. Look at me. Look at me, as a Proud American. I came here to be part of the great Melting *** I came here for opportunities! I came here! I came here! I am not a Korean. I am! A Proud American.
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Jan 28, 2012
Jan 28, 2012 at 9:42 PM UTC
The Foreign Patriot
When you look at me Do you look at me as an individual or a stereotype? Do you think of me as an independent person with personalities? Or must I be the same as another because of my skin? Who am I? Am I forced to be a patriot of my birth country? Am I forced to act like my own "kind"? Who am I? What must I do to prove? What must I do to prove myself? I am patriotic to America. Not Korea. I never have and never will. But will people see me as an American or Korean? I have lived more than half of my life in my home state Ohio, but am I an Ohioan? I want to go to West Point and serve my country. Do people see that I have no other motives than loyalty? Or do people see me as a spy? I want to be an US Senator. Will I be called the first Korean Senator? Why can't I be me. Why can't I choose who to be loyal to? Why am I destined? I have loved my country. But why? Why? Please answer me why? Why do you break my heart America? You see me as a Korean, but I never was a Korean. I am full One-Hundred Percent, Toby Keith Lovin', Terrorist Hatin', Semper Fi Yellin', Flag Salutin' Till Death do us part Patriot, But yet, You call me a foreigner. You call me an outsider. You call me an outcast. I read US History, I memorized the Pledge of Allegiance, I know and love my country from Jamestown to Now. At school I am made fun of for being more patriotic than actual citizens. But yet, You deny me, You say you don't know me, You rejected me. Why? I gave my life to you. Why? I sacrificed my world to serve you. Why? Why do you do this to me? I beg you! Please do not look at me as a Korean. Please do not look at me as an Asian. Please do not look at me as a Foreigner. Look at me. Look at me, as a Proud American. I came here to be part of the great Melting *** I came here for opportunities! I came here! I came here! I am not a Korean. I am! A Proud American.
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(More than in the mire from the central line poetry tube) Well, it was *** for a tat and a tidbit that was the last draw for the last straw and the camel looked on. I've gone and happy about it, the pills help me out just a tiny bit, but the Toby jug thinks that I am the mug, so it's *** for tat and oh how I laugh and the camel is there looking on. She takes me to water, the Devils own daughter and forces this man to partake, but the man is his mountain, his cataract, fountain, from whichever who wants to will flow. So a tidbit a tat for a bit of all that seems a very fair price I should pay. The camel walks away with the ****
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Sep 16, 2015
Sep 16, 2015 at 7:41 AM UTC
Breathing nitrogen
218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him! If I could shut him up In a Coffee Cup, Or tie him to a pin Till I got in— Or make him fast To “Toby’s” fist— Hist! Whist! I’d come!
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Is it true, dear Sue?
The night we went to that club in Seoul And danced with Hot Toby We got back to the hostel and we were staying in the Basement that night I was so sick, needed to pass out And proceeded to use a shirt As a snot rag throughout my sleep I woke up and the shirt had turned to solid concrete Boogers cement We had to wake up early We went to go look at temples I didn’t wash that shirt I just wore it And I remember needing to pass out All day; so sick I couldn’t taste anything Not even Kimchi And I said to myself "I just need to party" So we went out that night I didn’t change My clothes
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 11:43 PM UTC
What Erin Just Said [11:21pm -- 3/7]
Grandad Cat curls his tail and wants to tell a tale to his GrandKits Cats He claws them before him and he meows a catchy tune that he shall tell them a tale But little Toby he purrs: *No, Grand – you're such a bad story-teller cos you only have one tale*
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 6:37 AM UTC
a cat's tale
Pam Beesly she shines so bright I sneeze-ly and then fall onto my knees-ly. My chest begins to seize-ly whenever I see Ms Beesly, and my brain begins to freeze-ly so my coworkers then tease-ly. It's unfair just how measly my existence is to Ms Pam Beesly but few things are said more easily than Ms Beesly is the bees knees-ly.
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 8:51 PM UTC
to Pam with love from Toby
This happy land of Diemens, dogs and bush-walks, Creative flurries, chats over beer, spag bol and chocolate. Van trip, scoot down the coast, Wander along the beach. Talk of this and that, laugh And put the world to rights. Thrash out ideas, share some thoughts, Wonder if living could be easier? Two friends who shared a trip to the Beach twenty years back take stock; And find that from start they had more in common than they knew. Now seperated by ten thousand miles, A thousand quid and two days flying, They're closer than they were sat facing front in that old escort van. Another chapter ends Or begins Or begins and ends. I awake and think of boarding, My plane. I hadn't realised how simple it was To just be, To just exist side by side With an old friend who you connect with. No need for the usual preambles Just straight to the core. Don't waste time, because 20 years fit badly into five days. And What happens if you click cancel.... before the download has finished? I'm so reluctant to leave. These days have been so easy and fun and blessed. Brotherhood is hard to find And when will I return? A red light shines through my window And appears on the wall across the room. It blinks yellow and moves as the people opposite Reverse from their drive And head off to work. The daylight outside is growing, The rumble in the air is not traffic But waves breaking on the shore About fifty meters away. Soon I'll get up, make tea And we'll all go for a walk. Me, my frind Toby, Pablo the happy staffie And Ava the lucky foster dog, Wandering care free along the beach as the waves break around our feet. A plane flies overhead. Taking the **** Okay I know! All things come to an end. And this too shall pass. It's just I haven't often wanted to stay this much. It's so fun here, And life outside can be a bit full on.
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Oct 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2015 at 1:05 PM UTC
Van Diemen's Land
This happy land of Diemens, dogs and bush-walks, Creative flurries, chats over beer, spag bol and chocolate. Van trip, scoot down the coast, Wander along the beach. Talk of this and that, laugh And put the world to rights. Thrash out ideas, share some thoughts, Wonder if living could be easier? Two friends who shared a trip to the Beach twenty years back take stock; And find that from start they had more in common than they knew. Now seperated by ten thousand miles, A thousand quid and two days flying, They're closer than they were sat facing front in that old escort van. Another chapter ends Or begins Or begins and ends. I awake and think of boarding, My plane. I hadn't realised how simple it was To just be, To just exist side by side With an old friend who you connect with. No need for the usual preambles Just straight to the core. Don't waste time, because 20 years fit badly into five days. And What happens if you click cancel.... before the download has finished? I'm so reluctant to leave. These days have been so easy and fun and blessed. Brotherhood is hard to find And when will I return? A red light shines through my window And appears on the wall across the room. It blinks yellow and moves as the people opposite Reverse from their drive And head off to work. The daylight outside is growing, The rumble in the air is not traffic But waves breaking on the shore About fifty meters away. Soon I'll get up, make tea And we'll all go for a walk. Me, my frind Toby, Pablo the happy staffie And Ava the lucky foster dog, Wandering care free along the beach as the waves break around our feet. A plane flies overhead. Taking the **** Okay I know! All things come to an end. And this too shall pass. It's just I haven't often wanted to stay this much. It's so fun here, And life outside can be a bit full on.
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She is so lonely. Ever since he died she has. Toby and Maisie, They were inseparable. Now, she is just so lonely. Why did you have to leave us, Toby?
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 7:55 PM UTC
Toby and Maisie, The Inseparable Westies
I'm going to start Tossing your bags into the streets Each time your memory burns I'm going light up And toss one back Every time I think your name I'm ready to put a boot In your *** My dear friend, Toby, The one that you hate, Told me it's the American way So are you leaving yet? Because if not I'll file for restraint Leave me alone Otherwise, like Earl, You'll have to die Seeing as how emotional abuse Ain't no way to treat a lady You claim to love
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Aug 8, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 at 4:52 AM UTC
Do You Plan On Leaving Soon?
The spot is empty where he sat close by my feet And gazed at me with loving whippet eyes, but Not as empty as the hollow in my heart. His walking lead hangs by the door Reminding me each time I pass That I must learn to walk alone. His favorite toy, abandoned now, Brings tears where it once brought Laughter at his antics as he played. This well loved dog, my mate of many years Was very like the decade of my youth With me for a certain special time, then gone. A candle in the darkness of my grieving Lights the places where all the good times were And becomes a beacon for my memories forever.            ljm
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Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 9:02 AM UTC
FOR TOBY
Maybe you’ve gone with Moss Bros Or you’ve stuck to trusty M&S But I can point to a surer way to ensure you’re dressed for success * No matter how long you’ve spent Adjusting your silks and laces No matter how hard it was to talk him out of his lairy braces * Whether you selected a Windsor knot Or your favourite velvet bow tie [A bold choice, Toby.] I can share some well-worn wisdom By which you should always abide * I know a dress code tested by time Simple words to which we should hold Simple but essential for all of us here So let’s check we’re all properly clothed * Next time you’re walking down the red carpet And they ask, ‘Who are you wearing?’ There's no need to look for the neckline label Don’t waste your time with checking * Every day you both put on Christ You kit yourselves out with the King Knowing this is all that you’ll need For whatever the day will bring * But like royal robes or battle armour His garments come in layers Put them on in careful sequence Buttoned up with tailored prayers * You begin with feather-lite Compassion Laced with silken Kindness It’s followed by soft Humility A garment that’s forever timeless * You add to this tough Gentleness That’s core to the Saviour’s style With a lining of weighty Patience So you can each stay versatile * You ensure the ensemble’s been well steamed With a fierce, cleansing Forgiveness You set the dial high enough To remove past creases of grievance * Now, some might think this will be enough That that is ample fussing But there’s one remaining layer That you know isn’t worth you rushing * Over each of these rich garments to keep them all in place you put on the strong bond of Love like a long full-body embrace * Then whatever the weather or season on each and every occasion You can both enjoy the Peace of knowing You’ll never need alterations * You may have heard it said And with Thanks we can affirm Some fashions do remain timeless And this one's designed for long term
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Oct 6, 2024
Oct 6, 2024 at 10:24 AM UTC
Fashion Sense
Maybe you’ve gone with Moss Bros Or you’ve stuck to trusty M&S But I can point to a surer way to ensure you’re dressed for success * No matter how long you’ve spent Adjusting your silks and laces No matter how hard it was to talk him out of his lairy braces * Whether you selected a Windsor knot Or your favourite velvet bow tie [A bold choice, Toby.] I can share some well-worn wisdom By which you should always abide * I know a dress code tested by time Simple words to which we should hold Simple but essential for all of us here So let’s check we’re all properly clothed * Next time you’re walking down the red carpet And they ask, ‘Who are you wearing?’ There's no need to look for the neckline label Don’t waste your time with checking * Every day you both put on Christ You kit yourselves out with the King Knowing this is all that you’ll need For whatever the day will bring * But like royal robes or battle armour His garments come in layers Put them on in careful sequence Buttoned up with tailored prayers * You begin with feather-lite Compassion Laced with silken Kindness It’s followed by soft Humility A garment that’s forever timeless * You add to this tough Gentleness That’s core to the Saviour’s style With a lining of weighty Patience So you can each stay versatile * You ensure the ensemble’s been well steamed With a fierce, cleansing Forgiveness You set the dial high enough To remove past creases of grievance * Now, some might think this will be enough That that is ample fussing But there’s one remaining layer That you know isn’t worth you rushing * Over each of these rich garments to keep them all in place you put on the strong bond of Love like a long full-body embrace * Then whatever the weather or season on each and every occasion You can both enjoy the Peace of knowing You’ll never need alterations * You may have heard it said And with Thanks we can affirm Some fashions do remain timeless And this one's designed for long term
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I've met so many people In this one lifetime Befriending faces and so many names Often only for but brief, moments A few will stick around for a while Rarest are for a life time All with qualities, short-comings and vis-versa, but none closer to perfect Devotion from one person to another is a rare blessing to be had But from mans' best friend it's a given To a man that friend devotes all of his attention Always ready and willing to lather on the affection Happy with just the pat on his soft head, with it, he is in heaven Will I ever know another soul like him? One that will never purposely harm or mistreat me for no good reasons? In my opinion that answer is a resounding NO No, not man, not a woman, no human not ever Because not a man alive could ever handle the heart of our dogs' burden That of our best friends, of our k9 companions Unselfish, and unquestioning devotion will never be a humans No, our burden is simply the curse that we out live them So that as they pass from where we know and love them, Into the place that we can not simply look down and pat them I pray that place has someone just as awesome waiting for them Someone who makes them a world to live in and celebrates every second they share with them Asking nothing back from them... And While we all just keep going on... Heartbroken, but profoundly and fiercely proud to have ever known them. We might hope and pray daily... One day, when it's our day... Might just be when, we look down and again there we find that beloved friend... Right then, and realize that heart has never forgotten... Smiling at us... Tail wagging... Because this time he knows we'll never separate from him. As we both walk on as is destined. When the hard work is done,... Distractions of living are all gone... Finally we can pay them their due attention. And never be mean,.. nor take them again for granted... Only believe in... nor be separated from them... It'll be our time together in what surely must be heaven. Dogs hearts will forever be the greatest love, this man will ever learn to miss so badly... As I will. I will miss you so very badly Scrappy, and you too Toby. Good Doggies!... I'll only regret every day I must live with out them. Til my work too is finished boys... Till then enjoy your new friends. your poppa... Jack.
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Nov 9, 2013
Nov 9, 2013 at 6:11 PM UTC
The Loss of True Friends, My Dogs
I've met so many people In this one lifetime Befriending faces and so many names Often only for but brief, moments A few will stick around for a while Rarest are for a life time All with qualities, short-comings and vis-versa, but none closer to perfect Devotion from one person to another is a rare blessing to be had But from mans' best friend it's a given To a man that friend devotes all of his attention Always ready and willing to lather on the affection Happy with just the pat on his soft head, with it, he is in heaven Will I ever know another soul like him? One that will never purposely harm or mistreat me for no good reasons? In my opinion that answer is a resounding NO No, not man, not a woman, no human not ever Because not a man alive could ever handle the heart of our dogs' burden That of our best friends, of our k9 companions Unselfish, and unquestioning devotion will never be a humans No, our burden is simply the curse that we out live them So that as they pass from where we know and love them, Into the place that we can not simply look down and pat them I pray that place has someone just as awesome waiting for them Someone who makes them a world to live in and celebrates every second they share with them Asking nothing back from them... And While we all just keep going on... Heartbroken, but profoundly and fiercely proud to have ever known them. We might hope and pray daily... One day, when it's our day... Might just be when, we look down and again there we find that beloved friend... Right then, and realize that heart has never forgotten... Smiling at us... Tail wagging... Because this time he knows we'll never separate from him. As we both walk on as is destined. When the hard work is done,... Distractions of living are all gone... Finally we can pay them their due attention. And never be mean,.. nor take them again for granted... Only believe in... nor be separated from them... It'll be our time together in what surely must be heaven. Dogs hearts will forever be the greatest love, this man will ever learn to miss so badly... As I will. I will miss you so very badly Scrappy, and you too Toby. Good Doggies!... I'll only regret every day I must live with out them. Til my work too is finished boys... Till then enjoy your new friends. your poppa... Jack.
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My brother was twelve years older so I knew him not so well, But heard of him in the taverns, Getting drunk, and raising hell, My mother said, ‘Keep away from him,’ And I did, for many years, But blood is blood, and a brother should Help out, though it ends in tears. He’d done a spot of embezzling, He’d picked the pockets of Earls, You never left him to tend a horse And he wasn’t safe with girls, But he was my brother Toby, And I was his brother Tim, I’d often find him beneath my bed When he said, ‘Don’t let them in!’ By ‘them’ he had meant the Runners Who were active in the Bow, And some of the old Thief-Takers With their ruffians in tow, They roamed the streets with their cudgels And would lie, just out of sight, Beyond the doors of the Taverns, when They turned them adrift at night. The streets were mean, and were far from clean Where my brother used to roam, Despite the pleas of our mother, who Would beg him to come back home, But father remained unbending, said His eldest son was a swine, ‘His endless scrapes, a Jackanapes! He is no son of mine!’ I heard he’d taken a horse and fled From a stables in the Strand, ‘There’s little that anyone now can do, When they catch him, he’ll be hanged!’ My mother, crying a flood of tears As my father cursed and swore, ‘I’ll call the Runners, or I’ll be ****** If you let him through my door!’ So Toby galloped to Hounslow Heath Along the Great West Road, Teamed up with the brute Tom Wilmot, Lay low in his abode, They’d venture out on a moonlit night To wait for the latest Stage, But Tom was never the gentleman, Or known to contain his rage. They stopped the coach on a lonely night ‘Your money or your life!’ Dragged out a country gentleman, His maid, and his homely wife, He wanted the ring on the lady’s hand But her finger held it tight, So he sawed the finger off as well With a sharp, serrated knife. ‘It was terrible,’ Toby told me As they loaded him onto the cart, ‘The screams and the blood, unholy,’ As the horse was about to depart, They hung him high on the Tyburn Tree Next to the Wilmot pig, Not undeserved, but I cried and cursed As he danced the Tyburn jig. David Lewis Paget
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
The Tyburn Jig
My brother was twelve years older so I knew him not so well, But heard of him in the taverns, Getting drunk, and raising hell, My mother said, ‘Keep away from him,’ And I did, for many years, But blood is blood, and a brother should Help out, though it ends in tears. He’d done a spot of embezzling, He’d picked the pockets of Earls, You never left him to tend a horse And he wasn’t safe with girls, But he was my brother Toby, And I was his brother Tim, I’d often find him beneath my bed When he said, ‘Don’t let them in!’ By ‘them’ he had meant the Runners Who were active in the Bow, And some of the old Thief-Takers With their ruffians in tow, They roamed the streets with their cudgels And would lie, just out of sight, Beyond the doors of the Taverns, when They turned them adrift at night. The streets were mean, and were far from clean Where my brother used to roam, Despite the pleas of our mother, who Would beg him to come back home, But father remained unbending, said His eldest son was a swine, ‘His endless scrapes, a Jackanapes! He is no son of mine!’ I heard he’d taken a horse and fled From a stables in the Strand, ‘There’s little that anyone now can do, When they catch him, he’ll be hanged!’ My mother, crying a flood of tears As my father cursed and swore, ‘I’ll call the Runners, or I’ll be ****** If you let him through my door!’ So Toby galloped to Hounslow Heath Along the Great West Road, Teamed up with the brute Tom Wilmot, Lay low in his abode, They’d venture out on a moonlit night To wait for the latest Stage, But Tom was never the gentleman, Or known to contain his rage. They stopped the coach on a lonely night ‘Your money or your life!’ Dragged out a country gentleman, His maid, and his homely wife, He wanted the ring on the lady’s hand But her finger held it tight, So he sawed the finger off as well With a sharp, serrated knife. ‘It was terrible,’ Toby told me As they loaded him onto the cart, ‘The screams and the blood, unholy,’ As the horse was about to depart, They hung him high on the Tyburn Tree Next to the Wilmot pig, Not undeserved, but I cried and cursed As he danced the Tyburn jig. David Lewis Paget
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I lay in my cold hospital bed, my arms stinging from the fresh IVs nurse Toby placed under my skin. I lay in my cold hospital bed and wonder... I wonder if I was given even one more month, how many poems and stories I would write. How many people I would make laugh and cry. How many times I would say "I love you." How many times I would pray. How many times I would close my eyes and re-accept my inevitable fate. I lay in my cold hospital bed.
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 7:48 PM UTC
If to be
Some once called him a Grand Old Man, Others called him a slime, You couldn’t get a consensus that Was even, all the time, For some kow-towed to his money, while Others fell by his sword, His life was overall sunny, while His victims quailed at his word. He lorded it over his children, He ruled their kids with ease, A sullen look from beneath his brow Would bring them to their knees, His will was forever changing As solicitors came and went, One day he’d offer a mansion, And another day, a tent. When he finally died he was stony broke And they wondered where it went, He’d always been abstemious But the money had been spent. He left all their lives in ruins with Their expectations gone, A couple of ramshackle houses were The only things they won. There wasn’t the money to bury him So they left him where he sat, Up at the head of the table in His black, beribboned hat, He glared at them as he’d glared in life One hand on the table-top, Where he used to tap with his finger As if it would never stop. Tap-tap-tap on the table-top, Tap-tap-tap it went, His eyes bored into the back of your head As if to say - Repent! And people scurried, this way and that To divine what the tartar meant, The grim old man in his black top hat Who ruled to their detriment. They left him sat and they locked the door Didn’t go back for a year, Til the eldest, saying ‘let’s know for sure,’ Returned with a tinge of fear. ‘He might have stocks in his waistband there Or shares hid under his shirt, Or cash stuffed in his beribboned hat - He treated us all like dirt!’ He ventured into the dining room Where the grim old man still sat, His eyes a-glare in the year long gloom From under the brim of his hat. But as the eldest approached him there The finger began to tap, A steady rap with a note of doom That would curdle blood to sap. So Toby dived to the tinder box And he leapt up with the axe, His face as pale as a ghostly tale But determined to attack. He raised the axe and he let it fall Severed the finger there, It skittered across the table top As the old man fell from his chair. The stocks were stuffed in the old man’s hat The shares were stuffed in his sleeve, And so much cash in his waistband that They said, you wouldn’t believe. But still he’s locked in that grey old house For they found it wouldn’t stop, That severed finger that skittered there Still taps on the table-top! David Lewis Paget
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 1:17 AM UTC
Table Tapping
Some once called him a Grand Old Man, Others called him a slime, You couldn’t get a consensus that Was even, all the time, For some kow-towed to his money, while Others fell by his sword, His life was overall sunny, while His victims quailed at his word. He lorded it over his children, He ruled their kids with ease, A sullen look from beneath his brow Would bring them to their knees, His will was forever changing As solicitors came and went, One day he’d offer a mansion, And another day, a tent. When he finally died he was stony broke And they wondered where it went, He’d always been abstemious But the money had been spent. He left all their lives in ruins with Their expectations gone, A couple of ramshackle houses were The only things they won. There wasn’t the money to bury him So they left him where he sat, Up at the head of the table in His black, beribboned hat, He glared at them as he’d glared in life One hand on the table-top, Where he used to tap with his finger As if it would never stop. Tap-tap-tap on the table-top, Tap-tap-tap it went, His eyes bored into the back of your head As if to say - Repent! And people scurried, this way and that To divine what the tartar meant, The grim old man in his black top hat Who ruled to their detriment. They left him sat and they locked the door Didn’t go back for a year, Til the eldest, saying ‘let’s know for sure,’ Returned with a tinge of fear. ‘He might have stocks in his waistband there Or shares hid under his shirt, Or cash stuffed in his beribboned hat - He treated us all like dirt!’ He ventured into the dining room Where the grim old man still sat, His eyes a-glare in the year long gloom From under the brim of his hat. But as the eldest approached him there The finger began to tap, A steady rap with a note of doom That would curdle blood to sap. So Toby dived to the tinder box And he leapt up with the axe, His face as pale as a ghostly tale But determined to attack. He raised the axe and he let it fall Severed the finger there, It skittered across the table top As the old man fell from his chair. The stocks were stuffed in the old man’s hat The shares were stuffed in his sleeve, And so much cash in his waistband that They said, you wouldn’t believe. But still he’s locked in that grey old house For they found it wouldn’t stop, That severed finger that skittered there Still taps on the table-top! David Lewis Paget
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I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. I will tell you I take the long way to class in  a Chicago January in the snow on foot just to finish dissecting Teenage Dream because you said that song reminds you of me I will tell you I devote time out of my day solely to thinking about you  heart heavily. Because I am always thinking about you, fair warning. And if I let myself indulge a week's worth of thinking of you in one minute, maybe I can study some for my midterm in the morning. I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. In those blindsiding instances of stark realization, when I get a knee **** reaction putting on my scarf that still smells like fruit passion because I made you wear it on the El platform to fend off a wind that round every corner could bend, I will take out my blackberry, tear off my gloves, and tempt frost bite on the tips of my fingers to send you a text that reads “I miss you.” I won't tell you I love you when I don't. I won't tell you I miss you when I don't. Baby, I need not be insincere, I am not in love. Yet. And it’s not you, and it’s not me. It is everyone else here. Everyone else beating my brain in with cosmic signs of Matt and Kim playing on the radio when they never play Matt and Kim on the radio. Every poet pleading with me personally will flip their pages and I will be deemed defenseless against all odds. I will tell you I love you, and I will mean it so fiercely my chest will cave in upon itself thumping like a cartoon and creating a gooey mess of pink hearts. Because you heart pink hearts. I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. I will tell you embedded in the endless, elusive scenes of whimsy that make up my insides, that song by The Darkness will play over every loudspeaker in the Student Center because you paused, you looked at me, and you said “I love you. I really love you.”
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Feb 5, 2011
Feb 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM UTC
Tiresias and Toby
I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. I will tell you I take the long way to class in  a Chicago January in the snow on foot just to finish dissecting Teenage Dream because you said that song reminds you of me I will tell you I devote time out of my day solely to thinking about you  heart heavily. Because I am always thinking about you, fair warning. And if I let myself indulge a week's worth of thinking of you in one minute, maybe I can study some for my midterm in the morning. I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. In those blindsiding instances of stark realization, when I get a knee **** reaction putting on my scarf that still smells like fruit passion because I made you wear it on the El platform to fend off a wind that round every corner could bend, I will take out my blackberry, tear off my gloves, and tempt frost bite on the tips of my fingers to send you a text that reads “I miss you.” I won't tell you I love you when I don't. I won't tell you I miss you when I don't. Baby, I need not be insincere, I am not in love. Yet. And it’s not you, and it’s not me. It is everyone else here. Everyone else beating my brain in with cosmic signs of Matt and Kim playing on the radio when they never play Matt and Kim on the radio. Every poet pleading with me personally will flip their pages and I will be deemed defenseless against all odds. I will tell you I love you, and I will mean it so fiercely my chest will cave in upon itself thumping like a cartoon and creating a gooey mess of pink hearts. Because you heart pink hearts. I won't tell you I love you when I don’t. I won't tell you I miss you when I don’t. I will tell you embedded in the endless, elusive scenes of whimsy that make up my insides, that song by The Darkness will play over every loudspeaker in the Student Center because you paused, you looked at me, and you said “I love you. I really love you.”
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Party zone with johnny Brown Johnny'. Hi guys and welcome to party zone and without further ado here is a song from The ***** hater and no one here will like him I can tell you ***** hater' The drunks of Australia Have made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up The drunks of Australia have actually learnt That their behaviour is so disruptive You see it is me sitting in this bar drinking everything that came out like taquila and kalua And a nice cold beer You see a big mean biker dude Came up to me and said You are singing about my friends And I said The drunks of Australia have Made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up oh yeah The drunks of Australia Should actually learn Their behaviour is so disruptive You see I went over to the stage To put $20 in the bucket because this band asks for donations to help support their kid in chile, as usual there was A lot of money there but as a natural fact everyone in here is a helper apart from The drunks of Australia have made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up The drunks of Australia Should actually learn Their behaviour is quite disruptive Johnny'. Thank you ***** hater And now here is Toby with his Song about partying Toby'. I wanna party I wanna party All ****** day and night I will upload my song about bullying on YouTube to raise Awareness that it is wrong To bully I wanna party I wanna party All day and night I will post this song on hello poetry to inspire people To feel good about posting their Stuff I wanna party I wanna party Like meat loaf and noiseworks And twisted sister I said pass the carrots please And then I went upstairs to yell at my son using the army is better than music gag I wanna party I wanna party I wanna get wasted every day and night I really wanna party dudes Johnny' thank you Toby And now here is mentally ill Harry Harry'. I go to see my case manager to get a script for seroquel It is ****** ****** annoying How they don't give it to me I don't spend that long away from my phone Please please please I want You understand that we ain't robots mate and my beard and glasses and my filthy feet and hands and toe nails and finger nails about as long as a tree branch Please provide me with a script for seroquel please please please Johnny thank you Harry And we will see you next time on party zone bye Sent from my iPhone
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM UTC
friday night party zone
Party zone with johnny Brown Johnny'. Hi guys and welcome to party zone and without further ado here is a song from The ***** hater and no one here will like him I can tell you ***** hater' The drunks of Australia Have made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up The drunks of Australia have actually learnt That their behaviour is so disruptive You see it is me sitting in this bar drinking everything that came out like taquila and kalua And a nice cold beer You see a big mean biker dude Came up to me and said You are singing about my friends And I said The drunks of Australia have Made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up oh yeah The drunks of Australia Should actually learn Their behaviour is so disruptive You see I went over to the stage To put $20 in the bucket because this band asks for donations to help support their kid in chile, as usual there was A lot of money there but as a natural fact everyone in here is a helper apart from The drunks of Australia have made their choice Getting drunk and bashing people up The drunks of Australia Should actually learn Their behaviour is quite disruptive Johnny'. Thank you ***** hater And now here is Toby with his Song about partying Toby'. I wanna party I wanna party All ****** day and night I will upload my song about bullying on YouTube to raise Awareness that it is wrong To bully I wanna party I wanna party All day and night I will post this song on hello poetry to inspire people To feel good about posting their Stuff I wanna party I wanna party Like meat loaf and noiseworks And twisted sister I said pass the carrots please And then I went upstairs to yell at my son using the army is better than music gag I wanna party I wanna party I wanna get wasted every day and night I really wanna party dudes Johnny' thank you Toby And now here is mentally ill Harry Harry'. I go to see my case manager to get a script for seroquel It is ****** ****** annoying How they don't give it to me I don't spend that long away from my phone Please please please I want You understand that we ain't robots mate and my beard and glasses and my filthy feet and hands and toe nails and finger nails about as long as a tree branch Please provide me with a script for seroquel please please please Johnny thank you Harry And we will see you next time on party zone bye Sent from my iPhone
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It feels so vivid (frequency) ---—---------->>>>>                                                      <<<<<<   ------------------------ Constantly thinking every minute. ^ v Huh **** un be  defferent ?              If the NEW sttlyle is toby differant. If these words were a drug (  Cough- needle hits arm.  )                                                    I will never kick it.   ----—--—-———-- Peep the will in me. Emotional stability. Responsibility. ( Freedom = responsibility ) In  Truth  ,  Love  , & symmetry.  My patience... ..........................                          --—-----------------------                              --------------------- My life After death Only a lucky few shall recycle my genius.  The lack of human stimulation did not amaze him.. Annoyed with their commotion. Lifeforms distracted through mixed emotions. The catacombs. the dead resurfaces as I write this poem. This is all expressed to my ocean. Trust it. Climb the summit. Learn to rise above it. My communication. My operation. My construct. He had a schizophrenic disease.
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 8:44 PM UTC
Huh **** Un Be Defferent?
Prepare bloodshed Im tired of being a thorough bred All eyes on me Take heed to words that's said They hate me Cuz they aint black like me Bow down this t h u g Recognize my game Bring more flames than end times Listen to me ****** The world is mine as shine my nine Anyone who jump see the flat line Never left the battle grounds Straight boot camps Lived off of food stamps with tramps Broke the mold now im feelin' bold **** brothers multiply Got every ghetto in the nation high And watch the birds fly South for the December Ill make a massacre that'll make ya remember Yosef been equipped with game So **** the fame let my ***** hang These fools aint ready for war Cuz once i hit it'll no longer be an even score Now that got yo attention What these fool know about **** life? Every playa hata wanna be like Me the underground ghetto king This is a rap ghetto blues so ya can cling Into my raw raps preaching apocalypse Reachin' in my pockets for mo bullets So i can empty clips INTO ya mind fool break the slavery chains I aint never been a toby Bow down like ya owe half these ******* Is phony Claims they ya friends but when ya hit the pen They blowing in the wind And **** paris them aint down for us Got eve ry dumb ***** puttin' up the red white n blue pic **** them bigots they can eat a **** Sweatin' my **** Cuz bringin back that **** **** Never fall back retraced my steps n now im.back To where it all begins Birthed unto this world its daily sin I cant get a break cuz they aint no fate I'm just waitin' for right time To retaliate set my own date date Sike im machiavelli Reincarnated as a mack 11 Burn all my enemies til they flesh is cremated
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Nov 20, 2015
Nov 20, 2015 at 8:47 AM UTC
Military Minded
Prepare bloodshed Im tired of being a thorough bred All eyes on me Take heed to words that's said They hate me Cuz they aint black like me Bow down this t h u g Recognize my game Bring more flames than end times Listen to me ****** The world is mine as shine my nine Anyone who jump see the flat line Never left the battle grounds Straight boot camps Lived off of food stamps with tramps Broke the mold now im feelin' bold **** brothers multiply Got every ghetto in the nation high And watch the birds fly South for the December Ill make a massacre that'll make ya remember Yosef been equipped with game So **** the fame let my ***** hang These fools aint ready for war Cuz once i hit it'll no longer be an even score Now that got yo attention What these fool know about **** life? Every playa hata wanna be like Me the underground ghetto king This is a rap ghetto blues so ya can cling Into my raw raps preaching apocalypse Reachin' in my pockets for mo bullets So i can empty clips INTO ya mind fool break the slavery chains I aint never been a toby Bow down like ya owe half these ******* Is phony Claims they ya friends but when ya hit the pen They blowing in the wind And **** paris them aint down for us Got eve ry dumb ***** puttin' up the red white n blue pic **** them bigots they can eat a **** Sweatin' my **** Cuz bringin back that **** **** Never fall back retraced my steps n now im.back To where it all begins Birthed unto this world its daily sin I cant get a break cuz they aint no fate I'm just waitin' for right time To retaliate set my own date date Sike im machiavelli Reincarnated as a mack 11 Burn all my enemies til they flesh is cremated
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Kings. Queens. Consummation. Kids. Chiefs of clans. Children of chiefs. Close knit communities. Continued cycles. Change. Colorless crews. Coins. Captures. Chains. Chained to you. Chained to the cruise. **** me. **** he. **** she. Check teeth, Choose wisely. Chastise. Cracked whips. Change name: Kunta, no Toby. Change, charge. Christ of captives, **** them!” No, **** him. Continue evil. Change. Break chains. Knots, no more. No, change chains. Lose claims. Coax comfort. Contradict. Corrupt. Cascaded crucifixions. Charred chandeliers. Coerce without cognition of Coming chaos Of civic correction. Civilians conform society. Combatants conquer and confer. Continue. Cultural contributions. Cultural appropriation. Cultural controversy. No complications. No conversations. Did not conceive, Cannot convey. Concede. Not Conceit. Continue. Kings cower before Crowns clarify. Kings killed. Queens cope. Queens cry. Queens say, **** compliance! **** cordial!” Queens coordinate, combat, Condemn, don’t compromise, And command cessation To corrupt civilization. Queens continue Coils, kinks, curls.
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Nov 13, 2017
Nov 13, 2017 at 3:29 PM UTC
What's In A Curl
My name is Kunte Kinte, I've come from lands far away. I was taken hostage and prisoner, And forced to be a slave. Those people took away my name, And gave me another instead. My name is now Toby, And thus Toby I became. Few weeks past, I ran away. I was caught and whipped, And forced to work again. I ran away again, I was caught again too. This time they also, Cut off my right foot. I married a lady named Bell, Who was black and a slave like me, We had a little daughter, Whom I loved and named Kizzy. I died of a broken heart, When my wife was bought and sold. I now lay in a grave, My story forgotten and in everlasting cold.
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Feb 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017 at 4:52 PM UTC
My Name Is Kunte Kinte