Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
"tramps" poems
They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a slow-moving river, Barred with silver and black. Cabs go down it, One, And then another, Between them I hear the shuffling of feet. Tramps doze on the window-ledges, Night-walkers pass along the sidewalks. The city is squalid and sinister, With the silver-barred street in the midst, Slow-moving, A river leading nowhere. Opposite my window, The moon cuts, Clear and round, Through the plum-coloured night. She cannot light the city: It is too bright. It has white lamps, And glitters coldly. I stand in the window and watch the moon. She is thin and lustreless, But I love her. I know the moon, And this is an alien city.
0
9.9k
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
Drunk ***** mother Screws another another Hard working father Taxes alimony smother Kids home alone Raised by the brother Trading her food stamps For ***** like other drunk tramps In another car wreck Drunk ***** fine Hurt the kids neck Cops and judge say What the heck Just keep sending her That fat check
0
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 21, 2016 at 7:22 PM UTC
deadbeat mother. ( inspired by deadbeat dad)
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
0
Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 9:47 AM UTC
SPAMMER SMACKDOWN
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
Continue reading...
4
In a hologram I am the man you would like me to be not real but you see it is me, so why do you want to know who that I am? but the man that's an image a man you would pillage and keep for your own. Pictures that grow up and slow up,then show up just who that you are an image that's far too inconstant a solent a side by the sea aside from you and me and the oceans that we see there is only a halogen lamp which tramps out these scenes and in the inbetweens of our dreams I will be forever the screens on the doors of the more that you want, and the more that we need, the more we will seed the cameras with film. and developed could it be that we see so much more?
0
Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM UTC
Brownies and boxed
Nobility divine fills gaps of transcendence,     Soars to and from the throne heavenly, Exalts morals near the king of ascendance,     Patrolling the good, and sons of the seventy. A duty forgotten, replaced with dependence,     On prayers rarely heard, and logic of a herd - Divinity is far in absence; man in attendance,     The book is a third, and teachings are blurred. Andeliviuan corruption supposedly erased:     The creation rotten of Sariel, wanders gaily. The holy and fallen angel’s doing embraced,     By the clay beings caressing evil like a frailly. By God not, who from heaven him displaced.     Yet, the legacy of the wrong stands humanly, In Thailand, America, Palestine, and all graced -      A grace of sinfulness celestial and worldly.   Religion is the poor’s only ultimate truth,      the rich’s side hustle, and the rulers’ tool; It is the loss of power that defiles the sooth,     The one the poor has not, but does the fool. Robbers’ servants, bread crumbs consumers,     Toothless **** dogs, emaciated lost tramps, Little blind pawns, vultures’ puppets, tumours,     And wrenches they are, the upper hand’s lambs. If only Raguel’s judgements fall upon man,     Raphael’s punishment beautifies this existence, Gabriel’s wrath makes not all humans ane,     And Michael saves us, the Sarahs, in assistance. In the heart deepened with old repression,    That mounts with plenitude of filtered feels, Resides a universe yearning for expression,     In a meat clay who feeds on calories of meals. Man, in the genesis, in the light, in the dark,     In prosperity, in turmoil, triumphed with vices; vileness, abuse, wreckage is our sole mark,     On this planet whose population is in slices.
0
Oct 21, 2022
Oct 21, 2022 at 5:18 AM UTC
Slices
Nobility divine fills gaps of transcendence,     Soars to and from the throne heavenly, Exalts morals near the king of ascendance,     Patrolling the good, and sons of the seventy. A duty forgotten, replaced with dependence,     On prayers rarely heard, and logic of a herd - Divinity is far in absence; man in attendance,     The book is a third, and teachings are blurred. Andeliviuan corruption supposedly erased:     The creation rotten of Sariel, wanders gaily. The holy and fallen angel’s doing embraced,     By the clay beings caressing evil like a frailly. By God not, who from heaven him displaced.     Yet, the legacy of the wrong stands humanly, In Thailand, America, Palestine, and all graced -      A grace of sinfulness celestial and worldly.   Religion is the poor’s only ultimate truth,      the rich’s side hustle, and the rulers’ tool; It is the loss of power that defiles the sooth,     The one the poor has not, but does the fool. Robbers’ servants, bread crumbs consumers,     Toothless **** dogs, emaciated lost tramps, Little blind pawns, vultures’ puppets, tumours,     And wrenches they are, the upper hand’s lambs. If only Raguel’s judgements fall upon man,     Raphael’s punishment beautifies this existence, Gabriel’s wrath makes not all humans ane,     And Michael saves us, the Sarahs, in assistance. In the heart deepened with old repression,    That mounts with plenitude of filtered feels, Resides a universe yearning for expression,     In a meat clay who feeds on calories of meals. Man, in the genesis, in the light, in the dark,     In prosperity, in turmoil, triumphed with vices; vileness, abuse, wreckage is our sole mark,     On this planet whose population is in slices.
Continue reading...
36
An immigrant from County Clare brought to this harsher clime- Phoebe Prince, an Irish lass, a gentle heart and mind. First used, and then discarded by one boy, then another.- Object of the mean girl’s scorn the consummate "outsider"   On her last day alive                                                                                                                                                         They hounded her from school. The girl they called the “Irish **** disgraced and played the fool. Her sister, Lauren, found her body hanging lifeless in the hall. Befriended by nobody Phoebe chose to end it all And on the day they held her wake Those monsters held their dance A debutante cotillion for a troop of soulless tramps. She’s buried here in County Clare because the Ocean's waves protect her from the harpies who drove her to her grave
0
Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 10:56 PM UTC
A Girl named Phoebe
Miles of highway pass me by. So many beautiful places. Yet apon nights reflection I cannot even try. She waits down near that red Georgia clay. So many names to recall. But only one brings a tear to my eyes to say. Jasmine scented dreams hang like spanish moss in my mind. My soul does linger apon a southern shore for the one I could never leave behind. Ive travled the four corners From the lights of Vegas to isolation of planes Montana. I can forget all but my sweet savannah. People many inviting yet none lure me to stay. All night dinners frequent flyers. loving like madmen only to vanish with the day. We are pirates of land. Giving all sacrfice the soul. The tramps of being in demand. Should I stray to oceans view. Cocktails by the beach front bar. Taste of peach mixed with strawberries and bannana. So sweet to the taste apon painted lips. But none can ever quench the thirst. For the sunset of savanna
0
Nov 19, 2009
Nov 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM UTC
Sunset Of Savanna
Every time I walked these cobbled streets its just after the rains as if God himself is trying to wash this city down the drains Narrow streets and terraced houses back yard postage stamps overflowing dumpsters cashless carry for the tramps No vibrant colours to be found just different shades of brown the colour of depression destined to drag you down No wonder everybody leaves can't wait to get away escape this drab and dying maze in search of sunny days
0
Sep 9, 2010
Sep 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM UTC
***** old town
Speakin’ in general, I’ave tried ’em all The ‘appy roads that take you o’er the world. Speakin’ in general, I’ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, But must get ‘ence, the same as I’ave done, An’ go observin’ matters till they die. What do it matter where or ‘ow we die, So long as we’ve our ‘ealth to watch it all— The different ways that different things are done, An’ men an’ women lovin’ in this world; Takin’ our chances as they come along, An’ when they ain’t, pretendin’ they are good? In cash or credit—no, it aren’t no good; You’ve to ‘ave the ‘abit or you’d die, Unless you lived your life but one day long, Nor didn’t prophesy nor fret at all, But drew your tucker some’ow from the world, An’ never bothered what you might ha’ done. But, Gawd, what things are they I’aven’t done? I’ve turned my ‘and to most, an’ turned it good, In various situations round the world For ‘im that doth not work must surely die; But that’s no reason man should labour all ‘Is life on one same shift—life’s none so long. Therefore, from job to job I’ve moved along. Pay couldn’t ‘old me when my time was done, For something in my ‘ead upset it all, Till I’ad dropped whatever ’twas for good, An’, out at sea, be’eld the dock-lights die, An’ met my mate—the wind that tramps the world! It’s like a book, I think, this bloomin, world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you’re readi’n’ done, An’ turn another—likely not so good; But what you’re after is to turn’em all. Gawd bless this world! Whatever she’oth done— Excep’ When awful long—I’ve found it good. So write, before I die, ” ‘E liked it all!”
0
2.4k
Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal
Speakin’ in general, I’ave tried ’em all The ‘appy roads that take you o’er the world. Speakin’ in general, I’ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, But must get ‘ence, the same as I’ave done, An’ go observin’ matters till they die. What do it matter where or ‘ow we die, So long as we’ve our ‘ealth to watch it all— The different ways that different things are done, An’ men an’ women lovin’ in this world; Takin’ our chances as they come along, An’ when they ain’t, pretendin’ they are good? In cash or credit—no, it aren’t no good; You’ve to ‘ave the ‘abit or you’d die, Unless you lived your life but one day long, Nor didn’t prophesy nor fret at all, But drew your tucker some’ow from the world, An’ never bothered what you might ha’ done. But, Gawd, what things are they I’aven’t done? I’ve turned my ‘and to most, an’ turned it good, In various situations round the world For ‘im that doth not work must surely die; But that’s no reason man should labour all ‘Is life on one same shift—life’s none so long. Therefore, from job to job I’ve moved along. Pay couldn’t ‘old me when my time was done, For something in my ‘ead upset it all, Till I’ad dropped whatever ’twas for good, An’, out at sea, be’eld the dock-lights die, An’ met my mate—the wind that tramps the world! It’s like a book, I think, this bloomin, world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you get the page you’re readi’n’ done, An’ turn another—likely not so good; But what you’re after is to turn’em all. Gawd bless this world! Whatever she’oth done— Excep’ When awful long—I’ve found it good. So write, before I die, ” ‘E liked it all!”
Continue reading...
39
She camps out inside and tramps in all night with her trove by her side on the stove there's a light and she claims she can't hide blaming no one in sight and I know when she's lied it's when she says she's alright there's a hole in the door she can peek thru and a bowl on the floor for the leak to give its drops from the ceiling from the roof they won't patch from the cops she's concealing all the proof from her batch still I can't stop from feeling she'd be a pretty good catch if she'd only be willing to change ©2011 Lyn
0
Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 10:31 AM UTC
change
Jamming jellyfish Top-Me  ((Giddy App Seahorse)) The horseradish on my lap______ The jolly Jelly Gefilte Fish Little help from my friends How we click the laptop One dent to Deceive me The Rock and Rolling Stomach his smoke went Like *** Cheese) he leaves me The spicy tongue map Z-Top Zany Chilli Pepper____ your # tap dance tap Italian top of the cheese designer skirt The outskirts of Naples Her sweet dimples, please The Islands of Sicily So many Cheese forms Terms of Endearment Mama Mia Murano-Positano Her lips of Romano Cheese (To Top Me) Challenge me Cheese doesn't mix with cappuccino, she's the Capri Ala Denti Cheese Wiz chair Mediterranean Wines Bear men doing low sips of time the grisly(Z) pour The car smelled like Flight (Top Me) Swiss air Meet Dominique How it went La Cirque Anti Christ Devil Red-bed cheese mystique SOS to their notes PS the junk car in Midas the makeover Make-up artist counter Clinique I could paint over your hood Creamy mind put at ease He's so displeased New castle disease Mingling social disease She's so infectious ZZ- Top me rock me Eyes bloodshot you got me And nevertheless With twelve and V V- Vamps tramps and 14 karats The French Lieutenant Mistress Brie with heavy bite teeth like garnets Cher turning back time The burlesque striptease Come back little Sheba Z Top Queen of Sheba I know it's coming soon____? All Tight claustrophobic The tight squeeze Him speaking Mandarin Oranges The British Colony Unique Chinese languages Her hills, San Francisco Jack Nicholson Comedy of China town The American Women Smile cheese at the Disco The food Cantonese style Z muscles Hercules Joan Rivers Fashion Police The Cheese of Portuguese Its the meat market With his nifty thrifty Neice All Socrates (Gromet and Cheese) Those Brooklyn workers The Falcon Matese____* More cheese Z-Top Who could ever top The string cheese Silken strings became to rest, I rest my cheese What cheese fascinates you Tell me?
0
Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 at 9:12 AM UTC
Z- Top Me! Cheese
Jamming jellyfish Top-Me  ((Giddy App Seahorse)) The horseradish on my lap______ The jolly Jelly Gefilte Fish Little help from my friends How we click the laptop One dent to Deceive me The Rock and Rolling Stomach his smoke went Like *** Cheese) he leaves me The spicy tongue map Z-Top Zany Chilli Pepper____ your # tap dance tap Italian top of the cheese designer skirt The outskirts of Naples Her sweet dimples, please The Islands of Sicily So many Cheese forms Terms of Endearment Mama Mia Murano-Positano Her lips of Romano Cheese (To Top Me) Challenge me Cheese doesn't mix with cappuccino, she's the Capri Ala Denti Cheese Wiz chair Mediterranean Wines Bear men doing low sips of time the grisly(Z) pour The car smelled like Flight (Top Me) Swiss air Meet Dominique How it went La Cirque Anti Christ Devil Red-bed cheese mystique SOS to their notes PS the junk car in Midas the makeover Make-up artist counter Clinique I could paint over your hood Creamy mind put at ease He's so displeased New castle disease Mingling social disease She's so infectious ZZ- Top me rock me Eyes bloodshot you got me And nevertheless With twelve and V V- Vamps tramps and 14 karats The French Lieutenant Mistress Brie with heavy bite teeth like garnets Cher turning back time The burlesque striptease Come back little Sheba Z Top Queen of Sheba I know it's coming soon____? All Tight claustrophobic The tight squeeze Him speaking Mandarin Oranges The British Colony Unique Chinese languages Her hills, San Francisco Jack Nicholson Comedy of China town The American Women Smile cheese at the Disco The food Cantonese style Z muscles Hercules Joan Rivers Fashion Police The Cheese of Portuguese Its the meat market With his nifty thrifty Neice All Socrates (Gromet and Cheese) Those Brooklyn workers The Falcon Matese____* More cheese Z-Top Who could ever top The string cheese Silken strings became to rest, I rest my cheese What cheese fascinates you Tell me?
Continue reading...
98
The doors of the churches and the schools are closed. No decent people are on the streets, Where we see sad crimes and horrible abuses. Many windshields are broken by badly thrown stones. Violence rains in the streets and in the corridors; No dogs or cats dared to vent outside. A few meager birds, on the branches, stare with disdain And amazement several thugs and charlatans with masked faces. It is sad to see these heinous crimes. How awful! There is a hostile war? One wonders which party will win? We can hear the voice of an old man coming somewhere Who shouts faintly, "We are all poor victims, sad tramps, Who are committing suicide for bad politicians, for misers. " Not too far, we can see a crazy woman with a close friend, Both in rags. It's a nightmarish image that proves That the country has become a hell on earth. On the radio, they say That some ships of the United States Navy are in the harbor. What are they doing on our territory? We flee, Or we do not flee? We cannot. Everyone is in prison. Violence snows blood on the streets of a tropical country, where fear Reigns. Children do not dare to play in the streets, where terror Hisses like snakes, like machine guns of the enraged demons. No war is civil or civilized; war among the same people is also violent And nefarious. My God, things are very bad in the streets nearby. Violence is raining and everyone is crying. Victims are everywhere at bay, Waiting for the arrival of the good angels, who shall come perhaps in a few months. Copyright © June 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry. This is a translation of the poem La Violence Pleut Dans Les Rues by Hebert Logerie
0
Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM UTC
Violence Rains In The Streets
The doors of the churches and the schools are closed. No decent people are on the streets, Where we see sad crimes and horrible abuses. Many windshields are broken by badly thrown stones. Violence rains in the streets and in the corridors; No dogs or cats dared to vent outside. A few meager birds, on the branches, stare with disdain And amazement several thugs and charlatans with masked faces. It is sad to see these heinous crimes. How awful! There is a hostile war? One wonders which party will win? We can hear the voice of an old man coming somewhere Who shouts faintly, "We are all poor victims, sad tramps, Who are committing suicide for bad politicians, for misers. " Not too far, we can see a crazy woman with a close friend, Both in rags. It's a nightmarish image that proves That the country has become a hell on earth. On the radio, they say That some ships of the United States Navy are in the harbor. What are they doing on our territory? We flee, Or we do not flee? We cannot. Everyone is in prison. Violence snows blood on the streets of a tropical country, where fear Reigns. Children do not dare to play in the streets, where terror Hisses like snakes, like machine guns of the enraged demons. No war is civil or civilized; war among the same people is also violent And nefarious. My God, things are very bad in the streets nearby. Violence is raining and everyone is crying. Victims are everywhere at bay, Waiting for the arrival of the good angels, who shall come perhaps in a few months. Copyright © June 2019, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry. This is a translation of the poem La Violence Pleut Dans Les Rues by Hebert Logerie
Continue reading...
29
City almost done now, the fun somehow has left these streets, but weary feet are tramping home, sick to death and weary to the bone. Rtoseberry avenue postcode EC1 and then it's gone. Clerkenwell green, scene of many unpleasantries leaves me and on to St John's street and more city feet. Old street not paved with gold except for the elite and more weary feet tramping on. It's the end of another day and the city always had its way with the few and the lucky ones escaped by bus, not us, we went hobo on the city street, tramps and dodgy people, feet so sore and where if when we look to see the Shoreditch box park know we are not far or free of Hackney and the night falls dark across me. I do I do Said twice, but in my heart I knew it wasn't so. I go because I must've been and seen it all before and though I know it's rotten to the core it draws me like a magnet and I am being trawled by some megaline or dragnet. The streets beat me down and the pirates in this ***** town have stolen me away, just another bedtime story written underneath the evening stars and just another ending of the day.
0
Aug 5, 2015
Aug 5, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
55 bus route ( tubeless blues)
Lost in an unfamiliar home, deep inside a book In the comforting glow of that lamp that stood... Standing to attention in that gloomy nook The words jumbled & spun on that page So I slammed shut the book Above me burned a coil of tungsten Blazing bright White And from it Every angle burst its miracle of light Beams/ waves destined for far off places But shackled by the shade Mocked by the tasselled trim Harnessed by the braid My mind wanders... It is a marvel of our age That we choose to create lamps so bright that they need a shade That they need to be shaded Those lamps can't shine so bright For without the shade the dark won't creep in and we wouldn't be aware of the night. I step outside Into that night Shadows cast by the city street lights Down that dank alley Lives an uncelebrated man In a tattered box with faded damp Barely noticed Camouflaged To most he's just another jaded ***** If only they could see He They We Individually tailor the shade for our lamp Privately (inside translucent shields)  we all burn bright. Shaded by fear and notions of what's wrong and right Right and wrong Wrong and right Creations of those that had the strength to fight Not by the humbled, battered and bruised Too shaded to raise a blazing revolutionary fist Too fractured, hungry and confused Afraid of the attention caused from cries for any justice Instead Inside my head I imagine I have my own bed A good book An cosy reading chair And a lamp standing to attention with its thousand-yard stare Staring out to the ever rising seas Cometh the great submerging eviction Mass migrations fleeing war, famine & filthy camps Oceans rise and tears fall with whispered benediction How many of you will become degraded tramps But we just keep insisting that it is farflung fiction Back to my box and its faded damp Silhouettes of four impatient horses appear on an windswept horizon. This false paradise we live in with its twisted ergonomics? Should we really sit and wait for the catastrophes to appear? Surely we are collectively able to create a smarter economics? Or is it just easier continuing to accept living in fear? Because when all is accounted for All the pros and cons have been weighed What matters most Is not the brightness of your lamp But your choice of shade.
0
Mar 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016 at 6:55 PM UTC
The Shaded Lamp
Lost in an unfamiliar home, deep inside a book In the comforting glow of that lamp that stood... Standing to attention in that gloomy nook The words jumbled & spun on that page So I slammed shut the book Above me burned a coil of tungsten Blazing bright White And from it Every angle burst its miracle of light Beams/ waves destined for far off places But shackled by the shade Mocked by the tasselled trim Harnessed by the braid My mind wanders... It is a marvel of our age That we choose to create lamps so bright that they need a shade That they need to be shaded Those lamps can't shine so bright For without the shade the dark won't creep in and we wouldn't be aware of the night. I step outside Into that night Shadows cast by the city street lights Down that dank alley Lives an uncelebrated man In a tattered box with faded damp Barely noticed Camouflaged To most he's just another jaded ***** If only they could see He They We Individually tailor the shade for our lamp Privately (inside translucent shields)  we all burn bright. Shaded by fear and notions of what's wrong and right Right and wrong Wrong and right Creations of those that had the strength to fight Not by the humbled, battered and bruised Too shaded to raise a blazing revolutionary fist Too fractured, hungry and confused Afraid of the attention caused from cries for any justice Instead Inside my head I imagine I have my own bed A good book An cosy reading chair And a lamp standing to attention with its thousand-yard stare Staring out to the ever rising seas Cometh the great submerging eviction Mass migrations fleeing war, famine & filthy camps Oceans rise and tears fall with whispered benediction How many of you will become degraded tramps But we just keep insisting that it is farflung fiction Back to my box and its faded damp Silhouettes of four impatient horses appear on an windswept horizon. This false paradise we live in with its twisted ergonomics? Should we really sit and wait for the catastrophes to appear? Surely we are collectively able to create a smarter economics? Or is it just easier continuing to accept living in fear? Because when all is accounted for All the pros and cons have been weighed What matters most Is not the brightness of your lamp But your choice of shade.
Continue reading...
66
1. Man rising to the doom that shall not err,-- Which hath most dread: the arouse of all or each; All kindreds of all nations of all speech, Or one by one of him and him and her? While dust reanimate begins to stir Here, there, beyond, beyond, reach beyond reach; While every wave refashions on the beach Alive or dead-in-life some seafarer. Now meeting doth not join or parting part; True meeting and true parting wait till then, When whoso meet are joined for evermore, Face answering face and heart at rest in heart:-- God bring us all rejoicing to the shore Of happy Heaven, His sheep home to the pen. 2. Blessed that flock safe penned in Paradise; Blessed this flock which tramps in weary ways; All form one flock, God's flock; all yield Him praise By joy or pain, still tending toward the prize. Joy speaks in praises there, and sings and flies Where no night is, exulting all its days; Here, pain finds solace, for, behold, it prays; In both love lives the life that never dies. Here life is the beginning of our death, And death the starting-point whence life ensues; Surely our life is death, our death is life: Nor need we lay to heart our peace or strife, But calm in faith and patience breathe the breath God gave, to take again when He shall choose.
0
1.8k
Behold A Shaking
Something would come of it yet The last cocaine-wild, cosmic amphetamine eyes Howled down the eastern hills To the city’s beckoning lights Tramps and harlots light fire from their palms Blown pupils dark in love sick, longing eyes Growing with the wild, restless wind In lustful, glamorous disguise And there the angel of the evening Sat upon the sultry heat As troubadours gaze into the mirror She pours them pills in restless fleets And as the city settles And the western wind starts to blow The dizzy euphoria sinks away As their vision starts to close So dawn breaks the singing night The buzzing high leaves the blood The poets and painters Let their stream of consciousness flood Torn rhymes cover the wall Where artists and addicts have met Where splattered tunes had brayed Something came of it yet.
0
Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 4:52 PM UTC
Cosmic Amphetamine
A billiard table imprints its damp shadow on a yellow wooden floor. The game still unbegun, mere fragment of the sorrow felt by the patrons whose wilted heads will still be here tomorrow, if tomorrow comes. Red walls distended by burning lamps and burned out hearts beating blood through ear drums: Reverie to the night god /   Dreaming tramps drowning in their heads in lakes of absinthe color of the ceiling better than being awake but indefinitely absent. The lamps blink, eyes floating, speak all-seeing: Vincent, let us meet before you entreat the crows out of your head into the wheat.
0
Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020 at 10:33 AM UTC
The Night Café
In the eye where I am where there's peace,(so to speak) I take out the album which I carry in a telegram and in those few stunted phrases, my heart again blazes with desire,full of fire and of want. This is punishment for me and I see retribution in these lines, times though be far are near as I wear out my eyeglass making pass after pass at the words on the clipped sheet in my hand, telegram and the full of memory man and the eye carries me on to the storm that levels all in its path, I shall weep for this no more,bring the winds and let them bore through me and the rains to swallow my tears unshed. I am led like the goat to the pipers of Pan. I am the telegram becoming the man and the album's a plan to destroy me,though the Devil employs many vices it seems that nothing is fixed and there's a swirling of voices which melt into one,(am i to be that one?) This saxophonic cacophony within which I am caught teaches me, what once before I was taught, I'm a prisoner in the dock and the black cap is on and the 'beak' up ahead says,'you're going to swing John' And the beggars and tramps and those bums that you meet on the islands of midnight where the ne'er do well greets you with,'lend me a dime' all make some time to come to the show where I swing to and fro and...look at my face all bloated and blue, (it's only make up,but what can I do,poor ******* I am) and the eye winks at me,winks at me as if I could see the joke in this,it is funny though, that one feels so tall as the trapdoor opens and you begin the fall but then it's snap, crackle and pop full stop dead end. telegram sent, I'm going home. stop. end.
0
Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 7:10 AM UTC
Hurricanes and ice cream
In the eye where I am where there's peace,(so to speak) I take out the album which I carry in a telegram and in those few stunted phrases, my heart again blazes with desire,full of fire and of want. This is punishment for me and I see retribution in these lines, times though be far are near as I wear out my eyeglass making pass after pass at the words on the clipped sheet in my hand, telegram and the full of memory man and the eye carries me on to the storm that levels all in its path, I shall weep for this no more,bring the winds and let them bore through me and the rains to swallow my tears unshed. I am led like the goat to the pipers of Pan. I am the telegram becoming the man and the album's a plan to destroy me,though the Devil employs many vices it seems that nothing is fixed and there's a swirling of voices which melt into one,(am i to be that one?) This saxophonic cacophony within which I am caught teaches me, what once before I was taught, I'm a prisoner in the dock and the black cap is on and the 'beak' up ahead says,'you're going to swing John' And the beggars and tramps and those bums that you meet on the islands of midnight where the ne'er do well greets you with,'lend me a dime' all make some time to come to the show where I swing to and fro and...look at my face all bloated and blue, (it's only make up,but what can I do,poor ******* I am) and the eye winks at me,winks at me as if I could see the joke in this,it is funny though, that one feels so tall as the trapdoor opens and you begin the fall but then it's snap, crackle and pop full stop dead end. telegram sent, I'm going home. stop. end.
Continue reading...
22
12 BARS Twelve brazen bars, one frozen lock! Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc endures inside a barren cage, her catacomb in sundown sage. Of former days there is no trace except displays of fallen grace – Twelve dreams, abiding in her place, are free, inhabit yawning space: 12 DREAMS ... of wings unfurled, and seething eyes that dredge the depths of dawning skies, devining clouds that cling below, once ice, dissolved in morning’s glow; ... of clutching winds that carry free above an anguished leaden sea, dispersing dust of distant stars midst chunks of chain in slave bazaars; ... of swooping to a silent shore to perch beside the ocean’s roar, at last to feel the sobbing breeze message the leaves of rooted trees; ... of stalking strays and twilight tramps within the fog of lighthouse lamps that blink forlorn through caldron nights in search of shades of errant Kites; ... of darkling vast deserted lands, with shadowed stones on windswept sands, where ghosts of Moorish maidens lost disgorge faint groans in mourning frost; ... of blotting out the bloated moon while feathers beat a banshee tune and glimmers dance and prance aglow upon a pearly pale plateau; ... of tasting cool torrential rains, beyond the realm of binding chains, and sipping freedom they exude in quite drops of solitude; ... of vanquishing a galley crew aboard a ship in midnight dew, beneath the pierce of seagulls' screams that mock the strands of scarlet streams; ... of sating once an aching craw with tearing beak, with ripping claw, and echoed by an eldritch screech while feasting on abandoned beach; ... of restive thoughts and weary wings that drift on haze in smoky rings, obscured within the opal shroud of her resemblance in the crowd; ... of croaking caws in broken rhyme in winter woe, in summer clime, while building nests of sundown sage beyond outside a barren cage.
0
May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 8:28 AM UTC
Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS Twelve brazen bars, one frozen lock! Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc endures inside a barren cage, her catacomb in sundown sage. Of former days there is no trace except displays of fallen grace – Twelve dreams, abiding in her place, are free, inhabit yawning space: 12 DREAMS ... of wings unfurled, and seething eyes that dredge the depths of dawning skies, devining clouds that cling below, once ice, dissolved in morning’s glow; ... of clutching winds that carry free above an anguished leaden sea, dispersing dust of distant stars midst chunks of chain in slave bazaars; ... of swooping to a silent shore to perch beside the ocean’s roar, at last to feel the sobbing breeze message the leaves of rooted trees; ... of stalking strays and twilight tramps within the fog of lighthouse lamps that blink forlorn through caldron nights in search of shades of errant Kites; ... of darkling vast deserted lands, with shadowed stones on windswept sands, where ghosts of Moorish maidens lost disgorge faint groans in mourning frost; ... of blotting out the bloated moon while feathers beat a banshee tune and glimmers dance and prance aglow upon a pearly pale plateau; ... of tasting cool torrential rains, beyond the realm of binding chains, and sipping freedom they exude in quite drops of solitude; ... of vanquishing a galley crew aboard a ship in midnight dew, beneath the pierce of seagulls' screams that mock the strands of scarlet streams; ... of sating once an aching craw with tearing beak, with ripping claw, and echoed by an eldritch screech while feasting on abandoned beach; ... of restive thoughts and weary wings that drift on haze in smoky rings, obscured within the opal shroud of her resemblance in the crowd; ... of croaking caws in broken rhyme in winter woe, in summer clime, while building nests of sundown sage beyond outside a barren cage.
Continue reading...
54
From morn to friendless night, He tramps the streets, Just in case he might Come across her, he's a tragic sight, But he doesn’t care, Love gives him might, He haunts the cafes and the discos And the bars, so lovelorn. He knows that he won't find her, But he's got to keep on trying, It gives some meaning To his life, It gives some substance To his time, It is his motive, and his project, And his plan, so lovelorn. He only met her once, But it changed his life, And it changed his type, And it changed his mind, And he threw it all up, As if he'd gone insane, And he took to the streets, And another man was born. They say love comes but once For some, but when it does, It's like a mighty Atom bomb inside, A disease that seizes A gentle soul, And if it comes for you, You'd better try to hide. From morn to friendless night, He tramps the streets Just in case he might Come across her, he's a tragic sight, But he doesn't care, Love gives him might, He haunts the cafes and the discos And the bars, so lovelorn.
0
Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
Lovelorn in London Town
I poeticize, proselytize Punctuate and pontificate. I write couplets and rhymes And I really do it all the time. I exacerbate and exaggerate With no desire to intimidate. I make similes and metaphors Indoors and even out of doors. There’s cussing and discussion And sharp literary impressions Through diversions, conversions Allusions as well as conclusions. And with luck, no delusions. Just syllabically deft fusions Of some deferential references With a deft touch of reverence. I rhyme thyme with fresh lime And cardamom with cinnamon. Sweetbreads and shortbreads. Chicken bones and licking scones. Rhyming pumpkins with dumplings And matching up filets with filberts Just as cocoa goes well with Kona. Marmalade can be a good marinade. I rhyme chrome wheels and automobiles, Freeway off-ramps and Tiffany lamps. Cellophane and vintage airplanes. Flapper vamps and streetwalking tramps. Also Cinderella coaches and cockroaches, Nothing is unfair game to a busy poet. As well as RCA Victors and boa constrictors. Since I’m a poet, everyone should know it.
0
Mar 23, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 at 5:22 AM UTC
I POETICIZE
You would think A fool who always lies Would finally surmise He is known to be unwise In most other people’s eyes. You would think A snake in the grass Would not have an *** But it comes to pass That some are all *** You would think A pile of dog manure Would smell himself for sure And that would insure To show that he's not pure. You would think A **** so full of hate Would not aspire to be great And instead would wait Until humility reached his gate. You would think Being socially quite blind No ability to be quite kind Would someday soften the rind Of almost any creep you’d find. You would think With so many tramps around And unfunny political clowns Someone would knock him down; Teach him something on the ground. You would think Some lesson would be due To give this reprobate a clue And help him know what to do, But that might never come true.
0
Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 2:39 AM UTC
YOU WOULD THINK
You know the type, tuff rubber doll full of hype! She'll steel you blind then she'll drink your last bottle of wine! Claims she's a ****** until you find out she brought you so much hurtin' Another ****** Tina! The kind of girl you wanted to marry? She'll do every Tom, **** & Harry! Just to get what she wants at your expense her *** is what she flaunts! Only to get what she wants! Her nose job shows up on your credit card! Its no surprise so don't take it hard! You're on a sinking ship, she's in your best friends bed! Cuz, you been thinking with your wrong **** head! Another ****** Tina! Sticky fingered tramps now laid to rest! Got killed the last time she got undressed! Some **** *** stabbed her in the face! Got what she deserved she was a real disgrace! Another ****** Tina! Oh man, What a bore! Another stupid useless ***** Another ****** Tina!
0
Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
Another **** Tina