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"trimmings" poems
. I've stared... Longingly forever into you You'd stare back but you never really knew Hands of hours, minutes and seconds I've shook All the time I've carelessly took I've witnessed... That etched on each one, that amazing smile A crutch forged of sunrays that had carried me many a mile It's all that I have to know of you In this endless chase I've sought to pursue I've envisioned... Different ways you'd wear your crown Various trimmings on lavish gowns Smitten by the way you sport your paint The nectarous song sung in your gait ever so faint I've imagined... The addictive rise and fall of your every breath Bringing me back to life after every death Pulses of sweet nothings that never did ebb Ensnaring my heart with your silk spun web I've believed... You are the queen of my future tale untold I've felt it so real like verses written in bold But I've awakened from slumber into terrifying reality Pains me to realise that you're nothing but imaginary...
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 8:25 AM UTC
Imaginary
Retailers hope to net profits with the overlapping of holiday seasons. Thanksgiving is yet to be history; but, out comes the Christmas trimmings. No big surprise seeing holiday reminders arriving and filling mail box, comes with pre-season, this early blitz of commercials on tv now the net. Early arrival of holiday brings bell ringers standing between shopper's exit, a failure to repeat and repeat donations, brings looks of extreme displeasure. Each and every time you enter or exit discount, drug, and many retail stores, shoppers face not only bell ringers; but, 365 days donate at register requests. Most can't equal billion dollar give aways by Bill and Melinda Gates' circle. Most work extremely hard and donate but also choose to live on budgets. I donate and have nothing against charities; but, how much should one give? Retailers, putting shoppers on the spot, asking for donations upon check out? Never a pinch penny when it comes to sharing when there's an "actual" need, generosity is always a personal choice, I let guilt not be my companion in giving. Multiple donations to canister's of amnesiac holiday bell ringers? Wont happen! Nothing against legit charities; but, giving until you're broke, you "will" be needy.
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM UTC
Charity
We're unlucky So incredibly unfortunate To find mistletoe Hanging pretty above our heads Waiting for that kiss The one that comes with all the trimmings Of what Christmas is Alone Separated Wishing You were next to me Standing underneath this mistletoe That now mocks romance at me Above my head
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Dec 25, 2012
Dec 25, 2012 at 10:52 PM UTC
Mistletoe in all the wrong places
I got a hundred shoes in pairs, of course and a wardrobe fit for a Princess I got the bed carved with gold trimmings from the best end of town; and a range of the best wigs - all human hair, third world crop no doubt but at first world cost for sure that all took me into bad debt credit card and all so when debonair James asked me to marry him I grabbed him lips to lips - now he's paying through his nose MORAL of  TODAY'S POEM so those of you guys who are naive you get caught; those who are smart you better use your head before you put your knees on the floor
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
vain girl, but clever ( a cautionary tale)
the words don't come easy on this head-pounding hungover day every train of thought trails off into intangible nonsense. maybe if i buy a new pen? i think perhaps then these words won't look so lame? maybe a carbon steel ballpoint pen with high-grade stainless steel trimmings. i could engrave my name on it. with a pen like that, i think i could write cryptic poetry that would bewilder the masses. then i speculate the possibilities of stabbing myself in the neck with a pen like that with my name engraved on it. possibly if i hit a main artery in my neck, i think that could work. but i can't afford a pen like that.
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Feb 25, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
pen
I hold my heart to you baby, Fill it up to the brim, Fill it raw Fill it fast Don't worry that it might drop, Fill it with whispers of sweet nothings, Fill it with out any trimmings... Fill my heart...baby Fill it up to the brim... I wanna dance to those gentle whispers I wanna a swirl and drink the love, Wanna feel heady, drunk to my soul Fill my heart...baby Fill it up to the brim, Come closer, hold me tight When love gently spills, Toast it with delight... Fill my heart...baby Fill it up to the brim, I won't ask you obvious questions, I won't demand for a reply, I stretch my heart to you... Fill it with love, Fill it with a song, I will slurp with joy... Lemme promise that I will share, The love you filled with so much care, Let's share a sip between us, Let's toast for love and trust... So, pour some more love to my heart baby, I will top it up with mine, Let it overflow and flood my veins, I wanna feel love travel to my brain, I wanna feel love soften my eyes, I want you to see, your love reflect in mine... Fill my heart...baby Fill it up to the brim... Fill it raw Fill it fast Don't worry that it might drop, Fill it with whispers of sweet nothings, Fill it with out any trimmings...
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 6:56 AM UTC
Crazy crazy love
even teddy said i got the sickest tricks brah. like my abilities source from some kinda legendary liquid                                                                                       / praise the lord / monster energy should sponsor me. a kickflip over the king’s *** hole & a halfcab for the looky-loos. i feel so tall when i climb that heap of asphalt trimmings & see clear from the water tower to the bluffs. gimme a good day, any day at the bluffs, bottlerockets & girly birds. her body brings a swarm of worms. decomp, said the f.b.i. men one by one with tweezers. not quite the homecoming queen, still wrapped in plastic. look up. see that great mess of wires, nest of powerlines and owl bones? it crackles and croons its electro-spectral purr all night and day. new neck tat & cody spends his paycheck on a crossbow. we target practice on a bull skull. wet cigarettes and turpentine-soaked socks for a good huff in the dry of the roofline as it dumps. there’s that little boy in a ghost mask again, tap-dancing in puddles below the streetlamp, & oversized shoes. his grandmoms always be watchin’ from the window. [whispers] she’s teaching him magic. lucky unit 19: where our young dead damsel once dolled herself up, you see men and headlights would roll thru thrice nightly, maybe more. & i remember her punch red lips & big whicker hat; while she weeded and watered her garden of begonias. the sheriff’s deputy, hart? hicks? hogan? well he loved her a bunch. stole her clothes in the middle of the night, & sat beside the river sobbing into clumped fists of bra and blouse. i bought ******* from that guy once or twice. harold? howard? guess who showed his face today? josiah, from unit 08. since the incident with molly’s beagle, he’s been rarely seen. took a bee line straight for the mailbox. a package. a prize. a decoder ring/secret map sweepstakes to be seen and deciphered.
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 1:44 AM UTC
& skullduggery at the fat trout trailer park
even teddy said i got the sickest tricks brah. like my abilities source from some kinda legendary liquid                                                                                       / praise the lord / monster energy should sponsor me. a kickflip over the king’s *** hole & a halfcab for the looky-loos. i feel so tall when i climb that heap of asphalt trimmings & see clear from the water tower to the bluffs. gimme a good day, any day at the bluffs, bottlerockets & girly birds. her body brings a swarm of worms. decomp, said the f.b.i. men one by one with tweezers. not quite the homecoming queen, still wrapped in plastic. look up. see that great mess of wires, nest of powerlines and owl bones? it crackles and croons its electro-spectral purr all night and day. new neck tat & cody spends his paycheck on a crossbow. we target practice on a bull skull. wet cigarettes and turpentine-soaked socks for a good huff in the dry of the roofline as it dumps. there’s that little boy in a ghost mask again, tap-dancing in puddles below the streetlamp, & oversized shoes. his grandmoms always be watchin’ from the window. [whispers] she’s teaching him magic. lucky unit 19: where our young dead damsel once dolled herself up, you see men and headlights would roll thru thrice nightly, maybe more. & i remember her punch red lips & big whicker hat; while she weeded and watered her garden of begonias. the sheriff’s deputy, hart? hicks? hogan? well he loved her a bunch. stole her clothes in the middle of the night, & sat beside the river sobbing into clumped fists of bra and blouse. i bought ******* from that guy once or twice. harold? howard? guess who showed his face today? josiah, from unit 08. since the incident with molly’s beagle, he’s been rarely seen. took a bee line straight for the mailbox. a package. a prize. a decoder ring/secret map sweepstakes to be seen and deciphered.
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Just a little cheeky one thats all i said I'd have and 4 hours on much later's Me's dying for a drag aint smoked for like forever but beer head is in charge my goggles working overtime be jeez look at that **** The pub did so just kick me out but night i wasna done me dancing shoes were ready now its time to boogie on I danced just like me father and dancing all seemed fine until the big bad bouncer said son you've had your time I'm wobbly to be standing and speech a lickle off me hiccups still aint faded on I'm on a spinning top I ate like just some time ago yet fancy a kebab with chili sauce to burn my mouth and payback morning aft Now lying in my bed of dreams a world goes spinning by my head is working over time I think I'm gonna die my bucket is beside me its used and nearly full kebab and all the trimmings mmm a boffing here we go Next morning was the worst of days with smells id sooner not a bucket full of you know where oh god i'm gonna cough!!!!! My head felt like it's jelly wool my legs were all a mush I'd only done a cheeky beer regrets ??Don't make me laugh
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May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM UTC
Just a little cheeky one
pink silk, floral embroidery black ribbon, white trimmings paired with soft slippers & a twinkling tiara Bibbidi-bobbidi- Boo! mirror flashed, smiling sweetly is a princess; skirt floating & feathery feet pivoting dancing in the woods with merry deer & singing birds follow the faeries, drown in their music the shinning flutes & playful pipe luring one to a gentle doze low bells chiming woke up to an enchanted ruin, go home, go home crawling thorns & ****** roses greedy crows & harden earth body bursting & long limbs stretching mirror grinned, a princess no more but a grown woman
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Nov 11, 2020
Nov 11, 2020 at 11:25 AM UTC
Princess Dress
Forget the onion and all its layers thats obvious You are undeserving for such a cliché So I invite a different perspective Think of a base, flour and egg kneaded together like I need you, so dense in identical morals Folded with mirrored ideology of future fortuity Dipped sensually with a sauce so thick, Thicker than blood or water, Blended as one to create a sea of red as deep as our hearts pumping vitality Sprinkled softly with the most palatable, mouth watering mozzarella Each placing full of utter affection, Long lost stares while you sit innocent to me feasting my eyes upon your moreish persona. The only quandry we must face is whose decision that day of toppings to showcase Who gets the chance to tease additional flavours, delicious tasters To open eyes to attributes unseen before, Hopes set high to electrify taste buds Wanting the other to crave more Ingredients brought together for a flavoursome pizza You are my hawaiian As i, Your meatfeast. Opposing trimmings Eachothers 1st choice One anothers perfection to quench their dying hunger
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Mar 2, 2019
Mar 2, 2019 at 12:05 PM UTC
Pizza perfectionism
At work Tinsel on the PC and lights scattered on the tree Time off to spend with the family Decorations throughout the house Christmas Tree too big, needles dropping on the floor Frantic last minute shopping for stocking gifts from the late night store Wrapping presents, writing cards ready to send Mince Pies and Mulled Wine drunk with friends Laughter from the GrandChildren excited for the day Elvis Christmas songs on in the car, set on loop to play Presents opened in pjyjamas sitting on the floor Lazy breakfast with the Kids, Grandchildren and more Late meal on the day Turkey, Pigs in Blanket, Roast Potatoes and veg, all the trimmings Christmas Pud and Brandy Sauce Turkey Stew and dumplings on Boxing Day Meals shared with the family, everyone helping with the food, sharing the load and spreading the love as everyone should Walks with the neighbours next door and anyone who wants to join in Popping into the Pub for a welcome beer Christmas Carols ringing out cheer Board games out and playing begins, rules changing, shouting, laughing out loud, a bit of playful cheating can be heard Wrapping up warmly with scarves, hats and gloves snuggling up to the one that you love. I love this time of the year - don't you?
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Dec 8, 2017
Dec 8, 2017 at 11:45 AM UTC
What Christmas means to me
It's Christmas Eve and here I sit drinking a drink and giving a **** The mistletoe's hung way up in the air on the semi off-chance that you'll give a care. With stockings and trimmings and ho-hoes and tree and candies and dandies and gifts not for me. So welcome to Christmas a wonderful time with tannins and balms and lonely red wine.
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Dec 24, 2011
Dec 24, 2011 at 7:14 PM UTC
This Ain't Really It
Come follow me in the Turnpike trail The story will unfold in more detail It was a getaway to Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day It was a group bus trip being underway The group was conversing We made a New Jersey Rest stop It would be 15 minutes tops Later when we reboarded A Female passenger’s announcement, “ I am missing my purse” All the passenger’s amazement of “What on earth” The Female passengers checked overhead and under her seat on the bus Now it seems this situation eventually involved us But there was no vision of the female purse The Female passenger wanted to go back and trace her steps at the Rest stop However the Tour Escort stated that if she goes back, the bus will leave her and continue on But mine you this is a rest stop in the middle of nowhere Then all the passengers responded in orchestral voice outburst, “Let the woman go and find her purse and we shall wait” Being the Tour Escort was out numbered, the Female passenger did in fact go back to the rest stop while we waited We all prayed that the passenger would find her purse The Female passenger stated earlier that her house keys and money was in her purse However when the Female passenger returned she was able to retrieve what she thought she had loss Her purse was found safe and sound I later told the Female passenger, “You are really have a lot to give thanks and you have a testimony to tell” But for argument sake, what if the female passenger didn’t find her purse? How would she get home being in reverse? Especially not having any money to be transported back Well thank God we don’t have to think on that The Tour Escort got a lesson in truly think and what if you were in this bind “When a passenger you seem to ignore it’s the passengers chant it becomes a word of explore” This day was definitely a give thanks in every way The play we saw was “A Wonderful Life” Now relate that to the purse A situation that was at hand, but with a good ending being the caravan But notice how everything seems to flow The almost loss purse fits in the go A Happy Thanksgiving indeed The Female passenger was able to proceed Her testimony being her voice All the feast trimmings being our choice.
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 3:03 AM UTC
MISSING PURSE OUTBURST A TRUE STORY
Come follow me in the Turnpike trail The story will unfold in more detail It was a getaway to Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day It was a group bus trip being underway The group was conversing We made a New Jersey Rest stop It would be 15 minutes tops Later when we reboarded A Female passenger’s announcement, “ I am missing my purse” All the passenger’s amazement of “What on earth” The Female passengers checked overhead and under her seat on the bus Now it seems this situation eventually involved us But there was no vision of the female purse The Female passenger wanted to go back and trace her steps at the Rest stop However the Tour Escort stated that if she goes back, the bus will leave her and continue on But mine you this is a rest stop in the middle of nowhere Then all the passengers responded in orchestral voice outburst, “Let the woman go and find her purse and we shall wait” Being the Tour Escort was out numbered, the Female passenger did in fact go back to the rest stop while we waited We all prayed that the passenger would find her purse The Female passenger stated earlier that her house keys and money was in her purse However when the Female passenger returned she was able to retrieve what she thought she had loss Her purse was found safe and sound I later told the Female passenger, “You are really have a lot to give thanks and you have a testimony to tell” But for argument sake, what if the female passenger didn’t find her purse? How would she get home being in reverse? Especially not having any money to be transported back Well thank God we don’t have to think on that The Tour Escort got a lesson in truly think and what if you were in this bind “When a passenger you seem to ignore it’s the passengers chant it becomes a word of explore” This day was definitely a give thanks in every way The play we saw was “A Wonderful Life” Now relate that to the purse A situation that was at hand, but with a good ending being the caravan But notice how everything seems to flow The almost loss purse fits in the go A Happy Thanksgiving indeed The Female passenger was able to proceed Her testimony being her voice All the feast trimmings being our choice.
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When you feel taken for granted thinkin' they just don't care wanting to move away again, but again, you don't know where burned-out, tired of trying to be all the bossman wants to be everything to everyone, reading in between the fonts We who sit beside you in the office and the stall who sing along, the same old song, while you stand and take the fall in a cubicle, with mistletoe, this lonesome caroler hums it's all benign, please don't resign before the yule tide comes Want to see you here on Christmas don't leave us all alone want to hear you 'woe ** ho' again so don't slam down the phone don't make that snap decision when the pressure starts to build just let the steam out somewhere else and let your heart be filled... with joy At the meeting, you suggested wrap the garland and a bow and all the trimmings, here and there around whose neck, we know the one about the lighting the star atop her head and now the head of operations, wants to move you to the shed. They just don't understand you, your work is so complex you didn't sign his Christmas card but the boss still signs your checks so don't be rash, just try to hash it out and make a deal, and let bygones be gone before the office Christmas meal. Want to see you here on Christmas please don't leave us all alone want to hear you 'woe ** ho' again so don't slam down the phone and don't make that snap decision when the pressure starts to build just let the steam out somewhere else and let your heart be filled... with joy
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Sep 16, 2013
Sep 16, 2013 at 8:29 PM UTC
The Office Christmas Meal
When you feel taken for granted thinkin' they just don't care wanting to move away again, but again, you don't know where burned-out, tired of trying to be all the bossman wants to be everything to everyone, reading in between the fonts We who sit beside you in the office and the stall who sing along, the same old song, while you stand and take the fall in a cubicle, with mistletoe, this lonesome caroler hums it's all benign, please don't resign before the yule tide comes Want to see you here on Christmas don't leave us all alone want to hear you 'woe ** ho' again so don't slam down the phone don't make that snap decision when the pressure starts to build just let the steam out somewhere else and let your heart be filled... with joy At the meeting, you suggested wrap the garland and a bow and all the trimmings, here and there around whose neck, we know the one about the lighting the star atop her head and now the head of operations, wants to move you to the shed. They just don't understand you, your work is so complex you didn't sign his Christmas card but the boss still signs your checks so don't be rash, just try to hash it out and make a deal, and let bygones be gone before the office Christmas meal. Want to see you here on Christmas please don't leave us all alone want to hear you 'woe ** ho' again so don't slam down the phone and don't make that snap decision when the pressure starts to build just let the steam out somewhere else and let your heart be filled... with joy
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I just saw a Turkey and an oven running down Main Street The Turkey being the main treat The oven determined not be a defeat Trimmings revenge in retreat The Turkey continues to run Well the oven and trimmings are all out of breath from so much fun But they don’t know we are nowhere near done The oven in a fiery turn Done or not that Turkey is going to be a cooked urn But according to a Main Street witness, they saw a Turkey running with a surprised look Camera’s were ready in took So much for food for thought Now what meat will be sought? However, the Turkey is the tradition I am on my own Turkey catching mission After that bird! You heard! I caught that Turkey trying to escape All I had to do was act like an ape The Turkey is finally in the oven It’s 9:00 AM for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade to start Step away from the kitchen and make your mark A day to give thanks, but on Thanksgiving, I refuse to serve franks.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 8:26 PM UTC
THE TURKEY AND THE TRIMMINGS IN SWIFT
A Poem for June Just why a cucumber should be so cool Eludes the logical; a cucumber’s just A vegetable a-lying on the ground Awaiting consumption.  But let’s accept This vegetarian cliché’ simply To get on with this cool descriptive task: Whatever’s cool in the falling June sun Descends through oak leaves, dark and summer green And dancing down the air falls happily Upon this cool cucumber cave where sits Upon a wooden bench a lazy man Who should be taking now another turn With lawnmower, shovel, or shears against The wild greenness of happy midsummer. But, oh!  Persephone surely won’t mind If her allotted garden tasks are paused By her appointed minion rustic who Takes now his ease in her delightful shade. For summer after all is more than work; She calls for dozing too, and dreamily Watching busy bees buzz among the flowers, Like fussy matchmakers arranging marriages, And hummingbirds humming in and out of leaves, Their sanctuary leaves, to argue at The nectar-feeders, as if there weren’t Enough for all.  The squirrels in the trees Would never condescend to chitter there; They glare at humans disapprovingly, Like old teachers unhappily aware That, oh, somewhere, somehow a child might be Enjoying life, and that would never do! Even the ribbon of smoke from the morning’s Trimmings and cuttings and sawings appears To be taking a nap in the summer noon, There gently snoring up wisps of ashes Instead of roaring, hissing manfully As it did in the early hours.                                                      The bench Along the fence where the tired old man sits Creaks as he shifts his weight, and watches His backyard world doze in the leaf-laced sun; He lights a well-deserved cigar, and sees Its soothing smoke join with the ******* fire Ascending heavenward with peaceful thoughts.
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Jun 1, 2019
Jun 1, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC
A Cucumber-Cool Cave of Green but without any Cucumbers
A Poem for June Just why a cucumber should be so cool Eludes the logical; a cucumber’s just A vegetable a-lying on the ground Awaiting consumption.  But let’s accept This vegetarian cliché’ simply To get on with this cool descriptive task: Whatever’s cool in the falling June sun Descends through oak leaves, dark and summer green And dancing down the air falls happily Upon this cool cucumber cave where sits Upon a wooden bench a lazy man Who should be taking now another turn With lawnmower, shovel, or shears against The wild greenness of happy midsummer. But, oh!  Persephone surely won’t mind If her allotted garden tasks are paused By her appointed minion rustic who Takes now his ease in her delightful shade. For summer after all is more than work; She calls for dozing too, and dreamily Watching busy bees buzz among the flowers, Like fussy matchmakers arranging marriages, And hummingbirds humming in and out of leaves, Their sanctuary leaves, to argue at The nectar-feeders, as if there weren’t Enough for all.  The squirrels in the trees Would never condescend to chitter there; They glare at humans disapprovingly, Like old teachers unhappily aware That, oh, somewhere, somehow a child might be Enjoying life, and that would never do! Even the ribbon of smoke from the morning’s Trimmings and cuttings and sawings appears To be taking a nap in the summer noon, There gently snoring up wisps of ashes Instead of roaring, hissing manfully As it did in the early hours.                                                      The bench Along the fence where the tired old man sits Creaks as he shifts his weight, and watches His backyard world doze in the leaf-laced sun; He lights a well-deserved cigar, and sees Its soothing smoke join with the ******* fire Ascending heavenward with peaceful thoughts.
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i've learnt that the greatest prompt and subsequent impromptu to yet another poem is to be constantly dissatisfied with one's output, because there's hardly a solemn care for so little with so much intent: prose writers are due respect for hammering so many little and big words into novels with an odd flash of poetic genius, poets are always left dissatisfied because of this, their open-plan scribbles are the compensation odes to the bulk of bulging plotted out scenarios of fiction - i too wish i had the capacity to write so much, bound by 21 volumes of a Dickens or a Balzac, but whereas they have their endless stream of words and compensate very little in terms of poetic economics, i can:                               do this     do that                                              and revel     in the blank trimmings                                              of a rim     of a canvas:                                                                      with each dispute     the white, the snow                                             grin of defeat; or like the chinese poets said: haiku yin-yang                  the poem must be,                      less mechanism of anything, more association of mechanisms as you elsewhere;       well less art more **** make each poem a yin-yang assimilation - x-ray the renaissance paintings     and the impressionists, and the still-life painters and the cubists and realists and the pre-raphaelites...
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
time consuming efforts (haiku yin-yang)
i've learnt that the greatest prompt and subsequent impromptu to yet another poem is to be constantly dissatisfied with one's output, because there's hardly a solemn care for so little with so much intent: prose writers are due respect for hammering so many little and big words into novels with an odd flash of poetic genius, poets are always left dissatisfied because of this, their open-plan scribbles are the compensation odes to the bulk of bulging plotted out scenarios of fiction - i too wish i had the capacity to write so much, bound by 21 volumes of a Dickens or a Balzac, but whereas they have their endless stream of words and compensate very little in terms of poetic economics, i can:                               do this     do that                                              and revel     in the blank trimmings                                              of a rim     of a canvas:                                                                      with each dispute     the white, the snow                                             grin of defeat; or like the chinese poets said: haiku yin-yang                  the poem must be,                      less mechanism of anything, more association of mechanisms as you elsewhere;       well less art more **** make each poem a yin-yang assimilation - x-ray the renaissance paintings     and the impressionists, and the still-life painters and the cubists and realists and the pre-raphaelites...
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four sleeps four more sleeps and then that day arrives the day if you are not careful that reminds you of all you are not you are not a mother nor a sister nor an aunt you do not have family you can go and visit when you wake on that day there is no laughter echoing nor paper ripping as presents are opened before the kettle has boiled instead your house echoes with emptiness you will eat your turkey and trimmings alone no debate about who sits where at the table nor fights for supremacy of the remote control please do not be sad for me reframe your matrix the way I do my heart beats with the gift of life my memory is filled with the richness of days gone by and each moment I breathe the only moment any of us has is filled with belief and shaped by joy I am not a mother nor a sister nor an aunt I do not have family I can go and visit I will eat alone on Christmas Day but what I am is me and for that I am blessed as you are for being you
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Dec 21, 2011
Dec 21, 2011 at 5:19 AM UTC
four sleeps
Tree and lights, Shop window sights, Frost and chill, The presents bill! Wrapping up gifts, blizzard in drifts, snow and gritters, chintz and glitter. Anticipation, pupil dilation, paper in shreds, curiosity fed. Turkey and trimmings, mulled drinks brimming, family and friends, latest toy trends. Hat and scarf, children’s laugh, snowman’s nose, frozen toes. Christmas Telly, big full belly, children tired, the roaring log fire. Offspring to bed, all cosy and fed, deepest sleep, Not a sound, not a peep. Snowflake falling, Relatives calling, Music and dance, Lost in a trance. The Festive season, Always good reason, To meet up and blether, Whatever the weather                                                           Aduain
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Nov 26, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 at 7:26 AM UTC
Is this the perfect Christmas?
Thirty-four teeth scattered on the concrete Surrounding me with hair clippings and black coffee A pile of nail-trimmings and counting My bones fuse without consulting me. Countless forced entries into a dry mouth Kicking out food I should have kept down, Brittle bones broken around the cold ground Skin soothed in the snow through a night-gown. Justified refusal to let go of the past, I'll allow the abuse if I can buy my own cast. I wipe away my eyes as the cameras flash And voices reassure you that you made a big splash. Trust in the bottles, they were blown in mass production "Self-improvement's ************ Now, self-destruction..." You are not unique or beautiful, you're genetic instructions Apart of the collective in which we all have a function And the artist is a slave to the consumption fixation He or she belongs to those who consider vibrations And remind themselves how to best serve the nation, Concerned with their technological fascination Lying naked on a cobblestone street like ***** clothes, Can't see your face from the last thirty cloves. They drag me by the arms on the way to the show And give me a little something to make me go.
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Jan 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011 at 6:55 PM UTC
Model-T
Frances Justine, with eyes of bella blue, with tipsy gait and freely-falling shambles of a step, half-awake, half-dreaming in the onset of a rush of seeping winds' complaints unto the painted walls of bleach. A phantom dressed in sighing silk, a glimmer-dress unbound, her fingers wrapped in lace and fragile trimmings of the earth; a sonic trembling synchronized with evening humming low, this tapping placed upon a table -- forests in the flow. Frances Justine, the pretty, the proud -- had relished these demeanors for a lady most in love; how liquid are her movements as she dances in the wait of gales that hope take her far, to continents away. Away, so far away, from this pertinent monsoon, her setting heart thus painted with the phases of the moon, it floats, but not for long, the sky's half-empty and half-full; there, Frances Justine darkly was just waiting to be whole.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM UTC
Frances Justine.
But lately, I've been falling like rain, collectively puddling at the edges of your rain boots, splash, your boots bright red like my cheeks the first time we impromptu'd to the beach because we didn't have anything better to do, and everyone forgot us anyway. My pants were, peach, or maybe coral, but rolled up enough to see the sharped edges of my ankles, because it was what I could afford to give you, I had lost those trimmings long ago to the world, even though it never gave me any of my pieces back, and speaking of, I still have white pieces of sand in my pockets, and maybe if I poured them out on your floor, we could have had a beach of our very own. And I could roll down those pants, you could change into your teal shirt, and we might have sunbathed in our own warmth, glowing yellow and bright like those little specks in your eyes nobody ever notices, but I knew they were there. That's what happens when you pay attention to the details of people, You find in them colors that are too hard to name, but if you have a color wheel and a pen, you can find out what they're called, and even if you can't, you can make up your own as you go along, like; Greasy-pizza-stain-from-the-little-shack-on-the-water-red, and light-2009-Pontiac-G6-that-got-you-to-the-beach-when-you-had-no-place-else-to-go-grayish-blue. You can even almost mix these colors into paint, and hand them out in pamphlets to all of your friends and family; "Here's the shade of green the leaves were on the tree she sat on with me." "This is the shade of pink her lips were when she said 'I love you.'" "And here's the shade of red I saw when I heard her say goodbye."
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 12:41 AM UTC
The Colors of Tybee
But lately, I've been falling like rain, collectively puddling at the edges of your rain boots, splash, your boots bright red like my cheeks the first time we impromptu'd to the beach because we didn't have anything better to do, and everyone forgot us anyway. My pants were, peach, or maybe coral, but rolled up enough to see the sharped edges of my ankles, because it was what I could afford to give you, I had lost those trimmings long ago to the world, even though it never gave me any of my pieces back, and speaking of, I still have white pieces of sand in my pockets, and maybe if I poured them out on your floor, we could have had a beach of our very own. And I could roll down those pants, you could change into your teal shirt, and we might have sunbathed in our own warmth, glowing yellow and bright like those little specks in your eyes nobody ever notices, but I knew they were there. That's what happens when you pay attention to the details of people, You find in them colors that are too hard to name, but if you have a color wheel and a pen, you can find out what they're called, and even if you can't, you can make up your own as you go along, like; Greasy-pizza-stain-from-the-little-shack-on-the-water-red, and light-2009-Pontiac-G6-that-got-you-to-the-beach-when-you-had-no-place-else-to-go-grayish-blue. You can even almost mix these colors into paint, and hand them out in pamphlets to all of your friends and family; "Here's the shade of green the leaves were on the tree she sat on with me." "This is the shade of pink her lips were when she said 'I love you.'" "And here's the shade of red I saw when I heard her say goodbye."
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It could happen any moment...while Strolling in the park...or while in the church, In a movie house...or, when riding the bus, Or in a cab on our way home, It could be another long night, or early morning, Like right now......at 2:30 AM, While lying in bed...when body and mind are both at ease, Muscles are rested...no struggles, When heart is stripped of its trappings and Trimmings of false pretenses...all are put aside, When mental reflexes and defenses are relaxed, When mind is bare...purely reflective, Bereft of pride that shields the true self, Cruising along the avenues of our imagination, Taking our time, as we meet faces, We find ourselves in places, Existing in a variety of scenarios, When, suddenly, Like a comet in the night sky, A swift spark of an idea catches our breath... We sit, in a hurry......before it gets blown by the wind... The mind is now done relaxing, When the muscles stiffen normally When we are no longer slouching When we see coffee on the table Steaming hot on the *** Under the dark sky, Our day has started... It is  time, To turn those sparks into fireworks, To create, and touch the lives of readers Through another day of discovery, Guide them by sharing our own recovery, From stumbling down, over and over, How it is to rise from a fall... We enlighten them with our R E V E L A T I O N S Of self-discovered truths, And our very own words of wisdom... When body and mind are up and about, Alert........ cognizant of Every sound, and every burst of idea, Then we know.......what time it is, It...is...time To Write. ^^^^^ Sally Copyright 2014 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 11:37 PM UTC
W h e n ...
It could happen any moment...while Strolling in the park...or while in the church, In a movie house...or, when riding the bus, Or in a cab on our way home, It could be another long night, or early morning, Like right now......at 2:30 AM, While lying in bed...when body and mind are both at ease, Muscles are rested...no struggles, When heart is stripped of its trappings and Trimmings of false pretenses...all are put aside, When mental reflexes and defenses are relaxed, When mind is bare...purely reflective, Bereft of pride that shields the true self, Cruising along the avenues of our imagination, Taking our time, as we meet faces, We find ourselves in places, Existing in a variety of scenarios, When, suddenly, Like a comet in the night sky, A swift spark of an idea catches our breath... We sit, in a hurry......before it gets blown by the wind... The mind is now done relaxing, When the muscles stiffen normally When we are no longer slouching When we see coffee on the table Steaming hot on the *** Under the dark sky, Our day has started... It is  time, To turn those sparks into fireworks, To create, and touch the lives of readers Through another day of discovery, Guide them by sharing our own recovery, From stumbling down, over and over, How it is to rise from a fall... We enlighten them with our R E V E L A T I O N S Of self-discovered truths, And our very own words of wisdom... When body and mind are up and about, Alert........ cognizant of Every sound, and every burst of idea, Then we know.......what time it is, It...is...time To Write. ^^^^^ Sally Copyright 2014 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Jumping from bed to bed like a thief in the night A real charmer talking his way in and out of tight situations Doing whatever he please with no real consequence A true ladies man Bedroom eyes that will have any women try hard to look away to no avail Strong physique that glistens with sweat as he works He has a way with words that makes your body tingle with each syllable Hands thats rough enough for labor and built for power but gentle enough to caress your soft subtle skin When he walks in the room he commands attention His bowlegged frame makes you take notice his swagger Simple dressed no fancy trimmings just straight up pure man Something hard to ignore Its a challenge to stay away from him Easing his way to a women's heart With his smooth talk and boyish charm His soft lips are intoxicating make you follow his every word in a trance Head and face trimmed to accentuate his gorgeous features Nails clean and cut neatly Clean cut and neat in every word Women draw to him like flies What ever he does to them treat 'em sweet or rough They keep coming back for more QNA
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Jul 11, 2011
Jul 11, 2011 at 7:44 AM UTC
Ladies Man