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"unseemly" poems
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 1:02 PM UTC
imagine that
Imagine that I could write a salve, compose an ointment of verbal herbs to heal, even mere protect the already-torn-so-easy mental flesh, just to disguise/hide the multi-colored bruising our fickle mistress-in-common provides when you are down so far another bruise joining the cast like a  floodplain subsuming one more feeding creek bed into the shapelessness of indistinguishability imagine that where atoms hide eternal between creation and destruction, borrow brief the set exact you require to restore the taken years from fathers/mothers/brothers/sisters, children, return that which went unused by the uninvited, unseemly human whim of war and lies for no gain imagine that the deep sinkhole of despair that ***** one in, years in the formation, appearing in instance, and worse does not drowns but leaves helpless, unable to climb out, and all our scratching digs us in deeper until we cannot be, seen or heard or just be imagine that a check comes in the mail, payable left open for filling-in, in the amount of full restoration, with no additional fees of guilt needed for deposit and cashing/caching out: and you wake up and the stony chest is breathing lungs free imagine that and I do; for I am the smoke of return and rest, sky inscribing, knowing precise needs and the screams and the years unfair taken, they are screened through the five perceptions, and the word weaver sets the loom for each peculiar requisition, no imagination needed imagine that you lament and anger demand verifiable proofs mathematical, cursing the knights of false hopes with untethered regret I do not imagine that; hear it and accept; my task, imagine that, making you imagine that, thus commencement of repair begins when we imagine that for this how new healthy cells  are born quiet-now,  go, imagine-that, now*
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[From Fragments,  The Following...] ... so it was that the Urth bled less. The Birch Moot was becalmed by the Anvil Cloud of Impending Deluge. The Young Gods made sport of Their Names, and aimed to Oblique the colony of clever flesh groping at the tender roots of an insipid devastation. The First Ones had vanished. But Time was born and the Mortal Whirl released the Hounds of Change. Transition fused - with the Eternal; and the offspring of unloved Spirits, roamed the Tangible. All Suffering was amplified in the diamond lungs of a divine corpse, dreaming. ... for when the iron heart of The Cast Out was retrieved, the Legion of Heaven poured unseemly Grace upon the Fathoms and the High King of Doubt, forced his blade ' Nimue ' into the soft palette, of the First Mouth.  The Stars were born and The Void overheard the First Naming. A solid drizzle of enchantment cloaked the oaken Yggdrasil and The Pattern unleashed the folly of Pattern to mask the virtue of succinct Chaos. The Children of The Lower Sky ate their Masters and thereby swollen - gathered in the underbrush of the Fecund. They came to Know Regret by Answering Prayers. The Kingdoms of Wane were waning in the fearsome riot of Creation and not a boy, a man from no woman and no woman a man. ... the siege lights of the petty stars, babbled in the wake of yawning eruption and nullification. the ****** theater of blood was made Holy by way of forcing camels into eyes of needles in constant dystopian joy. ... and that's how the rain gets in. [ From the ' Kingdoms Of Wane ', a Lost Tome from Antiquity and Dada ] What ?
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 7:07 PM UTC
LOST TOME LULLABIES, THE KINGDOMS OF WANE [ WITH COMMENTARY ]
[From Fragments,  The Following...] ... so it was that the Urth bled less. The Birch Moot was becalmed by the Anvil Cloud of Impending Deluge. The Young Gods made sport of Their Names, and aimed to Oblique the colony of clever flesh groping at the tender roots of an insipid devastation. The First Ones had vanished. But Time was born and the Mortal Whirl released the Hounds of Change. Transition fused - with the Eternal; and the offspring of unloved Spirits, roamed the Tangible. All Suffering was amplified in the diamond lungs of a divine corpse, dreaming. ... for when the iron heart of The Cast Out was retrieved, the Legion of Heaven poured unseemly Grace upon the Fathoms and the High King of Doubt, forced his blade ' Nimue ' into the soft palette, of the First Mouth.  The Stars were born and The Void overheard the First Naming. A solid drizzle of enchantment cloaked the oaken Yggdrasil and The Pattern unleashed the folly of Pattern to mask the virtue of succinct Chaos. The Children of The Lower Sky ate their Masters and thereby swollen - gathered in the underbrush of the Fecund. They came to Know Regret by Answering Prayers. The Kingdoms of Wane were waning in the fearsome riot of Creation and not a boy, a man from no woman and no woman a man. ... the siege lights of the petty stars, babbled in the wake of yawning eruption and nullification. the ****** theater of blood was made Holy by way of forcing camels into eyes of needles in constant dystopian joy. ... and that's how the rain gets in. [ From the ' Kingdoms Of Wane ', a Lost Tome from Antiquity and Dada ] What ?
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Meaningful is the wayward child that is found, For he or she finds favor in thus adoring praise. Replenishing spiritual vines that spread messages of hope above and beyond. Therefore, the third eye knoweth all. Whose breath gives life to the faint hearted. As barriers are tore down, crossing over... Anointed one, where, the precious angel entered. You are the brothers and sisters in faith building. They do preserver as the battle of Jericho. In a molding guidance of clay made hands... For their is hope of feeding the milk as well as the flesh. Kisses of glory befall unto your good graces. Thou wisdom quench the hell like rain pour puddles. His world! His judgment! His wrath! Bestow thou honor, in hills of perfect talk. Fatherless child! Fatherless child! Beware of the dragon den. Slay your enemies with delicate wings:the cup of kindness. As you are humbled in purple linens, fading all unseemly. The soldier of bravery, when thou hour come, there is a home. Cross over into the well enlightened pathways. Make the rough roads a gateway to the everlasting promise. Sing in jubilation, for tribulation is done and your vision seen.
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May 21, 2011
May 21, 2011 at 10:21 AM UTC
Cross Over
Know this—I am well acquainted with the wolf, Well versed in his ways, his demeanor, His dispassionate relentlessness, His pitiless focus on hunt and hunted, His workaday disdain of pity. There are those who would laud the mythical Spartan lad Who hid the wolf beneath his cloak, Affecting some gallant stoicism As the beast consumed him without restraint, But I say to you that is a mere romantic fallacy, A wanton failure to apprehend the true moral. I have learned that there is no accommodation, No covenant to be reached with the wolf, And any attempt to do so is merely to invite destruction, And so I choose to engage him openly, without reservation, Rolling tail-over-teacup in the streets, Attempting to hold his jaws open with bare hands While those who find such battle unseemly and uncouth Jeer and hoot from porch and portico. No matter, for I will continue to meet the cur on my terms, For staid suffering in the hopes Of reaching some accord with the beast Is the not the act of the noble sage: It is the mock heroics of the coward, The sad acquiescence of the simpering fool.
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 2:02 PM UTC
A Variation On Edgar Lee Masters' "Dorcas Gustine"
Your Messiah is not Christ my Karma is not your dogma Their AntiChrist is not the Mahdi His avatar is not yet manifest Our Dajjal is not their 12th Imam Your Brahman is not my Elohim The Atman is not the God-Man Your God-Man is Luciferian Our Lucifer is not their Allah The Djinn are undocumented some angels fell Allah is not Ras Tafari Their Zion is Babylon Jerusalem is Egypt or ***** Their Angels are ascended Masters Our Master is your ascended Savior My Savior is your accuser Their God is no Savior His unction is Satanic The war is spiritual The Spirit is not obvious My anointing is carnal their anointing is moronic our doctrine is angelic Your rejection was predestined our acceptance is divine Our depravity is documented, your sanctity is illusory their power is diabolic their light is darkness Their leader is ungodly Our God is unseemly His Truth is offensive The bitter is not sweet the sweet is unworldly the world is not heavenly. Trinity in seven spirits, yet God is One… Revel in the uncertainty. Have some holy fun fitting more angels on the pin-head, dancing before they fall. Rebellion is always entrancing until the current postmodern theology hooks up with psycho-sexual linguistic pathology. Don’t accept my apology
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 8:57 PM UTC
Disappointed Mis-anointings
I sat across from a man made of millions. From his shiny black patent shoes to his dolphin patterned socks, and his slicked back gray blonde hair, a color so elusive Midas himself would find fault with designating blame, I saw treachery. If character were based on dress I would assign worth every time. But people don't work that way: you must listen to what they say. When he mentioned God and fate in the same breath as commissions and unlimited potential financially, I went back to the socks. Imagining the dolphins desperately trying to find someone else's socks, someone less driven by green pieces of paper easily set aflame by a deranged individual, someone like me, who would not be so ludicrous, but entertained the notion, would have more idealistic pure thought framing. While the world runs in bounding strides to freedom from debt, from loans, from taxes, and money....stuff, so that every "thing" materializes as a personal possession and retirement happens at the unseemly age of 35, but who will provide a home for the dolphins? I would not throw my socks away as soon as the threads began to bare. I would find some cerulean blue thread and weave in the ocean.
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC
a message from the dolphins
Ach so! thou much-praised and lauded Milwaukee, Thou delightful Wisconsin Stadt of boundless pulchritude, Verily hath History endowed thy blessed name With the noisomely beery breath of immortality! And thank the benign Almighty in highest Heav’n That thy delectable streets and arboreal squares Doth remain heretofore untouched by unseemly civic strife, Despite thy renown as veritable midwife to Sewer Socialism! Yet, tear-inducing recollections have I of this dwelling-place And herewith followeth heart-rending remembrances Of what transpired when I inveigled a plump young Mädchen there For a brief sojourn of untrammelled concupiscence. Alas, alack, after gorging her impetuous appetites On a gargantuan repast of mitteleuropäische delicacies, Methinks her poor heart gave up survival’s uneven battle And, warbling a soft piffero-reminiscent sigh, she expired. ‘Twas too tragic thus to depart this happy welkin in mid-prandials, Emitting a final flatus, sweet adieu, from her rearmost aperture, Leaving me, her poor forlorn swain, bereft and solitary, Faced with mine host’s request for instant monetary rendition. From that naughty place of my bereavement fled I, Clutching to my ***** the contents of her silken purse, Determined to partake in untrammelled ***** licence elsewhere, Ere the chanticleer’s dawn croak wake the inebriated citizens.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
Tragically Gay Memories of Old Milwaukee (poem by Edna's ******** brother Siegfried)
Is it better to be seen? Or should I hide the parts Of my mind, the unseemly Things that eyes don't like, so I can sell enough bits and Pieces of my soul to Pay this month's rent? Is it better to be heard? Or should I quiet the Sounds that my thoughts are making When feelings start biting At my rib cage and my heart Skips across the cold street To keep the peace? Is it better to be owned? Or should I keep trying To make it work? Just because, I'm used to suffering by now, you'd think it wouldn't hurt so bad while watching you walk away... I have a question to ask If God ever finds time I've been wondering why for Quite a while despite My parents trying their best Telling me I'd get it but, Eventually hasn't come yet.
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Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023 at 3:31 PM UTC
I Have A Question
Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile old smiles—with listlessness— Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere. A thought too strange to house within my brain Haunting its outer precincts I discern: —That I will not show zeal again to learn Your griefs, and, sharing them, renew my pain…. It goes, like murky bird or buccaneer That shapes its lawless figure on the main, And each new impulse tends to make outflee The unseemly instinct that had lodgment here; Yet, comrade old, can bitterer knowledge be Than that, though banned, such instinct was in me!
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A Confession To A Friend In Trouble
Unseemly are the open eyes That watch the midnight sheep, That look upon the secret skies Nor close, abashed, in sleep; That see the dawn drag in, unbidden, To birth another day-- Oh, better far their gaze were hidden Below the decent clay.
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Sight
MC Lyte was lightweight The Queen Bee was unseemly compared to this woman who shared you and all you went through And Queen Latifah wasn't half the leader spoken word speaker singer soul seeker that Oo La La was that Fu Gee La was Missy Elliot lost her 8 stars when she lost weight (that's when she lost bars) Lauryn Lauryn Hill will always always be ours she might be modest but she'll always be my Hip Hop Goddess
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 5:04 PM UTC
Hip Hop Goddess
The years of playing sleepover in the parents' house are ending rapidly I must now grow up. I am no longer a young child, but an aging kid, growing older and older until water gun fights and Hello Kitty are no longer acceptable but creepy, immature, and unseemly for the candidate of an office position. The rules of hallways, bell schedules, bathroom passes are obsolete in T-minus how long? Too long? Too soon? Somewhere in the in-between, if I had to make a publicly educated guess. What happens when I step off the magic carpet and into the lecture halls with faceless classmates, bespeckled, bearded professors who do not care if success is granted? Will I fall down those steps? Will my mind become quick drying cement rather than glue and trap all ability to think in the concrete with imprinted initials and cracks with grass growing? I do not know my own future, and it is terrifying panic-attacking stealing my REM and disturbing my circadium rhythm. All to do now is sit, and wait for fate to catch up with my worries.
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May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 at 8:13 PM UTC
Trinity Infinity
| |~| | Thru the fiction Of High school corridors Ghost-like children Stumble in their solitude • Older than their elders are Stripped of their innocence Hardly even human anymore • Images of dying Images of stunted growth Distrustful of the reality Of truth's essential Powers Merely vague appearance Lost in worlds unseemly Stumbling down the corridors Lost in nightmare's dreaming •• Poetry of lovelessness Disguised as love •• Thus the world created Is truly dying The world created Is surely dying • In the loveless madness Of the high school corridors Where the demons of society Control human destiny And we just stumble on Thru the corridors A bursting Into flames
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Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
High school corridors
she smiled at me through lab goggles and a light, latex-gloved touch; I blushed, looking down at my feet; I caught sight of the unseemly lump of flesh on the table between us. strange, that this dissection was so [Russian Nesting Dolls] meta; two brains with bodies dissecting one without. technicolor dreams drenched in formaldehyde leaching out upon the stainless steel table parietal lobe corpus callosum Brocke's area god I think I love this girl I
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May 17, 2014
May 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM UTC
surrealism
Walk softly, she said, softly on hearts around you. Your power crushes, your love is unseemly, your tender eyes behind yellow teeth and make-up, your gifts are petulance, and your own heart, your own quiet beating drum, passion-beat ceased long before under the heavy tread, the power protecting, the dreamy love, the hard eyes behind white teeth, gnashing the giving of precious priceless gifts, not given freely, and the loud thrumming incessant hum. The masculine muscle, throbbing, beating proudly, smugly, handsomely sometimes. It weeps for you and itself, Carved of it's own destruction, as it tends to be.
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC
Passion-beat Ceased
Lanky,cranky,old and stiff and full of modern aches and pains which always seem to rain on me, I wake to face a Wednesday which some would say's a bonus play for one armed bandits,I would say, 'Life wasn't meant to be like this,how I miss the salad days, when tossed in oil and mayonnaise,my joints were free,my bones were lean and green. I have seen graffiti,written on the wall which mocks me,locks me,spray can flaying,prayers slashed across the stones and my bones creak,wreak havoc with my stature. It's natural, or so I'm told to ache somewhat when one gets old I hold on to the thought that I still might once more trip lightly, be more sprightly instead of being so tightly wound with legs bound up, they're so unsightly,unseemly or so it seems to me I do hope that it's salad for tea.
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 11:10 PM UTC
Pit props
Stranger than me, or too much alike some wrangle upon toilet papers plastic cups out of place or lost time; peering past, another wanders on. Tinkling wires and rainbow faces hearing, seeing, perchance aurific speaking the namer among ten-thousand petty things or squinting upon the verge of time, espy a sequal. Step by step to round the universe or being fell-swept away in cubboards seem or act unseemly, like or dislike played to the order in the round, circling about. Why so familiar these drabbed tones of ant trumpets or wineskins grown old to leak and sputter? Tis the wish and will, holding like ****** to the ropes great gales n frothing nothingnes storming on. But We, blown upon the Aether of the Soul a great conquest of rousing dignities; here, under nooks, behind secret doors or bounding past, lightning speed, relay some wonder. Shock of waking, or dulcet tones in the Alarm of life our shadows twist, there on the lintel of private hours our care, held through the Night kinder endearments then danced over reeling waves for sweet inspection. Here unalone a look, a voice and laughter ring the ears a crying out, or trebled inward sigh, too close to trembling- Who is this Sojourn Friend? Perhaps our best of self combined no more allied to faithless days nor dark an empty smiles- strange wastes some carelessness invents to wrack the hours. But We, no stranger to the Sojourner's faith, Are One.
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Mar 8, 2012
Mar 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM UTC
Sojourner, Strange as Me...
#…a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) A pastoress once bore a name which merits neither guilt nor shame; Pentecosta Charismania (biblical in megalomania). Worthy of poetic fame, a brilliant if unstable flame. Sincere she was, yet volatile, she brought it down, revival-style. At altar calls, she could inspire tongues of glossolalian fire. The Devil she would oft rebuke with lines from John, or Paul, or Luke; a prophetess on holy crack was Pentecosta on the attack… Her nemesis was prudent, able doctrinally dull—but stable: Patriciana Presbyteria. Less given to divine hysteria, wisdom did adorn her table. And her soul bore well the label. No prophecies escaped her lips nor prone to divinating slips; this sensible reformed young maid was made to have and have it made Elect, correct in doctrine, wit invested in no counterfeit her pop’s portfolio lent her worth: not less than heaven cashed on earth. Mocking these unseemly heretics swayed by neither sects nor politics was Maria Della Romana Faithful matron, primadonna, loyal to her Papal rite, she grieved her sisters by candlelight; fingered furious rosaries stormed the gates with St. Peter’s keys beseeching Jesus that they turn from devil’s doctrines fit to burn, rejoin the holy Mother Church rather than their souls besmirch with further Antichristian sin. (She genuflected fit to win.) God is known in Trinity but less through femininity: His three adherents, flamed by One like braided gold reflecting sun are Christian fates: three tendencies or triplicate analyses, tripartite in judgemental grace each one assumed, with zealous face that the other two could not be saved as sure as Heaven’s roads are paved with wisdom’s gold and Christ’s pure light. (They made a most amusing sight.) Since threefold cords cannot be broken, let my punchline rest, unspoken.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 8:19 PM UTC
Church-o-Rama3
#…a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) A pastoress once bore a name which merits neither guilt nor shame; Pentecosta Charismania (biblical in megalomania). Worthy of poetic fame, a brilliant if unstable flame. Sincere she was, yet volatile, she brought it down, revival-style. At altar calls, she could inspire tongues of glossolalian fire. The Devil she would oft rebuke with lines from John, or Paul, or Luke; a prophetess on holy crack was Pentecosta on the attack… Her nemesis was prudent, able doctrinally dull—but stable: Patriciana Presbyteria. Less given to divine hysteria, wisdom did adorn her table. And her soul bore well the label. No prophecies escaped her lips nor prone to divinating slips; this sensible reformed young maid was made to have and have it made Elect, correct in doctrine, wit invested in no counterfeit her pop’s portfolio lent her worth: not less than heaven cashed on earth. Mocking these unseemly heretics swayed by neither sects nor politics was Maria Della Romana Faithful matron, primadonna, loyal to her Papal rite, she grieved her sisters by candlelight; fingered furious rosaries stormed the gates with St. Peter’s keys beseeching Jesus that they turn from devil’s doctrines fit to burn, rejoin the holy Mother Church rather than their souls besmirch with further Antichristian sin. (She genuflected fit to win.) God is known in Trinity but less through femininity: His three adherents, flamed by One like braided gold reflecting sun are Christian fates: three tendencies or triplicate analyses, tripartite in judgemental grace each one assumed, with zealous face that the other two could not be saved as sure as Heaven’s roads are paved with wisdom’s gold and Christ’s pure light. (They made a most amusing sight.) Since threefold cords cannot be broken, let my punchline rest, unspoken.
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The killer in me whispers to me now. Nocturnal urges creep up too. Inspired by the musical chorus of How? The killer in me sees it all to true. I don't know why. I don't know how. But the killer in me wants to **** you. A bemused idea really. A psychopathic vow. All I know, is it is there, I know it's true. How poetic, romantic it is, really I must insist. An emotion, an urge being all on its own. The reasons of allurement I cannot list. Why I should be the one, on this throne. The killer in me, sees with cynical eyes. She knows the beauty of the Death. And grants the victim an indulgence through lies. Sees, understands the gift, the favor, of every breath. I am the killer that observes the light leave, That takes no remorse in wrong, exciting deeds. I watch the sick, unseemly fantasy I weave. I know it is the killer in me that yearns and needs. The killer in me says that it is perfectly, consummately OK. The fundamental guidelines do not apply to us as one. This is the way we are, our prevalent, primal way. This is how we quiet the voices, this is how its done. Cold and precise and splendid, the killer is an artist. Taking pride in her work, making it true craft. "The killer in me will never surface." I insist. But when I said that, she just smiled and laughed.
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Apr 6, 2011
Apr 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM UTC
The Killer in Me
Two and sixty days ago — Two months, or so I'm told — I wandered, wistful, without cause, Through a memory of old. A hall of walls I wandered, tall, As tall as tales I could weave, But none as tall as this regale, A story that you won't believe. I walked near endless hours, My only friends the cobblestones, Ringing in my steps the sin That only time atones, When upon that pallid plaster I did spy a shocking sight: Upon that place's rocky face, The wall had turned to light. "Curious," I cooed and questioned, Calm as I could never be, "Perhaps it might be that this light Is rightly mine, I see?" And as I pondered that hall I wandered, A chilling change I never chose arose: That light so rife with delight and fright Began to open, and I froze, For that particular portcullis I pondered Put me in a vice. I nary noticed that walls in focus Had changed into a hall of lights. Transfixed, the light engulfed me so, As slow as my bewildered head Could comprehend the candid land I planned my final stand in dead. I whizzed through spaces, unknown places, In stasis from the faceless force When finally I fell, the frenzied light Still tight from an unseemly source. All at once, those two months Became a fraction of a wink; The frost was lost as I was tossed Among the lights of what I think. And where else would I find myself But in this courtyard we call love? My journey never left my head, Nor bed's unconscious dreamland hub. Two and sixty days ago, I heard these words so true, And in the dark they were my light: You told me "I love you."
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Nov 3, 2010
Nov 3, 2010 at 2:06 PM UTC
The Light
Two and sixty days ago — Two months, or so I'm told — I wandered, wistful, without cause, Through a memory of old. A hall of walls I wandered, tall, As tall as tales I could weave, But none as tall as this regale, A story that you won't believe. I walked near endless hours, My only friends the cobblestones, Ringing in my steps the sin That only time atones, When upon that pallid plaster I did spy a shocking sight: Upon that place's rocky face, The wall had turned to light. "Curious," I cooed and questioned, Calm as I could never be, "Perhaps it might be that this light Is rightly mine, I see?" And as I pondered that hall I wandered, A chilling change I never chose arose: That light so rife with delight and fright Began to open, and I froze, For that particular portcullis I pondered Put me in a vice. I nary noticed that walls in focus Had changed into a hall of lights. Transfixed, the light engulfed me so, As slow as my bewildered head Could comprehend the candid land I planned my final stand in dead. I whizzed through spaces, unknown places, In stasis from the faceless force When finally I fell, the frenzied light Still tight from an unseemly source. All at once, those two months Became a fraction of a wink; The frost was lost as I was tossed Among the lights of what I think. And where else would I find myself But in this courtyard we call love? My journey never left my head, Nor bed's unconscious dreamland hub. Two and sixty days ago, I heard these words so true, And in the dark they were my light: You told me "I love you."
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If the flicker of a flicker of a flicker in the farthest corner of my heart could cause such unseemly eruptions inside the inside of my insides that leave me breathless even months after can you begin to imagine the unholy mess the unearthly calamity that would unfold if the spark of a spark of a spark were to blind my eyes with their mere fortuitous existence?
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 3:56 PM UTC
Scintilla
In a derby and suit, riding tall in the saddle, A stranger paraded one day. He rode through the street of a town in Nebraska, Astride a magnificent Bay. Though stately and proud he was oddly attired, Where cowboys and outlaws abide. And the gun that he wore, of an uncommon bore, Hung uncomfortably high on his side The attention he drew from the unseemly crew Of misfits (an unsavory lot) Was cause to give rise to a keen viewer's eyes Trouble might be more likely than not. Thugs are known to have fun by the threat of a gun To a stranger perceived as a dude. They often get rough and hostile and tuff; By their nature they're rowdy and rude. So it weren't no surprise when there came an up-rise Of cat-calls and whistles that day. While others just smiled, some were getting quite riled, As the stranger dismounted the Bay. He seemed not to care, ignored every dare, As he entered a bar called "The Shed." He called for a brew, then changed it to two; Said,"Take one over there to Big Fred." Now everyone knew that Big Fred was the worst of hooligans staying in town. In Sidney, Nebraska there weren't any faster When it came to shooting men down. The bar keeper trembled and shook as he ambled, Across the floor toting the beer. The mug was half empty when he finally reached Fred, Who now gazed at the dude with a sneer. The bar room grew still and the tension seemed loud. You could feel with a god-awful dread That a message was meant in the beer that was sent By the strangely dressed dude To Big Fred. "So it's you," uttered Fred. "Thought by now you'd be bound, To a Deadwood strike, off mining gold. I had thought you'd forget memories I now regret; I hoped that trail would finally grow cold." "It's the Masterson code and the gambler's creed To even all scores with a rat." And by those word every Sidney buckaroo knew That the stranger who spoke them was Bat. Fred reached for his iron with a lightning fast draw That never quite cleared the leather And no one even saw Bat Masterson's draw That silence Big Fred forever.
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Jul 28, 2011
Jul 28, 2011 at 9:34 PM UTC
The Man on the Bay
In a derby and suit, riding tall in the saddle, A stranger paraded one day. He rode through the street of a town in Nebraska, Astride a magnificent Bay. Though stately and proud he was oddly attired, Where cowboys and outlaws abide. And the gun that he wore, of an uncommon bore, Hung uncomfortably high on his side The attention he drew from the unseemly crew Of misfits (an unsavory lot) Was cause to give rise to a keen viewer's eyes Trouble might be more likely than not. Thugs are known to have fun by the threat of a gun To a stranger perceived as a dude. They often get rough and hostile and tuff; By their nature they're rowdy and rude. So it weren't no surprise when there came an up-rise Of cat-calls and whistles that day. While others just smiled, some were getting quite riled, As the stranger dismounted the Bay. He seemed not to care, ignored every dare, As he entered a bar called "The Shed." He called for a brew, then changed it to two; Said,"Take one over there to Big Fred." Now everyone knew that Big Fred was the worst of hooligans staying in town. In Sidney, Nebraska there weren't any faster When it came to shooting men down. The bar keeper trembled and shook as he ambled, Across the floor toting the beer. The mug was half empty when he finally reached Fred, Who now gazed at the dude with a sneer. The bar room grew still and the tension seemed loud. You could feel with a god-awful dread That a message was meant in the beer that was sent By the strangely dressed dude To Big Fred. "So it's you," uttered Fred. "Thought by now you'd be bound, To a Deadwood strike, off mining gold. I had thought you'd forget memories I now regret; I hoped that trail would finally grow cold." "It's the Masterson code and the gambler's creed To even all scores with a rat." And by those word every Sidney buckaroo knew That the stranger who spoke them was Bat. Fred reached for his iron with a lightning fast draw That never quite cleared the leather And no one even saw Bat Masterson's draw That silence Big Fred forever.
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for Beau this mixte bag of nutty facts, compote of this's and that's, fragrant but yucky tasting potpourri, sordid assortment of seemingly unseemly random collection of facts, whoppers, recipes and formulae, and his 'n her stories (my fav!) useless motorized drivel, running around my head that you have with me creme-filled, data conglomerated, transformed by mongol hordes of grey cells urged on, nay transformed, by **** and beer into a magnificent miscellaneous mile of jumble, virtuous and verifiable grab bag of ever so humble, tuneful melodies of a medley of snatches and patches of Jagger and Liszt, a verifiable pastiche of vital and downright dumb Factors and Factoids, I thank you suchly muchly musta taken years, maybe even decades to collect and codify, this assemblage of verifiable factoids, after-all, took you twelve to feed me in eye dropper ingestible quantities! though with Wiki this and Wiki that, I coulda save us all some time, and since it is all on the Internet, and any way 99% I forgot like a cell phone number no matter, I can reads and counts and writes term papers downloaded, but caught my eye you wrote of a mutton stew denominated as hotchpotch, but we variant truants, ici, aux Etats-Unis, on dit and spell our salmagundi as hodgepodge but in summary summation, thanks for teaching me creative thinking, for without this skill, I would but be, a tool of Wikipedia and not its creator P.S.  It's gadzooks, not gad zooks, according to Wikitionary, even them Oxford fellas agree, tee hee, you could look it up on the internetsky, Teach....
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 5:50 AM UTC
Hey Teach! This Hodgepodge
for Beau this mixte bag of nutty facts, compote of this's and that's, fragrant but yucky tasting potpourri, sordid assortment of seemingly unseemly random collection of facts, whoppers, recipes and formulae, and his 'n her stories (my fav!) useless motorized drivel, running around my head that you have with me creme-filled, data conglomerated, transformed by mongol hordes of grey cells urged on, nay transformed, by **** and beer into a magnificent miscellaneous mile of jumble, virtuous and verifiable grab bag of ever so humble, tuneful melodies of a medley of snatches and patches of Jagger and Liszt, a verifiable pastiche of vital and downright dumb Factors and Factoids, I thank you suchly muchly musta taken years, maybe even decades to collect and codify, this assemblage of verifiable factoids, after-all, took you twelve to feed me in eye dropper ingestible quantities! though with Wiki this and Wiki that, I coulda save us all some time, and since it is all on the Internet, and any way 99% I forgot like a cell phone number no matter, I can reads and counts and writes term papers downloaded, but caught my eye you wrote of a mutton stew denominated as hotchpotch, but we variant truants, ici, aux Etats-Unis, on dit and spell our salmagundi as hodgepodge but in summary summation, thanks for teaching me creative thinking, for without this skill, I would but be, a tool of Wikipedia and not its creator P.S.  It's gadzooks, not gad zooks, according to Wikitionary, even them Oxford fellas agree, tee hee, you could look it up on the internetsky, Teach....
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Lips like fire, 
She scorches the town,
 Leaving Ashen faces as signs of her affection. Words like water, 
steaming the lines of reality into
 Smudged intentions. Spine in flex formation, 
She flips into memories, 
 Avoiding snags. Her brain in carefully curled spirals,
Dyed the intelligence that she deems fit. She plasters their words over the fragile 
 Threads that make her fly. She buries herself in reflections, 
Willing away anything unseemly mortal. Eyes like the plague,
 Infecting those who look too close. Hands like claws, 
 Engraving pleasure scars across 
Your form. Breathing in security from diluted sources,
 Traced with innocence and lust. She grows addicted. She looks in curiosity, 
 She hears the auto-tuned heartsong,
 She smells with weakening heart, 
 She feels the onset of withdrawal, She Bites
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 8:50 PM UTC
The Tale of Too Many Girls