"upsized" poems
Upsized in elastic tugs
Boxing gloves trembling in sweat
A pace of haste, a stretch of jab
Ahead a mob, resign the job
The cheer as the pro smears
In tears I resume with fear
Body solid, the barefoot I bear
Hands bare all ignited gears
Endured as the rope snaps
My lioness is lost in the ring
Fire roars, an angered uproar
Unable to face the opponent
A body shot, a tummy stomp
Mouth guard stumped,beg to stop
Cheers rant upfront,the pain pause
Three minutes cease, an earring drop
Apr 9, 2016
Apr 9, 2016 at 9:45 AM UTC
When I was just a child, they were just a married couple;
Older, middle-aged, nothing distinguishing about them at all.
I loved swimming in their swimming pool,
Until they upsized, to a glitzy neighborhood of rambling,
Ranch-style houses.
And they upscaled, to exotic, foreign vacations.
Brought me back a Hawaiian volcanic stone, with emerald flecks,
A salt and pepper shaker set from Israel.
She was a clothes horse, always kept her figure,
Dressed slinky but classy, for an old babe;
Visibly stood taller, if another woman
Ever complimented her clothing or style-
And they invariably did.
My dad said that when alone with her husband,
That man would brag about daily ********
From his office receptionist, at the end of the workday
Before going home. I was older then, tried to imagine
How the shared exchange could have furthered
Some ancient, nightly excavated ambition?
Alone with her once, my dad said he made an innuendo,
Some playful joke which he had since forgotten the point of,
Probably due to the more stunning reaction it caused.
He had always loved teasing with words,
But he said that she had dropped all suggestion of pretense,
And she had told him then, You couldn't handle it..
He still chuckled about it, long after the fact.
Funny how for all those years, what I remembered seeing
Was a mostly colorless couple
Who always drove large Cadillacs.
And how in the later years, he could only move
While tethered to his oxygen tank,
Though it never hindered his smoking.
Aug 23, 2010
Aug 23, 2010 at 12:11 PM UTC
Awakened and upsized
Macaques enclosed in plastics
Blown like a fainted paper
A ladder presents in heights
As the stamina builds to rise
The climb to the sky scrapper
Should we run to the utmost
Drag each other to ascendance
Hunt our vulnerabilities and nurse them
My love carry our load to paradise
These road of ours to hold and touch
Heighten us so we light the city streets
Feel my pulse throbbing for you
As the sun scorch and the wind blows
Darling, I will wait for you day after day
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 4:41 PM UTC
I'm there, but invisible.
I think that I'm invincible.
But I'm no Iron Man.
I try to be a Green Lantern
In a room full of Red Lanterns.
But trying is never enough.
Trying is never good enough.
Rage-filled regret
Strength-radiated reliance.
They call me devoted
Little do they know,
I've just deviated
From them all.
They tell me not to
Put up a fake front
A façade of sorts.
But I have to
To hide my scars
And shattered mind.
To say that
I'm good
When I'm not
Like aspiring to be
Like Atlantis
A picturesque paradise
An upsized utopia
An insecure phobia.
We were born
Into this world
Told that we were meant to
Change it.
Told that we were
Superheroes and princesses.
But I'm no Superman.
I'm a Sentry at war
With my own self
With those around me
With my own mind.
The happiness that I see
Is one that I cannot bear
Like Batman re-living
Past deaths in his lair.
I live it everyday
Feet full of lead
Like Doomsday and Superman
Here I lay,
On the ground,
Dead.
Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 12:23 AM UTC
I want more, and I will lie no more.
Call me greedy; I don't care anymore.
I want more money. Who doesn't?
They are never enough. Never enough.
I am but a **** poor untalented peasant,
I just want to numb myself with more stuff.
With more money, I can buy more books.
The more pages I flipped, I lose myself more.
More money also means more toys that hooks
My inner child - he now knows freedom more.
I want more food. OM NOM NOM FOOD!
I hunger for simple gastronomical richness:
Multiple mint teabags to better calm my mood,
Serve with upsized servings of buttery tastiness.
Yet, even the simplest desires, Need. MONEY!
What's that you say? Learn to have less desires?
Let me write it down on my list; oh that's funny;
This long list, of desires, do you think it expires?
Nay, I say, for all my wants, shall grow evermore!
MORE! MORE! MORE!
May 14, 2021
May 14, 2021 at 10:41 AM UTC
I realized I'm in love when I weeped all day,
Analyzing last phrase "We'll never meet again".
Happiness's still happiness even for a second.
Guess we were given hearts for someone come and break 'em.
How could u think I'm perfect, when all your saw was blur.
Im shocked that ur so evil without a good boy fleur.
Cant stand pathetic letters and all your fictional thoughts.
U showed me kinds of magic, than left nothing but ache and dust.
Life is wonderland full of my friends and I'm the maddest hatter.
Though I would be a good girl? ***** My trump card is vendetta.
Stop to behave yourself that way, i am wild cat that can't be tamed.
You're smart enough to understand I can't be blamed for who I am.
Go ahead find a reflection at the pupils of my eyes.
Don't u see the devil that cut me hundred times.
No, I dont wanna hurt u. U know that we allies.
But I cant take no more of it. The weight is too upsized.
All I need is you to talk with me.
Tell me what u think we are could be?
Trust me saying I need u close, I love u back we both got lost.
Now all I want is you to talk with me.
Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 1:02 PM UTC
See her mouth gently clad
as the grasshopper hop avidly
whilst the ants swamp in anticipation
See her weigh the upsized eggs
as her fertility sparcely disappear
casting shadows to his peripheries
See the two rocks collide and form
yeilding to the uprooted dead plants
a homage of the great masturbator
Dali! take me to the planes of Emporda
at the bay of Cadaques, our beautiful Catalonia
let's escape and hide to the Alberes hills
Dali! take me to the jewel of the hidden hills
for their rotten love is a petrefaction
a parallel to our mystic crown
Jan 23, 2020
Jan 23, 2020 at 7:17 PM UTC