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"verboten" poems
For Al, who left us With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for body restoration, Transpositional for poetic creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here, poem aborning! Contract with this moment, now satisfied! Al, what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. _________________________________ (this poem more than most, for its birth celebrates my loss, your loss, which cannot be exonerated 8/7/18) _________________________________ written at 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, Long Island
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 7:07 AM UTC
2013: With Each Passing Poem
For Al, who left us With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for body restoration, Transpositional for poetic creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here, poem aborning! Contract with this moment, now satisfied! Al, what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. _________________________________ (this poem more than most, for its birth celebrates my loss, your loss, which cannot be exonerated 8/7/18) _________________________________ written at 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, Long Island
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crisp atmosphere, special ordered for perfect pumpkin patching, apple picking, stout sweaters all, a blueish autumnal sky, orange 'n red leaves delivered on time the old uber-man-grand-pa, hired as a day driver, saddles them up, three generations all tucked in a repeating mise en scène a replay of some thirty years earlier, when the now-father was about the same age, as his boy, three years aged and yet so impatient asking the same question his father perfected, in the same sweet voice, at about the same time, in the same way, a little voice from deep in the cavernous back seat, sighing, squeaking with an I've-seen-it-all ennui, some mere five minutes into the hour's plus journey to the 'country' bound "are we there yet?" titters 'n snickers from assorted adults, but grandpa weeps words with composition instant, so many answers to such an important question, so serious that an admission, confession required, due you, grandpa still asks the same question every day of his life it's Sunday and longish poems per Yeoman, strictly verboten, God knows there's an essay unwritten as the answer, a symphonette with a thousand opus, by-your-command repertoire, a pumpkin for every patch, some answers that even may be a young prince's carriage in hiding but for now let this suffice, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes, the goal line just goes and moves on ya so with utmost seriousness a purposed thoughtfulness proposed, posing said inquiry knows no age limitation, if you have not asked of yourself this day, "are we there yet?” then the answer is surely, not yet
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 5:14 PM UTC
are we there yet?
crisp atmosphere, special ordered for perfect pumpkin patching, apple picking, stout sweaters all, a blueish autumnal sky, orange 'n red leaves delivered on time the old uber-man-grand-pa, hired as a day driver, saddles them up, three generations all tucked in a repeating mise en scène a replay of some thirty years earlier, when the now-father was about the same age, as his boy, three years aged and yet so impatient asking the same question his father perfected, in the same sweet voice, at about the same time, in the same way, a little voice from deep in the cavernous back seat, sighing, squeaking with an I've-seen-it-all ennui, some mere five minutes into the hour's plus journey to the 'country' bound "are we there yet?" titters 'n snickers from assorted adults, but grandpa weeps words with composition instant, so many answers to such an important question, so serious that an admission, confession required, due you, grandpa still asks the same question every day of his life it's Sunday and longish poems per Yeoman, strictly verboten, God knows there's an essay unwritten as the answer, a symphonette with a thousand opus, by-your-command repertoire, a pumpkin for every patch, some answers that even may be a young prince's carriage in hiding but for now let this suffice, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes, the goal line just goes and moves on ya so with utmost seriousness a purposed thoughtfulness proposed, posing said inquiry knows no age limitation, if you have not asked of yourself this day, "are we there yet?” then the answer is surely, not yet
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Espresso Yourself Word hit like espresso shots, got that stress of regret you’re best to let it go, best to express it outta your self tun it into espresso, or else that regret will fester into gunpowder until it totally explodes, unload reload, you’re the gun, memories are the ammo, noting is verboten even when forgotten, this twisted linguistic addict attitude is not an act or a show, but the derangement of this is entertainment regardless, and this artist is in demand all around the world, they want to take my time, and everything else that I thought was mine, but I don’t have the time to spare because I’m in a race to nowhere, trying to find the finish line before I completely lose my mind, gaining ground in quicksand sick and no one seems to care, grinding grounds no chitchat i just grab my espresso and get outta there, there as in here no beer just these coffee beans this is a caffeine affair, I’ll take a double on the double, actually if it’s more simple I’ll take a triple, no milk no sugar no trouble, just this espresso and these expressions that ripple, with words hit like espresso shots, got that stress of regret you’re best to let it go, best to express it outta your self tun it into espresso, or else that regret will fester into gunpowder until it totally explodes… ∆ Aaron LA Lux ∆
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Oct 7, 2016
Oct 7, 2016 at 3:14 PM UTC
Espresso Yourself
With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for for restoration, Transpositional for creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here,  poem aborning, Contract with this moment, now satisfied. Al,  what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. ___________ 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, N.Y.
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Mar 26, 2014
Mar 26, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
with each passing poem
With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for for restoration, Transpositional for creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here,  poem aborning, Contract with this moment, now satisfied. Al,  what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. ___________ 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, N.Y.
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market report: spinning on an axis of complexity phrase captures and enraptures, buried deep in one of the countless market reports that arrive every minute out of date by the time they press the end/send button but this rises up from the forged gorge throat and all the rest falls away spinning on an axis of complexity sticks like Elmer's glue, white viscous, good for paper & skin, cause you knew precision revision incision instantaneous, they are intended for your eyes only, pasted to your eyes, tinged tongue screaming you man, you poem there is no difference, for both at 1:55am   where time is sleep verboten,   when words are blood platelets in a mystery entitled spinning on an axis of complexity human must eat human must work human must love human must sort the juggling orbs, too much new information constant and brain incapacitated *while falling-spinning when eyes now fully glued shut by the complexity of clashing algorithms writing this market report on the state of me, the passionate impartial analyst who boldly reveals, he proclaims he owns stock in himself and issues a sell recommendation* the complexity-situation trending signals crash a-coming, and at 1:59am after composing this hissy fit writ, he downgrades the official outlook to sell and lies down on the kitchen floor and laughs with the angel dudes eating bagels and holding their sides, cause they have been running a short position up in heaven 6/22/17 2:05am nyc
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Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 11:01 PM UTC
market report: spinning on an axis of complexity
Herbs, garlic, cheese, please let me in! Souffles, salad, Parker House rolls, please let me in! Cook Helen, why are you so cross, why is your kitchen verboten? Couldn't you just teach me to bake a potato, to bake a potato, that charm, that young prince? No! No! This is my county! You shout silently. Couldn't you just show me the gravy. How you drill it out of the stomach of that bird? Helen, Helen, let me in, let me feel the flour, is it blinding and frightening, this stuff that makes cakes? Helen, Helen, the kitchen is your dog and you pat it and love it and keep it clean. But all these things, all these dishes of things come through the swinging door and I don't know from where? Give me some tomato aspic, Helen! I don't want to be alone.
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The Fury Of Cooks
Like a speed limit, Age 55 is a reminder, A geriatric mnemonic, Telling you to take it slowly. Safe to say, Most of us Baby-Boom geezers Walk around half the time Wondering how one gets laid, “Hooks up”— As our grandchildren say-- Gets laid behind & inside this Asylum sanctuary? Manning the ramparts, Those Wackenhut stiffs Are there for a reason. Overt, direct ****** overtures Strictly verboten (ver•bo•ten). Yet, the silver-haired sireens Crave company, As in “keeping company,” An ancient idiom for “Let’s Hide the Pepperoni!” But you’ve got to take it slow at Del Webb Over-55 America, A multi-state lunatic asylum, Where a preponderance of Single silver-tress foxes, Having “lost their husband,” Somewhere, at some point, Some recent but forgotten, Alzheimer’s moment along the trail, They comb the daily obits, Hunting prey, newly widowed men, Fresh casserole recipients & Crypto-pepperoni buddies.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 4:44 PM UTC
"CRUISING DEL WEBB OVER-55"
Thursday to the shopping list did add my tremulous bequest, Honey Nut Cheerios, great was the anticipation of a marriage with cold milk, product of the oats and the cows that made this nation really, really great, but in the Manahattan organic commisary seems this so called food is strictly verboten, so she brought me home on Friday some imposter named Grain Berry? this pseudo Cheerios tainted with Onyx Sorgum, intended to give me heavy metal poisioning surely, and rob life of joy by slowing down my sugar absorption rate, and the plant fiber contained was purportedly natural, as if there was another kind! clearly a plot on my life by the Bannonian alt-right, for it, this "whole grain toasted oat cereal," supplied more free radical protection by sun activated antioxidants! I am a real man, I love my artificial flavors and colorings, how better to preserve my pickling, briny brain than in artifical perservatives! From West Texas came this grain, surely they will appreciate the insoluble fibered irony, while I eat cold cereal for Friday dinner, SHE is eating steak rare at Gallagher's Steakhouse!
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Feb 2, 2018
Feb 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM UTC
Honey Nut Cheerios or Death!
Oh Glenda (Miz Gee gee) years elapsed since, I didst hawk verboten fruit adrip from yar verdant bough, thy strong craven raven doth still twitter and flip sans thy testosterone switch, where woody pecker missus grip ping re: egret ting prospective relationship nixed thee as gull friend material, hip mistress, though heron eye did pay lip service verily orgasmically quip yes...wren doer ring more'n commit Freudian slip which peeping cardinal tip towing thru nested tulip trip gave balled oriole peck whip ping lil *** pistol be friending chirping ***** riot inserting thingmabob after pants sigh did un zip. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Egg gad unlike rob bin duck cradle yar mature red breast all aswirl asper a stationary dreidel mammary ducts mine mouth pursed yar ******* mine gums did ladle. Only in memory, aye hungrily thirst and thirstily hunger fort deux aureole dye still affecting this gab bird, who didst deign as milquetoast guy. Whenever this birdman alone his thoughts metaphorically drone worm wayward toward ***** thatch, where hello kitty doth purr and groan of quintessentially ***** coiled hair moan ning softly as thee bared naked lady lies prone admiring pinkish puckered def flesh tone.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 2:44 AM UTC
Ma Little Brown Chickadee
My imagination is the all-encompassing ***** Composed of touchable red curves, she speaks in dark, melted tones that drip & cool to harden at their destination. She’s the sort of insatiable pursuit most boys are taught to desire. She’s the well-spoken lady most gentlemen deserve. She transfigures into the most verboten temptations & acts as the pair of arms that will suddenly slam you up against a wall. She eases into you with her starved gaze & examines your every possible inch. She leaves you with nothing to hide. Scrupulous? Undeniably so. She touches whatever she wishes with gloveless fingertips & ***** your mouth dry of all bitter objection. She leaves you speechless-- but smiling. My imagination? She is a bombshell, & I think I like her better than me.
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
imagine she
Easter Monday (2015) The silence It was the silence As we entered the gates of hell. Then… The bird song, It was the bird song That chorused our way To the well Of tears at the wall Of many tongues That speak to the silence still, Of the voices that cried For the people who died The void only time will fill. The sun It was the sun Shining on the wooden cross. And… The sky It was the sky So blue, and flecked with the floss Of clouds so white So pure in light That the wall of the well of tears Transfigured the sin We heap on Him Whose loss for many Is the only way To feel the void time fills. The woodpecker drummed a beat On the trunks Of the trees so parallel still. A whisper of wind That rebounds the sound Of innumerable roll calls Of the thousands who now Lie deep in the cradles of mounds Stone faced, inscribed Toten With the number interred within Verboten… now But why not then? In that world of men And women, when humanity’s meaning Was turned on end. And a godless creed That shadowed the world with grief Which now for many, Is beyond belief. The stillness It was the stillness That gave silence the space to breathe, To remember the times, the godless times That now are so hard to believe. But silence and stillness envelope the House A silent place to be To hear the past that shows the present The prayers for a future that sees What could be, What can be But will we Learn, the history from then to now To forge that future for future’s sake And answer the question… How? David Applin … late afternoon and evening of Easter Monday 6th April 2015 following a visit to Bergen-Belsen earlier in the day, completed 7th-9th April. 15th April 2015 … 70 years after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British Army. David Applin (Copyright 2015)
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 5:32 AM UTC
Bergen-Belsen: Reflections on Easter Monday (2015)
Easter Monday (2015) The silence It was the silence As we entered the gates of hell. Then… The bird song, It was the bird song That chorused our way To the well Of tears at the wall Of many tongues That speak to the silence still, Of the voices that cried For the people who died The void only time will fill. The sun It was the sun Shining on the wooden cross. And… The sky It was the sky So blue, and flecked with the floss Of clouds so white So pure in light That the wall of the well of tears Transfigured the sin We heap on Him Whose loss for many Is the only way To feel the void time fills. The woodpecker drummed a beat On the trunks Of the trees so parallel still. A whisper of wind That rebounds the sound Of innumerable roll calls Of the thousands who now Lie deep in the cradles of mounds Stone faced, inscribed Toten With the number interred within Verboten… now But why not then? In that world of men And women, when humanity’s meaning Was turned on end. And a godless creed That shadowed the world with grief Which now for many, Is beyond belief. The stillness It was the stillness That gave silence the space to breathe, To remember the times, the godless times That now are so hard to believe. But silence and stillness envelope the House A silent place to be To hear the past that shows the present The prayers for a future that sees What could be, What can be But will we Learn, the history from then to now To forge that future for future’s sake And answer the question… How? David Applin … late afternoon and evening of Easter Monday 6th April 2015 following a visit to Bergen-Belsen earlier in the day, completed 7th-9th April. 15th April 2015 … 70 years after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British Army. David Applin (Copyright 2015)
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With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for for restoration, Transpositional for creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here,  poem aborning, Contract with this moment, now satisfied. Al,  what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. _________________________________ 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, N.Y.
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 4:49 PM UTC
With Each Passing Poem (for those that do not know me)
With each passing poem, The degree of difficulty of diving ever higher, Bar incrementally niched, inched, raised, Domain, the association of words, ever lesser, Repetition verboten, crime against pride. Al, You ask me when the words come: With each passing year, In the wee hours of Ever diminishing time snatches, The hours between midnight and rising, Shrinkage, once six, now four hours, Meant for for restoration, Transpositional for creation, Only one body notes the new mark, The digital, numerical clock of Trillion hour sleep deficit, most taxing. Al, you ask me from where do the words come: Each of the five senses compete, Pick me, Pick me, they shout, The eyes see the tall grasses Framing the ferry's to and fro life. Waving bye bye to the End of day harbor activities, Putting your babies to sleep. The ears hear the boat horns Deep voiced, demanding pay attention, I am now docking, I am important, The sound lingers, long after They are no longer important. The tongue tastes the cooling Italian prosecco merging victoriously With its ally, the modestly warming rays Of a September setting sun, finally declaring, without stuttering, Peace on Earth. The odoriferous bay breezes, A new for that second only smell, But yet, very old bartender's recipe, Salt, cooking oil, barbecue sauce, gasoline And the winning new ingredient, freshly minted, Stacked in ascending circumference order, onion rings. These four senses all recombinant, On the cheek, on the tongue, Wafting, tickling, blasting, visioning Merging into a single touch That my pointer finger, by force majeure, Declares, here,  poem aborning, Contract with this moment, now satisfied. Al,  what you did not ask was this: With each passing poem, I am lessened within, expurgated, In a sense part of me, expunged, Part of me, passing too, Every poems birth diminishes me. _________________________________ 4:38 AM September 8th, 2012 Greenport Harbor, N.Y.
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It took you some time to get Where you are; no overnight Fall or idle thought to drop out Or taste how the other half lived, Although now you know, But a collection of erroneous Decisions or the wrong people At a bad time, or maybe that child You lost and husband quitting, Was all too much for you To soldier on in the complex World of the here and now. Shelter is shelter, you mumble, Sipping the warm soup, the memory Of the last good supper long forgotten Or put aside in that room marked Verboten, and the trainers, yes, The trainers fit the feet well, Best for ages, you smilingly mutter, The rest are rags, but they keep me Warm at the best of times, which Are few, you add, sensing the chill Of the wall against your back; Maybe Buddha would not pass by Unnoticing, maybe he will give Smile or coin or kind words Like oil for rusting joints. You sit and stare and muse And feel the wind whisper, Sense the passers-by look down At you, feel their eyes, their Muttered utterances, their shakes Of head, their tut-tutting, and just Remembering now your mother’s Soft hand brushing your childhood Head, soothing the poverty from brow And cheek, maybe that’s what you want On this street, maybe it’s her that you seek.
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM UTC
BAG LADY
Something worthy to write about Her mother was in tears of happiness Her father gave a loud grin Everyone were cheering for her life She finally managed to be born Swimming all along the redness she survived As a child she always adored something red Be it a lollipop or a tricycle she rode Her eyes caught the red house in the neighborhood She jumped on the lap of someone wearing red She giggled to be in red dress Later growing up brought no change Mothers red lipstick on her lips Getting to the garden to pick the red roses Friends farewell, that red card she says Sisters birthday ; red cherry topped cake she remembers Always being redness lover days passed by Alas, one fine day that red colour betrayed her may be Those red fluid between her thighs messed her up they said. Those red patches on her clothes gave her feeling of shame What a weirdness the redness poured in life She now turns to be untouchable; reason, red She now can’t even talk to any guys; reason, red She now can’t feel the warmth of sun; reason, red Turnovers in life Girl you cant go there Girl you can’t talk that way Girl you can’t sit in such way Girl you can’t be close to any guy friends Girl you can’t enter the kitchen Girl you can’t even worship now All because she was cursed by the color red Getting locked in a dark room she cried tears of pain and emotions for loving red. Why can’t she be happy for being a red lover? Being surrounded by taboos and verboten she turns weak She wants to get rid of the redness now She makes attempts to get over it Leaves, clothes, paper and stuffs she uses to do away with the red Even her faith on god distorts as they say she was red because of gods curse Why but why they seem to be know nothing? She gained her life due to the redness her mother achieved She now is ready to give life due to the same redness Human existence is only possible of that very redness Her adolescence and her redness can replicate a new heart beat Please don’t hate red, don’t be ashamed of her on being red Redness in her is not a matter of impurity but a matter of life Let’s understand her, let’s love her, let’s make her feel good on being red!!
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 2:13 AM UTC
Her Redness
Something worthy to write about Her mother was in tears of happiness Her father gave a loud grin Everyone were cheering for her life She finally managed to be born Swimming all along the redness she survived As a child she always adored something red Be it a lollipop or a tricycle she rode Her eyes caught the red house in the neighborhood She jumped on the lap of someone wearing red She giggled to be in red dress Later growing up brought no change Mothers red lipstick on her lips Getting to the garden to pick the red roses Friends farewell, that red card she says Sisters birthday ; red cherry topped cake she remembers Always being redness lover days passed by Alas, one fine day that red colour betrayed her may be Those red fluid between her thighs messed her up they said. Those red patches on her clothes gave her feeling of shame What a weirdness the redness poured in life She now turns to be untouchable; reason, red She now can’t even talk to any guys; reason, red She now can’t feel the warmth of sun; reason, red Turnovers in life Girl you cant go there Girl you can’t talk that way Girl you can’t sit in such way Girl you can’t be close to any guy friends Girl you can’t enter the kitchen Girl you can’t even worship now All because she was cursed by the color red Getting locked in a dark room she cried tears of pain and emotions for loving red. Why can’t she be happy for being a red lover? Being surrounded by taboos and verboten she turns weak She wants to get rid of the redness now She makes attempts to get over it Leaves, clothes, paper and stuffs she uses to do away with the red Even her faith on god distorts as they say she was red because of gods curse Why but why they seem to be know nothing? She gained her life due to the redness her mother achieved She now is ready to give life due to the same redness Human existence is only possible of that very redness Her adolescence and her redness can replicate a new heart beat Please don’t hate red, don’t be ashamed of her on being red Redness in her is not a matter of impurity but a matter of life Let’s understand her, let’s love her, let’s make her feel good on being red!!
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By S E T Those Shelter Island nights, When the air hung sweet and salty and the shell-laced, pebbly sand still felt jagged against your toughened feet, Inviting and profound You walked with your best guy friend, Tawny, and burnished from the summer side jobs, gap tooth and lightly nasal desperately wanting not to hear his yearning paens to your best, most glamorous friend lamenting her leaving Who'd been up for half the month, She of the glittering auburn hair and TV roles, and heartthrob drummer brother, and even then, deep, throaty laugh, Wondering if she'd go for hick, Long Island him, Instead, to feel his teen-age muscled lips bear down on yours, even if you fidgeted with desire and uncertainty, half-longing to bolt Never letting on that second fiddle was not your instrument of choice Crossing the warm road to (pinch yourself) board Chuck's yacht The only one you knew who had a yacht, not a grand affair, with modest galley and monk-like sleeper but a yacht no less, And drink the bootlegged verboten beer delicious, slightly acrid, Stealing away, out the kitchen door after the small stones clattered against your sleeping window, Your signal to renounce the troubled house for a midnight ride down paradise cove.
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Aug 28, 2016
Aug 28, 2016 at 5:15 PM UTC
Those Shelter Island Nights,
My sadness makes no sense, Like what you said. It's substandard It's self-absorbed It's not fine. My cheerless comes from rejection Rejection to accept me To the world From myself I dread of rejection My sadness secrete in my shadow Behind my smile Behind my laugh Behind my happiness This sadness is forbidden My sadness comes from waves i am drowning, sinking, but slowly dying still smiling This kind of sadness is verboten So i covert With my pen And a paper To write a poem This sadness made a scar in my heart; a mark that will be remembered And i'm sorry that this sadness hurt you, the way it hurt me. Just like you, i hate this feeling overwhelming, and i'm sorry. j.d.p
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 11:46 PM UTC
Disconsolate
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Iam Buck King with Pent Tame Eater Re:
The answer it appears, Not. For this exercise, Of filtering life thru eyes poetic, 24/7, is an equation, with a single constant, Eyes wide shut. They would sleep, If they but, could record their dreams, Precisely, securely. Absent that assurety, Without that guarantee, Sleep verboten, lest a single poem Escape unrecorded.
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 7:26 AM UTC
Do poets ever sleep?
'ENTRY' --I go in 'EXIT--' I get out 'VERBOTEN' I stay away These three words ring so strong and loud Should I stay ? But what's this all about? Should I get away? Can't decide--due to my doubt VERBOTEN Forbidden I don't bother to argue Prudence--a rule that's golden When to get out or stay in I'd know If I do have wisdom enough Living life is not as easy as changing your clothes The journey is long, lonely, burdensome and unrelentingly tough
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 7:24 AM UTC
IN AND OUT
The poem I would never write would tell of the sun And the moon and The stars, And how the color gray Describes everything by far. The poem I would never write Would be about roses And the wind in branches and trees. The poem I would never write Could never be read. You see, The poem I would never write Would be about the unchartable, An unwritten world waiting to be created. The poem I would never write Would explain my every wish, The desires buried deeper then the sorrow I hold. Words would not suffice in The poem I would never write.
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 9:09 PM UTC
Verboten
I’m okay, you’re okay. That’s the game we play Pretending, day by day To not let our demeanors betray To tamper everything we say When we daily play This game of I’m okay, you’re okay. Meanwhile, when we’re alone We can feel free to bemoan And groan (but not loudly) Everything we haven’t shown To each other but is known to us But when we’re together, that’s verboten It’s just “I’m okay, you’re okay.”
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 10:22 AM UTC
Untitled
peak skill wafts milky aroma from ******* Eros they win an apt pupil dial lates with a twin thus…two orbital allies – seek carnal *** sass sin while sunk kin their sockets, they scan yar scenic skin drawing interest sharp as a pin while testosterone pump kin not cease…thus juiced hum ma gin slicing ether of sea like an ocular shark fin past yar eyes darting from toes ta chin where ****** fantasies shift their shape letting daydream let me lips braise the nape of neck before shimmying with invisible escape resorting to atavistic antics per great ape within me twenty first skein of muscle and bone especially verboten iced creamy country where this pal wannabe wants to drone and in fair weather or foul would pine to hear ya moan upon me milking tropic of cancer as ye lie supinely prone regaling tulips and rivulet dribbling over miniature mossy stone aware when proboscis nearing bulls eye by your purring tone ecstatic I located an erogenous zone mentally book marked careful not to slide nor slip a live as one googly eyed earth linked yahoo excites pheromones on the outlook for purr act perch per verboten trip could don role of aim mesh applying his little buggy whip of ca horse heading to bird in hand *********** paradise or some other place grand dill a quaint as would be surmised as this animal a carnal, excitable, guttural one-man band seething with hormonal secretions unfairly forced into a coe wide dill cell bait coveting to reach the integral female bad land.
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Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 6:01 PM UTC
Flagrante delicto
peak skill wafts milky aroma from ******* Eros they win an apt pupil dial lates with a twin thus…two orbital allies – seek carnal *** sass sin while sunk kin their sockets, they scan yar scenic skin drawing interest sharp as a pin while testosterone pump kin not cease…thus juiced hum ma gin slicing ether of sea like an ocular shark fin past yar eyes darting from toes ta chin where ****** fantasies shift their shape letting daydream let me lips braise the nape of neck before shimmying with invisible escape resorting to atavistic antics per great ape within me twenty first skein of muscle and bone especially verboten iced creamy country where this pal wannabe wants to drone and in fair weather or foul would pine to hear ya moan upon me milking tropic of cancer as ye lie supinely prone regaling tulips and rivulet dribbling over miniature mossy stone aware when proboscis nearing bulls eye by your purring tone ecstatic I located an erogenous zone mentally book marked careful not to slide nor slip a live as one googly eyed earth linked yahoo excites pheromones on the outlook for purr act perch per verboten trip could don role of aim mesh applying his little buggy whip of ca horse heading to bird in hand *********** paradise or some other place grand dill a quaint as would be surmised as this animal a carnal, excitable, guttural one-man band seething with hormonal secretions unfairly forced into a coe wide dill cell bait coveting to reach the integral female bad land.
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two legged beasts choked in afternoon's haze, days all rated like pain, 1 to 10 3's admonitions were to the elderly, the infirm; lucky 7 still said all but necessary travel was verboten 9 was malign enough for the bug eyed masks, and even indoor tasks were advised with caution double digits meant doom, stay in your room, with equal measures of oxygen and prayer outside if the scale really read the ominous 10, fears were of fire igniting in the skies but some days were yet a 2, when masses moved about enjoying a respite from wrath though 1 was remembered as if a dream, with skies a strange hue, most thought it was once called blue plants, trees, were taxed without exemption, mixing molecules, a chemical coughing in silence, their belching of atoms, our salvation and there were those who ventured far enough into the fields who vouchsafed they had yet seen daffodils, wilted but alive
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May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017 at 10:47 PM UTC
what blossoms survived
As life is full of adventures, People take it sort of ventures. Whatever endeavor one has gotten, It is a choice though to some is verboten. Nobody truly influences what we aspire, Only God surely invades our innate desire. Yes man is gifted with inborn intelligence, Best if he utilizes it with able diligence. All five senses except one man detests, Is it his religious orientation that protests. Sexuality does excites different social reactions, But the higher IQ one has the better interpretations. It is a taboo for most to discuss *** Why is it so, are you doing it to vex? Is it not innate part of being normal persons, How come we relay much on irate reasons? Maybe those frigid have overlooked, Even animals do it not just for hooked. Have to resolve all our life's contentions, Explore the five senses for self expressions!
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 12:48 AM UTC
Self Expressions