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"villa" poems
Vano el motivo desta prosa: nada... Cosas de todo día. Sucesos banales. Gente necia, local y chata y roma. Gran tráfico en el marco de la plaza. Chismes. Catolicismo. Y una total inopia en los cerebros... Cual si todo se fincara en la riqueza, en menjurjes bursátiles y en un mayor volumen de la panza.
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Villa de la candelaria
Wonderful Simply wonderful An amazing facade A fantastic mask Where oh where Did I once see By the sea By these people? Strangers in and out Moving on? Where oh where Did I once grasp Cold and empty; The house of gold The villa of superiority; A broken bone Where oh where Is my only refuge Silver pen, Black ink, White lie: Comfort me For I was once a god For I was once in power For there is no one I could need For this silhouette is vanishing Cold heart; Blind eye; A question, An answer: Why oh why Am I unloved I am simply unloved
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Dec 20, 2010
Dec 20, 2010 at 6:06 AM UTC
Unloved
I There is a house with ivied walls, And mullioned windows worn and old, And the long dwellers in those halls Have souls that know but sordid calls, And dote on gold. II In a blazing brick and plated show Not far away a ‘villa’ gleams, And here a family few may know, With book and pencil, viol and bow, Lead inner lives of dreams. III The philosophic passers say, ‘See that old mansion mossed and fair, Poetic souls therein are they: And O that gaudy box! Away, You ****** people there.’
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Architectural Masks
You, saying love You, shaman's road You, a bird You, a yellow sun You, Emperor You, lovely door You, my Walt Whitman You, Neal You, Sal Paradise You, Pancho Villa You, La Revolución Mexicana You, navajo You, the border You, the river You, chicana You, Mafia You, redemption You, poetry You, Salvador Dalí You, Picasso You, stereo You, love You, *** You, youth You, America You, América You, español You, english You, country side You, cat You, fire You, books You, E. E. Cummings You, Bukowski You, Octavio Paz You, Coca-Cola You, Coke You, India You, Mississippi You, jazz You, Miles You, Davis You, water You, rain You, lagoon You, chest You, car You, road You, reading You, lines You, Paris You, Baudelaire You, Poe You, japanese You, katana You, Mishima You, gun You, rifle You, cam You, can You, can't You, Durango You, Arizona You, desert You, gonzo You, mezcal You, alcohol You, drive You, crush You, alive You, again
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Jun 3, 2013
Jun 3, 2013 at 3:16 PM UTC
Down with law
*The red light of the sun Slowly descending The sky is all I see It’s never ending We could fly You and I On a cloud Music on the hillside Piano in a villa over there Violin below Fireworks above A beat – a beating heart Someone begins to sing The red light of the sun Slowly descending The sky is all I see It’s never ending We could fly You and I On a cloud Is this place real The ocean below The red sky above The music Romance on the wind. Sing with me The wind plays with the leaves The weather turns colder But as long as we believe Love doesn’t get older We could fly You and I On a cloud Only after one leaves Does this place become real A crown jewel midst a rocky cliff A place so beautiful its Memory etches itself into your soul Food to die for Drinks to fight for… On a journey of the heart There’s so much to see When the sky is dark You’ll be right here Right here with me Good morning I vow*
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Jun 15, 2017
Jun 15, 2017 at 12:00 PM UTC
Ode to Positano
All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Cool as the pearled interior of a conch. Bells, hooves, of the high-stipping black goats woke us. Around our bed the baronial furniture Foundered through levels of light seagreen and strange. Not one leaf wrinkled in the clearing air. We dreamed how we were perfect, and we were. Against bare, whitewashed walls, the furniture Anchored itself, griffin-legged and darkly grained. Two of us in a place meant for ten more- Our footsteps multiplied in the shadowy chambers, Our voices fathomed a profounder sound: The walnut banquet table, the twelve chairs Mirrored the intricate gestures of two others. Heavy as a statuary, shapes not ours Performed a dumbshow in the polished wood, That cabinet without windows or doors: He lifts an arm to bring her close, but she Shies from his touch: his is an iron mood. Seeing her freeze, he turns his face away. They poise and grieve as in some old tragedy. Moon-blanched and implacable, he and she Would not be eased, released. Our each example Of temderness dove through their purgatory Like a planet, a stone, swallowed in a great darkness, Leaving no sparky track, setting up no ripple. Nightly we left them in their desert place. Lights out, they dogged us, sleepless and envious: We dreamed their arguments, their stricken voices. We might embrace, but those two never did, Come, so unlike us, to a stiff impasse, Burdened in such a way we seemed the lighter- Ourselves the haunters, and they, flesh and blood; As if, above love's ruinage, we were The heaven those two dreamed of, in despair.
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The Other Two
All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Cool as the pearled interior of a conch. Bells, hooves, of the high-stipping black goats woke us. Around our bed the baronial furniture Foundered through levels of light seagreen and strange. Not one leaf wrinkled in the clearing air. We dreamed how we were perfect, and we were. Against bare, whitewashed walls, the furniture Anchored itself, griffin-legged and darkly grained. Two of us in a place meant for ten more- Our footsteps multiplied in the shadowy chambers, Our voices fathomed a profounder sound: The walnut banquet table, the twelve chairs Mirrored the intricate gestures of two others. Heavy as a statuary, shapes not ours Performed a dumbshow in the polished wood, That cabinet without windows or doors: He lifts an arm to bring her close, but she Shies from his touch: his is an iron mood. Seeing her freeze, he turns his face away. They poise and grieve as in some old tragedy. Moon-blanched and implacable, he and she Would not be eased, released. Our each example Of temderness dove through their purgatory Like a planet, a stone, swallowed in a great darkness, Leaving no sparky track, setting up no ripple. Nightly we left them in their desert place. Lights out, they dogged us, sleepless and envious: We dreamed their arguments, their stricken voices. We might embrace, but those two never did, Come, so unlike us, to a stiff impasse, Burdened in such a way we seemed the lighter- Ourselves the haunters, and they, flesh and blood; As if, above love's ruinage, we were The heaven those two dreamed of, in despair.
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Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark; And the shut shops, the bleached Established names on the sunblinds, The farthings and sovereigns, And dark-clothed children at play Called after kings and queens, The tin advertisements For cocoa and twist, and the pubs Wide open all day-- And the countryside not caring: The place names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat's restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge houses, The dust behind limousines; Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages, Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.
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MCMXIV
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 7:29 PM UTC
a shortened critique of pure reason / adjacent-adjective compound
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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you were laid up in guadalupita with camelia la tajena from la junta and her tonto from la plata- hiho-yo shootin' tequila with pancho villa jefe of the bandidos mc locos - tweakin and twerkin chicas and cholos and vatos ridin' with the vagos - they were singing - "*con cuerno de chivo y bazooka en la nuca volando cabezas a quien se atraviesa somos sanguinarios, locos bien ondeados - nos gusta matar*" you were kickin - breathing quickened - bravo television tunnel visioned to the tonto/pancho episode en camera - exposed pronto - camelia shot her tonto dead - a perfect rose upon his head - i like killin - she said hiho-yo, tonto we sang narcocorridos all night long - on the blue mesa. r ~ 10/25/14  *song excerpt from: "Sanguinarios del M1” (Bloodthirsty Men of the M1)” (2010) "Translation: "With “goat’s horn” (AK-47) and bazooka at our necks/Sending heads flying if anyone tries anything/We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the scene/We enjoy killing..."*
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 7:28 PM UTC
narcocorrido on the blue mesa
Cardinal sun rose blooming as the budding flower. Buddha chants in the chimes of birds ethereal caught in gradual hot wind, Darjeeling tea steam rises on tabletop my mind is waking over Indonesian morning. Foreign babel as hours draw even cacophony of hurricane horns the Denpasar traffic drumming chorus midst markets where radio emitting Li Zengguang dizi dizzily prancing into the assortments of spice and coiling fabrics patterns potent azure and golden royalty brass clatter caged noise boiling *** cries the Orient! Overgrowth spots the charring temples in majesty and abundance cradling the narrow Balinese streets while tropic palm and orchid spring swells the soils. Ardent sun sheaths eastern archipelagos, religious offerings canvas sidewalks incense burning in overwhelming bouquets of efflorescence smelling daedal tapestries within the paradise. Sun goes on setting the jewel easing underneath the horizon, butterflies sway in rest hearts on fire the ceremonies have finished. Thunder shrieks against the sea torrential rain firing on villa ceilings. My eyes set to sleep consciousness transitioning between two dreams.
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Mar 19, 2015
Mar 19, 2015 at 8:48 PM UTC
Halycon
HE lived on the wings of storm. The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado Sprang a vengeance of Slav miners, Italians, Scots, Cornishmen, Yanks. Killings ran under the spoken commands of this boy With eighty men and rifles on a hogback mountain. They killed swearing to remember The shot and charred wives and children In the burnt camp of Ludlow, And Louis Tikas, the laughing Greek, Plugged with a bullet, clubbed with a gun **** As a home war It held the nation a week And one or two million men stood together And swore by the retribution of steel. It was all accidental. He lived flecking lint off coat lapels Of men he talked with. He kissed the miners' babies And wrote a Denver paper Of picket silhouettes on a mountain line. He had no mother but Mother Jones Crying from a jail window of Trinidad: "All I want is room enough to stand And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race." Named by a grand jury as a murderer He went to Chihuahua, forgot his old Scotch name, Smoked cheroots with Pancho Villa And wrote letters of Villa as a rock of the people. How can I tell how Don Magregor went? Three riders emptied lead into him. He lay on the main street of an inland town. A boy sat near all day throwing stones To keep pigs away. The Villa men buried him in a pit With twenty Carranzistas. There is drama in that point... ...the boy and the pigs. Griffith would make a movie of it to fetch sobs. Victor Herbert would have the drums whirr In a weave with a high fiddle-string's single clamor. "And the muchacho sat there all day throwing stones To keep the pigs away," wrote Gibbons to the Tribune. Somewhere in Chihuahua or Colorado Is a leather bag of poems and short stories.
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Memoir of a Proud Boy
HE lived on the wings of storm. The ashes are in Chihuahua. Out of Ludlow and coal towns in Colorado Sprang a vengeance of Slav miners, Italians, Scots, Cornishmen, Yanks. Killings ran under the spoken commands of this boy With eighty men and rifles on a hogback mountain. They killed swearing to remember The shot and charred wives and children In the burnt camp of Ludlow, And Louis Tikas, the laughing Greek, Plugged with a bullet, clubbed with a gun **** As a home war It held the nation a week And one or two million men stood together And swore by the retribution of steel. It was all accidental. He lived flecking lint off coat lapels Of men he talked with. He kissed the miners' babies And wrote a Denver paper Of picket silhouettes on a mountain line. He had no mother but Mother Jones Crying from a jail window of Trinidad: "All I want is room enough to stand And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race." Named by a grand jury as a murderer He went to Chihuahua, forgot his old Scotch name, Smoked cheroots with Pancho Villa And wrote letters of Villa as a rock of the people. How can I tell how Don Magregor went? Three riders emptied lead into him. He lay on the main street of an inland town. A boy sat near all day throwing stones To keep pigs away. The Villa men buried him in a pit With twenty Carranzistas. There is drama in that point... ...the boy and the pigs. Griffith would make a movie of it to fetch sobs. Victor Herbert would have the drums whirr In a weave with a high fiddle-string's single clamor. "And the muchacho sat there all day throwing stones To keep the pigs away," wrote Gibbons to the Tribune. Somewhere in Chihuahua or Colorado Is a leather bag of poems and short stories.
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The plane is emotion. The form is a gentle rider, she pushes bullets off cliffs, she hugs the stars. Catches the moon eyeing her with one great big hand wrapped on its **** spins the bell of her dress round and round. Sifted from the Earth, man moody cleft in heaps of his entrails, no progress has been made. My metal mother pulls hula hoops for zulu, she rips down the shelves and pulls Bobby Dylan from the wall. She says, "grrrplleeopzhrka." And the smoke gets into my eyes and burns my nostrils too. In the great wind screen, footprints of man, Native American blood weeps on my bright Summer burning, no regency cleared. The outlook denied. It sits stagnant, maddening with its blockhead on sideways. Heavy, old mutter hubbard wilting gold in her stare. Mess comes. She spoils, her skin is loud and anointed, her fecund white placard is thinner than air. People look at each other, a goblin, two trollops, the green woolen winter-wear of a soldier in despair. Only a putrid noon, escaping, cuts the flesh from the garden. Cuts out all the weakness, the hope, the love, every thing owned, every one cleared. The skin trap and oyster flap. The rich mixture of voices, nothing holds common that bond, that few could look upon, that youth could- none of the old things work anymore. Just a wicked boredom trickling in blood down her legs, just the lust trickling down her legs, dear mommy, I obey. And when the summer months set in mahogany, and the icicle feat swallows us up, dear- death Winter lips moths buzzing mouths fuzzz your sweet bomb bon bon
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 7:06 PM UTC
Wet Wolves Heaped in Wolf Villa
The plane is emotion. The form is a gentle rider, she pushes bullets off cliffs, she hugs the stars. Catches the moon eyeing her with one great big hand wrapped on its **** spins the bell of her dress round and round. Sifted from the Earth, man moody cleft in heaps of his entrails, no progress has been made. My metal mother pulls hula hoops for zulu, she rips down the shelves and pulls Bobby Dylan from the wall. She says, "grrrplleeopzhrka." And the smoke gets into my eyes and burns my nostrils too. In the great wind screen, footprints of man, Native American blood weeps on my bright Summer burning, no regency cleared. The outlook denied. It sits stagnant, maddening with its blockhead on sideways. Heavy, old mutter hubbard wilting gold in her stare. Mess comes. She spoils, her skin is loud and anointed, her fecund white placard is thinner than air. People look at each other, a goblin, two trollops, the green woolen winter-wear of a soldier in despair. Only a putrid noon, escaping, cuts the flesh from the garden. Cuts out all the weakness, the hope, the love, every thing owned, every one cleared. The skin trap and oyster flap. The rich mixture of voices, nothing holds common that bond, that few could look upon, that youth could- none of the old things work anymore. Just a wicked boredom trickling in blood down her legs, just the lust trickling down her legs, dear mommy, I obey. And when the summer months set in mahogany, and the icicle feat swallows us up, dear- death Winter lips moths buzzing mouths fuzzz your sweet bomb bon bon
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Surely your eyes smile like sunflowers in August dropping their seeds from skyscraper heights as you hang from your cross nailed together by your own rough-hewn hands dropping their seeds as the wind runs its fingers through the weeds windchiming like a platinum-plated Joni Mitchell and surely you touched mine surely surely surely and I wish like Christmas Eve                       like a first junior high dance                       like a death bed watch that I could afford even a bottle of you but the demand for you is high and the supply . . .          well, you know, there's never enough and you keep raising the price and surely surely surely                     you know, there's never enough so I lie here among the weeds seeking out your seeds some small, priceless part of you as you rise out of my reach                          like a house with a seaside view                          like a villa in Tuscany                          like gold which you are surely surely surely you are with your sunflower eyes and your Christmas Eve wishes you pay for my sins dropping your seeds and surely surely surely                      you know, there's never enough
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 8:57 PM UTC
I Wrote You A Poem While Listening to Jane Monheit Sing Joni Mitchell
Las Ramblas takes me into the olfactory and gustatory folds of a multicolored bocadillo, which led me to the breathtaking and fearful tunnels of El Chorro. I have identified those at Sants who maintained deviant motives and gazed upon the beauty of those tree-lined streets of fountainous resignation. Nevertheless, the combination of manchego and chorizo leads me to those meandering roads of Andalucia where the Sierra Nevada can be witnessed from festivals in Pastelero and Villa Nueva in a midnight breeze. The best sopa de acho is to be found in Antequerra.
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 10:12 PM UTC
Psychological Tapas
Down from Arizona desert cold, absence of ice and snow three white painted terracotta pots by the Villa apartment on the tabled walkway— Christina’s place. Stacked, each alternately inverted one to the next stabilize a snowperson body. Can you picture it? Black painted buttons all the way up? Lips of dots, an orange twist of nose, deep eyes void black. Burgundy scarf tied around the neck, positioned just so, it could be fit to a Christmas Chihuahua. By its playful form and surprising attitude, may it well succeed at pleasing every passerby and draw out, on each scroogey face, a smile. It’s been doing just that for me, as I park opposite each night, my headlights there shining. Still, I have not and shall not peak inside the alluring, open terracotta skull, since I have imagined not wishes, nor disappointments, nor elves and cookies, but practical ash, randomly spiked with spent cigarettes. Last night, as I walked out, with my night’s anticipations, my grab-bag of happy tangles, Christina’s hanging silver chimes issued soft whispering over terracotta, and I caught a remembrance of Amazing Grace how sweet the sound. Mojo my psychic dog turned me sharply then: he took me away–we two, hunting the moon in a starless night.
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
Terracotta
Home boy thought he was a killer Kept a necklace round his neck In a villa near manila A strange accurance Small body found dead Little ***** died underneath the currents Homeboy was sure of his assurance A good swimmer His name was probably Laurence He was just a few feet from shore, When this Alligator about six feet or four, His eyes went wide, bug eyed and crazy This is when it all got a little hazy
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
Alligators
Liberty bell has rung for the longest time friends come and go All the time why can't it be The best news* I ever heard in a long time Sleepless nights at bedtime Sunset opens worth waiting for Healing- time -heart We are on Prime- Time Long healing coffee Anytime peace of mind Waiting for the right time How come its more the wrong time We all work fulltime long hours Hits you in a whole lifetime Nothing heals I love my trees Maple cherry blossom wild flowers Having strong bold coffee in the Eiffel Towers The train is coming but the wrong one All alone holding time With your coffee cup Please stop to think Stirring my coffee Long wait sometimes life stinks   Cell phones and so many links Long sip- my- neck- out  Amazon jungle long time -out         Long night-out      Long wait hooked like a bait Please God! I cannot wait             *        *        *        *        * Long sip Villa- man dressed Vet He stuck his neck out to her mind and body set
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Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023 at 11:57 AM UTC
Long Healing Coffee
I live in one of those small mostly untainted towns not trendy, just funky and innocent the kind that’s becoming rara villa en terra. No Starbucks. But modern winds bring dust and particles from larger cities around. They have infected our fauna which are morphing before our eyes. Last week I was at the pond where the deer come to drink at dusk and my heart broke. There was that huge seven-point whitetail buck the one I so admired huge, taut and fast but instead of hooves he was trod with Goodyear offroad tires. He saw me see him and embarrassed turned and sped away into the trees leaving rubber treadmarks in the loam.
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 4:19 AM UTC
The Goodyear Off-Road Deer
There's a painting by Botticelli I've always loved, showing Venus being born naked from the ocean and not fearing the current. Those around her renounce her body, scrambling to clothe her, turn her virginal, contain the way her eyes cross galaxies, shine all the way to Pluto. But she is soft, unwavering, not noticing the mortals' concern about her ******* and bare collarbone that could catch water at its base. I found you halfway across the world on the steps of the Uffizi and in the 3 hours it took you to show me some of the best art on earth, I was transfixed only on the orbits of planets in your eyes. Shortly before the sun set, you took me through the secret corridor Cosimo de' Medici built to walk across the rooftops of the city where you kissed me but told me you didn't believe in love, that all you needed was art, and Michelangelo, and in that moment I saw Venus in your collarbone. Saw a shell under your feet, saw the universe in the way your freckles connected, saw how you immortalize yourself among the rest of the art in Florence so no human can bring you down to earth, can make your heart stop, show you what it's like to cross timezones with a single touch. And here I am, wanting to be your Botticelli, to paint the uneven slope of your shoulders, the crookedness of your right ankle, your fear of exposing yourself to someone who could love you. It must be lonely out there, Venus, on your little fishing boat by the sea. Botticelli's painting was found long after his death, laid into the floor of an abandoned villa in the south of Tuscany. Venus looking lost and mortal between cracked paint and chipping walls, like the way you hide between the dusty statues of the dead statesmen and fading portraits long after the museum closes, just you with only history to hold. You want to believe in love as past-tense, like you've lost faith in present participles and the fact that art is still being made, and people are running barefoot into future conjugations together. Don't come back to land, Venus. Vanessa. I won't be here waiting with a towel or an art critic or a spaceship. But maybe, just make a little room for me on your shell under the sun, atop steady waves or Florentine rooftops. Throw the map overboard. Let's forget the shore. And Michelangelo and the rest of them will smile as they see us off.
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Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 2015 at 5:18 PM UTC
And Michelangelo Agrees With Me
There's a painting by Botticelli I've always loved, showing Venus being born naked from the ocean and not fearing the current. Those around her renounce her body, scrambling to clothe her, turn her virginal, contain the way her eyes cross galaxies, shine all the way to Pluto. But she is soft, unwavering, not noticing the mortals' concern about her ******* and bare collarbone that could catch water at its base. I found you halfway across the world on the steps of the Uffizi and in the 3 hours it took you to show me some of the best art on earth, I was transfixed only on the orbits of planets in your eyes. Shortly before the sun set, you took me through the secret corridor Cosimo de' Medici built to walk across the rooftops of the city where you kissed me but told me you didn't believe in love, that all you needed was art, and Michelangelo, and in that moment I saw Venus in your collarbone. Saw a shell under your feet, saw the universe in the way your freckles connected, saw how you immortalize yourself among the rest of the art in Florence so no human can bring you down to earth, can make your heart stop, show you what it's like to cross timezones with a single touch. And here I am, wanting to be your Botticelli, to paint the uneven slope of your shoulders, the crookedness of your right ankle, your fear of exposing yourself to someone who could love you. It must be lonely out there, Venus, on your little fishing boat by the sea. Botticelli's painting was found long after his death, laid into the floor of an abandoned villa in the south of Tuscany. Venus looking lost and mortal between cracked paint and chipping walls, like the way you hide between the dusty statues of the dead statesmen and fading portraits long after the museum closes, just you with only history to hold. You want to believe in love as past-tense, like you've lost faith in present participles and the fact that art is still being made, and people are running barefoot into future conjugations together. Don't come back to land, Venus. Vanessa. I won't be here waiting with a towel or an art critic or a spaceship. But maybe, just make a little room for me on your shell under the sun, atop steady waves or Florentine rooftops. Throw the map overboard. Let's forget the shore. And Michelangelo and the rest of them will smile as they see us off.
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tickity-clickity whirr went my father to set the little merry-go-round musicbox by my bed with its adorbsable mini-suction cups lining purple porcelain tentacles winding round and round lulling gently with that nostalgic ice-cream truck tune reminding me of sweet tang juicy mango slush on a hot afternoon where the posh-painted ponies fly by with the tide rising up and down in a seaside villa of some spanish town in all the grandness of their primary colors so carefully chosen to brush at the command of a fairy princess with her crown gold-gilded she's twirling whirling, a mechanical ballerina on springs gracefully petite her frame, so small the sash on her shoulder that slips in the breeze to catch the eye of a little soldier in his regimentals properly fitted, buttoned in brass a lass like me lovingly adoring bunnies in top hats and bow ties spats on their feet to tap dance for me in my dreams the never ending spin of a teacup party the catch of a hook where the lullaby loses flight but I'm already asleep with a kiss goodnight
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 5:28 PM UTC
Steampunk Lullaby (to be read out loud)
Carrizo, lamina, Cemento, y varilla. Mi casa Su casa Sus casas. Te busco Te deseo Y no te encuentro. Fotos Mapas y Recuerdos Es donde te tengo. Escucha, Habla y dime, Como esta Mi pueblo. Villa de Etla, Querida, Adorada.
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Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015 at 1:34 PM UTC
Frijolero
She came to me at Calvados, A single night, without repeat. The woman of my soul’s love longing, to consummate with kisses sweet. She entered in my midnight room a simple pastel shift she wore Smiling as she bared her shoulders, the garment dropping to the floor. So beautiful, this child of Gonne, to this poet’s bleary eyes. How often I had praised, in print, her auburn hair and hazel eyes. I was silent, she as well, neither keen to break the spell. She kissed me deeply on the lips just as the stroke of midnight fell. Her fingers deeply in my hair she brought me to her freckled chest. I licked and nibbled at one ****** like a baby at her breast. She mounted me, her Rocinante, and slowly, we began our quest. My Willie in warm velvet wetness wrapped as I returned her thrusts. In spirit, we belonged together. In truth,she’d wed another man. A brute who’d tried to **** her sister. She, too, had suffered at his hand. As we played, she bent to kiss me sweet Celtic sweat was in her hair In another life she’d been my sister. In this life’s love war all was fair. She gave out with a little cry as she took my Willie deep. we came in unison so sweetly but quietly, her child was asleep. I remember, one time, Maud had asked what type of bird I’d like to be? Back upon the hills at Howth when we were young and both still free. “I think”, I said,” I’d be a gull, playing at the shore for free. Soaring high above the water taking my living from the sea.” Now we lay here in Calvados near the town Colleville sur Mer Her villa was named “Les Mouettes” For one night only, we coupled there. It is rumored that, in the Summer of 1907, William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne shared physical intimacy for the one and only time in their lives. He the famous Poet and Playwright, she the famous Irish nationalist. At the time she was separated from John MacBride, but they had not divorced, being Catholic. Yeats had a belief in reincarnation and both had, at times, dabbled in the occult. See also my poem " Making Iseult" The child asleep in the adjoining room would be Sean MacBride, later in life a Nobel peace prize winner. Les Mouettes is French for "the (Sea)gulls." I have read that Yeats wrote a love poem about this night, but that it has been lost. This is my attempt to replicate that lost love poem. I thank Patrick McFarland for helping me revise the original version of the poem. His suggestions improved the flow of the piece. .
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 8:39 AM UTC
Willie and Maud
She came to me at Calvados, A single night, without repeat. The woman of my soul’s love longing, to consummate with kisses sweet. She entered in my midnight room a simple pastel shift she wore Smiling as she bared her shoulders, the garment dropping to the floor. So beautiful, this child of Gonne, to this poet’s bleary eyes. How often I had praised, in print, her auburn hair and hazel eyes. I was silent, she as well, neither keen to break the spell. She kissed me deeply on the lips just as the stroke of midnight fell. Her fingers deeply in my hair she brought me to her freckled chest. I licked and nibbled at one ****** like a baby at her breast. She mounted me, her Rocinante, and slowly, we began our quest. My Willie in warm velvet wetness wrapped as I returned her thrusts. In spirit, we belonged together. In truth,she’d wed another man. A brute who’d tried to **** her sister. She, too, had suffered at his hand. As we played, she bent to kiss me sweet Celtic sweat was in her hair In another life she’d been my sister. In this life’s love war all was fair. She gave out with a little cry as she took my Willie deep. we came in unison so sweetly but quietly, her child was asleep. I remember, one time, Maud had asked what type of bird I’d like to be? Back upon the hills at Howth when we were young and both still free. “I think”, I said,” I’d be a gull, playing at the shore for free. Soaring high above the water taking my living from the sea.” Now we lay here in Calvados near the town Colleville sur Mer Her villa was named “Les Mouettes” For one night only, we coupled there. It is rumored that, in the Summer of 1907, William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne shared physical intimacy for the one and only time in their lives. He the famous Poet and Playwright, she the famous Irish nationalist. At the time she was separated from John MacBride, but they had not divorced, being Catholic. Yeats had a belief in reincarnation and both had, at times, dabbled in the occult. See also my poem " Making Iseult" The child asleep in the adjoining room would be Sean MacBride, later in life a Nobel peace prize winner. Les Mouettes is French for "the (Sea)gulls." I have read that Yeats wrote a love poem about this night, but that it has been lost. This is my attempt to replicate that lost love poem. I thank Patrick McFarland for helping me revise the original version of the poem. His suggestions improved the flow of the piece. .
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" i always wondered if fish drooled ? "  she said... and left it there like a cartoon tumbleweed, caked in glitter and sprite phlegm. she stood across an ocean on an island of outlandish abandonment, where all the mirrors crack.  her passing quakes the stain off her daily betrothal to a toothless bigot in the land of freedom's end in the hovel of her heart's fall from appointed grace. a place of a thousand cuts and no car. waaaay out in the country of her diminished affections, her eyes could be seen wandering the burnt out villa of her lost love, where she recalls the fairy rings piercing her lips and the trembling of her youth, finding a slow hand to explore the wet *** without peril, soaring with her palm, plastered to a feathered bed in a guest room, in a time-share. grampa sleep. and bird's nest pitch black. " i always wondered if fish drooled ? " she said... she slept through it... on to the next disconnect  to get intimate with. she left me there, like a chocolate mint resting on a pillow made of shards of habitual flagellation by candle light and instinct; resting on a bed of nails rusting in the flood plain of her fondest wish. she left me there to conspire with her better demons, to witness - the benign desperation of her frenzied exploration of actual actualization... to watch her ****** from the jaws of a dire wolf, her bleeding heart and her ransom. with her bare teeth and a naked Truth. you should have seen her face. i tattooed her secrets on the iris of a blind ghost, i swore it " abide in her broken heart like an open door with a cool breeze slinking through the fetid air of her self defeat and stale bread bumble bees. and to abide by her rules when she finds them... then to ghostly fall upon his ghost sword by midnight with a smile that tells hell it cannot claim what rises. a smile that spat at the devil and pitied his children. a ghost smile that stole a book from a museum and never told his other books why.
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May 12, 2013
May 12, 2013 at 5:07 AM UTC
" i always wondered if fish drooled ? " she said...
" i always wondered if fish drooled ? "  she said... and left it there like a cartoon tumbleweed, caked in glitter and sprite phlegm. she stood across an ocean on an island of outlandish abandonment, where all the mirrors crack.  her passing quakes the stain off her daily betrothal to a toothless bigot in the land of freedom's end in the hovel of her heart's fall from appointed grace. a place of a thousand cuts and no car. waaaay out in the country of her diminished affections, her eyes could be seen wandering the burnt out villa of her lost love, where she recalls the fairy rings piercing her lips and the trembling of her youth, finding a slow hand to explore the wet *** without peril, soaring with her palm, plastered to a feathered bed in a guest room, in a time-share. grampa sleep. and bird's nest pitch black. " i always wondered if fish drooled ? " she said... she slept through it... on to the next disconnect  to get intimate with. she left me there, like a chocolate mint resting on a pillow made of shards of habitual flagellation by candle light and instinct; resting on a bed of nails rusting in the flood plain of her fondest wish. she left me there to conspire with her better demons, to witness - the benign desperation of her frenzied exploration of actual actualization... to watch her ****** from the jaws of a dire wolf, her bleeding heart and her ransom. with her bare teeth and a naked Truth. you should have seen her face. i tattooed her secrets on the iris of a blind ghost, i swore it " abide in her broken heart like an open door with a cool breeze slinking through the fetid air of her self defeat and stale bread bumble bees. and to abide by her rules when she finds them... then to ghostly fall upon his ghost sword by midnight with a smile that tells hell it cannot claim what rises. a smile that spat at the devil and pitied his children. a ghost smile that stole a book from a museum and never told his other books why.
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