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"voila" poems
Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Guitar Sauce
Slipping into my apron, Hungry in body and soul Humming as a song played... I grab my knife and chop-board Unsure of what to cook Strange inspirations possess me Filling me with ***** My kitchen becomes a stage In my hands- a plectrum and fretboard Silver utensils- my live audience!* As I play divine recipes Strumming master acoustic chords Chopping fresh, colorful vegetables. I dash to the remote, Punch "Repeat" and dash back on stage Landing on E♭ minor, Scaling impossible notes, I slice with razor-sharp plectrum, On onions and other root chords My fret arrayed with colors, Of spinach, lettuce, tomatoes Carrots, potatoes, olives Pepper, cabbage and cucumbers. I hear a thunder of applause As I ignite the cooker Butter sizzling in the hot pan A staccato of sharp notes, *Ready to modulate innocent vegetables Through spicy aromatic crescendos!* I fight hard to suppress a sneeze, No sneezing on-stage! Unprofessional! Multitudes of seconds rush by and… Voila!!! I stand for a moment Salivating, awed at my bravura! Wishing I could hang it on my wall Tis beautiful like art But I can’t eat this cake and have it! So I dig in… Heaven and earth kiss for a moment L U S C I O U S!!! Luckily, it didn’t taste nauseating Like my last attempt. No time for ceremonies I munch from pan to mouth Pausing for what may pass for a prayer, I relish every bite! Not that I’m a foodie or something, But nothing beats this combo- Of good food and soul music. And yes, *Music is indeed food to the soul!* I devour, in view- the next meal... © Raphael Uzor
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What a curious thought to not be led into temptation... as if I needed help! As if I needed any assistance! Lead me not into temptation it's not needed you see; I know the path well it starts on Google Incognito mode, savvy? Press a few keys and voila - temptation found! My resolve defeated. I wasn't led here I found my own way sadly, temptation bound. Can I be blamed really? Would you blame a starving man for stealing food, offered freely? Can you blame a starving man for giving into such temptation when he's denied the legitimate?
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 6:53 PM UTC
Lead me not into temptation...
Ask...and you shall be given answers seek...and you'll be told where to look knock...say, hello?...hello? hellooow? a voice named siri replies: "is it me you're looking for?" i think, the eyes, the mind, even the heart, need clear, goggle-like glasses, for 20/20 vision, to grasp, to discern,  be forewarned, not to be overwhelmed by whatever data unfolds on the screen they say, there are contrived solutions, for life's every complication search engines are accessible to all just press specific keys, and, Voila! surf, play...easy games, easy friends but, can they really answer all questions? every human question?.........like, do elephants really cry? how did it occur that they have excellent memories? is Timbuktu modernized now? are there still surviving cannibals? will the remaining Bee Gees member, tell us how to mend a broken heart? do rosicrucians really possess secret wisdom? what happened to you and me? how do i save myself from emotional vampires? how do i cook pad thai? ...and how do i get you out of my mind? why does the rooster crow after midnight how does logarithm work with poetry? do dogs have souls?  do they visit their masters?....i miss my dogs Misty and Tiny, ...and i miss you...what's wrong with me? God, why do i even bother to ask? my goggled eyes are blinded by grief my goggled mind refuses to forget this goggled life of mine feels empty and it has nothing to do with technology... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan     July 23, 2018
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 10:50 PM UTC
Goggled
Ask...and you shall be given answers seek...and you'll be told where to look knock...say, hello?...hello? hellooow? a voice named siri replies: "is it me you're looking for?" i think, the eyes, the mind, even the heart, need clear, goggle-like glasses, for 20/20 vision, to grasp, to discern,  be forewarned, not to be overwhelmed by whatever data unfolds on the screen they say, there are contrived solutions, for life's every complication search engines are accessible to all just press specific keys, and, Voila! surf, play...easy games, easy friends but, can they really answer all questions? every human question?.........like, do elephants really cry? how did it occur that they have excellent memories? is Timbuktu modernized now? are there still surviving cannibals? will the remaining Bee Gees member, tell us how to mend a broken heart? do rosicrucians really possess secret wisdom? what happened to you and me? how do i save myself from emotional vampires? how do i cook pad thai? ...and how do i get you out of my mind? why does the rooster crow after midnight how does logarithm work with poetry? do dogs have souls?  do they visit their masters?....i miss my dogs Misty and Tiny, ...and i miss you...what's wrong with me? God, why do i even bother to ask? my goggled eyes are blinded by grief my goggled mind refuses to forget this goggled life of mine feels empty and it has nothing to do with technology... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan     July 23, 2018
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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Stephen Jay Gould Give me vacuum tube torus Lorentz-Klein interference receptors dual noble-gas maser integration processors at least one prosthetic Gaussian carbon-coated ribosomal Tesla coil an anthropomorphic hierarchical temporal meme-pseudopod some support vector k-nearest neighbor algorithms reverse engineered quantum optic die-cast silica motherboards self-assembling three dimensional electro-active protein polymers maybe even a superconducting spectral alkali resonance analyzer paired with harmonizing piezoelectric kinematic thermal modules dipped in subzero Kurzweil-circuit nanite neurotransmitters and voila! God.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 5:18 PM UTC
God is EZ PZ
a coat of Naughty a flick of Flirtatious a dab of Daring slick on Scandalous with just a touch of Mischief voila! let's go out...
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Apr 21, 2010
Apr 21, 2010 at 10:17 PM UTC
Manicure for 2006
An illusionist by trade, he Could transport her from where she stands To a magical spring rumored To harbor manatees that turn Into mermaids under the sun. He needs only one volunteer To help him spin the great machine Until its wheels move too quickly To see the metal spokes between Its three hubs and rotating rims. Two persons, four legs, and three wheels, Travel through time and cross the space Between the parking lot and springs – Voila! All appear safe and sound At the edge of Wakulla’s gem. And in a moment – close your eyes! Now open them to see the sun Shining for the first time all day, All the way down to the bottom Where the manatees swim and dream. The mammoth manatees awake And begin to grow back their scales. They transform and wait patiently For the human girl to toss her Wished-upon shell into the spring. She finds the one and makes a wish, Then closes her eyes once again, While the practiced illusionist Works his magic hidden by smoke, And the shell falls from her fingers. It floats to the coldest waters, Slowly shifting back and forth as Though it were swimming – and it is! Transformed into a mystical Creature, it sets the mermaids free. The human girl jumps up and down With glee at the beautiful sight: Shimmering scales and flowing hair Dart through water in their delight And invite her to join and play. The girl jumps in and kicks her feet But must come up for air to breathe. The illusionist watches this From the sandy shore and he – **** Bubbles at her feet slowly form Into one glittering green tail And her hair grows several feet, Turning to gold under water. The girl smiles wide and dives to Join the joyful, playful mermaids. They jump and swim and practice tricks, Splashing around under the sun, But the girl missed her life on shore And looked longingly at the sand. The illusionist saw this, too. Since she had been the one to free The mermaids from their trapped bodies, He thought to grant her one last wish And with a puff of brim fire smoke, She was transported back to shore. Her adventure complete, she spun The wheels of the illusionist’s Magic machine and was brought home With the help of her companion, The great entertainer himself.
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 10:34 PM UTC
The Entertainer and the Mermaid
An illusionist by trade, he Could transport her from where she stands To a magical spring rumored To harbor manatees that turn Into mermaids under the sun. He needs only one volunteer To help him spin the great machine Until its wheels move too quickly To see the metal spokes between Its three hubs and rotating rims. Two persons, four legs, and three wheels, Travel through time and cross the space Between the parking lot and springs – Voila! All appear safe and sound At the edge of Wakulla’s gem. And in a moment – close your eyes! Now open them to see the sun Shining for the first time all day, All the way down to the bottom Where the manatees swim and dream. The mammoth manatees awake And begin to grow back their scales. They transform and wait patiently For the human girl to toss her Wished-upon shell into the spring. She finds the one and makes a wish, Then closes her eyes once again, While the practiced illusionist Works his magic hidden by smoke, And the shell falls from her fingers. It floats to the coldest waters, Slowly shifting back and forth as Though it were swimming – and it is! Transformed into a mystical Creature, it sets the mermaids free. The human girl jumps up and down With glee at the beautiful sight: Shimmering scales and flowing hair Dart through water in their delight And invite her to join and play. The girl jumps in and kicks her feet But must come up for air to breathe. The illusionist watches this From the sandy shore and he – **** Bubbles at her feet slowly form Into one glittering green tail And her hair grows several feet, Turning to gold under water. The girl smiles wide and dives to Join the joyful, playful mermaids. They jump and swim and practice tricks, Splashing around under the sun, But the girl missed her life on shore And looked longingly at the sand. The illusionist saw this, too. Since she had been the one to free The mermaids from their trapped bodies, He thought to grant her one last wish And with a puff of brim fire smoke, She was transported back to shore. Her adventure complete, she spun The wheels of the illusionist’s Magic machine and was brought home With the help of her companion, The great entertainer himself.
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How may I introduce these people  to YOU  ,  in a way that will Not make fun of them,  but rather,  just simply Identify them !               Identified by their present achievements and Job functions..              PERHAPS,    they are always this way_________.                 SO, in my studies of Mankind,     HOW to Label All those who are  "FULL OF *** S _____! "                               Such as the following List ! !                                                                                            #1=STIFLESKILLSMAN=   A person who has been highly trained to Stop you from going the direction you were trying to go !                                                          #2= STIFLECOATING=   A spray you can apply ALL over your body to keep  a "STIFLESKILLSMAN"      away!!!!                                                                         # 3= SHUNHAT=  A cap you can wear on days when NO one is paying  any attention to you,,AND,,"Thats the way You want it ! ! "                                                           # 4= SEEMEEARWAX = A wax placed on the surface of both ears that GLOWS in the dark and in bright Light it changes colors every "SIX" Seconds,  SO people will really pay attention to YOU ! !  ____                 W A R N I N G_____*W A R N I N G **.        "Never apply *SEEMEEARAX  when wearing a  "SHUNHAT " !                                           #5= STUNNINGLOSS=  a spray for your hair and neck,   that as it Dries,  becomes like a Rainbow  and causes People to ask____"Where's the ***                                                                                       # 6= SWORDGAS=   The odor produced by people who must have come out of the swamp Just Recently...Because it *CUTS  so Deep.....   # 7= SWORDGAS=PAIR=  *TWO people of the SWORDGAS  squad,  SHARPLY Gassing their words in unison,  uplifting one another in Endless delight!.                                                                                                                # 8= SNOOZESTOMPINGER =  A Device you wear like an Engagement ring,,to Keep YOU  awake  .                                                              # 9 =  SIGHTGIMMICKLENS =    Glasses that only let you SEE what has been Pre=Programmed in the Lens,,{ a PC approved}..                        # 10 = STARTERSTALLS  Like band-aids placed right under your eyes to keep you from getting out of bed before it's time.                             # 11 = SWEATTYSLIDES = SPECIAL gloves that make it appear that you are about to LOSE control   { WHEN  actually,,puts YOU in TOTAL control of all situations for a 24 hour period ! }                                 # 12 = SUDDENLYSUPER = A really fast acting Spray that on days when you are just not QUITE up to Par!    Just a fast SPRAY___ and VOILA,    Sudden appearance of doing just fine !!                                        * WELL,   I  have a list of Seven times Seventy, to add,,                                  *(PS)  Do You know any of  *"S"  TEAM ,,?
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Jan 31, 2011
Jan 31, 2011 at 4:02 AM UTC
" * THE " S " TEAM! * " (# 51 )
How may I introduce these people  to YOU  ,  in a way that will Not make fun of them,  but rather,  just simply Identify them !               Identified by their present achievements and Job functions..              PERHAPS,    they are always this way_________.                 SO, in my studies of Mankind,     HOW to Label All those who are  "FULL OF *** S _____! "                               Such as the following List ! !                                                                                            #1=STIFLESKILLSMAN=   A person who has been highly trained to Stop you from going the direction you were trying to go !                                                          #2= STIFLECOATING=   A spray you can apply ALL over your body to keep  a "STIFLESKILLSMAN"      away!!!!                                                                         # 3= SHUNHAT=  A cap you can wear on days when NO one is paying  any attention to you,,AND,,"Thats the way You want it ! ! "                                                           # 4= SEEMEEARWAX = A wax placed on the surface of both ears that GLOWS in the dark and in bright Light it changes colors every "SIX" Seconds,  SO people will really pay attention to YOU ! !  ____                 W A R N I N G_____*W A R N I N G **.        "Never apply *SEEMEEARAX  when wearing a  "SHUNHAT " !                                           #5= STUNNINGLOSS=  a spray for your hair and neck,   that as it Dries,  becomes like a Rainbow  and causes People to ask____"Where's the ***                                                                                       # 6= SWORDGAS=   The odor produced by people who must have come out of the swamp Just Recently...Because it *CUTS  so Deep.....   # 7= SWORDGAS=PAIR=  *TWO people of the SWORDGAS  squad,  SHARPLY Gassing their words in unison,  uplifting one another in Endless delight!.                                                                                                                # 8= SNOOZESTOMPINGER =  A Device you wear like an Engagement ring,,to Keep YOU  awake  .                                                              # 9 =  SIGHTGIMMICKLENS =    Glasses that only let you SEE what has been Pre=Programmed in the Lens,,{ a PC approved}..                        # 10 = STARTERSTALLS  Like band-aids placed right under your eyes to keep you from getting out of bed before it's time.                             # 11 = SWEATTYSLIDES = SPECIAL gloves that make it appear that you are about to LOSE control   { WHEN  actually,,puts YOU in TOTAL control of all situations for a 24 hour period ! }                                 # 12 = SUDDENLYSUPER = A really fast acting Spray that on days when you are just not QUITE up to Par!    Just a fast SPRAY___ and VOILA,    Sudden appearance of doing just fine !!                                        * WELL,   I  have a list of Seven times Seventy, to add,,                                  *(PS)  Do You know any of  *"S"  TEAM ,,?
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-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:41 AM UTC
Smoke & Mirrors
-Audience! Prepare for the magic act *Hypnotically launching attacks upon the helpless masses* Won't pull a rabbit from a hat, Rather false-flaggish gaffs Practically exposed to radioactive madness *(Feel the hurt disappear like doves Gloriously soaring out your *** Hijack these hijinks Whilst laughing maniacally   Tornado alley to the trailer-park mentality I call this a helluva brainstorm, High-velocity lethality Compose yourselves Are your brain-stems intact?   -Okay. Now *f o    l l o w the                                                                                                   swing of my                                                                                          pendulous p          e          n          m          a          n           s           h          i          p Drearily drift into dreamy trance, While I attempt to initialize a feat of mass hypnotization Enchantingly dip into deep illusory corridors of thoughts limitless* (Pay no attention to any slippage, Mental or otherwise It's already dripping out your ears & the seat of your pants) Real **** no gimmicks! Abracadabra Propaganda Extravaganza Gaze into my crystal ball Mouths agape in awe While I slay and lay waste indiscriminate to the faceless plague Come one, come all! Phantom sorcerer I am, conjuring unfathomable horrors To the collective mind procured through sleight-of-hand Voila! Still with us? Alright, hold your breath until you finally wake up And illuminate the bogus Hocus pocus front ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Shuffle the deck, Reset Earth's debts In a fabulous show of  m i s d i r e c t i o n ♠     ♥     ♣     ♦ Now, Ladies & Gents! For my final performance With this rope, Suspended from the throat I am going to bulls-eye myself In the frontal lobe Dead-center In front of all you people With this .40 caliber desert eagle! Graciously donated by our very own NWO (applause) This one's sure to be mind-blowing folks.
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Ok, there’s no jailbreak. Make room for my innocent alter ego, because there’s nothing to rebel against. There are zero classes in my nascent, year-long, Harvard master’s degree. They call it ‘self directed study’ and like rockets have stages, I’ll have ‘self paced modules.’ Am I suddenly at Oxford University? They’re quite famous for that (no formal classes). Or am I suddenly grown up and trusted? I obviously don’t have it all figured out yet, so I’ll just trust the process. When I started that other school (that shall not be named), my advisor handed me a computer printout - a list with something like 40 courses on it. I thought, “Oh, my God,” but one by one, year over year, I checked-off those courses and voila! They handed me a diploma. It was a process. I understand, if you’re disappointed about the jailbreak, but there’ll be coffee breaks, lunch breaks, study breaks, bathroom breaks and more than a few self-directed dance breaks. So stick around. “You know,” my therapist said, so very seriously, a few years ago, “you keep laughing.” . . I've Got the World on a String by Robin McKelle ****** Soul Picnic by Ledisi & Billy Childs
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May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM UTC
Notes on jailbreak
It is where it is, not where you are... Switched this week from ice coffee, Back to hot, on September Thirteenth. The chain busted, No Adirondack throne, no audiences of Southbound geese, my new ******** fans, No **** arrogant deer Pitying the stupid humans, Occupying their lands. No racing rabbits, crickets underfoot, And in the house, No raccoons bigger than a colt. No just living, breathing eyes, seeing paradiso, No place for god to come visit to chill, And ask for atonement for chemical weapons No bay waves soulfully soothing, No sun, no cherries by command, The breeze, voila, a nasty cold wind, The bath-waves ain't no **** substitute, Not-Near good enough, No matter how hard I splash. **** right I was worried. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains— From where will my poetry come from? From men. From women. From you-reminding me, It is where it is, not where you are... It is here in the unread tragedies, The wails so plain, repetitive, The screams that never cease, the Poems, yours, that deserve ten thousand likes, But die ignored, despite, my best efforts. It is in the newspapers, Chroniclers of our daily, Inhumanity, And papal words, that lift a jew's heart, That poems get birthed. It is in the woman's dictums About doing this and that And where that is most preferred. Point made. Quitting time. It is where it is, not where you are...
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Sep 21, 2013
Sep 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM UTC
It is where it is, not where you are...
for pennies, an app to do the heavy lifting, rhymes, pentameter, all the quatrains ya ever needed strained fever, emotions rampant, insufficient and unnecessary conditions for poverty poetry evocation, even autocorrects insipid really bad tiresome love poems, après endless generation (degeneration?) who needs you you think no such animal you be write for the art of life cannot be mechanized wrote a poem, a wistful sad lament on mothers losing children, a prayer, a yelling, a condemnation, the app was, on this subject uncommunicative, un étranger of silence in all languages you can buy love but you cannot buy pain too costly and 3D printers give you plastic, disingenuous wholly unsatisfactory for a lousy $1.99 I'll write you customized, supply the situation, a few descriptive phrases, 60 minutes later, et voila! am you app, am your scrivener, don't do roses or violets but yes to rhythm and blues will take PayPal PenPal but no credit cards you may take my words as you own, take my credit, but I won't take yours... I am app human, bring me your lush, winsome, plain vanilla, tutti frutti, all acceptable, for where the real stuff comes from I have only mined the surface, the veins beneath richness for the asking
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 5:41 AM UTC
The $1.99 Poetry App
whilst waltzing towards the purple moon here's a bowl of lavender tea swallow it up, tactfully mulberry chill. Voila ! afternoon revealed Honeymoon concealed
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 10:40 AM UTC
LOVE FUME
Early days as a flaneur; I recall the couple On the Metro When I was still innocent Of its labyrinthine complexities; Slim pretty white girl, Clad head to toe In new blue denim, Wistfully smiling While her muscular black beau Stared straight through me With fathomless, fulgorous orbs; And one of them spoke (Almost in a whisper): "Qu'est-ce que t'en pense?" Then it dawned on me... The slender young Parisienne With the distant desirous eyes Was no less male than I. Being screamed at in Pigalle, And then howled at again By some kind of wild-eyed Drifter who told me to go To the Bois de Boulogne to seek What he clearly saw as my destiny; Getting ****** in Les Halles With Sara Who'd just seen Dillon as Rusty James, And was walking around in a daze; Sara again with Jade At the Caveau de la Huchette. Cash squandered On a cheap gold-plated toothbrush, Portrait sketched at the Place du Tertre, Paperback books By Symbolist poets, Second hand volumes By Trakl and Deleve, And a leather jacket from The flea market At the Porte de Clignancourt. Metro taken to Montparnasse, Where I slowly sipped A demi blonde In one of those brasseries (Perhaps) Immortalised by Brassai; Bewhiskered old man In a naval officer's cap, His table bestrewn With empty wine bottles And cigarette butts, Repeatedly screeched the name "Phillippe!" until a bartender With patent leather hair, Filled his wineglass to the brim, With a mock-obsequious: "Voila, mon Captaine!" I cut into the Rue du Bac, Traversed the Pont Royal, Briefly beheld Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, With its gothic tower, Constructed only latterly, In order that The 6th Century church Might complement The style of the remainder Of the 1er Arrondissement, Before steering for the Place du Chatelet, And onwards...Les Halles!
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 6:18 AM UTC
Tales of a Paris Flaneur
Early days as a flaneur; I recall the couple On the Metro When I was still innocent Of its labyrinthine complexities; Slim pretty white girl, Clad head to toe In new blue denim, Wistfully smiling While her muscular black beau Stared straight through me With fathomless, fulgorous orbs; And one of them spoke (Almost in a whisper): "Qu'est-ce que t'en pense?" Then it dawned on me... The slender young Parisienne With the distant desirous eyes Was no less male than I. Being screamed at in Pigalle, And then howled at again By some kind of wild-eyed Drifter who told me to go To the Bois de Boulogne to seek What he clearly saw as my destiny; Getting ****** in Les Halles With Sara Who'd just seen Dillon as Rusty James, And was walking around in a daze; Sara again with Jade At the Caveau de la Huchette. Cash squandered On a cheap gold-plated toothbrush, Portrait sketched at the Place du Tertre, Paperback books By Symbolist poets, Second hand volumes By Trakl and Deleve, And a leather jacket from The flea market At the Porte de Clignancourt. Metro taken to Montparnasse, Where I slowly sipped A demi blonde In one of those brasseries (Perhaps) Immortalised by Brassai; Bewhiskered old man In a naval officer's cap, His table bestrewn With empty wine bottles And cigarette butts, Repeatedly screeched the name "Phillippe!" until a bartender With patent leather hair, Filled his wineglass to the brim, With a mock-obsequious: "Voila, mon Captaine!" I cut into the Rue du Bac, Traversed the Pont Royal, Briefly beheld Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, With its gothic tower, Constructed only latterly, In order that The 6th Century church Might complement The style of the remainder Of the 1er Arrondissement, Before steering for the Place du Chatelet, And onwards...Les Halles!
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I guess, lately, poem has no rule. You can write every words in it and voila, it is poem. Like this one.
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Aug 11, 2021
Aug 11, 2021 at 11:49 PM UTC
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Barbarians, and archers, and goblins oh my ! Restless in army camps for the raiding is nigh. The builders are busy setting up my next plot, Deciding where the mortar can pull off the best shot. A chop and a cut, and voila ! More land to use, Setting up decorations, all cast as a ruse. I look to my shield, and the icon says “none”, If I don’t request troops soon I’ll surely be done! I prepare to attack, but don’t like what I see, So “next” I press, and hope for a camp that’s easy ! Aha! I exclaim as I find a weak prey, Gold walls or not, I’ll be claiming victory this day ! Giants come rumbling, to cause some destruction, Followed by wall breakers to remove all obstruction. With holes now aplenty, in come the rest of the crew, To pilfer and plunder and do what they do. 100% !!! And 3 stars the finale, Plus 35 more trophies to add to my tally. Mission completed, I set back to my camp, A smile on my face feeling like a real champ ! The day’s at an end so off goes the phone, In the middle of the night I hear a familiar tone. I reach for my ipad and what do I see, ****** ! I’ve been raided by PãRāß@pk !!! With shields now up for the next 16 hours, My resources are safe and I can upgrade my towers ! And thus ends the day’s tale of cast spells and flighted arrow, Don’t worry Clash of clans, I’ll be back tomorrow !!!
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Sep 19, 2015
Sep 19, 2015 at 9:13 AM UTC
Ode to Clash of Clans
I wish inspiration could be injected intravenously, without delay. That I could wrap a rubber band around    my arm and pull it tight with my teeth. Then give myself several swi- ft slaps with my middle and index fingers to the inside crook of my arm to pop the vein. Then without look- ing, (because I am afraid of needles) slowly insert the thin metal spear in my skin and puncture the vein. Draw back a bit of blood and watch it mix with my concoction. Then voila: ins-    tant inspiration.         If only I could buy words by the bot- tle, so I could guzzle them down by the quart. And they could mix and swirl, swash and stir, with all my other ****** fluids. They could seep into my veins, via my stomach lining, and warm my body with a toxic glow. The words would blur my vision, mu- ddy my senses, and stumble my step.   Then, after I consume more words th- an I can handle, I would projectile vo- mit and spew the words all over the page. Then the next morning I could rearrange the words into something    remotely coherent. But there is no such luck. Instead I have to go toe-to-toe with each word, each syllable, with the utmost precision and vigilance. And let me tell you, these word “St- ing like a butterfly and float like a bee”. I give a left jab, a right hook, a shot to the kidneys, but it does no good. Most of the time I am on    my heels; forced to be on the defense But of course I take a hit, or twenty- two. Until I am punch drunk, and everything is brilliant to me.
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM UTC
Punch Drunk
I wish inspiration could be injected intravenously, without delay. That I could wrap a rubber band around    my arm and pull it tight with my teeth. Then give myself several swi- ft slaps with my middle and index fingers to the inside crook of my arm to pop the vein. Then without look- ing, (because I am afraid of needles) slowly insert the thin metal spear in my skin and puncture the vein. Draw back a bit of blood and watch it mix with my concoction. Then voila: ins-    tant inspiration.         If only I could buy words by the bot- tle, so I could guzzle them down by the quart. And they could mix and swirl, swash and stir, with all my other ****** fluids. They could seep into my veins, via my stomach lining, and warm my body with a toxic glow. The words would blur my vision, mu- ddy my senses, and stumble my step.   Then, after I consume more words th- an I can handle, I would projectile vo- mit and spew the words all over the page. Then the next morning I could rearrange the words into something    remotely coherent. But there is no such luck. Instead I have to go toe-to-toe with each word, each syllable, with the utmost precision and vigilance. And let me tell you, these word “St- ing like a butterfly and float like a bee”. I give a left jab, a right hook, a shot to the kidneys, but it does no good. Most of the time I am on    my heels; forced to be on the defense But of course I take a hit, or twenty- two. Until I am punch drunk, and everything is brilliant to me.
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I am not that far Put on your play list Open a coke And Voila!
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 2:17 PM UTC
Travel
COME, AYE COME! Matloob Bokhari Come, aye Come! O the beauty of heaven! Night in richly coloured dress is welcoming, come! O the glory of stars! Night stars like diamonds are welcoming, come! O the ornament of moon! In your absence, bright moon is welcoming, Come! O the queen of sky! Scented air in night freshness is welcoming, come! O the north polar star! Moth orbiting around light has utterly consumed Without form or body, is a part of beauty, come! O the queen of light! Carol of birds is playing melody sweet in tune. My heart beating; cold callous gale started blowing. Night has rolled hours away; moist has dampened my heart. Come, aye come!! COMMENTS : COME AYE COME Kristen Scott: I love this very VERY much. This is hauntingly beautiful and each word of the poem is flowing in my veins like the poetry of my favorit poet, Federico Garcia Lorca.. Vern Ford : I can almost hear Buffy Saint Marie singing your absolutely breathtaking poems! Laura Oliva Palacio: Magnifique voila!!!! What a beautiful poem! With simple words, but of great significance make one clearly perceived the sweet and sensitive young hearts have inspiration in the bright universe of love and the infinite .. Thank you so much for sharing Matloob !!! Laura Grillo Laveglia: I love your poem. It is written in Edwardian style and this I adore!!! Neil Perry :Refreshing and magical. Gary Leikas: ahhhh . . . . mesmerizing music and thought . . Kevin M. Hibshman : Amazingly beautiful...
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
COME, AYE COME!
Progress leaps, amid lulls, for three wed muses: Innovation, imitation, contest Imagine, visitor, a vast room full of bits of straight string— People stand all around, some scratch their heads, none moves, Until our brave hero approaches slowly one little length, Gives her a twist, and voila! A circle. A room full of straight strings, and one circle. Seeing, some other soul thinks, *aye! Crass, Wrong, how unperfect!* Makes a circle too, from another pair of ends— Look, look! He cries, much better! On and on likewise, go men and strings, Til not a single straight string remains, Only circles, and men Scratching heads, in none the foggiest idea What’s to be done with a room full of circles.
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Jan 6, 2012
Jan 6, 2012 at 1:57 AM UTC
Art in the time of strings
dash off an incoherent free verse paragraph      // moan into a void of meaningless superficial / pain using / random line breaks and no caps THEN add some graphic words: blood-drenched honey-sexed now add some ☠ weird symbols ω mention yourself a lot, and then     invert/transform: blood-sexed honey-drenched // like a dog ☃ (panting) transform your confused prose         into  ☮ a poem: voila!
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Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 4:37 PM UTC
experimental health
All you need is fair a heart, And mix that in, with pure of mind, Sprinkle in romantic thoughts, And add some love, just use the rind, You'll need a pinch of *** appeal, And just a smidge of naughty thoughts, Room temperature is always best, For when you take your clothing off, The kindest words work best this way, And don't forget to blow a kiss, And mind your mood as you begin, And don't forget to make a list, A candle red, with rose oil rub, As much as you can muster up, Mix all of these together well, Voila!, a recipe for love.....
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Apr 20, 2019
Apr 20, 2019 at 7:55 PM UTC
Recipe For Love
... he points his toes like a swan stretching its neck : smooth calves in fish-nets to slip into stiletto heels,         performance art of a deceptive nymph ... grace on fine-point tips : his gift - in stiletto heels, impersonation or personification of feminine beauty leporine lithely limned delicate dancer        it is almost as if floating across water        he mimicked once more before some inner mother's nature took over façade of savoir face - voila! a star in it's place ... ... It is her face when the night creates a cape borne with Van Gogh plumes sufficed with self she paints upon his face : starry nights sun-flowers, irises covering the welts... comparably museum worthy, imitation flames yet like any other canvas           beneathe it could lie disappointment and mistake           drafts of inspiration, cover-ups of cynicism           another creature - some creation unlike him what was before / the curtain / is unseen, but what if ... ... the truth and process to what presently one sees or believe could be / only an amateur attempt: moments unfelt under layers & layers of trial and errors / contempt?       would you wipe away Mona Lisa's       smile and devilish wicked secret ? just to uncover blemished a masterpiece: an ugly Danish duckling underneath to prove that swan-lake a gent ... to evolve from broken eggshells become a song timely hummed & remembered well priceless history murals' on passing face all spoken thoughts performing down the lace       define yourself, how the flight of life from embers       happiness pursuant to tender Fully free with grace, it is the power of creativity / the spirit's ability to overcome adversity the art of divinity - that is what he is practicing                                    This trumpeter                                  swan in stiletto heels...
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 6:21 PM UTC
DRAG/QUEEN
... he points his toes like a swan stretching its neck : smooth calves in fish-nets to slip into stiletto heels,         performance art of a deceptive nymph ... grace on fine-point tips : his gift - in stiletto heels, impersonation or personification of feminine beauty leporine lithely limned delicate dancer        it is almost as if floating across water        he mimicked once more before some inner mother's nature took over façade of savoir face - voila! a star in it's place ... ... It is her face when the night creates a cape borne with Van Gogh plumes sufficed with self she paints upon his face : starry nights sun-flowers, irises covering the welts... comparably museum worthy, imitation flames yet like any other canvas           beneathe it could lie disappointment and mistake           drafts of inspiration, cover-ups of cynicism           another creature - some creation unlike him what was before / the curtain / is unseen, but what if ... ... the truth and process to what presently one sees or believe could be / only an amateur attempt: moments unfelt under layers & layers of trial and errors / contempt?       would you wipe away Mona Lisa's       smile and devilish wicked secret ? just to uncover blemished a masterpiece: an ugly Danish duckling underneath to prove that swan-lake a gent ... to evolve from broken eggshells become a song timely hummed & remembered well priceless history murals' on passing face all spoken thoughts performing down the lace       define yourself, how the flight of life from embers       happiness pursuant to tender Fully free with grace, it is the power of creativity / the spirit's ability to overcome adversity the art of divinity - that is what he is practicing                                    This trumpeter                                  swan in stiletto heels...
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**** preferable, but not necessary. place your hands upon thy thighs, the thumbs extended, left to rest, to fit in the designed, purposed crevice between the upper torso, where the soft belly meets the legs. your opposable thumbs, too short to reach your private part, instead, your four fingers to thrum, to drum, driven by frustrated compulsion, beat out upon thy exterior the internal feel, a basic rhythm. the arms, hard by, press tight into the chest,   the birth place of poems, and squeeze, as if it were a Heinz Ketchup bottle. the tapping fingerlings, the now drifting yet compulsed mind, the hard-sided pressure, voila, words form, heat-furnaced, energized from within, all at once will be extruded from a poem's birth canal, the heart.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 6:36 AM UTC
The proper sleep position for poetry writing
doom dark ages and the death of poetry now here arise  poets spark burning lines arson the fake prez Fuhrer all his followers Nazis (how original) don't forget the weird line breaks        and        / spacing / /   refuse punctuation no caps ever                   voila yet another lame lib lefty         yawner
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Mar 2, 2017
Mar 2, 2017 at 9:25 PM UTC
Die Verse City