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Tim Bustin Jun 2014
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the co-ordinate y
My soul exists, and so begging to die
In revising chem, maths and more all days.  
I hate thee more than the universe size
If Olber’s paradox was somehow true.
I hate thee freely, as men fight Mech 2.
I hate thee purely, as they waste their lives.
I hate thee with a passion put to use
Poetically procrastinating you.
I hate thee with hatred I cannot lose
With my lost UMS – hate thee with breath,
Pens, tears, of all my strife – and, if God choose,
I shall only be free when I’m with death.
a parody of “How do I love thee” by Elizabeth Barret Browning
Tim Bustin May 2014
The clocks are quickly ticking, rushing me further onward,
Yet nothing really seems to change aboard this grand train.
The starting station is long a forgotten sight from afar,
As a million only well-dressed people shut the curtain to hunt a star.

No things will halt The Times today, or our most important endeavours
Five down is completed now and – I stumble! (the train’s slowing judders)
Christ, my leg! – it’s filthy down here…. And I find suddenly there's no time for care  
Glancing through the compartment door – no: I’m transfixed, and I stare

Goodness. A gracious bombardment of purest light,
Crystalline, through the porthole’s grime.
Refracting into purples, and blues, and yellow sights!
So this is how beauty blossoms, allowed time.

Suits, ties, over-priced liquidised decadence
Are overcome, barely visible, amidst her the flower’s resonance
And blissfully reducing my colleagues to uttering, babbling nonsense
Until I hear the gunshot crack

The wheels regain motion
Re-shredding morals to smithereens
Though I cry, desperate to see her through bloodshot eyes
She’s left me only dark red puddles though the doorway
Tim Bustin May 2014
How should I feel, inside this world mixed with
Real? Bliss a film, shown in clarity.
I awake alive, energised; the myth
Nonsensical and detail lost from me.

Wait, yes! I recall: desired does fall,
Pushed by evil - a screaming, grating laugh
Must've flown mid-air to catch the angel
Delicate face is a framed photograph.

I repeat: wake into same misery
Acne-shelled face shows ugly emotion
Passion disperses to reality.
Scared, upset, lost, lonely and not trying.

Dreams: what better way to play out unachievable feats
Than to lie to the conscious mind, and lull one's self to sleep
Tim Bustin May 2014
Elegant; false; frightened; confused - I am not one for words
Tim Bustin May 2014
Ponies run wild in the fields,
the long grass mixing with the hay.
The beautiful flowers meet the ponies feet
and the sky is clearless today.

Two young boys, up a brown oak tree
clearly expressing their minds.
Clearly and freely as the ponies below,
making use of a waste of time.

Piglets are growing beyond near,
sown from their mother's seed.
Free to grow, large and outward,
free to have all that they need.

The oak tree is brown and new,
and does little to stop the sun.
The sun illuminates its landscape,
the landscape near and gone.

Electricity is sky blue,
and wonderful in daylight.
The stupid horse will get scared,
try to run - try to fight.

It can't win.

The two boys know this,
as they relax in their tree.
They're farmers, but not out of choice,
but out of who they were born to be.
Tim Bustin May 2014
To write a brilliant poem:
Use a concoction of ridiculous words.
Non-sensical message conveyed.  
Show off your manipulation to language.

Stop. And pause. And start again,
your repeated point no longer in tandem.
Then for some unknown reason ignore all logical structure and ask a question?

Darken your mood.
Randomly: use colons.
Where do; you use; semi-colons¿

Only poets admire your work.
The rests are ignorant gits,
who cannot see how your use of a thesaurus can bring upon untold bliss.

Reflect. Unreflect.
One or two words don’t quite make sense.

Finally summarise, your all-knowing point takes flight
Filled with silent anger; you’ve written utter sh**e.
Tim Bustin May 2014
Nothing.
Just remaining cinders to spark again.
Thus, something.
I wouldn't want to waltz into temptation,
just to glimpse the worldly rendition:
of twinkling purple,
streaking into red lava flames,
igniting sky and land and life.
Repetition of wonder,
yet differented.
However, even with a pale radioactive glow,
still wonder
Even if man tries to destroy all life, it will start again, most likely in a new, unknown way.
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