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griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
silly poetry.
silly sad boring crap poetry.
from another pathetic teenager.
probably stoned...

just raging hormones
know if you're gay or not?
(Please not)
who do you fancy?
are you together?

keep up the good work.
stop messing around.
pressure.
don't stop
oi!

couple more weeks left.
then Bham!
you're free
(college in september
so not really)

good luck.
get in.
not sure now...
stop confusing me.

down with bush!
down with blair!
down with animal testing!
(body shop just pay loreal for it anyway)

who's innocent?
what did you do, huh?

tear it all down.
blow it all up.

does it matter?
yes, with the sunday papers
but i'm in my bed now.

shut up for once.
stop [censored] swearing at us all.
even the [censored] cats for christ's sake.

don't touch drink.
don't touch drugs.
don't touch each other.
(don't know what you could catch)

ok, i understand.
yes, no, only with protection.

etc. blah.
dont patronise me.
(but if you do
i'll surprise you)

6 A's, 4 B's predicted.
2nd best college in the country.
boyfriend-ish
(rich too)
ok now?

but don't worry.
i know.
i understand.

you did bring me up
sort of.

but you're not doing so well now huh?
who's got the crutches now, huh?
not me.
i'm dancing

in state of metamorphosis


yannicusGOLD Member
member
169 posts
Location: Paris, France, the armpit of europe


Posted:
there is some good work up here, i like the earlier one about trees and billboards, and the one about the cow and its leather.

here is one of mine, a recent one...

I dream of eyes.

Fireforged
in a cascade of tinsel shards,
steel fragments, polar ice and
a heart of gold.
Those iris jewels
diamonds reflected in a look
of Eternity and Infinite
depth; the eyes of Kalypso.
Eyes which never were
but should have been,
eyes that mine
should have seen.

I dream of eyes.

-Believing that all has been said and done is like mistaking the horizon for the limits of the world. Voltaire.
-Plus je connais hommes, plus j'aime mon chien. Pascal.


_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
Hey Yannicus,

Just wanted to say that was lovely

xx

Getting to the other side smile


Hairy TaitBRONZE Member
member
109 posts
Location: Back in the Future, United Kingdom


Posted:
"If I had my life to live over,
I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
I would relax. I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have on this trip.
I would be crazier. I would be less hygienic.
I would take more chances, I would take more trips.
I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers,
and watch more sunsets."

It's a very interesting story, Future Boy....!


Hairy TaitBRONZE Member
member
109 posts
Location: Back in the Future, United Kingdom


Posted:
There was an Od woman From Limerick
Who's Limerick's never did rhyme
She couldn't keep Rhythm
and they always finshed too soon....

It's a very interesting story, Future Boy....!


yannicusGOLD Member
member
169 posts
Location: Paris, France, the armpit of europe


Posted:
thanx firepoise, twas one of those afternoons when i was all lovesick and tired of trying, and it popped into my head.

hairy tait, i like the first one, but it sounds like your on a deathbed. did you write it?


oh and anthrax, i want to hear more of your stuff

keep versifying

-Believing that all has been said and done is like mistaking the horizon for the limits of the world. Voltaire.
-Plus je connais hommes, plus j'aime mon chien. Pascal.


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
Here's one I wrote for my mom when she retired this year from a 40 year teaching career. Let me know what you think.


RETIREMENT THROUGH MY MOTHER’S EYES


I think I’ll sleep til noon today, no early morns for me
I’ll wake up slowly then read awhile just you wait and see
I’ll tackle all the projects that till now were left undone
like drinking coffee in my robe waiting for the morning sun

I’ll travel to the places I’ve only heard of up till now
and hope that with my man in tow we won’t get lost some how
We’ll see the sites of Portland from the rivers to mountain heights
and look into a starry sky and cuddle till daylight

On New Years Eve we’ll stay awake to see the next day in
and ring it in on New York’s time and be in bed by ten
Our fireworks may look funny to be shot off QUITE so soon
but if we had our own choice midnight would come around at noon

Maybe we’ll take the family to Vegas and see our darling son
of course the visit would have to wait until the gambling’s done
Then we’d sit to chat awhile & enjoy just sitting ‘round
then go to see the city lights after the sun’s gone down

Maybe we’ll buy a Harley and ride for miles and miles
I know this thought iS surely what would make my daughter smile
but with my independent ways it would never work you see
could you imagine Gary agreeing to ride the seat behind me

We’ll spend more time with Daimion our only grandson
the great thing is you get to send them home when you are done
We’ll go to parks, and zoos and every trip will be a surprise
what better way to regain some youth than through a child’s eyes

Each day I’ll view as a present a gift waiting to be unwrapped
which at some point everyone will include an afternoon nap
But best of all, I’m sure you’ll guess, is having my days free
So I can enjoy all that retirement, life, and my dreams will offer me

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
Here's one I just wrote while thinking of my cousin who's stuck in a very abusive relationship...check out the thread "My cousin needs your prayers"



My heart weeps for you
every time I see your tears
My heart bleeds for you
when your eyes reveal their fear

I hurt so deeply for you
that you can’t understand
How much I’d like for happiness
to someday hold your hand

The bruises may fade away
the cuts may no longer seep
But in your heart I know the pain
of your heartache still runs deep

I sometimes envision you
on wings made of gold
Flying so high above
the chains that bind your soul

How beautiful it would be
to see your heart take flight
Away from all the stress below
far away from all the fights

But for now I must watch
while you go it alone
Until you decide enough’s enough
and you decide to come back home

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
i love it all

in state of metamorphosis


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
thanks griffin

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


pass_the_pigjourneyman
60 posts

Posted:
I don't tend to like serious poems when they rhyme, but it doesn't seem forced at all, you seem to have real tallent. Hat tipped nd everything.

I took my harp ta party, but no body asked me to play, so I took harp home again


weeleighlook a rainbow!
237 posts
Location: Waterford, CT


Posted:
I agree, those were both really good. And I prefer rhyming poems, but you still managed to get a whole different feel to both of them. I give them a hat tip also. smile

"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth."


SkulduggeryGOLD Member
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales


Posted:
9TH & HENNEPIN

Well it's 9th and Hennepin
And all the donuts have
Names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are
On the sky like a tarp thrown over all this
And the broken umbrellas like
Dead birds and the steam
Comes out of the grill like
The whole goddamned town is ready to blow.
And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving like dogs.
And the horses are coming down Violin Road
And Dutch is dead on his feet
And the rooms all smell like diesel
And you take on the
Dreams of the ones who have slept here.
And I'm lost in the window
I hide on the stairway
I hang in the curtain
I sleep in your hat
And no one brings anything
Small into a bar around here.
They all started out with bad directions
And the girls behind the counter has a tattooed tear,
One for every year he's away she said, such
A crumbling beauty, but there's
Nothing wrong with her that
$100 won't fix, she has that razor sadness
That only gets worse
With the clang and the thunder of the
Southern Pacific going by
As the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
And you spill out
Over the side to anyone who'll listen
And I've seen it
All through the yellow windows
Of the evening train.



Not sure you can call this a poem as such its more a performance work but I love it. It paints a picture so vivid if I close my eyes I can see it. Its By Tom Waits and can be found on the Rain Dogs album.

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
school has ruined poetry for me, hopefully momentarily. when i read that the first time, all i could think of was "enjambement".grrr...
but i read it again, and i really like it

in state of metamorphosis


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
WARNING!!!
-Shel Silverstein

Inside everybody's nose
There lives a sharp-toothed snail.
So if you stick your finger in,
He may bite off your nail.
Stick it farther up inside,
And he may bite your ring off.
Stick it all the way, and he
May bite the whole darn thing off.


Prayer of a Selfish Child
-Shel Silverstein

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
And if i die before i wake,
I pray the Lord my toys to break.
So none of the other kids can use 'em....
Amen.

SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT
by Shel Silverstein

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out.
She'd wash the dishes and scrub the pans
Cook the yams and spice the hams,
And though her parents would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceiling:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas and rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the windows and blocked the door,
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peels,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans, and tangerines,
Crusts of black-burned buttered toast,
Grisly bits of beefy roast.
The garbage rolled on down the halls,
It raised the roof, it broke the walls,
I mean, greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Blobs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from old bologna,
Rubbery, blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk, and crusts of pie,
Rotting melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold French fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky,
And none of her friends would come to play,
And all of her neighbors moved away;
And finally, Sarah Cynthia Stout
Said, "Okay, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course it was too late,
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate;
And there in the garbage she did hate
Poor Sarah met an awful fate
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late
But children, remember Sarah Stout,
And always take the garbage out.

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
smile on my face wont go away!!
the spoilt brat reminds me of myself biggrin

in state of metamorphosis


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
yeah...it reminds me of myself too. I'm such a pack rat & never throw anything away, except I do try to get the rancid meat out befor it stinks up the house. YUCK!!! And I hate when people play with my toys too. Hmmm...maybe that's where my son gets the lack of sharing from?

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


weeleighlook a rainbow!
237 posts
Location: Waterford, CT


Posted:
ubblol ubblol ubblol ubblol Those were great, especially loved the one about the toys. That's awesome.

"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth."


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
i cleaned out my room yesterday-out went 4 bin bags full of Stuff, but my room's still messy. im destined to be one of those weird old people who keep Everything...ive got school books from 10 years ago, as well as christmas tree and lumps of quartz i found on an expedition last year (and lugged around for two days and 25 miles)

in state of metamorphosis


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
Ahhh! You sound just like me. I once packed 25 lbs. of obsidian I had found. I was a forest fire fighter & already had 30lbs. of gear. I packed that stuff around for 12 hours to be able to take it home with me! I aalso keep every slip of paper I write on, even though I've forgetten why it was important at the time. I figure that if it was important enough to write whatever it is down, it might be important to keep & mayeb someday I'll remember why. Oh! The life of a forgetful pack rat!

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
my wallet is also jammed packed-cinema stubs, bus tickets, train tickets, addresses from a hostel and ice cream parlour in germany, old phone numbers, ID, pay slip, book ISBN number, vouchers, subway thingy, health clinic address->stub from a disco from 2 years ago!
oo..the precious memories...
ive got about 5 diaries too, and 4 sketch pads, all half full, and doodles on my way, and a shoe box of personal stuff, and just a load of CRAP!
(does this mean we're gonna be really nostalgic in the autumnal years, and cling onto memories, trying to relive our youths?)
(and wow! forest firefighter!)

in state of metamorphosis


NOnactivist for HoPper liberation.
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac


Posted:
ick... same as, I have far too much stuff for a 22 year old... i did attempt a throw out the other day and managed to get rid of precisely one carrier bag of paper..... most of that was old magazines. Of which there is infinitely more, and before any of them go, i have to rip out interesting articles & pics, which are intended for scrapbooks and sketchbooks, only there is currently a significant backlog of them to be stuck as well..... and.... I don't really know why i do it.... confused granted it can sometimes be interesting to look back at them but so much?? one day I'm going burn it all.........

I blame all my design technology teachers, they started it with their flippin' scrapbooks of stuff that interests you.... and i think you have to be a hoarder to get through a design degree because otherwise they just don't believe you've done any work....

Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006

if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.


margitaSILVER Member
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia


Posted:
i am a total hoarder of seemingly useless stuff too!! i have kept all of my movie tickets from the last...oh my goodness eek ...it's almost 10 years!! ubblol i've got old school uniforms, yearbooks, calendars, diaries, theatre & concert tickets, newspaper & magazine articles, collections of clippings on famous people i liked at the time (musicians, actors), even old address books!! ubblol

i just can't throw some stuff out!! ubblol

do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!



if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!



smile! :grin: it confuses people!


Madam FlameBRONZE Member
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA


Posted:
This is the first Haiku I've written in years, but I like the flow of this one. Tell me what you think.



Haiku; Poi Dancer



I am from the fire

mistress of these scared arts

drums, fire, and dance join



I am from the heart

rythmic ebbing and flowing

enticing movement



I am from my soul

the rythm it does move me

dancer of the poi

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Never settle for normal.devil
Average thinking brings average results.


{anthrax}BRONZE Member
Look I've changed my title!
209 posts
Location: England


Posted:
lol, ok this one was done when I was in school and supposed to be working. Enjoy

.....
.....
.....
.....

No whispers,
No dropping of pins,
Only the most purest and absolute of sound,
Silence.

The complete opposite of modern society,
Unobtainable solitude amongst the buzz of neon lighting,
Yet some find ways around such uniform noise.
They move silently,
Talking with light,
Giving unheard meaning with a gesture of movement.

Most would mark deafness as a curse,
They may be right,
Yet I find my "curse" the only advantage I have,
I never get to hear them,
Never scarred with the immovable memory of a victim,
Their screams mean nothing to me,
as my blade peirces their flesh.

anthrax.... it infects, then spreads..... fast


griffinfeminine tiddly pom
505 posts
Location: cambs england


Posted:
eek but also smile
and i like the haiku-it seems to fit the spirituality you sometimes feel when you're totally absorbed and all by yourself, even if there's people around you, but its all about the motion and movement and how it all feels and and and

in state of metamorphosis


Fleancejourneyman
99 posts
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Posted:
Generation lost

A man stares out on into space.
a look so blank upon his face
no anger frustration or shocking alarm.
a lifeless child held in his arm.

How do you justify this waste
the world looks on with such distaste.
the graves of the many lie cold in the field
this horror a weapon that no man should weild.

For days on end they held their ground
then splitting the silence came round after round
Mothers will cry for years to come
their daughters a symbol of hate gone so wrong.

I do an injustice to those taken so
for a worthy poem i cannot bestow.
their memory will last at least here on this page.
we pray for their souls to be freed from their cage.

I don't care who you vote for

Just don't vote for the guy who likes war, destruction and earning money over earning respect.


MEERCATBRONZE Member
A Meerkat that eats chicken
194 posts
Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
Ooooo it's a very touchy thing for me sharing poetry with people. I think my friends would think its weird. I have written one before on this thread but this is much more personal, I write FREEVERSE mostley it gives you the freedom to say what you want without having to rhyme ,anyway here it go's......



Shadows bonded on concreate

Souls become none

Broken apart dissipation

Emphatic emptiness

So unsure theres Never time to heal



Being able to lie to yourself

Such an amazing skill

BUT beliving it.........

.....Is even better.

MandSILVER Member
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada


Posted:
Here's a simple poem by Frances Vevers that, unfortunately, seems to sum up me at the moment.

Insomnia
It's 3.30 am
And I'm awake again
I can't get to sleep
I've got things on my mind
Answers I can't find
I'm going to try counting sheep

Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.


wouacGOLD Member
Poi-tato
183 posts
Location: Iceberg 319, Canada


Posted:
heres a litty ditty i heard from my dad when i was little

Little miss muppet
sat on her tuffet
collecting her shell shock wits (or something along those lines)
when down from a glider
dropped and H-Bomb beside her
and blew miss muppet to bits

hehehe I love that poem

and heres a joke i made when i was about 6 one night with my family i liked rhyming so it's more poetic than joky...maybe

how did the man fall of the floor?
he jumped out the door.

makes as much sense to me now as it did back then...

and perhaps the greatest haiku ive ever read is

the sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet

by shiki, gary snyder described this to jack kerouac once and thats where i heard it

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potato's.


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