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singing acapella

i looked at the sky tonight
just like every other night before
in this blurred stain of a moment
i looked at the sky in it's nightdom 

 

 

 


in ten thousand shades of midnight blue
with clouds dark as a devil
trying to catch up to the brewing storm breeze

i've never seen the sky like this before
 i hope i never do

 

 

because if i did
it would be like wiping ones ass
and looking at the tissue
it would all just be shit

 

 

i've been through the worst of times
and I've also been through

well
the worst of times

 

 


but tonight the death seeds are sleeping

not taking the retina's from my eyes
allowing me to see that the neighbors

have replaced the tattered blinds

with new ones

and it makes me

 


well

 

mad sad and pulling on yet another
head scarf with the colors of hippy
transgressions

 

 

the curls that remain
lie lithe and unknowing that
their fate shall be decided by
the seeds of the fruit of death

their tartness digging deep into

my brain

 

if i had to eat my head

i'd vomit

 

 

remy the russian

refuses to play stickball in the streets

with me anymore
he treats me as an invalid

 

and

i
despise
him
for
it

 

 

the cognac and cigars bring a taste of

sweat and weakness to my lips
i lie parched in the hammock
dehydrated and really not giving

 

 


a
gigantic
fuck
about
it

 

 

my words that i have written
that you have chosen to read

are the ones you will never ever

 

            understand

 

my words that are yet to be written

that you choose to read are the ones

you will concretely know and

 

           understand 

 

 

one thing i wish for you all to believe in
is that love and loving someone is not a choice

 

but
liking someone is

 

i much prefer to be liked than loved
i like pound cake and rice pudding
and not much else at the moment

 

 

i don't belong here
the pages i've written are shit
they itch my goddamned neck

 

 

and if all it takes

is for the anti-christ of forums
to tell the masses

that my crowning glory

has been made weak and sparse

tell it to  the holy jesus' of all jesus'

they were his words after all

dumbass

 

 


it sent black rages of an

eight year olds memories 

coursing through bones that

are no longer wrapped tightly

with stories to be told

 

 

my soldier cut the

rat's nest off

with his nam knife

you silly

bitch

 

 

i'd say she won

 

cunt

that she is
LOL LOL LOL

 

to write cunt and have it be my downfall

her forked and rotting tongue

spitting death seeds down my throat

digging their roots deep within the garden of my head

their tartness like her uncontrollable need

to hurt

to demean

to lower my head unto myself 

 

weak i was
weak

yes

 

 

 

the words i write

that most consider blasphemous and
un-lady like are the words

of my beginning language
my own foreign tongue

 

 


learned from wanting

to climb inside the thin walls

of a three room dwelling in brooklyn

 

 

so

long

ago

 

so

far

away

 

 

and sing acapella with the rats

that bit my fingers and toes
to quench the starvation

of their own blasphemy

 

 


because
creatures bruise too     you know
and i'm just a creature

 

 

but anyway
this long way with words
has nothing to do with anything

that i have written above
absolutely nothing

 

 

i just wanted you all to know
that i seen a midnight sky

in a thousand shades of

 

 

midnight

rhythm 

and 

blues

 

 

 

and one last thing

 

i've

never

loved

any

of

you

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  • Rheea gold member
    October 24

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    some one told me about this, thought it was most unfair to me and I suppose it is. How ever death and dying I have had so much of it lost so many so what the hell do I care . If it helps do as you will or worse you can not hurt me and if it helps you more power to you. as for the rest of the poem I find it quiet powerful and a wonderful write. I wish you better.

    • Cinnarry gold member
      November 4
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      JFC! Do you think the whole world revolves around you? Leave me alone FFS.


  • Jim Berkheiser
    October 5

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    Gorgeous


    There’s a huge tree outside my window –
    What kind of tree?
    I don’t know. I’m not a botanist. –
    but I do know its green leaves
    look absolutely gorgeous
    against the blue sky
    with its fluffy white clouds.
    What color green?
    What color blue?
    I don’t know.
    I’m pastel colorblind
    and never tried to learn colors.
    Light purple looks blue to me,
    maroon often looks brown
    in the right light
    or is it in the wrong light?
    I don’t know.
    I know I lost a job with an outerwear company
    because I mixed up several orders,
    putting maroon coats with brown.
    I know as a child, I colored skies light purple.
    I know being unable to read numbers
    on a couple of cards filled with colored dots
    wasn’t enough to get me out of the draft
    and I know that it looks gorgeous
    outside my window.

    There are some very pretty flowers
    out there my girlfriend planted.
    Don’t ask me what kind of flowers they are.
    Frankly, I don’t know that either
    and don’t really care.
    I know they aren’t roses and
    I know a rose by any other name
    will smell as sweet and I know
    that beauty is truth and truth, beauty.
    I also know that real men don’t say gorgeous.
    My son told me that in the wisdom of his youth.
    I told him, “Real men say whatever they want.”

    So what’s my point?
    I’ve been told poems don’t have to have a point,
    don’t have to mean. I’ve been told
    poems should be difficult.
    I don’t agree with any of it–
    poems should mean; good poems can be easy. So –
    what do I mean? What’s my point?

    My point is
    names of trees and flowers and colors
    are just reference points, just words
    poets use to show readers
    what they mean, what they feel.

    My point is
    when every cell of your body in tune with life,
    as mine is now,
    everything is gorgeous.
    Yes, I said it son. It’s gorgeous.

    My point is
    your tree may be an elm and mine a beech,
    your sky may be powder blue and mine baby blue,
    your flowers may be daffodils and mums
    while mine are tulips and daisies;
    it’s still gorgeous and I want you to feel that.
    I want you to feel gorgeous, as I do.
    I want to give that feeling to you
    and I don’t think I can.

    • Cinnarry gold member
      October 9
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      Instead of writing down a bunch of words that will eventually say one small thing, i say just this; I feel gorgeous.


  • jantastic gold member
    October 2
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    from one who has read quietly from time to time and always meant to comment...

    • Cinnarry gold member
      October 9

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      From one who reads you regularly and never comments. I wish I had of commented.


  • george the 23rd
    October 1

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    "Because you're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why I like you."

    You're still my heroine. I really enjoy the difference between like/love that you've described above. I made my choice, and I know, I'm just a silly man in Oregon, but know that your use of language means so very much to me. I feel that it does enrich my life, and it's a great comfort to me when I have no words of my own, and hell... even when I do.

    Don't let the petty words of invisible strangers kill you. There's so much else out there to chap your ass without having to worry about a pack of niggling housewives and shut-ins and their ultimately hollow words. I find that the ones who bark loudest trying to drag others down are the ones who just find their own lives so unfulfilling, and therefore they attack in the only way they can, because at the end of the day, that's the only "power" or "control" they have.

    Like I said Cinny.... I made my choice to like you a long time ago.
    You made up my mind with your words and changed that like to a form of love.

    Be well, be safe, and above all, enjoy yourself in any way you can.

    -George

    • Cinnarry gold member
      October 9
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      "You made up my mind with your words and changed that like to a form of love."

      That line finished any other line that I could ever hope to write. I thank you for that and without regard to thinking it through, yes, I love you you too Georgy. Concretely.

      Cinn


  • Mairi bheag gold member
    October 1
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    OH... MY... FUCKIN'...

  • Rowan gold member
    September 30

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    Cin cin I hope you know how much I admre you, bitch.
    One of my favs by you, this one needs a page hon. Kat


  • Dalaney gold member
    September 30
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    i know

    love, L


  • fortyninereasons gold member
    September 30

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    I just like you lots

    Juls


  • Matt E. Smith gold member
    September 30

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    I needed to read this poem tonight. thank you.

    you know how much I like you and your writing so I won't say much more.
    other than that I am happy to see you on here and your words seem to always speak to me.

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