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Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch


"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath drums, she says, 
no mistake

I’m a groper ... goody two shoes
she says

mouth wide open
songs problematic 
she's done and she's gone
a stitch loose in the weave
drop one pearl one 

dropped 
gone

for kissing small bait in the shallows
she circles her quarry 
bites their backs 
she sits astride 
the legs of a hot gripping story

sits like a monkey 
begging for peanuts
she spits in comments
I'm thoroughly congruent 
in moments of questionable torrent

I am all here
dear boy
dear girl
knit one 
drop one pearl hooray

I am all here, here hearing
all seeing, all knowing
I throw it back 
and I’ll give you 
the crux of the crutch

all knowing
make no mistake.

my good god 
I don’t care
I don’t care
do we care?
I don’t care.

truly I eat their sour pears,
place more wax in my ears
she throws pearls 
decorously adorning 
the minds of sows’ rears

left wing molting
a mouth full of feathers  
right wing feeding them
she’s all knowing
bling bling bling bling

bling bling
bowling ball glowing

Ten pins 

preparing minds
sharp needles
and yarns

Purl Stitch 
knit one, 
drop one
knit one 
drop one

win

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)







“Ram” – Paul, Linda Mcartney
https://youtu.be/dQwdanGKILI








We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But we haven't done a bloody thing all day


We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But the kettle's on the boil
And we're so easily called away


Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky
Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky







"Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger."

"There's small choice in wrotten apples".

"If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”

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Robert Lindley

May 19, 2021 at 11:18 AM

And the title sets the stage for a journey into creativity, and wondrous poetry with an immensely talented poet! If only I could even even approach such a level of creativity, imagery and truly magical inking. A fav- God bless..

Lady Labyrinth

July 17, 2021 at 2:16 PM

calibrating collaboration through unique channels. AKA who gives a jot what the Piranha trolls are swimming in, let them eat each other, while the true poet writes his escape. Let's be honest, I'm no laureate, but you just might be. ;) x Thanks fo the kind words and thoughts. Never give up your writing Lindley, it is the truest essence of you.

Robert Lindley

May 19, 2021 at 11:15 AM

My dear friend, I have only ever read a few poets that strike me as magnificently creative, blessed with keenest eyesight into the heart of poetry- and all of those were golden poets of poetry's golden age- until there came YOU! This gem so truly floors me. A fav- a magnificent beauty it tis..

Lady Labyrinth

July 17, 2021 at 2:18 PM

if only the damn artwork didn't drop out all the flaming time...I cannot write without art or music...musicians are poets and poets feel music when they write - you cannot tell me this isn't true. I might do something unique one day and write a poem without the art or music...and leave it to the reader's take on it all to form their own art and music from the words.

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 3:11 PM

Too Many People...music is the best medicine, truly, and a little honey for after reads and burning The Feral Times.

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 3:11 PM

https://youtu.be/7ppNnQ-slEg

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 2:58 PM

Paul McCartney - Monkberry Moon Delight (1971)

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 3:00 PM

"Catch up (catch up) Super fury Don't get left behind (get left behind)...When a rattle of rats had awoken The sinews, the nerves and the veins My piano was boldly outspoken In attempts to repeat this refrain..." catch up cats and kittens, don't get left behind.

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 2:58 PM

https://youtu.be/O83CrS-KElk

Ts Poetry

May 6, 2021 at 3:54 AM

Don't get caught rocking your life away...get off the porch x

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM

hmmm, how shall I state this, like many writers in this chicken coup, I become heartily sickened of reading the vitriolic comments directed at others, who many spit their poison at, with very little personal knowledge of who they're unloading their diatribe of dross on - they become the trolls themselves. It then astounds me, verbal diarrhea such as that, wins, it would seem the much covetted potd. I understand the cathartic process of it all, but if one has to cast acid-full nasturtiums at people, best to write about the people you know personally, not ficitionally....and then flush it down the .....

Lady Labyrinth

May 6, 2021 at 2:43 PM

One has to hold their shrewness in check and understand it is not winning a poetic claim that brings forward the goldstars in life, it is certainly getting off the porch and going leftfield to build your own character. You make a valid point, Pops ....get off my porch, not get-off on my porch. I am holding a loaded gun. Trolls begone....wave of magic wand, and they still sit on the porch with nothing better to do. Regards, from the GoodyTwoShoes Pool - Tinker Bell...she was good in a bad way. actually a good title. I leave the porch daily to study humanity ... and I will continue to write...;)