The shoelaces untie,
they've been caught by the kitten's eye.
She touches, hesitantly, with her paw,
the lace that rests long on the slope, raw,
to the cool breeze of Mid-January;
next to a window that reveals Her sanctuary.
The sun dresses the top limbs of a tree; its lower bare curves are the hue of a cocktail skirt, with a ripped seam,
that is halfway in the woven bamboo hamper;
that was worn by the church- less Cantor..
and the pine needles
that poke the evening..
they, in sun-light, had the tints of the moss
that recline on the splashed, carved rocks
of a Late Summer Shore.
Now, within the room there is more...
the clutter of a confident craziness
on a wooden scratched glossiness,
upon which belligerently rest, near the kitten's maw,
the chewed 1% spandex blouse, and robicund bra-
they are a tossed sunset over the edge..of Mayan Skies..
mountainous thrusts; Dusk's sleepy eyes.
The books that have begun to be read,
are upon the charcoal foam of her bed.
This portrait is etched within the walls the hue of yellow skin,
exhaustively painted again and again, and again.
Categories:
belligerently, abuse, allah, allusion, angst,
Form: Prose
An acquaintance asks me ‘how am I doing.’
I tell him I don’t like the color purple
and move on.
I am in Costco; a crowd is jostling,
carts nudging me
into places I don’t need to go to.
Outside, a bleak sky is hovering
as if it had nowhere else to be.
A masked Santa belligerently shakes
a plastic bucket under my nose.
I don’t mind purple that much,
except purple bubble gum and that Spielberg movie.
The day needs tweaking but I’m not sure how
or where.
I used to be able to wiggle my ears – that’s just a fact.
Driving home, I ask myself how am I doing?
I need to consider that subject one day.
Categories:
belligerently, poetry,
Form: Free verse
For old time’s sake
The night was cold and devilish too
You pushed me said I’m leaving you
Belligerently you slammed the door
Crushing my heart some beastly claw
I hear the poet who said loved and lost
So much pain no fitting adroit riposte
Time’s the great healer revelation came
Hardened my resolve shifted the blame
Tragically immature couldn’t act your age
A small altercation only answered with rage
Took me a while to eventually see this thing
He had riches and luxury your perpetual fling
Been gone a year when your letter came
Stage four and alone end of the game
Gone your beauty like a wilted rose
Ultimately this is the path you chose
Confusing thoughts my mind assail
As I ponder and look beyond the veil
I see this isolated piece of earth
Desolate destitute nothing of worth
Tough decision like the setting of the sun
I will nurse and warm you till day is done
Don’t do it it’s another costly mistake
But I must even if it’s just for old time’s sake
Categories:
belligerently, forgiveness,
Form: ABC
Unidentified my world
this push and shove battalion
take from them and leave them broken
Crassly ridiculed by viral industries
black blood automaton
the throwaway plagues of economy
Enemies arduous in pestilence promise
digital demons disposable to pay the fist
take from my brothers and leave my sisters bereft
Born to breath into not my world
the grit pitiful distance between unity
as miseries tourniquet mocks all of us belligerently
From innocent eyes to haunted heart
a misplaced paradigm of sentience
concocts for idiots the demons ideology
For a lifetime the world of not me
my rebellions soaked in propaganda
liberties plasticidal warrior
take my brothers
take my sisters
and suffocate their orchestra
And all the more the cruelty shall reap
the intoxications of biles inaction
and rejoice in the cursed ideology of demons
Unrecognized my world of human
compassions every degree shall embrace every soul
and with the quill of love a future transcribed
by heavenly scribe in the ink of life
is written for our children
Categories:
belligerently, identity,
Form: Free verse
A belligerently positive anarchism,
a lack of plan,
embracing a peaceful mannerism,
learning to stand:
in place.
Rest forever…
…in the light of space.
Moses to the river of thoughts rushing.
No Karma dealing,
only a Buddha’s “nothing”
stops the wheel from believing
in my endless suffering.
Categories:
belligerently, adventure, change, courage, devotion,
Form: Carpe Diem
This agonizing pain I feel, seems to have placed itself permanently in my life.
Such Anguish, Indestructible distress; somewhat like a wife petrified for her life, battered
My brain is disorderly disfused, rather scattered
Optistically I envision uncondensed exhilaration and contentment
Skeptically I attempt to avail myself from such treatment
The hatred, the resentment
The tears over the years
The aching blackness reveals its definite position
To keep me vexed & grieved I believe is its sole mission
TAKEN captive, internally contending to overcome this overwhelming struggle called Life
Finding myself second guessing and always contemplating Twice
My mode of Living is rather quarrelsome, belligerently abound
Vainly efforts only to be bashed back to the ground
But yet Still I must Remain Strong...Keep the faith and Hold
Categories:
belligerently, grief, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
On the last evening of a wonderful weathered
summer, flitting between the branches
of our rowan tree and the Chinese wind chime
that some like me hear a sound almost divine
while others hear as an irritant in an English
garden, a young male blackbird with yellow
beak chirping - four, three, two, but rarely one
note and as the Prima Don in the opera of the
evening waves its head and wags its tail so
belligerently at rivals thereabout, whether
birds, cats or me, weathering our courage.
Categories:
belligerently, bird,
Form: Free verse
Adolescent apparitions aquiring apathy.
Beaten bloody, broken, battered belligerently.
Crystal clear causes craving compassion consistantly.
Domimating demons drive desire diligently.
Even emitting echos escape everyones empathy.
Forgeting fatalities frantically follow fiends.
Generally generating graditude gracegully.
Halos hover hypcritical heads hypothetically.
Insolence, ignorance, imbecilic inconsistanties.
Judging juvenal jailbait joyusly, jokingly.
Killing kidness, kidnapping kidlike kings.
Losing leverage, life losing legability.
Man made mongrels, making me more menacingly.
Neurologic nights not needed normally.
Opposing open optimistic opportunities.
Picture perfect prizes, patronized pathetically
Queens quit quickly, quiting quite quietly.
Raging riots, rights read repeatedly
Strategically striking systematic serenity.
Tactical tarrifs terminated typically, thoroughly
Unread universes underestimated universally
Versatile villgers vacated vicously
World wide warfare, wrathful, who's winning?
X-negotiating
Zapping zillions zelously.
Categories:
belligerently, life
Form: Acrostic
44.
Personality commodities
Melting into bar stools
Progress beyond God
to make the ultimate partnership.
Profits will come less belligerently
When lovers sing praises in lilted voices.
off tune liquors pour needlessly
down the throats of the well fed.
Meager brotherhood looked at me
With a dirty f
Categories:
belligerently, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Son of the devil I am
Am I, I a psychologically
Misunderstood individuality
Emitting my soul in the caress of hypochondriasis
Believing in the many illness of fame
Belligerently dumfounded to using a needle point frame
On the oasis of my flesh
To depict-ate past failures, un-relieved stress and to provoke
An aggressiveness determination
Not blinded by greed, and to be astronomically true to me
Me the son of a devil
Categories:
belligerently, life,
Form: Free verse
AUTUMN AMIABLY AMBLES in, SENDING SUMMER SLIDING.
MODESTLY FLAUNTING her brilliant bright wear,
While SAD SUMMER SLOWLY SLIPS away.
Thus it is often the seasons collide.
One is too eager to put on her show,
The other reluctant to give up her reign.
SWEET Summer is BITTER for being ousted,
While Autumn CALMLY and BELLIGERENTLY pushes her out
Knowing full well that her own time will come
When Winter will VIOLENTLY EASE her away.
Spring however, abides her time.
She's never too early and never too late.
Spring SIMPLY SPARKLES with splendor while she is here.
For John's FREE WITh SPECIFIC LIMITS contest
Categories:
belligerently, naturesummer, autumn, summer,
Form: Free verse