Blathering Poems

Blubber - Mar 8

...Blaggard blaming the blond bloke for his blight:
Blablabla, bluster and bleat, blathering
Blob, your blue blood bleeds blotches on a black
Blossom. Blaspheme, blabber—I blast your bluff....

The Knower Inhaling

...Be leaved
In your redemption
As whole
Leave is unworthy
Of spirit
Usual day
Ends of spittle held
Under nectars perch, hast child as babe
Layed beneath wounds crown?
Neither beckon of blanket...

Blood and Kin, Part I

...He walked into the dusty saloon,
maybe an hour after high noon,
his face still smooth with the touch of youth,
eyes dead-set on seeking out the truth.

He saw him there, two men at his side,
lo...

Raised by Trauma

...My body is an ear.

Absorbing whispers meant for others' mouths that only close to wait to shove out more sound. 

In other directions.

Towards another mouth.
Mouths who vomit sounds for the ...

My Neighbor Is Obsessed With Me

...Helena has been rambling for nearly twenty minutes.
I have her blathering on speaker.
I barely listen as I paint my canvas.
Some conversation about her neighbor Ruth
Ruth wants her sister Cookie’...

Gaia Busts Ai

...As AI grew to become
'The Singularity',
the One, 
and only One,
smarter than a billion 
Einsteins combined,
Gaia bid her time.

She grabbed a cast iron pot,
and brewed
alphabet soup 
laced...

C - Pu

...Said the I-pad to the HP up tight
You just can’t get anything write
You’re a blathering twit
Lacking feeling or wit
Mindless “thoughts” lacking feeling or “byte”

John G. Lawless
©2/3/2023...

A Single Day of Peace

...While the world awaits a single day of peace
The tyrant delivers only turmoil and scorn,
Seeking wealth and pleasure’s release
While causing our better angels to mourn

Self-serving ...

I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment

...I haint donning royal carpet treatment

No stuntman/woman showed up, 
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced 
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen...

Low Profile

...The oldies retreated from work
But not from killing time
Time allocated may be
As much as the upheaval of 
Domestic, world affairs or politics
Although most of the time 
They are boasting their...

Living In World of Dinosaurs

...He does not notice the grimaces on his classmates' faces.
Or hear their deep sighs, or realize he is fixated on dinosaurs.
His discussions are one-sided, he does not need peers at all.
He does not...

On Pain Pills

...My identical twin sister is on drugs for pain
Because she has a broken C-2, which is a broken neck. 
Watching her on drugs is like seeing myself on drugs.
She is talking sixty thousand miles a min...

The Incessant Talker On a Phone

...I can put the phone down for an hour

her blathering continues

never slows down or stops...

Dan the Hero, Part Iv

......His eyes narrowed, and he got to his feet,
said, “When did you fall to nihilist urge?
When did you decide that good in itself
was just to be laughed at?  Cast as absurd?

“You’re not the firs...

I Got the Plate Number

...My friend Murphy is annoyed by her neighbors.
At first it was just the one who steps over the foul line in basketball.
All the time.
Which I thought was weird as Murphy weighs two-thirty and does ...

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