They paid me seventy-eight dollars to break dance he told me
After he did a little break-dancing in my four foot by three-foot office
Slamming his feet into my desk and stuff.
Who paid you? I asked him.
Random people.
Where did they come from?
They came out of nowhere.
And they paid your seventy-eight dollars to break dance.
He says, “I know….my mom was amazed too.”
I get to spend all day with these little imaginations.
Alabaster moon
prodigal with pearlescent promises,
extravagant assurances,
pretends to symbolize
jazzy moon-in-June romance
for young lovers.
Gibbous guitarist plucks out honeyed
heart-string progressions;
passion-fueling improvisations
entwine as two hearts syncopate
to soul-stirring rhythms.
Feeling the beat, tapping those feet
jitterbugging hips sway in sync
towards the dark side of the moon.
Gyrating in a sensual frenzy
of broken dreams,
exhausted bodies execute
a heart-break dance of missteps.
One last mournful note
and the music ends.
Eerie presence, oft spotted near midnight
Whistling a death tune, inducing deep fright
Gliding over the lake with nonchalance
On full-moon nights, performing a break dance
Well before dawn, disappearing from sight
The ghost, it is said, nocturnal birds bites
Their remains strewn in blood at treetop heights
Candles lit, in both prayer and penance
Eerie presence
It’s silhouette darkens, shadows of night
For our neighbourhood here, it is a blight
Ghost from the house of the dead, in seance
Only once had revealed, its countenance
Medusa too would pale, before its might
Eerie presence
11-February-2021
wet warden whirring
like lusty figs
tainted passions puking
ignited by breaches
bounty break dance
then leery lance
rusty retina smirking
elated by blushes
birthed per pulses
felon fingers fiddling
hoisted hands filled:
rusty retina's ripped
mystic mood metamorphosed
pupiled-retina gulped gore.
20:01:11:00:35
Note: Inspired by a picture. Not a contest.
There once lived a guy named Valdimir
Who liked to party and drink cold beer
He would also break dance
His go to, was a prance
This went on throughout the entire year
Break-dance:
an energetic and acrobatic street dance typically performed to hip-hop or funk music.
I Want To Wish My Soup Friends A Happy
New Year
Alexis Y.
12/29/19
A moths flight path is erratic
It flits from place to place
First it’s on your ceiling
Then it’s dive bombing your face
It hits its head on lightbulbs
Even though they’re really hot
Killing off the the few brain cells
I’m not even sure they’ve got
And when you turn your light out
It’s like its wings have been turned off
It sits there looking innocent
A well behaved, calm moth
But if you dare to touch the switch
And make your room aglow
The moth just can’t quite help himself...
“The moth and his break dance show!!”
From Eden to the outhouse in just a few thousand years
Blooming weapons of mass extinction
From the seeds of our many gifts.
A volley of nuclear warheads is coming
within a generation or so.
The wealthy and powerful will sashay
to heated bunkers, stocked full of tomorrow.
While above, the serfs break dance
like ants in a boiling plutonium bath.
There'll be no Jesus balm to soothe their nuclear rash.
Eden forever poisoned by the oily ego of man.
You can break a promise, break a toy,
Break a rack in pool;
Break a tennis player’s serve
And even break a rule.
Break a horse to saddle up;
Take a break for lunch.
Break a glass (at Jewish weddings);
Listen to it crunch.
Break a habit, break a heart,
Break your back by lifting;
Break your neck and break your fast
And break a line by shifting.
Break up laughing, break-out stars,
Break out with some zits;
Break a losing streak and break
Your taffy bar to bits.
Break dance, break-up, break a bone;
Break a record – wow!
Break your train of thought, just like
I’m going to do – now!
Indian girls
Color of rouge when we hugh her on cheat
Cry when she takes a break dance on dream about to search rain to find new chemistry
Only cook what she knows from her past and serve with a new taste of sauce
Hide to tell how much she loves but in that she forgets to hide touch her voice of heart
Indian girls with many emotions but different like beauty of Like you judge
With love all
Jagdish Bajantri
A stern face
A harsh place
A strange kind
A rough mind
A mad twist
A black list
A shrewd step
A lost map
A plus point
A sad joint
A late fad
A life mad
A last fling
A lost spring
A long way
A blown prey
A dead chance
A break dance
Leon Enriquez
29 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT
Yo Yo New York City make me crazy and i am cool man and i am rap and people think i am cool rap walk on street and i am deaf and i can show people of my break dance like rap in NYC is so crazy these people i like NYC that i have a new friend there it make me smile and girl think i am cute yo yo i am deaf rap in NYC people watch me i van dance like rap they can heard the beats bass of rap music so loud and they think i am cool man and people cheer on me yo yo and i said yo yo what up pimp my wild and i want to be famous rap star and deaf DJ in NYC and i can teach people how to be rap in NYC and dance on stage people can follow my dance style and i can collect money to donated to homeless people in street and i give them a coin or cash to them and they think i am cool and friendly and i have a riches family like Jewish people have and i am not poor rap and i not broken the money down on street yo yo i love to play crazy basketball player like i shooter 3 pointer yo yo i am talent and half court shoot the basket up and blown it down buzz and those black and white people think i am stronger and crazy people in NYC too
I love to rap and tap most times ,
My wrist ,I can twist with real ease ,
Even though I’m not in my prime ,
My femurs and knees slide like grease ,
Hip for hip-pop dance and axis
for break dance which pivots the neck,
Enabling girdles to assist,
Failure can lead to serious wreck ,
But blues is safe with little pulls ,
Making you close to your dear one,
Backache is close where rock song rules,
Ballroom or ballet is full of fun ,
Wasteless waist is more used than tarsals ,
And restless chest more than carpals .
Parts of body used are :Wrist ,femurs ,Hip ,neck ,waist ,knees , etc.
DATE:9-10-2016
(A Vondelet Sonnet Variation)
When clouds roll dark, the skies pour rain on rain,
as angels whisper crimson, blue and green
to bring a Spring of promise, wild with gain,
while sister states hold down a strong desire
for smell of raindrop pelts on dry terrain;
our windshield wipers sing a break-dance song
cocooned within a vacuum too arcane
when clouds roll dark, the skies pour rain on rain.
Yet now we join our neighbors’ glum refrain
to pray for moisture measured to prolong;
our plants show wilted heads bent down in pain
while air, intense with heat, forecasts a fire.
As angels whisper crimson, blue and green,
the earth greens up as winter hides again,
when clouds roll dark, the skies pour rain on rain.
it was in the block
we jump and hop
street was wet
water contest
we all jump hand prance
in this
SUMMER BREAK DANCE
they tump jump
and pump
put you in a trance
with that
BREAK DANCE
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