Let's play a game of telephone...
crepitant tongues converse
overly dramatic tendencies
incoherently concrete
awakening preoccupation
a train flying off the tracks
chaotic clumps crust up
dissonance distended
indecorous reception
viral instigator
I dont want to sift
sterilize rhetoric
abrasive to the ear.
A game of telephone...let's play.
Categories:
distended, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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oh yesss
mine woke early this
a.m.
two uv thoze precious
hours uv
snore early
and there
with lean 'gainst mine
bed post
hern
angel
white az mine
tee
glaring mine
rust
and reach'n
mine
from hern head
unto
hips
fuchsia
distended
each
ShhnaP
Categories:
distended, beautiful, character, cute, remember,
Form: Carpe Diem
chasing you
I left me
like I do
when I'm chasing a
hungry ghost
scrawny
with a distended belly
that's never full
however much
it devousr
nothing outside
fills what's empty
inside
longer than
the dopamine rush
it neglect itself
to sustain
as empty as
the bars I haunted
before you
these aren't the poems
I want to write
I long to be
alone tonight
with the stars
the moon
and the wind
wafting down
from a snow cap
smoke swirling up
like a cat's tail
flicking smoldering embers
sparking the night
with fire flies
snap crackle pop
I'm free (again)
from the trance
of the hungry ghost
I'm content
with the one
I most
need to know
Categories:
distended, poetry,
Form: Free verse
glut and excess entices gluttony and greed
going beyond enough,
beyond the ample sufficiency
is to become stuffed stupid,
bloated to distended, chubby fat
when scant suffices
our needs are few,
we savor every morsel and crumb
we cherish simplicity
the joy of each moment ticked
the joy of the doing, not the done
we cherish every
tiny loving touch, brush and blush,
every heartfelt phrase,
every wink or two eye glints
we relish every smile as kiss
every eye-to-eye contact an embrace
When scant suffices
staying hungry keeps the thirst for more fresh
there's such elegance in simplicity
such grace in humility's embrace
When scant suffices
there's sufficiency of self
leaving the cup half-full, frugal
for a little more to come,
besides.
Categories:
distended, absence, chocolate, desire, food,
Form: Free verse
Harken! blasts of thunder
pressurised magma sears
Pyroclastic hearts collapse
a spanner jams the gears
Distended fiery fissures
augur unquantified fears
Cataclysms bring rupture
down path’s not very clear
Aneurysms bursting veins
popped drums burning ears
Brain function touch and go
haemorrhage out red tears
Earth ripping itself asunder
black raw ground appears
Man plugs his inner wounds
holding on to love so dear
By
David Kavanagh
Categories:
distended, allusion, love, power,
Form: Monorhyme
Distended cheek
Like a chipmunk
Filled with acorns
Only 'tis
Bob's round, sweet, soft peppermint
Gogyohka--A Poetry Form
1. It is short, based on Haiku and Tanka
2. Five lines or sometimes 4 or 6(exceptions)
3. At least one phrase or breath per line
4. No restraints on number of words or syllables
5. Theme unrestricted
Categories:
distended, food,
Form: Other
Ha! Please take down
The eyesore
You've mounted atop your head.
You wonder why
It feels much too heavy.
Here's the unvarnished truth.
Because, well, because
One cannot be
A fool
And a king
Simultaneously
Your counterfeit diadems
Hold no weight, or value.
They wouldn't shine beneath
A plethora of suns.
Spare yourself
The world's ridicule.
To rule an empire
Unchallenged,
To someday sit
On a throne, wearing
The real McCoy
To travel so much as
Halfway
The long glory road
To acquire the royal appellation
And prestige you covet,
For starters, deep-six
Your distended ego
And delusions of grandeur
Date written: 04/24/2022
Categories:
distended, satire,
Form: Free verse
EXPERIMENT WITH BOILING WATER
Let your dubious interest in science not diminish;
Just watch the water-boil process from start to finish.
Gas flame is lit and well-adjusted:
As a scientist you're hot as mustard.
See the condensation on glass above water level ?
Soon you’ll have covered base of glass kettle
With the small bubbles of trapped steam you distended.
They became lines of moving bubbles and ascended
Like watery snakes looking for their surface goal
And hissing as they failed to find it in shoals.
Now they’ll rise ever more frequently, ever faster -
The rate is chosen by the experiment master.
The slight hisses become rumbles
Kettle rattle loudens as your gas flame tumbles.
Space above water level fills with steam -
The boiling makes scientist-eyes gleam.
A whistle treble starts to tremble
Then, gaining courage, it will soon resemble
The olden-days police summons pitch
Of ultra-high G or A-sharp, very rich.
I should stop now before I have trouble with the law
Of physics – for the water boiled away as we saw:
And the kettle dried out.
The experiment was over, we had left no doubt.
Categories:
distended, science, water,
Form: Couplet
your ink
scripted so seductively
succumbs me
a statue of hieroglyphs
meticulous in manner
meandering
amid lasting memories
bleeding into my distended veins
you're a word of wisdom
imbibing
of my essence
with lips of long
as night stars hold view
shadows will awaken
with her solemn kiss
to the morn
begetting the radiance
beaming inside
Categories:
distended, love,
Form: Free verse
Lily, light and frilly,
On the may day break;
She mounts upon the hill
Engulfed by the morning dew,
In gaeity she blossoms wide and fair,
Beset upon the breast,
Of yellow, green distended bed.
Oscillating with the glorious wind,
Pleased to be a fleeting flower;
Neither deploring nor resenting,
It's petite existence,
Coming to approbate, life is short but fair,
Gradient, soft and delicate,
A momentary dream in tune.
Categories:
distended, flower, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Two joined elements swirl around
Into its lungs with wisp of sound
Turning its blood from blue to red
Preserving life as cells are sped
And though not regnant is the right
Concentration to give it flight
From inertness so its mind
Can pursue and happiness find
If not enough then judgments slow
And other gasses overflow
Causing bones and muscles to shout
Till its progress quickly flames out
But if too much its lungs grow weak
Slowing its independence streak
Making the tissues distended
Weight that was never intended
Breathe just enough of life’s tonic
To perfuse a fit republic
Ever poor so it can’t ruin us
Ever meek so it won’t rule us
Categories:
distended, society,
Form: Rhyme
basilica bells
ring-ting-a-tingling swell ~
touching cold window
11/22/2018
swell - to become distended with emotion
Categories:
distended, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Trust is such a deliciously sweet thing
Who
stole
the
strawberries?
Make the yellow-bellied canary sing
Confidence lost in an abandoned mind
Smoky sulfur
and silica methane ...
uptake of noxious fumes to the brain
Pinning blame on the innocent
is such a wickedly gossip thing
Who
stole
the
strawberries?
Make the paid parrots walk the plank
Over the edge,
submersive feeling of a shark bite
Band of brotherly fear: pie-hole footsteps Caine a-coming,
like the razor slice of a sharp knife
A taste for deceit is an acquired appetite;
such a distended, gluttonous thing
Who
stole
the
strawberries?
Loyalty fled, as the cannons started firing
Resentment turned inward,
be a busted gut full of bellyaching —
Sunken boatload of wretched, scurvy self-loathing
Someone coveted the strawberries ...
perhaps it was a fickle foe pretend friend
Check the fingers for the evidence
that is scarlet proof crimson staining
Drink an ask flagon of cherry whine
Who
stole
the
strawberries?
Will be mutineer revealed in due time
Categories:
distended, imagery, mystery, symbolism, trust,
Form: Free verse
In a distended reality
the Buddhists were right,
but pointed they were wrong
A metaphor chosen
to soothe and delight,
but our choices a different song
Transcendent revelation
a spiritual ideal,
as today takes its pound of flesh
The totality of being
the noblest of causes
—when the moment demands no less
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)
Categories:
distended, religion,
Form: Rhyme
As my brave abdomen is distended
pleasure in seeing my feet has ended.
4/6/18
Categories:
distended, age, humor,
Form: Epigram
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