your foulmouthed shout
weaves angry waves
bashes my ear drums
pierced I wail in vain
as the echo gets closer
staccato crescendo
climax refrain
can’t shut you out
cannot withhold
silence won’t come
until the final note
that fails to abate
our melody out of tune
sweet memories wane
why so cruel I dare
to object and stall
in anxious mourning
beaten I tap on my scull
hardcore discordance
dis-phonic noise pollution
where harmony morphed
into orchestral acrimony
until I dust off the harp
restring my guitar
triangular chords
block coda and pain
reclaim my own music
mute your assault
scream as loud as you want
eat your words
digest my freedom
croak as you wish
while I breathe fresh love
15th April 2021
Contest This or That Volume two
A far Cry
Sponsor Edward Ibeh
If you were to eat your words how would they taste
would you swallow them slowly, without haste ?
If you were to nibble on the letters of your poem
would they satisfy your soul like a sweet Shalom ?
If you were to feast on a whole entire page of nouns
would you turn into a smile, or a big upturned frown
If words were edible then I'd make malice avoidable
and I would never write anything mean or unlovable
If you and I were sensitive poets we'd write real good
so everything we'd eat would taste like jello not wood
is it understood ?
6/9/2019
Never say never
You will live to eat your words
Just pass me the salt
All the years we've been married,
We've had such a blast,
We can say up yours, eat your words,
To those who said it wouldn't last.
All the happy memories we've made,
From our time together,
The fun and joy we've shared,
Will be ours forever.
All the times we've laughed out loud,
Until we have cried,
Our relationship has grown and bloomed,
That can't be denied,
All the hard times we've battled through,
Are overshadowed by the good,
That's all because of one thing,
You're in my heart and in my Blood.
Never, Always, Sometime
Never say never for you may have to eat your words!
Always have faith in yourself when choosing to be heard!
Sometime life gets a little rough let not your vision be blurred!
Never, Always, Sometime, words of wisdom, modifying adverbs.
Written © 2/18/16
To be forever bent in a lack of better term
To lie still in darkness like a sad, blind worm
To eat your words as a form of grainy nourishment
To smell the dampness of your tempered encouragement
It is a blessing like no other
To be speechless but so full of color
And to feel the good digest to the mass
No matter how blind we have come to pass
There are beings that long to comfort us
As we lie still in the gloom of lush
There is a presence that may appear obscure
Blank faces that are captured in a blur
They are the observers and they are so still
They absorb what they can and eat what they will
There is nothing to fear for they are our benediction
Out in the sidelines trading gravity for friction
They are not angels I am told
They are not demons, dark and bold
They are quiet spirits that are attracting our minds
They choose many—all various kinds
It is inspiring to know that the following beings
Engorge on our souls—such nurturing feedings!
Eyes are opening in blissful imagination
As they cultivate the grounds with twangs of inspiration
The observers will watch us all until the conclusion
What they see is what we imagine—and the rest is an illusion
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