Sometimes I wonder if eventually the rot leaves way for love,
if the thick layer of hope on my lips is enough to get myself out of the trenches,
I wonder if I’m held captive to my past because my past is just a reason to hate,
Am I in fact hateful?
do I hate the fact that it feels as though my past has deteriorated any thought of being loved future?
sometimes I just want to crawl out of my skin and soak it in bleach,
Allow every last sin to burn away at the chemicals on my skin
am I dirty forever?
is it really purity culture or just a lack of self esteem
I love myself repeatedly but it never seems to stick in the moments that truly decipher one’s loyalty to themselves
Conflict-ion of loyalty, love, and desperation.
- V.B
Rising Inherent
Your fight’s
not with me
Your fight’s
with the truth
That stands
in defiance
To what you
may choose
It knows
of no allies
But enemies
plain
And rises
inherent
Itself
— to proclaim
**
New masks
Interface
with reality
or then
to be real ...
Those crutches
and wheelchairs
designed
to conceal
Smart phones
and I-pads
new masks
of the day
Hiding our
essence
whose self
— is betrayed
**
This Promise Eternal
Rewriting
a poem
beyond all
dispute
Creates a
new fusion
that none
will rebuke
To speak
to new feelings
in letters
and sound
Remarries
a union
where solemn
we vow
This promise
eternal
with eyes
open wide
Resharing
our essence
Respoken
— alive
**
Pertaining to people of particular properties
who ignoring inherent danger
within minutes of first meeting
insist on telling every stranger
their personal preferences
and why they persist is beyond my ken
it never occurred to me to do the same in the past
however and in the hope my name it won't sully
the following admission is my first and last
altho' merely an instance of happenstance
as perceived I am as one with an arrow
conceived born and bred
in the bones to the marrow
I may be crazy as a loon
mad as a hatter
nuttty as a fruitcake
pick the one you prefer it doesn't matter
for at the end of the day I am who I am
in every way and all it engenders
and except in the face of a lady's love
this upstanding gentleman never surrenders
Eva Green Betrothed as Wept
Lady Sade
In the house of perjury and illness
The mind cannot process
The Hague
In ones lifetime
As the Hague is a pawn
You are upon earth, earth removes ash
The residue of wealth in war?
Cyclical Expanse
Expulsion of lives
Upon a great expanse of crescent
Unfertile, youthed
Explained
Retained in science
The endocrinologist is beneath all.
She withers her capture
Buoyed and transported
part of Life's infinity
riding in the flow
Our love is discreet,
Cellulite can's be beat,
That would be a ripper,
If I were a female stripper,
Romance-inherent in our race,
Love has a beautiful face,
Express true feelings.
Your rose sent me reeling,
Enchanting magic fills the air,
Love appears anywhere!
No nazis exist in Ukraine.. We hear such? Well time and again.!
After thought on this matter
I'm ignoring the chatter, for in Canada
They are found, now its plain!
To Calgary some made their stampede.'
14,000 is one strong concede.'
zekensky often visits, giving fist pumps
That limit..Any faith in the parli-amentary
Creed '
Daddy pulls out my straight teeth
Keeps them in a jar for me
Knocks it over when I'm bad
He tells me that I "must be mad"'
I pick them up off of the floor
Cracked in half and looking sore
It must be a pathetic sight
He looks at me and his face goes white
Shards of glass buried in my knees
And a head of hair ridden with fleas
He locks me in this vapid room
Says I fill him with "such gloom"
Cardboard windows and socked feet
My ears tune-in to a ringing beat
I cannot even see my hands
This gloom-filled room I cannot stand
I get now, why I’m bound to this
What about me would anyone miss?
A soft, lilting voice is heard long away.
Does it stand as an intrinsic mound sound?
If I'm not pleased, I'm a shameful display.
A soft, lilting voice is heard long away.
Is your igniting more brainy in some way?
Do you fear that your goals will not be found?
A soft, lilting voice is heard long away.
Does it stand as an intrinsic mound sound?
Written: February 24, 2023
Inherent and Apparent about Money Spent
had been apparent
were sure it was inherent
about money spent
Jim Horn
The jet fuel of perception
is fear
The reasoning behind logic
is doubt
The heartbeat of affection
is love
Their connection inherent
—marriage devout
(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)
by natural-
dog's tail will be curved,
cow's tail will disperse mosquitoes,
goat's tail will be motionless
even in knackers yard
-May 29, 2019 Chattogram
Trump and Things Inherent
Trump has abused another migrant;
He prefers things that are inherent;
His adipose,
Is gross;
Separated a child from their parent.
Jim Horn
We already have almost 20 million
children who have mental problems.
Less than 70 years ago one of them
was trump.
Declarant Is Apparend and Inherent
People proved by always being apparent,
Decided that all their rights are declarant;
Abnormal behavior,
Never your savior;
If an insidious idiot it surely is inherent.
Jim Horn
Now over 4,600 poems heading to goal
of 5,000.
re-pot inspired by Debbie's contest
Dismissing evil and good
Upright and smiling he stood;
Materialistically modern in mood
Filled full with rationalist food;
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlighten within.
Dismissing evil and good
Puffed-up self approving he stood
Pursuing illusory appeal
With academic assumptions so unreal;
Denying inherent sin
So liberally enlightened within.
Dismissing evil and good
All-seeing,all-knowing he stood;
An idealistic ego
Coupled his elitist credo
Denying inherent sin
Liberally enlightened within.
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