Literal Poems

A Literal Dick Measuring Contest

I laid down my long schlong 
On a table full of kong dongs
The judges had short tongs 
To flip the dongs flop
the men and women on song 
You wouldn't guess who won?
God, Tom, John, Cock?
No, you are so wrong 
It was not my long schlong 
Or Johns God  throbbing Cock 
It was  Moscow

Truth Discerned

When I was slain in the spurit I was mostly surprised.
Dehydrated and dizzy, clenching the lids on my eyes
Blood refilling the arms recoiled from a flourescent-lit sky
None left supporting my legs after Blackburn had squeezed me too tightly
So I descended - relaxed, expectations unmet.
Quelled my instinct to get up and just laid there instead.
Conscious, biding

Literal Sense

LITERAL SENSE :

This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
VERSE 1:
This ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
Concrete counterintuitive ratioed for looser and Leader;
Interim arguments to know who's worst and best person,
Makes no sense either.
Itemised unique personalities need no prejudice session. 
Sparked to negate fallacious  rudiments; deal art.
Trumpling down heaped follies, that's  first thing,
By optional incineration precised by omega.
Vertebrated palladium

Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White Board

Across figurative and literal blackened white board...

Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.

Mine hardscrabble existential debacle 
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset 
far adrift from harbored haven; 
I floundered like a fish out of water 
entangled within woebegone raid.

No matter figurative bar
to challenge yours truly
chiefly afflicted

Very Bad Girl

"Very Bad Girl" read the words
Boldly on the lady's sweater!
Nothing in her deportment or deeds
Took the story any further.

Only, I was left to wonder
Why she would've bought the garment
Unless, of course, it was bought by another,
The real owner of the statement.

I found myself wondering why it was
That one saw no "Very Good Girl",
But recalled that

Across Figurative and Literal Board

Across figurative and literal board... 
mine hardscrabble existential debacle spelled losing game of trouble

Oft times, I experience wretchedness being alive
spurring wonderment whereby thoughts
of my demise doth drive
analogous to buzzfeeding bumbling bees
combing into their hive.

Giddiness prevailed
when coronavirus (COVID-19)
warranted quarantine to diminish
transmitting pandemic virus thru the air
lifestyle change no major imposition,
cuz yours truly already familiarized
with self isolation
courtesy

Children Are Literal

Oatmeal pie on your face? Doesn’t make sense.
Not pie, just oatmeal. I am fixing my complexion.
What is wrong with it? 
Nothing. I am maintaining.

Maintaining your skin?
Maintaining everything; I do my rear end too.
You put oatmeal on your petootsie?
I sit in it.

I ponder this for a while,
Not able to wrap my mind around it.
Not realizing she

Literal Poetry Or Metaphoric Hmmm

Literal poetry is my go to gal
Metaphorical poetry is impossible for me.

Metaphors do not come naturally
They are not only difficult 
to understand but impossible
to write.

Literal poetry is concrete to me,
Metaphors are abstract.

The only abstracts I want
are in my artwork,
not in my poetry.

For they are not easy.
They are difficult
And I am all about easy.

The Poet Knight

... The pen is mightier than the sword ...


The poet knight went off to war
To prove his valor true.
Sir Arthur Berk, the troubadour,
Knew he had much to do

For he had found a greater sword
To strike his foes down dead.
He swore to fight invading horde
And make their ink spill red.

Each lord, farm hand and tavern maid,
Had

Literal Stuff Again

A dad was washing the car with his son!
Here we go again with the literal stuff, so dumb!
Son said next time, let's use a sponge
This really hurts me quite a bunch
Now how silly is THAT... seems a bit overdone!!!

Very Literal

Very happy with my new fridge magnet
Up to now twelve fridges it did attract
Now that's very literal
Should explain it to all
You see... oh never mind, just ask your kiddies in fact

Literal Or Figural

Death and life—literal or figural?
Maybe both,
Now that there can be death in life or life in death,
As for poets, notably, Bharati and Yeats.

The dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna:
Is it interpersonal or intrapersonal?
Darsan or Epiphany—cling to it we would,
For seeing is believing.
The commandments, though heard,
Had to be attested by the burning bush.

Aha! Come to think of

Literal Obesity

Word count a burden,
  lines adding weight

Meaning gets crushed,
  —feelings deflate

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)

A Literal Tryst

My vice is to choose a book at random
From off the library shelf
A book timeworn, a bit forlorn
That sits alone, all by itself

I like that slight crackle 
That comes from it’s spine
That warm musty odor reminiscent
Of newly uncorked wine

I t  can be just a brief conversation
Or perhaps a grand revelation
That momentary…temporary?
Meeting of minds

Yet at

Emotional Literal Tomes

Emotional Literal Tomes
- by Bob Atkinson
 
have written words before on
this subject some have blessed
how poetry fills the heart
with endless emotional progress

some give the subject passing grades
some give it no real thought
some think they know its content
see poetry as fully rotten

well, to some extent I do believe
that enough has be done
to give the genre a

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