Long Lumbar Poems

Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged...

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The worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into a damp-fur snuggle.
    It’s Price is Right...

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She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band...

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When rollerblading I threw out my back. 
A sidewalk bump sent me off the track. 
On the way home I had felt out of whack. 
Did extra stretches to create motion slack. 

But the lumbar...

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I was working out back, while under the palms
I've a tendon-cy to stand under the limbs
to focus my eyes, and digest the surrounding glands cape
Plantar-d there on the ground was a carpenter ant 
that caught...

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Panic shook her spinal cord
Her hands trembles with troubles
Her voice became thicker and deeper
Like that of a baritone
Losing count of her made calls
To her kinsmen since morning
Where could he be?
What could have happened to him?

Flashing...

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Fourteen days...
			Ted, what will become of you?
Two weeks back, you were lifted out and rushed
to intensive care, breathing but fitting,
unable to tell us how it felt to
be born with wires, tubes, winking lights and graphs,
monitors...

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she was hot - like a menopausal flash
he was hard - like arteriosclerosis

limber lumbar but an ancient memory
a touch senile, maybe, a touch unsensory

and yet the sparks still sparkled
in eyes that cataracts encircled 

old flames...

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The anatomist’s delight, 
	or his dilemma? 
	Yes, she is...

	Odalisque...
	how could she be less than perfect? 
	Surely Ingres didn’t get it wrong 
	when he painted her nude flesh 
	so voluptuous as to be tactile, 
	reclining oh...

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Bones


We have 206 bones in our skeletal system
Far too many to completely list ‘em
But here are a few for your edification
In case you missed ‘em in your education

Tibia, fibia, femur, and sternum
Are four of the...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Fourteen

Even sea-gulls mistake this lavish lap of water for sea
All day long their cries betray their delusion so eerie
Circling and swooping and settling on her deranged graces
Coming in...

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Everything had gone well and the night was still young,
she had made her intentions quite clear,
home alone we're not walking, the drink was now talking,
and the score was one-nil to the beer.
So we flagged down...

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The call of morning roosters,
Is a call of God's gardeners to duty.
I see footprints cast
In the breezy dew of the early morning,
As they lumbar to their fields

Ignoring the ache in their backs,
shadows of sleep under...

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Lumbar ladies stroll by as the night sedans plunder the ho-dad hostels.
Looking to find nothing except another dozing cigarette beyond the cadenzas.
Another hot afternoon in suburbia with the repeated barkings of a distant dog.
Billy boy...

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Writing.com daily dew drop prompt write a food poem

the best meals of my life
has always been what my wife
cooks up for me every night

she is a genius in the kitchen
always making something great
from the simplest...

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Hypochondrial Delusion

A mind corrupted canker
Of cystic self failure
Even gastric anorexia
And fluttery throb to alight the fear
An adrenaline generated tachycardia
That matches respiration
And causes hyperventilation
With invasive pacy rhythm
And palpitating violation
To anxious infarction
 In schizoid arrest

A hepatic paranoia...

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One Tired Torso

One tired torso stands and sits,
reeling from its aching hips.

The lumbar vertebrae are all but gone,
with femur bones that are old and worn.

A pelvis full that bore two baby girls,
is now a barren...

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Joey Contemplating a Skeleton

By Elton Camp

The teacher told Joey to learn each bone by name
And that there were only about 206 of the same
The parietal, temporal and occipital are in the head
At least that’s what...

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Musings of an Ignoramus

Why wake up from this slumber
-Slumber in my ignorance,
And give up my bliss?

Why sit up and strain my lumbar,
Study hard to forfeit this empty arrogance,
And give up this peace?

Why pore through countless...

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Eyes widening on her fashion tattoo
Fine black lines freshly pierce you
Faded blue scrolls on a sailor's arm
Thick black Celtic lumbar tattoo
Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols taboo
Tiny fine line rainbow and blue.
 
Mischievous eyes hinting a secret spot
High...

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Nought but an impression left upon the deepening snow,
  Where once upon a dying lay my bones on New Years' Eve,
Who or what I have become you do not care to know,
  A broken heart...

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Seemingly that things are over there
In my mind, let me seek to tell you?
Booming such like flowers in the spring 
Or  spreading something like ripples

I am trying to understand them 
For what they are...

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Everyone thanks for your prayers and well wishes!! the soup is the best group of people I know of to help you through a rough spot.

My surgery went well, I had a diskectomy in the...

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Chogadella, chogadella

gleef a finkle, fangle doo

Sanking froth a wank forchella

bleetting hist la trencheled sloo

 

Calibali, spork n’ mally

jopelwanker deef walore

Ectaglancy, fallet plantsy

untwotopa feething glore

 

Mannyouopo, slifered glupoe

dangelation, clastig blaye

Homertempor gleeving sempor

happystead youngstuckers kaye

 

Gurf-a platted,...

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