sputtering poetry,
the impotent poet
tells me, she was
“…puttering around Pittsburg.”
potent poetry. perhaps,
alluring alliteration
potentially portends
the winch to wind up
this bucket of water.
diviner twitches, dips,
dares to deviate
direct, dilate.
like a mad scientist, moronic
not to move these ready-made
sputters into a test tube, shake
and let them explode!
an avid, alliterative logophile
holds the power to possess,
to render the procession of
spoken word into usefulness.
alert to the prowess of moving lips,
gears cranking creativity and giddiness,
glad tidings go on and on, when
sputtered with regards to my sister’s trip.
Categories:
pittsburg, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
I
At this stage
My retirement age
I speak with JWs
Jehovah's Witnesses
I shut my door
quickly before
Now, I'm emptier - stronger -
I converse with JWs longer
II
Fine people, careful about blood
Who avoid transfusions, "blood" food -
For JWs, smoking is wrong
Alcohol - choice - may tag along ...
No hell, rapture, predestination
The big one: anti-Trinitarian
"Theocratic War Strategy," allows JWs to lie
To me and you, on works by Aaron Block, I rely!
III
But why do they choke & bother
That Christ, SENT, is only Savior & Brother
Who did die for humanity's sins
"YHWH only should be worshipped, even in hymns"
And Jesus dare not come again
Once is enough? No clouds, No rapture!
What do JWs gain? They "think" only how they're trained
NOTE: 1.Charles Taze Russell, in the 1870s, developed the Jehovah's Witnesses based on his Bible Classes given in Pittsburg, PA., USA. He was joined in 1876 by Barbour, but JWs used the King James Bible until Nathan Knorr et. al., (JWs) "translated" their New World Translation Bible.
2. Spoken Word churches, inspired by William Brennan, may also be a subject.
Categories:
pittsburg, america, bible, faith, jesus,
Form: Didactic
Take your gun to a place of worship
And take the lives of 11 people
Whose crime that day
Was to worship God at a synagogue
Hold the police off until you are trapped
Then give yourself up
When they ask you why
You say in your best voice
All these Jews need to die.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Categories:
pittsburg, violence,
Form: Free verse
Man of hate attacks
The Lord's holiest temple
Faithful's soul depart!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
29 October 2018
* Dedicated to the eleven victims of Pittsburg synagogue shooting .
God bless their souls!
Categories:
pittsburg, evil, faith, god,
Form: Senryu
God Help Us When Afraid
God help us, when we became afraid;
Through problems and fears will wade;
Experience sorrow,
Today and tomorrow,
Caused by sinners who have strayed.
Jim Horn
More people harmed in a synagogue
in Pittsburg. More to worry about.
Bauer obviously is German and may
be of Jewish ancestry. Another hate
crime.
Categories:
pittsburg, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
A Mind Robber
Out of my mind had made a spectacle
Because about everything I was skeptical
And when upside down had been landing
Commanding lead were not understanding.
What was wrong with my awful approach
When on all others it always did encroach
And is reason many are now hysterical
After finding out I am horribly heretical.
Maybe it just might have been mitosis
Combined together causing a meiosis
As result of some resounding synapsis
That probably suffered from many mishapses.
I am beginning to believe without any doubt
This is what Trump truly is really about
But instead of being a joiner and bright healer
Was presumed seen in Pittsburg being a Steeler.
Ho Ho Jim Horn
Trump is a robber and stealer of people's minds
As well as scalper of their behinds.
Categories:
pittsburg, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Those long bus rides
between Urbana, Illinois and Wheaton, Maryland
were all in the interspace,
hours of smooth nothingness punctuated
by jangly nothingness
at change points like Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
Blurs in memory, dreamy,
taste of intensly needed sandwiches
and the desperate need to be clean.
Long half-sleep voyages
through fantasy, through needle-sticking
drives, ********, thirst,
looking out of the window for relief,
only to see darkness.
Categories:
pittsburg, animal, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
KUBLA KHAN
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round.”
But Kub forgot to apply for a planning and building permit
And it contravened the zoning ordinance’s remit.
The fire and safety guys said it was too big, and didn’t approve
The use of ice. They said in warm weather it will move.
The environmental lobby was up in arms at the waste of fertile land.
The river authority objected on pollution grounds: it was banned
So the “Dome” had to be scaled back in size
To about one tenth the original design unwise;
And had to be built of safer materials, low rise;
And located on infertile ground with no impact on water supplies.
It was finally erected on a brownfield site of disused steelmills in Pittsburg, a box
Measuring about 50 by 100 feet, and built out of concrete blocks.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Note
Samuel Coleridge is probably rolling in his grave right now
Categories:
pittsburg, funny,
Form: Couplet
come 2016
or 2015
or 2017
whenever china’s economy exceeds that of the united states
(the year disputed circa. 2016)
and there is no longer any dispute over
who will be calling the shots in the world
from there on out
one has to wonder---
having spent any time in america---
or more importantly/specifically
new orleans &
detroit city &
dallas &
pittsburg &
nyc &
kansas city &
atlanta &
chicago &
la---
will there be chinese james brown?
a new “hardest working man in show business”
whose tunes fill the ears of those new most important cities---
be it
hong kong off the mainland, or
shanghai, beijing, cheng du, hang zhou, qingdao,
xi’an,
taipei, dali, ningbo or
quangzhou---
will there be a new man who bearing the purest chinese soul,
pumping it out in
mandarin or cantonese?
will he be pop-locking as the most perfect popper
dancing the night away
please audience from one side of the globe to another
broadcasted in better-than-broadband (whatever comes next)---
from iphone to ipads to the next
most virtual replacement---
no doubt we will all be dancing with him
singing the new anthems of our age---
“?????!”
Categories:
pittsburg, lifecity,
Form: Free verse
The passage was dark and damp
over a month locked inside a cell under the sea somewhere
but when Father Jones planted his feet back on solid ground
and saw the Statue of Liberty rising like a green mountain into the gray sky
he knew he had found his country. The free life was not always so easy,
and he had to work for his milk & honey. After he took
a bayonet through the lung in Germany, he settled down to turn cogs
in a Pittsburg factory, but knew it was all worth it when he laid eyes on
Mother Jones. Their sons became salesmen, and the youngest
married a Dutch girl, who adopted my father, who met my mother
studying at Vanderbilt, the Harvard of the south.
Categories:
pittsburg, family, father, hope, life,
Form: Narrative
I sold my stolen joy division box set
to go to a local show with a girl
how's name was in a popular song
on the radio
she had long curly blond hair
like the one from pink flamingo
we ran for coffee out of
the rain that was so cold it cud snow
when we started talking about
hows, whats, wares, whys and when's
her pretty face told me how her mom died
and explained a brain aneurism
baking cakes and cookies sounded perfect
but how would you feed cloth your self
and pay the bills
making furnisher at the university
ruff hands rubbing mine
she looked up in to my eyes
you havent worked a day in your life
half smiling she steal held mine
there wisent mutch ells I wanted to do
resting on top of me
say the right things or
be comfortable with silence
she was from baltimore
and I have pleasant memories of pittsburg.
Categories:
pittsburg, life, me,
Form: Bio