Unsatisfactory Poems

Ecchymosis

inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicose clumps that then gush and bleed-
underneath-
addling- 
marrow now callousing,
blood pools in pockets that rise then fall avidly,
omen of tragedy-
spilling haphazardly-
out through the holes in the abdomen cavity,
ribs weaving in with the antlers and atrophy, 
breaching the velum, the lungs, and the tapestry
matting the fur and impairing anatomy,
mottled in apathy-
unsatisfactory,
violently waning to seize.

soothing the battery
bathed in a subtlety
gathering suddenly,
proboscis covering-
over the spills-
haemolacria bubbling,
butterfly, moth, and diptera now summoning-
spreading, embedding their needles and string.

bleating, unfleeting lachryphagous meaning,
now turning the pool to a flowering weave.

Doomed To Vanish

What would deem biding our critical concern?
What tolerably deep association would we learn?
Is it fair to firmly assert we utterly understand?
What has loomed and shielded stiff mend?

Do we promptly make every second count?
Is it sprung to say we are doomed to idly die to flout?
Heed the placid quiddity we are endeavoring.
It is drifting us by, oblivious of our lone value levering.

Is it genuine that these requests typically exist?
Because of the way that nobody can be sure?
They overshadow you like a goliath can desist.
It's unsatisfactory what the disposals efficiently are. 

The vista is sorrowful, and the future looks bleak.
We expect a required course yet lack the will to seek.

Written: December 12, 2021

Identity

Life is full of pain
Until he performs something to attain

Each day responds the same
Till the time, is not wakening up to improve the game

Time is flying
Neglecting the fact, remains rented, relying on lying

Aspiring internal peace
Though the truth comes up at fatal fees

Earning enemies each day
As if all are associates enjoying at bay

Unsatisfactory has he become!
Eliminating & Excreting the agonies with rum

The entire day he discusses How is She?
Satirically, sitting solely speculates on Why is he?

More than cleverness
He needs kindness

The obstacle is not society 
It arises when he inaugurates him above almighty

Seeking his redemption
While ignoring integrity amidst inappropriate intervention(s)

Hard Work forever pays
Just he shouldn't forget to self-screening his days

From the sun to the moon, she entered his voyage as a boon
From the moon to the sun, he always made her fun

She Will Miss Me Eye Roll

Please come she urges me; I have attended before.
A high school class reunion which I have never enjoyed.
I will not be enticed to attend another.
The last two were busts, taking me away from my loves.
Poetry, painting, cartooning, and family.

At my age, my exit ticket could get punched at any moment.
How unsatisfactory would it be to get it punched
After spending four hours on the road to and from
people I would not recognize or say “hello to” on a New York street.
I will not be there, I tell her. I have a life to live, minutes that are expiring.
I will utilize every second of my spare time to uplift and nurture myself.
I will miss you she says.
I scoff.
The last three times I have texted to ask when she can talk
she has texted back “I will have to think about it.”

Say As You Wish

as you want

non-existence,
yours,
beautiful/old/beautiful/ugly/young/ death woman/
madam -
it does not make any difference,
It doesn”t

tell me what you want, how you want,
- if it makes you feel good
make me the 13th day of the month, year, century,
i know, this year you weren't unlucky enough
tell me how you want: - morbid, bone marrow disease,
cold-lipped monastery,
the wanderer of wandering poems,
the beloved from the workshop, - considered
unsatisfactory,

steal everything you want: questions, thoughts,
eyes, lips, sleep,
- you can be speechless,
consider yourself the last man on earth,
pretend that you do not exist, -

you will not succeed,


for me you are

you

are

the sonnet of a sublime dream,

by the way, - beautifully sublime,

i feel at ease

i will shout many times

i will scream

Sublime! (until i get tired)

you

anyway,

tell me how you want, what you want,

you will not succeed

you will not push me away like you are used to

Dickensian Dactyl

Squickleby Pickleby
Nicholas Nickleby
loses his Father and
feels quite forlorn.

Ralph his tight uncle a
disciplinarian
mean to the marrow
regards him with scorn.

Nicholas, penniless
uncompromisingly
works as a master where
boys take the flack.

Nickleby fears for the 
safety of orphans there
rescues a cripple and
never looks back.

Granted this ending is
unsatisfactory
Dickens had plenty more
meat to this tale.

So to all readers I
send my apologies;
These double dactyls are
tricky travail.

01.01.2021

Based on the novel 'Nicholas Nickleby' by Charles Dickens

Double Dactyl (Win For Paid Membership) Poetry Contest
Sponsor : William Kekaula

Prose Poem Narcissus

This glass,this mirror flat I see before me ,day by day The reflection of what others see of me.I see in one ,this dimension can never 'live' to be touched.I reach out but it I cannot feel.My prints I leave,but still cannot breach this barrier between me and me.Un-tactile unsatisfactory,ephemeral it disappears as I move away,for I can no longer stay.In my pose face to face,lacking grace
lest this narcissism grows.

Upstaged

Clutching at straws — to be willing to try anything to improve a difficult or unsatisfactory situation, even if it has little chance of success

“And Then He Will Carry Me Away To His Castle, Where We Will Live Happily Ever After.”            Snow White from Disney’s Snow White

“Go on, have a bite”     Evil Queen from Disney’s Snow White

UPSTAGED

I’m caught in mask, witch-green, a cleansing face.
He hooked his chin in mirror’s reflection.
Instead of me -  he sought - his own embrace.
This marriage once a snow-white complexion.

Deciding to wear my wealth of jewels,
my ace high heels, a great big smile, and wink.
I try my bag of tricks from beauty school,
clutching at straws, but he didn’t even blink.

Then he saw me, I’m beautiful once more,
renewed by morning light. His aftershave
a lie - I bite! Left dizzy for encore,
he ends us. His fate’s looking pretty grave.

The magic mirror’s slap upstaged queen’s man.
Knocked into kingdom come— ends princely span.

9/15/2020
Contest - CLUTCHING AT STRAWS
Sponsor - Kai Michael Neumann

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The Lad In Me

I found it unsatisfactory sat in a factory
and I guess my hand for guests was no sanctuary,
however the Hilton and Roper Rhodes were jobs I held the most.

I was honest never robbed, 
naturally ran my gob,
wanted girls on my n...…

Some jobs have an immunity,
they're not part of a community,
you or a few never suited me,
and I never aimed for the suit,
always content at the root.

I was a lad doing what lads do,
looking bad as girls I went through,
that's the aim of a lad it's true,
may have looked like a selfish user to you.

I was always out to have fun when I was young,
didn't need a partner or companion, not one,
the victory was a pull and I always won,
walk of shame.... never, I'm proud of what I've done.

Chef Nancy

Once was this famous chef named Nancy
Guys were always trying to get into her pantry
But her salt and pepper
Caused many sneezing peckers
Most meals were deemed unsatisfactory

A Little This and That

A little sadness is all I need
All I ever need to keep alive
A providence today weeps
For what I have done to survive?

A little happiness is all I need
All I ever need to stay away from sadness
I will beg and plead
Given our unsatisfactory growing dominance

A little understanding is all I need
But as humanity do we grow further away
I am no more humane to finally seek
When what I see is what of everyday

A little polarity collaboration is all I need
Selfish be… yet to work when needed be as one
We have a world with our worlds never to meet
We all have to understand our needs to be done

What were the things we need?
Have you done something beyond?
Did what we want make us weak?
Have we a humanity to belong?

Work Smart Not Hard

Work
so hard
morning, noon
night before sleep
reward is so unsatisfactory.
Wake up in the morning ready for work
have my breakfast
plan my day
to do
list.
Now
ready 
start workday 
review my list
prioritize my work for the day; smart.

A Reflection

This glass,this mirror flat
I see before me ,day by day.
The reflection of what others
see of me.I see ,this one
dimension can never 'live'
or be touched.
I reach out but  cannot feel.
My prints I leave,
yet I cannot breach this barrier
between me and me.
Un-tactile unsatisfactory,ephemeral 
it disappears as I move away,
I can no longer stay in this 
pose face to face,lacking grace...
lest this narcissus grows apace

Tasking An Unmasking

Tasking An Unmasking

While in sun Trump had been basking,
What should be done is others tasking;
Thing we must do;
Make dreams come true;
Unsatisfactory things begin unmasking.

Jim Horn

4040

Corona's Shade

Reigned umbrage conceived life to a secluded delusion 
The situation festered into a round compact mass as the earth
Dark clouds float above the rival
Summery heads leased
Accompanied by a vengeful Fall
Her Isolated abode insulated stark Wintery 
Tensions penumbra loured my imperfections
Her ray of furtive refuged the rear of the situation

My unsatisfactory blots out her vibrant core
Just like a spring tide my thoughts pulled me  back and forth deeply
Sullen skies intermittently glazed the noon tide 
decorated with gray clothed clouds
I smelt my skin burning her eyes glaring against my back
My thoughts browse the situation for a solution as an umbra cyclops the earth
'You have me searching into the situation, but that's not where I'll find the problem, is it'?

Her peers on earth stand in awe of her immaculate corona
Clueless to the damage to their sight the beauty bemused
She notices their eccentric eyes yet conspiring doubt tarnished like a new moon
Tears roll down the heel of her cheek but they see a shooting star

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