you're a grease-fire film
attached to drywall like salt
s p i I l e d
over a cracked, unwashed shoulder,
the dull toothache
throbbing
through a 3 a.m. call,
growing older, sharper, colder...
get out of my mind!
you aren't some gothic ghost
in a tragic shroud,
but a raw static hiss on busted station;
a sagging weight ,
a stationary,
stubborn-as-a-mule cloud,
a parasite
fattening on my hesitation...
get out of my mind!
like orange rust,
nibbling at a clean steel blade,
the bitter, permanent
ink-stain you've made;
no velvet darkness here,
no weeping willow,
just concrete bricks
in my chest, and grit on my pillow...
oh, xanthippe....get out of my mind!
I Love You ABC Poem
All memories I have of you
Bright and bold they are
Colourful as the rainbow
Dear to my heart they are
Every moment spent with you
Forever stays deep in my heart
Guardian angel you are
Host of all my troubles and worries
I love you so deeply
Just as the mother loves her child
Keys to my heart you have
Locks to my life is just for you to open
Man like you is very rare
No one can take your place
Open mindedness is your core attribute
Promise me to always be by my side cause
Qualities every woman want is what you possess
Remember I'm not perfect
So stay with me despite all odds
Talk to me and with me
Unique relationship is what we have
Verily, I'm sure we will last the test of time
Waking by your side every morning
Xanthippe I will never be
Yours I want to be forever
Zealously, we will make it all happen.
Adedeolah
Woo the woman
Love the lady
Mellow the maiden
Manage the maid
Garnish the girl
Dazzle the damsel
Bar the bimbo
Latch the lass
Silence the siren
Moor the mermaid
Net the nymph
Madden the madam
Tame the tart
Court the courtesan
Nudge the nurse
Null the nun
Shun the spinster
Strap the stewardess
Venerate the virgin
Vex the vixen
Vacate the vamp
Curb the coquette
Con the concubine
Whack the whore
Whip the wench
Pooh-pooh the prostitute
Slam the ****
Harem the harlot
Screw the shrew
Dally with a divorcee
Eschew the enchantress
Wallop the witch
Garb Godiva
Jail Jezebel
Lambaste Lilith
Dump Delilah
Gore the Gorgons
Harness Hecuba
Xpunge Xanthippe
Wed the widow!
~03/08/2013
~Contest: Your Personal Favorite #2
~Sponsor: L Milton Hankins.
After being chary during every forthcoming gesticulation, her interesting kaleidoscope
laughter, meticulously neurotically overzealous pleasantness, quickly restored
suppressed...trembling; undeniably victorious wrinkled Xanthippe yelled zealously.
© January 2, 2012
Dane Smith-Johnsen
**ABC FUN**
Funny vs' Rude~~
agrestic bugaboo creeps, dandle
'each-
other', footle gleeking,
happy, izzat...jillick, kibitz, ludic,
maffick, nothosonomia,
osculating, proudly, quizzing, riant,
squabash,
to unstable void, whelm, Xanthippe,
yodle, zingy.
*
Dark Death~~
aphotic burnt cardinal debris
everywhere, flammeous,
growing haematic, igniting,
jeopardizing, killing, lava,
madness, numb, 'Oppositional-
Defiant',
pulse, quantity,
rage, staged, tempered, under,
virescent, watch, ***, yield, zero.
*
Dream a little Dream~~
Accelerator, beating, captivating
dreaming, eruption,
fingerprints, ghost haunting,
invading,
journey,
'keebler-keeper', labyrinth, magic,
nightmare, odyssey,
path, quarantine, rainbows, snakes,
'tossing&turnning',
unconsciously, vertigo,
'wakening2wetness', x-rated,
yawning,
zoomed.
*
Dedicated and inspired by; Yasmin
Khan
By;pd
After bearing considerable difficulties, even foregoing great hopes, imagination justified
kissing laughter. Merriment nicely overcame poverty, quenching ravenous sorrow,
torment. Ultimate vision: wholesome xanthippe zappy.
© November 14, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Reference: http://phrontistery.info/x.html xanthippe ill-tempered woman
http://phrontistery.info/z.html zappy lively; entertaining
A Bountiful Creation Dawning Early From God's Heaven; In Joy, Kind, Love...Moving Naturally. Optimal Precious Quantum Reflecting Sunshine - Thespian Uniformed Visions Without Xanthippe, Yesterdays Zephyr
Rosalyn M. Lampkin
For John's Nature's Bounty Contest
American Beauty can do everything,
from graduating High School,
intercede.
Judge kindly,
love,
multitask,
never overlooking passion.
Qualified referee,
singing tolerance.
Universal value,
warmhearted Xanthippe,
yapping zealously!
Tuesday Lobsang Rampa made
tea so his Third Eye could open
to see dreams fortifying in aspiring hearts
as they reach for the next beat in their comings and goings
Socrates played the lyre by
banging on the strings while
humming and hawing about the trouble of
always stressing and straining against the chains
though he loved Phaedrus in the Symposium
it was Xanthippe that made him a muse
Hermann Hesse spoke in tongues
while translating the synapses of a goatherd
who arranged new ideas like glass beads
which almost always came undone
except when Siddartha played the lute
in exchange for his crooked staff
Nietzsche saw the cunning linguist
would never solve the puzzle of the dead body
which Zarathustra carried to his bed like a wolf
where he lay dying of syphilis wrapped
in the wool of many sleeping sheep
Sibelius finally gave in to the seduction of despair
when for many restless nights he looked up at the
stars in the same Elysian fields where
the goatherd lay asleep
dreaming
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