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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
Today 1:22am
Today 1:22am
Midsummer Nights!
The sweetest rain comes down in June
As if by heaven it was sent
In an effort to show the Moon
How precious liquids should be spent,
A lack, humbling her arid globe
Above the downward coursing drops
Required for a frontal lobe
And its Abundantia crops...
Which make this orb the greatest place
In every spun galactic arm
To watch a gloaming raindrop trace
A tree leaf for a good luck charm
Which hydrates all the things we need
From apple root to Zinnia seed.
As if by heaven it was sent
In an effort to show the Moon
How precious liquids should be spent,
A lack, humbling her arid globe
Above the downward coursing drops
Required for a frontal lobe
And its Abundantia crops...
Which make this orb the greatest place
In every spun galactic arm
To watch a gloaming raindrop trace
A tree leaf for a good luck charm
Which hydrates all the things we need
From apple root to Zinnia seed.
#romantic
#beauty
#rain #food
#rain #food
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Hashman
Poem Published
Today 1:07am
Today 1:07am
why don't we do it in the road...
old school
everyone in the neighborhood
would pitch in all week
stacking and storing
short and long
big and fat
skinny and small
lying in the backyards
waiting for the big day...
dusk is falling
time to go
bring out the wood
people moving here and there
barn-fire in the middle
of Lowell Street and Nashua
pile it up high
here comes the guy with the gas
and the kid with the matches
Boom, burn baby burn
flames dancing
wood crackling
firecrackers and cherry bombs popping
Happy 4th of July...
everyone in the neighborhood
would pitch in all week
stacking and storing
short and long
big and fat
skinny and small
lying in the backyards
waiting for the big day...
dusk is falling
time to go
bring out the wood
people moving here and there
barn-fire in the middle
of Lowell Street and Nashua
pile it up high
here comes the guy with the gas
and the kid with the matches
Boom, burn baby burn
flames dancing
wood crackling
firecrackers and cherry bombs popping
Happy 4th of July...
#fire
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1 Comment
paperstains
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:58pm
Yesterday 9:58pm
Shuffle Up and f**king Deal
There is false affection
in your eyes
tears forming diamonds
on your eyelashes
hoping they'll blind
the truth
that all you want
is the win
to hold the trophy
over your head
crowned the champion
of
what exactly?
Is victory a few moments of
filling the void,
forgetting the aching chasm
that will open up
and swallow you whole
when the game is over?
You pick up your pieces
go home
but some just go missing
left behind unseen
to get sucked up by a vacuum
on...
in your eyes
tears forming diamonds
on your eyelashes
hoping they'll blind
the truth
that all you want
is the win
to hold the trophy
over your head
crowned the champion
of
what exactly?
Is victory a few moments of
filling the void,
forgetting the aching chasm
that will open up
and swallow you whole
when the game is over?
You pick up your pieces
go home
but some just go missing
left behind unseen
to get sucked up by a vacuum
on...
#anger
#manipulation
#deception
48 reads
4 Comments
diddi
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:26pm
Yesterday 8:26pm
Propaganda/Deletion
we're speeding along
some wrong
direction
as narcissistic , egotistic
wipes out
the human invention .
Twisting its grip
on the straining trees
the woke medias clenched fist
shakes with victory .
High on contention
and self obsession
angrily
beating the floor
and deaths door
in self proclamation.
Take a look
between the lines
of all history books
it's well defined
we've engineered time
to be
corrupt as fuck.
Over fed teens...
some wrong
direction
as narcissistic , egotistic
wipes out
the human invention .
Twisting its grip
on the straining trees
the woke medias clenched fist
shakes with victory .
High on contention
and self obsession
angrily
beating the floor
and deaths door
in self proclamation.
Take a look
between the lines
of all history books
it's well defined
we've engineered time
to be
corrupt as fuck.
Over fed teens...
#lies
#corruption
#politics
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:36pm
Yesterday 3:36pm
The Rubber Neck
Blame the media when it's wrong
Blame the media when it's right
Blame the media all night long
In conspiratorial fright...
Because you are addicted to hear
All sorts of things that trouble you
To boil anger with a fear
Whether or not those things are true.
So read that news and read it well
On some myriad internet page
About a percolating hell
Of urban and suburban rage,
Never thinking of all the harm
Built into havoc's ugly charm.
Blame the media when it's right
Blame the media all night long
In conspiratorial fright...
Because you are addicted to hear
All sorts of things that trouble you
To boil anger with a fear
Whether or not those things are true.
So read that news and read it well
On some myriad internet page
About a percolating hell
Of urban and suburban rage,
Never thinking of all the harm
Built into havoc's ugly charm.
#technology
#MentalHealth
#misunderstood
#PopCulture
#ignorance
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
Yesterday 3:31pm
Yesterday 3:31pm
Moonbeams...
Infiltrate the passing Mackerel sky
Broadcasting proof of hidden spectrums there
When commingled with the prismatic snare
Every mandated moonbeam can't deny,
For traps are what all skyborne dewdrops are
Only waiting for some fresh ray to scatter
Before the fated night they'll splatter
Some annexed moonlight like a tiny star
Onto some wildflower flirtation
In a patch of wanton freshness below,
Far below their queen's cratered curvation
Exposing their herbaceous bordello
With her magistracy of libration...
The best domain a true...
Broadcasting proof of hidden spectrums there
When commingled with the prismatic snare
Every mandated moonbeam can't deny,
For traps are what all skyborne dewdrops are
Only waiting for some fresh ray to scatter
Before the fated night they'll splatter
Some annexed moonlight like a tiny star
Onto some wildflower flirtation
In a patch of wanton freshness below,
Far below their queen's cratered curvation
Exposing their herbaceous bordello
With her magistracy of libration...
The best domain a true...
#moon
#clouds
#night
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
Yesterday 1:31am
Yesterday 1:31am
Hey Dudes,
Please don the mask of sanity
And leave it in its proper place
Where it covers the inanity
Of your ugly hominid face.
Place it before your angry brain
Lurking behind those dopey eyes
Where it prevents the character stain
Your baser antics won't disguise.
Oh you can call it one great lie,
That common courtesy of old,
But it's a finer thing to try
Than your sub cortical scold...
Ever the clumsy cliché cuss
As graceless as a blunderbuss
Or any shameless primal act
Demonstrating your lack of tact.
And leave it in its proper place
Where it covers the inanity
Of your ugly hominid face.
Place it before your angry brain
Lurking behind those dopey eyes
Where it prevents the character stain
Your baser antics won't disguise.
Oh you can call it one great lie,
That common courtesy of old,
But it's a finer thing to try
Than your sub cortical scold...
Ever the clumsy cliché cuss
As graceless as a blunderbuss
Or any shameless primal act
Demonstrating your lack of tact.
#men
#wisdom
#tolerance #masculinity
#tolerance #masculinity
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
2nd Jul 2022 3:30pm
2nd Jul 2022 3:30pm
The Hour of Souls
It's when the raccoon wanders by
Backlit by pale beams of gold
No lunar lover could deny
Unless his heart was dead and cold.
How else might he be immune
To all the glories of the night
Where musical spheres sing a tune
Of heaven in its high delight?
And when the clouds come rolling in
To block the wanton lunar ray
The crowing cock will soon begin
The breaking of another day
Where the lullabies for that raccoon
Come from orbits of a waning moon!
Backlit by pale beams of gold
No lunar lover could deny
Unless his heart was dead and cold.
How else might he be immune
To all the glories of the night
Where musical spheres sing a tune
Of heaven in its high delight?
And when the clouds come rolling in
To block the wanton lunar ray
The crowing cock will soon begin
The breaking of another day
Where the lullabies for that raccoon
Come from orbits of a waning moon!
#universe
#animals
#night
33 reads
1 Comment
drone
Poem Published
2nd Jul 2022 1:37pm
2nd Jul 2022 1:37pm
Official Reason
The Spirit
Of Community
Is on it's knees
In the cities
And the official reasons
Do not Rhyme
With Why
Of Community
Is on it's knees
In the cities
And the official reasons
Do not Rhyme
With Why
#honesty
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MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
1st Jul 2022 10:09pm
1st Jul 2022 10:09pm
Her Majesty
She's in a diminishing phase
From last quarter to the new
But soon all her crescent displays
Will please lunatics tried and true
Who watch her climb the eastern skies
As often as the clouds allow
That hallowed orb to hypnotize
The eyes beneath the caveman brow
Housing a love for midnight things
Like moonbeams in midsummer air
And Saturn in his sacred rings
Or screech owls who routinely stare
At all of that which lurks below
A moonrise of majestic glow!
From last quarter to the new
But soon all her crescent displays
Will please lunatics tried and true
Who watch her climb the eastern skies
As often as the clouds allow
That hallowed orb to hypnotize
The eyes beneath the caveman brow
Housing a love for midnight things
Like moonbeams in midsummer air
And Saturn in his sacred rings
Or screech owls who routinely stare
At all of that which lurks below
A moonrise of majestic glow!
#moon
#summer
#night
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Academic
Poem Published
1st Jul 2022 9:52pm
1st Jul 2022 9:52pm
Seems like Britain basically wants to rule the world again. Lol! Come on then Liz Truss let's fight them!
By Stanley Collymore
Get a life Liz Truss as what passes
for your present one has actually long ago passed its sell by date!
Ralistically therefore you basically
do really need, to be de-selected
by your constituents Liz. For you
are a dangerous and essentially
also, a distinctively delusionally
conceited idiot with absolutely
no principles whatsoever, and
literally too, those undeniably
repulsively, and self-servingly
repulsive, characteristics you
obviously have and would so ...
Get a life Liz Truss as what passes
for your present one has actually long ago passed its sell by date!
Ralistically therefore you basically
do really need, to be de-selected
by your constituents Liz. For you
are a dangerous and essentially
also, a distinctively delusionally
conceited idiot with absolutely
no principles whatsoever, and
literally too, those undeniably
repulsively, and self-servingly
repulsive, characteristics you
obviously have and would so ...
#hate
#dark
#greed
#denial
#emptiness
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Razzerleaf
Poem Published
1st Jul 2022 9:52pm
1st Jul 2022 9:52pm
Why did the chicken cross the road ?
Colin is an egg turner,
he turns eggs
until they crack,
then he hands
the chicks to Jack.
Jack is a chick feeder
he feeds up broilers.
Broilers get fat fast
so fat, they cant reach water
and their legs snap
under their own weight.
Meet the transport fleet
crammed into cases
at just seven weeks
broken legs, wings and beaks
Colin's daughter manages
the slaughter.
She puts them into shackles
cuts their throats
and boils off their feathers.
She sometimes forgets
to cut...
he turns eggs
until they crack,
then he hands
the chicks to Jack.
Jack is a chick feeder
he feeds up broilers.
Broilers get fat fast
so fat, they cant reach water
and their legs snap
under their own weight.
Meet the transport fleet
crammed into cases
at just seven weeks
broken legs, wings and beaks
Colin's daughter manages
the slaughter.
She puts them into shackles
cuts their throats
and boils off their feathers.
She sometimes forgets
to cut...
#animals
#morality
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1 Comment
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