Submissions by JohnnyBlaze
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[2017] Pawn Star
How admirable---
you jumping into battle
with your rap babble
in service of beleaguered
Red Bobble Headed Queens
All your hip hop hopscotch
on the marbled board
impressive, top notch
Unfortunately
gotch yourself
skipping over tiled-
behind-the-seen scenes
Privy to
what this means
you weren't
Rookie rooked, someday
you may slow the charge
not be so quick to defend
and allow yourself time
to become...
you jumping into battle
with your rap babble
in service of beleaguered
Red Bobble Headed Queens
All your hip hop hopscotch
on the marbled board
impressive, top notch
Unfortunately
gotch yourself
skipping over tiled-
behind-the-seen scenes
Privy to
what this means
you weren't
Rookie rooked, someday
you may slow the charge
not be so quick to defend
and allow yourself time
to become...
663 reads
4 Comments
[ SK ] No One Home
This is God's house
He doesn't live here anymore
And If he did
I doubt he'd answer
your knockings at the door
Abandoned
just an empty turtle shell
Welcome to Hell on Earth
Pray tell
Do you have anything of worth
to sell me today?
We all live in
a world stranger than fiction
as the hour grows late
between Destiny and Fate
does the red rose grow
Watch as the flower blooms
below
...
He doesn't live here anymore
And If he did
I doubt he'd answer
your knockings at the door
Abandoned
just an empty turtle shell
Welcome to Hell on Earth
Pray tell
Do you have anything of worth
to sell me today?
We all live in
a world stranger than fiction
as the hour grows late
between Destiny and Fate
does the red rose grow
Watch as the flower blooms
below
...
#StephenKing
698 reads
9 Comments
[ When Harry Met Butters ] Bucket Listing
Who's that with a pail in hand
climbing up the shoreline hilled?
Is that Jack?
Nope
It's just Harry
The bucket he's trying to carry
back, rocking port to starboard?
Filled with sand, not water
thus unlikely to be spilled
And, for his beloved Butters;
the castle she wants to build
Bet you thought I was going to say, Jill
Or maybe even...
climbing up the shoreline hilled?
Is that Jack?
Nope
It's just Harry
The bucket he's trying to carry
back, rocking port to starboard?
Filled with sand, not water
thus unlikely to be spilled
And, for his beloved Butters;
the castle she wants to build
Bet you thought I was going to say, Jill
Or maybe even...
658 reads
5 Comments
[ Bad Raps ] Tinfoil Rap
wrap
the whole tinfoil roll
wrap it
tightly around my skull
wrap it up
not to prevent alien access to a mind full
of private musing, but to keep your latest
conspiracy theories from cramping these
brain waves in a complex mind using its
creative faculties to one's best poetic abilities
--- don't interrupt my flow
the whole tinfoil roll
wrap it
tightly around my skull
wrap it up
not to prevent alien access to a mind full
of private musing, but to keep your latest
conspiracy theories from cramping these
brain waves in a complex mind using its
creative faculties to one's best poetic abilities
--- don't interrupt my flow
638 reads
1 Comment
[ SN ] Sea Gives Me Crabs
Another night and day gone by
without accident or men lost at sea
and for that, to the Lord above
we give our thanks
Time to haul up more steeled traps
jockey Fool's Gold in wheeled carts
dumping our King Crab'alanches
into bottomless tanks
Ocean surging over railing
splashing on deck;
hardly gentle laps
as Poseidon winds up
to deliver more salted slaps
...
without accident or men lost at sea
and for that, to the Lord above
we give our thanks
Time to haul up more steeled traps
jockey Fool's Gold in wheeled carts
dumping our King Crab'alanches
into bottomless tanks
Ocean surging over railing
splashing on deck;
hardly gentle laps
as Poseidon winds up
to deliver more salted slaps
...
736 reads
4 Comments
[ SN ] Here There Be Monsters
The Sturgeon General
he warned me you see
about fishin along the sea floor shelf
for them thar monster crabs
Now lots o lobster pots gots myself
doin the reach around grabs
Crusty crustacean critters crawlin
up n down my back
in n out of my ...
"KRAKEN!"
Balls!
As if a squall's comin wasn't enough
Everyone on deck!
Lend your Captain a hand!!!
he warned me you see
about fishin along the sea floor shelf
for them thar monster crabs
Now lots o lobster pots gots myself
doin the reach around grabs
Crusty crustacean critters crawlin
up n down my back
in n out of my ...
"KRAKEN!"
Balls!
As if a squall's comin wasn't enough
Everyone on deck!
Lend your Captain a hand!!!
721 reads
3 Comments
[ When Harry Met Butters ] Deep Under Groundhog
Peering from a fallen log
I'm a deep under groundhog
who likes to creep through the tunnels
I've dug beneath Harry's lawn
Popping up through a hole
between your feet one moment
---the next I'm gone
with the glimpse I stole
I see London
I see France
I see Harry's wife, Butters
without any underpants
I see Germany
I see Prague
I see Harry
with his twelve gauge
shouldered
Shit
No time
for dropping the perfect rhyme ...
I'm a deep under groundhog
who likes to creep through the tunnels
I've dug beneath Harry's lawn
Popping up through a hole
between your feet one moment
---the next I'm gone
with the glimpse I stole
I see London
I see France
I see Harry's wife, Butters
without any underpants
I see Germany
I see Prague
I see Harry
with his twelve gauge
shouldered
Shit
No time
for dropping the perfect rhyme ...
683 reads
5 Comments
[ SK ] Lightning In A Bottle
Halleluuuuujah!
Here's what I'm gonna do for ya :
take away the chronic pain---
remove the tumor from
that distressed brain of yours
Rise up and walk again!
Friend, this is only the beginning
Only thing more beneficial to the soul
than rock n roll in this godless world is
sinning
Yeah! Glory be to the King!
And if you can spare a few dollars
I've got the cure for your ailing
Pass that collection plate around
Onward Christian...
Here's what I'm gonna do for ya :
take away the chronic pain---
remove the tumor from
that distressed brain of yours
Rise up and walk again!
Friend, this is only the beginning
Only thing more beneficial to the soul
than rock n roll in this godless world is
sinning
Yeah! Glory be to the King!
And if you can spare a few dollars
I've got the cure for your ailing
Pass that collection plate around
Onward Christian...
#StephenKing
717 reads
2 Comments
[ SK ] Going Mad
Rose
I'm going mad
with every waking moment
taken in by your canvas;
what a wonder-land-scape
Ariadne
No escape to be had
You've run out of frame to hide in
My dearest Rose
here is what I propose
no strings attached:
I will do for you
what you would do for me
Rose
Bad things?
Ariadne
Yes, very bad things
...
I'm going mad
with every waking moment
taken in by your canvas;
what a wonder-land-scape
Ariadne
No escape to be had
You've run out of frame to hide in
My dearest Rose
here is what I propose
no strings attached:
I will do for you
what you would do for me
Rose
Bad things?
Ariadne
Yes, very bad things
...
#StephenKing
792 reads
2 Comments
[ SK ] Death To The Living
God's breath
gift of life that keeps on giving
is a pilot light in the night
that can easily be blown out
Forget the only life you've known
Your knowledge is for naught
No slowly Creeping Death am I;
just a fucking juggernaut
Infecting unbeliever and devout
the strain of superflu you've caught
weaponized ill meant to kill
with little borrowed time bought
Will to live? In vain
Oh, how valiantly you fought
Your efforts to remain
a viable species...
gift of life that keeps on giving
is a pilot light in the night
that can easily be blown out
Forget the only life you've known
Your knowledge is for naught
No slowly Creeping Death am I;
just a fucking juggernaut
Infecting unbeliever and devout
the strain of superflu you've caught
weaponized ill meant to kill
with little borrowed time bought
Will to live? In vain
Oh, how valiantly you fought
Your efforts to remain
a viable species...
#StephenKing
829 reads
3 Comments
[ SK ] Bucket of Hate
Blood
Doused with bucket after bucket
heaped upon you in a flood
See them all laughing at
what a disgusting pig you are
wallowing in the mud
Fuck it!
THUD!
Feel the hammer brought down
cracking open your stupid bonehead
You're only wearing that crown
because of us --- belongs to someone
else worthy instead
THUNK!
like me!
God, I hate everything about you!
The hand...
Doused with bucket after bucket
heaped upon you in a flood
See them all laughing at
what a disgusting pig you are
wallowing in the mud
Fuck it!
THUD!
Feel the hammer brought down
cracking open your stupid bonehead
You're only wearing that crown
because of us --- belongs to someone
else worthy instead
THUNK!
like me!
God, I hate everything about you!
The hand...
#StephenKing
725 reads
2 Comments
[ SK ] Your Worst Nightmare Come True
Seeing
through the bricked a bracked
to insecurities tackily tacked
on refrigerator doors
haphazardly packed in each toy chest
anticipating the urgency in every shout
squeaked in that odd pubescent voice of yours
crying out for Mommy, Daddy or even God
with only a child's courage
serving as a bullet proof vest
in your panicked room
alone
Knowing
from having suffered for so many years
listening to Chatty Kathy blathering
streams of consciousness...
through the bricked a bracked
to insecurities tackily tacked
on refrigerator doors
haphazardly packed in each toy chest
anticipating the urgency in every shout
squeaked in that odd pubescent voice of yours
crying out for Mommy, Daddy or even God
with only a child's courage
serving as a bullet proof vest
in your panicked room
alone
Knowing
from having suffered for so many years
listening to Chatty Kathy blathering
streams of consciousness...
#StephenKing
692 reads
6 Comments
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