A Rebuke Of Charles Bukowski by fledglingpoet, literature
Literature
A Rebuke Of Charles Bukowski
Mr. Bukowski
Your ignorance astounds me
What qualifies you as intelligent is beyond me
Why would I accuse you of these things?
Your poetry is lacking in artistry
It seems you would propose
To wear a pair of jeans
Before we have ever sewn closed the seams
At best you could be said
To be an iconoclast
To the religion of writing
Your rejection of her saints is blasphemous
Rome was not built in a day
Nor Hamlet written without revision
And its safe to assume that Hardys Hap
Did not merely happen
I question the intelligence of any man
Who, longing to be great,
Assumes he can
Openly reject the common wisdo
Where does time wasted go?
Does it melt away just like the snow,
become water, begin to flow?
Or does it dissipate like burned out fog?
Or froggily leap into a bog?
There is no way to surely know
But just as sure as we cannot say
exactly how it does escape
it undeniably slips away.
My Very First Pantoum by fledglingpoet, literature
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My Very First Pantoum
A blank page stares back at me
I strike it with my pen
I crumple it, throw it out
I shall try again
I strike it with my pen
words fail me yet again
I crumple it, throw it out
It's so hard to right a pantoum
Words fail me yet again
I scream out to as if to ask why
"It's so hard to write a pantoum!"
new paper, again? I'll try
Words fail me yet again
I crumple it, throw it out
it's so hard to write a pantoum
a blank page stares back at me
i could waste a million words
describing my betrayal
just exactly why and how
i've left Him for my will
but that is not of grave importance
for that's the ugly past
the beauty lies in how He came
and called me back to Him
for even when i hate Him most
He loves me as His own
Stop!
One second,
lend me your ear.
Let me direct it
and you will hear,
a million voices,
a wall of sound.
In this chaos,
my words are found.
flying in
sliding out
as desperately
I grasp about,
Trying to own
some single thought,
and once it's caught
I do fear
I cannot be bothered to even feel
whether it will
hurt
or heal,
before haphazard
i let it fly
out my mouth
into your mind.
There Must be Some Mistake by fledglingpoet, literature
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There Must be Some Mistake
no, you don't understand
I fingered her
on about 20 occasions
I've lied
about everything…
to everyone
I dropped her
cuz I thought I could do better…
I didn't
I've viewed pornography
nightly
for three years
I cuss
for attention
I've even told you to
"go fuck yourself"
countless times
and I'm NOT sorry about ANY of it
you cant be serious when you talk
about letting me in
I shall sit
And I shall wiggle
And I shall jiggle jiggle jiggle
My non-existent ass over
This porcelain throne
Until this little ball of shit
Stuck to my hairs
Is overthrown
And I sat there
Staring at the scars
Running down my arms
And thought of the more recent ones
Perched right upon that joint
Sitting between my shoulder and my arm
I thought of my suffering
I let go of my hope
My heart was so broken
All I wanted to do was scream
Scream as my eyes bulged with tears
And I didn't want to fight them back any longer
But no one was there to hear me
And it amounted to no relief
Only a wet puddle on the tabletop
And echoes floating through the empty house
So I slowly flipped open my favorite knife
A Schrade Old Timer
Speckled with blood that didn't wash off
Mostly mine, but some from that fish I cau
Woe to the peasant
Determined to be king
Entangled in the dragon's claws and wings
The deadly traps
Destined to be his doom
The dragon's hellish layer shall be his tomb
He has fought a long fight
Refusing any help
But without the king's assistance he surely shall fail
But yea there is hope
A small speck of light
Over the hill the king and his knights do ride
"O proud peasant shall I help in your fight?"
The king didst ask
"Be gone," says the peasant "I myself shall handle this task!"
He has failed as a rebel
And a rescue is needed
But 'till he lays down his pride his needs go unheeded
He refuses such conditions
And the cour
How much does love weigh?
When it's at the bottom of your heart
When no one but you knows
And from that one you're apart
How much does love weigh?
When it's on you shoulders
When you can't say it enough
And on your back, oh the weight it bears
How much does love weigh?
When it's on your mind
When for answers it will beg
And your hands it doth bind
Oh please inform me
With my mind do not play
Someone tell me straight forward
How much does love weigh?
the spice of life has grown mild
love once exotic has grown dull
for a new experience does
my heart's mind yearn
the past has past (i hope)
never to return in coming years
though i do not regret what
was done in those passing days
i do not wish to return
to the state i was in
to the day where i cringed at my lovers voice
to the day i ran from her embrace
i'd rather be a lonely wretch than return to those days
i have found freedom
and wish to stay free
Cotton slowly floating through the indigo die
Looks nothing like this heavy sky
The grey weight that has blanketed this soul
Is not due to any pain man should know
About...blank
always running,
in the front of my mind
The greatest and most powerful shield
Against love and lust,
Against relationships and closeness
A colorless, imageless, thoughtless, actionless
...screen
The ultimate forcefield to deflect your daggers
to my heart
And all i will ever let
you know is,
about blank, is about...
me
Fantasie of an Unknowing Teen by fledglingpoet, literature
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Fantasie of an Unknowing Teen
The rush of the thought,
the posibility of a first time,
As it crosses your mind...
Entering her body
Invading sacred ground,
Doesn't it sound so sweet?
Something new only you can know,
And even you will only feel it once.
The passing of innocence
Oh, how it escalates so fast!
Moving 0-60, in one thought flat,
From only a kiss, to...this
A man walking down the street,
Catches the eye of beautiful woman.
But as they pass with an exchange of glances,
All he can see is...
A thick, gold band, that, to her, means nothing.
Fulfillment is known
Though its source is not.
A hidden supply
Fueling an addiction
Which does not know
And so will endlessly ask itself
"What do i long for?"
my silence screams; words unspoken echoing in my heart
tears as faithful as the dawn
urging me,
yearning that i might find my way home
these motions; these feelings i do not understand but do not question
these are the makings of my inner being,
the one who lives, loves, and dreams
as though no tomorrow is in store
the portion of me which despises the broken pieces of my spirit;
the wretched remnants which wail, mourning the loss of life and falling deeper into the abyss of the sp
So here's to teen angst,
And the way it makes us feel.
Here's to the boys,
that are such a big deal.
Here's to the sleepovers,
And midnight feasts.
Here's to the fights,
Bitching the very least.
Here's to the friends,
Who see us through it all.
Make us happy,
And stand tall.
Here's to the ones,
Who break your heart.
Here's to the ones,
Who tear us apart.
Here's to the good times,
Here's to the bad.
Here's to the people,
Who make us mad.
Here's to the things,
That make you scream.
Here's to the boy,
Of your dreams.
Here's to the ones,
You can't live without.
Here's to the ones,
You forget abou
Plight of Parenthood by waterisntsomething, literature
Literature
Plight of Parenthood
With your trousers at your knees,
you beg of my assistance.
You say, "I'm not too hard to please,
come on, just close the distance."
I'm not sure if you realize,
how pitiful you look.
While you shower me with lies,
I'd rather read a book.
Your arrogance is painful,
because you're really not that great.
Our relationship, disdainful.
All you do is compensate.
I'd really like to end this all,
but I'll have no such luck.
Because to daddy you would crawl.
Arranged marriages really suck!
Call me Anna, she says, hoping they'll get the vague reference, but they never do, mainly because it's too obtuse, and partly because nobody really reads Moby Dick these days.
But it matters not, nothing ever does. She wears her hair swept up and her mind swept away. There are the remains of a meal speckled upon her collar and down the front of her top, but people make sure not to comment. It wouldn't be right, but that's for later.
First, call her Anna. Heroines always had such exciting names, she mourned, drowning in jealousy that she instantly hated them all. She embraced the plain out of spite, and insisted that people called her by her
Suicidal Gummy Bears
I'm sitting in the sun,
It's real, real hot
I think I'm dillusional
But maybe I'm not
I'm looking around
and what do I see?
A suicidal Gummy bear
staring back at me
You silly little bear
Got no flavor to give
Dumb little bear
Have no life to live
I jump from my chair
The bears start to melt
They would chase me
But their legs can't be felt
Crying in anguish
They reach out to me
Soon a goopy puddle
They will all be
Silly little bear
Got no flavor to give
You Dumb little bear
Have no life to live.
The first time we went away
Together you and me
Together in McRae
In the sun on those hot days
Walking on the beach
I had this confidence in me
Something I hadn't felt before
It's what you gave to me
I could have done anything
I could have been anything
We could have gone anywhere
We could have done everything
I hate the way I felt alive with you
That now I feel so dead without
That the decay these worms crawl through
This empty shell that I infest
I won't be traveling anywhere
I won't be leaving home
I won't be feeling confident
I won't dare fool myself again
I have a wall you cannot see
because it's deep inside of me
it blocks my heart on every side
and helps emotions there to hide
you can't reach in
I can't reach out
you wonder what it's all about
the wall I built that you can't see
results from insecurity
each time my tender heart was hurt
the scars within grew worse and worse
so stone by stone
I built a wall
that's now so thick it cannot fall
please understand that it's not you
continue trying to break through
I want so much to show myself
and love from you will really help
so bit by bit chip at my wall
till stone by stone it starts to fall
I know the process will be slow
Stop!
One second,
lend me your ear.
Let me direct it
and you will hear,
a million voices,
a wall of sound.
In this chaos,
my words are found.
flying in
sliding out
as desperately
I grasp about,
Trying to own
some single thought,
and once it's caught
I do fear
I cannot be bothered to even feel
whether it will
hurt
or heal,
before haphazard
i let it fly
out my mouth
into your mind.
Current Residence: Columbia, SC Favourite genre of music: bluegrass, but i listen to everything MP3 player of choice: Ipod Classic Personal Quote: It is what it is.
I make regular trips to barnes and noble to sip on a chai latte from the starbucks across the street and read books i can't afford. The library's too much of a hassle, i'm so disorganized i always end up with such an insane fine i would have been better off to just buy the thing. Anyways, i had been away from barnes and noble for a decent amount of time (probably a month and half). I almost always end up in their pathetically small poetry section to read some hardy or cohen, but when i returned this week they had rearranged the store and the poetry section was no where to be found. When i asked an employee all they could say was, "i'm sure th
i would, but you know me, miss "my stuff sucks and there's no point anyway".. i can't believe you found NO errors... tsup? my life is steadily going downhill, but i try to keep it on the d.l. everyone has enough worries already w/o me being one of them. A smile and a savior are my saving graces these days.. u?
hey. i took your advice (and the advice of my "soul sister" and decided to join. i'm not gonna post a lot, but i think it's an experience i might learn something from so.. here i am!
-simba