BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Words, Words, Words
Stay on this
page, page, page
Going no where
fast--
sometimes slow
These words, words, words
haunt me
taunt me
jaunt me
into reality
I can't write!
Words, words, words
on this page
stage
monitor
Where will you go?
From here
I dunno
these blasted
words
words
words
I am stuck
words
consonants
vowels
utterances
smutterances
divulging
nothing
'cept
my useless
block
inside
my brain
no
words, words, words
can express
what
needs to come out
wanna just shout
out
to those ugly
stingy
nasty
words, words, words
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
On a Roll
On A Roll
I am on a roll
In the zone
waiting for some kinds
of
baritones
just hold the phone
cause
these words
are like
a
debilitating
disease
that's gone
viral
or pandemic
flu-like
if you will
two million hits
on
Youtube
or
Twitter?
I am in the zone
just flowing
and knowing
that these
words
might just
take flight
and
grow some
dendrites
or was it
retinas?
and maybe
just maybe
some
eye
sight
Am I hopeless?
What's my plight?
But what do I know?
Me?
Little old me?
No quite enough
to know
that I shouldn't be
writing these
words
or even
contemplate
letting them go
take flight
'cause
I am not
accomplished
sophisticated
just right
or write?
like
Billy Collins
or the other
pros
whose
job it is to
know
and grow
these words
like the sages
on the stages
paying pennies
on the dollar
or worse
minimum wages
lost in kennels
or cages
I am in another world
flying to and fro
letting these palabras
fly
emerge
diverge
the truth
in some
strange
kinda way
but I jest
or do I play?
Can you really take me seriously?
just want to say
'cause I
want these words
to diverge
formulate
and
start
articulate
bring in the lawyers now
to litigate
some irate
road
rage
persona
in
H-town
around
five thirty
o'clock
Hey
dude!
Calmate
and
put your unwarranted anger
danger
away
let it go
no need
to say
a little dirge
while
letting
that offensive-like bird
disappear
from the hand
no need
to get
all
defensive...
driving?
Yeah
go on
with your bad self
move on
Some people--
Really now--
just let it go
save it for a rainy day
soothing
pounding
sound of rain
dancing
in the streets
cooling down
feeling the crown
placed to the side
of my mind
these palabras
starting to stop
halt
don't go there
running out
on empty
no money
broke
like my grandma's
rocking chair
leaning
slightly
ready to caer
off this page
Where's the sage?
Gone for the day!
What?
It's that time already!
Time to go
and get ready
to post
this
crazy
looking
poor-excuse-for-a
poem
Just ask Billy Collins
About Anything!
I was talking and working with some elementary students today. We were studying some poetry and they shared some of their poems. I showed them poetry can be about anything. So in the last few posts, I thought about how this National Poetry Month and I had better start writing and contributing more frequently to this beloved blog. I also decided that it would be about whatever. I am playing around with inventing characters or speakers in my poems in different situations. Just playing around really! It has me intrigued when the block of the poet hits me strong! My response it to write a bunch of gibberish. Who knows? It might turn out to be something interesting...or not!
Anything?
Poetry can be about
Anything
Anything?
Really?
You must be joking
You must be jiving
Pulling my leg
Hoodwinking
Thoughts sinking
Rising to the top!
Stop for a sec!
Poetry can simply be
about anything
Dearie!
Anything
you please!
Naw!
That can't be true!
I thought it had to be sonnets
or iambic pentameter
maybe a Haiku
A cinquain
or two
Hold the phone!
Stop this tumultuous train!
You are sayin'
Poetry can be
'bout anything?
It can be about
a rain drop
a three year stuffed up kid
with no Kleenex
and don't be grossed out
but he's got some serious
snot
running down his face
seems a bit out of place
in the Museum of
perfection
Just goo really
if you think of it that way
It's all in your point
of vista
view to you
It can be about
your mama
papa
and baby too
I can be about
your ugly old trip to the zoo
with koalas from Lam Pour
who's run out the door
searching for
some Eucalyptus
or some trip to
Kenya?
I dunno
but what I do
Poetry, Poetry can be
just about you!
It can rhyme
all the time
or survive in
free
free verse
without the curse or two
Yes, poetry, poetry
can be about anything
even little, unimportant you!
You can read tons
You can search far
but the advice that I give
is right on par
with Tiger Woods
and Jack Nicolas too!
Why not start your own anthology
in the class of psychology
about the minuscule little you!
Poetry
To be continued in a theatre near you!
Blah, Blah, Blah
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Sit up!
Pretend you are listening!
To what?
For whom?
No!
Shhh!
You are listening!
Smile
Make eye contact
Write down some things
Like what?
What they say?
Who?
The talking heads!
The important ones
In the middle
With the fancy pens
Monogrammed
Clicky!
Leather organizer!
Write it down!
Now!
Sounds?
Nod your head!
Bow!
Agree!
Write!
Look up!
Take notes!
Noises
For what?
What am I listening for?
Shhh!
I hear voices!
Where?
What am I listening for?
Shhh!
To the door
Creaking
Breaking
Opening!
Oh no!
The meeting!
Everyone is here
Look down
Smile
Write down
Shhh!
Sit up!
It has begun!
What?
The meeting!
Sit up!
Take notes!
Important notes!
No!
Shhh!
I wasn't talking!
Listening to...
the voices
I hear voices
Choices?
No voices!
Do you hear voices?
Something is going on
Talking heads
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Shhh!
What?
Stop it!
Laugh now
Smile
Agree
Nod your head
Everyone is laughing
Laugh again
Eye contact
Look down
Look intense
Agree
Shhh!
Stop!
Leave me alone!
Did you get that?
What?
The voices?
Yeah!
Did you write it down?
What?
The noise!
Stop doodling and listen!
Grow up, would you?
What?
Leave me alone!
What?
Write?
What?
What did they say?
Blah! Blah! Blah!
More like
Yada, Yada, Yada
No!
More like
Charlie Brown's teacher
What what what wa wa
Don't be disrespectful!
Listen!
Write it down!
Did you get that?
Sure!
Shhh!
Listen!
I gotta go!
I can't hear myself think!
Yada, yada, yada!
Sit down!
We aren't done!
Pray!
Meditate!
Look interested!
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Get that?
Sure
Smile
Nod
Write
Smile
Nod
Write
Bow!
Are we done yet?
Not quite!
No one has moved!
Moved?
When someone gets up!
We can go?
No one is moving!
Sit down!
Not you!
I saw it!
What?
Someone moved!
No, that is changing posture!
Doesn't count!
Shoot!
Now?
No
There's a pause
Laugh!
Laugh!
Smile
Nod
No questions, okay?
Questions?
Write it down!
The last thing!
Okay!
The move!
Get up!
No eye contact!
Smile
Say thanks!
High tail it out!
We are done!
Yada, yada, yada!
Phew!
No
Don't listen!
Act like you didn't hear!
No!
Don't go back!
You'll never leave!
Awww!
More
Yada, yada, yada!
Just Stop
Just Stop
No really
Just stop
Stop it now!
Stop all of it!
Some of it?
None of it?
You have got to be...
No, for real
Stop it!
Halt it!
Move it out!
To Siberia!
To Nigeria!
To Blissfiria!
Stratopheria!
Just STOP!
Outta here!
STOP!
The insanity!
Your vanity!
Vileness
Kinda pile-ness
on me!
Leave!
STOP!
Blabbering!
Gabbering!
Feathering!
Trumpeting!
Stumpeting!
STOP!
BASTA YA!
STOP
I can't take it!
Can't fake it!
Want to hurl!
Vomit!
Throw it up!
Down!
Down!
Down!
All around!
STOP
IT!
it
STOP
your incessant
piping off
wiping off
your residue
on all the new
and old
We are past tired!
Past tired and sick!
Enferma?
I am terminal
Terminally
Fatally
Weighted down
by your...
Do I need to continue?
Don't answer!
STOP!
STOP!
STOP!
IT!
IT!
IT!
YA!
No stinking more!
Friday, April 11, 2014
What?
What?
I said what?
What you say?
I say what?
Can't quite hear ya
Too much static
No I am not there
In my attic
trying to find some
peace without...
I said what?
Don't know what to say
To respond to you
I said what?
Can't listen?
Got cotton in my ears
Hear you?
Please
I put you
officially
on mute!
I said what?
Can't do this anymore
sportin' my Bose buds
Noise cancelling?
Ever heard of them?
What?
Volume is maxed out
What?
Do I look as if?
No
No
I don't care
I said what?
Leave me alone
stop flapping those
gums
Don't cha get it?
I am not hearing
endearing
befriending you
What?
Shut the door
Go on out
Lock the door
Throw away the key
Leave me
Just leave me
be
Read my lips
taxing?
Don't want
Can't take
Not fakin'
For real
Get going
I'm deaf
Don't want
Can't take
Not fakin'
For real
Get going
I'm deaf
Sign language?
I am blind
Text to talk?
No bars
the battery is dead
didn't pay the electric bill
The lights are out
No one is home!
I am evicted
No return address?
No return at all
Left the planet
live on the moon
No
don't visit
can't hear you
No air
Remember?
You still here?
C'mon now
C'mon now
Said what?
Paying you no mind
No offense
taken
given
given
I am invisible
Yesterday's news
Gone, gone, gone
What?
Ugh!
Ugh!
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