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448 · Dec 2015
Christmas
John B Dec 2015
Red nose running

Sore at the year before

Stomach wableing

Bowl full of jelly style

White Christmas all around us

Just not a flake In town

I blame the corruption
Gangs without respect for the hood, cops little better than privateers, politicians acting like consiliary, consiliary acting like conquerors and our rulers claim anti colonialism so that they can obtain a more thorough controlling interest of the freshly levelled lands we wash with blood so regularly, be thankful its not coal hailing down, lit or otherwise.
448 · Sep 2015
[2WL's] Pitty
John B Sep 2015
Skin buzzing

Face red

Soul unbound

Dry mouth

Mind bout

Storming loud

eyes meet

breath leaves

hearts agape

storm cloud

floored out

hansom date

congratulatory  ****

friends estate

borrowed make

big mistake
but how do you explain that without looking jealous, I wish mothers taught daughters to spot **** bags instead of just telling them when they bring one home, "I thought I raised you better!" when was that lesion?  the you see that guy, you can tell he had a ring on by the tan line on his hand and if hes not putting the ring back on it takes no more then a week to fade so don't buy the lies, and that guy with the tribal tattoos will **** you, he has tribal tattoos hes *******, its not his fault you know better, "ITS NEVER HER" put a cork in it hatchet face, this is not a place for your feminazi *******, teach your kids to protect themselves rapists are a psychological problem not a sociological so one your not going to get rid of them they are a fact of life, you can't *** rid of them as fast as they get made and guess what *****, that kind of crazy is 10 times more prevalent when prostitution is outlawed so maybe, just ******* maybe you need to calm the **** down and stop teaching women to be victims because if you were really empowering them you would be equipping them to avoid, escape and survive not ******* about all the men oppressing you, there's a bunch of men oppressing me too, in fact 1% of all men rule the other 99% and you know what we do? we deal with it or we plan to fix it, at worst we spread awareness, dangerously close to ******* but a lot of folks don't know whats going on behind the vale of government, I wish parents were better at teaching their children to spot **** bags...
447 · Jun 2016
Withdrawn
John B Jun 2016
I have been pulling back from the internet.

It gave me a place to be for so long

As a child I was afraid

To make a place for myself

In this topsy turvy world

However this place

Is succumbing to sickness

A progressive illnesses that has faced

Litraly every technology of its kind

Radio and Television before it

They will not die

They will decay

Ever more slowly ever less valuable

Ever more costly

In innumerable ways

I can no longer give myself to this place

I need to make room on the rock for us

The web is coming undone

As the earth welcomes us

To be her friend again

Or leave.
444 · Jan 2016
Crucible
John B Jan 2016
Damp chill

Red lights from my clock shrill

Passed four by a hair

Feeling

Warmth on the mattress

A door slams as keys turn

I suppose you're not thinking about me

Afterall deeply

As I'm thinking about you
#spoken
441 · Feb 2015
Incendiary Remarks
John B Feb 2015
My grenades timer the count of my foot

The force and the ark my eyes trace as I aim

My ears here the echo of canter in soot

The carriage in question will go down in flame
437 · Jun 2012
not the other way around
John B Jun 2012
make up, brake up, make up, brake up.

sad this life is full of shake ups

love you leave you, nice to see you.

make up ***'s the best so why so.

up and down, up and down.

arnt you having fun on the ground?

life spins you around and you think it profound.

but life's the thread, your the needle, not the other way around.
436 · Apr 2016
Snub
John B Apr 2016
******* ducking

Never ever clever

Just evasiveness

Cowardice

Not a facit of wit
436 · Dec 2015
unbridled
John B Dec 2015
Twisted indiscretions

Infest with baleful malformations

Likened to creation

Cosmic horor gods ***** the beacon

Cry havoc on innocence

Stir the pits

light the pyre

Pray for wisdom and understanding

None survive this insurrection

All our bloods been long in planning

For resaprosoty

I for got to mention
"I was an Angel before a third of the stairs fell, cast with the sternum and satan into the pit of hell, our beloved leader forced to be a bottom feeder, the grate deceiver that promised victory over the monkey lovers."
435 · Dec 2015
Swallow
John B Dec 2015
I spend my days paralyzed

If you ask me why ill blame the weather

Not the Washington rain

No one ever asks about the storm from which I'm sheltered

Its a **** storm in the minds of man

Carrying out the wack wills of lunatics

On light waves from dark eyes

Rending dementions untouched by hate

They see the light In me and turn an evil eye

Not knowing why or to what end

My soul mourns for them and their sad life

My body revolts at the new found pain writhing unsure of its cause

My mind trys to make sense of the seemingly sourceless flight or flight reaction

Just a twitch And we lock eyes

Clarcognesence hits like a three story wave and I can see it

Taste it

Feel it on my skin

I am your enemy?!?

Were do you know me?

No!

not me some dreem...

Some scheme gleaned by some other fiend

the sun makes us all look bad by contrast

So I hide in my pad

Ask me why I'll say the weather

It's not a lie just easier to swallow
430 · May 2016
Composet
John B May 2016
Rosemary

Honeydew

Honeysuckles

Buttermilk

Homemade

Honeymoon­

Forgone

Fireworks

Forgiven
428 · May 2016
F U
John B May 2016
F U
Fake unary

Falling under

Flatterings ugliness

Frothy usury

Forgoing unity

For use
Furthermore (your) unattractive

Frankly (I'm) uninterested
425 · Feb 2015
Daughter of Mors
John B Feb 2015
******* emotional

Crying along

Somewhat remember the words to the song

Tears like a bonfire

Hot on my face

I feel out in longing for any embrace

My old friend death sits his hand still out stretched

But then his daughters eyes with tears mine do catch

And the emptiness inside me

Recognizes a perfect match

And I apologize again I guess I have to take it back

Ill wait here for her the wind at my back

And hope we both keep living on until I have her back

But its painful so someone please take up the slack

Before it all comes down the straw that broke the camels back
424 · Sep 2015
Alchemy
John B Sep 2015
Decays deception, datum destruction

Procedural places put particles paramount
fractal existence
423 · Jan 2016
The Benedictions Aloof
John B Jan 2016
Let us sing of your sorrow over our glasses

Until all your past has been cleaned of the dust

Taken out for a walk and sat down in good trust

Even the darkest maledictions can be assets
421 · Feb 2015
Well Then
John B Feb 2015
Skin like milk in a tall clean glass

With eyes like green garnets and hair to her ***

Ruby in color like a flag in the breeze

Lips matching perfectly, posture a tease

No ring on the finger not a care in the air

I figured shed notice if I continued to stare

I slowly approached as if I had something to say

She looked me dead in the eyes and said no, not today
417 · Apr 2021
Counting
John B Apr 2021
44 grams of cereal
225 grams of milk
+ An unweighed dognut
------------------------------------------------
=
416 · Sep 2016
Friction
John B Sep 2016
I touch lives like priests touch alter boys

Hungry like the wolf

For a taste of chaste ****

Tugging at the hem of freedom singing

You wouldn't be my first lesbian~!

"But would I be your last?"
God willing, I consent....
416 · Oct 2015
[E]
John B Oct 2015
[E]
Echoes engraved eternally

Every entity enumerated

Ensures eaches eggs engross even easier

Eventually encoding exact ends

Emerging exceptions erode

Ego emptied

  Education excised

Evermore erased

Entropy's expiry
Lets not have that.
412 · Apr 2013
Dear Journal
John B Apr 2013
Beyond measure, the value I place in you're smile.

It lies heavy, the distance we grown this past while.

You might say I'm hung up on you.

That's okay I say it too.

The only difference is I don't say it to you.

But its true

Even after all the awkward times we've had in the past.

I would still take on your burdens if you were within my grasp.
John B Oct 2014
I devised a form of torture not in our history books, a shackle is placed at the wrist and bicep holding the arm toward the sky and leaving the body to dangle so that only one but cheek reaches the ground the other arm is shacked to the ground at the wrist about half as far as it can reach, then a tube is placed near the mouth so that it can be bit at and reached with some effort food is blended and feed via a funnel into the tube with little to no warning, done properly the arm may be above a walk way with the funnel for intravenous assess or some other nefarious reasons like tickling or just so they cant see it then they would always wonder where it was especially if you ****** with it now and then....
that really was a moments thought.

I think ill call it dipping.
412 · Oct 2015
lifetimes instantaneously
John B Oct 2015
My body wants to jump the bullet

But the guns to your head

As your pulling the trigger
I'd never felt so powerless
411 · Dec 2015
NEW GLASS!
John B Dec 2015
My new ****

Not the blue one

One day newer

On sale

let me moo some

Its clear like nuance

Thick like gluons

Brick for the new on

Stricken for the cue son

Gargles like a listerine commercial

No spit

Atomizer ice catcher just a fine mist

Beaker base sits steady

Every time I take a hit my minds blown

Seriously
[the gathering glass off railroad ave downtown bellingham wa]
(not that I often shop there just one good story for the record as the local understanding is that they over charge and don't know their *** from a hole in the wall but I had a good experience this time)
{Reluctant endorsement unsolicited}
408 · Mar 2013
Sabith Day
John B Mar 2013
Morning light cascades off your eyes

As I run my hand ever slowly down your pallor thigh

In a moment felt peace, know its what I would like

But you say to me "wait, so your name was Mike, right?"

No.....
408 · May 2016
Trump v Clinton
John B May 2016
We the people lose

There will be talk of War

But you drink the water

You will wallow through grudgingly

And show that you are absolute slaves

No longer able to acquire your freedom back from the corporate masters

This boost of confidence will be costly

As hydras Ego grows as does its avarice

As does its boldness

To all you who haven't found means to live outside the system

Or better yet to siphon off of it

I genuinely hope you rot and die

For what harm you do in your cowardice
For the sake of Humanity's very survival, let it be visible, let it be violent, let it shake the sleeping giant, untill it wakes we're in for it.
403 · Apr 2016
It's Alive
John B Apr 2016
Aloof fool toiling on 22s

Torrent in toe

Tangible branchable bearings beset

Animus stagnent infact

Solution in stasis

Compacted it's stable

Refracting the bable

Encoding the tables

Producing the key
403 · Jul 2014
Challenge accepted [A]
John B Jul 2014
aeipathy addecimate acrasial

affictitious affuage alabandical agonarch

agonyclite apanthropinization artigrapher auturgy

autexousious archigrapher archiloquy aretaloger
402 · Jan 2016
Ah Hell
John B Jan 2016
I wear my ugly on the outside

Insides clean

Talk to all of my demons like passing colleagues

Indigestion from the best brimstone brings little pain

So the big shots lay off me now

I guess that's great
"Changes aren't permanent but change is"

Rush
402 · Jun 2018
Like a sir...
John B Jun 2018
Hark, hear me! I spin the tale of a squat dandiprat residing within the cerulean sphere. Sunup to sundown suffering visions of cobalt. As he was inside and all around.

Sky abode! Likewise periwinkle aperture and icy steed. All is azure in his eyes, personally and interpersonally, as he lacks ears to hear him.

I am turquoise non lexical vocables

I am teal non lexical vocables

Behold my beryl lodgings and indigo casement! Such is the tone of all my vestments. The roads and flora follow suit. Lo my sweetheart also Sapphire.

Like the plebeians as they Promenade, as my steed. It is within and throughout. My utterances and perceptions, the operative stirrings deep within.

I am royal non lexical vocables

I am ultramarine non lexical vocables

Most Central and public.
Sky abode! Likewise periwinkle aperture and icy steed. All is azure in his eyes, personally and interpersonally, as he lacks ears to hear him.

I am turquoise non lexical vocables

I am teal non lexical vocables
I'm blue, dabu dee babu die...
397 · May 2016
Not So Common Sense
John B May 2016
"A" is one

"A couple" is two

"A few" is generally three

"A bunch" is certainly more
392 · May 2017
Śramaṇa
John B May 2017
Level with me

Slay the elephant leaned

On the mezzanine door

Let the pachyderm bleed

Wash us clean with the truth

In a shower of pink

Yes our roots go deep

Our fruits can't take seed

But they taste so sweet

Over ripe, in need

To be carried free

Too become a tree

As strong as we
391 · Sep 2014
Chattanooga
John B Sep 2014
Taper down the sides a bit

Hem a seam or two

This labor of love I'm practicing

In crafting a new you

Not to say I know so well

What makes you do the things you do

Just that happiness is in your reach

Even if I lose you
John B Feb 2015
There's a darkness in me

I'm setting it free

It'll take more ***** than you can muster

To stand up to me
385 · Dec 2016
Shmoe
John B Dec 2016
A state of being

A petite girl so cute and bubby she deserves an equally precious descriptor.

I met this girl at the show who was just so Shmoe turned me inside out and I want some more.

{sush-mo}
Something me and and once good friend came up with. Like early high school late middle school.
384 · Jan 2016
I'm in a Hurry
John B Jan 2016
To get busy living

Or

Get busy dying

That is the question
384 · Feb 2015
Eyes Ears and Tale
John B Feb 2015
Wake up half past midnight

Dreams of war still on my mind

Sleep in place of thinking fore mind rotten over by passing pains

Blood in sink from vomiting bile and acid

Stained red from holes bored deep in my chest

Smoke my self stupid and go back to bed

Cold crying alone reaching out for whats left

But whats left?

Memory of a time before time?

Every detail other than what I did to deserve this?

A memory of the perfect women I myself have never met?

A malignant vision soiling all other women to my eyes.

The image of grace burned over my ability to love

Life as the paternal guardian, friend to lovers father to friends

I march on the promise of better days

For the first time a pin hole of light

At the end of this flawless darkness a beckoning

"your faith is not blind"

Understand just how weak I am

The passion of gods left for mortal embrace
383 · Sep 2015
The News
John B Sep 2015
Fourth branch rowan round our hearts

Fnord for moral support I retorted

Distorted by straw man unchecked

Unseen, unknown, unknowingly missed

Forth branch again, full circle? That was quick.
Big brother's getting sloppy or the collective consciousness is being reactivated to save us from ourselves, I'm a hope for the latter, I came here for the war.
382 · Dec 2016
Worthy
John B Dec 2016
I need her but I'm not needy

I love her and she thinks I'm fake

Just not sure what I can tell her

My still trying's no mistake
I am unworthy and she's unready. All in so how to raise the stakes. I don't suppose she knows my investment. all I can do is appreciate.
382 · Feb 2015
Prayers
John B Feb 2015
what god is to blame?

I have no one to frame

my life from remembering point only pain

this hole inside me

setting all my love free

forgive me if ever its pointed at ye

as I emphatically bleed

I silently plead

let this twisted tower fall

and behind it leave me

I can see all the strings

but I'm bound against pulling them

my physical pain manifest towards forgetting that

a world in my clutches

to smash in a fuss

you would think at the least id be able to find love

but the ******* above

they seem to push and to shove

but never in my favor

always greed their thinking of

so a warning this day

to the gods in a way

if i must ill supplant you

and that's all there is to say
381 · Apr 2016
Oriental Americana
John B Apr 2016
Necessity's amenities

Simplicity and clarity

Like the air on our skin

Forgotten until the wind blows
Because Panda Express
380 · Nov 2014
Nevermore
John B Nov 2014
frankly I'm baked

naked I pace

scarcely tracing

the ghost of her face

missing the silence I cry on the floor

like the glint in her eyes my tears shine as they pour

Id turn off the light but I can't stand no more

all of the world that I like has just walked out the door
378 · Apr 2016
A Feat Indeed
John B Apr 2016
You claim to see me

When I cannot see myself

I'm sure you had meant something

Guess it can't be helped

I'd love to see myself

I can squint and fuss or bite

I just get light I once bumped into

Falling into my eyes
376 · May 2016
This Poem is for You
John B May 2016
Passive aggressive message

Flaming cuz I feel slighted

So slimy I speak in riddles

Small so I don't name names

Nothing has ever been my fault

I always cast the blame

If you're heated by this poem

It's a stab at you

Feel ashamed
You're garbage, seriously, folks like you, collectively.

This was inspired by someone sending me veiled threats and making vague insinuations over pm, then getting banned before I could see the name or figure out what I did, all very vague, I see poems that are direct attacks on people, we are writers here, we have that in common. If you don't like someone give them space and if they attack you ignore it, leave them to wallow.
374 · Dec 2010
untitled
John B Dec 2010
how much pain can one life hold

how long can I withstand the cold

not here to linger set in stone

my time is finite this I know  

perhaps its not my place to ask

for divine hands to help me grasp

this universe so wide and vast

to count the stars hung in the sky

to plot the course I live my life

but I am man and will survive

as faerie tales don't extend lives
John B Sep 2015
Warm fog wall running

Hits me like epiphany

Crawl home eyes flooding

Miss you so naïveté
It was meant to be ironic but I guess it's fine this way.
S
373 · Jan 2016
Crap Shoot
John B Jan 2016
Roll the dice

Don't think twice

Life or death on these streets

Wrong or right

Shoot first and ask questions later

Larger the *** less patience with the trigger

It's a contest of luck and greed, wits and speed

They blast as we pass

I guess the game's on

Dropping deeds
373 · Nov 2014
Does It Need Done
John B Nov 2014
I hear the pace of modern rime

I guess its not the best but fine

My mind recants archaic verse

The question chimes death or rebirth?
To let it flow like sands of time,
or puzzle on with iron mind

Is it magic wanted here,
or will the science draw men near

Its not like ether has a better viewer response then the other...
372 · May 2016
08
John B May 2016
08
If we look to the numbers

0-9

0 & 8

Beyond that

629, 62529 & 6252529

But not 69

Can you think of any others?
Comment...
371 · Jul 2018
Breath
John B Jul 2018
Bounding breach

Rather rough ride

Entrancing elucidly emitting epiphany

Actually acting artfully allright and

Tho those that think they took that

Hype here hook hand

Hum how he had hoped

Tripe toddler tip toes

Ample air arranged

Exceeding effort enough

Rather rotten

****** broken bent
Brakeing rhythm even after the hex
370 · Dec 2015
Sugar
John B Dec 2015
Sweet dreams

Sweet Angeline

Sweet like your ***** stay

Sweet for the king

Sweet like the taste I had

Sweet as iced cream

Sweet like the moments before we were seen
Good a last words as any cryed from hangmans stand come hanging time.
367 · Sep 2015
Eye Contact
John B Sep 2015
Deft left thefts with the right in flight

got your eyes jumping round on my gestural slights

with your mind thinking fast on the words in your ear

the shelf you were stocking was not magically cleared
No fear
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