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364 · Nov 2016
Joy
John B Nov 2016
Joy
Joy is found and joy is had

Never lost and never drab

And you may think that's not so bad

But I think of it as rather sad

Like a child new to hurt

Appalled someone feels different

We live in a brutal world

But pretend harm is distant

Blind to pain or just plain ignorant

Joy is delusional and indignant

Frankly mirth or myth

A content man could do to part

With focusing on long term happiness

Prepared for all the random crapyness

Acknowledging that folks cause havoc

For fun and profit or just because their good at it

As an island, self sufficient

Find happiness and practice dwelling in it.

Maximize but know it's finite.
Like anything it takes practice, no magic just a skill. No acquisition just accomplishment. Some things are our of your control but nothing is beyond your control. Time is the only limiting factor and life span is not the limit it once was.
362 · Jun 2016
Blessed Be
John B Jun 2016
For every sentence you found

That stole pieces of me

Blessed be

I'll cherish the pain

like a hot summer breeze

Blessed be

Until you see fit

And return them to me

Blessed be

If you never submit

In a lifetime or six

Blessed be

I'll be here contemplating

How I could become worthy

Blessed be
You deserve better, better than him, better than me, one day you'll see.
361 · Dec 2015
Revel for the Storm
John B Dec 2015
Unpleasant peasants persist in poking

Fun times follow you cannot escape

This raze like a river of sand it'll wash you

Clean for the first time ever
361 · Dec 2017
This Harem
John B Dec 2017
May this harem commence

To the beat of my empty chest

We'll best any challenge beset

Without regrets or frets

In the style of Bassett

Melancholy

Missing something
Transition
360 · Jan 2016
Evolution
John B Jan 2016
Silly little Sally

Sings like fresh sriracha

With a zest for life

Her sour life is savored

Defensive acid

Spice

Adds flavor
"I don't like sour drinks."
Naota Nandaba
354 · Jun 2016
What tragedy
John B Jun 2016
To be queer as an Amber Spring Meadow

Yet heterosexual
352 · Sep 2013
I can haiku too...
John B Sep 2013
coming too, I smelled her, so sweet...
ca.um.in.g too, i s.m.ell.ed he.r, so s.we.e.t.. 17 Mora but as it turns out Double entendre and Juxtaposition are not the same, my bad...
351 · Oct 2015
Life Goals
John B Oct 2015
Comfortably waiting for war time

An ace the hole for the third team

Father above and Lucy below

Seem hell bent on going toe to toe

Me and mine just watch tho

So once the winners at their weakest

We can march for the throne

Full bore
Take turns kids, it's better for everyone.
349 · May 2016
Has it occurred to you
John B May 2016
Perhaps preventative measures can be harmful in and of themselves, as they deprive us of much needed experience.
348 · May 2017
Come What May
John B May 2017
I don't want to be rude

I don't want to intrude

I want a Starry Sky

And warmth at night that has your smell

So in this interlude

While I toil with attrition

I work on a me your mine in

And hope he finds you well

I tried to keep the wavefront coming

Close to scare but never there

I fear that now I've skipped the shore

To see what comes

Your nevermore

Washed away in wake of pain

The cards say that I've not but gained

I never came at you with games

But here afoot, I'm a winner
Apparently...
347 · May 2016
Retitled
John B May 2016
My dealer came and went

We talked about the war

I read 100 poems

It only scratched the sore

My mind keeps playing music

My ear is to the door

It plays upon the tension

Of my heart down on the floor

I know I'm not a mastacist

I know you're not a *****

But I would give up anything

To see you once more

My heart strings played by telephone

This ringing in my ears

My drug of choice before me

I can't squelch the flow of tears

I don't want a taste

It's clear to me this pain insides for you

So I won't waste it

Should it do you good

I'll suffer worse than wounds

If it would make you smile

I'd pluck out my eyes

I'd gouge out my ears

But the rain itself would be your tears

They soak my tired shoulders

Is it in my heart or in my mind

What can I cut to free myself

I can't leave you behind
I was born for the end but if you were a zombie I'd seek a cure.
343 · Jun 2016
Wrap
John B Jun 2016
To grow without limitations

One must have sufficient support

To never wonder how tall they have become
340 · May 2016
Loud As a Thousand Volumes
John B May 2016
She diligently reads every word that I write

Yet she remains silent

As I overanalyze everything

Silence

As I pour out my soul

Silence

As I beg for an answer

Silence

As the world has never been silent

My insides writhe in violence

Yet here I'm sitting

Silent
So what did I expect?
336 · Sep 2015
never from behind
John B Sep 2015
Grape melon's Mai-Tai have a taste
They need to see the drink! god help you if they don't see the drink! Or assume your double *******, god help you in that case as well.
335 · Apr 2016
Last Night
John B Apr 2016
I dreamed I could sing in two notes at once

My heart free to express itself

Words flew from my mouth

Like water over a hill

Putting less jagged shape to feelings

That cut me deep inside

A crowd gathered to hear me

Like a bird inside a zoo

But she was in the audience

It seemed clear that she knew

This was no performance

I hadn't chosen the place or time

Simply a victim of circumstance

With far too much on my mind
She asked for *** later on and I forgot what came before but it must have been stupendous, I was myself around her, comfortable, however excited and surprised by the change in gears, I woke up....
331 · Aug 2016
When I'm Gone
John B Aug 2016
Folks will talk about how much they miss me

Not bringing to mind

That they knew were to find me before now

Yet

Admittedly

Haven't seen me in ages
331 · Oct 2015
[F]
John B Oct 2015
[F]
Frankly flattered

Forever feeling fortified

Free flying feeling

Far further few foreseeably follow

Foustly floundered for feces
Maybe I need to lower my standards...
329 · Sep 2015
Doll Play
John B Sep 2015
Sore from head to toe

I can't take one more blow

Another pin shot through my heart

This love is out of control
328 · May 2016
Two Saith The Oracle
John B May 2016
As our sun finally sets on the orient

We will learn immutably

That most painfull of lessons

Man keeps forgetting
Ha Ha Ha
325 · Dec 2015
New blood?
John B Dec 2015
An incarnent demon ran past my window

Fast as a jay fly's dark as night with reds I've never seen

Like your insides while they are still inside

Blisters, shingles, mange, what have you

I responded with a quickness

Up with my fists, prepared the thickness

But gone with the moment and off on its way

A demon after someone else? Good thanks.
Have fun, don't over do it, if it becomes habbit or personal, lets just say its hard to stop by choice alone, is black magic addictive? No more then black coffee.
318 · May 2016
Were I A Criminal [I'd]
John B May 2016
I'd have the woman but not the love

I'd have the smarts but not the wisdom

I'd have the finance but not the security

I'd want for nothing

I'd have nothing I need

I'd have nothing

I'd be empty
"And oh the fight to fill oneself, so easy to misguide" Lucy
313 · Dec 2017
Boobies
John B Dec 2017
Forgive me for rambling

Lost in a haze

****** on the oil

Eyes over glazed

No pain on the outside

Slime inside writhes all the time

Generating my power

But it's chiseled my glower

Now I stopped smoking flowers

Just awaiting my hour

Still bidding my time

For reclaiming what's mine

Until things unwind

It's a good thing I'm high
Bloop
312 · Jan 2016
Eye of the Tiger
John B Jan 2016
I don't want to be awake

The sky alone too much to take

I do not want to see the clouds

Their fluffy white too heavy now

I do not want to be alive

Maybe soon I'll take a dive
As if I'd ever be broken enough to fall in this joke of an arena
311 · May 2016
Spring Has Us Sprung
John B May 2016
What of spring?

That it brings fire to the hearts of men

Is it the stars in the sky

Or

The songs of birds courting

Returning Persephone freshly in mourning

I've hidden alone in my cave

Far from spring time and still

I'm a fool for the lady's inuring

Slack from my chest

This marionette of heart strings

Played with in passing

No tuppence given for time or trouble

Worn out in that way only free things do

Salt of the earth this Patina entombs

A heart that was meant to be given to you

Yet this poem was meant for the spring time

It's true, she will miss it I'm sure

But you got it too
311 · Mar 2018
Slander
John B Mar 2018
Sangha saccus scroll scribbles say

Laboratory labourisms leakances legitimatize lavatory

Another actuality altered although abominable

Newsworthy notifications never naturalize, normalize

Dangling doomed decay depressed duressed

Entrepreneurial endeavors erased encased, evapotranspiration

Reason reserved, ridiculousness returned, ritualization
Unjust Because
308 · Dec 2017
No World = Order
John B Dec 2017
Blasting caps for the gigaton bomb

Size of king kongs forearm
And twice as long

Overkill is an understatement

Sometimes you just need to know
It's gonna get the job done
You can't buy manpower for a job like that, But people who believe things are dangerous... #NwNoThanks #Mama do you think they'll drop the bomb #too long to be a hashtag. #shamelessly making a longer hashtag just because I think it's kind of funny that hashtags are even a thing while simultaneously ignoring the tags section blow notes in the editor.
308 · Dec 2015
¶{°_°}P
John B Dec 2015
If I could open up my brain

To share with you my pain

Best believe you would refrain

Do not engage me on this plane
¶{°_°}P
304 · Apr 2013
In your arms
John B Apr 2013
Looking for love in all the wrong places.

Hoping you'll find me and take me away from this.

Safe to a place I can't find on my own.

I don't care who you are, in your arms I belong.
296 · Dec 2015
Dawning
John B Dec 2015
Wake up in a layer of sweat

Pop the lock

Chill my brains

Have a stretch

Free the beast

Have a peace

Smoke a peace And feast

Apply grease

Release

Until sleep

Repeat
Kinda boring.
295 · Feb 2015
Flow
John B Feb 2015
Be like water my friend

learn to brake as you bend

snap back for attack

put your whole self in

waves crash down

wash away tents and towns

ask me if I can speak up

well I bet you hear me now
Over reaction to a jab can be therapeutic.

"can you roll the window down a bit more, I can't here over the traffic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiJWMqfaAag
293 · May 2016
Tell it to the Mic
John B May 2016
I got this feeling that I cannot erase

You're something else I cannot face

Because she was everything I wanted,

And that's not a lie

And as my cup runneth over

I could have been alright

She deserved to date princes,

And it cuts me inside

To know that she's chosen to be an abusers wife
Please consider me an alternative to suicide.
John B Jan 2019
****!!!!! Atheists, Protestants, **** Zoroastrians, Jews a spectacle, Muslims are filth, Catholics can't decide if they're mono or polytheistic and Mormons are an theocratic metanation.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying that organized religions are garbage as ****, but that would not properly bring home the point that not one of these ******* is above of my tongue.

**** Rastafarians, pagans and heathens, Buddhists think numbers over a thousand or fake. Sikhs carry swords so I'm not going to badmouth them it's not that I can't just that Sikhs carry swords.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying all these known religions are garbage is ****, but that would not properly bring home the point that's not one of these peoples cannot be made fun.

Shintos and daoists, yes you scientologists, Hindus and shamans I don't give a ****. You're making a serious mistake by taking philosophy from such a narrow outlook.

I guess I could summarize by simply saying all known formal religions fail in this way. but that there are still ways you can fail without crossing that line just take a quick look at AA.

The fact of the matter is nothing can really replace introspection and serious thought, so if you have felt like there is something missing get right with yourself and **** anyone whos not.
Loosely set to turkey in the straw
290 · May 2016
Serious
John B May 2016
Just now and for the first time ever

The lightlings calls have pierced my essence

And I feel not sick but better

Oh what lays behind this message
287 · Oct 2014
Learn or Die
John B Oct 2014
learn or die
the end is nye and little did you know
its not the end of what you know but all there is
so soon you'll see that there's a twist
that twist is that you'll see at all
you see the fall of man is carved in sand
washed away like fleeting smells on a summer breeze
its all rather romantic if you ask me...
------
you may die at any moment but haven't yet and may never.
such is the fate of our world as we know it or otherwise.
287 · Feb 2015
The Hands
John B Feb 2015
Down, down, down, a voice whispers in my head

Maybe it the last of me finally falling dead

Down, down, down, like a mantra for my mind

Simply put my life is less a mountain more a slide
286 · Jan 2016
One Saith The Oracle
John B Jan 2016
In an age where history

Has become a mirror

Our shame will lead us

To an enlightened future
Ha ha ha ha
280 · Oct 2017
H
John B Oct 2017
H
Harrison hangs horizontal

His hangover hating him

Horrendously heaveing

Hideous hit he had

Horrors hover

However holden his honor
279 · Oct 2014
Just a thought
John B Oct 2014
To be remembered for all time is worthless if you are never understood.
278 · Feb 2015
The force
John B Feb 2015
If you sit and listen

If you clear your mind and wait

Only then will you hear it speak
275 · Dec 2015
TBO
John B Dec 2015
TBO
What's this?

I haven't seen you in about two years.

What a trip.

Drempt about you again I fear.

Here I sit.

Sides aching from a night of thrusts and laughter.

All alone just shakeing not sure quite what I'm after.
All I know is your the only one who has it. I've never met another, hope that I never do, I just want you, oh well, its not so bad, just an open wound in my side pressed raw by a nation of temptations, a generation of complacents and the memory of you, memory ever freshened by the winds of social media, a soul mate holds my sides and crys as I miss you so deeply I cannot feel her touch, you mortally wounded me, Venus, my unrequiteable loyalty, dashed jaged on rocks, like a ship in fog so close all not to reach the shore, are you happy? Is it what you expected? Do you have regrets like me? Do you ever lay in bed like this and wonder how it may have otherwise gone? Do you ever think about showing up at my door like you have before for a hug, for a smoke and or a shoulder to cry on? I wish I had the strength to let your tears play on my heart without it softening for you, do I still give the best hugs in the world? Can you still feel safe in my arms? Is that really all I wanted.
274 · May 2016
Dont Act Confused
John B May 2016
I never told you to forgo skill for luck

Simply not to forgo luck for skill
272 · Apr 2019
Ribbit
John B Apr 2019
It's not like I'm a joke

For all the time I've carried this

The feeling of hope

As the sensation of wariness
271 · Jan 2016
Treasure
John B Jan 2016
No matter the climate

Uneaten

Ripe fruits rot off the vine
270 · May 2016
Morning Tokes
John B May 2016
How do I keep up appearances

When as dreams break

I'm not quite sure what I am
270 · Nov 2017
Dating advice
John B Nov 2017
Grapes are good but wine is better

The older your wine more wet it'll get her

The longer she's wet the more she will need

The longer you are the more she will plead

The bigger it is the more it will please

If she asks for seconds then more you should bring

Now aren't you thankful you learned good cooking
263 · May 2016
Mothers Day
John B May 2016
The worst day of the year

To be torn up over another woman
Obviously I try to act normal but she can tell; she digs it out to understand.  She's sharp, but her memory isn't what it used to be, and having to fill in the blanks on things she should remember may **** me....
259 · May 2016
Humans!
John B May 2016
Stop ******* stupid people

I know it's easy and fun

But it makes more of them

That's an issue
259 · Jan 2016
One Night Stand
John B Jan 2016
Liquid love

Warm crimson tongue

A night of fun

Then morning comes

Then mourning comes
I don't mean to stare

We don't have to breed

We can plant a house

We can build a tree

I don't really care

We can do all three she said
257 · Sep 2018
The you for me
John B Sep 2018
Mourning of mourning to miss you so soon

As the warm womb of hope softly opens her tomb

I crawl deep inside as the you for me dies

And we wonder if this is our doom
I wonder if she made it, never know unless I wait. Perhaps it all seems dated but I'm an old hand at twisted fate.
254 · Feb 2016
King
John B Feb 2016
"Can't we all just get along?"
R.King
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