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Sara L Russell Aug 2010
19:14pm,  23/08/2010

I

What names of high renown lie here within,
What wonders of a cinematic age?
What players of chameleonic skin,
What vast dimensions leap beyond the stage?

Withnail and I would walk this hallowed road,
Dreaming of turning visions into deeds;
Train-spotting trains of thought that overflowed,
Where levity had trampled karma's seeds.

Tread softly here and utter not a sound,
The scene is set, for all lost here below,
With all forsaken dreamers underground
And all who yearned to go on with the show.

For all the lost, forsaken and foregone,
Dead lips whisper of "Hunt" and "Cameron".


II

Walkways of fame, like dreaming colonnades,
Gold sunrise shoots that everyone admired;
Lost eras when producers all wore shades,
And divas turned up early and inspired.

Hot cappuccino served with bright ideas
In cool cafés and bistros of desire;
Their ghostly image flares - then disappears,
With all who held the torch of inner fire.

All those who now endorse perfumes and creams
And those in pantomimes on seaside piers,
Remember well who crucified their dreams
Replacing honeyed hopes with bitter tears.

Inscribed in blood, their torrid names live on
- Don't speak to us of Hunt and Cameron.


III

A beautiful laundrette, deserted now,
Reduced to an accountant's numeral;
Open the wine and slay the fatted cow,
To find the wedding's now a funeral.

And did we, in good faith, believe their lies,
Electing them to office, fuelled by hope?
Now strung along by feeble alibis,
And all because we gave them enough rope?

Hope is the dreamer's dope. We who despair
Are never fooled by optimism's glitz;
Sometimes we are too fatalist to care,
Sometimes we must accuse, where the cap fits.

The coalition's follies blunder on
Up the Junction, with Hunt and Cameron.


IV

Avert thine eyes, Tim Bevan, CBE,
A tempest comes, on terrible black wings,
A blight hath fallen on the industry
That used to bring such bright imaginings.

Our protestations have a Little Voice
That Whitehall deems too indistinct to hear,
Must we the free be faced without a choice,
Must everything we loved now disappear?

Tread softly here, for it's the final take,
No accidental noise disturbs the boom,
As art is crucified for money's sake
Respectful silence settles in the gloom.

Sometimes progress moves backwards and is gone,
Like bright ideas by Hunt and Cameron.


The End....?
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/save-the-uk-film-council.html
PAGE ONE SIDE ONE

      The diffident boy’s chameleonic anguish sought to be cordial movements, only projected shaking and quivering hands while strolling along with a girl into a saunter down, down the street on a bridge hanging over a lake in a park.
      "Hold my hand" the boy said in a swoon to the girl, continuing - - "I love the shake, I love that frigid quiver, lets walk, jostle too beat, beat down the wind and jostle the street!"
       “Let us move further toward the illuminated illusions of the sun adjacent with the moon’s reflection blurred, misguiding us from shade for our eyelids, hiding,” the girl deviled, “but I know where, here,” she put out her palm, “that ****** glow is the heart of mine; take it, it is only our own warmth you will find. Let us be it. Only Be. Shade the other rays, for the other way to leave."
       She goes to hand the boy her heart, the boy abducting his hand to his side, distracted with the sun falling from the sky.
       “Oh, I must be here, here at this solemn lake, when it stills,” lightening and thunder from yonder occur, “Locomotion accompanying rain like pillars plummeting into walls capturing you and I becoming the storm’s echo. You may know where it is hiding, however, you will never go to where it is hidden.” each word pulsating from the boy’s mouth, his vision lost in the horizon of the sun burning out like a cigarette’s amber, “If I could only flick dawn into an astray and always be this high, then I would devour that glow in the palm of yours.”
       Tips of leaves sink to point to the ground, the sky begins to cry, and the boy and girl mourn.

PAGE ONE SIDE TWO

            “What the **** are we doing here, we, well I, must leave!” deep breathes in between each word as he spoke, “the air is dry, I can tear off the skin of an idol, spit up a song verbatim, ***** visceral vanity all over your tired hand.” The boy softly said, “To say that I care my dear.” Before the boy could finish all noise in the park inverted, causing sparkling wormholes splashed across the fields and meadows, slices of the moon shimmer on the rounded puddles. “I feel rested, well,” the boy paused, “the surroundings are spoken easy, calmed,” resonating, “calm, only small, smaller than the other."
          "Once… no only once I was told I was cold!  Consummate partner in your parallax! Whirlpool mirage, muddy pupils in the pits of hell, where at least? Is it scene that they are truthful devils?" The girl asked, “You must know, **** it!”

PAGE TWO SIDE ONE

The boy cried, he bellowed out killing, the sound killed,
whistles of felicity disguised in
a distant tree planted far, far over
on sides of mountains, where birds play a poet, creating, projecting the outcome of  this universe evolving, stepping-up the eardrums to shake… vibrate… create...
       "Noo…" the girl held herself under a tree with leaves stealing her. Roots absorbing her warmth, using it to darken the amassing shade, she’s dead, she’s a ghost now.
Killed while the sound killed, she's alone, holding herself, chancing upon her own to keep her memory alive.
       “Heed her advice, heed her owns. Draw pictures of her, with her face clear, photograph her face filled with tears.” The boy facetiously said.

PAGE TWO SIDE TWO

       "Oh, oh, I was a ****** fool, ******. It's graying out, the skies are dispersing, splitting into bluffs, let's go inside, forget about all of this.” The boy diverted.
    “Boy drops dead! Boy is dead!" the girl sedately said, "BOY IS DEAD BOY DROPS DEAD." She said, "lie down, grab hold of your chain, I will hold you no more, I hold only till I warm."
      "Chained? The links I combined on my own, with only you dragging me along. I'll speak easy, hang from this chain where I belong, and carve my epitaph into withering bark. I’ll starve until you deciduously leave this bright park." The boy’s eyes shutting as he fawns his final plight.
Boy dies changing his shoes.
Girl dies draped across roots.
Kuvar May 2018
We are in a century
Where a new phone line
Will mean a new life
Distance of love
Is only taught
To be covered by a dial
so we see no pain
When we quit relationships
For a donkey’s walk
As the ancient had it
Is nothing but a phone dial
How chameleonic is it
©️Kuvar
I have seen people give up on themselves by the easiest recommendation of technology on social platforms just a block or an unfriend., as far as having a new phone line... life as we have it today is chameleoniC
Give them mercy on the river
Let their days be short of dread
Suffer the little children
Put a bullet through their heads

The blood runs down to water
The river flows on south
Taking their Holy Spirit
The breath from out of their mouth

The years turned into decades
The grass grows green and lush
Very few of the living
can recall
or remember much

So I sit upon the edge of nothing
where the beast made men once stood
I feel the chill run through me
Cover my head with hood
Urvashi Sep 18
What is sensibility?
Some beautiful work of art,
a malapropism ****,
its chameleonic breath shifting—

a perspective that ignites,
senses that reflect—
yet it is a prism, volatile,
held in ideological
difference and delight.
James Gomez Jun 2015
i'm not myself
i'm somebody else
trapped
or living out a life that isn't or wasn't mine
i don't know

i readily take on forms
and my lips frame words
that are not my shape or thoughts

i'm a product of environment
of culture, of class
i'm chameleonic

don't judge me
i am you
Satsih Verma Nov 2017
Like a birthmark
you will remain
on my forehead.

Round cups and
blue drinks, the dark
side was capitulating.

You become my
partner, I will unleash
many moons.

I intended to
talk in walk about the
woes of life.
Julian Apr 11
The hydra-headed janiform neurergic neves sparked by jangadas of bangtail silverskin therbligs of ostentatious stack impudent against inveterate nomothetic scrupulous dirigisme in niaiserie because of incorrigible rhathymia guarding graft as eunomia for aerophores and volplanes of nidamental wrackful filigrees in subversive rudenture complicant to the latticework of nimonic scarpetti scansorial to every specter of ekka sphecoids because of a firm constitution of mackintosh statolithian perdurable protean verve in chameleonic tricotees of steeving suretyship buddling bait-and-switch bumboats and cozening paltripolitan smug with hauteur and aplomb surnominal in every arena because of immarcescible stipulations of svedberg inculcated in criminal umlaut leveraged deftly by ulatrophy, virgation and organizational opodeldoc eclaircise stripteases of purebred cyanotypes of equanimity despite tilt and tilt immune to gyrating ginglymus of linear crackdown and cubic idempotence in overlocked sciamachies entangling osnaburg and polity in quantum thigmotaxis precisely orthogonal to orichalc sesquiplicated by organity boundless to degrees of variegation in revalorized exchequer beyond snooperscope peers skittish on marksmanship and precise stenography maximalist in vestigial obsessions. '

Yet the  revenge of nodalities of nevosity the coquetry of invidious vendetta spurns peremptory rudenture brackish in tarnished hues of handspiked rackrent subterfuge backfired in implodent flashbang casualty via oersteds incidental to odonterism in frenzied bangtail blemishes hampering obvention favoring broader dirigismes armipotent with ixiodic argali keystoned endlessly into ravenous interramifications immensely integral to the surface area of negotiosity (the circumjacent proctor of the conservation of chryselephantine duramen of the interpunction of  sublimated bulging catalysts of numbat volumes gaseous only in hypothesis yet fungible in categorical interdigitated vulcanization permissive of protean permutation immunifacient to entropy in monolithic suffrutescent latency readymade for exigent subrident fiascos) that preserves mainsail fulcrums of stochastic stabilization of the composite quantum uncertainty of volatile aleatory variances in an unbounded system ratcheted by subduplication. A stupulose adjutant preservation of firm rubefaction contrary to jack-assed adiathermancy compital to elflock because of ideological bowdlerization of balanism simultaneous to wrackful adenalgia and dizzying balefire confirm the elephantine pedigree as an acroamatic commode which (even in baseline disagreement derived from tangible acharne pivoted on several centrifugal cultural aborted acerbations) absterges the trauma of oneirodynia with cynosure dancette subsidiary to meritocratic afterclaps of azoth finessed in clockwork filipendulous auxologies slightly sunbittern because of echard reductivism and maximalist emphasis on perdurable swells in the radial radiance of spherical umstrokes pliable to expansion of scale and scope never finifugal nor neglectful of the potential backfires of the autecology (very predictive of malaise in attemperment) of alembicated vicissitudes of deterministic akinesia subservient to regnant finite bounds of possible contortionists of interramification yet decided by preterition.  Yet despite the pedigree of a volplaning society partial to interlamination in sordid dereliction the swape and swanskin of standpipe realism augmented by orthodox adherence to intemeration of subternatural banderols because of overhailing innitency against indumentum becomes a stunsail inglenook of all terpsichorean modular realities conceived by freethinkers despite froward agitprop styming sufficient latitude to pinpoint with imputation reformatory agenda to imbricate an idiorhythmic attempt at ichnology subsumed by a supreme confidence in oikonisus and faithful fidelity combined with the iatromathematics of sociogenesis to  formulate a pragmatica sufficient to streamline stradometrical stolisomancy of a comported dirigisme to conform to bronteums of blaring social justice imperative to broader civic decorum such that both the barmcloth and the ashplant unite against  the worst stulms to manufacture a diplomatic coherence of stibadium cognizant of imperative aberuncators slurvian and dilatory to orthobiotic optimums to unionize public morale and private discretion to appoint emergent meritocracy tholing the collective triune causal mandate of anti-flautino, anti-fracedo, anti-specular inertial impedimenta to bionomic swapes compatible with the integral stipulations of the suretyship obliged to tangible stipulations relatively intransigent to systematic rejuvenation despite prerogatives of oystercatcher eyeservice ponderous to the overall business model but transcendental in deontological value. Chomping vinegarroon skullduggery partisans embattled with jordans of acciptrine papaverous rapacity because of mehari metaplasms have largely been transformed by the backfire of acarpous vestiges of historical inantion but the reprieve of callous jockeyed cladogenesis in nomogeny is so sussultatory it remains and remands the custody of a Republic to anemocracy as a tribune to acipenser overcoming acyanopsia and acyesis simultaneously in gambados of happenstance virtuosity referential to adjutant aggiornamento that transubstantiates prurience and cultural larceny into reclamation of spiritual provenance and providence transcendental and regnant over the affairs of men. Adipocere refrain by all pointillism policing a system where veridical paranoia is estimable in the jurisdiction of bugaboo transmuted into hobgoblin subterfuge is both an entangled thixotropy of mutual abseils of afterdeck of  wrepolis parturition of willowish seguidilla bartered against sheer leverage of mandarism of kitthoge kirking with yogibogeybox cryptadia siderognost magnets superlative in wrangled telematic tantiemes of adjutages of sericterium “generators” bequeath to scientific leverage sledging nimiety on varsal vastation of vardles versus human capital exorbitant because of simpered advection funneled through aedilles macroscian and cyclonic to watershed gullywashers of evaporated joy and frowsy taxidermy liturgical in aerodonetics outmantling aloof affeer nucleotides of overhaul deprived of Anglophonic reach and cultural zest.

The allemande dodges abaculus aardwolf vaalhaais raadical in harling handspikes of abvolts hammerkopping specious whangams halyarding affiance to habanera exosculating sublime eurthymics into ethonomic warbling vacillations of tentation espaliers gradately distant from apophasis desiccated by the preeminent precedence of epigons morphing into epigones whipstaffing oppidan octrois of vaccimulgent brehon eruciform only to brickbat devolution stymied and sweltering among raglan obsolagnium plevisable to parabasis of paralytic ichnition of cookie-cutter iberis of cultural uvala by polyphiloprogenitive hibernation urubus infiltrate with surnominal reach to embattle newfangled controversy with inveterate propinquities to prejudice, stature, largesse, prosperity and capital command goading sciamachies among sudd, wroth, sastruga, striga and woonerf internecine to mummified wittols of scofflaw Marxism against boskets of woodreeves glinting tantalized prerogatives at clueless doytining websters of jamdani steenboks walleteering only to agathist zero-sum pullulated divergence (too velocious in psitticism to garner traction) in vehement diaspora odonterism (the disheveled tombola of wadmals of yonderly clarity from yellowback fortunes of yarak bonanza) such that proxemics actually redoubles the fortunes of falsehood at the expense of integrity in finifugal frames of projicience while patient proband proairesis of piscary leverage monotrochs inveterate scruple delaminated by rigid metaplasms by tympanies on baseline primordial psychogony to keystone apperception into renewable therbligs of bias telarian in sagacious silence at officious gambados of intellectual elitism of tautomerism of tachytelic bacillicide pregnant with rumchunder progeny vernalized into precedents of pedigree because of ventrad verglas whorling into sussultatory frenzy amicable to audiences once divorced from the gilberts predicating glottogonic gleeds of samizdat freer than ever in gimballing supplications to gavelkind viscid because of virtuosity embalming partisan divides because of jiggermast kickbacks wergilds for cultural acharne in rabid fuming crestfallen jurymasts of plighted failure (or ignored pertinacity) as the predominant caenogenesis of the few prolongs the prosperity of the many. Simultaneous to the predicaments of biocenosis of cenobitic realpolitik ceratoid on stringent cathexis to normative fringes frigid to Keynesian bonanza the enthralling chabouk of underdog chamfrains jockeyed on champaign inheritance proven by the liturgical emergence of recondite chapbooks garnering chevet in chrematistic gnotobiology prove singular when stricter proscription of plenary coemption because of the forbearance of supervenient idealisms  that abrogate crudity engage in coquelicot chirapsia buddles elements of alloyed negentropy from chasmogamy to negate emphatic negannepaut and harvest nepenthe in nepionic perscrutation on grounds of grievance always parallel to neutrosophy nidamental in a bonce of several interchangeable theorems of bontbokian boyau redacted in incorporation of some minor tenets of omphalism as a bricole against swarf clothed with broadcloth niceties to annul specular indigence among spodium with clever centralization in orichalc edulcorated against institutional effulgence and instead focused on ekistic agiotage fond of altricial largesse dabchicking popular morale in pious fidelity to the verdict of azoth mathematicism in mantissa mediated by scaled oligopsonies of initial auncels (due to poor trade agreements and gouged alarmisms with unwieldy disproportionate burdens on the United States) balancing once baragnosis becomes apprehensive of being apprehended to the extent of prospect checkmating specter in the augend of social mobilization.
zane b Jan 2020
i am every song you’ve ever liked
with ****** features warping into a screen with your favourite memories on it.
i play continuous layers of sound,
overlapping my words into a familiar chorus of your own likes.
i am only what is seen and heard,
hidden unless noticed.
my characteristics are chameleonic.

not an ounce of me is mine, but they call this body mine.
a psychiatrist once said to me,
“you steal their traits so you feel more easy to accept.”
it’s just because i’m just too easy to reject.
so i will reflect what is shone on me,
i will paint myself to be your preferred artwork
and step only to your rhythm.
isn’t that the way you want it?
The Fire Burns Apr 2018
Billowing smoke,
creeps across the ceiling,
like frosting whipped and spread.

Gray-blue particles drift,
into volcanic snow drifts,
skin, stained in pattern.

Pixelated camouflage imprinted,
subcutaneous chromatophores injected,
chameleonic components supplied.

Skin *****, webbing,
triggered at a notion,
finger and toes transmogrified.

Nictitating membranes grown,
intrinsic goggles unfurl,
rods and cons added, eyesight enhanced.

Human, yet not exactly,
enhanced for performance,
evolution forced.
Inspired ish by The Titan on Netflix
Daniel Tucker Aug 29
So many times
I fell behind  
And my fears
Got the best of me.  

Caught by surprise              
In your looking-glass
Eyes
I locked into                          
Blew my mind--                    
I was not of your kind.  

But I still stayed                             By your side                        
There to guide  
My steps everyday                            
In every way;  
Trapped inside the
Obligation to stay.  

I thought you were
My friend;    
I had to pretend
To fool myself into
Believing in you.  

Caught in your lies,               
Hid behind your      
Disguise  
That you built up                    
Through the night--      
Nocturnal sight.  

You destroy             
Those you cannot
Pay;         
But those you've
Betrayed  
Now have better
sight,  
Brighter light,  
Slowly building up
The  
Strength to fight.  

And of all the
promises       
That you break,  
You justify by the
Laws               
Of give and take.  

These political and
Social              
Fault lines in the
Minds                
Of many, undermine  
Highlights--now the  
Cultural and structural  
Twilight--

The ancient                             
Disconnect between                    
The power elite  
And the people on the
Level of the street--     

Leading to higher
Levels
Of political and              
Social Chameleonic         Descent;  
Left wondering                  
Where our       
Idealistic & democratic               Societies went.          

So, as we watch  
Many of the global
Power elite  
Play their games
Of hide & seek                          
Behind           
The weight of policy--
That higher degree of                      Moral, political                    
And social leprosy--

You'll look for us,                     
But we'll be gone.
Political, Social & Spiritual Chameleons.
Zahra Aug 1
I love
how certain
things in
my home
pull me
inward
candles
burn
unevenly,
like my
moods,
objects
talk here
hey,
remember
that night?
my
bear-skinned
pillows
have taken
the thud
of chameleonic
moods
anger,
joy,
sadness,
guilt
each mind
arriving
with its
own weather-
still things
here
remind me
of my fate
living in
a place
that keeps
returning
to love.

— The End —