rhyme
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Some people think (if that’s what you can call it) There are certain things That no one can know for sure Because they don’t know them. They ask no questions. They believe no evidence. And sometimes the same people Think that they know very unknowable things. These are dangerous people And they surround us. Be…
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COVID keeps on killing kids and No one seems to care! “Send them to their destiny It’s better for them there.” All so Mom and Dad can work And function the machine So the people killing us can Add to wealth, obscene. And men who promised to protect Are instead counting cash From the very…
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A deadly fucking virus is abroad! It came across the air. Across the sea. It’s spreading uncontrolled through guys like Todd Who will not wear a mask—he says he’s free! But freedom’s an illusion. (news to Todd!) And none of us are ever truly free. Freedom is an effort to defraud The working class in…
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I’ve got no time for love poems for My verses seldom sate Any wont for cheerfulness In my frenetic haste. I hate the man who loved you back When I was seventeen. An eager sort of lad, I was, Obsessed with being seen. I hate the fact I never loved You deeper than your skin.…
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If your current situation Requires hesitation Then you’re doing it all wrong. You’ve got an obligation To deface entire stations You simply must be strong. There are hidden races In their secret hidden places Suff’ring for your meals. I know you have the time To listen to this rhyme And act like it’s a motherfucking…
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I want to share my life with you but don’t Know just who you are I want someone who’ll challenge me Who’ll be my brightest star If only I held onto you Opportunity long gone I’d never let you go, my love I’d write a hundred songs All about my love for you and How…
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In retrospect, I loved you For reasons oh, so wrong. Or perhaps confusèd love and lust. And lovst was just too strong. In retrospect, you ruined my life I should have been more cautious. But youth’s synonymous with error And your allure was noxious. In retrospect I made mistakes In thinking you were smarter. But…
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My heart is filled with emptiness Essentially all the time. Sometimes it helps to put my thoughts To page, to wit, to rhyme. Physically, mentally, real and imagined— I cannot help but feel Some days it is the only way That I can tell I’m real I try to think about my life With warm,…
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It never snows on Christmas anymore. Not like it did when I was just a boy— Not in the South to chill one to the core— Not for the little children to enjoy. I know there must be places it still snows. I’ve heard a tale of it a time or two. I see it…
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I dropped I felt I’m liquid I melt I came You saw No blame Just awe If we Forsee The end Is near Then whom To tell Then disappear
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I wrote a song for you today It’s a rather tragic tale About a man named Ahab And a damned elusive whale Or was it Ashenputel With her friendly woodland friends They got her to the Ball and then They did it once again. Or shall we talk about the Jew Whose trapped up in…
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I’m tired of being the same Of chances never taken. Of dreams of borrowed fame From which I’ll never awaken. And you out there, you see, Just being and existing.All I want to be Is with you and persisting.
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absolutely Let me love you in poems and caress you with words. I’ll shower you in metaphor, kiss you with consonance, verb you ‘til you moan with delight. We’ll be forever defined by sonnet and embraced by verse. Æthelbehrt would read us and weep, for he could never describe Our purest love in prose.
Musings of the Mad 