Lord I wish I could be magnanimous
And happily concede defeat
But I’m a bitter and a jealous man
Drove fruitless by conceit
Instead I’ll shade, plot and contrive
To ensure they’ll think again
Before attempting to deliver a parcel
At a time when I’m not in
#vss365 #magnanimous
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
The truth lies, lethargic
In the thinnest aperture
Observing but distracted
A corollary flaneur
Veracity and history
Rarely share a bed
She’s heard his lies a million
times
And knows just how this ends
#vss365 #lethargic #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Quoting Joyce while she tossed him His ashes fly furious at her words Cruel bitumen for potholes Compost for nettle and thistle He has no power now and less before Borrow ditch grave lends the name A road to send back by Terminally reduced after all his reducing A ceremony of banishment not loss She wants the spot for her own scatterings Take me down to the eternal, she sings, Make me the whirling howling phantom cinders Of victim turned tormentor.
@rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #powerless.
Going full Dr. Strangelove for the occasion, hope he’s not caught Musk’s Seig Heiling tic.
We stand in abuse of the #splendour of breath Inflating words to thumb press necks and choke the others Inhaling exhaling in squalarising gulps, Leaving nature to recoil in horror. What use these lungs that take the splendid air To blow fire in winds and children to graves? Cyranovg
#vss365 #splendour #splendor #poetry #poem #cyranovg
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A cartoon of a man drinking a martini and smoking a cigarette
#vss365
I prefer my #splendour
with a “U”
shaken, not stirred
with an oluve
Timid days behind you
Confident in your ways
Catching your reflection
Liking what you see
The younger you forgotten
The younger me dismissed
Timid days behind you
Still curling on your lip
#vss365 #timid #poetry #poem #cyranovg
On the corner of a distant rug Towers of books totter to the slam of the living room door To be fair I did say I’d make some room And had began in earnest with the coffee table A keystone of poetry fell off and open, #Obsessed A gateway word if ever there was one And, well, before I knew it They were back with the pizza’s
#vss365 #obsessed #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Well your screwed really if you and your ‘opposition’ are going on about being the party of working ( class) people and you put an aspiring career politician ( who I’m sure is very nice) up against a full time plumber and a female one at that. That should be the wake up call.
Manchester United Football Club in the 1970’s Were captained by a Scotsman Whose name was Martin Buchan An educated sportsman unusual for the era Off the field he was taciturn And avoided the media When the manager had an affair with his physio’s wife Scandal hit the club The tabloids scrambled for a line The hacks besieged Buchan as he headed off for home ‘Any comment Martin?’ ‘Can we have a quick word?’ #Velocity said Buchan And with that he was gone cyranovg
Based on a true story.
#vss365 #velocity #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Orbital fracture
Blackened eye
Bloody nose
Fingers prised
‘LET HER GO’
Deafening
‘WE’LL TAKE YOU TOO’
Threatening,
I can’t breathe. I’m spluttering
Syncope
Waking
Activism begins
In remembering
#vss365 #orbital #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Stellar activity
Chariots of wishes
We turn to the stars
In acts of admission
that
For all the bravado
We are smaller than everything
And are scared
Someone turns out those lights
#vss365 #stellar #poetry #poem #cyranovg
I’ve never knowingly undersold Unless that is I’ve forgot, Of course the ‘invitation to treat’ is spurious As it depends if one get’s caught I once claimed knowledge of TEFL To teach English abroad In truth I was totally awful As I’m strictly Glasgowglot, So if you ever meet a Catalan Who pronounces ‘Milk’ with a ‘u’ They may have been knowingly undersold Perhaps by you know who.
#vss365 #knowingly #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Sunday is huge … even by OF standards
Ordered on the strength of this. Thank you.
Alcohol crazed
Lungs smoked
Eyes saucered
Dancing wildly
Loving nervously
Working seldomly
Home leaving
South heading
London beginning
Angst ridden
No Fuck’s Given
Nineteen Eighty Seven
#vss365 #crazed #poetry #poem #cyranovg
A verse from
‘Ken’ by Charlotte Mew
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Blatant corruption Blatant lies The blatant truth Before our eyes Blatant gaslighting Blatant greed A country blatantly On its knees All so blatant It’s hard to see Flooding the zone Hiding forests in trees Their next move’s blatant Blatantly clear Hold an election And blatantly cheat
#vss365 #blatant #poetry #poem #cyranovg
Winston Churchill
The greatest Briton
Voted by popular polls,
Hated India, its ‘beastly religion’
The Irish, Blacks and Boers
He loved the empire and being white
Championed supremacies cause
Now there’s a statue in Parliament Square
To the racist, that won the war
#vss365 #beastly #poetry
Take the brush
Sweep the floor
You were born to do a lot of things
Not important anymore
#fragmentsfriday #micropoem #poetry
#cyranovg
Blistering palms and bleeding ankles
Eyes on fire singeing eyebrows
Wracked with guilt and high on penance
Whispering as I served the sentence,
A broken Jesus crucified
Risen and transfiguried
Couldn’t lead this blessed mystified
From you
#vss365 #mystified #poetry #poem
#cyranovg
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Bouncy
Though not
A ‘dirty’ word
Feels like
It should
Be
#vss365 #bouncy #poetry #poem
…Or Trump would be in Epstein’s cell
A cream cracker
I once observed
Would appear
Mountainous to an ant
Then I remembered
Ants live on hills
#vss365 #mountainous #poetry #poem
After all these years
Here you are
Looks and Lovers gone
Children estranged
Despising the young
Phone gripped in fury
Singing the old songs
In a zip broken uniform
Enchanted by rhetoric and rage
Swilling the past
To dying on some hill
With the weakest of men
#vss365 #enchanted #poetry #poem
Wow.
