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Throating "f"s

Shout to me
phlegm-laced shoes
of words
puffing villains
tar secreting syllables 

Blow them in toasted,
desiccated oooo’s, smoking
wispy, formless blasphemy
yolks running, snorkelling
throating consonants. 

There is albumen
bubbling white on that fuck,
something about mommy
and Dada in splotches
of Pollock’s precise arbitrariness 

There, spittle speck
of Winehouse in my eye
gritty, rag beehive
jazzed up bit of
luscious dirt
— bjp, Feb 10, 2010

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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Anna,

I finally have written a poem! As you know, I am slowed up by eyesight or the restrictions thereon. So the poetry has suffered from the blogs. But it has been bugging me. But here we have a restart. Thank you for commenting, Anna. Brian
the_fool

the_fool

16 years 3 months ago

i don't know

you seem to try so hard to fit the gritty words in that theres no actual action. lovely use of albumen, thogh. but who am i?
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear TF,

Yes, I have been keeping notes for a possible poem that got translated into what you see. The movies and their car chases are one kind of entertainment. And I understand that there would be more attraction if this were a poem with more movement. So, I am chosing to think of it as more like a painting, at least for the moment. Thank you for your comment. Brian
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Orphani

16 years 3 months ago

It must have felt real good

It must have felt real good to get this one out my friend. You pound your force into this, and it is as evident as a naked cigar smoker in church. What a lucky strike.A lucious bit of dirt thats better on the outside then in. B
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Barry,

I have been struggling with focus on the poetry while doing the blogs. Mostly, topics are evading me. I would like to use some of my dreams, but I tend to get right to the morning rituals which do not include writing down the hazy dream memories - then they are gone, and that is that. I have been wanting to use egg metaphors and art metaphors and needed a vehical that had very little to do with eggs or art. Name calling caught my attention. And this is what you see before you. Now Olya would tell you that eggs are used in art, particularly in frescos (egg yoke paint on wet plaster) and Eastern Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic Icon manufacture, where the paint is egg tempera on wood. And I did enjoy shouting in poetry with raw eggs. Brian
Seren

Seren

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Dear Brian ..... he he he ~!

Jackson Pollock and Amy winehouse what a pairing lol ?? or am I reading more into it than I should ... brilliant poem my friend ... bigggg smiles for this one love and biggest hugs Jayne-Chloe x x
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Jayne-Chloe,

Pollock and Winehouse exhibit huge tallent and gigantic addiction: For Winehouse crack cocaine; Pollock was a drunk. She is younger and still has an opportunity to get out of it. Pollock killed himself at 44 by crashing his car into a tree while drunk. Addiction tends toward the dirt. Falling, self-despairing, tooth-brushless dirt. It takes a lot of effort and control to hold back entropy. And I saw that dirt is this month's poem contest theme. But I am keen to know what you were reading from the words!!!??? Thank you for commenting, Jayne-Chloe. love and huggles, Brian
Seren

Seren

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Brian

After reading the references to Pollock and Winehouse I reread the whole poem and it took on a life of its own I could see(Pollock) with spital all over the laces of his shoes ... I could see(Winehouse) with egg yolk running out of the corner of her mouth dipping a piece of toast in her mouth and rambling on incoherantly and all the while I could see them both in a drunken/drug induced lacklustre argument trying to insult each other ... you asked what I was reading lol there you have it I know I have an active imagination my mother often rued the fact lol love and big hugs Jayne-Chloe x x big hugs and a kiss to lovely Olya
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Jayne-Chloe,

Mothers and teenage girls. Whooa. Imagination is the golden treasure of those 40 theives but it does come with certain strings. I have such trouble with medical shows; my imagination takes the images to places I don't like to go. I certainly love your take on the poem. Brian
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 3 months ago

I see that you have been reading...

those scandal mags! I have, through someone else's misfortune, gotten a subscription to US Weekly, I think that the stories that are presented, are mostly garbage. It just makes me think that all anyone wants, is to see someone who is riding high, get ripped off their horse and pushed in the dirt. Nice summation of a gritty rag, dealing out jazzed up bits of lucious dirt. ~ Gee
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Geezer,

My mother (adoptive) loved those scandal rags. But she limited herself to one or two a year. I would get one each Christmas for her stocking. But I am afraid that Amy Winehouse has a real addiction. We have her albums and one song is, "I don't want to go to rehab." Although, since she divorced that fellow she looks a lot better. Who was it who said that if you survive excess you come to wisdom? Thank you, Geezer, for commenting. Brian
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear whitetea,

Now I am curious: whatever is "white" tea. Thank you very much for your comment. I have an affinity to be writing more. Brian
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 3 months ago

I have a huge addiction, a

I have a huge addiction, a monumental addiction: life and love. I can't get enough of either. And I may be doomed to live life without the latter. We'll see. Today is crunch day. It's strange how there's that small petty mean-spirited part of us that somehow feels good when others come toppling off the pedestals on which we place them. And never ask why we place folks above us. Not a poem for the feint and the squeamish. Neither is life. ~A
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Anna,

Crunch, as a day, does not feel good. I think that it is inordinately important that the talented and elite show their human frailties. We all have them. If there are no role models for struggle, addiction and recovery, etc. then our children think that they have to be perfect and never believe in the possibility of dealing in some way or another with their frailties. No, not a poem for the feint or squeamish. Thank you for your comment, Anna. Brian
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Diatom Shells

16 years 3 months ago

This poem pasted a

This poem pasted a perma-grin on my face as I read this. I loved every wretched word. Please give me more I feel starved now or maybe it is addicted? Either way where have you been all my life you sweet albumen LOVE it!!! *drools*
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Diatom Shells,

Thank you for your libidinous praise. It is a very nice tickle. I have been writing less poetry while writing the blog. But am determined to do more. Brian
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 3 months ago

This erudition with its poisonous pointillistic dribblings

Ann of Norway Phlegm-laced shoes! Oh blimey Brian what a sight, what a painted splash of washed-up slime and it is translated suddenly into words, words those strung up rows of letters that constitute a description of something, or of nothing. Puffing villains, burnt in the morning's toaster to a black frazzle, separated and yet of the same substance. Deep in the seas of blasphemous gunge, their bubble of self-satisfied explosive expressions burst loudly, and like the blizzard, flatten the trees to the earth's wet surface. Egg whites stiffen in frightened shock as the pure is tainted with its poisonous pointillistic dribblings arbitrarily swept over the face (ear) with a bravado that blinds the eye with its bright colours. Drunken red inebriated dirt takes on a garb and dances in the macabre light of the white of day, you don't say? Love Margaret Ann. "yolks running, snorkeling"...snorkeLLing
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Margaret Ann,

Thank you for your poetic response. Equal time, what? And I have added the "l" to snorkelling. Microsoft has conspired to convert all spelling to Americanisms. After changing the language to "Canadian English", the spell checker still does American English. Brian
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ziggy

16 years 3 months ago

hi

hi brian its great to get to read your words this makes a great read enjoyed and will return cheers brian ,,,,,,,,,ziggy
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Ziggy,

Thank you for reading and your comment. I look forward to your return. Brian
Ross Hamilton Hill

Ross Hamilton Hill

16 years 3 months ago

your poem

liked the rhythms and the imagery. Re dreams I keep a notebook by my bed, often write in the dark, (use a big notebook,) good way to capture the blarney either just before sleep or waking up. Let the subconscious do all the work.
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Ross,

That is a good idea. It will need to compete with the reading book. So, I suppose if I accept the possibility of writing in either then I am liable to be less restrained in recording. Thank you for reading and commenting. Brian
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Lunegirl

16 years 3 months ago

The last two lines i

The last two lines i especially love, winehouse is an amazing singer and writer. We drank in her pub in camden sometimes, before it burnt down hoping for a glimps of her, in a salacious way, of admiration, not the way that people like to dis her for falling. She has been rumoured to be seeing that ''young fellow'' again, but then you know what these rumours are like ; ) I love the poem, taking quite yukky things to portray the truth of those poeples situations in a succinct way. I do hope that you write more poetry Brian, like your blogs it always gives me food for thought vix Optimism in adversity nutures positive outcomes
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bjp

16 years 3 months ago

Dear Vicki,

As to the "young fellow": the great attractiveness in a personality that seems not to push against the walls of his own frailty is that he may be willing to accept our flaws with similar regularity. It is wishful thinking in the extreme. Thank you for liking my yukky poetry, Vicki. I can't quite catch up and I owe you a lot of comments. Brian
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Lunegirl

16 years 3 months ago

I never thought about it

I never thought about it like that, hooking up with the wronguns, because our own flaws are seeminly accepted, and therefor, maybe not quite so glareing? a ruse of course. And Dear Brian, i always apprieciate your comments, but they are certainly not ''owed'' bless you!! vix ; ) Optimism in adversity nutures positive outcomes
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ziggy

16 years 3 months ago

hello

hi again , this reads even better on another read , it i like the word useage the second stanza is my fav every word ,,,,,,,great read ,,,,,,,,,,,zigs