Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’

Coffee Coffee Joy Joy

April 16, 2016

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Rich and dark and lovely
I drink my coffee straight
Serve it hot and fresh
I don’t got time to wait

Coffee Coffee Joy Joy
I crave you every day
You never disappoint me
Don’t ever go away

Percolate or press it,
Or cook it drip by drip
Just fill my thirsty mug
I cherish every sip

Coffee Coffee Joy Joy
I crave you every day
You never disappoint me
Don’t ever go away

Intoxicants hurt my head
Or make the room spin round
Coffee is the only drug
That never lets me down

Coffee Coffee Joy Joy
I crave you every day
You never disappoint me
Don’t ever go away

Don’t need no fancy mocha
Don’t need no Frappuccino
A simple steaming cup of Jo
And I am good to go

Coffee Coffee Joy Joy
I crave you every day
You never disappoint me
Don’t ever go away

 

by Richard W. Bray

Teeter Totter

April 8, 2016

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My daddy beat me every day
When other kids went out to play
My daddy taught me right from wrong
He made me pure; he made me strong

Wonderin’ what it’s all about
Turns my insides inside out
It hurts to look inside my head
I’d rather just hate you instead

My side’s right and yours is wrong
We’re good and great and pure and strong
You’re demonic; you are sick
Your words are just an evil trick

Wonderin’ what it’s all about
Turns my insides inside out
It hurts to look inside my head
I’d rather just hate you instead

I’ll never walk inside your shoes
We can’t win until you lose
Life’s a seesaw; I can’t twiddle
There is nothing in the middle

Wonderin’ what it’s all about
Turns my insides inside out
It hurts to look inside my head
I’d rather just hate you instead

by Richard W. Bray

I’m Me Because I’m Not You

March 27, 2016

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I’m me
Cuz I’m not you
And I hate everything
You do

I hate hate hate hate hate you
And I hate your stupid group
You’re a bunch of stupid losers
And you’re all full of poop

I hate everything you do
I hate everything you say
I could fix the whole world
If you just went away

I have a pair of handrails:
Anger and disgust
I don’t hate you cuz I want to
I hate you cuz I must

by Richard W. Bray

Futility

March 27, 2016

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You can talk till you turn blue
You can say what he should do
So he can be someone like you

You can call in kith and kin
And have them add up all his sin
But you ain’t never gonna win

You can devise a perfect plan
So he can be a better man
But you will never understand

You can bitch; you can complain
But there’s nothing you will gain
Cuz you’re never gonna talk a person sane

by Richard W. Bray

Voices and Voices

March 5, 2016

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There was no shutting them down! Whether we had anything for them to do or not, they ran all the time! And were they ever loud! Oh, God, were they ever loud.

—Kurt Vonnegut
, Galapagos

People and people screaming with need
Their dreams and desires and egos to feed
Attacking my senses and making me bleed

Bloody compassion fills me inside
My fragile existence cannot abide
I’ll dig me a hole where I can hide

But even alone I can’t clear my head
Voices and voices of anguish and dread
Rattle the skull until we are dead

by Richard W. Bray

Passy Aggressiva

February 27, 2016

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Did I forget to tell you
That your boss left a note?
“Come to work or you’re fired”
Is all she wrote

I made you egg salad
Was it such a fiasco?
There wasn’t any mayo
So I just used Tabasco

Glad to hear you’re dating
We were so distressed
So you like the other gender
Whoda’ ever guessed?

Everyone agrees
He’s the best you’ll ever do
But we can’t figure out
What he sees in you

So I forgot to feed your pets
Don’t be such a bore
You need to check your values
You can always get some more

Lighten up as little
And give me a break
You’re so uptight
Like you never make mistakes

by Richard W. Bray

Songs of Self

February 21, 2016

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Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me.
Nor do I often want to be a part of you.
But we are, that’s true!

Langston Hughes, Theme for English B

Separation
Is illusion
Bringing pain
And much confusion

We tear our lovely
World to bits
To believe
That we exist

We devastate
And we devour
Accumulating
Stuff and power

What is life?
And what is matter?
Songs of Self
Just make us sadder

by Richard W. Bray

O fairest of Creation

February 21, 2016

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A universe of traits
Lively and sedate
Butch and straight

Matron and girly
Smooth and curvy
Delicate and nervy

Nimble and bold
Young and old
Precious like gold

Fun and feral and silly and wise
In every shape and shade and size
You make the world a lovely place
In three point seven billion ways

by Richard W. Bray

 

Put the World in its Place

February 5, 2016

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Time was away and somewhere else

Louis MacNeice, Meeting Point

Together in a room
With no one else around
We dance to a tune
That doesn’t make a sound

Where dreamers rhapsodize
Inside a cozy space
With my eyes locked in your eyes
We put the world in its place

by Richard W. Bray

What Was I Thinking?

January 31, 2016

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And I wonder sometimes, what is it in me that hates me?

Richard Wilbur, Complaint

What was I thinking?
Am I insane?
I wonder what happens
Inside my brain

Boss took me out
To announce my promotion
I puked on his shoes
And got a demotion

Whenever life hands me
The perfect shot
It ties up my tongue
In a perfect knot

She asked for my number
I was ready to score
Why did I tell her
She looks like a whore?

Whenever I’m offered
A True Romance
I flub all my lines
And ruin my chance

My mind is an iceberg
I just see the tip
I cannot control
What comes across my lips

by Richard W. Bray