#smallpoems My kids dog dug up our cilantro patch today rocks and dirt crumbled can't leave those snakes alone Not regular cilantro, mind you real renegade stuff Free of our garden Plopped atop the driveway, crouching against a rock wall fighting for light in shade multi-headed hydrangeas regrowth from last year a kid's project for sure something lovingly pl
Depths of love rise and sink pulled by hidden forces retreating water revealing scars of past industry hidden again in rising passions but currents of love itself always pushes forward always out Sea #smallpoems #tdc3087
#smallpoems Drips condense, fall to tunes of crackling ice beating out a two-step shanty Sugar squeezed from sunlit runs in tart pains of labor Aint know best lemonade Expect recipe you got Lemonade no competition more a Goal A way of being getting there before you know its gone
learning fuses as ideas melt congeal coalescing in communities as thought New Knowledge sparked on tips of past as spindles rekindle flames of desire in fibers of unlit realities #smallpoems
Before Biggie Predating Tupac Lemon Henry Jefferson lie frozen dead in streets of Chicago Heart attack? Poison? Robbed of royalties? Blind Lemmon Jefferson father of American music, forgotten buried in an unmarked grave #smallpoems
Eclectic Mayhem only choice voice of Glowstick Gonzos who hoist moist truths in corduroys to counterpoise noise gathering in wales of failing forward hailing on cords of color cascading in stolen stars #smallpoems
#smallpoems Fundamental beat maintained by Spirituals patting of one foot hands clap out Not marking straight time But Stop-Time Strong accent. A down beat bandied from hand to foot from foot to hand Found poem from Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking,
Mr. Waters taught me to stop-time. Pause, listen. New paths. 'Tonic pitches cast in progressions of lost time unfolding histories held in a cradle of tonality pointing to half steps in turnarounds of my life #smallpoems
Jazz ain't jazz until it be Jazz which ain't not not jazz but broken beats and stolen feats amd polyrhythms hidden in fusions ridden into found sounds floating in a Bitches Brew drank during Foreplay #smallpoems
Thx for the recommendation @dogtrax https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/content/listen/ I listen too Kamasi a new ear stumbling on sounds of a future's past an ethnomusicology unfolding in a dancing Lotus peaking from behind the curtain #smallpoems
Pressure pushes an unknown reality with each swallow Pain ensconced in a room while desire to teach drives me no thought follows locked away from family awaiting for truth dripping on a stick I shoved up my nose #smallpoems
#smallpoems I am the white space wrapping Warhols's Banana eaten and tossed next to discarded shoes out of frame by the crosswalk while the Hidenburg burns A broken zipper stuck on Sticky Fingers that bend light in prisms in photos of an ilmattic infant ready to die while others drown by dollars on a string pulling Patti's blank stare aiming into @mrchuckd '
Content warning: Flash sensitive Here is today's #poembox poem "RobotGuy" https://jgregorymcverry.com/poetry/robotguy.mp4 music by Ecrite: https://soundcloud.com/ecrite/e-c-r-i-t-e-robot #clmooc #smallpoems #writingcommunity
@DonaldClark bad bits of behaviourism bring in billions in ad bids biting on bad behavior bought in fits of gigabits that sip at brain's basic nature #smallpoems
#smallpoems My knuckles scraped, dirt congeals with blood I stack the fallen rock and slip into time scales a rock turned by glacier cleared by Slash and Burn Indigenous farmers stacked neatly in abandon walls by a Conquering culture restacked by Suburban decsendants now mixing my blood into this soil as moss falls to my time Rocks when you listen closely si