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Captain Zoom
16:58 / 08.04.02
Quite liked that one Billy. Nice.

Zoom.
 
 
Captain Zoom
16:59 / 08.04.02
He tucks his tiny fist
into the space below his chin
curls his legs up
till they touch his chest
looks up at me and smiles
says "I love you too, Dad"
and closes his eyes to drift
into another joyful dream.
 
 
deja_vroom
17:08 / 08.04.02
No, Cap, It Was Bad

I

No, Cap.
It was bad.
As bad as watching a car crash.
From
Inside.
As bad as having
Your hand stuck
In a plastic bag full of vomit.
Vomit.
That just got out of the fridge.

II

Fridge

III

(You know, cold and with lard globules
Floating
Swirling
Touching
Your gentle skin
In a hazy September morning.

IV
Fridge.

***
idj - 040802
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:11 / 08.04.02
Criticism rendered in verse. Perhaps that does have a place here. I just don't want this particular forum devolving into mud-slinging. As I said in Nick's polic thread, there's a place for poetical critics. I prefer to think of this thread as a Barbelith Poetry Anthology. At least, that's how I intend to treat it.

Zoom.
 
 
Billy Corgan
17:44 / 08.04.02
my diseased heart
is sick
with your sorrow
the sorrow of love
love dying
dying inside
of our hearts
raise your veil
we wed ourselves to sadness
eternal moonlight
the shame of knowing
and then forgetting
the knowledge of the ages
my heart is bloody
my body is broken
I shall live in this death forever
a hollow man
I am empty
God frowns upon me
I have made him mourn my existence
as His greatest failure
a child of light snuffed out
in the desert of eternal regret
I shall walk alone
 
 
deja_vroom
17:51 / 08.04.02
Fridge.
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:00 / 08.04.02
[Im quite partial to fridge(magnet) poetry]
 
 
deja_vroom
18:07 / 08.04.02
It's the future of poetry, hun. Some people talk about it, but I'm *doing* something about it, dammit!
 
 
Billy Corgan
18:54 / 08.04.02
a shimmer of hope
in an ocean of spite
I am lost

why?
why do we try?
why?
oh why?
why?
why do babies feel the pain?
why do we hurt each other?
why can't we all love?

you want this world of hate
you tell me this
with your hate mouth
your poison pen
and hell words

I do not want to live in this world of doom
no
I do not
 
 
Billy Corgan
20:26 / 08.04.02
I love love
I hate hate
which one do you
most deeply relate?

I want to kiss the sky
I want to make love to the future
I want to fuck my God in heaven
to thank Him for this world of pain and joy

love
love
love
love
I love love

the sunshine smiles upon
hey mister,
would you like to revel with me?
let your heartshine free
let it light up your life
a life of love
love of a life
love
love
love

love
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:10 / 09.04.02
When did my words grow teeth
when did eveything I say start to hurt someone
when did I lose control of my thoughts
when did my thoughts stop making sense

I should think before I speak
I should speak what I think
I should reconcile those two ideas
I should think before I think

and speak what I speak

When did my words grow teeth?
 
 
Billy Corgan
18:50 / 09.04.02
my eyes burn
with the quiet dignity of nothingness
tell me I'm nothing
I am everything
you are nothing
you are my enemy
my dark warrior skull monster
waiting on a never-sloth
lonely soul of a child who no one loves
the unfair torture of the innocent
doomed to a life of everything
I WILL RISE AGAIN
 
 
noone
08:44 / 10.04.02
The Sand Castle Critic

The sand castle critic has no hands
To fashion castles - good or bad
Only feet to kick them over
Which he does when no-one’s looking
Because he hates people with hands – good or bad
And sand castles
And the way he can’t make them.

by me, 10 April 2002
 
 
Captain Zoom
18:40 / 10.04.02
One day walking down the old street
I happened to trip on my feet
When my nose hit the ground
I suddenly found
That the expulsion of blood is quite fleet.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
22:52 / 12.04.02
Can this go here? Well, why not....

 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:24 / 14.04.02
Hey Zoom /Evil,

there's not a single one of your poems in this thread which has not moved me, maybe just a little, sometimes a whole lot. Wish I could do it...

In a more detached and analytical way, I have to say you have mastered several verse forms and yet retained a fair degree of emotional fluency and congruence. VG tick, Gold Star. And thanks.
 
 
Captain Zoom
21:48 / 17.04.02
(Thanks ZoCher)

angry eyes
from between petals
coloured blue and pink
rimmed in red
 
 
Billy Corgan
17:48 / 22.04.02
oh ye fragile artiste,
dark star of this world
the warmth of the sun
shall even thy scales
justice shall be served
slake thy thirst on the honey-juice
the nectar of the noblest gods
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:07 / 21.05.02
Once cursed
Once loved.

Mattered, I did, but no more.
Once thirsted, now quenched
and the burn of desire that once moved me
is gone.

Once taken
Once left.
 
 
Billy Corgan
19:33 / 21.05.02
I feel your teeth
sink into my flesh
I cry
no more
the sky is red
my fever burns
I see you laughing
in my face
what's so funny?
I am in pain
does my pain bring you good cheer?
I am traumatized
you are cruel
I feel my mind exploding
I shall rock
 
 
cusm
20:00 / 21.05.02
Hey, lets play a game
We can all talk in Haiku
Then again, lets not
 
 
Billy Corgan
14:46 / 24.05.02
kiss me
sweet nothings
acid tongue
you tear my skin
with your evil claws
STOP THIS MADNESS
why
can't
I
feel
the
pain
of
existence
without
crying
soul-tears
I HEAR THE DARKNESS CALLING ME
I
become
one
with
the
SHADOW-BEASTS OF TOMORROW

I
AM
FREE!
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
19:46 / 15.06.02
Kill London Kill.

There all dropping like flies,
no surprise,
a soup kitchen in Hackney.

Stealing peoples eyes,
the fat man in the corner knows the end is nigh,
grips the harlots thigh,
sharp nails let blood flow,
speaks in staccato tones,
your royal venom poisons a newborn soul,
the prince reads the obituaries of whores,
the drunk on the street spews his load,
the burning time has come,
to the tune of the national anthem.

Exit code in Soho,
lines traced to a whispering dawn,
6am sun rose,
you know there watching you,
it's time to go,
down the tunnels into the underground,
do you feel safe at home?
When you can still smell the night before.
 
 
Billy Corgan
21:02 / 15.06.02
you kick me
with your goon grin
shining in moonlight
stab my eyes
and make me cry
a river of blood
crack my bones
with chains
and pipes
crush me under a car
I deserve this
a fate of pain
sleep
sleep forever
 
 
deja_vroom
22:59 / 15.06.02
The respectable citizen
Enthusiast of milky-skinned little boys
Sat down on the Chair
And his Brain became Flowers.
And his Brain violoncelled.
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
05:25 / 16.06.02
I dreamt last night of stained satin sheets,
stained satin sheets,
the rain soaked through,
my cardboard home,
as I lay on the dirty street,
lay on the dirty street,

Ever closer,
newborn sun,
police kick violently when they come,
shadows linger in a cool grey dawn,
for this is London, abandon hope.

Sucked into a whirling void you go,
dry blood encrusted around your nose,
eleven chimes ring,
a copper sings,
the procession of the poppy bearers marches on,
the war never stops,
pull it together man,
stiff upper lip,
what you realise,
is that your life is shit,
have your say,
but don’t expect change,
pick up a gun,
but end it for who?
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
08:01 / 16.06.02
I walk the streets,
where the stones speak,
and the river runs red,
where the forces of empire meet,
visions of dark European capital,
metal buildings,
the worms playground,
through the cracks love is found,
trees nod as you pass,
a road to nowhere paved with good intent,
spliced reality from a park bench,
altered state of consciousness,
slip between future and past,
listen to the speakers mad moans,
there she goes,
the hollow creeping grows,
taking over what was a soul,
lines of buildings, red slate roofs,
romance lives on in Charing cross road,
hope born,
a purpose sown,
some idea of where to go,
how can I leave this place when there is so much to do,
a new beginning comes through you,
the futures mine this much I know.
 
 
Billy Corgan
12:08 / 16.06.02
your sweet hands
caress my smooth brow
I am a maverick
I have my own code
my way
or the
you die
way
you have what I need
give it to me
I want it
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
18:28 / 16.06.02
Movin on and on,
Movin on and on,
I get up at the crack of dawn,
And make my plans for the war to come,
Or am I just getting drunk,
Who gives a fuck I’m having fun,
Revel in the chaos to come,
Positive energy attracts cosmic entities,
It’s a time to rise,
Start some fires,
Phoenix from the ashes,
Never before had so many a chances,
Pain is just a stage,
On which all your fears are played,
If you hate yourself its time to change,
become a dancer,
move on to the next stage,
viva la anarchy.
Movin,
Movin on and on,
I get up at the am I just getting drunk crack of dawn,
And a fuck I’m having Start fun some fires,
Revel in Pain is just a stage the chaos to come, make my plans for the war to come,
Or am I just getting on and on drunk,
Who gives attracts to the next stage cosmic entities,
It’s a time to which all your fears are played, rise,
Start,
Phoenix
Positive energy from the ashes,
its time next stage to change, had so many a chances,
Pain is just played,
On which all your fears are a stage,
If you
become Never before hate yourself a dancer,
move on to the,
viva la Phoenix
 
 
Billy Corgan
00:58 / 17.06.02
don't scar me
I'm already wounded
your touch
it feels like crying

I'm in the shadows
lurking for days
skulking about
it is you I'm without
it's painful
and there is no end
to my pain

oh, jesus
you're so much like me
suffering to save us all
I love you
but I hate me
 
 
Cloudhands
19:52 / 24.06.02
risking ridicule but what the hell I'll post it anyway.

my heart, forged in your image is useless to me now
so I will send it to you
look carefully
you will see yourself in it
you will see how i love you
then I will cut my veins, to release the parts of you that have spread through me
and pierce the surface of my cells to let you escape like vapour
I will be rid of you
and I will send it all back so you can be complete again
 
 
Cloudhands
19:59 / 24.06.02
Zoom - I enjoyed reading your poetry, it was calm and beautiful.
 
 
Captain Zoom
19:08 / 25.06.02
Thanks Cloudhands. I'd probably be writing more but Billy's mocking has soured my taste for it. I rather enjoyed yours too. Something I have to work very hard at is maintaining an image throughout a poem. You've done it quite effectively in yours.

Zoom.
 
 
Cloudhands
19:38 / 25.06.02
cheers zoom, don't be put off by billy, put him on ignore, his poetry was terrible.
 
 
Billy Corgan
20:15 / 25.06.02
If I've done anything to keep Zoom from sharing his poetry doggeral with us, I think I've done this community a great service! If you can't see the pure brilliance of my work, then I'm afraid you just don't know anything about what true poetry is.

Here's one of my latest poetic epics - read and learn, kids. Professor Billy's going to send you to school. It's called "Withering Freaks".

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mirthful tears of speculation
to coif away when in the spring
I would have adored him even so
to return a foppish dandy
soused on half-baked applejack
une homme innocent est mort
la femme enceinte avec son est seule
withering in pain
NOT living
AND not beautiful
and NOT flowering
LETHAL
where they see beauty
I see splendor
they see intelligence
I see genius
they see unique
I see special
they see the branch
I see the tree
they see the sky
I see space
they see the stream
I see the river
they see the kitten
I see the tiger
they see the wind
I see the storm
they see perfection
I saw it first
so violate me, dark serpents of sorrow
show me a new hell tomorrow
they are labeled
for society dislikes them
people wish they weren't there
just because they're different
this is not the way it should be
for no one is truly "weird" or a "freak"
that is just a label put on them
by prejudiced people
some people taunt them
in order to hurt their feelings
yet they are a person
like everyone else
some may not believe it
but it's true
so next time you see one
don't shun them
just smile and great them
you'll make their day
I promise you that
mark my words
 
  

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