Purple Hat Welcomed by the man with the tall purple hat I could do nothing but freeze and fall back The wizzies wanged and the scared babies screamed This place is a real life dark day dream. Full of thinking thinkers and mind tinkers I think I’ve done it, some one thing rightly, WritingContinue reading “Purple Hat”
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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
“I have a weakness I scarcely dare to avow. [It] consists in preferring rather mournful aspects to all others, low skies, solitary plains, discreet in hue, where each tuft of grass plays it’s little tune to the indolent breath of the wind of midday… I wait impatiently for the bad weather to come, andContinue reading “Pierre Puvis De Chavannes”
This is bad
This is bad These critics tell me how this is bad so bad They cringe and shrivel and their fingers twitch horizontal And I say, with the most innocent eyes I can conjure, I like it this way I like it a mess And rugged and the honesty that’s so pure it makes you cryContinue reading “This is bad”
Frayed Ends- Morality Collection
Frayed Ends And what, dear children, is the end of the world? Is it when a hydrogen bomb is triggered, and flesh and concrete and body and soul are brought to nothingness by the fury of a stillborn sun? Is it when the rich finally get tired of carrying the poor on their backs (or,Continue reading “Frayed Ends- Morality Collection”
Sweaty Palms
Speaking of posting things that make our palms sweat and our hearts beat out of our chest. I figured I’d post a personal one. Race is something that is extremely hard for me to talk about. I have a post in drafts that’s still there about the complexities of growing up bi-racial. But I figuredContinue reading “Sweaty Palms”
When Feelings Collide with Words
She came And She went She Left. She never Said Goodbye I Meeean I Said It To Her From Behind But With Her Back Turned To Me I Didn’t Have Much Confidence That We Would Meet Again Like If I Got To Say It To Her While Looking In Her Eyes And I’m Just GoingContinue reading “When Feelings Collide with Words”
Happy Thanksgiving
Over here at Jayne.press we are thankful for those who step out and write the things that make their heart race and their palms sweat. Cheers to all and Happy Thanksgiving from us to you.
I Want It All -Morality Collection
I Want It All Sitting in my cardboard box room Only small coin in my hand Flip on the tube, there’s happy people Living well across the land Got bright smiles and new clothing Spending money just for fun Why should they have all the pleasure Why not let me dance in the sun IContinue reading “I Want It All -Morality Collection”
Haiku for Xoe
Originally posted on Notes From A Summer of Discontent:
In an old barnhouse A tiny bat with silken claws Clings to its mother He asks, “When I grow, Will I soar the gloaming skies And feast on glow-worms?” His mother says, “My son, When you are grown you will hunt Dragons between stars.” Image by…
Geoff Blanchett
Gracie at the Siege of Troy Upon the battered shores of Troy did Gracie arise from the lapping waves. As the armies of Agamemmnon charged the walls, Gracie followed in their wake, the marks of her claws in the sand the only trace of her path, her triangular head split wide in a grin, herContinue reading “Geoff Blanchett”
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