Category: Poetry

Photography Poetry

Quiet

Post author By Jimmy Lem
Post date May 30, 2014
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There’s a silence that grows
Between two

When the quiet in their mind
Is replaced by simply nothing

When they come to find
Two were never one

28 May 2014
(c) 2014, Jim Lemanowicz
Photo, 2007

Photography Poetry

Silence

Post author By Jimmy Lem
Post date May 25, 2014
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I wish you could tell me

How you’d like to be touched
Instead of this
Uncomfortable
Fumbling silence

We should be closer than this

April 10, 1989
(c) 1989 & 2013, Jim Lemanowicz. All rights reserved.

Photography Poetry

So Far

Post author By Jimmy Lem
Post date May 20, 2014
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I wanted to forget you by now
I wanted to walk away so far so far
So far I can’t do it
So far I’ve gone nowhere

Nowhere

June 18, 1991
(c) 1991 & 2013, Jim Lemanowicz, All rights reserved

Tags Forget, Nowhere, tracks, train

Photography Poetry

Maybe

Post author By Jimmy Lem
Post date May 19, 2014
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Maybe today
I’ll tell you
You make me feel like more
Than just the lonely person
I am

Maybe today
I’ll just wait for you
To tell me the same thing

April 11, 1989
(c) 1989, 2103 Jim Lemanowicz – All rights reserved

Tags Hampton Bays, Lonely, Swans

Art Photography Poetry

Walking Coma

All the music light
I can’t hear see

My face is melting
Running down my chin and chest
In little rivulets and streams
Or so it seems

All the love
I can’t feel

Kiss my stone blue lips
But I’ve been through too much
To again have happy dreams
Or so it seems

Photography Poetry

Everybody Knows I’m

I heard you making speeches up there
I saw you milking this Tipper Gore

Lard whale with a spatula
With smooth even strokes
Your lover snores obsidian bubbles

I have never felt like such a jerk in my life

Somebody find a nurse
Somebody get the methadone
Everybody knows I’m a jerk

We’re all dancing on the Love carpet
Singing with Shirley
Yeah, making sure well-known objects
And their shapes are well destroyed

It’s your party, but
I’m tired of taking orders
Everybody knows I’m a jerk

Tags Carpet, Everybody, Jerk, Shirley, Tipper

Photography Poetry

Instead I Just Took

The day
You kissed me, (if I had
Any sense), I should have said
“This is too painful”
“This is too fast” but
Instead I just took
Whatever I could get

Tags Pain, Take

Photography Poetry

The Grapes, The Grapes

The macrame pancreas
Ride, ride the macrame
Ride ride

A baby becomes a human shield
All that spinach goes to waste
An owl in the broom closet
Singing Civil War
Johnny comes munching bone again
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah

It’s no use baby
You’re not the chick you used to be
I want the tropical rainforests

Dominate me
Make me feel like Pat Boone
I want the grapes
The Cossack girls paint the station purple
I want the grapes
I need the grapes