2021 · Poems · Poemvember 2021 · poetry

“Relevant Covenant”

“Maudlin Orange” ©️ C.P. Hickey 2021

Living to word or wording to live,

prison time spent honing a shiv

Muck a luck stick it in a soft gut

Ending inertia before it could start

Scarlet and crimson solidly gaining

Pain poem pictures refraining the framing

Duly denoted, rudely promoted

A fashionable whimsy ignored

Plying with meaning, metaphorical preening, about, in a sense, eclectic

Meter, rhyme, line upon line squaring up artful electric

Verbal excessive persuading reflexive

A coat on a hot sweaty train

Roll up the windows practical sinew

A lot going on in the brain

Dancing poetic pace kept frenetic a darling instance requires

Tricks of words admiration absurd for some, it only inspires

If you missed yesterday’s Poemvember offering take a peek here: https://procrassthenation.com/2021/11/04/the-foggy-dew/

2021 · Poems · Poemvember 2021 · poetry

“The Foggy Dew”

“Seeing Through Me” ©️ C.P. Hickey 2021

“The Foggy Dew”

Bathroom baseboard

Soiled towel heap

Foggy mirrors present disposable mysteries

Pine aromas

Shaving kit bursts

Steam becomes wet sheaths on porcelain

Cut whiskers stick

Nostril hairs trimmed

Unseemly hairs arrive as inconvenient truths

Toweling off

Deodorant rolls

Toothpaste tube squeezed in the middle by a feminine grip

Dress shirt buttoned

Tie over around under and up

A reflection captured in time

Who am I looking at?

Who was I looking at?

Who will I see?

A foggy mirror presents disposable mysteries

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Christopher P. Hickey makes his home in Malden, MA, with his Wife and Children. He facilitates The Malden Writers’ Collaborative. When not working as an administrator at Harvard University, he creates content for his blog ProCrasstheNation.com.  The blog content spans the range from irreverent to philosophical. Picking up casual photography in recent years, he always tries to capture the light all around him.  Christopher enjoys spending time helping writing colleagues.

He is currently working on a series of short stories or perhaps a novella this November while participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Christopher will attempt to eclipse the 50,000 word mark for a second year in a row.

If you would like to contact Christopher, please contact him at: authorcphickey@gmailcom

There are many projects on tap at the end of this year, so please stay tuned. The month of November promises to be rich with poetry, and we’ll be looking into creating another Advent Calendar of blog posts for 2021. We’ll see a different story, memory, picture, etc. behind a series of mysterious and decorated doors.

2021 · Poems · Poemvember 2021 · poetry

“Falling Fast”

“Fall Fire Sky” © C.P. Hickey 2019

 

“Falling Fast”

 

All treats are out

Last leaves left still spinning down

Votes have been cast

 

Veterans to be honored

Pumpkiny goodness disappeared

More signs of Christmas advance

 

Stagnant furnaces fire up

Blankets are added

Lawns put-off, now prepared

 

First frost

Harvest collected

Sun moves farther away

 

Snow will have its way

Wind will peel back things

Seasonal death dying

 

Long winter naps

Radiators rickety spit

Window panes fog up

 

Fall, falling fast

New England Beauty

Colors paint Autumn

 

If you missed yesterday’s Poemvember offering take a peek here:  https://procrassthenation.com/2021/11/02/second-chances/

 

You can also follow me on:

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Twitter: Author C.P. Hickey (@authorcphickey) / Twitter

Christopher P. Hickey makes his home in Malden, MA, with his Wife and Children. He facilitates The Malden Writers’ Collaborative. When not working as an administrator at Harvard University, he creates content for his blog ProCrasstheNation.com.  The blog content spans the range from irreverent to philosophical. Picking up casual photography in recent years, he always tries to capture the light all around him.  Christopher enjoys spending time helping writing colleagues.

He is currently working on a series of short stories or perhaps a novella this November while participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Christopher will attempt to eclipse the 50,000 word mark for a second year in a row.

If you would like to contact Christopher, please contact him at: authorcphickey@gmailcom

 

There are many projects on tap at the end of this year, so please stay tuned. The month of November promises to be rich with poetry, and we’ll be looking into creating another Advent Calendar of blog posts for 2021. We’ll see a different story, memory, picture, etc. behind a series of mysterious and decorated doors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2021 · Poemvember 2021 · poetry · Uncategorized

“Zesty Trick or Treat”

“Darkness Calls” ©️ Lissette Alvarado

“Zesty Trick or Treat”

Tricks and treats

And we’ll worn feets

Buckets full to mass

Glowing sticks

An extra Twix

Sweaty masks in masks

Little hands

Needful demands

“Dad, I gotta pee!”

That house is dark

Just past the park

Bloody skinned knee

Quite a haul

They had a ball

Pumpkin hillbillies

The prize of youth

A full sweet tooth

Fall time memories

Poems · poetry

Waiting in Good Faith

“Terrain” ©️C.P. Hickey 2021

“Waiting in Good Faith”

It happened again

A summer not as planned

Bug bites in the single digits

Sunburns of no consequence

Waiting for something else

To

Happen

Hoping certain certainties avoid

Protecting those we love from life

And the harm of thoughtless folks

Libertines have become civil libertines

And exact destruction

When passing through the self-checkout line

Not wanting to wait in long lines

Circumventing the gradual path

Because…

People die from the consumption

But, not that consumption

Animals of learned habits

Bad habits

Stain the narrative

A story told

Obfuscating

A selling sexy self-lies

That only we ourselves believe

To get to the next instance

Where choice

Or, it’s illusion

Stammers, sputters, and relents

Waiting for a break

Waiting in good faith

Poems · poetry

“Uncivil Liberties”

“Mask a Nation” ©️ C. P. Hickey 2021

“Uncivil Liberties

Growling self-advocacy

Above all else

You, put your interests

Sowing harm and consequence

In the name of happiness

Pursuant to,

The line your ego draws

Not once

Giving service

Or thought

Pursuant to,

The pursuits of others

Your epistemology fits on the head of a pin

A conscience abstaining exercise

Kicking cans down roads

Escape goat, summoned

Pride throughout the fall

What will it take to move the needle?

On your impertinent insistence

To elevate only yourself

And leave objects in mirror

further away than they appear

Keep your choice to die

But…

Go do it the fuck alone

And leave the rest of us out of it

2021 · Poems · poetry

“Stripped of Memory”

“Light Lit” ©️ C.P. Hickey 2021

“Stripped of Memory”

The memory of this place consigns its pain to me

A bunch of grapes plucked off,

Empty sprigs form quiet stress

Place-holding taunts and barbs,

The burnt toast ghost of treasured anticipation

Who will remember what I can’t?

When I can no longer bear witness

Such is the narrative:

A leaf blows off a bridge

After having been stuck

And dances the air

Until it comes to float on restless waters

Carried away to be counted among other forgetful forgottens

2021 · Poems · poetry

“Light Sleeper”

“Almost There” ©️ L.Alvarado 2020

“Light Sleeper”

Light Sleeper

Dream thiefer

Floorboard creaking

Mouse peeper

Midnight train

Quite delayed

Impacting

Another day

Effort spent

Rockabye

Up again

Our third try

Sleepless angel

Close thine eyes

Shifting restless

Not surprised

Similac insomniac

Eyelids raw

Yawning taunt

Here comes dawn

2021 · Poems · poetry

“Tending Toward Rational in an Irrational World”

“Darkness” ©️C.P. Hickey 2021

“Tending Toward Rational in an Irrational World”

One day when I wasn’t paying attention things changed.

With little or no explanation, a large group of people decided to embrace a crisis of chaos.

Like a bystander lighting a wooden match and watching it exhaust itself.

Then another, and yet, still another.

Never noticing how close to the gasoline they were, or how even a used up match could still ignite a conflagration.

Never a consequence conceived within the action, but an automaton bent on all the innate ills of the turmoil caused by the certainty that only paranoia can provide.

Juicy secrets rolled around in a dark perspective and seemingly rational, just for a moment.

Then, though, comes the fear derived of being discovered for pandering to such nonsense.

Stranded in a painted corner, with one’s hand gripping tightly to the wet brush.

Nowhere to go.

Just waiting for the paint to dry, so then a leap can be made to the next hurtful idea.

One day when I wasn’t paying attention things changed.

The rational world fell prey to narcissists that refused to admit the hideous nature of their reflection.

And the world has never recovered.

Poems · poetry

“The Misery Of Society”

“Claw D” ©️C.P. Hickey 2020

“The Misery Of Society”

The misery of society

Resides in sobriety

Of peer pressure sanctioned

Social media propriety

The goal is correction

By way of projection

Behavior game wardens

Chastising selection

What causes offense?

Despite the events

Or mind’s eye abstraction

Devoid of pretense?

A champion scolder

A high holy roller

Supposing to know

All that is kosher

Here is the trick

Mister Etiquette

The perception of correction

Is solely your shtick

A word to the wise:

Should be no surprise

Keep your thoughts to yourself

We don’t need your advice

Nor do we need

On all thoughts to agree

I’ll say what I like

Despite your unease

The misery of society

Resides in sobriety

Of peer pressure sanctioned

Social media propriety