https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-531-aug. en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:36:17 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5442-death-has-no-name-4-30 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5442-death-has-no-name-4-30 I can’t remember the ocean the way I used to - the way sand felt beneath bare feet, how gulls circled lazily overhead, picking at the carcass of a washed up Portugese man-o-war. Bronze bodies stretched across the sand. Tight ribs thrust up like some great Naga; emaciated and trying to slither free of a three thousand dollar prison. Near the shore, sand castles would rise and fall, as if every child were a politician and every wave were God; the tide leaving fish to rot in the sun. Poetic Insomniac Jasmine's Poetry Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:59:05 GMT /section-72-jasmine-s-poetry#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5442 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5442 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5442 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5579-question-for-new-users https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5579-question-for-new-users There have been a lot of new folk signing up in the last couple of months, but almost all have posted nothing. I would invite -- or rather, beg -- all new people to give us some reasons for this silence. Is the site too difficult to navigate? Does it not have what you're looking for? Do you not like the kind of comments here? Are you unhappy with the standard of poetry? PLEASE. Give us feedback, without it we have no direction. That goes for older members who aren't posting as well -- be as honest as you like. ... more Leanne Questions Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:00:39 GMT /section-365-questions#comments 48 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5579 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5676-dreams-a-collection https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5676-dreams-a-collection Success It's said ‘success comes not to the faint of heart'. Indeed, it calls on those whose practiced arts are feigning smarts and quick-time verbal darts and teethy smiles, disarming wiles and deals in secret swung and genuflections sung to those with purse well-hung. Career Men mingle, paired or single, round a room, propelled by pasted smiles - to orbit whom? They seek the sun for warmth - return to womb, or hope in turn themselves to burn. Bizarre, this solar system - gaseous giants spin nearest Sol, yet barely move - pretense                       of proper orbit, faking comet's brilliance. Money Discovered destitution disappoints. Impaled by chance on economic points, your snazzy home or sporty car disjoints. Perhaps someday you'll make your way to sunny Shangri-la - like salmon you once saw, regain U-to-pi-a. Sex Nocturnal dreams come either dry or wet; diurnal thoughts envision perfect pet - another's mate or office bait - and yet when heart impels to ring their bells your partner will suffice. Imagined bods entice - and make you do it twice. Sleepless Dreams I've seen the harried man whose nights were tossed by hopes that morphed to monsters, sourly sauced by thoughts his aspirations might be lost: What never was and never does might never do or be - from nothing gained, you see, regards himself in poverty. Dreamless Sleep I've seen spent men with minds devoid of dreams - who lost the gleam that lit their morning schemes; or never gazed at stars or mused extremes; the young heart idled from passions bridled - complacent sauntering cow; compliant mule at plow, now stuck in the ruts of his brow. ... more Alcuin of York Poetry and other writes of Alcuin of York Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:40:58 GMT /section-216-poetry-and-other-writes-of-alcuin-of-york#comments 9 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5676 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5676 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5676 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5540-again https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5540-again   I will refuse you, no matter the wages of growing old and lonely. Our shivering fingers stretch hell's reach, breaking apart  a thousand nights of silence. No, no, you cannot lift my silken hair to uncover alabaster weakness. Softly taunting, my lower back will now curve away from you. (Blind faith is rightly dead.) Again I tell you - let the robe fall to my feet. Go now.... the inky night calls. I will not remember you in its naked stare.   Kat Kat's poetry Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:27:47 GMT /section-427-kat-s-poetry#comments 8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5540 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5540 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5540 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5638-death-in-the-afternoon https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5638-death-in-the-afternoon She revered words.But onlyin inkwrittenon the pages of booksby men(and women)who were just tryingto make senseof it all. The spoken were understood. But resounded empty, devoid of truth or intention. Impressed by their own sincerity but never quite believing it. Take the words as you would your grand gestures. Square me the circle. Fetch me the moon. Hand me death in the afternoon. word junkie Poetry Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:00:40 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5638 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5680-fuck-love-poetry https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5680-fuck-love-poetry Give me...sexydesperatepainfulblindbloodyrawsoothingtenderjoyousshatteringdizzyyearning insane...poetrybut...fuck lovepoetry word junkie Poetry Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:58:19 GMT /section-459-poetry#comments 10 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5680 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5680 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5680 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5558-1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5558-1 stream of conscious anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5558 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5558 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5558 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5557-2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5557-2 silly dogerel anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5557 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5557 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5557 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5556-3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5556-3 Not really a nursery rhyme anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5556 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5555-4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5555-4 searching the void of emotion anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5555 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5555 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5555 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5553-5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5553-5 a still life in trite anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5553 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5553 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5553 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5552-6 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5552-6 an aural study of simple sounds anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5552 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5552 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5552 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5554-7 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5554-7 broken couplets anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5554 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5554 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5554 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5560-8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5560-8 a villanelle anstey Turning a phrase on my tongue Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-454-turning-a-phrase-on-my-tongue#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5560 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5560 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5560 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5444-death-s-first-name-is-eugene https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5444-death-s-first-name-is-eugene This is why he has no compassion. His parents didn't even have the heart to call him Gene. Oh no. Always Eugene anstey Just a Nastey Journal Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-30-just-a-nastey-journal#comments 8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5444 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5444 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5444 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5438-flaubert https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5438-flaubert I sat with Gustave by the stone tablet he found in Iraq and he said, "Stephan the world has no answers only questions." The sweat on my brow beaded, forming a crown of salt in the heat of the desert, "But what of this," I pointed at the words in stone before us. "I do not exist." Signed, "GOD" He smiled, "When I showed the atheist he said,  'See! I told you so!' so perhaps even the answer is not answer enough." anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 5 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5438 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5438 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5438 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5616-for-want-of-a-summer-day https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-5616-for-want-of-a-summer-day Draft 1 It's been cold lately anstey Release the Hounds Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-29-release-the-hounds#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A5616 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1891-i-d-be-sorry-but-i-m-too-damned-average https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1891-i-d-be-sorry-but-i-m-too-damned-average everything means somethingexcept me i'm meaninglessthat explains the best of meand my boxers i'm also triteand that explainswhy everything I saysounds like everythinganyone else says anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1891 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1302-i-ll-be-the-witch https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1302-i-ll-be-the-witch i lined up all the little 1-inch square post-it notesfrom the door to the diningroom tableso that you wouldn't lose your waybut you didn't laugh we were out of bread crumbsi'm in a wicked moodand I thought you wouldn't mindif i ate you anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1302 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1302 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1302 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1351-i-ll-have-faith https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-1351-i-ll-have-faith you know, there will be tearsand there'll be laughteryou know, there will fearsand joy that follows afteras long as she loves meas long as she doesas long as foreverI'll have faith just because there will be monkeysand there'll be mayhemthere'll by rockin' roll musicand rings with real gemsas long as she loves meas long as she doesas long as foreverI'll have faith just because there'll be angels in the moonlightand there'll be holier than thouthere'll be never againand there'll be just one more try nowand as long as she loves meas long as she doesthere'll be foreverI have faith because ... more anstey Dregs & Other Unreadables Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-77-dregs-other-unreadables#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/1351 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/1351 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A1351