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POTD (contains the F-bomb)

by Madeline Pestolesi

Like their predecessors,
The opulent clouds
Exploded in an extasy of movement
And the crystaline forms
Etched their shape into my inner being.

What
The
Fuck
Does
That
Mean?

An original stanza:
Yet its twins
Are featured:
And featured
Daily.
A never-ending example
Of the empty words
Filling up the home page.

Beautiful words yes,
But filled with inner-meaning?
No,
Usually not.

Please show me something
That means anything
To someone,
And stop assailing my senses
With the bimbo words.

09/24/2003

Posted on 09/25/2003
Copyright © 2026 Madeline Pestolesi

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Vikki Owens on 09/25/03 at 04:21 AM

exactly. not only do i agree, but your poem is mechanically fine. i love 'bimbo words', so descriptive of so many of the potd entrys. most of them, i dont even get past the first two lines....

Posted by Quinlan L Gibson on 11/13/03 at 11:22 PM

hmmm...i was just having that conversation with someone else who agrees the other day.

Posted by Jolie Jordan on 03/01/04 at 01:25 AM

Ah... you don't know how much I love this. I use to like all that "pretty" stuff that made no sense, but then again I was young.. and didn't really know much about anything. and now.. I just want to feel something when I read someones writing. I want to feel it, that they felt when writing. or something like that;) anyway, this is going on my faves.

Posted by Ginette T Belle on 03/26/04 at 03:45 PM

very well put...interesting, unique perspective

Posted by Mike Loftis on 09/12/04 at 04:44 AM

Amen. Gutsy poem and well stated.

Posted by Indigo Tempesta on 02/07/05 at 01:18 AM

interesting thought, reminiscent of a conversation that we had [and got into something of a mess for] in the new beat forum a few weeks ago. my thoughts are: a) it's interesting, and perhaps useless, to speculate on whether a poem means anything to anybody... b) i think this poem could use a lot more in the way of images to tell, rather than telling itself. maybe get rid of some of the filler words [mainly 'and's] and much of the abstract language [like "inner-meaning.] but, as has been said, provocative and interesting. thanks for sharing, dear!

Posted by Traci Mabats on 04/26/05 at 02:49 AM

OMG @ bimbo words. That's so true it hurts.

Posted by Richard Vince on 02/13/07 at 12:39 AM

mm. well done. most of the time i don't bother reading them, i'm afraid. no doubt there are people who feel similarly about my work, but. i know they were real when i wrote them.

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