Four Poems by Jerimee Bloemeke
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JERIMEE BLOEMEKE
FREE TRIAL PERIOD
To stay total, Erase the unseen View no light Gets rid of Until the glove Tows its fingers Over the switch To sop up The itinerant result Without stopping it. To see droplets Collect on glass, I turn on The hallway light. I can see Today isn’t applicable. I look out There and I’m In which when I didn’t want To look out The courtyard window I didn’t like That much until A couple years Ago when I Became very depressed. Yes I know. Renewable to whomever Asks to see Surpluses as they Now become debris Tomorrow has connected, I select pieces And negate them. If I’m patient, Tomorrow extends more Various pale skins In comparison to The luscious pinks. Practicing my inhalation, I make comments No one returns. I fall into The silence like It fell into Me on purpose. Like a corpse’s The force majeure, I eavesdrop on This graphic world, A newly committed Pigment admittedly culled From prior shade. This simple interaction Befitting my stance Betrays my comfort. |
MINE
The aspect of all life beyond the
borders of afforded calm Feelings… Please accept this magnetic photo
frame, which is our gift to you, Which Is the ability to nourish humanity,
many foreheads and cheeks appearing Interested, Watchful, and knowledgeable, gateways
of redundant extra even Though Extra is usually intrinsically
redundant…that with which objects are positioned remains Within Their limits, inactivity caught off
guard within the contexts of each variable Witnessed Reaffirms the little sleeping
happiness. Molecules are only Sad. Microfiber, meanwhile, is not only
soft…
i Goals and standards got set. An
experience was in progress, preferred customers Talked As they opened flat doors and then
closed them slowly and softly and Walked To step one-by-one down the steps so
as to not wake the shut-ins Nor Favored buyers unable to
differentiate between the bizarre and the non-so Delusions. A parking lot account of the sidewalk
and its black plural gum drifts over an uncaring environment. Remember Innocence at our every whim is like
power––and it was power––over the tenets Of Fancy living, suspended bouquets of
awareness at the crack Of Each dawn, each a small-scale smile,
each a continually abject failure.
i What approximate resemblance when the
eyes are closed at the end of a week Leaves Us unsure of who we were, renders us piecemeal,
original copy for the sake of regret. Waste Nor its margins consume us, then. We
find zero consolation prizes in love, that Paranoia Is legitimate again, and the
punishment method is an obvious attempt To Disarm you. |
JUST WHAT IS IT THAT WE WANT TO DO
Just what is it that we want to do? We want to sustain the essential
tremor. Overwhelmed with friends triumphing
over silence in life with devices. Resembling movement silent in nature. We open the window to the tediously
curated lighting. Sunsets superimposed over the real
one. Viewing the development and
modification of a sunset. In the country, a sunset can be
thrown away with impunity. But in a nocturnal city, a sunset is
a cherished moment. Yesterday was completely silent. Today is such variety and rivalry. Purity no longer arouses any feeling. We’d sought the most complicated
successions of variety, but we were unsatisfied. Modified by life, modified by
sunsets. We demanded an emotional abundance. But we were too limited in our
variety. Going round this small circle. Struggling in vain to create new
ranges. Further inferiors trusting privacy. And silence where the word ‘comfort’
stands. Our limited circle must be broken. By and by…by and by… Our infinite variety must be
conquered. We carry like a virus exhausted
sensations that predispose us to boredom. We make an effort to innovate and
observe the most sensational sunsets. We have enjoyed and loved harmony for
many years. We want to enliven the sleepy
atmosphere of the concert hall. The boredom of familiarity
anticipates the boredom of what is to follow. We relish in two or three varieties
of genuine boredom. In wait of the sensation that never
comes. We concoct repugnant mixtures. Drunk with repeating for the nth time
secondhand molly. We can no longer restrain our desires
to create a new reality. With a generous distribution of
resonant slaps to our face. It is no good to object. It seems pointless to enumerate grace
and delicacies that afford pleasant sensations but
regulate variety. Every manifestation of us was
accompanied, manifestations familiar that conjured life
itself alien to life. We were always things unto ourselves,
occasional but unnecessary elements. We were overfamiliar. We reached out in confused and
irregular ways, never entirely revealing ourselves,
keeping innumerable surprises in reserve. It was characteristic of us to recall
life, but we needn’t limit ourselves to imitative
reproduction. We will achieve the most emotive
power in enjoyment in its own right. We must continually enrich the field. Liberated from the shallow and
traditional, like a can of Campbell’s seeping in a pot, we
must find the means of renewal and extension. Only then will we offer the
possibility of changes and the possibility of insane sunsets. We invite sustained observations of
us in order to encourage understanding of the
variations of which we are made. These observations will result in not
only understanding, but also a taste and passion. We have no works to defend. We use love and determination to
renew everything. We accept these awards for our
brothers and sisters and our sothers and bristers. Who are without arms and voice, for
they are privileged. By and by…by and by… The sun sets on us, revealing our
dirty parts. And, unconcerned by our apparent
incompetence, convinced that all rights and
possibilities open up to daring, we have been able to initiate our
great renewal. |
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
I The person or thing addressed up to
this or that time (a woman) not carry’d off by
force, a woman about to be married to freedom from noise! The
person or thing addressed, a child, raised by someone who is not its natural
or adoptive parent, of absence of any sound or noise also, at the same
time, moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed, finite
duration, Authority on history inhabiting the
woods, what person canst in the following manner put (thought) into words A rhetorically ornate or precious
narrative that relates some real or imaginary event’s details in greater
degree, in a sweeter manner, than our verse having correspondence in lines’
terminal sounds: What decorative border of one of the
expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant usually hanging
loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip of a nonhistorical
or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and
popularly accepted as historical being often with (not far off) thou seen in
outline, as in silhouette Of
gods or goddesses or human beings, or of the one as well as the other, In
the valley in E Greece, in Thessaly, between Mounts Olympus and Ossa or the
valleys, especially broad valleys of the mountainous region of ancient
Greece, traditionally known for the contented pastoral innocence of its
people? What
adult male persons, as distinguished from boys or women, or supreme beings
according to some particular conception, are these? What girls or young
unmarried women reluctant? What deranged effort to attain? What
task requiring much effort to accomplish the avoidance of capture,
punishment, or any threatened evil? What
musical wind instruments consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or
other material, as flutes, clarinets, or oboes also, at the same time
tambourines or similar instruments? What overpowering emotion of intensity? II Musical sounds in agreeable
arrangement perceived by the ear are pleasing to the ear on the contrary,
those not perceived by the ear Are more pleasurable to the ear as a
result. Ye gentle and melodious musical wind instruments consisting of a
single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as flutes, clarinets, or
oboes sustain (a part) in real life onward, as in a process; Not to the irreligious organ of
hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external
ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations
resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that
maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory
nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain on the contrary belov’d in greater degree, A musical wind instrument consisting
of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute,
clarinet, or oboe to the spiritualist bodies, short simple songs of no
character of sound: Promising early life, below the
plants with permanently woody main trunks, which ordinarily grow to
considerable heights and usually develop branches at some distance from the
ground, the person or thing addressed canst not be allowed to remain in the
same place, condition, etc. Thy
things that aren’t sung nor ever plants’ permanently woody main trunks, which
ordinarily grow to considerable heights and usually develop branches at some
distance from the ground be nude; Forward
person who has a sexual relationship with another at no time not at all canst
press with your lips slightly pursed, and then part them and emit an often
smacking sound, in an expression of affectionate greeting reverence, etc., Although succeeding, by closely
striving with respect to combinations of connections, similarities, and
intimacies, the end –– in the time still remaining do not exert great sorrow; She
cannot die gradually, although the person or thing addressed hast not thy
supreme happiness, For
continuously wilt the person or thing addressed have a profoundly tender,
passionate affection for another person and she remain as before, free from
bias legitimately sought, pursued, done, given. III Ah, enjoying, showing feelings of
pleasure of a tree’s main branches! unable to do otherwise than slough off as
part of the normal processes of life Your
lateral outgrowths from plant stems are flattened/expanded variably shaped
greenish organs constituting a unit of the foliage primarily in food
manufacture by photosynthesis at any time, giving expression to the reckoned
astronomical extension from the March equinox to the June solstice farewell; And, enjoying the singer, not tired
or jaded, For
at any time shrill short pieces of music with words that are sung at any time
recently created Extra dazed irresponsible state,
feeling of constant affection for a person! extra dazed irresponsible state, characterized
by a dazed irresponsible state, feeling, or strong or constant affection for
a person! For
at any time comfortably established and not moving to be experience’d
(something good), For
at any time putting paint on a canvas board and for at any time recently
started; Every member moving air into and out
of lungs of people feeling strong excitement about doing something at a great
distance of space in a higher place, That
remains as an aftereffect, a heart thought of as the place where emotions
advance toward the acme full of sorrow and surfeit’d
with an excess of something originally pleasing, A
very hot part of the face above the eyes and a scorching, soft movable part
in the mouth that is used for tasting and eating food and in human beings for
speaking. IV Who are these moving toward
something, to the act of killing an animal in a religious ceremony as an
offering to please a god? To
what raised place covered by grass on which sacrifices and gifts are offered
in some religions, O difficult to understand authorization to perform the
sacred rites of a religion between humans and God, Direct’st in a
young direction the virgin female cow mooing at the space over the Earth
where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds appear. And
the sum of her smooth, soft, and shiny areas on her side between her ribs and
hips with ropes that are made of material used for decoration prepared for
service. What place where people live that is
larger than a village but smaller than a city having few members by the large
flow of water that crosses an area of land and goes into an ocean, a lake, or
by land adjacent to the sea, Or
an area of land that rises very high above the land around it and that is
higher than a hill made a specific way with a strong effect on some fortress
that commands a city, Is
it not occupied of its people in general, this deeply religious dawn? And, place…, thy roads that have
houses or other buildings on one or both sides in the future Will
not make any sound; and no person will give information (to someone) by
speaking Why
the person or thing addressed art lacking the amenities that make people feel
welcome in a place, can e’er go to a place again. V O form of Room just below the
building roof that is often used to store things! Not too critical way of
thinking that affects a person’s behavior! with embroidery Of
a kind of stone that is often polished and used in buildings and statues
adult male human beings and young women who are not married extremely excite, With thick growth of trees and bushes
that cover a large area the parts of a tree that grow out from the trunk and
the walked-on plant that is not valued where it is grown and is usually of
vigorous growth that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants; The
person or thing addressed, tending not to talk much shape of something, dost
laugh at and criticize (us) in a way that is either friendly and playful or
cruel and unkind out of something that you think As doth time without an end;
Countryside with a very low Temperature! When
having lived for many years the amount of time during which a person has
lived, this group of people born and living during the same time will lose
something valuable because too much of it is being used, because it is being
used in a way that is not necessary or effective, The
person or thing addressed shalt stay with that same group, in the period of
time when something additional is happening to the person who has already
been mentioned in grief more Than
ours, a person who is enjoyable to be with and liked by the human race, to
whom the person or thing addressed say’st, ‘Aggregate of qualities in a person
gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the spirit are the real
facts about something, the real facts about something the aggregate of
qualities in a person or thing gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably
exalts the mind or spirit, –– that is the extent of what Ye
need to have (information of some kind) in your mind on the planet on which we
live, and the extent of what ye need to have (information of some kind) in
your mind.’ |
Jerimee Bloemeke was born in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. His chapbooks include Cosmic Latte (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2013) and 25¢ CASH (Slim Princess Holdings, 2013). His poems can be found in The Iowa Review, jubilat, LIT, and elsewhere.