This Newest Cold Front

This newest cold front

The worst so far

Makes your teeth chatter an' clatter

Which gets on my nerves

It freezes your pipes and makes you stutter

Also

I rub my palms for warmth but

Our loins remain cold as a vacuum

I can see my breath

When you enter the room

The cold front comes from

Within

Without any forecast warning

And we are left having any sparks of warmth remaining

Between us

Snuffed out

By: Daniel Smallegange

'Jaundice'. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

The Wars of Words and Sly Manipulations

The wars of words and sly

Manipulations

Malfeasance

Between us

Could heat the house all winter

Maledictions too

Uttered from your beautiful mouth

These things all bind us in love and hate

Two emotions so seemingly apart

Yet kindred

Conjoined twins of the shining bright

And impenetrable dark

On your hourglass figure

My mind can linger

The sharp cut intelligence of your mind

Too, which binds

We bite and scratch with

Increasing passions

Our breaths and hearts get caught up in all

The wars of words and sly

Manipulations

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by Dan Smallegange. Cats on the Human Condition

 

Nuts. Comic by Dan Smallegange

 

You Did That on Porpoise. Comic by Daniel Smallegange

 

Dancing in the Driving Rain

Broken dreams

Broken hearts

I chief breaker

Headliner

Disdainer

Hearts beat pulse

Sweat pours clear

Bruised and broken

Sins and an unforgiver

Silent tears

Mingle with sweat

The rain hides all

Chief breaker

Transgressor

Dismantler

I

Rueful grin

However

Unimpressed

Also

Dancing in the driving rain

Alone

Life is grand

By: Daniel Smallegange

People Food: Comic by Daniel Smallegange

 

Comic by Daniel Smallegange

 

Pyrrhic

 Pyrrhic you

And your victory that is

Mate

An enemy awaits and the

War grinds on

You can stand and cheer and except

All the praise and the medals

Of those misled smiles beneath

You can gloat all you want but remember

Remember Pyrrhus

At least he knew the score right off

He didn't bask and roar

Unlike you

Mate

You gotta climb down off there soon

See what comes

What aid

The armour of rose petals and boasts

Grants you

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by Daniel Smallegange: Crow and Turtle

Comic by Daniel Smallegange: Snail Life

Cries of War

The clouding of hearts and the
Accompanying
Rising fear that settles like
A mist to obscure the views of
Better times and dreams past and future tense
Like dust
Like locusts that blot out the sun
These obstruct desires and intelligence alike
Vision an' plans an' thoughts an' streams
Consciousness
Accomplices I seek and the
Establishment of alibis for
Imminent crimes
Seeking kin akin for the time inevitable
When the mist rises
The dust settles and
The season of the insect
Declines
I will have weathered
Endured
Remain unaltered
The changing of the course of winds
Rains to baptize
Rising from the mire and dirt
Lungs filling
To let loose
Cries of war

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by Daniel Smallegange. Happy Tuesday all!

Rains

The rains when they come
Washeth all away
The sins and the dust from
Long journeys and dark works
Wash everything clean except
The joy the cool waters enable
Purity in the cold or
Calming mud in the grass
Embrace and be still
Parched throats no more
The heat and dry rash of fear
Banished in the torrent
Laugh at the skies and
Dance to the
Thunder and the musings
Of faraway gods
Prey you don't get lost in the
Lashing grey, however
Or too swept away
In the coming floods engendered
By the very life saving
Rains you celebrate

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by moi, Daniel Smallegange

Steam Rising Hearts Burning

You there I sense your peril
Me here I share your sorrow
Standing there I touch your face
Put an arm around your waist
You press your cheek against my shoulder
I am mute then start to stutter
As your tears roll down your nose
I stroke you hair begin to mutter
Silenced though by your kiss
A lifetime spent
Dreaming this
Intakes of breath
I bite your lip
Your fingers claw into my hip
Clinging to one
Each and other
Lips pressed tight
Our hearts devour
Calling and fearing and
Reaching and yearning
My tears and sweat all down my back
Your eyes all bright with
Intent attack
The searing heat between us
Illuminating us
Encapsulating us
Together
Steam rising
Hearts burning

By: Daniel Smallegange

Kitty Cat drawing by Daniel Smallegange

An Awkward Moment

An awkward moment and pause in thought
You there looking up from where
I here looking down from when
To clasp your hand or otherwise speak
In aid and assist
Is what is called for
But we linger the awkward moment before us
For such things are precious
You've torn your dress it seems
And skinned your knee
It's easier to sink than rise
So in sympathy I fall
Or does the ground rise and embrace me
It feels hard
I don't skin my knee though
Or tear my clothes
So perfect understanding
Eludes us
Still the awkward moment and pause
Was nice

By: Daniel Smallegange

I Have Been a Bit Lizard Themed... Comic by Daniel Smallegange.

Spoiled Lizard Children. Comic by Daniel Smallegange

Thoughts

Such thoughts in your head
They are bad thoughts those thoughts
You can't think that way
I am blushing at the thought of
Those thoughts in your head
They is not so PC man
She's too young
And he's too old
Get your mind out of the
Muck
Rake some slime 'til it evens out more better
At the least
Distend out some morals
I would like to lend you some
Morals there
But mine are all ready
Compromised and
Running low as it is
As it is
Those thoughts in your head
Make me cringe and shake my own head
Which causes brain stirrings and I am trying
To ease off those types of labours
Generally speaking
You make me blush when I see
The gleam in your eye
Those thoughts in your head
Nasty dirty freedom thoughts
Gone red I have
Flushed with the spirit of envy
Don't you know
You're not allowed
Those thoughts in your head gonna get us all
Up against the wall
You wait and bare witness
Up against the wall and if lucky one last
Cigarette and blindfold free of charge with a bullet
Where did your morals run to
Maybe mine are there too
And we can catch them together

By: Daniel Smallegange

Breathe (a rhyming poem or song)

Sometimes I feel claustrophobic
And some times very sad
Some times I feel like shit and
Like I'm going mad
So you can have a rest now
I tell my weary brain
You need to have a rest now
And maybe just abstain
From the stress of it all
Try and rise up after such a fall
Perhaps some libation
To ease the frustration
Come on and so do
Listen what you need
What you really really need
Is to breathe
Is to breathe
Is to breathe and breathe and breathe

Sometimes I feel caustic
Enabled and real low
Sometimes I feel my heart cannot
Withstand another blow
But you've got to have a listen
Try and change your disposition
Perhaps a little libation
To help with a cessation
Listen what you need
What you really really need
Is to breathe
Is to breathe
Is to breathe and breathe and breathe

By: Daniel Smallegange

Stentor

Stentorian terms and tones
Why you gotta shout so much
I am not far
I am here and there's not too much
Wax build up I do not think
Wax build up is worth addressing
This is unattractive they say
But and maybe you can
Transition your tone there
To one more silken and so more
Attractive to my ear bones
I still won't agree maybe
With all or some of what
You vomit from your brains
But at least my ears won't ring any more
And birth forth wax
So unattractive to stifle
Stentorian
That's what I'll call you now
And you don't disapprove
I can tell by the gleaming
In your eyes
You're all bark anyways
And a sap
I'll call you Tree instead
As you refuse my advice
Go then and preach on another stump
This one here
Is mine now I claim as pulpit my own
Let me now
Clear my own throat and voice
Become like that herald of Troy
Stentor
But if you be like Hermes
I will decline any contest
Between us

By: Daniel Smallegange

The Cat Life. Comic by Daniel Smallegange

Scarcity of Heart

Scarcity of heart makes one
Tremble due to
Lack of blood pumping and
Coursing through your veins there
It makes you cold too and
Emotionally unavailable
Attacks the laughter glands
Just so
Scarcity of will power is
A problem of the brain
Blows to the head will
Affect this
As will personal attacks you receive
And criticisms alter
One's will, ambition an' drive
Quarrel not with yer neighbour
Over a tree over bearing
And stymieing your vitamin E
Intake
You might move
To another place more sun soaked
Keeping the peace with your neighbor
A happy by product
Maybe your brains and
Laughter glands will return too
From and as a result of this
Courageous act
Your will power to remove yourself from
Overbearing shade of said tree there
But woe if it is a
Cloudy day
Then all bets are
Off the table

By: Daniel Smallegange

Back Then

Kiss my grits she said
The woman on the
Television screen
She said that a lot
It made us laugh
Or some of us
I was only young
A little kid
And my Dad would say
Change the channel son
Why do you think I had you for
And I'd run to the tv
And switch the dial
Then run back and sit by his side
We had five channels only
Back then
And he'd say
Naw, change it back
And I'd run back and switch
As the lady would be saying
Kiss my grits again
She said that
A lot
But it wasn't always funny
Back then

By: Daniel Smallegange

Off Away

Down by the side of the hill
Off away
From the road there
Lay back and await
Yer fate
Stick to the shadowed parts
So's your skin won't dry out from sun
Avoid the light too as it
Shines and blasts all before it like the truth of allmighty God
And beware its glaring focus which can reveal
That which you may wish hidden
Off away
Down by the side of the hill
Lay back
Maybe a friend will arrive
Or an enemy you've been wanting to see
Deal with according to his or her
Merit or sins accumulated
Quick or slow
Embrace them in shadows
Either side of passion
Love and hate two sides of the same
Like a knife edge
Avoid the light as mentioned
In case of witnesses
From the road there
Down by the side of the hill
Off away

By: Daniel Smallegange

Countrylife

Smear yourself in countrylife
In black stuff and rye
With consequence and gratitude
The milk and honey of
The promised land
Coat thyself in and
Dance
Let them
Those wearing cities and towers
To cover up their shame
Doused in perfumes
Of diesel and the mob
Let them point and shout
While you revel in
Countrylife
Sweat out swamps and mud
To make up foundations
Of property and chattels both
Walk then run
Head high and
Dance
In the wholesome embrace of
Countrylife in open space
Greet the sun as it
Beats upon you
Smear oneself in indulgence
Not the papal kind
The kind that tastes of
Fornication and beer
Armour in contradictions
And shots of whiskey
Let them point and shout
Those trapped now in
Citizen ivory towers
Of their own make
Walk then run
Into sunshine
Dance and embrace
Consequence and gratitude
Countrylife

By: Daniel Smallegange

Await Hunker Down

And to stare into the eye
Of the storm and not
Buckle panic nor flee
But smile and grit
With teeth barred and
Angry hiss
As the winds howl
And the rain dances
Upon the edge of vision
Await
Hunker down
Hold on to stout beams and loved ones
For your supports
Ideas and fond remembrances and dreams
And to stare into the eye
Of the storm
With calm heart
That is courage my love
That is hope
Hold on

By: Daniel Smallegange

Meanwhile, at the Cat Policy Debates. Comic by Dan Smallegange

As We Walk Along and Scent the Air

Collapse your fears and

Insulate yourself

From my aggrandizements and also

Tears

Come along and sing with me

Hold my hand and let

My fingers gently caress your waist

While we walk along and scent the air

Free of worry and scorn

Free of the irons and chains

Of our anxieties

Enjoying each other's

Proximity and trust

Not allowing

Apprehension

As we walk along and scent the air

As empires march and grow and

Die

By: Daniel Smallegange

Chains

I painted my chains
With happy faces and dayglo
People commented
They seemed a little lighter also
But I bet they were not
Much better for your
Mentality
Said the doctors
But they don't have any
To compare
Chains that is
Just clipboards
Boring sterile brown
No decoration
Just clipboards and
Ball point pens
Of a dull grey
Which they mark
On the clipboards with

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Chains swayin'
Hearts brayin'
The light in our eyes
Will be ever bright
The light of our eyes
Can shine up the night
Chains swayin'
Hearts brayin'

By: Daniel Smallegange

The Sense of Alteration

Can you not see
The lines of view
The sense of alteration
In the vista ahead
Can you bear to witness
Smell the air and taste
The fear
Or is it sex you scent
Can you not see
Their point of view
Can you not feel
Emotion any longer or
Will you close your eyes instead
Plug your mouth and nose
Turn and walk back and away
The sense of alteration
Creeping ever forward
At your back

By: Daniel Smallegange

As You Stride By My Side

The tower of Babel
Ain't got nothing on you
Your legs long and trunk tall
Your incessant chatter and your blurred fingers
As you type type type
Documents of our lusts and wars
You silence only in order to
Eat in some breaths
As you stride by my side
Enemy prime and love first principal
You prolong your career as my
Primary adversary
With all your guile and charm
Your multitude of tones and speech
The hanging gardens you were in awe of
Their slopes reminding you of
Far away dreams
But they were destroyed
My enemy
My love
While we stride on purposeful
Our egos not unlike
The Colossus of Rhodes
Which duly crashed upon the earth
As you stride by my side
Eating in breaths during
Rare pauses and silence

By: Daniel Smallegange

Your Screed For a Better World

Your screed for a better world
I didn't read it
It was tedious and
And even more so was
Rife with friction causing errors
Of a grammatical nature
Also refrain further
From the usage of emotical symbols
Smiling and frowning
If you are to be taken
Seriously
Screedwise
You also mention
A better world if owls
Are put in charge
I didn't read it
But and
Might I suggest
If you want the owls or other avians
To take you serious
I would correct at least your
Friction causing
Grammatical errors and
Emotical symbols
Rife as they be
I didn't read it
Your screed for a better world

By: Daniel Smallegange

Comic by Daniel Smallegange

When Once We Kissed

There you are
Spying across the way
I see your eyes are black and glitter
I see your finger
Itching on
The trigger
I see your lips about to hiss
I remember vaguely when once
We kissed

Eyes locking
Heart stopping
At this and that lost
Occasion
But the silencer sound
Dims the glitter
And your lips
Twist all bitter
You didn't think
I'd come to our reunion alone my love
As your black eyes fade and your finger
Slackens
Loses its grip
Upon the trigger
I remember vaguely
When once we kissed

By: Daniel Smallegange