"Pickle"
By Conroy Lee (my co-worker, aka Buffcake)

Pickle, pickle, green and crunchy,
O! the sounds of munchy, munchy;
I wish I had one close at hand,
But work and sweat make foodstuffs banned;
If right now I had a break,
I'd run right home and Vlassic take!
For though it's late and pickle sour,
Food right now would make my hour.

Interesting side notes about Spike:

From http://www.buffy.com/player_bloody.shtml
A cocky vamp from 19th century England, Spike got his former (pre-bloodsucker) name, William the Bloody, because of his bloody awful poetry. However, in 1880, the sensitive lyricist was sired by his immortal lover Drusilla and got the name "Spike" because of his love for torturing victims with railroad spikes.

From http://www.boadicea.net/buffy/name.htm
William decided to call himself "Spike" because he enjoyed torturing people with railroad spikes. It is interesting that one of the people who mocked him and his poetry, when he was human, said "I'd rather have a railroad spike through my head than listen to that awful stuff" (re: William's poetry). It is reasonable to believe that William, once turned, did exactly that to the haughty nobleman who had mocked him.

More on Spike's past:
http://www.ancientartofslaying.com/BuffySoundOffHall/Buffysoundoff7.htm
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jenoff/btvs507.htm

From: http://www.geocities.com/buffyrebecca/csww.html

"I Gave My Love a Blood-Spattered Corpse..."
By William Soames Walthrop (aka Spike) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I gave my love a blood-spattered corpse...
She said to me... "Oooh, Spikey..."

"This bloody corpse is just the thing...
You got it oh...So rightly..."

Quoth my Dru... "You always know...
The thing to do politely..."

I gave my love a blood-spattered corpse...
Now she expects one...Nightly...

Seeing as I've just about dried up my poetry gas tank, I will be posting poems of others that I enjoy. Starting with one from BUFFY!

cradled in my arms, you sleep
captivated by the rise and fall of your breath
a warm breeze lifts your scent into the night air
it surrounds me, and i get lost in it
tonight the world sleeps in peace

What is love
But an emotional profanity
Used as an excuse
For temporary insanity
To believe otherwise
Is another form of vanity
I fall in love
And cry, "Oh, the inhumanity!"

Does time heal all wounds?
"I like pleasure spiked with pain."
Revenge is my salt.

I know what you think.
"Tofuji has a big mouth.
Someone shut him up!"

*** Flooble's Instant Poetry Rules Haiku ***
Poetry only...
Don't ruin others' efforts...
No pointless babble...

To the one
I love so dear,
For you are truly rare.
For none could ever hardly stand
After you're compared.
Never would I change the past
You and I have shared.

All the time we are apart,
Each day my love just grows.
You and I were meant to be
At least the voices say so.

Flooble Haiku

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I just did haiku!
What do you mean by, "Bless you?"
No, I said, "HAIKU!"

All poetry is
Pretty wrapping paper and
A whole lotta crap

An extra second in eternity
Like a drop in the ocean blue
Seems to be insignificant
But it's an extra moment with you

A-tisket, a-tasket
I'll laugh into your casket
We once were wed
But now you're dead
And I just can't get past it.

The laughter, the laughter
I couldn't sound more dafter
They arrested me
Threw away the key
And hung me from a rafter.

I'm dead now, my skin's blue
I'm a ghost, oh yes it's true.
I roam the earth
My soul is cursed
Still better then being with you.

I will escape
Into the night
My face into the wind
I cannot face
The one I love
The one against whom I've sinned
In the dark
Salvation lies
Where memories are no more
In the dark
You cannot see
The evil in my core
And so I hide
And pray to god
That you will never see
The cursed evil
The evil inside
The evil that is me

I wait for you forever
Forever will never come
You left me many years ago
You left me feeling numb
My body's lost sensation
My heart has gone ice cold
When you left me standing there
To the Devil my soul you sold

A sea of numbness tosses me to and fro
A tide of apathy forces me to let go
Lost among the faceless fishes
Lost among unfulfilled wishes
I reach for what was never there
Love, the illusion, I wished to share
Faded quickly, without you near
Washed up onto Reality's beach
Happiness just outside my reach
With memories stinging so bittersweet
I quickly get up to my feet
And brush off the sands of pain
Only to fall in love again

I Would Like...

I would like to love,

                      and be loved, 

                                    and know my beloved awaits.



I would not want two women, 

                            or five women, 

                                           or a hundred women,



But just the one.  

                   The one that ever so sweetly 

                                                haunts my dreams.



I would like to hold her, 

                          and let time, 

                                        and the world, 

                                                       slip away.



I would like to be her Romeo, 

                              her Casanova, 

                                            her Don Juan

                                                         De Marco.



And I would sweep her off her feet, 

                                    and into my arms.  

                                                       Just like the movies.



I would like to show her

                         what's in my heart.



And give her 

             what's in my soul.



And take her

             into my dreams,

                             so that we could live,

                                                    and love, 

                                                              forever.



I would like love.

Masquerade
Painted faces toward the world,
Hiding naked, and all furled.
Wearing masks to keep your face,
Drop your guard and lose your place.
Can they see you're torn apart?
Dying soul, and crying heart?
People, people, can't you tell?
This one here is but a shell.
Masquerading with a smile,
Laughing, dancing all the while.
Let your inhibitions go.
You must let your true self show.
All your pain, you must release.
Only then can you find peace.

A Time to Remember

As we grew up in joyful youth,
We came to be as one.
Our "One for all, and all for one,"
Sang out till day was done.

In time we went our separate ways,
Alone and very scared.
But life went on and we forgot
The love that we once shared.

We watched the weeks creep into months,
The months crept into years.
And one by one, we lost our friends,
Like slowly rolling tears.

And now that we approach our fate,
We think to days of old.
When we, immortals, roamed the earth
Before the winds grew cold.

Sup Y'all,

I started this blog as an outlet for my poetry writings. I've always enjoyed writing, including poetry, but never really put a lot into it. Until recently, that is. I was browsing online when I ran into a site called Flooble.com. It has an "Instant Poetry" page where people could colaborate together on poems. I started writing a few lines, and soon those few lines became a few (short) poems. Pretty soon I found no one else was writing at all. Well, if it's to be a solo act, might as well start a blog, rite? So here I am, writing my blog. I'll start off posting some of my old poems from my *old* site, plus some I put up on Flooble.com, and then perhaps get back into writing new stuff. Or go back to being lazy, and never visit this site again. Still haven't decided yet.

mrTofuji