Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
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Joy Leftow, AKA Violet, is a writer, poet, performer of poetry and bluetry. She is editor of The Cartier Street Review. Writing is her first love.
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
1y ago
Static in my heart sings a ring so strong
like an episode of sesame street gone wrong,
the world gone awry in a single cry awoke
evoked clouds linger in the pre-reminiscent pregnant air
five seconds ago on the web, I watched
Yellow red purple smoke rings cascade up from Cape Canaveral
Choked on enzymes fumes
in absence of love invades hate on the abyss a trend in fate,
an alias to convert a feather stroke to abuse with a lavender candle invoked
Skyrocket in sight with a socket in my cap.
Didn’t say it wasn’t love
The rhythm of the music moves my hands
Heros dead in a flash of smoke one ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
1y ago
Smoke that dream before I cream you
I’ve got all my own mishigas too sufficient to sort through. Memories a life’s sake, a backache, earache filibuster, Monroe birthday zone, a black hole, don’t know where to go. A vagabond review, a Scarsdale Hebrew cemetery, morsel of dainty tastiness nastiness a black hole of madness no home to go to, a Hebrew Jew.
Stuck inside my head, a poet’s world, inspired to drive down dirty get high on some Thai stick, trying to get skinny on the sly, sounds tinny, the words stuck in my eardrums, tum de dum
Exhale poetry with scarlet U2 embolism ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
2y ago
So very hard to face each day when so much sad
Engulfs me, makes me face my bad
My meds provide a space for peace
To feel some glad
Escape from being had
Raised in a bad way, rad I’m alive
Caught between my mom and dad
Born into a world of fate, hate surrounded me
Smoked at 14 laughed my ass off
Mary Jane helped me collect myself off the pavement
Days of wine and roses
Live in dreams – a haze of beauty made more magnificent with m medicine
Wish I could do more, but I do all I can do and more
I’m a tad behind because of so much sad I’ve endured
A child badly clad, woe was me, carry the sad insi ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
2y ago
God Bless
God Bless the day my mother was born
She birthed me to this life
God bless her cruelty taught me to survive
God bless the day my father was born
God bless my sisters though they refused to love me
Contrived to deprive love
God bless the stories they told to justify their hate
God blessed me to survive rape and abuse
God blessed me to strive to revive
Bruises and blues of my soul
God bless the day I was born in March of 49
Been in overdrive, overactive sex drive
All the drivel of conniving men
Who fooled me, jive as the shrine I’m in
God bless the universe
God ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
2y ago
DRUG PHASE
Living life in a daze
So many drugs create a haze
By now I know it’s not a phase
After all these years it shouldn’t faze me
Someone said, “It’s over a dozen years,
going through the same fears.”
Put your life in arrears
you should know it’s not a phase
“After all these years,
you should know it’s a way of life”
So should I stop trying now
After all these years  ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
2y ago
AMBER
She melts in your mouth
like the hot resin of a ripened tree
The m's roll off your tongue poetically
Amber absorbs sunlight and reflects moonlight
She has her own glow
Amber comes in many colors like a rainbow
Sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear
the color of honey
The ones with fossils are worth the most; it makes sense
Because skeletons are a big expense
Sometimes you see straight through her
A connoisseur of fragile glass
Shades of golden yellow to fern green to lime or orange
Amber is diffuse, her energy attracts
her words interact, it’s a ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
3y ago
ONE WRONG STEP AFTER ANOTHER
My body follows my life like one big misstep
misstep physically and fall on my hip
Literally act out my psychological ailments
Overstretch my foot so much, it hurts I can’t walk
I lie on my ass, sit around and talk
On the phone – balk
at all the empty phone talk
makes me feel dead instead of alive
Words are my bedrock, my life
Numerous iPhone chats,
Facetimes,
leaves me unsatisfied
No human caress causes distress,
loss of eye contact, response is less
No touch,
No hugs, nor kisses, just guesses of what we’re doing here
Most of w ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
3y ago
I GOT THE SPENDING BLUES DISEASE
PLEASE, please, I need to be at ease
I got the buy, buy, buy, disease
Like to put it on a freeze
Turn around like a sneeze
Got a hold on me like trustees
Need to find another release
I know it’s not that old song,
somethings got a hold of me,
I know it must be love
It’s this buy, buy, buy, disease
My self-control destroyed, spoiled by my unease,
Commands originated in my mind’s badlands,
quell the urge please
I got the spending blues
So easy to do
Swipe out a card
Got the distribution blues
Buy thing ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
3y ago
2020 Presidential Election Year
This coronavirus is making me insane
Feel like I’m on another plane
Nothing left to gain and a lot to lose
Living like this the bane of my existence
Trump running a chain gang on our nation
Tough guy bully guy macho man image
Not charging social security taxes
Means social security at 65 out the door
Maybe they’ll see what they can’t see now
Chaos
It’s plain to see, lying in wait in society
Need the key to unlock the gates
We’re heading from heaven to hell
It’s no game, president man forgot about democracy
Love and hate, not fate
Trap ..read more
Joy Leftow's Poetry Blog
3y ago
SEARCH FOR AN ENCORE
My heart hits the sky for a wonderful guy
Want to live in my dream
Let off steam, ride that moonbeam
Watch my love while we watch stars who strive to extreme,
Love trees feed on earth and water
Feel like lamb to slaughter
New world’s just begun under one sun
Redwood forest, lakes, rivers run
No babe, I no having fun
Weak knees pervade,
transcend dreams glide
I’m along for the ride
Economy, parsimony,
Slide into fear of this and that
World where dictators rule
my land and that land make the
world what is has become
not a race to create e ..read more