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Stephen Terry
Stephen Terry
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02.19.2022 | 10:13 PM ET

Welcome, lovers, dreamers, writers and romantics to the Tapology Poetry Corner! A place for poems, short stories, novels or any kind of creative writing. Just because we're hardened MMA fans, doesn't mean we don't have a softer side. Have you written a poem about Fedor Emelianenko's legendary career? A ballad about Jan Błachowicz? A fan-fic about Paige VanZant? Post it here! 

Any and all artistic writing welcome and if it's related to MMA then even better!




"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

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Stephen Terry
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04.14.2022 | 9:49 PM ET

@Baldric Eggling

Well, I rejected that previous verse because I thought it was too corny and laughable...

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

Moorlady
Moorlady

04.15.2022 | 4:04 AM ET

@Stephen I liked it.  Appreciate a little dark.  What did she do?!  What did her son do?!
Moorlady
Moorlady

04.15.2022 | 5:09 AM ET

Between.v3

Between the gumption and the roving,
Between the toing and the froing,
Between the breathing and the bowing
Between the heartbeat and the glowing--

The vim, the dust, the itch, the clue--
It's you, it's you, it's you, it's you.

(Recycled a line there, that I love.  Perhaps it's time to dock the ship and leave it be for a while.) 
Moorlady
Moorlady

04.15.2022 | 6:04 AM ET

Discounted

If I've seen it once, and times score more, 
"I'm bipolar," and discount looks begins to form. 
"Accomplishments:"  piano, violin, and ****.
I compose them long.  I compose them quick.

I know your parts.  I ken your bones,
Better than you know your own. 
I write a sonnet with your fountain pen, 
Your worry balls, your frenulum. 

Hit me with your parting shot. 
Feed me sweet, and feed me tart. 
Shower me with sticky rain-- 
Your petite mort, your little pain, 

And yet, what but a champagne spray, 
My heart is dry, and so's my brain.
Stephen Terry
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04.15.2022 | 10:32 PM ET

@Moorlady

I'm not sure yet what that woman did. Probably nothing. I'm still working to try and make it somewhat cohesive. 

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

WastelandWanderer
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04.16.2022 | 12:05 AM ET

Scammers/Snake Oil Salesmen


You dirty scamming scummy bastards
Lying and stealing is an art you have mastered
You ought to be strung up high on the lamp posts
Or skewered on large spits for a fire roast
 

That scummy area kid at that Pokemon event
He deceived me out of my Charizard rare card
A scam years later from which I am still deeply scarred
Failing to understand how they can act with such disregard


Bitboy crypto is the worst, he has a soul that is now cursed
He has left naive mom and pops investors burnt
Tai Lopez is the poster boy for scams and ****** courses
I hope his future wife divorces, without remorse


If you work hard and earn wealth in this life
Keep it for yourself and your loved ones
Invest in gold, silver, bullets, and farming
Shoot snake oil salesmen on sight, then they cant be charming


* Edited at 04.16.2022, 1:06 AM ET *

"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

WastelandWanderer
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04.16.2022 | 5:44 PM ET

I Will Miss This Town




Time goes by so fast
Those times were a blast
Wish they could last forever
Times are well spent with friends together


Capture a memory with a picture phone
I will remember these times when im old and alone
I always knew I would die in this town
Most of friends grew up and just bounced


I'll never forget that part of us
When we were smoking weed at the back of the bus
When I was drunk and stole that Chinese guys glasses
We used to ditch school and get high skipping so many classes


I will really miss this town when im dead
And everything we and it have undergone
I will come back here once again
When I get back from the great beyond





* Edited at 04.16.2022, 5:47 PM ET *

"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

Moorlady
Moorlady

04.19.2022 | 8:34 AM ET

Your Face

What is your face?
It's where your eyes,
Not playing poker,
Tell no lies.

What is your face?
It's where your nose,
Following your will,
Pointed, goes.

What is your face?
It's where your ears,
Honey-ed alto
Never hears.

What is your face?
It's where your lips,
Whiskey-ed lips
Never kiss.

What is your face?
It's where your skin,
Against, Caramel,
Cream's too far to sin.
Moorlady
Moorlady

04.21.2022 | 7:16 AM ET

Still

On the anniversary of heartbreak,
You thought you'd lost it all,
You thought you'd cry it all-grey,
But it's still fair withal.

On the anniversary of heartbreak,
You thought you'd lost it all,
But all's well in the castle,
When all the world's still calm.

On the anniversary of heartbreak,
You thought you'd lost it all,
But still the queen sits her chair,
She'll take the world in thrall.

* Edited at 04.21.2022, 7:17 AM ET *

Moorlady
Moorlady

04.25.2022 | 4:37 AM ET

Please Post a Poem

Can someone else please post a goddamned poem?  These are supposed to be ephemeral things.
Stephen Terry
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04.25.2022 | 3:00 PM ET

@Moorlady

Still struggling with the serial killer one and I'm beginning to doubt if I'll ever actually finish it. In the meantime, here's a stupid poem I'm about to make up on the fly. 

The sun shines above the woods
A bear runs between the trees 
I'm also in the woods for some reason 
Feeling weak at the knees

I get out a sandwich 
I thought there was no one there
But to my shock, I turned and saw
That great big **** off bear

The bear then charged towards me
I tried my best to be strong 
I thought I was gonna die 
And well, I wasn't wrong 

So here I am lying motionless 
Due to my attempt at being brave 
But it didn't work out so here's my poem
That I'm posting from the grave

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

Moorlady
Moorlady

04.25.2022 | 3:16 PM ET

Sandwich Bearer

@Stephen Thanks for risking all to write a poem! 

Here lies Stephen, surpassing brave,
He risked all in a bear-laden glade.
A good friend he was, poem on his dying breath,
I‘d risk all to bring him a sandwich in his final rest.

* Edited at 04.25.2022, 3:18 PM ET *

Stephen Terry
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04.25.2022 | 10:00 PM ET

@Moorlady

Don't worry about me. Just like Jesus, I'll be back after a couple day's nap!

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

WastelandWanderer
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04.28.2022 | 8:49 AM ET

Dont Look For Favours In This Town



Reaching out, for my hand
I will swiftly pull it back
You don't deserve another chance
Stumbling down your one way track


Gluttony like a parasite
lacking grace, undignified
We could never fufill your needs
You have bitten the hand that feeds


We all witnessed your schemes transpire
Clothed in baggy, raggy, shaggy attire
You are a sorry sight for sore eyes
Everyone in this town knows your lies


Don't look for favours in this town
You harm, hurt with wreckless abandon
We build a wall around ourselves from you
In our final self-righteous consolidation


Like a leech, you seek out a new host
But I will always hate you the most
So now we all give an utmost toast
To your lowermost ethereal ghost



* Edited at 04.28.2022, 11:26 AM ET *

"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

xJUSTBLEEDx
xJUSTBLEEDx
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04.30.2022 | 6:32 AM ET

My Dark Place

When I go to my dark place
There is no more lay and pray
Reverting back to a karate base
Michael Bisping is gay

"I'm not imprezzed by your performance."

Stephen Terry
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04.30.2022 | 10:05 PM ET

@xJUSTBLEEDx

If Michael Bisping could read, he'd be very upset!

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

Hadrian Caesar
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05.01.2022 | 3:24 AM ET

He is from up north 

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar.

WastelandWanderer
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05.01.2022 | 7:51 AM ET

Bisping has had a really cool life.... Hard at times but cool.. Him getting to be a DJ at raves and clubs in the 90s and early 2000s is pretty epic. That was a special time, the scene isnt like it was then

* Edited at 05.01.2022, 8:14 AM ET *

"I am the greatest blonde man in the world. I am Tru Viking." - Alexander Gustaffsson / "The world must bow to my glory. I am a God amongst mortals. They must pay me tribute in wine and concubine for my deeds." - Jon Jones "

Moorlady
Moorlady

05.15.2022 | 4:29 AM ET

The spider in the volcano
Doesn’t know what the day holds—
One moment catching flies,
The next everything explodes.
Stephen Terry
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05.15.2022 | 9:37 PM ET

@Moorlady

Yep, life do be like that! Kinda reminds me of a conversation I was having with a co-worker the other day. We're all going to be dead one day so what happens to us in our lives won't matter at all one day and as for any kind of legacy we might leave, that will either be forgotten with time or destroyed completely when the sun dies and takes out the solar system in however many billion years so in the very long, basically nothing really matters right? 

We both concluded that contemplating whether out lives have any meaning in the grand scheme of things wasn't a very uplifting conversation and that we should never speak of it again.

"I wish you good luck but I don't want you to rely on luck"

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