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mark-nelson
Australian
His garb was not spectacular,his shoes were grey and worn; his hair was longer than a mere crewcut. His nails were very ***** his veins were free of needles- and his face shone bright red in the misty sunlight. He greeted the sky with a wail of delight, and the hearts of passers began to throb. Summer and autumn were remarried in an embrace of generous hope, throbbing airwaves,tapping feet,delighted smiles. And then along came a citizen,politically correct; oh so relevant,barely tolerant ,emancipator. With a fuzz of of ***** gray a salloween expressive nosegay- A mission to expunge the infiltrator! He was busy with his flute; he could not practise,he said "I only live two hundred yards away. You must cease and leave this place you do not fit here in this race- ABANDON this ridiculous idea!" So,the stopwatch was set; the 'half hour rule' began to reign: And the police turned up after merely twenty minutes! Nelson's watch saved the day "take another twenty"They did say and our liberator slunk away unfairly treated. Though earth on heel and sky on neck:Lovers' authentic myth outshining heaven: a piper on a bridge unsheathed across the Ij A klted magpie. unswathed the lay fairly greeted
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Sep 27, 2010
Sep 27, 2010 at 7:55 AM UTC
The Flunky and the Bagpiper
Willow herb floating on silent certainty ashes of sighs not fleeting, unvapoured on the blossom of the rain, I am too light to pull or push the swing of delight through this land. The rain left me for a while sun unshielding -a thousand widows more unyielding than the depths . . Once shadowed whisperers of delight,gossamer sparkling , descending their chains of necromantic hope. Lilith is no night owl she is mother, eve and my becoming: sweet earth spun at once , exhaling her . The see saw bumped gently on my chin it is a most gentle form of awakening. The silence bore no whispers till sinking through the quicksand -or was it quicksilver? -in any case I could smell little in my amniotic amnesia. I made ten thousand friends,till their soap made this place clean. Is this a seed or a dying hopefulness -is my sallow sowing beyond all shores of reproduction; a reflection of the child they dared not bear? Is my last breath like this a forgotton yielding will they catch me as I fall ? -(sweet earth)- This moth of my ending, a shallow recantation, my fears- their memories, mere testubes of stylish hope . I breathe the elegant stare you have forgotten . Once more free from such rememberance I need not , remained not , your imploded , wakefulness . A thousand pardons exhaled like silk entwining an unfinished race spider of a thousand eyes . One may say I was stared to death but surrogate air mocks childish pity. Taut refelexions bear salt echoes in silk convulsions fresh water a veneered hope . Easier in death than life is a child's sorrowed partings , the illusion of bouyancy rippled tides unfelt. The oceans have not enough salt for such shrunken sorrow. if we could but once have shared unbreathed aspersion . The room has come and gone the pillow quite undry unforgotten unremembered. A web untouched
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Sep 27, 2010
Sep 27, 2010 at 7:46 AM UTC
Sibilance
Willow herb floating on silent certainty ashes of sighs not fleeting, unvapoured on the blossom of the rain, I am too light to pull or push the swing of delight through this land. The rain left me for a while sun unshielding -a thousand widows more unyielding than the depths . . Once shadowed whisperers of delight,gossamer sparkling , descending their chains of necromantic hope. Lilith is no night owl she is mother, eve and my becoming: sweet earth spun at once , exhaling her . The see saw bumped gently on my chin it is a most gentle form of awakening. The silence bore no whispers till sinking through the quicksand -or was it quicksilver? -in any case I could smell little in my amniotic amnesia. I made ten thousand friends,till their soap made this place clean. Is this a seed or a dying hopefulness -is my sallow sowing beyond all shores of reproduction; a reflection of the child they dared not bear? Is my last breath like this a forgotton yielding will they catch me as I fall ? -(sweet earth)- This moth of my ending, a shallow recantation, my fears- their memories, mere testubes of stylish hope . I breathe the elegant stare you have forgotten . Once more free from such rememberance I need not , remained not , your imploded , wakefulness . A thousand pardons exhaled like silk entwining an unfinished race spider of a thousand eyes . One may say I was stared to death but surrogate air mocks childish pity. Taut refelexions bear salt echoes in silk convulsions fresh water a veneered hope . Easier in death than life is a child's sorrowed partings , the illusion of bouyancy rippled tides unfelt. The oceans have not enough salt for such shrunken sorrow. if we could but once have shared unbreathed aspersion . The room has come and gone the pillow quite undry unforgotten unremembered. A web untouched
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When we awake from the mist I am in shadow, the perambulance of grief revisited, till the lengthening toombstone dwarfs hyperion- a sculptors cast ,my shell my heart The gestapo of faith revisited that others may from my net Dream sweet prision free- psychedelic arrest eclipsing aeons lost fears. The secret of the hate filled chamber green gas ,green light & mercy all, cracking under boot ribs target sheltering from a fathers love. Were you or I to slumber nor stir in walking shade what nets of love entomb us lest we rise- the shining ,the living yet are gone earth's first wake Yet quickened beyond eyes recognition The silver sash my silence brings; a field soughed deep and empty a fitting palace for a king The denseless hollows of my tears or yet unvapoured from the ground the shadow of the sky appears enshrined in rainbow's fallen glass. If a child is not a fallen god - why so unquiet and shallow the grave that holds the brave emancipator in such a gentle grasp . Till in death we meet asunder apart can never live a blossom as in winter hangs its head so a laurel wreath astutely made our measure must be cast...
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Sep 27, 2010
Sep 27, 2010 at 7:29 AM UTC
Sonambulance