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prophet
When weary Ulysses Washed up on the shores of Ithaca, Beggars cloth he wore. And after 20 odd years of solitude without his homeland, He was shaken to the core. Though he himself Chose the mortal path, Unable to forget his kind, Forgotten was he! As a dead man buried In a stranger’s mind. Penelope’s tears are dried; Though she cried and cried, The pain would not subside, But blended with her pride. A row of suitors behind her skirt Is trampling his name into dirt. Yet there, next to the rocky Path lay a pile of dirt. Forgotten by man and god, Old ears suddenly prickled, And Ulysses knew Argos - his friend, his trusty dog. Heart leapt forth for its master’s hand. Sniffing memories, blind eye searched for shape and form, instantly seeing through the disguise of this royal spy. “O, Argos, my companion of old! Of merrier, of luckier times." A single tear touched his eye. And Argos’s soul, over-helmed By this final excitement, Flew up into the cloudless sky.
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Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM UTC
Argos
Great light in the sky, go out! Let me sink to sleep And End the agony of yesterday, Today and tomorrow… No, it is not like me to pout Like this and weep About the sorrows of everyday Which we all share… I’ve seen very little to know Where to find north Yet I read much in winter And live the lives of thousand centuries... Good and evil, yes and no All of us must set forth And drink the ever bitter Truth - reality doesn’t care about our dreams… The is no place on the top For the honest dreamer That would change the world Just for the sake of this ephemeral place... The businessman will surely stop Him, will play the dealer And deal him cards so cold To make him lose conviction and face… Some men would strike The sun if it offended them Their lust for wealth matched Only by primordial hunger for endless power... They would march Against the gods, all of them It would be so businesslike And it would make the world of men over...
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Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM UTC
No better tomorrow
God of medicine Have mercy on him, Uproot this feeling That dwells within. Give him your healing blood So he could sleep like a log, Secure him dreamless night By thy single sweetened drop. Unsatisfied remains his love That touches like bitter breeze The tender spots in his heart And cleaves his mind apart. Be like a rose, or be like a sword, Calm him down with your word, Give him just a shadow of hope, Or help to tie a noose on his rope. God of medicine Have some mercy on him. Take the silent pain he feels within Or let his tired eyes grow dim.
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Jan 11, 2024
Jan 11, 2024 at 3:18 PM UTC
Prayer
Breathless, the late dawn Touches the stillness of windowpanes, While cat lies, gently resting on the lawn. The leaf withered, floats in shallow pond to die. Herds of orange clouds spread Their dreamy fingers across the sky. Everything was as it should have been. You were here (then and now) with me. And then, the breathless day was suddenly set And about to finish its perpetual journey. Now, the footfalls echo through the empty apartment, Playing the fake tune of here and always. What was once young at bloom now lies Trampled by the time hurried in its eternal chase. Sitting at this limbo between summer and winter, The crossroads of midnight and noon, I behold the sky full of sun turn grey- The silent reproach below the pale moon. Then and there, the tempest, resource deified, Attacks my solitude- and blows away the crust That once, I think, beat as my heart, Blows away the memories woven with rust, And finally is breathless at dawn, Watching as we slowly turn into dust.
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Jan 8, 2024
Jan 8, 2024 at 4:27 PM UTC
Into Dust
The land of Canaan lays covered in blood Which mingles with sand and yellow dust; A solemn initiation of a continuing life. The Temple has long fallen and its ruins Are much older than the silent millennia. From east to west, from north to south, Wandering feet make themselves known In the sand, just for a while until the wind In his great wisdom covers them away And hides them from the millennia. And ye, gentiles, be not harsh with the souls Of the buried, for they knew not their mistakes. Cherish every rock and tree giving you shelter From the sun for which there is no cure As it shines unto you for the millennia. When the land of Canaan shall be finally yours, When the waters start pouring from rich oases, Will you finally be content and self-satisfied? Will your pride allow your heart the freedom It has sought for the empty millennia? With the altar and the Temple rebuilt, Will your ***** hands throw down the trowel? Will you lay down your sword and face The wretched generation of enlightened men That has grown out of the motionless millennia? And when the King shall call onto thee again, Will you come at the error of your ways? Will you bow, will you utter a frightened grace? Will you show him the haggard face You’ve tried to hide from his eyes for millennia? Or will the broken city of Jerusalem, Will it always be broken?
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Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 at 6:13 PM UTC
The broken city
Long has the wait been And patiently I have waited. Underneath the days a silent parody; A thought of a thought of a man To whom nothing ever happens. Imprudent seasons gently rolling by. Always growing, always falling is the willow´s leaf. Hazy steps in the freshly fallen snow Are trying to rook one to the endless empty sleep. The hour is now rich for the reaping Of the Inherited legacy of stillness. And time, always time, Yet ahead still walking or limping Gives a deeper meaning for a while, The eyes to see a lover´s smile, And then slowly with the sardonic immunity Sacrifices everything you have ever loved To the single eternity.
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Feb 1, 2023
Feb 1, 2023 at 4:59 PM UTC
The Age of Waiting
I was with you that autumn day when a performing mime accidentally laughed loudly on a whim and the disgruntled crowd threw him and his little french hat overboard into the silent river. As he landed and was swallowed by the hungry cold hands of disinterest a flock of birds flew up into the darkening sky bewildered by the ridiculous voices wishing him to drown with his muddy painted face and be taken to the black sea. The night had just begun but people had already decided on their heavenly fate soon forgetting the poor wretched mime rising from the bank; the river being within him as a great past god inflaming his anger franticly over sorrow denying him thus the privilege of peace. There and then, I looked into your eye mirroring the red moon between grey clouds the waters beneath it and the thousand lights of the city we once believed divine though its greatest days had gone buried under the mountains of cheap laughter and gore. And when the single tear appeared on your cheek I knew that the time of play and games was over; doomed and ****** the riches of body and soul had fallen from the pedestal of adoration, desire reluctantly ended in detachment whilst the mime half dry already stands prepared for the next woeful show.
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Nov 2, 2022
Nov 2, 2022 at 2:58 PM UTC
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
(The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. - T.S. Eliot) Uprooted Like this beech tree; Weary of the deceptive world Of unceasing wind tearing its leaves, Dry sun shamelessly burning its dreams Of a fair new world just begun And of Heavy flooding rains Offering only deceit of deceit of hope; Aimless is the time of birth and death - And so am I. And yet even when lying on the earth seemingly mortally wounded, A new bud secretly and silently grows Humbly receiving a little piece from all - And so am I.
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Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022 at 3:22 PM UTC
And so am I
I met a butterfly On my way to Jötunheim With a hammer in my heart I met a butterfly With luminous wings That stopped for a while As in the deepest time of night When even birds are quiet While whisper lets out a lie It descended upon my horse’s ear Blue and green on chestnut hair Our pace was unrelenting And also weary from the err Souls heavily pushing this meaty cart I met a butterfly On my way to Jötunheim With a hammer in my heart What is to think of this life Caught between the night and day When even seer sees only partly and Many times different as same A Hero famous for a thousand years Or a beggar without a name From our souls blooms Like a flower a poisonous dart I met a butterfly On my way to Jötunheim With a hammer in my heart And yet I think that in a way ‘Tis more real than these hands That clutch the oars The moment ended And the wings spread to depart To continue in their blind Pursuit to cheat the death This delicate unlearnable art I met a butterfly On my way to Jötunheim With a hammer in my heart
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Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021 at 7:44 AM UTC
On the way to Jötunheim
Choice and compassion- Just those two sum up a man. And evil originates only From a desire To be loved.
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Feb 9, 2021
Feb 9, 2021 at 7:08 AM UTC
East of Eden