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401 · Mar 2016
Gainfully Employed
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2016
Sympathetic comfort, peace -a harmony of perishable Liberty! Such dying love, was never my leitmotif; and I will not foolishly go about haunting the town -seeking from thee, that deplorable Pity, of which you deem me • as tho renowned • fond of once -as unsightly Greed is to debts! as heavy-laden gluttons add another pound and ounce • on the go • are to Gluttony!


And oh! Ye fiendish dunce • I am here now, (how soon she forgets.)  And I stand above -above the hunts. So many once fetched, lest yet I deem no more necessity. But rather I mourn, mourn now • an Ode to Death, (owed to Death.)  And also I grieve the loss by severed head, my mighty steed -and I wept. Oh! how I wept.

And I lay flowers upon this, his departed spirit.  Of which I had foreseen to naught offend thee • the dead • who'd grin & bear it: but due for his long service to me, I offer him • the weary •  solace from your offence. I shudder to mention it • even now •  I swear it! And do send you a suffered lyric -to confound your pretty head.
400 · Nov 2014
Blessèd Angels
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
While the hosts of Heaven,
above the arching skies,
thus did celebrate in verse,
to me in solitude had been
                              born            the      infan­t           Sorrow
that I allowed in by reason of
indifference.

It was a time-adapted
expression that gave to me also despair
and frustration as I stood in the doorway
of my                              troubles                      wit­h         my       arms         akimbo.

But the attendant spirits saw              the cataract burst forth from my eyes....
                        They smiled gracefully     

                            -and I gave myself up to laughter!
398 · Dec 2014
Not A Fool But A King
Jamie L Cantore Dec 2014
The tears that did contribute to that wave
Of Misery did cease  -so they are no more.
I could not win for a loss, I could not save
A hellish beast dead inside, or else adore.


Will she recoil  by trickery, by ways of one
Magic spell, put upon me as once was mine
Or e'er spoil   me in the liberty I have won?
A length of toil  in the cell of lengthy Time.
398 · Jul 2015
Vanishing Point
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2015
Into the starry sky, I stare
Wondering if you can see
What I see. So far, so fair*

      -Dreams of you all thru
The night.


Into the whirlpool, I go...
A vortex of Space and Time,
I am consumed by you


       I dream of you all thru
The night.


And this heart beats on,
And on, and on, and on....


Down the rabbit hole I go
In search of a brighter
Tomorrow


           -But I shall dream of you all thru
The night.


*And this heart beats on,
And on, and on, and on...
395 · Nov 2014
Forgiven
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
Our emergence
from a world of sin
was an awakening
from an induced oblivion.


The animating principle
springs forth like the
shaping force we've
been subject
to first hand,
not in
utter
naivety,
but
on the
shoulders of
a
newfound Glory!


Something profoundly imbued,
before which our imaginable Nature
did quiver as tho surprised or confused:


But those first affectations,
those deep meditations,
in all actuality, are the landmarks and
monuments
we love so adoringly.
395 · Feb 2017
Understand
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
Therapy session going well,
I speak but only do half tell
Cause folks don't understand
Because they never half-felt
What I lock away -understand?

No.

They don't understand half so well
What is meant when eyes so swell
& a voice cracks -Folks, understand,
That you obviously never half-felt
So you don't quite fully understand.

Therefore I will tell all all, but I will
Bet you dollars to doughnuts, they still
Won't ... freaking... ahh!!! understand.
Based on a recent event, (2 months ago,) I experienced.
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
Sitting here silently stripping my mind of the setbacks in my life, is just what I do to set the record straight for myself -it's so simple, I smile. I travel in my seasoned mind to the streets lined with live oaks along the streetcar line on Saint Charles Avenue and stand in the shimmering sunlight between the dancing shadows on the broken sidewalk for a while.

In the classic void of reminiscences,  I see the staggered walkways set askew by the carelessness of Time, meandering past the stately antebellum homes, guarded by hushed sentries, these whitewashed lions tinged with the chartreuse hues of age and forgetfulness.

Sentries sitting for centuries on static haunches, frozen in place by inertia, while azaleas bloom 'neath the Magnolia blossoms that fill the humid air with a perfume that beggars the reek of Forget-Me Not flowers.

If I must travel in my dreams, let them be daydreams of the fruitful past, when the uptown scene seemed complete, with moving pictures in technicolor themes; and they moved the wooden seats back, facing home.

The end of the line was a block from the muddy Mississippi, and my lover's house was too, (although further up the Old Spanish Trail.) Once I followed it all the way to the Pacific, and a different time zone alone.
Jamie L Cantore Dec 2014
Sages speak of a steep path that's narrow
and difficult to ascend for humankind.
T'is true, for I have often read it in books
and heard it in the speakings of the mind.

To overcome the passions of this inertia
mixed with my own thoughts reservation,
is a cumbersome thing that does pull me
between sluggish grief and brief elation.

When I am in my solitude, I choose
to drift along with the dread riptide
of the moment, whilst I am striving
for the peaceful beach at ebb tide.

When I am between the shore and
the  violet  horizon, I revel in Time,
with the music of the spheres like
a dervish spun to a forbidden rhyme.

I dream of the beloved and the adventure
somewhere along my minds' bold travels.
The person and the secret place where
all of this old lifes' conundrum unravels.

I lose all of my attachments, until I am free
to be married to this manifesting destiny,
which haunts my dreams and drinks up me
Or all of my Self like a weeping willow tree.

At last I have surrendered to a perfect grace
that has annihilated me; then there is Love,
bringing unity in the diversity freeing me to
attempt the ascent, & kiss the starry sky above.
390 · Mar 2015
Words To Die By
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2015
Here lies my sweet, sweet death, nestled

peacefully upon the downy dawn;
in soft deadly dreams she has,
settled deep and neatly in the rays of the crowning sun -slowly curling into her own cradled
*** so warm.
Now dauntlessly she awakens from her woeful sleep, to prowl and roam, or thoughtlessly
traipse, troop, and patrol the savage doom,
which tonight I shall happily call a home of gloom, (provided that
the heavy hand of thee, my dark angel on the wing, opens soon.)
Because the breeze of mayhem blows
so long,
but I can't control this fine and mournful morn, that looms
hopelessly with modern expressions torn, and pieced together piece by lovely
piece,
as she smiled a smile worth a thousand smiles.
And like no other
was so freely turning up the corners of her ****** mouth -
exposing fangs of tender grace and heat, that shan't go without the
blood I bleed, dripping upon her lovely double-face that I must see -'tis justice for me to this come upon.
389 · Mar 2016
Self Portrait
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2016
Among, or, in dispersion thru,
The great misty and smoky view,
Of a Springtime gaggles' morning peal
Sets the pageant as all seems surreal.

By candlelight, and hearthside fire,
With shadows dark out in the mire
Which knocks me out if truth be said
When looking out by window ledge.

I hear the windy banks call my name
As I begin to drift, and start to dream
Of all the passing most precious things
That I see, which do so have effect on me.
387 · Jun 2015
Unabridged Care
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
Bright aurora at my epicenter,
In sea surf foam, and shadow
Of the blue,
You pacify and
Imbathe me
with unabridged care.


The rhythm, the tempo
Of the fire, which dries each
Droplet from me, so bare;
Does lull me to sleep in the arms
Of you,
My Little Lovely Dear.
384 · Feb 2017
Physics 101
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
The Terminal Velocity: V= sqrt ( 2W ÷ Cd p A) of your mini van, is a whopping 85 MPH! due to the Drag Equation: D = Cd p V√ A ÷ 2 proving drag/resistance to be too powerful for the 119hp engine in your 3,420 lb van to accelerate beyond the 85 MPH barrier, or perhaps you simply have a rev limiter on your ride.

If you wanted to increase your momentum (p) but not alter your top speed capabilities, what could you add to your vehicle before beginning an acceleration to your destination?
Jamie L Cantore Jan 2016
"What does a fish know about the water in which he swims?"

"Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish."

Do you believe in immortality? "No, and one life is enough for me."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"I do not believe in the God of Theology who rewards good and punishes evil."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties, He integrates empirically."

"God does not play dice."

"God may be subtle, but he isn't malicious."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of His creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."

"It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion."

"Morality is of the highest importance, but for us, not for God."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior Spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"Science without religion is lame; religion without Science is blind."

More available upon request...
Einstein was a Believer in God is my only point.
383 · Nov 2014
Sure Uncertainties
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
This
affair of my heart
and soul

has been extraordinary,
            yet subtle.

             Though anything is possible,

this aspiration lingers              and teeters

upon                   the                 impossible.


This little trial                                  may manifest
into trouble...

but, Oh! splendid is her divine     pageantry

-and she is            truly an intellectual!


Could thee
                               intimidate me,

Surely it is probable,

in consequence of the fact that
                                                     despite all

of their                        tinsel,
                                          to her,          I find some angels

to       be     in         their   
    beauty                 and          aim      unequal.
Jamie L Cantore Sep 2016
The living endure our inquiry, but not you, ye whom thru

decease roams free. We put queries to all you left behind, to seek out what whilst living troubled your weary mind. But still your thoughts remain a mystery, your clues thus choose to evade using no reason, no logic, but rhyme -and I quiddle no longer upon your Poetry, I am the quidnunc who figured you foolish, a fiddler fond of wasting time.
381 · Nov 2014
Legacy of Humanity
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
All coveted gladsomeness is near it's end,
and from all it's foolish manifestations
I must refrain.
Despite this I do offer something of my intimacy,
without frustrations or complaint;

my legacy to come before my decadence,
not after,
(tho I am without fortune in even this regard.)

I give of myself freely
for I know generous equivalence
to such an award is given thereafter, and without
restraint.

It will not be just a reward,
but a just reward.

Blessed am I in my unfaded attitude,
for I have discovered how to
gaze on attributes,
not thru my old insensate reveries,
but after personal growth
-despite hearing the defeatists scholarly jokes-
those remorseless platitudes,
unjust whisperings on
the philosophies
of human constructs and concerns
throughout history;

these meandering mortals
and their mutterings then to scatter thru the great hall!

So be it so, I will be understanding, cordial.
After all, I still have to undergo the passive experience,
to go on examining the concrete nature
of this thingness in awe
of a heightened certainty
where esteem and pride must be earned by all,

a sense inspiring of something far better,
a spirit untied, unfettered,
is that impulse of the will that urges humanity on
by strong moral pressure.
380 · Feb 2017
The Cycle of The Torments
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
Here, where the sphere remains quiet,
Here, where all torment rightly seems
As do breathless winds before the riot;
And clouded visions o' cloudy dreams,
Do watch the pastures there growing,
For harvesting lads and such sowing,
For the reaping hour and the mowing
-A sluggish world of sluggish streams.

I have grown weary of sobs and laughter,
And folks that crow and those that weep
Of what may come there in the hereafter
For those that soe and too swiftly reap;
I tire o days that grow weary of hours,
Wafted buds o those still lifeless flowers,
Desires and ideas; & also of such powers;
Of every single double thing but sleep.

Here growth has ruination as a neighbor,
And far from seeing eye and listening ear,
Pale waves and ****** winds force labor,
Flimsy ships and temperaments do steer
To drive out of control, & therein wither;
Woe not do those who place it thither:
But no such ****** winds ******* hither
-Nothing so felt, seen, or perceived here.
379 · Dec 2014
Changeling
Jamie L Cantore Dec 2014
I once did have an entourage, I once had social affections for them, that was in my younger years, in those blessed days before the forfeiture of my smiles; but now, now all are of  the vanished type, each face has
dissolved from memory.

And long ago I abandoned laughter, I abandoned Joy, or rather they both abandoned me when I became ill of mind, and too caught up in my woes to see the hurt that I caused my companions with these my selfish ways,
which desired solitude.

You see, I  valued a Love once- in my way-and I put her before all the world, before all of you -my dearest friends.
I lost nearly all of myself that day, the day I whispered to her softly that  I loved her more than any other, and I did -rather so.

But, as my love for her grew into obsession, I was unaware
of what I was giving up -what I was becoming! I was becoming less of me, and more of her, more of that beast that hid beneath skin deep beauty.

My thoughts those dreary days would begin to whirl, my heart would race, as my
patience for humanity would come to an end; and as my nails turned to claws, my skin to scales, my teeth now fangs! I then, and only then, realized what I became - but I could not for the life of me change back into my old Self.
Until now!
378 · Feb 2017
Birds of A Feather
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
Drinking a cup of coffee
This fine early morning,
A wee little bird saw me,
And flew away scorning.

My sight ruffled feathers,
She didn't want me here,
She flew to the lil tethers
That held a flock so dear.

I laughed & even thought,
The nonsense such worry
In her brain had brought
To my mind, each birdie.

I never would hurt a bird,
But I can see the thoughts
Of Fear being hard wir'd
In their reason, tho I scoff.

I wanted to quietly admire,
Then they sang, all in choir;
Thanks for the seed I left her
In the ol pretty little chamber.
376 · Jan 2016
Upon Wings And Prayers
Jamie L Cantore Jan 2016
The bounding main is stormless tonight.
The tide remains full, the night's eye patent
Upon the straits;--on the east coast the bright
Light shines and vanishes; the mountains against
The winds needn't shake at their foundations tonight.
So come hither, Dear, to the casement new & clear,
Where I can close my arms around you and breathe
In your lovely air -rocking, swaying to the rhythm
Of the Romantic guitar, in this peace, in this moment,
Which has bound me to this sphere that ne'er shall cease
To revolve around us on an axis of loving-kindness untl
When we ascend to the heavens upon wings & prayers.
375 · Dec 2014
Viscious Cycle
Jamie L Cantore Dec 2014
Day emerges
      And unburdened urges
The hour vessel sand,
Grain by grain,
To gain by gradual increase,
      That he may enter into
A life that none can ascertain;
And he usurps the authority
                                           Of
Death's powerful hand,
Alight with a spirit courageous
              Yet stained
With Guilt...
For that hand many lives
Has claimed...

Encouraging specific grief and pain!
Devices do definitely die -weather worn and withered; whether worn and wilted -or otherwise.

Once born into his fortress forthright
-The right sustained thru
                  The law of casualties-
Thou gorgeous light steals e'en
The purest night,
      Like a thief unashamed,
(Most naturally and casually.)

But soon Day too will pay this penalty,
And give up the ghost to Night,

      Again one life ends with the sickle of Death,
                   So that a new life might reign
-Afresh in Time's cycle of Eternity forthright.
374 · Nov 2014
The Illumined Stream
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
In the deepest recesses of surreal imaginings,
Issireen awaits to appear in lucid dream
--with a headdress made of a jade of
ivory green upon her spirituous head
of purposeful crystalline.

The only gateway to attain the pure excesses
of her beam, and all that she possesses
is the gleaming illumined stream.

To float on by the mysterious ringing spheres
one by one, finding balance in your curious thinking years,
will gently make ripples where there once were none,
and in the hereafter they make still or remove your weighty tears.

The sole visionary can stir a pool of serenity into chaotic
energies --asymmetries of colors, forms and densities;
which reveal aerie little faces which are reflections of dull
or intense entities. But if you try to seize the intangible wakes
caused by the faerie fins that race --like wings in the wind
of other realities
-they will glide thru your fingers like solacing
rain, casually and without pain.

Motion begets motion here, with a sweet gentle touch, as the
oceans of thought first do retreat before the inevitable rush.
Upon your arrival, Issireen can then emerge materialized full
into ethereal space with her hind wings draped over her uniquely
featured legs --outspread across the landscape.

She will be drawn beyond compare. When her immortal image
begins to take shape, a dreamer could naught but feel, but stare. Her eyes will seem to reveal raging complex colors, within
the borders of the iris is the reel of the engaging onyx shutters --into which you will then be the one drawn, drawn into those inescapable eyes. Drawn into the back of beyond -where tranquility lies unsurpassed in it's attribute.

Hear all the sounds that were never mute, see the banners outstretched
but never torn -instruments playing, stars that shoot, and lights that are forever on.
374 · Mar 2017
Riddle For You All
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2017
What tastes better than it smells?
*Hint: The answer is not corn chips.
373 · Jan 2016
Supernovae
Jamie L Cantore Jan 2016
When into The Lost Archives of Time," Oui, Sirs!
I have many hours misspent," I as much do admit;
& in truth, deep thoughts are cries of mine, be sure -
Aye, hath plenty hours since been biased such to a myth.
Then again, to defrost dark ice of rime, Sweet Lord!
I laugh! O and the Powers descend, my last rush to ad lib.
372 · Apr 2016
Beauty Rest
Jamie L Cantore Apr 2016
Beauty is not in profile and cast,
Such sweets to save only in youth,
For if ye drowse the while then ask,
"Where have my years gone in truth?"
Well, if he abides her wish to speak of
Wherefore her fonder form hath run
He will break her heart in two, the love
That was had ended -sixty years bygone.
372 · Apr 2016
Balancing Act
Jamie L Cantore Apr 2016
The inherent twist of Depression that I lament, yea, it devours but portrays to me my weaknesses and duty to dementia.

Tho naught with radiance, with gloom, for our riven hearts the black beast, the damnable atrocity, did consume.

But tomorrow I will be all smiles, and I'm not sure which is worse. The ichor of the sadness or the mania, both I do curse.
371 · Jul 2016
Peeble In The Clod
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2016
All love seeks itself to please,
And for itself has Love a need.
To itself, it is in itself, a Comedy
None so funny, as the joke on thee.
Inspired by William Blake's The Clod And The Pebble.
369 · Mar 2016
Strange Is The Night
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2016
The orb of night once didst glow,
                                                         and thieved the seascape tableau;

And blended with the dawn,
                                                  which I once did set a wish upon:

But now I am an humbled man,
                                                      whom stokes the fire when I can;

For few sorrows haunt me of late,
                                                        sav­e for the lost boyhood I gave

To the subtle winds of change,
                                                 to the night that I deem most strange.
368 · Jun 2015
This Love Is
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
Love is torture,
Love is pain,
Love is an orchard,
Love is a grain.

Love is agony,
Love is misery,
Love is alchemy,
Love is a mystery.

Love is...
Torture
Pain
An orchard
A grain
Agony
Misery
Alchemy
A mystery too.

Love is what
Love is, because
Love is nothing, if that
Love is without you.
Written in grade school whilst in class tuning out the teacher.
368 · Feb 2017
Poetry Assart
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
Be careful when you overly masticate
On what a fukmast is. I am a widdler;
And invagination is far too straight
Away a kumbang for the riddlefiddler.

So I use wordplay, as a, oh, *******,
Does that make me truly a clatterfart?
Does that make me some, oh, cockapert?
Maybe, but it is not really a badder Art.


Not a gem, but a beryl.
Beryl of laughs, that is.            
Ah, there's my assapanick now.
Kinda my little secret squirrel.
Lubricant for the cleats.
366 · Nov 2014
Many Regrets
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
Betwixt and between love longing
and that which I esteem above
most worldly things
-for she is in beauty fair and in
my affections dear-
but does not let for freedom,
first born therein and then spared to ring.


She admits she's not there for me
to redeem my calling or my
dreams. I must myself my own vim repair
and revive my
original vigor to it's spring; for she does not
see them for their worth ,warrant, or as
a guarantee -nor seem to care if I wither
in my quest to set my spirit free.
366 · Jan 2016
Ghost Pain
Jamie L Cantore Jan 2016
A pain in my heart, and a weary emptiness aches
My sensibilities, as tho the cherished sentiments
Of my all my life did start upon an instant quakes.
A moment sallies further into the past as sediments
Settle to the bottom of Lethe, the river which takes
Mnemosyne to me -when in my dream-like states.
366 · Jun 2015
Turning Lines
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
Forgotten better be love that could not succeed, (true this was then denied.) Years to pass to sadder grief, by love we forced and contrived.

(And now to turn the lines)

Contrived and forced, we love by grief, sadder to pass to years denied then. Was this true? Succeed not? Could that love be better forgotten?
Jamie L Cantore Jan 2015
A luminous forest, a weeping evergreen, a tall waterfall that the breeze bounds o'er, a spring of dreams that doubles back and cycles - sky in endlessly they do :  the wavelet course of the orbs or a calm stream, tearful eyes overflowing with heraldic thoughts thru the night, a singular occupancy in a surge or flood, crest followed by crest, ' till they disguise all, a reign of emerald hue that has no decay, like the flapping wings in the unfolding sky. A gigantic mountain standing tall and strong, not showing how lonely it is to be alone. A calming sound of the river flowing, swiftly the current goes like the days passing by quickly along with each memory. A passage thru the valleys of our future days, and the sunless elegance of such sorrow takes this wealthiest of natures and turns it to industry, and the eventual joys within loving arms that seek out company and some necessary duty in vain at this time, for the day time moments are chipped away by other moments, for all this, I finally admit that I need your happiness to bring me back from this wasting away, because I desire the multiform pleasures that you could bring to me - and I to you.
Thank you much, I enjoyed working on this with you.
363 · Jun 2015
Monopoly
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
I met a man, perhaps a ***,
On the streets near my home;
And asked me he for some mon-
ey, he said his was more gone.

I had a bit, but only just,
Wasn't sure which to trust,
My head, my heart, or gut.

*I wish I had then but one.
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
To wither, vanish,       fade and diminish,
dissolving   in   a   glass          half-empty   that   forgets,
whilst   growing   in              Time's   passage
   and   ever   shrinking           with   age
-is to wither, vanish, fade,            and diminish.

Darling   I   heed   thy   cries   as            you   feel   blemished,
and   are   otherwise   becoming   nearer         to   Death   than   to   me;
yet  I   cannot   see   the   petals   for           the   rose   ye   be,
or   at   times   sense   what   scents            linger   in   your   train
-as you wither, vanish, fade         and diminish.

However   in    perfumed                 decay,
I   watch   you   sustain               your   image,
and   persevere   in   a                  glass   that   I
changed   out   and                     made   half-full,
being   so   careful   when                    putting   you   back   in   it
-but still you wither, vanish,            fade and diminish.

The day has come and you               have gone away,
and I feel a                  familiar agony!
as I display you finally             in a heavenly vase,
for my good-intentioned                  and religious ceremony.
It hurts             so bad...
-tho I will no longer              see you to
wither, vanish, fade and diminish.
362 · Feb 2015
Twist of Fate
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2015
Endless matrix shall unravel the undying spirit from each parallel;

and I wilt speak freely to her now, and when I see her in each dell.

By the light of a dawning spell, I read by numbers and defy his evil.
361 · Jul 2016
Estranged
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2016
Yea, in the vast river of Life withdrawn,
With echoing narrows amidst us thrown,
Circling the endless insipid Beyond,
We mere transient souls sail all alone.
Even the reefs feel the engulfing flow,
And so our boundless ends we must know.
361 · Jul 2015
Lovely Loneliness
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2015
In that greeness of a young and an most awkward age,
It seemed my destiny to dwell alone in peace, in a place
Of which I could not dream myself being any fonder of.

And by the brook, is where I took, mine one and only book,
To read for hours, in a nook, 'neath a sycamore tree. A book
Which still I keep, tho rarely read, where lovers ponder love.
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
Naturally it is the sum of our inner forces
which forces us to look back again and again,
perhaps with too much of Anguish in the way,
reminding us of what we have or have not been
-for Anguish bears a semblance to Memory.

And this form of regret tries thru discourses to
look for resources for you to overwhelm. So we
must work hard towards this our goals,
regardless of the hardships
-that puts
us at the helm,
like
a Captain of survival.

One should only look back to correct
the course of their life in effect,
not to
kick themselves in
the hind
for every
slack, but to try to err
on the side of right.

Just remember, if our means have no end,
then our end has no means
, to keep
obstinate blockades in the way of our
impassioned & hopeful dreams.
The secret protects itself.
355 · Feb 2017
Sweet Nothings
Jamie L Cantore Feb 2017
I stood cautiously upon the "great" hill,
The breeze, calming and 'o so very still;
And the sweet new blooms were proud.
Languid pull, curved, beneath a shroud,
Their sweet leaves of a sweetness stems,
Crowns which keep the droplet diadems
Caught from the budding tears o "Morn";
And clouds were fair, so wispy, so borne;
Fresh from the clear beck which so slept
Upon Azure plains of sky, and then crept
A faint buzzing among the green'r leaves;
Born of th' sigh that this quietude heaves.
For not the dimmest stirring in this  scene
Of all the umbrage that lie over the green
Was seen -such Joy such solace did bring.
354 · Jun 2016
Visitation Rights
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2016
Hear me out, forasmuchas it is so,
For now at length my doom I know,
Since little all my passion does avail,
Because all my history is an epic fail,
Since this I write and it seems to be,
My entire sentiment swells to bless
You, your name, & all else you wish.
Take back the fortune which you claim
And leave me a thought of the same,
-And this don't deny, you are to blame,
If you do so refuse visitation to me.
354 · Jun 2016
Timeless Rhyme
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2016
When I do sum the moments of the dial
And spy the bold day to darkness fall,
When I survey youth advance the while
And bister coils to white unfold for all ;
When soaring trees so leave their leaves,
Which formerly did a great marquee make,
And Summers' blooms yet bound in sheaves,
Stillborn in a tomb with webs on the grave;
Then of thy allure do I inquest, I inquire,
If thou among the ebbing tide must go,
Since lovers & beauty do themselves retire;
And shrink as swiftly as they once didst grow;
Then what else against the passage of Time
Can ensure survival, besides a timeless rhyme?
353 · Jul 2016
Sins Wages
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2016
Despite the dark of nightfall's scope,
With eyes as bright as the hottest star,
I see you enter the door that lay ope
In the nebulous black, vague, obscure.
I do fear much, but shadows, no more.
So why do you pay this visit at my door?
Have you come to claim a debt I owe?
I've paid my dues, I  think I know.
Oh! It is you, Sir Death, at my door!
Silly me, I thought you'd let me sliiiiide
Making house calls still? Yes, he replied.
He took me away, to return nevermore.
Jamie L Cantore Jun 2015
Thee I saw
Down rows many
And
Many rows down
Saw I thee.

.thee I saw
Down rows many
And
Many rows down
Saw I Thee
351 · Dec 2014
Alone
Jamie L Cantore Dec 2014
I  am  lying  here  awake  yet  again
And   the   rainy   night   is   in  vain
Calling...    calling...     calling     me
Behind  blurry eyes into my

          misery.
351 · Nov 2014
Tribute
Jamie L Cantore Nov 2014
The eternal source of brilliancy is provided the province of

thought  as it cycles thru the organized conscience which you

might ought come to know by it's role of a being that's being

rolled into one, a sole entity with a constant vibrancy that

Genius lent, wherefrom laborers working with hidden aims

and methods can cause dissent amid the source if not well

done: but the tribute paid by a splendid poem repays the
loan without penalties,
( or punishment.)
350 · Jul 2016
Prelude To Their Eulogy
Jamie L Cantore Jul 2016
OF all who applaud thy existence as the morningtide-
all to whom their truancy is the night-
the blemishing all in all from the afterworld, the holy star-
of all who, wailing, bless thee constantly for the tunnel light-
for Life. ah! above all, Life. for the awakening of
deeply concealed Faith in verity-in virtue- in Mankind.
of all who they are, on Misery's unholy cradle, lying down to wither  -have suddenly come to Light-
at thy soft words spoken now --- a prelude to their eulogy ere the ending of this thing Life.
348 · Apr 2016
Forevermore
Jamie L Cantore Apr 2016
Lo! Michelle! Lo! you cry so well;
Tears of sorrow in your eyes do dwell;
Look not so upon the lofty heaven,
At nary a daybreak, at no dusky even;
After the call of the vicious wolf wailing,
When viscous dark falls, a full veiling,
Glimpse athwart the dark old forge,
And see me forge my darkled sword,
This sword shall free thee **FOREVERMORE!
345 · Mar 2017
Shhh... It's Another Riddle
Jamie L Cantore Mar 2017
If you have me, you want to
Share me. If you share me,
You no longer have me.
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