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I Vines on bricks, lights on rides, and I with me - Smells of ice! Songs of glass! Twilighted grace! Dimmed Sun! Friend! Thou art falling! Must He flee? Doomed Moon rising! Fear, O I fear Her face! O Nostalgia, dost thou reverberate? Wandering wheels reels round marbled mansions. A cartoon party timeless dream neath great Old oak trees. Tantalizing creations! Alone, standing still, cloaked in thy charged shrouds. Disintegrating present, future, past… O Nostalgia! Thy rippling waves and clouds Mean the world to me! Sublime feeling! Last! II Remember! Remember! O Nostalgia! Break through dark clouds of gray! O memory! Thy surf swells my spirit! Euphoria! We wear thy chains of sworded slavery! O feeling! I ride thy winds like these gulls! What adventures, wild nights, are there for you! Nothing we! Grasping for what time annuls! Statuesque, watching, crashing thy deep blue Multitudes of mutability! Stay! Nostalgia is here ! Nostalgia is here! Let not ever this feeling fade away! Nostalgia is here ! Nostalgia is here! III Sun! Set on these my happy, happy, years. O Imagination! Form thy happy Slippery vestiges! O happy tears! O quiet chaos! Moments watery, Moments of woe, moments of Nostalgia! Repeating punishment! O hereafter! Let it be! Let be! Reformed Nostalgia! I know thee, true falsity, loved other! Artifact of sublime evanescence! Fearful fear! Doubled reflected tomb! Rise! And rhyme! Future of transience! Thy blank stare! Thy silence I hear! O Moon! IV I am like thee! O unknowable hope! Empty vanity! That is me! Mythos Of self, within, without, what is thy scope? Strange affinity! What strange embryos! What mysterious cold eyes see downstream! What cruel body, like the black sea, swirling Back in profusion. Still I love! I dream! A poet on thy precipice, I sing! I am thy actor! I am thy reader! I am thy machine! Protean Narcissus like freak! Translator of what is in between! Stir! Frozen in art! Frozen in time! O speak! V O troped Nostalgia! Veiled thing of power! I need thee! Groan on with me! A poet, Standing with thy force; I am thy tower! Grieve with me! O unlived life! Pass thro’ it Pale faced like the Moon! Heart blazed like the Sun! And still I love! And still I love! Triumph In the shadow of death; O living gun! Know we spring like flowers! Yes! We triumph! O Nostalgia! Eternally moving Verse written cross our souls! We hear thy call! Each age trumpets thy second line seizing We miserable children - soon to fall!
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM UTC
Ode to Nostalgia
I Vines on bricks, lights on rides, and I with me - Smells of ice! Songs of glass! Twilighted grace! Dimmed Sun! Friend! Thou art falling! Must He flee? Doomed Moon rising! Fear, O I fear Her face! O Nostalgia, dost thou reverberate? Wandering wheels reels round marbled mansions. A cartoon party timeless dream neath great Old oak trees. Tantalizing creations! Alone, standing still, cloaked in thy charged shrouds. Disintegrating present, future, past… O Nostalgia! Thy rippling waves and clouds Mean the world to me! Sublime feeling! Last! II Remember! Remember! O Nostalgia! Break through dark clouds of gray! O memory! Thy surf swells my spirit! Euphoria! We wear thy chains of sworded slavery! O feeling! I ride thy winds like these gulls! What adventures, wild nights, are there for you! Nothing we! Grasping for what time annuls! Statuesque, watching, crashing thy deep blue Multitudes of mutability! Stay! Nostalgia is here ! Nostalgia is here! Let not ever this feeling fade away! Nostalgia is here ! Nostalgia is here! III Sun! Set on these my happy, happy, years. O Imagination! Form thy happy Slippery vestiges! O happy tears! O quiet chaos! Moments watery, Moments of woe, moments of Nostalgia! Repeating punishment! O hereafter! Let it be! Let be! Reformed Nostalgia! I know thee, true falsity, loved other! Artifact of sublime evanescence! Fearful fear! Doubled reflected tomb! Rise! And rhyme! Future of transience! Thy blank stare! Thy silence I hear! O Moon! IV I am like thee! O unknowable hope! Empty vanity! That is me! Mythos Of self, within, without, what is thy scope? Strange affinity! What strange embryos! What mysterious cold eyes see downstream! What cruel body, like the black sea, swirling Back in profusion. Still I love! I dream! A poet on thy precipice, I sing! I am thy actor! I am thy reader! I am thy machine! Protean Narcissus like freak! Translator of what is in between! Stir! Frozen in art! Frozen in time! O speak! V O troped Nostalgia! Veiled thing of power! I need thee! Groan on with me! A poet, Standing with thy force; I am thy tower! Grieve with me! O unlived life! Pass thro’ it Pale faced like the Moon! Heart blazed like the Sun! And still I love! And still I love! Triumph In the shadow of death; O living gun! Know we spring like flowers! Yes! We triumph! O Nostalgia! Eternally moving Verse written cross our souls! We hear thy call! Each age trumpets thy second line seizing We miserable children - soon to fall!
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32/M/New Orleans
May 25
May 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM UTC
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