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Seán Mac Falls Jul 2019
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Lear wanders in stormy open, bares warring elements,
The heavens blister, crackle, night is balmy shroud,
Wretched monarch babbles in sprinkles of wind cold,
Arguments lost by ones own pouring perturbations
And raining sky said 'nothing will come from nothing.'

Howl, howls into blackness treed in lightning splits,
His outcast soul, reels, fleshed, cut to smithereens,
Tang of salt burns on the bluffs and the sea rages,
So entire and ceremonious is Lear's fall meted out,
Air spoke, 'nothing from nothings ever yet was born.'

Sky proclaimed to man child King, here is a reckoning,                            
Each mad choice was self infliction, now wind flays
And sweet Cordelia lies in her innocent **** grave,
Sky, in thralls of thundering asks, 'what say thee now,
King of highborn follies, even purple heaths are rags,

Yet black and above you and night shades, whine,
Unworthy King, done in by compounded effects,
The might of maelstroms in low butterflies wings,
How now, bare trees, knifing reeds, skeletal flashes,
To rains of night are ever your lanyards my lord,'

Sad Lear so near oblivion fell mute, sky went on,
'Howl and cry mad King your reaper calls beyond,
The icy brisk heavens await to brusque you away,
Your slipshod kingdom was mere and fools' dream,
Howl, til howls abrupt abate, for nothing now comes.'
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King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. Based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king.
Priyam Jul 2019
My life's a book
A neverending story
Full of drama
And gore and glory
I invite you to read me
Or be a chapter
I promise you'll lay
Amazed and enraptured
Because not only I
Have a fable to tell
It's surreal and unreal
And would put you under spell
So be my guest
Please grab a corner
Flip through the pages
And stand enamoured
MisfitOfSociety Jul 2019
I drink the fabled waters of the fountain.
It tightens my skin.
Loosening the bounds,
Tied by time.
A weight falls off my back.
I feel my strength return.

The worn armor I used to wear,
Has been repaired.
Never have to fear the arms of time,
Counting down to my end.

The curse of death,
Has been lifted.
No longer feel the blow,
Dealt by time.
I have risen,
Above natural law.

I thought I died!
Now I am alive!
Seán Mac Falls May 2019
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I have seen ghosts move in long caustic sun,
On shuffled feet, they trod through heavy airs
With eyes blanketed from all that lives growing,
Who knows how far they shall run as they walk,
Dumb before light, shimmers of grace, of flower,
The chalk in their veins flows black under moon,
To speak is to lye, river beds dry, draining forever,
And blood, blue, salted only at the ended journey.
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Seán Mac Falls Apr 2019
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Her fine hands gentle
With lithe and spiny fingers
Of bone and fin.

Her eyes are opal,
Essence of emerald and topaz,
A hoard of treasure.

Her hair is sea gathering
And dances in the blue currents
Deadly as the sea snake.

Her skin is coral,
Made of mineral and sorcery,
A fatal beacon.

Her lips are urchin,
Set in a whirlpool of face,
A spiral of doom.

Her voice is dream,
Rocking the lost wrecked ships,
Ground into sand.

Her long tail is fable
Of paradise, beyond faraway seas,
Cyclones and waves.
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Seán Mac Falls Mar 2019
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Flowers so rare and fine,
Missing from this dry world,
Lost, unwatered, unseen, yet
No ones and none despaired,
They then planted their garish
Seed in blot sun, most sodden,
Soppy soils sprayed which fell
On the plainest, most commoner
Grounds, such fertile dirt, wrought,
Then, all who came to view where
But gaggles of proud mediocrity
Who arrived to revel and preen,
Unjust, they remade this earth,
Once lively, to be lame, what
Celebrations they now need
What praises they do crave,
Sadly, they could not know,
A flower for the weeds.
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Ciel Mar 2019
I look up at the chaos around me
and see.
I see people saying their last prayers,
Waiting for their fateful endings,
I hear the church bell toll in its last call,
I feel the suffocating heat from the burning buildings,
I smell the smoke from the ignited city,
I taste the desperation in the air and the bitterness of regrets.

But in the middle of this tumult,
One thing stands out;
One person.

A little boy stands there in a tan attire,
dark gray ash contrasting his almost-white hair
and tears stains on his ivory cheeks.
A grim expression marking his features,
He shakes as if freezing
and although the heat has almost become unbearable,
he stands in the middle of the flames
barefoot yet unharmed.
A scythe lays at his feet,
and a pale horse stands by his side,
making his small body look even smaller.

As if feeling my stare,
he locks eyes with me.

And as the world burns down,
the reflection of the cataclysm in his brown eyes
and the look of innocent incomprehension he wears
is the single most heartbreaking thing in the moment.

Suddenly, I do not care about the screams and cry of the despondent goners.
I do not feel the harsh scorch of the burnt remains under my bare feet.
I do not mind the tears welling up in my eyes due to the fumes.
They are but a distant reminder of the atrocity surrounding me.
I can only focus on the strange guilt reflected in his warm eyes.

From those same eyes, a tear rolls down his cheeks
And as it reaches his dimpled chin,
he raises a little hand to wipe it away
And then waves at me.
I do not wave back,
too stunned to move or react,
But I could tell he did not expect me to anyways.

With one last look,
he picks up the scythe with an unusual easiness
and turns to walk towards the flames,
the horse close behind him.
And soon, they are one with the flames.
The first of the Four Horsemen series of poems: Death. This image came to me in a dream one night.
Ciel Mar 2019
I look at the despair around me
and see.
Men, women and children alike lay
on the ground in a sea of blood.
Their bodies unmoving
with their eyes still open wide in terror
and arrows in their chests.
Victims of a merciless quest,
their corpses decorate the ground
of the village that was once a happy place
but is now but a gory catacomb.

In the middle of the ravaged huts,
stands a woman.
With a silver crown sitting atop golden locks
and lifeless grey eyes,
she bears a white armor
stained with the red of the conquered
and a wooden bow in her left hand.

A frown wrinkles her ivory face,
and as she stares at me,
I am not scared
as I should be at the vision
of this blood-covered figure
but rather,
I am overcome with a feeling
of pity.
This is the second installment of the Four Horsemen Compilation: The conqueror on the white horse.
Victor D López Mar 2019
Un buen día en invierno, algunas hormigas estaban ocupadas secando su almacén de maíz, que se había humedecido durante un largo período de lluvia. En ese momento apareció un saltamontes y les rogó que le otorgaran algunos granos. "Porque", dijo, "simplemente me muero de hambre". Las Hormigas dejaron de trabajar por un momento, aunque esto fuse en contra sus principios. "¿Podemos preguntar", dijeron ellas, "qué hiciste todo el verano pasado? ¿Por qué no recolectaste un almacén de alimentos para el invierno? "" El hecho es que ", respondió el Saltamontes," estuve tan ocupado cantando que no tuve tiempo ". " Si pasaste el verano cantando ", respondieron las hormigas, "no puedes hacer nada mejor que pasar el invierno bailando". Y ellas se echaron a reír y continuaron con su trabajo.
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Nueva versión del siglo XXI: El Saltamontes y las Hormigas (por Víctor D. López, fanático de las hormigas en todas partes del mundo y en todos los tiempos)

Un buen día en invierno, algunas hormigas estaban ocupadas secando su almacén de maíz que se había humedecido durante un largo período de lluvia. En ese momento llegó un saltamontes y exigió que le dieran una parte justa de su maíz almacenado. Las hormigas dejaron de trabajar por un momento, aunque esto fuese en contra de sus principios.

"¿Podemos preguntar", dijeron ellas, "qué hiciste todo el verano pasado? ¿Por qué no recolectaste un almacén de comida para el invierno? "

"El hecho es", respondió el Saltamontes, "Estaba ocupado con cosas más importantes, como abrazar árboles agarrado de las manos de personal con ideas compatibles y cantando “Cumba Ya”. Desafortunadamente, estas actividades no son apreciadas por las estúpidas élites que oprimen injustamente a las clases más bajas y tratan de explotarlas por medios tales como hacer que realicen trabajos mal pagados y sin sentido que están por debajo de su dignidad ".

“Si pasaste el verano cantando, agarrándote de las manos y abrazando árboles”, respondieron las hormigas, “cuando deberías haber estado planeando y construyendo tus tiendas para mantenerte a ti y a tu familia durante el invierno, no puedes hacerlo mejor que pasar el invierno bailando ”. Y se rieron y continuaron con su trabajo.

El saltamontes, que era un tipo de temperamento muy sensible, quedo profundamente ofendido por el egoísmo y la intransigencia de estas hormigas ricas que no estaban dispuestas a proporcionarle su parte justa para apoyar a los miembros menos afortunados de la comunidad, como él. “No construiste el maíz que cosechaste a través de tu avaricia en el verano, mientras que las personas más ilustres que tú trabajaron muy duro explorando su naturaleza sensual y artística. Ustedes no hicieron que lloviera, o que el sol brillara, o que las abejas polinizaran los cultivos nacientes. Simplemente cosecharon el beneficio de la generosidad de la naturaleza que pertenece a todos y tratan con avidez de conservar para ustedes una cosecha proporcionada no por su trabajo sino por la gracia de la madre tierra. Ustedes son ladrones, acaparadores y bestias egoístas que tomarán para sí mismos lo que la naturaleza proporciona a todos sus hijos en igual medida ”. Luego se marchó, mientras las hormigas sacudían la cabeza, sonriendo y regresaron a su trabajo.

Más tarde, ese mismo día, el saltamontes regresó con hordas de personas de ideas afines que hervían sobre la indignación y la falta de respeto que les mostraban estas hormiguillas egoístas, crueles y despiadadas. Cayeron sobre las mismas a golpes y patadas dejándolas a todas sin sentido. Luego tomaron la mayor parte de su cosecha y quemaron lo que no podían llevarse para enseñarles una lección a estas pequeñas hormigas malvadas, mientras cantaban: "Sí, podemos", "poder para la gente" "Si no hay justicia, no hay paz" y una serie de frases similares mientras golpeaban a las hormigas egoístas ya inconscientes, liberaban sus tiendas de alimentos y quemaban el que ya les sobraba. Fue un gran día para los saltamontes que bailaron día y noche alrededor de las hogueras de su victoria.

Ese invierno, las hormigas murieron de hambre, al igual que los saltamontes que pronto agotaron las tiendas liberadas de las hormigas egoístas en unos días de fiestas y orgías las veinticuatro horas del día. No pudieron encontrar ninguna ayuda de los otros espíritus libres en su pueblo ese invierno y, como su último acto, se reunieron, tomaron de las manos, abrazaron un árbol y cantaron al unísono su canción final: "Todo es culpa de las estúpidas hormigas que trajeron su destrucción sobre sus cabezas y las nuestras a través de su falta de voluntad y egoísmo en reusar compartir su generoso tesoro. Insignificante pequeñas hormigas estúpidas, egoístas, codiciosas. Todo es su culpa. Todo es su culpa. Si tan solo hubieran sido tan cultas como nosotros "
El Saltamontes y las Hormigas - Edición del Siglo XXI. . .
THE GRASSHOPPER Y THE ANTS por Aesop (Edición original con traducción al ingles de Proyecto Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org. La traducción del ingles al español es mía. La edición nueva del Siglo XXI es mía también en ingles (2010?) y en español (2019).
GL Thompson Feb 2019
I’m starting to think she may have died
gone up to blue tick heaven after being verified
Caught up in a mockery of an internet led democracy
World wide fame to blame for the tragedy
Her Tightened grip on reality was merely a saga of concise works of fiction.


She tried to Reach out for profanity and found a hundred degrees reality.
Well It all means nothing to nobody now
Here comes latest trend you’d be mad not to bow.

Been inactive for days lost track of the newest craze
Whilst her exploits were insightful
They ultimately led to her downfall
Spin the wheel line up to play the game
Because nobody remembers your name
Only your handle.

I’m starting to think maybe she lost her mind
all of the tape unravelled when she tried to hit rewind.
There was no filter there when she opened the window to look outside
without the second source she was unable to decide
she went offline to go backpacking in the sky I wonder why?
It all seems so alternate
With her curtains drawn at the break of dawn it seems so analogue.
She had a shockproof phone case but I can’t say the same for her mind
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