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#diana
There she laid down her wearied head To rest one final time under the shade ‘O the wiry willow Beneath, her thoughts spun webs of distant times past Where honeysuckle wrapped tendrils round The rugged walnut Smells of various mountain flowers after a fresh rain Accompanied the familiar tune of birds singing An ode to the swaying oaks A soft breeze warmed the chill of biting winter's cold Sending shivers down her frail frame Skeletal like the barren birch She blinked in time to barking angry squirrels Displeased with the lack of fruit Left by the poor pawpaw Vision, already blurred by cataract, began to fade As the mountain consumed the setting sun The light filtered by forlorn firs It was time. Long had she waited to join those that had gone before Patient to be reunited with her love long lost During the spring of blooming dogwood Distant, she could see him, strong and proud With effort she reached out to her beloved A mighty hickory Exhaling, she breathed her last. After her life, Diana, goddess of the forest Let grow a grove of various mountain trees Surrounding a single rhododendron Her life, a monument to the nature she loved.
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Apr 28
Apr 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM UTC
Under the Wiry Willow
Pagtulog na lang ang pahinga Pag gising, ikaw ang laman ng isip, ngunit Pagkapikit ng mga mata Pag-ibig mo pa rin ang hanap sa panaginip. Sa gabi'y isang bangungot; Sa araw'y malabong imahinasyon Samantalang ang pinakamasalimuot— Sabik akong magkatotoo lahat ng 'yon.
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Mar 21, 2021
Mar 21, 2021 at 2:48 PM UTC
Prinsesa
The darkness of oxblood naugahyde booths barely steeped in feeble candle light Cocktails upon cocktails and cigarettes until we realize, my companion and I, That we have been completely blocked in No chance of escape Not even to *** So we’re basically sliding out to nowhere. In time the tabletop becomes covered with the rings of dripping condensation from Guinness cans. Wet ring upon ring sparkle and At times aluminum is slammed down upon the table, And not at all casually. You see, we were being marked as theirs A mighty squadron of faux suede heads blocking access so that no **** Yank may approach (and this is Hollywood) They might as well have hung a Union Jack) These two birds We were territories to be given To Her Majesty. I’m Hope and She’s Glory. Or is it..... They keep announcing to us that “Diana is dead.” And we keeping replying “yes, we know, the tv is on,” pointing behind us. Earlier that night we sat on the floor At the coffee table Snorting narrow lines of ******* with CNN on in the background They announce twice as we lean back and wipe our nostrils that Diana, Princess of Wales has been in a motor crash and has broken her wrist. Well that ***** A broken wrist in Paris. We returned our focus back to the coffee table and the announcer comes back this time with a completely different tone Sombre Really sombre He states Diana, Princess of Wales Is Dead. Dead? We announced to each other with jinx simultaneity and incredulity. It was just her wrist? Once at the bar we made cracks About off-shore bank accounts receiving wire transfers from the Queen. That previous summer in the first food aisle of Rock and Roll Ralph’s I turned towards the sunlight and saw her image on an American tabloid Displayed in the point of sale racks At checkout There were two rather fuzzy photos Shining golden hair on a turned feminine head A blue maillot A diving board off a yacht Arms wrapped in the Sea And I thought softly to myself “Oh no.” But I can’t even tell you why.
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May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020 at 2:12 PM UTC
Diana Considered, otherwise Untitled
The darkness of oxblood naugahyde booths barely steeped in feeble candle light Cocktails upon cocktails and cigarettes until we realize, my companion and I, That we have been completely blocked in No chance of escape Not even to *** So we’re basically sliding out to nowhere. In time the tabletop becomes covered with the rings of dripping condensation from Guinness cans. Wet ring upon ring sparkle and At times aluminum is slammed down upon the table, And not at all casually. You see, we were being marked as theirs A mighty squadron of faux suede heads blocking access so that no **** Yank may approach (and this is Hollywood) They might as well have hung a Union Jack) These two birds We were territories to be given To Her Majesty. I’m Hope and She’s Glory. Or is it..... They keep announcing to us that “Diana is dead.” And we keeping replying “yes, we know, the tv is on,” pointing behind us. Earlier that night we sat on the floor At the coffee table Snorting narrow lines of ******* with CNN on in the background They announce twice as we lean back and wipe our nostrils that Diana, Princess of Wales has been in a motor crash and has broken her wrist. Well that ***** A broken wrist in Paris. We returned our focus back to the coffee table and the announcer comes back this time with a completely different tone Sombre Really sombre He states Diana, Princess of Wales Is Dead. Dead? We announced to each other with jinx simultaneity and incredulity. It was just her wrist? Once at the bar we made cracks About off-shore bank accounts receiving wire transfers from the Queen. That previous summer in the first food aisle of Rock and Roll Ralph’s I turned towards the sunlight and saw her image on an American tabloid Displayed in the point of sale racks At checkout There were two rather fuzzy photos Shining golden hair on a turned feminine head A blue maillot A diving board off a yacht Arms wrapped in the Sea And I thought softly to myself “Oh no.” But I can’t even tell you why.
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#*But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild,       Else of our *** why feigned they those nine       And poesy made Calliope’s own child*?                                               Anne Bradstreet Huntress, fill my pleading glass ! Let this marksman’s blood be merry. Whether we shoot hind or *** Hail our wet preliminary.    Having brought to birth such brave quadruplets,    Let us toast the midwife with our couplets. Sweet Diana pours her rounds: Tawny Port and Shooting Sherry. Hares now flee the baying hounds For their country sanctuary.    Thine the night, oh bright and savage huntress;    Lead us to the quarry, chaste Artemis. Conejito, hide yourself From the charging adversary Who would change your pelt for pelf; (All close shaves are cautionary).    Forgive our clanging gong and sounding brass;    They serve to drive the quarry from the grass. Healing balm: such sporting frolic, Dares us to stay sedentary; Banishing our melancholic State, her bright apothecary!    Wild huntress, let us know you as the Greeks    And quiver as our heart your arrow seeks. Toast we now the careless hunt; Spoonerists wax luminary. Visions of the hairless **** Make my lay discretionary.
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 10:19 AM UTC
Idylls of the Careless Hunt
Out of the dark forest I stumbled onto the pebbles of a moonlit lake my languid eyes bumbled swallowing down philter mistakes a pale goddess in the flesh how my stupefied eyes stared at the beauty of her nakedness something in me flared flared and turned and burned my flesh no longer mine stag in form standing taciturn she calls out for my canines I run and try to yell nothing escapes my lungs pattering of legs hungry to quell come to rip flesh with teeth and tongues stumbling and tripping over stones, limbs, roots and mud left to a new life a stag rover I hear the ******* and the studs faster and faster I try to move from this typhoon wave of carnivorous hounds but curse these feeble hooves the claws and teeth came crashing around flesh stabbed with a thousand teeth a pack of mouths tear and pull a stag corpse I bequeath   to the hunger of my own wolves
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 2:07 PM UTC
Actaeon the Stag
I feel the old gods in me breathe. Subtle hands, contracting intercostals, feminine fingers that scream and wail when I let men with ill intent come near me - feminine fingers that announce themselves as Athena, Diana. Do you have a legacy? I feel Nefertiti, Osiris, Iris, clench their fists in my gut when I cry in my sleep and wake up angry - Hecate spits and twitches her paws when my undulating heart lacks the oil that flourished during her reign. Wings over me, the contorted body of Nike. Protective but irate. A shout, and a burst blood vessel in the corner of my eye - by the aging moon this tumult of Dido's wild ichor inside me grows... Have you ever used your voice? Athena's words in my head telling me to scream - Roar of the old gods telling me to run - Their tongues in the sand and in the grass blades. Child of flesh and hard times. An unknown voice from the mouth of my mother commands me - 'take firm grasp of the magic within you' Perhaps I am too afraid to reply.
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Jan 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018 at 1:11 PM UTC
by the aging moon
Diana of the woods and Wild animals, as swift as winds That rustle leaves, her muscles are as Mighty as the brown bear, her legs are as Steady and strong as the wolf dog that yips At her swiveling hips, her motion as graceful As the rushing rivers, yet as fierce as a tornado’s Spiral, pouncing, bounding, she cuts the air as sharp As the arrow that springs from her bow, eyes transfixed On her target— Diana, goddess of the woods and Wild animals, captured in black bronze And displayed atop marble like a prize won.
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM UTC
Diana
I blame Diana, the hunt, the game. He was a fool for her wily ways. I blame the girl, the victor of the tale. She gets the spoils, I only fail. He says he needs time. But time doesn't wait.
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Sep 20, 2017
Sep 20, 2017 at 6:58 PM UTC
Untitled
Princess Diana came back last week She wore all her pretty clothes And looked stunning in her hats She went about her ways as best she could But there was no hiding all the sorrow in her eyes. The luckiest girl in all the world Chosen to one day be the Queen And then demoted to a brood mare By a Prince who was secretly a **** Her fairy tale had not even got it’s start When she found out how it would end, And she was trapped by tea towels With her face imprinted on them. She delivered all that was required of her And even though the song was ended Managed to write a second verse Which the conductor wasn’t keen to play. Yet the music gave her legs to stand on And the tune grew to a symphony As she performed it for the World Who found the melody delicious And her solos so profound. Lady Di is back again, That simple girl who saved herself To become the lamb for royal slaughter By a horde of calculating courtesans Who knew she didn’t matter from the start. Left to slumber peacefully, On her private island Lo these twenty years, Safe from flashing cameras And the machinations of the Crown Diana may be dead but her legend is alive. ljm
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Sep 11, 2017
Sep 11, 2017 at 1:57 PM UTC
RESURRECTION
~~<《》>~~ goddess rides the moon glowing amorphous, with stars sparking from her tail HAIKU SoulSurvivor (C) 3/13/2017
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Mar 14, 2017
Mar 14, 2017 at 2:35 AM UTC
goddess
AFTER 20 YEARS DIANA'S STORY NOW WILL BE TOLD HERE ON AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION HER LIFE AND LOVES WILL UNFOLD I HOPE THEY REPORT THE TRUE PRINCESS THAT SHE WAS HER LEGACY AND DEDICATION WILL LIVE ON BECAUSE SHE WAS A PRINCESS THAT LIVED LIFE FROM HER HEART AND HER LEGACY AND DYNASTY IN HER CHILDREN WILL NEVER PART
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Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 10:58 PM UTC
PRINCESS DIANA'S STORY
Sustenance for friends and clients; state your case – come one, come all. The matron arms of Social Service will not let you fall. Food stamps make our nation stronger, licked, then stuck on the public roll. Social programs last much longer adding recipients on the dole… Like the Ephesian Diana many are my benefits! Mine the matriarchal manna; latch and suckle at my teats. Yours the client’s right to nurture. Mother will supply your need; Child, you must not fear the future – feed, my baby, feed. Call me nanny, call me Lord just make sure you’re calling on me. Mine are the gifts you can afford they’re taxpayer-funded, worry-free! Once you are latched I’ll keep it flowing like an intravenous habit. Keep that ****** situated where your will can never grab it Let it never cross your mind that there’s an end to all lactation. Cloward-Piven have refined this titillation. Love me.  Need me.  I’m the State. Your well-being is my affair. With your consent I’ll dominate, because I care.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:07 PM UTC
Licked, Stamped, Undelivered
Lips dusted with ******* Every kiss has you addicted Sniffing out all this pain To make it through the life im living Selling my soul for pocket change Hoping to see the end of the day Slits on my wrists Looking like a checklist Internal bruises And burnt cigarette lips Sleepless nights Staring at the city lights Inhalation and contemplation Oh, how devastating the decisions im making I used to be this rose growing from the concrete Now I'm just a penny lying on the street
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 10:06 PM UTC
Tiffany