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"abreast" poems
Fingers sinking deep                below your surface;                seeping into your *****                caressing your crevices.                leaving their mark; baring pleasure.                coursing ecstasy through your veins.            searching for the highest of peeks beyond measure                scorching heat, blood boiling, the pleasure pains                soothing your aching flesh                in relentless pursuit; of higher depths                guilty yearnings, urges run rampant                as your ecstasy starts to progress                heavy breathing your hands held abreast                pungent liquids; drenched with desire                a seeping puddle stains the mattress                gingerly leaking, outlining your canvas                 a mist in the air, cooling your skin;
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Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017 at 9:55 PM UTC
Butterfly
I want to let the folds of your flesh mesh with my flesh as we lay abreast making love like we are having *** fingernails pressed against my chest the slower I go the wetter it gets the deeper I go the better it gets.
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Mar 18, 2021
Mar 18, 2021 at 8:51 AM UTC
Flesh of my Flesh
My life is simple, humble pleasures The girl I love, summer leisure ‘The Duke is dead’ the prime minister says ‘Your time has come, you must do your best’. My heart grows large, my eyes turn red One final kiss, I lose my breath My mother weeps, my father stares His parting words ‘you must do your best’. We train for the task that lies ahead Our tools of evil, our countries crest Brothers forever, until the end The sergeant says sternly ‘you must do your best’. The foreign soil, our blood it thirsts We do not falter, we march and curse We face our destiny, we march abreast My father’s voice follows me ‘you must do your best’. The fight is hard, our spirit put to the test Death follows us, we cannot rest Our bravery triumphs, ‘oh how our country will be impressed’ We do our duty, we do our best. But the victory is fleeting, our brothers fall Staring eyes, cold skin, we loved them all Our grief immense, we lay them to rest They were the bravest, they did their best. The darkness surrounds us, our souls to stone They want to end us, to send us home I raise my weapon; one man lay dead I have taken, life most precious, I have done my best. The war is over, the Duke avenged We wander home, those who were left return to crowds, they stand abreast They thank us all, ‘You are the best!’ The war is over, still a battle I fight My hands tremble, sleepless nights I see his face, where his body rests My heart is cold, no pride, but guilt instead ‘I did my duty, I did my best’. My parents proud, my love distressed My suffering is silent, put to them instead They grieve for me, the boy that left The Man, broken, who survived, who tried his best. A fatherless son, sonless mother A widowed wife, man’s lost brother Their pride is poison, a shot to my chest I confess my sins, they do their best. My life was simple, now changed beyond measure The girl my wife, our children treasures ‘The Duke is dead!’ she says to them ‘Your father went, he did his best’.
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Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 9:01 PM UTC
'You must try your best'
My life is simple, humble pleasures The girl I love, summer leisure ‘The Duke is dead’ the prime minister says ‘Your time has come, you must do your best’. My heart grows large, my eyes turn red One final kiss, I lose my breath My mother weeps, my father stares His parting words ‘you must do your best’. We train for the task that lies ahead Our tools of evil, our countries crest Brothers forever, until the end The sergeant says sternly ‘you must do your best’. The foreign soil, our blood it thirsts We do not falter, we march and curse We face our destiny, we march abreast My father’s voice follows me ‘you must do your best’. The fight is hard, our spirit put to the test Death follows us, we cannot rest Our bravery triumphs, ‘oh how our country will be impressed’ We do our duty, we do our best. But the victory is fleeting, our brothers fall Staring eyes, cold skin, we loved them all Our grief immense, we lay them to rest They were the bravest, they did their best. The darkness surrounds us, our souls to stone They want to end us, to send us home I raise my weapon; one man lay dead I have taken, life most precious, I have done my best. The war is over, the Duke avenged We wander home, those who were left return to crowds, they stand abreast They thank us all, ‘You are the best!’ The war is over, still a battle I fight My hands tremble, sleepless nights I see his face, where his body rests My heart is cold, no pride, but guilt instead ‘I did my duty, I did my best’. My parents proud, my love distressed My suffering is silent, put to them instead They grieve for me, the boy that left The Man, broken, who survived, who tried his best. A fatherless son, sonless mother A widowed wife, man’s lost brother Their pride is poison, a shot to my chest I confess my sins, they do their best. My life was simple, now changed beyond measure The girl my wife, our children treasures ‘The Duke is dead!’ she says to them ‘Your father went, he did his best’.
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Her sweet scent sticks in my nostrils from when we were last met, remembrance of her lips on mine inspire song divine. Though I gaze upon her face in photographs, angelic beauty replicates not. Shivers she sends me over the phone. Oh, I marvel that we may speak from such distance, yet I crave her warm embrace, her breath in my ear, whispering gently, it’s ok, and forever will be. I long to run my fingers through her silky black hair, caressingly ********** her mind and its motives, the clockwork behind those deep brown eyes, two chocolatey oceans of no return. To feel her lie against me brings a state: pure ecstasy, no chemical exists that can make one feel as they do when abreast with a lover. Desire fills me to be with her but for now I must settle to view my tulip from afar.
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Dec 25, 2009
Dec 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM UTC
Tulip from Afar
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) But I remain a believer in my ancestral religion Whose God is wele but not the Germany world, it is a religion, Like most of universal ancestral ones, With appalling moral threshold, When Elijah Masinde of dini ya Misambwa Despised those who condemned man as notoriously religious He meant human religious approach to life is absolute in nature However diverse religions compete for human ears Rich ones glorified in the luring away of modal ears But all are devoid of spiritual impetus Disappointing the progenitors of religious imperialism These short-cutters in matters of sanctimony Will not come to our heaven They will get me sharing a cup of tea With my sister- in-law; Mary, the mother of Jesus And I will shun them, I will not know them I will not invite them to a heavenly cup of tea They will be suffocated by cadaverous appetite, For we honor our religion with ancestral regard; The Faith of Our Ancestors But in ridicule they call us kaffirs, pagans, christo-pagans, Animists, atheists, gentiles, non-believers, mediumists, Rebellious rebels or whatsoever they call us; The anti-muhamedan-mis-christologists, Let them delude themselves, If they disparage us with sick contumely Abreast the dumbfounding development in sciences Plus so fortuitous humanistic awareness, Humanity in Religion has to adjust optimally Religious masters have to help Interpret the religious Books, bible, gita, quran All Written or verbalistically in the glory of epical orality In tandem with the best centered Life extant, Otherwise selfish religions becomes an old wine bag With its old and stale wine, You will persuade Russian carousers to drink But to your chagrin, none will condone, your stale wine Do not seek to sell your faith Because every human community Has an ancestral faith Respect them all for that is gods in their accolade of Omonipresecence, Any man or woman without religion is dangerous But do not advantagize yourselves At the expense of people of other faiths It is good you reciprocated Planet earth is our only sure and known abode If we lived well here, and there is another world For those who will be good, we hope the conclave of Gods Would all sit in judgment for their credit And reward those who helped humble humanity Of their religions as well as those of other religions As for all the Gods love humanists.
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Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM UTC
Echoing Taban Makitiyong Reneket Lo Liyong
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) But I remain a believer in my ancestral religion Whose God is wele but not the Germany world, it is a religion, Like most of universal ancestral ones, With appalling moral threshold, When Elijah Masinde of dini ya Misambwa Despised those who condemned man as notoriously religious He meant human religious approach to life is absolute in nature However diverse religions compete for human ears Rich ones glorified in the luring away of modal ears But all are devoid of spiritual impetus Disappointing the progenitors of religious imperialism These short-cutters in matters of sanctimony Will not come to our heaven They will get me sharing a cup of tea With my sister- in-law; Mary, the mother of Jesus And I will shun them, I will not know them I will not invite them to a heavenly cup of tea They will be suffocated by cadaverous appetite, For we honor our religion with ancestral regard; The Faith of Our Ancestors But in ridicule they call us kaffirs, pagans, christo-pagans, Animists, atheists, gentiles, non-believers, mediumists, Rebellious rebels or whatsoever they call us; The anti-muhamedan-mis-christologists, Let them delude themselves, If they disparage us with sick contumely Abreast the dumbfounding development in sciences Plus so fortuitous humanistic awareness, Humanity in Religion has to adjust optimally Religious masters have to help Interpret the religious Books, bible, gita, quran All Written or verbalistically in the glory of epical orality In tandem with the best centered Life extant, Otherwise selfish religions becomes an old wine bag With its old and stale wine, You will persuade Russian carousers to drink But to your chagrin, none will condone, your stale wine Do not seek to sell your faith Because every human community Has an ancestral faith Respect them all for that is gods in their accolade of Omonipresecence, Any man or woman without religion is dangerous But do not advantagize yourselves At the expense of people of other faiths It is good you reciprocated Planet earth is our only sure and known abode If we lived well here, and there is another world For those who will be good, we hope the conclave of Gods Would all sit in judgment for their credit And reward those who helped humble humanity Of their religions as well as those of other religions As for all the Gods love humanists.
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1   Grey sky greyer sea a litter of rocks balance coat bright hat blue mittens striped as on these November steps you collect the gifts of the ebb tide   2 Glint green this living tapestry echoes Jilly’s field with tractor not Devon but salt-flats rocky revetments moorland rising a map crossed by a chiromatic line our destiny marked out on this concrete wall?   3 Beached clinkered double-ender a bay-courser sjekte strand-crunched fit once for Viking raiders two abreast now daubed with tin ends of patriotic paint a sea-steed hobbled hard on the shore   4 Bow faced a sea helmet thrice rope strapped slow moulded over the boat builder’s ribbanded jig a spanglehelm of wood curved sheer straked plank bilged a tuck stern raising its proud head seaward   5 Viewed from the air a map rolls out north to the tilted curve of the horizon’s rim cloud scattered mountained red betwixt seas sun chalked wine-stained a volcanic isthmus provokes desert the western waste land of  a brooding city   6 Oh face of ropes knot eyed! you blue cheeked wide smiler wild wild your  head of hair beachcombed and splayed wrapped on the sternest post   7 She sewed sugar kelp on the sea shore a sporophyte with sheltered frond​ strap-like stem stiff and smooth of the species saccharina a spring-tide stalk set among substrates shells and stones   8 I the camera turned and caressed by her slight fingers (the pinky raised) my viewfinder close to her blue grey eye / I focus on this kelp-needled novelty feel her breath wait for the thumb press the electronic click   9 Here is the beach walked in darkness the fishermen shadows against the moonstruck ebb fingers laced the sea’s breath in our ears wave upon wave un-folding on the sand and  later we unfold then draw back in love’s relentlessness
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Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 4:09 AM UTC
Gifts from the ebb tide
1   Grey sky greyer sea a litter of rocks balance coat bright hat blue mittens striped as on these November steps you collect the gifts of the ebb tide   2 Glint green this living tapestry echoes Jilly’s field with tractor not Devon but salt-flats rocky revetments moorland rising a map crossed by a chiromatic line our destiny marked out on this concrete wall?   3 Beached clinkered double-ender a bay-courser sjekte strand-crunched fit once for Viking raiders two abreast now daubed with tin ends of patriotic paint a sea-steed hobbled hard on the shore   4 Bow faced a sea helmet thrice rope strapped slow moulded over the boat builder’s ribbanded jig a spanglehelm of wood curved sheer straked plank bilged a tuck stern raising its proud head seaward   5 Viewed from the air a map rolls out north to the tilted curve of the horizon’s rim cloud scattered mountained red betwixt seas sun chalked wine-stained a volcanic isthmus provokes desert the western waste land of  a brooding city   6 Oh face of ropes knot eyed! you blue cheeked wide smiler wild wild your  head of hair beachcombed and splayed wrapped on the sternest post   7 She sewed sugar kelp on the sea shore a sporophyte with sheltered frond​ strap-like stem stiff and smooth of the species saccharina a spring-tide stalk set among substrates shells and stones   8 I the camera turned and caressed by her slight fingers (the pinky raised) my viewfinder close to her blue grey eye / I focus on this kelp-needled novelty feel her breath wait for the thumb press the electronic click   9 Here is the beach walked in darkness the fishermen shadows against the moonstruck ebb fingers laced the sea’s breath in our ears wave upon wave un-folding on the sand and  later we unfold then draw back in love’s relentlessness
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Bring to me a strong *** By which my soul's sorrow will be forgot: Filled with an ****** divine So that Woman may be driven from my mind. For I no longer want This stream inspiring a heartly haunt, That once flows will not stop 'Til my heart's blood drains to its last drop, And so drained, then breaks. Leaves me with an art held for its own sake. So bring me forth this draught, Deepest as ever one from Lethe quaffed. From my broken heart charm This fair Image of the earth's Fairest Form That ever my heart has held, That ever my reveling heart has swelled. Alas, seems never shall be My mind's eye, my heart, my soul ever free Of this tort'rous torment. Left with naught to do, only lament. Away I cannot chase The mind numbing beauty of her face. 'Tis all in vain it seems For such a draught appears only in my dreams. My sight did so invest, Bringing damning pain abreast. No longer can delight Be brought forth from sights seen in any light. Had she only known how My heart, once free, only beat for her now And with but a smile Assuaged that murd'rous pain but for a while I would then know relief, That most bittersweet pain, the "joy of grief."
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 11:17 PM UTC
Everything Forgotten is Never Truly Forgot
She fabricates variance in the same picturesque sky Mauling two birds with one stone-cold, self-sustaining lie If happiness blots itself upon perspective, then I was merely one musing of a momentarily hung canvas dangling dull under the noose of your cautiously composed independence             - "Independence"                    she doth protest While in dependence,                    she doth ingest She flees towards East evermore, infatuated under the intoxication of dissimilar skies, ceasing to remember that all worlds eventually become spherical. We, abreast, left the nest; I, digress, detest the West.
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 2:52 AM UTC
Blackboard, Bluebird
Clickety clack clickety clack, Suitcase wheels over the cracks, Business men and business ladies, Men and women some with babies, The noise they make with heavy pacing, Sends my heart heavily racing, Pneumatic tyres would be better, I'll need to send the makers a letter, Small cases with high pitch sound, Ladies with fast walking grace, Heavy gait of business men, Large cases with a steady bass, Trip trap across the road, Off the pavement to the gutter, Checking left and right for traffic, Straight across without a stutter, Clickety clickety clickety clack, Two abreast and walking past, Clickety clickety clickety clack, Like a train approaching fast.
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 5:11 AM UTC
Clickety clack clickety clack
1415 A wild Blue sky abreast of Winds That threatened it—did run And crouched behind his Yellow Door Was the defiant sun— Some conflict with those upper friends So genial in the main That we deplore peculiarly Their arrogant campaign—
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A wild Blue sky abreast of Winds
you are the light at the end of a tendril. a spindle of dread, woven in caustic guile of argyle parallelograms...phantom realms of solid waste. you are the pin in the subject. gating satan through a thimble of crocodile tears, the new symbol. the rude glyph in black bibles and strong drink, en-kindling the dead. rodents ponzi the scheme of hell’s maze, with lies...your lies... you have eyes that lead aside from your heart’s plot you are saboteur. banal. unrestrained waste. you are the fin in the barracuda puppet, grazing the wrist of Dim Henson huffing crystal gorillas in the congo of your foyer you are the black chandelier. teach me your cheap trick striking off ‘ iron-on’ pinkie swears your praline heresies... your ‘ no remorse’ code lay bare to me. better my better angels, to fathom the loathsome **** of your actual mind. keep me abreast of your wretched games... apply the rod of your wrong love, above all.... you must betray. you must know in your fetid rot of a third eye... the phlegm genius of **** blindness.... teach me the rictus of cold hearted. a false god in my lotus ! spare me the chaste suzette flip me the ***** that spits fables. learn me the savage puns to pummel you sustaining your worst done. grant me the lethal beans for my sacred cow trade me the idylls of your forked heart for your crushed null and crossed bones.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
The Light At The End Of A Tendril
In Loving Honor of Joseph Wulf R.I.P. Christi Michaels  8-31-2015 ☆●♡●☆ Tonight my friend could not breathe Lungs ravaged from long ago Served our country as a young man Shoulders, hip and leg bones broke by the jungles below A Harley Man through and through JFD's became his Corps Never wavered in his allegiance to his country or his force One of the smartest men I have ever known Could recite passages from long ago abreast of topics from far and wide a history buff so knowlegable A brother to many, a father to one Devoted to all he loved A truer friend could not be had So very popular he was!! Joe was my protector as I was a wild young thing Was my confidant and chaperone starting at just 17 Accompanied the first date with my husband 30 years ago Gave his blessings that first night~ To my children he was Uncle Joe The older brother I never had. Blessed to love him 40 years My whole being trembles at the thought of losing him I weave Love within these tears ☆●●♡●●♡●●☆ ~Christi Michaels~April 2015~ Copyright © 2015 Christi Michaels. All Rights Reserved. ♡●♡●♡●♡    Ode to Joe   ♡●♡●♡●♡ This poem was written upon Joe entering Hospice. His sisters provided Constant Vigil and Loving Care. Joe passed on 8-15-2015 This was read at Joes Military Burial Fort Snelling National Cemetery Fort Snelling, Minnesota 8-31-2015
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 9:35 PM UTC
♡ Ode to Joe ♡
The knife of life carves indiscriminately without warning said the runts of the pumpkin patch now lined in mourning. A farmer plucked biggest one, cutting vine, as the runts cried a black harvest, Mama being carted off, as she died. Sad black crows circle the day and night sky abreast and stressed as the winds of fate wielded its teeth at the oppressed. A blur of orange is all the crows saw amongst the quivering patch as the farmer tiptoed the pasture wide-eyed on getting his ****** Now at the hour of her death angels play harps of fruition in wake of the wide-eyed farmer's wayward act of abscission. Billows of black smoke followed, taking to the ominous  skies as the incinerator took matters in its own hands as she lies. Then all that was left were the ashes and whispers of the past, a eulogy, as her quivering kin sat in the storybook downcast. Pages cried out, tears filled the chapters of a great pumpkin patch her roots holding each on the vines with love that's hard to match. No day came off, of a jack-o-lantern smiling in a window frame for in this family house cancer snatched mothers life just the same. Logan Robertson 8/4/2018
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Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 9:39 PM UTC
The Knife of Life Carves Indiscriminately
Backwaters. Violins and pipes played together abreast of different rippling waters; Uileann throttling forward over hills and downs - the hunt, chase, **** or loss; thrill of being, spontaneous in hilly jump, stream, rock, hedge, mountain, mud and pebbled with soup, partridge, pheasant, trout and salmon horizon.
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Jul 21, 2010
Jul 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM UTC
Backwaters.
Dear Madam Sabrina, The lonely beach shores, I walk Tossing seashells of affection in remebrance of you A pursued love interest that is overwhelm Overflowed by tears I attempted to hold back Slithering ghostly as we never embrace A tender kiss, ponders across the bay Given a mysterious essence We are lost In an oceanview desire Recollecting inner thoughts about another A woman I found,but an achor Abreast from you Rejection is a raging wave that conquerors My ability to forget you A stranger to calm sea Can float away From peaceful shores Of love Yours truly, A man without dignity
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Sep 29, 2009
Sep 29, 2009 at 4:25 AM UTC
Madam Sabrina
*Slammed to "Pick Up the Pieces" by Average White Band* Life's a jungle I have found Torn to pieces all around There are foxes - there are hounds Zoos where wild things abound Just listen to the funky sound Now we're going underground.... Underground where rabbits go Down tunnels in a faster slow It's all over, don't you know Pick & Shovel, Rake & *** You're down with it, on the low Like you're Edgar Allan Poe Feast or famine - friend or foe It must go on... The Truman Show... *Jigsaw pieces - play the game It is just a crying shame Dance for dancing - Fame for fame Break a leg and you are lame No one'll ever know your name... **PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES*** You're a tiger, nothin' nice You've been bought, you had a price Yeah, you tore off quite a slice Well, some are men and some are mice Some eat meat and some eat rice Some are fire - some are ice Some are ticks and some are lice Let me give you some advice... Just so you are never boring While you're out there pimping, ******* While you're the one they are adoring Just watch out for polished flooring Don't break loose from your fast mooring Into the pit you will be soaring After that there's no restoring Listen to the lion roaring... Chorus Here we are in the U.S. We are pampered we are blessed Sometime soon there'll be a test We'll ride the Bronco way out West The Magnificent Seven rides abreast There's a new Sheriff, have you guessed? With a tin badge on His vest He does not play - He does not jest I'm afraid, I will attest! It won't be fun, just wait and see It will be "pain" with a capitol P! On this bus, don't ride for free This is not a game of Wii There's a port and there's a lea There's a shrub (Bush), and there's a tree There's an us, and there's a we **There's a YOU, and there's a ME... PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES** SoulSurvivor (C) 9/14/2016 https://youtu.be/xpflST8xWm8 "Pick Up the Pieces" extended version Average White Band
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Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 at 4:51 PM UTC
Pick Up the Pieces
*Slammed to "Pick Up the Pieces" by Average White Band* Life's a jungle I have found Torn to pieces all around There are foxes - there are hounds Zoos where wild things abound Just listen to the funky sound Now we're going underground.... Underground where rabbits go Down tunnels in a faster slow It's all over, don't you know Pick & Shovel, Rake & *** You're down with it, on the low Like you're Edgar Allan Poe Feast or famine - friend or foe It must go on... The Truman Show... *Jigsaw pieces - play the game It is just a crying shame Dance for dancing - Fame for fame Break a leg and you are lame No one'll ever know your name... **PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES*** You're a tiger, nothin' nice You've been bought, you had a price Yeah, you tore off quite a slice Well, some are men and some are mice Some eat meat and some eat rice Some are fire - some are ice Some are ticks and some are lice Let me give you some advice... Just so you are never boring While you're out there pimping, ******* While you're the one they are adoring Just watch out for polished flooring Don't break loose from your fast mooring Into the pit you will be soaring After that there's no restoring Listen to the lion roaring... Chorus Here we are in the U.S. We are pampered we are blessed Sometime soon there'll be a test We'll ride the Bronco way out West The Magnificent Seven rides abreast There's a new Sheriff, have you guessed? With a tin badge on His vest He does not play - He does not jest I'm afraid, I will attest! It won't be fun, just wait and see It will be "pain" with a capitol P! On this bus, don't ride for free This is not a game of Wii There's a port and there's a lea There's a shrub (Bush), and there's a tree There's an us, and there's a we **There's a YOU, and there's a ME... PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES PICK UP THE PIECES** SoulSurvivor (C) 9/14/2016 https://youtu.be/xpflST8xWm8 "Pick Up the Pieces" extended version Average White Band
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Playing at this empty calm, Faking Simplicity. Deepening hysteria, Mesmerizing calamity, Chaos abreast. Hurricane destruction, Twister tearing down, But fake calm anyway.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 11:04 PM UTC
Falsities
Here is a tale of a dog and a cat And a *** bellied pig, so pink and so fat Of days in the garden alongside a farm A whimsical story of magic and charm The dog as he was of bushy descent Yellow in color where ever he went Digging a hole was his prime source of fun As a matter of fact he had just finished one The collar he wore was a leathery find With studs made of silver so brightly it shined His tail ever wagging, a happy old guy He hung with is friends as the hours passed by The cat on the other hand, sleek and so fine A coat made of orange with stripes it combined Cleaning a habit I see in all cats But this one was special for it wore a hat A tiny straw chapeau with fine feathered brim A ribbon of pink that was wrapped round her chin Though not really sure if a cat finds the style But more as I looked I would bet that she smiled And there to her left with a snort and a grunt Was a portly built fellow the legs of a runt Fine wispy hair that did cover the skin With a gather of long ones that hung from his chin Puffing along an attempt to keep pace The dog and the cat and the pig they would race Faster and faster they’d run through the fields Though what was the secret of friendship revealed None were the same as they differed and so Still bound together a’ running they’d go Never before as I think about that Has a dog or a pig ever friended a cat For ever so prissy, no memories jog A cat who was friends with a pig and a dog Though still I could see right abreast of my eyes These three companions did bring the surprise What is the moral of all that I see? It sure does not matter of your company Whether a dog or a pig or a cat You can make friends with whomever you chat People are different in color and race But everyone seems to be wearing a face A face that can smile, a face that can cry A face that can hello or even good bye If only we look at each other the same Will we find fortune in learning their name No matter the differences that we might see It pays for each of us to every time be Nice to each other and all things like that Just like the dog and the pig and the cat
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
The dog, the cat and the pig
Here is a tale of a dog and a cat And a *** bellied pig, so pink and so fat Of days in the garden alongside a farm A whimsical story of magic and charm The dog as he was of bushy descent Yellow in color where ever he went Digging a hole was his prime source of fun As a matter of fact he had just finished one The collar he wore was a leathery find With studs made of silver so brightly it shined His tail ever wagging, a happy old guy He hung with is friends as the hours passed by The cat on the other hand, sleek and so fine A coat made of orange with stripes it combined Cleaning a habit I see in all cats But this one was special for it wore a hat A tiny straw chapeau with fine feathered brim A ribbon of pink that was wrapped round her chin Though not really sure if a cat finds the style But more as I looked I would bet that she smiled And there to her left with a snort and a grunt Was a portly built fellow the legs of a runt Fine wispy hair that did cover the skin With a gather of long ones that hung from his chin Puffing along an attempt to keep pace The dog and the cat and the pig they would race Faster and faster they’d run through the fields Though what was the secret of friendship revealed None were the same as they differed and so Still bound together a’ running they’d go Never before as I think about that Has a dog or a pig ever friended a cat For ever so prissy, no memories jog A cat who was friends with a pig and a dog Though still I could see right abreast of my eyes These three companions did bring the surprise What is the moral of all that I see? It sure does not matter of your company Whether a dog or a pig or a cat You can make friends with whomever you chat People are different in color and race But everyone seems to be wearing a face A face that can smile, a face that can cry A face that can hello or even good bye If only we look at each other the same Will we find fortune in learning their name No matter the differences that we might see It pays for each of us to every time be Nice to each other and all things like that Just like the dog and the pig and the cat
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*** 101 by Michael R. Burch That day the late spring heat steamed through the windows of a Crayola-yellow schoolbus crawling its way up the backwards slopes of Nowheresville, North Carolina ... Where we sat exhausted from the day’s skulldrudgery and the unexpected waves of muggy, summer-like humidity ... Giggly first graders sat two abreast behind senior high students sprouting their first sparse beards, their implausible bosoms, their stranger affections ... The most unlikely coupling― Lambert, 18, the only college prospect on the varsity basketball team, the proverbial talldarkhandsome swashbuckling cocksman, grinning ... Beside him, Wanda, 13, bespectacled, in her primproper attire and pigtails, staring up at him, fawneyed, disbelieving ... And as the bus filled with the improbable musk of her, as she twitched impaled on his finger like a dead frog jarred to life by electrodes, I knew ... that love is a forlorn enterprise, that I would never understand it. Keywords/Tags: first, love, *** lust, passion, desire, school, bus, foreplay, ********* odor, musk
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Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020 at 4:29 AM UTC
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I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on. Now I am going back and I have ripped my hand from your hand as I said I would and I have made it this far as I said I would and I am on the top deck now holding my wallet, my cigarettes and my car keys at 2 o'clock on a Tuesday in August of 1960. Dearest, although everything has happened, nothing has happened. The sea is very old. The sea is the face of Mary, without miracles or rage or unusual hope, grown rough and wrinkled with incurable age. Still, I have eyes. These are my eyes: the orange letters that spell ORIENT on the life preserver that hangs by my knees; its ***** canvas coat; the faded sign that sits on its shelf saying KEEP OFF. Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself. Over my right shoulder I see four nuns who sit like a bridge club, their faces poked out from under their habits, as good as good babies who have sunk into their carriages. Without discrimination the wind pulls the skirts of. their arms. Almost undressed, I see what remains: that holy wrist, that ankle, that chain. Oh God, although I am very sad, could you please let these four nuns loosen from their leather boots and their wooden chairs to rise out over this greasy deck, out over this iron rail, nodding their pink heads to one side, flying four abreast in the old-fashioned side stroke; each mouth open and round, breathing together as fish do, singing without sound. Dearest, see how my dark girls sally forth, over the passing lighthouse of Plum Gut, its shell as rusty as a camp dish, as fragile as a pagoda on a stone; out over the little lighthouse that warns me of drowning winds that rub over its blind bottom and its blue cover; winds that will take the toes and the ears of the rider or the lover. There go my dark girls, their dresses puff in the leeward air. Oh, they are lighter than flying dogs or the breath of dolphins; each mouth opens gratefully, wider than a milk cup. My dark girls sing for this. They are going up. See them rise on black wings, drinking the sky, without smiles or hands or shoes. They call back to us from the gauzy edge of paradise, good news, good news.
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Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on. Now I am going back and I have ripped my hand from your hand as I said I would and I have made it this far as I said I would and I am on the top deck now holding my wallet, my cigarettes and my car keys at 2 o'clock on a Tuesday in August of 1960. Dearest, although everything has happened, nothing has happened. The sea is very old. The sea is the face of Mary, without miracles or rage or unusual hope, grown rough and wrinkled with incurable age. Still, I have eyes. These are my eyes: the orange letters that spell ORIENT on the life preserver that hangs by my knees; its ***** canvas coat; the faded sign that sits on its shelf saying KEEP OFF. Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself. Over my right shoulder I see four nuns who sit like a bridge club, their faces poked out from under their habits, as good as good babies who have sunk into their carriages. Without discrimination the wind pulls the skirts of. their arms. Almost undressed, I see what remains: that holy wrist, that ankle, that chain. Oh God, although I am very sad, could you please let these four nuns loosen from their leather boots and their wooden chairs to rise out over this greasy deck, out over this iron rail, nodding their pink heads to one side, flying four abreast in the old-fashioned side stroke; each mouth open and round, breathing together as fish do, singing without sound. Dearest, see how my dark girls sally forth, over the passing lighthouse of Plum Gut, its shell as rusty as a camp dish, as fragile as a pagoda on a stone; out over the little lighthouse that warns me of drowning winds that rub over its blind bottom and its blue cover; winds that will take the toes and the ears of the rider or the lover. There go my dark girls, their dresses puff in the leeward air. Oh, they are lighter than flying dogs or the breath of dolphins; each mouth opens gratefully, wider than a milk cup. My dark girls sing for this. They are going up. See them rise on black wings, drinking the sky, without smiles or hands or shoes. They call back to us from the gauzy edge of paradise, good news, good news.
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The lights through the windows Seems brighter in their way, In bringing forth the daytime And feeling it on its way. A walk through the cemetery Seems to find its peace, as stone and marble Form the days own face, Like marks at the surface, each stone states ahead, The eastern sun rising, making the day Turn and find one pausing, But to keep the tortured soul abreast Life's dreams stay floating, and we Rise and make life grand.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 8:48 PM UTC
Cemetery Walk
The gap is widening the look of a bottomless abyss grows as she craves the admiration, abiding an attention of a raging life that arose that flows like a raging waterfall, with every sunset of the heart a magnified life that will not call it's what she lived for in her art but to no surprise, with feelings that were so complex abreast, that dreams that advise was welcomed to her quixotic quest ... Her caring hands hold her heart as she cries, from her man she is apart stroking her child's hair with little lies she is about hope and dealing when life lets her rest is rare she tries she's brave and stands strong and she might but still has unfathomed wounds she fractures easily with the words of smite of the profound that looms .... Debbie Brooks 2014
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 7:40 PM UTC
Complexity of Feelings
The human being is an inherently contentious creature. Seven billion rock-wall eyes; Eyes staring belligerently down seven billion sharp noses; Noses affixed to seven billion faces; Faces covered in creases and scars, Framed in unruly hair And outlined in stark exactness By the flames cowering in bipedal shadows. Into the human heart is chiseled "inexorable". We are an incongruence: We row up the rapids, Scale the waterfall And taunt the oily heavens from atop Devil's Tower. We will always get what we want, Whether it involves killing the albatross Or playing Gondorff's chess. Whether we wrest it from Gaia's grasp Or that of our more miserly peers. Robert C. crystalised our resolve. The riot gear-clad Blue and Green with timers in their throats Stand abreast. Chanting "Listen to Mother. Mother knows best.", They begin the forward press. When an impish grenade leaps our way, We fling it back between mouthfuls of chips. The barricades erected By Mother and ourselves alike Are many and implacable and incessant, But they will be broken and overtaken. They will be broken and overtaken by us, The humans, Because we are.
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May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC
The Protest
the overcast window haze casts shadows over farmlands at distance, past ferns and cottage solemnities out on plains cold and alive; meanwhile, concrete and preservative-laden once-trees cage in the zoo-horde of humanity this lovely city is built upon, through the steep divides between the walls of foreign strangers, still neighbours, calling telephone lines to the lover that makes their heart shrink in the cool sheets at a distance of eight thousand leagues under kitchen sink designs where drips escape onto a blue-grey dishtowel, strategically placed to avoid having to address the issue over farmland holidays when stormclouds gather and sleep 'til the grand show, back over the alps, as the fallabout planes drift under blue over grey with distorted fantasies sandwiched three abreast internally, whispering "you'll be here, I'll be here, seventeen minutes" as the black gown of evening bids its farewells to the long-worn ball of flame we call upon for life's little affirmations, the skin and bone we call home, the constructed caves we wish we didn't, and, letting frost's call begin, the last of the seasons hauls its bulky frame over the horizon and clusters on the fingertips of tree limbs, coercing: "let go, it's late, it's so very late" and so the sidewalks choke with debris under the wearing off of summer feet, and the declination of that peach-pit feeling of sanguinity as the blankets pile up and the distance consumes once again, long after delusion gave up the chase; we all want to be left alone and want someone to pursue us at the same time, we all dream of the grandeur of timeless monuments: the desert road, the glint of illuminated heavens, the mist's rise and fall, the electricity in her eyes.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 5:22 PM UTC
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the overcast window haze casts shadows over farmlands at distance, past ferns and cottage solemnities out on plains cold and alive; meanwhile, concrete and preservative-laden once-trees cage in the zoo-horde of humanity this lovely city is built upon, through the steep divides between the walls of foreign strangers, still neighbours, calling telephone lines to the lover that makes their heart shrink in the cool sheets at a distance of eight thousand leagues under kitchen sink designs where drips escape onto a blue-grey dishtowel, strategically placed to avoid having to address the issue over farmland holidays when stormclouds gather and sleep 'til the grand show, back over the alps, as the fallabout planes drift under blue over grey with distorted fantasies sandwiched three abreast internally, whispering "you'll be here, I'll be here, seventeen minutes" as the black gown of evening bids its farewells to the long-worn ball of flame we call upon for life's little affirmations, the skin and bone we call home, the constructed caves we wish we didn't, and, letting frost's call begin, the last of the seasons hauls its bulky frame over the horizon and clusters on the fingertips of tree limbs, coercing: "let go, it's late, it's so very late" and so the sidewalks choke with debris under the wearing off of summer feet, and the declination of that peach-pit feeling of sanguinity as the blankets pile up and the distance consumes once again, long after delusion gave up the chase; we all want to be left alone and want someone to pursue us at the same time, we all dream of the grandeur of timeless monuments: the desert road, the glint of illuminated heavens, the mist's rise and fall, the electricity in her eyes.
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