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"abysses" poems
Sipping the air of a city night So heady in the cold On the move under static lights Little worlds about To collide Gravity frivolity Draw broken hearts like earth bound stars As the pull of every Small storied point holds others back From abysses beneath Dark waters Lone souls each and all Compose this metropolis Joy is to be Discovered in insignificance Where together We belong
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Jan 16, 2019
Jan 16, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC
Buzzed Poets Round Table
The name was Antappan. On his wedding invitation He printed the famous words Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi - (Today it's me, tomorrow it will be you.) Whoever asked “Are you nuts, Antappaaa?” Got a voiceless laugh in reply. In native tongue The laughter said No quotes are quoted Except through one’s own life. Though not a charming name It ‘s true that from that day Antappan came to be called Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Wolfed down the pork and the beef. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi CrasTibi Antappan’s wedding Gifted pretty sums of money in envelopes. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Said nasty comments about the bride. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Asked the sound system guy to play You are lucky I am lucky loudly. But before that a small incident at the church. As soon as he set his eyes on Antappan who was a grave digger the Chaplain forgot the wedding and without asking who died began to set the church bell tolling in that rhythm reserved for deaths. The senior Priest who heard it came running and opening the small prayer book for the dead began to sing the song the seeds sprout in the fields when it rains. Hearing that the girls in the choir sang the rest of the song when they hear the clarion call life sprouts in the dead and went on to the prose portion I call you lord from the abysses. Seeing that the boy who helps with the communion lighted the candle and incense stick for the dead. (Meanwhile the bride’s naughty song you who is not dead yet will you not **** me tonight also rang in Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s ears.) Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan who realized that the same flowers meant to be wreaths at some house of death were now adorning his ***** as a garland laughed his famous voiceless laugh.
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 1:25 AM UTC
Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan
The name was Antappan. On his wedding invitation He printed the famous words Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi - (Today it's me, tomorrow it will be you.) Whoever asked “Are you nuts, Antappaaa?” Got a voiceless laugh in reply. In native tongue The laughter said No quotes are quoted Except through one’s own life. Though not a charming name It ‘s true that from that day Antappan came to be called Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Wolfed down the pork and the beef. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi CrasTibi Antappan’s wedding Gifted pretty sums of money in envelopes. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Said nasty comments about the bride. Everyone who attended Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s wedding Asked the sound system guy to play You are lucky I am lucky loudly. But before that a small incident at the church. As soon as he set his eyes on Antappan who was a grave digger the Chaplain forgot the wedding and without asking who died began to set the church bell tolling in that rhythm reserved for deaths. The senior Priest who heard it came running and opening the small prayer book for the dead began to sing the song the seeds sprout in the fields when it rains. Hearing that the girls in the choir sang the rest of the song when they hear the clarion call life sprouts in the dead and went on to the prose portion I call you lord from the abysses. Seeing that the boy who helps with the communion lighted the candle and incense stick for the dead. (Meanwhile the bride’s naughty song you who is not dead yet will you not **** me tonight also rang in Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan’s ears.) Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi Antappan who realized that the same flowers meant to be wreaths at some house of death were now adorning his ***** as a garland laughed his famous voiceless laugh.
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I am your dark side A cold wave of destruction In the night of your soul i hide Whispering sweet ****** temptation Your blood feels thin As i clutch at your heart To your fear, give in! Before i torn you apart You'll pray & hope to resist Closing your eyes, clenching your fists For the voices to finally desist A feeble faith to stand alone amidst Brain wrapped in chains Consciousness fades away You break all restrains A murderous rage you obey... Envy, Lust, Wrath, all will begin As you fall into the abysses of each of these sins Swallowed in flames, you'll burn from within Hate oozing from each pores of your skin While the night reigns Hunt down your preys Their blood filled veins Soon spilled away You will **** their souls Invade their bodies & mind As your ripper within howls Hellish wrath & lust combined You will rip them open Crotch to chin Tormented in pain With a cold blade of steel... Dark blood gushing out on your face Their screams filling your ears An ****** of furry you will taste Crying a liberated flow of tears On their lungs, you shall carve your name As they breathe you until their last moment A death they will meet so inhumane For your own twisted amusement Breathe in their fumes Of their grossly opened guts Sickening stench inner perfume Steaming out from a thousand cuts Life leaving their eyes As sun rays come to rise Your inner beast satisfies By the blood lust of their demise Your humanity to awake As your Demon asleep & gone The horror of your deeds taking shape Oh tell me, tell me, what have you done?! Razor claws & fangs that gnash deep Hold the Bible & grab a crucifix For the Demon back again as you try to sleep Night after night reborn as the Phoenix
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 4:28 AM UTC
The Creed of the Beast
I am your dark side A cold wave of destruction In the night of your soul i hide Whispering sweet ****** temptation Your blood feels thin As i clutch at your heart To your fear, give in! Before i torn you apart You'll pray & hope to resist Closing your eyes, clenching your fists For the voices to finally desist A feeble faith to stand alone amidst Brain wrapped in chains Consciousness fades away You break all restrains A murderous rage you obey... Envy, Lust, Wrath, all will begin As you fall into the abysses of each of these sins Swallowed in flames, you'll burn from within Hate oozing from each pores of your skin While the night reigns Hunt down your preys Their blood filled veins Soon spilled away You will **** their souls Invade their bodies & mind As your ripper within howls Hellish wrath & lust combined You will rip them open Crotch to chin Tormented in pain With a cold blade of steel... Dark blood gushing out on your face Their screams filling your ears An ****** of furry you will taste Crying a liberated flow of tears On their lungs, you shall carve your name As they breathe you until their last moment A death they will meet so inhumane For your own twisted amusement Breathe in their fumes Of their grossly opened guts Sickening stench inner perfume Steaming out from a thousand cuts Life leaving their eyes As sun rays come to rise Your inner beast satisfies By the blood lust of their demise Your humanity to awake As your Demon asleep & gone The horror of your deeds taking shape Oh tell me, tell me, what have you done?! Razor claws & fangs that gnash deep Hold the Bible & grab a crucifix For the Demon back again as you try to sleep Night after night reborn as the Phoenix
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A breath, yours soft, hot, chilling the ear, mine curved - an art on skin the meeting of both explodes, a confetti of feelings a beat becomes a throb throbbing madness of that breath that still flows a begging of hearts a pleading of souls begging the emptiness of body an urging of minds that breath that still flows into begging hearts fills the pleading souls walls crumble on soft ground they meet the heart received, converted into trust by the breath that still flows excitement abides eyes meet and hold gazes into abysses of longing a tide covers the belonging the connection of two hearts at sea joined by that breath that still flows into that skin, that art is but the wind with memory spun, ebbed, blown, twisted by time made into dreams fused with reality the tail of one, the head of the other its that breath that still flows
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 12:34 PM UTC
The Breath that forever Flows
My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside a helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. It seems to float ever, for ever, Upon that many-winding river, Between mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses! Till, like one in slumber bound, Borne to the ocean, I float down, around, Into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound: Meanwhile thy spirit lifts its pinions In music’s most serene dominions; Catching the winds that fan that happy heaven. And we sail on, away, afar, Without a course, without a star, But, by the instinct of sweet music driven; Till through Elysian garden islets By thee, most beautiful of pilots, Where never mortal pinnace glided, The boat of my desire is guided: Realms where the air we breathe is love, Which in the winds and on the waves doth move, Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above. We have past Age’s icy caves, And Manhood’s dark and tossing waves, And Youth’s smooth ocean, smiling to betray: Beyond the glassy gulfs we flee Of shadow-peopled Infancy, Through Death and Birth, to a diviner day; A paradise of vaulted bowers, Lit by downward-gazing flowers, And watery paths that wind between Wildernesses calm and green, Peopled by shapes too bright to see, And rest, having beheld; somewhat like thee; Which walk upon the sea, and chant melodiously!
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Asia: From Prometheus Unbound
first glance beast out of the darkness frozen in time majestic seahorse carrying Aphrodite grace rising effortlessly abysses grip released with ease wielding her magic over moon goddess while she imagines the first eclipse illuminated ring circling shades of darkness dominating the sky goddess Selene rests her motion etching love in eyes through lasting heartbeats reflecting the rings true brilliance setting the sky on fire being one in the sameness
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Feb 13, 2019
Feb 13, 2019 at 3:51 PM UTC
Aphrodite and Selene
There never was a face as fair as yours, A heart as true, a love as pure and keen. These things endure, if anything endures. But, in this jungle, what high heaven immures Us in its silence, the supreme serene Crowning the dagoba, what destined die Rings on the table, what resistless dart Strike me I love you; can you satisfy The hunger of my heart! Nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden The drug that heals my life; I know too well How all things lawful, and all things forbidden Alike disclose no pearl upon the midden, Offer no key to unlock the gate of Hell. There is no escape from the eternal round, No hope in love, or victory, or art. There is no plumb-line long enough to sound The abysses of my heart! There no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates Its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star. For its own horror of itself creates Malignant fate from all benignant fates, Of its own spite drives its own angel afar. Nay; this is the great import of the curse That the whole world is sick, and not a part. Conterminous with its own universe the horror of my heart!
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The Buddhist
Not long ago, the writer of these lines, In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained “the power of words”—denied that ever A thought arose within the human brain Beyond the utterance of the human tongue: And now, as if in mockery of that boast, Two words—two foreign soft dissyllables— Italian tones, made only to be murmured By angels dreaming in the moonlit “dew That hangs like chains of pearl on Hermon hill,”— Have stirred from out the abysses of his heart, Unthought-like thoughts that are the souls of thought, Richer, far wilder, far diviner visions Than even the seraph harper, Israfel, (Who has “the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures,”) Could hope to utter. And I! my spells are broken. The pen falls powerless from my shivering hand. With thy dear name as text, though hidden by thee, I cannot write—I cannot speak or think— Alas, I cannot feel; for ’tis not feeling, This standing motionless upon the golden Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams, Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista, And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid empurpled vapors, far away To where the prospect terminates—thee only!
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To Marie Louise (Shew) (II)
Twilight unfolds In your eyes Dark layers holding  abysses infinite .
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 6:26 AM UTC
Abysses (10w)
. Hello    **archangel, fallen goddess behind my morgue.     Whose complexion equaled the moon, craters and abysses,     cascading like salt on an empty**     wound. **With the crosshairs of nicotine a mirage on her cracked lips;** “Leave me,     lowly poet, Your pity is unbecoming. I am the 13th fallen sister,     so linger here no longer.” “Death is an old friend,     I fear not his company, nor his demise.” **I’ve never seen such eyes; glass-stained, divine & unpredictable.** “I’ll **** you.” “Darling, I’m already dead.” **Her monologues could summon the dead, she preached of the lovers who bore no fruit and the heartless that lay eternal in the eyes of her dalliance. I’d often find myself yearning at the pebbles at her gravestone, impatient, to be graced by her ink soul and**  rhapsodic  presence. “Are you my friend, poet?” “No, I am much more.” **And for centuries of cracked dawns and folded nights, shallow moons & crippled suns, we’d meet--- poet to god, at her morgue.** “Poet, why must the most beautiful people die?” **She once asked me. Alured, I answered:** “When you’re in a garden, which flowers do you pick?” “...The most beautiful ones.” **I’d spend my seconds ‘neath the gallows, among the bones of her brethren, all had fallen before her, from the house of god. I bargained my soul with Ursula, my sins with Lupus,     I ignored their tempertantrums & discord. That very evening I stitched a universe, upon her shoulder-blades.** “What are these?” “Wings.”
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 8:28 PM UTC
The Morgue.
. Hello    **archangel, fallen goddess behind my morgue.     Whose complexion equaled the moon, craters and abysses,     cascading like salt on an empty**     wound. **With the crosshairs of nicotine a mirage on her cracked lips;** “Leave me,     lowly poet, Your pity is unbecoming. I am the 13th fallen sister,     so linger here no longer.” “Death is an old friend,     I fear not his company, nor his demise.” **I’ve never seen such eyes; glass-stained, divine & unpredictable.** “I’ll **** you.” “Darling, I’m already dead.” **Her monologues could summon the dead, she preached of the lovers who bore no fruit and the heartless that lay eternal in the eyes of her dalliance. I’d often find myself yearning at the pebbles at her gravestone, impatient, to be graced by her ink soul and**  rhapsodic  presence. “Are you my friend, poet?” “No, I am much more.” **And for centuries of cracked dawns and folded nights, shallow moons & crippled suns, we’d meet--- poet to god, at her morgue.** “Poet, why must the most beautiful people die?” **She once asked me. Alured, I answered:** “When you’re in a garden, which flowers do you pick?” “...The most beautiful ones.” **I’d spend my seconds ‘neath the gallows, among the bones of her brethren, all had fallen before her, from the house of god. I bargained my soul with Ursula, my sins with Lupus,     I ignored their tempertantrums & discord. That very evening I stitched a universe, upon her shoulder-blades.** “What are these?” “Wings.”
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I no longer want to feel like a bottom of a whiskey bottle like the last sip of regret before my head hits the table. This story I wish was a happy one but I know longer know how to write the happy ones. I have seen both heaven and hell, but of the worse I say neither. The worst is the empty room, my own purgatory. Here there is no joy, no pain just an endless forever and I have seen forever and I seen never. The promise of tomorrow has became the threat of today. Today is the abysses of which my toes stand upon the edge Creeping ever closer to the final descent, the leap into darkness, in pursuit of peace.
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Mar 27, 2015
Mar 27, 2015 at 7:19 AM UTC
Purgatory
Magnificent blue tent is spread over my head. I look at it without a word while the audience throws unleashed cries of encouragement. "Go, go! The net is under!" . Hands holding a long pole. Providing a first step towards a string of fate, felt my face turn white as a mask on it. The sudden touch of metal wire under my feet breaks the breath from my lungs. One blink and everything disappears, my steps are steps of fate that slowly sneaks maneuvering between two abysses. My hands have grown together with rod and turned into a solid dragon wings. Through spread nostrils I am breathing in sweet smell of victory, and exhale fire of disappointments and saliva of defeat. The audience is still unleashed: "Fly, don’t you see you have wings? Fly!". I move slowly, like a white panther whose fur is embellished with blue diamonds. I walk slowly, coping with every step, feeling soothing palpitations, it was just a short-term earthquake which shook my knees, elbows and fingers. The epicenter was reported somewhere in the abdomen, waves of heat and uncertainties have slowly spread to my limbs, passing with from my skin through electrified air to the audience. The earthquake, which I've already forgotten strongly encompassed thousands of rosy faces and bright eyes squeezing out of them delighted "Ooooh," while I slowly crossed my way through streets covered with traps. Heavy load on my back, large stones of tedious requests, cramp biting my shoulders, neck and bending my spine, as if all this is gone in an instant, while I safely walk under Dragon armor down the sunny street of bravery. I arrived at the other end of the wire ordeal and with the final step I realize that there is no place for fear, nervousness, that I'm not an amateur in a professional competition, Harlequin has survived another day. Tomorrow when the load again rises to the scale of the iceberg, when again I become stray ignorant in acrobatics exam, tomorrow, if it ever comes, I'll think about it. Perhaps there is sun and melts the icebergs, might come truck and drive my loads away, I may again grow wings to bring me over the abyss.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 2:07 PM UTC
Harlequin’s burden
Magnificent blue tent is spread over my head. I look at it without a word while the audience throws unleashed cries of encouragement. "Go, go! The net is under!" . Hands holding a long pole. Providing a first step towards a string of fate, felt my face turn white as a mask on it. The sudden touch of metal wire under my feet breaks the breath from my lungs. One blink and everything disappears, my steps are steps of fate that slowly sneaks maneuvering between two abysses. My hands have grown together with rod and turned into a solid dragon wings. Through spread nostrils I am breathing in sweet smell of victory, and exhale fire of disappointments and saliva of defeat. The audience is still unleashed: "Fly, don’t you see you have wings? Fly!". I move slowly, like a white panther whose fur is embellished with blue diamonds. I walk slowly, coping with every step, feeling soothing palpitations, it was just a short-term earthquake which shook my knees, elbows and fingers. The epicenter was reported somewhere in the abdomen, waves of heat and uncertainties have slowly spread to my limbs, passing with from my skin through electrified air to the audience. The earthquake, which I've already forgotten strongly encompassed thousands of rosy faces and bright eyes squeezing out of them delighted "Ooooh," while I slowly crossed my way through streets covered with traps. Heavy load on my back, large stones of tedious requests, cramp biting my shoulders, neck and bending my spine, as if all this is gone in an instant, while I safely walk under Dragon armor down the sunny street of bravery. I arrived at the other end of the wire ordeal and with the final step I realize that there is no place for fear, nervousness, that I'm not an amateur in a professional competition, Harlequin has survived another day. Tomorrow when the load again rises to the scale of the iceberg, when again I become stray ignorant in acrobatics exam, tomorrow, if it ever comes, I'll think about it. Perhaps there is sun and melts the icebergs, might come truck and drive my loads away, I may again grow wings to bring me over the abyss.
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*Electric Fire Liquid Desire Purged Mists Lost Restrains My mind was born in dark abysses From destructive rebellion inside of me I see the world in colors of traitorous death I can feel a brotherly hand of the devil I've thrown off the shackles, shackles rounded by the thorn I've killed the weakness, weakness designated to commoners The covenant signed in childish ignorance Broken as a fruit from paradise garden I've entered the palace of free hellish elites Living behind a grey, wormy nest I've cut the umbilical cord, an umbilical cord filled with venom I've thrown away my memories, cursing all the past. 20-05-2015 02:55 AM*
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Feb 21, 2017
Feb 21, 2017 at 9:42 AM UTC
Crystal Cysts
My terror grows with each passing night, As slow, steady darkness steals away sight. Footsteps and whispers add to my fright — Is there an end to such desperate plight? How long, too long, till dawn’s early light! I clutch my candle in trembling hand, And watch the shadows dance to understand What I envision as its light expands Through the room and down the hall’s span. There lingers a vision, diaphanous and pale, Shifting and shuddering, as though it were frail, Whispering softly a most horrible wail. Eyes no more than twin black abysses, The vision approaches to beg final kisses. Heavy, so heavy, my heart thuds in my chest. From hall to room the visitant creeps, Upon my mortal form it silently seeps. Gliding in silence, not walking — not quite — Closer it comes with its sulfurous blight. My eyes are held tight — can’t even blink right. Lips part, jaw drops, revealing a black maw; The specter extends one moon-gray claw, Caressing my cheek with a grave-cold paw. My throat constricts — no breath do I draw. It locks my eyes with hell’s black gaze, Until moonlight strikes in golden rays. The phantasm shudders and starts to blaze, Struggles again its arm to raise — But from the light it reels in malaise. And heavy, so heavy, my heart thuds in my chest. The hallucination retreats, as though pressed, Back to the doorway — its intent suppressed — Shrinking into the dark hall, a lost contest, Driven by a moonbeam so blessed, Whose gentle light coursed to my relief And unmasked the fear beneath belief — The frightful soul-stealing thief That stalked and grieved me, if only brief. Now I breathe, and calm my soul: “Twas nothing but a myth… a troll.” Then thunder pealed a mighty toll. Wind brought rain and a thundercloud — Again that wail, this time loud. Oh heavy, so heavy, my heart… no more…
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Sep 9, 2025
Sep 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM UTC
HEAVY
My terror grows with each passing night, As slow, steady darkness steals away sight. Footsteps and whispers add to my fright — Is there an end to such desperate plight? How long, too long, till dawn’s early light! I clutch my candle in trembling hand, And watch the shadows dance to understand What I envision as its light expands Through the room and down the hall’s span. There lingers a vision, diaphanous and pale, Shifting and shuddering, as though it were frail, Whispering softly a most horrible wail. Eyes no more than twin black abysses, The vision approaches to beg final kisses. Heavy, so heavy, my heart thuds in my chest. From hall to room the visitant creeps, Upon my mortal form it silently seeps. Gliding in silence, not walking — not quite — Closer it comes with its sulfurous blight. My eyes are held tight — can’t even blink right. Lips part, jaw drops, revealing a black maw; The specter extends one moon-gray claw, Caressing my cheek with a grave-cold paw. My throat constricts — no breath do I draw. It locks my eyes with hell’s black gaze, Until moonlight strikes in golden rays. The phantasm shudders and starts to blaze, Struggles again its arm to raise — But from the light it reels in malaise. And heavy, so heavy, my heart thuds in my chest. The hallucination retreats, as though pressed, Back to the doorway — its intent suppressed — Shrinking into the dark hall, a lost contest, Driven by a moonbeam so blessed, Whose gentle light coursed to my relief And unmasked the fear beneath belief — The frightful soul-stealing thief That stalked and grieved me, if only brief. Now I breathe, and calm my soul: “Twas nothing but a myth… a troll.” Then thunder pealed a mighty toll. Wind brought rain and a thundercloud — Again that wail, this time loud. Oh heavy, so heavy, my heart… no more…
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The smoke dissolves in my lungs. A constellation of bright stars forms in the depths of your eyes, weaving a language of orchestral, luminous memories—one that cannot fathom the endless possibilities of your devotion. Maybe if I write these words and keep them inside my dismantled heart, love will come to find me. Maybe in a thousand abysses that grieve love, the heavens and the earth will entwine their fresh waters and frozen tears; faint sheets of light will envelop my already soul-weary skin and thus will seep in like a sun gently fleeting its warm light into the night sky, sojourning in the consoling darkness until dawn. And if I tell you, that I have so much love to give, would you grow thorns and leave me in the cold, barren night like a stray dog, or would you come running across the ends of the earth—tiptoeing in bedazzling stars and soft sands, rushing into me?
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Aug 23, 2025
Aug 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM UTC
Where Does the Sun Go?
This awakening has cost me the company of fellow men. Even when I am not conveying my deepest thought, even when our conversations are a mere pastime, they cannot bear to be in the presence of me. My shallow and long ago digested thoughts strike them as terrifying, deep abysses.   And I cannot undo that which I have come to know. The roads I had once walked are forever sealed off.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM UTC
Awakening
I stand upon my native hills again, Broad, round, and green, that in the summer sky With garniture of waving grass and grain, Orchards, and beechen forests, basking lie, While deep the sunless glens are scooped between, Where brawl o'er shallow beds the streams unseen. A lisping voice and glancing eyes are near, And ever restless feet of one, who, now, Gathers the blossoms of her fourth bright year; There plays a gladness o'er her fair young brow, As breaks the varied scene upon her sight, Upheaved and spread in verdure and in light. For I have taught her, with delighted eye, To gaze upon the mountains,--to behold, With deep affection, the pure ample sky, And clouds along its blue abysses rolled,-- To love the song of waters, and to hear The melody of winds with charmed ear. Here, I have 'scaped the city's stifling heat, Its horrid sounds, and its polluted air; And, where the season's milder fervours beat, And gales, that sweep the forest borders, bear The song of bird, and sound of running stream, Am come awhile to wander and to dream. Ay, flame thy fiercest, sun! thou canst not wake, In this pure air, the plague that walks unseen. The maize leaf and the maple bough but take, From thy strong heats, a deeper, glossier green. The mountain wind, that faints not in thy ray, Sweeps the blue steams of pestilence away. The mountain wind! most spiritual thing of all The wide earth knows; when, in the sultry time, He stoops him from his vast cerulean hall, He seems the breath of a celestial clime! As if from heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below.
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Lines On Revisiting The Country
I stand upon my native hills again, Broad, round, and green, that in the summer sky With garniture of waving grass and grain, Orchards, and beechen forests, basking lie, While deep the sunless glens are scooped between, Where brawl o'er shallow beds the streams unseen. A lisping voice and glancing eyes are near, And ever restless feet of one, who, now, Gathers the blossoms of her fourth bright year; There plays a gladness o'er her fair young brow, As breaks the varied scene upon her sight, Upheaved and spread in verdure and in light. For I have taught her, with delighted eye, To gaze upon the mountains,--to behold, With deep affection, the pure ample sky, And clouds along its blue abysses rolled,-- To love the song of waters, and to hear The melody of winds with charmed ear. Here, I have 'scaped the city's stifling heat, Its horrid sounds, and its polluted air; And, where the season's milder fervours beat, And gales, that sweep the forest borders, bear The song of bird, and sound of running stream, Am come awhile to wander and to dream. Ay, flame thy fiercest, sun! thou canst not wake, In this pure air, the plague that walks unseen. The maize leaf and the maple bough but take, From thy strong heats, a deeper, glossier green. The mountain wind, that faints not in thy ray, Sweeps the blue steams of pestilence away. The mountain wind! most spiritual thing of all The wide earth knows; when, in the sultry time, He stoops him from his vast cerulean hall, He seems the breath of a celestial clime! As if from heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below.
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Vaguely lit by the summer moon of dark blue,  pierced with light;  the river murmurs, the devils paladins; lies in wait for more than a thousand years!      the evening shadows pulling faces, the hidden window. Of worlds on a journey, a thousand years sad ophelia. Has murmured its ballad, the paladins are dancing. Sighing around her through this horror of space. The black gallows moans, and to all these worlds his black puppets weep on her shoulder, of an eternal voice unfathomable space; I no longer felt myself, I have seen malstroms eternal, devouring the green azores, where the eyes of panthers trembled to feel, down into the abysses! the black gallows moans.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 1:08 PM UTC
The black gallows moans
STAY CLOSE, MY HEART -- RUMI Stay close, my heart, to the one who knows your ways; Come into the shade of the tree that allays has fresh flowers. Don't stroll idly through the bazaar of the perfume-markers: Stay in the shop of the sugar-seller. If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you; Anyone can trick out of a thing of straw, And make you take it for gold Don't squat with a bowl before every boiling *** In each *** on the fire you find very different things. Not all sugarcanes have sugar, not all abysses a peak; Not all eyes possess vision, not every sea is full of pearls. O nightingale, with your voice of dark honey! Go on lamenting! Only your drunken ecstasy can pierce the rock's hard heart! Surrender yourself, and if you cannot be welcomes by the Friend, Know that you are rebelling inwardly like a thread That doesn't want to go through the needle's eye! The awakened heart is a lamp; protect it by the him of your robe! Hurry and get out of this wind, for the weather is bad. And when you've left this storm, you will come to a fountain; You'll find a Friend there who will always nourish your soul. And with your soul always green, you'll grow into a tall tree Flowering always with sweet light-fruit, whose growth is interior. (translated by Andrew Harvey)
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Mar 24, 2016
Mar 24, 2016 at 11:11 PM UTC
Stay Close, My Heart by Rumi
Havoc of the heavy-hearted Which from their grief are never parted Gloom by sunshine never thwarted Stultified, folding down on knees Excess of nothing, excess of nothing! And the absence of all. From canyons do we creep, Endlessly creep, With blisters on our feet From abysses twice so deep. Love is not matter. But matter is does. These ragdoll knees render my collapse; Caught midway 'tween a twinkling synapse.
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Apr 7, 2010
Apr 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM UTC
Cradle
It Was One Of Those Nights When The Abysses Of Sorrow Put Their Weight On The Heart Making You Wish You Tear It Apart. When The Fractures Of The Soul Expand From The Deepest Void Emerging In Waves Of Salt Filling the Eyes Wide Shut Painfully When Your Insignificance and Hopelessness Are Pouring Through The Crimson Rivers And You Want To Let Them Flow Open Begging Life To Have Mercy The Cloud Came Floating Over Me A Storm Of Pure Chaotic Darkness Animated By A Sea Of Lightning Reasoning Of Silent Thunders A Slow Descent Of Majesty In The Realm A Gate To Relief From Despair Coming Face To Face With Its Creation Feeling The Pain Of Its Tortured Soul A Gray Form Drawing On the Black Vapor Emerging From The Infinity Of Time Feeling From The Sorrow Of The Caller Materializing In A Peaceful Face Eyes Shut As They Can Not Dare To See Lips Closed As They Can Not Dare To Taste Light Hair Floating In Evanescence Approaching Slowly To My Agonizing Face The Eyes Opening Slowly, Letting Flow Moonlight Rays The Lips Carefully Dividing, Startdust Dropping On My Face Winds Of Compassion Entering My Soul Twin Love Reviving Dark Ashes As I Saw The Face Faded Away The Cloud Returned To The Void Of Creation I Knew That I Will Cut Widely The Red Rivers For The Light Is Not Meant For Me Warlock
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Mar 10, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM UTC
Dark Cloud
I'm liable to forget That we all have phantoms Hollow spaces Dug and never refilled And it was only last October That I began wondering Whether you miss your baby brother Who never breathed Your parents named him John And I began wondering If Like me You sometimes fell Into the caverns and abysses that gaped From the expectant space In every family portrait And whether you occasionally lost yourself In the pregnant air inside your house That anticipated an un-breathed child An unused bedroom And grew thick and stale In it's emptiness. I'm liable to forget That we all have dropped stitches And voids And holes in our favourites scarves Our brothers slipped down the plughole But I mostly forgot about yours Because mine was blood And yours was always As fickle as water.
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Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM UTC
Vacancy
Those beautiful abysses where conscience Awakes to the smell of incense muscles seeking other beings To obscure alleys your hair and the ribbon Atop those ******* resting on a humming bird The sweet taste of hachis brings forth Remembrances of life before God Lovely the silent ****** of night desire ablaze with fiery eyes To You and the skin you wear Like the unknown land of nevermore
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM UTC
The train
Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends--the good--the kind, Yielded to thee with tears-- The venerable form--the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back--yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence. In vain--thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart; Nor to the streaming eye Thou giv'st them back--nor to the broken heart. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown--to thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea; Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith,-- Love, that midst grief began, And grew with years, and faltered not in death. Full many a mighty name Lurks in thy depths, unuttered, unrevered; With thee are silent fame, Forgotten arts, and wisdom disappeared. Thine for a space are they-- Yet shalt thou yield thy treasures up at last; Thy gates shall yet give way, Thy bolts shall fall, inexorable Past! All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime. They have not perished--no! Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back, each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign. And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave--the beautiful and young.
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The Past
Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age, that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years, Thou hast my earlier friends--the good--the kind, Yielded to thee with tears-- The venerable form--the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back--yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence. In vain--thy gates deny All passage save to those who hence depart; Nor to the streaming eye Thou giv'st them back--nor to the broken heart. In thy abysses hide Beauty and excellence unknown--to thee Earth's wonder and her pride Are gathered, as the waters to the sea; Labours of good to man, Unpublished charity, unbroken faith,-- Love, that midst grief began, And grew with years, and faltered not in death. Full many a mighty name Lurks in thy depths, unuttered, unrevered; With thee are silent fame, Forgotten arts, and wisdom disappeared. Thine for a space are they-- Yet shalt thou yield thy treasures up at last; Thy gates shall yet give way, Thy bolts shall fall, inexorable Past! All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime. They have not perished--no! Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back, each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign. And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave--the beautiful and young.
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