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"accusing" poems
I'm smiling at you accusing me of smiling accusing me of smiling accusing me of smiling at how much I love you.
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 12:18 PM UTC
Smiling
PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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From A Full Moon In March
PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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You’re not Pro-life, just Pro-Forced Birth Despite proclaiming loudly On signs accusing, ****** To one in three women, proudly You’re not Pro-Life, but Anti-choice And Anti-women, too Shutting down Planned Parenthood is A War on Women’s coup Your Pro-Birth stance is but a sham Backwards in time, you’re swimming Saying Jesus is your Lamb while Cutting aid for pregnant women I saw you there, in Salem, too Pointing, declaring them WITCHES Burned alive by your testimony Betraying and damning your SISTERS My mother used to say self praise Was not really praise at all How can you say you’re Pro-Birthers Causing WIC funding to fall? The schools that once were funded Providing breakfast for hungry kids Was cut-yet congress spends like Spartans Government sold to the highest bids Sixty percent of our money In good ole USA Goes straight to the military And I demand a say! ‘Health’ gets only five percent And ‘Education’ six Yet that’s where congress goes To cut funding to the quick You shut down Planned Parenthood with Dishonest screams and shouts… Support Accidental Parenthood- Is that what you’re about?
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 2:41 PM UTC
Support Accidental Parenthood!
You and I we lived a lie And spread it to the masses I made sure to tidy up and wore rose tinted glasses I saw the flags and all the bad but couldn't understand I cried myself to sleep and stuck my head under the sand But somehow baby I just never could be what you needed Accusing me of everything, yet you're the one who cheated Such a sad realization when you wake up to a stranger That you somehow knew for years and yet your connection's weaker So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) You told me I was heartless when I left without a tear I guess you didn't count all the times I cried those years You wounded me in different ways in which I still can't heal Still I was devoted, my hearts not an easy one to steal I gave you enough chances, time and time again If you really cared about me, than you should have listened So call me this and call me that I really dont give a **** I know that for some other man someday I'll be more than enough So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) How can I learn to trust again after such a failure? You were just another waste of time, you weren't my savior Sometimes I still think of things you said I get lost inside your lies But I've grown so much since I stood my ground, you'll never realize I won't allow myself to act stupid over another guy I deserve the world and will except no less than the moon, the stars, and sky So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) Fast forward to the future and look how much I've grown Can't believe how good I'm doing out here all on my own I became my own support system, my own best friend I don't need nobody else baby I got this til the end But then a pair of eyes caught mine in a way I can't explain They look not a thing like yours and I'm over the moon again But this time will be different, this time Ill be stronger I refuse to be abused or suffer any longer So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye I'm done with all your heartache And I promise you by the time you notice what you threw away I'll be someone else's cherished "mistake"
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Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
goodbye false ally
You and I we lived a lie And spread it to the masses I made sure to tidy up and wore rose tinted glasses I saw the flags and all the bad but couldn't understand I cried myself to sleep and stuck my head under the sand But somehow baby I just never could be what you needed Accusing me of everything, yet you're the one who cheated Such a sad realization when you wake up to a stranger That you somehow knew for years and yet your connection's weaker So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) You told me I was heartless when I left without a tear I guess you didn't count all the times I cried those years You wounded me in different ways in which I still can't heal Still I was devoted, my hearts not an easy one to steal I gave you enough chances, time and time again If you really cared about me, than you should have listened So call me this and call me that I really dont give a **** I know that for some other man someday I'll be more than enough So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) How can I learn to trust again after such a failure? You were just another waste of time, you weren't my savior Sometimes I still think of things you said I get lost inside your lies But I've grown so much since I stood my ground, you'll never realize I won't allow myself to act stupid over another guy I deserve the world and will except no less than the moon, the stars, and sky So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) Fast forward to the future and look how much I've grown Can't believe how good I'm doing out here all on my own I became my own support system, my own best friend I don't need nobody else baby I got this til the end But then a pair of eyes caught mine in a way I can't explain They look not a thing like yours and I'm over the moon again But this time will be different, this time Ill be stronger I refuse to be abused or suffer any longer So goodbye goodbye goodbye I walk out with a bang (Just like I walked in) Goodbye, goodbye goodbye we'll never meet again (you should have listened) I know I told you baby that this was til the end (for better or worse) But eternity don't work for me, if youre hurting me, my friend (you were my curse) Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye I'm done with all your heartache And I promise you by the time you notice what you threw away I'll be someone else's cherished "mistake"
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1. Spread claims you are the only one who can stop corrupt politicians and their dependence on the rich (even though you yourself belong to the rich) 2. Spread lies and insults about anyone who might look like a serious opponent 3. Once you are in power, continue 1. & 2. and put your rich friends into influential positions in state offices and courts, give tax breaks to the rich and claim that everyone benefits from them. Declare any information that runs counter to your lies „fake news“. 4. Invent threats to the security and well-being of the nation and then claim you are the one who can solve all the problems by strict measures, like building a 2,000 mile wall against those criminal immigrants that threaten your people – what the „fake news“ reports as a few thousand refugees from neighboring countries who flee from misery and persecution and crime and hope to get asylum in your country of 350 million. 5. Cut your aid programs for the home countries of those resfugees so that the situation there worsens even more and even more people will try to run for a better life, and you can rhetorically justify inhuman security measures at your borders. 6. On a different field, isolate your country internationally, be the elefant in the china shop, break or end international agreements, destabilize whole regions, and then threaten to send the military – all of which, you tell your voters, makes your country great again. 7. Start trade wars with old global partners, accusing them of taking advantage of your countrty, and when your own economy suffers from such idiocies, calm your afflicted followers with federal subsidies that jolt the nationl deficit to singular heights. 8. Fire (or mob into retirement) any critical person in your government until all your officials speak with your voice. 9. Look around for a worthy cause to be the focus of your consoldidated power. 10. Start a world war and lose it.
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Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019 at 5:21 PM UTC
power games101
1. Spread claims you are the only one who can stop corrupt politicians and their dependence on the rich (even though you yourself belong to the rich) 2. Spread lies and insults about anyone who might look like a serious opponent 3. Once you are in power, continue 1. & 2. and put your rich friends into influential positions in state offices and courts, give tax breaks to the rich and claim that everyone benefits from them. Declare any information that runs counter to your lies „fake news“. 4. Invent threats to the security and well-being of the nation and then claim you are the one who can solve all the problems by strict measures, like building a 2,000 mile wall against those criminal immigrants that threaten your people – what the „fake news“ reports as a few thousand refugees from neighboring countries who flee from misery and persecution and crime and hope to get asylum in your country of 350 million. 5. Cut your aid programs for the home countries of those resfugees so that the situation there worsens even more and even more people will try to run for a better life, and you can rhetorically justify inhuman security measures at your borders. 6. On a different field, isolate your country internationally, be the elefant in the china shop, break or end international agreements, destabilize whole regions, and then threaten to send the military – all of which, you tell your voters, makes your country great again. 7. Start trade wars with old global partners, accusing them of taking advantage of your countrty, and when your own economy suffers from such idiocies, calm your afflicted followers with federal subsidies that jolt the nationl deficit to singular heights. 8. Fire (or mob into retirement) any critical person in your government until all your officials speak with your voice. 9. Look around for a worthy cause to be the focus of your consoldidated power. 10. Start a world war and lose it.
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I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 at 10:10 AM UTC
slept with my rapacious pen (she, full on conjugation)
I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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#*Multitudes will be liberated by that recognition; and although multitudes obtain liberation in that manner, the number of sentient beings being great, evil karma powerful, obscurations dense, propensities o too long standing, the Wheel of Ignorance and Illusion becometh neither exhausted nor accelerated*.            The Tibetan Book of the Dead           translation:  Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup Free Tibet your sticker tells me… Yes, I think, perhaps I should – and the noble thought compels me, uninformed, half-understood. Will their freedom help my Karma? Upgrade my reincarnation? (Soul who could not dare to harm a fly… much less a Buddhist nation.) Not to justify aggression by the ever-brutal Commies, let us grant no glib concession to the Maoists – or their mommies. Slogans echo in the void, shining in bardos of the dead; stopped by the light, I am annoyed impatient for the change from red. A bumper crop of human woe beams forth a mandate to my brain while red Dakinis circle slow in Buddhist hells of karmic pain. The eastern concepts here diverge and bow before brutality. They make this driver long to merge with incorporeality. Then I glimpse a monkish fellow swathed in saffron, calmly seated. His, the cloud-borne sage’s pillow; mine the traffic; stalled, defeated. In his gaze of stern displeasure I perceive the orient stars calculating man’s mismeasure trapped, exhausted, among the cars. Flanked by Spirits wreathed in fire he extends an accusing hand: Western slave of base desire: come and  liberate my land !” I meditate before the stop light: am I ready for the task ? Should I just refuse it outright Can’t it be someone else ?  I ask… Must I free this mountain nation from the Buddha, demons and Reds? Shall your sticker’s declaration shatter the yoke and raise their heads ? Somebody ought to free Tibet, and heed this Himalayan cry. Maybe we should get upset… The red light changes. Cars pass by, predestined for benign events and unconcerned for persecution; oblivious to dissidents awaiting execution.
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 9:14 PM UTC
Exhausted Karma
#*Multitudes will be liberated by that recognition; and although multitudes obtain liberation in that manner, the number of sentient beings being great, evil karma powerful, obscurations dense, propensities o too long standing, the Wheel of Ignorance and Illusion becometh neither exhausted nor accelerated*.            The Tibetan Book of the Dead           translation:  Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup Free Tibet your sticker tells me… Yes, I think, perhaps I should – and the noble thought compels me, uninformed, half-understood. Will their freedom help my Karma? Upgrade my reincarnation? (Soul who could not dare to harm a fly… much less a Buddhist nation.) Not to justify aggression by the ever-brutal Commies, let us grant no glib concession to the Maoists – or their mommies. Slogans echo in the void, shining in bardos of the dead; stopped by the light, I am annoyed impatient for the change from red. A bumper crop of human woe beams forth a mandate to my brain while red Dakinis circle slow in Buddhist hells of karmic pain. The eastern concepts here diverge and bow before brutality. They make this driver long to merge with incorporeality. Then I glimpse a monkish fellow swathed in saffron, calmly seated. His, the cloud-borne sage’s pillow; mine the traffic; stalled, defeated. In his gaze of stern displeasure I perceive the orient stars calculating man’s mismeasure trapped, exhausted, among the cars. Flanked by Spirits wreathed in fire he extends an accusing hand: Western slave of base desire: come and  liberate my land !” I meditate before the stop light: am I ready for the task ? Should I just refuse it outright Can’t it be someone else ?  I ask… Must I free this mountain nation from the Buddha, demons and Reds? Shall your sticker’s declaration shatter the yoke and raise their heads ? Somebody ought to free Tibet, and heed this Himalayan cry. Maybe we should get upset… The red light changes. Cars pass by, predestined for benign events and unconcerned for persecution; oblivious to dissidents awaiting execution.
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**Drop your Grudge Rants by the door We Will Not Tolarate This Anymore Edit and toss Distasteful Rhymes Ugly Poems with Vain designs Haughty thoughts and bitter words Childish petty accusing verbs Who did What to Who and When Will this Clusterfuck never end? Selfish actions, Spoiled Children We Refuse to be your Minions Like CNN And Drone Fox news We've had enough of Self Serving views Hurting hearts, far and wide tender Poets with tenuous pride Yet, Strutting and Indignant for who I ask? All those involved, A Donkeys *** Not a home for Egotistical Zealots Nor a place for flinging pellets We come in Peace, HP to share Not get caught in ugly snares And to the few that have the gaul. "If you have nothing decent to say, say nothing at all"** **YOU CHOOSE TO USE HP THIS WAY. GO AWAY. FIND SOME WHERE ELSE TO PLAY.** ●HELLO●HELLO●HELLO●                  Copyright © 2015 Christi Michaels. All Rights Reserved
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 6:55 PM UTC
●HELLO●HELLO●HELLO●
Growing up, my grandmother always tried to hold me back from the girl I thought was my best friend. Her name was Society. My grandmother made it very clear that I was not to associate with Society and so that is what I did for a while. By the age of 7 I had an impressively large entourage of friends, whose parents also steered clear from Society. We watched movies, made hot chocolate and talked about our hopes and dreams. However just because the light burns bright, doesn't mean it's going to burn forever. By the time I was 11 our coterie had fallen through. The more we grew, the less we would hear our parents. 11 years young, and completely detached. All my friends were now strangers. Society was the only one I had left. I always desired to be equals with her. I tried so hard until there wasn't any ME anymore. I was caught in between fitting in with the world and becoming estranged from myself Society dug up every last seed that all sane adults plant into their children. Mum raised me to believe that every inch, every atom and every molecule inside of me was worthy of love. Society had taught me to pinch and pull at my body, accusing every bump, every scar and every imperfection for being some of the many reasons I was alone. Society led me to rip every mirror off of the walls of my life. "You don't wanna see that" She would whisper. She was wrong until she was right. For every 1 thing I found to love in the reflection, Society would find 3 things to hate. Society had taken the sparkle from my eyes because the other girls couldn't see past the glare. Society silenced the protest in my gut because there weren't enough people on my side but as I moved on to better people I realized she was all a sham
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC
Growing Up With Society
Growing up, my grandmother always tried to hold me back from the girl I thought was my best friend. Her name was Society. My grandmother made it very clear that I was not to associate with Society and so that is what I did for a while. By the age of 7 I had an impressively large entourage of friends, whose parents also steered clear from Society. We watched movies, made hot chocolate and talked about our hopes and dreams. However just because the light burns bright, doesn't mean it's going to burn forever. By the time I was 11 our coterie had fallen through. The more we grew, the less we would hear our parents. 11 years young, and completely detached. All my friends were now strangers. Society was the only one I had left. I always desired to be equals with her. I tried so hard until there wasn't any ME anymore. I was caught in between fitting in with the world and becoming estranged from myself Society dug up every last seed that all sane adults plant into their children. Mum raised me to believe that every inch, every atom and every molecule inside of me was worthy of love. Society had taught me to pinch and pull at my body, accusing every bump, every scar and every imperfection for being some of the many reasons I was alone. Society led me to rip every mirror off of the walls of my life. "You don't wanna see that" She would whisper. She was wrong until she was right. For every 1 thing I found to love in the reflection, Society would find 3 things to hate. Society had taken the sparkle from my eyes because the other girls couldn't see past the glare. Society silenced the protest in my gut because there weren't enough people on my side but as I moved on to better people I realized she was all a sham
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The wabanaki tyrants A threat that's come and gone mercy luis’s family now butchered like a hog 16 years now have past and trials on its way guilty is as guilty's charged its barrows turn to play 20 victims laid to rest 20 “witches” hanged 180 more accused from 93’ and 92’ but many more to blame for the vessels of the Salem ways now cold and heartless souls accusing innocent lives, for shame! now unfair trials we shall hold...
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 12:31 PM UTC
Salem Witch Trials
In class the big black and white tick-tock pinched my mid-morning belly. When everyone else borrowed numbers, my pencil lead and yellow paint scratched out hunger. Minutes chugged like school buses.  Even columns of three-numeraled numbers minused the bottom line, scold of lunch. A borrowed quarter and dime from the office, meant a secretary’s red-lipsticked mouth, bent and accusing.  Her coiffed curls shook my dreams. I would starve before sailing into that office for my little belly, but forever yearned for the secretary to pet my hair. Say, “There, there,”like to a character in a book rosy with girls in gingham dresses. But, for all those lovely boats of hot lunches: meatloaf with crusts of catsup like a winter cap, buttered beans, dinner rolls and cold-cartoned milk, not watered down-- Missing lunch,  I'd hide out in the cold storage room of sack lunches next to the playground. While the others ate, I'd escape at the right tick into the recess of blacktop and tetherball.
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 2:28 PM UTC
School Lunch
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all - but just that I be spared the pain of knowing. I make no stringent demands that you should really be chaste, but only that you try to cover up. If a girl can claim to be pure, it's the same as being pure: it's only admitted vice that makes for scandal. What madness, to confess by day what's wrapped in night, and what you've done in secret, openly tell! The ****** about to bed some Roman off the street still locks her door first, keeping out the crowd: will you yourself then make your sins notorious, accusing and prosecuting your own crime? Be wise, and learn at least to imitate chaste girls, and let me believe you're good, though you are not. Do what you do, but simply deny you ever did: there's nothing wrong with public modesty. There is a proper place for looseness: fill it up with all voluptuousness, and banish shame; but when you're done there, then put off all playfulness and leave your indiscretions in your bed. There, don't be ashamed to lay your gown aside and press your thigh against a pressing thigh; there take and give deep kisses with your crimson lips; let love contrive a thousand ways of passion; there let delighted words and moans come ceaselessly, and make the mattress quiver with playful motion. But put on with your clothes a face that's all discretion, and let Shame disavow your shocking deeds. Trick everyone, trick me: leave me in ignorance; let me enjoy the life of a happy fool. Why must I see so often notes received - and sent? Why must I see two imprints on your bed, or your hair disarrayed much more than sleep could do? Why must I notice love bites on your neck? You all but flaunt your indiscretions in my face. Think of me, if not of your reputation. I lose my mind, I die, when you confess you've sinned; I break out in cold sweat from hand to foot; I love you then, and hate you - in vain, since I must love you; I wish then I were dead - and you were too! I won't investigate or check whatever you try to hide: I will be thankful to be deceived. But even if I catch you in the very act and look on your disgrace with my own eyes, deny that I have seen what I have clearly seen, and my eyes will agree with what you claim. You'll win an easy prize from a man who wants to lose, only remember to say, 'I didn't do it.' Since you can gain your victory with one short phrase, win on account of your judge, if not your case.
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On fidelity
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all - but just that I be spared the pain of knowing. I make no stringent demands that you should really be chaste, but only that you try to cover up. If a girl can claim to be pure, it's the same as being pure: it's only admitted vice that makes for scandal. What madness, to confess by day what's wrapped in night, and what you've done in secret, openly tell! The ****** about to bed some Roman off the street still locks her door first, keeping out the crowd: will you yourself then make your sins notorious, accusing and prosecuting your own crime? Be wise, and learn at least to imitate chaste girls, and let me believe you're good, though you are not. Do what you do, but simply deny you ever did: there's nothing wrong with public modesty. There is a proper place for looseness: fill it up with all voluptuousness, and banish shame; but when you're done there, then put off all playfulness and leave your indiscretions in your bed. There, don't be ashamed to lay your gown aside and press your thigh against a pressing thigh; there take and give deep kisses with your crimson lips; let love contrive a thousand ways of passion; there let delighted words and moans come ceaselessly, and make the mattress quiver with playful motion. But put on with your clothes a face that's all discretion, and let Shame disavow your shocking deeds. Trick everyone, trick me: leave me in ignorance; let me enjoy the life of a happy fool. Why must I see so often notes received - and sent? Why must I see two imprints on your bed, or your hair disarrayed much more than sleep could do? Why must I notice love bites on your neck? You all but flaunt your indiscretions in my face. Think of me, if not of your reputation. I lose my mind, I die, when you confess you've sinned; I break out in cold sweat from hand to foot; I love you then, and hate you - in vain, since I must love you; I wish then I were dead - and you were too! I won't investigate or check whatever you try to hide: I will be thankful to be deceived. But even if I catch you in the very act and look on your disgrace with my own eyes, deny that I have seen what I have clearly seen, and my eyes will agree with what you claim. You'll win an easy prize from a man who wants to lose, only remember to say, 'I didn't do it.' Since you can gain your victory with one short phrase, win on account of your judge, if not your case.
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The Slow Starter (1958) - poem by Louis Macneice. A watched clock never moves, they said; Leave it alone and you'll grow up. Nor will the sulking holiday train Start sooner if you stamp your feet.   He left the clock to go its way;   The whistle blew, the train went gay. Do not press me so, she said; Leave me alone and I will write But not just yet, I am sure you know The problem. Do not count the days.   He left the calender alone;   The postman knocked, no letter came. O never force the pace, they said; Leave it alone, you have lots of time, Your kind of work is none the worse For slow maturing. Do not rush.   He took their tip, he took his time,   And found his time and talent gone. Oh you have had your chance, it said; Left it alone and it was one. Who said a watched clock never moves? Look at it now. Your chance was I.   He turned and saw the accusing clock   Race like a torrent round a rock. Louis Macneice
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 9:06 AM UTC
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Men who look like ferris wheels every color representing different aspects of their personality The first three words don't have to be beautiful they just have to make sense like connecting dots on paper men who love with their fists and hate with their mouths who once were boys taking things apart like remote controls their own fathers used to beat Obedience into their small bodies. Left them with a fury tattooed across their hearts Just to give them the challenge of putting themselves back together They buy their wive's flowers after a four day bruise isn't so glaringly purple anymore not so accusing- kiss her broken ribs and tell their children midnight stories children trained as mood detectors human robots *know when to shutup speak when you are spoken to Men who speak like cutting boards Every slice of the knives in their toungues leave hollow aching missing parts just to teach their children that not all things can be put together once taken apart whose daughter glues together the parts of old telephones to spite the missing pieces so every welt he beats into her bones she sings herself unbroken until she stands robust and imperfect there are holes in her armour but she holds it together with her fathers fists.
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 4:12 PM UTC
Men who look like ferris wheels
Your eyes burned bluegreenblue Driftwood fires Your essence clashing Cracking Burning with the knowledge; The salt of the sea. I had placed you there Sun-bleached beachwood, Hesitant fingers coaxing towards the flame Knowing all too well the reaction The mark that the sea had left upon you; left you with nothing but treebones, Accusing, twisted fingers pointed towards the sky. And I, somehow danced Consuming you both with bitter abandonment Savoring both the brine and the earth As if I knew you not from blood and chocolate; From sweetness and necessity.
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 3:08 PM UTC
The Driftwood, Fire and Sea (unrhymed version)
You hired me to be a cook at your restaurant. I'll cook but I won't do everything you want. When you said what you wanted, I said no. I'll cook the food but I won't peel the potatoes. I won't peel potatoes or anything else either. Your daughter is accusing me of ****** harassment and you believe her. The truth is that she desperately wants me to be her *** slave. When I refuse, she becomes vindictive and she misbehaves. She tore her dress and said that I attacked her. I'd had all I could take so I finally smacked her. I won't give in to her demands, if I have to, I'll take her to court. She's the ugliest girl I've ever seen, her face is covered with warts. Because I won't be her piece of *** she tries to get me in hot water. I won't peel your vegetables and I won't sleep with your ugly daughter. When I got this job, I thought that I would love it. But I've decided to quit, take this job and shove it.
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Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 1:10 PM UTC
I Won't Be Your Daughter's *** Slave
**Long brown dream her legs akimbo apex flushed dark arms bowed at hip ******* accusing Breathless, the ******* seesaw tight curls crown angry beauty teeth blaze hot golden eyes spit hate spinning slowly left proudly curved bending exposed face framed a toppled heart lips lick entice three rising paces the suite bar long fingers reach the glass held waist high pivoting back all swift motion a somersault roll landing grinning ******* bouncing a silent scream lashes out blinding red wine** *All loves promises tumbling bouncing emotion an ****** spite* **leaving me naked rivoletto sashed red seeing blurred ghostly negatives of forever young screaming bouncing ******* I say “Goodbye true love” to the tall glass on the bar my coat and open door to the clothe strewn bedroom** *Clothed party act a pint spinning somersault quaffed down brim full*
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 5:11 AM UTC
Spite Akimbo
There are railroad tracks That run through my town And at night when I finally receive The silence I wished for during the day I can hear the faint whistle And hum against my bedroom windows I hear the whistle now. All my life I have heard the trains And I find beauty in the fact that even when I'm not listening, they are there The trains carrying coal, chemicals, lumber, and the better parts of my childhood As a child I loved the idea of the caboose Allowing any stretch of rail Any length of land To be your home Your bed And it was probably through this my wanderer spirit grew. All my life these trains meant something Escape But not without possibility of return I romanticized the long web of rails connecting all the land and Souls in the American night I have always loved such pieces of antiquity So in the latter years of my childhood in high school it's no suprise the love I had for Steinbeck, Sandburg, and Woody Guthrie I would lament to friends that the trains became too fast to hop, but I never tried I always sat back and watched Or listened on quiet nights Now my childhood has passed I am nearly 20 but wrapped in my head is the idea that the young boy who had train posters and pictures covering his walls was nothing but a stranger or a character in just another awful coming of age rerun But deep down that child turned to Ginsberg who wrote of boxcars boxcars boxcars And Kerouac who followed the long stretches of road to the western edge of America And it was through Kerouac I found Thomas Wolfe I feel I have Thomas Wolfe in my bones Thomas Wolfe who left home rejoicing train rides to the North Then realized he couldn't go home again Thomas Wolfe who never wrote a bad train scene Not all of Wolfe is in me Not the 1900s Southern prejudice Or the raving accusing of friends of great treasons, only to have to apologize the morning after But I can feel his need To write all I can To never take away To add add To never reduce because who tells Van Gogh "yes yer paintings alright but I need you to reduce the amount of stars by 30 and I expect it on my desk Monday" I won't take anything away from myself Only add So at nights When I hear the train whistle And soft rattling on my window Thomas Wolfe is with me And he loves the sound too
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 11:13 PM UTC
The Railroad And Thomas Wolfe
There are railroad tracks That run through my town And at night when I finally receive The silence I wished for during the day I can hear the faint whistle And hum against my bedroom windows I hear the whistle now. All my life I have heard the trains And I find beauty in the fact that even when I'm not listening, they are there The trains carrying coal, chemicals, lumber, and the better parts of my childhood As a child I loved the idea of the caboose Allowing any stretch of rail Any length of land To be your home Your bed And it was probably through this my wanderer spirit grew. All my life these trains meant something Escape But not without possibility of return I romanticized the long web of rails connecting all the land and Souls in the American night I have always loved such pieces of antiquity So in the latter years of my childhood in high school it's no suprise the love I had for Steinbeck, Sandburg, and Woody Guthrie I would lament to friends that the trains became too fast to hop, but I never tried I always sat back and watched Or listened on quiet nights Now my childhood has passed I am nearly 20 but wrapped in my head is the idea that the young boy who had train posters and pictures covering his walls was nothing but a stranger or a character in just another awful coming of age rerun But deep down that child turned to Ginsberg who wrote of boxcars boxcars boxcars And Kerouac who followed the long stretches of road to the western edge of America And it was through Kerouac I found Thomas Wolfe I feel I have Thomas Wolfe in my bones Thomas Wolfe who left home rejoicing train rides to the North Then realized he couldn't go home again Thomas Wolfe who never wrote a bad train scene Not all of Wolfe is in me Not the 1900s Southern prejudice Or the raving accusing of friends of great treasons, only to have to apologize the morning after But I can feel his need To write all I can To never take away To add add To never reduce because who tells Van Gogh "yes yer paintings alright but I need you to reduce the amount of stars by 30 and I expect it on my desk Monday" I won't take anything away from myself Only add So at nights When I hear the train whistle And soft rattling on my window Thomas Wolfe is with me And he loves the sound too
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Frontline. I stand on the front line. A mile behind, ninety-nine souls Stare. Facing forward, Accusing. They say: Why? I say:
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Apr 22, 2012
Apr 22, 2012 at 11:02 PM UTC
Frontline
I am sorry for your pain but I am not the cause and seeing how you've treated me I think I know what was Dishonest in your ranting as you're girlfriend and not wife no wonder why he shies away from unrelenting strife Accusing without evidence eschewing private mail you castigate me publicly as illogically you rail Behaving with much cruelty demonstrating zero class you couldn't solve a mystery if it bit you in the *** 18 Jun 2015
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
To the Woman Whose Man Was Not Faithful
*I hear His voice in the stillness of the night. I feel His love like a blanket thick. Warm and caring Like the brightest sun Like the coolest breeze His love so tender so pure So unassuming He knows your deepest fears He knows your darkest thoughts He knows your story and all the gory He knows why you are you. Yet He judges not Son of God who loves you like crazy Has only stars in His eyes When He looks at His beloved lady$. His love the same Never changing and fading His hands stretched wide Arms welcoming. Never closed and accusing. Look people of the world OUR GOD WAITS Like a passionate lover With LOVE brimming over. Yearning and searing, like you do for another He waits.. His unwavering love An answer to all above Your grief and pain Will never be over But they will be sweeter He assures Cause His love will bear the sting When His hand your holding. Joy abounds Tears cease Griefs gone The dark night lasts no longer The blanket is lifted You only need to walk further To meet your Lord and Saviour. *(He loves everyone)
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 5:15 AM UTC
Meet your Lord and Saviour.
We are the savages, normalities stand from a distance and secretly admire the domesticated eyeing in envy to our resilience of society's taming shackles so they reject us with pointed accusing fingers forever deemed an unworthy animal. We belong to nature and they're all hunters fully equipped with nonfictional weapons to destroy the wilderness with in poaching our furs and horns only to hold the satisfying idea we are becoming extinct. We believe in something greater its a diamond ring proposal of freedom sparkling in the sunlight of judgment unfazed by starless nights we still shine bright in total darkness becoming a beacon of light to the helpless moths. We are born as nomads of law and principles they want to break us, bind us in rules and regulations take our souls and throw them to the masses of cold blooded creatures they all swim mindlessly in a wonderland of controlled morality but to the hot blooded, these cool waters are foreign forever belonging on land letting our predator instincts be the guide knowing what is right and where to flee when its wrong but they expect us to drown with the rest in the materialistic greed infested river of the world. We will never be broken we are the wild we are self thinkers we are the untouchable spirited winds of the world rebel eyed with our backs against those who have become the thoughtless corps filled with animosity and jealousy we are free and we roam the jungles of prosperity still shining bright, a true savage.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 6:43 PM UTC
We remain
We are the savages, normalities stand from a distance and secretly admire the domesticated eyeing in envy to our resilience of society's taming shackles so they reject us with pointed accusing fingers forever deemed an unworthy animal. We belong to nature and they're all hunters fully equipped with nonfictional weapons to destroy the wilderness with in poaching our furs and horns only to hold the satisfying idea we are becoming extinct. We believe in something greater its a diamond ring proposal of freedom sparkling in the sunlight of judgment unfazed by starless nights we still shine bright in total darkness becoming a beacon of light to the helpless moths. We are born as nomads of law and principles they want to break us, bind us in rules and regulations take our souls and throw them to the masses of cold blooded creatures they all swim mindlessly in a wonderland of controlled morality but to the hot blooded, these cool waters are foreign forever belonging on land letting our predator instincts be the guide knowing what is right and where to flee when its wrong but they expect us to drown with the rest in the materialistic greed infested river of the world. We will never be broken we are the wild we are self thinkers we are the untouchable spirited winds of the world rebel eyed with our backs against those who have become the thoughtless corps filled with animosity and jealousy we are free and we roam the jungles of prosperity still shining bright, a true savage.
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WAS it the double of my dream The woman that by me lay Dreamed, or did we halve a dream Under the first cold gleam of day? I thought: "There is a waterfall Upon Ben Bulben side That all my childhood counted dear; Were I to travel far and wide I could not find a thing so dear.' My memories had magnified So many times childish delight. I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild. Even accusing Heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch. I dreamed towards break of day, The cold blown spray in my nostril. But she that beside me lay Had watched in bitterer sleep The marvellous stag of Arthur, That lofty white stag, leap From mountain steep to steep.
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Towards Break Of Day
There must be a scapegoat, a faceless soul we can blame when events unfolding never crease the right way there needs to someone to take the fall for our shortcomings, failures, mistakes and flaws let's name it timing the outlandish ideal with a sort of silver lining benefiting our dreams or disappointing based on your outlook at the second placing our losses on timing's plate, so to us it remains indebted the divine invention we haphazardly sink our faith towards faulting opportunity for not opening closed doors falsely accusing an innocent occurrence with words of curse in nature we'll just chalk it up to poor timing, and bury it for later the concept of allowing an unmovable force dictate our actions selfishly choosing when the timing suits our satisfaction poor timing, missing the chance of a unmatchable proportions minimal effort to a particular cause turned twisted words contortions to cleverly claim the culprit, when your very actions displayed a lack of determination it's not the moment's patience that forces your will to put the act in motion yet we chalk it up to timing, a peculiar notion a cloak of deceit and disbelief we wrap ourselves in, blaming an unworthy malefactor innocent as the sun is bright so let's just call it poor timing, leaving our passion-less actions out of sight...
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 11:54 PM UTC
Timing