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"allures" poems
We know you, and your little dark colors too. A picture book in your purse penned in mustaches on the full faces of your fare. We call you from bed, 8 o' clock in the morning, dog-light you slow wander the Peruvian darkness making jellyfish tentacles with your hands while you feel your way through Salem. We're colder than night and we wake thrice the bits of your day gig. You collapse in a green field of dandelion where thrushes drown you in Brown. We gorge ourselves on mango slivers, pineapple yolks, a half of grapefruit. We know you are close to your end. On the tops of the cities you call to your lycan friends, the half-sick and muted bray allures them to you, from Bratislava and Mimon, the thoroughfare through the suq. We wait. The foregone untold, the beep beep jug jug swoop sound of the nightingale, in all her dun glory, we wait. Then, as if descending through the moor-lounging silver smoke, the cool stickiness to your fingertips; the fog. We are there when the blue-less and smoky screen surrounds you, when you shank the auburn Scot hair of the sly fox that stalks, say, a cigarette from your lips. When you take the corners swiftly, gadding the streets. The prize king of vulpicide. You rub its matte fur against your bristly gray beard. And while you lay in your lumps of twelve carat flesh you bleat and you nag. One day you will never come home.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM UTC
Johnny 3:16
*ask your blood your limbs, your breathing feet what Poetry is - a phylogenetic anomaly in light’s discontinuity or just… the strange yearning of hematopoiesis ask the silence in your lungs the bursting DNA, reinterpreted how it allures memory inside your bones how it treads conventions of sleep with the weight of a sigh if you ask me what Poetry is I’d say: breath calligraphy a winged dream of depth on enchanted retina the bitter-sweet art of airy harmony ask your hands what Poetry is perhaps they’ll take a moment to bloom*
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 1:31 PM UTC
Unworded Poetry
On a sheer peak of joy we meet; Below us hums the abyss; Death either way allures our feet If we take one step amiss. One moment let us drink the blue Transcendent air together— Then down where the same old work’s to do In the same dull daily weather. We may not wait . . . yet look below! How part? On this keen ridge But one may pass. They call you—go! My life shall be your bridg.
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A Meeting
*How I wish to float upon your breast Soft and placid as a glass lake, windless Breathless But to delve into valleys Unexplored, keeper of buried treasures I trek throughout, wandering Aimless deliverance, unspoken promises Intricacy of intimate embrace I weave in my fingers, passion Spill me, leave kisses like ghosts Translucent memories Moist with seduction Delicious droplets of enticement Proposing infatuation, falling from your lips Illustrious little allures Swim through me Serpentine twisting contours Wrap me in flesh, consumption Stares, to reiterate a longing Convey this truthfulness Honeyed words of desire Think not to deny yourself this moment Make love to white whispers Embedded in the mouth of temptation Take no responsibility Let movement be freely expressed Body caressed Comforting red embers Of lustful flame Spin tales of time and tryst Inhale the sweeter aromas Entwine with immaculacy Reciprocate sensuality, a pair Two Two with a twist And many other turns*
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 7:38 PM UTC
Entwine
Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 9:49 PM UTC
A Coastal Sunset: transitional beauty
Post-azure, cloud splashed sky, washes with the suns descent, breaking into melodies of sunset. Fracturing into a blush, the richness of the spectrum makes itself known. On a tangent of change, amorphous clouds bleed amber glow and bittersweet combinations of reds and yellows. Vermillion streaks through, and a few cloud folk turn titian, like sumptuous surreal apricots rotting in the sky, that seem to augur encroaching darkness. Billows on the horizon leak crimson, like spilled wine on table cloth, and pucker out like blooms of flaming roses. Fire refracted coloured cousins of the sun are dancing all about. Here is the anthem of wild transformation. Here is cause for quiet celebration. Here at this fluent juncture. Here at the closing of day. The whole of the ocean below, is the skies tremendous mirror. It's reflection is variegated, into variations a thousandfold. Multitudinous, and ever differentiated, distortions of above ride the crests of waves. Each apex is a new story. Each new story, just as soon as it is told, comes crashing into trough. Each finale is the ****** of beginning. The dynamic roar of the oceans ever-changing topology is rife with meaning. Colossal symphonic wonders, the primordial song, releasing upon: the uni- verse continual, sending the manifest to move, with the give and strain of immaculate design. Here ensconced between the safety of light and the mystery of night. Here at the oceans edge. Above, shades of catalina-blue, in conversation with the outer most cosmic-black dismiss earlier brighter hues. Tinged by the infinite nature of space, the jeweled dome darkens. Overhead, the first stars appear, sky transparent to beheld blackness. Luxuriant, pulling horizon, attracts violet into it's unfolding theatrics. Bloodied clouds turn purplish, then black, a darkening rawness allures, decaying with vivid beauty, tragedies of a rouged romance drug down into shadows play, searingly alive, extraordinarily actual. And then, the hush of dusk. Darkness is felled, like silence. Scintillating stars strengthen in the nights surrounding abyss; giving radiance definition. Dynamic Beauty Lives In Transition, Oppositions Compliment.
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I may have loved you too much, but; A part of me still loves you to this day Your sweetness allures me so, Like honeyed days we’d stare without shame You were irresistible to my heart and I knew trouble cornered me I’d shoo away the laughable thoughts, Aiming to mail you a letter of love To which you’d open it fresh with a scented kiss Flower petals would descend from your heart Your cheeks adopted a sunflower The stars entertained you that night You told me you always dreamed of late evenings Informing me of the curtain of constellations That you’d like to sleep soundly in Of course I’d be willing to offer you anything in return of your smile And the night we escaped, you gasped softly at the surprise Your simple happiness was all one romantic would need No matter where we dreamed, Together we are one Standing besides one another  Fate draws near, echoing our future Your bleakness eats me devastatingly Tomorrow we are still...one being But overseas, I send you my farewells So that you are found in perfect health And that we consume truly divine harmonies Made only for the sweetened couples Whose stories fade ever so forlornly in the past I love you brightly as the sun You illuminate my pathways But one kiss erases my existence Continue to please those around you; Without me, the world withers Please remember my love, And be gentle with it For it is delicate as the world My eyes see a star But yours fail to see within that darkness The gloom that retreats before you arrive I am part of that campaign An honorable being among the troops Yet your continuous ignorance saddens me so See me now, Find me wanderlust in this world And somewhere, we can swiftly enrapture ourselves Whether it be in the meadows of glistening rays Or the places that calmly send the earth into slumber Wherever we are destined, I’ll always be there for you Even if tonight’s curtain unsheathes And you are no longer the image of love, But rather, a friend I could love with silliness on languid days and somber nights.
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Dec 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021 at 4:10 AM UTC
Gloom Gleams to the Shining Stellar Sunbeams
I may have loved you too much, but; A part of me still loves you to this day Your sweetness allures me so, Like honeyed days we’d stare without shame You were irresistible to my heart and I knew trouble cornered me I’d shoo away the laughable thoughts, Aiming to mail you a letter of love To which you’d open it fresh with a scented kiss Flower petals would descend from your heart Your cheeks adopted a sunflower The stars entertained you that night You told me you always dreamed of late evenings Informing me of the curtain of constellations That you’d like to sleep soundly in Of course I’d be willing to offer you anything in return of your smile And the night we escaped, you gasped softly at the surprise Your simple happiness was all one romantic would need No matter where we dreamed, Together we are one Standing besides one another  Fate draws near, echoing our future Your bleakness eats me devastatingly Tomorrow we are still...one being But overseas, I send you my farewells So that you are found in perfect health And that we consume truly divine harmonies Made only for the sweetened couples Whose stories fade ever so forlornly in the past I love you brightly as the sun You illuminate my pathways But one kiss erases my existence Continue to please those around you; Without me, the world withers Please remember my love, And be gentle with it For it is delicate as the world My eyes see a star But yours fail to see within that darkness The gloom that retreats before you arrive I am part of that campaign An honorable being among the troops Yet your continuous ignorance saddens me so See me now, Find me wanderlust in this world And somewhere, we can swiftly enrapture ourselves Whether it be in the meadows of glistening rays Or the places that calmly send the earth into slumber Wherever we are destined, I’ll always be there for you Even if tonight’s curtain unsheathes And you are no longer the image of love, But rather, a friend I could love with silliness on languid days and somber nights.
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Of that so sweet imprisonment My soul, dearest, is fain -- - Soft arms that woo me to relent And woo me to detain. Ah, could they ever hold me there Gladly were I a prisoner! Dearest, through interwoven arms By love made tremulous, That night allures me where alarms Nowise may trouble us; But lseep to dreamier sleep be wed Where soul with soul lies prisoned.
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Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
Come to my arms --- is it eve? is it morn? Is Apollo awake? Is Diana reborn? Are the streams in full song? Do the woods whisper hush Is it the nightingale? Is it the thrush? Is it the smile of the autumn, the blush Of the spring? Is the world full of peace or alarms? Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms! Come to my arms, though the hurricane blow. Thunder and summer, or winter and snow, It is one to us, one, while our spirits are curled In the crimson caress: we are fond, we are furled Like lilies away from the war of the world. Are there spells beyond ours? Are there alien charms? Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms! Come to my arms! is it life? is it death? Is not all immortality born of your breath? Are not heaven and hell but as handmaids of yours Who are all that enflames, who are all that allures, Who are all that destroys, who are all that endures? I am yours, do I care if it heals me or harms? Come to my arms, Laylah, come to my arms!
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Independence
1526 His oriental heresies Exhilarate the Bee, And filling all the Earth and Air With gay apostasy Fatigued at last, a Clover plain Allures his jaded eye That lowly Breast where Butterflies Have felt it meet to die—
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His oriental heresies
Two sockets to accommodate a pair of eyes Due to them this complex device cries But today, man has taught them to become spies Dwelling in them is lust for ephemeral joys Two cartilaginous sound receivers on both sides They can efficiently detect the screams and sighs But today, they even ignore the ferocious tides Engrossed in fabrications, for which today’s man strives Two arms strong enough to lift and support Are being used to steal and chop someone’s throat They refuse to help anyone near or remote ‘Guns and shells’, this is what they promote A small fleshy speaker which exhibits perfect duality It allures others through its’ pitch and clarity Today, it has mastered the skills of acerbity Forgetting that soft speech is a part of generosity A complex storehouse of feelings which supplies blood It is covered with rust although made from mud Polluted intentions have made it their cozy hut Very delicate, but today, it is like a walnut At last, a rotten soul which is wandering aimlessly It has thirst for contentment and tranquillity But today, man considers wealth as a source of felicity I shed tears when I can’t find humanity and piety
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Oct 8, 2010
Oct 8, 2010 at 12:17 PM UTC
HUMAN CONSTRUCTION IN MATERIALISTIC WORLD
My mind flutters, A dainty butterfly... Disquiet even over a nectarine pie, Oft times the color allures; A serrated edge attracts, The stamen invite; A pollinic conversation... Little resting respite! My mind flutters, A distracted butterfly... Does she not know; She shall starve... Concentration deprived, Unable to trace the scent of the elixir; That shall hold her high!?
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 1:13 AM UTC
Butterfly
**Because the beauty of your ****** is not a sin.** I saw you in the twilight Disrobed in the state of nature And I gaped and gasped in awesome delight Spellbound and elated in rapture As I beheld your voluptuous features As I gazed upon your priceless treasures From peak of the mountain I went down to the fountain In the valley of your mons veneris And holding on to your alluring pillars I have been transfixed at the altar of your estuary The estuary of your conjugal sanctuary. I saw the falconer trading his falcon With the bounty hunter for his gun Lost in their lust for your connubial offerings Spellbound by the allures of your charms And I came in the fleeting mist of the fleeing night To behold you even before the Aurora Borealis And saw you embracing the heavenly light As Father Heaven kissed Mother Earth And you were enchanted in heavenly mirth Oblivious of my winking mortal eyes Hypnotized in the ether of celestial bliss. At the unveiling of the beloved daughter of Eve Made perfect in the bowels of boundless love. Let the fire be kindled in my heart The eternal flame of my spirit The breath of eternity The ether of life formed in purity Born bare and born free As my enchanted eyes can now see Freed from the chains of pains The pains of natal travails Oh! Woman! Thou art the vessel of motherhood. And in thy mammary gourds abound our first food How much every man in bound to thy ***** For from the canal every man is born Through the third eye of Eve where love flows From the seed sown the fruit is grown The sweetest fruit of love is found in the ****** To behold your naked beauty is not a sin. ~~ Orikinla Oosinachi, 2006.
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Jul 19, 2015
Jul 19, 2015 at 2:45 AM UTC
Naked Beauty
**Because the beauty of your ****** is not a sin.** I saw you in the twilight Disrobed in the state of nature And I gaped and gasped in awesome delight Spellbound and elated in rapture As I beheld your voluptuous features As I gazed upon your priceless treasures From peak of the mountain I went down to the fountain In the valley of your mons veneris And holding on to your alluring pillars I have been transfixed at the altar of your estuary The estuary of your conjugal sanctuary. I saw the falconer trading his falcon With the bounty hunter for his gun Lost in their lust for your connubial offerings Spellbound by the allures of your charms And I came in the fleeting mist of the fleeing night To behold you even before the Aurora Borealis And saw you embracing the heavenly light As Father Heaven kissed Mother Earth And you were enchanted in heavenly mirth Oblivious of my winking mortal eyes Hypnotized in the ether of celestial bliss. At the unveiling of the beloved daughter of Eve Made perfect in the bowels of boundless love. Let the fire be kindled in my heart The eternal flame of my spirit The breath of eternity The ether of life formed in purity Born bare and born free As my enchanted eyes can now see Freed from the chains of pains The pains of natal travails Oh! Woman! Thou art the vessel of motherhood. And in thy mammary gourds abound our first food How much every man in bound to thy ***** For from the canal every man is born Through the third eye of Eve where love flows From the seed sown the fruit is grown The sweetest fruit of love is found in the ****** To behold your naked beauty is not a sin. ~~ Orikinla Oosinachi, 2006.
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The box poses on my table, So patient in its guise. Allures its extent to baffle, And prove me thus unwise. To draw me closer it will bait And lure by fine sweet sounds, Perplexity my new bed mate, Mischief that knows no bounds. I lie in this bed and ponder, Choice is mine, is it not? What gifts inside I do wonder! Temptation's guile my lot. Gilded and exquisitely wrought, Intricacy unparalleled, My prolonged resistance for naught, My hand thus adroitly compelled!
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM UTC
Temptation's Guile
Knowledge teaches us How much is our need Vices inundates In the swirl of greed. Increasing knowledge Lessens the needs Guides the soul Towards wisdom and peace Vices are like Cancerous germs Increases the greed To destroy oneself. Goal of life Is to attain love and peace With greed We can never reach that place. Greed is Like a hunting trap It allures, attracts And ruins at last. Increasing knowledge Lessens the needs Guides the a soul Towards wisdom and peace ===================== Amitava (4.11.2014) 7-00 am ©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY AMITAVA SUR
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 7:14 AM UTC
In The Swirl Of Greed
*Walking through the perfumed garden All the flowers were vociferous Spreading their happiness With the intense aroma that pours out Potent cocktail carried by the wind Tugging at my heart To come back every day for a stroll Perfumed garden allures me Their fragrance has so much enthusiasm*
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 3:22 PM UTC
Perfumed Garden
****** distresses Insatiably Only you Can satisfy The primal Urges Which you have Inflicted Upon me Shackled To the arrest Of your Seductive allures Slave to your Sensual pleasures Prisoner to my Ambitions To be the Utmost of your Sensuous Pursuits.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 12:01 PM UTC
******
The limited palette of the January riverbank, #nomakeup #nofilter just the burst capillaries and thread veins bare A tired earthy visage, still allures the blackbird and wren who never truly got the hang of saying when and feast past decency The idea is to recuperate and re-emerge fresh and green but truth seems more like this molasses mud that hold boots firm
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Jan 3, 2022
Jan 3, 2022 at 9:24 AM UTC
Socials
Who is the keeper of your gate in the land of ambiguity? Pour wine into a glass and allow your heart to resonate with the pre-frontal cortex. Light an incense stick in the name of narcotics while certain death lingers in her sexually provocative attire. Who are you, really? Hour-glass sand is like a pharmacological sexuality which allures the vulnerable to the brink of ecstasy. Do you understand the ritual?
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 2:46 PM UTC
An ****** for the Masses
∞∞∞∞☆♥*♥☆∞∞∞∞ Walk What a walk from north to south A turn from words to actions A place of cold friction to heat unforgiving Walk What a walk from up to down A session of want to need Dried trees to ocean breeze And the smell of the sea Walk What a walk from here to there Shining a smile from ear to ear Signing the point on, like a hip to skin bare A firefly on the wall, in control Rough while finding its way to the inside of the home Walk Walk as the road leads Walk to concede, then run Run as it is tracked Facade that allures like the exposed spine on a weak back Tell it ok then embrace that place Walk to your own pace Alexis J. Meighan
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 11:48 PM UTC
The Walk
Oh sweet maiden, in sirens song To the foamy sea swells A lighthouse foghorn joins along Dawn colors soft pastels Reddish, yellow, dawn shining bright As the peaks of mountains highlight Reddish yellow- Reddish yellow- With colorful hue’s vibrant bright. On rocks she rests, combing her hair With a comb made of pearl Her lovely skins complexion fair Massive ocean waves hurl She sings her songs from far offshore As the breaker waves break the shore She sings her songs- She sings her songs- As waves pitch sounds in metaphors. With waters deep and waters vast Her melodies haunting Thus in enchantment, a spells cast With allures taunting Oh sweet maiden, in sirens song A sailor’s fate, her charms he’ll long Oh sweet maiden- Oh sweet maiden- Loves sweet song, casts spells lifelong.
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 7:20 PM UTC
In Her Sirens Song (Trijan Refrain)
Kept in front of me is a rough handmade paper Its furrows are similar to my unsettled life The thick graphite pencil I hold up to sketch My anecdotes that has made an impact on me As soon I start sketching, the graphite smudges Leaving dark and ugly patches on the paper And an indelible mark between my fingers Depicting the dark shadow that has followed me Everything I hope for, is daubed by overcast setting When I take up the erasers to wipe off the mishaps The friction creates a colossal mess on the dreams I realize that I have distorted the sketch I started But the deep lines of graphite stare at me sullenly Such indelible sketches hover in my mind Not even the best of erasers can wipe them off I tried in vain, only to be left with abrasions I have given up on drawing up any dreams No longer, the handmade paper allures me to sketch For I have used up all the graphite, drawing, failures So many failures already etched in my memory Left with nothing but the memories of defeat Like the dark smudges of graphite, hovering my mind
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM UTC
Graphite Smudges
Like the sun's transcendental glow- His positive energy is illuminating   Like the sun is an almost perfect sphere - His personality, character and qualities are almost flawless Like the sun is the source of  Earth's bio - His very existence sustains my joyful life Like the sun being our universe's calm, steady and powerful center - His presence occupies the core of my thought, word and deed Like the sun radiates a strong magnetic field - His embodiment allures me so intensely yet effortlessly Though the sun's light reaches Earth in 8 minutes - His light extends to me in an attosecond Though the Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System- His accommodation in my heart encompasses a full 100% Though the sun may one day run out of nuclear fuel and burn out His love for me and my love for Him will remain eternal, everlasting... ***Unfathomably, Spiritually endless... There can only be one sun in a universe, I know not mine.
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Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 12:58 PM UTC
He - My Sun
. Wine, enchilada and pickle sauce, corks and safeties, just like The Penguin In ******* in Ronnie and Kenny's shed. The Idiot ******* Son sits eating the deadly Yellow Snow, whilst Joe hums Zombie Woof at the Poodle in his Garage. Dinah-Moe Humm finally gets off; in the Dangerous Kitchen, with the Muffin Man's ***** Love, and the Illinois Enema Bandit. The Fine Girl and the Latex Solar Beef bathed in The Blue Light, shout 'Pick Me, I'm Clean', along Inca Roads, to Find Her Finer. Cosmik Debris exclaims Zoot Allures! From the fat, floating, maroonish Sofa because the Bow Tie Daddy sings Nasal Retentive Calliope Music. Yo Mama! there's the Disco Boy who gets in More Trouble Every Day, so The Torture Never Stops, with Damp Ankles, Peaches & Regalia. Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top dances with Camarillo Brillo upstairs, catching Stink-Foot once again, like In France from the Valley Girl. And so the Watermelon In Easter Hay rides off with the Duke Of Prunes to the Carolina ******** Ecstasy, visiting Billy The Mountain, and Montana. © Pagan Paul (2016/2017) Frank Zappa (21st December 1940 - 4th December 1993). Musician, Diplomat and Lyricist.
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Dec 1, 2017
Dec 1, 2017 at 4:43 PM UTC
Ode to a Genius
It is a common observation That things are either bound or free And this gives birth to misconceptions On nature’s own duality Just like a boulder in seclusion An object tied is never loose It has potential in profusion Yet nothing stored is ever used In contrast, like a cuckoo bird An object loose is free to roam With nothing owned, and all things shared Yet nowhere to be called a home But how the stable knows of freedom? And of the joys of taking flight? For in the well, where he is hidden The skies seem dark in broad daylight And how the liberated figures To perch and quench on rushing spume? Since from the heavens, even rivers Are thinner than a feather’s plume The trick is repetition thousands And millions, and some billions more Each item through the options browse and Decides to settle, or to soar Then from this binary decision The choice is neither ridge nor flock And one can say, with some conviction All compromise the bird and rock Take heart, and listen to this lesson In life you often have to choose ‘tween earthly form and spirit essence You gain, but on the same time lose A man is bound by his possessions A man with none, will starve for sure To thrive, one must apply discretion And choose which path to him allures Lo, such is life, optimization Of energy and entropy You minimize their combination In hope that this will set you free
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Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 9:05 AM UTC
Lyrical Physics # 9: Free energy