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"ambush" poems
To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the strung woods, Vibrant with sped arrows. You cannot live in the present, At least not in Wales. There is the language for instance, The soft consonants Strange to the ear. There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon, And thick ambush of shadows, Hushed at the fields' corners. There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcase of an old song. To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the strung woods, Vibrant with sped arrows. You cannot live in the present, At least not in Wales. There is the language for instance, The soft consonants Strange to the ear. There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon, And thick ambush of shadows, Hushed at the fields' corners. There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcase of an old song.
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Welsh Landscape
To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the strung woods, Vibrant with sped arrows. You cannot live in the present, At least not in Wales. There is the language for instance, The soft consonants Strange to the ear. There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon, And thick ambush of shadows, Hushed at the fields' corners. There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcase of an old song. To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the strung woods, Vibrant with sped arrows. You cannot live in the present, At least not in Wales. There is the language for instance, The soft consonants Strange to the ear. There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon, And thick ambush of shadows, Hushed at the fields' corners. There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcase of an old song.
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Oh! Rama! Oh! Rama,”reme ithi rama” (Makes us happy so Rama!) Here, mourn and sigh Ahalyas In every atom of rocky hearts Of India; as Sahasralingas spy. Ambush, spring on praying preys. Rushi Gauthams suspicious curse In repentance they bless retribution. Oh! Rama, with your soft feet touch, Liberate the poor pious chaste Ahalyas, Sathi, Savitri, Seetha and Panchali,O! Sultana Raziya, Jhansi Rani ,Indira Gandhi, Think of their vicissitudes, the path they tread! Patriarchy exerts pressure on Matriarchy, O!Mum! Bharat matha is molested by Kuberas and Mamons. And her daughters are robbed and ***** ruthlessly, alas! Oh! Rama,”Dharma Samsthanardhaya “come with dirge Of the degenerated culture of Vultures, save thy women folk. Make people to think right, to follow right path, to tell true words. To live in Eeman (Dharma) not to inflict pain to other co-habitants. Without negative there is no use of positive, so is woman and man. They are like protons and electrons to the flux of family life peaceful. Oh! Rama , teach, Dharmorakshati Rakshita:,”repentance gives retribution That will bring peace, progress, stability, justice and unity; not Pax Romana
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM UTC
Oh!Rama!
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak. Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge. We then, at first encounter, should be silent; Not court the cortex but the epidermis; Not work from inside out but outside in; Discover each other's flesh, its scent and texture; Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends, The hands, the hair - before the inept lips open. Instead of which we are resonant, explicit. Our words like windows intercept our meaning. Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush. Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated. Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy ... While always under all, but interrupted, Antennae stretch ... waver ... and almost ... touch.
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Meeting
Oh! Rama! Oh! Rama,”reme ithi rama” (Makes us happy so Rama!) Here, mourn and sigh Ahalyas In every atom of rocky hearts Of India; as Sahasralingas spy. Ambush, spring on praying preys. Rushi Gauthams suspicious curse In repentance they bless retribution. Oh! Rama, with your soft feet touch, Liberate the poor pious chaste Ahalyas, Sathi, Savitri, Seetha and Panchali,O! Sultana Raziya, Jhansi Rani ,Indira Gandhi, Think of their vicissitudes, the path they trod! Patriarchy exerts pressure on Matriarchy, O!Mum! Bharat matha is molested by Kuberas and Mammons. And her daughters are robbed and ***** ruthlessly, alas! Oh! Rama,”Dharma Samsthapanardhaya “come with dirge Of the degenerated culture of Vultures, save thy women folk. Make people to think right, to follow right path, to tell true words. To live in Eeman (Dharma) not to inflict pain to other co-habitants. Without negative there is no use of positive, so is woman and man. They are like protons and electrons to the flux of family life peaceful. Oh! Rama , teach, Dharmorakshati Rakshita:,”repentance gives retribution That will bring peace, progress, stability, justice and unity; not “Pax Romana”..
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM UTC
Oh!Rama
Long days seem so much longer. Distance does not make the heart grow fonder. You’ve conquered the empire of my subconscious. Your crusade so short, Yet I hope your reign continues for eons. We’re far past passive flatteries, Instead, we fill each other’s hearts with vows. You mean them now, But what about a few months? What if you decide I’m not what you want? The torment I am slowly approaching, Consumes my distant soul. I can hear the sounds of futuristic loathing, From when you decide this love has taken it’s toll. So tell me. How can I pay this inevitable toll? How can I save us from Cupid’s malicious tyranny? His arrow is too far lodged within me, I cannot remove it. I can only push it farther and farther Into my heart until it falls out of my back. But this arrow, trenchant. Cupid, the sharpest of marksmen. Yet colorblind, he is. He sees not what colors his targets represent. He draws his bow for the pure love of marksmanship. Sometimes, yet not often, He will hit the intended target. But the odds are scarce. His subjects are often punctured, And connected to one whom reciprocated Fate’s desire. Yet this time… This time… Cupid must have hit a target of Fate’s approval. For thrice he has missed. This time He and Fate are in sync. This wound may stretch over time, But the arrow shall remain firmly lodged within my ***** ***** and immovable. Until you kick it through my backside. But until then, I can only endure. I can only be woo wounded. I can only survive, Another ambush of the militant called Cupid. But I will do it for you, For by you, I’ve been so divinely seduced. Wooed by your lips. Not by your kiss, But by the music, Which your mandibles so express. I desire not to seal this wound, But to evade its’ repercussions. For I have endured a similar wound thrice. He is winged as if an angel, Yet Was Lucifer not once an angel as well? Cupid is an impostor. A spy of Agony, himself. He prays on the young, the old, the strong, and the weak. He cares not who he obliterates in his crusades. He is a bloodthirsty heathen. He makes scoundrels of Saints, And Harlots of Housewives. Saint Valentine is no Saint. He is Satan’s nightmare. At first, his arrows are ecstasy, But like a cancer, His poison-saturated arrows Seep deep within every crevice of your body. They consume you as if enriched with ****** And eventually rot within your ***** Until it is nothing but dust and a memory. One day I will assassinate Fate’s Malicious militant, The one we call Cupid.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 1:25 AM UTC
Fate's Malicious Militant, Cupid.
Long days seem so much longer. Distance does not make the heart grow fonder. You’ve conquered the empire of my subconscious. Your crusade so short, Yet I hope your reign continues for eons. We’re far past passive flatteries, Instead, we fill each other’s hearts with vows. You mean them now, But what about a few months? What if you decide I’m not what you want? The torment I am slowly approaching, Consumes my distant soul. I can hear the sounds of futuristic loathing, From when you decide this love has taken it’s toll. So tell me. How can I pay this inevitable toll? How can I save us from Cupid’s malicious tyranny? His arrow is too far lodged within me, I cannot remove it. I can only push it farther and farther Into my heart until it falls out of my back. But this arrow, trenchant. Cupid, the sharpest of marksmen. Yet colorblind, he is. He sees not what colors his targets represent. He draws his bow for the pure love of marksmanship. Sometimes, yet not often, He will hit the intended target. But the odds are scarce. His subjects are often punctured, And connected to one whom reciprocated Fate’s desire. Yet this time… This time… Cupid must have hit a target of Fate’s approval. For thrice he has missed. This time He and Fate are in sync. This wound may stretch over time, But the arrow shall remain firmly lodged within my ***** ***** and immovable. Until you kick it through my backside. But until then, I can only endure. I can only be woo wounded. I can only survive, Another ambush of the militant called Cupid. But I will do it for you, For by you, I’ve been so divinely seduced. Wooed by your lips. Not by your kiss, But by the music, Which your mandibles so express. I desire not to seal this wound, But to evade its’ repercussions. For I have endured a similar wound thrice. He is winged as if an angel, Yet Was Lucifer not once an angel as well? Cupid is an impostor. A spy of Agony, himself. He prays on the young, the old, the strong, and the weak. He cares not who he obliterates in his crusades. He is a bloodthirsty heathen. He makes scoundrels of Saints, And Harlots of Housewives. Saint Valentine is no Saint. He is Satan’s nightmare. At first, his arrows are ecstasy, But like a cancer, His poison-saturated arrows Seep deep within every crevice of your body. They consume you as if enriched with ****** And eventually rot within your ***** Until it is nothing but dust and a memory. One day I will assassinate Fate’s Malicious militant, The one we call Cupid.
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Too good and yet true Too beautiful To taste Without falling in daze Without following Delirious An aroma trail of craving On the back of my tongue I’m getting equal measures Of heaven and hell Perfectly balanced My eyes are my traitors Plotting to open the gates Sending stowaway warriors Whom I never gave orders To slip behind walls Of thickest black pupils In the Trojan horse That my eager look is And gazes are bridges Unwillingly Supporting the siege Of epiphanies You and me Caught in our ambush Completely surrounded by Us
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 11:27 AM UTC
Assault
the jaguar is a cat from the basin of brazil just to see  this creature makes the time stand still such a skillful hunter with  elegance and grace a very skillful cat in this jungle place they hunt for there prey there variety is strong animals and turtles whatever comes along they will climb a tree like a little thrush sitting there in wait setting there ambush they will quickly pounce with one almighty bite thats how he kills his prey when the time is right this creature from the amazon is such a lovely site filled with so much grace and fills me with delight
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 10:27 AM UTC
amazon jaguar
A desolate shore, The sinister seduction of the Moon, The menace of the irreclaimable Sea. Flaunting, ****** and grim, From cloud to cloud along her beat, Leering her battered and inveterate leer, She signals where he prowls in the dark alone, Her horrible old man, Mumbling old oaths and warming His villainous old bones with villainous talk-- The secrets of their grisly housekeeping Since they went out upon the pad In the first twilight of self-conscious Time: Growling, hideous and hoarse, Tales of unnumbered Ships, Goodly and strong, Companions of the Advance, In some vile alley of the night Waylaid and bludgeoned-- Dead. Deep cellared in primeval ooze, Ruined, dishonoured, spoiled, They lie where the lean water-worm Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides Bulge with the slime of life. Thus they abide, Thus fouled and desecrate, The summons of the Trumpet, and the while These Twain, their murderers, Unravined, imperturbable, unsubdued, Hang at the heels of their children--She aloft As in the shining streets, He as in ambush at some accomplice door. The stalwart Ships, The beautiful and bold adventurers! Stationed out yonder in the isle, The tall Policeman, Flashing his bull's-eye, as he peers About him in the ancient vacancy, Tells them this way is safety--this way home.
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A Desolate Shore
I lived my half dictionary life before I could comprehend compulsory compromises. Collectors arise, disguises and devices beeping, chastising my blindness. Gather geography from Afghanistan and Myanmar graciously growing gold gilded gift horses, gleefully gloating about floating far away. My hoof beats above concrete match my heart’s defeat across borders and mountains embroidering cardboard cut-outs calling deserts, decorating front covers. Exhaling handcrafted letters for my missing half, half demanding highest caliber commanders and half commanding completion. Jade jays joyfully lay arrays of bouquets fragile flowers decay faraway in jawbones and jail cells. Begging farewells in a hotel’s lobby began my hobby, early morning coffee and carbon copies concurringly cocky around his dead body. Gang ciphers for cartels are Christmas bells hissing at collars, half dollars embellishing bar crawlers godfathers hollering at car haulers. Atrocities across cities attack, attachable atrophies audibly ambush arthritic anthologies. Anomalies begin apologies between apostrophes, advancing autonomy arousing ancient animosities. All eluding Antarctica, giant frozen crests, multi-coloured ice hidden in my illustrations anxious for my distant half. Friday cassettes and cigarettes deliberately making bets following “M”. Breaking bindings and finding “beta” in alphabet, may feasibly end in debt.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 1:51 PM UTC
Monday
This burning in the eyes, as we open doors, This is only the body burdened down with leaves, The opaque flesh, heavy as November grass, Growing stubbornly, triumphant even at midnight. And another day disappears into the cliff, And the Eskimos come to greet it with sharp cries-- The black water swells up over the new hole. The grave moves forward from its ambush, Moving over the hills on black feet, Living off the country, Leaving dogs and sheep murdered where it slept; Some shining thing, inside, that has served us well Shakes its bamboo bars-- It may be gone before we wake . . .
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In Danger from the Outer World
The art of the geniuses is packed like overstuffed crayons in the alleyways of my city. That one is picking his nose. There is the bench-sleeper. Here comes the nomad with the stroller. I watch them carefully like a soldier on an ambush, bayonet at the ready, a little drunk on self-worth. They approach and I pause. I put the camera to my face and press the shutter. Turning to me their eyes beam sorrow. The nose picker slept alone last night, the nomad is still lost. In black and white they will forever navigate the crawl spaces of my mainframe.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 12:47 AM UTC
Street Photography
the jaguar is a cat from the basin of brazil just to see this creature makes the time stand still such a skillful hunter with elegance and grace a very skillful cat in this jungle place. they hunt for there prey there variety is strong animals and turtles whatever comes along they will climb a tree like a little thrush sitting there in wait setting there ambush. they will quickly pounce with one almighty bite thats how he kills his prey when the time is right this creature from the amazon is such a lovely site filled with so much grace and fills me with delight
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 7:34 AM UTC
jungle jaguar
338 I know that He exists. Somewhere—in Silence— He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes. ’Tis an instant’s play. ’Tis a fond Ambush— Just to make Bliss Earn her own surprise! But—should the play Prove piercing earnest— Should the glee—glaze— In Death’s—stiff—stare— Would not the fun Look too expensive! Would not the jest— Have crawled too far!
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I know that He exists
Ambush An azure curtain is ripped in two With scornful arrogance Needle-points glow Weaving the rift with intricate wefts Of red Of white And blue Heady aviation fumes Lift us swimming Skyward Imaginations looping the loop
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Jun 21, 2010
Jun 21, 2010 at 12:26 PM UTC
Red Arrows
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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Pursuit
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit. RACINE There is a panther stalks me down: One day I'll have my death of him; His greed has set the woods aflame, He prowls more lordly than the sun. Most soft, most suavely glides that step, Advancing always at my back; From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc: The hunt is on, and sprung the trap. Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks, Haggard through the hot white noon. Along red network of his veins What fires run, what craving wakes? Insatiate, he ransacks the land Condemned by our ancestral fault, Crying: blood, let blood be spilt; Meat must glut his mouth's raw wound. Keen the rending teeth and sweet The singeing fury of his fur; His kisses parch, each paw's a briar, Doom consummates that appetite. In the wake of this fierce cat, Kindled like torches for his joy, Charred and ravened women lie, Become his starving body's bait. Now hills hatch menace, spawning shade; Midnight cloaks the sultry grove; The black marauder, hauled by love On fluent haunches, keeps my speed. Behind snarled thickets of my eyes Lurks the lithe one; in dreams' ambush Bright those claws that mar the flesh And hungry, hungry, those taut thighs. His ardor snares me, lights the trees, And I run flaring in my skin; What lull, what cool can lap me in When burns and brands that yellow gaze? I hurl my heart to halt his pace, To quench his thirst I squander blook; He eats, and still his need seeks food, Compels a total sacrifice. His voice waylays me, spells a trance, The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush From such assault of radiance. Entering the tower of my fears, I shut my doors on that dark guilt, I bolt the door, each door I bolt. Blood quickens, gonging in my ears: The panther's tread is on the stairs, Coming up and up the stairs.
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'Tis not with gilded sabres That gleam in baldricks blue, Nor nodding plumes in caps of Fez, Of gay and gaudy hue-- But, habited in mourning weeds, Come marching from afar, By four and four, the valiant men Who fought with Aliatar. All mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. The banner of the Phenix, The flag that loved the sky, That scarce the wind dared wanton with, It flew so proud and high-- Now leaves its place in battle-field, And sweeps the ground in grief, The bearer drags its glorious folds Behind the fallen chief, As mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Brave Aliatar led forward A hundred Moors to go To where his brother held Motril Against the leaguering foe. On horseback went the gallant Moor, That gallant band to lead; And now his bier is at the gate, From whence he pricked his steed. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. The knights of the Grand Master In crowded ambush lay; They rushed upon him where the reeds Were thick beside the way; They smote the valiant Aliatar, They smote the warrior dead, And broken, but not beaten, were The gallant ranks he led. Now mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Oh! what was Zayda's sorrow, How passionate her cries! Her lover's wounds streamed not more free Than that poor maiden's eyes. Say, Love--for didst thou see her tears: Oh, no! he drew more tight The blinding fillet o'er his lids To spare his eyes the sight. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Nor Zayda weeps him only, But all that dwell between The great Alhambra's palace walls And springs of Albaicin. The ladies weep the flower of knights, The brave the bravest here; The people weep a champion, The Alcaydes a noble peer. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum.
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The Death Of Aliatar (From The Spanish)
'Tis not with gilded sabres That gleam in baldricks blue, Nor nodding plumes in caps of Fez, Of gay and gaudy hue-- But, habited in mourning weeds, Come marching from afar, By four and four, the valiant men Who fought with Aliatar. All mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. The banner of the Phenix, The flag that loved the sky, That scarce the wind dared wanton with, It flew so proud and high-- Now leaves its place in battle-field, And sweeps the ground in grief, The bearer drags its glorious folds Behind the fallen chief, As mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Brave Aliatar led forward A hundred Moors to go To where his brother held Motril Against the leaguering foe. On horseback went the gallant Moor, That gallant band to lead; And now his bier is at the gate, From whence he pricked his steed. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. The knights of the Grand Master In crowded ambush lay; They rushed upon him where the reeds Were thick beside the way; They smote the valiant Aliatar, They smote the warrior dead, And broken, but not beaten, were The gallant ranks he led. Now mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Oh! what was Zayda's sorrow, How passionate her cries! Her lover's wounds streamed not more free Than that poor maiden's eyes. Say, Love--for didst thou see her tears: Oh, no! he drew more tight The blinding fillet o'er his lids To spare his eyes the sight. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Nor Zayda weeps him only, But all that dwell between The great Alhambra's palace walls And springs of Albaicin. The ladies weep the flower of knights, The brave the bravest here; The people weep a champion, The Alcaydes a noble peer. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum.
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Leaves stripped bare, The clump of a nest Now so obvious, but since abandoned Past residents won't care. This morn, winter flavored branches Sweet confections that beckoned. Black in twilight, the silhouettes Look again as barren, Swaying spindly fingers And counting stars Which today seem so far. Once I reached up and plucked Those winking sparkles to sprinkle A pillow I shared, Though glowing duller amid dreams That shined in young eyes. Their beams became beacons, Joining hearts across oceans So that distance wouldn't matter. It was in absence dread fate dared, Soon setting ancient lights to falter, Dimming, dying through time's haze. Oh, how long ago did I last gaze Upon exciting skies as this! Certain of the hopes and promise Avowed within those sparks held. T'was briefest of life's moments, Most rare and intense, Never again finding its day Save in ambush of memory On a night like this When wind blows bitter and swift. Brilliance still dances, but ever so far away
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM UTC
Starry Night
1525 He lived the Life of Ambush And went the way of Dusk And now against his subtle name There stands an Asterisk As confident of him as we— Impregnable we are— The whole of Immortality intrenched Within a star—
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He lived the Life of Ambush
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven’s sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater being wooed of time, For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present’st a pure unstainèd prime. Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days, Either not assailed, or victor being charged; Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise, To tie up envy, evermore enlarged. If some suspect of ill masked not thy show, Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.
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Sonnet 070: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
I yearn for your voice. For it is the remedy for this distance. And this Distance seems to be, The archenemy of Bliss. He waits patiently for his chance, To ambush an unknowing victim. Yet Bliss walks by our side, When You and I are hand-in-hand. He has no conscience. And he walks with Bliss, After his victim has fallen. Yet Bliss, too, is another of his victims. I yearn for that voice, To be a shield against Distance. And You, my sword. For with you, I can defeat him. For now, Bliss is nowhere to be found. So Distance is here with me. Bow at the ready, Waiting for me to turn my back. But I know he is there, So turn my back, I shall not. I play your voice over and over, In my head, and Distance has been parried. I wait for your return, So I may take the offensive, Against this villain, And destroy him. For I know when you return, Bliss will be at your side, And together, We shall impale Distance.
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Nov 14, 2012
Nov 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM UTC
Distance Vs. Bliss
I do not write poems About the world we see Because the world we see Does not interest me Landscapes inside my mind I find worthy of words Internal curiosities appeal to me I am bored by birds, and clouds and flowers Lakes, and trees and bees Sure there is sadness enough in the mind of a bird To fill an ocean with the tears From trillions of heart-wrenching words But you may prefer that I write about birds With innocent human minds Cute as pie, flying by, in the sky Not terrified ravenous hunters Constant killers of anything smaller All through the day, Like a child’s sinister play Or should I write of cuddly cats Who ambush innocent birds hopping by Silly birds who should have stayed in the sky ‘Tis nothing to do with a need for food ‘Tis wanton bird abuse for cats' amusement Our Earth family is Dysfunctional The truth of Mother Nature Is not what we want poets to write about Sean Hunt Windermere
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Aug 11, 2016
Aug 11, 2016 at 3:00 PM UTC
A Wild Life Poem
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: they were expecting the death of a boy on a Japanese schooner. They all kepy to themselves- dreaming of the open beaks of dying birds, the sharp parasol that punctures a recently flattened toad, beneath silence with a thousand ears and tiny mouths of water in the canyons that resist the violent attack on the moon. The boy on the schooner was crying and hearts were breaking in anguish for the witness and vigilance of all things, and because of the sky blue ground of black footprints, obscure names, saliva, and chrome radios were still crying. It doesn't matter if the boy grows silent when stuck with the last pin, or if the breeze is defeated in cupped cotton flowers, because there is a world of death whose perpetual sailors will appear in the arches and freeze you from behind the trees. it's useless to look for the bend where night loses its way and to wait in ambush for a silence that has no torn clothes, no shells, and no tears, because even the tiny banquet of a spider is enough to upset the entire equilibrium of the sky. There is no cure for the moaning from a Japanese schooner, nor for those shadowy people who stumble on the curbs. The countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude. The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners! Facades of ***** of smoke, anemones, rubber gloves. Everything is shattered in the night that spread its legs on the terraces. Everything is shatter in the tepid faucets of a terrible silent fountain. Oh, crowds! Loose women! Soldiers! We will have to journey through the eyes of idiots, open country where the docile cobras, coiled like wire, hiss, landscapes full of graves that yield the freshest apples, so that uncontrollable light will arrive to frighten the rich behind their magnifying glasses- the odor of a single corpse from the double source of lily and rat- and so that fire will consume those crowds still able to **** around a moan or on the crystals in which each inimitable wave is understood.
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Landscape of a ******* Multitude
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: they were expecting the death of a boy on a Japanese schooner. They all kepy to themselves- dreaming of the open beaks of dying birds, the sharp parasol that punctures a recently flattened toad, beneath silence with a thousand ears and tiny mouths of water in the canyons that resist the violent attack on the moon. The boy on the schooner was crying and hearts were breaking in anguish for the witness and vigilance of all things, and because of the sky blue ground of black footprints, obscure names, saliva, and chrome radios were still crying. It doesn't matter if the boy grows silent when stuck with the last pin, or if the breeze is defeated in cupped cotton flowers, because there is a world of death whose perpetual sailors will appear in the arches and freeze you from behind the trees. it's useless to look for the bend where night loses its way and to wait in ambush for a silence that has no torn clothes, no shells, and no tears, because even the tiny banquet of a spider is enough to upset the entire equilibrium of the sky. There is no cure for the moaning from a Japanese schooner, nor for those shadowy people who stumble on the curbs. The countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude. The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners! Facades of ***** of smoke, anemones, rubber gloves. Everything is shattered in the night that spread its legs on the terraces. Everything is shatter in the tepid faucets of a terrible silent fountain. Oh, crowds! Loose women! Soldiers! We will have to journey through the eyes of idiots, open country where the docile cobras, coiled like wire, hiss, landscapes full of graves that yield the freshest apples, so that uncontrollable light will arrive to frighten the rich behind their magnifying glasses- the odor of a single corpse from the double source of lily and rat- and so that fire will consume those crowds still able to **** around a moan or on the crystals in which each inimitable wave is understood.
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There was a snail (named Dale) with a very long tail who ventured off into the world. He said to himself (Dale the snail) I'd love to meet a bootiful goil. So in a flash from space, with mucus running down her face, came an alien creature called Joan, She saw a silver line (it was a snail trail) and followed it to see where it goes. And far in ...the distance she saw in an instance at the end of the snail trail sparkling in the sun- A slimy and sweet creature she'd love to meet with a shell on his back for a home. She said:"I do declare, you look dashing and fair" as bubbles oozed from her eyes. Dale just blushed, as his face lit up, and said: "aw you're just saying that you sassy young blob of an alien gawjus sweet thing with no hair :)" She looked at this tiny dream of a slobber, he was in awe at her globber. But their hearts sank at their difference in size. She was glandular large like a bright yellow barge and he was as small as a splarge. A stick insect saw - the tragedy of it all and came up with a very cunning plan. He knew a wizard once who ate snails for lunch, they could trick him to changing her small... As he told them the tale, their faces went pale but their love was too strong for the fear. So they slithered and shlozzered to Joan's flying saucer to find the castle of Wizzy the **** The wizard was waiting with his eyes full of hating and a knife and a fork in each hand. There was garlic and salt that he took from his vault and he drooled on his beard as he sang: "Alien Shpeegle with shnails in shmeegle, a delightful shurprishe for a man! Groggy my groach with shome shlime on my toasht" and he pranced and danced with his band. The spacecraft landed, unexpectant of ambush, the couple wanderd on in. Wizzy swung from a rafter and trapped Dale in a corner, and said: "My you'll go well with my Shtew!" Joan got mad and rolled on to her lad and ****** the wizard into her goo. She suddenly felt all tingly as she turned into a twinky, there was nothing more she could do. The Wizard escaped and poor Dale met his fate, and was smeared on the twinky sliced in two. Wizzy gobbled them up with some glee in his cup, and then succumbed to food poisoning goo. So it seemed that it ended on that dark cold September, for the lovers who's loving was doomed... But on a planet far away at the early break of day two souls bubbled in primordial stew. An amoeba named Dale and an amoeba named Joan were floating in bubbles of gas, So deep the attraction -the magnetized action, they could now be together at last.
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Dec 11, 2010
Dec 11, 2010 at 1:38 AM UTC
Dale and Joan
There was a snail (named Dale) with a very long tail who ventured off into the world. He said to himself (Dale the snail) I'd love to meet a bootiful goil. So in a flash from space, with mucus running down her face, came an alien creature called Joan, She saw a silver line (it was a snail trail) and followed it to see where it goes. And far in ...the distance she saw in an instance at the end of the snail trail sparkling in the sun- A slimy and sweet creature she'd love to meet with a shell on his back for a home. She said:"I do declare, you look dashing and fair" as bubbles oozed from her eyes. Dale just blushed, as his face lit up, and said: "aw you're just saying that you sassy young blob of an alien gawjus sweet thing with no hair :)" She looked at this tiny dream of a slobber, he was in awe at her globber. But their hearts sank at their difference in size. She was glandular large like a bright yellow barge and he was as small as a splarge. A stick insect saw - the tragedy of it all and came up with a very cunning plan. He knew a wizard once who ate snails for lunch, they could trick him to changing her small... As he told them the tale, their faces went pale but their love was too strong for the fear. So they slithered and shlozzered to Joan's flying saucer to find the castle of Wizzy the **** The wizard was waiting with his eyes full of hating and a knife and a fork in each hand. There was garlic and salt that he took from his vault and he drooled on his beard as he sang: "Alien Shpeegle with shnails in shmeegle, a delightful shurprishe for a man! Groggy my groach with shome shlime on my toasht" and he pranced and danced with his band. The spacecraft landed, unexpectant of ambush, the couple wanderd on in. Wizzy swung from a rafter and trapped Dale in a corner, and said: "My you'll go well with my Shtew!" Joan got mad and rolled on to her lad and ****** the wizard into her goo. She suddenly felt all tingly as she turned into a twinky, there was nothing more she could do. The Wizard escaped and poor Dale met his fate, and was smeared on the twinky sliced in two. Wizzy gobbled them up with some glee in his cup, and then succumbed to food poisoning goo. So it seemed that it ended on that dark cold September, for the lovers who's loving was doomed... But on a planet far away at the early break of day two souls bubbled in primordial stew. An amoeba named Dale and an amoeba named Joan were floating in bubbles of gas, So deep the attraction -the magnetized action, they could now be together at last.
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The snow set in the barn, Where the horses once laid On a cold night, ice spiraled We tossed,turned, all packed The troops tamed to acquiesce Rifles silenced, bullets sacked  Stocks in deficit, awaiting ambush Sores overturned and edged in holes Our nerves dead in the silent night Risking an aching machine, a body Pushing to extremities, thrill seeking My mind numb, body ignited in dumb Left, right… series audibly recurred Halting to reflect the extreme valour A salute to quench and honor a reality For I once sacrificed my "liberties" for "others"
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Jan 29, 2016
Jan 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC
Dumb Insolence