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"babylonian" poems
Give him a skinhead, insignia, boots Less scruples, a swagger-stick, crowds, money. No black shirts visible. Just business suits, and pride is restored: tragic but funny. Proud like a skyscraper, godless as sin Babylonian promises, towering lies Reality shows when plutocrats win, Their rhetoric raining from empty skies. She-wolves, elected by uninformed sheep behave predictably, eyeing the flock Their wool (and the lamb-chops) are hers to keep Grazing voter—this should come as no shock. It’s a bitter pill (more like pilloried) So shall we now be ******* or Hillary-ed?
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 8:59 PM UTC
Dual Airbags
*Stranded in a car, Parking lot castaway, Babylonian sunset, A star sleeping on regret, The cold street lights now casting spells, Down upon a pale face with these eyes painted, With their shadows* The rain soldiers are marching in, They'll crown me with their arrows, I am the queen of the orphans, A city for a throne, And heartless chest for a scepter, It is rumored that there was a cool of the day, But it is not found here, If birds had songs then, They choke and spit out cruel laughter now, Therefore the gulls migrated to die on asphalt, To collect the filth I leave upon the earth, I have sticky fingers on me you see, Attached to soggy gloves **The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed,** I cannot sleep tonight, **The rats keep eating at my bed, But feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits**, The Commercialized Army is pressing in, Following the systematic skein of procedure, **Knit the net, Produce, Consume, Expire, Produce, Consume, Expire, Knit the net, Catch me, Catch me, Catch me, Knit the net** I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                    Will I stop myself? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be here,                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be-                                                                                And The Sun Goes Down, In, My, Brown, Eyes, Twilight fixation, The orange star sleeps in the smog, My mind in its fog, Here comes the pale ghost eye, Peaking through his veil, Midnight fixation, Staring down, On my brown eye island Where I washed ashore
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
The Dystopian Part IV: The Beholder
*Stranded in a car, Parking lot castaway, Babylonian sunset, A star sleeping on regret, The cold street lights now casting spells, Down upon a pale face with these eyes painted, With their shadows* The rain soldiers are marching in, They'll crown me with their arrows, I am the queen of the orphans, A city for a throne, And heartless chest for a scepter, It is rumored that there was a cool of the day, But it is not found here, If birds had songs then, They choke and spit out cruel laughter now, Therefore the gulls migrated to die on asphalt, To collect the filth I leave upon the earth, I have sticky fingers on me you see, Attached to soggy gloves **The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed,** I cannot sleep tonight, **The rats keep eating at my bed, But feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits**, The Commercialized Army is pressing in, Following the systematic skein of procedure, **Knit the net, Produce, Consume, Expire, Produce, Consume, Expire, Knit the net, Catch me, Catch me, Catch me, Knit the net** I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                    Will I stop myself? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be here,                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be-                                                                                And The Sun Goes Down, In, My, Brown, Eyes, Twilight fixation, The orange star sleeps in the smog, My mind in its fog, Here comes the pale ghost eye, Peaking through his veil, Midnight fixation, Staring down, On my brown eye island Where I washed ashore
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C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
Yosemite Spills
C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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Serenity coils like a Babylonian serpent around simplicity and sincerity. The soul burns eternal, perennial fathoms of expansion and purity in wisdom and the search for the crown of grace in this reality. A crown not made of gold.
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 11:58 AM UTC
Serpent's Crown.
∅⚢☢⚧☯✰⚩✿⚥∅☢⚧☯✰⚢✿⚥☠⚩☯⚧✰ Too little and of course, too late they spend what’s left imprudently attempting to alleviate the love of God’s own liberty: The world transexual one-party state. They think it’s normal — right for all lost in a prideful dying fall their lions heed the sea-horse call attempting to transgender fate; the devil searches for a mate his nightly Babylonian date: the world transexual one-party state. They’ll legislate the Lord away (his fundie followers as well) their hateful heaven, holy hell shall wither up and disappear before redemption can draw near. Their myths no more shall obfuscate nor dangle such celestial bait that underwriters overrate: the world transexual one-party state. Their antichrist is overpriced, the nations, globally enticed, now glorify the deviance in herd-like mass obedience surrendering to expedience: where good is bad, and bad is great and Christ the only one to hate, allegiances exacerbate the world *********** one-party state. Parties will form and parties end but parties can no more defend consolidation into one than flip a switch and dark the sun; the Caesars left this part undone the Muslims are just having fun with our *********** one-party state. Bring on the night until we see that dark means dimming by degree two parties? Overdone by one ! So let it bleed and let it be till One is All and all agree that we are doomed to hesitate when God cannot resuscitate the late One-World *********** State.
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Apr 6, 2016
Apr 6, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC
Switch the Flip
∅⚢☢⚧☯✰⚩✿⚥∅☢⚧☯✰⚢✿⚥☠⚩☯⚧✰ Too little and of course, too late they spend what’s left imprudently attempting to alleviate the love of God’s own liberty: The world transexual one-party state. They think it’s normal — right for all lost in a prideful dying fall their lions heed the sea-horse call attempting to transgender fate; the devil searches for a mate his nightly Babylonian date: the world transexual one-party state. They’ll legislate the Lord away (his fundie followers as well) their hateful heaven, holy hell shall wither up and disappear before redemption can draw near. Their myths no more shall obfuscate nor dangle such celestial bait that underwriters overrate: the world transexual one-party state. Their antichrist is overpriced, the nations, globally enticed, now glorify the deviance in herd-like mass obedience surrendering to expedience: where good is bad, and bad is great and Christ the only one to hate, allegiances exacerbate the world *********** one-party state. Parties will form and parties end but parties can no more defend consolidation into one than flip a switch and dark the sun; the Caesars left this part undone the Muslims are just having fun with our *********** one-party state. Bring on the night until we see that dark means dimming by degree two parties? Overdone by one ! So let it bleed and let it be till One is All and all agree that we are doomed to hesitate when God cannot resuscitate the late One-World *********** State.
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The houses of my Babylon lean upon each other. They will not fall, not until the last hard hand quits the last hammer, not until misfortune loses prey, not until the least last child is gently packed in wool and sent to play. Sooner will you hear their see-saw hinges wail. Will you then ask of them a song of home? The windows of the houses of my Babylon lay bear the walls around them. Who but gray grandfathers marking time press their noses to the glass? The visions of their lonely vigils fade, half life unrecorded, shadows on parade, whispered secrets kept secret. You will never know with what intent they overlook your passing through. Rain tears on the windows of the houses of my Babylon, the bath of unattended panes dropped free from heaven. They will not wash clear. They will ever wear the haze of tainted air. You think this stain the mark of unrepentant sin. Who, then, gives the absolution of so many brown-burned fingers that will not scrub up?
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 1:21 PM UTC
Babylonian Exile
footsteps are echoing down a corridor long since empty. as they resonate, a ghost stirs from it's slumber within me. each passing sunset a key turns the lock, to reveal the Creature of the Night, the sweet Darkness I'd forgot. like the pages of a book browned & tattered, lying unread your scent awakens a soul I was certain was dead. how refreshing you are, blood upon my white dress. a release from gripping fear, I crave your death on my breath. let us massacre the stars & chance Hell on the Kid's gaskets. Heretics by nature, we can spite the Gods & waste life on their caskets. you feed me the poison of my father, & your name rings a painful past, you've destroyed the world as I know it & filled my nightmares with your laugh. devouring words of evil & Satan himself on film, I think, my dearest Devil, I have fallen under your spell. still a single thought, it haunts me. a doubt, deep in my mind. when I smile, do you see my submission to you, would you pleasure me with your bite? I haven't fed in so long, can I bind you to my dungeon wall? each sunrise we part, I pray to the moon for my blood in your heart. these tombs in me, breathe life once again. be my Dark Prince & I, your Babylonian. we can spread our scabbed wings across the eternity of Zion, put our faith in the flesh we see & forsake the terrible dawn. our eyes betray our sign, & our hearts beat in the South. but the torture we could bring each other is divine, let our cries erase the doubt. we cherish the scars of our skin, yet we are not brave. getting closer to God, becomes a Requiem & the bedroom can be our grave.
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 10:54 AM UTC
We, the Dancing Devils of the Desert
footsteps are echoing down a corridor long since empty. as they resonate, a ghost stirs from it's slumber within me. each passing sunset a key turns the lock, to reveal the Creature of the Night, the sweet Darkness I'd forgot. like the pages of a book browned & tattered, lying unread your scent awakens a soul I was certain was dead. how refreshing you are, blood upon my white dress. a release from gripping fear, I crave your death on my breath. let us massacre the stars & chance Hell on the Kid's gaskets. Heretics by nature, we can spite the Gods & waste life on their caskets. you feed me the poison of my father, & your name rings a painful past, you've destroyed the world as I know it & filled my nightmares with your laugh. devouring words of evil & Satan himself on film, I think, my dearest Devil, I have fallen under your spell. still a single thought, it haunts me. a doubt, deep in my mind. when I smile, do you see my submission to you, would you pleasure me with your bite? I haven't fed in so long, can I bind you to my dungeon wall? each sunrise we part, I pray to the moon for my blood in your heart. these tombs in me, breathe life once again. be my Dark Prince & I, your Babylonian. we can spread our scabbed wings across the eternity of Zion, put our faith in the flesh we see & forsake the terrible dawn. our eyes betray our sign, & our hearts beat in the South. but the torture we could bring each other is divine, let our cries erase the doubt. we cherish the scars of our skin, yet we are not brave. getting closer to God, becomes a Requiem & the bedroom can be our grave.
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Now just off Fordbridge road lies a wall where Curry plants line up all in a row , their scent wafts past the walls and to the Church where like sung melody of coral song can be heardwhere Christ is Lord . Did you see the robin red ******* capture ? Did you see how it fluttered it’s tiny wings ? One moment captured by walls of brick , and only an open window found this dear Robins rest . What Babylon’s we seek . What red walls we creep , Our prisons we like birds fly in to open windows . Saddam Hussain looked out on Babylon’s ruines from his Palace of opulent wealth , where black angels stalking darkness creep , the arrogance of evil lies the envy of gold . The night the moons light hid the pagans covered their eyes . The hand of Gods writing on the wall . Wine filled goblets of gold ,pleasure , wealth and power to bestow a feast of flesh for all . Cut down with trembling fear , cut down as God is near , Cut down his arsenal to unfold . Oh gates of Babylon of who Dio did sing and who’s gates opened wide. who Alexander the Great and Babylonian blood could not hide  , the might of the Persian army , now lies crumbling in the dust . Then my dear let no Babylon awake and tremble not that God alone should take you’re fear . For our secret love no one may tell , when we meet with beating hearts in our curry planted gardens of love .
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 11:07 AM UTC
Curry planted gardens .
The Babylonian hanging gardens is vanished maybe the fairies tucked it away. Lo the clouds swim on your dry leaves, rainfalls                                                   hum on the way!
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Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021 at 10:57 AM UTC
Hum On The Way
Let us contemplate the superiority of striking presumption, as it seeks to pontificate the order of architectural allegiance. Oh, Grand Master of Greco-Roman antiquity, I bow before the sacred volumes of legal pronouncement where unseen rituals tangibly assert their authority over those who seek to embrace the ancient pathways of knowledge. As the degrees of freedom transcend the definition of a mere mathematical concept, we must never forget the formulations of our Hellenistic forefathers who chiselled the shape of the Order into the annals of the future. As we give thanks to Set, we acknowledge the blindfolded ceremonies of sibling homicide which encourage wisdom in this circular lodge of self-binding. Harpocrates is our God of silence who gained sustenance from feminine anatomical structures – and we are like Isis who has been impregnated by Osiris. So, as we cast our gaze beyond the rites of this ****** union, let us acknowledge those ***** masonry structures of obelisk stability. Have you been born yet?
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
The Permission of Babylonian Prohibition
I I SAW a staring ****** stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away; Of Magnus Annus at the spring, As though God's death were but a play. Another Troy must rise and set, Another lineage feed the crow, Another Argo's painted prow Drive to a flashier bauble yet. The Roman Empire stood appalled: It dropped the reins of peace and war When that fierce ****** and her Star Out of the fabulous darkness called. In pity for man's darkening thought He walked that room and issued thence In Galilean turbulence; The Babylonian starlight brought A fabulous, formless darkness in; Odour of blood when Christ was slain Made all platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams; The herald's cry, the soldier's tread Exhaust his glory and his might: Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
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Two Song From A Play
Nails the length of javelins click on countertop with the speed of a coked-up woodpecker as this goddess of the night with bullets of caked foundation sweating from her forehead awaits her fifth free Long Island of the night. Safe to say, she's a little high maintenance, like all treasured centerpieces of a local museum deserve to be. She is your generation's Mona Lisa, trust. Her sneezes will be dissected for coding. Like the rust on buried Babylonian armor, she lives sandwiched between myth and reality. A Frankenstein of queer iconography, door-knocker earrings designed by Adrian. Stilts for heels clack on blinking dancefloor, balancing a hermaphroditic echo that charges through hieroglyphic binaries with a four-on-the-floor precision.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 8:20 PM UTC
Goldyn Dylicious
Measure horizon interjecting South Asia Hammurabi formed Akkadian Nation Babylonian beast winged lion upon your cajoled eyes Mesopotamian feast a civilization dreaming under oil fields now known as Iraq petroleum empowered How history repeats in crude circumstances Assyrian War rages on Have all temples been replaced by mosques or filling stations for Halliburton to gas up? tanks, projectile convoys not a winged god amongst them unless you count Mobil Babylonia azimuth combustible tankers horizon sunrise or sunset both burn black
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM UTC
Babylonia Azimuth
#Yes I , Putin de RAAAS fi tru him a de Ras of Rases. Cantrolling all dem eleckshan widout deteckshan, cyan touch Putin. Him a hack Babylonian komputah worse den cutlass hack di bush inna mi yard. Putin so cool, dem cyan even stop him hack Babylon Supah-bowl. Ras Putin secret Rasta, Ras Putin tru servant of JAH Almighty Rastafari. Vladimir a teach Haile Selassie di Solomonic wisdom, an ting weh mi seh... Selah....
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Mar 16, 2017
Mar 16, 2017 at 8:23 PM UTC
Ras Putin
I I saw a staring ****** stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And lay the heart upon her hand And bear that beating heart away; Of Magnus Annus at the spring, As though God's death were but a play. Another Troy must rise and set, Another lineage feed the crow, Another Argo's painted prow Drive to a flashier bauble yet. The Roman Empire stood appalled: It dropped the reins of peace and war When that fierce ****** and her Star Out of the fabulous darkness called. II In pity for man's darkening thought He walked that room and issued thence In Galilean turbulence; The Babylonian starlight brought A fabulous, formless darkness in; Odour of blood when Christ was slain Made all platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams; The herald's cry, the soldier's tread Exhaust his glory and his might: Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
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Two Songs From A Play
# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM UTC
Altars of Control: A Theological and Psychological Dissection of the Spirits of Bel and the Legacy of Coercive Invocation
# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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As the beer somehow kept spilling over the edge of the ping-pong table— as its cascading luxury of foam called to mind, for some reason, ruins of imaginary Babylonian gardens and the girls began to unravel with the night, besotted with spume, gradually untwining their spooled effervescence— as our volume rose, and our thoughts clacked against our teeth, the laughter silly— as we unhooked ourselves for a time from the existences we ourselves had stressed, kneading them—and I smelled euphoria— I, half-drunk off something other than beer, turned to my friend and let out: but what do you say to the doomed? Teeth clacking. His eyes heavy at me for having wrenched at this. His eyes fading behind a film of alcohol. His eyes silent. Then his cup to the air, firm, salute-poised. Then his cup to his mouth, quick chug amid clamor of enclosed mirth—small, clanging against walls, girls’ skirts— as if you could only salute, then wash down the aftertaste with imaginary Babylonian gardens.
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Apr 2, 2012
Apr 2, 2012 at 8:20 AM UTC
Aftertaste
i'll always love you like you were the fullest sunlight laid gently on the dark bruises of december. my crystalline hands are bound to start wildfires in your name. and finally when the world burns down, i'll mark your spine with these lips made of sunburnt flowers. in the ruins of it all, you still have all my misguided kisses — all my unbidden words. i'll always love you, until azaleas grow on the softest spots, in the mundane collision of our bodies. i'll always love you, until my ribs fall apart to your autumn eyes, like a babylonian temple that has seen the miracles of god. i'll always love you — in state of both madness and kalopsia. in the explosion and rebirth of the stars. i'll always love you — this is my bareness in the most prosaical state. this is my constant, darling — this is my truth.
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Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 at 3:29 AM UTC
miss autumn eyes
#7 from Geo-Bestiary O that girl, only young men dare to look at her directly while I manage the most side-long of glances: olive-skinned with a Modigliani throat, lustrous obsidian hair, the narrowest of waists and high french bottom, ample ******* she tries to hide in a loose blouse. Though Latino her profile is from a Babylonian frieze and when she walks with her small white dog with brown spots she fairly floats along, looking neither left nor right, meeting no one's glance as if beauty was a curse. In the grocery store when I drew close her scent was jacaranda, the tropical flower that makes no excuses. The geezer's heart swells stupidly to the dampish promise. I walk too often in the cold shadow of the mountain wall up in the arroyo behind the house. Empty pages are dry ice, numbing the hands and heart. If I weep I do so in the shower so that no one, not even I can tell. To see her is to feel time's cold machete against my grizzled neck, puzzled that again beauty has found her home in threat.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 7:47 AM UTC
Jim Harrison
XV On The Late Massacher In Piemont Avenge O lord thy slaughter’d Saints, whose bones Lie scatter’d on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev’n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our Fathers worship’t Stocks and Stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groanes Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold Slayn by the ****** Piemontese that roll’d Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans The Vales redoubl’d to the Hills, and they To Heav’n. Their martyr’d blood and ashes sow O’re all th’Italian fields where still doth sway The triple Tyrant: that from these may grow A hunder’d-fold, who having learnt thy way Early may fly the Babylonian wo.
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Sonnet 15
#*Weapons have been developed to create the damaging effects of high-energy EMP. These are typically divided into nuclear and non-nuclear devices. Such weapons, both real and fictional, have become known to the public by means of popular culture.*                                                                            Wikipedia One E.M.P. could bring this whole thing down; finale to steal the technocrats’ crown. Did God intend for us to live this way like hell on credit with heaven to pay? One burst of apocalyptic clarity: all it would take to reverse the polarity… one massive electro-magnetic pulse the data-driven ********* to convulse. You were dumbed down so they could set you up to drink from the Nanny-State’s golden cup… This Babylonian One-World vintage exacerbates thirst: accursed beverage, enhancing global madness as it’s drunk; imbibers cannot gauge how low they’ve sunk. The dregs are drained, only to be refilled; the elixir of doom is thusly swilled. When the chips go down as the system ends and there’s no cash paid for your dividends, assurance (like health insurance) falters as your inhuman condition alters. By then you’ll be ready to wonder why (although you appear unready to die) whether Man without God is worth a **** in the Sovereign Redeemer’s master-plan.
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 1:53 PM UTC
Best Bets are Off
Our Masgouf The fish has wings, and she feels our pain as a sister. Yes, we are the fish’s brothers and any halo occurs in the clear night is a birthday of this brotherhood. Come here, and see the first cookbook; it had appeared with the seeds of this earth. It had slept in an ancient Sumerian tablet, which was shining as a morning sun. In the heart of (800) recipes in that Iraqi mud, you can see the smoke of our Masgouf and you may smell its exciting flavor. You may know that Masgouf had resided as a moon in our dreams, and we delightedly disappear in its perfume as the butterflies. Our Masgouf, as well as, the face of our river, is pure, but smoky, and I will be so happy if you can see its chants which dance as a fairy at its small bank. Because of this warmhearted brightness, you may like to sit under our smiley tent and musing our truthful Masgouf. The Dolma’s Master The small girls in our gardens knew nothing about the flowers or their breathtaking colors, but they are so efficient in making of magic Dolma. In the morning they meet a green dove, and listen to her chants. They are soft and pure exactly as our Dolma’s smiles. She teaches our girls the art of Dolma and the secret of grape’s leaves with a smooth voice and gentle hands. This Dolma’s master is so soft and deep, and she can color the girls’ hearts with the wedding dresses. My mother was a good Dolma’s student, so she had learned its chants expertly and wore her wedding dress early. The Kebab Glory The Iraqis can’t live without war or Kebab and can’t smell the morning breeze without their deep voices. I am an Iraqi man, and my soul was kneaded with Kebab’s Sumac. My dreams had immersed in the Kebab’s perfume and straggled in the desert of sad Sumac. Kebab, which we inherited from our Babylonian, can’t be transfigured without a soft lap, and any saying disagrees this is a hard illusion, but essentially you need the Iraqi sad smile to find the Kebab’s sublime glory.
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 10:23 AM UTC
MESOPOTAMIANS
Our Masgouf The fish has wings, and she feels our pain as a sister. Yes, we are the fish’s brothers and any halo occurs in the clear night is a birthday of this brotherhood. Come here, and see the first cookbook; it had appeared with the seeds of this earth. It had slept in an ancient Sumerian tablet, which was shining as a morning sun. In the heart of (800) recipes in that Iraqi mud, you can see the smoke of our Masgouf and you may smell its exciting flavor. You may know that Masgouf had resided as a moon in our dreams, and we delightedly disappear in its perfume as the butterflies. Our Masgouf, as well as, the face of our river, is pure, but smoky, and I will be so happy if you can see its chants which dance as a fairy at its small bank. Because of this warmhearted brightness, you may like to sit under our smiley tent and musing our truthful Masgouf. The Dolma’s Master The small girls in our gardens knew nothing about the flowers or their breathtaking colors, but they are so efficient in making of magic Dolma. In the morning they meet a green dove, and listen to her chants. They are soft and pure exactly as our Dolma’s smiles. She teaches our girls the art of Dolma and the secret of grape’s leaves with a smooth voice and gentle hands. This Dolma’s master is so soft and deep, and she can color the girls’ hearts with the wedding dresses. My mother was a good Dolma’s student, so she had learned its chants expertly and wore her wedding dress early. The Kebab Glory The Iraqis can’t live without war or Kebab and can’t smell the morning breeze without their deep voices. I am an Iraqi man, and my soul was kneaded with Kebab’s Sumac. My dreams had immersed in the Kebab’s perfume and straggled in the desert of sad Sumac. Kebab, which we inherited from our Babylonian, can’t be transfigured without a soft lap, and any saying disagrees this is a hard illusion, but essentially you need the Iraqi sad smile to find the Kebab’s sublime glory.
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she begged for god but god left a long time ago. i could understand where she saw hope, but the light she saw was just the spark of a lighter. another day passed, another moon risen. we paint our faces like babylonian ****** and step out into the streets to drown our troubles in ***** and older men. we lie to our parents when we come home, but we are still little girls who smell like cigarette smoke and *** her room is filled with dead artist on her wall, records in the corner, a forgotten guitar she often glances at before meeting me under a streetlamp. we quote jim morrison and sing amy winehouse as whiskey slides down our throats and burns our chests. the men we drink with say we remind them of their daughters but by the end of the night the liquor in them draws them to our 'old souls'. and now you watch her from the other side of the bar, the eye contact holding a lust and desire only eros could create. as you swig back the amber liquid in your glass, only one thought suffocates all others; you'll have her begging for god tonight.
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Jun 17, 2019
Jun 17, 2019 at 9:31 PM UTC
young lust
A roundabout paved A single stormy wave Which incapsulated The most rogue of my brains Ever since I've followed I've been taken in spades I can hear cement Cracking in my name Dirt is more natural Yet lacking in traction To this day I'm defined by this slipperiest of action A Faction  a singular piece Turned my elbows from dust to contingent visceral grease A twist of a spin in a moment can release Quickly I am burdened for my aim is to please
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 9:40 PM UTC
Babylonian Nature Of An Arrow Shot By Destiny