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"barrels" poems
Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea; Wanting the sticky, salty sweetness Of the strong wind and shattered spray; Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound Of the big surf that breaks all day. Always before about my dooryard, Marking the reach of the winter sea, Rooted in sand and dragging drift-wood, Straggled the purple wild sweet-pea; Always I climbed the wave at morning, Shook the sand from my shoes at night, That now am caught beneath great buildings, Stricken with noise, confused with light. If I could hear the green piles groaning Under the windy wooden piers, See once again the bobbing barrels, And the black sticks that fence the weirs, If I could see the weedy mussels Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls, Hear once again the hungry crying Overhead, of the wheeling gulls, Feel once again the shanty straining Under the turning of the tide, Fear once again the rising freshet, Dread the bell in the fog outside,— I should be happy,—that was happy All day long on the coast of Maine! I have a need to hold and handle Shells and anchors and ships again! I should be happy, that am happy Never at all since I came here. I am too long away from water. I have a need of water near.
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Exiled
melanin molasses, the sweetest courtship attracts the ones who have never glittered white bullets love to kiss black skin black on black crucificton, a gospel orchestrated by the higher powers ****** puddles lay with the concrete during the darkest hours night bullets play white doves during the matrimony of the bottom barrels life and its fast stint. honeymoon candles lit by the masters matches, africans seek this artificial light in times where heavens white lights could greet them with a smile and roses that are wilted. - t.m
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Dec 11, 2016
Dec 11, 2016 at 1:06 PM UTC
melanin molasses, the sweetest love story
She, a cavernous champagne glass, he, a weary pony, who ate the neighbor's grass-- her name Ms. Wesson, his name Mr. Smith, they died on a slow Tuesday-- and stop looking Wesson clan, if looking for a lesson. Mid-afternoon midst a love bent 69 Mr. Smith and Ms. Wesson committed murder-suicide-- Mr. Smith turned from a man back into a stain, Ms. Wesson turned from a woman back into a chain. And the artist-in-neighborhood did rejoice, subject matter for a painting to hang above his licorice-colored memorial of a prisoner dove. And the police did gossip, was it love? was it *********** What a fine piece of *** that could be living. And it took the families two weeks to find out, they wiped their feet on dead leaves, daydreamt open caskets and planted juniper seeds. Talk of another woman, talk of another man, but God himself would tell you, they were simply bored of each other's drugs, they were simply bored of each other's barrels, so, they barred each other from being, and headed west on erosion's dime.
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM UTC
oil paintings of ****** picnics
An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel gazelle inescapable sleek leather boots on the pavement rat-a-tat-tat best intentions going down for the third time stuck in the particular You cannot make love to concrete if you care about being non-essential wrong or worn thin if you fear ever becoming diamonds or lard you cannot make love to concrete if you cannot pretend concrete needs your loving To make love to concrete you need an indelible feather white dresses before you are ten a confirmation lace veil milk-large bones and air raid drills in your nightmares no stars till you go to the country and one summer when you are twelve Con Edison pulls the plug on the street-corner moons Walpurgisnacht and there are sudden new lights in the sky stone chips that forget you need to become a light rope a hammer a repeatable bridge garden-fresh broccoli two dozen dropped eggs and a hint of you caught up between my fingers the lesson of a wooden beam propped up on barrels across a mined terrain between forgiving too easily and never giving at all.
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Making Love To Concrete
I usually begin these rants with a question. But i find myself lacking in just this instance. For whom can say. Anything more When ash refuses to respond. No message can be relayed. Just more things that i silently promise. As i figuratively toast to a memory that will never do you justice. Is it disrespectful to take words so literal. To the point. That looking down gun barrels and beer bottles. Turned into a ****** routine that pride would boast. Only there was no smile in my smile. Inhaling disappointment. As the years of missed visits and substance abuse. Led me here. At your deathbed. wishing my words could reach beyond. Without worry of a certain spectres blade in my shadow. Then somehow. I made my word. The only thing worth asking about. Because allowing the past to weave around the last routine we shared. Would force everything that i have come to embody.   To null Et fin. But no. Your gift was ever changing. Trading a jack for skills. While masking scars that only those with them would know of. And in the darkest moments did i find a crystal. Clear. Resolve. To struggle onward. Tears wont spell the revisions we seek. and i was taught to always look my best, no matter the destination. Everything that i am. Came from you. It didn't come from a book nor a Professor. I can only hope to pass on your wisdom. Although cryptic at times. Will remain in my heart. So even though I will forever be thinking of a new metaphor. A penny will sit in my pocket. Until the day that I can place it in your palm.
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 5:25 AM UTC
Waste not
I usually begin these rants with a question. But i find myself lacking in just this instance. For whom can say. Anything more When ash refuses to respond. No message can be relayed. Just more things that i silently promise. As i figuratively toast to a memory that will never do you justice. Is it disrespectful to take words so literal. To the point. That looking down gun barrels and beer bottles. Turned into a ****** routine that pride would boast. Only there was no smile in my smile. Inhaling disappointment. As the years of missed visits and substance abuse. Led me here. At your deathbed. wishing my words could reach beyond. Without worry of a certain spectres blade in my shadow. Then somehow. I made my word. The only thing worth asking about. Because allowing the past to weave around the last routine we shared. Would force everything that i have come to embody.   To null Et fin. But no. Your gift was ever changing. Trading a jack for skills. While masking scars that only those with them would know of. And in the darkest moments did i find a crystal. Clear. Resolve. To struggle onward. Tears wont spell the revisions we seek. and i was taught to always look my best, no matter the destination. Everything that i am. Came from you. It didn't come from a book nor a Professor. I can only hope to pass on your wisdom. Although cryptic at times. Will remain in my heart. So even though I will forever be thinking of a new metaphor. A penny will sit in my pocket. Until the day that I can place it in your palm.
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after centuries and centuries and centuries of: pain and suffering, chains and ankle cuffing, segregation and impossible laws, human degredation and deaths for the cause, coloured lines and last picks, work in the mines and barbie-like wigs, culture termination and the education of self-hate, fake freedom motivation and penitentiary execution dates, community sabatoge and destruction of black owned schemes, settle down for hip hop dialogue and basketball dreams racial slurs and monkey metaphors, television blurs and the world shutting doors, the white man's drugs and melanin filled prisons, talent that lacks funds and vietnam missions, death of our black icons and imprisonment of mandela death of trayvon and others on the death list which could go on forever... do you have the right to tell "bottom barrels" not to dream to be on the top? do you wonder why forgiveness is slowly yielding in the world, as if it sees a sign that says it's time to stop? do they not say we must practice what we preach? are they not preaching hate? are they not preaching inequality? are they not preaching the false levels of life? is it too hard for the world to practice equality? is it too hard for the world to live in harmony? is it too hard for the world to see the similarities in our differences? is it too hard for the world to live without fear of colours? is it too much to ask for peace??? - t.m
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Sep 25, 2016
Sep 25, 2016 at 2:25 PM UTC
my heart bleeds a cold spiteful colour that seems hopeless
do you want to know how does having feelings for you feel like? well baby, having feelings for you is like playing the piano for someone who can’t hear. having feelings for you is like that moment where you start to dance and the song ends. having feelings for you is like hitting repeat on my favorite song and forgetting the words every time it starts over. having feelings for you is like playing roulette with all the barrels loaded. having feelings for you is like having amnesia, waking up every day unable to remember why there’s a hole in my chest. having feelings for you was like finding out there’s no milk after i had already poured a bowl of cereal. having feelings for you is like drowning without the water. having feelings for you is like being locked in the dark while getting told to “look on the bright side”. having feelings for you is like knowing what a funeral feels like without ever going to one. having feelings for you was like being reminded of the first time i ever accidentally let go of a ballon as a child. having feelings for you is like unconsciously reaching to put my arm around a dead lover in my bed while asleep. having feelings for you was like spending years next to a hospital bed where you were in a coma you chose to stay asleep in.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 3:36 PM UTC
HAVING FEELINGS FOR YOU
We are each our own moon. Charismatic souls reflecting sunlight, As if to illuminate a room, We glow against black, void; an endless night. Like a caterpillar to a butterfly, emerging from a tight knit cocoon, Spreading each wing, confidently slicing the evening air…taking flight. Or even a flower freshly bloomed on a midsummer’s afternoon. The moon: a flower, silently smiling despite the plight. Aside from what each day shuffles in; each night simmers out No matter how often we feel we have lost ourselves… Or leave way to fill our heads with doubt. With recurring assumptions of a worldwide redemption:omnipotent stealth. Needn't some take longer than others to sprout? Staring blankly into a mirror, or a moonless night sky: hungry for answers, yet facing an empty shelf. However, that doesn't infer we embark on a divergent route. Simply due to lack of clarity, lack of reasoning behind each card dealt. With that in mind, Just as the moon,true colors may dwindle…they may fade, yet in essence are always there. Even on a cloudy day, or when the sunshine is at its peak…and just as well for the blind. Full moon, half moon, new moon…waxing, waning: dynamic phases the night sky shares. Moon phases;moody faces…natures way of emphasizing personality defined. Notwithstanding the dark side, each moon may wear. Like a guilty pleasure manifesting in a secret shrine, We all suppress a certain side; to pompous to face reality genuinely bare. Fragments of our faces may always be hidden, But there’s one thing that will never absorb into the eclipse: emotion. Some figure each phase, each wave of vibes … simply fate already written. Devils advocate begs to differ… let your mind emit all distraction and harmonize with the ocean. Effervescent rays,warm barrels in which emotions, old and new, have ridden. Chaotically contradicting thoughts, pulling and pushing, creating the paradox of serene commotion. A world of words from each moon face: a beautiful encryption. We are each our own moon, written in the waves, compelled by life’s devotion.
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 1:13 AM UTC
Moon Faces : Moody Faces
We are each our own moon. Charismatic souls reflecting sunlight, As if to illuminate a room, We glow against black, void; an endless night. Like a caterpillar to a butterfly, emerging from a tight knit cocoon, Spreading each wing, confidently slicing the evening air…taking flight. Or even a flower freshly bloomed on a midsummer’s afternoon. The moon: a flower, silently smiling despite the plight. Aside from what each day shuffles in; each night simmers out No matter how often we feel we have lost ourselves… Or leave way to fill our heads with doubt. With recurring assumptions of a worldwide redemption:omnipotent stealth. Needn't some take longer than others to sprout? Staring blankly into a mirror, or a moonless night sky: hungry for answers, yet facing an empty shelf. However, that doesn't infer we embark on a divergent route. Simply due to lack of clarity, lack of reasoning behind each card dealt. With that in mind, Just as the moon,true colors may dwindle…they may fade, yet in essence are always there. Even on a cloudy day, or when the sunshine is at its peak…and just as well for the blind. Full moon, half moon, new moon…waxing, waning: dynamic phases the night sky shares. Moon phases;moody faces…natures way of emphasizing personality defined. Notwithstanding the dark side, each moon may wear. Like a guilty pleasure manifesting in a secret shrine, We all suppress a certain side; to pompous to face reality genuinely bare. Fragments of our faces may always be hidden, But there’s one thing that will never absorb into the eclipse: emotion. Some figure each phase, each wave of vibes … simply fate already written. Devils advocate begs to differ… let your mind emit all distraction and harmonize with the ocean. Effervescent rays,warm barrels in which emotions, old and new, have ridden. Chaotically contradicting thoughts, pulling and pushing, creating the paradox of serene commotion. A world of words from each moon face: a beautiful encryption. We are each our own moon, written in the waves, compelled by life’s devotion.
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if you find one happiness like the barrel on your head loaded with a pocket of air for you to breathe then you know that if you sink to atmospheric tides you must find fresher barrels when the novelty declines and the oxygen gives way to the oceanic brine for the last moments of time you’re chin-up on a water bed the water cradles your esophagus and then you find you surely must find some fresher air to breathe but to search is to be dissatisfied to question once is to imply that everything can be replied with answers and with truth that bucket on your head running out of salty air to stay is to slip into death like listening to the ocean in a seashell till slow blood flows in too few waves but could you not also swim? abandon the comfortable end for the off chance that some underwater shelter will serve you shots of oxygen? the funny thing you find when you let dying pleasure go and you’re suspended, all alone the gas trapped beneath was too stale for you to breathe but enough to buoy the unburdened barrel into swiftly surfacing
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 6:37 AM UTC
Deep Sea Diving
~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
on Saturday, even the cows sleep late
~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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In this, my last hour of rhyme, with stains uncontainèd by shaking hands Spreading like red soldiers running wartime untempered by generals shouting commands Then laughing like drunkards, drowning in wine that rich purple spills out from its barrels Then lying on bartops, eyes shine porcine and unheard soft voices hiss curses and carols. O, woe be on me if I speak out of time; out-tumbling come innards, spewed from a mouth Which whispered sad prayers in corners of grime: hints of spring-season on trips to the south; Watch them out-tumble, watch horri-divine like the death of the tragic, acted but true Yet laughing old minstrels declare it quite fine: and friends ensure royal-men breathe not from the blue. Hours fly past on wings of the Sun who turns misted eyes from child-fight below And lives lives of many, but cares not for none not least merchant servants, throttled in the snow. I fade and I fade: a blossom once watered and love of the stage is clogging my throat It changes my words: I fight it, I fought it and hot-wet floods up with drowning and choke. This minute, these words: I defy death. And cold, outward slipping: my slow final breath.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 5:14 AM UTC
Death of the Poet, Mercutio
I assume you once danced the Cabaret By how you strut your Flexi-Form abroad This I figure on weeks-by-two per se The Ardent Friend your Fervour can behold T'was the Charm which every Fruit can discuss And win many Smiles for a Pint or Ink Telling us flat, Life can take us that Far, In a Bus run by Monday's Downey Sink Was it wrong to know the Inner-Woman-You That Principle so many Thinkers deny: "Thrust-Hub! Buck-Forth! Lev, Lev, Lub, Lub, Le, Loo! Then Drink your Bub-Clouds to Barrels on high!" Nah, Forgive my Fishes, Sir! I bestate You're one Sav Foretainer - Dance with me, Mate!
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 4:43 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: RUSSELL BRAND
Scraggly curl hair bounces in the air wagging with whisky eyes breezy pleasing the eclectic electric hectic now mind like finding a papaya inside an oyster battery powered like a pomegranate passionfruit flower growing and glowing around my trinity heart with the noise of a sphere's galactic ****** Crystal Citrine Mountains provide water fountains of sunlight as so tye-dye t-shirt hip-cat hippos smokin' coconut shisha bathe in barrels of bourbon. Lion snakes spit words of worlds hurling nebulous timeline's spiraling and crashing and splashing baptism ripples together painting Pollack Splatters with the aroma of Byrd Jazz Jam on rye-whisky bread. Fractal Berries served by the Far Out Faerrie Ferryman Skeletan with bejeweled emerald eyes winks while I read in the reeds panting in pan-flutes while water rabbits scamper into clay enclaves to bathe in pinecone designed sand-tubs. The hieroglyphic phoenix twists and skip-scats neon green vinyl turning the wind inside out to x-ray flames of fireworks.
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Dec 6, 2013
Dec 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM UTC
Untitled Realm # 4-Triangle.7u
Purple Cow I've never seen a purple cow though I have been inside a purple haze things are different between then and now when I stumbled around for many dayz standing in corners watching the crowd yellow barrels of sunshine enlightened view Mr Hendrix's Watchtower 90 decibels loud smiling faces thinking that we really knew it seemed so simple peace and love not very real but I so miss those times burn the bra olive branch and dove now I just sit and think up rhymes Dylan's monotone with catchy words Gracie had her rabbit of white he was a friend of mine sang out the Byrds another hit of fresh air tonite Vietnam changed things so much yet still again the money rules you would have thought we had the touch but once again we are the fools so maybe it is time once again to raise up our voices and show them how we will not just stand around and grin maybe it's time to see that purple cow Gomer LePoet ....
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Nov 5, 2011
Nov 5, 2011 at 11:48 AM UTC
Purple Cow
Every time I touch a controller I set a new highscore I said a new highscore. Look out behind you, mother ****** I capped that *** You should've watched your back. Now I got an L-shaped block Watch as I drop it in that L-shaped slot. Haters gotta throw the blue turtle shell, Because they can't keep their kart on Rainbow Road. Donkey's going to throw some barrels at me; Don't worry princess, watch me jump. I promise I won't get hit, not even once. Hey there champ look right here; I just stuck a plas grenade On you right ear. Lucky shot? So you say. Still watching me tea-bag you From the grave. Pilot Wings, Punch-Out, Mario Madden, Sonic or GTA It doesn't really matter The number of pixels we play. D-Pad or joystick, Night or day, It doesn't really matter how you play, Put me on tron I'll blow you away. Turtles in Time: You take that next slice. Even blindfolded your no match For my SuperScope. Tony Hawk, what a joke! In Pacman or Galaga in space Even with the Kunami Code You've got no hope. So the next time you hear Scorpion yell "Get over here!" Have no fear A Sonic Boom will soon be there. Busting out Atari's Pong? Noob, I'll pwn you One-thousand to none. Hell, not even Parapa the Rappa Can touch my rhymes. Read those initials That score is mine. I said read those initials; That score is mine.
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Jun 26, 2011
Jun 26, 2011 at 1:38 AM UTC
Gamer
Tall round beams standing in salty water, connecting fishermen and star-fish gazers with a moon-shaped bay on the eastern Pacific. They stand on land and step into sea, as rolling barrels from Arctic grounds tickle their lower legs. A centipede of wood, this outward- jutting wharf. The fishermen sink expectant hooks; the surfers haul shiny glass banana-shaped boards of foam; the weekenders come posing baby strollers for picture shooting. Each passing wall of blue energy slows at reach of shallow sand, deciding whether to keep rolling or transform into a steep stack of snapping water. On big days the sea legs shake all the fishermen. They lock away their sacrificial bait in rusty boxes and collapse their fibered rods. On calm days I step out to a wooden bench and hang my face between the rails. Running people pass below, between the knotted hips and creosoted thighs. August buries this preserve in such drizzle. Gulls go bundling inside their sleek robes of white feather, leaning windward on worn bent knees.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 10:30 PM UTC
Old Wharf on the Bay
I'm so sorry guys, it seems this is never ending. Here is where I've found new stolen poems http://www.experienceproject.com/ The user is http://www.experienceproject.com/about/marklovescoffe (you may need to create a free account to check his posts) and he's posted Flying Fingers ~ Pamela Rae under I Wonder Who Reads My Stories with no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Wonder-Who-Reads-My-Stories/4785328 Know the Beauty of a Woman ~ Cataleya with no link and not only that, in the comments when he was congratulated for a great write he said 'Thanks mate' http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Know-The-Beauty-Of-A-Woman/4693147 new link 1 Release ~ POETIC T with no link and his comment was it was from his soul http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Love-To-Write/4781292 new link 2 I Am A Writer ~ Madalyn Beck no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-A-Writer/4631574 new link 3 A Kiss Upon a Blank Page ~ Kalypso no link, comments claim it as his own http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Kiss-Upon-This-Blank-Page/4577880 new link 4 A Thousand Colours ~ Amrutha no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/F-I-Could/4534117 As you can see, I could sit here all night and point out the stolen poems however, I will now just encourage everyone to visit this link http://www.experienceproject.com/about/marklovescoffe join the site (it's free) go to the left hand side menu and click on Stories and see if you recognize your work (you will know the instant you start reading the post!) Then give it to him with both barrels! Like I said in my notes, I'm almost certain they are a member here! Please share! i have edited the links in here because he has changed his user name if you are looking for it, he dropped an e off the end... because we are sooo stupid....
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Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014 at 3:12 AM UTC
MORE POETRY STOLEN FROM HP (updated ~ a new person stealing our poetry)
I'm so sorry guys, it seems this is never ending. Here is where I've found new stolen poems http://www.experienceproject.com/ The user is http://www.experienceproject.com/about/marklovescoffe (you may need to create a free account to check his posts) and he's posted Flying Fingers ~ Pamela Rae under I Wonder Who Reads My Stories with no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Wonder-Who-Reads-My-Stories/4785328 Know the Beauty of a Woman ~ Cataleya with no link and not only that, in the comments when he was congratulated for a great write he said 'Thanks mate' http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Know-The-Beauty-Of-A-Woman/4693147 new link 1 Release ~ POETIC T with no link and his comment was it was from his soul http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Love-To-Write/4781292 new link 2 I Am A Writer ~ Madalyn Beck no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-A-Writer/4631574 new link 3 A Kiss Upon a Blank Page ~ Kalypso no link, comments claim it as his own http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Kiss-Upon-This-Blank-Page/4577880 new link 4 A Thousand Colours ~ Amrutha no link http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/F-I-Could/4534117 As you can see, I could sit here all night and point out the stolen poems however, I will now just encourage everyone to visit this link http://www.experienceproject.com/about/marklovescoffe join the site (it's free) go to the left hand side menu and click on Stories and see if you recognize your work (you will know the instant you start reading the post!) Then give it to him with both barrels! Like I said in my notes, I'm almost certain they are a member here! Please share! i have edited the links in here because he has changed his user name if you are looking for it, he dropped an e off the end... because we are sooo stupid....
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Purple Cow I've never seen a purple cow though I have been inside a purple haze things are different between then and now when I stumbled around for many dayz standing in corners watching the crowd yellow barrels of sunshine enlightened view Mr Hendrix's Watchtower 90 decibels loud smiling faces thinking that we really knew it seemed so simple peace and love not very real but I so miss those times burn the bra olive branch and dove now I just sit and think up rhymes Dylan's monotone with catchy words Gracie had her rabbit of white he was a friend of mine sang out the Byrds another hit of fresh air tonite Vietnam changed things so much yet still again the money rules you would have thought we had the touch but once again we are the fools so maybe it is time once again to raise up our voices and show them how we will not just stand around and grin maybe it's time to see that purple cow Gomer LePoet ....
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Jun 8, 2013
Jun 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
Purple Cow
Waking up to hazy mornings. To the bitter cold days of Early Spring. I've never seen such a beautiful sunrise. Nine o' clock cigarettes during The morning rush. Saturday morning cigarettes That muddle my head. The chilly air mimics the smoke Spewing from my lips, Toxins sticking to my lungs Like glue. It's another day in Paradise. The dishes in the sink Pile up in mountains. Like the skyscraper laundry stack Overflowing in the hamper. Just another day in Paradise. The street lamps glisten as strings of pearls Their light reflecting off the silver glare of traffic barrels. The flowers have not arrived. The flowers have not bloomed, And the anxiety is killing me. Killing me like the coffee craving Pounding in my head. The flowers are missing, Hiding from the stinging cold Of early Spring. I've never seen such beautifully dismal skies. In the mild conversations about the weather, I tell them that it's never been better. In a way, it's never been. I walk down the battleground of sidewalk And tree roots, the slabs of concrete cracked and marred by Mother Nature's Will. Broken etchings of hopscotch Blur on the gritty surface, besides The rose bush peeking out through the Fence. They'll never fix these. Because it's another day in Paradise.
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 10:10 PM UTC
Paradise
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet, Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Running round the woodlump if you chance to find Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine, Don’t you shout to come and look, nor use ’em for your play. Put the brishwood back again—and they’ll be gone next day! If you see the stable-door setting open wide; If you see a tired horse lying down inside; If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore; If the lining’s wet and warm—don’t you ask no more! If you meet King George’s men, dressed in blue and red, You be carefull what you say, and mindful what is said. If they call you “pretty maid,” and chuck you ’neath the chin, Don’t you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one’s been! Knocks and footsteps round the house—whistles after dark— You’ve no call for running out till the house-dogs bark. Trusty’s here, and Pincher’s here, and see how dumb they lie— They don’t fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by! If you do as you’ve been told, ‘likely there’s a chance, You’ll be given a dainty doll, all the way from France, With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood— A present from the Gentlemen, along o’ being good! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk; Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie— Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen bo by!
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A Smuggler’s Song
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet, Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Running round the woodlump if you chance to find Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine, Don’t you shout to come and look, nor use ’em for your play. Put the brishwood back again—and they’ll be gone next day! If you see the stable-door setting open wide; If you see a tired horse lying down inside; If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore; If the lining’s wet and warm—don’t you ask no more! If you meet King George’s men, dressed in blue and red, You be carefull what you say, and mindful what is said. If they call you “pretty maid,” and chuck you ’neath the chin, Don’t you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one’s been! Knocks and footsteps round the house—whistles after dark— You’ve no call for running out till the house-dogs bark. Trusty’s here, and Pincher’s here, and see how dumb they lie— They don’t fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by! If you do as you’ve been told, ‘likely there’s a chance, You’ll be given a dainty doll, all the way from France, With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood— A present from the Gentlemen, along o’ being good! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk; Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie— Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen bo by!
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All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand. What kept him from remembering what it was That brought him to that creaking room was age. He stood with barrels round him—at a loss. And having scared the cellar under him In clomping there, he scared it once again In clomping off;—and scared the outer night, Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar Of trees and crack of branches, common things, But nothing so like beating on a box. A light he was to no one but himself Where now he sat, concerned with he knew what, A quiet light, and then not even that. He consigned to the moon, such as she was, So late-arising, to the broken moon As better than the sun in any case For such a charge, his snow upon the roof, His icicles along the wall to keep; And slept. The log that shifted with a jolt Once in the stove, disturbed him and he shifted, And eased his heavy breathing, but still slept. One aged man—one man—can’t keep a house, A farm, a countryside, or if he can, It’s thus he does it of a winter night.
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An Old Man’s Winter Night
Trophies for last place, And a Holiday for every weekend. A taste of this and that... OF Italy and Ireland and Asia and Germany and every township in the county, and 3 collective Miles of Portable Toilets, Strategically Positioned throughout each event. cause there is going to be a Lot of **** Hooray for whatever we are celebrating this weekend. Whichever one of the 30 different Woodstocks Or week long Music Festivals That exist only so the Hippest of Hipsters can congratulate each other on how Indie they are. Ya know, it's happy hour somewhere... Why not party All Day, Everyday? Devalue the weekend Like we have thanksgiving And New Years. A Five Kay For the Common Cold, And We'll even give trophies for last place. Cause we're all winners here. and we're all hungry. And What represents your heritage better than Pizza or sauerkraut or General Tso's And endless flowing barrels of refreshing, Ice cold, Domestically brewed and Nationally brand recognized Alcoholic Beverages? IT's The Great Dumb Down, Charlie Brown!!! A symptom of the Universe If there ever was one. Mass anesthesia to keep us all content With our collective mediocrities, our Forfeit Potential, Our Day Job that doesn't pay very well, But kind has benefits. So we stay on. In fear of nothing better. It makes feel important. Like Wheel of Fortune makes us feel smart. (Wow, you can spell?!)... Dwindling returns in a world of Beige and Pastels And the Muted Grays of limestone concrete. We Accept less and we Get less and we accept less and we Get less And On And on and on, till we hit that lowest common cultural denominator, where your race is what food you eat, And we all qualify for the special Olympics.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 9:52 AM UTC
Peppermint Pattie's Farting Circus
Trophies for last place, And a Holiday for every weekend. A taste of this and that... OF Italy and Ireland and Asia and Germany and every township in the county, and 3 collective Miles of Portable Toilets, Strategically Positioned throughout each event. cause there is going to be a Lot of **** Hooray for whatever we are celebrating this weekend. Whichever one of the 30 different Woodstocks Or week long Music Festivals That exist only so the Hippest of Hipsters can congratulate each other on how Indie they are. Ya know, it's happy hour somewhere... Why not party All Day, Everyday? Devalue the weekend Like we have thanksgiving And New Years. A Five Kay For the Common Cold, And We'll even give trophies for last place. Cause we're all winners here. and we're all hungry. And What represents your heritage better than Pizza or sauerkraut or General Tso's And endless flowing barrels of refreshing, Ice cold, Domestically brewed and Nationally brand recognized Alcoholic Beverages? IT's The Great Dumb Down, Charlie Brown!!! A symptom of the Universe If there ever was one. Mass anesthesia to keep us all content With our collective mediocrities, our Forfeit Potential, Our Day Job that doesn't pay very well, But kind has benefits. So we stay on. In fear of nothing better. It makes feel important. Like Wheel of Fortune makes us feel smart. (Wow, you can spell?!)... Dwindling returns in a world of Beige and Pastels And the Muted Grays of limestone concrete. We Accept less and we Get less and we accept less and we Get less And On And on and on, till we hit that lowest common cultural denominator, where your race is what food you eat, And we all qualify for the special Olympics.
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That ***** Named Desire I had a succubus try to take my seed in a dream today I broke the connection and said ***** you gotta pay to playyyyyyy You so used to controlling my desires well, NOT ANYMORE Best get on your knees and call me sire “Sir you have the floor” I wage war on the empire of the realm of desire So if you conspire to be in my line of fire Don’t say I didn’t tell you, You’ve earned my Ire. The rhythm of my war drum goes: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM Mah heart BEATS ta da Rhythm of the BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT Dreeeeeiiim We illuminate truth, or sooo it seeeeeeeeeeeeim But still..... The rhythm of my war drum BEATS: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM So I wage war on the realm of the evil fae Ima PURIFY da demons until dey take me away (screamed) Bleed out into LIFE; reverse the vampire effect place succubi in a hearse and drive them straight ta deaph cause lately You been drivin me crazy and making my will, focus, an determination sooo haeeezzzzy But NO MORE cause now Its time to Settle DA SKORE Ritually open my wounds and bleed acid on you Don’t worry theres enough cause your hackneyed and few Ima chase the Daemons off Smoke my dreads to their lungs and make dem young cough so offten I put em in a hot-boxed coffin Now your outta breath But im just not stoppin huh (echo( whats this? whats this....(echo( Claws, talons, teeth, and uh oh Blood barrels stacked Its a wierd supply depot, for that army growin and growlin behind your eye, see though.... They Perma- on your shoulders, and now mine, Truth Show !!!!!!1111RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!!!!11 So my wings tear free of my back For so long they’ve been bound and compact I look to my lovers and brothers and CRy Stand! Pick up your weapons, Humanity, Its time to act A TRUMPET BLOWS, BEATING WINGS THE DRUMS CONTINUE INTO THE DISTANCE The rhythm of my war drum goes: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM Mah heart BEATS ta da Rhythm of the BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT Dreeeeeiiim We illuminate truth, or sooo it seeeeeeeeeeeeim But still..... The rhythm of my war drum BEATS: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM
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Feb 22, 2016
Feb 22, 2016 at 1:08 PM UTC
That ***** named Desire
That ***** Named Desire I had a succubus try to take my seed in a dream today I broke the connection and said ***** you gotta pay to playyyyyyy You so used to controlling my desires well, NOT ANYMORE Best get on your knees and call me sire “Sir you have the floor” I wage war on the empire of the realm of desire So if you conspire to be in my line of fire Don’t say I didn’t tell you, You’ve earned my Ire. The rhythm of my war drum goes: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM Mah heart BEATS ta da Rhythm of the BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT Dreeeeeiiim We illuminate truth, or sooo it seeeeeeeeeeeeim But still..... The rhythm of my war drum BEATS: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM So I wage war on the realm of the evil fae Ima PURIFY da demons until dey take me away (screamed) Bleed out into LIFE; reverse the vampire effect place succubi in a hearse and drive them straight ta deaph cause lately You been drivin me crazy and making my will, focus, an determination sooo haeeezzzzy But NO MORE cause now Its time to Settle DA SKORE Ritually open my wounds and bleed acid on you Don’t worry theres enough cause your hackneyed and few Ima chase the Daemons off Smoke my dreads to their lungs and make dem young cough so offten I put em in a hot-boxed coffin Now your outta breath But im just not stoppin huh (echo( whats this? whats this....(echo( Claws, talons, teeth, and uh oh Blood barrels stacked Its a wierd supply depot, for that army growin and growlin behind your eye, see though.... They Perma- on your shoulders, and now mine, Truth Show !!!!!!1111RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!!!!!!11 So my wings tear free of my back For so long they’ve been bound and compact I look to my lovers and brothers and CRy Stand! Pick up your weapons, Humanity, Its time to act A TRUMPET BLOWS, BEATING WINGS THE DRUMS CONTINUE INTO THE DISTANCE The rhythm of my war drum goes: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM Mah heart BEATS ta da Rhythm of the BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT Dreeeeeiiim We illuminate truth, or sooo it seeeeeeeeeeeeim But still..... The rhythm of my war drum BEATS: BOOM BOOM KAT TiS KAT OHHHHM
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The Jester came to see the King one day , “these fools are no good they are full of dancing’. Then the following day a joker came up to the king , “; these fools are no good for they are full of laughing . And we are no good for we sit and moan for the crown we stole has been a stolen . The ring we borrowed , the knowledge we shared , the love we cherished , Is as loose as a hang mans noose . The jester stands on our walls we built , just to tell us we are fools . The joker on our bed laughs tingles his bells as we lay asleeping . The minstrels have all but left to go a Caroling , the love we cherished lies as empty as the grains of wheat to sodden to eat , to sodden to sell . Christ’s love hangs in art ripped flesh a truth of love lost lies in rock umugst our sands . We head off to the streets with laughter one foot to the right , the other to the left , the joker stands in the middle . One foot to the left , then to the right and we all sing lasciviously , as the plagues acoming , and we go asinging , for its. acarolling time , and it dos’nt lead to heaven . For now the wine tastes sweet , and the barrels are dry ,, our heads are kinda dizzy , We ***** and puke , then **** and poo as we hung draw and quarter our souls as O the boils will rise by the morning. The joker jokes , the jester sings , and we held hands , round and round and round we went and it did not lead to heaven. #Gals. Come home my dears come home my loves , for we will cook you pottage in the morning and they didn’t end in heaven. Men reply and we’ll all be dead by the mor ..ning # And the boils arrived in the morning and they didn’t. lead to heaven.
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Jun 4, 2019
Jun 4, 2019 at 4:38 AM UTC
Jester and the Joker
The Jester came to see the King one day , “these fools are no good they are full of dancing’. Then the following day a joker came up to the king , “; these fools are no good for they are full of laughing . And we are no good for we sit and moan for the crown we stole has been a stolen . The ring we borrowed , the knowledge we shared , the love we cherished , Is as loose as a hang mans noose . The jester stands on our walls we built , just to tell us we are fools . The joker on our bed laughs tingles his bells as we lay asleeping . The minstrels have all but left to go a Caroling , the love we cherished lies as empty as the grains of wheat to sodden to eat , to sodden to sell . Christ’s love hangs in art ripped flesh a truth of love lost lies in rock umugst our sands . We head off to the streets with laughter one foot to the right , the other to the left , the joker stands in the middle . One foot to the left , then to the right and we all sing lasciviously , as the plagues acoming , and we go asinging , for its. acarolling time , and it dos’nt lead to heaven . For now the wine tastes sweet , and the barrels are dry ,, our heads are kinda dizzy , We ***** and puke , then **** and poo as we hung draw and quarter our souls as O the boils will rise by the morning. The joker jokes , the jester sings , and we held hands , round and round and round we went and it did not lead to heaven. #Gals. Come home my dears come home my loves , for we will cook you pottage in the morning and they didn’t end in heaven. Men reply and we’ll all be dead by the mor ..ning # And the boils arrived in the morning and they didn’t. lead to heaven.
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The fearless ones are fanning out into the woods. Others are huddled in smartly constructed camouflaged blinds. These self styled eco-warriors brave the cold and the discomforts of inclement weather. They keep a watchful eye over the stale remains of Dunkin Donuts, bagels and bacon grease they cleverly scattered outside their deadly bivouac. These bold ones eagerly finger the barrels of their high powered rifles, palming the smooth wooden stocks with warm naked hands. They itch to squeeze the trigger but discipline and fortitude inform the vigilance of these sentinels of sustainability. They philosophically muse about restorative balance and the paradox of killing in order to survive. Another day has broken over the New Jersey Highlands. The hunt for bear is on. Let the mammalian cleansing begin. jbm Oakland 12/6/10 Music Suggestion: Radiohead, Hunting Bears
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Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM UTC
Mammalian Cleansing