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Ambitious bastions always tout progressive plans when they're about while within they hide and pout from novel things that may prove out. And while inventing goals to follow their ancients habits hold them hollow as in vain wary workers wallow force fed lies and hooks to swallow. They hunt for those who work past five, that trudge to work, endure the drive who will sacrifice their personal live until ambition can't survive. Yet if you strive, you're constant told do not do more, do not be bold just fill your seat, forever hold your tongue until you're dead and cold. To subsist we're forced to hide, only in others can we confide, all success pushed to the side as managers act bona fide. Since those of meager measure make hope of meeting metrics fake interloping leaders take their toll until hard workers break.
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Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 4:19 PM UTC
“Leaders”
the nature of this night spreads its thin harvest upon my table a gruel and water porridge feast with the fanfares of her jaundiced hand many more lined up with eager grin for the warmth of paupers kinship thin blanket wrapped round our shoulders snow gathers at feet she captures the moment on paper the image of all of us gathered like when we were young the grandiose illustration with its brilliant colour fanfare with jugglers and wine swilling laughing men blinded by drink chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes of the hundred years war lead the assault on the last bastions of the ignorance of bliss all descrying that we can ill afford to be sleeping while empires are built in our namesake the so daintily shod soldiers whos feminine wiles misunderstood have taken over the dancehall beneath us and have taken up song the grandiose illustration caught by her pen on sketch pad has leanings to the Marxist revolutions and philosophys of the rhetorical but in the end we join them and drink the port sing the song a thousand years of tales to be told in the eyes of a single girls sweet thoughts epic landscapes filled with noble men and storybook girls the grandiose illustration shows the two of us on the beach with the sun racing down to touch the high towers of miami and fill the laughing joys of thouse who toss and tumble in the breaking waves the nature of this night in one small corner of the illustration a simple window with the shade drawn that says goodnight
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 1:03 PM UTC
storm warnings
the nature of this night spreads its thin harvest upon my table a gruel and water porridge feast with the fanfares of her jaundiced hand many more lined up with eager grin for the warmth of paupers kinship thin blanket wrapped round our shoulders snow gathers at feet she captures the moment on paper the image of all of us gathered like when we were young the grandiose illustration with its brilliant colour fanfare with jugglers and wine swilling laughing men blinded by drink chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes of the hundred years war lead the assault on the last bastions of the ignorance of bliss all descrying that we can ill afford to be sleeping while empires are built in our namesake the so daintily shod soldiers whos feminine wiles misunderstood have taken over the dancehall beneath us and have taken up song the grandiose illustration caught by her pen on sketch pad has leanings to the Marxist revolutions and philosophys of the rhetorical but in the end we join them and drink the port sing the song a thousand years of tales to be told in the eyes of a single girls sweet thoughts epic landscapes filled with noble men and storybook girls the grandiose illustration shows the two of us on the beach with the sun racing down to touch the high towers of miami and fill the laughing joys of thouse who toss and tumble in the breaking waves the nature of this night in one small corner of the illustration a simple window with the shade drawn that says goodnight
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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The Ladder Of St. Augustine
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delated, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. Come see the north wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he For number or proportion. Mockingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hiddden thorn; Fills up the famer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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The Snow-Storm
tempting trappings glow ghostly garments flow hair winds bright like sunshine ropes in my velvet dreams sequel skin as I grin stops only if I wait gentle limbs with no end churn a heart of clay within, without beneath, about outside in, inside doubt behind the breach roundabout route beyond my reach, right way out seasoned strangers inner part dark destined dangers apart from spark flurried passions molt storied bastions bolt fire blinds light like fog eats smoke in my velvet dreams © Jason Cole
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 5:52 PM UTC
Velvet Dreams
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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Always the Mob
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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Music by Stephen Vincent Benet My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a fat green volume from the chest; And propped it open. Whitely without rest, His fingers swept the keys that flashed like swords, . . . And to the brute drums of barbarian hordes, Roaring and thunderous and weapon-bare, An army stormed the bastions of the air! Dreadful with banners, fire to slay and parch, Marching together as the lightnings march, And swift as storm-clouds. Brazen helms and cars Clanged to a fierce resurgence of old wars Above the screaming horns. In state they passed, Trampling and splendid on and sought the vast- Rending the darkness like a leaping knife, The flame, the noble pageant of our life! The burning seal that stamps man's high indenture To vain attempt and most forlorn adventure; Romance, and purple seas, and toppling towns, And the wind's valiance crying o'er the downs; That nerves the silly hand, the feeble brain, From the loose net of words to deeds again And to all courage! Perilous and sharp The last chord shook me as wind shakes a harp! . . . And my friend swung round on his stool, and from gods we were men, "How pretty!" we said; and went on with our talk again.
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Music
Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year between Brussels and Paris. And, William Morris, when I read your old chapter on the great arches and naves and little whimsical corners of the Churches of Northern France--Brr-rr! I'm glad you're a dead man, William Morris, I'm glad you're down in the damp and mouldy, only a memory instead of a living man--I'm glad you're gone. You never lied to us, William Morris, you loved the shape of those stones piled and carved for you to dream over and wonder because workmen got joy of life into them, Workmen in aprons singing while they hammered, and praying, and putting their songs and prayers into the walls and roofs, the bastions and cornerstones and gargoyles--all their children and kisses of women and wheat and roses growing. I say, William Morris, I'm glad you're gone, I'm glad you're a dead man. Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between Brussels and Paris.
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Salvage
At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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Feb 13, 2012
Feb 13, 2012 at 5:51 PM UTC
Alone on the precipice
At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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I hope the supple touch           Of all the women I have ever loved Cascades like rain           Over every inch of this Earth’s terrain Let the sunrise kiss from her crescent lips           Chase away the nights gangly grip Turning barren fields           To blooming bastions Of roots and seeds, nurtured into           The smile underneath a weeping willow tree Raise the bones of change           From their dusty graves of grief Discard your flesh and,           Bare to me only what lies beneath
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Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021 at 11:06 PM UTC
Touch of a Woman
Dear Universe, Bless the poet's and their pearls of pain, Steel them, so they may return to write again. Bless thier jewel encrusted crowns of thought. that every delicate word of verse is caught. Let them pour out their soulful words to transfuse our bleeding hearts. Scrolling pages to guide us through our darkest dark. Lighting our highest joys and deepest passions, May we always preserve these sacred bastions May the poets never truly heal or break, nor stop thier cries; lest their flowing rivers of verse run dry. That we may ever bathe ourselves in rivers of consolation and joy sending empathy through thoughts of comfort and care, to knit us closer in understanding through words in universal prayer.
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Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 8:10 PM UTC
Universal Poets' Prayer
I sit on the seat of a silent hill, watching hope stripped bare Like tender flesh ripped from the bone. Where do I go from here? The words in this world, are poisoned with pain. Even the ink on this wrinkled page decays, like Receding waterways that turn rivers Into mass graves. Every frontier turns to a last bastion. No decadence can dress the dead. Sunken souls Weighed down by boots of lead. Work and worship. Open plains become a purgatory for the horseless.
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Jun 25, 2021
Jun 25, 2021 at 11:30 PM UTC
The Good Doctor's Notes (Last Bastions)
Thinking back to Thomas creek and sneaking a peak at the freaky little tweaker in blown out sneakers a toothless mistress second guessing ****** thrift dressed house guest ******* up my speakers blown out woofer wolfing down dinner mad slurping curry a beginner at twister her sister, disaster, got caught ******* the Doberman.. unable to find sobriety got gang ***** at the sorority doing an impression of Brad Dougherty shoes to tall falling all wobbly knees knocking hostilely like a rasta in Montgomery racially outcast Big Boi with a skin tare lash with passion unfashionable bastions with rashes wear red sashes like Communist fascists I‘m a pacifist with a speeding fist ready to dis any resistor to this transistor radio I eat filet-minion with boxers on my mind be gone, like, no one’s home and this body roams all alone with a ***** I’m a stoner, a postponer, ***** donor, out on loan bought and paid for, caught with a lawnmower, impersonating a horn blower like I was Gillespie at the Filmore, or Apollo theatre as a greater Walmart style wearing a wife beater, not a reader, sort of a ******* not like Kim, more like a mosquit-er drinking blood like it’s from a hummingbird feeder.
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 6:03 PM UTC
crap rap 7 (MCDJpjs)
there is a glacier partially concealed melting from a climactic climate shift revealing a reality congealed by revolt rebels burdened with a philosophy that elevates humanity insisting we will not grovel before a vain messiah espousing erroneous iterations of ideology will the human race permit the iceberg to dissolve as vapid reformist rhetoric inundates our political consciousness with pragmatic progressivism or will we rise in resistance with the radicals fists clenched in protest and hands outstretched to one another rather than lifted high in praise to a savior as we witness the glacier solidify once more as CO2 perforates our atmosphere with heady highs and noxious toxins will we succumb like dumbfounded addicts intoxicated by inoculation consuming the opiated semantics of charismatic personas or will we challenge the corrupt with our wits about us facing the sobering corporate corporeality with the pride of lions facing a den of thieves abandon the chosen champion of the vanguard party we stand hand-in-hand 7 billion sisters and brothers in an anthemic chorus of solidarity that shakes the bastions of the enthroned with the resounding shouts of perseverance in our non-compliant defiance our manifestos are written in the blood sweat and tears we've shed for this dream deferred and we will not be the silent majority anymore the masque of anarchy is ours to share will we wear its visage or will hell freeze over before we choose freedom over happiness
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 8:00 AM UTC
glacier
INTO the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is a man goes into the dark and the cold and when he comes back to his people he brings fire in his hands and they remember him in the years afterward as the fire bringer-they remember or forget-the man whose head kept singing to the want of his home, the want of his people. For this man there is no name thought of-he has broken from jungles and the old oxen and the old wagons-circled the earth with ships-belted the earth with steel-swung with wings and a drumming motor in the high blue sky-shot his words on a wireless way through shattering sea storms:-out from the night and out from the jungles his head keeps singing-there is no road for him but on and on. Against the sea bastions and the land bastions, against the great air pockets of stars and atoms, he points a finger, finds a release clutch, touches a button no man knew before. The soldier with a smoking gun and a gas mask-the workshop man under the smokestacks and the blueprints-these two are brothers of the handshake never forgotten-for these two we give the salt tears of our eyes, the salute of red roses, the flame-won scarlet of poppies. For the soldier who gives all, for the workshop man who gives all, for these the red bar is on the flag-the red bar is the heart's-blood of the mother who gave him, the land that gave him. The gray foam and the great wheels of war go by and take all-and the years give mist and ashes-and our feet stand at these, the memory places of the known and the unknown, and our hands give a flame-won poppy-our hands touch the red bar of a flag for the sake of those who gave-and gave all.
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John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918
INTO the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is a man goes into the dark and the cold and when he comes back to his people he brings fire in his hands and they remember him in the years afterward as the fire bringer-they remember or forget-the man whose head kept singing to the want of his home, the want of his people. For this man there is no name thought of-he has broken from jungles and the old oxen and the old wagons-circled the earth with ships-belted the earth with steel-swung with wings and a drumming motor in the high blue sky-shot his words on a wireless way through shattering sea storms:-out from the night and out from the jungles his head keeps singing-there is no road for him but on and on. Against the sea bastions and the land bastions, against the great air pockets of stars and atoms, he points a finger, finds a release clutch, touches a button no man knew before. The soldier with a smoking gun and a gas mask-the workshop man under the smokestacks and the blueprints-these two are brothers of the handshake never forgotten-for these two we give the salt tears of our eyes, the salute of red roses, the flame-won scarlet of poppies. For the soldier who gives all, for the workshop man who gives all, for these the red bar is on the flag-the red bar is the heart's-blood of the mother who gave him, the land that gave him. The gray foam and the great wheels of war go by and take all-and the years give mist and ashes-and our feet stand at these, the memory places of the known and the unknown, and our hands give a flame-won poppy-our hands touch the red bar of a flag for the sake of those who gave-and gave all.
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An Easter message At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 12:59 AM UTC
Alone on the Precipice
An Easter message At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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Ah, you are anxious today my morbid rule-breaker; Forever and never sound much the same when your mouth is full of questions. Our lives were once dull and sober, now we’re littered crooked bastions, But no such fairy-tales are ever uttered to an unconvincing faker.
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Dec 10, 2011
Dec 10, 2011 at 3:28 PM UTC
Commit.
Marooned in an island of his own creation, full of machine wonders and prehistoric monsters                                  never one could dream, he realizes, life is what one brings out from the depth of one's psyche's churning, yet as much a creation of hands working, on the potter's wheel that's turning to create shapes of things we never had foreseen. But deep down, he is a rage, a fire threatening to erupt and consume all bastions of waste, built, around our lives, by thoughtless monsters,                                              then,                                                 a happy haze prompt him to flower,                                                 a rhapsody, kicks its baby legs inside                                                 a startling beauty begins to emerge.
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Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM UTC
Yearning for a Rhapsody of Startling Beauty
Looking out this double-paned plate glass window into the gray frigidity and red-leaved bitterness of October in one of the last wild and still-untamed bastions of freedom in the west at the mountains thinking about how even they are moving, my darling, and how the spaces in between them are growing just like the space in between the sun and the earth and the space between all the galaxies all at once and the space between the spaces between the world and I and soon I’ll just be floating all by my lonesome in some swirling pool of- not air, no, not even air, just nothingness and watching everything float away like disappearing city limits from the tailgate of a truck on cruise control zipping across the badlands and maybe you’ll be there but going the opposite way and there’ll be nothing to do but watch it all go, go, go, til it’s gone, gone, gone
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 7:11 PM UTC
gone, gone, gone,
All my boys, their eyes, upon me Like peeping Gods from the heights of my Mind. Their eyes--those lights-- Reflecting different spectrums of color Hazel-speckled, deep black-brown Gazing down upon me, from those bastions of Memory, wandering somewhere above-- Dark shadows, eluding presence but always present Always lingering behind the step of my feet Trailing slowly, slowly. Carried by the slack of my clicking heels. Dragged into bed with me at night, with new boys My new boys, their eyes, those lights The spectrum of colors--
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Oct 20, 2016
Oct 20, 2016 at 9:09 PM UTC
All My Boys
Beautiful bearings of broken bonds Bound, bewildered and bitter. Break backs of blind behemoths Being better, beating backlash Booming boldness, and bombs Brains battle blighted beast Bribery brews boiling blood Building bastions buried by bombs Brought by belief, but betrayal beckoned Bastille bells burdened by beheadings Behold beginnings birth bloom.
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Aug 3, 2016
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM UTC
Backwards
The solicitous Self, with and in each exchange of conversation's volley of commiserating commissary verbages words of curbs and gutters, owns not its guilt knows not good will nor for those whom shatter in our drowning hours, unstill... The Self is begging for your idolatry's bastions, wants you to find it beautiful and superior above any other attention and ingestion gorging and hoarding the tid-bit compliments the cloud nine glances succulent smiles / flirtatious lick of lips the audience pumping up its hot air ego-balloon to beach ball widths a deadly kind of perdition for you, character fool careless and distracted blase' as a toad on a stoop... It is a **** the amorous Self is harmless, the beginning seeds and whimsy / at flowering in your hands: fluff and puff intimations child-like glee / pleasing / blowing nonpluss dandelions nonthreatening in ruminations N' stuff... but like any **** when it spreads and takes hold the real estate of your time and soul it chokes and feeds off your serene prosperity of peace of mind of identity a thief of your ideas makes your dreams its own It suffocates all others behaves with dismissive airs like you it becomes you, who has watered this pest and catered to its musings like a sudden sunrise it appears out of the blue appealing a dandelion, quaint & demure yet alluring The ********** that is the selfish solicitous thorn knows its own nature far too well hides its hideous kink so none can warn it is a war with Self the attention ***** Self being compelled as all else a parasite to its growth a virus and its host what she now only has to give in return: assuage her malingered spell she breeds in you a ghost of once you were wastrel grime wasted time an empty shell Abhorred. Careful what the Self is selling the solicitudes of obsessions Possession Suffocation not much else... No succor for the Self.
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Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 11:49 AM UTC
No Succor For The SELF
The solicitous Self, with and in each exchange of conversation's volley of commiserating commissary verbages words of curbs and gutters, owns not its guilt knows not good will nor for those whom shatter in our drowning hours, unstill... The Self is begging for your idolatry's bastions, wants you to find it beautiful and superior above any other attention and ingestion gorging and hoarding the tid-bit compliments the cloud nine glances succulent smiles / flirtatious lick of lips the audience pumping up its hot air ego-balloon to beach ball widths a deadly kind of perdition for you, character fool careless and distracted blase' as a toad on a stoop... It is a **** the amorous Self is harmless, the beginning seeds and whimsy / at flowering in your hands: fluff and puff intimations child-like glee / pleasing / blowing nonpluss dandelions nonthreatening in ruminations N' stuff... but like any **** when it spreads and takes hold the real estate of your time and soul it chokes and feeds off your serene prosperity of peace of mind of identity a thief of your ideas makes your dreams its own It suffocates all others behaves with dismissive airs like you it becomes you, who has watered this pest and catered to its musings like a sudden sunrise it appears out of the blue appealing a dandelion, quaint & demure yet alluring The ********** that is the selfish solicitous thorn knows its own nature far too well hides its hideous kink so none can warn it is a war with Self the attention ***** Self being compelled as all else a parasite to its growth a virus and its host what she now only has to give in return: assuage her malingered spell she breeds in you a ghost of once you were wastrel grime wasted time an empty shell Abhorred. Careful what the Self is selling the solicitudes of obsessions Possession Suffocation not much else... No succor for the Self.
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Through hazy , seasoned myopic eyes all the sights and sounds of woodland creatures do enchant and amaze !  Robins relay the message of my presence , White tailed deer barely render a nod and continue to graze .. Fall Georgia skies painted by the renaissance artist , chilled zoysia and fescue cools the feet of the timid , skeptical albeit grateful introvert .. Dirt roads pretend to run forever this morning , playful Sun hides like the gifted actress , behind gray blankets ! Resolute .. Cunning .. White Pines bear witness to the active forest , Eastern gray squirrels signal impatiently , awaiting the call of Winter .. Random thoughts collect like silver rainwater pools , virtual bastions of aquatic life that dot the landscape , olive brush strokes , red Maple swirls , prolific Water Oaks recall young boys in search of newts , mud puppies and tadpoles .. Songbirds hide within briar thickets performing their daily song list for all that would give ear , rock bass and bream gorge on a bounty of white flies served by the morning breeze .. The pond is a looking glass today , sharing her piece of colorful sky for childlike imaginations such as mine , tiny frogs providing musical accompaniment with glorious song while Angelic host incessantly highlight her surface with gentle blue and green hues , soft tones ..
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 12:07 PM UTC
A healing walk on a cool November morning
Mighty bastions beg you stay strong I have no desire to see you burn in fire Stop the evil from doing us wrong At times I feel the need to open up the gates But clad in stone and clay I'll make my own fate
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Feb 13, 2016
Feb 13, 2016 at 7:59 AM UTC
Crenellations of my Heart
Grass Jutting Head Butting The dead Lie in bastions Abutting Fortifications Of the living Whilst angels Sing of blasphemy And the heavens cry bile Mans race To contaminate Space Look closely The esoteric Genetics Unseen In human DNA Confound Look back Behind Up towards An odyssey The collapse of a star Infinite and Beyond reach Obsolete The existence It once existed Thought extinct Human iris Cloned galaxies Clues to origins Erstwhile taboo Yet Twelve thousand dollars Shat Upon a woman's chest In jest Unjust While the Innocent hunger Pangs of the just The meek emanates truth And weeps degradation Upon the masses Bathing in its delight Soothing of its ecstasy Governments Capitulate peace Their pockets weighted of gold Precipitates hate Hate of me Hate Of you Entangles the psych Towards The precipice of war Bodies Upon Bodies Buried in forgotten pits Women wails Screams of banshees At the sight of death Revenge More death Consoling Conspiring Conjuring Retribution Rebellion Conflict Bloodshed Human suffering Destruction Suffers conglomerate Occupation Destruction Reconstruction Reconstructed thought Confirm into Neo-Society A ******* blight Upon Humanity
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Aug 4, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 at 12:12 PM UTC
A Myriad Of Thoughts