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"bays" poems
there’s a barnacle scar deeply ingrained on the basalt stack at mark thirty two whispering summer winds scented oil cotton and roe drift as waves brush and shape the sandstone shore the briny air and lost erratic set a tone to this pollyanna portrait it's andrews undulations and gifted benches its concessions and traces of the barry burn its sculpted driftwood and sanko lines make this picture almost perfect children play as venom spews from the caterwaul pair those odd looking mates casting smiles with arrested despair settling shots swiping bugs dipping and darting as photo men and muscles and long neck seabirds make their turn the hunched hoody and his sorted sidekick get their fill (of moss and rubble ~ chubby and kelp) nice to meet your acquaintance the pho man would say an odd drop and ironic turn from those horrific corners of timeless desperation down by cannon bridge harbor seals and carriage horse are fronted by raven shade jolly tides pause in quiet bays (with curious looters and *** pickers) sand merchants and field totems all streamed by the light cirrus strands blanket the outer edge hovering craft and shimmering willows bolt the evening frame blood orange and tethered with a filtered glare bottle-nose dolphins and seabirds (and shifting tides) are all settling in for the long night stay
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Mar 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 at 11:21 PM UTC
Stanley Park
what is this mind that was given to me that is able to see things i print on screen with my digital zip drive of a brain that is stuck inside a laptop main frame, ******* server uploading and crashing sending pings and things to hackers who perform doss attacks and web cracks and serial cracks while eating cereal going over javascript material program landslide juno got bit by emails and other technical software jargin computer guy got the blue screen of death corruption on the web the spider metacrawling and setting it on angelfire i google the facebook twitter and hot wire my car on the trader the wall street journal and the white house, **** sites and white owls, getting arrested and being hired by the government, the money's spent, criminal punishment, in cells locked up no breakfast but lunch under the crack of a door inside ur naked *** on irc chat, the warez rat, pirates on bays and whispers from kittens, brown paper packages exploding a smidgeon, binary, metamorphosis, code program gold, warning anti virus and spywares, baghdad to china, spy on private, eyes on cameras, cell phones like trackers, global position mappers, predator drones, video games, nfl madden, mad men, and happy wal marts, hacking wal mart, with social engineers, traveling the silk road with a cloak ip address revoked
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 4:15 AM UTC
The Silk Engineer
On the dry land, By the wet sand, Looking out at the sea, From where I stand, At the ocean blue, So vast and true, As my dog runs through, The rock pools to, A destination she never knew, Existed until now The gulls make their way, Under skies of grey, To far off shores, And to distant bays, As wind howls round, And rain falls down, To darken ground, Of viridian green and earthy brown, There's not a soul around, Except us two And so we walk, My dog and me, From the farm, And to the sea, Then back again up cliff and hill, Up the road and up yet still, We plod and trudge and make our way, Back to base to plan our day, Because after all the walking's done, The morning's really only just begun.
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May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 6:18 PM UTC
Rain on the Beach
In the supermarket airport There are arrivals every day. The departures in your trolley Come to you from far away. Those brightly coloured vegetables Have sat around for days In what we’re told are such hygienic backroom bays. They’re obviously picked and packed by well paid sprites and elves! Then magically appear on your supermarket shelves. Here every carrot is straight and clean And every lettuce crisply curled Then gassed in plastic packets That are filling up our world! Take a glance inside your trolley And if what I say is true Then I guarantee the food within Has seen more of the world than you. Like the picture on the packet Of your frozen ready meal The colour of this far flown food is great The taste experience, surreal. Those ripe tomatoes in their reddest skins We should dye brown, to match their taste Those vivid orange carrots are a mystery of flavour- What a waste! A plate of vibrant promising hue Can taste of packaging and glue. The supermarket tells you you’re in clover But its goods have all the texture of an old pullover. Your supermarket says that it is catering for you But if you’re honest do you really think that’s true? If you don’t then there is something you can do. At the supermarket airport All the money’s in departures So put that trolley back And just depart. If you're wanting to be vocal Then shop seasonal and local And hit these psuedo airports at their heart.
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Apr 27, 2010
Apr 27, 2010 at 6:57 AM UTC
supermarket airports.
Puff the magic dragon Lives by the sea We know him from our childhoods Living down in Hona Lee Little Jackie Paper He loved that dragon puff But, he's grown up and he's moved away He's too old for all that stuff What happened to the dragon? What is Puff doing these days? Few children come to visit him He's still swimming between the bays Puff is writing stories Of his time so long ago He uses a computer now For his writing was so slow Little Jackie Paper Is a doctor in Duluth He doesn't think of Puff at all He won't accept the truth His imagination Disappeared as Jackie grew Puff was not a living thing As far as Jackie knew Puff is making money But, longs for old pursuits Like sealing wax and other things And kids in rubber boots Jackie came to visit He brought his family to the beach Puff was there in hiding And he stayed just out of reach Jackies son, he saw him told his dad of dragon Puff Jackie said, it isn't real "Of this talk I've had enough" Puff the magic dragon heard this and he did cry He missed his Jackie Paper He never said good bye Jackies son kept wanting To see the dragon by the shore So, Jackie took him down again To find the dragon friend once more Puff, he saw them coming And he made his way on out And to his little Jackie Paper Puff, gave out a shout He shot fire from his nostrils He splashed water with his tail He even showed Jackies young boy How he could harness wind and sail Puff the magic dragon still lives by the sea One day Jackie will notice him And his mind will then be free A child's imagination Must be nurtured as they grow Harness it as they grow up Maybe they'll put on a show Never, tell your children to stop playing around Play along and you will see Puff is there still to be found Puff, the magic dragon Lives by the sea He still frollicks in the autumn mist In a land called Hona Lee
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 11:33 AM UTC
Puff the magic dragon 2
Puff the magic dragon Lives by the sea We know him from our childhoods Living down in Hona Lee Little Jackie Paper He loved that dragon puff But, he's grown up and he's moved away He's too old for all that stuff What happened to the dragon? What is Puff doing these days? Few children come to visit him He's still swimming between the bays Puff is writing stories Of his time so long ago He uses a computer now For his writing was so slow Little Jackie Paper Is a doctor in Duluth He doesn't think of Puff at all He won't accept the truth His imagination Disappeared as Jackie grew Puff was not a living thing As far as Jackie knew Puff is making money But, longs for old pursuits Like sealing wax and other things And kids in rubber boots Jackie came to visit He brought his family to the beach Puff was there in hiding And he stayed just out of reach Jackies son, he saw him told his dad of dragon Puff Jackie said, it isn't real "Of this talk I've had enough" Puff the magic dragon heard this and he did cry He missed his Jackie Paper He never said good bye Jackies son kept wanting To see the dragon by the shore So, Jackie took him down again To find the dragon friend once more Puff, he saw them coming And he made his way on out And to his little Jackie Paper Puff, gave out a shout He shot fire from his nostrils He splashed water with his tail He even showed Jackies young boy How he could harness wind and sail Puff the magic dragon still lives by the sea One day Jackie will notice him And his mind will then be free A child's imagination Must be nurtured as they grow Harness it as they grow up Maybe they'll put on a show Never, tell your children to stop playing around Play along and you will see Puff is there still to be found Puff, the magic dragon Lives by the sea He still frollicks in the autumn mist In a land called Hona Lee
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unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM UTC
Supply & Demand, Demand & Supply
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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'O babbling brook,' says Edmund in his rhyme, 'Whence come you?' and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. 'Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out, Travelling to Naples. There is Darnley bridge, It has more ivy; there the river; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. 'But Philip chatter'd more than brook or bird; Old Philip; all about the fields you caught His weary daylong chirping, like the dry High-elbow'd grigs that leap in summer grass. [grig = cricket - m.] I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a ***** trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
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The Brook (excerpt)
'O babbling brook,' says Edmund in his rhyme, 'Whence come you?' and the brook, why not? replies. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. 'Poor lad, he died at Florence, quite worn out, Travelling to Naples. There is Darnley bridge, It has more ivy; there the river; and there Stands Philip's farm where brook and river meet. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. 'But Philip chatter'd more than brook or bird; Old Philip; all about the fields you caught His weary daylong chirping, like the dry High-elbow'd grigs that leap in summer grass. [grig = cricket - m.] I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a ***** trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
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Matrimonial stars in aisles of Auroral rainbows. Mizzling rays of twilights, arraying bays with skylines of lucent waves.    A plethora of scarlet roses reposed in florid clouds. Ashore the Giddy ocean in a gentle motion, caressing Mali garnets, mirroring effulgent lights, kissing the mountaintops before refulgent nights.
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 8:04 AM UTC
Sunset Beauty
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my city is that word up there, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with tall and wonderful spires, Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships—an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded, Numberless crowded streets—high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies; Tide swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown, The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model’d; The down-town streets, the jobbers’ houses of business—the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets; Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week; The carts hauling goods—the manly race of drivers of horses—the brown-faced sailors; The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river, passing along, up or down, with the flood tide or ebb-tide; The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form’d, beautiful-faced, looking you straight in the eyes; Trottoirs throng’d—vehicles—Broadway—the women—the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing, flags flying, drums beating; A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men; The free city! no slaves! no owners of slaves! The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts! The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them! I will return after death to be with them! The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them!
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Mannahatta
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my city is that word up there, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with tall and wonderful spires, Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships—an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded, Numberless crowded streets—high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies; Tide swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown, The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model’d; The down-town streets, the jobbers’ houses of business—the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets; Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week; The carts hauling goods—the manly race of drivers of horses—the brown-faced sailors; The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft; The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river, passing along, up or down, with the flood tide or ebb-tide; The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form’d, beautiful-faced, looking you straight in the eyes; Trottoirs throng’d—vehicles—Broadway—the women—the shops and shows, The parades, processions, bugles playing, flags flying, drums beating; A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men; The free city! no slaves! no owners of slaves! The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts! The city nested in bays! my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them! I will return after death to be with them! The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them!
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Okay Let us take a moment And break this down If you don't believe   In global warming By now You're probably not Going to come round But perhaps We could take a step back To when pollution was indeed A matter of fact Such as The black factory smoke And runoff waste That fills our water ways Coal soot that fills our lungs and skies Sewage that fills our bays Poisonous smog Settling over our industrial cities Toxic chemicals giving birth Have you no empathy nor pity "As our" Emissions are ever choking Scorching the earth Can we start over Sure it's no big deal Can we at least agree That pollution is real?
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Jun 2, 2017
Jun 2, 2017 at 7:33 AM UTC
FORGET GLOBAL WARMING
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
We Make Our Own
Unapologetically Human I am **** on the mezzanine facing the darkened wet road illuminated with acrid yellow tube light better reds and blues surround towering palm trees wooden fingers of ancient giant hands buried below growing leafy green nails stretching skyward little things, orange ribbons, endless cricks and dollops bobbles and winches Spirits Play among the windmills climb to the top of trees and sing into the warm wind songs of *** and heartache as the universe ruffles along Dive head first into the opponents forehead grind the sand into his flesh with ram like resolve until the skin is red, determine to die This life is worth proving, the stars are worth gazing, and this body is worth bathing in the Maui air with naked delight The ocean calls to my heart water is a true lover whispering, kissing inescapably feminine I submerge my soul in joyful waves always the tides follow the moon like my silly heart, eclipsing both light both night both day simultaneously cycling fully the light shines and our eyes perceive shadow faces in the dark blanketed clouds the mountain gargoyles stand as titans, forgotten creatures shoulders and heads, waiting for the moon ball the ocean moon, tranquil bays the air is sweeter with you near, a distant thought cast about the horizon, the sun melting easy golden into my dreamy eye, bless my drunken lips dripping doltish songs into the friendly night Wrestling with bulls of men we kept our shirts on this time, yet blood was drawn in the sand we madly danced in the moonlight to clapping hands, kicking feet and knees the ceremonial struggle toasting the stars bottles were shared, some puffed on cigars Come surf with me in the morning or anytime the sun shines even under moonlight would I meet you and we could paddle come fill your heart with life and lust and romantic passions idyllic as freshly fallen snow undisturbed by worldly concerns be not abashed for this embrace is a natural wonder of the soul, join me, forget what words of yesterday the prophets of doom chant, we make our own tomorrow
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Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl, As if the dread god, charioted anew Came conquering, his amazing disk awhirl To war down all the stars. I see him through The hair of this mine own Italian girl, Adela That bends her face on mine in the gondola! There is scarce a breath of wind on the lagoon. Life is absorbed in its beatitude, A meditative mage beneath the moon Ah! should we come, a delicate interlude, To Campo Santo that, this night of June, Heals for awhile the immitigable feud? Adela! Your breath ruffles my soul in the gondola! Through maze on maze of silent waterways, Guarded by lightless sentinel palaces, We glide; the soft plash of the oar, that sways Our life, like love does, laps --- no softer seas Swoon in the ***** of Pacific bays! We are in tune with the infinite ecstasies, Adela! Sway with me, sway with me in the gondola! They hold us in, these tangled sepulchres That guard such ghostly life. They tower above Our passage like the cliffs of death. There stirs No angel from the pinnacles thereof. All broods, all breeds. But immanent as Hers That reigns is this most silent crown of love Adela That broods on me, and is I, in the gondola. They twist, they twine, these white and black canals, Now stark with lamplight, now a reach of Styx. Even as out love - raging wild animals Suddenly hoisted on the crucifix To radiate seraphic coronals, Flowers, flowers - O let our light and darkness mix, Adela, Goddess and beast with me in the gondola! Come! though your hair be a cascade of fire, Your lips twin snakes, your tongue the lightning flash, Your teeth God's grip on life, your face His lyre, Your eyes His stars - come, let our Venus lash Our bodies with the whips of Her desire. Your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, Adela! Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola?
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Adela
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a lilac conch of pearl, As if the dread god, charioted anew Came conquering, his amazing disk awhirl To war down all the stars. I see him through The hair of this mine own Italian girl, Adela That bends her face on mine in the gondola! There is scarce a breath of wind on the lagoon. Life is absorbed in its beatitude, A meditative mage beneath the moon Ah! should we come, a delicate interlude, To Campo Santo that, this night of June, Heals for awhile the immitigable feud? Adela! Your breath ruffles my soul in the gondola! Through maze on maze of silent waterways, Guarded by lightless sentinel palaces, We glide; the soft plash of the oar, that sways Our life, like love does, laps --- no softer seas Swoon in the ***** of Pacific bays! We are in tune with the infinite ecstasies, Adela! Sway with me, sway with me in the gondola! They hold us in, these tangled sepulchres That guard such ghostly life. They tower above Our passage like the cliffs of death. There stirs No angel from the pinnacles thereof. All broods, all breeds. But immanent as Hers That reigns is this most silent crown of love Adela That broods on me, and is I, in the gondola. They twist, they twine, these white and black canals, Now stark with lamplight, now a reach of Styx. Even as out love - raging wild animals Suddenly hoisted on the crucifix To radiate seraphic coronals, Flowers, flowers - O let our light and darkness mix, Adela, Goddess and beast with me in the gondola! Come! though your hair be a cascade of fire, Your lips twin snakes, your tongue the lightning flash, Your teeth God's grip on life, your face His lyre, Your eyes His stars - come, let our Venus lash Our bodies with the whips of Her desire. Your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, Adela! Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola?
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Alone the groans of humanity that were once united in love at last. finds its rest . We wait for a call that never comes , and close our eyes in death . Now the cricket finds its leaf on some Tunisian shores weaves silk it’s song of love , just as My hand reaches out to yours only for you to flinch and turn from love . the pebble washed over by the shore  finds itself on ship wrecked Oceans of thee . Where once lovers walked hand in hand their love like the sands of time exposed . Like pebbles stolen from the beach where once Greek lovers found  play ,Their. wedding songs bliss , hand in hand on moon set tidel bays . So the twilight casts its gaze , Soon my time moves ever on  , the midnight flyer i once caught Only to never find the one . Love and death have yet to follow me , their paths I know not well , the sunshine tomorrow’s ring brings sage of old to tell . Out of these dark ages Saxon roamed , Autumn leaves once green in bloom , have turned a golden brown only now to deaths decay . Their  sorrows winter shall take and find , An Ampetheatre of Chicken bones they gorge, eight thousand demon hoards , helmet , belt and sword and my victory is assured . “ Now set the table honey just mix the salad dear “   “ Look mother an olive all by itself can I have it please ? ” “Yes , now wash your hands “ and i was swollowed , ...whole ..
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 5:03 PM UTC
Chicken salad .
On one of the myriad bays along the Maine coast. Keep the holocaust at bay I said to Dave because you’ll spend all day gathering 2,000 calories and still be miserable hungry. An undiminished population of humans is risible. Black spruce and balsam fir, you can eat the inner bark in a starvation emergency. There’s plenty of Cornus—bunchberry— each orange pith around the stone worth maybe a quarter calorie. Lots of sarsparilla but the fruits not out yet and to date I have not savored one. Let’s see—dandelion of course and huckleberry but the most important source of sustenance would be seaweed. Learn your mushrooms! for the protein. Accept the situation come the apocalypse. I struggle against my insignificance but it would be better to struggle against my ignorance. Less effortlessness, more fishermanliness. That’s the lesson of this Maine vacation there’s a lot you can eat when in need— the hips of roses and the pips of grasses. And an endless supply of seaweed— bladderwrack, dulse, kelp and thin green lettuce.
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Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023 at 6:09 AM UTC
Seaweed
Never trust a Florida boy, In that muggy, humid heat. I'm telling you, little girl, Your heart will soon taste defeat. Them deep fried southern marshes, Raising mosquitoes and deceit. The greatest place on earth can keep its ************* receipt. The air as thick as my blood was, When I met your eyes. And yours met hers, And your monster claw, Tore her smooth skinned thigh. I felt that painful scream. Boiling up. Melting my chest inside. What's the point of being still while my mind is feeling fried? So I packed my heavy load of anxiety, And headed for the coast. I watched the orange sunset, As I brought up a salty toast, From my eyes. Solemnly, spilling into the sea. And I felt the spirit of an old friend. Leaning rigidly against me. So I turned on heel and didn't speak a sound. As I turned to leave the now known ghost town. And I gave one last grim look back out at the sea. As I write these tattered goodbyes, To where my feet have rambled me, And I let my tongue wrap around the ribbons of goodbye, Escaping my parched lips. And I shutter as I listen to the sound of my heart as it rips, An angered storm of sea, Flooding down my eyes. Knowing this is where the memories of escapades in our days, lays down and dies. I feel the faint. Bleak pain, blanketing us, Weak and weary. And I know our story has a melancholy mood of dreary. And this is where I end it. And cast it all out to sea. And I leave the tragic bays of what I once called Rosemary.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 2:28 PM UTC
Sunsets At Rosemary
oh, san juans, your riches beckon your wealth, your beauty calls your waveless, salty waters blue my heart since childhood draws your waters lap at darkened rock 'round islands, bays and inlets fill with returning salmon teeming your breaking waters thrill your tide, oh ever river changing charges muddy oyster flats your thriving pods of orca leap o'er spray in mid-air acrobats from seabed swift, cold and deep  the lushness of your green hills rise  your sun falls fleet like shooting star your sparkling waters mesmerize sailing craft from ’neath horizon angels spread their wings of color skirt your shoals and ply your straits find safety anchored in your harbors  oh, san juans, your wonder waits your treasure and your magic calls your waveless, crystal waters blue my heart since youth still draws calls me to return each year to dip my paddle deep when life averts the journey there in dreams you beckon while i sleep
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 2:22 AM UTC
oh, san juans
So stick up ivy and the bays, And then restore the heathen ways. Green will remind you of the spring, Though this great day denies the thing. And mortifies the earth and all But your wild revels, and loose hall. Could you wear flowers, and roses strow Blushing upon your ******* warm snow, That very dress your lightness will Rebuke, and wither at the ill. The brightness of this day we owe Not unto music, masque, nor show: Nor gallant furniture, nor plate; But to the manger’s mean estate. His life while here, as well as birth, Was but a check to pomp and mirth; And all man’s greatness you may see Condemned by His humility. Then leave your open house and noise, To welcome Him with holy joys, And the poor shepherd’s watchfulness: Whom light and hymns from heaven did bless. What you abound with, cast abroad To those that want, and ease your load. Who empties thus, will bring more in; But riot is both loss and sin. Dress finely what comes not in sight, And then you keep your Christmas right.
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The True Christmas
Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgment with a measure, But false weight; Wresting words from their true calling, Propping verse for fear of falling To the ground; Jointing syllabes, drowning letters, Fast'ning vowels as with fetters They were bound! Soon as lazy thou wert known, All good poetry hence was flown, And art banish'd. For a thousand years together All Parnassus' green did wither, And wit vanish'd. Pegasus did fly away, At the wells no Muse did stay, But bewail'd So to see the fountain dry, And Apollo's music die, All light failed! Starveling rhymes did fill the stage; Not a poet in an age Worth crowning; Not a work deserving bays, Not a line deserving praise, Pallas frowning; Greek was free from rhyme's infection, Happy Greek by this protection Was not spoiled. Whilst the Latin, queen of tongues, Is not yet free from rhyme's wrongs, But rests foiled. Scarce the hill again doth flourish, Scarce the world a wit doth nourish To restore Phœbus to his crown again, And the Muses to their brain, As before. ****** languages that want Words and sweetness, and be scant Of true measure, Tyrant rhyme hath so abused, That they long since have refused Other cæsure. He that first invented thee, May his joints tormented be, Cramp'd forever. Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never. May his sense when it would meet The cold tumor in his feet, Grow unsounder; And his title be long fool, That in rearing such a school Was the founder.
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A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgment with a measure, But false weight; Wresting words from their true calling, Propping verse for fear of falling To the ground; Jointing syllabes, drowning letters, Fast'ning vowels as with fetters They were bound! Soon as lazy thou wert known, All good poetry hence was flown, And art banish'd. For a thousand years together All Parnassus' green did wither, And wit vanish'd. Pegasus did fly away, At the wells no Muse did stay, But bewail'd So to see the fountain dry, And Apollo's music die, All light failed! Starveling rhymes did fill the stage; Not a poet in an age Worth crowning; Not a work deserving bays, Not a line deserving praise, Pallas frowning; Greek was free from rhyme's infection, Happy Greek by this protection Was not spoiled. Whilst the Latin, queen of tongues, Is not yet free from rhyme's wrongs, But rests foiled. Scarce the hill again doth flourish, Scarce the world a wit doth nourish To restore Phœbus to his crown again, And the Muses to their brain, As before. ****** languages that want Words and sweetness, and be scant Of true measure, Tyrant rhyme hath so abused, That they long since have refused Other cæsure. He that first invented thee, May his joints tormented be, Cramp'd forever. Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never. May his sense when it would meet The cold tumor in his feet, Grow unsounder; And his title be long fool, That in rearing such a school Was the founder.
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*i want to wake up in your arms at 3 AM whist a hurricane is raging within those turbulent clouds and find my momentum spiraling in heavy bays and raging gales rotating around damaging unleashed surges destructive force that slam'd unto my heart i want to be your green grass dream catcher & capture mockingbird lullaby's*
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Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 5:17 PM UTC
Green Grass Dreamcatcher
I was once an old '36 Ford truck driven by a very well loved man who's face lit up so brightly carrying his tackle box of bate n' hooks with his grandchildren by his side, and fishing poles in his hand I loved the sound of their sweet voices when they'd climb onto my back I carried them safely home, along with the salmon held inside their sacks I'm very old and rusty now, but I think of them on summer days as the sun glimmers in the distance on familiar seashore bays, while listening to great grandchildren laughing so happily at play.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 10:51 PM UTC
"Any Rusting Metal" by, Krisselle S. Cosgrove
Vietnam, you uncovered my soul Gave me a song, a direction smog Looked at the pandora box I held Unstripped my flames up temples A hologram of the graded existence Seasoned in explosions of burnt haste Decked on buses,ducked in valleys Chilled bays, overly paddled kayaks Such sweet taste of the Halong bay Undreamt mist of the skies stared Fishing squids and bellied jellyfish The soil, the sound,an orotund playlist
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 2:53 PM UTC
Vietnam Valentines
WHAT is a Hindu, a Moslem or a Christian?     Whence he comes and where he goes?         Ocean is a solution, salty, but-      Corers of Suns gleam on the crest of waves-      One, only One at the helm in the blue.           Pools and streams and lakes and bays      Wells and springs and rain and ice      We see nothing but a drop, in them drops      Nay, vapor condensed: Nay, H2O-right?      Think a little straight, sit up aright       Am I not right? -break, break that H2O      Baffling bright white-light you can see.     Of heat and Energy, Oh! 'Sivam'!     You may call it 'Noor' in Arabic     'Siv' in Sanskrit-what then-     Releases combustion in cells?    Nothing but very heat and Energy.    Uranium and Thorium release the same.    We find Energy unborn eternal     Omnipresent, Omnipotent    Omniscient, and Formless.    The Almighty is Brahma,    Paramatma and Allah.    Jehovah may be for some,    For some Agni, may be that-    Radiant and resplendent Yogic Light.    Cant you see Ocean in rain drop    Cosmic power in a cell or shell?    Cell or Shell-what is in a name?    Is chariot, coat or prison of the soul.    When walls get weak the soul will part    Out through the vent as air off the balloon.    Reading Holy Scriptures, not knowing the sense-   What use? -observe the Nature and think   Knowledge is a chain of fact as pearls   Stringed by Reason and Faith with a Coir of the Truth.   Tension brews as experiences tightly    Loaded on the string, still stronger by Faith.   Knowledge is light to enlighten the folk   Not to **** but for, co-existence in Peace.                  =================
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Dec 21, 2011
Dec 21, 2011 at 10:47 PM UTC
Brooding at Ramzan
WHAT is a Hindu, a Moslem or a Christian?     Whence he comes and where he goes?         Ocean is a solution, salty, but-      Corers of Suns gleam on the crest of waves-      One, only One at the helm in the blue.           Pools and streams and lakes and bays      Wells and springs and rain and ice      We see nothing but a drop, in them drops      Nay, vapor condensed: Nay, H2O-right?      Think a little straight, sit up aright       Am I not right? -break, break that H2O      Baffling bright white-light you can see.     Of heat and Energy, Oh! 'Sivam'!     You may call it 'Noor' in Arabic     'Siv' in Sanskrit-what then-     Releases combustion in cells?    Nothing but very heat and Energy.    Uranium and Thorium release the same.    We find Energy unborn eternal     Omnipresent, Omnipotent    Omniscient, and Formless.    The Almighty is Brahma,    Paramatma and Allah.    Jehovah may be for some,    For some Agni, may be that-    Radiant and resplendent Yogic Light.    Cant you see Ocean in rain drop    Cosmic power in a cell or shell?    Cell or Shell-what is in a name?    Is chariot, coat or prison of the soul.    When walls get weak the soul will part    Out through the vent as air off the balloon.    Reading Holy Scriptures, not knowing the sense-   What use? -observe the Nature and think   Knowledge is a chain of fact as pearls   Stringed by Reason and Faith with a Coir of the Truth.   Tension brews as experiences tightly    Loaded on the string, still stronger by Faith.   Knowledge is light to enlighten the folk   Not to **** but for, co-existence in Peace.                  =================
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O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, flaming Upon the sea and shore, Is, trumpet-like, proclaiming That Law shall be no more. Austere incendiary, We're blinking in the light; Where is your customary Grenade of dynamite? Where are your staves and switches For men of gentle birth? Your mask and dirk for riches? Your chains for wit and worth? Perhaps, you've brought the halters You used in the old days, When round religion's altars You stabled Cromwell's bays? Behind you, unsuspected, Have you the axe, fair ***** Wherewith you once collected A poll-tax for the French? America salutes you-- Preparing to "disgorge." Take everything that suits you, And marry Henry George.
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To the Bartholdi Statue
Head in the mountains Heart in the seas Feet in the rivers, in bays, in streams Head in the logic Heart in the dreams Hands in the tension sew stitches and seams Head in the skies Heart in the breeze Eyes in the stars chart new galaxies Head in the wild Heart in the free You in my want, but not in my need.    Head in the clouds Heart in the trees Hair in the wind, like grasses and greens Head in the known Heart in myst'ries Wishes in whispers waiting on maybes. Head in the wander Heart in the journey Faith in the Author of my living story Head in the mountains Heart in the sea Yet, Soul in the prayer of you finding me. |b.g.|
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Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 4:51 PM UTC
Mountains & Seas
*a child-heartbeat has such power to sway ideas and turn the tide hence - show adult-folly* 1. emperor bays the crowd to flatter invisible trappings of grandeur and prowess 2. when blind to the obvious talk is no good *och, man just freaking forget it* (what good is talk... when the COMMON voice is not heard?                                ...  when yet another child-heartbeat is lost?) S T, 5 sept
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Sep 5, 2013
Sep 5, 2013 at 6:55 AM UTC
a child-heartbeat