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Sunday sermons are spilling on the inner city streets through the green heaps and brown bags through the downtown whisperers and sage solitude souls Army bands prepare for march (their trench members filling packs with canister and cane) the high command and tricked militia head pinned quick on the look for splinter, lorry and skuttle Traffic patterns change at the COP connect camouflage bearers break formal stride battle men slip between colorful floats unsuspecting slumlords (vein pricked and weary) grin in their second suite dying rooms Twitching men and rubbernecks sit discreetly on the corner wall JJ and the chief revere a 21 gun salute holy rollers raise cheer (in a moment of silence) chess men hold steady with ivory cues Flames belt from the distant foundry streets come alive with crackle and dust members of the attic group glance down from their perch an elderly man in a straight jacket (happy in the now) sits solemnly with a cold reflective stare It’s not far from the steely mud holes from the flying fragments and sharp broken dreams from the arsenal digs and madmen (who quietly turned the ***** the ivy trellis and flowing white gown are a nocturne fit for this elevated rolling highland
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 8:33 PM UTC
James Street Parade
You know who you are Bruised Peaches Those hit, hidden Shamed Belittled and bitten By the very people we loved most Mocked For staying with the bearers of our Bruises We warrior spouses Some of the peaches are lucky we rolled from the pain baskets Others have to stay for seedlings This particular peach After years of bruises Nearly got squished between the fingers of a bruise bearer And I'm bitter mush But I'm still whole And all the while He whispered, I love you, I love you little peach He gave me a seedling She grew and with her My knowledge grew It took the kingsmens axe To cut me from that dead tree But thank God This peach, is free ~A
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Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 8:16 AM UTC
For The Bruised Peaches
Prayer For Called and Gifted Jesus you are the savior of the world author of salvation and creator of the universe and all good things. We are so small and frail and yet in your goodness you saw it fit to give us so much and to raise us up to more than we can be. You bestowed on your people different, beautiful gifts and call us to use them for others and for you. You have called us each by name and given us unique gifts, each with an integral part to play. You have given us a purpose and a reason. You have given us a passion for life. We are called to be beacons of hope, bearers of light. As wheat only produces fruit once it dies, may we also die to the things that hold us back from experiencing the fullness of your love for us. Help us Lord to be good stewards of the gifts you give so abundantly and so freely that we would be diligent, responsible, and humble as we try to live your love out in the world. You said to your apostles: "Go forth and make disciples of all nations; proclaiming the gospel by your lives and baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". Lord, bless the people in this room; send your Holy Spirit and let it come to rest in our souls. Guide and lead and teach us along the journey of life to use our gifts that you gave us "for the greater glory of God". Just as we pray for ourselves Lord, we also pray for all those in the church and throughout the world that you would help them realize and utilize what they have been given to make this world a little better and to further your kingdom right here and now. May we all be a "blessing for life and a blessing for Christ"! We ask this and all things in your most beautiful and precious name. AMEN.
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Dec 5, 2015
Dec 5, 2015 at 3:56 PM UTC
Prayer for Called and Gifted
Prayer For Called and Gifted Jesus you are the savior of the world author of salvation and creator of the universe and all good things. We are so small and frail and yet in your goodness you saw it fit to give us so much and to raise us up to more than we can be. You bestowed on your people different, beautiful gifts and call us to use them for others and for you. You have called us each by name and given us unique gifts, each with an integral part to play. You have given us a purpose and a reason. You have given us a passion for life. We are called to be beacons of hope, bearers of light. As wheat only produces fruit once it dies, may we also die to the things that hold us back from experiencing the fullness of your love for us. Help us Lord to be good stewards of the gifts you give so abundantly and so freely that we would be diligent, responsible, and humble as we try to live your love out in the world. You said to your apostles: "Go forth and make disciples of all nations; proclaiming the gospel by your lives and baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". Lord, bless the people in this room; send your Holy Spirit and let it come to rest in our souls. Guide and lead and teach us along the journey of life to use our gifts that you gave us "for the greater glory of God". Just as we pray for ourselves Lord, we also pray for all those in the church and throughout the world that you would help them realize and utilize what they have been given to make this world a little better and to further your kingdom right here and now. May we all be a "blessing for life and a blessing for Christ"! We ask this and all things in your most beautiful and precious name. AMEN.
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Where are the Eleanors And Godivas riding In power and insight, With spirit and mystique. They aren't in jewelry Or splashed on jeans. Vishti refused to attend Her drunken Lord; She is no mirror for Isabella, So inexperienced in love. Anne H. fought for liberty, Bella likes to shake blonde ringlets On her shoulders; The nervous Anastasia, The clumsy Swan, So modest And ill-spoken With downcast eyes. Katniss is no Palla Athena Or Garibaldi, though there's promise. They are bound, timid heroines. Malala never shot an arrow, But spoke like Rosa, like Golda. Yet, your childish sword-bearers Are still desired by the men They encounter; Not as Susan B was courted. Do they understand How the chase ends, These self-depricating heroines.
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM UTC
More Malalas, Please
Kate Little's "Most used words" woven into a poem.   The words: love remember life heart soul day cinquain kiss beautiful night sweet man angel dream silver tears spirit words pain does gentle hard true hope The poem: My vanished love, do you not remember the life we planned? A vision our hearts and souls wove together, day by day, letters sealed with our own cincquain kiss. My now distant love, how beautiful was the night from the circle of your arms-- sweet 'tis still, in my "man from an angel" dream. The lonely moon makes a silver necklace of my tears, while the night winds, once bearers of your love's whispers, breathe spirit words into my shattered heart. This careless pain you gave, does gentle, yes, does gentle in time, into a hard, true, hope.
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Mar 7, 2011
Mar 7, 2011 at 9:06 AM UTC
A Love Remembered
Call me by another name. Call me waspish, or boyish, or fountain-mouthed. Prate about the crooked, curved curls of my red-ribbon tongue. Whisper myths down spidered-ice hallways about the melted wax love games fixed between dust-dressed candlesticks, and the unfaithful rumors of wine-stained table cloths. Call me by another name. Call me button-eyed, and hollow, and brittle-garden crucified; Bind my face with burlap and replace my spine with a wood-splintering post; dry my veins gold so that my flannel fetters in the tornado-dry breath of fraying hay. I'll fight off autumn winds and the gossip of crows. Don't fuse my footsteps to the echos of Lightning Bearers and Stilt-legged Shadows; Fasten my shoelaces to the anchor dreams of drowning cannonballs where I will only spell stories with the sharp skin of coral reefs. Call me by another name. Call me typewriter-toothed, or backwash, or eight-legged. Just prescribe me a name that I can live up to.
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Feb 14, 2011
Feb 14, 2011 at 10:58 PM UTC
The Letdown.
Wellspring of blood and gold In flame and glory ever Doest thou faithful rise Cast off thy vapor shrouds Radiance of ancient godhood undimmed Magnified by singing ice As prophesied in the late darkness thy Hoped triumph heralded while Bearers chained on metalled rails Muttered protest under Hoary breath of polar air But lo! The brazen promise of thine Image graven in beholder's eye Rings hollow in the bitten ears And the stung flesh Feels thy boasted fire Not at all Above thee stands the city's goddess proud So virile once thou smilest Upon her white clad shoulder now Ceres scorns thine impotence turns not But fixes her steeled gaze On the frozen north
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Jan 25, 2019
Jan 25, 2019 at 10:46 AM UTC
Heart of Empires
A LIFE TORN APART When I first peeped into the world, I deemed it fit for the growth of my miniature. When I peeped again, I trembled with disbelieving eyes at the emergent live labyrinth that stood staring; but then, can an opinion change an existence? Maybe, just maybe As our mother packed and left, our father drove away. We remained hidden in desolate souls. We were striked with a giant of a being called sustenance, which dwelt in providence. Sincerely our begetters ought to have thought of our brilliant futures. We deserved a life, to run the race towards academic heights Just the other day I overheard, my hemophilic father tying the famous knot with a fellow MAN. Then I thought, what would become of my ego? Would I walk with MY head held high facing other heterosexually raised colleagues? Would I even get the strength to chase after the big price? I think not As I grew up, I hoped for an illuminated course. Now I walk in converging paths. After my fore-bearers kicked their ***** apart, I sobbed after my dressed mother, they say. But who could have thought that I would turn into a walking stone? Walking through streets in search of well-wishers, I wished my parents had held onto their existence. She blamed it on lewdness while he held it all upon the mistake of an early pregnancy. Was I born unwanted? Was I smuggled into this existence? I cease to think about it. As a student, I thought my father’s charm the way to go. As a child, my mother’s “generosity” to male neighbors elated me. Now as a parent to be I think, what would my apprehended seed think of my responsibilities? Will I be faced by delinquency? I thought the rod could do a lot to effect change. It never did on me. Maybe I ought to mind the examples that I was given not. With my Progenitor bidden by the feared misfortune, I still sink in the memories of my father, taken away by the same old grabber, HIV/AIDS. How I hate you HIV….I beseech thee to move away from me. I promise my dear life; that I will always run against the traffic. I will ensure I entangle myself not, in a creased heart and walk with head held high. With the hope of giving my bairm, the kind of life that I always wanted
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Jun 29, 2014
Jun 29, 2014 at 8:43 AM UTC
A LIFE TORN APART
A LIFE TORN APART When I first peeped into the world, I deemed it fit for the growth of my miniature. When I peeped again, I trembled with disbelieving eyes at the emergent live labyrinth that stood staring; but then, can an opinion change an existence? Maybe, just maybe As our mother packed and left, our father drove away. We remained hidden in desolate souls. We were striked with a giant of a being called sustenance, which dwelt in providence. Sincerely our begetters ought to have thought of our brilliant futures. We deserved a life, to run the race towards academic heights Just the other day I overheard, my hemophilic father tying the famous knot with a fellow MAN. Then I thought, what would become of my ego? Would I walk with MY head held high facing other heterosexually raised colleagues? Would I even get the strength to chase after the big price? I think not As I grew up, I hoped for an illuminated course. Now I walk in converging paths. After my fore-bearers kicked their ***** apart, I sobbed after my dressed mother, they say. But who could have thought that I would turn into a walking stone? Walking through streets in search of well-wishers, I wished my parents had held onto their existence. She blamed it on lewdness while he held it all upon the mistake of an early pregnancy. Was I born unwanted? Was I smuggled into this existence? I cease to think about it. As a student, I thought my father’s charm the way to go. As a child, my mother’s “generosity” to male neighbors elated me. Now as a parent to be I think, what would my apprehended seed think of my responsibilities? Will I be faced by delinquency? I thought the rod could do a lot to effect change. It never did on me. Maybe I ought to mind the examples that I was given not. With my Progenitor bidden by the feared misfortune, I still sink in the memories of my father, taken away by the same old grabber, HIV/AIDS. How I hate you HIV….I beseech thee to move away from me. I promise my dear life; that I will always run against the traffic. I will ensure I entangle myself not, in a creased heart and walk with head held high. With the hope of giving my bairm, the kind of life that I always wanted
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The writer's life Consists of looming strife For a writer's eyes are keen To the suffering that usually goes unseen All writers are bearers of truth Wielding their pens like a scalpel that cuts through All the **** we tell ourselves That keeps us in denial A writer seeks truth incessantly And eventually comes upon the somewhat ambiguous answer That all truth originates from Love How does the writer's analytical mind Grapple with such a fluid concept? The writer sees beauty in the invisible Writes poetry on bathroom stalls Lives life solely for stories The writer feels things deeply but doesn't speak them, But rather scribbles her thoughts fervently in a notebook The words dancing on the page As they are released from the tip of the pen The writer knows, sadly, that even though she writes stories to make people feel less alone That these people will never truly ever understand her and neither will She ever be able to fully embody the experience of another human The writer has wounds that go deeper than you could fathom When no one was there to turn to, She picked up a notebook instead and released the toxic emotional build-up in her head Made art out of her sadness on the page Through poetic words, Elusive and enigmatic, She could tell her story, indirectly And still set herself free from the ******* of unspoken miseries The writer's life is a privileged one indeed For we see things, but don't speak them But rather transcribe them forever in our memories Until we find a clean sheet of paper, And write Write everything we've seen, heard, tasted, felt, known and intuited Every struggle and every victory Meticulously crafted upon the bare canvas Like a war zone with an abundance of pent up zest Finally unleashing itself upon the page So, write, my fellow Writers Write fearlessly And our stories will prevail They will impact even just one person Who thought they were all alone, Perhaps like we once felt.
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Jun 4, 2017
Jun 4, 2017 at 2:01 AM UTC
The Writer's Life
The writer's life Consists of looming strife For a writer's eyes are keen To the suffering that usually goes unseen All writers are bearers of truth Wielding their pens like a scalpel that cuts through All the **** we tell ourselves That keeps us in denial A writer seeks truth incessantly And eventually comes upon the somewhat ambiguous answer That all truth originates from Love How does the writer's analytical mind Grapple with such a fluid concept? The writer sees beauty in the invisible Writes poetry on bathroom stalls Lives life solely for stories The writer feels things deeply but doesn't speak them, But rather scribbles her thoughts fervently in a notebook The words dancing on the page As they are released from the tip of the pen The writer knows, sadly, that even though she writes stories to make people feel less alone That these people will never truly ever understand her and neither will She ever be able to fully embody the experience of another human The writer has wounds that go deeper than you could fathom When no one was there to turn to, She picked up a notebook instead and released the toxic emotional build-up in her head Made art out of her sadness on the page Through poetic words, Elusive and enigmatic, She could tell her story, indirectly And still set herself free from the ******* of unspoken miseries The writer's life is a privileged one indeed For we see things, but don't speak them But rather transcribe them forever in our memories Until we find a clean sheet of paper, And write Write everything we've seen, heard, tasted, felt, known and intuited Every struggle and every victory Meticulously crafted upon the bare canvas Like a war zone with an abundance of pent up zest Finally unleashing itself upon the page So, write, my fellow Writers Write fearlessly And our stories will prevail They will impact even just one person Who thought they were all alone, Perhaps like we once felt.
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Never been so attracted to one being. Wildly attracted to traits of many, always fleeting. So many rolled into one man leaves me speechless, intrigued and fiending. He mirrors my lunacy, and my fiery independence, our duality. Water bearers pour streams adjoined from the heavens, unencumbered. After years of finding the streams gravitating into one, we ditch a gourd. Our fingers intertwined under the neck and the base of the remaining one. Our eyes mingle mysteriously each morning, and when they find stars they get to pouring.
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 1:29 AM UTC
Water Bearers
Here I sit in this holy room Surrounded by God and a heavenly host Of saints and angels who give him glory. Each changed by the body and blood The power of love and beauty in the sacrifice. Here I sit in this holy room A witness to the saving power A devotion to the perpetual presence Of Christ with us and in us. We are each bearers of light, bearers of Christ; We carry him in us wherever we go. Here I sit in this holy room To listen and take in this wondrous gift. I choose to accept this gift. How can I not want to share this love with others? How can I keep from singing and shouting His name? Here I sit in this holy room Holy Spirit fill this place and my soul, Uplift them to the throne of God above. Start a fire in me that cannot be quenched And set in me the bright flame of love and passion. Lead my feet and guide my steps along the path Be my compass and my Northern Star So I may never lose my way; So I can always find my way back home. Here I sit in this holy room To add my voice to those around the world At this moment praying for a change In others and in their own lives: Praying for safety and peace, Understanding and patience. Praying for survival, praying for the faith's revival. Praying with men and women past and present To call upon your aid as we aid those in need. We pray for many things: our families, friends, nation. We pray for each other, we pray for ourselves. Lead us to you, take us closer to your merciful heart, Love us and heal us and teach us where to start. Here I sit in this holy room I give thanks for the gift of undeserved love And cast my gaze to Heaven above.
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Apr 20, 2018
Apr 20, 2018 at 8:56 PM UTC
This Holy Room
Here I sit in this holy room Surrounded by God and a heavenly host Of saints and angels who give him glory. Each changed by the body and blood The power of love and beauty in the sacrifice. Here I sit in this holy room A witness to the saving power A devotion to the perpetual presence Of Christ with us and in us. We are each bearers of light, bearers of Christ; We carry him in us wherever we go. Here I sit in this holy room To listen and take in this wondrous gift. I choose to accept this gift. How can I not want to share this love with others? How can I keep from singing and shouting His name? Here I sit in this holy room Holy Spirit fill this place and my soul, Uplift them to the throne of God above. Start a fire in me that cannot be quenched And set in me the bright flame of love and passion. Lead my feet and guide my steps along the path Be my compass and my Northern Star So I may never lose my way; So I can always find my way back home. Here I sit in this holy room To add my voice to those around the world At this moment praying for a change In others and in their own lives: Praying for safety and peace, Understanding and patience. Praying for survival, praying for the faith's revival. Praying with men and women past and present To call upon your aid as we aid those in need. We pray for many things: our families, friends, nation. We pray for each other, we pray for ourselves. Lead us to you, take us closer to your merciful heart, Love us and heal us and teach us where to start. Here I sit in this holy room I give thanks for the gift of undeserved love And cast my gaze to Heaven above.
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Seas of anchors beneath the earth Take hold the dew of morning For truth givers and life bearers Hands stretched to the sky, demanding Freedom and peace and strength and serenity An understanding of things unknown Power purely born into existence From a single, simple seed
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May 31, 2021
May 31, 2021 at 11:31 PM UTC
For the love of green things
There's a stop off point we are brought when we die, And we're taken there by noble men, After our loved ones get so say their goodbyes, We begin our last journey with them. In a dignified manner, they wheel us away, And with quiet respect, they prepare, Gently into a room with our bodies they lay, Make us look like our lives are still there. Such a hush will descend on this room for a while, As those bearers of clothes dress us up, With respect in their hearts and professional grace, The rose cottage becomes our final stop. (c) eileen mcgreevy 2010
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Jan 24, 2010
Jan 24, 2010 at 9:35 AM UTC
Rose cottage
A blasphemous ******** as the dwelling beast salivates in its hollow. The glaring screen in the darkness is its only light. Years upon years it has followed the same sick fantasies. Self loathing and sickening it has reached the paramount of the low. Trawling the deep dark corners of the web to find his fix. Like a ****** addict it has delusions of needing his fraudulent fetish. A tiny drop of drewl collides with the derelict ground. It flows onto the pile of stale hardened tissues used to dispose of the beasts ****** off spray. A trundle to the local park to put a spring in its step. Watching the adolescents thinking corrupt thoughts. Child bearers stab the beast with scared stares of disgust. Attention is being drawn towards the hairy obese miscreant. Ripped shorts to expose the genitalia of the malevolent monster. A father approaches, intentions of confrontation are obvious. The monstrous **** runs to the road, unaware of the approaching speeding bus. It is drawn under the wheel crushed with the weight. Blood spurts in every direction, like a hot needle to a balloon full of acid. Slowly he dies in agony and suffering. The evil **** got his penance. ***** for eternity in the dark depths of hell. The devil reserves the darkest places for the darkest men. His penance came, as will yours. By Joseph Burns
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 6:42 PM UTC
The Paedophiles Penance
The cops took my **** Beautiful living creatures Extinguished by extraction This message made possible by The bible-thumpers passion A simple farmer, simple life He's caused no one pain or strife The victim absent, non-existent? It matters not, just throw him in prison!
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Mar 31, 2012
Mar 31, 2012 at 4:22 PM UTC
Persecution of the Flame Bearers...
Jean, death comes close to us all, flapping its awful wings at us and the gluey wings crawl up our nose. Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle, mine pushed into gnawing a stilbestrol cancer I passed on like hemophilia, or yours in the seventh grade, with her spleen smacked in by the balance beam. And we, mothers, crumpled, and flyspotted with bringing them this far can do nothing now but pray. Let us put your three children and my two children, ages ranging from eleven to twenty-one, and send them in a large air net up to God, with many stamps, real air mail, and huge signs attached: SPECIAL HANDLING. DO NOT STAPLE, FOLD OR MUTILATE! And perhaps He will notice and pass a psalm over them for keeping safe for a whole, for a whole ********* life-span. And not even a muddled angel will peek down at us in our foxhole. And He will not have time to send down an eyedropper of prayer for us, the mothering thing of us, as we drip into the soup and drown in the worry festering inside us, lest our children go so fast they go.
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The Child Bearers
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that no man is an island, whole unto himself/herself. Every person needs to feel safe to express his or her desires in as open and direct manner as is available. Each person should be told what is expected of them, and what can be done in the case said expectations cannot be met. Each person should be encouraged to pursue his or her own interests and given the tools necessary to do so. The striving of each person is as important as the collective aim of all mankind. We believe in a world which achieves its goals through the focused, deliberate behavior of determined agents. Any person striving against another’s interest or aim should declare their reasons for doing so. No person should secretly plot against another. All motivation for action should be weighed against the public good, and all actors should be held responsible for behavior directly hostile to the betterment of one’s neighbors. One should act with the mindful awareness of the impacts his or her actions could have on the other. We are indebted to each other’s needs and desires for our very existence, as it is the movement of the commodity market which ensures our existence and this is dictated to a large extent by real human demands. We are dependent on one another to use resources wisely and economically, bearing in mind that waste threatens the survival of our species. Being the bearers of a legacy stretching back to the haze of pre-history, and an even longer biological chain of inheritance, we as humans, are dependent on each other for a collective understanding and appreciation of the world. Without wasting time, we must acknowledge that it is in our best interest to act deliberately, without giddy outbursts of petulant exasperation, to solve the problems that our mutual dependence creates. There is no alternative to the necessity of working together to understand and amend the dire circumstances of our existence.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 6:25 AM UTC
Declaration of Dependence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that no man is an island, whole unto himself/herself. Every person needs to feel safe to express his or her desires in as open and direct manner as is available. Each person should be told what is expected of them, and what can be done in the case said expectations cannot be met. Each person should be encouraged to pursue his or her own interests and given the tools necessary to do so. The striving of each person is as important as the collective aim of all mankind. We believe in a world which achieves its goals through the focused, deliberate behavior of determined agents. Any person striving against another’s interest or aim should declare their reasons for doing so. No person should secretly plot against another. All motivation for action should be weighed against the public good, and all actors should be held responsible for behavior directly hostile to the betterment of one’s neighbors. One should act with the mindful awareness of the impacts his or her actions could have on the other. We are indebted to each other’s needs and desires for our very existence, as it is the movement of the commodity market which ensures our existence and this is dictated to a large extent by real human demands. We are dependent on one another to use resources wisely and economically, bearing in mind that waste threatens the survival of our species. Being the bearers of a legacy stretching back to the haze of pre-history, and an even longer biological chain of inheritance, we as humans, are dependent on each other for a collective understanding and appreciation of the world. Without wasting time, we must acknowledge that it is in our best interest to act deliberately, without giddy outbursts of petulant exasperation, to solve the problems that our mutual dependence creates. There is no alternative to the necessity of working together to understand and amend the dire circumstances of our existence.
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ITS CEASELESS BLINDNESS IS ITS POWER, IT HOISTS ITS POWER BY THE HOUR, NO OUGHT IF DWELLING, FORT, OR TOWER, THE EAGLE EYES GLARE THROUGH ITS GRIM TERRORS, ITS LUCK IS POOR, THUS IT ENCOUNTERS, ENDLESS PROBLEMS, ENEMIES, ERRORS, WHEN TIME HAS COME TO FACE THE BEARERS, IT GOES, DEFENDS WHAT IT SEES FAIRER, THE CIVIL PRAY FOR PEACE FROM BATTLES, IT FIGHTS TO TAKE WHAT IT CAN HANDLE, ULTIMATE FORCES USED AS RAFFLES, YET MAN IS STRONG, STRENGTH IS IMPERIL, INTEL IS THE ORAL, THAT LEADS TO HIS QUARREL, THE PLACE WHERE HE KEEPS HIS BOWS AND ARROWS, TO WHERE THE SHIELD AND SWORD HANG BY THE MARROW, THOUGH IT’S LIFE IS HARD, ROUGH AND NARROW, ITS TRUE LIGHT NOUGHT BE EQUAL TO ITS DARKEST SHADOWS…
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
The Righteous
Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny never to rot While he might still jogg on, and keep his trot, Made of sphear-metal, never to decay Untill his revolution was at stay. Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime ‘Gainst old truth) motion number’d out his time: And like an Engin mov’d with wheel and waight, His principles being ceast, he ended strait. Rest that gives all men life, gave him his death, And too much breathing put him out of breath; Nor were it contradiction to affirm Too long vacation hastned on his term. Meerly to drive the time away he sickn’d, Fainted, and died, nor would with Ale be quickn’d; Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed out-stretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers. Ease was his chief disease, and to judge right, He di’d for heavines that his Cart went light, His leasure told him that his time was com, And lack of load, made his life burdensom That even to his last breath (ther be that say’t) As he were prest to death, he cry’d more waight; But had his doings lasted as they were, He had bin an immortall Carrier. Obedient to the Moon he spent his date In cours reciprocal, and had his fate Linkt to the mutual flowing of the Seas, Yet (strange to think) his wain was his increase: His Letters are deliver’d all and gon, Onely remains this superscription.
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Another On The Same
Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his destiny never to rot While he might still jogg on, and keep his trot, Made of sphear-metal, never to decay Untill his revolution was at stay. Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime ‘Gainst old truth) motion number’d out his time: And like an Engin mov’d with wheel and waight, His principles being ceast, he ended strait. Rest that gives all men life, gave him his death, And too much breathing put him out of breath; Nor were it contradiction to affirm Too long vacation hastned on his term. Meerly to drive the time away he sickn’d, Fainted, and died, nor would with Ale be quickn’d; Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed out-stretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers. Ease was his chief disease, and to judge right, He di’d for heavines that his Cart went light, His leasure told him that his time was com, And lack of load, made his life burdensom That even to his last breath (ther be that say’t) As he were prest to death, he cry’d more waight; But had his doings lasted as they were, He had bin an immortall Carrier. Obedient to the Moon he spent his date In cours reciprocal, and had his fate Linkt to the mutual flowing of the Seas, Yet (strange to think) his wain was his increase: His Letters are deliver’d all and gon, Onely remains this superscription.
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Old men in dresses wave hands across baskets casting magic spells on sausage and oranges then hocus pocus over horseradish root as thick as a forearm, potato-peeled later we'll garnish meats with mystical power. They expect us to kiss the ****** feet of a God immortalized in plaster while granite saints stand watching a procession of misty-eyed martyrs shuffling down the aisle like sheep, and all the while the bells are ringing. Always the ringing of bells. Bells rung by boys standing still ring like angels. The old men hold crackers up to the light, then more bells and drinking of blood and finally its done. They waddle down the nave casting incense in a metronome spray. The boys follow behind the hypnotic smoke, their bells have been put away, pall bearers of the crucified Christ they lead us not into temptation, rather deliver us out the doors and into the street, redeemed and safe behind the hedge of numbing ritual.
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Oct 31, 2010
Oct 31, 2010 at 6:42 PM UTC
Always the Bells
Beautiful soul The carrier of hardships You are the spawn Of proud ancestry The source of awe The muse for my desire Your dark skin Is my heart's awakening Yet you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me Distance remains a consistent Impediment to my sacrilege Travesty of a face of empathy Sadly I'm less than eyes can see Yet more beneath is left to greet My ears hear psalms mourning me Tears leak upon my pale cheeks Speeches are given casually Venom spews through the loose Vortexes of speaker-box booths The black hole that once controlled My inner intuitions and sold soul The owner being you in truth Sweetly scented lullabies shoo Away doubtful tunes in bloom The replacements are couth sleuths Meetings seldom meet fruition Meat meets my mouth in suspicion Meaning I'm once again a victim Meandering through prisms Restaurant owners are slower To greet me at the doorway Knowing fulfillment of my order Won't require a table for more Not for the kind of man who Stands and is hardly understood Also seemingly oblivious to who Is true and reluctant to face proof That you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me Beautiful girl You are the grains Beautiful girlfriend You are the coastline Beautiful woman You are the ocean Beautiful wife You are the Earth in whole Yet you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me The tremors The whispers The night terrors The torch bearers The dark caresser The static selector The burnt dresser The hell blesser The black lipstick wearer You are for me.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 11:36 PM UTC
Meet & Greet
Beautiful soul The carrier of hardships You are the spawn Of proud ancestry The source of awe The muse for my desire Your dark skin Is my heart's awakening Yet you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me Distance remains a consistent Impediment to my sacrilege Travesty of a face of empathy Sadly I'm less than eyes can see Yet more beneath is left to greet My ears hear psalms mourning me Tears leak upon my pale cheeks Speeches are given casually Venom spews through the loose Vortexes of speaker-box booths The black hole that once controlled My inner intuitions and sold soul The owner being you in truth Sweetly scented lullabies shoo Away doubtful tunes in bloom The replacements are couth sleuths Meetings seldom meet fruition Meat meets my mouth in suspicion Meaning I'm once again a victim Meandering through prisms Restaurant owners are slower To greet me at the doorway Knowing fulfillment of my order Won't require a table for more Not for the kind of man who Stands and is hardly understood Also seemingly oblivious to who Is true and reluctant to face proof That you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me Beautiful girl You are the grains Beautiful girlfriend You are the coastline Beautiful woman You are the ocean Beautiful wife You are the Earth in whole Yet you are not for me You are not for me You are not for me The tremors The whispers The night terrors The torch bearers The dark caresser The static selector The burnt dresser The hell blesser The black lipstick wearer You are for me.
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It was dark Trembling whirlpools and waves lingered We climbed for days We climbed for weeks We climbed to the highest peaks on the earth But still, the flood rained down We built great ships and sailed Great monsters fought us from below Just as the water-bearers struck from above We wandered the waves , whipping We sailed between the horses We sailed between the C's Was this the coming of a new age? Was this the death of the fish? What of the light? What of the sun? Housed by Aquarian demise, We fought for each day How long must we wait? Can we blame the goat? Zealaz, where are you? When will your mountain appear?
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM UTC
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Mhmm... Mhmm... yea! Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah yeah mm... mhmm Mhmm... mhmm... Mhmm... yea! yeah Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah mm mm, mhm Hey, yea-yea, yeah-eh-yeah-eh, yeah-eh-yeah-eh Hey hey-yea-eh yeah, mhmm Professional or beginner doesnt matter Every sinner is a prisoner in a body that is subject to time Now my entwined mind tries to form a straight line not like twised scoliosis of the spinal chord Construct Cross eyed carpenters are cuttin' crooked lines Can't construct man-made shrines when the winds and the water move sands of time Many minds on a deadline, yet live life like a live wire I'm not tired! Of blood and fire Spirit's moving higher than the green grass ever lifted me Spirit's moving higher... Than anything else ever lifted you Mm, see We got spirituality It's living in us like one in three Injustice is concerning me in the non-linear eternity I'm speaking paradoxically but you can nod your head now when you understand me-e-e-ee... This is for my free men whose backs wont bend in the lions den now with their eyes on the ending This is for my free women! They fight with their love The bearers of our children Free men whose backs wont bend in the lions den now with their eyes on the ending This is for my free women They fight with their love The bearers of our children We shine like lights exposing what lies underneath decomposing Unearth those chains that are rusted my sweet Lord, is that what i trusted in? That sin? That tomfoolery? Ugh! What it is is mental jewelery that I adorned myself with The enemy's gifts, the man-made myths, the ignorant bliss of marijuana spliffs and alchoholic fifths I got so sick and tired of it Delivered and redeemed by christ i mean It's time to start livin' and get a reason for the rhyme I dont wanna be dead-wrong on the deadline Standing on the dark side and all out of time... Like a blind pantomime's fantasize climb up his own ladder to the sunshine Nothin's mine that hasn't been given No one's alive here that hasn't been risen For 19 years i was trapped in a prison Feeding my escape by means of derision but every man-made attempt just failed when trapped in a jail of my own guilt, shame, and iniquity I was looking for freedom How'd I find freedom? Oh! Oh, freedom... from all of this He said believe He said believe Who are you telling me to belei-e-eve... yea 'Said I'm the Christ Oh! ...he said I'm the Christ So I believed. Freedom! Mhmm... yea Mhmm... ey! Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah yeah eh, mhmm Mhmm... Hey! No, no no Mhmm... yea! Mhmm... Yea ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah mhm, Nah na-na-nah
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM UTC
FREEDOM ~BY: JOSH GARRELS
Mhmm... Mhmm... yea! Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah yeah mm... mhmm Mhmm... mhmm... Mhmm... yea! yeah Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah mm mm, mhm Hey, yea-yea, yeah-eh-yeah-eh, yeah-eh-yeah-eh Hey hey-yea-eh yeah, mhmm Professional or beginner doesnt matter Every sinner is a prisoner in a body that is subject to time Now my entwined mind tries to form a straight line not like twised scoliosis of the spinal chord Construct Cross eyed carpenters are cuttin' crooked lines Can't construct man-made shrines when the winds and the water move sands of time Many minds on a deadline, yet live life like a live wire I'm not tired! Of blood and fire Spirit's moving higher than the green grass ever lifted me Spirit's moving higher... Than anything else ever lifted you Mm, see We got spirituality It's living in us like one in three Injustice is concerning me in the non-linear eternity I'm speaking paradoxically but you can nod your head now when you understand me-e-e-ee... This is for my free men whose backs wont bend in the lions den now with their eyes on the ending This is for my free women! They fight with their love The bearers of our children Free men whose backs wont bend in the lions den now with their eyes on the ending This is for my free women They fight with their love The bearers of our children We shine like lights exposing what lies underneath decomposing Unearth those chains that are rusted my sweet Lord, is that what i trusted in? That sin? That tomfoolery? Ugh! What it is is mental jewelery that I adorned myself with The enemy's gifts, the man-made myths, the ignorant bliss of marijuana spliffs and alchoholic fifths I got so sick and tired of it Delivered and redeemed by christ i mean It's time to start livin' and get a reason for the rhyme I dont wanna be dead-wrong on the deadline Standing on the dark side and all out of time... Like a blind pantomime's fantasize climb up his own ladder to the sunshine Nothin's mine that hasn't been given No one's alive here that hasn't been risen For 19 years i was trapped in a prison Feeding my escape by means of derision but every man-made attempt just failed when trapped in a jail of my own guilt, shame, and iniquity I was looking for freedom How'd I find freedom? Oh! Oh, freedom... from all of this He said believe He said believe Who are you telling me to belei-e-eve... yea 'Said I'm the Christ Oh! ...he said I'm the Christ So I believed. Freedom! Mhmm... yea Mhmm... ey! Mhmm... ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah yeah eh, mhmm Mhmm... Hey! No, no no Mhmm... yea! Mhmm... Yea ey-yeah-ey yeah yeah mhm, Nah na-na-nah
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The potential in the collections of seconds which crescendo into minutes in the clock of an outdated watch simmer furiously with their inability to communicate with their bearers and explain or at least signal that now would be exactly the perfect time to go and                      just                             do it.
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Mar 21, 2017
Mar 21, 2017 at 3:05 PM UTC
One of Time's Annoyances