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"bleating" poems
Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but a sunless glare. Newly stumbling to and fro All they find, outside the fold, Is a wretched width of cold. As they wait beside the ewe, Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies Hidden round them, waiting too, Earth's immeasureable surprise. They could not grasp it if they knew, What so soon will wake and grow Utterly unlike the snow.
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First Sight
I heard the footsteps as they came across the road; The snap of hurried feet outside the house. Shapes in the moonlight, a voice in the darkness, A knock at the door, I heard the dogs barking.     The bleating of the flock, The chatter of the birds amongst the trees, I recall the whisper of the morning breeze; Hyphening the broken silence as two boys stole about the house; It was midnight in August 99. Two sparks set out to chase the bang! Bang! ~ set them running. I cut them down; I cut them down! I heard the sirens as the cops sped off the road; The squeal of hurried wheels outside the house. shapes in the moonlight, a voice in the darkness, A knock at the door, I heard the dogs barking. The bleating of the flock, The chatter of the birds amongst the trees, I recall the whisper of the morning breeze; Hyphening the broken silence as two cops stole about the house; It was midnight in August 99. Two cops set out to chase the bang; Bang! I put my hands up and the cops took me down! Judge I’m guilty, it’s true for everything they said I did; I did! But there were reasons, don’t you see: These boys; they were bullying me! I called the cops on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, came round again; still no one came; drove me insane; Two sparks set out to chase the bang! Bang set them running; I cut them down! Two cops set out to chase the bang! Bang! Yes, I put my hands up! and the cops took me down! But Mr Wolf gave me twenty, and the circus came to town; for as a victim I was lonely; but as a killer; as a killer; I was crowned. Newsworthy, top of the heap, the talk of the town!
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 2:40 PM UTC
Top of the heap?
I heard the footsteps as they came across the road; The snap of hurried feet outside the house. Shapes in the moonlight, a voice in the darkness, A knock at the door, I heard the dogs barking.     The bleating of the flock, The chatter of the birds amongst the trees, I recall the whisper of the morning breeze; Hyphening the broken silence as two boys stole about the house; It was midnight in August 99. Two sparks set out to chase the bang! Bang! ~ set them running. I cut them down; I cut them down! I heard the sirens as the cops sped off the road; The squeal of hurried wheels outside the house. shapes in the moonlight, a voice in the darkness, A knock at the door, I heard the dogs barking. The bleating of the flock, The chatter of the birds amongst the trees, I recall the whisper of the morning breeze; Hyphening the broken silence as two cops stole about the house; It was midnight in August 99. Two cops set out to chase the bang; Bang! I put my hands up and the cops took me down! Judge I’m guilty, it’s true for everything they said I did; I did! But there were reasons, don’t you see: These boys; they were bullying me! I called the cops on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, came round again; still no one came; drove me insane; Two sparks set out to chase the bang! Bang set them running; I cut them down! Two cops set out to chase the bang! Bang! Yes, I put my hands up! and the cops took me down! But Mr Wolf gave me twenty, and the circus came to town; for as a victim I was lonely; but as a killer; as a killer; I was crowned. Newsworthy, top of the heap, the talk of the town!
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JANUARY Delightful display Snowdrops bowing pure white heads To the sun’s glory. FEBRUARY Fresh green buds appear Indicating spring will soon Energise us all. MARCH Lambs gambol in fields Frisky with the joys of life Bleating happily. APRIL Bluebells stand so proud Beneath trees now sparsely dressed Fresh green leaves unfold. MAY Much awaited sound Echoes heard amid dense trees Cuckoo has arrived. JUNE Parks and gardens burst With sounds and vibrant colours Perfect harmony. JULY Beaches become full Of families having fun In sand and big waves. AUGUST Ripe golden harvest Burning sun in azure skies Labours rewarded. SEPTEMBER Swallows congregate On telephone wires ready To migrate down south. OCTOBER Red and gold leaves fall, Crunchy as cornflakes beneath Feet on a crisp morn. NOVEMBER Frosty webs sparkle In the early morning sun Brightly bejewelled. DECEMBER First few flakes of snow Dust gardens like icing on A chocolate cake.
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Jan 18, 2012
Jan 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM UTC
A Year in Haiku
This poem casts a line from insomnia to morning On the wind of a prayer that whatever bites, holds on. See I have counted eleven score and ten, with rainbow like curves of my neck - contemptuous beasts leaping in formation each bleating out a preach of vague platitudes; A narrative for the night sky. My hands clamour at keys for escape until I tumble headfirst into a web so vast it has ensnared the whole world wide - millennials are living in-ter-net over in-the-world; a new ultraviolence against humanity. I beat my words into the screen until it breaks; shattering scarlet emoticons like confetti pouring over language as if it were a compliment. My mind massages shapeless polypous thoughts like tight constricted muscles aching for release. 3am casts these philosophies into horses, whipping them into shape and speed before the eyes of this statuesque ****** This anxious wakefulness begs my manic self to dance; suggestively ********* tickets to ride like cleavage. Sleep is fast becoming a neglected former engagement; as my mind trips over fallen heroes wades through my favourite mistakes in a wonderland unfolding faster than I can fall while the world beyond my window remains dark.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 10:52 PM UTC
Insomnia
Little lamb, lone in the brush Without a mother’s feed. Who is to groom the gloss Of her delicate clothing? Little lamb, who sings to me, Unlettered melodies, Why does she wag forth These eyes of rust— In pensive gloat ache Sipped sinews of her throat? Little Lamb, bleating to bleed, Ventures frail, tender limbs Deep within Tophet’s Vale. Meek, she slips in buried sheets. Little Lamb, orchid chewed to root Bask and bathe the moon Twixt her thighs. Splayed upon pastures Nourished with tears. Wine spilled into the milk of being. She drinks the rich grain.
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Jul 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021 at 4:42 PM UTC
To The Earth
Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no green weight of laurels round his head, But with sad eyes as one uncomforted, And wearied with man’s never-ceasing moan For sins no bleating victim can atone, And sweet long lips with tears and kisses fed. Girt was he in a garment black and red, And at his feet I marked a broken stone Which sent up lilies, dove-like, to his knees. Now at their sight, my heart being lit with flame, I cried to Beatrice, ‘Who are these?’ And she made answer, knowing well each name, ‘AEschylos first, the second Sophokles, And last (wide stream of tears!) Euripides.’
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A Vision
The stink of fish on earthen streets A hot wind blows from ochre hills Black faces shine with brilliant teeth Street market ***** doth cure all ills. Redness in her plaited hair Rhythm in her steady tread A harmony of balance, she carries Water jars on her head. A market girl is singing As she sits among bananas The drama in her music Is as dusty as the street, It fills the air with magic As it lilts above street chatter In the atmosphere of Africa Where new and ancient meet. The goat boy herds his docile flock Through camel trains and bales The steamer tethered at the dock Announces that she sails With billowed steam and mournful wail It echoes through the town And the planter and his agent Bargain with a harried frown. The bleating of the goat herd And the stench of fish and dung Is as ordinary as Africa In the searing mid day sun. Zanzibar is spices, Zanzibar is Stone. Club Zanzibar is whiskey on the rocks Consumed alone Or shared upon the balcony In the shadow of a palm With the turquoise Indian ocean Reaching out beyond the arm. Do you see the dhows are sailing? Do you see the fishing nets? Do you hear the oarsmen chanting? Did you see black muscle flex? Have you watched the dripping sweat Cascade on alabaster brow? Have you inhaled the scent of Africa And allowed it to allow? Colobus monkeys in the treetops Narrow lanes in the bazaar Dull white walls adorn stone buildings And the rupee is by far The favorite tenure of the Island Since the days when slaves were sold By Arab camel caravaners Who traded coin for young black gold. East and west collide in concert Africa and Asia blend The Sultan's mix of race and spice In Zanzibar, beyond lands end. Marshalg Mangere Bridge 3rd June 2008
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Oct 13, 2009
Oct 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM UTC
Zanzibar
The stink of fish on earthen streets A hot wind blows from ochre hills Black faces shine with brilliant teeth Street market ***** doth cure all ills. Redness in her plaited hair Rhythm in her steady tread A harmony of balance, she carries Water jars on her head. A market girl is singing As she sits among bananas The drama in her music Is as dusty as the street, It fills the air with magic As it lilts above street chatter In the atmosphere of Africa Where new and ancient meet. The goat boy herds his docile flock Through camel trains and bales The steamer tethered at the dock Announces that she sails With billowed steam and mournful wail It echoes through the town And the planter and his agent Bargain with a harried frown. The bleating of the goat herd And the stench of fish and dung Is as ordinary as Africa In the searing mid day sun. Zanzibar is spices, Zanzibar is Stone. Club Zanzibar is whiskey on the rocks Consumed alone Or shared upon the balcony In the shadow of a palm With the turquoise Indian ocean Reaching out beyond the arm. Do you see the dhows are sailing? Do you see the fishing nets? Do you hear the oarsmen chanting? Did you see black muscle flex? Have you watched the dripping sweat Cascade on alabaster brow? Have you inhaled the scent of Africa And allowed it to allow? Colobus monkeys in the treetops Narrow lanes in the bazaar Dull white walls adorn stone buildings And the rupee is by far The favorite tenure of the Island Since the days when slaves were sold By Arab camel caravaners Who traded coin for young black gold. East and west collide in concert Africa and Asia blend The Sultan's mix of race and spice In Zanzibar, beyond lands end. Marshalg Mangere Bridge 3rd June 2008
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The bleating of the newborn lambs As they prance about the fields Yellow of the rapeseed Prepare for summers yield Birds twitter on every bough While making up their nests Tapping of the woodpecker Pointed beak and coloured crest Gone the snowdrops and daffodils Now bluebells carpet the floor Wild garlic with its pungent smell You may dislike or adore Seasons change so quickly As time passes on its way No beauty can compare To nature day by day
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM UTC
Dingley dell
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 11:30 PM UTC
Rescuing Our True Transformative Desires
Teasing the beast Looking for a feast Hounds barking at our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Compartmentalizing symptom after symptom To hide the great systematic sickness Labeling the suffering, outcome from desire We, wholeheartedly accepting being Appropriated, labeled, discarded As construing our own oppression and sadness Enduring the **** of our minds Being castrated of our consciousness Before we reap the products Of its bold liberation and grandness Its the belly of the beast And its hungry Insatiable, amoral entrails Hoping to salvage a feast From the casualties of d(e)moc(ratic) wars Hoping we feed our monstrous fear Thirsting for the greed Dripping off of accumulating wealths Impatiently waiting, we keep parceling out grudges Disfiguring our minds, our souls, and our bodies Its misanthropic nature lashes out without conscience Knowing we'll never realize we are masses Disappearing the individuals who realize their suffering Ensuring there's no collective opposition or action Trying to reassure we are weak Knowing at some point or another We all act mute, deaf, and blind when anyone experiences: Oppression Pain Silencing **** Hunger Fear Violence Repression Retaliation Discrimination Torture Negation Alienation All forms of mental, psychological, physical, and spiritual mutilation Fearing death more than fighting for necessary abolishment Preferring to live out our veiled miseries Endorsing their continuance Instead of risking our lives for everyone's liberation Always ensuring the feast of the beast By its very efforts trying to decree our very human nature Ingraining greed, fear, animosity, and weakness as if inherent of us All parts of its most damaging weapon: the seed of discord Its implantation, a socialized deep desire for self-preservation Sheep bleating painfully toward our ears Vultures flying up ahead Circling a bald eagle's fresh corpse Signifying the impending recapturing Of our true transformative desires
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The world is indeed flat. When we fell from the star into the box, shades of amber colored the walls. People were like sheep, following the flock. In their stupid uniforms until they crashed                 face first into the side       dazed   disoriented   dizzy. We followed them and the box became smaller. We started walking like them, talking like them. And our prattle      echoed and hopped, bleating from corner to corner.
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 6:46 PM UTC
sheep
I'm ****** off with Robert Frost And the guy who wrote Paradise Lost. I ain't happy with Aristotle, And especially John, the weird Apostle. Don't mention, please, Shelley or Keats, Blake, Byron or Yeats; Each and every one you see, (if you're ready for some truth) Took their themes from me. Don't look aghast, Don't tsk and titter, Their thievery's left me Mean and bitter. Just because they said it first, Doesn't mean I find it just. It doesn't give them ownership Of my themes and authorship. I write of Roads, Good and Evil, God and Satan, love and leaving. I know I'm internally bleating, But I can't abide this metric beating. Although they're merely dust and bones, They don't have the right to own All the great lines I have sown: The best laid plans of mice and men. (I said that before Robbie Burns). Let me make this poeticaly clear; ***If I was there, or he were here, I'd sue the *** of Will Shakespeare***.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 9:31 AM UTC
Robbie Burns Is a Plagiarist
Where be ye going, you Devon maid? And what have ye there i' the basket? Ye tight little fairy, just fresh from the dairy, Will ye give me some cream if I ask it? I love your meads, and I love your flowers, And I love your junkets mainly, But 'hind the door, I love kissing more, O look not so disdainly! I love your hills, and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; But O, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating! I'll put your basket all safe in a nook, Your shawl I'll hang up on this willow, And we will sigh in the daisy's eye, And kiss on a grass-green pillow.
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Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
I remember quite distinctly The night the Angel came Hovering above my field And calling me by name Fred, the Angel yelled to me Waking all my sheep I yelled "you stupid ****** twit" I've just got them to sleep He said a king was born to man And I must go to see I said, "I've got these bleating sheep" I don't do this for free The angel said follow the star All the way to Bethlehem I told him, you must be ****** daft My next shift starts at ten I've been around the world a bit And I've seen a lot of stunts But this angel hung right in the air And his wings did not flap once He said there is a child And he will be the King of Kings I didn't really listen much I was still watching those **** wings The sheep were going batty The field was bight as bright could be I said, of all the shepherds round here Why did you come wake me? He said to travel swiftly And to follow yonder star I said, I'm off to bed mate I'm not going on that far Then there came a bolt of lightning He had barbecued a ewe I thought this bird means business I mean just what could I do? I left my flock with Charlie The shepherd two fields over one And I said I'll be back soon mate I'm off to see the holy son I met up with some others All of us had the same tale Of an angel flinging lightning So we all felt we best bail.... I got there in December I'd been travelling for months The only thing I thought of Those wings...did not move once There inside a manger behind an inn...full up each day Was where I saw a vision I'll remember to my last day Three wise men dressed in robements A little kid, and his tin drum Some donkeys and a camel The baby Jesus and his mum Dad, was in the corner All alone hanging his head He said "How could this have happened" "I never left the bed" I looked upon the baby And I looked down upon that face He looked at me and smiled You could feel a state of grace I really didn't know then What I was here to do But, now I know my task was To tell everyone I knew So, I started out on homeward To tell old Charlie of the kid I picked him up a present Yep..that's exactly what I did I guess the world must owe me and this I 'll stand and shout You could consider my gift to Charlie Was the first true gift given out Now, I sit and watch the sheep here People come up just to see The shepherd who started gifting The shepherd...that is me!!!
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Nov 19, 2015
Nov 19, 2015 at 11:41 PM UTC
The Shepherd
I remember quite distinctly The night the Angel came Hovering above my field And calling me by name Fred, the Angel yelled to me Waking all my sheep I yelled "you stupid ****** twit" I've just got them to sleep He said a king was born to man And I must go to see I said, "I've got these bleating sheep" I don't do this for free The angel said follow the star All the way to Bethlehem I told him, you must be ****** daft My next shift starts at ten I've been around the world a bit And I've seen a lot of stunts But this angel hung right in the air And his wings did not flap once He said there is a child And he will be the King of Kings I didn't really listen much I was still watching those **** wings The sheep were going batty The field was bight as bright could be I said, of all the shepherds round here Why did you come wake me? He said to travel swiftly And to follow yonder star I said, I'm off to bed mate I'm not going on that far Then there came a bolt of lightning He had barbecued a ewe I thought this bird means business I mean just what could I do? I left my flock with Charlie The shepherd two fields over one And I said I'll be back soon mate I'm off to see the holy son I met up with some others All of us had the same tale Of an angel flinging lightning So we all felt we best bail.... I got there in December I'd been travelling for months The only thing I thought of Those wings...did not move once There inside a manger behind an inn...full up each day Was where I saw a vision I'll remember to my last day Three wise men dressed in robements A little kid, and his tin drum Some donkeys and a camel The baby Jesus and his mum Dad, was in the corner All alone hanging his head He said "How could this have happened" "I never left the bed" I looked upon the baby And I looked down upon that face He looked at me and smiled You could feel a state of grace I really didn't know then What I was here to do But, now I know my task was To tell everyone I knew So, I started out on homeward To tell old Charlie of the kid I picked him up a present Yep..that's exactly what I did I guess the world must owe me and this I 'll stand and shout You could consider my gift to Charlie Was the first true gift given out Now, I sit and watch the sheep here People come up just to see The shepherd who started gifting The shepherd...that is me!!!
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In this trouble torn. Grief stricken world Only music embalm my aching soul When corruption and bribery are the order of the day Goons and rowdies show me the real way Even the judges succumb to dishonesty Morals and ethics have lost their identity The veena, the flute, the clarinet, the drums And the guitar make a soothing effect to my ears When there is   incredible symphony The distinction between East And west is totally lost Only peace and harmony forever last Music is more intoxicating than vine It is undoubtedly divine There is music in the blowing wind, Flowing stream, chirping of birds, The hissing of  snakes, The bleating of a goat And the beating of a heart And the passing of blood to each human part But understanding the synchronization is a difficult art
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Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 10:59 PM UTC
FUSION OF MUSIC
Through the sunlit valley they dance and sing smiling with constant purity in the arms of spring in the dales, new born lambs are bleating daffodils push up to the sun, kindly beating The buttercup pixies start to find worm holes to pop there little seeds in threes into then by night and day they watch the seedlings grow underneath the shelter of a nearby toadstool Then at six in the morning when most folks are yawning they gather their red hats as a team and skip to the nearby crystal stream Then with hats in hand scoop up the water no more then just over a quarter then bound back to water their seedlings sweetly fastidious and tending with feeling By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM UTC
The Buttercup Pixies
I walk a lonely alley off a quiet dead end street at the gushing blow of where the wind and I meet I clench my coat across my chest, turn my collar for warmth my hat is flung off my head by the coming storms my tie has flown and ***** like the tail of a kite stripped right off my back, my coat puts up a fight I tug back my shirt, but it’s bye byes across the sky Like a black bird bleating I wish myself to fly I extend my arms, running, like a plane off the ground The winds undress me, more clothes dropping down Soaring over cities, buildings and their blue seas releasing the fabrics of my life now escaping me I’m naked, but warmed by the layers of rays from the sun nothing now matters than this feeling of having won against the wind, an open sky, beyond the cast shadows below I freely fly, with nothing on, but the air and where the wind may blow
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Aug 21, 2021
Aug 21, 2021 at 7:06 AM UTC
Where the wind may blow
If I'd a dime for every rhyme That popped inside my head Wishing plague and misery To **** what is already dead Then perhaps some day, should I have my way I'd bring silence to the lambs **** it's bleating, end it's breathing And let me rest amongst the ****** We cursed few do mock the blessed We dance on your very grave If only you saw perspective You'd know there's none to save! Time, time and time again You promised to make change And now my mind won't SHUT UP It knows that I'm to blame! I did this, I did that I know what wicked ends Have forged the stage of sorrows That gave you all there was left With piggy eyes and snuffling pride Your wretched filth, and life Have tempted fate, as of late Now scream, pig, and die...
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 11:28 PM UTC
Piggish
Maybe you’re mistaken when you think about what’s out there, You attribute ev’ry stimulus to winged things from books, Mistaking accidental circumstances for essential causes, There isn’t really anything that God conveys with looks. Perhaps it is hard to face the truth: we’re just meat bags with will, Which slowly rot away until the day when we’re forgotten Needlessly dissecting every move and every inner thought, Attempting to discover what makes us all so very rotten. Take a deep breath And hold it in Until you feel it all ...Fading away Slowly toward death All of us fall Someday we’ll feel it all ...Fading away Through my goat mouth, it’s true, you can hear me bleating, Like a little lamb who’s lambier than lamby-lambs can be, But yes in fact it’s bike tires, and tin cans that I’m eating, And I feel my goat heart beating and... I want to flee.
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Jul 15, 2015
Jul 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM UTC
I Am Goat and Lamb
O secret voice of hidden love! O bleating without wool! O wound! O dry camellia, bitter needle! O sea-less current, wall-less city! O night immense with sharpened profile, heavenly mountain, narrow valley! O dig inside the heart, voice going, endless silence, full-blown iris! Let me be, hot voice of icebergs, and do nto ask me to vanish in weeds, where sky and flesh are fruitless. Leave my hard ivory skull forever, have pity on me. Stop the torture! O I am loev, O I am nature!
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'Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!'
Pellets of rain pestered the cotton swagged sky, cloudy purses grew black with scowls coldly spelling their injustice. A chapter of sunrays shot shamesless shards, irony perched between chaperones; a truce maybe, rains restless pathways of rays bleating their appeal, rooming in, black balaclavas, rooting for blue beams, itching bony beads of cloudy sweat, out of reach In turn, limbs colour coated grassy spaces tides of sun worshippers laughed out loud their inner duets, hand in hand the sweltering dance floor bathed them, sidling cotton clouds Swiftly passing the sunscreen, laying back, beckoning the sun from beneath neatly positioned cloud baubles. Within an inch of our lives the splodges began, light heavy, heavier, to the swell of April in full tune Instantly the greedy green spaces groaned, ejected sweet harmony, rolled out goodbyes, tongued stiff breeze longing for its thirst to be quenched, and so torrents rushed in where fools once lay A lonely sunscreen bottle, remnant of warm minds soaking heat, long days teasing into belief. Yet April fooled us once more with beguiling banter, chorused a chanting cheating lullaby of lamentation
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May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013 at 1:04 PM UTC
Beguilingly April
All are not taken; there are left behind Living Belovèds, tender looks to bring And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices, to make soft the wind: But if it were not so—if I could find No love in all this world for comforting, Nor any path but hollowly did ring Where ‘dust to dust’ the love from life disjoin’d; And if, before those sepulchres unmoving I stood alone (as some forsaken lamb Goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth) Crying ‘Where are ye, O my loved and loving?’— I know a voice would sound, ‘Daughter, I AM. Can I suffice for Heaven and not for earth?’
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Consolation
Glistening through shafts of sunlight, I spy the silvery dragonfly, Hovering above the clovered knoll, Swaying like wheat in speckled sun. Cantering up grassy hills, away from the stream, The bleating goats exchange existential crises, Brushing past the whispering tulips ablaze in the sunset. Behind me, In the shade of oaks, in spiraling dusts, Decaying logs half buried in the windbreak Rekindle and animate in the orange beams. I stand up and sip my beer, as the stars blink and stutter. A snowy owl whooshes past, wishing for rain. Somebody loves me.
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May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM UTC
Sitting at a Picnic Table at Stolzfus Farm in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The sun descending in the west. The evening star does shine. The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine, The moon like a flower, In heavens high bower; With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night. Farewell green fields and happy groves, Where flocks have took delight; Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves The feet of angels bright; Unseen they pour blessing, And joy without ceasing, On each bud and blossom, And each sleeping ***** They look in every thoughtless nest Where birds are covered warm; They visit caves of every beast, To keep them all from harm; If they see any weeping. That should have been sleeping They pour sleep on their head And sit down by their bed. When wolves and tygers howl for prey They pitying stand and weep; Seeking to drive their thirst away, And keep them from the sheep. But if they rush dreadful; The angels most heedful, Receive each mild spirit. New worlds to inherit. And there the lions ruddy eyes, Shall flow with tears of gold; And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold: Saying: wrath by his meekness And by his health, sickness. Is driven away, From our immortal day. And now beside thee, bleating lamb. I can lie down and sleep; Or think on him who bore thy name. Graze after thee and weep. For wash’d in lifes river. My bright mane for ever. Shall shine like the gold, As I guard o’er the fold.
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Night
My minister said Two Sundays ago, that "Christmas will always disappoint." It was jarring, Unnerving. A minister said such a thing? But wait, keep listening. You'll see it makes sense. You'll see it's true. The Jews were expecting A king to overthrow the Romans. They expected trumpets blaring, A white horse carrying Their savior. They got a helpless baby Heralded by shepherds And the bleating of sheep, Born of a poor peasant woman In a poor peasant town In a poor peasant barn Of a poor peasant inn. How disappointing. We expect the family to be together We expect love and happiness During the Christmas season. We did not expect Financial troubles Marital problems Stress at work College rejections Fighting with the kids Arguing with the parents The tree didn't get decorated Until December 21 The outdoor lights Are still in boxes. Advent was supposed to Prepare us. But we're not ready yet. Christmas will always disappoint, But the baby will not. Christmas is a beginning. Christmas is hope. There is always hope in children. They are the future. Hope, most of all Is in the child of God. It is hope. The "good part" Is yet to come. We plant seeds in Christmas With the expectation of the future. Jesus grew up, Like babies do. He changed the world. He changed the individuals. He fed the hungry He gave sight to the blind He comforted the beggars He brought justice to the Temple He taught his followers He drove out the demons He loved the sinners He reached out to the outcasts He lived with us He walked with us He loved us. And we killed him. But that wasn't going to stop the baby The child we placed our hope in on Christmas. He came back from the dead And performed many miracles. Then he left But promised to return. And so we wait With the hope given to us By a baby On the most disappointing Christmas of all. But he left us a gift Not wrapped in paper and string But fire. He have us the Spirit So that we'd have guidance and comfort And we'd never be alone. So we can act as he did. We can feed the hungry, We can comfort the beggars, We can reach out to the outcasts. And as they wait with the hope from the baby We can give them the same gift So they can continue the baby's work. Christmas is disappointing But the baby is not. The baby is Jesus And he gives us hope. Of life and life beyond death And of love for all people. For then, for now, And forever.
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 10:14 AM UTC
"Christmas will always disappoint."
My minister said Two Sundays ago, that "Christmas will always disappoint." It was jarring, Unnerving. A minister said such a thing? But wait, keep listening. You'll see it makes sense. You'll see it's true. The Jews were expecting A king to overthrow the Romans. They expected trumpets blaring, A white horse carrying Their savior. They got a helpless baby Heralded by shepherds And the bleating of sheep, Born of a poor peasant woman In a poor peasant town In a poor peasant barn Of a poor peasant inn. How disappointing. We expect the family to be together We expect love and happiness During the Christmas season. We did not expect Financial troubles Marital problems Stress at work College rejections Fighting with the kids Arguing with the parents The tree didn't get decorated Until December 21 The outdoor lights Are still in boxes. Advent was supposed to Prepare us. But we're not ready yet. Christmas will always disappoint, But the baby will not. Christmas is a beginning. Christmas is hope. There is always hope in children. They are the future. Hope, most of all Is in the child of God. It is hope. The "good part" Is yet to come. We plant seeds in Christmas With the expectation of the future. Jesus grew up, Like babies do. He changed the world. He changed the individuals. He fed the hungry He gave sight to the blind He comforted the beggars He brought justice to the Temple He taught his followers He drove out the demons He loved the sinners He reached out to the outcasts He lived with us He walked with us He loved us. And we killed him. But that wasn't going to stop the baby The child we placed our hope in on Christmas. He came back from the dead And performed many miracles. Then he left But promised to return. And so we wait With the hope given to us By a baby On the most disappointing Christmas of all. But he left us a gift Not wrapped in paper and string But fire. He have us the Spirit So that we'd have guidance and comfort And we'd never be alone. So we can act as he did. We can feed the hungry, We can comfort the beggars, We can reach out to the outcasts. And as they wait with the hope from the baby We can give them the same gift So they can continue the baby's work. Christmas is disappointing But the baby is not. The baby is Jesus And he gives us hope. Of life and life beyond death And of love for all people. For then, for now, And forever.
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I want to go back to my past When tame pigeons of joy nested on my eaves And I could hear their crooning With the sweetness of love outpouring I want to go back to my past When innocent instincts ruled my heart And I ran after every call from the woods or bush Mesmerized by the whistles of the oriole and the thrush I want to go back to my past When every rainbow and every peacock feather Ignited curiosity in me as a child And colored my imagination wild I want to go back to my past When, with friends, I sat in the mango grove And savored the ripe juicy mangoes Careful not to let the pulp drip down our mouths I want to go back to my past When we strolled along the sandy strands Watching the wild waves fray And cooled by the kiss of spray I want to go back to my past When we had watched at night A hundred fireflies dancing around the neem Wondering if they were stars fallen from heaven’s seam I want to go back to my past When, like breeze, we ran over the meadows Looking for the bleating lamb Singing in chorus, ‘Mary had a little lamb’ I want to go back to my past, When life appears a trying test With ‘the slings and arrows of an outrageous fortune’ And as and when I feel so desperately alone!
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Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 8:23 AM UTC
Retracing my Footsteps