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"blight" poems
Dig the ground, Deeper & broader, Large enough to accommodate, And peacefully lay us, The commoners to rest, Without causing any disturbance, To the Clout-clad looters. Don't rest till you collapse lifelessly, Into the mud extracted for digging, Digging their trap deeper enough, Deeper enough for all the clout, 'Cause you wouldn't even want, Their zombies to be turn-out, Escaping out stark naked, Out in future to plight, ****** and blight, Pester and fester The future generation. Oh but do we not know, They will survive and flourish, Indian or Russian or American or British, The clout will always be there to suck/eat, **** blood and eat meatballs, Why they will survive, And why the civilians suffer isn't riddle.
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Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM UTC
Get Your Hoes Out And...
In the cusp of closing night, I look into your weary eyes; once outshining city lights. I see no way to realize the healing of this blight - I venture to make a phoenix cry. Remedy of such mythos might, might just prove unjust lies. Chance restoring your ere vacant sight - fighting soul’s primal guide. As any chance to restore my bride, binds our fractured lives. ...No words to describe affliction already decided.
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 3:14 PM UTC
The Blinding Bride
Elephant in the room, shoo the hell away! Don't stick around; I wish you wouldn't stay Don't mess with my head, inciting all I feel I don't need you here, I want to heal Stop blaring in my ears, your noxious lies I'm sick to the stomach with my pathetic cries Resist flapping your gigantic ears They simply just fan the rage in my tears Quit blocking my view with your sheer enormity Get out of my thoughts so better I could see Halt your incessant skin rubbing against my sores Chafing me raw on top of my existing scores Pull out your pointy tusks, they poke and jab I'm bent in many places; I don't need more stabs Take your infernal rear out of my face! I'm self-destructing, counting up the days Cease your retaliation, leave with no protest Go find and sit yourself in someone else's nest Drop your intentions to stomp me broken I'm mangled enough; almost misshapen End this mindless rampage...please Let me iron myself straight, in peace... Dear elephant, have you gone? Thank you for the blight of my time, you've spawned
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Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM UTC
Elephant
Saturated in steely blue clutches, sweating from the 75 degree Georgia night strung up and washed out with a serpent woman that keeps bringing on the blight Singing you a song of bliss and blinders. A big brick red boot on your neck and a green collar that reads The Gardens ***** The Garden takes the taxes tightens up the lead and never relaxes Hit ya where ya like, the pain is disguised, leather tastes like candy, The Gardens got ya hypnotized. Your late night camping sight attracts the moon light parasite, that acolyte of appetite, Tonight your the Gardens Delight You wanna run but she's got those hooks between your shoulder blades feeling like an inexorable **** of silk, smoke and skin. She gives you every thing you need, Fountain heads of intemperance and black out nights Whole streets smelling like grease and charcoal charbroils Men and women of dexterous lechery, feverous severance, and generous deference Crystals for your cranium, high altitude dives and the lowest lows. A cacophony of any entertainment you might want or need, just as long as its seedy. The Garden keeps blinders on your head to make sure you can't see anything she doesn't want you to. Try to remove em and the punishment is usually severe. She might give you the greatest loves you've ever known and turn em to photographs, blot em with LSD and trip you out on memories. And when you come back to what you think reality is she'll take those photographs and burn em up right in your face and leave you asking if any of it really happened while feeling like it was the realest thing that ever has. She'll break you and build you up, build you up and break you worse. A cycle of bad things feeling real good. The Garden will do everything in her power to keep you right here. But if you can get all those straps and tight leather off, all those hooks and chains.. If you can escape her steely blue clutches,, You'll finally see how wrong you've been done, and your still gonna want her back in some strange way.. but you might start to heal.... But know this. No matter where you might run off to, You'll still be hearing The Garden City call. That siren song of bliss and blinders.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 4:27 AM UTC
Augusta, GA
Saturated in steely blue clutches, sweating from the 75 degree Georgia night strung up and washed out with a serpent woman that keeps bringing on the blight Singing you a song of bliss and blinders. A big brick red boot on your neck and a green collar that reads The Gardens ***** The Garden takes the taxes tightens up the lead and never relaxes Hit ya where ya like, the pain is disguised, leather tastes like candy, The Gardens got ya hypnotized. Your late night camping sight attracts the moon light parasite, that acolyte of appetite, Tonight your the Gardens Delight You wanna run but she's got those hooks between your shoulder blades feeling like an inexorable **** of silk, smoke and skin. She gives you every thing you need, Fountain heads of intemperance and black out nights Whole streets smelling like grease and charcoal charbroils Men and women of dexterous lechery, feverous severance, and generous deference Crystals for your cranium, high altitude dives and the lowest lows. A cacophony of any entertainment you might want or need, just as long as its seedy. The Garden keeps blinders on your head to make sure you can't see anything she doesn't want you to. Try to remove em and the punishment is usually severe. She might give you the greatest loves you've ever known and turn em to photographs, blot em with LSD and trip you out on memories. And when you come back to what you think reality is she'll take those photographs and burn em up right in your face and leave you asking if any of it really happened while feeling like it was the realest thing that ever has. She'll break you and build you up, build you up and break you worse. A cycle of bad things feeling real good. The Garden will do everything in her power to keep you right here. But if you can get all those straps and tight leather off, all those hooks and chains.. If you can escape her steely blue clutches,, You'll finally see how wrong you've been done, and your still gonna want her back in some strange way.. but you might start to heal.... But know this. No matter where you might run off to, You'll still be hearing The Garden City call. That siren song of bliss and blinders.
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Drowning in the sea of red cartridges stuck inside her head singing to the pigeon man about all the stars again how they crunch under her toes there she goes She dines by the candlelight golden beetles lined with blight in her velvet dressing room withered flowers in full bloom Drowning in the sea of red cartridges stuck inside her head singing to the pigeon man about the dawn once again how the curtain rises low on last show Cigarettes in the first row burning slow Rustling of the stolen feathers burning slow City shining through the smoke burning slow
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 1:30 PM UTC
Mechanical Ballerina
She comes to me every night... When all is asleep with stars lit yonder. Comes to me with subtle might Peeking fiendishly from darkness's cover Await such time she'd choose to show Await the chance to finally take. Ready to pounce like a well tensioned bow Arrow-like talons, ever honed to stake. Awake or asleep, she would come without fail. Creep is her gait; this shadow clad figure. Always a ***** in my impervious mail. Claiming her wants with ferocious fervour. Deemed to be strong, easier to succumb. Don't fight...don't struggle... Don't call for aid... Just wait and will yourself numb She'd come regardless of prayers that's said. She was here with me last night In bed, I stared at a being that's faceless... And my heart wrenched tight. Gripping and feeding me senseless... Soon as she came, she left but not before Siphoning the good and replacing with dread... Stole was what she did; left me wanting more... Once deed is done, into the dark she fled. I know her all too well, Nocturnal guest that I unknowingly invite Her intentions to incite, not quell Send me spiralling through emotional blight. Day will recede, making room for dark She'll come; swift and without sound. She'll arrive majestic; inflicting her mark I'll wait for her, ready and unbound. Looking forward to her return This silent foe whom I find familiar. With every touch I cringe and burn Oh secret friend whom I'm beginning to savour... She is synonymous with various names Each would bear the likeness of semblance Let fly her cloak of not dissimilar aims Endearingly I call her..., Despondence...
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 12:23 AM UTC
Familiar F(r)iend
She comes to me every night... When all is asleep with stars lit yonder. Comes to me with subtle might Peeking fiendishly from darkness's cover Await such time she'd choose to show Await the chance to finally take. Ready to pounce like a well tensioned bow Arrow-like talons, ever honed to stake. Awake or asleep, she would come without fail. Creep is her gait; this shadow clad figure. Always a ***** in my impervious mail. Claiming her wants with ferocious fervour. Deemed to be strong, easier to succumb. Don't fight...don't struggle... Don't call for aid... Just wait and will yourself numb She'd come regardless of prayers that's said. She was here with me last night In bed, I stared at a being that's faceless... And my heart wrenched tight. Gripping and feeding me senseless... Soon as she came, she left but not before Siphoning the good and replacing with dread... Stole was what she did; left me wanting more... Once deed is done, into the dark she fled. I know her all too well, Nocturnal guest that I unknowingly invite Her intentions to incite, not quell Send me spiralling through emotional blight. Day will recede, making room for dark She'll come; swift and without sound. She'll arrive majestic; inflicting her mark I'll wait for her, ready and unbound. Looking forward to her return This silent foe whom I find familiar. With every touch I cringe and burn Oh secret friend whom I'm beginning to savour... She is synonymous with various names Each would bear the likeness of semblance Let fly her cloak of not dissimilar aims Endearingly I call her..., Despondence...
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Through portico of my elegant house you stalk With your wild furies, disturbing garlands of fruit And the fabulous lutes and peacocks, rending the net Of all decorum which holds the whirlwind back. Now, rich order of walls is fallen; rooks croak Above the appalling ruin; in bleak light Of your stormy eye, magic takes flight Like a daunted witch, quitting castle when real days break. Fractured pillars frame prospects of rock; While you stand heroic in coat and tie, I sit Composed in Grecian tunic and psyche-knot, Rooted to your black look, the play turned tragic: Which such blight wrought on our bankrupt estate, What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?
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Conversation Among The Ruins
MY LONG TREK ON WRONG LEGS, BEG DYNAMITE FROM HUSH DUDS DAMP CANNONS BILLOW IN THE EAST WIND, LIKE FLACCID DRAGONS GAGGING ON IRON APPLES I SURGE IMPOTENT IN MY WRATH, SUNBATHING BY AFTERGLOW HEROICALLY CONTAINED. DISMANTLED... I CRAFT THE WITHERING OF MY FURY WITH A STEADY HAND; AND A JADED HEART STARK BLIGHT, DRAINS MY CUP OF THUNDER, WHERE MY LIGHTNING CLOTS WHERE SOLID DARK HARKENS MY YELLOW SUN HARDENS; LIKE AN UNSTRUCK COIN BLANK IN MY POCKET SHARDS OF DULL ACHE... UNSHARPEN MY RED SEA DEPARTS MY KELP BEDS DISMAYED.
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 7:03 PM UTC
EYE TALK...[ ULYSSES ]
A morning dew sits on my dearest rose: A shadow of evening's coolness stands still. How gleeful I'd be to remove that chill— That accursed blight, I yearn to dispose. Not in my powers, no warmth from me flows Not matter the measure of my goodwill. Only the sunrise this quest shall fulfill And light, my dear efflorescence expose Always that morning seems ever unsure, Yet surely it comes as the world still turns. Finite be the hours my rose must endure; Nothing this must be allowed to obscure! For surely as in the sky our sol burns, Warmth still exists for my rose to make pure. ~ D.B. Guy (1990 - )
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 2:17 AM UTC
A morning dew
~ **Wandering witches, wave your wands, lose your limbs of earthly bonds. Friday the 13th full moon sings so flex your power and stretch your wings. Wandering witches, weave your words to be the bane of beasts and birds. Hex the hateful with potions of love Poke the prideful in crestfallen thereof Sing sisters sing, into the full moon night never knowing the demon's blight. Fearful farce and fallen stones bury the bad in blood and bones.** ~
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Sep 13, 2019
Sep 13, 2019 at 9:42 AM UTC
Witchery
Like an alien in a spotlight With her magnifying glasses on My mother as she worked, up all night Did invisible weaving till dawn I would watch her when I couldn’t sleep Honing in on that hole in the suit Intently, her concentration deep Weaving tiny threads enlarged like jute In other-worldly light she labored I was afraid she’d lose her eyesight Watching her focus never wavered Her face all aglow in the lamplight Invisible weaving, I inquired How tediously she plied her craft Worked for the money that she required Made the warp and weft of fabric last Reconstruction, undetectable No more burn, or tear, or fabric blight Weaving magic so incredible Its wound now perfect by morning’s light She taught me much that I’m still making From her life that now I’m grieving Sewing, crocheting and great baking But never invisible weaving The picture of her life that mattered I now see how she toiled so finely And that the wrinkles in the fabric Of my own life splayed out so blindly The vision of my eyes, bedazzled Incandescent, her face in the beam Unaware how her mind unraveled As Depression stole her ev’ry dream The threads of DNA defining Who I’ve become I’m now believing My mother’s hand in that designing Of my own Invisible Weaving* *In honor of my mother, Edla Sylvia Fitzpatrick, on this International Women's Day
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 1:01 PM UTC
Invisible Weaving
Dysphoria is like having to ***** You're sitting there, weak and trembling; every movement becomes twisted into a bout of nausea. You're pale and helpless; held captive by your sickness Every fiber of your body aches to oust the illness A vile purgation, stinging and hot against your throat Waves and waves of sickness pouring out of your body Until finally, feeble and wavering, you stand. And the color begins to come back to your face. A relief of all the gross and disgusting feelings Allowing you to lay down again and rest Without your head swimming with blight. But that is not dysphoria. There is no purge There is no relief. You are hit again and again with this nausea No hope for an end With every breath, your stomach churns With every movement, your body shakes Your eyes are closed and you bite your lip; Any action can only serve to entice the disease. No medication could ever relieve such a force Of this malady, this fever, this ailment. Nothing can calm the tides of dysphoria.
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 9:38 PM UTC
Dysphoria
godspeed, dystopian mind. alls well that ends well in the war against self loathing. call upon historic impulses electrical? fanatical. transfixed. fatal. groping, whipser, intention? weakness. axiom? blight. corruption. hunger. intent? destruction. hopeless. death. solution? fellowship. truth. transparent. godspeed, dystopian mind and don't come back.
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 10:56 PM UTC
thoughts on thoughts
Will a Phoenix doused in water reignite? Should the Sun ever disturb the night? As my eyes take their rest my mind takes flight Then quickly plummets straight into blight Straight into sorrow; reigniting my rage And keeps me awake as if it were day Awake to write my story/Awake to dwell on the last page How dare I wallow over someone engaged? Great Leviathan, Demon God of water and life Lend me your strength as I overcome this strife Baptize me in your waters and revitalize my sight Clear away all the salt and callus to turn my scleras white Drown the anger in my heart; cease its return! **** the Phoenix, for its presence burns! Drown the Sun so that the moon may take its turn Allow my brain to rest so that I may have the capacity learn How to fully move on…
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 1:19 PM UTC
It's been too long
She always loved the purple rose The hardest rose to find I said they were always just like her Truly one of a kind Every year when her birthday came I gave her a purple rose But when she died I couldn't find The flower she always chose I looked the earth both high and low But the rose was no where in sight They said the flower had disappeared Stricken with some kind of blight The first time I went to visit her grave With flowers in my hand I saw a sight that I'll never forget Something I don't understand Her grave was covered with roses Growing right out of the ground The only place on the face of the earth Where purple roses are found She always loved the purple rose The hardest rose to find I said they were always just like her Truly one of a kind
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Jan 25, 2013
Jan 25, 2013 at 2:10 PM UTC
The Purple Rose
Night has crept up Like a blight on the perfect day. I've become untied by the night's darkness. I'm alone. You my delight, have returned home. You, now are hers, her knight, I am forgotten, like a dream once awoken slipping into limbo. Why do I allow this? Why do I debase myself? Why do you get the night and day? While I get an unjustified plight? When tomorrow comes I will smile and say, "Goodbye and goodnight parasite"
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Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 6:26 PM UTC
Night
Misunderstood. Little girl that Could Not Articulate her pain Stained on her heart, mediocrity and other's hypocrisy Stop and see for a moment that her naivete was stolen Bolden your mind time for a story, you wore her down She shut herself off all because you scoff at her pain Rain is a reprieve from the judgment you cast At last, when the moment is too late, maybe you'll see that you created her hate she is not without cause, pause and reflect before you object Misunderstood, little girl who's only dream was to shine, by and by she slowly dies watch her decay at your misguided guide by and by she slowly dies Misunderstood, little girl who believed in love now is wrung of any positive light, she's blight with sadness, and insatiable madness. Crass she may be, she always wanted to see if she could shine as bright as she dreamed she could be Misunderstood, little girl by and by she slowly dies without cause, without care you scoff at her pain. Rain is a reprieve from the judgment you cast. By and by she slowly dies. Misunderstood. Lttle girl.
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 2:28 AM UTC
Misunderstood
Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM UTC
Material World
Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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catch the last wave and i'll be there combing the beachhead of our misery swollen with big love, choking on the theory of our negative heavens you and i, we marvel at the heresy of our wisdom and cherish no giant over divine we david the furies that are nephelim but conjure no gods where the plastic can't be useful we dunder in the bluff of innocent cupids we - the idiots on the cliff - dancing when the glockenspiel itches ! clock faced and *** up i'll be there with black honey, " With You " no doubt pondering the wrinkles in your sleep breath. the sweet killing of tomcats and mackerels the plain fact that our noses are numb from eskimo kissing in the igloo of our perpetual alaska the arctic furnace of our wild fires of pure illusion to trod stunning over hell's paradise and catch a glimpse of snarky stark Silence... You catch the last wave - and i'll be nothing but the singing bones of the wind in the throes of an ****** of  " need you "  and only you. a chosen cyclone from heaven i'll be just a little boy in the clutches of a dead teddy where the poppies sing hallelujah ! and our hearts blight the orchid of our accord. and down - comes, what ? what do we do ? what could we possibly ? we hopscotch the bonnets and glue ravenous bumblebees to a blanket of snow. cause we have the technology - we can disassemble it... discretely.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM UTC
We Hopscotch The Bonnets And Glue Ravenous Bumblebees To A Blanket Of Snow
Blinded by emeralds so bright It showed me a monster, my green eyed blight. Try as I might, to remove this affliction It still gets me sometimes, this abomination
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 4:08 AM UTC
Jealousy - The Abomination
Flamingos aren't naturally pink But not for the reason most think They preen and they dye And they leave it to dry Before rinsing it off in the sink The magpies send me into fits The ducks have me losing my wits The crows are a blight And they crow all night But I do enjoy watching the **** Vanessa McRafferty-Fryer Set alight to the **** of her squire She took a few shots Of his privatest spots And then laughed as he ****** out the fire A penguin called Panama Pete Had no love of the snow on his feet So he stayed for a spell At the polar hotel With a pool and Jacuzzi en suite I met a quite curious swan By a lake I was boating upon It tickled my *** And insulted my mum With a flurry of wings, it was gone I know of a Gerald McFitz Who arouses himself when he sits For his favorite chair Is the shape of a pair Of voluptuous wobbly **** and one for that special someone... Your pancreas really is grand Tis a thoroughly marvelous gland You've a cute little spleen Though it's seldom seen And a nose growing out of your hand **
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Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM UTC
Limericks Naughty & Nice
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose. There is a melody born of melody, Which melts the world into a sea. Toil could never compass it, Art its height could never hit, It came never out of wit, But a music music-born Well may Jove and Juno scorn. Thy beauty, if it lack the fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire, What boots it? what the soldier's mail, Unless he conquer and prevail? What all the goods thy pride which lift, If thou pine for another's gift? Alas! that one is born in blight, Victim of perpetual slight;— When thou lookest in his face, Thy heart saith, Brother! go thy ways! None shall ask thee what thou doest, Or care a rush for what thou knowest, Or listen when thou repliest, Or remember where thou liest, Or how thy supper is sodden,— And another is born To make the sun forgotten. Surely he carries a talisman Under his tongue; Broad are his shoulders, and strong, And his eye is scornful, Threatening, and young. I hold it of little matter, Whether your jewel be of pure water, A rose diamond or a white,— But whether it dazzle me with light. I care not how you are drest, In the coarsest, or in the best, Nor whether your name is base or brave, Nor tor the fashion of your behavior,— But whether you charm me, Bid my bread feed, and my fire warm me, And dress up nature in your favor. One thing is forever good, That one thing is success,— Dear to the Eumenides, And to all the heavenly brood. Who bides at home, nor looks abroad, Carries the eagles, and masters the sword.
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Fate
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose. There is a melody born of melody, Which melts the world into a sea. Toil could never compass it, Art its height could never hit, It came never out of wit, But a music music-born Well may Jove and Juno scorn. Thy beauty, if it lack the fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire, What boots it? what the soldier's mail, Unless he conquer and prevail? What all the goods thy pride which lift, If thou pine for another's gift? Alas! that one is born in blight, Victim of perpetual slight;— When thou lookest in his face, Thy heart saith, Brother! go thy ways! None shall ask thee what thou doest, Or care a rush for what thou knowest, Or listen when thou repliest, Or remember where thou liest, Or how thy supper is sodden,— And another is born To make the sun forgotten. Surely he carries a talisman Under his tongue; Broad are his shoulders, and strong, And his eye is scornful, Threatening, and young. I hold it of little matter, Whether your jewel be of pure water, A rose diamond or a white,— But whether it dazzle me with light. I care not how you are drest, In the coarsest, or in the best, Nor whether your name is base or brave, Nor tor the fashion of your behavior,— But whether you charm me, Bid my bread feed, and my fire warm me, And dress up nature in your favor. One thing is forever good, That one thing is success,— Dear to the Eumenides, And to all the heavenly brood. Who bides at home, nor looks abroad, Carries the eagles, and masters the sword.
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The hinky stinky spider Spun a crooked web. His mama called him, Said “You stop that, Jeb!” Jeb the hinky spider Pays nobody mind. He stumbles on his way Just as if he’s blind. The hinky stinky spider Spins webs around DC Pulling in Republicans To his philosophy. They do not notice His mind is awful dim. That is because they Are half as bright as him. The hinky stinky spider Spins old and faulty tales. Knows half the voters Will fall for all his wails. Hoping he is lucky Like his brother Dub And gets himself elected Resulting from a flub. The hinky stinky spider Looks just like a man Looks very much like A normal also-ran. Hopes he can win with What he thinks is fame Based on ignoring The blight upon his name.
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Jul 24, 2015
Jul 24, 2015 at 7:06 AM UTC
THE HINKY STINKY SPIDER
I took a walk today and listened to the birds choking on the smog, broke my mother's back with every step and outran a stray dog. I picked you a bouquet of dandelions from the field because flowers can't grow when the sun's always concealed. I put them in a vase and filled it with water from the tap they died within an hour, now I know for sure you won't come back. I always swore I'd never own a broken home but it's hard not to when the only one's who stay are the garden gnomes — but someone's been smashing them in the middle of the night, or maybe they're blowing out their brains to escape my company and the blight. There's no magic left in this city, so chronically gray storms are always passing though and the rainbows are too scared to stay... I wanted to run away with you from the hood and past the burbs to somewhere where the air is clean and filled with singing birds. But instead I'm stuck here on this couch, microwaving Ramen while I search for words.
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 2:00 PM UTC
Rhyme for Detroit