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"buffeted" poems
Starfish on the rocks Buffeted by the ocean They never let go.
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 12:51 AM UTC
Perseverance
I started on the rooftop The empty sky above was all I had And all I needed It was pure Like a blank page Waiting for a story to be written But at the first sight of clouds I fled to the top floor There were fun and simple things on the top floor Like Pokémon games I got red, white, and blue The monsters seemed so banal and repetitive But nobody else would acknowledge it Sending me into a dragon's rage I tried using flamethrower on Charmander Ending in futility as I ran out of burn heals I looked out the window in frustration Rain was falling outside Inside Patriotism was buffeted by the hail So I devolved into a lower level Going further down this building For ***** and giggles I found more **** Less giggles On a floor with a TV displaying the news I was eager to learn about the world Only to learn everybody hates each other And nobody talks Or cares And the smartest person in the room Is the one I agree with the most Unable to view the tokens in my mind As anything less than treasure And those who try to persuade me otherwise Are thieves My spite steals tranquility Like the persistent storm outside My solution is shelter in lower levels My experimentation on communication With the general population Had rained on my playful parade But I felt very comfortable on a floor with friends Until they saw through my charade Discovering my emotions in disarray As the people who made me love this building Made me curse it's walls the more I loved them I searched for the peaceful embrace of solitude Once the storm outside transformed into a typhoon I found that solitude In a tiny bare room With a syringe and spoon I was unaware That room was an elevator That lowered me down the concrete void As the hurricane outside rattled me violently inside my box Trapped and lacking all agency I resigned myself to wherever the elevator chose to take me After the elevator finished pulling me into the basement The tsunami seemed to cease But I was buried under debris I had to burrow out of my tomb The dig was tedious and ***** My perseverance was heroic But triumph was thwarted When I reached the surface To discover only wreckage remained And when I looked up I saw the building I inhabited It's damaged facade Made it clear I would never visit those floors I missed on the elevator Above my building Hangs an empty sky It's purity is a lie The page was never blank Just constantly written on and erased To lure innocent readers into a tome
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Jul 24, 2017
Jul 24, 2017 at 11:48 PM UTC
Building
I started on the rooftop The empty sky above was all I had And all I needed It was pure Like a blank page Waiting for a story to be written But at the first sight of clouds I fled to the top floor There were fun and simple things on the top floor Like Pokémon games I got red, white, and blue The monsters seemed so banal and repetitive But nobody else would acknowledge it Sending me into a dragon's rage I tried using flamethrower on Charmander Ending in futility as I ran out of burn heals I looked out the window in frustration Rain was falling outside Inside Patriotism was buffeted by the hail So I devolved into a lower level Going further down this building For ***** and giggles I found more **** Less giggles On a floor with a TV displaying the news I was eager to learn about the world Only to learn everybody hates each other And nobody talks Or cares And the smartest person in the room Is the one I agree with the most Unable to view the tokens in my mind As anything less than treasure And those who try to persuade me otherwise Are thieves My spite steals tranquility Like the persistent storm outside My solution is shelter in lower levels My experimentation on communication With the general population Had rained on my playful parade But I felt very comfortable on a floor with friends Until they saw through my charade Discovering my emotions in disarray As the people who made me love this building Made me curse it's walls the more I loved them I searched for the peaceful embrace of solitude Once the storm outside transformed into a typhoon I found that solitude In a tiny bare room With a syringe and spoon I was unaware That room was an elevator That lowered me down the concrete void As the hurricane outside rattled me violently inside my box Trapped and lacking all agency I resigned myself to wherever the elevator chose to take me After the elevator finished pulling me into the basement The tsunami seemed to cease But I was buried under debris I had to burrow out of my tomb The dig was tedious and ***** My perseverance was heroic But triumph was thwarted When I reached the surface To discover only wreckage remained And when I looked up I saw the building I inhabited It's damaged facade Made it clear I would never visit those floors I missed on the elevator Above my building Hangs an empty sky It's purity is a lie The page was never blank Just constantly written on and erased To lure innocent readers into a tome
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I Not once in all our days of poignant love, Did I a single instant give to thee My undivided being wholly free. Not all thy potent passion could remove The barrier that loomed between to prove The full supreme surrendering of me. Oh, I was beaten, helpless utterly Against the shadow-fact with which I strove. For when a cruel power forced me to face The truth which poisoned our illicit wine, That even I was faithless to my race Bleeding beneath the iron hand of thine, Our union seemed a monstrous thing and base! I was an outcast from thy world and mine. II Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. New gales of tropic fury round my head Break lashing me through hours of soulful dread; But when the terror thins and, spent, withdraws, Leaving me wondering awhile, I pause-- But soon again the risky ways I tread! No rigid road for me, no peace, no rest, While molten elements run through my blood; And beauty-burning bodies manifest Their warm, heart-melting motions to be wooed; And passion boldly rising in my breast, Like rivers of the Spring, lets loose its flood.
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One Year After
I I learnt this week that time and distance can be friends to memory their respective lengths only wet and sharpen the edge of love but for us dear friend we hold hard to hope that we may one day soon share the present and live each moment in each other's heart. II Hearing you on Holkham beach - whose soul is greater than the ocean whose spirit stronger than the sea - did I doubt for a moment that you, though buffeted by a cold east wind would never age for me, nor fade, nor die. Nor you for me (she said) Goodbye, my love, a thousand times goodbye. Write me well (she said) and turned and ran. III The Reedham ferry was but a river's width and yet I stood at the water's brink and watched the reeds quiver in the wind, watched the rain splatter on the puddled path. All around to the human eye this valley, a plain of grassland broken only by reed-fringed pools, was a gentle, unpeopled, easy place. The absence of relief left no fixed frame of reference. Places apart from one another would concertina and merge. Tempted to cross I waved a no to the ferryman in his quayside hut then turned and walked quickly back down the long, low road.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 6:29 PM UTC
Three Norfolk Poems
I'm paying for the careless laughs I cast at my poor mother in the past when she would cringe and turn away as we sought edges to enhance our play. High trees and rooftops cliffside walks - whatever would extend the view beyond the grim grey granite grip we knew. The humour lay in knowing we were safe, that these short frissons were a break between long stretches of mundane and easy comfort, free from pain. Perhaps, we thought, it does her good to gasp and shudder, shout and blame - she knows that nothing's gained by shouting "Not too close!" That just extends the game. And then we're home and she, once more, is sane. That un-won wisdom taunts me now. The thought that fear was rare, somehow that each new feat of daring was a treat the spice and colour in a mother's life which otherwise was dull. Then, suddenly, my children, you appear and now I fear that everything's a crumbling clifftop a wind-bent, beetle-brittle branch that you are twisted in the fickle hands of chance Your precious whims your pale, glass-fragile skins are buffeted by everything. All ice is thin - the wolves are real it was not just the wind. And even here upon the edge of morning misfired wires inside your precious head could make a storm-tossed life-raft of your cozy bed I stand beside you, out of reach though long prepared to meet the reason I am scared. You curl and shrink turn glassy eyes towards the wall while I await the blow that, thank God, doesn't fall, this time my youthful self has found a cliff to climb above a rocky beach and cackles at his mother's panicked call.
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Oct 5, 2017
Oct 5, 2017 at 4:05 PM UTC
Edges
I'm paying for the careless laughs I cast at my poor mother in the past when she would cringe and turn away as we sought edges to enhance our play. High trees and rooftops cliffside walks - whatever would extend the view beyond the grim grey granite grip we knew. The humour lay in knowing we were safe, that these short frissons were a break between long stretches of mundane and easy comfort, free from pain. Perhaps, we thought, it does her good to gasp and shudder, shout and blame - she knows that nothing's gained by shouting "Not too close!" That just extends the game. And then we're home and she, once more, is sane. That un-won wisdom taunts me now. The thought that fear was rare, somehow that each new feat of daring was a treat the spice and colour in a mother's life which otherwise was dull. Then, suddenly, my children, you appear and now I fear that everything's a crumbling clifftop a wind-bent, beetle-brittle branch that you are twisted in the fickle hands of chance Your precious whims your pale, glass-fragile skins are buffeted by everything. All ice is thin - the wolves are real it was not just the wind. And even here upon the edge of morning misfired wires inside your precious head could make a storm-tossed life-raft of your cozy bed I stand beside you, out of reach though long prepared to meet the reason I am scared. You curl and shrink turn glassy eyes towards the wall while I await the blow that, thank God, doesn't fall, this time my youthful self has found a cliff to climb above a rocky beach and cackles at his mother's panicked call.
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I saw her again, there at the hospital Her hair had begun to silver in early autumn She was no longer the child That I had tried to protect, but a grown woman She was now a matriarch And she had developed steel in her soul The years of neglect had been a fire That forged her an inner strength Burned the Iron until it became hardened Even better than it would have been We talked in the hushed waiting room All echoes of happiness muffled by the sadness That clung to the walls like padding We walked the sterile halls Scrubbed clean of tears and smiled sad smiles at each other It was her first death as the matriarch And she was in charge of this thing, this dying She was the one who had the strength To keep everyone else together Keep them functioning, even if robotic They did whatever task she gave them Feeling as if they had accomplished something And forgetting for a moment I was proud when I saw her, even through the sadness Although it was no work of mine I felt that I had let her down As I couldn't protect her from the unspeakable things That visited her daily and worse, nightly She had been so young and vulnerable, but no more She was strong and stable, The rock that the rest of the family could anchor to As they were buffeted in a hopeless ocean Yes, she was now the matriarch and she was in charge of this thing, This dying
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Feb 21, 2014
Feb 21, 2014 at 9:31 AM UTC
This dying
Behold that great Plotinus swim, Buffeted by such seas; Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him, But the Golden Race looks dim, Salt blood blocks his eyes. Scattered on the level grass Or winding through the grove plato there and Minos pass, There stately Pythagoras And all the choir of Love.
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The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus
Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, My peace and pardon to procure, The lighter cross I bear for Thee, Help me with patience to endure. The storm of loud repining hush; I would in humble silence mourn; Why should the unburnt, though burning bush, Be angry as the crackling thorn? Man should not faint at Thy rebuke, Like Joshua falling on his face, When the cursed thing that Achan took Brought Israel into just disgrace. Perhaps some golden wedge suppress'd, Some secret sin offends my God; Perhaps that Babylonish vest, Self-righteousness, provokes the rod. Ah! were I buffeted all day, Mock'd, crown'd with thorns and spit upon, I yet should have no right to say, My great distress is mine alone. Let me not angrily declare No pain was ever sharp like mine, Nor murmur at the cross I bear, But rather weep, remembering Thine.
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Prayer for Patience
Anchor Blindly walk away carelessly forming a separate destiny What heart hasn’t been broken from loss? Nothing but these remain a certainty Transitory lives and times This tension ever exists Security rock solid always will be buffeted by change Fate continuously at odds with calm calculated reason always set to resist Dark doubts the heart will pierce Fear puts able thoughts in chains The mind enslaved death enshrined Who hasn’t known this cruel master’s reign? Held fast as by a strait jacket useless to fight Heartless people consumed by deadness In the midst of laughter lies a specter Decency and safety shifts treachery always at readiness Impossible innocence shocked blood covers the land There is no freedom dealt by mortal man This race and special gift angels sift Divine pollination needed for character unchecked Grace everywhere at once without a trace of its origin The face noble the heart captured perfect gladness The rock of offence removed Stiff necked pillar of rebellion finally moved Paths now sweet a life hid discreet The waters calm the breeze a balm Thoughts unbridled burning intense Arrows of gold feathers of silver Blessed be the nation who finds God to be their anchor
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Jan 8, 2012
Jan 8, 2012 at 10:38 PM UTC
Anchor
Kylie A song bird with a broken wing the cancer like the archer’s arrow pierced the breast the spirit widens Under storm laden skies from inward hush and silence an opening umbrella of prayer provides a shield The buffeted retreats to sheltering rocks and finds the hidden stream within depths blessed bindings In warmest recesses your steps guided by the unseen over and through this dark passing new findings With down cast eyes you continue the dark streets the home of the sick and the broken pain unspoken You came upon these deep downward steeps from the flood lights and euphoric accolades of fame Before your lyrical melodies were joyful expressive now will carry weighty and knowing sterling acclaim Mined from troubles hard unrelenting walls finally the richest golden ore through your feelings pour A little ease by the mystical dreams when sleep restores still withdrawn faces in the moonlight so pale For a time at heaven you rail to costly you barter all that is thine to own backed by a great pink brigade You fight with unstoppable courage you lead the march you find ground unvisited you go on without fail Beaconing to legions behind encouraging you carry the burning torch showing the way through the dark This my only desire I stand in this human body frail knowing my limitations but from the fight I call you Don’t be afraid and never say give up to many are depending your touch glorious women you defend Say in song the mystery you found in a city all alone you met sisters not age defined all filled with youth In your face I see the unexplainable the untraceable a strength born from conflict a secret knowing This is dedicated to Kylie Minouge Melissa Eatheridge and all breast cancer survivors
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Dec 1, 2011
Dec 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM UTC
Kylie
Kylie A song bird with a broken wing the cancer like the archer’s arrow pierced the breast the spirit widens Under storm laden skies from inward hush and silence an opening umbrella of prayer provides a shield The buffeted retreats to sheltering rocks and finds the hidden stream within depths blessed bindings In warmest recesses your steps guided by the unseen over and through this dark passing new findings With down cast eyes you continue the dark streets the home of the sick and the broken pain unspoken You came upon these deep downward steeps from the flood lights and euphoric accolades of fame Before your lyrical melodies were joyful expressive now will carry weighty and knowing sterling acclaim Mined from troubles hard unrelenting walls finally the richest golden ore through your feelings pour A little ease by the mystical dreams when sleep restores still withdrawn faces in the moonlight so pale For a time at heaven you rail to costly you barter all that is thine to own backed by a great pink brigade You fight with unstoppable courage you lead the march you find ground unvisited you go on without fail Beaconing to legions behind encouraging you carry the burning torch showing the way through the dark This my only desire I stand in this human body frail knowing my limitations but from the fight I call you Don’t be afraid and never say give up to many are depending your touch glorious women you defend Say in song the mystery you found in a city all alone you met sisters not age defined all filled with youth In your face I see the unexplainable the untraceable a strength born from conflict a secret knowing This is dedicated to Kylie Minouge Melissa Eatheridge and all breast cancer survivors
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1. I used to bathe in the light of your love.... It suffused me with buoyancy. It taught me to be gentle and kind. You showed me how to be soft-hearted and giving. I learnt unselfishness and endurance from you, through our trials against the world. 2. I rode high Aloft, on winds On winds Of your indulgence in me Oh, and how we rode. Together. 3. We were in poverty.....yet we shared everything Together. We were harassed by forces.... yet we stood our ground Together. We were inexperienced in life....yet bent with humility Together. We were dreamers, you and I......and we strove Together. We were dealt untimely blows....but we faced them Together. We lost some big stuff along the way....and we cried, babe Together. We were blessed with wings....and we flew far (away) Together. We were roofless once...yet we took shelter from the cold Together. We shared triumphs and buffeted storms of adversity. Together. 4. We ate together. We drank together. We bathed together. We shared everything! Together. We slept Together. We loved each other... Oh, how we loved each other! We ...... b-r-e-a-t-h-e-d ..... Together. (Like now ..... in our garden) S T, 03-04-2013
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Apr 3, 2013
Apr 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM UTC
Together
A song bird with a broken wing the cancer like the archer’s arrow pierced the breast the spirit widens Under storm laden skies from inward hush and silence an opening umbrella of prayer provides a shield The buffeted retreats to sheltering rocks and finds the hidden stream within depths blessed bindings In warmest recesses your steps guided by the unseen over and through this dark passing new findings With down cast eyes you continue the dark streets the home of the sick and the broken pain unspoken You came upon these deep downward steeps from the flood lights and euphoric accolades of fame Before your lyrical melodies were joyful expressive now will carry weighty and knowing sterling acclaim Mined from troubles hard unrelenting walls finally the richest golden ore through your feelings pour A little ease by the mystical dreams when sleep restores still withdrawn faces in the moonlight so pale For a time at heaven you rail to costly you barter all that is thine to own backed by a great pink brigade You fight with unstoppable courage you lead the march you find ground unvisited you go on without fail Beaconing to legions behind encouraging you carry the burning torch showing the way through the dark This my only desire I stand in this human body frail knowing my limitations but from the fight I call you Don’t be afraid and never say give up to many are depending your touch glorious women you defend Say in song the mystery you found in a city all alone you met sisters not age defined all filled with youth In your face I see the unexplainable the untraceable a strength born from conflict a secret knowing This is dedicated to Kylie Minouge Melissa Eatheridge and all breast cancer survivors
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 3:09 PM UTC
Kylie
A song bird with a broken wing the cancer like the archer’s arrow pierced the breast the spirit widens Under storm laden skies from inward hush and silence an opening umbrella of prayer provides a shield The buffeted retreats to sheltering rocks and finds the hidden stream within depths blessed bindings In warmest recesses your steps guided by the unseen over and through this dark passing new findings With down cast eyes you continue the dark streets the home of the sick and the broken pain unspoken You came upon these deep downward steeps from the flood lights and euphoric accolades of fame Before your lyrical melodies were joyful expressive now will carry weighty and knowing sterling acclaim Mined from troubles hard unrelenting walls finally the richest golden ore through your feelings pour A little ease by the mystical dreams when sleep restores still withdrawn faces in the moonlight so pale For a time at heaven you rail to costly you barter all that is thine to own backed by a great pink brigade You fight with unstoppable courage you lead the march you find ground unvisited you go on without fail Beaconing to legions behind encouraging you carry the burning torch showing the way through the dark This my only desire I stand in this human body frail knowing my limitations but from the fight I call you Don’t be afraid and never say give up to many are depending your touch glorious women you defend Say in song the mystery you found in a city all alone you met sisters not age defined all filled with youth In your face I see the unexplainable the untraceable a strength born from conflict a secret knowing This is dedicated to Kylie Minouge Melissa Eatheridge and all breast cancer survivors
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Flitting around Feelings abound Opinions change There is no ground It all unravels And it dazzles As it spins and spins And the soul travels Toward the light The truth that’s bright Buffeted by thoughts Wounded by slights And it weans And moves free and lean Away from its home It’s seventeen! And the dices And spices Fill the air With chance At prices Running storm clouds Lifting all shrouds Finding out And wondering aloud Amid confusion And intrusion Sorting out Ideas’ illusions And the heart stops And the shoe drops Pains infuses Where the ball hops Changing, flexing Bursting, connecting The chrysalis emerges Cocoon dissecting
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 9:24 AM UTC
The Chrysalis
What if the Earth stopped its long flight and finally stood still? the gods controlling the universe, hiding in our footsteps, suddenly tired of our inadequacies and decided to end this grand cosmic charade. Coming out of Shadows   and out of foot steps . perception torn asunder and reality recognized as our own inept construct. When in truth perhaps, buy some vain hope, those ideas invoices we held dear , like pin ****** a lighthouse is in the dark and vast ocean, are found to be merely sparks in the wind, buffeted and intangible and the earth suddenly stops. And the asteroid belt is too small. and the combusting Sun fails. And the most frightening possibility of all ? Will foot steps fade into darkness? will there be time to dig a final grave what to say last goodbye? And will we be seen as works in progress or graded as complete?
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Jul 13, 2013
Jul 13, 2013 at 12:40 AM UTC
The frightening possibility
Limbo Black hole quasar pulsar star meridians oblique oracle messages from beyond the lost between the bureau of the forgotten Dreams images disjointed some admirably projected on the screen of the mind they tell you a mystery where is the key Like being in a library books everywhere any subject any topic whatever your taste or fancy but without retrieval how rotten Space fascinates holds men enthralled the searching of the cosmos the whole of life it has consumed the overly curious What I’m talking about is if you could take a meteor shower put it in a black velvet bag capture true magic hold for your disposal Take droplets of rain speak to them and they would obey your voice become for one hour that which you desire most from life Find the passage to the center of the mountain a gapping cave where a true oracle is beheld divine utterance her real espousal You take knowledge long hidden disperse it among the most troubled and confused and aura breaks and arches those of need Life’s dilemmas and contrasts these intangible twisted knotted fields of gloom you touch bows unknown understanding blooms Course contrary buffeted by unpleasant wind oh to know how to rescind make rays of hope grow in resplendent rows The common coal fired and pressured over millennia does purist light ignite the mind soul and heart in excitement it consumes Striation found in the cold glacier this natural marking take from it learn the soul has divine grooves that only play spiritual tunes This might sound farfetched but one day it will be the norm for Gods family the unexpected the unbelievable your daily life Now we are in neutral or the drive is mostly in the natural like you build the best house then someone sticks up an eye sore There is the contrast the conflict your spiritual house shines then your enemy self wrecks and devalues ruination rife The spirit oracle revealed that the devil wants you as a trophy in a case how nice God wants you but he wants you as family
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Jan 1, 2012
Jan 1, 2012 at 8:43 PM UTC
Limbo
Limbo Black hole quasar pulsar star meridians oblique oracle messages from beyond the lost between the bureau of the forgotten Dreams images disjointed some admirably projected on the screen of the mind they tell you a mystery where is the key Like being in a library books everywhere any subject any topic whatever your taste or fancy but without retrieval how rotten Space fascinates holds men enthralled the searching of the cosmos the whole of life it has consumed the overly curious What I’m talking about is if you could take a meteor shower put it in a black velvet bag capture true magic hold for your disposal Take droplets of rain speak to them and they would obey your voice become for one hour that which you desire most from life Find the passage to the center of the mountain a gapping cave where a true oracle is beheld divine utterance her real espousal You take knowledge long hidden disperse it among the most troubled and confused and aura breaks and arches those of need Life’s dilemmas and contrasts these intangible twisted knotted fields of gloom you touch bows unknown understanding blooms Course contrary buffeted by unpleasant wind oh to know how to rescind make rays of hope grow in resplendent rows The common coal fired and pressured over millennia does purist light ignite the mind soul and heart in excitement it consumes Striation found in the cold glacier this natural marking take from it learn the soul has divine grooves that only play spiritual tunes This might sound farfetched but one day it will be the norm for Gods family the unexpected the unbelievable your daily life Now we are in neutral or the drive is mostly in the natural like you build the best house then someone sticks up an eye sore There is the contrast the conflict your spiritual house shines then your enemy self wrecks and devalues ruination rife The spirit oracle revealed that the devil wants you as a trophy in a case how nice God wants you but he wants you as family
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Red jagged rocks are mirrored by a calming lake, A boy stands there, restless, shrouded in a woolly jumper, Above his head brooding clouds echo his unsettled mood, They roll and roar across the sky, no purpose, no restraint, Then, a moment of clarity—peace to the madness, It flickers, Then it falls, Let it fall, A perfect pure snow flake, Winter’s first, Swirling, curling….buffeted by cruel winds, The boy now subdued, enchanted by this concertina of beauty, In the scene’s ephemeral light he sees his desires, This charming flake will quell his smouldering fires. Now a drink fuelled room of pent-up angst and dumb excess, The boy in the jumper observes a hedonistic scene, Red eyes gleam, full of passion and lust, But in this room full of people; just one caught his sight, A brown curled beauty of the cold New Zealand night, The boy, subdued now, in her eyes glimpses something, Her brimming brown orbs flicker, He falls, Let him fall, Deep within he sees his reflection, A boy in a woolly jumper looks back, In HER eyes he sees it again, Snow’s first flake, pure and right, He is content.
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Jan 20, 2012
Jan 20, 2012 at 12:39 PM UTC
A Cold New Zealand Night
I saw a firefly, By the flickering firelight, Swaying through the air, Buffeted by the flames, And I reached out for it, And I felt a burning, And I opened my hand, And found an ember instead.
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Jan 16, 2014
Jan 16, 2014 at 2:19 AM UTC
Firefly
*                                                                             "... Come,                                                                                                     catch her."                                                                      Rising;                                                                         anew                                                                 from glowing                      ashes.                                                  Buffeted;                          by the hollow                    of her                                            shoulders.                                                                  Swirling;                                                 amidst sweet                            handfuls,                           gently                                blown,                                    from the                           cherries                       pinkest                   boughs*.                                                                                        Wings spread;                                                               "Do you see them?"                              Flying                             again...                                            Off                                                             grid                                                                       without                                                                            a course.                                                                                                                                     Wild                                                             sparks,                                                                follow her tail                                            across an                                                     ever brightening                                      sky*.                                 Let                      her fire      burn               your eyes.                                         *Watch,*                                                                                                                          as her tears                                                      heal your                                                             pain.                                                                                  *Reach out,*                                                                                            &                                                                                               touch                                                                                                 each                                                                                silver lining                                                 as                                                                    she                                                                                  takes                                                                              You                                                                              dancing                                                           freely                                  on a                                    breeze...                                                          Floating                                                    deliciously,                                        with                                          nimble                            fae;                     Spun,                    in the                                  wisps of                          tiptoeing                   spiders.                                                                     Dizzy                                          together                                      (now)                                              with the sound                                                of their sweet                                                              laughter.                                                                 ~Open~                       in                                               a sky of                                                                          blossom &                                                                                                  sparks.                                                                                                                               ~At One~                                                                       as                                                            All                                                                   around,                                             she hears, quite                                    ... unmistakeably ...                                                                                     ~for the sake of mischief~                                                                                                  whispered softly, with                                                                   each bluster.                                                                                                                              *"Do you hear it too?"                                   *
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 2:36 PM UTC
of fire; Reborn, in petals.
*                                                                             "... Come,                                                                                                     catch her."                                                                      Rising;                                                                         anew                                                                 from glowing                      ashes.                                                  Buffeted;                          by the hollow                    of her                                            shoulders.                                                                  Swirling;                                                 amidst sweet                            handfuls,                           gently                                blown,                                    from the                           cherries                       pinkest                   boughs*.                                                                                        Wings spread;                                                               "Do you see them?"                              Flying                             again...                                            Off                                                             grid                                                                       without                                                                            a course.                                                                                                                                     Wild                                                             sparks,                                                                follow her tail                                            across an                                                     ever brightening                                      sky*.                                 Let                      her fire      burn               your eyes.                                         *Watch,*                                                                                                                          as her tears                                                      heal your                                                             pain.                                                                                  *Reach out,*                                                                                            &                                                                                               touch                                                                                                 each                                                                                silver lining                                                 as                                                                    she                                                                                  takes                                                                              You                                                                              dancing                                                           freely                                  on a                                    breeze...                                                          Floating                                                    deliciously,                                        with                                          nimble                            fae;                     Spun,                    in the                                  wisps of                          tiptoeing                   spiders.                                                                     Dizzy                                          together                                      (now)                                              with the sound                                                of their sweet                                                              laughter.                                                                 ~Open~                       in                                               a sky of                                                                          blossom &                                                                                                  sparks.                                                                                                                               ~At One~                                                                       as                                                            All                                                                   around,                                             she hears, quite                                    ... unmistakeably ...                                                                                     ~for the sake of mischief~                                                                                                  whispered softly, with                                                                   each bluster.                                                                                                                              *"Do you hear it too?"                                   *
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But this state of mind is not self-chosen but ****** upon by life's myriad slings of suffering and indifference the body and mind are first buffeted and later bruised and hurt marks of pain are imbedded like those branded on the backs of sheep and lambs to stay and persist to linger on and to violate until life's last breath-- to be mortal to be human to feel to hope is to know Weltschmerz sooner or later few could such escape seldom does its intensity subside or abate the monotony the sameness the chagrin the weariness the emptiness the unchanging taste of repeated experience the brevity of joy the hard knock of constant sorrow on the weak and vulnerable door of the heart, already shrinking and sinking the too-quick ending of a love-song and the night--kiss vanishing at the first peep of the day's dawning the unbearable thirst that's only satisfied momentarily but never quenched soon enough the spring dries up and the drought sets in to aggravate--the despair that returns to roost, hovering ready for descending on the self in quivering-- life has lost its meaning living is but struggling the moon has gone into hiding the stars are tired of glittering the tides are waning the flowers are drooping the trees are weeping and love is farewelling-- Weltschmerz the ultimate angst that festers and invades our total being.
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Jan 16, 2018
Jan 16, 2018 at 3:16 AM UTC
WELTSCHMERZ
A splash overtakes the stern and rocks grind the gunwales. Quick to maneuver, draw draw draw, easing the boat into calmer waters; pause. A deep breath to regain focus and scout the stream ahead. White water, boiling foaming writhing as it is forced reluctantly along. Trout shimmer under the warm sun cutting effortlessly through the brisk water. Disrupted and scattering they flee as a stroke breaks the surface, bubbles rise off the paddle ascending like the decent of snowflakes falling falling falling to the surface above. On this ground blanketed by freshly fallen snow, water bugs dart back and forth more quickly than the eye can see, disturbing only a slight dimple below. These too flee as the water is broken, cut in half, by the keel of a slender hull sliding seductively over the surface. The pace hastens. Unified, the paddler and boat react and flow as one. Tipping forward over the brink, the canoe shoots forward over thrashing snow. Quick right. Dodging a fallen weathered tree. Quick left. Swooping past a rocky isle. Whitecaps breaking and eddies twisting, a sirens song, drawing the boat closer. Violent spray distracts from the call of the sirens and the canoe is buffeted from side to side rocking perilously. Waves reach up in a welcoming embrace as the boat quivers. Regaining balance it soars onward, leaving the anguished water with only a fading wake. V -AM
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 3:43 PM UTC
Rapids
I have forgotten what it is to breathe Deeply and long, To drown in the sharp, cold hit of an autumn morning, And luxuriate in the slow exhaling. I have forgotten what it is to walk Barefooted and bare-legged in the rain, Across a field where the soft mud envelopes my toes And dries a smooth brown. I have forgotten what it is to stand, Wind-buffeted and laughing on the precipice, Sipping celebratory wine from a flask, And impervious to the lure of the long drop. I have forgotten what it is to sit in the park at twilight, Lie face-down in the snow, Sing softly in an empty street, Swim underwater and naked in the sea, Turn consecutive cartwheels across a late summer meadow. Be held so tightly I can scarcely breathe. But forgetting, of course, is the easy part. Copyright Vicki Watson 2013
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Oct 23, 2013
Oct 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM UTC
Forgetting
Where the sky is as blue as CG special tinting reality to a sharpened point. The seas are. As warm as the womb.AMNIOTIC shock when I dive in. I can smell beauty in the cool trade winds. My god made paradise here Carried it away to parts unknown. My god. My lover set me free many years ago but I never returned to her tender Arms. I had forgotten her charms even while laying in her four post bed and running my hands slowly over silken skin. The thrill was gone. She is forgiving                        She looks at me with eyes that glisten. In the starlight. But time is not my ally. Soon I think she will deny me A lover scorned. I must return to her soon or lose my identity. Misting heat. Silent roar. Deafening silence As she whispers me home. Whispers me home. Night scents . Blinding darkness bids me ***** forward to lapping shores Sky so black and starlit that my eyes seek a higher dimension of comprehension. Her rivers run emerald and deep.Glisten in the setting sun. A million shimmering diamonds run to bank in rivulets so perfect as only nature can conjure. I forgot her in my travails. And she will reprimand my questing hand as cold and dead to her. My Belize. My forgotten love. So dismissive have I been as worldly thing have give me waxen wings for flights of fancy far from my reality. I am coming back to you my love though buffeted and chastened. To you to rub my feet and sooth my soul. I am still what I was before. And desirous of more still. Teach me,love me ,Give me one more chance After all,It is your siren call that hastens my steps to your embrace. Homeward.
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Oct 20, 2013
Oct 20, 2013 at 12:10 AM UTC
Where I come from
Where the sky is as blue as CG special tinting reality to a sharpened point. The seas are. As warm as the womb.AMNIOTIC shock when I dive in. I can smell beauty in the cool trade winds. My god made paradise here Carried it away to parts unknown. My god. My lover set me free many years ago but I never returned to her tender Arms. I had forgotten her charms even while laying in her four post bed and running my hands slowly over silken skin. The thrill was gone. She is forgiving                        She looks at me with eyes that glisten. In the starlight. But time is not my ally. Soon I think she will deny me A lover scorned. I must return to her soon or lose my identity. Misting heat. Silent roar. Deafening silence As she whispers me home. Whispers me home. Night scents . Blinding darkness bids me ***** forward to lapping shores Sky so black and starlit that my eyes seek a higher dimension of comprehension. Her rivers run emerald and deep.Glisten in the setting sun. A million shimmering diamonds run to bank in rivulets so perfect as only nature can conjure. I forgot her in my travails. And she will reprimand my questing hand as cold and dead to her. My Belize. My forgotten love. So dismissive have I been as worldly thing have give me waxen wings for flights of fancy far from my reality. I am coming back to you my love though buffeted and chastened. To you to rub my feet and sooth my soul. I am still what I was before. And desirous of more still. Teach me,love me ,Give me one more chance After all,It is your siren call that hastens my steps to your embrace. Homeward.
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As I sit waiting in the storm, My car buffeted by the wind And pedestrians leaning At impossible angles Those few who dare Perambulate I watch the ferry that will Carry me back approach The dock at a crazy offset With wind driven waves Smashing in spite Against its side, Outrageous weather And red travel warnings Everywhere yet this ship Will sail and on it will I be With my car and with my son Travelling anyway, And such is my life In many ways, For there are many waves Hurled against me And the winds that set against Are huge, But ships are safe alongside The Dock And I would be if I would But acquiesce But ships were not built For harbour's shelter But rather for the open sea, And therein lies the issue, Ships should brave The oceans swell And so the same For me
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Feb 20, 2022
Feb 20, 2022 at 9:33 AM UTC
Stormy
Leaves. Inside out. Living things Buffeted by the unseen. Wrecked into action As if awoken violently from a still sleep. The howling And merciless, Unending, Exhalation from Heaven! Not a creature is stirring But for birds Adjusting their navigation gear After too many near misses. "There's snow in the forecast" And we will be stronger to face it Because of today.
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM UTC
Windstorm