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"cacophonous" poems
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. Blackberries Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes Ebon in the hedges, fat With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers. I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me. They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides. Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks -- Bits of burnt paper wheeling in a blown sky. Theirs is the only voice, protesting, protesting. I do not think the sea will appear at all. The high, green meadows are glowing, as if lit from within. I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies, Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen. The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven. One more hook, and the berries and bushes end. The only thing to come now is the sea. From between two hills a sudden wind funnels at me, Slapping its phantom laundry in my face. These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt. I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me To the hills' northern face, and the face is orange rock That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths Beating and beating at an intractable metal.
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Blackberrying
I got an award For being the stupidest young boy With a wax soul And impressionable. I thought I'd find something Nestled here amidst the trees And I did, But in no halls but the hall of god Speaking to me Dancing between the leaves Singing with every whispered breeze And yet when I stepped Past the threshold and into the "real world" I was sold A maniac of utter delinquency. Everybody there Waiting for their turn Auditioning for the favor of hearts They'll never win Can't see Laughing and wondering Reading without comprehension Sticking their *** in the face of the classics Lap dogs licking the milk from Professed ******* Thinking they'll be next Its not resentment-- Is it fair to be bent Towards dollars that've never been spent? All those silly parks Divided from the civilized lands Frontiers of the past Left to be little staging areas For that invisible hand Kids go on spring break Take pictures between the towns Maybe a stop along On the way To Vegas Deep in the desert where it'd **** any other day I cannot escape the unfathomable beauty of that place, Living off the world in a way God said To toil and love the pain In a way nobody does I am guilty of pride and Stuffed like a pie full of anger Cooking it into solid joy And trying hard to scrape the cancerous crust away All the dark sides we avoid But screaming the heat away is good Thermal induction is the name of the game Entropic fizzlements like bubbles in the wind Sublimating all that ever stood. Yet soon enough I'll be born anew And what I leave behind Lifted up Nautoloid shell With a sparkling abalone interior Someone will place on their shelf And think, "I wonder where that thing had been."
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 12:37 PM UTC
Cacophonous Screams from the Departmentalized Interior
I got an award For being the stupidest young boy With a wax soul And impressionable. I thought I'd find something Nestled here amidst the trees And I did, But in no halls but the hall of god Speaking to me Dancing between the leaves Singing with every whispered breeze And yet when I stepped Past the threshold and into the "real world" I was sold A maniac of utter delinquency. Everybody there Waiting for their turn Auditioning for the favor of hearts They'll never win Can't see Laughing and wondering Reading without comprehension Sticking their *** in the face of the classics Lap dogs licking the milk from Professed ******* Thinking they'll be next Its not resentment-- Is it fair to be bent Towards dollars that've never been spent? All those silly parks Divided from the civilized lands Frontiers of the past Left to be little staging areas For that invisible hand Kids go on spring break Take pictures between the towns Maybe a stop along On the way To Vegas Deep in the desert where it'd **** any other day I cannot escape the unfathomable beauty of that place, Living off the world in a way God said To toil and love the pain In a way nobody does I am guilty of pride and Stuffed like a pie full of anger Cooking it into solid joy And trying hard to scrape the cancerous crust away All the dark sides we avoid But screaming the heat away is good Thermal induction is the name of the game Entropic fizzlements like bubbles in the wind Sublimating all that ever stood. Yet soon enough I'll be born anew And what I leave behind Lifted up Nautoloid shell With a sparkling abalone interior Someone will place on their shelf And think, "I wonder where that thing had been."
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The wind diverges the horizon boughs into view finders of royal blue. The flicker of the blue beyond washes to brown sticks fettered with dry leaves. Oh what cadence ensues, From a bent bough and a Sifting wind? If that limb but a will, And that breeze but a pulse, Harmony would hide in the Heartbeat of an eternal summer. Yet eternity suffers sterile sadness, And cadence breeds a timid tempo Of hollow trees against a grey sky. So speak the world in discord, Unveil blue skies from cacophonous trees of green, And push the wind in hurricanes. As wind and bough dance in perfect imbalance, I admire the flicker of their countenance.
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 4:34 PM UTC
An Ode to Uncertainty
i. mist in solemnity mutes the sounding leather bells in silence ii. salt surges waste wantonly gulls guttural in guises of waifs iii. driftwood delivered dull of deluged dilution ochre offering to dune's divestment iii. sea glass shivers into shallow sandy pockets scintillating color schemes iiii. conches lie abandoned in stands of sea grasses cacophonous quiet v. i am wide awake yet dreaming sleepwalking into the waves SoulSurvivor (C) 2/1/2016
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 8:08 AM UTC
ten words... seashore
Snorers all scattered world-wide in offices and homes in boardrooms and bedrooms; O Snorers all loud and clear low and shrill - listen ye to the loud wake-up call as from Rip Van Winkle's Snore stand up united and drown the howl of protests against snoring that is surely no less divine than the Chorus of Angels in Heaven - for the great God who made the Aurora no doubt also conceived of the Divine Snore! and so, stand up, ye sonorous Snorers! unite! I call unto ye! unite against the detractors and the critics and the complainants and those of low culture who cannot lie still and listen to Snoring as one rightly would at a concert hall listening to the delightful play of a quartet of violins O how long will you take it lying down, ye blessed Snorers of the World? let the world know the first divine music was indeed the Snore; and the very height of human communication is the unabashed snore for all other modes of communication lead to mis-communication but the language of the snore is always exact and crisp! the message of the Snore always precise! the meaning always loud and clear! and the very height of the snore (let us declare to the world) is the couple in bed snoring away together beside each other making such divine music making love with the rolling thunder of snores so that one might say: *do we have a couple of wild boars copulating in the next room?* stand up, O Snorers of the World - and defy the mockers and those who seek divorce on grounds of insufferable Snoring; stand up against those who sue for loss of sleep from friendly, neighborly Snorers; stand up now against these losers, these whingeing nags uncouth and untutored in the mysteries of the art of the Snore! stand up and with one loud blast of a universal Snore, with one melodious Snore let us drown their dissenting voices, their unprovoked cacophonous complaints! stand up, Snorers young and old! unite, Snorers black, white and gold! defy the world! O ye Snorers of quite nights and of lazy days: let us overwhelm the world with the pleasing symphony of Snores; let us bless the ears of the world with the dulcet streams of varied notes and arias! stand up! unite! - O much-maligned Snorers of the World! with one voice raised in a triumphant Snore let us declare: *No longer will we be silent! Our voices will be heard!*
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Oct 22, 2010
Oct 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM UTC
United World Federation of Snorers
Snorers all scattered world-wide in offices and homes in boardrooms and bedrooms; O Snorers all loud and clear low and shrill - listen ye to the loud wake-up call as from Rip Van Winkle's Snore stand up united and drown the howl of protests against snoring that is surely no less divine than the Chorus of Angels in Heaven - for the great God who made the Aurora no doubt also conceived of the Divine Snore! and so, stand up, ye sonorous Snorers! unite! I call unto ye! unite against the detractors and the critics and the complainants and those of low culture who cannot lie still and listen to Snoring as one rightly would at a concert hall listening to the delightful play of a quartet of violins O how long will you take it lying down, ye blessed Snorers of the World? let the world know the first divine music was indeed the Snore; and the very height of human communication is the unabashed snore for all other modes of communication lead to mis-communication but the language of the snore is always exact and crisp! the message of the Snore always precise! the meaning always loud and clear! and the very height of the snore (let us declare to the world) is the couple in bed snoring away together beside each other making such divine music making love with the rolling thunder of snores so that one might say: *do we have a couple of wild boars copulating in the next room?* stand up, O Snorers of the World - and defy the mockers and those who seek divorce on grounds of insufferable Snoring; stand up against those who sue for loss of sleep from friendly, neighborly Snorers; stand up now against these losers, these whingeing nags uncouth and untutored in the mysteries of the art of the Snore! stand up and with one loud blast of a universal Snore, with one melodious Snore let us drown their dissenting voices, their unprovoked cacophonous complaints! stand up, Snorers young and old! unite, Snorers black, white and gold! defy the world! O ye Snorers of quite nights and of lazy days: let us overwhelm the world with the pleasing symphony of Snores; let us bless the ears of the world with the dulcet streams of varied notes and arias! stand up! unite! - O much-maligned Snorers of the World! with one voice raised in a triumphant Snore let us declare: *No longer will we be silent! Our voices will be heard!*
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I head outside for cold air and quiet, escaping too-loud laughter and the filth of drunkenness. As the porch door closes behind me the silence explodes, cacophonous, both ears simultaneously bursting with the high pitched squeal of the sudden nothingness. It surrounds me, vibrating my bones, frothing the marrow within, pressing my temples, heart quickening to steady the body against the assault of the stillness, the stagnation of the world around me. I don't know who I am. I am not -- not anyone. I am alone. I am what they want me to be. Seated cross-legged on cold concrete, the alcohol plays the stars across my eyes like a projector: they move this way and that across my field of vision, swaying, dancing. I feel myself floating, getting lost in my own mind again. I hate that feeling. I put a cigarette out on my hand, pressing orange embers into soft flesh. I grit my teeth as the world rushes back. The voices bring me down. The clink of glass bottles brings me down. The searing smell of my skin brings me down. I light it again, pull a few deep drags, then stub it out again, this time inside my forearm. My eyes squeezed shut, I feel myself fall back into reality, like a soft bed, like my skin loosens just enough to let me breathe again. I land on both feet, quietly, softly. I stand up, bush myself off, and walk back inside. I'll burn the whole pack tonight. I kissed him on the cheek, secretly hoping he'd wake from his stupor and keep my company, but he was too far gone, lost hours ago to two or three too many shots taken in bad faith, but with good intentions. I left him on his couch. He'd be safe there. He needed his sleep. Why couldn't I get as drunk as them, drunk enough to numb away the emotions, the longing? I was disappointed, but I wasn't surprised. I curled up on the couch alone, pulling my sleeves down to cover the blisters, already rising. If I could just sleep, I could forget. Everyone slept but me. I went out for another cigarette.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 11:13 AM UTC
This Is Not A Poem.
I head outside for cold air and quiet, escaping too-loud laughter and the filth of drunkenness. As the porch door closes behind me the silence explodes, cacophonous, both ears simultaneously bursting with the high pitched squeal of the sudden nothingness. It surrounds me, vibrating my bones, frothing the marrow within, pressing my temples, heart quickening to steady the body against the assault of the stillness, the stagnation of the world around me. I don't know who I am. I am not -- not anyone. I am alone. I am what they want me to be. Seated cross-legged on cold concrete, the alcohol plays the stars across my eyes like a projector: they move this way and that across my field of vision, swaying, dancing. I feel myself floating, getting lost in my own mind again. I hate that feeling. I put a cigarette out on my hand, pressing orange embers into soft flesh. I grit my teeth as the world rushes back. The voices bring me down. The clink of glass bottles brings me down. The searing smell of my skin brings me down. I light it again, pull a few deep drags, then stub it out again, this time inside my forearm. My eyes squeezed shut, I feel myself fall back into reality, like a soft bed, like my skin loosens just enough to let me breathe again. I land on both feet, quietly, softly. I stand up, bush myself off, and walk back inside. I'll burn the whole pack tonight. I kissed him on the cheek, secretly hoping he'd wake from his stupor and keep my company, but he was too far gone, lost hours ago to two or three too many shots taken in bad faith, but with good intentions. I left him on his couch. He'd be safe there. He needed his sleep. Why couldn't I get as drunk as them, drunk enough to numb away the emotions, the longing? I was disappointed, but I wasn't surprised. I curled up on the couch alone, pulling my sleeves down to cover the blisters, already rising. If I could just sleep, I could forget. Everyone slept but me. I went out for another cigarette.
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A quaint little bazaar In the heart of the town Tells a story Of a thousand moments Dal Bazaar as they call it Or "Curry Market" for others who don't know. I have fragments of memorable memories Deep within my mind The smell The intoxicating smell of spices Blended with the quiescent yet cacophonous lives Of Merchants and Beggars Of Buyers and Sellers Of Bullions and a single calloused rupia In the hands of the old ***** The sunlight baking Bags of turmeric. Suspending the scent In the minds of men. Capering clouds of black and grey And the sudden squall Stirring the monotony Of the customary. The pirouette of rain The one that excites the plainest of the plain Painting the whitewash with shades of grey The chalky walls Dust Moist corriander And the relief of earth Conciliating So rewarding For the ruins of the bare sun. This flashback into my soul Where all my senses seem to be so awake. The feel of the wooden veranda Scent so inexpressible My eyes devouring the sunset Tasting the heavens Hearing it all. Feeling it all. Oh the plight of poets The ritual to end a poem. Painful.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 3:33 AM UTC
Dal Bazaar
Veasna Ta Kvak recording playback over Chinatown cafe again while recounting recent events to journal pages muddled from frequent exchanges bag to bag (Been to Taipei airport, Bali, Vancouver, most recently) blind fate blind fate shower me with Indian daisies and photographs of Railway New Delhi! Hanoi Old Quarter/ Vietnam monsoon/ evening on balcony/ Darjeeling water boiled and filtered anti-malaria golden drink for honeylungs and spring-soul morningtide under moonlight canopy of Avalokiteśvara the fruitful Bodhisattva! English lessons and future hourless comely chimera in sleep phenomenon Benares phantasmagoria YELLOW (near Mata Anandamai Ghat) speaking to Aghori prophecy Kala Bhairava FIERCE ILLUSORY APOCALYPSE FAMILIAR WHERE IS YOUR NOOSE? the Ganges is full of lice and flowers candlewax melted into holy water sickness equal to harmony & jubilant eyeclose and mouthcurl. The future mysteries in Mexico City poorboy $2 mystic orb jade green reflective underneath dirt now in North American bottom white four floor house basement suite coffee table. Visions indivisible from the Viridian roundly haze but surefire in their accuracy I'm absolute and universally formed for the next few cacophonous decades!
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 1:47 AM UTC
Early Rest in the Chinatown Cafe
Let me meet you in a marbled                                                  field of                                                            sand...                                                                                                       Though you bewitch me with clifftops hooded in emerald grass ...                                                  Though your sheep bleat loudly the marvel of your serenity...                                    Though you wait patiently beyond your lonely precipice,              I cannot endure the eons                                          raging against the cliffs of your security. Every passing year, the thunder of my broken waves gouges deeper into your wounded coastline. Every rock torn from your embrace, resounds the pain of our growing rift Every crumbling cliffs edge dissolves the beauty I held in reverie...                       I wound us in this way. Let me meet you in a secluded                                                      gentle                                                                 cove... There,     upon quieted sands, my waves will softly stroke your skin. There,     the lions will laugh in cacophonous delight at our simple joy. There,     our worlds will dance as pebbles tumble into diamond crystals. There, a child will listen woefully,                                  the sea song of our love. With eyes in contented darkness,          With a soul filled, overflowing                      With the power of bearing witness                                                                to this daily wonder. Each      breath brings her deeper into the burning core of her mind, Each      thought sparks the flame brighter Each      billowing blaze will enliven her roots, and                                                                                   she will bloom.            Then, her eyes will open to a shimmering world, glistening through tears of quiet understanding.                      Then, breath will guide the salt of our dance into her veins                                   Then,          she will dance to the song of our world. With arms wide as eyes,                she will embrace                       this treasured moment                                    With the divinity of her mortality. When the moment calms, she will walk solemnly through our shallows. When my waves pull home at her ankles, When the crystalline pebble shines brightly in her visage she will reach with focused surrender through my water for a memento of the love she feels so presently. In our slow dance, of Land and Sea,                our love bears its fruits in tiny treasures. In her little pocket,                              the diamond of our love will travel further into your heart than my waves ever could. In this way...                   you and I grow fonder                                                              with every passing day.
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
Sea Song To a Daughter
Let me meet you in a marbled                                                  field of                                                            sand...                                                                                                       Though you bewitch me with clifftops hooded in emerald grass ...                                                  Though your sheep bleat loudly the marvel of your serenity...                                    Though you wait patiently beyond your lonely precipice,              I cannot endure the eons                                          raging against the cliffs of your security. Every passing year, the thunder of my broken waves gouges deeper into your wounded coastline. Every rock torn from your embrace, resounds the pain of our growing rift Every crumbling cliffs edge dissolves the beauty I held in reverie...                       I wound us in this way. Let me meet you in a secluded                                                      gentle                                                                 cove... There,     upon quieted sands, my waves will softly stroke your skin. There,     the lions will laugh in cacophonous delight at our simple joy. There,     our worlds will dance as pebbles tumble into diamond crystals. There, a child will listen woefully,                                  the sea song of our love. With eyes in contented darkness,          With a soul filled, overflowing                      With the power of bearing witness                                                                to this daily wonder. Each      breath brings her deeper into the burning core of her mind, Each      thought sparks the flame brighter Each      billowing blaze will enliven her roots, and                                                                                   she will bloom.            Then, her eyes will open to a shimmering world, glistening through tears of quiet understanding.                      Then, breath will guide the salt of our dance into her veins                                   Then,          she will dance to the song of our world. With arms wide as eyes,                she will embrace                       this treasured moment                                    With the divinity of her mortality. When the moment calms, she will walk solemnly through our shallows. When my waves pull home at her ankles, When the crystalline pebble shines brightly in her visage she will reach with focused surrender through my water for a memento of the love she feels so presently. In our slow dance, of Land and Sea,                our love bears its fruits in tiny treasures. In her little pocket,                              the diamond of our love will travel further into your heart than my waves ever could. In this way...                   you and I grow fonder                                                              with every passing day.
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It wasn't a guitar solo. It was a guitar and me going ******* on each other; if it seemed cacophonous that's because it was supposed to be. One of us is going to destroy the other eventually. Am I supposed to love a guitar? See, I wake up next to her, and look into her eyes, and it's only love I see. Warm skin in sunshine beats factory made in China. The curves of her shoulders, or the lines that form her smile, versus the curves of it's body, the blades that vibrate at every end. I painted it yellow, but when I see her I feel it. Warm. Me and that instrument are enemies till either of us dies. No, I do not love an instrument.
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 8:11 PM UTC
"Yellow."
Ha-Ha, Joker's laugh, wildcard coyote dances a maniac tango, joking in the midst of elemental chaos-- giggling at the lava, way hot watching the castle's mortar dissolve, doting the cacophonous crumbling symphony akin to Amadeus. Ha-ha, joker's laugh, wildcard coyote ignites a spliff with incandescent embers, smoking-- up under falling stars getting higher than the Himalayas and more enlightened as the midnight parades off into a translucent, steaming ashy bayou, hoping there's a bite to eat before the heat waves doff the darkness completely into blinding, hokey sunbeams reflecting in snow, that cuckoo tune never lost, Ha-ha, joker's laugh from that wildcard coyote.
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 12:03 AM UTC
Trickster's Mind Garden
you cry like lost toys and dead pets there's nothing you can do about it right now you cry like a small animal with a broken spinal chord you keep whimpering, but it can only heal in time you cry like pressing the skin of your palms into the membranes of your eyes when everything in your head is so cacophonous you want to rub away all the little things you absorb want that your hands could throw out this migraine like a candy wrapper on the sidewalk and if you believe hard enough that it's gone you'll never notice the sugar rush or the comedown so you press your hands to your face as hard as you can and try to pray like a religious person but you were raised christian and american and the ways of believing and hoping and loving that you knew as a child seem insincere now, and hard to speak the language is not truthful everything is what they told you it was not nothing is what they told you it was or everything was always what it was and you or i could've told them that and you think that wrapper might eventually end up in a landfill if you go throwing it carelessly around and sadness taken with too much sugar can be a toxic combination so maybe making the bad things go away is harder than throwing away the wrapper and enjoying the rush maybe the wrapper is somewhere else now you can't get to where you can't hear it crinkle or see it shrivel, but you can still relentlessly feel it getting whittled away by time and weather while steadily melting down bits of you as you pass your heart around gasping inside the icebox until one day you look up and the sun is a bloodier color and your lungs are full of ice like pins freezing inside of you and when seconds before you had oxygen as you begin choking, you think it's amazing how long it seems to have been since you were alive your knuckles are dry from holding on to a rusty ladder wrung even when you want to move so badly and there's nowhere to climb you refuse to jump and you're still trying to figure out how to fall correctly to break the least amount of limbs
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Nov 30, 2013
Nov 30, 2013 at 6:45 PM UTC
far off feeling
you cry like lost toys and dead pets there's nothing you can do about it right now you cry like a small animal with a broken spinal chord you keep whimpering, but it can only heal in time you cry like pressing the skin of your palms into the membranes of your eyes when everything in your head is so cacophonous you want to rub away all the little things you absorb want that your hands could throw out this migraine like a candy wrapper on the sidewalk and if you believe hard enough that it's gone you'll never notice the sugar rush or the comedown so you press your hands to your face as hard as you can and try to pray like a religious person but you were raised christian and american and the ways of believing and hoping and loving that you knew as a child seem insincere now, and hard to speak the language is not truthful everything is what they told you it was not nothing is what they told you it was or everything was always what it was and you or i could've told them that and you think that wrapper might eventually end up in a landfill if you go throwing it carelessly around and sadness taken with too much sugar can be a toxic combination so maybe making the bad things go away is harder than throwing away the wrapper and enjoying the rush maybe the wrapper is somewhere else now you can't get to where you can't hear it crinkle or see it shrivel, but you can still relentlessly feel it getting whittled away by time and weather while steadily melting down bits of you as you pass your heart around gasping inside the icebox until one day you look up and the sun is a bloodier color and your lungs are full of ice like pins freezing inside of you and when seconds before you had oxygen as you begin choking, you think it's amazing how long it seems to have been since you were alive your knuckles are dry from holding on to a rusty ladder wrung even when you want to move so badly and there's nowhere to climb you refuse to jump and you're still trying to figure out how to fall correctly to break the least amount of limbs
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---- Sometimes they take over The rhythms in your head Nuances of rhyme schemes The lines your muse has fed You want to use a smaller word Pontificate instead It gallops through your consciousness A wild horse - unlead! The hooves go on like thunder Upon the steed you ride Tearing up the page Pen in hand - astride You are without a bridle Legs grip the mustang's side He has his own way He is a beast with pride! No - he has no stable No - his blood flows wild! Fed grass of the planes He's restless as a child A stallion - yes! A bucking bronc! Unbroken - never mild! Get into his rhetoric He's always getting riled! Write like you're a MUSTANG! RIDE ON!!! You have no reins! Get into his rhythm The rhyme scheme is unstrained Your footing is unsure In uncertain terrains Playing echo chamber music Those cacophonous refrains Bust that bronc!!! He's waiting - Your own head unrestrained!!! SoulSurvivor (C) 5/19/2015
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 4:41 PM UTC
Write like a MUSTANG!
New mildew mania, oh man-of-war Live by the letter, and **** for the car The dreamers, constrained by the fog they can’t see I uttered this song in Breakaway Alley A wandering blonde in the restless air Their kids, half-afraid that they’re halfway to nowhere Think what you may, they are not in a trance Wield what they say and you’ll find that you dance Upon every row, lies a flag waving by Apartment gravestones kissing up to the sky Now, must we try so hard for fake jubilee? The happy ones live in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley is on the run All the country crows, they’ve committed a crime Each of their wings, flapping mad out of time To fly with such freedom yet stay so cloudbound Cacophonous sounds fighting for our own ground The buds only look up for leviathans To take them to the realm they misunderstand To pity the fool that does not try to flee We sit on our stools in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley has emptied the guns The youth do not stir at the visage of hell There is no romance in the streets’ calling bells And while we may treat such a threat to be shown The dagger of a mind is dull while unknown The ravaged pretender spoke of the Romans His gauntlets of gold, earned from fate’s happenstance To escape his blood, he would face down the sea The velvet hands shook in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley is due to be shunned The eye of childhood feared the forgotten paint They lay, unencumbered, on secular saints The falsified folly in full leopard print The troops in their trollies with pockets of lint The radio is silent in time’s aging vice We hear and don’t listen, bats spliced with mice But maybe, you will see this sweet harmony Remember the words of Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley has finally gone When the baby screams for the first time, aged five Will it lament the loss of its life? When the kids rear for a solution wherever you go How much will it take to say “God, I’ll never know”? Remember the words of Breakaway Alley It’s not all you see, it’s not simply me
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 8:31 PM UTC
Breakaway Alley
New mildew mania, oh man-of-war Live by the letter, and **** for the car The dreamers, constrained by the fog they can’t see I uttered this song in Breakaway Alley A wandering blonde in the restless air Their kids, half-afraid that they’re halfway to nowhere Think what you may, they are not in a trance Wield what they say and you’ll find that you dance Upon every row, lies a flag waving by Apartment gravestones kissing up to the sky Now, must we try so hard for fake jubilee? The happy ones live in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley is on the run All the country crows, they’ve committed a crime Each of their wings, flapping mad out of time To fly with such freedom yet stay so cloudbound Cacophonous sounds fighting for our own ground The buds only look up for leviathans To take them to the realm they misunderstand To pity the fool that does not try to flee We sit on our stools in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley has emptied the guns The youth do not stir at the visage of hell There is no romance in the streets’ calling bells And while we may treat such a threat to be shown The dagger of a mind is dull while unknown The ravaged pretender spoke of the Romans His gauntlets of gold, earned from fate’s happenstance To escape his blood, he would face down the sea The velvet hands shook in Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley is due to be shunned The eye of childhood feared the forgotten paint They lay, unencumbered, on secular saints The falsified folly in full leopard print The troops in their trollies with pockets of lint The radio is silent in time’s aging vice We hear and don’t listen, bats spliced with mice But maybe, you will see this sweet harmony Remember the words of Breakaway Alley In Breakaway Alley lies the sun Breakaway Alley has finally gone When the baby screams for the first time, aged five Will it lament the loss of its life? When the kids rear for a solution wherever you go How much will it take to say “God, I’ll never know”? Remember the words of Breakaway Alley It’s not all you see, it’s not simply me
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Up above the sky A slower reality lies No boundaries to share Infinite time to spare Birds flying Under kaleidoscopic clouds Separated from the cacophonous crowd No memories to haunt No tomorrow to be worried about
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM UTC
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I think if I should be more aware Of the peeling of a banana, And all its slightly muffled, sticky sounds I could call it music, and Become, myself, a profound cataloger of all things noise. For words are only structured noises, We mold like clay. Well, why don’t we simply reign in The noises that are already out there? We’ll learn the nuances of a peeling banana, Call them words: it is a banana saying, I’m peeling. We’ll call them poems, call them song. The sound of a cardboard coffee cup, for instance, Gently returned to a desk after sipping Multiplied by a classroom of Caffeinated percussionists would be Aptly called an avant-guard symphony! And I perhaps, A modern-day maestro, conductor at the front of the room Flapping my arms to the beat, up, down! Up-down! –Only pausing To write down the tum-tum-tum, furiously capturing this rhythm On paper for future readers to come. But I fear, it is in this act of writing it down, that The banana forgets how it sounds, Or I forget to sound the banana, and It all starts to become a sort of cacophonous din of Slurping children, left by the wayside by the Education system and adopted by Starbucks, Who doesn’t serve this sort of poem. So we must market this to the young folks; It will be a movement of ultimate vintage-chic, (Recalling the days of our wordless hairy brethren, Who could only rely on grunts and noise)                        To imagine Man without clothing is possible,                        But Man without poetry is simply absurd.
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Jun 30, 2010
Jun 30, 2010 at 4:59 AM UTC
Maestro
I think if I should be more aware Of the peeling of a banana, And all its slightly muffled, sticky sounds I could call it music, and Become, myself, a profound cataloger of all things noise. For words are only structured noises, We mold like clay. Well, why don’t we simply reign in The noises that are already out there? We’ll learn the nuances of a peeling banana, Call them words: it is a banana saying, I’m peeling. We’ll call them poems, call them song. The sound of a cardboard coffee cup, for instance, Gently returned to a desk after sipping Multiplied by a classroom of Caffeinated percussionists would be Aptly called an avant-guard symphony! And I perhaps, A modern-day maestro, conductor at the front of the room Flapping my arms to the beat, up, down! Up-down! –Only pausing To write down the tum-tum-tum, furiously capturing this rhythm On paper for future readers to come. But I fear, it is in this act of writing it down, that The banana forgets how it sounds, Or I forget to sound the banana, and It all starts to become a sort of cacophonous din of Slurping children, left by the wayside by the Education system and adopted by Starbucks, Who doesn’t serve this sort of poem. So we must market this to the young folks; It will be a movement of ultimate vintage-chic, (Recalling the days of our wordless hairy brethren, Who could only rely on grunts and noise)                        To imagine Man without clothing is possible,                        But Man without poetry is simply absurd.
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troglo-what? look it up, those who do not know the word   for I am a lover of words   obscure exotic esoteric poetic pedantic petty greasy slimy odoriferous clanking cacophonous melodious odious arcane archaic all a primal pleasure to hear, to write, to read when perched in the right order and place to take flight and allow me to soar above or hide below   the massed multitudes of monkeys who share my deoxyribonucleic acid (and you thought I would simply say, DNA)   for they find solace in the day shared with simian soul mates but I, the true troglodyte of Texas prefer the singular scent of words on trackless trails over the sound of lovers and their breathless tales
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 12:57 PM UTC
a troglodyte in Texas
parting clouds over the field of wheat split the gray into a sea of golden rays bright enough to leave even the blindest man at his feet passing wind slithers by carrying with it seeds and soft cries tears from the protector of all the crop the lonely scarecrow who stays planted his tune the most melancholy of acoustics a tranquil coffee shop birds circle frightfully overhead for they do not know their avoidance leaves the scarecrow all but dead he who never meant any harm but who's appearance raises cacophonous alarm cursing the sky, the scarecrow shouts yet, the scarecrow will soon get his wish once his stump dries he will be free with the coming drought so as the farmer prays for rain, he questions God's whereabouts
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Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 8:05 PM UTC
the farmer and the scarecrow
The sinking has returned too fast. I knew sanity wouldn't last - but madness is here much too soon. Electric amnesia returns to me. Cacophonous thoughts breaking free tear my feet from trembling ground. My contradictory conscience ********** utter nonsense across the face of my clean slate. Peel back my shimmering rib cage, see insomnia's grip of rage still my dark heart into hurting. Plunge me into freezing waters where caught apathetic breath blurs treading to sinking to drowning. And I'm caught in the crawl spaces between the in between places - wretch to my opprobrious mind. Not if but when sayeth the doc to the tune of the ticking clock willing me to wave the white flag Madness is a graceless game.
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 4:01 PM UTC
Ricochet
When I met you, my heartbeat fret-- something was incongruous. And once frantic words careened out of your mouth-- I saw rapid fire machine gun rubber bullets bouncing everywhere. Neighborhood dogs desperately yipped and barked and howled as your attempts to weave a conspiracy laden tragic web of a storybook life into a net to trap those who will listen unravel before me. Storm clouds darken around you. The cacophonous pandemonium of your voice and slithering slender body are fascinating to watch as headlights dance by while you whirl in the middle of the road, ***** drink in one hand a plucky smile-- your green eyes glow like melting peridot. With a train wreck personality, your frolfing at a busy intersection influence over some is astonishing! The next morning, through a haze of listlessness, I understand what you are; Succubus.
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 8:44 AM UTC
Chaos Incarnate
I am a musician. I do not write. I compose. I can tell you the tempo of my heart And how it shifts from adagio to allegro When I see your face. How the crescendo of your smile Creates a symphony in my mind. How the lilts of your voice are melodies I will never forget. I am a musician. I am not a poet. I cannot compare thee to a summer's day But what I can do is compare you to a piece of complete harmony And consonance. I can tell you the names of the chords you strike through my veins When you look me in the eyes. I cannot turn words into poetry or love But I can sing you love songs until my voice runs dry. I am a musician. I cannot write. I can strum you like a guitar and make you hum. I can make you sing sweet melodies when I run my fingers down your spine. I can tell you how cacophonous my life is without you. I can tell you how the melody in a monophonic composition feels When you're gone. I can feel the syncopation when we are in a fight. I am a musician. I am not a poet. I cannot put into words how I feel about you. But I can sure as hell try In this word sonata of thoughts.
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 8:03 PM UTC
I Am A Musician
Favorites, Reposts, Comments: Currency of the cacophonous conumdrum carried onward in carnivals of catatonic cherubims trading virtual cadence for confidence and compliments.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 4:00 AM UTC
Currency Of Esteem
Today I walked to the park and back And saw suburbia rearranged into dizzying distortions All the trees had a purplish tint And on the grass, I saw multicoloured light reflecting off the dew When I got home I attacked all the imagery with a dagger to reshape reality And a blank mirror to recreate the world in my head. The world that was quiet is humming again I hear choirs of crickets and choral basslines Cacophonous and ecstatic in the constant confusion The dull concrete is shot open with marquee moonlight Indulgence pouring out, free-flowing like communion And painted onto canvases like rain on a car window Daydreams and delusions are ice cream melting, sticky and sap-like on your chin Clouds pixelate with diamond edges Voices ring out in a flurry And there isn't a soul in sight. So I breathe in the air And let all the sounds and smells and limitations of reality colour my imagination once again Daydreamed delusions and nightmarish reality are one Filaments in the vibrant violence Until the summer fades away again.
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Aug 18, 2023
Aug 18, 2023 at 7:25 AM UTC
Daydreams and Nightmares
Let me tell you something: I have more to feel, and to express, and to share Than these social peripheries will hold, Let alone could let disperse amidst the insipid fog of this air. See, it’s you who’ve all caught me in this ******* snare. Thus, let it be known, to those who are so bold So as to assess me falsely, That there is far more to see Than the sheer surface of me. There is more passion And far more complexity, Than many care to realize. And if you disagree, Then let the forbidden sirens sing a cacophonous reprise For my fellow misfits who follow their hearts, and their will to be free. Our passions will surge like psychedelic smoke as we rise. **** all the rest and their soul’s reciprocity. It will be their demise.
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Jan 2, 2012
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:59 PM UTC
Anarchial Rant