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"castaway" poems
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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Lovesong
He loved her and she loved him His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she ****** She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His word were occupying armies Her laughs were an assasin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whips and jackboots Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks And their deep cries crawled over the floors Like an animal dragging a great trap His promises were the surgeon's gag Her promises took the top off his skull She would get a brooch made of it His vows pulled out all her sinews He showed her how to make a love-knot At the back of her secret drawer Their screams stuck in the wall Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs In their dreams their brains took each other hostage In the morning they wore each other's face
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A normal kind of guy Just the guy No cosmologist Sans Christian ********* the droplet suns Distant in the blackened sky Gotta 'and'er some The bristled gristle The cryogenic iris Steel teeth gnashing Right-toe left Ardent in an autobiography Good man Soft man Locomoted his GMC to the Sea Thought maybe With precise aim he could undertow away paradise. No pick-me-ups In copper-channels That Ionized the pick-up-truck With archaea iron that ugly duck Reminiscent of the man In all but-- A castaway Stowaway The man who never hesitates Bop upon the interstate Lost within concritical maze Shoring up Going home Giving up Turned to stone Marble chin Solumn grin Chlidren sing Seeking wings How'd he know Where to go Will he see What it means? He's the guy The one with the lollipop lap Licking the syrup off the lip Of a sweet polished sapphire Gin And the kids My god They think he ODYSSEUS And his dog not yet Dead but depressive in the gloom Howling into the midnight grass And the creatures that stalk With their ******* youth Soon their weight will hit the deck And like a noose, Break the joints The planks of which would stress And bend his eyes upon his head. God willing Should he be exhumed His energies excape to the river And float, Penultimate, into the sea.
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Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 at 5:03 PM UTC
((MODERN)) Man.
Fresh from the kennels. A whole world away.   Companion conversion for a young castaway.   A darling of distraction with irrational fears. The clumsiest canine with ever aware ears. Guardian of gourmet. Suspect of all sounds. He'll catch himself someday, spinning around. A tug of war here. A muddy mess there. A lick to the face of the humans in his care. How thrilled his tail and tremendous his teeth. How dug up the planet from paw underneath. The running for fun. The claiming of trees. The car window ride along - face full of breeze. -------------------------------------------------------- But now he's a master of "Stay!". His eagle ears succumbing to gravity's sway. Napping much more, barking much less. Now rarer the cuddle, the clean, the caress. Patch protector. Owner of no debts. A veteran of various villainous vets. Birds as trivial as the tennis ball is far. Eyes now as hazy as the indistinguishable stars. A howl at the moon. A loosening tooth. An ode to memories of a modest youth. They still love this pup. He still loves them back. May he long be remembered as he faces the black.
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM UTC
Trees
I could spend an eternity alone on this island with only a string and hook and still catch feelings instead of fishes
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Jul 6, 2016
Jul 6, 2016 at 5:13 PM UTC
Castaway
Happenstance to the melancholic gives leave the sin of pride. Inbound reconnaissance tells not the bearer of influence. Squeamish at first: a foreshadowing of calamitous bonding. A space between the mark of corporeal and the ethereal; a stringent hiatus That which rattles the concrete foundation of morality is scarcely a malleable recourse. Regret stains the unfounded soul: an enigma of ephemeral perforations. A separation of the unmitigated humanities; misandry topples the writhing snake. Impact; a cleansing of the maker's flaws integrated solemnly. Complacency arrests the administration of the abhorred; unbridled is the autonomy of a guru.   Ambivalent giftedness burdens the reliant and haughty. A flick of the tongue brings forth the cinema mortem. Castaway: alone to wade in the sea of obscenities. A temporal causality allows no mourning to abscond. Negligence is not the enemy, but indulgent wrath. Hesitant: a stroke of qualia begets the end of a maiden.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM UTC
The Horseless Jockey
*Stranded in a car, Parking lot castaway, Babylonian sunset, A star sleeping on regret, The cold street lights now casting spells, Down upon a pale face with these eyes painted, With their shadows* The rain soldiers are marching in, They'll crown me with their arrows, I am the queen of the orphans, A city for a throne, And heartless chest for a scepter, It is rumored that there was a cool of the day, But it is not found here, If birds had songs then, They choke and spit out cruel laughter now, Therefore the gulls migrated to die on asphalt, To collect the filth I leave upon the earth, I have sticky fingers on me you see, Attached to soggy gloves **The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed,** I cannot sleep tonight, **The rats keep eating at my bed, But feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits**, The Commercialized Army is pressing in, Following the systematic skein of procedure, **Knit the net, Produce, Consume, Expire, Produce, Consume, Expire, Knit the net, Catch me, Catch me, Catch me, Knit the net** I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                    Will I stop myself? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be here,                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be-                                                                                And The Sun Goes Down, In, My, Brown, Eyes, Twilight fixation, The orange star sleeps in the smog, My mind in its fog, Here comes the pale ghost eye, Peaking through his veil, Midnight fixation, Staring down, On my brown eye island Where I washed ashore
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
The Dystopian Part IV: The Beholder
*Stranded in a car, Parking lot castaway, Babylonian sunset, A star sleeping on regret, The cold street lights now casting spells, Down upon a pale face with these eyes painted, With their shadows* The rain soldiers are marching in, They'll crown me with their arrows, I am the queen of the orphans, A city for a throne, And heartless chest for a scepter, It is rumored that there was a cool of the day, But it is not found here, If birds had songs then, They choke and spit out cruel laughter now, Therefore the gulls migrated to die on asphalt, To collect the filth I leave upon the earth, I have sticky fingers on me you see, Attached to soggy gloves **The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed, The rats keep eating at my bed,** I cannot sleep tonight, **The rats keep eating at my bed, But feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits, Feed the rabbits**, The Commercialized Army is pressing in, Following the systematic skein of procedure, **Knit the net, Produce, Consume, Expire, Produce, Consume, Expire, Knit the net, Catch me, Catch me, Catch me, Knit the net** I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                    Will I stop myself? I shouldn't be here                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be here,                   Where can I find it?                                     Will I stop myself?                                                       Time moves too slow I shouldn't be-                                                                                And The Sun Goes Down, In, My, Brown, Eyes, Twilight fixation, The orange star sleeps in the smog, My mind in its fog, Here comes the pale ghost eye, Peaking through his veil, Midnight fixation, Staring down, On my brown eye island Where I washed ashore
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If the time ever comes when human touch is taken from you (because you are sick or in solitary or castaway or...) you will understand how much you need it: your skin will ache as a riverbed cracks for want of rain; you will never take it for granted again
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Mar 15, 2013
Mar 15, 2013 at 9:49 AM UTC
X=kissing O=hugging S=cuddling
Tired, I awoke upon a lonely island beach And gazed on a Goddess above the shore, With sea foam hair, coral skin, what dream, My salt eyes, blinded, open, wanting more, Conspiring with rays of summer she shone So bright, this daughter of the sun, we stood I and my castaway crew, to that siren prone As she led us to her mansion in the woods. Her potions tamed the forest wolf and lion, Spellbinding warrior poets to liven feasts. Why then must she turn ***** men to swine, By what she most desired contented least? Desert falcon, my moly held Pharaohs' breeze And what nil escape above the wine dark seas.
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 7:46 PM UTC
Circe ( sonnet )
Its as if A solemn oath To reminiscence Had memories Had dreams Are you tired of me yet? It just seems A luxury given Fluffed pillows Explaining the simplicity of slumber Had a memory Your a dream Are you gone from me yet? It was fact Actuality Nirvana upon purple hills Had memories Haunted dreams Are you done with me yet? It was peaceful A gloomy rainy day A solemn oath A luxury given Fluffed pillows Nirvana upon purple hills Delicious night Filled by yellow pills Are you high off me yet? Its as if You were a memory Within a dream A haunted nightmare So it seemed Stuck in limbo Or purgatory No longer deserving your glory Naive Gentle Kisses Sweet and simple Sent me flying high Are you tired of me yet? Leave me to runaway I'm Wilson Castaway I am gone from you yet.. Nirvana on purple hills Fought the fray Are you done with me yet? Roaming To home im phoning Airplanes Night walkers Street and sweet talkers Getting high off me yet?
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 10:27 PM UTC
Prom Night Memoir
I lied by the sea, far away from the ebb- uncared, untraceable, a heap among the mounds. You came to me first, And then joined in she, both squatted by me, started the play with me. Never can I forget, the first caress- I know not, yours or hers, but it was like heaven. Your juvenile dreams, naive imaginations, bestowed on my otiose self, by your seasoned skills. Grain upon grains, both made me proud.  Not conforming to a flaw, meticulous maven masons. When your hands tired, she backed you up.  While she was ******  you tended her to health. Finally, I stood tall- an Olympian castle.  Both were beguiled,  I would never be happier.   And, then came the storm, Satanic vibes infested the air. I couldn’t fathom what befell, you were furious, she was crying. Raised voices, clenched fists, intimate moments castaway, I stood a meek witness, while a relationship was severed.   Came along the lunar surge, I was wiped away without a trace. Both stood distant from the other, watching me fall, filled with remorse.
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Mar 2, 2010
Mar 2, 2010 at 9:15 AM UTC
SANDCASTLE...
On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear I lay, and spread your hair on either side, And see the newborn wood flowers bashful-eyed Look through the golden tresses here and there. On these debatable borders of the year Spring’s foot half falters; scarce she yet may know The leafless blackthorn-blossom from the snow; And through her bowers the wind’s way still is clear. But April’s sun strikes down the glades to-day; So shut your eyes upturned, and feel my kiss Creep, as the Spring now thrills through every spray, Up your warm throat to your warm lips: for this Is even the hour of Love’s sworn suitservice, With whom cold hearts are counted castaway.
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Youth’s Spring-Tribute
The music flowed as smoke rings littered the barroom ghosts for a second washed clean by the smell of stale beer and worn out lines. It's here I'm home and here I'm most detached from it all I'm invisible only wanting to view and catch a buzz to chase the nights passing . I sometimes question this existence wonder why the **** no direction suits me best . I used to fight the urge now I simply have grown to tired to care . And where odes another find themselves sitting next to me? Maybe I'm to damaged maybe I'm just happy being alone . I haven't found the answers cause I truly never gave a **** about the questions to begin with. There's more reflection in a empty seldom clean bar glass than within my heart darlin and my times all that matters to me now . I have no options and the past is dead to me as the person who most hold to be the man I no longer can be . There's always a fire burning I just wash it clean to keep you away. Maybe when I'm lost home seems the furthest place from my thoughts . Like some left behind castaway I have simply went insane with time. Underneath the lights reflection I stand the same fractured and wanting nothing more than a stiff drink and some old song to keep me company into this smoke cast fade . Maybe home is anywhere I choose it to be . So try not to question the man who is but a stranger to even me. Cheers
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 6:46 PM UTC
On Many A Night And A Fullmoon
If to you music is Euphoric Then to me you are music Like a needle in a groove My heart kicks like a drum Double petal               Metal It's almost mental So good I'm off tempo Lost in an ocean of bass riffs Based Cought by your waves like a music castaway Overcame by your frequency I could change the station Hum a different tune But it would be no use I'm addicted As if hearing music for the first time All I can do is close my eyes Let my ears guide my wayward heart As I fall in love with you
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 11:30 AM UTC
Declaration in C#sus2
There is no moon tonight just the cold stars in the unfeeling sky yet I cling on to dreams the gypsy caravan I stood & gazed at as a child in the City museum is still there painted, gilded calling for the carefree road & in my heart long before I met you lived my fascination for your mysterious people enchanters,  fortune-tellers, some say, child & horse thieves portrayed thus in my Mother's Russia - the wild people of the endless road the people & whose fiery songs I wanted to follow- & now, in a far off world, bewitched by you, I find out that your dark eyes are that of a gypsy - Romany & it's like fate like D. H Lawrence ' The ****** & the Gypsy' so why, Northener, do you not love me like your people, I am also a wanderer a creature of the road a castaway with no home than the one my heart happened to find if you or fate somehow cast this love spell upon me if this was meant to be, you should love me, Gypsy only that would make sense take me away let us go a-wandering across the land, moors & hills beautiful boy, sweet poet do you know I once tread the winter's frost all the night's way to town for you, hoping to seal my love's fate the dark sky above me doesn't know how to lament lost love the summer of it's heart has passed, drunk long away in quiet pubs there is only this poem poorly written - my heart bleeding on my sleeve
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 9:44 PM UTC
Gypsy
The clock ticks away the silence pounds you it's not the peaceful quiet of life one would wish for it's the hostile silence that makes your heart hammer one that pushes you to speak but holds back your voice in your throat. It makes you wallow in memories memories of things gone wrong memories of having been wronged it compells you to reminisce all your regrets in life. It instills fear in you fear of people, of being cheated fear of being different, of not being accepted the fear of becoming a castaway. It teaches you teaches you not to trust people teaches you to keep your secrets locked away in a distant, dark chamber of your heart teaches you to keep your feelings bottled up inside you. Before you know it it turns you into a paranoid misanthrope it's cruel, it knows no love it knows no friendship it eats you from within it destroys you. This does not dawn upon you soon enough by the time you have realised it it has already done its job hardly have you got any time left to set things right you want to say you need to say things you should have said long ago all the love not spoken of yearns to be expressed now you cling onto each moment time does not pity you it pays no heed to your pleas each second slips by like water in cupped hands like the sand in an hourglass. The silence still keeps pounding you the clock still keeps ticking away.
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 5:53 PM UTC
SILENCE
<•>   For A: The Pleasure of Infection 10:53 pm our all about is to be the whittler of our personage, to both hold the knife with care, but with risky, reckless artistry, as we shape of what raw materials we are possessed, into our own reshaped, reformed most prized bejeweled possession never mind the shavings and cutaways fallen, they are fast away, castaway choices made and cannot be retrieved, for when we whittle, whether our shape desired which may be prior envisioned or a vision from the discovery of performing, they matter no more, let them go, in their absence too, they are part and a whit of you, but not of you, no longer our commonality in this: everything, in everything else, so little but your honesty and crafted, almost dishonesty both ring true, and infect us with pleasure of recalling when we being cut designed and preparing our statue for an unveiling, but with no date yet set, and the loveliness of our mistakes, were precious do-over opportunities seek out the infection, the infection of discovery, the risk of pleasure exposed and your poetry may be either   the antibiotics when the result is red and unpleasant, or a celebration, an invitation to us to be a semi-silent beholder of your artistry infections heal after pain and discoloration but new skin always forms, but at a different pace for each of us I see the faces in my carpet nodding agreement, "always new skin" oh boy. time to go to bed go seek out the pleasure of infection, sadly, happily, it is the only way good night from an old man who dreams and schemes of new skin nightly but never mind me, my piece long ago writ and in need of just a tweak here and there, call it one too many close shavings, his poem's treasure trove, a list of life's minor irritations and major lifts <•> 11:16pm
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Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 11:36 PM UTC
For A: The Pleasure of Infection
<•>   For A: The Pleasure of Infection 10:53 pm our all about is to be the whittler of our personage, to both hold the knife with care, but with risky, reckless artistry, as we shape of what raw materials we are possessed, into our own reshaped, reformed most prized bejeweled possession never mind the shavings and cutaways fallen, they are fast away, castaway choices made and cannot be retrieved, for when we whittle, whether our shape desired which may be prior envisioned or a vision from the discovery of performing, they matter no more, let them go, in their absence too, they are part and a whit of you, but not of you, no longer our commonality in this: everything, in everything else, so little but your honesty and crafted, almost dishonesty both ring true, and infect us with pleasure of recalling when we being cut designed and preparing our statue for an unveiling, but with no date yet set, and the loveliness of our mistakes, were precious do-over opportunities seek out the infection, the infection of discovery, the risk of pleasure exposed and your poetry may be either   the antibiotics when the result is red and unpleasant, or a celebration, an invitation to us to be a semi-silent beholder of your artistry infections heal after pain and discoloration but new skin always forms, but at a different pace for each of us I see the faces in my carpet nodding agreement, "always new skin" oh boy. time to go to bed go seek out the pleasure of infection, sadly, happily, it is the only way good night from an old man who dreams and schemes of new skin nightly but never mind me, my piece long ago writ and in need of just a tweak here and there, call it one too many close shavings, his poem's treasure trove, a list of life's minor irritations and major lifts <•> 11:16pm
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ONE day, a log said to the bog, "you're all mud and you ever survive, i am all wood but i always die." the bog spoke, after a long sigh, "it is transformation, which you deny. I turn into nothing but soil, when it is too hard to toil. the sun smokes up all water, i become a happy crater. then comes by, the rain, fills my bowl once again. i see wild weeds, some dormant seeds. water lilies, papyrus, mangroves, are all that come to me and grow. i laugh with them, they sing with me, castaway afar, but glad are we. together we live and fear not fate, that is how i live ahead!"
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 2:39 AM UTC
Bogged
How could he know this new dawn's light Would change his life forever? Set sail to sea but pulled off course By the light of golden treasure Was he the one causing pain With his careless dreaming? Been afraid, always afraid Of the things he's feeling He could just be gone He would just sail on! He would just sail on How can I be lost? If I've got nowhere to go? Searched the seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive And how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive? These days drift on inside a fog It's thick and suffocating This seeking life, outside it's hell Inside intoxicating He's run aground like his life Water much too shallow Slipping fast, down with the ship Fading in the shadows Now a castaway Blame all gone away! Blame gone away How can I be lost If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive And how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive? Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me not Forgive me Forgive me, why can't I forgive me?! Set sail to sea but pulled off course By the light of golden treasure How could he know this new dawn's light Would change his life forever? How can I be lost If I've got nowhere to go? Search for seas of gold How come it's got so cold? How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive So how can I blame you When it's me I can't forgive?
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 11:10 PM UTC
Unforgiven 3 - by Metallica
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast, With warmer wishes sent. He lov'd them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay; Nor soon he felt his strength decline, Or courage die away; But wag'd with death a lasting strife, Supported by despair of life. He shouted: nor his friends had fail'd To check the vessel's course, But so the furious blast prevail'd, That, pitiless perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could afford; And, such as storms allow, The cask, the coop, the floated cord, Delay'd not to bestow. But he (they knew) nor ship, nor shore, Whate'er they gave, should visit more. Nor, cruel as it seem'd, could he Their haste himself condemn, Aware that flight, in such a sea, Alone could rescue them; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld; And so long he, with unspent pow'r, His destiny repell'd; And ever, as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried--Adieu! At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere; Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he.
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The Castaway
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast, With warmer wishes sent. He lov'd them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay; Nor soon he felt his strength decline, Or courage die away; But wag'd with death a lasting strife, Supported by despair of life. He shouted: nor his friends had fail'd To check the vessel's course, But so the furious blast prevail'd, That, pitiless perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could afford; And, such as storms allow, The cask, the coop, the floated cord, Delay'd not to bestow. But he (they knew) nor ship, nor shore, Whate'er they gave, should visit more. Nor, cruel as it seem'd, could he Their haste himself condemn, Aware that flight, in such a sea, Alone could rescue them; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld; And so long he, with unspent pow'r, His destiny repell'd; And ever, as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried--Adieu! At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere; Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he.
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Beyond the massif peaks of Europa, Above the ancient pillars of Heracles Where rain and ocean are weaving, Lays a fabled kingdom born of waves And noble strands, my beaten hearts Haunting, the lost, lush sylvan lands Of Galicia. Where Incomparable, dark Haired women, mythic, of Amazonian Fairness, side the valleys and moors Of soon forgotten dreams and secretive Wolves slide amongst warmed runnings Of the ram and moans of ewe, where Way bountiful seas are over spilling, In octopus and pearly gemmed shells, The scalloped pilgrimages unfolding, Where incense burns with under stars Encased, the lost Atlantean temples Of Egyptian sands and storied Gaels, The clad forests of wandering Titans, Where snow white beaches end forever Unmapped in told footsteps, castaway, As was the magi gift of treasured yards, Enlightenments, of old and golden isles Pearling the coasts, sailing the sweet airs Crossing Iberian gates, to Elysian, eternal, Galicia.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM UTC
Galicia
Amidst my self-sinkin' a'droppin' down into involuntary shunts you note: *"Pensive, pensive– He is always so pensive. He smokes another cigarette and takes another bath."* Amidst crossin' o'clawfeet in clawfoot tubs you repeat: *"Check the water for them words you were park-wanderin' a'lookin' for while I was out all last night a'lookin' only for you."* And as I look, I do only, for you. *"Sometimes – sometimes I am so in love with you, it's surrealism. My heart's breaking from the weight, from my romanticism, a castaway'd castawayer a'makin' memoirs in the morning. I'm a beach-combing romantic; I'll fall out of love by the morning."* Ponderin' a'wanderin' takes me back to the Fall with leaves, fallen too; to our breaking point, pointing skywards in the off-season kite flying season. I kiss the wind washing over my face and curse all the dumb, **** reasons that I never did kiss you; I never meant to kiss you. I do only, for you. *"Pensive, dear pensive, you do this for me: Go ponderin' for months– O' sonderin' on o'er me."*
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 7:59 PM UTC
Pensive
Tired, I awoke upon a lonely island beach And gazed on a Goddess above the shore, With sea foam hair, coral skin, what dream, My salt eyes, blinded, open, wanting more, Conspiring with rays of summer she shone So bright, this daughter of the sun, we stood I and my castaway crew, to that siren prone As she led us to her mansion in the woods. Her potions tamed the forest wolf and lion, Spellbinding warrior poets to liven feasts. Why then must she turn ***** men to swine, By what she most desired contented least? Desert falcon, my moly held Pharaohs' breeze And what nil escape above the wine dark seas.
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 1:20 PM UTC
Circe
He Sat by the riverbank He Laughed like cold water He Brought to me, the ocean He... Where the current runs behind, beneath The undertow Of his eyes drowning Me He Left the scent of good- Bye Before he’d leave As the scent of autumn Promises winter And barren, silent trees My oars set to the waves To the phantom of My sea The wreck was me Picking up every shell Listening for the sound Of your feet the waves in your eyes Returning for me I wait with the moon For your tides Green is the color Of the setting Of my dreams As they drifted away In your castaway-eyes And I Knew better And you Spoke plainly And I Heard nothing Of the truth That you Gave me But your voice- It’s remaining And your eyes Are engraving Their colors on my canvas heart like your initials in my ****** bark That leaves a wound to die or scar beneath its message
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Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 9:23 PM UTC
Naivete
**I tread to keep my head Just above the water; But find myself floating away ~ While others were sinking or swimming down yonder, I ponder, though my thoughts betray The reality that I perceive Which may, or may not be as limiting Of that which you can conceive, Or can see much stronger I no longer bother; It’s deceiving so I castaway, And leave myself astray in the fray / Blottering• To alter my relief of mindscape and believe, there’ll better days, beyond what I face Cremate my remains in the ashtray someday Energy never ceases to exist It perpetually permeates the cosmic collective consciousness Wherever my soul will occupy the confines in space Of the vibrations that happen to solidify my base And give me just the slightest trace, that I’m phasing amidst these in-between places I feel as though I am an imposter - Egregiously living a grievous dream, of which I have conjured; That I am lost, and therefore cannot prosper Because I harbor improper resentment, that I will foster until my departure This fractal picture of the macrocosm only grows larger, but from farther away; As it becomes harder to map the realms of territories unchartered in my escape I try to attain, but only falter in vain To discover what the universe truly contains And convey that in words to paint mental frames/ Maybe it’s strange but one must think outside the constraints It may sound absurd but please keep up the pace Spiritual enlightenment for real is the surreal end-game in which we all play chase replacing Incarcerated rocks to be polished, in this giant machine Perpetually incarnating A shining spirit until that’s all that remains Once every imperfection Is completely erased When the correct particles have been finally arranged & Nirvana has since become fully sustained Can I truly be One with my Self- And not just a product of fate**
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Sep 4, 2019
Sep 4, 2019 at 6:01 AM UTC
De•per•son•al•iz•a•tion
**I tread to keep my head Just above the water; But find myself floating away ~ While others were sinking or swimming down yonder, I ponder, though my thoughts betray The reality that I perceive Which may, or may not be as limiting Of that which you can conceive, Or can see much stronger I no longer bother; It’s deceiving so I castaway, And leave myself astray in the fray / Blottering• To alter my relief of mindscape and believe, there’ll better days, beyond what I face Cremate my remains in the ashtray someday Energy never ceases to exist It perpetually permeates the cosmic collective consciousness Wherever my soul will occupy the confines in space Of the vibrations that happen to solidify my base And give me just the slightest trace, that I’m phasing amidst these in-between places I feel as though I am an imposter - Egregiously living a grievous dream, of which I have conjured; That I am lost, and therefore cannot prosper Because I harbor improper resentment, that I will foster until my departure This fractal picture of the macrocosm only grows larger, but from farther away; As it becomes harder to map the realms of territories unchartered in my escape I try to attain, but only falter in vain To discover what the universe truly contains And convey that in words to paint mental frames/ Maybe it’s strange but one must think outside the constraints It may sound absurd but please keep up the pace Spiritual enlightenment for real is the surreal end-game in which we all play chase replacing Incarcerated rocks to be polished, in this giant machine Perpetually incarnating A shining spirit until that’s all that remains Once every imperfection Is completely erased When the correct particles have been finally arranged & Nirvana has since become fully sustained Can I truly be One with my Self- And not just a product of fate**
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I feel you slipping away my love when the night is cold and still. When the years rush in and  stand  quietly by my bedroom door, quiet and mute with sorrowful eyes with shoulders drooped in resignation. I feel you slipping away my love as I sit here. As the reality glimmers through and shines upon this page, the silent rage  now unspoken for want of reason or assignment. Broken and wasted like a crystal vase with roses strewn across the floor. I feel you slipping away my love as I grasp feebly at the strings of the beautiful bouquet that  rises just beyond comprehension and wafts gently on the summer night to lite tattered and unwilling in far places unseen by our desires. Embers  softly glowing and now knowing the end has now begun. Years upon years of clawing at our fears that this was not to be. A blazing fire dowsed with strife and ire ,no air to stoke the flame. No time to play the game.  All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl. I cry quietly in the glow of poor reason. I feel you slipping away my love. I feel us slipping away now and forever. The shell does just as well to crumble. A castaway sits on the sandy shore knowing full well that rescue will find his molding husk frozen in time and empty  in the continuum. His  bones bleached past. The grinning mask of irony and  frozen regret. My love our reach exceeded  our grasp but youthful willfulness and hope was the rope. The rope that we clung to and weathered  the battering breezes as we closed our eyes to reason after all love will find a way ?.Even love was not enough, but we knew deep down. I feel you slipping now with eyes wide open. We watch  as the chasm widens and shrug our shoulders. Calloused hands tired of trying now. Weary eyes dry from crying now. willfully stuck and  denying now. I feel you pull away. I will wonder the desert parched with regret of this I have no doubt. But deep down I knew this. Hoping against hope. still. There will be no other to take your place. Who could?. We gave hope it's chance. Once we did dance. Life became duty. We fought off the wolves. We turned. We forgot. We grew apart while joined at the hip. How funny. How sad. Duty bound as love unwound. No us time. I feel you slipping, slipping. Goodbye. My. Love.
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM UTC
In The Wee Hours
I feel you slipping away my love when the night is cold and still. When the years rush in and  stand  quietly by my bedroom door, quiet and mute with sorrowful eyes with shoulders drooped in resignation. I feel you slipping away my love as I sit here. As the reality glimmers through and shines upon this page, the silent rage  now unspoken for want of reason or assignment. Broken and wasted like a crystal vase with roses strewn across the floor. I feel you slipping away my love as I grasp feebly at the strings of the beautiful bouquet that  rises just beyond comprehension and wafts gently on the summer night to lite tattered and unwilling in far places unseen by our desires. Embers  softly glowing and now knowing the end has now begun. Years upon years of clawing at our fears that this was not to be. A blazing fire dowsed with strife and ire ,no air to stoke the flame. No time to play the game.  All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl. I cry quietly in the glow of poor reason. I feel you slipping away my love. I feel us slipping away now and forever. The shell does just as well to crumble. A castaway sits on the sandy shore knowing full well that rescue will find his molding husk frozen in time and empty  in the continuum. His  bones bleached past. The grinning mask of irony and  frozen regret. My love our reach exceeded  our grasp but youthful willfulness and hope was the rope. The rope that we clung to and weathered  the battering breezes as we closed our eyes to reason after all love will find a way ?.Even love was not enough, but we knew deep down. I feel you slipping now with eyes wide open. We watch  as the chasm widens and shrug our shoulders. Calloused hands tired of trying now. Weary eyes dry from crying now. willfully stuck and  denying now. I feel you pull away. I will wonder the desert parched with regret of this I have no doubt. But deep down I knew this. Hoping against hope. still. There will be no other to take your place. Who could?. We gave hope it's chance. Once we did dance. Life became duty. We fought off the wolves. We turned. We forgot. We grew apart while joined at the hip. How funny. How sad. Duty bound as love unwound. No us time. I feel you slipping, slipping. Goodbye. My. Love.
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