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"cherubs" poems
Where we shoveled coal into the furnace was an inconsiderable door. Behind it held ***** chubby cherubs with cherry tomato noses, whose job it was to keep the fires of our parent's liquor cabinets full. This they did to keep them from constantly beating us, but the happy distraction did not always work. So, we would pluckily go. Go to the scuzzy pond at dusk with kerosine lanterns and listen for croaks. We tied forks to the ends of canes or stakes and would gig bullfrogs for dinner. It became only momentarily mortifying, but was always a choice way of ridding our sisters and other clingy girls of our company. We'd fry the legs in cornstarch and pepper flakes and be allowed to share with the adults their beer if it was a good catch. Usually, it was. Most of forever we waited for teaberry season, always the best time of the year. Though it was hotter than Beelzebub's bath water we'd go swimming in that **** pond to reach our favorite teaberry patches. This ensured our riches and fame throughout our Appalachian village. Everyone would eat teaberry ice cream and sing our names and no one beat us on those days.
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Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 3:08 PM UTC
Escaping The Heat
My memory beats in rhythm with my heart. Spilling out snapshot flashes of life like a flick book's muffled cries. Controversial plastic shell, elastic strap, stick insect mattel covetted for months until Santa dropped it down the chimney, almost as fast as she sprogged and regained her figure - the original scrummy yummy mummy set to spread low self esteem. My daddy said anyone can crank out a kid like she did, as my mother ground her teeth to protest on behalf of her traumatised frame. Strange, I almost became one of the lost - before I grew cells and self, another fragile foetus swinging on a noose from gallows where once a ****** failed to stayed closed. Little life curled tight self soothing sings al na tivke iredem bim'nucha My memory beats in rhythm with my heart as I lie beneath my shroud of sadness filled with down shrinking from the light of day I want to tell you that I love you, that my heart brays, beats, bleets, breaks, aches for you. My soul, spirit, self thrice chorus al na tivke iredem bim'nucha as waters flow from deep to deep where danger dances and solace is sought from beyond the fruitless orchards and willows weeping branches reaching out for you. My memory beats in rhythm with my heart surrounded by madonna, ***** and all betwixt spheres of life protruding, pronounced, announcing themselves; in streets where bundles, terrors, cherubs, banting, brat and bairn alike shriek, scream, squeal, shout, squalk, squabble, sing in a cacophony that makes my heart weep and ache in longing to sing to self in solitude al na tivke iredem bim'nucha. My memory beats in rhythm with my heart pulsating thoughts, dreams, hopes of you through the whole of me. Brought to my knees I seek wisdom, guidence, strength to let you go. The river is waiting for you, you who I hold tight in my caul trying to trust, seeking strength to hakshev le'ivshat haga'lim holding the thought of you, the love of you, the hope of you tight in my arms crooning my lullaby of lament al na tivke iredem bim'nucha
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Jun 26, 2013
Jun 26, 2013 at 5:57 PM UTC
River Lullaby
My memory beats in rhythm with my heart. Spilling out snapshot flashes of life like a flick book's muffled cries. Controversial plastic shell, elastic strap, stick insect mattel covetted for months until Santa dropped it down the chimney, almost as fast as she sprogged and regained her figure - the original scrummy yummy mummy set to spread low self esteem. My daddy said anyone can crank out a kid like she did, as my mother ground her teeth to protest on behalf of her traumatised frame. Strange, I almost became one of the lost - before I grew cells and self, another fragile foetus swinging on a noose from gallows where once a ****** failed to stayed closed. Little life curled tight self soothing sings al na tivke iredem bim'nucha My memory beats in rhythm with my heart as I lie beneath my shroud of sadness filled with down shrinking from the light of day I want to tell you that I love you, that my heart brays, beats, bleets, breaks, aches for you. My soul, spirit, self thrice chorus al na tivke iredem bim'nucha as waters flow from deep to deep where danger dances and solace is sought from beyond the fruitless orchards and willows weeping branches reaching out for you. My memory beats in rhythm with my heart surrounded by madonna, ***** and all betwixt spheres of life protruding, pronounced, announcing themselves; in streets where bundles, terrors, cherubs, banting, brat and bairn alike shriek, scream, squeal, shout, squalk, squabble, sing in a cacophony that makes my heart weep and ache in longing to sing to self in solitude al na tivke iredem bim'nucha. My memory beats in rhythm with my heart pulsating thoughts, dreams, hopes of you through the whole of me. Brought to my knees I seek wisdom, guidence, strength to let you go. The river is waiting for you, you who I hold tight in my caul trying to trust, seeking strength to hakshev le'ivshat haga'lim holding the thought of you, the love of you, the hope of you tight in my arms crooning my lullaby of lament al na tivke iredem bim'nucha
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On a thin ribbon of light unfurled from unseen heaven direct to her parted robe and disquieted ear comes an angel’s voice, the dove’s winged companion, with words foretold in the book now slipping to the floor. What hunger fires our flickering imaginations, that require Grace come wrapped in velvet purses- with proof of the child’s purity dripping from tables and prophet encrusted walls? I think they had it all wrong- Fra Angelico, Veronese, van Ecyk, and even Martini with his gilded apprehension. I prefer a scene without unblemished lilies- no fine linens, puffing cherubs, or embroidered pillows on display. I picture her instead at her daily labor- pulling on a ***** rope at the village well. With calloused hands, she draws her trembling reflection skyward, when, announced by the slightest breeze, a stranger appears. Before their eyes meet, a bird’s flight distracts her- water splashes from the bucket washing the dust from her feet and soaking the tattered hem of her robe. His silent glance holds her only for a moment. In the distance, a voice calls out, “Daughter!” She turns, sets off, bowing to her burden. A cloud’s shadow melts in the heat of the road. Tom Spencer © 2018
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 8:30 AM UTC
Painting the Annunciation
A hymn to paired planethood: Venus hits Pluto as death, in cold orbit, collides with biology smashing to fragments: demonic astrology (more a black hole than a love-star, it’s true though). Cynical cure for Eve’s womanly grievance Concupiscent consequence: lust’s bitter fruit – ah the thought… changing Sin into mere inconvenience. Margaret sang her seductive refrain about weeding the garden and progress and light. Her sisters should view her with scornful disdain but instead have adopted her murderous rite. With sang-froid she promoted her racist eugenics (as if she had never herself been a fetus), condemning her heirs to postmodern polemics while nurturing ardent desires to defeat us. Suppressing the lives that she flushed down the drain she would liberate Death – and resistance was vain. As a midwife to modern life (though on the “anti” side) Old Matron Margie racked up quite a legacy singing the praises of sanctioned infanticide calling the shots for the coming sick century. Planning, quite calmly, to “cleanse” certain races her zeal was empowered by murderous graces. She labored to bring us such pearls of subduction: “dilation and curettage”, “women’s autonomy” “viable fetus”, “procedure”, a “suction” Hippocrates retches to hear the taxonomy; words that turn Life into mere reproduction. She enters the realms of the ****** and the motherless roundly condemned by her feminine otherness. Man’s first protection: the God-given womb which no infant should have to regard as their tomb. Dismembered dark cherubs, assembling, greet her as demons (in scrubs) holding baby-parts meet her. Long may she burn with the medical cynics this mother of Moloch, this founder of clinics. Convenience is king when abortion’s the Queen and the profits swell big with each nubile teen… yet the fruit of such carnage remains to be seen. I send her this song as a funeral wreath and a card inked in blood. You may read what is there: “To the Matrix Supreme of our culture of death from the souls of the infants you slew on the earth. May your torment increase with the children you bear.”
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 9:09 PM UTC
Margaret Sanger’s Entry Into Hell
A hymn to paired planethood: Venus hits Pluto as death, in cold orbit, collides with biology smashing to fragments: demonic astrology (more a black hole than a love-star, it’s true though). Cynical cure for Eve’s womanly grievance Concupiscent consequence: lust’s bitter fruit – ah the thought… changing Sin into mere inconvenience. Margaret sang her seductive refrain about weeding the garden and progress and light. Her sisters should view her with scornful disdain but instead have adopted her murderous rite. With sang-froid she promoted her racist eugenics (as if she had never herself been a fetus), condemning her heirs to postmodern polemics while nurturing ardent desires to defeat us. Suppressing the lives that she flushed down the drain she would liberate Death – and resistance was vain. As a midwife to modern life (though on the “anti” side) Old Matron Margie racked up quite a legacy singing the praises of sanctioned infanticide calling the shots for the coming sick century. Planning, quite calmly, to “cleanse” certain races her zeal was empowered by murderous graces. She labored to bring us such pearls of subduction: “dilation and curettage”, “women’s autonomy” “viable fetus”, “procedure”, a “suction” Hippocrates retches to hear the taxonomy; words that turn Life into mere reproduction. She enters the realms of the ****** and the motherless roundly condemned by her feminine otherness. Man’s first protection: the God-given womb which no infant should have to regard as their tomb. Dismembered dark cherubs, assembling, greet her as demons (in scrubs) holding baby-parts meet her. Long may she burn with the medical cynics this mother of Moloch, this founder of clinics. Convenience is king when abortion’s the Queen and the profits swell big with each nubile teen… yet the fruit of such carnage remains to be seen. I send her this song as a funeral wreath and a card inked in blood. You may read what is there: “To the Matrix Supreme of our culture of death from the souls of the infants you slew on the earth. May your torment increase with the children you bear.”
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BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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Clowns' Houses
BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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she hovers over the handwritten letter with maniacal grin gripping her face as she devours his texted words with weeping eyes and she sings in unnatural tones a child's lullaby in some forgotten french dialect delightful reflections in song of the garden gate leaning broken onto the rough hewn path where the soulless cherubs cherish their seed in haphazard rows cherub faces sling silent tears and labour at the desires never felt and the dark soils never fertile seeking redemptions in the rebirth of the harvest moon which decorates the far wall of the tomb the cherubs brief delighted laughters soon sputter and fail as in the dying light of day reveals that they must labour yet another day to no useful end she lives in this place a cottage of straw with dark windows and a wood stained door she sits on its porch with knitting in hand weaving futures for her beloved cherubs weaving pasts for her own she devoured him like she did his words and came home to roost like her innocent faced dragoons she will someday march forth with this army of doom but today she is content to be contrite knitting porridge and whey wall hangings from the tables of the steampunk princess
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Feb 19, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 6:27 AM UTC
porridge and whey
Every night was tortellini when were roommates. I complained about my chapped feet; you bought me the wrong socks. Black, mens, I clarified, but you kept buying the women's. Then one day you got it right, only they were for you because black is a warmer color than white, and the socks of a man felt like cherubs. I complained about my chapped feet, you the heart of the world, its cold silence. But we remained "alright". You bought new pajamas every night and painted a beauty mark on your face to match. Years of x-marked places on our bodies which no one saw because we were cynics, I the most. No roses at our mat--we grew our own bushes, ordered the ones with the extra thorns. I charmed that snake, you bit me on its behalf. That I'd do such a thing was shameful. We were girlfriends in a can of salt, tears in our eyes, mouths and ears. We drank wine in bubble baths in our clothes for three days straight, or even four, after that guy dumped you. From then on every night was tortellini, La Dolce Vita, and-- and the freckle below your ear, the horns growing from my forehead, the way your falsies touched your cheeks, late nights looking brighter than they should, than they normally would. Pretending to be goddesses awaiting their gods-- while I awaited you. Then you felt them too, touched my head as though it were a fever. I always knew you hated the suburbs, and I did listen when you complained about the gray rooftops and the saturated green lawns-- "Give them a chance, please. Then we'll get away--" I begged, I relented-- The wine, finally, fermented. You remember what I said next, because after that you broke my heart. I never doubted it was a bad idea to say it but I said it and you left.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 8:15 PM UTC
Roommates
Every night was tortellini when were roommates. I complained about my chapped feet; you bought me the wrong socks. Black, mens, I clarified, but you kept buying the women's. Then one day you got it right, only they were for you because black is a warmer color than white, and the socks of a man felt like cherubs. I complained about my chapped feet, you the heart of the world, its cold silence. But we remained "alright". You bought new pajamas every night and painted a beauty mark on your face to match. Years of x-marked places on our bodies which no one saw because we were cynics, I the most. No roses at our mat--we grew our own bushes, ordered the ones with the extra thorns. I charmed that snake, you bit me on its behalf. That I'd do such a thing was shameful. We were girlfriends in a can of salt, tears in our eyes, mouths and ears. We drank wine in bubble baths in our clothes for three days straight, or even four, after that guy dumped you. From then on every night was tortellini, La Dolce Vita, and-- and the freckle below your ear, the horns growing from my forehead, the way your falsies touched your cheeks, late nights looking brighter than they should, than they normally would. Pretending to be goddesses awaiting their gods-- while I awaited you. Then you felt them too, touched my head as though it were a fever. I always knew you hated the suburbs, and I did listen when you complained about the gray rooftops and the saturated green lawns-- "Give them a chance, please. Then we'll get away--" I begged, I relented-- The wine, finally, fermented. You remember what I said next, because after that you broke my heart. I never doubted it was a bad idea to say it but I said it and you left.
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When I dusted off the counter today I found something that was lost before Jesus was there by the sink, sitting down right next to the toaster he looked at me and asked for a coaster he and the cherubs were drinking diet soda, and watching the ants eat my sugar I asked him three questions and hear what they are why are you sitting by the toaster? why in the hell would you want my coaster? and didn't I ask you to leave last summer? Jesus said he wanted to live in my heart first the counter then my heart what's next Jehova, my first born child? yes actually he said, before he snorted and growled I really do want your first born child would you like a brochure for heaven? its pretty wild there, and the bread's all unleavened No thanks No thanks
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Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 at 4:59 AM UTC
Jeebus
The one created for sabotage Adored by few Abhorred by numerous numbers He treads an eternal sorrow Which tortures his blighted soul Scheming against ingenious blueprints His destiny's been read By gypsy cherubs He's learned the path Trodden by none His predestination Answering to this heavy burden His Father has brought a rebellious notion No other celestial entity has knowledge Except for him and his apostles Agreeing to God's earthly will To be forever cast into a shadow Agreeing through pure love For his Father And sent to tortuous furnace Unbeknowst to mortals of seraphic Lucifer's startling sacrifice God's grievous banishment of his son For he only aspired To become like his Father
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Jan 4, 2014
Jan 4, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
seraphic lucifer
The world was never going to end in fire. It was never thought to. Now. Thunder comes on. The raincoat boleros around the street. Momentous, One two slow slow one two. Earth splits / an avocado, molten core discarded. In the southern hemisphere they are waving flags. Complimentary colors crawl up the sky tiding in. They are dancing. Ba-cha -ta, Me-ren-gue. Their hemisphere Charybidises, trees genuflected. Quiet. The puddles are sleeping. In the north. The hemisphere has run aground. It capsizes. All the bands are going down playing. Rain panics off the timpani prisming. The brass cherubs in the clouds. The strings red shift. At the equator, an umbrella floats: 1 bird inside it. She prays in single syllables. Help. Please. Quack!
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Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011 at 3:10 PM UTC
The Umbrella
Who cries for the little children When pain and hurt fall upon The little hearts of purest love From the hands of the cruel and sick Who cries for the little children Locked up and fed a fist Thrown around the floor like dust No meals or drink no more Who cries for the little children When their voices are so mute The only thing they know right now Is life must be extinct So let them fall into the arms Of hearts that truly love In sleep forever they rest now And tears shall fall no more
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Jun 1, 2016
Jun 1, 2016 at 3:33 PM UTC
Sad Cherubs
We’re not as perfect as we like to say, it's just another game that we play, as you fall under my angelic spell. the demon comes out. and it wants to stay. Cherubs cry, as I tighten the ties, and angels sob, I put the gag back in your mouth. blood red tears streaming down your back. leather against skin, cause you like it like that. Your so cute when you scream, its your masochistic dream. biting deep in your skin. face in the pillow, suffocating again. But you like that don’t you. nails in your flesh, color me aroused. what’s the safe word you ask? put that gag back in your mouth.
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 1:04 PM UTC
Safe Word
Of that cold spring day when our hands froze Clutching cones of your favorite strawberry ice cream Of the following warm summer day when my favorite Chocolate ice cream coated our tongues Of that day we escaped our classes And found ourselves held captive By the soft cherry ice With nuts on top Of bubblegum sonnets, of almond praline declarations of love Of fig and honey serenades With soft coffee angels singing in the back And cookie cream cherubs whispering in our ears. Of the best first taste. Of the worst last lick.
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 12:06 PM UTC
Of Ice Cream and Sadness
O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach. I cease to wonder, and no more attempt Thine height t’ explore, or fathom thy profound. But, O my soul, sink not into despair, Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand Would now embrace thee, hovers o’er thine head. Fain would the heav’n-born soul with her converse, Then seek, then court her for her promis’d bliss. Auspicious queen, thine heav’nly pinions spread, And lead celestial Chastity along; Lo! now her sacred retinue descends, Array’d in glory from the orbs above. Attend me, Virtue, thro’ my youthful years! O leave me not to the false joys of time! But guide my steps to endless life and bliss. Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee, To give me an higher appellation still, Teach me a better strain, a nobler lay, O thou, enthron’d with Cherubs in the realms of day.
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On Virtue
Through airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll, Beneath him sees the universal whole, Planets on planets run their destin’d round, And circling wonders fill the vast profound. Th’ ethereal now, and now th’ empyreal skies With growing splendors strike his wond’ring eyes: The angels view him with delight unknown, Press his soft hand, and seat him on his throne; Then smilling thus: “To this divine abode, “The seat of saints, of seraphs, and of God, “Thrice welcome thou.” The raptur’d babe replies, “Thanks to my God, who snatch’d me to the skies, “E’er vice triumphant had possess’d my heart, “E’er yet the tempter had beguil d my heart, “E’er yet on sin’s base actions I was bent, “E’er yet I knew temptation’s dire intent; “E’er yet the lash for horrid crimes I felt, “E’er vanity had led my way to guilt, “But, soon arriv’d at my celestial goal, “Full glories rush on my expanding soul.” Joyful he spoke: exulting cherubs round Clapt their glad wings, the heav’nly vaults resound. Say, parents, why this unavailing moan? Why heave your pensive bosoms with the groan? To Charles, the happy subject of my song, A brighter world, and nobler strains belong. Say would you tear him from the realms above By thoughtless wishes, and prepost’rous love? Doth his felicity increase your pain? Or could you welcome to this world again The heir of bliss? with a superior air Methinks he answers with a smile severe, “Thrones and dominions cannot tempt me there.” But still you cry, “Can we the sigh borbear, “And still and still must we not pour the tear? “Our only hope, more dear than vital breath, “Twelve moons revolv’d, becomes the prey of death; “Delightful infant, nightly visions give “Thee to our arms, and we with joy receive, “We fain would clasp the Phantom to our breast, “The Phantom flies, and leaves the soul unblest.” To yon bright regions let your faith ascend, Prepare to join your dearest infant friend In pleasures without measure, without end.
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A Funeral Poem On The Death Of C. E., An Infant Of Twelve Months
Through airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll, Beneath him sees the universal whole, Planets on planets run their destin’d round, And circling wonders fill the vast profound. Th’ ethereal now, and now th’ empyreal skies With growing splendors strike his wond’ring eyes: The angels view him with delight unknown, Press his soft hand, and seat him on his throne; Then smilling thus: “To this divine abode, “The seat of saints, of seraphs, and of God, “Thrice welcome thou.” The raptur’d babe replies, “Thanks to my God, who snatch’d me to the skies, “E’er vice triumphant had possess’d my heart, “E’er yet the tempter had beguil d my heart, “E’er yet on sin’s base actions I was bent, “E’er yet I knew temptation’s dire intent; “E’er yet the lash for horrid crimes I felt, “E’er vanity had led my way to guilt, “But, soon arriv’d at my celestial goal, “Full glories rush on my expanding soul.” Joyful he spoke: exulting cherubs round Clapt their glad wings, the heav’nly vaults resound. Say, parents, why this unavailing moan? Why heave your pensive bosoms with the groan? To Charles, the happy subject of my song, A brighter world, and nobler strains belong. Say would you tear him from the realms above By thoughtless wishes, and prepost’rous love? Doth his felicity increase your pain? Or could you welcome to this world again The heir of bliss? with a superior air Methinks he answers with a smile severe, “Thrones and dominions cannot tempt me there.” But still you cry, “Can we the sigh borbear, “And still and still must we not pour the tear? “Our only hope, more dear than vital breath, “Twelve moons revolv’d, becomes the prey of death; “Delightful infant, nightly visions give “Thee to our arms, and we with joy receive, “We fain would clasp the Phantom to our breast, “The Phantom flies, and leaves the soul unblest.” To yon bright regions let your faith ascend, Prepare to join your dearest infant friend In pleasures without measure, without end.
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As soon as I heard the rumble of my husbands car fade into the distance, I put down my Bible, stepping out of bed. I smoothed out the covers, like always. because I'm not one to leaves things messy because cleanliness is close to Godliness, that’s what they say. I fiddled with the faucet testing the water on my hands. The kids don’t like it too warm. I left the door open so I could hear the faucet running all the way down the hall. I opened the bedroom door and squinted as I flicked a switch. Let there be light! Three sleepy faces peeked out at me from underneath their blankets. Such precious eyes looked up at me. Poor things, Daddy had just put them to bed. They yawned and blinked their shiny eyes and we all held hands as we walked down the hall. They told me Mommy, Mommy, it’s not bathtime. I answered, No, it’s not bathtime, it’s time to go. They asked and asked, but I just smiled down at them. What curious little miracles! The boys went first. I placed one hand on each of their heads, my fingers in cornsilk hair. Their confused wailing bounced off of the tile walls. I silenced them with shushing sounds. I told them don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid, Mommy’s got you. Mommy won’t let go. Mommy won’t ever let go. I smiled at their tiny, twitching hands and laughed along with their gurgling voices. I wish they wouldn’t have splashed so much. That’s just like the boys; they were always making trouble. How inconsiderate of them to leave less water for their sister! I laid the boys down to rest and gave each one a kiss on their clammy foreheads. They were side by side on Earth, now side by side in Heaven. I lined them up next to each other Like sweet little packages. Little packages sent up to God. I left my princess to float. She just looked so pretty I couldn’t move her. I could see her so clearly once the splashing had stopped and the water settled. She was so beautiful with her hair swaying just beneath the surface. My perfect angel. I left her to float like Moses on the River Jordan. With my little cherubs put to rest, I return now to my Bible, but this time it’s not for reading. I place it in the oven and lay my head on it like a tiny sacred pillow. So that I can rest too. and I'm not afraid because it's time to go.
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM UTC
Bathtime
As soon as I heard the rumble of my husbands car fade into the distance, I put down my Bible, stepping out of bed. I smoothed out the covers, like always. because I'm not one to leaves things messy because cleanliness is close to Godliness, that’s what they say. I fiddled with the faucet testing the water on my hands. The kids don’t like it too warm. I left the door open so I could hear the faucet running all the way down the hall. I opened the bedroom door and squinted as I flicked a switch. Let there be light! Three sleepy faces peeked out at me from underneath their blankets. Such precious eyes looked up at me. Poor things, Daddy had just put them to bed. They yawned and blinked their shiny eyes and we all held hands as we walked down the hall. They told me Mommy, Mommy, it’s not bathtime. I answered, No, it’s not bathtime, it’s time to go. They asked and asked, but I just smiled down at them. What curious little miracles! The boys went first. I placed one hand on each of their heads, my fingers in cornsilk hair. Their confused wailing bounced off of the tile walls. I silenced them with shushing sounds. I told them don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid, Mommy’s got you. Mommy won’t let go. Mommy won’t ever let go. I smiled at their tiny, twitching hands and laughed along with their gurgling voices. I wish they wouldn’t have splashed so much. That’s just like the boys; they were always making trouble. How inconsiderate of them to leave less water for their sister! I laid the boys down to rest and gave each one a kiss on their clammy foreheads. They were side by side on Earth, now side by side in Heaven. I lined them up next to each other Like sweet little packages. Little packages sent up to God. I left my princess to float. She just looked so pretty I couldn’t move her. I could see her so clearly once the splashing had stopped and the water settled. She was so beautiful with her hair swaying just beneath the surface. My perfect angel. I left her to float like Moses on the River Jordan. With my little cherubs put to rest, I return now to my Bible, but this time it’s not for reading. I place it in the oven and lay my head on it like a tiny sacred pillow. So that I can rest too. and I'm not afraid because it's time to go.
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Resume: Jewel de Saex Address: Lost somewhere up the hills.                  email: [email protected]                  Tel: + network not available Summary Hire me if: you are looking for an adventure. Clouds, gorges, and I never disappoint, for we can cry. Education Bachelor, Mistress and Widower at the University of Zoya, majoring in Life Sciences, with a minor in the applications of horseshoe magnets. Expertise I know them laws of attraction well + New languages: both Silicon and Carbon-based ++ Magic, luck and fate. Experience For years I steered a boat riding a rough river that passed storms every day. I was the rain-maker, I can bring tears to any passing cloud by my mere hand-gesture: (all the dough-kneading.) I was also the chief gardener for Loz, whose farms at the other end of the Earth I visited by the switch door in my old photo-albums each day. Skills Jugglery, innovative use of cutlery, reading runes, plucking prunes, riding boats on dunes, talking by eyes, hearing by sight. References: Not available even on request. *NOtes: +   Turn pages back and you always find, only one person was in love. ++ I can decipher the meanings in the lispings of cherubs and angels.      I understand the cloud and the river, as of men in any tongue.*
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM UTC
Por lo tanto somos | The Hermit
Im sorry you had to walk all the way up now and then, i wonder: whats the world gonna be like when *your heart stops pumping with compassion and reality has lost sight of you* i don't really know but i think that I'll never synchronize to anything that brings me to my last day when will i have i to lose? ---------------------------------- cold creamer in my coffee. the steam, slowly deteriates & before my eyes. prior to its disappearance i got a quick and shallow glance at the scrauol as it is lifted into the air sublime was the way then in the murky November vapor I love what i have and all i have is giving me hindsight? zero to 100 percent . epiphany. some call it sin of gluttony im loving how much i am feeling it nasty cold december is tempting me and I'm needing a bit more rest than the amount you have given me but i didn't even think about leaving * i am loving my stay* ----------------------------------- not the intellectual property of i but instead cherubs drifting in the past
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 1:36 PM UTC
Grace and I's *** Brownies and Poetry Nov. 27, 2012
Residing within these lines, Words and letters, A hidden truth I covered with lies Higher than the vaulted ceiling above me, Flitting like those painted cherubs Whom I whispered my plea And it continues to grow like my faith ‘Cause I buried it well Where my tears would fall and faint Catching flying butterflies around This sanctuary you own Where I secretly dwelled when found But I know I should free these butterflies Lifting me up Before their frail wings break and drop me where my expectations lie. kg
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Nov 20, 2021
Nov 20, 2021 at 5:11 AM UTC
Confession
THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS TO ENFOLD ANYONE WE  CAN REACH We are malnourished of blankets and binkies Mother’s breast and meaning We are earthquake spirit lands rumbling for peace We are a bright light that plays on squinted eyelids so that you may see We are the kaleidoscope of what is and what could be We are KINGS AND QUEENS Not worker bees. We are dry mouths and cracked lips thirsty Drinking crying eyes and kissing empty hands THIS IS WHAT I FEEL FROM THE TIED DESOLATION OF A PROMISED LAND We are seraphim Selling ourselves on suburban streets We are cherubs Peddling angel dust to children’s gums Slipping LSD under their tongues HOW FAR WE HAVE STRAYED FROM OUR RIGHTOUS PATH! We are a fall from grace that knocks the air from chests So we may realize what it is to BREATH! IN! OUT! We are One from within With or without sorrows or the tedium of tomorrow We are our crystal innocence and reptilian rigidness We are a mirror Reflective of all that surrounds us We are the lush trees and the desolate land bound by fences and man’s prosperity We are the lake Warping realities reflection with ripples and rhombuses that wrinkle our surface with every stone skipped Galaxies teeming underneath TAKE OFF!!!! Become what we didn’t know Find the eternal reassurance that no matter what will be, is, or was, WE WILL BE! https://soundcloud.com/spiritbarehear/call-to-arms
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 5:41 PM UTC
CALL TO ARMS
How can mortals completely envision heaven? Exploring the fullness of what we’ll see, will surely take many human lifetimes, in order to take in… all things of eternity. Whatever God has prepared for us - conceived from infinite possibilities, the sight of its beauty lies beyond our mental grasp, whose description, exceeds one’s vocabulary. What is the secret name reserved for me? Can one take a swim in the glassy sea? How large is the throne room of God? How many angels and cherubs will we see? Can we exist beyond the third dimension? Will we be able fly through the universe? How long will it take me to memorize all Scripture and the subtle meanings… of each and every verse? How many new colors, will we experience that shine within Jehovah’s heavenly dome? How much gold will stick to my feet, from walking around my eternal, new home? What are the capabilities of our immortal bodies? How much knowledge, from our lives, will we retain? What will my first feelings and thoughts be, when standing before… the Lamb who was slain? Great are the rewards of Kingdom living. Among the redeemed, no one is viewed the fool; His great family will be overcome with joy, knowing that everyone submitted… to His Sovereign rule. Author Notes: Loosely based on: 1 Cor 2:9; Rom 14:17-18 Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://amzn.to/1ffo9YZ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2011, All rights reserved.
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Mar 21, 2013
Mar 21, 2013 at 6:54 AM UTC
Poem: Vastness of the Kingdom
I would like to be the girl in white, with rosy cheeks, and porcelain skin. Plump and pale-freckled like a hen’s egg, with a laugh like peals of golden bells, and a jar of lavender on my windowsill. ~ In the dark and silent night, I’d shine a lamp over the water so fleets of sailors long starved of beauty could glimpse the outline of my chest, Hugged tight by ghostly silk, and flushed with warmth. ~ To wander along the sand dunes, barefoot with basket in arm, To sing a long-lost melody so pure that cherubs think me their mother. Meanwhile, greyish waves idly lull the townsfolk to bed. In their sugared, posied dreams, An angel walks quietly along a shore, The girl that lives in the lighthouse on a hill. ~
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 4:29 PM UTC
Lighthouse on a Hill
Your life's twilight on a September evening came. And ferried you were by crimson cherubs; conveyed in splendour on a celestial cruise, to gates pleasant for a permanent reign. Your reign on the throne on a September autumn exited, but your indelible legacy in the hearts of Brits is enthroned gloriously.
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Dec 21, 2022
Dec 21, 2022 at 8:28 AM UTC
Immortal Queen Elizabeth