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"clans" poems
(For Eric Killmonger) A little boy stared in the clouds Forgotten tales screaming loud His word small and nothing wrong It all shattered after too long Stories of cities that touched the sky Clans of people untouched by time Hope soon filled his boyish dreams But not everything was as it seemed One night he came home and saw His father dead, struck down by claw Weeping over his fathers head He begged him to stay, not leave him instead Shattered dreams and shattered hopes He held the myth achingly close Alone, no one there to guide He locked his humanity deep inside Battling for a way to free them all Seeking power and in deaths thrall The world had taken everything away And all in one single day So he would take everything away from it His soul a star no longer lit Now he lay there quietly dying His enemy close, no longer fighting The world it seemed would take him too His glittering eyes full of rue There was nothing left for him here Breathing ragged and full of fear Finally he took his very last breath And slipped away as his life left And as the sun left the sky The night descended with a sigh The little boy was dead and gone His life a sad and weary song. -Roguesong- -Esther L. Krenzin-
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Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 at 2:38 PM UTC
Sunset
Everyone is distracted by mundane, shallow things that they forget a bigger picture thats in all aspects of life. **** you Clash of Clans and MTV. But maybe I'm the shallow one because I put the blame on such a stupid topic.
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 12:26 PM UTC
Ambition
Im a calm, cool collected cucumber underneath this fandangled, wiry, wrinkled visage. Ive escaped the clutches of the tangled snare of my image. Where and when I belong and to whom is no matter. I pass by groups and clans and grimace inquisitively at thier chatter. To my ears its an alien clamour of clashing egos and look at me's. They'd all be happier in a lonesome cross legged position enjoying the breeze beneath the trees. With ease I float through my day passionately. Expanding and contracting with the waves of existence. I sway indefinitely. Yield to and renounce the question arisen from the back of the mind "what does it mean to be me"
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
identity
iPad, computer, VCR. Television, cell phone, Movie star. Clash of clans, minecraft, COD. Pokemon halo, PVP. Having fun, all day, Disaster strikes. Red bar, 0%, Battery dies.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 10:43 AM UTC
Electronics
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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The Strength of The female carrying a nation in her womb, leaders, criminal master minds and you. Feeding clans, communities and villages, nurturing earth. Sheltering the youth, in storms of the future ahead, wiping your tears strengthening your heart again. She is always there and has The Hands of warmth, holding you tight to lands of joy
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 2:11 PM UTC
Her strength
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
the tourney
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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it's woman power here in the clans of the spotted hyenas - the women are bigger and the males fear; fathers are kind to daughters so at least the daughters will be nice to them so women really just give orders and the male hyenas obey with mirth and laughter Did you take the garbage out? yeah, ha, ha, ha, yeah, yeah, yeah Did you put the toilet seat cover down? yeah, ha, ha, ha, yeah, yeah, yeah Have you mopped the floor? yeah, ha, ha, ha, yeah, yeah, yeah Is dinner ready on the ground? yeah, ha, ha, ha, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Nov 2, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 at 1:21 PM UTC
the matriarchal spotted hyenas
Finger soldered brilliant new gold band proudly circling nuptial sun orbiting eclipsing the clans completing a family connexion with others ovoid chipped but fondly funded wearing thin on hardened blue veined hands some waving some proclaiming all belonging.
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Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 6:13 AM UTC
Wedding Rings
Children of Fire Clans from near and far The time has come. The ominous is approaching. Soon everyone of us Will fear to be in the end The last of our kind. So rise up! Stand together! As allies. As brothers and sisters. Follow the call! So that we can ignite One last time Like a phoenix From the ashes Bevor we expire forever.
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM UTC
Until the last spark
Granny gave me moccasins To run and play in. She got them from the pow-wow. They made me swift And light on my feet. She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a dream catcher For my good dreams to fly through And the bad ones to get caught in. She got it at the pow-wow. It made my nightmares go away And gave me dreams about my ancestors. She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a totem pole So that I would know our seven clans. She got it from her father. The Ani-gatagewi keepers of our land Ani-gilahi and Ani-waya the peace and war chiefs The Ani-kawi and Ani-tsiskwa earthly and spirited messengers Ani-wodi and Ani-sahoni the creators of medicine She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a book With the words of my people And their stories. She got it from the pow-wow. I learned about our earth mother And how we grew from her ***** She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a day To wear my moccasins. She took me to the pow-wow. I saw the people from my stories And dreams. My people and clans. She told me “You are ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Cherokee)” *The seven clans of the Cherokee tribe: Ani-gatagewi translates to Wild Potato Clan (keepers of our land), Ani-gilahi are the Long Hair Clan (peace chiefs), Ani-kawi is the Deer Clan (earthly messengers), Ani-sahoni or Blue Paint Clan (medicine for children), Ani-tsiskwa or Bird Clan (spirited messengers), Ani-waya is the Wolf Clan (war chief) , Ani-wodi Red Paint Clan (medicine).
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 10:19 AM UTC
Granny Told Me
Granny gave me moccasins To run and play in. She got them from the pow-wow. They made me swift And light on my feet. She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a dream catcher For my good dreams to fly through And the bad ones to get caught in. She got it at the pow-wow. It made my nightmares go away And gave me dreams about my ancestors. She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a totem pole So that I would know our seven clans. She got it from her father. The Ani-gatagewi keepers of our land Ani-gilahi and Ani-waya the peace and war chiefs The Ani-kawi and Ani-tsiskwa earthly and spirited messengers Ani-wodi and Ani-sahoni the creators of medicine She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a book With the words of my people And their stories. She got it from the pow-wow. I learned about our earth mother And how we grew from her ***** She told me “Remember who you are” Granny gave me a day To wear my moccasins. She took me to the pow-wow. I saw the people from my stories And dreams. My people and clans. She told me “You are ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ (Cherokee)” *The seven clans of the Cherokee tribe: Ani-gatagewi translates to Wild Potato Clan (keepers of our land), Ani-gilahi are the Long Hair Clan (peace chiefs), Ani-kawi is the Deer Clan (earthly messengers), Ani-sahoni or Blue Paint Clan (medicine for children), Ani-tsiskwa or Bird Clan (spirited messengers), Ani-waya is the Wolf Clan (war chief) , Ani-wodi Red Paint Clan (medicine).
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that's all you have. Ive got words too but I don't use them to describe my "inner landscape". they just get in the way of "experiential knowingness" of my personal energy field of unconditional love, they just get in the way of being my beingness, for I am where there are no edges. For I am and equal  individual independent and autonomous part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe, which you can immerse yourself in, merge into and become as one with me, like I am eternally one with you. if you can drop the Mind and Conditioned Identity in the head, of the body that you are incarnated in temporarily, just for this your latest lifetime, and it could be your last lifetime as a human being.. that's the only condition--drop the Mind--let it go--you don't need it-- but it needs you to deceive and manipulate. The Mind needs you to survive  but you don't need the Mind to survive for you are as I am and we all are eternal and self sufficient, beyond edges and dimensions. Just imagine the Universe and all that is in it inside your head, impossible you cry but that's truthfulness in action. I know who you really are even though Ive never met you and am unlikely to ever meet you,and when I say you I don't mean your body--. I don't mean your "name" or curriculum vitae or certificates on a wall--or photographs of a face among billions . I mean you--the individual Isness--that small part of me that you are--as I am that small part of you that I am. The body is just a vehicle made from mere flesh,to get you from point A--birth--to point B --death--. it has attributes and emotions and possibilities but it most definitely is not and never can be YOU or me--. Youre incarnated in it in order to realise your true nature as a small but equal independent individual and autonomous part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe. You are,like me,the Isness of the Universe incarnated for this lifetime in the body that surrounds you  but unlike me you are in the grip of Mind permanently--unless you dissolve Mind consciously. Minds are the obstacle to union with the Isness of the Universe and I am the Isness of the Universe incarnated in this body-- just like you are--and so the mind in the head of that body is the obstacle to union with me. The only difference between you and I ,female or male, is that I am permanently Mindless by choice and you are struggling towards becoming permanently Mindless--unknowingly. My struggle to become Mindless and Conditioned Identityless is over thankfully,these last few years. I live in the body but the body is not me. I use the body for my many pleasures but no pleasures of the body can compare to the pleasure of being in union with the Isness of the Universe. One can only be in Union with the Isness of the Universe when one is Mindless. Words are absolutely useless for describing my inner state-- for my inner state is not of the body-- it is not made or nourished by the body-- my inner state can only be experienced. Words cannot set you free--they can only make you a lifelong prisoner of Mind--the controller of what should be your words--but arent. And individual Minds must coalesce into GroupMinds which are  families and relations and clans and tribes and races and nations and religions and politics and all the other groups that prevent you from becoming your true nature which is that of being a small but equal,individual,independant and autonomous  part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe. You have always that encompassing edge to your body--the skin. I have no edges--my skin is permeable and insubstantial. I am the Universe extant. I am the Isness of the Universe. www.thefournobletruthsrevised.co.uk
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 12:58 AM UTC
Its only words about the Isness of the Universe
that's all you have. Ive got words too but I don't use them to describe my "inner landscape". they just get in the way of "experiential knowingness" of my personal energy field of unconditional love, they just get in the way of being my beingness, for I am where there are no edges. For I am and equal  individual independent and autonomous part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe, which you can immerse yourself in, merge into and become as one with me, like I am eternally one with you. if you can drop the Mind and Conditioned Identity in the head, of the body that you are incarnated in temporarily, just for this your latest lifetime, and it could be your last lifetime as a human being.. that's the only condition--drop the Mind--let it go--you don't need it-- but it needs you to deceive and manipulate. The Mind needs you to survive  but you don't need the Mind to survive for you are as I am and we all are eternal and self sufficient, beyond edges and dimensions. Just imagine the Universe and all that is in it inside your head, impossible you cry but that's truthfulness in action. I know who you really are even though Ive never met you and am unlikely to ever meet you,and when I say you I don't mean your body--. I don't mean your "name" or curriculum vitae or certificates on a wall--or photographs of a face among billions . I mean you--the individual Isness--that small part of me that you are--as I am that small part of you that I am. The body is just a vehicle made from mere flesh,to get you from point A--birth--to point B --death--. it has attributes and emotions and possibilities but it most definitely is not and never can be YOU or me--. Youre incarnated in it in order to realise your true nature as a small but equal independent individual and autonomous part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe. You are,like me,the Isness of the Universe incarnated for this lifetime in the body that surrounds you  but unlike me you are in the grip of Mind permanently--unless you dissolve Mind consciously. Minds are the obstacle to union with the Isness of the Universe and I am the Isness of the Universe incarnated in this body-- just like you are--and so the mind in the head of that body is the obstacle to union with me. The only difference between you and I ,female or male, is that I am permanently Mindless by choice and you are struggling towards becoming permanently Mindless--unknowingly. My struggle to become Mindless and Conditioned Identityless is over thankfully,these last few years. I live in the body but the body is not me. I use the body for my many pleasures but no pleasures of the body can compare to the pleasure of being in union with the Isness of the Universe. One can only be in Union with the Isness of the Universe when one is Mindless. Words are absolutely useless for describing my inner state-- for my inner state is not of the body-- it is not made or nourished by the body-- my inner state can only be experienced. Words cannot set you free--they can only make you a lifelong prisoner of Mind--the controller of what should be your words--but arent. And individual Minds must coalesce into GroupMinds which are  families and relations and clans and tribes and races and nations and religions and politics and all the other groups that prevent you from becoming your true nature which is that of being a small but equal,individual,independant and autonomous  part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe. You have always that encompassing edge to your body--the skin. I have no edges--my skin is permeable and insubstantial. I am the Universe extant. I am the Isness of the Universe. www.thefournobletruthsrevised.co.uk
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JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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Always the Mob
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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On a bleak and frosty night Vexed and weary two travelers rode Along the pathways-craggy and ragged From Nazareth, trudging miles on end Full pregnant, was she with child Mary -the ****** suffused with Spirit Holy Divinely ordained to bear the Godly Prince Conceived before, she had known her spouse. Abiding in Heaven’s Providence n’ care They had rode past miles behind Far too fatigued by the trip Mary, now badly needed a place to rest. Heading towards the blinking lights Not far from the city’s guarded gate Joseph sighted a tavern-small Perched high on a tiny hill A sense of relief beamed past They have come at last to the journey’s end Finally found a place to rest! An interim home away from home Tethering the donkey outside the gate Joseph helped Mary alight the brute In eager search, he hurried inside With Mary, following with faltering steps. But the couple, to their dismay found Within the tavern, room, there was none For many a man had gathered round To halt there on that freezing night Sundry folk from surrounding lands Had reached Bethlehem for the yearly census Tradesmen selling clothes and cheese Nomads of varying clans and clime Petulant camels, braying donkeys The place was littered with man and beast. The tavern small, so packed to full Had no more space to harbor the crowd Mary and Joseph, though dejected, Were encamped within a manger- warm With tender concern, Joseph joked, To ease the strain on Mary’s face “Gaze upon this palace of gold Where a son shall soon be born to us”! Mary smiled a gentle smile, Humored by her husband’s jest Under the gaze of tethered hosts In veiled privacy of the midnight gloom She gave birth to a radiant child, The great Redeemer to all Mankind The star studded sky suddenly glowed With a rare brilliance never beheld And a celestial voice trailed along Delivering ‘tidings of joy’ to the globe around
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Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 7:11 AM UTC
A Journey to Bethlehem
On a bleak and frosty night Vexed and weary two travelers rode Along the pathways-craggy and ragged From Nazareth, trudging miles on end Full pregnant, was she with child Mary -the ****** suffused with Spirit Holy Divinely ordained to bear the Godly Prince Conceived before, she had known her spouse. Abiding in Heaven’s Providence n’ care They had rode past miles behind Far too fatigued by the trip Mary, now badly needed a place to rest. Heading towards the blinking lights Not far from the city’s guarded gate Joseph sighted a tavern-small Perched high on a tiny hill A sense of relief beamed past They have come at last to the journey’s end Finally found a place to rest! An interim home away from home Tethering the donkey outside the gate Joseph helped Mary alight the brute In eager search, he hurried inside With Mary, following with faltering steps. But the couple, to their dismay found Within the tavern, room, there was none For many a man had gathered round To halt there on that freezing night Sundry folk from surrounding lands Had reached Bethlehem for the yearly census Tradesmen selling clothes and cheese Nomads of varying clans and clime Petulant camels, braying donkeys The place was littered with man and beast. The tavern small, so packed to full Had no more space to harbor the crowd Mary and Joseph, though dejected, Were encamped within a manger- warm With tender concern, Joseph joked, To ease the strain on Mary’s face “Gaze upon this palace of gold Where a son shall soon be born to us”! Mary smiled a gentle smile, Humored by her husband’s jest Under the gaze of tethered hosts In veiled privacy of the midnight gloom She gave birth to a radiant child, The great Redeemer to all Mankind The star studded sky suddenly glowed With a rare brilliance never beheld And a celestial voice trailed along Delivering ‘tidings of joy’ to the globe around
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The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal reaching upwards The water wars The great migrations The barbarity of a thousand roving clans The infertility And the old used as meat Had made love a distant memory to those remaining But tumbling over scraps Navigating through shards Gnawing at withered roots Lapping at acrid streams We went on All we had done was hope better
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 8:10 PM UTC
Untitled
i recall with a fondness blurred by years the town of my formative years in the mountains the heart of the table lands dissected by a highway it crouched, along the sides of a shallow valley i remember a greeness that came from the trees eucalypt and pine most prominent in my mind and the grass that grew lush and tall only to be mown each Saturday morn i remember churches and schools the wide expasnses of playing fields and parks with hurdygurdys and swings i remember the pool, that too turquoise rectangle, that glistened with wet invitation and on the highest peak the stolid grey water  tower lording it over all i remember rough tarmac under my feet, running from light pool to light pool at dusk and frost on picket fences in early mornings, like delicate sugar candy solidier braving the early sun our house, small on a large block with hydrangea at the front wisteria overtaking the fenceline an at the back door a concrete slab painted fire engine red, but faded to overipe watermlon pink poplar trees garding the back and the smell of onions burning on the grill hill's hoist with tennis ball and pantyhose standing  to silent attention and in the forground my brothers and clans playing football, league with passion and burgeoning skill all this comes to mind on a cold winter's day i may of come a long way but my heart still ties me to there and the memories make the knots
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 9:05 AM UTC
ties that bind
You're risking naught, an annihilation of worth Wasting and encouraging moments to rot. Decay. Values friendship Twisted morals dipped in deceit. Not satisfied with boundaries Chasing infected affection swirling in the smooth crevasses of backwash around emptied wine bottles Impressionable, emitting the most tenacious of the F word Fake Fake and Selfish It isn't narcissism when you drown yourself in the pits No permission, no inhibition As lazy as the Greeks who never made a move to climb the mountaintop and defy their Gods face to face Dependent and ******* support from Clans because you're terrified of this world At least I"m honest with my decanter of harming thoughts. obsessed and overbearing, flesh crawling use my being as subject matter and mold it into paperdoll play toys like gold eye-liner its a party trick seek solice when grimacing down a bottle of brew bumpers in the bowling alley a Life Alert sort of living You claim to haven no fear but I see your throat clench start living admit the defeat a proud coward lilly livered, yellow belly shift shift between a fable and nerve
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Aug 19, 2013
Aug 19, 2013 at 1:38 AM UTC
Safety Dance
Folksy blokes, like ya struttin’ ya thang If you’ve come out of da Grand Ole Opry But, won’t stay around for any old music sang If it’s causing their head, to bob up and down and go all floppy While rugged mountain men riding in some country rodeo Can just step right up, to a Appalachia recording studio Put down several tracks and become a worldwide pop star They sing about hillbilly ways, while cogging or flatfooting from afar Talking ‘bout wild hogs, gators, foxes & how so many more Taste so great, using leftovers as bait & making real men roar Old fables, told through pictures and patterns, upon knitted quilt Even showing the feuding days of the Hatfields versus McCoys From both sides of Tug Fork stream, with many unemployed   Although Asa and Devil Anse, said, ‘they hadn’t much guilt’ All because of a judge and 5000 acres of unusable swamp land Once owned, by a close kissin’ cousin named, Perry Cline Who didn’t even get any blood on his hand They started a war, that could’ve been stopped By a bottle or two, of good ole mountain moon-shine Both clans almost wiped out, if last man standing had accidentally dropped.
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Sep 26, 2019
Sep 26, 2019 at 10:40 PM UTC
Hatfields V McCoys
a soft grey blanket flows through the peaks of green pines silencing the celestial voice of the moon while steel horses restlessly paw, panting gas fumes the volleyball desert, at first glance barren reveals a complex terrain of mountains and cigarettes to the watchful eagle's eye a wooden temple towers, built on artificial ground cool stone poured into aesthetically pleasing islands a forty square foot-print a holy site of human ingenuity with offerings from the clans of Miller and Busch lying scattered like bones on the monolithic plain anbaric lamps imitating miniature stars cast shadows at night and the once vibrant world takes on unifying hues of blue I guess the old adage that "misery loves company" is indiscriminate of nature
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 5:10 AM UTC
what do i see?
I now know why the Willow weeps A tragedy of love it's memory keeps For once a young man and a young maid On tender grass beneath branches lay Though pledged by birth to another From clans they hid to be together Thus the gentle Willow was their choice Meeting beneath, till love they could voice The Willow held these secret lovers dear So would lower it's boughs when they drew near Then tucked away in the Willow's womb Could lay as one, yet this love was doomed For jealousy lurked within the Pines Spying the lovers thus entwined Behind their curtain of slender limbs He swore the maiden would yet be his And so it came to pass one day As the maiden softly maid her way To their Willow deep within the glen She saw the branches did already bend Timidly as she did draw near A sound of sorrow met her ears Parting Willow branches to look within A dampness did touch upon her skin The Willow was shedding sap laden tears For the young man in death was near It was an arrow that had been used A potent poison it's head infused The maiden now blind with grieving mist Removed the arrow, held it clenched in her fist Whilst cradling his head he drew his last breath She did plunge the arrow into her breast And so it is that this is told The Willow's grief could not be consoled For unable to stop what had befell The young love it had hid so well With it's will broken as the lovers lay dead The Willow, it's branches, never again spread And because it is the memory it keeps it is to this day that the Willows weep Featured Poem on Poetry Soup, April 4, 2010
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 3:25 PM UTC
Once Willows Wept Not
I now know why the Willow weeps A tragedy of love it's memory keeps For once a young man and a young maid On tender grass beneath branches lay Though pledged by birth to another From clans they hid to be together Thus the gentle Willow was their choice Meeting beneath, till love they could voice The Willow held these secret lovers dear So would lower it's boughs when they drew near Then tucked away in the Willow's womb Could lay as one, yet this love was doomed For jealousy lurked within the Pines Spying the lovers thus entwined Behind their curtain of slender limbs He swore the maiden would yet be his And so it came to pass one day As the maiden softly maid her way To their Willow deep within the glen She saw the branches did already bend Timidly as she did draw near A sound of sorrow met her ears Parting Willow branches to look within A dampness did touch upon her skin The Willow was shedding sap laden tears For the young man in death was near It was an arrow that had been used A potent poison it's head infused The maiden now blind with grieving mist Removed the arrow, held it clenched in her fist Whilst cradling his head he drew his last breath She did plunge the arrow into her breast And so it is that this is told The Willow's grief could not be consoled For unable to stop what had befell The young love it had hid so well With it's will broken as the lovers lay dead The Willow, it's branches, never again spread And because it is the memory it keeps it is to this day that the Willows weep Featured Poem on Poetry Soup, April 4, 2010
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They are not an invasion, But a new equation, Going forward, A new nation. Going forward, We can embrace, A different face, In a new place. Going forward, New plans, Different clans, In a new land. By Patrick Comfrey.
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 4:54 PM UTC
IMMIGRANTS ( poem I wish I wrote!)
You know the type? The ones that sit alone, with their heads buried in books, not even blinking an eye as the midday trains go roaring past as the school girls all hold down their dresses. With their blonde hair, they all think they can be Marilyn Monroe. Or Barbie. But they're not fooling anyone, and the boys only want the trains to go screaming past again. You know the type. Always in clans, looking like clones. They're happy. I think. At least they seem to be. But the girl that sits by herself, with her music loud enough to drown out auditory reality, she isn't. And she doesn't even pretend to be. And if she closes her eyes, the visual world disappears too, and reality no longer exists. Then, if you look closely, you can see a smile form. It might only come along as frequently as a blue moon, but it's sure to make a blind man weep.
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Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM UTC
The Outsider
A human habit universal, our measure of success by possessions to envy. An infernal curse—commercial purveyors, trinkets of gold and gem, shining blinking, fabrics glistening; the value of thing manipulated by them insect kings. By lion's fang and butterfly guise they rule, a hubris deceiver upon their shoulder obscuring their likeness to those serfs upon whom they cunningly demand servitude, otherwise be starved, put out, forced to watch their future falter—sons and daughters failing in flight, their wings clipped prior first spanning. Locust clans spurred to fight over resources, who sell and buy back nature's bounty once formed anew into advertisement's subject. Oceans emptied of fish, forests becoming myth, uplands turned to wastelands, abomination fog a spherical prison choking earth's inhabitants—the marketer's dowry paid for marriage to a precarious economy. Royalty made rich at cost of labouring spine, but worse— our home and thereby our hope we consign. By their futile attempt to survive, the locust instinct to consume, until all is gone we contrive, the inevitable a meet with our doom—kings with stained glass wings to follow soon. So small are we amidst this vast existence; the ambitions of men barely bigger than an insect's significance.
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 6:55 PM UTC
The Locust Instinct
Ive watched you weap Bemoan in subtlety, without reason Attempt to give light on an obsidian subject Ive seen you bicker and cross swords A struggle felt for miles Have our confrontations meant nothing to you Does venom foreshadow death Ive seen you pass away Day by day, its all the same But am I the mad one? Questioned by clans When all I see is taunt discourse as if we're docking on long suppressed dreams If it had been somewhere else, we'd hide a fixed eye to the occasion Load the cartridge Pull the trigger Ignite cannons **** the innocence Have we lost our minds
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Dec 10, 2012
Dec 10, 2012 at 1:36 AM UTC
Clairvoyance