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"climes" poems
He has taken rake and shovel in hand, Taking advantage of the light, Rare in these climes this time of year, Still welcomed, though rendered severe By the sun's reluctant trudge above the horizon, The type which, sauntering through a window pane (Falling upon a crucifix anchored above a cradle Or some ancient, gilded frame Containing a photo of some grandparent's wedding day, Exploding into full undifferentiated diffusion) May possess a dram of warmth, albeit resigned, nostalgic A bittersweet reminder of what has gone by (And in the shade, the air is filled With the portentous chill of what lies a few months hence) But there nonetheless as he tends to those final farewells From the trees bowing to December's inevitability, The droppings not the Pollock-esque bursts of October (Those having been collected and consigned To the normal corner of the back lot) But dreary brown-hued things, not welcomed by eye nor heart, Simply corralled perfunctorily and dismissed. One could contend that such activity is unnecessary, The mere vanity of all endeavor, As the snow will come soon, and steady as well, Performing the seasonal, cyclical function in its own time, But he soldiers on nonetheless, a unseen one-act nearly-farce, Painstakingly raking and bending and scraping To leave his patch of green uncovered for a little while Until the locking time comes to seal the earth's secrets once more, To be revealed to those Who shall receive the teasing ministrations Of the fickle, fitful March equinox.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:44 PM UTC
November In The Sun
He has taken rake and shovel in hand, Taking advantage of the light, Rare in these climes this time of year, Still welcomed, though rendered severe By the sun's reluctant trudge above the horizon, The type which, sauntering through a window pane (Falling upon a crucifix anchored above a cradle Or some ancient, gilded frame Containing a photo of some grandparent's wedding day, Exploding into full undifferentiated diffusion) May possess a dram of warmth, albeit resigned, nostalgic A bittersweet reminder of what has gone by (And in the shade, the air is filled With the portentous chill of what lies a few months hence) But there nonetheless as he tends to those final farewells From the trees bowing to December's inevitability, The droppings not the Pollock-esque bursts of October (Those having been collected and consigned To the normal corner of the back lot) But dreary brown-hued things, not welcomed by eye nor heart, Simply corralled perfunctorily and dismissed. One could contend that such activity is unnecessary, The mere vanity of all endeavor, As the snow will come soon, and steady as well, Performing the seasonal, cyclical function in its own time, But he soldiers on nonetheless, a unseen one-act nearly-farce, Painstakingly raking and bending and scraping To leave his patch of green uncovered for a little while Until the locking time comes to seal the earth's secrets once more, To be revealed to those Who shall receive the teasing ministrations Of the fickle, fitful March equinox.
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298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key— They have no Robes, nor Names— No Almanacs—nor Climes— But general Homes Like Gnomes— Their Coming, may be known By Couriers within— Their going—is not— For they’ve never gone—
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Alone, I cannot be
on a sea strand, have you watched empty shells mercilessly tossed from sea to shore and from shore to sea?        often I shrink and reduce to such a shell, with jagged and broken edges colorless and empty among many a debris cast on the shore, i lie half buried under the sand waiting for some mighty wave to wash me away all the way to the sea how tedious is my voyage shuttling from him to her and from her to him unable to openly confess who weighs more on the balance of preference through how many alleys and by ways I have wandered, questioning my identity! am I a puffer fish, being toxic the fisher men have discarded? a jarring note in a discordant symphony? I wonder....! I often ask myself! destined to grow in mercurial climes, planted in arid shallow soil with the tap root trimmed, branches pruned, growth denied, I, a stunted bonsai! still I dream to be a towering tree, that in profusion gives fruits and shade! a ****** aspiring to be a Goliath a hollow reed, longing at once to be the singer and the song!
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 9:41 AM UTC
Bonsai
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!
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She Walks In Beauty
And when I met that girl in San Francisco Off a dusty little pier with rotting wood and squawking seals And screaming bayside wind She caught me off-tropics and danced with the grace of a palm tree lines between the quaked concrete off telegraph avenue On an obscuring Sunday morning and no she didn't go to church or any silly thing like a temple or synagogue She said those were no places for god God was the trees We smoked cigarettes and got off to each other's carcinogenic practices oxidizing a little faster in conjunction with hopeful Formaldehyde Deriding the formalities of small talk and trivialities She liked her guitars with nickel-wound strings I with nylon But I couldn't play songs that sounded any good with them while she could and did. and girl did it ever sound good She'd laugh at the contests on the radio while we drove on a half-moon to half-moon full and whole of ourselves We'd stopped in the lobby of a cheap motel And waltzed to background muzak wacked out of our minds Sniffing in deep huffs of subliminal divinity Understanding loving that mind-numbing monotony muzak... ppsh. Who ever really listened to that? And then she left at the end of one fine winter day in a cloudless sky I waved watched her plane skip off towards the edge of a pale blue horizon back south to warmer climes to wherever she truly stayed The tugging on my heartstrings chimed grotesque in precise D minor.
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Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 9:23 PM UTC
Steel Guitar
I. While raging tempests shake the shore, While Ælus’ thunders round us roar, And sweep impetuous o’er the plain Be still, O tyrant of the main; Nor let thy brow contracted frowns betray, While my Susanna skims the wat’ry way. II. The Pow’r propitious hears the lay, The blue-ey’d daughters of the sea With sweeter cadence glide along, And Thames responsive joins the song. Pleas’d with their notes Sol sheds benign his ray, And double radiance decks the face of day. III. To court thee to Britannia’s arms Serene the climes and mild the sky, Her region boasts unnumber’d charms, Thy welcome smiles in ev’ry eye. Thy promise, Neptune keep, record my pray’r, Not give my wishes to the empty air.
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Ode To Neptune
Winds from far foreign climes beats upon the Lizard rocks Gulls driven towards the blackest of crags, yet pass over safely inland In the darkest skies they wheel and spin as if torn by some giant’s hand White horses gallop crests of waves as they rush towards tiny harbours There to crash savagely and rend cut stones from their secured places Men work to save their boats, fighting the storm which mothers sent Nature conspires to take their very lives as they struggle with her might Rocks gnash their teeth and boats not safe yet, pass near their faces Hoping for the safety of their port, men’s white faces line their gunwales Black, white, red, blue and yellow, boats colours lost within the spray These same boats that forge the men they carry out upon the sea’s wrath But now just seek to bring them safely home to their worried wives Their women stand upon the quay or stare worried from their windows Churchyards on the hills above seaside villages filled with headstones Men’s deaths caused by storms in past times of fishing for their living Leaving spouses, their children to carry on their traditions and religion Headstones cut from the very granite of the weather worn Lizard cliffs Menfolk deep beneath the Cornish loam, there to rest for all eternity Whilst below in the thrashing storm, the families fight once again Then as quickly as it came, the storm blows out, waters return to placid Men stretch their aching backs, those hidden from storm turn out The seaman’s mission helps as it can the fractured families And church maybe rings for those lost out to sea, never to be seen again There will be time to mourn, and the village will then lament together And those who are left, they return to their sacred craft of netting fish Return to shining calm, to ply their trade, to bring food to this isles shore
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Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016 at 8:56 AM UTC
The Lizards Rocks
Winds from far foreign climes beats upon the Lizard rocks Gulls driven towards the blackest of crags, yet pass over safely inland In the darkest skies they wheel and spin as if torn by some giant’s hand White horses gallop crests of waves as they rush towards tiny harbours There to crash savagely and rend cut stones from their secured places Men work to save their boats, fighting the storm which mothers sent Nature conspires to take their very lives as they struggle with her might Rocks gnash their teeth and boats not safe yet, pass near their faces Hoping for the safety of their port, men’s white faces line their gunwales Black, white, red, blue and yellow, boats colours lost within the spray These same boats that forge the men they carry out upon the sea’s wrath But now just seek to bring them safely home to their worried wives Their women stand upon the quay or stare worried from their windows Churchyards on the hills above seaside villages filled with headstones Men’s deaths caused by storms in past times of fishing for their living Leaving spouses, their children to carry on their traditions and religion Headstones cut from the very granite of the weather worn Lizard cliffs Menfolk deep beneath the Cornish loam, there to rest for all eternity Whilst below in the thrashing storm, the families fight once again Then as quickly as it came, the storm blows out, waters return to placid Men stretch their aching backs, those hidden from storm turn out The seaman’s mission helps as it can the fractured families And church maybe rings for those lost out to sea, never to be seen again There will be time to mourn, and the village will then lament together And those who are left, they return to their sacred craft of netting fish Return to shining calm, to ply their trade, to bring food to this isles shore
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When Man, expell’d from Eden’s bowers, A moment linger’d near the gate, Each scene recall’d the vanish’d hours, And bade him curse his future fate. But, wandering on through distant climes, He learnt to bear his load of grief; Just gave a sigh to other times, And found in busier scenes relief. Thus, Lady! will it be with me, And I must view thy charms no more; For, while I linger near to thee, I sigh for all I knew before. In flight I shall be surely wise, Escaping from temptation’s snare: I cannot view my Paradise Without the wish of dwelling there.
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To A Lady, On Being Asked My Reason For Quitting England In The Spring
Summer struck with the fist of Chicxulub, incinerated spring in a blinding flash. Abruptly the pond on Chehalis Trail was topped with water lilies, where famished families of water fowl had festooned the serenity of the surface; now vanished for cool Canadian climes. Racoon eyes peered in night shade green, Foxglove and California Poppy brushed through blades of overgrown grasses. Crow song battled with Stellar's Jay, the morning's true American Idols. I stirred from slumber to impatient cawing, chiding --- The best of day's awaiting. I was off to savor summer's sugar, lest autumn slip in unannounced on the coats of Quetzalcoatl.
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 12:18 AM UTC
Toltec Solstice
Ophelia...smote egress, you are Rimbaud's: "Drunken Boat". The river you fell asleep upon found you a sea. Your bones knew no seabed--poppies, marigolds, orchids, black roses fill your eye sockets, mouth and rib cage. You substantiate what color the sea may give your lay. Its foamy waddle has signaled you to one too many climes...an orison broke open. What strain of tragedy now holds you, spine on depth, eye sockets on sky? You dove headlong into the Shakespearean maelstrom-- where mortal coil confounds, chin-up darling. Great winds fish-scale your waters, only to invert their maw. There are lines daily of sea's breadth, whereupon its creatures come single file to kiss your bone. Ophelia...wrested from river to sanguine sea, shedding trails of flesh. If bones were the eye of a needle...you've pulled through, heir to tragedy--circumnavigating your infamy.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 10:25 AM UTC
Ophelia and Rimbaud
When fierce conflicting passions urge The breast, where love is wont to glow, What mind can stem the stormy surge Which rolls the tide of human woe? The hope of praise, the dread of shame, Can rouse the tortur’d breast no more; The wild desire, the guilty flame, Absorbs each wish it felt before. But if affection gently thrills The soul, by purer dreams possest, The pleasing balm of mortal ills In love can soothe the aching breast: If thus thou comest in disguise, Fair Venus! from thy native heaven, What heart, unfeeling, would despise The sweetest boon the Gods have given? But, never from thy golden bow, May I beneath the shaft expire! Whose creeping venom, sure and slow, Awakes an all-consuming fire: Ye racking doubts! ye jealous fears! With others wage internal war; Repentance! source of future tears, From me be ever distant far! May no distracting thoughts destroy The holy calm of sacred love! May all the hours be winged with joy, Which hover faithful hearts above! Fair Venus! on thy myrtle shrine May I with some fond lover sigh! Whose heart may mingle pure with mine, With me to live, with me to die! My native soil! belov’d before, Now dearer, as my peaceful home, Ne’er may I quit thy rocky shore, A hapless banish’d wretch to roam! This very day, this very hour, May I resign this fleeting breath! Nor quit my silent humble bower; A doom, to me, far worse than death. Have I not heard the exile’s sigh, And seen the exile’s silent tear, Through distant climes condemn’d to fly, A pensive, weary wanderer here? Ah! hapless dame! no sire bewails, No friend thy wretched fate deplores, No kindred voice with rapture hails Thy steps within a stranger’s doors. Perish the fiend! whose iron heart To fair affection’s truth unknown, Bids her he fondly lov’d depart, Unpitied, helpless, and alone; Who ne’er unlocks with silver key, The milder treasures of his soul; May such a friend be far from me, And Ocean’s storms between us roll!
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Translation From The “Medea” Of Euripides
When fierce conflicting passions urge The breast, where love is wont to glow, What mind can stem the stormy surge Which rolls the tide of human woe? The hope of praise, the dread of shame, Can rouse the tortur’d breast no more; The wild desire, the guilty flame, Absorbs each wish it felt before. But if affection gently thrills The soul, by purer dreams possest, The pleasing balm of mortal ills In love can soothe the aching breast: If thus thou comest in disguise, Fair Venus! from thy native heaven, What heart, unfeeling, would despise The sweetest boon the Gods have given? But, never from thy golden bow, May I beneath the shaft expire! Whose creeping venom, sure and slow, Awakes an all-consuming fire: Ye racking doubts! ye jealous fears! With others wage internal war; Repentance! source of future tears, From me be ever distant far! May no distracting thoughts destroy The holy calm of sacred love! May all the hours be winged with joy, Which hover faithful hearts above! Fair Venus! on thy myrtle shrine May I with some fond lover sigh! Whose heart may mingle pure with mine, With me to live, with me to die! My native soil! belov’d before, Now dearer, as my peaceful home, Ne’er may I quit thy rocky shore, A hapless banish’d wretch to roam! This very day, this very hour, May I resign this fleeting breath! Nor quit my silent humble bower; A doom, to me, far worse than death. Have I not heard the exile’s sigh, And seen the exile’s silent tear, Through distant climes condemn’d to fly, A pensive, weary wanderer here? Ah! hapless dame! no sire bewails, No friend thy wretched fate deplores, No kindred voice with rapture hails Thy steps within a stranger’s doors. Perish the fiend! whose iron heart To fair affection’s truth unknown, Bids her he fondly lov’d depart, Unpitied, helpless, and alone; Who ne’er unlocks with silver key, The milder treasures of his soul; May such a friend be far from me, And Ocean’s storms between us roll!
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*She is a breeze, gently wafts in, in the fiery climes she quickly transforms, arousal of passion makes her a whirlwind fierce, her spirited twists and turns were beyond prediction her predilection to dominate becomes so insistent she turned to a twister had an unrestricted run the giant redwood was uprooted in no time*
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May 14, 2014
May 14, 2014 at 12:00 AM UTC
Her hidden prediliction
1. Quite far you are,know not where, time and space remain fused, But, our love is still a wild flower, that takes new avatars Fully bloomed, defies sun and rain,other vagaries of seasons, This love is beyond the thrills of flesh, not even nocturnal togetherness. To plant a kiss of love on your lips,the wind will be my messenger, With a gentle caresses  you will be reminded how my lips felt on yours, In reciprocation, with your scent wind would envelop me on return. 2. Our love has faced many harsh climes, still we persisted, Fallen down and walked again limping, long distances, Our love has martyr's blood  running through veins,still brave, sings The song we loved, not together, a new light our love had found. Beyond the point of togetherness,love is indestructible, defying logic. 3. My flesh and blood would wither away,yours too have the same fate, Your beating heart and mine,one day will embrace stillness. Love has to live beyond the tunes of heart beats and our lives. In wind and water, earth and fire, all over the vastness of space, Millions would come together,in life, in death, sing love's paeans
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 9:01 AM UTC
Valentine's day promises beyond the limits of time
Arduous late Winter woes amplify in February false hope We’re all sick of constrictive clothes and cold climes conducive to staying in Cabin fever running rampant 45° t-shirts & sunglasses everyone driving with their windows down   Hoping Vernal rituals performed early will hasten Spring’s arrival I’m done fed up ready to move on Going crazy in the cold writhing to get moving unimpeded by frigidness and snow I’m ready for Spring for Summer for Fall I’m ready for the scent of thawing soil in the air biking in the Sun, verdance, and flowers in bloom I’m ready for grass between my toes Fireflies, crickets, peepers and warm night stars I’m sick of frost reddened runny raw noses sick of numb fingers and toes and having precious few daylight hours I’m sick of combatting glacial winds with layers, of treacherous icy apathy, and dreary bleak boredom I’m sick of not being able to sit on the ground sick of long pants, long socks, long sleeves, and silent stagnant long nights So, despite the fact that I’ll pine for January every day over 90° Despite the fact that when mosquitoes swarm I’ll wish a frost would **** the little ******** and despite the fact I’ll get just as fed up with temperate seasons I still want Spring and then Summer and then Fall But February brings false hope and despite the lengthening cheery sun months still stand between us and t-shirt weather mild nights, grassy hills,   and emancipation from an inclement icebox atmosphere
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Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014 at 8:50 AM UTC
February False Hope
Arduous late Winter woes amplify in February false hope We’re all sick of constrictive clothes and cold climes conducive to staying in Cabin fever running rampant 45° t-shirts & sunglasses everyone driving with their windows down   Hoping Vernal rituals performed early will hasten Spring’s arrival I’m done fed up ready to move on Going crazy in the cold writhing to get moving unimpeded by frigidness and snow I’m ready for Spring for Summer for Fall I’m ready for the scent of thawing soil in the air biking in the Sun, verdance, and flowers in bloom I’m ready for grass between my toes Fireflies, crickets, peepers and warm night stars I’m sick of frost reddened runny raw noses sick of numb fingers and toes and having precious few daylight hours I’m sick of combatting glacial winds with layers, of treacherous icy apathy, and dreary bleak boredom I’m sick of not being able to sit on the ground sick of long pants, long socks, long sleeves, and silent stagnant long nights So, despite the fact that I’ll pine for January every day over 90° Despite the fact that when mosquitoes swarm I’ll wish a frost would **** the little ******** and despite the fact I’ll get just as fed up with temperate seasons I still want Spring and then Summer and then Fall But February brings false hope and despite the lengthening cheery sun months still stand between us and t-shirt weather mild nights, grassy hills,   and emancipation from an inclement icebox atmosphere
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250 I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes— Each—with a Robin’s expectation— I—with my Redbreast— And my Rhymes— Late—when I take my place in summer— But—I shall bring a fuller tune— Vespers—are sweeter than Matins—Signor— Morning—only the seed of Noon—
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I shall keep singing!
Like so many Lemmings they rush to southern climes for greener pastures year round golf a Slower pace Cheaper prices and Tropical temperatures Leathery Tanned Unnaturally taut and Sun-spotted they crowd the local haunts and Clog the highways. At best they tolerate whoever is not Pensioned or Privileged At worst they ban the Underage Unfortunates from their gated communities and social gatherings The pendulum has swung from a time when the Old were at the Mercy of the Young to the present when Youth is Oppressed by Senescence Once democracy’s backbone they now wax Conservative having obtained their Slice of the pie Now there is no pie Mother Earth has been trampled to death and the Toiling hands of those who Stoke the fires of industry are Blistered and discouraged
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 2:27 PM UTC
The Culture of Old
snow comes early this year in southern climes - records broken radio man talks of a warming globe - a broken record seas have risen many, many times and frozen, too - in southern climes have I shown you my wooly mammoth tooth? it's very old. r ~ 11/1/14
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC
wooly mammoth
It’s the damndest thing when attentions focused on one thing beget the focus of another Like the rooster crowing the sunlight in the cold, ungrateful weather, My eyes scan the ups and downs of those digital stand-ins for those I’ve known Seeing mistakes, my own and in others, Seeing perfection, in other’s imperfect successes, wantonly rubbed in my eyes As I springboard from the travails of those with whom I may never vocalize my adoration I drop out of the air of a life far from mine, I see mention of a passed on spirit Who I truly adored, no digital fakery of half-true fables necessary to express my love for the ideals implanted in me by such a tongue so supplicant to the truths in that vast ether where I used to swim in the light, never thinking of the dark climes below. What choice do I have on an accidental evening like tonight? I no longer can mask disinterest for other’s soaring narratives when my true care has been discovered, been pried away from that dark corner of the airborne pool so ethereal. My care, my pride have been torn asunder, by a mere errant glance on a mere sideways mention Of a massive, earthly idol, who, if only for a stanza of years held my full gaze with hopeful smiles and ecstatic promise for bright futures now gone into grey pastures. I lay here an imposter in authentic skin if only for the sight of words on screens, with scant meaning in between.
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 4:54 PM UTC
Mrs. J, What Can I Say?
Life’s an upward struggle, and it makes it so much rougher when the ladder you find yourself climbing is beset by lonely weather. When every other rung is off doing other things, the solitude and altitude bring to mind desolation and the emptiness that brings. No matter the genius emanating from ivory minds, the smartest man among us often finds that brilliance unfiltered clogs up the system, when others must consume the lonely perfume of conceits kept alone, while the common thoughts stay collected like so many sheep in a pen that’s separated from self-same lonely thoughts, that genius oft encounters, left only amongst the happiness that fills up life’s happy coffers. So it goes that lofty ideals become frostbitten by snowcapped mountains of emptiness. Others seek the heights together only during pleasant weather, while those who trounce through snow-packed trails must brave the climes alone tempted only by fate, to descend to summits more frequent than the peaks of accomplishment. Gangrenous lips cannot utter the chilled revelations of those left above too long. So it is left to those below, not inferior from the altitude, just more likely acclimated to the difficult, dull journey of those who spare pristine slopes for the sullied, muddied slush on the tourist trails below.
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 2:49 AM UTC
The Heights of Madness
Sweet dagger, pierce that midnight beauty, that walks like cloudless climes and starry skies. Go now, men, and do your duty. Steal the schemes of other rhymes. I am the captain of my ship; I am the master of metre and time. I've mastered the art of thieving wit. I've stolen the fame of men long dead and staked my claim to the fruits of their minds. I can write words yet unsaid; But I've not the mind; I've not the inclination; I've not the creativity to write my own lines. If this rings too close to home, perhaps you ought to write your own. More likely though, you'll just steal mine.
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 11:00 PM UTC
Plagiarism
Indulgent muse! my grov’ling mind inspire, And fill my ***** with celestial fire. See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves, Like the fair mother of the blooming loves, When from above the Goddess with her hand Fans the soft breeze, and lights upon the land; Thus she on Neptune’s wat’ry realm reclin’d Appear’d, and thus invites the ling’ring wind. “Arise, ye winds, America explore, “Waft me, ye gales, from this malignant shore; “The Northern milder climes I long to greet, “There hope that health will my arrival meet.” Soon as she spoke in my ideal view The winds assented, and the vessel flew. Madam, your spouse bereft of wife and son, In the grove’s dark recesses pours his moan; Each branch, wide-spreading to the ambient sky, Forgets its verdure, and submits to die. From thence I turn, and leave the sultry plain, And swift pursue thy passage o’er the main: The ship arrives before the fav’ring wind, And makes the Philadelphian port assign’d, Thence I attend you to Bostonia’s arms, Where gen’rous friendship ev’ry ***** warms: Thrice welcome here! may health revive again, Bloom on thy cheek, and bound in ev’ry vein! Then back return to gladden ev’ry heart, And give your spouse his soul’s far dearer part, Receiv’d again with what a sweet surprise, The tear in transport starting from his eyes! While his attendant son with blooming grace Springs to his father’s ever dear embrace. With shouts of joy Jamaica’s rocks resound, With shouts of joy the country rings around.
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To A Lady On Her Coming To North-America With Her Son, For The Recovery Of Her Health
Indulgent muse! my grov’ling mind inspire, And fill my ***** with celestial fire. See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves, Like the fair mother of the blooming loves, When from above the Goddess with her hand Fans the soft breeze, and lights upon the land; Thus she on Neptune’s wat’ry realm reclin’d Appear’d, and thus invites the ling’ring wind. “Arise, ye winds, America explore, “Waft me, ye gales, from this malignant shore; “The Northern milder climes I long to greet, “There hope that health will my arrival meet.” Soon as she spoke in my ideal view The winds assented, and the vessel flew. Madam, your spouse bereft of wife and son, In the grove’s dark recesses pours his moan; Each branch, wide-spreading to the ambient sky, Forgets its verdure, and submits to die. From thence I turn, and leave the sultry plain, And swift pursue thy passage o’er the main: The ship arrives before the fav’ring wind, And makes the Philadelphian port assign’d, Thence I attend you to Bostonia’s arms, Where gen’rous friendship ev’ry ***** warms: Thrice welcome here! may health revive again, Bloom on thy cheek, and bound in ev’ry vein! Then back return to gladden ev’ry heart, And give your spouse his soul’s far dearer part, Receiv’d again with what a sweet surprise, The tear in transport starting from his eyes! While his attendant son with blooming grace Springs to his father’s ever dear embrace. With shouts of joy Jamaica’s rocks resound, With shouts of joy the country rings around.
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Poets DO have issues! Poets are insane! We have a different record groove,   We have a different grain! We have a different wiring Don't respond to "normal" tests We are the fish who climb up trees Of this I can attest! (chorus) Poets hear their colors, Poets see their songs, Poets touch the music notes They taste to sing along! We wear t-shirts in 10 feet of snow Coats in sunny climes! We have no sense of timing 'Cept when we write our rhymes! We go out in stormy weather When it's clement we stay in! We eat pizza in the morning Write limericks on a whim! (chorus) We are calm when life gets frustrating Mad when things go well! Write rants when times are blissful And sonnets when it's hell! We travel to the Moon and back Wear Stardust in our hair We sail the very Cosmos Sitting in our chair! Our pens they scratch a tympany Our pages plumb the depths Of profound Pacific trenches Or drown in puddles wept... We have a different wiring Don't respond to "normal" tests We are the fish who climb up trees Of this I can attest! Poets hear their colors! Poets see their songs! Is that so ridiculous? Folks, is that so wrong? Poets hear their colors The colors of the heart! Come and see this song with us **Let your mind fall apart!** SoulSurvivor aka Write of Passage aka Invisible inc (C) 7/10/2016
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Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 1:07 PM UTC
Poets are crazy!
Money money money money money ******* money. You think you’ll find happiness there. Happiness doesn’t buy you things, doesn’t take you out to dinner. Happiness doesn’t sit prettily on your finger or hang from your earlobes or rest around your neck. Happiness doesn’t have an engine and four wheels that takes you wherever you want to go. Happiness doesn’t add an extra comma or two to your bank account. Happiness doesn’t buy things to make you look beautiful or feel special. Happiness holds your hand when you feel down. Happiness cooks for you when you can’t be bothered. Happiness tells you jokes and laughs at yours and when you make eye-contact, happiness keeps it and smiles back. Happiness tells you you’ll pull through. Happiness walks hand-in-hand into the darkness with you without any apprehension. Happiness is a seed. You plant it and water it, watch as its roots take hold and the sapling breaks the surface. You nurture the fledgling stem as it grows over time into a huge and beautiful tree. It shelters you from the sun during summer and offers refuge from the snow in winter. It protects you from all the bad things. It gives and gives and gives unconditionally, asking nothing in return. It does not wander off to better climes. You will always find it exactly where you left it. It is your companion in an otherwise barren landscape. But I am a dead tree, useless and ugly. I haven’t produced leaves in years. I offer no shelter, just shadows of possibilities on the ground. I harbour no birds. No deer eat my bark. I will fall and all around no ears shall hear. I am not your happiness nor anyone else’s. Just a mess of sticks, not even any use for firewood.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 7:02 AM UTC
Firewood
Money money money money money ******* money. You think you’ll find happiness there. Happiness doesn’t buy you things, doesn’t take you out to dinner. Happiness doesn’t sit prettily on your finger or hang from your earlobes or rest around your neck. Happiness doesn’t have an engine and four wheels that takes you wherever you want to go. Happiness doesn’t add an extra comma or two to your bank account. Happiness doesn’t buy things to make you look beautiful or feel special. Happiness holds your hand when you feel down. Happiness cooks for you when you can’t be bothered. Happiness tells you jokes and laughs at yours and when you make eye-contact, happiness keeps it and smiles back. Happiness tells you you’ll pull through. Happiness walks hand-in-hand into the darkness with you without any apprehension. Happiness is a seed. You plant it and water it, watch as its roots take hold and the sapling breaks the surface. You nurture the fledgling stem as it grows over time into a huge and beautiful tree. It shelters you from the sun during summer and offers refuge from the snow in winter. It protects you from all the bad things. It gives and gives and gives unconditionally, asking nothing in return. It does not wander off to better climes. You will always find it exactly where you left it. It is your companion in an otherwise barren landscape. But I am a dead tree, useless and ugly. I haven’t produced leaves in years. I offer no shelter, just shadows of possibilities on the ground. I harbour no birds. No deer eat my bark. I will fall and all around no ears shall hear. I am not your happiness nor anyone else’s. Just a mess of sticks, not even any use for firewood.
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The Summer Alphabet of Woman Every summer, I learn a new language. Every winter, it departs for warmer climes, And its charms and naked arms, its own alphabet, clean forgot. Multi-lingual in the summer's peculiar One language, one aleph bet, But mega-millions of dialects, Know them all cold, know them all, hot. I speak Woman. Summer is soft, shapely, sweet, Clean, bare, lush in a sparse way, And Woman is spoken thusly. There are no harsh sounds, Guttural exclamations, nein! I speak Woman. There is no ugly in the summer. Ugly being an ugly word.   It cannot exist in an atmosphere of Sun, greenery, sand, carefree days, vacations, no school. There are no ugly women in the summer. I could take this writ many places, But if you are sputtering sexist or other labeling words, Could not give a good god **** because in the summer, There is no ugly, there is no prejudice. And I still speak Woman with an almost perfect fluency, au naturel. Gym clothes, short shorts, A-line skirts swishing in the breeze, High, god, so high the heels, flats clip clopping, flip flopping all over my heart, But, it is the bare arms and the hints of summer Cleavage, the short skirts, body hugging one piece fabrics stretching from here to down there that does not Hint, the shoulder strap of the underthings that asks, that commands me, to wonder where it leads too... Even the light wrap at night mocks me, Like gift wrapping with a smile demure...a teasing blindfold... All these say: Write us poetry in our very own tongue, Woman. Will oblige. I curve with curve of the ***** and invert with  S arc of the waist, Mystifying, how it is the designed place For my hands to grasp, and never fails. The crayola colors of flesh variations, Boggle the senses... How can tan  and pale, Dark and Light Have so many Symphonic variations? Adagio, slow and leisurely, a pas de deux For two eyes, then a Timpani crash and thunder, as Byron wrote, "music arose with its voluptuous swell," Yes, swell...swell...swell Enough. My eloquence, no match for my Fluency. Late August, and my vocabulary is already Diminishing. I forget how to say in Woman *Without you I am nothing, With you, I am more than everything,* Tho I can no longer say it, It is is still true and Beyond belief.
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM UTC
The Summer Alphabet of Woman (I Speak Woman)
The Summer Alphabet of Woman Every summer, I learn a new language. Every winter, it departs for warmer climes, And its charms and naked arms, its own alphabet, clean forgot. Multi-lingual in the summer's peculiar One language, one aleph bet, But mega-millions of dialects, Know them all cold, know them all, hot. I speak Woman. Summer is soft, shapely, sweet, Clean, bare, lush in a sparse way, And Woman is spoken thusly. There are no harsh sounds, Guttural exclamations, nein! I speak Woman. There is no ugly in the summer. Ugly being an ugly word.   It cannot exist in an atmosphere of Sun, greenery, sand, carefree days, vacations, no school. There are no ugly women in the summer. I could take this writ many places, But if you are sputtering sexist or other labeling words, Could not give a good god **** because in the summer, There is no ugly, there is no prejudice. And I still speak Woman with an almost perfect fluency, au naturel. Gym clothes, short shorts, A-line skirts swishing in the breeze, High, god, so high the heels, flats clip clopping, flip flopping all over my heart, But, it is the bare arms and the hints of summer Cleavage, the short skirts, body hugging one piece fabrics stretching from here to down there that does not Hint, the shoulder strap of the underthings that asks, that commands me, to wonder where it leads too... Even the light wrap at night mocks me, Like gift wrapping with a smile demure...a teasing blindfold... All these say: Write us poetry in our very own tongue, Woman. Will oblige. I curve with curve of the ***** and invert with  S arc of the waist, Mystifying, how it is the designed place For my hands to grasp, and never fails. The crayola colors of flesh variations, Boggle the senses... How can tan  and pale, Dark and Light Have so many Symphonic variations? Adagio, slow and leisurely, a pas de deux For two eyes, then a Timpani crash and thunder, as Byron wrote, "music arose with its voluptuous swell," Yes, swell...swell...swell Enough. My eloquence, no match for my Fluency. Late August, and my vocabulary is already Diminishing. I forget how to say in Woman *Without you I am nothing, With you, I am more than everything,* Tho I can no longer say it, It is is still true and Beyond belief.
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More solemn than Winter is your August sometimes the seashells spoke of kinder climes but August is a wicked month, you have matched your red hair season, like hued revelry they await to be tasted your vibrant lips.
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 5:09 PM UTC
Being August