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"clouded" poems
Narukami no sukoshi toyomite      (A faint clap of thunder) sashi kumori      (Clouded skies) Ame mo furanu ka?      (Perhaps rain comes) Kimi wo todomemu      (If so, will you stay here with me?) Narukami no sukoshi toyomite      (A faint clap of thunder) furazu to mo      (Even if rain comes not) warewa tomaramu      (I will stay here) imoshi todomeba      (Together with you)
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Jul 30, 2015
Jul 30, 2015 at 5:46 AM UTC
The Garden of Words: a tanka
You send shivers down my spine when you walk in, Cause the butterflies to flutter like mad. When you look in my eyes, You burn right through me. You are the sunshine when my skies are clouded, The light when I can't find the good in the world. I could be all that you need, You are all that I want. My stomach knots when you are next to me, You make me nervous and giddy. I smile at the thought of you, Quake in your presence. You have all control over me, And you don't even know it.
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Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010 at 5:54 PM UTC
You and Me
Oh beautiful for specious lies where Christless values reign; for superficial battle cries above the muted strain: Diversity, diversity God hides His face from thee— and frown he should, while planethood distracts humanity. How sad it is when victim groups monopolize the floor; enabling the marginals to agitate for more. Diversity, diversity, Your queer agenda rules— with Balkanizing tendencies imposed on witless tools. Degenerate in decadence the ailing eagle flies; in spirals of irrelevance through clouded toxic skies… Diversity, diversity the Left defines your terms; the weakened body politic grows sicker as it squirms. Oh Lord we need a miracle before the patient fails; celestial intervention please to purge us of what ails. Diversity, diversity We shall not overcome— Unless the Lord reveal His word twixt here and Kingdom Come…
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Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 8:41 PM UTC
Diversity Training
Hands shaking Mind racing Thoughts clouded The room loudens I cant breathe I cant see Hello my names Anxiety
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Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 9:51 PM UTC
Anxiety
six lanes in a sight line past the cedar shims and trim tempered insert past the washed mural and water stained tiles covered eyes fight for focus over cork strung ties and dark distant bridges foot crawlers on lemon pegs teaming under clouded halogen light   dreamers contend in a variation of chant (throwing it off in a drawl sequence) a glimpse of the guard and warm towel assignment forge comforting relief in a task filled day
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Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016 at 9:17 PM UTC
Catharsis
3153 miles away I lay with a mind that's clouded with thoughts. Past Scenarios playing out differently. Over analyzing the present. Anticipating the emotion that I will feel in the future. If ever I was consumed it has never been like this. Regret comes and fades. optimism shares that same cycle. Happiness And sadness come in doses like sedatives. The voice of jealousy tells me that hope makes me weak. Anger fuels my fire and logic keeps it burning. Yet voices, Medication, and the embers fade. The constant variables are only wondering and anxiety. Peace comes in sleep and yet its hardly enjoyed.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:51 PM UTC
Florida
Have you ever seen the sun rise? Witnessed with your own two eyes? Watching exactly how it went? Not through someone else's photo captured moment You'll really enjoy it more if you view it live & you'll appreciate just being alive I've watched the sun rise countless mornings It's like my own private showings Each one completely different in every way & the best way to start any day They're bright & beautiful Breatakingly blissful You'll never feel the same once you've experienced it & so many will never understand the feeling you get It's hard to explain but I'll do my best I'd imagine it's like fresh air deepily inhaled into your chest Your lungs fill up with all the freshness & you exhale all that causes you stress Your worries all just disappear Your mind is calm & clear It's a feeling that just forever stays Until your dying days Joy & happiness is all you release It is what brings you inner peace All you care to do now is enjoy everything No matter the troubles & obstacles life may bring A happy soul is all you've got & need Your heart has compassion & optimism is what you bleed Sharing your smile with all you pass or whoever you meet That is your favorite way to say hello & greet All from experiencing a live sun rise happen That all may seem impossible to imagine All that out of just a sun rising? When it happens to you, it IS quite surprising Shocking at first, you just can't believe how you feel & you wonder how can this even be real? If you allow yourself to let go of your worries & any doubt Then you make room to clearly feel what it's about You're allowing yourself to be vulnerable & that's when you become more relatable Clearing your clouded mind of opinions from useless chatter Let's you finally enjoy what most may think or say doesn't really matter Those are the ones who don't pay a lot of attention & are afraid to get lost in their imagination Never will they set a foot out of their "safe" box & risk crossing that thin line It's OK, it's their loss & that's just fine They'll just never understand your constant positive attitude & can't recall a time you were even the slightest bit rude They will never know how to just live happily Inside their soul will be dying slowly Some won't see how beautiful a sun rise really is It's something no one should ever miss A sun rise & even a sun set Are too amazing to just forget!!
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 2:55 PM UTC
Sunrise
Have you ever seen the sun rise? Witnessed with your own two eyes? Watching exactly how it went? Not through someone else's photo captured moment You'll really enjoy it more if you view it live & you'll appreciate just being alive I've watched the sun rise countless mornings It's like my own private showings Each one completely different in every way & the best way to start any day They're bright & beautiful Breatakingly blissful You'll never feel the same once you've experienced it & so many will never understand the feeling you get It's hard to explain but I'll do my best I'd imagine it's like fresh air deepily inhaled into your chest Your lungs fill up with all the freshness & you exhale all that causes you stress Your worries all just disappear Your mind is calm & clear It's a feeling that just forever stays Until your dying days Joy & happiness is all you release It is what brings you inner peace All you care to do now is enjoy everything No matter the troubles & obstacles life may bring A happy soul is all you've got & need Your heart has compassion & optimism is what you bleed Sharing your smile with all you pass or whoever you meet That is your favorite way to say hello & greet All from experiencing a live sun rise happen That all may seem impossible to imagine All that out of just a sun rising? When it happens to you, it IS quite surprising Shocking at first, you just can't believe how you feel & you wonder how can this even be real? If you allow yourself to let go of your worries & any doubt Then you make room to clearly feel what it's about You're allowing yourself to be vulnerable & that's when you become more relatable Clearing your clouded mind of opinions from useless chatter Let's you finally enjoy what most may think or say doesn't really matter Those are the ones who don't pay a lot of attention & are afraid to get lost in their imagination Never will they set a foot out of their "safe" box & risk crossing that thin line It's OK, it's their loss & that's just fine They'll just never understand your constant positive attitude & can't recall a time you were even the slightest bit rude They will never know how to just live happily Inside their soul will be dying slowly Some won't see how beautiful a sun rise really is It's something no one should ever miss A sun rise & even a sun set Are too amazing to just forget!!
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i guess you only like girls who are broken and want to be hurt, like your hands around her neck, want bruises and cuts in the shape of a heart, inhaling and choking on your affection like she needs it to breathe translucent skin stretched across veins that pump nicotine and you you, you, you, you, you judgement clouded by hyper-dependent infatuation and the need to heal her hollowness, although you’ll only ever be another teardrop on her pillowcase while she hums herself to sleep with midnight lies “the loss of you would be the loss of my life” and the saddest part is that i almost let myself fall back into becoming that lifeless, empty girl once more because i thought it might make you love me again.
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 10:31 PM UTC
limerence
Arrange my mind's galaxies and planets. Sedate angry asteroids and burning comets. Align for me my heart's constellations. Clear the clouded nebulae in my intentions. Turn the moon gently to look upon me, So I may find the sea of tranquillity...                               Tonight.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 12:20 PM UTC
Tranquillity
There once was a hero who was mute, A musical hero, to boot! His fingers did not strum A guitar or tap a drum; He saved the kingdom with a flute! ------------------------------------------------- A soldier clouded by strife, To have love lost like a life. Finds beauty in flowers, Destroys evil powers, While wielding an oversized knife! ------------------------------------------------- An army of soldiers well-trained, Though, in action they seem dead-brained; Hit with his own bomb, That one knows your mom, It’s a battlefield of the deranged. -SLuR
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Jan 2, 2018
Jan 2, 2018 at 4:19 PM UTC
Videogames, shmideogames.
My Third eye Clouded Busy blurry skies What have I done To the you and I To the me and you That could never be Drawn to these pleasures Between these sheets Smothering moonlight Deep summer heat Damping lust Still no retreat The flame burns Even hotter When You and I cheat ..... Take my hand and come with me to dreams of love and lust Where....drifting down the blurry skies the eye need not adjust, Where.... moonlight dances merrily reflecting us unseen. The smoldering heat of our united union,   except to you and me No need to worry the things that we do between the sheets of carnal pleasure that draws me to you.   Together we will reach our peak as we share this glorious night. Lie with me beneath the moon and feel its timeless flight.
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Jun 22, 2017
Jun 22, 2017 at 4:50 PM UTC
No Shame (collaboration with Traveler)
*consciously, willfully, I wish it quietly the Sunday, the sun day, drifts toward, in its natural game, set, overmatched, the foregone conclusion, nightfall diminishment the water songfully swishes, as the tide departs for places unknown, this then, now the only natural authorized aural apparition, the power boats renounce their normal noisy conditioning, honoring their silenced, under-sail brethren, as well as admitting their noises disfigure the fast approaching majesty of the end of our summer seasoning of humanity consciously, willfully, I wish it once again, lush is the quietude,^ now given up, surrendered and surceased to wonder, how come I to write of these moments so oft, thenever-ending quest to re-inscribe it on my sensibilities, in vainglorious hopes that this stamping will last, be the last, see me through the turgid frigidity of my Lucifer life, come the fall, the winter, the early dark, the daylight's brevity, the hurricane season of the mind, that...need I say more? consciously, willfully, I wish it the particular white cloud formation of the moment at hand, shall stay in place,  be the capstone of my summer living vision, become permanent part and parcel of the sclera, the white of my eyes, and when I will write, soon enough, my vision white weeping clouded, you will weep knowingly, sympathetically consciously, willfully, I wish for that as well* 8/27/17 6:35pm
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Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
the lush peace and quiet of volition, on a Sunday afternoon
My wrists and thighs Tattooed with white stripes My mind consumed in darkness My eyes clouded with nothingness.. My wrists and thighs stained red My mind fading My eyes rimmed with lack of sleep Depression. s.j.d
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 2:04 AM UTC
Depression
Behind your eyes I see lions And you know them well And you fear Roars resonate in your tortured mind And you regret being bizarre You want to stay in line But the bustle in the crowds won't accept your direction You're an infection - peculiar in a derogatory sense. The howls from the people let you discover That this place is for hyenas You cower Lest you be ripped to shreds And on your panicked escape You leave a lioness behind The one you had named Unique and her cries are of a dreadful kind Claws feast into your weary soul They are your own As you keep under prison guard The character given by God Desperately you cling onto branches Not sturdy enough to hold you forever but you'd do anything to avoid being trampled By the hooves of the many When you have but a few lions left The rest were dropped as uncertainty clouded your vision Until your cat eyes Did not even benefit in the night But you are forgetting Should you choose a weak road At least chase the antelope Heaven knows You were meant to run wild Not Climb But when you become stronger as lions always do You will run before the hoof beats Because you are extraordinary And when you realize They will have no choice but to And the mass will part The moment you roar And when the herd is separated Blind or awake You shall find your lioness As she is running home Let her meld within your heart Let her be part of your masterpiece Until you recognize the majesty of your lions And without fear When you love yourself You will see the beast in mine eyes as well
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 10:34 PM UTC
Lion Eyes
Behind your eyes I see lions And you know them well And you fear Roars resonate in your tortured mind And you regret being bizarre You want to stay in line But the bustle in the crowds won't accept your direction You're an infection - peculiar in a derogatory sense. The howls from the people let you discover That this place is for hyenas You cower Lest you be ripped to shreds And on your panicked escape You leave a lioness behind The one you had named Unique and her cries are of a dreadful kind Claws feast into your weary soul They are your own As you keep under prison guard The character given by God Desperately you cling onto branches Not sturdy enough to hold you forever but you'd do anything to avoid being trampled By the hooves of the many When you have but a few lions left The rest were dropped as uncertainty clouded your vision Until your cat eyes Did not even benefit in the night But you are forgetting Should you choose a weak road At least chase the antelope Heaven knows You were meant to run wild Not Climb But when you become stronger as lions always do You will run before the hoof beats Because you are extraordinary And when you realize They will have no choice but to And the mass will part The moment you roar And when the herd is separated Blind or awake You shall find your lioness As she is running home Let her meld within your heart Let her be part of your masterpiece Until you recognize the majesty of your lions And without fear When you love yourself You will see the beast in mine eyes as well
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*study *your defined mounds and dipping hips,, lips and heated soles, to ascertain that your mine willingly, you're alive, still mine, to have and hold, not to be me, a left~behind* *for you in and ex, hale~hail me not, you chest. convex nor concave, if it gives, lives, moves, my eyes,     mine wetted eyes cannot discern, and the precious stillness I do so adore cherish, contaminated by notions of you having perished* + *it, is wished hard away, wished hard it may disappear, a sigh. a groan, a puzzling moan, anything even a sudden dreaming scream, to confirm that our heat still can be all merged, so that your light sleeper schema cannot be touched and thus defeated, so I write an only love poem, and sign it with tears of a cursed quiet streaming, clouded, most unliterary, but always with a super silent adoration, of, for* she, who cannot be disturbed
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Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM UTC
when in the stillness, I cannot hear your breathing
Flapping wings; Uncertain destiny; Frivolous flight; Head held high. Dreams galore; Clouded vision; Brightest light; Hope held high. Strength anew; Dreaded fights; Blessed life? Sword held high.
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Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015 at 11:34 PM UTC
Determination.
Its just *** So why you catching feelings When your body was the only part of the deal and We agreed that your mouth don't come with it Do you want us to quit? He would say As he ****** her soul from between her lips And tighten up his grip on her hips You had a choice before You dont wanna be "just friends" anymore I never wanted a rrelationship You got yourself into this situationship So stop that whining **** He whispered looking into the mirror that was once her eyes Before he made her blind Before he couldn't see through her I llove what you give to me I love when you pleasing me But I don't want you loving me The *** is just enough for me It was fun when it was hard to get Now you're just hard to respect Now your eyes are clouded with regret He moaned thrusting into her mentality Stroking her disabilities To love herself To love anyone else Cause he's all she can see He's the only thing that's real He's all she learned to feel And he's just expecting her to deal Chill out with the feelings You're getting unappealing Your soul is so revealing The poet in you lost all her meaning You're demeaning Youre no longer a woman You're a substance You're just a thing He reveals stripping her of self security Ripping off the bandage that she placed over her heart so carefully But you're light You shine so bright You're all I think about at night You make everything so right But you're making me weak Love is sweet But not for someone who makes a living in the streets I'd rather love you in the sheets And rip your heart out before you leave The biggest punishment that life could ever give Give to you I mean The biggest punishment would be falling in love with unloveable me He thought carefully Quietly Watching the tears fall from her face Watching her steps as she leave his place As his home and heart and soul becomes empty again He only knows how to cause pain Only knows how to inflict gentle suffering Cause everyone he's ever loved left him in the rain But she let him in And he's letting her go again. After all its just *** So why did she catch feelings When her body was the only part of the deal and He gave her the choice before To be "just friends" and nothing more Although he wants so Much more .
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 7:51 PM UTC
Friends with benefits
Its just *** So why you catching feelings When your body was the only part of the deal and We agreed that your mouth don't come with it Do you want us to quit? He would say As he ****** her soul from between her lips And tighten up his grip on her hips You had a choice before You dont wanna be "just friends" anymore I never wanted a rrelationship You got yourself into this situationship So stop that whining **** He whispered looking into the mirror that was once her eyes Before he made her blind Before he couldn't see through her I llove what you give to me I love when you pleasing me But I don't want you loving me The *** is just enough for me It was fun when it was hard to get Now you're just hard to respect Now your eyes are clouded with regret He moaned thrusting into her mentality Stroking her disabilities To love herself To love anyone else Cause he's all she can see He's the only thing that's real He's all she learned to feel And he's just expecting her to deal Chill out with the feelings You're getting unappealing Your soul is so revealing The poet in you lost all her meaning You're demeaning Youre no longer a woman You're a substance You're just a thing He reveals stripping her of self security Ripping off the bandage that she placed over her heart so carefully But you're light You shine so bright You're all I think about at night You make everything so right But you're making me weak Love is sweet But not for someone who makes a living in the streets I'd rather love you in the sheets And rip your heart out before you leave The biggest punishment that life could ever give Give to you I mean The biggest punishment would be falling in love with unloveable me He thought carefully Quietly Watching the tears fall from her face Watching her steps as she leave his place As his home and heart and soul becomes empty again He only knows how to cause pain Only knows how to inflict gentle suffering Cause everyone he's ever loved left him in the rain But she let him in And he's letting her go again. After all its just *** So why did she catch feelings When her body was the only part of the deal and He gave her the choice before To be "just friends" and nothing more Although he wants so Much more .
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I found myself fracturing beneath his fists, Beauty beaten in hues of blue, purple and black, Like clouded midnight skies, full of rain. My eyes becoming pools of stars, Glistening with secrets of pain, Shining dully into the darkness of our nights. Saturated with his snide, stingy, cruel colors, I soaked in his venom, Becoming canvas for the art of abuse. And wasn't it beautiful? These tears in skin hindered no smile, Bruises like paint, enhancing face, Pupils shining like diamonds, Rough and worn, but precious. Aching bones breaking to rebuild themselves, Tongue red with biting back curses, Rosy lips curved and sealed against apologies, Flesh as hard and gray as stone, Sharpened against wicked whims and foul words, Aren't I beautiful - In all my rainbow tones?
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021 at 10:43 AM UTC
Colors Of The Night - Chris'Nell
As we kiss, Our hips like waves of flesh crash together. Into one another they collide like two craters pulled in by gravity. Our bodies connect like two streets at an intersection, Lines "X" and "Y". Your body as if a black hole ***** me in. I ****** moving deeper with every movement. You moan, Such an ear tingling sound. It slips through clenched teeth, only after climbing up your throat. A song like no other, Made only when your body is pushed to its point of bliss. As we kiss, Your heart races as if running for Olympic gold. Your mind becomes clouded by a satisfying fog. The sensitivity of our bodies skyrocket. Our body's are overheated by our sensual passion. Our hands intertwining fully making us one entity. As we kiss, Ecstasy in it's most unsullied state is reached.
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
As We Kiss
<Loud as you can say it> I am Outlaw!          -call me Pirate! I live such freedom,          all souls admire it! The awful God,         has judged my soul, Weighs his measure,           I'll pay my toll! <In a high-pitched voice> The sailor's way,         path unknown, Stars are clouded,         nothing shown? The sea's are high,         a storm is here, Davey Jones' Locker,         my home is near. <Loud again, yell it> There is no heaven,         there is no hell, Life on seas,         the seas they swell, Fish scales on arms,          scales on my legs, Heart born free,          dread-locked and dregs! I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! Lost lives redeemed,           some should admire it, The ship upended,           all hands to drown, In Davey Jones' Locker,           a peaceful sound... <In a high-pitched voice> The sailor's way,         path unknown, Stars are clouded,         nothing shown? My time has ended,         fate is near, Davey Jones' Locker,         my death is here. <Loud again, yell it> I am Outlaw!          -call me Pirate! A man of valor,           some do admire it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! A dreadful life,            though some desire it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! To Davey Jones' Locker,           my deeds require it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! I AM OUTLAW!           -CALL ME PIRATE! I am Outlaw!!           -call me Pirate! My life on the ocean,           my God inside it.
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Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 11:56 PM UTC
The Pirate's Ballad
<Loud as you can say it> I am Outlaw!          -call me Pirate! I live such freedom,          all souls admire it! The awful God,         has judged my soul, Weighs his measure,           I'll pay my toll! <In a high-pitched voice> The sailor's way,         path unknown, Stars are clouded,         nothing shown? The sea's are high,         a storm is here, Davey Jones' Locker,         my home is near. <Loud again, yell it> There is no heaven,         there is no hell, Life on seas,         the seas they swell, Fish scales on arms,          scales on my legs, Heart born free,          dread-locked and dregs! I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! Lost lives redeemed,           some should admire it, The ship upended,           all hands to drown, In Davey Jones' Locker,           a peaceful sound... <In a high-pitched voice> The sailor's way,         path unknown, Stars are clouded,         nothing shown? My time has ended,         fate is near, Davey Jones' Locker,         my death is here. <Loud again, yell it> I am Outlaw!          -call me Pirate! A man of valor,           some do admire it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! A dreadful life,            though some desire it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! To Davey Jones' Locker,           my deeds require it. I am Outlaw!           -call me Pirate! I AM OUTLAW!           -CALL ME PIRATE! I am Outlaw!!           -call me Pirate! My life on the ocean,           my God inside it.
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sometimes things that are so amazing, so wonderful… can confuse me. the emotions fog up the window           (my brain is clouded with thoughts) when the fog clears, there are beautiful blue butterflies flying around           (um...how’d they get there.). that’s what confuses me. could those be the same butterflies from my stomach that           makes me nervous around you. or are they a pigment of my imaginations, feelings that aren’t true and made up. (a soft warning of pain to come) (an assurance of how beautiful i really am) (a demon ready to devour me) what is it. i name this little blue— confusion. she’s beautiful but quiet. maybe i need her company. eventually the truth will hit her instead of hitting the window           (my brain is a pane of glass). you can leave this dungeon, papillon. fly! fly away with your gratefulness! be free!           (my imagination runs wild           like these butterflies) freedom awaits.
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Jul 30, 2018
Jul 30, 2018 at 1:23 AM UTC
papillon
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the bone. Along the back of the baby tortoise The scales are locked in an arch like a bridge, Scale-lapping, like a lobster's sections Or a bee's. Then crossways down his sides Tiger-stripes and wasp-bands. Five, and five again, and five again, And round the edges twenty-five little ones, The sections of the baby tortoise shell. Four, and a keystone; Four, and a keystone; Four, and a keystone; Then twenty-four, and a tiny little keystone. It needed Pythagoras to see life playing with counters on the living back Of the baby tortoise; Life establishing the first eternal mathematical tablet, Not in stone, like the Judean Lord, or bronze, but in life-clouded, life-rosy tortoise shell. The first little mathematical gentleman Stepping, wee mite, in his loose trousers Under all the eternal dome of mathematical law. Fives, and tens, Threes and fours and twelves, All the volte face of decimals, The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven. Turn him on his back, The kicking little beetle, And there again, on his shell-tender, earth-touching belly, The long cleavage of division, upright of the eternal cross And on either side count five, On each side, two above, on each side, two below The dark bar horizontal. The Cross! It goes right through him, the sprottling insect, Through his cross-wise cloven psyche, Through his five-fold complex-nature. So turn him over on his toes again; Four pin-point toes, and a problematical thumb-piece, Four rowing limbs, and one wedge-balancing head, Four and one makes five, which is the clue to all mathematics. The Lord wrote it all down on the little slate Of the baby tortoise. Outward and visible indication of the plan within, The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature Plotted out On this small bird, this rudiment, This little dome, this pediment Of all creation, This slow one.
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Tortoise Shell
The Cross, the Cross Goes deeper in than we know, Deeper into life; Right into the marrow And through the bone. Along the back of the baby tortoise The scales are locked in an arch like a bridge, Scale-lapping, like a lobster's sections Or a bee's. Then crossways down his sides Tiger-stripes and wasp-bands. Five, and five again, and five again, And round the edges twenty-five little ones, The sections of the baby tortoise shell. Four, and a keystone; Four, and a keystone; Four, and a keystone; Then twenty-four, and a tiny little keystone. It needed Pythagoras to see life playing with counters on the living back Of the baby tortoise; Life establishing the first eternal mathematical tablet, Not in stone, like the Judean Lord, or bronze, but in life-clouded, life-rosy tortoise shell. The first little mathematical gentleman Stepping, wee mite, in his loose trousers Under all the eternal dome of mathematical law. Fives, and tens, Threes and fours and twelves, All the volte face of decimals, The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven. Turn him on his back, The kicking little beetle, And there again, on his shell-tender, earth-touching belly, The long cleavage of division, upright of the eternal cross And on either side count five, On each side, two above, on each side, two below The dark bar horizontal. The Cross! It goes right through him, the sprottling insect, Through his cross-wise cloven psyche, Through his five-fold complex-nature. So turn him over on his toes again; Four pin-point toes, and a problematical thumb-piece, Four rowing limbs, and one wedge-balancing head, Four and one makes five, which is the clue to all mathematics. The Lord wrote it all down on the little slate Of the baby tortoise. Outward and visible indication of the plan within, The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature Plotted out On this small bird, this rudiment, This little dome, this pediment Of all creation, This slow one.
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You have ripped bellbottoms a shaky smile, The sandy curls that cascade down your back. You smoke till your lungs go black, You sit in the blazing sun meditating till you go tan. You play the tunes of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, That suede jacket you wear every Tuesday. You decorate your room with blankets so the colors keep you company, The daisies you wear in your hair till they go brown. You let your cigarette dangle from your thin lips, That gritty sound you make when you form words. Your eyes are always clouded with memories, You wear those circular shades to hide from people. You wipe the tears off of people’s faces, Smile when theres nothing to smile about. Your hands are tatted with henna, and you wear the shirt of a tie-dye spider. All you eat is trail-mix of pistachios and sun-dried apples. You ride in a Volkswagen with windows down to feel the breeze. Your peace sign is like “the healer” to all pain. You take a pull off hookah and a bite of shrooms just to chase away the madness. You create your own reality. When the rain falls down you fling your head back and yell to the world, The face you make when you see animals. He’s like an eagle, ready to sore through the sky and bring positivity. Don’t ever tell me you’re not a hippie, because I’ve never seen anyone as unique as you.
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Jan 28, 2014
Jan 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM UTC
Hippie