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"codex" poems
pulling hair, mounting the scathed creature — feelingfulness straddles the lovelorn fringe of shadows coming to a feint. under the canopy of the guava tree i reminisce dissonance of claims drunken recall or some ill fortitude and borderless as it seems, capturing the eye. mirage dazzled, writhing on the darling loam, fisticuff of birds swarming ecliptic passages finding a hidden codex somewhere in archaea — women pulled from ribs and men wrought out of tears.
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Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 4:20 AM UTC
'Neath The Guava Tree
Struck with the realization of existentialism. Found the secret to the universe. Found the cosmic codex then erased it. Struck with the sudden fury of a divine messenger. Understood the duality of good and evil. Recorded the universe of knowledge then misplaced it. Struck with a wave of indecision. Solved theoretical physicists struggle with time travel. Caught the speed of light and then outpaced it. Struck with the spear of a fallen angel. Found the devil in my dreams. Became his nightmare and replaced it.
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Apr 13, 2012
Apr 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM UTC
Light Years
I missed your drawings Magic charcoal of beauty Sense of line and charismatic charm Perfection of form with tenebrous light Like segregated sunshine, a codex in Black
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Sep 14, 2012
Sep 14, 2012 at 4:06 PM UTC
Da Vinci Code
a human tool, a drawing pencil, shedding snakeskin cells as lead from no. 2 pencil am **** and blood, skin and hairless, all-to-come-to-go, return retuned, at their own chosen speed, gen of regeneration of disrupted oils and heavenly blessings, morning cracks and orifices, filling and emptying obediently, to the tidings of the grieving gravity of my moon’s decisions that govern the lunatic cycle you may kiss me with all your heart unto a robust welcoming, scorn with spittle and deem unfit, I know the difference and it is inconsequential see me as combustible or flat, airless and empty, as a new or a two day old leaking birthday balloon, or a haiku that makes the reader gasp for the reasoning for breathing think of me as a meme who responds to the touch of your nippled forefinger, but my powers are unlisted, therefore unlimited for I am neither cyber or cypher though aesthetically they appear as parts of my humanity, a human machine forever reprogramming to new stimuli sensating, the temperature of your breath, the many odors of you as inputs that bear newborn children notions in my chested gas chambers, the belligerent bellum bellies of my brain my digital describe in thousands of computers do hide, but to comprehend the interacting calculations that are my constancy and my inconsistencies, you must make a tour if you are awake between midnight and dawn when from wells the visions, the fluids - the words are drawn they, the residuals of a man’s *********** with other humans, kin akin, and the thriving discourse between l, man and parental gods of invisible powers, that offers insanity as a viable solution, to cracking the codex human DNA in the vial labelled Medusa Who else?
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Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 at 10:24 PM UTC
the twelth poem: neither cyber or cypher
a human tool, a drawing pencil, shedding snakeskin cells as lead from no. 2 pencil am **** and blood, skin and hairless, all-to-come-to-go, return retuned, at their own chosen speed, gen of regeneration of disrupted oils and heavenly blessings, morning cracks and orifices, filling and emptying obediently, to the tidings of the grieving gravity of my moon’s decisions that govern the lunatic cycle you may kiss me with all your heart unto a robust welcoming, scorn with spittle and deem unfit, I know the difference and it is inconsequential see me as combustible or flat, airless and empty, as a new or a two day old leaking birthday balloon, or a haiku that makes the reader gasp for the reasoning for breathing think of me as a meme who responds to the touch of your nippled forefinger, but my powers are unlisted, therefore unlimited for I am neither cyber or cypher though aesthetically they appear as parts of my humanity, a human machine forever reprogramming to new stimuli sensating, the temperature of your breath, the many odors of you as inputs that bear newborn children notions in my chested gas chambers, the belligerent bellum bellies of my brain my digital describe in thousands of computers do hide, but to comprehend the interacting calculations that are my constancy and my inconsistencies, you must make a tour if you are awake between midnight and dawn when from wells the visions, the fluids - the words are drawn they, the residuals of a man’s *********** with other humans, kin akin, and the thriving discourse between l, man and parental gods of invisible powers, that offers insanity as a viable solution, to cracking the codex human DNA in the vial labelled Medusa Who else?
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Passage of day over the title on a brittle page Someone tore up a greatest hits of Zen earlier that year Your spine bolts after a windborne ticket Where else could you be Not the desert of whisky but of whisky's prehistory Distilling the *** act from a codex Amnesia pressed like specimen between yourself and your killers glance over a name in stone The page a sheet of light
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Dec 17, 2011
Dec 17, 2011 at 1:13 AM UTC
page
I froze up on the staircase, staring at space much like a jigsaw falling in place. I was high and dry like a lotus flower in bloom. Lost in the fog as I tried to sail to the moon. I was searching for the subterranean homesick alien on Planet Telex to ask him the million dollar question he spoke in codex. So I’ll never find out the answer for the talk show host just like how the spooks won’t give up the ghost. © Matthew Harlovic
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 3:29 PM UTC
Radiohead
Anna with bluebird eyes-- Anna with blue nails about her black fingers-- Anna with an urge to drive those blue nails into my recently earned cross-- Such a pretty, pretty, pretty thing, you should hear her sing-- Such a pretty, pretty, pretty thing, you should hear her sing-- Anna with bluebird eyes-- Anna with a penchant for freshly hewn boys-- Anna with a disdain for nobody but me-- Such a pretty, pretty, pretty thing, you should hear her sing-- Such a pretty, pretty, pretty thing, you should hear her sing-- Anna with bluebird eyes-- Anna with black fingers, black skirts, black spine-- Anna with whispers, with webs, with cozy refuge in the dark corners of my mind-- Take my wallet, let me hear her sing-- Take my wallet, let me put my picture in her locket-- Take my wallet, Anna's what I want.
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May 26, 2011
May 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM UTC
Codex
I'm reading the Codex Gigas, one hundred and sixty pounds of flesh, black hairy tongue, penitent Battenti sponges staining the robe with blood, stalking through Campania. Crushed insect nests, a shiver up the jaw from food not had in too long. Squashing caterpillars, the insides squirt from their ketchup-packet bodies in a spray of slime-neon green. Pheromone cream drips from your ***** I gag it down, curdled milk-paste. When pulling the dress down, one never knows whether you will get a paper cut, or a gaping jaw of hairy life. We all live like pigs, but need to clean up to appear to live like everyone else appears to live when we visit them. You rob me of myself; a teacher walks into a food bank ashamed and finds his student working there. My life experiences pile up like broken infant bones, fragile phalanges of famine, until all I add up to are decades of Holodormo, the Killing Hunger. You hide in the sea, I lick your left palm.
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Aug 25, 2012
Aug 25, 2012 at 9:59 AM UTC
My Life is an Ossuary
Look at the stars Spinning, coursing lightweight    Through the blackness, Like ice-coated spiders Floating gentle, softly interweaving Cloud and hovering nearly near enough To be captured by your tiny hands. It seems all so easy To stay here mentally forever. Look at the stars Drifting magnetically, childlike In their path. Lost and dreamy, An image separated from a cause; Heavenly blessings as they drop close enough To kiss the roses, Breezily hoping to rest frozen 'Neath the nest of your tired skin; Lazily watching the night transition As others must've all those nights before-- When you were too busy to pay them any mind. These stars map a codex that laughs at you While you're fixed to the ground and forced to look            beautiful. These stars sing of the dead. Muses without a voice Or lives to any longer be lead. The stars dream Silently of you, patiently nibbling at your breath, Looking forward to the day they can absorb your             smiling teeth. The stars hold your spirit and you theirs, Both constant and unremarkabley dull-- The stars did not ask to be beautiful, We made them that way. The stars And you are one, in as much a way as polar opposites Can be one. You and the stars, making your fates as you go along... You and the stars: unintentional twin sisters left astray. You and the stars: two blind men unravelling an exquiste corpse. You and the stars: two pawns beating helpless in awe of their sojourn. You and the stars: complimenting the other like sand does glass. You and the stars: in awe of each other and the rainwater that preludes The moment. You are the stars, you are the dreamer, you are the observer, You are the life that has been given life in order to give it back Sing softly now and lullaby the stars asleep, Like the son does after growing old for his dying mother, Like the summer leaves do when their boughs start to snap. Sing softly for the stars that remind you of whence Once you were nothing But a hypnotised lantern Wandering the endless black. You and the stars, connect them even when they appear as aimless   anxious dots. Form a shape out of the stars; encarve And embody the flesh of your own constellation.
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Nov 14, 2019
Nov 14, 2019 at 11:43 PM UTC
A moment in nightshade
Look at the stars Spinning, coursing lightweight    Through the blackness, Like ice-coated spiders Floating gentle, softly interweaving Cloud and hovering nearly near enough To be captured by your tiny hands. It seems all so easy To stay here mentally forever. Look at the stars Drifting magnetically, childlike In their path. Lost and dreamy, An image separated from a cause; Heavenly blessings as they drop close enough To kiss the roses, Breezily hoping to rest frozen 'Neath the nest of your tired skin; Lazily watching the night transition As others must've all those nights before-- When you were too busy to pay them any mind. These stars map a codex that laughs at you While you're fixed to the ground and forced to look            beautiful. These stars sing of the dead. Muses without a voice Or lives to any longer be lead. The stars dream Silently of you, patiently nibbling at your breath, Looking forward to the day they can absorb your             smiling teeth. The stars hold your spirit and you theirs, Both constant and unremarkabley dull-- The stars did not ask to be beautiful, We made them that way. The stars And you are one, in as much a way as polar opposites Can be one. You and the stars, making your fates as you go along... You and the stars: unintentional twin sisters left astray. You and the stars: two blind men unravelling an exquiste corpse. You and the stars: two pawns beating helpless in awe of their sojourn. You and the stars: complimenting the other like sand does glass. You and the stars: in awe of each other and the rainwater that preludes The moment. You are the stars, you are the dreamer, you are the observer, You are the life that has been given life in order to give it back Sing softly now and lullaby the stars asleep, Like the son does after growing old for his dying mother, Like the summer leaves do when their boughs start to snap. Sing softly for the stars that remind you of whence Once you were nothing But a hypnotised lantern Wandering the endless black. You and the stars, connect them even when they appear as aimless   anxious dots. Form a shape out of the stars; encarve And embody the flesh of your own constellation.
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There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Sep 30, 2012
Sep 30, 2012 at 12:53 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Black tulips on the marbled floor have no place here. They remind others of how we existed suitable only for that dark journey, by those deemed more worthy, under whose azure skies, only their abodes could shimmer for we can have no part . Leaves mottled in their separateness turn our seasons   into days of lanquidity, out stretched briars tear at the stolen codex. surmising exoteric warnings, that magpies again steal,   under whose inciting  night can we wade this walkway.
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Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 6:24 PM UTC
Night's house
There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 2:41 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 6:39 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening. Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source. The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun? Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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15 June: “...its half way in a morning that glistens with slow reminiscences from last night. We find ourselves a respite for the hour, an oasis of sweet temper and our favourite elixir. We sit at the burdened edge; separated by transparency from passing furies; watching with rapt attention and fascination the range of creation displayed before us...We hunt down todays metaphors on clean pages; virginal expanses that congregate with a sublime notion of the art; death; logic; lust and wonder...we span serial glyphs across our vision to prevent a dissolving into the expanse before us; forming borders; signs; structures...Only to be de-constructed again and again; time dissolving; seconds inverting the quantum flux as HereNow paints the Tao over the moment...nothing-everything...we blink in and out; existence define by our presence; the reason and the way forward...delicately; smoothly; succinctly; we pick out secrets from between our worlds; Heartblood squeezed from the cries of angels; the force of supernovas; the very point of transition...again and again the universe spins us. A point – transition-how we create. This secret way. Again and again we play the Fool...again and again we play the Wizard. The tattooed skull of Intimacy grins from the ink on our backs...” 21.8.2010 “...Sunday materialises. Its a smouldering glance across the smoky eternity of a crowded room. A lost sonata barely recognised on faded parchment dusty in a forgotten draw. Its the breeze in the wake of an angels wing. The seconds chip away; each tick a foreign language, the dissonance of grace. We're sitting, hidden, in plain sight, a wayward stop-over; a cafe somewhere on the edge of reason, but the coffees good and the service fast. We watch the people; reading signs and portents in the oblivious expressions; each grin and scowl, each glance, each distant look a codex of requite dreams; a subtle picture puzzle colouring destiny’s reverie. We join the dots. The music over the cafes soundsystem; beats with inevitable consequence. We feel deep into the heart of Journey and Moment...”
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Jun 17, 2010
Jun 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM UTC
Excerpts from the Lost Travel Journals
15 June: “...its half way in a morning that glistens with slow reminiscences from last night. We find ourselves a respite for the hour, an oasis of sweet temper and our favourite elixir. We sit at the burdened edge; separated by transparency from passing furies; watching with rapt attention and fascination the range of creation displayed before us...We hunt down todays metaphors on clean pages; virginal expanses that congregate with a sublime notion of the art; death; logic; lust and wonder...we span serial glyphs across our vision to prevent a dissolving into the expanse before us; forming borders; signs; structures...Only to be de-constructed again and again; time dissolving; seconds inverting the quantum flux as HereNow paints the Tao over the moment...nothing-everything...we blink in and out; existence define by our presence; the reason and the way forward...delicately; smoothly; succinctly; we pick out secrets from between our worlds; Heartblood squeezed from the cries of angels; the force of supernovas; the very point of transition...again and again the universe spins us. A point – transition-how we create. This secret way. Again and again we play the Fool...again and again we play the Wizard. The tattooed skull of Intimacy grins from the ink on our backs...” 21.8.2010 “...Sunday materialises. Its a smouldering glance across the smoky eternity of a crowded room. A lost sonata barely recognised on faded parchment dusty in a forgotten draw. Its the breeze in the wake of an angels wing. The seconds chip away; each tick a foreign language, the dissonance of grace. We're sitting, hidden, in plain sight, a wayward stop-over; a cafe somewhere on the edge of reason, but the coffees good and the service fast. We watch the people; reading signs and portents in the oblivious expressions; each grin and scowl, each glance, each distant look a codex of requite dreams; a subtle picture puzzle colouring destiny’s reverie. We join the dots. The music over the cafes soundsystem; beats with inevitable consequence. We feel deep into the heart of Journey and Moment...”
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codex painter have your hands rusted is this world not  as vivid as the one centuries ago the one that bore the same tint, rich in intent to serve, to devotedly work head inclined over the flaming light and under the celestial stars pictograms are what I now reach for from the vessels tucked behind my ears from the smell of copper and the tastes of adobe pots, simmering with memories, to the corneas anchoring my vision because I must have a vision the "it" becomes what we intend and I intend "it" give me your codices unfold the fibers of the agave plant and let me paint again this world larger this lifetime kinder for I have always been a scribe and a painter and my heart rejoices in service to an existence expanding to meet itself in the eyes of all who I dare draw
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May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 at 12:11 AM UTC
Codex Painter
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 4:33 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012 at 2:32 AM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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My Dearest Moth, Is a baptism what I need Or an official drowning? I suppose both will suffice In deep or shallow waters But will your voice still resound When my soul's asleep yet again? Will its essence be able to resist rest? Or can I count on you to keep me in dreams Until the perfect moment comes for me to scream "Wake me up" Is death so sweet yet so morbid? Are the fruits made of paper? Is a giant bird carrying the weight of the world With its eggs as our souls? Do we fall and crack open Destined for Hell Or does the bird get tired And drop the heavy burdens Telling his boss we fell at our will I'm trying so hard to decipher your codex But the hardest part is figuring out Whether or not you want it broken Just keep singing me to sleep (I prefer you over ghosts)
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Nov 26, 2011
Nov 26, 2011 at 12:26 AM UTC
To Moth
I saw all of their pretty faces in a book One big one The books that collect dust, reading “clean me” on it’s cover All the faces in line Combined and waiting to be exposed But no one wants to open tomes dust smothered And for centuries…closed The codex found it’s way on a trail To a whole new world Filled with pixels and combinations defined But they all died waiting in line
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Feb 18, 2011
Feb 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM UTC
Line Face Line
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 2:40 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Along came the roof, the shelter those who dreamt weak for we are always dominant throughout history, as so we thought. Ours were exceptional The sway and fway of the legends Thou it might seem We were still full of 'weak' As that oppose our original codex. Someday, defeat is inevitable The taste that all is to receive But our desire is constant Never to be dimmed The will to protect what's right The strength to preserve the might. If we were to be dictators, forgive us As that oppose our original codex.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 3:00 AM UTC
Those Who Reigned
my wishing well became all washed up and there’s an empty sound within my brain and i’m still waiting on something that never came you talked about her, when i thought it was me i interpret everything wrong these days an ancient codex for the hopeless lost my copy in these dreams where we’re invincible and inseparable with bodies so inviting and sleep when the sun comes up on the butcher block because i’m more valuable in pieces and you’ll forever be my biggest weakness
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Aug 10, 2012
Aug 10, 2012 at 7:55 PM UTC
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There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 1:44 PM UTC
Catatonia
There is no awakening.  Outside the cave Light shadows in the sun, a blinding Muck veils desolation in the vein-bled, Good men, stumps of the naked forests, And bird song drowned by the droning dead, Ignoble, this is no country for old men. In the open, all lie freely, lacquered clean Sunning social graces, shine pornographic, Know truth is real yet, embalmed by speakers, Pages, their flame a cross, churning in a mire, Our glass cities run time mendaciously silent; The euphony of the untruths, the bent sign. In Catatonia words are watered but never Change, sapped of meaning, seasons fall By the handy green, the spring leaves, tipped Off balance scaled to autumns teeming news; The barren shores, breaks, bless the vacuum Tubes, and pray a curse, fawn the head lamps. In the homeless land anxious creatures divide. The concrete utterance is picked to rubble. The stones ground into sand and we ringing In delight, moving mandrake, mobile cadavers, Orbit to satellite are digging babylon down In the false hood, ****** by the mortar. The ruin architects mark, fork millions Of tongues in tributary, as does a great River from a stony source.  The sterling Feed their stock with tainted food, plants Regenerate the mangled codex twining-tare; Throws the babe with baptismal waters. In the soulless land children peak abandoned, They fall on temple steps by the golden mean. We pattern the sky in the bold fabric of pity And mercy but the strands fade out running; Our cruel and only kind would rend the stars, Would fallow Elysium, bleed gold to the vein. How did we end mortal under the divining Sun?  Down base our provident ways watching? We wave in fealty to the dominion of spins And shadow, gussied Gods so proudly made, Desolate, vain, air escaping to whisper; We are sailing from Byzantium.
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Black and ebony wings of crippled suspension of -consciousness enduring into the great extant -something while your convoy of words left in animation of wilted air dine me your codex because in your world this is completion. © 2014 S.T. Parish Rebel Flower
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 9:08 PM UTC
ONYX