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"comers" poems
We are embodied and entrusted with the word To keep preaching until every voice is heard To not keep it in but let the world know About the lamp at our feet which continues to glow Help all the needy and make there day bright Lead them out of the darkness and into the light Show them a way that is supposed to be bold That a soul is to be treasured and not to be sold We cast out demons and rebuke evil spirits In the name of Jesus we are not gonna fear it Walking tall carrying a double edged sword Bringing all into unity and on one accord We will make over comers out of underachievers And to all the doubters we will make them believers It starts with a vision and a plan to succeed And into mans heart we shall sow our creed In the name of Jesus is all that we ask Just give us the strength to carry out this task
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Oct 6, 2012
Oct 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM UTC
The Great Commission
Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Michigan. A big picnic boat comes home to Chicago from the peach farms of Saugatuck. Hundreds of electric bulbs break the night's darkness, a flock of red and yellow birds with wings at a standstill. Running along the deck railings are festoons and leaping in curves are loops of light from prow and stern to the tall smokestacks. Over the hoarse crunch of waves at my pier comes a hoarse answer in the rhythmic oompa of the brasses playing a Polish folk-song for the home-comers.
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Picnic Boat
Kindness is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change she’s cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss her lest she attract your notice lest she presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Kindness is not like that – Kindness pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Kindness defies convention Kindness carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Kindness perseveres all the love-long day Kindness doesn’t delay Kindness is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Kindness confronts Courage is her currency, boldness her language, trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Kindness transforms Kindness weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Kindness pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Kindness is not 'nice' Kindness isn’t in this for the likes Kindness bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Kindness never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Kindness is nothing casual, nothing incidental This Kindness is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental Kindness is not 'nice'. Kindness is loving awe-ful.
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Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020 at 8:45 AM UTC
Kindness bites
Kindness is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change she’s cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss her lest she attract your notice lest she presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Kindness is not like that – Kindness pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Kindness defies convention Kindness carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Kindness perseveres all the love-long day Kindness doesn’t delay Kindness is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Kindness confronts Courage is her currency, boldness her language, trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Kindness transforms Kindness weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Kindness pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Kindness is not 'nice' Kindness isn’t in this for the likes Kindness bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Kindness never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Kindness is nothing casual, nothing incidental This Kindness is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental Kindness is not 'nice'. Kindness is loving awe-ful.
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Classroom, you have gone through much witness of devotion and inspiration, of boredom and slumber; partner to the late learner and early comers; have experienced a stream of personalities; Classroom, you have gone through much unliving witness to adult's birth, growt and depraving; lifeless room filled with feelings: that of the boy, thinking he loves, that of the girl, who shares not that love, that of the two, hoping it will last, those of the students, who leave with hope; Classroom, you sure have gone through much victim of time, witness of fights; have observed chaos and intense silence; your walls reveal our will to be remembered; Classroom, realm of memories and shadows of the past.
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 10:58 AM UTC
Classroom
I If seasons all were summers, And leaves would never fall, And hopping casement-comers Were foodless not at all, And fragile folk might be here That white winds bid depart; Then one I used to see here Would warm my wasted heart! II One frail, who, bravely tilling Long hours in gripping gusts, Was mastered by their chilling, And now his ploughshare rusts. So savage winter catches The breath of limber things, And what I love he snatches, And what I love not, brings.
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The Farm Woman’s Winter
The non-planet, poor Pluto, Circling far out and forgotten, I cast my thoughts around you, Knowing you are like many here, Too insignificant to be noticed, And yet, still worthwhile, for sure. I caress the cold of Neptune, Her super speed winds whip by, She has no thought for me, too busy, As is her sister, Uranus, circling, Unaware that I, or others, even exist, Yet, we are made of the same stuff, Stardust, so exotic, so varied; so us. My thoughts come leaping back, Arcing around the rings of Saturn, Slipping between sparkling icy dust, Navigating the dark reaching fingers, Stretching impassively from their host, Guiding my eye to the little moons, Knowing that life might thrive there. I somersault away to King Jupiter, He used to wander, he battled hard, Casting out the rogue gas giant, Clearing the way for the rocky worlds, Giving life to us all, before drifting back, Cajoled by Saturn, his anger still rages, The red spot storm churning, his moons, Observing, as Jupiter takes on all comers. And we, the rocky four, so grateful, As Jupiter snaffles the debris, holds it, Or hurls it away, so we live, we learn, Our inner sisters too hot, brother Mars, Too cold, for now, but one day, yes, As we begin to bake, Mars awaits, To welcome us for a million years, or so, A blink of an eye, universally speaking, But home has hope, hope offers life, Unlike our unwanted distant cousin, The non-planet, poor Pluto. ©Paul M Chafer 2015
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
No hope for Pluto
I can't stay here tonight gotta keep runnin' but there's nowhere to hide keep gettin' dragged under urges build deep inside control is the problem Wasted all my yesterdays fortunes lost never regained took a while for me to see Sobriety, brought victory I can't stay here tonight temptations weaken me when we unite the demons take over lose track of time nothing else matters Wasted all my yesterdays fortunes lost never regained took awhile for me to see sobriety brought victory Well I stayed here tonight took on all comers stood tall for the fight attacked from all corners beat back the night standing tall on my own now Wasted all my yesterdays fortunes lost never regained took awhile for me to see sobriety brought victory
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May 4, 2013
May 4, 2013 at 8:16 PM UTC
Sobriety
the church bells peeled a rhythmic ringing tinnitus sending us listeners racing back into a guilty crime like daze. the mass begins in twenty painful moments better rush in the rustle of sunday wear bible bolstered underarm front pew glances at the priest who had a back view glare at late comers. Mama said the sins of your fathers will visit if you miss a mass canned hellfire will get you and st peter will tick mark your presence after communion. I listened when I stopped God became god and the church bells peeled the same way only the new pizzas came with canned chilli peppers! © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved.
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 1:36 AM UTC
Church and Chilli Peppers
The attendees are told, in a manner befitting a high mass You have been finally set free, (Although, in truth, free is a very large and entirely vague word), And the message is sent forth from all comers in all corners: Vendor and visionary alike, German socialists who left university to ride boats for Greenpeace, First lieutenants doing their level best To appear at ease in civilian polos and khakis, But no matter the vessel, The message is still the same.   The tyranny of cables and storage space is dead, It is all but shouted from the lecterns, (Although it is noted, in small print and sotto voce That there are certain requirements In terms of hardware and licensing) And it is stated by Those Who Know In tones which neither brook nor invite contradiction, That they have surmounted, all Hadrian-like, The alpine divide separating mere data and magic. Two or three blocks down the street from the convention center, In a narrow storefront housing an exhibition of ether-only comics Which have broken the nettling constraints Of editors and syndication, There sits, under a somewhat opaque And slightly scratched piece of plexiglass, A yellowing comic strip of uncertain vintage, In which a frowzy cat, Free of the constraints of panels, gender, and standard grammar, Is the recipient of a mouse-tossed brick Whose flight, unfettered by physics, probablility, indeed time itself Ends striking its mark right between the x’s of the eyes The projectile itself an inexplicable alchemy Of confusion, mirth, frustration And the impossibility of an undeniably pure love.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 9:29 AM UTC
in re: cloud computing and cartoon cats
The attendees are told, in a manner befitting a high mass You have been finally set free, (Although, in truth, free is a very large and entirely vague word), And the message is sent forth from all comers in all corners: Vendor and visionary alike, German socialists who left university to ride boats for Greenpeace, First lieutenants doing their level best To appear at ease in civilian polos and khakis, But no matter the vessel, The message is still the same.   The tyranny of cables and storage space is dead, It is all but shouted from the lecterns, (Although it is noted, in small print and sotto voce That there are certain requirements In terms of hardware and licensing) And it is stated by Those Who Know In tones which neither brook nor invite contradiction, That they have surmounted, all Hadrian-like, The alpine divide separating mere data and magic. Two or three blocks down the street from the convention center, In a narrow storefront housing an exhibition of ether-only comics Which have broken the nettling constraints Of editors and syndication, There sits, under a somewhat opaque And slightly scratched piece of plexiglass, A yellowing comic strip of uncertain vintage, In which a frowzy cat, Free of the constraints of panels, gender, and standard grammar, Is the recipient of a mouse-tossed brick Whose flight, unfettered by physics, probablility, indeed time itself Ends striking its mark right between the x’s of the eyes The projectile itself an inexplicable alchemy Of confusion, mirth, frustration And the impossibility of an undeniably pure love.
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***We are hittin' hard in Oakland Word! We are hittin' hard in L.A. Word! Cleveland, Chicago & Yo-town is on fire Word, word, word! Atlanta's proper Word! And in Miami, we are mooovin' somethin' Hmmmmm. Turn this ***** out Oaktown posse they will Turn this ***** out Yeah boy, they will Turn this ***** out M.C. Hammer he will (chorus ends early) Hammer, you ain't hittin' in New York What? So what you gon' do about that, Hammer? I'm gon' turn this ***** out. Hammer, he is... Strong like a lion, no denyin' I'm in effect and you suckas are tryin' To get with me, you can't hang Doin' it like this, I'm in with a bang Goin' boom like thunda, and you wonder, How in the world can the Hammer be underneath me? He's gonna beat me, say yes to the master and I will teach thee (chorus) Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Hammer, tell 'em how you came up babeeee! I was a student, now I'm the teacher, I was a member, now I'm the preacher, I was a worker, and you were the boss, Now I'm gettin' paid and you're takin' the loss Once says stop, the other says flee No, don't perpetrate M.C. Hammer is the feature Step off, you punk, no fear, I'm M.C. Hammer and I came here to... (chorus) I'm improvin', better start schoolin Headed to the top where I'll be rulin' On top, of hip-hop, I'm in effect and you're not Your records aren't cool, your shows are weak Duel with the Hammer and meet defeat Every night, every week, I'm comin' correct, you don't want none of me. (chorus) X2 I keep hearin' what you sayin' "Yo Hammer, we knowin' New York's on the wayin'" I don't care where you from, I make most look silly, and others look dumb Yeah suckas, you should, run, I am, def on the stage, pumpin' at the club Hammer is an eagle, and you a dove (chorus) (funky beats & breaks) (chorus) I'm from Oaktown, B-boy straight down Takin all comers, whoever want to get some I'm original, you're digital You want somethin' to say, you're show is pitiful Don't worry, I'm in tact Whatever I say, the Hammer will back Twice as strong, It's goin' on And I willll... (chorus)*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2TA2zPtac
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 8:32 PM UTC
MC HAMMER - TURN THIS ***** OUT
***We are hittin' hard in Oakland Word! We are hittin' hard in L.A. Word! Cleveland, Chicago & Yo-town is on fire Word, word, word! Atlanta's proper Word! And in Miami, we are mooovin' somethin' Hmmmmm. Turn this ***** out Oaktown posse they will Turn this ***** out Yeah boy, they will Turn this ***** out M.C. Hammer he will (chorus ends early) Hammer, you ain't hittin' in New York What? So what you gon' do about that, Hammer? I'm gon' turn this ***** out. Hammer, he is... Strong like a lion, no denyin' I'm in effect and you suckas are tryin' To get with me, you can't hang Doin' it like this, I'm in with a bang Goin' boom like thunda, and you wonder, How in the world can the Hammer be underneath me? He's gonna beat me, say yes to the master and I will teach thee (chorus) Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Turn this ***** out Hammer, tell 'em how you came up babeeee! I was a student, now I'm the teacher, I was a member, now I'm the preacher, I was a worker, and you were the boss, Now I'm gettin' paid and you're takin' the loss Once says stop, the other says flee No, don't perpetrate M.C. Hammer is the feature Step off, you punk, no fear, I'm M.C. Hammer and I came here to... (chorus) I'm improvin', better start schoolin Headed to the top where I'll be rulin' On top, of hip-hop, I'm in effect and you're not Your records aren't cool, your shows are weak Duel with the Hammer and meet defeat Every night, every week, I'm comin' correct, you don't want none of me. (chorus) X2 I keep hearin' what you sayin' "Yo Hammer, we knowin' New York's on the wayin'" I don't care where you from, I make most look silly, and others look dumb Yeah suckas, you should, run, I am, def on the stage, pumpin' at the club Hammer is an eagle, and you a dove (chorus) (funky beats & breaks) (chorus) I'm from Oaktown, B-boy straight down Takin all comers, whoever want to get some I'm original, you're digital You want somethin' to say, you're show is pitiful Don't worry, I'm in tact Whatever I say, the Hammer will back Twice as strong, It's goin' on And I willll... (chorus)*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2TA2zPtac
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It was a weird hour when the sun towered To be slick with moonshine Cozied shirtless in a rope hammock Belly-down like my six drunk buddies Living loose and talking sweet To bottles now empty of ***** So what is there to do? Nothing, and that’s a cold fact for high noon In summer, season of mumbly toasting But when the humble glug-glug-glugging Is done with, I’ll tell you, you Have not licked liquor, not done your part It’s us who got the moonshine start Today, you turned your back on white whiskey, yes We did the work and if it should hurt I apologize we didn’t want to offend If it’s the alcohol or if it’s the heat I can’t tell But who knows why blood boils? I can see that good-natured drinking Is the drunk man’s toil But we’re workers at heart, aren’t we? And not many are better than us Except for maybe the rice Slumped over its stalks, fat on moonshine Cure-all for the sick mind Friend to all comers on a humid day The clear sticky juice that burns all the way down
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Dec 26, 2010
Dec 26, 2010 at 9:31 PM UTC
Moonshine Summer
loose moral blossom flaunting for all comers throbbingly defying pigeon-holes to let life thrum
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May 7, 2022
May 7, 2022 at 7:01 AM UTC
Wanton
With the intelligence & stamina of the wolf, My willpower & endurance excels beyond most, With the stealth & craftiness of the fox, I take much from my opposition & vanish in the night like a ghost.. With the massiveness & memory of the elephant, My mind runs deep & retains emotions for the better of my clan, With the camouflage & ingenuity of the octopus, I escape the pursuing demons & continue with my life long plan.. With the patience & strength of the crocodile, I ambush & clamp down on my oppressors treading unnoticed, With the devastating roar & isolation tactics of the tiger, I accomplish amazingly by my lonesome while dominating my foes with unmatched focus.. With the power, speed, & belligerence of the mantis shrimp, I hold the fastest punch in the world & my power equals that of a rifle bullet which allows me to take on all comers on earth, With the majesty & grace of the argali, I climb the highest mountains with the greatest of ease staying clear of my enemies & watching over the scenes til the next generation is birthed.. True originality... Shows through my personality.. This is my animality.. What animals do you compare to??? Whats your animality???
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Jul 5, 2012
Jul 5, 2012 at 1:54 AM UTC
My Animality
So much on my mind What will happen? Hopes of it going in my favor Fear runs through my body Marijuana in the system Treated like a murderer They prescribe **** to children Why are they not in jail? Head pounding Cant sleep I dont want to go there To the place where I have nothing No freedom No health No friends You cant make friends there Some say they have I must not get it I cant go there Spent a night there once Started boxing a wall out of boredom My life would be hell Maybe thats where they should send me Hell I cant imagine day upon day in a cell Thats where they might send me A cell You dont have to read me my rights? ******* commonwealths I truly did nothing wrong But still, im treated like a murderer I smoke a little grass So what? My tail lights out? Sorry officer, I didnt know My headlights insufficient? I can see in front of me On-comers can see me I need insurance? Thanks for telling me when I filed an accident report months before They treat me like a murderer I did nothing wrong Wheres the **** makers? The crack dealers? The abusive husbands? Still out there Harming others I did nothing wrong Especially compared to them Dont ruin a young mans life over these petty things Hope is lacking these days The system just wants the money Id rather wipe my *** with a hundred Flush it And never see it again Than to pay for your ******** charges So, let me be Set me free Cuz judge, I truly did nothing wrong
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Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 5:02 AM UTC
Freeform Poem or The Poetic Court Rant
*Waste-of-skin misogynists Eagerly-angry feminists Trust-fund kids Disposable friends Reusable partners Confused 20-something's Mid-life crisis lifers Got-it-all-figured-out liars Early comers and late arrivals* The world's too full of them
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 8:39 PM UTC
The World's Too Full Of Them
the A list log usually features the A list mob but the A list log isn't featuring the mob as much a few up and comers have taken the place of the A list mob the A list log was due for a shake up viewing familiar artists day in day out is akin to catching the same kettle of trout
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Sep 12, 2016
Sep 12, 2016 at 6:44 PM UTC
The A List Log
Uh sitting at this desk waiting for the bell see I work 9 to 5 well 7 to 3 thirty I’m ***** A little flirty Tuck in my shirty Be helpful And curtious Don’t make a fuss Or ride the bus I’m a driver Got my **** tight like MacGyver Or Minnie Driver Don’t wanna be a miser So I share, dog Give it all away Make a play For Mr. Oregon day Maybe I’m cray cray But I still don’t say Nuthin that just may Hurt feelings in a bad way And I’m not gay ……just raised this way. And that’s o.k. This America, dog And I am free White and over 20 You prolly wanna be me Cause I’m tall And oh so **** It’s a blessing So quit messing Have I got ya guessing? This is me confessing I’m a nice guy Uh And its like that I’m a nice guy And I just wont quit See I hold the door For all comers Winter or summer Even wore rubbers Till I got married then things varied I still carry The bottles from the dairy Cause we live organic Try to avoid the panic We don’t act manic Sweeter that Alan Thicke I stack bricks But only for later use I don’t abuse Or make the rules I’m a nice guy.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 12:51 PM UTC
I'ma nice guy ****** rap/flow builder)
The doors shut, cold echoes No more warm bed, and no longer home To journey through groves and streams and beaches Now not to be alone Test, a test, a test Here to find rest for all the comers, leavers, stayers, goers For the ****** and the divine A warm fire, a sip of wine This all, it shines so bright Warm light in a dark world...
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Jan 8, 2012
Jan 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM UTC
Safe Haven
Note: this isn't my work, but a work of one of the poet named Haron River ( currently go by H A Rivers) in this site who is currently MIA! Time to time I would scour poet's work, and allow them to teach me with their wisdom with their penmanship.  This was a poem Haron River gave me as a memento, but all his work is golden, and should be shared!  Hopefully new comers would check his work out! Without any further ado, here it is! Untitled Refreshed perspective gathered words Like the ocean riptide gather The rivers' flow at the confluence Repurposing back-eddies, Rejuvenation of stagnant brackish waters Inherent soul-shine purging From ancient core of earth mother Light arising from the depth of inner stillness As if a refilling wellspring burst forth, Reawaking sighs too deep for words Forming poetic constellation To lighten the nebulous darkness, Like sea of ink transformed into poetry A sage opus renewed By the muse of a migrating flock Striving to discover new sacred grounds Yet there is an undeniable song sung In the howling wind of change An incitement from a higher dialect That empowers a restoration of the spirit Oeuvre uplifted by rogue waves of wind Arousing that which time erases A renaissance manifest Among the rousing nuances Of poetic continuum, Provoking a verve revival Judicious to discovery The enthralling vastitude Of every breaking wave In a vast sea of poesy Where prevailing currents Stir oceans of verse eternal; Provoking verve revival, The magnitude of an unbroken circle, Oceans swells merging oneness With the omnipresent of color Of uncharted depth As if thoughts assuage By the Union of distant touching souls, Spark nuances spanning poetic realms, Transcending barriers of unexplored lexicon To manifest the immensity, Enkindling rhapsody of hearts and minds Deeply rooted soul replenishment Harvested from the tree of humankind, Willingly sharing without regret Enabling a metamorphosis Of the human journey
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Oct 31, 2015
Oct 31, 2015 at 9:20 PM UTC
Haron River's Lost Work!
Note: this isn't my work, but a work of one of the poet named Haron River ( currently go by H A Rivers) in this site who is currently MIA! Time to time I would scour poet's work, and allow them to teach me with their wisdom with their penmanship.  This was a poem Haron River gave me as a memento, but all his work is golden, and should be shared!  Hopefully new comers would check his work out! Without any further ado, here it is! Untitled Refreshed perspective gathered words Like the ocean riptide gather The rivers' flow at the confluence Repurposing back-eddies, Rejuvenation of stagnant brackish waters Inherent soul-shine purging From ancient core of earth mother Light arising from the depth of inner stillness As if a refilling wellspring burst forth, Reawaking sighs too deep for words Forming poetic constellation To lighten the nebulous darkness, Like sea of ink transformed into poetry A sage opus renewed By the muse of a migrating flock Striving to discover new sacred grounds Yet there is an undeniable song sung In the howling wind of change An incitement from a higher dialect That empowers a restoration of the spirit Oeuvre uplifted by rogue waves of wind Arousing that which time erases A renaissance manifest Among the rousing nuances Of poetic continuum, Provoking a verve revival Judicious to discovery The enthralling vastitude Of every breaking wave In a vast sea of poesy Where prevailing currents Stir oceans of verse eternal; Provoking verve revival, The magnitude of an unbroken circle, Oceans swells merging oneness With the omnipresent of color Of uncharted depth As if thoughts assuage By the Union of distant touching souls, Spark nuances spanning poetic realms, Transcending barriers of unexplored lexicon To manifest the immensity, Enkindling rhapsody of hearts and minds Deeply rooted soul replenishment Harvested from the tree of humankind, Willingly sharing without regret Enabling a metamorphosis Of the human journey
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"I always make a living so, that I can make movies. I never make movies to try to make a living. I think that's a big mistake that new comers do. They always focus on how can my passion, pay me. And I think that's a terrible place to start. If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living then I think you're doing it wrong. You get into it because it's a true passion , it's something you really believe in or don't get into it at all."
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Jul 22, 2015
Jul 22, 2015 at 2:39 PM UTC
By Casey Neistat
I imagine a fighting arena Huge and closed. In one cornered space Tower Hegemonic Forces Champions of dominant culture. In other corners, Trending, Waxing, Waning, Anxious for their turn To test their powers Crouch the Up and Comers, Ever-hungry crowds of Up and Comers. Traction is slippery On this tenuous battlefield; Spittle and catarrh; Blood, sweat, tears; **** and ***** Fluid proof of bodies Denied a single humanity, Mingle to confound Desperate din of strugglers, Seeking clear divisions to conquer. On-lookers, deafened in cacophony, Cannot see the uselessness. Careful observers Can but surmise what the prize Desired might be, But always there is the struggle.
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 8:12 PM UTC
An Arena
You cannot possibly imagine what I saw today, trying to keep my mind at bay. Minding their own business came a pair. Inseparable. Even one could say Destructible. But where does this line cross with me and this duo? That I may owe. With a sigh I hang my head low, the thought of another gruesome blow. In curiosity or spite I do not know when these two are ready to bite. Are they hungry or is it loyalty they are after? I do not know; I am only an outsider to those hounds that dug for what was already gone. Prey they once tried to feast on. Bound to this sickening notion; the false lulls of security they once had. Something they could only turn into the gritty, Painless pity, Insufferable grabs of ***** filth they once called a party. Once a whole, a group that dissolved slowly under the time of an hour glass. From birth to death we breath. Grasp at anything we can hold ourselves accountable without being the accused. Departures to new comers we welcomed as our own. Only to be betrayed and left out at dawn. Now today I stand as proof of a wolf who alas left the pack; we once called ourselves a flock of deer in disguise.
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Aug 24, 2017
Aug 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM UTC
Wolf and Deer - Only Difference is What They Eat:
Love is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change Nice is cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss it lest it attract your notice lest it presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Love is not like that – Love pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Love defies convention Love carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Love perseveres all the love-long day Love doesn’t delay Love is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Love confronts Courage is her currency, kindness her language trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Love transforms Love weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Love pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Love perfumes Love is not 'nice' Love isn’t in this for the likes Love bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Love never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Love is nothing casual, nothing incidental Love is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental So, don’t be nice and I’ll say it twice nice is a vice that will never suffice And let me end by being more precise follow Christ’s advice: love one another every day and every night with all of your might and do it in a way that pushes way past ‘nice’.
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Feb 23, 2022
Feb 23, 2022 at 5:43 PM UTC
Love is not nice #3
Love is not nice. ‘Nice’ is soft and inoffensive ‘Nice’ is careful and non-assertive ‘Nice’ is easy and effects no change Nice is cotton wool trying to soften the pain but not stuffed tight, just resting on the surface ready to be blown away or pressed under a muddy boot of disinterest ‘Nice’ is a damp whisper a mouse cowering in the corner hoping you will blink and miss it lest it attract your notice lest it presume too much and cause a whisker of offence Love is not like that – Love pushes in, quick and nimble a hero with no mask, unasked unexpected, dodging the turmoil leaving nothing unsaid and little undone in her pursuit of creating a counter-disruption Love defies convention Love carefully aims her weapons of choice and advances relentless and regardless of any and all obstacles in her way Love perseveres all the love-long day Love doesn’t delay Love is gleeful for the chance of invasion ready to disarm with expert compassion with her regiments of patience armed to the teeth with gracious placing tanks of good faith on all fronts Love confronts Courage is her currency, kindness her language trust and hope are her passports to lands long unexplored happily wearing all-weather clothing for any and all unexpected storms Love transforms Love weakens all defenses and challenges all camouflaged pretenses Love pours itself out to fill unhealed wounds and on shrapnel-seeded battlefields she - blooms Love perfumes Love is not 'nice' Love isn’t in this for the likes Love bites She’s a take-on-all-comers, undefeated delight Love never bails from the fight never fails, never takes flight Love is nothing casual, nothing incidental Love is elemental She is Avengers-Assemble, End-Game-level monumental So, don’t be nice and I’ll say it twice nice is a vice that will never suffice And let me end by being more precise follow Christ’s advice: love one another every day and every night with all of your might and do it in a way that pushes way past ‘nice’.
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Wild and uncontrollable, We start off our life's journey, Sweet and totally lovable, We stick to the legs of mommy, Five years down we're wild again Impetuous, rambunctious, we're total pains All the adults taken in, By our impish grins. We're ten years old we're big and bold We'll take on all comers, young and old, We totally love life, it's one big game All forms of reponsibility, totally lame Five years on we're fifteen Big things popping in our early teens All of a sudden we're girls and we're boys New experiences on us like toys. We're adults now, we're twenty Things to do on our list aplenty Impish grins don't work no more We've got to work our fingers till they're sore We laugh a lot through our dull eyes We've mastered deception like its basic math The slightest pokes incur our wrath Twenty five finds us cold as ice. I'm just nineteen I couldn't tell you, Of all the years after Two and Five One thing I know that is true Live everyday like it's your last alive If it's a hundred years of breath you get, Or if you had to kick the 'ket 'fore you got your feet wet The moral story contained in my longest poem yet Make life pay through it's nose like it owes you a debt.
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Jul 31, 2012
Jul 31, 2012 at 8:17 AM UTC
Aging
To all bone fragments of Galeria Del Osario 1. I want to place you in the depths of forgetting. Place you like a butterfly in a frame, looking alive but dead of course. Place you like how numbers are arranged from 1 to infinity (but who cares to count?) Place you like how chaos displaced darkness. Place you in the tip of a glacier knowing that the entire block will just disappear in a decade or two. Like how climate tries to displace us. Our trace will soon be forgotten. 2. Surely, the climate is too rigid between us; two beings who found separation in all degrees of telekinetic attractions. For two beings who found shelter in the anonymity of chance. Chance to meet. Chance to declare once and for all the unfolding of luck. Did luck really unfold or it was just me who hoped? 3. Time is the bare witness to all tragedies, say two lovers who never found the consolations of fate. Time is the curse of the flesh, the rotting wisdom of conscience. Time flees. Time forgets. Time remembers. 4. By all means, the world is too small. Sometimes we wage war to small dimensions seemingly large. Where are we by the time that the world collapses into a small room? Where are we when the room pretended to be small but the gap between us is a year, light years perhaps. Nomads, we are not. We cannot call any cave a home. After all, what sort of space would cater us? 5. A massacre happened 43,000 years ago. No one cares to remember. Nine of them were killed by new comers. El Sidron witnessed the coldest crime. If only tears can shed their fate, can we cry for them? Who cares to write their memories? Who cares to paint their thoughts? Who cares to count their broken bone fragments in the caves? I want to place you in the depths of forgetting.
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Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 3:29 AM UTC
I Want to Place You in the Depths of Forgetting
To all bone fragments of Galeria Del Osario 1. I want to place you in the depths of forgetting. Place you like a butterfly in a frame, looking alive but dead of course. Place you like how numbers are arranged from 1 to infinity (but who cares to count?) Place you like how chaos displaced darkness. Place you in the tip of a glacier knowing that the entire block will just disappear in a decade or two. Like how climate tries to displace us. Our trace will soon be forgotten. 2. Surely, the climate is too rigid between us; two beings who found separation in all degrees of telekinetic attractions. For two beings who found shelter in the anonymity of chance. Chance to meet. Chance to declare once and for all the unfolding of luck. Did luck really unfold or it was just me who hoped? 3. Time is the bare witness to all tragedies, say two lovers who never found the consolations of fate. Time is the curse of the flesh, the rotting wisdom of conscience. Time flees. Time forgets. Time remembers. 4. By all means, the world is too small. Sometimes we wage war to small dimensions seemingly large. Where are we by the time that the world collapses into a small room? Where are we when the room pretended to be small but the gap between us is a year, light years perhaps. Nomads, we are not. We cannot call any cave a home. After all, what sort of space would cater us? 5. A massacre happened 43,000 years ago. No one cares to remember. Nine of them were killed by new comers. El Sidron witnessed the coldest crime. If only tears can shed their fate, can we cry for them? Who cares to write their memories? Who cares to paint their thoughts? Who cares to count their broken bone fragments in the caves? I want to place you in the depths of forgetting.
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