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a crocus opens and closes with the stream of midnight moon. the playmate of exhaustion crosses the room in his heavy, black boots to close the curtains. goodbye, light. goodbye, pride of lions and boy transformed into a werewolf. a scratch of larceny, the cuddle of maple leaves rotting, the magnet spinning in rocket-ship orbit. all secrets held in feathers, in hair compounded into strings of black opal, and limbs stenciling comets around five feet of woman. nothing in the talk can suffocate—a quick and easy birth of ecstasy and the emotional sidestep into the dark of slumber, seemingly feminine but dreams strong as barbed wire. when to sleep? a question finger-written on my chest.
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Aug 6, 2017
Aug 6, 2017 at 11:18 AM UTC
pillow talk
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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The Phoenix And The Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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. Lear wanders in stormy open, bares warring elements, The heavens blister, crackle, night is balmy shroud, Wretched monarch babbles in sprinkles of wind cold, Arguments lost by ones own pouring perturbations And raining sky said 'nothing will come from nothing.' Howl, howls into blackness treed in lightning splits, His outcast soul, reels, fleshed, cut to smithereens, Tang of salt burns on the bluffs and the sea rages, So entire and ceremonious is Lear's fall meted out, Air spoke, 'nothing from nothings ever yet was born.' Sky proclaimed to man child King, here is a reckoning,                            Each mad choice was self infliction, now wind flays And sweet Cordelia lies in her innocent **** grave, Sky, in thralls of thundering asks, 'what say thee now, King of highborn follies, even purple heaths are rags, Yet black and above you and night shades, whine, Unworthy King, done in by compounded effects, The might of maelstroms in low butterflies wings, How now, bare trees, knifing reeds, skeletal flashes, To rains of night are ever your lanyards my lord,' Sad Lear so near oblivion fell mute, sky went on, 'Howl and cry mad King your reaper calls beyond, The icy brisk heavens await to brusque you away, Your slipshod kingdom was mere and fools' dream, Howl, til howls abrupt abate, for nothing now comes.'
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 10:10 PM UTC
King Lear in Conversation with the Sky
“…the grandfather’s camera with the last pictures of the youngest Colorado theatre shooting victim was stolen and the family’s sorrow has compounded…” Veronica, why did you love Anne Hathaway And why did you not go refill the popcorn, Veronica? You ate it all during the previews Though I warned your stomach would hurt. Sweet Veronica, how did you know to hate Bane And why did you not go to the bathroom, My dear. The hand-dryer’s scream is loud But it dries, unlike your wetting, red screech. Veronica, why did you insist that you were old enough For this fate? And how could I have agreed, Cold Veronica. Pigtails were meant to be springy, Not limp with blood, Pepsi, and regret. The Bullets. The Cape. The damning shot Would have slapped Even Batman Dead. Young Veronica, why is the memory of you And your innocent flesh fading fast, To red Veronica? Wet too young and too alive For the four-foot long coffin we buried. Yesterday. Cop lights. My camera with The last shots of you “Stolen, sir.” Wail, Veronica from the camera screen In the hands of this thief, oh, convince him, Stab, Veronica, with your pixilated smile Until the guilt brings your smile home, to my eyes.
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 6:22 PM UTC
Veronica, Stolen
I know I've been there, I've given into death and altered the fabric of reality Every day we waste away transfixed by flattened images Of the limitlessness of death Coupled with elusive, Luciferian harm which will befall us all Who subsist on the manipulated reality of the hyperspace information field But one day, enlivened by the festivities of Shakori Hills And the fungal spirits who awoke beside us I walked the irreversible pathway through oblivion Facing cruel destruction and terror For a horrifying passage across Styx into eternity And emerged within a crowd of mollusks dancing to the waves of a musical sea All time suspended in the impossibly drawn-out ****** of the Archetypal wizardry of rhythm, The swirling clumps of faces in Unshakable ecstasy And seemingly responding to the wild currents of my conscious thought; A longing for human touch drew the others closer and closer around me Till they began brushing against me Bumping into me, The flow of the crowd saw its axis at my psychic emanation As once more the last song of all time began with thunderous energy and applause. I escaped the arresting confines of the crowd By willing them aside, wearing, as I suddenly became aware, the shoes of Moses And seeing my muddy feet upon the sands of Egypt But I yet had no understanding Of the nature of the garden of earthly delights Into which I had fallen, And fear began to envelop me, Producing law enforcement officials hawklike swooping in to limit my power. I had but to let go of my acceptance of their power over me to transcend them But fear tethered me to reality, Even as I saw about me a Dharmic mandala Of my past present and future, Generating inexplicable archetypes around me in a manner profoundly defiant Of rational logic. Synchronicity compounded upon me As the Christos within me Brought rain down upon us Forcing us together and leaving me in dumbfounded reverie Of all that had transpired to bring this moment forth What had seemed to be the end of history was in fact The awakening of a new rebirth The first moment of coming to be The union of past, present and future As the reassuring smiles of my trustworthy disciples gently allowed me passage back into a rational existence I beamed in utter gratitude for the eternal life which Christ afforded us. Chaos had subsided back into normalcy But still winked at me In telepathic coincidence. My soul has begun to realize that it resides in all things Soon they are to be reintegrated
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Nov 22, 2012
Nov 22, 2012 at 10:16 PM UTC
Shakori Hills
I know I've been there, I've given into death and altered the fabric of reality Every day we waste away transfixed by flattened images Of the limitlessness of death Coupled with elusive, Luciferian harm which will befall us all Who subsist on the manipulated reality of the hyperspace information field But one day, enlivened by the festivities of Shakori Hills And the fungal spirits who awoke beside us I walked the irreversible pathway through oblivion Facing cruel destruction and terror For a horrifying passage across Styx into eternity And emerged within a crowd of mollusks dancing to the waves of a musical sea All time suspended in the impossibly drawn-out ****** of the Archetypal wizardry of rhythm, The swirling clumps of faces in Unshakable ecstasy And seemingly responding to the wild currents of my conscious thought; A longing for human touch drew the others closer and closer around me Till they began brushing against me Bumping into me, The flow of the crowd saw its axis at my psychic emanation As once more the last song of all time began with thunderous energy and applause. I escaped the arresting confines of the crowd By willing them aside, wearing, as I suddenly became aware, the shoes of Moses And seeing my muddy feet upon the sands of Egypt But I yet had no understanding Of the nature of the garden of earthly delights Into which I had fallen, And fear began to envelop me, Producing law enforcement officials hawklike swooping in to limit my power. I had but to let go of my acceptance of their power over me to transcend them But fear tethered me to reality, Even as I saw about me a Dharmic mandala Of my past present and future, Generating inexplicable archetypes around me in a manner profoundly defiant Of rational logic. Synchronicity compounded upon me As the Christos within me Brought rain down upon us Forcing us together and leaving me in dumbfounded reverie Of all that had transpired to bring this moment forth What had seemed to be the end of history was in fact The awakening of a new rebirth The first moment of coming to be The union of past, present and future As the reassuring smiles of my trustworthy disciples gently allowed me passage back into a rational existence I beamed in utter gratitude for the eternal life which Christ afforded us. Chaos had subsided back into normalcy But still winked at me In telepathic coincidence. My soul has begun to realize that it resides in all things Soon they are to be reintegrated
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You will never understand the contribution you have made to my life, You are the friend that really came through for me when I found myself in strife. No-one else could see past the mistake I had made, They chose to ignore how I felt and fixated on my darkest shade I have always looked up to you, you have always inspired me You've always been the one I've looked at when deciding who I'd like to be Please don't throw your life away, I really count on you I know that being here for me is something you can do I love you, I appreciate you. - Brianna Carter You look up to me, Quite literally, But in this case you mean metaphorically Yet similarly, I looked up to you, Size doesn't matter just a point of view You are a better person than I, As pure and beautiful as the stars and the sky In harmony, elements defy, The birds and the planes that roar or sigh No matter what happens, you always come though Shrug it off, move on, it's just what you do, This is why I wish I were like you Yet despite all this you look up to me? I am blind, can't really see clearly, But even I can tell you are a rarity A treasure, and thus better than me -Conor Blatchford
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 5:50 PM UTC
BC and CB- Compounded in Companionship
Sick and cyclical memories linger, how unjust it seems In somber city streets, her father's name she screams When the fix is late and her body sodden and shaking Her childhood recollections waking, every joint aching Falling on tarmac, tearing stockings and fleshy knees Through the distant mist it's a saviour that she sees Marvin on a white steed, motorbike and leathers To get her straight he only requires her nethers What difference could it make to such a worn woman So little that her eyes glaze as he announces his comin' And she's immediately put to work after initial transaction All night shifts, ****** abstraction, customer satisfaction Returning 'home' to Marvin where the earnings are counted Giggling schoolgirl as playful stories of John's are recounted And Marvin's insatiable perversions are compounded ****** cocktails and deviancy, her psyche confounded The **** sleeps blissfully beside his new top girl And through ****** daze, she examines her world
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
Hannah's Story Part II: On Meeting Marvin and Repressing Psychological Encumbrance
The Helos hovered silently as the Seals roped to the ground. They touched down on Sesame Street where the “Big Bird” could be found. The C.I.A. had tracked him Using feed from P.B.S. President Mitt o.k’d the hit when we tracked him to his nest. A blue grouch in a garbage can liay bleeding on the floor. That **** named Cookie Monster won’t eat cookies anymore. Ernie, Bert and rubber ducky Were in the bath they say When Seal team six broke through the door and blew them both away. Big Bird hid in Hooper’s store While all this had transpired. Then he laid down suppressing fire With a weapon he’d acquired Several Seals lay silent in that sleep that isn’t sweet. Snuffleupagus opened up and forced a Seal retreat. A stealth Helo exploded raining wreckage on the street. Maddened Muppets hurling Bricks compounded Mitt’s defeat. As of today Big Bird’s at large. Him we couldn’t whack. The briefing failed to tell us That a Liberal Bird fights back.
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Oct 7, 2012
Oct 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM UTC
Assault on Sesame Street
**They say it's darkest before dawn,     dusky gloom met its match in your shadow           unreality swears by your delusions,        compounded in fear of disclosure               that light at the end of oblivion                   took revolution's number nine train**
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM UTC
Number 9, number 9, number 9
Conjunction: a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, sentences - the act of conjoining; combination; the state of being conjoined; union; association: - a compound proposition that is true if and only if all of its component propositions are true. - the coincidence of two or more heavenly bodies at the same celestial longitude. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am in a relationship. a colorless word a word of no clarity a good one? a bad one? a professional deal, or one that makes you squeal with pleasure or despair without context or content, a description of a status, not a state, but a quid pro quo I prefer I am in a conjunction *well recall the day our orbits more than crossed, but synchronized, when two bodies began to travel upon the same longitude one direction in conjunction t'was the day we coordinated on our mobile phone, co-configured our future, our calendars* *nowadays, I answer her questions while she is commencing to think, when her foolishness prevails, she questions, "did you remember to..." my answer, a question returned, connected, constant and conjunctive,* "and what's my name?" an answer conveying constancy *relationship oft the farthest place from logical, but you know that, say I am in a conjunction and the logicians will celebrate the end of your lonely celibacy, well they understand the truth inherent in and of and about your compounded proposition* *what unimaginative creatures we be, dispensing with beauty for factuality, but facts are easily misread, your fact and my fact, relationship, the exact same fact, conveys neither an agreement as to what that means are we unionized, associated, or conjoined what is the quality of our related ships?* so Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, amend my status please, post me as being in a state of: a) conductivity b) connectivity c) concoctive no, none of those capture what we have captured, so let create a new state, a new world, using a very old world word post us as follows, "Nat is in a conjunction"
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 6:32 AM UTC
I am in a relationship
Conjunction: a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, sentences - the act of conjoining; combination; the state of being conjoined; union; association: - a compound proposition that is true if and only if all of its component propositions are true. - the coincidence of two or more heavenly bodies at the same celestial longitude. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am in a relationship. a colorless word a word of no clarity a good one? a bad one? a professional deal, or one that makes you squeal with pleasure or despair without context or content, a description of a status, not a state, but a quid pro quo I prefer I am in a conjunction *well recall the day our orbits more than crossed, but synchronized, when two bodies began to travel upon the same longitude one direction in conjunction t'was the day we coordinated on our mobile phone, co-configured our future, our calendars* *nowadays, I answer her questions while she is commencing to think, when her foolishness prevails, she questions, "did you remember to..." my answer, a question returned, connected, constant and conjunctive,* "and what's my name?" an answer conveying constancy *relationship oft the farthest place from logical, but you know that, say I am in a conjunction and the logicians will celebrate the end of your lonely celibacy, well they understand the truth inherent in and of and about your compounded proposition* *what unimaginative creatures we be, dispensing with beauty for factuality, but facts are easily misread, your fact and my fact, relationship, the exact same fact, conveys neither an agreement as to what that means are we unionized, associated, or conjoined what is the quality of our related ships?* so Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, amend my status please, post me as being in a state of: a) conductivity b) connectivity c) concoctive no, none of those capture what we have captured, so let create a new state, a new world, using a very old world word post us as follows, "Nat is in a conjunction"
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I felt an unusual twinge in my neck as I turned toward you. Heavy breathing signaled morning sleep as my arm reached across your palpitating belly. These casual cuddles, typical of the start of our day emit a warmth unlike sunrays or furnace heat. No use to wake you or tease apart your legs for seldom do we play. That may come after morning news is devoured, bananas peeled and different morning hungers eased. Now i rise to consume small pellets of brown, pink, grey and white chemicals compounded to keep me alive. There is a stillness downstairs with greetings from a well-worn chair contoured to support my soul. Blades whirl overhead churning a breeze my face accepts upon my forehead. Now is my time of meditation, my attempt to listen to whatever god pervades this universe. There will be no answers, no jolts of insight or revelations, only small particles of peace to cover my disquiet. You will lumber down steps with effort accentuated by creaks and moans that are more pronounced each day. Our lips will touch confirming both obligation and willingness to walk beside each other. I wonder if you think there could be more? Could each gaze toward one another be longer? Could I unbutton myself enough to see or would you scold me for such an unrepressed display?
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM UTC
Flinty Endurance
Compounded complexity flexible freedom. This world we live in... hold your tongue let me speak let me creep on our country's beliefs. Ideologies invented by power, to tell us when to cower, when to talk how to walk. I have a mouth I refuse to shut My words can be daggers confident in consequence, and hence, I write these rhymes to challenge your mind. Look at your empty beliefs in policies with no relief. They seize your right to fight, stand up and be proud of who you've become. Who are they to judge when they smudge equality and slash justice, twist the meaning. The poor stay poor the rich get richer. Kids grow up in the gutters and the government mutters, "we tried our best, done all we can." When the money is spent in genocide of those on "the other side" unaware civilians mass ****** is our forte across the ocean or in our streets, But you aren't exempt, blame yourself, stand up and scream. I want to put the fight in your eyes, take off your mask of false certainties. You think you know how this world works instead you should step back and see what you're worth.
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Sep 26, 2012
Sep 26, 2012 at 5:11 PM UTC
Speak Up
WE sat together at one summer's end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry. I said, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather; For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.' And thereupon That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, "To be born woman is to know -- Although they do not talk of it at school -- That we must labour to be beautiful.' I said, "It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring. There have been lovers who thought love should be So much compounded of high courtesy That they would sigh and quote with learned looks precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.' We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears: That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
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Adam's Curse
WE sat together at one summer's end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry. I said, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather; For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.' And thereupon That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, "To be born woman is to know -- Although they do not talk of it at school -- That we must labour to be beautiful.' I said, "It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring. There have been lovers who thought love should be So much compounded of high courtesy That they would sigh and quote with learned looks precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.' We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears: That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
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Sadie was a doubtful one Her mind was tightly shut When faced with the fantastical She’d fold her arms and tut She pranced around her garden With an playful evil aura And dealt a merry flattening To all that passed before her Their bodies lay around her And an imp of mischief found her She loved to trap and poison And wished she’d been a spider When a fizzing overtook her When a rumble grew inside her When a shrinking and a shrivelling Across her form did tickle And soon did Sadie realise That wishes can be fickle Her legs and arms divided Her eyeballs multiply did So sorry Sadie scuttled Alternating creep and crawl She tippy-toe’d across the grass And past her victims all And sadness was upon her And with mourning in her eyes Her grief compounded hunger And an appetite for flies Her lengthy limbs belied her Sorry Sadie was a spider She loped along a lily And her sorrow turned to guilt Her carapace was aching For the blood which she had spilt She wept a web of anguish With her sticky little tears She wound a downward spiral Like the falling of the years Her malice had been stunted Her fangs were dull and blunted Sadie gained existence On a web of worldly woes She fed her tiny tummy Where the buzz and flutter goes And she learned the price of living So she killed just what she ate And she knew why killing needlessly Was such an ugly trait And with a human soul inside her She chose to be a spider
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM UTC
Silly Sadistic Sadie
This problem has gone on so long we always reach the same old sum divided by lies multiplied by my failure to learn In division, we carried over the sequences of your dishonesty compounded by lack of ownership numbers don't lie you brought a lot of uncertainty into the equation it played a huge factor the lowest common denominator I never was good at arithmetic, but something doesn't add up subtract me
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 10:18 AM UTC
doing the math
Soft shelter I urge your preternatural brigades of perspective to ground my resignation in some hypothetical formation of inclined leisure If I'm treading mere chance in my hope then I urge you not to simply humour me with sly tomorrows assuring optimism in the brittle molts of days shrinking to reveal solar aspirations I'll turn my back to the broken weather like a naked sibling There is nothing humourous in humouring though I've taken it in self-destructive perpetuity Tie me to the rack of realism like Odysseus before the Sirens I'll sigh and swallow yet another new medication one for soft shelter in compounded sleep where perspectives hide and the chemicals of moods long dismantled congregate behind blindfolds of destiny's clumsy executioners
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 10:40 PM UTC
THROUGH WITH KEEPING SCORE
I've seen the face of evil It tried to stare me down It expected me to run But instead I stood my ground Its eyes were bloodshot red Like a ****** high on **** Its teeth were in a glass It tried to gum me half to death Its nose was like a cactus root Twenty times compounded I've never seen a cactus root I just like the way it sounded A **** stood high upon its back That looked like a wayward camel Covered in hair from head to toe It just had to be a mammal Horns fastened atop its head It had such a horrible growl Each time it did, it would drool a bit So I gave it a paper towel I'm telling you this thing was evil I think it wanted my soul I finally tried to run away But the thing wouldn't let me go It grabbed a hold of my belt loop And I was pulling with all my might I think it gave me a ****** Cause my underwear was gettin' tight The beast was trying to **** me Then someone turned on the light If you think it was mother-in-law Then, once again, you're right
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Jan 7, 2011
Jan 7, 2011 at 9:16 AM UTC
The Face of Evil
Your complexities are compounded by my simplicities, and since you came to me like the alphabet of a language I cannot read you will, when you leave depart unchanged. Whereas, I will be changed forever like a root verb which is built upon to express a more complex idea.
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 6:42 PM UTC
Conjugation
The sunrise burns the sky A carefully coloured explosion Blooded light flooding the low Kent fields that lie Before Maidstone, excreting soundless motion: Yellow carnation shards sway With this violent advent of day. In Hucking Estate diaphanous bluebells nestle Beneath the groping canopy Of Ash. Oak; the encroaching stinging nettle Shields the frequent woodland scree Covering with a verdant flush Brooks that through the stones invisibly rush. Within the hour, the Gorgon-headed sun Sweeps aside the cloud- The red into blue and orange has run And in Lower Fullingpits Wood the increasingly  loud Shuffling of badger attacking vole, fox strangling rabbit, All compounded into daily habit. The Kent Downs rise and fall Like resurrected earth-bound music from a time When hill, wood and pool Emerged from unfettered chalk and lime. Before the Cantii hunted in ancient Wents Wood, For deer and boar, spurred not by hunger but for the love of blood. Above the sparrow-hawk attacks the sparrows Claw enmeshed in feather, Beak unravelling neck. The unalterable sorrows Of nature and weather. Cruelty never ceases, but just gets more efficient- Kindness remains deficient.
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Jun 22, 2016
Jun 22, 2016 at 3:41 PM UTC
Deficiency of kindness
(do not follow your heart) do not follow the resolved feeling, the          benefit of the doubt a hundred times over and                         bent over backwards and hollow do not forget numbers, multiples of being alone          prime and so easily covered with the foam that                  washes away, worthless                        do not follow.                   do not forget. take these foundations you insist upon dispersing like ashen arms, gritty sand wiped into an eye by mistake         take these.                 take these compounded days and                 take these dug out pits of stomach and                 take these falls and     get the hell out.
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
Leaving
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
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Sonnet 071: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
I will love you everyday, hard as I very well can. I will give you my love each morning, (compounded on the minute), and I will make sure you’re well asleep before I begin again. I will love you for years at a time without asking a reprieve even if I grow tired. Because, there is no honor but the honor of loving you everyday. and if one day I should notice, my heart running low, I will gather up my heartstrings and wring them out until we have enough or they run dry. if that should ever happen, I will take myself to visit each place I have ever told anyone I loved them. I will be unabashed in crawling on my hands and knees, gathering up any scrap of love that fell lost between my mouth and their ears. I will weave a very fine net of lace, you see, and secrets, to attract the scraps of love and catch them from the air of all those lovely places. and should all the love I gather still not satisfy my need to love you, I know what it is I will do next. I am not proud to say this, nor will I be proud to do it, but if it should come down to it, I will put on a nice gray blouse and ask my big brother to meet me. I will explain the problem, and he will understand. he will smile sadly, a smile not reaching his eyes, (stopping just before the part where his dimples ought to start), and he will want to help. he will reach into his bones, where he keeps his given love, and pull out a wisp— then a wisp— a cloud— of love I have given him. it will not even be a fraction, but as I fold and press it neatly to my chest, we will both notice its absence. but, it will be Okay. and I will come home to you, bursting with my salvaged love, and go on to love you everyday with that. and should all of that be gone through, should I still love you everyday, it will so happen I need only tug my heartstrings a bit harder, to make that bit more love. and I will return my love to all the places I recalled it from (with interest) and no one will have minded because they will be in lovely awe at how much I will love you everyday. (at any cost).
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Mar 18, 2012
Mar 18, 2012 at 12:32 PM UTC
Heartstrings
I will love you everyday, hard as I very well can. I will give you my love each morning, (compounded on the minute), and I will make sure you’re well asleep before I begin again. I will love you for years at a time without asking a reprieve even if I grow tired. Because, there is no honor but the honor of loving you everyday. and if one day I should notice, my heart running low, I will gather up my heartstrings and wring them out until we have enough or they run dry. if that should ever happen, I will take myself to visit each place I have ever told anyone I loved them. I will be unabashed in crawling on my hands and knees, gathering up any scrap of love that fell lost between my mouth and their ears. I will weave a very fine net of lace, you see, and secrets, to attract the scraps of love and catch them from the air of all those lovely places. and should all the love I gather still not satisfy my need to love you, I know what it is I will do next. I am not proud to say this, nor will I be proud to do it, but if it should come down to it, I will put on a nice gray blouse and ask my big brother to meet me. I will explain the problem, and he will understand. he will smile sadly, a smile not reaching his eyes, (stopping just before the part where his dimples ought to start), and he will want to help. he will reach into his bones, where he keeps his given love, and pull out a wisp— then a wisp— a cloud— of love I have given him. it will not even be a fraction, but as I fold and press it neatly to my chest, we will both notice its absence. but, it will be Okay. and I will come home to you, bursting with my salvaged love, and go on to love you everyday with that. and should all of that be gone through, should I still love you everyday, it will so happen I need only tug my heartstrings a bit harder, to make that bit more love. and I will return my love to all the places I recalled it from (with interest) and no one will have minded because they will be in lovely awe at how much I will love you everyday. (at any cost).
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-Love- The quintessence of my being ails for the novel; the liberating; the metamorphosing elements of the terrene. The philosophy of life has always been to search for the sacred truths with the passing of time; tempus. The answers have been right in front of me. The concept of finality has been an ailment of my mind; this malady had a paranoia inducing effect on me. A surfeit of noxious thought can subdue one into nonexistence. Never, no, rarely should one create a permanent state of tumult within their soul; one must look beyond what they first believe to be true. -Love- Without the absolute love, what is one? The Divine has the Transcendental Power to heal all wounds… -One must first ask- The words have been lying here; stewing upon my tongue; awaiting a release for what has seemed to be an eternity. In my mind the horizon has flashed before my eyes; a vivid vision of the world’s beauty has enraptured me. Doves gliding off into the sunset; this must be a symbol of all the splendor that lies in store for me. Enamorment; affinity; affection and all the virtuous elements of humanity have been consolidated in my midst. They have been compounded before my eyes; a physical form has now been granted. My heart now has a tangible source for the Elixir of World. Blinded for but a moment, I departed into an alluring phantasy. Unsure of where to search for a comrade, I looked to another plane of existence for solace. There was an explosion of lust for what was once a forbidden dream of the kindest sort. This dream, it was kind enough to grant me the strength to plow through all the turmoil of a scathing world. I have given birth to a new feeling; a feeling of hope over the horizon. How? By allowing my deepest fears and latent intentions to be cast aside and to fade away into naught. Earth is a constant melisma of unforeseen occurrence, pain, and heartache but it can also be a beacon for valor, gallant-heartedness, and altruism. -Delirium is fading away from my consciousness- My greatest fear has always been to grow and to exceed what I believed to be my true caliber. Now the day has arrived for me to supersede all trepidation and to transcend the shackles of rigidity. The storm clouds, they have departed. The blossoms have begun to bud amongst the tightly packed soil of the terrene. The sun has arisen from a nocturne of anticipation; this has effloresced into the genesis of a new dawn. I have emerged from my cocoon and now the world seems so brand new to me. I am prepared to soar high above the clouds. I am a dove. The horizon is mine for the taking. I am a symbol of love. From now, until the end of time, Iridescently Efflorescent.
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Jul 28, 2012
Jul 28, 2012 at 11:35 PM UTC
Elixir of the World(July 4th, 2012_
-Love- The quintessence of my being ails for the novel; the liberating; the metamorphosing elements of the terrene. The philosophy of life has always been to search for the sacred truths with the passing of time; tempus. The answers have been right in front of me. The concept of finality has been an ailment of my mind; this malady had a paranoia inducing effect on me. A surfeit of noxious thought can subdue one into nonexistence. Never, no, rarely should one create a permanent state of tumult within their soul; one must look beyond what they first believe to be true. -Love- Without the absolute love, what is one? The Divine has the Transcendental Power to heal all wounds… -One must first ask- The words have been lying here; stewing upon my tongue; awaiting a release for what has seemed to be an eternity. In my mind the horizon has flashed before my eyes; a vivid vision of the world’s beauty has enraptured me. Doves gliding off into the sunset; this must be a symbol of all the splendor that lies in store for me. Enamorment; affinity; affection and all the virtuous elements of humanity have been consolidated in my midst. They have been compounded before my eyes; a physical form has now been granted. My heart now has a tangible source for the Elixir of World. Blinded for but a moment, I departed into an alluring phantasy. Unsure of where to search for a comrade, I looked to another plane of existence for solace. There was an explosion of lust for what was once a forbidden dream of the kindest sort. This dream, it was kind enough to grant me the strength to plow through all the turmoil of a scathing world. I have given birth to a new feeling; a feeling of hope over the horizon. How? By allowing my deepest fears and latent intentions to be cast aside and to fade away into naught. Earth is a constant melisma of unforeseen occurrence, pain, and heartache but it can also be a beacon for valor, gallant-heartedness, and altruism. -Delirium is fading away from my consciousness- My greatest fear has always been to grow and to exceed what I believed to be my true caliber. Now the day has arrived for me to supersede all trepidation and to transcend the shackles of rigidity. The storm clouds, they have departed. The blossoms have begun to bud amongst the tightly packed soil of the terrene. The sun has arisen from a nocturne of anticipation; this has effloresced into the genesis of a new dawn. I have emerged from my cocoon and now the world seems so brand new to me. I am prepared to soar high above the clouds. I am a dove. The horizon is mine for the taking. I am a symbol of love. From now, until the end of time, Iridescently Efflorescent.
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Cross roads within our pathways, As our minds flock to our own rhythms. Likes of individual galaxy compounded, And formulated into a personal chemistry. Truth of stars perflexed by undiscovered universe, And each stars collide in the void vexed with uncontrolled momentum. Yet there are the singlular truth in all chaos, And the relentless ether split to the vastness of space, Like calm ocean that allow our solice. Those days are but a yonder, As we ponder upon the yearning impulses. In the stillness of a full cup of water without a pin drop, And with inner thoughts still hunger, But still reach the vestige garden alone. Vintage of souls forgotten in our hearts, And shattered beats asunder murmur in tranquility. As perpatual ideals die in the burning stars, We are in space alone in dreams. No longer a thought of discord, nor any dissidents displayed, But maybe that was an act of love unspoken.
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Sep 30, 2016
Sep 30, 2016 at 8:35 PM UTC
Lament of discord and dissident
embraced within your own shabby clothes drink the fireplace in and out through your nose cross-eyed women eat a lot of chicken while symbiotic brothers deny that they blindly love their father's ghosts and you are sordid like a cat now i'm glad we got that sorted out give an ounce of fat and you’ll get a pound of muscle students take tests in bottomless basements and are trained to use sandpaper for dusting some of whom immediately fail examination solely because their faces are too **** stubbly (ugly) i shudder at the thought of stopping in the middle so remove the dissonant fiddle and sit indian style as riddles are permutations of words that are sometimes thousands of years old and gone are the shovels that we use to dig up our souls your headaches are baked like pound-cakes in the dirt indecent muffles were heard thirty miles west of earth hesitate and you’ll die, so rise up and learn to fly undress the legacy that keeps you chained to lies this fire is hot and so is your disguise strategies are as strange as fiction and i deflect your indecisive missiles with perfect vision crystallized and then compounded like coal into diamonds
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 2:19 PM UTC
immeasurable distances