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"courtyard" poems
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
why eye drink the vin in vignette (for all the better poets here)
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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The napalan man in a violet cape   descended the stair with a lopsided gait a wretched procession, subscribers in cue rattling off as they stream from the pew   sounds and smells from a shadowy place a catholic priest to gin up base lanterns strung from bolted doors cobbled streets and wooden floors   stepping stones and iron bell fortified by the citadel hallowed halls and sepulcher dragon cane for the horse drawn tour castle turret,  archer holes centaur scribed in chamber bowls garden columns in courtyard view the blood ballet and hullabaloo   ancient tombs on warrior grounds gods and saints who made their rounds goliath still with battered scythe knelt in prayer and mummified   battle fires and crowds that roar gallows, caves, abysmal war   gargoyles flock the terraced slope pearly gates to bring on hope   serpents, snakes and burning ash lava bombs and trident clash mariners drift in absentee as neptune rises from the Tyrrhenian Sea
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Dec 2, 2016
Dec 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
Cinque Terre
Arriving at the entrance of the ancient temple the white rabbit covered his ears. Shattering glass from a high-pitched vibration he leaped away from a falling chandelier. “I must find our beloved Harvest Moon." The white rabbit said to himself. With stern affirmation, a dark fog churned then into the vortex he was consumed. He stopped at the entrance of the temple courtyard; everyone was frozen like statues. "What has she done to all of you?" He cried, then pulled out a magic rune deflecting a hail of daggers. The white rabbit looked up at a floating cocoon and saw the shadow witch hovering over the temple roof. Pale skin and veins glowing red, she was draped in a black tattered robe. With a sinister look and a Crown of Fire on her head the shadow witch spoke. “White rabbit, white rabbit the Harvest Moon is dead!" The white rabbit took leaped back then cried out. "This cannot be so!" Then he pulled from his bag a magic scroll and read the words written in gold. "I ask the wind to protect me from this dark magic despair" Then he conjured a circle of trees in a water globe. The witch streaked across the air and swung around her jet-black hair. Then she commanded an infestation of spiders to climb inside the trees and explode. Barricading himself inside a magic bubble he was protected from the onslaught of shrapnel. The white rabbit grabbed the water globe, leaped into the air, and disappeared in a puff of amber smoke. The shadow witch pulled out a blood-red pearl and murmured an incantation. "Clever white rabbit, I shall find you in the invisible world" The white rabbit snapped his fingers then magically appeared behind her. He snatched off the Crown of Fire from her head then whispered the following words. "How dare you use dark magic on me!" She jumped in fear spinning around, then summoned a devil hound. The white rabbit raised the water globe and merged it with the crown. A shock wave of light pulsated in the air then the witch menacingly yelled. “Take him down!” The white rabbit saw in his peripheral view the hound lunge to attack. But he was too cunning for this, with a symbolic wave and a vigorous slash the hound was severed in two. The shadow witch glared, then cried out. “We shall meet again white rabbit; I promise you I'll be back!” Then she summoned a fiery cauldron and vanished with a blinding flash. The white rabbit ran inside the temple and approached the Harvest Moon. He stared with eyes full of tears and sorrow at a beautiful princess with hair long and blue. A beautiful creature he so desired, the love he had for her was true. He opened his bag and pulled out the globe which was now encased with the Crown of Fire. "I brought you a gift from the shadow witch" Then he smashed the globe and with a flash of light, the Crown of Fire was finally free. The white rabbit held the princess and spoke. "I have always served you because I love you and now, I command you to come back to life!" Then he placed the Crown of Fire on her head igniting a ring of light. The white rabbit looked down to see the Harvest Moon Princess opening both of her eyes.
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM UTC
The Crown of Fire
Arriving at the entrance of the ancient temple the white rabbit covered his ears. Shattering glass from a high-pitched vibration he leaped away from a falling chandelier. “I must find our beloved Harvest Moon." The white rabbit said to himself. With stern affirmation, a dark fog churned then into the vortex he was consumed. He stopped at the entrance of the temple courtyard; everyone was frozen like statues. "What has she done to all of you?" He cried, then pulled out a magic rune deflecting a hail of daggers. The white rabbit looked up at a floating cocoon and saw the shadow witch hovering over the temple roof. Pale skin and veins glowing red, she was draped in a black tattered robe. With a sinister look and a Crown of Fire on her head the shadow witch spoke. “White rabbit, white rabbit the Harvest Moon is dead!" The white rabbit took leaped back then cried out. "This cannot be so!" Then he pulled from his bag a magic scroll and read the words written in gold. "I ask the wind to protect me from this dark magic despair" Then he conjured a circle of trees in a water globe. The witch streaked across the air and swung around her jet-black hair. Then she commanded an infestation of spiders to climb inside the trees and explode. Barricading himself inside a magic bubble he was protected from the onslaught of shrapnel. The white rabbit grabbed the water globe, leaped into the air, and disappeared in a puff of amber smoke. The shadow witch pulled out a blood-red pearl and murmured an incantation. "Clever white rabbit, I shall find you in the invisible world" The white rabbit snapped his fingers then magically appeared behind her. He snatched off the Crown of Fire from her head then whispered the following words. "How dare you use dark magic on me!" She jumped in fear spinning around, then summoned a devil hound. The white rabbit raised the water globe and merged it with the crown. A shock wave of light pulsated in the air then the witch menacingly yelled. “Take him down!” The white rabbit saw in his peripheral view the hound lunge to attack. But he was too cunning for this, with a symbolic wave and a vigorous slash the hound was severed in two. The shadow witch glared, then cried out. “We shall meet again white rabbit; I promise you I'll be back!” Then she summoned a fiery cauldron and vanished with a blinding flash. The white rabbit ran inside the temple and approached the Harvest Moon. He stared with eyes full of tears and sorrow at a beautiful princess with hair long and blue. A beautiful creature he so desired, the love he had for her was true. He opened his bag and pulled out the globe which was now encased with the Crown of Fire. "I brought you a gift from the shadow witch" Then he smashed the globe and with a flash of light, the Crown of Fire was finally free. The white rabbit held the princess and spoke. "I have always served you because I love you and now, I command you to come back to life!" Then he placed the Crown of Fire on her head igniting a ring of light. The white rabbit looked down to see the Harvest Moon Princess opening both of her eyes.
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Rolling a Pall Mall in the courtyard, of Ye Olde Swiss Cottage Tavern, in the last of November's sun:       Lovely sunlight,       You are,       Filling me warmly with joy. Thinking of our desires, from summer and autumn months, up to this bright November morning, we have happily danced, e'en in the shadows. Above me two brick turrets, as I dreamily smoke, nonchalantly state: 'Underground'. High-raised logos winking at our play, struck through with horizontal blue, in a circle of enamel white. 'Old Fool,' the towers hiss, directed at my mortal sensibilities, 'winter has come!' But nothing buries us as our sun still comfortingly kindles a friendly star which when all is dark, glows inside, guiding the shipwreck of my sunken years - the debts and all those unpaid thrills! Dreaming and Loving, as children out, lost in an abundant ***** each holding off for as long as we dare, lovers unmasked, naked before suffocating paternity, and cold winter's bite! where to we hardly know, to avoid its cruel embrace.
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 4:16 AM UTC
Winter Come
*Hamari Sanson Mein Aaj Tak Woh Heena Ki Khushbhoo Mehak Rahi Hai* *Labon Pe Naghme Machal Rahe Hain Nazar Se Masti Jhalak Rahi Hai* **O’ even today within my breathes That sweet smell of henna is still lingering Upon the lips songs are way-warding And with mischief, the glances are twinkling** *Woh Mere Nazdeek Aate Aate Haya Se Ek Din Simat Gaye Thay Mere Khayalon Mein Aaj Tak Woh Badan Ki Daali Latak Rahi Hai* **O’ inching towards me, One day he shyly gathered himself Till today, within my thoughts His body's youthfulness is still swaying** *Sada Jo Dil Se Nikal Rahi Hai Woh Sher-o-Naghmon Mein Dhal Rahi Hai Ke Dil Ke Aangan Mein Jaise Koi Ghazal Ki Dhaandhar Khanak Rahi Hai* **O’ this cry coming from within my heart Finds its way into verses and songs As if in the courtyard of my heart Beat of a poem is throbbing** *Tadap Mere Bekharar Dil Ki Kabhi To Unpay Asar Kare Gi Kabhi To Woh Bhi Jaleinge Isme Jo Aag Dil Mein Dahek Rahi Hai* **O’ my restless heart's tremor Will surely affect him one day Someday, he too will burn In the fire of my heart which is raging** — Translated by Jamil Hussain, Sung by Noor Jahan
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Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Sweet Smell of Henna
Evening light is gentle, slow Caressing leaves, metal roofs, soil Plants, flowers, pavements and gates Clouds are the mothers - they shield us Lest the sun shines too much. Take a breath and look around; The sweet and tranquil garden will take it away. All colour blend in synchronised harmony; Blues and browns, pinks and whites Crossing into and over each other like oil paints, Warm, welcoming, beautiful. It is soothing - the sound of nothing That disrupts; razes; hates Disturbs; curbs quiet insight; One's imagination is the lone source of maximum sound That vibrates through the garden. My grandfather, my grandmother's brother, Smiles as though the sun shines through his teeth Dresses in a pale blue shirt Black shorts Both well-worn Ready to play some basketball. Oh, the joy, the fun The refreshment arising from this game in a courtyard In grandfather's garden Among young trees, leaves and other green growth. There stands a home by hand made Basketball stand, A concrete base with metal support hands Floppy strings of hoop To shoot the ball into. The garden has been bathed, it is fresh It is refreshed. Grandfather demonstrates, I listen and follow, To throw the ball into the hoop With precision and care; throw some force Into the air. The ball dances around the circle then drops to the concrete floor. We take turns As I throw and grandfather returns 9/10 of the time my aim's bad but the ball grandfather throws, I actually catch! (Or it will tumble on wet soil) Exciting, the thumping of rubber ball against ground; Keen eyes and agile hands and feet To catch the stray ball; With swift movements the ball flies! From sideways, afar and near, Into the hoop successfully, finally. Back into the house we go, As the sun leaves for home. The garden prepares for night; So do grandfather and I; Grandfather washes up; I talk to Grandmother in the garden; waiting for night, to fall fall fall, into infinite darkness - poignant memories
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Dec 15, 2014
Dec 15, 2014 at 5:05 AM UTC
My Grandfather's Garden
Evening light is gentle, slow Caressing leaves, metal roofs, soil Plants, flowers, pavements and gates Clouds are the mothers - they shield us Lest the sun shines too much. Take a breath and look around; The sweet and tranquil garden will take it away. All colour blend in synchronised harmony; Blues and browns, pinks and whites Crossing into and over each other like oil paints, Warm, welcoming, beautiful. It is soothing - the sound of nothing That disrupts; razes; hates Disturbs; curbs quiet insight; One's imagination is the lone source of maximum sound That vibrates through the garden. My grandfather, my grandmother's brother, Smiles as though the sun shines through his teeth Dresses in a pale blue shirt Black shorts Both well-worn Ready to play some basketball. Oh, the joy, the fun The refreshment arising from this game in a courtyard In grandfather's garden Among young trees, leaves and other green growth. There stands a home by hand made Basketball stand, A concrete base with metal support hands Floppy strings of hoop To shoot the ball into. The garden has been bathed, it is fresh It is refreshed. Grandfather demonstrates, I listen and follow, To throw the ball into the hoop With precision and care; throw some force Into the air. The ball dances around the circle then drops to the concrete floor. We take turns As I throw and grandfather returns 9/10 of the time my aim's bad but the ball grandfather throws, I actually catch! (Or it will tumble on wet soil) Exciting, the thumping of rubber ball against ground; Keen eyes and agile hands and feet To catch the stray ball; With swift movements the ball flies! From sideways, afar and near, Into the hoop successfully, finally. Back into the house we go, As the sun leaves for home. The garden prepares for night; So do grandfather and I; Grandfather washes up; I talk to Grandmother in the garden; waiting for night, to fall fall fall, into infinite darkness - poignant memories
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You are the king of a place called my heart. You plant blossoms in the courtyard of thoughts. Besotted by wine, besotted by me. Bounded yourself in captivity.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 7:09 PM UTC
King
There is.... a knarnley creature resting, waiting, seeking the pounce. A lifetime of gold awaits thy asleeps but under her blanket restful slumber Hark! Oh the bells the bells as they are ringing in the steeple in the courtyard She awakens The knarley creature aint feelin dat 10 a.m fridgeworthy solid solidness blender of feelings being mashed mixer of emotions like a mixed drink at uptown maybe a gin and tonic idk...
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 1:17 AM UTC
The roommate living in that bed ova there
pulling back the covers dimming the lights an owl calls from the holly tree just outside of my window the garden below has grown beyond my control weeds sprout vines tangle in the summer squirrels gnaw on the green holly berries littering the courtyard with half-eaten haws in the spring mockingbirds gorge on the bright red fruit their florid songs celebrating light sky life sun leaf air closing my eyes I think back through the decades to when I planted the tree it was a time of hope a time when we dared dream of a world without mortal enemies when you could imagine shaded islands of calm hidden coves immune to rancor now look at us heads down lost hurtling stumbling under a trance we have turned on one other distracted by those who grab wealth and power under the cover of night confused by the constant trumpeting and alarms blind to what we share we retreat into the darkness of our fears Tom Spencer © 2018
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 7:50 AM UTC
pulling back the covers
I sit Oh Lord in wonder Within Your temple pine And as I sit In awe of it I see Your great design The slate grey clouds Form arch and roof The pillars Rugged trees The courtyard Cobbled with grass And leaves
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 1:49 AM UTC
Temple Pine
If I could have your arms tonight— But half the world and the broken sea Lie between you and me. The autumn rain reverberates in the courtyard, Beating all night against the barren stone, The sound of useless rain in the desolate courtyard Makes me more alone. If you were here, if you were only here— My blood cries out to you all night in vain As sleepless as the rain.
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Sleepless
"A patient man bides his time," Theodore tells the man in the mirror Tomorrow, all the levees will break And all the fables will be told Of distant Decembers and forgotten fathers Livelihoods will be threatened And remorse will fall by the wayside He watches as icicles on the awning Melt away into puddles on the ground "Warmer every day," he thinks to himself He hangs up his scarf and overcoat The way a simple man, with complex demons, is wont to do And as his wants devolve into needs And as all his anchors deteriorate to rust Her smile unnerves a once-settled man To think of the quality of glove necessary To hold onto the wagon in this day and age So Theodore pulls the door to, Leaving Chopin's "Horseman" to gallop in peace And in pieces He watches her from across the courtyard "Such sweet bliss in her footsteps," he sighs And it seems to him as if the snow dissipates Just from the warmth in her steady gait Just from the radiation behind her brown eyes He slides open the dresser drawer A haven for scattered trinkets, odds, and ends A place of respite for the weary souvenir There, amidst all the corroded memories Lies a corroded pistol, unspoken and unburnished "And a lonely man drinks his wine," Theodore says, as intrepidly as he is capable For there is a time when fathers stop teaching A time when mothers stop singing And a place where the sins stop searching A last breath is deeply inhaled But never again will find its escape With a thud that echoes to Seymour Street Theodore crumples to the cold wooden floor, A simple man, finally free of complex demons
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Jan 25, 2023
Jan 25, 2023 at 1:19 PM UTC
Levees (Theodore's Tale)
"A patient man bides his time," Theodore tells the man in the mirror Tomorrow, all the levees will break And all the fables will be told Of distant Decembers and forgotten fathers Livelihoods will be threatened And remorse will fall by the wayside He watches as icicles on the awning Melt away into puddles on the ground "Warmer every day," he thinks to himself He hangs up his scarf and overcoat The way a simple man, with complex demons, is wont to do And as his wants devolve into needs And as all his anchors deteriorate to rust Her smile unnerves a once-settled man To think of the quality of glove necessary To hold onto the wagon in this day and age So Theodore pulls the door to, Leaving Chopin's "Horseman" to gallop in peace And in pieces He watches her from across the courtyard "Such sweet bliss in her footsteps," he sighs And it seems to him as if the snow dissipates Just from the warmth in her steady gait Just from the radiation behind her brown eyes He slides open the dresser drawer A haven for scattered trinkets, odds, and ends A place of respite for the weary souvenir There, amidst all the corroded memories Lies a corroded pistol, unspoken and unburnished "And a lonely man drinks his wine," Theodore says, as intrepidly as he is capable For there is a time when fathers stop teaching A time when mothers stop singing And a place where the sins stop searching A last breath is deeply inhaled But never again will find its escape With a thud that echoes to Seymour Street Theodore crumples to the cold wooden floor, A simple man, finally free of complex demons
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Lets have rough *** in the courtyard of our kingdom while the peasants and jester watch. "Is that the king?" "Yes. Both of them, **** Did he just hit h~?" "Yup. That was a moan." Pan flutes. Lutes. purple green and gold garb. There's a bunch of knights training in archery and somebody in a far corner of some ocean plotting to ride their horses here and declare seige. But right now it's the first of may and we're just throwing each other around on the grass under the flag of our castle that we founded on voyeurism and being good at what we do Which today is rough *** In the grass Of a game of thrones set.
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Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016 at 7:39 PM UTC
Ring the Church bells
maybe if I didn't see you that summer day maybe if I didn't hear your laugh maybe if I didn't talk to you the first day we met maybe if I didn't ask for your name maybe if I didn't wish to be your friend maybe if I didn't follow you around all summer maybe if I didn't see you in the hallway so much maybe if I didn't buy you things maybe if I didn't get your friends to like me maybe if I didn't see you stare at me when 'I wasn't looking' maybe if I didn't kiss you in front of the courtyard maybe if I didn't ask you out on my birthday for luck maybe if I didn't let you in maybe if I didn't hold your hand so tight maybe if I didn't text you so late at night maybe if I didn't talk so much maybe if I didn't call so often when you were sad maybe if I didn't spend so much money on our two-month gift maybe if I didn't tell you so much maybe if I didn't smoke so many cigarettes then maybe just maybe I would have been better off.
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Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019 at 8:57 PM UTC
maybe
Fuji-san I'm bored and life's hard: let me run away The master makes me work all day while his sons go to school and learn writing and numbers; and his daughters put on pretty dresses and they play with dolls and flowers - while all day I wash their clothes and sweep the courtyard and collect herbs for the Lady of the House O Fuji-san - you have great power and you watch over all so let me run away And I shall run to Edo And I'll work there at the tea-houses and I'll see fine gentlemen and I'll see pretty ladies and I'll work and earn and save And one day I'll be a gentleman myself So, O Fuji-san let me run away Clear my way Fuji-san and make it safe and I shall go to Edo and I'll be rich one day and I'll come back here to you Fuji-san and I'll bring you offerings of dumplings and flowers So help me, O mighty Fuji-san Let me run away
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Feb 16, 2012
Feb 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM UTC
boy talking to Mt Fuji
A hand on a throat, where if all fingers touch, the throat turns to ash. The villain of an anime I now watch clutches the hero with his middle-finger aired before the vital moment. I jump on holiday off a cliff and my chest stumbles with simulations. My body angled poorly as I could slap headfirst. I was warned that my feet should sink first if I merely fall. If I dive, my fingers should first touch the water. I am depressed the months before. College student, America. So far off, so cold from the landlock of my birth. And the summer study-abroad, double-abroad. In Italy I was watching the Creation show itself on old ceilings in marble-rooms, looking for some culture that might have been ours if not for the pillagings that brought gold and bodies to shape that gold into buildings like this. So I jump and fall. And shiver emptily. It is the same feeling as the nights on the bed thinking of futures without this self. Thinking as if I did not exist. Ignored emails from therapists. And here *this feeling!*: it made me want to live. So I jump again on the higher ledge. My friend afterwards asks if I'm okay. I'm shaking slightly. I'm without words. I laugh with the same absence as any birth. A baby's confused cry without tears. A long way down. What blue-green water, as if dug for in the earth and sold for courtyard dances. It glimmers all over my body, frizzes up my hair as my ****** curls soak it, squeezes it down my face, down towards my neck like fingers. The villain walks away. The next time the hero sees him he should be careful. He will have decided to **** me by then.
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
Cliff.
A hand on a throat, where if all fingers touch, the throat turns to ash. The villain of an anime I now watch clutches the hero with his middle-finger aired before the vital moment. I jump on holiday off a cliff and my chest stumbles with simulations. My body angled poorly as I could slap headfirst. I was warned that my feet should sink first if I merely fall. If I dive, my fingers should first touch the water. I am depressed the months before. College student, America. So far off, so cold from the landlock of my birth. And the summer study-abroad, double-abroad. In Italy I was watching the Creation show itself on old ceilings in marble-rooms, looking for some culture that might have been ours if not for the pillagings that brought gold and bodies to shape that gold into buildings like this. So I jump and fall. And shiver emptily. It is the same feeling as the nights on the bed thinking of futures without this self. Thinking as if I did not exist. Ignored emails from therapists. And here *this feeling!*: it made me want to live. So I jump again on the higher ledge. My friend afterwards asks if I'm okay. I'm shaking slightly. I'm without words. I laugh with the same absence as any birth. A baby's confused cry without tears. A long way down. What blue-green water, as if dug for in the earth and sold for courtyard dances. It glimmers all over my body, frizzes up my hair as my ****** curls soak it, squeezes it down my face, down towards my neck like fingers. The villain walks away. The next time the hero sees him he should be careful. He will have decided to **** me by then.
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I I was walking through the forest of life when I saw in my path a shade whose spectral form blocked my way to the sweet fruits that lay beyond. II “Who are you, shade?” I asked, “Why do I find you now, in my travels?” The shade spoke not but instead pointed down yonder path and grinned a shade’s grin. III Where he pointed I could see through the space between trees a castle as black as night from where it sat brooding on a high hill. Instantly were the fruits forgotten, so great my urge to reach and enter this castle. IV When I looked again, the shade had vanished and I was alone once more. Quickly I continued down the path and towards my goal. V The way was long and as I finally reached the hill upon which the castle sat night had begun to fall. VI As I looked up, my first thought was that the castle had vanished leaving me alone and lost at the end of the path. VII When suddenly I saw a flame burn from one of its high windows. I realized the castle was still there but as deeply black as the darkening sky above. VIII Soon stars were visible and the contrast of the infinite darkness of the castle against them seemed as if a great black hole had opened up, revealing the never ending darkness that lies beyond what is known. IX Up I climbed until I came to its great gate and with beating heart did I gently push it open and enter the courtyard. X In it stood a fountain, now dry, and beyond that the crimson door through which I would gain access to this mysterious keep. XI As I approached the door I could read the inscription written by its large metal knocker: “Behind you lies what is known, ahead lies the unknown. For what is behind this door changes everything.” XII Slowly did I push the door and it quickly gave in. I passed the threshold and my eyes adjusted to the the darkness inside. XIII As my vision cleared I saw what lay in the middle of the room: a pen and a blank piece of paper.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 4:06 AM UTC
The Black Castle
I I was walking through the forest of life when I saw in my path a shade whose spectral form blocked my way to the sweet fruits that lay beyond. II “Who are you, shade?” I asked, “Why do I find you now, in my travels?” The shade spoke not but instead pointed down yonder path and grinned a shade’s grin. III Where he pointed I could see through the space between trees a castle as black as night from where it sat brooding on a high hill. Instantly were the fruits forgotten, so great my urge to reach and enter this castle. IV When I looked again, the shade had vanished and I was alone once more. Quickly I continued down the path and towards my goal. V The way was long and as I finally reached the hill upon which the castle sat night had begun to fall. VI As I looked up, my first thought was that the castle had vanished leaving me alone and lost at the end of the path. VII When suddenly I saw a flame burn from one of its high windows. I realized the castle was still there but as deeply black as the darkening sky above. VIII Soon stars were visible and the contrast of the infinite darkness of the castle against them seemed as if a great black hole had opened up, revealing the never ending darkness that lies beyond what is known. IX Up I climbed until I came to its great gate and with beating heart did I gently push it open and enter the courtyard. X In it stood a fountain, now dry, and beyond that the crimson door through which I would gain access to this mysterious keep. XI As I approached the door I could read the inscription written by its large metal knocker: “Behind you lies what is known, ahead lies the unknown. For what is behind this door changes everything.” XII Slowly did I push the door and it quickly gave in. I passed the threshold and my eyes adjusted to the the darkness inside. XIII As my vision cleared I saw what lay in the middle of the room: a pen and a blank piece of paper.
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When I was a little boy, say when I was six, my dad calls to me and he says: Come, boy – let’s sit in our courtyard; let’s sit below the stars and I’ll tell you a story. It’s been told long in our village, and passed on from wise fathers to growing sons. Long ago, goes the story Farmer Somu wanted his daughter Meena to marry the Strongest in the world and so he set out on a journey with his daughter to seek the World’s Strongest One And what were they going to do, little boy? says my father to me. They are going to look for the Strongest One, I say; and my father says: Ah, you clever son of a clever man. And when they walked past the rice fields they saw farmers wiping their brows and they said: ‘My, how strong the sun shines!’ ‘Aha,’ said Somu, ‘I think I’ve found the Strongest One. Come, Meena,’ he said, ‘let’s talk to the Sun.’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think Somu asked the Sun? And I say to my father: Oh Sun, Will you marry my daughter? And my father says, excitedly: Exactly! Exactly! Oh , you brilliant son of a brilliant man.* ‘Oh Sun, will you marry my daughter for she is the Prettiest and you are the Strongest?’ ‘But,’ said the Sun, ‘the cloud is stronger than I for have you not noticed how often the cloud blocks me out and I can’t do a thing until he decides to move?’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think Somu replied to the Sun? Oh, you weakling Sun – I’m not even talking to you! comes my quick reply. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you clever son of a clever man!* ‘Weakling Sun stand out of my way and Oh you most powerful cloud – will you marry my daughter for she is Prettiest and you the Strongest?’ And the Cloud replied: ‘But ah, I am not the Strongest for the wind just blows me away!’ And what do you think, my clever boy, what do you think Somu did next? And I answer my dad: Well, dad - Farmer Somu drags his daughter Meena to the Wind. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you brilliant son of a brilliant man! ‘O Wind you should marry Meena who is Prettiest in the world as you are the Strongest.’ But the Wind replied: ‘Ah, you don’t know how Strong the mountain is for he blocks my way and he breaks me down.’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think was Somu’s reply to the Wind? Oh, you useless Wind – I’m ashamed I even considered you! I reply. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you clever son of a clever man!* ‘Oh, you useless Wind – I’m ashamed I even considered you!’ said Farmer Somu and he dragged his daughter along to meet the mountain and he said to the mountain: ‘Most Honored Mountain I have heard of your strength and so I have brought you Meena who is the Prettiest.’ But the Mounatin replied: ‘Oh Sir, I am not deserving of such a rare beauty for the rat gnaws holes in my sides and so is Stronger than I.’ And what do you think, dear son, says my father to me – what do you think Somu does next? And I reply quite impatiently: Somu takes his daughter to the rat? Exactly! Exactly! shouts my dad. Exactly, you brainy son of a brainy man! And the Rat told Somu: ‘Alas, Sir though your daughter is most desirable I cannot marry her for the hyena is far stronger than me for he has eaten many of my family!’ And so they walk to the hyena, says my father to me. And what do you think Somu tells the hyena? And I reply: Oh hyena – marry my daughter for she is Prettiest and you are Strongest! And my father says: Oh you are right, boy! You are right – Oh you brilliant son of a brilliant man! ‘Sir Hyena Most Revered Sir Hyena do marry Meena for she is Prettiest and you the Strongest!’ And Sir hyena replied: ‘Ok. I ask for no dowry just leave her with me with no ceremony.’ And what do you think , asks my father, Somu did? And I reply: He left Meena with the hyena. And my father shouts excitedly: Oh, how right you are! How right you are! You clever child of a clever man. And no sooner had Somu left the hyena took Meena to his cave and he ate her all skin and bone… Ah what a tragic end; what a horrid end… *And dear son, says my father to me, what is the moral of this story? Many, I say. But two are: Use your wits and stay alive. Never allow yourself to be dragged around. And my father jumps up and he is excited: Oh how right! How right! You brilliant son of a brilliant father! And he turns to my mother who has joined us at the courtyard and he says: See how clever our son is – he knows all the answers! Such a brilliant son of a brilliant father! And my mother’s retort is swift: It’s not that he’s brilliant or you either. You’ve told him this story a hundred times, you silly man! And it’s always the same words! And I would have kicked my father if I were Meena!*
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM UTC
The Prettiest for the Strongest
When I was a little boy, say when I was six, my dad calls to me and he says: Come, boy – let’s sit in our courtyard; let’s sit below the stars and I’ll tell you a story. It’s been told long in our village, and passed on from wise fathers to growing sons. Long ago, goes the story Farmer Somu wanted his daughter Meena to marry the Strongest in the world and so he set out on a journey with his daughter to seek the World’s Strongest One And what were they going to do, little boy? says my father to me. They are going to look for the Strongest One, I say; and my father says: Ah, you clever son of a clever man. And when they walked past the rice fields they saw farmers wiping their brows and they said: ‘My, how strong the sun shines!’ ‘Aha,’ said Somu, ‘I think I’ve found the Strongest One. Come, Meena,’ he said, ‘let’s talk to the Sun.’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think Somu asked the Sun? And I say to my father: Oh Sun, Will you marry my daughter? And my father says, excitedly: Exactly! Exactly! Oh , you brilliant son of a brilliant man.* ‘Oh Sun, will you marry my daughter for she is the Prettiest and you are the Strongest?’ ‘But,’ said the Sun, ‘the cloud is stronger than I for have you not noticed how often the cloud blocks me out and I can’t do a thing until he decides to move?’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think Somu replied to the Sun? Oh, you weakling Sun – I’m not even talking to you! comes my quick reply. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you clever son of a clever man!* ‘Weakling Sun stand out of my way and Oh you most powerful cloud – will you marry my daughter for she is Prettiest and you the Strongest?’ And the Cloud replied: ‘But ah, I am not the Strongest for the wind just blows me away!’ And what do you think, my clever boy, what do you think Somu did next? And I answer my dad: Well, dad - Farmer Somu drags his daughter Meena to the Wind. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you brilliant son of a brilliant man! ‘O Wind you should marry Meena who is Prettiest in the world as you are the Strongest.’ But the Wind replied: ‘Ah, you don’t know how Strong the mountain is for he blocks my way and he breaks me down.’ *And what do you think, my little boy, what do you think was Somu’s reply to the Wind? Oh, you useless Wind – I’m ashamed I even considered you! I reply. And my father says: Oh how right you are – you clever son of a clever man!* ‘Oh, you useless Wind – I’m ashamed I even considered you!’ said Farmer Somu and he dragged his daughter along to meet the mountain and he said to the mountain: ‘Most Honored Mountain I have heard of your strength and so I have brought you Meena who is the Prettiest.’ But the Mounatin replied: ‘Oh Sir, I am not deserving of such a rare beauty for the rat gnaws holes in my sides and so is Stronger than I.’ And what do you think, dear son, says my father to me – what do you think Somu does next? And I reply quite impatiently: Somu takes his daughter to the rat? Exactly! Exactly! shouts my dad. Exactly, you brainy son of a brainy man! And the Rat told Somu: ‘Alas, Sir though your daughter is most desirable I cannot marry her for the hyena is far stronger than me for he has eaten many of my family!’ And so they walk to the hyena, says my father to me. And what do you think Somu tells the hyena? And I reply: Oh hyena – marry my daughter for she is Prettiest and you are Strongest! And my father says: Oh you are right, boy! You are right – Oh you brilliant son of a brilliant man! ‘Sir Hyena Most Revered Sir Hyena do marry Meena for she is Prettiest and you the Strongest!’ And Sir hyena replied: ‘Ok. I ask for no dowry just leave her with me with no ceremony.’ And what do you think , asks my father, Somu did? And I reply: He left Meena with the hyena. And my father shouts excitedly: Oh, how right you are! How right you are! You clever child of a clever man. And no sooner had Somu left the hyena took Meena to his cave and he ate her all skin and bone… Ah what a tragic end; what a horrid end… *And dear son, says my father to me, what is the moral of this story? Many, I say. But two are: Use your wits and stay alive. Never allow yourself to be dragged around. And my father jumps up and he is excited: Oh how right! How right! You brilliant son of a brilliant father! And he turns to my mother who has joined us at the courtyard and he says: See how clever our son is – he knows all the answers! Such a brilliant son of a brilliant father! And my mother’s retort is swift: It’s not that he’s brilliant or you either. You’ve told him this story a hundred times, you silly man! And it’s always the same words! And I would have kicked my father if I were Meena!*
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They are silent and beautiful, gorgeous in in the white halo, cemented in a beautiful terrazzo, baring the names of fallen soldiers, the European soldiers that fell in Wars; second and first and the heinous silent wars, i hope this is why they have a proverb; white sepulchre, only baring the white dead, only chiefs but no dead Indian. Common wealth graveyards are all over in Africa, in India , panama , Latin America and europe, the active fronts in which the allies fought ****** they are beautifully placed in silently posh areas, in langata when in Nairobi, in Mbaraki when in Mombasa, in Matisi when in Kenya, In Namusungui when in Lodwar, They bear horizontal silence with white names engraved on their beautiful face shouting the glory of European empires, which provoked the evil sense in the heart of the king's horseman in Kenya, in the city of Nairobi, to steal the graveyard lands, he made them his urban home with an uppish courtyard, for him the dead white neighbours are better than in-corruption. I walk around the commonwealth graveyards, in the all quarters of erstwhile British empire, looking for the names of African soldiers , who died in thousands fighting for the queen the royal bloodied woman of England;Elizabeth, Looking for the sons of Ethiopia who stood with the second duce Benito son of Mussolini, fighting for Hitler,for Shintos in the European war, i have seen no name of any African, I have not seen Wandabwa wa masibo, who was conscripted into the first world war, Along with his father Biket wa Khayongo, Biket back after seven years in 1918, carrying Wandabwa's Belt, Wandabwa died in the field, Where was he buried, he is nowhere Not anywhere among the soldiers in cemeteries, I have not seen Nasong'o wa Khayongo, who was conscripted in 1940, to fight against ****** he was conscripted on his nuptial evening, even before he had had the first *** with his new wife, he went away crying, he never came back, his name is nowhere in the graves the commonwealth graves that bare names of the fallen, Fallen soldiers, but they all bare white names in the black world. you come to Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Malagasy,Egypt, whatever the geographies of Africa, and you keep keen, you hear someone is called Mr. Keya, or Madam Keya, or you come to Bungoma county of Kenya, you meet a man that is of the circumcision age group, Known as Bakikwameti Keya, Bakinyikewi Musolini, Keya is subverted sound for Kings african rivals; KAR the African sound for KAR is Keya, in reference to mass conscription of Africans into the KAR, to fight ****** A child born during that time is Keya, A man circumcised during the time is in the age group of Keya, A simple lesson in regard to our people, taken away to fight the colonial power and left to died and rot away in the bush with a simple courtesy for ceremonial burial, that come along with the death of soldiers, who passed away in the battle field.
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 4:13 AM UTC
Commonwealth War Graveyards
They are silent and beautiful, gorgeous in in the white halo, cemented in a beautiful terrazzo, baring the names of fallen soldiers, the European soldiers that fell in Wars; second and first and the heinous silent wars, i hope this is why they have a proverb; white sepulchre, only baring the white dead, only chiefs but no dead Indian. Common wealth graveyards are all over in Africa, in India , panama , Latin America and europe, the active fronts in which the allies fought ****** they are beautifully placed in silently posh areas, in langata when in Nairobi, in Mbaraki when in Mombasa, in Matisi when in Kenya, In Namusungui when in Lodwar, They bear horizontal silence with white names engraved on their beautiful face shouting the glory of European empires, which provoked the evil sense in the heart of the king's horseman in Kenya, in the city of Nairobi, to steal the graveyard lands, he made them his urban home with an uppish courtyard, for him the dead white neighbours are better than in-corruption. I walk around the commonwealth graveyards, in the all quarters of erstwhile British empire, looking for the names of African soldiers , who died in thousands fighting for the queen the royal bloodied woman of England;Elizabeth, Looking for the sons of Ethiopia who stood with the second duce Benito son of Mussolini, fighting for Hitler,for Shintos in the European war, i have seen no name of any African, I have not seen Wandabwa wa masibo, who was conscripted into the first world war, Along with his father Biket wa Khayongo, Biket back after seven years in 1918, carrying Wandabwa's Belt, Wandabwa died in the field, Where was he buried, he is nowhere Not anywhere among the soldiers in cemeteries, I have not seen Nasong'o wa Khayongo, who was conscripted in 1940, to fight against ****** he was conscripted on his nuptial evening, even before he had had the first *** with his new wife, he went away crying, he never came back, his name is nowhere in the graves the commonwealth graves that bare names of the fallen, Fallen soldiers, but they all bare white names in the black world. you come to Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Malagasy,Egypt, whatever the geographies of Africa, and you keep keen, you hear someone is called Mr. Keya, or Madam Keya, or you come to Bungoma county of Kenya, you meet a man that is of the circumcision age group, Known as Bakikwameti Keya, Bakinyikewi Musolini, Keya is subverted sound for Kings african rivals; KAR the African sound for KAR is Keya, in reference to mass conscription of Africans into the KAR, to fight ****** A child born during that time is Keya, A man circumcised during the time is in the age group of Keya, A simple lesson in regard to our people, taken away to fight the colonial power and left to died and rot away in the bush with a simple courtesy for ceremonial burial, that come along with the death of soldiers, who passed away in the battle field.
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Lust is a sin everyone will enjoy, from the bums in the courtyard, mingling and thrusting ***** privates, to the chaste; to you and me, and celibate, The celibate lust for self-recognition, for their gods, for a higher purpose, To strive is to lust and to lust, it is only human to lust for comfort, for control, for order. Goals of every sect are prized, Sought after are the lusts that guide us, that energize the batteries in our backs, tells us to do crazy things, some promote devastation.
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 3:38 PM UTC
LUST
*Boat was ready to leave the shore An Old man waving hands to get in fast People come running to the boat, The only transportation of the village Sitting in a tea shop watching The boat leaving with school students,working women, Fish sellers, vegetable vendors, Old age youths It was raining to make it more worse Back to home with an umbrella of palm leaves Calling out the number of coconuts ready to pluck A man on top of the coconut tree with his loops Courtyard was full of blooming flowers My favourite the jungle flame flowers Frog hops after the raindrops Some hot rice porridge and coconut dip Was kept ready on the table Drying my hair with a towel Had my porridge watching the rain, flowers, flies And my mother standing near me With an innocent lovely smile !*
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Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016 at 2:58 PM UTC
My Old Village
Lady you stand at the end Where entrance meets daylight Under the red brick archway Between the buildings, A white cap hides your hair And the Dutch costume Is of yesterday. Silhouetted in geometry Your profile senses thought Far out in the distance Where hopes and dreams reside. You are as ancient as humanity Womenkind contemplating Their singularity, Waiting for time To eclipse this solitude. Love Mary From Pieter De ***** The Courtyard Painting National Gallery London.
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Feb 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018 at 9:06 AM UTC
Women.
i am lying on my stomach after having spent hours propped up on my elbows spent hours reading, sunbathing spent hours getting drunk and tired in the sun i am outside our new chicago home in a courtyard belonging to only us i am sprawled on the transparent blue plastic of my past the cerulean beach chair that never made it to a single beach. its plastic wound and woven around the metal like nothing i’ve ever seen before and i fall asleep and i’m awakened by the raindrops on the low of my bare back but it is not raining and i wake up naked, inside, in your arms as you tap out a tune on me and the blue chair that we put in the shower when my brother was too weak to stand because my brother was too weak to stand is nowhere to be found even when he went to live in the hospital that chair gathered rust in a closed, dripping shower we threw it out it reminded us of a hard time he was our only surviving souvenir   i miss the chair and i miss the person he was before it all before he gathered all this rust
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Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 3:21 PM UTC
and in my dream
High on Cateye and Ghost Sight, I stumbled through the streets of Salida del Sol beneath the watchful eye of Father Elijah. The roulette spinner cobblestones clicked as my feet dragged past the courtyard. Like an effigy, the homemade martini between my fingers burned my gin-soaked lungs. Sweat and vermouth settled in the circuits of my collar as I gasped for relief. Hologram gamblers tossed golden casino chips in dried fountains as they strolled past me and through the Sierra Madre's gates.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 10:03 PM UTC
The Sierra Madre Casino