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"dabbled" poems
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapurous Bacchanal rite! The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet’s horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth -Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood. I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystic bar That is set for wrath and weeping Against the children of earth; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight : My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light.. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day’s We are wed, we are wild, we are one.
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Dionysus
and as the wilderness song turns (and loveliness) we are gathered we by the spirit we we in the wilderness ........ dabbled sky song she she who remains free ..... remain free ....... love! ...... love! ...... ...... remaining renamed "seed" we remain in purity in the wilderness we sing of all possibilities ...... we are strong .......
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Aug 24, 2011
Aug 24, 2011 at 7:20 PM UTC
wilderness
Maybe it was me, not you... **** it. I ain't one to Sugar-coat the truth. Or sacrifice my youth. You were fun while it Lasted. Dabbled in my Little thing of passion. Became my main source of the Madness. What the **** you expect from me? Better than them hoes That just want a check from me. But still, wasn't much that You could get from me. And **** it, if there was, Still wouldn't get from me. I'm deliberately harsh. Say things from the heart. Make you swear I've no Heart. But you was tearin us apart. I would never feel remorse, I could never shed a tear for you. If you was dying from a fright, I wouldn't **** a fear for you. Dying here tonight? Yeah, I'd like to hear from you... If you wanna tonight, I'll rush the new year for you. Ungrateful little ***** Happy I don't have to deal with you Could never feel for you.
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 7:48 AM UTC
Exes And Hoes
ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care; While hushed from fear, or loud with hope, a band With blown, spray-dabbled hair gather at hand, Turn if you may from battles never done, I call, as they go by me one by one, Danger no refuge holds, and war no peace, For him who hears love sing and never cease, Beside her clean-swept hearth, her quiet shade: But gather all for whom no love hath made A woven silence, or but came to cast A song into the air, and singing passed To smile on the pale dawn; and gather you Who have sougft more than is in rain or dew, Or in the sun and moon, or on the earth, Or sighs amid the wandering, starry mirth, Or comes in laughter from the sea's sad lips, And wage God's battles in the long grey ships. The sad, the lonely, the insatiable, To these Old Night shall all her mystery tell; God's bell has claimed them by the little cry Of their sad hearts, that may not live nor die. Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last, defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.
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The Rose Of Battle
ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care; While hushed from fear, or loud with hope, a band With blown, spray-dabbled hair gather at hand, Turn if you may from battles never done, I call, as they go by me one by one, Danger no refuge holds, and war no peace, For him who hears love sing and never cease, Beside her clean-swept hearth, her quiet shade: But gather all for whom no love hath made A woven silence, or but came to cast A song into the air, and singing passed To smile on the pale dawn; and gather you Who have sougft more than is in rain or dew, Or in the sun and moon, or on the earth, Or sighs amid the wandering, starry mirth, Or comes in laughter from the sea's sad lips, And wage God's battles in the long grey ships. The sad, the lonely, the insatiable, To these Old Night shall all her mystery tell; God's bell has claimed them by the little cry Of their sad hearts, that may not live nor die. Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last, defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.
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Ballerina stance leaner porcelain poised demeanor lined up for a chance at that old 500 gram repeater. Yeah, a little firecracker, a little fire eater. Twiggy figure, ****** fire dome where her little wires teeter. Excellent muse material my ***** optics viewed ethereal Beauty, and she knew it. Arrogance. Noted, duly. Pittsburgh's resident fire ant, with a grace to match her face And a whole crew of troglodytes racing to get a taste So thanks Angela Chase; I prefer the fantasy too. And thanks to you my chickens won't be sleeping easy in their coup. Loop Jabberwocky with Calligraphy and dabbled in polygamy. purpose: ****** cyst bubbles to the surface. Misinterpret the tongue touching and hand clutching, you were baby girlie thumb-sucking But thought more than twice about it when it came to dumb-fucking. Pretty face: check Depression: not yet Appreciating phonemes, but still a nervous wreck false carrot tops to bed, awkward with the ***** work. Near waif redhead. Pittsburgh Boys. the city lurks It's been a minute since the girl scouts got at me, I bought it. Hop in the DeLorean tell Lauren that I'm off it.
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Mar 16, 2010
Mar 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM UTC
Security Breach at The Hen House
My father was always one notch on his bedpost close to hypocrisy and my mother was a couple notches shy of getting there- she never dabbled in multiracial relationships like my father did. You see when I was growing up I had a crush on the little mixed boy down the street and I was afraid of telling anybody but it wasn't because of his skin- but because ew, feelings. Right? I never saw just black and white, skin color was never a forefront it was all just background noise- to me it was all just gray. There's no handbook about who you connect with and there's no color scheme that's gonna show you who to trust. I realized that because before I had a boyfriend No black people where allowed at my house not because they didn't want me hanging out with black people- but because they were afraid I would end up with one. Segregation was my father's second nature and I would like to blame it on the era he was born- even though I'm really not so sure. And now that I have a boyfriend everything is fine... It's like in their mind the more melanin the more sin I'm sorry father and mother but there is no color coordination to this thing we call life- I never grew up afraid of colors because I loved rainbow- I never grew up scared of the skin that wasn't like mine just because of all the stories these white folks like to tell- But the funny thing is it was a white male, and a white female that molested me.... And my parents probably would've warned me about the mixed boy down the street- so really? who should we be afraid of? Everyone. Equally.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
Take off your eye masks and wake up people, it's 2015 and I'm tired of you sleeping on this issue.
My father was always one notch on his bedpost close to hypocrisy and my mother was a couple notches shy of getting there- she never dabbled in multiracial relationships like my father did. You see when I was growing up I had a crush on the little mixed boy down the street and I was afraid of telling anybody but it wasn't because of his skin- but because ew, feelings. Right? I never saw just black and white, skin color was never a forefront it was all just background noise- to me it was all just gray. There's no handbook about who you connect with and there's no color scheme that's gonna show you who to trust. I realized that because before I had a boyfriend No black people where allowed at my house not because they didn't want me hanging out with black people- but because they were afraid I would end up with one. Segregation was my father's second nature and I would like to blame it on the era he was born- even though I'm really not so sure. And now that I have a boyfriend everything is fine... It's like in their mind the more melanin the more sin I'm sorry father and mother but there is no color coordination to this thing we call life- I never grew up afraid of colors because I loved rainbow- I never grew up scared of the skin that wasn't like mine just because of all the stories these white folks like to tell- But the funny thing is it was a white male, and a white female that molested me.... And my parents probably would've warned me about the mixed boy down the street- so really? who should we be afraid of? Everyone. Equally.
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But why did I **** him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and throb with his cry, And his eyes goggle under his hair, As my fingers sink into the fair White skin of his throat. It was I! I killed him! My God! Don't you hear? I shook him until his red tongue Hung flapping out through the black, queer, Swollen lines of his lips. And I clung With my nails drawing blood, while I flung The loose, heavy body in fear. Fear lest he should still not be dead. I was drunk with the lust of his life. The blood-drops oozed slow from his head And dabbled a chair. And our strife Lasted one reeling second, his knife Lay and winked in the lights overhead. And the waltz from the ballroom I heard, When I called him a low, sneaking cur. And the wail of the violins stirred My brute anger with visions of her. As I throttled his windpipe, the purr Of his breath with the waltz became blurred. I have ridden ten miles through the dark, With that music, an infernal din, Pounding rhythmic inside me. Just Hark! One! Two! Three! And my fingers sink in To his flesh when the violins, thin And straining with passion, grow stark. One! Two! Three! Oh, the horror of sound! While she danced I was crushing his throat. He had tasted the joy of her, wound Round her body, and I heard him gloat On the favour. That instant I smote. One! Two! Three! How the dancers swirl round! He is here in the room, in my arm, His limp body hangs on the spin Of the waltz we are dancing, a swarm Of blood-drops is hemming us in! Round and round! One! Two! Three! And his sin Is red like his tongue lolling warm. One! Two! Three! And the drums are his knell. He is heavy, his feet beat the floor As I drag him about in the swell Of the waltz. With a menacing roar, The trumpets crash in through the door. One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell. One! Two! Three! In the chaos of space Rolls the earth to the hideous glee Of death! And so cramped is this place, I stifle and pant. One! Two! Three! Round and round! God! 'Tis he throttles me! He has covered my mouth with his face! And his blood has dripped into my heart! And my heart beats and labours. One! Two! Three! His dead limbs have coiled every part Of my body in tentacles. Through My ears the waltz jangles. Like glue His dead body holds me athwart. One! Two! Three! Give me air! Oh! My God! One! Two! Three! I am drowning in slime! One! Two! Three! And his corpse, like a clod, Beats me into a jelly! The chime, One! Two! Three! And his dead legs keep time. Air! Give me air! Air! My God!
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After Hearing A Waltz By Bartok
But why did I **** him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and throb with his cry, And his eyes goggle under his hair, As my fingers sink into the fair White skin of his throat. It was I! I killed him! My God! Don't you hear? I shook him until his red tongue Hung flapping out through the black, queer, Swollen lines of his lips. And I clung With my nails drawing blood, while I flung The loose, heavy body in fear. Fear lest he should still not be dead. I was drunk with the lust of his life. The blood-drops oozed slow from his head And dabbled a chair. And our strife Lasted one reeling second, his knife Lay and winked in the lights overhead. And the waltz from the ballroom I heard, When I called him a low, sneaking cur. And the wail of the violins stirred My brute anger with visions of her. As I throttled his windpipe, the purr Of his breath with the waltz became blurred. I have ridden ten miles through the dark, With that music, an infernal din, Pounding rhythmic inside me. Just Hark! One! Two! Three! And my fingers sink in To his flesh when the violins, thin And straining with passion, grow stark. One! Two! Three! Oh, the horror of sound! While she danced I was crushing his throat. He had tasted the joy of her, wound Round her body, and I heard him gloat On the favour. That instant I smote. One! Two! Three! How the dancers swirl round! He is here in the room, in my arm, His limp body hangs on the spin Of the waltz we are dancing, a swarm Of blood-drops is hemming us in! Round and round! One! Two! Three! And his sin Is red like his tongue lolling warm. One! Two! Three! And the drums are his knell. He is heavy, his feet beat the floor As I drag him about in the swell Of the waltz. With a menacing roar, The trumpets crash in through the door. One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell. One! Two! Three! In the chaos of space Rolls the earth to the hideous glee Of death! And so cramped is this place, I stifle and pant. One! Two! Three! Round and round! God! 'Tis he throttles me! He has covered my mouth with his face! And his blood has dripped into my heart! And my heart beats and labours. One! Two! Three! His dead limbs have coiled every part Of my body in tentacles. Through My ears the waltz jangles. Like glue His dead body holds me athwart. One! Two! Three! Give me air! Oh! My God! One! Two! Three! I am drowning in slime! One! Two! Three! And his corpse, like a clod, Beats me into a jelly! The chime, One! Two! Three! And his dead legs keep time. Air! Give me air! Air! My God!
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I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die. A weariness comes from those dreamers, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose; Ah, dream not of them, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes, Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew: For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you! I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more; Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
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The White Birds
I thought I might be a musician Mom couldn’t afford my lessons My eyesight wasn’t great I couldn’t read notes fast enough Practicing annoyed the family I only managed last chair, 2nd violins               But still I got to play in High School concerts In shiny dresses with glitter in my hair               However I haven’t held a violin in years I loaned mine to a Bluegrass band The leader died - and it was gone ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I thought I might become a dancer But my fingers can not touch the floor I couldn’t kick much higher than my waist Choreography was hard for me to learn I had the stamina if not the skill My partner wanted someone else                 But still I danced on stage in a college play And Morris Danced at the Old Globe Theatre                 However I’ve forgotten how to keep the beat And all the dance floor moves I made I’m too self conscious now to try ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I fancied I could be a singer I knew the words to all the songs And I could keep the melody in tune But I had a voice with no vibrato And the quality was thin My range was very limited               But still I sang Blueberry Hill at a talent show In a black lame’ dress and surprised a few               However I couldn’t get the hang of harmony And found I fit best in a choir My family wouldn’t hear my solos ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I thought that I was born an actress I practically got that one right I had a lead in an Ibsen play And toured the state with Macbeth But Hollywood was one big casting couch And I could see no way around it           But still I got to be on TV  shows Winning games and merchandise           However I sold the Firebird Convertible I won I needed rent money more than a car And rules allow you only three shows in a lifetime ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I always thought I was a poet I started young and never stopped But family ignored and scoffed Then I got trapped inside my mirror And only wrote when all was beak Somebody said my stuff was dreary           But still I stumbled on the HP website And found a group who like the words I write           However When I read the others’ writes I realize how limited my skills And fight the need to run away and hide.     ∞ It seems I dabbled in all the arts
 Looking for the one that fit me And finding they all needed alteration And I never had the proper needle   ∞   Still, a moment in the sun Is better than a lifetime in the shade I had a taste of everything Though the banquet was not mine. ljm
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Jul 8, 2017
Jul 8, 2017 at 12:24 PM UTC
ADOLESCENT ASPIRATIONS ALL GROWN UP
I thought I might be a musician Mom couldn’t afford my lessons My eyesight wasn’t great I couldn’t read notes fast enough Practicing annoyed the family I only managed last chair, 2nd violins               But still I got to play in High School concerts In shiny dresses with glitter in my hair               However I haven’t held a violin in years I loaned mine to a Bluegrass band The leader died - and it was gone ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I thought I might become a dancer But my fingers can not touch the floor I couldn’t kick much higher than my waist Choreography was hard for me to learn I had the stamina if not the skill My partner wanted someone else                 But still I danced on stage in a college play And Morris Danced at the Old Globe Theatre                 However I’ve forgotten how to keep the beat And all the dance floor moves I made I’m too self conscious now to try ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I fancied I could be a singer I knew the words to all the songs And I could keep the melody in tune But I had a voice with no vibrato And the quality was thin My range was very limited               But still I sang Blueberry Hill at a talent show In a black lame’ dress and surprised a few               However I couldn’t get the hang of harmony And found I fit best in a choir My family wouldn’t hear my solos ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I thought that I was born an actress I practically got that one right I had a lead in an Ibsen play And toured the state with Macbeth But Hollywood was one big casting couch And I could see no way around it           But still I got to be on TV  shows Winning games and merchandise           However I sold the Firebird Convertible I won I needed rent money more than a car And rules allow you only three shows in a lifetime ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ I always thought I was a poet I started young and never stopped But family ignored and scoffed Then I got trapped inside my mirror And only wrote when all was beak Somebody said my stuff was dreary           But still I stumbled on the HP website And found a group who like the words I write           However When I read the others’ writes I realize how limited my skills And fight the need to run away and hide.     ∞ It seems I dabbled in all the arts
 Looking for the one that fit me And finding they all needed alteration And I never had the proper needle   ∞   Still, a moment in the sun Is better than a lifetime in the shade I had a taste of everything Though the banquet was not mine. ljm
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When in Bohemia, she screams about Her pastures green, but not too loud So never have I known, that the world listens too As a comedian, I see she belongs But never conforms, to the song of This nomad world, I'm glad she found it too So run! She wants to run again You vagabond, you're well-spent Bohemian tendencies says, “you can't stay long” “These kinds of commons, you won't ever get along” Armenian, it’s such a release Materialistic animosity The speed of life has no value, like dollar signs I loved an alien, who dabbled in art Of all visage, enema of the heart Wanderer, she's spent so much but there's that bliss in the air So smile! It's all sorts of worthwhile To see a world and not fret so much Bohemian tendencies says, “be spectacular Before the nebula men steal your fur” In the Caribbean, you dream a kite As your taxi, you can't walk all the time Travel hills of puce-mauve sands, the world in trance A true deviant, the thinking of All dreaming thoughts, and loves begot Tinkerer, what will we do when our brains run dry? Oh, no! Don't think about the end To love a life in due pretence  Bohemian tendencies says, “think fair, live now” “The world is watching with distaste of time in doubt” As a chameleon, should she go alone? The world is cold, except for times in colour Her world in dance, she'll do without me When in Bohemian, the first I've seen Of pastel stencils through her happi- Ness-tled in her loft home of the wind There she goes! Ain’t she a lovely wing? I hope she finds a world that sings Bohemian tendencies says, “to love and to hold But to let go, for treasures can mold” There she goes There she goes There she goes
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 3:39 PM UTC
Borne on the World's Wake
When in Bohemia, she screams about Her pastures green, but not too loud So never have I known, that the world listens too As a comedian, I see she belongs But never conforms, to the song of This nomad world, I'm glad she found it too So run! She wants to run again You vagabond, you're well-spent Bohemian tendencies says, “you can't stay long” “These kinds of commons, you won't ever get along” Armenian, it’s such a release Materialistic animosity The speed of life has no value, like dollar signs I loved an alien, who dabbled in art Of all visage, enema of the heart Wanderer, she's spent so much but there's that bliss in the air So smile! It's all sorts of worthwhile To see a world and not fret so much Bohemian tendencies says, “be spectacular Before the nebula men steal your fur” In the Caribbean, you dream a kite As your taxi, you can't walk all the time Travel hills of puce-mauve sands, the world in trance A true deviant, the thinking of All dreaming thoughts, and loves begot Tinkerer, what will we do when our brains run dry? Oh, no! Don't think about the end To love a life in due pretence  Bohemian tendencies says, “think fair, live now” “The world is watching with distaste of time in doubt” As a chameleon, should she go alone? The world is cold, except for times in colour Her world in dance, she'll do without me When in Bohemian, the first I've seen Of pastel stencils through her happi- Ness-tled in her loft home of the wind There she goes! Ain’t she a lovely wing? I hope she finds a world that sings Bohemian tendencies says, “to love and to hold But to let go, for treasures can mold” There she goes There she goes There she goes
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they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in midnight age as we go along holding dead hands. and we would say rather than delude the knowing: a **** good show, but hardly enough for a horse to eat, and out on the sunshine street where eyes are dabbled in metazoan faces i decide again that in theses centuries they have done very well considering the nature of their brothers: it's more than good that some of them, (closer really to the field-mouse than falcon) have been bold enough to try.
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On Going Back To The Street After Viewing An Art Show
black bee head first in a hibiscus flower waxy pollen beads dabbled down its gleaming back foraging done it shimmies out to spy the next allurement darting and hovering as it chooses its mark close enough to feel its pulsing whir breeze the hair on my arm I hover too allured and unfurled before turning to dart through this shimmering world Tom Spencer © 2018
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 7:03 AM UTC
black bee
What the **** was that? Did I go crazy for a second? Did Joey B really take my soul or possess my heart? Did he **** my mind or maybe did he take it apart? I'll go with the later. He's an intellectual. He did what he could to steal it all. I don't know why I thought I could hold up against his manipulation. I'm strong-hearted, strong willed. I know now that it's not my love that could save his soul. At the same time it is, because my love is a part of all love. I should have known that if he could withstand it all, I stood no chance. I know I care too much. I have no power to save. I can heal myself, maybe others too but I can't be their change. They have to choose for themselves. I've known that too. I guess to truly learn I had to face it head on. But lessons learned, now I am living for me. I'm living for my destiny. What that is? Still learning. I know I am to serve. Serve me, myself, and others because that is what we deserve. Though now I know I must serve with protection. All love. Still open. My heart is saved for those like-minded. We must join together and that is how we save lives. I dabbled in lust and temptation for the last time. I will still make mistakes. Imperfection is our lives. Nothing ever again of such magnitude. Never again will I allow myself to be so tainted. Never again will I see others in such a situation. I know others I can't change but I will offer my lending hand.
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Oct 18, 2016
Oct 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM UTC
Never ***
Transmute from lead to gold this crooked soul. Memories of times old create the whole. I am unashamed to stand before God. My spirit naked, covered with dirt and sod. You did this to me yet I rolled the dice. Forgot to check the trap - my fatal vice. Dabbled with the darkened void in your heart. Should have known it was rotten from the start. Betrayal makes for a more grounded man. Locking his emotions into a sealed can. So I raise my head in bold defiance. And slay that "God" with cynical science. © Copyright Mr. James P Machen 26/08/2014 for viewing only. May not be replicated.
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 6:58 AM UTC
Betrayal of the Heart (Antitheist)
On April 10th, 1846 on the ship Devonshire from Liverpool, one Catherine McCarty, age 17 arrived in New York during times most cruel. She made this long journey to escape the famine occurring in her native Ireland. We don't know if she arrived alone or with family or whether she was married or accompanied with a boyfriend. The passenger arrival manifest has her listed a servant as the occupation she did. Based only on her age and her name, many historians have speculated and proclaimed that she's the mother of BILLY the Kid. Billy's mother died on September 16th in the year of 1874. She was 45 years old according to her obituary. Combine the above information and we know one thing for sure. Immigrant Catherine shared the same age and name as did the true mother of Billy. It seems that due to health reasons, Catherine McCarty's life had gone onto searching for dryer climate out west as a single mother of two. One of her sons would live a full life and then fade into obscurity. Her other son would die very young and become one of the greatest legends to ever be. No one knows anything about the boys' father or whether they shared the same one. Did he/they die or abandon the family? Your guess is as good as anyone's. Catherine was a strong, independent, gregarious lass whom everyone seemed to like and enjoy very dearly. She earned a living selling baked goods to customers she had amassed and by also doing much of the neighborhood's ***** laundry. She also dabbled in real estate, purchasing what little property she could afford, and to earn extra income she'd often open the door to her home and welcome all those willing to pay room and board. It was clearly shown that she could take on the responsibility alone, as far as providing and caring for her boys. When she wasn't earning employment, she'd occasionally indulge in the enjoyment that every good, loving mother enjoys. After schooling her children, she'd take them to local dances where she was known to be one of the grandest dancers on the dance floor, but of all the dance partners she'd dance with there was always one she could never resist and he'd want to dance with her more and more. "Of all my dance partners," she told him one night, "you are my favorite one." To see her lovingly gaze into his eyes, it certainly would come as no surprise to learn that William Henry was Catherine McCarty's favored son. To Be Continued
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Jul 7, 2010
Jul 7, 2010 at 4:47 PM UTC
04. Catherine McCarty
On April 10th, 1846 on the ship Devonshire from Liverpool, one Catherine McCarty, age 17 arrived in New York during times most cruel. She made this long journey to escape the famine occurring in her native Ireland. We don't know if she arrived alone or with family or whether she was married or accompanied with a boyfriend. The passenger arrival manifest has her listed a servant as the occupation she did. Based only on her age and her name, many historians have speculated and proclaimed that she's the mother of BILLY the Kid. Billy's mother died on September 16th in the year of 1874. She was 45 years old according to her obituary. Combine the above information and we know one thing for sure. Immigrant Catherine shared the same age and name as did the true mother of Billy. It seems that due to health reasons, Catherine McCarty's life had gone onto searching for dryer climate out west as a single mother of two. One of her sons would live a full life and then fade into obscurity. Her other son would die very young and become one of the greatest legends to ever be. No one knows anything about the boys' father or whether they shared the same one. Did he/they die or abandon the family? Your guess is as good as anyone's. Catherine was a strong, independent, gregarious lass whom everyone seemed to like and enjoy very dearly. She earned a living selling baked goods to customers she had amassed and by also doing much of the neighborhood's ***** laundry. She also dabbled in real estate, purchasing what little property she could afford, and to earn extra income she'd often open the door to her home and welcome all those willing to pay room and board. It was clearly shown that she could take on the responsibility alone, as far as providing and caring for her boys. When she wasn't earning employment, she'd occasionally indulge in the enjoyment that every good, loving mother enjoys. After schooling her children, she'd take them to local dances where she was known to be one of the grandest dancers on the dance floor, but of all the dance partners she'd dance with there was always one she could never resist and he'd want to dance with her more and more. "Of all my dance partners," she told him one night, "you are my favorite one." To see her lovingly gaze into his eyes, it certainly would come as no surprise to learn that William Henry was Catherine McCarty's favored son. To Be Continued
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As a child I dabbled in ****** No barbie was safe from the hands of their god Ran hills caked to the toe Roughed terrain with neighborhood boys They called me girl But I felt boy Upon later years I learned: Dress Skirt Bra Flower Amenities accustomed to this body; A bustling street of hormones without a red light Next were ******* Wild & rambling, I soon Mastered the art of shrinking I kissed my first boy & felt it rattle through my bones His hair an ocean in my hands as I rose up to the surface Later I discovered the shared experience of Woman, Shifting about the world as a silly metaphor Carved fingers into mace & metal Ankles clinking busily on a subway platform In learning to fight The young boy dwindled into memory and I couldn’t sense shape anymore Fell in and out of love with woman and man alike, Sinking deep into salt & sand These days I can’t help but wonder if attraction is a mode of defense Or that of love These days I run hills in heels Caked to the toe in color -- c
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Mar 13, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 at 1:11 AM UTC
Lessons I Learned As A Young Boy
the dark is mysterious I fell fast the way the depth of his soul danced in his eyes like firelight I was drawn to the shadows doing tango on the walls around my desperate, desolate heart He was daring I dabbled in the presence of darkness I liked being daunted which was honestly, surprising at first. © A. Leigh
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
Dark Alleys
Do not tie my wings, Says the honey-bee; Do not bind my wings, Leave them glad and free. If I fly abroad, If I keep afar, Humming all the day, Where wild blossoms are, 'Tis to bring you sweets, Rich as summer joy, Clear--as gold and glass; The divinest toy That the god's have left, Is the pretty hive, Where a maiden reigns, And the busy thrive. If you bar my way, Your delight is gone, No more honey-gems; From the heather borne; No more tiny thefts, From your neighbor's rose, Who were glad to guess Where its sweetness goes. Let the man of arts Ply his plane and glass; Let the vapors rise, Let the liquor pass; Let the dusky slave Till the southern fields; Not the task of both Such a treasure yields; Honey, Pan ordained, Food for gods and men, Only in my way Shall you store again. Leave me to my will While the bright days glow, While the sleepy flowers Quicken as I go. When the pretty ones Look to me no more, Dead, beneath your feet, Crushed and dabbled o'er; In my narrow cell I will fold my wing; Sink in dark and chill, A forgotten thing. Can you read the song Of the suppliant bee? 'Tis a poet's soul, Asking liberty.
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The Bee's Song
She came to me at Calvados, A single night, without repeat. The woman of my soul’s love longing, to consummate with kisses sweet. She entered in my midnight room a simple pastel shift she wore Smiling as she bared her shoulders, the garment dropping to the floor. So beautiful, this child of Gonne, to this poet’s bleary eyes. How often I had praised, in print, her auburn hair and hazel eyes. I was silent, she as well, neither keen to break the spell. She kissed me deeply on the lips just as the stroke of midnight fell. Her fingers deeply in my hair she brought me to her freckled chest. I licked and nibbled at one ****** like a baby at her breast. She mounted me, her Rocinante, and slowly, we began our quest. My Willie in warm velvet wetness wrapped as I returned her thrusts. In spirit, we belonged together. In truth,she’d wed another man. A brute who’d tried to **** her sister. She, too, had suffered at his hand. As we played, she bent to kiss me sweet Celtic sweat was in her hair In another life she’d been my sister. In this life’s love war all was fair. She gave out with a little cry as she took my Willie deep. we came in unison so sweetly but quietly, her child was asleep. I remember, one time, Maud had asked what type of bird I’d like to be? Back upon the hills at Howth when we were young and both still free. “I think”, I said,” I’d be a gull, playing at the shore for free. Soaring high above the water taking my living from the sea.” Now we lay here in Calvados near the town Colleville sur Mer Her villa was named “Les Mouettes” For one night only, we coupled there. It is rumored that, in the Summer of 1907, William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne shared physical intimacy for the one and only time in their lives. He the famous Poet and Playwright, she the famous Irish nationalist. At the time she was separated from John MacBride, but they had not divorced, being Catholic. Yeats had a belief in reincarnation and both had, at times, dabbled in the occult. See also my poem " Making Iseult" The child asleep in the adjoining room would be Sean MacBride, later in life a Nobel peace prize winner. Les Mouettes is French for "the (Sea)gulls." I have read that Yeats wrote a love poem about this night, but that it has been lost. This is my attempt to replicate that lost love poem. I thank Patrick McFarland for helping me revise the original version of the poem. His suggestions improved the flow of the piece. .
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 8:39 AM UTC
Willie and Maud
She came to me at Calvados, A single night, without repeat. The woman of my soul’s love longing, to consummate with kisses sweet. She entered in my midnight room a simple pastel shift she wore Smiling as she bared her shoulders, the garment dropping to the floor. So beautiful, this child of Gonne, to this poet’s bleary eyes. How often I had praised, in print, her auburn hair and hazel eyes. I was silent, she as well, neither keen to break the spell. She kissed me deeply on the lips just as the stroke of midnight fell. Her fingers deeply in my hair she brought me to her freckled chest. I licked and nibbled at one ****** like a baby at her breast. She mounted me, her Rocinante, and slowly, we began our quest. My Willie in warm velvet wetness wrapped as I returned her thrusts. In spirit, we belonged together. In truth,she’d wed another man. A brute who’d tried to **** her sister. She, too, had suffered at his hand. As we played, she bent to kiss me sweet Celtic sweat was in her hair In another life she’d been my sister. In this life’s love war all was fair. She gave out with a little cry as she took my Willie deep. we came in unison so sweetly but quietly, her child was asleep. I remember, one time, Maud had asked what type of bird I’d like to be? Back upon the hills at Howth when we were young and both still free. “I think”, I said,” I’d be a gull, playing at the shore for free. Soaring high above the water taking my living from the sea.” Now we lay here in Calvados near the town Colleville sur Mer Her villa was named “Les Mouettes” For one night only, we coupled there. It is rumored that, in the Summer of 1907, William Butler Yeats and Maud Gonne shared physical intimacy for the one and only time in their lives. He the famous Poet and Playwright, she the famous Irish nationalist. At the time she was separated from John MacBride, but they had not divorced, being Catholic. Yeats had a belief in reincarnation and both had, at times, dabbled in the occult. See also my poem " Making Iseult" The child asleep in the adjoining room would be Sean MacBride, later in life a Nobel peace prize winner. Les Mouettes is French for "the (Sea)gulls." I have read that Yeats wrote a love poem about this night, but that it has been lost. This is my attempt to replicate that lost love poem. I thank Patrick McFarland for helping me revise the original version of the poem. His suggestions improved the flow of the piece. .
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Lucid dreaming whilst sleeping in zero gravity Encapsulated in the realm of Nirvana Majestic tranquility of a pilular nature Pilular because you have "class" Constellation of implications, Etched on skin We all have dabbled in tragedy.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM UTC
Codeine
Perched high upon this jutting cliff The flint stood hard upon my feet I lay with lizards and basked in warmth As beneath the waves rose & swirled - Across the bay the castle walls That stand in time & in a time Many have been and dabbled in myths To take the steps and do the climb. - Below the sea strikes on the rocks And hides the cave where magic lies As people wait for tides to drift And venture down in search of quartz - The rolling slopes and ragged crags Engulf the isle that now lays calm Where once was death and battles fought And magic brought the golden one - Behind my back stands Barras Nose Who’s clash is vain with battling seas As heat comes down and warms my soul I lowered my head in prayer for thee - Whilst lost in thought of fallen foe And knights that fought upon this spot Of myths & legends within my heart What was the power that turned the key - And waves that flow forever on Like time can drift and so can life Today I laid upon this cliff And breathed the air absorbed as one - My eyes look out across this place The colours that fester upon the land From grass & rock & sand & sea And birds that swoop in endless song - And those before and yet to come Like beating rhythms within my mind To find a place that brings you peace As reality calls and beckons you home
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Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010 at 8:56 AM UTC
Tintagel - Birthplace of Arthur
My thoughts are dabbled across the floor My memory lies beneath the sink with the must and the Brillo pads I flushed my attitude down the john I think the dog is chewing on my heart Or buried it someplace My understanding is somewhere behind the couch And God, who knows where my self-confidence is I left my laugh in the hamper along with my shriveled grin I think ended up lending out my pride to the neighbor who never returns things Oh, the cat must have hacked up on my dreams I think that's my intelligence somewhere between the stale Bologna and brandy And I know that my tolerance is strewn from the staircase That must be my willingness that's collecting mold I'm pretty sure that's my perseverance behind the broken lamp post And is that my trust underneath that piece of toast Wait, I think that's my voice crashing dishes Or is that my happiness that's tearing up floorboards It could be my tranquility that's tracking dirt in Are those my wishes that's tipping over furniture I can't quiet tell if that's my dignity or individuality under one of those shoes Well, whatever it is, I think it's moving There's a bunch more clutter lying around and quite a bit more positivity that needs re-homing I oughta think about cleaning up but for now I'll sweep it under the carpet
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Mar 4, 2012
Mar 4, 2012 at 12:21 AM UTC
Should Clean Up
At his face it got harder to stare But in his truth he would glower Into this looking glass That looks right back At the years of age That washed his face Over that disgraced fortnight and it’s dragging scrape What was his counted, that ruffling came natural In a sentiment of the innate and the inner mechanics of his climate Co-Walkers, he thought viewed him a cynics ornate From then on, became perpetually discounted Though his face got harder to look at by its contents, Optics inflamed and wrinkles elongated to his whiskers growing skyward a striking true spruce in essence to become Nevertheless a bedraggled authentic Just before a flooding pooled his lids or the dawning of his tears Until this vanish to enhance These characters took on relevance Apropos of what he saw looking back The girl, his love, the spirit inside his drive She could see all directions, like hands on a clock, Every hour the dialed sun would tower Giving her all his angles, She could anticipate all of this, including all opposites She could see all that To her, His face was not hard to stare Still chiseled but shaved, like polished marble glare Her love was true for years Opposing claims would be intercepted when asked if during she dabbled in deception Then immediately accepted their quiz, taking near comfort as she’s done for years  placing her lips closer to his eyes, she kissed his cheek and licked his tears
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Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018 at 11:08 PM UTC
The Dawning of His Tears
**** you, and **** off. **** me? ohhh you wanna say **** you to me? Well here's a middle finger for you found this **** in my pocket, got it half price at target that is why I bought it. Who knew it would come in handy. Our relationship is like a deviated septum because one side is always getting more than the other and if you didn't realize, you're the deviated side because no matter how hard I ******* try to give you the oxygen your heart desires, you can't open up to it. You sit and block almost all of yourself off to the world and even off to me and I've only known parts of you. A small wind casting through an open field, this is how I feel. I am the tumbleweed in every boring movie scene, gliding by just so someone will notice me, but essential to essence nonetheless. So **** me right? Well frankly, I'm tired of all this ******* because none of it consists of love making, because I don't actually know how to make love but I sure know how to **** And I find myself writing the same lyrics as Wale, I think this is what rock bottom feels like.. Because :p I :P find :p myself :p more :p content :p with :p being alone than I ever ******* have with someone else. Always stepping on toes or picking up the pieces and it's cool if you're parents are still together and you've seen love like that your whole entire life, but me? I haven't, **** I wish my parents weren't together maybe then I would be able to leave my prison cell of a room. I have seen love ripped from the hinges and thrown to the wind- like ******* Owen Wilson's nose type love. I grew up with that **** but I still love harder than I ever have but you can't tell me that you do the same because this fuckery has been my whole entire life, so I have adjusted. I have dabbled in alcoholism, and maybe a little drug abuse, but see these apples don't fall far from the tree and misery seems to be the best currency. So who the **** am I?
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
profane (september 25th)
**** you, and **** off. **** me? ohhh you wanna say **** you to me? Well here's a middle finger for you found this **** in my pocket, got it half price at target that is why I bought it. Who knew it would come in handy. Our relationship is like a deviated septum because one side is always getting more than the other and if you didn't realize, you're the deviated side because no matter how hard I ******* try to give you the oxygen your heart desires, you can't open up to it. You sit and block almost all of yourself off to the world and even off to me and I've only known parts of you. A small wind casting through an open field, this is how I feel. I am the tumbleweed in every boring movie scene, gliding by just so someone will notice me, but essential to essence nonetheless. So **** me right? Well frankly, I'm tired of all this ******* because none of it consists of love making, because I don't actually know how to make love but I sure know how to **** And I find myself writing the same lyrics as Wale, I think this is what rock bottom feels like.. Because :p I :P find :p myself :p more :p content :p with :p being alone than I ever ******* have with someone else. Always stepping on toes or picking up the pieces and it's cool if you're parents are still together and you've seen love like that your whole entire life, but me? I haven't, **** I wish my parents weren't together maybe then I would be able to leave my prison cell of a room. I have seen love ripped from the hinges and thrown to the wind- like ******* Owen Wilson's nose type love. I grew up with that **** but I still love harder than I ever have but you can't tell me that you do the same because this fuckery has been my whole entire life, so I have adjusted. I have dabbled in alcoholism, and maybe a little drug abuse, but see these apples don't fall far from the tree and misery seems to be the best currency. So who the **** am I?
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