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"digressions" poems
Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, Toast to stolen prayers with rarer player’s hands; Soft in defiant laughter, when drinking their wine from the bowels of brines Sing along the Ballads of Heritage with Melodies of Exception; Boast, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air(s) of land— A settlement of Rapture and Resurrection, arid, amid dirt and sand and King and thy Kingdom sprout flowering tomb, and rosebud temple reach to the sky during the showers of spring Devours the crescent Moon in big pink petals of bloom; A garden so fertile it could look pretty in wartime— with Gardeners of Courage and Laborers of Excellence; (Lapse, not into digressions of Being and Essence but hands in the soil and planting the actions of kingdom come,        patient building of Spring Reign sure as the flame, the architect of rising Sun is (Daughters and Sons of kingdom came,       the soldier in a land been conquered and named; abandoned for the greenness of hope. )May it never come, Be All The Same; ( be gentle, though whispering wind) Seeds of Nextyear and the spores of Awhile, carried by the Wasps and the Clouds To the Gentlemen of Excellence and Ladies of Courage, illuminated, eyes from the flora of stars faraway forest floor of foreign       fears,       as the hungry Owls of Time prepare a final feast—       Consume the years between Here and Now;       Watching from blank perch, among       the Trees of Afterall; a place beyond expectance.       Sing the branches of experience, to wake       in Siren’s cipher; inelegant forms       of waking, ugly sleep on rocks of seabed; once was aboard a marooned skyline— Those Who Are Will Be again, again a serf in a wave of Time’s refraction. Neverending neverbeginning;                           Those Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, on the Day That Is, arrays of seers sayers doers displayers optimists and pessimists, toast to them         and their rarer player’s hands, Boast they, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air and land; Laugh and howl and dine, they drink their wine from disemboweled gourds         of their own divine— Warped, in jowls of hungry fix, no feast they fear, for they prey to the Owls of Time.
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Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
Gentleman of Courage and Ladies of Excellence
Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, Toast to stolen prayers with rarer player’s hands; Soft in defiant laughter, when drinking their wine from the bowels of brines Sing along the Ballads of Heritage with Melodies of Exception; Boast, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air(s) of land— A settlement of Rapture and Resurrection, arid, amid dirt and sand and King and thy Kingdom sprout flowering tomb, and rosebud temple reach to the sky during the showers of spring Devours the crescent Moon in big pink petals of bloom; A garden so fertile it could look pretty in wartime— with Gardeners of Courage and Laborers of Excellence; (Lapse, not into digressions of Being and Essence but hands in the soil and planting the actions of kingdom come,        patient building of Spring Reign sure as the flame, the architect of rising Sun is (Daughters and Sons of kingdom came,       the soldier in a land been conquered and named; abandoned for the greenness of hope. )May it never come, Be All The Same; ( be gentle, though whispering wind) Seeds of Nextyear and the spores of Awhile, carried by the Wasps and the Clouds To the Gentlemen of Excellence and Ladies of Courage, illuminated, eyes from the flora of stars faraway forest floor of foreign       fears,       as the hungry Owls of Time prepare a final feast—       Consume the years between Here and Now;       Watching from blank perch, among       the Trees of Afterall; a place beyond expectance.       Sing the branches of experience, to wake       in Siren’s cipher; inelegant forms       of waking, ugly sleep on rocks of seabed; once was aboard a marooned skyline— Those Who Are Will Be again, again a serf in a wave of Time’s refraction. Neverending neverbeginning;                           Those Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, on the Day That Is, arrays of seers sayers doers displayers optimists and pessimists, toast to them         and their rarer player’s hands, Boast they, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air and land; Laugh and howl and dine, they drink their wine from disemboweled gourds         of their own divine— Warped, in jowls of hungry fix, no feast they fear, for they prey to the Owls of Time.
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i. not bad, i commented to myself as i watched you do your thing for the first time ever ; not bad was my way to say extraordinary still is today i have standards, you see and — well... they were met when i heard you say, "that's only half what i can do." let's get this straight: i was the best at what i do until you came around ; it's not like i'm mad though — quite the opposite  in fact. ii. here's something else: i have always liked the way your eyes shot daggers even when you were smiling ; a death stare, they named it and, you know, i won't call them wrong — i'm rather fluent with the concepts of death and staring myself, after all. ah, do you remember? when we spoke to each other — it was always a sparring of eyes rather than words. iii. a fact: you have been called cold more often than you have been called pleasant ; i know  — it's not like you'd disagree not like you'd be stupid enough to deny ; cold is a comfortable shadow to hide in, something people like us wear as a coat or a scarf from july to june. now, there's this saying that the addition of two negative objects turns them a positive result ; i'm not much of a scholar so, honey, what's on your mind? iv. i get it now, if i'm propellers you are wings — rather than a mirror, we're distorted reflects a thing evolution knows a great deal about ; this yearning is the aspect of you i'd wish to keep bottled up ; "what for?" you'd ask. no, yearning is not a thing i'm a stranger to ; i've yearned for many things including strength sleep serotonin and you — i've been struggling to make them mine, though perhaps because i'm never really trying. v. that's how you do it: you take what you want with clawed hands accomplish miracles with thunderous silence — an entity of cruel fairness, icy anger but — what you want is a complicated thing with definite shape to your eyes but blurry to those of others. okay, i'm neither believer nor seer but here's a little prediction : the day you are satisfied is the day hellmouth shuts down upon us all and half of me prays for it. vi. about extremes — some will say grey is a better shade and though i confess it does have its charms, it still has to paint me a picture more striking than a soul with adamentine purpose. see — i stare as you pass by, terrific in beauty beautiful in hardness and off — goes my heart, sanity, ego and shirt.
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 6:04 PM UTC
digressions on polarity
i. not bad, i commented to myself as i watched you do your thing for the first time ever ; not bad was my way to say extraordinary still is today i have standards, you see and — well... they were met when i heard you say, "that's only half what i can do." let's get this straight: i was the best at what i do until you came around ; it's not like i'm mad though — quite the opposite  in fact. ii. here's something else: i have always liked the way your eyes shot daggers even when you were smiling ; a death stare, they named it and, you know, i won't call them wrong — i'm rather fluent with the concepts of death and staring myself, after all. ah, do you remember? when we spoke to each other — it was always a sparring of eyes rather than words. iii. a fact: you have been called cold more often than you have been called pleasant ; i know  — it's not like you'd disagree not like you'd be stupid enough to deny ; cold is a comfortable shadow to hide in, something people like us wear as a coat or a scarf from july to june. now, there's this saying that the addition of two negative objects turns them a positive result ; i'm not much of a scholar so, honey, what's on your mind? iv. i get it now, if i'm propellers you are wings — rather than a mirror, we're distorted reflects a thing evolution knows a great deal about ; this yearning is the aspect of you i'd wish to keep bottled up ; "what for?" you'd ask. no, yearning is not a thing i'm a stranger to ; i've yearned for many things including strength sleep serotonin and you — i've been struggling to make them mine, though perhaps because i'm never really trying. v. that's how you do it: you take what you want with clawed hands accomplish miracles with thunderous silence — an entity of cruel fairness, icy anger but — what you want is a complicated thing with definite shape to your eyes but blurry to those of others. okay, i'm neither believer nor seer but here's a little prediction : the day you are satisfied is the day hellmouth shuts down upon us all and half of me prays for it. vi. about extremes — some will say grey is a better shade and though i confess it does have its charms, it still has to paint me a picture more striking than a soul with adamentine purpose. see — i stare as you pass by, terrific in beauty beautiful in hardness and off — goes my heart, sanity, ego and shirt.
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The world has moved on and I am fixated on one **** detail. A blank stare that lasted maybe two seconds before he carried on with his work. The look was indescribable because the expression was void of emotion. This is incredibly ridiculous, but I am so horrifically bothered by it. That **** expression. This **** minor occurrence has somehow managed to ruin my day. But here's the thing - this is routine for me. I know myself too well. I will be incredibly self-conscious from now on in that space. So many things go past that man, but my stupid digressions didn't. I am a victim of over-analysis. I will patiently wait for the day my memory will finally let this go.
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 3:41 PM UTC
The Issues of An Over-Analyzer
I’m a barbarian in a woman’s shape. I stomp into discourse with heavy steps. Driven by impulse, twisting like switchbacks. There are so many narratives... With one hand, I hold a megaphone to my mouth. With the other hand, from my heart, from my head, I pull out jagged digressions and awkward arguments. If I could weave just one logical thread to see a common perspective, to stop interpreting… I would stand tall on the pedestal of thorny incidents, inept appointments, yet proud that I would finally catch myself. I know, I can only dream of patiently knitting rushing words together. I can’t stitch these threads into a colored, beautiful patchwork, that could give some warmth to the quandary, or as a cover for chronic nostalgia. Meanwhile, within the conventions of social dreaming I tilt my head from side to side Asking myself with incredulity, How is it possible that the voice screaming inside me sounds so weak and dull?
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Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM UTC
Barbarian
so let me tell you of my digressions my hopeless realm of repetition i am armed with 2 blacks 4 grams and a pack of sour patches to keep me snackin i have yet again settled in to my barb wired trenches in this hell Better Is The Devil You Know Than To Go Fishing For A Stranger so i sit calmly because i suppose it is Better To Be Patient than to act out of this anger cause ive considered killing you at my leisure Why **** Him Cant You Just Leave And Feel The Same Satisfaction no cause if i could then would i be here smackin on these cracklins I brought those to delay the decaying of teeth as i endudge in what's first sour then sweet my cavity and i fein from one fix to the next Oh wrong C i said Cavity i mean ******* Crack rock Crack baby reaching for that pacifier higher and higher i go while diving deeper in this hole no point of return no lessons were learned by previous heartaches i ache cause i aint exactly who i used to be grabbed by my foundation and ripped the roots from under me God Heals All Things But what about the ***** that breaks **** takes **** gets it how he lives and makes **** Cause this sweet southern soul is growing old and i've been told that revenge is so sweet and baby i'm gon eat the troops have been patient but now we brazen and a revolt is all i see.
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Dec 21, 2012
Dec 21, 2012 at 10:23 AM UTC
Brazen
A solitary solecism An evaporating vision Premonitions and superstitions Withered hopes Amorphous, insubstantial Episodic swings Digressions and detours Evasions, deviations Changing lanes Accelerating and overtaking Swerving Inhibitions colliding.
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 7:42 AM UTC
Red Lights
It's a slippery slope, I hope you know. Said the Solipsist To The Fly. Who was itself A somewhat suspicious Deliciously conspicuous, Most likely maleficent, Manifestation of a mind. A specimen meant just to define, A shade that shall not live, A shadow that shall not fly. Designed to be a metaphor, To make its point and then to die. Invested only to be digested By imagination and an eye. Where within it lingers lonely, Solely stoic for a while, For a time. A casualty of entropy Out of place, Left behind. Or maybe out in front, Depending on your point of view, However long thought takes to stew. The Fly nodded sagely, Behaved as if it knew. Nonchalant with confidence, The epitome of cool. Giving all the right impressions These digressions were understood. As it landed ever closer To sit upon the madman's shoulder To show this silly, pseudo ****** How little he really knew. That being said, If all that is lives only in your head. Could I trouble you for some of that stew?
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Nov 30, 2023
Nov 30, 2023 at 9:29 AM UTC
The Fly
Ma Diva veut  être meublée de parenthèses De ïambes de jade meuble aux couleurs de toutes les toques Et manches et casaques de l 'arc-en-ciel Toque blanche manches vertes et casaque noire, Toque rose manches blanches et casaque verte. A l'intérieur des petites lunes enchantées Entre losanges, étoiles et petits pois Ma diva, oh la vilaine,  a mis des accolades et des crochets De jade blanc, digressions  ponctuées périodiquement Par d'exquises parties de ïambes en l'air. Qui dit ïambe dit trochée (me suis-je permis de préciser) Et qui dit ïambe et trochée dit scansion Alternance dans le pied, donc dans la marche Dans le pas cadencé, l 'amble, le trot  et le galop De la respiration longue et brève des solipèdes. A l 'intérieur des parenthèses enchantées Entre une espace et l 'autre de l 'écurie J'ai vu danser ainsi une diva de forte encolure Revendiquée modèle de Botero Embarquer en longe un soleil pas trop chaud Pour égayer le paddock de son haras De vieilles pierres et de prés, de sous-bois et de beaux paysages De musées et de concerts et de galipettes Au bras d'un cavalier épicurien Dragon de paille, bon à tout faire : Lad qui la sorte à la longe En chemise polaire de luxe Cavalier qui la monte Au grand steeple-chase de l'immortalité En cajolant ses flancs de liqueur de jade blanche Et  en même temps  groom qui la soigne En divaguant en elle au gré de ses envies De pierre semi-précieuse en transe.
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Sep 16, 2019
Sep 16, 2019 at 11:00 AM UTC
Partie de ïambes en l'air
Under white bulbs Dr. Black studies me through the glass. I will be figure A on page three, and how I purchase jazz CDs will be section II, which will have footnotes on 21st century Latinos in White suburbia, the economic decisions of lost boys, references to Dr. Earnst’s Entitlements of the Capuchin, and droll digressions on such and such and such— dear Erwin musing on the thirteen times we happened upon each other in life, the most embarrassing being when I wore a pig mask to what I thought was a masquerade but which ended up being my own funeral. One day we’ll vaguely recall the white sky on the morning we met through an imaginary friend, a girl who we forgot to name. Does it matter, if it never really happened? I just remember when you were a child you looked through the glass for me, and when I wasn’t there you waited through the night.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 9:18 PM UTC
Meeting Erwin Black
When I walk on the treadmill roads Intended by my selfish feet ****** thy hands into my soul and Yank misused marionette strings *reverse my decisions inverse my positions delightfully discordantly* refract your light into mine eyes that blinded I may see with humbled mottled clarity thy boundless charity *transcend my omissions And mend my revisions emphatically radically* do this with harsh decided love protective father smile. make every step I feebly take worth your matchless while *rehearse my transgressions transverse my digressions dramatically tyrannically* the dance you wield with tangled strings shall far exceed my selfish dreams so tear, dear father every whim devote me solely unto Him
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 7:02 PM UTC
A Plea For Fatherly Intervention
When my winds cease to blow And the glow of daylight To no longer show Will past digressions be visited upon? Or be decided the forgiveness That my heart has longed? When I am laid to my final rest Will hurts abscond from my weary breast? Or will heartbreaks follow me And linger for, all eternity?
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Apr 29, 2017
Apr 29, 2017 at 5:12 PM UTC
When my winds cease to blow
Falling behind in my arbitrary designs, staring blankly at the passing signs. Lines wind along the way, like an ongoing lie. I'll get as far away from you as I can, that's my best plan. Another cheap motel that I'll stay in will make no new impressions and I keep paying for my digressions. There are certain memories of you where I dwell, they seem to muddle and swell. Muddy footprints lead to my room as I come in from a thunderstorm, its in these dreary days I end up drunk and leering. In a forest clearing I see you peering and naked, your body seems to call; the end is nearing. Towns melt into the past, nothing new rears in the future, I wonder how long I'll last. I find it hard to absolve my sins, my heart is held together with pins. We have traveled to Spain and under starry night skies have lain, I know now I'll never rub away this stain.
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Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010 at 5:54 PM UTC
Lightening Shines on Guilt and Love Long Ago Spilt.
When did children lose their love of learning? When they were told to conform, To forget their being, To discard interests, agency, creativity My own complicity In the stifling of identity Authenticity, a digression of the self, A dissolution of swarming Complexities When did I gain my love of learning? The burning crucible Of curiosity Set aflame by rejection of conformity Constraints, curriculum, crushing expectations and a world disintegrating fires of digressions When is conformity an expression of authenticity? When is authenticity just another form of conformity?
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Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM UTC
The Musings of a Teacher
Sinking moods, forever stuck in interlude Staring at grey skies like it's a reflection of the mind Bearing no fruits of labour; a slave to life's servitude Constant excessive sighs & an inability to unwind Only light in one's eyes, is a reflection off one's phone No life in one's voice, only a overcast monotone Vessel's surrounded, but one's soul is alone Drained from weeping & can't even groan Liquor & ****** distractions from the consciousness To put the anguish at ease, digressions is a necessity Shut the door on itself & swallow the keys Endlessly stuck in a state of cecity
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 11:42 AM UTC
Cecity
Trapped in a screen You set the scene Se-er of constellations Dreamer of dreams Midnight confessions Starstruck impressions You tell the tale You make your digressions Roads turn to fork Thumbtack on cork I fear that you'll only Live in your work
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Apr 28, 2018
Apr 28, 2018 at 1:12 AM UTC
Se-er of Constellations
The big story of this day is Jesus’ Resurrection from death. It will be celebrated in homes and churches throughout the world. But I think Jesus is more interested in us than us celebrating him. He wants us to recognize and celebrate the way we rise from our darkness, and digressions failures, weakness, sadness and depression. When Jesus was on Earth he was honest. He was himself. That’s what got him in trouble. He teaches me to subdue the anger and every hint of violence inside to be true to the unique creature his Father has crafted not special or above the rest of ordinary men just different and true to my own voice. Unlike Jesus, I am not that courageous and mighty with the power of love. I still fantasize doing damage to those whom I deem evil still I care too much about what others think about how I look or sound in public. I am unlike Jesus in too many ways, but I am like him in my rising from darkness and doom from my own self-made tomb. My resurrections might be tiny but large is the Spirit in me and the ability to see the light to see the right and pursue it wherever it leads into meadows and into the weeds away from tradition and my roots beyond my past moorings toward truth and its small soarings telling my little stories from death to glory.
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Apr 21, 2019
Apr 21, 2019 at 9:12 AM UTC
My resurrections
man says, this life, for what, a thousand dry holes drilled, wildcatting, a win-loss record, that didn’t approach, come close, to breakeven, not even an asterisk in the records kept man says, this body, its rate of desolations increasing, the goal line distance secretions, decreasing, this broken runner, tackled from behind by the past, as his future caught up with him man says, goals, deadlines, hamstring him, due dates, an invitation to a criminal activity, rub, nobody wants to take it down, his record, left behind, when they shut Rikers Island man says, always poor at maths, a loser of words, his parents, his children, all time despairing of him, called the AAA to come, tow him away, but, all the junkyards refused him entry man says, what separates ought and nought, a little letter, just an n, that screaming thought, a little letter, insufficient to bridge a poem too far, man digresses, the past is ever present, in every word writ and forgot.
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May 16, 2020
May 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM UTC
various digressions into personal exploration