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<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
the common place... (for Kim Johanna Baker & Edmund Black)
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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243 I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent— To wrap its shining Yards— Pluck up its stakes, and disappear— Without the sound of Boards Or Rip of Nail—Or Carpenter— But just the miles of Stare— That signalize a Show’s Retreat— In North America— No Trace—no Figment of the Thing That dazzled, Yesterday, No Ring—no Marvel— Men, and Feats— Dissolved as utterly— As Bird’s far Navigation Discloses just a Hue— A plash of Oars, a Gaiety— Then swallowed up, of View.
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I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all littered with glass and with plaster; It stands in a garden of old-fashioned roses. I pass by that way in the gloaming with Mary; ‘I wonder,’ I say, ‘who the owner of those is.’ ‘Oh, no one you know,’ she answers me airy, ‘But one we must ask if we want any roses.’ So we must join hands in the dew coming coldly There in the hush of the wood that reposes, And turn and go up to the open door boldly, And knock to the echoes as beggars for roses. ‘Pray, are you within there, Mistress Who-were-you?’ ’Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses. ‘Pray, are you within there? Bestir you, bestir you! ’Tis summer again; there’s two come for roses. ‘A word with you, that of the singer recalling— Old Herrick: a saying that every maid knows is A flower unplucked is but left to the falling, And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.’ We do not loosen our hands’ intertwining (Not caring so very much what she supposes), There when she comes on us mistily shining And grants us by silence the boon of her roses.
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Asking For Roses
Melancholic misadventures and misanthropic moments make meeting men more and more meaningless, Meaning less and less to those who undress to convene in the act of adulterated *** Flex: Point! Sit down, Smoke a joint, Go to sleep, Work, Eat, Wash (sometimes, not too often) Feign attraction and smile with your eyes as you die on the inside Darkness outside Whilst wintery winds whistle, the worldly-wise whittle on and on in their wordy way of the other-worldly wonders they have witnessed. We can but wish that their wily whispers will soon diminish with the melting snow Or else go, Turn your back on all that you lack before you step on a crack, break that back and see it refract through the prism of the microcosm of your mind Colour-blind Lost Trying to find Be found My heart beats yet I hear no sound As plasma pumps passionately through my pallid passages and I ponder partially perceptible pursuits that preside in my past Digging deep down into the depths of my ***** deeds discloses a discerning dichotomous divulgence of doctrine and dogma Two mothers Three brothers One sister And a whole load of Misters!
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Dec 22, 2012
Dec 22, 2012 at 7:59 PM UTC
A Litter Raid Shun!
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumèd tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer’s breath their maskèd buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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Sonnet 054: O, How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
You can see a fiery stream of delayed concern Scattered carelessly in the emotion In the exaggerated encircling of compassion Shown as false proof in bits of devotion Spontaneous flickers of suspended movements Oblivious to thought or care Briefly promise to abolish the damage imparted Yet never quite honor anything there You question the sequence of disgraceful events With a pleading silent look in your eyes To find yourself under siege by the fiery stream As your honesty discloses their lies Create a severing of ties with the fiery stream By the slightest move of your hand Shunning the counterfeit display of compassion Placing your protective shield in command
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Aug 2, 2010
Aug 2, 2010 at 7:52 AM UTC
Shield
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell, Thine ear, and find thy gentle heart; so well Would passion arm me for the enterprise: But ah! I am no knight whose foeman dies; No cuirass glistens on my bosom's swell; I am no happy shepherd of the dell Whose lips have trembled with a maiden's eyes. Yet must I dote upon thee,—call thee sweet, Sweeter by far than Hybla's honied roses When steeped in dew rich to intoxication. Ah! I will taste that dew, for me 'tis meet, And when the moon her pallid face discloses, I'll gather some by spells, and incantation.
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To—
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell, Thine ear, and find thy gentle heart; so well Would passion arm me for the enterprise: But ah! I am no knight whose foeman dies; No cuirass glistens on my bosom's swell; I am no happy shepherd of the dell Whose lips have trembled with a maiden's eyes. Yet must I dote upon thee,—call thee sweet, Sweeter by far than Hybla's honied roses When steeped in dew rich to intoxication. Ah! I will taste that dew, for me 'tis meet, And when the moon her pallid face discloses, I'll gather some by spells, and incantation.
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To——
through the mirror a light-forsaken world in a used leather jacket, the packed scent of cigarette exacts itself in the calendar, hung on the wall it discloses a shadow compressing an answer as in where once to feel gliding into the air a figure on the ground is song of color – that it is the truest manuscript whenever I yield into the inseparable gesture of foolishness as entering a scene and coming back only to be an uninterrupted furniture fixed in the finest day.
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Jun 13, 2016
Jun 13, 2016 at 9:44 AM UTC
So that you can touch me
Inside, it is warm Inside we find comfort Translucent breaths then drifted on that black dotted sky Whispered cold secrets to you, shivered not in spite These questions were so beautifully obscured Why did we treat the worst things so good? Why did we worry about what might never occur? Why did we fear what is so plain? My fingers are numb, beats not calm -- head loud But the wind is chattering too, those embracing tendrils of cold So we speak to each other in an unblurred foreign language Some blood brothers can never leave each other Some things are hard to imagine without Some things hurt all those around Our conversation mingles with pity and false separation Beaming waves of neon lights pierce the dark blue horizon Visions are fuzzy, but my eyes are calmer at the sight My heavy heart floats upward, as the ashes glow I wake up, a solitary sound discloses You are afraid to be free I am free.
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 11:20 PM UTC
I am [Untitled]
Life discloses a dream bag, For souls who start to sag, A world of global goals, With hi-tech shadows, History was made immutable, Our futures to shape, variable, Our personal aims, For Earth's long term gains, Lighten up, souls that sag, Life will bring your own dream bag!
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 12:24 AM UTC
DREAM BAG......
The Harvest of Roses by Michael R. Burch for Harvey Stanbrough I have not come for the harvest of roses— the poets' mad visions, their railing at rhyme ... for I have discerned what their writing discloses: weak words wanting meaning, beat torsioning time. Nor have I come for the reaping of gossamer— images weak, too forced not to fail; gathered by poets who worship their luster, they shimmer, impendent, resplendently pale. This poem was originally published by The Raintown Review when Harvey Stanbrough was the editor, then later by Mindful of Poetry. I wrote the poem out of dissatisfaction with the strange idea that poetry should consist entirely or primarily of concrete images. Would the “experts” who espouse this bizarre idea junk the great soliloquies of Shakespeare and Milton and the direct statement poems of A. E. Housman? It also bears noting that the twin titans of English modernism, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, did an awful lot of “telling” rather than always “showing.” Keywords/Tags: Harvest, roses, images, imagery, imagism, meter, time, beat, rhyme, shimmer, gloss, perfume, reap, reaping, gossamer
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Mar 26, 2020
Mar 26, 2020 at 2:37 AM UTC
The Harvest of Roses
Open my browser Four sites are loaded All very important Neatly encoded Virtually truthful Book full of chatter Following news Reading the weather This backlit life Hard to shut down Beeps of my laundry Back on my own The radar discloses Rain clouds are closing My dot on the map Pixel perfect posing
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 11:09 AM UTC
Pixel perfect posing
It plays over and over inside my head a tune it directs and composes closing my eyes, with poison in vein feeling the words he discloses The fruit swells and ruptures into me I feel it enter then leave grabs my wrist pulling me free filling me up as I breathe A smile, a tear and a fight until dawn convulsions as pain spews forth heart trembling and shaking and feeling you and this is just where we would start It says to my heart "Shhh...let me speak. I have much to say" --the thing within calms and it soothes me "I will eat it, and take it, oh take it away "then for a while..you will see colapsing onto reality I search for a reason for this the rthym it falls onto my ears I beg for the muse and his kiss I feel the tingle on my lips of one who was near another tear falls cementing my fear .... I hear it cry with new sight I feel its warmth oh so near something was spoken at birth in my ear drawing me, bringing keeping me here It is written.
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Jun 25, 2010
Jun 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM UTC
Written
Where are you? Let me find you Leave me a sign A handkerchief on thorny roses A candle on your window A note on my porch A scarf with your scent A clue with a friend A carving on some wood Open up Say something that discloses The tears on your pillow The reason you torch The letters of contempt You chose not to send Although you could I don’t get it What can be the causes For burning me with sorrow For making my heart scorch For making it attempt To willfully upend This beautiful cruel love? I need a signal..
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Aug 16, 2023
Aug 16, 2023 at 11:25 PM UTC
WHERE ARE YOU?
The light discloses to dim; as you were bridled— in the walls of uncertainty, fragile, inherently you'll be, hearing voices of foolish lies, in verge of suffering demise. So take it to Jesus, As he illumines your way, thine in His heart shall be, till that one fine day. Hands that carries of such; Alone, as the anguish sought a cost high as the price, though one cannot bear. As you are tempted to profess that God was never there. Just take it to Jesus, a trusted friend who stays, thine in His heart shall be, till that one fine day. We seek in earthly views; the infidels disbelieving cue, A chronic chasm, dividing the unions truth, the doubtful ones blinded sight, Caught between the unwise. But take it to Jesus, As doubts just freely fades, thine in His heart shall be, till that one fine day. To think of end, may it be? yet in Him a greater place— beyond is to see. A promise of God is eternity, thine in His heart shall be, till that finest day we meet
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 9:16 PM UTC
One Fine Day ✞
It is impossible not to sense the closeness each time I close my eyes Would that be closer than skins untouching ? The gap: causing the desireless stress of presence of the other because of itself My mind   Discloses **** For what We celebrate is a precision of love made of our wordless waves that subtly replaces and sculpts my gross lines to their primordial We are transparent space casts its chassis Made of us Formats our deserted shells as we fuse to fit in things Color of sound now as big as its encapsulating hall We are time only to heal
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Mar 13, 2016
Mar 13, 2016 at 8:17 AM UTC
chassis
As we go marching, marching In the beauty of the day A million darkened kitchens A thousand mill lofts gray Are touched with all the radiance That a sudden sun discloses For the people hear us singing Bread & roses, bread & roses As we go marching, marching We battle too for men For they are women's children And we mother them again Our lives shall not be sweetened From birth until life closes Hearts starve as well as bodies Give us bread but give us roses As we go marching, marching We bring the greater days For the rising of the women Means the rising of the race No more the drudge and idler Ten that toil where one reposes But the sharing of lifes glories Bread & roses, bread & roses
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 7:19 PM UTC
Bread And Roses
Green eyes telling you lies. Brown eyes painfully seeking the truth. Green hides, loathing, despondent. Green is actually blue, the darkest shade perhaps this is true. Brown discloses, inflamed, aggrieved. Brown cannot discern the truth, troubled mind resides. Green wants dissolution
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 12:40 PM UTC
Green lies.
Everything that has come to light Contradicts And spirals ******** up the game pieces Blocking the Sun A paradox that waltzes only to stop and reveal broken kneecaps Harmony that pours from lips of crimson truth only to turn and divulge a fork against ***** ceramic plates Beauty that discloses: Beauty does not exist And everything that I That you have once known crashes To expose something that I cannot interpret I can only make sense of the canvas of pretty painted lies I can clutch to their comfort and close my eyes But tapping together my glittery slippers will not bring me home because home was never home Home doesn't exist and I I don't know What is true A-"ny -==Mor=+;'e ?
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Mar 15, 2015
Mar 15, 2015 at 12:10 AM UTC
Semblance
To say, I lived a perfect life. Would be the words of a publicist? Who's trying to re-work my image? We all have fallen short of that glory. To say, I hadn't make many mistakes. Would be like saying? I hadn't learned a single thing. From bad relationships. To things I won't bother to mention. I have learned. A wise person adjust and profit their life. A fool complains constantly when things not right. To say, that all marriage don't have bumps. Would only come from those seeking to hide it from someone? Those that discloses everything. When the love part is over. From the violence within. To when it first begun. Cause, who wants to be embarassed?
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Mar 28, 2013
Mar 28, 2013 at 12:21 PM UTC
To Say
Ive ignored her on most nights, acted like i didnt care Because she was always there, But in darkness i miss her shimmering She goes across the sky The light of day reflecting Down on the empty street below As echoes of bats bellow Her insistent persistance, giving hope to thieves and watchers, A little help to party goers she cant let them all be alone The moon What a loathsome night it would be Ghosts and demons reigning, Like on a night she is hiding Nightmares tormenting Dutifully she rises again Calls out all stars in the galaxy And begin the journey round the earth, Round and round for eons Before they invented neons She never discloses her age But her beauty is vintage In the dead of the night, When stars glitter and crickets chirp, I hear her whisper, How much longer?
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Dec 8, 2015
Dec 8, 2015 at 6:58 PM UTC
the whisper of the moon
With hands holding a Willow wand, I seek to detect water's source, flowing deep within the ground! Exerting its will upon my hand, energy exuded by water;s force discloses where it can be found. This gift, with which I was born, brings blessed relief to those in need of water, for it brings great satisfaction when seen flowing from source to bourne, as a consequence of my diviners reed, which I regard as reward enough for my action. For some, dowsing exudes a mystery, possessed of an obscure magical property! When water sought, is thereby detected, The Rhythm of Life proclaims a victory? Records show that way back in history, Black Magic was seriously suspected! So why am I possessed of this ability? A gift, some think an arcane anomaly that locates water, through my hands! Dowsing that baffles watching spectators, defies the efforts of charlatan imitators, who’d benefit, from a force, no one understands! Should you too, possess this cryptic force, you’ll know dowsing, for hours perforce, is most rewarding when success is reached, and it proves an exciting moment for me when The Rhythm of Life - water - runs free, and its source is discovered and breached! Rhymer. March 21st, 2018. It was pure happenstance I learned I was a Dowser or Water Diviner back in 1960. Have used it many times since. Our present water source, comes from wells I discovered and wells dug in 1998. Always an awesome experience. Ciao Rhymer.
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 6:56 AM UTC
Dowsing for The Elixir of Life.
Groundlessness is not to be tamed. Certainty is not an achievement. A tension deeply ill-famed. Its presence a call for bereavement. pondering my future is bootless. No more thought shall spring actions. Ten thousand words are fruitless. The mind fragmented into factions. The milk of uncertainty is thought. Only stillness discloses the true. Creativity cannot be taught. From chaos it shall brew. Groundlessness cannot be tamed. Nor shalI I try to resist. Let this tension be named. And on my life shall persist.
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Jul 24, 2025
Jul 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM UTC
The Milk of Thought