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"dispense" poems
You do the math and I'll provide the irrationals, as I tend to cling to panic in the asymmetry of life. In this Twenty-First century women still suffer from laws streaming out of councils of men. These are not self-stabbing heroines, they do not ask the heavy deluge of derision. They are faced with laws stemming from an abbatoir, from men who wish to usurp the birthright. Men who have become strangers to their own mothers, men whose ***** dispense a fouled milk, men who deserve an **** ultrasound colonoscopy. So, I beg you to balance the inequality of the equation, gather our sisters in this non-Euclidean space: this is one we solve by inspection!
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May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
Moral Algebra
Warning: Use dis list in context. You decide on which side you fall. disappear disregard disaster displace disqualify disrepair disturb dissipate disability dispose dismal distribute distrust disturb discriminate discuss disdain disguise dishearten disinherit disown disparage disagree disgruntle disclose discolour dispute disarm discover disassemble disadvantage disallow dispossess discontent discontinue disrespect disincline discomfort disrepute dishonest disillusion dishonor dismiss disobey disjoin disappoint discipline discord discern discrete disfigure disconnect disapprove discharge disbar disease discord disfavor disengage disassociate discipline discount disembody displace dissaray disembowel discombobulate discredit discourse disentangle disenfranchise disembark discard disburse disbelief discover disable disagree disintegrate dismay dispense dislodge disclaimer disapprove dissatisfy disrupt dispel dislike dismantle disloyal disbatch disrobe disperse display disaprove disciple disavow disconcert disinfect disorder dismal dismember displease dissemble disunity dislocate distort distrust distress dissolute disassociate distill discect (?) distemper distain distasteful distraught dissolve dissonant dissuade And dis isn't de end.
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Aug 22, 2015
Aug 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM UTC
Is Dis Good or Is Dis Bad (a partici-poem)
i have a right to speak ALOUD ALLOWED to give my two CENTS SENSE of freedom in opinions TOLD TOLLED by thoughts that i dispense i have a right to let them KNOW NO others have walked my COURSE COARSE visions from my own EYE I write in blood from the source
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Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM UTC
i have a right - homophone loop poem
I'd like to thank eveybody for their time, as we conduct this interview in rhyme. If you have a disability such as mine, Everybody wants to pry into your mind. So in this piece im going to address, all the questions im asked, i intend to put that to rest. But i can't do this alone, i require some help Bluestar , thank you so much for providing assistance Yes thanks, ladies and gentleman, here we go, What we have here is a fine young specimen, A young age male with a disability no one knows, And what is it, you ask? Why, I don't mind if I do begin to explain him Epilepsy, that's what it is, It's what he's got inside And before you start to ask, no it's not a mental disorder Do you want to hear the facts or think the fiction, you have to decide Shall i dispense with the facts? Hmm with the mighty sword of knowledge ignorance i shall attack! Epilepsy is a neurological disorder, It causes me to be prone to seizures. Not the kind that causes the removal of property, But occasionally my brain will fry, and my body go crazy, Like a vampire exposed to holy ether But don't worry, he's not going to die, If you're with him when it happens you cannot run and hide He'll need you to support him, to make sure he's okay Make sure things are out of his reach and do not force him to obey In conclusion dear friends, im just like you, I may have neruological quirks, but im still Neroamee Alucard, Not some show at the zoo, So if you know somebody, with any form of fault or disability, Dont patronize or be overbearing, Just make allowances for their need
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 1:57 AM UTC
Interview with an Epileptic (Collab with Bluestar)
I'd like to thank eveybody for their time, as we conduct this interview in rhyme. If you have a disability such as mine, Everybody wants to pry into your mind. So in this piece im going to address, all the questions im asked, i intend to put that to rest. But i can't do this alone, i require some help Bluestar , thank you so much for providing assistance Yes thanks, ladies and gentleman, here we go, What we have here is a fine young specimen, A young age male with a disability no one knows, And what is it, you ask? Why, I don't mind if I do begin to explain him Epilepsy, that's what it is, It's what he's got inside And before you start to ask, no it's not a mental disorder Do you want to hear the facts or think the fiction, you have to decide Shall i dispense with the facts? Hmm with the mighty sword of knowledge ignorance i shall attack! Epilepsy is a neurological disorder, It causes me to be prone to seizures. Not the kind that causes the removal of property, But occasionally my brain will fry, and my body go crazy, Like a vampire exposed to holy ether But don't worry, he's not going to die, If you're with him when it happens you cannot run and hide He'll need you to support him, to make sure he's okay Make sure things are out of his reach and do not force him to obey In conclusion dear friends, im just like you, I may have neruological quirks, but im still Neroamee Alucard, Not some show at the zoo, So if you know somebody, with any form of fault or disability, Dont patronize or be overbearing, Just make allowances for their need
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I’m a woman with some attitude-- not one who will dispense a platitude. Chicken soup won’t give you soul; from me, it’ll get you an eye roll. You try to mask your disapproving looks with sanctimonious advice from large print books: “Embrace the moment” “Be grateful” and “Breathe” “Pray” “See only the good” “Turn the other cheek” “Accept others’ flaws” “Don’t criticize”-- I have some advice that’s a bit more wise: “Don’t put up with ******** “Embrace your outrage." While you were living in the “present,” history turned the page. God is Dead, you’ve got to take charge; you’ve been scammed by crooks in suits, who live large. People aren’t so good; sometimes they’re **** They’ve pulled the rug out from under where you sit. Don’t accept others’ flaws; tell them to go to hell. If you’re really mad, don’t breathe, just yell. Anger is good, it’s there for a reason. You’re just a phony, with your people pleasin’. Get off your **** and take some action-- stick it to the jerks, join the radical faction. Accommodating ******** just brings on more-- just wait, and you’ll see what’s next in store.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 10:44 PM UTC
Attitude
Indelicate is he who loathes The aspect of his fleshy clothes, -- The flying fabric stitched on bone, The vesture of the skeleton, The garment neither fur nor hair, The cloak of evil and despair, The veil long violated by Caresses of the hand and eye. Yet such is my unseemliness: I hate my epidermal dress, The savage blood's obscenity, The rags of my anatomy, And willingly would I dispense With false accouterments of sense, To sleep immodestly, a most Incarnadine and carnal ghost.
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Epidermal Macabre
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane — May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Parents' Love! — Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good, Thy Name possessing with thy Blood, In him, in all his ways, may we Another Francis WIlliam see! — Thy infant days may he inherit, They warmth, nay insolence of spirit; — We would not with one foult dispense To weaken the resemblance. May he revive thy Nursery sin, Peeping as daringly within, His curley Locks but just descried, With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.' — Fearless of danger, braving pain, And threaten'd very oft in vain, Still may one Terror daunt his Soul, One needful engine of Controul Be found in this sublime array, A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray. So may his equal faults as Child, Produce Maturity as mild! His saucy words and fiery ways In early Childhood's pettish days, In Manhood, shew his Father's mind Like him, considerate and Kind; All Gentleness to those around, And anger only not to wound. Then like his Father too, he must, To his own former struggles just, Feel his Deserts with honest Glow, And all his self-improvement know. A native fault may thus give birth To the best blessing, conscious Worth. As for ourselves we're very well; As unaffected prose will tell. Cassandra's pen will paint our state, The many comforts that await Our Chawton home, how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced, that when complete It will all other Houses beat The ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise, or rooms distended. You'll find us very snug next year, Perhaps with Charles and ***** near, For now it often does delight us To fancy them just over-right us.
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My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane — May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Parents' Love! — Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good, Thy Name possessing with thy Blood, In him, in all his ways, may we Another Francis WIlliam see! — Thy infant days may he inherit, They warmth, nay insolence of spirit; — We would not with one foult dispense To weaken the resemblance. May he revive thy Nursery sin, Peeping as daringly within, His curley Locks but just descried, With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.' — Fearless of danger, braving pain, And threaten'd very oft in vain, Still may one Terror daunt his Soul, One needful engine of Controul Be found in this sublime array, A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray. So may his equal faults as Child, Produce Maturity as mild! His saucy words and fiery ways In early Childhood's pettish days, In Manhood, shew his Father's mind Like him, considerate and Kind; All Gentleness to those around, And anger only not to wound. Then like his Father too, he must, To his own former struggles just, Feel his Deserts with honest Glow, And all his self-improvement know. A native fault may thus give birth To the best blessing, conscious Worth. As for ourselves we're very well; As unaffected prose will tell. Cassandra's pen will paint our state, The many comforts that await Our Chawton home, how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced, that when complete It will all other Houses beat The ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise, or rooms distended. You'll find us very snug next year, Perhaps with Charles and ***** near, For now it often does delight us To fancy them just over-right us.
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Been a week since the new year arrived at dawn's door Seven sunrises had passed making way for many more Resolutions, wishes, aspirations cast into winds of new days In hopes they'd be carried forth on each dawn's new rays *Let us welcome the fresh air that come Inhale it deep as reminder that we're luckier than some Let us embrace the opportunity of time A privilege bestowed so we could still pen in rhyme Let us cherish the love from family and new found friends Shower upon them the gift of verse that never ends Let us strengthen existing virtual and physical connections Reinforce them with kindness, fortitude and good intentions Let us sieve past experiences that mar us black Dispense with animosity, ill thoughts and considerations that lack Let us trudge forward into the unknown together Hands in hands and hearts to hearts into the unforeseeable future* No matter who you are or where you've been We'll all get our fair share of twenty fifteen We've all been granted if you'd only take advantage In the great book of life, on a fresh, brand new page Do note that this is just ideal advice not so much as a plea I know the journey is long, arduous and never easy I hope these words I've penned would lighten your load Little bites of wisdom (I hope) for the long meandering road I can't promise the rise of the nightly moon But the sun will rise where you are; and it will arrive very soon
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 6:59 PM UTC
Twenty Fifteen
Fever-flushed children and Broken bodies Litter hospital halls like so much Human refuse ….Wondering why their need for care is treated so tepidly by a Society which worships Profits Power and Prestige ….Waiting while they wallow in anguish as Privacy Paperwork and Payment are Debated by bureaucrats in cubicles ….Wanting to be refreshed and restored to some measure of usefulness ….But Free to Pursue Life on their terms in exchange for Silence Acceptance and Despair Huddling for warmth and in Fear of discovery they assemble in rag-tag formation having scaled formidable fences Seeking freedom from Poverty and oppression Searching for work of any sort ….No matter how Humiliating or Hard ….No matter the Cost or Conditions Disparaged and despised they labor in hope that their children will have a chance for success instead of suffering a similar fate …..But Free to Pursue Liberty in a land where their presence is Ignored if not Denied Unkempt in camouflage One-legged and Vacant-eyed he rolls his rickety wheelchair along grassy median with muted effort displaying cardboard sign childishly scripted in one weather-worn and gnarled hand while clutching a decapitated jug in the other Forgotten Forlorn, and Discarded veteran Victimized far more by country than foe ….But Free to Pursue Happiness while Begging on street corners as Upright citizens dispense Unwelcome opinions or Pocket change with equal Self-righteousness Life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness…. Ideals that slowly incinerate on the Altar of Capitalism ….Songs forever lost in the Cacophony now Played on the Instrument of Politics
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Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 at 7:17 PM UTC
Fiddling While Rome Burns
Fever-flushed children and Broken bodies Litter hospital halls like so much Human refuse ….Wondering why their need for care is treated so tepidly by a Society which worships Profits Power and Prestige ….Waiting while they wallow in anguish as Privacy Paperwork and Payment are Debated by bureaucrats in cubicles ….Wanting to be refreshed and restored to some measure of usefulness ….But Free to Pursue Life on their terms in exchange for Silence Acceptance and Despair Huddling for warmth and in Fear of discovery they assemble in rag-tag formation having scaled formidable fences Seeking freedom from Poverty and oppression Searching for work of any sort ….No matter how Humiliating or Hard ….No matter the Cost or Conditions Disparaged and despised they labor in hope that their children will have a chance for success instead of suffering a similar fate …..But Free to Pursue Liberty in a land where their presence is Ignored if not Denied Unkempt in camouflage One-legged and Vacant-eyed he rolls his rickety wheelchair along grassy median with muted effort displaying cardboard sign childishly scripted in one weather-worn and gnarled hand while clutching a decapitated jug in the other Forgotten Forlorn, and Discarded veteran Victimized far more by country than foe ….But Free to Pursue Happiness while Begging on street corners as Upright citizens dispense Unwelcome opinions or Pocket change with equal Self-righteousness Life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness…. Ideals that slowly incinerate on the Altar of Capitalism ….Songs forever lost in the Cacophony now Played on the Instrument of Politics
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i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 7:57 PM UTC
flicker, flutter
i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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Happy those early days, when I Shin’d in my Angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought: When yet I had not walk’d above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back—at that short space— Could see a glimpse of His bright face: When on some gilded cloud, or flow’r, My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity: Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to ev’ry sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient track! That I might once more reach that plain Where first I left my glorious train; From whence th’ enlightned spirit sees That shady City of Palm-trees. But ah! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
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The Retreat
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine, Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine, Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth, Disease that has more Joys than Health; Though we blaspheme thee in our Pain, And of Tyranny complain, We are all better'd by thy Reign. What Reason never can bestow, We to this useful Passion owe: Love wakes the dull from sluggish ease, And learns a Clown the Art to please: Humbles the Vain, kindles the Cold, Makes Misers free, and Cowards bold; And teaches airy Fops to think. When full brute Appetite is fed, And choakd the Glutton lies and dead; Thou new Spirits dost dispense, And fine'st the gross Delights of Sense. Virtue's unconquerable Aid That against Nature can persuade; And makes a roving Mind retire Within the Bounds of just Desire. Chearer of Age, Youth's kind Unrest, And half the Heaven of the blest!
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Song
DEAR JUSTICE,                        Every act that day                        revealed their involvement,                        in their regions, blood pools lay,                        as deep dug the predicament,                        death and displacement left all awry,                        cries of agony crawled, crumbling all.                        JUSTICE! They have drawn a blank today,                        branding them WAHESHIMIWA, the gall,                        visiting us with ‘aid’ and false word, here in the tent,                        where they just shove us in the recent,                        their dope remains in minds of the awakened,                        in those suits we see spooks  good at demolishing                        stretch your hand and dispense a mete from them                        for in you we reckon that they will pay.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
A Cry For Justice(Dedication to victims of post-election violence victims in Kenya)
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine, Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine, Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth, Disease that has more Joys than Health; Though we blaspheme thee in our Pain, And of Tyranny complain, We are all better'd by thy Reign. What Reason never can bestow, We to this useful Passion owe: Love wakes the dull from sluggish ease, And learns a Clown the Art to please: Humbles the Vain, kindles the Cold, Makes Misers free, and Cowards bold; And teaches airy Fops to think. When full brute Appetite is fed, And choakd the Glutton lies and dead; Thou new Spirits dost dispense, And fine'st the gross Delights of Sense. Virtue's unconquerable Aid That against Nature can persuade; And makes a roving Mind retire Within the Bounds of just Desire. Chearer of Age, Youth's kind Unrest, And half the Heaven of the blest!
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Song (Love)
If suddenly and without warning I pass this mortal coil please dispense with all the mourning because I find it rather droll Don't sit and sob and pout and mope because I've perished, premature Instill yourself, instead, with hope Find inspiration in this world Go somewhere you'd never have gone had I been around Take a trip, why not see Hong Kong? There are wonders to be found! We have so little time here on this earth it's a shame how much we waste New adventures have so much more worth than the memories we chase So when I'm gone, I'm dead, I'm lost I'm buried in the sand I profess,  insist, that at all costs You live the best you can
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 8:51 PM UTC
Don't Wait Up!
Your love is addicting – like… ******* in my beard on a Tuesday night. Teach me to see as an infant: I need everything to be for the first time again. I want to watch you bleed – into the subtext and margins of my notebook so we can dispense with the periods. Your sweat is bitter like dreams deferred, but I still long to lick your mind and taste your voice.
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM UTC
For the First Time Again
*Those words I've been dreading to hear, Not boldly uttered-- But clearly, I could feel...*      ***Unspoken words, indeed they sear...      Seemingly rendering you unfettered.      Our flags mismatched in mauve and teal.*** *I marched my fingers, slowly, To your cheeks down to your lips. Touched the traces of stained tears. From deep slumber, You've awaken. Eyes fluttered open. Those eyes. They spoke. Those eyes. They told me to stay--- To stay. Away.*      ***I cupped your face while time froze in      eternity...      Locked in tender gaze as my heart dips.      Reflected in yours were the wasted      years...      Felt the weight of commitment's anchor...      Dragged over a land forsaken...      Overladen...      With dastardly lies...      Tinting future skies so grey,      But my mouth would welcome the urge to      say,      Of the courage long held at bay...      This minute... This day...*** *Sweetly tortured by your kiss. The pain came. Swift. Blinding. Sharp. It pierced me to where i am. My heart shattered before it dies.*      ***These subtle hints you conveniently miss,      Only hastened the end of this game...      Time had seen our hearts set adrift...      We are only playing,      A broken, detuned harp...      Withholding our conflicting wants, much      like a dam.      Protecting us from defeated cries...      So let us dispense with sweet      pleasantries.      Let us bid farewell to the dream of our      unified fates in one painful sigh...*** *Along with all our memories. And your words of goodbye.* iammissbrightside ryn
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 3:11 AM UTC
A Farewell Ballad (Collaboration with Sir Ryn)
*Those words I've been dreading to hear, Not boldly uttered-- But clearly, I could feel...*      ***Unspoken words, indeed they sear...      Seemingly rendering you unfettered.      Our flags mismatched in mauve and teal.*** *I marched my fingers, slowly, To your cheeks down to your lips. Touched the traces of stained tears. From deep slumber, You've awaken. Eyes fluttered open. Those eyes. They spoke. Those eyes. They told me to stay--- To stay. Away.*      ***I cupped your face while time froze in      eternity...      Locked in tender gaze as my heart dips.      Reflected in yours were the wasted      years...      Felt the weight of commitment's anchor...      Dragged over a land forsaken...      Overladen...      With dastardly lies...      Tinting future skies so grey,      But my mouth would welcome the urge to      say,      Of the courage long held at bay...      This minute... This day...*** *Sweetly tortured by your kiss. The pain came. Swift. Blinding. Sharp. It pierced me to where i am. My heart shattered before it dies.*      ***These subtle hints you conveniently miss,      Only hastened the end of this game...      Time had seen our hearts set adrift...      We are only playing,      A broken, detuned harp...      Withholding our conflicting wants, much      like a dam.      Protecting us from defeated cries...      So let us dispense with sweet      pleasantries.      Let us bid farewell to the dream of our      unified fates in one painful sigh...*** *Along with all our memories. And your words of goodbye.* iammissbrightside ryn
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(almost) 60: So what? It’s only   a lonely number, A digit,   A widget   A speck        At 60: Some are happy But some, alone   Without a home   Others widowed, Divorced   or forced   into Invisibility. We are who we are. Some poor, some rich,   some think it’s a *****   Black or white, gay or straight   love or hate.   Life is what we make it Growing older has its perks. There’s Social Security,   more maturity,   AARP. Medicare,   blue hair,   Sr. Discount @ McDonald’s Replace a hip.   Botox a lip.   The knee’s arthritic,   the stomach acidic.   Life is fragile, And just like that!   Snap!   It could be gone! Meandering down the road of life. Oblivious.   Lascivious.     A relationship, or two. Stopping for a beer,   having a career, driving with the top down. Then… SLAM…. brick wall ahead….SIXTY! Screech of brakes.   For God’s sake.   Sixty’s the new forty? ********   Deal with it.   Get your head on straight.   It was Pete Townsend who penned, “I hope I die before I am old.”   Truth be told?   Older makes wiser.   Wiser makes sense.   Truth to dispense,   and still a lot to learn, Growing old “gracefully" is an art in itself. From middle age   to Sage,   we step into our skin, and rejoice   our voice   is heard   I will be thankful! I’ll thank the Lord each day! For my three gorgeous girls,   the best friends in the world,   and a job that pays the bills. Wealth, My health To love myself At 60. Sixty is **** If I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s. (maybe a **** or two would help though)
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 7:18 PM UTC
I Lived Through the Sixties/I Can Live Through the 60's
(almost) 60: So what? It’s only   a lonely number, A digit,   A widget   A speck        At 60: Some are happy But some, alone   Without a home   Others widowed, Divorced   or forced   into Invisibility. We are who we are. Some poor, some rich,   some think it’s a *****   Black or white, gay or straight   love or hate.   Life is what we make it Growing older has its perks. There’s Social Security,   more maturity,   AARP. Medicare,   blue hair,   Sr. Discount @ McDonald’s Replace a hip.   Botox a lip.   The knee’s arthritic,   the stomach acidic.   Life is fragile, And just like that!   Snap!   It could be gone! Meandering down the road of life. Oblivious.   Lascivious.     A relationship, or two. Stopping for a beer,   having a career, driving with the top down. Then… SLAM…. brick wall ahead….SIXTY! Screech of brakes.   For God’s sake.   Sixty’s the new forty? ********   Deal with it.   Get your head on straight.   It was Pete Townsend who penned, “I hope I die before I am old.”   Truth be told?   Older makes wiser.   Wiser makes sense.   Truth to dispense,   and still a lot to learn, Growing old “gracefully" is an art in itself. From middle age   to Sage,   we step into our skin, and rejoice   our voice   is heard   I will be thankful! I’ll thank the Lord each day! For my three gorgeous girls,   the best friends in the world,   and a job that pays the bills. Wealth, My health To love myself At 60. Sixty is **** If I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s. (maybe a **** or two would help though)
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Fiddle dee dum, Fiddle dee dee Everywhere leaves will rustle for me Everywhere trees will dispense them for free Oh, if i found a red one for thee Of maple, oak, and sycamore, see? Look! How they lift and float in the breeze Pluck them out, PLUCK They dodge and they tease... Tumble down, THUMP ARGGHHH scabby knees! Fiddle dee dum, and fiddle dee dee Everywhere leaves will rustle for me
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 12:56 AM UTC
Fiddle Dee Leaves
In the cold of my car I shivered, as the engine ran,                      I sat still hoping to dispense with the chill,                  but my will said, 'accept it you are a wimp and an old cold one at that" I was wearing my hat and my coat with light gloves,                                                                         I loves to wear, they separate my fingers             from the cold, knitted grey and bold,         they let me hold, objects of metal like keys to hearts,  objects of stone like me very own heart,                     objects of desire, that I keep secret until something transpires                                                                      which warms better than fires, on a dark and lonely night under the stars bright, wait was that my tire? Oh where did I wonder off too,                               as I was in thought, now lost,    my wit, not sharp as the nail in my tire, the cost, on a dark night in November, as six speeding police cars swoop past me, on an urgent mission to stop a crime, their sirens wail as I am a counterintuitive pantomime against the noise that assails me while I am changing a tire but remain the same, metal tire rod tool in my hand, stone cold heart beating, against my ribs, as I labor in disbelief that where I live is across from where I stand, and with all technology you have to get on your hands and knees to change a tire, I sneeze, I am not sure which is worse,                                          my situation or these verse, which decorate the night, not like stars, as when spoken aloud every other word is profane, while two homeless push there wares by me and laugh                                                                 with disdain. For in these transactions they have more street cred than I,   and I would give them a bitcoin of my thoughts, but they are two and I am one, alone and without a cell phone, and this poem rolling around like lug nuts in a hubcap, as frost creeps closer than the creeps who wish to reap of my misfortune. Of which I now have some, that I can mix with theirs and then I notice their bloodthirsty stares, so I begin to recite this poetry and expound on the woe in me and send them packing covering their ears with out attacking my hapless now three wheeled car. When I was done I was nuttier than those lugs, "good news" it was too cold for bugs, and with good conscience you, from this, can unplug. ©DWE112013
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Nov 20, 2013
Nov 20, 2013 at 11:02 PM UTC
This really did not happen on a cold night like this.
In the cold of my car I shivered, as the engine ran,                      I sat still hoping to dispense with the chill,                  but my will said, 'accept it you are a wimp and an old cold one at that" I was wearing my hat and my coat with light gloves,                                                                         I loves to wear, they separate my fingers             from the cold, knitted grey and bold,         they let me hold, objects of metal like keys to hearts,  objects of stone like me very own heart,                     objects of desire, that I keep secret until something transpires                                                                      which warms better than fires, on a dark and lonely night under the stars bright, wait was that my tire? Oh where did I wonder off too,                               as I was in thought, now lost,    my wit, not sharp as the nail in my tire, the cost, on a dark night in November, as six speeding police cars swoop past me, on an urgent mission to stop a crime, their sirens wail as I am a counterintuitive pantomime against the noise that assails me while I am changing a tire but remain the same, metal tire rod tool in my hand, stone cold heart beating, against my ribs, as I labor in disbelief that where I live is across from where I stand, and with all technology you have to get on your hands and knees to change a tire, I sneeze, I am not sure which is worse,                                          my situation or these verse, which decorate the night, not like stars, as when spoken aloud every other word is profane, while two homeless push there wares by me and laugh                                                                 with disdain. For in these transactions they have more street cred than I,   and I would give them a bitcoin of my thoughts, but they are two and I am one, alone and without a cell phone, and this poem rolling around like lug nuts in a hubcap, as frost creeps closer than the creeps who wish to reap of my misfortune. Of which I now have some, that I can mix with theirs and then I notice their bloodthirsty stares, so I begin to recite this poetry and expound on the woe in me and send them packing covering their ears with out attacking my hapless now three wheeled car. When I was done I was nuttier than those lugs, "good news" it was too cold for bugs, and with good conscience you, from this, can unplug. ©DWE112013
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Eliza! what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who, to woman, deny the soul’s future existence; Could they see thee, Eliza! they’d own their defect, And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance. Had their Prophet possess’d half an atom of sense, He ne’er would have woman from Paradise driven; Instead of his Houris, a flimsy pretence, With woman alone he had peopled his Heaven. Yet, still, to increase your calamities more, Not content with depriving your bodies of spirit, He allots one poor husband to share amongst four!— With souls you’d dispense; but, this last, who could bear it? His religion to please neither party is made; On husbands ’tis hard, to the wives most uncivil; Still I can’t contradict, what so oft has been said, “Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.” This terrible truth, even Scripture has told, Ye Benedicks! hear me, and listen with rapture; If a glimpse of redemption you wish to behold, Of ST. MATT.—read the second and twentieth chapter. ’Tis surely enough upon earth to be vex’d, With wives who eternal confusion are spreading; “But in Heaven” (so runs the Evangelists’ Text) “We neither have giving in marriage, or wedding.” From this we suppose, (as indeed well we may,) That should Saints after death, with their spouses put up more, And wives, as in life, aim at absolute sway, All Heaven would ring with the conjugal uproar. Distraction and Discord would follow in course, Nor MATTHEW, nor MARK, nor ST. PAUL, can deny it, The only expedient is general divorce, To prevent universal disturbance and riot. But though husband and wife, shall at length be disjoin’d, Yet woman and man ne’er were meant to dissever, Our chains once dissolv’d, and our hearts unconfin’d, We’ll love without bonds, but we’ll love you for ever. Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes, Should you own it yourselves, I would even then doubt you, Your nature so much of celestial partakes, The Garden of Eden would wither without you.
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To Eliza
Eliza! what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who, to woman, deny the soul’s future existence; Could they see thee, Eliza! they’d own their defect, And this doctrine would meet with a general resistance. Had their Prophet possess’d half an atom of sense, He ne’er would have woman from Paradise driven; Instead of his Houris, a flimsy pretence, With woman alone he had peopled his Heaven. Yet, still, to increase your calamities more, Not content with depriving your bodies of spirit, He allots one poor husband to share amongst four!— With souls you’d dispense; but, this last, who could bear it? His religion to please neither party is made; On husbands ’tis hard, to the wives most uncivil; Still I can’t contradict, what so oft has been said, “Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.” This terrible truth, even Scripture has told, Ye Benedicks! hear me, and listen with rapture; If a glimpse of redemption you wish to behold, Of ST. MATT.—read the second and twentieth chapter. ’Tis surely enough upon earth to be vex’d, With wives who eternal confusion are spreading; “But in Heaven” (so runs the Evangelists’ Text) “We neither have giving in marriage, or wedding.” From this we suppose, (as indeed well we may,) That should Saints after death, with their spouses put up more, And wives, as in life, aim at absolute sway, All Heaven would ring with the conjugal uproar. Distraction and Discord would follow in course, Nor MATTHEW, nor MARK, nor ST. PAUL, can deny it, The only expedient is general divorce, To prevent universal disturbance and riot. But though husband and wife, shall at length be disjoin’d, Yet woman and man ne’er were meant to dissever, Our chains once dissolv’d, and our hearts unconfin’d, We’ll love without bonds, but we’ll love you for ever. Though souls are denied you by fools and by rakes, Should you own it yourselves, I would even then doubt you, Your nature so much of celestial partakes, The Garden of Eden would wither without you.
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A pick-up case sits in the dirt, a face like muddy children, hence, All it needs is a pick-me-up; I’m sure you’ve been around and out Have a cup of coffee and tell me of the times, mutter out and dispense Of those all miseries; there’s another watching clouds break about And solitude unmake itself. But I leave it with twigs, quiet and devout Because this old-soul dispels of clarity without youth or commonsense. Even if I could, neither of us could say what rises Easter morning Or to what sun gods, of praise, are most deserving. But, just this one time Dewy sunlight parched the bold-faced shadows came without much warning, On warm breezes at our necks was something akin a wish of mine. We know not where we are and we do not wish to leave behind This time to count our blessings in the contrails in the sky For the shoring up of bleak tomorrows can’t demystify a trance We glimpse and fall to wobbly knees might stay on the off chance.
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 12:12 PM UTC
Pick-me-up on Easter Morning
The intimate mountain-- Weekends in a mercury supermarket-- And the nearly vindictive lilt in Your voice when you drop the Last 'T' in restaurant! Perhaps for just a few months We might dispense with the honorifics, Because we each know perfectly Well your finger-ring has a smile For no one but me. The first autumn was always impossible for me (or at least it will be). Winds winding like a clarinet-- A boulangerie cover of Dies Irae. Now where have I misplaced my Sensory glands? Charles Walks an intricately awkward emphasis In ungodly, Strangely comfortable stilettos. The emcee has no frigging Idea what the people want to hear anymore. His serape and his wine-- Not to mention his women, Although I have just now. Poor little frog. It looses owners off its skin Like tadpole-seeds, over A game of backgammon That never really cheats anybody. The abandoned LiveJournal account. The forgotten Myspace passwords. The iPod that hasn't been updated in years. The body slumped on a threadbare sofa. The broken earbuds and busted eardrums. Start spreading the news: I've already left. Go and empty the pews; My mother bereft. And the Chamber of Commerce wants to blame the ****** on me.
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Mar 10, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 at 6:25 PM UTC
Game Conditions
you got me, got into my head, morphed and laced my sense, you rocked me, shocked me, shared your ails' dispense then you forgot me, forget you, get out of my head!
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM UTC
reciprick! rejection