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Tanisha Jackland Apr 2017
O what say ye?
mine divine soul
where have you gone?
O my deity
It is the parched
barren sun
which depletes us
We've laid too long
in its withering heat
Now is the time
to cool and wet our thirst
upon the dark waters
of the abyss
to navigate this boat
be like fishermen
and bring back the dead
Graff1980 Oct 2016
As a child I was devout
Faithfully glued to
An idea with no truth

But I spoke clearly
Understood the fictions
Better than most adults did

Like little girls understand
Barbies, My little ponies
And monster high dolls

Like grown women
Who still want to be
The princess they saw
On Disney

Like little boys understand
GIJOE, Spiderman,
And Superman

Like grown men
Who still want to be
The Batman they saw
In movies on tv

I clung to this fair unreality
Hoping it would be redemption for me
Because the bruises and red marks
Demanded I believe
Insist I must need
A superhero Jesus to save me

While I was drowning in a sea of sin
I had to beg the divine to let me in
Noah’s Ark,

Hoping that god knows my heart
Was full of good intentions

But the bathroom florescent lights
Made me feel ugly
Like everyone was judging me
With all my pores and acne
With all the scar my mom gave me
Though she hid them perfectly
Just beneath my skin

I thought god would save me from her whims
Or at least take me away to be with him

Instead of leaving me in pain’s den
To lose those faithful delusions
One heartbreak at a time
One history and science lesson at a time
One standup routine and comic book at a time

Till I lost my taste for the divine
While at the same time
I was just plain losing my **** mind
Styles Jun 2023
In your presence, where desire takes its hold,
Yearning surges, a story yet untold,
With eager lips, I seek her tender kiss,
A dance of tongues, an intimate abyss.

Exploring further, my tongue does trace,
Her sacred curves, a path I gently trace,
Whispers of pleasure adorn her sacred mound,
Each taste, an artistry of senses unbound.

As I delve deeper, a mouthful of her essence,
A symphony of flavors, a divine presence,
It's the elixir that calms my restless soul,
Truthfully, her nectar, my senses extol.
NuurSeraph Oct 2014
This is my Oasis
A Place of
Timeless Grace

~Divine~


Come Waves of Wonder
Wash Me Over

A bountiful Breeze
Of endless Mystique

Raise my arms
I float into
Ambrosia Bliss

This is my Oasis
A Place of
Timeless Grace

~Divine~

I recall All things
Whole
(unyeilding & brave)

The kind of Grace we cannot erase
A peaceful Smile on a Child's face

A Place and Time

~Untouched~

~Unhidden~

~Unending~

ETERNAL

This is the place where I want to go *
*Together
We can accomplish Anything when We work Together
Doncha Think?
:-)
Glenn Currier Oct 2021
It was the next day
after I saw her walking down the hall
with pain still etched on her face
that my anger began to give way to remorse
the erosion of my ego
together with an almost divine spark of mercy
finally led me to seek her out, face her,
and say “I’m sorry honey for raising my voice to you.”
She looked at me, the tension in her face gone,
smiled and said, “I’m sorry too.”
At that moment we were together
in a small peaceful, glorious
and powerful
space in the universe.
Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate ;
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.
BYRON.


Amis ! c'est donc Rouen, la ville aux vieilles rues,
Aux vieilles tours, débris des races disparues,
La ville aux cent clochers carillonnant dans l'air,
Le Rouen des châteaux, des hôtels, des bastilles,
Dont le front hérissé de flèches et d'aiguilles
Déchire incessamment les brumes de la mer ;

C'est Rouen qui vous a ! Rouen qui vous enlève !
Je ne m'en plaindrai pas. J'ai souvent fait ce rêve
D'aller voir Saint-Ouen à moitié démoli,
Et tout m'a retenu, la famille, l'étude,
Mille soins, et surtout la vague inquiétude
Qui fait que l'homme craint son désir accompli.

J'ai différé. La vie à différer se passe.
De projets en projets et d'espace en espace
Le fol esprit de l'homme en tout temps s'envola.
Un jour enfin, lassés du songe qui nous leurre,
Nous disons : " Il est temps. Exécutons! c'est l'heure. "
Alors nous retournons les yeux : la mort est là !

Ainsi de mes projets. Quand vous verrai-je, Espagne,
Et Venise et son golfe, et Rome et sa campagne,
Toi, Sicile que ronge un volcan souterrain,
Grèce qu'on connaît trop, Sardaigne qu'on ignore,
Cités de l'aquilon, du couchant, de l'aurore,
Pyramides du Nil, cathédrales du Rhin !

Qui sait ? Jamais peut-être. Et quand m'abriterai-je
Près de la mer, ou bien sous un mont blanc de neige,
Dans quelque vieux donjon, tout plein d'un vieux héros,
Où le soleil, dorant les tourelles du faîte,
N'enverra sur mon front que des rayons de fête
Teints de pourpre et d'azur au prisme des vitraux ?

Jamais non plus, sans doute. En attendant, vaine ombre,
Oublié dans l'espace et perdu dans le nombre,
Je vis. J'ai trois enfants en cercle à mon foyer ;
Et lorsque la sagesse entr'ouvre un peu ma porte,
Elle me crie : Ami ! sois content. Que t'importe
Cette tente d'un jour qu'il faut sitôt ployer !

Et puis, dans mon esprit, des choses que j'espère
Je me fais cent récits, comme à son fils un père.
Ce que je voudrais voir je le rêve si beau !
Je vois en moi des tours, des Romes, des Cordoues,
Qui jettent mille feux, muse, quand tu secoues
Sous leurs sombres piliers ton magique flambeau !

Ce sont des Alhambras, de hautes cathédrales,
Des Babels, dans la nue enfonçant leurs spirales,
De noirs Escurials, mystérieux séjour,
Des villes d'autrefois, peintes et dentelées,
Où chantent jour et nuit mille cloches ailées,
Joyeuses d'habiter dans des clochers à jour !

Et je rêve ! Et jamais villes impériales  
N'éclipseront ce rêve aux splendeurs idéales.
Gardons l'illusion ; elle fuit assez tôt.
Chaque homme, dans son coeur, crée à sa fantaisie
Tout un monde enchanté d'art et de poésie.
C'est notre Chanaan que nous voyons d'en haut.

Restons où nous voyons. Pourquoi vouloir descendre,
Et toucher ce qu'on rêve, et marcher dans la cendre ?
Que ferons-nous après ? où descendre ? où courir ?
Plus de but à chercher ! plus d'espoir qui séduise !
De la terre donnée à la terre promise
Nul retour ; et Moïse a bien fait de mourir !

Restons **** des objets dont la vue est charmée.
L'arc-en-ciel est vapeur, le nuage est fumée.
L'idéal tombe en poudre au toucher du réel.
L'âme en songes de gloire ou d'amour se consume.
Comme un enfant qui souffle en un flocon d'écume,
Chaque homme enfle une bulle où se reflète un ciel !

Frêle bulle d'azur, au roseau suspendue,
Qui tremble au moindre choc et vacille éperdue !
Voilà tous nos projets, nos plaisirs, notre bruit !
Folle création qu'un zéphyr inquiète !
Sphère aux mille couleurs, d'une goutte d'eau faite !
Monde qu'un souffle crée et qu'un souffle détruit !

Le saurons-nous jamais ? Qui percera nos voiles,
Noirs firmaments, semés de nuages d'étoiles ?
Mer, qui peut dans ton lit descendre et regarder ?
Où donc est la science ? Où donc est l'origine ?
Cherchez au fond des mers cette perle divine,
Et, l'océan connu, l'âme reste à sonder !

Que faire et que penser ? Nier, douter, ou croire ?
Carrefour ténébreux ! triple route! nuit noire !
Le plus sage s'assied sous l'arbre du chemin,
Disant tout bas : J'irai, Seigneur, où tu m'envoies.
Il espère, et, de ****, dans les trois sombres voies,
Il écoute, pensif, marcher le genre humain !

Mai 1830.
THE SOUL AND THE UNIVERSE
Divine presence, deep and invisible,
The elusive, mysterious soul,
Inherent in every living cell
And dormant in every particle;
In silence, moves and multiplies,
Evolves in various amazing shapes;
Vibrant in every being, it grows,
Shines through countless eyes -
Like sunrays glittering on rising waves
And moonbeams shining in every drop
On lotus leaves in a silent lake;
Like a luminous rainbow's purple hue
Merging softly with heaven's blue,
Blends with the elements, imperceptible,        
                 Beyond the grasp of the five senses,
Through the living links of breath and pulse,
Remains inseparable from the cosmic force;
In forms different, seeming distinct,
Yet, one with the Universe around.
*    *  M.G.Narasimha Murthy
The Soul and the Universe is the title of the poem. This is a description of the divine presence everywhere in nature and the oneness of the individual and the cosmic force
c quirino Jun 2011
I.

something within me,
maybe its my amigdala,
misses the oven-turned-gentrified clot,
that great collection of want,
of transient soles-souls.

I miss how we’re piled three stories high,
so close to each others’ mouths that we must
burrow in criss crossed, colliding tunnels
to our point b’s, our job sites,
our lovers’ houses.

maybe it is indeed part of our un-nature to do this,
to cling to one another even
as our unforgiving sungod bakes us whole,
cornish game hens on the el train,
hurdling 40 mph, to and from
our personal hovels, heavens
and bedsheets,
tethered to this place, possibly indentured,
definitely flawed,
where we revel under roofs to prove incredibleness
an virility.

II.

our eyes are not closed today.
they may not blink in unison
as mannequin lids do,
so effortlessly, plastic and mechanical,
but those, we are thankfully not.
for we are flesh,
and air, and miles of gastrointestinal turnpike, if unpinned,
would stretch from here to panama.

we are each of us
a viscous mound called
Sally, Bertram and Queen Mary.

We are the collision of milk flowing, divine,
a whirling dervish
in scalding darjeeling.
we are air,
gliding over enamel into the collective breath
to be devoured so sweetly by others,
as saintly man-scripted gelato,
dribbling down our chins in piazzas.
la dolce ******* vita.

III.

that’s the funny thing about living
in this size 2 world,
the ability to appear anywhere upon its face at a moment’s notice,
to be in front of any face when desired,
to live sans toll booth or customs desk,
to simply dust off our ability to fly
and tumble icarus-adolescent into the collision
between the two blue planes called sea and sky
Joseph Childress Oct 2010
Joseph Childress

Do you know what happens when a preacher has an issue?
Reminiscent of a gangster,
He reaches for his pistol.
Fully loaded, as he explodes it,
He knows it can’t miss you.
Bullets of advice he uses to settle the differences,
And his bible helps his mission.
Ammunition for the spirit and the mind
From divine intervention,
Hit men for a cause, who has a price on their head?
Devoted to his job he empties the clip full of holy lead,
Exorcising the demons
Controlling your uncontrollable urge to sin.
But sometimes old endings
Are merged with new beginnings
Thus blending
This unstoppable urge to again, begin sinning,
Then again presenting
The need for the preacher’s mending.
This demon won’t stop trying,
Though it can be managed.
The demon will never die, but it can be damaged.
Hearts not strong enough become salvage,
Unless the Preacher with his pistol
Assures the demon is vanquished.
The never ending war between good and evil
Still has to be fought.
Hopefully Heaven has enough arsenals
To help those distraught.
Can't sleep
My mind echoes
Memories
And giggles

Can't rest
My heart races
Nights on the couch
A hand full of aces

Twisting and turning
Should I let you go?
My brain says yes
My heart
Always
No

So I'm caught up
Cause I feel drawn
Moth to a flame
Like the Janet Jackson song
Blind to the fact that you're MIA
No reason
No contact
These games you play

Twisting me
Unsure
And yet
I close my eyes
Just like before
And your smirk
Those "*******" words
I swear I'm possessed
Better yet
Cursed

I feel you
Relentless
You whisper to me
Deny it
Hide it
You call out to me
Subconsciously
Unwillingly
Your heart to mine

I try not to write
But the mighty Divine
Takes hold of my fingers
And bids me take ink
So I draw up your lashes
Lips in pink
Caramel skin
And a beating heart
Praying that page
From art to my heart
Comes to life in my hand
So I'm not alone

Cause I'm desperately missing
The way that you moan
The way that you bit me
And left behind
Your signature
Signed with bruising
My spine
Licked with fire
Of passionate sin

What was the point of this
Poem again?

Oh yes, I remember
To just let you know
I'm wanting you ever
And needing you so
Missing you desperate
Like a chronic hit
Of a pill that releases the pain
Of this pit
Blackness within me
That you seem to calm
Guess in the end it's all like a song

A tattered old record on constant repeat
Skipping in scratches
Yet we long for it's beat
Needing to hear it
To sing along
Wanting to dance
Like smoke from ****
Illusions seared into memory
What the **** is wrong with me?

If you wanted to
You would most likely call
Maybe a sticker
A text
But nah
Nothing
And yet
Here I am still

Green light
I type
You're off
And a chill
Races throughout
My body, so cold
Done with this poem
It's getting old
Who am I kidding?
I'll be back at it
At 3
I demand the fates
Bring you to me
But starfucked
I'm stupid
Cause I know in the end
I can't help but thinking
This was all just pretend.....

©MV
MOTV Dec 2015
He alone speaks a poem,

Laughs at first, then breaks a beat with bass that rings the dome

Booom Boom Bah

Yea

It is easy

Mc cheesy

Type of flow that gets the breezy

Hot and out

Fast and quick

Woe to the devilish

I rearrange the rebel

Sip on this

Like some drank, you got from 7/11

Spit it out

Because it tastes of heaven

Glory homie to the holy thoughts of growing in the home of he who is most high oh so fly I am that guy talking to minds eyes floating in right times speaking with odd man enshrined, guts for glory shoot it make it and own it
cannot stop the boldest, roaming, spitting glaciers so freezing cold.

Bits and pieces are put together
mind in a nimbus cloud
in any weather
creative cloud hold me now
i am bound atop it now
an angel not from hell
only here to tell
hear me now
as you see the cow
saw them bow
odd spits about
the past ancient type of hit I guess
one day someone will study it
the minds of all who look to God
then get corrupted by an idol star or a mind departing from the souls golden heart
dam is that it?
We lost it again and again
we be talking
I can make hits
a gin with the wish
but would you sell your soul for a piece of Earth
that will implode when the star has taken enough of this *******
I guess we can give it quits
anytime but right now the divine has all of my mind
I cannot let go
luke warm has got me to being this low
is commitment what you need for anything to succeed
I reseed back the vast heavens
that your minds seem to lack
can't see past dimensions
because humans don't believe in things
so fairy like
I barely write because I fall to blight every day and night

woe

I shall let you let go

go

they say

I fall asleep again for weeks on end now I can comprehend that I can fly again.

Yes again.

The times run on end and I will be at the right place and time when it comes, my friend.
Jimmy Hegan Sep 2015

The Lord is my shepherd, I
shall not want.
He makes the lie down in
green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
he restores my soul
He leads me in right paths
for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through
the darkest valley,
I fear no evil,
for you are with me ;
your rod and your staff-
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me.
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows,
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life.
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
my whole life Long.


Divine
Soul like mine
Heavenly sign
Someday you will see

Rewind
Seek and find
Remembered line
Solves the mystery

Adverse
Could be worse
Let us rehearse
Unknown destiny

Behind
Evenmind
Lies bound and tied
What good there could be

Process
What a mess
Lover's redress
What small price to pay

Priceless
Worth much less
Should I digress
From standard of way

Logic
Does the trick
Come take your pick
Of moribund day

Pretense
Little sense
Words so immense
What more can I say?
Cassidy Claire Johnson © 2013.

What little I can tell you
Cannot be told at all
Look for words to guide you
And you shall surely fall
For words themselves are useless
Save for the in between
Of what the words are saying
And what they really mean
"The walls around me slowly close in threatening to crush me between my throes of guilt and shame"

Walls like towers
Made of questions of "why's"
And distorted old stories
That reach the sky
Bred of agony and despair
Watching you slowly die
Gone, as if you were never there
Don't suffer through the fate of lies
Scream out the rage and make yourself care


"A threshold where I fall off the edge just to find myself back on the verge"

A door like desperation
Walking through to whence you came
Revolving around, teasing your mind
Like a revolver with bullets of shame
Shooting you between the eyes, every time
Lodging in your brain
Never leaving, or something you can find
Opening and closing; playing you like a toy in a game
Break down the door, smash through to the other side
Tear it off the hinges, don't even save the frame


"I beat upon the glass to shatter it,
but find only my hope's breaking"

Windows like pictures
Of things in the past
That you can no longer have
How long can the struggle really last
Before your insides bubble, boil and burn with regret
Time to find a way around the pane, fast
As the windows gets smaller and you completely forget
All the good in life of your past
Calm yourself, release your guilt,
Don't let feelings of which you can't control amass


"It'll all come crashing down, how much can this brittle barrier bear before a familiar, fickle fate is found?"

A roof like design
Made of the limits you've thrown upon yourself
Images vivid, destructive and divine
Playing projections of depth and death
Inception in the back of your mind
Telling you you're simply not good enough
Rise up, reach out and surely you will find
You are truly made of stronger stuff


"
This is my house of Hell and Horror and to it, I will always belong. I never knew finding home could ever go so wrong"*

A *house
like hell
Horrors and demons of your scarred heart
Built up, surrounding you in agony and pain
Ripping out your core, tearing you apart
Sweltering in the heat of lies you contain
Never finding the ending, or where to restart
*Keep faith, light a fire, don't live in vain
Burn it, smoke out the truth and purify the hearth
Watch the flames destroy it all, until nothing remains
Look out to the world, at all that now surrounds you
And silently wait for the rain
Bold from: House of Hell and Horror 1-5 by Frank Ruland
For Frank's "Let's Do A Line!" challenge.
All these lines, plus all 5 poems in there entirity, truly meant a lot and struck deeply within me. If you like this even a little, please read Frank's "House of Hell and Horror" series. Thank you dearly Frank for writing them and the challenge which gave me the opportunity to post this. I hope you like it. <3
Have you ever been the guy with no money and everyone tells you your broke and you need a job well in all honestly the ones with all the money  are broke there broke because at the center of there heart is money we pray for something that's truly a man made creation  when instead we should be praying for growth and understanding and as I've grown and learned  I've noticed that money doesn't make us happy its us that make us happy our friends our family but families friends lives have been torn apart chasing after something that has no significant value besides what we put on it. And we as a world have somehow put it at the center  of our core forgetting each other forgetting the earth and will do jus about anything to get it!  And wen we do get it  we still feel empty you may get the new car the new phone the new whatever and feel you have achieved something  but until we connect back with the divine the nature of who we truly are the very essence of our breathing  will we be happy they label us rebels terrorist or anti government but we're none of those titles we are simply humans that have been enslaved by a group of people that have  no interest in our ideas our lives  or our future they are simply interested in a piece of paper

A piece of ******* paper!
Emancipate yourself
j Jul 2013
loving her was like the first cup of coffee
on a saturday morning
sweet and divine
and nothing short of perfection

it was surrounded by endless birdsong
and delicate snowdrops
and frozen fingertips, clinging to one another
for warmth and protection

the closeness that can only be described
as something that is more extraordinary
than anything in the movies
or your dreams

a sense of belonging that you can't find
anywhere but her
her heart my home and her mind my
safety, away from the harm of the world

a soul so beautiful
my old romantic poetry books couldn't
even begin to compare
to this

she was perfect
                    she is perfect
I loved her
                    I love her
Le Soleil, le foyer de tendresse et de vie,
Verse l'amour brûlant à la terre ravie,
Et, quand on est couché sur la vallée, on sent
Que la terre est nubile et déborde de sang ;
Que son immense sein, soulevé par une âme,
Est d'amour comme Dieu, de chair comme la femme,
Et qu'il renferme, gros de sève et de rayons,
Le grand fourmillement de tous les embryons !

Et tout croît, et tout monte !

- Ô Vénus, ô Déesse !
Je regrette les temps de l'antique jeunesse,
Des satyres lascifs, des faunes animaux,
Dieux qui mordaient d'amour l'écorce des rameaux
Et dans les nénufars baisaient la Nymphe blonde !
Je regrette les temps où la sève du monde,
L'eau du fleuve, le sang rose des arbres verts
Dans les veines de Pan mettaient un univers !
Où le sol palpitait, vert, sous ses pieds de chèvre ;
Où, baisant mollement le clair syrinx, sa lèvre
Modulait sous le ciel le grand hymne d'amour ;
Où, debout sur la plaine, il entendait autour
Répondre à son appel la Nature vivante ;
Où les arbres muets, berçant l'oiseau qui chante,
La terre berçant l'homme, et tout l'Océan bleu
Et tous les animaux aimaient, aimaient en Dieu !
Je regrette les temps de la grande Cybèle
Qu'on disait parcourir, gigantesquement belle,
Sur un grand char d'airain, les splendides cités ;
Son double sein versait dans les immensités
Le pur ruissellement de la vie infinie.
L'Homme suçait, heureux, sa mamelle bénie,
Comme un petit enfant, jouant sur ses genoux.
- Parce qu'il était fort, l'Homme était chaste et doux.

Misère ! Maintenant il dit : Je sais les choses,
Et va, les yeux fermés et les oreilles closes.
Et pourtant, plus de dieux ! plus de dieux ! l'Homme est Roi,
L'Homme est Dieu ! Mais l'Amour, voilà la grande Foi !
Oh ! si l'homme puisait encore à ta mamelle,
Grande mère des dieux et des hommes, Cybèle ;
S'il n'avait pas laissé l'immortelle Astarté
Qui jadis, émergeant dans l'immense clarté
Des flots bleus, fleur de chair que la vague parfume,
Montra son nombril rose où vint neiger l'écume,
Et fit chanter, Déesse aux grands yeux noirs vainqueurs,
Le rossignol aux bois et l'amour dans les coeurs !

II

Je crois en toi ! je crois en toi ! Divine mère,
Aphrodite marine ! - Oh ! la route est amère
Depuis que l'autre Dieu nous attelle à sa croix ;
Chair, Marbre, Fleur, Vénus, c'est en toi que je crois !
- Oui, l'Homme est triste et laid, triste sous le ciel vaste.
Il a des vêtements, parce qu'il n'est plus chaste,
Parce qu'il a sali son fier buste de dieu,
Et qu'il a rabougri, comme une idole au feu,
Son cors Olympien aux servitudes sales !
Oui, même après la mort, dans les squelettes pâles
Il veut vivre, insultant la première beauté !
- Et l'Idole où tu mis tant de virginité,
Où tu divinisas notre argile, la Femme,
Afin que l'Homme pût éclairer sa pauvre âme
Et monter lentement, dans un immense amour,
De la prison terrestre à la beauté du jour,
La Femme ne sait plus même être courtisane !
- C'est une bonne farce ! et le monde ricane
Au nom doux et sacré de la grande Vénus !

III

Si les temps revenaient, les temps qui sont venus !
- Car l'Homme a fini ! l'Homme a joué tous les rôles !
Au grand jour, fatigué de briser des idoles,
Il ressuscitera, libre de tous ses Dieux,
Et, comme il est du ciel, il scrutera les cieux !
L'Idéal, la pensée invincible, éternelle,
Tout ; le dieu qui vit, sous son argile charnelle,
Montera, montera, brûlera sous son front !
Et quand tu le verras sonder tout l'horizon,
Contempteur des vieux jougs, libre de toute crainte,
Tu viendras lui donner la Rédemption sainte !
- Splendide, radieuse, au sein des grandes mers
Tu surgiras, jetant sur le vaste Univers
L'Amour infini dans un infini sourire !
Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le frémissement d'un immense baiser !

- Le Monde a soif d'amour : tu viendras l'apaiser.

Ô ! L'Homme a relevé sa tête libre et fière !
Et le rayon soudain de la beauté première
Fait palpiter le dieu dans l'autel de la chair !
Heureux du bien présent, pâle du mal souffert,
L'Homme veut tout sonder, - et savoir ! La Pensée,
La cavale longtemps, si longtemps oppressée
S'élance de son front ! Elle saura Pourquoi !...
Qu'elle bondisse libre, et l'Homme aura la Foi !
- Pourquoi l'azur muet et l'espace insondable ?
Pourquoi les astres d'or fourmillant comme un sable ?
Si l'on montait toujours, que verrait-on là-haut ?
Un Pasteur mène-t-il cet immense troupeau
De mondes cheminant dans l'horreur de l'espace ?
Et tous ces mondes-là, que l'éther vaste embrasse,
Vibrent-ils aux accents d'une éternelle voix ?
- Et l'Homme, peut-il voir ? peut-il dire : Je crois ?
La voix de la pensée est-elle plus qu'un rêve ?
Si l'homme naît si tôt, si la vie est si brève,
D'où vient-il ? Sombre-t-il dans l'Océan profond
Des Germes, des Foetus, des Embryons, au fond
De l'immense Creuset d'où la Mère-Nature
Le ressuscitera, vivante créature,
Pour aimer dans la rose, et croître dans les blés ?...

Nous ne pouvons savoir ! - Nous sommes accablés
D'un manteau d'ignorance et d'étroites chimères !
Singes d'hommes tombés de la vulve des mères,
Notre pâle raison nous cache l'infini !
Nous voulons regarder : - le Doute nous punit !
Le doute, morne oiseau, nous frappe de son aile...
- Et l'horizon s'enfuit d'une fuite éternelle !...

Le grand ciel est ouvert ! les mystères sont morts
Devant l'Homme, debout, qui croise ses bras forts
Dans l'immense splendeur de la riche nature !
Il chante... et le bois chante, et le fleuve murmure
Un chant plein de bonheur qui monte vers le jour !...
- C'est la Rédemption ! c'est l'amour ! c'est l'amour !...

IV

Ô splendeur de la chair ! ô splendeur idéale !
Ô renouveau d'amour, aurore triomphale
Où, courbant à leurs pieds les Dieux et les Héros,
Kallipyge la blanche et le petit Éros
Effleureront, couverts de la neige des roses,
Les femmes et les fleurs sous leurs beaux pieds écloses !
- Ô grande Ariadné, qui jettes tes sanglots
Sur la rive, en voyant fuir là-bas sur les flots,
Blanche sous le soleil, la voile de Thésée,
Ô douce vierge enfant qu'une nuit a brisée,
Tais-toi ! Sur son char d'or brodé de noirs raisins,
Lysios, promené dans les champs Phrygiens  
Par les tigres lascifs et les panthères rousses,
Le long des fleuves bleus rougit les sombres mousses.
- Zeus, Taureau, sur son cou berce comme une enfant
Le corps nu d'Europé, qui jette son bras blanc
Au cou nerveux du Dieu frissonnant dans la vague.
Il tourne lentement vers elle son oeil vague ;
Elle, laisse traîner sa pâle joue en fleur,
Au front de Zeus ; ses yeux sont fermés ; elle meurt
Dans un divin baiser, et le flot qui murmure
De son écume d'or fleurit sa chevelure.
- Entre le laurier-rose et le lotus jaseur
Glisse amoureusement le grand Cygne rêveur
Embrassant la Léda des blancheurs de son aile ;
- Et tandis que Cypris passe, étrangement belle,
Et, cambrant les rondeurs splendides de ses reins,
Étale fièrement l'or de ses larges seins
Et son ventre neigeux brodé de mousse noire,
- Héraclès, le Dompteur, qui, comme d'une gloire,
Fort, ceint son vaste corps de la peau du lion,
S'avance, front terrible et doux, à l'horizon !

Par la lune d'été vaguement éclairée,
Debout, nue, et rêvant dans sa pâleur dorée
Que tache le flot lourd de ses longs cheveux bleus,
Dans la clairière sombre où la mousse s'étoile,
La Dryade regarde au ciel silencieux...
- La blanche Séléné laisse flotter son voile,
Craintive, sur les pieds du bel Endymion,
Et lui jette un baiser dans un pâle rayon...
- La Source pleure au **** dans une longue extase...
C'est la Nymphe qui rêve, un coude sur son vase,
Au beau jeune homme blanc que son onde a pressé.
- Une brise d'amour dans la nuit a passé,
Et, dans les bois sacrés, dans l'horreur des grands arbres,
Majestueusement debout, les sombres Marbres,
Les Dieux, au front desquels le Bouvreuil fait son nid,
- Les Dieux écoutent l'Homme et le Monde infini !

Le 29 avril 1870.
Sam Beckman Jul 2013
You are my life
Mornings, noon’s, and midnights.
My sign in everyday
That its going to be alright.
A sign that this distance can’t keep us awake at night
And we can sleep tight
Knowing that our future together is bright
And I know its hard
To open your eyes each day
While I’m not there to wipe the tears away
I’m not there to hold your hand,
Or kiss your lips,
But baby, you hold my heart
And it’s kissed by every smile you start
Every breath you breathe
Makes me melt
…and every word you speak lets me know
That with this hand we’re dealt
…it isn’t impossible to win
It isn’t impossible to be felt
That I’ll hold you in my arms
And never let go
Cause baby, don’t you know?
That you’re mine.
You’re my little piece of sunshine.
And it must be divine
You must be my soul mate
This must be fate
It’s gotta be,
Cause baby, I’ll wait
Copyright © 2013 by Samantha Beckman

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Gabriel Jan 2014
Beyond cascading screams in a melodically honed vibration,
Within a fading abyss of infinitesimal separation,
A dreamscape of a constant creation, so vivid by design,
An interesting compilation to the manifestations of my mind,
The psyche demands a certain control and designation,
A tether to the super consciousness without a single deviation.
But as we sail away on waves of cosmic revelation,
To travel the universe for a more profound contemplation not quite Euclidean in nature.
But as a product of Sol, there is a certain elemental configuration,
That fuels the intent of the most colorful dreams,
Bathed in the warmth we call divine,
I have seen solar systems and even far beyond,
But that was only in my mind,
As dreams are harder to navigate when it is difficult to see them straight.
One does not debate such pointless substrate.
two hearts beating as one
                                          in divine synchronicity
                                                     
love's harmony playing
                                       as a soft symphony
                                          
two hearts beating as one
                                          such beauty in the melody
                                                          
a blue stream flowing
                                    to the strains of eternity
Julie Grenness Feb 2016
"Until an hour before the Devil fell..."
Yahweh and Lucifer got on so well,
God thought Archangels so beautiful,
God blessed each of you, so dutiful,
Lucifer, our light divine,
Now  fallen angel, out of time,
Evil love, Prince of Darkness,
Diablo Mephistopheles, no less,
Sad to say, Beezelbub runs Hell,
But, Yahweh and Lucifer got along so well,
"Until an hour before the devil fell...."
For a contest, Feedback welcome.
La tristesse est rêveuse, et je rêve souvent ;
La nature m'y porte, on la trompe avec peine :
Je rêve au bruit de l'eau qui se promène,
Au murmure du saule agité par le vent.
J'écoute : un souvenir répond à ma tristesse ;
Un autre souvenir s'éveille dans mon cœur :
Chaque objet me pénètre, et répand sa couleur
Sur le sentiment qui m'oppresse.
Ainsi le nuage s'enfuit,
Pressé par un autre nuage :
Ainsi le flot fuit le rivage,
Cédant au flot qui le poursuit.

J'ai vu languir, au fond de la vallée,
Un arbrisseau qu'oubliait le bonheur ;
L'aurore se levait sans éclairer sa fleur,
Et pour lui la nature était sombre et voilée.
Ses printemps ignorés s'écoulaient dans la nuit ;
L'amour jamais d'une fraîche guirlande
À ses rameaux n'avait laissé l'offrande :
Il fait froid aux lieux qu'Amour fuit.
L'ombre humide éteignait sa force languissante ;
Son front pour s'élever faisait un vain effort ;
Un éternel hiver, une eau triste et dormante
Jusque dans sa racine allaient porter la mort.

« Hélas ! faut-il mourir sans connaître la vie !
Sans avoir vu des cieux briller les doux flambeaux !
Je n'atteindrai jamais de ces arbres si beaux
La couronne verte et fleurie !
Ils dominent au **** sur les champs d'alentour :
On dit que le soleil dore leur beau feuillage ;
Et moi, sous leur impénétrable ombrage,
Je devine à peine le jour !
Vallon où je me meurs, votre triste influence
A préparé ma chute auprès de ma naissance.
Bientôt, hélas ! je ne dois plus gémir !
Déjà ma feuille a cessé de frémir...
Je meurs, je meurs. » Ce douloureux murmure
Toucha le dieu protecteur du vallon.
C'était le temps où le noir Aquilon
Laisse, en fuyant, respirer la nature.
« Non, dit le dieu : qu'un souffle de chaleur
Pénètre au sein de ta tige glacée.
Ta vie heureuse est enfin commencée ;
Relève-toi, j'ai ranimé ta fleur.
Je te consacre aux nymphes des bocages ;
À mes lauriers tes rameaux vont s'unir,
Et j'irai quelque jour sous leurs jeunes ombrages
Chercher un souvenir. »

L'arbrisseau, faible encor, tressaillit d'espérance ;
Dans le pressentiment il goûta l'existence ;
Comme l'aveugle-né, saisi d'un doux transport,
Voit fuir sa longue nuit, image de la mort,
Quand une main divine entr'ouvre sa paupière,
Et conduit à son âme un rayon de lumière :
L'air qu'il respire alors est un bienfait nouveau ;
Il est plus pur : il vient d'un ciel si beau !
I am everlasting nothingness
My soul emptied of all purpose
A life without meaning
Heart beating faster hoping to overheat and finally find peace
Hopelessness that begs to be broken
Icy pain pleading to be melted away
Banished by my bitter flame
Raging viciously through my blood
Crashing into everything around me
Lighting my little world aflame
All I cherish scorched beyond recognition
Broken insides as tears crash down like ocean waves
The waters of my soul washing over all inside and out
The sea's raging storm tearing away any layers protecting me
Rain and wind piercing through resolve I never did affirm
Being cleansed of more than just darkness and pain
My humanity threatens to be shaved away
As I roll upon the shore
An island and I am the new budding tree
Reaching hopefully and eagerly for the light of the sky
While anchored to ground that keeps me alive
I must continue to grow, to survive
I wake from this lost lands cursed slumber
A transition within my mind
And as my eyes are once more cast toward this ocean inside my soul
I drive into inner depth a heart crafted by willful waters
My purity is locked further within
Plummeting so far down into ever expanding darkness
Only to discover the most powerful wonders of myself
Forgotten just past the beginning of my time
Treasures of origin now reclaimed
And this is where I find my wings
Sculpted golden, sleek and shining
Formed by the softest flowing but most pressured liquid courage
I won't wait to ascend upon the clouds
Drapped in captivating colors
For my greatest day now closes its eyes
Though it no longer holds domain over who I am
The man who cannot be stopped
As I always have been
Only before I looked through mirrors
Who I was based off of reflections others bounced back
Opinions from minds that could never decipher the cryptic code that formed meNow I reflect the light of the stars I have absorbed
Mixed with a blue flame of determination and desire
A cooled focused new drive
Along with the glisten within my twilight eyes
I am a divine being composed of these new colors
And I will never again be confined
I am the understanding brought through pain
I am new life found by dying
I am peace sought from chaos
I am the God of Hope
The greatest beacon of light
The epitome of beauty
Born and breed from this uniquely never ending nothingness

C.N. / Words written in the sky that is my mind
Kudu R A Jun 2014
I could, for your sake, take trip to the middle East
Where life is like living in the belly of beast
To preach against violence and hope they all fear it
Cause your love gives peace and with the world I could share it

I could exceed speed limits to get to you in time
Switch lanes on a one way even if it is a crime
If I get run over or caught by the police
Then it would be worth being reckless loving you like this

I could do the dishes and the whole house I shall keep
Even watch the kids; to get you extra hours of sleep
If I get a query cause I was making breakfast
At least I got the chance to make my love for you last

I could break a nose or even chop off someones head
Or just displace some bones but leave them alive instead
I shall declare enemies, that despise your person
My love shall defend you both in and out of season

I could lay down my life in your stead  if I have to
It may sound crazy but I'd do it cause I love you
Don't fear that you might loose me cause true love never dies
My love's divine and would remain however fast time flies.
Ever exceeded our limits just to show that special person how special they really are and how far you could get just to make the bond last a lifetime?
Idonotexist Jan 2014
Faithful sea extends
out its tidal hands
to the distant divine moon
with a jump of hope
Equally
when  silver rays of
affection strokes the sea
on a full moon
And
When cold shadow
abandons the sea
on a new moon

Only to

Crash on the sad rocks
adorning the lonely land
yet returning back to try again

And

Moon knows nothing of this
Apachi Ram Fatal Jun 2016
Electromagnetic field of Sensation propel my charged particles accumulation into Emotional system Frustrations. Declaration at Sub Zero vibration. Igniting immediate internal stimulation. Enclosed Body temple visitation. Divided People I am salvation. Hear my confession of love amalgamation.
Divine Words in Sane Sand
The power of contentment is a strong force,
composed of the sense of inward sufficiency;
for we’ve been promised the strength to succeed
when we open spiritual eyes and dare to see…

His divine plan of grace and abundance for us.
Christ, the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end,
demonstrated His Love with actions at Calvary,
giving us the privilege to be called His friend.

We should not be worried about personal needs,
for we’ve been equipped to address all of them;
study The Word, apply His principles to your life
and you’ll enjoy Life, without feeling condemned.

For contentment has nothing to do with your wants;
it’s being satisfied on the way to where you’re going.
Boldly ask God for wisdom; trust Him and His timing;
continue to be blessed by the seeds you are sowing.

Don’t be affected by Life-stealing, negative emotions;
find your identity of being one of His girls and boys;
real contentment is the underlying power to be happy-
learn to lean on Biblical promises and the Lord’s joy!
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Author Notes:

Loosely based on:
Rom 11:36; 1 Tim 6:6; Eph 3:20; Jam 4:2; Phil 4:11-13; John 3:16-17

Learn more about me and my poetry at:
http://amzn.to/1ffo9YZ

By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2014, All rights reserved.
Tyler Matthew Sep 2017
I am the dog, collared and chained,
deemed useless and left alone.
I am the nail in the wall left unhammered, jutting to snag at your sleeve.
I am the hole in your line through which all of your energy will be filtered or lost.
I am heavy with meaning and weightless with meaning and grounded in someone else's reality.
I am that reality, while my own remains silent and hidden and threatening.
I am a threat to some, no one to someone, and everything to one.
I am the card in play, always, even
when you leave the table and
I will be there when you get back.
Also, I am the deck and few cards are missing.
I am the mirror in which you might one day see yourself and startle your eyes into misrecognition.
I am the cup that overfloweth,
and the child guilty for wanting.
I am the season which seems like it will never let up.
I am the sun casting rays of golden relief on the faces of many lonely strangers.
I am the forgotten sun, just as well.
I am the ruin of those who came here before me and the stain they left on the white fabric of time.
I am the fabric, loose and changing
in the winds of perpetuity.
I am a glass sphere in the midst of a landscape, puzzling and divine and uncanny alike.
I am a door left unopened.
I am a line with no end and a point with no beginning and I will let it be known that I am here seeking all.
Elizabeth Dec 2015
I know exactly how you’re ******* your new girlfriend.

I know you’re going to play “Sing for Me” by Yellowcard in the background. I know you’re going to **** on that song like we never danced to it at prom, like you never learned it on acoustic for me, like we didn’t make out to it under my lit Christmas tree.

I know 9 times out of 10 she’s going to initiate and that will **** her off.

I know how long it’s going to last you, how you’re going to try so hard to old it in but in the pit of your stomach you know it doesn’t work.

I know your glasses are going to fog up and get smudged with face grease and you’ll need to Windex them afterward.

I know you’re going to say “I love you” to her right after. You’ll mean it, but regret that you do. Soon you’ll need to fix that.

I know you’re going to eat a bowl of Raisin Bran once you’ve dressed again.

I know you’re going to talk about this time until the next time, and she’ll give in just to shut you up. Also because she really does love you, and wants to please you.  

I know you’re going to beg she sleeps in your clothes without underwear before showering, and she will if you reciprocate.

I know you’re going to talk about *** like it’s divine, like it’s balanced on a pedestal located in the most untouched corner of Eden.

I know you’re going to treat all of this like a chocolate fountain, infinitely filling and never squandered.

And you haven’t been home, so you don’t know that the first place we made love is demolished to rubble and stone. You told me good things last forever,

But I know you lie. Yellowcard told us “no looking back when I am gone”, and for a year and a half those words were wedding vows.  

But you’re obsessed with conclusion, and feeling,

So you’ll leave her, just like you did me,

To feel again, because these love affairs are nothing but alcoholic drinks you choke down to numb.

You said don’t look back when you’re gone, but there is no forward from here.
This piece is intended to be performed as a slam.
Solaces Jul 2014
They are leaving, 12 firey streaks in the sky, right before this planet dies..
the serenity before the oblivion, the sight of the mother and all of her salvation..
destination 2nd home,  for us to rebuild and rename for our own..

They are arriving, 12 firey streaks from the sky, light lines fill our eyes..
fear and awe fill our minds, strangers from above or perhaps angels divine..
should we welcome them with love, the strangers or angels from above..
new home,
Dakota J Dawson Dec 2017
Slow ride into the black pond
Soot and root echo ruin
Slinging forth pain

She has gone away with the withering dawn
Stopping her silent withdraw
******* fruit with Dawson

Reaping hay in the October harvest
Rings form in her irises
Roles are switched

Rudely drawn wings spring out
Reminding the angels
Rewarding belief

Dunes of gold build up along the ridges
Dried lips soften and rehydrate
Dropping lifeless skin

Divine curvatures are left exposed
Driven off the warm host
Dying in a lonely place
Learn from Apostle Paul’s and Job’s life lessons,
for faith’s gold will be tested and purified;
tribulations are faced by God’s daughters and sons,
but only through Christ - can one be justified.

The troubles of the day will eventually find us;
but will you be prepared by the principles of Love?
Remember the divine words of the Lord Christ Jesus
and draw strength from His righteous Kingdom above.

The rain falls on both the Just and Unjust;
so you might as well expect to get wet;
develop an atmosphere of faith and in Him trust;
live your life transparently without regrets.

So open your spiritual eyes and plan ahead;
develop a Godly relationship that’s versatile,
knowing your faith will be surely tested
with the experiences of… God ordained trials.




Author Notes:

Loosely based on:
2 Cor 12:7-10; Phil 4:11-13; Job; James 1:2-4;
1 Pet 1:6-7; Rom 5:3-5

Learn more about me and my poetry at:
http://www.squidoo.com/book-isbn-1419650513/

By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2012, All rights reserved.
Kenshō Aug 2014
Chanting 'round fire, I find your ascetic attire.
Swallow me in your divine robes of love.
Burn away what is lost and all is found.

Sun of Knowledge bring Life to stone.
This world is magic and your very own.
Lost along the tiring brick roads,
I retire back home. Solid, within my deep forest throne.
hi

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