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"dredging" poems
Stumbling into ancient scripts, authored a decades plus ago, ago being a modifier of time quantities, minute or large, unspecific without an objective adjective additive, that faucets a stream of an interlocutory elocution of a batter of rooted emotional histories, but not histrionics fanciful words for dredged up memories, acute, but tarnished, powered yet worn by a cousin of ago, a/k/a, age and yet renews as of, at this very second, as if it were a first, a tumult of visions, swelling of remembrances, embodied scars, and I weep anew but not for me, as much for the resonating simpatico souls with whom they even  now vibrate with resonance of the immediacy of If not now, When? Aside: The exterior environment is noisy wet pelting of thunderstorms and ****** sheets of bulleting rain, piercing projectiles, but I am safe in the sunroom, sadly happy my dog is no longer here to shiver and tremble, cuddle and be soothed by steady stroking But I am here, wrestling with this dredging operation, digging up tons of sand that require dumping, and I ask, inquire, beg: Who will take this detritus off my hands, once more, now uncovered, now recovered, the soil is already soaked and can absorb no more, the soul is already soaked and can absorb no more, the weakened heart, damaged and occluded, suffer cannot bare twice the outrageous misfortune of unbared recollections, twice, or thrice, and I feel myself drowning in revisiting pain, **** **** **** these old poems, not nuggets, but boulders dropping from night skies, shot from a pitching machine, without letup, piercing of agonies that once ago   freshly desecrated and decorated my basic training in humanity. Enough whining: *I wrote those poems to eject out those pains, and I write this now, once more, to realize that so so many still face uncertain and unrelenting similarities, doing their own sums, and I wish them easing, strength to compose and thereby dispose of the ineloquent and eloquent words of staining suffering* 3:30am Thur July 10 2025
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Jul 16, 2025
Jul 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM UTC
Older poems, new readers, familiar thoughts...
Stumbling into ancient scripts, authored a decades plus ago, ago being a modifier of time quantities, minute or large, unspecific without an objective adjective additive, that faucets a stream of an interlocutory elocution of a batter of rooted emotional histories, but not histrionics fanciful words for dredged up memories, acute, but tarnished, powered yet worn by a cousin of ago, a/k/a, age and yet renews as of, at this very second, as if it were a first, a tumult of visions, swelling of remembrances, embodied scars, and I weep anew but not for me, as much for the resonating simpatico souls with whom they even  now vibrate with resonance of the immediacy of If not now, When? Aside: The exterior environment is noisy wet pelting of thunderstorms and ****** sheets of bulleting rain, piercing projectiles, but I am safe in the sunroom, sadly happy my dog is no longer here to shiver and tremble, cuddle and be soothed by steady stroking But I am here, wrestling with this dredging operation, digging up tons of sand that require dumping, and I ask, inquire, beg: Who will take this detritus off my hands, once more, now uncovered, now recovered, the soil is already soaked and can absorb no more, the soul is already soaked and can absorb no more, the weakened heart, damaged and occluded, suffer cannot bare twice the outrageous misfortune of unbared recollections, twice, or thrice, and I feel myself drowning in revisiting pain, **** **** **** these old poems, not nuggets, but boulders dropping from night skies, shot from a pitching machine, without letup, piercing of agonies that once ago   freshly desecrated and decorated my basic training in humanity. Enough whining: *I wrote those poems to eject out those pains, and I write this now, once more, to realize that so so many still face uncertain and unrelenting similarities, doing their own sums, and I wish them easing, strength to compose and thereby dispose of the ineloquent and eloquent words of staining suffering* 3:30am Thur July 10 2025
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"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM UTC
"A love poem is a kiss, whispered sweetly"
"Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly" (2) who needs challenges, commissions. kicks~in~le butte~ when heaven heaves rains, one downs tall orders in short shot glass verses, which glossed over at its first communion(cation, come back months later to subtract - another poem from where it lay dormant on the doormat of my sub~sub~terranes of my diluted subconscious au natured dry & rugged terrain a favored poet, a secretive admirer, whoa~whose~her truthful name, I've yet to uncover, but whose one true soul inspires me repeatedly, ana~lyrically licks me into dredging from me un begrudgingly and yet, another love poem, she herself wrote when elixiring (commentating (3)) 'pon one of mine, a long long time ago Alas!  Alack! unnaturally immodest, one concedes, when obviously a Super~Woman!-cedes, seeds in three verses, what I  could never unknot nor uncover so I requite & requote with unlabored pleasure miz patty m's primary terse verse, neither secondary & never tertiary, her absolut perfect mixed drink defining, summarizing, the essences of love *"(Love) Poetry is confession, obsession, reflection. Empathic minds, valentines, hope divined. It's a kiss, whispered sweetly"* I concede, in deed, and in writing, I know nothing, of writing of only love poetry and all the great predecessors, elsewhere lyricized, named and tabulated, by yet another women, (1) I will take my weary words elsewhere, and if perhaps, disguised as a woman, (Natalie, Natasha, Natali see note below) perhaps my verbal herbal insides, my turgid insights, will be shorter, sweeter, but never more completer than those of, who can syncopate it in rhyme and the naming of my predilection, by mid~initial, will give a measuring of solace, and a kiss and hug from my mirrored selfie, having been unsuccessful at my one chosen endeavor, only love poetry, adieu, I, due, utter Nevermore                     M>
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These are the hard times, the long stretch of coal-shed days, the corrugated nights of the antinomian. I retch at the old doubts and the panoply of dustbins clattering bright, their watchers simian in the morning **** I dress as though dredging up greys, monotone deep in the GB tradition: now sandpit tea with oil stain floats silt dreads the mass of a seven year clay. Four weeks of shadows drown wind in a storm. And dreams of my cottage in days of such calm and late summer happiness as brought cut corn and strawbs and horse manure in hugs until like Zulu tribesmen the birds appeared. Hunched with expectation Spears smiling like baddies they rushed me. I woke pouring sweat like a workhorse the weakest of defences laid up my face pulling cellophane over French windows.
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Feb 6, 2012
Feb 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM UTC
February, from which there is no escape
lotus in a mirror its roots clutch crepuscular slums of dredging mud deep dark stagnant thick with worms and milk flower petals we remain nourished wisdom expands into darkness all of us students in the school of shadows irreverent desires reverent wise children of light bathe in waters of cimmerian shade *** death and regeneration are celebrated in ****** of feral lucidity souls are soiled by devils the bog swallows bones to bloom seraph's and cherubim floating the third eye open a cascading light secret kiss a breathless eternity at the root flames lick open orifice of ripples silk empyrean *** magicians weave hips voodoo
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 1:09 PM UTC
The Empyrean *** Magicians
i. In the shower under cold water, I scrubbed and scrubbed I wanted to rid myself of my own skin Escape into a mine so I could live among the coal A fuel almost as ***** as I felt. ii. As he pulled away from me As he broke me into pieces Shattered glass lay upon the seat of his car I know what it's like to escape into a stranger's hot breath The weight of a warm wash cloth upon my back Pressing down again. iii. I prayed my wings would grow back in time For me to fly to places I could never see Before, my vision was black in white Suddenly, I could see in color His memory continues to pluck the feathers But once again, I see the value of bone. iv. I tried to move on Forget the thrashing of your memory Like a gong, clanging symbol Leave my mind alone Leave me be v. Free me of broken pieces of the years I lost Minutes, I lost bleeding from the inside out, razor eloquently in hand Hours, I lost to purging myself of your uncleanliness Days, I lost dredging my soul in therapy, hoping to dig up something that would do me some good Years, I lost to the talons of PTSD Depression Anxiety. vi. Finally, some hope I taste it on my tongue like raindrops after the drought Sunlight after the storm I find myself And lose the taint of you, heavy laden upon my skin You are a cavity Filled by love and support. And finally, there's beauty in the struggle It's anything but brief Because the fight goes on Forever.
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Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
A Response to Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
In retrospect, dredging up past events     that led to the here and now.               Pending course of actions in which to exact...     Reaching as far back as the mind would allow. In retrospect, studying the reflection in the rear view mirror,   as the present freezes itself intact. Sifting through past images...         Second by second, frame by frame.       Identifying overlooked pitfalls           and margin of errors.       In retrospect, straddling the realm...   Where my current state of mind       lapses into a minute-long sleep.   Sights on the future... Folded blind, discerning the treachery           of impulsive thoughts and actions.         Diving up from oceans deep,     painting the backdrop beyond paths at unmarked junctions.               In retrospect, every detail deconstructed... Deliberated against the yardstick   of what's done and the supposed.     Refracted memories snap back clean into place.       Over and over...         Layer upon layer...     Time and again forming       the looming weight       that pulls me to a stumble               into the stagnant puddle...   Of long gone days.
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 10:10 AM UTC
Retrospect
• Old dresser drawers reopened • silly, simple T-shirts back in style • confusion of how the last 5 years of fashion • abandoned honesty and compassion, straightforward presentation • he swims into the swatch • it fits perfectly, but what to wear with it? • total mystery; his sleek, **** jeans? • his soft, comfortable shorts? • maybe this would be easier if • he owned less costumes • silently noting that nudists • likely feel quite comfortable in T-shirts • shuddering @ the thought of such vulnerability • he sorts through another stack • faded reds dredging long drowned days • eyes closed, sun bleeding crimson, thoughts lofty • wondering what the sneakers he used to wear • really said • long sigh, less than hopeful • but these things are cyclical, you know • what goes, eventually comes • old pictures always met with "what was I thinking" • with fashion, you never can be sure, not even later • besides, one day you'll just wear a suit, so be simple now
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Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 8:44 PM UTC
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1. Late-spring's dilemma Is unabridged and sweet; Beardtongues and fuchsias peer through grass blades: Blotches on the bristly canvas. Camellias? Still in April. 2. Slices of rye shift on my plate; Miramar’s war machines whip overhead; My mouth opens into the Gulf of Kuwait; The toast becomes Moldering lips of Pendleton. 3. There’s a single-story house on a hill That to helicopters Looks like an easel. Great canyons open To the south and west; the street clings to time— A pianist’s metronome Waltzes crosswise on an eardrum. 4. The eucalyptus bends the deafening breeze. Are you still dredging Coronado's cradle? (The tide Disintegrates the illimitable skyline.) 5. An unlit Anza-Borrego beats about my ears, Stars piggybacking the horizon. The cacti shrivel: Glitter in a hurricane. 6. End-of-spring guesses Prey upon a betrayer’s conscience. Stilted, they flash ephemerally.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 10:04 PM UTC
The Cruelest Month
Ever had a teardrop fall out of nowhere? Like you aren't sad or anything; it's just... It's almost like Someone you lived as In a past life Still reeling over heartbreak Or a dredging loss Breaks thru for a second.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 6:04 AM UTC
Sehnsucht
Dredging up memories The past comes back to haunt me Feeling so badly insecure I'm starting to lose my composure Why me? Why be so friendly? I'm fearing my destiny... This endless, painful cycle Finding myself caught by every obstacle. The truth hurts, Lies are worse... I must be cursed. I'm unworthy of love Cause me, you didn't think of...
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
Unworthy (10Wx6)
I'm not usually like this or so i like to think my thoughts chase in the direction of you when hope begins to shrink as long as i can remember I've only wanted a few the funny thing is that I'm picky but i compare them all to you when i sit here all alone making excuses for your lies i start thinking to myself how many more tries? i know that i deserve better but my hold on you is so firm and when i think of letting go… i start to itch and squirm maybe its the idea of you that keeps me dredging on because i still whisper to your shadow when i know that you're long gone and when i picture happiness your image blinks and skips will you be the one by my side? or slip though my fingertips its seems that all we've got is time I've already waited years and although I'm trying to better myself i keep confronting my fears am i good enough for you? what will it take you to commit you tell me that I'm the one for you but here alone i sit so ill pull another petal off he loves me, he loves me not.. and someday ill see if its worth it all every battle that I've fought
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 12:29 PM UTC
Great White Buffalo
The old man sat on the Stone of Knowledge, He called the boy to him for the last time. As the lad approached him he saw a tear drop, flowing down the old mans cheek. “Why do you cry?” the boy asked his master. “I cry for you,” said the man “for you are a poet. Your richness will be your description of poverty. Your banquet will be the bread of the begger. Your tears will flow with the blood of innocents. You are like the windmill dredging words of hope for the deaf ears of greed and the souls of despair. This is why I cry. Sit with me before I leave.” The old man stroked the boys hand and spoke, “You will need to become the petal of a sun flower, the scent of a rose and the strength of a tree. Dream the fall of a raindrop, the drop of a snowflake, climb mountains and slide down rainbows, Swim with the shy platypus and the playful dolfin. You will not see my face again, except in your dreams, But you will always hear me whispering in the breeze, be still and listen and you will hear me.” He finished. “But,” cried the boy, “where are you going?” “All these things I have asked you to do, I have done, and more, my time is over, I must go now to the Land of All Knowing, There I will hammer my fist upon the gate and a voice shall call out ‘Who begs entry?’ I shall reply in my proudest voice, I AM THE POET!" 21/02/2010
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Oct 28, 2010
Oct 28, 2010 at 4:12 AM UTC
I Am The Poet!
You walk a lonely path old man but now and then you show us you're alive And maybe when you've had a few you'll shed a sorry tear or two. That's fine. But if you really must insist on dredging up this **** Each and every time. As each new fact's learned don't mistake horror for concern. Cos it's a lie. I'm happy. My eyes are dry. I can't feel pity looking in your killer's eyes. So chin up son, don't you cry. The things you did were unforgivable and I'll never sympathise. Lying just beneath the skin there hides a multitude of sins That wait For a ear that doesn't sneer or recoil sickened Cos they can't relate. Seize any opportunity; for you've so many agonies to share, To unload your woes but that cross you built is yours alone to bear. Each sacred tet-a-tet where you might vocalise regrets makes you renewed, But don't forget that as they peer at you it's one-way glass their peering through. You look through misty eyes - your little heart is opened wide, but their's are shut. They can't return your gaze of hopelessness and shame, They've heard enough. If I thought there was an afterlife I'd be concerned for what's coming your way And whilst I don't believe in evil You and him came pretty close I'd say You can repent until your spent or Flagellate your sorry self to death. But if your just trying ro tell the world your sorry Well, you can save your breath. Leave flowers on his grave and promise that you'll never misbehave again Curse the wicked heart god gave you - If you had the chance you do it all the same. Mount another charm offensive Show them all the side they think you lack But know that no amount of Humility will ever bring him back.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 AM UTC
Save Your Breath
You walk a lonely path old man but now and then you show us you're alive And maybe when you've had a few you'll shed a sorry tear or two. That's fine. But if you really must insist on dredging up this **** Each and every time. As each new fact's learned don't mistake horror for concern. Cos it's a lie. I'm happy. My eyes are dry. I can't feel pity looking in your killer's eyes. So chin up son, don't you cry. The things you did were unforgivable and I'll never sympathise. Lying just beneath the skin there hides a multitude of sins That wait For a ear that doesn't sneer or recoil sickened Cos they can't relate. Seize any opportunity; for you've so many agonies to share, To unload your woes but that cross you built is yours alone to bear. Each sacred tet-a-tet where you might vocalise regrets makes you renewed, But don't forget that as they peer at you it's one-way glass their peering through. You look through misty eyes - your little heart is opened wide, but their's are shut. They can't return your gaze of hopelessness and shame, They've heard enough. If I thought there was an afterlife I'd be concerned for what's coming your way And whilst I don't believe in evil You and him came pretty close I'd say You can repent until your spent or Flagellate your sorry self to death. But if your just trying ro tell the world your sorry Well, you can save your breath. Leave flowers on his grave and promise that you'll never misbehave again Curse the wicked heart god gave you - If you had the chance you do it all the same. Mount another charm offensive Show them all the side they think you lack But know that no amount of Humility will ever bring him back.
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at curiosity’s urging he found haven in haiku a safe place where people listened without judging a thread to test truth’s waters and tell his story a 5-7-5 sequence as larynx giving voice to childhood horrors beaten regularly with a rubber garden hose that left no outward evidence bleeding so badly he lost a kidney too terrified to tell the doctor with his father standing right there it was a secret kept in the family her verbal belittlement inculcated “you should have never been born” “we can’t afford you” when he brought home all A’s they said, “your classes were too easy” his older brother mercilessly joined the chorus and the torture with parental approval still, his eyes saw beauty they saw river rocks as hippos submerged in a backyard creek they watched in awe at the flight of owls and hawks swooping down on their prey they described a “sapphire lake” “so blue it was almost black” “a jewel in the belly of the Sierras” they captured trees and blades of grass and fallen giants in petrified forests they found a wife who loved him anyway despite alcoholic binges and blackouts his poems told of years of loneliness she erased they spoke of her as sole reason for sobriety he found peace in poetry and used the internet to vent his wise *** ways at times he even spoke of his family as if they were decent but every November remembered his birth month dredging up the past he wrote of whispering demons haunting his heart and scars on the soul that never heal I can’t imagine his pain or sense of normalcy they killed this kid when he was little but it took him four decades to die last Friday my friend took his own life he called me a gentleman and a scholar and formally thanked me for encouraging his writing he defended me in the face of trolls even though we never met in person I hope he knows how much we all cared and I hope there’s a heaven where he can rest in peace
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Dec 17, 2011
Dec 17, 2011 at 3:43 PM UTC
His Eyes Saw Beauty
at curiosity’s urging he found haven in haiku a safe place where people listened without judging a thread to test truth’s waters and tell his story a 5-7-5 sequence as larynx giving voice to childhood horrors beaten regularly with a rubber garden hose that left no outward evidence bleeding so badly he lost a kidney too terrified to tell the doctor with his father standing right there it was a secret kept in the family her verbal belittlement inculcated “you should have never been born” “we can’t afford you” when he brought home all A’s they said, “your classes were too easy” his older brother mercilessly joined the chorus and the torture with parental approval still, his eyes saw beauty they saw river rocks as hippos submerged in a backyard creek they watched in awe at the flight of owls and hawks swooping down on their prey they described a “sapphire lake” “so blue it was almost black” “a jewel in the belly of the Sierras” they captured trees and blades of grass and fallen giants in petrified forests they found a wife who loved him anyway despite alcoholic binges and blackouts his poems told of years of loneliness she erased they spoke of her as sole reason for sobriety he found peace in poetry and used the internet to vent his wise *** ways at times he even spoke of his family as if they were decent but every November remembered his birth month dredging up the past he wrote of whispering demons haunting his heart and scars on the soul that never heal I can’t imagine his pain or sense of normalcy they killed this kid when he was little but it took him four decades to die last Friday my friend took his own life he called me a gentleman and a scholar and formally thanked me for encouraging his writing he defended me in the face of trolls even though we never met in person I hope he knows how much we all cared and I hope there’s a heaven where he can rest in peace
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It was probably in Dubai at the Hyatt when I met her or it may have been in Dresden at the Steigenberger, I can't remember, am I just dredging up old memories trying to keep some flame alive? but there are lots of things I don't recall in this season of my fall and more things still I left unsaid Bedrest so the Doctor says what a way to end my days and then it came to me as these things usually do I met her down in Sussex just outside Drusillas zoo.
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Aug 30, 2016
Aug 30, 2016 at 6:05 AM UTC
The fountain pen
How would I know it was her if she tried to hide in disguise? As clever as she may think herself to be, With a mustache as thick as a Redwood Tree, I would hardly need wits to peg her identity, Because I have learned a few truths that require her to be, And they are as follows: She is a herald, Of inspiration and joy, Moments merely mundane made miraculous by her being, Make me write and smile. She, a vision, floats again into mine, Simultaneously sitting beside me she turns every jagged edge in the world into soft colorful things with all the warmth of a sparkling room filled full of familiar faces and old piano songs, A girl whose eyes talk more than her lips and say things like, not so fast, So just try and say that to me. Thinking back now, I have never seen her walk, She seems to glide, to float, to hover, like she does in my mind, And I would consider myself a fool, A green, spontaneous, pup of pitiful perceptions, A flight of short stairs without poignant reflections, If not for the wild burning inside, Caused by my dredging artist bathed in light, I lose my heart from time to time because she gently leaves it for me to find at the bottom of the ocean, A place where distance has not yet been conquered so nearness is still cherished, In these depths I often see cankerous beasts swimming slowly among me, Orbiting lazily like planets in space, But I do not writhe in the deep, And the beasts swim away, always onward to other prey, So in the dwelling that I feared, I now want to stay, Until I remember not to leave myself in such a dark place, Without the presence of my perched herald there to say, That even though the push and pull of the tides above are much to bear every day, There is still the moon to calm the Seas, And to light the thoughts of the men who will dream, Of her.
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Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:38 AM UTC
Herald
How would I know it was her if she tried to hide in disguise? As clever as she may think herself to be, With a mustache as thick as a Redwood Tree, I would hardly need wits to peg her identity, Because I have learned a few truths that require her to be, And they are as follows: She is a herald, Of inspiration and joy, Moments merely mundane made miraculous by her being, Make me write and smile. She, a vision, floats again into mine, Simultaneously sitting beside me she turns every jagged edge in the world into soft colorful things with all the warmth of a sparkling room filled full of familiar faces and old piano songs, A girl whose eyes talk more than her lips and say things like, not so fast, So just try and say that to me. Thinking back now, I have never seen her walk, She seems to glide, to float, to hover, like she does in my mind, And I would consider myself a fool, A green, spontaneous, pup of pitiful perceptions, A flight of short stairs without poignant reflections, If not for the wild burning inside, Caused by my dredging artist bathed in light, I lose my heart from time to time because she gently leaves it for me to find at the bottom of the ocean, A place where distance has not yet been conquered so nearness is still cherished, In these depths I often see cankerous beasts swimming slowly among me, Orbiting lazily like planets in space, But I do not writhe in the deep, And the beasts swim away, always onward to other prey, So in the dwelling that I feared, I now want to stay, Until I remember not to leave myself in such a dark place, Without the presence of my perched herald there to say, That even though the push and pull of the tides above are much to bear every day, There is still the moon to calm the Seas, And to light the thoughts of the men who will dream, Of her.
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i'm dawning i'm dashing i'm dancing i'm dwelling i'm dying i'm digging i'm dishing i'm diving i'm dozing i'm dragging i'm dabbling i'm drawing i'm dropping i'm dosing i'm dredging i'm dreaming i'm drifting i'm drinking i'm driving i'm delaying i'm drowning i'm dumping i'm drilling i'm dandy i'm doleful i'm delicious i'm dapper i'm daring i'm dangling i'm dangerous i'm damaged i'm ****** i'm daily i'm david
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 6:53 PM UTC
david
I don't care anymore what people think which oddly, I've found, isn't the same as not caring at all. Now it doesn't really matter what transpires between you and I Sure, you've held my head in lap and ***** I think of it often, sweet embrace and tired faces Your laughs mock strings of heart I'd kept in silent places Like the one I saved for "us" Dredging anchors I'd dropped long ago Though the chains were broken now I'll never know how you knew It's one secret I keep for us,though I know you don't know it
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 9:04 PM UTC
Anchor
It's 2 o'clock in the morning now. I'm on a late night drive to the Acme pit mines. With muddy thoughts in a midnight mind, a mound of gravel in my guts, I'm churning up                   The last 4 years and knocking back a cocktail                    of wins and losses. Wyoming night in the early Autumn. Do you wanna come for a drive? Take me back to that Winter night when we walked outside and filled cold air with our voices. We set the icy, empty streets to rights, and just talked all night until our frozen throats thawed out. 3:10 a.m. It's still warm outside. The gravel speaks, with each step, under my feet. Tally up the feet and miles I've gone, the feet and miles we have lived. A memory walk                   is vignette stops: Those nights we spent drinking wine                   on your rooftop. Wyoming night in the heat of Summer. Do you wanna come for a drive? Thinking back on that April night when we stayed inside and hid from rain in the Springtime. We let our favorite records spin all night while it soaked outside until the red wine sky dried out. An empty ghost town. 3:45. Imprints of gravel on my legs are a star map I'll follow back to the times we had through mounting years and empty space. A distant place                  I'm dredging up. The one laid down; woven thick                  in our fibers. The map is laid out but I know my way. So do you wanna come for a drive?
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 1:34 PM UTC
Acme Pits
It's 2 o'clock in the morning now. I'm on a late night drive to the Acme pit mines. With muddy thoughts in a midnight mind, a mound of gravel in my guts, I'm churning up                   The last 4 years and knocking back a cocktail                    of wins and losses. Wyoming night in the early Autumn. Do you wanna come for a drive? Take me back to that Winter night when we walked outside and filled cold air with our voices. We set the icy, empty streets to rights, and just talked all night until our frozen throats thawed out. 3:10 a.m. It's still warm outside. The gravel speaks, with each step, under my feet. Tally up the feet and miles I've gone, the feet and miles we have lived. A memory walk                   is vignette stops: Those nights we spent drinking wine                   on your rooftop. Wyoming night in the heat of Summer. Do you wanna come for a drive? Thinking back on that April night when we stayed inside and hid from rain in the Springtime. We let our favorite records spin all night while it soaked outside until the red wine sky dried out. An empty ghost town. 3:45. Imprints of gravel on my legs are a star map I'll follow back to the times we had through mounting years and empty space. A distant place                  I'm dredging up. The one laid down; woven thick                  in our fibers. The map is laid out but I know my way. So do you wanna come for a drive?
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Oh don't go deep into my waters baby, for I run cold under neath, Stay close to your life line baby, don't go where you caint see. For I can be refreshing to you baby, or sweep you out to sea. No, No, don't go dredging in my dark waters, baby, got no control over what you will see. If you let the foolish side of you take over,baby, you not going to like what you find in me. I'm like the ocean waters, oh so much uncontrolled energy, I can give so much to you baby, just got to know there is no controlling me, I'm not in charge of my dark waters baby, so you'd be a fool to not believe........ Don't go deep into my waters..........Baby.
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Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 4:08 PM UTC
Don't Go Deep Into My Waters: Blues
When you are on the Pill You should be off a lot of things doubt, fear, surprise but this is a different drug a numbing heart warming thundering ton of fun slip sliding down into another world where you feel less and less here is my take you give up the best when you fake it upsetting, dredging, crushing you figure you made a mistake panic flares and the cramps assail oh god, he said whining your heart shivering i thought you were on the pill
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Jul 27, 2010
Jul 27, 2010 at 1:15 AM UTC
The Pill
Little is known and less is appreciated about the geographic, strategic and political significance of the Spratley and Paracel Islands situated midway across the South China Sea. Disputed historically for ownership by Malaysia, Vietnam the Phillipines and China, amongst others, the islands are situated strategically across the major commercial sea lanes of the region and atop an ocean of vast, submarine deposits of untapped fossil oil. China has used her muscle to occupy and claim these islands, together with unspecified, adjacent sea way area. She has claimed them as sovereign territory of the People’s Republic of China. Until this occupation the islands have been largely unpopulated and have had little or no military significance. Recently, however, Chinese constructors have been ruthlessly dredging the surrounding coral reef and building a 3000m long concrete runway for military purposes on the hugely expanded artificial island area created. Chinese troops, in divisional strength, occupy and defend the new territory. It is significant that all parties in the region are watching China and gauging her intentions. None less so than the United States Navy who have an aircraft carrier and supporting military vessels, stationed permanently nearby and conduct over flights of the island airspace testing sovereignty and Chinese reaction. To date reaction has been muted….but this will definitely change. China is frantically building to be the world’s next superpower, economically, industrially, politically and militarily. ...And, as this development comes to fruition in the very near future, it is inevitable that this distant, remote set of  South China Sea islands shall become the next global hot point of international confrontation. China and the United States of America will go eyeball to eyeball, bristling with hostility, resolute and immovable, each waiting for the other to blink! …..and we, the rest of the world, shall, again, tremble in our boots, breathlessly awaiting the outcome. Marshalg 22 May 2015 AUCKLAND.
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May 22, 2015
May 22, 2015 at 7:50 PM UTC
Confrontation in the Offing
Little is known and less is appreciated about the geographic, strategic and political significance of the Spratley and Paracel Islands situated midway across the South China Sea. Disputed historically for ownership by Malaysia, Vietnam the Phillipines and China, amongst others, the islands are situated strategically across the major commercial sea lanes of the region and atop an ocean of vast, submarine deposits of untapped fossil oil. China has used her muscle to occupy and claim these islands, together with unspecified, adjacent sea way area. She has claimed them as sovereign territory of the People’s Republic of China. Until this occupation the islands have been largely unpopulated and have had little or no military significance. Recently, however, Chinese constructors have been ruthlessly dredging the surrounding coral reef and building a 3000m long concrete runway for military purposes on the hugely expanded artificial island area created. Chinese troops, in divisional strength, occupy and defend the new territory. It is significant that all parties in the region are watching China and gauging her intentions. None less so than the United States Navy who have an aircraft carrier and supporting military vessels, stationed permanently nearby and conduct over flights of the island airspace testing sovereignty and Chinese reaction. To date reaction has been muted….but this will definitely change. China is frantically building to be the world’s next superpower, economically, industrially, politically and militarily. ...And, as this development comes to fruition in the very near future, it is inevitable that this distant, remote set of  South China Sea islands shall become the next global hot point of international confrontation. China and the United States of America will go eyeball to eyeball, bristling with hostility, resolute and immovable, each waiting for the other to blink! …..and we, the rest of the world, shall, again, tremble in our boots, breathlessly awaiting the outcome. Marshalg 22 May 2015 AUCKLAND.
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Before the UK Election Those Tory Trolls slagged off The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Unmercifully – Dredging up his distant past, Turning his heroic quest for Peace in Northern Ireland Into an act of alleged “treason” And much more. They painted a grim grey scene. But like King Arthur and his gallant knights, Corbyn unsheathed his own Excalibur: That mighty thing called “Hope”. He offered us all a brighter future, Except perhaps for the greedy rich, To sweep through the enemy ranks Upon his horse, “Momentum”. Once more to the breach… And as the opinion polls swing More and more in his favour, Victory for Labour Is only a matter of time. Paul Butters
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Jun 14, 2017
Jun 14, 2017 at 9:28 AM UTC
The Hope Party
These women, they are old in touch with ancient ways the dredging of deeper points they've come to know and show, without hiding Their faces are worn weathered maps lines and holy roads with soulful eyes smiling they settle and sit you down beside them In their circle of fire and knowing these women of the earth serve milky tea and mirth their laughter resounds it pounds the heart grounds you there in the fervent pureness of your tears
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Aug 29, 2015
Aug 29, 2015 at 12:56 PM UTC
Mongolian women
Running through the forest, Beyond the intruding trunks, Over roots that reached from the soil, I've been snapping twigs, Only to leave a trail blood, Staining the forest floor crimson green, But it is his nature to go his own way, To tear through the pain, To become the greatest thing he can perceive, Draining the decadence from his veins, It isn't like he is a thief, Just a minuscule entity, Till he solidifies his being, So that others can learn of him, even by turn pages on three rings, Dripping, Drooling, Confident he will be confined to the history books, Despite being destined, Despite living with the acceptance, Dredging the evidence, Of being fit for a grave someday, Staining the leaves, We might as well strive, To leave our mark, To sight our sites for the sake of a dream, Whatever helps you and me sleep, Not seeking violence, So bless you all, I wish there was a god, Because I’d pray, I beg, I’d follow the one who could tie the unknown fray Uniting us all Bring the silence to my lips, And peace during your stay, But demanding an almighty beacon will not help right now, It is just us my friends, On a world siphoned from stars, So we must insure the change, Because there isn't an chance a deity could save us from our social decay, There is no need to cover up your granddad’s scars, The pillars of our personal rise , Not a loss cause but on course for an evolutionary delay, That is why he’s running through the wood, Stumbling over roots, Spattering chromosomes all over the place, He's you and me, Just sprinting through an existence, Only to be sliced by those that brought you into this natural cage, Captives unable to escape a fate, Invisible stage, my arrival was set to a predetermined date, Pleading pity, I was conceived without a say, We must avoid those twigs they consider the vines of divinity, To show them your just another human, Potentially the ending to our plight through a naturally nourished might.
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 2:10 PM UTC
Father’s Kindle for an Almighty Riddle
Running through the forest, Beyond the intruding trunks, Over roots that reached from the soil, I've been snapping twigs, Only to leave a trail blood, Staining the forest floor crimson green, But it is his nature to go his own way, To tear through the pain, To become the greatest thing he can perceive, Draining the decadence from his veins, It isn't like he is a thief, Just a minuscule entity, Till he solidifies his being, So that others can learn of him, even by turn pages on three rings, Dripping, Drooling, Confident he will be confined to the history books, Despite being destined, Despite living with the acceptance, Dredging the evidence, Of being fit for a grave someday, Staining the leaves, We might as well strive, To leave our mark, To sight our sites for the sake of a dream, Whatever helps you and me sleep, Not seeking violence, So bless you all, I wish there was a god, Because I’d pray, I beg, I’d follow the one who could tie the unknown fray Uniting us all Bring the silence to my lips, And peace during your stay, But demanding an almighty beacon will not help right now, It is just us my friends, On a world siphoned from stars, So we must insure the change, Because there isn't an chance a deity could save us from our social decay, There is no need to cover up your granddad’s scars, The pillars of our personal rise , Not a loss cause but on course for an evolutionary delay, That is why he’s running through the wood, Stumbling over roots, Spattering chromosomes all over the place, He's you and me, Just sprinting through an existence, Only to be sliced by those that brought you into this natural cage, Captives unable to escape a fate, Invisible stage, my arrival was set to a predetermined date, Pleading pity, I was conceived without a say, We must avoid those twigs they consider the vines of divinity, To show them your just another human, Potentially the ending to our plight through a naturally nourished might.
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