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"ether" poems
1 It was one of those clear,sharp.mustless days That summer and man delight in. Never had Heaven seemed quite so high, Never had earth seemed quite so green, Never had the world seemed quite so clean Or sky so nigh. And I heard the Deity’s voice in The sun’s warm rays, And the white cloud’s intricate maze, And the blue sky’s beautiful sheen. 2 I looked to the heavens and saw him there,— A black speck downward drifting, Nearer and nearer he steadily sailed, Nearer and nearer he slid through space, In an unending aerial race, This sailor who hailed From the Clime of the Clouds.—Ever shifting, On billows of air And the blue sky seemed never so fair, And the rest of the world kept pace. 3 On the white of his head the sun flashed bright; And he battled the wind with wide pinions, Clearer and clearer the gale whistled loud, Clearer and clearer he came into view,— Bigger and blacker against the blue. Then a dragon of cloud Gathering all its minions Rushed to the fight, And swallowed him up in a bite; And the sky lay empty clear through. 4 Long I watched. And at last afar Caught sight of a speck in the vastness; Ever smaller,ever decreasing, Ever drifting,drifting awayInto the endless realms of day; Finally ceasing. So into Heaven’s vast fastness Vanished that bar Of black,as a fluttering star Goes out while still on its way. 5 So I lost him. But I shall always see In my mind The warm,yellow sun,and the ether free; The vista’s sky,and the white cloud trailing, Trailing behind,— And below the young earth’s summer-green arbors, And on high the eagle,—sailing,sailing Into far skies and unknown harbors
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The Eagle
1 It was one of those clear,sharp.mustless days That summer and man delight in. Never had Heaven seemed quite so high, Never had earth seemed quite so green, Never had the world seemed quite so clean Or sky so nigh. And I heard the Deity’s voice in The sun’s warm rays, And the white cloud’s intricate maze, And the blue sky’s beautiful sheen. 2 I looked to the heavens and saw him there,— A black speck downward drifting, Nearer and nearer he steadily sailed, Nearer and nearer he slid through space, In an unending aerial race, This sailor who hailed From the Clime of the Clouds.—Ever shifting, On billows of air And the blue sky seemed never so fair, And the rest of the world kept pace. 3 On the white of his head the sun flashed bright; And he battled the wind with wide pinions, Clearer and clearer the gale whistled loud, Clearer and clearer he came into view,— Bigger and blacker against the blue. Then a dragon of cloud Gathering all its minions Rushed to the fight, And swallowed him up in a bite; And the sky lay empty clear through. 4 Long I watched. And at last afar Caught sight of a speck in the vastness; Ever smaller,ever decreasing, Ever drifting,drifting awayInto the endless realms of day; Finally ceasing. So into Heaven’s vast fastness Vanished that bar Of black,as a fluttering star Goes out while still on its way. 5 So I lost him. But I shall always see In my mind The warm,yellow sun,and the ether free; The vista’s sky,and the white cloud trailing, Trailing behind,— And below the young earth’s summer-green arbors, And on high the eagle,—sailing,sailing Into far skies and unknown harbors
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O'er the midnight moorlands crying, Thro' the cypress forests sighing, In the night-wind madly flying, Hellish forms with streaming hair; In the barren branches creaking, By the stagnant swamp-pools speaking, Past the shore-cliffs ever shrieking, Damn'd demons of despair. Once, I think I half remember, Ere the grey skies of November Quench'd my youth's aspiring ember, Liv'd there such a thing as bliss; Skies that now are dark were beaming, Bold and azure, splendid seeming Till I learn'd it all was dreaming — Deadly drowsiness of Dis. But the stream of Time, swift flowing, Brings the torment of half-knowing — Dimly rushing, blindly going Past the never-trodden lea; And the voyager, repining, Sees the wicked death-fires shining, Hears the wicked petrel's whining As he helpless drifts to sea. Evil wings in ether beating; Vultures at the spirit eating; Things unseen forever fleeting Black against the leering sky. Ghastly shades of bygone gladness, Clawing fiends of future sadness, Mingle in a cloud of madness Ever on the soul to lie. Thus the living, lone and sobbing, In the throes of anguish throbbing, With the loathsome Furies robbing Night and noon of peace and rest. But beyond the groans and grating Of abhorrent Life, is waiting Sweet Oblivion, culminating All the years of fruitless quest.
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Despair
A pair of lily white wings    dangling in the dappled moonlight esprit; hang entangled as silken spider web    draped in the sweet Magnolia tree From beneath there was no way of knowing    why a pair of abandoned wings lodge mislaid One could not help but wonder how high    one might fly with cherub wings But these callused feet tread far below the treetops    too high up from roots to climb No telltale tiptoe prints cavort to be the talebearer    No feathered traces scattered all around A hearken say, tickle-footed as a ladybug,    hold forth in a breeze brushed ear Not completely undoubtable heed spoken;    a language bestow from another ether softly breathe a whisper'd sigh: "Behold the wings of a fallen angel;    uplifted by love's amazing grace Lost alone in a moonstruck blindness    an angel flying too close            to the ground                       ~                    Jesse
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 3:05 PM UTC
A Lost Angel's Wings
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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Explosion
The mushroom The unfolding instant of creation (fertilisation) not an instant separate from breakfast It all flows down & out, flowing but that instant: not fire & fusion (fission) but a moment of jellied ice, crystal, vegetative mating merging in cool slime splendour a crushing of steel & glass & ice (instant in a bar; glasses clash, clink, collide) far-out splendour heat & fire are outwards signs of a Small dry mating ~~~ event in a room event in space a circle Magic rite To call up the godhead spirits, demons The shaman calls: “When radio dark night…” We are eating each other. ~~~ The Voice of the Serpent dry hiss of age & steam & leaves of gold old books in ruined Temples The pages break like ash I will not disturb I will not go Come, he says softly an old man appears & moves in tired dance amid the scattered dead gently they stir ~~~ I received an Aztec wall of vision & dissolved my room in sweet derision Closed my eyes, prepared to go A gentle wind inform’d me so And bathed my skin in ether glow ~~~ Drugs are a bet w/ your mind ~~~ The cigarette burn’d my fingertips & dropp’d like a log to the rug below My eyes took a trip to dig the chick Crouch’d like a cat at the next window My ears assembled music out of swarming streets but my mind rebelled at the idiot’s laughter The rising frightful idiot laughter Cheering an army of vacuum cleaners ~~~ Mouth fills w/taste of copper. Chinese paper. Foreign money. Old posters. Gyro on a string, a table. A coin spins. The faces. There is an audience to our drama. Magic shade mask. Like the hero of a dream, he works for us, in our behalf. How close is this to a final cut? I fall. Sweet blackness. Strange world that waits & watches. Ancient dread of non-existence. If it’s no problem, why mention it. Everything spoken means that, it’s opposite, & everything else. I’m alive. I’m dying. ~~~ 1st wild thrush of fear -A phone rings There is a knock on the door. It’s time to go. No.
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The first time she looked up She fell in love with the sky Her heart reaching higher The only answer was to fly So she made wings of her heart Carved dreams into feathers Bid farewell to earth And fluttered towards ether But gravity loved her too Had no intention to let go Pulled her firmly to the ground And broke her wings in woe
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Mar 13, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 at 10:47 AM UTC
Bird
Sacred fires burning bright Purging the flesh of my being Becoming one with the light Scorching the cells of my mortal body 4 Illuminate 3 the masses 4 Self-immolate 3 to ashes 1 break 3 conciousness 4 cosmic I lapse 3 death cleanses 8 dissipate into the nether 4 essence of life 3 extinguished 4 the chains that bind 3 relinquished 1 Pain 3 Surging through 4 Serenity 3 Gleaming blaze I, long to be cosmic, dissipate into illumination To, become the nether - to lapse in lost consciousness Then I shoot off in space and time, soaring through illusions Light years from reality, distant pixels 8 Obsessing through the tesseract, 6 scouring past illusions 7 beyond spatiality, 4 distant pixels Drifting, no sense or feel Flames of color, figments of my creation Drift in-to the surreal, Chasing fractals defragments my cognition Dreaming in discordance Life confined in simulation A glitch in the matrix Lies conceived through my perception Breathe I, long to be spectral, fluctuate right through this oscilation To, attain the ether - planetary cognizance Then I shoot off in space and time, soaring through illusions Light years from reality, distant pixels Obsessing through the tesseract, scouring past illusions beyond spatiality, distant pixels Drifting, no sense or feel Flash of colors, figments of my creation Drift in-to the surreal, Chasing fractals defragments my cognition Dreaming in discordance Life confined in simulation A glitch in the matrix Lies conceived through my perception Breathe
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Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015 at 5:46 PM UTC
A Glitch in the Matrix
Sacred fires burning bright Purging the flesh of my being Becoming one with the light Scorching the cells of my mortal body 4 Illuminate 3 the masses 4 Self-immolate 3 to ashes 1 break 3 conciousness 4 cosmic I lapse 3 death cleanses 8 dissipate into the nether 4 essence of life 3 extinguished 4 the chains that bind 3 relinquished 1 Pain 3 Surging through 4 Serenity 3 Gleaming blaze I, long to be cosmic, dissipate into illumination To, become the nether - to lapse in lost consciousness Then I shoot off in space and time, soaring through illusions Light years from reality, distant pixels 8 Obsessing through the tesseract, 6 scouring past illusions 7 beyond spatiality, 4 distant pixels Drifting, no sense or feel Flames of color, figments of my creation Drift in-to the surreal, Chasing fractals defragments my cognition Dreaming in discordance Life confined in simulation A glitch in the matrix Lies conceived through my perception Breathe I, long to be spectral, fluctuate right through this oscilation To, attain the ether - planetary cognizance Then I shoot off in space and time, soaring through illusions Light years from reality, distant pixels Obsessing through the tesseract, scouring past illusions beyond spatiality, distant pixels Drifting, no sense or feel Flash of colors, figments of my creation Drift in-to the surreal, Chasing fractals defragments my cognition Dreaming in discordance Life confined in simulation A glitch in the matrix Lies conceived through my perception Breathe
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Have you ever stumbled upon someone life-shatteringly special? You lose your breath and can't think straight. But somehow they've stuck around. Feeling like a stunned vegetable to your innocent charisma. Like divine intervention we met in the most unlikely of ways. We hit it off and spent hours together, confined and stressed. How did we get along so well? How did we manage to learn more together than alone? How did we manage to find each other in this big world? I'll always wonder if there is more to this story. Answers to my plaguing questions that rule my emotional state. I don't know how to describe what it is I feel in a rational way. It doesn't serve rationale. Writing it all down or saying it only compounds how crazy I must sound. But I'm not a loony bin. On the contrary, you are just infinitely more special than you realise! But I'll not skip a note nor bump a chord. Because I see you so finely in all your elegance. A beauty which radiates in an innocent manifestation. I can't tell if everyone else can see it also. They must?! I must have no chance here. I know I should cut my losses and move on. Right..? Hope to find this feeling once more. But something from beyond the blackened ether of midnight skies and space dust tells me to keep trying.
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 8:48 AM UTC
Untitled
miles mean nothing to a heart that is pure words penned in grace, sent to ether give heartease to the overstretched sowing stiches of understanding in tapestry threadbare little suns and stars shining bright in love and hope from face unseen and adirondack chair gives strength to one down, from down under allows grief, the words needed the abilty to care for these simple gifts, no payment required from the heart open to care...
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Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 10:09 AM UTC
miles mean nothing
~ think again if you believe light is but a rapid blur, consider that the spark that lives between two lover-friends, is light exchanged in slow fashion; the slow burn of a campfire, the sparkle of her passion, the flicker of a candle, whisperings of the starlight, the way a moon beam bends the tides, and makes her eyes twinkle; each my confirmation, of light that moves so satisfying slow, allowing flames to ever grow ever higher, higher, kindling sparks into a fire, for love that lasts is not a spark alone... no, love’s passion is a bon fire, a sunset setting sky aglow; an ever-building slow, to effervescent ether; a gently flowing kiss, a living, colored tapestry of drifting twilight mist; this the speed of light... my heart’s desire, mirrored in my lover’s eyes. ~ *post script. love at the speed of sunsets and star gazing; evenings spent round the campfire with only the light of the fire, the stars and that sparkle in each other's eyes... falling in love, all over again!*
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 9:57 AM UTC
slow burn
Decisions Eanie meanie minie mo one can not decide like so your past is gone, let it go eanie meanie minie mo We think they were childish games to play yet it tells our future each and every day Its a 50-50 shot you could go ether way But there is no turning back One step in the wrong direction and you are done for Because the key was thrown into the ocean that could only open the locked door behind you Like hot lava A playground game If you stumble off the side and landed in that hot firey pit of lava you were done for That ocean where the key was thrown into has turned into a nasty green The waves and seaweed churning under the dark stormy sky This is not a message in a bottle but more of a lost man at sea Every stepping stone could result in a broken heart A bruise A forgotten friend One wrong decision could cause a prodigy to die Like ****** His Mother almost got an abortion Her family told her over and over to just go through with the pregnancy She probably tossed that decision back and forth in her mind But her family won the match If she had decided to go against her family I wonder where society would be today Would there be dozens of Einsteins? A million Madonnas? Would there be a cure for all the cancers? For the common cold? Every judgement is a puzzle piece Every step you take back or turn in the unexpected direction is another step towards your fate Everything matters If you had gotten one more gallon of milk you wouldn't have run out so you wouldn't have gone to the store and meet your best friend there so you wouldn't be going to that Zumba class Then you wouldn't have met five of you new best friends and your husband All of that for a jug of milk
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
Decisions
Decisions Eanie meanie minie mo one can not decide like so your past is gone, let it go eanie meanie minie mo We think they were childish games to play yet it tells our future each and every day Its a 50-50 shot you could go ether way But there is no turning back One step in the wrong direction and you are done for Because the key was thrown into the ocean that could only open the locked door behind you Like hot lava A playground game If you stumble off the side and landed in that hot firey pit of lava you were done for That ocean where the key was thrown into has turned into a nasty green The waves and seaweed churning under the dark stormy sky This is not a message in a bottle but more of a lost man at sea Every stepping stone could result in a broken heart A bruise A forgotten friend One wrong decision could cause a prodigy to die Like ****** His Mother almost got an abortion Her family told her over and over to just go through with the pregnancy She probably tossed that decision back and forth in her mind But her family won the match If she had decided to go against her family I wonder where society would be today Would there be dozens of Einsteins? A million Madonnas? Would there be a cure for all the cancers? For the common cold? Every judgement is a puzzle piece Every step you take back or turn in the unexpected direction is another step towards your fate Everything matters If you had gotten one more gallon of milk you wouldn't have run out so you wouldn't have gone to the store and meet your best friend there so you wouldn't be going to that Zumba class Then you wouldn't have met five of you new best friends and your husband All of that for a jug of milk
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Lick the words from my lips let them slide down your throat like fruited jewels, dark, hard candies that melt into cream a healing liquid oozing into my ventricles, pumping milky beats out through your cells permeating the deep of my wild My syllables will wrap themselves around your syntax frothy hybrids of buttered silk and irony heart-to-heart conversations that flow into the ether, as heaven's night endlessly begins We twirl our tongues into guttural utterings, lustful verse that glides from slick-fervored ice to an outpour of lava We feed each other dreams our saliva like honey dripping with dawn's tender glow as we open up like baby birds, begging to be nourished at all costs Here, in this lingual forest Your breath finds a home on my tastebuds, my tongue in your cheek In between the tumults of our exploding oceans This is how we love
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 5:25 PM UTC
(my) tongue in (your) cheek
Neatly coating the floor in thin white trails, woven into floorboards like cotton twine, sunbeams snake their way across hardwood. Books scream to be read & my yellowed pages ache to detail my experience as a widowed reader of time. Magazines pile, while my simple hands grow a day older. Heat on my neck. The driver of time exhales grandiose, tells me to travel while I'm young, visit regions on this globe that grow green with age, listen to honest trumpets before I gray, wade in pools of clear urgency. He said: "Find a walking stick out beyond the ether laugh with veracity, poking fun at Saturn & the Stars."
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Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 1:20 AM UTC
Walking Stick
Racing, blind nights gone weary, Missing like cold wind, blowin' Trees, objects of nature caught ruthlessly divine, Simple cognition or possible chasing lights drowning tears mark moons and mansions alike, in the presence of fire, The great blind rat lifting it's tail, in disgrace showing motionless mass, Get the blackness on the Jordan river death urge silently moving like herds of sheep in the hills of Holy Thousands of nation men, trodden down with sand and mud just to get the right passage of mind and thought A small Vietnamese girl, About the size of a... Nevermind the voices you hear they all come awake and slowly disappear Droughts of ether alike in tunes I might just do without the rest of doubts hedges lawns and patios Glazed in passionate flowers Paradoxical a nebula unhidden, Slow chasing the candle lit masks
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 4:29 AM UTC
Black reef calling
We live in a Society were everyone tries to be the same You are ether Cool or Lame You are Good or Bad You are Black or White Well not me! I'll be Purple And you can be Red He can be Green She can be Blue Why is it only Black and White? Why can't we all be Our-self ? Why can"t we all be Different?
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 1:10 PM UTC
Black and White
how it descends parachuting an expansive heart, soft whose arrows are... to get drenched is our choice, not the sky's victory or defeat; bliss... a bridge betwixt ether, earth, of a peacock's throat, dripping song...
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May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 at 9:41 AM UTC
soft whose arrows are
Letter, letter born to return to sender-- extra-marital, maritime, marine, mercy, mercy mine-- two drinks in; four from home, letter, letter born to return to sender-- .38 special, sexless, spiteful, spitting, spitting rites-- three drinks in; three from home, letter, letter born to return to sender-- double-decker, drugged, dangerous, daggers, daggers dried-- four drinks in; two from home, letter, letter born to return to sender-- clusterfucked, fancy-free, foreign, fine, fine unwind, five drinks in; one from home, letter, letter born to return to sender-- ether cloud, Evelyn, earthware, everyday, everyday signs-- six drinks in; on the carpeted floor, letter, letter born to return to sender, whitewashed, weakly, wounded, wishing, wishing for home.
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Dec 17, 2011
Dec 17, 2011 at 3:24 AM UTC
The Postman
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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Souls search for corresponding measures with gossamer vines through ether Trapped in corporeal form often drifting between the learner and the teacher Passing the souls mate yet missing the eyes of fate’s tomorrow Spending years or a lifetime without a match in loss and sorrow Souls never lost or seen in a colored perfectionist spectacle Yet still touch the heart and mind even though vestigial We cannot find the split soul’s half with judgmental eyes And if all we see is material, we may never hear a soul’s cries For the one that makes us whole often wears a disguise We are lucky enough to peer into the same blue skies So when you find your souls match, you will know in an instant You will feel like the sun, or at the very least like you just kissed it! Walking you into a warmth that is rarely ever seen You feel as though you lay on clouds, or lost in a pleasant dream
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
Loves Unbreakable Bond
I've been ****** over and left for dead what makes you think I can't rise up and lyrically behead at least you were honest and said that you genuinely didn't like me but **** you I tried to pursue you I put my pride to the side told you all my demons i contained inside now I have to excorsice my hell from this ****** hellion I'll burn your soul like Ether either you or that ashy **** that's been on your nuts since day one I slay son **** you and him he can have your drunk *** I've blasted on to bigger and better things than an anorexic ***** who only is honest when she's of the **** I glimpsed what could've been and you through it away it's too late now watch me make millions and you'll be the first call offering up ***** like it's on a dinner plate **** you **** you wasting people's time eating my heart like a sandwich you should've made me now you can eat these nuts oh wait you've already had enough dragged on your face maybe even had a few golden showers you little coward
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 5:14 PM UTC
Ether.
Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite! Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee Slay me not in this distress and anguish, Lady of beauty. Hither come as once before thou camest, When from afar thou heard'st my voice lamenting, Heard'st and camest, leaving thy glorious father's Palace golden, Yoking thy chariot. Fair the doves that bore thee; Swift to the darksome earth their course directing, Waving their thick wings from the highest heaven Down through the ether. Quickly they came. Then thou, O blessed goddess, All in smiling wreathed thy face immortal, Bade me tell thee the cause of all my suffering, Why now I called thee; What for my maddened heart I most was longing. "Whom," thou criest, "dost wish that sweet Persuasion Now win over and lead to thy love, my Sappho? Who is it wrongs thee? "For, though now he flies, he soon shall follow, Soon shall be giving gifts who now rejects them. Even though now he love not, soon shall he love thee Even though thou wouldst not." Come then now, dear goddess, and release me From my anguish. All my heart's desiring Grant thou now. Now too again as aforetime, Be thou my ally.
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Hymn To Aphrodite
There's a private, invisible flock of comedians chanting soapbox knock-knocks in my parking lot             Noisy, clang, boom thingy aloft and clipping the air around the slimy snow And why does ajax keep butting its nose into everything I’ve got? They’re all just boom-lost facades in a canonical, sly-faced rant. So slanted, frankly, and poised toward a milder pace that the clang clipped the frosty branches beneath a drunken frat-house party. Ah, the dandy-clang : native to the sandy graves and morose olive branches.             But only on the night of the dandy-clang, candy dances for the branches are not partial to missed solid caches             of want and woe             of tongue and toe and seldom shaken beneath the overbearing heat of a white-faced predator for times it was that here and now, because the wind had bitten harder What am I saying? That if the dandy-clang came. And if it produced the branches of the dancing eve fame... with but not together. The clouds up in the ether that lake and earth should wither
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 7:10 PM UTC
Wiggle Room between a Carrot and the Potatoes
In the divet between mountains Resides a wooden cabin – ostensibly an amalgamation of the scape Adroitly - I - quondam female warrior flit Down massive (ancient) hand-laid, hand-cut carved stone steps Bounding from contingent step onto the dense pad of turned soil Tacit compliance between gravity and soil holds footprints bound A compressed deflating crescendo as pace ignites with bounds Cadences of protuberant wildflowers and grasses erupt from swollen terra A winsome chromatic menagerie, dispersed in ecstatic fistfuls A venerably ancient ritual My nascent clandestine vocation Personally meted out - a beatification for my provisional sanctuary Along glacier-fed stream Lissome fingers shadow inert stalks –plucking dormant beginnings from their desiccated ligaments I am austere and unadorned save for a festoon of pyrite flecks trailing my semblance Residual gilding from my ante-meridian swim taken after requisite gathering of wild blackberries, goose berries, and rhubarb along oft-tamped path The sun, nestling into its requisite apex endorsed my completion I reclined into the hassock of soil, feeling the elements settle about with an embossment of my form Imposing verdure arched subtly as compressed soil beckoned hyperbolic flux As I lay within the basilica of opulent living columns replete with comestible bounty Lingering dew honed inflections of sacrosanct petrichor in unison with piquant clover Wild purple clover buds saccharinely tinted and inundated nestled nerves in mine cribriform plate Birds pitched and galloped through the frond tips and beyond in the lapis expanse Frequently snatching damselfly’s and assemblages of midges from their ephemeral drift Auspicious rays transcended stippled diaphanous gravid clouds Light inundated ether entered humbly into the cathedral oculus Pyrite speckled terrain beneath, and my bare gilded form above Cast a refracted aura about my sanctuary Precipitously the elusive vaporous embankment distended further Ashen atmospheric correspondence inaugurated liquescent sustenance to my mountain abode And I - Lingered beneath the descending gobbets, curls furled in a puddle Fresh topsoil cupping my corporal topographic contours Pressing blackberries into my mouth between smiles
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
Diaspora Vocation
In the divet between mountains Resides a wooden cabin – ostensibly an amalgamation of the scape Adroitly - I - quondam female warrior flit Down massive (ancient) hand-laid, hand-cut carved stone steps Bounding from contingent step onto the dense pad of turned soil Tacit compliance between gravity and soil holds footprints bound A compressed deflating crescendo as pace ignites with bounds Cadences of protuberant wildflowers and grasses erupt from swollen terra A winsome chromatic menagerie, dispersed in ecstatic fistfuls A venerably ancient ritual My nascent clandestine vocation Personally meted out - a beatification for my provisional sanctuary Along glacier-fed stream Lissome fingers shadow inert stalks –plucking dormant beginnings from their desiccated ligaments I am austere and unadorned save for a festoon of pyrite flecks trailing my semblance Residual gilding from my ante-meridian swim taken after requisite gathering of wild blackberries, goose berries, and rhubarb along oft-tamped path The sun, nestling into its requisite apex endorsed my completion I reclined into the hassock of soil, feeling the elements settle about with an embossment of my form Imposing verdure arched subtly as compressed soil beckoned hyperbolic flux As I lay within the basilica of opulent living columns replete with comestible bounty Lingering dew honed inflections of sacrosanct petrichor in unison with piquant clover Wild purple clover buds saccharinely tinted and inundated nestled nerves in mine cribriform plate Birds pitched and galloped through the frond tips and beyond in the lapis expanse Frequently snatching damselfly’s and assemblages of midges from their ephemeral drift Auspicious rays transcended stippled diaphanous gravid clouds Light inundated ether entered humbly into the cathedral oculus Pyrite speckled terrain beneath, and my bare gilded form above Cast a refracted aura about my sanctuary Precipitously the elusive vaporous embankment distended further Ashen atmospheric correspondence inaugurated liquescent sustenance to my mountain abode And I - Lingered beneath the descending gobbets, curls furled in a puddle Fresh topsoil cupping my corporal topographic contours Pressing blackberries into my mouth between smiles
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505 I would not paint—a picture— I’d rather be the One Its bright impossibility To dwell—delicious—on— And wonder how the fingers feel Whose rare—celestial—stir— Evokes so sweet a Torment— Such sumptuous—Despair— I would not talk, like Cornets— I’d rather be the One Raised softly to the Ceilings— And out, and easy on— Through Villages of Ether— Myself endued Balloon By but a lip of Metal— The pier to my Pontoon— Nor would I be a Poet— It’s finer—own the Ear— Enamored—impotent—content— The License to revere, A privilege so awful What would the Dower be, Had I the Art to stun myself With Bolts of Melody!
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I would not paint—a picture
I must ruin your fantasies now because there will never be beauty in such pain that makes you want to set yourself on fire No beauty in having the power of making your parents think you are not safe if you do not pick up your phone or in causing them to have panic attacks every time you lock the door There is no beauty in having a chance and not taking it because there is something wrong with you and you feel so ungradeful because no matter how messed up you might be, many others have it worse There is no beauty in wanting to get cancer and die so you wouldn't have to do it yourself because it would hurt others less There is no beauty in the chaos of staying in bed for weeks in a ***** messy apartment and lying about your life being in order There is no beauty in sleepless nights Eaten up by ether pain and guilt or numbness and debating whether you should let yourself live another day because you sure as hell know you are what people call a parasite and you don't deserve to be significant to other people There is no beauty in being a coward and doing absolutely nothing with your life when there is only one thing you have to do, yet you stay in an overly expensive apartment all by yourself  wishing you could just hit the reset button and maybe be born as someone else or not at all There is no such thing as beauty of madness and there never will be beauty in being me.
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Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 11:43 PM UTC
Suicide by no beauty
Everything with us seems perfectly entwined, Like Lego locking together, It just fits like we should know but don't, Is this another life lesson I wonder, You are actually perfection on a plate, All my wishes confirmed for my eye's to feast, You listen, converse, laugh, speak sense, Your like my concious more innocent, When alone in my thoughts I know, I fell in love along the way, I'm evaporated by your honesty, Our souls melt into the Ether, Alien yet familiar fears dwell, A fool for love and lust, Heart brashly on sleeve, Afraid I'll chemically combust, I cant see your thoughts either, Are you just honeymooning this new behaviour, Don't misread that I'm wanting it fast, My heart prays to God It will last, All I need is something more concrete, I cant sweep this away just for encase, Every waking moment I long to embrace, In you my love knew we would meet, But for now we go with the flow, Fear you will bin me for another, All helplessly in love and lost, I'm almost certain my heart'll pay the cost, We lock just like Lego blessed from above, Humanoid Lego a gift of true love. © Susan Michelle Baker
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 7:31 AM UTC
Lego Love