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"excitable" poems
His strong hands gripped me everywhere, he knew my sensitive places. My eyes shone due to my intense obedience and humiliation. I started to perspire in an excitable way. My legs began to shake. I could feel his affection through his endless kiss. I felt intimidated. He loved me. I can still feel his indomitable hands around me, he knows my vulnerable spots. My eyes glisten from my potent passiveness and embarrassment. I break out in nervous sweats. My legs are trembling. I can feel his devotion in an infinite smack. I feel terrorized. He's attached to me.
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Jun 3, 2016
Jun 3, 2016 at 6:15 PM UTC
Sickening Synonyms That Should Be Antonyms (will be deleted)
. Aimlessly wandering    with a feeling of agitation,       caught somewhere between          browsing with interest             and prowling with intent. Distressed and unsettled    like anticipating trauma,       mooching with an emotion          that something is imminent             yet its nature remains veiled. The horizontal line defines a stability and yet, it has started to list off to one side. Tiny perforations promise fragmented logic by osmosis revealing the storm implied. The tap of excitable energy is dripping slow threatening balance with a flood rip tide. Empathy walks with the expectant father pacing and coils of despair knot so deep inside. A nervous anxiety    grips psychology and waits,       caught somewhere between          bleak submissive acceptance             and stark naked panic. © Pagan Paul (22/05/18)
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 10:15 AM UTC
Unsettled
Peevish agitable skittish sensitive impulsive overzealous neurotic anxious touchy explosive!
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
Excitable
I am a typical Aries, Ruled by fire Impulsive Passionate Excitable. If you fall in love with me, I will protect you I will love you Endlessly... Unless I get bored. I am an Aries Take me as I am.
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Dec 7, 2012
Dec 7, 2012 at 1:29 PM UTC
Aries
Oh noble exclamation mark! I expel! I exclaim! Oh most excitable exclamation mark! Oh, to see you sends blood racing in my veins! Oh, I love you once! twice!! and I love you thrice!!!! - oh, was that four times???? Oh, be not jealous I brought in your distant relative the crooked and deformed question mark for I not only love you ! !! !!! !!!! – but I love you forever, most excitable exclamation mark!!!! !!!!!!!!!!.......and forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............. Oh noble exclamation mark! I expel! I exclaim! Oh most excitable exclamation mark!
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Oct 9, 2010
Oct 9, 2010 at 11:28 AM UTC
exciting poem with exclamation marks!!!
I'm learning to lay awake with myself, Peaceful and warm I can be with me, Caring for myself like I do my chilli plant, Testing my own leaves for lack of nutrition, Or love, Cheap, clean sheets beneath my hands and calves Light the wick. Colin Meloy's liquid voice falls like hail, Excitable under my skin. So as I watch the light move across white ceilings I can clear and muse and breathe.
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM UTC
Chilli Plant Care
My teacher once asked a short simple question. She had asked, "What do you want to be?" Raised arms answered her query. Open palms each belonging to excitable children. Wide little eyes looked up at her. Hands began to flail in the air... Ever so hopeful of being chosen. So that they could voice their aspirations. So that they could begin to share. One by one, they each was given the opportunity. Turn by turn, boastful were some while others spoke quiet and shyly. Then the teacher stopped short. Not before expressing her delight. She was in awe of such young minds... Having had such great wings to eventually take flight. Then she explained... What she had initially meant. Confused looks all around including me. She rephrased the question, *"What kind of person... Do you want to be?"* There was silence. No arms shot up to meet the subject. I don't recall having raised mine, but I remember telling the teacher... An answer (I was confident), she wouldn't expect. I stood at my desk, proud and tall... And told the teacher that I wished to be a person... Well loved by all. She smiled and I did too. I felt it was a good answer. She nodded to signal for me to take my seat again. She paused before speaking, and not a moment later. She said, *"That would be nice. To be loved by all. But that's close to impossible. A big wish for someone so small."* I had heard her words clearly... However I didn't understand. My brows furrowed... And I was deep in thought... Still I couldn't comprehend. 28 years later... Here I sit, looking back to that time in the past. How time flies... It simply ticked away... All too fast. Till just then I was still that boy... Who tried hard to please. I wanted to prove that it wasn't impossible. You can be loved by everyone, and you can do it with ease. But now I have learnt. Now I have found meaning and understanding in my teacher's wisdom. It took me a while but... I know now... That wishes and reality don't work in tandem. You can choose to care and love, everyone you see. But to expect everyone to love you the same... Is sheer impossibility.
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 9:12 AM UTC
Age Old Wisdom
My teacher once asked a short simple question. She had asked, "What do you want to be?" Raised arms answered her query. Open palms each belonging to excitable children. Wide little eyes looked up at her. Hands began to flail in the air... Ever so hopeful of being chosen. So that they could voice their aspirations. So that they could begin to share. One by one, they each was given the opportunity. Turn by turn, boastful were some while others spoke quiet and shyly. Then the teacher stopped short. Not before expressing her delight. She was in awe of such young minds... Having had such great wings to eventually take flight. Then she explained... What she had initially meant. Confused looks all around including me. She rephrased the question, *"What kind of person... Do you want to be?"* There was silence. No arms shot up to meet the subject. I don't recall having raised mine, but I remember telling the teacher... An answer (I was confident), she wouldn't expect. I stood at my desk, proud and tall... And told the teacher that I wished to be a person... Well loved by all. She smiled and I did too. I felt it was a good answer. She nodded to signal for me to take my seat again. She paused before speaking, and not a moment later. She said, *"That would be nice. To be loved by all. But that's close to impossible. A big wish for someone so small."* I had heard her words clearly... However I didn't understand. My brows furrowed... And I was deep in thought... Still I couldn't comprehend. 28 years later... Here I sit, looking back to that time in the past. How time flies... It simply ticked away... All too fast. Till just then I was still that boy... Who tried hard to please. I wanted to prove that it wasn't impossible. You can be loved by everyone, and you can do it with ease. But now I have learnt. Now I have found meaning and understanding in my teacher's wisdom. It took me a while but... I know now... That wishes and reality don't work in tandem. You can choose to care and love, everyone you see. But to expect everyone to love you the same... Is sheer impossibility.
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Ladies of the Net… A warning to male adolescents everywhere… “Hi Honey….I just got matched with your profile”… At least that’s what I think it said. Brilliant I thought because I’m available and life round here is, well…it’s dead “I’m looking for an experienced guy who’s good in bed…  been round the block, but not the clock… One with plenty of experience and a huge…err…appetite… for hooking up instead of these inexperienced boys… They’re all excitable, probably all over too quick… need someone with poise reserve and a twelve inch errr… Libido?… ego? Click my pics kiddo and let’s get it on… you Stud!… Well I would! ****** hell! I’m overwhelmed but let’s not peak too soon… There’s loads of stuff coming in as Spam that would probably make us all swoon. So check it out…without fail, “eeeh!”  They’re all there - these ladies of the net - they crop up daily - Sheila Blige… Tanya Hide… Mandy May,  Bette Sheedus, Lovinia **** I’m not sure if these are their real names... But - Phew - with things like this going on round here we could all get ******* She says she’s just round the corner, you know like Sompting, Steyning, LA (that must be Littlehampton)… Southwick…Little Haven Halt, Portslade. We could meet in a lay-by and we’ll get laid… just an innocent little escapade. It won’t be my fault if you miss this chance… Just try it - I’ll handcuff you to the bed and lap dance. Click on my pix, big boy, they all beckon. Take a closer look at these sonny boy - now what do you reckon? Well, you’d have to say they do look very alluring in the taster… so why not just click... to the next page… see the site… don’t waste-ya time…CLICK! ****** hell! The screen’s gone blank… now I won’t even be able to have a ____ Knock, Knock, Knock! "Kevin!!!?"..."Mum?" "Is that you?" "Yes Mum!… Everything’s OK!… I’m just turning out the light… G’night!"
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Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019 at 5:45 AM UTC
Ladies of the Net
Ladies of the Net… A warning to male adolescents everywhere… “Hi Honey….I just got matched with your profile”… At least that’s what I think it said. Brilliant I thought because I’m available and life round here is, well…it’s dead “I’m looking for an experienced guy who’s good in bed…  been round the block, but not the clock… One with plenty of experience and a huge…err…appetite… for hooking up instead of these inexperienced boys… They’re all excitable, probably all over too quick… need someone with poise reserve and a twelve inch errr… Libido?… ego? Click my pics kiddo and let’s get it on… you Stud!… Well I would! ****** hell! I’m overwhelmed but let’s not peak too soon… There’s loads of stuff coming in as Spam that would probably make us all swoon. So check it out…without fail, “eeeh!”  They’re all there - these ladies of the net - they crop up daily - Sheila Blige… Tanya Hide… Mandy May,  Bette Sheedus, Lovinia **** I’m not sure if these are their real names... But - Phew - with things like this going on round here we could all get ******* She says she’s just round the corner, you know like Sompting, Steyning, LA (that must be Littlehampton)… Southwick…Little Haven Halt, Portslade. We could meet in a lay-by and we’ll get laid… just an innocent little escapade. It won’t be my fault if you miss this chance… Just try it - I’ll handcuff you to the bed and lap dance. Click on my pix, big boy, they all beckon. Take a closer look at these sonny boy - now what do you reckon? Well, you’d have to say they do look very alluring in the taster… so why not just click... to the next page… see the site… don’t waste-ya time…CLICK! ****** hell! The screen’s gone blank… now I won’t even be able to have a ____ Knock, Knock, Knock! "Kevin!!!?"..."Mum?" "Is that you?" "Yes Mum!… Everything’s OK!… I’m just turning out the light… G’night!"
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Crush: An intense but usually short-lived infatuation. Fantasizing about the relationship that could happen. Shy: Timid, easily frightened away. Although the wanting to just say hey. Wonderwall: Someone you find yourself thinking about all the time, the person you are completely infatuated with. But the wish for all the shyness to disappear is still here. Nervous: Highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive. The wanting to meet but still playing defensive. Accommodated by umm, uhh, ummm. Hello: Used to express a greeting, answer a telephone, or attract attention. Hi, umm. Don't blow it, don't blow it. Hi! I think you're cute, pretty, adorable, beautiful, lovely, gorgeous. Would you like to go on a date? Date: A social appointment, engagement, or occasion arranged beforehand with another person. She said yes. Happy: Delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing. She is not just a thing, she is my everything. She makes me very happy. Love: A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. It's a four letter word that can have a million meanings and yet only one. Marry: To take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony. I take you to be my wife to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us apart, and this is my solemn vow. I love you. You: You mean so much, Yet I do not have a definition. Because you always seem to surprise me. No words in this dictionary can describe your overall beauty. Amazingly, I'm at a lost of words. Beautiful: The dictionary's crush; A person who is reading this.
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 9:09 PM UTC
A Dictionary's Love Story
Crush: An intense but usually short-lived infatuation. Fantasizing about the relationship that could happen. Shy: Timid, easily frightened away. Although the wanting to just say hey. Wonderwall: Someone you find yourself thinking about all the time, the person you are completely infatuated with. But the wish for all the shyness to disappear is still here. Nervous: Highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive. The wanting to meet but still playing defensive. Accommodated by umm, uhh, ummm. Hello: Used to express a greeting, answer a telephone, or attract attention. Hi, umm. Don't blow it, don't blow it. Hi! I think you're cute, pretty, adorable, beautiful, lovely, gorgeous. Would you like to go on a date? Date: A social appointment, engagement, or occasion arranged beforehand with another person. She said yes. Happy: Delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing. She is not just a thing, she is my everything. She makes me very happy. Love: A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. It's a four letter word that can have a million meanings and yet only one. Marry: To take as an intimate life partner by a formal exchange of promises in the manner of a traditional marriage ceremony. I take you to be my wife to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us apart, and this is my solemn vow. I love you. You: You mean so much, Yet I do not have a definition. Because you always seem to surprise me. No words in this dictionary can describe your overall beauty. Amazingly, I'm at a lost of words. Beautiful: The dictionary's crush; A person who is reading this.
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Infectious laugh, Untamable anger, Excitable stories, Well-hidden anxiety. Misdirected blame, Unwarranted shame. Blue eyes. Brown hair, red hints; I wish I could have seen it with sun tints. Smiling... After work. In the middle of the night. In the mornings. Saturday afternoons. Rushed calls or A day’s worth of together. Nightmares as dreams, Nights without sleep. Coffee, drugs, caffeine. Scars. Hopelessness. Grief. Aspirations. Full of life. Childlike heart. Easily torn, but never taken apart. An eye for nature’s beauty. An eye for art. One for me, occasionally. Insecurity. Arrogance. Compassion. Detachment. Weak yet enduring. Unmoving yet learning. Intoxicating. Aggravating. A liar struggling to lie. A suicide debating to die. Lustful gaze. Manipulative ways. Who were you And why couldn’t you stay?
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 4:06 PM UTC
Who were you?
1 Well, I've dated a few guys, sure - you know, being Ms Hyphen I'm sociable, like to bring people together that sort of thing So I dated that guy Exclamation Mark and what the hell, he was shouting all the time! He's just too excitable, not my type Sure, Comma was more sedate but a little too slow for me, you know So I gave guys like Inverted Commas and Parenthesis a try - but hell, they were always trying to frame me So I like said to myself, maybe I'll try someone else from the Mark family, and woooh! - this guy was like questioning me all through dinner and I was like thinking to myself: *What's with this guy? Where does he work? At the NSA or FBI or what?* I guess you know who I'm talking about Well, I dated all the other guys too like Semi-Colon and then Colon but you know, one liked to separate; and the other was always out with his smartphone listing things I said 2 So I nearly gave up dating when I thought - *Hey what about Dash? That's a dashing fellow surely and he seems to be just like me* (except he is - as is apt for a guy - long) but he was just like Semi-Colon - always separating people You got to bring people together in this world, you know; that's what this world needs Yes, I dated Full Stop too but he was always getting me to stop and besides, he said his alias was Period - now that freaked me out, you know *Hey, what kind of guy walks around with a name like Period?* I'll tell you like who's the worst guy to date, OK - that's Apostrophe: O listen darling, was he ever so possessive! 3 Well, I'll give my dating career a break - maybe come next year, I might try dating 2nd of February
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 6:34 AM UTC
Ms Hyphen's dates
1 Well, I've dated a few guys, sure - you know, being Ms Hyphen I'm sociable, like to bring people together that sort of thing So I dated that guy Exclamation Mark and what the hell, he was shouting all the time! He's just too excitable, not my type Sure, Comma was more sedate but a little too slow for me, you know So I gave guys like Inverted Commas and Parenthesis a try - but hell, they were always trying to frame me So I like said to myself, maybe I'll try someone else from the Mark family, and woooh! - this guy was like questioning me all through dinner and I was like thinking to myself: *What's with this guy? Where does he work? At the NSA or FBI or what?* I guess you know who I'm talking about Well, I dated all the other guys too like Semi-Colon and then Colon but you know, one liked to separate; and the other was always out with his smartphone listing things I said 2 So I nearly gave up dating when I thought - *Hey what about Dash? That's a dashing fellow surely and he seems to be just like me* (except he is - as is apt for a guy - long) but he was just like Semi-Colon - always separating people You got to bring people together in this world, you know; that's what this world needs Yes, I dated Full Stop too but he was always getting me to stop and besides, he said his alias was Period - now that freaked me out, you know *Hey, what kind of guy walks around with a name like Period?* I'll tell you like who's the worst guy to date, OK - that's Apostrophe: O listen darling, was he ever so possessive! 3 Well, I'll give my dating career a break - maybe come next year, I might try dating 2nd of February
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For fuck's sake. How did we end up here again? The soothing, annoying word flickers on my blue-back lit screen and I am ****** back to the tumultuous moment when once upon a time it yelled bipolar. And here we go again. My thoughts flick, flit, floss between teeth made for biting and real meat. They need plaque, collection, to grow and accumulate mass to progress. But there my flicking thoughts go, flossing. I've always struggled focusing, but I just got excitable, got manic, and it would solve everything. Mania was my monster, my red bull, and now that its sated and off to Wonderland... I'm left here, face to face, with a twitchy white rabbit wondering why I would ever think to use my pretty little head when its such a good projectile into the sky. I had always wondered, in those whispering nights, when my hands couldn't stop moving and my head wouldn't shut up, if something was wrong. But it was silly, I had two already, full of worry then full of poles. Couldn't be another, could it? Of course, a Grace of Wonderland always knows best, and here we are. Another bottle to drink to keep me sane. I wonder if my fingers will thank the capsules when I might stop biting them? Or my toes? Is this why my toes always twitch and dance, why they stand center-stage in so many of my mild fantasies? After all these years, the divas that my lower digits have become may not appreciate losing their star titles. I just want to be fine. I want to figure out how to move beyond all the strange misfires in my head. How did I survive so long without a notice? Inflates my ego to know I should have been caught by now. Guess just like the White Rabbit, despite my widgets and worries, no one can stop me from running when I'm madly, absolutely, refusing to be late. Graces only knows to fight with fire and fists. Tis the state of my Wonderland, and perhaps now things will only get better.
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Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 7:08 PM UTC
ADHD
For fuck's sake. How did we end up here again? The soothing, annoying word flickers on my blue-back lit screen and I am ****** back to the tumultuous moment when once upon a time it yelled bipolar. And here we go again. My thoughts flick, flit, floss between teeth made for biting and real meat. They need plaque, collection, to grow and accumulate mass to progress. But there my flicking thoughts go, flossing. I've always struggled focusing, but I just got excitable, got manic, and it would solve everything. Mania was my monster, my red bull, and now that its sated and off to Wonderland... I'm left here, face to face, with a twitchy white rabbit wondering why I would ever think to use my pretty little head when its such a good projectile into the sky. I had always wondered, in those whispering nights, when my hands couldn't stop moving and my head wouldn't shut up, if something was wrong. But it was silly, I had two already, full of worry then full of poles. Couldn't be another, could it? Of course, a Grace of Wonderland always knows best, and here we are. Another bottle to drink to keep me sane. I wonder if my fingers will thank the capsules when I might stop biting them? Or my toes? Is this why my toes always twitch and dance, why they stand center-stage in so many of my mild fantasies? After all these years, the divas that my lower digits have become may not appreciate losing their star titles. I just want to be fine. I want to figure out how to move beyond all the strange misfires in my head. How did I survive so long without a notice? Inflates my ego to know I should have been caught by now. Guess just like the White Rabbit, despite my widgets and worries, no one can stop me from running when I'm madly, absolutely, refusing to be late. Graces only knows to fight with fire and fists. Tis the state of my Wonderland, and perhaps now things will only get better.
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I stand in your eyes Looking out for the whole world to see With the fabric of death staring at me Its just you and me On the edge of heaven Mending distances as we begin Ghastly gray hours littered my ears Intensly intrusive and ****** The shadows spill stringently Stamping the sky with feelings of insufficiency The bitter breeze dreamers, protesting for peace Beyond all countries and downward dreams We heave our head, heart, and soul The handfuls of gestures surrender the way A taut twine traveled behind With waves coiling and bending my mind Dying eyelashes recaptured my memories as they danced upon my face A once swollen spirit is a ripped fragment away Consenting with out my say Death burst your core The life of limbs, once excitable and strong A strong windswept set my ambivalence at bay As I lay trembling, Soft secrets are told Relief from bottomless sufferings Loved ones long lost reunited with me My tounge has say much to say as words sail As the wisps of heaven begin to show me the way
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Jul 29, 2013
Jul 29, 2013 at 1:32 AM UTC
Eyelash Dance
Your moldable heart So many times over Lit up and torn apart Like a mined diamond Dug up and brushed off So quit your whinin' You're just lucky Someone like me came along I'm way ahead of you Mentally, emotionally and physically You're a pretty sad excuse For a person in such a situation And there's nothing you can do But listen and soak up information Keep playing the sponge And someday you might get the correct formation I hold the strings Don't you see or are you that blind? There are so many things To be done, to be had But you just hold on and take to the clings And I can't say I'm appreciative Of the fact that you can't seem To be anything but argumentative I'm a fuckin' gift Something shiny in the fog That comes to give you a lift You're nothing but the bump on that log Who goes and makes a shift When she hears a little something questionable Through your heart I will sift And by the end your arteries will be bendable Your heart of clay Lays lazy and easily excitable When I docked in your bay It looked like saving you was viable But I refuse to stay I regret to inform of the incoming storm But I must decline your invitation to play
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Feb 27, 2012
Feb 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM UTC
Heart of Clay
Spot the Dog A man's best friend, A playful little fluff whose Love knew no ends. A wild and crazy pal, His paws dug trenches in the yard And his saliva carved deep canals. An excitable little pest, He once bit my mother, but I still thought he was the best. A conniving pain in the *** He always too extra care to make Sure the carpet stained of grass. A real sack of **** He died the way he lived. He choked on his spit. Good riddance. I'm getting a cat.
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
Eulogy for my Dog
not only is beauty supposedly in the eye of the beholder, it also reportedly emerges from an intangible depth within okay, then, so that means ugliness comes similarly from within, or doesn't it, baby? so then, ugliness must begin and end in the pit of your stomach, and in the words that pass the tongue on the exit from your ugly mouth so then, ugliness must begin and end in the nerves buried in sleeves, and in the actions that slip the heart sneaking past the brain, and vice versa. on the grab from your dead hands. on the grab from your dead hands. not only does it tend to work unlike the excitable pretend it works, the implication is, that half of your worthiness is linked to the mercy of the mass effect. as for a thought, a dream, an intent, an outcome, a vision, a nightmare, a hermit knows the good folk permit attractiveness to good lines.
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:27 AM UTC
(lost sessions) pithy party
For Caira Doheny, My Irish Muse "Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame." An Exhortation, st. 1 (1819) Percy Bysshe Shelley ------------------------------------ Let us intimate a Poetic Competition, Tween an Irish lass, and a New York Jew, I shall serve, and you, You shall return A contest: Our tongues, our racquets, Across the table, The words shall bird fly, Across the net, Couplets and haiku Shall smash and whistle The winner will be the one The God of Poetry Accepts for permanent servitude You **** my poetic soul forever With the currency of praise genuine, Authentic, flowing and fulsome, Awarding me the Medallion Doheny Cash value, a mere Irish penny, But to the poet, the food of love and fame Genetic to your nature, You exhale word rhythms, Excitable and interrupting, Speech free flowing, Tho I am of the People of the Book, You, by birthplace, Are unfair poetry advantaged All your utterances Are action heroes of the heart, And I fail miserable to capture The poetry you breathe out Your Irish praise me awarded, Tis now the Standard and the Curse This benighted amateur Must now Prometheus nurse One day in Dublin, shall we meet, In a country where poetry is the Iron in the people's blood In a particular pub Opposite we will sit, You, a cowboy by adoption, Me, the dastardly banker You know the pub, I, with my pint, You, with your diet coke, And the only lingua Franca Shall be darts of poetry In a language our own, A collective work we will weave, A blessed unity, a single tongue now, Lilting, singing, bespoke We will let the singer-poet laureate** Of the island we now share, moderate, Over his piano man's gin and tonic, As we do as Yeats instructed: Between us, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem {but} a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught"
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 11:58 AM UTC
For Caira Doheny, My Irish Muse
For Caira Doheny, My Irish Muse "Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame." An Exhortation, st. 1 (1819) Percy Bysshe Shelley ------------------------------------ Let us intimate a Poetic Competition, Tween an Irish lass, and a New York Jew, I shall serve, and you, You shall return A contest: Our tongues, our racquets, Across the table, The words shall bird fly, Across the net, Couplets and haiku Shall smash and whistle The winner will be the one The God of Poetry Accepts for permanent servitude You **** my poetic soul forever With the currency of praise genuine, Authentic, flowing and fulsome, Awarding me the Medallion Doheny Cash value, a mere Irish penny, But to the poet, the food of love and fame Genetic to your nature, You exhale word rhythms, Excitable and interrupting, Speech free flowing, Tho I am of the People of the Book, You, by birthplace, Are unfair poetry advantaged All your utterances Are action heroes of the heart, And I fail miserable to capture The poetry you breathe out Your Irish praise me awarded, Tis now the Standard and the Curse This benighted amateur Must now Prometheus nurse One day in Dublin, shall we meet, In a country where poetry is the Iron in the people's blood In a particular pub Opposite we will sit, You, a cowboy by adoption, Me, the dastardly banker You know the pub, I, with my pint, You, with your diet coke, And the only lingua Franca Shall be darts of poetry In a language our own, A collective work we will weave, A blessed unity, a single tongue now, Lilting, singing, bespoke We will let the singer-poet laureate** Of the island we now share, moderate, Over his piano man's gin and tonic, As we do as Yeats instructed: Between us, "A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem {but} a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught"
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Early this morning, not quite the shilling, my hair rustled like a recent killing of something black and once alive, big black Lucifer dived at my head. We tussled for five in the warmth of my bed, he pawed my hand like a prize and his yellow eyes were electric and light. He likes to fight. His tail beats black against my navel. He plays under the sheets like an excitable angel.
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Sep 8, 2013
Sep 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM UTC
The many faces of Lucifer : No.1 - Excited
Excitable, aren't they Those nerds in mid range suits Dressed from head to toe in lies The Emperors new clothes Hail the red top jesters Mocking democracy And to think brave souls Died to vote To vote For something other than this They died for more than this Yet they remain alive And voters... Dead
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 6:15 PM UTC
Election ******** read all about it!
Most people look like they wouldn’t survive a storm. They are flimsy, Full of half-truths and half-meanings, Half-substance that will surely wash away in a good downpour. I am always spilling raindrops, Thus I am dangerous to the masses. It was snowing the night I felt myself Slipping And looking at you truly for the first time— Not a blizzard, Just a gentle dusting, Flakes drifting lazily in the excitable wind— And I assumed that you, Like everyone else, Were just dazzled by dreamlike sparkle, But would flee when the real storm came. Your presence was a comfort, So for weeks I played weatherman, Tried to hold back inclement weather Lest I wake to find you gone. But Nature is inevitable, So I found hurricanes for days. I’d been painting Love On my lips since pre-school, But you were the first to press it there And make it stick. You were the first to see the storm gathering And stay until the clouds cleared, Though my ears were mad with thunder And my limbs were sparking lightning And all my world was dark and cloud and sheets of pouring rain. Slick with raindrops, You pushed the bangs out of my eyes And said that all was well.
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Jul 8, 2012
Jul 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM UTC
On Your Unexpected Behavior in a Downpour
Maybe we can go back Try undoing the past Where is the thrill of Anticipation? In the last grade of Elementary They allowed us To sign our Virginal names in Blueorblack ink I was ten, I Had already written My script then I did it in Permanent pen There was no time to erase Mother wasn't excitable some days, she was She tore up my script My script after script **Every idea To her Just **** And I'd begin Again in pen
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Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 8:27 PM UTC
Catholic School
I'm a little too Excitable Or at least That's what I'm told Too positive With my glass half full Too happy, too many Smiles, I know I'm too naive Too blind, unaware To know what Life's about I'm too busy Floating on air To remember The pain of the ground You think I don't know The pressure and strain Of the final string Of a splitting rope? I've ripped, I've snapped I have no less pain But one thing I do have Is hope Well my glass isn't half full Its overflowing My rose colored glasses Don't leave my eyes I am not too much Of anything Except too good At finding where hope hides
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Feb 6, 2016
Feb 6, 2016 at 1:07 PM UTC
I'm a Little Too...
The aftermath of a supposed good time remain untouched. Every ****** up flaw for none to cherish and all to judge. It was a storm of my life one still for which I bare the scars. You destroyed my existence to show me a life I now cannot from which fathom a departure. Yet through addictions we clung to reality as we filtered are own ******** without a care. Track marks and worn makeup sweetheart the road still cant realize tomorrows embrace. I see the places now with trained eyes the places we died in self to form a bound of hellish demise. Sick in love as tortured in soul. Can I ever clean your burden for which none may ever allow me to forget. Such passion in that highest of lows we were the nights children now simply we are the sunrise of a far off delusion. I saw your depth turn to emptiness as the black hole logic did swallow us all. It was hell knowing but far worse trying to remain a secret of no true surprise. I remember when last we sat cold from the night but warm from the fix. It was the darkest hours. And forever you a favorite blemish of mine. now I exist the outcast welcomed inside. A excitable addict amongst the upper class swine. There's no difference in the rats simply a title and a ******** ego to try to tell yourself you made it out alive. Never believe the ******** they tell you. My scars now faded hidden from view. Still traces remain to remind me there's no difference between me and you. It always cold even in my vices warmth.
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 4:11 PM UTC
Still Traces Remain
I want to be there... *When the sun would shine upon the ready sand - and presents us gold. When it spears into the excitable ripples of the water - and gives us emeralds. When it caresses sun-hungry skins - and gives them back their lives.* .
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May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020 at 12:02 PM UTC
Palawan Beach
I love you. I'ts been about 3 years since i said this, at least unabashed. Doesn't mean i love you any less than I ever have, Fact i love you more than i ever have. Among the leathery ripples of complexion, upon old face. Lie two young, proud, loyal eyes. Pained eyes. A life of breaking your back, hungry and hysterical working up sweats in the rainy morning hours of another somber English day just to bring home the bread to your family. Leather worn hands, complete with callus. Grey seasoned hair Anger like a temperamental furnace. and laughter that could fill the largest room. Incandescent kindness; With a heart the size of a boulder. Hours spent in the same room with nothing to talk about, a simple nod of acknowledgement, comforting smile across the room. Nothing to say and no need to say it. Days of my youth spent in awe of your presence, excitable days, exhilarating times spent on adventures, and the phantasmagorical fairy tales you'd tell me as we ran through the forests. The giants have clearly just let as we can see their footprint. stricken with fear, staying close to you father and son we conquered the lands. two great hero's, we roamed the local forest and in that moment for me it was indeed a kingdom. And now i'm older and on my own voyage, still i remain in awe of your presence. Venerable father, I love you, it's been three years since We've said this, at least unabashed.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 1:18 PM UTC
My Proud Father