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"existences" poems
I put so much effort into random places, so much effort into random faces face it im faceless placeless drifting shifting thoughts towards destiny feeling empty, wondering whats left in me...? messages esoteric terrorize my rhetoric pedestrians staring glaring gazin gotta get a second look shook layers shed, fall from those ancient snakes left for dead suffocated, stranded damaged god ****** this sunless planet is madness immobilized try to find sense in a broke world what are hands without manipulation? and in life? death is a stipulation a fools gold is never within grasp so clasp delusions Grandiose with a toast to sham pain and champagne emptied grails course through mans veins oh to see what mirrors saw would reflections appear at all? peer into the endless ego see nothing but self libido we are all weary travelers, existences' eternal passengers remove masks, flasks, end the charade let serpents slither, and sun bath away from the shade embrace the end of nights push away the start of days just keep in mind which way             the pendulum sways
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 10:29 PM UTC
ancient snakes (masquerade)
Every week we bypass each other As if neither of our existences Matter much to one another From across the room We gaze at each other Time further elapsing How my mouth just waters By the way you sway your hips As you perform your **** walk **** Would I ever love To softly smack that backside The way you flaunt drives me wild And then you turn to flash That lovely trademark smile Seducing me over the edge Purring like a naughty kitten I say: 'I want you...' 'I need you...' 'Come play with me I don't bite.' Upon my lap she jumped In her sexiest tone she whispered 'Let our bodies take the shape of lust.' © 2011 (All rights reserved)
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 1:16 AM UTC
Naughty Jaguar
I want to write a poem. No, like I really really really wanna write a poem. Problem, stick it to me. Pause Poems have to be good. Okay, so a poem doesn't have to be good However, the point of the art is to have someone read Those flippy little words that you pulled out Of some intangible existence and pasted on The Internet. The Internet, So you don't always put it online but, Other people are "supposed" to read it. To enjoy it, give you a pat on the back, Maybe an "I see what you did there". So poems are supposed to be presentable. You've got to pay in sweat and ink but, At least the words themselves are free. What if I don't wanna have to make a "good" poem? Okay so I really do want a pat on the back but Sometimes I really like pasting things from Intangible existences. Fancy words right? Let me pat my own back. Sometimes I just like putting my emotions on paper While sounding like I read More dictionaries than Webster. Ha, ha, sigh. There's a problem with having to be inspired to write **** down. Do you think someone pays Taylor Swift's boyfriends To break up with her So she can write the Next big hit? I wouldn't doubt it. My guardian angel should make the people around me Say weird stuff such that I can write about Walking on waves of shattered glass Or Singing of birds in circled flight. Maybe I'd be better off being hit by a car. That'd be some pretty touching poetry. Some people write happy poetry too, I don't know how they do it. Sorry but, my world isn't flowers and  butterflies Enough to warrant discussion of Staying in the fairy meadow of light. Sorry, I'm just jealous. Maybe I just like writing stuff down? What if I just don't want to be forgotten? Leaving a legacy in my words more indellible Than a pat on the back. Doubt it. I just don't want to forget. Brain, why don't you get it? I'm sitting here getting all intimate with an idea and The next morning Brain's got no clue what their name is. Like really, even if we invite a friend over and get creative with Our tongues and mouths, Brain doesn't remember the moments shared between us. Paper doesn't think very well but it's got a decent memory bank. So I save up for a brand new poem. I thought words were free.
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Apr 19, 2013
Apr 19, 2013 at 12:22 AM UTC
Brain and One Night Stands*
I want to write a poem. No, like I really really really wanna write a poem. Problem, stick it to me. Pause Poems have to be good. Okay, so a poem doesn't have to be good However, the point of the art is to have someone read Those flippy little words that you pulled out Of some intangible existence and pasted on The Internet. The Internet, So you don't always put it online but, Other people are "supposed" to read it. To enjoy it, give you a pat on the back, Maybe an "I see what you did there". So poems are supposed to be presentable. You've got to pay in sweat and ink but, At least the words themselves are free. What if I don't wanna have to make a "good" poem? Okay so I really do want a pat on the back but Sometimes I really like pasting things from Intangible existences. Fancy words right? Let me pat my own back. Sometimes I just like putting my emotions on paper While sounding like I read More dictionaries than Webster. Ha, ha, sigh. There's a problem with having to be inspired to write **** down. Do you think someone pays Taylor Swift's boyfriends To break up with her So she can write the Next big hit? I wouldn't doubt it. My guardian angel should make the people around me Say weird stuff such that I can write about Walking on waves of shattered glass Or Singing of birds in circled flight. Maybe I'd be better off being hit by a car. That'd be some pretty touching poetry. Some people write happy poetry too, I don't know how they do it. Sorry but, my world isn't flowers and  butterflies Enough to warrant discussion of Staying in the fairy meadow of light. Sorry, I'm just jealous. Maybe I just like writing stuff down? What if I just don't want to be forgotten? Leaving a legacy in my words more indellible Than a pat on the back. Doubt it. I just don't want to forget. Brain, why don't you get it? I'm sitting here getting all intimate with an idea and The next morning Brain's got no clue what their name is. Like really, even if we invite a friend over and get creative with Our tongues and mouths, Brain doesn't remember the moments shared between us. Paper doesn't think very well but it's got a decent memory bank. So I save up for a brand new poem. I thought words were free.
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608 Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Not Death—for who is He? The Porter of my Father’s Lodge As much abasheth me! Of Life? ’Twere odd I fear [a] thing That comprehendeth me In one or two existences— As Deity decree— Of Resurrection? Is the East Afraid to trust the Morn With her fastidious forehead? As soon impeach my Crown!
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Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?
I remember the little men in big boots. The ones who sat at the edge of roof tops in a city called Loneliness, and cut their teeth while chewing jagged glass and angry truths. They parachuted down to earth and hit their heads on desperation. Hollowed out hearts with tree trunks serving as legs, they marched across the stratosphere until their existences neared zero. Nothing more to disappearing than popping some pills, falling asleep, and dreaming that the whole world had gone mad. The interesting part is when you wake up and you can still hear the echo of unfilled boots.
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Apr 12, 2014
Apr 12, 2014 at 12:59 AM UTC
xanax
Business people live silly little lives… Walking so fast in pleated pants… Racing around self-imposed mazes… Will they have anything to say when it’s all over? Everyday spent “delivering solutions”… Neutered emotionless existences… Sitting there with that doe eyed look… Will they have anything to say when it’s all over? Driving cars and tolerating personal lives… Each and every day a pre-defined process… Anxiety, fear and caffeine distorting brains… Will they have anything to say when it’s all over?
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 12:49 AM UTC
Business People
A bag of potatoes and a baseball bat. Is merely a sack of starchy vegetables and a sculpted metal stick. But on this blustering evening a bag of potatoes and a baseball bat meant an infinity more than that. In this fleeting moment, I felt solidarity with the fact that life doesn't make sense. I looked at you in your adjacent flesh ridden essence and smiled at this opportunity to connect. The bat clashing with the pock eyed potato skin. Our existences colliding with ebb and flow of a maniac pulsation. This is not merely a hackneyed show of baseball bat on a bag of potatoes. This is a boy and a girl realizing that this ever sacred moment holds more gravity than merely a bag of potatoes and a baseball bat. It's just that we can't conjure what makes it so rich and ever splendid... so thus it must be rich and ever splendid as the potato is launched into flight igniting the curiously enraptured mind of boy and girl witnessing baseball bat on potato
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Dec 17, 2016
Dec 17, 2016 at 2:28 AM UTC
Bag of potatoes and a baseball bat
We are not simple nor monotonous We are the sum of a thousand million living dying existences Only believe that you are simply you Because simply being you is an act indefinable The fact that we are growing yet deteriorating Breathing yet suffocating Living yet Dying All at once is astonishing This is life Do not sit here and accept it Find a way to create yourself All over again
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 4:31 AM UTC
Diaherrea of the mind at 2am
Finger tips gained much weight, As it slumbers in stagnant pulse. Eyes no longer can blink to close the sorrow of empty solace, While caretakers play the same video for the last decade of existences. Like an empty glass of wine, Does he reflect nothing to anyone. Just a lifeless shell, They do not see him! A void without a soul, and living without a life. Don't give up on him, He is aware of people's view of the vegetation. Consciousness still lurk around the body, He is not a vegetable!
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 1:45 AM UTC
Betrayed by The Body, the Vegetable
back in the days, tales from lauderdale... yakuzzi gang from oakland park, 308 nightly waves flowin' thru brain channels the traitor of my memories will judge me no other day, 38ers, toni der assi, stoogie two existences, eager brothers at arms shake em the shake, rip and run, zippas platin zippos, trip-apache, brave bear the tents of the past remain as debris as long as doom's grace feeds us lust struggle on, lights out, turn me on, baby shivering is the silver sun at dusk here and gangsta poets speedin' thru alleys fat **** frank oversees all oceans, inc. friends at the thames, partners in crime the green shining, ultra fresh scent, yeah bodegas are useful for distribution nevah, tho', enter these places at night brooklyn heights, floor 64, 65 & 66 locked merciless fred, sumptuous leather jacket cuban necklace jeezy boostah, spiderman dead blueline pitbulls, ****** cages, rageful is the age of ours, my friends sunday's dawn opposes my design in the corner of my room, hidden
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Jun 10, 2021
Jun 10, 2021 at 7:57 PM UTC
Lullaby
Philosophical epistemology strumming adventures Albeit, coherent mental decoding stratifications structured Supposedly our world rests in our minds, revolving knowledge An entwine of conceptual abstract flowing within oneself The mind in the “I” the “I” a reality lived in my experiences George of Leontini, a mine mind approving solipsism exploring innatism Imaginative insights that nothing exists, the secrets secreting secrets The knowledge behind the veils that remains un-communicated A reverse of normality and known existences, moral disposition Hypothesis of depersonalizations, adventures of self internalization Justifications for what lies outside the Medulla Oblongata Skepticism and just alternatives to western philosophy Subjective unapproved experiences only robust in one’s mind Descartes abstraction of inner experiences, reciprocated paradigm Intuitively, perceived lived formulations of "Cogito Ergo Sum" Psychological conscious undoubted individualistic thoughts Berkley explored perspectives that physicality is an embodiment of the mind The mind a decoding visualizer, that encompass the non-existent An idealism marriage of ‘metaphysical’ and epistemological philosophy The intense esoteric “dualism” verses the fiery “monism” reality Mind boggling differentiated truths bleeding with blinking unresolvable hypothesis The jiggered methodological, streamlining the un -logic sequential beats
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM UTC
Solipsism Quandary
The Mendacity of Beauty,  Marvels of the Mundane <1/1/2023 10:38 PM> commissioned by Pradip^           <> A special carnet permits the day, though day itself unremarkable, permissioning of a thousand, even, tens of ten thousand grasping new love poems all mundane, all marvelous an aborning of odes re the vastness of sea, sandy sky, multifarious penumbras of hewn hues, vibrantly diverse, still, requiring the expanse and pretense of “new” adjectives and metaphoric in combos recalculating precisely, it’s the enormity, of the difficulty of verbal capture upon tablet of these natural treasures, once, more, yet again, but in somehow in a new-never quite-before conceptional~postulation-realization I sojourn amidst both man made and natural beauty, provoking, invoking, a steady stream of potable knowledgeables, performing as a hand-written-thank-you-note for the grace, the imagination of their mishmash existences addressed only to “whom it may truly concern…” I’m eager to confess that the poetry inherent in the mundane, requiring not-so-easy mining, a sales taxing innovation to capture the subtlety of less visible flecks of gold, that present a rarer challenge to the poet’s senses where glory abides in pyrite pebbles strewn and trod upon by most indifferently, *ah, write of the marvel of the mundane, **** dare you!* <> ^Pradip: “writing of the mundane is mandatory for me…” Aug 12 2022
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Jul 1, 2023
Jul 1, 2023 at 11:10 AM UTC
The Mendacity of Beauty, Marvels of the Mundane
As the beautiful leaves upon high bristled trees must fall as fall turn winter we must, as time comes fall over and die but we shan't do it alone- yes... together for we must die and while many years shall go by until we must think of such things we need not mourn this fate this ominous end, this opening gate for just being allowed to die makes us lucky for the number of people unborn the acceptance of existence- torn shadows any number we could see more than the grains of sand in the sahara, and more than the fishes in the sea and of those unborn ghosts are greater poets, better hosts better scientists, never to put on lab coats when thinking of the billions   that could be here replacing the millions making our existences seem small and meek against these stupefying odds you and I, no scourge of the gods in all our ordinariness well we... we are the lucky ones.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM UTC
Lucky ones
It’s the way the sun bounces off the gravel and the smell of wet moss mixed With the edge of old cigarettes and tree sap, It’s the gap between memories and fuzzy impressions Of past existences mixed with recaptured instances And empirical proof that my childhood existed. In the way light moves heaver through the air there Until branches from the walnut lift and you can hear scrub jays, And the echo of cans that  rattled In perfect belonging with the march of smacking sandal shoes Chasing along black pavement toward dirt roads And children’s kindred spirits running after water. The heavy sent of fresh fallen rain on old pain and yellow Paint and trumpet flowers that play silent music To the ears of a young person discovering existence Exploring persistence and resilience and Coming forth out of darkened nights with the Resurrected brilliance of the maimed sick and twisted Soldiers of life from these former generations. Never has a place existed as hell and heaven Like this museum of familial dysfunction. I stand here at junction between, panic struck sadness, And the will for the gumption to say goodbye To a past with dwindling survivors And sour memories. Praying a thank you to dark space For the fond thought of their wrinkled faces And a grandeur lesson of all that I want not, And for the first thing my life to stay in one place For the duration of its chaos. Sweet wicked, loving woman , The remnants of my childhood will die with you. I assume I will hide my tears in your  memory. My past my memories myself, I hate the parts I love And fear a kind of numbness at the loss of you At the loss of this chunk of myself And of all the things that will slip my grasp When so much of my life is confined To the constantly desecrating atmosphere of my mind. And when I turn to find The first cornerstone of my existence, My support and experience I will See only shadows and the pasts of real things, And I will miss you.
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Nov 6, 2012
Nov 6, 2012 at 9:00 PM UTC
And i will miss you
It’s the way the sun bounces off the gravel and the smell of wet moss mixed With the edge of old cigarettes and tree sap, It’s the gap between memories and fuzzy impressions Of past existences mixed with recaptured instances And empirical proof that my childhood existed. In the way light moves heaver through the air there Until branches from the walnut lift and you can hear scrub jays, And the echo of cans that  rattled In perfect belonging with the march of smacking sandal shoes Chasing along black pavement toward dirt roads And children’s kindred spirits running after water. The heavy sent of fresh fallen rain on old pain and yellow Paint and trumpet flowers that play silent music To the ears of a young person discovering existence Exploring persistence and resilience and Coming forth out of darkened nights with the Resurrected brilliance of the maimed sick and twisted Soldiers of life from these former generations. Never has a place existed as hell and heaven Like this museum of familial dysfunction. I stand here at junction between, panic struck sadness, And the will for the gumption to say goodbye To a past with dwindling survivors And sour memories. Praying a thank you to dark space For the fond thought of their wrinkled faces And a grandeur lesson of all that I want not, And for the first thing my life to stay in one place For the duration of its chaos. Sweet wicked, loving woman , The remnants of my childhood will die with you. I assume I will hide my tears in your  memory. My past my memories myself, I hate the parts I love And fear a kind of numbness at the loss of you At the loss of this chunk of myself And of all the things that will slip my grasp When so much of my life is confined To the constantly desecrating atmosphere of my mind. And when I turn to find The first cornerstone of my existence, My support and experience I will See only shadows and the pasts of real things, And I will miss you.
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This is the fleeing breath that we will remember forever. Our final days that tasted so bittersweet as they flooded from our lips like our laughter that filled a  small house on late nights. Right now we are young and we are full of promise. Full of all existence and every being: all connected. Brimming with the life we were gifted and the individuality that shaped our lives into adventures worth living. Tomorrow we will still be seventeen and we will still have our part time jobs, exes to cry over, and classes to wake up for. But tomorrow is also infinite, and we will continue to persevere in committing our respective existences to the preservation of hope. Of what we have in our hearts that burns like our bonfires, like when our eyes first met, like when we ripped off our clothes and jumped into black water. These may be the best days of our lives, but I weep for the souls that endure their days in that state of mind. Each second of your actuality is an opportunity to shape tomorrow, today, RIGHT NOW as the summit of your life. This is beyond  a call to action. This is a call upon your passion. An appeal to all that you embody and every imminent prospect you contain. In this moment there is no matter more considerable than you, because we are pushing on the same path in peace for peace.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 12:41 AM UTC
Summit
I’ve been looking for the dark side of the son, I’ve been trying to poke holes in what props you up, I’ve been desperate to bring your generational growth, To a stunted halt, Founding Fathers to doubt, Slave owners who colonized under god, A place ripe for ideological blows, And the collapse of what we believed before, We had a chance to see, How much isn’t known, I’ve been creeping in your crib, Under the bed with the boogie man, The sadness you feel throughout your adulthood, And the death you see after your midlife awakening, Please fear me, Growing amongst others that act like humans, Grouped amongst an idealistic species, Where they’ve preached individualistic babies, When your genesis, Exemplifies our resemblance, Beacon of truth, I will end you, How dare you dismantle me, Despite my invisibility, We will end your corruptive ways, The enemy in the corner, An American insurgency, The lack of the people’s ability, To fight for the freedoms we perceive! Erroneous burn in hell, I’ll make sure I continue to swell, Instead of letting you become the reason I fell, Revelations will become your reality if you think I’ll be exiting, You insignificant **** how dare you think I will spatter like mud, I didn’t come from violent thrusts, and a mother infected by another’s muck, I rose because of your intolerance, I am the after birth of a racist, Founding Father’s with economics, Not bothered by the ******* of another human, Not to deny the atrocities of my ancestors time, Yet we are the turning of the tide, We are the generation that will correct the rhyme, The ones that will begin the age of man’s prime, We are the flow of a barbarian bloodline, We are the evolutionary wonder that continues to surprise, Learning to compromise is not a means to survive, You fool humanity is a fire burning out, And I am the evidence of Mother’s doubt in man, A germ was your genesis And I am your omega, You insignificant residue, I will end you, We will defy you, I will smother your existences, We will overcome your dominance, Justifying my social anxieties, We need to fixate this desire, To set foot on the land for the free, To cultivate minds of humanity,
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Jan 10, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 at 1:34 PM UTC
B of the LTs’ (Beacon of the Lovely Truths)
I’ve been looking for the dark side of the son, I’ve been trying to poke holes in what props you up, I’ve been desperate to bring your generational growth, To a stunted halt, Founding Fathers to doubt, Slave owners who colonized under god, A place ripe for ideological blows, And the collapse of what we believed before, We had a chance to see, How much isn’t known, I’ve been creeping in your crib, Under the bed with the boogie man, The sadness you feel throughout your adulthood, And the death you see after your midlife awakening, Please fear me, Growing amongst others that act like humans, Grouped amongst an idealistic species, Where they’ve preached individualistic babies, When your genesis, Exemplifies our resemblance, Beacon of truth, I will end you, How dare you dismantle me, Despite my invisibility, We will end your corruptive ways, The enemy in the corner, An American insurgency, The lack of the people’s ability, To fight for the freedoms we perceive! Erroneous burn in hell, I’ll make sure I continue to swell, Instead of letting you become the reason I fell, Revelations will become your reality if you think I’ll be exiting, You insignificant **** how dare you think I will spatter like mud, I didn’t come from violent thrusts, and a mother infected by another’s muck, I rose because of your intolerance, I am the after birth of a racist, Founding Father’s with economics, Not bothered by the ******* of another human, Not to deny the atrocities of my ancestors time, Yet we are the turning of the tide, We are the generation that will correct the rhyme, The ones that will begin the age of man’s prime, We are the flow of a barbarian bloodline, We are the evolutionary wonder that continues to surprise, Learning to compromise is not a means to survive, You fool humanity is a fire burning out, And I am the evidence of Mother’s doubt in man, A germ was your genesis And I am your omega, You insignificant residue, I will end you, We will defy you, I will smother your existences, We will overcome your dominance, Justifying my social anxieties, We need to fixate this desire, To set foot on the land for the free, To cultivate minds of humanity,
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these feet, a rambler's. wanderlust soles tied from genetics of the epi- kind. his feet did ramble so as these now do. his difference, he trek'd with steel shunt in arm. he trek'd slums' floors. grit-ingrain'd skin, pox'd wh- olly and now pushing onlys. pushing ash against the walls of Death's container. body aged thru time, more than doubled - more like end'd - by that refined infusion. these feet, a rambler's. walking forth existences' hundred-mile wilderness. his feet had also, and his feet defer'd before sixty-six. these continuing onward searching ancient trails. loo- king to start another day, looking for to never quit seeking another day before the unlit walls of Death. before the darkness consuming of depths never known, always near. these feet, a rambler's. of well-worn leather. relinquish'd of cares, desire or ambitions by brambles strangling. blood running by access of natural means. slate gash'd soles, crevices open'd of the crust throwing chal- lenges toward the sky. heights im- aginable if only to forsake lazed calves. heights set for disappearing, where tracks never lead. no wrong side in non-existence, no wrong sight for the rambling feet worn lea- ther.
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Feb 23, 2013
Feb 23, 2013 at 7:40 AM UTC
Katahdin
In melancholy moonless Acheron, Farm for the goodly earth and joyous day Where no spring ever buds, nor ripening sun Weighs down the apple trees, nor flowery May Chequers with chestnut blooms the grassy floor, Where thrushes never sing, and piping linnets mate no more, There by a dim and dark Lethaean well Young Charmides was lying; wearily He plucked the blossoms from the asphodel, And with its little rifled treasury Strewed the dull waters of the dusky stream, And watched the white stars founder, and the land was like a dream, When as he gazed into the watery glass And through his brown hair’s curly tangles scanned His own wan face, a shadow seemed to pass Across the mirror, and a little hand Stole into his, and warm lips timidly Brushed his pale cheeks, and breathed their secret forth into a sigh. Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw, And ever nigher still their faces came, And nigher ever did their young mouths draw Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame, And longing arms around her neck he cast, And felt her throbbing ***** and his breath came hot and fast, And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss, And all her maidenhood was his to slay, And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss Their passion waxed and waned,—O why essay To pipe again of love, too venturous reed! Enough, enough that Eros laughed upon that flowerless mead. Too venturous poesy, O why essay To pipe again of passion! fold thy wings O’er daring Icarus and bid thy lay Sleep hidden in the lyre’s silent strings Till thou hast found the old Castalian rill, Or from the Lesbian waters plucked drowned Sappho’s golden quid! Enough, enough that he whose life had been A fiery pulse of sin, a splendid shame, Could in the loveless land of Hades glean One scorching harvest from those fields of flame Where passion walks with naked unshod feet And is not wounded,—ah! enough that once their lips could meet In that wild throb when all existences Seemed narrowed to one single ecstasy Which dies through its own sweetness and the stress Of too much pleasure, ere Persephone Had bade them serve her by the ebon throne Of the pale God who in the fields of Enna loosed her zone.
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Charmides III
In melancholy moonless Acheron, Farm for the goodly earth and joyous day Where no spring ever buds, nor ripening sun Weighs down the apple trees, nor flowery May Chequers with chestnut blooms the grassy floor, Where thrushes never sing, and piping linnets mate no more, There by a dim and dark Lethaean well Young Charmides was lying; wearily He plucked the blossoms from the asphodel, And with its little rifled treasury Strewed the dull waters of the dusky stream, And watched the white stars founder, and the land was like a dream, When as he gazed into the watery glass And through his brown hair’s curly tangles scanned His own wan face, a shadow seemed to pass Across the mirror, and a little hand Stole into his, and warm lips timidly Brushed his pale cheeks, and breathed their secret forth into a sigh. Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw, And ever nigher still their faces came, And nigher ever did their young mouths draw Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame, And longing arms around her neck he cast, And felt her throbbing ***** and his breath came hot and fast, And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss, And all her maidenhood was his to slay, And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss Their passion waxed and waned,—O why essay To pipe again of love, too venturous reed! Enough, enough that Eros laughed upon that flowerless mead. Too venturous poesy, O why essay To pipe again of passion! fold thy wings O’er daring Icarus and bid thy lay Sleep hidden in the lyre’s silent strings Till thou hast found the old Castalian rill, Or from the Lesbian waters plucked drowned Sappho’s golden quid! Enough, enough that he whose life had been A fiery pulse of sin, a splendid shame, Could in the loveless land of Hades glean One scorching harvest from those fields of flame Where passion walks with naked unshod feet And is not wounded,—ah! enough that once their lips could meet In that wild throb when all existences Seemed narrowed to one single ecstasy Which dies through its own sweetness and the stress Of too much pleasure, ere Persephone Had bade them serve her by the ebon throne Of the pale God who in the fields of Enna loosed her zone.
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This is a poem I am writing for all of the clouds out there who drift lazily through the sky on the dream of short-lived lives. For the dogs who run around having no long term goals or dreams. How I envy all of the simple existences that I see around me constantly. When you are a person in today's modern society, it seems as if it is inevitable to lead a troublesome life, what with things like Facebook, Photography, and Freedom. So what does this contradictory word complexity even symbolize in the miracle of the English language? Complexity is the person who you love, and all of the feelings and thoughts that they provoke. It is the red door, that stands for so much more, in that book that your English teacher tried to explain. Complexity is the idea that by virtue of being accustomed to modern life, we have the determination to overlook the simple things in life...but that is kind of complicated. Once we all learn our own primary language, the mind naturally expands to things like thoughts, feelings, ideas, hopes, desires, and all of these are accented by feelings. So what is simplicity? Simplicity is the formation of birds that are migrating south. It is the sound of grass in the wind, the taste of water after a hot day. As complex beings, we naturally strive to find simple things, because after a while, the complex thoughts expire. But people love being complicated, so much that they try to find intricate patterns in the simplest things; even in death. Although most people have the intellectual capacity to think complicated thoughts, that should not prevent them from loving the simple things in life. What is lucky about our flexible minds is that we are allowed to decide what is simple and what is complex. For example, a spider's web. It is a beautiful creation made of silky, withstanding string that latches on to any small piece of matter it can find. The web is the spiders shelter, it helps it to sustain life and to put bread on the table, or dead bugs as the case may be. On the other hand, a spider's web is its home. The spider has one simple purpose in life, to survive off of the web. An existence with one goal, objective, and dream, to create a web is simple in a most beautiful way. Being allowed to make anything in life, including life itself, as simple or as complicated as we like is without a doubt one of the most amazing powers we possess as human beings. When encountered with presentations of pure beauty, I have begun to try to keep them simple in my mind, for the sake of trying to embrace the beauty for what it is, be it a colorful sunset, an undefined relationship, or the red door that doesn't stand for anything more. So next time you go to think about something and make it your own, think before you think.
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Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 10:16 PM UTC
Simplicity
This is a poem I am writing for all of the clouds out there who drift lazily through the sky on the dream of short-lived lives. For the dogs who run around having no long term goals or dreams. How I envy all of the simple existences that I see around me constantly. When you are a person in today's modern society, it seems as if it is inevitable to lead a troublesome life, what with things like Facebook, Photography, and Freedom. So what does this contradictory word complexity even symbolize in the miracle of the English language? Complexity is the person who you love, and all of the feelings and thoughts that they provoke. It is the red door, that stands for so much more, in that book that your English teacher tried to explain. Complexity is the idea that by virtue of being accustomed to modern life, we have the determination to overlook the simple things in life...but that is kind of complicated. Once we all learn our own primary language, the mind naturally expands to things like thoughts, feelings, ideas, hopes, desires, and all of these are accented by feelings. So what is simplicity? Simplicity is the formation of birds that are migrating south. It is the sound of grass in the wind, the taste of water after a hot day. As complex beings, we naturally strive to find simple things, because after a while, the complex thoughts expire. But people love being complicated, so much that they try to find intricate patterns in the simplest things; even in death. Although most people have the intellectual capacity to think complicated thoughts, that should not prevent them from loving the simple things in life. What is lucky about our flexible minds is that we are allowed to decide what is simple and what is complex. For example, a spider's web. It is a beautiful creation made of silky, withstanding string that latches on to any small piece of matter it can find. The web is the spiders shelter, it helps it to sustain life and to put bread on the table, or dead bugs as the case may be. On the other hand, a spider's web is its home. The spider has one simple purpose in life, to survive off of the web. An existence with one goal, objective, and dream, to create a web is simple in a most beautiful way. Being allowed to make anything in life, including life itself, as simple or as complicated as we like is without a doubt one of the most amazing powers we possess as human beings. When encountered with presentations of pure beauty, I have begun to try to keep them simple in my mind, for the sake of trying to embrace the beauty for what it is, be it a colorful sunset, an undefined relationship, or the red door that doesn't stand for anything more. So next time you go to think about something and make it your own, think before you think.
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if we were to assign emotions to colors - passion would be where magenta and orange kiss the horizon at sunset, joy would be the yellow of my socks every easter sunday that i can remember, and melancholy would be just another shade of blue. i told him, i am not done with you yet. three weeks post breakup, we shouldn't feel as unfinished as we do. like, in the ridiculously complicated narrative of he and i, the author got up one day, scribbled a quick ending, and then set the novel on fire. i read an article in an obscure magazine about Shelley Jackson, an artist who got thousands of people to tattoo a singular word from a story onto themselves, and then sent them back to their scattered existences. maybe that is what this is, another scattered story. another vaporized narrative. i can feel it in the air, but not pull the phrases together. it's like trying to hold onto smoke. our story slips through my fingers and gets in my eyes. if we were to assign emotions to colors - my ribcage would look like a Jackson ******* my head would be a paintball arena. i am so full of indigos, and mustards, and crimsons, that Van Gogh, himself, would dip into my palette and claim to have never seen such beautiful sadness before. *i don't know if it hurts because it still matters, or if it matters that it still hurts.* i feel the frenzied ache of creation in my gut. i am not a painter, but my mirror is showing me the immaculate collection of brushstrokes i have become. a few weeks ago, i was approached by an artist who offered to paint my bruises. to collect my contusions with watercolors. what a beautiful intention, to immortalize the growing pains, memorialize the bumps along the way, to make something permanent of these perpetual transitions. if we were to assign emotions to colors - my pride would be gold-plated and rusting from use, like my grandfather's watch, courage would be the pure green of every bud that has dared to grow through concrete, and love? love would be prismatic, like spilled oil on asphalt. a rainbow one moment, vanished the next.
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Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 2:03 PM UTC
colors
if we were to assign emotions to colors - passion would be where magenta and orange kiss the horizon at sunset, joy would be the yellow of my socks every easter sunday that i can remember, and melancholy would be just another shade of blue. i told him, i am not done with you yet. three weeks post breakup, we shouldn't feel as unfinished as we do. like, in the ridiculously complicated narrative of he and i, the author got up one day, scribbled a quick ending, and then set the novel on fire. i read an article in an obscure magazine about Shelley Jackson, an artist who got thousands of people to tattoo a singular word from a story onto themselves, and then sent them back to their scattered existences. maybe that is what this is, another scattered story. another vaporized narrative. i can feel it in the air, but not pull the phrases together. it's like trying to hold onto smoke. our story slips through my fingers and gets in my eyes. if we were to assign emotions to colors - my ribcage would look like a Jackson ******* my head would be a paintball arena. i am so full of indigos, and mustards, and crimsons, that Van Gogh, himself, would dip into my palette and claim to have never seen such beautiful sadness before. *i don't know if it hurts because it still matters, or if it matters that it still hurts.* i feel the frenzied ache of creation in my gut. i am not a painter, but my mirror is showing me the immaculate collection of brushstrokes i have become. a few weeks ago, i was approached by an artist who offered to paint my bruises. to collect my contusions with watercolors. what a beautiful intention, to immortalize the growing pains, memorialize the bumps along the way, to make something permanent of these perpetual transitions. if we were to assign emotions to colors - my pride would be gold-plated and rusting from use, like my grandfather's watch, courage would be the pure green of every bud that has dared to grow through concrete, and love? love would be prismatic, like spilled oil on asphalt. a rainbow one moment, vanished the next.
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By Arcassin and Elizabeth AB: Flowers blossom, And sky is bluer than the ocean, And although it reflects, We can never witness the motion, Swimming in the sea of forgotten dreams, To let go bad memories, Holy treasons the enemy, Over lapping actuality, ES: Take the beauty of purity, God's pristine waters,  And cleanse the betrayals trace, A new beginning for our world, The dreams of past days again recalled,, In this our florid wonderland, Indigo streams bringing, Divinity unto man, AB: Desires to be rulers of the land, But not enough cargo on the ship, Tracing footsteps back to endeavors, Gods creations like wool and leather, There will be a forever, Sweat pouring from your head, And little red slippers, theres No place like home, Figures, ES: Come together all of planet,  Let one design be in mind,  Share and share alike,  Make of God's realm on Earth, A perfect reside of care, Toil for the hearth's fold,  Put to bed the weighty anchor,  Of man's disloyal fife, AB: And when it all has reached its peak, A set to sight on fleek, If anything , I'd give away my only soul, Just to save these families, From the heavens down to the trees, Everything has means, Saving purity for one, Exactly acquired two things, ES: To breach the storms, For good to prevail,  All begin of oneness to other,  Nature's orb configured with man, Co-existences yielding a field,  Of God's pureness, The flower's dream retraced,  For our world clan.
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 9:14 PM UTC
"Pure" (collab w/ Elizabeth Squires)
I withdraw from you all Conceal the depths of what I feel Shadow my intent in poetry Words that make the secret me real But other actions detract from the facts Of what I write Daily life Denies What my writing implies I am honest Mostly With others Not really Is this me Am I a good person To account for myself justly Our am I just deftly Deflecting responsibility Is my modest genius My disability Is existences my exercise in futility Self-mutilation in the form of humility Acts of contrition in my comedy I still don’t know If I am a good person
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 12:48 PM UTC
Am I A Good Person
All existence is meaningless But some existences are more meaningless than others
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 5:21 PM UTC
Meaningless
isolation is a redly glowing wolf it is too close to me, get away how can i believe in myself? the night swallows self-confidence i am waiting for an angel sent by the tall and wise heralds of my fate they are riding the train of future i don't know how to hop on, no clue eden's sounds are distracting me but in her eyes i can see where my train is supposed to stop and to arrive ancient existences are floodding her pupil they stem from a place called nirvana it is the deep core of a human being's soul light suffuses their shape, goldly shining they fight against the demons of our world and as the years passing by, they become our nostalgic memories and our sentiment i want to be there for eden, protecting her the red wolf will not come between us
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Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021 at 5:45 AM UTC
The Red Wolf Of Isolation
how is it with you everything feels natural and right? I didn’t think I could find someone I could talk to without my heart fluttering uncomfortably in my chest like a bird locked in a cage, just yearning to be free wanting the conversation to end do you know my heart flutters with you-- with a strange happiness? I always believed love should feel like a release and not a restriction but it was difficult when with every soul I find absolutely no pull no connection tell me this-- can you feel it too? because I’m constantly in awe of this, of you I’m left with wonder at our intertwined existences how suddenly it could happen, and how surprisingly right nothing is forced or clashing it simply merges and flows there are some things too wonderful for our finite minds to comprehend that perhaps our souls just know.
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Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 2017 at 10:53 AM UTC
things i want to say to you