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"extravagance" poems
I A playing raging guitar Of a kid with taboo thoughts The first cigar Who fired shots of dots... Don’t care and The revolt of caring Be scared and Be the scare! The acquaint of survival The wrath of revival Is everywhere Anywhere, not visible too The wrath is the root of trouble But the root of solution is not wrath II A desire so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of wealth A pursuit so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of status A need so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of power A greed so greedy III Slaves of virtual reality To whom dictatorship is not real To whom liberality, brutality and unreality Is not real But the ticking clock is not sloth Tick-tock, Tick-tock Men who walk toward sloth Tick-tock, Tick-tock 'till old growth Tick-tock Loath Tock IV Sit idly-by low self-esteem Caused by lack of ****** Translated to scheme And unfortunate dream For achieving an alleged excellency Or a lengthy and empty possession What frenzy And all for envy V Advertising On bus stops On train stops On metro stops On everything that stops To make you stop And start Over-consumption Over-indulgence Over everything Obesity! Wealthy Withholding from the needy From what they really need Advertising gluttony VI A feature of abstinence Leads to a lack of extravagance But there are no angels Only fallen angels Or angels about to fall A feature of desire Leads to an higher feature Noisy or hushed It can't be crushed It's just fuel swallowed A tool for lust VII Pride is divergent A dreadfully enemy Or an inside allied Pride is divergent
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Mar 25, 2012
Mar 25, 2012 at 2:40 PM UTC
The Sevens
I A playing raging guitar Of a kid with taboo thoughts The first cigar Who fired shots of dots... Don’t care and The revolt of caring Be scared and Be the scare! The acquaint of survival The wrath of revival Is everywhere Anywhere, not visible too The wrath is the root of trouble But the root of solution is not wrath II A desire so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of wealth A pursuit so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of status A need so Excessive, Rapacious and Overweening Of power A greed so greedy III Slaves of virtual reality To whom dictatorship is not real To whom liberality, brutality and unreality Is not real But the ticking clock is not sloth Tick-tock, Tick-tock Men who walk toward sloth Tick-tock, Tick-tock 'till old growth Tick-tock Loath Tock IV Sit idly-by low self-esteem Caused by lack of ****** Translated to scheme And unfortunate dream For achieving an alleged excellency Or a lengthy and empty possession What frenzy And all for envy V Advertising On bus stops On train stops On metro stops On everything that stops To make you stop And start Over-consumption Over-indulgence Over everything Obesity! Wealthy Withholding from the needy From what they really need Advertising gluttony VI A feature of abstinence Leads to a lack of extravagance But there are no angels Only fallen angels Or angels about to fall A feature of desire Leads to an higher feature Noisy or hushed It can't be crushed It's just fuel swallowed A tool for lust VII Pride is divergent A dreadfully enemy Or an inside allied Pride is divergent
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Yellow is a high-minded mood the extravagance of sunlight to be touched-- before long by colors of play ____________ It is of hair tendering golden sun brown pennies for lemonade ____________ Yellow is bumping into the screaming end of a lit cigarette _____________ Yellow is dripping from the eaves onto an empty soup can _____________ It is spindling sparrow song from highest perch on roof his pitch can aspire _____________ Yellow is in rattled doorknob an infant's sweet voice wanting – in Reciting menu above mattress edges into sleep two dark eyes plead for yellow waking Mother into morning-- “juice.... eggs” Yellow  ____ is opening a car door at the shore's unmistakable! Smells of life   warmth and breeze touching strings those kites   of sense harmonics above the tone octaves of excitement to see to hear to touch to taste to know again – the ocean of my mother as she calms the waves, ignores the pouts of us with stuff to lug out to the beach the towels, pails and shovels Picnic basket, cooler lotion, comic books, her magazines Mom looks out She is a good swimmer Her glasses, dark Preside   reflecting beauty – “Take your sister's hand.” Yellow are the squeals Feet thrashing sand of cannot wait
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 10:06 PM UTC
Yellow Waking Mother (short poems)
In the short story, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" written by D.H. Lawrence, the young boy, Paul, associates luck with wealth and bets large amounts of money on the soon-to-be winning horses. His family is extremely wealthy but can barely afford to keep up to their title. What is one thing that society does not know yet the children do about the mother? They know that their mother does not love her own children. She gives them everything they need and want except for one thing. And that one thing they do need is love. One knows love by the look in their eyes. It is much more difficult to lie with eyes than with words and actions. She is materialistic and adores money and extravagance. I think we all agree that the mother is oblivious to her situation. How are we not like the mother? The truth is, we are exactly like the mother. She doesn't realize that love is not a number, money or products but that love is looking into one's eyes and showing true affection. We are in complete illusion that wealth leads to happiness. We think the same thoughts when the more we have, the more successful we may be however in reality, it is false. A perfect example is Black Friday. Companies, businesses and customers all decided to cut the Thanksgiving holiday to purchase more "stuff" to make them "happy". They decided to cut the time to spend with family, friends and relatives to spend for themselves and others. Who is the villain in the story? Most believe villains are a something or a someone who prevents the "good guy" from achieving their goal, also known as an antagonist, however the villain in this story cannot be seen, touched, smelled or even tasted. It can only be spoken and heard of. It is an imaginative villain. It is merely the manipulation of the mind of the misconception that luck is associated with wealth. This begins the entire issue with obsession and materialism. I'm sure we all agree that luck is something that happens to you without you possibly deserving or expecting it. But what is luck when others are given it? For example, if a random stranger gives your friend $100, another $1,000, but gave you only $20. Would you still feel lucky? Well, in all honesty it all depends on our circumstances, which then determine our values. Shouldn't it be reversed where our values determine our circumstances? In the end, over the many years of bets and deference, Paul has been riding his rocking horse to find the true winner and to find luck.
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 10:00 PM UTC
The Rocking-Horse Winner
In the short story, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" written by D.H. Lawrence, the young boy, Paul, associates luck with wealth and bets large amounts of money on the soon-to-be winning horses. His family is extremely wealthy but can barely afford to keep up to their title. What is one thing that society does not know yet the children do about the mother? They know that their mother does not love her own children. She gives them everything they need and want except for one thing. And that one thing they do need is love. One knows love by the look in their eyes. It is much more difficult to lie with eyes than with words and actions. She is materialistic and adores money and extravagance. I think we all agree that the mother is oblivious to her situation. How are we not like the mother? The truth is, we are exactly like the mother. She doesn't realize that love is not a number, money or products but that love is looking into one's eyes and showing true affection. We are in complete illusion that wealth leads to happiness. We think the same thoughts when the more we have, the more successful we may be however in reality, it is false. A perfect example is Black Friday. Companies, businesses and customers all decided to cut the Thanksgiving holiday to purchase more "stuff" to make them "happy". They decided to cut the time to spend with family, friends and relatives to spend for themselves and others. Who is the villain in the story? Most believe villains are a something or a someone who prevents the "good guy" from achieving their goal, also known as an antagonist, however the villain in this story cannot be seen, touched, smelled or even tasted. It can only be spoken and heard of. It is an imaginative villain. It is merely the manipulation of the mind of the misconception that luck is associated with wealth. This begins the entire issue with obsession and materialism. I'm sure we all agree that luck is something that happens to you without you possibly deserving or expecting it. But what is luck when others are given it? For example, if a random stranger gives your friend $100, another $1,000, but gave you only $20. Would you still feel lucky? Well, in all honesty it all depends on our circumstances, which then determine our values. Shouldn't it be reversed where our values determine our circumstances? In the end, over the many years of bets and deference, Paul has been riding his rocking horse to find the true winner and to find luck.
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In his dreams the Vally in the throes of efflorescence call out in a language heart alone understands; from the hanging bridge over Ganga, he views the ice-capped peaks, Vally's ***** extravagance and the river's turbulence. The river runs too deep, at times he finds, the currents treacherously strong, from the window of his *Ashram, the view is clear. She bathes naked, alone on a step submerged in water, eyes feast on her moonlit curves, the pleasures skin deep, camouflage the existential dilemmas ! he smiles In memory his Guru speaks:"Eat only those fruits that make one immortal" Yet another Himalayan journey in search of the fruit tree unknown It's too late to redefine, life and love when the avalanche thunders above on his lonesome path, every step uphill is fraught with slippery stones, one way leads to the top, to bathe in the light of  the star reaching down Some days end in too long nights, too cold, the sun shows up hesitant, her body has the warmth that reaches to his icy depths, a ****** alone could penetrate, but it still wouldn't melt Himalayan silence, chant of Ganga, the ghost of a ****** that follows him  like a faithful dog, are all these fragments of a dream or realities stringed together from many different planes?
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 1:26 AM UTC
A view from the hainging bridge across river Ganga*
I'm facing the horizon, reclining in the cool grass, staring deeply into the pink and purple sky. It is an exemplary evening and I am enticed by its extravagance. I contemplate existence. I contemplate all our lives: The gnat licking sweat of my brow, You, Me, That tree across the street, Your dead friends, my ancestors, that hot Latina chick that works at Panara (not that I really eat at Panara). The undercover cop that won't stop eyeing me. I watch the pink fade into purple fade into nothing at all. The clouds disperse, becoming nothing more than disconnected particles of dirt and water  suspended in midair, and the sun goes down. I **** the gnat and go home.
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Jun 17, 2012
Jun 17, 2012 at 5:10 PM UTC
The fragility of us.
“Put pressure on it, it needs more pressure” Holding your wounds shut That senseless force is what took you away Pressure- to be... whilst not desiring to be You saw the clouds moving in greyscale I saw the hills below scattered in shades of green, Cavernous, shadowed, cryptic, familiar- We were advised to go as the crow flies I cried to a nameless God that your crow’s feet Were from insurmountable happiness, not the pressures endured I’ve forgotten much since the storm some-178 weeks ago Though my body remembers yours over and over again My skin has yours imprinted, correlated Forged into one point on the axis between here and there You the X, I the Y The Earth crept between the crevices, curling Through the distance between the Right radius and ulna Elbows breaking knuckles, blood remains to be spilt Blood doesn’t connect, if anything it merely separates Scarecrows don’t help much when the crops won’t grow this year Ants crawled out of the barrel of a shotgun Observing the process of cleaning bones after tragedy Follow the moss to find your way North with no direction- Sometimes on the other side it’s not greener, It’s more terrifying than ever before Terrain untouched, unspoiled, sacred- Climb up the trees with me, find your quiet We won’t carve our names but we’ll find our niche You’ll have quills and I’ll have armor Not even the thought of stolen arrows, Lost time through distance, Or perhaps a slew of chemical imbalances Can reach us up here I chose to glue your pieces back together with mud and straw Taken from the fallen, the loved and now distant memories You may be an abandoned military base offshore What was once used by many- Witnesses life again, life of a different kind The vegetation will ease its way into the cracks Constructed when the foundation began to decay It has a beauty of its own, one of self-sustainment An everlasting beauty that connects itself To the surrounding extravagance, often times ignored, Death isn’t the only way to be forged into nature, remembered Fear doesn’t always win, nor death do us part so soon I hope your skin and bones remember before the end
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Sep 14, 2015
Sep 14, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
The Fields Spoke of Futility
“Put pressure on it, it needs more pressure” Holding your wounds shut That senseless force is what took you away Pressure- to be... whilst not desiring to be You saw the clouds moving in greyscale I saw the hills below scattered in shades of green, Cavernous, shadowed, cryptic, familiar- We were advised to go as the crow flies I cried to a nameless God that your crow’s feet Were from insurmountable happiness, not the pressures endured I’ve forgotten much since the storm some-178 weeks ago Though my body remembers yours over and over again My skin has yours imprinted, correlated Forged into one point on the axis between here and there You the X, I the Y The Earth crept between the crevices, curling Through the distance between the Right radius and ulna Elbows breaking knuckles, blood remains to be spilt Blood doesn’t connect, if anything it merely separates Scarecrows don’t help much when the crops won’t grow this year Ants crawled out of the barrel of a shotgun Observing the process of cleaning bones after tragedy Follow the moss to find your way North with no direction- Sometimes on the other side it’s not greener, It’s more terrifying than ever before Terrain untouched, unspoiled, sacred- Climb up the trees with me, find your quiet We won’t carve our names but we’ll find our niche You’ll have quills and I’ll have armor Not even the thought of stolen arrows, Lost time through distance, Or perhaps a slew of chemical imbalances Can reach us up here I chose to glue your pieces back together with mud and straw Taken from the fallen, the loved and now distant memories You may be an abandoned military base offshore What was once used by many- Witnesses life again, life of a different kind The vegetation will ease its way into the cracks Constructed when the foundation began to decay It has a beauty of its own, one of self-sustainment An everlasting beauty that connects itself To the surrounding extravagance, often times ignored, Death isn’t the only way to be forged into nature, remembered Fear doesn’t always win, nor death do us part so soon I hope your skin and bones remember before the end
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Umbrage ultraism infrangible extemporaneous incognito edition Penumbral platitude platonic proxy photics rendition Interface fenestration imbroglio pandemonium inducement sedition Wretched infelicitous extant trajectory sordid intuition Scandalous scavenger squalid anomalous punitive condition Panacea chiaroscuro parallax emanate imminent perdition Equilibrist revision exertion suborn temerity imbues Indulgent zealous discrepancy apparentness cogitation accrues Heuristic noumenal psychokinesis extrapolation incursion construes Aura auspicious primitive prism processional reviews Obstinate tenacious preeminent edificatory omnipotence eschews Equivocal gumption ratification constitutional manumission ensues      Delusory apparition extravagance peccavi verity tempestuous Obtrusive obtusely overt indemnities sagaciously obliquitous Ephemeral anxiety antonym existential exigency alacritous Fortuitous emendation phantasm ontological ontogeny acuitous Indemnify veracious infernal infidel impunities iniquitous Meritorious fulham presumptive extrication expiation indigenous
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:20 PM UTC
Anonymity emanations
I Whispering winds whip the lake's eastern shore. The towers above stand still, gazing upon the infinite individuals below, within the concrete maze; this city speaks to me. It utters thousand of voices simultaneously. Some unfamiliar to me, all keep the labyrinth in mind. Each voice different, each voice similar in its journey to conquer the labyrinth. I too share the same goal, but in the labyrinth, most don't know what I know. II The river twines around towers creating the famous "loop." The river's end irradiated for man, until we flipped the flow in labyrinth's past to avert windy shores. The once river's end, now a beginning. The labyrinth's bourgeois lie due north, It's extravagance exemplified by magnificent miles where whimsy wanderers flaunt status and to the west and south, an eternal siren's call resonates for all voices to listen; urban decay haunts the once prosperous. III For only collectively can the labrinth be tamed and imminent ends for those unworthy. The lake, the river, its towers and people shall never be neglected. For only collectively can the labyrinth be tamed and this labyrinth is all that I know; this labyrinth is Chicago.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 1:38 AM UTC
The Labyrinth
Twenty-three years now and the same sun rises along the rim of a big blue sky with layered clouds. A myriad of kaleidoscopic colors leaks through surrounding me with nostalgic warmth. Remembering everything that brought me here. That sticky, unbearable Texas heat whirling in the wind of a summer afternoon. Sleeveless dress, sunburnt skin, watermelon smile. Five years of beauty growing into a thin young girl who wanted to learn about everything, Shifting into the youth of an actress in an over-the-top melodramatic performance at a local theatre. Selling art and collecting coins to travel across our globe, and then, my first plane ticket to Vietnam. Nineteen came dressed in bittersweet wanderlust. Packed my bags and drove my car to Portland, Oregon. Four cameras, disheveled notebooks, ink-stained hands. Those tall forest trees of enchantment, a photographer's dream. Traveling down the west coast to desert lands: Seattle, San Francisco, Santa Fe. Somewhere in there I ended up sleeping beneath the stars with a belly full of wine in Alaska. The summer solstice singing me a song while tears brim up my eyes because the world has never looked more lovely. Aurora borealis shimmering her lights above a reflecting ocean of pastel Reds and golds, blues and pinks. A lucky lady who has touched corners of love and sadness and wonder. Burned imprints of goodbyes in the crevices of my mind, but this is who I am. Living and breathing in this extravagance.
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Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 12:40 AM UTC
Wayward
Groovy brown skinned brothas hip hop to the smooth jazzy beats across the starlight scene, exhilarating eyes light up the uptown extravagance, as they bust a move in the drumbeating room, rotating and vibrating, grinding and bending, breathing in the singing saxophones and trombones. Flashy lights shine bright and vivid in crystal clears, as young sweet caramel girls sway to the high hypnotizing sounds, spinning hips lost in the night, gliding on waves, shaking in the serene breeze like swinging trees, soaring endlessly across the rings of Saturn. Heavy adrenaline rises inside the upbeat and sassy melanin sistas, stomping stilettos, show-stopping arms and thighs harmonizing to the midnight rhymes, while hard bassline sounds sifts inside various dimensions of extreme delight.
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Dec 27, 2018
Dec 27, 2018 at 10:49 AM UTC
Harlem Nights
It used to be that Ramadan was a month of fasting, prayer and contemplation Of those who don’t have enough not just for a day but for a lifetime; Now, it appears Ramadan is a month of feasting and shopping And extravagance and lavish spending!
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 2:54 AM UTC
Welcome to the world of religious commercialization!
A firework Of brightest colours Dances slow Beneath the stars Torches and candles Iron braziers' light Glowing warm In blue midnight Gowns of silk Fineries of all kind Whirling in solemnity "A dance, do you mind?" A thousand miles from sorrow High society indeed La crème de la crème The very best of breed Extravagance never is Too extra for those ladies fair Gossiping girls, all of them "Oh, look, this lady's hair!..." Gentlemen bowing Talking with hushed voices Trading, socializing Polite merchants' noises "This daughter of mine, She might well catch your eye..." This just a market of brides n' grooms An exchange, !!one truth for a hundred lies!! Gossip girls and merchants noble Less n' less real knights and dames Nobility used to mean heroes, and protection But long extinct, those once bright flames The only light there, now, Comes from a stake pile in the debris Burning bright, but in truth all hollow This great bonfire of vanities
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Jul 14, 2021
Jul 14, 2021 at 8:35 AM UTC
A Bonfire of Vanities
Cold. Not the chill down my arm but the one down my spine at the sight of decadence at the show of extravagance at the display cases with carats and watches plastic women wearing someone's house in fur and silk and adornments covering their arms like a Christmas tree gone awry with its baubles and lights bringing neither peace nor goodwill to their men who foot the bills after a night spent with slots and levers and cards and mysterious figures that disappear into lifts that reach infinite heights before plunging into clear, crystal waters that sound like diamonds and the view you see makes them say 'Oh it's beautiful' but the waters are shallow. A beautiful mirage. Still too cold for me to sell my soul.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 2:09 AM UTC
Marina Bay Sands
When we prefer the narrow gate And tire of busy highways We see the Kingdom come When the master is the servant And kneels to wash our feet We see the Kingdom come When the straggler is given preference And the first steps to the back We see the Kingdom come When we serve the poor, the hungry And take the stranger in We see the Kingdom come. When children are given pride of place And followed as an example We see the Kingdom come When brother and sister are reconciled While our offering is left to wait We see the Kingdom come When the temples are cleared of commerce And prayer takes it rightful place We see the Kingdom come When the Sabbath serves the worshipper Not the worshipper the Sabbath We see the Kingdom come When fragrant extravagance is applauded And noses put out if joint We see the Kingdom come When the Creator's light is lifted up And the Son is no longer hidden We see the Kingdom come
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Jul 7, 2018
Jul 7, 2018 at 9:31 AM UTC
Kingdom come
Umbrage ultraism infrangible extemporaneous incognito edition Penumbral platitude platonic proxy photics rendition Interface fenestration imbroglio pandemonium inducement sedition Wretched infelicitous extant trajectory sordid intuition Scandalous scavenger squalid anomalous punitive condition Panacea chiaroscuro parallax emanate imminent perdition Equilibrist revision exertion suborn temerity imbues Indulgent zealous discrepancy apparentness cogitation accrues Heuristic noumenal psychokinesis extrapolation incursion construes Aura auspicious primitive prism processional reviews Obstinate tenacious preeminent edificatory omnipotence eschews Equivocal gumption ratification constitutional manumission ensues      Delusory apparition extravagance peccavi verity tempestuous Obtrusive obtusely overt indemnities sagaciously obliquitous Ephemeral anxiety antonym existential exigency alacritous Fortuitous emendation phantasm ontological ontogeny acuitous Indemnify veracious infernal infidel impunities iniquitous Meritorious fulham presumptive extrication expiation indigenous
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Oct 12, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM UTC
Anonymity Emanations (re-post)
Sparks jettisoning into the crisp blackness, A vivid orange against the backdrop of ebony silence, Fairies of fire, winging their way home On an unexpected breeze. The bonfire a crackle, at once dangerous and comforting, A furnace ablaze with light, livid and burning with raw energy, Luring its annual admirers ever closer, As moths to a flame. The people, hatted and be-scarved, huddle, cluster, Sparklers whirling before them, glitzy with extravagance, Their wispy signatures hanging in the air, short-lived And fading, fading into nothing. And only now the fantasia of fireworks commences, The artist experimenting with line, with colour, his audience captive, And then at once, a dazzling fountain of jewelled light: ruby, jade, opal, sapphire, A painting of shimmering castles in the sky. And a middle-aged man with his son, glove to mitten; in his arms, a daughter, Her bright gaze betraying the hands over her ears, A snapshot of dizzy delight, breathless and enchanting, A simple picture of rare beauty. Later, with the remnants and debris of the evening lying discarded, Dying, the brave bonfire, now petered out, sizzles and smoulders, A scarlet and amber glow lingering on, Still warm with the memories of youth. Copyright Vicki Watson 2012
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Oct 19, 2013
Oct 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM UTC
Bonfire Night
I moved to give a toast, to you and your extravagance, and I could tell you didn't understand. So now I'll explain just what I meant and why I am thankful that you gave me a chance. Every day you exist with the wonder that drives you, living a life that I get to see. So I intend to raise a toast, and with these lips take a drink, because you've always been there for me. No matter what changes, where we move or where we go, it's no question that you'll always be there I can't express what it means that you've been in my life creating memories that we all get to share. So, I hope it's a bit clearer, now that I've explained, why I see you just as the person you are Now, let's take a drink, here's a toast and a clink to you and all the memories so far.
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 2:32 AM UTC
To You and Your Extravagance
# As a dear friend you care for me Sure as the air I breathe To love me anymore than this Not sure if I believe Each day anew the Sun will rise But nighttime hides away Thus, your love and affection If here, will never stay Was given Cinderella's ball Before midnight's last strike Must scurry from the pageantry Else, face a certain fright Extravagance would disappear Revealing to the Prince Her true self in the deepest way The pains that made her wince Afraid once she was vulnerable Find out was all a lie A ****** that would pierce through her heart With certainty she'd die Truth though, if given that moment Each flaw the Prince could see Each one a part of Cinderella; Part of her beauty Suddenly, she understood She did not have to hide What was closed off long time ago And buried deep inside Still with some fear, her heart she gave And with a lightning strike Fulfilled with happiness and love And stepped into the light #
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Dec 10, 2018
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:41 AM UTC
Light at the end of the tunnel
we went to Little Blue that summer in a bum'd car. riding in extravagance we couldn't afford. camping in the Oklahoma ozarks, we brought liquor. the two of us drank a half-litre honey whiskey and twenty-eight of thirty Pabsts. your chick only nab'd two. we were sunk from that point on. i vomit'd behind the car, and there were left retched handprints. left were a phantom's handprints, having been drown'd by their hedonism. the bikers partied along with us apart from us. they ask'd to use our hatchet, that's the way we met. men share tools, and that was the only instance of civility for two days. we ran feral. rip'd shirt to ribbons, wrap'd them 'round a stick, soak'd citronella, commenced adventure. returning,    two hours time gone; returning,    scratch'd and bleeding; returning,    we lit their paths with    torch burning a primal fire; sleep, pass'd out by fire in lounge chair. been in this spot before, knew to bring a quilt and mine was the only one. startled awake, fire nothing more than nightlight embers. raccoon, sitting upright, stared from his high perch of a picnic table. apple in paws, nibbling, he mock'd and monitor'd. i swiped at it with a stick, missed. said **** it. slept in the car that night.
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:23 AM UTC
memories. pt1
monstrous sound slashes silence the bellow of a giant beast, the flutter of a thousand wings elevation and indiscriminate creed will not heed sinister stirs the mix, the rise of wicked extravagance black feathers flutter to bewilder against the pale frontier the mock of a starlings flight, the fall in a sparrow’s might countless sullen wings unfold, to rally their squadrons for show a mobbing cry meets a redeeming sky, their rising tones mimic heaven heralding high contrast to the core, countless black rap-tor destroy the fading blue sapphire display a rebel twist in the storm suspends them again harbingers dawning a verge of wonder, stands close the small dark outlines, bask a golden shine peripheries slight motion, a graceful shimmer perched as an alert, the slight snap of the fingers a single feather cascades turning in the elegant dance of a ballerina's descent laying at the step vaguely pointing to the entrance, the pride of a black bird, there is no place for an Omen here, one last frailty, is my secret near and dear Terry D’Arcy-Ryan
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 6:51 PM UTC
The Last Frailty
Eyelids part, readjusting from dark hibernation. Sleep - peaceful; warm. Silence, sings the extravagance of a new morning, a new day, a fresh start. Dewy are the leaves and the grass. Barefoot. Sunrise; sunshine. Warm against tender, sun-kissed skin. Brilliant is the morn; the awake. Breeze ruffles hair as dresses swing, birds sing, gliding. Rejoice in the brilliance - the jubilee of the day.
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Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM UTC
The Jubilee of the Day
The graceful improvisation Moves through your body As your feet rhythmically glide My eyes stuck fixation Embody emotion inside Artistic beauty With effortless elegance Reveals truly This sorceress's extravagance   Illuminating passion With every twist in time Balanced fashion Which resists the paradigm Expressive energy Fluidly maintained in the trance Creating synergy Entrained into your dance
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 4:10 AM UTC
Motion
Sitting here with him There is nowhere else I would rather be. Listening to his steady heartbeat As I see the sunbeams dance on his hair. The rays catching the corners Of his blue green eyes And my soul is in awe of the beauty That he possesses. If he only knew that at this moment When I see him, My mind is overwhelmed By the simple extravagance And exquisite wonders That he carries so humbly within him.
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM UTC
Sunbeams
"I don't know her. I've seen her; A strong spectre of absolute femininity and a lingering presence so strong, that all things thereon.. revolved unto the centrepiece of her clear, imperfect, overwhelming and sinking magnitude. The fortitude.. She's the most beautiful women I've ever seen.. and no, not that kind of beauty. Well, It could've been.. She has a darkness to her, so captivating; so dense that all article in her cense is stalled in mesmerising silence and anticipation for the next fleeting beat of her beautiful heart..  for the next pacing glaze that would tear me apart, along the horizon of mere "things" in her shade, as she looks around and so passionately drowns the world in awe. The charm that she'd bestow.. When I first saw her, my heart stopped, literally, only to -and out of grave deafness, explode as if it has been beating 'cross an infinite expanse of scapes compressed in the swiftness of a second.. boom! 'cross the room.. Suddenly, the void that consumed out of me the very sorry existence that I am, failingly so distant to her proximity, exploded like a rose bursting into bloom.. exploding no less, from pale tasteless petals to mindblowing extravagance. I don't love her, I admit. I don't even know how to begin to fathom such an implosion of utopian lust for the hazel green distance in her eyes, let alone love her. She might be a man-eater, in disguise, for all the possibilities of things likely.. She is, however unattainable, perhaps my greatest unembarked adventure; my Odyssey. Not so, perhaps, my greatest... the one other dream she, still that I of another kiss.. a bliss.. an even greater adventure, nonetheless.. but a rhythm for another rhyme; another prose for another time. This.. She's ancient unconscionable forbidden bliss for the morbid spirit that I am, enchanted with sweetness and love. Volatile like wildfire, she has the world entwined in the gypsy black waves of unconstrained dreams. But that wasn't her, who lingered back in my head... The residence was of another.. I saw her once, in my seems.. my truest endeavours for a place that screams for relentless torture behind sweet jagged beams of black light on black. I don't love her, I reassure, nor am I in love with another. I'm taken by her like a leaf is in a storm. I am home. She's death in a green hazed gaze, for those of you who didn't figure it out by now." A.r. Bazian Nov 8th, 2015
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Jan 24, 2016 at 3:12 PM UTC
Presence & Residence: A Prose Of a Woman, or Two..
"I don't know her. I've seen her; A strong spectre of absolute femininity and a lingering presence so strong, that all things thereon.. revolved unto the centrepiece of her clear, imperfect, overwhelming and sinking magnitude. The fortitude.. She's the most beautiful women I've ever seen.. and no, not that kind of beauty. Well, It could've been.. She has a darkness to her, so captivating; so dense that all article in her cense is stalled in mesmerising silence and anticipation for the next fleeting beat of her beautiful heart..  for the next pacing glaze that would tear me apart, along the horizon of mere "things" in her shade, as she looks around and so passionately drowns the world in awe. The charm that she'd bestow.. When I first saw her, my heart stopped, literally, only to -and out of grave deafness, explode as if it has been beating 'cross an infinite expanse of scapes compressed in the swiftness of a second.. boom! 'cross the room.. Suddenly, the void that consumed out of me the very sorry existence that I am, failingly so distant to her proximity, exploded like a rose bursting into bloom.. exploding no less, from pale tasteless petals to mindblowing extravagance. I don't love her, I admit. I don't even know how to begin to fathom such an implosion of utopian lust for the hazel green distance in her eyes, let alone love her. She might be a man-eater, in disguise, for all the possibilities of things likely.. She is, however unattainable, perhaps my greatest unembarked adventure; my Odyssey. Not so, perhaps, my greatest... the one other dream she, still that I of another kiss.. a bliss.. an even greater adventure, nonetheless.. but a rhythm for another rhyme; another prose for another time. This.. She's ancient unconscionable forbidden bliss for the morbid spirit that I am, enchanted with sweetness and love. Volatile like wildfire, she has the world entwined in the gypsy black waves of unconstrained dreams. But that wasn't her, who lingered back in my head... The residence was of another.. I saw her once, in my seems.. my truest endeavours for a place that screams for relentless torture behind sweet jagged beams of black light on black. I don't love her, I reassure, nor am I in love with another. I'm taken by her like a leaf is in a storm. I am home. She's death in a green hazed gaze, for those of you who didn't figure it out by now." A.r. Bazian Nov 8th, 2015
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Everything can be poetic if you look at it that way The way you smile and good off at yourself while brushing your teeth The way the laundry does cartwheels in the machine The way your curly hair falls right behind your ears The way you smirk whilst trying not to laugh The way you stifle a giggle at your crazy life There is extravagance in the most normal of things we barely glance over
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:07 PM UTC
Normalcy