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"famine" poems
Leaves, sticks, and seeds make up this six foot stalk. Oh, how she blooms before the flashing lights! Leaving men and women with a stunned gawk. Oh, you cause the seeds of your kind at night, to dream of heights they won't reach; how sadly try the delusional. But in all kin, is imprinted least a scar on their psyches. Sacrificial offer in porcelain is ritually performed by some daily. If not for fame, glory, or money, then to mirror fashion people's ideal beauty. A cyclic mental disease that won't end. Shhh.. Here she comes! The first, but not the least. An appetizer for the famine feast!
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 2:59 PM UTC
Sonnet to The Stalk and Seeds
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 4:22 AM UTC
Fortunately it resuscitates
As mother nature's Punitive measure Against a society In maintaining The statuesque That doesn't bother, Our rivers Had become subject To a water thirst, To the extent Of projecting Rocky ribs Terrifyingly protruded out For easy count! But now thanks to The all-out, terrace making And reafforestation effort Of each catchment Farmers have made a point And also  to the afforestation Move of the government Rivers aside from quenching Their insatiable thirst Have resumed To brim over With floods Drinking water To their hearts' content. Our forests once stripped of Their wooded cover Have started, fast, to recover From afar they are seen Robed eye-catching green From a fry-pan sky Allowing a shelter Also busy Carbon to sequester. Wild animals That migrated Have preferred Back their way to find. Now farmers don't have Deep to dig To sink a water well Or find a nearby spring. Birds are heard chirruping Be it winter, summer or spring, While Brooks bubbling. Buzzing and hovering From this to that flower Bees are producing Organic honey by the hour. Promising a bumper harvest Farmer's plots have Fortunately continued To resuscitate! Those leaving Their denuded abode behind Away, who preferred To stay 'We will return back home soon! ' Is what They  say. Happily enough Mother nature Affords us a second chance Imbued with Environment stewardship If  we are willing to mend Our wrong 'Feast today famine tomorrow! ' stance. To dispel the spectre Of climate change And systematically face The global challenge True to the adage 'We have either to swim together or sink together! ' Hence in fighting the challenge Or adapting to the change Back scratching, We have to be on the same page. Indeed, irrigation must Not slip our mind For erratic rainfall A  lasting solution If we must find.// Once a famous Ethiopian Poet  Pro.Debebe Seifu Who had passed away had  penned down a picturesque poem lamenting the land degradation, deforestation and change of climate the country was suffering.The bad scenario seemed unrecoverable.Now a days Ethiopia is reversing that sad episode.I have therefore to write a poem on this #change   #trees   #erosion   #climate   #deforestation   #enviroment   #degeradation   #desertification
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You seek a crown of gold And yet the heart is fallow A famine of the soul Unbeknownst and unconcerned The poor hunger for food and shelter And you have an appetite that’s never satiated The many feasts of endless delicacies and wealth Has not spoiled your cravings Yet they who are lacking in all that is tangible to you Have something you lack and cannot acquire They give to others that have less than them And feel their anguish And revel in their friendship Their crown is empathy
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Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM UTC
Empathy
By now,the seed varieties of the world, may have been attacked beyond recovery by wars of pretense and relapses. We are still learning how to handle it properly. We tend to say. Some will talk and plan over dinner parties, over TV or Radio. Most will leave it behind like another corpse of lessons thrown to the gutter, like a dead *** on another Sunset Boulevard. Iraq's seed banks we blew up in the 2000s. In various places in Asia and the Middle East, places of life and cultured varieties gone in an instant. Echoing our imprisoned ignorance and drives for more instant goods and services. Indian farmers have committed mass suicides after their god Hanuman was used by a chemical giant to sell poison seeds and renewed bondages of indebtedness. One question a stranger asked a group of writers on tour was not what their poetry or books were about, nor why they wrote it, but how writing may and may not be helping as we make decisions and solve problems now? Once agricultural lands turn into new promises of commercial buildings. Cities of inaccessible towers and abandoned malls in America, Spain, China, and Russia feeds us back our own echo. Like converted uses of lands, our humanity is converted into inanimate collections and status symbols of some players or parties. As we face our continuing struggle between our oppressor-selves and our genuine roots. Despite the perversions, inside vicious habits of waste where we glorify promises of war and efficiencies, we continue to be entrusted with the ongoing lessons: Rarely do surviving generations through famine, war and diseases, throw away means to live, or destroy any kind of seed. Every day we wake to the ruins and remains of Our living poetry, word spaces, hours, exchanges, gains and losses, stopping and going. This time, not just for fires of anguish or unnecessary losses, but for each other's midnight lamps.#
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 12:42 AM UTC
BURIED
By now,the seed varieties of the world, may have been attacked beyond recovery by wars of pretense and relapses. We are still learning how to handle it properly. We tend to say. Some will talk and plan over dinner parties, over TV or Radio. Most will leave it behind like another corpse of lessons thrown to the gutter, like a dead *** on another Sunset Boulevard. Iraq's seed banks we blew up in the 2000s. In various places in Asia and the Middle East, places of life and cultured varieties gone in an instant. Echoing our imprisoned ignorance and drives for more instant goods and services. Indian farmers have committed mass suicides after their god Hanuman was used by a chemical giant to sell poison seeds and renewed bondages of indebtedness. One question a stranger asked a group of writers on tour was not what their poetry or books were about, nor why they wrote it, but how writing may and may not be helping as we make decisions and solve problems now? Once agricultural lands turn into new promises of commercial buildings. Cities of inaccessible towers and abandoned malls in America, Spain, China, and Russia feeds us back our own echo. Like converted uses of lands, our humanity is converted into inanimate collections and status symbols of some players or parties. As we face our continuing struggle between our oppressor-selves and our genuine roots. Despite the perversions, inside vicious habits of waste where we glorify promises of war and efficiencies, we continue to be entrusted with the ongoing lessons: Rarely do surviving generations through famine, war and diseases, throw away means to live, or destroy any kind of seed. Every day we wake to the ruins and remains of Our living poetry, word spaces, hours, exchanges, gains and losses, stopping and going. This time, not just for fires of anguish or unnecessary losses, but for each other's midnight lamps.#
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In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the workhouse with his wife. He was walking-they were both walking-north. She was sick with famine fever and could not keep up. He lifted her and put her on his back. He walked like that west and north. Until at nightfall under freezing stars they arrived. In the morning they were both found dead. Of cold. Of hunger. Of the toxins of a whole history. But her feet were held against his breastbone. The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her. Let no love poem ever come to this threshold. There is no place here for the inexact praise of the easy graces and sensuality of the body. There is only time for this merciless inventory: Their death together in the winter of 1847. Also what they suffered. How they lived. And what there is between a man and a woman. And in which darkness it can best be proved.
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Quarantine
There is something violent about how I see the skin on your body Its so rich and smooth, almost decadent and unlike you This observation turns into a premeditation when you touch my cheek Its almost like i can feel the heat melting off your bones As I laid you down and slipped a knife underneath your sternum You whispered something hidden in painful tones like a sharp breath piercing the guttural moans But I dont need to hear words to know the searing desire steaming from your guts as I replaced them with hot stones The blood on your finger tips remind me of fresh water on leaves after a storm and your severed head looks like its been through famine, disease, and a damaged city plagued and war torn Yet there is still beauty in the decayed decadence that is your mutilated corpse The moonlight drowns in the canal of blood begging for remorse while the insects march and sing a song of things that can only get worse ©anthonyasylum
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Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 5:06 AM UTC
Horrific Beauty
—and not simply by the fact that this shading of forest cannot show the fragrance of balsam, the gloom of cypresses, is what I wish to prove. When you and I were first in love we drove to the borders of Connacht and entered a wood there. Look down you said: this was once a famine road. I looked down at ivy and the scutch grass rough-cast stone had disappeared into as you told me in the second winter of their ordeal, in 1847, when the crop had failed twice, Relief Committees gave the starving Irish such roads to build. Where they died, there the road ended and ends still and when I take down the map of this island, it is never so I can say here is the masterful, the apt rendering of the spherical as flat, nor an ingenious design which persuades a curve into a plane, but to tell myself again that the line which says woodland and cries hunger and gives out among sweet pine and cypress, and finds no horizon will not be there.
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That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Let me move slowly through the street, Filled with an ever-shifting train, Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like autumn rain. How fast the flitting figures come! The mild, the fierce, the stony face; Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and some Where secret tears have left their trace. They pass--to toil, to strife, to rest; To halls in which the feast is spread; To chambers where the funeral guest In silence sits beside the dead. And some to happy homes repair, Where children, pressing cheek to cheek, With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness they cannot speak. And some, who walk in calmness here, Shall shudder as they reach the door Where one who made their dwelling dear, Its flower, its light, is seen no more. Youth, with pale cheek and slender frame, And dreams of greatness in thine eye! Goest thou to build an early name, Or early in the task to die? Keen son of trade, with eager brow! Who is now fluttering in thy snare? Thy golden fortunes, tower they now, Or melt the glittering spires in air? Who of this crowd to-night shall tread The dance till daylight gleam again? Who sorrow o'er the untimely dead? Who writhe in throes of mortal pain? Some, famine-struck, shall think how long The cold dark hours, how slow the light, And some, who flaunt amid the throng, Shall hide in dens of shame to-night. Each, where his tasks or pleasures call, They pass, and heed each other not. There is who heeds, who holds them all, In his large love and boundless thought. These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
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The Crowded Street
Let me move slowly through the street, Filled with an ever-shifting train, Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like autumn rain. How fast the flitting figures come! The mild, the fierce, the stony face; Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and some Where secret tears have left their trace. They pass--to toil, to strife, to rest; To halls in which the feast is spread; To chambers where the funeral guest In silence sits beside the dead. And some to happy homes repair, Where children, pressing cheek to cheek, With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness they cannot speak. And some, who walk in calmness here, Shall shudder as they reach the door Where one who made their dwelling dear, Its flower, its light, is seen no more. Youth, with pale cheek and slender frame, And dreams of greatness in thine eye! Goest thou to build an early name, Or early in the task to die? Keen son of trade, with eager brow! Who is now fluttering in thy snare? Thy golden fortunes, tower they now, Or melt the glittering spires in air? Who of this crowd to-night shall tread The dance till daylight gleam again? Who sorrow o'er the untimely dead? Who writhe in throes of mortal pain? Some, famine-struck, shall think how long The cold dark hours, how slow the light, And some, who flaunt amid the throng, Shall hide in dens of shame to-night. Each, where his tasks or pleasures call, They pass, and heed each other not. There is who heeds, who holds them all, In his large love and boundless thought. These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
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773 Deprived of other Banquet, I entertained Myself— At first—a scant nutrition— An insufficient Loaf— But grown by slender addings To so esteemed a size ’Tis sumptuous enough for me— And almost to suffice A Robin’s famine able— Red Pilgrim, He and I— A Berry from our table Reserve—for charity—
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Deprived of other Banquet
Death you are seen so repugnant. Death you are sensed so vile. Death you are deemed so untimely. “Death can’t you wait for a while?” But Death, aren’t you Life’s true redeemer? Making everyone think well of the dead. Death aren’t you Life’s other half? Death don’t you tuck us to bed? When our wanderlust has faded, your embrace remains unjaded. Death you are humble in your infamy; Life the glory claims. Yet sickness, accidents and war are all Life’s macabre games. That which kills you comes from Life. Life will push to make that sale; living organs mere currency. Cannibalistic Life - advertising as a fairy tale. Death you are left to clear the carnage. Death – the coloseum’s sand – innocently soaked in the blood of Life’s cruel hand. Death you are Life’s psychologist; motivating each step, each trial. Making us get up every morning to make each moment worthwhile. Death you employ Time’s creation to set a deadline to Life. Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring Death you are a scalpel; Life a butcher’s knife. Famine, plague, disease, beast, Without glorious survival, why feast? Death your work with Time is inspired, for we created it to understand your course. With Time we can learn Life’s seasons and record it’s length before it’s divorce from our fragile clay. Death you make us frugal with our Time, yet generous with our Love. For to each heartbeat’s rhythm and rhyme, we fervently dance to give. To make another grief-stricken Death. For if Life is filled with meaning, it is Death’s boon to us all. Life becomes exhilarating – A race before the fall! Death remains a wallflower to the very close. Death only wants to meet us; a gentle lover with a rose. Encouraging, yet terrifying. But if we fear the Darkness, it is Life we fear not Death. How often has a blinding Light been reported on a final breath?
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Sep 30, 2015
Sep 30, 2015 at 6:56 PM UTC
An Ode to Death
Death you are seen so repugnant. Death you are sensed so vile. Death you are deemed so untimely. “Death can’t you wait for a while?” But Death, aren’t you Life’s true redeemer? Making everyone think well of the dead. Death aren’t you Life’s other half? Death don’t you tuck us to bed? When our wanderlust has faded, your embrace remains unjaded. Death you are humble in your infamy; Life the glory claims. Yet sickness, accidents and war are all Life’s macabre games. That which kills you comes from Life. Life will push to make that sale; living organs mere currency. Cannibalistic Life - advertising as a fairy tale. Death you are left to clear the carnage. Death – the coloseum’s sand – innocently soaked in the blood of Life’s cruel hand. Death you are Life’s psychologist; motivating each step, each trial. Making us get up every morning to make each moment worthwhile. Death you employ Time’s creation to set a deadline to Life. Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring Death you are a scalpel; Life a butcher’s knife. Famine, plague, disease, beast, Without glorious survival, why feast? Death your work with Time is inspired, for we created it to understand your course. With Time we can learn Life’s seasons and record it’s length before it’s divorce from our fragile clay. Death you make us frugal with our Time, yet generous with our Love. For to each heartbeat’s rhythm and rhyme, we fervently dance to give. To make another grief-stricken Death. For if Life is filled with meaning, it is Death’s boon to us all. Life becomes exhilarating – A race before the fall! Death remains a wallflower to the very close. Death only wants to meet us; a gentle lover with a rose. Encouraging, yet terrifying. But if we fear the Darkness, it is Life we fear not Death. How often has a blinding Light been reported on a final breath?
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Your serene lips could liquefy petals of a rose With twigs on your spine Consuming my dreams as you lure me Stretching as the stars shine Tangled in the ocean breeze Beyond beautiful you steal my soul Our hands unify in the shade of the unknown Tonight we step beneath the flesh As the path of dust disappears I want to drink from your collar bone Every crevice I will endear Following the maze of your fantasy Impeccable skin inviting me in The anticipation intoxicates my desires As I travel your outline I stiffen for you Eager to gratify the valley of your liquid pearls You whimper as I dissolve your engorged delicacy As you spasm and tremble you ignite the evening air A Magnetic exuberance of fervor swept over me Our swollen, lustful lips surrender again As your majestic heart nurtures our love I famine to have your tongue renew me Your quivering hands beginning to stimulate me You brush against my hardness lightly I stir inside my stomach Restless and blazing I await Teasing the tip my luster rises As your manhood swims inside my mouth You swell my peaks, passionate yet tender You linger feeling my need Slipping into your enticing throat My fingers clutching your hips Connecting with my core as I absorb you I quiver and cry out loud With handfuls of starlight and luster We create a haven just for us You enter me so carefully As we wither and blend Our flesh is stamped together A serene ambiance is swaying with us As you whisper and writhe beneath me
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 11:08 AM UTC
Seductive Intimacy (Adult Content)
Losing you feels like my body ripping at the seams (Losing you feels like birthing a new purpose) Losing you feels like the cry of an abandoned babe (Losing you feels like a new search is beginning) Losing you feels like foundation crumbling in my fingers (Losing you feels like rebuilding myself) Losing you feels like all the pain of a lifetime bottled into a single jar (Losing you feels like love is present everywhere now) Losing you feels like a rage from the core of my being (Losing you feels like making every action purposeful) Losing you feels like breaking everything I once deemed as sacred (Losing you feels like now I understand what it means to hold something as sacred) Losing you feels like the sky will always be black Like it will always be raining (Losing you feels like a new duty has been cast upon me from the heavens Like the feeling of rain on my skin) Losing you feels like the burning Like the old scars no longer matter to me at all (Losing you feels like the fire is now warmer Like there are new wounds scaring over) Losing you feels like gasping under crashing waves Like drowning (Losing you feels like every breathe is important Like the first gasp of air) Losing you feels like a forever famine (Losing you is like planting a single seed to feed a million) Losing you feels like a life long battle (Losing you feels like an initiation to become a warrior) Losing you feels like the universe is void (Losing you feels like you’re filling all the holes inside of me) Losing you feels like a death of my own Like I will never be the same (Losing you feels like an opening Like life has taken on new meaning) Losing you (is gaining an angel)
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Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018 at 9:37 AM UTC
Losing You
Losing you feels like my body ripping at the seams (Losing you feels like birthing a new purpose) Losing you feels like the cry of an abandoned babe (Losing you feels like a new search is beginning) Losing you feels like foundation crumbling in my fingers (Losing you feels like rebuilding myself) Losing you feels like all the pain of a lifetime bottled into a single jar (Losing you feels like love is present everywhere now) Losing you feels like a rage from the core of my being (Losing you feels like making every action purposeful) Losing you feels like breaking everything I once deemed as sacred (Losing you feels like now I understand what it means to hold something as sacred) Losing you feels like the sky will always be black Like it will always be raining (Losing you feels like a new duty has been cast upon me from the heavens Like the feeling of rain on my skin) Losing you feels like the burning Like the old scars no longer matter to me at all (Losing you feels like the fire is now warmer Like there are new wounds scaring over) Losing you feels like gasping under crashing waves Like drowning (Losing you feels like every breathe is important Like the first gasp of air) Losing you feels like a forever famine (Losing you is like planting a single seed to feed a million) Losing you feels like a life long battle (Losing you feels like an initiation to become a warrior) Losing you feels like the universe is void (Losing you feels like you’re filling all the holes inside of me) Losing you feels like a death of my own Like I will never be the same (Losing you feels like an opening Like life has taken on new meaning) Losing you (is gaining an angel)
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I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate; I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young women; I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth; I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners; I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill’d, to preserve the lives of the rest; I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.
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I Sit And Look Out
Barack Obama Is a fork tongued devil Who supports abortions And homosexual marriage The Lord said His hand of judgement will come Against the U.S. The first devastation will hit There will be another right on its heels A series of devastating events Look to the skies---- (nuke) Look to the seas---(tsunami) Look to the earth---(earthquake) People being killed with guns Marshall Law The United States will fall Because of its wickedness The U.S. will decrease And Israel will increase It will happen These things will happen before His return The sword will be the nuclear war Drought from no rains Pestilence new strain of disease 5 year war Then famine Fill up storehouses Landscape of America will change Waterways will become poisonous Sun will emit flashes of radiation His hand is on the weather (Hand of the Lord) Ocean will come as far as the Rockies Geological plates will shift Russians will attack infrastructure Of the nation A nation of lies Darkness will overcome A deep darkness will cover The people Because they love the lies The Lord said to her, "Do not despair my children Out of the darkness Comes the glorious light." There will be Cities of refuge For those who know Him Intimately There will be a city of refuge Stay close and He will instruct you
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 9:03 PM UTC
Dr. Patricia Green Receives Word From The Lord (Yaweh Will Destroy America)
It was not, by any means, a loss of faith; Indeed, her devotion was a boundless, unfettered thing Beyond proscription, beyond rote chant and catechism, And what she found as a novitiate Were shuttered gates and gossipy confessionals, Standoffish priests, pig-eyed and pinch-lipped Sisters who thought life’s commerce No more than mechanical prayer and spotless linens, The whole enterprise Smacking of the exclusion of Heaven’s bounty. So she demurred when the time came to take her orders, And she returned to the world of pavements and lesser pieties, Free to seek God on park swings and barstools, In pleasures of the pastoral and the profane, Though her faith is no Dionysian walkabout, As she is passionate to the cusp of maniacal When it comes to the Book of James’ admonition upon works; She is often found among the sisters she once tiptoed alongside At food pantries and clothing drives (She is scrupulous about ministering to only secular needs, As the Bishop is not happily disposed towards those Who choose not to take the veil, And the specter of excommunication is a prospect Too awful to contemplate) Afterwards clambering onto some vaguely roadworthy MTA bus Back to her studio apartment in Green Island, Where she often walks down to the Erie Canal lock nearby, Praying for those who have travelled  near and upon the water, Convenience store clerks and ragged Irishmen fleeing famine, Feral kittens and insufficiently mourned mules.
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM UTC
the thursday nun
Three sang of love together: one with lips Crimson, with cheeks and ***** in a glow, Flushed to the yellow hair and finger-tips; And one there sang who soft and smooth as snow Bloomed like a tinted hyacinth at a show; And one was blue with famine after love, Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low The burden of what those were singing of. One shamed herself in love; one temperately Grew gross in soulless love, a sluggish wife; One famished died for love. Thus two of three Took death for love and won him after strife; One droned in sweetness like a fattened bee: All on the threshold, yet all short of life.
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A Triad
728 Let Us play Yesterday— I—the Girl at school— You—and Eternity—the Untold Tale— Easing my famine At my Lexicon— Logarithm—had I—for Drink— ’Twas a dry Wine— Somewhat different—must be— Dreams tint the Sleep— Cunning Reds of Morning Make the Blind—leap— Still at the Egg-life— Chafing the Shell— When you troubled the Ellipse— And the Bird fell— Manacles be dim—they say— To the new Free— Liberty—Commoner— Never could—to me— ’Twas my last gratitude When I slept—at night— ’Twas the first Miracle Let in—with Light— Can the Lark resume the Shell— Easier—for the Sky— Wouldn’t Bonds hurt more Than Yesterday? Wouldn’t Dungeons sorer frate On the Man—free— Just long enough to taste— Then—doomed new— God of the Manacle As of the Free— Take not my Liberty Away from Me—
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Let Us play Yesterday
Famine for future is a bright idea, It helps those who only earn 80c a day, The future is brighter, cleaner and nearer, So those who are doing it tough don't have to suffer, In countries like Ethiopia, Tonga and Ghana, They only get 1-2 meals a day, Their crops get ruined by drought, They don't even get one ripe banana, Help build a nest, the nest of love, that's what they do, They need help so I'm giving too.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 5:37 AM UTC
40 Hour Famine
Preach poverty and patience to the poor, When snarling winter packs hunt down the old; Push them away and shun them from your door Feed hungry souls with sermons and rapport, Old shepherds, keep your flocks unto the fold; Preach poverty and patience to the poor When heaven's snow attests to hallowed floor And beggars plead for mercy from the cold, Push them away and shun them from your door When hungry children cry 'a little more' And clamour forth with rusted tins they hold, Preach poverty and patience to the poor When brothers, plague and famine, reach the shore, The weak and dying seek to be consoled; Push them away and shun them from your door When paupers come with frosted feet to thaw, And fill the hall to hear kind words unfold: Preach poverty and patience to the poor, Push them away and shun them from your door
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 10:03 PM UTC
Poverty and Patience
At spawn of first light Darkness embarks into the recesses of hibernation And so begins the blinding incline, the inevitable blonde coiled wreaths frustration is on the rise forces a discharge so multiple and emanate, the skyward black shrinks back from panoptic reaches, into a delinquent weakened rumor When this daily task of ridding the black ends a victor The climb continues upward in a high sky setting Consequential over the mornings painstaking labors Wiping from his brow, in a waving motion To release mists over global hydration By welcoming this morning dew, the earth is one more day new and can take great relief in this rebirth Assuring all parched famine will gain resolve taking in their absolve
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 12:15 PM UTC
Spawn of First Light
Your leadership is like the air, With presence, only whispered, You live far & further, Furthest from our hands can find, Your haste has filled our hearts, Hating you like hell, that highly feeds on flesh What else will I compare your leadership that hurts, Better the typhoon wind that destroys quickly and leave, than your leadership that destroys slowly over  years What else will I compare with your leadership that destructs. Better the lion that kills only to live for that day, Than your lingering greed of wealth that outweighs your weight, Taking all gain, from all day five They say, the world has wealth for all to live well, But not for you, one vested with immense greed!     What else will I compare, a leadership that is great with greed. Better the drought and famine that withers our wealth, with equal measure across But with humility of nature, leaving pieces of trace, to rejuvinate all again, Than your leadership that is out to loot all, Lending little to your loyalists, Leaving none to the rest       Your leadership is like the air, With presence, only whispered, You live far & further, Furthest from our hands can reach, Your haste filled our hearts, Hating you like hell, highly feeds on flesh What else will I compare your leadership Better the typhoon wind that destroys quickly and leave, than your leadership that destroys slowly over years What else will I compare with your leadership that destructs. Better the lion that kills only to live for that day, Than your lingering greed of wealth that outweighs your weight, Taking all gain, from all day five They say, the world has wealth for all to live well, But not for you, one vested with immense greed! What else will I compare, a leadership that is great with greed. Better the drought and famine that withers our wealth, with equal measure across and humility to leave a apiece, than your leadership that is out to loot all, lending little to your loyalists. Better the diseases that kills with slow eating the body, with no prevention and cure than your leadership that etter the diseases that kills with slow eating the body, with no prevention and cure than your leadership that
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Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019 at 9:25 AM UTC
What else or what more would I compare with your leadership
Your leadership is like the air, With presence, only whispered, You live far & further, Furthest from our hands can find, Your haste has filled our hearts, Hating you like hell, that highly feeds on flesh What else will I compare your leadership that hurts, Better the typhoon wind that destroys quickly and leave, than your leadership that destroys slowly over  years What else will I compare with your leadership that destructs. Better the lion that kills only to live for that day, Than your lingering greed of wealth that outweighs your weight, Taking all gain, from all day five They say, the world has wealth for all to live well, But not for you, one vested with immense greed!     What else will I compare, a leadership that is great with greed. Better the drought and famine that withers our wealth, with equal measure across But with humility of nature, leaving pieces of trace, to rejuvinate all again, Than your leadership that is out to loot all, Lending little to your loyalists, Leaving none to the rest       Your leadership is like the air, With presence, only whispered, You live far & further, Furthest from our hands can reach, Your haste filled our hearts, Hating you like hell, highly feeds on flesh What else will I compare your leadership Better the typhoon wind that destroys quickly and leave, than your leadership that destroys slowly over years What else will I compare with your leadership that destructs. Better the lion that kills only to live for that day, Than your lingering greed of wealth that outweighs your weight, Taking all gain, from all day five They say, the world has wealth for all to live well, But not for you, one vested with immense greed! What else will I compare, a leadership that is great with greed. Better the drought and famine that withers our wealth, with equal measure across and humility to leave a apiece, than your leadership that is out to loot all, lending little to your loyalists. Better the diseases that kills with slow eating the body, with no prevention and cure than your leadership that etter the diseases that kills with slow eating the body, with no prevention and cure than your leadership that
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Give us burn-outs, bars, and battered schools, Streets of litter, needles, walls, Smoke and smog and drugs and drab, ****** and heartbreak, liquor, **** Fury, fuck-ups, fear and fights, Cut down trees, and sleepless nights; Polluted rivers, dead-end jobs, Tell us that there is no god. Then wake up each and every morning, Embrace and kindle global warming; Watch as wars and famine strive, And watch your poems come alive. For that is what we writers need.
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May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 at 6:43 PM UTC
What We Writers Need.
Orcas in Puget Sound Along the road, abandoned wild apple trees bend with their heavy loads, dusty skirts of blackberry bushes purpling fingers, piercing flesh mouths ringed with berry juice, vampires all. Along San Juan Island salmon leap clear out of the briny water, just yards ahead of their predators, Orcas, dorsal fins curving shiny black, sluicing and slicing the surface like sharpened knives They have bred with one another for 10,000 years trolled these waters through famine, earthquakes, world wars through shifting continents, glacial avalanches, through the extinction of whole civilizations. Standing on a cliff, my daughter and I watch the Orcas churning the water - studies in grace the largest gem on the necklace of a great food chain and when we sleep we too chase the great King Salmon of our deepest dreams, the fathers we lost, the currents that bear along children Translucent jellyfish, palm sized, breath below sideways exhale, convulsive inhale umbrellas opening and closing a thousand years or more sliding through forests of brown kelp where mollusks cling We have clung like this to one another, with my body thrown over hers for protection and her exhaling away from me If Mama Orca keeps her young close, so will I If there are salmon to chase and harbor seals to command, so we will Arcing in the late August sky slapping and parting the surface, over and over the whales, lords of the Sound, swim in our brains as we sleep sparkle against blackening waters You are of my body from my body cleaving there for 10,000 years Whatever quarrels there are on land vaporize In the presence of these creatures, arcing against all that is temporal, vicious, small, studies in power and grace The tide pulls out, skimming across rocks and oysters in their muddy beds But this need to care for you remains as big as an Orca your appetite for adventure as voracious and I watch you, my child, disappearing with summer into high school, into womanhood, into the salty, light-dappled ocean
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM UTC
Orcas in Puget Sound
Orcas in Puget Sound Along the road, abandoned wild apple trees bend with their heavy loads, dusty skirts of blackberry bushes purpling fingers, piercing flesh mouths ringed with berry juice, vampires all. Along San Juan Island salmon leap clear out of the briny water, just yards ahead of their predators, Orcas, dorsal fins curving shiny black, sluicing and slicing the surface like sharpened knives They have bred with one another for 10,000 years trolled these waters through famine, earthquakes, world wars through shifting continents, glacial avalanches, through the extinction of whole civilizations. Standing on a cliff, my daughter and I watch the Orcas churning the water - studies in grace the largest gem on the necklace of a great food chain and when we sleep we too chase the great King Salmon of our deepest dreams, the fathers we lost, the currents that bear along children Translucent jellyfish, palm sized, breath below sideways exhale, convulsive inhale umbrellas opening and closing a thousand years or more sliding through forests of brown kelp where mollusks cling We have clung like this to one another, with my body thrown over hers for protection and her exhaling away from me If Mama Orca keeps her young close, so will I If there are salmon to chase and harbor seals to command, so we will Arcing in the late August sky slapping and parting the surface, over and over the whales, lords of the Sound, swim in our brains as we sleep sparkle against blackening waters You are of my body from my body cleaving there for 10,000 years Whatever quarrels there are on land vaporize In the presence of these creatures, arcing against all that is temporal, vicious, small, studies in power and grace The tide pulls out, skimming across rocks and oysters in their muddy beds But this need to care for you remains as big as an Orca your appetite for adventure as voracious and I watch you, my child, disappearing with summer into high school, into womanhood, into the salty, light-dappled ocean
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along the lines, t'was paths that crossed of fates to dust, the fates accost probability - it just so happened that I'd stumble across you   of all the times and of all the chances as winds would blow, a tree then dances uncertainty - it just so happens that I'd fall in love with you as droughts would bring a land to famine a love that grew though soils were barren possibility - how could it happen? that I'd fall again for you times have past, we've spent the chances the winds have blown, and comes the silence surety - and so it happens ~I'd want to spend my life with you~
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May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC
times, chances