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"fondly" poems
Who would think a rose so sweet Would dry and crumble at the feet And blooms that scent the night and day Would steal a heart, then fade away With petals soft and fondly red Sweet essence fills an addled head Then turns to dust before the eyes Leaving naught, but sad surprise Who would think such thorny vine Could lift a blossom as divine And by the stem on which it stands Could so wrong an offered hand Such strength and beauty is rarely true A blessing owned by very few As 'neath the soil, in winters keep There sleeps a rose to tear a cheek Who would think that perfect bloom Could be a bane, a curse of doom So fine a sight, yet in disguise A rose to ***** and blind the eyes
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 8:29 AM UTC
A Rose
Reinaldo was the name they gave the great white elephant Who came to clear the jungles around Sao Paulo A clever notion that because Reinaldo was born in the jungle Any jungle would do just fine, Brazilian or Siamese made no difference Just as clever was the notion that because I was a black man, educated I would do just fine directing other black men to do work, English or Portuguese made no difference Was I truly so much a fool, twice over? Reinaldo occasionally was afflicted with slothfulness Some of the men thought it was from lack of **** and whip I was of a mind that it was due to lack of companionship It was costly enough to ship one giant beast across a great sea I left a wife, in Maryland, whom I never loved and who never loved me I admit before the plan was in motion I never considered that Reinaldo could have a family Sometimes, I wonder, did he have a wife who never loved him? Loneliness became a common theme in our new home away from home And Reinaldo and I became friends, at least I thought of him fondly As far as I could say, of all the men he responded best to me At times it seemed a load of lumber was hauled as a personal favor For the handler too soft to handle with fear and anger But as much as loneliness was a theme, so was change, and death The lifespan of an elephant compares to the lifespan of men Were this scheme of mine to have worked as desired I could have sent for a cow, and made Reinaldo a sire Soon it was revealed that slothfulness was a symptom of an elephant young, healthy and wise Who sensed not his own, but a friend's imminent demise Now I am left to wonder how Reinaldo will fare in a world stranger than I could have known His softest handler and only friend bedridden, waiting for my disease to take its final toll
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 6:28 PM UTC
Reinaldo
Reinaldo was the name they gave the great white elephant Who came to clear the jungles around Sao Paulo A clever notion that because Reinaldo was born in the jungle Any jungle would do just fine, Brazilian or Siamese made no difference Just as clever was the notion that because I was a black man, educated I would do just fine directing other black men to do work, English or Portuguese made no difference Was I truly so much a fool, twice over? Reinaldo occasionally was afflicted with slothfulness Some of the men thought it was from lack of **** and whip I was of a mind that it was due to lack of companionship It was costly enough to ship one giant beast across a great sea I left a wife, in Maryland, whom I never loved and who never loved me I admit before the plan was in motion I never considered that Reinaldo could have a family Sometimes, I wonder, did he have a wife who never loved him? Loneliness became a common theme in our new home away from home And Reinaldo and I became friends, at least I thought of him fondly As far as I could say, of all the men he responded best to me At times it seemed a load of lumber was hauled as a personal favor For the handler too soft to handle with fear and anger But as much as loneliness was a theme, so was change, and death The lifespan of an elephant compares to the lifespan of men Were this scheme of mine to have worked as desired I could have sent for a cow, and made Reinaldo a sire Soon it was revealed that slothfulness was a symptom of an elephant young, healthy and wise Who sensed not his own, but a friend's imminent demise Now I am left to wonder how Reinaldo will fare in a world stranger than I could have known His softest handler and only friend bedridden, waiting for my disease to take its final toll
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Sometimes, looking at you in the light of the kitchen  I want to run a finger Down the length of your nose but I know you'd wrinkle it, and shake your head citing a tickle, but kiss behind my shoulder as soon As I turn away When my feet make ice pools in the bed Toes accidentally brushing your ankle and you **** abruptly, but upon hearing My sigh, trap them back with your ankles til, martyr that you are, I'm engulfed in Warmth at your Expense. Sometimes the last trickle of milk is mine, for the coffee, Silent with your eyes smiling fondly, you look on as I sip, resolutely stirring powdered Dead baby souls into mug as substitute. Even damp smelly socks Greasy hair Neurotic tears and Intellectual rambling epiphanies Even childish blunders, fudging the Budget or burning the toast You still call me fond Things. And love Me. The most.
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Dec 21, 2015
Dec 21, 2015 at 9:19 PM UTC
Ways
Dear ex-boyfriend, I'm sorry you had to go. It wasn't fair, but I understand. Your happiness was just as important to me as my own. Dear ex-boyfriend, I hope you're doing well. Never will I wish ill upon you, no matter how much I wish I hate you. Dear ex-boyfriend, I'm crying on the floor. My sadness is a black hole trying to **** me into myself. I miss you. Dear ex-boyfriend, I'm wearing the make up that you hated. **** you. I do what I want. Dear ex-boyfriend, You gave me hope that you would come back for me. Don't. Dear ex-boyfriend, I realized that I never needed you to love me. I realized that I was right here to do it for you. Dear ex-boyfriend, I look back fondly on our time together. I will always love you. But you left, and please never look back. Dear ex-boyfriend, One day you'll find a girl better than me. I hope she makes you happy.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 5:29 PM UTC
Dear Ex-Boyfriend
I will always think fondly Of the park bench Near the sad man’s statue Whose beard of stone Was sloppily painted By a bunch of overenthusiastic pigeons That silly park bench Where we first kissed And had our first public argument About nothing at all And at the same time About everything we thought we had At first our memories Turned the grass greener And the skies bluer And sometimes it seemed That sad man smiled Though it might have been an malevolent grin But soon it became tainted A symbol of fleeting love Of passion’s mortality Its habit of swiftly disappearing Like cagey, distrustful pigeons And illusions fuelled by sentimentality Now I understand the sad man And consider his faith to be cruel To want and crave and hope Yet to be sentenced His life writ in stone Near an empty, broken bench
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 7:18 AM UTC
Park Bench #1
I have been waiting for her to pick me off the shelf To remember me as fondly as I dream of her nightly Wanting nothing more than to be used like her favorite toy The one she played with as a child when holding each other came simple For her to lay me next to her heart during the dim nights under gods shadow Giving up on the complexities of the never ending day before us While engulfing each other in stories of an emotion we remembered as love
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 7:09 PM UTC
Toy chest
A fueling, flashing fulgent, furnace, fulgurous, frothy, fumes and feathery flakes, I do not speak of waves of snow, hoary frost, or ice, a cold gelare or even frozen lakes! Formidable, furrows, fructifying, functioning fruition to foremost fondly found a flaming, I revel not in such destruction but choices for my naming! For flowers flow fields forever, forswearing funneling fjords finitely, fire fray’s forests furthermost, Instructing in the arts of language, for I am your gracious host! Fakir formulates factious forms fading flummoxed into fury, a fugacious fusible and furtive fleeting feigning furiosity, A deep ditch dug, tight as pug, wrapped blanket snub though not a flub, all perspicacity! Finds frosty frore a frozen freezing faction for fusty flaming feasance, Fomorian fantasy of formidable faggoting, facient up to fancying, fancying, furnaced flesh fluidity finds itself factitivity, facets for fabulists from the faint familiarity, Relating cold to heat as such, requires but a human touch, apologize I do you see for all my clueless severity! Fans of all the falconry, who fallow fields of family, falter for a fallacy, falling into infamy as forgone flame frontogenesis, fatigues a Faustian felony, for which fate finds is fastigiated foolery, febrile features featly and yet furiously, favonian fear of fellowship fiendishly, figures foal to fatherly, finally fiddle flinchingly, although not so too furtively; I finagle in my filigree!
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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 at 1:13 PM UTC
Wauhermes in Toto
We had come to see him, the aging Tenor sing. He was as good as he had always been. But half way through, a woman appeared, Moving gracefully in bare feet upon the stage. Entering the ring of bright spot light near him. Long blond hair, falling loose around her neck, Held back both sides by Turtle Shell combs, Reflecting the light. Adorned in but a simple, low cut black dress, Her with a face beautiful as a new spring day. Held in her left hand an ebony hued violin, Touched fondly, like a well accustomed old friend. Her right hand holding a bow, ready and waiting. The Tenor’s and her eyes met and conveyed a message Only they understood.  Then starting slow and low, The full Orchestra commenced. The woman in black Brought instrument up to her chin, lovingly resting her face upon it, as if comforted by it's touch to skin. The fetching violinist, like a graceful reed, In summer breeze, began to gently sway, Laid Bow to strings and a transcended beauty, The voice of both her Instrument and from within she, Emerged through her fingers, completely filling the hall. With eyes closed, the slight movements of expression On her face registering the feelings the musical notes made, As if those gestures too, guided the bow's musical cords. Slender precise fingers lovingly caressing the strings. For nearly a minute, she and her violin played alone. Her actions of body, hands and head in concert, To her music, unavoidably hypnotic it could be said. The Tenor started to sing, and yet my eyes stayed Locked on her, as if no one else in the room was there. The blond woman in the black dress owned the stage. I have no idea how long that piece of music lasted, I could not attest to what contribution the Tenor made. Fully my attention and eventually my heart belonged To that lovely, evocative young woman in the backless, Little black dress. It’s true that I may never see or hear her play again, I know not, even her name. And yet, I’m sure that I will never forget those Few minutes mesmerized by her magical spell. Hopelessly caught in her enchanting web. With me sitting, third row, isle seat left, Worshiping as I did, at her so pretty, Slightly ***** naked feet, the striking Blond woman in the black dress.
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Nov 6, 2013
Nov 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM UTC
The Woman In a Black Dress
We had come to see him, the aging Tenor sing. He was as good as he had always been. But half way through, a woman appeared, Moving gracefully in bare feet upon the stage. Entering the ring of bright spot light near him. Long blond hair, falling loose around her neck, Held back both sides by Turtle Shell combs, Reflecting the light. Adorned in but a simple, low cut black dress, Her with a face beautiful as a new spring day. Held in her left hand an ebony hued violin, Touched fondly, like a well accustomed old friend. Her right hand holding a bow, ready and waiting. The Tenor’s and her eyes met and conveyed a message Only they understood.  Then starting slow and low, The full Orchestra commenced. The woman in black Brought instrument up to her chin, lovingly resting her face upon it, as if comforted by it's touch to skin. The fetching violinist, like a graceful reed, In summer breeze, began to gently sway, Laid Bow to strings and a transcended beauty, The voice of both her Instrument and from within she, Emerged through her fingers, completely filling the hall. With eyes closed, the slight movements of expression On her face registering the feelings the musical notes made, As if those gestures too, guided the bow's musical cords. Slender precise fingers lovingly caressing the strings. For nearly a minute, she and her violin played alone. Her actions of body, hands and head in concert, To her music, unavoidably hypnotic it could be said. The Tenor started to sing, and yet my eyes stayed Locked on her, as if no one else in the room was there. The blond woman in the black dress owned the stage. I have no idea how long that piece of music lasted, I could not attest to what contribution the Tenor made. Fully my attention and eventually my heart belonged To that lovely, evocative young woman in the backless, Little black dress. It’s true that I may never see or hear her play again, I know not, even her name. And yet, I’m sure that I will never forget those Few minutes mesmerized by her magical spell. Hopelessly caught in her enchanting web. With me sitting, third row, isle seat left, Worshiping as I did, at her so pretty, Slightly ***** naked feet, the striking Blond woman in the black dress.
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I fight with my twin. You struggle with the scales. We’re both torn this time and love won’t prevail. My opposite, my doppelganger, my sister And you can balance but it won’t fix us. What you seek I can’t give away easily and what I need you won’t give to me. My what an astrological web of disaster we have woven. Think fondly of me, my Libra Lover.
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Jul 6, 2011
Jul 6, 2011 at 4:59 AM UTC
Astrological Misconceptions.
a future promise a hard on like bundled gym socks in stuffed blue jeans a future threat a shriveled phallus wrinkled obsolete she remembered fondly being beaten drum chatter and seized like slow roasted fall off the bone pulled pork ****** raggedy Ann catapulted beyond Euboean heavens ravaging scrotums Gordian ****** with her wild fiendish mouth drinking a river of haloed golden showers spit and **** in a runaway hot house of glistening pink buttery spires engorging her macerated orifices half eaten radish chocking on hordes of big do do ***** a ****** face; cross eyed Babylon abalone bashed Ashly mashed begging for a face full of swinging ***** like caped chandeliers trotting faint giggles in a constellation of ruptured arteries and thick sparked **** on her knees milk glitter faced scared with happiness she counted one smiling bruise at a time her badge of calamities black and blue silhouettes grinning invitations like party favors without a crease of shame her skin rapturous spackled patchworks bled like torrential fountains summer tide while every body had  fizzy red ice phlebotomies and steamed through her drooling tumble pie lust ***** totem house of winding labyrinths honey pumped transfusion flush on blush opera of tangled limbs red pulse wedding flowers slick ***** palace blood tongued orchard caressing knotted mooned **** spill
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Jan 14, 2019
Jan 14, 2019 at 2:22 PM UTC
**** Spill
I see around me tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away. Beneath the turf my footsteps tread Lie low and lone the silent dead - Beneath the turf - beneath the mould - Forever dark, forever cold - And my eyes cannot hold the tears That memory hoards from vanished years For Time and Death and Mortal pain Give wounds that will not heal again - Let me remember half the woe I've seen and heard and felt below, And Heaven itself - so pure and blest, Could never give my spirit rest - Sweet land of light! thy children fair Know nought akin to our despair - Nor have they felt, nor can they tell What tenants haunt each mortal cell, What gloomy guests we hold within - Torments and madness, tears and sin! Well - may they live in ectasy Their long eternity of joy; At least we would not bring them down With us to weep, with us to groan, No - Earth would wish no other sphere To taste her cup of sufferings drear; She turns from Heaven with a careless eye And only mourns that we must die! Ah mother, what shall comfort thee In all this boundless misery? To cheer our eager eyes a while We see thee smile; how fondly smile! But who reads not through that tender glow Thy deep, unutterable woe: Indeed no dazzling land above Can cheat thee of thy children's love. We all, in life's departing shine, Our last dear longings blend with thine; And struggle still and strive to trace With clouded gaze, thy darling face. We would not leave our native home For any world beyond the Tomb. No - rather on thy kindly breast Let us be laid in lasting rest; Or waken but to share with thee A mutual immortality -
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I see around me tombstones grey
I see around me tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away. Beneath the turf my footsteps tread Lie low and lone the silent dead - Beneath the turf - beneath the mould - Forever dark, forever cold - And my eyes cannot hold the tears That memory hoards from vanished years For Time and Death and Mortal pain Give wounds that will not heal again - Let me remember half the woe I've seen and heard and felt below, And Heaven itself - so pure and blest, Could never give my spirit rest - Sweet land of light! thy children fair Know nought akin to our despair - Nor have they felt, nor can they tell What tenants haunt each mortal cell, What gloomy guests we hold within - Torments and madness, tears and sin! Well - may they live in ectasy Their long eternity of joy; At least we would not bring them down With us to weep, with us to groan, No - Earth would wish no other sphere To taste her cup of sufferings drear; She turns from Heaven with a careless eye And only mourns that we must die! Ah mother, what shall comfort thee In all this boundless misery? To cheer our eager eyes a while We see thee smile; how fondly smile! But who reads not through that tender glow Thy deep, unutterable woe: Indeed no dazzling land above Can cheat thee of thy children's love. We all, in life's departing shine, Our last dear longings blend with thine; And struggle still and strive to trace With clouded gaze, thy darling face. We would not leave our native home For any world beyond the Tomb. No - rather on thy kindly breast Let us be laid in lasting rest; Or waken but to share with thee A mutual immortality -
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Remember how our lips once spoke their own language And recall how my hands knew only your skin Our hearts once danced in fire Plunging in flames again and again Bury me in the graveyard of your memories And think of me fondly as I become soil Keep me in wandering thoughts Til the day we both shed this mortal coil
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 5:08 PM UTC
Soil
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness to immortal power! Bending beneath the weight of eighty years Spent with the noble strife of a victorious life We watched her fading heavenward, through our tears. But ere the sense of loss our hearts had wrung A miracle was wrought; And swift as happy thought She lived again -- brave, beautiful, and young. Age, pain, and sorrow dropped the veils they wore And showed the tender eyes Of angels in disguise, Whose discipline so patiently she bore. The past years brought their harvest rich and fair; While memory and love, Together, fondly wove A golden garland for the silver hair. How could we mourn like those who are bereft, When every pang of grief found balm for its relief In counting up the treasures she had left?-- Faith that withstood the shocks of toil and time; Hope that defied despair; Patience that conquered care; And loyalty, whose courage was sublime; The great deep heart that was a home for all-- Just, eloquent, and strong In protest against wrong; Wide charity, that knew no sin, no fall; The spartan spirit that made life so grand, Mating poor daily needs With high, heroic deeds, That wrested happiness from Fate's hard hand. We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead. Oh, noble woman! never more a queen Than in the laying down Of sceptre and of crown To win a greater kingdom, yet unseen; Teaching us how to seek the highest goal, To earn the true success -- To live, to love, to bless -- And make death proud to take a royal soul.
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Transfiguration
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness to immortal power! Bending beneath the weight of eighty years Spent with the noble strife of a victorious life We watched her fading heavenward, through our tears. But ere the sense of loss our hearts had wrung A miracle was wrought; And swift as happy thought She lived again -- brave, beautiful, and young. Age, pain, and sorrow dropped the veils they wore And showed the tender eyes Of angels in disguise, Whose discipline so patiently she bore. The past years brought their harvest rich and fair; While memory and love, Together, fondly wove A golden garland for the silver hair. How could we mourn like those who are bereft, When every pang of grief found balm for its relief In counting up the treasures she had left?-- Faith that withstood the shocks of toil and time; Hope that defied despair; Patience that conquered care; And loyalty, whose courage was sublime; The great deep heart that was a home for all-- Just, eloquent, and strong In protest against wrong; Wide charity, that knew no sin, no fall; The spartan spirit that made life so grand, Mating poor daily needs With high, heroic deeds, That wrested happiness from Fate's hard hand. We thought to weep, but sing for joy instead, Full of the grateful peace That follows her release; For nothing but the weary dust lies dead. Oh, noble woman! never more a queen Than in the laying down Of sceptre and of crown To win a greater kingdom, yet unseen; Teaching us how to seek the highest goal, To earn the true success -- To live, to love, to bless -- And make death proud to take a royal soul.
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Thank Heaven! the crisis— The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last— And the fever called “Living” Is conquered at last. Sadly, I know, I am shorn of my strength, And no muscle I move As I lie at full length— But no matter!—I feel I am better at length. And I rest so composedly, Now in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead— Might start at beholding me Thinking me dead. The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea— The pitiless pain— Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain— With the fever called “Living” That burned in my brain. And oh! of all tortures That torture the worst Has abated—the terrible Torture of thirst, For the naphthaline river Of Passion accurst:— I have drank of a water That quenches all thirst:— Of a water that flows, With a lullaby sound, From a spring but a very few Feet under ground— From a cavern not very far Down under ground. And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed— For man never slept In a different bed; And, to sleep, you must slumber In just such a bed. My tantalized spirit Here blandly reposes, Forgetting, or never Regretting its roses— Its old agitations Of myrtles and roses: For now, while so quietly Lying, it fancies A holier odor About it, of pansies— A rosemary odor, Commingled with pansies— With rue and the beautiful Puritan pansies. And so it lies happily, Bathing in many A dream of the truth And the beauty of Annie— Drowned in a bath Of the tresses of Annie. She tenderly kissed me, She fondly caressed, And then I fell gently To sleep on her breast— Deeply to sleep From the heaven of her breast. When the light was extinguished, She covered me warm, And she prayed to the angels To keep me from harm— To the queen of the angels To shield me from harm. And I lie so composedly, Now in my bed (Knowing her love) That you fancy me dead— And I rest so contentedly, Now in my bed, (With her love at my breast) That you fancy me dead— That you shudder to look at me. Thinking me dead. But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars in the sky, For it sparkles with Annie— It glows with the light Of the love of my Annie— With the thought of the light Of the eyes of my Annie.
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For Annie
Thank Heaven! the crisis— The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last— And the fever called “Living” Is conquered at last. Sadly, I know, I am shorn of my strength, And no muscle I move As I lie at full length— But no matter!—I feel I am better at length. And I rest so composedly, Now in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead— Might start at beholding me Thinking me dead. The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea— The pitiless pain— Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain— With the fever called “Living” That burned in my brain. And oh! of all tortures That torture the worst Has abated—the terrible Torture of thirst, For the naphthaline river Of Passion accurst:— I have drank of a water That quenches all thirst:— Of a water that flows, With a lullaby sound, From a spring but a very few Feet under ground— From a cavern not very far Down under ground. And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed— For man never slept In a different bed; And, to sleep, you must slumber In just such a bed. My tantalized spirit Here blandly reposes, Forgetting, or never Regretting its roses— Its old agitations Of myrtles and roses: For now, while so quietly Lying, it fancies A holier odor About it, of pansies— A rosemary odor, Commingled with pansies— With rue and the beautiful Puritan pansies. And so it lies happily, Bathing in many A dream of the truth And the beauty of Annie— Drowned in a bath Of the tresses of Annie. She tenderly kissed me, She fondly caressed, And then I fell gently To sleep on her breast— Deeply to sleep From the heaven of her breast. When the light was extinguished, She covered me warm, And she prayed to the angels To keep me from harm— To the queen of the angels To shield me from harm. And I lie so composedly, Now in my bed (Knowing her love) That you fancy me dead— And I rest so contentedly, Now in my bed, (With her love at my breast) That you fancy me dead— That you shudder to look at me. Thinking me dead. But my heart it is brighter Than all of the many Stars in the sky, For it sparkles with Annie— It glows with the light Of the love of my Annie— With the thought of the light Of the eyes of my Annie.
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Oizys, son From behind the leaves, I saw you, trembling In your presence, your power strengthening In the empty, midnight parking lot While the street lights hummed And moths danced around your illuminated frame You turned slowly, onyx eyes of shame And dirtied bare feet, male hair long and white The street lights flickered when you blinked and cried bitterly And I saw, for my first time, the eyes of Misery Achyls, daughter You were in an empty field No premonitions did you wield An ancient silo in the distance Leaning over a chasm black lamb Dark skinned, dressed in black robes With tribal painted face Digging earthen fingers into its black lace When you looked up, I saw your cloudy eyes Churning of a storm, cataract yet wise Your lamb had absent vapored eyeballs The Mist of Death made my skin crawl Hypnos, son Secluded in a cave by the sea A silent, empty place to be While gray waves crash into jetties The clouds gather in the distance Poppies at the mouth changing time in an instance I go in your palace and rub my cold skin For pulsing blue glows from deeper within You, a lanky youth, with thick brown hair and heavy eyes Sit there with a paper mask Illuminated by the penetrating glow In the center, surrounded by whale bones Humming a song I remember fondly You trapped me in your Dreams, singing lullabies softly Eris, daughter Violates a bedroom with utmost hate There are paintings of kings and statues of satyrs Pillows of silk and animals on the walls Usurping the gold clawed palace Silent but kicking and throwing with malice With black skin covered in a chalky white substance I peek through the crack in the mansion’s door Lips formed in a silent shout, you notice my presence Naked and bruised and plagued with no voice Suddenly stops and lays against a ****** wall Through your electric black hair And fiery red stare I witness a Child of Spite Woman of Strife Nyx, mother I am a crawling shadow of trees And wicked heart of night I am the wax on the cold leaves And the glow of the moon’s light
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Apr 30, 2011
Apr 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM UTC
Primordial Children of Nyx
Oizys, son From behind the leaves, I saw you, trembling In your presence, your power strengthening In the empty, midnight parking lot While the street lights hummed And moths danced around your illuminated frame You turned slowly, onyx eyes of shame And dirtied bare feet, male hair long and white The street lights flickered when you blinked and cried bitterly And I saw, for my first time, the eyes of Misery Achyls, daughter You were in an empty field No premonitions did you wield An ancient silo in the distance Leaning over a chasm black lamb Dark skinned, dressed in black robes With tribal painted face Digging earthen fingers into its black lace When you looked up, I saw your cloudy eyes Churning of a storm, cataract yet wise Your lamb had absent vapored eyeballs The Mist of Death made my skin crawl Hypnos, son Secluded in a cave by the sea A silent, empty place to be While gray waves crash into jetties The clouds gather in the distance Poppies at the mouth changing time in an instance I go in your palace and rub my cold skin For pulsing blue glows from deeper within You, a lanky youth, with thick brown hair and heavy eyes Sit there with a paper mask Illuminated by the penetrating glow In the center, surrounded by whale bones Humming a song I remember fondly You trapped me in your Dreams, singing lullabies softly Eris, daughter Violates a bedroom with utmost hate There are paintings of kings and statues of satyrs Pillows of silk and animals on the walls Usurping the gold clawed palace Silent but kicking and throwing with malice With black skin covered in a chalky white substance I peek through the crack in the mansion’s door Lips formed in a silent shout, you notice my presence Naked and bruised and plagued with no voice Suddenly stops and lays against a ****** wall Through your electric black hair And fiery red stare I witness a Child of Spite Woman of Strife Nyx, mother I am a crawling shadow of trees And wicked heart of night I am the wax on the cold leaves And the glow of the moon’s light
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When I was a child, I fondly remember eating carrots from  the dirt of our garden. My brother, my sister, and I would pull the carrots, with great care, from the dirt of our garden. We would wash them sometimes in the sink, sometimes with the hose, to remove the dirt of our garden. But even then as we chewed those carrots we could still sometimes taste the dirt of our garden.
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Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 3:47 PM UTC
The Dirt of Our Garden
On this my happy and blessed day fondly I remember what Mother always said upon some naughty day when I made her sad stalling on her bidding and not being a good boy Son, live straight and be easy to interpret Life is a complex menu of choices. Still - you can cruise along if there’s love in your life I remember the wistful poetry from my father’s lips Creamy words spoken in jest or in epic tales and untutored philosophy when he spoke of his going: Death has come and it’s time for last words My life has dragged by but now how it hurries! Be the person that you must and **** the rest! A truly rich person shares what they value most And so it is that I’ve shared my heart and my mind In numerous lines of poetry that has dared me to write it On this my 66th birthday I read no ills in this number For I’m just a wayfarer looking for words along my route I pick the gems that sparkle and dazzle as I stroll to eternity The landmarks on my route are The friends I made and lost along the way The doleful souls that brought tears to my eyes The pretty girls that taught me I could never have them all I remember too the places I’ve been to And the songs of my people – lively commentaries on everything And how life always lay waiting to be lived My day of birth is my day of possibilities And I keep hearing the line from the jazz classic: Get your kicks on Route 66!
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Sep 30, 2015
Sep 30, 2015 at 2:12 AM UTC
On Turning 66
The local mall now has a Spenser’s Gifts; I remember that place fondly as Al and I make our way. It’s where I sneaked a peek at Samantha Fox’s **** for the first time, saw my first **** ring, wondering why anyone would want one. I bought my first Metallica shirt at a Spencer’s; spending twenty of my dad’s dollars. Spencer’s and Record Wear House were sanctuaries; my escape from what my classmates took for normal. I took my son into that store so that he could see the X-Men hats and Deadpool shirts, the banana and pickle pens caught his eye, but I had to point out one more. “What’s that one?” I asked. Alex made a face, but in the end he did what any 14 year old boy should, he chuckled. I took him in that store so that we both could escape. Earlier he walked the mall a good fifteen feet ahead of us. We stopped for ice cream. He chose a soda and wouldn’t sit with us. It took a second, but I figured him out. He was trying his teenaged self out; testing his wings. As we walked, he’d wave at classmates and be either sturdily ignored or given a cursory nod. It was obvious that he wanted so much more. It pained us, my wife and I. So, I took him into Spencer’s gifts in an effort to remove some of his innocence and awkwardness. It may not have been the wisest move, but at least, for a moment, both of us felt peace. -JB CLaywell ©P&ZPublications; 2014
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Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014 at 8:17 PM UTC
***** Pens and **** You Hats
Observing these old men sitting at the stockyard cafe, Suspendered bellies hanging above huge buckles And button-crotched Levi's tucked tight  over leather boots, Legs grown bowed and thin, but carrying  them to the sale, still, To hear the auctioneer, talking fast to work the buying crowd, And get their fill of cattle, shoved indoors, Sold beneath the steady cracking whips, A spectacle to burn its way into my minds's forever eye: The skidding steers, the rolling eyes, the frantic scramble to find cover, While buyers gave their quiet signs: A tilted cap, a winking eye, a thumb or index finger up or at a side, To purchase cow or bull or horse, in living flesh... Then out again, through the other door, And turn our heads to wait for more, and read the scrolling numbers: How many head, how much per pound, perhaps a buyer's name, And then the swinging sound of other cattle coming in to start again. So, here these old boys sit again, Slurping coffee through their yellowed teeth, Remembering days  of indoor cigarettes and harried waitresses, The smell of cow manure and jingling spurs, Though now the smokeless ring seems tame, more civilized, I see the glory days reflecting in the old men's eyes..... I was just a boy back in those good old days, My memory is a little hazed, but I can recall When smoking was allowed and sawdust covered the filthy floor, A Coca-Cola cost a dime, and the cattle sale with Dad was the big time; Quaking as we treaded light on the catwalks above the pens, Looked for our calves, or cows Dad culled to bring to sale, Then going down and in to see them sell. Fondly now, I can recall the restaurant at the ring Where  I hoped for a slice of lemon pie from behind chill-fogged glass, Saw cowmen wearing spurs and neckerchiefs and chaps... Dreamed of growing up to be a cowboy.
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 1:32 AM UTC
Montana Livestock Auction
Observing these old men sitting at the stockyard cafe, Suspendered bellies hanging above huge buckles And button-crotched Levi's tucked tight  over leather boots, Legs grown bowed and thin, but carrying  them to the sale, still, To hear the auctioneer, talking fast to work the buying crowd, And get their fill of cattle, shoved indoors, Sold beneath the steady cracking whips, A spectacle to burn its way into my minds's forever eye: The skidding steers, the rolling eyes, the frantic scramble to find cover, While buyers gave their quiet signs: A tilted cap, a winking eye, a thumb or index finger up or at a side, To purchase cow or bull or horse, in living flesh... Then out again, through the other door, And turn our heads to wait for more, and read the scrolling numbers: How many head, how much per pound, perhaps a buyer's name, And then the swinging sound of other cattle coming in to start again. So, here these old boys sit again, Slurping coffee through their yellowed teeth, Remembering days  of indoor cigarettes and harried waitresses, The smell of cow manure and jingling spurs, Though now the smokeless ring seems tame, more civilized, I see the glory days reflecting in the old men's eyes..... I was just a boy back in those good old days, My memory is a little hazed, but I can recall When smoking was allowed and sawdust covered the filthy floor, A Coca-Cola cost a dime, and the cattle sale with Dad was the big time; Quaking as we treaded light on the catwalks above the pens, Looked for our calves, or cows Dad culled to bring to sale, Then going down and in to see them sell. Fondly now, I can recall the restaurant at the ring Where  I hoped for a slice of lemon pie from behind chill-fogged glass, Saw cowmen wearing spurs and neckerchiefs and chaps... Dreamed of growing up to be a cowboy.
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I cry because happiness is a harder concept to grasp than sorrow. Because sorrow greets me as an old friend. Fondly reminding me of my mistakes, my flaws, and my current inner desolation. Reminding me of how I failed and how I cannot fix my mistakes. While we **reminisce over a bottle of melancholia and a plate of regret.** Leaving me with yet another notch on my belt of nights I cried myself to sleep People pass you by because pretending everything is alright is more convenient than noticing they are broken. They are the people that hide their silent tears at the back of a closet and bury broken smiles into the corner of a sock drawer. But soon …There won’t be enough room for the hidden emotions that you think are irrelevant and can be dealt with another day, soon every emotion you hid will come out of the closet and show its face in the most unpleasant way. Tears. You can’t escape them. I cry because she cries, my best friend, drowning in her own sorrow, I cannot help but drown with her. For what is a friend if that friend will not jump into the murky depth we call depression, sinking ever deeper? At least we sink together. Treading conformity, stress, humiliation, we tread together. As we sink deeper, we try to grasp at the bubbles of happiness escaping our lips, somehow bring them back. We can’t, because once they’re lost no amount of pretending can give us the air we sorely need or the fake smiles to get by without question, day by day. But at least, we drown together. So many times I have looked out to a warm sunset and felt chilled to the bone. Because if I let go of the railing, life would go on. Because if I did not exist right now nothing in the world would change. It would just erase any memory of all the ***** ups I collected like stamps and baseball cards. Because no amount of blankets and soothing words can warm the icy thought in the back of my head whispering in the persuasive voice of a friend, “What’s the point?” I cry for the people who don’t think they matter, who think that turning to something to relieve their pain will fix it. I cry for the people who think killing themselves will make them feel alive. For the people who get lost trying to find themselves. For the people who put on a mask desperately waiting for someone to see through it. And for the people who cut themselves trying to become whole. Breaking themselves down bit by bit, holding all the pieces, and waiting for someone to put them back together. I cry because this entire explanation is just eloquently realizing that I am sad.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 1:22 PM UTC
Sad.
I cry because happiness is a harder concept to grasp than sorrow. Because sorrow greets me as an old friend. Fondly reminding me of my mistakes, my flaws, and my current inner desolation. Reminding me of how I failed and how I cannot fix my mistakes. While we **reminisce over a bottle of melancholia and a plate of regret.** Leaving me with yet another notch on my belt of nights I cried myself to sleep People pass you by because pretending everything is alright is more convenient than noticing they are broken. They are the people that hide their silent tears at the back of a closet and bury broken smiles into the corner of a sock drawer. But soon …There won’t be enough room for the hidden emotions that you think are irrelevant and can be dealt with another day, soon every emotion you hid will come out of the closet and show its face in the most unpleasant way. Tears. You can’t escape them. I cry because she cries, my best friend, drowning in her own sorrow, I cannot help but drown with her. For what is a friend if that friend will not jump into the murky depth we call depression, sinking ever deeper? At least we sink together. Treading conformity, stress, humiliation, we tread together. As we sink deeper, we try to grasp at the bubbles of happiness escaping our lips, somehow bring them back. We can’t, because once they’re lost no amount of pretending can give us the air we sorely need or the fake smiles to get by without question, day by day. But at least, we drown together. So many times I have looked out to a warm sunset and felt chilled to the bone. Because if I let go of the railing, life would go on. Because if I did not exist right now nothing in the world would change. It would just erase any memory of all the ***** ups I collected like stamps and baseball cards. Because no amount of blankets and soothing words can warm the icy thought in the back of my head whispering in the persuasive voice of a friend, “What’s the point?” I cry for the people who don’t think they matter, who think that turning to something to relieve their pain will fix it. I cry for the people who think killing themselves will make them feel alive. For the people who get lost trying to find themselves. For the people who put on a mask desperately waiting for someone to see through it. And for the people who cut themselves trying to become whole. Breaking themselves down bit by bit, holding all the pieces, and waiting for someone to put them back together. I cry because this entire explanation is just eloquently realizing that I am sad.
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You know it’s nothing but emptiness, When you fail phrasing your feelings in words. Other people might call it love rather than emptiness. But let me tell you this: Without emptiness, We wouldn’t find warmth in love. Some say love is frigidly cold, Some say love is fondly warm. Yet as seasons change from Summer to Winter, Love will too. And I’ve reached the point where I stopped seeking for love in people, But in invisible objects that can keep me alive. Can invisible objects really keep you alive? Or will they leave you terrified? Well, a definition for ‘Invisible Objects’ would be: ‘Emotions’. And in the end, Their purpose is to Not. Keep. You. Alive.
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
Invisible Objects.
Lucid dreamer, lucid dreamer, What is it that you remember so fondly of? Oh, blessed sleeper it is but a tragedy, For memories are only tossed on to the wind, Whisked away, to never be seen again And words are sad goodbyes The deep waves are washing over you, You who can’t wake up! So I’ll sit by you, As we sink into the soft sand, With its warm, glossy embrace Safe and sound And let deep eternity wash over us Swept away by the swells and curves of the salty ocean Someday, you’ll wake up And we’ll laugh and smile together again Carried away
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 9:58 PM UTC
Lucid Dreamer
So, this is it the end has come an era has passed we've had our fun I just hope, forever these memories will hold strong after goodbyes are said as we all move along Goodbye my girl know I loved you true for keeping me here with all the things you can do No matter if icy cold or sweltering, dripping heat from everything I've learned from you you're now, forever, apart of me I don't know just where I'll end up can't say if returning I'll ever be though not the small town from which I was born I'll think of you as fondly So, best of luck, and well wishes I hold you with me where ever I roam my first adventure of independence my home away from home
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Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM UTC
My Second Home