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"foregone" poems
Idly stationed in the bucolic hills, sits a stone well; unknown when abandoned. Though her people foregone, water yet fills as much as you can want for. In tandem, are high trees less old than she; occluding the view from pathless and naive strangers. As their wish in well is to keep obtuse, those that siren would otherwise capture. Her drink, one thinks they'll constantly receive. In reality, they'll only be taken. Youth will fade as the heart minutely bleeds. Their hollow, dried corpse will be forsaken. And though her hole but a tall dark crevice, I see my reflection on the surface.
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 4:16 PM UTC
Sonnet to The Well
Its a scam, its a scam, see the Crimson Gang deftly scamming them They by sleight have befuddled gullible masses Moral Compass Made them see wrong as right twisting their brains from the stem With deceitful guile they shepherded them all to the fools' campus Slander and fake News galore fed to vacant hungry masses scrum Knowledge is power the reprobates declares, do not let it pass We're the majority the bullies screams, knowing they're just scums Worthless charlatans who rob successes and **** without cutlass They take a foregone conclusion and coat it with fool's gold crumb A victim with no intention of going after an uninterested lass Dumb masses fed fake news fooled into harassing actions dumb A non-event becomes a show of the controlling might of our class Crimson gangs interpret a non-events from his deluded sad drum Creates a warped sick drama round a hapless victim for laughs Gives street theater actions to masses, these will oppose and numb Whilst poor victim subjected to 'voiding' madness wonders past The Crimson leaders laugh so much like pirates drinking *** Look how we manipulate the masses, they are so simple and crass With our devious twisting propaganda they eat out of our *** We simply use them to nail and crucify our victim to the cross
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 4:50 PM UTC
Together We Stand......
*consciously, willfully, I wish it quietly the Sunday, the sun day, drifts toward, in its natural game, set, overmatched, the foregone conclusion, nightfall diminishment the water songfully swishes, as the tide departs for places unknown, this then, now the only natural authorized aural apparition, the power boats renounce their normal noisy conditioning, honoring their silenced, under-sail brethren, as well as admitting their noises disfigure the fast approaching majesty of the end of our summer seasoning of humanity consciously, willfully, I wish it once again, lush is the quietude,^ now given up, surrendered and surceased to wonder, how come I to write of these moments so oft, thenever-ending quest to re-inscribe it on my sensibilities, in vainglorious hopes that this stamping will last, be the last, see me through the turgid frigidity of my Lucifer life, come the fall, the winter, the early dark, the daylight's brevity, the hurricane season of the mind, that...need I say more? consciously, willfully, I wish it the particular white cloud formation of the moment at hand, shall stay in place,  be the capstone of my summer living vision, become permanent part and parcel of the sclera, the white of my eyes, and when I will write, soon enough, my vision white weeping clouded, you will weep knowingly, sympathetically consciously, willfully, I wish for that as well* 8/27/17 6:35pm
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Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
the lush peace and quiet of volition, on a Sunday afternoon
We know you, and your little dark colors too. A picture book in your purse penned in mustaches on the full faces of your fare. We call you from bed, 8 o' clock in the morning, dog-light you slow wander the Peruvian darkness making jellyfish tentacles with your hands while you feel your way through Salem. We're colder than night and we wake thrice the bits of your day gig. You collapse in a green field of dandelion where thrushes drown you in Brown. We gorge ourselves on mango slivers, pineapple yolks, a half of grapefruit. We know you are close to your end. On the tops of the cities you call to your lycan friends, the half-sick and muted bray allures them to you, from Bratislava and Mimon, the thoroughfare through the suq. We wait. The foregone untold, the beep beep jug jug swoop sound of the nightingale, in all her dun glory, we wait. Then, as if descending through the moor-lounging silver smoke, the cool stickiness to your fingertips; the fog. We are there when the blue-less and smoky screen surrounds you, when you shank the auburn Scot hair of the sly fox that stalks, say, a cigarette from your lips. When you take the corners swiftly, gadding the streets. The prize king of vulpicide. You rub its matte fur against your bristly gray beard. And while you lay in your lumps of twelve carat flesh you bleat and you nag. One day you will never come home.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM UTC
Johnny 3:16
A duality of elan vital, two people Spectres of emotion Intertwined by a fuselage of bruised skin & tendon Tissues become orbital, gushing towards grafts Helixes of snot, **** and lymph Boy & girl As they embrace the animating principle and eachother, they fuse A one piece tapestry adorned seamless with no hem, beginning or end Always was, always is Patiently turning to liquid as their being unzips Lying figures of runny makeup and genetic ***** Quintessence, a texture of synaptic potential Corpus Callosum An entirety of self, lost in imbued disintegration Theory of mind, looped & bound I will water the thought Roots envisaged in dystopian amygdala Piercing data packets with a frost-like intensity Forgetting our obsolescence moments ago A neuron dipped in nylon Theta waves and the non-euclidean crux of dissociation Ghosts in the machine, your macro god The sympathies of fractional distillation Digitised/assimilated unto the nanosphere Cold hands and brass backs galvanised in oscillated tears Commodified, sold out and bought Stretching, from purple, white and black slowly losing its colour, amorphous in shape brushed across a smudge, ambiguously chromatic Monetised flesh god An eternity bathed in starlight Cutting an incision in the sky to allow entropy Divided dimensions of energy Fleeting and intangible No longer a delirium of seperation All semantics become light As a rusted vehicle passes overhead And all the worlds questions fade out of existence Flutters of red tape and foregone growth of practice Sinew flayed, integrated towards information Our minds shared In circuits and resistors Photons and electrons We radiate
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Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 10:49 AM UTC
The Miracle Of The Sun
A duality of elan vital, two people Spectres of emotion Intertwined by a fuselage of bruised skin & tendon Tissues become orbital, gushing towards grafts Helixes of snot, **** and lymph Boy & girl As they embrace the animating principle and eachother, they fuse A one piece tapestry adorned seamless with no hem, beginning or end Always was, always is Patiently turning to liquid as their being unzips Lying figures of runny makeup and genetic ***** Quintessence, a texture of synaptic potential Corpus Callosum An entirety of self, lost in imbued disintegration Theory of mind, looped & bound I will water the thought Roots envisaged in dystopian amygdala Piercing data packets with a frost-like intensity Forgetting our obsolescence moments ago A neuron dipped in nylon Theta waves and the non-euclidean crux of dissociation Ghosts in the machine, your macro god The sympathies of fractional distillation Digitised/assimilated unto the nanosphere Cold hands and brass backs galvanised in oscillated tears Commodified, sold out and bought Stretching, from purple, white and black slowly losing its colour, amorphous in shape brushed across a smudge, ambiguously chromatic Monetised flesh god An eternity bathed in starlight Cutting an incision in the sky to allow entropy Divided dimensions of energy Fleeting and intangible No longer a delirium of seperation All semantics become light As a rusted vehicle passes overhead And all the worlds questions fade out of existence Flutters of red tape and foregone growth of practice Sinew flayed, integrated towards information Our minds shared In circuits and resistors Photons and electrons We radiate
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I don’t think you understand, because I don’t, this wasn’t what I planned. So I’m wondering how you can understand, when I don’t. I won’t lose myself loving you, I won’t. You’ve got me feeling too many different things, got me contemplating cutting our tethered strings. Falling in love has me tripping over my own two feet? Maybe. All I know is I’m slipping face first into this tangled mess and now guilt eats at me as I slip from your arms half dressed in the mornings when all I want is to escape, wishing I was Wonder Woman with that red cape. I slip away, but it hurts- but I’ve seen it; my family, we’re cursed. Concerning love, we’ve had no luck I can’t lose you, so I’m labeling us a causal **** I hear you yelling now that you know my reasons, promising our love could survive even the coldest season. But how can he be so sure? Doubts plague me as I slip toward his front door, because love didn’t come with a brochure. I hear you figuring aloud that I don’t love you enough. You come to the conclusion, “if this is how you feel, then I’ll set you free” I got in my car, driving around till the clouds were dark and the clock said three. Your words had been like knives, but then I started thinking about my dad’s four wives. My brain’s all jumbled, it’s like there was one second left, I was on the one yard line, and I fumbled. Is the risk worth it? Could my heart even take the hit? When I got home, in the dark I saw you standing my heart was demanding that I make my way over to you but my brain said these feelings needed to be subdued. I heard you say “I love you too much to set you free” It was then when I looked in your eyes, love was all I could truly see. My scalp tingled in realization, as I floated toward you with some type of natural gravitation. My heart had already taken the risk, without permission and that’s when I mumbled my belated admission; “I love you too and I’ll take my chances,” My brain finally conceded to your romantic advances. But really, truth was, I’d been under an illusion because our love had always been a foregone conclusion.
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 4:31 PM UTC
Catching Feelings
I don’t think you understand, because I don’t, this wasn’t what I planned. So I’m wondering how you can understand, when I don’t. I won’t lose myself loving you, I won’t. You’ve got me feeling too many different things, got me contemplating cutting our tethered strings. Falling in love has me tripping over my own two feet? Maybe. All I know is I’m slipping face first into this tangled mess and now guilt eats at me as I slip from your arms half dressed in the mornings when all I want is to escape, wishing I was Wonder Woman with that red cape. I slip away, but it hurts- but I’ve seen it; my family, we’re cursed. Concerning love, we’ve had no luck I can’t lose you, so I’m labeling us a causal **** I hear you yelling now that you know my reasons, promising our love could survive even the coldest season. But how can he be so sure? Doubts plague me as I slip toward his front door, because love didn’t come with a brochure. I hear you figuring aloud that I don’t love you enough. You come to the conclusion, “if this is how you feel, then I’ll set you free” I got in my car, driving around till the clouds were dark and the clock said three. Your words had been like knives, but then I started thinking about my dad’s four wives. My brain’s all jumbled, it’s like there was one second left, I was on the one yard line, and I fumbled. Is the risk worth it? Could my heart even take the hit? When I got home, in the dark I saw you standing my heart was demanding that I make my way over to you but my brain said these feelings needed to be subdued. I heard you say “I love you too much to set you free” It was then when I looked in your eyes, love was all I could truly see. My scalp tingled in realization, as I floated toward you with some type of natural gravitation. My heart had already taken the risk, without permission and that’s when I mumbled my belated admission; “I love you too and I’ll take my chances,” My brain finally conceded to your romantic advances. But really, truth was, I’d been under an illusion because our love had always been a foregone conclusion.
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Oh Helena, how I doth know thy pain Mocked is thine love when at love's feet thrown Love hath looked upon thee with disdain And yet still for him thy love hath grown Do not despair Cupid's arrow at thine door does knock! Upon thee, loves eyes an awakening will be placed No longer can  love's spiteful eyes see thee and mock! And to thine love will he quickly rush in haste But first know before one is to have thy way A comedy must first be struck upon Alas Puck! Disaster hath struck and a game we must all play Before order is once more restored and the past foregone Oh no! Now a love thrown upon thee unwanted Mockery suspected, no more of this dost thou deserve Evermore another feeling given to thee daunted But now sit back, let the story unfurl and observe! Finally soft words to thee spoken so craved At once entranced but then felt thee a fool! From nowhere sweet words so spoken must be depraved! And in thine heart feeling loves sting ever so cruel Now thy dearest friend! Intertwined within such a conspiracy Such betrayal! Dear girl know it is a mistake Albeit twisted and buried in the cruelest irony Thy dearest friend, thine love she does not wish to shake Through troubles and trials thou maketh thy way to a beautiful field Fast asleep next to the love thy value ever so Puck, fix thy mistake, give Helena her love to finally wield And at last house a mutual love to forever grow
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 11:16 PM UTC
A Tribute To Helena "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
. Feint is the Muse, that looks upon me, challenging my existence with deep baleful interest. Its struggles hard to contain its indifference at the mere mortality that I conduct. And conduct I do. As melody takes centre stage in a flight of fancy, constrained by rhythm temperate, steady, and insistent. The cadenced beat of skins keeping time to a fanfare of sound. But my voice is silent, conspicuous by its absence, in mute violation of speechless freedom. The words won't come, no song message birthed for altruism nor benefit of composition. The flight of fancy stalls and gently rocks in a cradle of anticipation. Rhythm drops to a meagre pelvic twitch, insistence foregone and forgotten in a cynical parody of the vocal deficiency. Velvet drapes lick the wooden floor stage, and the performance has just begun. © Pagan Paul (14/11/18)
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 6:56 PM UTC
Performance
A Poem in 3 Parts by Sara L Russell, 4/6/15; 00:51am I There is a grey area between this world and the next. People can be foolish; they dabble in ouija, in dowsing, in automatic writing; and - wittingly or unwittingly, they may open a portal to the other side. That is how they enter. Beware of inviting them in. Shadow people are there where needle pierces skin; where the ****** sits, glassy-eyed, on the precipice of oblivion; they lurk in unholy places where godless politicians declare themselves to be speaking for God; they haunt the dreams of drunkards, schizophrenics, junkies and the paranoid. But they are not spun out of dreams, they are real. Shadow people were there when the ancient pharaohs of Egypt were interred, with all their gold; they took them to Hades for also burying their wives and servants, alive. They were there in **** concentration camps, sitting on the left shoulders of those who blindly carried out orders of death and torture. They subsist in underworlds of catacombs, they lurk in the spaces between our conscious and unconscious minds; In blackened mirrors they seek out a vortex, My friends, be the light that keeps out the darkness, Do not seek to question the dear and foregone, No matter how much they are missed; for there are others lurking in the shadows. Be not the portal inviting them in. II Did I see you in Bohemian Grove, smiling at the Cremation of the Care? Were you there, and did you have more than one shadow? Did I see you in that Great Hall with chequered floors, where the Eye of Horus watched over a pyramid of gold? Did you lift a cup of the good red wine, did blood brothers drink each other's health, gazing through a glass darkly? Did we toast the Cremation of the Care, and how many others were there? III Sometimes we visit Hell in our dreams, though we may fervently pray before sleep. There is no shame in sleeping with the light on. Wear a cross, if you think that it will help. Sometimes the citizens of Hell visit us, in that stasis between sleep and wakefulnes; they are only ever seen at the outer periphery of our vision. It's never a good idea to look at them directly. Sometimes they venture a little closer than the rules allow. Sometimes the line between their domain and ours is blurred. Occasionally, the breeze seems to whisper your name - only, it's not the breeze. Be vigilant. Always try to see them first.
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Jun 3, 2015
Jun 3, 2015 at 7:55 PM UTC
Shadow People
A Poem in 3 Parts by Sara L Russell, 4/6/15; 00:51am I There is a grey area between this world and the next. People can be foolish; they dabble in ouija, in dowsing, in automatic writing; and - wittingly or unwittingly, they may open a portal to the other side. That is how they enter. Beware of inviting them in. Shadow people are there where needle pierces skin; where the ****** sits, glassy-eyed, on the precipice of oblivion; they lurk in unholy places where godless politicians declare themselves to be speaking for God; they haunt the dreams of drunkards, schizophrenics, junkies and the paranoid. But they are not spun out of dreams, they are real. Shadow people were there when the ancient pharaohs of Egypt were interred, with all their gold; they took them to Hades for also burying their wives and servants, alive. They were there in **** concentration camps, sitting on the left shoulders of those who blindly carried out orders of death and torture. They subsist in underworlds of catacombs, they lurk in the spaces between our conscious and unconscious minds; In blackened mirrors they seek out a vortex, My friends, be the light that keeps out the darkness, Do not seek to question the dear and foregone, No matter how much they are missed; for there are others lurking in the shadows. Be not the portal inviting them in. II Did I see you in Bohemian Grove, smiling at the Cremation of the Care? Were you there, and did you have more than one shadow? Did I see you in that Great Hall with chequered floors, where the Eye of Horus watched over a pyramid of gold? Did you lift a cup of the good red wine, did blood brothers drink each other's health, gazing through a glass darkly? Did we toast the Cremation of the Care, and how many others were there? III Sometimes we visit Hell in our dreams, though we may fervently pray before sleep. There is no shame in sleeping with the light on. Wear a cross, if you think that it will help. Sometimes the citizens of Hell visit us, in that stasis between sleep and wakefulnes; they are only ever seen at the outer periphery of our vision. It's never a good idea to look at them directly. Sometimes they venture a little closer than the rules allow. Sometimes the line between their domain and ours is blurred. Occasionally, the breeze seems to whisper your name - only, it's not the breeze. Be vigilant. Always try to see them first.
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'The beggar boy is none of mine,' The reverend doctor strangely said; 'I do not walk the streets to pour Chance benedictions on his head. 'And heaven I thank who made me so. That toying with my own dear child, I think not on _his_ shivering limbs, _His_ manners vagabond and wild.' Good friend, unsay that graceless word! I am a mother crowned with joy, And yet I feel a ***** pang To pass the little starveling boy. His aching flesh, his fevered eyes His piteous stomach, craving meat; His features, nipt of tenderness, And most, his little frozen feet. Oft, by my fireside's ruddy glow, I think, how in some noisome den, Bred up with curses and with blows, He lives unblest of gods or men. I cannot ****** him from his fate, The tribute of my doubting mind Drops, torch-like, in the abyss of ill, That skirts the ways of humankind. But, as my heart's desire would leap To help him, recognized of none, I thank the God who left him this, For many a precious right foregone. My mother, whom I scarcely knew, Bequeathed this bond of love to me; The heart parental thrills for all The children of humanity.
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Limitations Of Benevolence
Ancient stitchings embedded in skin A reminder of Demons lurking within Of who I once was, and all we could be A fate that I knew, but now it's just me A love that was shared and spread like disease Emotions that sent a tree to its knees Tearing limbs, and lungs, and hearts to the floor From nights spent begging, pleading, and more A passion foregone, or obsession amiss My sacred reality, come now to this One question is left, to finish your game Can you divide one into two and remain unchanged
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Feb 23, 2011
Feb 23, 2011 at 9:23 PM UTC
Mending Mitosis
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste. Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe, And moan th’ expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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Sonnet 030: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your being or go crazy when the world goes crazy. The numbers of us overwhelm, an impending tsunami, my hopeful eulogy about our responsibilities to each other, 2 jobs 2 hobbies, the biomass in the crosswalks, fears that rend and own us, the Muslim-Judeo-Christian condition. Your soul is immortal, it exists outside of politics and poker. Just kidding. Forgotten, forgiven and foregone. A man’s ego needs no encouragement. “I’m gonna be huge when I’m dead,” John said last time we spoke. Life is fine! tough the reward for our colossal imperfections a back and forth game the rivers and selfies of an empire daily low intensity warfare Good a gift not a curse new, so let go a veil, thin if one doesn’t believe in mystery like all things that are forever changing but always remain the same thriving after five nights of steady rain enjoying the passage of time or will be good but a dream okey doke, short, a lazy-eyed tiger
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Apr 12, 2022
Apr 12, 2022 at 7:27 AM UTC
Commonly Seen Bumper Stickers
My sky is blue Broken-china-blue Today Not as yours or his or anyone’s Not robin’s egg happy-hue Or hopeful cornflower-color Not rolling-ocean-peace No endless expanse Over a world full of possibility But my sky is blue Crying-eye- blue Today I don’t remember The exact color of the car That took you away But in my mind’s eye It should be this blue My blue Because my sky was blue Teardrop-truth-blue That day Such a contrived color, Overused metaphor: Sad-blue, dead-blue Burning-blue-gray like my hate For all the words We’ll never share For desperation For lost beginnings Estranged from happy endings And foregone conclusions And decisions made By a woman whose pasty face Is still burned as A blue-print in my mind Of the person I Never want to become The woman who Unknowingly Painted my world In red-fury and Burnt-orange-bitter goodbyes Thoughtless paintbrush Strokes making sure That my sky was blue Crisp-autumn-cloudless blue That day When you and I Were both too young For understanding Just Children caught up In the real world For the first time Yes, my sky is blue Snapdragon-fire-blue Today When seven years later I think I’m Still not old enough To comprehend Why my sky is blue Bittersweet-baby-blue Today Because they Took you away Because you’ll never Know my name Even though I’ll Remember yours For the rest of my life
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Nov 28, 2012
Nov 28, 2012 at 8:35 AM UTC
Baby-blue (My Sky)
O gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it. For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed foreborn forever, The worm Regret will canker on, And time will turn him never. So were it well to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The fate beneath us, and above, The dark before and after. The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes The memories that follow!
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O Gather Me the Rose
Hands rough, from long days in the mines Only one day to look forward to That day in which true love be intertwined Star crossed love, perceived taboo A Dunmer and a Breton! Her father would not condone For his stature would it threaten So this love must remain unknown This night we steal away To meet in the hills above Soljund's Gather my belongings, make haste, no delay With her love, all else can be foregone *Dragonborn travels happening upon a doleful scene two dead lovers in the hills above Soljund's*
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Nov 23, 2012
Nov 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM UTC
Forbidden Love Lost
I know there are Reasons you cannot tell As Foregone Moments no-one should discuss Not even I, though Mara suits me well That better to Praise than childishly Fuss These are all Wrongs; And Rumours un-requite Un-fulfill my Duty for you to Stand And see you this Sprout; And just Live your Life What Mused Attraction I can't Understand And strange, at least, how your Army stands still Though primed to Assault me by your Command With Seeds this taken and planted to fill My reserved Punishment waiting at hand. All I have to do is just block this Page Then resume my Ritual burning with Rage.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 11:32 PM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - EIGHTY-SIX - TOM DALEY
A Greeting across, Frost the Sweetest Cake, An Offer for this Sentient to Heal Dipped in Oil, then Light for your Merry-Make Another Fresh Candle for Pure Heart's feel And bring this Bide this Motherly Salute With Prayers and Chants spring the Brighter Days From Foregone Moments to Sharper Repute With her the Daughter of Outstanding Ways Plus Four more - and the Son of his Endow Plomb himself your King for his Business fare Though this Pill swallowed to remove such Doubt Knowing your Thanks be mulled as I'm aware. Still on still, Un-Condition pleads me by Pray this Love I carry refuse to Die. [HAPPY BIRTHDAY, M'AM LAURA!]
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Jul 8, 2013
Jul 8, 2013 at 1:41 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE BIRTHDAY: LAURA WELSH COOK
(aka Pinky Andrexa) 4/4/10 02.09am I am walking in a daydream under skies forever grey, Lying always in the shadow of ambitions all foregone; I'm going through the motions of another working day, Feeling permanently static, as the world is moving on. And you're forever shining like some distant blazing sun, You're gleaming as I'm dreaming, making all who see you smile; The wings upon your heels still elevate you as you run, So many want to be you, or would emulate your style. From distance I behold you, as a cat beholds a king, All doors open before you, in successions of success; Your flame's forever burning, while my own is dwindling, I could not be further away, or love you any less. While you, you dice with danger, dancing on the precipice, Leaving admirers breathless at your daring escapades; And all your leading ladies ever burn to taste your kiss, Your destiny speeds to you riding jet-powered rollerblades. Yet two unlikely paths have crossed and subtle friendship blooms, And many dreams take flight between the gutter and the stars; Making the span of distance shrink into adjoining rooms Opening secret passageways, where chosen dreamers pass.
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Apr 3, 2010
Apr 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM UTC
The Artist and the Angel
I I heard a small sad sound, And stood awhile among the tombs around: “Wherefore, old friends,” said I, “are you distrest, Now, screened from life’s unrest?” II —”O not at being here; But that our future second death is near; When, with the living, memory of us numbs, And blank oblivion comes! III “These, our sped ancestry, Lie here embraced by deeper death than we; Nor shape nor thought of theirs can you descry With keenest backward eye. IV “They count as quite forgot; They are as men who have existed not; Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath; It is the second death. V “We here, as yet, each day Are blest with dear recall; as yet, can say We hold in some soul loved continuance Of shape and voice and glance. VI “But what has been will be— First memory, then oblivion’s swallowing sea; Like men foregone, shall we merge into those Whose story no one knows. VII “For which of us could hope To show in life that world-awakening scope Granted the few whose memory none lets die, But all men magnify? VIII “We were but Fortune’s sport; Things true, things lovely, things of good report We neither shunned nor sought … We see our bourne, And seeing it we mourn.”
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The To-Be-Forgotten
Twice did our love see the roses of St Valentines rising sun. That which follows, worse than the one foregone. For we were never the type, to obey. The fourteenth day, of that second month, he came to me, and I heard him say: "My darling, for you I bestow a gift! - the gift of irony No gift at all." He knew me, and he knew me well. O' then the second Valentines, saw that this year, I had a gift for him. A gift he'd rather not hear. A gift I'd rather not bear. The gift to end all gifts. Autumn blessed me, with the deterioration of his memory. And Winter cursed me, with a heart of stone. Spring breathed life, into that which I thought I'd buried alive. And he's happy now. He has another now. And I'll be okay so long as the sky remains blue, and the setting sun leaves the clouds a rosy hue. Remove these photographs from inside my skull. Can't you see they're making my heart too sore? Take these rose-tinted glasses from upon my eyes. For I cannot bear them anymore.
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Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 3:35 AM UTC
Valentines Day
O, gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it! For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And Time will turn him never. So well it were to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The fate beneath us and above, The dark before and after. The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow!
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To My Mother III
(March 2003) Alas, ambitious girl, foregone of France, Thy days are numbered now, through loss of power. Though once thou led the king a merry dance, His gaze will wander from a faded flower. Women are cattle in the eyes of men, Mere chattels; drear, embattled, scapegoat souls; How utterly unthinkable, Boleyn, For queens to rise above domestic goals. Thy barren womb is witness to thy shame, Its emptiness brings punishment anew; The king grows ever scornful of thy name, Look to thy prayers and dreams, however few. Bereft of love, one girl branded as jade. The flagstone cracks beneath the slashing blade.
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Sep 2, 2009
Sep 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM UTC
The Killing of Anne Boleyn
this will be an off the chest one, a long one, a crazy (and) derisive one for we who once were i are now foregone. we sit here writing - startled by the addition of LOUD music(?) to my library; not my taste - pink floyd leaks through my head phones from the coffee shop speakers. tea scalded tongue, she did warn me, did she... - a break, thats where we find ourselves and wondering what will come of the fu- tu- re furthur out from now? we quiet now, find ourselves lulled through into another plane of which - break end. this year - bitter winds find necessitation in her fixation - as last year as next year, til time cedes. we write with open head and fluid mental projection, a reality created from each of ours and one into the next; 'our universe is vast' some cry, of course we know it is. tea no longer scalds ( to burn the flesh away ) as twangy guitar follows snappy snare, tap tap tip tap, blues wail away. - - - to take a **** to take a cigarette to take a lover - - - lover missed, though so did the **** currents retain fluidity. we're done.
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Sep 30, 2012
Sep 30, 2012 at 6:59 PM UTC
candylaned.
Agápi mou, how I dote thee mine baby of potentate vision's; thou art the foregone one of stringed song's, that young lover's seeketh To hath. Atop the thysiastery of Ourn affection, I shalt layeth Ourn all mine amour, near The pearly gates, I'll meet Thee at the door. The entry- Way wherein only select few Shalt pass, the liquid water there hath Life, none hopelessness nor any bad; just garden's of Succulent features, history's apostles there to be ourn new Teachers, wherein the pictures art surreal, what's thine is mine, and what's mine is thine; feeling paradise complete us in lively field's. ©Brandon Nagley ©lonesome poet's poetry ©Earl jane sardua Nagley dedicated ( àgapi mou) dedicated
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 10:25 PM UTC
Mullach an thysiastery ( Atop the thysiastery) scottish gaelic tongue