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How comes it, Flora, that, whenever we Play cards together, you invariably, However the pack parts, Still hold the Queen of Hearts? I've scanned you with a scrutinizing gaze, Resolved to fathom these your secret ways: But, sift them as I will, Your ways are secret still. I cut and shuffle; shuffle, cut, again; But all my cutting, shuffling, proves in vain: Vain hope, vain forethought, too; That Queen still falls to you. I dropped her once, prepense; but, ere the deal Was dealt, your instinct seemed her loss to feel: "There should be one card more," You said, and searched the floor. I cheated once: I made a private notch In Heart-Queen's back, and kept a lynx-eyed watch; Yet such another back Deceived me in the pack: The Queen of Clubs assumed by arts unknown An imitative dint that seemed my own; This notch, not of my doing, Misled me to my ruin. It baffles me to puzzle out the clew, Which must be skill, or craft, or luck in you: Unless, indeed, it be Natural affinity.
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The Queen Of Hearts
Lev. 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." This was said to make sure the population on earth grew, which it did. God was NOT saying this because it will always be wrong. They are just regular people and this is where they belong. Homosexuals are the same as everybody else. This is equality that they strive for because no one is better than the other. We are all from the same God, and we are all sisters and brothers. This is not a disease and this is not something you can change. They were born like that, it is not something that you were taught. I was born with brown hair, this is not something that is forethought. Why does it matter so much what your ****** orientation is? That is that person's business, not ours to judge. We have no right to judge and all of this homophobia is actually just a carnage. We call ourselves Christian, but is this actually living in the true image of God. Have you not heard "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you?" That is the golden rule and how would you like it if it were heterosexuals that were hated anew? God made all of His children in His image. Do you honestly think that God would turn away His own children because they were born Homosexuals? With all of this hate and anger, turning away people that could be our friends, well we aren't humans; we are actually animals. Why is it that now they get the same benefits as the people who are straight? Why has this taken so long to do? Are they not the same as everybody else that we know? There are many things that are wrong with society, this homophobia needs to stop so why must we forgo? If two people love each other so much to remain together for the rest of their life, then let them. Homophobia is wrong. God loves all of his children headlong. And to all those gays and lesbians out there, STAY STRONG.
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 2:59 PM UTC
Homophobia
Lev. 20:13 "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." This was said to make sure the population on earth grew, which it did. God was NOT saying this because it will always be wrong. They are just regular people and this is where they belong. Homosexuals are the same as everybody else. This is equality that they strive for because no one is better than the other. We are all from the same God, and we are all sisters and brothers. This is not a disease and this is not something you can change. They were born like that, it is not something that you were taught. I was born with brown hair, this is not something that is forethought. Why does it matter so much what your ****** orientation is? That is that person's business, not ours to judge. We have no right to judge and all of this homophobia is actually just a carnage. We call ourselves Christian, but is this actually living in the true image of God. Have you not heard "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you?" That is the golden rule and how would you like it if it were heterosexuals that were hated anew? God made all of His children in His image. Do you honestly think that God would turn away His own children because they were born Homosexuals? With all of this hate and anger, turning away people that could be our friends, well we aren't humans; we are actually animals. Why is it that now they get the same benefits as the people who are straight? Why has this taken so long to do? Are they not the same as everybody else that we know? There are many things that are wrong with society, this homophobia needs to stop so why must we forgo? If two people love each other so much to remain together for the rest of their life, then let them. Homophobia is wrong. God loves all of his children headlong. And to all those gays and lesbians out there, STAY STRONG.
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We rushed on glorious wings that fed bombs into Baghdad soil with feverous lust for a hollow dream. Now nine long years later, seventeen bodies lie on earth where oil engenders a lust that’s even greater. Seventeen skeletons innocent; Seventeen bloodlines’ descent. Karzai’s blank solace and Kandahar’s dead seventeen lay heavier on the heart than lead. Three tours were far too many, the fourth far more than he could take. A sergeant who’d have given any- thing for his wife and kids’ sake. Seeing a good friend’s severe injury – the last blow Sanity could handle. Morality goes out – light from a candle swaddled in smoke’s endless perjury. Seventeen seconds of forethought may perhaps have faltered his shot; Seventeen centuries of ponder and still the heart may have not grown fonder. Seventeen lovers left alone, or loves that’ll never come to pass, seventeen graves of heavy bones mark where a madman’s mind broke at last. Seventeen skeletons innocent; Seventeen bloodlines’ descent. Karzai’s blank solace and Kandahar’s dead seventeen lay heavier on the heart than lead.
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Sep 2, 2012
Sep 2, 2012 at 7:49 PM UTC
Seventeen
Swept in on the sixth of the first Icy winds sluiced on dripping fleecy snow showers I saw a raging storm coming with vile foreboding nursed Staple in peace in love in goodwill laid a fitting banquet for all hours Rewards for toil and strive in minds attuned and goodness versed I knelt supplicant before my Lord Laid my just heart bare and without fear or dread laid a ringing vow as in warmth or bellowing thundering cold I rest in the forethought I am girded to sail sun's flames un thread For no blooded being can justly state I harmed or injured in my fold I will walk this vale of tears Meet with demons and the ****** of the outer worlds Face the volcanoes in hell and shame blazing red lava ingots I will not cower before deadly serpents or baulk at icy frozen walls If I fall I will stand again an again till God's time uneaten by maggots I implored my Faithful Lord Take me down grind and cast me asunder and bereft If this be ordained that an innocent soul pays an unjust price The darkest storm has raged wild and furious a depraved joy theft My God upholds me and holds that truths and honesty never a vice [email protected].
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 5:34 PM UTC
I Stand Accused...........
Once upon a very old time, In a perfectly ordinary forest, Created solely for my words in rhyme, There lived a very smart tortoise, modest and earnest. In this same forest of the mind, There lived a vivacious hare, She was so stunning, all animals she could spellbind, And wherever she went, she spread love in the air. It so happened that the tortoise, our protagonist, Found himself having an intimate crush On the hare and if you get my drift, He wanted to live a life with her, lavish and lush. So he decided that to her he would propose, And try to woo her with his intelligence and brains, To marry her was his ultimate purpose, He would surely convince her of his pros and gains. But to his utmost horror, she rejected him downright, And looked at him in pure disgust, “no”, she said, “ you can’t win my love’s right, because it is not for you that I lust.” But persistent, and smart, he threw a challenge of love, To her straight to the face, “will you agree to marry me, my pure white dove, if ever I beat you in a race?” The hare agreed readily to the proposition, Amused to think she could win without a care, Alas, she didn’t know what the tortoise knew about the situation, For he had read the story of the tortoise and the hare. As soon as the race started, away she zipped, While the tortoise slowly followed behind, “He’s lost!”, she thought, “ his cream has been whipped!!...” but the tortoise had something else in mind… Half way through the race the hare began to tire, “Oh!” she thought, “for the tortoise I’m still way far ahead…” so into the hollow of a tree she did retire, to have a nap in nature’s comfortable bed. She was still sleeping blissfully when the tortoise reached her, And saw her asleep in the hollow, He could have won the race and won his love so dear, But though he had knowledge, his mind was narrow. “She’s the girl I love”, he thought, we should be on equal terms, I shouldn’t get an unfair chance, and without any fortitude and forethought, he took a rash decision without a second glance. “hey! Wake up! The race is still on! Don’t stop!” his bellowing voice awoke the hare, she nimbly bounded away, refreshed from the pitstop, leaving the tortoise to stand and stare. Obviously, the tortoise lost and well, What happened after, I know not, I hear he spent the rest of his life brooding in his shell, But all this teaches an important lesson about love, does it not???
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Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM UTC
THE TORTOISE WHO LOVED THE HARE...
Once upon a very old time, In a perfectly ordinary forest, Created solely for my words in rhyme, There lived a very smart tortoise, modest and earnest. In this same forest of the mind, There lived a vivacious hare, She was so stunning, all animals she could spellbind, And wherever she went, she spread love in the air. It so happened that the tortoise, our protagonist, Found himself having an intimate crush On the hare and if you get my drift, He wanted to live a life with her, lavish and lush. So he decided that to her he would propose, And try to woo her with his intelligence and brains, To marry her was his ultimate purpose, He would surely convince her of his pros and gains. But to his utmost horror, she rejected him downright, And looked at him in pure disgust, “no”, she said, “ you can’t win my love’s right, because it is not for you that I lust.” But persistent, and smart, he threw a challenge of love, To her straight to the face, “will you agree to marry me, my pure white dove, if ever I beat you in a race?” The hare agreed readily to the proposition, Amused to think she could win without a care, Alas, she didn’t know what the tortoise knew about the situation, For he had read the story of the tortoise and the hare. As soon as the race started, away she zipped, While the tortoise slowly followed behind, “He’s lost!”, she thought, “ his cream has been whipped!!...” but the tortoise had something else in mind… Half way through the race the hare began to tire, “Oh!” she thought, “for the tortoise I’m still way far ahead…” so into the hollow of a tree she did retire, to have a nap in nature’s comfortable bed. She was still sleeping blissfully when the tortoise reached her, And saw her asleep in the hollow, He could have won the race and won his love so dear, But though he had knowledge, his mind was narrow. “She’s the girl I love”, he thought, we should be on equal terms, I shouldn’t get an unfair chance, and without any fortitude and forethought, he took a rash decision without a second glance. “hey! Wake up! The race is still on! Don’t stop!” his bellowing voice awoke the hare, she nimbly bounded away, refreshed from the pitstop, leaving the tortoise to stand and stare. Obviously, the tortoise lost and well, What happened after, I know not, I hear he spent the rest of his life brooding in his shell, But all this teaches an important lesson about love, does it not???
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You change my mind like a massive industrial factory. Because flowers. Supposing friendly. What if therefore. You crush my forethought in your mandible machinery For after yellow. Beside a lake. Through crimson humility. I melt under your molten supervision on the grandest scale Melodic franchise. Hypothesize sunbeams. And if replace me. You reorient my viewpoints on your conveyor belt of liquidated mellow jurisdiction.
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Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013 at 2:33 AM UTC
Mind Industrialization
Shot? so quick, so clean an ending? Oh that was right, lad, that was brave: Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twas best to take it to the grave. Oh you had forethought, you could reason, And saw your road and where it led, And early wise and brave in season Put the pistol to your head. Oh soon, and better so than later After long disgrace and scorn, You shot dead the household traitor, The soul that should not have been born. Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men may come to worse than dust. Souls undone, undoing others,-- Long time since the tale began. You would not live to wrong your brothers: Oh lad, you died as fits a man. Now to your grave shall friend and stranger With ruth and some with envy come: Undishonoured, clear of danger, Clean of guilt, pass hence and home. Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking; And here, man, here's the wreath I've made: 'Tis not a gift that's worth the taking, But wear it and it will not fade.
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Shot? So Quick, So Clean An Ending?
For instance, recall daisies, or if you have not seen one, so much the better. Paint me a crass picture and sleep on the shallow crevasse. Stilt through the orchard and search there: nothing still. Even the nothingness is form-fitting, and thus, your vestigial image of daisies. Mold something out of the vacuity, and there a retrograde sculpture will wind back to clay. Cornerstones have your name, and your name even so, has taciturnly placed stones. Stones. These tiny bodies that lay, undemanding, scourged by the rapid passage of a carriage. I wait there, with them, still thinking of daisies. I know of a child, cylindrically obtuse, in front of the mirror. Have you seen yourself in the hazy windows of the Metro? What do you see? I still see daisies. Or people with heads of daisies. But remember your forethought of daisies? They are nothing. I am a beheaded daisy in the lackadaisical wind of Summer. There is nothing to gain here but the sadness of cold passing. And the child that I am speaking of, his name, Magno. Sturdy like the rucksack he’s carrying, lovelessly trundling altogether with the pipes and the handrails, almost signaling the alarm without warning. This uncared-for sultry evening decides to splinter itself against the masses. Again, the daisies appear to me, this time, in heady form rogue with peripatetic fragrance. Magno used to unearth daisies and give them to her mother when he was stiflingly young – he hustled through the carefully placed furniture. Whatever happened to him, I know not. And just like the daisies we have come to know now, trains that do not belong to anyone, and the daisies too, that go unheard of and unknown to the behest of the city, have gone into the subtle beginning of everything that once started in itself, the form of splendor. Nothing.
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 3:27 AM UTC
A Poem About Daisies, Trains, and Magno
For instance, recall daisies, or if you have not seen one, so much the better. Paint me a crass picture and sleep on the shallow crevasse. Stilt through the orchard and search there: nothing still. Even the nothingness is form-fitting, and thus, your vestigial image of daisies. Mold something out of the vacuity, and there a retrograde sculpture will wind back to clay. Cornerstones have your name, and your name even so, has taciturnly placed stones. Stones. These tiny bodies that lay, undemanding, scourged by the rapid passage of a carriage. I wait there, with them, still thinking of daisies. I know of a child, cylindrically obtuse, in front of the mirror. Have you seen yourself in the hazy windows of the Metro? What do you see? I still see daisies. Or people with heads of daisies. But remember your forethought of daisies? They are nothing. I am a beheaded daisy in the lackadaisical wind of Summer. There is nothing to gain here but the sadness of cold passing. And the child that I am speaking of, his name, Magno. Sturdy like the rucksack he’s carrying, lovelessly trundling altogether with the pipes and the handrails, almost signaling the alarm without warning. This uncared-for sultry evening decides to splinter itself against the masses. Again, the daisies appear to me, this time, in heady form rogue with peripatetic fragrance. Magno used to unearth daisies and give them to her mother when he was stiflingly young – he hustled through the carefully placed furniture. Whatever happened to him, I know not. And just like the daisies we have come to know now, trains that do not belong to anyone, and the daisies too, that go unheard of and unknown to the behest of the city, have gone into the subtle beginning of everything that once started in itself, the form of splendor. Nothing.
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You wouldnt like me when I'm drunk Or perhaps you'd like me too much Push pins sting As they slide into my skin But after long enough They go numb Can hardly notice the blood anymore Second Third Fourth skins are shed Leaving a raw innocence in it's place Uninhibited by restraints Such as logic Or forethought Blinders on too tight Choking out anything that would be Scandalous in daylight A deafening scream That's part siren song Vice grip fingers Holding on for too long The Devil's wife has come to dance Please walk away Or I promise we'll both hate me sober
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Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 at 3:27 PM UTC
letmebuyyouashot
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. How truly fortified is he! Where is the beast his double In forethought of emergency And readiness for trouble? Recall his figure, and his shade-- How deftly planned and clearly For slithering through the dappled glade Unseen, or pretty nearly. Yet should an alien eye discern His presence in the woodland, How little has he left to learn Of self-defense! My good land! For he can run, as swift as sound, To where his goose may hang high-- Or ****** his head against the ground And tunnel half to Shanghai; Or he can climb the dizziest bough-- Unhesitant, mechanic-- And, resting, dash from off his brow The bitter beads of panic; Or should pursuers press him hot, One scarcely needs to mention His quick and cruel barbs, that got Shakespearean attention; Or driven to his final ditch, To his extremest thicket, He'll fight with claws and molars (which Is not considered cricket). How amply armored, he, to fend The fear of chase that haunts him! How well prepared our little friend!-- And who the devil wants him?
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Parable For A Certain ******
If charged particles are not guilty of existence, why would anyone be? Man who holds book or man who holds gun, the choice is neither obvious or attenuated. Reactionary causes rash tactlessness. Still, proof must be exposed. Who will avenge a payback unpunished? How to take satisfaction in evening the score, when so many more will fall before any justice will cure the lure to revenge? It depends, on how charged particles defend, or how you decipher foe from friend. Call upon prudence, or we shall see no end. Precaution is canniness in your own circumspection. Please use forethought for neither the neutron or proton are happy with these electrons.
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Imprudent Protons, Electrons, and Neutrons
Things get broken Hearts Minds It's no-one's fault It never is Not really Butter fingers and distraction Without malice or forethought Things Like hearts and minds Slip And shatter on hard contact with reality
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 8:50 AM UTC
CARELESS
Living a life from moment to moment Devoid of feeling and shame. A person is fervent Full of passion and craze, That life holds no meaning and phase. In stochastic rhythm, embedded in wit, One finds a serious hymn, that life has bit In illogical fit, from the **** of reason and fate. Fate where man loses his name, To a more sinister and manipulative beast, That seeks to tame his composure; And quell him with an abundance of exposure So the soul of the next can feast. It is not radiation or something of ill will, But a being more accepting, that eats the source of thrill. For what is the beast, but the evolution of progression The child of reason and though. That brings evolution To the forethought of man with intent to pursue in full The need to place ban on the will of human So that the transition can be quelling and soothe.
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Sep 7, 2012
Sep 7, 2012 at 8:53 PM UTC
The Next Step
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
A Funebre In Plaridel, Bulacan
Revel in space, yet not darkled, still the **** and span of things that breeds airlessness; The trees are evenly cut, and their overgrowth seems like a forethought. Where I am from, we eat fish with our bare hands and our furniture, from bodies of sandalwood, crushed with the scent of peregrines. The morning makes you conscious of space, and altogether the height of trees syncopates to a nauseating stillness. In the awning hours, leaves punctuate the ground – the cicada with its machinistic song prowls, spills like water from a broken vase toppled by me years younger, raw, agile, deftly windless,   wounded in love, lovingly wounded, perhaps if there is a word for it, then let me have my way, easily fraught with its meaning:    a casualty. Sometimes the timeworn folks would light cigarettes underneath the canopy of a mango tree to banish ants and send them back   to their queens – roosters in their wrinkled stations croon in stasis, a song for the somnolent. I become what the seasons evict. Constancy. Rearing weight and gravity from nocturne. Tears are communal. They make us aware of the weight of the Earth. Somewhere, a funebre stilts through the silence, and the jangle of little pieces spells out fortuity, men in huddles mending pain by the sleight of hand, a toss of a card, spinning in its imaginary axis: fate,    feigned and fine-tuned to belief that it is controllable, a variable, or a tabulation marred by frailty. From where I am from, people stride through the streets naked, soldering baskets filled with fruits gossamer from the harvest, children suckling their mothers, the music of sweeping metastasizes throughout the afternoon, and the same clouds contort themselves to afford wry proposition: it is a day tender with wonder, its allure overwrought, its sheen unremarkable.   The funebre leaves with a necessary abundance of absence. All the leaves depart from their mothering boughs,   collapsing on the dreary back of the loam like penitence. Like how once when you were young, you tinkered with the fresh scab of your wound and felt the pain confine   itself there, a part of you, that has now healed, but is still       available for the world to break once again.
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drowned the Earth suddenly.   underneath honest light,                                   all    submerged. this cataract of feeling — waters pursue beginnings. cradling them to unknown ends, washed by the shore.         gluttonously the night swallowed all — parliament of birds warble no longer.              midnight, the   Moon claws the supple skin of organized stone   displaced                where all the edges bloom forth torrid froth of dappled light which kills no less than a brief life of matchflame. tenuous spar of wind on the unserious twilight; bulge of death in the stream — a body haul, rafting   in compost; stench of all topple like resins held loose in vats. rat **** becomes            as inviting as moulding bread; tantric music for no instrument, hoarse cries unbeheld —             until the flesh no longer flounders pressed against sleep-shaped youngness hewn lissome in the hours of no succor,        modeling silence in the thrill of this enthusiastic space,            hands scouring muddied   obscure, atremble,       shadowless hours fill stomachs with the plump word of rescue yet none   of these fingers unwished the ingenuity of dull gods — this twilight   nor twinight could ever grive in forethought, striking bells to signal birds          to arrive again so we could feast in  silver  fish, with bare hands scaled to callouses,            looking at it twice-over, this battered yolk of whiteness, with deeds of the viridian    now atrill in new fragile woodworks        lurching and          ameliorating as we all     stutter and sing        haunts dabbing open   lips of small wounds that    wish to shut quietly,   almost every threat of gray     or pummel of    wind startles the flyblown ornate,       hurrying us back to cornerless homes where all photographs washed away,     very few hang                swayed by verdure   of the gradual throne of sea         curving perpetually the several stars we have ignored for a while,      where everything quite begins     again to enthrall with a melodic   leitmotif of the most tender of        instances loose             in mouths                  and in endless recall                                                                   breathless—
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 7:55 AM UTC
Rat **** As Inviting As Molding Bread
drowned the Earth suddenly.   underneath honest light,                                   all    submerged. this cataract of feeling — waters pursue beginnings. cradling them to unknown ends, washed by the shore.         gluttonously the night swallowed all — parliament of birds warble no longer.              midnight, the   Moon claws the supple skin of organized stone   displaced                where all the edges bloom forth torrid froth of dappled light which kills no less than a brief life of matchflame. tenuous spar of wind on the unserious twilight; bulge of death in the stream — a body haul, rafting   in compost; stench of all topple like resins held loose in vats. rat **** becomes            as inviting as moulding bread; tantric music for no instrument, hoarse cries unbeheld —             until the flesh no longer flounders pressed against sleep-shaped youngness hewn lissome in the hours of no succor,        modeling silence in the thrill of this enthusiastic space,            hands scouring muddied   obscure, atremble,       shadowless hours fill stomachs with the plump word of rescue yet none   of these fingers unwished the ingenuity of dull gods — this twilight   nor twinight could ever grive in forethought, striking bells to signal birds          to arrive again so we could feast in  silver  fish, with bare hands scaled to callouses,            looking at it twice-over, this battered yolk of whiteness, with deeds of the viridian    now atrill in new fragile woodworks        lurching and          ameliorating as we all     stutter and sing        haunts dabbing open   lips of small wounds that    wish to shut quietly,   almost every threat of gray     or pummel of    wind startles the flyblown ornate,       hurrying us back to cornerless homes where all photographs washed away,     very few hang                swayed by verdure   of the gradual throne of sea         curving perpetually the several stars we have ignored for a while,      where everything quite begins     again to enthrall with a melodic   leitmotif of the most tender of        instances loose             in mouths                  and in endless recall                                                                   breathless—
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My happiness comes from me ask my friends and the world around me blossoming in a spark of crimsony red moon glow on forethought walks through the shivering lenses of percept that trickle down our backs as we enlighten ourselves with all that is in between and unseen. It is as if our aged limbs were caressed into a symphony of leverages and their shapes. We cannot be cadavers. We are arms of cheer and picture jasper, adolescent googled-eyes gathers with virile fixations on our partners as we prey on the map lines subtly employing our eyes as we dart across each dimple, pimple, freckle, and gently worn rash lines. These are the dogs of our incessant barking. Idling for sincerity, as actors swiftly press Winter into us while our limbless diction presents our inadequacy Rd upon our ugly and I'll-tempered neighborly-things. Aliens of the afternoon, first floor agony and karmas standard for living in a reduced climate One. Wearing down the hooves, undulates from Pepperdine mark trails with breaking breads and twigs and bones. Undulates from another world, behoofed and bemoved, curdling their sappy reselling a of drat and unkindly remarks. And we have begun to wonder when evolution will kick-in. When will the military come for them at the doors and vacate is all from our nontoxic lie-shrouded apartment complexes, condos, and cabins. Slaughter numbers of letters and integers right out in the street; loonies in the town square and the moose are crying.
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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 9:52 PM UTC
Weighing Us Down, Down In The Weather
the holiday season has just begun and the death toll on the roadways do stun drivers driving far too fast for these maniac drivers the dice is cast drivers consuming too much beer and wine the outcome for them is the end of the line drivers taking uppers to stay awake they're putting their lives and others at stake some forethought by drivers who get behind the wheel may obviate  the death statistics which grow with zeal
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 6:35 PM UTC
Death Statistics
"Impulse is master", said the learned man. "It brings disaster to a pondered plan." *But what about choice? That's what I've been taught.* Trying speech, no voice came, instead forethought echoed through my head: speak, and you'll be trapped! I sat, mute as lead; the man, smiling, clapped.
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 5:00 PM UTC
Koan
All the roads are closed. Silence metastasizes through the stretch of EDSA. Cold seeps in bone. Sun still flagellates. Oscillate through sound space and whitewashed walls. Seismic grunt of jeepney awakens the signs: no avatars, yet. The night was as deep as any lover, a fine blistering moon glares through lit rivers. Nothing exists except heads of tacks and maimed populace ambulating across roads sequined with ermine light. The disquiet approximates the lightness of buildings in repair. Scaffolds, ubiquitous lovers, clouds explode into white, and everything else like pain, pales in comparison with the slow twitch of everything. Today there will be no siren nor simultaneous joust of cyclists in perpetual motion— just you contending against hues of all graffiti: Cataract of anguish. News of killing. Incarnadine trees netted with aureoles burning bright in solstices. Penumbral undulation of forethought and afterthought. Dislimned – all; you, left in polaroid taken in solitary shutter, in pursuit of light.
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Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 1:59 PM UTC
Still Searching
Love is a difficult thing to explain. But then again, love can be difficult. Love is choosing sushi over chow-mein. Just because you know its their favorite. It's the I'm sorry's when your not, and the thank you's even when your mad. It's the little presents you buy without forethought. And the little love notes you discover. It is the passionate love making, and the fierce make up *** It's the "I think your beautiful"'s when your clearly aging. It's also the connection and the reminiscing of stories you share.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 1:01 AM UTC
Untitled
Gumdrops in Candyland, teardrops in soup; Tomato red, I spin my head; And jump now through the hoop. In the rain I walked, in the rain we kissed; Paper hats, playful chats; Forgetting what I missed. Forethought for me, an afternoon with you; Flick the light, to day from night, More love, your love, I do.
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 10:06 PM UTC
Passive Love
I don't remember when it started, The need to baby sit the world. It gets so tiring sometimes, A tremendous burden to bear. The constancy of forethought, The conscientious words of harmony. Seek it first to make it last. Maker of Peace wherever you go.
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Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015 at 9:43 PM UTC
The Peacemaker
The leaves dance for the breeze, birds hop and glide from tree to tree. Cicadas throaty song and the crickets cracking chirps, the vibrations sent into my ear in a humming tornado swirl. Life moves with ease, if you let it. A memory recalled and the scene brought back found in the sleek motion of a pouncing cat. Shown to forethought, brought under the light a recollection lost to the wind lit in hollow tones of hazy purple. Nuzzled between the layers in those forgotten days, Life will pass with ease, if you let it. Turn turn turn, the globe on it's rotating limb it turns. Light shines, line fades, time aches but quickens its pace. The flame it should burn the blurred heat rises in mist all around, I can't i can't i can't feel the flame forming, lashing at my feet. The shoreline night breeze sends my bones shivering and knocking and aching, can someone tell me why the horizon will not stop shaking? A look above, breath found within the shining eye of the crowded moon, behind a blooming star their retreating dance in tempo with the lights as they shake and dim. Clear and vacant eyes, Cleared out and left to rot in the twisting tumbling weeds of memories you thought you had forgot.
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 5:15 PM UTC
Flashback
as promised, a tip for and to nolly •<>• “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” David Foster Wallace •<>• it is as if I've been stripped bare and their is no air or barrel handy, bankrupted by exposure of my less-than-clean ***** secret, scrapped from under my tongue, my genuine creativity, it is no different than yours or hers or anybody else, but "I need to believe," he screeches, "say it ain't so!" time again to tally up the wins and losses, check the standings, the numerical columns, nope, wasn't selected to be MVP or even loved by the algorithmic ridiculous secret sauce "poem of the day" blah blah blah bottom line: "You’re Pretty Normal" comfort or consternation, exhalations of relief, or just another nail in the shutting of your depression coffin calculation this no longer unspoken arrogance undressed brings me to a quiet place, where you are welcome to sit beside, this puzzle together, nuzzled, perhaps more soluble they don't make Advil for the mind, so read the good ones, and be reminded of this your published spoken courageous poetry need satisfy only you, and no one more *in there lies the rub, the vive la difference, we identically different, no longer a secret, every poem is the difference you make* August 2017 in the sunroom, Shelter Island <•> BONUS POEM!!! Nolly's Haiku #17/#70 with good knowing that distress and forethought, are its mother and father that this poetic output but a derivative of your unique self, see, maybe, you be maybe just wise enough to curse the birth of poem at age seventeen but just wait Nolly, till you are seven tens, and poetry's folly, make you even more practiced in cursing, still asking, why and getting the sendoff, kiss off, of the one true answer, nobody knows so scribble a life time when you start at 17 and when the ripe and wizened answers in your old age have yet to arrive *then you can call yourself an accursed wizened but wise'ed old poet*
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Aug 13, 2017
Aug 13, 2017 at 12:03 PM UTC
deep down you are different from everyone else
as promised, a tip for and to nolly •<>• “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” David Foster Wallace •<>• it is as if I've been stripped bare and their is no air or barrel handy, bankrupted by exposure of my less-than-clean ***** secret, scrapped from under my tongue, my genuine creativity, it is no different than yours or hers or anybody else, but "I need to believe," he screeches, "say it ain't so!" time again to tally up the wins and losses, check the standings, the numerical columns, nope, wasn't selected to be MVP or even loved by the algorithmic ridiculous secret sauce "poem of the day" blah blah blah bottom line: "You’re Pretty Normal" comfort or consternation, exhalations of relief, or just another nail in the shutting of your depression coffin calculation this no longer unspoken arrogance undressed brings me to a quiet place, where you are welcome to sit beside, this puzzle together, nuzzled, perhaps more soluble they don't make Advil for the mind, so read the good ones, and be reminded of this your published spoken courageous poetry need satisfy only you, and no one more *in there lies the rub, the vive la difference, we identically different, no longer a secret, every poem is the difference you make* August 2017 in the sunroom, Shelter Island <•> BONUS POEM!!! Nolly's Haiku #17/#70 with good knowing that distress and forethought, are its mother and father that this poetic output but a derivative of your unique self, see, maybe, you be maybe just wise enough to curse the birth of poem at age seventeen but just wait Nolly, till you are seven tens, and poetry's folly, make you even more practiced in cursing, still asking, why and getting the sendoff, kiss off, of the one true answer, nobody knows so scribble a life time when you start at 17 and when the ripe and wizened answers in your old age have yet to arrive *then you can call yourself an accursed wizened but wise'ed old poet*
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Sep 8, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 at 5:15 AM UTC
Encouragement