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"foundry" poems
Sunday sermons are spilling on the inner city streets through the green heaps and brown bags through the downtown whisperers and sage solitude souls Army bands prepare for march (their trench members filling packs with canister and cane) the high command and tricked militia head pinned quick on the look for splinter, lorry and skuttle Traffic patterns change at the COP connect camouflage bearers break formal stride battle men slip between colorful floats unsuspecting slumlords (vein pricked and weary) grin in their second suite dying rooms Twitching men and rubbernecks sit discreetly on the corner wall JJ and the chief revere a 21 gun salute holy rollers raise cheer (in a moment of silence) chess men hold steady with ivory cues Flames belt from the distant foundry streets come alive with crackle and dust members of the attic group glance down from their perch an elderly man in a straight jacket (happy in the now) sits solemnly with a cold reflective stare It’s not far from the steely mud holes from the flying fragments and sharp broken dreams from the arsenal digs and madmen (who quietly turned the ***** the ivy trellis and flowing white gown are a nocturne fit for this elevated rolling highland
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 8:33 PM UTC
James Street Parade
train to Chicago... See it from a train. Should have called it the Rust Apocalypse. Endless piles of industrial woolly mammoth skeletons turned red by the rust that never sleeps or blinks. Miles and miles of factory, mills, and foundry corpses. The workers long scattered to $10 per hour ***** jobs. Businesses gone with the workers. Globalization at its finest. The end of the people's value. Amerika crumbles of dry rot. Enjoy your stuff, good citizen. This will all come to you. There is no immunity to endless, mindless greed.    ~mce
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 4:51 PM UTC
Rust Belt
My words have been ripped from me uncovering my naked body below and I bemoan the cold or mayhap just existence My pupils will not focus, a lack of dilation I am not entombed in life for I blink with each inhalation I am subtly encased in flesh not suffering simply slipping Mourning the loss of my language and when I dream death pervades my visions when I wake, I'm approached by none other than heartbreak at my most fearful perception Strength isn't to forcefully remove temptation, but to resist temptation daily and survive. A man doesn't reflect until he is imprisoned, and limited by an external boundary, I re-forge myself within the internal foundry.
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Nov 16, 2010
Nov 16, 2010 at 11:29 PM UTC
Adjustable Personality.
progressively irrelevant, i write. each strike comes, reverberating chords in chambers all my history reveals-- voices forge a living thought, steam quietly; truth is spent confronting hidden dangers that, when alight between the flicker awe our fire-starting letters linger still to question ashen marvels of, phoenixlike enveloping that subtle being-as annulled to meaninglessness tolled. a bare encounter with the void leaves off, no symbols rally convalescent winds for shaping form amenable to time-- rather, my lostness leads to this, and dies.
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Apr 16, 2013
Apr 16, 2013 at 8:31 PM UTC
title, titled, cryptic title foundry wax
A 14 year old tender, Came with a situation He can’t decide his gender Social keys challenging perception. A prof. got suspended from his job Coz he can’t love a woman in the **** His feelings for affection were just like us But for men, that he can’t discuss. A girl of 25 don’t want to marry Coz she love her girlfriend back in bury She know it’s impossible to do this As the law prevent love between two fairies Now the question arises If love has no boundaries Why our brains are in cages? As metals are casted in a foundry God has made us in different pages. We all pray equally As do lesbians and gays We all love equally As do Bisexuals and Transgender We all make friends evenly As any girl or a boy So why we can’t love legally? Think and make others think We all are humans, catch the link.
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 12:45 AM UTC
The Another Gender
Prerogative presumptive judicature, cantankerous cantilever capacity.  Paradoxical dichotomy greaves, gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts, asymmetrical symmetry.  Objectified manifest's dimensional delineation, intrinsic endemic innate opaque opulence.  Protractive analyses accidence ambience acoustics.  Spatiotemporal telemetry tactician's trajectory extant.         Prophylaxis protocol annex annul.  Kinesiology kleptomaniac extraversion embezzlement euthanasia extortion, embark embargo extradition.  Aura roan's rainbow mare's nimbus nimiety exorcism.  Corporeally preternatural's existential exigence exodus.  Cerebral cortex's ****** matrix's carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma, apex axis crux, exponentially extemporaneous manumission. Categorical imperative hubris, hectic duty deontological probity.         Astral projection's clairaudience clairvoyance.   Tenets and principles, maxims and axioms, and doctrinal mandates.  Exserted protuberance's edifice ********   Exotically ****** ethereally sublime xylem Xanadu sails. Erotica erectile errantry.         Fulham nuance *****  Formidable foundry of a foyer fracas.  Harpy harsh hast, atrium attrition seditious.  Oak tree ****** nails swarthy ******** swath swizzles and unicorn railway sails.  Anchor pin tachometer troll wood harlotry's root clod rudiments, lightning bow hat pick.  Transcendent nimbus nimiety exorcist.  Transpicuous translucence alluvium aloof impunity.
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Feb 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021 at 10:07 PM UTC
An Epoch of Epos and Epopee
Prerogative presumptive judicature, cantankerous cantilever capacity.  Paradoxical dichotomy greaves, gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts, asymmetrical symmetry.  Objectified manifest's dimensional delineation, intrinsic endemic innate opaque opulence.  Protractive analyses accidence ambience acoustics.  Spatiotemporal telemetry tactician's trajectory extant.         Prophylaxis protocol annex annul.  Kinesiology kleptomaniac extraversion embezzlement euthanasia extortion, embark embargo extradition.  Aura roan's rainbow mare's nimbus nimiety exorcism.  Corporeally preternatural's existential exigence exodus.  Cerebral cortex's ****** matrix's carousel ceaselessly ceremony chaos character charisma, apex axis crux, exponentially extemporaneous manumission. Categorical imperative hubris, hectic duty deontological probity.         Astral projection's clairaudience clairvoyance.   Tenets and principles, maxims and axioms, and doctrinal mandates.  Exserted protuberance's edifice ********   Exotically ****** ethereally sublime xylem Xanadu sails. Erotica erectile errantry.         Fulham nuance *****  Formidable foundry of a foyer fracas.  Harpy harsh hast, atrium attrition seditious.  Oak tree ****** nails swarthy ******** swath swizzles and unicorn railway sails.  Anchor pin tachometer troll wood harlotry's root clod rudiments, lightning bow hat pick.  Transcendent nimbus nimiety exorcist.  Transpicuous translucence alluvium aloof impunity.
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In Abraham Lincoln's city, Where they remember his lawyer's shingle, The place where they brought him Wrapped in battle flags, Wrapped in the smoke of memories From Tallahassee to the Yukon, The place now where the shaft of his tomb Points white against the blue prairie dome, In Abraham Lincoln's city ... I saw knucks In the window of Mister Fischman's second-hand store On Second Street. I went in and asked, "How much?" "Thirty cents apiece," answered Mister Fischman. And taking a box of new ones off a shelf He filled anew the box in the showcase And said incidentally, most casually And incidentally: "I sell a carload a month of these." I slipped my fingers into a set of knucks, Cast-iron knucks molded in a foundry pattern, And there came to me a set of thoughts like these: Mister Fischman is for Abe and the "malice to none" stuff, And the street car strikers and the strike-breakers, And the sluggers, gunmen, detectives, policemen, Judges, utility heads, newspapers, priests, lawyers, They are all for Abe and the "malice to none" stuff. I started for the door. "Maybe you want a lighter pair," Came Mister Fischman's voice. I opened the door ... and the voice again: "You are a funny customer." Wrapped in battle flags, Wrapped in the smoke of memories, This is the place they brought him, This is Abraham Lincoln's home town.
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Knucks
White spots on the bathroom floor Remind me of you They make me feel empty Like a glass without water Like the remnants of a burned out fire I remember it so vividly The cold city air smelled of metal foundry And cut like a razor through my sweater I thought it would never get better Until you wrapped your arms around me (remember how I kicked you in the shin?) You found me A broken little girl Alone in a big scary world Running the dark, damp streets We never thought twice Never planned for a future No need We weren't going to live that long I was weak and you were strong But now you're gone And all that's left Is a box of matches and an empty desk And me A lonely insomniac Vanilla and sandalwood incense Remind me of you Of the only home I've ever had A haven in the whirlwind of my youth Goodnight Red Balloon
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Feb 17, 2012
Feb 17, 2012 at 1:15 AM UTC
Vanilla and Sandalwood
When I was young I use to sit in my windowsill, and smell the foundry late at night. I could hear the rumble of the coal cars, I could feel my parents fight. Then I'd watch the trees dancing in the breeze, while the moon played Peekaboo. Life was just a game on Maple Avenue. And there were bright Winter mornings and long Summer nights, but I never knew what they meant. There were sermons on making time and money, but it never made a dent. Amid the factories there were dreams to please, though you wondered if they'd ever come true. It was hard to escape from Maple Avenue. Yet, somewhere inside of me, where no one had ever been. Below the goodness, and above the sin. Was a spark of silence, that no one ever heard. And I'd close my eyes and follow it and savor every word. And even without asking it told me what to do. It told me son, you've gotta run, from Maple Avenue. Now some of us were sinners, none of us were saints. Some of us were ***** and dreamless, but we had no complaints. We'd trade it all for just a glimpse of what we might turn into. But money only traded money on Maple Avenue. I've tried to get it all back again, but it's not like it was before. You can't come back into the pack, when the ***** don't know her pups no more. It's not a small thing for a man to die happy, it's not a hard thing to do. That's just one little thing I've learned from Maple Avenue.
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Jan 19, 2013
Jan 19, 2013 at 9:12 PM UTC
Maple Avenue
Were all just machines, bound for the train station that’ll hightail us out and over To the junkyard where we never sleep and the foundry melts us down to make room For the new undead, but non-living, to starve for what their computers say they need. But when you smile, your eyes show me that you have a soul inside that’s beautiful, And it proves my heart is something more than what the factory made it for; That my love means something more than a series of chemical reactions in my brain, That the mornings and nights we spent were worth more than we ever knew, And that you are someone more special to me than I have ever known. So, as we fly down the track of grayest metals and coldest weather, into the north country To God knows where to as the sun is at dawn and dusk at the same time, Remember that your heart doesn’t need to be held like coal, that your eyes are soulful, That someone, somewhere thinks you’re more than a piece of electric meat, That I think you’re worth more than my life,—my holy hunk of steel—but don’t let that Get to your head missy! And that when we’re laid upon the cutting board To be scraped and melted down, I want to be laid there next to you To kiss you one more time, while I look into your eyes, searchingly.
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM UTC
We're all just machines
~ she is woman of softened beauty, like the sunset’s molten hues; yet rugged as the rocky crags, that from afar are mountain’s blue, and which each night at even’s call, the sun behind will slowly slide. she is timid as a doe, ’neath a canopy of green, feeding by the quiet waters; yet fierce as timber wolf, among the limbs and leaves her young from prey she hides. within her soul she bears her secrets, without she is ten thousand verses; as waters trickle to the stream, and have no voice until, they join in gathered current, to fall in thunderous cascade, as majestic waterfall. she is a being... light of spirit, yet bears on dove white shoulders, pain endured from cruel world. in the dark she is a light; in an age of growing grays, she robes herself in dazzling white. to each who calls her friend, she is to them a heroine; an angel ’midst the darkness, she works beside, yet out of sight. of many thoughts, none spill careless, from her tongue to cross her lips; yet all her words are weighty, a bond of promise, made and kept; these in secret places dark, in a foundry, hot with sweat; her long and dusty journey, leaves on her soul a branded mark. loyal friend and steadfast mate, she brings with her a hope eternal, yet she alone accepts her fate. she is peace and love maternal; within her an oasis rare, few have found, and fewer see; for all its hidden beauty lies, behind her softened hazel eyes, these she guards, the secret way, the stair beyond her garden’s gate. ~ *post script. these words christened in celebration of her life, her birth.  she entered the world in the year Camelot began, and though we would not meet til we were both sixteen, she became Camelot to me; a castle of hidden fragrance and beauty.  of these few words she is all, yet so much more.  she is everything i didn’t know i’d want or ever need; at every turn more than my equal, she is the sum of all my parts.  at a glance some judge her simple, yet she is rogue complexity; a woman who discards little, except barriers to those she loves and who love her in return! Happy Birthday, Darling!!*
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Dec 9, 2016
Dec 9, 2016 at 8:53 PM UTC
her garden’s gate
~ she is woman of softened beauty, like the sunset’s molten hues; yet rugged as the rocky crags, that from afar are mountain’s blue, and which each night at even’s call, the sun behind will slowly slide. she is timid as a doe, ’neath a canopy of green, feeding by the quiet waters; yet fierce as timber wolf, among the limbs and leaves her young from prey she hides. within her soul she bears her secrets, without she is ten thousand verses; as waters trickle to the stream, and have no voice until, they join in gathered current, to fall in thunderous cascade, as majestic waterfall. she is a being... light of spirit, yet bears on dove white shoulders, pain endured from cruel world. in the dark she is a light; in an age of growing grays, she robes herself in dazzling white. to each who calls her friend, she is to them a heroine; an angel ’midst the darkness, she works beside, yet out of sight. of many thoughts, none spill careless, from her tongue to cross her lips; yet all her words are weighty, a bond of promise, made and kept; these in secret places dark, in a foundry, hot with sweat; her long and dusty journey, leaves on her soul a branded mark. loyal friend and steadfast mate, she brings with her a hope eternal, yet she alone accepts her fate. she is peace and love maternal; within her an oasis rare, few have found, and fewer see; for all its hidden beauty lies, behind her softened hazel eyes, these she guards, the secret way, the stair beyond her garden’s gate. ~ *post script. these words christened in celebration of her life, her birth.  she entered the world in the year Camelot began, and though we would not meet til we were both sixteen, she became Camelot to me; a castle of hidden fragrance and beauty.  of these few words she is all, yet so much more.  she is everything i didn’t know i’d want or ever need; at every turn more than my equal, she is the sum of all my parts.  at a glance some judge her simple, yet she is rogue complexity; a woman who discards little, except barriers to those she loves and who love her in return! Happy Birthday, Darling!!*
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Plant your voice on the anvil. I write my name in rust just as you in soot. And you in skin. Riveted by flint. Coated by grit. Send me on my way. What I will find in the foundry is slag. The husk of some steam shovel lurching over asphalt. Rip my organs from the mouth and bore into me. Bellows amid sparks. Flame in columns. There was a puddle I would stand in to quicken the surge. Groping wholeness in each crescent flare. My family alone far away. Valley Forge wet with orange. Tossing crumbs to ducks from the path. I would join them. My hands would split open crab. We row to the dam’s lip and wait for sturgeon, rocking. Pumice and sand. Beat and grind and reduce me bare. Tongue fumbling for the tip. I think she would be proud of me.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM UTC
To Be A Poet
Hello H̵e̵l̵l̵ is lo Grand Rising Mind the Do No Boundary -No burden Man No Foundry -No Smoking plants See....(d)s)) We had lived out the ghet̴̹̥̲͈̤̬̘̪͇̗̰̣̼̖͊́̌̃̆̑͊̀̉̓̓̇̋̃̈́ͅṯ̵̢̢͙̹̌̍̽̾̌̃͛̆̔̾̃̚ǫ̴͓̠̳̤͍̜̙̣̳͎͇̳̝̮̆̀̊̅͜. ( at E.) Alaska and poverty w̵̢̢͇̱͔̻̹̪̞̰̬̱̻̉̂͛̏̔̕à̷͔͕̦̭̾̿̌͗͐̕͘͠ÿ̶̝̯̲͈̪̠̥̗͈̼͔̮̖̆͋͛̓̎̍̍̄̿̽͜͠ Been smoking off sphagedro Don't ask (me) how the property paid We had convinced ourselves this was poverty made, this was the way it was the mental Rather than how to properly pave... Stop and get saved. We'd rob and rip r̴̟̗͔̣̋̽͂̑̐̍͒́͒́͘ạ̶̡̡̡̭͍̥͔̖͓̜̥͎̩͙̓͌ves To tap into ley lines , we laid ̶l̵i̶n̵e̴s̵ to hear one another? Why? We fade minds to the sidelines Existence is another mother consumed Tripped im a land mind everyday, it was essential Felt like we saved lives just by saying Hi Who was I supposed to be then how am I poised to po̸̢̧̡̙̟̥͉̮͈̮͇͇̎͂͌̇̀̃͘͜͜se now? H̵e̵l̵l̵ is empty And all the devils are he̶͔͂̿̀re Don't come and tempt me And All the bedouins near the d̵̢̨͈̫̦͈͈̦̣̯̼̔͛̔̅̾͝ͅͅa̷̼̠̱̥̪̥̗̫͖̞̱̻̻͐͒̅́̌̾͜͝r̵̡̨̼̰͉̜̝̳̥͕͇͐̅̈̍̚͜ķ̴͇̖̳̦̞̞̯̲̖̾̈͌̀̀̍̀̈́͗͗́̌͑̅͘͘can be a low hum That low hum f̵̛̞̲̞̮̙͚̠̮̀̋̆̓͂̓̓̄̔̃̈́̋́̀̐̍͘͘a̷̛͉̭̤̩̳͓̰̦͍͕͈̥̜̣̟̥̼̍̍̃̔̇̄̈́̅̔̚l̴̢̪̮̗̺̗̭̉́̇́l̶̢̢̧̰̰̞̹̙̣̳̩̱̙̀́̏̊̓̓́͘ ̶̛͔͔͓͙̥̫̩͇̭̩̜̻̹̇̅̄͗̐́̒̂̈́͛̀͂͋̚͘ to a dull *** *** turn silence to the doldrum̴̬͔̰̠̠̳̫̠̠̣̫̺̠̝͍͙̎̌̓̽̌͋̍͛̔̂͌͑̔̂̃̊̎́̄̈́́̕͘͘͠ͅ ** hum eve, press up the tress the shadow be a pit fall, mess up your knees a void in eve become a slow shade seed Devoid of the needs beckon doe ray me its beyond whats in the fire in the propane, key Heating up with Sour D Pushing to get pro-paid (C)see)()() Halo with the dome braid Angel with the co-pay Singing singles with lonely Singing for the lonely! When did culture become business? When my business became the culture... Its not a bug, its a feature, long exposure measure the posture of composure, Who could torture the Rapture, The picture is the culture self- Suturing the Future its a self-evident thing, so potent it ring Bout to help Erich architect A co̴̡̢̰͕͈̦̲̤͖͇̯̮̬̟͍͙̥͉͍͚̳̙͕̫̣͍͓̙͓̖̮͇̼̞̗͇̺̎͗̄̇́͜rner outta the ring carve a Stone outta the wing Dem B̶̛̻͇̺̻̣́͑͗̑̽͐̑̍̂͒̀̇̚̚͝͝ǫ̷̨̨̭̲̪̝͎̹̰̺̈́͛̔̓̍̎͆́̉̅̊̈́̒̕͝ň̸̼̞̯̟̱͓̙͈̫͚̙͎̱̝̣̌͜͜͠͝ẽ̴͖̓͊̊͝ gotta be prouda king But Whats the sound when it sing?
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Nov 29, 2023
Nov 29, 2023 at 11:16 PM UTC
N̶o̴ ̸Boundary**N̶o̴ ̸Burden
Hello H̵e̵l̵l̵ is lo Grand Rising Mind the Do No Boundary -No burden Man No Foundry -No Smoking plants See....(d)s)) We had lived out the ghet̴̹̥̲͈̤̬̘̪͇̗̰̣̼̖͊́̌̃̆̑͊̀̉̓̓̇̋̃̈́ͅṯ̵̢̢͙̹̌̍̽̾̌̃͛̆̔̾̃̚ǫ̴͓̠̳̤͍̜̙̣̳͎͇̳̝̮̆̀̊̅͜. ( at E.) Alaska and poverty w̵̢̢͇̱͔̻̹̪̞̰̬̱̻̉̂͛̏̔̕à̷͔͕̦̭̾̿̌͗͐̕͘͠ÿ̶̝̯̲͈̪̠̥̗͈̼͔̮̖̆͋͛̓̎̍̍̄̿̽͜͠ Been smoking off sphagedro Don't ask (me) how the property paid We had convinced ourselves this was poverty made, this was the way it was the mental Rather than how to properly pave... Stop and get saved. We'd rob and rip r̴̟̗͔̣̋̽͂̑̐̍͒́͒́͘ạ̶̡̡̡̭͍̥͔̖͓̜̥͎̩͙̓͌ves To tap into ley lines , we laid ̶l̵i̶n̵e̴s̵ to hear one another? Why? We fade minds to the sidelines Existence is another mother consumed Tripped im a land mind everyday, it was essential Felt like we saved lives just by saying Hi Who was I supposed to be then how am I poised to po̸̢̧̡̙̟̥͉̮͈̮͇͇̎͂͌̇̀̃͘͜͜se now? H̵e̵l̵l̵ is empty And all the devils are he̶͔͂̿̀re Don't come and tempt me And All the bedouins near the d̵̢̨͈̫̦͈͈̦̣̯̼̔͛̔̅̾͝ͅͅa̷̼̠̱̥̪̥̗̫͖̞̱̻̻͐͒̅́̌̾͜͝r̵̡̨̼̰͉̜̝̳̥͕͇͐̅̈̍̚͜ķ̴͇̖̳̦̞̞̯̲̖̾̈͌̀̀̍̀̈́͗͗́̌͑̅͘͘can be a low hum That low hum f̵̛̞̲̞̮̙͚̠̮̀̋̆̓͂̓̓̄̔̃̈́̋́̀̐̍͘͘a̷̛͉̭̤̩̳͓̰̦͍͕͈̥̜̣̟̥̼̍̍̃̔̇̄̈́̅̔̚l̴̢̪̮̗̺̗̭̉́̇́l̶̢̢̧̰̰̞̹̙̣̳̩̱̙̀́̏̊̓̓́͘ ̶̛͔͔͓͙̥̫̩͇̭̩̜̻̹̇̅̄͗̐́̒̂̈́͛̀͂͋̚͘ to a dull *** *** turn silence to the doldrum̴̬͔̰̠̠̳̫̠̠̣̫̺̠̝͍͙̎̌̓̽̌͋̍͛̔̂͌͑̔̂̃̊̎́̄̈́́̕͘͘͠ͅ ** hum eve, press up the tress the shadow be a pit fall, mess up your knees a void in eve become a slow shade seed Devoid of the needs beckon doe ray me its beyond whats in the fire in the propane, key Heating up with Sour D Pushing to get pro-paid (C)see)()() Halo with the dome braid Angel with the co-pay Singing singles with lonely Singing for the lonely! When did culture become business? When my business became the culture... Its not a bug, its a feature, long exposure measure the posture of composure, Who could torture the Rapture, The picture is the culture self- Suturing the Future its a self-evident thing, so potent it ring Bout to help Erich architect A co̴̡̢̰͕͈̦̲̤͖͇̯̮̬̟͍͙̥͉͍͚̳̙͕̫̣͍͓̙͓̖̮͇̼̞̗͇̺̎͗̄̇́͜rner outta the ring carve a Stone outta the wing Dem B̶̛̻͇̺̻̣́͑͗̑̽͐̑̍̂͒̀̇̚̚͝͝ǫ̷̨̨̭̲̪̝͎̹̰̺̈́͛̔̓̍̎͆́̉̅̊̈́̒̕͝ň̸̼̞̯̟̱͓̙͈̫͚̙͎̱̝̣̌͜͜͠͝ẽ̴͖̓͊̊͝ gotta be prouda king But Whats the sound when it sing?
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It's practically unlawful Your minds are all bare The welled up and awful That compose your stare You see not the light But only the dark The wonders of sight Are but a mere mark On the surface of hate Soon to be removed Rejection innate And you've really proved That the glory of life The love of the heart Are nothing but strife To be pinned by the dart The dart of no mercy Of eons of shame You'll get your hands ***** To garner some fame You are hardly human An embarrassment, too It's the free right of man It's nothing anew To love without boundaries Regardless of gender It's nothing of foundry But a natural splendor So go back to your shells To hide in your frames Reject all the bells And never be tamed We'll go on without you Overflowing with love No one there around to Pacify your dove The dove that never flies And feeds on our pain His mind soon to die And we, soon to claim The crumbling earth And patch it all up You're into the hearth And we've got your cup Dump all the contents Into the fire Now peaceful moments Can truly suspire
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 2:50 AM UTC
Westboro Baptist Church
At the bottom of our limestone cliffs, In a great heap on the sand. Is where they tipped the waste glass, From the foundry on the land. Over many years the rough seas, Have ground it really smooth. As it is washed along the shore, By the east tide on the move. People looking carefully, For beach glass as they roam. Popped in a plastic bag, And proudly taken home. Some end up in the garden, Decorating old flower pots. You find them stored in jars, A collection of precious gems. But the more patient and artistic, Glue them to pots in different ways, Then finish by painting with a glaze. As I sit on the rocks by the sea, Watching people as they pass by me. I see many different ages bending up and down, Picking glass pebbles like jewels from a crown. Old or young there is a look in their eyes, If they pick a perfect pebble it's excitement and surprise. Every day they come like an invasion on the shore, But it's nothing quite so cynical, They have just come to pick some more.
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Sep 23, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 at 5:56 AM UTC
Beach Glass
she drank from god's fountain tore the rake and the peasant's plead as the chariots blew across this storms foundry new black ashes, soot stained faces a gall from the mercurian lee hunts dark places and wild dogs fear him the forest is his legion but he shakes from this poison there is no sky and the trees don't hide him there is no universe unplugged neither a human too forgone to wrestle every inch of skin and sleep to fight towards her against the leaves
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Dec 17, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 at 1:00 PM UTC
Untitled (17:12:15)
The foundry is wet and frothy with felons like you. They all say you’re not a bad guy, but your breath reeks of Grey Goose, Your eyes are wild, and your morals are loose, But I also hear that you have enough heart to share between two. It wasn’t hard to tell the meager malignant magicians from the brutally bruised and the blue. You always told me that was true. Yet, I feel melancholy now that I’ve spoken with this lowly American middle class few. I pray their sweat will count for something worth more than the products they produce. Their dime will only go as far as a brick and a bottle of juice, What will come of such men, I haven’t a clue.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM UTC
Working Class.
What’s poetic about a foundry worker’s son, Born and bred in Leeds, now idling my time away In a rinky **** seaside town? What’s poetic About sitting on my laptop reading Facebook And pressing Like now and then? It’s got me typing Like a modern poet, no rhyme or metre to be seen. I’m going to (roughly) count the syllables then chop this Into verses. Then post it on my favourite Poetry sites, plus my blog. Perhaps there’s poetry in me being a Working Class Boy made good. In me being a Pro Careers Worker after failing My Eleven Plus. Even got to Grammar School For a couple of years. Taught English for six. The Internet is my Salvation. Television too. Is that prosaic enough for you? **** that rhymed! Knowledge and images, That yet beget… and much more too. No need to be there in person. Just enjoy.
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 2:29 AM UTC
Just Me
We wandered the night aimlessly. The children of street-urchin-anarchy sacrificed to the detrivores of the sky-high metal labyrinths. (For fear they’ll devour the living) I remember it vividly. The iron foundry air cut like a razor through my sweater skin. The concrete beneath my feet swallowing the warmth like a vacuum. Then you wrapped yourself around me like a Mylar blanket. And seeped into my skin in a cosmic osmosis of lost souls. For a moment we were home. Only a moment. We were thin white plastic blowing in the wind.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 7:50 AM UTC
In Another Lifetime
Oh Rick, if only things were so simple. . . . If only there were Nazis shooting children, bullies like Major Strasser waiting to take over, women like Ilsa -- so beautiful and passionate that just the memory of their love, just the shadow, is enough. We would sing the Marseillaise and in the air itself, just breathing in that hot, dry air, would find all the meaning we need. But we live in an everyday world, with everyday human beings. And we must start again each morning, with scraps of faith and feeling, to make the world's meaning in the foundry of our heart.
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 3:43 PM UTC
Casablanca
the layers unfold like spring time flowers aching to be viewed by sunlight eyes a winter spent under the heavy hands of the foundry shaped and strengthened until it is finally ready to steal the breath from your lungs and make your heart come alive
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
Unfurling Thoughts
Loosen your pattern, Locked in cloth. The shaded memories dampen. Blurred be the images of your emotionally betroth, By the beloved froth Your horrendous sloth hereby hearken. The age of light... What a frivolous delight! Insofar as to say that all things float. That's it's just one big game - Of hide and seek. “Oh no, what a shame!” Such is presumably remote. And disgustingly meek. See that star? You've come to adore? Will you spare yourself what you know isn't healthy? Knowing that all things are. Dying and nothing more. You see the tranquil secrets very deftly. Oh what's this? Face forward! Feet a' stepping! Hearts a' ticking! The truth's all backwards... But who cares?... “A human with any insight would say that they don't need a purpose. - Surplus filled the brightest emotions; Will to commit heinous actions. A malicious goal reduced to a fraction of importance. Time to think of yourself in this instance. The emotions of others the next, For this most surely directs, Superfluous answers at last. This life just moves too fast...” Says the man who thoughtfully stares. But oh great joyous occasion! Oh this glorious revelation! The presents of the past deny the presence of the present. Your eyes deceive you; These thoughts control you. Free the mind within it's own boundaries - You see all things have a subconscious foundry.
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM UTC
Foundry
The earth will know your flesh, Embrace your marrow’s last memory of bone More encompassing than any lover. You were received from earth's body, As much her child as sky’s; even more perhaps When you are no longer breathing. Into raw earth, you will change incomprehensibly As incorporeal as starlight itself, And nameless as shadows in moonlight. Just as daylight dies, you disappear Down into the deep foundry of death; Swallowing darkness, in bowels of earth again.
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Oct 7, 2010
Oct 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM UTC
The earth will know your flesh
*Steel In the morning, even before the sun got up, you could smell it. Thick fog covered everything with dust. The dust from tall chimneys spewing out the mornings breakfast of **** It was like this every minute, every day, every year since the foundry was born. It was fog-stench; you breathed it, you ate it, you drank it; it defined you then spit you out as lung cancer, breast cancer, the Big "C". And then you were no more. ~~~ I lasted 10 years til they kicked me out. 10 years, and then they modernized until the foundry disappeared one day in its fog. Today it covers another city, in another country carrying its dusty fog to identify another people with its cancer. Another people who once had beauty and lives. ~~~ 10 years carrying hand held red lava, pushing it into molds fast - sparks flying - burning skin; and above this din, words - "hurry boy, don't let it freeze." ~~~ There are many of us now, roaming dust covered streets, spewed out like last nights trash, wondering who we are. ( written under this pen name ~~redzone 2/12/14) Aztec Warrior Note: I worked in a steel foundry for 10 years carrying 100 pound ladles of molten steel; pouring into sand molds. It was heavy, hot ad ***** work. I have many leg burn scars to prove it. © 2014 redzone*
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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
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