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"frieze" poems
~ *O Painter with thy own eye                         would thee paint me in mine own natural hue prithee paint me as i am, imperfections             and blemishes true Load thy brush                       with colors sundry to maketh yond first pure sweep across the ****** frieze, fill'd with pangs of hunger. paint me as i standeth                   bethought, in deep With mine own love and mine own desire, blurring the edges unclean with mine own regrets                   and mine own mental gyre, in mine own natural age,                of deep forest green O Painter Paint me sinister turquoise, in lavender and maroon, combine the amethyst and amber blend the iceberg        and the indigo moon. Paint me as i standeth,        prithee see with thy eye a mistress in yond lady plight Prithee paint me all i am i cullionly a mistress in all yond lady might Paint me in the optimistic                              silv'r of dawn, but don’t miss the purple to shade the bruise                               of the bygone. paint me in the sky blue journal O Painter Paint me as a unique template smudge black white and grizzled merging all the colors of thy palette. col'r me a rainbow                             in a rainy drizzle Paint me tall so yond i standeth loftier than any mountain Paint me as a dram bird, delicate with soft feathers silken Paint me harmony, as a violin so yond i can sing thy solitary tune paint me as thy poetry          with song and melody wrapp'd in a cocoon O Painter paint me as a dream yond rises                                in did saturate colors with a steady upbeat flight awry tint, a fluttering              of a quite quaint butterfly Portray me with endurance imbue so bold and bright doth not hesitate                 to depict mine own mind in profound fuchsia and white. Useth the colors yond thee would borrow Thy palette not yet exsufflicate Paint mine own loss and mine own sorrow in search of a shade so ****** Adorn mine own heart in glowing garnet at which hour thee paint mine own love add a true broken blue shade of the cloud and the rain above; Study mine own dry sorrow                               in mine own soul useth any shade thee plaited soften the edges of control in a tinge of xanthene. O Painter Prithee paint me Mine own passion and mine own spirit shall has't a crimson r'd hint mine own remorse and mine own regret shall reflect an ink stain print Paint me in mine own eye so true O Painter but add a dash of courage too* ~
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 10:52 AM UTC
O Painter
~ *O Painter with thy own eye                         would thee paint me in mine own natural hue prithee paint me as i am, imperfections             and blemishes true Load thy brush                       with colors sundry to maketh yond first pure sweep across the ****** frieze, fill'd with pangs of hunger. paint me as i standeth                   bethought, in deep With mine own love and mine own desire, blurring the edges unclean with mine own regrets                   and mine own mental gyre, in mine own natural age,                of deep forest green O Painter Paint me sinister turquoise, in lavender and maroon, combine the amethyst and amber blend the iceberg        and the indigo moon. Paint me as i standeth,        prithee see with thy eye a mistress in yond lady plight Prithee paint me all i am i cullionly a mistress in all yond lady might Paint me in the optimistic                              silv'r of dawn, but don’t miss the purple to shade the bruise                               of the bygone. paint me in the sky blue journal O Painter Paint me as a unique template smudge black white and grizzled merging all the colors of thy palette. col'r me a rainbow                             in a rainy drizzle Paint me tall so yond i standeth loftier than any mountain Paint me as a dram bird, delicate with soft feathers silken Paint me harmony, as a violin so yond i can sing thy solitary tune paint me as thy poetry          with song and melody wrapp'd in a cocoon O Painter paint me as a dream yond rises                                in did saturate colors with a steady upbeat flight awry tint, a fluttering              of a quite quaint butterfly Portray me with endurance imbue so bold and bright doth not hesitate                 to depict mine own mind in profound fuchsia and white. Useth the colors yond thee would borrow Thy palette not yet exsufflicate Paint mine own loss and mine own sorrow in search of a shade so ****** Adorn mine own heart in glowing garnet at which hour thee paint mine own love add a true broken blue shade of the cloud and the rain above; Study mine own dry sorrow                               in mine own soul useth any shade thee plaited soften the edges of control in a tinge of xanthene. O Painter Prithee paint me Mine own passion and mine own spirit shall has't a crimson r'd hint mine own remorse and mine own regret shall reflect an ink stain print Paint me in mine own eye so true O Painter but add a dash of courage too* ~
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They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen. They Are unreal, we say: It was only in a movie, it was only In a war making evil headlines when we Were small that they famished and Grew so lean and would not round Out their stalky limbs again though peace Plumped the bellies of the mice Under the meanest table. It was during the long hunger-battle They found their talent to persevere In thinness, to come, later, Into our bad dreams, their menace Not guns, not abuses, But a thin silence. Wrapped in flea-ridded donkey skins, Empty of complaint, forever Drinking vinegar from tin cups: they wore The insufferable nimbus of the lot-drawn Scapegoat. But so thin, So weedy a race could not remain in dreams, Could not remain outlandish victims In the contracted country of the head Any more than the old woman in her mud hut could Keep from cutting fat meat Out of the side of the generous moon when it Set foot nightly in her yard Until her knife had pared The moon to a rind of little light. Now the thin people do not obliterate Themselves as the dawn Grayness blues, reddens, and the outline Of the world comes clear and fills with color. They persist in the sunlit room: the wallpaper Frieze of cabbage-roses and cornflowers pales Under their thin-lipped smiles, Their withering kingship. How they prop each other up! We own no wilderness rich and deep enough For stronghold against their stiff Battalions. See, how the tree boles flatten And lose their good browns If the thin people simply stand in the forest, Making the world go thin as a wasp's nest And grayer; not even moving their bones.
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The Thin People
They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen. They Are unreal, we say: It was only in a movie, it was only In a war making evil headlines when we Were small that they famished and Grew so lean and would not round Out their stalky limbs again though peace Plumped the bellies of the mice Under the meanest table. It was during the long hunger-battle They found their talent to persevere In thinness, to come, later, Into our bad dreams, their menace Not guns, not abuses, But a thin silence. Wrapped in flea-ridded donkey skins, Empty of complaint, forever Drinking vinegar from tin cups: they wore The insufferable nimbus of the lot-drawn Scapegoat. But so thin, So weedy a race could not remain in dreams, Could not remain outlandish victims In the contracted country of the head Any more than the old woman in her mud hut could Keep from cutting fat meat Out of the side of the generous moon when it Set foot nightly in her yard Until her knife had pared The moon to a rind of little light. Now the thin people do not obliterate Themselves as the dawn Grayness blues, reddens, and the outline Of the world comes clear and fills with color. They persist in the sunlit room: the wallpaper Frieze of cabbage-roses and cornflowers pales Under their thin-lipped smiles, Their withering kingship. How they prop each other up! We own no wilderness rich and deep enough For stronghold against their stiff Battalions. See, how the tree boles flatten And lose their good browns If the thin people simply stand in the forest, Making the world go thin as a wasp's nest And grayer; not even moving their bones.
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~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ After days of long studies comes the days of rest. My violet dreams were slumber-soft filled with lucent lilies of curling flames born of ever colour known and unknown. And I stood in awe of them as my fears fall back and cower in the shades of my mind. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I muse at how quickly my body relaxed. Due to my marjoram'd pillows and sheets of pure silk and eiderdown? Or due to the sips of the lavender tea in my in my teacup decorated with a butterfly motif? ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I remember the sips in fours as I blew the steam from my cup; The first sip balmed my lips. The second soothed my throat. The third lulled my thoughts. The fourth stilled my soul. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Though the tea, the pillow and sheets were had a hand in my nightly rest, the real answer is on my brow - for it was when the night's cool air blew, and where you placed your sweet Morphean kiss. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ With a smile, I wake. Sat on my golden summer throne located in my marble gazebo; a jewel in my private garden. With thin caryatid pillars, draped in fine doric chitons encircling me. Their sculpted limbs hold up the frieze carved with acanthus that has a stained glass top of peacocks and stargazers. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ The sheer curtains billow when the eastern winds blow. By me, a gold side table with a mirrored top supported by three Greek key legs. A pewter quill pen with a steel nib and violet feather rests by its clay inkpot; both beside a silver sinuous nouveau vase and a small stack of poetry books of black leather and gilt. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 7:48 AM UTC
~ ⚘⚪ Jasmine Pearls I ⚪⚘ ~
~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ After days of long studies comes the days of rest. My violet dreams were slumber-soft filled with lucent lilies of curling flames born of ever colour known and unknown. And I stood in awe of them as my fears fall back and cower in the shades of my mind. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I muse at how quickly my body relaxed. Due to my marjoram'd pillows and sheets of pure silk and eiderdown? Or due to the sips of the lavender tea in my in my teacup decorated with a butterfly motif? ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ I remember the sips in fours as I blew the steam from my cup; The first sip balmed my lips. The second soothed my throat. The third lulled my thoughts. The fourth stilled my soul. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ Though the tea, the pillow and sheets were had a hand in my nightly rest, the real answer is on my brow - for it was when the night's cool air blew, and where you placed your sweet Morphean kiss. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ With a smile, I wake. Sat on my golden summer throne located in my marble gazebo; a jewel in my private garden. With thin caryatid pillars, draped in fine doric chitons encircling me. Their sculpted limbs hold up the frieze carved with acanthus that has a stained glass top of peacocks and stargazers. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ The sheer curtains billow when the eastern winds blow. By me, a gold side table with a mirrored top supported by three Greek key legs. A pewter quill pen with a steel nib and violet feather rests by its clay inkpot; both beside a silver sinuous nouveau vase and a small stack of poetry books of black leather and gilt. ~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~
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My white gazebo with thin caryatid columns and wrought iron top on a frieze carved with small leaves The crown jewel of dew-kissed lands
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 6:30 PM UTC
Gazebo
1. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window. Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing, now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks. And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin. 2. The Seed Cutters They seem hundreds of years away. Brueghel, You'll know them if I can get them true. They kneel under the hedge in a half-circle Behind a windbreak wind is breaking through. They are the seed cutters. The tuck and frill Of leaf-sprout is on the seed potates Buried under that straw. With time to **** They are taking their time. Each sharp knife goes Lazily halving each root that falls apart In the palm of the hand: a milky gleam, And, at the centre, a dark watermark. Oh, calendar customs! Under the broom Yellowing over them, compose the frieze With all of us there, our anonymities.
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Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
Beethoven choral racing through frozen forests through rain and frost storms We are carried on fast horse through winter against furious Beethoven Making love on lost sheets of saffron and straw a frozen speeding vision explodes into your corner racing fierce on pianoforte Beethoven one note pure against humanity
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Feb 5, 2012
Feb 5, 2012 at 2:16 AM UTC
Beethoven Frieze
Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length—at length—after so many days Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst, (Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,) I kneel, an altered and an humble man, Amid thy shadows, and so drink within My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory! Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now—I feel ye in your strength— O spells more sure than e’er Judaean king Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane! O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee Ever drew down from out the quiet stars! Here, where a hero fell, a column falls! Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold, A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat! Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle! Here, where on golden throne the monarch lolled, Glides, spectre-like, unto his marble home, Lit by the wan light of the horned moon, The swift and silent lizard of the stones! But stay! these walls—these ivy-clad arcades— These mouldering plinths—these sad and blackened shafts— These vague entablatures—this crumbling frieze— These shattered cornices—this wreck—this ruin— These stones—alas! these gray stones—are they all— All of the famed, and the colossal left By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me? “Not all”—the Echoes answer me—”not all! Prophetic sounds and loud, arise forever From us, and from all Ruin, unto the wise, As melody from Memnon to the Sun. We rule the hearts of mightiest men—we rule With a despotic sway all giant minds. We are not impotent—we pallid stones. Not all our power is gone—not all our fame— Not all the magic of our high renown— Not all the wonder that encircles us— Not all the mysteries that in us lie— Not all the memories that hang upon And cling around about us as a garment, Clothing us in a robe of more than glory.”
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The Coliseum
Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length—at length—after so many days Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst, (Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,) I kneel, an altered and an humble man, Amid thy shadows, and so drink within My very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory! Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now—I feel ye in your strength— O spells more sure than e’er Judaean king Taught in the gardens of Gethsemane! O charms more potent than the rapt Chaldee Ever drew down from out the quiet stars! Here, where a hero fell, a column falls! Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold, A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat! Here, where the dames of Rome their gilded hair Waved to the wind, now wave the reed and thistle! Here, where on golden throne the monarch lolled, Glides, spectre-like, unto his marble home, Lit by the wan light of the horned moon, The swift and silent lizard of the stones! But stay! these walls—these ivy-clad arcades— These mouldering plinths—these sad and blackened shafts— These vague entablatures—this crumbling frieze— These shattered cornices—this wreck—this ruin— These stones—alas! these gray stones—are they all— All of the famed, and the colossal left By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me? “Not all”—the Echoes answer me—”not all! Prophetic sounds and loud, arise forever From us, and from all Ruin, unto the wise, As melody from Memnon to the Sun. We rule the hearts of mightiest men—we rule With a despotic sway all giant minds. We are not impotent—we pallid stones. Not all our power is gone—not all our fame— Not all the magic of our high renown— Not all the wonder that encircles us— Not all the mysteries that in us lie— Not all the memories that hang upon And cling around about us as a garment, Clothing us in a robe of more than glory.”
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foam floral caps, work of wet hydrangea,                                   or pulse of caucasian lilacs in a sky-relieved frieze.                                            cambric pennons swag reconsidering                                                 margins of wimpling burn,                                               wherein the stars…twiring stars,                                         the declining stars, moon and planets                                                                     turned--                                       purchase light with morning-hands:                                                           green-bedizened;                                                     amber trammeling bud.                                                 absolve qualm suffusing tyre,                                                    violet’s violent leniency--                                                     and feel, o’bask! in velvet                                                           flume of veins,                                                   as beams of conspiracy raise                                                         to post and lintel,                                                crutching a young god’s legs--                                       and feel, o’supplicate!  bathe in                                                       day’s anatomies,                                          til greave deposit in lacunary sleeves,                                        and a genuflecting sun bow eternally--
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 6:38 PM UTC
aube
foam floral caps, work of wet hydrangea,                                   or pulse of caucasian lilacs in a sky-relieved frieze.                                            cambric pennons swag reconsidering                                                 margins of wimpling burn,                                               wherein the stars…twiring stars,                                         the declining stars, moon and planets                                                                     turned--                                       purchase light with morning-hands:                                                           green-bedizened;                                                     amber trammeling bud.                                                 absolve qualm suffusing tyre,                                                    violet’s violent leniency--                                                     and feel, o’bask! in velvet                                                           flume of veins,                                                   as beams of conspiracy raise                                                         to post and lintel,                                                crutching a young god’s legs--                                       and feel, o’supplicate!  bathe in                                                       day’s anatomies,                                          til greave deposit in lacunary sleeves,                                        and a genuflecting sun bow eternally--
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THE CHILD Margaret begins to write numbers on a Saturday morning, the first numbers formed under her wishing child fingers. All the numbers come well-born, shaped in figures assertive for a frieze in a child's room. Both 1 and 7 are straightforward, military, filled with lunge and attack, ***** in shoulder-straps. The 6 and 9 salute as dancing sisters, elder and younger, and 2 is a trapeze actor swinging to handclaps. All the numbers are well-born, only 3 has a **** on its back and 8 is knock-kneed. The child Margaret kisses all once and gives two kisses to 3 and 8. (Each number is a bran-new rag doll ... O in the wishing fingers ... millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!)
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Child Margaret
"A life lived for art is never a life wasted," that's what Macklemore and Ryan Lewis told us. Those of us in recovery need this to be true. Those of us? --all of us-- because we are all artists, placing pieces of our broken lives into a mosaic, a cathedral floor frieze, something we build to walk on, a snapshot of past agonies and beautiful memories that lifts us out of the ***** Earth. A true artist manufactures their own hope.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM UTC
10,000 Hours
. The heat of you, Bairn in my hands, I am strung with you, My song sings out ever To one unbridled listener, A lad as wild as gusty seas And I keen on tighten strings, Casted about thee, four winds And am latched with old moon, My tunes are loudy, unheard of, Sadder than empty airs in hollow Bars, bereft of any joy dancers. Like you I have known love, In gentle touches that swoon And take flight up dizzy reels, I hold you, like fresh newborn, Child of melody an sleepy dove, But still, in swells of driest fears, Unlike you, body of live, heart Wood, colour of striped tiger, Regal structure, unchained, Aged about languid truths, My fingers unleash you, Yet they lock, in frieze, Captive, painting nil Dreams of brood.
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Jul 31, 2016
Jul 31, 2016 at 12:31 AM UTC
Old Fiddle
#7 from Geo-Bestiary O that girl, only young men dare to look at her directly while I manage the most side-long of glances: olive-skinned with a Modigliani throat, lustrous obsidian hair, the narrowest of waists and high french bottom, ample ******* she tries to hide in a loose blouse. Though Latino her profile is from a Babylonian frieze and when she walks with her small white dog with brown spots she fairly floats along, looking neither left nor right, meeting no one's glance as if beauty was a curse. In the grocery store when I drew close her scent was jacaranda, the tropical flower that makes no excuses. The geezer's heart swells stupidly to the dampish promise. I walk too often in the cold shadow of the mountain wall up in the arroyo behind the house. Empty pages are dry ice, numbing the hands and heart. If I weep I do so in the shower so that no one, not even I can tell. To see her is to feel time's cold machete against my grizzled neck, puzzled that again beauty has found her home in threat.
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Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 7:47 AM UTC
Jim Harrison
[to the thousands of men, women and children fleeing their war-torn countries.] Adrift, this huddle of fear in the starless night. Adrift, this frieze-like of carved anguish surging in heavy striped hearts. Flimsy shores draw an old world, of other lords, greedy of their pastures. Plundered, ravaged, preyed upon, adrift - who will see our human face?
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
what's in my bag
home is a memory away, you are near. closer than you thought, maybe even closer than you want. I want those things I have never wanted I want you, forever. I want to wake up in the mornings to look over at your scarred face. I want you to kiss my forehead Like you always do. And call me lil' lady. And smother my body in the morning like you used to. And you feel like home. You are the feeling between my toes, You exist in the fibers of the frieze. Chattering inside the dish washer, Humming my name in the shower. And you are only a memory away. And I am trying. I am trying to hold it all together, but the foundation is cracked. I am so alone. And I will give and give and give to deserve you. And I will wait. I will. Until we find a place. After a while I had hoped for packing lunches and bingo cards. Bad timing for now I guess. But patience is a virtue, I just hope it will see the sight of this unholy author.
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Aug 11, 2012
Aug 11, 2012 at 3:52 AM UTC
Bread Boxes and Burnt Out Light Bulbs
Through a garden bedecked in the finest façade In a natural beauty of eons compiled An assault to the senses which quickens the pulse Yet soothing the detail, organically styled Its borders haphazard yet clearly defined By a frenzied assortment of pollen clad blooms Enhancing creation with lust and a craving With nectar, ambrosia scented perfume The thickets and bushes, with industry cloaked A sprawling utopia thriving therein With bees and with butterflies drinking their fill And drizzled in webs which the spiderfolk spin A meandering trail through flourishing life An encouraging push from the sun to my rear Entrancing, the chill of the dew underfoot Yet thrusting itself like an ice laden spear My sight is attracted by hidden desire To a door at the crest of a flurry of stairs And the stone of the flight is as fire to my soles After languishing still as the midsummer glares The door is ajar and within comes the sound Of a single piano, adeptly caressed Each note sends a shiver rebounding around me In purity soaked and perfection possessed I make my way forward and darkness inside Removes me of sight as my pupils adjust And the air is intense as a northerly breeze And shimmers in motes cut of sunlight and dust My eyes become clear and before me they see Cascading and dancing a musical frieze A picture in motion, a fairytale path In a spectrum of tones and a myriad keys Inspiration her name and the course she describes Is a poem in light to beguile the mind She speaks with her body, a wordless refrain Of a mystery poets have clamoured to find A pipe cuts a harmony no one could play Distilling forever the passage of time And though such a symphony draws at the tongue Causality never once utters a rhyme A pattern of shimmering images form Behind inspiration and quickening pace To fade with the music and ever be lost Lest the pen of a poet can hold them in place Most fickle of muses and teaser of tongues To flirt with despair and to promise elation We chase but remaining just out of out reach Is the ghost of a girl which we call ‘Inspiration’
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 5:06 PM UTC
A Girl Called Inspiration
Through a garden bedecked in the finest façade In a natural beauty of eons compiled An assault to the senses which quickens the pulse Yet soothing the detail, organically styled Its borders haphazard yet clearly defined By a frenzied assortment of pollen clad blooms Enhancing creation with lust and a craving With nectar, ambrosia scented perfume The thickets and bushes, with industry cloaked A sprawling utopia thriving therein With bees and with butterflies drinking their fill And drizzled in webs which the spiderfolk spin A meandering trail through flourishing life An encouraging push from the sun to my rear Entrancing, the chill of the dew underfoot Yet thrusting itself like an ice laden spear My sight is attracted by hidden desire To a door at the crest of a flurry of stairs And the stone of the flight is as fire to my soles After languishing still as the midsummer glares The door is ajar and within comes the sound Of a single piano, adeptly caressed Each note sends a shiver rebounding around me In purity soaked and perfection possessed I make my way forward and darkness inside Removes me of sight as my pupils adjust And the air is intense as a northerly breeze And shimmers in motes cut of sunlight and dust My eyes become clear and before me they see Cascading and dancing a musical frieze A picture in motion, a fairytale path In a spectrum of tones and a myriad keys Inspiration her name and the course she describes Is a poem in light to beguile the mind She speaks with her body, a wordless refrain Of a mystery poets have clamoured to find A pipe cuts a harmony no one could play Distilling forever the passage of time And though such a symphony draws at the tongue Causality never once utters a rhyme A pattern of shimmering images form Behind inspiration and quickening pace To fade with the music and ever be lost Lest the pen of a poet can hold them in place Most fickle of muses and teaser of tongues To flirt with despair and to promise elation We chase but remaining just out of out reach Is the ghost of a girl which we call ‘Inspiration’
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sensual subtlety or the subtlety of sensuality (HOW does size matter?) <•> *as always the title comes first, embalming the mind so it may voyage onto unwritten waters, over boundaries so the provocateur provoked may safely return, avoiding evoking anti-frieze cannonade fire some can disable with swinging fist, a chopping arm on an exposed neck, a swift kick to the semi-privates but I can do same, inflicting immobilization with a single solitary itty bitty pinky figuring finger no random boast, no hoax, not chest beating, just a fact ma’am, nothing but the facts the sensual subtlety of the delicate is overpowering and irresistible making grownups revert into laughing crying out loud babies the subtlety of sensuality pink’d exploding exploration, the intoxicating tiny tingling subtle and without equal, kingdoms have fallen, paintings and poems, art all kinds, instigated and in eye sockets permanently inserted, history redirected know I will no be telling details, the whose and where, the why and surely not the how, not here anyway so when you tell me in raw fashion size matters most definitely in the matters of the heart or the physicality whole heartedly agree waving my littlest pinky finger watching you wavering until you’ve learned the lesson it’s the how* not the how big
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May 5, 2018
May 5, 2018 at 4:09 PM UTC
HOW does size matter?
Where did I come from? A country of what? Big hearts? That's what the guestbook said, And the amnesia makes anything else suspect. Still... A chipped Greek frieze; Shade inching over insalata Caprese; Piazza Cavour from a smudged helicopter window at noon; Faces in a crowd at LOVE park, rapid fire; Dusk in an Irish cemetery; Lakeside heather. This departure is like rewriting A book from memory. How much of me—if any—is there?
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:24 AM UTC
Departure
look into the morning mirror slow shave and study dull eyes looking back a floor full of masks the passed ones may have dropped he falls onto the ceiling, nose pressed onto the frieze and she puts on heavy-shoes and has to hook him back downwards it takes morning starch and bitter coffee to make ceiling dust shy fashion is thrown out on its cracked sheen as the carried mode entails only generic style and empirical fall Let me sniff your armpit Let me sniff it, please I'm looking at you stand before my eyes I see you right here.. before my very eyes a pigeon on a windowsill such a lovely unexpect! it flies inside - harmony beheld creates a stir into a pane, stunned.. and life is expectorated disposal wants to occur too fast and something breaks inside him system slave runs forward, grabs its soul and hurries out slow gray panels of cement amidst more gray panels lodged between silvery towers and metal clink olfactory-core comes nerve alive ( . . . ) he stands before the glass and looks upon her face whose eyes may show no grief clothed in vest and heavy foot he unclips the last vestige fully cognisant and off he goes to shock of passerby he looks up to see the truest, bluest sky and looks down to see the small figure of her receding.. receding.. receding .. duty of kissing ceilingdust is in the past and so is living in slow-reverse
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Oct 23, 2013
Oct 23, 2013 at 8:45 AM UTC
ceiling dust
A place in peace that you can't tease In the surrounding you'll find yourself wondering How great is God? for He made a marvelous pod Look up,and you'll see the sky; and you'll awe,wow! how high! Look east, you'll see the trees; swaying back and forth through winds breeze Substratum of orchids,you'll see through west colorful petals,joyous to eyes,and be zest Oh! and see the north, well-trimmed green grasses; lads playing and beautiful lasses And as we walk to south , to our standing old house designed with Corinthian frieze Holding my hand, my gray-haired spouse together with me, build a treasury for years But then I woke up; And my friend said, wazzup? Oh?That was just a dream? I wish it would come true Impossible may it seem; But if it happens, I won't rue
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 1:17 PM UTC
just a prance to dream
There was a game whereby we stood against a blank frieze to catch small orange marbles thrown by a devil who stood balanced on a border the border shook like water it separated the end of the world from the beginning You had to throw back the marble to disrupt the border and the devil might fall off but he always caught it There was a game ...
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Jan 5, 2012
Jan 5, 2012 at 2:13 AM UTC
There was a game ...
What sad weary eyes we have that see, in all the world, such poverty and pointless pain. Would not the sunlight bathe upon it if we simply look again? For the eye of the beholder may choose the depth of tint we see, through a rose coloured lens. A hint of fanciful forms, as they filter the rays they sense. From beneath the haze of the shimmering sun, lies beauty, long forgot. Or is it simply a mirage, cavorting through rays far too hot? Skies of deep azure with clouds of cumulous mass drifting lazily on the breeze. Picturesque landscapes of floral palette, until winters frosty frieze. Glorious forests of glazed art, twinkling icicles, like baubles on the trees of December. Wondrous days of innocence pure; of younger days remembered. Beasts wandering wild and free in bountiful wooded wonderlands of willow, beach and pine. Snowflakes join to form a blanket of majestic patterns, sublime. Meandering melt-water streams flowing, afresh with new life; untainted and abundant. A world reborn of marvelous magic, colours and scents, resplendent. ≈ To look upon a world in pain and see beneath the silken shrouds to the beauty lying below. The scent of love, life and passion is there for all to bestow. We need to look from behind eyes that want to see, the life that we need, restored. As a composer, creating the music of life, is prepared to re-write the score. * Written by Darren Scanlon, 15th November 2014. Revised 27th July 2015. ©2015 Darren Scanlon. All rights reserved. http://www.darrenscanlon.wordpress.com
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM UTC
HOPEFUL EYES
What sad weary eyes we have that see, in all the world, such poverty and pointless pain. Would not the sunlight bathe upon it if we simply look again? For the eye of the beholder may choose the depth of tint we see, through a rose coloured lens. A hint of fanciful forms, as they filter the rays they sense. From beneath the haze of the shimmering sun, lies beauty, long forgot. Or is it simply a mirage, cavorting through rays far too hot? Skies of deep azure with clouds of cumulous mass drifting lazily on the breeze. Picturesque landscapes of floral palette, until winters frosty frieze. Glorious forests of glazed art, twinkling icicles, like baubles on the trees of December. Wondrous days of innocence pure; of younger days remembered. Beasts wandering wild and free in bountiful wooded wonderlands of willow, beach and pine. Snowflakes join to form a blanket of majestic patterns, sublime. Meandering melt-water streams flowing, afresh with new life; untainted and abundant. A world reborn of marvelous magic, colours and scents, resplendent. ≈ To look upon a world in pain and see beneath the silken shrouds to the beauty lying below. The scent of love, life and passion is there for all to bestow. We need to look from behind eyes that want to see, the life that we need, restored. As a composer, creating the music of life, is prepared to re-write the score. * Written by Darren Scanlon, 15th November 2014. Revised 27th July 2015. ©2015 Darren Scanlon. All rights reserved. http://www.darrenscanlon.wordpress.com
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I held her dying hand in the soft morning light I studied the shrinking life in her eyes. The woman I loved would not last out the night Her groaning breath now fierce sighs. The weakening flame in the quiet breeze Matches her dying Her beautiful face like a fallen goddess in a marble frieze, Riven with crying. Her beauty had aged, not gone, Her white hair falling down like thin ribbons of snow; Her eyes that once shone Filled now with a frosty glow. Soul and body fade away The mind is a strip of celluloid, With diminishing returns. Nothing will stay, But pass infinitely into a void. In the end, all that lingers is love Like a stable beacon through time, No matter how complete, never enough, In life, verse, prose and rhyme.
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC
I held her hand
an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got built adorning arid topography invaluable like aorta pumping blood at the nape of the neck, yet analogous context engendered engineering feats without guilt whereby artisans, craftsmen, early geographers illustrated in frieze and drape frozen timeless statuary exhibiting phenomenal abilities to the hilt associated from mainspring within fertile crescent swollen like a plump grape which longest river often overflows banks whereby coveted materiel gets spilt feeding the rift valley and allowing, enabling and providing peoples to dominate flooding the history of mankind with accomplishments that marvel even today epitomized by innovations - alphabets, wheelwrights, pyramids, etc lives did create baffling historians how each mortise and tenon snug as a bug in a rug mortise and tenon block construed edifices persons did intricately lay perfect with near geometric exactitude ranks as wonder of webbed wide world great faint hints of daily trials and tribulations recorded for posterity in clay or shards of broken pottery pieced together coupling revelations a mosaic plate which functional artifacts provided dietary staples to pagan spirits populace did pray.
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Feb 10, 2018
Feb 10, 2018 at 1:06 AM UTC
Adrift in daydreams upon the banks of the Nile
Most nights I do not have to suffer the silence of showers in solitude I am usually blessed with the sensation of the feeling of my fingers catching the puddles of water drop by drop that roll off of your torso, like the hungry in a dumpster like a lamb and a lion like an 8 year old trying to grasp the difference between a metaphor and a smilie like searching for the last dandelion of the season eager and starving for it I battle the drops spilling into my eyes to meet your grimace, teeth bared and eyes shut tight, as they win the war on your front, cascading down your lashes and curls and nose and jawline. Even in this state, you look delicate and beautiful. I've always said you were a work of art, a painting, a statue. Like a sculpture on a frieze on the Parthenon. Or at least a roman marble copy. Or at least you make me look at you that way. I always slyly look up in hopes that you're returning the gaze when I'm not looking... That's when I lose the war, with drops cascading down my lashes, and my curls, and my nose and collar bones. Tonight your chest was bare and maybe you finally conquered the water But tonight I'm showering with the lights off, under the distortion of the glow of pink lava ebbing and flowing from behind the curtains and I don't care if I'm alone or standing in an army of soldiers I don't care if I win or lose I'll let the stream rush over the contours of my face and mold it until it becomes a grimace or agonized or etched into wry like it once did the very ground I walk upon and I'll let the steam fog the mirrors and leave dew drops on my shoulders until my bare chest turns scarlet and I crawl into the covers forced into silence
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Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 11:34 PM UTC
showers
Most nights I do not have to suffer the silence of showers in solitude I am usually blessed with the sensation of the feeling of my fingers catching the puddles of water drop by drop that roll off of your torso, like the hungry in a dumpster like a lamb and a lion like an 8 year old trying to grasp the difference between a metaphor and a smilie like searching for the last dandelion of the season eager and starving for it I battle the drops spilling into my eyes to meet your grimace, teeth bared and eyes shut tight, as they win the war on your front, cascading down your lashes and curls and nose and jawline. Even in this state, you look delicate and beautiful. I've always said you were a work of art, a painting, a statue. Like a sculpture on a frieze on the Parthenon. Or at least a roman marble copy. Or at least you make me look at you that way. I always slyly look up in hopes that you're returning the gaze when I'm not looking... That's when I lose the war, with drops cascading down my lashes, and my curls, and my nose and collar bones. Tonight your chest was bare and maybe you finally conquered the water But tonight I'm showering with the lights off, under the distortion of the glow of pink lava ebbing and flowing from behind the curtains and I don't care if I'm alone or standing in an army of soldiers I don't care if I win or lose I'll let the stream rush over the contours of my face and mold it until it becomes a grimace or agonized or etched into wry like it once did the very ground I walk upon and I'll let the steam fog the mirrors and leave dew drops on my shoulders until my bare chest turns scarlet and I crawl into the covers forced into silence
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