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"gasses" poems
I woke up this morning and I was tired. what was I tired of.... I was tired of waste hunger greed humiliation global warming ozone depletion pollution guns deforestation extinction mining disease overpopulation terrorism selfishness destruction war mining green house gasses religion cruelty I am so tired of being tired. I am a planet that is tired, it is time to rid myself...... of the human race. I am the earth I am alive, and the human race is a parasite.
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Apr 19, 2013
Apr 19, 2013 at 10:13 PM UTC
The Earth Speaks
Perhaps the earth is floating, I do not know. Perhaps the stars are little paper cutups made by some giant scissors, I do not know. Perhaps the moon is a frozen tear, I do not know. Perhaps God is only a deep voice heard by the deaf, I do not know. Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question. It is written on the tablet of destiny that I am stuck here in this human form. That being the case I would like to call attention to my problem. There is an animal inside me, clutiching fast to my heart, a huge carb. The doctors of Boston have thrown up their hands. They have tried scalpels, needles, poison gasses adn the like. The crab remains. It is a great weight. I try to forget it, go about my business, cook the broccoli, open the shut books, brush my teeth and tie my shoes. I have tried prayer but as I pray the crab grips harder and the pain enlarges. I had a dream once, perhaps it was a dream, that the crab was my ignorance of God. But who am I to believe in dreams?
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The Poet Of Ignorance
Loving and talking to you is like loving and talking to a blackhole— useless! Every breath is a hot mess of wasted gasses. Every wail is a vain attempt to be heard. You devour everything and let go of nothing. I’ve tried leaving it alone. I’ve tried letting you go. But this grudge of mine draws me in, a will to exhume those white skeletons in your black closet of a heart. Pointless; but I’m caught in your arms that pull me in to the point of singularity. I know you’ll rip and tear me to shreds and then tear those shreds to dust and dust to particles. My ghost won’t even be able to escape. . . . Stay away. . . . . . Stay away. . . Maybe someday I’ll watch the massive riptide turn and become a warm star I wish longingly to orbit.
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Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 6:46 PM UTC
Blackhole Love Affair
The expansions of space the matrix we learn to re-create lucid dreaming conquers the mind lust drains the mind rendering it blind past issues fade like clouds pedestrians pass in the confusion of time inner thoughts expressed aloud surrounded atmosphere all around limitations is what keeps humanity underground infinity: a number of fantasy kept up like gasses and when the bubble pops acid drops slipping into the abyss till gravity stops amid the ashes is where life crashes so long as it stays concealed in darkness everything comes out to light in such sparkling moments in energy in rebirth the fallen jaguar rises taking the form of night chosen by the stars given divine right
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Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 9:48 PM UTC
The Eye of The Jaguar
No! All is havok All is pounce Brush a bruise over your eye You're filthy Whore's eyes Some men hit Most men will split Show them your good side **** Then shower Gravel built from monuments In the catbox The meat you eat It has a funny flavour Cars sure are fast Say All your words slurr All your friends purr Mud lava Twig cities Wonderous beings ****** gasses Double as a president Gore And sublime bliss A rock of **** Space rock Bile gravy over turkey Make baby sleepy Another night down And another ***** in Your body.
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May 5, 2010
May 5, 2010 at 4:37 PM UTC
Pony Meat on a Taco
You: A nebula. Vast and far-reaching. Ionized gasses, pink and blue An ode to passion, and depth. You. Are. Unfathomable. Nestled in your tendrils, A cosmic safe harbor, I am born a star. Consuming your words like hydrogen, I shine bright, Radiating warmth into the cosmos.
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Jan 19, 2017
Jan 19, 2017 at 10:35 PM UTC
Rigel
I lay and wait to sail the seas of infinity Black fabric catching nebulous breezes As an ancient god of mythology sneezes The wooden ship creeks never stealthy But noisy as hell seeing the cosmic swells Of eternity’s well My skin burns with the razor whips Of solar ray that phase through Time and space Razing all darkness in its’ way My vision once darkened by the void Now explodes with spatial wonder My skin is shredded by the fury Of burning nebulous gasses Particles of space dust envelope me Incinerating every cell of me I burn in orange, brown, purple and blue hues Spiraling vapors consume the ship to No howls of pain echo in the vacuum There is no struggle My hands hold tightly to the sword of my youth I wear my rigamortis with pride as I slide Up and into the gates of Valhalla A white and fluffy faced man stares at me Laughing half heartedly And says Hey you got the wrong gate Valhalla loads down the ways at station eight This is the Judaic station
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC
Valhalla Gate
The condensation slowly begins To eat a hole in The cotton of my jeans And I've been through this enough To know I'm not alone in it But I can't help but feel empty. The dripping grass emits it's gasses filling the air with the sweet smell of freedom and October; The plants releasing their last breath into the world before the snow comes and brings death upon us all. Even in this facade of freedom I feel trapped Caging myself within the confines of a small One-bedroom apartment that's supposed to be "home". The soaking corpses of thriving flowers and the sweet tickle of chirping crickets are drowned out by the overwhelming sadness that's begun to overthrow my lungs, echoing throughout my limbs as it sloshes through my eardrums and soaks my shoes Dear god, why am I still hurting? It's been 9 years and I still can't escape. This depression has stolen every last part of me. Until it's all I have left. And yes, out here, I feel free Away from the judgement Where no one can touch me Connected with the Earth Simply observing all that surrounds me. And of course I can hide from my anxiety But even feeling the cleanest sand between my feet And deafening my mind with these crashing waves around me I can't run from the demons eating at the tatters of my soul Because they will find a way to lure me back in To disconnect me from the beauty that surrounds me Leaving me dying alone on the cold, dark concrete that lines my broken memories Bleeding out these sins until I no longer feel empty
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Sep 6, 2017
Sep 6, 2017 at 8:24 PM UTC
Decaying Souls and Broken Dreams
The condensation slowly begins To eat a hole in The cotton of my jeans And I've been through this enough To know I'm not alone in it But I can't help but feel empty. The dripping grass emits it's gasses filling the air with the sweet smell of freedom and October; The plants releasing their last breath into the world before the snow comes and brings death upon us all. Even in this facade of freedom I feel trapped Caging myself within the confines of a small One-bedroom apartment that's supposed to be "home". The soaking corpses of thriving flowers and the sweet tickle of chirping crickets are drowned out by the overwhelming sadness that's begun to overthrow my lungs, echoing throughout my limbs as it sloshes through my eardrums and soaks my shoes Dear god, why am I still hurting? It's been 9 years and I still can't escape. This depression has stolen every last part of me. Until it's all I have left. And yes, out here, I feel free Away from the judgement Where no one can touch me Connected with the Earth Simply observing all that surrounds me. And of course I can hide from my anxiety But even feeling the cleanest sand between my feet And deafening my mind with these crashing waves around me I can't run from the demons eating at the tatters of my soul Because they will find a way to lure me back in To disconnect me from the beauty that surrounds me Leaving me dying alone on the cold, dark concrete that lines my broken memories Bleeding out these sins until I no longer feel empty
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Gilded cage so small and tiny Even singing comes out whiny Stinking of fake fresh and piney Tis the season Leaking water warm and briny With good reason Christmas cheer and glasses toast Loved ones smile and laugh and boast I sit perched upon my post A tinsled column Invisible reluctant host A heart that's solemn A longing for a love so distant The melancholy is persistent A smile could erase it in an instant On a face cherubic For my heart is not resistent It's theraputic So that smile that is perfection Is mirrored in my own reflection Without a thought about rejection Hallucinations About the subtlest inflection In Salutations Surrounded by the merrily intense With drunkard tendencies immense A bar with all accoutrements They pound tequila Drinking away the sacraments Oh yes, I feel ya Merry time with old Kris Kringle Guests all lubed enough to mingle Mistletoe hangs and sleigh bells jingle Gifts homemade Tables adourned and glasses tingle Gold brocade Still I sit all caged and flightless Blind to joy all sad and sightless Drink could make it hurt a mite less I'm going backward Laying here all limp and lifeless Broke and fractured Surrounded by the fake and vexing Artificial and quite perplexing Reality they are rejecting The devil may care Bellies bare and muscles flexing Lost underwear So ******* dancing to the jukebox Lost alone here in the boondocks There is no snow upon the rooftops Ahead they forge Find a room before that thing pops It's so engorged Neighbor ***** all dressed in orange Wearing gold to make the poor cringe Stripping time to fill her syringe I'll be her hinderance Still too drunk from her last binge Faulty remembrance Ridding riff raff from the party People still drunk on Bacardi Noxious gasses burp and farty With toilets makeshift Worn out makeup on the smarty She needs a facelift Time to let the people go Too tired to keep watching the show Drinking hard and walking slow Verbose yet listless Honey I don't want to know It's not my business
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Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 2014 at 11:22 AM UTC
I Hate Holiday Parties (for Wolf Spirits Christmas Challenge)
Gilded cage so small and tiny Even singing comes out whiny Stinking of fake fresh and piney Tis the season Leaking water warm and briny With good reason Christmas cheer and glasses toast Loved ones smile and laugh and boast I sit perched upon my post A tinsled column Invisible reluctant host A heart that's solemn A longing for a love so distant The melancholy is persistent A smile could erase it in an instant On a face cherubic For my heart is not resistent It's theraputic So that smile that is perfection Is mirrored in my own reflection Without a thought about rejection Hallucinations About the subtlest inflection In Salutations Surrounded by the merrily intense With drunkard tendencies immense A bar with all accoutrements They pound tequila Drinking away the sacraments Oh yes, I feel ya Merry time with old Kris Kringle Guests all lubed enough to mingle Mistletoe hangs and sleigh bells jingle Gifts homemade Tables adourned and glasses tingle Gold brocade Still I sit all caged and flightless Blind to joy all sad and sightless Drink could make it hurt a mite less I'm going backward Laying here all limp and lifeless Broke and fractured Surrounded by the fake and vexing Artificial and quite perplexing Reality they are rejecting The devil may care Bellies bare and muscles flexing Lost underwear So ******* dancing to the jukebox Lost alone here in the boondocks There is no snow upon the rooftops Ahead they forge Find a room before that thing pops It's so engorged Neighbor ***** all dressed in orange Wearing gold to make the poor cringe Stripping time to fill her syringe I'll be her hinderance Still too drunk from her last binge Faulty remembrance Ridding riff raff from the party People still drunk on Bacardi Noxious gasses burp and farty With toilets makeshift Worn out makeup on the smarty She needs a facelift Time to let the people go Too tired to keep watching the show Drinking hard and walking slow Verbose yet listless Honey I don't want to know It's not my business
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Toxic ads live-streamed through your wires and the airwaves As though it's perfectly legal to pump out poisonous gasses Straight into the public domain. With democracy comes hypocrisy; Biological warfare declared on Innocent civilians whose vote matters, And that's all that matters. They reassure you with charming grins While their eyes tell tales of all their sins. The noise does not stop as they pay fortunes for Propaganda time. Hate spewing, gut-wrenching, fist clenching games Held for the purpose of heading a nation in the right direction. It's a shame that the game takes a toll on the soul, No one stays the same when faced with the poll. Enter the maze innocent, eyes a-glaze Then when it spits you out All that remains is a name.
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM UTC
Politics
May 27, 2013 I let it take control of my mind. Disappearing in a mist of haze; wandering for days. Searching. Seeking. Finding. Fitting into my piece, so I could spread amongst the rest. So I could fit and be apart of it: the Great Mystery. Truth. So I can understand the meaning of life. Is my path determined? Do I have free will? Can I escape this? All I know is that everything is connected. Earth is a single component; a mere microscopic portion of the entire universe, which is compromised of more than the human mind can understand at this point in time.   A little stardust. How is it possible that less than five percent of our oceans have been discovered? Are we ignorant to the fact that when earth started experiencing life, it was in the depths of the ocean. Hence, all production of landscape, the animal kingdom, primitive and current **** sapiens, technology, advancement, and discovery of our past is a creation from the sea billions of years ago. Everything on earth is composed of gasses that came from the universe: what simplistic thinking. Humans fighting against humans, to taste eachothers blood in the name of “victory”, a game to exploit and prevent eachother form an equalized entirety. When will all work towards progress, instead of the demise of the "other". When will we realize our brothers and sisters are not our enemies. How connected the human race is as a species; does anyone realize? Class Mammalia, which consists of over 5000 species, is a single group of the animal kingdom, yet humans are classified by each other on basis a of enhanced melanin, and physical traits. Do dogs laugh at us? Ah, I used the term race and everyone decides to think it means colour, or some stupid stereotype! what have we come to? When will we reach our heads out of our ***** and realize what surrounds and encompasses us as a whole? A consistent river that flows with time, shining mortality by with plenty adventures, constantly writhing. No control. Like I am a mere droplet in the ocean, licking the coastline, bathing in the sunlight. Creating, and being created. Its amazing isn’t it?
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 8:59 PM UTC
My Journal: A thought
May 27, 2013 I let it take control of my mind. Disappearing in a mist of haze; wandering for days. Searching. Seeking. Finding. Fitting into my piece, so I could spread amongst the rest. So I could fit and be apart of it: the Great Mystery. Truth. So I can understand the meaning of life. Is my path determined? Do I have free will? Can I escape this? All I know is that everything is connected. Earth is a single component; a mere microscopic portion of the entire universe, which is compromised of more than the human mind can understand at this point in time.   A little stardust. How is it possible that less than five percent of our oceans have been discovered? Are we ignorant to the fact that when earth started experiencing life, it was in the depths of the ocean. Hence, all production of landscape, the animal kingdom, primitive and current **** sapiens, technology, advancement, and discovery of our past is a creation from the sea billions of years ago. Everything on earth is composed of gasses that came from the universe: what simplistic thinking. Humans fighting against humans, to taste eachothers blood in the name of “victory”, a game to exploit and prevent eachother form an equalized entirety. When will all work towards progress, instead of the demise of the "other". When will we realize our brothers and sisters are not our enemies. How connected the human race is as a species; does anyone realize? Class Mammalia, which consists of over 5000 species, is a single group of the animal kingdom, yet humans are classified by each other on basis a of enhanced melanin, and physical traits. Do dogs laugh at us? Ah, I used the term race and everyone decides to think it means colour, or some stupid stereotype! what have we come to? When will we reach our heads out of our ***** and realize what surrounds and encompasses us as a whole? A consistent river that flows with time, shining mortality by with plenty adventures, constantly writhing. No control. Like I am a mere droplet in the ocean, licking the coastline, bathing in the sunlight. Creating, and being created. Its amazing isn’t it?
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He sweats when he poops, Not just any old **** A **** of glory, A **** of a lifetime. The kind of **** that jacks your heart rate, The kind of **** that makes you breathe heavy, A **** so intense that your bowels moan, And generate a need to remove your shirt. The cold, yet intense sweats of this **** Cramps in the lower abdomen, sharp and warm, The sweet relief of tension, when that one big log comes out, All hot and steamy. Followed by a stream of liquidy brown, He wonders how his body even operates, The unholiness of what exits through, That holiest of holes, next to the birth stump and boulders. Pondering the consumption of two nights before, He sits bare-assed on this porcelain mouth, Ingesting every bit of solids, liquids and gasses, That exit from his **** canal. Clothes tossed onto the floor, His ******* harden from the unpleasant draft, Caused by the perspired glands, That shiver from trauma and nightly air.
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Nov 25, 2023
Nov 25, 2023 at 6:52 PM UTC
The Naked *******
January 16th: I am running in circles. January 17th: Reality is just a figment of one's vivid imagination. January 18th: The exit of the co2 from my lungs, to my mouth, and then the atmosphere. Expand and contract my brain. Expanding is new found knowledge and contracting is the loss of knowledge. Thus, my intelegence is relative to the amount of gasses in my brain. January 19th: Secretly, you control me. January 20th: Over the next two hours, you slowly drift back to reality. The once sea bound boat is approaching land and, with each passing wave, you are coming closer to sobriety. January 21st: What is this love you speak of?   January 22nd: A numbing sensation has paralyzed my arms. I can feel a million little creatures with in me. While they crawl beneath my skin, they leave their path of serenity. The ecstasy, that races to my heart. To touch my blood with a soft kiss and slowly warm my frozen body. January 23rd: We will be forever hoping, forever wishing, and forever praying to find love. A feeling our primitive minds will never understand. In this age love will never be found because the passion that created us, has left this world.   January 24th: Sometimes I feel like: I am exiled by my own people, searching for another lost soul in this desecrated world. The only remnants I have of people are the skeletons of wanderers from long ago. Each lonely corpse I see I become more and more afraid. In fear, I run through this land of broken dreams. I am running in circles. I am lost. Back to where I began my quest I realize this land is hell and I am alone. In time I will soon become another lost soul. My desire to leave this place motivates me to keep walking. This keeps me sane. In the distance I see a figure shinning through my haze of hopelessness. Is this a hallucination? Or am I not alone in this world? January 25th: Sights are sounds and sounds are sights. January 26th: I am falling to apart trying to fix your broken heart. January 27th: **** and be ****** January 27th: The warmth of a fire can warm the coldest of hearts. January 28th: In the rain, I carry no disguises. January 29th - January 31st: I am relapsing
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Mar 16, 2012
Mar 16, 2012 at 1:50 PM UTC
Discoveries III. 01/16/10 - 01/31/10
January 16th: I am running in circles. January 17th: Reality is just a figment of one's vivid imagination. January 18th: The exit of the co2 from my lungs, to my mouth, and then the atmosphere. Expand and contract my brain. Expanding is new found knowledge and contracting is the loss of knowledge. Thus, my intelegence is relative to the amount of gasses in my brain. January 19th: Secretly, you control me. January 20th: Over the next two hours, you slowly drift back to reality. The once sea bound boat is approaching land and, with each passing wave, you are coming closer to sobriety. January 21st: What is this love you speak of?   January 22nd: A numbing sensation has paralyzed my arms. I can feel a million little creatures with in me. While they crawl beneath my skin, they leave their path of serenity. The ecstasy, that races to my heart. To touch my blood with a soft kiss and slowly warm my frozen body. January 23rd: We will be forever hoping, forever wishing, and forever praying to find love. A feeling our primitive minds will never understand. In this age love will never be found because the passion that created us, has left this world.   January 24th: Sometimes I feel like: I am exiled by my own people, searching for another lost soul in this desecrated world. The only remnants I have of people are the skeletons of wanderers from long ago. Each lonely corpse I see I become more and more afraid. In fear, I run through this land of broken dreams. I am running in circles. I am lost. Back to where I began my quest I realize this land is hell and I am alone. In time I will soon become another lost soul. My desire to leave this place motivates me to keep walking. This keeps me sane. In the distance I see a figure shinning through my haze of hopelessness. Is this a hallucination? Or am I not alone in this world? January 25th: Sights are sounds and sounds are sights. January 26th: I am falling to apart trying to fix your broken heart. January 27th: **** and be ****** January 27th: The warmth of a fire can warm the coldest of hearts. January 28th: In the rain, I carry no disguises. January 29th - January 31st: I am relapsing
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venus morning star lucifer  f a                   l                      l                        i                           n                              g    backwards and forwards in time                                                                                 in rotation                                                                                 in retrograde rotation (“the fall of lucifer” painted darkly against the bright spot in the sky)                                                                                          ((i see myself in the                                                                                              shadows beneath                                                                                        his tumbling figure)) light-bringer dawn-bringer the rising sun in the east a supernova exploding in the background: there are subatomic particles bigger than what i can offer                                                                   there are greenhouse gasses that                                                                   give off more heat than my body                                                       will ever be able to produce for anyone day light night light the setting sun in the west a constellational birth in the foreground: there are not enough moons in the solar system                                                                      there is not enough space                                                       between planetary rings to explain                                                                   gravitation and the human body (aphrodite tell me: is this sin or is this love?)   ((i will dip my toes in sea foam                                                                                              until i deteriorate                                                           i will put my ear against conch shells                                                                        until i can hear your answer)) venus evening star lucifer pouring sulfuric acid into the car vents                                                            the air ducts                                                            the atmosphere it becomes the thick dark clouds that obscure my vision of      myself      from      reality
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 10:38 PM UTC
mariner 2
venus morning star lucifer  f a                   l                      l                        i                           n                              g    backwards and forwards in time                                                                                 in rotation                                                                                 in retrograde rotation (“the fall of lucifer” painted darkly against the bright spot in the sky)                                                                                          ((i see myself in the                                                                                              shadows beneath                                                                                        his tumbling figure)) light-bringer dawn-bringer the rising sun in the east a supernova exploding in the background: there are subatomic particles bigger than what i can offer                                                                   there are greenhouse gasses that                                                                   give off more heat than my body                                                       will ever be able to produce for anyone day light night light the setting sun in the west a constellational birth in the foreground: there are not enough moons in the solar system                                                                      there is not enough space                                                       between planetary rings to explain                                                                   gravitation and the human body (aphrodite tell me: is this sin or is this love?)   ((i will dip my toes in sea foam                                                                                              until i deteriorate                                                           i will put my ear against conch shells                                                                        until i can hear your answer)) venus evening star lucifer pouring sulfuric acid into the car vents                                                            the air ducts                                                            the atmosphere it becomes the thick dark clouds that obscure my vision of      myself      from      reality
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Blasted together in the wake of dead stars New life is born From celestial suicide. Say goodnight Drift into star dust dreams It fills your mind it's you after all. Your hands came from andromeda Your eyes were born from hera's milk Stone exploded for your legs And gasses mixed inside your chest. You're gonna die You're gonna die. Nothing can stop your inevitable suicide. Say goodnight Drift into star dust dreams It fills your mind It's you, after all.
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Aug 27, 2012
Aug 27, 2012 at 9:51 AM UTC
the poem of the universe (if there's no god)
trailing like meteors ash flicks of embers that tumble through darkness and no one remembers dissolving in liquid like powdery pigment that forms and then fades in less than an instant its all spreading out like scatter star skies each as the other in dark and disguise molecular symphonies energized masses that circle each other like sublimised gasses a hailstorm of being a meteor shower reactive conversions of matter and power its all spreading out like scatter star skies each as the other in dark and disguise
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Apr 12, 2010
Apr 12, 2010 at 5:53 AM UTC
In Dark and Disguise
I'm a hunk of flesh A few pieces of calcium deftly placed Tubes, fluids, electricity Gasses, elemental compounds and chemicals I sound more like a science project Than a person Grey sponge in a skeletal bowl Completes the blueprint This is **** sapiens
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Jan 30, 2013
Jan 30, 2013 at 8:56 PM UTC
**** sapiens
. Light sparkles in the clover, Yellow and blurr of bees Are honeyed in the sun And robins have come, Yanking in the gasses, So green is the moisten Of the painting of the dew And all is lolling in petrichor, The soils running with slow Time so shortly experienced, Oils of wood permeate the air, Lapping brooks bream into light, The loft kestrel swirls in meadow And chipmunks scuttle at base of tree, Even the wind does freshly quiet, crisply, There as a hug waiting for body and spirit, Patches of white are disappearing, they know— That one day we must all return, after winter snows.
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Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM UTC
Early Spring Morning
icecaps come undone crushing into the ocean as she sheds her frozen tears penguins and p0lar bears shudder as their habitats recede like the snows of Kilimanjaro volcanoes explode spewing smoke and ash like billowing pillows into the stratosphere diffusing sunshine's heat like a cold compress floes of lava melt glaciers rivers of mud cause flooded folks to flee fissures crack and snap from her pressure towns and countrysides split floors rumble and roll like the ocean walls tumble, crumble and roar bells toll an all too familiar melody families cry out, wailing and ranting chanting dirges of great loss an inconsolable cacophony rubbled lives lying in ruin but she is not to blame the earth is a no fault state this is our doing ecology's consequence greenhouse gasses and other pollutants have given her a fever her pores are opening to vent the warming she is not angry or vindictive punishment is not her goal and evil has not played its hand the planet is just cooling herself it's how Gaia gets her groove back
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Apr 17, 2010
Apr 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM UTC
Gaia
time does not heal, and love does not conquer all   though many of you would feel cozy and comforted by such knotted notions   time’s honored contract with chemistry gives us but rust, and dust   words roll off our tongues into the air, for unsuspecting ears   perhaps to allay our deepest fears   that we end as ***** of dung   effluvia from noble maggots the last gasped gasses   from creatures without   the fear of failure or the ken of death
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 9:29 PM UTC
rust and ****
he sat bedside with his great grandmother stroking a hand laced with what he saw as tiny blue rivers, flowing from a thin wrist dammed by ancient knuckles boulders chiseled by eighty-four years he read from his book while Mommy dozed in the chair, and nurses squeaked in and out, all with half smiles he could not decipher, for Grammy was sick and when his mother was awake, she cried he hadn't seen her tears before; he tried not to look, preferring his book with its pictures of the sun, orbiting planets and mazy moons and spaces in between where heaven might hide he understood most of its words, and none were of heavens--unless noxious gasses and swirling clouds of dust were the winds which whipped through the pearly gates but his seven wise years knew that was not so when he turned to the page of the penultimate planet from the sun,YOU-ruh-nuss he discovered it took four score and four years to orbit our star once math's mystery may have eluded him though coincidence was not yet in his lexicon, and now he knew Grammy had her times around the sun, her eighty four equaling one for the great tilting Uranus
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Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 11:54 PM UTC
a revolution of Uranus
Sleep. The vast world of dreams, leaden as oceans deep. In the depths we find our dear prince, but this time—dreamless—in a place of ether and temporal energy. Woven throughout a nebula are paths of light leading to distant gates and far off doorways. Plinths of stone floating about… Orbiting… On one such path our prince finds himself, his means of arrival… not remembered. If this is not a dream, then how can I be drawing breath? Where am I? The luminous pink and blue gasses impart nothing. The twinkling dust scattered all around only twinkles. This place is beautiful… and has such strong magic, on a scale I have not seen before. Calypso looks to the path on which he stands. Made of energy, it winds, curves, dips, rises, and connects with many others. A few end at what appear to be large doorways… portals… He starts to walk down the path. With barely three steps taken, Calypso senses something… a slight breeze… he stops and turns to see a storm. A massive squall line of dark rolling clouds with sporadic flashes of light emanating from within. Thunder, ominous. What brought that about? No sooner had the question formed in his mind than he realized the speed at which the storm was traveling. In a mere minute, it seemed to have moved a mile closer; another minute and he will be in its clutches. Tracing geometric patterns in the air with his hands and using words of enchantment, Calypso creates a sphere of magical energy around himself. The storm, an unstoppable force of magic and nature, consumes the prince. The shield, conjured by one of the most powerful sorcerers, holds. There is darkness… The clouds move around Calypso’s magic sphere, lightning flashes nearby and everything is lit for an instant. A moment passes, and the hairs on the back of his neck start to tingle… And a massive bolt of lightning connects with his shield, turning its blue hue to fiery orange—and another arcs into the path close by—Calypso, eyes closed, is thrown from the path by the shockwave. Through space, the prince flies… On stone, does he land… His shield, gone. The hungry wind starts sweeping him from the plinth—lightning flashes—he finds a hold and grips the stone with all of his strength. But such is the strength of the wind… Is this it, then? And in an instant, the storm passes, the wind moves on… Silence. Calypso pulls his battered body to the middle of the floating stone and stands. His wonder, greater than anything he had felt before. Moments pass… he senses something… A slight breeze… He turns and looks. Out in the distance, in the void between the stars… a silver sail.
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Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 5:17 PM UTC
Prince Calypso and the Ardent Gale
Sleep. The vast world of dreams, leaden as oceans deep. In the depths we find our dear prince, but this time—dreamless—in a place of ether and temporal energy. Woven throughout a nebula are paths of light leading to distant gates and far off doorways. Plinths of stone floating about… Orbiting… On one such path our prince finds himself, his means of arrival… not remembered. If this is not a dream, then how can I be drawing breath? Where am I? The luminous pink and blue gasses impart nothing. The twinkling dust scattered all around only twinkles. This place is beautiful… and has such strong magic, on a scale I have not seen before. Calypso looks to the path on which he stands. Made of energy, it winds, curves, dips, rises, and connects with many others. A few end at what appear to be large doorways… portals… He starts to walk down the path. With barely three steps taken, Calypso senses something… a slight breeze… he stops and turns to see a storm. A massive squall line of dark rolling clouds with sporadic flashes of light emanating from within. Thunder, ominous. What brought that about? No sooner had the question formed in his mind than he realized the speed at which the storm was traveling. In a mere minute, it seemed to have moved a mile closer; another minute and he will be in its clutches. Tracing geometric patterns in the air with his hands and using words of enchantment, Calypso creates a sphere of magical energy around himself. The storm, an unstoppable force of magic and nature, consumes the prince. The shield, conjured by one of the most powerful sorcerers, holds. There is darkness… The clouds move around Calypso’s magic sphere, lightning flashes nearby and everything is lit for an instant. A moment passes, and the hairs on the back of his neck start to tingle… And a massive bolt of lightning connects with his shield, turning its blue hue to fiery orange—and another arcs into the path close by—Calypso, eyes closed, is thrown from the path by the shockwave. Through space, the prince flies… On stone, does he land… His shield, gone. The hungry wind starts sweeping him from the plinth—lightning flashes—he finds a hold and grips the stone with all of his strength. But such is the strength of the wind… Is this it, then? And in an instant, the storm passes, the wind moves on… Silence. Calypso pulls his battered body to the middle of the floating stone and stands. His wonder, greater than anything he had felt before. Moments pass… he senses something… A slight breeze… He turns and looks. Out in the distance, in the void between the stars… a silver sail.
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