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"gilt" poems
~ ⚘ ⚪ ⚘ ~ 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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The guilt is so great it's gilt in gold. It shouldn't be. But my gilded guilt  was gilt in gold by me.
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Apr 18, 2014
Apr 18, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Guilt
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth and flux will sell The wares of any who reward him well. Praising whatever he is paid to praise, He hunts for ever-newer, smarter ways To make the gilt seen gold; the shoddy, silk; To cheat us legally; to bluff and bilk By methods which no jury can prevent Because the law's not broken, only bent. This mind for hire, this mental ********** Can tell the half-lie hardest to refute; Knows how to hide an inconvenient fact And when to leave a doubtful claim unbacked; Manipulates the truth but not too much, And if his patter needs the Human Touch, Skillfully artless, artlessly naive, Wears his convenient heart upon his sleeve. He uses words that once were strong and fine, Primal as sun and moon and bread and wine, True, honourable, honoured, clear and keen, And leaves them shabby, worn, diminished, mean. He takes ideas and trains them to engage In the long little wars big combines wage... He keeps his logic loose, his feelings flimsy; Turns eloquence to cant and wit to whimsy; Trims language till it fits his clients, pattern And style's a glossy **** or limping slattern. He studies our defences, finds the cracks And where the wall is weak or worn, attacks. lie finds the fear that's deep, the wound that's tender, And mastered, outmanouevered, we surrender. We who have tried to choose accept his choice And tired succumb to his untiring voice. The dripping tap makes even granite soften We trust the brand-name we have heard so often And join the queue of sheep that flock to buy; We fools who know our folly, you and I.
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Attack On The Ad-Man
This trumpeter of nothingness, employed To keep our reason dull and null and void. This man of wind and froth and flux will sell The wares of any who reward him well. Praising whatever he is paid to praise, He hunts for ever-newer, smarter ways To make the gilt seen gold; the shoddy, silk; To cheat us legally; to bluff and bilk By methods which no jury can prevent Because the law's not broken, only bent. This mind for hire, this mental ********** Can tell the half-lie hardest to refute; Knows how to hide an inconvenient fact And when to leave a doubtful claim unbacked; Manipulates the truth but not too much, And if his patter needs the Human Touch, Skillfully artless, artlessly naive, Wears his convenient heart upon his sleeve. He uses words that once were strong and fine, Primal as sun and moon and bread and wine, True, honourable, honoured, clear and keen, And leaves them shabby, worn, diminished, mean. He takes ideas and trains them to engage In the long little wars big combines wage... He keeps his logic loose, his feelings flimsy; Turns eloquence to cant and wit to whimsy; Trims language till it fits his clients, pattern And style's a glossy **** or limping slattern. He studies our defences, finds the cracks And where the wall is weak or worn, attacks. lie finds the fear that's deep, the wound that's tender, And mastered, outmanouevered, we surrender. We who have tried to choose accept his choice And tired succumb to his untiring voice. The dripping tap makes even granite soften We trust the brand-name we have heard so often And join the queue of sheep that flock to buy; We fools who know our folly, you and I.
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Christmas can be a time when families get together: Young children scream, wine glasses gleam, both ready for M&S dinner. TV's in the corner rerunning Home Alone, Heart radio's in the kitchen, Chris Rea's driving home, again. Toddlers find the wrapping more engaging than the Duplo Teen couples find the company less of interest than their own. The dog's confused and excited with so many different sources of scratches and pats, he can't relax, his whining is remorseless. Christmas can be a time when families are missed, the parcel made last post winging off to little sis. Zoom will come in handy to laugh across the miles, the screen will mask the tears and focus on the smiles. Gran will talk of Christmas past when everyone was home 'Cept in Gulf War 1 when Uncle John went away, .... Christmas can be a time when budgets get stretched tight, cash pressures get to breaking point and prompt senseless fights. Some focus on opportunity to spend some gilt-free money, the only prayers are for extra hours and a faster tesco trolley. For others it's simply ' Yuletide' an excessive celebration, a winter feast, all you can eat, give in to all temptation. Most focus on the family, even more on the gifts; there's little time for Jesus assigned amongst the myths. Some do remember Jesus from half forgotten carols, they know there's something more than donkeys and angel heralds. For there He is in the middle, noticed once in a while; it's His birthday, but all He's getting is a half-hearted song and a smile. He's no longer a babe in a manger, He's now a resurrected King, waiting for those who would worship to stand and welcome Him in. Whatever your experience of Christmas you can come just as you are, His love is unconditional He'll accept you warts and all. So come on! It’s a season to celebrate! To dance, to sing and to shout! Your Saviour invites you to join Him, so when you sing this Christmas, make it count.
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Nov 27, 2016
Nov 27, 2016 at 5:43 PM UTC
Come as you are
Christmas can be a time when families get together: Young children scream, wine glasses gleam, both ready for M&S dinner. TV's in the corner rerunning Home Alone, Heart radio's in the kitchen, Chris Rea's driving home, again. Toddlers find the wrapping more engaging than the Duplo Teen couples find the company less of interest than their own. The dog's confused and excited with so many different sources of scratches and pats, he can't relax, his whining is remorseless. Christmas can be a time when families are missed, the parcel made last post winging off to little sis. Zoom will come in handy to laugh across the miles, the screen will mask the tears and focus on the smiles. Gran will talk of Christmas past when everyone was home 'Cept in Gulf War 1 when Uncle John went away, .... Christmas can be a time when budgets get stretched tight, cash pressures get to breaking point and prompt senseless fights. Some focus on opportunity to spend some gilt-free money, the only prayers are for extra hours and a faster tesco trolley. For others it's simply ' Yuletide' an excessive celebration, a winter feast, all you can eat, give in to all temptation. Most focus on the family, even more on the gifts; there's little time for Jesus assigned amongst the myths. Some do remember Jesus from half forgotten carols, they know there's something more than donkeys and angel heralds. For there He is in the middle, noticed once in a while; it's His birthday, but all He's getting is a half-hearted song and a smile. He's no longer a babe in a manger, He's now a resurrected King, waiting for those who would worship to stand and welcome Him in. Whatever your experience of Christmas you can come just as you are, His love is unconditional He'll accept you warts and all. So come on! It’s a season to celebrate! To dance, to sing and to shout! Your Saviour invites you to join Him, so when you sing this Christmas, make it count.
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Somebody is shooting at something in our town -- A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street. Jealousy can open the blood, It can make black roses. Who are the shooting at? It is you the knives are out for At Waterloo, Waterloo, Napoleon, The **** of Elba on your short back, And the snow, marshaling its brilliant cutlery Mass after mass, saying Shh! Shh! These are chess people you play with, Still figures of ivory. The mud squirms with throats, Stepping stones for French bootsoles. The gilt and pink domes of Russia melt and float off In the furnace of greed. Clouds, clouds. So the swarm ***** and deserts Seventy feet up, in a black pine tree. It must be shot down. Pom! Pom! So dumb it thinks bullets are thunder. It thinks they are the voice of God Condoning the beak, the claw, the grin of the dog Yellow-haunched, a pack-dog, Grinning over its bone of ivory Like the pack, the pack, like everybody. The bees have got so far. Seventy feet high! Russia, Poland and Germany! The mild hills, the same old magenta Fields shrunk to a penny Spun into a river, the river crossed. The bees argue, in their black ball, A flying hedgehog, all prickles. The man with gray hands stands under the honeycomb Of their dream, the hived station Where trains, faithful to their steel arcs, Leave and arrive, and there is no end to the country. Pom! Pom! They fall Dismembered, to a tod of ivy. So much for the charioteers, the outriders, the Grand Army! A red tatter, Napoleon! The last badge of victory. The swarm is knocked into a cocked straw hat. Elba, Elba, bleb on the sea! The white busts of marshals, admirals, generals Worming themselves into niches. How instructive this is! The dumb, banded bodies Walking the plank draped with Mother France's upholstery Into a new mausoleum, An ivory palace, a crotch pine. The man with gray hands smiles -- The smile of a man of business, intensely practical. They are not hands at all But asbestos receptacles. Pom! Pom! 'They would have killed me.' Stings big as drawing pins! It seems bees have a notion of honor, A black intractable mind. Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. O Europe! O ton of honey!
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The Swarm
Somebody is shooting at something in our town -- A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street. Jealousy can open the blood, It can make black roses. Who are the shooting at? It is you the knives are out for At Waterloo, Waterloo, Napoleon, The **** of Elba on your short back, And the snow, marshaling its brilliant cutlery Mass after mass, saying Shh! Shh! These are chess people you play with, Still figures of ivory. The mud squirms with throats, Stepping stones for French bootsoles. The gilt and pink domes of Russia melt and float off In the furnace of greed. Clouds, clouds. So the swarm ***** and deserts Seventy feet up, in a black pine tree. It must be shot down. Pom! Pom! So dumb it thinks bullets are thunder. It thinks they are the voice of God Condoning the beak, the claw, the grin of the dog Yellow-haunched, a pack-dog, Grinning over its bone of ivory Like the pack, the pack, like everybody. The bees have got so far. Seventy feet high! Russia, Poland and Germany! The mild hills, the same old magenta Fields shrunk to a penny Spun into a river, the river crossed. The bees argue, in their black ball, A flying hedgehog, all prickles. The man with gray hands stands under the honeycomb Of their dream, the hived station Where trains, faithful to their steel arcs, Leave and arrive, and there is no end to the country. Pom! Pom! They fall Dismembered, to a tod of ivy. So much for the charioteers, the outriders, the Grand Army! A red tatter, Napoleon! The last badge of victory. The swarm is knocked into a cocked straw hat. Elba, Elba, bleb on the sea! The white busts of marshals, admirals, generals Worming themselves into niches. How instructive this is! The dumb, banded bodies Walking the plank draped with Mother France's upholstery Into a new mausoleum, An ivory palace, a crotch pine. The man with gray hands smiles -- The smile of a man of business, intensely practical. They are not hands at all But asbestos receptacles. Pom! Pom! 'They would have killed me.' Stings big as drawing pins! It seems bees have a notion of honor, A black intractable mind. Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. O Europe! O ton of honey!
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There are hearts of gilt, And there are hearts of sin There are hearts that lose, And there are hearts that win. There are hearts of stone. But if my heart was anything, It'd be a cactus. Prickly and unwelcoming with tight alien-green skin, That never fails to swell to accommodate whatever grew inside unseen. With love it'd bulge, And it'd shrink in the absence of love. (But with the right care it could bloom the most spectacular flowers.) There are strong hearts, But even strong hearts give in. My heart is a cactus heart, My heart could keep it all in.
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Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 7:00 PM UTC
cactus
1405 Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles— Buccaneers of Buzz. Ride abroad in ostentation And subsist on Fuzz. Fuzz ordained—not Fuzz contingent— Marrows of the Hill. Jugs—a Universe’s fracture Could not jar or spill.
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Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles—
WHEN cold December Froze to grisamber The jangling bells on the sweet rose-trees-- Then fading slow And furred is the snow As the almond's sweet husk-- And smelling like musk. The snow amygdaline Under the eglantine Where the bristling stars shine Like a gilt porcupine-- The snow confesses The little Princesses On their small chioppines Dance under the orpines. See the casuistries Of their slant fluttering eyes-- Gilt as the zodiac (Dancing Herodiac). Only the snow slides Like gilded myrrh-- From the rose-branches--hides Rose-roots that stir.
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When Cold December
it's too late to fret about decisions made and ties cut, past tense. it's hard to see it without the glaring minutiae of my demise. I'm scanning the walls for a change of subject- Polaroids and butterfly carcasses, city skyline sketches and old cigarette advertisements in gilt gold frames; satisfy yourself. my mind is saturated with degenerate cogitation- a stew of pantheons and painstaking nihilism. my bones are brittle and begging to break and my eyes are growing heavy, with the weight of it all.
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 9:11 AM UTC
past tense
I gaze at my reflection in a gilt picture frame. She has the slimmest sliver of a smile painted on her expressionless face. Her perfect eyes are so intense, so empty. Am I this predictable?
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 5:14 PM UTC
DaVinci and Mirrors
No use whistling for Lyonnesse! Sea-cold, sea-cold it certainly is. Take a look at the white, high berg on his forehead- There's where it sunk. The blue, green, Gray, indeterminate gilt Sea of his eyes washing over it And a round bubble Popping upward from the mouths of bells People and cows. The Lyonians had always thought Heaven would be something else, But with the same faces, The same places... It was not a shock- The clear, green, quite breathable atmosphere, Cold grits underfoot, And the spidery water-dazzle on field and street. It never occurred that they had been forgot, That the big God Had lazily closed one eye and let them slip Over the English cliff and under so much history! They did not see him smile, Turn, like an animal, In his cage of ether, his cage of stars. He'd had so many wars! The white gape of his mind was the real Tabula Rasa.
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Lyonnesse
last night i almost gave up thinking of bronzy brazilian girls perspiring pure coconut oil, eau de margherita ; supermodelas eating my dreams like concord grapes, lionesses lounging on new york balconies, lithe, reading céline. (esti ginzburg, on the phone, considers another pomeranian) . almost stopped. almost derailed strange vogue-like fantasme of irina shayk, standing legs planted left knee out-thrust and foot in ebony heel, cocked against the earth. set being imitation of gloomy coal mine, east of prague. thin arms firmly controlling the arc of her pickaxe, clothed in leather, high heels; sheen of sweat holding her feline body in sweet embrace. imagining that when shift's end buzzer echoes thru the tunnels she smokes a cigarette on a bench in the women's locker, apple planted on old planking, elbows on her knees. cover-alls peeled down to her waist and her hair, free at last. (click) on the tram back into the city all the smoked glass cartier storefronts pass by like polaroids held in the hand. the same speed. giggling, 'rina thinks of the six she could place along her arm; gilt gold, brushed silver, diamant... there are 11 smoked belmonts by the back steps; i did little with the night. (tall shadow of a woman in a black dress and my mouth a cotton ball) that is to say: i did almost give up thinking about bronzy braz ilia g rls , - but i didn't/and so there's nothing else.
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 7:14 PM UTC
i, almost
Listen to the stories
 men tell of last year 
that sound of other places
 though they happened here Listen to a name
 so private it can burn
 hear it said aloud 
and learn and learn History is a needle 
for putting men asleep
 anointed with the poison 
of all they want to keep Now a name that saved you
 has a foreign taste
 claims a foreign body
 froze in last year’s waste And what is living lingers
 while monuments are built
 then yields its final whisper
 to letters raised in gilt But cries of stifled ripeness 
whip me to my knees 
I am with the falling snow
 falling in the seas I am with the hunters 
hungry and shrewd
 and I am with the hunted
 quick and soft and **** I am with the houses
 that wash away in rain
 and leave no teeth of pillars 
to rake them up again Let men numb names
 scratch winds that blow
 listen to the stories
 but what you know you know And knowing is enough
 for mountains such as these
 where nothing long remains 
houses walls or trees <~> “I would recommend On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken. This poem is from Cohen’s 1964 collection, Flowers for ****** which deals with the trauma of the Holocaust and its legacy in 1960s Canada. In this book Cohen describes himself as a ‘front-line writer’ trying to understand totalitarianism, and the poems aim to critique his readers’ complacency in the violence of the world wars, anti-Semitism and colonialism. In On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken, Cohen asks his readers to consider how atrocities ‘that sound of other places’ also ‘happened here.’ He wants us to remember the lives of real people, to remember where people have found solidarity and protection, as well as how they have been oppressed because he is concerned that the stories that are told about the past will make it feel distant and unreal.” KAIT PINDER, assistant professor of English at Acadia University
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Apr 2, 2022
Apr 2, 2022 at 3:24 PM UTC
“On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken” by Leonard Cohen
Listen to the stories
 men tell of last year 
that sound of other places
 though they happened here Listen to a name
 so private it can burn
 hear it said aloud 
and learn and learn History is a needle 
for putting men asleep
 anointed with the poison 
of all they want to keep Now a name that saved you
 has a foreign taste
 claims a foreign body
 froze in last year’s waste And what is living lingers
 while monuments are built
 then yields its final whisper
 to letters raised in gilt But cries of stifled ripeness 
whip me to my knees 
I am with the falling snow
 falling in the seas I am with the hunters 
hungry and shrewd
 and I am with the hunted
 quick and soft and **** I am with the houses
 that wash away in rain
 and leave no teeth of pillars 
to rake them up again Let men numb names
 scratch winds that blow
 listen to the stories
 but what you know you know And knowing is enough
 for mountains such as these
 where nothing long remains 
houses walls or trees <~> “I would recommend On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken. This poem is from Cohen’s 1964 collection, Flowers for ****** which deals with the trauma of the Holocaust and its legacy in 1960s Canada. In this book Cohen describes himself as a ‘front-line writer’ trying to understand totalitarianism, and the poems aim to critique his readers’ complacency in the violence of the world wars, anti-Semitism and colonialism. In On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken, Cohen asks his readers to consider how atrocities ‘that sound of other places’ also ‘happened here.’ He wants us to remember the lives of real people, to remember where people have found solidarity and protection, as well as how they have been oppressed because he is concerned that the stories that are told about the past will make it feel distant and unreal.” KAIT PINDER, assistant professor of English at Acadia University
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Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a molehill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the sound With joy; and often, an intruding guest, I watched her secret toil from day to day— How true she warped the moss to form a nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay; And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers, Ink-spotted over shells of greeny blue; And there I witnessed, in the sunny hours, A brood of nature’s minstrels chirp and fly, Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.
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The Thrush’s Nest
*It's optional Like the fading of skies Early, wild, or remorseful. All the impalpable space in the lights Scaled in weighty gilt and curls The locks and gold of sun, early as it sets on a moiety of moor grey Brushed by shadows of agonised poplars on a spiral land of sheer pistachio blanket. Muffled by lyres played from the trumpets of convolvuluses, behind spears of the brain- an imagery commence to carouse into planet deep. A promenade atop the tulle of skies, an optional way to live. Saunter and fall onto slopes, shudder, meditate and hit a bee coffin pebble on the temple Where there are options to live, to bleed. Like the lurid sunrise sifting on yellow-green nuts, and dandruffs combed like granulated sugar Oh the taste of chemistry on the shea butter candles. It's sanguine and optional, your farewells on laden calendars of poems A promenade- back into sea of spears and flames A cadaver veined in pink, bearing plethora of methanol down pulverising bone.*
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 5:52 AM UTC
The cadaver
There was a Young Lady of Bute, Who played on a silver-gilt flute; She played several jigs, To her uncle's white pigs, That amusing Young Lady of Bute.
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There Was A Young Lady Of Bute
Hope, whose weak Being ruin’d is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss; Whom Good or Ill does equally confound, And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. Vain shadow! which dost vanish quite, Both at full Noon, and perfect Night! The Stars have not a possibility Of blessing Thee; If things then from their End we happy call, ’Tis Hope is the most Hopeless thing of all. Hope, thou bold Taster of Delight, Who whilst thou shouldst but tast, devour’st it quite! Thou bringst us an Estate, yet leav’st us Poor, By clogging it with Legacies before! The Joys which we entire should wed, Come deflowr’d Virgins to our bed; Good fortunes without gain imported be, Such mighty Custom’s paid to Thee. For Joy, like Wine, kept close does better tast; If it take air before, its spirits wast. Hope, Fortunes cheating Lottery! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be; Fond Archer, Hope, who tak’st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are! Thin, empty Cloud, which th’eye deceives With shapes that our own Fancy gives! A Cloud, which gilt and painted now appears, But must drop presently in tears! When thy false beams o’re Reasons light prevail, By Ignes fatui for North-Stars we sail. Brother of Fear, more gaily clad! The merr’ier Fool o’th’ two, yet quite as Mad: Sire of Repentance, Child of fond Desire! That blow’st the Chymicks, and the Lovers fire! Leading them still insensibly’on By the strange witchcraft of Anon! By Thee the one does changing Nature through Her endless Labyrinths pursue, And th’ other chases Woman, whilst She goes More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows.
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Against Hope
Hope, whose weak Being ruin’d is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss; Whom Good or Ill does equally confound, And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. Vain shadow! which dost vanish quite, Both at full Noon, and perfect Night! The Stars have not a possibility Of blessing Thee; If things then from their End we happy call, ’Tis Hope is the most Hopeless thing of all. Hope, thou bold Taster of Delight, Who whilst thou shouldst but tast, devour’st it quite! Thou bringst us an Estate, yet leav’st us Poor, By clogging it with Legacies before! The Joys which we entire should wed, Come deflowr’d Virgins to our bed; Good fortunes without gain imported be, Such mighty Custom’s paid to Thee. For Joy, like Wine, kept close does better tast; If it take air before, its spirits wast. Hope, Fortunes cheating Lottery! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be; Fond Archer, Hope, who tak’st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are! Thin, empty Cloud, which th’eye deceives With shapes that our own Fancy gives! A Cloud, which gilt and painted now appears, But must drop presently in tears! When thy false beams o’re Reasons light prevail, By Ignes fatui for North-Stars we sail. Brother of Fear, more gaily clad! The merr’ier Fool o’th’ two, yet quite as Mad: Sire of Repentance, Child of fond Desire! That blow’st the Chymicks, and the Lovers fire! Leading them still insensibly’on By the strange witchcraft of Anon! By Thee the one does changing Nature through Her endless Labyrinths pursue, And th’ other chases Woman, whilst She goes More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows.
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ONE time he dreamed beside a sea That laid a mane of mimic stars In fondling quiet on the knee Of one tall, pearlèd cliff; the bars Of golden beaches upward swept; Pine-scented shadows seaward crept. The full moon swung her ripened sphere As from a vine; and clouds, as small As vine leaves in the opening year, Kissed the large circle of her ball. The stars gleamed thro' them as one sees Thor' vine leaves drift the golden bees. He dreamed beside this purple sea; Low sang its trancéd voice, and he- He knew not if the wordless strain Made prophecy of joy or pain; He only knew far stretched that sea, He knew its name-Eternity. A shallop with a rainbow sail On the bright pulses of the tide Throbbed airily; a fluting gale Kissed the rich gilding of its side; By chain of rose and myrtle fast A light sail touched the slender mast. 'A flower-bright rainbow thing,' he said To one beside him, 'far too frail To brave dark storms that lurk ahead, To dare sharp talons of the gale. Beloved, thou wouldst not forth with me In such a bark on such a sea?' 'First tell me of its name.' She bent Her eyes divine and innocent On his. He raised his hand above Its prow and answering swore, ''Tis Love!' 'Now tell,' she asked, 'how is it build- Of gold, or worthless timber gilt?' 'Of gold,' he said. 'Whence named?' asked she, The roses of her lips apart; She paused-a lily by the sea. Came his swift answer, 'From my heart!' She laid her light palm in his hand: 'Let loose the shallop from the strand!'
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Beside The Sea
ONE time he dreamed beside a sea That laid a mane of mimic stars In fondling quiet on the knee Of one tall, pearlèd cliff; the bars Of golden beaches upward swept; Pine-scented shadows seaward crept. The full moon swung her ripened sphere As from a vine; and clouds, as small As vine leaves in the opening year, Kissed the large circle of her ball. The stars gleamed thro' them as one sees Thor' vine leaves drift the golden bees. He dreamed beside this purple sea; Low sang its trancéd voice, and he- He knew not if the wordless strain Made prophecy of joy or pain; He only knew far stretched that sea, He knew its name-Eternity. A shallop with a rainbow sail On the bright pulses of the tide Throbbed airily; a fluting gale Kissed the rich gilding of its side; By chain of rose and myrtle fast A light sail touched the slender mast. 'A flower-bright rainbow thing,' he said To one beside him, 'far too frail To brave dark storms that lurk ahead, To dare sharp talons of the gale. Beloved, thou wouldst not forth with me In such a bark on such a sea?' 'First tell me of its name.' She bent Her eyes divine and innocent On his. He raised his hand above Its prow and answering swore, ''Tis Love!' 'Now tell,' she asked, 'how is it build- Of gold, or worthless timber gilt?' 'Of gold,' he said. 'Whence named?' asked she, The roses of her lips apart; She paused-a lily by the sea. Came his swift answer, 'From my heart!' She laid her light palm in his hand: 'Let loose the shallop from the strand!'
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Sie sind das meer mein Rhein. Ich mochte nun das gleiche gilt wenn man nicht die meinen. Sie befinden sich der regen auf meine elbe. Die strome der liebe haben mich zum Anschwellen. Liebe und Wasser verdunsten kann. Und alles hat ein ende Sie moge die liebe Seine die gleiche wie sie liebte den Rhein. Minnesang
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 2:38 PM UTC
The Rhine (German Version)
Oh clockwork child with inkwell eyes that penned mens doubts in promised lies and watched as all that's born now dies for nothing more than greed Oh clockwork child with parchment hands that mapped the hearts of war torn lands and bleached the blood stained foreign sands where children came to bleed Oh clockwork child with torn page skin that kept the scores of all mens sin of wars they lost they could not win as if they gave a **** Oh clockwork child with gilt edged breath who's whispers were the screams of death that Rose the corpses from the depths to herald the end of man
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM UTC
AnaTOMICal 2
Walking up the rickety stairs, Patchouli and cigarette smoke combat for supremacy Before I even reach the door, and I step through to see The everyday undead scattered on the thick carpet like so many corpses blown out of Wednesday Addams' haunted dollhouse. Maybe it wasn't wise to come. A cd player informs me that, indeed, Bela Lugosi's dead, And I cautiously move into the living room. Ruby lips and ivory faces emerge from the gloom, Incurious glances marking my progress As an acolyte guides me to the Queen of the festivities Holding court in a corner of the living room. Her waist-length silver-gilt hair and damp skin like fresh camellias gleam in the candlelight, A studded black goblet brimming with Jack Daniels Is handed to her, A token of homage she eagerly welcomes    while nodding me forward. Whispers behind me tell her story, Of how she's seen a thing or two in her time, And why her flat stare and Theda Bara smile give glimpses of her bottomless occult wisdom. As her slim fingers play with a knotted black necklace, She considers me long before finally declaring, --"My God, you're an old soul"-- And she pats the cushion next to her, An invitation to drink deep and close of her dark knowledge. A cup of something unknown is pressed into my hand and I sip, hanging onto every arcane word she utters. Night slowly fades into dawn and I wake cold and stiff from a kitchen floor sleep only to see the Queen buttoning the cuffs on her white poplin shirt. Smoothing her tweed skirt, she steps into her pumps, Grips her cup of coffee, And with a cheery wave, leaves for work.
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 3:42 AM UTC
Samhain
Walking up the rickety stairs, Patchouli and cigarette smoke combat for supremacy Before I even reach the door, and I step through to see The everyday undead scattered on the thick carpet like so many corpses blown out of Wednesday Addams' haunted dollhouse. Maybe it wasn't wise to come. A cd player informs me that, indeed, Bela Lugosi's dead, And I cautiously move into the living room. Ruby lips and ivory faces emerge from the gloom, Incurious glances marking my progress As an acolyte guides me to the Queen of the festivities Holding court in a corner of the living room. Her waist-length silver-gilt hair and damp skin like fresh camellias gleam in the candlelight, A studded black goblet brimming with Jack Daniels Is handed to her, A token of homage she eagerly welcomes    while nodding me forward. Whispers behind me tell her story, Of how she's seen a thing or two in her time, And why her flat stare and Theda Bara smile give glimpses of her bottomless occult wisdom. As her slim fingers play with a knotted black necklace, She considers me long before finally declaring, --"My God, you're an old soul"-- And she pats the cushion next to her, An invitation to drink deep and close of her dark knowledge. A cup of something unknown is pressed into my hand and I sip, hanging onto every arcane word she utters. Night slowly fades into dawn and I wake cold and stiff from a kitchen floor sleep only to see the Queen buttoning the cuffs on her white poplin shirt. Smoothing her tweed skirt, she steps into her pumps, Grips her cup of coffee, And with a cheery wave, leaves for work.
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*thinking oft of alighting into dreams whose rides go through loftiest-clouds..* Upon the gilt threshold, it appeared - a waiting carriage and passing by, along the broken road, came Zachary through gentle-haze, it struck him - the face of beauty Came nearer.. only for disillusionment to take him by the hand.. Zachary’s lament falls on the thunderous roll of carriage as it leaves the water’s edge.. ripping out his heart-eyeball and throwing at open lightning-sky He chokes on dust-particled truth-beads piercing heavy-air, doubling over Zachary, oh Zachary..  who are you?                  too many ill-winds                                                              blow rude-breathe                                                             rack and shake your life-cage                              try to unseat your heart’s-core                                         *a gentle-prayer comes across the way – and takes your hand – leads you to the side it shows you how redemptive-answers lie on the light-ripple on the water go quietly beneath and you’ll find yourself.. in time* S T – 15 Octogonic-day 2013
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 2:47 AM UTC
Zachary’s Lament
Unfurling ancient drift current sifted sand grit mantling diaspora effulgent thumb humbly probing tossed carapace niche briny patina shifting into fingerprint I – request approach to thine sodden curve licking my thumb, I'm enchanted with your gilt
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 8:42 PM UTC
He's like Driftwood
Meet the Whisperer.... (Oh, and you will want to, promise :) 1. He can shape and mould To aught pleasure he desires. When he calls them at will Supple compliance at his command. Yes, they come like twitching magnets Real easy beck and call. Such happy slaves are they Very few recalcitrant ones. He twists and trims their sides Makes them kneel before his want. He will harness their might Bend them sweetly to his gratifix. Perchance, skittish on occasion Yet they serve their master well. They can spread to furthest capacity Turning dried veracity into well-loved fable. He whips them to submission Insanely alive, they need birth certificates! Yet tenderly, he caresses, explores Renders dramatic echoes in outrageous lore. 2. They melt like marvelous putty, toffee in deft hands Makes them caress YOU sensuous, everywhere... They reach deep, tap in and touch your core Delight or thrill....or equally meet your mind. Yes, they can stick you with bruising truth Move you, or bring you to your knees.... They can furnish context with telling content And with stunning detail, woo the sox off thee :-p He articulates every brief encounter With sage and timeless passion. Molten liquid drips from his entrancing tip In gilt carriages headed your way.... When the whisperer appears, best be ready To receive what he may see fit to flay on you! If that's too tall an order, it amounts to Clipped wings, falling sadly short of flight. Be willing to taste that mesmerising lilt Indebted you'll be to the lack of crude reality. Oh, reader...retire not spirit of droll mind Revel eager in rich spark for riveting trips. Yes, he is the one, your... One and only word-whisperer. (Enchante, cher lecteur :) bows Star Toucher, 28 March 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
Mar 29, 2013 at 7:21 AM UTC
The Whisperer
Meet the Whisperer.... (Oh, and you will want to, promise :) 1. He can shape and mould To aught pleasure he desires. When he calls them at will Supple compliance at his command. Yes, they come like twitching magnets Real easy beck and call. Such happy slaves are they Very few recalcitrant ones. He twists and trims their sides Makes them kneel before his want. He will harness their might Bend them sweetly to his gratifix. Perchance, skittish on occasion Yet they serve their master well. They can spread to furthest capacity Turning dried veracity into well-loved fable. He whips them to submission Insanely alive, they need birth certificates! Yet tenderly, he caresses, explores Renders dramatic echoes in outrageous lore. 2. They melt like marvelous putty, toffee in deft hands Makes them caress YOU sensuous, everywhere... They reach deep, tap in and touch your core Delight or thrill....or equally meet your mind. Yes, they can stick you with bruising truth Move you, or bring you to your knees.... They can furnish context with telling content And with stunning detail, woo the sox off thee :-p He articulates every brief encounter With sage and timeless passion. Molten liquid drips from his entrancing tip In gilt carriages headed your way.... When the whisperer appears, best be ready To receive what he may see fit to flay on you! If that's too tall an order, it amounts to Clipped wings, falling sadly short of flight. Be willing to taste that mesmerising lilt Indebted you'll be to the lack of crude reality. Oh, reader...retire not spirit of droll mind Revel eager in rich spark for riveting trips. Yes, he is the one, your... One and only word-whisperer. (Enchante, cher lecteur :) bows Star Toucher, 28 March 2013
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Dear Gwen Stefani Circa 2006, The first music I chose to like that wasn’t just my mom’s tuning of the radio was Your solo CD, the first and best of two, which I made sure to get on my twelfth birthday, after I made sure to get my first kiss. We were not rookie sixth graders anymore, In soggy bathing suits teeming with pubescence, So I publicized my plans to plant one on Yeorgios Mavromatis, the new seventh grade boyfriend, The first boy to buy me jewelry I would not like, The first boy I used to make myself infamous. Our hallway bottlenecked with twelve year olds, Alone we sat on the bed, legs dangling above The stained beige carpet. The kiss was damp and boring. But the crowd that pressed at the door was an ****** Surged voices told me my dad was walking up the stairs, I arched around to throw the boyfriend in the closet, My father caught me, and I wore the walk through them Like your scarlet lipstick. The album of My first kiss was not passion, but gossip. I’ve seen you in red lipstick, bindis, and blue hair, A pink wedding dress, and a Platinum Blonde Life. I knew you were making art meant to publicize. The songs and the clothes and the Harajuku Girls, The boys and the clothes and the Children’s Theatre, The day I made a scene was the day I knew. Catholic guilt and couture gilt and creative goals Took two West Coast girls, only twenty three years apart And turned them into people you paid attention to.
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM UTC
L.A.M.B Gwen Stefani Fan Letter