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"gleaning" poems
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC
Earth to Heaven: Navel High
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silence in you In wheat that does not rust But brightens as it tightens twist by twist Into a knowable corona, A throwaway love-knot of straw. Hands that aged round ashplants and cane sticks And lapped the spurs on a lifetime of game ***** Harked to their gift and worked with fine intent Until your fingers moved somnambulant: I tell and finger it like braille, Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable, And if I spy into its golden loops I see us walk between the railway slopes Into an evening of long grass and midges, Blue smoke straight up, old beds and ploughs in hedges, An auction notice on an outhouse wall-- You with a harvest bow in your lapel, Me with the fishing rod, already homesick For the big lift of these evenings, as your stick Whacking the tips off weeds and bushes Beats out of time, and beats, but flushes Nothing: that original townland Still tongue-tied in the straw tied by your hand. The end of art is peace Could be the motto of this frail device That I have pinned up on our deal dresser-- Like a drawn snare Slipped lately by the spirit of the corn Yet burnished by its passage, and still warm.
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The Harvest Bow
There's no replying To the Wind's sighing, Telling, foretelling, Dying, undying, Dwindling and swelling, Complaining, droning, Whistling and moaning, Ever beginning, Ending, repeating, Hinting and dinning, Lagging and fleeting-- We've no replying Living or dying To the Wind's sighing. What are you telling, Variable Wind-tone? What would be teaching, O sinking, swelling, Desolate Wind-moan? Ever for ever Teaching and preaching, Never, ah never Making us wiser-- The earliest riser Catches no meaning, The last who hearkens Garners no gleaning Of wisdom's treasure, While the world darkens:-- Living or dying, In pain, in pleasure, We've no replying To wordless flying Wind's sighing.
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Hollow-Sounding And Mysterious
Which face will I wear today     The face I wear at work           Cheerful member of the staff           Underpaid - unappreciated            Tiny office with no window            Paperwork nobody looks at            Rules just for the sake of rules Which face will I wear today       The face I wear at home             Always tired, depressed, besieged             by a thousand minor ailments             All the things I'd like to do              crowded out by other things              I have to do that are no fun.        Which face will I wear today       The face that sports a poet's cap             Gel filled quill pen clutched in hand             Trying every format I can learn             Gleaning from the published experts             Writing happy after years of sad             Finding sunshine in the shadows that I live in Which face will I wear today       The face above the helping hands             that reach for places to be used             That garner joy from mucking in             to smooth the path for others             Seldom thanked - often refused             Bucket goal - to save a life. Which face will I wear today       The face that looks back from the mirror             Mapping all the tracks of age             Searching for the sparkle in the eyes             that joined hands with my youthful looks             and did a conga-line away Which face will I wear today       Picasso portrait of them all             Ill and hale - strong and weak - sad and glad             When seen together in the mirror             it's a face I do not know             and someone I don't care to meet So check the clock and choose a face     Paste it on and smooth it out         Comb hair over all the edges              **** the light and close the door                  And take this face out for a walk                        See if anybody says hello                                            ljm
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Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 1:29 PM UTC
WHO AM I
Which face will I wear today     The face I wear at work           Cheerful member of the staff           Underpaid - unappreciated            Tiny office with no window            Paperwork nobody looks at            Rules just for the sake of rules Which face will I wear today       The face I wear at home             Always tired, depressed, besieged             by a thousand minor ailments             All the things I'd like to do              crowded out by other things              I have to do that are no fun.        Which face will I wear today       The face that sports a poet's cap             Gel filled quill pen clutched in hand             Trying every format I can learn             Gleaning from the published experts             Writing happy after years of sad             Finding sunshine in the shadows that I live in Which face will I wear today       The face above the helping hands             that reach for places to be used             That garner joy from mucking in             to smooth the path for others             Seldom thanked - often refused             Bucket goal - to save a life. Which face will I wear today       The face that looks back from the mirror             Mapping all the tracks of age             Searching for the sparkle in the eyes             that joined hands with my youthful looks             and did a conga-line away Which face will I wear today       Picasso portrait of them all             Ill and hale - strong and weak - sad and glad             When seen together in the mirror             it's a face I do not know             and someone I don't care to meet So check the clock and choose a face     Paste it on and smooth it out         Comb hair over all the edges              **** the light and close the door                  And take this face out for a walk                        See if anybody says hello                                            ljm
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No matter how You may attempt To grow out The container Of your life Which was provided for you. There are others Who weigh you down? With the weight Of their ideas. Empty the bowl Continue to reach Through your roots depthless In the soil of your speaking And then from your hand. May sprout the words With green leaf script Growing up the scansion Of the stars. For in the gleaning Of bonsai The tiny and insignificant Are magnified For burden’s elegance Is Refinement The smoothness of the soul. For what is compact Is always whole.
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 11:05 AM UTC
Gleaning Bonsai
Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring: Or if these bloom when worn-out autumn grieves, Let them lie hid in double shade of leaves, Their own, and others dropped down withering; For violets suit when home birds build and sing, Not when the outbound bird a passage cleaves; Not with dry stubble of mown harvest sheaves, But when the green world buds to blossoming. Keep violets for the spring, and love for youth, Love that should dwell with beauty, mirth, and hope: Or if a later sadder love be born, Let this not look for grace beyond its scope, But give itself, nor plead for answering truth-- A grateful Ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn.
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Autumn Violets
The Harvest Bow As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silence in you In wheat that does not rust But brightens as it tightens twist by twist Into a knowable corona, A throwaway love-knot of straw. Hands that aged round ashplants and cane sticks And lapped the spurs on a lifetime of game ***** Harked to their gift and worked with fine intent Until your fingers moved somnambulant: I tell and finger it like braille, Gleaning the unsaid off the palpable, And if I spy into its golden loops I see us walk between the railway slopes Into an evening of long grass and midges, Blue smoke straight up, old beds and ploughs in hedges, An auction notice on an outhouse wall— You with a harvest bow in your lapel, Me with the fishing rod, already homesick For the big lift of these evenings, as your stick Whacking the tips off weeds and bushes Beats out of time, and beats, but flushes Nothing: that original townland Still tongue-tied in the straw tied by your hand. The end of art is peace Could be the motto of this frail device That I have pinned up on our deal dresser— Like a drawn snare Slipped lately by the spirit of the corn Yet burnished by its passage, and still warm. by Seamus Heaney
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 8:02 PM UTC
The harvest bow - Seamus Heaney
Torrents of vapor ridden wind, snatched at her hair. Below, rattled the rapid, riotous and vast, rippling sea. Churning, like a chewing, charming serpent's lair. Once long ago I knew her; with time she left me be. On the edge she was, with will to leap t'wards the horizons. The brittle cliff would not give way, for even it was curious. Dare say all of nature reacted for the most prurient reasons. Even the sky descended to watch, with a lightning so furious. She beheld no fear and the sky wept with thunderous applause. Her bare marble-like features glistened in the gleaning of the gloom. Why she stood there, triumphantly, tempting, terror, for what cause? It will never be known, for she never was, in a time before this doom. The earth shook like the hands of a beleaguered, berated old man. It erected monoliths. Volcanoes, pluming molten magma skyward. The red glow brought heat; earth thought to please her, or so was its plan. The elements wrestled for the better view of that beauty stalwart. Never had a sight been so majestically violent, so mightily tame. Where she stood, should and would forever more be a sacred place. The tempest of the elements raged on, though none would win the game. A silence, softly, settled the rambunctiousness, and halted their race. The skies parted with a sad and lowly somberness. Every elated, embittered, element safely put to rest. As the sun swept aside all their postulated, pettiness. Rays of the sun showered her with bright white zest. The lady, she moved with unfathomable grace. She tilted her perfect head up to the skies. With the slightest of a smile shook her face. Like all before, she left them there surprised... and forever, there she stood.
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 3:21 PM UTC
There She Stood...
Torrents of vapor ridden wind, snatched at her hair. Below, rattled the rapid, riotous and vast, rippling sea. Churning, like a chewing, charming serpent's lair. Once long ago I knew her; with time she left me be. On the edge she was, with will to leap t'wards the horizons. The brittle cliff would not give way, for even it was curious. Dare say all of nature reacted for the most prurient reasons. Even the sky descended to watch, with a lightning so furious. She beheld no fear and the sky wept with thunderous applause. Her bare marble-like features glistened in the gleaning of the gloom. Why she stood there, triumphantly, tempting, terror, for what cause? It will never be known, for she never was, in a time before this doom. The earth shook like the hands of a beleaguered, berated old man. It erected monoliths. Volcanoes, pluming molten magma skyward. The red glow brought heat; earth thought to please her, or so was its plan. The elements wrestled for the better view of that beauty stalwart. Never had a sight been so majestically violent, so mightily tame. Where she stood, should and would forever more be a sacred place. The tempest of the elements raged on, though none would win the game. A silence, softly, settled the rambunctiousness, and halted their race. The skies parted with a sad and lowly somberness. Every elated, embittered, element safely put to rest. As the sun swept aside all their postulated, pettiness. Rays of the sun showered her with bright white zest. The lady, she moved with unfathomable grace. She tilted her perfect head up to the skies. With the slightest of a smile shook her face. Like all before, she left them there surprised... and forever, there she stood.
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Where does solitude end And the beauty of love begin? We must allow our emotions to permeate Our spiritual vestibule Before rapture dawns Like an empyreal gust Within, upon, and throughout us, Then our bliss will no longer be ephemeral, It will be everlasting. Someone on this existential expanse Loves you Beyond words, Beyond thoughts, beyond Time & space, With cosmic understanding; Like, age-old supernovae Radiating with stellar light Until their macrocosmic romance Waxes nebulous: —Dust to dust. You who are gleaning these words, Contemplate your immortal value As a living legacy That Burgeons & blossoms beyond the day Of your exodus from the Earthly Plane For the soul is a seed Radiating with the Eradia of Ages; Therefore, shine Until The Flora of Yore, Yggdrasil germinates within. Lamentation makes you more loving, Just, wise, and strong; Yes, embrace every moment That life brings For Providence safeguards you Within His Celestial ramparts. "But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light That grows brighter and brighter until full daylight." (Proverbs 4: 18) (NWTSE) You have an undying will within you, You are a vessel of sanctity Intemerate & hallowed; Yes, you have been set apart For an ethereal crusade With no known beginning & An indeterminable end; Exhale, you are Life, Love, and Liberty, And a Spark of The Divine. It is true, that you are the experiencer of Your joys, your sufferings, Your exultation, and your woes, But you must ne' er forget That you are not alone; Therefore, walk forevermore In the Baptismal Rays of The Sun For you were borne with purpose, O, Warrior of Light.
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Jun 4, 2021
Jun 4, 2021 at 1:48 PM UTC
Warrior Of Light (Originally penned on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2021)
Where does solitude end And the beauty of love begin? We must allow our emotions to permeate Our spiritual vestibule Before rapture dawns Like an empyreal gust Within, upon, and throughout us, Then our bliss will no longer be ephemeral, It will be everlasting. Someone on this existential expanse Loves you Beyond words, Beyond thoughts, beyond Time & space, With cosmic understanding; Like, age-old supernovae Radiating with stellar light Until their macrocosmic romance Waxes nebulous: —Dust to dust. You who are gleaning these words, Contemplate your immortal value As a living legacy That Burgeons & blossoms beyond the day Of your exodus from the Earthly Plane For the soul is a seed Radiating with the Eradia of Ages; Therefore, shine Until The Flora of Yore, Yggdrasil germinates within. Lamentation makes you more loving, Just, wise, and strong; Yes, embrace every moment That life brings For Providence safeguards you Within His Celestial ramparts. "But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light That grows brighter and brighter until full daylight." (Proverbs 4: 18) (NWTSE) You have an undying will within you, You are a vessel of sanctity Intemerate & hallowed; Yes, you have been set apart For an ethereal crusade With no known beginning & An indeterminable end; Exhale, you are Life, Love, and Liberty, And a Spark of The Divine. It is true, that you are the experiencer of Your joys, your sufferings, Your exultation, and your woes, But you must ne' er forget That you are not alone; Therefore, walk forevermore In the Baptismal Rays of The Sun For you were borne with purpose, O, Warrior of Light.
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Gleaning of the Owl. Gimbal eyed and shrugged on Oaken bough before the bluffing of the Crow before Rook caw and Raven croak before the shriven threaded dawn- to glean a silent measure.- thrawn.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 1:25 AM UTC
"- Gleaning of the Owl -"
today we visit graveyards turning over the wormy soil to uncover the exquisite corpse though we were told to let the dead bury the dead on this day we unbury the dearly departed relishing transcendent embraces and cool cervezas with jolly amigos and la familia who have gone on before we wrap ourselves in graveblankets to complete warm circles of love embracing our beloved companeros; gleaning netherworld heavenly rest wisdom, sharing the laughter of trite earthly concerns we’ll roll speckled tortillas on smooth tombstone mesas to feast on Mariachi tacos brimming with spicy queso, chased with another cool sip waltzing with the holy bones to the candle lit reveries of this evenings flowing melodies Mercedes Sosa & Joan Baez Gracias a la Vida Dia De Muertos Diego Rivera Oakland 11/1/13 jbm
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 2:22 AM UTC
Dia de Muertos
Serendipity begets bad luck, In a loop with no meaning, And nothing worth gleaning, Leaving us all at the mercy, Of careless Luck's whimsy
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM UTC
Serendipity
Everyday I am born to gods relaying lineage through winged messengers. ****** radiance enkindles immaculate retinas in solar flares and picturesque mornings' idolatry. Tones entrancing, blue jays or northwest mockingbirds, their range of majestic differences eluding attentive innocence, elation ebbs to pain's perpetual flow, streaming hypno-suggestive claims finding me inexorable to beliefs I've not died. Impassioned voices usher me through, by mid-day I've learned to speak their tongues, strange hisses and twisting trebles an attempted appeasement for conforming to continued cyclical living, instinct selection seeking final detention, rebirth a trapped evolutionary trait. Dreading each twilight, coping through whichever maiden may allow my musings to conform to her form for the night, overlapping until I am but a shadow dominated by her presence, her brilliance illuminating every scar of the side perpetually left to the dark, enlightenment held in the warmth of her touch until she too falls beneath the horizon. Sun setting upon this silhouette and whispering tomorrow in stagnant sleep speak, settling to sacrifice's sufficience. I fear this rest. Gleaning premise from barbaric genealogy qualitated as residual spatial pandemic, leaving this life cycle reduced to just one more death.
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Oct 21, 2012
Oct 21, 2012 at 9:17 PM UTC
Bird Songs
My hands are not my hands My voice is not my own My lip never was my lip But this blood is all mine. The spoon sedated my fears and insecurities It's tender metallic surface gleaning And involuntarily shaking As I lapped up alllll the yogurt. I could use a cartwheel. I don't want to sleep I'm afraid of dying as my back and forehead sweat in agony My eyes don't open anymore A steady beeping A flickering fills the air around me I told my brother I'll be back soon If I stop I'm writing with my eyes closed now. My heart rumbles like a cannon shot My only regret is how I never knew you better Mr. Cobain. We had such fun nights with Mr. Yorke and Mr. Coyne Just laughing And taking turns rolling Thom's glass eye across the floor. Spring training. I'm laughing on my bed outside Catching glances of the summer Coiled and contemptuous They go on their lives not caring Who lives. Who dies. Three girls climbed into my window They smelled of grass and polyurethane The children died 6 years ago The Johnny Carsons of this life And GET OFF MY HAND ******* PASS ME THE FOOTBALL Percodin. Codin. Coding. I just turned the page And I'll be ****** if I do it again “oh **** If Dan went white-face ghetto And wore beatnick clothes It'd be AMAZING The incisor broke my fall Sorry. No pork and beans today. Ericccccc Help my head Chalk these mint leaves up to fate. Because GOD **** are they good. I'm reading your expression On an empty pizza box. You don't seem too pleased. I fear This ice in my tray made me soak my bed Honest! Flounder had a mohawk I don't give a **** what you say. His **** mohawk was badass. His stubble made Sebastian jealous A bed of ice is better than a bed of coals Or a bed of cars Or a bed of rice But that would feel really, really good. Take a guitar solo Now a bass solo Now a keyboard solo Now a harmonica solo Now beatbox, no go? Maybe the former The TRANSFORMER of course. I hope I live to see that one day. Yes.
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Sep 19, 2010
Sep 19, 2010 at 5:50 PM UTC
Prerequisites
My hands are not my hands My voice is not my own My lip never was my lip But this blood is all mine. The spoon sedated my fears and insecurities It's tender metallic surface gleaning And involuntarily shaking As I lapped up alllll the yogurt. I could use a cartwheel. I don't want to sleep I'm afraid of dying as my back and forehead sweat in agony My eyes don't open anymore A steady beeping A flickering fills the air around me I told my brother I'll be back soon If I stop I'm writing with my eyes closed now. My heart rumbles like a cannon shot My only regret is how I never knew you better Mr. Cobain. We had such fun nights with Mr. Yorke and Mr. Coyne Just laughing And taking turns rolling Thom's glass eye across the floor. Spring training. I'm laughing on my bed outside Catching glances of the summer Coiled and contemptuous They go on their lives not caring Who lives. Who dies. Three girls climbed into my window They smelled of grass and polyurethane The children died 6 years ago The Johnny Carsons of this life And GET OFF MY HAND ******* PASS ME THE FOOTBALL Percodin. Codin. Coding. I just turned the page And I'll be ****** if I do it again “oh **** If Dan went white-face ghetto And wore beatnick clothes It'd be AMAZING The incisor broke my fall Sorry. No pork and beans today. Ericccccc Help my head Chalk these mint leaves up to fate. Because GOD **** are they good. I'm reading your expression On an empty pizza box. You don't seem too pleased. I fear This ice in my tray made me soak my bed Honest! Flounder had a mohawk I don't give a **** what you say. His **** mohawk was badass. His stubble made Sebastian jealous A bed of ice is better than a bed of coals Or a bed of cars Or a bed of rice But that would feel really, really good. Take a guitar solo Now a bass solo Now a keyboard solo Now a harmonica solo Now beatbox, no go? Maybe the former The TRANSFORMER of course. I hope I live to see that one day. Yes.
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It were perhaps too good to preen, This thing, this much elided stream, To rest therewith, tremulous ream Of thoughts forthwith from misery. Let not the beggar hear my words: There is no hope in timely dress; World it cares not for men deferred From caring press and relatives. Too much it cares for common things, A word said soft, need not for pain, Yet broken in its gleaning thoughts, Suff’ring not well deserved stains. These things, I say, they cast a sea Before dim eyes, make blind men cry, Rob their sight, ev’n in sight’s drought; This I say, casts little more t’me.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 7:26 PM UTC
Hopeless, this Elided Stream
While most people are familiar with the principle of ‘sowing and reaping’, it can be difficult to distinguish between Fact and Fiction; gleaning the Truth sometimes takes time, so that the authentic and the fake can… be properly separated. Sad jealousies are found when the evil works of Man bloom against the stark contrast of God’s reality; seeing the good and bad, subtly reinforces our understanding of the wheat and tares; let us be glad, in knowing how God divinely operates; in Him, we can move and have our being when our Faith is extended on behalf of His Kingdom; when we are agreeing with His Word, it’s easier to love and care for others regularly, as we must; will people observe us as His Children, if we’re not placing in God… our trust?
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Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017 at 2:09 PM UTC
Poem: Wheat and Tares
We have seen your greasy lips Of supple warmth nibble our geographical space with relish With your cerebral repertoire of Machiavellian tactics A savage sage gleaning with resounding skill And crafty navigational sail Your masterstrokes through climes and tongues reverberated With your sparkling craft of vile crypt Across regions, tribes and locales Of your fangs that foiled good governance But this time… Your gladiatorial glide on this political turf Shall experience a firestorm of rejection Your emissaries across territorial divides Shall be hounded to delusion For the masses shall maul your mushy mantle of self grandeur To the abyss of dishonour For your subsequent arrival shall be booed to your doom Your waning clout shall swing you to judgement Of abysmal invasion We are watching your fragile trot through this fearsome terrain Of your permutation in levitation For Damocles’ fiery sword shall haunt your ambition Your raging mist on this cloudy night Shall encounter a violent tussle Prepare for war! The scarlet venom from your cruel camp Shall cease with instant visitation From the warhorses of this fearless infantry Armed with the right tools to disarm your fortified fortress As you dispatch your foot soldiers Of monsters and Leviathans To play a callous hoax like the cunning fox Their morbid mien shall encounter an eternal fall! Let the music begin… Onuchi Mark © 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 6:32 AM UTC
DARKENED TRAIL
Sitting at my lonely barside I kneel before the patron saint Of castaways, And raise but two fingers. The peanuts and peasants Have much in common, They are roasted, salted, Glazed with a succor No sweeter than savage starlight They serve to compliment The fine layer of salt On the rim of my cocktails The liquor as **** as their company. This is the rite of reverence That droops my eyelids This is the gleaning genuflection Of the day's stale bread.
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 2:55 AM UTC
Margarita
the words have lost their meaning, put down and forgotten the ink is old and hitting refresh, flesh is rotten the love of doves is for the birds, love of forgotten words, buried deep unearth on Earth, what has brought this on... short tempered phrases Viennese masked faces road rage that displaces where words that disgraced the root that spawned their meaning and thinkers were able to be gleaning to drink the rich and full in leaving pride at the door and no deceiving what we are all here for not a geo-politico hidden agenda not a plan within a plan within a plan like some Shogun in a Clavell novel, not to be a notch whelped on Evils' belt size 365 days a year, equal spaced holes like stepping stones tighten around a neck stuck out too far risk taking and all in isn't a sin, groan, who am I to judge, I am so marred am I poeticizing how to live, no, how write poetry and be so alive, I have so many words they roll like boulders, in my head and off my shoulder across the floor the neighbours complain of the noise and I lie, say- ing it is my dog with her toys, so go write your poetry, no one else can, please may it cure you as mine cures me of my disease so you can do what you were born to do, what are you waiting for ** I can't tell you!**
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 12:55 AM UTC
There is no, good, poetry contained inside
Comparing the past with the future at last Sitting on the fence in between the sides Caught in a moment of grand reflection We weigh out a measure of our place in this time Loosing the arrow of change, it flies Into the deep heart of space it climbs Correcting the manner we chose to stand We ladle our sauce from the grand design Born of contention we pass it along Setting our feet on a different path We can sell our souls for a scrap of stale bread but Aren't we just dreaming our time in the sun? Passing the day with a turbulent fact Losing our way on the pathway back We are telling our tale for a chance at success Reliving the moment a it rolls off the press Saving our tick for another day Tomorrow is fiction or so they say The day past the moment always comes and it goes We’re drifting and gleaning the time that we’ve sown Measuring the thought that we’re glad to know Surrendering nothing, we take some time Never regretting the breadth of our soul Believing in a future that will make us whole
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Apr 15, 2017
Apr 15, 2017 at 1:51 AM UTC
A Dividing Line
On a winding stair, that leads particularly nowhere each flight we save, to be lost is grave the winds they flee, over a starry sea and our hands are clutched, our hearts in touch As a wisp of a cloud, flits sultrily by and the yawning wave, wets our toes, and tries to lure us in, to the hungry waters within where doom is us, should we look in its eyes We lay awake, gleaning much from the sky she seems subdued, the sands softly sigh a dragonfly dodders by, so slowly alive we stare at nothing, as it stirs inside
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 10:57 AM UTC
Nothingness
monk jumps trinkle ****** trane criss crossin time aboard idiocentric planes whacky Hackensack moods near my mysterioso home round bout midnight gleaning brilliant corner poems hummin blue monk blues i surrender dear Bemsha swing cast away Friday the 13th fears melancholy ruby swigs straight no chaser shots just let's cool one at the red hot 5 Spot rollins and griffin jammin hudson riverside house Weehawken royalty bows to a spiffy charlie rouse we remember mintons a vast creative flood monk be boppin on stage when in walked bud red rooster clucksters raising town hall roofs consecrating spaces playing Monk's hallowed tunes "pianos don't play no wrong notes" we heard Thelonious once say his utterances on the upright keys ingenious music maestro on display Music Selection: Thelonious Monk: In Walked Bud Marking Thelonious Sphere Monks Centennial 10/10/17 - 10/10/17 Orlando 9/28/17 jbm
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Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 6:36 PM UTC
monk cent 10 I al
Through my window Nigh on midnight Falling snowflakes In the moonlight Swirling, falling Something calling Me toward another world… Each exquisite Crystal lattice Gifts from God To us, por gratis Hidden meaning Knowledge gleaning Knowledge of another world… Something stirring Deep inside me Heart and Spirit, Join to guide me Toward the door; Toward something more Portal to another world… Slowly, surely Fog is lifting Veil dissolving Snowflakes drifting Diamond whiteness Mirrors brightness Shining from another world… Very close now Drawing nearer Misty vision Growing clearer Throne room glorious King victorious Conqueror from another world… Music deaf’ning Church bells ringing Roaring, tolling, Angels singing, Ground is quaking, Trembling, shaking, Glorious, wondrous other world! Veil descending, Vision fading, Crumbling, ending, Fast abating, I am grasping, Clutching, clasping, Yearning for another world. Road before me, Doubts behind me, I implore thee, Lord, remind me: You have sought me, Found me, bought me. I was made for other worlds.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 8:08 AM UTC
Snow
Forgive me lord I pray When I fail to recognize The blessings you bestow Please, help me to relize So much I have been given Yet so often I do not see Your gentle hand outstretched Reaching down to me My days so often crowded With things that hold no meaning And my failure to know The process of your gleaning Lord please forgive me That I complain I regret When the world presses in on me I pray I not forget.
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Jan 16, 2014
Jan 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM UTC
Sometimes I Forget
here to pray here to remember days who sought after peace in pain what happened in a field of spiderweb croquet when i was eating my words in company where my own truth shines, gleaning why only here, mind met meaning return to who you are, as expression in essence is a truth that nobody can ascertain
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Jun 13, 2018
Jun 13, 2018 at 8:50 AM UTC
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