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Mariana in the Moated Grange by Alfred, Lord Tennyson With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, "The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark: For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house, The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moted sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower. Then said she, "I am very dreary, He will not come," she said; She wept, "I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead!"
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Mariana in the Moated Grange
Mariana in the Moated Grange by Alfred, Lord Tennyson With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, "The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark: For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house, The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moted sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower. Then said she, "I am very dreary, He will not come," she said; She wept, "I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead!"
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"Mariana in the Moated Grange" (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure) With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, "The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark: For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house, The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moted sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower. Then said she, "I am very dreary, She wept, "I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead!"
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Mariana
"Mariana in the Moated Grange" (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure) With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, "The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark: For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house, The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour When the thick-moted sunbeam lay Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower. Then said she, "I am very dreary, She wept, "I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead!"
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I climb the hill: from end to end Of all the landscape underneath, I find no place that does not breathe Some gracious memory of my friend; No gray old grange, or lonely fold, Or low morass and whispering reed, Or simple stile from mead to mead, Or sheepwalk up the windy wold; Nor hoary knoll of ash and haw That hears the latest linnet trill, Nor quarry trench'd along the hill And haunted by the wrangling daw; Nor runlet tinkling from the rock; Nor pastoral rivulet that swerves To left and right thro' meadowy curves, That feed the mothers of the flock; But each has pleased a kindred eye, And each reflects a kindlier day; And, leaving these, to pass away, I think once more he seems to die.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 100
There was an old person of Grange, Whose manners were scroobious and strange; He sailed to St. Blubb, In a waterproof tub, That aquatic old person of Grange.
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There Was An Old Person Of Grange
When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush; Or underneath the barren bush Flits by the sea-blue bird of March; Come, wear the form by which I know Thy spirit in time among thy peers; The hope of unaccomplish'd years Be large and lucid round thy brow. When summer's hourly-mellowing change May breathe, with many roses sweet, Upon the thousand waves of wheat, That ripple round the lonely grange; Come: not in watches of the night, But where the sunbeam broodeth warm, Come, beauteous in thine after form, And like a finer light in light.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 091
Gently she raised her dress, revealing where the axe struck the tree, "Here, a forest once thrived," she whispered solemnly, Then came the scars, pathways for plastics to reach the sea, Regret's sewage flowing through springs, an unwanted decree. Landmines left pockmarks on her face, remnants of war's blight, Awaiting the innocent, seeking to maim and to ignite, Deep incisions from perilous landslides, a haunting sight, A testament to the struggles endured day and night. She revealed the melting snow, beckoning an avalanche of change, Witnessing a road where an unsightly swamp once held its range, Broken ships and skeletons, remnants left estranged, Abandoned in the depths, hidden in ocean's grange. Finally, she pointed to the scorching sun with teary eyes, "It didn't burn so fiercely until this heart carried its demise."
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Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023 at 3:52 PM UTC
Earth
With blackest moss the flower-plots          Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots          That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:          Unlifted was the clinking latch;          Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even;          Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven,          Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats,          When thickest dark did trance the sky,          She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats.                 She only said, "The night is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night,          Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light:          From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change,          In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn,          Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.                 She only said, "The day is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall          A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small,          The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway,          All silver-green with gnarled bark:          For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said "I am aweary, aweary                         I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low,          And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro,          She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low          And wild winds bound within their cell,          The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow.                 She only said, "The night is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;               She said "I am aweary, aweary,                             I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house,          The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse          Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about.          Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors          Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof,          The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof          The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour          When the thick-moted sunbeam lay          Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower.                 Then said she, "I am very dreary,                         He will not come," she said;                 She wept, "I am aweary, aweary,                         Oh God, that I were dead!" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Jun 10, 2013
Jun 10, 2013 at 2:11 PM UTC
Mariana
With blackest moss the flower-plots          Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots          That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:          Unlifted was the clinking latch;          Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" Her tears fell with the dews at even;          Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven,          Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats,          When thickest dark did trance the sky,          She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats.                 She only said, "The night is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" Upon the middle of the night,          Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The **** sung out an hour ere light:          From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change,          In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn,          Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.                 She only said, "The day is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" About a stone-cast from the wall          A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small,          The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway,          All silver-green with gnarled bark:          For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said "I am aweary, aweary                         I would that I were dead!" And ever when the moon was low,          And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and fro,          She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low          And wild winds bound within their cell,          The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow.                 She only said, "The night is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;               She said "I am aweary, aweary,                             I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house,          The doors upon their hinges creak'd; The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse          Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about.          Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors          Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without.                 She only said, "My life is dreary,                         He cometh not," she said;                 She said, "I am aweary, aweary,                         I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof,          The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof          The poplar made, did all confound Her sense; but most she loathed the hour          When the thick-moted sunbeam lay          Athwart the chambers, and the day Was sloping toward his western bower.                 Then said she, "I am very dreary,                         He will not come," she said;                 She wept, "I am aweary, aweary,                         Oh God, that I were dead!" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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winter is leaving snow melts by the rise of degrees and the sun beaming every ice breaks waters leave the structure the air batters them down as it wakes blooming arrives like a ghost through the walls spring awakes every plant from big to small warm breeze carries musical notes trees and oats are shaking rhytmically colorful gardens carry their fragrance whimsically we receive another chance to leave a trace in the winds near the agricultural grange let us tune our guitars play our arrangement and make the changement
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Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 5:33 AM UTC
Springtime Blues
There isn’t much left of The Grange today, There isn’t much left at all, Only a charred left wing, I think, And the odd, still standing wall, The central Hall is a pile of ash As it was, the day I left, Sat on the back of the doc’s grey mare As the Lady Mary wept. It wasn’t supposed to end like this On the day of the wedding ball, Balloons and streamers hung from the roof As the marriage carriage called, Annette stepped out like a fairy queen In her ****** white, and lace, While Reece, the Groom, in the wedding room Had a smile on his handsome face. And I led the Lady Mary in To the mother’s pride of place, I only had eyes for her that day As she walked with a widow’s grace, It wasn’t a secret, I yearned for her But this was her daughter’s day, So I was content with the hand she lent For she squeezed, along the way. The priest stood up by a lectern as The guests all prayed and knelt, To bless their way on this wedding day I’m sure it was truly felt, But Mary’s brother-in-law was there With an evil look in his eye, He’d wanted to claim the Grange from her Since the day her husband died. ‘The Grange belonged to my family,’ He’d say, ‘and I want it back, You only married into the place When you wed my brother, Jack.’ He made an offer, but she said no, The Grange had become her home, ‘You sold your part to Jack at the start Before you went off to roam.’ But Douglas, he had an evil mind And his countenance was stern, He said if he couldn’t have The Grange Then he’d rather see it burn. He’d brought three barrels of gunpowder Unseen, but out in the yard, He chose this day to make Mary pay, We should have been on our guard. The guests were all engaged at the front When he wheeled the barrels in, It takes a mind of evil intent To imagine this kind of sin, Annette had lifted her wedding veil And raised her lips to the groom, When all hell suddenly came to play In the depths of that wedding room. The hall was full of the screams and cries Of those who lay on the floor, While I picked the Lady Mary up And carried her out to the door, It was there we saw the bride, Annette Who’d made it out to the porch, The groom was dead, but the bride had fled As her dress went up like a torch. There isn’t much left of The Grange today, There isn’t much left at all, Only a charred left wing, I think, And the odd, still standing wall. But the Lady Mary married me In the wake of all the strife, Her daughter’s gone, but our love is strong, And Douglas is serving life. David Lewis Paget
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 7:14 AM UTC
The End of The Grange
There isn’t much left of The Grange today, There isn’t much left at all, Only a charred left wing, I think, And the odd, still standing wall, The central Hall is a pile of ash As it was, the day I left, Sat on the back of the doc’s grey mare As the Lady Mary wept. It wasn’t supposed to end like this On the day of the wedding ball, Balloons and streamers hung from the roof As the marriage carriage called, Annette stepped out like a fairy queen In her ****** white, and lace, While Reece, the Groom, in the wedding room Had a smile on his handsome face. And I led the Lady Mary in To the mother’s pride of place, I only had eyes for her that day As she walked with a widow’s grace, It wasn’t a secret, I yearned for her But this was her daughter’s day, So I was content with the hand she lent For she squeezed, along the way. The priest stood up by a lectern as The guests all prayed and knelt, To bless their way on this wedding day I’m sure it was truly felt, But Mary’s brother-in-law was there With an evil look in his eye, He’d wanted to claim the Grange from her Since the day her husband died. ‘The Grange belonged to my family,’ He’d say, ‘and I want it back, You only married into the place When you wed my brother, Jack.’ He made an offer, but she said no, The Grange had become her home, ‘You sold your part to Jack at the start Before you went off to roam.’ But Douglas, he had an evil mind And his countenance was stern, He said if he couldn’t have The Grange Then he’d rather see it burn. He’d brought three barrels of gunpowder Unseen, but out in the yard, He chose this day to make Mary pay, We should have been on our guard. The guests were all engaged at the front When he wheeled the barrels in, It takes a mind of evil intent To imagine this kind of sin, Annette had lifted her wedding veil And raised her lips to the groom, When all hell suddenly came to play In the depths of that wedding room. The hall was full of the screams and cries Of those who lay on the floor, While I picked the Lady Mary up And carried her out to the door, It was there we saw the bride, Annette Who’d made it out to the porch, The groom was dead, but the bride had fled As her dress went up like a torch. There isn’t much left of The Grange today, There isn’t much left at all, Only a charred left wing, I think, And the odd, still standing wall. But the Lady Mary married me In the wake of all the strife, Her daughter’s gone, but our love is strong, And Douglas is serving life. David Lewis Paget
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Think about it and you'll realize that there is no better color than wine-stained teeth on high school students' prom nights and muffled giggles from the girls bathroom in the banquet hall of some community center or middle school gymnasium or overgrown grange hall tell the secrets of the universe under rushing water and dripping mascara and notes scrawled in the grout with hearts and other embellishment Damp palms on shoulders and waists with batting lashes and shy smiles and stomachs growling from a skipped dinner toes turned outward, awkward when the slow song moves to charging beat and hands flex like an accidental graze on the hot stove a hip shake to assuage and seem like they meant it all along that moment guides the other movements and other movements Driving up the hills and back down into the canyon up the fire trail and to the right, no, the second right crap, you passed it, turn around watch the glitter lights of neighborhoods and boats know there really are no better photographs than those from disposable cameras that are blurred and laughing developed weeks later and comingled with images of her dog and your mom and the backyard with candles blown out
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 12:14 PM UTC
Despicable
I wish I lived in Wayne’s World, where Wayne and Garth are real. I wish I had Cassandra’s curls, and her *** appeal. I wish I dated Jason Dean, and coloured him impressed. I wish I had the killer gene, but never ever confess. I wish I went to Ashfield Hospital, and looked a little on edge. Explored shutter island in the spittle, and made the Marshall pledge. I wish I lived with Yeats, or in the lonely moated grange, I wish I danced on table tops, my body for money, fair exchange. I wish reality didn’t exist, or better yet just me, all those opportunities would be missed, and at peace I’d finally be.
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May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 3:58 PM UTC
Wayne's World
Once his kind were ubiquitous; Men and their ponies herding live beef from the prairies of Kansas and Texas to the slaughterhouses North East It was a hard life, but good, nights out under the stars; amusing themselves with a song. There was beans and good coffee shared at the fire; The prairie wind blew sweet and long. Then the trains came and life wasn’t the same and the cowboys all faded away. Old Tex was the last of that vanishing breed; He’d tell me tall tales of those days when he and his crew battled rustlers and snakes to see the herd safe to their doom. His skin was like leather from the wind and the sun; his big hands arthritic and gnarled. A roll your own cigarette drooped from his lips and his speech sounded more like a snarl. Tex passed on last night, a blessing they say, to die in his sleep with no pain. No churchyard for Tex, he will rest ‘neath the sod just out beyond the old grange He was the last of a vanishing breed; a man to his quarter horse wed. The land that he loved will keep changing above, but the wind and the stars never change.
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Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 8:57 AM UTC
The Last Cowboy
I think of the waves Crashing into the **** The rocks are sturdy there In west port washington. And on the rocks A shorebird got closer To where I stood proud On the unmovable Pile of boulders. I could tell you This was it. But a star fish Exposed the air I breath In a moment of beauty. The waves flicker like lite bulbs. The split seconds are eons With out times way of saying Got ya now. You know How the you And ocean. Meet in the shores And die in the earth. How can the spirit of mythology Tell me the rocks where once human. And the boy told his mother you swollowed A pebble. He returned to free his uncles. They called him the stone boy. if I stand here for four days Ill break down like gravel in the grange.
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
West Port Washington
The grange had got it's new tenants at last Swiftly approaching it's great gates They were a beef eating bunch of a bloodline horse and carriage and all Driven by a shirtless whip in sunburnt skin and an ivy cap The sun above a dreadful shade of burning peach and sky of sickest sea blue The master twiddled his thumbs as he leaned out the window Watching the gate part The letter open on his desk Not as much as an telephone call Just a stack of notes and a newspaper clipping Smartly closed in red sealing wax Did they not know what had happened here just a year before? _______________________________ At lunchtime in five weeks All was not well Not one bit The garden swing hung off it's hinge Creaking in a minor key Drops of blood the same shade as sealing wax disrupted the floral wallpaper which lay abandoned on the garden path lumps of earth were roughly dispersed Four lumps For that one bloodline One year, five weeks and a few lonely hours
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 2:09 PM UTC
Srj755_56458.13d
Deep earthen roots, gold arrow-tips, Sounding rush of green applause Now, trees and bark stretch to Higher lows of raptured skies. Wide face of etched ranks and-- Here His marks tread and silence falls Quite tenderly under winding timber, Woodworks, Tree-rings, bound around As clocks tick to celestial Grange's face. His deeds show across baked-ancients And those whose sun came creeping under Horizontal terms and periods-- in lapses when Time held his own-- On winding old branches with buds smelling Young n' green n' poking free from yellow scars, Time garnered his people, his children and dead, housed them in ticks and tocks and surnames, For Twilight's enamelled hubris to bathe them, Wash them. To set them in winding bark, And brand them in Himself, In Winding Tree-tocks.
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Nov 5, 2017
Nov 5, 2017 at 9:52 AM UTC
Winding Tree-Tocks
I Dans les planches d'anatomie Qui traînent sur ces quais poudreux Où maint livre cadavéreux Dort comme une antique momie, Dessins auxquels la gravité Et le savoir d'un vieil artiste, Bien que le sujet en soit triste, Ont communiqué la Beauté, On voit, ce qui rend plus complètes Ces mystérieuses horreurs, Bêchant comme des laboureurs, Des Écorchés et des Squelettes. II De ce terrain que vous fouillez, Manants résignés et funèbres, De tout l'effort de vos vertèbres, Ou de vos muscles dépouillés, Dites, quelle moisson étrange, Forçats arrachés au charnier, Tirez-vous, et de quel fermier Avez-vous à remplir la grange ? Voulez-vous (d'un destin trop dur Épouvantable et clair emblème !) Montrer que dans la fosse même Le sommeil promis n'est pas sûr ; Qu'envers nous le Néant est traître ; Que tout, même la Mort, nous ment, Et que sempiternellement, Hélas ! il nous faudra peut-être Dans quelque pays inconnu Écorcher la terre revêche Et pousser une lourde bêche Sous notre pied sanglant et nu ?
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Le squelette laboureur
Deep in the gloom of her bedroom, Young Kathy dried her tears, It wasn’t as bad as the red room She’d been banished to for years, At least up there she could lie and dream And play with her music box, Not hear her parents arguing, Whether they did, or not. At least up here was her sanctuary Where she could dream all day, Of skipping out in the poppy fields Where all the children play, She’d lie there nursing a broken heart For the loss of her former life, For all had changed in her home, The Grange When he took a second wife. When her father took a second wife And his face became so grim, It seemed she couldn’t do anything right For the sake of pleasing him, The woman snapped and the woman snarled And she said to call her Ma, But Kathy had kept her lips shut tight That was just one bridge too far. So she lay and opened the paste-board lid And the dancer, up she leapt, Straightening out her toutou as She tried one pirouette, With one hand up to her forehead and The other fixed and set, The dancer twirled in her private world To a Mozart minuet. And Kathy thought she was beautiful As she balanced on her toes, A look of grace on her tiny face And the flush of love, it shows, With glitter up in her auburn hair And a spangle on each shoe, The thought had formed as the doll performed, ‘I wish I could be like you!’ ‘I wish I could be like you,’ she thought ‘So small, and full of grace, I’d never have to go down again With tears on my face, I’d wait till somebody wound me up Then I’d dance for them with pride,’ And something happened to Kathy then, A change that she felt inside. For all the while that the dancer twirled To the Mozart minuet, It took in Kathy’s tear-stained face And it seemed somewhat upset, ‘Why should she have this lovely room And a life that I’m denied, I wish I could be like you,’ it thought, And the two thoughts did collide. There seemed a change in the very air Of that too secluded gloom, When everything with bated breath had Stopped in that fated room, Then Kathy leapt to her feet with joy And a final pirouette, While the dancer smiled as at first she trialled To that Mozart minuet. The father arrived back home that night To a scene of blood and gore, His wife impaled with a table knife Lay dead on the kitchen floor, While Kathy twirled in the poppy fields In a show of poise and grace, And there in the bedroom, up above There was blood on the dancer’s face. David Lewis Paget
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 3:59 AM UTC
I Wish I Could Be Like You!
Deep in the gloom of her bedroom, Young Kathy dried her tears, It wasn’t as bad as the red room She’d been banished to for years, At least up there she could lie and dream And play with her music box, Not hear her parents arguing, Whether they did, or not. At least up here was her sanctuary Where she could dream all day, Of skipping out in the poppy fields Where all the children play, She’d lie there nursing a broken heart For the loss of her former life, For all had changed in her home, The Grange When he took a second wife. When her father took a second wife And his face became so grim, It seemed she couldn’t do anything right For the sake of pleasing him, The woman snapped and the woman snarled And she said to call her Ma, But Kathy had kept her lips shut tight That was just one bridge too far. So she lay and opened the paste-board lid And the dancer, up she leapt, Straightening out her toutou as She tried one pirouette, With one hand up to her forehead and The other fixed and set, The dancer twirled in her private world To a Mozart minuet. And Kathy thought she was beautiful As she balanced on her toes, A look of grace on her tiny face And the flush of love, it shows, With glitter up in her auburn hair And a spangle on each shoe, The thought had formed as the doll performed, ‘I wish I could be like you!’ ‘I wish I could be like you,’ she thought ‘So small, and full of grace, I’d never have to go down again With tears on my face, I’d wait till somebody wound me up Then I’d dance for them with pride,’ And something happened to Kathy then, A change that she felt inside. For all the while that the dancer twirled To the Mozart minuet, It took in Kathy’s tear-stained face And it seemed somewhat upset, ‘Why should she have this lovely room And a life that I’m denied, I wish I could be like you,’ it thought, And the two thoughts did collide. There seemed a change in the very air Of that too secluded gloom, When everything with bated breath had Stopped in that fated room, Then Kathy leapt to her feet with joy And a final pirouette, While the dancer smiled as at first she trialled To that Mozart minuet. The father arrived back home that night To a scene of blood and gore, His wife impaled with a table knife Lay dead on the kitchen floor, While Kathy twirled in the poppy fields In a show of poise and grace, And there in the bedroom, up above There was blood on the dancer’s face. David Lewis Paget
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how fresh the world was complex and still strange as we crossed shark-filled seas with little thought of what bright magics in the clouds were caught or what the cities past the mountain range would have for us instead we sought the grange the country quiet where oldest rules were taught in plainest movement from old is to ought from then to now where all we did was change into clear selves who know the middle way by just refinement of that youthful choice made all rejoicing under bluest sky for we who learn the paths and tracks of day know it's no simple thing to have a voice and far more difficult to keep an eye
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Oct 24, 2011
Oct 24, 2011 at 11:34 AM UTC
duly noted and recalled
tired liar, uninspired wire-rider biting fire un-learned burn-out doubting the clout, pouting routing trout without nets regrets beset vetted pets wet with fret filleted displaying range grange hall dancers manage manic prancing horses trotting in the allotted plot sought, bought caught in the cot as the hot won’t stop relentlessly attacking my inspiration leaving me only with **** like this
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 1:07 PM UTC
sun contempt
drove down to the cemetery hitting potholes head on down gravel roads praying a hole six feet deep filled by a cushiony bed would welcome me with open arms and a sermon to bless my slumber drove up to the grange tires skidding and kicking dust up in the dirt parking lot wishing upon an American flag stars torn up by the wind that those gusts would lift me up and give me a ride to heaven driving up and down this hill over and over when i should've driven to the airport and left the world for good
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Aug 23, 2024
Aug 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM UTC
DRIVE
Once private priviledged and aloof the Grange is now a public place where children swing and slide and shine flowers in their parents' eyes where births and marriages and deaths bare bones rest in Runcorn's archive. Here people seek to right their wrongs express their doubts and fears and views it's here that ballots call the shots for mayors and councillors and clerks pursuing our priorities.
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Oct 24, 2015
Oct 24, 2015 at 6:42 AM UTC
Runcorn Town Hall
Call me what ever you want. I was raised on highway star & smoke on the water, a bit of purple haze & a whole lotta love. Ain't nothing strange 'bout La Grange & that girl with faraway eyes was never my beast of burden. I got tied to the whipping post & survived with the young turks on the stairway to heaven. So it really doesn't matter what name you call me. But just imagine if you drank some eliminator, you'd be stone blue too. And that alone, makes me invincible.
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM UTC
I'm Invincible (Raised On Rock and Roll)
four students printed out sudoku ac unit whirrs in the room the disappointment pressed slacks too sunk for integrals and L'Grange krooser warms my desk eyelids drooping sentences left in the birches
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Sep 5, 2021
Sep 5, 2021 at 1:21 AM UTC
calc b/c
full nights in february when the sun tells the highway headlights are its understudy study notes that we know with yellow cups of whiskey and cigarette breaks, cake batter chapstick breaks the ice you're so nice - finally someone to do my dance and teach me new steps signs stir laughs and songs give us direction instead just ahead an hour or 3 add up to be memory and i won't fall asleep i am one with the water fountain clouds change into mountains but somehow it's always home i'm known to wander but now i'm inside i tried to hide from being whole but it's the role i stole pink ribbon buttons goods and good company by the dam' d river i shiver from the thought of ever going back snack ******* crumbs sneak in the seat where we started and im saving them for tomorrow can i borrow some honey just a shot or two from you its the sweetest coat throat tense in high harmony on stage left or maybe right maybe you're right tonight it's not really over its just fulfilled
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 12:43 AM UTC
exit 16, grange hall rd
if ****** who's never ethereal in our maiden world yet his sojourn when grange was his attraction that cogito heard Mussorgsky on Frontier March while very much inside his hat for our generations alas
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 10:16 AM UTC
pineal