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"heaps" poems
So, this is what it feels like, to be buried under heaps of leaves, trapped like gold in a treasure chest living in the hold of the Galleons of the Spanish Armada, lost at sea, in the frozen crevices of the Atlantic. Yet... I'm still free like air-- **sweet, beautiful, fresh air**-- who filter through the cracks and holes. Nothing's changed, I am still Me.
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Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 1:29 PM UTC
Mountains
Sunday sermons are spilling on the inner city streets through the green heaps and brown bags through the downtown whisperers and sage solitude souls Army bands prepare for march (their trench members filling packs with canister and cane) the high command and tricked militia head pinned quick on the look for splinter, lorry and skuttle Traffic patterns change at the COP connect camouflage bearers break formal stride battle men slip between colorful floats unsuspecting slumlords (vein pricked and weary) grin in their second suite dying rooms Twitching men and rubbernecks sit discreetly on the corner wall JJ and the chief revere a 21 gun salute holy rollers raise cheer (in a moment of silence) chess men hold steady with ivory cues Flames belt from the distant foundry streets come alive with crackle and dust members of the attic group glance down from their perch an elderly man in a straight jacket (happy in the now) sits solemnly with a cold reflective stare It’s not far from the steely mud holes from the flying fragments and sharp broken dreams from the arsenal digs and madmen (who quietly turned the ***** the ivy trellis and flowing white gown are a nocturne fit for this elevated rolling highland
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 8:33 PM UTC
James Street Parade
Oh how calmly she sleeps, Carefree she always seems, Wish she gets sweet dreams. So glorious is her face always, I wish her all the happiness, All in the hue of brightness, None equals her cuteness. Oh hope never she weeps, Clarity she wears in deeps, With time get the -ve wiped, Such the cutest nature heaps, I'll be her guardian forever, At heart Atul is just a loner, Not just now - but forever. Only by respecting my love for her, A clear old identity is rediscovered, I'm known as Atul Kaushal for a cause, Singing hymns to my magical love, Ignoring all those distractions, And I am happy being with her, Nirvana comes just for us.
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May 23, 2015
May 23, 2015 at 12:41 AM UTC
Gorgeous Sleeping Princess
the virgins ravenous vault college girl ****** a seething abashment with mixed loyalties who belongs to no one ferocious for annihilation *** blast poured out from essence spread shanks wet spot hot shots meditative and gleaming huge hearted she is one and many choking on desire far flung in Turkish bath fantasies a singing **** tearing heaps of suns like burns and spatters her *** a high pitched note his **** rage at bay poised hot **** **** gasping fire *** criminal's foot kissing ****** biters
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Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 11:39 AM UTC
College Girl ******
I saw the old man circling the tree trunk Weather beaten skin, bent gnarled hands and piercing blue eyes He seemed to study every knot and crack in that ancient timber Then without a word turned and picked up hammer and chisel The wood chips then began to fly and like confetti on the ground lie soon in heaps some ankle high Occasionally he would stand back and look but never once a rest he took Mallet strokes both hard and soft some from under some aloft fell there with unerring skill always busy never still Long into the night he worked now by the light of an oil lamp and so the tree stump 'neath his hand then became a work of art At long last he stood and turned to me and said three words " that'll do lad" I approached to see just what he'd done and there I saw the perfect rose every petal and leaf in place the slender stems in the breeze did sway With no plan or picture he had made the start And created the perfect work of art. So what is creativity? Well that's your next challenge. No love poems because they've been done a million times. This time something unique
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 12:56 PM UTC
Creativity
I have been away for too long In a solitude, burried with remorse For I've lost a very close loved one And the situation got worse I prayed to be taken away For my life to end As soon as possible Coz nothing much was left to mend Tears rolled down my cheeks To stop the negative thoughts Got taken back many times To untie the invisible knots Voices got into my ears That ached to explode my temple Closing my eyes eveytime A picture painted, to resemble It's you, O'mum...that I can't get over with Life seems, more like a lego Feelings that can't be put into words Every bit pierces through the core Your smile, your beauty, your essence Has all been captured by this heart Now, in troubled weak times Another scene peeps as an art How will I ever, comfort myself That now I am all alone None that are left by my side All have fallen and gone May your soul rest in peace Exactly, a month today Missing you heaps in this crowded shell Hope to meet you, someday... ©sim
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May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 8:07 AM UTC
Essence
Blue Monday BY DIANE WAKOSKI Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts and clacking together in her elbows; blue of the silk that covers lily-town at night; blue of her teeth that bite cold toast and shatter on the streets; blue of the dyed flower petals with gold stamens hanging like tongues over the fence of her dress at the opera/opals clasped under her lips and the moon breaking over her head a gush of blood-red lizards. Blue Monday. Monday at 3:00 and Monday at 5. Monday at 7:30 and Monday at 10:00. Monday passed under the rippling California fountain. Monday alone a shark in the cold blue waters. You are dead: wound round like a paisley shawl. I cannot shake you out of the sheets. Your name is still wedged in every corner of the sofa. Monday is the first of the week, and I think of you all week. I beg Monday not to come so that I will not think of you all week. You paint my body blue. On the balcony in the softy muddy night, you paint me with bat wings and the crystal the crystal the crystal the crystal in your arm cuts away the night, folds back ebony whale skin and my face, the blue of new rifles, and my neck, the blue of Egypt, and my ******* the blue of sand, and my arms, bass-blue, and my stomach, arsenic; there is electricity dripping from me like cream; there is love dripping from me I cannot use—like acacia or jacaranda—fallen blue and gold flowers, crushed into the street. Love passed me in a blue business suit and fedora. His glass cane, hollow and filled with sharks and whales ... He wore black patent leather shoes and had a mustache. His hair was so black it was almost blue. “Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. “Mr. Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. So I saw there was no use bothering him on the street Love passed me on the street in a blue business suit. He was a banker I could tell. So blue trains rush by in my sleep. Blue herons fly overhead. Blue paint cracks in my arteries and sends titanium floating into my bones. Blue liquid pours down my poisoned throat and blue veins rip open my breast. Blue daggers tip and are juggled on my palms. Blue death lives in my fingernails. If I could sing one last song with water bubbling through my lips I would sing with my throat torn open, the blue jugular spouting that black shadow pulse, and on my lips I would balance volcanic rock emptied out of my veins. At last my children strained out of my body. At last my blood solidified and tumbling into the ocean. It is blue. It is blue. It is blue.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 7:31 AM UTC
Diane Wakowski
Blue Monday BY DIANE WAKOSKI Blue of the heaps of beads poured into her breasts and clacking together in her elbows; blue of the silk that covers lily-town at night; blue of her teeth that bite cold toast and shatter on the streets; blue of the dyed flower petals with gold stamens hanging like tongues over the fence of her dress at the opera/opals clasped under her lips and the moon breaking over her head a gush of blood-red lizards. Blue Monday. Monday at 3:00 and Monday at 5. Monday at 7:30 and Monday at 10:00. Monday passed under the rippling California fountain. Monday alone a shark in the cold blue waters. You are dead: wound round like a paisley shawl. I cannot shake you out of the sheets. Your name is still wedged in every corner of the sofa. Monday is the first of the week, and I think of you all week. I beg Monday not to come so that I will not think of you all week. You paint my body blue. On the balcony in the softy muddy night, you paint me with bat wings and the crystal the crystal the crystal the crystal in your arm cuts away the night, folds back ebony whale skin and my face, the blue of new rifles, and my neck, the blue of Egypt, and my ******* the blue of sand, and my arms, bass-blue, and my stomach, arsenic; there is electricity dripping from me like cream; there is love dripping from me I cannot use—like acacia or jacaranda—fallen blue and gold flowers, crushed into the street. Love passed me in a blue business suit and fedora. His glass cane, hollow and filled with sharks and whales ... He wore black patent leather shoes and had a mustache. His hair was so black it was almost blue. “Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. “Mr. Love,” I said. “I beg your pardon,” he said. So I saw there was no use bothering him on the street Love passed me on the street in a blue business suit. He was a banker I could tell. So blue trains rush by in my sleep. Blue herons fly overhead. Blue paint cracks in my arteries and sends titanium floating into my bones. Blue liquid pours down my poisoned throat and blue veins rip open my breast. Blue daggers tip and are juggled on my palms. Blue death lives in my fingernails. If I could sing one last song with water bubbling through my lips I would sing with my throat torn open, the blue jugular spouting that black shadow pulse, and on my lips I would balance volcanic rock emptied out of my veins. At last my children strained out of my body. At last my blood solidified and tumbling into the ocean. It is blue. It is blue. It is blue.
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maybe it's you maybe it's me maybe it's the both of us the reason we disagree could be the direction in which we lean me splashing in the shallow end you swimming the deep maybe it's me maybe it's you it could be outside ideas that constitute the truth inside our spinning circles we're forced to get round to what group think constantly heaps on the likes of me and you maybe it's us and we both have it wrong when it comes to our ideas of what is really going on we could sit and reason the reason for it all could be you could be me... come to think we're both at fault
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM UTC
maybe it's us
The little zero is big magic. Count on any number in the number set. Zero can give the heaps the giant leap, yet no number can square it, not even the complete set of digits. Science trailing through the zero and one   leads the digital age, continues to grow. What's in a number is in the know, but what's in a zero? Now let’s take a trip into the matrix without the arithmetic pill of the zero orb. This time let it be with a poetic dose! Should you not bask in the sun, dipped only dew-deep, shimmering in the sea of its deep shadow in one little drop? Can you touch a moon up high, waxing lyrical   above the billowing ocean?
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Mar 20, 2017
Mar 20, 2017 at 11:38 PM UTC
The Wonder of The Digital Age is a Zero
From the last Armageddon Floating Yoda How does he do that? That's why I spent $12 To get him why Cause he's just cool Diary 2013 On sale last January You take my thoughts Scratch and scribble Nonsense or dribble With small pages I write heaps Of fumbling lyrics Time to just do it On my couch or the train Thanks to you both The sky's now the limit I love you my Star Wars pen
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM UTC
Star Wars pen
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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When I hear the words “marching band”, I think of 4 am’s eating donuts on the bus, Piled in big heaps to conserve warmth, Not caring who we were laying on. I think of lips on fire, Sectionals that drag on and on in The scorching sun, and staying At attention for longer than you can bear. I think of impossibly quick changes into uniforms, Asking your friends to zip you up, Band moms wiping off bibbers and shoes, And when you’re all ready, realizing you didn’t put on your mic. I think of falling on turf during 25 mph wind gusts, hearing the hail smash your instrument, Not being able to feel your face, But knowing you have to play on just the same. I think of eating at weird times, Breakfast at 4 am, lunch at 10 am, and supper at 10 pm, But knowing that when you get you get a chance to eat, The band dads have got you covered. I think of laughing so hard on the bus You’re crying, sobbing even, sprawled across Your best friends, and you think you’ll never calm down Enough to ever play your instrument again. I think of the drum majors’ voices yelling LEFT LEFT LEFT Over and over again until the freshmen finally understand. There’s always that one that never does. I think of the moment of utter agony Before they announce the last place in your class, And you’re squeezing your eyes shut, praying That at the very least, you won’t be last. I think of that moment of utter relief After you hear the last place in your class, And it’s not you, and your prayers have been answered That at the very least, you were not last. I think of the last competition of the season, When the seniors are bawling and it seems like Your entire world is crashing down, And nothing will ever be right again. This poem could go on forever, But finally: finally. When I hear the words “marching band”, I think of that triumphant moment right As your show ends for the last time, That last horns down, And you know you’ve given it your all, And no matter what your score is, You feel in your heart that you have put everything You have out there, All the music, the drill, the blood, sweat and tears, Out there on that football field. And that moment, you can get no where else, but Marching band.
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Oct 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018 at 5:42 PM UTC
Feel This Moment
When I hear the words “marching band”, I think of 4 am’s eating donuts on the bus, Piled in big heaps to conserve warmth, Not caring who we were laying on. I think of lips on fire, Sectionals that drag on and on in The scorching sun, and staying At attention for longer than you can bear. I think of impossibly quick changes into uniforms, Asking your friends to zip you up, Band moms wiping off bibbers and shoes, And when you’re all ready, realizing you didn’t put on your mic. I think of falling on turf during 25 mph wind gusts, hearing the hail smash your instrument, Not being able to feel your face, But knowing you have to play on just the same. I think of eating at weird times, Breakfast at 4 am, lunch at 10 am, and supper at 10 pm, But knowing that when you get you get a chance to eat, The band dads have got you covered. I think of laughing so hard on the bus You’re crying, sobbing even, sprawled across Your best friends, and you think you’ll never calm down Enough to ever play your instrument again. I think of the drum majors’ voices yelling LEFT LEFT LEFT Over and over again until the freshmen finally understand. There’s always that one that never does. I think of the moment of utter agony Before they announce the last place in your class, And you’re squeezing your eyes shut, praying That at the very least, you won’t be last. I think of that moment of utter relief After you hear the last place in your class, And it’s not you, and your prayers have been answered That at the very least, you were not last. I think of the last competition of the season, When the seniors are bawling and it seems like Your entire world is crashing down, And nothing will ever be right again. This poem could go on forever, But finally: finally. When I hear the words “marching band”, I think of that triumphant moment right As your show ends for the last time, That last horns down, And you know you’ve given it your all, And no matter what your score is, You feel in your heart that you have put everything You have out there, All the music, the drill, the blood, sweat and tears, Out there on that football field. And that moment, you can get no where else, but Marching band.
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Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 12:04 AM UTC
trash panda
Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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It was hard in the Moonta Mines that year For the miners, down in the pit, It wasn’t a place for a weak man, but The Cornish Miners had grit, They burrowed deeper with every day Extracting the copper ore, And the skimps grew high in the heaps that piled Not far from the Moonta shore. They wore their helmets deep in the mine With a candle fixed to the brim, And worked in the glow of the candlelight While the pumps pumped out and in, They pumped for water, they pumped for air For the air in the mine was rank, And water seeped at the lowest lode Where the atmosphere was dank. They built their cottages out of lime And mud, with a building board, On Sundays, that was the only time Once they had prayed to the Lord, The Cornish Miners were Methodists Built numerous churches there, And Cap’n Hancock had said, ‘Attend! Or your job is gone – Beware!’ Those men of flint had hearts of gold And they raised their children fine, Sons would follow their fathers then And go to work in the mine, One Christmas Eve they were gathered there By their hundreds, on the green, A candle lit on their helmets each Like a glittering starlit scene. The wives and children were there as well With their voices raised in praise, The swelling sound of an angel choir With their humble miners ways, They called it Carols by Candlelight And the movement grew apace, It spread all over the world from this The Moonta Miners grace. David Lewis Paget
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 3:33 AM UTC
The First Carols by Candlelight
Snarling, fangs shining, moonlight illuminating ferocious beasts, limbs tangling, separating, lunging, caught within deadly battle. Scarlet streams trickle from trees gouged like the bellies of their prey, canine fiends bare their teeth, their growls like black thunder, facing these soulless demons smeared with the blood of many. Bodies drop with screams still rattling inside their rib cages, demons devouring with rage that can never be quenched, their hearts ripped from their chests, veins slit, arteries torn mercilessly out of still warm flesh. Creatures created from pure insanity that breed nothing but anger, fear and despair, children's corpses torn apart, their skulls shattered. Snapping of jaws still slimed with internal juices, bits of raw flesh clinging to hair that shimmers under the blood red moon. Hissing from the shadows, knotted into frenzied war, animated corpses beside twisted bodies of wolves, wounds gushing ruby tears, still pulsing organs shredded. Flames rush from overturned fires, shrieking forms, torches wavering through darkness. Pale beings gather for the finale, blood spatters across ground, staining everything within it's reach. Only two are left, facing each other in the coming dawn. Heaps of creatures litter this burned, bloodied ground, none alive.
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Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 5:05 AM UTC
Vampire vs Werewolf
Even plastic collects dust Bright fibres of pink become dull magentas From the countless years and endless days of Still life Sharp lines and smooth contours of artistically machined plastic toys become fuzzy as hazy dust Piles Heaps And overflows From one Single Fact Inactivity? Unappreciated worth? Discontent? Laziness? No None of these The dust collects Piles Heaps Even overflows From USELESSNESS The things that the dust is attracted to That the dust clings to Are the things that in comparison to the things that are imparitive to our existance and our health Are useless Are plastic
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM UTC
Of Plastic and Dust
A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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Brother Bruin
A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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Have you known the winter days? Late February falls like frigid snow Merciless undertow Of evergreen and alpenglow And grey ground pavement walking Like Grocery shopping and weak chai tea Moonlengths from all family And surrounded like strawbury temptation, Late night lamp light contemplation And drowsy-dampened mornings Grey glaze of diluted boring Spattered over every orifice Charcoal eyes, platonic kiss. Pull your bow to shoot and miss Tell me all this is is what it is And I will tell you, “okay” (but you know this isn’t what I wanted) Hide the roadsigns Blur the guidelines This is how I love you Have you known the winter days? Late February fell like fire on hell And shook me from my sleep Ashes cover snow-banked heaps of rubble I slice my wrist on the sharpened stubble Of your half-assed beard (this is how I bleed my dear) This is how I bear my soul ******* smile And dominoes Carnation cults And buried bones (This is how I build your throne) Hide the gravestones Burn the rainbows This is how I love you. And have you known the winter days? Late February fallen like Lucifer to the underworld We both knew I wasn’t altogether that typeof girl But we pretended anyways Alcoholic halo haze And foreign intervention Of somewhat insidious intention And the legitimate logistical question That defined our discourse on fear (this is how I think my dear) This is how I speak my mind All that grey Those missing roadsigns Smoke and soot and Blurry guidelines And Gravestones gone And rainbows ash (and we are never coming back) This. This is how I love you.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM UTC
Fallen-angel February
Have you known the winter days? Late February falls like frigid snow Merciless undertow Of evergreen and alpenglow And grey ground pavement walking Like Grocery shopping and weak chai tea Moonlengths from all family And surrounded like strawbury temptation, Late night lamp light contemplation And drowsy-dampened mornings Grey glaze of diluted boring Spattered over every orifice Charcoal eyes, platonic kiss. Pull your bow to shoot and miss Tell me all this is is what it is And I will tell you, “okay” (but you know this isn’t what I wanted) Hide the roadsigns Blur the guidelines This is how I love you Have you known the winter days? Late February fell like fire on hell And shook me from my sleep Ashes cover snow-banked heaps of rubble I slice my wrist on the sharpened stubble Of your half-assed beard (this is how I bleed my dear) This is how I bear my soul ******* smile And dominoes Carnation cults And buried bones (This is how I build your throne) Hide the gravestones Burn the rainbows This is how I love you. And have you known the winter days? Late February fallen like Lucifer to the underworld We both knew I wasn’t altogether that typeof girl But we pretended anyways Alcoholic halo haze And foreign intervention Of somewhat insidious intention And the legitimate logistical question That defined our discourse on fear (this is how I think my dear) This is how I speak my mind All that grey Those missing roadsigns Smoke and soot and Blurry guidelines And Gravestones gone And rainbows ash (and we are never coming back) This. This is how I love you.
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Ahoy Captain Courageous! Cleave not thy ship from soul Past heaving swell through Stormy sleet this spellbinding Siren to seek. Away thee, Ahab! More than Whale, this mistress heaps Thy spirit to take thee Deep ‘neath sandy shoal. She sings... clings... captures. Pour over rocks Impudent-ass officer Soon torn and tattered. You know better than Fools before thee! Yea! Your liquor lapses Dead man dreaming! Admirals and angels Have fallen Afore thee… oh wise one, Ha! Like notches on a barrel Your soul… she’ll tow on her tale.
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 9:21 PM UTC
Siren's Song
It was definitely winter time as I trotted thru a foot of snow My eyes were locked onto the sky; my self-esteem was low & yet I made it thru the field where daffodils once swayed The Cottage laid 100 yards before me in mid-day It's shutters had all fallen off, & only one remained It's door was busted, rusted--all swallowed in decay & yet I forced my entrance & stood  in the disarray   (The fact of the matter is, I liked it better this way...) The arms of the rocking chair were worn down to the bone As pots & pans & tupperware were splashed around the home At least a home it used to be but that was long ago....   It seems it's one-time owner was knocked far from his thrown... The windows were all busted out by rocks that laid the ground The frost had overtook the place by more than heaps & bounds It was obvious there'd been no visitors for more than many years The less than freezing temperatures had made this crystal clear & as I stood there shivering, thinking of the day When this sight that laid before me was filled with sun & play The Cottage was so perfectly constructed in this way Children had once filled the field where daffodils once swayed & now I had returned to complete my mission from the start The plan, unfolding perfectly--The destruction of my heart.
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM UTC
The Cottage (Part I)
Some say it should go burn in hell That the money leaves a really bad smell But hit and giggle Or **** and piddle It's here to stay the IPL. From countries far and wide Come players with heaps of pride But if they fail You'll hear them wail For there is not anywhere to hide The cheques books come out The auctioneers will shout Some Players get bought Some others get naught The IPL now has such clout The turn-styles are all in clamour The Batsmen are using the hammer They go for the big six Bowlers try their new tricks So cricket is married to glamour Should cricket become this glam When the ball is met with a blam hit way in the air didn't see you there Sorry about that Maam!
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Feb 9, 2010
Feb 9, 2010 at 10:52 PM UTC
It's All IPL
Soft curvy hips Sweet smiling lips Eyes so deep Kisses on the cheek Warm embraces Safe places A strong sound mind A million words kind Heaps of laughter The morning after A gentle touch I can't get enough Curvy and perky Spontaneous and quarky Full of fun Bright as the sun Laying in bed My chin on your head These are the things I love about you.
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 9:28 PM UTC
Define: Her
In the deep of time indigenous tribes surfaced a red earth with protruding plateaus and burnt canyons along the Cimarron River. The ancient Anasazi settled at the core of this mesa. Scattered ponderosa pine. Yet, their sudden demise echoed curiosity. Navajo sensed a struggle of two infinite worlds, a quivering inundation. Circling its haunted ominous shape, a skull with one eye, the apparition of light rose into a blue desert sky. Violent storms crackle hot lightning strikes in a sulfurous summer- an oracular hothouse. Navajo talk of spirits or the gateway to fire. Heaps of iron and lodestone lodged in the cap. Only two brazen, cat totem poles guarding its passage. Standing among the mesa to feel the verve of the earth. A New Mexico sun beats down burning the drowsed terrain. To see the legendary shaman glow in his ephemeral blue nimbus. Bathed in gaudy turquoise. Sensing the dark encroachment of a ghost. Near the bony hills, soared a turbulent black bird in full flight, upward.
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 7:43 PM UTC
Urraca Mesa
Look here.  I've been admiring the spectacle   of Ng’s bare **** Yes, this is simply because I have to say Ng’s bare **** is magnificent. It’s not a bouncing Botticelli but it’s a slim, firm bottom, subtly rounded, real split peach and cream stuff. And Ng at the other end is a real nice girl, too! She's my friend, see? But back to Ng’s bare **** Let's stay focused. I contemplate this vision, along with the meaning of life, quite often in broad daylight with a slash of sunlight across her little buns. This is more profound than the Tait, the Louvre, the Met, the Frick, the Neue, the Helly, the Hermitage or even the Natty Portrait Gallery all bunged in together. Ng's bare **** is also better, by far, than anything you'll see at the Bolshoi or La Scala. I’m amazed at how much I’m amazed by this work of art. It’s awesome. And I betcha the most famous galleries would fall over themselves to display this finest little **** that is, if the world wasn't so hung up with hypocrisy and hysteria, yeah, it'd be heaps more famous than the Mona Lisa. Mike T Minehan
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 12:17 AM UTC
Look Here
THE ALLAN FAMILY STORY YOU SEE MY FAMILY WERE A GOOD CAMPING FAMILY AND WE HAD THIS BIG ORANJE TENT, WHERE THE FAMILY BROUGHT TO CAMPING GROUNDS, TO ENJOY WEEKEND CAMPING, I REMEMBER CAMPING EVERY WHERE AROUND NSW AND THE ACT AND AS A WAY OF EXCAPING THE NORMAL LIVES ME AND MY BROTHER PUT THE TENT UP IN THE BACKYARD AND HAD OUR OWN CAMPING GROUND, AND I HAVE SO MANY GREAT MOMENTS, LIKE NEW YEARS EVE PARTIES WITH LYLE AND YEAH, I WAS LIKE A NORMAL TEENAGER, WITH SLEEPOVERS IN THE TENT AND HAVING AN ESKY OF DRINK AND SAUSAGES AND OTHER THINGS LIKE CHIPS AND I GOT SOME GREAT PHOTOS ME AND LYLE ARE HAVING A GREAT PARTY FOR NEW YEARS EVE, WE CELEBRATED WITH POISON AND DEF LEOPARD AND LYLE BOUGHT AIR SUPPLY, OH MY GODFATHER, I HATE THAT BAND I REMEMBER WHEN ME AND MY BROTHER WENT IN THE TENT, WE WATCHED TV AND WE TALKED FOR HOURS LIKE ME AND LYLE, WE HAD A HEAP OF ****** FUN YA SEE I REMEMBER LYLE SAID HE WASN’T SCARED OF THE OLD BOOGIE WOMAN AND I AM NOT SCARED OF THE OLD BOOGIE WOMAN EITHER AND MY BROTHER LOVED TO JOKE AROUND WITH US YA SEE, LYLE WAS ENJOYING PUTTING THE TENT UP AND WE BOTH HAD OUR STEREOS, AND WE PLAYED GREAT TOP 49 HITS OF THAT ERA YOU SEE, MY DAD WAS A GREAT CAMPER AND BUSHWALKER, AND BUDDHA’S SPIRIT MADE ME INHERIT DAD’S ADVENTURE BLOOD, BECAUSE, OF MY LAST 2 HUMAN LIVES BEING GREAME THORNE, AND PATRICK DUNBAR, BOTH KILLED AT 8 AND BUDDHA MADE ME AN ALLAN, TO KEEP ME SAFE BUT I WAS A KEEN BACKYARD CAMPER, COOKING ON GAS BBQS AND EATING CHIPS, AND HEAPS OF CHOCOLATES, AND ME AND LYLE BOTH WATCHED THE CRICKET ON THE TELEVISION IN THE TENT AND NEW YEARS EVE, WE WATCHED THE GREAT BICENTENNIAL NEW YEARS EVE CONCERT IN 1987, ME AND LYLE HAD FUN DOING THIS AS WELL AS WATCH GREAT MOVIES ON THE VHS RECORDER, BUT THAT ALL ENDED, WE RAGED A BIG PARTY IN THE TENT, WITH MUSIC AND GREAT FOOD I CAN’T REALLY HAVE *** I AM NOT THE *** TYPE, I TALK ABOUT ***** DONORS BUT ONE THING I WAS GOOD AT, WAS TALKING, WITH LYLE, PATRICK MY BROTHER, SCOTT, AND MANY MORE, AND THE BIG ORANGE TENT WAS FINALLY BOUGHT BY A FAMILY I THOUGHT I SAW IT AT THE ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY, IT COULD’VE BEEN IT LOOKED LIKE IT, AND IT’S GOOD THAT, IF IT IS, THAT POOR PEOPLE WITHOUT A HOME ARE ENJOYING THIS TENT AS A HOME GREAT ALLAN FAMILY CAMPING OVER
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Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 10:50 PM UTC
THE ALLAN FAMILY TENT, FOR US TO PARTY IN
THE ALLAN FAMILY STORY YOU SEE MY FAMILY WERE A GOOD CAMPING FAMILY AND WE HAD THIS BIG ORANJE TENT, WHERE THE FAMILY BROUGHT TO CAMPING GROUNDS, TO ENJOY WEEKEND CAMPING, I REMEMBER CAMPING EVERY WHERE AROUND NSW AND THE ACT AND AS A WAY OF EXCAPING THE NORMAL LIVES ME AND MY BROTHER PUT THE TENT UP IN THE BACKYARD AND HAD OUR OWN CAMPING GROUND, AND I HAVE SO MANY GREAT MOMENTS, LIKE NEW YEARS EVE PARTIES WITH LYLE AND YEAH, I WAS LIKE A NORMAL TEENAGER, WITH SLEEPOVERS IN THE TENT AND HAVING AN ESKY OF DRINK AND SAUSAGES AND OTHER THINGS LIKE CHIPS AND I GOT SOME GREAT PHOTOS ME AND LYLE ARE HAVING A GREAT PARTY FOR NEW YEARS EVE, WE CELEBRATED WITH POISON AND DEF LEOPARD AND LYLE BOUGHT AIR SUPPLY, OH MY GODFATHER, I HATE THAT BAND I REMEMBER WHEN ME AND MY BROTHER WENT IN THE TENT, WE WATCHED TV AND WE TALKED FOR HOURS LIKE ME AND LYLE, WE HAD A HEAP OF ****** FUN YA SEE I REMEMBER LYLE SAID HE WASN’T SCARED OF THE OLD BOOGIE WOMAN AND I AM NOT SCARED OF THE OLD BOOGIE WOMAN EITHER AND MY BROTHER LOVED TO JOKE AROUND WITH US YA SEE, LYLE WAS ENJOYING PUTTING THE TENT UP AND WE BOTH HAD OUR STEREOS, AND WE PLAYED GREAT TOP 49 HITS OF THAT ERA YOU SEE, MY DAD WAS A GREAT CAMPER AND BUSHWALKER, AND BUDDHA’S SPIRIT MADE ME INHERIT DAD’S ADVENTURE BLOOD, BECAUSE, OF MY LAST 2 HUMAN LIVES BEING GREAME THORNE, AND PATRICK DUNBAR, BOTH KILLED AT 8 AND BUDDHA MADE ME AN ALLAN, TO KEEP ME SAFE BUT I WAS A KEEN BACKYARD CAMPER, COOKING ON GAS BBQS AND EATING CHIPS, AND HEAPS OF CHOCOLATES, AND ME AND LYLE BOTH WATCHED THE CRICKET ON THE TELEVISION IN THE TENT AND NEW YEARS EVE, WE WATCHED THE GREAT BICENTENNIAL NEW YEARS EVE CONCERT IN 1987, ME AND LYLE HAD FUN DOING THIS AS WELL AS WATCH GREAT MOVIES ON THE VHS RECORDER, BUT THAT ALL ENDED, WE RAGED A BIG PARTY IN THE TENT, WITH MUSIC AND GREAT FOOD I CAN’T REALLY HAVE *** I AM NOT THE *** TYPE, I TALK ABOUT ***** DONORS BUT ONE THING I WAS GOOD AT, WAS TALKING, WITH LYLE, PATRICK MY BROTHER, SCOTT, AND MANY MORE, AND THE BIG ORANGE TENT WAS FINALLY BOUGHT BY A FAMILY I THOUGHT I SAW IT AT THE ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY, IT COULD’VE BEEN IT LOOKED LIKE IT, AND IT’S GOOD THAT, IF IT IS, THAT POOR PEOPLE WITHOUT A HOME ARE ENJOYING THIS TENT AS A HOME GREAT ALLAN FAMILY CAMPING OVER
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