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"hemmed" poems
White-furred hill flowers bow Gust-bent, Wet in April snow, Lavender beneath their Downy coats. Tender soldiers of spring Grasp wind-blown gravel steeps, Stand to beckon brown grass, Soft-call the life in sapless trees To ring with green again Against Old Bully Winter’s Blustering. Quaking aspens, Earliest to leaf in yellow-green, Curling grama grasses, Tough food for buffalo, Cannot boast first life each Montana spring; Only zombie-lichens, Rock-fast mosses Throw off winter’s death Before the crocus' rise. On eastern Montana hills No street-hemmed dandelions Colonize in chute-dropped ranks; No time-tamed tulips Live on wind-round knolls. Here, the yucca’s bayonet-sharp ****** Here, the wild onions’ scent-strong hold; But these arrive after early chill, Following the purple crocus on the hill.
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Jan 4, 2012
Jan 4, 2012 at 8:36 AM UTC
Prairie Crocus
you had a chapstick tube stowed away in your bag of things you never put to use those scarred chapped lips scratching, tearing crevice of your mouth craved my heart bleeding, uncaring and subsequently my mango chapstick would serve it's purpose on your lips and never mine. among other things, you had a pair of white socks. you never wore them, too pristine (you'd ruin them as you teetered on slippery suspended logs) you reminded me of a cracked open window, always hoping you would be at the mullioned panes chapped lips, white socks and all but the only thing that pushed against the glass was the scent of mango air. and mango never smelt so bitter. when will you come home replace the mango air with your feverish cologne. a swaying of the breeze and your tee shirt wraps a cotton arm around your waist the bitter aftertaste your tongue like grapefruit wedged against my teeth i missed the smell of burnt bread bottom, when we were in the kitchen and the gown of silver hemmed water that danced down the roof, tapping again and again and again but, when you come home next month. I will be gone. the mango around our home had long since turned bitter and that brown picket fence no longer bends around my heart i am somewhere where the mango still smells sweet and boys give my their chapstick for i've long since run out of mine.
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 2:30 AM UTC
Chapstick
I believe in one church. I believe in an inter-racial and unbiased church of many nations. I believe in one church of many traditions. I believe in one church not hemmed in by history or by man-made borders. I believe in a God for whom his pallet of skin colours reflects his love of diversity. I believe in God-given racial difference. I believe in one creator God who made all humankind equal. I believe in Christ’s one church that reflects our maker's love of difference. I do not believe in uniformity. I believe in the Christ’s common language of love for one another, for neighbours and for enemies that transcends local dialects. I believe in one sundry collection of priests who are called by Christ to serve one God together, saved by His one sacrifice once and for all time. I believe in the promise of one resurrected church drawn from all nations, from every generation to meet her bridegroom, Jesus Christ. I believe in one eternal wedding feast at a table prepared by God which features everything from the finest vegetable samosas to the richest steam puddings. I believe in one extravagant Father who has built one massive mansion with many rooms so all his people can come and dwell together. I believe in God's Kingdom come.
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 8:23 AM UTC
Manifesto
all things are useful, bulbs bring light , denote ideas, good intentions, spent, collected. cotton hankies, frayed hold the books, yet those with nylon, stretch the skin resulting in red and soreness. shy away from dangerous commodities, use the best, those tradtional artefacts which are gentle on your soul, bring light. wipe your nose clean. sbm. today we have added notes for your interest. A HANDKERCHIEF (also called handkercher or hanky) is a form of a kerchief, typically a hemmed square of thin fabric that can be carried in the pocket or purse, and which is intended for personal hygiene purposes such as wiping one’s hands or face, or blowing one’s nose. A handkerchief is also sometimes used as a purely decorative accessory in a suit pocket. When used as an accessory to a suit, a handkerchief is known as a POCKET SQUARE. There are a wide variety of ways to fold a pocket square, ranging from the austere to the flamboyant. The material of a handkerchief can be symbolic of the social-economic class of the user, not only because some materials are more expensive, but because some materials are more absorbent and practical for those who use a handkerchief for more than style. Handkerchiefs can be made of cotton, cotton-synthetic blend, synthetic fabric, silk, or linen. Historically, white handkerchiefs have been used in place of a white flag to indicate surrender or a flag of truce; in addition to waving away sailors from port. King Richard II of England, who reigned from 1377 to 1399, is widely believed to have invented the cloth handkerchief, as surviving documents written by his courtiers describe his use of square pieces of cloth to wipe his nose.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 1:33 AM UTC
. light bulbs and handkerchiefs .
all things are useful, bulbs bring light , denote ideas, good intentions, spent, collected. cotton hankies, frayed hold the books, yet those with nylon, stretch the skin resulting in red and soreness. shy away from dangerous commodities, use the best, those tradtional artefacts which are gentle on your soul, bring light. wipe your nose clean. sbm. today we have added notes for your interest. A HANDKERCHIEF (also called handkercher or hanky) is a form of a kerchief, typically a hemmed square of thin fabric that can be carried in the pocket or purse, and which is intended for personal hygiene purposes such as wiping one’s hands or face, or blowing one’s nose. A handkerchief is also sometimes used as a purely decorative accessory in a suit pocket. When used as an accessory to a suit, a handkerchief is known as a POCKET SQUARE. There are a wide variety of ways to fold a pocket square, ranging from the austere to the flamboyant. The material of a handkerchief can be symbolic of the social-economic class of the user, not only because some materials are more expensive, but because some materials are more absorbent and practical for those who use a handkerchief for more than style. Handkerchiefs can be made of cotton, cotton-synthetic blend, synthetic fabric, silk, or linen. Historically, white handkerchiefs have been used in place of a white flag to indicate surrender or a flag of truce; in addition to waving away sailors from port. King Richard II of England, who reigned from 1377 to 1399, is widely believed to have invented the cloth handkerchief, as surviving documents written by his courtiers describe his use of square pieces of cloth to wipe his nose.
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Hummingbird heart flutters in your throat. It's like having someone squeeze your lungs slowly. It must be what dying feels like, Hummingbird heart. You know how their wings beat so fast and hard, How you only see the blur? Hummingbird heart, It HURTS to be so fast inside. Whirring like a machine out of control, overheating, Friction fire in your throat, Tears escaping bare and raw. It hurts to be so vicious, like a runaway train with sparks flying. Hummingbird heart, Stuck on the other side of glass, pounding, pounding to get out. Hummingbird heart, faster, faster. A balloon about to burst. Whirring, spinning, shivering. Hummingbird heart, Nowhere to run. Hummingbird heart, Nothing to be done. Hummingbird heart, Hemmed in, stuck fast, immobilized. Hummingbird heart, Speeding up, frantic, painful. Hummingbird heart, You don't have long.
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Feb 4, 2013
Feb 4, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
The Whir of Tiny Wings
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had ****** the weedy pool And baked the channels; birds had done with song. Thirst was a dream of fountains in the moon, Or willow-music blown across the water Leisurely sliding on by weir and mill. Uneasy was the man who wandered, brooding, His face a little whiter than the dusk. A drone of sultry wings flicker'd in his head. The end of sunset burning thro' the boughs Died in a smear of red; exhausted hours Cumber'd, and ugly sorrows hemmed him in. He thought: 'Somewhere there's thunder,' as he strove To shake off dread; he dared not look behind him, But stood, the sweat of horror on his face. He blunder'd down a path, trampling on thistles, In sudden race to leave the ghostly trees. And: 'Soon I'll be in open fields,' he thought, And half remembered starlight on the meadows, Scent of mown grass and voices of tired men, Fading along the field-paths; home and sleep And cool-swept upland spaces, whispering leaves, And far off the long churring night-jar's note. But something in the wood, trying to daunt him, Led him confused in circles through the thicket. He was forgetting his old wretched folly, And freedom was his need; his throat was choking. Barbed brambles gripped and clawed him round his legs, And he floundered over snags and hidden stumps. Mumbling: 'I will get out! I must get out!' Butting and thrusting up the baffling gloom, Pausing to listen in a space 'twixt thorns, He peers around with peering, frantic eyes. An evil creature in the twilight looping, Flapped blindly in his face. Beating it off, He screeched in terror, and straightway something clambered Heavily from an oak, and dropped, bent double, To shamble at him zigzag, squat and ******* Headlong he charges down the wood, and falls With roaring brain--agony--the snap't spark-- And blots of green and purple in his eyes. Then the slow fingers groping on his neck, And at his heart the strangling clasp of death.
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Haunted
Evening was in the wood, louring with storm. A time of drought had ****** the weedy pool And baked the channels; birds had done with song. Thirst was a dream of fountains in the moon, Or willow-music blown across the water Leisurely sliding on by weir and mill. Uneasy was the man who wandered, brooding, His face a little whiter than the dusk. A drone of sultry wings flicker'd in his head. The end of sunset burning thro' the boughs Died in a smear of red; exhausted hours Cumber'd, and ugly sorrows hemmed him in. He thought: 'Somewhere there's thunder,' as he strove To shake off dread; he dared not look behind him, But stood, the sweat of horror on his face. He blunder'd down a path, trampling on thistles, In sudden race to leave the ghostly trees. And: 'Soon I'll be in open fields,' he thought, And half remembered starlight on the meadows, Scent of mown grass and voices of tired men, Fading along the field-paths; home and sleep And cool-swept upland spaces, whispering leaves, And far off the long churring night-jar's note. But something in the wood, trying to daunt him, Led him confused in circles through the thicket. He was forgetting his old wretched folly, And freedom was his need; his throat was choking. Barbed brambles gripped and clawed him round his legs, And he floundered over snags and hidden stumps. Mumbling: 'I will get out! I must get out!' Butting and thrusting up the baffling gloom, Pausing to listen in a space 'twixt thorns, He peers around with peering, frantic eyes. An evil creature in the twilight looping, Flapped blindly in his face. Beating it off, He screeched in terror, and straightway something clambered Heavily from an oak, and dropped, bent double, To shamble at him zigzag, squat and ******* Headlong he charges down the wood, and falls With roaring brain--agony--the snap't spark-- And blots of green and purple in his eyes. Then the slow fingers groping on his neck, And at his heart the strangling clasp of death.
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I am unsure of the geology of where you’re from. I expect there exists shelves and sheaths pale grey-yellow like serum in the blood and rocks resembling sun-weathered lobster carapaces. all of this enclosed by a festoon of green pine— its regalia cut sonic and naked wrung and wrung again by august. on the edge a cabin is hemmed on the skirt of ocean— spikes of molding logs propped and resting akimbo. a wave comes in. a wave goes out. a wave stays to shake your hand. introduces itself as sensate verge and wonderment. home. I can only imagine what it is for you.
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Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 10:47 AM UTC
home
Wal, Thanksgivin’ do be comin’ round. With the price of turkeys on the bound, And coal, by gum! Thet were just found, Is surely gettin’ cheaper. The winds will soon begin to howl, And winter, in its yearly growl, Across the medders begin to prowl, And Jack Frost gettin’ deeper. By shucks! It seems to me, That you I orter be Thankful, that our Ted could see A way to operate it. I sez to Mandy, sure, sez I, I’ll bet thet air patch o’ rye Thet he’ll squash ’em by-and-by, And he did, by cricket! No use talkin’, he’s the man— One of the best thet ever ran, Fer didn’t I turn Republican One o’ the fust? I ‘lowed as how he’d beat the rest, But old Si Perkins, he hemmed and guessed, And sed as how it wuzn’t best To meddle with the trust.
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Ezra On The Strike
Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and especially how good these fellowships will look on our med-school applications - seriously - but there were a hundred rules - aren’t rules incompatible with summer? Hmm, Ok, let’s see, something poetic.. As the summer sun's blistering radiance waned, shadows, muscled by sunrays to the marginal edges and corners, gradually spread, like water - soothing, lenifying and assuaging simmered nerves with their refreshing, canopied touch. If sunlight scorched with heat, twilight soothed and gentled, while varnishing, the dimming world with rainbow, event-horizons, larger, more inventive, colorful and glorious than any mere mortal art. Night gradually squeezed, unseen, through those vivid sunset cracks, and refreshing night-air, drawn in by the last, escaping updrafts of heat, rustled cooling relief to weary workers seeking the solace of evening and home. back to unpoetic realities.. When work was finished, we’d retreat from the heat, racing up to the rooftop pool, like two happy porpoises out of school. Whoever invented poolside food delivery, should win the Nobel Prize for ‘thank you very much.’ We wouldn’t go back to our rooms until it was dark and we’d started to prune. Now, we’ve a month to relax before our Junior year begins. We got letters from Yale that said, “As upperclassmen..” “Upperclassmen!” We shouted as we danced in hand-holding circles, singing, “Upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen. upperclassmen.”   We’ve grown so much at Yale.
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Aug 2, 2023
Aug 2, 2023 at 12:05 PM UTC
summer persists
Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and especially how good these fellowships will look on our med-school applications - seriously - but there were a hundred rules - aren’t rules incompatible with summer? Hmm, Ok, let’s see, something poetic.. As the summer sun's blistering radiance waned, shadows, muscled by sunrays to the marginal edges and corners, gradually spread, like water - soothing, lenifying and assuaging simmered nerves with their refreshing, canopied touch. If sunlight scorched with heat, twilight soothed and gentled, while varnishing, the dimming world with rainbow, event-horizons, larger, more inventive, colorful and glorious than any mere mortal art. Night gradually squeezed, unseen, through those vivid sunset cracks, and refreshing night-air, drawn in by the last, escaping updrafts of heat, rustled cooling relief to weary workers seeking the solace of evening and home. back to unpoetic realities.. When work was finished, we’d retreat from the heat, racing up to the rooftop pool, like two happy porpoises out of school. Whoever invented poolside food delivery, should win the Nobel Prize for ‘thank you very much.’ We wouldn’t go back to our rooms until it was dark and we’d started to prune. Now, we’ve a month to relax before our Junior year begins. We got letters from Yale that said, “As upperclassmen..” “Upperclassmen!” We shouted as we danced in hand-holding circles, singing, “Upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen. upperclassmen.”   We’ve grown so much at Yale.
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Foreboding in the Green Wet cobbled cobwebs Circumference hemmed in All-out hampering threads And stones that missed Mary Magdalene *** Oh, and so luscious and lush is the green Dewy petals weeping they can’t caress my skin Wrapped up in rushing hopes, buoyant buds exploding Fluffy breezes prance, ignorant of the foreboding *** Sticky sharp spiders’ snare Circumference hemmed in A cut-out smile shrouding the glare Icicles that missed Mary Magdalene
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Foreboding In The Green
the hills were beginning to grow the grass greening on the approach to Blue Earth, and how in summer Minnesota shed her old coat to shy guilty into brief silty lakes like the joy of a little kid, sneaking a forbidden dip. remarking, casually, about white warm flowers hung low from planned oaks, and the impossible way the town pulled local hills close, to coat in dandelions. and cultivate all under an ambitious midwestern sun.           rolling through the stop sign, hand on mine           you told me if you’re moving at all           you should keep it in second gear. and we had so far to go, but in the light that broke through westbound clouds, we became less so. contented to spread toes out in earth we dug into Minnesota, the middle coast: a land we could like to get to know. and you: looking down at the salt, the sand, the scars of the grand american plantation: the last coast. knowing that by the next coast, we you and me. we'd be through.           saying, ‘how could anybody die?’           saying,           ‘how could anybody tell you anything true?’ undercut by the honest waves of the little lake, the hum that drummed in my gas tank. trying, for once, at a little piece of truth:           when I leave this place I leave           a part of me behind.           and that part of me           will be you. saying there’s only so much sweetness in the soil, only so long after the thaw, and grief is rich and dark and made for sowing: must be, for maintaining verdant local hills, must be for to keep corn sweet. must be for to put grief on the table. must be for to keep with us.           for to keep a little bit to eat. saying, we bleed but together we make a hole to bury both our bodies in. saying there’s a west out west but too late it’s already hemmed us in.           saying now I am only a fragile assimilation of this weak           and fractured purpose that drives me, and you are           beautiful enough I would lie to let you love me. even I would scorch this soil if only things wouldn’t grow I would saying Blue Earth is still in the trucker's atlas is only an excuse for sunshine. a point, where freeways go. saying, “with earth, so green, that here they call it 'Blue'.”           saying           “I could learn to love a leopard.”           saying           “how dare you.”
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 7:20 AM UTC
kafka
the hills were beginning to grow the grass greening on the approach to Blue Earth, and how in summer Minnesota shed her old coat to shy guilty into brief silty lakes like the joy of a little kid, sneaking a forbidden dip. remarking, casually, about white warm flowers hung low from planned oaks, and the impossible way the town pulled local hills close, to coat in dandelions. and cultivate all under an ambitious midwestern sun.           rolling through the stop sign, hand on mine           you told me if you’re moving at all           you should keep it in second gear. and we had so far to go, but in the light that broke through westbound clouds, we became less so. contented to spread toes out in earth we dug into Minnesota, the middle coast: a land we could like to get to know. and you: looking down at the salt, the sand, the scars of the grand american plantation: the last coast. knowing that by the next coast, we you and me. we'd be through.           saying, ‘how could anybody die?’           saying,           ‘how could anybody tell you anything true?’ undercut by the honest waves of the little lake, the hum that drummed in my gas tank. trying, for once, at a little piece of truth:           when I leave this place I leave           a part of me behind.           and that part of me           will be you. saying there’s only so much sweetness in the soil, only so long after the thaw, and grief is rich and dark and made for sowing: must be, for maintaining verdant local hills, must be for to keep corn sweet. must be for to put grief on the table. must be for to keep with us.           for to keep a little bit to eat. saying, we bleed but together we make a hole to bury both our bodies in. saying there’s a west out west but too late it’s already hemmed us in.           saying now I am only a fragile assimilation of this weak           and fractured purpose that drives me, and you are           beautiful enough I would lie to let you love me. even I would scorch this soil if only things wouldn’t grow I would saying Blue Earth is still in the trucker's atlas is only an excuse for sunshine. a point, where freeways go. saying, “with earth, so green, that here they call it 'Blue'.”           saying           “I could learn to love a leopard.”           saying           “how dare you.”
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Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river And the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever; Farewell to the weedy nook, hemmed in by waters; Farewell to the miller’s brook and his three bonny daughters; Farewell to them all while in prison I lie— In the prison a thrall sees naught but the sky. Shut out are the green fields and birds in the bushes; In the prison yard nothing builds, blackbirds or thrushes. Farewell to the old mill and dash of waters, To the miller and, dearer still, to his three bonny daughters. In the nook, the larger burdock grows near the green willow; In the flood, round the moor-cock dashes under the billow; To the old mill farewell, to the lock, pens, and waters, To the miller himsel’, and his three bonny daughters.
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Farewell
A boho hemmed into a perfect circle Misunderstood and invisible Where everyone goes right, he prefers left The is told he is bereft They force him to fit in But how can he? He is like oil in water, a hippie in suit quarters His free spirit just won's blend in They hammered and bent him to belong But turns out he has been a misfit all along For his spirit demands to be vivid and vibrant In a rather monochrome circle, it is a tyrant His heavy heart needs to let it all out His thoughts, his dreams and all his doubts His is a white noise, he seems very far out Everyone is deaf to this boho's screams and shouts
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Sep 12, 2019
Sep 12, 2019 at 2:45 PM UTC
MISFIT
Today bears the weight of erstwhile trepidation. Uncertainties exhumed only to be hung up as ominous flags. Black as night my widowed heart paraded through the procession. Garbed in ash encrusted, sequinned frock, hemmed train all tattered in rags. Herald the face with no features yet obscured behind a chiffon veil. In hands, a bouquet of black roses, worm-eaten to the stems. The mourning sun only gave the weakest glow, feeble attempt to rejuvenate all that is stale; to imbue the shimmer back into forsaken jewels and dulled gems. Her entourage kept up with heavy feet; all grim and sullen. Also faceless... Armed with pitchforks and torches. Today they will draw much; having thirst for crimson. Today they witness her death as the black parade marches.
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Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 11:04 PM UTC
Black Parade
Today I decided to make a dress. I'd seen others do it. Figured I'd give it a try. So I laced Predictability on neatly And hemmed the Defensiveness in tight. Stitched up the Strength, the Sarcasm and The Empty Stare in a nice, perfect line With pearly white Laughs to match. Then I ironed it with puffs of Indifference, And hung it up to admire. It was nice. Decent. Normal. Okay. I put my dress on and walked out into the world. I smiled at all the right places and frowned to the silent beat. And then when I got home I took it off and cried.
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM UTC
Playing Dress-Up
the animated man moves with languid effect against the scattered clouds of the sky far overhead he walks at a slow stumble on the oil stained pavement of suburban driveway 'this is where the light blue mustang was parked' he is carrying a stone carved into the shape of a head its mind leaning precarious over the edge of sanity you can taste its butterscotch candy laughter and its salt water taffy tears its face frozen in apocalypse of conflicting thought he moves along the dirt road hemmed in by trees and wild growths the humidity so thick you swim rather than tread but the feral grin sewn into his face with her needle and threads is what moves her she adores its primal bloodletting a self contained self abuse machine she leads the way down the dusty road to the clearing where night children gather to make celebrations to dark matter and the things it spawns her thighs tingle at the thought of dead flesh and feasts of the eyes filthy mind the images in her mind are never really clear to her just **** flesh rubbing cold things i am disturbed by her dark dream seek to flee on wings of night but fail as he arrives head in hand and pronounces logical rules for the slaughter this night has no end just the rest of fitful dreams
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 7:15 PM UTC
selfie spawn
Little Penelope Persnicketty was a girl that grew up down the lane. Her Mother doted on her so much, you would think her insane. She took such care of her prized daughter pet. Father never mentioned in the picture, a World War II vet. Penelope Persnicketty was rather peculiar. Every single thing she owned was pink, even down to her school ruler. Petticoats, lace and stockings all a flamingo hue. The dresses seemed so old fashion, never saw anything new. She always seemed like a damsel in distress Mother Persnicketty hand sewed every dress. When she wasn't sewing , she held Penelope tight. We rarely saw her out of her mother's controlling sight. There was one thing Mother Persnicketty couldn't control. It was puberty ravaging Penelope's little soul. Hair appeared places it shouldn't. ******* Penelope wished for them but couldn't Finally, the secrets began to unravel. The Persnickettys packed up for some European travel. In the fuss, we saw the forgery and what else her Pandora hemmed. Made a daughter just by writing in the letter F instead of M.
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May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM UTC
Letter
*I think it was pop....yes, the Hinoi Team, among others.  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3VCVHzTAY] (sonnet #MMMMMMCCXLI)   Rain.  Streetlights hemmed by ghostly mists' detail Watch cars line up to scatter in a sense Upon their ways, and it is late, for hence We do not listen to beat music's scale Of "happy" thet I'd smile for ere, the pale Eye of these sent'nels blacker night'd fringe thence Our silent what? as he talks of defense In sheer forgetting, like I knew'd avail. None knew quite why my cellphone's covrage poor, And I suppose in retrospect, laughed to Themselves for how I'd sit there so demure Without my ride, the libry's bench wet too, Me wrestling with that slim device sans cure. I oiled my boots for sloshing puddles' crew. 03Apr17a
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Apr 15, 2017
Apr 15, 2017 at 12:53 AM UTC
How the Progressives Cut Us Off
I saw the rest of my kind scour against the streets, hands calloused-laden, wizened by erratic explosions – nondescript music analogous to silence; terse sleep stiff in wind, homes filled with tension, arrow-headed men quiver through the busy streets as tatterdemalion as stray dogs. inverted triangle, sidereal vertigo, mutilated rose and the beheaded tulip. the ambiguous spiral of the downcast climb. I see all men maddened by wine over the rooftops. choking in dank light – the night exudes its flayed machinery. an empty bottle of whiskey and a body stripped of skin melded with fright raised higher than the maladroit sky. I, whose name is but an algorithm of formlessness. I, whose silence is but the contemplation of stone. I, whose voice toboggans like a tender ramshackle of incantations filling tubercular pockets with spare hope yet none are we but only poorer. whose fingers are but tired girls tousling in bed lacquered by sunsets – whose nails are paler than a ****** of moonlight, whose homes are inflamed hemmed in by petticoats, whose eyes set affixed to no avatars in juxtaposition of parks falling madly in love with everything that glints.
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Jan 16, 2016
Jan 16, 2016 at 1:08 AM UTC
For The Kindred
Here I'm rejected there I'll be condemned I'll not be excepted anyhow--slammed in my face, subjected to every form of malice-- crammed among those suspected of betrayal--- contempt raises its venomous#  head and I'm hated for the views I hold--  hemmed by envious forces-- everywhere hunted I am an innocent victim--damned and left to ideas I've constructed my own pain to consume---stamped TRAITOR* -- my only hope is to be vindicated by future generations which would have my thoughts revamped!
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 10:44 PM UTC
ROUSSEAU'S DIARY--FROM MY EYES
Otto was ill-timed and    out of place in his black suit and    hand-hemmed pants bearing the sheen of long wear and his umbrella    reaching from floor to his elbow its wooden handle as crooked    as his spine "Where were you," he    admonished with his eyes and "Why didn't you," he    accused with his cane-handled umbrella and "Where is she," he    screamed from his wrinkled shirt and creased brow and worn wool pants and ill-timed arrival   one foot in the train and one foot knee-deep in misery.
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Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 2:03 PM UTC
Otto was ill-timed
pick your master under the cover of snow bends of darkness hemmed to the tops of conifers Soon I will visit to move you. Three appended signatures, Three thousand miles of telephone wire. This is the one letter I cannot send for there is no address for where you are, The one I wish to call upon has no receiver to respond. And now all my teeth begin to fall out Like excess light bleeding from your moons. I know the sound of Glass when I hear it. You have made weapons out of my junk and Then gone to war without me, I see you Against the whistling stars and overseers, Anxiety makes this heart grow fungus These fingertips weary, and I pull out my eyelashes As if trying to see you better through this impenetrable black nightness I lead myself into, until all that were corners and crests become the precipice. Insecurity turns to rooks, hatred turns to Jays Until the weeping have wept and I visit to stay.
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Dec 26, 2015
Dec 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM UTC
Oath of the Horatii
I shalt weareth a barong Tagalog, mine tribesgirl in terno dress A diadem upon her head, hemmed from living amongst the dead; Her inferno blaze, is satin oriental sheathe, rubies on her Lilly feet, she entranceth me, in serpahim seed, a muse to mine meet. She's Dalisay, in night and day, her Kinaadman not of earth A child from tropical tree's, I kneweth her, cherub baby by birth; The Tadhana of ourn creator, stitches ourn etching realm's I shalt be her on her side, In death and hell, I'll taketh the ride, Falling deeper                          Into her eye's...... ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©あある じぇえん
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Aug 6, 2015
Aug 6, 2015 at 4:26 PM UTC
Tadhana alive........
I am such a ******* ****** Been fanning the flames of my flamboyant faggotry since April 1990 when I strutted from the caverns of my mother's.... nevermind, I'm never touching one of those. My childhood is exemplified by late-night espionage treks, sneaking through my sister's side of our bedroom maximized by youthful perspective, each step of mine garnering more taut gravity than the next, finally reaching the Holy Grail: her Barbie collection. In the fourth grade, I drew my interpretations of those beautiful, diamond-infested drag queens that rained feathers and sequins upon one drought of an existence, the adults framing my tolerance as a smut-stained abomination. Now people ponder why I'm so overt with my gaydom. Why argue with your nostalgia-hemmed family friend over the cultural significance of the Barbra Streisand Album, or gladly sit through marathons of 1980s ****** camp classics? It's the kid in me. Something lost for an era in a washing tub of middle school torture tactics, heavy breathing over hiding something so natural. And a few years of that are **** stifling enough for this gigantic ******
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM UTC
Way To State The Obvious
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM UTC
Cwm Tawe - lovely ugly
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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