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"herculean" poems
alexander k opicho (eldoret,kenya;[email protected]) Theodorousness is now on me it will eat me with aghast ravenity where will I hide my body an ugly and ripe corpus of my tomfoolery where will I exile my gadabout heritage flipping the world in quest for cultural bliss when Masculine theodority is relentless in the Armour of intellectual masculinity determined to thrash the sludge of flappishness out of my rectitude heart that is pulsing in derogatory fear where will i pigeonhole myself from the theodorous theodoristy of herculean Theodore
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 3:03 AM UTC
theodorous dystopia
Zeus who was in control A powerful god who was bold He had a son called Hercules Hercules being the protector for the weak and defense against the strong His strength beyond mortal men Hercules was always the victor at the end But let’s more to a new seen Follow me and you will see what I mean Our tail involves ancient Rome But the task will be defeat Rome’s army The call is for Hercules to use his strength one last time But Hercules has become old, but still his might King plateau has a beef with Hercules The king himself states, “my army is too powerful for you to defeat” But that’s what plateau thinks However, king plateau must remember, Hercules is guided by his father Zeus, who is a god and could make his temple shrink ZEUS THE ALL POWERFUL GOD SO KING PLATEAU WANTS TO TEST OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH YET, HERCULES ALWAYS DEMONSTRATED HIS STRENGTH IN THE PASS IN HIS YOUTH HERCULES IS NOW OLD, BUT CAN STILL DEMONSTRATE A BEHOLD NOW KING PLATEAU WANTED HERCULES TO BEND A BAR THE BAR BEND IN STAGES ONE BEND AT A TIME HE THEN CRUSHED A SMALL ROCK IN HIS BARE HANDS TRULY, HERCULES HAD NOT LOSS ANY OF HIS HERCULEAN SGRENTH BUT COULD KING PLATEAU AND HIS ARMY GO THE LENGTH? SO THE MISSION BECAME CLEAR MAKE THE WEAK HAVE FEAR BUT HERCULES WILL ALWAYS BE NEAR SO LET THE BATTLE BEGIN KING PLATEAU’S SOLDIERS WERE BATTLING THE WEAK YET, THE WEAK WEREN’T EXACTLY POWERFUL, BUT WERE MEEK OLD MAN HERCULES CAME ONTO THE SEEN LIFTED HEAVY OBJECTS AS IF THEY WERE TOYS AND HEISTED THEM TOWARDS KING PLATEAU’S ARMY NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH HAVING NO BOUNDARIES YET A MISSION WAS AT HAND KING PLATEAU’S ARMY WAS BEING DEFEATED BY HERCULES LIKE BOWLING PINS KING PLATEAU WAS BECOMING WORRIED AS HE COULD BE DETHRONED SO HERCULES ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND LIFTED KING PLATEAU IN HE AIR AND THROUGH HIM TO THE GROUND SUDDENLY, KING PLATEAU GRABBED A SWORD AND STARTED SWINGING, AND HERCULES ALSO GRABBED A SWORD AND MADE HIS ATTACK ON KING PLATEAU IN A FIGHT TO THE FINISH BECAUSE OF HERCULES STRENGTH, HE MANGED TO STAB THE SWORD INTO KING PLATEAU’S HEART, AND HE DIED INCIDENTLY HERCULES RUSHED OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE TO USE HIS STRENGTH ONE LAST TIME, AND DESTROY THE TEMPLE FOR GOOD THE TEMPLE COULDN’T WITHSTAND THE STRESS OF OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH, ANMD IT CRUMBLED INTO DESTRUCTION AT THAT POINT, THE OLD MAN HERCULES FINALLY DIED, AND THE VICTOR FOR THE WEAK NO MORE MYTHICAL WAS NOW IN HEAVEN’S HANDS BUT OLD MAN HERCULES WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS STRENGTH ALWAYS IN DEMAND The clouds have gathered into darkness This is a day of sadness But the weak can contest in being the witness Strength coming from the skies Hercules accomplishments having an understanding in being wise But we must realize The sunshine is the life of Hercules The past having a sunset But Hercules will always be remembered in having full effect.
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 4:52 AM UTC
ONE LAST OUNCE OF STRENGTH OF HERCULES
Zeus who was in control A powerful god who was bold He had a son called Hercules Hercules being the protector for the weak and defense against the strong His strength beyond mortal men Hercules was always the victor at the end But let’s more to a new seen Follow me and you will see what I mean Our tail involves ancient Rome But the task will be defeat Rome’s army The call is for Hercules to use his strength one last time But Hercules has become old, but still his might King plateau has a beef with Hercules The king himself states, “my army is too powerful for you to defeat” But that’s what plateau thinks However, king plateau must remember, Hercules is guided by his father Zeus, who is a god and could make his temple shrink ZEUS THE ALL POWERFUL GOD SO KING PLATEAU WANTS TO TEST OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH YET, HERCULES ALWAYS DEMONSTRATED HIS STRENGTH IN THE PASS IN HIS YOUTH HERCULES IS NOW OLD, BUT CAN STILL DEMONSTRATE A BEHOLD NOW KING PLATEAU WANTED HERCULES TO BEND A BAR THE BAR BEND IN STAGES ONE BEND AT A TIME HE THEN CRUSHED A SMALL ROCK IN HIS BARE HANDS TRULY, HERCULES HAD NOT LOSS ANY OF HIS HERCULEAN SGRENTH BUT COULD KING PLATEAU AND HIS ARMY GO THE LENGTH? SO THE MISSION BECAME CLEAR MAKE THE WEAK HAVE FEAR BUT HERCULES WILL ALWAYS BE NEAR SO LET THE BATTLE BEGIN KING PLATEAU’S SOLDIERS WERE BATTLING THE WEAK YET, THE WEAK WEREN’T EXACTLY POWERFUL, BUT WERE MEEK OLD MAN HERCULES CAME ONTO THE SEEN LIFTED HEAVY OBJECTS AS IF THEY WERE TOYS AND HEISTED THEM TOWARDS KING PLATEAU’S ARMY NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH HAVING NO BOUNDARIES YET A MISSION WAS AT HAND KING PLATEAU’S ARMY WAS BEING DEFEATED BY HERCULES LIKE BOWLING PINS KING PLATEAU WAS BECOMING WORRIED AS HE COULD BE DETHRONED SO HERCULES ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND LIFTED KING PLATEAU IN HE AIR AND THROUGH HIM TO THE GROUND SUDDENLY, KING PLATEAU GRABBED A SWORD AND STARTED SWINGING, AND HERCULES ALSO GRABBED A SWORD AND MADE HIS ATTACK ON KING PLATEAU IN A FIGHT TO THE FINISH BECAUSE OF HERCULES STRENGTH, HE MANGED TO STAB THE SWORD INTO KING PLATEAU’S HEART, AND HE DIED INCIDENTLY HERCULES RUSHED OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE TO USE HIS STRENGTH ONE LAST TIME, AND DESTROY THE TEMPLE FOR GOOD THE TEMPLE COULDN’T WITHSTAND THE STRESS OF OLD MAN HERCULES STRENGTH, ANMD IT CRUMBLED INTO DESTRUCTION AT THAT POINT, THE OLD MAN HERCULES FINALLY DIED, AND THE VICTOR FOR THE WEAK NO MORE MYTHICAL WAS NOW IN HEAVEN’S HANDS BUT OLD MAN HERCULES WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS STRENGTH ALWAYS IN DEMAND The clouds have gathered into darkness This is a day of sadness But the weak can contest in being the witness Strength coming from the skies Hercules accomplishments having an understanding in being wise But we must realize The sunshine is the life of Hercules The past having a sunset But Hercules will always be remembered in having full effect.
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Harried, Harassed, Hassled and Hounded- These are the H-words I work by. Harpies and Henchmen, Harridans and Heathens- These are the H-folk I work with. Hubbub and Hokum and Hurly-burly- These are the places I do it. Hoodlums and Hooligans, loaded with Hubris- These are the clients I deal with. Heartless and Horrible, Hateful and Hurtful These are the attitudes around me. Hopeless and Hapless, Haggard and Helpless- This is the way I usually feel. What happened to Happy, and Hopeful and Harmony- These are the H-words I search for. Hinder and Hobble, Heckle and Hamper- These are the Hamstrings that trip me. Heaven and Harmony, Humor and Honor- These are the things that I strive for. Havoc and Hades, Hurt, Hate and Hauteur- These are the H’s that I have to conquer. Hope, Help, and Herculean effort- Is How I will finally get myself Home. ljm
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 12:30 AM UTC
THE H-WORDS
As if the it is not the leopard That has forepaw herculean In the game of hunting and preying, With reservation the leopard eats Saving for tomorrow with punctiliosity In the wary of wisdom about plundering, That is not all about physical mighty Not shrewdness of the mind Nor flexibility of the heels But respect for frugality as a virtue of the strong.
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 3:36 PM UTC
LEOPARD FEAST
'Tis a tale, a sorry tale Of a man, never took the leap Of a man, free yet caged A lion amongst the sheep. A man of great ability, Of unrealized potential Confined and clipped by limits The herd had deemed essential. A man, a brilliant man, Stripped of glory and his claws. Left forlorn and wounded By the sheep and their laws. A man, a greater man Led by the lesser to believe He owed them much and more And everything, without reprieve. A man, a most herculean man Could have the world, his to keep. Alas had he only remembered He was a lion, not a sheep.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 1:15 AM UTC
A Lion amongst the Sheep
Seldom doth man stop and stare At the caste iron manhole cover there, Seldom doth he analyze The majesty, which beneath it lies. The pipe work systems vast and long Dark catacombs so precise and strong, Buried deep beneath our feet Extending forth from street to street, Out across the breadth of town Those secret fluids trickle down. Laser levels carve the pathway Through the walls of solid stone, Shovels scrape and dig with effort Forging hard trajectories home. Digging, digging metal mountains Sweat cascades upon the brow, We lay the pipes in straight formation Precision's satisfaction now. An Artisan's great work is hidden Lost beneath the earth's grey stone, Appreciation camouflaged in that, The cast iron manhole stands alone. Magnificence unrealized For deep beneath your feet, A subterranean Michelangelo's Sisteen Chapel, lays discreet. Unsuspected rivers Flowing darkly to the sea In caverns of unwanted waste Quite unbeknown to thee. Vaulting brickwork chambers Which are ancient works of art, Carry oceans of excretement Far from where their journey's start. With thunder's crash and lightning flash And torrents of cold rain, The road's awash and gutters flow Through roadside grates to drain. Gushing torrents cascade down In waves of flowing might To the storm water system Which promptly swallows it from sight. Magic, you say ? Nay, nay I say unto you That the drain layers artistry Is unappreciated, that's true ! That the Herculean effort wrought In winning his great fights Is largely lost to all and sundry Who avoid construction sites. They miss the planning and the layout And meticulousness too And the rubber seals which stop the leaks Which really bother you. The massive holes and danger Of being buried in collapse And the wondrous satisfaction Of achieving downhill flows... Perhaps! Marshalg Apprentice drain layer MHX Beachcroft site and Eastport 19 September 2009
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Jan 22, 2010
Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM UTC
The Caste Iron Manhole Cover
Seldom doth man stop and stare At the caste iron manhole cover there, Seldom doth he analyze The majesty, which beneath it lies. The pipe work systems vast and long Dark catacombs so precise and strong, Buried deep beneath our feet Extending forth from street to street, Out across the breadth of town Those secret fluids trickle down. Laser levels carve the pathway Through the walls of solid stone, Shovels scrape and dig with effort Forging hard trajectories home. Digging, digging metal mountains Sweat cascades upon the brow, We lay the pipes in straight formation Precision's satisfaction now. An Artisan's great work is hidden Lost beneath the earth's grey stone, Appreciation camouflaged in that, The cast iron manhole stands alone. Magnificence unrealized For deep beneath your feet, A subterranean Michelangelo's Sisteen Chapel, lays discreet. Unsuspected rivers Flowing darkly to the sea In caverns of unwanted waste Quite unbeknown to thee. Vaulting brickwork chambers Which are ancient works of art, Carry oceans of excretement Far from where their journey's start. With thunder's crash and lightning flash And torrents of cold rain, The road's awash and gutters flow Through roadside grates to drain. Gushing torrents cascade down In waves of flowing might To the storm water system Which promptly swallows it from sight. Magic, you say ? Nay, nay I say unto you That the drain layers artistry Is unappreciated, that's true ! That the Herculean effort wrought In winning his great fights Is largely lost to all and sundry Who avoid construction sites. They miss the planning and the layout And meticulousness too And the rubber seals which stop the leaks Which really bother you. The massive holes and danger Of being buried in collapse And the wondrous satisfaction Of achieving downhill flows... Perhaps! Marshalg Apprentice drain layer MHX Beachcroft site and Eastport 19 September 2009
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I work for Jones & Co. You are likely somewhere down below, I have grown used to this unnatural height. Once, here, as a younger man, I read articles, working on cases just long enough to cultivate indifference. My first firm party, I was made to wear an ivy laurel. We were mingling on the penthouse deck, when a gust unceremoniously removed it from my head. Jones is a superstitious man, he has a dream-catcher above his office door. He designed a vaulted spiral staircase on our fifty-first floor. The one separates Jones from his company, the other, us from below. Five years of billing in six minute blocks, labyrinthine increments, Herculean costs. A kind of optic chiasma where the nerves cross and people get lost. B.E. Twain
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 8:27 PM UTC
Jones & Co.
Redds shine like new nickels on the dark river bottom, salmon have returned to spawn the Deschutes, navigating by primal memories written in DNA, an internal Tom-Tom GPS wired in their brains. Watching them struggle up the ladder, consumed with a drive to leave offspring, they are herculean athletes battling the current and the inexorable pull of gravity. Were these the fry I helped to seed four years ago? A Squaxin woman told me once, ghosts of her Coastal Salish ancestors ride the salmon out to sea and home again. Roe in these redds dream also of the sea, their salty eyes and nostrils perceiving spirits in secret claret-red kelp beds. The waters ask only to be haunted again.
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Feb 20, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM UTC
Chinook Restored to Tumwater
The eulogies resound in stentorian tones for the great, those of prominence, those who have ascended to the pinnacle, those who have known power, and who have changed worlds, whose names fall from the lips of every man, who are offered unencumbered embrace, a deferential half pace backward. But what of the good man, without position, sans societal perch, whose wealth is paltry, accomplishment meager, yet whose effort is no less herculean, no less courageous, whose heart is no less pure, the good man doomed to failure through paucity of talent, or missed opportunity, or plain bad fortune, yet who resolves to continue, plod foot after foot to anonymous end, and whose name will not be voiced in so much as a whisper for all eternity.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 4:48 PM UTC
For the Forgotten
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM UTC
O love ! O love ! why are you ever devoid of logic ?
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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Dear Papa, Yesterday I saw something that I didn’t understand. They were walking a little ahead of me. But walking isn't the right word, because there were two people and only two feet. It sounds like a math problem, But nothing added up in my head. It sounds like Vikram Vetal, papa, But unlike the story you told me the other day, there was no strong king or sly demon. I saw, however, one ***** underfed boy of eight dragging his crippled mother across the street. Adhunik Shravan bal. A Lilliputian on a Herculean task. I couldn't decipher her age. When you're that poor, does age matter? Do they keep count of the days that pass by when their aim is to survive just one? Do they have a mirror to look into and count the wrinkles on their face? What does age matter to an eight year old boy who, instead of attending school, is hauling his handicapped mother across the road on a seating board with wheels? When I was that age, papa, you bought me a skateboard that was the exact leaf green from my 50 colours oil pastels set. I couldn't see the colour of their clothes. There was the dark of the night, yellow of the street lights and everything was in sepia like the picture you showed me of your childhood. You once told me you were raised in poverty too, papa. Are there different kinds of poverty? Did you get toys to play with or were your clothes in sepia too? I told you this sounds like a math problem, papa, And here’s what doesn't add up. Isn't a parent supposed to hold their child's hand and show them how to cross the road? I remember holding your hand, looking left-right-left and matching my steps with your strides. Fast, but never run. Who taught him, papa? Did he have his own papa to teach him? How did he learn to walk fast enough and pull hard enough so that he and his mom made it across the road in time? How did he find the strength if he was underfed? He truly reminds me of Shravan bal, because who else would carry his mother across such distances. I told you it sounds like Vikram Vetal, papa, and now that I think about it, it really does. Maybe this little boy is a young king. Maybe he brings his vetal back home every day. Maybe he hears her talk about her day. And maybe, papa, when he succeeds every night, she saves him from an evil tantric. An evil tantric called hunger.
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Jan 3, 2018
Jan 3, 2018 at 11:07 AM UTC
"Bhoot"-kal
Dear Papa, Yesterday I saw something that I didn’t understand. They were walking a little ahead of me. But walking isn't the right word, because there were two people and only two feet. It sounds like a math problem, But nothing added up in my head. It sounds like Vikram Vetal, papa, But unlike the story you told me the other day, there was no strong king or sly demon. I saw, however, one ***** underfed boy of eight dragging his crippled mother across the street. Adhunik Shravan bal. A Lilliputian on a Herculean task. I couldn't decipher her age. When you're that poor, does age matter? Do they keep count of the days that pass by when their aim is to survive just one? Do they have a mirror to look into and count the wrinkles on their face? What does age matter to an eight year old boy who, instead of attending school, is hauling his handicapped mother across the road on a seating board with wheels? When I was that age, papa, you bought me a skateboard that was the exact leaf green from my 50 colours oil pastels set. I couldn't see the colour of their clothes. There was the dark of the night, yellow of the street lights and everything was in sepia like the picture you showed me of your childhood. You once told me you were raised in poverty too, papa. Are there different kinds of poverty? Did you get toys to play with or were your clothes in sepia too? I told you this sounds like a math problem, papa, And here’s what doesn't add up. Isn't a parent supposed to hold their child's hand and show them how to cross the road? I remember holding your hand, looking left-right-left and matching my steps with your strides. Fast, but never run. Who taught him, papa? Did he have his own papa to teach him? How did he learn to walk fast enough and pull hard enough so that he and his mom made it across the road in time? How did he find the strength if he was underfed? He truly reminds me of Shravan bal, because who else would carry his mother across such distances. I told you it sounds like Vikram Vetal, papa, and now that I think about it, it really does. Maybe this little boy is a young king. Maybe he brings his vetal back home every day. Maybe he hears her talk about her day. And maybe, papa, when he succeeds every night, she saves him from an evil tantric. An evil tantric called hunger.
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The smile that you see Was painted on this morning, Right after my makeup and hair were done. The finishing touch, the mask is in place. Now no one can see what is inside of me. The laugh that you hear, the normal chit chat; All made with a herculean effort. When you look in my eyes Do you see light shining there? Or does the darkness still wait where no one can see? The effort to live grows more every day, As the pain takes over my life. To move, to do, to just even breathe, At times, is almost more than I can bear. I want to stay here in my dark world alone, Alone, so no one can see.
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Aug 11, 2010
Aug 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM UTC
Mask
~ (written in response to one by Beryl Dov) constellationally speaking a trophied man is one whose weaknesses he has overcome, those the stars foretold, ordained; flaws and blemishes the gods disdained, who flies with herculean brawn and breadth; who plies the star ways to their dizzying heights and stairways to their dismal depths. he is… like no other, he is… the lonesome overcomer! ~ *post script. for Beryl Dov, poet laureate, extraordinaire; in response to his “The Lonely Astronomer”.   how anyone sees his as anything negative is beyond me… i see nothing but an overcomer’s metaphor.   well done, friend!! (and yes, by "man" i do mean mankind) The Lonely Astronomer: http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1182761/the-lonely-astronomer/*
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 8:32 PM UTC
the lonesome overcomer
I will cultivate thee, With my Herculean word spree. Pour my divine rhyme, Into your truncated mind. So profound, so intellectual, how can this be? Revere me! Revere me!
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Apr 1, 2010
Apr 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM UTC
Pretension
The classroom window had a clear view of the park and when the July clouds painted the sky dark the boy would start to cry! Why, the teacher exclaimed, why these tears it's all so pleasant, and there's nothing to fear the rain is so welcome, it does only good so why boy it finds you in such bitter mood! Saying thus, he would walk back to his table by the rain upon windowpane, I was inconsolable brisker than rain were the tears in my eyes in the thought there would be flood, water would rise the walk back home would be a herculean feat with the street flooded, hidden manholes beneath I was haunted by the spectre of how the water rose crawled past my chest, and reached up the nose the swelling river would find me an easy victim the teacher didn't know, I didn't know how to swim! When the school bell finally rang, they ran joyous in the rain splashing and soaking merrily, their way was heaven only I stayed back, as if my feet had grown roots late evening I reached home, in heavy sodden boots.
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May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM UTC
Once Upon a Rain
Aging Poetry Well (proving the valor of writing poetry) no more write, post, establish to your immediate satisfaction, what you are what you think is an amazing piece of just you, plus+comprehending the world needs it, you, ASAP! needy for the cosplay contemporaneous sharing, curse of our instantaneous time from now on deep down, gonna let it casket age, let memory of the intensity rust sufficiently to get some time~plied rusted accurate actualized perspective maybe trash it, maybe tinker and spot-check edit, but if it is going to stand time testing, let it pass a first Herculean examination of fire and forget, returning later to collect it, the wounded that, refusing to die, thus proving proof, the valor of red badged courage of writing poetry is it worthy long after the internal commotion has passed, just like an ordinary but very first "I love you" forming and reforming then blurted in   a wunderkind awkwardness, that can't be taken back, well, *** and all that put me aside, could be weeks, months, researching the thing I love most, waiting for the day I need it worse, a lot less, so I can do it better maybe even go back look up them odd old folks, written in longing ago high passion, and come at them differently or wistfully, not and like me, age for better or for worse
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 10:31 AM UTC
Aging Poetry Well (proving the valor of writing poetry)
walked across the dunes to the light house to clear my thoughts. the windsailors were riding the sky, my son calls them  the teabag people. but to me they are like those  seed pods that coast upon the wind in search of something beyond. the grass soughs and if you sit quietly enough, you can hear the hungry cry of the little tern chicks. hidden in the dunes nearby. the sand trickles through twining, grasping, tenuous grass roots, single grains multi-hued, flow like minature snowboarders down the dunes, steep slippery slide. little metallic black ants have the herculean task, of working this slope for seeds and other oddments of food. i watch one stumble,stomp past, sherpa-like, precariously balancing a potato crisp's crumb. while scaling the acute angle of sliding sand. the pittering of the sandy ground indicates the presence of giant skinks, sleek glassine skinned lizards that are at home in the area. their track patterns, remind me of those old teach yourself to dance charts seen in black and white films, you would now find them mostly in antique stores. the tide is in recess and the terns are hunting, mottled little sand ***** in some killer, crazy game of tig or redrover. where to lose is to looose! the windsailor above is surpassed by the big old seahawk as he stretches his wings. it is a comparison of true mastership, over a poor and gaudy parody. the hawk with practised disdain, dives, through the breakers emerging, with his fish dinner. as i turn toward home. i wonder, was it the fandango the lizards, were trying to master?
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Mar 24, 2014
Mar 24, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
to the lighthouse
walked across the dunes to the light house to clear my thoughts. the windsailors were riding the sky, my son calls them  the teabag people. but to me they are like those  seed pods that coast upon the wind in search of something beyond. the grass soughs and if you sit quietly enough, you can hear the hungry cry of the little tern chicks. hidden in the dunes nearby. the sand trickles through twining, grasping, tenuous grass roots, single grains multi-hued, flow like minature snowboarders down the dunes, steep slippery slide. little metallic black ants have the herculean task, of working this slope for seeds and other oddments of food. i watch one stumble,stomp past, sherpa-like, precariously balancing a potato crisp's crumb. while scaling the acute angle of sliding sand. the pittering of the sandy ground indicates the presence of giant skinks, sleek glassine skinned lizards that are at home in the area. their track patterns, remind me of those old teach yourself to dance charts seen in black and white films, you would now find them mostly in antique stores. the tide is in recess and the terns are hunting, mottled little sand ***** in some killer, crazy game of tig or redrover. where to lose is to looose! the windsailor above is surpassed by the big old seahawk as he stretches his wings. it is a comparison of true mastership, over a poor and gaudy parody. the hawk with practised disdain, dives, through the breakers emerging, with his fish dinner. as i turn toward home. i wonder, was it the fandango the lizards, were trying to master?
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It is not Herculean to disappear, Repel all the strong feelings that appear. You're at the summit or in the gutter, None of that sticks, you're numb whatsoever: Entirely immune to bitterness; New journey trying out being fearless. Cured injuries that left hideous scars, Love-hate relationship in your memoirs: Don't want to go on living without them, And yet you cannot stand the sight of them. Solace in the fact that it pains no more, Vexed because balance was never restored. You deal with a constant oxymoron; You alone create this little ***** At length, cannot get out of your own way, Exhausting having your thoughts on replay. Done with being neurotic; done grumbling; Sky high, downfall, indifferent's becoming.
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Mar 9, 2012
Mar 9, 2012 at 5:04 PM UTC
Numb
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was a pyrrhic love, it was a herculean love. how the new life will begin i do not know, but i know it will come from the lovers, the loverly trees sprung forth at my birth. i can't comb out my eyelashes, i cannot comb these lice out of my eyelashes i wish i did not have lice please give me an excuse not to change my sheets i miss the girl in my bed i wish i did not have lice just say something back to me
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 7:34 PM UTC
flyaway.....flyaways
this one is for the girl, the one whose presence in my life, rings like the screams of thumbtacks in my shoes, whose words bite at my ankle, the crab that cannot find another place to pinch, and you know, the moment, when she walks away, her *** brings my eyes to her, quicker than a magnet attracts a compass, because, we know, that no matter how the trees fall, and the ice freezes the locks on our doors, we'll always have a home to share in each other, yeah, I can't walk a straight line, without worrying about the pebbles in my socks, but I know, the moment I get home, you'll be there to rub my feet, and I've learned, that when I see her body, shakin' in the way that she sways it, the heat between us is something of a fusion reaction, two different elements, coming into one, creating waves of thermal radiance, oh, but the way her tongue lashes me, the master, whipping her slave into working shape, my body quivers and collapses, and at her feet I'll lay, a broken heap, and somehow, when I look into her eyes, the way they stare into my soul... nothing ever happened, and my body has climbed the ladder of evolution, there I stand in herculean brilliance, she'll waltz over to me, swaying those.. ****** hips, and I'll wrap one arm around that flawless waist, and we're one, and the world is nothing.
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Jun 8, 2013
Jun 8, 2013 at 2:39 PM UTC
thermal radiance
Washed up on the sandy beach amidst the summer rain, The mighty king of the Pacific lay in persecuting pain. The creature wailed with ***** prowess, but his health was soon to wane, And by the morning that came after, sovereign was reduced to stain. Vultures from the distance ripped apart his tender flesh With spit to sear his wounded majesty and claws to tear and thresh. The wicked gang of savage butchers in a loathsome, boorish mesh Would make a swollen, seething carcass of our one-time Venkatesh. Three days after passing, fallen Caesar, set to rise, Was then revoked his Heaven’s passage, and left wallowed in demise: A body plagued by every virus; swarmed by avaricious flies, Stranded, rotting, in the Earth realm, ‘stead of claiming his due prize. Hurricanes, October, brought the wrath of Davy Jones To wreak an evil-minded havoc and to thrive on victim moans, And dash the Herculean skeleton upon the crags and stones To rain on thousands with the splinters of his elephantine bones.
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 8:02 PM UTC
The Whale
Romantic, isn't it? The giant, blue, ice-cold Air flurries, quickly Hydrogen and helium Methane ice - like an oddly- flavored slushie, likely unpalatable But surely nice to see So far from Helios' reach A blizzard of cerulean rushes across A mass so great It would require Herculean strength To move her but an inch Mathematically predicted And there she was A beautiful, azure conclusion To our solar system
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 9:34 AM UTC
neptūnus
He told his sister to feed the dogs, His twin sister; Sophia Bogvoskya, As he was to take out the herds Of horses, sheep, donkeys and cows, Out to the plains and hill land for grazing, She never took a **** she locked herself, Up in the ante chamber of the main house, She took the mirror and began looking At her beauty, Russian model beauty She began picking her nails, As the dogs were starving in the sheds They whined but no succor came forth, A fiat that coincided with arrival of ogres, The great Western Ogres, the tongues wagging, They had a plethora of eyes and mouths, Noses and ears, limbs both hind and fore, They ate all the young sheep, They took away Putin’s young brothers Crimea and Ukrainian, both were taken away, By the ferocious NATO ogres they were taken In a whelp and desperate kicking for freedom, Dogs stood aloof as ogres thrashed Sophia Into thin lacerations of red flesh, They ate as they roared with laughter, Then they went away with their loot, Vladimir came back home, found nothing No sister, no brothers no sheeplings, Only two white sepulchers glared at him, The graves of his mother and father; The former cooks of Lenin Vladimir, He mourned and mourned grievously, Then he sang a dirge of his forefathers From the herculean land of Bosnia, And also Moscow, he dirged; We were born in the wee of the night, When the bear is whelping, And we were suckled by the Tigre When our mothers were taken slaves, For no man or creature Will ever make us victims Nor subjects of fear, He recovered from the moment Trial some moment of loss and bereave, Then he chose to go after the ogres But with a strategum of no match, He began arming himself first Before  he could set on, His mobile armory full of deadly weapons; A bunch of wasps, wild bees, black ants, A thousand slings, spears and sickles, Machetes, poisonous saps, and toxics, Wild dogs, five hundred snakes and scorpions, Bows and arrows as well as cudgels, Clubs, stones and chains, He also learned how to use the hands In the most lethal manner, Then he went for combat, To rescue all that was taken, Taken from him by the ogres….
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Sep 12, 2014
Sep 12, 2014 at 8:38 AM UTC
BALLAD OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
He told his sister to feed the dogs, His twin sister; Sophia Bogvoskya, As he was to take out the herds Of horses, sheep, donkeys and cows, Out to the plains and hill land for grazing, She never took a **** she locked herself, Up in the ante chamber of the main house, She took the mirror and began looking At her beauty, Russian model beauty She began picking her nails, As the dogs were starving in the sheds They whined but no succor came forth, A fiat that coincided with arrival of ogres, The great Western Ogres, the tongues wagging, They had a plethora of eyes and mouths, Noses and ears, limbs both hind and fore, They ate all the young sheep, They took away Putin’s young brothers Crimea and Ukrainian, both were taken away, By the ferocious NATO ogres they were taken In a whelp and desperate kicking for freedom, Dogs stood aloof as ogres thrashed Sophia Into thin lacerations of red flesh, They ate as they roared with laughter, Then they went away with their loot, Vladimir came back home, found nothing No sister, no brothers no sheeplings, Only two white sepulchers glared at him, The graves of his mother and father; The former cooks of Lenin Vladimir, He mourned and mourned grievously, Then he sang a dirge of his forefathers From the herculean land of Bosnia, And also Moscow, he dirged; We were born in the wee of the night, When the bear is whelping, And we were suckled by the Tigre When our mothers were taken slaves, For no man or creature Will ever make us victims Nor subjects of fear, He recovered from the moment Trial some moment of loss and bereave, Then he chose to go after the ogres But with a strategum of no match, He began arming himself first Before  he could set on, His mobile armory full of deadly weapons; A bunch of wasps, wild bees, black ants, A thousand slings, spears and sickles, Machetes, poisonous saps, and toxics, Wild dogs, five hundred snakes and scorpions, Bows and arrows as well as cudgels, Clubs, stones and chains, He also learned how to use the hands In the most lethal manner, Then he went for combat, To rescue all that was taken, Taken from him by the ogres….
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The chalice golden Am I for a wine ancient Containing ever the sacred intoxication high Of life,existence, a procreator genius of genesis. Wearing bikinis sexily scant,or clad fully, I am a mother, a sister, a friend and a lover. An enigma am I,of possession incapable, By minds, bodies, louts or even men noble, Being oppressed, I live free in that place divine Unknown to power, pelf and brains crazed. I laugh O men and smile sardonic inward At your strengths so mightily Herculean Desiring my feet and secrets of the Heart Beyond you am I,your gazes greedy and Temporary prowesses all assumed false, My world a paradox,life a walk that talks, Of little sensitive things full of wisdom old. Nobly loving yet abused, worshipped reverent, Yet beaten, ***** exploited,I shall ever be proud, Rising as the phoenix, as a mother earth kind, Toned lithe,creased ancient,ever more powerful. And flowing like a river I become the ocean. Hold me still without a desire, unpossessive, Then my love may touch you ever so briefly.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM UTC
ME,WOMAN.