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Basketball stands for war or battle. That's why I think about the players' personalities, in my foxhole or squad. Danny and Ben are fast and smart. Dan especially can pass making him master and commander. To defeat them as we did is pst satisfying. Ben's five year old son disdains to answer my question Why are you you? But I'm not here to catalogue the men's personalities. I like them. But each of us has moved on many times, when ___________ suddenly died the games went on with hardly a mention and his name has since been forgotten. But even this, absolute mortality of not just our bodies but our names and souls is not what I came to talk about. Yesterday, between games, I asked Joe how Molly his daughter likes the high school. He mounted an impassioned defense of reading as the indispensable skill when I suggested math, the scientific method and history are essential too. Also between games Bob diffidently asked why my kids are bald. I was moved by the care he took to satisfy his curiosity, concerned the subject might be difficult. He's a political science teacher so I took the opportunity to ask What ails the republic? Of course I answered myself wanting mostly to hear myself talk about Iraq and how empire is self-correcting. For once I was amusing I thought, treating the subject with a light touch heretofore lacking. But none of this is what I came to say. A new guy, long quick and strong, a bulldozer under the boards with a good outside shot if needed got into a dispute with the other Bob who likes to tell people what to do sometimes, about an offensive foul Bob called which we almost never do. The new guy said If you can't take it don't play under the boards which is what I say when I'm ****** and don't give a **** Bob said You've been pushing and shoving me all day. I said He doesn't want to be pushed and shoved which got a wry smile out of Danny as I put the ball in play.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 8:59 AM UTC
At Basketball
Basketball stands for war or battle. That's why I think about the players' personalities, in my foxhole or squad. Danny and Ben are fast and smart. Dan especially can pass making him master and commander. To defeat them as we did is pst satisfying. Ben's five year old son disdains to answer my question Why are you you? But I'm not here to catalogue the men's personalities. I like them. But each of us has moved on many times, when ___________ suddenly died the games went on with hardly a mention and his name has since been forgotten. But even this, absolute mortality of not just our bodies but our names and souls is not what I came to talk about. Yesterday, between games, I asked Joe how Molly his daughter likes the high school. He mounted an impassioned defense of reading as the indispensable skill when I suggested math, the scientific method and history are essential too. Also between games Bob diffidently asked why my kids are bald. I was moved by the care he took to satisfy his curiosity, concerned the subject might be difficult. He's a political science teacher so I took the opportunity to ask What ails the republic? Of course I answered myself wanting mostly to hear myself talk about Iraq and how empire is self-correcting. For once I was amusing I thought, treating the subject with a light touch heretofore lacking. But none of this is what I came to say. A new guy, long quick and strong, a bulldozer under the boards with a good outside shot if needed got into a dispute with the other Bob who likes to tell people what to do sometimes, about an offensive foul Bob called which we almost never do. The new guy said If you can't take it don't play under the boards which is what I say when I'm ****** and don't give a **** Bob said You've been pushing and shoving me all day. I said He doesn't want to be pushed and shoved which got a wry smile out of Danny as I put the ball in play.
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*erstwhile a halcyon extant universe incessantly ceaseless cradled itself in hues of violet phosphorescence laced with cobalt shimmering stars perpetually whole it nonetheless sought to know itself encompassing all that is bubbling over in effervescent ebullience intertwined with indescribable catastrophic splendor it shattered into tens of millions of splinters of eloquent efflorescent light shining in the night each splinter heretofore imbued with sempiternal felicity began to conjure sumptuous dulcet elixirs furtively seeking out savory emollients to mollify the pique of separation plummeting they fell into monstrous competition seeking demesne they lost the purpose of gaining awareness and intelligent consciousness surreptitious estrangement overflowed deluging them in excruciating agony thus an epiphany was born the carving of the beleaguered fragments inked with tremendous pain created a transfiguration of splinters to crystals hence enlightenment commenced as the gems magnetized together constructing a world where omnipotence shines the ineffable beauty formed by the reintegration of crystals far exceeds the original as they dazzle with universal light bursting from diamonds etched in deep wisdom flooding the firmament with kaleidoscopic rainbow strobes cascading the sky ©2016janetaylor
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 1:23 PM UTC
crystals of light
Ignorances innate wove curtain of veils Cut usunder heretofore obscuring Bodhicittas valedictory wintry gloom torn Of enlightenments will factioning the Silenced mammonish city kingdom truced As the wings of Azrael clinch Earthly thistles; monolithic raiments Deposed Hull, Hell and Halifax parcae The willowing of light unfettering Fenrirs Durance, howling aconite psalms suspiring Suffrage relict paving with mewed stars Redemptions tithed talents bequeathed Of Heavens sinister prayer burning Acinta dusts thine ashes threading The wilful sword of Gods destruction. ELEETE J MUIR.
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012 at 8:44 AM UTC
The Web of Wyrd (The rise of Ragnarok)
i. heretofore bygone week's Tis I was layden in mine outgoing's; Incapacitated, mine feet's step's unknowing. ii. Dolor rolled as Boulder's Down mine emptied innard's; Jinn filled with hate and sin, tooketh over. iii. They tried to possesseth me And diluteth me by their fear's; They scratched, and bit, all didst spit Yet mien reine reigned in by chariot flares. iv. Mount Mayon, in southern Luzon Volcanoe's surround her citadel; She snatched me from the barbarian's In heaven, whence in hell. v. Manila in the concentrate Between the thickness of it all; Is where mine rose, her face didst gloweth Her virtue's were one, of the prophet's and high law. ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Earl Jane dedication/Reyna/hari/soulmates
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Aug 15, 2015
Aug 15, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
Ο τόπος, όπου έχω σωθεί από το φως ( The place, wherein i was saved by a light) greek tongue
"And the older I get, the more I'm sure That more by itself never was a cure Some days I've got nothing to show for except Walking the dog and walking the floor" Mary Chapin Carpenter <><><> *it's been twenty years plus who can remember exact, the last time I had a full-time four-legged companion to share my bed, greet my head with wagging tail, and joy incessantly, overflowing and drowning me with face lickings and hugs of a topsy turvy twisty body, and smiles and curdling yowls of deep throated cries of obvious joy and the first thing I'll do when the nectar of next life's staging begins to commence will be me to get such a dog as heretofore I remember as an unadulterated purest joy, I'll still walk the floor, long walks, yup, outdoors, early morn, and late afternoon day settling setting endings, dog and me, freshly bathed, settling in to watch some British crime and ****** mysteries sleuthed and solved by folks I'll never meet, but whose company enjoyed over the distance of an atlantic sea and about seven feet, and maybe dog  curls up next to me, by my pillowed head, or between my happy to snuggle legs, don't matter much, dog & me, will discuss an alternating rotation satisfying our mutuality, and even when I  still walk the floor, which be a task for evermore, he can walk beside me if he chooses, cause choice is what's it all about* with a true companion nml
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM UTC
A Man and No Dog
There's no sullying its consternation of him in her, her in him. A downy black of exquisite precaution...pops its ruffled heretofore and floats. As if a night cocked back its neck to calculate the trauma, longingly poised as a swivel of mottled blood. The black swan's eyes fork some bygone coruscation to their very top...as if in the throes of demonic rapture. Whereby reality's moments of lucidity seem to catch frozen frames in want of editing. Thereupon...as there it is, as there it goes...the black swan subsumes, wears the guise of regal unnaturalness. A betokened freak loosed...loosed...so...softly, at maximum indifference...O black swan.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 10:16 AM UTC
Black Swan
Ach so! thou much-praised and lauded Milwaukee, Thou delightful Wisconsin Stadt of boundless pulchritude, Verily hath History endowed thy blessed name With the noisomely beery breath of immortality! And thank the benign Almighty in highest Heav’n That thy delectable streets and arboreal squares Doth remain heretofore untouched by unseemly civic strife, Despite thy renown as veritable midwife to Sewer Socialism! Yet, tear-inducing recollections have I of this dwelling-place And herewith followeth heart-rending remembrances Of what transpired when I inveigled a plump young Mädchen there For a brief sojourn of untrammelled concupiscence. Alas, alack, after gorging her impetuous appetites On a gargantuan repast of mitteleuropäische delicacies, Methinks her poor heart gave up survival’s uneven battle And, warbling a soft piffero-reminiscent sigh, she expired. ‘Twas too tragic thus to depart this happy welkin in mid-prandials, Emitting a final flatus, sweet adieu, from her rearmost aperture, Leaving me, her poor forlorn swain, bereft and solitary, Faced with mine host’s request for instant monetary rendition. From that naughty place of my bereavement fled I, Clutching to my ***** the contents of her silken purse, Determined to partake in untrammelled ***** licence elsewhere, Ere the chanticleer’s dawn croak wake the inebriated citizens.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
Tragically Gay Memories of Old Milwaukee (poem by Edna's ******** brother Siegfried)
~ Rigel *Art thou Thy soul Of souls Reaching O to thee? Or that Celestial Tide thus Brimming So, most Delightful Beams o'er Me?* ~ Sirius *O, Yes! My Bride-to-be, Spinning fiercely Like a dervish in This galaxy!* ~ Rigel *My flames! My core! Held together by my Own attractiveness, I Assure, I need not thee Tis myself I do adore! Fantastic mysteries I keep thus pure! Woo me to Love? You seem assured Of your Self as well! But you must make Haste to hence take This, my body, O! Heretofore to meld.* ~ Sirius *My lust forsaken Broken, taken! See how hot These fires Thus burn, All my Love To you I turn!* ~ Rigel *Be gone! Be gone! My Love Must be earned.* ~ Sirius *O what woe! Woebegone And melancholy! Ease my malady, Be my Lady!* ~ Rigel *Perhaps one day I shall, but as of Now, I turn Thee away.* ~ Sirius *I shall do My utmost To burn So close Today Tomorrow So perhaps Someday It will be so.* ~ Rigel silently *Sigh, you Persistent thing; I wish to cradle You, soon too.*
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 4:31 PM UTC
Thrilled Tokens Of Desperate Love ~ Ablazed Burnings
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which is my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin by which I have won Others to sin? and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore; Swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now and heretofore; And, having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.
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A Hymn To God The Father
“Quite a piece this doesn’t come along every day”He was tapped into her forever mores or heretofore reservoirs of passion.The creme de la creme her pursed mouth prim. She couldn’t wait to lick him higher watering his rim. But after he breaststroked with her he has taken a bite fresh ****** fruit she broke. He spends all his time extolling her virtues, what’s left the first virtue ****** painting feast. For his eyes *** all day. Planting her nest.Lay Lady lay. He made this avocado melting pot-her fondue smelling hot what’s next to pursue such charm. His ears pierced like a fire alarm. blazing the fireplace. Her blush deepened like she was diced. To the ******** Asking for so much more.You were wearing your erotically to die for **** me shoes.He was the Hollywood ******* I was going to *** crave you knock you down. Like the colonel of **** mustard spicy so **** hot.His hair deep brown. He lengthened got bigger what a shot. How the carpet just spread me to bounce my buttocks.She tried so hard to lay everything out from his bowl his manly sword like a dual. He steamed out like Maddocks  Taurus bedroom eyes of the bull. So much to roll her feet heated so penetrated him to the floor.The rain was heavy and thick dripping with your creamy avocado puddle
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May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017 at 9:08 AM UTC
KiKi Avocado
The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast; Ah, would that this might be the last! My Mary! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow-- 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disus'd, and shine no more, My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part, And all thy threads with magic art Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary! Thy indistinct expressions seem Like language utter'd in a dream; Yet me they charm, whate'er the theme, My Mary! Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet gently press'd, press gently mine, My Mary! Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at ev'ry step thou mov'st Upheld by two; yet still thou lov'st, My Mary! And still to love, though press'd with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, My Mary! But ah! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last, My Mary!
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To Mary
The twentieth year is well nigh past, Since first our sky was overcast; Ah, would that this might be the last! My Mary! Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow-- 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disus'd, and shine no more, My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part, And all thy threads with magic art Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary! Thy indistinct expressions seem Like language utter'd in a dream; Yet me they charm, whate'er the theme, My Mary! Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet gently press'd, press gently mine, My Mary! Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at ev'ry step thou mov'st Upheld by two; yet still thou lov'st, My Mary! And still to love, though press'd with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, My Mary! But ah! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last, My Mary!
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Ah magnificence how temperament will change the world at large for they'd abandon these cages as force fields now presume their quadrants in June and search for those left decides these pastures albeit unknown while green meadows I've forebode managing lifestyle as abridged heretofore these days of being heard that altogether here's my play where inflation surely wield as weird alienation might sprout importunate places likeness kin and then shoot gorilla not extinct these dawns upon gatekeeper meld, have brought Milwaukee Instagram with certain flair now upstream in these gardens is reform!
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 6:27 AM UTC
Gardens
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements and an angelic sprite, But black sin hath betray'd to endless night My world's both parts, and oh both parts must die. You which beyond that heaven which was most high Have found new spheres, and of new lands can write, Pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might Drown my world with my weeping earnestly, Or wash it, if it must be drown'd no more. But oh it must be burnt; alas the fire Of lust and envy have burnt it heretofore, And made it fouler; let their flames retire, And burn me O Lord, with a fiery zeal Of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal.
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Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
Ah yes, fresh starts, like fresh white sheets meeting fresh black newspapers, doomed to the inevitability, groomed for the probability, that their intersection will be newsprint contamination, a black and white condemnation,   So, a clarification: this poem, just like this moment, a black and white surrogation, a seventh day progeny a sabbath moment, must and will and by definition, be explained as an interlocutory.^ fated to be jubilee ended, a pre and post sabbatical of but a minute, by law and custom, destined to go up in a smoking trinity of white flame, red wine, and a cloud of myrrh and salt incense.   Sigh with me. Join in and inhabit my eyes, enjoy the unsullied white blanket of fresh snow that humanizes my insights, and for this moment, share my peace, my unedged relief that the levees have broken and I am awash in waves of drifted snowflakes composed of salt sanctified water I may be thin and clarified,                   but my visions are still less than limitless, my sabbath poems are but momentary evaporated residuals of melted snowflakes, heretofore, salty tears, that become rivers that become oceans, upon which no Poet-Envisionary can truly walk, see his tomorrows, or even, especially even, his past days, with perfect clarity
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 10:01 AM UTC
Fresh Starts, A Clarification
~           **it is a poignant thought...           that in this life           we often know more of a thing           by its absence           than by its presence;           that we do not know,           yes,           truly know…           love,           in all           its ins,           its outs           until life           ends…**                     for they who pass over         yet for they who remain           to the other side,          on this other side,        love to them becomes          love to them becomes      a love transforming          a love of mourning         an all-surrounding,         an all-surrounding,              unconditional,          pained condition,       a love ever-warming          a love ever-wanting          and more perfectly          and more palpably,          touchable, immutable,         touchable, immutable,      and in its presence is         and in its absence is more contentment          more torment    and happiness         and distress        a one belonging         an ever-longing        love          love          than any         than any        theretofore         heretofore         known;         known.            ~ *post script.   this musing is the result of reading your beautiful poetry this morning and seeing how many wrote of heartbreak… whether through death, divorce, break-up or misunderstanding, each lends to the knowledge of what love is not and therefore to what love is.   this plain is such a broken place, it is truly a wonder any of us ever experience any love at all… and yet thankfully we do.* (creating columns on HP is at best a difficult proposition.  of course the format changes from device to device.  after much work this looks acceptable on my laptop, my ipad, and on my smartphone in landscape view only.  my smartphone in portrait view... not so much! :) however you choose to view it, enjoy!)
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 4:41 PM UTC
on knowing love
~           **it is a poignant thought...           that in this life           we often know more of a thing           by its absence           than by its presence;           that we do not know,           yes,           truly know…           love,           in all           its ins,           its outs           until life           ends…**                     for they who pass over         yet for they who remain           to the other side,          on this other side,        love to them becomes          love to them becomes      a love transforming          a love of mourning         an all-surrounding,         an all-surrounding,              unconditional,          pained condition,       a love ever-warming          a love ever-wanting          and more perfectly          and more palpably,          touchable, immutable,         touchable, immutable,      and in its presence is         and in its absence is more contentment          more torment    and happiness         and distress        a one belonging         an ever-longing        love          love          than any         than any        theretofore         heretofore         known;         known.            ~ *post script.   this musing is the result of reading your beautiful poetry this morning and seeing how many wrote of heartbreak… whether through death, divorce, break-up or misunderstanding, each lends to the knowledge of what love is not and therefore to what love is.   this plain is such a broken place, it is truly a wonder any of us ever experience any love at all… and yet thankfully we do.* (creating columns on HP is at best a difficult proposition.  of course the format changes from device to device.  after much work this looks acceptable on my laptop, my ipad, and on my smartphone in landscape view only.  my smartphone in portrait view... not so much! :) however you choose to view it, enjoy!)
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The sun will know where we first began To explain there is no need All we have been before is in our hands But, when you come with me You must lead Many a story calls our hearts to fly like doves From where our flowers bloom Into skies of our beliefs we soar above Unknown valleys of woven time Spun upon life’s loom In flight together, we will find an open door Where our needs are met the same With no concern of what came heretofore Yet, when you come with me Know my name Bright feathers from the changing years Will lie within our home’s flowers What we have been will shed no tears For when you come with me The story’s ours
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Jan 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM UTC
The Story is Ours
The invalids, misanthropes- Spell-check your ego at the dooooooooooooor And though I fancy that fancy liqueur I'm of sound mind and jaded- Gore doesn't bother me and my eyes are all faded- I'm a child of the devil So let me level with you- I don't know what I abhor more, All this violence in the world, or the lack of haberdashery stores So I'm of reasonable theory, And awfully good at this- So let me circumvent this infinite abyss- Yeah, I'm ******** Send me your tired, your weary, your weird and your eerie, and I'll eat them with a spoonful of peacock ore- So I'm better at this than you are- And I'm from France- That probably makes you leery, But my pants are clean and I'm the God of War- Inadequate! Mundane! The pedestrian, Heretofore- I crush you, I'm a crusher- A garbage compacter pall bearer usher- I'm of appropriate quality- I spit at inequality with a certain measure of frivolity- I'm the benefactor of a luster- So let me rush you into a hasty decision- "I don't know about that," I hear you utter, "Stuff it, yo!" I tell you, this is intermission, not the gutter- So I'm a trap- As comforting as a spinal tap- Happy as a lark but fashionable as a jester's cap- and with a wire cutter mouth- With which I eat things with a forkful of infidelities- Though I find the rings hard to chew-
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Apr 5, 2010
Apr 5, 2010 at 8:21 PM UTC
The Wretched!
I think that I once met myself upon the roadside coming back. So sure was I that it was me I almost had a heart attack. Another time I thought I saw myself reflected in a pane of glass upon a garden skip. It almost served to drive me sane. Then there was that occasion when I found beside me in my bed a doppelganger of myself. Was I alive?  Or was I dead? How can I know what lies in store except by taking one step more. One step to face in the unknown what I had mastered heretofore. But possibly this other me is simply also hesitant and also chooses to ignore what really is self-evident. I’m waiting for the day, you see, when opening a door, I pass into a room where bygone me is stepping through a looking glass.
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 10:06 AM UTC
DOPPELGANGER
I think I saw the moon tonight Ivory, aglow Alive and bright, reflecting light Shone through my open window I think I felt the moon tonight With my fingertips just so I brushed against her dusty cheek And whispered a meek “Hello” I think I heard the moon tonight Voice lighter than a feather She shared the folklore of the faeries Who danced amongst the heather I traveled with the moon tonight From Berkley to Milan She showed me the most gorgeous sights Beyond imagination I danced around the moon tonight To melodies of yore I felt so happy and carefree I hadn’t heretofore. I slept upon the moon tonight She lulled me to a sopor She lay me back in my warm bed And tucked me in the covers.
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
I Think I Saw the Moon Tonight
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless night My worlds both parts, and (oh!) both parts must die. You which beyond that heaven which was most high Have found new spheres, and of new lands can write, Pour new seas in mine eyes, that so I might Drown my world with my weeping earnestly, Or wash it if it must be drowned no more: But oh it must be burnt! alas the fire Of lust and envy have burnt it heretofore, And made it fouler: Let their flames retire, And burn me, O Lord, with a fiery zeal Of Thee and Thy house, which doth in eating heal.
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Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly
i. Heretofore, I impetrated for mine one and unseen dame, I knewest not where she wouldst cometh from, though I couldst seeith her hair and face.I mewled out to mine God, even whilst with other's, knowing other's weren't mine soulmates, as tis me and them werent made for another; ii. I wrote letter's in prayer form, sending the prayer's to heaven. I asked the Lord, to send me mine girl, mine darling, mine lass, the one missing from mine past. iii. Tis, the past I kneweth her, in spirit form reality, we were two spiritual amour's, we got separated when I was thrown into the flesh, being born in sin, and fleshly seed. iv. Parfay mine faith, and in Jehovah's good time, whilst not feeling home with other's, as mine body broke down to slime. As tis all the tears I cried, and the year's that I hath waited, the lord answered mine wailing, and mine question's and debating. v. I sawest the face, I hath dreamed of many ages, I knewest her face, and recognized her taste, her hair midnight black, her eye's white as poetry's pages; I heardest her voice, the same one from afore, it was mine queen, her name Jane-MI-AMOUR'......... vi. I was waiting in purgatory, tis then God opened the door, mine angel flew through, I certified her allure. She was mine kindred soul, the other half to mine explores, we were eachother of old, as tis hell went neath the floor. Mine purpose was once fufilled, it came into sight, I was reborn again, the Hello-poetry night. Happiness hadst wrapped me, like a child so tight. Tis God answered, O' mine father answered, he responded with Jane, the lass of mine past life... ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Earl Jane Nagley dedicated ( Filipino rose)
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Dec 31, 2015
Dec 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM UTC
Η προσευχή ( The prayer) greek tongue
i. Heretofore, I impetrated for mine one and unseen dame, I knewest not where she wouldst cometh from, though I couldst seeith her hair and face.I mewled out to mine God, even whilst with other's, knowing other's weren't mine soulmates, as tis me and them werent made for another; ii. I wrote letter's in prayer form, sending the prayer's to heaven. I asked the Lord, to send me mine girl, mine darling, mine lass, the one missing from mine past. iii. Tis, the past I kneweth her, in spirit form reality, we were two spiritual amour's, we got separated when I was thrown into the flesh, being born in sin, and fleshly seed. iv. Parfay mine faith, and in Jehovah's good time, whilst not feeling home with other's, as mine body broke down to slime. As tis all the tears I cried, and the year's that I hath waited, the lord answered mine wailing, and mine question's and debating. v. I sawest the face, I hath dreamed of many ages, I knewest her face, and recognized her taste, her hair midnight black, her eye's white as poetry's pages; I heardest her voice, the same one from afore, it was mine queen, her name Jane-MI-AMOUR'......... vi. I was waiting in purgatory, tis then God opened the door, mine angel flew through, I certified her allure. She was mine kindred soul, the other half to mine explores, we were eachother of old, as tis hell went neath the floor. Mine purpose was once fufilled, it came into sight, I was reborn again, the Hello-poetry night. Happiness hadst wrapped me, like a child so tight. Tis God answered, O' mine father answered, he responded with Jane, the lass of mine past life... ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Earl Jane Nagley dedicated ( Filipino rose)
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~ these words from a friend jar me from my glass-eyed read "even if we are not aware, we live in memories"  and in response i write, "i often feel watched by my loved ones passed on, as though they are aware of my every movement and deed, peering over the portals of a nearby dimension as one from a portico" watching what before them lies. fellow members of a "club" you didn't volunteer for, didn't sign your name to, you know firsthand the longing, the aching, the wishing and the wanting, the praying and the begging, the "take this cup" imploring, remove it far from me, the "i'm down on my knees begging you please" plea. grief... a mournful response a saudade for what will, what can never be again. a shadowy wood, where the seekers lie, where lovers come when lovers die; where hope once lost can still be found, where signs and wonders from beyond abound. where man can touch the face of God, where the path to freedom, with all it twist, its turns, brings new meaning and opens new doors. within this forest there lies a pool from which to drink and be renewed. healing waters in abundance here to wash away the bitter tears; the lonely hours here spent bring peace, its lovely flowers are rarest sweet; the dancer learns her steps again, the singer finds his inner voice; here hearts unfold and bare the creases, here anxious thoughts and anger ceases; and psalmist's soul here finds relief. ~ post script. *thank you Bala, for stirring my morning contemplation time and helping me to reflect on what i have, as being a part of what i have lost.  "saudade"- though sharing no English equivalent is best understood here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade as apples of gold are wise words... indeed!  my fellow poets, you are a grace to me, a gift i did not heretofore know of; the door to a contemplative.forest i had not previously known.  thank you, to each who stops in to make a kind, a generous comment and sometimes add a very thought-provoking word. i am grateful today!!*
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 2:44 PM UTC
morning contemplations
~ these words from a friend jar me from my glass-eyed read "even if we are not aware, we live in memories"  and in response i write, "i often feel watched by my loved ones passed on, as though they are aware of my every movement and deed, peering over the portals of a nearby dimension as one from a portico" watching what before them lies. fellow members of a "club" you didn't volunteer for, didn't sign your name to, you know firsthand the longing, the aching, the wishing and the wanting, the praying and the begging, the "take this cup" imploring, remove it far from me, the "i'm down on my knees begging you please" plea. grief... a mournful response a saudade for what will, what can never be again. a shadowy wood, where the seekers lie, where lovers come when lovers die; where hope once lost can still be found, where signs and wonders from beyond abound. where man can touch the face of God, where the path to freedom, with all it twist, its turns, brings new meaning and opens new doors. within this forest there lies a pool from which to drink and be renewed. healing waters in abundance here to wash away the bitter tears; the lonely hours here spent bring peace, its lovely flowers are rarest sweet; the dancer learns her steps again, the singer finds his inner voice; here hearts unfold and bare the creases, here anxious thoughts and anger ceases; and psalmist's soul here finds relief. ~ post script. *thank you Bala, for stirring my morning contemplation time and helping me to reflect on what i have, as being a part of what i have lost.  "saudade"- though sharing no English equivalent is best understood here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade as apples of gold are wise words... indeed!  my fellow poets, you are a grace to me, a gift i did not heretofore know of; the door to a contemplative.forest i had not previously known.  thank you, to each who stops in to make a kind, a generous comment and sometimes add a very thought-provoking word. i am grateful today!!*
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creation is the principle caught between life and death, between the succulence of sustenance and erratic destructiveness, the gestations of hereafter, cascading novelties heretofore, a reflective dynamism, in the moving mirror, the bitter-sweet sweet-bitterness, of paradoxes pumping, a living death that is, what dies into loves thrusting, the fecund surge of heart, upon the looming edge, between the past lined birth place, and the precipice.
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Mar 9, 2014
Mar 9, 2014 at 8:48 PM UTC
creative principle
so you write a lot, pouring entire waking existences, current n' prior, into a long and crafted 'pistles, and pixels and you got jive pride and then, the poem, you worked so hard for, ups and dies gets a few middling fingers of reads, dying on a vining of Juliet's pseudo poisoning elixir, no big deal, happens all the time but here's what's wielding & weirdly wilding: ***A poetpourri. of newly found co-inhabitors, from around the universe, from places unpronounceable, unlike Venus & Mars, (very poet-popular) and from previously places were never or seldom was heard a discouraging word, igniting a rewarded mutuality of a following up embracing*** par example; Tirunelveli Poland Lisbon Cyprus Bihar Uruguay Ankara Vienna Albania Tanzania India Bangladesh New Zealand/Australia Soldotna (Alaska) plus Texas, West Va., Ohio, and other exotica, like Nowhere what a blessing! Blessed art Thou o Lord, that permits the miracle that my integers of 0 & 1 can be translated into such varied exotica, in harmony, thus permitting this discovery of never visited oceans and landfalls of poetry never heretofore to join as one. Aman. <> nml
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Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM UTC
A Travelogue Prayer