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"humane" poems
This one goes to the real poets. To those who decide to carry the world on their own. To those who carry hell in their head and a graveyard of lost love stories in their heart To the brave ones who fight darkness with darkness. Tho those who the only answer they seek from a god is if there's eternal life for their loved ones, because they know there's no space for them in that paradise. To those who know that suffering is the most humane feeling there is. To those who loved and hated the wrong person. This goes to Lorca isolated, hiding in a closet in New York. To Unamuno craving to believe in something impossible. To Quiroga drinking the poison of his sorrow at a hospital. To Becquer and Espino for dying so young. To Neruda for cheating on himself so many times. To Machados' lost spirit. To Marquez and his melancholic ****** To Poe's tormented soul and his raven. To Shakespeare and his Juliet. To Dante and his story of woe. This goes for the only beings who can live with a hell inside of them, and still manage to write heavenly things for those in need to read. This one's for us.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 7:33 PM UTC
This One Is For Us
Plant a tree, Water a flower, Preserve nature. Have a purpose! Feed a bird, Cuddle a pet, Be humane to animals. Have a purpose! Save a life, Nurture an orphan, Stand up with the oppressed. Have a purpose! Count your blessings, Recite your prayers, Contemplate the universe. Have a purpose! Nurture your mind with ideas, Fill your heart with the wine of love, Dress your soul with the garment of kindness. Have a purpose! Hussein Dekmak
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Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019 at 10:27 AM UTC
Have a Purpose
*She's like deliquescent caramel, the cool side of a pillow         to lay your weary head, subtleties of springtime &      warmth in wintertide, whispering hope upon lush           Zephyrus pipe dreams,   mellifluous nymph with wings                  of a butterfly warrior, softly determined,     unfailingly true-hearted,      whilst relentlessly ferocious   Wise, yet sometimes struts        blindly in the light,      as dulcet tones of a cello's         melodious marmalade          in sentiment's tender fancy, she's beauty, charm,          knowledge, poetry,                utter strength,                & humane weaknesses, she's twisted and ethereal,            her aura sublimely captivating      you may covet her body,             you'll never possess her soul*
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Apr 23, 2015
Apr 23, 2015 at 9:32 AM UTC
She's like deliquescent caramel
Anguish pain, I felt inside Meteors rain, two worlds collide Crash of plane, the heavens chide Hit by the train, because someone lied Portrait of vain, efforts denied Will I explain, as I stride A sad humane, won't let go my pride.
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Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 5:08 AM UTC
Jealousy
“We could be gods amongst mortals" “Why be a god when the earth gave me you?” His slight whisper Another’s warmth on my hand Body sculpted like those of gods Engraved into my own He is very humane; - He is gravity; Retain me against ascending Pummel my sins He is water; Take away my thirst Drown me when greed takes over And I am grounded, I am thirsty, Lain earthbound onto the ground at his side Heart aflame far away from Mount Olympus I am still only  ** human.**
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Nov 7, 2016
Nov 7, 2016 at 8:09 AM UTC
Modern Deities
What a beautiful thing it is ! A Canvas that speaks a lot Wow ! an artist’s soul That try to speak a lot From the window of canvas To the doors of sky Till the depth of ocean In the romancing moonlight And spreading its vastness As the fragrance Of night blooms Until the sunrise Again from morning dews To chirping birds Snowy mountains To windy breeze A moving cloud And even from rain to rainbow All is possible With the tip of a brush Is a marvellous thing That depicts an artist’s heart An art is a creation Of an artist Which is made In different colours With different paints And in different shades But all in one canvas Makes an effective painting Which can never die As an artist’s soul That is lightning forever As a magical lantern Some paintings speaks a lot Like stories to us When it starts speaking The whole image depicts It’s originality As an original photo Of some place And that really can lost us Somewhere as in the canvas Even eyes of a portrait Speaks a lot When we stare in that eyes It seems as the person is gazing As a living person is standing in front of us Which feels like a real photo And it really makes An unbelievable painting Which is like giving life To the non living thing Within the canvas By an artist Or like a flower bloomed In the hands of an artist Canvas that speaks a lot Really shows true heart Of an artist’s creation A beautiful creation By ones own hands Mesmerise all of us With no time Like an original picture Taken with a camera Of high resolution Is something to adore With the hearts of love Canvas that speaks a lot Is a graceful creation That makes us wonder Which is a miracle In hands of an artist That remains its effect For life time And that make An artist Different from others Canvas that speaks a lot Is a creation of art When an artist starts To move his hand on canvas It starts to speak a lot From the sincerity of love To the beauty of a nature Sparkling eyes of a human And the depth of a sea All that beautiful creation Of Godly things Is once more painted With the help of an artist’s brush Is something that speaks For a lifetime With thousands of words In one image Is an exemplary Creation of humane In a canvas Canvas that speaks a lot With voice of heart Beats in every hearts And in all eras An artist is like a lantern That lightens other lights And a canvas is a mirror Of an artist’s soul That reflects the lights   For lifetime Which was once lit By an artist With a great deal Who was owned By an eloquent soul.
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Dec 8, 2019
Dec 8, 2019 at 2:21 AM UTC
CANVAS - that speaks a lot
What a beautiful thing it is ! A Canvas that speaks a lot Wow ! an artist’s soul That try to speak a lot From the window of canvas To the doors of sky Till the depth of ocean In the romancing moonlight And spreading its vastness As the fragrance Of night blooms Until the sunrise Again from morning dews To chirping birds Snowy mountains To windy breeze A moving cloud And even from rain to rainbow All is possible With the tip of a brush Is a marvellous thing That depicts an artist’s heart An art is a creation Of an artist Which is made In different colours With different paints And in different shades But all in one canvas Makes an effective painting Which can never die As an artist’s soul That is lightning forever As a magical lantern Some paintings speaks a lot Like stories to us When it starts speaking The whole image depicts It’s originality As an original photo Of some place And that really can lost us Somewhere as in the canvas Even eyes of a portrait Speaks a lot When we stare in that eyes It seems as the person is gazing As a living person is standing in front of us Which feels like a real photo And it really makes An unbelievable painting Which is like giving life To the non living thing Within the canvas By an artist Or like a flower bloomed In the hands of an artist Canvas that speaks a lot Really shows true heart Of an artist’s creation A beautiful creation By ones own hands Mesmerise all of us With no time Like an original picture Taken with a camera Of high resolution Is something to adore With the hearts of love Canvas that speaks a lot Is a graceful creation That makes us wonder Which is a miracle In hands of an artist That remains its effect For life time And that make An artist Different from others Canvas that speaks a lot Is a creation of art When an artist starts To move his hand on canvas It starts to speak a lot From the sincerity of love To the beauty of a nature Sparkling eyes of a human And the depth of a sea All that beautiful creation Of Godly things Is once more painted With the help of an artist’s brush Is something that speaks For a lifetime With thousands of words In one image Is an exemplary Creation of humane In a canvas Canvas that speaks a lot With voice of heart Beats in every hearts And in all eras An artist is like a lantern That lightens other lights And a canvas is a mirror Of an artist’s soul That reflects the lights   For lifetime Which was once lit By an artist With a great deal Who was owned By an eloquent soul.
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Listen my dear daughter, to my first song of caution Earmarked for you my wonderful sire, come and listen, That tall old man with white hair all over his head Standing over there is not good; he is gnomish in the mind Be careful with him, he is not human in the heart But a mermaid of Yoruba poetry, just like Thespis of Greece Even the pecuniary psychopomp of Sweden gave him an accolade His heart is selfishly full of avarice; he wants everything for himself, Don’t recite him any of your poetry, lest he spells an abyss Against your juvenile poetic talent, he will fool you with a gift; A white sheep or a scarlet goat for your birth day anniversary Please don’t take it or anything else from him, as nothing from him is genuine But only machinations of evil spell aimed at mahyeming your talent Finally to decimate your girlhood and life, this is my caution For you dear little African girl. Listen my dear little daughter, to my second song of caution That short man in a Muslim gear loafing yonder, is suspect The Muslim beret on his head is merely a smokescreen to aghastly behaviour He is in no way an avatar of god of love and humane piety He is a terrorist working with Boko Haram and Algaeda He is an Alshabab that is bombing young girls in Mombasa and Nairobi All over Kenya he has killed the young people; his long egret-white sari is not for holiness, It is merely a nefarious sanctum of grenades, other tools of work in terrorism trade His loudly prayers, body movements and pocket bursting monies are only a stunt To have you kidnapped into death conduit, once you goof to join his courts, His sanctimony is a total picaresque film, (s)heroes of terror the centerpiece And thus, this is my caution for you dear little African girl. Listen my dear daughter, to my third song of caution Those tourists thronging our streets are deadly *** pets, they also skulk **** Their handsome outlook is not a stamp to any good conscientiousness They derive pleasure from poverty and *** tourism; they yearn to see a girl in poverty, Often rarely will they help an African girl, out of milieu of beggarly squalorism, Instead they go straight for the purse between your thighs, Regardless of the legacy they leave out of this lewdness, they are showy, They regret not in their Byronic broadcast of *** and fatherless urchins in the poor streets Foundation for their further poverty tourism, this is my caution for you dear little African girl.
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 4:20 AM UTC
VERSES OF CAUTION TO AN AFRICAN GIRL
Listen my dear daughter, to my first song of caution Earmarked for you my wonderful sire, come and listen, That tall old man with white hair all over his head Standing over there is not good; he is gnomish in the mind Be careful with him, he is not human in the heart But a mermaid of Yoruba poetry, just like Thespis of Greece Even the pecuniary psychopomp of Sweden gave him an accolade His heart is selfishly full of avarice; he wants everything for himself, Don’t recite him any of your poetry, lest he spells an abyss Against your juvenile poetic talent, he will fool you with a gift; A white sheep or a scarlet goat for your birth day anniversary Please don’t take it or anything else from him, as nothing from him is genuine But only machinations of evil spell aimed at mahyeming your talent Finally to decimate your girlhood and life, this is my caution For you dear little African girl. Listen my dear little daughter, to my second song of caution That short man in a Muslim gear loafing yonder, is suspect The Muslim beret on his head is merely a smokescreen to aghastly behaviour He is in no way an avatar of god of love and humane piety He is a terrorist working with Boko Haram and Algaeda He is an Alshabab that is bombing young girls in Mombasa and Nairobi All over Kenya he has killed the young people; his long egret-white sari is not for holiness, It is merely a nefarious sanctum of grenades, other tools of work in terrorism trade His loudly prayers, body movements and pocket bursting monies are only a stunt To have you kidnapped into death conduit, once you goof to join his courts, His sanctimony is a total picaresque film, (s)heroes of terror the centerpiece And thus, this is my caution for you dear little African girl. Listen my dear daughter, to my third song of caution Those tourists thronging our streets are deadly *** pets, they also skulk **** Their handsome outlook is not a stamp to any good conscientiousness They derive pleasure from poverty and *** tourism; they yearn to see a girl in poverty, Often rarely will they help an African girl, out of milieu of beggarly squalorism, Instead they go straight for the purse between your thighs, Regardless of the legacy they leave out of this lewdness, they are showy, They regret not in their Byronic broadcast of *** and fatherless urchins in the poor streets Foundation for their further poverty tourism, this is my caution for you dear little African girl.
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The purest sense of understanding that allows two hearts to move beyond the borders of the conscious, thinking mind. Without the thoughts that twist the words, that distort perception; what is conveyed, is... is... unconditional acceptance and love. In this simple concept we find solace, we find connection, we reach the precipice of and stare in awe at the beauty of the humane soul. Everything seems perfect.   By this perfection, given face value, we draw the ever permanent distinction between what what is black and what is white; what is wrong and what is right; what is virtue and what is moral travesty. For inherent to humanity is the eagerness, bias  and extremity with which we represent the good and evil of this world. For who would believe that the "caretaker", wrought of good intentions, could be soiled in his actions?   The caretaker that empathizes with the troubled or broken soul is a testament to the honesty of a human heart; but he who enables others with his empathy becomes not the caretaker, but the "jailer". Through his conviction to ALWAYS be there, to sooth the hurts, to understand the pains and to maintain control... by those actions, he belittles them. The relief of empathy is only temporary. Empathy does not enact change, it is mere salve and bandage, it quells the aches for but a moment. And when they return, in their woes, the service of the empathizer becomes requirement.   For though empathy may be needed, with the power to forge a bond of deep understanding, its indiscriminate use only stunts. Personal growth, it is found by many paths in this world. We must grow and mature; let others do the same. Life is a journey with many opportunities but also many hardships, we are defined by these. If we are stunted by the empathy of others, in their quest to protect us, we will never grow, never achieve that which is greater, and never leave our "prison".   Virtue or vice... once again in the hands of the beholder.
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Nov 29, 2011
Nov 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM UTC
Empathy
The purest sense of understanding that allows two hearts to move beyond the borders of the conscious, thinking mind. Without the thoughts that twist the words, that distort perception; what is conveyed, is... is... unconditional acceptance and love. In this simple concept we find solace, we find connection, we reach the precipice of and stare in awe at the beauty of the humane soul. Everything seems perfect.   By this perfection, given face value, we draw the ever permanent distinction between what what is black and what is white; what is wrong and what is right; what is virtue and what is moral travesty. For inherent to humanity is the eagerness, bias  and extremity with which we represent the good and evil of this world. For who would believe that the "caretaker", wrought of good intentions, could be soiled in his actions?   The caretaker that empathizes with the troubled or broken soul is a testament to the honesty of a human heart; but he who enables others with his empathy becomes not the caretaker, but the "jailer". Through his conviction to ALWAYS be there, to sooth the hurts, to understand the pains and to maintain control... by those actions, he belittles them. The relief of empathy is only temporary. Empathy does not enact change, it is mere salve and bandage, it quells the aches for but a moment. And when they return, in their woes, the service of the empathizer becomes requirement.   For though empathy may be needed, with the power to forge a bond of deep understanding, its indiscriminate use only stunts. Personal growth, it is found by many paths in this world. We must grow and mature; let others do the same. Life is a journey with many opportunities but also many hardships, we are defined by these. If we are stunted by the empathy of others, in their quest to protect us, we will never grow, never achieve that which is greater, and never leave our "prison".   Virtue or vice... once again in the hands of the beholder.
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Despicability is the foundation to their life For them it is intrinsic Genetically encoded Simplistic Poetically eroded Reprehensible at best      **Unscrupulously callous      Secrets and facts, they conveniently      ingest      Distorted byproducts, they release to the      masses      To aid their campaign; a forked tongue      fest** Pathetic and unapologetic A beast armed to the teeth Imported bypasses to increase the flow of police A weakness and an act, They so vehemently attest      **Harvesting greens off the branches of      the people      Pockets engorged with wads and folds      Crushing blue collars at the lower levels      As they sit atop their pyramids of gold** Today they sip champagne To celebrate their reign Tonight we'll skip being humane To feed them excruciating pain      **You've incited this coup with ill-thought      deterrents      Now herald the arrival of the scourge      Down with lopsided governments      Tonight... All we would topple! Tonight we purge!** Justin G ryn**
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 11:32 AM UTC
Tonight We Purge! (Featuring ryn)
DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, best alone again:> their tongues spoke in languages of dim black not for the people, not for the universe, just for the humane lack their mercuries slipped into a coma of grace is it too much of an ask to grant a questioning face? their secrets molded, intertwined, & folded for the eyes to formulate the truth from the lie sorted their breathes sent beat to their hearts to syncopate that keeper then feels out of their laces or not just them alone in the Ether their dreams although vanished weren't a matter of none for the hurt to be a double impressionist's helixed one their souls craved for a carve of that humble form so do they submit to rain & dance under the thundering storm? cliché or not somethings are left unsaid without a period dot blunt or rude better feel shame from faults than when **** what does it mean, to be delicate's recipient ? to be an exception to the head of a never lenient? what does these ancient walls say? if the colors of the face couldn't cover up before that end day? a crime to deny them sensations to get to know someone in six conversations -------ravenfeels
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Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022 at 4:29 PM UTC
Heart Beats To A Museum
Maybe there resides a phoenix in you... Yes YOU, You, who tried to cut the veins and paint your hands red, You, who finally decided to just give up on your life. Maybe inside you there rested a piece of hope, A hope that tells that Death brings peace, And giving up, solves all your humane problems.... Is it because of this hope or this phoenix, That we ordinary humans often end up destroying ourselves... Sometimes unknowingly, And sometimes knowingly...like you did. The truth has always been From destruction comes life... But you were never the phoenix you so much longed to be... You were in fact, just another container for petting it's soul. From your destruction, there'll never be a new life.... You've just ended up in planting the phoenix in our souls.
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 5:17 AM UTC
The Phoenix in YOU
Humanity's ego, to resort to violence, To settle conflicts, makes no sense. And yet we still have not learned, The art of peace for which we yearned. To love our neighbour as ourself, And to put our grievance on the shelf. Could this be in our gracious hands to bring compassion to troubled lands? With each hill we have to climb, Life is lived one day at a time. Let the tears of yesterday's storm, Bring a smile to a new day born. For everything to be humane, We need to be compassionate and sane. Too lightly on lifes scales Compassion weighs, and prevails. © Hazel
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Aug 6, 2012
Aug 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM UTC
COMPASSION
Life can be painless Provided there is sufficient Peacefulness For a dozen or so rituals To be repeated simply Endlessly Your genius does not fail you It allows you to understand the Truth of the situation; Which makes you--at times-- more tragic than ever And your genius, like all geniuses Suffers periodic fits of monumental naïveté Hi-ho Listen: Where is Grace When milk and blood Are about to be added To the composition of the Stinking ping-pong ***** being manufactured In Grand Rapids? Schizophrenia The sound and appearance Of the word fascinates It sounds and looks to me Like a human being Sneezing in a blizzard of Soapflakes This much we know: You made yourself hideously Uncomfortable by not narrowing Your attention to details Of life that were immediately Important And by refusing to believe what Your neighbors believed Hi-ho Let your imagination continue To be the flywheel on the Ramshackle machinery of the truth. But not the ‘awful’ truth The ‘beauty’ in truth Because we are a part Of a system that is very Restless, With people tearing around All the time Every so often, somebody stops to put up A monument Ours is a country where Everybody is expected to Pay his own bills for Everything, And one of the most Expensive things a person Can do is get sick Grace: Because if we stay here We’ll do one of two things (or both!) Build a Commune Or do like Collin Heise did: Make the main thing that we do be this: Move seventy-eight Thousand pounds of olives To Tulsa, Oklahoma Even if we can’t Improve the quality of our surroundings We’ll do our best to make our Insides beautiful instead Piebald Roadtrip-writing, baby Hi-ho You are the turtle able to live anywhere even under water for short periods With your home on your back A particular comfort in Realizing that it so often feels There is no order in the World around us That we must adapt ourselves to The requirements of Chaos instead Remember: We are healthy Only to the extent that Our ideas are Humane To you To me To ourselves To We
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 9:05 PM UTC
86 Kurt Vonnegut
Life can be painless Provided there is sufficient Peacefulness For a dozen or so rituals To be repeated simply Endlessly Your genius does not fail you It allows you to understand the Truth of the situation; Which makes you--at times-- more tragic than ever And your genius, like all geniuses Suffers periodic fits of monumental naïveté Hi-ho Listen: Where is Grace When milk and blood Are about to be added To the composition of the Stinking ping-pong ***** being manufactured In Grand Rapids? Schizophrenia The sound and appearance Of the word fascinates It sounds and looks to me Like a human being Sneezing in a blizzard of Soapflakes This much we know: You made yourself hideously Uncomfortable by not narrowing Your attention to details Of life that were immediately Important And by refusing to believe what Your neighbors believed Hi-ho Let your imagination continue To be the flywheel on the Ramshackle machinery of the truth. But not the ‘awful’ truth The ‘beauty’ in truth Because we are a part Of a system that is very Restless, With people tearing around All the time Every so often, somebody stops to put up A monument Ours is a country where Everybody is expected to Pay his own bills for Everything, And one of the most Expensive things a person Can do is get sick Grace: Because if we stay here We’ll do one of two things (or both!) Build a Commune Or do like Collin Heise did: Make the main thing that we do be this: Move seventy-eight Thousand pounds of olives To Tulsa, Oklahoma Even if we can’t Improve the quality of our surroundings We’ll do our best to make our Insides beautiful instead Piebald Roadtrip-writing, baby Hi-ho You are the turtle able to live anywhere even under water for short periods With your home on your back A particular comfort in Realizing that it so often feels There is no order in the World around us That we must adapt ourselves to The requirements of Chaos instead Remember: We are healthy Only to the extent that Our ideas are Humane To you To me To ourselves To We
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Jesus Christ, Lord Almighty Expel my demons and watch them die with me Satan Lord, Leviathan Give my demons an interesting origin Plague me with poets smoking joints rolled with rejected poems Fill my thoughts with cockney accented thespians Let them hold Academy award nominations from films long forgotten Enthuse my self-destruction Bring me goth kids brought up in wholesome homes Bring me Art school students choosing to abandon their degrees Bring me women aroused by smashed clocks Bring me men aroused by awkward teenagers Bring me Christians questioning their faith Lord Almighty, God, Yahweh, Jehovah Tell me the story of your disagreements with Vishnu Let me see Moloch's disgruntlement and subsequent drunk and disorderly Show me when Hera was seducing your nephew Bring me into the world of the soap opera battles Write to me Paris Write to me Paris I want to read your poetry I want to read your mind Sing to me Helen Embrace me and we shall escape from torments Heavenly and humane We shall watch hipsters walk past us Smoking Spirits and drinking poison berry teas Let Adam grow disgruntled Let children laugh If, Lord Jesus, you grant me my wish Send me a djinn with evil in his heart Who's bound to be annoyed by my desires Send me an ent to lift me above my world Send me an elf to love me for all my time Send me a mountain to travel over home Transport me to Germany Transport me to Spain Transport me to New Zealand Give me a free pass, one-way ticket to Darwin's islands Write my story so that I collect new, unprecedented species And devour the flesh of my find Hide me in Antarctica with a monstrous creation of my own mind Let me eat Let me gorge Then starve me Show me Caligula Show me Marilyn Monroe Then leave me with Ed Wood And force me to watch his films so that I may inherit my grandfather's fortune in comic books Which, of course, will bring her to love me again Oh Lord Jesus Lord of Hosts Possess me so that I may live again
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 4:56 PM UTC
I'm not neurotic or depressed, but I find myself full of Drive with nowhere to go with it
Jesus Christ, Lord Almighty Expel my demons and watch them die with me Satan Lord, Leviathan Give my demons an interesting origin Plague me with poets smoking joints rolled with rejected poems Fill my thoughts with cockney accented thespians Let them hold Academy award nominations from films long forgotten Enthuse my self-destruction Bring me goth kids brought up in wholesome homes Bring me Art school students choosing to abandon their degrees Bring me women aroused by smashed clocks Bring me men aroused by awkward teenagers Bring me Christians questioning their faith Lord Almighty, God, Yahweh, Jehovah Tell me the story of your disagreements with Vishnu Let me see Moloch's disgruntlement and subsequent drunk and disorderly Show me when Hera was seducing your nephew Bring me into the world of the soap opera battles Write to me Paris Write to me Paris I want to read your poetry I want to read your mind Sing to me Helen Embrace me and we shall escape from torments Heavenly and humane We shall watch hipsters walk past us Smoking Spirits and drinking poison berry teas Let Adam grow disgruntled Let children laugh If, Lord Jesus, you grant me my wish Send me a djinn with evil in his heart Who's bound to be annoyed by my desires Send me an ent to lift me above my world Send me an elf to love me for all my time Send me a mountain to travel over home Transport me to Germany Transport me to Spain Transport me to New Zealand Give me a free pass, one-way ticket to Darwin's islands Write my story so that I collect new, unprecedented species And devour the flesh of my find Hide me in Antarctica with a monstrous creation of my own mind Let me eat Let me gorge Then starve me Show me Caligula Show me Marilyn Monroe Then leave me with Ed Wood And force me to watch his films so that I may inherit my grandfather's fortune in comic books Which, of course, will bring her to love me again Oh Lord Jesus Lord of Hosts Possess me so that I may live again
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i am sitting here missing you, wishing you would put me back in your hands and play me. slide your bow across my strings, make beautiful music come from me. because when you play me, i am not just a piece of wood, painted and glossed to perfection, but i am more humane.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 1:34 PM UTC
your violin
Part I The house is as haunted as its name, The house really isn’t the same! The people in it are dead and gone, The trees and bushes are not cut; There is a graveyard past the woodshed hut. The graveyard is covered with leaves and moss, Leaves that the wind has tossed, To be tossed again no more; One day like them in the sky I’ll soar; Only to be known as them no more. The rain is streaming down, And there they are lying safe and sound, While the rain beside them pours all around. Low! A car pulls up to the house, Yet there they are still lying as quiet as a mouse, The lightning flashes and hits the ground; With a loud and bellowing sound; Yet the still it do not hear; Even though it is loud and clear. Why can’t you it hear? Don’t you know its loud and clear? We are the dead do you expect us to hear, The things that to you sound loud and clear? We are the dead and you are alive and you can hear things we can’t, Don’t you know you’re waking the dead? Go away you little scant. The rain is coming down in torrents, Yet there they are lying dormant; I thought this house would look better in Spring, But no, not even when the birds begin to sing.                                                          Part II There is darkness everywhere, There is lightning in the air; There the lady ghost sits in her chair, Look at the car sitting by the house over there. The skeleton in the locked trunk, By now hath stunk, Until he could stink no more. . . In that trunk sitting by the attic door. Is he the dead that must be respected like the others, Fathers, daughters, husbands, wives, and Mothers? Must we be so quiet as a mouse, That we aren’t heard in that dark old house? Must we so soon go away? And never again here we stay? There is an air of creepiness about the place, And they that are buried there do not run the humane race. They were cold ever since that night, When their family saw and told the sight. Yet they so alive alive seem, To me it is but a dream, While I sit beside the clogged up stream This place is haunted, I could scream! Yet I keep it all in, I can hear that dead old hen, Still clucking her evening song, Almost all the night long. And while she’s dead I know she’s not, It was her I loved a lot! The big old rooster isn’t here though to scare her anymore, Perching up on his perch behind the door, He was a Rode Island Red, And he isn’t here because the butcher cut his head "I am so sorry," now I said.       *** _________Marian_________***
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 5:59 PM UTC
Haunted House.
Part I The house is as haunted as its name, The house really isn’t the same! The people in it are dead and gone, The trees and bushes are not cut; There is a graveyard past the woodshed hut. The graveyard is covered with leaves and moss, Leaves that the wind has tossed, To be tossed again no more; One day like them in the sky I’ll soar; Only to be known as them no more. The rain is streaming down, And there they are lying safe and sound, While the rain beside them pours all around. Low! A car pulls up to the house, Yet there they are still lying as quiet as a mouse, The lightning flashes and hits the ground; With a loud and bellowing sound; Yet the still it do not hear; Even though it is loud and clear. Why can’t you it hear? Don’t you know its loud and clear? We are the dead do you expect us to hear, The things that to you sound loud and clear? We are the dead and you are alive and you can hear things we can’t, Don’t you know you’re waking the dead? Go away you little scant. The rain is coming down in torrents, Yet there they are lying dormant; I thought this house would look better in Spring, But no, not even when the birds begin to sing.                                                          Part II There is darkness everywhere, There is lightning in the air; There the lady ghost sits in her chair, Look at the car sitting by the house over there. The skeleton in the locked trunk, By now hath stunk, Until he could stink no more. . . In that trunk sitting by the attic door. Is he the dead that must be respected like the others, Fathers, daughters, husbands, wives, and Mothers? Must we be so quiet as a mouse, That we aren’t heard in that dark old house? Must we so soon go away? And never again here we stay? There is an air of creepiness about the place, And they that are buried there do not run the humane race. They were cold ever since that night, When their family saw and told the sight. Yet they so alive alive seem, To me it is but a dream, While I sit beside the clogged up stream This place is haunted, I could scream! Yet I keep it all in, I can hear that dead old hen, Still clucking her evening song, Almost all the night long. And while she’s dead I know she’s not, It was her I loved a lot! The big old rooster isn’t here though to scare her anymore, Perching up on his perch behind the door, He was a Rode Island Red, And he isn’t here because the butcher cut his head "I am so sorry," now I said.       *** _________Marian_________***
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“My sole goal in life is to keep racing down the interstate without a clock so I can keep going until people forget who I am.” In my head I knew I was wrong hypocritical, insane, illogical, but above all I was still humane! This, yes, this sole fact is what keeps me separated from you draw a straight line down the road we lived on the squares and the circles. You, with your fancy plaque and NHS bumper sticker With the family of four and no reason to feel failure With your perfect scores and magnificent vernacular Who let you have it so easy?! Me, with my Jimi Hendrix poster family of who knows how many and the chance to earn my GED in a few years Why was it me?! You met your wife in the 10th grade You gave her a promise ring and everything Even took her with you on spring break Who said you didn't have to try?! I was placed in the wards that year they said it was insanity I thought I was just thinking ahead Why can’t they understand?! BUT THEY ALWAYS UNDERSTAND YOU! You, your Shakespeare perfect jargon Mr. Right, Perfect, next coming of Beethoven You were made to please everyone and become important! And that’s what separates us. Even though it’s the same street that raised us I bought the Harley and your parents got you the Chevy. And I recall the one time I was flying down the interstate And caught up to you as you were going nothing higher than 70. I stared at you and you kept your eyes on the road. I don’t blame you, I knew that you just wanted to see my bomber jacket I have a skull on fire on the back of it So I gave you a great view hope you enjoyed it.
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014 at 1:40 AM UTC
Superficial Neutrality
“My sole goal in life is to keep racing down the interstate without a clock so I can keep going until people forget who I am.” In my head I knew I was wrong hypocritical, insane, illogical, but above all I was still humane! This, yes, this sole fact is what keeps me separated from you draw a straight line down the road we lived on the squares and the circles. You, with your fancy plaque and NHS bumper sticker With the family of four and no reason to feel failure With your perfect scores and magnificent vernacular Who let you have it so easy?! Me, with my Jimi Hendrix poster family of who knows how many and the chance to earn my GED in a few years Why was it me?! You met your wife in the 10th grade You gave her a promise ring and everything Even took her with you on spring break Who said you didn't have to try?! I was placed in the wards that year they said it was insanity I thought I was just thinking ahead Why can’t they understand?! BUT THEY ALWAYS UNDERSTAND YOU! You, your Shakespeare perfect jargon Mr. Right, Perfect, next coming of Beethoven You were made to please everyone and become important! And that’s what separates us. Even though it’s the same street that raised us I bought the Harley and your parents got you the Chevy. And I recall the one time I was flying down the interstate And caught up to you as you were going nothing higher than 70. I stared at you and you kept your eyes on the road. I don’t blame you, I knew that you just wanted to see my bomber jacket I have a skull on fire on the back of it So I gave you a great view hope you enjoyed it.
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*in the land of the white live too the black men apparently with equal right but with covert disdain.* why couldn't the world be one place when we are all from common gene where humanity is the only race across the color of skin. *in the land of the black live too the white men apparently of the same pack but on a different plane.* why couldn't the world be one landmass when we rose from one origin where being humane is the only class across the color of skin. *in the land of the white live the white men among them aren't equal right exist disparity and disdain.* why couldn't the world be one unit when together we all once had been where brotherhood is boldly writ across the color of skin. *in the land of the black live the black men among them oneness they lack the inequalities still remain.* why couldn't the world be one creed where mankind lives as one kin the white and the black can only read love across the color of skin.
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Jul 23, 2015
Jul 23, 2015 at 10:27 AM UTC
Fairly Dark
I don't want a day to celebrate. I want a life to celebrate each day with every fibre of my body; That screams That shout That feels That makes me more humane towards perspective. Towards change Towards voice Towards life. Let me be me.
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Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 2:02 PM UTC
Me
Alexander K Opicho (Eldret, Kenya;[email protected]) Do you remember one era in Kenya? During the dark days of dictatorship When Daniel arap Moi Was the tyrannical president of Kenya And darkness of leadership Loomed like the dark clouds of el Niño When forty district commissioners Out of the total of forty two were kalenjins? Whose main work was to spy and terrorize As the people forlornly groaned under the heavy Yoke of state terror of tribal torment When the president claims that He was not aware of such tyranny, When we used to sing a lame poem Of jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo! On empty stomachs with no hope of food No hope of jobs or even education Street children swelling on the street In total political nonchalance of arap Moi As he only gave free milk to his own kalenjin youths In Kabaraka schools, the Kabaraka school which was Overfunded by the poor tax payers money, Please President Uhuru Kenyatta as good as you are With your dear humane heart of Bantu conscience As you are armed to teeth with modern education **** sapiens Gentility and polished diplomacy Superb in quality of thought and supremacy of choices The government of Kenya is yours and the people of Kenya Are your political darlings, true bandwagons for ever Kindly listen and buy my poemetics, my dear president Remove Daniel Moi from the state house of Kenya, Let not Daniel Moi be your adviser Ignore him and embrace Kenyans For common future happiness Even if Daniel Moi is old, the truth is different He is not a good man, he is full of Machiavelli His full badness is measured in absurdity Of terribly and horrendously crashed *** crushed Testicles of poemcrats and political leaders Of Kenya of yore and today, Truth meted in When koigi wa wamwere became A permanent staff of kamiti maximum prison without pension Wangari Mathai beaten like an animal in a hunters trap Ngugi wa Thiong’o jobless and detained without trial Raila Amolo odinga’s testicles went missing He looks for them on daily circadian But once he nears their political pigeonhole Then elections of the times flops, O! Poor Odinga! President Uhuru Kenyatta with your suave intellect You won’t get a pretext to say that I was not aware or not informed Please dear darling of the people The people of Kenya in their 42 tribes Novate Moi with the people And your legacy will smile.
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 8:59 AM UTC
40 KALENJIN DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS OUT OF 42
Alexander K Opicho (Eldret, Kenya;[email protected]) Do you remember one era in Kenya? During the dark days of dictatorship When Daniel arap Moi Was the tyrannical president of Kenya And darkness of leadership Loomed like the dark clouds of el Niño When forty district commissioners Out of the total of forty two were kalenjins? Whose main work was to spy and terrorize As the people forlornly groaned under the heavy Yoke of state terror of tribal torment When the president claims that He was not aware of such tyranny, When we used to sing a lame poem Of jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo! Jokoo! On empty stomachs with no hope of food No hope of jobs or even education Street children swelling on the street In total political nonchalance of arap Moi As he only gave free milk to his own kalenjin youths In Kabaraka schools, the Kabaraka school which was Overfunded by the poor tax payers money, Please President Uhuru Kenyatta as good as you are With your dear humane heart of Bantu conscience As you are armed to teeth with modern education **** sapiens Gentility and polished diplomacy Superb in quality of thought and supremacy of choices The government of Kenya is yours and the people of Kenya Are your political darlings, true bandwagons for ever Kindly listen and buy my poemetics, my dear president Remove Daniel Moi from the state house of Kenya, Let not Daniel Moi be your adviser Ignore him and embrace Kenyans For common future happiness Even if Daniel Moi is old, the truth is different He is not a good man, he is full of Machiavelli His full badness is measured in absurdity Of terribly and horrendously crashed *** crushed Testicles of poemcrats and political leaders Of Kenya of yore and today, Truth meted in When koigi wa wamwere became A permanent staff of kamiti maximum prison without pension Wangari Mathai beaten like an animal in a hunters trap Ngugi wa Thiong’o jobless and detained without trial Raila Amolo odinga’s testicles went missing He looks for them on daily circadian But once he nears their political pigeonhole Then elections of the times flops, O! Poor Odinga! President Uhuru Kenyatta with your suave intellect You won’t get a pretext to say that I was not aware or not informed Please dear darling of the people The people of Kenya in their 42 tribes Novate Moi with the people And your legacy will smile.
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Confessions of a Blessed Hedonist.( tri word line)     -1-                                                                    -3- Lived this long,                                                 what makes change? Time just flew,                                                   a metamorphosis divine? Mind playing games                                        worms to butterflies, Heart desiring ever.                                           saviors, angels, messiahs? extreme cravings doused.                                 what makes humane, opiates in zillions,                                               friends, lovers, brothers? Cocktails, a million.                                           Destinies unknown working, Endless revelries futile,                                       in times unconscious, Loves instant, genuine.                                       drunken slumbers dead, Clean beds crumpled,                                         uncaring deeds cruel, Checkouts late rewarded.                                   Unmanly acts shameful. -2-                                                                           -4- Friends dear betrayed,                                         maybe one dream, Away bartered loves.                                           among nightmares plenty, Much monies made,                                            that one love-germ, Abandoned ethics many.                                    under in-differences heaped, Gods all rejected,                                                  faint glimmering self, Except the Hedonistic!                                         beneath mountainous egos, World enjoyed fully,                                             a sparkling life-sign, Life wasted lovely.                                                 in cemeteries silent. Morphing every second,                                       causes matter not,       Into grandiose nothing,                                         by destiny’s graces, Skeleton cynical final.                                           gratefully unscathed still.
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 12:42 AM UTC
Confessions of A Blessed Hedonist-part 1.
Confessions of a Blessed Hedonist.( tri word line)     -1-                                                                    -3- Lived this long,                                                 what makes change? Time just flew,                                                   a metamorphosis divine? Mind playing games                                        worms to butterflies, Heart desiring ever.                                           saviors, angels, messiahs? extreme cravings doused.                                 what makes humane, opiates in zillions,                                               friends, lovers, brothers? Cocktails, a million.                                           Destinies unknown working, Endless revelries futile,                                       in times unconscious, Loves instant, genuine.                                       drunken slumbers dead, Clean beds crumpled,                                         uncaring deeds cruel, Checkouts late rewarded.                                   Unmanly acts shameful. -2-                                                                           -4- Friends dear betrayed,                                         maybe one dream, Away bartered loves.                                           among nightmares plenty, Much monies made,                                            that one love-germ, Abandoned ethics many.                                    under in-differences heaped, Gods all rejected,                                                  faint glimmering self, Except the Hedonistic!                                         beneath mountainous egos, World enjoyed fully,                                             a sparkling life-sign, Life wasted lovely.                                                 in cemeteries silent. Morphing every second,                                       causes matter not,       Into grandiose nothing,                                         by destiny’s graces, Skeleton cynical final.                                           gratefully unscathed still.
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Mirror, mirror Said the queen Self-conscious, Not wanting to be seen Mirror, mirror Every day Urging wrinkles Not to stay Mirror, mirror She was taught If she was ugly She was naught Mirror, mirror She cannot feel Emotions ruin Her appeal Mirror, mirror She feels dead To the husband In her bed Mirror, mirror Her heart is failing Her lungs are gasping Her kidneys wailing Mirror, mirror The doctor said She has a growth In her head Mirror, mirror She cannot stand But she's still the most Beautiful in the land Mirror, mirror But not anymore Her place taken By the child of a ***** Mirror, mirror She needs a heart The child has one There's a start Mirror, mirror She's in so much pain She doesn't know How to be humane Mirror, mirror The child is dead The heart is weak But she has fed Mirror, mirror The heart has failed There is no other That ship has sailed Mirror, mirror She is desperate to live She finds a corrupt magicker And gives all she can give Mirror, mirror She feeds on death Each soul she takes Lies in every breath Mirror, mirror She carves words in her skin EVIL, VAMPYR DEMON, SIN Mirror, mirror She moans in the night Her husband sleeps in a separate bed Yet still quakes in fright Mirror, mirror The child is not dead All the lives she has taken When she could have taken one instead Mirror, mirror Look at her now Twisted and broken Macabre magick on her brow Mirror, mirror The child must pay Perhaps her soul will be redeemed It is the only way
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 12:40 PM UTC
The Queen