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"inflamed" poems
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
why eye drink the vin in vignette (for all the better poets here)
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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it ain't easy, when you relate, restrict and delegate, when you draw a narrow lane on a highway that says only left footed poets need apply <> it does not say **slow cars stay to the right, only trucks, or oddly even, no trucks** I love seasonality, without thickly thinking you take a break from the poetry writing one day I'll figure out a way to monetize my love poems, publish them as Shakespeare's couple(t)s, "new edition plus a couple of newfound poems!" maybe some fools will buy some thinking Shakespeare has been, resurrected! *love grows goes hot all over and grow slower older and grow colder, in between those fine ticklish teasing moments* when the miracle of resurrection repeats itself something is said a gesture is made a finger strokes the cheek, unexpected and it all comes rushing back again, overfilling that coffee cup mug she bought just(ice) for you *ain't gonna check how long it's been since last I declaimed, disclaimed, inflamed, these pages with an only love poem but I do know this: it is something I think about, It is something I know about, it is something I feel about daily even on the nothing days, when routine takes over I know you couldn't remember of its passage, is the waking up and the lying down to sleep* but the poets eyes are always open his emotive secret senses, always alert, what's that thing they always say, his heart just wasn't in it! (🥴if they only knew the truth😘)
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Jun 25, 2025
Jun 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM UTC
when love grows old
Last week, among friends black and white, among some discussion of protests in Ferguson and the related looting of stores, I invoked the word. It was an admission, in a round of confessions, of something about myself that I didn't like: that I had perceived Michael Brown in that way based on his possible participation in a strong-armed robbery. When Travon Martin was in the news, I was inflamed like many others who wanted George Zimmerman in jail for ****** The outcome of that trial was an injustice, I was utterly certain. Why does this case in Missouri feel different? More importantly, Who is inside me that still wants to rise in defiance of 48 years of learning how to be a better person, a person without prejudices, stereotyping, labeling of others, hurtful language? Where is the hippie girl now? How does she live with this other person? Am I Sterling, Gibson, a hater and spewer of viciousness, a lover of separation and separateness, that I should invite damage to my own relationships with those I love and cherish and respect? What is a **** but a bully, and what is a bully but someone who pushes words around like weapons, spits them out indiscriminately, so that they land on the already bruised heart and set it on fire. Whose heart, besides mine, now sits in smoke and ash, with that word like a brand still sore and permanent, having been spoken aloud?
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 11:44 AM UTC
****
You may call me a Snowflake,         But I will not melt. You may call me a Snowflake,         But we will blanket the ground You may call me a Snowflake         But my fist will remain         In the air, emboldened         And Inflamed You may call me a Snowflake, But my chapped lips will Breathe Warm Winter air You may call me a Snowflake,      But remember              you are nothing but an old tin can      Rusting away in the cold of              Our Snowflake sand              for we are everywhere you will stand You may call me a Snowflake, Cause I will be back again         And again and again         Waiting here on the ground         For you to come join me         under this blanket And be a friend.
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018 at 2:46 AM UTC
Call Me Snowflake
Sunshine! Sickly yellow slow-light colored streaks slithering worse than sweat down my body. That golden ball stares down at me like a haughty goddess, her duality shallow and hot. She cares not for the freedoms of humans. She's a two-faced coin, purgatory masked by the promise of freedom from pained brains and scholarly shackles. The sun laughs at her own trickery, gargling through melting teeth as she collects suppressed confessions from weakened teens. When her crescent counterpart offers solace from her torment, the moonlit darkness only serves to drown us and we splutter in our own self-taught year-round lies. And the sun rears her tattered, flaming mane at daybreak, belly-laughing at idle minds now unrefined, gleefully adding her own scorch to already inflamed brains.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 8:24 PM UTC
Idle Summer
A girl stood before me at the supermarket a few random items littered her basket pink socks poked out from her sneakers they were covered with little creatures an inch of flesh stood between those ankle high socks and her jeans. Nice socks I exclaimed! she turned around inflamed looked at me and said I have a boyfriend her face now red. Are they his I asked? her face broke into a laugh *sorry I got so defensive guys make me apprehensive I don't really have a boyfriend sometimes I just like to pretend.* *I know how you feel I replied in embarrassment I've often lied and whenever I'm struck by beauty of someone new I meet I can't look directly at them I look towards their feet.*
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Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 at 8:31 PM UTC
Nice Socks
I see you there on your white sand beach, in your little tight bikini. Looking like a creamy white treat. Infidel ***** Exposed skin men all ogling your body, with eyes like hands! How would you like me to take off my clothes in front of you! Touch your body, and kiss your lips! Then you would see the effect you Infidel Flaunting Sexuality! Your curvaceous body, coated in sweat from the inflamed sun. My blood boils thinking of you! I am going to **** you American! Put my tongue in your mouth, kiss you! Like you do in your pervert mind. Your naughty fantasy of naked man, kissing you on a sunny beach, tropical drink in one hand, other hand rubbing and probing my body! Infidel ***** Laying there, so **** you make me crazy! Your passion *** will burn in sinful fires, and Allah will pass judgement on your *** I will **** you, for punishment to your Infidel Flaunting Sexuality, ******* glistening, lips red as the drink you drink. Infidel *****
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Jul 29, 2012
Jul 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM UTC
Infidel Flaunting Sexuality!
Watching the Sunset Alone, Like watching my dreams gone wrong.. Gone wrong for you’re not here, Not here with me, I’m liked in the sphere... That sphere preventing me to be with you, To be with you is all I wanna do... Watching the Sunset Alone is never gonna be the same, The same when you’re with me, we’re both inflamed... Inflamed of our desires and passion, Without you all of this is like an illusion... Watching the Sunset Alone is like my heart is in mourn, Heart is been pounded and torn... Torn in two, But what can I do?? What I’m really trying to say is... I’m nothing without you mahal ko... I’m incomplete and I’m not me Without here with me... Like the Sunset is not complete without: * The horizon were the sun sets * The clouds, giving the color and effects * The mountain, making it more dramatic * YOU.... * Who makes me complete and the one who puts me in the zone... Missing you so so badly.. Wishing you are with me...
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Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 6:52 AM UTC
The Sunset
I’m just a fading echo of my younger self, an empty shadow who performs a preordained ballet with a broken leg red and inflamed. I’m just a broken ceramic figurine that is beautiful but barely seen and seldom appreciated for the quality I bring. I’m just a Poe and Van Gogh tragic romantic poet longing to connect to world that forgets its humanity constantly. I’m just tired.
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 9:24 AM UTC
Untitled 0.
the rat ******* has been re-purposed (conscripted in a somewhat fodder task) brandishing irons and quarter lines coiled and unwavering insidious and cunning pent up and fired in  his dripping shoes and peel back skin wheel bug and hookworm are stolid in his wake (all bursting grossly at the buckle!) the heel on task; slithering and rogue merciless and coy resolute and contemptuous with his cotton mat and quick ready quill pungi and clapper raise the clever snake (croker sacks and wicker backs dot the gasoline rainbow) carnival barkers and kraken (lewd in the distance) taunting and vile with their red beakers and deep purple hearts cicada and louse high on alert (ready to wreak havoc in the hog wallows) the perverse cornered rat snapping and soiled foaming and inflamed lurking and primed inside his carefully crafted plan easels and cover alls suit this jackal well (keefer’s little helper or so they'd say) pickers running rough shod all stirring up the stench ***** and conkeys poised and ready to lime this cornered slug
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May 4, 2017
May 4, 2017 at 10:57 PM UTC
Rat *******
Violin sonatas of gloom Acoustics of desire Play all at once A peculiar compilation An elegy of sorts For yours truly Welcome to life Soak up the unrealised potential Inflamed with rage To this day You walk this earth With a strong conviction You owe yourself something You cannot deliver Extreme self-expectations Coupled with perfectionism The fatal modus operandi You continue adhering to Goodluck with standing in the way Of your own happiness Thrive in your concentrated negativity While seeking solace in one-liners Of absolute ******** You maybe a joke But you are hilarious Oh, wait.. the joke wore thin A dozen punchlines ago You died 12 summers ago It’s whatever One day bitter and wilted As you sit in a cold impersonal office You will dream about the ocean And mourn wasted youth Today will be yesterday Today is ruined Tomorrow is dead.
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 5:35 PM UTC
Outlook
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Sep 8, 2012
Sep 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM UTC
Humming-Bird Tongues, Teasing Nectar From A Titan
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before dark-fall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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the cold enfolds fingers and soul with a freeze that makes trees scream as winds of loneliness sting eyes like a gut inflamed with poisoned thorns more time slips pass and less joy comes forth and the yearnings overflow as timid fingers ache for a hand to grasp, for a chance to hope for more true love lies deep and only body heat from a fellow man can thaw; thus, trust dwindles in the act of giving up much for a love that cannot touch, this distress contrives tired romantic traumas which decimate a heart and so sadness buries a lonely soul while quiet snow fall frames the tomb joy delights in shared body warmth of restless minds on dreamy nights, joy well-wrought craves close companions' unbridled streams of thought
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Nov 23, 2010
Nov 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM UTC
Companionship
If reached beside the pearly cradled rose therein a rattling joy; o' stillborn child. What uttered mine - unsaid angelic prose, should passing lay my husk and essence wild? Awaiting yonder womb were tepid wings; inflamed with bonding warmth of kinship love, like softly feathered pads and rocking swings then ardent glows, as seen and known above. The wailing babe is music sung and sought, for more a sleepless dusk - had since apart. For eyes which never opened wide were wrought and taken here and strolled in golden cart. Should words in amber fail and infant pine, behold the spectrums soul, the same as mine.
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 2:50 PM UTC
The Pearly Cradle (Sonnet)
sword-shaped wild iris leaves pierce the meadow sod, reaching outwards from cold reclusive shelter beneath native strawberry carpeted  repose juxtaposed  ―  smoke rises to  the  sun like the basal verdures of fleeting winter's escape; crawling up an invisible spiral staircase seeking the azure heavens r e n a s c e n c e a  nexus ― stormy winter’s windfall and,   irony of a wooden match, gathered winter tinder inflamed,   sacrificed to the heraldic spring skies of the begetter; just  like the  wistful  soul beheld a simple  man that impatiently rests on the threshold    of a dream,.. unnoticed by the billowing silence of evanescent winter exile: daydreaming a peaceful ascendance; dissipating puffs of smoke drifting  away unto the ether, weightless as light harlon rivers ... spring 1st, 2018
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 1:07 PM UTC
wild iris
written December 24, 2014 "As I walked inside the flood of memories came pouring down into the deep depths of my empty stomach And my heart dropped down with them, when I first saw you Feeble, exhausted, and glued to your bed Throat so inflamed that barely any words were said Wishing things were different, but there's nothing we can do Besides sit and watch a movie together, inside the hospital room When you caressed my hand, I felt it straight in my heart Like a pathway to my happiness, you are the start Our time was cut short, and I had to say goodbye Our hands fell from our intertwine, to our sides as I looked you in the eyes for this last time And said, 'bye' But don't worry my love, I'll be back soon And I promise I love you from the ground to the moon (and back)"
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
Hospital Visit
"you are so strong" my eyes stared into nothing, burning with the absence of tears. i knew there would be a point where i could not cry anymore. what was everyone seeing? because all i felt was weakness, pain, emptiness. my exterior was bruised and beaten but only inside could i feel the effects. i was not strong i was fragile, scared, and vulnerable. frustrated by words of praise i sank deeper into my delusions, and perfected my 'brave face'. i was not strong i was struggling. listening to the vital carts wheel in and out, my door never a separation but a portal to demons wielding gurneys, needles, charts and machines. i was restless in my immobility. i was not strong i was numb. calling for my mother at 4:00 am she carried my weight, she held my hand, she washed my hair, she changed my clothes, she slept, barely, at my feet. i was not strong my mother was. days piled on; hours lost in isolation maddening my mind and diminishing my willpower. with every test, measurement, and procedure i felt helplessness swallow the living light in me. still, i complied, i waited, i did what was asked. i was not strong i was a quiet fire. looking at my damaged body, examining my inflamed veins. my face was swollen, my hair matted. i shook in my skin disassociating my identity. i was not my condition i was not my self disgust. i can not say that i feel better just different, which is neither positive or negative. reflecting on 10 days as a ghost getting acquainted with myself, filling in the blanks. i was not strong i was surviving.
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 10:49 PM UTC
surviving
"you are so strong" my eyes stared into nothing, burning with the absence of tears. i knew there would be a point where i could not cry anymore. what was everyone seeing? because all i felt was weakness, pain, emptiness. my exterior was bruised and beaten but only inside could i feel the effects. i was not strong i was fragile, scared, and vulnerable. frustrated by words of praise i sank deeper into my delusions, and perfected my 'brave face'. i was not strong i was struggling. listening to the vital carts wheel in and out, my door never a separation but a portal to demons wielding gurneys, needles, charts and machines. i was restless in my immobility. i was not strong i was numb. calling for my mother at 4:00 am she carried my weight, she held my hand, she washed my hair, she changed my clothes, she slept, barely, at my feet. i was not strong my mother was. days piled on; hours lost in isolation maddening my mind and diminishing my willpower. with every test, measurement, and procedure i felt helplessness swallow the living light in me. still, i complied, i waited, i did what was asked. i was not strong i was a quiet fire. looking at my damaged body, examining my inflamed veins. my face was swollen, my hair matted. i shook in my skin disassociating my identity. i was not my condition i was not my self disgust. i can not say that i feel better just different, which is neither positive or negative. reflecting on 10 days as a ghost getting acquainted with myself, filling in the blanks. i was not strong i was surviving.
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His dreams are told through the eyes of an honest liar and those eyes are black like respiratory failure and sleep paralysis, his passions are inflamed in monochrome and cream his nights are longer than evenings in August, the sheets cling like the arms of a past love, and he feels as though he is drowning in pools framed with lashes.
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 8:57 AM UTC
Elegy In Sleep
And I run, I run so far away; from the pain and the decisions you've forced on my fragile mind, From the agony of realizing every second I spent blind to your lies, and your love, and your useless promises. To your empty dreams your late night wishes. Future turned into a past tense verb moved by your lack of motion, momentum created from my spontaneous combustion in love Inflamed infatuated with your hollow charm, and your flawless game. The desire to tame, an nothing more. Though, I became the ***** who took it all and shouldered the Burdon of your wasted potential. And buried the belief that ideservedmore than what you gave me. What I got, the empty handful of ashes. pain/fear/freedom paid in full
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 3:56 PM UTC
Supply and Demand
Spanish La luna es pálida y triste, la luna es exangüe y yerta. La media luna figúraseme un suave perfil de muerta… Yo que prefiero a la insigne palidez encarecida De todas las perlas árabes, la rosa recién abierta, En un rincón del terruño con el color de la vida, Adoro esa luna pálida, adoro esa faz de muerta! Y en el altar de las noches, como una flor encendida Y ebria de extraños perfumes, mi alma la inciensa rendida. Yo sé de labios marchitos en la blasfemia y el vino, Que besan tras de la orgia sus huellas en el camino; Locos que mueren besando su imagen en lagos yertos… Porque ella es luz de inocencia, porque a esa luz misteriosa Alumbran las cosas blancas, se ponen blancas las cosas, Y hasta las almas más negras toman clarores inciertos! English The moon is pallid and sad, the moon is bloodless and cold. I imagine the half-moon as a profile of the dead… And beyond the reknowned and praised pallor Of Arab pearls, I prefer the rose in recent bud. In a corner of this land with the colors of earth, I adore this pale moon, I adore this death mask! And at the altar of the night, like a flower inflamed, Inebriated by strange perfumes, my soul resigns. I know of lips withered with blasphemy and wine; After an **** they kiss her trace in the lane. Insane ones who die kissing her image in lakes… Because she is light of innocence, because white things Illuminate her mysterious light, things taking on white, And even the blackest souls become uncertainly bright.
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Al Claro De Luna (In The Light Of The Moon)
Spanish La luna es pálida y triste, la luna es exangüe y yerta. La media luna figúraseme un suave perfil de muerta… Yo que prefiero a la insigne palidez encarecida De todas las perlas árabes, la rosa recién abierta, En un rincón del terruño con el color de la vida, Adoro esa luna pálida, adoro esa faz de muerta! Y en el altar de las noches, como una flor encendida Y ebria de extraños perfumes, mi alma la inciensa rendida. Yo sé de labios marchitos en la blasfemia y el vino, Que besan tras de la orgia sus huellas en el camino; Locos que mueren besando su imagen en lagos yertos… Porque ella es luz de inocencia, porque a esa luz misteriosa Alumbran las cosas blancas, se ponen blancas las cosas, Y hasta las almas más negras toman clarores inciertos! English The moon is pallid and sad, the moon is bloodless and cold. I imagine the half-moon as a profile of the dead… And beyond the reknowned and praised pallor Of Arab pearls, I prefer the rose in recent bud. In a corner of this land with the colors of earth, I adore this pale moon, I adore this death mask! And at the altar of the night, like a flower inflamed, Inebriated by strange perfumes, my soul resigns. I know of lips withered with blasphemy and wine; After an **** they kiss her trace in the lane. Insane ones who die kissing her image in lakes… Because she is light of innocence, because white things Illuminate her mysterious light, things taking on white, And even the blackest souls become uncertainly bright.
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In a long happy marriage Sometimes bedtime grows stale Once toe curling *** fades As libidos doth fail. We both have tough jobs And two kids of our own. Sad, we both want to sleep When we’re finally alone The man at the store Said “I have just the thing. You really should try it- makes your *** life take wing!” It wasn’t a **** flick Or a blue pill to swallow, Just a tiny transmitter to hide in her pillow. At night, as she slept, The salesman explained My subliminal message would be fed to her brain. With her passions inflamed She would turn to her mate Like the once nubile bride- Leave the rest up to fate. So I made a recording With a saucy suggestion Then looked forward to bedtime hoping for the res-errection. My bride’s a deep sleeper, (A good thing since I snore) The tape’s played two weeks now And I still haven’t scored. I completely was baffled That salesman assured That no “wood” would go wasted No ***** ignored. Instead every night About two thirty nine I’d slip off to the bath Where the “beat” would go on I resolved to return The unhelpful device Before the guarantee ended And I’d be out the price Imagine my shock, imagine my dread When I found the transmitter in my pillow instead! Seems my wife had decided To play with my head: “Honey, go f8ck yourself, If you wake me, you’re dead.”
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM UTC
Subliminal
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before darkfall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 5:51 PM UTC
as delicate as humming-bird tongues, teasing nectar from a titan
the grass, leaning in the south wind , seeming               as if emeralds,   had sent tendrils up               to suckle at the yellow breast, now,   high above     inflamed....               over soft new               grass                              like               strands of green gemstone,               as delicate as humming-bird tongues               teasing nectar               from a titan,               in the sky                                        triumphant in the void,               a golden bead in the baffling blue !               cattails, curling in sway...and two brown eyes bob upon the surface                           of a myriad fertilities.               as if                         nature itself had known, one day                        a poet would come ~               to roam the rambling renascence of these remote ramparts                      in awesome humility ~ and so prepared               a path afflux                 that ambled near               and yes !               an                         anonymous nomad               with nicotine skin and a scabbard of scandalous quills               would indeed               stumble in      as if returning home               to a mansion restored to glory               and seraphic randomness....               a place               that in youth, sustained a quiet, soulful troubadour               by gospels of granite and grain,  grass finch               and faun - ennobling an oracle ... but now               enticed a scholar  from his cot               to jot ephemera               of outlasting spark               before darkfall                        and so... there               amid all allurement   and soft machines               a word-smith gathered               poesy and prose.                            muse-driven               this one served               an invisible               sovereign                            one                 of unsurpassed virility               who charms       kaleidoscopes               with  offhand sketches                   rescued               from               a landfill                            a basket weaver,                 that unravels to               achieve pure               forms                            a wineskin was decanted in dianthus and hollies -               as ampules of anagrams               were sold unscrambled, to dyslexics               without hope                            a falcon   frolicked above the lowborn lilies...                              with eyes                 too keen               to see a               blur               as the hand               of god                            or a vole                            as a lifeline               on his               palm.
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The night was passing, and the Grecian host By no means sought to issue forth unseen. But when indeed the day with her white steeds Held all the earth, resplendent to behold, First from the Greeks the loud-resounding din Of song triumphant came; and shrill at once Echo responded from the island rock. Then upon all barbarians terror fell, Thus disappointed; for not as for flight The Hellenes sang the holy pæan then, But setting forth to battle valiantly. The bugle with its note inflamed them all; And straightway with the dip of plashing oars They smote the deep sea water at command, And quickly all were plainly to be seen. Their right wing first in orderly array Led on, and second all the armament Followed them forth; and meanwhile there was heard A mighty shout: "Come, O ye sons of Greeks, Make free your country, make your children free, Your wives, and fanes of your ancestral gods, And your sires' tombs! For all we now contend!" And from our side the rush of Persian speech Replied. No longer might the crisis wait. At once ship smote on ship with brazen beak; A vessel of the Greeks began the attack, Crushing the stem of a Phoenician ship. Each on a different vessel turned its prow. At first the current of the Persian host Withstood; but when within the strait the throng Of ships was gathered, and they could not aid Each other, but by their own brazen bows Were struck, they shattered all our naval host. The Grecian vessels not unskillfully Were smiting round about; the hulls of ships Were overset; the sea was hid from sight, Covered with wreckage and the death of men; The reefs and headlands were with corpses filled, And in disordered flight each ship was rowed, As many as were of the Persian host. But they, like tunnies or some shoal of fish, With broken oars and fragments of the wrecks Struck us and clove us; and at once a cry Of lamentation filled the briny sea, Till the black darkness' eye did rescue us. The number of our griefs, not though ten days I talked together, could I fully tell; But this know well, that never in one day Perished so great a multitude of men.
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The Battle Of Salamis
The night was passing, and the Grecian host By no means sought to issue forth unseen. But when indeed the day with her white steeds Held all the earth, resplendent to behold, First from the Greeks the loud-resounding din Of song triumphant came; and shrill at once Echo responded from the island rock. Then upon all barbarians terror fell, Thus disappointed; for not as for flight The Hellenes sang the holy pæan then, But setting forth to battle valiantly. The bugle with its note inflamed them all; And straightway with the dip of plashing oars They smote the deep sea water at command, And quickly all were plainly to be seen. Their right wing first in orderly array Led on, and second all the armament Followed them forth; and meanwhile there was heard A mighty shout: "Come, O ye sons of Greeks, Make free your country, make your children free, Your wives, and fanes of your ancestral gods, And your sires' tombs! For all we now contend!" And from our side the rush of Persian speech Replied. No longer might the crisis wait. At once ship smote on ship with brazen beak; A vessel of the Greeks began the attack, Crushing the stem of a Phoenician ship. Each on a different vessel turned its prow. At first the current of the Persian host Withstood; but when within the strait the throng Of ships was gathered, and they could not aid Each other, but by their own brazen bows Were struck, they shattered all our naval host. The Grecian vessels not unskillfully Were smiting round about; the hulls of ships Were overset; the sea was hid from sight, Covered with wreckage and the death of men; The reefs and headlands were with corpses filled, And in disordered flight each ship was rowed, As many as were of the Persian host. But they, like tunnies or some shoal of fish, With broken oars and fragments of the wrecks Struck us and clove us; and at once a cry Of lamentation filled the briny sea, Till the black darkness' eye did rescue us. The number of our griefs, not though ten days I talked together, could I fully tell; But this know well, that never in one day Perished so great a multitude of men.
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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling. No faint and hesitating trill, Such tribute as to winter chill The lonely redbreast pays! Clear, loud, and lively is the din, From social warblers gathering in Their harvest of sweet lays. Nor doth the example fail to cheer Me, conscious that my leaf is sere, And yellow on the bough:— Fall, rosy garlands, from my head! Ye myrtle wreaths, your fragrance shed Around a younger brow! Yet will I temperately rejoice; Wide is the range, and free the choice Of undiscordant themes; Which, haply, kindred souls may prize Not less than vernal ecstasies, And passion’s feverish dreams. For deathless powers to verse belong, And they like Demi-gods are strong On whom the Muses smile; But some their function have disclaimed, Best pleased with what is aptliest framed To enervate and defile. Not such the initiatory strains Committed to the silent plains In Britain’s earliest dawn: Trembled the groves, the stars grew pale, While all-too-daringly the veil Of nature was withdrawn! Nor such the spirit-stirring note When the live chords Alcæus smote, Inflamed by sense of wrong; Woe! woe to Tyrants! from the lyre Broke threateningly, in sparkles dire Of fierce vindictive song. And not unhallowed was the page By wingèd Love inscribed, to assuage The pangs of vain pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own æolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of poesy; a bursting forth Of genius from the dust: What Horace gloried to behold, What Maro loved, shall we enfold? Can haughty Time be just!
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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling. No faint and hesitating trill, Such tribute as to winter chill The lonely redbreast pays! Clear, loud, and lively is the din, From social warblers gathering in Their harvest of sweet lays. Nor doth the example fail to cheer Me, conscious that my leaf is sere, And yellow on the bough:— Fall, rosy garlands, from my head! Ye myrtle wreaths, your fragrance shed Around a younger brow! Yet will I temperately rejoice; Wide is the range, and free the choice Of undiscordant themes; Which, haply, kindred souls may prize Not less than vernal ecstasies, And passion’s feverish dreams. For deathless powers to verse belong, And they like Demi-gods are strong On whom the Muses smile; But some their function have disclaimed, Best pleased with what is aptliest framed To enervate and defile. Not such the initiatory strains Committed to the silent plains In Britain’s earliest dawn: Trembled the groves, the stars grew pale, While all-too-daringly the veil Of nature was withdrawn! Nor such the spirit-stirring note When the live chords Alcæus smote, Inflamed by sense of wrong; Woe! woe to Tyrants! from the lyre Broke threateningly, in sparkles dire Of fierce vindictive song. And not unhallowed was the page By wingèd Love inscribed, to assuage The pangs of vain pursuit; Love listening while the Lesbian Maid With finest touch of passion swayed Her own æolian lute. O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted scroll Of pure Simonides. That were, indeed, a genuine birth Of poesy; a bursting forth Of genius from the dust: What Horace gloried to behold, What Maro loved, shall we enfold? Can haughty Time be just!
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