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"inflaming" poems
In lonely moments I stroll the waning memories when love pure smiled blissfully deep within a fawning heart a wistful melody arises untainted like a steaming enslaved passion                          breathlessly released                               unrestrained,..                                    evident                     as the pressed and dried flowers           cuddled between life's ardent petaled pages,                          bookmarks of the heart                          traces of the wild bouquets                          that often soothingly caress’d                          the energizing tingles                            inflaming a tantalizing touch                          the yearning  empty voids                          feverishly undressed,                          traced in the hidden sands                          of unexplored oceans..                                                   though time and distance make the bereft heart grow helplessly fonder, memories fade softly as the summer breeze befalls,                             as gentle feather’d touch                          the evanescent sunset afterglow                          where the earth and sky align                          the dimming of the day          loving can heal the poet’s bleeding words, loving can mend your soul ―                          the perennial dawning of an                          unpromised new day                          will someday come again         bequeathed like the bluebird’s mirthful song to bring forth nascent wild flowers’ blossoming petals               flourishing in the meadow of my heart                  Someone you used to know
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Mar 1, 2017
Mar 1, 2017 at 7:48 PM UTC
In the meadow of my heart
In lonely moments I stroll the waning memories when love pure smiled blissfully deep within a fawning heart a wistful melody arises untainted like a steaming enslaved passion                          breathlessly released                               unrestrained,..                                    evident                     as the pressed and dried flowers           cuddled between life's ardent petaled pages,                          bookmarks of the heart                          traces of the wild bouquets                          that often soothingly caress’d                          the energizing tingles                            inflaming a tantalizing touch                          the yearning  empty voids                          feverishly undressed,                          traced in the hidden sands                          of unexplored oceans..                                                   though time and distance make the bereft heart grow helplessly fonder, memories fade softly as the summer breeze befalls,                             as gentle feather’d touch                          the evanescent sunset afterglow                          where the earth and sky align                          the dimming of the day          loving can heal the poet’s bleeding words, loving can mend your soul ―                          the perennial dawning of an                          unpromised new day                          will someday come again         bequeathed like the bluebird’s mirthful song to bring forth nascent wild flowers’ blossoming petals               flourishing in the meadow of my heart                  Someone you used to know
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Anxious-laughter afternoon moonlight shadow is still very vague, a long-silent mourn, quiet sorroundings. Pale-Blue sky, overlaping highly with a vast mantle of clouds. Pale-blue sky, inflaming my temperament with your mournful sounds. Crystal, moment of sweet delight. Languidly, as I smile, I see her take off.
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Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 12:56 AM UTC
Pale-Blue Sky
she gave me her cell #, in a crowded bar inked upon my forearm, "in case in my drunkness, I dare forget," a common come-on technique, that reeks of all good things to come but I failed to see, in the little letters, "@ your own peril" a warning, poorly heeded, inflaming my now unimaginable needy neededs, just a **** come on, or a warring warning of tumult, vampirish blood ******* with cautious haste, her number I did paste into my contact list, 'in case of loss, call,' when sudden notifications galore, came unbidden from everywhere: Are you really sure? these digits seems were posted on a Do Not Call list, maintained by monks and bro's, no, no, not a list of what-rhymes-with-bro's, but of fallen angels, who knew the secrets of heaven the price extracted for their revealing, could cause you life long arthritis of the heart, per the Surgeon General, for which the only cure, endure, endure, endure... the prize? endless wonderful new poems, freely given, but with one strictest of restrictions, if published, it meant your slow extinction! *that is why the world calls me Poet of the Way, forever trying to find a way, to away these treasured glories* then one day, he laughed and laughed, when he first he read the magic key, your poem, successfully saved *on Hello Poetry!* and now the poet endures, even possibly, self-saved, quite happily
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Sep 4, 2017
Sep 4, 2017 at 7:30 AM UTC
she gave me her cell #
☺☻╬☻ Finish the crackers --- grab a smoke . . . of Ferguson my muse will sing. A call to arms --- God’s fires to stoke; let Truth and Freedom ring! Take to the streets; avenge this wrong and hasten the end of racist rule. Justice, though it may tarry long will find its target in the duel. Young Michael Brown, like all true saints found himself craving Swisher Sweets. He robbed a store, whose camera paints impartial portrait. In the streets the thief refused to be detained and so threw off police restraint. Though sin escaped, the Law remained and made a martyr of this saint. The agitators did their thing: inflaming thugs to smash and loot, while racists baited hooks, to string the press. Officials followed suit. Angels, although not always kind, do not display this attitude – aware of how the police mind responds to such ingratitude. We ought to thank the police force for showing mercy under stress. The culprit chose a foolish course and made a God-awful mess. Prince Michael met ignoble fate (that ghetto-Christ, that righteous youth) His sacrifice in vain --- though great, could not impede the march of Truth. Ferguson, our eyes turn towards you . . . are you now able to admit while reality rewards you that looting and lying ain’t ****
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 5:43 PM UTC
Hands Up, Ferguson
Boundless dusk above forsaken intuitions Stones with ancient seeds Yet the roots can breathe The earthly exuberance                                                                               The naked secret of our song That manipulates my tounge Redden from you and I The contact of our lips Simulating my hunger for your groin The nerves of my vertebrates  harbor your weight As my breast shudder from your touch Primal delicious desires I thirst for  the fluids of your flesh With nurture and greed I moisten your fingers Help you find my sensitive  pearl Relishing the trail of the garden of youth Primal delicious desires explode in need Delicate softness of my mystical place Lifting my body with much response As my fingers dance, pinch and **** at my peaks Repeatedly as you   ****** me I gasp and beg for your caress I shudder as I chase my wave Reaching as I whimper into a ****** Simulating my hunger for your groin Inflaming my pores I enlarge you ever so slow Working my hands holding you from behind One swift lick of your rigid flesh You pull in a lungful of air Your hot flesh started to grow I ease you into my mouth Circling as you keep the pace Against me you put me in deep The sweet taste of you makes me weak Intense intervals underneath Between your thighs Intoxicating the very layers of my juice I enlarge you once again Moist and ready I open my sweetness just for you As I arch down onto you Your hands rest on my hips I begin to feel my flower grow A whispering rouse escapes from my lungs We flow inside each another Deeper in my heat Your aggressive arousal Provoking me to quiver The barrier surrenders to you and I Vivid blossoms of tranquil harmony Through the gateway of my womanhood As you nurish the nutrients you covet for My protruding pale pink buds Plump with need I'd hollow out to place you inside I'd linger in this universe to pave your delicious desire As you surrender  pushing me down You penetrate my mouth once again As you reclaim my mouth soft and pink
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Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 6:59 PM UTC
Inflaming My Pores (Adult Content)
Boundless dusk above forsaken intuitions Stones with ancient seeds Yet the roots can breathe The earthly exuberance                                                                               The naked secret of our song That manipulates my tounge Redden from you and I The contact of our lips Simulating my hunger for your groin The nerves of my vertebrates  harbor your weight As my breast shudder from your touch Primal delicious desires I thirst for  the fluids of your flesh With nurture and greed I moisten your fingers Help you find my sensitive  pearl Relishing the trail of the garden of youth Primal delicious desires explode in need Delicate softness of my mystical place Lifting my body with much response As my fingers dance, pinch and **** at my peaks Repeatedly as you   ****** me I gasp and beg for your caress I shudder as I chase my wave Reaching as I whimper into a ****** Simulating my hunger for your groin Inflaming my pores I enlarge you ever so slow Working my hands holding you from behind One swift lick of your rigid flesh You pull in a lungful of air Your hot flesh started to grow I ease you into my mouth Circling as you keep the pace Against me you put me in deep The sweet taste of you makes me weak Intense intervals underneath Between your thighs Intoxicating the very layers of my juice I enlarge you once again Moist and ready I open my sweetness just for you As I arch down onto you Your hands rest on my hips I begin to feel my flower grow A whispering rouse escapes from my lungs We flow inside each another Deeper in my heat Your aggressive arousal Provoking me to quiver The barrier surrenders to you and I Vivid blossoms of tranquil harmony Through the gateway of my womanhood As you nurish the nutrients you covet for My protruding pale pink buds Plump with need I'd hollow out to place you inside I'd linger in this universe to pave your delicious desire As you surrender  pushing me down You penetrate my mouth once again As you reclaim my mouth soft and pink
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Wait! Wait! A pinch of salt in my heart, Keeps inflaming through the halt. Wait! Wait! Some lost in their lives, living with you Some lost their lives for the pain given by you. Wait! Wait! When people meet you,   To the expectations they live up, When people breathe you, To the life they give up. Wait! Wait! To some you yield results, To the most you offered upsets. With perseverance, I get towards my aim, As an interference, you send me back with a shame People exclaim what God say Why fear when I am here. But Mr. Wait. You say Nothing here, when I am near. Through you, I faced disappointment. With your end comes my accomplishment Hello Mr. Wait. I warn you The more you live with me, The more I turn rebellious. The more you give me woe, The more I become your foe. Thank you Mr. Wait. You made me the best Hunter animal with a ferocious killer instinct, I won't leave this instinct, till you become extinct. Challenge for a change, Revenge for an exchange.
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 8:05 AM UTC
WAITING - PAIN OF DEATH WHILE LIVING*
Screeeeeeeechhh! Thud! Silence! Hearts stopped Faces turned Jaws dropped Prayers began He left his assembled bricks and wood and furniture and ran ran towards the sunset with nothing but his silhouette following him even years later it felt like yesterday possessed he ran as fast as he could Prayers began blurry shapes hoarded around the car his eyes refused to close against the horror of what lay beside his high crushed into water his delusion failed him his brain froze He ran as fast as he could to the beach wanting to walk into the water wanting to stop breathing seeking unfathomable peace that final peace His brain froze get out of the car people shouted was a life lost he didn’t dare to find out he just wanted a few seconds back just a few seconds back please That final peace eluded him waves silenced by his cornucopia of emotions his eyes now refused to open the saltiness of the beach was overcome by tears that flowed in secrecy inflaming everything within reach embracing his cheeks toying with his lips Please callanambulance sheisbleeding somebody tieyourshirtaroundherbleedinghead isittoolate is it too late Toying with his lips tears turning into questions could I ever forgive myself his sobbing heart didn't acknowledge the question it just faded he lived with himself he died within Is it too late his wife asked holding his hands breathing heavily her eyes averred every moment that they shared their feuds their make ups their teasing their loving her eyes were done speaking and now they rested He died within wailing like a baby he slept there with parched eyes reminiscing her parting words etched in his heart etched so deep that it bled internally bled and ached to release a shriek through muteness muteness, deafening deafening his emotions making them oblivious to his existence his fists clenching the vacuum of solitude the moon and waves began their tango and the water rose higher and higher embracing him within maimed to be saved releasing a gushing hymn for she was now deemed forever with him.
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Jul 28, 2012
Jul 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM UTC
Accident
Screeeeeeeechhh! Thud! Silence! Hearts stopped Faces turned Jaws dropped Prayers began He left his assembled bricks and wood and furniture and ran ran towards the sunset with nothing but his silhouette following him even years later it felt like yesterday possessed he ran as fast as he could Prayers began blurry shapes hoarded around the car his eyes refused to close against the horror of what lay beside his high crushed into water his delusion failed him his brain froze He ran as fast as he could to the beach wanting to walk into the water wanting to stop breathing seeking unfathomable peace that final peace His brain froze get out of the car people shouted was a life lost he didn’t dare to find out he just wanted a few seconds back just a few seconds back please That final peace eluded him waves silenced by his cornucopia of emotions his eyes now refused to open the saltiness of the beach was overcome by tears that flowed in secrecy inflaming everything within reach embracing his cheeks toying with his lips Please callanambulance sheisbleeding somebody tieyourshirtaroundherbleedinghead isittoolate is it too late Toying with his lips tears turning into questions could I ever forgive myself his sobbing heart didn't acknowledge the question it just faded he lived with himself he died within Is it too late his wife asked holding his hands breathing heavily her eyes averred every moment that they shared their feuds their make ups their teasing their loving her eyes were done speaking and now they rested He died within wailing like a baby he slept there with parched eyes reminiscing her parting words etched in his heart etched so deep that it bled internally bled and ached to release a shriek through muteness muteness, deafening deafening his emotions making them oblivious to his existence his fists clenching the vacuum of solitude the moon and waves began their tango and the water rose higher and higher embracing him within maimed to be saved releasing a gushing hymn for she was now deemed forever with him.
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And I did it once again. Skin picked and shaven, Cakey frosted ivory, Faceless, nameless, Plasticity contusion. Littered in the detailed fractures of a swelling stem, Those skeletal twigs of intangible incestual wings, splintered in stacks underneath his bed. Apocalyptic comfort found in the veins of what remains... Pineal shame, Puny white me, Post-karmic, futuristic-retrospective cosmic plan, slowly creeps towards me and offers its long inflaming hand. Cricket twitch, echoes in the distant introspective glitch of my momentary intuition. A bitter drip on tongue descends, Tunneled in an unwanted exploration. That sour pitched cacophony uncomfortably sung, Through the ghastly cold touch of a righteous cockroached thumb. Repugnance, Spreading the stain of an untouched soul, Quicksand, morphing me into dust. Devouring the white and into the red I rust.
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 1:40 PM UTC
Repugnance
Parting my subtle fingers, touching the silky,mellifluous hair Slowly moving beneath, Placing my hand beside , Drawn to your marvelous, profiled, sculpted, jawline Teasing fore play and kisses, Without wasting hesitation, Removing fabrics swinging in rage across the room, Bare back and body, Temperature rising, Top to bottom, As you harden and drenched, Your rugged , tempestuous hands, Throwing a weak influenced temptation, Into a lustful haze, spinning   An imitation on repeat, The heat intoxicating , inflaming the bonds between our desires, Penetrating  our virginity, Throbbing in and outwards, Notion the anguish and agony , Discomforting in moving surfaces, I plead within your name , Carelessly tugging and hanging onto your body, Arms flung around your waist, As you angrily demanded more from me, Ordering  to continue on wards, The obsession grew expectantly, A new form of  infatuation, Thrusting relentlessly, Earsplitting moaning, Sensual whispers, Piercing marks ****** , Licked, A Sign of ownership, Smacking grip below, Letting go uncontrollably, Reaching  into the endearing ****** Seizure, Absolute Bliss.
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 2:29 AM UTC
Relapsing 12:00 am.
wind cutting through my hair and my expressionless face is still while nostalgia overcomes me. what have we come to? words of hatred once spoken to one another, followed by kind, apologetic letters, and pure innocence engraved on our faces turned into hangovers, excuses and more excuses. the worries drag my eyebrows down like bent, rubber arcs that have been straightened and are moving slowly back into formation. am i the only one? am i the only one? i grab a pen and paper and write the words inflaming my throat, the visions in my eyes. everyone moves. everyone moves on and grows with intoxication in hand and fire burning through their sockets. is this growing up? to enjoy and to live; is it necessary to poison one's self? what have we come to? why, a different location will not change the way they act. am i the only one? it's peer pressure what they do, it's peer pressure. but i am left, because i refuse. does that make me wrong? my friends; their love and trust bestilled in my heart; it's weakening, it's breaking. i shouldn't feel this way. what have we come to? is a dream of sanity and beauty not enough? because that is all you need in my book. you step in my book and see a bird soaring a flower blooming an idea growing. it's beautiful. you step out of my book, you don't see. you're trapped in the fumes, in the heat of the crowd, in the smell of the liquor. what have we come to? love is not an object. it cannot be thrown around and pestered with whenever you please. it cannot get carried around to become an STD. it cannot. why? it is not love. it's hurt, it's stupidity. the love is the feeling, the lights, the faith. where is it? lost, disease has taken its place. what have we come to? it's what is inside, it's in your soul, not displayed on your skin. what you are is not a material thing, so why don't they bother to take a second look? all walk with a label instead of a name. what have we come to?
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Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012 at 4:33 AM UTC
Pressure
wind cutting through my hair and my expressionless face is still while nostalgia overcomes me. what have we come to? words of hatred once spoken to one another, followed by kind, apologetic letters, and pure innocence engraved on our faces turned into hangovers, excuses and more excuses. the worries drag my eyebrows down like bent, rubber arcs that have been straightened and are moving slowly back into formation. am i the only one? am i the only one? i grab a pen and paper and write the words inflaming my throat, the visions in my eyes. everyone moves. everyone moves on and grows with intoxication in hand and fire burning through their sockets. is this growing up? to enjoy and to live; is it necessary to poison one's self? what have we come to? why, a different location will not change the way they act. am i the only one? it's peer pressure what they do, it's peer pressure. but i am left, because i refuse. does that make me wrong? my friends; their love and trust bestilled in my heart; it's weakening, it's breaking. i shouldn't feel this way. what have we come to? is a dream of sanity and beauty not enough? because that is all you need in my book. you step in my book and see a bird soaring a flower blooming an idea growing. it's beautiful. you step out of my book, you don't see. you're trapped in the fumes, in the heat of the crowd, in the smell of the liquor. what have we come to? love is not an object. it cannot be thrown around and pestered with whenever you please. it cannot get carried around to become an STD. it cannot. why? it is not love. it's hurt, it's stupidity. the love is the feeling, the lights, the faith. where is it? lost, disease has taken its place. what have we come to? it's what is inside, it's in your soul, not displayed on your skin. what you are is not a material thing, so why don't they bother to take a second look? all walk with a label instead of a name. what have we come to?
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The oil lamp cast its noble glow, while shadows darkened all around, on leaders in the global know whose darkness by its light was found. Just then, the lantern's leaky wick flared up. The whole benighted place ignited like a Wiki-Leak inflaming each tyrannic face. The Media pitched their low-ball gloss and tried to polish up the mess by spinning such a global loss as sure electoral success.
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Oct 29, 2016
Oct 29, 2016 at 8:49 AM UTC
Stable Fire
Creeping vines climb crisscrossing the cracked clay Crumbled brick shards collect at the base of the tower Essential oils permeate the air Invisible liquid fire Inflaming all feeling skin bubbling and peeling Grotesque **** oozes from ragged ripped flesh Itching is incessant Swollen red eyelids Tear drop elicits twitching A scream of unfulfilled urges Vines encircle the neck countless green nooses contaminate flesh Breath becomes brutality swollen esophagus Red and green monster stalks searching for someone with skin thin enough to climb underneath into the innermost layer Death brings an end to the maddening agony Body a bulging red ball already collects maggots Creepy vines questing never ending searching not satisfied until they find the next target Cycle continues no escape from the ivy.
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Jun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012 at 5:56 PM UTC
Poison Ivy
Verse 1: The one that I long for, The malady for which my heart ails, You’re an infectious boil inflaming my very soul. A toxic love slowly consumes my eyes, Where have you gone, I’ve been blinded by the truth. The butterflies of my youth have collapsed into naught. The Universe weeps to me in her legion tears of the stars; She sings to me a requiem of an unrequited love. I have faith that you’re out there, my orchid of blossoming love, I want to feel you effloresce as golden thread connects our souls. Chorus: The boon of my youth, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me, oh, He longs for a sacred love. Verse 2: I know that Gaia, that beauteous and earthen Goddess; She smiles down upon me as I quiver beneath the Earth. I’ve retreated to the underworld and there are clouds beneath the ground, They take the form of a lover whose face I cannot make out. The heavens have been concealed from me and I fear that I’ve been deceived; Is it wrong to wish upon a star for someone to enamor me? Chorus: The boon of my early years, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me; He longs for a sacred love. Bridge: I pray that iridescence will envelop my weary soul, Maybe cosmic glitter will fall upon tired skin. My body is immaterial; I sweat and cry tears of blood. Maybe tribulation will flourish into love. The cosmos lies inside me and my heart is shining blue, It shall illuminate the pathways that will lead me to your heart. Chorus: The boon of my early years, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me; He longs for a sacred love.
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Apr 6, 2012
Apr 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM UTC
Orchid of Blossoming Love(Song Lyrics)(April 1st, 2012)
Verse 1: The one that I long for, The malady for which my heart ails, You’re an infectious boil inflaming my very soul. A toxic love slowly consumes my eyes, Where have you gone, I’ve been blinded by the truth. The butterflies of my youth have collapsed into naught. The Universe weeps to me in her legion tears of the stars; She sings to me a requiem of an unrequited love. I have faith that you’re out there, my orchid of blossoming love, I want to feel you effloresce as golden thread connects our souls. Chorus: The boon of my youth, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me, oh, He longs for a sacred love. Verse 2: I know that Gaia, that beauteous and earthen Goddess; She smiles down upon me as I quiver beneath the Earth. I’ve retreated to the underworld and there are clouds beneath the ground, They take the form of a lover whose face I cannot make out. The heavens have been concealed from me and I fear that I’ve been deceived; Is it wrong to wish upon a star for someone to enamor me? Chorus: The boon of my early years, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me; He longs for a sacred love. Bridge: I pray that iridescence will envelop my weary soul, Maybe cosmic glitter will fall upon tired skin. My body is immaterial; I sweat and cry tears of blood. Maybe tribulation will flourish into love. The cosmos lies inside me and my heart is shining blue, It shall illuminate the pathways that will lead me to your heart. Chorus: The boon of my early years, has He veiled me in ebony wings? Has the moon abandoned the sanctity of an everlasting youth? Please glimmer upon me,” I long to set you free!” There is a divine vessel inside of me; He longs for a sacred love.
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*Baptise me In the glow Of your halo Traces of euphoria Courses through my blood A riot in my head births As I recall the day You marched Into my hollow Inflaming A magnificent tempest That fill the pages Of all that I write Your words Weaved into the intricate spaces Of my impenetrable heart To leave it radiating Unimpeded adoration.*
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
Adoration
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our love, and that’s a **** This doth but counsel, yet you cannot ’scape. If ’twere a shame to love, here ’twere no shame, Affection here takes Reverence’s name. Were her first years the Golden Age; that’s true, But now she’s gold oft tried, and ever new. That was her torrid and inflaming time, This is her tolerable Tropique clime. Fair eyes, who asks more heat than comes from hence, He in a fever wishes pestilence. Call not these wrinkles, graves; if graves they were, They were Love’s graves; for else he is no where. Yet lies not Love dead here, but here doth sit Vowed to this trench, like an Anachorit. And here, till hers, which must be his death, come, He doth not dig a grave, but build a tomb. Here dwells he, though he sojourn ev’ry where, In progress, yet his standing house is here. Here, where still evening is; not noon, nor night; Where no voluptuousness, yet all delight In all her words, unto all hearers fit, You may at revels, you at counsel, sit. This is Love’s timber, youth his under-wood; There he, as wine in June enrages blood, Which then comes seasonabliest, when our taste And appetite to other things is past. Xerxes’ strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, Was loved for age, none being so large as she, Or else because, being young, nature did bless Her youth with age’s glory, Barrenness. If we love things long sought, Age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing; If transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day. But name not winter-faces, whose skin’s slack; Lank, as an unthrift’s purse; but a soul’s sack; Whose eyes seek light within, for all here’s shade; Whose mouths are holes, rather worn out than made; Whose every tooth to a several place is gone, To vex their souls at Resurrection; Name not these living deaths-heads unto me, For these, not ancient, but antique be. I hate extremes; yet I had rather stay With tombs than cradles, to wear out a day. Since such love’s natural lation is, may still My love descend, and journey down the hill, Not panting after growing beauties so, I shall ebb out with them, who homeward go.
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Elegy IX: The Autumnal
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our love, and that’s a **** This doth but counsel, yet you cannot ’scape. If ’twere a shame to love, here ’twere no shame, Affection here takes Reverence’s name. Were her first years the Golden Age; that’s true, But now she’s gold oft tried, and ever new. That was her torrid and inflaming time, This is her tolerable Tropique clime. Fair eyes, who asks more heat than comes from hence, He in a fever wishes pestilence. Call not these wrinkles, graves; if graves they were, They were Love’s graves; for else he is no where. Yet lies not Love dead here, but here doth sit Vowed to this trench, like an Anachorit. And here, till hers, which must be his death, come, He doth not dig a grave, but build a tomb. Here dwells he, though he sojourn ev’ry where, In progress, yet his standing house is here. Here, where still evening is; not noon, nor night; Where no voluptuousness, yet all delight In all her words, unto all hearers fit, You may at revels, you at counsel, sit. This is Love’s timber, youth his under-wood; There he, as wine in June enrages blood, Which then comes seasonabliest, when our taste And appetite to other things is past. Xerxes’ strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, Was loved for age, none being so large as she, Or else because, being young, nature did bless Her youth with age’s glory, Barrenness. If we love things long sought, Age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing; If transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day. But name not winter-faces, whose skin’s slack; Lank, as an unthrift’s purse; but a soul’s sack; Whose eyes seek light within, for all here’s shade; Whose mouths are holes, rather worn out than made; Whose every tooth to a several place is gone, To vex their souls at Resurrection; Name not these living deaths-heads unto me, For these, not ancient, but antique be. I hate extremes; yet I had rather stay With tombs than cradles, to wear out a day. Since such love’s natural lation is, may still My love descend, and journey down the hill, Not panting after growing beauties so, I shall ebb out with them, who homeward go.
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his voice syllabic brushes against canvas whispering lullabyes within dreams, lingering... his musky fragrance flush upon flesh, dallying like verbs still whispering between folds of rumpled sheets... every noun a soft whimper uttered. lips openly inviting; stirring tenderly like a breeze echoing poetry with passion... ensnaring heart in web of his muse; each beat looms copulative, sliding seductive, awakening senses... abandoned ache slips and I pirouette, rippled within his verse; succumbing to his poetic thirst... still whispering lush verbs while easing between silken sheets and breath quickens... as ****** of tongue licks nouns of passion, sipping spills as labials quiver against tongued invasion... and he softly murmurs across brined flesh, touching, nibbling trembled aches; inflaming naked desire as each stanza seduces me again and again... drawn to masculinities tease verse by verse...
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 8:33 PM UTC
Drawn Verse By Verse
The little love god lying once asleep Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand, The fairest votary took up that fire Which many legions of true hearts had warmed, And so the general of hot desire Was sleeping by a ****** hand disarmed. This brand she quenched in a cool well by, Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual, Growing a bath and healthful remedy, For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall, Came there for cure and this by that I prove, Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.
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Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
In my childhood I played with fire! Now I play with matches: Sticks without embers that burn with hot remembers inflaming logic without reasons for the Treason; treason, falling by the seasons like a burning white hot snow. and realizing: That the more That I discover The less there is To know. Copyright © 2013 by John Russell; all rights reserved. No reproduction allowed in any manner whatsoever without permission.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
Fetid Youth
There’s too much light deluge of photons an affront to Night’s ambiance Harsh sulfur streetlight glow: trickery. illuminating arteries of Artificial making the Night dull dark distant confined to human construct robbing Mystery masking subtlety devouring nature the Immensity the Antiquity the Beauty of Stars: gone Lost blotted out by buzzing wasp’s nest Denizens’ sting to eyes & minds inflaming consciousness no longer can you Feel small and lost under the grandeur of nocturnal sky all is set before you here to there Elsewhere to home Home? Sleep in Darkness? listening & thinking ‘til sleep succumbs No, now rather befalling Sickly pallor of computer glow we stare with blinders all else fading save the screen before us ******* us in trapping us excising thoughts keeping us from ourselves that is why we fill the night Out of fear. To hide but not from monsters nor from ghosts goblins gremlins ghouls not from lurking eldritch terror of yore but from ourselves from Feeling and Being for fear of perceiving tactile intuition in the air of what lies ahead rather than seeing for fear of walking by ourselves just ourselves with unencumbered thoughts and seeing through the facade the facade of daytime ascribed meanings the facade of of who we are the facade of light The facade that Darkness is what is lacking that light is normality That light is beauty light is hope light is life but it’s just that a Facade we plastered ourselves: an Illusion But there’s truth at Night and under stars truth in the sensation of dusky hours Artistry in ink the allure of “unknown” feeling small and lost Under soft Milky Way floating over dew laden grass caressed by cool currents There’s Truth & Beauty in the Night
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Feb 10, 2014
Feb 10, 2014 at 2:19 PM UTC
Where has the Night Gone?
There’s too much light deluge of photons an affront to Night’s ambiance Harsh sulfur streetlight glow: trickery. illuminating arteries of Artificial making the Night dull dark distant confined to human construct robbing Mystery masking subtlety devouring nature the Immensity the Antiquity the Beauty of Stars: gone Lost blotted out by buzzing wasp’s nest Denizens’ sting to eyes & minds inflaming consciousness no longer can you Feel small and lost under the grandeur of nocturnal sky all is set before you here to there Elsewhere to home Home? Sleep in Darkness? listening & thinking ‘til sleep succumbs No, now rather befalling Sickly pallor of computer glow we stare with blinders all else fading save the screen before us ******* us in trapping us excising thoughts keeping us from ourselves that is why we fill the night Out of fear. To hide but not from monsters nor from ghosts goblins gremlins ghouls not from lurking eldritch terror of yore but from ourselves from Feeling and Being for fear of perceiving tactile intuition in the air of what lies ahead rather than seeing for fear of walking by ourselves just ourselves with unencumbered thoughts and seeing through the facade the facade of daytime ascribed meanings the facade of of who we are the facade of light The facade that Darkness is what is lacking that light is normality That light is beauty light is hope light is life but it’s just that a Facade we plastered ourselves: an Illusion But there’s truth at Night and under stars truth in the sensation of dusky hours Artistry in ink the allure of “unknown” feeling small and lost Under soft Milky Way floating over dew laden grass caressed by cool currents There’s Truth & Beauty in the Night
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Unable to reach out she sits alone...in tears.... she sits by the old tree waiting a little girl in tears. Wrapping her arms around her knees she embraces the ache of fear. There is a light in the house so near casting soft shadows on a moonlit face. Voice serenade the darkness inflaming the embers of a belonging so close but never close enough.... for her to reach.
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Feb 11, 2014
Feb 11, 2014 at 9:39 AM UTC
Unable to Reach Out
*Inside, the cave claimed them as hers, a silence strangely suspicious of itself holding back the urge to explode, whispered: "Love at your age is dangerous, handle with care, see its blade gleaming with desires make sure, you don't hurt each other" A wing moved, a swishing sound heard they held breath for a moment, felt the nostrils fill the strong stench of droppings of colonies of bats. But the love pair going higher on the rungs found it nothing, but an olfactory diversion pleasant a trigger to get closer, snuggle, deeply inhale each other's many secret scents, little known before. Outside the cave light prowled like a jealous lover jilted by the beloved, resenting darkness that dances with silence inflaming  the atmosphere, dense in desire, --a love intoxicant discovered by him and his girl, Standing on tip toe, she rubbed her lips to his match stick and matchbox spoke in tones of hiss fire emits in maiden's first kiss, he remembered what was said, on his way to a narcotic stupor he forgot all the rest, the bats, liquid darkness the trouble they had sneaking out of houses, duping the thousand eyes of an Indian village, in vigil to keep a virgin's maidenhead intact.*
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Mar 22, 2014
Mar 22, 2014 at 6:43 AM UTC
The cave
Old hopes Conversed In hushed tones Or not at all The maddening Clock ticks Inflaming A sense of urgency The pungent suffocating Stench of death Draws closer And surrounds How unsettling it is For the sun to Keep shining Smiles On their faces Do they not see The troubles The shade of ruin Impregnating the skies Bound by limitations And yet all they perceive Are iridescent rainbows   In a world without hue.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 1:01 PM UTC
Colourless
The unwelding of us was reverberating and time was heat even then. Though I feel its waves only now—a stretching of full air, an enchanted scraping of flimsy tied veins, these boats poorly moored to moving docks never moving water. Then electricity, inflaming suddenly, and there is a terrific prying apart. These days, I can sit with the snow ice spearing down and empty myself of it. When at least parts pour back in, though, and I smell the skin you wore in summer when a wind blows, restlessness speaks volumes.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM UTC
The Unwelding
Halt, take in the flower-fyrd whose faces gaze above.         For God doth formed these instruments,                 His glory from below, a friendly fere  of His free-love. Colours abound and smells ablaze, coddled carefully by sovereign grace,         Created in over-many shades, creation requests contemplation,                 God receive praise from our glory-bound place. Flee to the forest and walk in wonder         Dew-flavored florae that arise from thunder. God of Glory, we alms-guests  seek,         Only to find in mast-lands  so meek. Blest by back-woods, expansive, brave, and blazoned above         Humble inscription inciting and inflaming the in-carnation of love.
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Nov 21, 2011
Nov 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM UTC
The Flower-Fyrd