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"intervals" poems
Strange malaise, One I can't place. Struggling of late. Discomforting state. Persistent lethargy. Sloth-like and heavy. Burning internals. Frequent intervals. No temperature. No warning lever. Don't know what's wrong. Been rather long. Medicine trough Can't rid me this cough. Expulsion so violent, Incessantly recurrent. Over a fortnight This ailment I fight. Still hasn't eased. Can't be appeased. Development is seen. Now spitting green. Not just all That joined this brawl. It's just the coughing. No injury I'm suffering, I haven't bled... But I see red...
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 12:46 PM UTC
Red
Rigid, ugly, painful intervals of burning in the pores of my skin. A rough sensation in my heart, I missed her more than I cared for my own life.   At what point in time did my ancestors devolve me, when did my DNA first form this biological gap? My instincts were supposed to protect me.
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Nov 11, 2015
Nov 11, 2015 at 4:15 AM UTC
DNA
The singleness of mind as the pavement lobotomizes you. No forks in the track at any point. from point A to point B Employ your limbs or you might fall asleep as you are serenaded by strange music from universes just discovered. Some universal truth tough to explain. How every galaxy in every glint on this desert road is, with precise frequency, interrupted by that yellow stripe running in intervals down eternity lane
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 6:15 PM UTC
The Railway
I used to think in numbers. 1: There’s one of me. Alone. Plus 4: my family. Still 1, but 5, or 4 plus 1; that’s me, alone. I used to think in numbers. 36: That’s weeks of school; That’s weeks of math class, math class, calculator; Father, Son, and Calculator. Trinity: the holy three, the three, the 3 times 36: that’s 108. I used to think in numbers. Math class, algebra, room 108. I hate, I hate, I love, I hate, I hate the way they look at me. They look at me like man at dog, like planet hogs, throw books at me like cannons cogged at ninety-minute intervals at cinder walls until I fault and cringe and fall, and fall like London Bridge and crash, and fall like Blown-out glass gone back to class. I pass the tests and cash regrets like rent checks bounced across the bridge that they knocked down. Because I used to think in numbers, yeah, but now?         Well, sure. Abrasions hurt. And yeah, we all want friends. But at least equations work and keep their balance on both ends. So I will rock this scatter-plot of social contract to its peak until my hands are red meat. I am no dead beat; I hold the world record for blood lost to a summer camp spread sheet. But then, but then somewhere along that number line, a 6 stared down its stage fright when just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 days before the show, I met a girl who barred my better judgment like a cage fight, and thank God she did, because for once, I put away the calculator, and I listened to her voice, and it sounded like… well, it sounded like it sounded. And for once, I sat and wrote about the things that can’t be counted. I surrendered to the cage fight, and I fell into a deep hole. And to be honest, I don’t miss spreadsheet summers, ‘cause it’s easier to keep cool. I used to think in numbers, yeah, but now I think in people.
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 12:25 AM UTC
Summer Camp Spreadsheet
I used to think in numbers. 1: There’s one of me. Alone. Plus 4: my family. Still 1, but 5, or 4 plus 1; that’s me, alone. I used to think in numbers. 36: That’s weeks of school; That’s weeks of math class, math class, calculator; Father, Son, and Calculator. Trinity: the holy three, the three, the 3 times 36: that’s 108. I used to think in numbers. Math class, algebra, room 108. I hate, I hate, I love, I hate, I hate the way they look at me. They look at me like man at dog, like planet hogs, throw books at me like cannons cogged at ninety-minute intervals at cinder walls until I fault and cringe and fall, and fall like London Bridge and crash, and fall like Blown-out glass gone back to class. I pass the tests and cash regrets like rent checks bounced across the bridge that they knocked down. Because I used to think in numbers, yeah, but now?         Well, sure. Abrasions hurt. And yeah, we all want friends. But at least equations work and keep their balance on both ends. So I will rock this scatter-plot of social contract to its peak until my hands are red meat. I am no dead beat; I hold the world record for blood lost to a summer camp spread sheet. But then, but then somewhere along that number line, a 6 stared down its stage fright when just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 days before the show, I met a girl who barred my better judgment like a cage fight, and thank God she did, because for once, I put away the calculator, and I listened to her voice, and it sounded like… well, it sounded like it sounded. And for once, I sat and wrote about the things that can’t be counted. I surrendered to the cage fight, and I fell into a deep hole. And to be honest, I don’t miss spreadsheet summers, ‘cause it’s easier to keep cool. I used to think in numbers, yeah, but now I think in people.
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I thought I understood distance When I learned at school it is defined as “The amount of space between two points.” I learned distance can be measured in various units As steps, kilometres and miles or even intervals of time. I thought I understood distance When I counted 2362 steps walking to school And noticed my dad’s car meter increasing two miles In three minutes driving me back home. But my understanding had changed when I started measuring longer distances. And attempting to cross them. I travelled a distance measured in kilometres and hours to see him. Such distances can be easily crossed. Either I took the next train, or drove my car Distance as an amount of space was two thousand kilometres And distance as an amount of time was only a few hours. I thought I understood distance, But never the amount of space between two specific points; My lips and his lips. I travelled a distance measured in bottles of wine and years to kiss him. Such distances can’t be easily crossed. I could walk miles of skin And distance as an amount of space between us Could extend tiresome. But such distances aren’t necessarily a barrier. I have crossed all the oceans we created I counted all the bodies And I have indulged in his lips. It took me two bottles of wine and twenty years To actually understand distance But my understanding is obsolete For him and I , Are still two distant entities.
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 7:54 AM UTC
Distance as an infinite quantity
winter creeps like Rastafarian dreadlocks 3, 4th, intervals calmer then an Ativan pill.
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Sep 21, 2013
Sep 21, 2013 at 8:31 PM UTC
tasked
if dandelions sprouted from my chest and cherry blossoms sprouted from yours I think the reason we cannot be one would become evident immediately I am unwanted, plucked away and hidden at first sight left to die, hoping my return never comes as though I was never there to begin with you, the weary blossom showing your face in the smallest intervals your sighting a blessing, to all that see leave your adoring fans, wanting more I wish for more of you too, you know I yearn deeply, each waking hour that you would attempt to cover your beauty only temporarily and I could cover my unsightly anatomy maybe permanently and we could love one another for just a day my heart in your hands and your hands in my hair our lips pressed together your blossoming chest and my unwanted greenery no longer in the way just tickling a little when our bodies merge as one
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 3:19 PM UTC
dandelions & cherry blossom
Hey, past me from so close yet seeming long ago... A knot from my sweater's bow I regret tying despite how unkempt the ribbons look hanging by my sides because now it's digging into my back The hair I can't decide if I want out where it's pretty and makes me look less like a generic nerd yet gets in my face and food and life The jeans I insist upon wearing without a belt even though their slipping down my **** may actually outweigh the pain of loosening the belt The tennis shoes I'm too attached to give up that emit a constant squeak, squeak, squeaking through the hallways whether it's caused by residual rain from outside or not The glasses, fond of slipping down my nose at frequent intervals, covered in smudges I rarely notice till they get out of hand The phone whose screen happened to crack at the most inopportune moment and takes forever to read my finger print The jacket that should be a highlighter blue but rather presents itself as a canvas of the week's tomato stains The face covered in acne- The stomach with fat instead of muscle- The arms lacking muscle- The legs with too much hair- I've always acknowledged that perfection is not possible, yet I have to at least try to strive I think, as I sit at my desk, fingers typing fragmented sentences, attempting to convey thoughts speeding too fast to grasp Yet, just a simple poem of reflection brings to light these numerous deficiencies, many of which I COULD fix were it not the invisible fiend upon whom I stamp the label-laziness These deficiencies, many of which aren't even noticed by those around me, some of whom are better some are worse But it's not as simple as that, I've known I can't just be "one of the people", I need to find something, some identity, some way out of my seemingly impossible to escape label of "just above average" In academics, in extracurricular activities, EVERYTHING, I seem to be at a stagnant I've done bad, I've done "just above average", but never above. What is the point if you get plenty of losses and plenty of "fine" but no victories? It's something about me though, somehow I believe, subconsciously, I'm impeding myself. I'm holding myself back. ... Why?
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018 at 3:50 PM UTC
Holding Myself Back
Hey, past me from so close yet seeming long ago... A knot from my sweater's bow I regret tying despite how unkempt the ribbons look hanging by my sides because now it's digging into my back The hair I can't decide if I want out where it's pretty and makes me look less like a generic nerd yet gets in my face and food and life The jeans I insist upon wearing without a belt even though their slipping down my **** may actually outweigh the pain of loosening the belt The tennis shoes I'm too attached to give up that emit a constant squeak, squeak, squeaking through the hallways whether it's caused by residual rain from outside or not The glasses, fond of slipping down my nose at frequent intervals, covered in smudges I rarely notice till they get out of hand The phone whose screen happened to crack at the most inopportune moment and takes forever to read my finger print The jacket that should be a highlighter blue but rather presents itself as a canvas of the week's tomato stains The face covered in acne- The stomach with fat instead of muscle- The arms lacking muscle- The legs with too much hair- I've always acknowledged that perfection is not possible, yet I have to at least try to strive I think, as I sit at my desk, fingers typing fragmented sentences, attempting to convey thoughts speeding too fast to grasp Yet, just a simple poem of reflection brings to light these numerous deficiencies, many of which I COULD fix were it not the invisible fiend upon whom I stamp the label-laziness These deficiencies, many of which aren't even noticed by those around me, some of whom are better some are worse But it's not as simple as that, I've known I can't just be "one of the people", I need to find something, some identity, some way out of my seemingly impossible to escape label of "just above average" In academics, in extracurricular activities, EVERYTHING, I seem to be at a stagnant I've done bad, I've done "just above average", but never above. What is the point if you get plenty of losses and plenty of "fine" but no victories? It's something about me though, somehow I believe, subconsciously, I'm impeding myself. I'm holding myself back. ... Why?
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The Purple People come in many sizes, from small to extra-large – some are quiet and smiley, while others are louder and chatty. What they have in common, apart from the obvious distinctive pigment, is a welcoming demeanour that makes you feel that you have perhaps met them before or that you would like to meet them again. I first met a Purple Person as I climbed the steps, looking for reassurance that I wasn’t late and that I wouldn’t stand out too much in my nervous newness. I’m not sure what it was about their purpleness, but I felt one step closer to acceptance as I walked into the warm. I saw the matching purple banners and smiled at the attention to detail and the attention given to me which, while practiced, was far from forced and held a genuine purpleness. I met other Purple People at intervals, each with the purple family likeness of a smile, even though their heritage varied in shade. The further I walked, the more I relaxed and found that some of the Purple People weren’t wearing the signature purple tee shirts, but it was clear they came from the same palette because their welcome carried the same purple weight and the same authentic purpleness. This shouldn’t have been surprising, as I soon discovered that they each bore the same purple family likeness of the Purple King who welcomes everyone.
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Jul 3, 2021
Jul 3, 2021 at 2:48 AM UTC
Purple People
Judged My fate lies in another's hands, In front of the judge, is where I stand, Sweating profusely, under my suit, Waiting to end, this two year pursuit, Which has consumed me every day, Nowhere to put, these troubles away, Clinical depression, grew out of control, ****** my life away, into a black hole, Clouded by darkness, no light shone, Desire to do anything, had already gone, Locked myself up, staring at these walls, Every glimmer of hope, destined for a fall. Fighting with my mind, trying overcome, More obstacles appear, before I’d begun, Drifting through each day, like I wasn't there Distant from the world, drawn into a stare * I climbed myself out, of this black hole, To walk tall again, my one and only goal, My vocals returned, clouds leaving my brain, Sunshine appearing, clearing the rain, Like sunny intervals, I had moments of joy, Localised pressure, fog falling from the sky, Trying to penetrate, deep into the cracks, To rebuild my life, and return to the track, Awaiting the moment, I hear the result, As I fight from all corners, excepting my faults, Refusing to be drawn, on the what ifs and whys, The truth will prevail, and settle their cries, Fact and understanding, from this broken man’s part, Will show you his compassion, and the pain in his heart, Whether it is accepted, my offering upon this plate, I am ready for judgment, regardless of fate. I will return to my family, Regardless of your plan, No longer..My life in pieces, No longer..A broken man.
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 1:44 PM UTC
Judged (Fictional)
Judged My fate lies in another's hands, In front of the judge, is where I stand, Sweating profusely, under my suit, Waiting to end, this two year pursuit, Which has consumed me every day, Nowhere to put, these troubles away, Clinical depression, grew out of control, ****** my life away, into a black hole, Clouded by darkness, no light shone, Desire to do anything, had already gone, Locked myself up, staring at these walls, Every glimmer of hope, destined for a fall. Fighting with my mind, trying overcome, More obstacles appear, before I’d begun, Drifting through each day, like I wasn't there Distant from the world, drawn into a stare * I climbed myself out, of this black hole, To walk tall again, my one and only goal, My vocals returned, clouds leaving my brain, Sunshine appearing, clearing the rain, Like sunny intervals, I had moments of joy, Localised pressure, fog falling from the sky, Trying to penetrate, deep into the cracks, To rebuild my life, and return to the track, Awaiting the moment, I hear the result, As I fight from all corners, excepting my faults, Refusing to be drawn, on the what ifs and whys, The truth will prevail, and settle their cries, Fact and understanding, from this broken man’s part, Will show you his compassion, and the pain in his heart, Whether it is accepted, my offering upon this plate, I am ready for judgment, regardless of fate. I will return to my family, Regardless of your plan, No longer..My life in pieces, No longer..A broken man.
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*Forbidden Beauty Velvet touch was her beauty Sweet, nonsensical, magical sin In her clandestine dreams Detecting her whisper voice In beauty times does swell Her silence breathes come alive With beauty to match no other ... Her eyes had more beauty than any rose with dreams of supreme gifts her man would explode with her kiss as a pill she sings notes of her love voiced keys and intervals of tenor she closes her eyes in search of a remedy ... She's healed his lonely heart with only a smile as she leaves him in awe of her soul~he drives many a mile.... As a woman of divine magnifications her ambiance, majestic with song medicine of melody tune ~ she is one of a kind..... He realized with sadness she's his lost fantasy he escapes from the harshness of reality~ knowing oh knowing ~ she was Forbidden for all to touch ...* Debbie Brooks 2015
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 10:10 AM UTC
Forbidden Beauty
A daydream Forgotten instantly Almost Small remnants left behind A daydream Where our best ideas are crafted When exhaustion takes over When second guessing yourself is so tiring you dont even bother A daydream Where time skips at random intervals Destination: anywhere but here A daydream Where am I again? I don't want to wake up I'm happy here In a daydream
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:43 PM UTC
Daydream
bring your hammer and mutes. temper my just intervals and i'll beat a sweet harmonic series. stretch my octaves, correct my dissonance, fine-tune my enthusiasm, i'll play you some smooth sounds
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 2:16 AM UTC
fine-tune my enthusiasm
There’s just… all this noise… There’s all this noise and I feel like a tone floating around in some kinda modal stasis. And I just want to change the key but I can never seem to get the voice leading right. There’s all these other intervals in here with me and we’re all packed in too tight. I’m just a chromatic scale descending into dissonance as I push past clusters of minor seconds. I feel like I’ve gotta fight to find consonance, but I’m so **** quiet that nobody can harmonize with me. Nobody can even hear me over all this noise all this noise all this noise. This noise when so many sing without listening. This noise of a thousand unheard melodies. This noise this noise this noise This noise this noise this noise
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 6:41 PM UTC
noise
Brazen rusted iron-scent of blood– there, before him, a river of crimson and failed dreams. No boat, no oars. Just plain chivalry and bravery and yesteryears’ scars that manifest all throughout and within him. He dips his feet. There were scattered skeletons and crunched broken bones basking under the dunes of the night. There were ghosts clinging unto his own ghosts; creatures against creatures. The tip of their swords sinking down to his own tired flesh in attempt to find refuge in the treacherous wings of the forests. He swims along. And his shoulders were battered and his mare was tainted– with dirt and dust and ashes of the enemies; with memories and silhouettes buried sent flying along the caresses of the north winds. He gasps for air, and stills himself under the ebbs. Under many moons and scarcity of life– Scarcity of Life– the recurring sight of the gaseous light and the inconsistency of the breath-intervals, he remains still and proud. His soles burnt with pain and interminable suffering as it crossed the stretches of the savanna. This is his life, dwelling on the dawn borealis and stained with apparitions of the past and demons and absurdity. He has crossed the river.
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM UTC
Lionheart
My mother enters the kitchen, says that her hands are dripping, begs my father to finish his work at the sink.  I observe, for a moment, the expression upon her face which seems conflicted between a desire to laugh and a need                                                to feel clean. I interject that clearly her fate is to have dog placenta on her hands for all eternity. Her disgust and amusement seem equally to rise. After she has washed herself, she speaks of Ponyo's last intermission between long intervals of birthing to nap three fleeting minutes; another contraction gave way to a wriggling new mole who squeaked and groaned with bizarre endearment, seizing my heart and causing its mother's head, after jolting awake,                                                                to go limp. Mom says it's sad-but-sweet.  Dear dog has spent herself six times already in increments which, as they increase, draw her spirit still closer to a totally inevitable chasm of fled energy; as soon as she falls asleep, yet a new indignant mass of living parts swaddled in loose skin and wet fur shoves its way outward, forward, world-ward. Ponyo is not selfish.  Immediately after birth seven, she begins to lick her offspring clean and nudge it towards her belly, where it may feed itself. "Only just got a break, and already she's                                                                     back to work." I'm one of five children my mother has carried and raised--and for a human, five are many! I'm afraid to give birth even once, despite that a greater want of mine is to hold my own child someday.  I wonder if that is motherhood: discomfort and indecision concerning the worth of the effort in labor, in birth, in the weak moments thereafter-- stroking one's child's downy, collapsible head and feeling a need to protect her, to nurture her, that is more pressing even than the so- alluring whispers which Sleep may breathe-- and even beyond these moments, when I have said to my mother that I hate her (because to me, it was obvious that I did not, and was too callous, obtuse, and insensitive to think that she might just believe it) and then missed church the next day to stay with her when she felt ill and tired--if this is motherhood, I wonder.  It must be more even than I could ever have thought like wanting to laugh and to wring one's hands (and even just to go to sleep)                                                 all at once.
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 11:05 PM UTC
On Puppy Birth and the Nature of Motherhood
My mother enters the kitchen, says that her hands are dripping, begs my father to finish his work at the sink.  I observe, for a moment, the expression upon her face which seems conflicted between a desire to laugh and a need                                                to feel clean. I interject that clearly her fate is to have dog placenta on her hands for all eternity. Her disgust and amusement seem equally to rise. After she has washed herself, she speaks of Ponyo's last intermission between long intervals of birthing to nap three fleeting minutes; another contraction gave way to a wriggling new mole who squeaked and groaned with bizarre endearment, seizing my heart and causing its mother's head, after jolting awake,                                                                to go limp. Mom says it's sad-but-sweet.  Dear dog has spent herself six times already in increments which, as they increase, draw her spirit still closer to a totally inevitable chasm of fled energy; as soon as she falls asleep, yet a new indignant mass of living parts swaddled in loose skin and wet fur shoves its way outward, forward, world-ward. Ponyo is not selfish.  Immediately after birth seven, she begins to lick her offspring clean and nudge it towards her belly, where it may feed itself. "Only just got a break, and already she's                                                                     back to work." I'm one of five children my mother has carried and raised--and for a human, five are many! I'm afraid to give birth even once, despite that a greater want of mine is to hold my own child someday.  I wonder if that is motherhood: discomfort and indecision concerning the worth of the effort in labor, in birth, in the weak moments thereafter-- stroking one's child's downy, collapsible head and feeling a need to protect her, to nurture her, that is more pressing even than the so- alluring whispers which Sleep may breathe-- and even beyond these moments, when I have said to my mother that I hate her (because to me, it was obvious that I did not, and was too callous, obtuse, and insensitive to think that she might just believe it) and then missed church the next day to stay with her when she felt ill and tired--if this is motherhood, I wonder.  It must be more even than I could ever have thought like wanting to laugh and to wring one's hands (and even just to go to sleep)                                                 all at once.
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The mathematician never finished his work today Which is weird because it was the most important project of his career. Working on the equation for the perfect person, left it halfway done. The other half lost in this numerical mind. But that's what we are, two halves of an unfinished project. A slip atom A half of a binomial theorem A parabola at the apex of its' focus, ready to fall right back on its' feet. Because apart we are imperfect, we trip, we fall But when multiplied we are a product of perfection, able to point out that mistaken branch before you have time to brace yourself. I'll take those expanded arms and wrap them around me, feel your acute angles against my obtuse curves. Put my hand on your neck, not to feel your skin, well: to do that too, but also to feel your pulse. Knowing it beats at the same intervals as mine. And no one know why the mathematician never completed the equation. …maybe fell asleep… …maybe distracted… …maybe he just forgot… But I thank him. Because perfect is lonely and you...you are everything. Without him the Y= to my MX+being would never be linear. And I'm not good at math, neither are you, but I'm pretty sure we don't need to look in the back of the book for any answers.
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 3:33 PM UTC
Math
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung With pendent stalactites like frozen vines; And all along the walls at intervals, Curled upwards into pillars, roses climbed, And ramped and were confined, and clustered leaves Divided where there peered a laughing face. The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind, A silent murmur, carved in still, gray stone. High pointed windows pierced the southern wall Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic fires To stain the tessellated marble floor With pools of red, and quivering green, and blue; And in the shade beyond the further door, Its sober squares of black and white were hid Beneath a restless, shuffling, wide-eyed mob Of lackeys and retainers come to view The Christening. A sudden blare of trumpets, and the throng About the entrance parted as the guests Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts. Our eager fancies noted all they brought, The glorious, unattainable delights! But always there was one unbidden guest Who cursed the child and left it bitterness. The fire falls asunder, all is changed, I am no more a child, and what I see Is not a fairy tale, but life, my life. The gifts are there, the many pleasant things: Health, wealth, long-settled friendships, with a name Which honors all who bear it, and the power Of making words obedient. This is much; But overshadowing all is still the curse, That never shall I be fulfilled by love! Along the parching highroad of the world No other soul shall bear mine company. Always shall I be teased with semblances, With cruel impostures, which I trust awhile Then dash to pieces, as a careless boy Flings a kaleidoscope, which shattering Strews all the ground about with coloured shards. So I behold my visions on the ground No longer radiant, an ignoble heap Of broken, dusty glass. And so, unlit, Even by hope or faith, my dragging steps Force me forever through the passing days.
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A Fairy Tale
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung With pendent stalactites like frozen vines; And all along the walls at intervals, Curled upwards into pillars, roses climbed, And ramped and were confined, and clustered leaves Divided where there peered a laughing face. The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind, A silent murmur, carved in still, gray stone. High pointed windows pierced the southern wall Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic fires To stain the tessellated marble floor With pools of red, and quivering green, and blue; And in the shade beyond the further door, Its sober squares of black and white were hid Beneath a restless, shuffling, wide-eyed mob Of lackeys and retainers come to view The Christening. A sudden blare of trumpets, and the throng About the entrance parted as the guests Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts. Our eager fancies noted all they brought, The glorious, unattainable delights! But always there was one unbidden guest Who cursed the child and left it bitterness. The fire falls asunder, all is changed, I am no more a child, and what I see Is not a fairy tale, but life, my life. The gifts are there, the many pleasant things: Health, wealth, long-settled friendships, with a name Which honors all who bear it, and the power Of making words obedient. This is much; But overshadowing all is still the curse, That never shall I be fulfilled by love! Along the parching highroad of the world No other soul shall bear mine company. Always shall I be teased with semblances, With cruel impostures, which I trust awhile Then dash to pieces, as a careless boy Flings a kaleidoscope, which shattering Strews all the ground about with coloured shards. So I behold my visions on the ground No longer radiant, an ignoble heap Of broken, dusty glass. And so, unlit, Even by hope or faith, my dragging steps Force me forever through the passing days.
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I guess I’m okay… What more can I say? Forget it—never mind, You wouldn’t understand anyway, Would you even know what it's like? Inside a scattered disconnected mind, Employed to go on strike? Where indirect misdirect The sincerity at play, When sinusoidal chaos spikes And past meets the future present day? As paranoid points outlandishly connect At intervals of broken lines, Memory lost in recollect, An array of misshaped bells Internally infect the eternal confines Of infinite distributional decay, Parallels with no intersect, Streetwise cells with empty signs, Burned out lights, potholes, and landmines, Littered all the way. How am I to convey that all those times You let your mind wander away That I was reading, thinking, dreaming, Teeming, never idle, never strayed, Seeing, being, so far and away, Even the brightest intellect beaming, Could not grasp the feeling In the slightest of highest orders reeling, Wound unbound, or as it would be seeming, Imperfect, even to the disarray Of the tamest prefect, whose verdict Could not predict the reflect, For in this world, seeing is deceiving, As the lamest reject, defect, Increasingly decreasing, In simplistic bliss obey Crowned unsound fallacies That contradict all meaning, Hiding behind reality, the actualities Lest, protect the thoughtlessness perceiving, Let me stop you if I may... I must interject for I digress, What nonsense was I weaving? Forget it—I've lost my mind, I best be leaving, What more can I say? It's periodic I must confess, You probably don't care anyway, Yeah, yeah, I'll be okay, Until next time I guess, I wouldn't want to be misleading.
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May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 10:10 AM UTC
A Scattered Point
I guess I’m okay… What more can I say? Forget it—never mind, You wouldn’t understand anyway, Would you even know what it's like? Inside a scattered disconnected mind, Employed to go on strike? Where indirect misdirect The sincerity at play, When sinusoidal chaos spikes And past meets the future present day? As paranoid points outlandishly connect At intervals of broken lines, Memory lost in recollect, An array of misshaped bells Internally infect the eternal confines Of infinite distributional decay, Parallels with no intersect, Streetwise cells with empty signs, Burned out lights, potholes, and landmines, Littered all the way. How am I to convey that all those times You let your mind wander away That I was reading, thinking, dreaming, Teeming, never idle, never strayed, Seeing, being, so far and away, Even the brightest intellect beaming, Could not grasp the feeling In the slightest of highest orders reeling, Wound unbound, or as it would be seeming, Imperfect, even to the disarray Of the tamest prefect, whose verdict Could not predict the reflect, For in this world, seeing is deceiving, As the lamest reject, defect, Increasingly decreasing, In simplistic bliss obey Crowned unsound fallacies That contradict all meaning, Hiding behind reality, the actualities Lest, protect the thoughtlessness perceiving, Let me stop you if I may... I must interject for I digress, What nonsense was I weaving? Forget it—I've lost my mind, I best be leaving, What more can I say? It's periodic I must confess, You probably don't care anyway, Yeah, yeah, I'll be okay, Until next time I guess, I wouldn't want to be misleading.
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Beast surfacing, the geyser blows sea-spume that sudden, broaching, slows to blue, then falls, no prim fountain or ticking clock, Leviathan counting decades at formal intervals. On benches over rising thermals that reach to roast us, faithful, waiting, we cheer the act of hesitation before the final curtain -- though, see, the trick's just heat, just gravity. Almost enough, I hear you say -- this tidal flame, this awe-filled day, as mists dissolve and quick steam clears and cools and sinks, for years, years.
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 3:58 PM UTC
Yellowstone, 1985
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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It is so measured that rising arpeggio, only to fall and rise again in quicker values, through the dominant seventh to the heartache moment of that minor ninth, a very apogee of dissonance. Then it goes higher still to the fifth, holding to that Phrygian harmony before returning to the tonic minor and a measured fall in the bass. This is a deliberate descent to the sub-mediant, and Bach’s touch of magic, the equivalence with the dominant minor ninth. But then he gives us hope: an extended and joyful play through sequences that rise and fall within each bar, to rest finally on the mediant’s echo of that opening, that measured rise and the quickening fall. We have hardly smiled with relief when Bach pulls us back into the insecurity of the dominant of the subdominant, that V of IV acting like a bridge to a long, long discourse in the dominant, a pedal E holding firmly to itself whilst rising arpeggios and falling decorations and sequences pull and pull through innocently related keys. Longer and longer play the rising passages until short motives of imitation interrupt, treble to bass, tenor to alto, until:  a first inversion arpeggio of the dominant seventh measures out the opening rhythm. This happens twice in short succession, as though holding the progress of the music to account. A questioning perhaps before a four-fold sequence asserts the dominant and a chorded caesura. There is a pregnant, though faintly resonant silence as Bach spins the dice of tonality and chooses the subdominant to bring the music towards a waiting Allemande. The music moves through a play of subdominant to dominant, minor to major, the mix of flattened fifth and flattened ninth. It is those intervals that determine Bach as the father of ambiguity in the 20C school of jazz harmony, Arpeggio then a falling scale, and repeat and repeat again, but moving ever higher by sequence. At last five chords – merely a shorthand for closure via the expectation of a right display of the performer’s improvisatory prowess. They prepare us reverently for the tonic minor before the stately Allemande leads the music into the elegant steps of its walking dance.
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 3:13 AM UTC
On playing the Prelude from Bach’s Second Suite for Violoncello
It is so measured that rising arpeggio, only to fall and rise again in quicker values, through the dominant seventh to the heartache moment of that minor ninth, a very apogee of dissonance. Then it goes higher still to the fifth, holding to that Phrygian harmony before returning to the tonic minor and a measured fall in the bass. This is a deliberate descent to the sub-mediant, and Bach’s touch of magic, the equivalence with the dominant minor ninth. But then he gives us hope: an extended and joyful play through sequences that rise and fall within each bar, to rest finally on the mediant’s echo of that opening, that measured rise and the quickening fall. We have hardly smiled with relief when Bach pulls us back into the insecurity of the dominant of the subdominant, that V of IV acting like a bridge to a long, long discourse in the dominant, a pedal E holding firmly to itself whilst rising arpeggios and falling decorations and sequences pull and pull through innocently related keys. Longer and longer play the rising passages until short motives of imitation interrupt, treble to bass, tenor to alto, until:  a first inversion arpeggio of the dominant seventh measures out the opening rhythm. This happens twice in short succession, as though holding the progress of the music to account. A questioning perhaps before a four-fold sequence asserts the dominant and a chorded caesura. There is a pregnant, though faintly resonant silence as Bach spins the dice of tonality and chooses the subdominant to bring the music towards a waiting Allemande. The music moves through a play of subdominant to dominant, minor to major, the mix of flattened fifth and flattened ninth. It is those intervals that determine Bach as the father of ambiguity in the 20C school of jazz harmony, Arpeggio then a falling scale, and repeat and repeat again, but moving ever higher by sequence. At last five chords – merely a shorthand for closure via the expectation of a right display of the performer’s improvisatory prowess. They prepare us reverently for the tonic minor before the stately Allemande leads the music into the elegant steps of its walking dance.
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my pretty darling, aphrodite's beloved, i will love you when slumber calls for my name i will love you when the tangerine sun rises in the day in-between minutes, the fissures in seconds, i love you in those intervals
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Jun 16, 2022
Jun 16, 2022 at 8:18 AM UTC
venusian girl
I have cancer, but that's not what I want to talk about. Nor do I want to talk about the cold bouncing in   from the sliding glass door of the lobby. (The lst    floor lights give off deceptive warmth.) I don't want to talk about hospitals, or illness for that matter because, truthfully, its become a game   of things I'd rather not discuss.    If you have an imagination, you get it. I don't want to talk about the thirty day hospital intervals, or the way my heart turns seeing my mother watch her son   soldier through. I can be brave and not feel like talking.    Because why talk when I have you here, next to me, smiling.
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 3:32 AM UTC
Not To Mention
I think often Of breastfeeding The tip of my ****** tickling his skin-thin upper gum. In my imagination It is many minutes of calm I cup his head Which fits into a palm and a half My body is full With his quiet innocence. I imagine trying to imagine How much he doesn’t know All the ***** things This action may mean one day How he doesn’t know What a kitchen is Or a mortgage or an income His fears are not boring. Mine are of finances and guilt His involve teethed creatures and deaf silences. He does not know what it means For the time to be 3:15 Nor can he comprehend The recentness of his existence. I and the cat are nocturnal He lives in intervals. We associate babies With a soft pink I imagine Looking into his eyes Two wrinkly slits Wondering how to Confirm this.
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 1:18 AM UTC
Breast-Fed Musings