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"lamentation" poems
The ****** They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, however the ****** is a gold mine. Women do not even know what their possess many a nation have gone to war, because of this ugly beauty, the seven hundred wives of King Solomon and his three hundred concubines a great example of what the ugly beauty can do. Infidelity is on the rise, so many lies, since the ****** is an embarassing subject why men lie and killed for it, For this remarkable commodity A ****** is like a Van Gogh painting, it gets lot of attention. A weapon so powerful It can break a man down to his lowest it has a language of its own. silly words like sup, sup, sup. during loving making However, that was supposed to be the primary appeal of a beer to men. The ****** and a beer have so much in common they both get their men all the time, a smooth transportation, in addition, the lamentation, ****** you are surely number one! Men incredible dreams, No matter how destructive or fulfilling,. .
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Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM UTC
The ******
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM UTC
A Crowing Lamentation
Why am I so dif-fer-ent? They say I’m out of touch. Why am I, ple-nar-ily sad? This life it hurts so much. And why do they come, come every day? Shush, quiet now, they’re here. Those awful tormentors of my soul all cackling and queer! Whirling head of spinning revolutions, …feel my stomach ache and pang. Why will they not leave me alone? This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I shouldn’t always feel like this, feel such solemn pain, …troubling and trouble is these birds are driving me insane! I’m screaming now! I’m mad with rage! Throwing ice cubes at my deck, “Go away! Yes, go away!” -their numbers must be kept in check. Blackhole-whirl, flying twirling darkness, their funnel it points to me-e-e-e-! For too many is too painful and my mind’s a constant wreck! One cannot think with those infernal be-e-e-asts, ...and the crazy song they sang. Why do they so punish me? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. I know they serve the Saturn’s wheel and now they’ve come for me. What did I do? Oh what great sin, oh the blackbirds from within; The Abyssimal Sea? Their whirlpool funnel is all around, as my harried soul, it expiates. I’m done-in; I’m over now, a sorely victim of the Fates! They took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. Why could they not leave me alone? The crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. If you find yourself all alone and mired in their thought, …do not think, extirpate, all the human damage that you’ve wrought. His flock of fledgling melancholy musical formation, …will take you away and straight to Hell; the Seventh Circle congregation! For they took me, took me away, when the tolling bell it rang. And they will not leave you alone. This crew of darkness; Blackbird Gang. *
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What can I read her What can I read her on a Sunday Morning What can I do that will somehow reach her on a Sunday Morning I’ll read her the news of The Indian Wars Full of criss-cavalry, blood & gore Stories to tame & charm & more On a Sunday Morning ~~~ Some wild fires Searchout a dry quiet kiss on leaving ~~~ Like our ancestors The Indians We share a fear of *** excessive lamentation for the dead & an abiding interest in dreams & visions
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Miami
From depths of woe I raise to Thee The voice of lamentation; Lord, turn a gracious ear to me And hear my supplication; If Thou iniquities dost mark, Our secret sins and misdeeds dark, O who shall stand before Thee? To wash away the crimson stain, Grace, grace alone availeth; Our works, alas! are all in vain; In much the best life faileth: No man can glory in Thy sight, All must alike confess Thy might, And live alone by mercy. Therefore my trust is in the Lord, And not in mine own merit; On Him my soul shall rest, His Word Upholds my fainting spirit: His promised mercy is my fort, My comfort, and my sweet support; I wait for it with patience. What though I wait the livelong night, And till the dawn appeareth, My heart still trusteth in His might; It doubteth not nor feareth: Do thus, O ye of Israel’s seed, Ye of the Spirit born indeed; And wait till God appeareth. Though great our sins and sore our woes, His grace much more aboundeth; His helping love no limit knows, Our utmost need it soundeth. Our Shepherd good and true is He, Who will at last His Israel free. From all their sin and sorrow.                            ~ Martin Luther (1483-1546)
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 1:20 PM UTC
From Depths of Woe I Raise To Thee (by Martin Luther)
The moon laments in drones of silence As tides raise-churning waves of violence The mountains crest the surface of the sea Now the earth is free to breathe Can you see her now, oh Universe Can you see your daughter giving birth The formation of stars in her youthful eyes She dreams of life that can never die Primordial spirits, archaic stew Volcanic rapture, lands of new Frozen tundra of ancient ice Her organic recipe sustains life Eukaryotas thrive in a muck of wonder Upon themselves they feed and plunder Reptilian brain stems to limbic systems Complex neocortex to indecision Now she cries out to the universe    I am tired and now I am cursed Still the moon tugs upon her tides    As we dance into eternal night...
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 9:35 AM UTC
MOTHER EARTH’S LAMENTATION
Whan the turuf is thy tour anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch When the turf is your tower and the pit is your bower, your pale white skin and throat only sullen worms shall note. What help unto you, then was all your worldly hope? *** Original Middle English text: Whan the turuf is thy tour, And thy pit is thy bour, Thy fel and thy whitë throtë Shullen wormës to notë. What helpëth thee thennë Al the worildë wennë? “Whan the turuf is thy tour” may be one of the oldest carpe diem (“seize the day”) poems in the English language, and an ancestor of Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” with its virginity-destroying worms. Keywords/Tags: Middle English, translation, medieval, anonymous, rhyme, rhyming, medieval, lament, complaint, lamentation, turf, tower, pit, bower, skin, throat, worms, note, help, worldly, hope
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Feb 28, 2020
Feb 28, 2020 at 2:56 AM UTC
"Whan the turuf is thy tour" translation
This ***** ****** They say that beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder, so does this ***** have eyes? the power of evil and bad, Today we see what it can do Many a nation have gone to war, Because of this ugly beauty, many family units has been tread apart Because of its evil doings, The seven hundred wives of King Solomon and his three Hundred concubines was a great example of what the ugly beauty can do: Infidelity is on the rise, so many lies: so many shortcoming, Lucy ****** is an embarrassing subject why men lie and killed for it? this remarkable commodity: with ****** is like a Van Gogh painting, It gets lot of attention: the baseline dimensions is still a mystery: A weapon so powerful It can break a man down to his lowest It has a language of its own. silly words like sup, sup, sup. the same sound effects of a cold beer going down the gullets: the smoother, the  esophagus: pleasers The ****** and a beer have so much in common they both get their men all the time, a smooth transportation, in addition, the lamentation, ****** you are surely blissful: Men incredible dreams who wouldn’t want to own the team? No matter how destructive or fulfilling: ** Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” ― Roman Payne** Quote
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Apr 29, 2018
Apr 29, 2018 at 2:07 PM UTC
This ***** ******
I see a flash A sight to behold The work of an immortal sculptor Walking straight in elegant pride Worth of a princess of the sun Firmly transfixed in her twelve Moving into the emptiness of an invalid society Her innocence screaming In an unchallenged clarity And only twelve moons The framework of her modeling salivates Wolves in men Who’s been exposed to the virus Emerging from the bush land of their desires To seek their vengeance in a fanatical hatred And poor me the princess With the *** lunacy roaming the streets, Sanity of abstinence is the greatest challenge. Swung from poverty to adolescence A pendulum of fates Hunger at home for the family And her homestead a moonscape of desolation The two hundred shillings does the trick She trades out her innocence And virginity too; a girls pride And alongside the legal tender Comes the virus The minute monster Savoring a society of huge minds. There is the tuberculosis In a hospital ward Full of undug graves and shrines unnamed. Drawn into the vacuum of her fate Eyes wide open in dismal finality The princess Lie in freeze frame of death A pyramid of events Molded out of her last several terrible seconds Lamentation for the society A dull eulogy for our girls.
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Jun 23, 2012
Jun 23, 2012 at 5:19 AM UTC
EULOGY FOR OUR GIRLS
In a lonely place succumbs. To my childhood till this day. Carves the age of longevity. When colors were once remained. Blue captured eyes like fame. Streets pathed along the way— Guiding to a melancholy lane. In times of November breeze. Boat by boat each one sail's, The building's growing moss— that cries the tears of rain. Slipping like a sultry state, Washing what can never stay. Filling through but twas too late. To the race walking in romans. Sparkles every narrative palm. Marigolds that lead their way, The cold traded from warm. Everybody's longing a friend. Dark night was a weeping tomb, In places were life meets the end.
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 8:33 AM UTC
◦ Blue Lamentation
Budging the sluggard ripples of the Somme, A barge round old Cérisy slowly slewed. Softly her engines down the current ******* And chuckled softly with contented hum, Till fairy tinklings struck their croonings dumb. The waters rumpling at the stern subdued; The lock-gate took her bulging amplitude; Gently from out the gurgling lock she swum. One reading by that calm bank shaded eyes To watch her lessening westward quietly. Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed. And that long lamentation made him wise How unto Avalon, in agony, Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed.
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Hospital Barge
ALTHOUGH I shelter from the rain Under a broken tree, My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. Though lads are making pikes again For some conspiracy, And crazy rascals rage their fill At human tyranny, My contemplations are of Time That has transfigured me. There's not a woman turns her face Upon a broken tree, And yet the beauties that I loved Are in my memory; I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
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The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner
/ Many days I do not read any newspaper Even do not see television At all Many days have gone After You I do not read any poetry How to feel that since this morning! Repeatedly hear identifying tunes on the air Your arrival in the sky, The air reverberates Looks like another day In the Paradise, In another song, Which brings the soul The Aroma Everyone is coming out From all sides Young Old Babies Boys Women Men Everyone Everyone is clapping Singing the song of the same tune This song is not the song of Rain Not even a lamentation The Southern breeze whispering your words Slowly Said, The Little Tailor Bird No, No, Not such a summer afternoon Not even a hurricane warning Each of the human eye Follow the Eastern Sky   Tireless Eye Watching the sun, The Red Sun, You went to bring dreams for us From the Sun Hundreds of thousands of people In his next question Hand with Flower Shoulder to Shoulder Today will be the day of strangers, The poet will come We are standing in the flowers Fist full of dreams to take Float in the sky with white clouds My dreams are calling again Today is not such an Autumn But Still feel like an Autumn Indeed,   The poet will come, A poem in the New Where each word will be spoken dream Love to be evacuated Poems that will repay The debt to my Ancestor Take revenge on thee For their injustice, Torture Poems that would bring the stars For our next generation A poem that would bring the red rose for my darling, Would bring such a smile to my mother's face As Moon that smile And that is simply killed false dreams Will we ever Released Sing Freedom Songs The Poet, My beloved Poet You will come, Will surely come And will recite your immortal poem / @ Musfiq us shaleheen
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:11 AM UTC
The Poet Comes and Recites an Immortal Poem
/ Many days I do not read any newspaper Even do not see television At all Many days have gone After You I do not read any poetry How to feel that since this morning! Repeatedly hear identifying tunes on the air Your arrival in the sky, The air reverberates Looks like another day In the Paradise, In another song, Which brings the soul The Aroma Everyone is coming out From all sides Young Old Babies Boys Women Men Everyone Everyone is clapping Singing the song of the same tune This song is not the song of Rain Not even a lamentation The Southern breeze whispering your words Slowly Said, The Little Tailor Bird No, No, Not such a summer afternoon Not even a hurricane warning Each of the human eye Follow the Eastern Sky   Tireless Eye Watching the sun, The Red Sun, You went to bring dreams for us From the Sun Hundreds of thousands of people In his next question Hand with Flower Shoulder to Shoulder Today will be the day of strangers, The poet will come We are standing in the flowers Fist full of dreams to take Float in the sky with white clouds My dreams are calling again Today is not such an Autumn But Still feel like an Autumn Indeed,   The poet will come, A poem in the New Where each word will be spoken dream Love to be evacuated Poems that will repay The debt to my Ancestor Take revenge on thee For their injustice, Torture Poems that would bring the stars For our next generation A poem that would bring the red rose for my darling, Would bring such a smile to my mother's face As Moon that smile And that is simply killed false dreams Will we ever Released Sing Freedom Songs The Poet, My beloved Poet You will come, Will surely come And will recite your immortal poem / @ Musfiq us shaleheen
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∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ The dawn of daybreak soldiers in full armor I am in aim, ready for battle trumpets flung up high a chant of war arises With a full force we run up roaring, and I trust in no one carrying pride my side and all I am, a child with promises In my mind was anger heart wants revenge unknowingly, I'm beginning to falter the enemy took- my vigor's and strength Deluded I fall out losing hopes, and fear was all about, vultures circled darkness hovered blame was all around But on the Sky... A light seeks below I cried out to the Lord, a second chance from the agony I bare, give me a revelation out of this lamentation Then He told me, Give me all of you & I'll show you wonders you never even knew, visions of truth For I am, Who I am The Beginning, The End And the light took me- far and away and the mist has filled- my heart behold a greater glory has come forth My faith begins again night turned to day I have fought the fight He Crowned Me... A Tomorrow victory has won its price
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Jul 27, 2017
Jul 27, 2017 at 9:59 AM UTC
◦ Crown Me... A Tomorrow ◦
You have no chance to rewrite your story There is no way to erase mistakes You can eclipse your shame with glory But your faults will always rise the stakes. You can’t escape your past and reputation They both will chase you to the day of doom And your tears shed in lamentation Will not dispel the reigning sceptic gloom. Do things of which you’ll never be ashamed Be kind. Be grateful, generous and honest Mean deeds will hurt you first, getting you defamed The noble ones will make of you the greatest.
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Mar 30, 2018
Mar 30, 2018 at 1:35 PM UTC
Mistakes
I see a flash A sight to behold The work of an immortal sculptor Walking straight in elegant pride Worth of a princess of the sun Firmly transfixed in her twelve Moving into the emptiness of an Invalid society Her innocence screaming In an unchallenged clarity And only twelve moons The framework of her modelling salivates Wolves in men Who's been exposed to the virus Emerging from the bushland of their desires To seek their vengeance in a fanatical hatred And poor me the Princess With the *** Lunacy roaming the streets Sanity of abstinence is the greatest challenge. Swung from poverty to adolescence A pendulum of fates Hunger at home for the family And her homestead a moonscape of desolation. The two Hundred shillings does the trick She trades out her innocence And virginity too- a girl's pride And alongside the legal tender comes the virus The minute Monster Savoring a society of huge minds. There is the tuberculosis In a hospital ward Full of undug graves and shrines unnamed Drawn into the vacuum of her fate Eyes wide open in dismal finality The princess Lie in freeze frame of death A pyramid of events Molded out of her last several terrible seconds Lamentation for the society A dull eulogy For our girls.
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Feb 16, 2012
Feb 16, 2012 at 2:03 AM UTC
EULOGY FOR OUR GIRLS
On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery, a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs, abandoned and forgotten. Neither the sound of prayer nor the voice of lamentation is heard there for the dead praise not the Lord. Only the voices of our children ring out, seeking graves and cheering each time they find one--like mushrooms in the forest, like wild strawberries. Here's another grave! There's the name of my mother's mothers, and a name from the last century. And here's a name, and there! And as I was about to brush the moss from the name-- Look! an open hand engraved on the tombstone, the grave of a kohen, his fingers splayed in a spasm of holiness and blessing, and here's a grave concealed by a thicket of berries that has to be brushed aside like a shock of hair from the face of a beautiful beloved woman.
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A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
lonely lonely, you leave me so, inside out watching the stars burn out in an emptying of cosmic sorrow.. and tomorrow I know the sun will smile at me your kisses will taste like honey and the birds will romance me with slaughtered butterflies and sweet lamentation. But today, I've been tuning radio static to white noise and flashes of Chopin, trying to recreate a feeling from shadows and memory. don't leave me lonely, dear, make love to me in the hypnagogic stare of the rising sun. play me soft as buttercups and foxgloves; piannissimo, gentle as death's watchful eye.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 12:19 AM UTC
piannissimo
The drowning fly a little boy... rescued from water placed, upon leaf. Shaking his wings staring and puzzled? Little Boy smiled then said, Goodbye. Off he flew, perhaps a sigh? Little became bigger, old, then gone. Ages, years later planet now dying. Lamentation and despair! No, little hope! And they came strange-ones; as bugs. Seeing through time somehow they knew? Knew about Boy from long ago. Leaving quite suddenly left us gift. A planet saved, saving our people. Turning at door smiling said, Goodbye. Statue right there, spot they landed. The Little Boy saving a Fly. *
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
The Little Boy
There is serenity within its self-stimulating prowess, as a legion of testimony sways in the easterly winds of dendrological plantations. Can you feel the power of the banshee as her Irish spirit cries in the face of certain death? The herald of Caoin is a lamentation for your long and pale hair. Oh relentless gestations of hatred, I appeal to your haunting foreplay.
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 1:29 AM UTC
A Maternal Death in Childbirth
The old man told his story, lost within his troubled youth His words quite labored, heavy... his raspy voice by now uncouth At times mixing the conversation with gin and ice, and sweet vermouth His eyes were clear however, and I saw therein... a quiet truth He talked of her at length, his thoughts concise, composed... serene At times he’d pause, efface another silent tear he’d wished unseen His dreams would countermand the years... love and youth, would reconvene She’s waiting there for him you see… The girl with eyes, of Paris green Some had said her ways unsound, disposition... introject He said she knew the rumors, and she thought them all quite innocent He told of how she’d laughed at them… of narrow minds, and intellect He found in her the love he’d sought, although his hope remained suspect He looked into her eyes, and saw the faintest touch of sorrow there Shining through the gentle mist, and the eglantine within her hair He felt somehow her pain, although she’d kept it obscure... nom de guerre And so his own mistakes were viewed, in Paris green... and sad despair Their time together thus unfurled within this anguished declamation Of years now spent in solitude, with lost and lonesome lamentation For one whose essence still bestows upon his dreams, in meditation Aspirations there arise, to leave his heart in desperation His thoughts remained unchanged, unbroken... memories demure He stood to mix another drink, then paused...perhaps his mind unsure Gathering his memories, so past and present touch... concur And then continued once again, his sad and doleful dream of her I listened there, throughout the night... I lie in sedentary pose Then as I fall asleep I see the here and now, and then... transpose I see myself in dreams with her, but why? my heart has not disclosed I'm lost within some late, late hour envisage... or so I suppose I then awake alone, to find my thoughts of her and then, no clearer The snow outside my window cannot bring her memory nearer Though I can dream of Paris green, and all those places, so familiar Tonight I'll listen once again, and tell my story.. to the mirror Dean Evans 1-06-15
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 2:50 PM UTC
EYES OF PARIS GREEN
The old man told his story, lost within his troubled youth His words quite labored, heavy... his raspy voice by now uncouth At times mixing the conversation with gin and ice, and sweet vermouth His eyes were clear however, and I saw therein... a quiet truth He talked of her at length, his thoughts concise, composed... serene At times he’d pause, efface another silent tear he’d wished unseen His dreams would countermand the years... love and youth, would reconvene She’s waiting there for him you see… The girl with eyes, of Paris green Some had said her ways unsound, disposition... introject He said she knew the rumors, and she thought them all quite innocent He told of how she’d laughed at them… of narrow minds, and intellect He found in her the love he’d sought, although his hope remained suspect He looked into her eyes, and saw the faintest touch of sorrow there Shining through the gentle mist, and the eglantine within her hair He felt somehow her pain, although she’d kept it obscure... nom de guerre And so his own mistakes were viewed, in Paris green... and sad despair Their time together thus unfurled within this anguished declamation Of years now spent in solitude, with lost and lonesome lamentation For one whose essence still bestows upon his dreams, in meditation Aspirations there arise, to leave his heart in desperation His thoughts remained unchanged, unbroken... memories demure He stood to mix another drink, then paused...perhaps his mind unsure Gathering his memories, so past and present touch... concur And then continued once again, his sad and doleful dream of her I listened there, throughout the night... I lie in sedentary pose Then as I fall asleep I see the here and now, and then... transpose I see myself in dreams with her, but why? my heart has not disclosed I'm lost within some late, late hour envisage... or so I suppose I then awake alone, to find my thoughts of her and then, no clearer The snow outside my window cannot bring her memory nearer Though I can dream of Paris green, and all those places, so familiar Tonight I'll listen once again, and tell my story.. to the mirror Dean Evans 1-06-15
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Maturity is knowing what your limitations are…(my daily chore) <> “Maturity is knowing what your limitations are. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” Kurt Vonnegut <> maturity comes when you cannot, even try, to fool oneself, indeed, you preposterousness, make you laugh hardest at your very, fully owned, selfhood preening mirror disguise Is this a poem, a lamentation, a pithy regurgitation of Vonnegut, and you say: “Don’t care, it’s words that gotta come out, be released to empty the heart” a daily excess removal of that daily overflow of the days first words when new day light and nighttime’s REM sleep overlap, and the music starts of a life time of favorites, and like a pleasant thorn direct into your temples brain, the leaking, then the spilling spirals unstoppable onto the pages, and the first true relieving exhalation comes with the excited exorcism of the stones of your life, come outside your body and there is a freshly born stripe upon your face, not yet a scar for it is yet to ripen by healing, but it is your creature for loving…and it is good company with so many prior guests who have checked in, stayed for a moment’s observation, departed after getting an extended checkout time, joining the many who came and went, disappearing in to the internet’s ether, where we one will join them eventually, though you smile at that thought, cause you’re mature enough, baby, an all growled up dude, to know that when you reached that stage, you will be, non-stop laughing at *** serious you imagined you were, and wondering out loud why it took so long to recognize that mirrored visage as one big ole fool with a smile upon his face… p.s so much for that promise to take a break from beating yourself up, but you know what, it is pleasing, in that way when upon the grand occasion of waking up to another unexpected day of living deserves a deep, but rueful, laugh out loud and others’ look at your self and argue to only mischievously agree, you are indeed, still crazy after all these years
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Jul 8, 2023
Jul 8, 2023 at 8:24 AM UTC
Maturity is knowing what your limitations are...(my daily chore)
Maturity is knowing what your limitations are…(my daily chore) <> “Maturity is knowing what your limitations are. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” Kurt Vonnegut <> maturity comes when you cannot, even try, to fool oneself, indeed, you preposterousness, make you laugh hardest at your very, fully owned, selfhood preening mirror disguise Is this a poem, a lamentation, a pithy regurgitation of Vonnegut, and you say: “Don’t care, it’s words that gotta come out, be released to empty the heart” a daily excess removal of that daily overflow of the days first words when new day light and nighttime’s REM sleep overlap, and the music starts of a life time of favorites, and like a pleasant thorn direct into your temples brain, the leaking, then the spilling spirals unstoppable onto the pages, and the first true relieving exhalation comes with the excited exorcism of the stones of your life, come outside your body and there is a freshly born stripe upon your face, not yet a scar for it is yet to ripen by healing, but it is your creature for loving…and it is good company with so many prior guests who have checked in, stayed for a moment’s observation, departed after getting an extended checkout time, joining the many who came and went, disappearing in to the internet’s ether, where we one will join them eventually, though you smile at that thought, cause you’re mature enough, baby, an all growled up dude, to know that when you reached that stage, you will be, non-stop laughing at *** serious you imagined you were, and wondering out loud why it took so long to recognize that mirrored visage as one big ole fool with a smile upon his face… p.s so much for that promise to take a break from beating yourself up, but you know what, it is pleasing, in that way when upon the grand occasion of waking up to another unexpected day of living deserves a deep, but rueful, laugh out loud and others’ look at your self and argue to only mischievously agree, you are indeed, still crazy after all these years
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I am from the towering oak and pine trees That sway on the old forest’s edge, Coyotes howling in the shadows A haunting lamentation I am from the creaky stairs and floorboards At the house on Liberty Street, From the ancient gas heater and its tendrils of flame That never seemed to be quite hot enough I am from the sound of my father’s voice Heavy with sleep as he whispers to us A late night bedtime story, Scaring away the monsters under our beds I am from Sunday mornings Bursting with rays of golden light and Filtering through glimmering church windows Lingering on familiar faces I am from ‘make good choices’ 'Be a peacemaker’ ‘You are greatness’ and ‘Oiaue!’ I am from the scent of Mom’s cookies Chocolate chip and butterscotch Melting away winters and Warming cold hearts I am from acrylic paint, Graphite, ink and canvas From smudged hands, stained clothes, And a sketchbook full of scribblings I am from the crisp chill of autumn In the mountains of Vermont, Staring into a sea of stars As dazzling sparks float skyward in the distance I am from the cool sea breeze And the salty mist over the water Waves crashing fiercely in the haze Of Newport’s rocky shores I am from the quiet peace That can only come from the words “I love you” and the warm embrace That often follows I am from endless words Written with shaking, ink-stained hands On crumpled bone white paper Hoping to be good enough to keep I am from weak muscles and fragile bones From hesitant first steps and training wheels From stubborn no’s and penitent yes’s From late nights and shadowy eyes I am from the past I am from the present I am from the trembling, changing Pathway to my future I am from this house This family and This home
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 8:08 AM UTC
I am from Endless Words
I am from the towering oak and pine trees That sway on the old forest’s edge, Coyotes howling in the shadows A haunting lamentation I am from the creaky stairs and floorboards At the house on Liberty Street, From the ancient gas heater and its tendrils of flame That never seemed to be quite hot enough I am from the sound of my father’s voice Heavy with sleep as he whispers to us A late night bedtime story, Scaring away the monsters under our beds I am from Sunday mornings Bursting with rays of golden light and Filtering through glimmering church windows Lingering on familiar faces I am from ‘make good choices’ 'Be a peacemaker’ ‘You are greatness’ and ‘Oiaue!’ I am from the scent of Mom’s cookies Chocolate chip and butterscotch Melting away winters and Warming cold hearts I am from acrylic paint, Graphite, ink and canvas From smudged hands, stained clothes, And a sketchbook full of scribblings I am from the crisp chill of autumn In the mountains of Vermont, Staring into a sea of stars As dazzling sparks float skyward in the distance I am from the cool sea breeze And the salty mist over the water Waves crashing fiercely in the haze Of Newport’s rocky shores I am from the quiet peace That can only come from the words “I love you” and the warm embrace That often follows I am from endless words Written with shaking, ink-stained hands On crumpled bone white paper Hoping to be good enough to keep I am from weak muscles and fragile bones From hesitant first steps and training wheels From stubborn no’s and penitent yes’s From late nights and shadowy eyes I am from the past I am from the present I am from the trembling, changing Pathway to my future I am from this house This family and This home
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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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Pellets of rain pestered the cotton swagged sky, cloudy purses grew black with scowls coldly spelling their injustice. A chapter of sunrays shot shamesless shards, irony perched between chaperones; a truce maybe, rains restless pathways of rays bleating their appeal, rooming in, black balaclavas, rooting for blue beams, itching bony beads of cloudy sweat, out of reach In turn, limbs colour coated grassy spaces tides of sun worshippers laughed out loud their inner duets, hand in hand the sweltering dance floor bathed them, sidling cotton clouds Swiftly passing the sunscreen, laying back, beckoning the sun from beneath neatly positioned cloud baubles. Within an inch of our lives the splodges began, light heavy, heavier, to the swell of April in full tune Instantly the greedy green spaces groaned, ejected sweet harmony, rolled out goodbyes, tongued stiff breeze longing for its thirst to be quenched, and so torrents rushed in where fools once lay A lonely sunscreen bottle, remnant of warm minds soaking heat, long days teasing into belief. Yet April fooled us once more with beguiling banter, chorused a chanting cheating lullaby of lamentation
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May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013 at 1:04 PM UTC
Beguilingly April
This society is seeming, if you cannot and haven't involve in atrocious thangs you  seem counted out in the society. _It's more arduous if you're broke. Life in nigh stuck _lamentation _in  oceans of temptation._ _ _but hold on stronger not yet the end of whole it, for no__ *matter how goes it, dreadful night long, there shall always be a brighter day just after the dark.*   _Going to reach peak 🗻, speak affirmation,_ Amen conclusion. - C9fm
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Mar 13, 2023
Mar 13, 2023 at 5:51 PM UTC
"NIGHT LONG"