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"lazarus" poems
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
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Lady Lazarus
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a **** lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?---- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade. What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see Them unwrap me hand and foot The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident. The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Dying Is an art, like everything else, I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout: 'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart---- It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy. I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. Ash, ash --- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there---- A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
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i always thought you were thru traffic that you were just jet lag background noise the kiss in the rain i've never had but what if you aren't? what if this was the thousandth time i have loved you? what if this is just a fresh coat of paint? what if god keeps a handkerchief soaked in the day we met next to his bed? maybe theres a reason i reach for no one in bed the way i would if someone used to be there you know, they say the road behind us is littered with things we couldn't hold onto i wonder how many times you've slipped through my hands like hour glass sand do you know how much erosion you've caused? i heard cupid stopped keeping count of how many times we came together just to come apart again maybe it was just a rumor it makes me think about how many times i've almost had you like if all this talk about history repeating itself endlessly replaying is true i wonder how many times things have happened already like the time i tried talking you into loving me back back fired or the time i could have sworn jesus & lazarus were playing chess with my heartbeat but it was only you smiling how many times have i tried to tell you how many times have you read this poem how many times have i tried not to meet you in my dreams anymore it's like sleep tries to warn me of what's happening before it does but i keep having this dream where i tell you bedtime stories and each one is a different way you die and in every one i can never save you it's like you're this song i have on repeat and every time it starts over i forget the words it's like you picked up the book entitled "us" and the back cover said you'd leave so you never bothered reading it tell me you aren't going back in that bookstore just to do it again or will you tell me tomorrow? or is this the time you don't say anything at all? if this has all happened before if we call it quits before we begin again from the beginning i just want to ask you to be my fire because i am tired of these old lives and i'd like to see them burn
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Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM UTC
carousel
i always thought you were thru traffic that you were just jet lag background noise the kiss in the rain i've never had but what if you aren't? what if this was the thousandth time i have loved you? what if this is just a fresh coat of paint? what if god keeps a handkerchief soaked in the day we met next to his bed? maybe theres a reason i reach for no one in bed the way i would if someone used to be there you know, they say the road behind us is littered with things we couldn't hold onto i wonder how many times you've slipped through my hands like hour glass sand do you know how much erosion you've caused? i heard cupid stopped keeping count of how many times we came together just to come apart again maybe it was just a rumor it makes me think about how many times i've almost had you like if all this talk about history repeating itself endlessly replaying is true i wonder how many times things have happened already like the time i tried talking you into loving me back back fired or the time i could have sworn jesus & lazarus were playing chess with my heartbeat but it was only you smiling how many times have i tried to tell you how many times have you read this poem how many times have i tried not to meet you in my dreams anymore it's like sleep tries to warn me of what's happening before it does but i keep having this dream where i tell you bedtime stories and each one is a different way you die and in every one i can never save you it's like you're this song i have on repeat and every time it starts over i forget the words it's like you picked up the book entitled "us" and the back cover said you'd leave so you never bothered reading it tell me you aren't going back in that bookstore just to do it again or will you tell me tomorrow? or is this the time you don't say anything at all? if this has all happened before if we call it quits before we begin again from the beginning i just want to ask you to be my fire because i am tired of these old lives and i'd like to see them burn
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the bones were hard to give up, they pushed out like daisies caressed under the hounding heart of a copper sun. unbridled and undried they bore zealous arrogance of themselves, petals dripping ****** convictions and vibrating like awful angels. under cruel devices they tried to soften my bones and mold thick skull constructed of lackluster candles on their last flame. days passed like doctors and white nurses examining old wires that pray tell the routines, the stools, the teeth. i am their Jesus, their Lazarus. my hearse, my sheep keeper, my pretty things, i become the acrobat at the finale, the last supper, supplementing at the **** of my recovery. i lay my skin down for all of you to see:  here is my breast! my toad belly!  my glass feet!
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Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC
daisies
In the last months of March 2014, Soldier Othello the Moroccan moor Was in Stratford-upon-Avon at the graveside Of William Shakespeare the English bard, He was observing the anniversary Of Shakespeare and his European brother Cervantes, He had in his pocket another charm and amulet Given to him by his paternal grandfather, This time round not a charm for love portion, But a mystique totem to raise the dead from dusts, As Othello himself has hitherto over-matured Above the painful torture of *** with aristocrats, He has left it for the Jewish aristotrash; Frantz Kafka, Whose torturous appetite for *** with German women, Was the sorriest eyesore of his thespic efforts. Like Jesus at the grave of Lazarus Othello groaned by shouting; William the son of John! No response, he shouted again; Shakespeare the bard! Then the mystique powers of Othello’s amulet Electrified Shakespeare back to life, What is your problem you black moor, The ***** of Morocco, the soldier Who beguiled Desdemona into betrothal, Not because of glory of your work, But due to charms of your love portion Bequeathed to you by your witch mother, What brings you to my sepulchre, For only to perturbed my purgatorial peace, What brings you!? Questioned Shakespeare the bard. Am no longer the moor, blackness is class But not the race, as race is bankrupt, I come here to salute you with good news, That your European brother, Alfred Nobel, Currently rewards thespic bards like you, Whether black or white, blue or green, The ***** bards from the natural forest, He also rewards, so wake up and pick the prize! Retorted Othello in virtue of truth, And also tell me the native bricks Of your beautiful architecture; Where and how did you mold thy bricks? Your brown English bricks that walled your culture; ***** clown, leapfrog, mercurial, oxymoron, Falsitafity, Shyllocking, colleaguery and window, Cauldron, graymalkin, woo, betroth, infatuation and so on. From underneath his sepulcher Shakespeare broke A violent gaggle of laughter as if he was ten English skeletons, You Othello you are still a beautiful moor Whose foolishness time has not condemned to oblivion, You are as a fool as I created you ; I will only teach you One brick, the window , that you go and put on Your wind disturbed African huts, Put the wind door on your hut, And be flexible in your tongue To give it English elegance Combine and shorten wind and door To get your cultural brick of; window !
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 9:39 AM UTC
OTHELLO AT THE GRAVESIDE OF SHAKESPEARE
In the last months of March 2014, Soldier Othello the Moroccan moor Was in Stratford-upon-Avon at the graveside Of William Shakespeare the English bard, He was observing the anniversary Of Shakespeare and his European brother Cervantes, He had in his pocket another charm and amulet Given to him by his paternal grandfather, This time round not a charm for love portion, But a mystique totem to raise the dead from dusts, As Othello himself has hitherto over-matured Above the painful torture of *** with aristocrats, He has left it for the Jewish aristotrash; Frantz Kafka, Whose torturous appetite for *** with German women, Was the sorriest eyesore of his thespic efforts. Like Jesus at the grave of Lazarus Othello groaned by shouting; William the son of John! No response, he shouted again; Shakespeare the bard! Then the mystique powers of Othello’s amulet Electrified Shakespeare back to life, What is your problem you black moor, The ***** of Morocco, the soldier Who beguiled Desdemona into betrothal, Not because of glory of your work, But due to charms of your love portion Bequeathed to you by your witch mother, What brings you to my sepulchre, For only to perturbed my purgatorial peace, What brings you!? Questioned Shakespeare the bard. Am no longer the moor, blackness is class But not the race, as race is bankrupt, I come here to salute you with good news, That your European brother, Alfred Nobel, Currently rewards thespic bards like you, Whether black or white, blue or green, The ***** bards from the natural forest, He also rewards, so wake up and pick the prize! Retorted Othello in virtue of truth, And also tell me the native bricks Of your beautiful architecture; Where and how did you mold thy bricks? Your brown English bricks that walled your culture; ***** clown, leapfrog, mercurial, oxymoron, Falsitafity, Shyllocking, colleaguery and window, Cauldron, graymalkin, woo, betroth, infatuation and so on. From underneath his sepulcher Shakespeare broke A violent gaggle of laughter as if he was ten English skeletons, You Othello you are still a beautiful moor Whose foolishness time has not condemned to oblivion, You are as a fool as I created you ; I will only teach you One brick, the window , that you go and put on Your wind disturbed African huts, Put the wind door on your hut, And be flexible in your tongue To give it English elegance Combine and shorten wind and door To get your cultural brick of; window !
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If I was dead, And my bones adrift Like dropped oars In the deep, turning earth; Or drowned, And my skull A listening shell On the dark ocean bed; If I was dead, And my heart Soft mulch For a red, red rose; Or burned, And my body A fistful of grit, thrown In the face of the wind; If I was dead, And my eyes, Blind at the roots of flowers Wept into nothing, I swear your love Would raise me Out of my grave, In my flesh and blood, Like Lazarus; Hungry for this, And this, and this, Your living kiss.
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 7:00 AM UTC
If I was Dead - Carol Ann Duffy
I wish you detox from drunken heights, I’m jesus for today until my current shift ends and the next one begins, after many nights, in the garden centre of fallen south coast eden. Shine shine shine Light of mine For now everything’s just fine People’s faces glitter as I go by, memories of sinless youth, for my hands blind with nostalgia, that my being resurrects. The child Lazarus scurries past my side, to his home with his future in his hands, in my hands, cupped wide. Shine shine shine Light of mine For now everything’s just fine I can love the unfortunate, for my fortune is golden. Delivered in letters from North, West, East. My trinity circle who join me at my supper, breaking the garlic bread and sipping the borello, to top crab ravioli baptised in the stream of sauce. Shine shine shine Light of mine For now everything’s just fine The gates of heaven are open, unblocked by the deaths of Keats, Shelley and Williams, their souls not blocking the exit with an Underground Queue. I give my blessings to Livingstone and Charles Gordon The one native he changed and the others’ sacrifice at Khartoum Gained me my crown to modestly flaunt. Shine shine shine Light of mine For now everything’s just fine I float down the hall, to His Mighty Voice, as my gold becomes a donation on the alter, to gain the choral hymns of Mercury gilded rock gods that will brighten my days for now, oh glorious moments. Amen.
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC
The Messiah In Miss Hart's Class.
Bright green buds on dead sticks as Hydrangea, like Lazarus, rises.
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 7:44 AM UTC
Lazarus Hydrangea (Haiku)
Worm eats through to penetrate. Trespasses, what ***** deeds? What ichor is this to venerate? How dare eat, how dare have needs? Godly viral load unbeatable, no t-cell left to count. Wriggling in puddle inconceivable, **** upon this crucified mount. Lazarus, risen from the dead, no dog now licks your wounds. Lepers now banshees are instead social workers which we swoon. And the Roman laws and judges continue blame, hand down sentence, as degenerative generation smudges out from existence, *** penance. Dissected and pinned against wall, this writhing experiment oozes. Whilst priests and politicians naw, compassion and AIDS funding loses.
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Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 1:20 PM UTC
Crucify The Worm
Still falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of man, black as our loss--- Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross. Still falls the Rain With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat In the Potter's Field, and the sound of the impious feet On the Tomb: Still falls the Rain In the Field of Blood where the small hopes breed and the human brain Nurtures its greed, that worm with the brow of Cain. Still falls the Rain At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross. Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us--- On Dives and on Lazarus: Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one. Still falls the Rain--- Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side: He bears in His Heart all wounds,---those of the light that died, The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear--- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh... the tears of the hunted hare. Still falls the Rain--- Then--- O Ile leape up to my God: who pulles me doune--- See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament: It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart That holds the fires of the world,---dark-smirched with pain As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man Was once a child who among beasts has lain--- "Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."
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Still Falls the Rain
Still falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of man, black as our loss--- Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross. Still falls the Rain With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat In the Potter's Field, and the sound of the impious feet On the Tomb: Still falls the Rain In the Field of Blood where the small hopes breed and the human brain Nurtures its greed, that worm with the brow of Cain. Still falls the Rain At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross. Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us--- On Dives and on Lazarus: Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one. Still falls the Rain--- Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side: He bears in His Heart all wounds,---those of the light that died, The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear--- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh... the tears of the hunted hare. Still falls the Rain--- Then--- O Ile leape up to my God: who pulles me doune--- See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament: It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart That holds the fires of the world,---dark-smirched with pain As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man Was once a child who among beasts has lain--- "Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."
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We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The beast in the jungle was what he saw-- Edith Wharton's obfuscating older brother. . . He fled the demons of Manhattan for fear they would devour his inner ones (the ones who wrote the books) & silence the stifled screams of his protagonists. To Europe like a wandering Jew-- WASP that he was-- but with the Jew's outsider's hunger. . . face pressed up to the glass of *** refusing every passion but the passion to write the words grew more & more complex & convoluted until they utterly imprisoned him in their fairytale brambles. Language for me is meant to be a transparency, clear water gleaming under a covered bridge. . . I love his spiritual sister because she snatched clarity from her murky history. Tormented New Yorkers both, but she journeyed to the heart of light-- did he? She took her friends on one last voyage, through the isles of Greece on a yacht chartered with her royalties-- a rich girl proud to be making her own money. The light of the Middle Sea was what she sought. All denizens of this demonic city caught between pitch and black long for the light. But she found it in a few of her books. . . while Henry James discovered what he had probably started with: that beast, that jungle, that solipsistic scream. He did not join her on that final cruise. (He was on his own final cruise). Did he want to? I would wager yes. I look back with love and sorrow at them both-- dear teachers-- but she shines like Miss Liberty to Emma Lazarus' hordes, while he gazes within, always, at his own impenetrable jungle.
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Henry James in the Heart of the City
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The beast in the jungle was what he saw-- Edith Wharton's obfuscating older brother. . . He fled the demons of Manhattan for fear they would devour his inner ones (the ones who wrote the books) & silence the stifled screams of his protagonists. To Europe like a wandering Jew-- WASP that he was-- but with the Jew's outsider's hunger. . . face pressed up to the glass of *** refusing every passion but the passion to write the words grew more & more complex & convoluted until they utterly imprisoned him in their fairytale brambles. Language for me is meant to be a transparency, clear water gleaming under a covered bridge. . . I love his spiritual sister because she snatched clarity from her murky history. Tormented New Yorkers both, but she journeyed to the heart of light-- did he? She took her friends on one last voyage, through the isles of Greece on a yacht chartered with her royalties-- a rich girl proud to be making her own money. The light of the Middle Sea was what she sought. All denizens of this demonic city caught between pitch and black long for the light. But she found it in a few of her books. . . while Henry James discovered what he had probably started with: that beast, that jungle, that solipsistic scream. He did not join her on that final cruise. (He was on his own final cruise). Did he want to? I would wager yes. I look back with love and sorrow at them both-- dear teachers-- but she shines like Miss Liberty to Emma Lazarus' hordes, while he gazes within, always, at his own impenetrable jungle.
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May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Good Morning Beloved It is good to be among you this morning. Let us pray…. Gracious Lord As we sojourn the pathways of life You have brought us to the places Of ecstatic splendorous peaks You have blessed us with resounding joys You have filled us with good things The grace of your unconditional love Is made manifest in the abundant life you have promised to all your children We bless you Lord for your provision And your unfailing unrequited love You have also humbled us Lord With times of perplexing trial, deep sorrows and pointed loss Our earthly journey has led us to places of dread, devastation sickness and pending death Our plans and aspirations Have turned to dust Our eyes fill with tears Our crestfallen hearts have hardened We fail to receive the balm of love We have been routed We have lost the battle We have been conquered by separation, sin and despair The spirit of life Has evaporated From our bodies All that remains Are dry bones Scattered in the valley of death hidden by the shadows In the nadir of our lives Yet your abiding love remains the strong Present Helper calling us to your light May we rise from our Afflictions as Lazarus did when called by his beloved friend Jesus May your grace anoint Our ears with the sound of The Great Resurrectors voice May you stir our hearts With the wisdom of your will May you bless our lips With the grace of prophecy That we may Prophesy to the broken And brittle bones of our lives Prophecy to the bones so they may be joined With sinew and flesh again May your words Become flesh May we walk again In the land of the living And rejoin the beloved At the table of Your abundant grace In The Good Deliver's Name We pray... Selah Music: Eric Dolphy, Come Sunday Readings, Ezekiel 37 The Valley of Dry Bones, John 11, The Death of Lazarus Prayer of the Dry Bones Faith Lutheran Church Lavallette NJ 4th Sunday in Lent 4/2/17
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 12:07 PM UTC
Prayer of Dry Bones
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. Good Morning Beloved It is good to be among you this morning. Let us pray…. Gracious Lord As we sojourn the pathways of life You have brought us to the places Of ecstatic splendorous peaks You have blessed us with resounding joys You have filled us with good things The grace of your unconditional love Is made manifest in the abundant life you have promised to all your children We bless you Lord for your provision And your unfailing unrequited love You have also humbled us Lord With times of perplexing trial, deep sorrows and pointed loss Our earthly journey has led us to places of dread, devastation sickness and pending death Our plans and aspirations Have turned to dust Our eyes fill with tears Our crestfallen hearts have hardened We fail to receive the balm of love We have been routed We have lost the battle We have been conquered by separation, sin and despair The spirit of life Has evaporated From our bodies All that remains Are dry bones Scattered in the valley of death hidden by the shadows In the nadir of our lives Yet your abiding love remains the strong Present Helper calling us to your light May we rise from our Afflictions as Lazarus did when called by his beloved friend Jesus May your grace anoint Our ears with the sound of The Great Resurrectors voice May you stir our hearts With the wisdom of your will May you bless our lips With the grace of prophecy That we may Prophesy to the broken And brittle bones of our lives Prophecy to the bones so they may be joined With sinew and flesh again May your words Become flesh May we walk again In the land of the living And rejoin the beloved At the table of Your abundant grace In The Good Deliver's Name We pray... Selah Music: Eric Dolphy, Come Sunday Readings, Ezekiel 37 The Valley of Dry Bones, John 11, The Death of Lazarus Prayer of the Dry Bones Faith Lutheran Church Lavallette NJ 4th Sunday in Lent 4/2/17
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As the sun dips over the peaceful land, Where humans and nature live hand in hand, Amongst the valleys, the rivers, the hills, Where the birds take flight and their young ones trill, Here, I make my home. Underneath the shadowy limbs of trees, With the trick-ling water, the buzzing bees, Where the stars are present, be day or night, And the sun bathes me with his blinding light, Forever, I will roam. I remember little before this place, Not a land or country, a name or face, I remember only the crippling pain, The looks of pity, the common disdain, Nightmares of the past. Oh, should I come to be forgotten here, In the land where all live without fear, I would smile if I we're never found, I've tasted freedom, I won't be bound, I live, at last.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 10:04 PM UTC
Lazarus
ome orth azarus, come th laz, ome for zus echo in the winds outside the empty cave; In the desert an insurrection to deluge the earth from cauldrons of faith; Tinderbox by the Dneiper, an interview stolen; Dance of Ishtar caged, the demiurge call. Treading on ice, our mortal lives; Ancient wells wailing with the earth; A vessel weathering the storm, sinking now at Galilee. At Golgotha, by the empty Crucifix; it all began here in Bethlehem where we wait.
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM UTC
Come forth, Lazarus.
*"My David don't you worry This cold world is not for you So rest your head upon me I have strength to carry you" - Lazarus by Porcupine Tree* When the ways of the world just seem too much. When everything just doesn't click together like they should. Puzzle pieces that incessantly mock when they don't fit. When the tears don't soothe like they promised they would. When you're up to your neck, almost fully submerged. When the fatigue you feel comes from constantly treading water. And desperately you try to keep yourself afloat. But relentless storms fail not to threaten, and rip you asunder. Remember that we're only here on borrowed time. And that the everyday's sun will set after its daily reign of tyranny. What good are these arms if they stayed folded shut. They only invite you fall deep into me. Now embosomed, I'll carry you to safety.
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 12:08 PM UTC
Lazarus
Mirage of red passion coursing emotional courting Love being placed hopes being fostered an inner dawn offered Seeing worlds flourish strength arisen like lazarus nothing remotely hazardous How one person can paint your world anew dripping in the glory imbued
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018 at 1:21 PM UTC
Red
I came to a courtyard of my own making, To a cottage by the sea at the worlds edge. I furnished it with my left over life, complete, Barren and colorless and I wrote the newest Book of psalms out of tinder and flame, a tome Of grey and useless poems, unheard of songs And reams of flesh. There in the lightest dark, By the Druid stone that was placed just for me, I planted a creeping yew tree. And the moon Sang in celebration and silence like a fallen Priest. Under the covering hazel trees, That sprung to life after the longest winter, Which taught me to forget my name, I now Struggle with light and my body, warring, torn Is fading slow, like the always arriving, down Turning solstice, the climates of the mind, Where it is digging the never ending shallow Hole only the spreading eternal yew, that I Planted, will ever know and only the Lazarus Moon shall ever rise above. I came to a courtyard of my own making, Was it dream that led me there or my eyes?
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 2:02 PM UTC
By the Druid Stone
She was a fiery seashell,   lost 'neath convoluted oceans      amongst opuses of pure poetry, artistically outspoken    'tween invertebrate reality secretly devouring mankind,   beware Herr Lucifer,   she rose from the gaseous chamber    to live amidst ashes of immortality          & renowned marital infamy,       the eternal burning spirit of Lady Lazarus **Out of the ash I rise with my red hair   And I eat men like air.**                  - Sylvia Plath
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Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
Spirit of Lady Lazarus
Hellenic Flesh and marrow Raphaelite form painted into life. Honey hair slipping through the vees between my fingers like sand conch-white skin You blind me like the noonday sun. Enveloping— body wrapped in body— ocean and sky meet at the horizon. Peel my skin from me like an orange. Apple. Heal me with hands upon thighs Stitch my ragdoll body together with the sutures of your kisses Stuck by the glue of lips Raise me like Lazarus from the valley of death from the orchard in Eden and the shame of skin Reupholster me like a dinette chair. Vivid as the Sistine Chapel your hand outs t r e t c h e d toward God I find you in pumpkin seeds scattered like tears on the floor of my car. They were yours.
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Jul 25, 2011
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM UTC
Lily of the Valley
We will know no sorrows here.. Dark matter poured taut in ebon plastic, elegent, limber, perched on spikes. Confined in chosen monochrome, so lithe in gritted temper. Full fraught on waves of jaw - smoke, tumble nails from this wretched pelt. Enscribe my will on soft , ribbed, levees Spread and buttered oysters downed , your earthy spices ground against my viscid grin. Now raise the dead in frantic transport Sound the depths of this cracked voice Imagining.... We will know no sorrows here.
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May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC
Lazarus
I've only been on this earth for 17 years But already had the good honour of experiencing evil and good from the youth of my peers My precious vessel, you deserve nothing but the best learn from my mistakes and make your life rest One: The acne on your face does not determine how beautiful you as a person Neither you're weight, height or stature. Your skin a shade of wonder, wear only the (dna) makeup of me and your father Two: Your body is your temple, not a museum for those who want to feast on your flesh, for those dead eyes are shady and they want nothing less. Three: Fall in love with everything around you, the stars, sky and moon. The sound of laughter, the rain drops too. Look from balconies and trees at the veins of the cities. And take pictures of people and weddings, savouring silver white memories. Four: Make your own mistakes and learn. You are allowed to feel pain, there is still blood in you veins but don't let that sweep you away away away on dandelion heads Five: Dearest, don't worry for a moment what they think; be prepared when they want to see you sink, respond with dimples, sunshine and light. For this is what makes the darkness strike Six: Finally My girl love yourself, for all that you are and want to be; the music you love, the food you detest, those long family outings and that boy that you like best. The list could go on and on with verse and song and book and word but Dear Daughter let this be the basis of your life. Carry it and write it on your flesh beating heart. For your flesh beating heart deserves life in it fullest. ©Rebekah Lazarus 2014
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 1:07 PM UTC
Dear Daughter
I've only been on this earth for 17 years But already had the good honour of experiencing evil and good from the youth of my peers My precious vessel, you deserve nothing but the best learn from my mistakes and make your life rest One: The acne on your face does not determine how beautiful you as a person Neither you're weight, height or stature. Your skin a shade of wonder, wear only the (dna) makeup of me and your father Two: Your body is your temple, not a museum for those who want to feast on your flesh, for those dead eyes are shady and they want nothing less. Three: Fall in love with everything around you, the stars, sky and moon. The sound of laughter, the rain drops too. Look from balconies and trees at the veins of the cities. And take pictures of people and weddings, savouring silver white memories. Four: Make your own mistakes and learn. You are allowed to feel pain, there is still blood in you veins but don't let that sweep you away away away on dandelion heads Five: Dearest, don't worry for a moment what they think; be prepared when they want to see you sink, respond with dimples, sunshine and light. For this is what makes the darkness strike Six: Finally My girl love yourself, for all that you are and want to be; the music you love, the food you detest, those long family outings and that boy that you like best. The list could go on and on with verse and song and book and word but Dear Daughter let this be the basis of your life. Carry it and write it on your flesh beating heart. For your flesh beating heart deserves life in it fullest. ©Rebekah Lazarus 2014
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And now we see the singularity of the artist, wrists spread bare on mimed canvas, finally we see his consistency. Lazarus is dead on the first day. Gold background, rocky outcrop, sense of cluttered space. Do you see the decay? Can you sympathize, or do you notice? I cannot sympathize with Duccio, I am too vain to admit his Maestá survives while my brain rots from alcohol. But I remember Duccio is at least fifty years old when his Maestá preeminently destroys my career as a visual artist. I do not mind. Lazarus is dead on the second day. Duccio had many pupils, among them Simone Martini, whose Annunciation is a cropped rehash of Byzantine/Gothic flopped with Duccio's handy flair, a pious reverence and virtue. It sweeps and moves. Or attempts. Lazarus is no longer sleeping. I have never been to the city of Florence, not now nor the 1300s, so I need not explain my lack of comprehension. Lazarus has risen now, but it is different than I remember. Lazarus is all alone, and Lazarus is alive, doomed to walk in mortal Hellfire a second time over.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM UTC
Duccio's Maestá
We don’t know whether every angel carries out the same tasks, or whether some of them specialize in certain areas. The Bible does speak about classes of angelic beings like cherubim (Ezekiel 1) and seraphim (Isaiah 6). We also know the names of two notable angels: Michael (Daniel 10:13; Jude 9) and Gabriel (Daniel 9:21; Luke 1:19,26). The unnamed angels who appear most often in Scripture carry out a variety of tasks - all designed to serve God…     Worship and praise - This is the main activity portrayed in heaven (Isaiah 6:1-3; Revelation 4-5).     Messengers - They serve as messengers to communicate God’s will to men. They helped reveal the law to Moses (Acts 7:52-53), and served as the carriers of much of the material in Daniel, and Revelation.     Guiding - Angels gave instructions to Joseph about the birth of Jesus (Matthew 1-2), to the women at the tomb, to Philip (Acts 8:26), and to Cornelius (Acts 10:1-8).     Providing - God has used angels to provide physical needs such as food for Hagar (Genesis 21:17-20), Elijah (1 Kings 19:6), and Christ after His temptation (Matthew 4:11).     Protecting - Keeping God’s people out of physical danger, as in the cases of Daniel and the lions, and his three friends in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3 and 6).     Delivering - Getting God’s people out of danger once they’re in it. Angels released the apostles from prison in Acts 5, and repeated the process for Peter in Acts 12.     Strengthening and encouraging - Angels strengthened Jesus after His temptation (Matt 4:11), encouraged the apostles to keep preaching after releasing them from prison (Acts 5:19-20), and told Paul that everyone on his ship would survive the impending shipwreck (Acts 27:23-25).     Answering prayer - God often uses angels as His means of answering the prayers of His people (Daniel 9:20-24; 10:10-12; Acts 12:1-17).     Caring for believers at the moment of death. In the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we read that angels carried the spirit of Lazarus to “Abraham’s ***** when he died (Luke 16:22).     Executioners - Angels are sometimes used by God to punish sin. An angel of the Lord went forth and smote an Assyrian camp (2 Kings 19:20-34) “behold, they were all dead corpses.” The Assyrian army was annihilated. A destroying angel was sent, but later withheld, to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the great number of his people. At the time of Moses and the Exodus, the Egyptian firstborn where killed by an angel of death.
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 12:40 AM UTC
Dr. John Bechtle - Angels Tasks
We don’t know whether every angel carries out the same tasks, or whether some of them specialize in certain areas. The Bible does speak about classes of angelic beings like cherubim (Ezekiel 1) and seraphim (Isaiah 6). We also know the names of two notable angels: Michael (Daniel 10:13; Jude 9) and Gabriel (Daniel 9:21; Luke 1:19,26). The unnamed angels who appear most often in Scripture carry out a variety of tasks - all designed to serve God…     Worship and praise - This is the main activity portrayed in heaven (Isaiah 6:1-3; Revelation 4-5).     Messengers - They serve as messengers to communicate God’s will to men. They helped reveal the law to Moses (Acts 7:52-53), and served as the carriers of much of the material in Daniel, and Revelation.     Guiding - Angels gave instructions to Joseph about the birth of Jesus (Matthew 1-2), to the women at the tomb, to Philip (Acts 8:26), and to Cornelius (Acts 10:1-8).     Providing - God has used angels to provide physical needs such as food for Hagar (Genesis 21:17-20), Elijah (1 Kings 19:6), and Christ after His temptation (Matthew 4:11).     Protecting - Keeping God’s people out of physical danger, as in the cases of Daniel and the lions, and his three friends in the fiery furnace (Daniel 3 and 6).     Delivering - Getting God’s people out of danger once they’re in it. Angels released the apostles from prison in Acts 5, and repeated the process for Peter in Acts 12.     Strengthening and encouraging - Angels strengthened Jesus after His temptation (Matt 4:11), encouraged the apostles to keep preaching after releasing them from prison (Acts 5:19-20), and told Paul that everyone on his ship would survive the impending shipwreck (Acts 27:23-25).     Answering prayer - God often uses angels as His means of answering the prayers of His people (Daniel 9:20-24; 10:10-12; Acts 12:1-17).     Caring for believers at the moment of death. In the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we read that angels carried the spirit of Lazarus to “Abraham’s ***** when he died (Luke 16:22).     Executioners - Angels are sometimes used by God to punish sin. An angel of the Lord went forth and smote an Assyrian camp (2 Kings 19:20-34) “behold, they were all dead corpses.” The Assyrian army was annihilated. A destroying angel was sent, but later withheld, to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the great number of his people. At the time of Moses and the Exodus, the Egyptian firstborn where killed by an angel of death.
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No, do  dread my glance ,im Helen. im the purest creature of rage **** a lapse glance alas , a doom . a dream of Luth's sealed gloom. sinister glare of Gomorrah bright. soured sight of sere flower blight. im venomous kiss of sweetest lips. deadliest breath of daughter of Rappicini. come fair son of light and beauty. date me with naive lurking desire. receive my poisonous breath satire . i will sail thee near a pestilent fountain. im the sinister Titania and Bottom and more i contain. behold you not with my innocent beauty . perverse is my nature intend but my name holy. dost cross the path to purity on mount Sinai. cause i shall rule and Helen the offspring of my **** is lure untamed fiend,feed her she behold with leech. no, one of my breath is a blast to thy life to leash. my glare is illuminated like azure Vegas. my nectar Pompeii larva of past . my beauty is heaven flame it charms . come; rich, beauty ,savant and fame. for thou dost not behold with immortal Ichor. sip deep my breath. and meddle you with my luring glare. im Titania i hang over my head a dagger. upon which thy blood stream to the Bottom. thou thinkest to entwine me ? no,lo King Cophetua and the beggar maid. and my judgement hell fire . Thebes is in rout but Capaneus bid dust. what dost thou want ,thou Sophist ? no the sojourn of thee is Zeus Kirma. beset for worst as the writ Apocrypha. come thee savant ,come thee poet. bekneel before the sacred attire . heaven bow before the holy Dionysus. for we beset you with  frenzy ,ecstasy, and drama. all behold the same destiny. but elixir yonder in Kimmerian trinity. try not you for eternal bloom . cause error at Achille right heel. but Maqueros, Lazarus , and Leviticus. all will queenly glance at our Caduceus. behold you not my beauty. but behold you with our Pow wow. behold you ! say Amen RA.
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 3:00 PM UTC
TITANIA AND BOTTOM.
No, do  dread my glance ,im Helen. im the purest creature of rage **** a lapse glance alas , a doom . a dream of Luth's sealed gloom. sinister glare of Gomorrah bright. soured sight of sere flower blight. im venomous kiss of sweetest lips. deadliest breath of daughter of Rappicini. come fair son of light and beauty. date me with naive lurking desire. receive my poisonous breath satire . i will sail thee near a pestilent fountain. im the sinister Titania and Bottom and more i contain. behold you not with my innocent beauty . perverse is my nature intend but my name holy. dost cross the path to purity on mount Sinai. cause i shall rule and Helen the offspring of my **** is lure untamed fiend,feed her she behold with leech. no, one of my breath is a blast to thy life to leash. my glare is illuminated like azure Vegas. my nectar Pompeii larva of past . my beauty is heaven flame it charms . come; rich, beauty ,savant and fame. for thou dost not behold with immortal Ichor. sip deep my breath. and meddle you with my luring glare. im Titania i hang over my head a dagger. upon which thy blood stream to the Bottom. thou thinkest to entwine me ? no,lo King Cophetua and the beggar maid. and my judgement hell fire . Thebes is in rout but Capaneus bid dust. what dost thou want ,thou Sophist ? no the sojourn of thee is Zeus Kirma. beset for worst as the writ Apocrypha. come thee savant ,come thee poet. bekneel before the sacred attire . heaven bow before the holy Dionysus. for we beset you with  frenzy ,ecstasy, and drama. all behold the same destiny. but elixir yonder in Kimmerian trinity. try not you for eternal bloom . cause error at Achille right heel. but Maqueros, Lazarus , and Leviticus. all will queenly glance at our Caduceus. behold you not my beauty. but behold you with our Pow wow. behold you ! say Amen RA.
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