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"limbed" poems
I inhale and hold my breath until I see black- blank spots in my vision. I exhale and release beautiful, long-limbed clouds of smoke. Shrouding my face, covering my eyes blinding me to everything but these pale tendrils fluid and simple curling wisps of smoke scar the air scar the silence and all secrets lie in smoke if i could read it, i would know the world.
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Dec 14, 2014
Dec 14, 2014 at 5:00 PM UTC
smoke
Out of the mid-wood’s twilight Into the meadow’s dawn, Ivory limbed and brown-eyed, Flashes my Faun! He skips through the copses singing, And his shadow dances along, And I know not which I should follow, Shadow or song! O Hunter, snare me his shadow! O Nightingale, catch me his strain! Else moonstruck with music and madness I track him in vain!
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In The Forest
well, I'm a foreign dialect, and musically uninclined, I'm the exoticism fetishized by old white men who want a Greek-Italian- Latina-Persian harem. I am the the voice that doesn't match the body, the long-limbed and quiet. My insides are not my outsides, my tenderness with them won't be afforded to you, not just yet. And I lick the wrapper on every dark chocolate bar, my O-mouth on every milkshake straw, knowing I am being watched
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May 4, 2015
May 4, 2015 at 9:14 PM UTC
me
Muelle de Binondo Street, Barangay San Nicolas, Old Manila. My dad's fate Will always be muddled With nostalgia: The mid-afternoon Traffic of fruit vendors, The toothless strains Of my grandfather's voice, Bouncing off The warehouse walls Like folding cardboard, The ceramic gallops of horse- Drawn kalesas taking him From school to My grandfather's offices, Every day and back, Up and down The cardboard box river To Tondo. There, he hurriedly Buys ten Asado buns From a stall across the Street from their School - a voracious Schoolboy Forever late for class, forever Putting on basketball jerseys Too wide for him, Basketball shorts too Short; body Always too gangly, Too long-limbed, wide eyed And fleet footed For his dreams to catch. He once could dunk. He is still a baby boomer - Scared of firecrackers, Weird penchant For popped collar shirts, Pointed shoes, and Sequins - he, was an avid Lover of stars - his old Dust-strewn bed posts Giving way, I imagine, To iron bars caging The luminous starry night, Floating high above The sewage And the freight trucks That weigh him so. They sang to him. In the tune of My mother's voice - The only album He ever possessed. Song set from His favorite band. "Apo Hiking Society." His favorite word, Was "leap." A disciple Of MJ, Dr. J, And Magic, Samboy, and Jawo, Icarus on hardwood And leaping From the free throw line. "Son," he once told me, "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." He was always afraid of heights. It wasn't until 41 that We made him ride a roller-coaster, That he had even seen a roller-coaster. "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." I think my favorite Memory of my dad Is still him wringing my fingers At Space Mountain with Eyes so tightly shut That we forgot Our fears, And screamed instead: So. This, Is how the stars look like When unbolted By folding cardboard, And iron bars.
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Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM UTC
Dad
Muelle de Binondo Street, Barangay San Nicolas, Old Manila. My dad's fate Will always be muddled With nostalgia: The mid-afternoon Traffic of fruit vendors, The toothless strains Of my grandfather's voice, Bouncing off The warehouse walls Like folding cardboard, The ceramic gallops of horse- Drawn kalesas taking him From school to My grandfather's offices, Every day and back, Up and down The cardboard box river To Tondo. There, he hurriedly Buys ten Asado buns From a stall across the Street from their School - a voracious Schoolboy Forever late for class, forever Putting on basketball jerseys Too wide for him, Basketball shorts too Short; body Always too gangly, Too long-limbed, wide eyed And fleet footed For his dreams to catch. He once could dunk. He is still a baby boomer - Scared of firecrackers, Weird penchant For popped collar shirts, Pointed shoes, and Sequins - he, was an avid Lover of stars - his old Dust-strewn bed posts Giving way, I imagine, To iron bars caging The luminous starry night, Floating high above The sewage And the freight trucks That weigh him so. They sang to him. In the tune of My mother's voice - The only album He ever possessed. Song set from His favorite band. "Apo Hiking Society." His favorite word, Was "leap." A disciple Of MJ, Dr. J, And Magic, Samboy, and Jawo, Icarus on hardwood And leaping From the free throw line. "Son," he once told me, "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." He was always afraid of heights. It wasn't until 41 that We made him ride a roller-coaster, That he had even seen a roller-coaster. "You gotta leap "If you wanna live." I think my favorite Memory of my dad Is still him wringing my fingers At Space Mountain with Eyes so tightly shut That we forgot Our fears, And screamed instead: So. This, Is how the stars look like When unbolted By folding cardboard, And iron bars.
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i see her empty heart stand against the sky and hear angels weeping like sounds of beasts in terror long-limbed beasts upon thrones of fear in dormitories of white brides and crucifixes daughters of cimmerian  gloom whose eyes are fallen night vailed portraits of desire like endless winter sky and her naked breast sweetens his mouth in a shivering mist as he falls upon her like starving flames
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Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018 at 1:49 PM UTC
Winter Sky
I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls, And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. O’er ruined fences the grape-vines shield The woods come back to the mowing field; The orchard tree has grown one copse Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops; The footpath down to the well is healed. I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart On that disused and forgotten road That has no dust-bath now for the toad. Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; The whippoorwill is coming to shout And hush and cluck and flutter about: I hear him begin far enough away Full many a time to say his say Before he arrives to say it out. It is under the small, dim, summer star. I know not who these mute folk are Who share the unlit place with me— Those stones out under the low-limbed tree Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar. They are tireless folk, but slow and sad, Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,— With none among them that ever sings, And yet, in view of how many things, As sweet companions as might be had.
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Ghost House
i’m fighting with gravity to the death- until my head rests, empty as my belly on this false-porcelain floor- skin waxy as laminate over these heavy hollow bones waiting for freedom- liberation from this sullen casing. i shake, manic- blood pressure in the basement, nauseous from diet pills and anxiety. jittery, stare at the ceiling- a spider, stick-limbed, teases me, but here’s the silver lining: no curds or whey coating my shining insides. i am stronger and brighter than ever as black swims in my vision- light-headed from malnutrition, i wrap fingers around my wrists to make sure i haven’t escaped my limits. the mirror doesn’t lie, but it won’t snitch. we’ll keep this surreptitious. spilling my bloodred guts, my blood, won’t make me wither, and confessing won't save me either. this red ribbon stays tied around my wrist. secrets kept keep me stable clinging to my only success, self-confidence cellophane-wrapped in my absence, my transparence. the whispers don’t mean a thing. i am frantic on a wire frame, white noise on parade. the ground can only hold me for so long. i'll sprout wings from my ribcage and float away.
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
hydroxycut
All I smell's Hawaiian Tropic My vision seems very myopic Bikini girls my visions topic It's time to hit the surf Lime and salty margaritas Hot and **** senoritas Bikini girls my visions greeters It's time to hit the surf Sitting here upon the beach These women are just out of reach In my mind I'd love to teach But...you're the one I love Tanned, long limbed and in the water There's one beauty, I wish I'd caught her Still, I think she's someone's daughter I wish that you were here Sitting here was all unplanned Where all I see is surf and sand It's heaven in this tropic land I wish that you were here Sitting here upon the beach These women are just out of reach In my mind I'd love to teach But...you're the one I love Ray Bans cover up my eyes As I stare upon their oiled up thighs I hear them yell and hear their cries Youthful beauty at it's best A boat drink full of Cuban *** Brings me back to why I'd come It leaves me feeling rather numb I'm glad I'm here alone Sitting here upon the beach These women are just out of reach In my mind I'd love to teach Now I know why we split up.
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 7:09 PM UTC
Beach Song
My lala sassy Coco beloved. queens of purple heart mine. to those loving me near or far. ~~~~~~~~~~~ And you sweetheart You the awakened one when I fought to stay alive eons ago precioso mio. Don't worry you woke me up this thunderous hail winter upon waking up opening my eyes transforms to eternal spring. And as the decades passed revealing so many secrets that you scattered of gold bars and treasures throughout Earth for enchanted frog little me in a tini pond destined to search you in your ocean All treasures now conceived in thought understood grasped too late, slide like water through my fingers lost in inaction Recaptured in memory thought apeacing me giving strength. The mind makes everything that's gone very real. Amorsitos, hermosos you have many names I know you by a few my precious king of hearts I own only my heart of gold jewels are my kids all grown-up I love your family jewels. Cariños mios your hands your voice the way you walk talk as if you sway me and visit me unexpectedly and it happens often ~~~~~~ Lover long sun kissed limbed It all lingers true and clear. Any woman queen Angel or scribe would go nuts just hearing your tantric sensual voice but not the way like I can. Holding your hands loving me imprinting me with your fingers kissing your palm prints all over my pristine remote unexplored seashores. In your Island for private romantic lovers you and me You must feel safe here dear just a poetess dreaming of you. My mind make it all real. and it does again and again.. your voice bridges any gaps Our dream breathes and lives when I hear your voice you melt me or freeze me evaporated me I cry and laugh and hear God speaking to me in your voice it's all so amusing And bittersweet I miss and love you all so much tini litt baby girls and boys mine "I give my life to save yours if only any of you ask, you wrote" I love you adore you. Te amo the amo. ~~~~~~ By Karijinbba All rights Reserved
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Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021 at 5:32 PM UTC
To the loves of my life
My lala sassy Coco beloved. queens of purple heart mine. to those loving me near or far. ~~~~~~~~~~~ And you sweetheart You the awakened one when I fought to stay alive eons ago precioso mio. Don't worry you woke me up this thunderous hail winter upon waking up opening my eyes transforms to eternal spring. And as the decades passed revealing so many secrets that you scattered of gold bars and treasures throughout Earth for enchanted frog little me in a tini pond destined to search you in your ocean All treasures now conceived in thought understood grasped too late, slide like water through my fingers lost in inaction Recaptured in memory thought apeacing me giving strength. The mind makes everything that's gone very real. Amorsitos, hermosos you have many names I know you by a few my precious king of hearts I own only my heart of gold jewels are my kids all grown-up I love your family jewels. Cariños mios your hands your voice the way you walk talk as if you sway me and visit me unexpectedly and it happens often ~~~~~~ Lover long sun kissed limbed It all lingers true and clear. Any woman queen Angel or scribe would go nuts just hearing your tantric sensual voice but not the way like I can. Holding your hands loving me imprinting me with your fingers kissing your palm prints all over my pristine remote unexplored seashores. In your Island for private romantic lovers you and me You must feel safe here dear just a poetess dreaming of you. My mind make it all real. and it does again and again.. your voice bridges any gaps Our dream breathes and lives when I hear your voice you melt me or freeze me evaporated me I cry and laugh and hear God speaking to me in your voice it's all so amusing And bittersweet I miss and love you all so much tini litt baby girls and boys mine "I give my life to save yours if only any of you ask, you wrote" I love you adore you. Te amo the amo. ~~~~~~ By Karijinbba All rights Reserved
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If I catch a deadly fever someday, I want you to kiss me and, Keep kissing me on and on, Let it be as passionate to scare death away, And let it keep away till we grow older, Much older and rickety limbed, To finally kiss each other while ******* life out of each other. Kiss me till I die, I will reciprocate.
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 12:30 AM UTC
My Darling, Kiss Me Till I Die
Like lions licking lacerations Limp-lipped, lucid lamentation Loyalties lax, love's liquidation Lapping lust's lye lemonade Like lemmings, leaping liberation Loose-limbed, lurid lachrymation Learning love's lone limitation Life: liars lie, lovers lay
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Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017 at 7:44 PM UTC
Untitled
(To Ellen Terry) As one who poring on a Grecian urn Scans the fair shapes some Attic hand hath made, God with slim goddess, goodly man with maid, And for their beauty’s sake is loth to turn And face the obvious day, must I not yearn For many a secret moon of indolent bliss, When in midmost shrine of Artemis I see thee standing, antique-limbed, and stern? And yet—methinks I’d rather see thee play That serpent of old Nile, whose witchery Made Emperors drunken,—come, great Egypt, shake Our stage with all thy mimic pageants! Nay, I am grown sick of unreal passions, make The world thine Actium, me thine Anthony!
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Camma
Tantamount to the crawlspace where your emotions are dissembled, is the animalistic focus in your pointed gaze, Sketchy eyed with jerky limbed motions, As elusive as you are always around, Or so it would seem, Their eyes fall upon you, no doubt, You are a vision, That I do not and have never questioned, There is a fundamental lack of hesitancy in your days, lately you have looked let down, Thinking of you, occurs outside the restraints of time, I would like to be everything with you.
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:36 PM UTC
Do you?
Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Yesterday's Mail; the casualties (typed small) And (large) Vast ***** from our latest Haul. Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned, 'For,' said the paper, 'when this war is done The men's first instinct will be making homes. Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes, It being certain war has but begun. Peace would do wrong to our undying dead, - The sons we offered might regret they died If we got nothing lasting in their stead. We must be solidly indemnified. Though all be worthy Victory which all bought, We rulers sitting in this ancient spot Would wrong our very selves if we forgot The greatest glory will be theirs who fought, Who kept this nation in integrity.' Nation? - The half-limbed readers did not chafe But smiled at one another curiously Like secret men who know their secret safe. (This is the thing they know and never speak, That England one by one had fled to France, Not many elsewhere now, save under France.) Pictures of these broad smiles appear each week, And people in whose voice real feeling rings Say: How they smile! They're happy now, poor things.
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Smile, Smile, Smile
Look at the 8 limbed creature A nightly procedure What was meant to create life Now substitutes a knife The disappearance of the individual Such a cruel ritual
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Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM UTC
Cruel rituals
A discordant gain moves through the hall echoes off every wall and reverberates again through my chest cavity. my ribcage thrums   obstinate, hopeful it is a clear fullness it is the water that I carry. The cistern is broken but it has been sealed in gold that reflects the light of things that have been, are, or will be and it is the lightning fracture that appeals to Him now more than the gold itself. I know your heavy lead-heart, lead-limbed sorrow. I know the iron nails your mind would drive up into your own veins. You crucify yourself not every three days but every day every night every hour. It is the lightning-fracture that reminds you of this place moreso than the gold ever could. The high, dissonant clattering in the world drives into your dryness. I will give you water but to hold it, you must seal your cracks, yourself.
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Nov 2, 2015
Nov 2, 2015 at 12:28 PM UTC
sealed
I try to write when I am tired but tiny spiders descend around my desk. Newly-hatched eight limbed-things parasail the silk lids over my eyes. If only I could ride out the exhale and go at once adrift, self-rappel I would climb the silk suspension line swing from thought to thought thread the eye of the needle pull-ey up the beanstalk. but instead I'm left to watch these aerial yoginis swim on a draft from the ceiling. These spinsters with their poetic acrobatics for whom rhythm is spun on silent trapeze-- make a play-swing out of gravity. The tiny spiders that descend around my desk make me--an oaf. a self-honoring monument for climbing, a botched landmark to ---human ingenuity me, a moving pedestal for dancing me, a knotted up windsock hunched over a heated screen, trying to blow down metaphor, alliteration from these tiny kites that ascend the earth. Tiny spider, tiny spider let down your silk tresses draw up my mind swing the high rafters I want to hang upside down-- make a play-swing out of gravity. Yet when I pulled on the thread to net the silken-mouthed beast, words did not come down like mana from heaven. Rather, my tongue grew heavy with cotton metaphor, alliteration, the fabric of suspended poetry unraveled. Lucid improvisation fell like Icarus to quips. because thinking to write and writing to think is like pulling dead hair from spaghetti. Meanwhile, tiny spiders descend around my desk parasail and make a play-swing out of gravity.
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Jun 28, 2012
Jun 28, 2012 at 4:13 AM UTC
I try to write poetry but I am tired.
How was it there in Isengard, Former haven of the proud, Whose hollowed valley hid the rot Beneath its treeless hills, Ancient machinations tunneled far below The smooth, impervious tower of Saruman, The Iridescent Dazzler, Whose quiet words slipped Sauron's thoughts Inside our weaker minds? Venom running hot...then changing cold Within old Saruman on Gandalf's salutation: "Saruman the White," Changing Truth for truths, Something totally desired. "I prefer Saruman the White!" I think old Gandalf said While he was still "The Gray," (Just before his lofty spire stay). But evil magic has its ends, Tendrils turn upon themselves, Vines tangling slow or fast, Returning to the evil doer's door While Good climbs steadily to new beginnings Rooted in the Old and True, Reaching for the sun. Old Ents in righteous anger Broke dams, diverted streams to flood The war machines of Isengard, Drove Orcs and Wargs and Trolls to doom, Drowned the furnaces... Then, mourning tree-limbed kin, Greeted Gandalf on his way to greater things, And pledged themselves to holy war. Saruman the Proud, The sooty iridescent, The abject coward, Stripped of power, Fled unrepentant Into the mists of Middle Earth While Sauron's eye glared West and East, Wraith-seeking Frodo and The Ring.
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 9:18 AM UTC
Isengard Reflection
Behold merrily dancing eyes! moonrise-hued that delight in surprise, Waterfall-cascading hair, sleepily stirring from a golden lair, Heaven-glimpsed in leafy disguise, powerless to resist I surmise, Elven locks frame an Eden-parterre, a majestic Springtime fayre! Banished Winter’s-strife, unveiled a collective bursting into life, Love, laugher and blossom hold sway, a dress-parade in full panoply, Nimble Elven hands serve as nature’s midwife, their deliveries run rife! This is no chaotic affray, but the Almighty order we never gainsay. Their unbridled gaiety I watch in wonder, but I feel such an intruder, Stiff limbed I shake off love’s-hibernation, a lifelong affliction, Shall I be welcome I ponder, or will they flee in panic and anger? Their joyous souls offer salvation, unleashed a grim determination! A rapturous-smiled greeting! handshakes and hugs - our first meeting! Blinkers-away restores my sight, from this embrace I must not take flight, Alas! this is mere wish-dreaming, awake my face is aglow and gleaming! This kinship-reverie serves to ignite, a joy and happiness so eager to excite. Gone are doubt-swirling mists, hopeful lips plead to be kissed, This alluring Elven-dream, lures me into passion’s fragrant-stream, No more envy-bound wrists, as I fiercely battle loves-duellists, Folly pursuit of Crusading esteem? no courage with a steely gleam! My brow burns with the fierce rays of Summer, My soul plunges into despair, with the decline and fall of Autumn, My feet are mired in the cloying-clay of a sodden Winter, But heart-contentment sings aloud with the uplifting beat of Spring! © Robert Porteus
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Jun 20, 2021
Jun 20, 2021 at 7:00 AM UTC
Elven-dream
Behold merrily dancing eyes! moonrise-hued that delight in surprise, Waterfall-cascading hair, sleepily stirring from a golden lair, Heaven-glimpsed in leafy disguise, powerless to resist I surmise, Elven locks frame an Eden-parterre, a majestic Springtime fayre! Banished Winter’s-strife, unveiled a collective bursting into life, Love, laugher and blossom hold sway, a dress-parade in full panoply, Nimble Elven hands serve as nature’s midwife, their deliveries run rife! This is no chaotic affray, but the Almighty order we never gainsay. Their unbridled gaiety I watch in wonder, but I feel such an intruder, Stiff limbed I shake off love’s-hibernation, a lifelong affliction, Shall I be welcome I ponder, or will they flee in panic and anger? Their joyous souls offer salvation, unleashed a grim determination! A rapturous-smiled greeting! handshakes and hugs - our first meeting! Blinkers-away restores my sight, from this embrace I must not take flight, Alas! this is mere wish-dreaming, awake my face is aglow and gleaming! This kinship-reverie serves to ignite, a joy and happiness so eager to excite. Gone are doubt-swirling mists, hopeful lips plead to be kissed, This alluring Elven-dream, lures me into passion’s fragrant-stream, No more envy-bound wrists, as I fiercely battle loves-duellists, Folly pursuit of Crusading esteem? no courage with a steely gleam! My brow burns with the fierce rays of Summer, My soul plunges into despair, with the decline and fall of Autumn, My feet are mired in the cloying-clay of a sodden Winter, But heart-contentment sings aloud with the uplifting beat of Spring! © Robert Porteus
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Out of the mid-wood's twilight Into the meadow's dawn, Ivory limbed and brown-eyed, Flashes my Faun! He skips through the copses singing, And his shadow dances along, And I know not which I should follow, Shadow or song! O Hunter, snare me his shadow! O Nightingale, catch me his strain! Else moonstruck with music and madness I track him in vain!
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Jul 17, 2013
Jul 17, 2013 at 10:35 AM UTC
In The Forest By Oscar Wilde
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM UTC
The Lost Boys
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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Evidently frogs lie in wait, And the moon sets on stranger ground, Than we will ever imagine, Grey landscapes of endless twilight and, Shifting sand, Shadows that congeal into shapeless forms, Gliding over dank walls, Flowing into dimly lit caverns, Filled with hunched figures, Hundreds of them, Four limbed slugs captured eons ago, Growing wings and emerging from sacs, Peering into neon and, Farting occasionally, Stubby limbs chained to, Grimey floors, Tubes running into foreheads, Ruffling DNA, Every so often we run into humans, Who do not understand, That they are only Earthlings, This side of the Universe, Night flies on computer screens, Attracted to the light completely.
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM UTC
Frogs this side of the Universe
Replicated "t" square, heated and manipulated to match a hand drawn schematic, eye-balled and transferred to a soiled napkin two days prior. Recovery spent melee inspired by whispered breath. Kin to wind, multi- colored marshmallows, or hard candies that have been rewrapped quickly and shuffled to the bottom of the bag. Periscope ala multi-limbed, e.g. tentacular. Rain spun abundant large geometric insect eyes radiating opalescent transit; here and there, over or under, stop and go, when = then, two - days - life - end. Glowing hand, darkest white light in a vacant space. All secrets hidden with trust, imagination, and neglect; recalling memories for those who live to forget. Like a hunger fed plentifully followed by a playful belch aloud for honor and comfort. Later, the indulgence calls and abdominal gases produce an acidic truth that burns the memory back into awareness. Flush it away now! Get rid of it quickly. There is no time to respect the whole past, only that which allows performance to continue uninterrupted. Tuck those memories away deeper this time; the ***** will drown you before it drowns them. Laying around and crying aloud won't pay the bills; if nothing else remember, a good American is a good consumer and a good consumer never wastes time getting to know themselves when the alternative is television.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 6:46 AM UTC
Ducking Under the Psyche
Not everybody is interested in everything. Everyone's got their own particular sphere and multi-limbed web of general interests. When one goes on about a topic that another finds uninteresting, then their listener is bound to get bored, (and boredom is the precursor to annoyance.) This is where tact comes in. Tactfulness is the ability to read boredom (as well as uneasiness, embarrassment, and any other general anxiety-inducing feelings) in your listener. Someone with tact knows when to change the subject and/or shut up altogether. It's a subtlety. However, the more passionate one feels about a subject, the harder it is for them to show tact when talking about it. This explains why nerds and drunks get such a bad rap for being annoying. (God forbid, a drunken nerd . . . ) Because they feel so passionately about the topics that they're interested in that they'll often talk at great length about them without any regard for their audiences' boredom. (And prolonged boredom invariably leads to annoyance.) This is why the nerdiest of nerds is often regarded as a god amongst their peers (with "peers" in this sense really just meaning people of similar interests.) Because they have such vast knowledge of such a particular subject (which is often of very little interest to most Others. ("Others" in this sense meaning people who are outside of this particular circle of peers.)) The same may or may not be true for drunks. (Although, there's something to be said about both of them being the most likely to have conversations with no one but themselves.) This also explains general aloofness (a.k.a. coolness, i.e. "being cool.") The types who seem so disinterested in everything that people often become interested in them if for no other reason than to simply find out what it is that they actually do find interesting. This is why cool people tend to be so popular. Everyone trying their hand at gaining their attention by drawing it to this thing or that thing, with a weird need of validation being thinly-veiled beneath it. (This might also explain why "cool" people tend to be such ******** often dismissing these constant attempts to grab their attention as either pathetic and/or depressing.) Then, of course, there are the word-smiths. The Salesmen. Those who fancy themselves so intelligent as to be able to twist what their audience would otherwise find disinteresting into something that they can't live without, often through some combination of communication manipulation and nonverbal tricks. But just don't listen to them.
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Feb 15, 2017
Feb 15, 2017 at 12:19 AM UTC
Attempting to Understand Why Some People Are More Annoying Than Others
Not everybody is interested in everything. Everyone's got their own particular sphere and multi-limbed web of general interests. When one goes on about a topic that another finds uninteresting, then their listener is bound to get bored, (and boredom is the precursor to annoyance.) This is where tact comes in. Tactfulness is the ability to read boredom (as well as uneasiness, embarrassment, and any other general anxiety-inducing feelings) in your listener. Someone with tact knows when to change the subject and/or shut up altogether. It's a subtlety. However, the more passionate one feels about a subject, the harder it is for them to show tact when talking about it. This explains why nerds and drunks get such a bad rap for being annoying. (God forbid, a drunken nerd . . . ) Because they feel so passionately about the topics that they're interested in that they'll often talk at great length about them without any regard for their audiences' boredom. (And prolonged boredom invariably leads to annoyance.) This is why the nerdiest of nerds is often regarded as a god amongst their peers (with "peers" in this sense really just meaning people of similar interests.) Because they have such vast knowledge of such a particular subject (which is often of very little interest to most Others. ("Others" in this sense meaning people who are outside of this particular circle of peers.)) The same may or may not be true for drunks. (Although, there's something to be said about both of them being the most likely to have conversations with no one but themselves.) This also explains general aloofness (a.k.a. coolness, i.e. "being cool.") The types who seem so disinterested in everything that people often become interested in them if for no other reason than to simply find out what it is that they actually do find interesting. This is why cool people tend to be so popular. Everyone trying their hand at gaining their attention by drawing it to this thing or that thing, with a weird need of validation being thinly-veiled beneath it. (This might also explain why "cool" people tend to be such ******** often dismissing these constant attempts to grab their attention as either pathetic and/or depressing.) Then, of course, there are the word-smiths. The Salesmen. Those who fancy themselves so intelligent as to be able to twist what their audience would otherwise find disinteresting into something that they can't live without, often through some combination of communication manipulation and nonverbal tricks. But just don't listen to them.
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Fight, Love, Look, See, Take in such a beautiful brawl that stars you and me, Flying chairs and broken glass, Blackened eyes and much-kicked *** One more time around that big ball of fire, What will this trip bring this time around? Some mud and hard to trek mire, Or gold and diamond laid ground, An easy path ahead towards we joyfully bound? Such wisdom must lie in the future, Startling realizations and obstacles we approach, Yet stretches onward like a magnificent azure beacher, That one might upon first glance be wary to broach. But saunter forth we must, With the trodden gait of some war-weary old sailor, With a rind of salt crust, Who has been both Captain and Bailer, Lost-Limbed and near broken. Such a great journey this last trip was, Such changes it has brought, With a son I learned caution and to be more kind, Abandoning my careless risks, To have more presence of mind, To weigh my options and be more careful with my money, And to always be more kind. But roots you should not forget, To take chances still, To still live life with no regrets, For no flour is made in a place that is a still mill. Love this world, But don't hate the things you can't change, Fight for those things, With tooth and claw, For those things will be the most relished victory of all. I sit here typing this, A bittersweet adieu to the year 2022, For death rung in the year, And leaves me with the gift of a new life, The start with a startling pain from the stab of a knife, But ending with the approaching of joy that is oh-so-near. Lace up your boots, Strap on your pack, Take a seat, Buckle in, 7 seconds left on this bucking bronc, A last kick that will bring a few more knocks, But will bring in the new year with smiles that lets the last stings of death defrocked.
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Dec 29, 2022
Dec 29, 2022 at 3:42 AM UTC
2023
Fight, Love, Look, See, Take in such a beautiful brawl that stars you and me, Flying chairs and broken glass, Blackened eyes and much-kicked *** One more time around that big ball of fire, What will this trip bring this time around? Some mud and hard to trek mire, Or gold and diamond laid ground, An easy path ahead towards we joyfully bound? Such wisdom must lie in the future, Startling realizations and obstacles we approach, Yet stretches onward like a magnificent azure beacher, That one might upon first glance be wary to broach. But saunter forth we must, With the trodden gait of some war-weary old sailor, With a rind of salt crust, Who has been both Captain and Bailer, Lost-Limbed and near broken. Such a great journey this last trip was, Such changes it has brought, With a son I learned caution and to be more kind, Abandoning my careless risks, To have more presence of mind, To weigh my options and be more careful with my money, And to always be more kind. But roots you should not forget, To take chances still, To still live life with no regrets, For no flour is made in a place that is a still mill. Love this world, But don't hate the things you can't change, Fight for those things, With tooth and claw, For those things will be the most relished victory of all. I sit here typing this, A bittersweet adieu to the year 2022, For death rung in the year, And leaves me with the gift of a new life, The start with a startling pain from the stab of a knife, But ending with the approaching of joy that is oh-so-near. Lace up your boots, Strap on your pack, Take a seat, Buckle in, 7 seconds left on this bucking bronc, A last kick that will bring a few more knocks, But will bring in the new year with smiles that lets the last stings of death defrocked.
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