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"lords" poems
Do you mind if I sit back and observe the process of the lords creation the subject matter is miraculous the beauty is elegant perfect in every scence my baby girl you stole my heart such a thief ain't you, thinking about seductive things we do sinners ain't we, naughty deeds but the intentions is good it serves needs What pains me is that I have to let go to regrip your sparkling eyes again, got to move fast so quick that I don't miss the chance to clutch you in my arms again, heaven sent such a gift I cried when you was born I ain't even know you back then because, GOD made you for me I picked up your scent, I know from day one you was mine let us age old together bad and boujee like expensive fine wine, my kiss is possessive the beat of your heart is mine let that foreplay tingle down your spine, open wide going deep let me reach your soul ****** our achievement together it ain't *** it's love I love you girl no *** postion that can top this deposition let me show you its deeper than *** I'm still into you watch me shift working overtime full time love baby moan out affection go on say the name, our body hum harmony can feel this body heat that steamy love, open wide in deep that creamy love that dreamy love, its deeper than *** the agony an orgams of how our love make our body shiver, I love you, I love you! I rejoice I could say this a thousand times it's deeper than ***
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 1:13 AM UTC
LUV × DEEPER THAN ***
You should never hate yourself. You should never sit in a crowded room and feel lonely. You should never feel abandoned in a group of friends. You should never change yourself because of other people's opinions. You should never think you are not enough. Please don't hate yourself. Please don't feel lonely. Please don't feel like an outcast. Please be yourself. Please, you are enough. Please. If you ever think no one loves you, just know that the King of kings, the Lord of lords, loves you so much. But I know sometimes you will feel this way. I understand, but maybe I don't. Just, please. Don't hurt yourself. In any way. Please.
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 11:54 AM UTC
Please.
--- in the crystal water bubbles reflecting there are golden koi in the mossy depth of feathers ancient moonlight is the buoy around the blue-grey stone's alignment sand is raked in perfect poise every leaf has its assignment crickets make a creaking noise --- there within the island garden small and jewel-like in the grove amidst kimono and the obi there's a peace the Nippon know muted colors placid faces the paper lanterns sway and glow the lords and ladies sit for hours where the lotus flowers grow
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Mar 22, 2015
Mar 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC
lotus
Lets take the day off and chill out, not stressing soaking up the lords blessings, let's go out tonight enjoy a nice meal unwrap ourselves expose our fun side peel the layers off, relax by a waterfront getting high off the emotions of us, watch fireworks toast a glass of strawberry and cream champagne to celebrate nothing bothering us Just a night off lets communicate with our bodys flirting with the slightest touch temptation not asking for much, the night is still young so juvnille, let's make it worthwhile no dollar amount a value deal of us just enjoying us do wild stuff like we don't now how to behave ourselves, radiate is our smile viberations of our laughter makes the valley's of our heart shake, sweet lovers a savory taste   Take the time to enjoy us we been working so much not taking breaks convicted to the grind like tired slaves, not tonight it's date night we haven't had this feeling for a while now, let's takeoff day cater to each other feed both of us grapes do you want to split a cheesesteak?, nothing much just you and us it's date night take the load off
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 9:47 AM UTC
Date Night
The walls screamed poetry disease & *** an inner whine like a mad machine - dropped in a cave of roaches or rodents The Computer faces of the men The wall collage reading matter The Traders (dealers) ~~~ I am a guide to the labyrinth Come & see me in the green hotel Rm. 32 I will be there after 9:30 p.m. I will show you the girl of the ghetto I will show you the burning well I will show you strange people haunted, beast-like, on the verge of evolution -Fear The Lords who are secret among us ~~~ Leaving the phone-booth, I was Struck by a whiff of the weird. Insane old country woman come to nag the haunts of town Hairy legs w/open sores. From what swamp or under-rock did you crawl to remind us what we choose to leave
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Jail
∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ A little bit of summer a little bit of breeze in the days of warmer love has so much- to bring, come let us sing A little bit of freesia a little bit of lilac never can resist a scent -of Ms. Narine Ogles, a morning scene A little bit of sunshine a little bit of eventide caress upon the shores -of such imagery, passions of immortality A little bit of cosmos a little bit of crocus in a glebe-like galaxy stars white as daphne from a garden of syzygy A little bit of cerulean a little bit of vermilion shimmers the lucid lake with trout's and doves Golly! autumn is awake A little bit of plowing a little bit of sow the hard workers of -those pumpkins reaps a stewful of zin A little bit of snow a little bit of flail fly away as butterflies hibernate as snails Forging! a winters gale A little bit of details a little bit of trail from dew drops of- a frozen rose, icicles on a drowsy bear’s nose A little bit of sleeping a little bit of wait till the sun comes up   gray clouds strew away spring is here to stay A little bit of sprout a little bit of grow And can it be, on thee an Epiphany shows the Lords glorious prose
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Jul 18, 2017
Jul 18, 2017 at 9:56 AM UTC
And Season Sings...
We were poets, Once, Hearts etched upon our sleeve The lords of our intent, Words bloomed for all to see. Each branch of thought considered, Chiseled, Whittled to express. Carving the forest in our likeness We paved the landscape with our breath. Woods would sway in idle days Sunkissed glades lay bathed in gold. Nights waylaid by dancing maids Cheap ale and tales of old. Fires burn, flames unfold. Though Embers remember Tender clutch of the cold. We tend to forget the bargained, The sold. Up rivers and creeks, Paddles, disowned by the meek, Cast away to distant shores.   Glades decay, Fade to grey. We become poets once more.
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Apr 13, 2017
Apr 13, 2017 at 4:01 AM UTC
Once Upon a Rhyme
Her eyes so bright; Do you ever wonder where the sun goes at night? The rain, dancing on the pavement in no specific arrangement. Luminous flames eat away at sharp skewers, Her eyes silver-grey, clashing with the tables of steel. Barbecue roasting, impaled through the middle The pain paled in comparison to watching you smile. A toast to me, myself and I, a glass of sweet solitude. I watch tall wine glasses clang drunkenly together, alone. A pin drops in the distance; no silence to accompany it. Unnoticed it goes, by the arrogant lords and goddesses. Pick a flower, compliment her hair; devil may care. She's walking away, I tell her 'Ma'am, have a nice day' Left alone to stumble back home, sipping champagne royally; Mockery. Spilling champagne and it swirls down the drain I tilt my head back, laughing carelessly all the way.
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 6:44 PM UTC
Stains and champagne.
One ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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One Ring
Lions are majestic Or, I was told so Once they were majestic Rampant beasts in far-flung savannas Mythic lords of the dark continent I didn't hear the lion roar, not even once Everyone was disappointed Even our pet cat wasn't so lazy What a joke the lion is! Sleepy from doing nothing Growing fat behind it's bars A million fingers pointing at it Waiting for the lion's pride They all laugh, and the lion waits for dinner
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM UTC
A Child Seeing a Lion in a Zoo
Trump invades Nicaragua; lights a powder keg to the relief of everyone; let's get on w/ it; change the world; otherwise Nicaragua threatens to become another Syria w/ Sandanista vs. Sandanista & drug lords & communists; mercenaries;  contractors & experimental weapons; welcome to a world that is torn completely in two to everyone's relief for the sheer catharsis; that is what frenzied freedom looks & feels like; touches like, smells like, ***** & eats like; the madman in the marketplace is the last person who can spell Bourgeoisie & Ancien Régime; Disestablishmentarianism & Nouveau riche; time & technology will turn the soil of psychology churning up some never before seen creature; mankind is suicidal; this new Being will have no such concept; coming in & out existence like walking through a door; time is meaningless running in countless waves in all directions; space is flexible like clay; women & men create each other to the limits of their imagination; Newton laid the foundation & Einstein painted the ceiling; Pascal, Hawking; Leibniz & Nietzsche & every poet that ever lived or never lived; every celestial siren & songstress who whispered in a magical scribe's ear & he scratched the miles & hours & places & people there; thus, it began somewhere far out in space; but they've been there all along; peaceful, loving, able to shape-shift to perform pleasurable functions in accordance w/ mankind's selfish wishes; mankind thinking it's putting one over on the new species, still finds itself bogged down in Nicaragua long after Trump has built his Presidential Library & joined the aliens like everyone else; the poor Nicaraguans & Guatemalans & Hondurans fighting it out to the death;
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 9:51 PM UTC
the Neo & the Post
Trump invades Nicaragua; lights a powder keg to the relief of everyone; let's get on w/ it; change the world; otherwise Nicaragua threatens to become another Syria w/ Sandanista vs. Sandanista & drug lords & communists; mercenaries;  contractors & experimental weapons; welcome to a world that is torn completely in two to everyone's relief for the sheer catharsis; that is what frenzied freedom looks & feels like; touches like, smells like, ***** & eats like; the madman in the marketplace is the last person who can spell Bourgeoisie & Ancien Régime; Disestablishmentarianism & Nouveau riche; time & technology will turn the soil of psychology churning up some never before seen creature; mankind is suicidal; this new Being will have no such concept; coming in & out existence like walking through a door; time is meaningless running in countless waves in all directions; space is flexible like clay; women & men create each other to the limits of their imagination; Newton laid the foundation & Einstein painted the ceiling; Pascal, Hawking; Leibniz & Nietzsche & every poet that ever lived or never lived; every celestial siren & songstress who whispered in a magical scribe's ear & he scratched the miles & hours & places & people there; thus, it began somewhere far out in space; but they've been there all along; peaceful, loving, able to shape-shift to perform pleasurable functions in accordance w/ mankind's selfish wishes; mankind thinking it's putting one over on the new species, still finds itself bogged down in Nicaragua long after Trump has built his Presidential Library & joined the aliens like everyone else; the poor Nicaraguans & Guatemalans & Hondurans fighting it out to the death;
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There’s a scurrying sound of something, burrowing, Down in the depths of the dungeons, hurrying, Skittering, pittering-pattering, scattering When there’s a footstep, hear them chattering: ‘Here come the lords, and here comes the vassal, Tripping their way through Cockroach Castle.’ Here come the ladies, all in their finery Tripping and sipping the wine from the winery, Trailing their silks, their satins and bustling, Up in the ballroom, while the rustling Army beneath the sounds of their razzle Is down in the depths of Cockroach Castle. Spilling their millions up in the glooming Out from the flagstones, terror is looming, Up on the awnings, hung from the ceiling Under the swish of the skirts they’re stealing, Dropping in hair, and burrowing faster, Cockroach Castle is set for disaster. Suddenly all of the room is screaming Flapping of hands, the roaches are teeming, Myriad hordes in the Carbonara, Candles are tipped from the candelabra, Choking smoke from the candles guttered, Flames leap up from the ones that stuttered. Clothing and flags and the awnings razing Silks and satins flare up, and blazing, Roaches in eyes and ears, they’re rasping Clogging their throats, to leave them gasping, There isn’t a lady or lord, or vassal To come out alive from Cockroach Castle! David Lewis Paget
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 1:08 PM UTC
Cockroach Castle
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Skyrim, Land for Nords Filled with Mead and Honningbrew Singing with blood and cords Disagreeing to their Divines and Lords But raging with war and Talos Blessed Destroying the empire, liberating Skyrim Once Again But a nightmare appears "DRAGONS! DRAGONS!" a filthy Nord say Running away pityfully as the Myths slays A man stays A nordic lad Tough like Talos ***** as a rag The tongue of the ancients Shouting, stealing the souls of the Myths It's the Dragonborn It's back Since centuries And has came To Unlegend the Myths Once Again
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
The Dovahkiin Tale
A Breath of wind is wind itself, should true and steady braided shelfs, foraged fords from handsome lords, prayed hopes & proper ropes, could life and science meet the world beyond Biology? "A home," it cried, "a home for me with trees and lakes and reverie." I tried and cried for something else, elsewhere I found a leaning shelf. Should what was true and even hold nothing told or helpless here, I cannot hide a place inside, though I cannot say I really tried.
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May 18, 2017
May 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM UTC
Wind Itself
The puppet's second awakening is a knight of crusading, evils boots I bet are quaking, especially when his sword starts shaking. Though made of wood he's hardly bored, he's killing all the little lords. Royalties high but he'll bring them low with one fell swoop and mighty blow. Arrows cut but they don't dry, fires good but you just try. He's got a shield it's good for blocking, you better be ready when he comes knocking. All in all he's quite the lad, made of wood and iron clad. And with his holy cross of might he'll slay all evil in his sight.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM UTC
Iron Lad
The black bull bellowed before the sea. The sea, till that day orderly, Hove up against Bendylaw. The queen in the mulberry arbor stared Stiff as a queen on a playing card. The king fingered his beard. A blue sea, four ***** bull-feet, A bull-snouted sea that wouldn't stay put, Bucked at the garden gate. Along box-lined walks in the florid sun Toward the rowdy bellow and back again The lords and ladies ran. The great bronze gate began to crack, The sea broke in at every crack, Pellmell, blueblack. The bull surged up, the bull surged down, Not to be stayed by a daisy chain Nor by any learned man. O the king's tidy acre is under the sea, And the royal rose in the bull's belly, And the bull on the king's highway.
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The Bull Of Bendylaw
Behold the One with the Aries, the Ward of Santa Muerte Our 16th President voted by 16 million Filipinos this 2016 The 1st President from Mindanao from being Mayor of Davao…Duterte! He is One with MiJoRdGr (Miriam, Jojo, Rody, Grace) The 4 Opposition Presidentiables who defeated Mar Roxas And brought Liberal Party its great disgrace! The One with the Aries from the Land with War The Land of Promise – feared by typhoons, but filled with goons So from her came a Liberator among MiJoRdGr! That this One should war with our nation’s greatest horrors -Drug Lords, Liberals, Treasoners, Criminals & Terrorists- These powerful entities to our history are desecrators! So by being one with lawmakers, law enforcers & lawful people By the overwhelming power of the Supermajority Our country’s greatest terrors…Du30 shall conquer them all! But first, he must defeat his detractors – Leila, Leni & Trillanes These triple crooks who want to topple the government Are also said to be conspiring with EU, UN & US! Yet with Trump’s triumph, US is no longer an enemy Our American hatred weakened, our Chinese friendship strengthened As it established great friendship with Pres. Du30! Do not emulate the girl power of those Liberal crooks We got an Olympic medalist Heidilyn & Ms. International 2016 But Leila & Leni?...Can only ruin our country…like blasted nukes! Do not worry for we have Pacquiao as still winner & role model Alongwith Gen. Bato, a victim of yellow washing machine But these Pro-Du30 men…to criminals tough, to innocents gentle! May God allow this True Change to take place with continuity Let Pres. Duterte lead us for many more years to come For the Supermajority, for you & me… for our country! -12/30/2016 (Dumarao) *Our Golden Times During PDu30
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Sep 28, 2019
Sep 28, 2019 at 9:19 PM UTC
Our Golden Times During PDu30
Behold the One with the Aries, the Ward of Santa Muerte Our 16th President voted by 16 million Filipinos this 2016 The 1st President from Mindanao from being Mayor of Davao…Duterte! He is One with MiJoRdGr (Miriam, Jojo, Rody, Grace) The 4 Opposition Presidentiables who defeated Mar Roxas And brought Liberal Party its great disgrace! The One with the Aries from the Land with War The Land of Promise – feared by typhoons, but filled with goons So from her came a Liberator among MiJoRdGr! That this One should war with our nation’s greatest horrors -Drug Lords, Liberals, Treasoners, Criminals & Terrorists- These powerful entities to our history are desecrators! So by being one with lawmakers, law enforcers & lawful people By the overwhelming power of the Supermajority Our country’s greatest terrors…Du30 shall conquer them all! But first, he must defeat his detractors – Leila, Leni & Trillanes These triple crooks who want to topple the government Are also said to be conspiring with EU, UN & US! Yet with Trump’s triumph, US is no longer an enemy Our American hatred weakened, our Chinese friendship strengthened As it established great friendship with Pres. Du30! Do not emulate the girl power of those Liberal crooks We got an Olympic medalist Heidilyn & Ms. International 2016 But Leila & Leni?...Can only ruin our country…like blasted nukes! Do not worry for we have Pacquiao as still winner & role model Alongwith Gen. Bato, a victim of yellow washing machine But these Pro-Du30 men…to criminals tough, to innocents gentle! May God allow this True Change to take place with continuity Let Pres. Duterte lead us for many more years to come For the Supermajority, for you & me… for our country! -12/30/2016 (Dumarao) *Our Golden Times During PDu30
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These halls seem somewhat hollow A certain sense of sorrow Now graces ancient stone. Replacing familiar faces With defaced family paintings And cold ancestral bones. Thrones thrown upon a pyre. Fate becomes the folly Tomorrow the unknown, The brows of time are furrowed Past spent, lost, or borrowed Flowers forever bloom alone. Rats, the last lords of ruin Rule cruel shadows from the walls. Twilight sighs at daylight's rise All seems dark till darkness falls.
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Jun 4, 2022
Jun 4, 2022 at 5:47 PM UTC
Rats in Ruin
you are beautiful. you are tragically beautiful. you are notre dame at night. you are the eiffel tower amidst bombshells. you are the house of commons and the house of lords. you are the lone beam standing after Katrina. you are the one baby sea turtle who makes it off the beach. you are the dark side of the moon. you are the patch of sand struck by lightning. you are the remains discovered after the plane goes down. you're a smooth puddle in a parking lot. you are the creaky stair that warns of intruders. you are all of the red skittles. you are Job 3:14.
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 3:38 PM UTC
Job 3:14
Discipline has absolutely nothing to do with you And everything to do with your tiny lords
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 1:26 AM UTC
tiny usurpers
somehow all neighborhood tribes & tribe lords love you. somehow you beat my score on the nickelcade spaced invaders. we leap fences in escape of party befouled cops. crusaders of mustache & veiny hate. you rip your jeans & lose your artifacts in the creek. into convenience store warm lights & makeout mixtapes.
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM UTC
pear
The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all’s poetry with him. Rhyme and music flow in plenty For the lad of one-and-twenty, But Spring for him is no more now Than daisies to a munching cow; Just a cheery pleasant season, Daisy buds to live at ease on. He’s forgotten how he smiled And shrieked at snowdrops when a child, Or wept one evening secretly For April’s glorious misery. Wisdom made him old and wary Banishing the Lords of Faery. Wisdom made a breach and battered Babylon to bits: she scattered To the hedges and ditches All our nursery gnomes and witches. Lob and Puck, poor frantic elves, Drag their treasures from the shelves. Jack the Giant-killer’s gone, Mother Goose and Oberon, Bluebeard and King Solomon. Robin, and Red Riding Hood Take together to the wood, And Sir Galahad lies hid In a cave with Captain Kidd. None of all the magic hosts, None remain but a few ghosts Of timorous heart, to linger on Weeping for lost Babylon.
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Babylon
Orcas in Puget Sound Along the road, abandoned wild apple trees bend with their heavy loads, dusty skirts of blackberry bushes purpling fingers, piercing flesh mouths ringed with berry juice, vampires all. Along San Juan Island salmon leap clear out of the briny water, just yards ahead of their predators, Orcas, dorsal fins curving shiny black, sluicing and slicing the surface like sharpened knives They have bred with one another for 10,000 years trolled these waters through famine, earthquakes, world wars through shifting continents, glacial avalanches, through the extinction of whole civilizations. Standing on a cliff, my daughter and I watch the Orcas churning the water - studies in grace the largest gem on the necklace of a great food chain and when we sleep we too chase the great King Salmon of our deepest dreams, the fathers we lost, the currents that bear along children Translucent jellyfish, palm sized, breath below sideways exhale, convulsive inhale umbrellas opening and closing a thousand years or more sliding through forests of brown kelp where mollusks cling We have clung like this to one another, with my body thrown over hers for protection and her exhaling away from me If Mama Orca keeps her young close, so will I If there are salmon to chase and harbor seals to command, so we will Arcing in the late August sky slapping and parting the surface, over and over the whales, lords of the Sound, swim in our brains as we sleep sparkle against blackening waters You are of my body from my body cleaving there for 10,000 years Whatever quarrels there are on land vaporize In the presence of these creatures, arcing against all that is temporal, vicious, small, studies in power and grace The tide pulls out, skimming across rocks and oysters in their muddy beds But this need to care for you remains as big as an Orca your appetite for adventure as voracious and I watch you, my child, disappearing with summer into high school, into womanhood, into the salty, light-dappled ocean
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM UTC
Orcas in Puget Sound
Orcas in Puget Sound Along the road, abandoned wild apple trees bend with their heavy loads, dusty skirts of blackberry bushes purpling fingers, piercing flesh mouths ringed with berry juice, vampires all. Along San Juan Island salmon leap clear out of the briny water, just yards ahead of their predators, Orcas, dorsal fins curving shiny black, sluicing and slicing the surface like sharpened knives They have bred with one another for 10,000 years trolled these waters through famine, earthquakes, world wars through shifting continents, glacial avalanches, through the extinction of whole civilizations. Standing on a cliff, my daughter and I watch the Orcas churning the water - studies in grace the largest gem on the necklace of a great food chain and when we sleep we too chase the great King Salmon of our deepest dreams, the fathers we lost, the currents that bear along children Translucent jellyfish, palm sized, breath below sideways exhale, convulsive inhale umbrellas opening and closing a thousand years or more sliding through forests of brown kelp where mollusks cling We have clung like this to one another, with my body thrown over hers for protection and her exhaling away from me If Mama Orca keeps her young close, so will I If there are salmon to chase and harbor seals to command, so we will Arcing in the late August sky slapping and parting the surface, over and over the whales, lords of the Sound, swim in our brains as we sleep sparkle against blackening waters You are of my body from my body cleaving there for 10,000 years Whatever quarrels there are on land vaporize In the presence of these creatures, arcing against all that is temporal, vicious, small, studies in power and grace The tide pulls out, skimming across rocks and oysters in their muddy beds But this need to care for you remains as big as an Orca your appetite for adventure as voracious and I watch you, my child, disappearing with summer into high school, into womanhood, into the salty, light-dappled ocean
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The anvils rang and the hammers rose To beat out bright blades of dwarvish steel These were blades for elven kings For soon the wars would rage The Mordor hordes were marching From the blacklands they would come Bringing death and desolation To the green and pleasant lands But the elven hosts were marching Alongside dwarves and men And the eagles circled above them Eyes searching every vale and glen Bright were the swords of the elven kings Tightly strung the bows Heavy the axes and hammers of the mountain dwarves Long and fierce the spears of men The horse lords rode there on the flanks And also in the van They would be the first to fight When the orchish hordes came into sight Orc riders the target for their spears Wargs the targets for their swords To buy the times for the elven kings To form their battle lines
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 4:01 PM UTC
Of Elves, Dwarves and Men