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"lyres" poems
The day is bright and blue, While the night hails the universe's true view. The sun, hailed as the giver of all life and the first true fire, As the moon is considered all of death's lyres. While life is given power by the sun, The moon is the cloak for all of its assassins. As the sun is fiery and passionate, Our moon is quiet and loves maleficence. As the day gives only the bare truth, The night covers all that who are to sleuth Sun and moon, God and Satan, Earth and sky, Truth and jive, Life and death, Fire and water, Dusk and dawn Diverting Martyrs Oppositions of our humainty, Sun and moon, Balance our reality...
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 7:27 PM UTC
Duet Of Opposition
As the Thunderbolt God Jupiter Saturn’s brother Pursued his loves in disguise The Goddess Hera sat upon her throne Irritated and plotting Gazing with angry jealous eyes Oh, courageous intelligent Athena ****** Goddess of the hunt Dare the foolish to cast eyes upon her unclothed Under the sentence of a tortuous death Its said by many she was not birthed But sprang surprisingly from her father’s head The lovely Aphrodite Would melt the hearts of many a man Who would offer up their life For but a faint touch of her hand The Light God Apollo admirer of the word, reciting poetry Pluck the gold lyres delicate strings While the sea god Poseidon’s twelve daughters Mermaids Dressed in dripping seaweed began to sing Ares of the bold god of war Feared conqueror and great warrior Planted flowers As was his custom in the spring Artemis in fervent haste strung her magical bow For it was pursuit that stirred her blood It flowed through her veins Aged Roman wine Running stags through shadowy woods The gods of the Kings The Gods of the people To whom many sacrifices were made Lived thousands of years beyond the lifespan of man So, say the storytellers of olden times and past days All right Reserved. Tammy M. Darby. Jan. 31, 2019 All Material Stored in Author Base
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 9:08 PM UTC
The Gods
Over the hills, From mountain to mountain, He dances and hunts and roams. Playing his pipes, And drinking the wine, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. A cave in the hills, The heart of his fair Arcadia, He dances and hunts and roams. Demeter he found, And then he told Zeus, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. In fair Arcadia, He stood feeding his hounds, He dances and hunts and roams. Artemis came, And he gave her ten pairs, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Visions and dreams, In trances and dances of ecstasy, He dances and hunts and roams. Fair Apollo came, And learned prophecy at his feet, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Bragging and boasting, He plays his pipes and he dances, He dances and hunts and roams. Apollo comes challenging, And the mountain god liked lyres, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Echo he loved, He sang and he wooed, He dances and hunts and roams. Scorning his love, His panic tore her to shreds, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Youngest of gods, But oldest by far, He dances and hunts and roams. Father of all, And forever the Child, He dances and hunts and roams.
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Oct 2, 2011
Oct 2, 2011 at 12:42 AM UTC
Pan
Over the hills, From mountain to mountain, He dances and hunts and roams. Playing his pipes, And drinking the wine, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. A cave in the hills, The heart of his fair Arcadia, He dances and hunts and roams. Demeter he found, And then he told Zeus, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. In fair Arcadia, He stood feeding his hounds, He dances and hunts and roams. Artemis came, And he gave her ten pairs, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Visions and dreams, In trances and dances of ecstasy, He dances and hunts and roams. Fair Apollo came, And learned prophecy at his feet, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Bragging and boasting, He plays his pipes and he dances, He dances and hunts and roams. Apollo comes challenging, And the mountain god liked lyres, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Echo he loved, He sang and he wooed, He dances and hunts and roams. Scorning his love, His panic tore her to shreds, He dances and hunts and roams. Horned God, ***** God, Dancing God, Drinking God, Hooves upon the hills. Youngest of gods, But oldest by far, He dances and hunts and roams. Father of all, And forever the Child, He dances and hunts and roams.
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I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be The Century’s corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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The Darkling Thrush
(Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”) I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. II Steel chambers, late the pyres Of her salamandrine fires, Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres. III Over the mirrors meant To glass the opulent The sea-worm crawls—grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. IV Jewels in joy designed To ravish the sensuous mind Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind. V Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear And query: “What does this vaingloriousness down here?”. . . VI Well: while was fashioning This creature of cleaving wing, The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything VII Prepared a sinister mate For her—so gaily great— A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate. VIII And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. IX Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history. X Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event, XI Till the Spinner of the Years Said “Now!” And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
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The Convergence Of The Twain
*It's optional Like the fading of skies Early, wild, or remorseful. All the impalpable space in the lights Scaled in weighty gilt and curls The locks and gold of sun, early as it sets on a moiety of moor grey Brushed by shadows of agonised poplars on a spiral land of sheer pistachio blanket. Muffled by lyres played from the trumpets of convolvuluses, behind spears of the brain- an imagery commence to carouse into planet deep. A promenade atop the tulle of skies, an optional way to live. Saunter and fall onto slopes, shudder, meditate and hit a bee coffin pebble on the temple Where there are options to live, to bleed. Like the lurid sunrise sifting on yellow-green nuts, and dandruffs combed like granulated sugar Oh the taste of chemistry on the shea butter candles. It's sanguine and optional, your farewells on laden calendars of poems A promenade- back into sea of spears and flames A cadaver veined in pink, bearing plethora of methanol down pulverising bone.*
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 5:52 AM UTC
The cadaver
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! -yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutablilty.
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Mutability
Was there ever a time when lovers sat outside of windows and played lyres, Or were those only stories dreamed up by romantic minds- Too daring by half But still not nearly daring enough to do the things they sang about? If I threw pebbles at your windowpane, you would tell me to go back to sleep. Darling, what is that? How do you love someone, nowadays? With roses and chocolate, Or is even that too much, in modern times? What is this casualness, a... Casualty? I feel. And I would stand outside your gate all night and sing to you, Had you a gate and had I a voice. But this world is... different than I expected. And I don't know how to love you, it's true.
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Feb 15, 2014
Feb 15, 2014 at 10:40 PM UTC
"Make Me A Willow Cabin At Your Gate"
*Where is that inner child, why did it depart- And take with it the stories, That were close unto your heart* From Mother Goose to Tennyson's "Idyll's of the King", folklore and fairy tales- Of which the minstrels sing               Knights in shining armor,                   atop their steeds of grace- Protecting king and country as they ride from place to place There’s Jack and his stalk of beans, “Lil Red and her hood- Hansel, and his sister- traips'n thru the wood Rainbows and leprechauns, elusive pots ‘o’ gold, Oh, how many, many times have these tales been told- Fairies ‘neath the mushroom caps, elves in their acorn hats, Dancing 'neath the moon-ring light- as fireflies flicker, to the “music of the night” And from the heavens, a horse appears- adorned with wings of flight- And from its head, a single horn- the pure, and blessed, unicorn. The minstrels, with their lutes and lyres- amused the population- But, could it be, these tales be true, or just your imagination? *That inner child, it's still there It hasn’t gone away- It just needs to be awakened- on perhaps, this very day.* r.riddle December 18, 2010-Copyright
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM UTC
Folklore and Fairy Tales
The twilight’s inner flame grows blue and deep, And in my ****** over leagues of sea, The temples glimmer moonwise in the trees. Twilight has veiled the little flower face Here on my heart, but still the night is kind And leaves her warm sweet weight against my breast. Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk Along the surges creeping up the shore When tides came in to ease the hungry beach, And running, running, till the night was black, Would fall forespent upon the chilly sand And quiver with the winds from off the sea? Ah, quietly the shingle waits the tides Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me Love brought no peace, nor darkness any rest. I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet, From whom the sea is bitterer than death. Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God’s daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. I hold my peace, my Cleïs, on my heart; And softer than a little wild bird’s wing Are kisses that she pours upon my mouth. Ah, never any more when spring like fire Will flicker in the newly opened leaves, Shall I steal forth to seek for solitude Beyond the lure of light Alcæus’ lyre, Beyond the sob that stilled Erinna’s voice. Ah, never with a throat that aches with song, Beneath the white uncaring sky of spring, Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love The quiver and the crying of my heart. Still I remember how I strove to flee The love-note of the birds, and bowed my head To hurry faster, but upon the ground I saw two wingèd shadows side by side, And all the world’s spring passion stifled me. Ah, Love, there is no fleeing from thy might, No lonely place where thou hast never trod, No desert thou hast left uncarpeted With flowers that spring beneath thy perfect feet. In many guises didst thou come to me; I saw thee by the maidens while they danced, Phaon allured me with a look of thine, In Anactoria I knew thy grace, I looked at Cercolas and saw thine eyes; But never wholly, soul and body mine, Didst thou bid any love me as I loved. Now I have found the peace that fled from me; Close, close, against my heart I hold my world. Ah, Love that made my life a lyric cry, Ah, Love that tuned my lips to lyres of thine, I taught the world thy music, now alone I sing for one who falls asleep to hear.
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Sappho
The twilight’s inner flame grows blue and deep, And in my ****** over leagues of sea, The temples glimmer moonwise in the trees. Twilight has veiled the little flower face Here on my heart, but still the night is kind And leaves her warm sweet weight against my breast. Am I that Sappho who would run at dusk Along the surges creeping up the shore When tides came in to ease the hungry beach, And running, running, till the night was black, Would fall forespent upon the chilly sand And quiver with the winds from off the sea? Ah, quietly the shingle waits the tides Whose waves are stinging kisses, but to me Love brought no peace, nor darkness any rest. I crept and touched the foam with fevered hands And cried to Love, from whom the sea is sweet, From whom the sea is bitterer than death. Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God’s daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. I hold my peace, my Cleïs, on my heart; And softer than a little wild bird’s wing Are kisses that she pours upon my mouth. Ah, never any more when spring like fire Will flicker in the newly opened leaves, Shall I steal forth to seek for solitude Beyond the lure of light Alcæus’ lyre, Beyond the sob that stilled Erinna’s voice. Ah, never with a throat that aches with song, Beneath the white uncaring sky of spring, Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love The quiver and the crying of my heart. Still I remember how I strove to flee The love-note of the birds, and bowed my head To hurry faster, but upon the ground I saw two wingèd shadows side by side, And all the world’s spring passion stifled me. Ah, Love, there is no fleeing from thy might, No lonely place where thou hast never trod, No desert thou hast left uncarpeted With flowers that spring beneath thy perfect feet. In many guises didst thou come to me; I saw thee by the maidens while they danced, Phaon allured me with a look of thine, In Anactoria I knew thy grace, I looked at Cercolas and saw thine eyes; But never wholly, soul and body mine, Didst thou bid any love me as I loved. Now I have found the peace that fled from me; Close, close, against my heart I hold my world. Ah, Love that made my life a lyric cry, Ah, Love that tuned my lips to lyres of thine, I taught the world thy music, now alone I sing for one who falls asleep to hear.
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Once more the battles of life by stealth, Creep upon you with blades, half hid under devil's sheath, Deceiving soul and self of their immortal worth, Shrinking my heart the breadth of its girth, My friend fights, struggles to slay their ghost, I've wondered how such a soul can be haunted, And for days I've prayed and chanted, Because of the fear their spirit is lost. I have walked, traversed prayer's line for miles, To save them from a fate that appals the mind and riles, Searching fathoms of my sadness stricken soul, To find ways to make again theirs whole, Imagining their sheer delight, In future years bereft of chains, Bereft of sad and melancholy refrains, I see them free, take flight. May God grant light and love and peace, May their mental struggle cease, For being borne aloft on wings, That inspire mind to soar and sing, Considering Love a sufficient goal, An immortal truth adorned by light, That maketh for an awesome sight, At peace with the one and all. My friend being stricken found life devious, Instead of coy and mischevious, While that great Knight, that rose out of Heaven's fires, Inspires feelings suffice to be sung to lyres, Yet feels themselves beneath the beams Of destiny, that touch the Earth, Warms it the breadth of its girth, And whose luck's light kisses our dreams. My friend wails for their wilting fate, And in my Heart a sorrow gestate, I want my Heart to waltz with theirs, Out of it's spiritual bars, On the shores of Heaven we'd frolic play, With them I'd be engorged on bliss, Touched by the light of luck's kiss, All throughout the day. In my devotion I have learned this, That to be not devoted is remiss, To deny truth of Love is the worst, Be banished from its kingdom who accursed, Her splendour, to which we ought to be, In mesmerised and spellbound awe, To love, and cherish, and adore, Her gifts and generosity.
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 10:53 PM UTC
A Prayer For My Friend
Once more the battles of life by stealth, Creep upon you with blades, half hid under devil's sheath, Deceiving soul and self of their immortal worth, Shrinking my heart the breadth of its girth, My friend fights, struggles to slay their ghost, I've wondered how such a soul can be haunted, And for days I've prayed and chanted, Because of the fear their spirit is lost. I have walked, traversed prayer's line for miles, To save them from a fate that appals the mind and riles, Searching fathoms of my sadness stricken soul, To find ways to make again theirs whole, Imagining their sheer delight, In future years bereft of chains, Bereft of sad and melancholy refrains, I see them free, take flight. May God grant light and love and peace, May their mental struggle cease, For being borne aloft on wings, That inspire mind to soar and sing, Considering Love a sufficient goal, An immortal truth adorned by light, That maketh for an awesome sight, At peace with the one and all. My friend being stricken found life devious, Instead of coy and mischevious, While that great Knight, that rose out of Heaven's fires, Inspires feelings suffice to be sung to lyres, Yet feels themselves beneath the beams Of destiny, that touch the Earth, Warms it the breadth of its girth, And whose luck's light kisses our dreams. My friend wails for their wilting fate, And in my Heart a sorrow gestate, I want my Heart to waltz with theirs, Out of it's spiritual bars, On the shores of Heaven we'd frolic play, With them I'd be engorged on bliss, Touched by the light of luck's kiss, All throughout the day. In my devotion I have learned this, That to be not devoted is remiss, To deny truth of Love is the worst, Be banished from its kingdom who accursed, Her splendour, to which we ought to be, In mesmerised and spellbound awe, To love, and cherish, and adore, Her gifts and generosity.
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I find questions to the answers damning; They quote the darkest volumes, And speak in whispered tones That haunt my mind with lemmings. Thrilling chills reverberate Throughout my spine, intoxicating The superfluous influx of aeon. In Elysium I await. Forgotten songbirds’ melodies Are ripe within their own stages, However, the message behind their incantations, Mocks the frigid winds of change. Apologetic reverences deny the peaceful hum Of every ***** and flute of desire And of all the lyres to be strummed. Stumbling upon a corpse of old, Necrosis doth eat away, Putridity and phobia have at last been lead astray, Maggots upon maggots, an **** of disease, Now struggle for control here, In the epitome of our dying age. The eyes that once saw hope, And the heart that once felt love, Our absentee in place of rot, And are swapped with rustic carrion. The dismal breeze that flow Swiftly under the crest of raven-wing, Solidify bones as well as the toxins that Cryptically burn and sting. A creation of mass panic, euphoria Are bound to allow riot’s treason, A repentance of nostalgia For uncountable reasons. Alas, we have but come close enough to success, To amount in a drowning of failure, To kiss the shores of dreams come true, And to be denied of those dreams’ savior.
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Jul 6, 2013
Jul 6, 2013 at 12:09 AM UTC
Purpose.
Dim-cast stars Begin their vigil Thunder strums The lyres of myth Puddles of dreams Rinse dying skies Iridescent crags Breathe petrichor Lightning arcs Invading my dreams Dusty feet stumble Unto sinless floors Love-burnt hands In reckless abandon Bloodied with ink And papercuts Words sewn to fit; To tailor the soul Coalesced by cords Of liqueur and brew Only to be abandoned And forgotten.
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Jan 9, 2012
Jan 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM UTC
Musings
Odysseus never understood why the gods were so intrigued by him. He was only one man in the folds of time, but there was something in him that glowed. He burned through the eyes, made them remember. Still, he prayed, they gave him storms and seductive ocean lyres to hold him down. They only wanted him to understand what he had in his center. But he was lost long before. Twisting and turning in your ship fate won’t let you go
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Jun 4, 2012
Jun 4, 2012 at 9:30 PM UTC
Epithet
If not in this place, but the next realm, I shalt mine love clepe thee with guardian's to surround; thou shalt findeth me, in a Robe of ivory white, anew with the saint's, Yahweh's chosen, i'll be in flight. Holding mine hand out, for thy own to reach, when passing the gates I've passed; thou shalt seeith the gold laden street's. I wilt signal the other's, that the portal was not breached. As thou wilt experience a million senses for thy eyne, speech, hearing, touch, thing's God to thee shalt teach. Multi-colored racemes shalt brushstroke the heavenly peak's, O' how the energy we wilt feeleth wilt be as the health of newborn's. None more thunderous storm's or anguish back upon the lower ground; now serenity none enmity against the once demons who came around. Shofar and lyres to grace Jehovah's peaceful sound's; as the echoes art vibes that cometh betwixt ourn soul's. As verily, verily, heaven's ourn abode, heaven's ourn abode by which we shan't fear. Cometh closer mine dear; the time is close, how I now heareth the heavenly Host's, ready to welcome us in. Cometh up hither Christ shalt soon say, judgement day is creeping the corner. We giveth Yahweh praise. ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Earl Jane Nagley dedicated ( àgapi mou) ©Prophetic poetry
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May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 at 1:28 PM UTC
i théleis sou clepe , me kidemóna gia na periválloun ( I wilt clepe thee, with guardian's to surround) greek tongue
The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only thing surviving from their ancestors was a Greek festival, with beautiful rites, with lyres and flutes, contests and wreaths. And it was their habit toward the festival's end to tell each other about their ancient customs and once again to speak Greek names that only few of them still recognized. And so their festival always had a melancholy ending because they remebered that they too were Greeks, they too once upon a time were citizens of Magna Graecia; and how low they'd fallen now, what they'd become, living and speaking like barbarians, cut off so disastrously from the Greek way of life.
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Poseidonians
WE count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild-flowers who will stoop to number? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them:-- Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts' sad story,-- Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of glory! Not where Leucadian breezes sweep O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow. O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his longed-for wine Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing presses,-- If singing breath or echoing chord To every hidden pang were given, What endless melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven!
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 9:20 PM UTC
The Voiceless
Sonnet. Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ; Oh ! là ! là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvées ! Mon unique culotte avait un large trou. - Petit-Poucet rêveur, j'égrenais dans ma course Des rimes. Mon auberge était à la Grande-Ourse. - Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes, Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur ; Où, rimant au milieu des ombres fantastiques, Comme des lyres, je tirais les élastiques De mes souliers blessés, un pied près de mon coeur !
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Ma bohème
I miss the crinkle smile lines slithering up your cheeks like canals on the Martian surface- evidence that life was once there. Or the way your laughter could penetrate the depths of my dead skin like harmonious frequencies erupting from a kitchen muse. And where your hands touched so did Midas follow; and where your hair spiraled out of your face in pinwheels so did galaxies imitate. The bed is colder now that you have stepped away. I miss the depressions in the sheets. Oh yes I miss a lot. But most of all I miss what I never thought i would miss- the ability of your lips to create the sweetest music I’ve ever heard, a thousand lyres playing in unison: I love you too.
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Aug 2, 2012
Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 AM UTC
Quite A Queer Feeling
They said that the breeze Told them nothing but miseries They said that the grass Inhaled nothing but nurseries They said, “We seek you for tragedies, And we want our tears to pick your lyers; we made you dreams of catastrophic allegories, and we want our grief to mourn over your prejudice of undesired futures.” They claimed that they were conjured of Passion and mysteries Of knowledge other than blasphemies They said, “We chant you for the last morning tea We desire you for your ever-after evening satires, Stay, and keep us for the crystal wires Of your undying lyres.” They said so as desired and as deprived, Yet if they are so afraid to lose Why do they seek in the first place?
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 6:46 AM UTC
Rites
A poem can be a statement, A poem can be a song. It can be a piece of music, Playing all night long. First we have to go up, Then we must go down. Then we have to go all around To find this ****** town. Poetry is music, Singing us a song. Any way you choose it, Bing, bang, **** Assonant sounds assemble, Alliteration lilts our lyres. Raps and rhymes are pulsing, Kindling all those fires. An orchestra is playing On this very page. Letters and words are strumming: It’s a Golden Age. Choirs of Angels Singing, Guitars with a twang. Ear that piano playing, This may or may not scan. If a pawn’s the soul of chess, As Philidor did say, Then letters and the sounds they show Are what brighten the poet’s day. So get those letters running, All along the page. Those sounds are our chess pieces, Ready to engage. Paul Butters
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Oct 22, 2016
Oct 22, 2016 at 5:58 AM UTC
Musical Poetry
Psyché dans ma chambre est entrée, Et j'ai dit à ce papillon : - « Nomme-moi la chose sacrée. « Est-ce l'ombre ? est-ce le rayon ? « Est-ce la musique des lyres ? « Est-ce le parfum de la fleur ? « Quel est entre tous les délires « Celui qui fait l'homme meilleur ? « Quel est l'encens ? quelle est la flamme ? « Et l'organe de l'avatar, « Et pour les souffrants le dictame, « Et pour les heureux le nectar ? « Enseigne-moi ce qui fait vivre, « Ce qui fait que l'oeil brille et voit ! « Enseigne-moi l'endroit du livre « Où Dieu pensif pose son doigt. « Qu'est-ce qu'en sortant de l'Érèbe « Dante a trouvé de plus complet ? « Quel est le mot des sphinx de Thèbe « Et des ramiers du Paraclet ? « Quelle est la chose, humble et superbe, « Faite de matière et d'éther, « Où Dieu met le plus de son verbe « Et l'homme le plus de sa chair ? « Quel est le pont que l'esprit montre, « La route de la fange au ciel, « Où Vénus Astarté rencontre « À mi-chemin Ithuriel ? « Quelle est la clef splendide et sombre, « Comme aux élus chère aux maudits, « Avec laquelle on ferme l'ombre « Et l'on ouvre le paradis ? « Qu'est-ce qu'Orphée et Zoroastre, « Et Christ que Jean vint suppléer, « En mêlant la rose avec l'astre, « Auraient voulu pouvoir créer ? « Puisque tu viens d'en haut, déesse, « Ange, peut-être le sais-tu ? « Ô Psyché ! quelle est la sagesse ? « Ô Psyché ! quelle est la vertu ? « Qu'est-ce que, pour l'homme et la terre, « L'infini sombre a fait de mieux ? « Quel est le chef-d'oeuvre du père ? « Quel est le grand éclair des cieux ? » Posant sur mon front, sous la nue, Ses ailes qu'on ne peut briser, Entre lesquelles elle est nue, Psyché m'a dit : C'est le baiser.
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Psyché
Psyché dans ma chambre est entrée, Et j'ai dit à ce papillon : - « Nomme-moi la chose sacrée. « Est-ce l'ombre ? est-ce le rayon ? « Est-ce la musique des lyres ? « Est-ce le parfum de la fleur ? « Quel est entre tous les délires « Celui qui fait l'homme meilleur ? « Quel est l'encens ? quelle est la flamme ? « Et l'organe de l'avatar, « Et pour les souffrants le dictame, « Et pour les heureux le nectar ? « Enseigne-moi ce qui fait vivre, « Ce qui fait que l'oeil brille et voit ! « Enseigne-moi l'endroit du livre « Où Dieu pensif pose son doigt. « Qu'est-ce qu'en sortant de l'Érèbe « Dante a trouvé de plus complet ? « Quel est le mot des sphinx de Thèbe « Et des ramiers du Paraclet ? « Quelle est la chose, humble et superbe, « Faite de matière et d'éther, « Où Dieu met le plus de son verbe « Et l'homme le plus de sa chair ? « Quel est le pont que l'esprit montre, « La route de la fange au ciel, « Où Vénus Astarté rencontre « À mi-chemin Ithuriel ? « Quelle est la clef splendide et sombre, « Comme aux élus chère aux maudits, « Avec laquelle on ferme l'ombre « Et l'on ouvre le paradis ? « Qu'est-ce qu'Orphée et Zoroastre, « Et Christ que Jean vint suppléer, « En mêlant la rose avec l'astre, « Auraient voulu pouvoir créer ? « Puisque tu viens d'en haut, déesse, « Ange, peut-être le sais-tu ? « Ô Psyché ! quelle est la sagesse ? « Ô Psyché ! quelle est la vertu ? « Qu'est-ce que, pour l'homme et la terre, « L'infini sombre a fait de mieux ? « Quel est le chef-d'oeuvre du père ? « Quel est le grand éclair des cieux ? » Posant sur mon front, sous la nue, Ses ailes qu'on ne peut briser, Entre lesquelles elle est nue, Psyché m'a dit : C'est le baiser.
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*Where is that inner child, why did it depart- And take with it the stories, That were close unto your heart* From Mother Goose to Tennyson's "Idyll's of the King", folklore and fairy tales- Of which the minstrels sing Knights in shining armor                             atop their steeds of grace- Protecting king and country as they ride from place to place There’s Jack and his stalk of beans, “Lil" Red and her hood- Hansel, and his sister- traips'n thru the wood Rainbows and leprechauns, elusive pots ‘o’ gold, Oh, how many, many times have these tales been told- Fairies ‘neath the mushroom caps, elves in their acorn hats, Dancing 'neath the moon-ring light- as fireflies flicker, to the “music of the night” And from the heavens, a horse appears- adorned with wings of flight- And from its head, a single horn- the pure, and blessed, Unicorn. The minstrels, with their lutes and lyres- amused the population- But, could it be, these tales be true, or just your imagination? *That inner child, it's still there It hasn’t gone away- It just needs to be awakened- on perhaps, this very day* r.riddle December 18, 2010-Copyright
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 1:02 AM UTC
Folklore and Fairy Tales (repost)
As darkness is just perceptive errors or failures, Light reveals more. Investigation yields more Than merely just believing; You can believe in everything, Without believing in anything. You can believe in everything, Without believing in 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. You can believe in everything, Without it meaning anything. You can believe anything, Even while it goes against all that is logical & virtuous. Believing in everything without properly investigating Is meaningless. Believing in anything that after investigation contradicts Logic & Virtue, facts & opinion - both the objective & subjective, Is meaningless. Don't read into things Which really aren't there to begin with, Because there is so much Of which you all are ignorant. So don't be arrogant; Be a teacher, Parent.
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Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM UTC
Fine Tune The Senses, Strum Your Lyres; The Brain Itself Is A Muscle, The Mind Is An Instrument