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"makers" poems
Lay with me you may Play in May you may Understand me better If you listen closelay I will tongue tie the slighest guy With word play so fly it make you pay Past by then it makes you wonder why Like makers mark get set to start Play your position and I play my part You used your body to touch my soul I used my hands to touch your heart two mangled hearts Tangled in the dark Searching for understanding Playing the role of a mark
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Jan 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018 at 11:09 PM UTC
Mark
Sandwiched in layers of liquid crystal display, Encased in vats of plastic,                                                        we Voyaging in data-spheres, plumes of digital play. Mindless,          In the soup of silicone,                                                          all Myth-makers,          Pouring over electro-spawned          networks,                                                          fall Workers,           In the buzz of bits and bytes, of           megabytes and terabytes,                                                          down Everyone           Far from the wood, the brine, the           mud that caked us,           In tighter and tighter           digitised  projections,                                                          click! ‘Like me’, ‘Share me’, ‘Leave your comments.’ Messages smoothed out in polymers, Beyond reproductions of ourselves,                            enter: Deeper, delving in the mire of dream-conscious, Now a waking voice,           Hardened, digitised, recorded in           bubbles, in drives, in clouds:                          Numb numbers of numbers numb,                           mirror.           A platform slotted home: The motherboard!           To record the echo in the hollow           of our Being.
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Sep 30, 2017
Sep 30, 2017 at 10:44 AM UTC
Silicone Souls
Sandwiched in layers of liquid crystal display, Encased in vats of plastic,                                                        we Voyaging in data-spheres, plumes of digital play. Mindless,          In the soup of silicone,                                                          all Myth-makers,          Pouring over electro-spawned          networks,                                                          fall Workers,           In the buzz of bits and bytes, of           megabytes and terabytes,                                                          down Everyone           Far from the wood, the brine, the           mud that caked us,           In tighter and tighter           digitised  projections,                                                          click! ‘Like me’, ‘Share me’, ‘Leave your comments.’ Messages smoothed out in polymers, Beyond reproductions of ourselves,                            enter: Deeper, delving in the mire of dream-conscious, Now a waking voice,           Hardened, digitised, recorded in           bubbles, in drives, in clouds:                          Numb numbers of numbers numb,                           mirror.           A platform slotted home: The motherboard!           To record the echo in the hollow           of our Being.
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(for Christopher Isherwood) Seated after breakfast In this white-tiled cabin Arabs call the House where Everybody goes, Even melancholics Raise a cheer to Mrs. Nature for the primal Pleasure She bestows. *** is but a dream to Seventy-and-over, But a joy proposed un- -til we start to shave: Mouth-delight depends on Virtue in the cook, but This She guarantees from Cradle unto grave. Lifted off the ***** Infants from their mothers Hear their first impartial Words of worldly praise: Hence, to start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days. Revelation came to Luther in a privy (Crosswords have been solved there) Rodin was no fool When he cast his Thinker, Cogitating deeply, Crouched in the position Of a man at stool. All the arts derive from This ur-act of making, Private to the artist: Makers' lives are spent Striving in their chosen Medium to produce a De-narcissus-ized en- During excrement. Freud did not invent the Constipated miser: Banks have letter boxes Built in their façade Marked For Night Deposits, Stocks are firm or liquid, Currencies of nations Either soft or hard. Global Mother, keep our Bowels of compassion Open through our lifetime, Purge our minds as well: Grant us a king ending, Not a second childhood, Petulant, weak-sphinctered, In a cheap hotel. Keep us in our station: When we get pound-notish, When we seem about to Take up Higher Thought, Send us some deflating Image like the pained ex- -pression on a Major Prophet taken short. (Orthodoxy ought to Bless our modern plumbing: Swift and St. Augustine Lived in centuries When a stench of sewage Made a strong debating Point for Manichees.) Mind and Body run on Different timetables: Not until our morning Visit here can we Leave the dead concerns of Yesterday behind us, Face with all our courage What is now to be.
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The Geography of the House
(for Christopher Isherwood) Seated after breakfast In this white-tiled cabin Arabs call the House where Everybody goes, Even melancholics Raise a cheer to Mrs. Nature for the primal Pleasure She bestows. *** is but a dream to Seventy-and-over, But a joy proposed un- -til we start to shave: Mouth-delight depends on Virtue in the cook, but This She guarantees from Cradle unto grave. Lifted off the ***** Infants from their mothers Hear their first impartial Words of worldly praise: Hence, to start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days. Revelation came to Luther in a privy (Crosswords have been solved there) Rodin was no fool When he cast his Thinker, Cogitating deeply, Crouched in the position Of a man at stool. All the arts derive from This ur-act of making, Private to the artist: Makers' lives are spent Striving in their chosen Medium to produce a De-narcissus-ized en- During excrement. Freud did not invent the Constipated miser: Banks have letter boxes Built in their façade Marked For Night Deposits, Stocks are firm or liquid, Currencies of nations Either soft or hard. Global Mother, keep our Bowels of compassion Open through our lifetime, Purge our minds as well: Grant us a king ending, Not a second childhood, Petulant, weak-sphinctered, In a cheap hotel. Keep us in our station: When we get pound-notish, When we seem about to Take up Higher Thought, Send us some deflating Image like the pained ex- -pression on a Major Prophet taken short. (Orthodoxy ought to Bless our modern plumbing: Swift and St. Augustine Lived in centuries When a stench of sewage Made a strong debating Point for Manichees.) Mind and Body run on Different timetables: Not until our morning Visit here can we Leave the dead concerns of Yesterday behind us, Face with all our courage What is now to be.
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There's a meadow past the village On a hill...where magic swarms You can see it on a summer night When the clouds predict the storms Life from time eternal Starts appearing in the field Gnomes and bluebell fairies and the magic that they yield You can see them from the village Dancing in the moonlights glow You can see the lightning jumping You can see the ebb and flow The pixies and the fairies Folk who are part of their own world Light up the distant meadow As the magic is unfurled Daisies and soft bluebells fill the meadow in the sun there is clover and some dragonflies And young children having fun The magic folk are hiding Lights are hid, and tucked away Until the humans in their world Pack to end the day It's then, from down the village That the meadow lights begin Where the magic lights the sky up In the early gloaming din If a human breaks the borders Coming out and much too near The lights go dark...and silent For the magic world has ears There are sentries in the meadow All unseen to you That alert the makers of the lights When the humans are in view there is magic in the meadow magic lanterns are set free where the world becomes a canvas Of dancing lights for all to see
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Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
The Meadow
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 5:17 AM UTC
Why Does Mona Lisa Smile?
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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Beware the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones are the Thinkers The Quiet Ones are the Dreamers They’re the heart seekers, thrill lovers, and love givers They’re the heart breakers, story makers, and life changers The best heroes, the worst villains, the most notorious saints and sinners Their hearts and minds are largest of all (But they’ll never control them) Beware the Quiet Ones, because it’s Always the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones will always listen, even when you won’t do the same They’ll break your comfort zone, just to make you comfortable They’ll never ask for favors or a shoulder to cry on But they will always be there, hanging on every word and tear They’ll sell their souls to save yours, sacrifice their minds to break yours They’re the strongest, and the most broken. The Quiet Ones don’t like to harm you, because they know too well how it feels... but don’t you hurt them. They’ll always forgive and never forget, and they know how to aim for the heart All they know is the past, and vengeance is their greatest weapon. That’s why it’s always the Quiet Ones. Whether the key to your heart or your greatest fear? The Quiet Ones will find it – Beware the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones are the first to stand up, and the last to point the finger They’ll stand up for anything, because they have nothing to lose. They are the champions of love and hate, and if you hate to love them, or love to hate them? That was their plan all along. Your deepest plots or darkest secrets? The Quiet Ones knew all along. They’re four steps ahead of you – Beware the Quiet Ones. They’ll never put you down, but believe they know how, because the Quiet Ones see EVERYTHING They know what you did, they heard what you said - they were there Their depth knows no end, yet they’re so empty inside Their curses bring power, their strengths bring weaknesses They’ll control you, even when they can’t control themselves That’s why it’s always the Quiet Ones Beware the Quiet Ones.
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Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 5:12 PM UTC
The Quiet Ones
Beware the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones are the Thinkers The Quiet Ones are the Dreamers They’re the heart seekers, thrill lovers, and love givers They’re the heart breakers, story makers, and life changers The best heroes, the worst villains, the most notorious saints and sinners Their hearts and minds are largest of all (But they’ll never control them) Beware the Quiet Ones, because it’s Always the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones will always listen, even when you won’t do the same They’ll break your comfort zone, just to make you comfortable They’ll never ask for favors or a shoulder to cry on But they will always be there, hanging on every word and tear They’ll sell their souls to save yours, sacrifice their minds to break yours They’re the strongest, and the most broken. The Quiet Ones don’t like to harm you, because they know too well how it feels... but don’t you hurt them. They’ll always forgive and never forget, and they know how to aim for the heart All they know is the past, and vengeance is their greatest weapon. That’s why it’s always the Quiet Ones. Whether the key to your heart or your greatest fear? The Quiet Ones will find it – Beware the Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones are the first to stand up, and the last to point the finger They’ll stand up for anything, because they have nothing to lose. They are the champions of love and hate, and if you hate to love them, or love to hate them? That was their plan all along. Your deepest plots or darkest secrets? The Quiet Ones knew all along. They’re four steps ahead of you – Beware the Quiet Ones. They’ll never put you down, but believe they know how, because the Quiet Ones see EVERYTHING They know what you did, they heard what you said - they were there Their depth knows no end, yet they’re so empty inside Their curses bring power, their strengths bring weaknesses They’ll control you, even when they can’t control themselves That’s why it’s always the Quiet Ones Beware the Quiet Ones.
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And in the silence that's often deafening, I hear my heart that still beats. Reminding me of more pain to come, disguised as truths we are their lies. After all these years there's no surprise. Whispered softly into your ears, we are the makers of salty tears. One day your heart, cold, blue and torn will cease to beat, when death is born. Life's light will fade for one last time, up through the clouds your soul will climb. A breeze from the graveyard whispers death but that's ok, I hold its hand. A smile in the dark I understand, the effort you've shown, this was all planned. Congratulations to you, my life is through.
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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 at 6:13 PM UTC
Many Congratulations.
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 3:07 AM UTC
Why Does Mona Lisa Smile?
An enigmatic smile she’s dressed with to chant mystery, Poets and bards with their magical poesy tried the mystery, Philosophers and thinkers broke their minds to unravel the secrecy, Scientists and law makers built hypotheses and verdicts to read hers, Painters and sculptors fatigued with their colours and clay, Actors and directors enacted to unknot the thread of obscurity. Odes and epics, long-written, attempted to sing Lisa’s Smile; But reflections of their beloveds’ smile read in their verses, Philosophies and thoughts expressed in huge volumes; But less understood even the painter’s invention, Theories and laws built around Science and Law; But little is the outcome of their propositions sans the mystery, Colours and clay played on mighty imaginative realms; But Mona Lisa ne’er spoke of her mystery Smile. Enactments on massive stages thrilled the collective audiences; But Mona Lisa hid the mystery of her Smile. I walked around the garden of poetry with fragrance of mystery, I saw a poem in her distinctive beauty ruling my mind’s eye. She smiled at my heart and in turn my heart smiled at her, Her smile taught me a mystery and it took time to read it; Yet there was a veil betwixt us, and I took my plume to write. She took my heart unto her, and I romped in joy. She’s been decked with melody and rhymes, And the string of verses stretched beyond the horizon, Where the mystery of Lisa’s Smile be found. She took me with her beyond the horizon, And I followed her with no utterance till our destination. She laughed at me for my silence; Yet she smiled unto me; but her smile looked unfathomable. She smiled and smiled at me; yet she had no utterance for me; She looked a little bit puzzling unto me, and I had no answer; Yet her smile dwelled in me, and I invoked the Muse of Poetry. “Thou art to be a silent lover, and her smile is the answer unto thee, She’s the Mona Lisa; she can’t speak, but smile and smile.” I lay on the soil of the kingdom of poetry, imbibing Lisa’s Smile, I adorn her smile; I worship her smile; I revere her smile, Let me not move away from the garden of poetry Till Lisa’s Smile is translated unto me. I waited and waited and I found the answer: Lisa smiles and her smile is the love of silence. My heart rests in silence that her love is felt within. She uttered into me:”Speak not, but love with smile, And that the mystery of my Smile and my Smile lasts.” I know why Mona Lisa smiles. She loves me with her silent Smile.
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He filled his week bag with quick picks from the commissary cover blades and skull cap canned goods and half stated pearl liquor bills and bleeders for the flight of weary Into the ****** bunks of the western front past sivana and nurture sage past the pomp and ceremony out of robes and into jumpers and casings and masks of gas Light infantry and yelling men muscled and scorned fly boys high in 3 wing flight mounted gunners filling the night in hawkers and packards and scabbard chape Tarrant tabers and camels dodge the vicker gun skeleton hands grease the mill trap carnage makers mark the rhineland (buried in bunkers and pile bags and earth pack) Trench helmets and metal back under machine fire minefields burn in muzzle and coil deep in the shadows and shrapnel and spear the razor wire and dead cold despair Slouch hats and burning rats kerosene lamps and droopers the soldier stares down the broken lines and limbs a ****** holds steady (shelved at a distance) on ripped and rolled pipe and beam It was an all in end game a grapple for the ages; *** in the fokker pursuit over rolling hills and fallen comrades into the bishop bullet (and sporadic cheer) which sealed the deal in an empty field off the brae corbie road
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 6:50 PM UTC
**** Shot
Surfing across the glaze of light Multiverse into one, this universe shines bright Condensed energy upon my sight Mystery upon this 'life' All is multiverse stitched into one universe All universes stitched upon each other Tension upon layer and layers Heaven, Hell, reincarnation, all are bound by makers One moves upon a series of 'matter' or vibrations after the shell is removed or gained However rather low, high, negative, or positive energy, all is remained Logic A mere barrier designed and captivated by a mind Grasping your vision, your perception, your multiverse Either a hinder or power surge Forming pieces of ones quilt to converge A poisonous psychedelic The rarity of an ancient relic It is yours, whatever it may be Hold close, as it is all you may have As the 'universe' of the multiverse leans and meets according to so Then raving within your conscious, you see a brighter glow You pursue, you make the most Using the now gleam to move upon the multiverse you hope to have Doing all in reality in order to keep the spark alive What seems to be drab What seems to strive All according to the beholder We keep these lights seemingly closer Whatever they maybe Whomever they maybe What has never begun to start will never be over
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM UTC
Prison of Beauty
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind its barrier less than five miles from my house. Lord be with us say the makers of a nation. Lord look down say the builders of a harbour. They came and cut a shape out of ocean and left stone to close around their labour. Officers and their wives promenaded on this spot once and saw with their own eyes the opulent horizon and obedient skies which nine tenths of the law provided. And frigates with thirty-six guns, cruising the outer edges of influence, could idle and enter here and catch the tide of empire and arrogance and the Irish Sea rising and rising through a century of storms and cormorants and moonlight the whole length of this coast, while an ocean forgot an empire and the armed ships under it changed: to slime **** and cold salt and rust. City of shadows and of the gradual capitulations to the last invader this is the final one: signed in water and witnessed in granite and ugly bronze and gun-metal. And by me. I am your citizen: composed of your fictions, your compromise, I am a part of your story and its outcome. And ready to record its contradictions.
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The Harbour
lonely as a dry and used orchard spread over the earth for use and surrender. shot down like an ex-pug selling dailies on the corner. taken by tears like an aging chorus girl who has gotten her last check. a hanky is in order your lord your worship. the blackbirds are rough today like ingrown toenails in an overnight jail--- wine wine whine, the blackbirds run around and fly around harping about Spanish melodies and bones. and everywhere is nowhere--- the dream is as bad as flapjacks and flat tires: why do we go on with our minds and pockets full of dust like a bad boy just out of school--- you tell me, you who were a hero in some revolution you who teach children you who drink with calmness you who own large homes and walk in gardens you who have killed a man and own a beautiful wife you tell me why I am on fire like old dry garbage. we might surely have some interesting correspondence. it will keep the mailman busy. and the butterflies and ants and bridges and cemeteries the rocket-makers and dogs and garage mechanics will still go on a while until we run out of stamps and/or ideas. don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
Eyes opened to a new world, Limbs moving in excitement of life, Light, it feels so good, It feels good to feel, This world around, What is old, what is new, Nothing means anything, Everything just is, I am born. The light shows me my makers, The dark puts me to sleep, I know not what fear is, I know not what evil means, Pure, impure, good, bad, These words I am being taught, I laugh when I am happy, I cry when I am not, Everything is so big, So vast and open, I don't need anything but my parents' love. I grow up to learn all that I was not, I am taught good, selflessness, love, happiness, patience, By being shown what is bad, selfish, hatred and sadness, anger, The world around me is made on the planet called earth, Ignorant of the world outside, What are friends, enemies? What is there to fight for? I am a man, a being, I am given this existence, I am given this world, When did the world come to dominate me? I have a child in my arms, I wish to show him a free world, I remember who I was when I was born, Not a name, not a job, not a son, not a husband, not a friend, not afraid, I knew not what fear was, The world is mine to have, Where it places me is irrelevant, I am a being, in my birth I accept, All that makes us human continues.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 8:27 PM UTC
All That Makes Us Human Continues
We, the people of this country, in your eyes are: babblers, bachelors, bafflers, baiters, barkers, beakers, beaters, brawlers, blamers, beggars, bloaters, bloopers, bombers, boozers, blunders, bruisers, bafflers, bluffers, burglars and burners. That's why you feel compelled to keep your foot on our heads keep us down, put us down, push us down subjugate us, belittle us, berate us. We, the people of this country, in our eyes are: butlers, bouncers, bakers, buyers, barbers, cake-makers, delivery-takers, cocktail-shakers, taxi drivers, cancer survivors, employers and hirers, music makers, entertainers, window washers, foster takers, plasterers, carpenters, scaffolders, sparks and builders, boxers, carers, coaches, tailors, shoe makers, designers, illustrators, multi-language facilitators, dog walkers, dog trainers, bikers and cycle couriers, doctors and nurses and all the emergency services. We are the People, the reason you are where you are now you sometimes forget that we exist as people, somehow locked in your ivory towers with gold plated showers and MP expenses and investment banker pretenses this is not theater, its real life drama, its not just a bluff its time to stand up and say enough is enough.
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM UTC
Another Angry Voice
The next life will greet you when the last grain of sand drops, within the magical hourglass inside our makers' thoughts. Layer after layer; we shed our fear till the ego is found, drowned by the light of a supernova, shattered loud with a glorious sound. Death ends the circle of life, our bodies will be vaporized. Hold my hand and close your eyes, hug me tight but do not run, for tonight the skies ignite in the glory of our supernova sun.
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Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 3:33 AM UTC
Super Nova
The farthest man made object in space, Voyager 1, is over 20 billion km away from Earth. On board is a phonograph record, brilliant gold, containing sounds and images of what life is like on earth, A message to whoever is able to listen, a literal shot in the dark. On it is an inscription that is perhaps the most beautiful sentence I have ever read TO THE MAKERS OF MUSIC ALL TIMES ALL WORLDS a time capsule, a gift, from us To anywhere and everywhere A hundred years from now or a thousand Our belief that no matter what time Or world you belong to, melody and harmony and rhythm, can bring us together, can communicate. On the cover Are figures, explaining how to operate this record Hieroglyphics from what by then Would be ancient history Messages in binary, the 1s and 0s Our position in the universe marked by our distances from gigantic pulsars, the star map to our home, the creators of this message There's beauty in this marriage of math and art Code and music As a way to communicate with the universe. Some of the images on the record are the most beautifully simple ones, Of us, humans, drinking and eating, laughing, of animals, nature, food and architecture. Then there are images of our scientific observations, mathematical calculations, our discoveries, Like a child showing off Look, look what I can do! Black and white and in colour, Pictures, proof that we, indeed have lived and achieved. The music, classical, our very best from Bach and Mozart to Blind Willie Johnson's Dark was the Night. But all of this can only matter, can come to fruition if someone exists to receive it, and is evolved enough to comprehend what it means. But that's the thing, everybody knows, That's there's a slim chance of this record ever being heard, and it's much more possible that the Voyager will simply end up as floating debris in the cosmos, but it doesn't matter! We just want someone to know that there was a species of bipedal, intelligent animals on this blue planet, no different than finding graffiti in alleys that read I WAS HERE. WE WERE HERE, WE EXISTED. And it's all about that hope, the hope that someone will see us, our pictures, listen to our languages, our greetings, our music, and remember us, even after we're long gone. Or perhaps we will one day be interstellar space faring people as well, following the path of the Voyager, doing what we do best, Explore.
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 9:32 AM UTC
Space graffiti
The farthest man made object in space, Voyager 1, is over 20 billion km away from Earth. On board is a phonograph record, brilliant gold, containing sounds and images of what life is like on earth, A message to whoever is able to listen, a literal shot in the dark. On it is an inscription that is perhaps the most beautiful sentence I have ever read TO THE MAKERS OF MUSIC ALL TIMES ALL WORLDS a time capsule, a gift, from us To anywhere and everywhere A hundred years from now or a thousand Our belief that no matter what time Or world you belong to, melody and harmony and rhythm, can bring us together, can communicate. On the cover Are figures, explaining how to operate this record Hieroglyphics from what by then Would be ancient history Messages in binary, the 1s and 0s Our position in the universe marked by our distances from gigantic pulsars, the star map to our home, the creators of this message There's beauty in this marriage of math and art Code and music As a way to communicate with the universe. Some of the images on the record are the most beautifully simple ones, Of us, humans, drinking and eating, laughing, of animals, nature, food and architecture. Then there are images of our scientific observations, mathematical calculations, our discoveries, Like a child showing off Look, look what I can do! Black and white and in colour, Pictures, proof that we, indeed have lived and achieved. The music, classical, our very best from Bach and Mozart to Blind Willie Johnson's Dark was the Night. But all of this can only matter, can come to fruition if someone exists to receive it, and is evolved enough to comprehend what it means. But that's the thing, everybody knows, That's there's a slim chance of this record ever being heard, and it's much more possible that the Voyager will simply end up as floating debris in the cosmos, but it doesn't matter! We just want someone to know that there was a species of bipedal, intelligent animals on this blue planet, no different than finding graffiti in alleys that read I WAS HERE. WE WERE HERE, WE EXISTED. And it's all about that hope, the hope that someone will see us, our pictures, listen to our languages, our greetings, our music, and remember us, even after we're long gone. Or perhaps we will one day be interstellar space faring people as well, following the path of the Voyager, doing what we do best, Explore.
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heads turn and minds churn as the old white knuckle brings life to the board facilitation (and procreation!) become heavenly fit for the paradigm day jitter men and podium seniors sit cocked in the back row front runners bust a brain box (their lines frayed and edges portrayed) truth makers tread the center stage (with a new and improved product portfolio) an evolution of human spirit mobilized in apparent perfect form sound bites and titillating calls echo from the main hall a wise man cringes on a poorly timed exchange mind sets moving quid pro quo intuitions and convictions viewpoints and revelations all fun and fundamental (or so they say) depth charts and zodiac principles speak to the masses abbreviations refreshers and timeless lifelines *we’d like a peak inside of you* a glimpse of your point of view the turks and talking heads speak of grand design and inclusion class complete (interpreted at the 7th sneeze) please check those thoughts and insights the final answers are coming (satiric)
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 1:54 PM UTC
Gutter Statement
My Prize for Waiting ~ *tucked in all by myself, resting dark and quiet in the thin place^ where the distance between this world and the next, is no distance at all, but  a few inches separating, easily fordable, back and forth-able my palms, hands down, come to rest on my ******* and the two thumbs in unison, begin to sweep the streaming space of their in-between, conducting a radar sweep-search for the precise point passageway to poetic mystical places, hoping to snag any residuals for safekeeping no hurry to either arrive or depart, in patient attendance for rhythms of woven word arrivistes, coming in no particular order, asking to be seized, greedy to be nominated and recognized, immortalized, as great poetry, prize worthy, kept for all time inside others poetry chests but in the thin place, dream records are not kept, hazy scraps at best retained, a recipe for a witnessed totality, is only a soupy reduction of a few seconds of hazed video, that can neither give nor get no satisfaction the plastic surgeons attempt to reconstruct the body of the meal, the real deal, alas, there are no prizes either for botched surgeries and pretty but meaningless poetry scraps the only evidence of my travels, a flushing, blushing residual flow, slow to dissipate, a hangover makers mark of a sojourn best described as unsatisfying, my blush, a prize for waiting but failing, “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions”^^ woe to me when returned in ignominy, medaled in only base irony, me and philosopher Pliny,^^^ both dying while recording our own private Vesuvius, our bodies preserved by voluminous volcanic ash, but alas, you cannot recite the ash of poetry so one waits, cut and pasting brown edged burnt photographs epistles, that are clinging and clung to the distaff spindle, insufficient to weave a flax complete and yet we return perforce twenty four hours from now, to snag another prized piece of meaningless, my prize for waiting in the solitude of the thin place* 3:35am Saturday April 6th, 2019 ~ last nights scrap ***cease your whining, seize your waiting, therein is your own paid price for the prize of inspiration*** inspired by Jean Fisher, a real prize winning poet
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Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 4:26 AM UTC
My Prize for Waiting
My Prize for Waiting ~ *tucked in all by myself, resting dark and quiet in the thin place^ where the distance between this world and the next, is no distance at all, but  a few inches separating, easily fordable, back and forth-able my palms, hands down, come to rest on my ******* and the two thumbs in unison, begin to sweep the streaming space of their in-between, conducting a radar sweep-search for the precise point passageway to poetic mystical places, hoping to snag any residuals for safekeeping no hurry to either arrive or depart, in patient attendance for rhythms of woven word arrivistes, coming in no particular order, asking to be seized, greedy to be nominated and recognized, immortalized, as great poetry, prize worthy, kept for all time inside others poetry chests but in the thin place, dream records are not kept, hazy scraps at best retained, a recipe for a witnessed totality, is only a soupy reduction of a few seconds of hazed video, that can neither give nor get no satisfaction the plastic surgeons attempt to reconstruct the body of the meal, the real deal, alas, there are no prizes either for botched surgeries and pretty but meaningless poetry scraps the only evidence of my travels, a flushing, blushing residual flow, slow to dissipate, a hangover makers mark of a sojourn best described as unsatisfying, my blush, a prize for waiting but failing, “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions”^^ woe to me when returned in ignominy, medaled in only base irony, me and philosopher Pliny,^^^ both dying while recording our own private Vesuvius, our bodies preserved by voluminous volcanic ash, but alas, you cannot recite the ash of poetry so one waits, cut and pasting brown edged burnt photographs epistles, that are clinging and clung to the distaff spindle, insufficient to weave a flax complete and yet we return perforce twenty four hours from now, to snag another prized piece of meaningless, my prize for waiting in the solitude of the thin place* 3:35am Saturday April 6th, 2019 ~ last nights scrap ***cease your whining, seize your waiting, therein is your own paid price for the prize of inspiration*** inspired by Jean Fisher, a real prize winning poet
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from The Song of Hiawatha By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo, Passed the bees, the honey-makers, Burning, singing in the sunshine. Bright above him shown the heavens, Level spread the lake before him; From its ***** leaped the sturgeon, Aparkling, flashing in the sunshine; On its margin the great forest Stood reflected in the water, Every tree-top had its shadow, Motionless beneath the water. From the brow of Hiawatha Gone was every trace of sorrow, As the fog from off the water, And the mist from off the meadow. With a smile of joy and triumph, With a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not, Stood and waited Hiawatha.
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~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
on Saturday, even the cows sleep late
~for Maya, the Persian Canadian farmer in the dell~ your poetic riddling questions without hesitation re my claim conceptual refuting with factoids actuarial experiential derived, that cows need milkshake making daily by sunrise nonsense so you wake me up groggy on a Miami Saturday 6:00am with a reciprocal poetic to a dashed off to contra my code of conduct poem-mine; and all that stumbles through my almost reset rested, main stem cortex is an a ancient hebrew homily: on Sabbath Saturday, even the cows sleep late ok; just tween us rare passes the day that a glancing phrase doesn’t register a stabbing whine “of me, of mine do sing” and your point counterpoint incision demands inspiration instant re-mission around 10am when the amiable barn aminals sipping cuppa #3, and the chicken children want a weekend brunch xtra feeding are done, in the yard, put out to pack n' peck n’ play so that’s an intro to this work that jumps the line of a hundreds of other’s poems promised and overdue: insight inside your crafted wake up slam slap was pretty **** near the makers mark bourbon of this distillers bourbon barrels bulbous poem’s bibliothèque that has an  impatient waiting list of poems waiting anointing each a personage~poem of that day it was birthed inscribed this particular one for you, ~ my complexity non-Napoleonic just humanoid each, here are my leaders from and into a veining so lovely colored each poem a waving wheat stalk before these old tired eyes close to closing hear once more “of me, of mine do sing” so I follow all of you by dimming yellow light, for this is the soil of nutriment rich from where my words grow taller and the yellow infusion feeds my wheats, the amber, the red hard and soft, the whites, the durums, and mon préféré, prairie spring white, which is my secret nickname for a duality woman, poet and farmer, posing riddles that deserve answers* maybe —- https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2503650/little-ole-me-a-riddle-of-sorts/
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**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 9:47 AM UTC
SPAMMER SMACKDOWN
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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On autumns ground I walk, As winters snow sky blindingly glows. In the thylacines footsteps i tread, On a path the future presents. Sitting in a cafe, I realise, The tea I have just had, was built from a billion lives. Who tasted the leaves. Who told the others. Who invented the farm. Who planted the leaves. Who planted the seeds. Who made them grow. Who picked them. Who told the nation. Who created the plough, made the grow more effectively, created the axe, learned to chop a tree, learned to shape it, learned wood floated, came up with the ships, made the first boat, made it sail, told the others, discovered nations, learned their language, spoke it, found what they wanted, got tea, got it back, gave birth to 200,000 generations who split off as cup makers, baristas, cow farmers, milkmen, sugar farmers, sugar packers, cafe owners and tea farmers. 'CHEERS!' We are indeed standing on the shoulders of giants, but the weight will build on ours. Swimming the route laid out by the Baiji.
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Oct 21, 2017
Oct 21, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
Thylacine's Footsteps
For years, they stole and robbed from our pockets. For years, they murdered what faith we had, Killed what hope we gained for ourselves. Poverty loomed over us like death, the Loss of materialistic payment. Currency controls; We have none. Beginning with a silly addition to parchment and paper. A "stamp act," if you will. Oh, the rarity of a few extra Coins to spend on a cake for the mistress! Rebellion and violence against the act increased, The Sons, the ones of Liberty left Blood splattered on the ground we walk on. Fear installed in the hearts of agents, Collecting and shivering as coins ring in their satchels. Soon, though, they left. Resigned and replaced themselves with Another thief. The Townshend- adding cents more to imported, Provided, goods. The people starved for things They need and can not afford. Naive. They had materials. They had the skill, But no need to use what they contained in their minds And their bodies. Begin the new world! Spin your own yarn and twine! Build your own shoes! You don't need the goods From old English factories and makers. The disagreements and retaliation, the lack in Morality in the brainwashed heads of soldiers. A bothered redcoat drew his gun, leaving holes, Horrible voids. The dive from cliff to cliff, swing from tree to tree, The ****** of blood and The determination to be freed from the grasp of A controlling monarchy. The greed they exhibit and the cruelty. Revenge for taking what is ours? Sweet tea, English tea, Soaked in the harbor. The tax will be no more! The need for peace, rejected by one Who wanted control and a steady reign. The isolation, suffocation of the new land like an Abused child. It was only a matter of time before the child ran away.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 11:23 AM UTC
Freedom Seeker (Declaration of Independence)
For years, they stole and robbed from our pockets. For years, they murdered what faith we had, Killed what hope we gained for ourselves. Poverty loomed over us like death, the Loss of materialistic payment. Currency controls; We have none. Beginning with a silly addition to parchment and paper. A "stamp act," if you will. Oh, the rarity of a few extra Coins to spend on a cake for the mistress! Rebellion and violence against the act increased, The Sons, the ones of Liberty left Blood splattered on the ground we walk on. Fear installed in the hearts of agents, Collecting and shivering as coins ring in their satchels. Soon, though, they left. Resigned and replaced themselves with Another thief. The Townshend- adding cents more to imported, Provided, goods. The people starved for things They need and can not afford. Naive. They had materials. They had the skill, But no need to use what they contained in their minds And their bodies. Begin the new world! Spin your own yarn and twine! Build your own shoes! You don't need the goods From old English factories and makers. The disagreements and retaliation, the lack in Morality in the brainwashed heads of soldiers. A bothered redcoat drew his gun, leaving holes, Horrible voids. The dive from cliff to cliff, swing from tree to tree, The ****** of blood and The determination to be freed from the grasp of A controlling monarchy. The greed they exhibit and the cruelty. Revenge for taking what is ours? Sweet tea, English tea, Soaked in the harbor. The tax will be no more! The need for peace, rejected by one Who wanted control and a steady reign. The isolation, suffocation of the new land like an Abused child. It was only a matter of time before the child ran away.
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If I knew who I’d be by the last written line of this poem. If I knew who’d sway, besotted, beside me to lean in and catch the last word of our maundering sobhet; If this, I’d never have left my Beloved's company to begin with. I crawled wild-eyed from the depths of the inexplicable, cold embers of abandoned age, To go there. To go to the tip where the flame flickers and breath burns. The Beloved is the earth, my awareness, roots. If this, then love is the water flowing through the rock, drawn up the vine to fatten the grape. This drunken dance is a fruit harvest We fools are the wine makers. Who gets who intoxicated? Bestami Bayazid said, *"I am the wine drinker and the wine and the cupbearer I came for from Bayazid-ness as a snake from its skin. Then I looked and saw that lover and beloved are one I was the smith of my own self. I am the throne and the footstool. Your obedience to me greater than my obedience to you I am the well-preserved tablet. I saw the Kaaba walking around me."* I say, I arrived in this place two sunsets back but I did not have to travel to get here. The earth makes its way around the sun on my behalf. My journey is both a somber desert and a purling rain forest It is my pause that makes one or the other so. A hungry sparrow hops cautiously through bread crumbs strewn around a fat loaf of bread. The feast is on the table, our hands in our pockets, our mouths sealed shut, bellies full of hesitation, we circle the spread. Empty are the stores of those who Cannot sate their hunger for truth. The empty belly of a sparrow sees the universe in a morsel of bread So of what use is the whole loaf.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 8:57 AM UTC
A Sparrow Eats the Universe (in Keeping with Derick Smith and his Poem "About Tomorrow")
If I knew who I’d be by the last written line of this poem. If I knew who’d sway, besotted, beside me to lean in and catch the last word of our maundering sobhet; If this, I’d never have left my Beloved's company to begin with. I crawled wild-eyed from the depths of the inexplicable, cold embers of abandoned age, To go there. To go to the tip where the flame flickers and breath burns. The Beloved is the earth, my awareness, roots. If this, then love is the water flowing through the rock, drawn up the vine to fatten the grape. This drunken dance is a fruit harvest We fools are the wine makers. Who gets who intoxicated? Bestami Bayazid said, *"I am the wine drinker and the wine and the cupbearer I came for from Bayazid-ness as a snake from its skin. Then I looked and saw that lover and beloved are one I was the smith of my own self. I am the throne and the footstool. Your obedience to me greater than my obedience to you I am the well-preserved tablet. I saw the Kaaba walking around me."* I say, I arrived in this place two sunsets back but I did not have to travel to get here. The earth makes its way around the sun on my behalf. My journey is both a somber desert and a purling rain forest It is my pause that makes one or the other so. A hungry sparrow hops cautiously through bread crumbs strewn around a fat loaf of bread. The feast is on the table, our hands in our pockets, our mouths sealed shut, bellies full of hesitation, we circle the spread. Empty are the stores of those who Cannot sate their hunger for truth. The empty belly of a sparrow sees the universe in a morsel of bread So of what use is the whole loaf.
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She is My cream nicotine The Surging through our blues The fluidity of divinity Juxtapose Whoever said love was easy… Yeah 'Ol Chap, they Sure had it right, Because no man or lady can ever Subtract Once their hue has mixed it can never go back. 2 Whipped Cream and Other Delights. And why would you? The dregs are bitter, The milk too sweet. If you water it down then All flavor retreats Life is just better off Bitter-Sweet, Cream never asks coffee On how it should mix Why do we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? The intrusion is dilution of the Makers choice Through imperfection comes the lesson Learned perception with each sip The air red dried truth The Words stuck to the lips Tasters Digest the last drink drips Yet I question why I am so subject to infusion Her meaningful quips Why we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? Still I question why I am so subject to the infusion of Her Dips Sometimes I call it Love Sometimes I call it Quits For You My Dear Let's Cheers Another Grip of Seared Buds and Belly Aches and Lactose Licorice So Pour Another! while the Argument still in Air and While Dilutions of gratification Grind into Frothy Despair
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 8:13 PM UTC
Cream Nicotine