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"milling" poems
A black crow's darting eyes spans the wheat field and an orange pumpkin patch. She sees tall grasses of brown seedlings, bristling in the wind, soon to be bushels of grain and a pumpkin pie that she never savored. She sits, atop her tree perch, at times warm and storybook, hidden by tree branches, and at times out of harm's way and infamy. Her friends, the sun, and clouds in concert, dancing along. Her other friends bring alms and smiles. Life is so good at times. Down the road sits a mill next to a waterfall and a cabin, with reindeer horns hanging above the doorway. She is in her element, happy, carrying for her nestlings. Back and forth her parental eyes dart the hilly fields, a smoked filled chimney, and her babies, all crawling with sustenance and awe. Storybook. A mother feeding a worm to her baby. Storybook. Off to her side is not a blind eye watching her, scary stick figures of straw tucked under red shirts and hats, with a tied tinfoil strips dotting her eyes and tease. Scarecrows, cease. At times life is good nature, hand in hand, knock on wood. If only life could be circumspect. Than darkness filling the light and a stutter of life. For a sad page is turned, pause ... tears. Then, feathers fall. Hers. The sound of a thud. Silence and tears of her friend's swelling. A baby's cry, missing her mother. More orphaned tears. Who would be this despicable? On that rogue day. A kick of a donkey, an *** one bad rock on her path, breaks the air, as three little elementary kids were walking along to school. One, me, with a rock in his hand, taking aim at her perch and the death of the black crow's pages. I confess. ... Bless me, Father, for I have sinned it has been fifty years since my last confession ... a Tom Sawyer-like childhood gone worse. I repent. Some fifty years later I think of those first cairns, including stealing the reindeer horns and milling my brother and sister's storybook. Waterfalls stream tears, and a sorry boat rowed downstream sadly thereafter. Logan Robertson 7/25/2018
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 6:02 PM UTC
No Storybook Ending
A black crow's darting eyes spans the wheat field and an orange pumpkin patch. She sees tall grasses of brown seedlings, bristling in the wind, soon to be bushels of grain and a pumpkin pie that she never savored. She sits, atop her tree perch, at times warm and storybook, hidden by tree branches, and at times out of harm's way and infamy. Her friends, the sun, and clouds in concert, dancing along. Her other friends bring alms and smiles. Life is so good at times. Down the road sits a mill next to a waterfall and a cabin, with reindeer horns hanging above the doorway. She is in her element, happy, carrying for her nestlings. Back and forth her parental eyes dart the hilly fields, a smoked filled chimney, and her babies, all crawling with sustenance and awe. Storybook. A mother feeding a worm to her baby. Storybook. Off to her side is not a blind eye watching her, scary stick figures of straw tucked under red shirts and hats, with a tied tinfoil strips dotting her eyes and tease. Scarecrows, cease. At times life is good nature, hand in hand, knock on wood. If only life could be circumspect. Than darkness filling the light and a stutter of life. For a sad page is turned, pause ... tears. Then, feathers fall. Hers. The sound of a thud. Silence and tears of her friend's swelling. A baby's cry, missing her mother. More orphaned tears. Who would be this despicable? On that rogue day. A kick of a donkey, an *** one bad rock on her path, breaks the air, as three little elementary kids were walking along to school. One, me, with a rock in his hand, taking aim at her perch and the death of the black crow's pages. I confess. ... Bless me, Father, for I have sinned it has been fifty years since my last confession ... a Tom Sawyer-like childhood gone worse. I repent. Some fifty years later I think of those first cairns, including stealing the reindeer horns and milling my brother and sister's storybook. Waterfalls stream tears, and a sorry boat rowed downstream sadly thereafter. Logan Robertson 7/25/2018
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they’re pouring out of the woodwork those pretentious machiavellians in ailing albino frames eccentric masked figures milling about the glow light like night moths in a london fog lunatic gazers with seeping moles pinned by frogmen and twine spider climbers in hell fire splitting seams on the fading and hideous ink guards of the perch stand on hades hand while monsters and demons with severed limbs taunt the condemned and wanting souls of the ****** cauldron fire in blood red sky silent screams hack and wheeze gas lines broken words unspoken teetering backwards in the dark shadows of a phantom abyss
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Oct 28, 2017
Oct 28, 2017 at 2:08 PM UTC
the eye of hieronymus bosch
Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude. You are far away too, oh farther than anyone. Thinking, freeing birds, dissolving images, burying lamps. Belfry of fogs, how far away, up there! Stifling laments, milling shadowy hopes, taciturn miller, night falls on you face downward, far from the city. Your presence is foreign, as strange to me as a thing. I think, I explore great tracts of my life before you. My life before anyone, my harsh life. The shout facing the sea, among the rocks, running free, mad, in the sea-spray. The sad rage, the shout, the solitude of the sea. Headlong, violent, stretched towards the sky. You, woman, what were you there, what ray, what vane of that immense fan? You were as far as you are now. Fire in the forest! Burn in blue crosses. Burn, burn, flame up, sparkle in trees of light. It collapses, crackling. Fire. Fire. And my soul dances, seared with curls of fire. Who calls? What silence peopled with echoes? Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude. Hour that is mine from among them all! Megaphone in which the wind passes singing. Such a passion of weeping tied to my body. Shaking of all the roots, attack of all the waves! My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending. Thinking, burying lamps in the deep solitude. Who are you, who are you?
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XVII (Thinking, Tangling Shadows...)
Gentle evening wind, non existent till a moment before lying low among the children playing with the flakes of golden sun fallen on the silver white sand, quickly rises, unnoticed by any one flirt with the comely coconut palms lined on the beach,that act coy, blows towards the long, rolling blue wave, meeting it headlong, a blast, white spray springs up spectacularly like a fountain, then, easily lifts three kitesurfers, fling them high up stylishly across the fortress of water, they look invincible, untouched by the waves, that look foolish eyeing skywards, the milling crowd howls in mirth, seeing the dramatic twist, it's all fun till sun down.
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Sep 10, 2014
Sep 10, 2014 at 1:20 PM UTC
Wind and waves orchestrate a fun-filled evening
You are the rock stuck inside of my sock. You are drying off naturally after the longest shower in history, because you forgot the towel. Like the string that is hanging off of my sweater. I keep tugging it and pretty soon it is short enough for July weather. The person using the car horn instead of ringing a door bell. The low battery symbol on my cell. Pungent perfume from a co-worker, the grossest smell. The **** that asks for the red piece from your package of sweets. The friend who cancels five minutes before every time you meet. The rap artist that thanks God when he wins an award, even though his songs are just about killing. Medical technicians milling about when your arm really is broken. The chapstick left in the pocket when the clothes are in a dryer. Dress pants for work that are so tight, you feel you must be riding a wire. The friend's children that you think are rude, Unexpected company when you and your lover were getting in the mood. But I guess it is just easier to say, I just don't have a good attitude.
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Apr 19, 2010
Apr 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM UTC
annoying people
This is the morning No this this is the morning Where etherized upon a table I will finally sit up and be seen. No, this is the morning. Together milling loudly across park(ing lot)s This! This is the morning! Perhaps you've seen me undressed, perhaps you've seen me ********** This is Morse Code these are hieroglyphs these are fingerprints on a frozen window pane. Meaning(fully equipped with the right place for a time) nothing to lose without first finding X. This is the morning where to stay at home to garden and crow, hooked on the missing airplane lost in spices and exotic tea.
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 8:46 PM UTC
MH370
We can only afford to contain our fires Turning to... Soothsaying waters Soothsaying rain, empty out your bottles Irrigate from our heart puddles Let flow into a singular well An oasis where our hearts would kiss and silently tell Submerge us as one being The water milling and licking Kissing our warm skins Wash away as it purges and cleans Cleansing waters, wash and give birth Rid of the sadness to reveal the earth Of this earth, you and I are one Looking up to idolise the same sun Wedged between... This expanse of redundant land Pining for the mixing of our sands We... We are made of the same Earth, dirt and gravel placed in different games Bearing similar stones that beat Beating away the seconds that flit Earth biding time... Stay on ground Let wind take your souls to realms unbound Casting our souls into the wind Carved hearts on flags we pinned Kites of love set to catch the air Wind be kind... Carry us easy with care Gift us your gentle airy fingers As you would the sails of hopeful seafarers Together we would dance and billow Frolic upon your light feathered pillow Ride the wind, on wings that never tire Tiny bites that keep us afire Never needing a flint to set alive the flame Stoking the fire that burns on the same Rhymes and reasons be our fuel Combat logic and sense in a cerebral duel Fight in our eyes, subdued are the blazes Embers dormant behind glassy tearful gazes Spark them to life with passionate heat Fan them to rage till the time our hearts meet But still... We must contain our fires With nothing but soothsaying waters
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 12:49 AM UTC
Elemental
We can only afford to contain our fires Turning to... Soothsaying waters Soothsaying rain, empty out your bottles Irrigate from our heart puddles Let flow into a singular well An oasis where our hearts would kiss and silently tell Submerge us as one being The water milling and licking Kissing our warm skins Wash away as it purges and cleans Cleansing waters, wash and give birth Rid of the sadness to reveal the earth Of this earth, you and I are one Looking up to idolise the same sun Wedged between... This expanse of redundant land Pining for the mixing of our sands We... We are made of the same Earth, dirt and gravel placed in different games Bearing similar stones that beat Beating away the seconds that flit Earth biding time... Stay on ground Let wind take your souls to realms unbound Casting our souls into the wind Carved hearts on flags we pinned Kites of love set to catch the air Wind be kind... Carry us easy with care Gift us your gentle airy fingers As you would the sails of hopeful seafarers Together we would dance and billow Frolic upon your light feathered pillow Ride the wind, on wings that never tire Tiny bites that keep us afire Never needing a flint to set alive the flame Stoking the fire that burns on the same Rhymes and reasons be our fuel Combat logic and sense in a cerebral duel Fight in our eyes, subdued are the blazes Embers dormant behind glassy tearful gazes Spark them to life with passionate heat Fan them to rage till the time our hearts meet But still... We must contain our fires With nothing but soothsaying waters
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It's the start of the school year and everyone's milling about socializing Water particles Milling about forming and breaking hydrogen bonds There's a group of new kids, awkwardly standing off to the side A large crystal of salt is dumped among the water Some of the old kids start milling over pulling new kids into their friend groups The water starts bonding with individual ions of salt positive with negative negative with positive pulling them away to form bonds Eventually all the new kids are incorporated into friend groups The lattice of salt is broken apart ... And all the individual ions are surrounded by new friends Known as H2O
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Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 at 7:23 PM UTC
Disassociation (salt in water)
in our besieged republic snipers are popping up everywhere taking *** shots ending lives with a well placed head shot active shooters star in world premier events jokers rise like dark knights casting large looming shadows on real 3D cinemax multiplexed screens sprinkling overpriced buckets of popcorn with generous dollops of blood others head back to school still ****** about missing recess and excessive sentences to detention halls where bullies tortured scrawny inmates with wedgies and painful ***** twisters they’ve come back to even the score leaving bullet hole pockmarks on Sharpie smudged   smart boards declaring endless summer vacations for classrooms of children who don’t give wedgies and only dream of soft ***** these urban guerillas are now working to liberate airports from the tyranny of TSA agents fulfilling PATRIOT ACT duties for 10 bucks an hour and last night the latest active shooter showed up at the Garden State Plaza, -my hometown mall of america- mumbling about his Grand Theft Auto score, strung out and crashing from an unfilled pharma addiction script he grew up as a Highwayman in Teaneck a former classmate working at Nordstroms said he was a really good kid he was, one of the good ones, he could have shot some people but the only person he shot in the head was himself legions of police officers surrounding the mall stood down grateful for overtime milling about in the flashing red strobes inhaling the heady blue fumes rising to commend Bergen County Blue Laws and next Sunday’s time and a half active shooter training day Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Oakland 11/5/13 jbm
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM UTC
active shooter
in our besieged republic snipers are popping up everywhere taking *** shots ending lives with a well placed head shot active shooters star in world premier events jokers rise like dark knights casting large looming shadows on real 3D cinemax multiplexed screens sprinkling overpriced buckets of popcorn with generous dollops of blood others head back to school still ****** about missing recess and excessive sentences to detention halls where bullies tortured scrawny inmates with wedgies and painful ***** twisters they’ve come back to even the score leaving bullet hole pockmarks on Sharpie smudged   smart boards declaring endless summer vacations for classrooms of children who don’t give wedgies and only dream of soft ***** these urban guerillas are now working to liberate airports from the tyranny of TSA agents fulfilling PATRIOT ACT duties for 10 bucks an hour and last night the latest active shooter showed up at the Garden State Plaza, -my hometown mall of america- mumbling about his Grand Theft Auto score, strung out and crashing from an unfilled pharma addiction script he grew up as a Highwayman in Teaneck a former classmate working at Nordstroms said he was a really good kid he was, one of the good ones, he could have shot some people but the only person he shot in the head was himself legions of police officers surrounding the mall stood down grateful for overtime milling about in the flashing red strobes inhaling the heady blue fumes rising to commend Bergen County Blue Laws and next Sunday’s time and a half active shooter training day Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Oakland 11/5/13 jbm
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I All all and all the dry worlds lever, Stage of the ice, the solid ocean, All from the oil, the pound of lava. City of spring, the governed flower, Turns in the earth that turns the ashen Towns around on a wheel of fire. How now my flesh, my naked fellow, Dug of the sea, the glanded morrow, Worm in the scalp, the staked and fallow. All all and all, the corpse's lover, Skinny as sin, the foaming marrow, All of the flesh, the dry worlds lever. II Fear not the waking world, my mortal, Fear not the flat, synthetic blood, Nor the heart in the ribbing metal. Fear not the tread, the seeded milling, The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade, Nor the flint in the lover's mauling. Man of my flesh, the jawbone riven, Know now the flesh's lock and vice, And the cage for the scythe-eyed raver. Know, O my bone, the jointed lever, Fear not the screws that turn the voice, And the face to the driven lover. III All all and all the dry worlds couple, Ghost with her ghost, contagious man With the womb of his shapeless people. All that shapes from the caul and suckle, Stroke of mechanical flesh on mine, Square in these worlds the mortal circle. Flower, flower the people's fusion, O light in zenith, the coupled bud, And the flame in the flesh's vision. Out of the sea, the drive of oil, Socket and grave, the brassy blood, Flower, flower, all all and all.
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All All And All The Dry Worlds Lever
A visible shroud, all over me it says JOY. In the crypt of a vampire, immense, hoisted bat entrails. It's a kite, he is making, the wind wants to feel it. The wind likes to move about, implore. Prevailing winds, guide the rope's direction. I strove for freedom more than before, forgot limits, Now the kite can fly beyond the night, it will be jealous, High above, in the sky, untouched by evil pride. I am not soft hearted, prone to emphatic shivers, But in a thousand pieces I hear every sound. I love this earth and am reminded by the sights below, All the birds of various descriptions, fly too, those feather fingered sisters, they are often in pain, Like farmers milling the sky underwing. A cloud is a wall, then a room of purest white, On fly the birds and on flies the kite, On many lands falls our shade, life is below, Now is the time to be soft hearted, swirl in torrents.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 2:10 PM UTC
The clouds are alive
The snipers rifle hung from the parapet still warm, cordite drifted from the business end. It resembled a cigarette, dangling in the groove of an ashtray which was given to you as a souvenir from a place you had no desire to go. And you had no desire to go there as you had read stories of donkey cruelty and the militias’ refusal to accept Greenwich as the centre of time. Their struggle against the meridian has been well documented in film and prose. Stories and rumours filtered in from the hinterland, carried home in economy flights from different time zones arriving at the terminal, milling around the carousel. ****** victim 4 lay in a forensic scene, white tapped surrounded by duty free bags, and the secret dossiers exposing the militias plans drifted, blood stained in the breeze.
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 5:21 AM UTC
the struggle against the meridian
*baby in the crib, turns closed eyes into dream-light young boy at the window, eyes on the calf woman with the cow, flies milling around the eyes* 1. every morning, with a penchant for rising before his hour            he stands, sees the calf at the wooden-fence            watches with the fawn-coloured beauty of sea-shell heartbeat.. the rising-eye while his sister, nearly a young-woman, washes dishes with eyeballs out the tiny-window            heifer passes by and he looks straight into eyes – gentle eyes – soothes calamity 2. in the cold morning on the farmstead, the baby curls in its warm-folds      she chases off the flies from the horns      and cleans gummed-openings yet deity’s crown falls from splendour this day       as moments devoured by need eventually bear witness to warm dripping in the sand the bowl is filled                                            (high-scale horror) and the boy has seen it, too he holds his arms round him to stop the wholesale-shaking.. bites down hard      as his face contorts baleful.. in impotent-anger      his silence bought decades ago.. in another life no price on his shock and the bird on the branch flies off.. glint-eyes on another branch it’s that time once again: she takes the old-cow to town they await her before nightfall she never does return 3. I’m begging you         leave it be, this is how it is go pick up the baby, please (the baby won’t stop crying) *your fences, I’ll rip up your fences with your very own whip while them wolves howl on and on I got oppressive-time to suffer your unmatched-law in the crush-of-daylight now, kindly.. get outta my face!* S T – 22 Jan 2014
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 9:51 AM UTC
The Calf at the Wooden-Fence
*baby in the crib, turns closed eyes into dream-light young boy at the window, eyes on the calf woman with the cow, flies milling around the eyes* 1. every morning, with a penchant for rising before his hour            he stands, sees the calf at the wooden-fence            watches with the fawn-coloured beauty of sea-shell heartbeat.. the rising-eye while his sister, nearly a young-woman, washes dishes with eyeballs out the tiny-window            heifer passes by and he looks straight into eyes – gentle eyes – soothes calamity 2. in the cold morning on the farmstead, the baby curls in its warm-folds      she chases off the flies from the horns      and cleans gummed-openings yet deity’s crown falls from splendour this day       as moments devoured by need eventually bear witness to warm dripping in the sand the bowl is filled                                            (high-scale horror) and the boy has seen it, too he holds his arms round him to stop the wholesale-shaking.. bites down hard      as his face contorts baleful.. in impotent-anger      his silence bought decades ago.. in another life no price on his shock and the bird on the branch flies off.. glint-eyes on another branch it’s that time once again: she takes the old-cow to town they await her before nightfall she never does return 3. I’m begging you         leave it be, this is how it is go pick up the baby, please (the baby won’t stop crying) *your fences, I’ll rip up your fences with your very own whip while them wolves howl on and on I got oppressive-time to suffer your unmatched-law in the crush-of-daylight now, kindly.. get outta my face!* S T – 22 Jan 2014
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. **•point                                    our fing-                                  ers to the                                  nearest a-                                  vailable s-                                  uckers• to                                  take respo-                                  nsibility  a-                                  nd be  acco-                                  untable....no                                  one really bothers•we                   do it so well unlike any other•al-      most a skill that never gets duller•shit hits the fan, we all look for someone to blame•it's a hapless situation when we partake in such a ga-   me•it's become a norm that simply never ends • it's a nasty situation that makes enemies out of f- riends•i look at myself and realise that i am no    different•for i too, have my finger pointed si-    lent•i too, have erred...warranting reproach •milling over transgressions my words dare not broach•sigh...why is it so that such a habit we can never sever•think no further...let's just blame it on......................** human nature• .
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Aug 4, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 at 10:11 AM UTC
Blame
. **•point                                    our fing-                                  ers to the                                  nearest a-                                  vailable s-                                  uckers• to                                  take respo-                                  nsibility  a-                                  nd be  acco-                                  untable....no                                  one really bothers•we                   do it so well unlike any other•al-      most a skill that never gets duller•shit hits the fan, we all look for someone to blame•it's a hapless situation when we partake in such a ga-   me•it's become a norm that simply never ends • it's a nasty situation that makes enemies out of f- riends•i look at myself and realise that i am no    different•for i too, have my finger pointed si-    lent•i too, have erred...warranting reproach •milling over transgressions my words dare not broach•sigh...why is it so that such a habit we can never sever•think no further...let's just blame it on......................** human nature• .
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as if pulling (on the tab) prevents the continued closure of the lunch box oxen milling brunch as it unfolds sinewed pasture green purloining sunlight oxen munching salami on Thursday morning mourning the luncheon of Sunday black black blackberries lugubrious lubricate brioche freshness pile of white pile of brown pile of pylons pile (on the tab) shots are on me shots fired no casualties oxen bagged lunches aren't as fun as pulling punches
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
lunch
These words... They traverse the fine line between earth and sky. They dwell not, surface-deep in the dirt. They be haloed not, as the chorus of heaven. They're just murmurs that swim intangible. Like reticulated wisps of smoke. Incapable of materialising... Or take definite forms on their own. They only await to be carefully selected, rearranged and harnessed into a jar... Before being sealed infinite with a title. Be quiet and still... For you will hear them. Milling and floating in the silence that exists between your heartbeats. Listen close... For they are fragments of you and the universe. They're thoughts and feelings that come awake as you slumber. *Awaiting to be selected... Awaiting to be rearranged... Awaiting to be harnessed...* By you, the conduit with a pen.
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Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM UTC
Conduit
Her hand rested slight Upon the book she'd found Her bag across her shoulder She was waiting for the sound Of the door alarm at the B & N I mean after all it was Fifty nine volumes On how to build a bomb Found none to soon   On a shelf at the B & N Abandoned by her lover After too many fights That was five years ago A lot of lonely nights Casing the B & N Screaming out loud At rush hour on the train Was not an option Nor was ******* Snorted at the B & N Finally people milling round She quietly lifted the solution To her ravaged heart All fifty nine on revolution S     l         i            p               p                  e                     d Into her bag at the B & N Head down and weighted down She walked to the exit Waiting for someone No one to prevent it Except security at the B & N At last the perfect patsy Alarm rang, the man froze And our spurned lover To the opportunity arose Ran out of the B & N Ran to the parking lot Her VW bug Opened the door Threw in what she'd lugged 59 looted at the B & N Key from the drink holder In her shaking hand er  rhrh  rhrh vah-room Such a brazen plan Perpetrated at the B & N Her eyes glowed wicked With rage and revenge Someone would pay All would attend This crime hatched at the B & N The deed was done She clung to the wheel The accelerator floored            The tires squealed Away, away from the B & N
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 5:19 PM UTC
Shop Lifter at Barnes & Noble
If this vast azure emptiness can prove An aghast endless vacuum measure Take it for granted, research process sure It will fuel your thought resources, true. Mining specks and dots in deep space treasures Boundless designs shine assigning pleasures Unfurl within mind in gaseous beams Overflowing the banks of conscious streams Filling the utmost sanctum with soft skills Milling vacuum with colorful quills Calming the pulses with embracing lulls Warming all lives with fundamental pulls Creating a sense of duo, I and you Love and dislikes and points of view. Feeling satiety in charity Finding synergy in activity. Minting amity in society keeps you young aged muddling in daring dreams Deeply engage you cuddling realms supreme. So what? if this vast thought mine be blanked out Will the ghost mute vacuum follow suit? If sense aides guide a slow downward exit And mind bids the fairy lids to close it Will the sun bewail, bemoan and eclipse? Or will the same smile prevail on red-lips? If souls sunset in seamless sea of mind Will lights spill out; team up to stay behind? To form anew a fresh long microwave To indent a start with a soul suave A new spectrum to perceive the forces For the soul that constantly resources That differently formats transceiver courses The energy that cannot be destroyed But that which can be candidly portrayed On a vast emptiness fluidly stolid On a continuum vividly solid On a clean canvas without dimensions In a brave new world that cannot mention A name which is beyond comprehension A frame that doesn't fall on known convention.
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Jan 16, 2019
Jan 16, 2019 at 2:30 PM UTC
This vast azure emptiness
If this vast azure emptiness can prove An aghast endless vacuum measure Take it for granted, research process sure It will fuel your thought resources, true. Mining specks and dots in deep space treasures Boundless designs shine assigning pleasures Unfurl within mind in gaseous beams Overflowing the banks of conscious streams Filling the utmost sanctum with soft skills Milling vacuum with colorful quills Calming the pulses with embracing lulls Warming all lives with fundamental pulls Creating a sense of duo, I and you Love and dislikes and points of view. Feeling satiety in charity Finding synergy in activity. Minting amity in society keeps you young aged muddling in daring dreams Deeply engage you cuddling realms supreme. So what? if this vast thought mine be blanked out Will the ghost mute vacuum follow suit? If sense aides guide a slow downward exit And mind bids the fairy lids to close it Will the sun bewail, bemoan and eclipse? Or will the same smile prevail on red-lips? If souls sunset in seamless sea of mind Will lights spill out; team up to stay behind? To form anew a fresh long microwave To indent a start with a soul suave A new spectrum to perceive the forces For the soul that constantly resources That differently formats transceiver courses The energy that cannot be destroyed But that which can be candidly portrayed On a vast emptiness fluidly stolid On a continuum vividly solid On a clean canvas without dimensions In a brave new world that cannot mention A name which is beyond comprehension A frame that doesn't fall on known convention.
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As I wait for my flight, I look around and take in the sight, Of people milling all around, A giggling child, a mother with a frown. Wondering about love and dreams, I see a couple silently weep, Of forgotten vows and lost promises, A dying garden filled with black roses. The building of a new career , Are the thoughts of the lone sighing teenager. The silent reader with a book on her thighs, Fictional reality living in her eyes. And as I sit, glancing at my watch, In my mind a new thought gives a knock, Of how this thin walled infrastructure, Is the core of dreams and desires.
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM UTC
Airports
Sullen leaves forlorn now at the edges - dripping tips say the story of the night: the thunder - is all over the road, scattered in the branches fallen; it is the mud and slush that tell how the sky wept in the hour; Eyes still moist and still welling up -   must be a field abounding in blades of tall them leaves of grass flowering, and the rain drenching the soul; Now the sky invisible behind the veil of tear-clouds; The mind longs for the warmth of home heart longs to stay there half-sunk knee-high. Only one night that matters in the journey: life but a gathering of memories plucked from the fleeting world; Only one night when fireworks light the sky and a lonely heart beats as one with another, though apart distant in the milling Guy Fawkes' night
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Nov 2, 2020
Nov 2, 2020 at 5:10 PM UTC
A memory on Guy Fawkes' Night
This is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No music nor rhythm But of images Of farmers exultant Though they break their backs, Or their bones creak, With every slash of their sickles, The heavy strokes Wounding light in the fiery heat of noon, The gaunt-faced sons of earth, Bringing home harvests of gold To the people's granary, Where no greedy landlords are in sight. For centuries, the land robbers Had squeezed their souls dry In constant toil. It may be that their time is up. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem But of history Of workers milling around a lingering twilight. Pounding their hammers with their might, Ecstatic at the thought of freedom, Yet battling still, long dreaded ills Of feudal ******* barratry, Imperialism Storing up for the people’s cause, Building a new commune in the new place Freed from the landlord-minded President From the imperialist ogres Of IMF-World Bank and Uncle Sam, The warmongers, From oppression And poverty and wretchedness That, like a python, had wound Around them to the end. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No fictive tale but of radiant truth. As throngs of men And women march Out of their homes With new-found hope, Gathering strength As from a blasting storm, Defiant now of lying saints or heroes Or of murderer Presidents Who speak with forked tongues, As the throng march out into the streets Flooding the cities, Ready to offer their lives for freedom To them would come such happiness, Such love No poem would express, No art suffice to render. This is no love poem No piece of art, no song Only a sense Of how it is to tell of battles won, Of folding in to feel the surge of triumph Though brief perhaps, Within this flashpoint moment Of the people's war.
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 6:24 AM UTC
This Is No Love Poem
This is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No music nor rhythm But of images Of farmers exultant Though they break their backs, Or their bones creak, With every slash of their sickles, The heavy strokes Wounding light in the fiery heat of noon, The gaunt-faced sons of earth, Bringing home harvests of gold To the people's granary, Where no greedy landlords are in sight. For centuries, the land robbers Had squeezed their souls dry In constant toil. It may be that their time is up. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem But of history Of workers milling around a lingering twilight. Pounding their hammers with their might, Ecstatic at the thought of freedom, Yet battling still, long dreaded ills Of feudal ******* barratry, Imperialism Storing up for the people’s cause, Building a new commune in the new place Freed from the landlord-minded President From the imperialist ogres Of IMF-World Bank and Uncle Sam, The warmongers, From oppression And poverty and wretchedness That, like a python, had wound Around them to the end. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No fictive tale but of radiant truth. As throngs of men And women march Out of their homes With new-found hope, Gathering strength As from a blasting storm, Defiant now of lying saints or heroes Or of murderer Presidents Who speak with forked tongues, As the throng march out into the streets Flooding the cities, Ready to offer their lives for freedom To them would come such happiness, Such love No poem would express, No art suffice to render. This is no love poem No piece of art, no song Only a sense Of how it is to tell of battles won, Of folding in to feel the surge of triumph Though brief perhaps, Within this flashpoint moment Of the people's war.
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Here we are again, in the deathmask of the city spinning. The circumcised sea with its crocodiles and scars. Never is the onrush of blood so violent the falsehoods of the sky that drip neon on our heads from desiccated clouds so true This is the wild: To the clusterfucked and cloistered swimming in their bowls of soup and the scuttled shells synchronous in their bass pulse beeping to the blackhats who don’t believe their messiah will ever come because they hear the trump of doom every second of every day yet they still stomp in their flatbeds for joy and the prismatic dead who drag themselves from their gurneys to march through the alleys like tuskless elephants shoving their fingers into the sun’s fumarole determined to disintegrate into a mist of Krylon and copper where we carry our concrete world slung over our shoulders and the ravenous moon in its ellipse above beached night heaving, eyes curling in their sockets like gunsmoke smoldering hearts humming like taut snares beheaded fish in front of us, beheaded bodies behind us I drag mine along by the hair. To the children and the panhandlers who greet the lion like hello kitty and the skittish magnetic few in their lightning-spaded furrows on the ecliptic chained but leaping ever farther and higher like the wrecking ***** pendulum and all the naked lost milling among the mummified tenements, waving Geiger counters before them as they wander  the sweaty street holding their heads high as they grind flesh against flesh pulverizing themselves into rubble measuring the toll of time by destruction   drinking in mercury and hard water and shrapnel and gamma and fire and gold to them I say: turn your hourglass on its side turn your hourglasses on their sides then acknowledge me so I can die in peace.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 4:35 PM UTC
Infinity
Here we are again, in the deathmask of the city spinning. The circumcised sea with its crocodiles and scars. Never is the onrush of blood so violent the falsehoods of the sky that drip neon on our heads from desiccated clouds so true This is the wild: To the clusterfucked and cloistered swimming in their bowls of soup and the scuttled shells synchronous in their bass pulse beeping to the blackhats who don’t believe their messiah will ever come because they hear the trump of doom every second of every day yet they still stomp in their flatbeds for joy and the prismatic dead who drag themselves from their gurneys to march through the alleys like tuskless elephants shoving their fingers into the sun’s fumarole determined to disintegrate into a mist of Krylon and copper where we carry our concrete world slung over our shoulders and the ravenous moon in its ellipse above beached night heaving, eyes curling in their sockets like gunsmoke smoldering hearts humming like taut snares beheaded fish in front of us, beheaded bodies behind us I drag mine along by the hair. To the children and the panhandlers who greet the lion like hello kitty and the skittish magnetic few in their lightning-spaded furrows on the ecliptic chained but leaping ever farther and higher like the wrecking ***** pendulum and all the naked lost milling among the mummified tenements, waving Geiger counters before them as they wander  the sweaty street holding their heads high as they grind flesh against flesh pulverizing themselves into rubble measuring the toll of time by destruction   drinking in mercury and hard water and shrapnel and gamma and fire and gold to them I say: turn your hourglass on its side turn your hourglasses on their sides then acknowledge me so I can die in peace.
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Forthright in my chosen stance Deliberate in the steps I dance, I seek to make my time fulfil Attainment, while I wish no ill, To others who would tread my path, (though this may cause some friends to laugh), “Uniquely” is the phrase I use To walk the walk of life I choose. So different from the milling herd To make some other choice….absurd! Forthright is my chosen stance Therein, I dance the dance…. I dance. Marshalg “Foxglove” Taranaki NZ. 16 November 2013
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM UTC
The Dance, I Dance.
You & I are the rhyme & rhythm song and dance spring and fall subject and predicate Lung and heart care and caution health and wealth strength and solace power and peace present and future Life and death Given the choice/chance, Let us repeat the show a milling million times, in the pavilion of life as Adam & Eve
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 6:57 AM UTC
Gemini
Births and deaths Debts and success Floods and droughts Cyclones and hurricanes Earthquakes and tsunamis Misery Chaos and serenity All in flux Milling about Constant movement Constant din Silence within Raging against the dry dry winds. Another restless moment in the universe Stars are born go cold and die Galaxies collide Black holes hold no return Super Novas bring silence to light years eons wide Another restless day on the planet in this our moment of time in this our place in the universe.
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 10:34 AM UTC
Another restless day on the planet