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"moony" poems
Awakens not my wolf-man to the moon For that it shines a silver discus full, For he may rise when clouds the thickest dull The round moon’s lustre, or when the clock strikes noon. One sorceress alone doth have the pow’r T’arouse the beast, and he doth her obey; And from her side the beast doth never stray,— So loveth him the witch and the witching hour. Yet, by my troth, the wolf-man hath no love For her and hers which greater is than mine: By daylight, blackest night, or moony shine, My love doth neither wax nor wane nor rove. However, unlike the love the beast doth keep, My love can’t wake, for it doth never sleep.
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 12:10 PM UTC
Beast
Dim vales—and shadowy floods— And cloudy-looking woods, Whose forms we can’t discover For the tears that drip all over Huge moons there wax and wane— Again—again—again— Every moment of the night— Forever changing places— And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces. About twelve by the moon-dial One more filmy than the rest (A kind which, upon trial, They have found to be the best) Comes down—still down—and down With its centre on the crown Of a mountain’s eminence, While its wide circumference In easy drapery falls Over hamlets, over halls, Wherever they may be— O’er the strange woods—o’er the sea— Over spirits on the wing— Over every drowsy thing— And buries them up quite In a labyrinth of light— And then, how deep!—O, deep! Is the passion of their sleep. In the morning they arise, And their moony covering Is soaring in the skies, With the tempests as they toss, Like—almost any thing— Or a yellow Albatross. They use that moon no more For the same end as before— Videlicet a tent— Which I think extravagant: Its atomies, however, Into a shower dissever, Of which those butterflies, Of Earth, who seek the skies, And so come down again (Never-contented thing!) Have brought a specimen Upon their quivering wings.
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Fairyland
The nature of infinity is this: That everything has its Own Vortex, and when once a traveller thro' Eternity Has pass'd that Vortex, he perceives it roll back behind His path, into a globe itself infolding like a sun, Or like a moon, or like a universe of starry majesty, While he keeps onwards in his wondrous journey on the earth, Or like a human form, a friend with whom he liv'd benevolent. As the eye of man views both the east & west encompassing Its vortex, and the north & south with all their starry host, Also the rising sun & setting moon he views surrounding His corn-fields and his valleys of five hundred acres square, Thus is the earth one infinite plane, and not as apparent To the weak traveller confin'd beneath the moony shade. Thus is the heaven a vortex pass'd already, and the earth A vortex not yet pass'd by the traveller thro' Eternity. from The Illuminated Prophetic Books  Milton
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Oct 11, 2014
Oct 11, 2014 at 4:28 PM UTC
The nature of infinity (by William Blake)
There is a boy That I was Absolutely enamored with Awhile ago I think part of what Built up my Obsession Was our metaphors “You’re so strong Yet gentle; So fierce but tender; You’re nearly a lion” “I can’t even stand how Gorgeous you are How you seem to know it all My lovely, lovely Athena” But the worst of all What literally Kept me up at night Didn’t become a metaphor until today We had a mutual love Not of a typical interest No; you see we were Moon fanatics He loved the moon I loved the moon And I have realized that I Was ‘moony eyed’ over him
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 8:56 PM UTC
Puns Are Fun
As the gods began one world, and man another, So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth-pipe, He pipes. Pipes green. Pipes water. Pipes water green until green waters waver With reedy lengths and necks and undulatings. And as his notes twine green, the green river Shapes its images around his sons. He pipes a place to stand on, but no rocks, No floor: a wave of flickering grass tongues Supports his foot. He pipes a world of snakes, Of sways and coilings, from the snake-rooted bottom Of his mind. And now nothing but snakes Is visible. The snake-scales have become Leaf, become eyelid; snake-bodies, bough, breast Of tree and human. And he within this snakedom Rules the writhings which make manifest His snakehood and his might with pliant tunes From his thin pipe. Out of this green nest As out of Eden's navel twist the lines Of snaky generations: let there be snakes! And snakes there were, are, will be--till yawns Consume this pipe and he tires of music And pipes the world back to the simple fabric Of snake-warp, snake-weft. Pipes the cloth of snakes To a melting of green waters, till no snake Shows its head, and those green waters back to Water, to green, to nothing like a snake. Puts up his pipe, and lids his moony eye.
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Snakecharmer
Sweet dreams form a shade, O’er my lovely infants head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, By happy silent moony beams Sweet sleep with soft down. Weave thy brows an infant crown. Sweet sleep Angel mild, Hover o’er my happy child. Sweet smiles in the night, Hover over my delight. Sweet smiles Mothers smiles, All the livelong night beguiles. Sweet moans, dovelike sighs, Chase not slumber from thy eyes, Sweet moans, sweeter smiles, All the dovelike moans beguiles. Sleep sleep happy child, All creation slept and smil’d. Sleep sleep, happy sleep. While o’er thee thy mother weep Sweet babe in thy face, Holy image I can trace. Sweet babe once like thee. Thy maker lay and wept for me Wept for me for thee for all, When he was an infant small. Thou his image ever see. Heavenly face that smiles on thee, Smiles on thee on me on all, Who became an infant small, Infant smiles are His own smiles, Heaven & earth to peace beguiles.
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A Cradle Song
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud Two of us, alone, as one Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin Your slender legs, columns that taught   The Greeks in Helens age, touched the water   And the sky. I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone you are the hinge   To my casement world.  Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes   I hold your skin, my Selkie Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance In the country of the sun We end at the house in Umbria In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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Jun 3, 2012
Jun 3, 2012 at 2:32 AM UTC
Síneánn
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud Two of us, alone, as one Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin Your slender legs, columns that taught   The Greeks in Helens age, touched the water   And the sky. I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone you are the hinge   To my casement world.  Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes   I hold your skin, my Selkie Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance In the country of the sun We end at the house in Umbria In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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it was like waking up to all white fume or a long washline — masturbatory, feeling something stiff like a hand gliding over a monsoon of emotions, the affect jazz and the crunch of fragrance forever like sandalwood; on my way to Dumandan, i conjure an inward miasma of thrill, unfurled yesterday, today, or was it before when our eyes were fixated on the passing of things in myriad ways without any relevance to what has died, say wilted, like a flower going away in closing seasons, children in hurtling speeds at twilight, gates welcoming a resounding sound of rusting hinges, slow rise of night, its vertical climb, shadows collapsing on the Hibiscus and the Poinsettia from the Cordillera, dreary men taking out ******* throwing them into metalloid beasts, verdigris painted, grisly caravan of steel and worthless scraps — past neighborhoods thinking about the simmer of onion and the hustle of the feral over rooftops, clinking wine bottles undulating full to empty — both unaware of acumen and only dizzying ourselves mirroring each other eye to eye and bridging this unclose-enough a gap in between, because you need it, and i want it, or simply in reverse, a sidewinding thought through dunes of afterthought. because you have to walk my side of the Earth and I have to meet you somewhere halfway where we can both lounge at each other's steady presence while the flyblown dry air ravishes the piquant morning, all-telling what this distance meant from its peak up to the very last traceable steps where i found you and you found me, trilling in the neighborhood like how void stills itself into all the mood of the Earth: all moony and fretting in the disquiet.
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 2:38 PM UTC
Past Neighborhoods
it was like waking up to all white fume or a long washline — masturbatory, feeling something stiff like a hand gliding over a monsoon of emotions, the affect jazz and the crunch of fragrance forever like sandalwood; on my way to Dumandan, i conjure an inward miasma of thrill, unfurled yesterday, today, or was it before when our eyes were fixated on the passing of things in myriad ways without any relevance to what has died, say wilted, like a flower going away in closing seasons, children in hurtling speeds at twilight, gates welcoming a resounding sound of rusting hinges, slow rise of night, its vertical climb, shadows collapsing on the Hibiscus and the Poinsettia from the Cordillera, dreary men taking out ******* throwing them into metalloid beasts, verdigris painted, grisly caravan of steel and worthless scraps — past neighborhoods thinking about the simmer of onion and the hustle of the feral over rooftops, clinking wine bottles undulating full to empty — both unaware of acumen and only dizzying ourselves mirroring each other eye to eye and bridging this unclose-enough a gap in between, because you need it, and i want it, or simply in reverse, a sidewinding thought through dunes of afterthought. because you have to walk my side of the Earth and I have to meet you somewhere halfway where we can both lounge at each other's steady presence while the flyblown dry air ravishes the piquant morning, all-telling what this distance meant from its peak up to the very last traceable steps where i found you and you found me, trilling in the neighborhood like how void stills itself into all the mood of the Earth: all moony and fretting in the disquiet.
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The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Which the meteor beam of a starless night Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle, Ere the dawning of morn’s undoubted light, Is the flame of life so fickle and wan That flits round our steps till their strength is gone. O man! hold thee on in courage of soul Through the stormy shades of thy wordly way, And the billows of clouds that around thee roll Shall sleep in the light of a wondrous day, Where hell and heaven shall leave thee free To the universe of destiny. This world is the nurse of all we know, This world is the mother of all we feel, And the coming of death is a fearful blow To a brain unencompass’d by nerves of steel: When all that we know, or feel, or see, Shall pass like an unreal mystery. The secret things of the grave are there, Where all but this frame must surely be, Though the fine-wrought eye and the wondrous ear No longer will live, to hear or to see All that is great and all that is strange In the boundless realm of unending change. Who telleth a tale of unspeaking death? Who lifteth the veil of what is to come? Who painteth the shadows that are beneath The wide-winding caves of the peopled tomb? Or uniteth the hopes of what shall be With the fears and the love for that which we see?
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On Death
all i see now are the silent ruin of words teeming with wisdom in every trail. you are gleaming in the moony boondocks, Ibabá remembers you as you were - timeless and ruminative, pursuing the source of rivers. our sublime versifier, the crucifixes now tremble without the fullness of your flesh. each page is turned without the hover of your voice yet stills its resonant message in my mind's premises like redolent graffiti. striding river-pace, once in moonlit Orfeo graced by your sibilant being, leaving only the strongest of impression on the surly couch, a toppled glass of Shiraz remembering your attendance leaving the clamor of the audiences real to touch, elusive in thought. before the war was the ever-present word, and after the fray was the armistice of the Sun where in humdrum Sampiro, your fire's genealogy is in the hands of the muse! idly go the hours, wading everlong past Calle Herrán - the bells of Paco Church tell in this imperfect hour the roads where you once traversed, travailed and perhaps beer-maddened, putting a face in the metaphysical! in your banquet i partake the wisdom of your wine and the reason of your flesh - the gods delight in you, o, Manila of all Manila.
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 2:05 AM UTC
Everlong (For Quijano de Manila)
Why does the moon keep on hiding their dark side, Am I turning into just like you, reflecting the bright and hiding in the dark night.
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May 29, 2021
May 29, 2021 at 4:36 AM UTC
Moony
I'm a Hush marshmallow Silky sunshine yellow far from moony mellow spelling spells of Hello Risisng above the Hill Just behind the mill with much love to spill giving you a thrill from your window sill I'm a  ***** flight of non stop delight Naughty grown up child playing husky wild On a dusky night I'm your cadbury almond joy candy Red soft jelly bean box of A.B.C Caramel nut me I'm all you could think I'll be your everything Just to see you smile Just to hear you sing Rainbows I shall bring You're my cuddly bear full of tender care with a hug to share Tender soft whisper Ripe and pulpy pear You're the one i miss with hot lips to kiss You're a life of bliss Passion flame of hiss Sweet sugary delicous You're my sandwich lunch with that crispy crunch I'm your Cuchi munch You're my fruity punch Handsome Honey Bunch You're my sunshine man Hundred out of ten I'm your sol fun girl a Rich Oyster's pearl I'm your  best pen fan.
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Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 9:45 AM UTC
Sunshine man and Sol fun girl
A lonesome quiet autumn night With my twitching, pouring sight Some just might, hold one tight As lonesome as this quiet autumn night With self-devouring, melancholy I as many, you as few We'll be alright in this chilly, jolly quiet, moony midnight dew
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Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
Midnight Dew
I am alone with you.  A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces  As before in the empty cinema,  Where we arrived, at some beginning,  To watch a foreign film. Our eyes,  In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air  And the moony screen,  A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings.  Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd,  Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals.  Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean  In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always  Known you.  Across the border on the far island,  You stepped into the waters with me  And when you disrobed you lit the stars  And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin,  Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night.  Síneánn, I am your Pablo,  We are two white birds sailing  Over the foam of the sea.  Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world.  Rain petal  Voice, lithe, alabaster woman,  I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week.  It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word  Siberia, my light Rosaleen.  Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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Aug 28, 2012
Aug 28, 2012 at 1:05 PM UTC
Shineane ( Síneánn )
I am alone with you.  A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces  As before in the empty cinema,  Where we arrived, at some beginning,  To watch a foreign film. Our eyes,  In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air  And the moony screen,  A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings.  Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd,  Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals.  Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean  In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always  Known you.  Across the border on the far island,  You stepped into the waters with me  And when you disrobed you lit the stars  And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin,  Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night.  Síneánn, I am your Pablo,  We are two white birds sailing  Over the foam of the sea.  Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world.  Rain petal  Voice, lithe, alabaster woman,  I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week.  It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word  Siberia, my light Rosaleen.  Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles, What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café Campagne. Our conversation Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed By your tears. I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world. Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time. At the great table we feast With family and friends And I am not alone with you.
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Nov 2, 2013
Nov 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
Shineane ( Síneánn )
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles, What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café Campagne. Our conversation Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed By your tears. I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world. Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time. At the great table we feast With family and friends And I am not alone with you.
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I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea! And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried, "You'll all be drowned!" They called aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. II They sailed away in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they sailed so fast, With only a beautiful pea-green veil Tied with a riband by way of a sail, To a small tobacco-pipe mast; And every one said, who saw them go, "O won't they be soon upset, you know! For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, And happen what may, it's extremely wrong In a Sieve to sail so fast!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. III The water it soon came in, it did, The water it soon came in; So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded neat, And they fastened it down with a pin. And they passed the night in a crockery-jar, And each of them said, "How wise we are! Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long, Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong, While round in our Sieve we spin!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. IV And all night long they sailed away; And when the sun went down, They whistled and warbled a moony song To the echoing sound of a coppery gong, In the shade of the mountains brown. "O Timballo! How happy we are, When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar, And all night long in the moonlight pale, We sail away with a pea-green sail, In the shade of the mountains brown!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. V They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, To a land all covered with trees, And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry **** And a hive of silvery Bees. And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese. Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. VI And in twenty years they all came back, In twenty years or more, And every one said, "How tall they've grown! For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, And the hills of the Chankly Bore!" And they drank their health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And every one said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve,? To the hills of the Chankly Bore!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
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The Jumblies
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea! And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried, "You'll all be drowned!" They called aloud, "Our Sieve ain't big, But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig! In a Sieve we'll go to sea!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. II They sailed away in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they sailed so fast, With only a beautiful pea-green veil Tied with a riband by way of a sail, To a small tobacco-pipe mast; And every one said, who saw them go, "O won't they be soon upset, you know! For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, And happen what may, it's extremely wrong In a Sieve to sail so fast!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. III The water it soon came in, it did, The water it soon came in; So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded neat, And they fastened it down with a pin. And they passed the night in a crockery-jar, And each of them said, "How wise we are! Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long, Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong, While round in our Sieve we spin!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. IV And all night long they sailed away; And when the sun went down, They whistled and warbled a moony song To the echoing sound of a coppery gong, In the shade of the mountains brown. "O Timballo! How happy we are, When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar, And all night long in the moonlight pale, We sail away with a pea-green sail, In the shade of the mountains brown!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. V They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, To a land all covered with trees, And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry **** And a hive of silvery Bees. And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese. Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. VI And in twenty years they all came back, In twenty years or more, And every one said, "How tall they've grown! For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, And the hills of the Chankly Bore!" And they drank their health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And every one said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve,? To the hills of the Chankly Bore!" Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
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When you weaned me from the waning moon, its milky cusps, winking welcome moods of starry surrender, I was lost to my reflection rearranged roughly on the window's pane. Don't take flight yet, you said, *first take the light's left hand and keep it from the misbehaving oak, its frightening reach.* *There are beehive-capped angels swinging there beneath, and they're angling to gather moony souls together in false hope. Their absent promise is absolute, and absolution.* *They'll utter their nothings, utterly sweet, if you let them, and lull you with their yellow tongues. Fly away with this light you now hold and risk the falling.*
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
In this time of rapture, moonbeams scatter
mischief and such wit moony, wormtail, padfoot, prongs they're the marauders and when the job's done wave your wand and just say this 'mischief managed!' done cleverness present but wasted on breaking rules yet used for the fun
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM UTC
the marauders (haiku)
*What do these matter? At the park, There is an empty seat, Where an ant pass food To its kind. An old tire lies On an old rooftop– Sometimes, a street kid Smiles, playing with such. The Stonehenge and The Aurora Borealis. The works of Pablo Neruda. The Mona Lisa. The Banawe Rice Terraces And our being one, Together. A kiss. Our kiss. Poems. Music. Epics. Wind. Your yellow-painted fingernails. The blue colors of this country. The red arrow that bursts Forth into kisses that drip All over me. And just to Gladly die for you. To die for you. A coherent thought about love Will always be proven false. All we become and have to be Is good ignorance. All we nearly had Are but cruel clues that ever So entice. All we ever witnessed Are nomadic crumbs Small beaks pecked along The moony way. And all sad waters, suns And sacrificial stars Will always burn down Going South. But What do these matter? For these, I am loving you, Yet, even more. Now death Is even more confusing. And our friend, Time, will soon Be against us. So, I am Leo. And you are Pisces. Love weaves secrets. And men love mysteries.* © 2014 J.S.P.
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Nov 3, 2014
Nov 3, 2014 at 7:22 AM UTC
Bermuda Love Triangle
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world.  Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM UTC
Shineane ( Síneánn )
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles,   What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café   Campagne. Our conversation   Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words   Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest   Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed   By your tears.  I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world.  Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived   One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time.   At the great table we feast   With family and friends   And I am not alone with you.
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the inexplicable lightness of pure being comes from subtly discerning that the moony mind is your nemesis.... silencing it the stairway to heaven © 2021
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Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021 at 9:15 AM UTC
stairway to heaven (the real one)
The water's dreamy, slowly flowing Between the corners of the streets, Adorned brightly with lantern lights, While the midnight wind is blowing. Their moony, rosy brows are glowing, At the breezing Kyoto nights, Presenting to many crowds sights Who're beautiful, while on they're going. A maiko here, a geisha there, Fleeting around in the bright moonbeams, Like sakura petals on a spring-night. I ask, they are going to where, Besides just ending up in dreams With their paints who're red and white?
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Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018 at 8:21 AM UTC
Kyoto's Butterflies
You can ride on my oldie bike for free Yesterday I called in the double price For the spark in her eyes that I see Mellow on inside but tinted sharp eyes Like a ripple in the water in calm night Moony thoughts, paper like thin ****** cuts Her careless thoughts meet her eyes She created words that I seldom felt She sways her thready hair as I knelt As this lady gently cleans the kettles I listened to her rush, the whistle, and her lips Like the leaves flutters over a gentle wind On the shadow of a butterfly over the lilies A sun inside a drizzly morning and evening glory Like a cuckoo singing from an early winter tree A dream passed me by unknown to her A desirable woman, a lover, a passionate peer A moment of clarity, a blink, a wish to be there
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 12:22 AM UTC
Her old bike
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles, What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café Campagne. Our conversation Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed By your tears. I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world. Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time. At the great table we feast With family and friends And I am not alone with you.
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Dec 6, 2014
Dec 6, 2014 at 2:40 PM UTC
Síneánn ( sha-neen )
I am alone with you. A fire burns in the distance, It lights our faces As before in the empty cinema, Where we arrived, at some beginning, To watch a foreign film. Our eyes, In new utterance, murmuring subtitles, What words could never speak, The tips of seats, rows of air And the moony screen, A tableau of feathers and cloud, Two of us, alone, as one, Rapt in the spread of wings. Later, alone we dine in the Café Campagne. Our conversation Deafens a burgeoning crowd, Coffee was nectar, our words Were whispering petals. Dearest Blodeuwedd, I saw the sweetest Sorrow on your face, the green ocean In your eyes, I was cleansed By your tears. I have always Known you. Across the border on the far island, You stepped into the waters with me And when you disrobed you lit the stars And the stars and my eyes kissed your skin, Your slender legs, columns, tilting Toward heaven, in the age of Helen, Touched the water and the sky, I saw the milky way that night. Síneánn, I am your Pablo, We are two white birds sailing Over the foam of the sea. Solvent to my stone, you are the hinge To my casement world. Rain petal Voice, lithe, alabaster woman, I am lost in your Sargasso eyes, I hold your skin, my Selkie, Sweet Niamh, I have lived One hundred years this week. It is warm in the distance, In the country of the sun, We end at the house in Umbria, In the autumn, there is no word Siberia, my light Rosaleen. Now is harvest time. At the great table we feast With family and friends And I am not alone with you.
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