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"moralist" poems
the ***** ghost comes to those who have suffered long the agony of torrid loves hunger he is a savior that needs to be saved a glittering pageant of ****** despair his color sapphire a weeping shell a dark cloud of smoldering ash that never burns out he is heat and light he can smell the musk between your legs taste tears of want as if they are his own his **** bursting like trees bludgeon hard, substanceless no you can't put your finger on it your heart a weeping furnace your parched mouth dire is his the emptiness between your legs is his he comes to you a vacant smudge then, white attendant with black eyed gems be not afraid he was lost in life a moralist who could not find Jacobs ladder nor free him self of false boundaries set upon him by the good people their minds spider bites and corpses who imagined a god who loved them by decrees of thou shalt not not not and did not know that flesh needs flesh and only human love could save him then to the grave, just a ***** ghost theory to the living
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 10:01 AM UTC
***** Ghost Theory
Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo’s note, The untaught harmony of spring: While, whisp’ring pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro’ the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling. Where’er the oak’s thick branches stretch A broader browner shade, Where’er the rude and moss-grown beech O’er-canopies the glade, Beside some water’s rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great! Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o’er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation’s sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro’ life’s little day, In Fortune’s varying colours drest: Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chilled by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display: On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while ’tis May.
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Ode On The Spring
Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo’s note, The untaught harmony of spring: While, whisp’ring pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs thro’ the clear blue sky Their gathered fragrance fling. Where’er the oak’s thick branches stretch A broader browner shade, Where’er the rude and moss-grown beech O’er-canopies the glade, Beside some water’s rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great! Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o’er the current skim, Some show their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun. To Contemplation’s sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the Busy and the Gay But flutter thro’ life’s little day, In Fortune’s varying colours drest: Brushed by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chilled by Age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display: On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— We frolic while ’tis May.
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Oh happy shades--to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders quiv'ring to the breeze, Might sooth a soul less hurt than mine, And please, if any thing could please. But fix'd unalterable care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness ev'rywhere, And slights the season and the scene. For all that pleas'd in wood or lawn, While peace possess'd these silent bow'rs, Her animating smile withdrawn, Has lost its beauties and its pow'rs. The saint or moralist should tread This moss-grown alley, musing, slow; They seek, like me, the secret shade, But not, like me, to nourish woe! Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam; These tell me of enjoyments past, And those of sorrows yet to come.
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The Shrubbery
It's love for the love of love Are you a crazy love woman skivvy to the scourge of happiness that jealous sister of hatred who keeps herself who gives herself for the love of love. Well, you've been had it's the epic travesty our nature, corseted into words and sermons contorted to fit more moral mouths than mine. ******* moralist hypocrites. I'l show you love when I shove that love where the sun don't shine. Always thinking of you Happy Valentines.
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Sep 29, 2010
Sep 29, 2010 at 7:45 PM UTC
Crazy, Love Woman
1 dearest readers online be forewarned when you read a poem there may be irony ahead and if you don't look out yes, it can be like you've run against an iron pole smack bang against the forehead (which may not matter if you're Ironhead) but if you're anything like me flesh and blood and heart - Ouch! It can more than hurt!) 2 be forewarned also when you read a poem it can be like driving in a school zone when the kids are going home - so watch out: *irony may be walking with persona and the literal with metaphor and maybe a figurative pig round the corner and sarcasm hand in hand with opposite-of-what's-being-said* 3 so do drive alert eyes open, mind open when in Poetry Land O most intelligent reader for you never know in the thoroughfare of poetry who you might just bump into: *Mr Alternative; Mr So-in-your-face; Ms I-Want-to-Talk-About-God-Yet-Again; Vicar There's-No-Bloody-God; Mr and Mrs Moralist; Mr and Mrs Hey-Let's-Have-Sex-While-at-Poetry like-they-do-in-the-back-seats-at-the-movies* - and so on, you know: It can be like being Alice in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter but you got to keep your sanity for company yep, stay alert or you might just crash your Reading 4 An Afterthought and I know wise reader all the above might make me sound like Mr-know-all but hey! - modesty's never been the poet's professional trait (you must think about that - cos even the poet devoted entirely to Subjects Divine and Holy and of Such Lofty Things and exuding sweet humility is ****** arrogant - cos they do implicitly or explicitly claim they know what really matters, while you or I don't)
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Feb 21, 2012
Feb 21, 2012 at 5:58 AM UTC
warning: irony and others ahead
1 dearest readers online be forewarned when you read a poem there may be irony ahead and if you don't look out yes, it can be like you've run against an iron pole smack bang against the forehead (which may not matter if you're Ironhead) but if you're anything like me flesh and blood and heart - Ouch! It can more than hurt!) 2 be forewarned also when you read a poem it can be like driving in a school zone when the kids are going home - so watch out: *irony may be walking with persona and the literal with metaphor and maybe a figurative pig round the corner and sarcasm hand in hand with opposite-of-what's-being-said* 3 so do drive alert eyes open, mind open when in Poetry Land O most intelligent reader for you never know in the thoroughfare of poetry who you might just bump into: *Mr Alternative; Mr So-in-your-face; Ms I-Want-to-Talk-About-God-Yet-Again; Vicar There's-No-Bloody-God; Mr and Mrs Moralist; Mr and Mrs Hey-Let's-Have-Sex-While-at-Poetry like-they-do-in-the-back-seats-at-the-movies* - and so on, you know: It can be like being Alice in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter but you got to keep your sanity for company yep, stay alert or you might just crash your Reading 4 An Afterthought and I know wise reader all the above might make me sound like Mr-know-all but hey! - modesty's never been the poet's professional trait (you must think about that - cos even the poet devoted entirely to Subjects Divine and Holy and of Such Lofty Things and exuding sweet humility is ****** arrogant - cos they do implicitly or explicitly claim they know what really matters, while you or I don't)
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The moralist  is playing again, bleaching your hair is an unspoken uniform, with so little soul acetates don't get played. New words gets bandied "plebs", but without the de-rigueur  Corduroys or  navy blazers, we are all be tarred with the same brush. Meanwhile the coach exhaust  fumes abnegated our pilgrimage to Stamford and we all now agree we   lived beyond our means in exiguous Britain
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Sep 27, 2012
Sep 27, 2012 at 5:24 PM UTC
Body of Fact
Oh happy shades--to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders quiv'ring to the breeze, Might sooth a soul less hurt than mine, And please, if any thing could please. But fix'd unalterable care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness ev'rywhere, And slights the season and the scene. For all that pleas'd in wood or lawn, While peace possess'd these silent bow'rs, Her animating smile withdrawn, Has lost its beauties and its pow'rs. The saint or moralist should tread This moss-grown alley, musing, slow; They seek, like me, the secret shade, But not, like me, to nourish woe! Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam; These tell me of enjoyments past, And those of sorrows yet to come.
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The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction
We the moralist of society. Seems to judge many others many of times. But when our lives gets exposed. Then, that's when we don't want our life exposed. That secret life. The one we afraid to mention. Maybe you was a stripper. Or as some call it. An exotic dancer. Maybe you was a business woman. Serving mutiple males. While making tax free money. Maybe you a male escort. Who, now have the trade of being a respected lawyer? Oh, that secret life. That many of us don't want anyone to know. Some of the most respected people have a past. That if pushed could ruine them. The famous face scandals more than the poor. But the poor has just as many to run from. Maybe, it's a secret child. Maybe, it's the secrets of being too wild. Oh, these secret lives that we live. Sooner or later, we must ask someone to forgive us. Scandals in church. Scandals at work. Our privacy is becoming a dream. When we faces being exposed cause people are mean.
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Mar 30, 2013
Mar 30, 2013 at 1:21 AM UTC
That Secret Life
I swear girl you've made me want to take all your **** and throw it out on the steps these past days; thou shalt not steal. Lately I've been wanting to chop your head off, but I'm a moralist so I do it in my head but sometimes... thou shalt not **** But I love you.... thou shalt love they neighbor as thine own self.... and I love you in the agonizing way a man's heart can be caught and snared. I've had to sleep in my car for six days now, because of you yelling and screaming and just hating everything about me until you wake me up in the morning tapping on the foggy glass in a bathrobe, them pink, ***** slippers, and some scalding black coffee in a mug, and I look at you and I just want to.... thou shalt not **** again, thou shalt not **** And it all started with you waking me up with a bible to the head, thumping me awake at 3:15 in the morning, standing over me reading "thou shalt not covet another man's wife." And everybody's a sinner.
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Jan 27, 2012
Jan 27, 2012 at 11:32 PM UTC
3:15 in the morning.
"they deserve to suffer," the moralist chimed, tones of genocidal rhetoric cutting out the sun
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Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 5:14 PM UTC
a merciless, pitiful sense of compassion
We all have it. We just try to surpress it. We all have standards. We just live up to them. To the mistress. We have a commentary about them. Except if given a chance. Some man would try to be with them. To the prison that commits a crime. We truly lay into them. Without realize one bad choice of a decision. Will have us being a inmate next to them. Mistakes we make them. And in many ways we hate to be judged. Just ask their family. We no moralist. Well outside church we aren't. We only show our moral hyprocrisy. When we're around the minister preaching. Where we nod our heads to anything said. But pay attention to truth. Even they aren't firm on things. When dealing with God's creation. The commandments are strictly guidelines to abide by. We very aware that many will fall to the side. It's just our moral hyprocrisy code we go by. It took a brave soul to assist the soul lying at the road. The Good Samaritan's that we all seems to know. Those in position just passed him by. Maybe it just was the sign of the time. We still see this in the priviledge. Who still tries to judge the poor? And the word states, they shall inherit the earth. Words to the wise that states so much.
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Dec 5, 2012
Dec 5, 2012 at 8:08 AM UTC
Moral Hyprocrisy
Postpone your tiresome quarrels if you can, or leave and take them with you.
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 1:26 PM UTC
House Of The Moralist
What is greater, Your desire to speak, or to be heard? If you argue for superiority- (Moralist pugilism) (Last man standing) Then may you feel like a man May you be satisfied by bringing another To stubborn contradiction Or to submission But may you also know this: Once you have finished killing all those Who oppose peace, Once you have burned the last bigot At the stake, Once you’ve crucified the non-believers, Or choked out the last censurer, When every bully Has been ridiculed And embarrassed, You will have only reflected this world Onto a surface of your choosing So long as you expect Truth to arrive Unmarred by your fluster and arrogance, Through you to dispel the evil You are hell bent on redeeming, You will remain A force of Darkness In this time
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 2:18 PM UTC
Dear Sam
Nima's aunt's spare bed was firm and old and after we had made love twice we lay back on the bed and lit up cigarettes this is my moody cousin's room I think Nima said wonder what she'd think if she knew I'd been ravished here? not please I guess I said she'll know I've slept here but not that I've had *** in her big bed Nima said I looked around the room there were a few paintings on the walls a big mirror on one wall opposite the bed a dressing table by the window well Benny what do you think? about what? I said the bed? the *** the foreplay? she said all good I said (the foreplay had been her idea and it kind of stretched things out a bit) twice over too she said watching smoke rise upward what would your aunt say if she found out I'd been here? I said not pleased she's a bit of a moralist Nima said (as if being a moralist was a kind illness with little hope) but I can picture my moody cousin's face had she come in as we were well away Nima said smiling in fact I imagined it the second time we shagged imagined her by the door with a face as white as snow and her eyes as large as an owls she laughed I imagined nothing just went with the flow sensing myself in a bright sun's glow.
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM UTC
A BRIGHT SUN'S GLOW 1967.
we refuse to believe, to denounce the dream, to not remember. we refuse to accept, a false defeat, that the process has ended. but I look around, and it appears you've won, and they all consented. deafening pluralism post-modern [rant] victims of culture spectacle love packaged meanings individualist mass interconnected points one-dimensional facts (i) sit here and meditate on all that (i) am so terribly meta (i) love my corral give all the pleasures (i) can possibly have teach me to accept anything and never stand up (i) wanna be a spectator of the things to come participate the least possible and not care at all see nothing outside my little microcosm be a relativist moralist and completely apolitical please convince (me) too that we've figured it all the details remain but we get the whole please assimilate me in the pack (i) wanna be sheepish (i)'d love to feel numb (i) love the screen's light, (i) fear the dark some want to be, (i) just want to have the self is a process and (i) can't bother with that (i) now gather tokens to show you my value bureaucratic meritocracy, let me glorify you tag me, price me, define me all the way (i) hope you find a tag for my soul as well (i) will now be infotained to catch up will watch a news satirist to understand after that there's this show of people losing fat (i) get my "values" from jesters and marketing fads look, this poem's so meta (i) could open my heart: [negative feeling here] [joke about that] [unoriginal opinion] and [trivia] [self-resentment], [a very bad pun].
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 6:45 AM UTC
writing from the end of history
we refuse to believe, to denounce the dream, to not remember. we refuse to accept, a false defeat, that the process has ended. but I look around, and it appears you've won, and they all consented. deafening pluralism post-modern [rant] victims of culture spectacle love packaged meanings individualist mass interconnected points one-dimensional facts (i) sit here and meditate on all that (i) am so terribly meta (i) love my corral give all the pleasures (i) can possibly have teach me to accept anything and never stand up (i) wanna be a spectator of the things to come participate the least possible and not care at all see nothing outside my little microcosm be a relativist moralist and completely apolitical please convince (me) too that we've figured it all the details remain but we get the whole please assimilate me in the pack (i) wanna be sheepish (i)'d love to feel numb (i) love the screen's light, (i) fear the dark some want to be, (i) just want to have the self is a process and (i) can't bother with that (i) now gather tokens to show you my value bureaucratic meritocracy, let me glorify you tag me, price me, define me all the way (i) hope you find a tag for my soul as well (i) will now be infotained to catch up will watch a news satirist to understand after that there's this show of people losing fat (i) get my "values" from jesters and marketing fads look, this poem's so meta (i) could open my heart: [negative feeling here] [joke about that] [unoriginal opinion] and [trivia] [self-resentment], [a very bad pun].
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Glossary of generics, favourer of all merit, ****** to detach detained editorial. Some come in softly, hard heads take big splats. Lukewarmness salts thy unfruitful earth, where newborn births are stars to their own mania's, Cranium's go connected! Stretched parsels to broken fibula's! Moralist preachers teach to the misbehaved, can you account for the thousandth day you've encountered? For the slaves you've made out of your own bloodline, you've lost much of your own commandments you lowly persuationer!! Old partied savourer!!! Dissatisfaction finalizes all authories where glory is none, cheatings no more fun? Haha for you can clap your solid hands to gentled tears, for missing years are operetic in cower and palate!!!!! Wake yourself to thine nail, strike one time with a mallet for all reasonings gone, gone, gone . when its you that has lost, When its thy world who hath won!!!
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 10:13 PM UTC
giveth all to thy world, looseth thine own soul!
Internal journalist Pitiful moralist Brave declarations Cleverly made My words are a weapon An army attacking Myself - but my friendships Are casualties laid
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May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM UTC
Internal Journalist
The dissonance should splinter your sparkling billboard reality as tv images hyper energize our innate *** drive and media moralist shame said desires. While your leaders proclaim a specific faith but then in turn spite and debase, with malice and false claims anyone who doesn’t pray each day the way that they don’t even pray. When the main protagonist in your religious texts was pretty obviously anti-capitalist but your current church leaders make a killing selling their parishioners false promises of making them multi-millionaires. When you were set up to be the steward of your society yet squander each opportunity to be more Christ like cause you have developed a strong immunity to reason and logic which costs us our humanity.
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Jan 7, 2018
Jan 7, 2018 at 10:10 AM UTC
Untitled
Torment passing under the suns allotted gloom Eclipsed by the dirge of the funeral moon Falling over man, the tide of infernal doom The mortal victim falls to insanities eternal swoon. Humanity deceased, falls to its four The beast lives, a monstrosity alive A naked form scratches at the door With eyes, dead as night, hunting to survive. The elders rot (on the pyre) away Child cadavers pile by the day Mortal lust succeeds the moralist decay Under the sun of sanity eclipsed.
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Jul 28, 2017
Jul 28, 2017 at 5:25 PM UTC
Sanity Eclipsed