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* Experiences make us wiser, Learning makes us smarter All must coincides together with an open mind to ponder and a good heart to wonder --  balancing from right and wrong   We gain rooms for change                 and more storage                             to process       the increasing progress. With all that often times we waste something good to needful things. *
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 2:20 AM UTC
Growth ~
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane — May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Parents' Love! — Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good, Thy Name possessing with thy Blood, In him, in all his ways, may we Another Francis WIlliam see! — Thy infant days may he inherit, They warmth, nay insolence of spirit; — We would not with one foult dispense To weaken the resemblance. May he revive thy Nursery sin, Peeping as daringly within, His curley Locks but just descried, With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.' — Fearless of danger, braving pain, And threaten'd very oft in vain, Still may one Terror daunt his Soul, One needful engine of Controul Be found in this sublime array, A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray. So may his equal faults as Child, Produce Maturity as mild! His saucy words and fiery ways In early Childhood's pettish days, In Manhood, shew his Father's mind Like him, considerate and Kind; All Gentleness to those around, And anger only not to wound. Then like his Father too, he must, To his own former struggles just, Feel his Deserts with honest Glow, And all his self-improvement know. A native fault may thus give birth To the best blessing, conscious Worth. As for ourselves we're very well; As unaffected prose will tell. Cassandra's pen will paint our state, The many comforts that await Our Chawton home, how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced, that when complete It will all other Houses beat The ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise, or rooms distended. You'll find us very snug next year, Perhaps with Charles and ***** near, For now it often does delight us To fancy them just over-right us.
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My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared with that of Mary Jane — May he a growing Blessing prove, And well deserve his Parents' Love! — Endow'd with Art's and Nature's Good, Thy Name possessing with thy Blood, In him, in all his ways, may we Another Francis WIlliam see! — Thy infant days may he inherit, They warmth, nay insolence of spirit; — We would not with one foult dispense To weaken the resemblance. May he revive thy Nursery sin, Peeping as daringly within, His curley Locks but just descried, With 'Bet, my be not come to bide.' — Fearless of danger, braving pain, And threaten'd very oft in vain, Still may one Terror daunt his Soul, One needful engine of Controul Be found in this sublime array, A neigbouring Donkey's aweful Bray. So may his equal faults as Child, Produce Maturity as mild! His saucy words and fiery ways In early Childhood's pettish days, In Manhood, shew his Father's mind Like him, considerate and Kind; All Gentleness to those around, And anger only not to wound. Then like his Father too, he must, To his own former struggles just, Feel his Deserts with honest Glow, And all his self-improvement know. A native fault may thus give birth To the best blessing, conscious Worth. As for ourselves we're very well; As unaffected prose will tell. Cassandra's pen will paint our state, The many comforts that await Our Chawton home, how much we find Already in it, to our mind; And how convinced, that when complete It will all other Houses beat The ever have been made or mended, With rooms concise, or rooms distended. You'll find us very snug next year, Perhaps with Charles and ***** near, For now it often does delight us To fancy them just over-right us.
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Under, over, between, against, something Needful things and quarks Infinite infinity endlessly remaining vacuous vacant and brimming. Everything everywhere evolving eternally recent past and the here and now still reveals it's non existence. Event horizon is nothing nowhere
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 5:11 PM UTC
Universe acrostic
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone, That thee I shall not celebrate, When I remember, thou wast one. But yet thou canst not die, I know, To leave this world behind, is death, But when thou from this world wilt go, The whole world vapors with thy breath. Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, goest, It stay, ’tis but thy carcass then, The fairest woman, but thy ghost, But corrupt worms, the worthiest men. O wrangling schools, that search what fire Shall burn this world, had none the wit Unto this knowledge to aspire, That this her fever might be it? And yet she cannot waste by this, Nor long bear this torturing wrong, For much corruption needful is To fuel such a fever long. These burning fits but meteors be, Whose matter in thee is soon spent. Thy beauty, and all parts, which are thee, Are unchangeable firmament. Yet ’twas of my mind, seizing thee, Though it in thee cannot persever. For I had rather owner be, Of thee one hour, than all else ever.
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A Fever
See the various Poems the scene of which is laid upon the banks of the Yarrow; in particular, the exquisite Ballad of Hamilton beginning— Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny Bride, Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome Marrow! From Stirling castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said my “winsome Marrow,” “Whate’er betide, we’ll turn aside, And see the Braes of Yarrow.” “Let Yarrow folk, frae Selkirk town, Who have been buying, selling, Go back to Yarrow, ’tis their own; Each maiden to her dwelling! On Yarrow’s banks let her herons feed, Hares couch, and rabbits burrow! But we will downward with the Tweed Nor turn aside to Yarrow. “There’s Galla Water, Leader Haughs, Both lying right before us; And Dryborough, where with chiming Tweed The lintwhites sing in chorus; There’s pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow: Why throw away a needful day To go in search of Yarrow? “What’s Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.” —Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn; My True-love sighed for sorrow; And looked me in the face, to think I thus could speak of Yarrow! “Oh! green,” said I, “are Yarrow’s holms, And sweet is Yarrow flowing! Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, But we will leave it growing. O’er hilly path, and open Strath, We’ll wander Scotland thorough; But, though so near, we will not turn Into the dale of Yarrow. “Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow, The swan on still St. Mary’s Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow; Enough if in our hearts we know There’s such a place as Yarrow. “Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown! It must, or we shall rue it: We have a vision of our own; Ah! why should we undo it? The treasured dreams of times long past, We’ll keep them, winsome Marrow! For when we’er there, although ’tis fair, ’Twill be another Yarrow! “If Care with freezing years should come, And wandering seem but folly,— Should we be loth to stir from home, And yet be melancholy; Should life be dull, and spirits low, ’Twill soothe us in our sorrow, That earth has something yet to show, The bonny holms of Yarrow!”
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Yarrow Unvisited
See the various Poems the scene of which is laid upon the banks of the Yarrow; in particular, the exquisite Ballad of Hamilton beginning— Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny Bride, Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome Marrow! From Stirling castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said my “winsome Marrow,” “Whate’er betide, we’ll turn aside, And see the Braes of Yarrow.” “Let Yarrow folk, frae Selkirk town, Who have been buying, selling, Go back to Yarrow, ’tis their own; Each maiden to her dwelling! On Yarrow’s banks let her herons feed, Hares couch, and rabbits burrow! But we will downward with the Tweed Nor turn aside to Yarrow. “There’s Galla Water, Leader Haughs, Both lying right before us; And Dryborough, where with chiming Tweed The lintwhites sing in chorus; There’s pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow: Why throw away a needful day To go in search of Yarrow? “What’s Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.” —Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn; My True-love sighed for sorrow; And looked me in the face, to think I thus could speak of Yarrow! “Oh! green,” said I, “are Yarrow’s holms, And sweet is Yarrow flowing! Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, But we will leave it growing. O’er hilly path, and open Strath, We’ll wander Scotland thorough; But, though so near, we will not turn Into the dale of Yarrow. “Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow, The swan on still St. Mary’s Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow; Enough if in our hearts we know There’s such a place as Yarrow. “Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown! It must, or we shall rue it: We have a vision of our own; Ah! why should we undo it? The treasured dreams of times long past, We’ll keep them, winsome Marrow! For when we’er there, although ’tis fair, ’Twill be another Yarrow! “If Care with freezing years should come, And wandering seem but folly,— Should we be loth to stir from home, And yet be melancholy; Should life be dull, and spirits low, ’Twill soothe us in our sorrow, That earth has something yet to show, The bonny holms of Yarrow!”
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O Venus, beauty of the skies, To whom a thousand temples rise, Gaily false in gentle smiles, Full of love-perplexing wiles; O goddess, from my heart remove The wasting cares and pains of love. If ever thou hast kindly heard A song in soft distress preferred, Propitious to my tuneful vow, A gentle goddess, hear me now. Descend, thou bright immortal guest, In all thy radiant charms confessed. Thou once didst leave almighty Jove And all the golden roofs above: The car thy wanton sparrows drew, Hovering in air they lightly flew; As to my bower they winged their way I saw their quivering pinions play. The birds dismissed (while you remain) Bore back their empty car again: Then you, with looks divinely mild, In every heavenly feature smiled, And asked what new complaints I made, And why I called you to my aid? What frenzy in my ***** raged, And by what cure to be assuaged? What gentle youth I would allure, Whom in my artful toils secure? Who does thy tender heart subdue, Tell me, my Sappho, tell me who? Though now he shuns thy longing arms, He soon shall court thy slighted charms; Though now thy offerings he despise, He soon to thee shall sacrifice; Though now he freezes, he soon shall burn, And be thy victim in his turn. Celestial visitant, once more Thy needful presence I implore. In pity come, and ease my grief, Bring my distempered soul relief, Favour thy suppliant's hidden fires, And give me all my heart desires.
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A Hymn To Venus
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needful for the flower: And joys and tears alike are sent To give the soul fit nourishment. As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done! Can loving children e'er reprove With murmurs whom they trust and love? Creator! I would ever be A trusting, loving child to thee: As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done! Oh, ne'er will I at life repine: Enough that thou hast made it mine. When falls the shadow cold of death I yet will sing, with parting breath, As comes to me or shade or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done!
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He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needful for the flower: And joys and tears alike are sent To give the soul fit nourishment. As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done! Can loving children e'er reprove With murmurs whom they trust and love? Creator! I would ever be A trusting, loving child to thee: As comes to me or cloud or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done! Oh, ne'er will I at life repine: Enough that thou hast made it mine. When falls the shadow cold of death I yet will sing, with parting breath, As comes to me or shade or sun, Father! thy will, not mine, be done!
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Hymn
Here standing again at the edge of the cliff, struggling against the force of the wind. Drenched and cold, thinking and wondering what to do. This is what I was seeking. I wanted to feel the storm in my bones. Fearing what I want and wanting what I fear. Desiring and yearning for it, yet distanced myself from it. Never been more sure about changing than now. Angels are busy working and trying to show visions of heaven. But here am I clawing the ground trying to get hell for you. Now I have to stop struggling, for this striving and toiling are not yielding desired fruits. I'm so breathless from all this going up and down trying to make it work. Rest is not so bad after all this rigours of running around. Dullness has taken over the heart of one who suppose to rule. Stagnation cannot be tolerated and condoned or we all go down. Change is needful urgently. It is time for you to learn the balance. I bring from the east, I bring from the west, I bring from the south, I bring from the north the power of balance. It begins in the spirit. We can balance anything. Our voice, our work, our body. You can even balance your sadness. First you find patience. Perhaps you will meet patience in this sunlight and become good friends. I will tell you again. I will tell you again and again until your inside knows. It takes a long time to learn the art of balance. ©2018,Emeka Mokeme. All Rights Reserved.
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 4:24 PM UTC
THE STORM IN MY BONES
The day of your life and the night of your day, which one is more important and relevant to you. Both have their place in the scheme of things. The two worlds are busy working and building, constructing in conjunction with the divine to create a masterpiece of wonder. It's really not in your place to control any of them but to work with both. They move subtly to construct, sometimes with aggression to change and balance all things, with or without you. Actually you have no choice or control in their decisions. Man becomes helpless and hopeless when they begin to exact their power of supremacy. You can only command nature by obeying her principles. Both are needful and are blended together working in synergy to bring to us a desired end. Man is placed on earth to enjoy, but not to interrupt and interfere with the divine. A master plan is already within the blueprint of the architectural design for a magnificent and excellent living. Yield to it and have peace. ©2018,Emeka Mokeme. All Rights Reserved.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 6:53 AM UTC
THE MASTER PLAN
Never mind the headache, ma'am, I got no time for your wishin that you had another couple hours sweaty spoonin with me These days I got high time racing like underline all the while the future words seem as if they're repeating much slower or bleeding white into the rest of the page I gotta go ta work Never mind the simple kiss, the stranger smile, the holy art. Never mind the needful hand, I hear all the words that you're speaking and I've spent years making them not cut into me.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 10:55 PM UTC
Summer Shudder: "Sunglass One Liner"
*You are a perfect branch descending from yourself. I have been waiting at your roots, trying to find myself. Which part of your trunk do I stem from, I cry out to the moon. Am I not a part of you whose flowers are in tune? I am sharing needful moments full of sensations anew; becoming naked with each breath I take, singing a song of truth. Staring into forever my heart pounds with hopes and dreams. I am waiting at your roots, with beauty bursting at my seams. You are a perfect branch, no need to conform. I am here serenading your roots to become your flowers that adorn.*
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Sep 25, 2011
Sep 25, 2011 at 2:28 AM UTC
Serenading Your Basis
The third power of the Sphinx is Courage. "Herein lies the great mystery of the empty throne." ∆ Giddy in the throes of realization,         the Arbiter, imbued with needful action,         takes a great, daring leap across the chasm                 into the implications of knowledge:                 This is It - the Puzzle that Fascinates Itself.                  "You awoke in the Kingdom with eyes closed. In the beginning was the Trapezoid called Control." ∆ Borne by an umbilical Breath to a lens too small to see Itself, Buoyed by the lapping waves, Reason wrought a waking sleep of hallucinations, a sea of dreams and possibilities to become;         Memories too large         to conceive by aught         but the perennial story         that swallows the narrator:                 *"I see their entire lives in an instant,                 being devoured and loving and living                 in a world that does not realize                 it is already over."* ‡ Courage is the Bearer of Truth. Headlong into the open maw heaves the gleeful Fool and his glad Word.         *"The excess of Meaning must be wrought on the Page,         on worlds of our own imagining." ∞* To Dare is to risk: consequence the reward fraught with baited hooks to tether the Arbiter to Time. The web of attachment sprawls, an expansive net.                 *"The web is infinite -                 those caught in it are beyond Number."* †                         Yet the spider is never                         ensnared by its Art:                         a master of the net,                         a climber of the Tree.                 At the summit of its dizzying heights,                 the depth of the Fall overwhelms.                         Responsibility follows.                 "Thou art That which resolves the frustum." ∆ Escaper of the Labyrinth, Master of the Maze, no longer merely Thou: Dilation devours the Iris.         *"What speaks through You has Ordained it         from the Beginning of Time,         and only in harnessing it         will you learn to devour your self         totally."* †         *"Then will you know me         as the eye that never shuts,         the eye that blinds."* Ω The way (out) is through.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 7:02 PM UTC
Praxeology
The third power of the Sphinx is Courage. "Herein lies the great mystery of the empty throne." ∆ Giddy in the throes of realization,         the Arbiter, imbued with needful action,         takes a great, daring leap across the chasm                 into the implications of knowledge:                 This is It - the Puzzle that Fascinates Itself.                  "You awoke in the Kingdom with eyes closed. In the beginning was the Trapezoid called Control." ∆ Borne by an umbilical Breath to a lens too small to see Itself, Buoyed by the lapping waves, Reason wrought a waking sleep of hallucinations, a sea of dreams and possibilities to become;         Memories too large         to conceive by aught         but the perennial story         that swallows the narrator:                 *"I see their entire lives in an instant,                 being devoured and loving and living                 in a world that does not realize                 it is already over."* ‡ Courage is the Bearer of Truth. Headlong into the open maw heaves the gleeful Fool and his glad Word.         *"The excess of Meaning must be wrought on the Page,         on worlds of our own imagining." ∞* To Dare is to risk: consequence the reward fraught with baited hooks to tether the Arbiter to Time. The web of attachment sprawls, an expansive net.                 *"The web is infinite -                 those caught in it are beyond Number."* †                         Yet the spider is never                         ensnared by its Art:                         a master of the net,                         a climber of the Tree.                 At the summit of its dizzying heights,                 the depth of the Fall overwhelms.                         Responsibility follows.                 "Thou art That which resolves the frustum." ∆ Escaper of the Labyrinth, Master of the Maze, no longer merely Thou: Dilation devours the Iris.         *"What speaks through You has Ordained it         from the Beginning of Time,         and only in harnessing it         will you learn to devour your self         totally."* †         *"Then will you know me         as the eye that never shuts,         the eye that blinds."* Ω The way (out) is through.
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This terrible beating, a soundless roar that I wear like worry. Caught in lace and sequin, you stupid pretty thing. Heart, you are so devilishly ugly. You make me awful and needful. A trouble, an aching break that never healed right. Pitchfork and shrapnel jacket, a barbed wire beauty. I am disastrous and made of weeds. A hungry throat that only knows swallow. Go on sky, pour. The art of breath and walk, of continue, of live. Of lust for better. Awake a sugar glass soul made tender. I am great care, building scaffoldings between fistfight and belonging.
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Jun 12, 2016
Jun 12, 2016 at 11:43 PM UTC
A Violent Tired
It's cold and it's empty, this hollowed out feeling of pleasure... I focus on the rush of desire - desire for the sensations alone... The sweet friction in my center, the pounding force of what is you, merely a tool for my cravings' fulfillment; an object for nothing but my physical satisfaction; a satiating of my burning lust... You're worthless to me outside this externally needful task... Not my heart, neither my soul, have even the smallest holding pocket, cradling some sort of love or care for you... Tell me, please, why we do this to ourselves, over and over, again and again...? Are we honestly contented by the passionless movements of our graceless pieces and parts? Is this animalistic ritual the solution for what we so desperately search for; that for which we agonizingly struggle, crawling down confused, tangled paths, looking without knowing exactly what we seek, despairing, sickly, exhausted, and so pathetic; so pitifully weak?? Are we satisfied with ******* Just ******* could that be the answer to the question that, from existence becoming, the human being has been, from the depths of the soul, constantly, repetitively screaming? I cannot bring myself to believe such a notion could hold a sand grain's worth of truth, but you seem to have accepted this joyless, hope-crushing idea, and as for myself, I know I'll only continue ignoring that which my heart keeps urgently speaking with a driving, whispering voice, from my inner-most recesses, and continue on with the oblivious dance of this pretending; this charades game all the world eagerly strives to play... I will bottle the juices of my self-deceiving, self-depriving fruits, borne of my guilt, my denial birthed shame... Yes, of course! I'm absolutely satisfied with the act of mere ******* Feelings of wholeness sweep and flutter, butterflying the insides of my body's unseen puzzle pieces, and I'm simply overflowing with this ever so peaceful calm... Lies, fiction, deception, robed by willfully grasped ignorance, keeps us marching, two-by-two, silently miserable husks, just living until it's time to lay in another void-like place, this one our grave, lonely and cold... And now it doesn't seem like there's anything left, for any one of us, to say...
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 7:52 AM UTC
Satisfied with *******
It's cold and it's empty, this hollowed out feeling of pleasure... I focus on the rush of desire - desire for the sensations alone... The sweet friction in my center, the pounding force of what is you, merely a tool for my cravings' fulfillment; an object for nothing but my physical satisfaction; a satiating of my burning lust... You're worthless to me outside this externally needful task... Not my heart, neither my soul, have even the smallest holding pocket, cradling some sort of love or care for you... Tell me, please, why we do this to ourselves, over and over, again and again...? Are we honestly contented by the passionless movements of our graceless pieces and parts? Is this animalistic ritual the solution for what we so desperately search for; that for which we agonizingly struggle, crawling down confused, tangled paths, looking without knowing exactly what we seek, despairing, sickly, exhausted, and so pathetic; so pitifully weak?? Are we satisfied with ******* Just ******* could that be the answer to the question that, from existence becoming, the human being has been, from the depths of the soul, constantly, repetitively screaming? I cannot bring myself to believe such a notion could hold a sand grain's worth of truth, but you seem to have accepted this joyless, hope-crushing idea, and as for myself, I know I'll only continue ignoring that which my heart keeps urgently speaking with a driving, whispering voice, from my inner-most recesses, and continue on with the oblivious dance of this pretending; this charades game all the world eagerly strives to play... I will bottle the juices of my self-deceiving, self-depriving fruits, borne of my guilt, my denial birthed shame... Yes, of course! I'm absolutely satisfied with the act of mere ******* Feelings of wholeness sweep and flutter, butterflying the insides of my body's unseen puzzle pieces, and I'm simply overflowing with this ever so peaceful calm... Lies, fiction, deception, robed by willfully grasped ignorance, keeps us marching, two-by-two, silently miserable husks, just living until it's time to lay in another void-like place, this one our grave, lonely and cold... And now it doesn't seem like there's anything left, for any one of us, to say...
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“How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
 How often have you bartered with bone, only to sell yourself short?
 Why do you find the unavailable so alluring?
 Where did it begin? What went wrong? And who made you feel so worthless?
 If they wanted you, wouldn’t they have chosen you?
 All this time, you were begging for love silently, thinking they couldn’t hear you, but they smelt it on you, you must have known that they could taste the desperate on your skin?
 And what about the others that would do anything for you, why did you make them love you until you could not stand it?
 How are you both of these women, both flighty and needful?
 Where did you learn this, to want what does not want you?
 Where did you learn this, to leave those that want to stay?” --Warsan Shire
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 12:06 PM UTC
Had to share this with you
Name any gentleman you spy, And there's a chance that he is I; Go out to angle, and you may Catch me on a propitious day: Booted and spurred, their journey ended, The weary are by me befriended: If roasted meat should be your wish, I am more needful than a dish: I am acknowledgedly poor: Yet my resources are no fewer Than all the trades; there is not one But I profess, beneath the sun: I bear a part in many a game; My worth may change, I am the same. Sometimes, by you expelled, I roam Forth from the sanctuary of home.
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New Enigmas
I bring plenty and abundance; I bring beauty and well-being I bring that which is wholesome and I bring that which is good for all of mankind and I bring goodwill to all nations and all peoples of the world may all countries be at peace; may all the people of the world be as one; may all nations have plenty and be safe may they have the wisdom to see what is sufficient and what is needful and refrain from excess; may each one wake up each day to a world of love; may all of humanity set aside all dogma and past and may they learn to see the new, the future and be past all creed, beliefs and divisions; and may they see with clarity that they are as but children of one family let there be peace let there be plenty let there be harmony let there be love - all days and all years in this our world that changes and moves all hours and ages
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Aug 9, 2011
Aug 9, 2011 at 8:28 PM UTC
I bring hope and love
Knee-deep snow, driven by chilling winds Blotted out gravel roads and ditches. Lonely, fence line posts, in rustic rows, Suffer hoary white in the winter sun. Only brave or needful venturers brook cold When wind-free mercury reads 25 below, But out we went to winter pastures, Heavy with feed, the old truck, Tires chained and shovels at the ready Clawed its way out seven miles to pasture, And, later, seven miles back. We boys were riding for the lark, Enjoying risks, adventures bold With Dad behind the wheel, no storm or wind Could stop us, and we scorned the cold. A hard pull took us up the road one mile, Til, at the corner, into the lane we headed east To see old Charlie's truck nosed into the snow. His neighbors, we stopped to check, at least. Asleep, too drunk to drive, old Charlie slumbered at the wheel. "We have to get him out," we said, but Dad just shook his head. "He's safe right here, stuck in the snow, with half a tank of fuel. "We'll feed the cows and pull him out if he's still here when we come back. Perhaps he'll sober up by then, and he'll go home." How many times we left old Charlie sleeping in a ditch Between his house and town, I cannot count today. Sometimes, I think, we saved his life by leaving him To sleep the vapors off, and other times by taking him away.
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Jun 21, 2014
Jun 21, 2014 at 9:48 PM UTC
Snow Drunk
Overcome with grief But with unhushed tears I dare not weep. But the gullibility I see Makes my heart roar like an angry sea At the Stupendous actions praised On high a single minded chameleon raised We have all failed And our "knowledge", a waste At night they lay asleep With sweet dreams on empty promises In support of a wolf Indeed covered in roses I  am of the grass root, he poses Of his evil deeds, he brags Down south, his followers, he drags And on the way down with smiles And laughter eating rice with chameleon shell topping They are all asleep. When will our youths see visions? Sometime soon I hope Because it seems the old dreamers are on a mission To enslave us all with gold plated ropes. I have seen countless bridges In multiple nations And they were built out of necessity And not stupidity A waste of our very limited resources In fact a direct and open robbery of our future Yet we sit in silence Our bellies filled with rice and the warmth of a friendly chameleon With no direction, productivity or creativity All our natural resources lay in waste. We need to change our mind set If we must save ourselves From the single minded chameleons Whose goal is self enrichment And wealth procurement. We must be weary of those who feed us rice And rob our children of a promising future Oh,  What a price. I want to watch as the cobwebs clears from their eyes The awakening of a new dawn A people on a mission To overcome this impending destruction Through their devotion To the correction Of our direction. We must empower ourselves We must stand together For there is power in unity And failure in division We can't continue to live in foolishness By indulging the chameleon's greediness And enduring his insults in silence. If there is a time to rise up in unity It is now If there is a time to do the needful It is now Sleep and slumber no more For that is for fools I'm nobody's fool... © 2018 Busola S. Kolade
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 10:45 AM UTC
THE PEOPLE OF E.
Overcome with grief But with unhushed tears I dare not weep. But the gullibility I see Makes my heart roar like an angry sea At the Stupendous actions praised On high a single minded chameleon raised We have all failed And our "knowledge", a waste At night they lay asleep With sweet dreams on empty promises In support of a wolf Indeed covered in roses I  am of the grass root, he poses Of his evil deeds, he brags Down south, his followers, he drags And on the way down with smiles And laughter eating rice with chameleon shell topping They are all asleep. When will our youths see visions? Sometime soon I hope Because it seems the old dreamers are on a mission To enslave us all with gold plated ropes. I have seen countless bridges In multiple nations And they were built out of necessity And not stupidity A waste of our very limited resources In fact a direct and open robbery of our future Yet we sit in silence Our bellies filled with rice and the warmth of a friendly chameleon With no direction, productivity or creativity All our natural resources lay in waste. We need to change our mind set If we must save ourselves From the single minded chameleons Whose goal is self enrichment And wealth procurement. We must be weary of those who feed us rice And rob our children of a promising future Oh,  What a price. I want to watch as the cobwebs clears from their eyes The awakening of a new dawn A people on a mission To overcome this impending destruction Through their devotion To the correction Of our direction. We must empower ourselves We must stand together For there is power in unity And failure in division We can't continue to live in foolishness By indulging the chameleon's greediness And enduring his insults in silence. If there is a time to rise up in unity It is now If there is a time to do the needful It is now Sleep and slumber no more For that is for fools I'm nobody's fool... © 2018 Busola S. Kolade
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The heart is weak now, It's shameful of seeing your face It's screaming out loud, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME? DON'T YOU THINK I NEED A REST TOO?" The smokes and flames bursting out through its pores shows the horrible mid-condition that the heart was in It's poor soul trying to express its feelings with the gasp of its last breathe So weak now, so feeble now, so alone now, so rejected now Why have you treated me so badly, the heart was humbly and meekly portraying As I take my mandatory and needful rest now I want no goodbyes, and no "I should have treated my heart with love and tender cares" I just want to be alone now as I bleed and melt up to the point of my last breathe and then will you see and feel me no longer
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 6:45 PM UTC
A Weary Heart
the anthem of an empty soul a shell crammed full in nothingness absolutely nil to this choral tune vacancy's note played by one sole pan there's a humdrum to its pitch packing's plump the missing ingredient always with an absence of ingredient starved was this emaciated soul not having the richest cloven pitch inside infinite quantities of nothingness ever the void sound to its pan a totally scooped out dull tune zero being in the husk of the tune this cavernous space possessing no ingredient like that of a dead hearted pan as it had but the blankest soul completely useless this bare nothingness lacking of an ample vessel's pitch such was the hopelessness to the pitch its essence so poorly of tune deprived this barren nothingness the inner pith hollow of ingredient all taken from the lifeless soul where they'd be a destitute pan an aimless chord in the pan containing not a wholeness of pitch the desert abiding without soul insolvency was its lasting tune so hungering for that ingredient to quell the wretched nothingness an interior gulf replete in nothingness needful of feeding with a brimming pan craving much for the ingredient that ever opulent barrow of pitch a human warbling a pitiful tune this ballad so dismal of soul ingredient not present, a vast nothingness soul much overloaded, in an unfurnished pan pitch harping the strains, of a unfilled tune
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Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 9:03 PM UTC
The Anthem Of An Empty Soul (Sestina)
I lay myself open to you... Like a thumb worn novel aspiring to be a classical romance... coming off as a cheap dime store rag My lines less Tennyson and Shelley more Micky Spillani yet feel the warmth of each page once pressed against my aching breast for it heard my needful heart tasted my tears Read between the lines find the nervous boy behind the man all fingers and thumbs typing out words his Tongue could never speak Each comma each fullstop an anxious drawn out breath... as I thought of you discarding me in pursuit of passion yet know the foreword and the photograph do no justice to my ache for you to find me there amongst the metaphors waiting... for you alone to know the real me.
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 11:35 PM UTC
Cracked Spine. (a love poem)
Obscene as war is, none must ever forget that poppy-red stands for the human blood shed. Remembered, the fallen who fought in a war, the red poppy reminds what they thought it was for. Observance with poppies, each one a life, given for freedom, as the means to end strife. Precious the poppy-red, needful the time lest we, forgetful, miss their reason as prime.
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 11:21 AM UTC
Poppy Red.
A small needful fact Is that 98% of women Do not look like fashion models. 100% of American children Are being lied to everyday Told they are not normal Told there is something wrong with them. Another needful fact: More than two million women More than eight hundred thousand men Are bulimic Add, subtract, multiply, divide Any way you try to solve the problem It still exists like a parasite. If any girl, boy, child, man, woman Wants to escape these images Running with cupped ears in the other direction Hoping to save themselves It follows them, rank with the smell of sewage It is the ghost in the closet Television set Store aisle Telling them they are not good enough They cannot escape the lies so dense Even their inner most breath Is hot with deception And so, even the most basic function of breathing Becomes challenging. Until we replace poison with water Brokenness with holiness Lies with truthfulness These seemingly sorrowful statistics Will never quite add up.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 10:13 AM UTC
A Little Math for You