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"nineveh" poems
Mr Jonah was sent to Nineveh He head out but took a detour Now in the belly of the beast. Mr Jonah cannot change things overnight Says his town's men Who will Carry or move anything Without power? Obviously no one, so we need power They also said; That's not possible overnight. Our palm oil is dry No groundnut oil to fry Nobody is buying our powerful oil Yet we have to sell before we boil If we don't sell something We will not eat anything. Our children are misbehaving Is this the future we are saving? Will Mr Jonah build a place Full of tutors? Well,that's not possible overnight Cows everywhere Is there no one to check these cows? Mr check cow is busy Burning our farms and farmers Mr Jonah cannot stop Mr check cow Not overnight. 365 days make a year How many years make an overnight? The writer coughs; 6 years makes one night. Wait o, is 6years overnight?
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 4:41 AM UTC
Six years a night
Everything works better in the cold. The vacuum of space fuels perfection, zero point energy yielding limitless. Orbital and quantum mechanics, these mysteries of ordered chaos, the compression of external combustion that defies and evades physics, were solved and forgotten long ago. Humans invented time to measure everything, but now don't know what the numbers mean. The Nineveh Number has lost its purpose, much like we have lost its meaning.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nov 13, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
Preceding Aquarius
God of our fathers, known of old— Lord of our far-flung battle line— Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies— The Captains and the Kings depart— Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called our navies melt away— On dune and headland sinks the fire— Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe— Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron shard— All valiant dust that builds on dust, And guarding calls not Thee to guard. For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord! Amen.
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Recessional (A Victorian Ode)
All this criticism, persecution, Hatred, scorn, Thrown towards us, Two women, Two men, Immoral relationship they say, Against God's word, That's not the way He wanted it, But one woman, two men, Two women, one man, Nothing's wrong with that, 16 year old teenage girl sleeping with the married man, Nothing's said about them, And if something's said, it's done in whispers, Rumshop or evening gossip, But me, Harsh words are thrown my way, No one cares about the tears they cause, But when the woman down the road slept with my ex-husband, I deserved it because I did not do enough to keep him, They say, But when I had a one night stand with the woman from the other town, Words were thrown my way, Why? Because when I have *** There's no product formed from the substrate, Or because when two products come together, there's no reaction, Othan than multiple ******* caused by erogenous pleasure, Or because I use toys, And you need none, Or is it because God made Adam and Eve, And destroyed ***** and Gomorrah, But he did not make Adam and Eve and the next door neighbour Steve, And last time I checked he was on the merge of destroying Nineveh. You say we destroy the definition of marriage or family, But the contraceptives you use contribute to Global Warming, Which sounds better? A home started by a relationship like mine, Or an Earth that's on the merge of dying? They say, That relationships like mine add nothing to society, But relationships like yours cause fatherless homes, Contributing to prostitution and gang wars, Or multiple abortions before the age of 25, Talking about my acts of erogenous pleasure causing no reaction, no creation, But relationships like yours cause abortions, Destruction of life, right in the middle of creation, You call it abortion I call it ****** Termination of life, So who's the criminal? But because of the sexuality placed upon me, I'm persecuted, I'm scrutinized, Verbally abused, And people like you are easily accepted, But don't forget, I'm the product of a heterosexual relationship.
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Jul 17, 2011
Jul 17, 2011 at 10:49 AM UTC
Don't judge based on Orientation
All this criticism, persecution, Hatred, scorn, Thrown towards us, Two women, Two men, Immoral relationship they say, Against God's word, That's not the way He wanted it, But one woman, two men, Two women, one man, Nothing's wrong with that, 16 year old teenage girl sleeping with the married man, Nothing's said about them, And if something's said, it's done in whispers, Rumshop or evening gossip, But me, Harsh words are thrown my way, No one cares about the tears they cause, But when the woman down the road slept with my ex-husband, I deserved it because I did not do enough to keep him, They say, But when I had a one night stand with the woman from the other town, Words were thrown my way, Why? Because when I have *** There's no product formed from the substrate, Or because when two products come together, there's no reaction, Othan than multiple ******* caused by erogenous pleasure, Or because I use toys, And you need none, Or is it because God made Adam and Eve, And destroyed ***** and Gomorrah, But he did not make Adam and Eve and the next door neighbour Steve, And last time I checked he was on the merge of destroying Nineveh. You say we destroy the definition of marriage or family, But the contraceptives you use contribute to Global Warming, Which sounds better? A home started by a relationship like mine, Or an Earth that's on the merge of dying? They say, That relationships like mine add nothing to society, But relationships like yours cause fatherless homes, Contributing to prostitution and gang wars, Or multiple abortions before the age of 25, Talking about my acts of erogenous pleasure causing no reaction, no creation, But relationships like yours cause abortions, Destruction of life, right in the middle of creation, You call it abortion I call it ****** Termination of life, So who's the criminal? But because of the sexuality placed upon me, I'm persecuted, I'm scrutinized, Verbally abused, And people like you are easily accepted, But don't forget, I'm the product of a heterosexual relationship.
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JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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Always the Mob
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock and dropped off and down into the sea: a mob. The sheep on the hills of Australia, blundering fourfooted in the sunset mist to the dark, they go one way, they hunt one sleep, they find one pocket of grass for all. Karnak? Pyramids? Sphinx paws tall as a coolie? Tombs kept for kings and sacred cows? A mob. Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob. The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan. Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dragons in China: each a mob on the rim of a sunrise: hammers and wagons have them now. Locks and gates of Panama? The Union Pacific crossing deserts and tunneling mountains? The Woolworth on land and the Titanic at sea? Lighthouses blinking a coast line from Labrador to Key West? Pigiron bars piled on a barge whistling in a fog off Sheboygan? A mob: hammers and wagons have them to-morrow. The mob? A typhoon tearing loose an island from thousand-year moorings and bastions, shooting a volcanic ash with a fire tongue that licks up cities and peoples. Layers of worms eating rocks and forming loam and valley floors for potatoes, wheat, watermelons. The mob? A jag of lightning, a geyser, a gravel mass loosening... The mob ... kills or builds ... the mob is Attila or Ghengis Khan, the mob is Napoleon, Lincoln. I am born in the mob-I die in the mob-the same goes for you-I don't care who you are. I cross the sheets of fire in No Man's land for you, my brother-I slip a steel tooth into your throat, you my brother-I die for you and I **** you-It is a twisted and gnarled thing, a crimson wool: One more arch of stars, In the night of our mist, In the night of our tears.
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#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
Sabean Inscription
#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Weakly Devotional
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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I LOCKE sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. II Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth. Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh.
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Fragments
Somewhere, it seems as if the hidden, almost Apocryphal-smelling locks of Life are starting to open again; hunger and greedy thirst are following in its wake. The human shadows, like walnut kernels, carefully peel the rarely revealed one-essence from the slave back, as if everyone is waiting for the deliberate fall of their unsuspecting victims. Like tiger claws, the scornful sins of rejections and unworthy attitudes bite a person one after another, with which he can hardly do anything. Because the World would crush everyone sympathetically a little, if it did not watch in readiness forever, as if a buzzing ant swarm penetrated the networks of blood vessels unnoticed. Because sooner or later, the mere Soul also rebels against its servant, the gaping of its instincts becomes arrhythmic. Even now, in a dazed stupor, this city with the smell of Nineveh slumbers like a drunken beast, which - it may seem - denies itself a little in exchange for petty, flattering benefits at every age, its compromising actions come face to face with man, and everything reveals how much easier it would have been to act differently, in a different way. - In the grimace-games of dimples, the age histories of wrinkles get stuck halfway, which tell of shipwrecked childhoods... Something still rings better in a holey bag, and something just rings like a sound; making a big deal has become fashionable, just like unadorned, provocative ****** so that the number of viewers always brings the daily quota profit, the grass of innocence, like some unknown marijuana derivative, always rots. It may seem impossible to walk the peaks of silence that have become songless.
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Sep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM UTC
THE LEAKY ROTATIONS OF NINEVEIN-LIFE
Somewhere, it seems as if the hidden, almost Apocryphal-smelling locks of Life are starting to open again; hunger and greedy thirst are following in its wake. The human shadows, like walnut kernels, carefully peel the rarely revealed one-essence from the slave back, as if everyone is waiting for the deliberate fall of their unsuspecting victims. Like tiger claws, the scornful sins of rejections and unworthy attitudes bite a person one after another, with which he can hardly do anything. Because the World would crush everyone sympathetically a little, if it did not watch in readiness forever, as if a buzzing ant swarm penetrated the networks of blood vessels unnoticed. Because sooner or later, the mere Soul also rebels against its servant, the gaping of its instincts becomes arrhythmic. Even now, in a dazed stupor, this city with the smell of Nineveh slumbers like a drunken beast, which - it may seem - denies itself a little in exchange for petty, flattering benefits at every age, its compromising actions come face to face with man, and everything reveals how much easier it would have been to act differently, in a different way. - In the grimace-games of dimples, the age histories of wrinkles get stuck halfway, which tell of shipwrecked childhoods... Something still rings better in a holey bag, and something just rings like a sound; making a big deal has become fashionable, just like unadorned, provocative ****** so that the number of viewers always brings the daily quota profit, the grass of innocence, like some unknown marijuana derivative, always rots. It may seem impossible to walk the peaks of silence that have become songless.
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There was a man of old, Jonah was his name God gave this man a message, Doom he would proclaim - Jonah didn’t want to go…to Nineveh he’s sent If Jehovah says…there’s no argument - "Yet forty days then Doom"…so did Jonah cry Nineveh repented, spared Judgment from on High - Think this a story, just a ferry tail? Doom is coming to this land, you will weep and howl and wail - Nineveh repented, this nation sure will not You should have learned should have learned, learned what Jonah taught
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 3:47 AM UTC
Jonah
I’ll mimic Matterhorn or the worn ways we window gaze and swipe left or turn right on the green light of another cliche If you swear gray is all the shades you’ll put on lamps to match the grayscale duvet Then catch me if you cat o’ nine tails a swallowed whale, We swear with chapped lips a waterworn promise Maybe the Amish had it right and we’re a little bit snobbish. I’ll Jack O’Lantern your etch-a-sketch erotica, Not much scarier, these days, trick or treat. Q-tips got your tongue? I’ll Question where you Came From 4 as long i Chan. You don’t leave the house anymore except for groceries. Catch me if you cat o’ nine tails a swallowed whale, Nineveh won’t wait, it’s time to break bread with danger and death.
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Jan 17, 2021
Jan 17, 2021 at 11:55 PM UTC
An aggressive poem pointed towards a couple different things that aggravate me
The spiraling snakes would now like to devour the entire World; nuclear fission may increase the actual value of mortalities in the eyes of "some" - of course as unnecessary collateral losses -, a white condensation trail inevitably passes over a person's head, left by some luxury private plane while reaching Earth orbit. The rule of the constantly suspicious sentries that remain open still returns now and then. At the last moment, perhaps after five hundred years, the Cyclops-brained titans enriched with testosterone, who have deliberately forgotten the proper manners, the conditions of behavioral codes, the eloquent ins and outs of compliments, will also become extinct; anniversary rings are driven through broken or white diamond wedding rings, because fewer and fewer of them can only truly experience the feelings of the Universe, which alone reside unnoticed in the depths of beating hearts. They grow respectable beer bellies not only It's pounding, but it's quite a lot, gentlemen Pál Pató, and while the great gentleman's party-dario, bolsoly-babysitter is going on, it's as if everyone is no longer able to bear the enriched, concentrated half-hearted appearance-happiness. - The city of Nineveh, which has long surrendered to partying, is thus becoming an increasingly sinkable Atlantis, a tiny island of nowhere, which at any moment - if they're not careful - can be swept away by the moving Danube. It would be better to head straight in the opposite, more vulnerable directions, because now everyone is considered a bit of a good actor in fair-boy comedies; what is failure and success at the same time was actually a lesson and a make-up exam! One day - in any case - he will be forced to take off his mask and become a shameless clown!
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Sep 24, 2025
Sep 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM UTC
SPIRAL VOID
The spiraling snakes would now like to devour the entire World; nuclear fission may increase the actual value of mortalities in the eyes of "some" - of course as unnecessary collateral losses -, a white condensation trail inevitably passes over a person's head, left by some luxury private plane while reaching Earth orbit. The rule of the constantly suspicious sentries that remain open still returns now and then. At the last moment, perhaps after five hundred years, the Cyclops-brained titans enriched with testosterone, who have deliberately forgotten the proper manners, the conditions of behavioral codes, the eloquent ins and outs of compliments, will also become extinct; anniversary rings are driven through broken or white diamond wedding rings, because fewer and fewer of them can only truly experience the feelings of the Universe, which alone reside unnoticed in the depths of beating hearts. They grow respectable beer bellies not only It's pounding, but it's quite a lot, gentlemen Pál Pató, and while the great gentleman's party-dario, bolsoly-babysitter is going on, it's as if everyone is no longer able to bear the enriched, concentrated half-hearted appearance-happiness. - The city of Nineveh, which has long surrendered to partying, is thus becoming an increasingly sinkable Atlantis, a tiny island of nowhere, which at any moment - if they're not careful - can be swept away by the moving Danube. It would be better to head straight in the opposite, more vulnerable directions, because now everyone is considered a bit of a good actor in fair-boy comedies; what is failure and success at the same time was actually a lesson and a make-up exam! One day - in any case - he will be forced to take off his mask and become a shameless clown!
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Mommy lying next to my children, All three fast asleep, Not before I had shared with them a story. During the brightness of the day I had lied in the shadow of a tree, The thought of Adam in the Garden of Eden came to me. No houses. No cars. No airplanes. No television. No computers. No phones! Just the animals on land and in the sea, God and Adam and... Then came Eve. That came to an abrupt end when they ate of the forbidden fruit talked into by that snake! As if that was not enough Cain did away with Abel! Many years went by from Noah to Abraham to Jonah, Whom God commanded to demand repentance from Nineveh. Reluctantly is an understatement, But nonetheless reluctantly Jonah did so, Not before he supplicated to God in the belly of the beast for... You know the story! More years went by to a time when a Persian king forbade a man to communicate with thee Almighty. That man did so openly only to repose with the lions and an angel. I speak, of course, of Daniel! I moved time along for mommy and my two children to the time of the God man, He who was obedient to the very death on a tree and rose in three! Mommy lying next to my children, All three fast asleep before me, Now the lamp is off and the nightlight is on, May the one who is our all in all protect thee!
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 11:45 AM UTC
The Bedtime Story
Ancient scenes carved in stone Show us the beards of Babylon - Land-locked and mythic In the fertile crescent of desert rivers, Their reliefs find the ancient faces Adorned with the finest groomed beards in antiquity - In the ruins of Nineveh and Ur, Crowned heads hold distinctive locks - Shared by the flowing chins - All with strands of coils - Long and barrel-thick - Braided together with skills they discovered In the ether of unwritten history. Depictions of kings fighting their legendary battles - Frozen in the stiff stills of chosen poses - Storyboarded for an anticipated future - The deeds are incomplete as found - Damaged by time and jealous men - And all I remember are the beards. Winged Annunaki standing tall, Hold strange repose inside a wall - Buried for centuries since they stood, Amongst scattered tools of stone and wood - Their legs are spread in a conical stance - Their elbows and wrists were bent in a dance - Fingers cupped around an oblong cone - Each pointed towards ears of a supplicant one - While the arms at their sides hold a bag by a strap, Only dreams can provide the meanings they map - One scene is carved with all human faces - Where the beards are thick with fully coiled laces, But another variation of a similar scene, Show Annunaki faces that a bird would preen - With bulbous eyes and curved hawk-like beaks, Where beards won't grow, on bas reliefs. Mysteries may follow damaged relics of the past, But the Babylonian beards will always last. Ad infinitum. Ad astra.
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC
Babylon Beards
Ancient scenes carved in stone Show us the beards of Babylon - Land-locked and mythic In the fertile crescent of desert rivers, Their reliefs find the ancient faces Adorned with the finest groomed beards in antiquity - In the ruins of Nineveh and Ur, Crowned heads hold distinctive locks - Shared by the flowing chins - All with strands of coils - Long and barrel-thick - Braided together with skills they discovered In the ether of unwritten history. Depictions of kings fighting their legendary battles - Frozen in the stiff stills of chosen poses - Storyboarded for an anticipated future - The deeds are incomplete as found - Damaged by time and jealous men - And all I remember are the beards. Winged Annunaki standing tall, Hold strange repose inside a wall - Buried for centuries since they stood, Amongst scattered tools of stone and wood - Their legs are spread in a conical stance - Their elbows and wrists were bent in a dance - Fingers cupped around an oblong cone - Each pointed towards ears of a supplicant one - While the arms at their sides hold a bag by a strap, Only dreams can provide the meanings they map - One scene is carved with all human faces - Where the beards are thick with fully coiled laces, But another variation of a similar scene, Show Annunaki faces that a bird would preen - With bulbous eyes and curved hawk-like beaks, Where beards won't grow, on bas reliefs. Mysteries may follow damaged relics of the past, But the Babylonian beards will always last. Ad infinitum. Ad astra.
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After Jonah got out of the whale, he went to the city of Nineveh and warned the Ninevites. He told them that God was going to destroy them because they weren't doing what was right. God was going to destroy them in forty days because of the evil they had done in the present and the past. The King heeded the warning and he and everybody else covered themselves with sackcloth and began to fast. The Ninevites turned from their evil ways after they were warned. God saw that they had changed and he was no longer scorned. God spared the Ninevites because they were no longer unfit. Jehovah isn't a harsh God and that sure did prove it.
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM UTC
Jonah and The Ninevites
Love, trust, the color of the sky after you give it a name, simple because it's not, just words you live outside of, somewhere a sentence can't reach. Castle girl, rapunzel rapunzel, let me down gently, the crocodiles in the moat, each word, a yellowing tooth. Will you pry open the door? Crowbar to the problem and the sweat beading at your temples? Escape means nothing. 3 days, 3 nights, the world swallowed me up and spit me out, thinking I'd learned my lesson, slitting my wrists on the road to nineveh. I pray to god all night. I shout at god all night. I cry to god all night. Why does this dark eat at me, the days like lead in my chest? I pray to god, prey to god, the silence that carried me into november and the thought planted in the back of my mind: maybe I deserve this.
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Nov 2, 2017
Nov 2, 2017 at 6:35 PM UTC
nineveh
**Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful , full of booty -- no end to the plunder! The crack of whip and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! Horsemen charging , flashing sword and glittering spear, piles of dead, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end --- they stumble over the bodies! Because of the countless debaucheries of the ********** gracefully alluring , mistress of sorcery, who enslaves ! nations through her debaucheries, and peoples through her sorcery, I am against you,says the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness. and kingdoms on your shame. I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle. Then all who see you will shrink from you and say, "Nineveh is devastated, who will bemoan her?" Where shall I seek comforters for you?**
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Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016 at 6:53 AM UTC
RUIN IMMINENT AND INEVITABLE
It was the way she looked at me when I first met her Her eyes had a dangerous calmness  They were like the big ocean under the clear blue sky An unending expanse of beauty with the sun dancing playfully on her waves Even the wind blew silently as if to not awake her from her afternoon nap. If Jonah had sailed across, I bet he would have continued to Nineveh. I always wondered what it would feel like to swim across  through the stillness And feel the layers of water caress my skin as I listen to the warmth of the music from her waves. Or what it would feel like to dive into the cradle of her very depth And see the beauty that she held within, hidden safely from the fangs of the outside world. I wanted to see what would make her dance like a mad woman in the market square Or what would rile her and set her off like a whirlwind in the desert. But, i am a shy man and i could not hold her gaze. ©Maathe
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Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022 at 3:35 PM UTC
Path To Nineveh
Perhaps the always Faithful Mirror has already become a Traitor; the structure of movements and faces does not show only the essence struck by the stamp! We cross the stage and bravely defy danger on board decaying boards! Secrets are still hidden in the degree of surprise minutes and waiting for suitable eruptions! It is the deserving shadow of happiness that is happening in us! - The smile-tear clown bathes his face in a silent moon mirror! "Indifferent and idiot-producing phlegmatism greets you!" The disgust of our selfish concealment can easily settle on others; to the smell of our prey overwhelmed by success-seeking breakers; how long does the silly age of hungarians go on?! Prophets would already flee Nineveh because their bribed mission had become angry! ********** Angels like killing knives, spoiled knife-spoons and broken refractions! Everyone is laying their cages more and more, because Happiness always takes another hard-to-heal wounds; indelible stigma! Fence, Slut-In time, the final maze path can also be easily solved: Start s End in front of the same gate often that's why we stumble! Wells that are overzealous on our bitter, unhappy faces are hanging True Pearls! "We should have deliberately escaped this sensational, continuous squirrel wheel world!" A broken World is behind us! As a hesitant lamb, anyone among the hordes can tear apart; we walk the field of our existence as orphaned wanderers; in our throats the redeeming Death throbs…
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Feb 26, 2021
Feb 26, 2021 at 2:33 AM UTC
Falling return
To Nineveh was sent, a Prophet of the Lord Yet 40 days then Doom, you'll receive your just reward - Nineveh repented, spared Judgement from On High That was then and this is now, you can still hear Jonah's cry - Repent this nation won't, so get ready to be burned In atomic fire you'll die, Jonah's message you have spurned - And after you're done burning, from the Fire of the Bomb You will burn in Hell forever, and I won't have a qualm
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 5:10 AM UTC
Yet 40 Days...
If I were to gather my courage I would gladly be comforted among the rose petals of my lips; the cherished Universe, as a kind, caring Mother, would extend her sacrificial arms for me and comfort her with her kisses! Our wonderful words would wander into our eyes in the tunnels of secret telepathies; phenomenally laughing stars! "I know I'm still strangely ridiculous today, and yet the eccentric inertia of men in love as men in love;" I would protect myself from self-damaging disappointments and yet cling to the tropical atmosphere of love tendrils!   In the selfish depths of my childish soul, patience is wasting patience! Thinned hugs revolve around Procrustean beds, like notched knives! Disturbed innermost compulsion is chasing me to confess with open mouths of surprise to many who thought they were not even known! "Pebbles of stars stared into the black water of my eyes!" - Silence will be a white spot! In my weeded life, I match myself; the transient Time stretches itself to the bone wings of heaven as a victim! Every kiss will show golden figs, I just haven't noticed so far?   As the rootless flower, the moon is in the water of the sky! The dream stumbles at the moment of imaginary surprise plans, and blinded rainbows run at the crossroads! Toothless traps make this ********** Laugh laugh! - Crushed silence anesthetized for a long time, even the Humpback of Humanity! Under the stepping, half-silver shadow of the Moon surrounds the unbearable visions of the Future of Nineveh.
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Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021 at 3:03 AM UTC
Uncertainty
If I were to gather my courage I would gladly be comforted among the rose petals of my lips; the cherished Universe, as a kind, caring Mother, would extend her sacrificial arms for me and comfort her with her kisses! Our wonderful words would wander into our eyes in the tunnels of secret telepathies; phenomenally laughing stars! "I know I'm still strangely ridiculous today, and yet the eccentric inertia of men in love as men in love;" I would protect myself from self-damaging disappointments and yet cling to the tropical atmosphere of love tendrils!   In the selfish depths of my childish soul, patience is wasting patience! Thinned hugs revolve around Procrustean beds, like notched knives! Disturbed innermost compulsion is chasing me to confess with open mouths of surprise to many who thought they were not even known! "Pebbles of stars stared into the black water of my eyes!" - Silence will be a white spot! In my weeded life, I match myself; the transient Time stretches itself to the bone wings of heaven as a victim! Every kiss will show golden figs, I just haven't noticed so far?   As the rootless flower, the moon is in the water of the sky! The dream stumbles at the moment of imaginary surprise plans, and blinded rainbows run at the crossroads! Toothless traps make this ********** Laugh laugh! - Crushed silence anesthetized for a long time, even the Humpback of Humanity! Under the stepping, half-silver shadow of the Moon surrounds the unbearable visions of the Future of Nineveh.
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God came upon Jonah one night in a dream said, " preach against Ninevah It's sins i have seen" God's spirit went one way but Johna the other he jumped on a boat and hid under cover The seas got much bigger as black thunder roared the crew found out Johna he was tossed over board As Johna was drowning he cried to the Lord " please God save me for it's you I adore " God showed his compassion and sent a big whale that swallowed up Jonna and to Nineveh kicked tail Three days & three nights the big fish did swim it's belly full of cargo Johna praying within The lord heard his prayers & gave a command then up spat ole Johna onto the dry land God said again , " go to Ninveh and preach , that city full of people my grace wants to reach " So forward went Johna to warn of God's wrath and just as he feared they turned from sins path Those people weren't Hebrew so Johna was jealous that his God would save a city so rebellious Then God spoke to Johna in the heat of the day " you care more for shade than sins washed away " " why be greedy with me ? I'm a saviour for all don't put me in boxes never run from my call " " so when that day comes that I ask you to go don't be like ole Johna and pull a no show " " but be like that whale that was ready to kick tail " LPConvey2014
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Mar 10, 2016
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:42 AM UTC
Johna
We are the Music-makers And we are the dreamers of dreams Wondering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams World-losers and World-forsakers Upon whom the pale moon gleams Yet we are the movers and shakers Or the world forever it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the worlds great cities And out of a fabulous story We fashion an Empires glory One man with a dream, at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new songs measure Can trample an empire down. We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth Built Nineveh with our sighing And Babel itself with our minds And O'er-threw them with our prophesying To the old of the new world's worth For each age is a dream that is dying Or one that is coming to birth .
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 1:48 PM UTC
.Life Struggles.