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"onyx" poems
The burning flowers underline the sunset and  Dash before the fire (k)night catches them. Ripe berries cheaply tremble  but hopefully their vitality won't burst the pulp pulsating beneath. Crumbling flowers crumb the floor And Prisms of catching silver refract rose quartz and petal and crimson dust. Bejewelled in Scarlet, the air, as the (k)night approaches, grows colder, Unsure of whether he will bring solace or strife. In his chariot he flies faster than the bees which buzzed around the fruit flutes in the morning and among the trumpeting bluebells. Stars fleck the (k)night like freckles and the milky ways resins stain his spouting steams lovely.  The (k)nights kind onyx reaches his crescendo and the floating moon danced drowsily through the cloud's spiralled tendrils Which diminish as dawn approaches so their Tentilcles droop to crinkled tissue paper sheathed in pink. And so the (k)night rides on into The frivolous sunrise. The lowing, glossy calves in sage beside the ***** fields cast a beloved ambience  As though we are safe in the knowledge that the sky will remain forever topaz and the leaves forever emerald.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 4:05 AM UTC
The (k)night
live life in warm yellows when the sky is a dark gray and the clouds are a loveless black live life in light pinks when the trees are dying browns and the flowers are wilting ebonys live life in bright blues when the waters are a wild taupe and the sand is a rough onyx live life in the colors of life; for life is exquisite but to see such radiance and beauty, one must be appreciative and live life in warm yellows reds, oranges, greens, blues, indigos, and violets. life is full of color, but one must be able see that to truly enjoy living
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 6:38 PM UTC
live life in warm yellows
As the voice of a dead man might sing From the depths of his tomb, For you, Mistress, my tuneless voice rings False in my heart’s catacomb. Open your soul and hear the knell Of my mandolin strings: This song I wrote, for you, which tells Of cruel and childish things. I will sing of your eyes, onyx and gold, Purged of every shadow, Then the Lethe of your breast, the cold Styx of your hair’s dark flow. As the voice of a dead man might sing From the depths of his tomb, For you, Mistress, my tuneless voice rings False in my heart’s catacomb. Then I will praise, above all Flesh that heaven did bless Whose opulent perfumes recall Nights long and sleepless. Finally, I will speak of the kiss Of your sweet red lip, Oh, how my martyrdom is bliss, – My angel! – My Whip! Open your soul and hear the knell Of my mandolin strings: This song I wrote, for you, which tells Of cruel and childish things.
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 10:01 AM UTC
Translation: Serenade (Verlaine)
in the heart of the night a slice of moonlight cascading beckoned i rouse its mesmerizing lure gently stirs a hazy remembrance entranced from shadows i emerge hearkening its echo you’re dreaming awaken its shimmering light engulfed me prying open my stubborn eyes in the onyx darkness its silver glow enticed me outside i stood silent whilst glistening dewdrops danced on my toes a sterling lunar crescent enlightening midnight softly serenades me wake up life’s a trance you’re hypnotized mesmerized in an ocean of emptiness i heard a celestial orb calling and ne’er slept again ©2016janetaylor
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May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016 at 7:23 AM UTC
the moon serenades me
Corpses proliferate in soaring violence; heirloom of franchise and eminence— perish in erosion. Timid denizens of derision, cynicism in roaring silence — optimism’s paling vapor—commodity of Indecision, our halcyon days forgotten. Chosen token of audacity; the onyx maladroit feigns, prevaricating beneath the Sacred canopy. Etudes of apathy; attrition unlamented; streams of guile— quixotic squall conversely merge — veiled conceit, eloquent arrow of equivocation. The policy of attenuation. Treason’s vine obscured beneath the blind surf of consent. © 2014 & 2016 W. S. Warner
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
Attenuation
I carried life yet did not live until, from blood and darkness came a light that only God could give from sacrificial flesh and pain. For broken nights and restive days of drifting into starry skies hours, weeks, lifetimes I’d stay daydreaming in your onyx eyes. To look upon my face in prayer with worship in your smile so pure as if the holy land was here in my arms forevermore.
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 12:21 AM UTC
First Born
**VALENTINE'S DAY Bright Eyes** A touch of brilliance in the eye Like aged whiskey in a glass Like peridot and emerald Crystophase, oh lass! O lad! How we do gaze At the pupils, aye! Shining, black as onyx The apple of the eye! How we do gaze at the pool Who could know the depth Of pleasure it illicits The mystical lure of *** Perhaps the lovely iris Is a dark ceurilian blue But the open pupil invites in and says I love you! SoulSurvivor (C) 2/14/2014 Rewritten 2/14/2015
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 1:25 PM UTC
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*Tie yourself to those who fly Aspire the vivid in our onyx sky Rid the negative Utilise the prime Be dynamic and spiritual In all of your time.* Amanda. F (c) 2017
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Feb 4, 2017
Feb 4, 2017 at 6:14 AM UTC
Onyx Sky
*hitherto i naively challenged my decision to enter an ominous existence a vicious maze veiled in obscurity inconceivable to navigate without the accumulation of bruises, heartache, and psychic mutilation the torment’s ache so unfathomable i begged to evaporate beseeching death’s arrival and with the dexterity of a masterful wizard i magically spun threads of my shredded soul into a mangled ball of mental lacerations then stealthily in the opaque of the night i rushed the frigid black ocean’s high tide and deluging myself in the ebony water i buried the battered ball now deeply eclipsed in the onyx abyss it sapped all my strength to hold it under drowning in the wave’s of sea motion stinging salt alive on my pours gasping for air i surrendered my grip releasing my marred orb of élan vital capitulating to the sand on the beach i ceded the fight and watched the sphere roll unraveling it glistened against the white sand an opalescent tapestry lit by twilight mirroring the stars against the coal sky in the lustrous lunar midnight reflected back by silver moonlight littered with specks of fluorescent insight astonished i drew in my breath as i read words interlaced in the untangled web the wounds are there creating a looking glass peer in and you will heal your own consciousness ©2016janetaylor
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 8:06 AM UTC
looking glass
She walked through the streets in her shimmering dress that hugged her skin as if part of her being. Speaking in tongue misunderstood by thought she stared not at you but within you as if she was gauging the purity of your inner grace. "What's a pretty girl like you doing alone? "Where did you fall from, One goaded, smiling she replied, "I fell a long way down, "Dii me ridere, [loosely translated] "The gods are laughing at me? She smirks at those in plentiful urgency to expel what time they have on tribal necessities. Wondering into a alleyway she had a few to choose from but this one barely lit. The spider and the fly came to mind, but who was in the web and who was but a husk waiting to decay? "Lady you going to have a bad night, "Bad night, try bad millennium you apes make me laugh, "Who you calling ape woman? *"Lets see your hairy, you smell, and you scrape your hand on the ground, no sorry ape is to good for you organisms,* Her dress seems to separate and he hair lengthens to hide modest of a body of perfection. before there eyes is an angel but her feathers are as onyx as coal. "See my true from, As screams bathe the walls and wisps of smoke ascend not to heaven but fade in the wind. Eyes are charred echoes of where sight Was blessed now eroded into husks of nothingness. *"Silly little things, when will they learn that there are things in the night you shouldn't play with,* Walking out of the alley a smile on her face, she hadn't had that much fun in a while. Scorching a soul wasn't fun but they weren't worthy of it any way. Now she was off to see what this nice little black number would help to get a free drink or two.
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Jun 25, 2016
Jun 25, 2016 at 2:46 PM UTC
Angel In A Black Dress
She walked through the streets in her shimmering dress that hugged her skin as if part of her being. Speaking in tongue misunderstood by thought she stared not at you but within you as if she was gauging the purity of your inner grace. "What's a pretty girl like you doing alone? "Where did you fall from, One goaded, smiling she replied, "I fell a long way down, "Dii me ridere, [loosely translated] "The gods are laughing at me? She smirks at those in plentiful urgency to expel what time they have on tribal necessities. Wondering into a alleyway she had a few to choose from but this one barely lit. The spider and the fly came to mind, but who was in the web and who was but a husk waiting to decay? "Lady you going to have a bad night, "Bad night, try bad millennium you apes make me laugh, "Who you calling ape woman? *"Lets see your hairy, you smell, and you scrape your hand on the ground, no sorry ape is to good for you organisms,* Her dress seems to separate and he hair lengthens to hide modest of a body of perfection. before there eyes is an angel but her feathers are as onyx as coal. "See my true from, As screams bathe the walls and wisps of smoke ascend not to heaven but fade in the wind. Eyes are charred echoes of where sight Was blessed now eroded into husks of nothingness. *"Silly little things, when will they learn that there are things in the night you shouldn't play with,* Walking out of the alley a smile on her face, she hadn't had that much fun in a while. Scorching a soul wasn't fun but they weren't worthy of it any way. Now she was off to see what this nice little black number would help to get a free drink or two.
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_Under smoldering red desert skies Earthquake-like tremors displace sand And giant gears pulling wide treads give rise To a towering, onyx colored machine of man. A scientific prophecy once foretold That the oceans and trees could be killed And in its toxic love of black gold Humanity granted this prophecy fulfilled. It used to warm our bodies and minds But now, our sun is something to fear Our lives and colossal machines combine And chances of survival remain unclear. For military rule has exploited Our natural will to fight and survive They’ve usurped us and anointed Themselves rulers of the inside. What’s left of our once great society Roams the Earth in onyx colored arcs Scientists try to return Earth’s sobriety As we wage war for oligarchs. Terrorism between 3 arcs ensues As each believes the one to solve The problem of an Earth abused Will become ruler by forceful resolve._
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Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 2:19 PM UTC
Our Grandchildren Are Dying in 2120
I love you dow        w            n to your jagged,          dark edges culling smoke                and twisting tides                   your steaming heart               that pulses, in my hands           as you give it- and the pungent tears when they fall          from your eyes I lick up your pain to soothe it smooth its rawness catching        velvet ripples of skin I pull a blanket of mahogany wine over your soul           lacerations that seep out               from the layers within and in that tender of nightfall's darkest foliage I long to calm your monsters' clawing as they gnaw at you from                   the inside out I crave to fill the hollowed-out longing my own hungers writhing       in obscene                       devout For I am all that is sacred and wild the spark has been lit from my innermost rooms I dance to the drums of the woman as child her mystical ways chanting rhythms in runes Demons might dance as you gaze in reflection in the mirror of time, of unfiltered space       but I adore all your sides,           your imperfections discern the divine in the planes of your face You are my galaxy               of dark matter bringing out my            own looking glass                          of vantablack in a feral crown of obsidian                              and onyx as you reach me deep, there's no going back For when you love me like that, plant your tameless,                             hot seed it blossoms within me a tightly-wrapped tourniquet                for when I bleed and if my guts should spill upon                the  floor you will remind me, in glowing of pores            of who I am and how I am whole a lovelight lit in the storm of my soul I will push down deeper until I feel those roots that connect me to my center   to my succulent fruit So slice me open.      Pull me apart. Let the juice run down to heal      your jagged-edged                heart
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM UTC
jagged-edged heart
I love you dow        w            n to your jagged,          dark edges culling smoke                and twisting tides                   your steaming heart               that pulses, in my hands           as you give it- and the pungent tears when they fall          from your eyes I lick up your pain to soothe it smooth its rawness catching        velvet ripples of skin I pull a blanket of mahogany wine over your soul           lacerations that seep out               from the layers within and in that tender of nightfall's darkest foliage I long to calm your monsters' clawing as they gnaw at you from                   the inside out I crave to fill the hollowed-out longing my own hungers writhing       in obscene                       devout For I am all that is sacred and wild the spark has been lit from my innermost rooms I dance to the drums of the woman as child her mystical ways chanting rhythms in runes Demons might dance as you gaze in reflection in the mirror of time, of unfiltered space       but I adore all your sides,           your imperfections discern the divine in the planes of your face You are my galaxy               of dark matter bringing out my            own looking glass                          of vantablack in a feral crown of obsidian                              and onyx as you reach me deep, there's no going back For when you love me like that, plant your tameless,                             hot seed it blossoms within me a tightly-wrapped tourniquet                for when I bleed and if my guts should spill upon                the  floor you will remind me, in glowing of pores            of who I am and how I am whole a lovelight lit in the storm of my soul I will push down deeper until I feel those roots that connect me to my center   to my succulent fruit So slice me open.      Pull me apart. Let the juice run down to heal      your jagged-edged                heart
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Capricorn ♑️ ~~~~~~~~ Capricornian don’t mind me. I can’t live as you. As you have the highest of standards always. Peridot,Garnets, Agate or Turquoise to wear Ruby’s grace a  beautiful young maidens hair. I can see the jewels in your eyes as you smile. Carnelian stones or Malachite for soul healing Or Jet ,Smokey Quartz or shiny Black Onyx. Red Garnets,Blue Aragonite,Green Tourmaline Nonsuch is the birth symbol ,graceful as thee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Written by Philip. December 19th 2018.
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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 2018 at 8:34 PM UTC
Capricorn ♑️ December 23 - January 20
She moves those hips hypnotically As she smiles through her slender long fingers Speaking with her big beautiful onyx-black eyes Ah, Will you just look at her grace? Her saree painted rich brass With amber brown motif on the edges Heavy indian anklets adorn her ankles Her skin so golden on which sunshine sketches. Glorious, every little move she makes Flamboyant, her mehendi feet, the way they part and meet All the energy any strong man can have, Reflected in her elegant femine beauty, sincere and discreet. Like a goddess, she holds her head high And showers you with her immortal blessings When she gets down the stage with a humble smile You'd exclaim "paradise on earth" with a sigh.
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 10:41 AM UTC
The Indian Dancer
Sleepy demon, close your eyes Hell's too warm for you to rest Soon someday you'll realize That I've always tried my best In my arms Quiet and cool The lights are dim The clouds are wool Stars on the ceiling Sparkling above us Your horns are pitch Obsidian and onyx Tired from fighting Lashes charred from flames Looking up from dark circles Sleepy one, have no shame My lips on your forehead As I watch your aura lift I love you, little demon I will let you drift
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Oct 16, 2021
Oct 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM UTC
Sleepy Demon
Her eyes shine like undisturbed dew drops hovering at the gentle fingertips of young moss on the northern bark of a white cedar tree under a lazy morning sun. Spear points of obsidian pierce the disc: banished from the core of a volcano scorched by a molten heart and choking on onyx soot. The dawn warmth filters through, carried by a serene and wafting breeze. It illuminates the pleasant, tickling greenery, bringing to light the depth of her irises. Fire belches from the mountain's stomach, and the flame ignites a gleam. Her gemstone eyes shine as though the embers have been captured within. At the base, there is the earth: firm and dark and cool. Interlocking underbrush layers fawn with chestnut overtaken but not undermined by powerful streaking tree trunks. The rim is built of force and rumbles with strength. A cast of bronze is seething and glowing. Her intensity blazes as sun spots deep within ancient amber. She is as her eyes are an indigo inferno: seldom and elegantly alive.
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Jun 15, 2014
Jun 15, 2014 at 3:07 AM UTC
Indigo Inferno
The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 8:20 PM UTC
I'll Glue This To The Drawing Of My Face
The truth is, I’m not really sure who I am. She told us to draw ourselves and then to draw our souls; so I drew my face scratched and uneven, just as I’ve always seen it, and frowned at the result both in the mirror and on the paper. The only soul I’ve ever really known was the one that shone through the strokes of the keys I punched, the scrawling of ink on paper in mismatched arrays of awkward thoughts, disorientated and unorganized, shaded different spews of emotion and rearranged through the lens of ever last viewer’s eye. Even so, this soul that is composed of words that defined me painted a picture vivid in its contrast, though blurry from both afar and close enough to squint, no details able to be made out. These words that have wrapped around my soul rubbed raw from the time my skin first flinched at the cool March air cannot be deciphered by their author, though I know somehow that their letters flowing into one another say more than any curve of my face ever could. These words are black and white, two extremes crafted in the pallet of the Universe’s toolshed, and perhaps that’s exactly what I am. Black or white. I’m dark and lost and scrounging for some rusting wall or tree branch to cling to as to ensure the shimmering waves, onyx and charcoal in their nature with the flow of blood in its spine, do not flood into my mouth at a rate in which is too quick to balance myself upon them, or, I’m white, drifting snow from a cloud scraping the vast expanse of brilliant blue gazing as a sky above all the world, pure, innocent, unscathed with the potential for creation in vibrancies yet unknown, or to be ripped to bits, scattered amongst piles of cream and autumn leaves drained of their color beneath months of shivering frost. And so, perhaps any physical representation of my being would be all wrong, because that’s not what I am. Myself, my soul, it resides in the murky depths of heights I’ve yet to discover, tethered endlessly and uncertain among the caverns of my inners, pink and mushy, stirred and ****** untouched from the harsh light of a world encased in brevity.
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Oizys, son From behind the leaves, I saw you, trembling In your presence, your power strengthening In the empty, midnight parking lot While the street lights hummed And moths danced around your illuminated frame You turned slowly, onyx eyes of shame And dirtied bare feet, male hair long and white The street lights flickered when you blinked and cried bitterly And I saw, for my first time, the eyes of Misery Achyls, daughter You were in an empty field No premonitions did you wield An ancient silo in the distance Leaning over a chasm black lamb Dark skinned, dressed in black robes With tribal painted face Digging earthen fingers into its black lace When you looked up, I saw your cloudy eyes Churning of a storm, cataract yet wise Your lamb had absent vapored eyeballs The Mist of Death made my skin crawl Hypnos, son Secluded in a cave by the sea A silent, empty place to be While gray waves crash into jetties The clouds gather in the distance Poppies at the mouth changing time in an instance I go in your palace and rub my cold skin For pulsing blue glows from deeper within You, a lanky youth, with thick brown hair and heavy eyes Sit there with a paper mask Illuminated by the penetrating glow In the center, surrounded by whale bones Humming a song I remember fondly You trapped me in your Dreams, singing lullabies softly Eris, daughter Violates a bedroom with utmost hate There are paintings of kings and statues of satyrs Pillows of silk and animals on the walls Usurping the gold clawed palace Silent but kicking and throwing with malice With black skin covered in a chalky white substance I peek through the crack in the mansion’s door Lips formed in a silent shout, you notice my presence Naked and bruised and plagued with no voice Suddenly stops and lays against a ****** wall Through your electric black hair And fiery red stare I witness a Child of Spite Woman of Strife Nyx, mother I am a crawling shadow of trees And wicked heart of night I am the wax on the cold leaves And the glow of the moon’s light
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Apr 30, 2011
Apr 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM UTC
Primordial Children of Nyx
Oizys, son From behind the leaves, I saw you, trembling In your presence, your power strengthening In the empty, midnight parking lot While the street lights hummed And moths danced around your illuminated frame You turned slowly, onyx eyes of shame And dirtied bare feet, male hair long and white The street lights flickered when you blinked and cried bitterly And I saw, for my first time, the eyes of Misery Achyls, daughter You were in an empty field No premonitions did you wield An ancient silo in the distance Leaning over a chasm black lamb Dark skinned, dressed in black robes With tribal painted face Digging earthen fingers into its black lace When you looked up, I saw your cloudy eyes Churning of a storm, cataract yet wise Your lamb had absent vapored eyeballs The Mist of Death made my skin crawl Hypnos, son Secluded in a cave by the sea A silent, empty place to be While gray waves crash into jetties The clouds gather in the distance Poppies at the mouth changing time in an instance I go in your palace and rub my cold skin For pulsing blue glows from deeper within You, a lanky youth, with thick brown hair and heavy eyes Sit there with a paper mask Illuminated by the penetrating glow In the center, surrounded by whale bones Humming a song I remember fondly You trapped me in your Dreams, singing lullabies softly Eris, daughter Violates a bedroom with utmost hate There are paintings of kings and statues of satyrs Pillows of silk and animals on the walls Usurping the gold clawed palace Silent but kicking and throwing with malice With black skin covered in a chalky white substance I peek through the crack in the mansion’s door Lips formed in a silent shout, you notice my presence Naked and bruised and plagued with no voice Suddenly stops and lays against a ****** wall Through your electric black hair And fiery red stare I witness a Child of Spite Woman of Strife Nyx, mother I am a crawling shadow of trees And wicked heart of night I am the wax on the cold leaves And the glow of the moon’s light
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She was like the iron pyrite The teacher asked them to examine, and describe; Cold, dense and prickly, Difficult to love. Given the right light And a gentle handling, Oh, how she'd sparkle, But in that place, expectations and sensory overload rendered her lumpen, and resistant. Removed from her books and her inner world - all she needed - And placed in a maelstrom, She was bewildered and forlorn. Un-cooperative, they called her, And the teachers loved the other gems instead, Pretty little nuggets; Ruby, Jasper, Jade. Two years of discouragement and dislike And even the tentative sparkles had darkened. The other gems enjoyed each other And moved away from her magnetic pull, sensing difference. No outright meanness, not yet, But hints were brewing, whispers had started And she wandered alone, in the playground, Talking to the seagulls, and singing to herself. The teachers only wanted conformity And called her parents to voice concern about her lack of friends. Had they asked her, allowed her to have a say She would have told them it didn't matter But they were determined that it did, to them, if not to her, And her parents were added to the burden of people Worried and disappointed, watching. She knew now, she was different, she had always known but never minded, Now it was a problem. She didn't fit, Like that scratchy purple uniform, around her chubby waist Food didn't judge, dislike or condemn. That life ended, and a new struggle, in a new school, began. This was harder; the meanness was apparent now, Difference wasn't tolerated And someone wandering alone was a target. She found a place to hide, behind a staircase, with a book, But they found her, removed her and patrolled her only refuge Forcing her to submit to the torture. Every day was a war zone, So she found another way, and embraced ill-health, stealthily Spraying deodorant directly into her own face induced asthma attacks; and not all those ear infections were real, She was an accomplished actress. She got through it, millions do. She found her own place, her own friends in her own time. Among Onyx, Jet and Tigers Eye Her darkness didn't mark her out as different, And all that fake illness Was great prep for theatre, Where she was able to return to her inner world, And no-one cared if you feigned madness Or embraced the real thing. Difference was celebrated, The whispers now, were that she had a great stage presence, And a talent to be nurtured, Not a difference to be despised.
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 4:35 AM UTC
The Girl who Talked to Seagulls
She was like the iron pyrite The teacher asked them to examine, and describe; Cold, dense and prickly, Difficult to love. Given the right light And a gentle handling, Oh, how she'd sparkle, But in that place, expectations and sensory overload rendered her lumpen, and resistant. Removed from her books and her inner world - all she needed - And placed in a maelstrom, She was bewildered and forlorn. Un-cooperative, they called her, And the teachers loved the other gems instead, Pretty little nuggets; Ruby, Jasper, Jade. Two years of discouragement and dislike And even the tentative sparkles had darkened. The other gems enjoyed each other And moved away from her magnetic pull, sensing difference. No outright meanness, not yet, But hints were brewing, whispers had started And she wandered alone, in the playground, Talking to the seagulls, and singing to herself. The teachers only wanted conformity And called her parents to voice concern about her lack of friends. Had they asked her, allowed her to have a say She would have told them it didn't matter But they were determined that it did, to them, if not to her, And her parents were added to the burden of people Worried and disappointed, watching. She knew now, she was different, she had always known but never minded, Now it was a problem. She didn't fit, Like that scratchy purple uniform, around her chubby waist Food didn't judge, dislike or condemn. That life ended, and a new struggle, in a new school, began. This was harder; the meanness was apparent now, Difference wasn't tolerated And someone wandering alone was a target. She found a place to hide, behind a staircase, with a book, But they found her, removed her and patrolled her only refuge Forcing her to submit to the torture. Every day was a war zone, So she found another way, and embraced ill-health, stealthily Spraying deodorant directly into her own face induced asthma attacks; and not all those ear infections were real, She was an accomplished actress. She got through it, millions do. She found her own place, her own friends in her own time. Among Onyx, Jet and Tigers Eye Her darkness didn't mark her out as different, And all that fake illness Was great prep for theatre, Where she was able to return to her inner world, And no-one cared if you feigned madness Or embraced the real thing. Difference was celebrated, The whispers now, were that she had a great stage presence, And a talent to be nurtured, Not a difference to be despised.
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It's oh in Paradise that I fain would be, Away from earth and weariness and all beside; Earth is too full of loss with its dividing sea, But Paradise upbuilds the bower for the bride. Where flowers are yet in bud while the boughs are green, I would get quit of earth and get robed for heaven; Putting on my raiment white within the screen, Putting on my crown of gold whose gems are seven Fair is the fourfold river that maketh no moan, Fair are the trees fruit-bearing of the wood, Fair are the gold and bdellium and the onyx stone, And I know the gold of that land is good. O my love, my dove, lift up your eyes Toward the eastern gate like an opening rose; You and I who parted will meet in Paradise, Pass within and sing when the gates unclose. This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover. He who wore out pleasure and mastered all lore, Solomon, wrote "Vanity of vanities:" Down to death, of all that went before In his mighty long life, the record is this. With loves by the hundred, wealth beyond measure, Is this he who wrote "Vanity of vanities"? Yea, "Vanity of vanities" he saith of pleasure, And of all he learned set his seal to this. Yet we love and faint not, for our love is one, And we hope and flag not, for our hope is sure, Although there be nothing new beneath the sun And no help for life and for death no cure. The road to death is life, the gate of life is death, We who wake shall sleep, we shall wax who wane; Let us not vex our souls for stoppage of a breath, The fall of a river that turneth not again. Be the road short, and be the gate near,-- Shall a short road tire, a strait gate appall? The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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Saints And Angels
It's oh in Paradise that I fain would be, Away from earth and weariness and all beside; Earth is too full of loss with its dividing sea, But Paradise upbuilds the bower for the bride. Where flowers are yet in bud while the boughs are green, I would get quit of earth and get robed for heaven; Putting on my raiment white within the screen, Putting on my crown of gold whose gems are seven Fair is the fourfold river that maketh no moan, Fair are the trees fruit-bearing of the wood, Fair are the gold and bdellium and the onyx stone, And I know the gold of that land is good. O my love, my dove, lift up your eyes Toward the eastern gate like an opening rose; You and I who parted will meet in Paradise, Pass within and sing when the gates unclose. This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover. He who wore out pleasure and mastered all lore, Solomon, wrote "Vanity of vanities:" Down to death, of all that went before In his mighty long life, the record is this. With loves by the hundred, wealth beyond measure, Is this he who wrote "Vanity of vanities"? Yea, "Vanity of vanities" he saith of pleasure, And of all he learned set his seal to this. Yet we love and faint not, for our love is one, And we hope and flag not, for our hope is sure, Although there be nothing new beneath the sun And no help for life and for death no cure. The road to death is life, the gate of life is death, We who wake shall sleep, we shall wax who wane; Let us not vex our souls for stoppage of a breath, The fall of a river that turneth not again. Be the road short, and be the gate near,-- Shall a short road tire, a strait gate appall? The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
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I watch as the sun dances on the water, under the bluest sky.  No twirling clouds in the breeze above.  No shadows block the sun.  Twinkling stars in the afternoon hang around to dance all night.  The sparkling onyx water takes the hand of the moon and is serenaded by the night sky in all its illustrious splendor. **Fluttering lights sway Music unheard leads the dance As heartbeats keep time** In the heat of the day through midnight shades of navy, the ocean laps the shore. Beckoning ever so gently.  With each passing joyous tango, the force rises until it demands your company.  Until you learn to dance in all your glory.  To be one in the night and be bare in the sun.  To reflect the good around you and let it shine down and make you free.  Still, I sit and watch the water dance.
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Jun 16, 2010
Jun 16, 2010 at 7:41 PM UTC
Seaside
My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 3:58 PM UTC
My Sunglasses
My Sunglasses I’ve got all of Tucson trapped behind my sunglasses I’ve framed mountain ranges in the frames of my Raybands I’ve got reflections of saguaro’s stranding still in front of my eyes I have sunny days taking refuge underneath my shades I’ve domesticated the giant star that rides blues skies into walking the edge of my brow I use black plastic as onyx shields So Tucson, I see you. There’s an art revolution beating at your horizon I’ve seen it skirting around these wastelands They tell us we’re wasting our time Telling the roadrunner to run back home When its nest was here since the beginning of time Tucson. I’ve seen folklorico and mariachi pay tribute to your origins on the hottest of days I’ve seen in the shadows in underground art forms Graffetti. There’s a protest in there somewhere. I’ve even witnessed it in pen to paper In lips to mics. In cafés in your desert nights for your desert nighttime audiences. Tucson, your culture and artistic value shines too bright for others to see. Your artistic worth shines too bright for others to broadcast They tend to only record your overdoses and murders Seems like our televised story tellers prefer to paint us in immoral reds The only time they pay the south side attention is when the south side is aching It doesn’t help that schools force you to choose business Give you chance to study law all the while cut out your art programs Fine art is required by universities but they don’t always expect you to get that far. Tucson’s fine art is too fine and infinite to be recognized by those undeserving Society wants to capture our southern brethren as outlaws not poets We’re called the misfit of the desert. As if every spray can, paint stroke, choreographed twist, Slam poem wasn’t something to take pride in. I’m sorry they only pay your schools attention when ambulances are parked in your driveways And administrators get caught in doing ***** deeds. I see your talent wasted. Your talent shown. To remind myself of your artistic significance, I’ve framed you On walks home I photograph your murals. Listen to the poets in the hallways. Observe the dancers compose and the musicians choreograph I’ve caught your reflection in my corneas’. I’ve dilated my pupils thoughts behind my sunglasses. Framed your mountain ranges in my frames. Took cover in your shades. Trained the artistic freedom and right to walk on my brow Tucson I see you.
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I am a raging fire on the inside and what the world only sees, a wisp of smoke emanating through me. Lightning, thunder crackling on my skin I carve history on streets. Sneaking quiet tender as a beast, people bow down to the tremble I speak. My hair is a string of storm, raising up in the smell of abhor.  My flesh runs in a fire of lava and gold Fresh and real, like a snake I peel off my skin. Through the ashes I am reborn I stir and devour men with my breath of smoke Tingling, Fleeting like bright sun glow, I I am the revelation of today’s tomorrow. Scare, beware my lips a poison of reality Drunk to the liquor of skulls, I am flexed my body taken from an Agate stone Sinister smile I am a black onyx erratic and wild to every screech I keep. My finger on people’s lips Be still I come revolting crackers in my head I am the child of love, born with a stone in my bed. Come all you who dare, eyes like a cat, I will slit you naked with a stare I run the city wild, shouting the ecstasy burning beating in my head those who are laughing think I’m in despair. Shiver, I fly high, swiftly like a storm, I greet people with a blow. This is my confession, the true disclosure of lady leo limbo I am a magic dynamo, those who cut will bleed and disappear in my timid **** Walk, fly, run with me I’ll tie you in my body, those who whisper my name I’ll build you a cage and and in my presence, I’ll slowly poison your veins. Haven’t they told you of my stories, I am a natural force of misery masked in smooth ivory. The great fire I hold cuts swifter than a sword.
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 2:50 AM UTC
Leo Limbo
I am a raging fire on the inside and what the world only sees, a wisp of smoke emanating through me. Lightning, thunder crackling on my skin I carve history on streets. Sneaking quiet tender as a beast, people bow down to the tremble I speak. My hair is a string of storm, raising up in the smell of abhor.  My flesh runs in a fire of lava and gold Fresh and real, like a snake I peel off my skin. Through the ashes I am reborn I stir and devour men with my breath of smoke Tingling, Fleeting like bright sun glow, I I am the revelation of today’s tomorrow. Scare, beware my lips a poison of reality Drunk to the liquor of skulls, I am flexed my body taken from an Agate stone Sinister smile I am a black onyx erratic and wild to every screech I keep. My finger on people’s lips Be still I come revolting crackers in my head I am the child of love, born with a stone in my bed. Come all you who dare, eyes like a cat, I will slit you naked with a stare I run the city wild, shouting the ecstasy burning beating in my head those who are laughing think I’m in despair. Shiver, I fly high, swiftly like a storm, I greet people with a blow. This is my confession, the true disclosure of lady leo limbo I am a magic dynamo, those who cut will bleed and disappear in my timid **** Walk, fly, run with me I’ll tie you in my body, those who whisper my name I’ll build you a cage and and in my presence, I’ll slowly poison your veins. Haven’t they told you of my stories, I am a natural force of misery masked in smooth ivory. The great fire I hold cuts swifter than a sword.
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the new tupac will have you too walkin with gangstas the new two stupidity now two steppin with prankstas murked the first one sayin he's blacker the berry when i'm sweeter than juice bass voiced top me if you want to experience that jacked tweeters induced when i own all of Victoria's secrets as proof tellin me what the body when all his deducement has him actin when he's wearin his shoes crypt walking like that it's only talk missed balking like has bass fits jocking as his only walk ******* with me when All Hailed Mary like if she was his when is only stolen balk I'm walkin again the gauntlet cuz all the women they want this flauntin all **** like if i was jackin all the wanted like ghost whippin me imma follow you till i'm haunted pain really, so bow down, when my diamonds glisten listen again is just as well bilateral biased has his confused his like the ol' eminem was in the new form gettin his face jacked again like me smokin crack with friends like all given enemies stressed was all given was a race black and then we actually are the same race like i knew you back like i owned all the streets like his females thuggin as heathen **** riding i'll **** your *** up like settin me up when i'm always the last muthafucken breathin exposing the ***** heathen breathin like if you were the only man catching bullet rounds exposed like the new you was still alive to the next ** hiked my socks up construed you at hit stupidity when will ride ghettos owned by just the black reppin when you're steppin the whack, honest it was just onyx i'll blast your *** like if you stole my pump shotty: like i never was wanted runst follies anamoly run has all criminal cops all fathering fun deceiving that all to gain was never greed when all greed in need bothering sons: all you still down with me when we ride it looking like a *** while i'm guy gee stag when you're looking into their eyes, they'd know comparison of a bird control as if fathering guys my knowledge is flight applauding the time, are you still down with me i hide behind the love of beauty of my womens eyes when you're looking like the female opened you up to your face compared to opening thighs they don't know like how you stare in the future that tommorow comes only after the dark knowing me marks the coming of the actual god I am "unconditional heart"
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Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 at 11:59 AM UTC
The New tupac
the new tupac will have you too walkin with gangstas the new two stupidity now two steppin with prankstas murked the first one sayin he's blacker the berry when i'm sweeter than juice bass voiced top me if you want to experience that jacked tweeters induced when i own all of Victoria's secrets as proof tellin me what the body when all his deducement has him actin when he's wearin his shoes crypt walking like that it's only talk missed balking like has bass fits jocking as his only walk ******* with me when All Hailed Mary like if she was his when is only stolen balk I'm walkin again the gauntlet cuz all the women they want this flauntin all **** like if i was jackin all the wanted like ghost whippin me imma follow you till i'm haunted pain really, so bow down, when my diamonds glisten listen again is just as well bilateral biased has his confused his like the ol' eminem was in the new form gettin his face jacked again like me smokin crack with friends like all given enemies stressed was all given was a race black and then we actually are the same race like i knew you back like i owned all the streets like his females thuggin as heathen **** riding i'll **** your *** up like settin me up when i'm always the last muthafucken breathin exposing the ***** heathen breathin like if you were the only man catching bullet rounds exposed like the new you was still alive to the next ** hiked my socks up construed you at hit stupidity when will ride ghettos owned by just the black reppin when you're steppin the whack, honest it was just onyx i'll blast your *** like if you stole my pump shotty: like i never was wanted runst follies anamoly run has all criminal cops all fathering fun deceiving that all to gain was never greed when all greed in need bothering sons: all you still down with me when we ride it looking like a *** while i'm guy gee stag when you're looking into their eyes, they'd know comparison of a bird control as if fathering guys my knowledge is flight applauding the time, are you still down with me i hide behind the love of beauty of my womens eyes when you're looking like the female opened you up to your face compared to opening thighs they don't know like how you stare in the future that tommorow comes only after the dark knowing me marks the coming of the actual god I am "unconditional heart"
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