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"parasol" poems
You were my umbrella and my parasol Always sheltering me, Always protecting me. But now that you are gone I cry tears like rain And burn inside like a flame. An umbrella and a parasol Protecting me From the moody Weather That is me. F.Z.N
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 4:42 PM UTC
Umbrella and Parasol
Me, I play the piano said one me, I play the violin said another me the harp, me the banjo me the cello me the bagpipes, me the flute and me, a rattle. And they talked talked talked about what they played. No music was heard everyone talked talked talked and no one played but in a corner one man remained silent: "And you, Sir, who remain silent and say nothing, what instrument do you play?" the musicians asked him. "Me, I play the barrel ***** and I also play the knife," said the man who until now had said absolutely nothing and then he advanced knife in hand and killed all the musicians and played the barrel ***** and his music was so true and so lively and so pretty that the daughter of the house’s owner came out from under the piano where she lay bored to sleep and said: "Me, I played hoop ball, chase I played hopscotch I played with a pail I played with a shovel I played house I played tag I played with my dolls I played with a parasol I played with my little brother with my little sister I played cops and robbers but that’s over over over I want to play assassin I want to play the barrel ***** And the man took the little girl by the hand and they went into towns into houses, into gardens and killed as many people as possible after which they married and had many children. But the oldest learned piano the second, violin the third, harp the fourth, the rattle the fifth, cello and they all took to talking talking talking talking talking so that no more music was heard and all was set to begin again!
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The barrel *****
Me, I play the piano said one me, I play the violin said another me the harp, me the banjo me the cello me the bagpipes, me the flute and me, a rattle. And they talked talked talked about what they played. No music was heard everyone talked talked talked and no one played but in a corner one man remained silent: "And you, Sir, who remain silent and say nothing, what instrument do you play?" the musicians asked him. "Me, I play the barrel ***** and I also play the knife," said the man who until now had said absolutely nothing and then he advanced knife in hand and killed all the musicians and played the barrel ***** and his music was so true and so lively and so pretty that the daughter of the house’s owner came out from under the piano where she lay bored to sleep and said: "Me, I played hoop ball, chase I played hopscotch I played with a pail I played with a shovel I played house I played tag I played with my dolls I played with a parasol I played with my little brother with my little sister I played cops and robbers but that’s over over over I want to play assassin I want to play the barrel ***** And the man took the little girl by the hand and they went into towns into houses, into gardens and killed as many people as possible after which they married and had many children. But the oldest learned piano the second, violin the third, harp the fourth, the rattle the fifth, cello and they all took to talking talking talking talking talking so that no more music was heard and all was set to begin again!
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354 From Cocoon forth a Butterfly As Lady from her Door Emerged—a Summer Afternoon— Repairing Everywhere— Without Design—that I could trace Except to stray abroad On Miscellaneous Enterprise The Clovers—understood— Her pretty Parasol be seen Contracting in a Field Where Men made Hay— Then struggling hard With an opposing Cloud— Where Parties—Phantom as Herself— To Nowhere—seemed to go In purposeless Circumference— As ’twere a Tropic Show— And notwithstanding Bee—that worked— And Flower—that zealous blew— This Audience of Idleness Disdained them, from the Sky— Till Sundown crept—a steady Tide— And Men that made the Hay— And Afternoon—and Butterfly— Extinguished—in the Sea—
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From Cocoon forth a Butterfly
In the twilight zephyrs under milky way skies I stroll beside my peacock plumed God Along the banks of the Yamuna river with captivating charm He teaches me the Language of Love Honeybees buzz around us even though the coral pink sun has melted into a puddle of nectar at His silken lotus Feet and all the flowers have folded their drowsy petals raven heavens raise their ebony veils and a chorus of rhapsodic stars chant Krishna's glorious name I feel His raincloud blue face close to mine lightning from His eyes strikes my Soul ...and We dance... A trillion psychedelic umbrellas whirling, dazzling Sufi circles beneath the Golden parasol of God's enormous Love     Share/Save
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 9:25 PM UTC
God's Consort
Rainy day people and frogs Packed New York streets, mossy bogs Umbrella or bumbershoot In quagmire and crowded route Splashing masses, polliwogs Precipitation, cascade The alley or everglade Plebeians and ***** toads Wetlands, winding back roads Holding brolly or sunshade Mobs, croaker in the wallow Soggy marsh, bypass below A sprinkle, pitter-patter Parasol, doesn't matter Your bullfrog and average Joe
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 3:30 AM UTC
In The Rain
1747 The parasol is the umbrella’s daughter, And associates with a fan While her father abuts the tempest And abridges the rain. The former assists a siren In her serene display; But her father is borne and honored, And borrowed to this day.
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The parasol is the umbrella’s daughter
The poet’s quill scribes a vision of the debutante as she rests amongst the bluebells Scattered like jewels over the meadow. The delicate voice of the robins Echo through the valley, Where the gentleman tells of his ardor As they shelter amongst the weeping willows. Curls tumble from the confines of her hat, Parasol tilting to hide girlish blushes, Careless of her silk skirts they are crushed, lying as broken rose petals. She glows with the joy of an un-chaperoned picnic Scent of cinnamon scrolls tempt her senses, as her beau offers cider to moisten their suddenly dry throats. Dapper in his impeccable finery, Coat tails trailing, crisply starched shirt points lifting his chin, Top hat tilted at a rakish angle. Dark eye’s glinting with the thrill of his endeavors. Sunshine silhouettes the glory of the lovers, whom the poet has sewn together as an artist creates a masterpiece. Each syllable as a brushstroke on canvas. A Monet made not of oil and brushes, But ink and parchment. Every word scribed by the care of the poet, Transformed within the mind of the reader
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Oct 21, 2009
Oct 21, 2009 at 12:59 AM UTC
Scribed masterpiece
Beaumaris, carnival of soft pastel tones of damp evenings of tramway cars with small orange lights distracted bystanders the empty bridges the silent horizons pale lace on a parasol, light sepia dreams of a particular Monet, forgotten, unseen before the rains came. Many years later, I found her so tenuous, so subtle in what little was left yet there it was, her soul all new shades of melancholy. Now I just swim, every now and then in that blue ocean of her blueness, the Sea of Oblivion. In the glimpse   of bright reflections of sunshine on the water, of salted afternoons in a country where it no longer rains
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 1:10 AM UTC
Never met Clarice
Love blossomed in the darkest night Morn's gilding beams to spite Night Primrose preened by tender blight As Sphinx Moth, soft tips caress; sugary nectar slight Perfumed aroma doth prating, intoxicated courtier incite Glazed petals with dewy fans stream delight Golden cup a succouring armchair from which passions alight  Delicate, cream veil eclipses pallid, stolid moonlight With availing breeze your dreamy parasol on Cupid's wing takes flight
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Aug 10, 2011
Aug 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM UTC
Primrose: Love's Sprite
Lazy days and choppy waves Upon a copper sea, A breezy, warming westerly Is blowing down on me. Sunlight striking wavelets Below clouds of cotton cool And seagulls hang in squadron lines Aloft from oyster pool. Road signs judder in the breeze Ripples weave amongst long grass, Mangroves bend in unison And asphalt bakes in molten glass. A parasol of brilliant blue A picnic basket brimming high With lemonade and icy beer Whilst sausages and onions fry. Two barking dogs cavort with joy Chasing hard on sandy beach, Leaping high in summer air Running, fetching, ***** to each. The lazy summer saunters in Engulfing us with solar heat, The pretty girls wear tiny shorts Which breathless boys find such a treat. Pohutukawa’s bursting forth In waves of rich and scarlet red Which juxtapose dark olive greens Of leafage midst each flower bed. A sky of brilliant powder blue With salt spray aura in the air As swimmers splash in gales of fun Hot sunlight baubles kiss their hair. Marshalg Port Waikato beach 15 November 2011 © 2011 Marshal Gebbie
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM UTC
Port Waikato Beach
How do you define love? How do you begin? Come with me on this journey and explore, The emotion of love that we all truly adore, The emotion that we all seek to receive, The emotion that makes us weak at the knees. An emotion that has been written about in Music, Stories, Poetry An emotion we have captured in paint, An emotion we long for to hold and cherish, let noone taint. Songwriters have written lyrics, declaring their feelings of desire, Different Genres, Ballads, Rock Anthems,Jazz, Rhythm andBlues, Singing of love for cars, women and drink. Singing of the Power of Love and who started the fire, Singing of pain, hurt, unrequited love, betrayal too Songs making us remember, desire and think. Music so light and pretty, Music that rises slowly to a high crescendo, Music of passion, devotion, trust and loyalty. Music that is dark and ***** Music that takes you down low, Music of betryal, mistrust and insanity. Artists take to the brush to paint a picture clear, Of women walking on a bridge parasol in hand, Portraying feelings of lust, romanticism and fear, Of lovers dancing on the beach leaving footprints in the sand. Portraying their love of the beauty that surrounds, women and children with beguiling smiles, Portraits that make you laugh, cry and stand still for a while. Artists that capture the perfect smile, Artists that capture that capture the love in the eyes, Artists that capture that moment, once in a while, Artists that capture that bond, those ties. Poets create a picture with their words, Bringing to mind lust and desire, Writing of feelings that matter. Making you cry, laugh, raising your emotions higher and higher, Using words that describe, pain, and hurt,words that charm and flatter. Poets that tell a story of hardship, friendship and survival, Poets that make you laugh, cry and bring about revival. Poets that write of emotions, Poets that write of tenderness, Poets that write of devotion, Poets that write of togetherness. Throughout the centuries we are bequiled by love, How it hurts, how it heals, The emotions love makes you feel. How it is won, how it is lost. Love at what price, what cost? How we desire love from each other, How we desire the love of our father and mother. How love can raise you up and let you down, How love can get a smile out of a frown. How love can be your freedom and yet love can smother, There is no medium that can capture all the different aspect of love for each other. Love is unique, Love can be bleak. Love is scary, Love can be weary. Love is strength, Love can be any time, any length. Love is freedom, Love can be your guiding beacon. Each and everyone of us, feels love in someway How do you recognise love? if love spoke to you, what would it say?
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 8:04 AM UTC
What is Love?
How do you define love? How do you begin? Come with me on this journey and explore, The emotion of love that we all truly adore, The emotion that we all seek to receive, The emotion that makes us weak at the knees. An emotion that has been written about in Music, Stories, Poetry An emotion we have captured in paint, An emotion we long for to hold and cherish, let noone taint. Songwriters have written lyrics, declaring their feelings of desire, Different Genres, Ballads, Rock Anthems,Jazz, Rhythm andBlues, Singing of love for cars, women and drink. Singing of the Power of Love and who started the fire, Singing of pain, hurt, unrequited love, betrayal too Songs making us remember, desire and think. Music so light and pretty, Music that rises slowly to a high crescendo, Music of passion, devotion, trust and loyalty. Music that is dark and ***** Music that takes you down low, Music of betryal, mistrust and insanity. Artists take to the brush to paint a picture clear, Of women walking on a bridge parasol in hand, Portraying feelings of lust, romanticism and fear, Of lovers dancing on the beach leaving footprints in the sand. Portraying their love of the beauty that surrounds, women and children with beguiling smiles, Portraits that make you laugh, cry and stand still for a while. Artists that capture the perfect smile, Artists that capture that capture the love in the eyes, Artists that capture that moment, once in a while, Artists that capture that bond, those ties. Poets create a picture with their words, Bringing to mind lust and desire, Writing of feelings that matter. Making you cry, laugh, raising your emotions higher and higher, Using words that describe, pain, and hurt,words that charm and flatter. Poets that tell a story of hardship, friendship and survival, Poets that make you laugh, cry and bring about revival. Poets that write of emotions, Poets that write of tenderness, Poets that write of devotion, Poets that write of togetherness. Throughout the centuries we are bequiled by love, How it hurts, how it heals, The emotions love makes you feel. How it is won, how it is lost. Love at what price, what cost? How we desire love from each other, How we desire the love of our father and mother. How love can raise you up and let you down, How love can get a smile out of a frown. How love can be your freedom and yet love can smother, There is no medium that can capture all the different aspect of love for each other. Love is unique, Love can be bleak. Love is scary, Love can be weary. Love is strength, Love can be any time, any length. Love is freedom, Love can be your guiding beacon. Each and everyone of us, feels love in someway How do you recognise love? if love spoke to you, what would it say?
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*Overcast weather Rains have dampened the spirits Rescued by shared parasol*
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 9:29 AM UTC
Rains
1038 Her little Parasol to lift And once to let it down Her whole Responsibility— To imitate be Mine. A Summer further I must wear, Content if Nature’s Drawer Present me from sepulchral Crease As blemishless, as Her.
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Her little Parasol to lift
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: they were expecting the death of a boy on a Japanese schooner. They all kepy to themselves- dreaming of the open beaks of dying birds, the sharp parasol that punctures a recently flattened toad, beneath silence with a thousand ears and tiny mouths of water in the canyons that resist the violent attack on the moon. The boy on the schooner was crying and hearts were breaking in anguish for the witness and vigilance of all things, and because of the sky blue ground of black footprints, obscure names, saliva, and chrome radios were still crying. It doesn't matter if the boy grows silent when stuck with the last pin, or if the breeze is defeated in cupped cotton flowers, because there is a world of death whose perpetual sailors will appear in the arches and freeze you from behind the trees. it's useless to look for the bend where night loses its way and to wait in ambush for a silence that has no torn clothes, no shells, and no tears, because even the tiny banquet of a spider is enough to upset the entire equilibrium of the sky. There is no cure for the moaning from a Japanese schooner, nor for those shadowy people who stumble on the curbs. The countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude. The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners! Facades of ***** of smoke, anemones, rubber gloves. Everything is shattered in the night that spread its legs on the terraces. Everything is shatter in the tepid faucets of a terrible silent fountain. Oh, crowds! Loose women! Soldiers! We will have to journey through the eyes of idiots, open country where the docile cobras, coiled like wire, hiss, landscapes full of graves that yield the freshest apples, so that uncontrollable light will arrive to frighten the rich behind their magnifying glasses- the odor of a single corpse from the double source of lily and rat- and so that fire will consume those crowds still able to **** around a moan or on the crystals in which each inimitable wave is understood.
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Landscape of a ******* Multitude
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: they were expecting the death of a boy on a Japanese schooner. They all kepy to themselves- dreaming of the open beaks of dying birds, the sharp parasol that punctures a recently flattened toad, beneath silence with a thousand ears and tiny mouths of water in the canyons that resist the violent attack on the moon. The boy on the schooner was crying and hearts were breaking in anguish for the witness and vigilance of all things, and because of the sky blue ground of black footprints, obscure names, saliva, and chrome radios were still crying. It doesn't matter if the boy grows silent when stuck with the last pin, or if the breeze is defeated in cupped cotton flowers, because there is a world of death whose perpetual sailors will appear in the arches and freeze you from behind the trees. it's useless to look for the bend where night loses its way and to wait in ambush for a silence that has no torn clothes, no shells, and no tears, because even the tiny banquet of a spider is enough to upset the entire equilibrium of the sky. There is no cure for the moaning from a Japanese schooner, nor for those shadowy people who stumble on the curbs. The countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude. The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners! Facades of ***** of smoke, anemones, rubber gloves. Everything is shattered in the night that spread its legs on the terraces. Everything is shatter in the tepid faucets of a terrible silent fountain. Oh, crowds! Loose women! Soldiers! We will have to journey through the eyes of idiots, open country where the docile cobras, coiled like wire, hiss, landscapes full of graves that yield the freshest apples, so that uncontrollable light will arrive to frighten the rich behind their magnifying glasses- the odor of a single corpse from the double source of lily and rat- and so that fire will consume those crowds still able to **** around a moan or on the crystals in which each inimitable wave is understood.
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A tumultous storm is passing the valley and I am stuck in the midst nowhere to hide and nowhere to go. I try to walk towards home with my rainbow coloured umbrella. My abode on the hill nearby, and an uphill task to go, the gale is growing stronger i just can't slow. The heaven has been unfriendly not answering to my prayers I slipped a million times as He wanted me to scare. The strong roots of the trees have held my hand firmly not gushing me down as a true friend in poverty. The rain spoilt my umbrella, the seven colours faded I faced the heavy drops as my parasol betrayed. Toiling to crawl up the rain was failing to stop me from going upstream, the nimbus this time is ghastly than ever but i will have to return to my dear ones albeit bruised from head to toe, none to hear my scream . Both rain and me are bleary and had to pause now, the firmament is clearing up with the sun, peeping through the clouds and I am nearly near my hilltop house. The sky was happy to see me alive and gifted me my rainbow umbrella as return gift from above, I tasted glory in the rainbow from the hilltop and my abode. Bina Mukherjee
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May 1, 2021
May 1, 2021 at 9:16 AM UTC
Taste of Rainbow
Oh what a band of brothers we were, The fantastic fraternal eternal gang. Long sun-soaked summer daze, The bunch of us, sometimes Sitting legs folded under a parasol, Telling stories and jokes Beyond our years; And then water fights, We, the little soldier boys, Armed with plastic pistols, Rainbow coloured balloons, Or super soakers, Nobody ever won because Nobody ever gave in, Everyone was soaked, Right to the bone. Near endless evenings, We played on the green, Football, tag, 42, curbs, We played on the green, Even when the cold stung us, Even when our skin glowed blue, We played on the green, Only until our mothers Called for us to come in, Time for tea, Then time for bed and A Bo Peep. Oh what a band of brothers we were, The fantastic fraternal eternal gang. -Jamie F. Nugent
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 1:42 PM UTC
Anthropology Days
we did what we could that night and a supernal being is ashamed. this is the drift of thought in the vast ocean of gilded gold frothing at the edge of rotund: giving back a silenced enigma, spewing the answer in an exhaust of white rancid smoke dharma burns plastered to cigarette. burning and burning, afloat are the high-pouncing embers looking for fleeting shades and dagger-ambulations of a shadow's swagger in tectonic soiree. we did what we could that night. like a flash of lightning at the back of hoarded hills, or say, something brutal and brash with modern sensibilities we never jell — we come not with softness or life peering out of our eyes like little girls serenaded by mad men in the eve of forlorn nights. we did what we could and some god cringes, winces away like the erratic dance of candleflame. the leviathan black spreads its parasol and we are no strangers. when our veraciousness starts to pierce the veil, the populace should start to worry of their trapped conditions. we came here for something: be it flesh, be it wisdom, be it plain inebriations — we will never flinch at the squalor of tomorrow's sobering. keep in mind, kaibigan.     it's all levitation and transcendence. the darkness wept as the car groans near the end of its immaterial life. i flick the last cigarette into the grey-faced pavement. all oceans drowned, all shadows burgeoned, all fires emerged plump, this silent radio rivers through the wave of this ephemerality, the onomatopoeia of strangeness, the   thud       of the senseless head of metal      on the body the   clackety-clack        of hours thereafter! ayeayeaye! the streets sing no mild   appendage. the solstice is lost     in the length and precision of all things. bringing ourselves to the brink of absence,     our pallid selves set ablaze, emblazoning the quick life of matchflame or rumble of         thunder — the steady phoenix of        that night! this is learning   to breathe again, o, what currents purloined in vicious swarth as we keep      this river flowing into our throats,   jamming our souls to compelling music.    remember kaibigan, it's all levitation and transcendence.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:03 AM UTC
Levitations
we did what we could that night and a supernal being is ashamed. this is the drift of thought in the vast ocean of gilded gold frothing at the edge of rotund: giving back a silenced enigma, spewing the answer in an exhaust of white rancid smoke dharma burns plastered to cigarette. burning and burning, afloat are the high-pouncing embers looking for fleeting shades and dagger-ambulations of a shadow's swagger in tectonic soiree. we did what we could that night. like a flash of lightning at the back of hoarded hills, or say, something brutal and brash with modern sensibilities we never jell — we come not with softness or life peering out of our eyes like little girls serenaded by mad men in the eve of forlorn nights. we did what we could and some god cringes, winces away like the erratic dance of candleflame. the leviathan black spreads its parasol and we are no strangers. when our veraciousness starts to pierce the veil, the populace should start to worry of their trapped conditions. we came here for something: be it flesh, be it wisdom, be it plain inebriations — we will never flinch at the squalor of tomorrow's sobering. keep in mind, kaibigan.     it's all levitation and transcendence. the darkness wept as the car groans near the end of its immaterial life. i flick the last cigarette into the grey-faced pavement. all oceans drowned, all shadows burgeoned, all fires emerged plump, this silent radio rivers through the wave of this ephemerality, the onomatopoeia of strangeness, the   thud       of the senseless head of metal      on the body the   clackety-clack        of hours thereafter! ayeayeaye! the streets sing no mild   appendage. the solstice is lost     in the length and precision of all things. bringing ourselves to the brink of absence,     our pallid selves set ablaze, emblazoning the quick life of matchflame or rumble of         thunder — the steady phoenix of        that night! this is learning   to breathe again, o, what currents purloined in vicious swarth as we keep      this river flowing into our throats,   jamming our souls to compelling music.    remember kaibigan, it's all levitation and transcendence.
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"Little lass with the pink parasol, standing by the sea where your face was forgotten and your dress dirtied, what can you tell me of the wind? Have you noticed its paws tugging at your parasol and how it dances 'round your tip-toes and freezes your eyelids with icicle pins? How it shields your drinking sight from sunlight by raising a blind of your hair? Or have you instead chosen to count the peaks on the waves? How each pinch in the watery fabric pistons up and down in the oceanic mattress with the nature sporadic of a mad stellar twinkling. What treasures belch age and air bubbles under the surface of a fingertip's breadth? Of such sweet gems and precious metal surely are the gifts of its deepest depths daring. It has been counting the times you've dipped your nose under, under fear of the fathom's fingers finding your face to be pretty, and withdrawing. You'll catch cold, lass. Standing by the sea so often; always. At the least you will go mad at the infinite sound of roaring laps against the shore and the gales born of sea and sky scrubbing memories of stillness from your mind. Little lass with the pink parasol, what do you hope to find standing here by thesea?" I asked her. She was silent. And I heard every word her own, though uttered tangibly by winds of local overcast atmospheres. In the wet soil 'neath my tarred heels did a coolness rise, finding my lungs dry and welcoming. The horizon joined grey and blue and she was eyeing the vanishing point. My eyes joined hers in trek and I found infinity. Nothing was visible along the skyline. Meaning anything was beyond it. Nothing was visible beneath the tide. Meaning anything was under it. The wind suggested transparency but a secretless wind is merely still air. She said nothing and I understood; the sea seems larger when you are close enough to be kissed by the waves because you forget that the whole world is behind you. I am right now standing by the sea. The little lass with the pink parasol. She is here, too.
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 11:01 PM UTC
Little Lass With A Pink Parasol
"Little lass with the pink parasol, standing by the sea where your face was forgotten and your dress dirtied, what can you tell me of the wind? Have you noticed its paws tugging at your parasol and how it dances 'round your tip-toes and freezes your eyelids with icicle pins? How it shields your drinking sight from sunlight by raising a blind of your hair? Or have you instead chosen to count the peaks on the waves? How each pinch in the watery fabric pistons up and down in the oceanic mattress with the nature sporadic of a mad stellar twinkling. What treasures belch age and air bubbles under the surface of a fingertip's breadth? Of such sweet gems and precious metal surely are the gifts of its deepest depths daring. It has been counting the times you've dipped your nose under, under fear of the fathom's fingers finding your face to be pretty, and withdrawing. You'll catch cold, lass. Standing by the sea so often; always. At the least you will go mad at the infinite sound of roaring laps against the shore and the gales born of sea and sky scrubbing memories of stillness from your mind. Little lass with the pink parasol, what do you hope to find standing here by thesea?" I asked her. She was silent. And I heard every word her own, though uttered tangibly by winds of local overcast atmospheres. In the wet soil 'neath my tarred heels did a coolness rise, finding my lungs dry and welcoming. The horizon joined grey and blue and she was eyeing the vanishing point. My eyes joined hers in trek and I found infinity. Nothing was visible along the skyline. Meaning anything was beyond it. Nothing was visible beneath the tide. Meaning anything was under it. The wind suggested transparency but a secretless wind is merely still air. She said nothing and I understood; the sea seems larger when you are close enough to be kissed by the waves because you forget that the whole world is behind you. I am right now standing by the sea. The little lass with the pink parasol. She is here, too.
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His old mare cantered into to town The covered wagon followed A boy's first trip to town alone He took it in, and swallowed Penny candy dreams last night And sarsparilla floats The ladies' parasol fineries The men in pinstriped coats Perhaps a whiskey, what the hell Today he was a man! But first the livery stable for Brownie For oats and a water can. The .30-30 saddle gun would come with him, of course. He also grabbed the belted Colt from the pommel of his horse. The warped board sidewalks led past stores His worn boots clopped along He strapped on the .36 Navy Colt revolver And fastened down the thong He clopped down to the first saloon Laid his rifle on the bar A sporting girl sat next to him With the unlikely name of "Star" "A milk for the lady. Myself as well, Barkeep, if you please!" A cowhand howled out raucous laughter, Flipping up Ms. Star's dress, to well above her knees "That little pup, he wants some milk So Star, give him yer **** I'll bend him over, spank his *** And then give YOU a treat!" The young man's vision doubled, trebled, The shame clear on his face As tears welled up in big blue eyes A witness in every soul in the place "Aw, the little ***** is bawling! WAH!" The cowhand bellowed out And all false mirth left his expression And he gave the boy a clout The boy just sat and sobbed and watched As Ms. Star joined in the joke But cowhand was already 3 bottles in, In a flash, her nose was broke Cowhand reached across the boy To grab that sweet, sleeved rifle The boy grabbed cowhand's wrist just then And twisted it just a trifle A yelp and howl from cowhand's mouth, "YOU BROKE MY ****** WRIST! NOW you're ****** you little sprat" He took a swing, and missed. Red faced, clumsy, humiliated He drew leather on the boy Dead to rights, he had the kid, He realized, with grim joy An explosion, a thump, on warped pine floor Blue smoke curling in the air Utter, vapid, vacuum silence Patrons cemented to their chair The tears were gone from those blue eyes Blue steel as his gaze fixed A hole had grown in cowhand's head The size was .36
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Mar 27, 2016
Mar 27, 2016 at 1:18 AM UTC
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His old mare cantered into to town The covered wagon followed A boy's first trip to town alone He took it in, and swallowed Penny candy dreams last night And sarsparilla floats The ladies' parasol fineries The men in pinstriped coats Perhaps a whiskey, what the hell Today he was a man! But first the livery stable for Brownie For oats and a water can. The .30-30 saddle gun would come with him, of course. He also grabbed the belted Colt from the pommel of his horse. The warped board sidewalks led past stores His worn boots clopped along He strapped on the .36 Navy Colt revolver And fastened down the thong He clopped down to the first saloon Laid his rifle on the bar A sporting girl sat next to him With the unlikely name of "Star" "A milk for the lady. Myself as well, Barkeep, if you please!" A cowhand howled out raucous laughter, Flipping up Ms. Star's dress, to well above her knees "That little pup, he wants some milk So Star, give him yer **** I'll bend him over, spank his *** And then give YOU a treat!" The young man's vision doubled, trebled, The shame clear on his face As tears welled up in big blue eyes A witness in every soul in the place "Aw, the little ***** is bawling! WAH!" The cowhand bellowed out And all false mirth left his expression And he gave the boy a clout The boy just sat and sobbed and watched As Ms. Star joined in the joke But cowhand was already 3 bottles in, In a flash, her nose was broke Cowhand reached across the boy To grab that sweet, sleeved rifle The boy grabbed cowhand's wrist just then And twisted it just a trifle A yelp and howl from cowhand's mouth, "YOU BROKE MY ****** WRIST! NOW you're ****** you little sprat" He took a swing, and missed. Red faced, clumsy, humiliated He drew leather on the boy Dead to rights, he had the kid, He realized, with grim joy An explosion, a thump, on warped pine floor Blue smoke curling in the air Utter, vapid, vacuum silence Patrons cemented to their chair The tears were gone from those blue eyes Blue steel as his gaze fixed A hole had grown in cowhand's head The size was .36
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Dear Poet Friends, this short poem was composed during the Summer of 2010, and posted on ‘Poemhunter.com’. Hope you like it. Thanks. WHEN YOU CATCH THAT FEVER! When the body temperature exceeds the normal, You know you have got the fever on you. High fever can get you in a delirium, And even inside the ICU! One must guard oneself from the Summer’s sun, Take precaution from exhaustion and heat. Wear dark glasses and use a parasol, And sun-tan lotion makes the picture complete. ‘Prevention is half the cure’, is an old saying which is true! With cool butter milk and iced lemonades, - You can keep that heat off you! Now there is another type of fever, more potent than that ‘Swine Flu’! It can strike you anywhere and anytime, And you cannot take adequate precautions too! When your heart starts to beat faster, - And a fever rages all inside. You get melancholic and delirious, - When someone calls the doctor by your bedside! But when no temperature gets recorded, And the doctor looks all concerned! For you have caught the 'Love’s Fever', - Oh, what a lovely way to burn!                                      -Raj Nandy, New Delhi (Comments from Fay Slims, a senior & a veteran poet from Cornwall, SW England:-  “Raj, catching that fever is never avoided by those who have given their heart!”)
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Jun 16, 2016
Jun 16, 2016 at 9:24 AM UTC
WHEN YOU CATCH THAT FEVER!
The day blister as the sun followed 'er. No shade nor a parasol as she goeth an' hope for evanescent heat A basket in 'er hand, one way to marketplace 'Alt! A mad horse kicked thro' Dropped on earth, dirt in 'er sleeves "Gawd o' all horses keep yer eyes open to see!" A fine young man bowed down for repent about his detriment ride. O! Poor little thing! A thorough water in the basket she offered for 'er long little journey. ** The vigor horse galloped an' circle round she. 'twas a good thing an' he proffers honourable  ride. There goes the curtsy 'off in the marketplace' says she. Alt! The creature pause. Where is this? "thy big heart shalt hail for I, present thankfulness. Devoting thy fortune." the prince rendered his throne bounteously. O! Applause how majestic upclose a palace could be. 'tis she wish e'er since. To seek for a lost playmate, hoping for camaraderie. Remembering in that small village where the little prince sneaked. Oh dear! 'Twas he! Aye! The prince hoped the same an' knew all of a sudden. He made 'er his wife! (An' they live happily e'er after. Bow) -A 8/11/14
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 2:14 AM UTC
One Hot Sunny Day--
In a faded dress she wore, of crimson and pink pearls, on her pedestal she sat, parasol, she did twirl. Though age may have faded plumes and placed lines on her face, she refuses to give up on dreams of silks and fine lace. She knew that her lovers, would be coming back to her, to once again, furnish her with jewelry and rich furs. Through the years she waits, her mind slowing slips away. Insanity took control, while vanity takes sway. As her lovers did marry off, or just died away and her peers morals, of fidelity, won the day, less and less, she was in demand, as a paramour. Vanity and ego, sealed her fate for evermore. Vanity and ego, sealed her fate for evermore. Less and less, she was in demand, as a paramour And her peer's morals of fidelity, won the day. As her lovers did marry off, or just died away, insanity took control, while vanity, takes sway. Through the years she waits, her mind slowly slips away. To once again furnish her in jewelry and rich furs, she knew that her lovers, would be coming back to her. She refuses to give up on dreams of silks and fine lace. Though age may have faded plumes and placed lines on her face, on her pedestal she sat, parasol she did twirl. In a faded dress she wore of crimson and pink pearls.
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Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010 at 9:01 PM UTC
Crimson And Pink Pearls
Half cut teens dressed in high street dreams stand and survey the beach, combing it for male shells, to clarify: guys who think crucifix tattoos on their lower leg will save them from hell. A mother whose job it is to look after surfboard and parasol, yes you the mother looking my way, you should ditch the marriage and get on the road, hug the coast with tire squeals, hug men with body sacrificing screams in cheap French roadside hotels that don’t clean their bathrooms that well. Girlfriend left to sit the sun out whilst boyfriend joins husbands in the surf, reads but really she’s breathing, passing the hours and folding over page corners, don’t let him see that you don’t love him. Tablet kids who watch the sea on screen, in apps, when behind them is a torrent of live data swells and boils causing swimmers to tumble and coil up close to the sea bed, some parents, increasingly the same, forgetting why they came to the coast in the first place.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 3:54 PM UTC
HUG THE COAST
There's the seer of frolicking clouds posed: Suddenly, the sky's streams - Made of melt that the sun creams, They gloom her dull eyes with dreams While the umbrella relinquishes closed. There's the little gyre of a colour: She'd made the choice of shade - Brought, no silence, no parade Or a lively barricade, While she lived in natural poise, solar.
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Apr 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021 at 8:18 AM UTC
Broken Parasol
Glacier like, she moves slowly Heavily made up, doll like, Maiko Moving toward her rite of passage in a highly colorful kimono with extravagant obi. Her bright face and silks are an unspoken code Her parasol offers limited protection from the sun and less to what's to come. Although trained, this transaction is not of love.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM UTC
Mizuage