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"petulant" poems
In The Prison Of Winter, No Rise, No Set orbit nearly closed, the radio announcer gleefully chirruping, the twittering fool, "only ** graves to X off till                                                spring" the weight of the prior the wait of the more no matter how little yet to come                     too much insufferable having suffered multiple life sentences you snit **** u don't know better, ha, they don't even run                                          concurrently there are no sunsets in the girding grays of harsher enough and words that fail me, are the winners in the winter of the **** tests and hunts, I have successfully                                  failed of course I'm wrong you petulant hobgoblin wringing nyet from me you'll get no concession, **** science, there are no sunsets in the winter and the sunrises, short unsweetened, light-less, less of less, frigid glaring revealers of dead trees and deader                     men maybe in the Rockies, perhaps the Alps, wonderlands photoshopped, pretty lies on the Internet BS posted where I live, wear the wear the weary neath the sweat stink of layers of unbundled choking hands, winter's damage assessed and assessment is never overdue, payable in                                              immediacy heating bills I can't pay, a job that said no more of you, unpretty please, a woman who sorcerer-scarced herself right freaking black magic quick, trust me I have certified verified, me and Nixon, X's on the kitchen calendar, there is daylight, there is mighty night, almighty in long and colorless and nothing in between, but the smog stained slush of                                                     smothered life but definitely no sunrises and no sunsets watched all day from the imprisoning kitchen window which doubles as a **** you                        mirror there are no, not any, you know what, cannot even say them, the pipe dreams of better yet, pipes that have beaten down me and my disassociated senses, signed sealed and now delivered, from the formerly known as The Summer Man
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM UTC
In the Prison of Winter, No Rise, No Set
In The Prison Of Winter, No Rise, No Set orbit nearly closed, the radio announcer gleefully chirruping, the twittering fool, "only ** graves to X off till                                                spring" the weight of the prior the wait of the more no matter how little yet to come                     too much insufferable having suffered multiple life sentences you snit **** u don't know better, ha, they don't even run                                          concurrently there are no sunsets in the girding grays of harsher enough and words that fail me, are the winners in the winter of the **** tests and hunts, I have successfully                                  failed of course I'm wrong you petulant hobgoblin wringing nyet from me you'll get no concession, **** science, there are no sunsets in the winter and the sunrises, short unsweetened, light-less, less of less, frigid glaring revealers of dead trees and deader                     men maybe in the Rockies, perhaps the Alps, wonderlands photoshopped, pretty lies on the Internet BS posted where I live, wear the wear the weary neath the sweat stink of layers of unbundled choking hands, winter's damage assessed and assessment is never overdue, payable in                                              immediacy heating bills I can't pay, a job that said no more of you, unpretty please, a woman who sorcerer-scarced herself right freaking black magic quick, trust me I have certified verified, me and Nixon, X's on the kitchen calendar, there is daylight, there is mighty night, almighty in long and colorless and nothing in between, but the smog stained slush of                                                     smothered life but definitely no sunrises and no sunsets watched all day from the imprisoning kitchen window which doubles as a **** you                        mirror there are no, not any, you know what, cannot even say them, the pipe dreams of better yet, pipes that have beaten down me and my disassociated senses, signed sealed and now delivered, from the formerly known as The Summer Man
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(for Christopher Isherwood) Seated after breakfast In this white-tiled cabin Arabs call the House where Everybody goes, Even melancholics Raise a cheer to Mrs. Nature for the primal Pleasure She bestows. *** is but a dream to Seventy-and-over, But a joy proposed un- -til we start to shave: Mouth-delight depends on Virtue in the cook, but This She guarantees from Cradle unto grave. Lifted off the ***** Infants from their mothers Hear their first impartial Words of worldly praise: Hence, to start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days. Revelation came to Luther in a privy (Crosswords have been solved there) Rodin was no fool When he cast his Thinker, Cogitating deeply, Crouched in the position Of a man at stool. All the arts derive from This ur-act of making, Private to the artist: Makers' lives are spent Striving in their chosen Medium to produce a De-narcissus-ized en- During excrement. Freud did not invent the Constipated miser: Banks have letter boxes Built in their façade Marked For Night Deposits, Stocks are firm or liquid, Currencies of nations Either soft or hard. Global Mother, keep our Bowels of compassion Open through our lifetime, Purge our minds as well: Grant us a king ending, Not a second childhood, Petulant, weak-sphinctered, In a cheap hotel. Keep us in our station: When we get pound-notish, When we seem about to Take up Higher Thought, Send us some deflating Image like the pained ex- -pression on a Major Prophet taken short. (Orthodoxy ought to Bless our modern plumbing: Swift and St. Augustine Lived in centuries When a stench of sewage Made a strong debating Point for Manichees.) Mind and Body run on Different timetables: Not until our morning Visit here can we Leave the dead concerns of Yesterday behind us, Face with all our courage What is now to be.
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The Geography of the House
(for Christopher Isherwood) Seated after breakfast In this white-tiled cabin Arabs call the House where Everybody goes, Even melancholics Raise a cheer to Mrs. Nature for the primal Pleasure She bestows. *** is but a dream to Seventy-and-over, But a joy proposed un- -til we start to shave: Mouth-delight depends on Virtue in the cook, but This She guarantees from Cradle unto grave. Lifted off the ***** Infants from their mothers Hear their first impartial Words of worldly praise: Hence, to start the morning With a satisfactory Dump is a good omen All our adult days. Revelation came to Luther in a privy (Crosswords have been solved there) Rodin was no fool When he cast his Thinker, Cogitating deeply, Crouched in the position Of a man at stool. All the arts derive from This ur-act of making, Private to the artist: Makers' lives are spent Striving in their chosen Medium to produce a De-narcissus-ized en- During excrement. Freud did not invent the Constipated miser: Banks have letter boxes Built in their façade Marked For Night Deposits, Stocks are firm or liquid, Currencies of nations Either soft or hard. Global Mother, keep our Bowels of compassion Open through our lifetime, Purge our minds as well: Grant us a king ending, Not a second childhood, Petulant, weak-sphinctered, In a cheap hotel. Keep us in our station: When we get pound-notish, When we seem about to Take up Higher Thought, Send us some deflating Image like the pained ex- -pression on a Major Prophet taken short. (Orthodoxy ought to Bless our modern plumbing: Swift and St. Augustine Lived in centuries When a stench of sewage Made a strong debating Point for Manichees.) Mind and Body run on Different timetables: Not until our morning Visit here can we Leave the dead concerns of Yesterday behind us, Face with all our courage What is now to be.
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I was just in the closet July 1988 Not a word was said; 'sept a couple of whispers and an obvious desire to **** Mop buckets, the heat, and the stink of her ***** Petulant hands and harsh fingers as staggered breaths tell a tale; knickers and pants half pulled down, Hard truths pushing through, I had to **** her from behind, Very confined, quick, clumsy, ****** release. We both staggered out;  her mate was much older and waiting outside, bold as brass, she looks me up and down all tough and barks assertively "i'm next!" and **** I was back in the closet 1988
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Jul 23, 2017
Jul 23, 2017 at 5:05 PM UTC
In and out the closet.
When listen about date of exam Feelings got high and uncalm Being company of books inevitable Now condition of students deplorable Having pressure smacking clock fatuously Yawning and laziness offing continuously To see books again and again become petulant But thinking about exams it takes dissentiment! Due to exams sleep devoured Neither subject nor weather favoured Time ate to last morsel the pleasure And to do best alter one's nature Pretending today's work to next day Lastly purge to get something we have to pay!!
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 1:19 PM UTC
EXAMINATION PHOBIA
old hunger makes us sick forget who we are and where we're going how to see thru fog how to pierce the sky where's the truth in all this mustard gas and lies translucent silken shadows of people wishy washy wistful thinking like 'o look at big sophisticated words dribbling across page - verbal ***** great philosopher all expression and thought purge speaking in a vacuum' petulant little lines for liar's lurid heart petty little fines growing large from the start what is this point you speak of and how do we get there if it is really about the journey and not the destination then can i get off right now or can i be seal eye headlight hi beams is there trust enough left between us two to go on down this road together or part ways at lightning fork in path no i go into petrified forest bog to hide and melt and decompose bucolic rot under stalwart stoic onlooking trees you go to riches, glory, ******* and now sprouting planted seeds misgivings all forgotten like irreverent, irrelevant childish deeds and i grow bitter and ferment starving gut absinthe filled with frozen wormwood lies like Poe and de Quincy and all the rest
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Sep 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
road
I argue To harm you The protective computer screen Allows me to be rude or mean Without feeling your pain So it becomes a game Or a simulation of fame If I can ignore the shame The tread is wearing off the tire After the internet stripped The rubber off the telephone wire And we lost our loose grip After being shocked By the rest of the flock Their existence Shows a difference That is hard to accept We're not what we expect We push the boundaries of communication But we can't handle the technology I feel it gives me social immunization But I feel the darkness follow me And swallow me Until I'm wallowing Yet I don't know why I try to ignore it Only if it gets me high Will I be for it This utilitarian keyboard Should help me see more Instead it transcribes my anger As I turn into an electric stranger The words on my pixelated screen Do not reflect my childhood dreams But the bitterness of dreams being crushed My petulant reactions are thoughtlessly rushed And I represent my views in a negative way Until I'd be more useful with nothing to say There is a need for empathy In the electronic discourse Right now there is only entropy And words without remorse Spoken from a high horse That looks down on peasants who own it It's also a slave but doesn't even know it So it arrogantly trots along Never admitting that it's wrong Until it hears the slithering snakes rattle Then it doesn't mind wearing a saddle But the venom has already been injected And its mind becomes hopelessly infected We argue without blinking We argue without thinking We argue with poor logic Our ignorance we flaunt it Until the internet is haunted
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 4:36 AM UTC
Haunted
I argue To harm you The protective computer screen Allows me to be rude or mean Without feeling your pain So it becomes a game Or a simulation of fame If I can ignore the shame The tread is wearing off the tire After the internet stripped The rubber off the telephone wire And we lost our loose grip After being shocked By the rest of the flock Their existence Shows a difference That is hard to accept We're not what we expect We push the boundaries of communication But we can't handle the technology I feel it gives me social immunization But I feel the darkness follow me And swallow me Until I'm wallowing Yet I don't know why I try to ignore it Only if it gets me high Will I be for it This utilitarian keyboard Should help me see more Instead it transcribes my anger As I turn into an electric stranger The words on my pixelated screen Do not reflect my childhood dreams But the bitterness of dreams being crushed My petulant reactions are thoughtlessly rushed And I represent my views in a negative way Until I'd be more useful with nothing to say There is a need for empathy In the electronic discourse Right now there is only entropy And words without remorse Spoken from a high horse That looks down on peasants who own it It's also a slave but doesn't even know it So it arrogantly trots along Never admitting that it's wrong Until it hears the slithering snakes rattle Then it doesn't mind wearing a saddle But the venom has already been injected And its mind becomes hopelessly infected We argue without blinking We argue without thinking We argue with poor logic Our ignorance we flaunt it Until the internet is haunted
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*when the moon  writhe and crawling the silent night.. it was time to layover yearning  who clotted for sweetheart.. when the sun excited to greet the morning .. it was time to embed cheerfulness on the idol of conscience.. sprinkle knitted heart turmoil and dew drops each cavity of jasmine petals .. i greet to you,  my dearest sister.. each twist will crease beautiful crowded heart longing .. so that  relieved you feel full carefree breathing.. with the presence of me, i will fulfill your every drought in the lake of your worries .. i will treat every your petulant  in lap with more  excellent attention ... return back to you  as always,  my dearest sister.. to pulling  the curtain  the recesses of the heart that always hiding .. to wrapping blush smolder desire in your heart arms .. because your bliss,  my dearest sister.. it's  most beautiful thing that can i enjoy ever ..* -the poetry is dedicated to a sincere friend of mine, Ha- ┈┈┈┈┈»̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶ ƦУ »̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ adinda kala sang rembulan menggeliat merayapi malam sunyi.. tibalah waktu untuk menyinggahi gigilnya kerinduan sang kekasih sanubari.. kala sang mentari bersemangat menyambut pagi .. tibalah waktu untuk menyematkan kecerian pada sang pujaan nurani.. menyemaikan untaian gejolak kalbu dan meneteskan embun disetiap rongga kelopak melati.. kusambut darimu, adinda... setiap simpul lipatan hati yang sesak akan indahnya kerinduan.. agar terasa lega engkau bernafas penuh riang.. bersama hadirku, kan kupenuhi setiap kekeringan ditelaga keresahanmu.. kan kumanjakan setiap rajukanmu dipangkuan perhatian nan syahdu... berpulang selalu kepadamu, adinda.. untuk menyibakan tirai pada relung hati yang selalu bersembunyi.. untuk membalut rona kerinduanmu yang membara dalam dekapan hati .. kerena bahagiamu, adinda... adalah merupakan hal terindah yang dapat kunikmati..
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 1:32 AM UTC
dearest sister
*when the moon  writhe and crawling the silent night.. it was time to layover yearning  who clotted for sweetheart.. when the sun excited to greet the morning .. it was time to embed cheerfulness on the idol of conscience.. sprinkle knitted heart turmoil and dew drops each cavity of jasmine petals .. i greet to you,  my dearest sister.. each twist will crease beautiful crowded heart longing .. so that  relieved you feel full carefree breathing.. with the presence of me, i will fulfill your every drought in the lake of your worries .. i will treat every your petulant  in lap with more  excellent attention ... return back to you  as always,  my dearest sister.. to pulling  the curtain  the recesses of the heart that always hiding .. to wrapping blush smolder desire in your heart arms .. because your bliss,  my dearest sister.. it's  most beautiful thing that can i enjoy ever ..* -the poetry is dedicated to a sincere friend of mine, Ha- ┈┈┈┈┈»̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶ ƦУ »̶·̵̭̌✽✽·̵̭̌«̶┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ adinda kala sang rembulan menggeliat merayapi malam sunyi.. tibalah waktu untuk menyinggahi gigilnya kerinduan sang kekasih sanubari.. kala sang mentari bersemangat menyambut pagi .. tibalah waktu untuk menyematkan kecerian pada sang pujaan nurani.. menyemaikan untaian gejolak kalbu dan meneteskan embun disetiap rongga kelopak melati.. kusambut darimu, adinda... setiap simpul lipatan hati yang sesak akan indahnya kerinduan.. agar terasa lega engkau bernafas penuh riang.. bersama hadirku, kan kupenuhi setiap kekeringan ditelaga keresahanmu.. kan kumanjakan setiap rajukanmu dipangkuan perhatian nan syahdu... berpulang selalu kepadamu, adinda.. untuk menyibakan tirai pada relung hati yang selalu bersembunyi.. untuk membalut rona kerinduanmu yang membara dalam dekapan hati .. kerena bahagiamu, adinda... adalah merupakan hal terindah yang dapat kunikmati..
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With eyes of restless mental fraught, ...in-kind with dancing dreamy thoughts, and hope in lovelorn passion’s play, prismatically amorous frenetic fray; ...yet your heart at apogee to mine today? And if I say solemnity? As you presage a beauty… And if I say solace? While you oh petulant beauty… And when I premune peace? You stir it with such beauty… And as I yearn with much desire? Commanded by your beauty! Burning in my chest a fire, An Eros to your beauty. With eyes of restless mental fraught, in-kind with dancing dreamy thoughts, and hope in lovelorn passion’s play, prismatically amorous frenetic fray; yet your heart at apogee to mine today? And you the beauty of my dismay. . .
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 11:19 PM UTC
Beauty
(To L. L.) Could we dig up this long-buried treasure, Were it worth the pleasure, We never could learn love’s song, We are parted too long. Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead, Could we live it all over again, Were it worth the pain! I remember we used to meet By an ivied seat, And you warbled each pretty word With the air of a bird; And your voice had a quaver in it, Just like a linnet, And shook, as the blackbird’s throat With its last big note; And your eyes, they were green and grey Like an April day, But lit into amethyst When I stooped and kissed; And your mouth, it would never smile For a long, long while, Then it rippled all over with laughter Five minutes after. You were always afraid of a shower, Just like a flower: I remember you started and ran When the rain began. I remember I never could catch you, For no one could match you, You had wonderful, luminous, fleet, Little wings to your feet. I remember your hair—did I tie it? For it always ran riot— Like a tangled sunbeam of gold: These things are old. I remember so well the room, And the lilac bloom That beat at the dripping pane In the warm June rain; And the colour of your gown, It was amber-brown, And two yellow satin bows From your shoulders rose. And the handkerchief of French lace Which you held to your face— Had a small tear left a stain? Or was it the rain? On your hand as it waved adieu There were veins of blue; In your voice as it said good-bye Was a petulant cry, ‘You have only wasted your life.’ (Ah, that was the knife!) When I rushed through the garden gate It was all too late. Could we live it over again, Were it worth the pain, Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead! Well, if my heart must break, Dear love, for your sake, It will break in music, I know, Poets’ hearts break so. But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God’s heaven and hell.
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Roses And Rue
(To L. L.) Could we dig up this long-buried treasure, Were it worth the pleasure, We never could learn love’s song, We are parted too long. Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead, Could we live it all over again, Were it worth the pain! I remember we used to meet By an ivied seat, And you warbled each pretty word With the air of a bird; And your voice had a quaver in it, Just like a linnet, And shook, as the blackbird’s throat With its last big note; And your eyes, they were green and grey Like an April day, But lit into amethyst When I stooped and kissed; And your mouth, it would never smile For a long, long while, Then it rippled all over with laughter Five minutes after. You were always afraid of a shower, Just like a flower: I remember you started and ran When the rain began. I remember I never could catch you, For no one could match you, You had wonderful, luminous, fleet, Little wings to your feet. I remember your hair—did I tie it? For it always ran riot— Like a tangled sunbeam of gold: These things are old. I remember so well the room, And the lilac bloom That beat at the dripping pane In the warm June rain; And the colour of your gown, It was amber-brown, And two yellow satin bows From your shoulders rose. And the handkerchief of French lace Which you held to your face— Had a small tear left a stain? Or was it the rain? On your hand as it waved adieu There were veins of blue; In your voice as it said good-bye Was a petulant cry, ‘You have only wasted your life.’ (Ah, that was the knife!) When I rushed through the garden gate It was all too late. Could we live it over again, Were it worth the pain, Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead! Well, if my heart must break, Dear love, for your sake, It will break in music, I know, Poets’ hearts break so. But strange that I was not told That the brain can hold In a tiny ivory cell God’s heaven and hell.
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Inside the bearded man, The crying baby lies The disarming face is gone The flowery flesh is worn And nobody wants to rush in To his peevish petulant cries And wipe his bottom or eyes. He's in a pitiful mess But the middle-aged man No matter how hard he tries Cannot command the love That came free with his innocence He bawls in vain in his pain Such comfort will never never come again.
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Inside The Bearded Man
Growing up in Poughkeepsie, the barbells of unfaith always shook her wrists when she lifted "I will be gone from here soon enough" over her shoulders. "I will love like crazy." Grown-up in the city, she swallows hard in the marble mirror and thinks "Maybe today will be the day," but it never is, and she ignores the petulant inside voice saying "Unfaith is unfaith but so is dead-eyed companionship, so unclench your fists"--she hasn't yet.
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 12:15 AM UTC
Ruby
Eyes wide you do not allow oblivious sleep shadows branded on my retina reveal all contrast tattooed on my shoulder a skeletal hand *this illusion   pins me down* your questions have no answers questions remain asked again and again *I swear I know nothing* You say everything *is immaterial subjectively real ideas existent in the mind of the perceiver I am* (you insist) a true believer Parched and shrinking I ask for mercy you bring the cup to my fissured lips but it is empty a vessel of air you murmur *there is only enough for one what will you give in return?* Heavy metal arpeggios of wind head bang petulant faces inured to rain a repeating refrain in falsehood lies your truth but even you cannot halt the dawn a dark horizon pulls the strings powerless you sink behind the cloud- wall of your storm is it safe now to close my eyes? three times whisper *be gone               bright fiend* a weary incantation spell of protection the yawning wind done with howling hums reassuringly                                                     *“a change is gonna come                                                                   imagine                                                                                peace in our time”*
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Apr 10, 2017
Apr 10, 2017 at 9:58 AM UTC
Interrogation
Ghosts of all my lovely sins, Who attend too well my pillow, Gay the wanton rain begins; Hide the limp and tearful willow. Turn aside your eyes and ears, Trail away your robes of sorrow, You shall have my further years- You shall walk with me tomorrow. I am sister to the rain; Fey and sudden and unholy, Petulant at the windowpane, Quickly lost, remembered slowly. I have lived with shades, a shade; I am hung with graveyard flowers. Let me be tonight arrayed In the silver of the showers. Every fragile thing shall rust; When another April passes I may be a furry dust, Sifting through the brittle grasses. All sweet sins shall be forgot; Who will live to tell their siring? Hear me now, nor let me rot Wistful still, and still aspiring. Ghosts of dear temptations, heed; I am frail, be you forgiving. See you not that I have need To be living with the living? Sail, tonight, the Styx's breast; Glide among the dim processions Of the exquisite unblest, Spirits of my shared transgressions, Roam with young Persephone. Plucking poppies for your slumber . . . With the morrow, there shall be One more wraith among your number.
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Rainy Night
Read the Printed Word! It is liberating and overwhelming (to the point of hot tears) to know how long I have been letting people drag my body through hot coals while denying their abuse only because letting them mistreat me was only a way to mistreat my self But as I have stopped hurting myself, I have become aware that while I dare anyone to try to hurt me— I say this with a fire glint in my eye-- that I have been opening myself to the worst of people. I am seeing myself in a better light— I am powerful I am beautiful I am sacred I am deserving I am independent And I don’t need people who I never really needed in the first place. I’ve gone nineteen years sacrificing myself and it cannot go on. I will not let it go on. My consciousness is shifting, my inner self is awakening and stretching its muscles. Vomiting up this cancerous, petulant, bone-blackening self loathing, cutting out this metastasizing inability to love myself, is painful. It is the worst sort of agony {and my body can take a lot of hell} but when have I ever shied from pain?
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM UTC
the worst sort of agony
Why are you acting as rabbit when you could howl like a wolf? You’re always hiding. Always regressing. Never really going anywhere. You channel these thoughts, yes. You manifest them. On a page. On a stage. Like a smiling circus clown, like a trapeze artist, flying, stumbling through the realm of obscurity. A forgotten juggle. A lost tape. It does not matter. Why? Why do you do these things? Why are you so scared? They are not grand thoughts. They are not ideas meant to change. They are private insights. Jittery. A look into the eyes of some scared soul. Your poems are minutiae, insignificant details. They are the trembling lip. They are the shaking hand. The confused daze. They do not know who they are, but they know that they are small. You want to be a monolith, but you refuse to build, you refuse to haul the black stones. You do not have the power. You are a caricature. You are as scared as Paris, as two-faced as Iscariot- you could kiss with passion. You could rule with love. But you bow out. You take responsibilities with you, and slink into the dirt you arose from. You are clay. You are dust. 
 Why are you dust? You don’t have to be. Why aren’t you angry- you should be roaring! Why are you quiet- you should be singing, singing with the cicadas- chirping with the birds, howling with the wolves; you should join the tumult, the uproar; but you sit. You play with your toys like a petulant child and scream when they break. That’s the only noise you ever make. You could be a wolf. You don’t have to be the prey.
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Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 11:11 AM UTC
rabbit soul scared
Why are you acting as rabbit when you could howl like a wolf? You’re always hiding. Always regressing. Never really going anywhere. You channel these thoughts, yes. You manifest them. On a page. On a stage. Like a smiling circus clown, like a trapeze artist, flying, stumbling through the realm of obscurity. A forgotten juggle. A lost tape. It does not matter. Why? Why do you do these things? Why are you so scared? They are not grand thoughts. They are not ideas meant to change. They are private insights. Jittery. A look into the eyes of some scared soul. Your poems are minutiae, insignificant details. They are the trembling lip. They are the shaking hand. The confused daze. They do not know who they are, but they know that they are small. You want to be a monolith, but you refuse to build, you refuse to haul the black stones. You do not have the power. You are a caricature. You are as scared as Paris, as two-faced as Iscariot- you could kiss with passion. You could rule with love. But you bow out. You take responsibilities with you, and slink into the dirt you arose from. You are clay. You are dust. 
 Why are you dust? You don’t have to be. Why aren’t you angry- you should be roaring! Why are you quiet- you should be singing, singing with the cicadas- chirping with the birds, howling with the wolves; you should join the tumult, the uproar; but you sit. You play with your toys like a petulant child and scream when they break. That’s the only noise you ever make. You could be a wolf. You don’t have to be the prey.
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On a bleak and frosty night Vexed and weary two travelers rode Along the pathways-craggy and ragged From Nazareth, trudging miles on end Full pregnant, was she with child Mary -the ****** suffused with Spirit Holy Divinely ordained to bear the Godly Prince Conceived before, she had known her spouse. Abiding in Heaven’s Providence n’ care They had rode past miles behind Far too fatigued by the trip Mary, now badly needed a place to rest. Heading towards the blinking lights Not far from the city’s guarded gate Joseph sighted a tavern-small Perched high on a tiny hill A sense of relief beamed past They have come at last to the journey’s end Finally found a place to rest! An interim home away from home Tethering the donkey outside the gate Joseph helped Mary alight the brute In eager search, he hurried inside With Mary, following with faltering steps. But the couple, to their dismay found Within the tavern, room, there was none For many a man had gathered round To halt there on that freezing night Sundry folk from surrounding lands Had reached Bethlehem for the yearly census Tradesmen selling clothes and cheese Nomads of varying clans and clime Petulant camels, braying donkeys The place was littered with man and beast. The tavern small, so packed to full Had no more space to harbor the crowd Mary and Joseph, though dejected, Were encamped within a manger- warm With tender concern, Joseph joked, To ease the strain on Mary’s face “Gaze upon this palace of gold Where a son shall soon be born to us”! Mary smiled a gentle smile, Humored by her husband’s jest Under the gaze of tethered hosts In veiled privacy of the midnight gloom She gave birth to a radiant child, The great Redeemer to all Mankind The star studded sky suddenly glowed With a rare brilliance never beheld And a celestial voice trailed along Delivering ‘tidings of joy’ to the globe around
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Dec 22, 2016
Dec 22, 2016 at 7:11 AM UTC
A Journey to Bethlehem
On a bleak and frosty night Vexed and weary two travelers rode Along the pathways-craggy and ragged From Nazareth, trudging miles on end Full pregnant, was she with child Mary -the ****** suffused with Spirit Holy Divinely ordained to bear the Godly Prince Conceived before, she had known her spouse. Abiding in Heaven’s Providence n’ care They had rode past miles behind Far too fatigued by the trip Mary, now badly needed a place to rest. Heading towards the blinking lights Not far from the city’s guarded gate Joseph sighted a tavern-small Perched high on a tiny hill A sense of relief beamed past They have come at last to the journey’s end Finally found a place to rest! An interim home away from home Tethering the donkey outside the gate Joseph helped Mary alight the brute In eager search, he hurried inside With Mary, following with faltering steps. But the couple, to their dismay found Within the tavern, room, there was none For many a man had gathered round To halt there on that freezing night Sundry folk from surrounding lands Had reached Bethlehem for the yearly census Tradesmen selling clothes and cheese Nomads of varying clans and clime Petulant camels, braying donkeys The place was littered with man and beast. The tavern small, so packed to full Had no more space to harbor the crowd Mary and Joseph, though dejected, Were encamped within a manger- warm With tender concern, Joseph joked, To ease the strain on Mary’s face “Gaze upon this palace of gold Where a son shall soon be born to us”! Mary smiled a gentle smile, Humored by her husband’s jest Under the gaze of tethered hosts In veiled privacy of the midnight gloom She gave birth to a radiant child, The great Redeemer to all Mankind The star studded sky suddenly glowed With a rare brilliance never beheld And a celestial voice trailed along Delivering ‘tidings of joy’ to the globe around
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It’s never straight forward. It’s always redirected, people trying to save face, but that’s expected. I’ve gotten so tired of the games, trustworthy- the definition just isn’t the same. I just wonder when it changed, when words became so perfectly arranged. I just want the real. Don’t comfort me with a lie, because from the truth I’ll heal. I’m ranting now, but people have gotten so lost somehow. People are known to beat around the bush, maybe they just need a little push. Get to it, I’m not talking about shooting the **** I want the truth, not the attitude of the petulant youth. Get the point across, so the truth can’t be lost.
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 5:13 PM UTC
Point
...and so time continues to gobble itself up; the only dog to ever catch it's own tail. I'm wishing to stop and willing to last. All the while, a hypocrite shrouded by my own inability to escape self doubt. I cling to the moment before decision, audaciously battling consternation I bid time to speed past. caught in petulant impatience, I question... shall I forfeit myself to hell? or shall I wedge myself in the gap of days past, and days I cannot cease from escaping my grasp. I linger a moment longer on a thought I often ponder... What's the point in living fast? I'd rather lay in the grass and finish last. C.e.M. 12.23.14
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Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014 at 2:24 AM UTC
Tortoise Mentality
Last night I dreamed of roughened hands, And pristine walls with spackled sand, And feeling less, But wanting more, Of windows open, And a creaking door. Last night I dreamed of voices mild, And smiling faces, and laughter loud, I dreamed of grackles in parkling lots, Of finding familiar and imagining what. I dreamed of witchcraft and of lore, And linen hidden in a dresser drawer. I dreamed of you, I dreamed of you, And all the things I'd like to do.
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Feb 6, 2013
Feb 6, 2013 at 2:40 PM UTC
To the Petulant Drywall Installer of My Dreams
"Are you mad at me?" "I wouldn't say 'mad.'" I'd say captious petulant furious acrimonious irritable querulous sour acerbic peevish ornery livid vicious. No, of course I'm not mad at you.
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM UTC
Mad? No.
Verbiage Sagacious humans would concur Salacious verbiage is trenchant Verdant language withers a guileless soul Hubristic linguists deem limpid oratory irksome A Didactic, petulant, boorish, garrulous, nefarious, obtuse, and insolent Overtone is not my intent Puckish, risible, mannered, jocular, antic, and adroit Reverberations I am manifesting TRANSLATION Words Smart people would agree Healthy words are sharp Unripe words die naive spirits Self-confident word users find simple language annoying Moral instruction, rude, insensitivity, wordy, wicked, blunt, and contemptuous Feelings are not my purpose Impish (silly), laughable, artificial, playful, clownish, and clever Reactions I'm hoping to create
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 12:15 PM UTC
Verbiage/Word
Scientists say when the honeybees die, the people will die. That is horrifying. Not our imminent doom, but the extinction of the adorable honey bee. If you converse with these insipid creatures, you will discover bees are jocular and discerning creatures. They are sarcastic and even petulant, that I find to be risible.  Their immutable ability to enhance their minute brains renders their vocabulary elementary; however, their impish nature endears them to me. Honeybees aren't dying, but listen to their buzz closely, they may **** you with hilarity; at least, that's the buzz.
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Jul 20, 2013
Jul 20, 2013 at 7:21 PM UTC
The Buzz
Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me—I am so tired, so tired Of passing pleasant places! All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back at loveliness and sighed; Yet at my hand an unrelenting hand Tugged ever, and I passed. All my life long Over my shoulder have I looked at peace; And now I fain would lie in this long grass And close my eyes. Yet onward! Cat birds call Through the long afternoon, and creeks at dusk Are guttural. Whip-poor-wills wake and cry, Drawing the twilight close about their throats. Only my heart makes answer. Eager vines Go up the rocks and wait; flushed apple-trees Pause in their dance and break the ring for me; Dim, shady wood-roads, redolent of fern And bayberry, that through sweet bevies thread Of round-faced roses, pink and petulant, Look back and beckon ere they disappear. Only my heart, only my heart responds. Yet, ah, my path is sweet on either side All through the dragging day,—sharp underfoot And hot, and like dead mist the dry dust hangs— But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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we are windows with lapsed insurance but see fine print where there is none and that makes us innocent pillagers. the village learns to ween the system from an iron fist to adopt an irony. but i digress, where the last appearance gypsied the locals with petulant integers. the riven burn ! to clean the wisdom of our schadenfreude. the image turns to ravine the slender isthmus. but pry it from the vapor you can knot.
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Nov 20, 2012
Nov 20, 2012 at 3:27 PM UTC
on your mark. get set. abalone.