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"philosophic" poems
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mind Disdains the pleasures of fantastic kind; Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude, And wreck the solace of the poet's mood! Young Zeno, practis'd in the Stoic's art, Rejects the language of the glowing heart; Dissolves sweet Nature to a mess of laws; Condemns th' effect whilst looking for the cause; Freezes poor Ovid in an iced review, And sneers because his fables are untrue! In search of hope the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! Stay! Vandal sophist, whose deep lore would blast The grateful legends of the storied past; Whose tongue in censure flays th' embellish'd page, And scorns the comforts of a dreary age: Wouldst strip the foliage from the vital bough Till all men grow as wisely dull as thou? Happy the man whose fresh, untainted eye Discerns a Pantheon in the spangled sky; Finds sylphs and dryads in the waving trees, And spies soft Notus in the southern breeze For whom the stream a cheering carol sings, While reedy music by the fountain rings; To whom the waves a Nereid tale confide Till friendly presence fills the rising tide. Happy is he, who void of learning's woes, Th' ethereal life of bodied Nature knows; I scorn the sage that tells me it but seems, And flout his gravity in sunlight dreams!
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Fact and Fancy
I There is a house with ivied walls, And mullioned windows worn and old, And the long dwellers in those halls Have souls that know but sordid calls, And dote on gold. II In a blazing brick and plated show Not far away a ‘villa’ gleams, And here a family few may know, With book and pencil, viol and bow, Lead inner lives of dreams. III The philosophic passers say, ‘See that old mansion mossed and fair, Poetic souls therein are they: And O that gaudy box! Away, You ****** people there.’
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Architectural Masks
My love for you is not a tragic beautiful love story such as Romeo and Juliet. My love for you is like the love story of the moon and the sun. My love for you is a dying star ready to burst and create a giant black hole. My love for you is like the universe, a beautiful enormous unknown. My love for you is an unexplored galaxy that fascinates the most philosophic poets. My love for you is like Venus, too beautiful for the eyes, but, come closer and it will burn you to the ground. My love for you is like Neptune, too distant and too cold. My love for you is like Pluto, even though people don't talk about it anymore, he's still there, screaming for recognition, screaming "please, I'm still here, notice me", a silent cry that makes you wonder that if a planet as beautiful and as unique as Pluto can be forgotten, why can't I forget something so fragile and small? My love for you is like the love story of the moon and the sun. The sun dies every night to let the moon breathe. They will always love one another but they will never touch each other. They love at distance. They rarely meet, they rarely have the chance to be together. But when they do, they create the most gorgeous phenomenon that you will ever see. Someday the sun will explode, someday the moon will disappear, someday their love will die and there's going to be nothing here to tell the story about how they loved so fearlessly. And that's how I know that our love is like the sun and the moon. Too distant to touch. Too beautiful to go unnoticed. Too cold to burn out. Too sweet to be bitter. Too precious to not be treasured.
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
How the moon loves the sun
My love for you is not a tragic beautiful love story such as Romeo and Juliet. My love for you is like the love story of the moon and the sun. My love for you is a dying star ready to burst and create a giant black hole. My love for you is like the universe, a beautiful enormous unknown. My love for you is an unexplored galaxy that fascinates the most philosophic poets. My love for you is like Venus, too beautiful for the eyes, but, come closer and it will burn you to the ground. My love for you is like Neptune, too distant and too cold. My love for you is like Pluto, even though people don't talk about it anymore, he's still there, screaming for recognition, screaming "please, I'm still here, notice me", a silent cry that makes you wonder that if a planet as beautiful and as unique as Pluto can be forgotten, why can't I forget something so fragile and small? My love for you is like the love story of the moon and the sun. The sun dies every night to let the moon breathe. They will always love one another but they will never touch each other. They love at distance. They rarely meet, they rarely have the chance to be together. But when they do, they create the most gorgeous phenomenon that you will ever see. Someday the sun will explode, someday the moon will disappear, someday their love will die and there's going to be nothing here to tell the story about how they loved so fearlessly. And that's how I know that our love is like the sun and the moon. Too distant to touch. Too beautiful to go unnoticed. Too cold to burn out. Too sweet to be bitter. Too precious to not be treasured.
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A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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Brother Bruin
A dancing Bear grotesque and funny Earned for his master heaps of money, Gruff yet good-natured, fond of honey, And cheerful if the day was sunny. Past hedge and ditch, past pond and wood He tramped, and on some common stood; There, cottage children circling gaily, He in their midmost footed daily. Pandean pipes and drum and muzzle Were quite enough his brain to puzzle: But like a philosophic bear He let alone extraneous care And danced contented anywhere. Still, year on year, and wear and tear, Age even the gruffest, bluffest bear. A day came when he scarce could prance, And when his master looked askance On dancing Bear who would not dance. To looks succeeded blows; hard blows Battered his ears and poor old nose. From bluff and gruff he waxed curmudgeon; He danced indeed, but danced in dudgeon, Capered in fury fast and faster. Ah, could he once but hug his master And perish in one joint disaster! But deafness, blindness, weakness growing, Not fury's self could keep him going. One dark day when the snow was snowing His cup was brimmed to overflowing: He tottered, toppled on one side, Growled once, and shook his head, and died. The master kicked and struck in vain, The weary drudge had distanced pain And never now would wince again. The master growled; he might have howled Or coaxed,--that slave's last growl was growled. So gnawed by rancor and chagrin One thing remained: he sold the skin. What next the man did is not worth Your notice or my setting forth, But hearken what befell at last. His idle working days gone past, And not one friend and not one penny Stored up (if ever he had any Friends; but his coppers had been many), All doors stood shut against him but The workhouse door, which cannot shut. There he droned on,--a grim old sinner, Toothless, and grumbling for his dinner, Unpitied quite, uncared for much (The rate-payers not favoring such), Hungry and gaunt, with time to spare; Perhaps the hungry, gaunt old Bear Danced back, a haunting memory. Indeed, I hope so, for you see If once the hard old heart relented, The hard old man may have repented.
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The good thing about being a gypsy is its wild sativa; the bad thing about being a gypsy is its tamed alcoholic. The good thing about being a gypsy is its endless freedom; the bad thing about being a gypsy is its slavery to freedom. The good thing about being a gypsy is its philosophic heart; the bad thing about being a gypsy is its down-regulation of joy. The best thing about being a wanderer is its search for silence; the worst thing about being a wanderer is its capacity for noise. The best thing about being a wanderer is the free meal; the worst thing about being a wander is the free meal. The best thing about being a wanderer is the love of night; the worst thing about being a wanderer is the love of day. The best thing about being a gypsy is the wandering heart; the worst thing about being a wanderer is the gypsy heart. The best thing about being a gypsy is its magic book; the worst thing about being a gypsy is its accumulated curse. The best thing about being a gypsy is its varied muse; the worst thing about being a gypsy is its lack of one.
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 1:15 PM UTC
THE BEST AND WORST THINGS
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heav’nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt’ring Foe; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in sable garb arrayed Immersed in rapt’rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen’ral Friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy Suppliant’s head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chast’ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful Band (As by the Impious thou art seen), With thund’ring voice, and threat’ning mien, With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. Thy form benign, O Goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic Train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The gen’rous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.
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Hymn To Adversity
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heav’nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt’ring Foe; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in sable garb arrayed Immersed in rapt’rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen’ral Friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy Suppliant’s head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chast’ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful Band (As by the Impious thou art seen), With thund’ring voice, and threat’ning mien, With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. Thy form benign, O Goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic Train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The gen’rous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.
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Hail to Thee, Immortal Three Knowledge we sing on laud Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates Philosophy, to be human awed Teach through time, consciously Nod not, what others fraud Socrates taught, Divine Being God not of brutal Athens’ passions Entity of Beauty, Truth Seeing Goodness unseen in day’s fashions Soul for unalloyed agreeing Lessons humanities’ compassion Talk eternal justice, everlasting life Socrates’ Sovereign Right of Reason Clearly mind deceived sense’s strife Invincible perfection be God’s season Thus, our key to knowledge ever rife Priests who find this, absolute treason No church or Socratic school A barefoot man roamed to teach Socrates mocked for looking a fool His speech not one to simply preach Plato witnesses a martyr’s drool Cruel hemlock, words did so breach Handsome aristocratic youth Plato Followed Socrates’ Eternal Wisdom But soon to find his own credo In Medara to find Euclid and freedom Egyptian geometry to provide dado To Plato life, expression; not a system Eternally an artist, Plato did develop Philosophic circle in Academus groves Bring Athens, world knowledge envelop Discretions of sensations, be not oaths What man may be, an animal jealous Plato’s allegorical cave found in droves As Plato once be Socrates’ disciple So too, to Plato would Aristotle be Passing comprehension archetypal Successions of genius’ visions do see Aristotle taking it step further, as vital To science of hands-on discovery And this is where we see a parting Of two distinctly opposing philosophies Plato being at odds, with science starting Aristotle’s truth, finding no apologies Things not happening by chance imparting Frivolity of duopoly, dichotomy to Socrates But a new era has surely now dawned Science exploring an invisible atom And the seen and unseen correspond So to Aristotle’s, Plato’s, Socrates’ datum Brilliant new philosophies have spawned An abstract notion of conceived stratum
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 12:09 PM UTC
Immortal Three
Hail to Thee, Immortal Three Knowledge we sing on laud Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates Philosophy, to be human awed Teach through time, consciously Nod not, what others fraud Socrates taught, Divine Being God not of brutal Athens’ passions Entity of Beauty, Truth Seeing Goodness unseen in day’s fashions Soul for unalloyed agreeing Lessons humanities’ compassion Talk eternal justice, everlasting life Socrates’ Sovereign Right of Reason Clearly mind deceived sense’s strife Invincible perfection be God’s season Thus, our key to knowledge ever rife Priests who find this, absolute treason No church or Socratic school A barefoot man roamed to teach Socrates mocked for looking a fool His speech not one to simply preach Plato witnesses a martyr’s drool Cruel hemlock, words did so breach Handsome aristocratic youth Plato Followed Socrates’ Eternal Wisdom But soon to find his own credo In Medara to find Euclid and freedom Egyptian geometry to provide dado To Plato life, expression; not a system Eternally an artist, Plato did develop Philosophic circle in Academus groves Bring Athens, world knowledge envelop Discretions of sensations, be not oaths What man may be, an animal jealous Plato’s allegorical cave found in droves As Plato once be Socrates’ disciple So too, to Plato would Aristotle be Passing comprehension archetypal Successions of genius’ visions do see Aristotle taking it step further, as vital To science of hands-on discovery And this is where we see a parting Of two distinctly opposing philosophies Plato being at odds, with science starting Aristotle’s truth, finding no apologies Things not happening by chance imparting Frivolity of duopoly, dichotomy to Socrates But a new era has surely now dawned Science exploring an invisible atom And the seen and unseen correspond So to Aristotle’s, Plato’s, Socrates’ datum Brilliant new philosophies have spawned An abstract notion of conceived stratum
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Some may consider you a pagan god But you are the most handsome lord You are blue in colour And are invincible in valour You reared the cattle But led a pierce battle You are the darling of shepherd women And you are undoubtedly supra human You play the flute with divine melody No poet can extol your musical prosody You are a thief of butter No one can describe you better Like Jesus you were born in a cattle shed Your divine word the whole world spread You are most romantic and highly philosophic You are beyond the purview of any religious critic
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Feb 16, 2011
Feb 16, 2011 at 6:45 AM UTC
YOU ARE THE MOST HANDSOME LORD
My mother recently took me to another doctor she said, ‘her condition is becoming outrageous , she hasn’t laughed in a year, avoids any talking, never leaves the house until the night draws in. ’ And I think the sun should rather concern her. Burning things don’t make good companions. Bought a ticket for a train, northbound at night, my eyes hurt from the condolences of daylight. Went back south in September, I surrendered, had to promise to be good again and presentable. Indifferent on life, did I suffer from depression? It’s not been an illness but a philosophic decision. One Sunday, it was quiet during breakfast time,   somebody from town recently took their life. Rised brows behind the newspaper’s edges, secretly, I admire the courage and recklessness. But I act eager and am polite with relatives, at holiday occasions I behave and give kisses until one proposes a toast to life being a gift. I say nothing in exchange, I feel guilty to exist. It all changed one day, when I found me a lover. He sins for amusement while I sin to self punish. I love that he’s mortal, of a perishable texture, hope to be buried, rot with him in the graveyard. We agree on senselessness without any pity, he watches me fail life and thinks it’s poetic. We can’t hurt since there’s nothing to heal from. A physical love wich in it’s essence is platonic.
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Feb 9, 2022
Feb 9, 2022 at 5:54 PM UTC
Nihilist daughter
Making manic impersonations On a momentary scale We ride on the echo of cymbals divine Decanting data into philosophic wine Perceptive perspective manifesting matrices Unknown -- Uncontrollable, undeniable, imminent & Haphazardly perfect; The essence of our yesterdays & tomorrows Etched, in passing, into the Particulate framework -- Momentarily -- & yet -- Eternally -- Manifestations cloaked in the veil of time, Laced with intentions self-concocted, The tides exchange, Endlessly blurring the line between Creator and Created
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Oct 6, 2014
Oct 6, 2014 at 2:44 AM UTC
Creation
i used to wake up with sore eyes and black bruises i've never seen before i'd look for long cigarette butts half full beers and forgotten liquor drinks i had two cow licks that stuck up like horns i had thick cigarette smoke like peanut butter and puddles in the kitchen that leaked from the trash bags into the rug i'd paste cardboard boxes and ripped up comic books together with my drawings in permanent marker and scribbled edges of ballpoint pen and colored pencil coupled with writings of philosophic schizophrenic machine gun word salad that ran off the page and onto the walls i had slippers i'd worn out months ago and shirts i washed in the shower with dish soap i had flies that flew around in circles until they got smacked or fell dead i'd climb up on the roof in the afternoon throw bottles in the street and **** off the side i welcomed the dirt the bloodstains and the deep cough i loved it but mostly hated it and i'll never forget it
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
the dirt, the bloodstains, and the deep cough
Benedict turned the page of the Dostoyevsky novel. His brother puked in the bidet, too much cheap wine, Benedict thought, but he’ll be fine. He immersed himself deeper into the Russian world of ****** and fear and dark corners. Crime and Punishment was one good tale all right. Even the book cover held the attention, he thought, turning it briefly over. His brother’s moans interrupted the puking. Benedict asked an are you all right? There was a groan of response. Benedict recalled the time he had been in that condition in Yugoslavia the year before, same cause: too much cheap wine. And that beautiful guide came to his room to see how he was and sat on his bed and all he could think of was when would the puking end. No thought at all of her presence there, her body so close, her perfume making him more nauseous. She was Croatian, he thought, pausing at the page of the Dostoyevskian novel. And that waitress he and his brother had liked in the restaurant at the Yugoslavian hotel. ***** Yes, that was the name. Got no where though. Just the luck of the draw. His brother returned from the bathroom and flopped on the bed. The puking over maybe, Benedict thought and his brother hoped, pale of complexion, perspiration on brow. Outside the window the Parisian streets echoed with life: Cars, coaches, buses, people, natives, tourists, males and females. Tomorrow they’d be out on the streets again. Sit in restaurants where the famous once sat over coffee or beer: Hemmingway, Sartre, Picasso, Henry Miller and the others. Art thrived here. Ideas born from philosophic minds. Benedict book marked the page and closed the book and put it aside. Some one laughed outside in the street, another sang, voices of ghostly singers of the past, breathed from the walls. His brother returned to the bathroom, more puking. Benedict thought: poor brother. Of course, he mused, gazing at the Parisian night sky, they’d never tell their mother.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 2:17 AM UTC
NEVER TELL MOTHER.
Benedict turned the page of the Dostoyevsky novel. His brother puked in the bidet, too much cheap wine, Benedict thought, but he’ll be fine. He immersed himself deeper into the Russian world of ****** and fear and dark corners. Crime and Punishment was one good tale all right. Even the book cover held the attention, he thought, turning it briefly over. His brother’s moans interrupted the puking. Benedict asked an are you all right? There was a groan of response. Benedict recalled the time he had been in that condition in Yugoslavia the year before, same cause: too much cheap wine. And that beautiful guide came to his room to see how he was and sat on his bed and all he could think of was when would the puking end. No thought at all of her presence there, her body so close, her perfume making him more nauseous. She was Croatian, he thought, pausing at the page of the Dostoyevskian novel. And that waitress he and his brother had liked in the restaurant at the Yugoslavian hotel. ***** Yes, that was the name. Got no where though. Just the luck of the draw. His brother returned from the bathroom and flopped on the bed. The puking over maybe, Benedict thought and his brother hoped, pale of complexion, perspiration on brow. Outside the window the Parisian streets echoed with life: Cars, coaches, buses, people, natives, tourists, males and females. Tomorrow they’d be out on the streets again. Sit in restaurants where the famous once sat over coffee or beer: Hemmingway, Sartre, Picasso, Henry Miller and the others. Art thrived here. Ideas born from philosophic minds. Benedict book marked the page and closed the book and put it aside. Some one laughed outside in the street, another sang, voices of ghostly singers of the past, breathed from the walls. His brother returned to the bathroom, more puking. Benedict thought: poor brother. Of course, he mused, gazing at the Parisian night sky, they’d never tell their mother.
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you are so annoying... you are so complicated.. you bring drama to my life.. you laugh at me... you laugh with me... you know all bout my crushes... you know all bout my life every single detail.. you make me smile... you irritate me.. you are my "philosophic talker" you my ******** taker" you give all wrong advises.. you scream at me with CAPITAL LETTERS..!! :) you make me smile with all the "awwww..." you are with me day and night..!! and wen u get upset with me nothings all right..!! :( even if people call us "lesbians" I DON'T CARE..!!! because i know we have our share of crushes...lovers and admirers...that v both only know of..!!! :) you have seen me in my bad..u have seen me in my best.. you have seen me going "tomboy " to "girly" for a guy..!! :) you criticize me...i abuse you...and that is what makes us Best Friends Forever..!!! i know i have ******* you royally..!! i know i have irritated you no end..!! thank you for bearing it all...thank you for standing by me!! thank you for taking my **** and lastly...thank you for STICKING AROUND AND LISTENING TO ME..!!!!! LOVE YOU LOADS..!!! P.S : We are not BFFs... WE ARE.. : Best Friend For Life Like Sisters And Always I Love You..!!!
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM UTC
BFFLLSAAILY
i so wish these poems weren't such afterthoughts, words either labored, squeezed off a pained heart, or a strong gush of stupid happy emotion as in farts? neither pretty codified sonnets with essence in parts, nor crisp, concise haiku's focused like targeted darts, not the sophistried zen, oft hacked philosophic verses, and the petty patterned words unmovingly affecting, i despair for us to read a poem from brains turmoiled, confused,unwritten words,unexpressed feelings,in divine madness!! dance the unknown poem if a poem, to music uncomposed if music, why cant we live them **** poems! so we dont have to **** write them!! -every fellow being is a poem unwritten I feel, lets live them? Can we?-
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 1:46 PM UTC
Can we read Living unwritten poems/ here and now!
They had a love for the boundary wall Where occupied round the seasons Their frames slender or substantial Meditative eyes in philosophic brooding Till in the sunset years or sooner They disappeared beyond that wall. Many of them have warmed those bricks When the night’s chill forbade to be outdoor But the restless ears strained to hear Brushing of body against body Till their blood warmed in the moon’s heat Covered the delirious trek to the dawn! Now have come up the fence of iron spears Burying the joys and yesteryear’s tears And the restless ears can now only hear The cold bricks groaning in the night’s lull! Quietly bids the time for the transit Beyond the boundary wall!
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Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014 at 3:06 AM UTC
Boundary Wall
It's definitely gotten Weird enough for me Strange days- An understatement So what choice do I have But throw in the towel Cash in my chips Buy the farm Kick the bucket An eye for an eye A truth for a lie The philosophic problem of revenge Is always on my mind Yet I've no counselor to console I guess no one ever does Atop the mountain We're all a mystery No one, even ourselves, Wants to solve Disenchanted souls You know they'll worship your tombstone But not until it goes in the ground Running on a two-dimensional rainbow In a schizophrenic sky Has God shown you his face? My only trigger is a finger And they're calling me Insanely cheap But in their midst I quietly understand In my own alley They talk about free will But all I see is witless swill The same ol' people ******* the sun Glad you weren't here to bear witness You must have known There's only one way to be Earnest When all your friends Are dead people No other choice But to turn inside-in
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Nov 25, 2011
Nov 25, 2011 at 7:18 PM UTC
Hunter
I was asked something today, and at most I could only leave the subject at an indifferent tone. It left me to question the tolerance of my own tradition. "What is happiness, what is truth?" Imagine getting inquired with something so philosophic, at such a time of disarray. Happiness-- such an abused term. Every human is in pursuit of it, it is natural, it is what we strive for. Yet, being faced with the blunt, simple question; "What is happiness?", I stumble. "What is truth?", the ability to think-- existence. What is thought? It is everything that we (as humans in nature) prosper in.
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Mar 24, 2013
Mar 24, 2013 at 8:04 PM UTC
Concurrence in times of rust
I know your final days, my son, by mental rote, from Thursday to Monday, from being unwell to the last seconds dying, like a child learning a new nursery rhyme note by note, until it's unforgettable, stuck in each particle of cells and brain, bringing thoughts of disbelief and punch hard pain. Sleep seems the only comfort, that lying down, snug between cloth and warmth, mind drugged to a doped up momentary forgetting or easing, but still it's there when we awake, the sense of loss, that utter disbelief, that deep down cannot be hidden grief. I wish I were more Stoic like you, my son, my deep philosopher, my silent one; wish I had some philosophic remedy to cure the ache, to soothe the mind, some crutch or stick to tap around like one who's blind, but I have none, none that will ease or remedy the ill of your departure, none to fill the huge chasm between you there in Death's hold and God's grace and me left here sensing loss and the cold breeze of death's breath in my ageing face.
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 2:26 AM UTC
YOUR FINAL DAYS.
Hey sad souls, what are we to do? When we're all so down and blue! In our beautiful minds, (Because,that's what they are, you HP people) join your hands, together as one, with similar kinds, of people. Men and women, need each other, sister and brother. Feed each others spirits, to take you beyond all limits. This isn't a poem, with the American dream, this is for hearts and minds, that need inspiration, at times of desperation. We all need to feel good, gratification of our existence, with a constant persistence. Encouraging one another, telling life that ,'That I love her' She holds me captive, her spirit bounds me, In her arms, I'm held in awe. surrendering unconditionally, Like a puppy holding up its paw. For life, throws tribulations, catastrophic, philosophic, cataclysmic, rhythmic, euphoric. And with each moment, we should pray for another, this gift of life, to make us content, a limited time we are lent, cannot regain what has been spent. Look up into this abundant sky and smile that you are here. When many cannot, and many have not.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 9:35 AM UTC
Sad Souls
Your eyes beneath the summer breeze, Your glance before the mountain range, A philosophic walk through earth, Your heart inspires me to change. A change of heart, a sudden turn, My soul has left and come again. And though with flames my passion burns, I must show patience and restraint. The second act of my own play: The second I read out your name I knew that something was at work, A Holy plan, so I proclaim. I see you with a solemn glance, While I pretend my heart is yours, Yet trapped as in a lovesick trance, I realize I'm by my own. Will it ever change, my fate? Or shall I be confined in love's Unending forest, and await In lonely tides without your love? I pray that I don't just move on, But live with you in heart or truth, And age with bliss and love forgone, Forever hidden in our youth.
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Aug 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016 at 6:35 PM UTC
Beneath the Summer Breeze
*"That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe,* Every massive particle in the universe attracts every other massive particle. Force directly proportional to the product of their masses, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Spherically-symmetrical masses attract and are attracted as if all their mass were concentrated at their centers There is no immediate prospect of identifying the mediator of gravity. Attempts by physicists to identify the relationship between gravitational force and other known fundamental forces are not yet resolved. Many attempts were made to understand the phenomena, but there was nothing more that scientists could do at the time. *no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it."*
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Feb 22, 2016
Feb 22, 2016 at 4:09 AM UTC
Universal Attraction
There is a man, who sits on the bench down the road. During the day. He looks like there is a world he has seen, touched, tasted and felt, and dreamt to reality, but now he has, nothing and nothing to say. His skin, is sagged and loose, there is a gullet of old age in his neck. I turn my head away out of sheer respect. There are tears in my eyes. I want to hold his hand and ask him, 'What happened? Did you see her? Did.She.Leave? Do your children still call? Is there anything left of you here, anything at all?' I sit here and weep and i wonder what he saw. Whether i had seen it too, and done it and missed it, and missed it because of you? My eyes they are tired. More tired than my back or my pain. They are tired from saving the day, and from walking in constant rain. I picked out some bullets from old scars from way back when, there were hit with some fine target practice of fine 'love' writing in the dark with the punch of a pen. So i sit here, and i wonder if one day he will be me. Wonder if he sat and wrote little dittys for a world, that he could not see, for people he never met, for lovers who had up and gone, for those who had no story, no strength, no howl or battle song. There is this old man, and he sits and he waits. I want to ask him, Is there a future in this world that he awaits? And i don't so i sit here and casually think of him awhile. Before my mind turns to someone else, i can think of and love, in my own spectacular, unique, philosophic, apathetic style.
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Sep 29, 2013
Sep 29, 2013 at 3:58 PM UTC
the man
There is a man, who sits on the bench down the road. During the day. He looks like there is a world he has seen, touched, tasted and felt, and dreamt to reality, but now he has, nothing and nothing to say. His skin, is sagged and loose, there is a gullet of old age in his neck. I turn my head away out of sheer respect. There are tears in my eyes. I want to hold his hand and ask him, 'What happened? Did you see her? Did.She.Leave? Do your children still call? Is there anything left of you here, anything at all?' I sit here and weep and i wonder what he saw. Whether i had seen it too, and done it and missed it, and missed it because of you? My eyes they are tired. More tired than my back or my pain. They are tired from saving the day, and from walking in constant rain. I picked out some bullets from old scars from way back when, there were hit with some fine target practice of fine 'love' writing in the dark with the punch of a pen. So i sit here, and i wonder if one day he will be me. Wonder if he sat and wrote little dittys for a world, that he could not see, for people he never met, for lovers who had up and gone, for those who had no story, no strength, no howl or battle song. There is this old man, and he sits and he waits. I want to ask him, Is there a future in this world that he awaits? And i don't so i sit here and casually think of him awhile. Before my mind turns to someone else, i can think of and love, in my own spectacular, unique, philosophic, apathetic style.
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The giant’s ruminations could once demand Salvation, the order of the universe in hand. Now, all His awe and glory’s come to naught And man cries madly, distraught. In black and white, His word and song is made, And in this darkened night will never fade. Who are you to say we must submit? Who are we to give our spirit and quit? Great Lords, and Pope, alike, have written what men think, So who am I to tell you when to sup and drink? Millions upon millions, the critics ponder fate by wit, But hasn’t it all been said, hasn’t it been writ? I tell you no certainty, give you only proof, You must read those great volumes to which so many are aloof. I sing praises like as David, a song that Solomon would want, Of everlasting truth, without a philosophic taunt. Salvation is not my message, repentance not my ploy; I wish to give you knowledge: teach your mind it’s not a toy! There is no great illusion of the means of life on Earth, There is no puzzling mystery in death and life and birth. Whether God is at your side, or rejected wholly through, The only one to chose your fate is overwhelmingly, singly, you. Gloriously glorified, stained no more with sin, To live a life of Glory, is glory given Him. Whether purpose given, or purpose thrown aside, Whether admit he’s risen, or deny he did abide; Travel the less-trampled track—the path less trodden down, For the destination matter less when the road is filled with crowns.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 4:18 PM UTC
Glory Given
you may permit me in we make exotic dishes of laughter and shared values over talk of philosophic rapport childish banter and gestures of tender philanthropy on each finger tip on every pressed lip but you wont give me a key though it's where I live this is my home, you've made it so, just for me you showed me in you courteously carried my persona into your door you do me the greatest of services those that would make any soul well-lived if I removed any trace of my exsistance you would despair as you have but you refuse to give me a key and without it, it makes it as though you dont really, actually, want me and what most anguishes my mind is that I always gingerly close the door from the outside if it werent for my soft touch, and attentive eyes I'd have reason to believe that something is wrong with me or my love when, seemingly, it was made to our advantage I do the best to support your virtues and those that disturb the peace This is where my belongings know their place This is my home where I linger after I wake where I loose myself in the silence where I drink myself into a stuppor because my lover wont give me a key You leave me broken up but you gather my peaces by light of kindness You don't understand, I'm hitting a wall I'm hitting your good heart your good, muddled, heart I'm hitting a wall a hard hard evaluation of a disturbing heart-to-heart of which I never learned of
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 5:10 PM UTC
So lovely, so nice, so desirable