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"photographic" poems
I'll never forget my first one. The tree was aglow; branches blazing with enormous, yellow and orange, halcyon sunflowers. A glorious heat pulsated up my back, their magnificence radiating through all my senses. My eyes: wide, taking-in every iota of this visual majesty. Transfixed, in a state of awe, my photographic memory came into play. Snapshots of those giant suns forever imprinted; negatives pressed, into my mind. A night to remember; when halcyon sunflowers danced on the limbs of trees and the branches of my mind.
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Hallucinations
but have you noticed, have you noticed how  all mental health problems stem form a seemingly aether virus that attacks the pronoun category; i mean with proper justifiable schizoids you will not hear of the nouns being ransacked for an equation that equates itself to misnomers; it's all categorised negation of ease within the framework of pronouns. it's strange that philosophers stress the pronouns so much these days and those countless prior, but why do mental health diseases attack the pronouns and not the nouns? they attack the verbs thoroughly, but prior to the verbs exposing an illness the pronouns are attacked, so that many considering the singularity of expressing thought are ill because of being forced into a plural expression of thought: "voices." i find it hard to understand, but it's the reality, the aether virus attacks the pronoun on the backdrop of a king's casual expression / use of pronouns, when a king casually says of himself as omni or multi with one and we respectively; so why are pronouns so weak and nouns so strong that a tree cannot be a misnomer attaché of timber and rock not a pillar, or mountain as the verb: mountaineering? the pronoun category is weak from day one, because it suggests photographic duck animation on the lip pursed into a quack quack, but if we constructed thought without knowledge prior, eating the fruit of knowledge rather than the fruit of thought, using the starting point of the genesis metaphor, it's sometimes a no brainer to have weak thinking and strength in knowing, for if there was strength in thinking and weakness in knowing, i'd be the one chiseling these words in the ice age on a cavern wall. so, given, that diseases such as the famed premature dementia attack the pronouns but not the nouns the schizoid one will convene life with: pizza is pizza and sunshine ray down the drain clock the millionth dead parting of grasshoppers in decimals - while man unto man lusts one man's parting in decimals, but should dire said, part man with integers, and insects with decimals! but still, in the terminology of a cartesian understanding of illness, in that segregational aspect of things "sorted," why are mental illnesses tattooed in a weak pronoun usage compared to a strength in other grammatical categories? why are not mental illnesses ******* the life out of the nouns? the nouns are intact, the pronouns attacked, and the verbs chess piece the pawn from the casually speaking clown king into a beast imprisoned, for while the pronouns are attacked and the nouns left intact, the attack on pronouns expresses itself fully in verbs of the never existent tact: with such magic as to claim knock knock on plank is the same as knock knock on veneer.
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 7:58 PM UTC
plank v. veneer via grasshoppers
but have you noticed, have you noticed how  all mental health problems stem form a seemingly aether virus that attacks the pronoun category; i mean with proper justifiable schizoids you will not hear of the nouns being ransacked for an equation that equates itself to misnomers; it's all categorised negation of ease within the framework of pronouns. it's strange that philosophers stress the pronouns so much these days and those countless prior, but why do mental health diseases attack the pronouns and not the nouns? they attack the verbs thoroughly, but prior to the verbs exposing an illness the pronouns are attacked, so that many considering the singularity of expressing thought are ill because of being forced into a plural expression of thought: "voices." i find it hard to understand, but it's the reality, the aether virus attacks the pronoun on the backdrop of a king's casual expression / use of pronouns, when a king casually says of himself as omni or multi with one and we respectively; so why are pronouns so weak and nouns so strong that a tree cannot be a misnomer attaché of timber and rock not a pillar, or mountain as the verb: mountaineering? the pronoun category is weak from day one, because it suggests photographic duck animation on the lip pursed into a quack quack, but if we constructed thought without knowledge prior, eating the fruit of knowledge rather than the fruit of thought, using the starting point of the genesis metaphor, it's sometimes a no brainer to have weak thinking and strength in knowing, for if there was strength in thinking and weakness in knowing, i'd be the one chiseling these words in the ice age on a cavern wall. so, given, that diseases such as the famed premature dementia attack the pronouns but not the nouns the schizoid one will convene life with: pizza is pizza and sunshine ray down the drain clock the millionth dead parting of grasshoppers in decimals - while man unto man lusts one man's parting in decimals, but should dire said, part man with integers, and insects with decimals! but still, in the terminology of a cartesian understanding of illness, in that segregational aspect of things "sorted," why are mental illnesses tattooed in a weak pronoun usage compared to a strength in other grammatical categories? why are not mental illnesses ******* the life out of the nouns? the nouns are intact, the pronouns attacked, and the verbs chess piece the pawn from the casually speaking clown king into a beast imprisoned, for while the pronouns are attacked and the nouns left intact, the attack on pronouns expresses itself fully in verbs of the never existent tact: with such magic as to claim knock knock on plank is the same as knock knock on veneer.
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For no reason he starts screaming Then begins to hit you Shouting for no given purpose He will begin to bite himself It is then as nothing happened He plays with an electronic game Something then will disrupt him So begins punching himself in the head He will not wait his turn Even when others are already speaking So starts to bite himself once more Shouting out threatening behaviour You can never try to tell him off It will only make him worse He believes he is only allowed to shout He will never understand what you say The throwing of things will then commence Showing you outrage and anger Comes up and shouts in your face Followed by slapping and hitting you Then it will all suddenly stop Begins talking nicely to you Talking non-stop about his cars He will then put them all in a line Come and ask for a cuddle Not even remember what just happened For an hour or two he talks politely You dare not try to change the subject Never try to break his routine For he will start swearing at you Everything will start all over again Because he will never understand change He even hates his baby sister Because he needs all the attention He has no understanding of sharing Or how to ever show fair play He is locked away in his own world Expects everyone to know what he is thinking He can not even dress himself But he has a perfect photographic memory Others will never come to realise They will only think the worst of him They call him names behind his back All because he is a little different Autistic children may be a challenge But remember, they are still children All they need is understanding So, will you love him? copyright Chris Smith 2012 For children with Autism/Asperger's Syndrome
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM UTC
409: Will You Love Him
For no reason he starts screaming Then begins to hit you Shouting for no given purpose He will begin to bite himself It is then as nothing happened He plays with an electronic game Something then will disrupt him So begins punching himself in the head He will not wait his turn Even when others are already speaking So starts to bite himself once more Shouting out threatening behaviour You can never try to tell him off It will only make him worse He believes he is only allowed to shout He will never understand what you say The throwing of things will then commence Showing you outrage and anger Comes up and shouts in your face Followed by slapping and hitting you Then it will all suddenly stop Begins talking nicely to you Talking non-stop about his cars He will then put them all in a line Come and ask for a cuddle Not even remember what just happened For an hour or two he talks politely You dare not try to change the subject Never try to break his routine For he will start swearing at you Everything will start all over again Because he will never understand change He even hates his baby sister Because he needs all the attention He has no understanding of sharing Or how to ever show fair play He is locked away in his own world Expects everyone to know what he is thinking He can not even dress himself But he has a perfect photographic memory Others will never come to realise They will only think the worst of him They call him names behind his back All because he is a little different Autistic children may be a challenge But remember, they are still children All they need is understanding So, will you love him? copyright Chris Smith 2012 For children with Autism/Asperger's Syndrome
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The dunes are tall, but, we can still hear the crash. The smell of salt reminds us, of treasured frames. You asked if I remembered, “yes” I do remember that one. Flour like sand, it cradled our feet. Our palms smacked, the land. As we progressed, to our full stride. Loops of gold, surrounded us. Tickling the laughter out of us, it echoes beautifully. In slow romance, your gaze meets mine. That is when you turned, 'click' a pose framed, by my eye. The shutter captured, a moment of escape.
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Nov 18, 2012
Nov 18, 2012 at 9:15 PM UTC
A photographic escape
toes buried in the sand smiles painted on faces frame this memory because you'll never see it again.
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Aug 1, 2014
Aug 1, 2014 at 11:15 PM UTC
Photographic Memory.
an oval antique photograph from the century just passed six youthful brothers must be sunday dressed exuding life and promise facing forward all in line symmetry pervading sister mary in their center on the photos right a startling recognition an image seen before colins great grandfather raymond often ray in features and a gaze seemed as colin would have stood photo has a crease fading but still clear now with photos recent privileged to compare colin next to ray both fully present yet a gaze away rays gaze anticipating army time in paris fortune seeking in the west fortunes to be found four generations branching to colin and beyond colins gaze capturing a journey now beginning does he see montana paris or the stars repeating patterns forward reflect photographic truth music completes the pattern with colorings of sound rays trumpet and harmonica introducing a guitar which colin has absorbed thus in his confirmation new dimensions now foreseen confirming four generations reflecting many more expanding light and love carrying our gratitude for the glimpse an old photograph favored us to find (poem written for my grandson's confirmation....)
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM UTC
confirmation
Feel the chains change in me tonight Condense me to evaporate in want The long of a bounce to another world Light the fire to burn deep and fervour A belly roasts in repetitive embers flushes Hearts tied connate as the essence flashes A tangle ribboned to last after the dawn Testify as our sparks infinitely ignite dances Titaniums of our tectonic plates merge motions A convergence entwined in bordered emotions Link me in the convections of transformations Conversations of a lasting warm benevolence Paradisiacal chum of a past in resonance A photographic collection of a lived long life Unwrap the snare, unwind the erased tapes Lay back as we hide away behind the moonlight
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Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 4:18 PM UTC
Lithosphere- λίθος
Every picture of you, brings me back to a time, where all things were fine, The world was all mine, and life was divine. **I wanted to share it with you.** Gained perspective, from taking your pain, feeling strained. **As I bare it with you.** And to the naked eye, You and I, are one. Living art, so perfectly done. But, that collection has attracted dust, And it’s a must, for trust, and self reflection. Perfection never met. What lies in the message... ...is love. It's us. Above, everything else I could think of, One thing can never subside, And that’s loving you. Forever, never, and in between. The middle of nowhere isn’t always where it seems.
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 4:11 PM UTC
Photographic Memory
(Warning this poem contains visual content which may be considered too morbid or shocking for those of refined and gentle tastes.) Rock a-bye-bye, Bethy, from the wood-beam rafter stock, when the neck-noose tightens, Bethy's body will twitch, sway and will rock, the chair she kicked out shall tumble and fall, and rock a-bye-bye Bethy, will be dead and that's all. _________________ Disturbing photographic image: http://beautyineverything.com/2375915615
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Oct 5, 2010
Oct 5, 2010 at 6:01 PM UTC
Rock a-bye-bye, Bethy
i am my grandmother’s small and plump tears when she thinks of her pueblo. i am my mother’s broken english as she greets the cashier. i am my sister’s abandoned dreams, her acceptance letter is etched into my palm. i am my brother’s path to citizenship along with all the photographic evidence. i am my brother in law’s laughter when he speaks to the nephew he has never met. i am the ever constant fear of being denied a home. i am the secrets carried on backs through miles and miles of desert. i am the pan dulce on sunday mornings. i am the mole and carnitas at birthday parties. i am the thick hair on arms. i am the first bite of a burger king hamburger after years of poverty. i am the first item of clothing bought at a kmart after years of patching up old clothes. so how dare you think less of me? you do not know what i carry. all this pain. all this joy. all this strength. i am chicana. the bridge between two worlds. i will not be burned down.
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 4:22 PM UTC
yo soy...
For Henrietta Swan Leavitt— Henrietta dark-eyed darling of the night sky-- A Swan who sails the heavens deaf with lights that pulse across your mind In photographic plates that number many thousands You see the differences in light You swim the curves that grace the arch of heaven between the cloud and pinwheel galaxies You measure their exquisite wakes of distance-- Become the glittering timepiece of the farthest stars-- Bestowed forever in your hands the clock and keys of all existence You know the bends of ages You heard the voices of the light of the angels and of man I hope you've found true happiness gathered to your love forgetful of the pond of space and time and all that hopeless pain and counting of perfection and of loneliness to which you were assigned that in your hands unravel all.... The secrets of the universe white and gray in motion... brilliant beyond all measure by which you were forgotten and unvalued by design Eulogized only-- as loving God and as being kind ___ *copyright Liz Balise 2019,  Use only by permission. Her colleague Solon I. Bailey wrote in her obituary that "she had the happy faculty of appreciating all that was worthy and lovable in others, and was possessed of a nature so full of sunshine that, to her, all of life became beautiful and full of meaning.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt
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Jan 6, 2019
Jan 6, 2019 at 6:57 PM UTC
For Henrietta Swan
I am not an artist I cannot paint a beautiful landscape that makes you believe you're looking at the real thing. You will not stare in awe as you wonder what compelled me to paint those lines so uneven And I can't make my color choices dance in your eyes like sugarplum fairies Off of the canvas and into your mind For you to transpose the choreography To your own understanding I am not an artist I cannot capture a single moment in time with the simple click of a camera. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but every shot I capture seems to be silent Mute But they're beginning to be heard Screaming millions of words Hoping someone will just hear one I am not an artist I cannot make your skin shiver as my lyrics echo through the room Your emotions will not crescendo as each note burns nostalgia in your memory And I will not leave you wanting to hear more I am not an artist And I can't create a masterpiece in two hours I can't write words that will break your heart as they enter your ears and fill your soul with the emotions I'm feeling I can't make you believe that I'm actually the character I tried so hard to become at rehearsals for the last three months My movements on the dance floor dont flow with ease or grace And you will never give me a standing ovation Or shower me with roses as you cheer for the art I've created. But With every step that I take on this earth I am leaving brush strokes in the dirt and in your memory Every laugh every sob every word that I speak Is going through your ears for your own musical enjoyment My eyes are like cameras capturing every moment and every face each time my lashes flutter And even though most of we don't have photographic memories We still remember the precious moments our personal cameras caught on film I am not an artist I am art
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May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018 at 11:41 AM UTC
I am not an artist
I am not an artist I cannot paint a beautiful landscape that makes you believe you're looking at the real thing. You will not stare in awe as you wonder what compelled me to paint those lines so uneven And I can't make my color choices dance in your eyes like sugarplum fairies Off of the canvas and into your mind For you to transpose the choreography To your own understanding I am not an artist I cannot capture a single moment in time with the simple click of a camera. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but every shot I capture seems to be silent Mute But they're beginning to be heard Screaming millions of words Hoping someone will just hear one I am not an artist I cannot make your skin shiver as my lyrics echo through the room Your emotions will not crescendo as each note burns nostalgia in your memory And I will not leave you wanting to hear more I am not an artist And I can't create a masterpiece in two hours I can't write words that will break your heart as they enter your ears and fill your soul with the emotions I'm feeling I can't make you believe that I'm actually the character I tried so hard to become at rehearsals for the last three months My movements on the dance floor dont flow with ease or grace And you will never give me a standing ovation Or shower me with roses as you cheer for the art I've created. But With every step that I take on this earth I am leaving brush strokes in the dirt and in your memory Every laugh every sob every word that I speak Is going through your ears for your own musical enjoyment My eyes are like cameras capturing every moment and every face each time my lashes flutter And even though most of we don't have photographic memories We still remember the precious moments our personal cameras caught on film I am not an artist I am art
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The Sukhumvit Rap   by David John Clare Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom!   Well, she come in to Na Na town on dah midnight sky train, anonymous esan girl she a mysterious Bangkok dame Out of the nite shadows she will walk and magically appear, I'm telling you fresh forang you got some awful things to fear right here She can slave your mind in a minute without talk so lyrical, she's a modern Thai freak, a ****** miracle First She opiates his mind then double you'll see will loose all sense of time and then the trouble will be She knows what she is doing, her instincts are cold Forang men they surrender and just do what they are told Beyond the like of a dibbie girl as you are a sucker for her date she will leave your mind and body in a wicked deadly state A jealous girlfriend could now completes the scene as you walk back to your short time room near Pat Pong soi cowboy libertine...   If you get near her you hear the voice of a Thai Siren Don't you look at her don't you touch you'll start cryin' If you dare embrace her fool you will think you found a rare Silom Road Jem or Jewel? She can tear your heart out and she will do it with your own **** tool !   Tell The brothers not to look the wink of her eye, tell all of the brothers not to watch her WINK!   You can tell by her moves and the slit under her dress she is a one trick thai pony ahead of you by her breast She got a photographic smile Greta garbo movie hair She can tear any man down with that Siamese cat like looking stare... Don't look into her eyes she'll control you blind you want to wine and dine her? ha, it is your mind she will sixty nine Shell try her best to allure you so now don't concede cuz if you touch her now boy your heart will bleed It is a hell of way to take a Thailand vacation but remember this; there is no way of ever stopping this ****** man killer creation.   Tell The brothers not to watch the wink of her eye, tell all of the brothers not to watch her WINK! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! WINK!   (c) 2010 Clairvoyant Music / BMI Los Angeles CA USA  all rights in perpetuity by the author
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 12:08 PM UTC
Bangkok Rap
The Sukhumvit Rap   by David John Clare Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom!   Well, she come in to Na Na town on dah midnight sky train, anonymous esan girl she a mysterious Bangkok dame Out of the nite shadows she will walk and magically appear, I'm telling you fresh forang you got some awful things to fear right here She can slave your mind in a minute without talk so lyrical, she's a modern Thai freak, a ****** miracle First She opiates his mind then double you'll see will loose all sense of time and then the trouble will be She knows what she is doing, her instincts are cold Forang men they surrender and just do what they are told Beyond the like of a dibbie girl as you are a sucker for her date she will leave your mind and body in a wicked deadly state A jealous girlfriend could now completes the scene as you walk back to your short time room near Pat Pong soi cowboy libertine...   If you get near her you hear the voice of a Thai Siren Don't you look at her don't you touch you'll start cryin' If you dare embrace her fool you will think you found a rare Silom Road Jem or Jewel? She can tear your heart out and she will do it with your own **** tool !   Tell The brothers not to look the wink of her eye, tell all of the brothers not to watch her WINK!   You can tell by her moves and the slit under her dress she is a one trick thai pony ahead of you by her breast She got a photographic smile Greta garbo movie hair She can tear any man down with that Siamese cat like looking stare... Don't look into her eyes she'll control you blind you want to wine and dine her? ha, it is your mind she will sixty nine Shell try her best to allure you so now don't concede cuz if you touch her now boy your heart will bleed It is a hell of way to take a Thailand vacation but remember this; there is no way of ever stopping this ****** man killer creation.   Tell The brothers not to watch the wink of her eye, tell all of the brothers not to watch her WINK! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! Boom boom bah smoke yaba bah bah bah boom! WINK!   (c) 2010 Clairvoyant Music / BMI Los Angeles CA USA  all rights in perpetuity by the author
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Oh, how could I have been so careless with time? Trying to catch hummingbirds with a hula-hoop. All the un-watered whims, planted in subconscious deep; inside great empty tiger cages that capture only the echoes, and photographic negatives of dreams. With a knapsack chock full of stars, and clouds, fully reviewed then abandoned at random. I have been spinning separate from the world; wearing time capriciously on my wrist, fully reviewed then abandoned at random. Maybe only clocks are careful with time . . .
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 4:31 PM UTC
hula hoop hunter
everything about you screamed infinite the type of person I could spend forever trying to figure out sunsets and sunrises pass by like fast trains, and my minds still reeling a photographic memory is a blessing and a curse but right now its a gift i can remember every word spoken, every laugh and smile and i play it back like a movie the kind of spirit that makes you forget the hurt the universe cries but you remind me that it laughs too coexistence of bodies and minds, sweet and surreal worlds colliding at a rapid pace, they collide they become one everything about you screamed infinite everything about me screamed indefinite indecisiveness and paranoia floods my veins love and knowing floods yours a scale sits between the palms of our hands and is level, for we are balanced I lift my pen and let my hand guide my mind my fingers already know you and they haven’t felt you yet my page screams your name wholeheartedly vast space was left empty in the corners of my brain but they’re filled now, even in the dustiest of places everything about you screamed infinite
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Jun 25, 2013
Jun 25, 2013 at 9:38 PM UTC
Everything About You Screamed Infinite
Take countless photos, when the mood so inspires. You may as well have not even thrown the shutter. For the things that move you right in this moment, Will not adhere to the chemistry of film Will not flip one single electronic switch Cannot be stored, except in the mind, (A shoddy storage medium) For the sight of your face, Your beautiful otherness Mingling with me in the air in between us- ( As you try to pick my nose… ) Your head is on my shoulder, Heavy with sleep And trust, always growing, As your eyelids drop lower My arm, sore, bends to raise you up. I’m relishing the time To be quiet, close, and still. When I can find, in my heart, All the words that mean something, Not tossed about casually, in the noise of the day.
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May 24, 2014
May 24, 2014 at 5:47 PM UTC
non-Photographic Blue
What do you do when you realize your life as you know it is a cardboard cutout, a dollhouse scene, Of what your life should be. Of what it once was. The people in my life are characters A backdrop in the place of reality. Scenery behind my doorstep. Photographic fire in the fireplace. Tiny kitchen cutlery that isn’t sharp. Staged people in my living room at literally, a lifeless party. A fantastic picturesque magazine spread in Southern Living. And I am a part of this falseness. I am a creator of this un-reality. I am a willing participant in this stagnant stage of my life. This life, this love, this truth Is a figment Is a dream Is a scene of a scene. I remember when green was green And blue was blue And I breathed in newness in every breathe. Reality bowed down in servitude And I took every step into a setting sun The world around me, my partner in crime As I took it by storm. The tragedy here Is knowing that life and love and truth barren Is knowing it naked As it really is. As it really was. And knowing that you’ve settled for the cardboard cutout is recognizing you’ve given up. You’ve settled for second best. You’re taking the doll house route to life. You’d rather watch the movie than live it out. It’s cowardice at its best.
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 12:34 AM UTC
Cardboard Cutouts
His light house amidst his mystic fog, signals belated in triumphant decore, Enamoured with ancient joy of his blue green dreams I chant. “His rod and his staff comfort me and all surrounding gore departs. I breathe in gasping about my true love. as he spots my battered vessel into the wind sailing.   Ecstasy twinkles his teary eye    in the magic water dancing glare, of our mystical full moon light. For too long I've traveled jeweled triumphant yet unable to reach his promised treasure vaults. To the greed of legions on treacherous paths all alone I wept, through enemy's territories, but all those from me have fled. I roamed alone yester woods I reach his safe private harbour his peaceful shores. As trustworthy jeweled queen regardless of grave loss. Willfully he reveals his home key to come open up his door as photographic memories on new calming waters get anchored deep. At last I shall rest in love on my bittersweet bed of roses red, and flowers wild;    white sad lilies on hand, saluting my beloved glories recaptured and retained. Enduring rhythmic ways with courage, heart brain and hope and off my survival modes into éasier dwelling   into my grave but neither there I shall trod alone no more. ~~~~~~ By Karijinbba All rights.
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Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022 at 7:53 PM UTC
His light-house promise.
On the long continuous bench in Audobon park, New Orleans, I sat watching the Siren statue. Her hand high with proud strength of her metallic near-immortality. Her cherub children sitting on bronze turtles, holding separate items of ritual in their hands, perhaps a conch, perhaps a lute. As the Siren stood on her globe, a murky green orb of a thing, there were lovers and birds, children and historians with photographic memories in their voguishly composed hands, crouching, cropping, and framing images as infinite as the bronze statues. I wondered. If our memories were as sound as granite, and our hearts as pure as the water that froths at a Siren’s feet, would we enjoy and enjoin our attempts, our passions, to act as our own scaffolding to our existence? Would we appreciate the small things, pleasures of love, photographs and amazement that only those bound to and cursed by time could possibly appreciate? Have you actually seen the faces of these bronze castings, once earthly golden in hue, but now terrorized with their own emblems of decay in sheen of turquoise tarnish? Those smiles of the Siren on her globe, her frolicking cherub chums with eternal infantile fists and oceanic paraphernalia, are not the smiles we should ever want to understand. There was a breeze. Somewhere in the leaves of an old photo album, across the globe beneath the Siren’s feet, sits an island I call home. Amongst them, the photos of the young boy who always questioned and liked answers all the same now was by and beside himself. His smile eternally saved for the memories of souls yet to come, and no less by the loving eyes of a mother, with voguishly composed hands.
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Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 2:46 PM UTC
Something in the Sparkle of Reflection
On the long continuous bench in Audobon park, New Orleans, I sat watching the Siren statue. Her hand high with proud strength of her metallic near-immortality. Her cherub children sitting on bronze turtles, holding separate items of ritual in their hands, perhaps a conch, perhaps a lute. As the Siren stood on her globe, a murky green orb of a thing, there were lovers and birds, children and historians with photographic memories in their voguishly composed hands, crouching, cropping, and framing images as infinite as the bronze statues. I wondered. If our memories were as sound as granite, and our hearts as pure as the water that froths at a Siren’s feet, would we enjoy and enjoin our attempts, our passions, to act as our own scaffolding to our existence? Would we appreciate the small things, pleasures of love, photographs and amazement that only those bound to and cursed by time could possibly appreciate? Have you actually seen the faces of these bronze castings, once earthly golden in hue, but now terrorized with their own emblems of decay in sheen of turquoise tarnish? Those smiles of the Siren on her globe, her frolicking cherub chums with eternal infantile fists and oceanic paraphernalia, are not the smiles we should ever want to understand. There was a breeze. Somewhere in the leaves of an old photo album, across the globe beneath the Siren’s feet, sits an island I call home. Amongst them, the photos of the young boy who always questioned and liked answers all the same now was by and beside himself. His smile eternally saved for the memories of souls yet to come, and no less by the loving eyes of a mother, with voguishly composed hands.
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his voice echoes continuously through my mind repeating those same fluid words like ripples on the surface of an endless pool of water again and again. That same photographic memory of four beautiful seconds filled with brilliance and easy laughter is in high definition playing on an endless loop. It tears away every outside thought, accelerating and building in a crescendo driving out the rest of the world. his gaze sweeps over me in its path around the room and evanescent as it is, it causes my heart to flutter, threatening to fly away I'm left with an image branded on my mind of eyes the color of antique coke bottles Those kind eyes begin to take on a menacing edge in my memory piercing deep into me and allowing intense insecurity and admiration to flood in as i recall the treasures behind them Like most artists, he has no clue that he's an incredible writer but, as the days pass by in class we start to let him in on the secret yet, he still refuses to accept it his sweet, shy smile always talks down his brilliance, clouding his depth like he almost fears his own words That expression of near embarrassment when people enjoy his work, mixed with the thought that he's so incredible tears me up and i strive to measure up while he simply shrugs it off, almost unaware of his excellence like he's staring into a ***** mirror I find myself thinking about it in bed at night when the rest of my anxieties team up to press me under the day in a deep, wildly-colored sleep When the morning finds me and the sun pulls me back to Earth I stretch out my arms and draw in the fresh scent of the new day but as i fall into my usual routine, the memories and insecurities and inferiorities creep up to the surface of my thoughts and I wonder if I'll ever move past this stage, listening and admiring from afar Suddenly an idea strikes me and i press my pen to my paper using his medium to release what I've held in so long
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 9:56 PM UTC
The Creeper Poem
his voice echoes continuously through my mind repeating those same fluid words like ripples on the surface of an endless pool of water again and again. That same photographic memory of four beautiful seconds filled with brilliance and easy laughter is in high definition playing on an endless loop. It tears away every outside thought, accelerating and building in a crescendo driving out the rest of the world. his gaze sweeps over me in its path around the room and evanescent as it is, it causes my heart to flutter, threatening to fly away I'm left with an image branded on my mind of eyes the color of antique coke bottles Those kind eyes begin to take on a menacing edge in my memory piercing deep into me and allowing intense insecurity and admiration to flood in as i recall the treasures behind them Like most artists, he has no clue that he's an incredible writer but, as the days pass by in class we start to let him in on the secret yet, he still refuses to accept it his sweet, shy smile always talks down his brilliance, clouding his depth like he almost fears his own words That expression of near embarrassment when people enjoy his work, mixed with the thought that he's so incredible tears me up and i strive to measure up while he simply shrugs it off, almost unaware of his excellence like he's staring into a ***** mirror I find myself thinking about it in bed at night when the rest of my anxieties team up to press me under the day in a deep, wildly-colored sleep When the morning finds me and the sun pulls me back to Earth I stretch out my arms and draw in the fresh scent of the new day but as i fall into my usual routine, the memories and insecurities and inferiorities creep up to the surface of my thoughts and I wonder if I'll ever move past this stage, listening and admiring from afar Suddenly an idea strikes me and i press my pen to my paper using his medium to release what I've held in so long
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I Tired the long road ends by a sea wall The engine dies to cries of estuary birds to halyards’ **** and tinge A lake of light set in night’s cloudscape brims over the western marshland to seaward a dense darkness On the ferry’s step ear close to the brown water a part-song sings the ebb tide’s flow II Threading into the marshland a braid of cloud-reflected water of oval sedge and common reed In amongst the brown canes perspective vanishes only by mind’s foreshortening or body’s levitation is there sight beyond the creeping rootstock By the river path a leaf pearled with glazed dew glistening dew grabbing the photographic eye Standing backs to the horizon a sculpted triad of bronzed ancestors watch over the summer rites of music III This ****** field moves clamorously under the feet waiting waiting for the sea’s kiss Proud-coloured the boats here resting poised on railway sleepers beside their tractored guardians How to know which way to turn which view to hold for memory’s stamp this patient sky this slow exhaling sea This foreground flow of white-grey-brown pebbles each sensibly-sized for the hand in the pocket yet substantially-singular on the window’s sill
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 4:12 AM UTC
Remembering Britten (part 1)
You asked me what I want But how do you mean? Like a wish? Because it's always been a dream of mine to fly with my own wings or to control time so that maybe I'd get enough sleep and I could draw out the memorable moments until I'm sick of them and then maybe sometimes when I need a break I could just stop everything and focus on the serene silence of a world frozen in place But does this wish have to obey the rules of this reality? because if that were the case then I could wish for the attention of that one boy the one with the electricity in his fingertips and that might temporarily please me Or I could wish myself convenience I could wish that my hoodie strings never crept uneven I could wish that my nails stayed short and neat so I didn't have to cut them I could even wish that I knew everything there was to know Or I could wish for something to better the world I could wish that natural disasters were a myth I could wish that 'pretty' didn't mean anything more than the empty breath of air and intangible vibrations that it actually is That it didn't have any more impact than 6 letters of graphite should Or I could wish for something to better myself I could wish for better handwriting so maybe I can convince myself that my words are worth the paper they stain Or I could wish for endurance Or effortless conversation skills Or pristine work ethic- something I can use to my advantage in the future to ensure success. Or I could just wish for success. I could wish for the job of my dreams endless money the perfect family but where's the fun in that? I could even use my wish to help someone else cure someone of their terminal cancer Hell- I could wish up a cure for cancer! I could wish that mosquitoes didn't exist or that I had a photographic memory or that I lived somewhere I could wear flip flops in January or that I would never age, never feel pain I could wish for an A on my next science test or that poverty inversely reflect humanity But you know what I think? I think it's human nature to feel discontent and I think that's vital to the evolution of the human race I think that we need it to continue to grow and better ourselves So what do I want? What's my one wish? I wish that I could believe in the magic of the stars peeking through tonight's sky
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 9:19 PM UTC
7 months later
You asked me what I want But how do you mean? Like a wish? Because it's always been a dream of mine to fly with my own wings or to control time so that maybe I'd get enough sleep and I could draw out the memorable moments until I'm sick of them and then maybe sometimes when I need a break I could just stop everything and focus on the serene silence of a world frozen in place But does this wish have to obey the rules of this reality? because if that were the case then I could wish for the attention of that one boy the one with the electricity in his fingertips and that might temporarily please me Or I could wish myself convenience I could wish that my hoodie strings never crept uneven I could wish that my nails stayed short and neat so I didn't have to cut them I could even wish that I knew everything there was to know Or I could wish for something to better the world I could wish that natural disasters were a myth I could wish that 'pretty' didn't mean anything more than the empty breath of air and intangible vibrations that it actually is That it didn't have any more impact than 6 letters of graphite should Or I could wish for something to better myself I could wish for better handwriting so maybe I can convince myself that my words are worth the paper they stain Or I could wish for endurance Or effortless conversation skills Or pristine work ethic- something I can use to my advantage in the future to ensure success. Or I could just wish for success. I could wish for the job of my dreams endless money the perfect family but where's the fun in that? I could even use my wish to help someone else cure someone of their terminal cancer Hell- I could wish up a cure for cancer! I could wish that mosquitoes didn't exist or that I had a photographic memory or that I lived somewhere I could wear flip flops in January or that I would never age, never feel pain I could wish for an A on my next science test or that poverty inversely reflect humanity But you know what I think? I think it's human nature to feel discontent and I think that's vital to the evolution of the human race I think that we need it to continue to grow and better ourselves So what do I want? What's my one wish? I wish that I could believe in the magic of the stars peeking through tonight's sky
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Yes. I remember you But not your name. Kate? No. Mallory? No. I'm sorry. There's too many faces now. But I do remember you. Mollie? No. You were the girl with the blue eyes. Yes. The girl who wore contacts. The girl who's eyes are actually a beautiful brown. Yes you. I saw you.  I remembered you. I wanted to love you madly. Kelsey? No. You spoke to me about how you're from out of town But you said you'd move here one day. With me? No. Emily? No. ****** You'll have to forgive me... See, I have a photographic memory, But sometimes the pictures come out blurry. Here. Let me hold you a second. I promise it'll come back to me. No? Ok. Nice try? I know. I've never held you before, but it was worth a try. But we can start now? No? Ok. Jenny? No. Forget it. I don't need to remember. I love you. Brown-eyed, Blue-eyed, name-less girl. We don't need names. Why? Because it's really not that important.
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Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 5:05 PM UTC
Nameless