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"pilgrim" poems
for Susan O'Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge Of skin, A flap like a hat, Dead white. Then that red plush. Little pilgrim, The Indian's axed your scalp. Your turkey wattle Carpet rolls Straight from the heart. I step on it, Clutching my bottle Of pink fizz. A celebration, this is. Out of a gap A million soldiers run, Redcoats, every one. Whose side are they one? O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to **** The thin Papery feeling. Saboteur, Kamikaze man ---- The stain on your Gauze Ku Klux **** Babushka Darkens and tarnishes and when The balled Pulp of your heart Confronts its small Mill of silence How you jump ---- Trepanned veteran, ***** girl, Thumb stump.
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How do you know that the pilgrim track Along the belting zodiac Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds Is traced by now to the Fishes’ bounds And into the Ram, when weeks of cloud Have wrapt the sky in a clammy shroud, And never as yet a tinct of spring Has shown in the Earth’s apparelling; O vespering bird, how do you know, How do you know? How do you know, deep underground, Hid in your bed from sight and sound, Without a turn in temperature, With weather life can scarce endure, That light has won a fraction’s strength, And day put on some moments’ length, Whereof in merest rote will come, Weeks hence, mild airs that do not numb; O crocus root, how do you know, How do you know?
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The Year’s Awakening
Drifting back to the ocean like it never even happened unraveled dreams washed clean crystalline renaissance bestowed     by wind mountain spring waters rising from the heart of mother earth A remnant light glows deeply of one love's untamed wonders an unfastened feather glides abandoned rushing waters floating alighting pilgrim blissfully sails on stranded without wings a fallen wild feather free as bird wanting a place to be let free Sun in the summer air wind in buoyant feathered hair softly dancing upon wild river restless ripples to feel the love of holding on adrift asunder whence it touched on destiny's far-reaching journey yonder holding onto flowing rivers rolling towards the sea The incoming tidal waters blossom surge to greet wind river's gentle saunter converging slackening passage salt on feral feathered fragments arousing currents babbling swirl imbibed by the impassioned sea Wild rivers' born intentions a different kind of drifting passage to kiss the distant horizon where the sown sunlight settles submerged in shoreless ocean waters     to be free all at sea at last someone you used to know  2017
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Aug 31, 2017
Aug 31, 2017 at 1:58 PM UTC
It's only water
Once I undertook a journey, upon the very face of our entire world. To view for myself the many pictures, and written descriptions in all the geography books and History Classes, National Geographic magazines and movies seen. A Quest to see with my own eyes what I had only experienced second hand. In my mid twenties, like a dream, one foot in front of the other, I went about exploring. I sniffed and tasted the scents of foreign lands, Incense, Sage and Frankincense, fish curry, fried snake and even monkey brains. Walked in lush Jungle Bush and Desert sands, Along the shores of Islands and the coasts of many lands. Heard the voices of 30 divergent Dialects and cultures, smiling and laughing with the families and children of all of them. Set beside the fires of primitive tribal men, heard their chants to their gods above, the moon, stars and the sun, the ocean, the land. Clapped my hands and moved my feet in their ancient mystic dances. Drank their tea, Kava or whatever they shared grateful for their offered unselfish brotherhood. Stood on the flanks of the tallest Mountains in the world, on my toe tips, to try to see the face of the God of my youthful teachings, disappointed when I did not see him, or Her. Found instead an inner tranquility, imparted to me by Red robbed Monks from within their chants of Peace and wise earthly enlightenments. Strolled the cobbled streets of two thousand year old Cities. Walked among the ruined remnants of nearly forgotten once great Civilizations. Explored Modern European Citadels' of wealth and learning. Over time rode on planes, ships, buses, backs of open trucks, Horse pulled carts and human drawn rickshaws, taxis, subways, rented motorcycles and cars.  Walked perhaps 1000 miles. In all a journey of the mind and heart lasting three years. And why you might ask, "What qualifies you as a pilgrim of any kind, to travel so far, and wide?" "What was I looking for, what did I hope to find?"   All indeed, fare questions. When a boy, I read a simple five word line, “Seek and thee shall find". Curiosity and Horizon Lust compelled me.   The next obvious question you might ask is, after all that; “What did you find?” That answer is very simple, I found myself.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 7:14 PM UTC
. . . . . . . . Seek . . .
Once I undertook a journey, upon the very face of our entire world. To view for myself the many pictures, and written descriptions in all the geography books and History Classes, National Geographic magazines and movies seen. A Quest to see with my own eyes what I had only experienced second hand. In my mid twenties, like a dream, one foot in front of the other, I went about exploring. I sniffed and tasted the scents of foreign lands, Incense, Sage and Frankincense, fish curry, fried snake and even monkey brains. Walked in lush Jungle Bush and Desert sands, Along the shores of Islands and the coasts of many lands. Heard the voices of 30 divergent Dialects and cultures, smiling and laughing with the families and children of all of them. Set beside the fires of primitive tribal men, heard their chants to their gods above, the moon, stars and the sun, the ocean, the land. Clapped my hands and moved my feet in their ancient mystic dances. Drank their tea, Kava or whatever they shared grateful for their offered unselfish brotherhood. Stood on the flanks of the tallest Mountains in the world, on my toe tips, to try to see the face of the God of my youthful teachings, disappointed when I did not see him, or Her. Found instead an inner tranquility, imparted to me by Red robbed Monks from within their chants of Peace and wise earthly enlightenments. Strolled the cobbled streets of two thousand year old Cities. Walked among the ruined remnants of nearly forgotten once great Civilizations. Explored Modern European Citadels' of wealth and learning. Over time rode on planes, ships, buses, backs of open trucks, Horse pulled carts and human drawn rickshaws, taxis, subways, rented motorcycles and cars.  Walked perhaps 1000 miles. In all a journey of the mind and heart lasting three years. And why you might ask, "What qualifies you as a pilgrim of any kind, to travel so far, and wide?" "What was I looking for, what did I hope to find?"   All indeed, fare questions. When a boy, I read a simple five word line, “Seek and thee shall find". Curiosity and Horizon Lust compelled me.   The next obvious question you might ask is, after all that; “What did you find?” That answer is very simple, I found myself.
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Like a toddler taking maiden steps The narrow stream moves through the woods Tripping and falling over pebbles and boulders Chiming its silver anklets Forcing itself in irrepressible flow It thrusts and shoves its way down Through thickets and a line of ferns And the tangle of creepers and thorny brambles Drowning the whisper of bamboo leaves Its sweet murmur falls in my ears As an eternal living melody The cosmic song heard over eons As the water sluices down the rocks It becomes a frothing braided torrent Producing a harsh grating roar Like the crescendo of a tribal symphony There it forms into a small pool With its waves gently rippling Where birds merrily come to take a dip And sunning their feathers, fly back refreshed Sometimes travelling unseen It suddenly emerges into the open Cutting its way through cracks and fissures Never willing to surrender before hurdles With a bearing immaculate in grace It sends out waves of pure delight What joy it is to watch the dilly dally Of this sedate pilgrim moving to its destination
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 10:07 AM UTC
A Stream in the Woods
773 Deprived of other Banquet, I entertained Myself— At first—a scant nutrition— An insufficient Loaf— But grown by slender addings To so esteemed a size ’Tis sumptuous enough for me— And almost to suffice A Robin’s famine able— Red Pilgrim, He and I— A Berry from our table Reserve—for charity—
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Deprived of other Banquet
Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM UTC
Fatima Latima
Fatima Latima I had wished I had no gift of sight That the worst I could endure is hear you speak And not snapshot the footfall of your gradation You may not be a thief Nor **** daughter of the dayspring But definitely my heart you stole I speak of the daughter of Arabia Aesthetically, she rocks The queen of the pilgrim sands And aeonian desert stones Beyond the hijab Artistically knead with consummate craft Like the relics of Mecca Blest by the prophet’s bones The blessed I see torches Beaming with intelligence Within those mascaras Exquisitely trimmed and vibrant A lulu class botany She fixes a searching gaze As she saunters close And the stride and tread Beats a drum entrancing Soothed in her solacing spell I give in, to her lullaby She halts her perambulation Stands magniloquent and stupefy Like some pop diva magazine pose Or Victorian secret shot A tactical derangement of her gluteals As she rests her palm in its cleft I feel contractions, my dartos muscles The blew of summertime Gently beats her exceptional form Her belt submerge her thigh crevice Cleft by the sundered rift of fleshy fat Built by the dainties and delicacies Seasoned by the finest Arabian chef As her silken dress slithers and gowns Under the breeze bulging and blooming Like a rose blossom or sunflower fore As she bends down To assuage the burlesque The sun specula lilts her sensational Her smile apologetic bids me stillness I am caught staring Guzzling down her scent and Feasting on empty imaginations Of What If that accentuate the mind and Speed a hormone And I pray I sin no more Next time we meet and I see her again For I am but a writer Learning to use my pen and paper And hope you but forgive My linguistic impotence When I make my confession Employing too plain a language When I say thus; Her smile is classical Her walk magical Her beauty celestial Her stride sensational Her religion ethical Her character spotless And that leaves me breathless And forgive if I step on broken toe And try speak of the unspoken Her ****** is sacred Her being a type that dresses up In the milliards of brutes dressing down And shamelessly style it fashion I must see a priest One confession I ought to utter And even vociferate abroad For once I had fallen in love With an Arabian Beautie A ****** of Mecca.
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I’m a none, Escaped from myself Just to be an anonymous A nameless face Harboring a soul, Inspiring reflection, In a finite of time Travelling in a circle Over crosses and lines, Budding path of life Sacrificing all the senses Truth is one, perceived it in a different way
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Feb 17, 2018
Feb 17, 2018 at 7:39 PM UTC
The Pilgrim
What ails thee, pilgrim of the mall, Silent grief of the fall, Pushing beneath her branded mask A chariot to manage her task? A writ of habeas corpus on paper: "'Garden rocket,' 'lamp,' and 'mirror,' For your inward eye and the terror Of the still blast of oldhood and time That left you with no place but rhyme - And the mall." What ails thee, woman of language And the fall? © LazharBouazzi, 3 July, 2018
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Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018 at 5:42 PM UTC
Pilgrim of the Mall
My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet land of liberty- Or so we sing. Land where my fathers died- But my forefathers died in a battle Trying to keep their slaves; My fathers killed your fathers For trying to run away; My fathers **** your fathers Cause it's late at  night, and He's reaching for his gun-no, wait, His ID? Land of the pilgrim's pride- But so often we leave out of history How if it weren't for a Native American, The pilgrims would've died. From every mountainside- Like Stone Mountain in Georgia, Where Rebel Generals are memorialized, Where the **** was revived- God, help me, I can't hear freedom's ring; I can only hear white-washed history. From every mountainside- But these days, the mountain is in my chest, And liberty's ring sounds a lot different, And a lot of folks don't like it. Let freedom ring- And I want to fight for freedom for all- #BlackLivesMatter- I want to help- HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT! But- I Can't Breathe. Let freedom ring!- But peaceful protests turn into Bloodbaths as those who have sworn To serve and protect are sniped down. Let freedom ring!- I try to educate myself On the side of history not taught- I've always felt that Nat Turner was the bad guy, But these days I'm questioning it. I read "The Meaning of Fourth of July for the ***** by Frederick Douglass And I read "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and I read "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and I read "Letters from Birmingham Jail", "The Mountaintop Speech", and "I Have a Dream"   by Dr. King. When I was younger, I'd research Dr. King & his colleagues For fun. I'd  wonder, "If I lived in the Civil Rights era, What would I have done?" But when I turned seventeen, I realized, "I live in a Civil Rights era; What am I going to do?
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 5:28 PM UTC
My Country Tis of Thee (America, 2016 Edition)
My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet land of liberty- Or so we sing. Land where my fathers died- But my forefathers died in a battle Trying to keep their slaves; My fathers killed your fathers For trying to run away; My fathers **** your fathers Cause it's late at  night, and He's reaching for his gun-no, wait, His ID? Land of the pilgrim's pride- But so often we leave out of history How if it weren't for a Native American, The pilgrims would've died. From every mountainside- Like Stone Mountain in Georgia, Where Rebel Generals are memorialized, Where the **** was revived- God, help me, I can't hear freedom's ring; I can only hear white-washed history. From every mountainside- But these days, the mountain is in my chest, And liberty's ring sounds a lot different, And a lot of folks don't like it. Let freedom ring- And I want to fight for freedom for all- #BlackLivesMatter- I want to help- HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT! But- I Can't Breathe. Let freedom ring!- But peaceful protests turn into Bloodbaths as those who have sworn To serve and protect are sniped down. Let freedom ring!- I try to educate myself On the side of history not taught- I've always felt that Nat Turner was the bad guy, But these days I'm questioning it. I read "The Meaning of Fourth of July for the ***** by Frederick Douglass And I read "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and I read "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and I read "Letters from Birmingham Jail", "The Mountaintop Speech", and "I Have a Dream"   by Dr. King. When I was younger, I'd research Dr. King & his colleagues For fun. I'd  wonder, "If I lived in the Civil Rights era, What would I have done?" But when I turned seventeen, I realized, "I live in a Civil Rights era; What am I going to do?
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Just as you Sing to the Pop-Diva's Tune The Robins will cower and chirp for more I speak for some News I brought this Noon Though I believe you have heard this before: The Pilgrim comes out of the Pool. And begs Your Seasoned Pucker as you make-decide His trunks are no-offense. In Truth his legs, Thick as moss beg your humble dear Confide I guess you were advised after your Shift He requested for your charmed Experiment Second Ghosts appeared; They in turn bereft And granted his Fantasy's sentiment. I should go now. Since more time to pursue Before he stabs me with a Knife-in-Due.
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 7:14 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: CHERYL COLE
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking round— Wherefore when boughs are free— Households in every tree— Pilgrim be found? Perhaps a home too high— Ah Aristocracy! The little Wren desires— Perhaps of twig so fine— Of twine e’en superfine, Her pride aspires— The Lark is not ashamed To build upon the ground Her modest house— Yet who of all the throng Dancing around the sun Does so rejoice?
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For every Bird a Nest
What ails thee, pilgrim of the mall, Silent, earthen grief of the fall, Pushing beneath her branded mask A chariot to manage her task? A writ of habeas corpus on paper: '"Garden rocket," "lamp," and "mirror"' For your inward eye and the terror Of the still blast of oldhood and time That left you with no place but rhyme - And the mall. What ails thee, woman of language And the fall? © LazharBouazzi
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Jul 7, 2018
Jul 7, 2018 at 11:50 AM UTC
Pilgrim of the Mall (latest version)
may the way that gives way to this accord of may be in awe of truth and not the fruits of disarray I shall be meditating upon the roads travelled and many discoveries gather that I have unravelled I shall curl my high excitements and misguided ambitions to unfurl what the calls of the wise unfurl and admonish In the mist amidst the tricking twists of fits and false gists, may I hold up fists that will seize to desist and delete the disease of fallacy in curtailed wit In the shadows dark, some pale may I not fade into the tales of lies and manipulative games In the guise of dames so modern and fabulously inclined to fame, may I guage and carry my animosity into the mystery of my identity where only the genuine and real can relate In the encounters with material and all that deters from the mystic and ethereal, I hope to remember the real surreal to surmise the reels of fantasy thrills in graphic frills and euphonic trills However the gigantic systems of the world in money, greed, vanity or lust, may doctor sickness into the souls of the lost and weak: may my heart remain meek and my vision bright and led by the lens of the soul.... With or without I pray not as a religious pilgrim but a sage seeking neverending Light... ever the more grateful, harnessing the grapes of creation, worshiping a servant's code in humility. hustling about this rash hassle of life overshadowed by pyramids and castles remaining true to the cause even when temptation is endlessly bustling about remember remember the hustle when you were down and out without
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 1:48 AM UTC
a hustler's prayer
may the way that gives way to this accord of may be in awe of truth and not the fruits of disarray I shall be meditating upon the roads travelled and many discoveries gather that I have unravelled I shall curl my high excitements and misguided ambitions to unfurl what the calls of the wise unfurl and admonish In the mist amidst the tricking twists of fits and false gists, may I hold up fists that will seize to desist and delete the disease of fallacy in curtailed wit In the shadows dark, some pale may I not fade into the tales of lies and manipulative games In the guise of dames so modern and fabulously inclined to fame, may I guage and carry my animosity into the mystery of my identity where only the genuine and real can relate In the encounters with material and all that deters from the mystic and ethereal, I hope to remember the real surreal to surmise the reels of fantasy thrills in graphic frills and euphonic trills However the gigantic systems of the world in money, greed, vanity or lust, may doctor sickness into the souls of the lost and weak: may my heart remain meek and my vision bright and led by the lens of the soul.... With or without I pray not as a religious pilgrim but a sage seeking neverending Light... ever the more grateful, harnessing the grapes of creation, worshiping a servant's code in humility. hustling about this rash hassle of life overshadowed by pyramids and castles remaining true to the cause even when temptation is endlessly bustling about remember remember the hustle when you were down and out without
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I CAN BE WRONG AND STILL BE RIGHT IS THE REAL PARADOX TO HEIGHT A LONELY PILGRIM LOSES SIGHT OF ANSWERS THAT COULD BRING HIM MIGHT AND YET TO SEED THE ANSWERS CALL THE STALLION IS IN ITS STALL HE’S NOT PREPARED TO TAKE THE FALL FOR WHAT COULD BE IS CLEAR TO ALL THE ENDLESS PARADOX IN SIGHT THE TRUTH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO KNIGHT I FEAR TO SEAL MUST FLY HIS KITE AND PRAY SURREAL COMES OUT TIGHT ACROSS THE ANCIENT CASTLE WALLS THE DEMURE TAINTED SHADOWS CRAWL TO FORM THE MORNING’S CLEARING CALL EFFUSIVE ALLUSIONS , IRRELEVANCE FALL THE ECHOS FROM THE GROTTO SWELL LIKE MEMORIES OF ANCIENT HELL THAT COMMAND THE OCEANS TO RESEND THE LOWLY FORCE WITH WHICH THEY’D BEND
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 4:07 AM UTC
Wonderlust
We the citizens, who live as refugees, We keep earning & see if our life is turning, To the price rise, we lose savings, Still we remain rock-bottom in standard of living. We belong to the middle class, Whose life always a breakable thin glass. Our life remains completely unsettle, Every second, life tests our mettle. Life chases us with pressure, failure and useless lecture, We are nurtured with a fear of future, Happiness remains just a leisure, Live with the unsecure & unsure present for a secure future. We keep us busy and function, We fear, when there arrives a function, Towards happiness, we run as a pilgrim, For the corporates, we become a mere victim. We run like an athlete for salary, food and target, For this globalized world, we are just a market, Like hungry dogs, we wait for increments, We keep running with bitter disappointments. We live in own house, only in our dreams, Our hearts cry with hopeless screams, Failures remain our tutors, Inability has turned us the irrecoverable debtors. Our appearance has a rich look, We have untold hidden burdens, That keep us shook, Keeps us forbidden and fear-ridden. Low class think us rich, High class always want us to be their ***** Politically neglected by the rulers, Economically exploited by the rich powers. We exhaust ourself for subsistence, We remain victorious and satisfied only in our existence, We lose our life to sustain in competence, We run our life with a mere persistence. More than the high class and low class, we suffer, Our lives never progressed as governments differ, All see low class with empathy and sympathy, To our difficulties, we are looked with apathy. On rich, we are not jealous, Towards our aim, we are zealous. Never think we are nothing, We truly have nothing to lose. We take risks to make history, Our path is nothing less than a mystery, You never allow us to come up, But we are not going to give up. Hello High class, Never pretend to live like us, to exploit us, Gone are the days, we remained fools, You will stand a day as the super intelligent fools. Before, we are hungry for food, Now, we are hungry to rule, Before, we feared to live, Now, we are ready to win the world. We are nothing! We are nothing We have nothing to lose! We won’t stop until having nothing could do nothing to us.
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Nov 9, 2018
Nov 9, 2018 at 7:35 AM UTC
We- The Middle Class
We the citizens, who live as refugees, We keep earning & see if our life is turning, To the price rise, we lose savings, Still we remain rock-bottom in standard of living. We belong to the middle class, Whose life always a breakable thin glass. Our life remains completely unsettle, Every second, life tests our mettle. Life chases us with pressure, failure and useless lecture, We are nurtured with a fear of future, Happiness remains just a leisure, Live with the unsecure & unsure present for a secure future. We keep us busy and function, We fear, when there arrives a function, Towards happiness, we run as a pilgrim, For the corporates, we become a mere victim. We run like an athlete for salary, food and target, For this globalized world, we are just a market, Like hungry dogs, we wait for increments, We keep running with bitter disappointments. We live in own house, only in our dreams, Our hearts cry with hopeless screams, Failures remain our tutors, Inability has turned us the irrecoverable debtors. Our appearance has a rich look, We have untold hidden burdens, That keep us shook, Keeps us forbidden and fear-ridden. Low class think us rich, High class always want us to be their ***** Politically neglected by the rulers, Economically exploited by the rich powers. We exhaust ourself for subsistence, We remain victorious and satisfied only in our existence, We lose our life to sustain in competence, We run our life with a mere persistence. More than the high class and low class, we suffer, Our lives never progressed as governments differ, All see low class with empathy and sympathy, To our difficulties, we are looked with apathy. On rich, we are not jealous, Towards our aim, we are zealous. Never think we are nothing, We truly have nothing to lose. We take risks to make history, Our path is nothing less than a mystery, You never allow us to come up, But we are not going to give up. Hello High class, Never pretend to live like us, to exploit us, Gone are the days, we remained fools, You will stand a day as the super intelligent fools. Before, we are hungry for food, Now, we are hungry to rule, Before, we feared to live, Now, we are ready to win the world. We are nothing! We are nothing We have nothing to lose! We won’t stop until having nothing could do nothing to us.
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XLII ‘My future will not copy fair my past’— I wrote that once; and thinking at my side My ministering life-angel justified The word by his appealing look upcast To the white throne of God, I turned at last, And there, instead, saw thee, not unallied To angels in thy soul! Then I, long tried By natural ills, received the comfort fast, While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim’s staff Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled. I seek no copy now of life’s first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future’s epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
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Sonnet 42 - ‘My Future Will Not Copy Fair My Past’
The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, your wounds were smaller and my heart bigger than it ever would be. I had learnt to love you despite the smell of wild daffodils on your breath, and the look of expensive pride in your eyes - things you were willing to give up when you first hugged me with the surprising confidence of an old world pilgrim hugging the shores of new America and bringing with it the hopes and bitterness of the transatlantic blues. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, the neighbours said that if I had arrived a bit earlier, I would have heard the sound of his sandy boots crashing against your rotten hardwood flooring, drowning your cries for constant help. His clenched fists might have broken your apartment window, But you begged me to give him the benefit of the doubt - maybe unlike me, he had never fallen for a wild daffodil before. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, I remember confessing how you weren't truly my first love - that honour instead belonged to a monsoon paperboat that hado shown up at my flooded doorstep when I hadnt yet crossed the ripe old age of five. Looking back - you told me, those were probably my golden years of romantic maturity. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, you failed to realize why men kept falling over their swords to win the curled up furball crying in my arms, wearing an unasked crown of broken hearts. I wish you had remembered what i had said. People loved you not because your face shone the brightest or you looked more beautiful than every damsel dancing in the ghostly courts of a dying town. Instead people kept coming back to you because you were Kolkata, you were literally this city. The last time I saw you, we were sitting on the edges of a different city i had chosen to call my own. But I wish you had realized what I meant.
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Feb 1, 2017
Feb 1, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
The Last Time I Saw You
The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, your wounds were smaller and my heart bigger than it ever would be. I had learnt to love you despite the smell of wild daffodils on your breath, and the look of expensive pride in your eyes - things you were willing to give up when you first hugged me with the surprising confidence of an old world pilgrim hugging the shores of new America and bringing with it the hopes and bitterness of the transatlantic blues. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, the neighbours said that if I had arrived a bit earlier, I would have heard the sound of his sandy boots crashing against your rotten hardwood flooring, drowning your cries for constant help. His clenched fists might have broken your apartment window, But you begged me to give him the benefit of the doubt - maybe unlike me, he had never fallen for a wild daffodil before. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, I remember confessing how you weren't truly my first love - that honour instead belonged to a monsoon paperboat that hado shown up at my flooded doorstep when I hadnt yet crossed the ripe old age of five. Looking back - you told me, those were probably my golden years of romantic maturity. The last time I saw you sipping time on his rooftop, you failed to realize why men kept falling over their swords to win the curled up furball crying in my arms, wearing an unasked crown of broken hearts. I wish you had remembered what i had said. People loved you not because your face shone the brightest or you looked more beautiful than every damsel dancing in the ghostly courts of a dying town. Instead people kept coming back to you because you were Kolkata, you were literally this city. The last time I saw you, we were sitting on the edges of a different city i had chosen to call my own. But I wish you had realized what I meant.
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What bad could happen to a boy of sixteen, walking through the woods trying to find a nice spot to smoke and read Slaughterhouse-Five? But now that I'm thinking about it, Stephen King may or may not have written a book about this exact question, more or less. And as everyone who has read The Gunslinger Volume Six: Song of Sussanah, knows, everything Stephen King writes happens. Stephen King is God, in this sense. Nevertheless, I found a nice spot, next to a dried out creek bed, complete with a gallon bucket and the scent of lavender. And so I sat, and rolled a couple cigarettes, and dove into the mind and time traveling of Billy Pilgrim. Sitting there, on that bucket, old Kurt spoke to me. The previous owner of this copy of Slaughterhouse-Five also spoke to me. With highlights and underlines he allowed me into his mind and thought processes while reading this book. He underlined every passage that had to do with the Tralfamadorians views on time and the coexistence of every moment. Soon, it became dark and I could no longer read, having only one cigarette left, I headed home. Fifteen minutes later I was home, and if Stephen King had written about this event he wrote it as it happened. With no harm and no foul. And maybe I dislike him for that and maybe I don't understand why he did that, why he would wrote a boring tale of a boring boy going on a boring walk in some boring Northern California forest. And this writing does not feel complete but the Pabst is starting to kick in so I think I'll leave this one alone for now. And Stephen King **** it, I can't even think of a title for this piece of **** Nevermind, I got it.
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May 6, 2013
May 6, 2013 at 11:13 PM UTC
A Piece of **** Descriptive of a Boring Walk in a Forest of Northern California.
What bad could happen to a boy of sixteen, walking through the woods trying to find a nice spot to smoke and read Slaughterhouse-Five? But now that I'm thinking about it, Stephen King may or may not have written a book about this exact question, more or less. And as everyone who has read The Gunslinger Volume Six: Song of Sussanah, knows, everything Stephen King writes happens. Stephen King is God, in this sense. Nevertheless, I found a nice spot, next to a dried out creek bed, complete with a gallon bucket and the scent of lavender. And so I sat, and rolled a couple cigarettes, and dove into the mind and time traveling of Billy Pilgrim. Sitting there, on that bucket, old Kurt spoke to me. The previous owner of this copy of Slaughterhouse-Five also spoke to me. With highlights and underlines he allowed me into his mind and thought processes while reading this book. He underlined every passage that had to do with the Tralfamadorians views on time and the coexistence of every moment. Soon, it became dark and I could no longer read, having only one cigarette left, I headed home. Fifteen minutes later I was home, and if Stephen King had written about this event he wrote it as it happened. With no harm and no foul. And maybe I dislike him for that and maybe I don't understand why he did that, why he would wrote a boring tale of a boring boy going on a boring walk in some boring Northern California forest. And this writing does not feel complete but the Pabst is starting to kick in so I think I'll leave this one alone for now. And Stephen King **** it, I can't even think of a title for this piece of **** Nevermind, I got it.
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BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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Clowns' Houses
BENEATH the flat and paper sky The sun, a demon's eye, Glowed through the air, that mask of glass; All wand'ring sounds that pass Seemed out of tune, as if the light Were fiddle-strings pulled tight. The market-square with spire and bell Clanged out the hour in Hell; The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare --Bright pilgrim--past our ken, should see Hints of Reality. Upon the sharp-set grass, shrill-green, Tall trees like rattles lean, And jangle sharp and dissily; But when night falls they sign Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in, His face more white than sin, Black-masked, and with cool touch lays bare Each cherry, plum, and pear. Then underneath the veiled eyes Of houses, darkness lies-- Tall houses; like a hopeless prayer They cleave the sly dumb air. Blind are those houses, paper-thin Old shadows hid therein, With sly and crazy movements creep Like marionettes, and weep. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
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The cycle of time never stops, That has never forgiven anyone, Moves fast, slow and sometimes hops, None can claim from it to be won, The kings or beggar it behaves the same, Justice, its essence and time its name. O, the king lying with the queen, Thou's given a figure to the love, The lovers and beloveds are keen, To visit the Taj as pilgrim of love. Thousands of the people visit at a time, To pay tribute a to building of ever prime, Ah! The mosque is empty but I hear, Silent prayer calls in surrounding of thine, People are surrounding thee far and near, They look happy but sad is the heart of mine, O Yamuna! Beside thee one is seeing another age, But time is the obstacle to show its visage.
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Jan 9, 2011
Jan 9, 2011 at 4:56 AM UTC
A VISIT TO THE TAJ
1. A star-shaped patch of snow, achingly white, rests against the base of the little white pine, wrapped in glittering golds and reds, gifts for the Christ Child. No claw or paw or beak or wing has touched the snow. Only a hidden pitch of grass pushes it skyward. It shirks its shrinkage north of the pine. It will not winnow until the bright star burns. *I pass the snow and think of nothing*. 2. Lightning split the hide of the 80-year-old oak that shaded our little tan house each summer. Its bark ripped apart like wallpaper, life leeching out of its crooked limbs in sap-soaked streams of sorrow, making room for the little white pine to thrive in the dead of winter. *Nature is not our friend*. 3. The pine prays to preserve some piece of the oak I used to love. Its needles, like shark’s teeth, fend off friend and foe alike, granting it the right to grow wherever it likes, even here, at the foot of giants. Dead, the pin oak loans its beauty to no one, boasts only of its hard, straight wood, an abiding abode for birds and squirrels and barking boys. I climb to its top each Christmas, straining toward the Epiphany star. *The tree sways, and I think of nothing*.  4. The burgeoning pine pines for such power. You cannot cut it without exposing its darkened knots, like aging spots on my hands and face. It rises bright with anemone-like cones dappled on its coat of single color:       evergreen,       ever young.       Ever gone, my pilgrim oak. I stretch toward the star of Bethlehem, dreaming my way to Heaven, saying No to the punishing star of snow below. Hanging high above the Earth, I sense the Christ Child in my branches. *Wet, wild grasses brush His cradle, push me skyward, His star my home*.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 10:16 AM UTC
Epiphany
1. A star-shaped patch of snow, achingly white, rests against the base of the little white pine, wrapped in glittering golds and reds, gifts for the Christ Child. No claw or paw or beak or wing has touched the snow. Only a hidden pitch of grass pushes it skyward. It shirks its shrinkage north of the pine. It will not winnow until the bright star burns. *I pass the snow and think of nothing*. 2. Lightning split the hide of the 80-year-old oak that shaded our little tan house each summer. Its bark ripped apart like wallpaper, life leeching out of its crooked limbs in sap-soaked streams of sorrow, making room for the little white pine to thrive in the dead of winter. *Nature is not our friend*. 3. The pine prays to preserve some piece of the oak I used to love. Its needles, like shark’s teeth, fend off friend and foe alike, granting it the right to grow wherever it likes, even here, at the foot of giants. Dead, the pin oak loans its beauty to no one, boasts only of its hard, straight wood, an abiding abode for birds and squirrels and barking boys. I climb to its top each Christmas, straining toward the Epiphany star. *The tree sways, and I think of nothing*.  4. The burgeoning pine pines for such power. You cannot cut it without exposing its darkened knots, like aging spots on my hands and face. It rises bright with anemone-like cones dappled on its coat of single color:       evergreen,       ever young.       Ever gone, my pilgrim oak. I stretch toward the star of Bethlehem, dreaming my way to Heaven, saying No to the punishing star of snow below. Hanging high above the Earth, I sense the Christ Child in my branches. *Wet, wild grasses brush His cradle, push me skyward, His star my home*.
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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still! Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!
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To A Skylark
~ he who is a little ahead of his time whose treasures of the words random romanticism is in the blood, marrow, his mood is as the autumn clouds he who has lost his path within path drowning with dreams, sunk you within dreams   again holds thousands of lost dreams fly the colorful kites in the blue sky he who hide within himself **** in his naked poetry In forms humorous,harmonic   as a portrait of the Vincent's starry night he is a pilgrim who has lost himself within spirituality   holds everything with the love   who is for everybody so everybody is for him But in fact there is nothing in all his he who is simple straight as the waterfall when in complex grew hard stone who broke rules for building rules, knows himself within the other life whose words never be end again he moves on and on who laughs in the moonlight again swept in pain without thinking any gain who looks the life as a grain of sand and see the sign of love in the footprint of a fossil he who is a poet - ~
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Jun 26, 2015
Jun 26, 2015 at 3:05 PM UTC
he who is a poet