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"pitfalls" poems
Robert Frost once talked of taking the ‘road less travelled’. Well, I didn’t. When the time came, I blindly went and took the safest road. A very long path where the pitfalls were plenty. I stumbled in the bracken. Stymied by the darkness that fell quickly as I ambled along. The soul bruised, battered and exhausted at every infrequent stop. It was not apparent then that in this venture there was a bleak dead end ahead. I plowed on even though something inside was telling me again and again to turn back. But, slowly, a gleaming light of hope crossed my vista beckoning me home. I crawled. My strength regained as the light intensified. Then the end was in sight - the portal was within grasp. And so, yes, I now take that road less travelled. Standing tall and proud as I gleefully stride down its glowing thoroughfare.   Smiling at the diverse and playful changes that cross my pathway. All told, it’s never too late to trust your instincts and make a difference. Just ask me. And Robert Frost.
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 5:41 PM UTC
The Road Less Travelled
With you Let me be with you We can rewrite the stars With each other side by side Let me fall with you We can climb up the mountains With each other hand in hand Let me walk with you We can jump over the pitfalls With each one step together Let me dream with you We can build our own world With creative imaginations Let me fly high with you We can roll over the clouds With wings of freedom in the sky...
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Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 10:53 PM UTC
With you
Up early as usually but this time with a mission to complete Halloween Costumes. Not a pain free day most definitely, but have kids who rely on me to be a good mom. Everyone has haters; the two faced, "your girls" wanting your guy or envy clothes style, or randoms you never met, desiring your life, home or new car bought with hard work. Most days what's posted on sites about me makes not a bit of difference in my world, I ignore and move on with my life, know haters have nothing better to do than gossip. No news is good news and nothing from my usual "Town Criers" saying "Guess What?" One day got messages in text, "You have been labeled Babylon's ***** by Craiglisters!" Not a "lol" nor "Roflmao" situation. Thinking, What in the world? and How in the world? Me, Ms. Abstaining and they, who love assuming and posting drama without thought. Their world; small town America and believers of truth in "all" internet rumors and media, not willing to give benefit of doubt, once minds, so limited in thought, have been made up. E-mail inquiries from potential employers I never met from destinations far far away, asking and informing that person with such low morals shall never be part of their world. Drama finds me and neither welcome nor do I seek it out, way too emotionally draining, believer in live and let live, authored "Celibacy" poem to stop jokes made to my kids. Who knew that trying for your dreams could bring forth bringers or illogical pure hatred? Who knew that emotions of my children whom I love, would be affected by narrow minds? After family conference and with full support, by the way, had to explain ***** to son, this mom carries on and still on second journey pursuing dreams and making realities. If I give up dreams it will never be because someone posted bold faced lies on open forum, it will be because I choose to do it with good reasons and those reasons are mine alone. Pitfalls? Have been numerous. Will? Strong and still determined to see this through to end. Tomorrow isn't promised and hear my dad say, "Daughter, go forth and let haters be fuel!"
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM UTC
Irrational Haters and My Children
Up early as usually but this time with a mission to complete Halloween Costumes. Not a pain free day most definitely, but have kids who rely on me to be a good mom. Everyone has haters; the two faced, "your girls" wanting your guy or envy clothes style, or randoms you never met, desiring your life, home or new car bought with hard work. Most days what's posted on sites about me makes not a bit of difference in my world, I ignore and move on with my life, know haters have nothing better to do than gossip. No news is good news and nothing from my usual "Town Criers" saying "Guess What?" One day got messages in text, "You have been labeled Babylon's ***** by Craiglisters!" Not a "lol" nor "Roflmao" situation. Thinking, What in the world? and How in the world? Me, Ms. Abstaining and they, who love assuming and posting drama without thought. Their world; small town America and believers of truth in "all" internet rumors and media, not willing to give benefit of doubt, once minds, so limited in thought, have been made up. E-mail inquiries from potential employers I never met from destinations far far away, asking and informing that person with such low morals shall never be part of their world. Drama finds me and neither welcome nor do I seek it out, way too emotionally draining, believer in live and let live, authored "Celibacy" poem to stop jokes made to my kids. Who knew that trying for your dreams could bring forth bringers or illogical pure hatred? Who knew that emotions of my children whom I love, would be affected by narrow minds? After family conference and with full support, by the way, had to explain ***** to son, this mom carries on and still on second journey pursuing dreams and making realities. If I give up dreams it will never be because someone posted bold faced lies on open forum, it will be because I choose to do it with good reasons and those reasons are mine alone. Pitfalls? Have been numerous. Will? Strong and still determined to see this through to end. Tomorrow isn't promised and hear my dad say, "Daughter, go forth and let haters be fuel!"
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If I could write my life as a poem For millions who'll read, understand, think I'd conjure an epic, a mystery A tale on edge, a tragedy's brink. I'd weave gripping waves of pleasure Together with heart-wrenching tides of pain A sea of battles with no leisure Of joyful wins going against the grain. I'd stitch metaphors with gleeful pride Constructing rhythm with a bit of rhyme I'd dabble with similes here and there It'd be my thread on the sands of time. But when I see my life as it is now How different it is from my lovely tale It retains its mystery, some agony A once-green crop grown dead and stale. A lost yarn of mistakes and pitfalls With regret binding the threads as one Repeated faults with no known structure A once-free verse that is trapped, undone. So I'll cast away my dream of a life In a graveyard as a forgotten goal. Some dreams never come true, it seems Just like some lives will never be whole.
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Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 12:42 PM UTC
Perfectionist
I’ve kept to the high road in life, only in my mind. Thinking myself wise to avoid the pitfalls others faced. A warm wind blew up from my past and there you stood. A memory of childhood and view to my future. Old and new, my path I find in you. You’ve led me to the back roads, on trails I’d left ignored, looking outside the familiar at you. For a while we walked together, hand in hand following love’s path caught up in the voice it called. Suddenly, I found you had gone, taking another path. Now I’m left abandoned, alone again blinded by my fear to move. For I’ve lost my way on these back roads without my guide and without my love. Can you find me hiding here beneath this veil Can you see the real me? Did you look inside this woman to find the frightened insecure girl wanting only to be loved.
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Aug 22, 2012
Aug 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM UTC
THE LOST ROAD
Here is were it all begins Now a life time to unfold A future lies deep within And stories will be told. Your road it will be rocky You will face those stormy seas There'll be times you will be happy And times down on your knees. You will find that life's a journey You'll get lost along the way But your not alone there's many Who get back on track again. So put on that suit of armour It's a dangerous world out there Beware of all the trappings Their are pitfalls everywhere.   Don't look back you have a future And hope is what you need Your life will be your teacher And lessons will be learned indeed. You will find that new horrizon It is there behind the door That door will surely widen And the world it will be yours.
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Jun 30, 2018
Jun 30, 2018 at 4:55 PM UTC
Life will be your teacher.
Gates climb News and paraphernalia Modern communication Internet on vacation Today, rural Australia Goes awol in valleys, hills As seeking when hiding Frustration biding Trees, various pitfalls An Insufficient population Say Cannot build towers Excuses bely hours Trying, for connection Work with what's known Try cavalier solutions   It's the execution When, creativity shown First try computer waving Above head I'm shaking Signal not taking Despite, the swaying Next option lying on floor Hint of access, fleeting Patchy greeting So slow, won't store Then stand on top of bed Try to reach high ceiling Wobbly feeling Response, still lead Despite heat, go outside The temperature violent Connection silent If Home far, just beside Time past, similarly stung Found access best rate The paddock gate Balancing, top rung Troop to gate hopes keen As Searing heat, metal Stand and settle Tightly, cradle machine Process long, time lost A Connection success Finally access But who, counts cost? Eventually, its loaded mail As Balancing hold keen Humorous scene As Sway, in light pale Internet access by Gates Not Bill, Steve, Microsoft Hung steel aloft So basic, surely debates Climbing for a signal now Is the practical response Sadly ensconced As Rural, area know how But surely it must be time When access essential Internet critical Yet today, gates climb
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Jan 17, 2015
Jan 17, 2015 at 7:45 PM UTC
Gates climb
There’s no if or almost in tennis or with love No half feeling it. No hitting half in. Your mind cant be there one moment And not be there the next Love is everything & nothing at all. You can be too bitter Not to hit a winner Love & tennis will play you just the same With It’s tough game. You must keep your eye on the ball Trying not to hit the intentional pitfalls If not played right on the line Will knock you out every time When you stretch to make that shot just right Of continuing to believe its worth the fight Logic & emotion intertwined Remember love & tennis are just games of the mind
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 11:33 AM UTC
Love - 15
In retrospect, dredging up past events     that led to the here and now.               Pending course of actions in which to exact...     Reaching as far back as the mind would allow. In retrospect, studying the reflection in the rear view mirror,   as the present freezes itself intact. Sifting through past images...         Second by second, frame by frame.       Identifying overlooked pitfalls           and margin of errors.       In retrospect, straddling the realm...   Where my current state of mind       lapses into a minute-long sleep.   Sights on the future... Folded blind, discerning the treachery           of impulsive thoughts and actions.         Diving up from oceans deep,     painting the backdrop beyond paths at unmarked junctions.               In retrospect, every detail deconstructed... Deliberated against the yardstick   of what's done and the supposed.     Refracted memories snap back clean into place.       Over and over...         Layer upon layer...     Time and again forming       the looming weight       that pulls me to a stumble               into the stagnant puddle...   Of long gone days.
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 10:10 AM UTC
Retrospect
When he was a youth of fifteen or twenty, He chased a wild horse, he caught him and rode him, He shot the white-browed mountain tiger, He defied the yellow-bristled Horseman of Ye. Fighting single- handed for a thousand miles, With his naked dagger he could hold a multitude. ...Granted that the troops of China were as swift as heaven's thunder And that Tartar soldiers perished in pitfalls fanged with iron, General Wei Qing's victory was only a thing of chance. And General Li Guang's thwarted effort was his fate, not his fault. Since this man's retirement he is looking old and worn: Experience of the world has hastened his white hairs. Though once his quick dart never missed the right eye of a bird, Now knotted veins and tendons make his left arm like an osier. He is sometimes at the road-side selling melons from his garden, He is sometimes planting willows round his hermitage. His lonely lane is shut away by a dense grove, His vacant window looks upon the far cold mountains But, if he prayed, the waters would come gushing for his men And never would he wanton his cause away with wine. ...War-clouds are spreading, under the Helan Range; Back and forth, day and night, go feathered messages; In the three River Provinces, the governors call young men -- And five imperial edicts have summoned the old general. So he dusts his iron coat and shines it like snow- Waves his dagger from its jade hilt in a dance of starry steel. He is ready with his strong northern bow to smite the Tartar chieftain -- That never a foreign war-dress may affront the Emperor. ...There once was an aged Prefect, forgotten and far away, Who still could manage triumph with a single stroke.
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Song of an Old General
When he was a youth of fifteen or twenty, He chased a wild horse, he caught him and rode him, He shot the white-browed mountain tiger, He defied the yellow-bristled Horseman of Ye. Fighting single- handed for a thousand miles, With his naked dagger he could hold a multitude. ...Granted that the troops of China were as swift as heaven's thunder And that Tartar soldiers perished in pitfalls fanged with iron, General Wei Qing's victory was only a thing of chance. And General Li Guang's thwarted effort was his fate, not his fault. Since this man's retirement he is looking old and worn: Experience of the world has hastened his white hairs. Though once his quick dart never missed the right eye of a bird, Now knotted veins and tendons make his left arm like an osier. He is sometimes at the road-side selling melons from his garden, He is sometimes planting willows round his hermitage. His lonely lane is shut away by a dense grove, His vacant window looks upon the far cold mountains But, if he prayed, the waters would come gushing for his men And never would he wanton his cause away with wine. ...War-clouds are spreading, under the Helan Range; Back and forth, day and night, go feathered messages; In the three River Provinces, the governors call young men -- And five imperial edicts have summoned the old general. So he dusts his iron coat and shines it like snow- Waves his dagger from its jade hilt in a dance of starry steel. He is ready with his strong northern bow to smite the Tartar chieftain -- That never a foreign war-dress may affront the Emperor. ...There once was an aged Prefect, forgotten and far away, Who still could manage triumph with a single stroke.
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A perturbed philosoper perches precariously atop a pedestal, preaching in poetic prose of the pernicious pitfalls of man's avowal to avarice; as a braindead banker bellows "BUY BONDS!" and boasts boisterously of his brand new Bugatti.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 6:33 PM UTC
Alliteration #2
Who am I? Who am I? A rebel? A hero? A monster with blood and bones? Not one of these things. A little lion girl, maimed and alone. A coward, needy and ashamed, A girl trapped in darkness, begging for a light, But all she could manage were stumbles through the night. In the midst of it all, the struggle and fall, I felt my legs give out, Weak and worn out, I lay in the pit. For what shall I fight for? This hell? This **** Many gathered around and yelled 'you can't quit', They rattled but could not touch, could not help, for they too are sick. I heard a gentler voice in the crowd, and I wanted to answer, But dropped my head in the mud, With every effort, the pain just grows tenser. In my heart, I asked "Who are You?", "Where have You been?" I spat. Still, You called my name, and cleared the brush and pitfalls so I could get up and walk back, But I was trapped in a pit, I was ashamed, without a thought, I sent You away, Still, You came closer and knelt down to my level so that we were face to face, "What are You doing?" I bitterly noted, when I saw that You reached for me, I then swatted your hand and said, "No one tends to these scars, it's too much of a demand". But you replied; "Not for me, I heal every wound with My love and My own right hand." So I just sighed and gave into His embrace, what did I have to lose? With Your hands on my back You picked me up, You took my feet and set them on a rock, You breathed into my heart and for the first time, I felt life, You touched my eyes with your finger, and I saw heaven on earth, You whispered to my mind, "You can trust Me, Holly. I am the way the truth and the light" And in that very moment I knew, I was reborn with the Son, I walked to the mirror and saw a new reflection, a brave face with purpose, A lioness who may inherent all of His kingdom under the sun, And so, this is the end of a testimony, I run down a new road now, With my hand in God's hand and a smile on my face remembering His first embrace, Wherever I travel, even in the valley of the shadow of death, I keep a hand stretched out and a heart of trust, Because My Lord never fails, and already He has conquered all things for us. And now You're here, My heart is at rest, You crushed my fears. My life is blessed. I found the savior, Praise Jesus Christ. I will serve you, great God, For the rest of my days. For what life can become, Living for Amazing Grace! Till kingdom come, Till kingdom come, Glory in the highest, I lift up all praise, I will love You forever, My Lord and His Son.
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 4:13 PM UTC
A Testimony
Who am I? Who am I? A rebel? A hero? A monster with blood and bones? Not one of these things. A little lion girl, maimed and alone. A coward, needy and ashamed, A girl trapped in darkness, begging for a light, But all she could manage were stumbles through the night. In the midst of it all, the struggle and fall, I felt my legs give out, Weak and worn out, I lay in the pit. For what shall I fight for? This hell? This **** Many gathered around and yelled 'you can't quit', They rattled but could not touch, could not help, for they too are sick. I heard a gentler voice in the crowd, and I wanted to answer, But dropped my head in the mud, With every effort, the pain just grows tenser. In my heart, I asked "Who are You?", "Where have You been?" I spat. Still, You called my name, and cleared the brush and pitfalls so I could get up and walk back, But I was trapped in a pit, I was ashamed, without a thought, I sent You away, Still, You came closer and knelt down to my level so that we were face to face, "What are You doing?" I bitterly noted, when I saw that You reached for me, I then swatted your hand and said, "No one tends to these scars, it's too much of a demand". But you replied; "Not for me, I heal every wound with My love and My own right hand." So I just sighed and gave into His embrace, what did I have to lose? With Your hands on my back You picked me up, You took my feet and set them on a rock, You breathed into my heart and for the first time, I felt life, You touched my eyes with your finger, and I saw heaven on earth, You whispered to my mind, "You can trust Me, Holly. I am the way the truth and the light" And in that very moment I knew, I was reborn with the Son, I walked to the mirror and saw a new reflection, a brave face with purpose, A lioness who may inherent all of His kingdom under the sun, And so, this is the end of a testimony, I run down a new road now, With my hand in God's hand and a smile on my face remembering His first embrace, Wherever I travel, even in the valley of the shadow of death, I keep a hand stretched out and a heart of trust, Because My Lord never fails, and already He has conquered all things for us. And now You're here, My heart is at rest, You crushed my fears. My life is blessed. I found the savior, Praise Jesus Christ. I will serve you, great God, For the rest of my days. For what life can become, Living for Amazing Grace! Till kingdom come, Till kingdom come, Glory in the highest, I lift up all praise, I will love You forever, My Lord and His Son.
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Depression did drain my existence, Brawling against sadness for years. Becoming a hostage to mental illness, Waging a war to be free of misery. Battling anguish on a rough trail, The quest to happiness is vicious. Determined on my journey for hope, Seeking a path that will end agony. Barriers block my lanes to blissfulness, Resisting each hurdle with purpose. Combating in the most important cause, Dedicated to win conflicts verses despair. The pursuit to fortune has finally arrived, Satisfied by all pitfalls that were defeated.
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 2:26 PM UTC
Happiness after Depression
What if there was no light, No inclination to fight, Mountains, all feasible to climb; To be in anyplace, and anytime. What if love was a verb, No pitfalls, no feelings to curb, True loves lost in abyss, No one to meet nor miss. What if death was avoidable, and people weren't exploitable, Earth as Eden; No sin, no wrong, even. What if sadness was eliminated, No choice debated, Just action, speaking before thinking, Leaving all people sinking. For death is still a shadow, The bite-mark is in the apple. Love is fate, ships of sadness and pain: Humanity as the first mate. Always surrounded with quandary and question... But one thing yet to mention: Eliminate all questions of "what if" in mind, Then there shall be answers to find.
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
What If
How am I To live a meaningful life In a world full of misery Inhumanity and strife To dodge all the pitfalls That lead us all to sin Knowing good and well It’s a battle we’ll never win How am I To be able to cope In a society full racism And a world who’s lost hope To be reassured of a future Where mankind still has a place On this planet we have treated With devastation and disgrace How am I To teach my children to cope To surpass my expectations Is there even still hope? Will they be left with a planet ***** and poisoned beyond repair A wasteland of religious hatred Do we even really care? How are “WE” As a species expect to survive If we all continue with the mind set That only “MY” race and religion Deserve to be alive.
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Dec 23, 2017
Dec 23, 2017 at 10:27 AM UTC
All Lives Matter
Quick! Call the poetic constabulary I'm mincing words about my vocabulary Help! I'm drowning in my thesaurus evidence that i'm merely a brontosaurus Listen up to my Greek chorus: "Such silly word play should place her in poem prison a ponderous place from which few have risen Locked in the cell, losing her sense consequence of writing with no poetic license" Writing on with no reason or rhyme just doing my poetic time iambic meters bite me in the **** trying to force me out of my sonnetic rut stumbling on ideas most trite all the pitfalls of making the choice to write
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Jun 19, 2017
Jun 19, 2017 at 2:39 PM UTC
Another Tragic Poet
I wash your sins within me I heal and nurture them not for you, and one moment on your long list. I cleanse your transgressions for me and for her, and our daughters and their daughters. In the undercurrent of my being, I bathe my wound and swim and search for a way forward, because what is existence if not time pulling us along? - I think I was born into this life a healer. To feel this shared pain and see its shadows as if light, reflecting and dancing against a wall, creating constellations of heartache. I see now my purpose, to connect with the heavens unknown from this earth so this wicked energy may leave this world. And us. To nourish each other, so that we can choose to transcend pain a human existence, where love and its triumphs, and deepest darkest of pitfalls coalesce into this flesh to cross both space and time to make generations. This flesh, that I now wear proudly, albeit timidly at times. This paradox, I want for her too.
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 1:45 PM UTC
The healing
Spiders sprinkling down a crooked spine Can you hear the whine of a brain stem dying One hundred and eighty days of pain have metamorphosed this corpse into something deranged mangled and tangled in webs of perception razor-sharp enough to cut straight through the gut's deception and when the vile heart succeeds in silencing the eyeballs emptying the sockets of life-long pitfalls maybe the spine-spiders will finally commence to release the good soul that remains trapped inside this tree. Grow tree, grow, for you are all I have ever known, If it weren't for your protective shade, who knows where I'd have been blown. You may be covered in cobwebs and leaves long decayed, but I'll keep my promise to save you someday. You may not grow to be the big oak of which you dream, perhaps you will end up as kindling in the fiery gleam of a thousand spiders cremating in my hearth as I look on, a corpse consumed by an angry spark. Lovingly your ashes will be placed beside the oldest river, the one you once graced. There will be no more spidery-spinal veins to screech and rattle and bring about the worst pain. Changelessness is not a virtue, a concept you most despised, in the spidery spinal tree's search for life of a better kind.
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Jul 5, 2010
Jul 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM UTC
arachnophobia
War; absolute This will be my macadam into re-assemblage For if I'm not on edge, I'm taking up too much precious space What wickedness lies beneath the surface of the skin? I should know this place better than anyone But my landscape has become mercurial Ever changing, impossible to map I am forced to navigate its pitfalls in ever complicating ways It has become a desolate place I alone should rule here, my sovereignty unquestioned Yet I've become content to be complacent, and have allowed a sickly intruder to slip past my walls They infect, demoralize: turn my skin to stone They must be expunged; cut out, snipped from the healthy flesh like a cancer As one removes a gangrenous foot to save the leg Though my tools at the moment are blunt, I sharpen them daily with the whetstone afforded to me They will not continue to expel bile into the bloodstream for long My strength returns by the hour They know this, and they tremble I am the goddess to whom this altar is devoted I am righteous fury, come to cleanse this blight with holy fire and flood The war drums sound as the gate is lifted The iron bell tolls -- judgement day cometh
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 8:25 PM UTC
Valkyrie
and i trek'd through the pre-dawn cold skating along the rail tracks, to boulder jumping a ravine                    (where were Japhy's ducks to guide?) and into a deaden'd grass field. tapping tip of foot to avoid watery pitfalls while flanked by rusted railyard and meth-addled recreational plot; cat piss'd chemical smell wafts from as December's north wind fights a toothless perverting force. the macadame is barren as rainfell desert and the animals propel by combustion in effort to scavenge Capitalism's ****                    predawn 'fore the burliest awaken with hunger.
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Dec 9, 2012
Dec 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM UTC
36thr
When I look in the mirror my heart stops, I can hear my soul weeping. I am confused, that is not the image I expected, certainly not what my brain anticipated. So many miles I put between us, I called, but my subconscious would change the frequency of the calls with each passing year. Over a decade and a half I prevented myself from letting sand gently tickle my feet, waves relax my soul, and sea breeze whispers in my ears. Not able to reflect and re-live times filled with music, dancing, learning to love, and learning to enjoy a colorful culture that despite pitfalls, obstacles, and oppression, manages to rise above all and shine, to light up our path to greatness and show the sacrifices our ancestors made so we don’t forget where we come from and where we have to go. I look in the mirror once more, nothing has changed, same image, now it is staring… I blinked, it is gone. my dream quickly becomes a nightmare, the image jumps out of the mirror and gives chase, I’m not fast enough. I am him—He is me, I am cursed! I am flying, no destination, no horizon, visibility is very low, I grow tired. another dream turning nightmare. same mirror, same image, I ‘m not running, not scared, never really was. I turned around to see the image turning into a beast. I am no longer him—He is no longer me. He tries to reach me, tries to talk to me, he seems to be paralyzed, frustrated, mute, impotent. I feel sorry for the beast as he is now powerless, sad, and alone. I am flying, I see the horizon, I have a destination. I am tired no more… I have a purpose.
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Aug 10, 2018
Aug 10, 2018 at 7:05 AM UTC
REFLECTION...by Jules
When I look in the mirror my heart stops, I can hear my soul weeping. I am confused, that is not the image I expected, certainly not what my brain anticipated. So many miles I put between us, I called, but my subconscious would change the frequency of the calls with each passing year. Over a decade and a half I prevented myself from letting sand gently tickle my feet, waves relax my soul, and sea breeze whispers in my ears. Not able to reflect and re-live times filled with music, dancing, learning to love, and learning to enjoy a colorful culture that despite pitfalls, obstacles, and oppression, manages to rise above all and shine, to light up our path to greatness and show the sacrifices our ancestors made so we don’t forget where we come from and where we have to go. I look in the mirror once more, nothing has changed, same image, now it is staring… I blinked, it is gone. my dream quickly becomes a nightmare, the image jumps out of the mirror and gives chase, I’m not fast enough. I am him—He is me, I am cursed! I am flying, no destination, no horizon, visibility is very low, I grow tired. another dream turning nightmare. same mirror, same image, I ‘m not running, not scared, never really was. I turned around to see the image turning into a beast. I am no longer him—He is no longer me. He tries to reach me, tries to talk to me, he seems to be paralyzed, frustrated, mute, impotent. I feel sorry for the beast as he is now powerless, sad, and alone. I am flying, I see the horizon, I have a destination. I am tired no more… I have a purpose.
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whence the word special is said, be wary of the speaker whence the word special is said, be wary of the speaker pitfalls are in the making, one can trip up pitfalls are in the making, one can trip up pitfalls are in the making, whence the word special is said be wary of the speaker, one can trip up the memory stores info well, an utterance hollow ne'er forgot the memory stores info well, an utterance hollow ne'er forgot wising up seeing the light, one is misguided wising up seeing the light, one is misguided one is misguided, the memory stores info well wising up seeing the light, an utterance hollow ne'er forgot a revelation did dawn, that guy wasn't legit a revelation did dawn, that guy wasn't legit his line but a fallacy, clearness of sight now prevails his line but a fallacy, clearness of sight now prevails clearness of sight now prevails, that guy wasn't legit a revelation did dawn, his line but a fallacy a revelation did dawn, one is misguided pitfalls are in the making, whence the word special is said that guy wasn't legit, an utterance hollow ne'er forgot his line but a fallacy, wising up seeing the light one can trip up,the memory stores info well be wary of the speaker, clearness of sight now prevails
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Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 9:06 PM UTC
Clearness Of Sight (Paradelle Poem)
Then there are those times you write Because otherwise the words will tear you up inside Like supercharged particles Of steam under pressure Or uranium reaching critical mass So you set to the task Grab pen and paper Or iPhone and browser And start uploading your sins onto clean white sheets Of loose leaf or LCD As if possessed by some other self Or non-self Itself a fountain of diction A percolation of syntax Bubbling up and out so as not to **** the messenger And lines flow Kia ora koutou katoa Nga hoa Me toku whanau My friends And family Be well See well through this life And her pitfalls Tall walls and Crash courses in experience Standard variance and deviation from the mean She can be mean She can be cruel and unkind sometimes But you’ll find rhymes to make lines line up like signs on the highway And find even in grief there is beauty Truth in pain Life in suffering There is no judgement inherent in these things and none at all other than that which we place upon them Negative or positive are uniquely human conditions Everything else just is It sits within itself Without apprehension of the fourth dimension Not beating up younger selves for poor decisions made by poorly equipped versions Nor fearing an abstract time hence From whence march our fears about death And a life well spent And incontinence And I think my phone bill is going to be massive And I think my 2 minutes is up And I think my 15 minutes is up Where was I again? Words have surfaced Simmered and settled down Beauty in the badness Truth in the madness Tiredness overtakes Like post coitus An **** of the monastic order Intellectual intercourses subsequent exhaustion And sleep calls ceaselessly As if nothing else mattress
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 7:36 PM UTC
Divine Write
Then there are those times you write Because otherwise the words will tear you up inside Like supercharged particles Of steam under pressure Or uranium reaching critical mass So you set to the task Grab pen and paper Or iPhone and browser And start uploading your sins onto clean white sheets Of loose leaf or LCD As if possessed by some other self Or non-self Itself a fountain of diction A percolation of syntax Bubbling up and out so as not to **** the messenger And lines flow Kia ora koutou katoa Nga hoa Me toku whanau My friends And family Be well See well through this life And her pitfalls Tall walls and Crash courses in experience Standard variance and deviation from the mean She can be mean She can be cruel and unkind sometimes But you’ll find rhymes to make lines line up like signs on the highway And find even in grief there is beauty Truth in pain Life in suffering There is no judgement inherent in these things and none at all other than that which we place upon them Negative or positive are uniquely human conditions Everything else just is It sits within itself Without apprehension of the fourth dimension Not beating up younger selves for poor decisions made by poorly equipped versions Nor fearing an abstract time hence From whence march our fears about death And a life well spent And incontinence And I think my phone bill is going to be massive And I think my 2 minutes is up And I think my 15 minutes is up Where was I again? Words have surfaced Simmered and settled down Beauty in the badness Truth in the madness Tiredness overtakes Like post coitus An **** of the monastic order Intellectual intercourses subsequent exhaustion And sleep calls ceaselessly As if nothing else mattress
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Lost in the sea Just a cup of tea A desert of carpet It was so hard not to look up your skirt
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Jan 20, 2012
Jan 20, 2012 at 4:55 PM UTC
Pitfalls for the one inch tall gentleman
My Apologies, Sona by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My apologies, Sona, if traversing my verse's terrain in these torrential rains inconvenienced you. The monsoons are unseasonal here. My poems' pitfalls are sometimes sodden. Water often overflows these ditches. If you stumble and fall here, you run the risk of spraining an ankle. My apologies, however, if you were inconvenienced because my dismal verse lacks light, or because my threshold's stones interfered as you passed. I have often cracked toenails against them! As for the streetlamp at the intersection, it remains unlit ... endlessly indecisive. If you were inconvenienced, you have my heartfelt apologies! Come! by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Come, let us construct night over the monumental edifice of silence. Come, let us clothe ourselves in the winding sheets of darkness, where we'll ignite our bodies' incandescent wax. As the midnight dew dances its delicate ballet, let us not disclose the slightest whispers of our breath! Lost in night's mists, let us lie immersed in love's fragrance, absorbing the musky aromas of our bodies! Let us rise like rustling spirits ... Old Habits Die Hard by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The habit of breathing is an odd tradition. Why struggle so to keep on living? The body shudders, the eyes veil, yet the feet somehow keep moving. Why this journey, this restless, relentless flowing? For how many weeks, months, years, centuries shall we struggle to keep on living, keep on living? Habits are such strange things, such hard things to break! Inconclusive by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A body lies on a white bed— dead, abandoned, a forsaken corpse they forgot to bury. They concluded its death was not their concern. I hope they return and recognize me, then bury me so I can breathe. Keywords/Tags: Gulzar, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Triveni, translation, life, death, love, ghazal, couplet, mrburdu
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May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020 at 6:18 AM UTC
Gulzar translations
My Apologies, Sona by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My apologies, Sona, if traversing my verse's terrain in these torrential rains inconvenienced you. The monsoons are unseasonal here. My poems' pitfalls are sometimes sodden. Water often overflows these ditches. If you stumble and fall here, you run the risk of spraining an ankle. My apologies, however, if you were inconvenienced because my dismal verse lacks light, or because my threshold's stones interfered as you passed. I have often cracked toenails against them! As for the streetlamp at the intersection, it remains unlit ... endlessly indecisive. If you were inconvenienced, you have my heartfelt apologies! Come! by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Come, let us construct night over the monumental edifice of silence. Come, let us clothe ourselves in the winding sheets of darkness, where we'll ignite our bodies' incandescent wax. As the midnight dew dances its delicate ballet, let us not disclose the slightest whispers of our breath! Lost in night's mists, let us lie immersed in love's fragrance, absorbing the musky aromas of our bodies! Let us rise like rustling spirits ... Old Habits Die Hard by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The habit of breathing is an odd tradition. Why struggle so to keep on living? The body shudders, the eyes veil, yet the feet somehow keep moving. Why this journey, this restless, relentless flowing? For how many weeks, months, years, centuries shall we struggle to keep on living, keep on living? Habits are such strange things, such hard things to break! Inconclusive by Gulzar loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch A body lies on a white bed— dead, abandoned, a forsaken corpse they forgot to bury. They concluded its death was not their concern. I hope they return and recognize me, then bury me so I can breathe. Keywords/Tags: Gulzar, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Triveni, translation, life, death, love, ghazal, couplet, mrburdu
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