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"precursor" poems
As the sun slowly sets The precursor to the week With deadlines,                             Orders,                                            Oh so bleak The calm before the storm   Too restless to enjoy For everybody knows      It's sunday's melancholy ploy     Responsibilities loom overhead      Our heart as heavy as the air       The world has now gone silent               We sit in subtle fear
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 4:44 PM UTC
sunday evening omnipresence
One by one, I have watched each of my relationships dissolve into bitter words on my tongue, Like "I still look for your face even though you're a thousand miles away." "I am in love with someone who doesn't exist anymore." "You are the one thing I regret giving up." "Forgive me for destroying you. I didn't know to be with someone who wasn't as broken as I was." So you'll understand why I say that I was never one for love stories. Marriage vows sounded like the screaming echo of future arguments, Kisses looked like purple bruises, rather than happy endings, And the only absolute truth I knew was that getting everything you wanted was just a precursor to losing it all. Which is why this is not a cheesy tale of romance but of something much greater Of friendship that could shatter the world with its strength Of an empty shell of a person who only knew how to drown and the girl who taught her how beautiful it felt to burn Of two teenagers who may be microscopic to the universe but are worth galaxies to each other. This is seeing what love has the potential to be: Thinking the same thing so many times we could fill an ocean if people still said "you owe me a soda" Whispering into the phone at 3am to talk about high school drama and our favorite teachers and a boy we used to love. Biting tongues so that our bursts of laughter don't wake up our roommates. Talking about everything and nothing, all at once. This is realizing that love is not companionship. It is completion. So this is to my best friend: A long time ago, I made myself a new skin out of sandpaper and sarcasm to scare away anyone who could ever love me But now, I have never meant anything more literally than when I say that I cannot live without you. And if you are the story of my life, then I swear, it is the one that I will never stop re-reading.
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 2:40 AM UTC
She is the reason I'm alive, and I'm starting to realize she is also the reason I exist.
One by one, I have watched each of my relationships dissolve into bitter words on my tongue, Like "I still look for your face even though you're a thousand miles away." "I am in love with someone who doesn't exist anymore." "You are the one thing I regret giving up." "Forgive me for destroying you. I didn't know to be with someone who wasn't as broken as I was." So you'll understand why I say that I was never one for love stories. Marriage vows sounded like the screaming echo of future arguments, Kisses looked like purple bruises, rather than happy endings, And the only absolute truth I knew was that getting everything you wanted was just a precursor to losing it all. Which is why this is not a cheesy tale of romance but of something much greater Of friendship that could shatter the world with its strength Of an empty shell of a person who only knew how to drown and the girl who taught her how beautiful it felt to burn Of two teenagers who may be microscopic to the universe but are worth galaxies to each other. This is seeing what love has the potential to be: Thinking the same thing so many times we could fill an ocean if people still said "you owe me a soda" Whispering into the phone at 3am to talk about high school drama and our favorite teachers and a boy we used to love. Biting tongues so that our bursts of laughter don't wake up our roommates. Talking about everything and nothing, all at once. This is realizing that love is not companionship. It is completion. So this is to my best friend: A long time ago, I made myself a new skin out of sandpaper and sarcasm to scare away anyone who could ever love me But now, I have never meant anything more literally than when I say that I cannot live without you. And if you are the story of my life, then I swear, it is the one that I will never stop re-reading.
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*blondes, brunettes and redheads, the goodbye colors of the street's tree choir members and their leafy gowned denizens, the good stiff chill upon them, the selfsame chill in my anguished mind now hiding, sing a comfort food song heard above the quiet terror of the noises of a fall winters-wind precursor "once we green, once we were renewal, life everlasting emblems once, you were wee, green uncaring and free, presuming that you too, were in possession of life everlasting your colors have changed as well, endless is the process, only slower than a tree's scheduled maintenance, moreover, returning you to your first crayon drawing youth unlike us, an impossibility we will turn young again for many seasons more, you never will new eyes will feast upon our glories refreshed and love our cast shade cast yet special are you the man, poet who was chosen to see and tell, witness to our resurrection, during our overlapping, parallel continuum in time when to the shade of hades you physic sent, our limbs, our leaves, our perennial lives, for-as-long-as-they-shall-last, will cover thy remains and give your poems back to the sultry summer breeze from whence they came and the colors of your words will be the colors of a free life everlasting"*
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 12:43 AM UTC
blondes, brunettes, and redheads,
I never told you this story: The story is, when we first me, first falling in love, I had a choice. I was at a party, with my friends, and you texted me. You wanted to get drunk, bring a friend and show off some new guy you met. And I was talking with a beautiful French girl. She was impeccable, with long dark hair and she scared many of the guys away with the intensity in her stare. Her accent made every word a masterpiece, and her style strict Parisian. She did it all like we could do it, but she did it differently. And she could dance. I asked my friend what I should do. He took a drink and told me “If she comes man, she’ll only want to dance with you.” He said this as he glanced at the beautiful French girl smiling at me, and I smiled back at her. And that sealed the deal in the kitchenette. So I walked backed to her, and she held out her hand. She pulled me in close, and I could smell her hair. She smiled as she taught me, laughed as I failed, and it took a while to get the hang of it, but I finally prevailed. And I danced with the French girl. I ignored your texts, blocked your calls. And it was her that I was texting on my walk home, forgotten about you at a bus stop far from home. It was the feel her of her body against mine I missed, not yours. And even though I later chose you, I later fell for you, and I later lost you, that night, I chose her. I chose the dream over reality; someone knew over a scene well seen; I chose love, I chose me. And do I regret that decision? Well, out of all the decisions I made which lead me to loving you, I have absolutely no regrets in dancing with the beautiful French girl. Maybe it was a precursor, a sign I should have taken. But to me, it’s just a memory, and a memory I’ll never forget, a memory I'll always have about dancing with the French girl in the downstairs kitchenette.
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Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013 at 4:39 AM UTC
The French Girl
I never told you this story: The story is, when we first me, first falling in love, I had a choice. I was at a party, with my friends, and you texted me. You wanted to get drunk, bring a friend and show off some new guy you met. And I was talking with a beautiful French girl. She was impeccable, with long dark hair and she scared many of the guys away with the intensity in her stare. Her accent made every word a masterpiece, and her style strict Parisian. She did it all like we could do it, but she did it differently. And she could dance. I asked my friend what I should do. He took a drink and told me “If she comes man, she’ll only want to dance with you.” He said this as he glanced at the beautiful French girl smiling at me, and I smiled back at her. And that sealed the deal in the kitchenette. So I walked backed to her, and she held out her hand. She pulled me in close, and I could smell her hair. She smiled as she taught me, laughed as I failed, and it took a while to get the hang of it, but I finally prevailed. And I danced with the French girl. I ignored your texts, blocked your calls. And it was her that I was texting on my walk home, forgotten about you at a bus stop far from home. It was the feel her of her body against mine I missed, not yours. And even though I later chose you, I later fell for you, and I later lost you, that night, I chose her. I chose the dream over reality; someone knew over a scene well seen; I chose love, I chose me. And do I regret that decision? Well, out of all the decisions I made which lead me to loving you, I have absolutely no regrets in dancing with the beautiful French girl. Maybe it was a precursor, a sign I should have taken. But to me, it’s just a memory, and a memory I’ll never forget, a memory I'll always have about dancing with the French girl in the downstairs kitchenette.
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generous and expanding white's brilliant reflection.. many shaded towers edges enclose with high definition.. sometimes a precursor to unwelcome beauty.. hailstones waterspouts tornados.. we too accumulate faces...
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Jul 13, 2012
Jul 13, 2012 at 12:57 AM UTC
cumulus
Patience (no one noticed) hardly moves its wings Playing the atmosphere's instrument Poetry Plying well-known Instincts.... Sensing lift of thermals curling physics with feather tips Hanging motionless effortless in love... ...its own dynamic unaware Precursor of imagined-- tracing wind taming flight suspending   beauty Soaring in the failing words of winter Slaying energy in disbelief of air
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Nov 14, 2017
Nov 14, 2017 at 6:51 PM UTC
Some Birds, Slowly....
What is the point in Poignancy? *Fragment, you tell me. Another one in paragraph three.* What do words matter? I have spelled love with Lilacs instead of an “L” I have drawn the curve of my “O” with the chill of a Sweeping breeze. A “V” can only appear as the violet of a sparkling sky, or I will be unable to read it, and every “E” will amount to nothing more than emptiness if the voice it has been given does not epitomize song. *Comma-splice, Replace it with a semicolon.* I am trying live freely. I want to breathe in color, to inhale an orange Savannah sky And exhale green which shows through the translucent dew of grass. *Unnecessary use of description. Limit it, Lidiah. Limit it.* My fingers itch with the ferocity of A vengeful army. They are waiting to trample pages with The lead of my pencil, the bayonet of a Revolutionary-War-era rifle. The word limit sounds like tragedy. A single word that can somehow act as a precursor, To the death of passion. Your words have put you in a box. People always say “Actions speak louder than words.” In a way that is true. But I also know it to be a tremendous piece of fiction. *Lidiah, Please watch your run-ons.* Why can our words and our actions not be the same thing? Isn’t the act of speaking, the act of raising your voice, the act of being heard, isn’t that an action? *Lidiah, how many times do I have to remind you? Clarification throughout.* Why have we decided that our words Mean nothing more than stepping stones on the road to action? When did we decide that our voices which rise like clarion calls, forever instilling our promises, are to be left on silent? Precious jewels set into rings. Poison in a water tank. *Lidiah, what you say is irrelevant if your MLA bibliography isn’t in alphabetical order.* Our words are our actions. They mean the same. Words are the distinctions of our beliefs Illustrations of our personas They are not mosquitos to be slapped away and forgotten. *Lidiah, paragraph five is too long. Stop rambling. Be concise.* Please tell me, what is the point of being concise? *Lidiah, stop rambling.* Why do we let justification equate to useless rambling? *Lidiah, you have to detach yourself from the narrative.* Feelings mean more than a couple of sentences. More than a good or a bad. A mad or a sad. Comma-splice What about ferocity? Never end with a preposition. What about passion? Replace this with a conjunctive adverb. What about the discernable strife that follows even indifference? What about that? *Lidiah, what is the point of Poignancy?* What are we without it? What does the human soul matter if we have forsaken the parts of ourselves that remind us of what a soul is for? *Lidiah, you will never be heard if you do not learn to follow the rules*.
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Mar 4, 2018
Mar 4, 2018 at 1:04 AM UTC
The Point of Poignancy
What is the point in Poignancy? *Fragment, you tell me. Another one in paragraph three.* What do words matter? I have spelled love with Lilacs instead of an “L” I have drawn the curve of my “O” with the chill of a Sweeping breeze. A “V” can only appear as the violet of a sparkling sky, or I will be unable to read it, and every “E” will amount to nothing more than emptiness if the voice it has been given does not epitomize song. *Comma-splice, Replace it with a semicolon.* I am trying live freely. I want to breathe in color, to inhale an orange Savannah sky And exhale green which shows through the translucent dew of grass. *Unnecessary use of description. Limit it, Lidiah. Limit it.* My fingers itch with the ferocity of A vengeful army. They are waiting to trample pages with The lead of my pencil, the bayonet of a Revolutionary-War-era rifle. The word limit sounds like tragedy. A single word that can somehow act as a precursor, To the death of passion. Your words have put you in a box. People always say “Actions speak louder than words.” In a way that is true. But I also know it to be a tremendous piece of fiction. *Lidiah, Please watch your run-ons.* Why can our words and our actions not be the same thing? Isn’t the act of speaking, the act of raising your voice, the act of being heard, isn’t that an action? *Lidiah, how many times do I have to remind you? Clarification throughout.* Why have we decided that our words Mean nothing more than stepping stones on the road to action? When did we decide that our voices which rise like clarion calls, forever instilling our promises, are to be left on silent? Precious jewels set into rings. Poison in a water tank. *Lidiah, what you say is irrelevant if your MLA bibliography isn’t in alphabetical order.* Our words are our actions. They mean the same. Words are the distinctions of our beliefs Illustrations of our personas They are not mosquitos to be slapped away and forgotten. *Lidiah, paragraph five is too long. Stop rambling. Be concise.* Please tell me, what is the point of being concise? *Lidiah, stop rambling.* Why do we let justification equate to useless rambling? *Lidiah, you have to detach yourself from the narrative.* Feelings mean more than a couple of sentences. More than a good or a bad. A mad or a sad. Comma-splice What about ferocity? Never end with a preposition. What about passion? Replace this with a conjunctive adverb. What about the discernable strife that follows even indifference? What about that? *Lidiah, what is the point of Poignancy?* What are we without it? What does the human soul matter if we have forsaken the parts of ourselves that remind us of what a soul is for? *Lidiah, you will never be heard if you do not learn to follow the rules*.
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Fingernails dug out of steering wheel in the out door, not enough gin to **** 50 pushups. 50 more. Change my body Maybe you won't ignore Ambien, the lull of the ceiling fan, the crowds of protestors disband -- the blanket warm, cosmos tease and can, malaise, malaise, I'm trying to be active and sane, sane for the next promise ring holder and wine cooler queen, here comes the switch: ether. The night brings me back to you by way of illusion -- you've got lingerie I've got needs You've got teeth I've got shoulder blades so it begins, white knuckle, culling songs, strain on scalp -- I sing along, ancient melody, satin dirge -- precursor to your soliloquy and black venom urge to scatter this bandaged man-- pieces in your hand, collected and left on 100 dressers for ill-informed future connivers conspire but I'm only tired of trying not to look like a liar so I blend into your blood satisfied smirk from transparent you but what is the future --a present hope but what is the past --a present memory so we abolish each other now betting on tangible mirages in this delicious, miraculous night the stars align the planets collide not an inch of you goes unkissed not an inch of me goes without an itch blackness and breath swirl and spit me into a confetti end time without prophet or priest only a skinny seed, and then the switch: wake with a present hope of getting over my present memory.
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 5:37 PM UTC
an idiosyncratic union
I'm that record player that keeps going on, Playing the same old, outdated song. I'm sorry. All my poems spout the same cliches now. Hell, I'm the embodiment of those cliches now. I don't know why I'm suffering from the disease Years after my exposure to patient(s) zero, But here I am, sick, bed-ridden and sleep-deprived, Scratching sores I thought had long healed up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I don't see colour anymore, Just the monochromatic shading of decay. I don't know how to pull myself back up again, Can't remember how I did it the first time. I was a ticking time bomb without even realising it, And I don't even know if I've exploded yet, Or if this is just the precursor, the countdown To ripping apart everyone in my vicinity. I'm sorry. They say pain makes for the best artists, the best art, But I'm too repetitive to make anything good. Even the violent strokes of red have turned dark grey, And they get darker the further down the abyss I go, Where the darkness is so dense that light can't penetrate, And I don't see the nightmares that have come back. I'm sorry.
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Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 12:14 PM UTC
An Ongoing Apology
The Smell of Honey,  Coffee and Apples and Messes of Words, but No Love Poetry <^> *my poetry suffers from a literately literacy, the adjectivally of imagery wears away with time and age eroding the imagination, when one’s days are numbered, being serious is an natural unpleasant hazardous haze, never in doubt The morning meal of cooked oatmeal, steel cut, laced with wildflower honey, slices of honey crisp apples and Hawaiian coffee brewed,   singes the Tropical Storm Ophelia thrumming humidity that overhangs the ugly grays of NYC sky-paths, one tickles me awake with contradictory impulses: sweet and sour, a robust stimulative, competing with the smothering of grayling clouded weather weariness of 48 hours of rainy continuity, a spirit suffocate you see! give you myself, my environment, in précis, unimaginative exactly as it occurs to me, sensually, yes, but cannot shake my disappointment that no, can’t combine visionary notions that spin your swivel chair around, powered by your exclamations of ooh, ahh, and little stabs of weeee punctuating our shared atmosphere and bring forth only love poetry but no mas, the love poetry doesn’t comes to the fore, the forehead stuffed with words best listed as basic, observable, factual, Miley Cyrus, accuses me of being jaded, but not with accuracy, more straight jacketed, way past that half-way point of no return, turning back is not a listed menu option love poetry demands, requires and requests envisioning, precursor to dreaming, but I am choking on matters-of-fact, questions of survivability, that do not shed love poetry words, I love exclaiming to any and all within hailing distance, my loving firmament, but the damp atmosphere swallows my hopes and sounds, even though still can smell the lingering nearness odor of honey and apple, yet, other hints of memory beg to differ, and I sadly and easy confess,* this is not a lovely poem… - * -
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Sep 23, 2023
Sep 23, 2023 at 12:44 PM UTC
The Smell of Honey, Coffee and Apples and Messes of Words, but No Love Poetry
The Smell of Honey,  Coffee and Apples and Messes of Words, but No Love Poetry <^> *my poetry suffers from a literately literacy, the adjectivally of imagery wears away with time and age eroding the imagination, when one’s days are numbered, being serious is an natural unpleasant hazardous haze, never in doubt The morning meal of cooked oatmeal, steel cut, laced with wildflower honey, slices of honey crisp apples and Hawaiian coffee brewed,   singes the Tropical Storm Ophelia thrumming humidity that overhangs the ugly grays of NYC sky-paths, one tickles me awake with contradictory impulses: sweet and sour, a robust stimulative, competing with the smothering of grayling clouded weather weariness of 48 hours of rainy continuity, a spirit suffocate you see! give you myself, my environment, in précis, unimaginative exactly as it occurs to me, sensually, yes, but cannot shake my disappointment that no, can’t combine visionary notions that spin your swivel chair around, powered by your exclamations of ooh, ahh, and little stabs of weeee punctuating our shared atmosphere and bring forth only love poetry but no mas, the love poetry doesn’t comes to the fore, the forehead stuffed with words best listed as basic, observable, factual, Miley Cyrus, accuses me of being jaded, but not with accuracy, more straight jacketed, way past that half-way point of no return, turning back is not a listed menu option love poetry demands, requires and requests envisioning, precursor to dreaming, but I am choking on matters-of-fact, questions of survivability, that do not shed love poetry words, I love exclaiming to any and all within hailing distance, my loving firmament, but the damp atmosphere swallows my hopes and sounds, even though still can smell the lingering nearness odor of honey and apple, yet, other hints of memory beg to differ, and I sadly and easy confess,* this is not a lovely poem… - * -
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In God’s No~Fly Zone blessedly, so many of you are unaware of the full color spectra that be can seen only when an age of experience has been reached, reached, not attained, for the no~fly zone is no place to be, without any redeeming colorations, it is dark hued twilight that inhibits vision clarity, a precursor warning of the *hungry darkness* that offers to swallow one into shades of sad remorse, and other miseries How came I to earn this distinction, was not by acting out, rather by inaction, the failure to pick the  correct fork in a life of sentence diagramming, sentence in the prison sense, all my sentences, broken down,  no connection sensible to the next phrase, next phase,  so I sit beneath my vine and fig tree, unable to fly, unable to tear shed, grounded, pounded in my head
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Dec 3, 2023
Dec 3, 2023 at 10:43 AM UTC
In God’s No~Fly Zone
I was born in grave clothes Raised in grave clothes Unaware I even bathed in grave clothes I didn't know the extent of my decay Like the bones were expose in my face but I didn't have reflective glass to see my flesh I was on a rotten path Death would have been the only prize at the end of my race Strongholds wrestled my thoughts and subdued my brain Bone marrow deep I was linked to Adam Lord knows I wasn't Abel Dna tied to  blood imprinted on the ground I had more in common  with Cain It's true a heart beat of sin causes death to course through vains I wondered how could I be treated Something was missing something was needed To my shock it was Jesus Clear! He got my heart beat right With that resurrection power Made my heart see light He changed my life I started to realize that the same power that raised Christ from the dead Was the same power that lived in me That does more than allow me to breathe . It brings life back to limbs riddle with rigor mortis It's reverses  decomposition brings back what death has stolen   It's  uncontrollable like a lighting storm. It's unadulterated Once it hits It's changes landscape  like when a nuclear warhead is detonated Hoover dam generated power Turbine engine spending power Lift the dead out of sin power Tectonic plate shifting, erecting mountains from plains power By one name only can we be saved power Second coming cracking the sky power All knees shall bow and all tongues shall comply  power Corruptible turned into incorruptible in a instant power Rebirth repositioned repurposed repented power Turn  what seems to be a lost into a win power It is finish the precursor to the release of infinite power I could never be the same because  the spirit lives in me gives me power My arteries are laced with a burning flame A roaring wind, a groaning earth, a raging sea crashing waves The impact of several elements crush the chains of a slave It's the same power that said come forth Christ friend walks out the grave The same power that moved the stone a borrowed tomb turned to a cave It's the power of the Resurrection In a world full of aborted life It breeds conception In a world that attempts to abort Christ The church still  cries out in reverence Changed death for us now it's portal Changed lives of stop watches into immortal Resurrection power a glimpse into the eternal
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 6:26 AM UTC
Resurrection Power
I was born in grave clothes Raised in grave clothes Unaware I even bathed in grave clothes I didn't know the extent of my decay Like the bones were expose in my face but I didn't have reflective glass to see my flesh I was on a rotten path Death would have been the only prize at the end of my race Strongholds wrestled my thoughts and subdued my brain Bone marrow deep I was linked to Adam Lord knows I wasn't Abel Dna tied to  blood imprinted on the ground I had more in common  with Cain It's true a heart beat of sin causes death to course through vains I wondered how could I be treated Something was missing something was needed To my shock it was Jesus Clear! He got my heart beat right With that resurrection power Made my heart see light He changed my life I started to realize that the same power that raised Christ from the dead Was the same power that lived in me That does more than allow me to breathe . It brings life back to limbs riddle with rigor mortis It's reverses  decomposition brings back what death has stolen   It's  uncontrollable like a lighting storm. It's unadulterated Once it hits It's changes landscape  like when a nuclear warhead is detonated Hoover dam generated power Turbine engine spending power Lift the dead out of sin power Tectonic plate shifting, erecting mountains from plains power By one name only can we be saved power Second coming cracking the sky power All knees shall bow and all tongues shall comply  power Corruptible turned into incorruptible in a instant power Rebirth repositioned repurposed repented power Turn  what seems to be a lost into a win power It is finish the precursor to the release of infinite power I could never be the same because  the spirit lives in me gives me power My arteries are laced with a burning flame A roaring wind, a groaning earth, a raging sea crashing waves The impact of several elements crush the chains of a slave It's the same power that said come forth Christ friend walks out the grave The same power that moved the stone a borrowed tomb turned to a cave It's the power of the Resurrection In a world full of aborted life It breeds conception In a world that attempts to abort Christ The church still  cries out in reverence Changed death for us now it's portal Changed lives of stop watches into immortal Resurrection power a glimpse into the eternal
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i'm just bored of having to feel what other people feel, limiting the realism of things, a woman with a child's  severed head in moscow is sensationalism to them, but when they get a mild reality, Kashmir chilly  on the palette, they make cheap Monty Python jokes to scare the facts away... the so-called satire that requires canned laughter; was given a library of 25 philosophy books, not one of them by an englishman, went as far back as the greeks, i guess the version of english egalitarian was not worth a communism, somehow the two synonyms became antonyms... 25 volumes of philosophy, not one english philosopher... the english intellectualise: i.e.: regurgitate facts.... the english do not philosophise, i.e. instead they cite facts... they're intellectuals by rite of citation, the citation of facts, they can't philosophise i.e. not cite (facts)... they intellectualise, they cite and recite facts with a dogmatism that fears a demolition and no rekindling of interest... to philosophise is to avoid citation: to work from nothing, the english cannot philosophise because they intellectualise and by intellectualism they cite and recite facts like an ave maria pi = 3.14... Galileo's spectacles... etc. the english cannot philosophise, they're just intellectuals, they cite and recite facts, they cannot engage from non-citation or non-recitation of a fact, like a greek might ignore a stone and fool himself claiming it's nothing, the english cannot allow a confiscation of a subject and treat it as nothing, it would not make sense as to why charles i was the precursor of the french aristocratic en masse meeting with the guillotine if darwinism wasn't discovered on the islands of Galapagos... although i beg to differ with a thought on Gauguin and the islands of Tahiti: make a turtle yawn and you'll jinx yourself a blessing to live to be one hundred years old.
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Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016 at 10:49 PM UTC
Darwin Galapagos / Gauguin Tahiti
i'm just bored of having to feel what other people feel, limiting the realism of things, a woman with a child's  severed head in moscow is sensationalism to them, but when they get a mild reality, Kashmir chilly  on the palette, they make cheap Monty Python jokes to scare the facts away... the so-called satire that requires canned laughter; was given a library of 25 philosophy books, not one of them by an englishman, went as far back as the greeks, i guess the version of english egalitarian was not worth a communism, somehow the two synonyms became antonyms... 25 volumes of philosophy, not one english philosopher... the english intellectualise: i.e.: regurgitate facts.... the english do not philosophise, i.e. instead they cite facts... they're intellectuals by rite of citation, the citation of facts, they can't philosophise i.e. not cite (facts)... they intellectualise, they cite and recite facts with a dogmatism that fears a demolition and no rekindling of interest... to philosophise is to avoid citation: to work from nothing, the english cannot philosophise because they intellectualise and by intellectualism they cite and recite facts like an ave maria pi = 3.14... Galileo's spectacles... etc. the english cannot philosophise, they're just intellectuals, they cite and recite facts, they cannot engage from non-citation or non-recitation of a fact, like a greek might ignore a stone and fool himself claiming it's nothing, the english cannot allow a confiscation of a subject and treat it as nothing, it would not make sense as to why charles i was the precursor of the french aristocratic en masse meeting with the guillotine if darwinism wasn't discovered on the islands of Galapagos... although i beg to differ with a thought on Gauguin and the islands of Tahiti: make a turtle yawn and you'll jinx yourself a blessing to live to be one hundred years old.
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There were some roses, once, a long time ago. They grew out of nothing, out of a tiny seed that burst and ****** its contents out into the new and terrifying air, and even then they didn't exist but for the idea that one day they might. There were some roses, once: the product of a process that included water and light and the removal of weeds and the implementation sharp protection from predators: deer and birds and squirrels and the like. There were some roses once: great surges of crimson fruit that bloomed so fiercely in their rebellion against the surrounding thorns dedicated to the protection of the home of the finely spun veined silk that blossomed almost overnight. There were some roses once: Never has such beauty been guarded so staunchly; and with good reason, for the rose in its radiance has but one short season to stretch its arms and breathe its perfume to which all lovers beg and swoon. There were some roses once: They faded, green then red then crimson then purple and umber. But in their slumber we see the bloom we once beheld on that summer day. We fondled their petals, hastened their decay. There were some roses once, a long time ago. They had to die, as if on cue, as living things tend to do, and oh, they dried so elegantly! Plainly meant for royalty. And even in their most brittle form, they're somehow warm Somehow still new. So you plant some more, you cut the weeds, you draw blood on their thorny guards, knowing that it's not for you, but for the birds in their back porch churchyard. And the moment the first rose peers around from inside the womb, well there's your reward, to forward the growth of something so fragile and sweet. So ruthless if you aren't aware of its teeth.
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 4:17 AM UTC
Precursor to children: Plant edition
There were some roses, once, a long time ago. They grew out of nothing, out of a tiny seed that burst and ****** its contents out into the new and terrifying air, and even then they didn't exist but for the idea that one day they might. There were some roses, once: the product of a process that included water and light and the removal of weeds and the implementation sharp protection from predators: deer and birds and squirrels and the like. There were some roses once: great surges of crimson fruit that bloomed so fiercely in their rebellion against the surrounding thorns dedicated to the protection of the home of the finely spun veined silk that blossomed almost overnight. There were some roses once: Never has such beauty been guarded so staunchly; and with good reason, for the rose in its radiance has but one short season to stretch its arms and breathe its perfume to which all lovers beg and swoon. There were some roses once: They faded, green then red then crimson then purple and umber. But in their slumber we see the bloom we once beheld on that summer day. We fondled their petals, hastened their decay. There were some roses once, a long time ago. They had to die, as if on cue, as living things tend to do, and oh, they dried so elegantly! Plainly meant for royalty. And even in their most brittle form, they're somehow warm Somehow still new. So you plant some more, you cut the weeds, you draw blood on their thorny guards, knowing that it's not for you, but for the birds in their back porch churchyard. And the moment the first rose peers around from inside the womb, well there's your reward, to forward the growth of something so fragile and sweet. So ruthless if you aren't aware of its teeth.
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Somewhither, we wilt meet, Whether afore mine Ending; maybe in the Hereafter's passage, gramercy to god, babes once again Reborn in the Perfection of Love- None struggling to Survive, nor push And shove; we'll Be happy to gaze At the exquisite shimmer's. Ourn Thought's wilt Burst of unearthly Features. With un- Earthly teacher's we'll Meet along the way, Abraham, Issac and Jacob; Paul, Daniel, Ezekiel to. Enoch to Sit the riverbanks of Life, whilst the seraph's Sway to ancient live tunes. None mockery of yeshua Christ, inside this holy Place- many mock him now, And the Prophet's yell loud, Though many shut their ear's, As their fear's they eat on Dog's puked up plates. I sayest lift up thy voices Oracle's, prophesy to the End's of the gates, the time Is now, the day of salvation Is today. Jane, ourn lord Wilt call, with Gabriel's horn to Be the precursor; of mankind's Fate. A heavenly date it shalt be. O' a heavenly date; 2016. ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Prophetic poetry ©Earl Jane nagley dedicated( agapi-mou)
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 10:10 PM UTC
2016, homeward bound mine queen
~ a gateway approaches, from just  'round the bend; in this march of months, that are nearing the end. here autumn's shedding, of its shimmering gown; from sun-kissed warmth, under broad leafy boughs; where in shady spaces, summer's solace is found! but now comfort is sought, in gazing within, and in harvesting thoughts, 'neath sun-starved skin; where if we are wise, care will be taken, to channel our musing, into gratitude's music. carefully shaping, the sum of our notes; stringing our lines, in a score full of hope! preparing the soul, for the wintery chill; compelling the spirit, to see life through goodwill! a courageous knowing, finds a way to be still; in the altitude of gratitude, an antidote to winter's pill! for in the zenith of night, come the sounds of lullaby; and in the absence of light, whispers of a coming cheer. solitary voices blending, to the rythmn of a beat; a heavenly choir singing, a chorus growing strong; opening the season's door, illuminating advent's song! ~ in post script these musings represent muliple seasons of observations, soul considerations in how to articulate what my heart knows to be true. so with every year that ages this soul, i become more convinced that the season of thanksgiving may in fact be the very greatest antidote for selfishness, a precursor for advent, the season of giving and receiving; and that if approached properly, our hearts are best positioned to embrace the truest meanings of the coming season of light! sending peace and love to those who embrace these walls as sacred space!
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Dec 8, 2024
Dec 8, 2024 at 1:54 AM UTC
on heart preparation
~ a gateway approaches, from just  'round the bend; in this march of months, that are nearing the end. here autumn's shedding, of its shimmering gown; from sun-kissed warmth, under broad leafy boughs; where in shady spaces, summer's solace is found! but now comfort is sought, in gazing within, and in harvesting thoughts, 'neath sun-starved skin; where if we are wise, care will be taken, to channel our musing, into gratitude's music. carefully shaping, the sum of our notes; stringing our lines, in a score full of hope! preparing the soul, for the wintery chill; compelling the spirit, to see life through goodwill! a courageous knowing, finds a way to be still; in the altitude of gratitude, an antidote to winter's pill! for in the zenith of night, come the sounds of lullaby; and in the absence of light, whispers of a coming cheer. solitary voices blending, to the rythmn of a beat; a heavenly choir singing, a chorus growing strong; opening the season's door, illuminating advent's song! ~ in post script these musings represent muliple seasons of observations, soul considerations in how to articulate what my heart knows to be true. so with every year that ages this soul, i become more convinced that the season of thanksgiving may in fact be the very greatest antidote for selfishness, a precursor for advent, the season of giving and receiving; and that if approached properly, our hearts are best positioned to embrace the truest meanings of the coming season of light! sending peace and love to those who embrace these walls as sacred space!
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It is hard to explain When you work the midnight shift You only seam to exist in nightshades Not the warm daylight hues and tints When sunshine becomes Inverse in your tired mind And days are measured by Moonrise and moonfall When solar heat Is just a sweet precursor To the night that cools you And the sunrise signals slumber How sweet it is To interrupt this with With a day Spent awake Surrendering to the Splendor of the sun
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Jul 29, 2016
Jul 29, 2016 at 8:13 AM UTC
Untitled
Pyrophosphite/Pyrophosphate Souces of energy, since the beginning of time chemical processors of matter within that God did make these, is no mystery of mine the maker of all things, and that includes sin all living beings require energy transported from a tiny bacteria, to a complex human enzymes with chemical energy reported how this all happpens, I have no clue man Pyrophosphate is a simple molecule, an early precursor consumed by the mystery of organic matter but there is something more simple, a complex rehearser taken away the theories of the dreams they now scatter Pyrophosphite is smarter, no enzymes required hydrogen is more bountiful exploding with life no catylyst needed, to process before tired water molucules is husband to phosphates wife does all of this matter, does the matter mean much when the bottom line ascends to the top is this too deep, am I way out of touch science is in me, I cant make it stop Gomer Lepoet...
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 4:07 AM UTC
Pyrophosphite/Pyrophosphate
Step outside of yourself. Step outside of your routines, your safe circle of friends. Step outside of your memories, beliefs and prejudices. Awaken to a fresh perspective on the world, A more visceral sense of its ebb and flow, A new view of its entangled web. Where are you? Who are you? Examine your life as art, judge as for a crime. And into your verdict pierce a pivot, Auspicating a diasporal pilgrimage Towards the re-introduction of fortune, Spontaneity, serendipity and surprise. Rebel against Lady Luck’s long-laid path, Sedate her inexorable chain reactions And embark instead upon personal ventures. Live a life where every moment is More than just a precursor for the next. And in crushing your expectations, Welcome the unexpected.
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Dec 29, 2011
Dec 29, 2011 at 4:32 AM UTC
Potential
Spells of chieftain splendor Bespeaking of loyal grandeur Now the eye clearly sees without fear At dusk! The ancient kingdom of Assur? A flight in time and space from afar? Was that ingenious creativity of flair? Still bids indubitable eternal mystery! Are clothes on man an anecdote of utter hypocrisy? Is sarcastic humor a precursor of hidden sinister? The animals hereof show their ****** Undertone tinges of impeccant simplicity Stirring poignant Achilles' heel character As an infant suckling the breast of saccharine nature; Lo! And behold… Sage mortals envisage a grotesque quest for a promising stage, Regnant and dignified? The new-age psyches’ beatify and feebly beg "Reform, in fact, is, rather softly, on the win” The lighthouse flashing against the sleet-blurred fig twig As every sacred notion becomes an unwavering origin certain, With no remorse that mankind can now ascertain The bewildering incarnation of science in religion! Like a single lily among lilies in a dark dungeon Great spirits now encounter violent opposition “Un-awakened Children silently screaming with pessimism” Hiding within the smooth sacred mask of personality Yet the fear of “the unknown” silently plays a drowsier symphony Calling back the violent rays to illuminate a peaceable destiny Were illusionary realities conform to the whims of a veiled deity, This goddess! A mystifying inferno doing its own radiance faster What a fuss! So light-footed as love yet so heavy-footed as war As if to justify the whirling gloom of despair Like the bleakness of the morning cuckooing rooster Or the dog which barks at his own image in a pond; “What startling veneration” Mortals without remorse still aspire to find The misplaced diamonds and daffs upon the beamish ground. Muhumuza Kenneth Ezra.
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May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010 at 3:46 AM UTC
~Gloaming imaginings~
Spells of chieftain splendor Bespeaking of loyal grandeur Now the eye clearly sees without fear At dusk! The ancient kingdom of Assur? A flight in time and space from afar? Was that ingenious creativity of flair? Still bids indubitable eternal mystery! Are clothes on man an anecdote of utter hypocrisy? Is sarcastic humor a precursor of hidden sinister? The animals hereof show their ****** Undertone tinges of impeccant simplicity Stirring poignant Achilles' heel character As an infant suckling the breast of saccharine nature; Lo! And behold… Sage mortals envisage a grotesque quest for a promising stage, Regnant and dignified? The new-age psyches’ beatify and feebly beg "Reform, in fact, is, rather softly, on the win” The lighthouse flashing against the sleet-blurred fig twig As every sacred notion becomes an unwavering origin certain, With no remorse that mankind can now ascertain The bewildering incarnation of science in religion! Like a single lily among lilies in a dark dungeon Great spirits now encounter violent opposition “Un-awakened Children silently screaming with pessimism” Hiding within the smooth sacred mask of personality Yet the fear of “the unknown” silently plays a drowsier symphony Calling back the violent rays to illuminate a peaceable destiny Were illusionary realities conform to the whims of a veiled deity, This goddess! A mystifying inferno doing its own radiance faster What a fuss! So light-footed as love yet so heavy-footed as war As if to justify the whirling gloom of despair Like the bleakness of the morning cuckooing rooster Or the dog which barks at his own image in a pond; “What startling veneration” Mortals without remorse still aspire to find The misplaced diamonds and daffs upon the beamish ground. Muhumuza Kenneth Ezra.
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To see the abnormal in the usual To spy a quaint sliver of seperation A stutter of fluidity; fluidity primary The unknown subjection personified These idealistic constructions forever permeating Where currents join in twitching pools, swaying to let their particles cloister and vibrate with infusing spasms that dispel and attract- Creating the magnetism of substance Blank resound bliss Drunk on a thousand drops Vindicated from a thousand poisons Reborn at grid dot Flowing invoice implode All afterward foreshadowing Being this precursor Not an equation to be witnessed with the surgical pangs of intellect Arbitrary Problematic Instigative None of this Something ness Of the womb sea Blank resound bliss without tributaries though sensing its leaks After Big Bang of suitor system silt Wanton to multiply Rabid and violent In conquest of joy and earth What I bring to light My depths are dark Empty is the surface Empty is my sleep
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Feb 16, 2015
Feb 16, 2015 at 10:51 AM UTC
Instinct Wisdom
I look out the golden window to see the grasslands full fleshed and full breasted ripe trees bearing oversaturated fruit O yes and perhaps It is the fruit beholding the shine and plump perfection that looks of Grand artifice O apples so crimson I could barely touch it and the rich roots and Ra hangin'a'bove, it is a delightful Saci's-cap-red and each apple seems to be aligned in various patterns of crisscrossing and interconnection, bordering on random but almost calculated I look down at the breakfast table I am seated in capped with Irish breakfasts for all O It is the bare Nature herself and her youthful manifestation, strong and deep into the ground, it makes me feel no turning back, no regret from the small passionate days of pleasure, feeling that beautiful girl Marie, like Nature herself toned to the rivers and mystifying like from the clouds to the depths and our lips jamming brushing feeling against mine O I felt guilty I felt I was taking all the sound and the fury for myself I was eating ll the fruits in the garden, fearing a mistake, being caught, not giving chances and only wishing to please my immediate soul; as the great Wilde said, "I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom." but yet I feel between us a growing, a yearning that is blessed and twisted; graft of Love, starting roots of naked Love sweet connection, Big Time Sensuality; buds in our hearts--the ****** soil has been sown yes O this new Spring is coming and a rite of passage passing finally we have made it past restriction and now a new Spring has finally come! the foggy marches of April lose track and pace, and my exuberance comes swiftly but my prayers and wishes for a beautiful quiet life come with the best intentions of grace; hopefully, surely, wonderfully. Dieu en aura plus tost de vous mercis.
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Aug 25, 2010
Aug 25, 2010 at 7:42 PM UTC
Precursor to A Very Puzzling Intake
I look out the golden window to see the grasslands full fleshed and full breasted ripe trees bearing oversaturated fruit O yes and perhaps It is the fruit beholding the shine and plump perfection that looks of Grand artifice O apples so crimson I could barely touch it and the rich roots and Ra hangin'a'bove, it is a delightful Saci's-cap-red and each apple seems to be aligned in various patterns of crisscrossing and interconnection, bordering on random but almost calculated I look down at the breakfast table I am seated in capped with Irish breakfasts for all O It is the bare Nature herself and her youthful manifestation, strong and deep into the ground, it makes me feel no turning back, no regret from the small passionate days of pleasure, feeling that beautiful girl Marie, like Nature herself toned to the rivers and mystifying like from the clouds to the depths and our lips jamming brushing feeling against mine O I felt guilty I felt I was taking all the sound and the fury for myself I was eating ll the fruits in the garden, fearing a mistake, being caught, not giving chances and only wishing to please my immediate soul; as the great Wilde said, "I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom." but yet I feel between us a growing, a yearning that is blessed and twisted; graft of Love, starting roots of naked Love sweet connection, Big Time Sensuality; buds in our hearts--the ****** soil has been sown yes O this new Spring is coming and a rite of passage passing finally we have made it past restriction and now a new Spring has finally come! the foggy marches of April lose track and pace, and my exuberance comes swiftly but my prayers and wishes for a beautiful quiet life come with the best intentions of grace; hopefully, surely, wonderfully. Dieu en aura plus tost de vous mercis.
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***Book One (∞The Psalm of The Star Child∞) The Precursor's Psalm I-V To the Child of The Empyrean. For ye valleity stars shine. (I) ―En Fortissimo 1 Tender with sentimentality, I fathom you, 2 That you draw closer, nigh’ with every waking moment, Closer to ensconce ‘twixt my embrace, 3 That your towering arms May aegis these benighted bones. 4 The Vestibule of Our Souls shall be Assoiled by an Arcadian Eternity, 5 Shall scintillate in my every blooded tear, shed garnetiferously, ―Upon my crucifix, our crucifix: 6 A penance, pardoning our transgressions prognostically Before by romance, we touched erringly. (Se'lah) (II) Celestial Communion 1 O, Star Child, May your beckoning 2 Sow the Seeds of Somnus upon the sanctimony Festering in my faith, 3 (A besmirched hope) Tarnished by my reverenc’d doubt. 4 O Minstrel of Manumission, Will ye sing unto me ye SoulSong? 5 The Womb’d Aethers bleed, The Terraqueous Mother conceives, Gaian a dream, 6 Her Luminous Brethren yearn For the Arbiter of Fates. (Se'lah) (III) Song of Wishes 1 Velleity speaks, It whispers, 2 In the twinkling of the stars. When shall it end, 3 When It has yet to begin? 4 Be still― and become one with all things, As time fades, consciousness begins, 5 The Experiential Cascade: All that was, all that is, & all that shall be, 6 Circular & Cycling, Forevermore. 7 Know that there is a reason, Know that there is a place, 8 Know that there is a person, In this world for you. 9 Open up your heart and see, All you were meant to see. (Se'lah). (IV) Spiritus de Tempus (Zeitgeist of the Future) 1 ―Blooming in Reminiscence The Dreamscape glistens, 2 A Redolent Reverie wafts The Tenuous Air amidst 3 Her Zephry'd Lightwaves & Crystalline Pulsations. 4 Ardently I pine, For thine visage, groping for a rhyme, 5 Whence I can gaze once more upon thine Countenance sublime, 6 All desperations been defied, For thee I reverberate Love, The Spirit of the Times. (Se'lah) (V) Bastion Heart 1 The agony in existentiality Unravels undying piety 2 And Cloistered in cadence of solitude, 3 I, the Somnolent One, Am roused by The Heart’s Resonance. 4 In wanting, there is life, In desirelessness, wanting still, 5 Know thine Power, Indomitable Will: 6 The Couer & The Amour of the Spirit Are immortal. (Se'lah)***
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May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 8:05 AM UTC
The Precursor's Psalms, Book One, Chapters I-V: The Psalms of The Star Child (Originally Written on Saturday, May 18th, 2019)
***Book One (∞The Psalm of The Star Child∞) The Precursor's Psalm I-V To the Child of The Empyrean. For ye valleity stars shine. (I) ―En Fortissimo 1 Tender with sentimentality, I fathom you, 2 That you draw closer, nigh’ with every waking moment, Closer to ensconce ‘twixt my embrace, 3 That your towering arms May aegis these benighted bones. 4 The Vestibule of Our Souls shall be Assoiled by an Arcadian Eternity, 5 Shall scintillate in my every blooded tear, shed garnetiferously, ―Upon my crucifix, our crucifix: 6 A penance, pardoning our transgressions prognostically Before by romance, we touched erringly. (Se'lah) (II) Celestial Communion 1 O, Star Child, May your beckoning 2 Sow the Seeds of Somnus upon the sanctimony Festering in my faith, 3 (A besmirched hope) Tarnished by my reverenc’d doubt. 4 O Minstrel of Manumission, Will ye sing unto me ye SoulSong? 5 The Womb’d Aethers bleed, The Terraqueous Mother conceives, Gaian a dream, 6 Her Luminous Brethren yearn For the Arbiter of Fates. (Se'lah) (III) Song of Wishes 1 Velleity speaks, It whispers, 2 In the twinkling of the stars. When shall it end, 3 When It has yet to begin? 4 Be still― and become one with all things, As time fades, consciousness begins, 5 The Experiential Cascade: All that was, all that is, & all that shall be, 6 Circular & Cycling, Forevermore. 7 Know that there is a reason, Know that there is a place, 8 Know that there is a person, In this world for you. 9 Open up your heart and see, All you were meant to see. (Se'lah). (IV) Spiritus de Tempus (Zeitgeist of the Future) 1 ―Blooming in Reminiscence The Dreamscape glistens, 2 A Redolent Reverie wafts The Tenuous Air amidst 3 Her Zephry'd Lightwaves & Crystalline Pulsations. 4 Ardently I pine, For thine visage, groping for a rhyme, 5 Whence I can gaze once more upon thine Countenance sublime, 6 All desperations been defied, For thee I reverberate Love, The Spirit of the Times. (Se'lah) (V) Bastion Heart 1 The agony in existentiality Unravels undying piety 2 And Cloistered in cadence of solitude, 3 I, the Somnolent One, Am roused by The Heart’s Resonance. 4 In wanting, there is life, In desirelessness, wanting still, 5 Know thine Power, Indomitable Will: 6 The Couer & The Amour of the Spirit Are immortal. (Se'lah)***
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We put the family dog down. But what did he know. We kept calling him a good boy, and with what strength he had left, his body would twitch and fall limp. October is a terrible month. Leaves leave. Breathe steam. Dogs die. Ghostly goodbye. We kept calling you a good boy, in between feeding you treats. October is a terrible month. It's a month full of tricks. None of us expected you to marry. Your proclivity towards promiscuity was well documented. In any case, we knew that the reception, your reception, would be centered around an open bar. This would become the precursor to your marriage. We knew you were an animal. A snake. A fox. A dog. A rat. The black sheep. But none of us expected your bite to be worse than your bark. Behind black eyes, your wife tried not to cry. Explaining to us the itch you couldn't scratch. But none of that mattered. We all knew the difference between an accident and an act of aggression. ******* on the couch is one thing, but you never put your paws on a woman. We put the family dog down. But what did he know. We kept calling him a good boy, and with what strength he had left, his body would twitch and fall limp. This was one dog we couldn't throw a bone to.
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 2:18 AM UTC
Who's a Good Boy?
BEEP,BEEP! PA-SHUU! UUUURK! Urban cacophony conducting a eulogy reminiscing of the burgeon bucolic country ::silence:: a precursor to an ubiquitous end
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Sep 20, 2010
Sep 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM UTC
:a Satire