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"profane" poems
ken not the vive la différence! entre les deux, these two bed and head chambers, for all poets are seducers, regardless of *** race, creed or color when first we employ our working, yeoman vocabulary, we plain start, to relate but not to regale, the whom we are, hoping our moments unique, will breach the boundaries of our collective commonality connectivity, and find human receptivity thus, the seduction of self commences though every possible combination of words has somewhere been inscribed and committed, we ****** ourselves (the seduction of poetry) with potions of notions that we are and always be our first, and now soon forever, yours as well of course, we are, it's true, our very own first admirer & lover, having conquered the hillock of self, see the universe expanding and the ****** need to conceive and prowess to please beyond the beyond with the poetry of seduction do not want your body, heart or soul, commitment, allegiance, vows, sacred or profane, all such in vain crave your everything, not even a legal nine-tenths satisfactory dare not call me arrogant or presumptive, gaze upon the mirror that cannot lie, rereading thy words assemblage, and deny to lie to yourself want you, you want me, my adoration, we want to be in a poem together, lovers at the molecular level where words dissected into letters, then again, into guttural sounds where a simple outcry is an elegy, a love poem, a wound, a denouement, a preface, a tear, a welling, a heaving, a sigh, an exhalation, all, an entrance to where the need for words is long since past the sin and crown of seduction completed, unanimously now breathe out and then, breathe in
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Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 3:54 PM UTC
the poetry of seduction, the seduction of poetry
ken not the vive la différence! entre les deux, these two bed and head chambers, for all poets are seducers, regardless of *** race, creed or color when first we employ our working, yeoman vocabulary, we plain start, to relate but not to regale, the whom we are, hoping our moments unique, will breach the boundaries of our collective commonality connectivity, and find human receptivity thus, the seduction of self commences though every possible combination of words has somewhere been inscribed and committed, we ****** ourselves (the seduction of poetry) with potions of notions that we are and always be our first, and now soon forever, yours as well of course, we are, it's true, our very own first admirer & lover, having conquered the hillock of self, see the universe expanding and the ****** need to conceive and prowess to please beyond the beyond with the poetry of seduction do not want your body, heart or soul, commitment, allegiance, vows, sacred or profane, all such in vain crave your everything, not even a legal nine-tenths satisfactory dare not call me arrogant or presumptive, gaze upon the mirror that cannot lie, rereading thy words assemblage, and deny to lie to yourself want you, you want me, my adoration, we want to be in a poem together, lovers at the molecular level where words dissected into letters, then again, into guttural sounds where a simple outcry is an elegy, a love poem, a wound, a denouement, a preface, a tear, a welling, a heaving, a sigh, an exhalation, all, an entrance to where the need for words is long since past the sin and crown of seduction completed, unanimously now breathe out and then, breathe in
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when a lost muse is no excuse, when the mundane and the profane are away on summer holiday, and you are currently on the divine’s 'u **** - no write list' nonetheless the itch in the private spaces is driving you crazy, write a poem, write a poem, in the way a grandmother (or a mother to a grown child) whiny nags, *its a nice day, go outside and play with a strange man*, whatcha ya gonna do, the walls are all painted, and the good bad boys are out of town, all with the   *other bad good girls, who got there first,* but we will write of nipple-rings and other crazy songs you sing it is not important you the reader understand every verse, like Patton said, "it only matters that I know," which line is a joke, which around your neck is your customized yoke, which is why: plaintive wail to no avail, the regret that never can be sated, the frustration cratering inside the chest, which is just, (and unjust) just enough to make a semi-satisfactory smile upon the lips appear whose lips? who cares? as long as you don't have to hear me sing my poetry but hear me smiling at the power of whimsy writing and the return of my no longer muzzy^ Ms. Minx A. Muse-me <£> 2:13pm
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Aug 19, 2017
Aug 19, 2017 at 2:32 PM UTC
of ****** rings, and other songs I sing
I was always like the sea And you, my seashore. I set off to conquer the world Came back wasted, weary, vain But you took me in your arms Caressed my waves back sane And our love, my love, is such That it was built on hush and pain Why else do you push me away When my waters touch your terrain Why else do I keep coming back To be dealt with, this profane Maybe for our love is such It makes me come back again. I will always be the sea And you, my seashore With all your folly you can push me away And call me if there is more.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 10:29 AM UTC
SEASHORE.
Favorite word: “nymphet”, but no! Halcyon, a kind of drug, you know. Searching through the pages’ mist And imagined deeds Of poets’ needs… I found my favourite word, As asked, Neither sacred nor profane That describes the Venetian rain In my beloved’s eyes And the Florentine sun upon her hair: “Auburn, russet, mythopoeic”. Oh, it is not fair, To liken an object Of my lust and love To anything as mortal as autumn air! Nor “October’s orchard Haze”; She had her own Inscrutable, premeditated ways! Rather let me say that she was perfect, Though her eyes, pale and myopic, Her shuffling gait and Graceless limbs, to them Grace lends Fey charm, the power to mend My suffering and Delusions of a poet’s end As anything but pathetic, (Her mother’s fondness for vague emetics) And I left softly hanging, On a girl’s new taste, A tang of russet apples on her face, But no, not that, the sum Of my love, My Lo! Then her bleak demise, partly by my hand That none of you brutes could understand; The pure love, So sadly consummated, Between a lover And the one she hated Yet loved once with inexplicable delight, On one stolen, frightened night… In which the two of us agreed To satisfy a simple, yet maniacal need, And then depart… But I could not, You see; She was my life, My love, my heart. Humbert Humbert 1950 Sharon Talbot ca. 2005
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Sep 9, 2017
Sep 9, 2017 at 11:11 AM UTC
October’s Orchard Haze
It was not, by any means, a loss of faith; Indeed, her devotion was a boundless, unfettered thing Beyond proscription, beyond rote chant and catechism, And what she found as a novitiate Were shuttered gates and gossipy confessionals, Standoffish priests, pig-eyed and pinch-lipped Sisters who thought life’s commerce No more than mechanical prayer and spotless linens, The whole enterprise Smacking of the exclusion of Heaven’s bounty. So she demurred when the time came to take her orders, And she returned to the world of pavements and lesser pieties, Free to seek God on park swings and barstools, In pleasures of the pastoral and the profane, Though her faith is no Dionysian walkabout, As she is passionate to the cusp of maniacal When it comes to the Book of James’ admonition upon works; She is often found among the sisters she once tiptoed alongside At food pantries and clothing drives (She is scrupulous about ministering to only secular needs, As the Bishop is not happily disposed towards those Who choose not to take the veil, And the specter of excommunication is a prospect Too awful to contemplate) Afterwards clambering onto some vaguely roadworthy MTA bus Back to her studio apartment in Green Island, Where she often walks down to the Erie Canal lock nearby, Praying for those who have travelled  near and upon the water, Convenience store clerks and ragged Irishmen fleeing famine, Feral kittens and insufficiently mourned mules.
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM UTC
the thursday nun
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not I change in vows, and in devotion. As humorous is my contrition As my profane love, and as soon forgot: As riddlingly distempered, cold and hot, As praying, as mute; as infinite, as none. I durst not view heaven yesterday; and today In prayers and flattering speeches I court God: Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod. So my devout fits come and go away Like a fantastic ague; save that here Those are my best days, when I shake with feare.
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Holy Sonnet XIX: Oh, To Vex Me, Contraries Meet In One
Poetry is a mask in reverse created from just a mere spark bringing to light who we really are out of the depths of the dark        Despite ourselves       we try to hide in the realms of our daily lives and then poetry's visceral therapy weaves magic spells from our fingers      right out                  of our minds Suddenly, there is no choice but to allow those masks to be dropped like a sudden change of fancy at a medieval ball: Naked eyes for coverings are swapped Yes…the command is given ornate masks slip with a splat upon the floor Suddenly, all dancers look upon each other's faces discovering treasures they knew not before Pregnant silence reigns and only then does the true dance begin in bransles' or corantos' countered moves, a new quiet drowns out the din Let it commence! in festive air, all attempts to hide are in vain Subtextual glances and heady music create sensual tension profane       The wine is flowing smiles glowing and soon release will bear fruit as the dance is danced without inhibition and all pretenses start to uproot And so it is in poetry… All those masks are thrown down the words just                         trip                               from beyond our lips making magic from adjectives and nouns Now, our words drip upon the paper revealing the secrets divine our souls are coaxed out from the layers melting your sparkling poets' hearts into mine
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Apr 1, 2016
Apr 1, 2016 at 4:52 PM UTC
The Opposite of Masks
Poetry is a mask in reverse created from just a mere spark bringing to light who we really are out of the depths of the dark        Despite ourselves       we try to hide in the realms of our daily lives and then poetry's visceral therapy weaves magic spells from our fingers      right out                  of our minds Suddenly, there is no choice but to allow those masks to be dropped like a sudden change of fancy at a medieval ball: Naked eyes for coverings are swapped Yes…the command is given ornate masks slip with a splat upon the floor Suddenly, all dancers look upon each other's faces discovering treasures they knew not before Pregnant silence reigns and only then does the true dance begin in bransles' or corantos' countered moves, a new quiet drowns out the din Let it commence! in festive air, all attempts to hide are in vain Subtextual glances and heady music create sensual tension profane       The wine is flowing smiles glowing and soon release will bear fruit as the dance is danced without inhibition and all pretenses start to uproot And so it is in poetry… All those masks are thrown down the words just                         trip                               from beyond our lips making magic from adjectives and nouns Now, our words drip upon the paper revealing the secrets divine our souls are coaxed out from the layers melting your sparkling poets' hearts into mine
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I believe in a universe where a sleepy eye opens existence... a slowly drooping eyelid ushers it away. I believe in a universe where Indra and the other Gods churn the cosmic milk... where Shiva does the eternal dance. I believe in a universe where light is separate from darkness and mankind is molded from a ball of divine **** a breath, Be and it is. I believe in a universe where Gaia watches as Cronus devours her children until she gives him a stone... and hides Zeus away. I believe in a universe that expands from a singularity of infinitely dense potentiality less than a speck, to our cosmos immeasurable in scale. I believe in a universe where Lao Tuz hands a guard a little book of wisdom before disappearing into the mountains where the sages go. I believe in a universe where Siddhartha contemplates emptiness and feels the winds of eternity whistling through his soul. I believe in a universe where E=Mc2. I believe in a universe where an old man lights the first holy fire and describes the war between light and goodness vs darkness and evil. I believe in a universe where the earth and moon, and all the planets go round the sun... in a galaxy carrying us dancing a waltz we can only catch glimpses of. I believe in a universe where "Know Thyself" is revered as a deep truth. I believe in a universe where an unexamined life is not worth living. I believe in a universe where the words of a carpenter are a true path. I believe in a universe where an illiterate man is commanded Read!... a burning coal upon the lips. I believe in a universe where every God and Goddess exist, each in their own heaven... each in their own hell. I believe in a universe where there are no gods or goddesses only the relentless laws of matter, energy and gravity. I believe in a universe where everything is mathematics. I believe in a universe where everything is holy I believe in a universe where everything in profane. I believe in a universe where everything is a simulation. I believe in a universe where everything is ****** in nature. I believe in a universe where everything is stimulation. I believe in a universe where the hoochie ******* is what its all about. I believe in the universe.
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Jan 6, 2018
Jan 6, 2018 at 2:19 PM UTC
I Believe
I believe in a universe where a sleepy eye opens existence... a slowly drooping eyelid ushers it away. I believe in a universe where Indra and the other Gods churn the cosmic milk... where Shiva does the eternal dance. I believe in a universe where light is separate from darkness and mankind is molded from a ball of divine **** a breath, Be and it is. I believe in a universe where Gaia watches as Cronus devours her children until she gives him a stone... and hides Zeus away. I believe in a universe that expands from a singularity of infinitely dense potentiality less than a speck, to our cosmos immeasurable in scale. I believe in a universe where Lao Tuz hands a guard a little book of wisdom before disappearing into the mountains where the sages go. I believe in a universe where Siddhartha contemplates emptiness and feels the winds of eternity whistling through his soul. I believe in a universe where E=Mc2. I believe in a universe where an old man lights the first holy fire and describes the war between light and goodness vs darkness and evil. I believe in a universe where the earth and moon, and all the planets go round the sun... in a galaxy carrying us dancing a waltz we can only catch glimpses of. I believe in a universe where "Know Thyself" is revered as a deep truth. I believe in a universe where an unexamined life is not worth living. I believe in a universe where the words of a carpenter are a true path. I believe in a universe where an illiterate man is commanded Read!... a burning coal upon the lips. I believe in a universe where every God and Goddess exist, each in their own heaven... each in their own hell. I believe in a universe where there are no gods or goddesses only the relentless laws of matter, energy and gravity. I believe in a universe where everything is mathematics. I believe in a universe where everything is holy I believe in a universe where everything in profane. I believe in a universe where everything is a simulation. I believe in a universe where everything is ****** in nature. I believe in a universe where everything is stimulation. I believe in a universe where the hoochie ******* is what its all about. I believe in the universe.
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O sing a new song, to our God above, Avoid profane ones, 'tis for holy choir: Let Israel sing song of holy love To him that made them, with their hearts on fire: Let Zion's sons life up their voice, and sing Carols and anthems to their heavenly king. Let not your voice alone his praise forth tell, But move withal, and praise him in the dance; Cymbals and harps , let them be tuned well, 'Tis he that doth the poor's estate advance: Do this not only on the solemn days, But on your secret beds you spirits raise. O let the saints bear in their mouth his praise, And a two-edged sword drawn in their hand, Therewith for to revenge the former days, Upon all nations, that their zeal withstand; To bind their kings in chains of iron strong, And manacle their nobles for their wrong. Expect the time, for 'tis decreed in heaven, Such honor shall unto his saints be given.
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Sing a New Song
Baby I've got a six-pack of Coke We're gonna have a good night Goodnight Don't you think that we should give up Don't you think that we should start a fight I was born and raised on methane I was always taught to never profane Green and yellow grass were my best friends I was always taught to make amends All I've ever been is full of **** and I wear it proudly with a grin All I've ever done is plug myself and I wear it proudly on my chin You told me you could do a back flip then ran away when I asked your name I've never felt as sad as that day I took a course on lust and relay I took some pills that looked like diamonds Readied myself for a life of staring How could I be so bold and daring Guilty of sin before preparing You know, I should at least TRY to take over the world
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Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018 at 12:26 PM UTC
The Egg is at the Embassy
People regard *** differently: Some see *** as a commodity; to be exchanged for favors and things. Some see *** as a medium for emotive and spiritual expression. Some see *** as merely a means to a purely biological end. Some see *** as a good time and not much else. Some see *** as a set of diminishing returns. Some see *** as an escape from themselves. Some see *** with a keyboard and mouse. Some see *** as a communion of Temples. Some see *** as something not to discuss. Some see *** as just another thing to do. Some see *** as a battleground for Lust. Some see *** as an extra long shower. Some see *** as profane and obscene. Some see *** an personal preference. Some see *** as ages-old Dogma. Some see *** as Heterosexuality. Some see *** as all that there is. Some see *** as uncomfortable. Some see *** philosophically. Some see *** as a distraction. Some see *** as meaningless. Some see *** as a way of life. Some see *** as a good time. Some see *** as metaphor. Some see *** as necessity. Some see *** as a luxury. Some see *** as a game. Some see *** as Mythic. Some see *** as a drug. Some see *** as Virtue. Some see *** as Logic. Some see *** as Good. Some see *** as Love. Some see *** as Lust. Some see *** as Evil. Some see *** as Sin. Few see *** the same way: How do you see *** The only right answers for you are yours. How do you see *** From the first person, or perhaps third? Is *** a vicarious thing, or is it personal? How do you see *** Is promiscuity absurd? How do you see *** Can your ****** life affect others? How do you see *** Does it matter who it's with? Does it matter with how many? Does it matter how rapidly? Does it matter why? It sure does to me. Does it matter for how long? Does it matter how often? Does it matter where? Does it matter when? Not with the right person.*
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 8:50 AM UTC
***
People regard *** differently: Some see *** as a commodity; to be exchanged for favors and things. Some see *** as a medium for emotive and spiritual expression. Some see *** as merely a means to a purely biological end. Some see *** as a good time and not much else. Some see *** as a set of diminishing returns. Some see *** as an escape from themselves. Some see *** with a keyboard and mouse. Some see *** as a communion of Temples. Some see *** as something not to discuss. Some see *** as just another thing to do. Some see *** as a battleground for Lust. Some see *** as an extra long shower. Some see *** as profane and obscene. Some see *** an personal preference. Some see *** as ages-old Dogma. Some see *** as Heterosexuality. Some see *** as all that there is. Some see *** as uncomfortable. Some see *** philosophically. Some see *** as a distraction. Some see *** as meaningless. Some see *** as a way of life. Some see *** as a good time. Some see *** as metaphor. Some see *** as necessity. Some see *** as a luxury. Some see *** as a game. Some see *** as Mythic. Some see *** as a drug. Some see *** as Virtue. Some see *** as Logic. Some see *** as Good. Some see *** as Love. Some see *** as Lust. Some see *** as Evil. Some see *** as Sin. Few see *** the same way: How do you see *** The only right answers for you are yours. How do you see *** From the first person, or perhaps third? Is *** a vicarious thing, or is it personal? How do you see *** Is promiscuity absurd? How do you see *** Can your ****** life affect others? How do you see *** Does it matter who it's with? Does it matter with how many? Does it matter how rapidly? Does it matter why? It sure does to me. Does it matter for how long? Does it matter how often? Does it matter where? Does it matter when? Not with the right person.*
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we dance with spoons and spatulas forks and whisks and tongs we use then for their real purpose, because we know what they're really for... unnecessarily profane songs that's why they're in our kitchen that's why they're in our hands right where they belong
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Feb 11, 2010
Feb 11, 2010 at 5:35 PM UTC
utensils
I turned lesser men to stone, snakes nipping idly at my dress: I am monster, living incarceration of a profane affair. I turned sacristy into brothel, my beauty was perverted to despair. I am monster, grotesque face topped by a hissing nest. As you approached, and I felt a grim shiver in my chest; I glowered my petrifying glare, But you were given hiding-cape', sword, winged sandals to wear, And mirrored shield my powers to arrest. My mask of potent shame was made: Lips blood red and eyes of smoldering coal, Around my face writhing serpents twist and roll. I saw my eyes in your hand, I wailed a last serenade. Gasping in the instant before – everything went stone cold. I am weapon, crafting you a garden of entombed souls. 1Hades’ cap of invisibility
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May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM UTC
A Sonnet for Perseus
the angels are the sound we hear when we make love you say its profound i say its profane you say its love i say its in vain still i wish you'd hold me closer and take away my pain you say i'm a fool i say you are too so lets make love and maybe then we'll cool down a bit tonight
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC
love's indi-fat-i-(gall)able defeat
the world is full of emptiness how so you may inquire? the following dissertation shall give you an insight as to the emptiness that is around our globe stay seated in your arms chairs and at your computer screens these words shall reveal the story for all of you to glean in Third World countries not a bite of food to eat yet in Western countries they waste it and throw it on the streets it is said there is plenty of food on the planet for all but starving millions wait for a meager crumb to fall here the evidence placed in front of you and it doesn't make for a kindhearted view were there to be a little sharing and fairness the great emptiness may well be redressed on our planet the picture will remain thus and this salient tale is a wake up call to each of us the rabid feasting in rich nations is really quite obscene while those in Third World countries live with bellies poorly mean take a moment to ruminate on what has been said as you butter your daily portion of bread Epilogue those who have not a mouthful isn't it profane the world is full of emptiness as this dissertation has explained
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 8:45 PM UTC
The World Is Full of Emptiness
*Butterfly Desires & Fictional Highs, Magnetic Spells In Her Emerald Eyes, Bleeding Perpetual Fire & Toxic Cries. Lucid Screams Of Her Plastic Love, Paper Towns & Serenity Above, Refracting Into An Apocalyptic Dove. Postcards Of Her Estranged Serenity, Diffusing Into Polaroids Across Infinity, Rhythms Of Lusts Erupting Obscenity. Bluest Shade Of Her Misguided Confessions, Uncharted Fragments Amplifying Obsessions, Profane Prodigies Detonating Desecrations, Digital Dreams & Fictional Desires, 3D Symphonies Inside Her Crystal Wires, Purple Streams Translating Fires. Tunnel Visions Transmitting Reality, Suicidal Trance & Static Eternity, Molotov Solution Is Her Lighthouse Of Ecstasy. - 04:19AM -*
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Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 6:56 PM UTC
Digital Dreams & Fictional Desires
Waiting for the subway and talking on the phone with her, he asked: pepperoni or cheese? You choose. “Pepperoni would be good,” she said and he hung up. The 7 train arrived, blowing back his hair. The doors opened with a dull beep and he stepped through into the air conditioning. He sat down in the plastic orange seat, putting his backpack on the floor in between his calves. When he stopped by at their favorite, Franco’s, “Pepperoni or cheese? You choose.” Pe – Cheese would be good, he found himself saying. In a strange act of deviousness, he decided it would be a brilliant joke. At home, she was disappointed when she saw and went to heat up spinach leftovers. As she opened the microwave door and put in the white ceramic bowl, a great sadness came over him, and he only managed to swallow down a few bites before dropping the profane slice back onto his plate.
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Dec 19, 2010
Dec 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM UTC
her Pepperoni Pizza
Break away from the chains of rationalism, Follow your heart or die mortal man. Keep going, pressing ever forward, Calamity lasts but one moment unless in peril. Pressure is nothing compared to your wants. Fancy the girl, go after your wants not her needs. Love all that is good for you. Hate all that is bad for you. Carpe Diem! Carpe Ador. Treat yourself for you only live but a day. Hold yourself back for no one but you, yourself. Spend your life in heated arguments, heated passion, and heated rage. Enjoy the love-life of the ***** and vile For you only should marry once, and are never tied down. Speak your thoughts as profane and as loud. Rock the mild, ignore the wise, victory in love is care for only thyself. Love is a lie and mortal. Love is nothing but ecstasy.
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM UTC
Tropical Emotions
slowly  carefully as i might an ancient diary still full of young dreams and even  perhaps the salt of young love it hurts to carry adolescent obstacles given my age and all those hateful skeptics it hurts how they gleefully profane yet settled dust is yet dust i sit willing to love amid my dust i sit in ever deeper vasts of love in existential sacrum wag kindled crown and fullness breath of all the scents of varied forms of love lighthouse toes inspire seas ancestors swam lyric feet to message myth of travels won my calves and shins  knees and thighs   crawling climbing walking running jumping kicking at the start physiologies of courage ****** ahead as future unmade moulds invite caress the bodied length intent provides singing fingers scale my world in chords of gliding love tips of arcing sensate dawns diverse as nightsky suns my palms divine an ever giving gift no futures could unveil-- the toucher's touching touched aligning novel insights  wordless as the womb of time: perhaps a symbol flare could squint and grant a vision of horizon's end-- another pleasure game a bonsai love to soften age another twisting meditation's emptiness in form as motion stillness spaces words to perfect pitches  tempos   sound though all of which will never meet and never meeting meet as one
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 12:01 AM UTC
heart opening
My pen is like a candle Always waiting to ignite Inspired by fighting to love And by simply loving to fight. It produces profane compositions It's a verbal "finger" in the air Teeming with sarcastic euphemisms While claiming never to care. Now, my notebook is like a canvas A naked ****** if you will Seeking blemish, seeking substance Openly desiring a thrill. My ink bleeds across paper Creating spark and catching flame It is words like these, at the end of time That will carry on my name. (April 26, 2008)
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Jun 27, 2010
Jun 27, 2010 at 10:26 PM UTC
Personification
The Optimist I wish that I could purchase A paper of good news Which didn’t love misfortune Or laugh when people lose Which didn’t sneak and pry Or celebrate a lie Or gossip, steal and scandal Then revel while we cry This new paper’s called The Optimist And you don’t need to buy it The first issue is free you see So you will want to try it ‘What is all this?’ the people say They look slightly bemused The happiness inside has made them stop And they’re confused It’s been a long time since they paused To think and look around And see the joy and beauty Just waiting to be found Not in the shops or on the box This joy is something new Or old that they’d forgotten But now recognise as true They hardly dare believe As they delve inside again But the stories are all true And nothing’s awful or profane Two sisters reunited After fifty years apart! A boy who saved a stranger And that is just the start Of all the good that’s happened And your heart’s about to burst Because people can surprise you When you don’t expect the worst The hunger and the vanity Are swiftly set aside As something more important grows Where bitterness resides And The Optimist begins So slowly, it’s effect The hearts and minds of all begin To thaw and to collect The sun begins to shine Like it never has before And people start to wish and pray For peace instead of war And although this paper’s fiction It may pay to recognise The Optimist cannot exist If we don’t open up our eyes
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 10:56 AM UTC
The Optimist
The Optimist I wish that I could purchase A paper of good news Which didn’t love misfortune Or laugh when people lose Which didn’t sneak and pry Or celebrate a lie Or gossip, steal and scandal Then revel while we cry This new paper’s called The Optimist And you don’t need to buy it The first issue is free you see So you will want to try it ‘What is all this?’ the people say They look slightly bemused The happiness inside has made them stop And they’re confused It’s been a long time since they paused To think and look around And see the joy and beauty Just waiting to be found Not in the shops or on the box This joy is something new Or old that they’d forgotten But now recognise as true They hardly dare believe As they delve inside again But the stories are all true And nothing’s awful or profane Two sisters reunited After fifty years apart! A boy who saved a stranger And that is just the start Of all the good that’s happened And your heart’s about to burst Because people can surprise you When you don’t expect the worst The hunger and the vanity Are swiftly set aside As something more important grows Where bitterness resides And The Optimist begins So slowly, it’s effect The hearts and minds of all begin To thaw and to collect The sun begins to shine Like it never has before And people start to wish and pray For peace instead of war And although this paper’s fiction It may pay to recognise The Optimist cannot exist If we don’t open up our eyes
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Physician Nature! Let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest; Throw me upon thy Tripod, till the flood Of stifling numbers ebbs from my full breast. A theme! a theme! great nature! give a theme; Let me begin my dream. I come -- I see thee, as thou standest there, Beckon me not into the wintry air. Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, And hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, -- To-night, if I may guess, thy beauty wears A smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright, As when with ravished, aching, vassal eyes, Lost in soft amaze, I gaze, I gaze! Who now, with greedy looks, eats up my feast? What stare outfaces now my silver moon! Ah! keep that hand unravished at the least; Let, let, the amorous burn -- But pr'ythee, do not turn The current of your heart from me so soon. O! save, in charity, The quickest pulse for me. Save it for me, sweet love! though music breathe Voluptuous visions into the warm air; Though swimming through the dance's dangerous wreath, Be like an April day, Smiling and cold and gay, A temperate lilly, temperate as fair; Then, Heaven! there will be A warmer June for me. Why, this, you'll say, my ***** is not true: Put your soft hand upon your snowy side, Where the heart beats: confess -- 'tis nothing new -- Must not a woman be A feather on the sea, Sway'd to and fro by every wind and tide? Of as uncertain speed As blow-ball from the mead? I know it -- and to know it is despair To one who loves you as I love, sweet ***** Whose heart goes fluttering for you every where, Nor, when away you roam, Dare keep its wretched home, Love, love alone, his pains severe and many: Then, loveliest! keep me free, From torturing jealousy. Ah! if you prize my subdued soul above The poor, the fading, brief, pride of an hour; Let none profane my Holy See of love, Or with a rude hand break The sacramental cake: Let none else touch the just new-budded flower; If not -- may my eyes close, Love! on their lost repose.
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Ode to *****
Physician Nature! Let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest; Throw me upon thy Tripod, till the flood Of stifling numbers ebbs from my full breast. A theme! a theme! great nature! give a theme; Let me begin my dream. I come -- I see thee, as thou standest there, Beckon me not into the wintry air. Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears, And hopes, and joys, and panting miseries, -- To-night, if I may guess, thy beauty wears A smile of such delight, As brilliant and as bright, As when with ravished, aching, vassal eyes, Lost in soft amaze, I gaze, I gaze! Who now, with greedy looks, eats up my feast? What stare outfaces now my silver moon! Ah! keep that hand unravished at the least; Let, let, the amorous burn -- But pr'ythee, do not turn The current of your heart from me so soon. O! save, in charity, The quickest pulse for me. Save it for me, sweet love! though music breathe Voluptuous visions into the warm air; Though swimming through the dance's dangerous wreath, Be like an April day, Smiling and cold and gay, A temperate lilly, temperate as fair; Then, Heaven! there will be A warmer June for me. Why, this, you'll say, my ***** is not true: Put your soft hand upon your snowy side, Where the heart beats: confess -- 'tis nothing new -- Must not a woman be A feather on the sea, Sway'd to and fro by every wind and tide? Of as uncertain speed As blow-ball from the mead? I know it -- and to know it is despair To one who loves you as I love, sweet ***** Whose heart goes fluttering for you every where, Nor, when away you roam, Dare keep its wretched home, Love, love alone, his pains severe and many: Then, loveliest! keep me free, From torturing jealousy. Ah! if you prize my subdued soul above The poor, the fading, brief, pride of an hour; Let none profane my Holy See of love, Or with a rude hand break The sacramental cake: Let none else touch the just new-budded flower; If not -- may my eyes close, Love! on their lost repose.
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What if this present were the world’s last night? Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell, The picture of Christ crucified, and tell Whether that countenance can thee affright, Tears in his eyes quench the amazing light, Blood fills his frowns, which from his pierced head fell. And can that tongue adjudge thee unto hell, Which prayed forgiveness for his foes’ fierce spite? No, no; but as in my idolatry I said to all my profane mistresses, Beauty, of pity, foulness only is A sign of rigour: so I say to thee, To wicked spirits are horrid shapes assigned, This beauteous form assures a piteous mind.
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Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World’s Last Night?
Through the nights of alchemy and the religion of your touch I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the eyes of those who seek for fame or infamy that climb the ladder for trust and security I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the rustling of leaves that heralds your approach and the sun that turns its gold to the storm I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the haze of city lights that silence the moon and stars and the sleep of the streets abandoned by foot and car I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the vast abandon of the pleasure dens and bars that sell relief and ecstacy to the dusted and the ****** I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the *** of angels that call forgiveness after saints Through the empty street which shares your name I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the passing of time to the breadth of now, and the passing of the babe from mother to sow I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the sacred and profane and the knife of your beauty upon this honest name I found myself perverted I found myself free. Through the slavery of man and the freedom of nations I found myself perverted I found myself free. I found myself.
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Mar 2, 2014 at 12:44 AM UTC
I found myself