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"profuse" poems
I think about my death. The seed of life is so profuse, and that is my demise. I might live, but I will die. When I dream, I dream of Judy Greer. She's been there talking about love and ******* and death and hurting. So what can I say now, when bulletholes of lightning people my dreams. When a couple shots of whiskey have put me on the edge of missing you over memories. I moan and dream, because dreaming is a moan for hope. And being in for a bid, is the same as your lips to my lips. So I evade promises and dribble into traps of depression. I've had this problem for so long, it seems inconsequential that I might wring my neck by an electrical cord, or by the chords of your heart.. Because i miss you and that type of thing never lets go to much. I stare at humans with an anchor in my hands. I don't know if I should break their noses, or tell them how it got there. Don't hate me, just be grateful; that I told you I'm so sad and worn out.
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Apr 19, 2012
Apr 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM UTC
Pretty ****** have Hearts Too.
She is a landmine, of profuse love; No precautions necessary.
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 11:24 PM UTC
Landmines
no emotionally ecstatic experience compares to the seminal instance whence spermatozoa (from profuse *********** beget the miraculous propensity to procreate despite the steep odds female fertility fosters potential impregnation fusing the hereditary debt of feral, fiery, fomenting friskiness fueling fancy free footloose fornication prior to seminal fertilization union sans ova doth induce fret full ness in tandem with diametrically opposed exultant sensations (biologically, embryonically, microscopically, et cetera) seismic shocks inject when deliberate intent arises to disregard applying prophylactics choice plying reproductive roulette let which analogous fruitful uterine plain bastes the "cooking" egg omelette which impregnation upends cessation of "self" first and foremost asper desire to breed wrenching role of "me" as operative of webbed world de jure upon consummating that most miraculous deed necessitating yet for the fecund female relief from messy menstrual cycle she becomes temporarily freed that perhaps a novitiate (or even a gal practiced in the euphoric family, she instinctually abides prenatal signals that heed without feeling debased, harangued, lectured pedagogical, polemical, puritanical, et cetera blast assessing copulation enjoyed gloriously, ineluctably, kinesthetically lectured by elder, especially cast in thee reel life drama, that nine months til offspring utters initial whimper elapses exceptionally fast emitting a radiant golden halo wishing to bottle confluence of hormonal secretions last ideally fully awake to the birthing process, when juiced the first stage of maternity past cuz every moment thee inconsolably (perhaps colicky infant) gets first dibs to suckle, which round the clock nursing consumes moments many vast.
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Apr 17, 2018
Apr 17, 2018 at 11:04 PM UTC
aye miss the trials and tribulations of expectant fatherhood
no emotionally ecstatic experience compares to the seminal instance whence spermatozoa (from profuse *********** beget the miraculous propensity to procreate despite the steep odds female fertility fosters potential impregnation fusing the hereditary debt of feral, fiery, fomenting friskiness fueling fancy free footloose fornication prior to seminal fertilization union sans ova doth induce fret full ness in tandem with diametrically opposed exultant sensations (biologically, embryonically, microscopically, et cetera) seismic shocks inject when deliberate intent arises to disregard applying prophylactics choice plying reproductive roulette let which analogous fruitful uterine plain bastes the "cooking" egg omelette which impregnation upends cessation of "self" first and foremost asper desire to breed wrenching role of "me" as operative of webbed world de jure upon consummating that most miraculous deed necessitating yet for the fecund female relief from messy menstrual cycle she becomes temporarily freed that perhaps a novitiate (or even a gal practiced in the euphoric family, she instinctually abides prenatal signals that heed without feeling debased, harangued, lectured pedagogical, polemical, puritanical, et cetera blast assessing copulation enjoyed gloriously, ineluctably, kinesthetically lectured by elder, especially cast in thee reel life drama, that nine months til offspring utters initial whimper elapses exceptionally fast emitting a radiant golden halo wishing to bottle confluence of hormonal secretions last ideally fully awake to the birthing process, when juiced the first stage of maternity past cuz every moment thee inconsolably (perhaps colicky infant) gets first dibs to suckle, which round the clock nursing consumes moments many vast.
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Look at all the parrots-- Parroting the words Of all the other parrots-- Of all the other birds-- Parroting profusely All the same refrains-- Parroting the constant patter In their parrot brains-- Parroting the preaching From the pulpit to the pews-- Parroting their parents' And their parents' parents' views-- Parroting their leaders And their pompous platitudes-- Parroting their peers' Pretentious attitudes-- Parroting the patriarchs' Proselytizing that'll Put your teeth on edge With their pathetic prattle-- Parroting the poppycock Of trite pontifications-- Parroting pernicious And sly manipulations-- Parroting the pretty birds Whose pageantry and glory Appeal to their prurient tastes In each pathetic story-- Parroting the songsters With parasitic pleasure And counting out the rhythm Of every pitiful measure-- Parroting the powerful Whose ploys are so profuse, Leaving the powerless Pummeled with abuse-- Parroting with passion Presumptuous prophesies With putative contrition, "Humbly" on their knees-- Parroting themselves-- Together all in sync-- How they love to parrot So they don't have to think! - by Bob B
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Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM UTC
Look at All the Parrots!
People held hostage, always living in fear, The barrel of a weapon, is always near. Riding the train, a blood curdling scream, A deafening noise, and a bright light beam. A violent shock wave tears open your flesh, The lucky ones, receive skin grafts with mesh. Your arm torn off, artery bleeding is profuse, A dying thought is, what was the use? What was the purpose, to **** all these people? In the name of Allah, perched on a mosque steeple. Radical extremists don't care about life, By murdering people they increase human strife. Wasting resources, bringing the Earth gloom, Look at faces on a plane, many filled with doom. The last thirty five years I don't understand, Middle Eastern countries, together they band. Bringing terror and hatred towards cultures of the west, We accept the need to feel your ways are the best. Pray all you like, cover up a women's face, Stop trying to change America's philosophy and place. Once the oil is gone, and the land again bare, Back to living in tents, flowing robes you will wear. Your tactics are old, soon you may feel, The burning of skin, this inferno is real. A nuclear explosion will end years of frustration, No longer putting up with terrorists indignation. Revolutions reveal, the world ending in flame, Enough with this nonsense, put an end to this game! Visit poemsbypaul.com
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Feb 8, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 at 4:53 PM UTC
Terrorism
A peach, so sweet, one I would love to eat. My hunger for the nectar of life, the sugary taste making it hard to retreat. A peach, so tender and soft, making it far too easy to get lost. In the delectable flavor of the juice, so sweet, oh how I long to eat one, profuse. A peach, so ripe, I could eat peaches in the day or the night, either is alright. Never have I seen, a peach so clean and eatable, colors just like a roses petals. A peach, so neat, eating a certain one is a special treat, almost making me weep. Speaking of spotless, where is your mind, I speak of fruit, who's in the gutter this time?,
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM UTC
Peaches....
O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages; Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries, Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean Rings to the roar of an angel onset-- Me rather all that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean, Where some refulgent sunset of India Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods
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Milton (Alcaics)
Oh Bard, wielding a tool mighty and spiky Mightier than either the sword or rod, You reign as monarch in fancy’s domain Sketching life in all variety and mode Which with pain and strife fraught Or bright with gaiety and grace In finer yarn than the gossamer thread On a fabric of words in befitting verse You steal away from the noisy crowd Into the stillness of the cloistered cell To dwell with Fancy’s mystic charms Weaving downy dreams at will You recount forgotten tales of yore Of ****** battles won and lost, Of lovers united, amour defiled, Conjuring memories from abysmal past You hearken to the moans of lovelorn souls And sing of beauty in ditties fine Triggering sparks into flames grow In umpteen hearts that pine and whine Babbling with the brook rushing swift, Racing with the deer loping past, You wander into mysterious woods Where flowers, their richest odors cast Your ears intent on the song of birds That comes floating from the far off groves And the whir of cicadas on the bark of trees Breaking the calm of twilight eves Alone you saunter the stretching strands, Watching virulent breakers in fury heave Often your heart dancing with the tide And swinging with the rhythm of rising wave You feast on the gleam of the auburn sun And the speckled blue of the infinite skies Watching the day dying in flame And the night in a diadem of stars vies All that’s lovesome meets your eyes And commune to you in profuse delight Which you turn into rhyme and rhythm For the whole of mankind to devour and digest From your harp flow symphonies sweet Songs of longing, love and lust Of idyllic happiness, peace and bliss, Fuelling hearts with vigorous zest Though outlawed by the great sage of Greece, Branding the poet, aberrant and a fool Oft beneath the façade of his wayward thoughts, Lie heaps of wisdom for the discerning soul.
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 6:01 AM UTC
An Ode to a Bard
Oh Bard, wielding a tool mighty and spiky Mightier than either the sword or rod, You reign as monarch in fancy’s domain Sketching life in all variety and mode Which with pain and strife fraught Or bright with gaiety and grace In finer yarn than the gossamer thread On a fabric of words in befitting verse You steal away from the noisy crowd Into the stillness of the cloistered cell To dwell with Fancy’s mystic charms Weaving downy dreams at will You recount forgotten tales of yore Of ****** battles won and lost, Of lovers united, amour defiled, Conjuring memories from abysmal past You hearken to the moans of lovelorn souls And sing of beauty in ditties fine Triggering sparks into flames grow In umpteen hearts that pine and whine Babbling with the brook rushing swift, Racing with the deer loping past, You wander into mysterious woods Where flowers, their richest odors cast Your ears intent on the song of birds That comes floating from the far off groves And the whir of cicadas on the bark of trees Breaking the calm of twilight eves Alone you saunter the stretching strands, Watching virulent breakers in fury heave Often your heart dancing with the tide And swinging with the rhythm of rising wave You feast on the gleam of the auburn sun And the speckled blue of the infinite skies Watching the day dying in flame And the night in a diadem of stars vies All that’s lovesome meets your eyes And commune to you in profuse delight Which you turn into rhyme and rhythm For the whole of mankind to devour and digest From your harp flow symphonies sweet Songs of longing, love and lust Of idyllic happiness, peace and bliss, Fuelling hearts with vigorous zest Though outlawed by the great sage of Greece, Branding the poet, aberrant and a fool Oft beneath the façade of his wayward thoughts, Lie heaps of wisdom for the discerning soul.
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Vertebrate beginnings, I collate each chordates morphological traits Striving to understand their profuse, evolutionary attributes. Memorize the fusion of Latin and Greek roots Interwoven just enough to complicate Instead of differentiate inarticulate invertebrates. Inhibitions confine to an educational institution Discombobulated and ready to ******* graduate.
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Apr 20, 2016
Apr 20, 2016 at 12:57 AM UTC
morphology
hammer me hammer me hammer me to the ground hammer me hammer me with your hard hitting pound hammer me hammer me hammer till I cry hammer me hammer me blacken both my eyes hammer me hammer me break my jaw with your clenched fists hammer me hammer me so my face contorts and twists hammer me hammer me I so enjoy the bruising pain you dole out hammer me hammer me with your forceful clout hammer me hammer me so that I bleed most profuse hammer me hammer me keep imparting your gross abuse hammer me hammer me hammer me
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
Hammer Me
Love cautiously, the Oleander, from a distance, behold its blooms. For within its vibrant grandeur, death's brew does certainly loom. Profuse clusters of pink, red and white, are not for your table setting, Let them be a backdrop delight for desert landscape planting. Lush, evergreen, they grow year round, wild, tall, with abandon. Or prune them down, so they stay low, a hedge with blooms embolden. A poison beauty without compare, The Oleander draws attention. Thriving in the dry desert air, Touch? Remember warnings, here, I did mention.
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Jun 27, 2010
Jun 27, 2010 at 5:02 AM UTC
Oleander
The hot boiled rice With brown gram curry The nutty smell of sesame Oil shrills in hurry Deployed on a thrice larger rounder plate For a boy's belly deplete. "Can't eat this much rice!" He shouts with a surprise. “You can do my son sure.", Her firm voice enssures The boys look measures. "The remainder you keep aside" Her remand saves  his pride. A monthly forty rupees Should not be pretty reason For a lodger's liberty to please Among two of her teen sons Than a welling spring of kindness A heart huge in roundness Larger than a stainless steel plate With a profuse heap of hot rice The smooth boiled brown pies Oiled with fragrance fleet. For how he fully did feat it? How she purely predict it? The stomach of a young one could hold The heap of love on a stainless steel mold.
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Dec 19, 2018
Dec 19, 2018 at 9:43 AM UTC
Hot boiled rice and brown gram curry
Spring dawned after the biting chill, Beams of sunlight filtered down, Flakes of snow melted away, The Earth bathed in brilliant glow He came, The dainty Darling of our dreams! With promises full and hopes in store, To fill the void, within our souls. To burst the silence, with the clatter of sounds To dispel the gloom, that hovered on He came, High from Heaven, like a cherubim sent, with the glow of umpteen candles lit, He came, To gladden our doleful hearts, To deliver us of our blighted state He came, Like the first rain on parched ground, To drench the arid lands in profuse shower, To ease the ***** of sweltering heat, To put out the fire of growing drought Marveling over the seizure of treasure, long hidden within the crevices dark, We stood, so pleasantly taken aback, over the gift, ere vouched, but long delayed. Like an eagle in its aerial route, flew my spirits in ecstatic rounds Like the Swallow, soaring high above, my fancy took wings and set to fly. He lay close to me, the bundle of joy! His dark little eyes poised on my face, full with words on silent lips, and innocence on his glistening visage I peered into that cute little face, the face I had long fondled in my dreams, I whirled in the feel of prime feed, and swam in the current of maternal bliss!
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Nov 18, 2016
Nov 18, 2016 at 6:47 AM UTC
Deliverance
I have never been a man of many words. That is you would not call me by any stretch of the imagination bombastic. Nor would you refer to me as long- winded. I try to be as concise as possible. I feel that most people have a select few adjective to describe themselves. Personally chatty, diffuse, discursive,flatulent, loquatious, palaverous, pleonastic, prolix nor verbose would be on this list. My words are not ample aplenty bounteous bountiful generous plenteous plentiful profuse or super abundant. And when i make a speech it is not oratorical or overblown... I am not pompous...I try to be as consise as possible.
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 3:38 AM UTC
words do not come easy to me...
Collaboration's implicit excitations explicate expectations Unity's myriad augurs geomancy's indications Demagoguery's ostensibly intuitive impetus coordinations Extravagantly exorbitant panaceas appreciate exaggerations Prolifically profuse profundity's autonomous gestations Empirically emulate epistemology's exogamous creations Intrigue's imperative promulgation's quantum fecundations   Fealty's ephemeral enunciation's explicit complications Hypercritically exponential prophylaxis protocol's interpretations Sacrosanct unary's preternatural predilection's extrications Eventuation's evocative illuminism avant garde's ostentations Corrupt costume counselor's indicative explications Assimilation's synthetic synthesis' ascensional implications Ominous phenomenon portrayal detinue's integrations Umbrage ultraism's penumbral platitude's objectifications Futurity's spontaneous flamboyance's apotropaic expiations
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018 at 7:53 PM UTC
Synergy
pull back the thin veneer of pretense that obfuscates this holiday season profuse excuses of joy and peace are hollow and brittle and leave bitter proof of our lackluster compassion expose the specter of greed dormant in capitalism vestiges of a dying culture the refuse of an apathetic American people numb to the trauma inflicted by megalomaniacal leaders consent given implicitly in the complacency of obedient conformity will we refuse to acknowledge the stains on our hands this Christmas red liquid misting our faces bloodlust and endless war there’s no rhyme or reason to these sycophantic intonations deafening these words of treason in vain attempts to assuage guilt with endless iterations of false hopes and puny gods in brainless trying to defy reality we belie our true intentions our self-serving obsessions and inane consumption hazes of the mundane   in suburban graves if the greatest gift is giving itself we won’t find solace in the holy temples of strip malls shopping centers and corporate retail palaces a Friday as black as our fractured hearts witness the death of humanity choking out all we were grateful for the day before
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Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 8:24 PM UTC
choke
Deafening breathing silence Window tappings Like echoes scream Of inner redemption Thorny rose hips Flowing meanders Of tears and salt Profuse secrets Settle gentle as silk-webs Over closed Iron made door frames These secrets An orb of light Amidst a gaping Black hole Of serenity… Surrounding chaotic Withering shutters to the mind
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 4:20 PM UTC
Frames
He took her to his cabin up in the northern woods so no one could hear her scream when he tied her to the four post bed to live out all his dreams now she calls him Master when he unbinds her from the bed but still he makes her subject to the whims inside his head Now and then he lets her run naked on a leash but locks her in the spider hole when it's time for him to teach He knows she'll never get away He'll make her love his hell searching for what makes her smile 'neath his Stockholm syndrome spell He F 'd her up and beat her down until she finally came around So beautiful in her black and blue She whimpered "Master, I love you" Then he knew Her Stockholm love was true He gently kissed her ****** face and the bruises he so carefully placed Held her in her broken disgrace because her Stockholm love was true Now they're always together with their twisted violent love He finally truly fell for her and she can't get enough Stockholm love! He hits her with a rubber hose She bites him on the thigh scratching her name across his back he slaps her 'til she cries Stockholm love! They love that they are lovers profuse! profane! profound! and when she finally got the chance she tied her lover down He loved her like no other She understood his love So she f 'd him up and beat him down until they'd had enough but he didn't comprehend the depth of her Stockholm love She blew him away with a shot gun blast just so she could *** Stockholm love! Look out! Look out! If you see her in your town She won't be charmed and she's always armed so don't you stick around She'll F ' you up and beat you down Until she gets enough Stockholm! Shot gun! Love! Roosty
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Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 10:33 AM UTC
Stockholm Love
He took her to his cabin up in the northern woods so no one could hear her scream when he tied her to the four post bed to live out all his dreams now she calls him Master when he unbinds her from the bed but still he makes her subject to the whims inside his head Now and then he lets her run naked on a leash but locks her in the spider hole when it's time for him to teach He knows she'll never get away He'll make her love his hell searching for what makes her smile 'neath his Stockholm syndrome spell He F 'd her up and beat her down until she finally came around So beautiful in her black and blue She whimpered "Master, I love you" Then he knew Her Stockholm love was true He gently kissed her ****** face and the bruises he so carefully placed Held her in her broken disgrace because her Stockholm love was true Now they're always together with their twisted violent love He finally truly fell for her and she can't get enough Stockholm love! He hits her with a rubber hose She bites him on the thigh scratching her name across his back he slaps her 'til she cries Stockholm love! They love that they are lovers profuse! profane! profound! and when she finally got the chance she tied her lover down He loved her like no other She understood his love So she f 'd him up and beat him down until they'd had enough but he didn't comprehend the depth of her Stockholm love She blew him away with a shot gun blast just so she could *** Stockholm love! Look out! Look out! If you see her in your town She won't be charmed and she's always armed so don't you stick around She'll F ' you up and beat you down Until she gets enough Stockholm! Shot gun! Love! Roosty
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*Ecstasy seeped into vena The purloin of senses The profuse thud of a heart On edge Igniting bedlam Doused in consequence Of a shattery bliss.* 18/08/2014
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 11:21 AM UTC
Serotonin
no emotionally ecstatic experience compares to the seminal instance whence spermatozoa (from profuse *********** beget the miraculous propensity to procreate despite the steep odds female fertility fosters potential impregnation fusing the hereditary debt of feral, fiery, fomenting friskiness fueling fancy free footloose fornication prior to seminal fertilization union sans ova doth induce fret full ness in tandem with diametrically opposed exultant sensations (biologically, embryonically, microscopically, et cetera) seismic shocks inject when deliberate intent arises to disregard applying prophylactics choice plying reproductive roulette let which analogous fruitful uterine plain bastes the "cooking" egg omelette which impregnation upends cessation of "self" first and foremost asper desire to breed wrenching role of "me" as operative of webbed world de jure upon consummating that most miraculous deed necessitating yet for the fecund female relief from messy menstrual cycle she becomes temporarily freed that perhaps a novitiate (or even a gal practiced in the euphoric family, she instinctually abides prenatal signals that heed without feeling debased, harangued, lectured pedagogical, polemical, puritanical, et cetera blast assessing copulation enjoyed gloriously, ineluctably, kinesthetically lectured by elder, especially cast in thee reel life drama, that nine months til offspring utters initial whimper elapses exceptionally fast emitting a radiant golden halo wishing to bottle confluence of hormonal secretions last ideally fully awake to the birthing process, when juiced the first stage of maternity past cuz every moment thee inconsolably (perhaps colicky infant) gets first dibs to suckle, which round the clock nursing consumes moments many vast.
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Feb 11, 2018
Feb 11, 2018 at 1:11 AM UTC
aye miss the trials and tribulations of expectant fatherhood
no emotionally ecstatic experience compares to the seminal instance whence spermatozoa (from profuse *********** beget the miraculous propensity to procreate despite the steep odds female fertility fosters potential impregnation fusing the hereditary debt of feral, fiery, fomenting friskiness fueling fancy free footloose fornication prior to seminal fertilization union sans ova doth induce fret full ness in tandem with diametrically opposed exultant sensations (biologically, embryonically, microscopically, et cetera) seismic shocks inject when deliberate intent arises to disregard applying prophylactics choice plying reproductive roulette let which analogous fruitful uterine plain bastes the "cooking" egg omelette which impregnation upends cessation of "self" first and foremost asper desire to breed wrenching role of "me" as operative of webbed world de jure upon consummating that most miraculous deed necessitating yet for the fecund female relief from messy menstrual cycle she becomes temporarily freed that perhaps a novitiate (or even a gal practiced in the euphoric family, she instinctually abides prenatal signals that heed without feeling debased, harangued, lectured pedagogical, polemical, puritanical, et cetera blast assessing copulation enjoyed gloriously, ineluctably, kinesthetically lectured by elder, especially cast in thee reel life drama, that nine months til offspring utters initial whimper elapses exceptionally fast emitting a radiant golden halo wishing to bottle confluence of hormonal secretions last ideally fully awake to the birthing process, when juiced the first stage of maternity past cuz every moment thee inconsolably (perhaps colicky infant) gets first dibs to suckle, which round the clock nursing consumes moments many vast.
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Penguins painted pink, peacefully practising pragmatic pebble placement. Perfectly pointy piles, please! Profoundly pious Pandas ponder pancreatic problems, predict potential palsy. Prognosis? Perilously poor. Pale porpoises proudly plunge purple pools, placidly pasturing petrified plankton. Poor protozoans perish. Portly, paunchy, plumpish, porcine, porky pigs populate putrid puddles, Pulverizing pumpkin pies. Purposely Prickly porcupines pursue palatable plants, pin-pointing precisely. Puce petunias preferred. Pill popping puppet people perpetuate planetary perdition, pardon profuse pollution. Pretentious ******
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Sep 4, 2019
Sep 4, 2019 at 11:22 PM UTC
P
Sweet wisteria Weakly protesting their death By covetous hand Never had they bloomed In such profuse abandon Till those last three years Trailing sad windows Lush purple riot of vines Struggle to protest One morn I woke to Roar of angry bulldozers At the empty house Nothing there remains One brief hour quickly shattered My belovèd home ~Hilda~
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 6:33 PM UTC
Death in August
First impression, first date. You come late, a major sin in your own lexicon, tango dancing redesigns your hair to curls atwitter, despite remedial ministrations in taxi, you text apologies profuse en route, but you have been outed, and I am charmingly amused A warm December eve, a local Italian eatery, table by the window, red wine floes melt your defenses, allowances made, you're intrigued, enjoying our dinner of charming amusements But really you like my understated swagger. I like that you like my understated swagger. Walk home armed, arm in arm, your paintings I must come see, Immediately (!), You offered this as desert, instead of biscotti, a tour of your new apartment, sleek/simple, messaging that this is me, if you ever want to be invited to stay Inspection over, my smile is a knowing that this first foray deserves a concessionary accolade, So in a mode so gallant at the front door, Adieu you are bid, and devilishly clever, I merely shake you hand, leaving you delighted by this gallant, modern, charming amusement Looking at my watch, three and half hours have passed. Maintaing that in your ways set, Early on, I challenge your rigidity, Turning your hair from curly, Into spun straight Rapunzel gold liquidity, By asking politely, humbly, on bended knee, You give in happily, Charmed, amused at my ferocious insistence Looking at my watch, I too, am delighted, charmed, amused, to discover, It seems my watch is running slow, For it is now three and a half years later
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Jul 4, 2013
Jul 4, 2013 at 3:42 PM UTC
First Date Part II (Three and 1/2 Hours later)
First impression, first date. You come late, a major sin in your own lexicon, tango dancing redesigns your hair to curls atwitter, despite remedial ministrations in taxi, you text apologies profuse en route, but you have been outed, and I am charmingly amused A warm December eve, a local Italian eatery, table by the window, red wine floes melt your defenses, allowances made, you're intrigued, enjoying our dinner of charming amusements But really you like my understated swagger. I like that you like my understated swagger. Walk home armed, arm in arm, your paintings I must come see, Immediately (!), You offered this as desert, instead of biscotti, a tour of your new apartment, sleek/simple, messaging that this is me, if you ever want to be invited to stay Inspection over, my smile is a knowing that this first foray deserves a concessionary accolade, So in a mode so gallant at the front door, Adieu you are bid, and devilishly clever, I merely shake you hand, leaving you delighted by this gallant, modern, charming amusement Looking at my watch, three and half hours have passed. Maintaing that in your ways set, Early on, I challenge your rigidity, Turning your hair from curly, Into spun straight Rapunzel gold liquidity, By asking politely, humbly, on bended knee, You give in happily, Charmed, amused at my ferocious insistence Looking at my watch, I too, am delighted, charmed, amused, to discover, It seems my watch is running slow, For it is now three and a half years later
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Time slipped away in the spring, in the muddy puddles and the rain, in the sweet-smelling flowers and the rain. It rubbed circles into the small of my back, whispered bittersweet apologies and tacked a sticky note to my corkboard. “Remember to call.” I forgot. And I sit under the blooming tree my bare feet soft against the grass Time left me in the summer, in the sunny skies and the rain, in the sweltering heat and the rain. It ran somewhere unknown, far, far, far away, while I treaded chlorinated water and prayed that the fall would come sooner. “You can call whenever.” I didn’t. And I sit beside the verdant tree my bare feet hard on the pavement Time was gone in the fall, in the whispered breeze and the rain, in the crinkling leaves and the rain. But I had company in a glowing screen, And as days turned to weeks turned to months I forgot about time altogether. “Someone is calling.” I hung up. And I sit far from the dying tree my bare feet resting on the couch Time slept in the winter, in the miserable cold and the rain, in the blustery wind and the rain. Numbers and names disavowed, As “today” and “tomorrow” become “now” and “later” “What is the word called?” I don’t know. And I cannot see the empty tree my bare feet asleep on the carpet Time has returned in the spring. It looks me in the eyes, profuse apologies pouring out from its lips. “But you didn’t call.” I blink. Didn’t I?
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Apr 28, 2021
Apr 28, 2021 at 12:52 AM UTC
Clock