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"quarry" poems
*A coarse, yellow coat with dark spot aplenty Lean as a greyhound with limb long and lengthy, Faster than hare from a cold standing start Impossibly glimpsed in tall grasses that part. Crystaline jewels in two huge hazel eyes With the svelt of a feline’s cold killing surprise, Explosively quick with an elegant gait And a murderous jaw full of canines that wait For a fleeing gazelle or a springbok at speed Then a launch that would emulate bullet, when freed. Incredibly smooth with a fast loping stride That would tax any racehorse an envious ride, Snapping manouvers to left and to right That mirror a quarry’s evasions of flight. A blur in a frantic explosion of dust Then the life blood erupts, splashing red as the rust. Heaving great flanks after thrill of the chase Wide open muzzle and gore on the face, Guarding the game till the kittens locate Then the spoils of the chase will make portions dictate.* Marshalg Serengetti Plain Central Africa 30 November 2012
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM UTC
Cheetah
I though he carried the light where words would illuminate driving me to a euphoric ****** a man without a face or a trace unhindered in a double live and lies a bubble of psychotic psychic surety his passion was an addiction my reservations moved a notch addicted to a body of ideology the stances of philosophical terms uncovering ancient possibilities the unfelt mysteries of history veiled in icicles of pretence and lies as if a Marxist, a closet bourgeoise The stoicism of present bargains questioning Socrates and morality reasons a fatal dose ,examining the unexamined as colourful as his mind blew my inner glow he was lost in sad and low dialogues afraid to face the earthly shallow shadows yet his spirits moved deep within mine and it paralysed and fed on my energy and his delusion became my seduction but he woke my inner poetic tongue letting it caress all his inner wounds A shadow hiding behind Frankenstein’s a sly monster who lied to my eyes ghosting in with the a pen that weakens romancing with letters of a fiery doom a penpal whom I met within my lowest but whose words lay in a deep unending quarry his warmth I could never ever tell his kiss only a draft on the dewy grass
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 5:29 PM UTC
2. Declarations on a window sill (series)
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 7:44 AM UTC
PEARL 'TRINITY ERRANDS
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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From A Full Moon In March
PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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A TERM OF ENDEARMENT..... As a little girl my girl friends dad Called me BIRDBRAIN.... And that never bothered me. I knew it was a term of endearment. Of course back then I didn't know What endearment meant. But I knew he was kidding... His house was the fun house Of the neighborhood. His wife was an angel. We had taffy pulls, Mrs G made popcorn ***** And lined up chairs In front of the television So we kids could watch Wrestling.... with a big bubble magnifying glass And she served us bowls of popcorn. Always something to do.... I went to the quarry one time with them Looking for fancy rocks.... Mr. G, Mr. G is this a good one? No Birdbrain, it's just sandstone... He was a fancy rock collector... The name Birdbrain was so special to me... A name which was spoken with Endearment.... I'm sure of that..... By judy
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 6:45 PM UTC
A TERM OF ENDEARMENT...
Blood red plain of killing fields. Lioness stalks her prey. Tragic zebra separated from the herd. As lady lion quiet as bird. Creeps through concealing long grass. Undergrowth. Undercover. Trying not to rustle. Lioness has savvy. Not Zebra mares' saviour today. No games. She flies. Hear the wildebeest scatter. They know she's there. The birds, made them aware. Assails from the side. One fell swoop and zebra's down. The other quadrupeds return from their scarper and scatter. No fear today. The lioness is fed. She is not greedy. Nature beat her quarry. From the trees emerge her cubs to take their fill. The laws of the wild instilled! By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM UTC
Lioness!
When my father was a boy, in the County of Tyrone, His father owned a quarry and he worked the fields of stone. My Dad grew lean and hard As he excavated stone Yielding granite for stone carvers And gravel aggregate for roads. His hands grew strong and powerful He had a muscular physique He couldn’t read or write But no one dared to call him weak. When my Dad was in his twenties He was working in the mines Excavating British coal at Newcastle on Tynes. Later on in life He was living in the “States” Working in landscaping on large Gold Coast estates. When my Dad was in his fifties He was digging graves by hand. Once again in Fields of stone a hard working Union man. Each morning he’d rise early And walk two miles to work He never had an office And he’d never be a clerk. He rose to be a foreman Working in that field of stone And when darkness overtook him It became his earthly home. Now when I go visit him I kneel and pray alone Beside his Celtic Cross standing in the field of stones.
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Nov 9, 2011
Nov 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM UTC
Fields of Stone
Fare thee well by islets of time, Beauteous blooms of fragrance; of thyme. Gliding symphonies beckons thine eye, Gentle minds float toward sky high. O cues sung by the siren, allure! Once, fusion of reason borne pillar. Twice ponder, may our paths entwine, Thrice to act, unlike the tranquil Seine. Like angelic enigmas par Euler, Soar upon the painted auric frontier. Air fresh: an ebullient morning dew, Wisdom: moisture for the thirsty few. By spring fountain, if thou art inclined, Bright sparrow among the bovine herd. Lo, argent quarry of dust- liquid guile, Behold, product beyond thunder- gale. Scents of lavender assail thy sleep, Euphoric dreams, we welcome with glee! Sleepy horizons, a glorious dawn, Morning filled with a trillion suns. Some time, some day: travel the stars, Mortal shackles unchain my awful maw. Pupil of Aristotle, Darwin, and Vinci, There lies truth; a transient hierarchy...
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Aug 28, 2010
Aug 28, 2010 at 5:18 AM UTC
Cosmic Melancholia
You're a shooting star against the darkened sky, You're a red rose in a sea of white lillies, You're a breath of fresh air in this stale world, You're a gold nugget in a dark coal quarry.
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 1:35 PM UTC
Nigeria, my Nigeria.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after, that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair. 'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his; In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is; Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair. Oh a deal of pains he's taken and a pretty price he's paid To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade; But they've pulled the beggar's hat off for the world to see and stare, And they're taking him to justice for the colour of his hair. Now 'tis oakum for his fingers and the treadmill for his feet, And the quarry-gang on portland in the cold and in the heat, And between his spells of labour in the time he has to spare He can curse the god that made him for the colour of his hair.
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The Colour of His Hair
pale clouds at the summit water color sky cattle guard at wood bridge creek bed running dry split log fence downtrodden razor back in wire sinkhole on the wild plain grouse fields under fire pine bug and a lone wolf clear cut on the trail stump lake on the open range kettle valley rail raven on the hatheume slash and burn and scar blasted church in a tired sun wild rose under char thistle in the hollow quails nest sitting high carriage house at lone rock curtains of july smoke jaw in the canyon percolator dream silver sage in chapel schneider's requiem stockmen on the wrangle big horn antler chase table top at sunset deacon creek in grace quarry in a furry lines of tinted red spurs and blades and columns patchwork of the dead past the bow hill junction cattle ropes are black indian amphitheater saddle on the rack sun is at a high bake sedimentary stone three days on the morphine skeleton and bone cold water road is lonely corrals are cut and paste gone but not forgotten the dust filled aftertaste
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Jun 3, 2017
Jun 3, 2017 at 1:06 PM UTC
Road to Hatheume
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Awesome Alliterations
My auspicious and audacious assault augments the annoyance of aged accomplices. My bodacious broadside of boffolas berates and buffaloes bros beneficently. A classy crusade Clownishly chiseling and criticizing childishness. A devilish ********** of dillydallying dullards; devoutly denying dimwits the dulcet dream of defiance. Excessive, exuberant edification, ebulliently eliminating education-evictees. A fair-weather frolic in flippancy with furious fools floundering in flawed foppishness. Gregariously grating glum guys gleefully, growing grander garnishes of gripping gallantry gaily. Heckling hooligans highlights my heavenly humor. Irreverently irking irritable, iniquitous idiots in inestimably infuriating and incredible instances. A jolly, jocular **** joking with jerks. A kreiger kicking kleptomaniacs in the karyotype. (Cut me some slack, this is 'k', after all.) A ludicrous, laughing lambaste of lollygagging lunatics, loftily loosing luscious lunacy on lucky losers. A magnificent masterpiece of malfeasance, a monstrous, malevolent mission of massive misfortune for the minor minors missing no malicious missive. A noxious, narcissistic niggling of nitwits, niftily nixing the noisome naivete of niggardly nobs. An offhand, off-color outburst of outlandish observations to outclass the obnoxious overtures of obsequious offal. A pragmatic prediction of possible platitudes or platypi, a placid parley of pyrotechnic pleasantries provoking Pyrrhic protections by prurient prats. A quixotic quibble quarreling with a queer quarry. Ribald ribbing, ruining the robust reality of the repreachful, repugnant, and rapacious with risque ridiculousness. A silly, slighting slander of sluglike slavishness, succinctly sinking sloppy simpletons sourly. Tracing the titillating talent of towing tyranny to towering terrors to tactless, togless, terrapins of the times.
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ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:18 AM UTC
mercury ave.
ghosts of slumber parties past. just a haunted betamax & a stack of oreo sandwiches. sisters braiding eachother’s hair far past the witching hour, contemplating life without supervision. blue house. yellow lawn. silverback gorilla in one garage. two garage: empty. three garage: a woman entombed in exhaust. [her bloated tongue] a gang of bmx boys pizza-fed and friday-high, hopped up on mountain dew and trading card collectible rituals ‘n rhythmics. they conjure a demon just to **** and dismember it. for funsies. for keepsies. a fang for the shrine at the foot of the old oak tree. history on the skin, long history, long thoughts, long in the nod like a calm dead frog. bubbled, boiled, toiled, and troubled. the woods aren’t haunted. you are haunted. you are the conduit through which the darkness displays its vivid colors. [treefort aflame] the seasons furrow/ / the leaves fall. little plots of land etched out – subdivision and sprawl. on the avenue, heaven & hell made tame and tangible. built, re-built, and refurbished – a lawn and a lantern. a mortgaged glory of sparkle and decay. [dead cat is a new cat is the old cat ran away] pictograms of morning light display on mom’s face as she instructs us on the gusts of love [scrambed eggs] & teaches us the truth of nettles sprung from violent pine. [toast with raspberry jam] the television. the microwave. the blender beverages. hymnals of an electric kingdom. one mom dances, the other expires. [restless armless girls in orange sunsets] girl with a gun at the edge of her lawn and selling lemonade. girl in an old wicker chair. save her horror story for another day. boy with a bent frame bicycle limps his way home from one end of the avenue to the other. his pockets full of sparkly rocks found in the lime quarry pit. one boy in a long line of lost planets. the driveway. the refrigerator. the hum of a saturday night commercial-free cassette. where’s dad? the glow of an eerie crystal (continued…)
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Diminutive minutes fly by and imbue. Ennobled, hungers the second hand. Verbose and loud, its villainous ticking; Oxen heavy, that kneading sound, Under skull and depth of dreams. Rescind the mad lives we vitiate; Enchanted by hollow, fear of ghosts, Dancing in a pitch waiting room. Happenstance for insomniacs, Ogres and dark shadows howling Unapologetic at the light and moon. Riot of the quiet, against daylight Star: quarry in the void of night / time / dark.
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 11:54 AM UTC
DEVOURED HOURS (acrostic)
A sportin' death! My word it was! An' taken in a sportin' way. Mind you, I wasn't there to see; I only tell you what they say. They found that day at Shillinglee, An' ran 'im down to Chillinghurst; The fox was goin' straight an' free For ninety minutes at a burst. They 'ad a check at Ebernoe An' made a cast across the Down, Until they got a view 'ullo An' chased i'm up to Kirdford town. From Kirdford 'e run Bramber way, An' took 'em over 'alf the Weald. If you 'ave tried the Sussex clay, You'll guess it weeded out the field. Until at last I don't suppose As 'arf a dozen, at the most, Came safe to where the grassland goes Switchbackin' southwards to the coast. Young Captain 'Eadley, 'e was there, And Jim the whip an' Percy Day; The Purcells an' Sir Charles Adair, An' this 'ere gent from London way. For 'e 'ad gone amazin' fine, Two 'undred pounds between 'is knees; Eight stone he was, an' rode at nine, As light an' limber as you please. 'E was a stranger to the 'Unt, There weren't a person as 'e knew there; But 'e could ride, that London gent-- 'E sat 'is mare as if 'e grew there. They seed the 'ounds upon the scent, But found a fence across their track, And 'ad to fly it; else it meant A turnin' and a 'arkin' back. 'E was the foremost at the fence, And as 'is mare just cleared the rail He turned to them that rode be'ind, For three was at 'is very tail. 'Ware 'oles!' says 'e, an' with the word, Still sittin' easy on his mare, Down, down 'e went, an' down an' down, Into the quarry yawnin' there. Some say it was two 'undred foot; The bottom lay as black as ink. I guess they 'ad some ugly dreams, Who reined their 'orses on the brink. 'E'd only time for that one cry; ''Ware 'oles!' says 'e, an' saves all three. There may be better deaths to die, But that one's good enough for me. For mind you, 'twas a sportin' end, Upon a right good sportin' day; They think a deal of 'im down 'ere, That gent what came from London way.
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'Ware Holes
A sportin' death! My word it was! An' taken in a sportin' way. Mind you, I wasn't there to see; I only tell you what they say. They found that day at Shillinglee, An' ran 'im down to Chillinghurst; The fox was goin' straight an' free For ninety minutes at a burst. They 'ad a check at Ebernoe An' made a cast across the Down, Until they got a view 'ullo An' chased i'm up to Kirdford town. From Kirdford 'e run Bramber way, An' took 'em over 'alf the Weald. If you 'ave tried the Sussex clay, You'll guess it weeded out the field. Until at last I don't suppose As 'arf a dozen, at the most, Came safe to where the grassland goes Switchbackin' southwards to the coast. Young Captain 'Eadley, 'e was there, And Jim the whip an' Percy Day; The Purcells an' Sir Charles Adair, An' this 'ere gent from London way. For 'e 'ad gone amazin' fine, Two 'undred pounds between 'is knees; Eight stone he was, an' rode at nine, As light an' limber as you please. 'E was a stranger to the 'Unt, There weren't a person as 'e knew there; But 'e could ride, that London gent-- 'E sat 'is mare as if 'e grew there. They seed the 'ounds upon the scent, But found a fence across their track, And 'ad to fly it; else it meant A turnin' and a 'arkin' back. 'E was the foremost at the fence, And as 'is mare just cleared the rail He turned to them that rode be'ind, For three was at 'is very tail. 'Ware 'oles!' says 'e, an' with the word, Still sittin' easy on his mare, Down, down 'e went, an' down an' down, Into the quarry yawnin' there. Some say it was two 'undred foot; The bottom lay as black as ink. I guess they 'ad some ugly dreams, Who reined their 'orses on the brink. 'E'd only time for that one cry; ''Ware 'oles!' says 'e, an' saves all three. There may be better deaths to die, But that one's good enough for me. For mind you, 'twas a sportin' end, Upon a right good sportin' day; They think a deal of 'im down 'ere, That gent what came from London way.
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I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils; There in their heat the winter floods Of frozen loves they fetch their girls, And drown the cargoed apples in their tides. These boys of light are curdlers in their folly, Sour the boiling honey; The jacks of frost they finger in the hives; There in the sun the frigid threads Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves; The signal moon is zero in their voids. I see the summer children in their mothers Split up the brawned womb's weathers, Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs; There in the deep with quartered shades Of sun and moon they paint their dams As sunlight paints the shelling of their heads. I see that from these boys shall men of nothing Stature by seedy shifting, Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts; There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse Of love and light bursts in their throats. O see the pulse of summer in the ice. II But seasons must be challenged or they totter Into a chiming quarter Where, punctual as death, we ring the stars; There, in his night, the black-tongued bells The sleepy man of winter pulls, Nor blows back moon-and-midnight as she blows. We are the dark derniers let us summon Death from a summer woman, A muscling life from lovers in their cramp From the fair dead who flush the sea The bright-eyed worm on Davy's lamp And from the planted womb the man of straw. We summer boys in this four-winded spinning, Green of the seaweeds' iron Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds, Pick the world's ball of wave and froth To choke the deserts with her tides, And comb the county gardens for a wreath. In spring we cross our foreheads with the holly, Heigh ** the blood and berry, And nail the merry squires to the trees; Here love's damp muscle dries and dies Here break a kiss in no love's quarry, O see the poles of promise in the boys. III I see you boys of summer in your ruin. Man in his maggots barren. And boys are full and foreign to the pouch. I am the man your father was. We are the sons of flint and pitch. O see the poles are kissing as they cross.
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I See The Boys Of Summer
I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils; There in their heat the winter floods Of frozen loves they fetch their girls, And drown the cargoed apples in their tides. These boys of light are curdlers in their folly, Sour the boiling honey; The jacks of frost they finger in the hives; There in the sun the frigid threads Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves; The signal moon is zero in their voids. I see the summer children in their mothers Split up the brawned womb's weathers, Divide the night and day with fairy thumbs; There in the deep with quartered shades Of sun and moon they paint their dams As sunlight paints the shelling of their heads. I see that from these boys shall men of nothing Stature by seedy shifting, Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts; There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse Of love and light bursts in their throats. O see the pulse of summer in the ice. II But seasons must be challenged or they totter Into a chiming quarter Where, punctual as death, we ring the stars; There, in his night, the black-tongued bells The sleepy man of winter pulls, Nor blows back moon-and-midnight as she blows. We are the dark derniers let us summon Death from a summer woman, A muscling life from lovers in their cramp From the fair dead who flush the sea The bright-eyed worm on Davy's lamp And from the planted womb the man of straw. We summer boys in this four-winded spinning, Green of the seaweeds' iron Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds, Pick the world's ball of wave and froth To choke the deserts with her tides, And comb the county gardens for a wreath. In spring we cross our foreheads with the holly, Heigh ** the blood and berry, And nail the merry squires to the trees; Here love's damp muscle dries and dies Here break a kiss in no love's quarry, O see the poles of promise in the boys. III I see you boys of summer in your ruin. Man in his maggots barren. And boys are full and foreign to the pouch. I am the man your father was. We are the sons of flint and pitch. O see the poles are kissing as they cross.
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. And I stumble on across the barren land, the mist, like a shroud, about me swirls, chipped flint rocks assault my bare feet, an endless quarry of slate grey, my world. So the curtain of sadness and submission falls, covering my mind with an opaque funeral drape, the hazy images of the isolated and desolate, forming the features of depressions landscape. Vaguely felt, the invasion of another waits, blind and innocent in a palace of real fear, set free to roam in a strange arid topography, desperate times pause for vision to be clear. A stark scene viewed through teardrops frozen, by ice winds of piercing calamity and despair, of a place exclusive to the disaffected and lonely, the last retreat for an exhausted mind to repair. And this is my world where the haunted party, leave me be with my cold mists and grey stone, the frozen tear for a souvenir means everything, my special gift, the feeling of being utterly alone. © Pagan Paul (24/01/18)
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Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018 at 7:09 AM UTC
My World
Don't kick off me this writer's high, Take my pen, will  make me cry. The paper's my quilt, where I write my muse, Warming all souls which have taken their views So let the ink dry, straight from quarry. This writer gets high by telling his story.
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 8:46 PM UTC
Writer's High
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delated, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. Come see the north wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he For number or proportion. Mockingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hiddden thorn; Fills up the famer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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The Snow-Storm
#1-- Legacy This city was my ancestors' town. We have laid tar on your horse-paths- a university grew from Riverview roots- you chopped firewood from the great-great grandfathers of these trees. #2-- saint cloud sounds like midnight, shoemaker: haunted cries. munsinger's melody: scurries & chirps. when TNT shatters granite at the quarry. pucks' percussion at the brooks center. buzz of summers on lake george's shore. somalia & scandinavia, singing.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 1:16 AM UTC
hometown poems
In a limestone meadow , near a quarry by the sea. There grows a beautiful Orchid, that looks just like a bee. After summer solstice, standing in full bloom. Like natures beauty queen, every head turns in the room. Whenever I pay Homage, while down on one knee. I capture an image, for everyone to see. Among the sandy rocks, against the odds it grows. Slim  chance of survival, as the North wind blows. Maybe we could learn, from this special plant. No matter how stony your life, our inner beauty we could grant.
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 6:34 AM UTC
Bee Orchid
Some ask’d me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask’d how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show’d them there The quarelets of Pearl.
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The Rock Of Rubies, And The Quarry Of Pearls
Across the road A J-K girl, Skipped and laughed On her way to school. She was strapped To a big back-pack, Looking like A pink pack mule. Behind her strove Her drover, Directing her to quarry All the stones of learning. By three o'clock My minature mule, A little slower Trudged from school. The pack was filled With rules and tools. She had panned The ores of knowledge; She'll assay them In days to follow. Each day my mule Will turn the grindstone, Crunching numbers, Sifting fine poems. She's mining all the hidden gems To fill her back-pack Once again.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM UTC
Pink Pack Mule
Wand'ring Lost and alone Through a dense and murky wood Far from familiar shores A damp, deep weariness Pervades my soul As I search For the tell-tale signs of passage My quarry has evaded me thus far The path weaving Between the roots Of ancient, gnarled oaks I pause and wonder At the futility of my quest Might he have slipped from my grasp For good and all Ne'er to be seen again I laugh derisively The cynic rears its ugly head I must keep up hope Else why go on Steeling myself I begin to move once more I turn my thoughts To years past And a wave of bitter nostalgia Washes over me I can almost hear the faint echo Of their singing The high pitched Tra-la-la As they went gaily on their way I can hear his voice in the lead See his blue skin And white beard A tear rolls down my cheek I sink to my knees I cry out Papa Smurf! Where are you? But, alas, there is no reply And so I journey on In search of all I've lost Knowing deep inside That it can never be again.
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Dec 6, 2010
Dec 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM UTC
Papa Smurf, Where Are You?