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"raptured" poems
**†           †           †     A quorum of biblical scholars turned their doubts into thousands of dollars. Armed with Document Q they revealed nothing new but the dirt neath’ the white of their collars. A proud “health & wealth” Oklahoman was renowned as a gospel-tent showman. While the scriptures he twisted, their tithing assisted his rise from poor hick to rich Roman. A sexually diverse professor (assured he was not a transgressor) spoke only of openness glossing sin’s brokenness; rainbows and tolerance—yes sir. A Mormon, who lost his own ephod Realized he was running quite slipshod and invoked Joseph Smith. (Yes, it may be a myth— but it’s not like misplacing your I-pod…) A Christian whose faith was prophetic held to views that were truly pathetic. This crazed Pentecostal, not quite an apostle, had taken an End-Times emetic. A sober and staid Presbyterian was distrustful of thoughts millenarian. After smoking some bud, he awoke with a thud; in his sleep he’d become Rastafarian. A preacher who fleeced his disciples overdrew his own balance of scruples. He was finally captured (defrocked and un-raptured) and rent by his destitute pupils. A sister who waxed Pentecostal, mistook herself for an apostle. Speaking pure glossolalia she sure could regale ya’ with prophecy; crazy—but docile.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
Christian Types in Limerick
I have been in the moon In search of love all noon Searched through deserts Even through garden of Eden. I have Searched beneath the sea Travelled wide even to overseas Still could not find love. I went to Vatican Even to Mecca Driven through the romantic sites of Paris Bath in the Brazilian beaches Flown across the Atlantic Pitched my tenth for few days on the Antarctic Spend some more on the arctic Still I saw no love. All I saw was lust Angels with broken hearts, Rotten roses, Withered lilies, Death faiths and monsters on beautiful faces. I saw bullets in church offering boxes Just wedded on number plates of ambulances. I saw wars in diversity Pain and mourning crowding all cities The devil celebrating the dead of peace. I saw three wise men Where went love, I asked them They said love has been nailed on the cross Buried with trust They are heading to Galilee To await his return. I followed with dreams I met many returning with smiles of frustration From where I was going with pregnancy of expectations. We arrived to the scene Like a nightmare, I witnessed higher sins I saw men taking pleasures with men Some with animals, some women with women. Gun everybody walking sticks People feeding on people flesh With human blood the thirsting ones quench their thirst. Is this where love is expected to return? The wise men retorted, Yes, the saints have been raptured And his seven years  reign has just began. Then in a flash, I remembered that I have been taught Taught about this dreadful end I had also taught kids Under trees at nights Just to threaten them to live right. What I thought was a mare threat or a fallacy Has been awaken against my fate in reality. Oh! We are among the leftovers Left to reprove ourselves or be doomed forever.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM UTC
The Leftovers
I have been in the moon In search of love all noon Searched through deserts Even through garden of Eden. I have Searched beneath the sea Travelled wide even to overseas Still could not find love. I went to Vatican Even to Mecca Driven through the romantic sites of Paris Bath in the Brazilian beaches Flown across the Atlantic Pitched my tenth for few days on the Antarctic Spend some more on the arctic Still I saw no love. All I saw was lust Angels with broken hearts, Rotten roses, Withered lilies, Death faiths and monsters on beautiful faces. I saw bullets in church offering boxes Just wedded on number plates of ambulances. I saw wars in diversity Pain and mourning crowding all cities The devil celebrating the dead of peace. I saw three wise men Where went love, I asked them They said love has been nailed on the cross Buried with trust They are heading to Galilee To await his return. I followed with dreams I met many returning with smiles of frustration From where I was going with pregnancy of expectations. We arrived to the scene Like a nightmare, I witnessed higher sins I saw men taking pleasures with men Some with animals, some women with women. Gun everybody walking sticks People feeding on people flesh With human blood the thirsting ones quench their thirst. Is this where love is expected to return? The wise men retorted, Yes, the saints have been raptured And his seven years  reign has just began. Then in a flash, I remembered that I have been taught Taught about this dreadful end I had also taught kids Under trees at nights Just to threaten them to live right. What I thought was a mare threat or a fallacy Has been awaken against my fate in reality. Oh! We are among the leftovers Left to reprove ourselves or be doomed forever.
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In the cove where the forest and seas met. Lies a hut abandoned, but twas never forget. The vines and moss that crawls and slither— and the rust of chimes and roses that wither. Two alike creatures’ dwell within the crest— and can be found, broken epitaphs lie at rest. Wings with tail as their ebony feathers trail, —beaks like gold, a bond that could prevail. Fly up and below in anywhere they would go. To unglass windows, scratches on tealish walls. The hollows of trees that covered with snow, melts away to crystal-dew as springtime grows. Rain came pouring, filling the tires off the roof. Two had a dream, only to raptured by enmity. With webs that weave the age of their misery. Both resided the ceiling for heaven once more. With growls of the wind and cold swiftly blows. It came strong as the hut is almost unknown. Both hold on to believe, but one choose to leave. thinking of nothing, but its own selfish greed. As skies were cleared onto a rainbow sheer. Lonesome, broken, one black dove weeping ill, Breathe, a voice came to the lonely dove's ear. "Come fly with me, I am God—don't be feared."
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Nov 22, 2017
Nov 22, 2017 at 9:46 AM UTC
◦ Black Dove
A little while, a little while, The weary task is put away, And I can sing and I can smile, Alike, while I have holiday. Why wilt thou go, my harassed heart, What thought, what scene invites thee now? What spot, or near or far, Has rest for thee, my weary brow? There is a spot, mid barren hills, Where winter howls, and driving rain; But if the dreary tempest chills, There is a light that warms again. The house is old, the trees are bare, Moonless above bends twilight's dome; But what on earth is half so dear, So longed for, as the hearth of home? The mute bird sitting on the stone, The dank moss dripping from the wall, The thorn-trees gaunt, the walks o'ergrown, I love them, how I love them all! Still, as I mused, the naked room, The alien firelight died away, And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day. A little and a lone green lane That opened on a common wide; A distant, dreamy, dim blue chain Of mountains circling every side; A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dream-like charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere. That was the scene, I knew it well; I knew the turfy pathway's sweep That, winding o'er each billowy swell, Marked out the tracks of wandering sheep. Even as I stood with raptured eye, Absorbed in bliss so deep and dear, My hour of rest had fleeted by, And back came labour, ******* care.
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A Little While, A Little While
inception an idea implanted in past land passed on dark wings to grasp hold fast in sketched out morality soul aghast push my copycat character past fracture spiderweb cracks in arguments made solely of self righteous closed minded glass however deep these malicious tendrils slip and strangle the growing tree of a raptured unique individuality with perverse views of gender love equality and views with that they do not agree that do not conform with their conhypocrisformity i want to be free to be free to be me i want to find my personality i just want love, of self, of you, agree?
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Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 9:41 AM UTC
free flow (love)
Smooth midnight black Desecration blues Wandering down a desolated road With my frenzied mind Raptured, yet empty Longing for the end of the night Yet fearing the dawn And the eternity of an existence I may never know
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 7:53 PM UTC
Smooth Midnight Black
And is it yet enough, the raptured heights of love? when love would break your heart with it's coy, precocious arts. Oft hope will soar you high and fly with you for miles, then drop you like a stone all bruised and so forlorn and then who is to blame, but your own foolish, lame, deceitful heart?
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Jan 8, 2012
Jan 8, 2012 at 9:07 PM UTC
Cheating heart
A confinement to the street, I likened it to a bliss of pain. Not extended like an overrun episode, But the anxiety is sleepless, When yesterday approaches, I wrap myself in the ignorance, Homeless, timeless, It grows and defines, Coarses through my fundamental Lapses, A boy becomes an atitude, I wish i had these experiences in youthful insurgencies. Its someday in the week, I lose the raptured schedules, To hunger is life. To thirst is life. The misled winter wraps itself On my frozen life. A faint emergence of time Resumes, There in the shadows I once knew a man, The visions of him asking to feed My souless self. Stretched by insistent graces, In a road of certain contrasts, Gentle into the street, I laugh; the revolving doors, I cry; what or who i never was, A certain kind of grace to be Within the containment, the poor, the  restless, bleeding my facades, Shredding the faces I once knew Destroying my world. Once I sat upon a throne Lost in the decimations, I dont know who I am. Keep walking. Telling myself as the night freezes I will be just fine. Keep walking Telling myself in minced Thoughts as hope flutters against Nowhere to go. Keep walking, The sun rises And blisters on my feet Calm the night as the safety Of day lets me rest. I will bounce back tomorrow, And the streets become a ripened spring fruit, Losing myself And the art of loss Is no disaster, Not unlike losing my keys, Not unlike losing places, Not unlike losing names, Until i reconciled myself At the fork of the river, Losing myself is not an art: The beauty was in finding who I was meant to be.
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Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 6:09 PM UTC
Homeless, Who I Am
A confinement to the street, I likened it to a bliss of pain. Not extended like an overrun episode, But the anxiety is sleepless, When yesterday approaches, I wrap myself in the ignorance, Homeless, timeless, It grows and defines, Coarses through my fundamental Lapses, A boy becomes an atitude, I wish i had these experiences in youthful insurgencies. Its someday in the week, I lose the raptured schedules, To hunger is life. To thirst is life. The misled winter wraps itself On my frozen life. A faint emergence of time Resumes, There in the shadows I once knew a man, The visions of him asking to feed My souless self. Stretched by insistent graces, In a road of certain contrasts, Gentle into the street, I laugh; the revolving doors, I cry; what or who i never was, A certain kind of grace to be Within the containment, the poor, the  restless, bleeding my facades, Shredding the faces I once knew Destroying my world. Once I sat upon a throne Lost in the decimations, I dont know who I am. Keep walking. Telling myself as the night freezes I will be just fine. Keep walking Telling myself in minced Thoughts as hope flutters against Nowhere to go. Keep walking, The sun rises And blisters on my feet Calm the night as the safety Of day lets me rest. I will bounce back tomorrow, And the streets become a ripened spring fruit, Losing myself And the art of loss Is no disaster, Not unlike losing my keys, Not unlike losing places, Not unlike losing names, Until i reconciled myself At the fork of the river, Losing myself is not an art: The beauty was in finding who I was meant to be.
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Mother Nature is swaying in the breeze, her branches strong. Her life full and alive she sings with flowers and dances with the bees, But her mind is boorish to the oncoming threat of November. The startling entrance of Fall is like fire to her leaves, New electricity attacks her arm’s protectors; prepared with strong green shields. Yellow, orange, then deep red bleed into a burnt, crackled brown and black ash. As her melodic hum of green vanishes, a starling yellow spark leaps, Ablazed chaos now runs on her twisted, knotted, and wise branch-arms. Eruptions of heat and confusion Mother Nature is seen screaming, Raptured coldly, her green peace is painfully and hollowly attacked. Her first shiver yesterday revealed her weakness, Her shade flees, no longer able to stand the icy-sharp stabbings of winter. Her annual sigh of defeat inevitably followed, thus beginning her hibernation, Her tired arms creak and break, letting down their burnt sheaths, Slowly spiraling down, down, down to the hungry ground. Closing down to mourn Mother Nature is unclothed and shamed. Her once green body now dried, bare, and cracked. Withering winter brings blue death and ice to her brown skin. Naked she shivers and freezes for three months to come. But Spring will bring her a new strength and humility. Mother Nature’s momentary fall will only chill, not ****
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Aug 26, 2012
Aug 26, 2012 at 8:09 PM UTC
The Fall of Mother Nature
*I guess that's the final straw The one last time I see your brow I guess that is the end for us The end to this blessing of a curse I should have seen it from start One of us would end up getting hurt I should have seen with my mind Knowing love is heart,heart is blind That's what one reaps when one saws In a wrong field,hard blow to the jaws Should have just told me you had him Instead of letting me keep the dream Should have said It's down the stream Better than pain,massage and cream Should have told me to man up & gym Or walk away 'stead of causing steam Explain,how you could face me & lie Rather than watching you cry You know I cannot stand your tears I avoided them through the years It's too late to cry, what's the point of it He succeeded but you caused the heat I hope he's better than me in every bit I'll bury the hatchet, I concede defeat I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat because you never thought me fit I concede defeat, go on with your pete I concede defeat, **** I concede defeat You've had my hopes punctured You've had my jaws fractured Had my bloating pride raptured Broken my heart, cupid archered Don't explain I'm so angered It's me you had endangered Dude is a gang member With bullets in the chamber Imagine he'd taken that shot If I had retreated not You took a chance with what we had Didn't know forgiving could be hard Guess all of it is charred Whatever it was we shared Cause if you had really cared Couldn't have had me beat for dead   So I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat And I hope you find him fit I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat so I guess this is it*
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 1:47 PM UTC
I CONCEDE DEFEAT
*I guess that's the final straw The one last time I see your brow I guess that is the end for us The end to this blessing of a curse I should have seen it from start One of us would end up getting hurt I should have seen with my mind Knowing love is heart,heart is blind That's what one reaps when one saws In a wrong field,hard blow to the jaws Should have just told me you had him Instead of letting me keep the dream Should have said It's down the stream Better than pain,massage and cream Should have told me to man up & gym Or walk away 'stead of causing steam Explain,how you could face me & lie Rather than watching you cry You know I cannot stand your tears I avoided them through the years It's too late to cry, what's the point of it He succeeded but you caused the heat I hope he's better than me in every bit I'll bury the hatchet, I concede defeat I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat because you never thought me fit I concede defeat, go on with your pete I concede defeat, **** I concede defeat You've had my hopes punctured You've had my jaws fractured Had my bloating pride raptured Broken my heart, cupid archered Don't explain I'm so angered It's me you had endangered Dude is a gang member With bullets in the chamber Imagine he'd taken that shot If I had retreated not You took a chance with what we had Didn't know forgiving could be hard Guess all of it is charred Whatever it was we shared Cause if you had really cared Couldn't have had me beat for dead   So I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat And I hope you find him fit I concede defeat, I concede defeat I concede defeat so I guess this is it*
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cerebral collation, the flesh of gods; in amiable display of communion. communion of worlds. raptured in a savor of unity; unbounded within our ceremony. to unearth the creed of man and beast.
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Sep 13, 2013
Sep 13, 2013 at 3:39 AM UTC
honeycomb
I dreamed a dream , inside the dream It seemed to say , 1 more hit for one more day , heavenly maiden with devil like beauty , lay out your evil insnare the mind , so I can unleash the beast that sleeps inside , awake from this creative slumber to walk the hall and fantasize ****** , join my hand , witness the Christ the raptured being , from a golden cloud with life's hidden meaning , cancel my subscription to the resurrection , send my credentials to the house of detention , watch the alcoholic Navajo shaman fuel my soul , awake lizard king from your coffin of gold , Paris is where you lay while light my fire resounds on the surface above . My music lives on although I do not . Skin rots to wood , wood rots to earth , earth grows to trees , trees are cut to make the pencil , pencil writes these words taken directly from your creative soul , the lizard king is dead , so i am told
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 2:02 PM UTC
Poem For Jim Morrison
*Iridescent Charms & Atomic Raves, Raptured Revelations In Her Bulletproof Grave, Impassive Frequencies Of Her Reflections Engraved. Ionic Ribbons Of Her Artistic Trance, Neon Contrasts In Her Stellar Stance, Starry-Eyed Rhapsody In Her Censored Glance, Vaporized Fractals Draped In Her Past, Crystallized Specters Sterilized To Last, Perpetual Panic Triggering A Blast, Sedated Phantasms In Her Paralyzed Voice, Isolated Collisions & Distressed Noise, Overrated Memoirs Of Her Tainted Reprise, Liquid Shadows In Her Moonlit Dreams, Theatrical Schemes To Her Grand Regime, Enigmatic Queen Of Turbulent Screams, Shipwrecked Effigy Resonating Duality, Overtuned Spirits Illuminating Reality, Metaphysical Anniversary Of Her Romantic Fatality. - 04:28AM -*
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Mar 15, 2017
Mar 15, 2017 at 7:03 PM UTC
Iridescent Charms & Atomic Raves
** When we shall see the ransomed host , Oh ! what a joy unspeakable, All nations gathered,  kindreds , tongues With God to dwell. In a twinkling , in a twinkling, Glory ! Hallelujah ! We'll be raptured  , to His ***** Shouting  'Maranatha' ! Sweet voices blend with one accord, To worship God. The days are fleeting , end is nigh, A precious thought to every saint, We've waited long for that bright morn, And ne'er did faint. The kingdom cometh , reign of peace, When God is King , then blissful mirth, The  saints with him as Kings and priests Return to earth. In days of yore the saints foretold, That God would dwell with mortal men, The earth restored , as Eden  was, For  sons of men. Then as the rose the deserts bloom , No maimed are there , no blind, no dumb, When lamb and wolf with leopard lie, Thy Kingdom come. **
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May 7, 2016
May 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM UTC
THE RAPTURE
~ gold-encrusted jewels dance on sun-drenched ocean stacks, his rugged rocks etched deep by her waves from far beneath, and Pacific’s gusty breath; his wind-swept islets burn, aflame in sunset's dying embers, like a lover's siren call. his chiseled keyholes waiting for the ciphered piercing rays to collide in rushing tidal spray. unlocking sunset's golden hour... surging forth then quickly fades, as sunbeam fingers slowly slip, beneath horizon's sultry lip; dusk unfolds in magic hues, molten rose turns scarlet blues, night descends as one by one, we raptured star-kissed lovers disembark this ferris wheel; the curtain falls again, with sea and rocks rehearsing lines to play again another day. this their theatre of the night, performed by two alone, beneath the moon and starry sky. ~ *post script. our last time through in 2004 was a blur on our way through to San Diego, an exhilarating ride for certain, with all of its bends and curves experienced top down in a convertible, but hardly doing justice to Big Sur’s stunning scene in mere hours; we told ourselves we simply had to return.   it took eleven years, and this time we spent a full five days and nights along Highway 1, towing a camper and slow-driving south from Monterrey all the curves to Morro Bay, exploring just about every hike and lookout in between; and in so doing, validating our return in a most satisfying way.  Big Sur is officially off our bucket list!  her sunsets were particularly rewarding, especially two... one enjoyed at sea level, from the sand and keyholes at Pfeiffer Beach day use area, the other delighted us from high above the ocean waves, seated at the picnic table of our cliff-side camp site at Kirk Creek Campground. a most refreshing time to recuperate and recharge our spirits; five glorious days of disconnection, reconnecting to nature, each other and best of all, life at the speed of sunsets and star gazing; evenings spent round the campfire with no cell, no i-pad, no laptop, only the light of the fire, the stars and that sparkle in each other's eyes!*
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 3:21 AM UTC
Big Sur
~ gold-encrusted jewels dance on sun-drenched ocean stacks, his rugged rocks etched deep by her waves from far beneath, and Pacific’s gusty breath; his wind-swept islets burn, aflame in sunset's dying embers, like a lover's siren call. his chiseled keyholes waiting for the ciphered piercing rays to collide in rushing tidal spray. unlocking sunset's golden hour... surging forth then quickly fades, as sunbeam fingers slowly slip, beneath horizon's sultry lip; dusk unfolds in magic hues, molten rose turns scarlet blues, night descends as one by one, we raptured star-kissed lovers disembark this ferris wheel; the curtain falls again, with sea and rocks rehearsing lines to play again another day. this their theatre of the night, performed by two alone, beneath the moon and starry sky. ~ *post script. our last time through in 2004 was a blur on our way through to San Diego, an exhilarating ride for certain, with all of its bends and curves experienced top down in a convertible, but hardly doing justice to Big Sur’s stunning scene in mere hours; we told ourselves we simply had to return.   it took eleven years, and this time we spent a full five days and nights along Highway 1, towing a camper and slow-driving south from Monterrey all the curves to Morro Bay, exploring just about every hike and lookout in between; and in so doing, validating our return in a most satisfying way.  Big Sur is officially off our bucket list!  her sunsets were particularly rewarding, especially two... one enjoyed at sea level, from the sand and keyholes at Pfeiffer Beach day use area, the other delighted us from high above the ocean waves, seated at the picnic table of our cliff-side camp site at Kirk Creek Campground. a most refreshing time to recuperate and recharge our spirits; five glorious days of disconnection, reconnecting to nature, each other and best of all, life at the speed of sunsets and star gazing; evenings spent round the campfire with no cell, no i-pad, no laptop, only the light of the fire, the stars and that sparkle in each other's eyes!*
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I could never be Raglan the  knife man nor a slippery Thames eel. I haven't enough apologies that heed wings. In the act of caprice borne musket and grape I floored  Thomas Avery, Tavern proprietor who lay cold as ecclesiastical stone, having raptured my Ussela in cheery Bishopsgate.
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Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012 at 4:37 PM UTC
London as flew
i. The gloaming is soothing in her presence. Forthwith, raptured by her glimpse; I mayest be penurious by worldly Standard, though with Yahweh Next to me, and mine queen Sent to me, I'm opulent With none enemies As tis mine soul is Free. ii. None ill-will in me breed's, I've Walked the path of native tree's; Wherein the places I canst ramble, Art not from men's thought's; thus where Lucifer Gamble's, and soul's art cleaved. iii. Mine feet and toes, taketh me where I need to go, as tis the holy ghost; that dwelleth in me. The Trinity- "father, son, and holy spirit", whereinto Jehovah's brilliance reflect's sky ceiling's. As mine Jane is There in dark or bright-in wrong and right, when thunder strikes, Or in the fog unknown, when mine heart's alone, and skin need's touch, mine Jane giveth me love, a love uncrushed. A love so much; God as her lead, she dances for me, with her angelic wing's Inside mine sleep. Her pictures I keep alongside mine wall's, to remembereth the intercession, and the bestowal from God. ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©earl Jane Nagley ( àgapi mou) dedication
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Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 10:56 PM UTC
Parachórisi sto dikó mou toícho ( Bestowal on mine wall) greek tongue
when i met you you were at the hands of ghouls a gimping coterie of Satan's who pleasured at the torments they inflicted upon your innocents who bound your feet bones in a vice making you their Chinese fantasy a delicate *** trinket a manacled smooth petite beauty in agony bending you into twisted branches those heartless devils, drinking red ice cocktails you put your heel on their throats by craving death that will teach them! gloating at your fear filling their emptiness with your trembling your dreams faded into the body of a wounded kitten has God given us the cold shoulder? hacked angels wings to stumps and left the doors to hell wide leaving your soul a torn crag flaming? little girl on fire screaming in the cave of self would he weep at your alter and kiss your scarred tissue begging your forgiveness lamenting his snide toys of fate sweet cursed apples and sly snakes twisting raptured seductions your life, cross and curse a burnt offering a blood light blinking with no fire escape oh Eve blamed by the idiots of religion for everything only a child who sank her pink mouth into a serrated moon now always weighing death bathtub ****** red ribbon glamour dreaming paraphilias tide eyes a ghastly vacancy floating like a feather mud, tabernacles grave a buoyant shell sinking in crimson clouds a smiling dread what does it take for God to redeem himself? must we storm paradise before he fills you with perfumes bliss and effulgent lights embrace pours through your soul like lanterns rose sky?
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 1:51 PM UTC
Lament
when i met you you were at the hands of ghouls a gimping coterie of Satan's who pleasured at the torments they inflicted upon your innocents who bound your feet bones in a vice making you their Chinese fantasy a delicate *** trinket a manacled smooth petite beauty in agony bending you into twisted branches those heartless devils, drinking red ice cocktails you put your heel on their throats by craving death that will teach them! gloating at your fear filling their emptiness with your trembling your dreams faded into the body of a wounded kitten has God given us the cold shoulder? hacked angels wings to stumps and left the doors to hell wide leaving your soul a torn crag flaming? little girl on fire screaming in the cave of self would he weep at your alter and kiss your scarred tissue begging your forgiveness lamenting his snide toys of fate sweet cursed apples and sly snakes twisting raptured seductions your life, cross and curse a burnt offering a blood light blinking with no fire escape oh Eve blamed by the idiots of religion for everything only a child who sank her pink mouth into a serrated moon now always weighing death bathtub ****** red ribbon glamour dreaming paraphilias tide eyes a ghastly vacancy floating like a feather mud, tabernacles grave a buoyant shell sinking in crimson clouds a smiling dread what does it take for God to redeem himself? must we storm paradise before he fills you with perfumes bliss and effulgent lights embrace pours through your soul like lanterns rose sky?
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I am an old soul I never asked for explorers to progress I never asked for inventors to invent I never asked for science to discover or scholars to detect I never asked to go from Steamers to engines I never wanted to trade vinyl for headphones But I’d always trade city lights for a mountain range A worn out skyline for an open plane Why do we complicate our lives in attempt to make them simple? And why has living simply, become to most something trivial I am raptured in this soul that refuses to age In times that are always persistent to change "Old Soul" -JP
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Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 at 1:19 PM UTC
Old Soul
At the Biafran front, I fought Tearing down Nigerians With shots of guns We fought like men Defending our lands But with risk and fear As some went blind Among our troops Were hatred and envy Tribalism of doom Had taken over our army. Alongside my brother We triggered together Tearing down men Like pales of feathers. As a boy of sixteen I saw terror in fifteen Behold dead men lay like weeds Vultures had enough to feed Among the dead people I saw my old father, he died still feeble. Turning to my right Lay my mother, sister at flight My hands became weak And my heart did bleed They were killed by the army Which I fought that they live. Biafra was in famine As children starved to death A thousand Igbos massacred at night As our troops retreat to die. Nigeria flew their jets Bombing no one but children and old women A grenade caught my brother And I knew it all be over. The seaways were surrounded Nigerian Navy locked us in our grave No weapon came to Biafra Even our camouflage had become rags Enugu; capital of Biafra had been captured There's nothing left, except to be raptured. Oron and Calabar fell Nigeria sent us hell So in battle front we had Nothing more than matchets and planks Our major had ran And we were left, to die at our hands. With fear, my fellows fell The fear of death, none could tell I ran through the forest Finding way for my escape Lo there was a tunnel And so I escaped Colonels. Fifty thousand fighters quite survived it They were buried alive In mass graves for their deeds. Down in my tunnel of sleep I saw my family in the deep Papa, I called aloud my father He said go for the war is over. Biafra had surrendered But I had lost an arm Millions had died Diseases did bade them bye The war, famine did sail them high Though a soldier I survived. I had lost my home family and lineage. What would I do with a withered arm? Flies had really fed it by As the last man alive, No one cared whether I die. So I died a lonely death With no one to cry
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
The Fight For Biafra
At the Biafran front, I fought Tearing down Nigerians With shots of guns We fought like men Defending our lands But with risk and fear As some went blind Among our troops Were hatred and envy Tribalism of doom Had taken over our army. Alongside my brother We triggered together Tearing down men Like pales of feathers. As a boy of sixteen I saw terror in fifteen Behold dead men lay like weeds Vultures had enough to feed Among the dead people I saw my old father, he died still feeble. Turning to my right Lay my mother, sister at flight My hands became weak And my heart did bleed They were killed by the army Which I fought that they live. Biafra was in famine As children starved to death A thousand Igbos massacred at night As our troops retreat to die. Nigeria flew their jets Bombing no one but children and old women A grenade caught my brother And I knew it all be over. The seaways were surrounded Nigerian Navy locked us in our grave No weapon came to Biafra Even our camouflage had become rags Enugu; capital of Biafra had been captured There's nothing left, except to be raptured. Oron and Calabar fell Nigeria sent us hell So in battle front we had Nothing more than matchets and planks Our major had ran And we were left, to die at our hands. With fear, my fellows fell The fear of death, none could tell I ran through the forest Finding way for my escape Lo there was a tunnel And so I escaped Colonels. Fifty thousand fighters quite survived it They were buried alive In mass graves for their deeds. Down in my tunnel of sleep I saw my family in the deep Papa, I called aloud my father He said go for the war is over. Biafra had surrendered But I had lost an arm Millions had died Diseases did bade them bye The war, famine did sail them high Though a soldier I survived. I had lost my home family and lineage. What would I do with a withered arm? Flies had really fed it by As the last man alive, No one cared whether I die. So I died a lonely death With no one to cry
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Enthusiastically drawing an electrifying first breath of air as the emotionally significant cut of the umbilical cord welcomes an angel onboard Capturing the delicate beauty of invisible, energetic strings eternally connecting two highly raptured, earthly beings; breaking free of the chrysalis, a monarch joyously spreads its invigorating wings and zings through the air with entrancingly colored wings.
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 4:06 PM UTC
Electrifying
Dark waters ripple thought. horse drawn carriage tread voltaic wires, throbbing brain. lorn elation until osculation of lips dreamt nightly. nectarous skin float between fingers raptured. everlasting sand blown from ashes wrought with doubt. paroxysm of senses like electric eels wreck ties bound by vituperation. Breath like honeyed vapor, encased rouged cheeks. savored time in bottles, minutes turned to minerals mined. hours of golden flecks splashed in synthesized unison. New always, love evermore.
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 5:33 AM UTC
Eternally Silvered Sapphire
Starry, starry night, When I look upon your endless light. You remind me of a time some ago, When you were cold as mercury; You were cold as snow. A girl raptured with me, so blond and fair, Grabbed me, kissed me until I fell. Her eyes looked just like you, I've never seen eyes twinkle so bright! Her soul as deep as you are, Endless as your night. I was captured by her brightness, Just like I am with you. We fell for each other, Just like a star you threw. One day when I was falling, The girl so blond and fair; Stole my heart and flew away, And left my soul a tear. She flew up to the moon To follow her beautiful light. There she left my heart into, Longing for my sight. I watch for the girl, so blond and fair, Nights when the moon is full and pale. That one day she will return my heart, And eternity we will sail... by Sean Hovater 2/27/2013
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 12:37 PM UTC
Starry Night
(I. Summer ‘ 13) Freckles clung like manic-pixie stardust, spackled whispers an unfolding fractal of brimming dresser drawers old pictures and mix cds, we could only ever do what teenagers were supposed to. Smushed crabapple handholds, moxy and sadism hard-won, no crash course in platonicness, our stained glass eroded into a beach frozen in unsummer, opiates dull senses, a synesthetic void exchanging echoes of echoes, a cacophony of empty distilling as it leaves in whisks of 2 a.m.s, honey-laced whiskey— if the sky murmurs one last love poem, it isn't to us but our moment of infinity, of blind faith irredeemably lost, that forever of apex where the line between falling and flying blurs. (II. Fall ’13) Spines and ribs don’t do it justice you raptured me both ways to Sunday, built me up to shatter jaws, car windows—me bar stool battered, you my perfect carpenter, smile with wooden teeth (you made them yourself) so stain me the color of cherry trees and unbliss my empty spine. (III. Winter ’13) Mildew clutched tight, hollow-boned, manic thrusting, marionette-faced, barrow-lunged, nails to the bone-gristle, lips raw with spit-polish, redacted eyes, redacted eyes-- we are palpable creatures, transient drifters of soulspeck, one unraveling the other constructing, sallow truth would dissolve skin. founder a self, rusty copper with adamantine eyes, steel core unbroken by absence, drown in opposite directions, oceanwater salve, yes calloused tongues jostle, ribbed in salt and rust. Unlaced corset, striped sweater, grunged trainline veins run on endlessly, a clock, abandoned in the middle, I think once it very much mattered.
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
Contrails pt. 2
(I. Summer ‘ 13) Freckles clung like manic-pixie stardust, spackled whispers an unfolding fractal of brimming dresser drawers old pictures and mix cds, we could only ever do what teenagers were supposed to. Smushed crabapple handholds, moxy and sadism hard-won, no crash course in platonicness, our stained glass eroded into a beach frozen in unsummer, opiates dull senses, a synesthetic void exchanging echoes of echoes, a cacophony of empty distilling as it leaves in whisks of 2 a.m.s, honey-laced whiskey— if the sky murmurs one last love poem, it isn't to us but our moment of infinity, of blind faith irredeemably lost, that forever of apex where the line between falling and flying blurs. (II. Fall ’13) Spines and ribs don’t do it justice you raptured me both ways to Sunday, built me up to shatter jaws, car windows—me bar stool battered, you my perfect carpenter, smile with wooden teeth (you made them yourself) so stain me the color of cherry trees and unbliss my empty spine. (III. Winter ’13) Mildew clutched tight, hollow-boned, manic thrusting, marionette-faced, barrow-lunged, nails to the bone-gristle, lips raw with spit-polish, redacted eyes, redacted eyes-- we are palpable creatures, transient drifters of soulspeck, one unraveling the other constructing, sallow truth would dissolve skin. founder a self, rusty copper with adamantine eyes, steel core unbroken by absence, drown in opposite directions, oceanwater salve, yes calloused tongues jostle, ribbed in salt and rust. Unlaced corset, striped sweater, grunged trainline veins run on endlessly, a clock, abandoned in the middle, I think once it very much mattered.
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