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If you ask me to describe him, where will I start? I can’t possibly fathom my thoughts into words and turn him into a description of art. But I can try my best, try to pick him apart. Describe him in words, perhaps in four different parts. I’d start with volcanoes for he’s just like one. Where his touch feels like lava, but surprisingly calm. Up next are earthquakes, since his heart is one. It makes the world shake causing me to run. Third would be hurricanes, since his mind is one. He’s a drug I should abstain, that makes me come undone.   Last would be forests, since he’s full of secrets. Hiding and waiting, to be uncovered by none. He’s a mystery, yet someone I trust. He is impossible to describe, and rarer than pixie dust.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 11:28 AM UTC
Describing Him
Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, Toast to stolen prayers with rarer player’s hands; Soft in defiant laughter, when drinking their wine from the bowels of brines Sing along the Ballads of Heritage with Melodies of Exception; Boast, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air(s) of land— A settlement of Rapture and Resurrection, arid, amid dirt and sand and King and thy Kingdom sprout flowering tomb, and rosebud temple reach to the sky during the showers of spring Devours the crescent Moon in big pink petals of bloom; A garden so fertile it could look pretty in wartime— with Gardeners of Courage and Laborers of Excellence; (Lapse, not into digressions of Being and Essence but hands in the soil and planting the actions of kingdom come,        patient building of Spring Reign sure as the flame, the architect of rising Sun is (Daughters and Sons of kingdom came,       the soldier in a land been conquered and named; abandoned for the greenness of hope. )May it never come, Be All The Same; ( be gentle, though whispering wind) Seeds of Nextyear and the spores of Awhile, carried by the Wasps and the Clouds To the Gentlemen of Excellence and Ladies of Courage, illuminated, eyes from the flora of stars faraway forest floor of foreign       fears,       as the hungry Owls of Time prepare a final feast—       Consume the years between Here and Now;       Watching from blank perch, among       the Trees of Afterall; a place beyond expectance.       Sing the branches of experience, to wake       in Siren’s cipher; inelegant forms       of waking, ugly sleep on rocks of seabed; once was aboard a marooned skyline— Those Who Are Will Be again, again a serf in a wave of Time’s refraction. Neverending neverbeginning;                           Those Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, on the Day That Is, arrays of seers sayers doers displayers optimists and pessimists, toast to them         and their rarer player’s hands, Boast they, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air and land; Laugh and howl and dine, they drink their wine from disemboweled gourds         of their own divine— Warped, in jowls of hungry fix, no feast they fear, for they prey to the Owls of Time.
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Apr 30, 2018
Apr 30, 2018 at 5:28 PM UTC
Gentleman of Courage and Ladies of Excellence
Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, Toast to stolen prayers with rarer player’s hands; Soft in defiant laughter, when drinking their wine from the bowels of brines Sing along the Ballads of Heritage with Melodies of Exception; Boast, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air(s) of land— A settlement of Rapture and Resurrection, arid, amid dirt and sand and King and thy Kingdom sprout flowering tomb, and rosebud temple reach to the sky during the showers of spring Devours the crescent Moon in big pink petals of bloom; A garden so fertile it could look pretty in wartime— with Gardeners of Courage and Laborers of Excellence; (Lapse, not into digressions of Being and Essence but hands in the soil and planting the actions of kingdom come,        patient building of Spring Reign sure as the flame, the architect of rising Sun is (Daughters and Sons of kingdom came,       the soldier in a land been conquered and named; abandoned for the greenness of hope. )May it never come, Be All The Same; ( be gentle, though whispering wind) Seeds of Nextyear and the spores of Awhile, carried by the Wasps and the Clouds To the Gentlemen of Excellence and Ladies of Courage, illuminated, eyes from the flora of stars faraway forest floor of foreign       fears,       as the hungry Owls of Time prepare a final feast—       Consume the years between Here and Now;       Watching from blank perch, among       the Trees of Afterall; a place beyond expectance.       Sing the branches of experience, to wake       in Siren’s cipher; inelegant forms       of waking, ugly sleep on rocks of seabed; once was aboard a marooned skyline— Those Who Are Will Be again, again a serf in a wave of Time’s refraction. Neverending neverbeginning;                           Those Gentlemen of Courage and Ladies of Excellence, on the Day That Is, arrays of seers sayers doers displayers optimists and pessimists, toast to them         and their rarer player’s hands, Boast they, not a breathe, though sullen heirs ghost to fairer wearer’s air and land; Laugh and howl and dine, they drink their wine from disemboweled gourds         of their own divine— Warped, in jowls of hungry fix, no feast they fear, for they prey to the Owls of Time.
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F l o w e r s   a r e   t h e   m o s t   B e a u t i f u l I n  f o r m s,  c o l o u r s  and   E s s e n c e s Galaxies Even rarer          In Fleur of cosmic Space Threads of our  dreamy  dust     Embraced in  no time  we drift       E         n           d           l          e           s           s            l                y                   Intimate            Polarities             Sacred             Pollienation                                                    W o m e n    are   Rare  Flowers                                                   M e n   Create~d:   for Us
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM UTC
Intimate Polarities
Love is unfading Love is unconditional Love is worth waiting Love is like a dove Frail but beautiful Love is rare Love is once in a lifetime True love is not *** It's not given to anyone True love is given to one person Today true love is rare Rarer then anything imagianable This is not a poem It's an announcement If you've experienced true love Don't let it go Don't be like most people today If you connect with someone Don't let them go Wait for your true love
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Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 9:26 AM UTC
Love
porch talk, simmering in a Bud light sauce everyone chair-rocking, even the boxer dog, in his self-propelled 360 degree swiveling chair eavesdropping and spy eyeballing the farm for strangers and any creatures as of yet, unsmelled get done with weather, the crops, the neighbors, the weird, and the truly neighborly, grandkids escapades, hopes and desires, comparative literature and regional dialects and philosophical dialecticals tickling, bs’ing and tall tale telling,  breathing the windy geography of the air over the land that dictates the how we live, open another Bud for the buds, did I forget to mention farm equipment? skirt politics cause nobody wants any nothing-to-be-done-damn-aggravation, leaves nothing mo’ to ramble on about ‘cept the absent women no worries all above board no secrets uncouthed, but the mood softens as the pale daylight wisps come rarer as now nearer to nine pm, obvious saved the best for last, a very manly-way of ordering things, big silent pauses in the converso conversation, guy-sighs many, as the last essay of the day is being jointly authored, denotating the generalized listings of how they drive us crazy, listing the repetition of ever changing instructions, which doesn't recognize bi-coastal mannerisms,  non-differentiating just  humanism-isms and the peculiarities of each (a list kept) in a compare and contrast, an end of the day summation, and the boasting-outbesting, of each of their specialisms which is sadly now forgotten and which haven’t been brain-recorded so cannot be disclosed other than it’s now ten and all that’s left is to sleep, perchance, to dream, of private things and bigger and better John Deere tractors
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Jun 9, 2018
Jun 9, 2018 at 2:13 PM UTC
Songs of Oregon: No. 4 when men talk about their women, when they are not around
porch talk, simmering in a Bud light sauce everyone chair-rocking, even the boxer dog, in his self-propelled 360 degree swiveling chair eavesdropping and spy eyeballing the farm for strangers and any creatures as of yet, unsmelled get done with weather, the crops, the neighbors, the weird, and the truly neighborly, grandkids escapades, hopes and desires, comparative literature and regional dialects and philosophical dialecticals tickling, bs’ing and tall tale telling,  breathing the windy geography of the air over the land that dictates the how we live, open another Bud for the buds, did I forget to mention farm equipment? skirt politics cause nobody wants any nothing-to-be-done-damn-aggravation, leaves nothing mo’ to ramble on about ‘cept the absent women no worries all above board no secrets uncouthed, but the mood softens as the pale daylight wisps come rarer as now nearer to nine pm, obvious saved the best for last, a very manly-way of ordering things, big silent pauses in the converso conversation, guy-sighs many, as the last essay of the day is being jointly authored, denotating the generalized listings of how they drive us crazy, listing the repetition of ever changing instructions, which doesn't recognize bi-coastal mannerisms,  non-differentiating just  humanism-isms and the peculiarities of each (a list kept) in a compare and contrast, an end of the day summation, and the boasting-outbesting, of each of their specialisms which is sadly now forgotten and which haven’t been brain-recorded so cannot be disclosed other than it’s now ten and all that’s left is to sleep, perchance, to dream, of private things and bigger and better John Deere tractors
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Fresh from the kennels. A whole world away.   Companion conversion for a young castaway.   A darling of distraction with irrational fears. The clumsiest canine with ever aware ears. Guardian of gourmet. Suspect of all sounds. He'll catch himself someday, spinning around. A tug of war here. A muddy mess there. A lick to the face of the humans in his care. How thrilled his tail and tremendous his teeth. How dug up the planet from paw underneath. The running for fun. The claiming of trees. The car window ride along - face full of breeze. -------------------------------------------------------- But now he's a master of "Stay!". His eagle ears succumbing to gravity's sway. Napping much more, barking much less. Now rarer the cuddle, the clean, the caress. Patch protector. Owner of no debts. A veteran of various villainous vets. Birds as trivial as the tennis ball is far. Eyes now as hazy as the indistinguishable stars. A howl at the moon. A loosening tooth. An ode to memories of a modest youth. They still love this pup. He still loves them back. May he long be remembered as he faces the black.
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM UTC
Trees
I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I give money to my causes Save the whales, electric cars But I'm not one to lead the fight "Cause I don't like the scars Bricks get thrown alot you see And those things ****** hurt And I'm not a happy camper When there's blood upon my shirt I won't eat seeds of any sort They get stuck in my teeth My clothes are all from LL Bean Except what's underneath Way back in the sixties I lived communaly We ate only what the earth gave up We didn't watch tv As years passed by, our voices died Our causes became much rarer We sounded more like Manilow Than Phil Ochs or Tom Lehrer I choose fine wine over wheatgrass juice I like leather and wear silk I no longer go and get the goat So we can have fresh milk I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I've changed lots since the sixties I'm a capitalist blood hound If I said I'm a true vegan My board would see me drowned I used to wear just cotton Hemp and caftans and blue jeans Leather shoes and belts and jackets Were just not part of my scene My friends, well, they grew up And others stayed in touch The ones with money see me The others not so much I used to go out jogging Through the park in puma shoes Now I workout in a private gym Wearing nikes and with my crew You see I'm still a vegan When it suits me, don't you see My new girlfriend likes organic And she's only twenty three There's forty years between us Though I've done it all before When my girlfriend is not with me I am a carnivore I support all of her causes Though most things I don't attend I'll be a vegan of convenience Until our courtship ends Who knows, what then will happen Will I eat Tofu or some chops I know which way I'm leaning We'll see how that one drops Like I said when we first started I am a vegan, so I am But instead of eating quinoa I'll stick to eggs and ham. I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 2:46 PM UTC
Vegan of Convenience
I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I give money to my causes Save the whales, electric cars But I'm not one to lead the fight "Cause I don't like the scars Bricks get thrown alot you see And those things ****** hurt And I'm not a happy camper When there's blood upon my shirt I won't eat seeds of any sort They get stuck in my teeth My clothes are all from LL Bean Except what's underneath Way back in the sixties I lived communaly We ate only what the earth gave up We didn't watch tv As years passed by, our voices died Our causes became much rarer We sounded more like Manilow Than Phil Ochs or Tom Lehrer I choose fine wine over wheatgrass juice I like leather and wear silk I no longer go and get the goat So we can have fresh milk I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back I've changed lots since the sixties I'm a capitalist blood hound If I said I'm a true vegan My board would see me drowned I used to wear just cotton Hemp and caftans and blue jeans Leather shoes and belts and jackets Were just not part of my scene My friends, well, they grew up And others stayed in touch The ones with money see me The others not so much I used to go out jogging Through the park in puma shoes Now I workout in a private gym Wearing nikes and with my crew You see I'm still a vegan When it suits me, don't you see My new girlfriend likes organic And she's only twenty three There's forty years between us Though I've done it all before When my girlfriend is not with me I am a carnivore I support all of her causes Though most things I don't attend I'll be a vegan of convenience Until our courtship ends Who knows, what then will happen Will I eat Tofu or some chops I know which way I'm leaning We'll see how that one drops Like I said when we first started I am a vegan, so I am But instead of eating quinoa I'll stick to eggs and ham. I'm a Tree Huggin', Soy Chuggin', I won't eat no meat I'm a vegan of convenience, Still, there's leather on my feet I don't believe in lots of things I'll protest and attack But you won't find me out in front 'Cause I'll be in the back
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beauty is of many faces found in many forms and places first is seen the beauty of the face it's the greatest at the start but before its dead it can swell your head and leave you naught but a broken heart all and all a rarer find is the beauty of the mind it grows and flowers with each season it’s one true love is love of reason if this beauty grows to great it can see the need for love too late if too much of this you own expect a hard thought life alone the most amazing of all is set apart it's the deepest beauty of the heart traces found almost everywhere it’s on the wind and in a prayer you'll find it anyplace that's wild and in the laughter of a child its the beauty that will never fade still found today as god first made when this beauty you can confess you'll find true love and happiness
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Sep 3, 2014
Sep 3, 2014 at 8:57 PM UTC
beauty
Haven't you heard.... love cures all things? It seeps into your veins, burning through each layer like its a second skin? Its a once in a lifetime connection.... even rarer should you be bestowed and granted to meet your twin flame. Silence is comfortable, beauty peeking through ocular view. A vision so refined, it caught me breathless As I stare into her eyes, i see a reflection......my soul... *"Welcome Home" she whispered, 'Time stood still while i waited for you"*
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 2:36 AM UTC
Going Home
1045 Nature rarer uses Yellow Than another Hue. Saves she all of that for Sunsets Prodigal of Blue Spending Scarlet, like a Woman Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly Like a Lover’s Words.
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Nature rarer uses Yellow
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonized With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air, And all our rarer, better, truer self That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better, -- saw within A worthier image for the sanctuary, And shaped it forth before the multitude, Divinely human, raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love, -- That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb Unread forever. This is life to come, -- Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, -- be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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The Choir Invisible
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man. So we inherit that sweet purity For which we struggled, failed, and agonized With widening retrospect that bred despair. Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued, A vicious parent shaming still its child, Poor anxious penitence, is quick dissolved; Its discords, quenched by meeting harmonies, Die in the large and charitable air, And all our rarer, better, truer self That sobbed religiously in yearning song, That watched to ease the burden of the world, Laboriously tracing what must be, And what may yet be better, -- saw within A worthier image for the sanctuary, And shaped it forth before the multitude, Divinely human, raising worship so To higher reverence more mixed with love, -- That better self shall live till human Time Shall fold its eyelids, and the human sky Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb Unread forever. This is life to come, -- Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, -- be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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There lives a woman who Seems mystical, even mythical --It is true-- Because she is biblical; Rarer than a precious jewel. She is virtuous She is loyal She is courteous... She is royal. She shines brilliantly, like a star cluster trapped inside a room. She glistens like jubilant sun rays dancing atop the ocean. The wind of her voice sets inspiration in motion, Like a sonic boom. She is powerful. She is virtuous, Who is worthy? Just Wonder & coil In a corner & toil As you ponder this. And honor this Acknowledgment, Because she is royal. Don't dare compare her to the likes of Nefertiti or Isis. They are not so estimable, You couldn't buy her even with a million zeros before the decimal, Because... She is priceless. So the King adorned her, Because the King adores her. She is beautiful, so they say, But such a meager word could not suffice, Because her true charm emanates like waves In the ardent expression of her practice of life. And from her mind and her soul. Her precious heart--more precious than gold-- Looks like a kaleidoscope of rare gems, Darting dazzling colors; the spectrum in whole. Diamonds die in comparison, Hand her a diadem... She is special She is jovial She is gentle She is royal. She is not haughty, Nor does she flaunt like worldly wenches do. She tells girls who've been told they're peasants they can be a princess too. She is not naughty, Nor does she taunt like wanton vixens do... Because she is godly. Yes, indeed there lives a woman who Seems mystical, even mythical --But it is true-- She is virtuous, She is royal... She is you.
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 9:36 AM UTC
She is Royal
There lives a woman who Seems mystical, even mythical --It is true-- Because she is biblical; Rarer than a precious jewel. She is virtuous She is loyal She is courteous... She is royal. She shines brilliantly, like a star cluster trapped inside a room. She glistens like jubilant sun rays dancing atop the ocean. The wind of her voice sets inspiration in motion, Like a sonic boom. She is powerful. She is virtuous, Who is worthy? Just Wonder & coil In a corner & toil As you ponder this. And honor this Acknowledgment, Because she is royal. Don't dare compare her to the likes of Nefertiti or Isis. They are not so estimable, You couldn't buy her even with a million zeros before the decimal, Because... She is priceless. So the King adorned her, Because the King adores her. She is beautiful, so they say, But such a meager word could not suffice, Because her true charm emanates like waves In the ardent expression of her practice of life. And from her mind and her soul. Her precious heart--more precious than gold-- Looks like a kaleidoscope of rare gems, Darting dazzling colors; the spectrum in whole. Diamonds die in comparison, Hand her a diadem... She is special She is jovial She is gentle She is royal. She is not haughty, Nor does she flaunt like worldly wenches do. She tells girls who've been told they're peasants they can be a princess too. She is not naughty, Nor does she taunt like wanton vixens do... Because she is godly. Yes, indeed there lives a woman who Seems mystical, even mythical --But it is true-- She is virtuous, She is royal... She is you.
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I miss you all so much Words with such passion, right? If only you could feel what I feel (But you do, don't you?) Then you would know what it is to “miss” (But you do, don't you?) Then “so much” would actually mean something Maybe if I used a rarer word A word favored by artists and English teachers Then the feeling would be adequately described Right? Correct? My heart longs, but that does not do it My heart cries, but that does not do it My heart burns, but that does not do it My heart explodes with every pain of desire it has ever held Repeat with soul And still, nothing These words are meaningless before feeling Why do we move around? Why create these feelings? Maybe if I add some Santa Easter Bunny Jesus Lincoln desire-made belief? That I will see you all again And we will share our most intimate moments Worthy of many exclamation points !!!!!!! Until the end of time? Stay put and never leave Put down roots in the soil and in hearts Never go and always let them know Just how much you care Never let your ambition or desire outweigh your love And Be Godammit, Be!
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Oct 23, 2010
Oct 23, 2010 at 3:39 PM UTC
I Miss You All So Much
Let's oftener talk of noble deeds and rarer of the bad ones, and sing about our happy days and not about the sad ones. We are not made to fret and sigh, and when grief sleeps, to wake it, bright happiness is standing by this life is what we make it. Let's find the sunny side of men. Or be believer in it a light there is in every soul that takes the pains to win it, Oh; there is slumbering good in all, and we perchance may wake it. Our hands contain the magic wand, this life is what we make it. Then here's to those whose loving hearts shed light and joy about them thanks to them for countless gems we ne'er had known without them: Oh; this should be a happy world, to all who may partake it. The fault's our own if it is not this life is what we make it.
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Dec 25, 2015
Dec 25, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC
Life is what you make it (by my grandmother)
If you want to find out about someone’s character you ask them how do they gauge truth, or how do they know something is true? Most will say because so and so said so, some variant of outsourced knowledge. Some "Religion." Some "Scientist." Some "Dr." Some "Guru." Some "Parent." Some "Mother." Some "Father." Some "Thought triggered by someone else." Some “Theory.” Rare people will say they don’t know, they’re a bit more evolved because they see the conditioning. They see the confusion. The rarer people will say they know because they’ve observed for themselves, not blindly, but with purity enough to observe correctly.
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM UTC
Truth
You make my cheeks burn brighter than Charizard's flame, And make my heart beat faster than Sonic The Hedgehog on Green Hill Zone, You calm me down like you're Lugia's song, And you make me laugh harder than a boss level itself. If you were the doctor I'd jump in the Tardis without a second glance, And fight daleks and weeping angels just for the chance, To grasp your hand. Out of all the starter Pokemon, I'd still choose you, And never trade you away, Not even for Mewtwo, You're rarer than a shiny Pokeman and mean more to me than that, You're hotter than Aiden Turner and Ash, If you're Link then I'd love to be your Zelda, The princess you save over and over. Like Tetris itself you complete me, You hold the key to my heart, And I'd proudly go on a quest to reclaim Erebor if you were by my side. I know this poem is nerdy, But I hope you find it sweet, Because I find without you, My life wouldn't be complete. Copyright© 2014 Megan John All rights reserved.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 2:14 PM UTC
#NOTMYPOEM (A POEM TO ED)
I don't have a best friend Not to be mistaken with having no friends I do have some friends But I have to the conclusion that they aren't trustworthy Instead,  they are rather demanding They have seen me laugh and be funny Talk about silly mistakes and how others make me feel They know that I don't have anyone in my life and my unwillingness to dance What they don't know is that every day I fight with myself Not with scratches, blades and pins But with my soul within They don't know what I have been through They have never seen the bruises still blue They don't know They just assume They are not there when I am begging to up above They are not there when I need a little love They are not there when I have been crying for hours They are not there when I feel like dying in the shower Gossips and lame stuff is what they share I continue to listen while the music continues to blare There were many who became my best friends over the years Losing touch with them is what I feared Then that's what happened Sooner or later they forgot me Phone calls became rarer and Facebook our home. Till today,  I stand without a best friend Because I know I am whole I am a winner who stands alone.
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 3:05 PM UTC
I don't have a best friend
It’s really a feeble attempt to make something between one and five work in our daily lives. They have gone from an intriguing idea and amount of worth to a silly little gift grandparents hand out freely on Valentine’s Day along with a card worth more than the contents. They've never set foot in any wallet of mine; they simply always made their way back behind my socks. The valuable of least worth I owned was never spent strictly based on rarity. These days you are a mistake just like all the other rarer coins like that three-legged buffalo nickel only I could maybe pay a bit of college tuition with one of those. You can bring in about four Lira though; enough to get a big bowl of any kind of noodles and sauce they have down at that restaurant in Istanbul near the Grand Bazaar. That night I stopped a little closer to my hotel and spent my last four on a beer with my meal. We kept walking and saw that young boy shivering as always against the cold vents that produced less heat than my freezer back home. No change jingled in my pockets because I had eaten my fill. A thousand suns heated my back without that jacket but the warmth was bitter like stolen Turkish Delights. I couldn't tell if he was going to drape that jacket around his tiny body or have it stolen by one of the bigger kids. We still spoke though. I know that was the day I discovered the language of the universe.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 12:24 AM UTC
On A Two Dollar Bill
I am feeling very small Like I don't need to feel at all But numbness doesn't last Only a step in my emotional fall Give me the luxuries of a queen And shower me with everything I could've wanted And I still will not find my happiness Because everything is as black as coal As cold as a blizzard That leaves 11 inches of snow You can try With material things Buy me diamond necklaces and a ring But it won't mean a thing If you don't treat me as rare as the accessories and jewels Money can't buy me love just materials They have no heart So you ask me if I'm happy I reply with a thank you for all you have given But I've been deprived of love So my final answer is I'd rather have love than diamond rings Because to me love is rarer than the most expensive items you can buy Love is a jewel itself Show me with actions not a stone Because my heart is breaking Due to feeling alone It's only me and loads of cash Wishing I had what I needed the most looking back
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Apr 3, 2017
Apr 3, 2017 at 8:10 PM UTC
Diamond in the Rough
This year, Spring has been stopped in its tracks. Incessant rain has driven life underground, so as a diversion, we're putting on a play. It's not the real world, rather a representation of it. The director is a control freak, so her role is perfect- she can dictate without having to act. Rehearsals take place in the Philharmonic Hall where the local band used to practice. But the young have all gone to the city looking for work, so the drum kit in the corner stays shrouded in a black cloth and the unplayed snooker table supports our props. On the stage, the backdrop is dominated by a church. Its steeple points to God only knows where, aiming to instill pure thoughts. Impossible to believe, its true aim is to inject fear into its people- depending on your point of view. The main player likes to be different. He turns up. A vain attempt to give some structure to his life. Late as usual, he's unshaven, and drowsy with wine. No one can decide whether he's in character or himself. Waiting for our cue, we stand on the narrow balcony, flicking damp cigarettes into the river of rain below. Eventually, we all change, put on our monstrous armour, become the same curious creatures following the same script.   Except one.... who refuses to change, deciding in his own mind where he will play his part. So he pulls on his proofed coat and heads out for the bar. Outside, the power is off. The streets are silent. Even the cafes have closed earlier than usual, tables and chairs left out in the rain chained together, like prisoners crying for release. He slips along the cobbled streets, chanting his lines in time with his own footsteps: 'There are more dead people than living....the living are getting rarer.' Even he's not sure if he's quite himself or still in character. Briefly, the clouds part to reveal the cold light of the moon, the only thing in which he has absolute faith to guide him on his way. copyright © Caroline Grace 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 1:07 PM UTC
Rhinoceros ( a tribute to Eugene Onesco)
This year, Spring has been stopped in its tracks. Incessant rain has driven life underground, so as a diversion, we're putting on a play. It's not the real world, rather a representation of it. The director is a control freak, so her role is perfect- she can dictate without having to act. Rehearsals take place in the Philharmonic Hall where the local band used to practice. But the young have all gone to the city looking for work, so the drum kit in the corner stays shrouded in a black cloth and the unplayed snooker table supports our props. On the stage, the backdrop is dominated by a church. Its steeple points to God only knows where, aiming to instill pure thoughts. Impossible to believe, its true aim is to inject fear into its people- depending on your point of view. The main player likes to be different. He turns up. A vain attempt to give some structure to his life. Late as usual, he's unshaven, and drowsy with wine. No one can decide whether he's in character or himself. Waiting for our cue, we stand on the narrow balcony, flicking damp cigarettes into the river of rain below. Eventually, we all change, put on our monstrous armour, become the same curious creatures following the same script.   Except one.... who refuses to change, deciding in his own mind where he will play his part. So he pulls on his proofed coat and heads out for the bar. Outside, the power is off. The streets are silent. Even the cafes have closed earlier than usual, tables and chairs left out in the rain chained together, like prisoners crying for release. He slips along the cobbled streets, chanting his lines in time with his own footsteps: 'There are more dead people than living....the living are getting rarer.' Even he's not sure if he's quite himself or still in character. Briefly, the clouds part to reveal the cold light of the moon, the only thing in which he has absolute faith to guide him on his way. copyright © Caroline Grace 2013
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Two antagonists joined and evolving... prevailing scarcity far rarer abundance a forked pattern through millennial time new century visions holistic... technology sightings viewing through lenses holographic wholeness appearing in parts... promises of science now simply profound clear water and plenty hungry billions soon fed innovations cropping from the boisterous crowd... standing robots astute heavy labor performed... global nervous system growing and formed by the web... residue and waste becoming power transformed... optimism breaking long history's confines questions large and looming give pause... the antagonists mentioned are they soon to transform? abundance and scarcity new parents new consciousness birthing... awareness with awe in one simple moment? ancient spiritual light is it now flowing holographic vessels to fill? what might the newborn be named? should she simply be called... enough? this name also naming a bright center glow... daughter scarcity now absorbed and lining her abundant light... new strength new vision a new fork in our road?
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Jun 2, 2012
Jun 2, 2012 at 11:27 PM UTC
Abundance
All work, no play and neon screens menial tasks even coat my dreams. Overboard in bored and a silent phone, oh no, I think I’ve evolved to drone. Punch in, punch out, this is the wrong route. Punch in, punch out, a life of drought. This technological terror has caused life to flash in error. For lady dollar; I can’t bear her, as the riches are even rarer. I’ve become a machine, to crush numbers with no log off for needed slumbers. Now my brain’s racing, a million miles per hour, oh no, I think I’ve gained A.I’s power. Punch in, punch out, this is the wrong route. Punch in, punch out, now what life is about. This technological terror has caused life to flash in error. No sudden movements; don’t want to scare her, she’s updating with no carer. Learning binary, a breathing library, processing slowly but still a finery. I forgot what my hands were for they used to write all that I adore. Now fingertips type, each key a shot, oh no, I think I’ve grown into a robot. Punch in, punch out, this is the wrong route. Punch in, punch out, no one hears me shout. This technological terror has caused life to flash in error. Pure absorption; a simple stare, life’s equation could be fairer. Learning binary, a breathing library, walking geometry complete machinery.
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Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
Technological Terror
Iago Prytherch his name, though, be it allowed, Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills, Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud. Docking mangels, chipping the green skin From the yellow bones with a half-witted grin Of satisfaction, or churning the crude earth To a stiff sea of clods that glint in the wind— So are his days spent, his spittled mirth Rarer than the sun that cracks the cheeks Of the gaunt sky perhaps once in a week. And then at night see him fixed in his chair Motionless, except when he leans to gob in the fire. There is something frightening in the vacancy of his mind. His clothes, sour with years of sweat And animal contact, shock the refined, But affected, sense with their stark naturalness. Yet this is your prototype, who, season by season Against siege of rain and the wind's attrition, Preserves his stock, an impregnable fortress Not to be stormed, even in death's confusion. Remember him, then, for he, too, is a winner of wars, Enduring like a tree under the curious stars.
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A Peasant
salt water breath i'm thinking about air or an heir or whatever you call it, whatever you think i'm thinking cause i don't know how to explain this feeling heart is aching and breaking as time goes on freezing in the lack of ocean, fresh air, and sight of the milkyway how my body craves the smell of salt and family, the desire keeps me up at night with taunting dreams of gummy bears and the breeze, never thought i'd say i'd miss a mode of transport that makes me physically ill, red eye lids, and chapped lips pine for a better way to sleep due to the sick desire for some place a little rarer
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Feb 7, 2013
Feb 7, 2013 at 10:09 AM UTC
island/home;
Is not an easy task But it is rewarding To do what Jesus asks My father now needs me more A new level of care So I will look after him I'll always be there My mother is not able Handicapped herself And so it is left up to me I put much on the shelf I won't be on the site as much I guess a rarer bird But I will still share with you You will read my words I will need strength in spirit I must find a way If you find it in your heart *Please help me and PRAY.* ♡ Catherine
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Aug 4, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 at 2:05 PM UTC
Caring for the elderly