"rashness" poems
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Spurn the temerity—
Rashness of Calvary—
Gay were Gethsemane
Knew we of Thee—
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After all, poetry is a savage calling.
-Edel Garcellano
Let poetry be an interstice.
Say, an intervention to the gap of loneliness. Depressive. Let bitter medicines dissolve or, madness will make its ultimate call. Convulsive patterns of mental spasms. Schizophrenic impulse hitting the nerves.
What is known to be rational flees. Enough to learn from the burning of its wings and Youth.
Say, pulling a magic trick under the hat. You know you are being fooled but why enjoy such spectacle or, better enjoy than masking the truth.
Say, a glimpse through an interstice—from Whitman’s poetry.
An intervention to the rashness of day. An intercept to the chaos of the soul. A reminder that we are not assemblages forever desiring.
A poetry fumbling to the course, enough to welcome the rain of sad realizations.
“The task is heroic. Poetry is a minor matter” (E. Garcellano) – an intervention/interstice, the negotiator to the ultimate task of poetry.
We are savage gods. We feed on the detritus of truth, those are, lies.
Consider this poetry as an epitaph. To the disremembered victims of El Sidro. We dealt the cards of fate. We intervened to live. We pierced our stones to their hearts so cold.
Darwin’s prophesy always reminds us that in every epoch there are some interventions we cannot avoid. After all, we are his favorite animal.
We are gods feeding on loneliness. We are agnostic souls entangled in caves of shadows.
Say, are we forever trapped in the compulsive dimensions of ourselves? In love, for example.
To answer this question is the task of poetry.
Let poetry be an interstice.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 7:46 AM UTC
Ignorance quashed the feline,
Rashness foiled the canine,
Cowardice cost the equine,
Greed consumes each swine,
Slothfulness traps the bovine,
But me? I'm doin' just fine!
Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM UTC
I used to believe in happily ever after,
I thought falling in love would be forever.
I used to believe love was an emotion,
that would naturally lead to actions.
I didn't know that love,
was not just about emotions,
and actions, but determination.
I didn't know that love,
was not just having a companion,
receiving and giving affirmation,
but also commitment.
I didn't know that taking things slow,
and being cautious in the relationship,
was a form of love and protection.
I thought taking things fast meant passion
and that he was deeper in love.
I didn't take it for what it was,
immaturity, rashness,
and a lack of self control.
I believed him when he said he liked me
before he really got to know me.
But he really liked me more knowing me less.
And when he knew me more, he liked me less.
He didn't like me, he liked perfection.
He liked me out of ignorance.
Ignorance of how I was flawed.
Imperfect.
Just as he was.
And now I know,
that true love isn't meant to be perfect,
but true love is demonstrated,
in the ability to love imperfection,
as if it were perfect.
Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 1:41 AM UTC
Oxpecker:
"Impala,
may I offer my services to you?
I can clean you of your ticks and insects;
They must cause you great discomfort!
I'll eat them and keep you free of unwanted parasites.
I'll also clean your ears of wax and dandruff, helping you hear your predators approach."
Impala:
"Oxpecker,
I would be grateful for your services,
it sounds too good to be true!
What's in it for you?"
Oxpecker:
"Impala,
I only want to help you with your troubled condition.
I see your suffering,
I want you to be happy.
Your smile of relief will be my payment.
In order to carry out these burdens of care,
will you grant me permission to perch upon your back,
watching over you,
for your future well-being of course."
Elephant:
"Impala,
don't believe the tick birds lies.
He'll feed on your pests and then on you!
His motives are sinister and self serving."
Oxpecker:
"Elephant,
you spread malicious lies about me,
all because I refused a seat on your back!
You don't suffer as much as the impala,
he needs me more than you do!
YOU'RE a jealous, spiteful creature!"
Oxpecker:
"Impala,
the elephant's trying to trick you so I'll take a seat on his back and care for him instead.
I know YOU'RE smart,
don't fall for his deceptions."
Impala:
"Elephant,
you won't trick me with your duplicity!
You want the oxpecker all for yourself!
I'll accept the oxpeckers invitation at once
so you no longer try and steal him away.
YOU ARE a jealous, spiteful creature!"
Elephant:
"Impala,
remember this day!
I warned you,
you chose to ignore me!
You've made a decision based in fear.
You take the word of a creature that eats other creatures,
you'll suffer for your rashness!"
Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 5:18 AM UTC
your tenebrous image enraptures me
future’s heat brands me with you
your silhouette fills my vision
but all your features are hidden
calling to me in a voice I know
but have not yet heard
a shout made a whisper
you are so many years away
always I have known you
sensed you by your absence
I chafe and fret, anxious and
expectant of your arrival
believing it imminent
eagerly I shut my eyes to
what little I know of you
trusting as only callow
youth allows that no
more is needed
than my open arms
I see you everywhere
impetuously I give my heart
only to find no synchrony
even the lineation was wrong
each time it is not you
you are still
far from me
yet I am wrenched forward
I lurch undiscerning, heedless
pressed forever into rashness
by all consuming urgency for you
endless, fruitless searching
confusion and despair
my constant companions
lost in a torrent of nothing
like one freezing
in lingering polar night
to stop is to die, helpless
I stumble towards providence
Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 11:29 PM UTC
I have forgotten forgiveness.
Releasing regrets, relented rashness.
so don't bother
empty excuses. expect exemption?
its
All aimless air anyway.
May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM UTC
The hands of grace sometimes fall unseen
lifting you up to where you've never been.
Blessed are they on whom it descends,
being worthy, they are ready to ascend.
For such a long time most people have been caught
by ignorance, struggling and ignoring life's taught.
Their ego is usually arising through clashes
forsaking its identity with all by its rashness.
To gather more experience and to impress
its own existence apart from all of the rest.
Impossible though that will forever be
regardless of what appears or is to see.
We are all of one substance existing within its domain
of Infinite Being always playing a very illusory game.
The descent of grace is experienced as bliss
the likeness of which one should never miss.
All one's troubles seem to get dissolved away
having existed only under an imaginary sway.
Towards God-Realization is the extent of the place
of all those worthy who have acquired God's grace.
Nov 11, 2010
Nov 11, 2010 at 8:59 PM UTC
And thus we probe a sphere of energy
Floating aloft in a void of darkness
Radiating a sepia-rayed life
Pulsating through the ravages of time
Yet in twain it reacts to synergy
Alongside an utter orb of rashness
And draining thine sphere through malice and strife
Down to destruction from all that sublime
Thine beauty then lost
A terrible cost
Absorbed by the void and lake of sulfur.
And now we probe a sphere of energy
Floating aloft in a void of darkness
Illuminating iridescent soul
Pulsating through the seen promises prime
Yet in twain it reacts to synergy
Alongside known substance unseen
Yet transmuting all parts into the whole
Purifying of moths and rust and grime
And ye grow so bright
Giving others sight
In due time to ascend in a whirlwind.
Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010 at 1:34 AM UTC
You are made of stone.
Like a two inch wide
twenty feet tall
sand castle on a raging shore.
I watch your sandy atoms scatter home
into the oneness of our infinite beachhahhhh
I forget you.
I watch the horizon brighten
And the ocean whisper
as I remember
You are everything.
You rise from the edge of the world
form the tide grabbing my ankles
You form the tide grabbing my ankles.
and in your rashness
you blur my past steps
so I have no path but forward.
No path but forward.
Forward.
With the occasional glance side ways into your depths.
You swell beside me.
Sit inside me always
Shorely whispering surely everlasting songs of passion passing swift and splashing me in your inspiration.
Dawn of myself
exists in stationary
and centering my universe of me.
Seeking to know thee.
Thy thoughts lost to drink in the
sky
Heaven.
The spacious...
Where my wishes fall from your body forming gracious
images I create from the ways you impress me.
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my whirpool heart.
Connecting.
And still
I forget you.
Forgetting.
But then you speak through
everything
and I can't help listening.
Your voice.
The faith with in
a choice to take part
and heal our separateness.
You whisper
I remember.
And as I see yours.
Our body's depth
I am terrified
or exhilarated by the weight of it.
Shake in the waves of it.
I have come home to stay.
You sit
within me no longer.
Yeah because where your songs once were
now you stir.
And sing endless shhhhhhh
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM UTC
When minutes fall asleep and your ears ring,
both eyes grow numb and tire of what they see.
Your soul it screams but your phone fails to sing;
Endure these times and let all things just be.
Forsake your ev'ry impulse; you're not dead,
for harm precipitates when Rashness acts.
Trust you'll come around and keep your head,
save your wicked energy, relax.
Don't scan your memory in search of holes;
it's easy to reflect, re-run, repeat.
Don't wring your hands or pace with itching soles;
The nectar of true Patience drowns defeat.
Don't fool yourself; quick words may dull the sting,
To wait instead is such a precious thing.
Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 11:17 AM UTC
How does the mountain thank the breeze?
How does the ocean sway,
A changed direction switched to thee
A wave who could not stay
Two mere creatures of the dust,
And one, by far, the better
Deep below the world's thick crust
With dreams matched to the letter
The icy breeze may hold the truth
Which one, unwisely, held
The other, so, had thought, 'forsooth!'
The one, too far, compelled
A ring, a wrap, of roses neat
All thorns and vines and taint
Around, around, to near defeat
One never was a saint
And so one leaves with fear and hate
After layers of mistake
Some will think it comes too late
The other one might break
But this was not to spite from one
And not in fault of thee
Nor in rashness, careless done
Mayhap one day you'll see
How in this truth, so taught by act
The withering may start
The found are far more lost, in fact
Without a place in heart
And so one says goodbye at last
To her friend, the other
Though space between their lives is vast
They'll meet in yet another
Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 9:31 PM UTC
Which is worse?
The permanent wonderment
With what could've unfolded
Or the brokenness of what was
For a flash of an instant?
I wanted those lanky limbs of yours
Wrapped around my heart
And they almost were-
In the silence you cupped my face
With solemnity and questions in your dark eyes
I almost let that inquisition tip of over
Unto my lips
Before reason washed over,
Calming my goosebumps
Pushing away the rashness of our meeting
With hesitancy, your answer eased its way out-
"Not yet."
Not ever, so it seems.
Because the third grade boy, left on the playground
Only grew taller.
Not braver.
He still can't leap
Without the fear of falling,
Controlling.
But dear little boy,
Not all falling
Hurts.
And sometimes
It's worth
The pain.
Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
Lay your head on the pillow of my yesterday
and hear the whispers in which
I say
I am sorry for the pain I gave
and sorry that I could not save that special thing that you would bring me every night the kissed that tucked me in real tight
the stories told under the passing light of the moon which all too soon became the Sun.
Mum
did I ever say that yesterday was good
did I ever say that if I could I'd make it better
did I write that to you once in a one off letter
Did I write at all?
can't remember now
don't know how I fell off the edge of the universe
don't know if it could have got any worse
but now it has passed
the rashness of the wildness in the wilderness with me no less becoming grown
you had known it all
seen the future come to call and leave with me in tow
before I go
love you
Mum.
Jun 15, 2013
Jun 15, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
Alone in the world
Wandering eterne
I serve no purpose
I am always lost
Clumsy and unsure
You came to my side
Bad jokes, sparkling eyes
I was all but lost
****** in by whirlwinds
And fate's grand scheme
Such happy fun times
We were beyond lost
Dumb fights and distance
Distrust and silence
Convenient outlets
You were, to me, lost
In quiet silence
Cold beds and regrets
Lowly and wretched
I have, to her, lost
It's better this way
Quick breaths and rashness
With tear stained eyes shut
I am, to none, lost
Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 2:14 PM UTC
He’s a peculiar star
he comes from TV
ambition is his sphere
and his every line is a trick
all know him a notorious liar
whose business is schadenfreude
but many curry his sweet favour
for he has the cowards fury
and an actors need to be flatter'd
He has no quality worthy of entertainment
but we must see him every hour
for he is an hourly promise-breaker
for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery
the world has noted, he has no historical equal
In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey
the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers
he straightway began to strip away, by tariff
too late their despair they will proclaim
but the misery will be well earned
.
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Fool by bôa
TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar
Who Let the **** out of the Bag by Tape Five
Mar 4, 2025
Mar 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM UTC
Emotions are like bullets
Hitting faster than thoughts
They are fraught with danger
and by design cause wars
But battles are not won
by rashness and impulsion
it takes calm and collected thought
which wont bow down to coercion
feeling this
wont help you feel that
feeling this
means your actions are no act
so think if you feel
but don't feel cause you think
promoting false emotions
causes truth to sink
did this make you think?
or did this make you feel?
and if it did both
which one was more real?
Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM UTC
My mind is a blockage,
Whose hands are firmly placed on my eyes,
Blinding me to the only things I need to see.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose voice screams,
Telling me I will not succeed.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose eyes stare into me,
With more judgment than I have ever received.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose measuring tape
Is too small to even wrap around my body.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose lips tense
When I make any decision that impacts lives.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose teeth grind
When I try to save my own life.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose arms cross
When I think I’m doing what’s right.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose tongue
Rolls off lies like it will save it’s life.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose foot
Stomps me down when I feel alive.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose shattered trust
Makes me feel unsafe when I am alright.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose tears
Make me feel ashamed of my life.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose shakiness
Makes me question my reckless flights.
My mind is a blockage,
Whose rashness
Tells me to jump in and risk my life.
My mind is a blockage,
And I’m tired
Of that being my life.
Oct 6, 2019
Oct 6, 2019 at 10:33 PM UTC
Down we go, down the road;
Trees of shade, sun of gold.
Life, it is.. and is not.
Rashness of young, wisdom of old.
Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC