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"refraction" poems
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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A halo of transfigured light.      spanned the hills and autumn gold of scores of aspen groves      basking in the morning sun. But what is this thing we call a rainbow?      For all our science talk of vapor, refraction and angle of the sun      we surrender still in willing captivity to its beauty, mystery and myth. Rainbows beguile by their fleeting rarity       as ephemeral as life itself - temporal blessings suspended in time       unintended and undeserved, spectral bridges between here and there -        between what is and what should be.
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Nov 11, 2016
Nov 11, 2016 at 9:11 AM UTC
Morning Rainbow
I didn't mean to distract you, upon first interaction with you, I saw the sun lights refraction shining upon human polka dots I have a thought that I won't say, Ill write you In the plot of a book, that takes place far far away Most times I speak with haste, life is no computer, but I can still copy and paste, my thoughts in a manner that properly compiles grace, and with some glue, you trapped your hands upon plastic keys, and played for me, a melody, and said I've been waiting my whole life to do this, I am alone and I am free, and I will stay that way for a while, so don't look at me with smile, and as quickly as it was created my memory can be cut and pasted into a file you keep beneath your bed, The cold is coming, and I hope you wear hats upon your head and scarves upon your neck, for I hope you realize I am a sled, I don't stop until I reach the bottom, of a barrel filled with luck I live my off of,
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Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 11:35 AM UTC
Copy pasta
1. A flower opens in the dawn. Drink the dew, dispel the night, feel the warming of a new light. We go under different names, but only one sun warms us. The rainbow is but the refraction of pure white light. 2. You are awash in me, that singing sea that gives me beauty without artifice, forgiveness without guilt and love without qualification. 3. One day while beachcombing I will come upon a magnificent conch and putting it to my ear I will hear your voice calling me through the honey of history. Then an urge will seize me and putting the conch to my lips I will sound a single sad note to carry the stream of my tears across the ocean.
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 3:49 AM UTC
TRIPTYCH: HOPE, BOND, LOSS
In your eye a shutter-spark that catches my gaze like a passing street lamp driving in the rain - it’s refraction drifting in and out until it’s a flash-bulb burned in my eye. A flash-bulb, lightning, sewing the skies and growing beauty in depths and molding itself to veins. Veins that burn into the friction of my sporactic chest - a catalyst. A catalyst that ignites my gaze and inflames my ribs, it beckons your breath - warm against my ear. A breathing, a comfort, like the softness of the light in winter; where the clouds draw like curtains and you hold onto me. A moment of hesitation in breath, And I continue to falter. You scare words from my ribs And I fear you. You to make me a convict of my indecision. Still – barred - paused in frequency.
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 2:19 AM UTC
Paused in Frequency
Laboriously beleaguering hypercritically meticulous hypotaxis apomixis strive Rainbow mare aura roan exude emote derive Syntactical propinquity habitation harbinger harangue stoic hive Colloquialism vernaculars prurient adage jargon idiom clichés jive Mirador bartizan panorama stalwart bastion bulwark tableau live Canny cleaver crafty cunning furtive sneaky stealthy connive Poignant cogent piquant ephemeral effulgence  temporal refraction arrive Paradoxical dichotomy greaves gauntlets gamut catalyst abstracts survive Hectic mayhem , proximity parameter perimeter peripherals , annihilate rive Zingy zesty zany zenithal azimuth entity zeal alive
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:11 PM UTC
Contiguity Continuities
Retype number 3,018-- I don't really think I've written this many entries for just one poem it's a beam of light that scores my thoughts and begins to type across this board but in the end it was a refraction of shadows hinting at another dream because these ramblings of another world are the minds way of scrambling to form new words and convey our Neverland that we've Neverfound Scented candles add an extra burst of enthusiasm to wander this page a little longer because they are my witness that even Evergeen Woods have some Cinnamon Bark hidden in them. the candles are made of wax and when I pour myself to sleep perhaps our wicks stay lit or do we fiddle away with our dreams.
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 12:11 PM UTC
Scented Candles: Cinnamon Bark
There is a certain mystique about Essex County where Wiccan boutiques smite the eyes with linguistic confusion. Salaam reminds me of cold meat and Shalom reminds me of Welsh breakfasts even though the 1700s knew nothing of peace. So, now that we almost reach the threshold of Spring Aequus Nox, I commend Julius Caesar for his respect towards atmospheric refraction. We need to talk. Come on, and let us delve into classical and mythological philosophies where games of death are an aphrodisiac with a sprinkling of risqué.
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 10:36 PM UTC
Invisible Regions of the Cosmos
funhouse of self-reflection, i indulge in your distraction, make the best of every one of my heart's contractions, to scintillate, to shine, to epitomize a refraction that is all mine. a start's best contender to finish, always inclined. for the heart's say is that gold is always underlined. glitter of shimmer, of glistening hues. what creator could produce formations as iridescent as you? but coruscation of shadows, perpetually anew: why do you always crack my mirror and skew? mirror, mirror. mirror of my mind: tell me where it is that all my secrets hide?
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 11:17 AM UTC
mirror of my mind
It is always difficult to describe depression, There are so many interpretations That people hold, This is my own. You're standing on the cliffs edge, Looking out towards the horizon of life, Then you see the storm clouds rolling in, The thunderous roars of trepidation And the lightning bolts of painful reminiscence Mirroring the silver scars on your skin, Then the mighty winds of worthlessness Hauls you over the edge. The cool air brushes against your face As you descend towards the black water below, Every inch of you is screaming for you to stop But you can't, You have lost complete control and you are weak, Defenceless, Vulnerable, Amidst the whistling winds in your ears You hear the names, the bullying, The cries of disappointment, The reminiscent sound of ***** against porcelain, You hit the water and shatter the surface And you pray that you have stopped, Things will bet better , But instead you continue to sink, Numb, cold, aching, You want to cry but you feel so empty, Like the bitter sting of the salty ocean Has clinged to your skin and draws out The last ounce of feeling you had left to hold on to, You stare at the surface, Wide eyes desperately searching for rescue, The fractured refraction of a flare in the stormy sky, A hand to plunge into the water and pull you out And revive you. I have been fortunate enough to be pulled from The ocean, Revived countless times After feeling like I will spend eternity Living in the shipwreck of my insecurities. It is my duty to scour the world and throw a life ring To every lost soul who deserves to be atop the Cliffs edge where they can once again watch Another hopeful sunrise of hope break on the Mundane horizon.
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 8:27 AM UTC
The Cliffs Edge
It is always difficult to describe depression, There are so many interpretations That people hold, This is my own. You're standing on the cliffs edge, Looking out towards the horizon of life, Then you see the storm clouds rolling in, The thunderous roars of trepidation And the lightning bolts of painful reminiscence Mirroring the silver scars on your skin, Then the mighty winds of worthlessness Hauls you over the edge. The cool air brushes against your face As you descend towards the black water below, Every inch of you is screaming for you to stop But you can't, You have lost complete control and you are weak, Defenceless, Vulnerable, Amidst the whistling winds in your ears You hear the names, the bullying, The cries of disappointment, The reminiscent sound of ***** against porcelain, You hit the water and shatter the surface And you pray that you have stopped, Things will bet better , But instead you continue to sink, Numb, cold, aching, You want to cry but you feel so empty, Like the bitter sting of the salty ocean Has clinged to your skin and draws out The last ounce of feeling you had left to hold on to, You stare at the surface, Wide eyes desperately searching for rescue, The fractured refraction of a flare in the stormy sky, A hand to plunge into the water and pull you out And revive you. I have been fortunate enough to be pulled from The ocean, Revived countless times After feeling like I will spend eternity Living in the shipwreck of my insecurities. It is my duty to scour the world and throw a life ring To every lost soul who deserves to be atop the Cliffs edge where they can once again watch Another hopeful sunrise of hope break on the Mundane horizon.
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you're my lens refraction, my solar flare my beautiful occupation with long dark hair because I've got you under my skin, deep in my heart, you occupy my ventricles even as we're apart your forehead to mine we have been, sharing an energy more palpable than reality itself nothing nobody can take that from us
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Jun 26, 2012
Jun 26, 2012 at 1:32 AM UTC
occupational hazards
He saw himself in her eyes suspended in two shining drops of bright water, everything was there as if her eyes were two miraculous bit of violet amber that might capture and hold him in tact. Her face, fragile milk crystal with a soft constant light in it. It was not the hysterical light of electricity, but the strangely comfortable and gently flattering light of a candle. For how many people did you know who refracted you own light to you? People were often blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your innermost trembling thought?
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM UTC
refraction
Exotic trollwood harlotry and mule kit blues Tyrannical tyrannosaur traction padness Cohort cavorts clastic and witch’s *** hues Ontological ontogeny somatalogy fadness Inductive endemic veracities and talus weather clues Epistemological equilibrium’s homogeny badness Timeless rhetorical ruminations and ephemeral exigency dues Transcendent ascensional equivocal madness Tactile acuity prescience capacity intrepid intrigues Mystical symbiosis dharma sensorium sentiment proselyte Torturous tractive prosthesis umbrage ultraism colleagues Newfangled nocturnal nonchalant nether nestle neophyte Top notch topography tortoise trauma fatigues Faustian faux pas foist felicitous fealties socialite Agnate nous ontological ontogeny euphenics in league Mentalities evocative introjecting sycophant eulogizing apposite Mystical terrestrial equestrian tellurian tableau Panoramic imagery empiricist Evocative exserted apomixies’ ethereal should show Ontological somatalogy lyricist Reflective refraction remissions opulence could know Theosophy theophany epiphany equilibrist Magniloquent inductive extrapolation quantum back *** Transcendent nimbus nimiety exorcist
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 5:20 PM UTC
Rootclod Rudiments
Submerged in the empire of your tide Trying to feel unobtrusive, let me saturate Lips filling with the brine You pop sweet oxygen bubbles Chewing gum at its finest Pulling candy from my estuary Blue blood sweeps from between my fingertips Floating face through Eyes open into yours The deepest tide-pools I've ever seen Slipping into the tangle of Your fingers The swivel of refraction Shattered warmth diffused in frosty capped overture Oh to be a native of you Never needing a map or a light or a guide Swallowed without notice Nothing but another wave the endless March of tumbling reverb The only reaction possible to your vocal chords The song of the ocean The simmer of the tide
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Mar 24, 2013
Mar 24, 2013 at 9:39 PM UTC
Suspension
The mirror is a farce, a myth, a crook Look. Really! Our reflection is always exposed to our imaginative creations, concoctions, and corrosions. There is power in a refraction. See whatever you want coz wer all blind anyway.
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Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 7:27 PM UTC
The Mirror is a Crook.
If any vision should reveal Thy likeness, I might count it vain As but the canker of the brain; Yea, tho' it spake and made appeal To chances where our lots were cast Together in the days behind, I might but say, I hear a wind Of memory murmuring the past. Yea, tho' it spake and bared to view A fact within the coming year; And tho' the months, revolving near, Should prove the phantom-warning true, They might not seem thy prophecies, But spiritual presentiments, And such refraction of events As often rises ere they rise.
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 092
Gripping dripping smearing love. Over your eyes!!! Over your ovaries, where babies, your clutch. There's no time to nest, Resist! Resist , be the diode, resistor to heart plunge. Plug up the sewer. (more like a catacomb) My heart's in the ****** cake. The smell, Cytotoxic invades chemical response conformation. We; bitten, by fangs of silicon, the world takes us away from ivy grown homes, torn then seamed up jack o' lanterns always smiling orange. Have you ever grown up from being 11? It's the saddest thing you've seen. You see a fledgling, altricial, awkward, gawk/cock, turn from a boy to a lady. Plump. Or . Musculate. Slowly they regenerate their lady parts. Regardless of gender. Have you seen them bleed? Some bleed white tears that burn the urethra. Some, never grow up. Transmogrified they call it. Never to be beautiful again. Angst entangles, ensues, makes doubt pubescence is for flowers and hairs. Namesake. 5th Grade. Curious formation, curious nature It's as if we are stalagmites of the future, We decorate walls or cave ceilings to perform our correct action. Too bad our self image is always garbled, confused by our refraction. NEVER GRADUATE COLLEGE.
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Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 5:25 PM UTC
I Am Class Aves Girl
Service the sections we skim on four limbs, integral to the insect cause and effectively crippling the cross culture, dumb and auspicious in the year of the opposable thumb. Feline friction in the way you hug the fuzz and tug at the tension, a conscious show of subterfuge and pretentious pretenses concludes in the dismal aftermath of a stamped and sent ten cent envelope filled with nothing but hope. Sacrilegious privileges construct reality, obstructing the graffiti art along the cosmonaut crosswalk. The fire, fought with wine in the dark etched an imprint in ash where the cadre had left its' mark in the colors of a corroded battery. Under spray paint stars, hollow, half sunken sights echo through the illegitimate children of a wind chime. Sulfurous silver lining igniting the ego. A blue reaction in a black field, refraction with a maximum yield, it all glows. Feline friction in the way you hug the fuzz and tug at the tension, smooth and rigid, we fit in the grooves and service the sections in a crippled cross culture that crawls on all fours, integral to an insect cause.
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Oct 11, 2010
Oct 11, 2010 at 5:27 PM UTC
Integral
the tangibility of fallibility is met between the coincidence and insatiability of adversity, the blissfulness of satisfaction is met between the constant refraction and abstraction of our instability, distancing perceptions bound by our misinterpreted misconceptions , take the contradictions of our minds and use them as receipted expectations, blinded by darkness for illumination idyllically thriving on the absence of starvation but the the realism of disdained relation put us in a position of contempt fixation, placement of a pedestal beneath my feet misdirected direction towards a forked defeat, a way to pain and a way to pleasure, the destination of each concluded at cloudy weather, atmospheric conditions leave injunctions towards the ****** functions to deviate and meditate the conflicted constant of mind and heart and diverge from its obliged obligation from the start, a denouncement expected right from inception brought afloat a constant instance of introspection, intrinsic emotions distorted at a love’s devotion sparks a metaphysical claim towards a complex notion of companionship and intensified intimacy; an expectant of reciprocated sympathy but when in reality, the thought of apathy lies not within the partner, but within me
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 8:56 PM UTC
Perplexity°
Passion? You want to see Passion? Passion is the lust I feel watching a dew's refraction on a petal so vibrant, and so placed, that it could not be placidity I feel, But Excitement. Passion is when you tell me to **** you, and pull your hair I slow down because I Mean It Passion is that flooding spark, the moment a match becomes gas, when I feel invincibly collapsed into An Epiphany You don't know passion. Because if you did You'd know it's not just a glory I entice, but equally A Gore Passion is having your heart broken, and looking to the floor a devastation Wailing as you feed your intestines back inside of yourself Craving forgiveness and receiving Futility Passion is hearing a song that rips you to a moment so far away and so irrelevant you feel breathless, a coward, and that one moment that once kept you lit becomes something You Can't Control Passion,... Passion is a curse, a bias, a crutch As equal, a gift
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 3:52 PM UTC
Passion
She faces the wall, studies those tiles with minute precision, hand outstretched on the towel rack, a bathroom ballet dancer, poised, still, silently waiting waiting, waiting. Lids so heavy, slow now to blink, suffocating breath with light caught, suffocating speech with the skin pulled taut. Is it safe yet to face that most sibilant refraction, why do these fingers clench tighter the more I try to let go.
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Jul 30, 2016
Jul 30, 2016 at 4:19 PM UTC
When crying in the mirror.
i met you when love tasted like yellow teeth and ash. i met you when kisses felt like cold cement and paper cuts. i met you when company felt like a hand around my throat where every minute company's grip was tightening. i met you when kisses reminded me of breaching anxiety. i met you - and love suddenly tasted like sleepless nights and sunrise. i met you - and kisses felt like fresh orange juice and vanilla ice cream. i met you - and company felt like hummingbird wings beating 100 times per second. i met you - and kisses began to remind me of all my favorite things. your kisses remind me of candied rose petals and berry smoothies. your kisses remind me of vibrating leaves and vocal wind chimes (like your voice in the morning). your kisses remind me of light refraction on water and clear constellations. so i'd like to admit that i've never loved anyone as much as i do you - as i've never met anyone who makes me believe that it is more than just a natural occurrence of being human, that it is more than a feeling but a force, an alignment of brainwaves and breastbones on an axis that holds time still, in the warmest parts of your memory. like your warm breath that melts the bumps on my legs from the cold in the season we met in - where love began to taste like morning dew and feel like spring.
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Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 11:25 PM UTC
Taken
Her Diamond Mind Rests in Pure Carbon Mine Shining Fluorescence Never left her with obsolescence Light refraction Quite the distraction Ice rink on her finger A monetary stinger Gem best friend How much did he spend? Frozen Pond reflection of the hardest affection Ice rock speaks to only her Don't be a gem amateur Clear crystal quartz won't do Sir with its dim blurr Follow the four C's Scintillation gleams Cut determines its prism At first sight brings hypnotism Color - a rainbow brilliance Smiles with each glance More clarity for radiance All eyes may be romanced Be prepared for a trance Carat weight Might be the bait Year after year Continual glimmer With every light flicker
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Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019 at 3:04 PM UTC
Diamond Mind