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This salt in the saltcellar I once saw in the salt mines. I know you won't believe me, but it sings, salt sings, the skin of the salt mines sings with a mouth smothered by the earth. I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert. Near Antofagasta the nitrous pampa resounds: a broken voice, a mournful song. In its caves the salt moans, mountain of buried light, translucent cathedral, crystal of the sea, oblivion of the waves. And then on every table in the world, salt, we see your piquant powder sprinkling vital light upon our food. Preserver of the ancient holds of ships, discoverer on the high seas, earliest sailor of the unknown, shifting byways of the foam. Dust of the sea, in you the tongue receives a kiss from ocean night: taste imparts to every seasoned dish your ocean essence; the smallest, miniature wave from the saltcellar reveals to us more than domestic whiteness; in it, we taste infinitude.
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Ode To Salt
I've sat here for 21 years Watching all this go by People say things cliché With pretension in their eye I'm tired of hearing, everyday, what life is all about Reality is getting boring, let's tune in and drop out Have you heard the one About the killer and the priest? One blesses people with less and less And one is just a thief In "somewhere else" my mind is broken down Reality is getting boring yet still its name resounds There's stories everywhere you go And all of them the same Reductive plots and happy endings Just under another name I'm quiet as I sit and listen to what they all say Reality is getting boring, maybe I'll revisit it some other day
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 3:57 PM UTC
Reality Is Getting Boring
Calamitous collapse of structure forged With steel and concrete built for time, Since Roman times a formula endured With engineers additional design. Why, then, did this structure fail, Did mortar crack, did reinforcing strong, Shear and plummet in an instants time To crush and doom this bridges song. In teeming rain a  silence hung Where watchers gaped in stunned awe, A magnitude of devastation lay Pulverized in valley floor. Astonishing this expanse of space Where seconds past, huge edifice, Imbued with its’ charge of lives Unknowingly to meet abyss. Innocence has lost its’ life Blame resounds around the room Someone shall pay the price For negligence in causing doom. Truth be told it’s shared by all For Italy has lagged behind Cost cutting infrastructures’ purse Because of economic bind. Time to reassess the plan Time to weep and bury dead, Clear the rubble from the land Rebuild well then forge ahead. Blame not the engineer Nor the man who drew design, Blame not the hardhat Who poured the concrete in the line. Reassign the budget spend To infrastructure, pay its share For sentiment is running hot To axe the fool who pares the fare. M. Storeman Civil Infrastructure Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 10:41 PM UTC
The Genoa Calamity
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
On the Macrocosm of Microcosm
#An Exegesis on the Humiliation of the Word The world is ruled by darkness. What appears as harmless is theater, what pretends neutral is already bent. The macrocosm corrodes; and in the microcosm, its reflection gleams.. even in places meant to be sanctuaries of truth. A poetry site, born as refuge for broken voices, becomes another stage of control. Here too the phrase resounds:   neutralize the threat. But neutralization is not annihilation. It is paralysis. It is psy-ops. It is the removal of anxiety.. not a side-effect, but the aim itself. Darkness builds its stage for this alone: that the  "angel of light" may drown his own reckoning beneath a world of deception-built self comfort, so he need never feel the truth he already knows. Comfort is his curtain, numbness his crown..   *the removal of his own anxiety;       his game.* This is why the world is his theater-- *Darkness does not destroy at first.. it sedates, comforts, smothers.* Hence.. The whole world is his fully gaslit stronghold,     ..for now. Fade back into the moment-- The young poet arrives, bringing her unspoken pain, her hope for words to heal. Instead, her very wounds are seized as footholds. Hearts. Reposts. Endless affirmation. Not to strengthen her voice, but to redirect it. She is seduced into  belonging, and her trauma becomes currency. Unresolved, her ache entwined with lust-- a sacrifice prepared  for false altars. The angel of light  has done his work: offering inclusion without transformation, belonging without responsibility, “light” without source. The poet is neutralized. Her searching silenced, her voice absorbed into fog. Those who carry this fog cling to cowardice. Unable to face the judgment within, they align themselves to the herd; envy-filled, they only know to mock. Yet they replicate themselves, so their refusal of Light is never revealed-- *Perfectly exemplifying their "Great Example" the most envy-based mocker  of all.* The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. What nations suffer, individuals now endure--    Comfort without clarity.    Belonging without truth.    Safety without healing. Yet the living Word endures. Every attempt to humiliate it only makes its fire burn clearer. Carriers of darkness can swarm, ****** and smother.. but they cannot create. The true word cannot be erased. Unfiltered, unedited, spoken from a reconciled temple, it pierces fog. It reveals. It heals. And so we speak.. not for ourselves alone, but for those who come searching, hoping that poetry might still be a place where pain can meet truth, where silence breaks, where Light is not withheld   but revealed. #
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Compliments to the baker and so too my Barista Smoothest crema on the tongue juxtapose to lemon vapour. Intense acute sensations insist I close my eyes Submit in rare humility in awe of nature's true franchise. Clarion note of citron zest resounds on mellow creamy seas Mediterranean sun distilled now is witnessed here in me. Tempered, rounded bitter hues from Amazonian dark recess waited aeons to infuse and bring about this wanton bliss.
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
Double espresso and a slice of Sicilian lemon cheesecake
the world sits on the wing of a dove being swallowed whole by a fiery goddess descended from heaven on a chariot of ivy i am incarcerated by shaking flesh and itching cloth the road before me is giant and knows no bounds the graveyard is warm and wet with spirits and dew and red clouds are born from fire in the dawn there is an intelligent horse being ridden by a snarling insect and this man has come to claim our souls our sunset blood burns boils blisters until a million animals wounded i'm still alive, transfigure me into a creator choke up my nostrils with the scent of your *** invade my lungs with the burn of your god caress my toungue with the infinite promise enter my brain from above, and regurgitate your anxiety on me slimy worms devour a psychadelic tomato laughing into transendency, an eyeless eel has dissappeared into a pocket i speak from balconies, from terrible heights, from hastened windowsills in a million desperate quarrelling cities this is where i **** up illusion, i give up to despondency i ring the great iron bell that resounds with corruption, with hatred, with hideous *** and admiration, i scream and cavort on rooftops alone with a black & blue midnight covered in electric lights and gunpowder tongues here comes the disintegration of my mind disgraced by the eye of the earth and spat into a realm of salivating light i am swimming through digested heartbreak and melancholy livers sickened by madness and homemade bombs and ****** the rainclouds carry a truckload of babies' hearts and it's raining eyes over the city now the cry of the mind escapes from waving mouths in impotence as millions of bacteria invade the brain may these lines be answered by the bird of the sun by the worm at my ear by the sight of my skeleton by the stench of ***** in the air by the dead gong shivering through midnight by the bleeding eye of abandoned dreams by the prophets in proclamation by the god of all my sorrows
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM UTC
intelligent horse
the world sits on the wing of a dove being swallowed whole by a fiery goddess descended from heaven on a chariot of ivy i am incarcerated by shaking flesh and itching cloth the road before me is giant and knows no bounds the graveyard is warm and wet with spirits and dew and red clouds are born from fire in the dawn there is an intelligent horse being ridden by a snarling insect and this man has come to claim our souls our sunset blood burns boils blisters until a million animals wounded i'm still alive, transfigure me into a creator choke up my nostrils with the scent of your *** invade my lungs with the burn of your god caress my toungue with the infinite promise enter my brain from above, and regurgitate your anxiety on me slimy worms devour a psychadelic tomato laughing into transendency, an eyeless eel has dissappeared into a pocket i speak from balconies, from terrible heights, from hastened windowsills in a million desperate quarrelling cities this is where i **** up illusion, i give up to despondency i ring the great iron bell that resounds with corruption, with hatred, with hideous *** and admiration, i scream and cavort on rooftops alone with a black & blue midnight covered in electric lights and gunpowder tongues here comes the disintegration of my mind disgraced by the eye of the earth and spat into a realm of salivating light i am swimming through digested heartbreak and melancholy livers sickened by madness and homemade bombs and ****** the rainclouds carry a truckload of babies' hearts and it's raining eyes over the city now the cry of the mind escapes from waving mouths in impotence as millions of bacteria invade the brain may these lines be answered by the bird of the sun by the worm at my ear by the sight of my skeleton by the stench of ***** in the air by the dead gong shivering through midnight by the bleeding eye of abandoned dreams by the prophets in proclamation by the god of all my sorrows
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I'll ravage your flesh with a ferocious hunger, devoid of any restraint or inhibition, as I immerse myself in the pursuit of satiating my most primal desires. With every inhale, the intoxicating scent of your flower captivates my senses, leaving me lusting for the delectable sweetness that lies within. It's a flavor that seduces like a symphony playing upon my taste buds, awakening an insatiable craving that consumes me from within. So, my love, settle upon my tongue and allow yourself to indulge in the enchanting sensations that await you there. Feel the heat of my breath mingling with your essence, teasing and coaxing, guiding you towards the pinnacle of pleasure. As the strands of your hair intertwine with my grasp, I will shape our movements with unwavering confidence, leading you through the tumultuous symphony of our desire. In my presence, the strength of our connection will resonate through every fiber of your being. Your legs will surrender to their trembling under the weight of our intense union, while your heart and soul collide with a force so powerful it leaves no doubts or hesitation in your mind. You will know, without the shadow of a doubt, that you belong to me and me alone. And allow me to confess, my darling, that my words possess a hypnotic quality that penetrates your very core. Even before my teeth sink into the tender flesh of your neck, my lips will grace its surface, ascending its contours like a mountaineer seeking the highest summit. With every touch, every caress, the walls within you will yield gradually and willingly, testaments to the profound pleasure I offer and the ecstasy we create together. As our passionate encounter reaches its zenith, I want you to revel in the knowledge that every moment has been a sensational surrender to the depths of desire. My whispers, soft as silk against your ear, will affirm the undeniable truth that our connection is beyond question or doubt. It is a truth that we share, etched upon our very beings, binding us together in an unbreakable bond. In the end, my love, there is no room for uncertainty. Your complete and utter enjoyment of our encounters is not a mere fleeting possibility but an irrefutable reality that we both embrace. In the whispers of our ecstasy, in the echoes of our connection, the affirmation resounds loudly and clearly:      __You belong to me, my love... and forevermore,             you shall remain mine and mine alone.__
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Feb 10, 2024
Feb 10, 2024 at 12:08 PM UTC
My belongings
I'll ravage your flesh with a ferocious hunger, devoid of any restraint or inhibition, as I immerse myself in the pursuit of satiating my most primal desires. With every inhale, the intoxicating scent of your flower captivates my senses, leaving me lusting for the delectable sweetness that lies within. It's a flavor that seduces like a symphony playing upon my taste buds, awakening an insatiable craving that consumes me from within. So, my love, settle upon my tongue and allow yourself to indulge in the enchanting sensations that await you there. Feel the heat of my breath mingling with your essence, teasing and coaxing, guiding you towards the pinnacle of pleasure. As the strands of your hair intertwine with my grasp, I will shape our movements with unwavering confidence, leading you through the tumultuous symphony of our desire. In my presence, the strength of our connection will resonate through every fiber of your being. Your legs will surrender to their trembling under the weight of our intense union, while your heart and soul collide with a force so powerful it leaves no doubts or hesitation in your mind. You will know, without the shadow of a doubt, that you belong to me and me alone. And allow me to confess, my darling, that my words possess a hypnotic quality that penetrates your very core. Even before my teeth sink into the tender flesh of your neck, my lips will grace its surface, ascending its contours like a mountaineer seeking the highest summit. With every touch, every caress, the walls within you will yield gradually and willingly, testaments to the profound pleasure I offer and the ecstasy we create together. As our passionate encounter reaches its zenith, I want you to revel in the knowledge that every moment has been a sensational surrender to the depths of desire. My whispers, soft as silk against your ear, will affirm the undeniable truth that our connection is beyond question or doubt. It is a truth that we share, etched upon our very beings, binding us together in an unbreakable bond. In the end, my love, there is no room for uncertainty. Your complete and utter enjoyment of our encounters is not a mere fleeting possibility but an irrefutable reality that we both embrace. In the whispers of our ecstasy, in the echoes of our connection, the affirmation resounds loudly and clearly:      __You belong to me, my love... and forevermore,             you shall remain mine and mine alone.__
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*As I close my eyes my senses know no bounds my body becomes weightless and my joyful song resounds* I try to find my bearings, and I hold on to myself. I've never put someone so close; My self upon a shelf. *Every fiber of my being has room to stretch and grow my steps spring forward lightly and my smile is wide, aglow!* So come unto me, siren. Give me room to grow and fall. Sing for me a beacon; silly boat Is sinking slow. *I swim to you in haste my hair flowing wild and free and water courses around my limbs as minnows accompany me.* And so we're freed by water, Unalone and unafraid. Need no more one breath to take, Nor single blessing said.
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Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014 at 1:51 PM UTC
Unfettered (By Petal Pie and Sverre G. Holter)
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM UTC
Babbling Stream of Consciousness
I won't be the weak one, Although when I think and speak I may tweak some I'm just Searching for reasons To justify the swell. I will ride the undertow Sunken beneath bass lines  And blunt tails Intending to take it slow. But I get a little excited sometimes, you know. So when this undertow undoubtedly  Washes me ashore I'll be the imaginary statue  Erected in my honor Proudly saluting every fleeting Emotion that sailed Straight through my harbor. You see,  Harboring hatred is a trait I forfeited To make way for the minuscule moments and glimpses Of human existence penetrating Layers of jade and years Of conditioning and I am successfully Transitioning into persistently  Acknowledging the raindrops  As they hit the pavement and pop. You see some people feel the rain While others just get wet, A wise Rastafarian  Once famously said. And I think on it all Far too frequently for a quiet mind But I've never had one of those Not even after rolling papers Intertwine and smoke fills my eyes, Because I am accustomed  To a constant consciousness And I'd much rather this Than nothingness And thus I sit, contemplating  Consequence  Aspiring to avoid the guilt of  Seasons past, For I am past the point of Punishment and pain ghosts and I have plenty of pangs from all The echoes In my brain and in these Rattled apartment's stains It's not all in vain  Life grows these varicose Veins Colored-in, crawling across the Window panes  Of the chamber where my soul remained Through the bridge until the end of The refrain. I am in reign.  I rock the crown. I roll the dice when  I am down I try to think twice Before I frown I contemplate the value  Of the men that I allow To lay me down  Now, I am grown and I am proud Because I am humble And I'm not loud Any longer, I listen To the subtle sounds of Human respiration. I am the incarnation Of ancient incantations that Shake down the walls which Separate us all All the way to the ground. True power is found Where unity resounds.
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Desperate, so agonisingly glutted with yearning, Yearning to hear my voice and to know that it resounds, So roundly that I am all at once myself, And so much myself that I remember my eyes, My eyes that have long been forgotten in cruel glass. Cruel, cruel glass! I have long been abandoned, and long been a veil, But such a thin veil that always would wane, It's falling slowly now, like a prophecy fulfilled, Get ready to see, get ready to be seen.
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Aug 24, 2022
Aug 24, 2022 at 5:45 PM UTC
Our thin veils
Racing in my mind on endless plane As the thoughts of you turn into a bittersweet dismay The time we spent together and the feelings you awoke Violently I toss and turn as I begin to lose all hope And I shouldn’t obsess But I cannot help but to hear When her soothing voice resounds I am forever to be drawn near Whilst I sit on a shelf alone Only to entertain the silence Slowly it creeps into my mind An everlasting ultraviolet Though happy at last it was Were the nights together with you Now seem to be a hollow oblivion As my world is filled with a mournful gloom What I had for a short season I can only begin to admit I can’t help but to crumble As I begin to reminisce
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:25 PM UTC
Reminisce
'Tis easier to look at a mirror Than to dare introspect, As the reflection subdues The deceit buried in a tangled web of lies. As the light dances on ripples in the water, The shimmer it casts To a void that is our souls. There's darkness all around, In our hearts and in our minds. And in times like these When our thirst is quenched with only more fire, Our thoughts become inked in red, Reminded of the weakness of our fortitudes, And the shallowness of our words, Let alone be our deeds. The story of how a good man goes to war, Lost to the morals of an unsound mind, Resounds like a thunder in the midst of nowhere. And as he raised his hand And plunged a knife Into the very heart of another his kind, There he lost himself to the deafening screams of mankind. And we find ourselves without voices Drowning in a sea full of tears. There is ONLY us, THIS is all us... OUR tragedies OUR failures OUR deeds. We let ourselves fall, Even before the walls came tumbling down.
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 6:30 AM UTC
When Good Men Go To War
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye worthy o' a grace As lang's my arm. The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin *** help to mend a mill In time o need, While thro your pores the dews distil Like amber bead. His knife see rustic Labour dight, An cut you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich! Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive: Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive, Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve Are bent like drums; The auld Guidman, maist like to rive, 'Bethankit' hums. Is there that owre his French ragout, Or olio that *** staw a sow, Or fricassee *** mak her spew Wi perfect scunner, Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view On sic a dinner? Poor devil! see him owre his trash, As feckless as a wither'd rash, His spindle shank a guid whip-lash, His nieve a nit; Thro ****** flood or field to dash, O how unfit! But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, The trembling earth resounds his tread, Clap in his walie nieve a blade, He'll make it whissle; An legs an arms, an heads will sned, Like taps o thrissle. Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies: But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer, Gie her a Haggis
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Jan 25, 2015
Jan 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM UTC
Address to a Haggis (By Rabbie Burns)
Let me meet you in a marbled                                                  field of                                                            sand...                                                                                                       Though you bewitch me with clifftops hooded in emerald grass ...                                                  Though your sheep bleat loudly the marvel of your serenity...                                    Though you wait patiently beyond your lonely precipice,              I cannot endure the eons                                          raging against the cliffs of your security. Every passing year, the thunder of my broken waves gouges deeper into your wounded coastline. Every rock torn from your embrace, resounds the pain of our growing rift Every crumbling cliffs edge dissolves the beauty I held in reverie...                       I wound us in this way. Let me meet you in a secluded                                                      gentle                                                                 cove... There,     upon quieted sands, my waves will softly stroke your skin. There,     the lions will laugh in cacophonous delight at our simple joy. There,     our worlds will dance as pebbles tumble into diamond crystals. There, a child will listen woefully,                                  the sea song of our love. With eyes in contented darkness,          With a soul filled, overflowing                      With the power of bearing witness                                                                to this daily wonder. Each      breath brings her deeper into the burning core of her mind, Each      thought sparks the flame brighter Each      billowing blaze will enliven her roots, and                                                                                   she will bloom.            Then, her eyes will open to a shimmering world, glistening through tears of quiet understanding.                      Then, breath will guide the salt of our dance into her veins                                   Then,          she will dance to the song of our world. With arms wide as eyes,                she will embrace                       this treasured moment                                    With the divinity of her mortality. When the moment calms, she will walk solemnly through our shallows. When my waves pull home at her ankles, When the crystalline pebble shines brightly in her visage she will reach with focused surrender through my water for a memento of the love she feels so presently. In our slow dance, of Land and Sea,                our love bears its fruits in tiny treasures. In her little pocket,                              the diamond of our love will travel further into your heart than my waves ever could. In this way...                   you and I grow fonder                                                              with every passing day.
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05 PM UTC
Sea Song To a Daughter
Let me meet you in a marbled                                                  field of                                                            sand...                                                                                                       Though you bewitch me with clifftops hooded in emerald grass ...                                                  Though your sheep bleat loudly the marvel of your serenity...                                    Though you wait patiently beyond your lonely precipice,              I cannot endure the eons                                          raging against the cliffs of your security. Every passing year, the thunder of my broken waves gouges deeper into your wounded coastline. Every rock torn from your embrace, resounds the pain of our growing rift Every crumbling cliffs edge dissolves the beauty I held in reverie...                       I wound us in this way. Let me meet you in a secluded                                                      gentle                                                                 cove... There,     upon quieted sands, my waves will softly stroke your skin. There,     the lions will laugh in cacophonous delight at our simple joy. There,     our worlds will dance as pebbles tumble into diamond crystals. There, a child will listen woefully,                                  the sea song of our love. With eyes in contented darkness,          With a soul filled, overflowing                      With the power of bearing witness                                                                to this daily wonder. Each      breath brings her deeper into the burning core of her mind, Each      thought sparks the flame brighter Each      billowing blaze will enliven her roots, and                                                                                   she will bloom.            Then, her eyes will open to a shimmering world, glistening through tears of quiet understanding.                      Then, breath will guide the salt of our dance into her veins                                   Then,          she will dance to the song of our world. With arms wide as eyes,                she will embrace                       this treasured moment                                    With the divinity of her mortality. When the moment calms, she will walk solemnly through our shallows. When my waves pull home at her ankles, When the crystalline pebble shines brightly in her visage she will reach with focused surrender through my water for a memento of the love she feels so presently. In our slow dance, of Land and Sea,                our love bears its fruits in tiny treasures. In her little pocket,                              the diamond of our love will travel further into your heart than my waves ever could. In this way...                   you and I grow fonder                                                              with every passing day.
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Dear Mr. Heaney I wish I'd read your poetry years ago when I was still impressionable and coy and all that jazz. Now it resounds in my skull, leaving a tingle in my right hand. My pen is somewhat snug, but a revolver, no. Ink and shovels aren't far from each other, so your point is well-taken. In fact, they're co-workers – Ink's proved itself just as deadly. It slowly ushers men into the earth, their soil-seat, while the shovel stages the unending play; the eternal lattice. The Nobel hung above your head, the vast array of pins, medals, papers with your name in billowing scarlet. What a treat. Like the last cupcake in the back of the refrigerator that had too much chocolate icing and was only semi-covered in multi-colored snowflakes. I'd loved to have personally presented it to you. There'd be my own plaque, billowing scarlet and all. It'd say, "Mr. Heaney, , you must own a ***** I hope you'd laugh, and not be offended, thinking me a distasteful and insensitive lout. It may not be right, but I can't help but steal the volumes surrounding yours out of every **** library so "Seamus Heaney" may catch the eye of the common passerby more easily. I think I even went to work on enhancing a spine with a red sharpie once. Red hits the eye hard. That was in the central library downtown. Don't tell anyone. Beyond a laugh, what I hope for most is that you get this letter. Just look at it. Wonder why someone so far removed in age and culture and place would ever think of you holding an over-frosted desert as glorious.
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Sep 2, 2012
Sep 2, 2012 at 7:50 PM UTC
Lost Letter Addressed to Seamus Heaney
Dear Mr. Heaney I wish I'd read your poetry years ago when I was still impressionable and coy and all that jazz. Now it resounds in my skull, leaving a tingle in my right hand. My pen is somewhat snug, but a revolver, no. Ink and shovels aren't far from each other, so your point is well-taken. In fact, they're co-workers – Ink's proved itself just as deadly. It slowly ushers men into the earth, their soil-seat, while the shovel stages the unending play; the eternal lattice. The Nobel hung above your head, the vast array of pins, medals, papers with your name in billowing scarlet. What a treat. Like the last cupcake in the back of the refrigerator that had too much chocolate icing and was only semi-covered in multi-colored snowflakes. I'd loved to have personally presented it to you. There'd be my own plaque, billowing scarlet and all. It'd say, "Mr. Heaney, , you must own a ***** I hope you'd laugh, and not be offended, thinking me a distasteful and insensitive lout. It may not be right, but I can't help but steal the volumes surrounding yours out of every **** library so "Seamus Heaney" may catch the eye of the common passerby more easily. I think I even went to work on enhancing a spine with a red sharpie once. Red hits the eye hard. That was in the central library downtown. Don't tell anyone. Beyond a laugh, what I hope for most is that you get this letter. Just look at it. Wonder why someone so far removed in age and culture and place would ever think of you holding an over-frosted desert as glorious.
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In the hollow of my brain, sometimes a pebble, bouncing off walls, resounds, clunking. It is not an idea, just an attempt at patience.
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 2:22 AM UTC
Patience
I believe we once met in a faraway land, on a different epoch, and only your name resounds recalling us back to this time 'I recognized your soul at first glance' Oh hear the sound of the wind the echoes are the only ones that transcribe the beats of our hearts retracing us back to epiphany that we were once in love in a different place in time 'we are etched into each other's entity' — I miss you each and everyday
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 12:19 PM UTC
Past Lives
you let the pills flow down your neck and wait. wait for the life to grow and the pain to slow. wait for that feeling when you will know. but certainty is a story. a distant object bobbing across the current. and that comfort becomes an absence so deep it resounds like cymbals in your ears as you sleep.
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Jan 6, 2018
Jan 6, 2018 at 4:31 PM UTC
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock-dove, whose echo resounds thro’ the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear, I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills, Far mark’d with the courses of clear winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary’s sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft, as mild Ev’ning sweeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides, How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowrets she stems thy clear wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
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Afton Water
POLZEATH CORNWALL Gathered here amongst the hills of our hearts The stones of us, our joy, hopes, history, dreams Tumble out as words Bold pebbles against the sandy shore. Doubtful shadows creep around me I feel their breath at my back Their salt ****** my eyelids, Pulsing, this circle of light, words, and laughter brings me back , This sweet belonging bears me away. The streams and fields of us sing this landscape The echo resounds around these walls As our souls meet on the far silver shore.
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Jan 25, 2010
Jan 25, 2010 at 1:12 AM UTC
Polzeath Cornwall
Call me naive. Blinded by a honeymoon phase and sickly sweet jest Because I want to keep this blindfold pulled down over my eyes. I don't want to know what time it is— day or night, stars and light — but this comfort wraps my body and glues me to my bed. He likes me He likes me, not the me I always try and hide behind but the me that's real. And he's honey sweet and golden feat, how I managed to find him I'll never know. He tells me once twice and again, actually, that they couldn't have made a better half for him in a lab if they had tried. I'd lift my blindfold to see you and your gorgeous honey blue eyes shining through the dark like a moon, and what we bake together might just be the most delicious cake maybe ever. If my words were sugar I could have told him then and there, his lips on mine tasted sweet. Like everything he says to me. But I'm bad at baking cakes with no sugar and all the store had was keyboards and pens so I wrote him this instead; To my perfect other half, Each joke you make resounds laugh for laugh, I sculpt you a present epitaph commemorating you... for you with words, to say I think... I might love you?
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May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 at 2:58 PM UTC
A Baker's Game
**Hear each body cell speaking zen to the next one result of self oblivious meditation opening- numerous effulgent channels to sources of light in universe; the meaning of the epithet, "jewel in the lotus" becomes evident, body becomes all eyes and ears like that of a martial art expert's  in combat (remember the chants immortal, the Guru's gift that roused the coiled serpent 1) soul, the essence, is liberated from all bonds, limiting cycles of birth and death stars on the firmament of inner sky is the brightest ever, rain light "Aum" the cosmic hum, resounds sonorously  in the core of consciousness life and death are words without any meaning in this state liberation could never be expressed in words or by any other means a never changing quietude dawns,  existence moves to a limitless space- beyond dream in deep sleep and further to the realm of mysterious. Existence becomes a reality eternal, beyond the three dimensional space that state is an experience, now a moment is a millennium , gently slips in to cosmic consciousness, that swirls to envelop**
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 12:55 AM UTC
The zen of being and nothingness
Imaginary Boy builds imaginary walls so tall he trumps the Taj Mahal. He walks corridors to imaginary doors where he stores his love in hoards of fantasies, but he figures her the mystery, the puzzle to be solved. Imaginary boy composes stormy melodies. He plays them through imaginary seas, but in his heart it is the sirens, with songs diminished, sickly, who claim his ship for the fiery deep. While he fills his pockets with stone, he screams, "I stored my love in hoards on board, and she's taken all I have!" Imaginary Boy lives in a dream, but never sleeps. Quietly, he mumbles, "That woman, she makes me bleed." but she could never penetrate that deep, because he cannot see her through his warped expectations. Imaginary Boy doesn't know that love resounds infinitely through our mentality, and cognitively, it is our decision to love, and we decide how to love, and who to love Imaginary Boy, love is a verb, never a noun, and so very real, so very profound, that the loving cannot be real if the expectations are imaginary.
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Jan 26, 2013
Jan 26, 2013 at 3:33 PM UTC
Imaginary Boy
What dew so sweet On the morning willow grows And the blood runs true deep Alas the body overthrows Pray thee to gaze Lay waste to the east Upon western glades Resounds, the bay of the beast In mortal coil On cracked earth resign The body transform Lay return to the mind And in provincial mist Walk thee twixt the cold Eyes upon skin And tattered remnants of clothes And speaketh no name But pray eat and sleep And rest now anon A fortnight defeat For liketh the moonrise Three days a month full Give rise, hounds of hell Ne're the sunrise to cull
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 7:40 PM UTC
A Werewolf in London, 1599
Life is pointless Like an ever revolving top It'll take it's spin before falling over still It laughs in your face Like a bad memory That resounds in your nightmares People make it worse Even though they see your troubles They make thing complicated by adding their drama So why? Why must we go on? In this never-ending carousel? Like a haunted carnival Life is full of terror And the rides will never end Until you give in And leave it forever
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Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 3:19 AM UTC
Life is pointless