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"resplendent" poems
raindrops faintly laughing as they prance                                                 along the leaves watercress dancing gently twirling slowly                                                           in the creek a deer’s neck softly brushing like a whisper                                                            against a tree the sun is rising in the forest with hushed tones                                                              of red on green a brusk barista whose soul is wounded wants to cry                                                                but bravely greets the first blush of sweet dawn's morning ignites resplendent                                                                                   things unseen                                   ©2016janetaylor
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May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM UTC
sweet dawn's morning
Your caress is silky and creamy like butter And my darling, I'm afraid that your lingering touch will give me diabetes Your heart crumbles like flour when I press mine against it And beads of sugar hang like dew upon your lashes Maybe if I blended you up into cookie dough And baked you at 350 for 15 minutes until you were golden brown Then I wouldn't be afraid to stroke your resplendent face Perhaps I wouldn't wince at the thought of pressing my ear against your chest Just to hear your confectionary heart quiver And there wouldn't be the slightest trepidation when I kissed your intoxicating tears But I'm afraid that I'll leave you in for too long And your saccharine core will harden and reek of soot And with the slightest touch, you'll be reduced to ash And your cremated remains will get frightened at the accusatory wail of the smoke detector And they'll seek refuge in my oven's crevices Never to be seen again
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 7:35 PM UTC
Baking
• My love and all, God's angel, My refuge and comfort, You're the home that keeps me safe, The one who stays beside me, Even in times of storms, you fight them with me valorously. My bestfriend, my peace, my forever, Life is so resplendent and sublime when you came, Excruciation seems so easy to surmount, For you are there with me , our love shields us from harm. You are the firefly that visited me in my dark prison, You’ve illumined me with your shimmering being, An angel that wrap me with pure white robe, You’ve enclosed me dearly, My countenance gleam as I felt your love burning me from the inside. Yes, I will wait my lover, Years and years plus forever and eternity, Even in the second life, In the gates of heaven, in that heavenly realm, I will wait and hold you tight forevermore, Nothing and no one will ever take us apart, You're the one I only love, The one whom I will keep dearly in my heart infinitely, The one whom I'll risk all just to keep you secure and joyous, The one whom I will grow old with, The one whom I will spend everlasting with, And I love you infinity + forever, ‘Cause you are the one preordained for me, my soulmate and king. with love <3 © Earl Jane ♥ E.J.C.S.
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 5:48 AM UTC
I Love You Infinity + Forever (Happy 3rd Monthsary Brandon)
Civilized life is rigged, O land-dwellers! With landmines hidden in trails of Society's doctrine, 'Too often is it stepped on, Too often does it explode.' Blowing constitutions to smithereens, Where you then rummage within your nucleus to piece together your scattered jigsaw, Misplacing your natural elements, Overcasting your ability to side with beauteous aspects in simplicity— Of those ethereal-resplendent butterflies. Disillusioned on land thus is you (the complex you). Let go— Rise above your materialistic graves— Walk on air! My kindred wisps Walk on air!
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 4:56 AM UTC
Society-a-Landmine
Inspired by a vintage ****** postcard from the 1920s - 30s: The Muse sits resplendent caressed in sepia tones and pastel cream gilded with the glaze of a bygone era her silk Charleston negligee worn proud like a vintage ornament perched on an aesthetically pleasing shapely pert insolent ***** blossomed with tiny beads of sweat the heat of such anticipation entices the pearls of the ****** to pamper and pleasure their perversions etched as if in a radiance of candlelight the flickering limbs pulse their bloom nimble fingers of dancing shadows cupping the feline curves of a chaise longue the purposefully out of place set piece the fantasy of a gentleman's reading room caked in casked sherry and Nat Sherman cigar infused aromas her elegant pose sumptuous reclining elbow length satin gloves sensually wrapped in wanton desire two fingers clasp a Sorbranie Black Russian smoked like a sultry gypsy with a fervent demeanour from a silver opera cigarette holder beckoning with the cats eyes of mischief over Pinced nez eyeglasses with a fascination imbibed in the praxis of passion the peach skin of refulgent youth directs the viewer downwards, slowly survey each contour of olive skin and stroke every hidden cleft of fabric to glimpse the nubile thighs of grace leading the eye to the arch of an ankle slipped like a fitted glove nestled in the cleavage of her calf and the chastity of future wonderment the forgotten photograph captures a period in time the memories of the muse now in motionless existence a demure allure forever frozen once lost, but now never forgotten
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 2:40 AM UTC
Decadence of a Muse
Inspired by a vintage ****** postcard from the 1920s - 30s: The Muse sits resplendent caressed in sepia tones and pastel cream gilded with the glaze of a bygone era her silk Charleston negligee worn proud like a vintage ornament perched on an aesthetically pleasing shapely pert insolent ***** blossomed with tiny beads of sweat the heat of such anticipation entices the pearls of the ****** to pamper and pleasure their perversions etched as if in a radiance of candlelight the flickering limbs pulse their bloom nimble fingers of dancing shadows cupping the feline curves of a chaise longue the purposefully out of place set piece the fantasy of a gentleman's reading room caked in casked sherry and Nat Sherman cigar infused aromas her elegant pose sumptuous reclining elbow length satin gloves sensually wrapped in wanton desire two fingers clasp a Sorbranie Black Russian smoked like a sultry gypsy with a fervent demeanour from a silver opera cigarette holder beckoning with the cats eyes of mischief over Pinced nez eyeglasses with a fascination imbibed in the praxis of passion the peach skin of refulgent youth directs the viewer downwards, slowly survey each contour of olive skin and stroke every hidden cleft of fabric to glimpse the nubile thighs of grace leading the eye to the arch of an ankle slipped like a fitted glove nestled in the cleavage of her calf and the chastity of future wonderment the forgotten photograph captures a period in time the memories of the muse now in motionless existence a demure allure forever frozen once lost, but now never forgotten
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The ground bubbled  neath, February's  awakening stoic crocuses stood water  deep, so that capriciousness was revealed The  fill *****  over flowed. So  certain the path walked she  wove aconites into  her  hair   to unghost the prevailing snowdrops. The  dogwood a resplendent beacon vies to complete the cycle .
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Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 6:26 PM UTC
February toil.
∙∙∙◦◦•◎•◦◦∙∙∙ Caribbean blue sail's a galaxy rivers gushing, mumbling for an eternity reflections of Love forms to thee Suddenly silence adumbrate aesthete, A lustful tint of Peruvian trees petrichor whiffs of earth's virginity A syzygy that I can't apprehend but, can fully appreciate its denouement rebirth of once I fell in love been Listen to its sotto voce ruffling preterlabent streams, resplendent hymns humming grasses cues to sing Upon the mountain tops hidden rocks of geos sighting a treasure within only to discover lore’s of forbidden Cascading trees whispered a cold a journey I never knew how to go as told trap between floras along the road Propinquity of my eyes closing thin soul reserved for death, till breath hops in trodden a land ****** for me to begin A minstrel with hands like marbles strung a fiddle of tessellated symphonies open wonders the eyes never seen A bouquet of amaranth revealed the longing heart found someone of new sighs my feelings and away I strew
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Jul 8, 2017
Jul 8, 2017 at 3:22 AM UTC
Xenization of a Lover's Heart
As dark clouds thunder on a grey day, Resounding across the arid plains, I hear the loud cries of a bird, It cuts across the rhythmic drumming of the clouds, He's quiet for a moment, then I hear him again. Through the trees I see him, Royal, an electrifying metallic blue, A peacock, stunning, strutting, Fanning his train of feathers, Eyespots of majesty, stroked with mossy hues. He dances in a flamboyant display, In spot light, as lightening flames the sky above, Nonchalant, a blue crested head turns with pride, His ornate train, shimmering, beckoning, to and fro, His moves, a courtship ritual of love. His iridescent trail woos in style, A life of its own in its opaline shades Golden, blue, brown and green, Colors of the earth, gloriously resplendent, A gathered spectacle in his plumage. As drops of rain touch the earth, He is still high on the wings of romance, His feet in motion, His feathers spread for his mate, Quivering, glimmering a love dance.
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Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 10:57 AM UTC
The Dance of the Peacock
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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Jul 14, 2017
Jul 14, 2017 at 2:17 AM UTC
Arcturian women
*stacking the arrows in piles a triangle of fuego furnaces blaze fire infinite reminders of the morning after shafts of light drift from window panes remake our names in god’s slumbering veins from here to there a whisper or was it a word fellow companions have you heard the threadbare sisters took their turns climbing mountains in order that we could learn the ways of green hearted sun-scrapers sweet little dangers fellow death chasers full of music givers of blooming veils bouquets of snow and hail almond shaped eyes resplendent thighs and a mind as pure as a lake during an alaskan winter in the frozen splinter trees are taken from their roots the women are bleeding weaving you the meat and the story outsiders are cast from clay into statues with feminine bodies curving like cotton candy i choose to impress you repeat the compliments that land on empty stomachs string together words like a rosary of sweet nothings simple deeds give thrilling feats a chance to restore their honor purity is unwashed in ***** soil as i am cut from the cloth of the earth our shirts are pressed at birth white light forming fellowship dimples in the cheeks of the mother the earth’s bones torn out from under the way we made ourselves invisible the minute we realized our accents were noticeable our actions were abominable how could we ever repay the generosity we were treated to our ultimate needs are met by poetry upon a ridge a silent figure wept and held his head upon a bed of cement*
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Resplendent rose, luminous green, Lucid paradisaical palette, The jewel delivers It's dyed, distinctive sheen Graciously, unassumingly Casting a pink and emerald crewel Coalescing into traces, Cuisine for sunbeams Brushing nature's easel -- Bedecking the constellation lighting on earth, Realizing among tureens: Scalloped edge profusions offering The spoonbill waif Sweet adrenaline, Fueling it's sojourn in the atmosphere. Bird of prey, humming minstrel, Airy, iridescent meddler Between red blooms, Distant gem's sparkle Gracing redolent, languid afternoons Cloaked in shimmering velveteen, Beating velocious wings, remaining still.
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Aug 13, 2010
Aug 13, 2010 at 9:11 AM UTC
Hummingbird
Tip Your hat And curtsy low The masses so mandate absolute guile A handshake, a smile, a proper and refined bow! To adorn thy head and semble wit And do your best! Take pride with etiquette If not informed Ye won't last a mile And differentiation between animals distinguishes you, Resplendent child Wash your hair and underclothes with soap Lest ye resemble sow And goodness dear Have I forgotten now? Always remember to smile! So I'll take your Winter clothes with zest I'll scramble on point No unruly mess Oh, did i forget your coat? No, I've got it, relax, care for a smoke? My apologies, please forgive my latency It must be warm in here for my blood In fact... Boiling over kettle within Prevent me from committing sin I do wish to vent Pick up this pen And release red wells from his dainty, fragile neck Or... The underbelly. It's beknownst to me entrails are thick Now whatever shall I do with this fresh clutter? I'll act for free, so cordially! With my chivalrous lines But can you, my friend, respond in kind? After all, it's only common courtesy It's over now, my fantasy It dissipates with urgency And this is my confession Yes Imbibed in me from every grueling, tedious lesson An implication of uniformity The daydreams borne from the perfunctory
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 7:56 PM UTC
Daydream From August 11th, 1843
Past midnight... apart from a nocturne playing i hear a symphony of peaceful breathing and snoring...rhythmical, this quiet evening, it sends me soaring up my own universe, with eyes closed, it grows more immense creates some kind of a calm, in the silence surrounding me, and my muse's presence. stardust and moon provide me a crown while i float...and probe around, seeking something i don't know about, in this journey, i feel the absence of souls, slumbering deeply, dreaming their simple, or strange fairy tales. the firmament, wears a navy blue veil stars are dots, they glow and scintillate, like a warmth in the cold....emancipates my invisible wings flap and fold, a door knob...my hands take hold, my destination...bright, resplendent, "Cosmic Coffee Shop," a place, transcendent, brewing a blend -the dark, the positive -the sweet, and the negative a sign says, "write....there's pen and paper in every corner..." an invite, for people to create prose and poetry where coffee is free, smells...tastes heavenly a place to share...with brethren, in poetry. :::::::: (an old poem) 1:01 AM ☕️ Sally ☕️ Copyright November 21, 2016 rrab
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Oct 8, 2017
Oct 8, 2017 at 1:02 PM UTC
☕️ ☕️ ☕️ COSMIC COFFEE SHOP ☕️☕️☕️
The grass flickers, as the Wind pushes it down, in A gentle but determined Motion, sweeping upwards to Swirl the blue-grey clouds Around the radio tower, before Dissipating into the milky Sky, which at this moment Is the lightest shade of Blue, an open innocent shade Of blue, like an angelic birthday Cake, the pinker clouds, whose Graceful tendrils embrace the Air, and dancing twirl across the Peaceful summer skyscape Down below them, the Emerald stalks of corn stand, Silent sentinels, awaiting the Coming of the dawn, they too Feel the pushing of the wind, but Brush it off, over their shoulders, And continue their silent watching On the sloping sides of the hill, the Growling pines, resplendent in their Glimmering needles, reflect the fading Light, off the clouds, as the sun sinks, Beneath the horizon, and I watch them Silently on my bike, the only thing I can hear, is the swish of the wind, And the hum and whirring of the Pedals, as my bike and I, we glide up The hill, and down the hill, and Around the posts that are meant To keep the cars from disturbing, this Peaceful walking path A while later, we crest a hill, now Having past the town, I see the work Of the persistent wind, the clouds Now whipped into a curling wave, Of pink and blue-black, spilling Over the horizon, behind the red-roofed Country houses, which are strangely Reminiscent of those old, red, barns Which would sit abandoned in Fields of perpetual wheat, and, Through the turning of the seasons, Would rot away into timbers, with No one left to remember, what They were, or why they remain Now we have ridden in a loop, my Bike clicks as I change gears, to Crest a hill and coast down, at high Speed, between the guard rails and The road, with the wind kicking Up behind me and whisking an Upcoming tree in to a fluttery Flurry of leaves and branches, while Below a stream cuts a field, and, Skirting a pen, passes by a pinto Pony, I think it was, that was just Standing there, as we rode past, Onto the cobblestones and around A bend, the group splits, some going A different route, but I want to come Back the way I came, and I ride Beside the highway, listening to The chirp of the crickets and the Hum of the wheels against the Cold, pavement, while up the hill The verdant pines bob their bows, Up and down, waving, waving, The crashing blue-black wave has Rolled, on past the tower now, it Is crashing down over the silent Sentinels, and I watch quietly as The wind rolls down the hill, and Whirls some leaves, making the Grass flicker in the setting sun.
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Mar 1, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 at 2:35 PM UTC
A Bike Ride Through the Countryside
The grass flickers, as the Wind pushes it down, in A gentle but determined Motion, sweeping upwards to Swirl the blue-grey clouds Around the radio tower, before Dissipating into the milky Sky, which at this moment Is the lightest shade of Blue, an open innocent shade Of blue, like an angelic birthday Cake, the pinker clouds, whose Graceful tendrils embrace the Air, and dancing twirl across the Peaceful summer skyscape Down below them, the Emerald stalks of corn stand, Silent sentinels, awaiting the Coming of the dawn, they too Feel the pushing of the wind, but Brush it off, over their shoulders, And continue their silent watching On the sloping sides of the hill, the Growling pines, resplendent in their Glimmering needles, reflect the fading Light, off the clouds, as the sun sinks, Beneath the horizon, and I watch them Silently on my bike, the only thing I can hear, is the swish of the wind, And the hum and whirring of the Pedals, as my bike and I, we glide up The hill, and down the hill, and Around the posts that are meant To keep the cars from disturbing, this Peaceful walking path A while later, we crest a hill, now Having past the town, I see the work Of the persistent wind, the clouds Now whipped into a curling wave, Of pink and blue-black, spilling Over the horizon, behind the red-roofed Country houses, which are strangely Reminiscent of those old, red, barns Which would sit abandoned in Fields of perpetual wheat, and, Through the turning of the seasons, Would rot away into timbers, with No one left to remember, what They were, or why they remain Now we have ridden in a loop, my Bike clicks as I change gears, to Crest a hill and coast down, at high Speed, between the guard rails and The road, with the wind kicking Up behind me and whisking an Upcoming tree in to a fluttery Flurry of leaves and branches, while Below a stream cuts a field, and, Skirting a pen, passes by a pinto Pony, I think it was, that was just Standing there, as we rode past, Onto the cobblestones and around A bend, the group splits, some going A different route, but I want to come Back the way I came, and I ride Beside the highway, listening to The chirp of the crickets and the Hum of the wheels against the Cold, pavement, while up the hill The verdant pines bob their bows, Up and down, waving, waving, The crashing blue-black wave has Rolled, on past the tower now, it Is crashing down over the silent Sentinels, and I watch quietly as The wind rolls down the hill, and Whirls some leaves, making the Grass flicker in the setting sun.
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As the laser rays from Science City lit up the night sky in a resplendent rush of colours, I watched on,  quietly , from the balcony; my mind racing back to the class 9 Basics of Economics book and to that class. Utility. A major concept in economics. I had understood it so well then. I had paid full attention to the teacher when she had explained that once I had had a spoonful of Biriyani, a little bit of my hunger was satiated and I would enjoy the next spoonful a little bit less than the first. That was how utility operated, marginal utility diminishing with every spoonful. Today, as the rays light up the sky, I think of him, and of the principle of utility. Does the principle apply to first love as well, as it does to the first taste of Biriyani? As love's bittersweet concoction explodes, does it render the following loves as only marginally utilitarian then? As the first rush, first blush fades, as love's faces change,  do we begin to get satiated a little less than the first time? And is it really because we are already a bit full, a little satiated?   Or is it because the hunger gnaws on, craving that first rush, once again?
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 10:10 PM UTC
Economics of Love
I was told about the goodness of men, Their valour, fortitude and chivalry Riding in on gleaming horseback. They would lead poorer souls into battle, Liberate distressed ladies from gilded cages And stave away the beasts of sin. When I heard these marvelous tales A fierce hunger awoke within me. I began to search for an ivory tower To lock myself in That a man so great might come to find me. I thought that I had met such a man His armour resplendent, His smile easy and compliments quick. He led me forth with promises of fortune. He presented me with crimson roses, And oft he sang to me in sweet voice. I was satiated, my hunger quelled With what I thought to be a golden hero. But as the roses waned and his voice wilted, I found that he had faults and secrets like any other- That his bravery was bruised with cowardice. In fact, he was absolutely ordinary, And as God-fearing as the rest of us.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM UTC
Valour
Every sunrise is a new awakening Illuminating the intellect with power To dispel darkness from the world Embracing every heart with its warmth And nurturing love to full blown flowers Making this celestial garden resplendent Its beautiful rays prancing in every particle Holding the brightness of the sun, within
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 7:16 AM UTC
The Sun
Soothing, sensational, elegant as the harp, Semblance, integument, covering of the tarp, Ebullient, vivacious, precision of the mind, Vehement, appetent, keen & one of a kind, Perfervid, chocolate katydid, desirable & luscious taste, Delectable, ambrosial, palatable & consumed with haste, Sybaritic, voluptuous, enticing to the senses, Libidinous, hedonic, enriched untightened hinges, Efficacious, puissant, robust delight to the eye, Potent, consequential, immeasurable symbol of the sky, Pulchritudinous, gorgeous, magnificent as the autumn sun, Resplendent, vivid, lustrous as a diamond-lithographed gun, Sympathetic, affectionate, condoling soul of a angel, Altruistic, benignant, warmhearted with no mangle, Serenity, tranquility, composure of divine peace, Harmonious, amicable, placid as the slow moving creek...
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Jul 6, 2012
Jul 6, 2012 at 6:46 PM UTC
Jovial Thoughts, Genial Mind...
Remember The last time We were in Dallas together That place where We met We loved and We lived and where We were so very alive in Our time There in the beautiful city Resplendent and Refined Where we spent Our moments in love in life and the quiet vibrant Love of Life Remember That last time We went back home to Dallas On that day we awoke in the early morning When I asked if you were ready to leave You stepped gracefully to embrace me You said We had time Do you think We might... please You knowing surely without a doubt you never needed to plead We made love like We knew that We meant it We made love that isn't made fast We made love in the joys of pleasing each other A love that would always however still last We soon then were on our way on a beautiful bright late Fall day To see someone back home You there then golden and glorious Happy and smiling Sipping on a Sunkist citrus soda We put the car on cruise and We sailed away Slipping quickly from the rustic western country To merge swiftly into the flow of the magnificent city Toward the inbound expressway Remember the majestic towering skyscrapers as we made the loop around downtown The red flying Pegasus still flying on as the emblem of Our hometown Reunion Tower and the magic of light The Top of the Dome Club at the top of the world Such wonderful times at the top of Our life Remember Our date there when We were yet still young that lasted the afternoon Throughout the evening and all that beautiful night long For You then my Lady A perfect Chardonnay wine For me Johnny Walker on the rocks All to perfectly bind the heart and mind To a wondrous moment Overswept yet fixed in time You by my side as I always had hoped Like that very last time We were in Dallas together back home We made our stop to meet with a doctor friend He knew what I could never believe and what I never wanted to have had to comprehend You were gone by measures You were gone by degree You were going and near hopelessly gone unto me Yet I still hoped and believed The last time We went back home to Dallas together again But still on the way back from Our bright shining city to what would become the darkest of desolations You still were happy or so it seemed You were bright and beautiful like in a perfect dream We stopped at a restaurant I ate a lot...but You did not You stepped away for a minute and then I met you at the car When We got back to that place where together We last lived We embraced and You said again... please Surely You never would have ever needed to plead We first lay there together a moment to recover Our strength Entwined together You and me Then We there were immersed within that precious moment When all of beautiful intimate art is expressed in life And all of love becomes perfectly tragic art There is where I felt the trickle of Your tears as they fell down onto my chest And then there upon my heart After that last time We were back home in Dallas together. Remember Dallas. We always will have Dallas. -R. 7/17/17 -LA -4MAR
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Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 3:57 PM UTC
-In Dallas Together
Remember The last time We were in Dallas together That place where We met We loved and We lived and where We were so very alive in Our time There in the beautiful city Resplendent and Refined Where we spent Our moments in love in life and the quiet vibrant Love of Life Remember That last time We went back home to Dallas On that day we awoke in the early morning When I asked if you were ready to leave You stepped gracefully to embrace me You said We had time Do you think We might... please You knowing surely without a doubt you never needed to plead We made love like We knew that We meant it We made love that isn't made fast We made love in the joys of pleasing each other A love that would always however still last We soon then were on our way on a beautiful bright late Fall day To see someone back home You there then golden and glorious Happy and smiling Sipping on a Sunkist citrus soda We put the car on cruise and We sailed away Slipping quickly from the rustic western country To merge swiftly into the flow of the magnificent city Toward the inbound expressway Remember the majestic towering skyscrapers as we made the loop around downtown The red flying Pegasus still flying on as the emblem of Our hometown Reunion Tower and the magic of light The Top of the Dome Club at the top of the world Such wonderful times at the top of Our life Remember Our date there when We were yet still young that lasted the afternoon Throughout the evening and all that beautiful night long For You then my Lady A perfect Chardonnay wine For me Johnny Walker on the rocks All to perfectly bind the heart and mind To a wondrous moment Overswept yet fixed in time You by my side as I always had hoped Like that very last time We were in Dallas together back home We made our stop to meet with a doctor friend He knew what I could never believe and what I never wanted to have had to comprehend You were gone by measures You were gone by degree You were going and near hopelessly gone unto me Yet I still hoped and believed The last time We went back home to Dallas together again But still on the way back from Our bright shining city to what would become the darkest of desolations You still were happy or so it seemed You were bright and beautiful like in a perfect dream We stopped at a restaurant I ate a lot...but You did not You stepped away for a minute and then I met you at the car When We got back to that place where together We last lived We embraced and You said again... please Surely You never would have ever needed to plead We first lay there together a moment to recover Our strength Entwined together You and me Then We there were immersed within that precious moment When all of beautiful intimate art is expressed in life And all of love becomes perfectly tragic art There is where I felt the trickle of Your tears as they fell down onto my chest And then there upon my heart After that last time We were back home in Dallas together. Remember Dallas. We always will have Dallas. -R. 7/17/17 -LA -4MAR
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Standing resplendent in a baroque topiary, Under a florid arbour as an arched canopy, Her pulchritude in moonlight, is the plenary Picture of, the muse, the Goddess Calliope. My heart’s reminiscence of our first encounter, Like a fragrance in my mind wafts around, Whose Pareidolia in every-thing sketches her Face, to which it is entirely spellbound. Were the Fates to keep us apart, As the sculptor Pygmalion I would be. But Aphrodite won’t breathe life into my art, For not my Galatea, I love my Calliope.
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 11:06 AM UTC
In diligo per Calliope
* ~for Bill T. Jones~ two poets, laureates both, on the nature of hunger, they discourse, in temple, where sacrificing is to living arts I was there, hungry in every aspect, seeking wisdom of the hungering nature of human. examine the word, hunger, hardly a rolling off the tongue mellifluous. you growl it from the gut, in gowned resplendent ugliness, go ahead, try it, it’s coarse and powerful insistent. awoken empty but for the hunger, hungover from dancing words and imagery not mine, now mine, maddeningly demanding my dutiful attentions, as if hunger was the master, me, obedient pupil. the clean white slate the IPad re-presents repeatedly, insulted that I have yet to crayon color it with the coherence of hunger-exhaled words, dismissive that I am but an also-ran, my village of lexical too unsophisticated, the page addressed yet unplanned, Apple white is the color of the starving artist.
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May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 1:44 PM UTC
the hunger for hunger/white the color of starvation
my father sat in a pool of mid-morning sunshine on the raised patio overlooking the garden an open book in his lap the dog asleep at his side the lightest of clouds decorating the horizon and a whisper of leaves his only distraction as i rushed to the kitchen for a hastily made better-than-nothing version of a flat white that i wouldn't even enjoy only ten minutes to spare before yet another meeting i paused for a moment to take in this scene resplendent as he was peacefully present behind the radiance of diaphanous lace breeze-rippled curtains suffused with sunlight a pertinent reminder of something which i didn't have time to consider
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Aug 3, 2023
Aug 3, 2023 at 11:53 AM UTC
his only distraction
let's make a deal. uncap the bottle, discover my greatest work- a soliloquy on sentience, performed to an empty room. the walls are bleeding lead poisoning again and i am leaving logic behind. the air is crisp on my wretched skin and as the world dies its aching breath helps me to finally feel alive. i am pure white. let me rise, enlightened. as i float, breathless, i can feel, finally, the weight of my bones. make me into a sparrow, feast upon my marrow, so i can become porous- but leave my hollow mind whole. idolize me. spin my disease into pure beauty. a stone-cold rose grounds the coffin for my dreams, liberating me from responsibility. awaken me. strip my heavy corpse of its wings, eviscerate the breath from my lungs cease my tangibility oh glory, build me up strip me down to my knuckles and teeth, to the weathered bone. remove the bloodstains from my home. if i bleed now it will be beautiful when i fall, i will glorify the cement, decorate it with my shining insides when i come down it will be stunning it will be dreadful and i will be resplendent -but the delivery won't change the content candy wrapping can't cover up the stench of death- i have given up on purging the necrosis from my tissue i have found this tantalizing muse once again, and once more i will let her put cigarettes out on my sorry skin. i've grown to love the smell, that acrid poison it almost covers up the scars she leaves- if i can make dying sound beautiful then to hell with us all if you could romanticise suicide you'd be rotting too
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 9:14 PM UTC
poetically pathetic
let's make a deal. uncap the bottle, discover my greatest work- a soliloquy on sentience, performed to an empty room. the walls are bleeding lead poisoning again and i am leaving logic behind. the air is crisp on my wretched skin and as the world dies its aching breath helps me to finally feel alive. i am pure white. let me rise, enlightened. as i float, breathless, i can feel, finally, the weight of my bones. make me into a sparrow, feast upon my marrow, so i can become porous- but leave my hollow mind whole. idolize me. spin my disease into pure beauty. a stone-cold rose grounds the coffin for my dreams, liberating me from responsibility. awaken me. strip my heavy corpse of its wings, eviscerate the breath from my lungs cease my tangibility oh glory, build me up strip me down to my knuckles and teeth, to the weathered bone. remove the bloodstains from my home. if i bleed now it will be beautiful when i fall, i will glorify the cement, decorate it with my shining insides when i come down it will be stunning it will be dreadful and i will be resplendent -but the delivery won't change the content candy wrapping can't cover up the stench of death- i have given up on purging the necrosis from my tissue i have found this tantalizing muse once again, and once more i will let her put cigarettes out on my sorry skin. i've grown to love the smell, that acrid poison it almost covers up the scars she leaves- if i can make dying sound beautiful then to hell with us all if you could romanticise suicide you'd be rotting too
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Verdant eyes, translucent pearls speak in silent witness, wounds unfurl meaning revealed, interrupted girl. Safe in solidarity prolific eccentricity, the scandal of particularity. Pouting mouth grief - filled lips alluring, set sail a thousand ships; tempt me to leave harbor. Arousing euphoria as such, resistance, amity and distance amour sans touch her sense of humor transcends, appeasing the mind’s thirst a vogue sultana, seasoned swagger hair resplendent flame, alternating cool, black asymmetrical coiffure; nonconforming demure the renegade metaphor - singular for sure, no cure. Muted vanity, bathos piercing the jaded circumference of banality; pale protagonist servitude the sapient palaver of the urbane, covered patina of pretense, induced coercion, the commodity self appearing abased wearing lesions of lassitude. Artistic chattel - eminent domain preempting genius, subsidiary of consuming narcissism external locus of control; surrender to the tentative, fettered pendant, Venus in chains arrested visionary bane sterile savant, edifice of pain. The soubrette, dubious incarnation gravid ingénue of prevarication imperceptible venue - theatre of the absurd; withdrawn siren, solitude of necessity - skin - slender veil of shame, nearness loitering redemption; moments envisage the appointment with the soul; ambiguity eschews clarity awareness; ineluctable anxiety, imago - centric confession sacred pardon, seraphic venation intravenous textures presume, the tactile margins of liberty. Therapeutic retrieval, Sanguine, beneath the portico of individuation; Your smile I hear, recovered autonomy blessed emancipation, The scandal of particularity; peculiar treasure ironically captured film, canvas, prose profundity. Ciphering as an ambling book, I peruse you, rendered captive hypnotic avant-garde fiction, spectator of denuded opacity analogous reflection, I Mirror you. A modest proposal - pontificate the imperative, forgo the disposal, adapt your narrative, the scandal of particularity - resonate the echo, cogitate our propinquity Love, imagination and destiny. ©2008 & 2011 W.S Warner
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Sep 9, 2011
Sep 9, 2011 at 1:20 AM UTC
The Scandal of Particularity
Verdant eyes, translucent pearls speak in silent witness, wounds unfurl meaning revealed, interrupted girl. Safe in solidarity prolific eccentricity, the scandal of particularity. Pouting mouth grief - filled lips alluring, set sail a thousand ships; tempt me to leave harbor. Arousing euphoria as such, resistance, amity and distance amour sans touch her sense of humor transcends, appeasing the mind’s thirst a vogue sultana, seasoned swagger hair resplendent flame, alternating cool, black asymmetrical coiffure; nonconforming demure the renegade metaphor - singular for sure, no cure. Muted vanity, bathos piercing the jaded circumference of banality; pale protagonist servitude the sapient palaver of the urbane, covered patina of pretense, induced coercion, the commodity self appearing abased wearing lesions of lassitude. Artistic chattel - eminent domain preempting genius, subsidiary of consuming narcissism external locus of control; surrender to the tentative, fettered pendant, Venus in chains arrested visionary bane sterile savant, edifice of pain. The soubrette, dubious incarnation gravid ingénue of prevarication imperceptible venue - theatre of the absurd; withdrawn siren, solitude of necessity - skin - slender veil of shame, nearness loitering redemption; moments envisage the appointment with the soul; ambiguity eschews clarity awareness; ineluctable anxiety, imago - centric confession sacred pardon, seraphic venation intravenous textures presume, the tactile margins of liberty. Therapeutic retrieval, Sanguine, beneath the portico of individuation; Your smile I hear, recovered autonomy blessed emancipation, The scandal of particularity; peculiar treasure ironically captured film, canvas, prose profundity. Ciphering as an ambling book, I peruse you, rendered captive hypnotic avant-garde fiction, spectator of denuded opacity analogous reflection, I Mirror you. A modest proposal - pontificate the imperative, forgo the disposal, adapt your narrative, the scandal of particularity - resonate the echo, cogitate our propinquity Love, imagination and destiny. ©2008 & 2011 W.S Warner
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