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"ripens" poems
Aye, Vladimir, just before I met thee I hath been sure I hath loved him- no matter as queer as it may hath seemed! Thou knowest not, how much tears I hath shredded and noticest not, how t'eir vanity made me look dead! But why-why then didst thou appear- and wokest within me t'is secret fear- with understanding in thy eyes, and with a love t'at is to me so dear. Why-why t'en thou left me, left me again! Whenst I got to knowest thou but for a moment, ah, with not so much of an endearment- afforded ourselves only t'at streak of lovely, but still weak of too a bond, or any pact, of young novelty. And everything was corrupt As soon as thou re-released me into t'ese qualms of insincerity wherest I am still tossed about, guilty. And hushed, hushed always, like a trivial, parallel wind! As though my dear heart's bathed in sin and of a soul t'at is so thin So worthy not of thy soulfulness and sweet dreams of many happinesses. Ah, Vladimir! If only thou could knowest T'is thread of passion thou hath sowed and how my entirety seekest being loved By thee, and only by thee, o my rain! As thou art but king to my sneaky moon and my very own kingdom of stars Not him-not him, o t'is I entreat, albeit his wits hath been but to me so sweet. Still he be a mistake, ah, a chilly autumn mistake to me, from whom I didst just turn awake. Probably thou would hath loved me; imperishably and blindingly, until all thy superb charms and wit t'at wert but tortured and unbending shalt be left within me lit; and thus leaving our fiery souls entwined with winds t'at art even sweeter yet might be torturously everlasting. Vladimir, Vladimir, oh my only Vladimir! Thou altogether belongst with me; here, so unjustly yet heavenly And in our hands is cherished our love, o, so wickedly-but fatefully! How I longst to be thy lover, dearest- and be so comely as thy only flower; which ripens thickly in thy winter and blooms robustly, in thy summer.
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Mar 20, 2013
Mar 20, 2013 at 7:07 AM UTC
Guilt
Aye, Vladimir, just before I met thee I hath been sure I hath loved him- no matter as queer as it may hath seemed! Thou knowest not, how much tears I hath shredded and noticest not, how t'eir vanity made me look dead! But why-why then didst thou appear- and wokest within me t'is secret fear- with understanding in thy eyes, and with a love t'at is to me so dear. Why-why t'en thou left me, left me again! Whenst I got to knowest thou but for a moment, ah, with not so much of an endearment- afforded ourselves only t'at streak of lovely, but still weak of too a bond, or any pact, of young novelty. And everything was corrupt As soon as thou re-released me into t'ese qualms of insincerity wherest I am still tossed about, guilty. And hushed, hushed always, like a trivial, parallel wind! As though my dear heart's bathed in sin and of a soul t'at is so thin So worthy not of thy soulfulness and sweet dreams of many happinesses. Ah, Vladimir! If only thou could knowest T'is thread of passion thou hath sowed and how my entirety seekest being loved By thee, and only by thee, o my rain! As thou art but king to my sneaky moon and my very own kingdom of stars Not him-not him, o t'is I entreat, albeit his wits hath been but to me so sweet. Still he be a mistake, ah, a chilly autumn mistake to me, from whom I didst just turn awake. Probably thou would hath loved me; imperishably and blindingly, until all thy superb charms and wit t'at wert but tortured and unbending shalt be left within me lit; and thus leaving our fiery souls entwined with winds t'at art even sweeter yet might be torturously everlasting. Vladimir, Vladimir, oh my only Vladimir! Thou altogether belongst with me; here, so unjustly yet heavenly And in our hands is cherished our love, o, so wickedly-but fatefully! How I longst to be thy lover, dearest- and be so comely as thy only flower; which ripens thickly in thy winter and blooms robustly, in thy summer.
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Technology: how I love you and loathe you in the same breath your phonic ears listening out for a babble of distress from a childs vest sleeping soundly in the next room your ten tentacle arms purge my words and shelter emotions across vast distances for long lost friends to find comfort in 140 characters your innovations are the respirator the breathing lungs the beating heart the bionic limbs that help without want to walk again if only you could just once guess my words correctly just once is all I ask I invited that girl for a pint not a riot and the black berry ripens in the east is now an improvised IED Technology: will you ever be perfect? or will you always be evolving how will you know that you have not stepped back to be overshadowed by an ape punching numbers searching for Shots and finding Pints in the middle of a dusty Riot
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM UTC
Shot Pint Riot
Tightness invades Hard Aching Ghoulish Blackness smothers joy Strings of dark energies crawl Hopelessness Penetrates down, down, down Mind marathons madness music Pain ripens like a withered rose Physical Plane Arduous Psychic Pain Perpetuated In this hallowed Hell
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 10:32 PM UTC
Psychic Pain
Elephants come in colors in elephant parade If it’s green, you wait till it ripens If it’s blue, you cheer it up If it’s red it's just like you and I - it's probably embarrassed And if you’re wondering what you’re standing under - gray, big and protecting you from the rain – it's an umbrellaphant
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 7:51 PM UTC
elephant parade
If the roots are dry it is to be made moist Let it nourish Marinade the roots with moisture Keep the roots within To the ground for moisture Fly high, ok it is But do not let the flight so high above a wall of the horizon That it is hard to be on the ground, to the mother earth Keep it above if you do for sure Yet to the ground of course And nourish it Nourish it from the ground Nourishment gives fruit Don't indulge to the fruit for long Fruits are beautiful They get proper nourishment from the roots of existence To be realized is the essence of nourishment The nourishment... It does come from the ground The fruit realizes it for sure So it bows down to the ground as it ripens Step into the nature of being Welcome to the realization Of nature Welcome the nature Of realization The trees always realize The truth of the roots they are in Realize it Humans are walking trees.
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Apr 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 at 9:54 PM UTC
Walking trees
...............his between    chains & carnations my silent disavowal to the night the tethered  ropes of humanity the pulp that ripens & rots    before the first bite     before he get’s to have it all      the promise of an america   (lost era)     we all fall        amongst the bricks & poets    the machines & hoplessness      the starvation of the heart             once we could all   finally reach across the earth     it falls it ruins of rhyme with too much reason   too much of everything       left the future with nothing yet here we lay      dreaming of a big pay day    ******* hope     from between my legs i love you i love you          ‘til I go away 6/12/11 b4 midnite sunday
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Jun 14, 2011
Jun 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM UTC
carnations of chains
A full Moon on the horizon of a powder-blue sky The gentle breeze of Dawn passes me by, caressing my cheeks like a lost lover, soft as the clouds which in the distance hover. I turn around, my back to the Moon: the melody of daybreak begins its silent tune. The first gossamer threads of Dawn's embrace, cobwebs of brightness, Light made of lace. A lonely bird towards the Moon flies, hoping in vain to stop its goodbyes; and my romantic soul melancholically sighs, attempting to imprint the image in my eyes. As the sunrise ripens, a celestial fruit, it robs the lunar ambience, grabbing its loot. And it basks in the riches that it slowly steals, in brilliant ombre shades, as the Moon - defeated - reels. The night's companion quietly fades, ethereal pallor on now greyish shades; no more powder-blue, grey turns to white - it's the bed of clouds, prepared for the nightlight. You've done your job, illuminating the way, to travellers and dreamers, lest they go astray; Rest for a while, take a little break, until Sun retreats - then you can awake'. The Poets' Lamp, nocturnal glow, you'll shine again, with stars in tow.
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Aug 28, 2020
Aug 28, 2020 at 12:20 PM UTC
Full Moon and Dawn
Thy bower is finished, fairest! Fit bower for hunter's bride-- Where old woods overshadow The green savanna's side. I've wandered long, and wandered far, And never have I met, In all this lovely western land, A spot so lovely yet. But I shall think it fairer, When thou art come to bless, With thy sweet smile and silver voice, Its silent loveliness. For thee the wild grape glistens, On sunny knoll and tree, The slim papaya ripens Its yellow fruit for thee. For thee the duck, on glassy stream, The prairie-fowl shall die, My rifle for thy feast shall bring The wild swan from the sky. The forest's leaping panther, Fierce, beautiful, and fleet, Shall yield his spotted hide to be A carpet for thy feet. I know, for thou hast told me, Thy maiden love of flowers; Ah, those that deck thy gardens Are pale compared with ours. When our wide woods and mighty lawns Bloom to the April skies, The earth has no more gorgeous sight To show to human eyes. In meadows red with blossoms, All summer long, the bee Murmurs, and loads his yellow thighs, For thee, my love, and me. Or wouldst thou gaze at tokens Of ages long ago-- Our old oaks stream with mosses, And sprout with mistletoe; And mighty vines, like serpents, climb The giant sycamore; And trunks, o'erthrown for centuries, Cumber the forest floor; And in the great savanna, The solitary mound, Built by the elder world, o'erlooks The loneliness around. Come, thou hast not forgotten Thy pledge and promise quite, With many blushes murmured, Beneath the evening light. Come, the young violets crowd my door, Thy earliest look to win, And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. All day the red-bird warbles, Upon the mulberry near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear.
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The Hunter's Serenade
Thy bower is finished, fairest! Fit bower for hunter's bride-- Where old woods overshadow The green savanna's side. I've wandered long, and wandered far, And never have I met, In all this lovely western land, A spot so lovely yet. But I shall think it fairer, When thou art come to bless, With thy sweet smile and silver voice, Its silent loveliness. For thee the wild grape glistens, On sunny knoll and tree, The slim papaya ripens Its yellow fruit for thee. For thee the duck, on glassy stream, The prairie-fowl shall die, My rifle for thy feast shall bring The wild swan from the sky. The forest's leaping panther, Fierce, beautiful, and fleet, Shall yield his spotted hide to be A carpet for thy feet. I know, for thou hast told me, Thy maiden love of flowers; Ah, those that deck thy gardens Are pale compared with ours. When our wide woods and mighty lawns Bloom to the April skies, The earth has no more gorgeous sight To show to human eyes. In meadows red with blossoms, All summer long, the bee Murmurs, and loads his yellow thighs, For thee, my love, and me. Or wouldst thou gaze at tokens Of ages long ago-- Our old oaks stream with mosses, And sprout with mistletoe; And mighty vines, like serpents, climb The giant sycamore; And trunks, o'erthrown for centuries, Cumber the forest floor; And in the great savanna, The solitary mound, Built by the elder world, o'erlooks The loneliness around. Come, thou hast not forgotten Thy pledge and promise quite, With many blushes murmured, Beneath the evening light. Come, the young violets crowd my door, Thy earliest look to win, And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. All day the red-bird warbles, Upon the mulberry near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear.
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Honesty Is a thing to be cared To be nurtured and to be loved And to be seeded around It is a blissful umbrella That covers you from rough sunshine It makes a man A true human And himself a moral story Honesty is a virtue virtue is morality In his ***** it blooms And samar ripens for generations
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 1:30 PM UTC
Honesty
The falling leaves of fallen hearts We have greatness in what we feel Time alone will reveal its presence Time can also break a waiting heart November is a passionate fellow But passion isn't about crushing lips And hugs and kisses, sensual feelings Nor climaxing the zenith of soughs Passion is a balance of what we feel Don't feel and want to so eagerly feel  Did no one ever kiss you so tenderly Don't press them so tightly Make them moist and air free Slow sweetness starts passion Passion hurts when its rushed Gush! My Sweet November  Great November victors passions For it always ascends in elevating Love is not a power struggle Its more than mere kissing Victory is sometimes found in surrender The slower vengeance ripens The sweeter when plucked You're are my Sweet November I love you from here to the moon and beyond Really slowly
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 4:37 AM UTC
"Love You Real Slow"
Nature makes a peach, But man decides just how That peach will be, Feel free to graze, In the supermarket Of your choice, But, If you insist On the best, Wait 'til all the others, Have been finally consumed, Then proceed, To a singular and magic place, Where a special man, Sells a special peach, A peach so special That it ripens on the tree, Ripens to perfection, But you must consume it Straight away. It's never with us Longer than two weeks, But it's a treat That you'll not want To miss.
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 9:37 PM UTC
A Peach is Not a Peach
sweetest writer, climb forth from the deep trench in my heart's wound and quench my thirst for love dear doctor of written expression, incant the melody, cure this malady with verses that expose the affinity that is inherit between her and I smith of words, hammer out a spell to please a vampire with a quick, orangy sunset to transpire wield the blade of dusk against the morning star until it expires as we conspire to set our bed on fire there is no consequence too dire for my one and only desire master lyricist, compose the sensual phrases a song in whispers that ripens her delicious fruit until ready for savoring and last, to the dear poet within, feed the lust filled inclinations of creatures that hunger for each other's bare skin allow your words to manifest her sensuality alike a tinderbox so I may then ignite her fantasies!
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM UTC
dear poet
We stand unrobed where daylight splits the air, Her thighs a bramble, mine are smooth and spare. The mirror's glare reveals what we both share: One breast a plum, its twin a rounder pear. Time’s cursive scrawls on skin we’ve learned to bare— Her stretchmarks ripple, tides, my palms embrace. No clues hide the faint silver in her hair— My thumb traces the laugh-lines on her face.  Past phantoms fade—two clocks now beat as one. Her skin, once chilled, now thaws beneath my sighs; My stony silence ripens into sun; Time-frozen hearts melt in each other's eyes. Your mouth—a fig split ripe—now drinks my moan: We fuse to one fierce sun, no dusk, no dawn.
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Feb 8, 2025
Feb 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM UTC
A Chronology Of Our Flesh
Leafless branch Desiccated trunk Withered carcass But, the root Yet, beneath the soil Disseminating The fruit ripens On the leafless branch Harassed by assailing winds Hence the scent, if, the roots last 4/21/13
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Aug 31, 2014
Aug 31, 2014 at 6:18 PM UTC
Leafless Branch!
Love is not lust tho' lust may lead to love As seedlings basked in sunlight spring to flowers, Young blooms may make a golden treasured trove Where tender tulips kiss in huddled bowers Love ripens like straw-nested berry fields, Plump, juicy, flavoursome, and blushing red As nature's bounteous sweet harvest reveals Her shapely form resplendent in her bed Love is an acorn to the mighty oak, Deep-rooted and unbounded by the sky; Love ripples like a genteel puddled cloak Laid bare to keep a silken petal dry     Love is but love and life is but to love:     So poets write and lovers seek to prove
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 9:49 AM UTC
Lust for Love
Wherever peaches grow I go and pick 'em. When they get ripe I try and swipe 'em. The farmer runs out with a shotgun and wonders where's the       varmint gone? I'm hiding by the railroad tracks stacking the peaches I've       found. Then a freight train about a mile long rolls by hauling a bucket       of rain. I hop aboard while beautiful clouds gather to the north. I put my peaches in the bucket and lug it to a hidden part of       the train. The rain begins, the night looms in, it's summer and it's       thoughts and warm. To the clacking rumble and the patter I close my eyes and       dream. An earthquake swallows up the people who wear horrible       masks of fright as their daily tasks are trampled. In a favorite movie theater an illumined lady puts her hand in       mine, warm mouths, breath, skin, hair wing-soft, whole       bodies, wind, bare. I open my eyes at sunrise there's a steady glow of light       around. If you can believe in God, you can believe the mountains go       from purple to green. While the last partier meanders home to bed the first farmer is       up to milk his bread. Fruit of the world ripens audibly and cities make a silent,       distant sound. Lonely guy stretches, rubs his eyes, pees out a passing train,       has a breakfast of peaches and rainwater.
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM UTC
Peaches
Feeling the rain more than hearing it 6:24 dark and threatening It’s so cold in this ******* basement 2 hours and 36 minutes away Crouching in plain sight The work day. Delivering food for the food bank, which is punk as **** frankly, It’s a wasteland out here And people need to eat (A human right, if I understand the constitution correctly. Happiness is a lost pursuit in a body that’s hungry. You say food is a privilege <yes, you said it and believed it>, I say it’s life and liberty.) Two 15 pound bags at a time In exchange for baggage a mile high Stacking cred against labor to build tone in your thighs My joints wonder how young I think I am Remembering the time my leg seized up and that old man just stared until I saw him see me and I smiled, I’m so silly Hurry before all this pain ripens to taste Slug it down like tequila Try not to make a face Born at the finish line, running in place. 2 hours and 26 minutes to make the coffee and absorb the caffeine While I’m still me And there’s nothing else to be
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Dec 6, 2021
Dec 6, 2021 at 6:50 AM UTC
Monday morning workday blues
"Let me do it for the many worlds I simultaneously exist as birds and bees, beasts of pray, majestic tree or tiny organism human beings of diverse persuasions , male , female, inhabiting in parallel time lines, sinner and saint seeking salvation together" He delves deep in the heart of blue, fathomless, abyss, a country new where meanings differ, voices are petering to the valley of silence. The rivers are silver bands, mountain peaks soft pillows, the clouds sheets fresh and crisp, spread gently over the undulating water bed of seas, so inviting, soporific, fire lovingly ripens the fruits of temptation that hangs from branches, drink the bubbly white wine of rain pouring in to your cup, breezes are nice silk, towels to dry one softly after sweating too much, when ends the frenzied search through the mazes, for each other, in the play ground of wolves  and panthers, friendly beyond belief.  Day and night, one comes to know are made from the same cloth, wearing a day easy is difficult as evening comes closer, it gets soiled, however careful one is, needs to stuff it in a container the dark sea, tame like a bucketful of water, it takes so long to clean. Morning,  time to wear the new dress,  embark on a new day again we are men and women here, creatures of circumstances, in disguises don't ever pretend there is a world real, and you exist here just for fun like a fish coming up for air, now he surfaces with a sly happy smile.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 1:24 PM UTC
Just be here, exist in a secret world for real
* Blue stones shines in your eyes; Green scape blossoms on your cheeks; Red cherry ripens on your lips; White dove wings on your ******* With all the blues, ever greens, reddish  and whiteness you are  colorful..... most cheerful........ * By Williamsji Maveli Email:[email protected]
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 2:40 AM UTC
The colorful.......
Has arrived. Silent rows stand breathless, Sweating in the dense heat, Of August. Blackbirds do not yet circle; The sheaves are still too young, Kernels burgeoning sweetness, Hiding from the ravagers Soon to come. The tall field, burdened in the heat Broods over tassels brown, Ripens corn beneath a yellow sun, Waits the pickers' marauding hands, The tractor-roar of silage foragers, And relentless tearing of plows.
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 2:30 PM UTC
Corn
Wind speaks through longing and desolation while the skies roars with thunderous intuition The Divine leads the way toward the decent through transcendence the void surrenders, magnificent Moments turn to questions weighed against the silence Wisdom circles back in quiet lessons where wishes fuse with value and honest hope Time will speak the conclusion and when divine power ripens in season My soul'll evolves toward acceptance wishing all my breath becomes celebration.
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Sep 21, 2025
Sep 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM UTC
Wind
The still English heat, The ***** promise of July the 1st Leaves the grass a mottled yellow And the dappled shade of the purple birch Almost holy. Specks of precise and glittering pollen Rest upon beds of browning foxgloves. Cats are left collapsed, Blissed out, lulled into dreams of this motionless sun shining forever. I feel your hands in my stomach And I'm hungry for your grip As the hot sky only ripens My daydreams of your laugh. The thick scent of withering hyacinth Is the curve of your back, the taste of your sweat. A stain of certainty is baked in By July the 1st. Novocain for my infected English heart. Whispering the start of a love that will be kicking leaves through October And sharing warmth through December.
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Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 7:34 AM UTC
July 1st
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Not stated ( though it’s understood ) she will not say a word like dust swept under a rug. Good Housekeeping. His anger ripens into the bruise she wears upon her skin a jewellery of fear written upon pale flesh his hieroglyph of hatred. Love’s lustre tarnished from the first the tattoo of boot and fist. Holds her hand under the grill until her eyes bulge gulls screaming overhead. The bilge of his vile vomiting insults upon her scared face. “Slut...slut...slut” his screams in a rut matching each word to each rising fist a blow by blow account. He the liturgist in the nightly rites of violence uglier than can be imagined. Lilies cower in a vase. He the high priest of her despair. An ugly bruise upon her soul. Her eyes now null and void slit wrists upon polished table tops in a room now sunlit...now unlit.
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Aug 17, 2019
Aug 17, 2019 at 3:15 PM UTC
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Your sweet breaths and perfumes provoke so, have I found love in this drift of circumstance? DO you love me? If so, pray, swear it on the tireless sea, whose thrashing cold, intemperate waters will last forever. I swear it freely, on the sea, on breath, and on life itself - may both be forfit should my vow prove shallow perjury. As pronounced vows become curses, if they be lies, truth only ripens, its harvest yielding the sweetest fruit.
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Mar 12, 2023
Mar 12, 2023 at 11:44 AM UTC
drifts and promises