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"ripest" poems
Maybe it's for you but not for me, but who knows? When will the time stop and give way to the paradoxical space that will shove the soul out of its life, eventually? Tend to think that the archetypal white collar worker is what you should be before you delve into the reality? Jumped into the ripest chord of a void song, and you found nothing but truth and perplexity? Threw yourself into the wilderness but you are still deprived of happiness, only peace, filled with emptiness? Crashed the mental into bi-polarizing set of uncertainty and sanity, driving everything towards the ravine of confusion and misinterpretation? Dropped the last sweat of joy and contentment before you discover the eventuality, pessimistic value of the whole context?   Until the ultimate full stop appears, will you understand what is the whole story is all about?
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Mar 31, 2018
Mar 31, 2018 at 6:56 AM UTC
Maybe it's for you but not for me, but who knows?
Twist my gaze to the side Through the copper-and chocolate curtain of my hair Through the sea of faces And one amongst hundreds I could pluck you, like the ripest apple From the lowest branch. And in this ocean of bobbing heads Of flapping lips and empty eyes I'm just floating Just alone, drifting Hoping you'll throw me an emerald glance A lingering lifeline To reel me in from this Crowded loneliness.
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Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 at 9:48 AM UTC
One in a Sea of Faces.
Third weekend in July I love canoeing out on Northwood Lake, early morning hours melting into the pines, as I head toward the island where the wild blueberries lie. Tiny morsels, abundant and packed with the taste of summer and beepollen and freshwater and snow. Minnows nibble my toes, each one a solid worm for the biting, as I slowly fill a one-gallon jug, berry by berry, to use for breakfast pancakes and Belgian waffles cooked golden from the waffle iron. Some of the ripest berries plop into the lake. I swipe them up before bass or sunfish see them; always leaving the green berries behind. Pausing to taste some, they split between my incisors; I marvel at the flavor while a loon’s haunted red eyes stare at nothing. Blueberries split like relationships occasionally do, sour at times, always leaving a taste on your palate. Families, young lovers picnicking on the beach lake, confused couples; they branch off, moonlight silhouetting their outlines; silent elegy softly blossoming downward as their paths skew. They won’t cross again. My jug filled, I oar back to the dock, ears filled with humming of birds, insects, boats; brimming with the bream from berries splitting apart, and the intense silence of blueberry picking in late July.
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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 3:09 PM UTC
Blueberry Picking
.                       .                          .     .             .          .               .        .    .    .     .     .     .     .    .    .      i     stare  at  a  docile  ocean               waveless   sun   accosted            dark and shadow edged            tinned with men's brave            history of misconception     i                                    'Dragonne'.                'Colossuus'.                                        'Cetaecean'.                                                   - Leviathan  ?                        As sure as hope setting sail  -                        Past shoal, past shallow,                                       So each chase begins.                        Lines parsing out,                          Expectations coyly                        Embroidered,                        Entwin-ned.                        -  Leviathan  ?                         Pray please this narrative be drawn :                           Truth for sake of safe harbour;                         Stillness without caution;                         Softly ripening dawn;                         Jupiter and Venus descendant,                         Celestial promise anon ?                                                                         -  Leviathan .                 Violence          the casual violence of life              the worst kind     not casual really   but whats violence anyway       few knew why    why ask why    the few      once  the  dice  flipped  get        its         a flying             a mind            a dunzo game              gravity responds  we hope              hope together sake                              to    gether we   short the freaks   short em' all   them freakin freaks      freaks            i want you I want yours              i want to take  you over                   take control  take over                         29' run        kontrol        all night                                                        day                              long             time                                                                end  time                   everthing happens forfurfor                                      fit                          ur               once and done     (nature)                                          forfeiture                      reason                  or ur other        or ur another                         or ur a altogether reason                                                                               or simple GP          drunkworld                                                                                                       reason                               (nurture)                         surprise my ripest faither -                                                     less                              5 rise  10 run                                                   huh                    up the                   down and dumb             dumb  ber                   right left        left                                                         right thum ber                               number one                                                 number                                                                                                 numb - ber                                    one                                                       ones                                                            another                                                                                                       come                                 under                                                             the                                   (tumb)                                                                                                             .                                                      All Rights Reserved. James R. Morse, NYC  2013.
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 9:48 PM UTC
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.                       .                          .     .             .          .               .        .    .    .     .     .     .     .    .    .      i     stare  at  a  docile  ocean               waveless   sun   accosted            dark and shadow edged            tinned with men's brave            history of misconception     i                                    'Dragonne'.                'Colossuus'.                                        'Cetaecean'.                                                   - Leviathan  ?                        As sure as hope setting sail  -                        Past shoal, past shallow,                                       So each chase begins.                        Lines parsing out,                          Expectations coyly                        Embroidered,                        Entwin-ned.                        -  Leviathan  ?                         Pray please this narrative be drawn :                           Truth for sake of safe harbour;                         Stillness without caution;                         Softly ripening dawn;                         Jupiter and Venus descendant,                         Celestial promise anon ?                                                                         -  Leviathan .                 Violence          the casual violence of life              the worst kind     not casual really   but whats violence anyway       few knew why    why ask why    the few      once  the  dice  flipped  get        its         a flying             a mind            a dunzo game              gravity responds  we hope              hope together sake                              to    gether we   short the freaks   short em' all   them freakin freaks      freaks            i want you I want yours              i want to take  you over                   take control  take over                         29' run        kontrol        all night                                                        day                              long             time                                                                end  time                   everthing happens forfurfor                                      fit                          ur               once and done     (nature)                                          forfeiture                      reason                  or ur other        or ur another                         or ur a altogether reason                                                                               or simple GP          drunkworld                                                                                                       reason                               (nurture)                         surprise my ripest faither -                                                     less                              5 rise  10 run                                                   huh                    up the                   down and dumb             dumb  ber                   right left        left                                                         right thum ber                               number one                                                 number                                                                                                 numb - ber                                    one                                                       ones                                                            another                                                                                                       come                                 under                                                             the                                   (tumb)                                                                                                             .                                                      All Rights Reserved. James R. Morse, NYC  2013.
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500 Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel— Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As ’twere a travelling Mill— He never stops, but slackens Above the Ripest Rose— Partakes without alighting And praises as he goes, Till every spice is tasted— And then his Fairy Gig Reels in remoter atmospheres— And I rejoin my Dog, And He and I, perplex us If positive, ’twere we— Or bore the Garden in the Brain This Curiosity— But He, the best Logician, Refers my clumsy eye— To just vibrating Blossoms! An Exquisite Reply!
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Within my Garden, rides a Bird
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 1:26 PM UTC
In the Pool of the Lost Maiden Song
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Wound with joy and cheer Unaware of the danger near Moments away Racing mind, rather absent Hurry, hurry, hurry-! Outcry echoes throughout the space What searing pain Heat from surface to flesh Red as ripest tomato Forming spots of pale white Oh dear, what plight - Jay M January 8th, 2021
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Jan 8, 2021
Jan 8, 2021 at 1:18 PM UTC
Careless Mistake
Do you also wince at the seeds of a watermelon crawling there inside your mouth? Do you also feel the bile inside begin swelling? No way now it won't come out. I eat only the ripest from the market yet am forced to spit out with haste. All the maggots and vermin seem to target just the fruit I yearn to taste. Life is a malicious prankster and whatever grows are her tools. If you're handed lemons, don't thank her- for the only ones who take it are fools.
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM UTC
Fruit
My parents left our homeland for me More than five thousand, five hundred miles To travel to a land ripe with opportunity But at times the ripest fruit tended to spoil However, they always counted God's blessings and moved on My parents have endlessly toiled With their younger son on the way And four years of American experience They strived at greater lengths each and every day It is difficult to set aside one's own will To tend to a family To pay an immigration agency's bills Yet they have done it, tried and true Citizenship, I pray Is coming soon One day, I will properly honor them Meanwhile, This country will learn to accept others, but only with Him as its precious gem
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Jun 12, 2016
Jun 12, 2016 at 2:51 AM UTC
Sacrifice [Revisited]
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Oct 2, 2013
Oct 2, 2013 at 1:57 PM UTC
In the Pool of the Lost Maiden Song
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Melting pots are for racists. The USA is a salad bowl. The student lounge features the veggies at their ripest, collecting oxygen amongst themselves, for the corn cannot exist with the broccoli, and so on and so forth. Don't even mention fruits to the potatoes. And the tomatoes, they're just weird, man, don't even know what they are. We are all at our most savory and nutritious, our youthful wisdom emanating through our concrete set of hues. The chili peppers emanate a color as red as the blood of their ancestral martyrdom, no other color, just red. Same for the cucumbers with hearts so coolly refrigerated, taking forest green, taking pastel green with just a few drops of ivory-scented beige tucked neatly behind walls of bamboo-level peels. The voices of the onions thud onto the floor as if being catapulted from cumulonimbus peaks, causing the Iceberg lettuce to almost drown in its own dressing. Lady Liberty, a series of produce section fragments sitting much too sternly with no regard for sprawling. In the same bowl, though!
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM UTC
Salad Bar
( a vision dream )       1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.*       2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.*       3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.*       4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”*
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Aug 13, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
In the Pool of the Lost Maiden Song
( a vision dream )       1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.*       2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.*       3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.*       4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. *And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”*
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I am the mask, satin-smooth, As fine as gossamer silk.   I glide like a veil of falling snow Over cracks, over fissures Filling every nook and cranny That mars this blemished world.   Beneath the gaze of man, I am an enigma, a subtle glamour.   I am the rosy hue of the ripest apples, A painted glance that cuts to the heart.   I am both light and darkness, The faint memory of a kiss. I am a thing of perfection But only look – never touch!
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 1:00 PM UTC
A Riddle
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Jan 17, 2013
Jan 17, 2013 at 6:46 PM UTC
In the Pool of the Lost Maiden Song
IN THE POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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You once asked me why I love you. The mascara of curiosity outlined the questioning glare of your eyes, and your fruity scented lipgloss covered your worrisome words with a hint of doubt – and  strawberries. And just as I was about to pluck the ripest answer from the back of my mind you interrupted me and planted seeds of insecurity you so desperately try to force under the earth – away from the eyes of those who live above it. You remind me of the way you push me away whenever the going gets tough, even though together we're tougher than anything rough, pushing back harder than any kind of force that you apply on me whenever I'd ask, "What's wrong?" You remind me of the way you cling to me like magnets on a fridge, of the way you can't hold much of a conversation because you're awfully shy, Of the way your interests differ from mine, Of the way your smile lacks luster compared to other girls' smiles. So I remind you, that whenever you'd push me away I'd pull you in even closer, that my hands cling on to your waist, like magnets on a fridge, and that we'd stand there with me embracing you, and silence embracing us, because worrying about words to say would only get in the way of me appreciating what's in my arms, I remind you that my interest in kissing you, differs in your interest in kissing me. And that your interest in my smile differs from my interest in your smile, unique and perfect on you and simply only you, Never will it fit better on anyone else. So you ask, and I reply, The answer is quite simple love, My heart is forever yours, because all of the above.
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 1:49 AM UTC
Strawberry Scented Doubt
You once asked me why I love you. The mascara of curiosity outlined the questioning glare of your eyes, and your fruity scented lipgloss covered your worrisome words with a hint of doubt – and  strawberries. And just as I was about to pluck the ripest answer from the back of my mind you interrupted me and planted seeds of insecurity you so desperately try to force under the earth – away from the eyes of those who live above it. You remind me of the way you push me away whenever the going gets tough, even though together we're tougher than anything rough, pushing back harder than any kind of force that you apply on me whenever I'd ask, "What's wrong?" You remind me of the way you cling to me like magnets on a fridge, of the way you can't hold much of a conversation because you're awfully shy, Of the way your interests differ from mine, Of the way your smile lacks luster compared to other girls' smiles. So I remind you, that whenever you'd push me away I'd pull you in even closer, that my hands cling on to your waist, like magnets on a fridge, and that we'd stand there with me embracing you, and silence embracing us, because worrying about words to say would only get in the way of me appreciating what's in my arms, I remind you that my interest in kissing you, differs in your interest in kissing me. And that your interest in my smile differs from my interest in your smile, unique and perfect on you and simply only you, Never will it fit better on anyone else. So you ask, and I reply, The answer is quite simple love, My heart is forever yours, because all of the above.
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alien and surreal like picking the ripest mango, slow dancing under the brightest stars, lighting candles in the backyard, tiptoeing on creaky wood floors, searching for ghosts in old white houses, staring at the sun too long, running down empty roads in the middle of the night, smiling at the most inappropriate times, swimming with the moon, finding someone else’s eyes in a crowded room, empty rocking chairs, bellyaching laughs, aviator sunglasses, twenty hour car rides, endless stretch of field and the best of joni mitchell your mind is in a punch bowl floating, drunk and dizzy and as light as a balloon your heart, is licking old wounds and tearing off ****** bandages, ready for war once again your mind blows a fuse and there’s an earthquake in your chest that little solider in there no matter how broken and depressed always seems to know exactly what is best
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Dec 7, 2011
Dec 7, 2011 at 3:20 AM UTC
when your heart outweighs your mind
Perfect? No. Not me. I'm not afraid To admit it. I'm not like The others. I don't prance around Telling everyone I'm better than them. It's not my place. It never will be. I accept Being surpassed by others. Who am I To judge people? Nobody. Perfect? Nope. Not this girl. I'm not some Straight A student. I'm not some Proper princess either. I may not be Perfect. But at least I speak the truth, Even when my Voice trembles. I am who I am. You don't like it? Not my problem. I accept Not being the popular kid. I accept Not being liked by everyone. I can be The ripest most juciest Peach in the basket. But I know There will always be somone Who doesn't like peaches. I can't stop things Like that. I have flaws. That is the way it is. I may not be Perfect. But I try The very best I can To be Me.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 11:48 AM UTC
I Ain't Perfect
Unfelt unheard, unseen, I've left my little queen, Her languid arms in silver slumber lying: Ah! through their nestling touch, Who---who could tell how much There is for madness---cruel, or complying? Those faery lids how sleek! Those lips how moist!---they speak, In ripest quiet, shadows of sweet sounds: Into my fancy's ear Melting a burden dear, How "Love doth know no fulness, nor no bounds." True!---tender monitors! I bend unto your laws: This sweetest day for dalliance was born! So, without more ado, I'll feel my heaven anew, For all the blushing of the hasty morn.
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Why did we meet? Wanted love but I'm faced with defeat Souls confront at the moment of separation Hours of captivation lured my makeup to sedation Homecoming brought aspiration for our unities firm imminents But elapsed time left liberty for another's feelings of intense sentiment Fortune brought the tides of our fates to fasten in sync anew For the light of your sheath left my lips to never mutter another adieu Lack of presence molded every ambition to conclude with you Fondness for your heart carved no room for our courting to undo Your very structure reproduced in facsimile to my psyche Bountiful love influx my spirit bounding my soul from defying Uncontrollable passion awaited the culmination of my hour exile Expecting the ripest of the body but faced with something more juvenile Incandescent feelings brings pain to my mind, body, and soul Waiting patiently for these long awaited feelings to unfold Into heartless darkness robes of a man without compassion Or someone unlovable but masked with false face of a former gentleman's attraction Forced the realization true love is not attained through a man's unchangeable chivalry But a savage bleak mind that seeps more and more through open pores unwillingly
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Apr 20, 2016
Apr 20, 2016 at 11:01 PM UTC
Chivalry's Wake
*I forget what speaks louder of you; if it is the hunger of my lips longing to kiss you or the kiss waiting discretely to be born from yours swaying on the verge of vulnerability I forget if it is the kiss that tender and irresistible becomes unbreakable; your soul’s assent or if it is the words in note the morning writes and you erase in an innocent attempt to hesitate your truth pausing at its tip or the shrug off your left shoulder blade that briefly masks your will before it is abandoned at the edge of quiet moments when you heed without refrain It is the candidness of silence wept to carry the ripest, sweetest kiss onto my wanting lips without disturbing yours  in truth unrelentingly and quietly insatiable*
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Jan 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 at 2:42 AM UTC
Speaking of you
here mid the ripest, rawest thoughts we touch the silk smooth skin of luscious fruited feasts to come my feet are barely placed to dance such mischief needs in teasing taste - that call of honeyed saffron sway breeze blows the heady mix of man and mate, full awed of now on bed daubed sweet in midnight's stir the blade awaits its stealthy move, soft sighs, then powders space to dust and, sighing low, we start to melt our table set and scented tallow lit stars gasp full argent paused applause, we wait, anticipate.. and eat yet more
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 2:07 PM UTC
That heady mix
POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Sep 9, 2012
Sep 9, 2012 at 1:18 PM UTC
Pool of the Lost Maiden Song
POOL OF THE LOST MAIDEN SONG                 1 Down in the shrouded wood a wanderer walks And dreams the dreamers story he has lived. Sidled by the stream that sheds blue waters By the beds, trailing the rail of loves unknown Kiss and a voice that conjures truest bliss, Down in the drink where sweet Ophelia sleeps; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the dreamer, he is dreaming . . . Hair, that ropes the stoic man upon his mount. Hair, making souls’ lost ending breath a shout, And hair that weighs the wind, teaches it to sing; Hair, wending whirlpools waving fools to dive in.                 2 Lost at land’s end the sea lions, washed-up, wail And buzzards coast where eagles flail, rip tides Assail and chop the collected bones they drop; It is a chalky bone-yard break, golden escarpments Wake and a seamen’s salty sermons shake; Where gathering ghosts glom and chide steeping, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the seeker, he is seeking . . . Eyes that turn the sands and are mirrors, Eyes that taught the books of Alexandria, Eyes that shook the flesh and are seers, Eyes that lit the pyres, burned true believers.                 3 Deep in the dark wood the waters rush, hush, Cramp, crew and creep, melodiously tread, Trammel, and burn as furies in keeping true The melting moon, the onerous owl, fluttering Things, muttering wings, cones in darkness Flings and filmy time flicks by the wayside; In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the lover, he is longing . . . Love, lithe and lyric, he sees your sweeping shapes. Peace, parsed and pained he hears the voicing gape. Blind, bliss’d and shamed he wears the votive drapes. Hungered, thirsted and gone; seeks your pearly gate.                 4 Out in the forest maze the jarring sun seeps And swirls, only to roust the traveler onward Where soon he must meet the faces in the grotto Down in destroyed lands by the seas’ unreasoning Chime, deep in the dark whine of the shining mermaids, Where the doomed cry, round the navel of the world, In the pool of the lost maiden song. And the doomed, they are crying . . . ****** beauty bade us, in a star crossed chrysalis, Made us, choose a desert’s winter of loneliness. Heed our fate and leave this valley torn of bliss; The many millions of locust fall in ripest fields.”
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Wherever I maybe, in the front porch, in my back garden,   reading a book,or for a  walk, on beige soft powdered sands, picking pebbles on the beach, as crushed corals brush my feet, I shall remember you! Gazing with my caramel eyes in the vast blue serene seas, I shall think of you! a soft sweet whisper, in the wafting wind breeze, a dew drop in silent streams. Wherever you maybe! reading the newspaper, scenting the morning aroma Of fresh coffee beans gardening,planting tomato seeds, Or lyin'in the balcony of dreams, You shall remember me! a playful wild white daisy, sleepin'on a hammock, of crisped auburn leaves. In your absence,I shall call your name! In my distance,you'd yearn,for my touch ! In Seperate lands,We loose each other, Yet lives the memory,of when we hugged, Of when we kissed the  richest soil, Of when we ****** the ripest fruit, Long lives the memory, Of when we Loved. (To the man in my dreams)
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Oct 31, 2010
Oct 31, 2010 at 11:59 PM UTC
Eternal Feelings
The caller The one I speak of stands within castle walls dark and brooding from these walls unfurled banners hang a night’s honor it proclaims From this far distant land your words of honor and tender love have reached many were the miles and time was breached The tree tops sway down the valley across the glen on the wind his spirit does descend up to your amber lighted window framed Opened heart this threshold he does cross into quiet deep shadows the mixture floral dreams pervade to you his honor laid Whatever his vesture before now a kingly crown your words bestow an ethereal garland placed with tender fingers it does announce Go forth to the garden it holds wonder and beauty far short of loves glory but the best place for a back drop set within this gazebo Gaze into the fondest softest light among the great cherished gifts of this life and know that you are its crown all else you renounce A great king of kings made it so relish your position your words are excepted they create favor and honor in the highest realm A man is short and lost until the woman he finds that will be his bride his very power to reach and fulfill his potential glory You walk and at times forget your place you forget you are the very embrace of the long sought out and needed grace Soft as distant thunder you hair truly your glory splendor falls as tender as joy felt tears the ripest repine this scene’s unfolded story Walk hand in hand under white cloudy skies as beautiful as your white flowing wedding gown on that memorable day relive it Days press on they hold you together trees of honey suckle jasmine sweetest magnolia jump to mind just beyond the terrace The grounds pass to the pond of rich waters where you reflection in the glinting sunlight finally shows more than a picture Rarest climes you pass into engulfed you float in bliss first brought about from a kiss remember this treasured caress These are the thoughts of your beloved I just put into words for him and you the words of a husband’s thankfulness live it
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Jan 1, 2012
Jan 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM UTC
The caller
The caller The one I speak of stands within castle walls dark and brooding from these walls unfurled banners hang a night’s honor it proclaims From this far distant land your words of honor and tender love have reached many were the miles and time was breached The tree tops sway down the valley across the glen on the wind his spirit does descend up to your amber lighted window framed Opened heart this threshold he does cross into quiet deep shadows the mixture floral dreams pervade to you his honor laid Whatever his vesture before now a kingly crown your words bestow an ethereal garland placed with tender fingers it does announce Go forth to the garden it holds wonder and beauty far short of loves glory but the best place for a back drop set within this gazebo Gaze into the fondest softest light among the great cherished gifts of this life and know that you are its crown all else you renounce A great king of kings made it so relish your position your words are excepted they create favor and honor in the highest realm A man is short and lost until the woman he finds that will be his bride his very power to reach and fulfill his potential glory You walk and at times forget your place you forget you are the very embrace of the long sought out and needed grace Soft as distant thunder you hair truly your glory splendor falls as tender as joy felt tears the ripest repine this scene’s unfolded story Walk hand in hand under white cloudy skies as beautiful as your white flowing wedding gown on that memorable day relive it Days press on they hold you together trees of honey suckle jasmine sweetest magnolia jump to mind just beyond the terrace The grounds pass to the pond of rich waters where you reflection in the glinting sunlight finally shows more than a picture Rarest climes you pass into engulfed you float in bliss first brought about from a kiss remember this treasured caress These are the thoughts of your beloved I just put into words for him and you the words of a husband’s thankfulness live it
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