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"rousseau" poems
My parrot is emerald green, His tail feathers, marine. He bears an orange half-moon Over his ivory beak. He must be believed to be seen, This bird from a Rousseau wood. When the urge is on him to speak, He becomes too true to be good. He uses his beak like a hook To lift himself up with or break Open a sunflower seed, And his eye, in a bold white ring, Has a lapidary look. What a most astonishing bird, Whose voice when he chooses to sing Must be believed to be heard. That stuttered staccato scream Must be believed not to seem The shriek of a witch in the room. But he murmurs some muffled words (Like someone who talks through a dream) When he sits in the window and sees The to-and-fro wings of wild birds In the leafless improbable trees.
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A Parrot
I grew up in South Auckland, Takanini the only Pakeha in the caravan park, I learnt how to be tall, smart and skinny how to raise the end of my sentences in an arc. At school, we were told words held power; but for teachers words were flowers, and my friend Cruz had two brothers Harley and Davidson - they belonged to Black Power, their fists tattooed with something like “Smother”. But there was never violence on our street, gang was family; I usually never felt more at home around Bourbon, loud Reggae, bags of **** and men so manly they’d cry over love, and I wouldn’t get a word in. Though my Father votes National and thinks Michael Laws is right so moves us to Dunedin where it’s ninety percent white. I stopped reading Lenin and picked up Rousseau became a vegetarian, thought it was so cool you know, even wrote a blog that discussed rise from below. But I’ll never know below again until I’m drunk in an old shed at 3am on a school night singing along to Bob Marley in Maori, sunk deep into the mattress propped against the Harley, the one you and I would cruise on until dawn together as police took to the streets in riot gear - we’d get lost in the country and learn to smother our thoughts in starlight then stagger over, listen in to the darkness, and just slowly breathe the crisp, cool air of the kiwi tundra. They say New Zealand has two flags, but in the country, when you’re blazed on the benefit, ****** on the disdain for positive discrimination, you can pick out all the small bright koru unfurling in the stars.
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Oct 25, 2013
Oct 25, 2013 at 4:52 AM UTC
A privileged upbringing
I grew up in South Auckland, Takanini the only Pakeha in the caravan park, I learnt how to be tall, smart and skinny how to raise the end of my sentences in an arc. At school, we were told words held power; but for teachers words were flowers, and my friend Cruz had two brothers Harley and Davidson - they belonged to Black Power, their fists tattooed with something like “Smother”. But there was never violence on our street, gang was family; I usually never felt more at home around Bourbon, loud Reggae, bags of **** and men so manly they’d cry over love, and I wouldn’t get a word in. Though my Father votes National and thinks Michael Laws is right so moves us to Dunedin where it’s ninety percent white. I stopped reading Lenin and picked up Rousseau became a vegetarian, thought it was so cool you know, even wrote a blog that discussed rise from below. But I’ll never know below again until I’m drunk in an old shed at 3am on a school night singing along to Bob Marley in Maori, sunk deep into the mattress propped against the Harley, the one you and I would cruise on until dawn together as police took to the streets in riot gear - we’d get lost in the country and learn to smother our thoughts in starlight then stagger over, listen in to the darkness, and just slowly breathe the crisp, cool air of the kiwi tundra. They say New Zealand has two flags, but in the country, when you’re blazed on the benefit, ****** on the disdain for positive discrimination, you can pick out all the small bright koru unfurling in the stars.
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I watched the old gray haired son of a ***** approach my fence in the back yard today, he - looking up at the beautiful work of art, a brilliant Magnolia that had just flowered like a proud yawning lioness at sunset, his gilded tool with it’s dangling rope to hang a miracle because it had spilled into his yard like pink paper leftovers everywhere, he decided to repress it bordering the fence it was annoying him and his domain Rousseau was dead-on about my chained freedom the manacles were dangling and I could hear him severing and slicing her arms it somehow made him feel better and he moaned his wretched realm on his side of the trellis and he walked away after the limbs had fallen to the ground to make his cheap *** ground chuck on rye – it smelled like **** the amputated Magnolia and grease spinning around my head I stood there, quietly thinking how this was so unwarranted and what a waste of time this was, the tree crying out to me and somewhere else on earth another yawning with laughter.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 8:55 PM UTC
Severed Magnolia
Almost happy now, he looked at his estate. An exile making watches glanced up as he passed, And went on working; where a hospital was rising fast A joiner touched his cap; an agent came to tell Some of the trees he'd planted were progressing well. The white alps glittered. It was summer. He was very great. Far off in Paris, where his enemies Whispered that he was wicked, in an upright chair A blind old woman longed for death and letters. He would write "Nothing is better than life." But was it? Yes, the fight Against the false and the unfair Was always worth it. So was gardening. Civilise. Cajoling, scolding, screaming, cleverest of them all, He'd had the other children in a holy war Against the infamous grown-ups, and, like a child, been sly And humble, when there was occasion for The two-faced answer or the plain protective lie, But, patient like a peasant, waited for their fall. And never doubted, like D'Alembert, he would win: Only Pascal was a great enemy, the rest Were rats already poisoned; there was much, though, to be done, And only himself to count upon. Dear Diderot was dull but did his best; Rousseau, he'd always known, would blubber and give in. So, like a sentinel, he could not sleep. The night was full of wrong, Earthquakes and executions. Soon he would be dead, And still all over Europe stood the horrible nurses Itching to boil their children. Only his verses Perhaps could stop them: He must go on working: Overhead The uncomplaining stars composed their lucid song.
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Voltaire At Ferney
Almost happy now, he looked at his estate. An exile making watches glanced up as he passed, And went on working; where a hospital was rising fast A joiner touched his cap; an agent came to tell Some of the trees he'd planted were progressing well. The white alps glittered. It was summer. He was very great. Far off in Paris, where his enemies Whispered that he was wicked, in an upright chair A blind old woman longed for death and letters. He would write "Nothing is better than life." But was it? Yes, the fight Against the false and the unfair Was always worth it. So was gardening. Civilise. Cajoling, scolding, screaming, cleverest of them all, He'd had the other children in a holy war Against the infamous grown-ups, and, like a child, been sly And humble, when there was occasion for The two-faced answer or the plain protective lie, But, patient like a peasant, waited for their fall. And never doubted, like D'Alembert, he would win: Only Pascal was a great enemy, the rest Were rats already poisoned; there was much, though, to be done, And only himself to count upon. Dear Diderot was dull but did his best; Rousseau, he'd always known, would blubber and give in. So, like a sentinel, he could not sleep. The night was full of wrong, Earthquakes and executions. Soon he would be dead, And still all over Europe stood the horrible nurses Itching to boil their children. Only his verses Perhaps could stop them: He must go on working: Overhead The uncomplaining stars composed their lucid song.
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Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Here I'm rejected there I'll be condemned I'll not be excepted anyhow--slammed in my face, subjected to every form of malice-- crammed among those suspected of betrayal--- contempt raises its venomous#  head and I'm hated for the views I hold--  hemmed by envious forces-- everywhere hunted I am an innocent victim--damned and left to ideas I've constructed my own pain to consume---stamped TRAITOR* -- my only hope is to be vindicated by future generations which would have my thoughts revamped!
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 10:44 PM UTC
ROUSSEAU'S DIARY--FROM MY EYES
Apples & plums high on their boughs autumn is not far off now nearby, red brick houses sleep in the after-shower sun only a few more days & summer's done the cyclists are speeding on their way from work along the Bristol-Bath cycle path also ' railway path' called & with a three year old laugh a child in an anorak unsteadily sways I've walked this way in the night with the moon shining up above & seen a fox run out in plain sight into the middle of the path the street lamps either side amongst the trees, shining on it's red fur & in the early morning light watched a mysterious toad blink it's wide eyes & walked it all the way to Bristol town & back & also to the old Steam trains out past Warmley dressed in my old boots waiting for the sunset & the dark calling up ghosts musing on Rousseau listening to birdsong & wanting nothing more
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:23 PM UTC
On the Cycle Path
***** Attacked by a Jaguar, after Henri Rousseau* Unaware, arms sway. Attentive green gazes at a tuxedoed man and his broken bride. Pink perfume glides over the jade scene. A red disco light hovers above raised limbs, spinning stardust rain down upon them. In the corner he hides -- peering around fibre-optic shrubs. Blackening this white moment. On the ballroom floor they dance. Rendezvous in the Forest, after Henri Rousseau In the wilderness they meet, horsebacked, whispering nothing sweet, meaningless. Captain courts, seeking victory beneath bare branches... hidden where all can see. Curious trees bend to view the scene below. The lady's palace chaperones her mistress from faraway brush. Antiqued cotton tufts frown overhead, lost souls driving by wreckage. Vultures. Scavengers of hunting season. Pausing to behold the carnage of predator and prey.
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM UTC
Ekphrastic Poetry based on Two Paintings by Henri Rousseau
All that will remain is bones and rotting meat Toss it in a cheap wicker box for worms to eat Topped just with wild flowers and no cement Plant a weeping willow instead of a monument It can do the weeping, please don't you cry There is a chance that I'll be busy when I die For if I am wrong and there is life after this I have plans with whom I'll dine and reminisce I'll be dining with Oscar Wilde and Caravaggio Cocktails and conversation with Kant and Plato Then with Bellini, Verdi and Rossini I'll take a Show An interval tipple and discourse with Rousseau An after party with Bakunin and Proudhon Whisky and blues with Howlin Wolf til I'm gone I shall breakfast the next day with Tz'u Hsi, Homer and Malcolm X And take morning coffee with Gandhi and Marc Bolan from T.Rex At noon a spicy ****** Mary with Mary Queen of Scots, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed, Picasso and lots of tequila shots Lunch that day with Saladin, Karl and Groucho Marx Then smoke a pipe with Newton whilst discussing quarks Afternoon tea with Queen Victoria, Kipling and Colin Ward Followed by a game of Tafl with a viking on a giant board Dress for flamenco with Carmen Amaya (then dress the blisters)   Then pre-dinner drinks paid for by Geronimo and the Bronte sisters So you see, if I'm wrong And we actually move along A fascinating after life awaits me Yeah, when I'm gone from here There'll be plenty gin and beer Cucumber sandwich's and tea If you wonder what I'm doing Give your watch a quick viewing Then just check this poem and you'll see
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 8:56 AM UTC
When I die
All that will remain is bones and rotting meat Toss it in a cheap wicker box for worms to eat Topped just with wild flowers and no cement Plant a weeping willow instead of a monument It can do the weeping, please don't you cry There is a chance that I'll be busy when I die For if I am wrong and there is life after this I have plans with whom I'll dine and reminisce I'll be dining with Oscar Wilde and Caravaggio Cocktails and conversation with Kant and Plato Then with Bellini, Verdi and Rossini I'll take a Show An interval tipple and discourse with Rousseau An after party with Bakunin and Proudhon Whisky and blues with Howlin Wolf til I'm gone I shall breakfast the next day with Tz'u Hsi, Homer and Malcolm X And take morning coffee with Gandhi and Marc Bolan from T.Rex At noon a spicy ****** Mary with Mary Queen of Scots, Freddie Mercury, Lou Reed, Picasso and lots of tequila shots Lunch that day with Saladin, Karl and Groucho Marx Then smoke a pipe with Newton whilst discussing quarks Afternoon tea with Queen Victoria, Kipling and Colin Ward Followed by a game of Tafl with a viking on a giant board Dress for flamenco with Carmen Amaya (then dress the blisters)   Then pre-dinner drinks paid for by Geronimo and the Bronte sisters So you see, if I'm wrong And we actually move along A fascinating after life awaits me Yeah, when I'm gone from here There'll be plenty gin and beer Cucumber sandwich's and tea If you wonder what I'm doing Give your watch a quick viewing Then just check this poem and you'll see
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This one's for the 20 kids Now all dead, god forbid For the parents who now cry Who always ask themselves, "why?" For those teachers killed on the job Their entire city mourns and sobs For all the people who took a fall I support you and I bless you all. To the familes of  Charlotte Bacon, Daniel Barden, Rachel Davino, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Ana M. Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Dawn Hochsprung, Madeleine F. Hsu, Catherine V. Hubbard, Chase Kowalski, Jesse Lewis, James Mattioli, Grace McDonnell, Anne Marie  Murphy, Emilie Parker,  Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos, Avielle Richman, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach, Victoria Soto, Benjamin Wheeler, and Allison N. Wyatt.
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Dec 19, 2012
Dec 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM UTC
Sandy Hook Shooting
Hegel’s Hero in Dream Hegel’s Hero appeared with video of heroes To teach me Ideas and dialectics in society; I saw there, Lions and Foxes of Machiavelli Fighting , growling , springing from bushes. Aimless Dame Fortune moves in history past Politics of India, snowy, foggy, and shadowy! Shivering men squat passive keeping “ID card” As Greek slaves, before the Democratic Lords. General Will ,as Rousseau says ,forms society, Nation, Governments based on Ideas extant. Lords, and the wealthy ruled rudely the ruled In the past, as history moved as cruelly as fast. God’s own Universe sans universal concept On Peace; builds walls around each groups. Religions fail to link the parted and parched People who worship vicious Cain and Mammon . Marx, Engels , and Mao came with the legions Stumbled, humbled and stifled by the Mammons. Buddha, Christ and the Prophet Mohammad Told of Love, Grace, Patience and of Pardon My Lord, why, we fail to wipe tears and fears? “Sambhavami yuge yuge” says hazy, Hegel fades. parithranaya sadhunam/ vinasaya cha dushkritham/ dharmmasamsthapanardhaya/sambhavami yuge yuge. When in India can we expect such a Hero:Kalki,in Kali? To be trapped, jailed as terrorist protestant, really!
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 10:26 PM UTC
Hegel's Hero in Dream
I didn't take a photograph of the statue of Robert Burns. His sightless eyes were looking out over Dunedin, the most Scottish town in the southern hemisphere, and there was a seagull, not a pigeon, standing on his head. I would have called it "Robbie Burns and Friend." And I didn't take a picture of the bus shelter painted all over with jungle foliage and a tiger peeping out over the simulated signature of Henri Rousseau. The title would have been "This Bus Shelter is a Forgery." Neither did I photograph another painted wall, one round a cemetery full of ornate and sombre tombs, with a large and skilfully executed advertisement - Renta Sanitarios Mobiles (Hire Mobile Toilets). It would have been called "Is there no Respect for the Dead?" I didn't take the photo of a Fijian policeman. A pity, for he had such a practical uniform, very smart and cool, in a tasteful shade of policeman-blue, based on the traditional sulu with a striking zigzag hem. The title would have been "A Policeman in a Skirt?!" I couldn't take a photograph of sunset over Popocatépetl – although the sun was setting in a red and golden haze, and the most romantically named mountain is just what you imagine a perfect volcano should be, even to the wisp of steam at the peak – because the sun was actually setting over Ixtaccíhuatl and "Sunset over Ixtaccíhuatl" doesn't have quite the right ring The shape of the mountain is not very picturesque either. Yes, I would have called that one "Sunset over Popocatépetl" – if I could have taken it. My camera wouldn't focus on the crescent moon hanging over the Egyptian skyline, horns pointing up, so close to the Equator, and the evening star (Venus or some more ancient goddess) just above and almost between the points. If that one had worked it would have been called "Islamic Moon." I couldn't possibly have taken a photograph that would do any justice to the young piano student in a Hungarian castle hammering out Liszt as if the hounds of hell were after her, but if I could, I would have had to call it "Apassionata." And I didn't even have time to get my camera out to take a picture of the wild humming bird darting green and unconcerned among dilapidated tenements in the heart of Mexico City. But that living jewel shines bright in my memory, even without a photo. I don't know what I would have called that one, and I'm sure it doesn't matter.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 9:48 AM UTC
Photographs I never took *
I didn't take a photograph of the statue of Robert Burns. His sightless eyes were looking out over Dunedin, the most Scottish town in the southern hemisphere, and there was a seagull, not a pigeon, standing on his head. I would have called it "Robbie Burns and Friend." And I didn't take a picture of the bus shelter painted all over with jungle foliage and a tiger peeping out over the simulated signature of Henri Rousseau. The title would have been "This Bus Shelter is a Forgery." Neither did I photograph another painted wall, one round a cemetery full of ornate and sombre tombs, with a large and skilfully executed advertisement - Renta Sanitarios Mobiles (Hire Mobile Toilets). It would have been called "Is there no Respect for the Dead?" I didn't take the photo of a Fijian policeman. A pity, for he had such a practical uniform, very smart and cool, in a tasteful shade of policeman-blue, based on the traditional sulu with a striking zigzag hem. The title would have been "A Policeman in a Skirt?!" I couldn't take a photograph of sunset over Popocatépetl – although the sun was setting in a red and golden haze, and the most romantically named mountain is just what you imagine a perfect volcano should be, even to the wisp of steam at the peak – because the sun was actually setting over Ixtaccíhuatl and "Sunset over Ixtaccíhuatl" doesn't have quite the right ring The shape of the mountain is not very picturesque either. Yes, I would have called that one "Sunset over Popocatépetl" – if I could have taken it. My camera wouldn't focus on the crescent moon hanging over the Egyptian skyline, horns pointing up, so close to the Equator, and the evening star (Venus or some more ancient goddess) just above and almost between the points. If that one had worked it would have been called "Islamic Moon." I couldn't possibly have taken a photograph that would do any justice to the young piano student in a Hungarian castle hammering out Liszt as if the hounds of hell were after her, but if I could, I would have had to call it "Apassionata." And I didn't even have time to get my camera out to take a picture of the wild humming bird darting green and unconcerned among dilapidated tenements in the heart of Mexico City. But that living jewel shines bright in my memory, even without a photo. I don't know what I would have called that one, and I'm sure it doesn't matter.
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PRISONERS Men are born free but everywhere are in chains thus wrote Rousseau--I take the point further- upon themselves they inflict pains in being prisoners of time which with a sword of Damocles hangs over every head and herds them into closed barns where they sigh and lament in silent pangs of anguish with no hope to be free they have lost the will to fight to regain that which was once their heritage and fundamental right men are born free but by the loss of freedom they are condemned time is the slayer--would they wake up some day and look upon time with contempt?
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Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
PRISONERS
This is his Henri Julian Rousseau taboo land, here he appears as the lion night after night, with his tail stiffened, erect--but the Gypsy wasn't there Bathed in psychedelic strobe lights, now here on a plush confession table doubling as their stage his Gypsy lies spread-eagled,   til there is no secrets left in her body, he now tries to pry open the many chambers of her peripatetic mind. With a lingering kiss, he in vain tries to arrest her never subdued spirit and begins his secret rituals for the angel of sin, black magic maiden, yin for his yang who in ways direct, sly or by allusion, is the bestower of a million forbidden pleasures,  whispering,like a mantra thus: "There is no right or wrong, all illusions, within an imagined truth" which made him stray, albeit, within the labyrinth like innumerous men of power, which they gained shedding blood, sweat and tears; as if there is nothing beyond. She who by instinct engineered his downfall from the pantheon of the anointed is finally here but this is no retribution, only return of the favors received, his throbbing lust seeks her deep interior's caresses giving her forgiveness in return, his masculine urges wish to be gripped by her unusual craving, she is melting like butter, her sweet urges fight back in unison they seethe, wreath, roll and race to culminate. On a swing hanging high ,above the poisoned earth for a few sweet transient moments they remain, weep in pleasure til they fall in to slime and crawl back to life --then the Gypsy and the Lion remember nothing .
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 1:00 AM UTC
The Secret Ritual
This is his Henri Julian Rousseau taboo land, here he appears as the lion night after night, with his tail stiffened, erect--but the Gypsy wasn't there Bathed in psychedelic strobe lights, now here on a plush confession table doubling as their stage his Gypsy lies spread-eagled,   til there is no secrets left in her body, he now tries to pry open the many chambers of her peripatetic mind. With a lingering kiss, he in vain tries to arrest her never subdued spirit and begins his secret rituals for the angel of sin, black magic maiden, yin for his yang who in ways direct, sly or by allusion, is the bestower of a million forbidden pleasures,  whispering,like a mantra thus: "There is no right or wrong, all illusions, within an imagined truth" which made him stray, albeit, within the labyrinth like innumerous men of power, which they gained shedding blood, sweat and tears; as if there is nothing beyond. She who by instinct engineered his downfall from the pantheon of the anointed is finally here but this is no retribution, only return of the favors received, his throbbing lust seeks her deep interior's caresses giving her forgiveness in return, his masculine urges wish to be gripped by her unusual craving, she is melting like butter, her sweet urges fight back in unison they seethe, wreath, roll and race to culminate. On a swing hanging high ,above the poisoned earth for a few sweet transient moments they remain, weep in pleasure til they fall in to slime and crawl back to life --then the Gypsy and the Lion remember nothing .
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** I have six fingers on my right hand; I write from the tip of the sixth finger; All other fingers are supporting me By all means; by all ways; by all strength The pen is usually linked with writing. It helps a writer to record his or her own Thoughts, themes, concepts on paper. Sword is a weapon used against someone. A sword can be wielded well only by those, who are physically fit. But words can flow from the pen of even a feeble man. If he is a good writer, he can use the words to their desired effect. Many great writers had inspired revolutions. The French revolution for example was the result of the writings of great French writers like Rousseau. Writings can evoke different emotions as love, hatred, sympathy etc. It is something that is to be regarded with awe and respect. Hence pen is always mightier than the sword. BY WILLIAMSJI MAVELI **
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 8:30 AM UTC
My pen is mightier than the sword !
Fleeing Tail between my legs From the ravishes Of your lashes I take refuge in the ramblings Of madmen long dead Seeking to tap the will to power That I may refute Your imposing master-slave morality Compelling in its distracting hedonism Beckoning in its languid ambiguity Suffocating my Dizzying, radical freedom Oh, noumenal world Take me now. One look at you And I abandon My categorical imperative Doomed to the fate Of a being-in-itself Powerless to recreate And renew its essence Too busy being caught up In your scent I see what you are And scramble to The conclusion of What you ought to be With me For you are beyond That which empirical validation Can encapsulate You are My Prime Mover And life without you Is nasty, brutish, and short And Rousseau was full of **** I flee Because inner language The beetle in the box Can never be shared Not even with The most symmetrical of soulmates And what we may share May not even be authentic What we believe May not even be true Nor justified Are you not satisfied With the power you already wield Over me? Please My geisha Do not let your lips Be the antithesis to my pen.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 3:53 AM UTC
Asylum
Through the towns and country lanes fortress walls and ancient stains Roman treasures, aquaducts the running bulls, a stroke of luck! Cobblestone and feudal cracks the culture weaves and summer smacks! enchanted ramparts, medieval ruins coliseums and communes Aigues Mortes to Avignon the rolling hills and castles strong fields of grape and olive trees cicadas singing on the breeze Tranquil rivers, lost lagoons horses prancing at high noon flora and fauna in lofty decree! say the sycamore and cypress tree De Lumières in tomb-like calm illuminating sounds of Brahm Vermeer, Picasso and Van Goh the ghosts of Voltaire and Rousseau Les Baux-de-Provence's immersive stage brush strokes wide from another age chambers deep at quarry rock the mesmerizing notes of Bach Sacred figures, holy shrines monestries in grand design blocks, arches and polished stone gladiators at the throne Castle turrets and dungeon bars the ancient bridge of Pont du Gard chapel bells across la ville spiral stairs where time stands still Scrolls and chronicles filled with scars church and state with dark memoirs scholars, artists and dignitaries in pursuit of God...and all his glory
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Aug 30, 2023
Aug 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM UTC
On the Banks of the River Rhone
If I write a poem, and make it extra dumb A lot of reads it gets, what has this world become? - The stupider I make it, the more it is received! Like a purple chicken and green cow, who would have believed - But if I make it serious, like WW3 is almost here Just a couple read it, no one I endear - So what am I to do? I'll say I told you so I'll keep on writing Gloom and Doom, and pretend I am Rousseau
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 1:57 PM UTC
Dah!
She wakes up at 4pm leaves the house only at sunset she talks in feline nothings to her cat & reads Rousseau in the afternoons 10 years ago the last time she saw her friend not her fault, the distance of course sometimes she goes to the pub where she doesn't know anyone & drinks half a guinness comes home drunk on the night & it's thousand stars
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Jul 5, 2015
Jul 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM UTC
The Hermit
So unconventional you were Mrs. Wollstonecraft Witty and courageous too It took great daring to criticize Rousseau I think I love you
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 4:26 PM UTC
Mary Wollstonecracft
*and he said: there are plenty of neo-Nazis in Poland... and i said:  i won't even cite what's pop in England; comparing Poles to rats i guess i have to give you a sieg heil salute to keep it chequers cheap and ask William how he felt anally ******* Harold's merry men.* it would be so good to include the good people in the whole affair... never mind the ******** was always the punk pop hit for *** pistols... when the self-titled rock metal album wasn't... call it subterfuge, i just call it subhuman... but that's what defined radio 1 when Iron Maiden hit it with: bring your daughter to the slaughter... chappies gaffed and choked at their no. 1... the latter rejected, glorified Rousseau and later ****** gassed at Ypres stiff from Mustard... later justified at Auschwitz... here comes a beginning, former colonial powers sticking to being the vocabulary powers of interests, not to be done... god those English colonialists are fake nervous, with the Irish glorification anti Northern Eire... i look at it as it is: ****** was gassed... what's the horror of Auschwitz? Himmler or the Third ***** tango? the man was gassed in the trenches... why is it that you can't craft a Dracula from him? oh wait... now i know... because he experienced the same as his victims... and as the Jewish poet Tuwim explained: he too, was human.... it's funny how nothing mythological will come from ****** i too count myself human... your idiotic far-left vocabulary will only assert a following of so-many hungers readied to engage in protest - i don't know why far-left politics is always eager to make people revise their vocabulary, while the far-right politics is always eager to make people revise their actions... well... as the vermin of England said... you're never too sure whether you're drinking a pint of Guinness on a friendly footing with the Irish, or whether the ales are out for separatist conversation with the Scots.
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Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 at 10:40 PM UTC
subhumans among us
*and he said: there are plenty of neo-Nazis in Poland... and i said:  i won't even cite what's pop in England; comparing Poles to rats i guess i have to give you a sieg heil salute to keep it chequers cheap and ask William how he felt anally ******* Harold's merry men.* it would be so good to include the good people in the whole affair... never mind the ******** was always the punk pop hit for *** pistols... when the self-titled rock metal album wasn't... call it subterfuge, i just call it subhuman... but that's what defined radio 1 when Iron Maiden hit it with: bring your daughter to the slaughter... chappies gaffed and choked at their no. 1... the latter rejected, glorified Rousseau and later ****** gassed at Ypres stiff from Mustard... later justified at Auschwitz... here comes a beginning, former colonial powers sticking to being the vocabulary powers of interests, not to be done... god those English colonialists are fake nervous, with the Irish glorification anti Northern Eire... i look at it as it is: ****** was gassed... what's the horror of Auschwitz? Himmler or the Third ***** tango? the man was gassed in the trenches... why is it that you can't craft a Dracula from him? oh wait... now i know... because he experienced the same as his victims... and as the Jewish poet Tuwim explained: he too, was human.... it's funny how nothing mythological will come from ****** i too count myself human... your idiotic far-left vocabulary will only assert a following of so-many hungers readied to engage in protest - i don't know why far-left politics is always eager to make people revise their vocabulary, while the far-right politics is always eager to make people revise their actions... well... as the vermin of England said... you're never too sure whether you're drinking a pint of Guinness on a friendly footing with the Irish, or whether the ales are out for separatist conversation with the Scots.
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Rousseau lingers in the souls of lethargy. "I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains..." Efficiency is a masquerade for same old, same old; undaunted herds recycle cud, new food demands passion. Allegories of independent thought paint extravagant ethereal world portraits in many shades of one color. Legends are born in feebleness - dilitary hammers riddle red cap gun ribbons sparking outrage insufficient enough to make a statement Let them cry muted cries in one act plays to empty seats, as they preen unripe scabs to detour unresolved issues Yearning is vacant, yea, absent, as an occasional yeoman's hail song is heard in the distance milking a lily for a reason to go on ?s are the only things that exist in reality. No one knows who they are in the bell tower...they simply ring the bell.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
Do You Understand
Bras en sang *** comme les sainfoins L'hyperbole retombe Les mains Les oiseaux sont des nombres L'algèbre est dans les arbres C'est Rousseau qui peignit sur la portée du ciel Cette musique à vocalises Cent À Cent pour la vie Qui tatoue Je fais la roue sur les remparts.
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Rousseau I desire In a heat of summer Zeno Disregards My triumphant return From wild brush Sudden wilderness Harsh temperatures The north Or south Anguished by gold Needing a solid Fixation Condemning love Validating the truth Of my delinquency Letting death overcome life He was so pretty The scion My child... So pure Like snow With the name Napoleon He was mine My son Natural blood Chelsea The rose so cold Living in a spring of chill Where is the love We once shared? It has to be rotting in the ground All is gone The money My ***** I want more Something substantial Not hunger Nor your whining I hate And fear the searing leach That you have become My bonus from life Is this Trouble An uncontrollable Falling out I revise God's device Informative drive I have to run Baby To the bay With torrential rain Sudden winds Hateful lies I have no explanation Her name is Betty And contrary To happy endings With a tome of reality at ready I contribute to life By saying That... I hate you
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 11:30 PM UTC
The pain of life
She spent a disappointing morning gathering poison In a hollowed out heart, And farted in the Tuesday darkness. I’m Dumpty, she said, Call the Leader. Feed me in the face. Then she drew two ***** circles on the pillowcase. Mrs. Hydrogen arrived in Mr. Rousseau's socks To talk to Randolph Paradox. Exceptional thinness is finished, They said, So she took a chisel to the sea And hung all her hair in a snake egg tree.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 3, 2016 at 8:07 AM UTC
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