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"ruddy" poems
lady craighead played the blues on a stand-up samick in the ***** room along side the parsons project and squabbling dogs and night moves stairs creek up the mezzanine trek wool sheets slide on finished floors little angels play late into the seventh (a closing match nearing the midnight hour) croaking toads and cicada sing in the blue moon musty smells and mothballs settle deep in the vault the kettle boils and cat coils as the pump house rolls its heavy drawl the red phone rings and bird clock sings (behind the ruddy stall) a sleeman variation of the ruy lopez employed heartily by the incomparable master jack marble toast burning wringer wash churning chris craft running near the old carp canoe rooster calls and west wind squalls rustle through the porch screen door chicken *** pies and rogue flies linger a rocker chair placed near the  sepia face (softened by the intricate frame) donkey in tow (with a fastened *** maggie in her dreams of green tambourines the nocturnes reflections and whispering gospel bells tractors pull on the grinder stone horses lay still in the mid-day sun a trump card is fingered at the furnace click (crosswords and puzzles are next!) while the sparrow *and that **** rabid fox* are drowning deep in castles well
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Mar 14, 2017
Mar 14, 2017 at 10:20 PM UTC
Mulholland Lane
Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight Splits through the rat's tail Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning. It is the Arctic, This little black Circle, with its tawn silk grasses - babies hair. There is a green in the air, Soft, delectable. It cushions me lovingly. I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My Wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. This is my property. Two times a day I pace it, sniffing The barbarous holly with its viridian Scallops, pure iron, And the wall of the odd corpses. I love them. I love them like history. The apples are golden, Imagine it ---- My seventy trees Holding their gold-ruddy ***** In a thick gray death-soup, Their million Gold leaves metal and breathless. O love, O celibate. Nobody but me Walks the waist high wet. The irreplaceable Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae.
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Letter In November
My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear One night a year, I head the sleigh Good or bad, play or pay My name's Rudolph 'now-what-do-you-say?' My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, I brought San-ta here Got eleven brothers, they call 'em reindeer Rock the whole world, 'only-once-a-year' Discovered on a farm, no fans,  -no cheer Made fun o' me, 'cause my nose queer' Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear So Santa comes up, has this to say; "There's no Sun, ...how do we light the way?" Brother reindeer's looking here nor there... Santa an elves searching every-where Nose lights up, they stop and stare! So Santa comes up, has this to say; "Your nose so bright, why don't you light my way?" Better not laugh, or mess with reindeer My name's Rudolph, I kick it in gear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . These horns is guns, nose a la-ser Eyes on target, and that is you Sir You better be good, or I'm taking you out *'member-my-name-son, cause-I-got-clout'* My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Ruddy as Hell, so listen right cheer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 9:48 PM UTC
Rap Nose Rudi
My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear One night a year, I head the sleigh Good or bad, play or pay My name's Rudolph 'now-what-do-you-say?' My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, I brought San-ta here Got eleven brothers, they call 'em reindeer Rock the whole world, 'only-once-a-year' Discovered on a farm, no fans,  -no cheer Made fun o' me, 'cause my nose queer' Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear So Santa comes up, has this to say; "There's no Sun, ...how do we light the way?" Brother reindeer's looking here nor there... Santa an elves searching every-where Nose lights up, they stop and stare! So Santa comes up, has this to say; "Your nose so bright, why don't you light my way?" Better not laugh, or mess with reindeer My name's Rudolph, I kick it in gear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . These horns is guns, nose a la-ser Eyes on target, and that is you Sir You better be good, or I'm taking you out *'member-my-name-son, cause-I-got-clout'* My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Ruddy as Hell, so listen right cheer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Ru, My name's Ru, Name's Ru. . . My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer Nose of light, rock-night/crystal clear My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer My name's Rudolph, and I'm a reindeer
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I'm looking deep into her eyes *Looking into her eyes... is like opening a door that leads... to another door* Wait..really?  OK...I open the door. *This door leads to a long, winding path, like the winding path of your love.   The path leads to a third door* O...K. I open the door. *This door leads to a spiral staircase descending down, down, down,  deep into her soul. At the bottom of the staircase is--* A door? A door. I open the door The door is locked.  The key might be under the mat Seriously?  I check under the mat Nope, not there.  Maybe try under the small rock next to the door Oh for the love of...I check the rock There is a key Wonderful...I unlock and open the door *Inside this door is a large atrium the glass ceiling giving way to a beautiful summer night, the stars twinkling in the distance.  At the far end of the Atrium, there is a curtain* Sigh I pull aside the curtain There is a door Come on!  I open the ruddy door. *You find yourself in a long hallway, with fine art hanging along the walls. Crimson carpet lines the floor. At the end of the hall is a door  locked with a combination biometric fingerprint scanner/retinal scanner* What. *You have 10 seconds to unlock the door before the hunter-bots de-atomize you* What!?  Ok! I try my fingerprints and eye! *The door unlocks and the hunter-bots stand down. In the next room are three vials.  Two of them contain terrible neuro-toxins that will lead to an excruciatingly painful death.  The third will allow you to continue on to the next room.  You have 30 seconds to choose before you are terminated* What the hell is this!? This is the path to true love hidden deep in her eyes No, this is insanity! 15 seconds OK!  Geez!  Umm..Vial Number 2! You're totally dead Oh god! Just kidding.  None of them had poison...was just messing with you THAT'S IT!  I'M DONE WITH THIS Really?  There's only one more door.  I swear ...Fine.  What ridiculous thing do I need to do to open it. *It's already open.  You find yourself in a circular room with a pedestal in the center.  On the pedestal is a hand written note.  On that note is the key to everlasting happiness* I pick up the note *You smell sweet hints of your beloved's perfume and notice the care that each word of the note was written.* What does the note say? *My love: Next Tuesday Only --  Buy One-Get One Free at J.J's Pizza.  Cannot be combined with any other offers/coupons.  Must present coupon upon purchase.  Expires 1/14/14* ...An expired coupon for Pizza? Such a wonderful expression of love! How do I get out of here... You see a door .
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Mar 8, 2014
Mar 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM UTC
Deep in her Eyes
I'm looking deep into her eyes *Looking into her eyes... is like opening a door that leads... to another door* Wait..really?  OK...I open the door. *This door leads to a long, winding path, like the winding path of your love.   The path leads to a third door* O...K. I open the door. *This door leads to a spiral staircase descending down, down, down,  deep into her soul. At the bottom of the staircase is--* A door? A door. I open the door The door is locked.  The key might be under the mat Seriously?  I check under the mat Nope, not there.  Maybe try under the small rock next to the door Oh for the love of...I check the rock There is a key Wonderful...I unlock and open the door *Inside this door is a large atrium the glass ceiling giving way to a beautiful summer night, the stars twinkling in the distance.  At the far end of the Atrium, there is a curtain* Sigh I pull aside the curtain There is a door Come on!  I open the ruddy door. *You find yourself in a long hallway, with fine art hanging along the walls. Crimson carpet lines the floor. At the end of the hall is a door  locked with a combination biometric fingerprint scanner/retinal scanner* What. *You have 10 seconds to unlock the door before the hunter-bots de-atomize you* What!?  Ok! I try my fingerprints and eye! *The door unlocks and the hunter-bots stand down. In the next room are three vials.  Two of them contain terrible neuro-toxins that will lead to an excruciatingly painful death.  The third will allow you to continue on to the next room.  You have 30 seconds to choose before you are terminated* What the hell is this!? This is the path to true love hidden deep in her eyes No, this is insanity! 15 seconds OK!  Geez!  Umm..Vial Number 2! You're totally dead Oh god! Just kidding.  None of them had poison...was just messing with you THAT'S IT!  I'M DONE WITH THIS Really?  There's only one more door.  I swear ...Fine.  What ridiculous thing do I need to do to open it. *It's already open.  You find yourself in a circular room with a pedestal in the center.  On the pedestal is a hand written note.  On that note is the key to everlasting happiness* I pick up the note *You smell sweet hints of your beloved's perfume and notice the care that each word of the note was written.* What does the note say? *My love: Next Tuesday Only --  Buy One-Get One Free at J.J's Pizza.  Cannot be combined with any other offers/coupons.  Must present coupon upon purchase.  Expires 1/14/14* ...An expired coupon for Pizza? Such a wonderful expression of love! How do I get out of here... You see a door .
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611 I see thee better—in the Dark— I do not need a Light— The Love of Thee—a Prism be— Excelling Violet— I see thee better for the Years That hunch themselves between— The Miner’s Lamp—sufficient be— To nullify the Mine— And in the Grave—I see Thee best— Its little Panels be Aglow—All ruddy—with the Light I held so high, for Thee— What need of Day— To Those whose Dark—hath so—surpassing Sun— It deem it be—Continually— At the Meridian?
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I see thee better—in the Dark
Woman was made for man's delight,-- Charm, O woman! Be not afraid! His shadow by day, his moon by night, Woman was made. Her strength with weakness is overlaid; Meek compliances veil her might; Him she stays, by whom she is stayed. World-wide champion of truth and right, Hope in gloom, and in danger aid, Tender and faithful, ruddy and white, Woman was made.
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A Helpmeet For Him
Ruddy's was the place to be on Wednesday nights, cheap drinks, free hotdogs and the graceful presence of Times Square hookers late at night, what a wonderful scene, marines hookers and the best jazz juke box inn manhattan, rowdy and something almost always happened, better than life. I was a young man in a strange country, had my fists tested in FLA and Brooklyn for stupid prejudices on my behalf and others, words hurt only those who do not know their meaning and root. There was a black man sitting next to me, quiet and still, a true barfly, he turned and said; - you are not from round here- -  no - I said -I am from Mexico - - you don't look Mexican, but let's go with it, I don't look African American either- - r you from the south?- -Georgia, as they call it - -well, I've worked in FLA and met some rednecks, Cubans, blacks, but almost no Chinese- -you mean yellow- -or ******* - or **** you know men, I prefer racism down south, over there the distinction is cut loose clear, we don't like each other, but here, men I tell you, you wannanother beer?- -sure men- -Girls just wanna **** you cause I'm black, you know, to be cool and **** -yeah, Jewish girls wanna **** white Gentiles, different reasons same goal- -I hear you, here it's all about being fashionable, but deep in the pit it's all fake as a 10 dollar coin-   We kept at it until Beth started a fight with another ****** they were calling each other **** I've never heard.
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Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 10:43 PM UTC
Dialogue between a **** and a blackman.
Where are the songs I used to know, Where are the notes I used to sing? I have forgotten everything I used to know so long ago; Summer has followed after Spring; Now Autumn is so shrunk and sere, I scarcely think a sadder thing Can be the Winter of my year. Yet Robin sings thro' Winter's rest, When bushes put their berries on; While they their ruddy jewels don, He sings out of a ruddy breast; The hips and haws and ruddy breast Make one spot warm where snowflakes lie, They break and cheer the unlovely rest Of Winter's pause--and why not I?
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The Key-Note
aerial ladder truck, amok, amuck, awestruck, bad luck, black buck, black duck, bruck, buc, buck, by luck, canuck, chuck, cluck, cold duck, collet chuck, cruck, dabbling duck, delivery truck, diving duck, donald duck, druck, duc, duck, duk, dumbstruck, dump truck, dumptruck, fire truck, fish duck, fishbach, fluck, fslic, garbage truck, garden truck, get stuck, give **** gluck, good luck, grucche, guck, hand truck, hockey puck, huck, hucke, icing the puck, ill luck, kachuck, kluck, kruck, kruk, kuc, kuck, kuk, ladder truck, lake duck, lame duck, laundry truck, luck, lucke, luk, mandarin duck, megabuck, moonstruck, mruk, muck, musk duck, naugatuck, nuque, panel truck, pickup truck, pluck, potluck, puck, queer duck, raybuck, roebuck, ruck, ruddy duck, schmuck, schtik, schuch, schuck, sculk, sea duck, shmuck, shuck, sitting duck, smuck, snuck, sound truck, starbuck, starstruck, struck, stuck, stucke, suc, **** suk, summer duck, thunderstruck, trailer truck, truck, tuck, tuque, unstuck, vhsic, wild duck, wnuk, wood duck, woodchuck, wruck, young buck,chuck-a-luck, yuck, yuk, zuck, zuk
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Apr 8, 2016
Apr 8, 2016 at 4:16 PM UTC
Words and phrases that rhyme with ****
Monet was painting up my vision while the droves were driven out. We stepped out to the derision of a tenor waterspout. The town outside is dancing in the ruddy neon hues and I’m ****** whilst Amsterdam-ing by the slam-dunk cognac blues. And a cap was shaking coppers in an out cove by the way, where instruments and owners had begun to play. The bar stools are all swaying whilst the festival ensues, and I’m ****** whilst Amsterdam-ing by the slam-dunk cognac blues. With the rhythm of the rimjhim and the stamping our feet we sing our drunken-whim hymn whilst we stagger down the street. And we had sunken five; still sinking Im strung out, slammed, and stinking Four sheets to the wind and freaking about what I had to lose. so that’s when I got to thinking had an inkling to the linking between my errant drinking and the slam-dunk cognac blues…
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 6:37 PM UTC
The Slam-Dunk Cognac Blues
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be. If all were as happy as we; And mutual fear brings peace; Till the selfish loves increase. Then Cruelty knits a snare, And spreads his baits with care. He sits down with holy fears. And waters the ground with tears: Then Humility takes its root Underneath his foot. Soon spreads the dismal shade Of Mystery over his head; And the Caterpillar and Fly Feed on the Mystery. And it bears the fruit of Deceit. Ruddy and sweet to eat: And the Raven his nest has made In its thickest shade. The Gods of the earth and sea, Sought thro’ Nature to find this Tree But their search was all in vain: There grows one in the Human Brain
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The Human Abstract
"Your shapely, bootylicious thighs, carved columns of lubricious butter, shouldn't be left without gently caressed, til covered all over with ruddy marks of desire, just strawberry goosebumps for ignorant  others" When she snuggles closer to him, from the seat next, as the train rocks and they rub,when gathering speed, she sporting a marvelous mini dress engrossing his libido, he whispers to her, who was all ears, "But my real object of focus is the truth, that lurks where your thighs meet"
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Feb 18, 2016
Feb 18, 2016 at 7:06 AM UTC
Exploring her truth(Erotic)
Byron wants me to invite all my friends on HP to a pig roast. Rest assured, when Byron has a pig roast fun is surely to be expected. Here's his invitation. You're invited to my pig roast. I told him he'd have to do better, that he's talking to a collection of rhymers, wordsmiths, and gesticulating anthropomorphics. He had no idea what the **** I just said, but he did do an edit. Here's his edit. You're Invited to My Pig Roast Your toad on the road Only squats, never stands, Or sits 'til he splits Between the treads of your van. Your mouse in the house, If it isn't found out, Drops pellets in pots, 'Til snap, then it stops. Your bird on the wire Sweetly sings then lets fire; And a cat in a hat Is cute, but that's that. Your horse from the stable Won't be served from your table; And the deer by the brook, Well, too much the Bambi to cook. Yes a bear in the wood Indeed craps where it should; He's best left alone While your meat's on your bone. Then there is the PIG. A ruddy pink porker, Intelligent and clean, An innocuous oinker. It does nothing that's heinous, And yes, it should shame us, As it lies silently smiling With a spit up its **** Please bring your own lawnchair, *****  and women. The pig's on me.
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Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014 at 8:48 AM UTC
Byron's Pig Roast ("You're Invited to My Pig Roast")
For Leonard Baskin To his house the bodiless Come to barter endlessly Vision, wisdom, for bodies Palpable as his, and weighty. Hands moving move priestlier Than priest's hands, invoke no vain Images of light and air But sure stations in bronze, wood, stone. Obdurate, in dense-grained wood, A bald angel blocks and shapes The flimsy light; arms folded Watches his cumbrous world eclipse Inane worlds of wind and cloud. Bronze dead dominate the floor, Resistive, ruddy-bodied, Dwarfing us. Our bodies flicker Toward extinction in those eyes Which, without him, were beggared Of place, time, and their bodies. Emulous spirits make discord, Try entry, enter nightmares Until his chisel bequeaths Them life livelier than ours, A solider repose than death's.
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Sculptor
yesterday the telephone rang non stop and the dashed thing had me on the hop all my time was spent saying hello and goodbye I had to tell the person on the other end I must fly those telephone marketers are an insistent lot they are more pesky than a horse fly bot not for one minute did they leave me alone ring ring ring went the overbearing telephone to get some peace from the telephone's hassling I unplugged the ruddy rampant thing one is fearful of reconnecting it to the socket as it may well send one right off one's rocket
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 8:37 AM UTC
Ring Ring Ring
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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The Ladder Of St. Augustine
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth— No brimming Tankards flow— Necromancer! Landlord! Who are these below?
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What Inn is this
"Now did you mark a falcon, Sister dear, sister dear, Flying toward my window In the morning cool and clear? With jingling bells about her neck, But what beneath her wing? It may have been a ribbon, Or it may have been a ring."-- "I marked a falcon swooping At the break of day: And for your love, my sister dove, I 'frayed the thief away."-- "Or did you spy a ruddy hound, Sister fair and tall, Went snuffing round my garden bound, Or crouched by my bower wall? With a silken leash about his neck; But in his mouth may be A chain of gold and silver links, Or a letter writ to me."-- "I heard a hound, high-born sister, Stood baying at the moon: I rose and drove him from your wall Lest you should wake too soon."-- "Or did you meet a pretty page Sat swinging on the gate; Sat whistling, whistling like a bird, Or may be slept too late: With eaglets broidered on his cap, And eaglets on his glove? If you had turned his pockets out, You had found some pledge of love."-- "I met him at this daybreak, Scarce the east was red: Lest the creaking gate should anger you, I packed him home to bed."-- "O patience, sister. Did you see A young man tall and strong, Swift-footed to uphold the right And to uproot the wrong, Come home across the desolate sea To woo me for his wife? And in his heart my heart is locked, And in his life my life."-- "I met a nameless man, sister, Who loitered round our door: I said: Her husband loves her much. And yet she loves him more."-- "Fie, sister, fie, a wicked lie, A lie, a wicked lie; I have none other love but him, Nor will have till I die. And you have turned him from our door, And stabbed him with a lie: I will go seek him thro' the world In sorrow till I die."-- "Go seek in sorrow, sister, And find in sorrow too: If thus you shame our father's name My curse go forth with you."
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Noble Sisters
"Now did you mark a falcon, Sister dear, sister dear, Flying toward my window In the morning cool and clear? With jingling bells about her neck, But what beneath her wing? It may have been a ribbon, Or it may have been a ring."-- "I marked a falcon swooping At the break of day: And for your love, my sister dove, I 'frayed the thief away."-- "Or did you spy a ruddy hound, Sister fair and tall, Went snuffing round my garden bound, Or crouched by my bower wall? With a silken leash about his neck; But in his mouth may be A chain of gold and silver links, Or a letter writ to me."-- "I heard a hound, high-born sister, Stood baying at the moon: I rose and drove him from your wall Lest you should wake too soon."-- "Or did you meet a pretty page Sat swinging on the gate; Sat whistling, whistling like a bird, Or may be slept too late: With eaglets broidered on his cap, And eaglets on his glove? If you had turned his pockets out, You had found some pledge of love."-- "I met him at this daybreak, Scarce the east was red: Lest the creaking gate should anger you, I packed him home to bed."-- "O patience, sister. Did you see A young man tall and strong, Swift-footed to uphold the right And to uproot the wrong, Come home across the desolate sea To woo me for his wife? And in his heart my heart is locked, And in his life my life."-- "I met a nameless man, sister, Who loitered round our door: I said: Her husband loves her much. And yet she loves him more."-- "Fie, sister, fie, a wicked lie, A lie, a wicked lie; I have none other love but him, Nor will have till I die. And you have turned him from our door, And stabbed him with a lie: I will go seek him thro' the world In sorrow till I die."-- "Go seek in sorrow, sister, And find in sorrow too: If thus you shame our father's name My curse go forth with you."
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NAY! swear no more, thou woman whom I called Star, Empress, Wife! Were Dian's self to lean From her white altar and with goddess lip Swear thee as pure as her pale breast divine, I could not deem thee purer than I know Thou art indeed. Once, when my triumphs rolled Along old Rome and blood of roses washed The battle-stains from off my chariot-wheels, And triumph's thunders round my legions roared, And kings in kingly ******* golden bound Shook at my charger's foot, past the hot din Of Victory-whose heart of golden pride in wound Most subtly through with fire of subtlest pain- My soul on prouder pinion rose above The Roman shouting, to an air more clear Than that Jove darks with hurtling thunderbolts, Or stains with Jovian revels-that separate sphere, Unshared of gods or man, where thy white feet Caught their sole staining from my ruddy heart, Blazing beneath them; where, when Rome looked up, 'Twas with the eyes close shaded with the hand, As at some glory terrible and pure,- For no man being pure, a terror dwells Holy and awful in a sinless thing- And Caesar's wife, the Empress-Matron, sat Above a doubt-as high above a stain. Nay! how know I what hell first belched abroad Tall flames and slanderous vomitings of smoke, Blown by infernal breathings, till they scaled Thy throne of whiteness, and the very slaves Who crouched in Roman kennels wagged the tongue Against the wife of Caesar: 'Ha! we need not now And opal-shaded stone wherewith to view A stainless glory.' In that day my neck Was bound and yoked with my twin-Caesar's yoke- Man's master, Sorrow. I know thee pure- But Caesar's wife must throne herself so high Upon the hills that touch their snowy crests So close on Heaven that no slanderous Hell Can dash its lava up their swelling sides. I love thee, woman, know thee pure, but thou No more art wife of Caesar. Get thee hence! My heart is hardened as a lonely crag, Grey granite lifted to a greyer sky, And where against its solitary crown Eternal thunders bellow.
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Caesar's Wife
NAY! swear no more, thou woman whom I called Star, Empress, Wife! Were Dian's self to lean From her white altar and with goddess lip Swear thee as pure as her pale breast divine, I could not deem thee purer than I know Thou art indeed. Once, when my triumphs rolled Along old Rome and blood of roses washed The battle-stains from off my chariot-wheels, And triumph's thunders round my legions roared, And kings in kingly ******* golden bound Shook at my charger's foot, past the hot din Of Victory-whose heart of golden pride in wound Most subtly through with fire of subtlest pain- My soul on prouder pinion rose above The Roman shouting, to an air more clear Than that Jove darks with hurtling thunderbolts, Or stains with Jovian revels-that separate sphere, Unshared of gods or man, where thy white feet Caught their sole staining from my ruddy heart, Blazing beneath them; where, when Rome looked up, 'Twas with the eyes close shaded with the hand, As at some glory terrible and pure,- For no man being pure, a terror dwells Holy and awful in a sinless thing- And Caesar's wife, the Empress-Matron, sat Above a doubt-as high above a stain. Nay! how know I what hell first belched abroad Tall flames and slanderous vomitings of smoke, Blown by infernal breathings, till they scaled Thy throne of whiteness, and the very slaves Who crouched in Roman kennels wagged the tongue Against the wife of Caesar: 'Ha! we need not now And opal-shaded stone wherewith to view A stainless glory.' In that day my neck Was bound and yoked with my twin-Caesar's yoke- Man's master, Sorrow. I know thee pure- But Caesar's wife must throne herself so high Upon the hills that touch their snowy crests So close on Heaven that no slanderous Hell Can dash its lava up their swelling sides. I love thee, woman, know thee pure, but thou No more art wife of Caesar. Get thee hence! My heart is hardened as a lonely crag, Grey granite lifted to a greyer sky, And where against its solitary crown Eternal thunders bellow.
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Your skin is ruddy and you’re made of rock. I’m part naivety and part alcohol, trying hard to swallow my need for you to touch me.
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Oct 8, 2011
Oct 8, 2011 at 5:32 AM UTC
Misunderstanding
'The beggar boy is none of mine,' The reverend doctor strangely said; 'I do not walk the streets to pour Chance benedictions on his head. 'And heaven I thank who made me so. That toying with my own dear child, I think not on _his_ shivering limbs, _His_ manners vagabond and wild.' Good friend, unsay that graceless word! I am a mother crowned with joy, And yet I feel a ***** pang To pass the little starveling boy. His aching flesh, his fevered eyes His piteous stomach, craving meat; His features, nipt of tenderness, And most, his little frozen feet. Oft, by my fireside's ruddy glow, I think, how in some noisome den, Bred up with curses and with blows, He lives unblest of gods or men. I cannot ****** him from his fate, The tribute of my doubting mind Drops, torch-like, in the abyss of ill, That skirts the ways of humankind. But, as my heart's desire would leap To help him, recognized of none, I thank the God who left him this, For many a precious right foregone. My mother, whom I scarcely knew, Bequeathed this bond of love to me; The heart parental thrills for all The children of humanity.
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Limitations Of Benevolence
Day and night vie for each other now, but the darker is winning; The moon mourns in her ruddy veil: tonight, the garden's wet by tears. Incredible, the attraction, of carbon for carbon. Even more, the attraction of carbon for gold. In the wild, they rarely bond. But in man, inseparable. Carbon and mammon: be not yoked, says the jewel diamond of our race. Who cares? The cross, an adornment nice. Mammon in mud? Silicon too, says the IT guy. Fullerenes in the sky: on this Guy Fawkes night, sparks truly fly. Carbon will **** for gold. This the oldest maxim of old.
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 2:42 PM UTC
Carbon sutra
THE noon was as a crystal bowl The red wine mantled through; Around it like a Viking's beard The red-gold hazes blew, As tho' he quaffed the ruddy draught While swift his galley flew. This mighty Viking was the Night; He sailed about the earth, And called the merry harvest-time To sing him songs of mirth; And all on earth or in the sea To melody gave birth. The valleys of the earth were full To rocky lip and brim With golden grain that shone and sang When woods were still and dim, A little song from sheaf to sheaf- Sweet Plenty's cradle-hymn. O gallant were the high tree-tops, And gay the strain they sang! And cheerfully the moon-lit hills Their echo-music rang! And what so proud and what so loud As was the ocean's clang! But O the little humming song That sang among the sheaves! 'Twas grander than the airy march That rattled thro' the leaves, And prouder, louder, than the deep, Bold clanging of the waves: 'The lives of men, the lives of men With every sheaf are bound! We are the blessing which annuls The curse upon the ground! And he who reaps the Golden Grain The Golden Love hath found.'
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A Harvest Song
O BID the minstrel tune his harp, And bid the minstrel sing; And let it be a perfect strain That round the hall shall ring: A strain to throb in lady's heart, To brim the warrior's soul, As dew fills up the summer rose And wine the lordly bowl! O let the minstrel's voice ring clear, His touch sweep gay and light; Nor let his glittering tresses know One streak of wintry white. And let the light of ruddy June Shine in his joyous eyes, If he would wake the only strain That never fully dies! O what the strain that woos the knight To turn from steed and lance, The page to turn from hound and hawk, The maid from lute and dance; The potent strain, that nigh would draw The hermit from his cave, The dryad from the leafy oak, The mermaid from the wave; That almost might still charm the hawk To drop the trembling dove? O ruddy minstrel, tune thy harp, And sing of Youthful Love!
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A Perfect Strain
I took a rest on a ruddy bench Aside the lady with the looking glass Till a little blessing came tapping With an outstretched hand telling Begging change in exchange the floras The lady, amused with the child Showed him a wise saying That was mundanely swaying As the words came out The water of life pouring As the true meaning he learned From the lady's interpreted word That moment the personas shared With time who couldn't stay Could determine the fate As it wasn't too late I took a rest on the ruddy bench Flowers, words and lives were traded Familiarity grew on the streets Where strangers pass or meet
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 10:44 AM UTC
A Rhyme for a Sampaguita Boy