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"ruinous" poems
On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain. I do not expect a miracle Or an accident To set the sight on fire In my eye, nor seek Any more in the desultory weather some design, But let spotted leaves fall as they fall, Without ceremony, or portent. Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then -- Thus hallowing an interval Otherwise inconsequent By bestowing largesse, honor, One might say love. At any rate, I now walk Wary (for it could happen Even in this dull, ruinous landscape); skeptical, Yet politic; ignorant Of whatever angel may choose to flare Suddenly at my elbow. I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can so shine As to seize my senses, haul My eyelids up, and grant A brief respite from fear Of total neutrality. With luck, Trekking stubborn through this season Of fatigue, I shall Patch together a content Of sorts. Miracles occur, If you care to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.
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Black Rook In Rainy Weather
Already over the sea from her old spouse she comes, the blonde goddess whose frosty wheels bring day. Why do you hurry, Aurora? Hold off, so may the birds shed ritual blood each year for Memnon's shade. Now it's good to lie in my mistress's tender arms; if ever, now it's good to feel her near. Now drowsiness is richest, the morning air is cool, and birds sing shrilly from their tender throats. Why do you hurry, dreaded by men and dreaded by girls? Draw back your dewy reins with your crimson hand. The sailor marks the stars more clearly before you rise, not raoming aimlessly across the sea; the traveller, though weary, arises when you come, and the soldier sets his savage hand to arms; you're first to see the farmers wield their heavy hoes and to call slow oxen under the curving yoke; you rob boys of their sleep and give them over to schools, where tender hands must bear the savage switch; and you send reckless fools to pledge themselves in court, where they take ruinous losses through one word; the lawyer and the pleader take no delight in you, for each must rise and wrangle with new torts; and you ensure that women's chores are never done, calling the spinner's hands back to her wool. All this I'd bear; but who would bear that girls must rise at dawn, unless himself he has no girl? How many times I've wished Night would not yield to you, the stars not fade and flee before your face! How many times I've wished the wind would smash your wheels, your steeds would stumble on a cloud and fall! Jealous, why do you hurry? If your son is black, it's since his mother's heart is that same color. How I wish Tithonus could still tell tales of you: no goddess would be more disgraced in heaven. Since he is endless eons old, you rise and flee at dawn to the chariot the old man hates, but if some Cephalus were lying in your arms, you'd cry out, 'O run slowly, steeds of night! ' Why should this lover pay, if your husband withers with age? Was I the matchmaker who brought him to you? Remember how much sleep was given to her loved youth by Luna - and she's beautiful as you. The father of gods himself, to see you all the less, joined two nights into one for his desires. I'd finished my complaint. You could tell she'd heard: she blushed; and yet the day rose at its usual time.
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Morning
Already over the sea from her old spouse she comes, the blonde goddess whose frosty wheels bring day. Why do you hurry, Aurora? Hold off, so may the birds shed ritual blood each year for Memnon's shade. Now it's good to lie in my mistress's tender arms; if ever, now it's good to feel her near. Now drowsiness is richest, the morning air is cool, and birds sing shrilly from their tender throats. Why do you hurry, dreaded by men and dreaded by girls? Draw back your dewy reins with your crimson hand. The sailor marks the stars more clearly before you rise, not raoming aimlessly across the sea; the traveller, though weary, arises when you come, and the soldier sets his savage hand to arms; you're first to see the farmers wield their heavy hoes and to call slow oxen under the curving yoke; you rob boys of their sleep and give them over to schools, where tender hands must bear the savage switch; and you send reckless fools to pledge themselves in court, where they take ruinous losses through one word; the lawyer and the pleader take no delight in you, for each must rise and wrangle with new torts; and you ensure that women's chores are never done, calling the spinner's hands back to her wool. All this I'd bear; but who would bear that girls must rise at dawn, unless himself he has no girl? How many times I've wished Night would not yield to you, the stars not fade and flee before your face! How many times I've wished the wind would smash your wheels, your steeds would stumble on a cloud and fall! Jealous, why do you hurry? If your son is black, it's since his mother's heart is that same color. How I wish Tithonus could still tell tales of you: no goddess would be more disgraced in heaven. Since he is endless eons old, you rise and flee at dawn to the chariot the old man hates, but if some Cephalus were lying in your arms, you'd cry out, 'O run slowly, steeds of night! ' Why should this lover pay, if your husband withers with age? Was I the matchmaker who brought him to you? Remember how much sleep was given to her loved youth by Luna - and she's beautiful as you. The father of gods himself, to see you all the less, joined two nights into one for his desires. I'd finished my complaint. You could tell she'd heard: she blushed; and yet the day rose at its usual time.
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pompeii runs through our veins, hot with the taste of ash & decay. some of us are fortunate enough to become ruins; others are ruinous, sepulchers of epidemics, air-born, contagious. a disease that could make London a cemetery. we dress ourselves up like relics, clothed in silk and gold and gossamer, as if they could one day be armor. as if they could bring us safety. as if we deserve such things when everything we touch rusts. it takes only twenty-two years for the average person to realize they are a weapon. that words are knives and actions are razor blades, as if to remind the living that we came into the world screaming— and we have never been silent since. we are the Morrigans, the cursed women, those whose destiny is entwined with death. we court death, invite her to our dinner table every night, let her sleep in the guest room, leave the doors and windows unlocked for her. death, we realize as women forced to bear the weight of the dead on our shoulders, never comes as a thief. she comes as a lover, smelling of lilac, a grin too white and too large to be human. still, we invite her in, because even death, regardless of form, makes for better company than the empty dark.
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 10:46 PM UTC
small comforts like dying alone
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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If only we could begin again and slow down the pernicious pace We ruin our oceans, the land, our air even outer space. If only we avoided such precarious paths that may lead to disparity If only we knew what action is needed now, to deal with the reality. Ecologists warned, yet still observe with ever-growing anxiety the growth of harmful long-term effects on Earth's biodiversity. If only the air wasn't gravely polluted, so the atmosphere begins to fail, so wreathed by carbon dioxide layers, extremes to climate may prevail. If only Earth's lungs cease being shrunk by profits heedless exploitation, existing relationships are considered scarcely in these aberrations. If only a solution for discarded synthetics which float in ugly hordes on oceans global drifts, disaster occurs wherever it reaches landfall. If only we can do something, a belated but resounding universal call, If only we can safeguard the future before there are no options at all. If only we could begin again and slow the ruinous pace... if only If Only M C Crowder @scorsby 19th November 2018
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Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 12:00 PM UTC
If Only
A little while a little love The hour yet bears for thee and me Who have not drawn the veil to see If still our heaven be lit above. Thou merely, at the day’s last sigh, Hast felt thy soul prolong the tone; And I have heard the night-wind cry And deemed its speech mine own. A little while a little love The scattering autumn hoards for us Whose bower is not yet ruinous Nor quite unleaved our songless grove. Only across the shaken boughs We hear the flood-tides seek the sea, And deep in both our hearts they rouse One wail for thee and me. A little while a little love May yet be ours who have not said The word it makes our eyes afraid To know that each is thinking of. Not yet the end: be our lips dumb In smiles a little season yet: I’ll tell thee, when the end is come, How we may best forget.
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A Little While
Now do our eyes behold The tidings which were told: Twin fallen kings, twin perished hopes to mourn, The slayer, the slain, The entangled doom forlorn And ruinous end of twain. Say, is not sorrow, is not sorrow's sum On home and hearthstone come? Oh, waft with sighs the sail from shore, Oh, smite the ***** cadencing the oar That rows beyond the rueful stream for aye To the far strand, The ship of souls, the dark, The unreturning bark Whereon light never falls nor foot of Day, Even to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land.
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Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Other's Hand
Who controls our banking? Ruinous fees for money lending. Who questions their investing? Why so dear for money dealing? Who does profit from accounting? Our finances they're controlling, While our economy they're ruining, They're amassing fortunes pecuniary, Big business for them, commercially. Let's question their accountability For our faceless Australian economy, Profits overseas they're sending--- So much for Australian banking!!!
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM UTC
HIGH FINANCE
The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand That lay impounding the Pacific swell, Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl. Lacustrine man had never been assailed By such long-rolling opulent cataracts, Unless Racine or Bossuet held the like. He did not quail. A man who used to plumb The multifarious heavens felt no awe Before these visible, voluble delugings, Which yet found means to set his simmering mind Spinning and hissing with oracular Notations of the wild, the ruinous waste, Until the steeples of his city clanked and sprang In an unburgherly apocalypse. The doctor used his handkerchief and sighed.
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The Doctor Of Geneva
Making love is the city of ruin. The worst kind of fog captures it, a fog where the streetlights are not pushing out light into the right places. Light falls only on the glossy mercedes and it's rims full of hope and wealth. The skyscrapers reach the sky and finger the underbelly of an afterlife, as if there is something to look forward to. The buses transport souls and promise, or seem too. But this is all a lie, the lights only create light, darkness grows, the skyscrapers touch the sky, yes, but they don't know a thing about goodness, and the buses are full of hopelessness. But when we make love, it is like we are only looking for the good things in the city as we get robbed blind. When I touch your belly button, I can feel your heart in your stomach, so low and so unwanting that it dropped to a place of digestion, of eating what we had and ******** it out. It is ok to realize this untruth late in the game, it is wrong to continue when we know of the untruth, and that is what we are doing, that's why I hate you and still **** you. I love the city, in its ruinous returns I keep fooling myself into thinking this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Your ***** must be the greatest, because I'll never leave even when we call making love a city of hope when we **** and it's a dystopia of destruction.
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Apr 16, 2012
Apr 16, 2012 at 8:23 PM UTC
I lied.
Lips like bloodlines, Carmilla kisses her mirror and calls herself dangerous Naming myself for dead things, for ruinous things; fire, the ash that drank Pompei, the ivy that made your walls cave, Was Lady Macbeth sweeping her hair in braids to nest her crown? Or Nefertiti painted gold to reclaim God? I’m asking for the lavender girls See, we do these things to be holy to be myths in our skin Tying feathers to our shoulders and glitter to our tongues, thinking I can be gold if I want to I can be thorn-tipped ugly In pink fur, black lace, we kiss the toes of Courtney Love and Venus in one breath Cut back to my blood-laced lips on the mirror as though saying Narcissus is my idol my skin placed above heaven and I wish to love myself so much I’d choke for it
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Nov 28, 2015
Nov 28, 2015 at 4:59 PM UTC
...In A Red Dress
Little monster couldn’t walk quite right Her legs ached and burned at times The healer didn’t have a cure And the ones at “home” said it’s nothing more Than monster’s own creation because She’s a wretched creature displaying loss, Always a burden for the ones who care And no more did they want to bear. “Little monster, you filthy girl, Leave the house and find some work. You leech at our money, our love and care, And then complain of pain everywhere. You despicable monster, weak of mind, what will you gain from studying time? I wish you’d leave right now, but wait, You’ll only ruin your family’s name. We came together for your happiness, You hateful thing, why do you make a mess? “I’m in pain, I’m in pain” it’s nothing but a ploy You little worm, with emotions you toy. Leave, you ***** get off my mind, You know no love, so how can you find Pain in my words, you’re just a rock, I wish you’d die, you ruinous block.” Monster girl fled from those words ‘I’m alright’ she said till she was numb. In this vast world she felt alone, With trees she talked of finding more. Her body ached as she fell to the ground Watched the stars till it was cold around. A piece of glass was what she could own Without being a weight on other souls. This jagged piece reflected the light From the moon and thousand fireflies, Little girl thought the world was so nice, But alas, she was just a monster in night. She heard from the house her father’s voice As he talked about her as a screeching noise, She rarely spoke and yet she was The pain in the ears of the ones she loved. I won’t cry anymore, she pledged, Her room alone knew that she wept, So often times she thought of hanging herself But she wasn’t sure she could bear being out of breath. And so it was she held a piece of glass, Shimmering, it seemed like her freedom at last, If only she was a human girl, Pretty and lovable, she wouldn’t hurt. Little monster girl smiled to herself She wouldn’t cause pain to other selves, The stars would remember that she had tried, The sun would know she had no respite. The glass glided over her soft dark skin, Where only bruises marked her wrist thin, Little drops of blood became more, Little monster thought of happy lores. “And they lived happily after” she mumbled quiet, Her dark eyes closed to moonlight, A firefly sat on her cold forehead Thinking her to be a creature dead. As the mist rose, she fell asleep, The moon watched over her peaceful dreams. As the moon’s lover rose So did she, To the worst nightmare that could ever be.
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 2:15 PM UTC
Little Monster
Little monster couldn’t walk quite right Her legs ached and burned at times The healer didn’t have a cure And the ones at “home” said it’s nothing more Than monster’s own creation because She’s a wretched creature displaying loss, Always a burden for the ones who care And no more did they want to bear. “Little monster, you filthy girl, Leave the house and find some work. You leech at our money, our love and care, And then complain of pain everywhere. You despicable monster, weak of mind, what will you gain from studying time? I wish you’d leave right now, but wait, You’ll only ruin your family’s name. We came together for your happiness, You hateful thing, why do you make a mess? “I’m in pain, I’m in pain” it’s nothing but a ploy You little worm, with emotions you toy. Leave, you ***** get off my mind, You know no love, so how can you find Pain in my words, you’re just a rock, I wish you’d die, you ruinous block.” Monster girl fled from those words ‘I’m alright’ she said till she was numb. In this vast world she felt alone, With trees she talked of finding more. Her body ached as she fell to the ground Watched the stars till it was cold around. A piece of glass was what she could own Without being a weight on other souls. This jagged piece reflected the light From the moon and thousand fireflies, Little girl thought the world was so nice, But alas, she was just a monster in night. She heard from the house her father’s voice As he talked about her as a screeching noise, She rarely spoke and yet she was The pain in the ears of the ones she loved. I won’t cry anymore, she pledged, Her room alone knew that she wept, So often times she thought of hanging herself But she wasn’t sure she could bear being out of breath. And so it was she held a piece of glass, Shimmering, it seemed like her freedom at last, If only she was a human girl, Pretty and lovable, she wouldn’t hurt. Little monster girl smiled to herself She wouldn’t cause pain to other selves, The stars would remember that she had tried, The sun would know she had no respite. The glass glided over her soft dark skin, Where only bruises marked her wrist thin, Little drops of blood became more, Little monster thought of happy lores. “And they lived happily after” she mumbled quiet, Her dark eyes closed to moonlight, A firefly sat on her cold forehead Thinking her to be a creature dead. As the mist rose, she fell asleep, The moon watched over her peaceful dreams. As the moon’s lover rose So did she, To the worst nightmare that could ever be.
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HOW should the world be luckier if this house, Where passion and precision have been one Time out of mind, became too ruinous To breed the lidleSs eye that loves the sun? And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow Where wings have memory of wings, and all That comes of the best knit to the best? Although Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall. How should their luck run high enough to reach The gifts that govern men, and after these To gradual Time's last gift, a written speech Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?
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Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation
Fend off our victimisation Our celestial visualisation Help to keep the harmful at bay Tell us how love will find a way In times of ruinous meandering When our cognitive strengths are weak As baneful people take to slandering I will be there just seek I'm where you alone will find me When my troubled times will grind me I will seek my comfort in you There is nothing we cannot do The jealous, vicious, ugly hate That others land at our door The pain in their lives must be great To think they can destroy our core Life takes over it beats you down But your accomplishments renown The person you are in my eyes As through the ashes you will rise We stand, as always, together As one potent heart forever
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Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 7:04 AM UTC
I Won't Give Up On You
That lover of a night Came when he would, Went in the dawning light Whether I would or no; Men come, men go; All things remain in God. Banners choke the sky; Men-at-arms tread; Armoured horses neigh In the narrow pass: All things remain in God. Before their eyes a house That from childhood stood Uninhabited, ruinous, Suddenly lit up From door to top: All things remain in God. I had wild Jack for a lover; Though like a road That men pass over My body makes no moan But sings on: All things remain in God.
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Crazy Jane On God
Oh ruinous apple, the flesh is too much and sweet as hell, sweet as chicken meat dripping off the bone to swim in pureed flesh on the tongue, oh ruinous apple, your stem is no longer a caterpillar, there is no tiny butterfly of a leaf on your dorsal. Oh ruinous apple, you say "I have grown old and hate my skin," hoping that it will finally be shredded and given to my belly. Oh ruinous apple, you are not so old to me, you have become a cougar in your old age and the seeds still make tambourine noises in your ********
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Feb 25, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 at 12:30 PM UTC
The Apple.
"my soul to keep" this prayer elegant, simple complexity, comes me haunting, every evening, this notion, a faint ghosting, repeatedly reappearing and nightly leaving, disappointed, from between my crumpled, sweaty bedsheets, departing with a demanding unsatisfied, incessant, coated with a diabolical, unfeigned challenge  - write of me, relentlessly commanding, right me only, no notions, come realized, no poem body, resolved solutions, are easy offered up your inner voices, fettered and deterred, begging you, screaming, this one, defer, defer, for better days, for better poets, who require no assembly instructions cannot improve upon it my distress, sensed; the lady of  the house, over the shoulder peering, sees the moody poem title that has self-selected to core this poet's core, for endless torture, raining down ruinous lamentation she, ever softly spoken *"good man, your soul, your poems - both mine to take and mine to keep this title, this poetic obligation fulfillingly, fittingly, my responsibility mine to write mine to keep mine to right mine to mine for its bejeweled contemplations render easily unto me what I have Caesarean seized, pried lovingly and forcibly from thee within though seemingly rightfully thine, title has passed, legally, tenderly, into your lover's arms banish poet thine troubled assembled, ensemble senses, this particular poem's journey and the soul that bears it, released and relieved, for now, mine to take, mine to keep, and thy soul, in mine to dwell, and mine to complete"* ~
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Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 8:35 PM UTC
my soul to keep
"my soul to keep" this prayer elegant, simple complexity, comes me haunting, every evening, this notion, a faint ghosting, repeatedly reappearing and nightly leaving, disappointed, from between my crumpled, sweaty bedsheets, departing with a demanding unsatisfied, incessant, coated with a diabolical, unfeigned challenge  - write of me, relentlessly commanding, right me only, no notions, come realized, no poem body, resolved solutions, are easy offered up your inner voices, fettered and deterred, begging you, screaming, this one, defer, defer, for better days, for better poets, who require no assembly instructions cannot improve upon it my distress, sensed; the lady of  the house, over the shoulder peering, sees the moody poem title that has self-selected to core this poet's core, for endless torture, raining down ruinous lamentation she, ever softly spoken *"good man, your soul, your poems - both mine to take and mine to keep this title, this poetic obligation fulfillingly, fittingly, my responsibility mine to write mine to keep mine to right mine to mine for its bejeweled contemplations render easily unto me what I have Caesarean seized, pried lovingly and forcibly from thee within though seemingly rightfully thine, title has passed, legally, tenderly, into your lover's arms banish poet thine troubled assembled, ensemble senses, this particular poem's journey and the soul that bears it, released and relieved, for now, mine to take, mine to keep, and thy soul, in mine to dwell, and mine to complete"* ~
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Do we need to debate an argument of objective morality, to prove God’s existence? Can’t we look… upward towards the sky and beyond, to clearly observe a magnificence of His, spectacular handiwork? Are we nothing more than animals, stuck in a plague-filled universe of endless, ruinous destruction? Are certain levels of violence deemed acceptable and necessary? Are we seeking excuses… to shirk away from the responsibilities of being our brother’s keeper? Can our human actions be judged simply, as either good or bad, to match our current disposition? Can any of our behaviors work favorably, to move us from a state of chaos to one of divine peace? Is Love and self-sacrifice genuine? Or should we just live with a sad realization, that we prefer to act badly as only… inhumane jerks?
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 1:11 PM UTC
Poem: Objective Morality
stone ground mustard Venus burns. She's not concerned that constant falling and orbits, elliptical - are the same thing. Her eyes are deaf. My eyes adapt to the pattern that rattles the chain of events. my Spartan theories dangle in dubiousness. I find a trap, and call it Seattle... for i see cattle - grazing a state of mind; north, north west of what God meant. washing tons of pocket lint by hand. chewing their cud in the dark. meanwhile - outside the ranch... My eyes refract. ***** and un-twink in the black lacquer that came - with the oblique miracle. they sustain things that would sunder a doll-eyed bovine to ever breach The Fence. my hardened arteries jangle like numinous. I pine and snap ruinous barbs from Death's prattle... for i see battle, razing the Grace of Time more at war, than at our best. more - bereft of what Reason defends. tossing guns at bullets by telekinesis. [ undefined ] i come from where i've never been. you were there. and ewe were there; fleeced and bleating in the snow that fell as soon as shearing ceased. i recall, you were never there. but remember passing you by... shilling an ocean roar you swore you'd plucked from a Seashell - salvaged from the divine dry sockets of Poseidon's skull. you were hawking your unawares. i played a flute made of question marks and glass drum skins. i went where my stride was inclined, and never where i went to. i never arrived by approaching the destination. only by always being somewhere else till i got there. i came from where i'd never been and - ain't been Nowhere since. but i'm sure i pass through There ever since.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM UTC
I Come From Where I've Never Been
stone ground mustard Venus burns. She's not concerned that constant falling and orbits, elliptical - are the same thing. Her eyes are deaf. My eyes adapt to the pattern that rattles the chain of events. my Spartan theories dangle in dubiousness. I find a trap, and call it Seattle... for i see cattle - grazing a state of mind; north, north west of what God meant. washing tons of pocket lint by hand. chewing their cud in the dark. meanwhile - outside the ranch... My eyes refract. ***** and un-twink in the black lacquer that came - with the oblique miracle. they sustain things that would sunder a doll-eyed bovine to ever breach The Fence. my hardened arteries jangle like numinous. I pine and snap ruinous barbs from Death's prattle... for i see battle, razing the Grace of Time more at war, than at our best. more - bereft of what Reason defends. tossing guns at bullets by telekinesis. [ undefined ] i come from where i've never been. you were there. and ewe were there; fleeced and bleating in the snow that fell as soon as shearing ceased. i recall, you were never there. but remember passing you by... shilling an ocean roar you swore you'd plucked from a Seashell - salvaged from the divine dry sockets of Poseidon's skull. you were hawking your unawares. i played a flute made of question marks and glass drum skins. i went where my stride was inclined, and never where i went to. i never arrived by approaching the destination. only by always being somewhere else till i got there. i came from where i'd never been and - ain't been Nowhere since. but i'm sure i pass through There ever since.
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Accidental introduction Slow destruction Deceptive beauty Slow destruction Accidental introduction An invasive species Not something with which to be reckoned It can not be reversed Not something with which to be reckoned An invasive species Superficial beauty Brief Enjoyment Ruinous existence Brief Enjoyment Superficial beauty Tendrils of beauty Tendrils of expiry Self contradictory by definition Tendrils of expiry Tendrils of beauty Taking everything needed for continuance of self Removing what is needed for existence of everything else Choking a red-faced, forlorn life Removing what is needed for existence of everything else Taking everything needed for continuance of self There is no escape The reach has extended too far for reversal All that is left is acceptance of destruction The reach has extended too far for reversal There is no escape There is no escape
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Oct 8, 2011
Oct 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM UTC
Ivy
Society is rigged by regulations They've become ruinous to our very existence Reduced us to savages, that we're not We've become accustomed to it Submerged to our very extinction Gusping for every breath, to be heard. If only these walls would  crumble Why let others be the drivers on this perilous road Our destiny is only ours Shall we strive for it The rear window is reminiscent of where we've come from It's a constant reminder of what we choose not to inherit We mustn't despair If only these walls would crumble That which amalgates us is mighty Our diversity shouldn't be our adversity We must take charge Rewrite our history That which dictates upon us must be banished We mustn't allow for this walls to take hold
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Jan 27, 2016
Jan 27, 2016 at 4:22 AM UTC
These walls
Blue streaks shew across the sky. Manic days and semper fi. Red dawn smashes out the sea. Honor is all I claim to be. Though I love and feel like saintly. I reek, timorous, spineless and dainty. But I have no respect for you! Till we are in court, tried and true It was the world, the world of defeat. I planted my flag on a daisy and creek. On a light dominion of my summerhouse place. There sit, the lovely Welterman case. Weltermans family gathered in boon. Farewell to a daughter, a motherly loon. I killed her. There. I said it okay? But don't blame me, she was just in my way. On a cold summer day, and a hot summer night. Cicadas bizzled but hardly struck a fright. Daisy lay sleeping, sweet next to me. Leaving behind her unfinished dreams But lo and behold, an undertaker. Ruinous desire, I decided to take her. My confession means nothing, my killing, an iota. So love would not infect Alexander of Macedonia. Down the throat and across the sea. Of loquacious gelatinous sanctimony. I'll cut deep without thinking, I'll slash without aversion. Ophelia and her love is a tainted ********** I bathed in the blood and cried myself silly. She only deserved death, that ***** old filly. No more would Welterman reek of my sin. To lower a king, to a peasantly Tim.
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Jan 18, 2017
Jan 18, 2017 at 2:59 AM UTC
Tims confession.
On a bright and sunny day On the 18th of May An earthquake resulted in a landslide That unleashed a massive force brewing inside The eruption removed the upper 1,300 feet The magma chamber burst- rock & gas blown at supersonic speed Within 8 miles, all was instantly wrecked With a shockwave so big, what could one expect? As the north slope collapsed down All life forms began to drown Every tree in sight swept away 19 miles outward; a ruinous ashtray Silence breaks as ash falls like snow The once mature landscape now just an embryo What had become a lifeless terrain, Now shows us what 35 years can attain. After the volcanic cataclysm Biological legacies determine the pace of new ecosystems The following colonizers proceed: Lupines, pearly everlasting, alder shrubs, and fireweed. The coniferous forest was replaced The deciduous Alder trees won the race The new forest attracts grasshoppers, birds, and ants Larks, gophers, sparrows and deer mice take a chance Out of 256 species alive prior to the eruption, 86 are now in production 20% of the surface is covered with grass and legumes Struggling young trees that endeavor to bloom Ecological gaps begin to fill Strong ecosystems form, production is uphill. Elk arrives to munch on grass and bark The thick forests attract birds, like larks. Fallen logs create nutrients and feed biofilm to the lake Floating ecosystems now have plenty resources to take Elevation affects the rate of recovery reports. The higher the colder, which means the growing season is short. The loss of trees means more room for sun As the lake warms up, there’s increased production More insects and bigger fish, like rainbow trout Salamanders are scarce now, not many about. Lupines deserve their own stanza, those purple legumes. They help make a pumice landscape suitable for others to bloom. Lupines create essential nutrients the pumice is low on Other plants are thankful for the rare space to grow on. All this information hopefully to inspire, Life pulls through in situations most dire. Mount Saint Helens’ destructive wake is seen clearly today, The eruption that obliterated had also paved a way.
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May 18, 2022
May 18, 2022 at 11:31 AM UTC
Re-vegetation of Mt. St. Helens
On a bright and sunny day On the 18th of May An earthquake resulted in a landslide That unleashed a massive force brewing inside The eruption removed the upper 1,300 feet The magma chamber burst- rock & gas blown at supersonic speed Within 8 miles, all was instantly wrecked With a shockwave so big, what could one expect? As the north slope collapsed down All life forms began to drown Every tree in sight swept away 19 miles outward; a ruinous ashtray Silence breaks as ash falls like snow The once mature landscape now just an embryo What had become a lifeless terrain, Now shows us what 35 years can attain. After the volcanic cataclysm Biological legacies determine the pace of new ecosystems The following colonizers proceed: Lupines, pearly everlasting, alder shrubs, and fireweed. The coniferous forest was replaced The deciduous Alder trees won the race The new forest attracts grasshoppers, birds, and ants Larks, gophers, sparrows and deer mice take a chance Out of 256 species alive prior to the eruption, 86 are now in production 20% of the surface is covered with grass and legumes Struggling young trees that endeavor to bloom Ecological gaps begin to fill Strong ecosystems form, production is uphill. Elk arrives to munch on grass and bark The thick forests attract birds, like larks. Fallen logs create nutrients and feed biofilm to the lake Floating ecosystems now have plenty resources to take Elevation affects the rate of recovery reports. The higher the colder, which means the growing season is short. The loss of trees means more room for sun As the lake warms up, there’s increased production More insects and bigger fish, like rainbow trout Salamanders are scarce now, not many about. Lupines deserve their own stanza, those purple legumes. They help make a pumice landscape suitable for others to bloom. Lupines create essential nutrients the pumice is low on Other plants are thankful for the rare space to grow on. All this information hopefully to inspire, Life pulls through in situations most dire. Mount Saint Helens’ destructive wake is seen clearly today, The eruption that obliterated had also paved a way.
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The knife I take down my throat To vindicate my thoughts Of ruinous infection, Deceives all sensation, All thoughts, and ceases To exist myself, Until the blade conceals, And the only tell Of even its unsheathing Is that of the daylight Pouring in through Windows of which I had forgotten, To strike the flower I left out alone in the open. The scent of the previous day Made aware though permeation From the bottles Left open To fill the air With their intention, But lit candles Will once again Flush the awful realization, As the day sheds colors To the night, And when the music hits, And the temperament Fills veins with built and bottled-up Stresses, the candles will smell great As the chaser takes away the sting From the blade, And the flower, unconcealed, Let without any pressures Or internal guilt, Finally able to be myself, If only for one more night.
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Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021 at 5:42 PM UTC
flowers are the nightmares we try to hide that eventually bloom for everyone to see
Mankind destroyeth another Predicted long ago; Mankind killeth sister and brother Predicted long ago; Mankind plundereth the earth Predicted long ago; Mankind eliminates the newborn Stained blood upon church snow; Mankind terminates with weapon's Predicted long ago; Mankind to God they get angry and question Predicted long ago; Mankind escapeth with addiction Predicted long ago; Truth bringer's sit in prison Predicted long ago; Politicians ****** with unlawful invention's Predicted long ago; Immoral parading of falsehood Predicted long ago; Thugs and dope in the neighborhood's Predicted long ago; Earthquake's in diverse places Predicted long ago; Mankind changing natural faces Predicted long ago; Mankind of their father the devil Predicted long ago; Mankind worshipping hell's level Predicted long ago; War's and rumour's of war Predicted long ago; Syria turning to a ruinous heap Predicted Isaiah 17:1, For thou whom don't know. Murderer's stealeth for keep's Predicted long ago; Beast's dressing up as sheep Predicted long ago; Hatred from their bellies They get hired on whom they know. Dollar bills come to naught Whilst debt in every abode grows. Unorthodox affection's Like bloomed flower's show. Sign's in the sun and moon Predicted long ago; Prophet's telleth truth beyond the tomb Predicted long ago; The world is in chaos Predicted long ago; Iran joining with Russia Predicted long ago; China practicing for war games Predicted long ago; Revelation 9:16, nuclear bang, An Oriental blow; A false prophet to bring religion's together Predicted long ago; With the Antichrist as his helper Predicted long ago; Underground shelter's Where rich men hide their woes. Whilst some prediction's hath happened already Predicted long ago; More art being fulfilled Predicted long ago; More to cometh Predicted long ago; Soon Christ's light shalt shineth Predicted long ago; Every man to bow their feature's Predicted long ago; King of king, lord of Lord's Whom many hath rejected before all they know. Broken glass in blown out stores Predicted long ago; A disappearance of many Christian's(rapture) Predicted long ago; World war three At the step's of thou And me; Predicted long ago....... ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Prophecy
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Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 4:25 PM UTC
Predicted long ago
Mankind destroyeth another Predicted long ago; Mankind killeth sister and brother Predicted long ago; Mankind plundereth the earth Predicted long ago; Mankind eliminates the newborn Stained blood upon church snow; Mankind terminates with weapon's Predicted long ago; Mankind to God they get angry and question Predicted long ago; Mankind escapeth with addiction Predicted long ago; Truth bringer's sit in prison Predicted long ago; Politicians ****** with unlawful invention's Predicted long ago; Immoral parading of falsehood Predicted long ago; Thugs and dope in the neighborhood's Predicted long ago; Earthquake's in diverse places Predicted long ago; Mankind changing natural faces Predicted long ago; Mankind of their father the devil Predicted long ago; Mankind worshipping hell's level Predicted long ago; War's and rumour's of war Predicted long ago; Syria turning to a ruinous heap Predicted Isaiah 17:1, For thou whom don't know. Murderer's stealeth for keep's Predicted long ago; Beast's dressing up as sheep Predicted long ago; Hatred from their bellies They get hired on whom they know. Dollar bills come to naught Whilst debt in every abode grows. Unorthodox affection's Like bloomed flower's show. Sign's in the sun and moon Predicted long ago; Prophet's telleth truth beyond the tomb Predicted long ago; The world is in chaos Predicted long ago; Iran joining with Russia Predicted long ago; China practicing for war games Predicted long ago; Revelation 9:16, nuclear bang, An Oriental blow; A false prophet to bring religion's together Predicted long ago; With the Antichrist as his helper Predicted long ago; Underground shelter's Where rich men hide their woes. Whilst some prediction's hath happened already Predicted long ago; More art being fulfilled Predicted long ago; More to cometh Predicted long ago; Soon Christ's light shalt shineth Predicted long ago; Every man to bow their feature's Predicted long ago; King of king, lord of Lord's Whom many hath rejected before all they know. Broken glass in blown out stores Predicted long ago; A disappearance of many Christian's(rapture) Predicted long ago; World war three At the step's of thou And me; Predicted long ago....... ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry ©Prophecy
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