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"ruts" poems
. ***Ancient games tell tales of dust.  |||   A story drawn from the lips of two poets.*** ~~~~~ It's the wits that **** not Queens of ivory or ***ink. *** Charged with coal strokes, scraping up the lies. Pawns & Knights slip between the grasp of the sun, leaking into*   lion jaws of Leo. Shifting these granite plates, ignoring the Rooks common price of aslant. Here we have slain kin, crescent traitors that backstab the night and battlefield. Closed doors and trap floors, trade me a tie, swindling your tactic ruts. Reality never got the noose around our necks, check turned into manslaughter, and kingdoms ripped asunder by the roar of Jupiter Get up, get up, get away from these liars, they can't have your rank or your fire. Peak a notion, this match is spared by a luft. Toss away the pride buried 'neath your dusty skin, it don't matter no more if   death has you by the lips. Silence is a language too in our eyes of earth. Take my hand, knott your soul into this downfall, and brace yourself for the wreckage in our bones. The Sword of Sorrows will fall 'pon your shoulders, not to slay thee, but to dub thee a new day. The drums of war will knit the lyrics in the sky, singing: "The mighty sharpen their fangs, the weak sharpen their wisdom" ~~~~~ I'm tired of your wishbones, and golden scales, give me the hard-earned truth. Hot coals of honesty may you tread upon, shadow-bitten remorseful may you be, don't stray off the course of Ursa major. The North star isn't the one I follow It's the moon with all of it's phases, Eclipsing and crescent, tipping the sky with it's beauty. Now let this sink further than any soul has ever sunk, no man could ever *rule the moon. ~~~~~~ ***Shoot on command, C h           e c         k m a t       e*** ~~~~ You could drag me to hell and back and those words wouldn't mean anything. Let this downfall become a downfell, Because last I checked "Wolves worship the moon" and I have broke it's reflection in the water *Just by throwing s                     t           o          n                  e                               s                                        .* .
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 3:19 PM UTC
Playing Chess with Dragons
. ***Ancient games tell tales of dust.  |||   A story drawn from the lips of two poets.*** ~~~~~ It's the wits that **** not Queens of ivory or ***ink. *** Charged with coal strokes, scraping up the lies. Pawns & Knights slip between the grasp of the sun, leaking into*   lion jaws of Leo. Shifting these granite plates, ignoring the Rooks common price of aslant. Here we have slain kin, crescent traitors that backstab the night and battlefield. Closed doors and trap floors, trade me a tie, swindling your tactic ruts. Reality never got the noose around our necks, check turned into manslaughter, and kingdoms ripped asunder by the roar of Jupiter Get up, get up, get away from these liars, they can't have your rank or your fire. Peak a notion, this match is spared by a luft. Toss away the pride buried 'neath your dusty skin, it don't matter no more if   death has you by the lips. Silence is a language too in our eyes of earth. Take my hand, knott your soul into this downfall, and brace yourself for the wreckage in our bones. The Sword of Sorrows will fall 'pon your shoulders, not to slay thee, but to dub thee a new day. The drums of war will knit the lyrics in the sky, singing: "The mighty sharpen their fangs, the weak sharpen their wisdom" ~~~~~ I'm tired of your wishbones, and golden scales, give me the hard-earned truth. Hot coals of honesty may you tread upon, shadow-bitten remorseful may you be, don't stray off the course of Ursa major. The North star isn't the one I follow It's the moon with all of it's phases, Eclipsing and crescent, tipping the sky with it's beauty. Now let this sink further than any soul has ever sunk, no man could ever *rule the moon. ~~~~~~ ***Shoot on command, C h           e c         k m a t       e*** ~~~~ You could drag me to hell and back and those words wouldn't mean anything. Let this downfall become a downfell, Because last I checked "Wolves worship the moon" and I have broke it's reflection in the water *Just by throwing s                     t           o          n                  e                               s                                        .* .
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"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." -Bob Marley "Facts on facts, and things on things: that's alot of fuckin' ******** Hear me! there is no truth but the one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafarian." -Bob Marley "I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." -Bob Marley "in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty." -Bob Marley "the harder the battle the sweet of jah victory." -Bob Marley "open your eyes & look within, are you satisfied with the life you´reliving." -Bob Marley "in this great future you can't forget your past." -Bob Marley "If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say." -Bob Marley "Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!" -Bob Marley "Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth." -Bob Marley "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!" -Bob Marley "People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people." -Bob Marley "Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafarian." -Bob Marley "The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when i explain something to you, you must never try to look upon it in a different way from what i stand for." -Bob Marley "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind..." -Bob Marley "The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." -Bob Marley "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time." -Bob Marley "Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold..." -Bob Marley "Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day" -Bob Marley "The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led" -Bob Marley
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM UTC
Bob Marley quotes #2
"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." -Bob Marley "Facts on facts, and things on things: that's alot of fuckin' ******** Hear me! there is no truth but the one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafarian." -Bob Marley "I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." -Bob Marley "in the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty." -Bob Marley "the harder the battle the sweet of jah victory." -Bob Marley "open your eyes & look within, are you satisfied with the life you´reliving." -Bob Marley "in this great future you can't forget your past." -Bob Marley "If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say." -Bob Marley "Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!" -Bob Marley "Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth." -Bob Marley "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!" -Bob Marley "People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people." -Bob Marley "Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned...WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafarian." -Bob Marley "The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when i explain something to you, you must never try to look upon it in a different way from what i stand for." -Bob Marley "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind..." -Bob Marley "The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." -Bob Marley "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time." -Bob Marley "Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold..." -Bob Marley "Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day" -Bob Marley "The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led" -Bob Marley
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T'was just before Christmas and I went down to the garage To have my old car looked at by a fellow known as  "Sarge" He said I need tires and my wipers weren't so hot My hoses all were leaking and my muffler was shot The repairs just kept on coming and I saw a sparkle in his eyes He was counting all my money, he was the devil in disguise I told him "Thanks, but I would go and get another look" Before I signed for his repair list and I was on the hook So I went on to my friend's place to see what he could do We've been friends for nearly 30 years...since 1982. His mechanic took it out back and while he had it on the hoist I saw a woman at the counter, looking rather moist She said my car is leaking there's  a hole that must be filled I thought that if Rob had a coffee, it'd most certainly be spilled A girl came in and she told Rob her boyfriend had loose nuts And whenever he was driving her, they slid into the ruts Rob stepped back, grinned a bit as he was looking down her front And from where I stood behind her I could almost see her Donation to the Angel tree that was standing in the corner A door opened, a breeze blew in, and there was no time to warn her Her skirt blew up, exposing  her tattoo of some sprigs of holly And Rob came round and covered her just like Sir Walter Raleigh I'm sorry miss, for I did look when your skirt was lifted And I must say, you made my night, for my drive shaft has shifted And then a man came through the door and said "My name is Nick" "I've problems with my reindeer and I need them seen to quick" Rob said "we work on cars here sir , I can fix tires or a hose" "It's nothing major son, I need a bulb for Rudolph's nose" "It doesn't stay on like it should and the other deer get frantic" "And I can't risk it going out when I'm over the Atlantic" "So, if you would replace it now with something nice and bright" "I'd pay you well for all your time and for aiding in my plight" Rob stepped up, fixed Rudolph's nose and said "This one's on me" "And for all work done in my shop you get a guarantee" We all stood round as Santa left, for we new that  it was him For he left us each a candy cane in a metal alloy rim And as we watched him fly away, I'm sure we heard him yell "There's mistletoe tattooed on her too, but...where I'll never tell!"
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May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM UTC
Christmas at The Garage
T'was just before Christmas and I went down to the garage To have my old car looked at by a fellow known as  "Sarge" He said I need tires and my wipers weren't so hot My hoses all were leaking and my muffler was shot The repairs just kept on coming and I saw a sparkle in his eyes He was counting all my money, he was the devil in disguise I told him "Thanks, but I would go and get another look" Before I signed for his repair list and I was on the hook So I went on to my friend's place to see what he could do We've been friends for nearly 30 years...since 1982. His mechanic took it out back and while he had it on the hoist I saw a woman at the counter, looking rather moist She said my car is leaking there's  a hole that must be filled I thought that if Rob had a coffee, it'd most certainly be spilled A girl came in and she told Rob her boyfriend had loose nuts And whenever he was driving her, they slid into the ruts Rob stepped back, grinned a bit as he was looking down her front And from where I stood behind her I could almost see her Donation to the Angel tree that was standing in the corner A door opened, a breeze blew in, and there was no time to warn her Her skirt blew up, exposing  her tattoo of some sprigs of holly And Rob came round and covered her just like Sir Walter Raleigh I'm sorry miss, for I did look when your skirt was lifted And I must say, you made my night, for my drive shaft has shifted And then a man came through the door and said "My name is Nick" "I've problems with my reindeer and I need them seen to quick" Rob said "we work on cars here sir , I can fix tires or a hose" "It's nothing major son, I need a bulb for Rudolph's nose" "It doesn't stay on like it should and the other deer get frantic" "And I can't risk it going out when I'm over the Atlantic" "So, if you would replace it now with something nice and bright" "I'd pay you well for all your time and for aiding in my plight" Rob stepped up, fixed Rudolph's nose and said "This one's on me" "And for all work done in my shop you get a guarantee" We all stood round as Santa left, for we new that  it was him For he left us each a candy cane in a metal alloy rim And as we watched him fly away, I'm sure we heard him yell "There's mistletoe tattooed on her too, but...where I'll never tell!"
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Recall when you feel of course you don't don't mean to interrupt it sometimes makes me forget when the nights have been so numb you don't even remember routine a vicious cycle of not remembering when even vicious is not visceral. Person per person Have told me their ruts It takes time to get out For me, fruitless yells of 'get out.' Instead of ruminating, you stew Instead of contemplation, you fester Instead of crescendo, you ****** Through hoops of negative feedback loops. You sink until beyond your point of bearing Every cell in your body becomes saturated with pale thoughts that make the water dry so dry, you become breathless of a different kind. Except it is known well, and only you know you hide it, because these thoughts crave isolation don't show among people so they won't be affected but its because these thoughts know you're far worse You can't function during nights yet it still knows how to engineer the perfect circumstance to keep descending to that nadir which has no bottom. People make you sick Things once enjoyed, tire and bore you Ideologies are far away on a plane You could never catch Because the fever you caught Makes you see the ends Don't justify the means It all seems so pointless. bombardment, attrition, unrelenting. And for once, you are granted a small reprieve. The morning hungover from intense thoughts Happy that for once I don't despair to just be.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 6:43 PM UTC
Saturation upon Saturation
Hey girl where you going? I’m very much a talker Cos I can’t dance good And I never been a stalker Where you off to my l’il lady? Hop in my left seat for a ride Wind it up or slow it right down – I can get you to the other side I’m just a country boy And I can take you up city streets, country roads Just a poor l’il redneck But I’m sure I can get you to where you want to go I got a full tank of gas I got an all-terrain SUV You sure do look good Buckled up next to me I can take you up the fast lane I can drive you round the cones I can take you slow through the forests I can take you fast through 30 zones I got air conditioning in here Chamois leather seats as soft as babys butts I can take you across the smooth asphalt I can take you through the deep ruts Putting on my aviators Just let me know if we’re getting close We can slip on out Or we can take the main roads. Just listen to the music And i can listen to you if you like I can rev the V8 and take you there Be it day or be it night I got fully automated And a nice little gear change I got super beam headlights With a three hundred foot range I can go on the straight and narrow I can take you down winding roads Nothing’s a problem for us; we know where we come from And I can get you where you need to go Yeah, I don’t dance so good But I’m a country boy, A nice little country boy.
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Dec 11, 2011
Dec 11, 2011 at 9:06 AM UTC
Ain’t No Shame In Bein’ A Redneck
The horizons ring me like ******* Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, And their fine lines singe The air to orange Before the distances they pin evaporate, Weighting the pale sky with a soldier color. But they only dissolve and dissolve Like a series of promises, as I step forward. There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction. I can feel it trying To funnel my heat away. If I pay the roots of the heather Too close attention, they will invite me To whiten my bones among them. The sheep know where they are, Browsing in their ***** wool-clouds, Gray as the weather. The black slots of their pupils take me in. It is like being mailed into space, A thin, silly message. They stand about in grandmotherly disguise, All wig curls and yellow teeth And hard, marbly baas. I come to wheel ruts, and water Limpid as the solitudes That flee through my fingers. Hollow doorsteps go from grass to grass; Lintel and sill have unhinged themselves. Of people and the air only Remembers a few odd syllables. It rehearses them moaningly: Black stone, black stone. The sky leans on me, me, the one upright Among all horizontals. The grass is beating its head distractedly. It is too delicate For a life in such company; Darkness terrifies it. Now, in valleys narrow And black as purses, the house lights Gleam like small change.
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Wuthering Heights
***** and butts ****** and ***** parents and "tut tuts" shimmies and struts primps and cuts falling, falling into ruts.
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 2:35 AM UTC
*****
The horizons ring me like ******* Tilted and disparate, and always unstable. Touched by a match, they might warm me, And their fine lines singe The air to orange Before the distances they pin evaporate, Weighting the pale sky with a soldier color. But they only dissolve and dissolve Like a series of promises, as I step forward. There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction. I can feel it trying To funnel my heat away. If I pay the roots of the heather Too close attention, they will invite me To whiten my bones among them. The sheep know where they are, Browsing in their ***** wool-clouds, Gray as the weather. The black slots of their pupils take me in. It is like being mailed into space, A thin, silly message. They stand about in grandmotherly disguise, All wig curls and yellow teeth And hard, marbly baas. I come to wheel ruts, and water Limpid as the solitudes That flee through my fingers. Hollow doorsteps go from grass to grass; Lintel and sill have unhinged themselves. Of people and the air only Remembers a few odd syllables. It rehearses them moaningly: Black stone, black stone. The sky leans on me, me, the one upright Among all horizontals. The grass is beating its head distractedly. It is too delicate For a life in such company; Darkness terrifies it. Now, in valleys narrow And black as purses, the house lights Gleam like small change.
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Wuthering Heights
Can peanuts breathe within their shell? When they’re eaten, might they go to hell? Or are they, truly, lifeless nuts No sadness, madness, or stagnant ruts Perhaps the peanut has a king A mighty ruler that makes the law Or perhaps the peanut has a queen A tender mother without flaw Who knows, the peanut could be grand With magical tales of Peanut land Castles, Wizards and Warrior hunts Pursuing their foes, Macadamia Nuts! Galloping upon their steeds Peanut’s charge! Peanuts Breathe! Screams so loud the birds doth fall Pulverizing the enemy’s wall Now the Peanuts have an “in” They focus their gaze upon the **** Hoarding together & funneling thru Macadamia nuts receiving a chill Piercing shells for 3 long days Injured Peanuts in gruesome ways Mournful moans of agony Numbers declined, so tragically Is this the end of Peanut land? Why couldn’t the Peanut still be grand? “Get up I say and finish your quest!” The Peanuts did and fought their best Above the smoke, white flags flew The Peanuts emerged victorious! Striding thru familiar front gates Returning home, so glorious! Perhaps, in fact, this story is true That Peanuts breathe like me and you But one might wonder of Peanut land… How Peanuts ride with no hands And if you truly wish to know How Peanuts talk and Peanuts grow Open your ears and do come hither “Duh! The Peanuts have a Wizard!” Oh, the tales and jokes they tell One day, they’ll be on TV Perhaps in films known by all Like, “Harry Peanut,” aired by BBC Or, maybe they are just meant for our bars And smashed and spread upon your bread… But next time you eat this salt sprinkled treat, Ponder, “am I sure this Peanut is dead?” - BPW
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 4:31 PM UTC
The Land of Peanuts
Can peanuts breathe within their shell? When they’re eaten, might they go to hell? Or are they, truly, lifeless nuts No sadness, madness, or stagnant ruts Perhaps the peanut has a king A mighty ruler that makes the law Or perhaps the peanut has a queen A tender mother without flaw Who knows, the peanut could be grand With magical tales of Peanut land Castles, Wizards and Warrior hunts Pursuing their foes, Macadamia Nuts! Galloping upon their steeds Peanut’s charge! Peanuts Breathe! Screams so loud the birds doth fall Pulverizing the enemy’s wall Now the Peanuts have an “in” They focus their gaze upon the **** Hoarding together & funneling thru Macadamia nuts receiving a chill Piercing shells for 3 long days Injured Peanuts in gruesome ways Mournful moans of agony Numbers declined, so tragically Is this the end of Peanut land? Why couldn’t the Peanut still be grand? “Get up I say and finish your quest!” The Peanuts did and fought their best Above the smoke, white flags flew The Peanuts emerged victorious! Striding thru familiar front gates Returning home, so glorious! Perhaps, in fact, this story is true That Peanuts breathe like me and you But one might wonder of Peanut land… How Peanuts ride with no hands And if you truly wish to know How Peanuts talk and Peanuts grow Open your ears and do come hither “Duh! The Peanuts have a Wizard!” Oh, the tales and jokes they tell One day, they’ll be on TV Perhaps in films known by all Like, “Harry Peanut,” aired by BBC Or, maybe they are just meant for our bars And smashed and spread upon your bread… But next time you eat this salt sprinkled treat, Ponder, “am I sure this Peanut is dead?” - BPW
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♀↵ϖ†∅↨⊕☺☼↑↓ Apples will be cantaloupes depending on their nurture; and so I cherish rainbow hopes for our collective future. Oranges elect their hue improving Nature’s seal, while pronouns stifle what is true suppressing the appeal. Fruits may choose to change to nuts and fowls select their plumage. Why settle in Tradition’s ruts? Such rigid roles do damage. Nuts in turn, may feel like flowers, picking how and when to bloom. So ambisexual thought empowers androgynes to court their doom. A leopard, too, may change his spots (or turn into a vegan bunny) No law’s tittles, neither jots make Speciesism funny. If you decide to see it so the sky above is yellow. Perceive as pink the grass beneath and better times must follow. Gender? Merely social constructs – preach it to the masses until tradition self-destructs and *** takes off her glasses. Babies need no Dad (nor Mother): sexist labels, obsolete. Love is blind. There is no other. Bats must bark and chickens bleat. Integrated water closets show how far we have evolved: urinary bank deposits (with no member account involved). Foolish thinking from the past (like water being wet, and such) calls for re-education, fast. The State will lend its human touch compelling all to sing the hymn with genderfluid motions… so birds can preen their scales and swim in dry and waveless oceans. (Yet “hymn” sounds sexist said out loud – we ought to sing a “her” instead… no – make that “us”,  since we are proud, lest misconceptions be misread.) Shake a healthy dose of salt upon this strange post-modern food. May God re-set us to default with human common sense renewed.
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 11:05 PM UTC
To Birds who Swim in Fishy Notions
♀↵ϖ†∅↨⊕☺☼↑↓ Apples will be cantaloupes depending on their nurture; and so I cherish rainbow hopes for our collective future. Oranges elect their hue improving Nature’s seal, while pronouns stifle what is true suppressing the appeal. Fruits may choose to change to nuts and fowls select their plumage. Why settle in Tradition’s ruts? Such rigid roles do damage. Nuts in turn, may feel like flowers, picking how and when to bloom. So ambisexual thought empowers androgynes to court their doom. A leopard, too, may change his spots (or turn into a vegan bunny) No law’s tittles, neither jots make Speciesism funny. If you decide to see it so the sky above is yellow. Perceive as pink the grass beneath and better times must follow. Gender? Merely social constructs – preach it to the masses until tradition self-destructs and *** takes off her glasses. Babies need no Dad (nor Mother): sexist labels, obsolete. Love is blind. There is no other. Bats must bark and chickens bleat. Integrated water closets show how far we have evolved: urinary bank deposits (with no member account involved). Foolish thinking from the past (like water being wet, and such) calls for re-education, fast. The State will lend its human touch compelling all to sing the hymn with genderfluid motions… so birds can preen their scales and swim in dry and waveless oceans. (Yet “hymn” sounds sexist said out loud – we ought to sing a “her” instead… no – make that “us”,  since we are proud, lest misconceptions be misread.) Shake a healthy dose of salt upon this strange post-modern food. May God re-set us to default with human common sense renewed.
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Ah here sits the stone on the ground The shrub on the hill. A Natural state of affairs if you will. Retched Earth, abominable stone Why the nerve of the rag tag tree To perch ones self in stark relief Blocking the skyline, space invader. Thief. Why the unmitigated gall. Of the rain to fall on withered Pate.. Tis the empty barrel that rumbles profusely. The shallow stream that muddles  at the bottom. Pyramid craniums, issues forth babble. Slackjawd mouth-breather. Knee **** Buffoon. Perched in perpetuity,howling at the moon. The my way or the Highwayman, astride a cocked horse. The cant see the beauty of  the  Forrest for the treeman. Bull headed, Ram goat Salty old ****** Failure to Communicate. Rush to excommunicate Monolythic seer Cotton eyed joe Constipated thinker. Oh the comfort and surety of riding in the ruts. .
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Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM UTC
Myopia
From a pavement bistro, enjoying an alcove espresso and jam scone After fresh rains, scenic smiles yet the road is of red sand Young children play ball in park adjacent, some teen skaters pass by Skirt-tugger hangs on for dear life, while she perambulates the baby. The little, old man places with care, two stones behind his back wheels His car stuck on the muddy, wet road A small, slow push by stranger passing; it rolls easily from soft, red ruts A wave of thanks, a friendly smile and off he goes. Anna steps in ruddy hope, septuagenarian in jaunty hat and Sunday best Ready to meet the one of a lifetime, widow of a decade Correspondence long-time with namaste-man, final reward Ribcage busy, beat in mouth, eyes flit eagerly, hearty salutes. But nobody knows that someone is being watched, From across the distance of the park, a clutch of strangers Their beady eyes, hooded expressions, they wait Fate is sealed when car drives by; irrevocably red. S T, 11 May 2013
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
R E D Road
Run from me. Did you run from me? No baby runs faster into my arms, i'll cause you no harm. I can softly soothe my icelace fingers into the sockets of your eyes, my hands may shake but it's only from love as I move your veiny white eyes to my palms, let them melt like your voice let them drip like your bottom half on my *** And now you just can't look away, i'll stare into your eyes forevermore, forevermore. Oh darling, you're trying so hard to get away, Its so ******* cute that you cant tell that i'll make you stay. My lips on your lips, my teeth bite your tongue, harder harder hurting hurting, copper ink spills through our kiss, and your tongue dripps so lonely from your cold purple lips. You have my heart so i can take you apart until you give me yours. Brush your hair with my fingers, dear you'll stay with me forever. Your soft large thighs, so easy to cut, fingernails, fingernails, fingernails in the ruts. Pull the muscle, bone and flesh apart, make art my lovely canvas. Now i can taste what you really are, my beautiful work of art. we fill your legs with our wedding cake, oh baby aren't we so cute? Can't run from me now, your mine and you love me but you don't say it enough so I bit off your tongue. And Im Here smoking cigarettes yet still i want a kiss, burns at the back of your mouth. Every strand of hair burns just like candle wick, your skin, it cracks moaning like a house full of poisen. You only moan when I hurt you, but hey, it's sexyer this way aint it?
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Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 12:25 AM UTC
Run From Me
Run from me. Did you run from me? No baby runs faster into my arms, i'll cause you no harm. I can softly soothe my icelace fingers into the sockets of your eyes, my hands may shake but it's only from love as I move your veiny white eyes to my palms, let them melt like your voice let them drip like your bottom half on my *** And now you just can't look away, i'll stare into your eyes forevermore, forevermore. Oh darling, you're trying so hard to get away, Its so ******* cute that you cant tell that i'll make you stay. My lips on your lips, my teeth bite your tongue, harder harder hurting hurting, copper ink spills through our kiss, and your tongue dripps so lonely from your cold purple lips. You have my heart so i can take you apart until you give me yours. Brush your hair with my fingers, dear you'll stay with me forever. Your soft large thighs, so easy to cut, fingernails, fingernails, fingernails in the ruts. Pull the muscle, bone and flesh apart, make art my lovely canvas. Now i can taste what you really are, my beautiful work of art. we fill your legs with our wedding cake, oh baby aren't we so cute? Can't run from me now, your mine and you love me but you don't say it enough so I bit off your tongue. And Im Here smoking cigarettes yet still i want a kiss, burns at the back of your mouth. Every strand of hair burns just like candle wick, your skin, it cracks moaning like a house full of poisen. You only moan when I hurt you, but hey, it's sexyer this way aint it?
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We are the terraced women piled row on row on the sagging, slipping hillsides of our lives. We tug reluctant children up slanting streets the push chair wheels wedging in the ruts breathless and bad tempered we shift the Tesco carrier bags from hand to hand and stop to watch the town The hill tops creep away like children playing games our other children shriek against the school yard rails ‘there’s Mandy’s mum, John’s mum, Dave’s mum, Kate’s mum, Ceri’s mother, Tracey’s mummy’ we wave with hands scarred by groceries and too much washing up catching echoes as we pass of old wild games after lunch, more bread and butter, tea we dress in blue and white and pink and white checked overalls and do the house and scrub the porch and sweep the street and clean all the little terraces up and down and up and down and up and down the hill later, before the end-of-school bell rings all the babies are asleep Mandy’s mum joins Ceri’s mum across the street running to avoid the rain and Dave’s mum and John’s mum – the others too – stop for tea and briefly we are wild women girls with secrets, travellers, engineers, courtesans, and stars of fiction, films plotting our escape like jail birds terraced, tescoed prisoners rising from the household dust like heroines. Pennyanne Windsor, from Poetry 1900-2000 One hundred poets from Wales
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 4:27 AM UTC
"Heroines"
*How does one overcompensate For the incompetence of a nation?* No compromise for the masses undeniably stuck in ruts of habit These days Ive seen and see We're all craving harmony With no equitable solution To take the race out of the face It's just accumulative corruption Apprehensive assimilation Aggression stirring underneath A stone passive shade of sentience Now say we might anticipate The fantasizing fringe of youth Where we will conquer or be conquered By depravic spurring truth
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 2:07 AM UTC
Ignorance
--- Some people are diamonds Some people are stones Some people are skulls and some just bones Some people are spiders Some are flies Some are snakes who Hypnotize Some people are roads And some are ruts Some people are vinyl Who stick to your **** Some people are weeds Some are heather Some people are just plain nasty weather! But you? You're special. One of a kind I love your poetry Love your mind There are many metaphors Yes It's true. But only one poetfriend... ... *and that would be YOU!* SoulSurvivor 2/7/2015
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 10:08 PM UTC
some people!
Livin’ and breathin’ is all that I got Take a deep breath got my stomach in knots Can’t tie me down, no you can’t enslave me Hopin’ someone will come out and save me Fear and depression are clouding my head I’m closing my eyes, I think that I’m dead Fighting for sanity, fighting to lose Fighting for the chance that I get to choose Running from something I can’t recall Too many steps and I’m gonna fall The buildings edge is right in my sight One little leap and I can take flight Lost in the sounds and lost in the pain Know what I’ve done’s been done in vain I’m haunted by the past of me A ghost of who I used to be 
Their mistakes are all that I can see I’m running, I’m running I hate the scars along skin A memory of where I’ve been They’re white lined trails of my darkest sin I’m running, Im running Screaming and crying filling my ears Covered in burns from venomous tears Im breaking mirrors, I’m screaming in pain Can’t go on living, theres nothing to gain Losing myself in the ruts of my days Breathin’ in smoke with eyes blurred by the haze Once a week poison killin’ me slowly Devil on my back, they call me unholy No where to go, got hounds on my trail Begging that somehow I will prevail Imagine a life where I can rest Instead I’ve got this weight on my chest Got these voices, they callin’ my name No one around me, no one to blame I’m haunted by the past of me A ghost of who I used to be Their mistakes are all that I can see I’m running, I’m running I hate the scars along skin A memory of where I’ve been They’re white lined trails of my darkest sin I’m running, Im running
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Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 10:54 PM UTC
Run Away Train
Livin’ and breathin’ is all that I got Take a deep breath got my stomach in knots Can’t tie me down, no you can’t enslave me Hopin’ someone will come out and save me Fear and depression are clouding my head I’m closing my eyes, I think that I’m dead Fighting for sanity, fighting to lose Fighting for the chance that I get to choose Running from something I can’t recall Too many steps and I’m gonna fall The buildings edge is right in my sight One little leap and I can take flight Lost in the sounds and lost in the pain Know what I’ve done’s been done in vain I’m haunted by the past of me A ghost of who I used to be 
Their mistakes are all that I can see I’m running, I’m running I hate the scars along skin A memory of where I’ve been They’re white lined trails of my darkest sin I’m running, Im running Screaming and crying filling my ears Covered in burns from venomous tears Im breaking mirrors, I’m screaming in pain Can’t go on living, theres nothing to gain Losing myself in the ruts of my days Breathin’ in smoke with eyes blurred by the haze Once a week poison killin’ me slowly Devil on my back, they call me unholy No where to go, got hounds on my trail Begging that somehow I will prevail Imagine a life where I can rest Instead I’ve got this weight on my chest Got these voices, they callin’ my name No one around me, no one to blame I’m haunted by the past of me A ghost of who I used to be Their mistakes are all that I can see I’m running, I’m running I hate the scars along skin A memory of where I’ve been They’re white lined trails of my darkest sin I’m running, Im running
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on a dark road below a black hill headlamped vision gritty verge littered with insect road **** husk moth bodies beetle shell mud defiled ox-eye daisy dumb weight tramping the treadmill night day-shot with the memory of those lapwing hundreds wheeling in ascent to fall on folded wing and again gyre up to the brink of abandonment green silent fields away as when in advent there the hills rose up before me and the thirst for their awesome green loth to return to that vortex drawn down ice-pocket ruts my city captive goes
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Jun 19, 2011
Jun 19, 2011 at 8:09 AM UTC
charybdis
Godless happiness, conservative mind Blue eyed, blonde hair criticized Big talk no bite Vegetarian life Life ***** when you have none I scream. Ruts ****
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM UTC
Life's Rhyme
Step over step, a skip and a stoop You watch while I laugh and I sing while you dance We pretend we're all we have The woods around are echoing sounds The town is close and the railroad ties They bake in the sun, old familiar smells Of oil and wood and bright, clear skies I miss the comfort I miss the house I miss where we were I miss our bouts Let's put a penny on the track Pretend that train is rushing back Let's put a chance card in the bag and pull out one where it's our turn again A bittersweet ending It's almost what you wanted You think you know what's best for me I guess you're just too honest Because if there was such a thing Treasure it and keep it bound like an old diamond ring You'll pass the goodness down I miss the comfort I miss the house I know where we are And I still miss our bouts Let's put a penny on the track Pretend that train is rushing back Let's put a chance card in the bag and pull out one where it's our turn again Crown your hair with daisies They may wilt but I will not I can wait for answers Patience learned but never taught Kick the ruts in the path We can tap our heels together I'll be waiting on the tracks No regrets here whatsoever I miss your comfort I miss the house I know where you are and what we're all about
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Sep 23, 2012
Sep 23, 2012 at 12:29 AM UTC
Ruts in the Daisy Path
Dull ruts and periodic lulls, cast Iron wrought. A life of sea salt; Choking on ocean foam, walking On rusty bones Sifting through ashes. It's all growing old
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Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023 at 10:21 PM UTC
Stimulating Growths
This **** really fries my brain. Wish I was on the road. Playing guitar all the time. Moving. What is it about now that keeps me in ruts? I wish It was raining. It would fit well. The mood. Woods. Those trees keep calling me. They feel like home. When I'm sitting amongst them. In the decay, Of pines and leaves. This **** fries my brain. I feel distant. Farther in my head. Eyes more like windows. Not sure if I'm an odd one. Or if I'm just crazy. My handwriting is bad. As much as I write, you would think, My hand writing would be better. All those curls can't hide these shaky hands. Well, Shaky bones tell me the winds are coming. With the thunder; Mystic changing powers.
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Jul 9, 2014
Jul 9, 2014 at 8:35 PM UTC
Thinking Too Much
The world is colder when you open up its’ jaws. The sign says no, but your heart says go. You’ll blame the stars or the snakes beneath your feet, don't forget to hide the receipt. You inject blame to the dead. Where are your morales, where is your sense? Where is the blood when you need to mend? This is your fault and this is your sword. Please, take your daily dose. Ignore our existence, so you can beg for more. Beg for the claws inside your heart. And once they’re out, once they melt, I promise, I promise It’ll cool you like a quilt. I promise, No! I guarantee- You’ll miss the bruises and the cuts. You’ll miss the screaming and the torture. No more clay in the ruts, no more tape to the edges. Just blood and heart attacks. Oh, You’ll miss it. And when you sleep at night you’ll ask the ceiling “why?” “Why is it so cold?” Because you opened up it’s god ****** jaws, slit your wrists and fed the beast. A meal on a plate, dessert in it’s hands. Torture that you call it, a blessing that we give. Seasons kiss your skin, but pain will destroy it, no mending for your sin. No light will kiss you, no laughter or kin. The Ice will take you in! The Ice will take you in! The ice will love you. The ice will bathe you in it’s grin. You will miss us dear, oh how I promise. Do take a walk in the forest. Let the wind sink in. I will whisper I will scream. You will shiver to my note. The cold bites honey, wear your coat.
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 1:41 AM UTC
Ice Cold
wheels splay mud ruts, lazy "S" tracks tender turf, eyes trail to horse barn.
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Mar 11, 2011
Mar 11, 2011 at 7:39 PM UTC
mud season - haiku
Creases cemented in skin of ages, bending forward ratcheting wrinkles piled like a car crash, systemically dried routing for moisture moguls, malfunctioned, marked measures of time spelt skin attack, pillowed ruts run deep, prolonging their birthmark, plumping....out on a date with new age spaces yet to be filled Sarcasm streets, filching frowned brows suns' stolen chastity, lifting out brown messages spotted at random grey mandarins, juiceless, bribing to be heard, a manifesto hidden, shrivelled prunes wallowing in dried skins reaching out for the bottomless custard jug
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 4:13 PM UTC
Skin