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"sable" poems
In the Midnight heaven's burning Through the ethereal deeps afar Once I watch'd with restless yearning An alluring aureate star; Ev'ry eve aloft returning Gleaming nigh the Arctic Car. Mystic waves of beauty blended With the gorgeous golden rays Phantasies of bliss descended In a myrrh'd Elysian haze. In the lyre-born chords extended Harmonies of Lydian lays. And (thought I) lies scenes of pleasure, Where the free and blessed dwell, And each moment bears a treasure, Freighted with the lotos-spell, And there floats a liquid measure From the lute of Israfel. There (I told myself) were shining Worlds of happiness unknown, Peace and Innocence entwining By the Crowned Virtue's throne; Men of light, their thoughts refining Purer, fairer, than my own. Thus I mus'd when o'er the vision Crept a red delirious change; Hope dissolving to derision, Beauty to distortion strange; Hymnic chords in weird collision, Spectral sights in endless range…. Crimson burn'd the star of madness As behind the beams I peer'd; All was woe that seem'd but gladness Ere my gaze with Truth was sear'd; Cacodaemons, mir'd with madness, Through the fever'd flick'ring leer'd…. Now I know the fiendish fable The the golden glitter bore; Now I shun the spangled sable That I watch'd and lov'd before; But the horror, set and stable, Haunts my soul forevermore!
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Astrophobos
by— Josiah Israel Twas oft the way in days of old, When knight would battle brave and bold, The damsels hand in hopes to hold, Worth more then polished Stone, or Gold For this is what a boy is told When day is done and night is cold… “One day my son, thy chance will come Though courage oft may waver, When lady waits, through sable gates For thee brave lad, to save her!” For when a dragon stole a maid, Awaiting ransom duly paid, Twas bravest knight, armor arrayed   With noble steed and burnished blade Rode swiftly to the damsels aid… “You have not birth of high degree Yet be thou brave and fight, For low in rank thy birth may be Yet heart makes noble knight!” And after facing beast and foe The knight with maiden free would go Away to fields in need of *** For seeds ere winter need to grow And none can reap who do not sow… “Not all you do will win a prize Of gold or silver bent, So reap a harvest good in size And be thee well content.” And when the battle horn he hears The knight must banish all his fears And ride to war, with battle cheers On maidens cheek alight her tears Fearing death, she spends the years… “To win renown in battle Might also be your path, May your enemies armor rattle As they feel your righteous wrath!” But after kings campaign is done The knight to home will swiftly run From dusk through night to rising sun Till maiden sees her hero come Heart moving swift, a beating drum Her heart a prize which first he won! “Home is best at warring's end To be with those you cherish, A place to rest, your wounds to mend Where love will never perish” Though all the kingdom knows his name And minstrels spread the brave knights fame His love for she, remains the same And they live happily, Knight and Dame…
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Jan 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 at 8:58 PM UTC
Knight and Dame
by— Josiah Israel Twas oft the way in days of old, When knight would battle brave and bold, The damsels hand in hopes to hold, Worth more then polished Stone, or Gold For this is what a boy is told When day is done and night is cold… “One day my son, thy chance will come Though courage oft may waver, When lady waits, through sable gates For thee brave lad, to save her!” For when a dragon stole a maid, Awaiting ransom duly paid, Twas bravest knight, armor arrayed   With noble steed and burnished blade Rode swiftly to the damsels aid… “You have not birth of high degree Yet be thou brave and fight, For low in rank thy birth may be Yet heart makes noble knight!” And after facing beast and foe The knight with maiden free would go Away to fields in need of *** For seeds ere winter need to grow And none can reap who do not sow… “Not all you do will win a prize Of gold or silver bent, So reap a harvest good in size And be thee well content.” And when the battle horn he hears The knight must banish all his fears And ride to war, with battle cheers On maidens cheek alight her tears Fearing death, she spends the years… “To win renown in battle Might also be your path, May your enemies armor rattle As they feel your righteous wrath!” But after kings campaign is done The knight to home will swiftly run From dusk through night to rising sun Till maiden sees her hero come Heart moving swift, a beating drum Her heart a prize which first he won! “Home is best at warring's end To be with those you cherish, A place to rest, your wounds to mend Where love will never perish” Though all the kingdom knows his name And minstrels spread the brave knights fame His love for she, remains the same And they live happily, Knight and Dame…
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O Thou to whom the musical white spring offers her lily inextinguishable, taught by thy tremulous grace bravely to fling Implacable death’s mysteriously sable rob from her redolent shoulders, Thou from whose feet reincarnate song suddenly leaping flameflung,mounts,inimitably to lose herself where the wet stars softly are keeping their exquisite dreams—O Love! upon thy dim shrine of intangible commemoration, (from whose faint close as some grave languorous hymn pledge to illimitable dissipation unhurried clouds of incense fleetly roll) i spill my bright incalculable soul.
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O Thou To Whom The Musical White Spring
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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The Phoenix And The Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing Save the eagle, feather’d king: Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou, treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender mak’st With the breath thou giv’st and tak’st, ‘Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. Here the anthem doth commence:— Love and constancy is dead; Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none; Number there in love was slain. Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen ‘Twixt the turtle and his queen: But in them it were a wonder. So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix’ sight; Either was the other’s mine. Property was thus appall’d, That the self was not the same; Single nature’s double name Neither two nor one was call’d. Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together; To themselves yet either neither; Simple were so well compounded, That it cried, ‘How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain.’ Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love, As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity: ’Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but ’tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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Whispering night fades to sable dull morning Verda in black whilst her mother is mourning cabaret clown-show dances in deep Verda is down in the valleys of sleep Verda takes pills in a sinister tomb smiles wicked smiles and her eyes turn to moons mummy is rocking away by her side and pulls out her teeth to a sweet lullaby Girl-child Verda, who loves cuts and bruises with a stitched-up mind which she frequently loses and a mother who stops her from having her play other children are pink but her Verda is grey Delicate lace is lined in her coffin Verda in black whilst her body is rotting chemical residue flows in her veins Verda's no child and her mother's insane
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Dec 22, 2013
Dec 22, 2013 at 8:30 AM UTC
****** for Verda
In sable darkness and deafening sounds of her bedroom silence, she found herself aching in deep cogitation. The full moons brightness had peered in through her window pane, but with its light encompassed her with defeat and decay. Reality had settled in; as she felt her body slowly submerge, She knew she was no longer her own saving grace. She awoke in a place of death and morbidity, But awoke in a state of contentment and comfortability. Her agony remained; as the remembrance of today, the ideas of what will come tomorrow, and the hope of assurance to what she forebodes her future to be, with the life she leads. At last the words had finally escaped. “Bittersweet serenity.”
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 3:45 PM UTC
Solely Alone
**Remember her, old friend? She was...hideous, You think she was ugly, oh no, far from it.** **She was the fairest, Her lavishing sable hair, Her viridian eyes, Her glamorous smile,** **Her soft-hued skin, Her delicately slender body, Her dazzling manners, Her ever so warm demeanor,** **Her moves, Fluid, graceful, focused, Capturing the essence of the music, with her mesmerizing artistry.** **She was indeed perfect, Unique, as no one could be as elegant, Charming, for no one, was as lovely. Beguile...as no one was as rotten.** **What she was, my old friend, Was an empty vessel, the soul of which had perished, mortified by its actions.** **For all she ever wanted was approval, so what she did was put on a mask, losing herself in the process, becoming a ghost of her formal self.**
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Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 at 5:18 PM UTC
A Self-Inflicted Doll
Tepid damp and lukewarm night, Build your camp by rivers bright; Sable black and and somber grey, Silt the river's arms away. Island tenements rent for cheap, Bakèd bricks in plinths lie deep; Stores of merchants and their wives, Sheltered from the thund'rous tides. Glance on that maternal shrine, Softly angled toward the Rhine; See the men with flowing beards, Seldom entertaining fears. Moon illumes a stony pose, Sun sustains a garden rose; Temple pillars bathed in or, Leave mute shadows on the floor. Olifant horns begin to sound, Tribesmen fall upon the town; Riding with the northern gust, Trampling the homes to dust. Yet, as gateside rocks abound, From the ashes, rises now, Where that city met disgrace, A mighty fortress in its place.
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Jan 21, 2018
Jan 21, 2018 at 2:40 PM UTC
In the Temple of the Ruhr
Said The Raven To The Raven Which Raven are you? I said The Raven Am The Raven Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And I said The Raven Am The Raven Of Edgar Allan Poe. Apparently there's a rave on - Shall we go? Yes - let us go then you and I As the evening is spread out Against the sky. But not like a patient Etherised upon a table. Let us like Thunderbirds Not gentle go into this dark night. So dressed in sable White gloves And whistles They went on their way - Not looking forward To conversations about Michelangelo at all. For as we all know Old age should rave and burn At close of day. And not just fizzle out. More big shout........................................... And rave until you fall.
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
The Raven And The Raven
I awoke with mountains in their heights that spoke of memories that wove through knees thighs and ***** bone -- to the inky waters of the lake below. In that cabin where the sable pines enclose and all about from coral-white to grayish turquoise-blue snow. That scene: on the edge where the stillness Knows.
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Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 10:17 PM UTC
Knows
Throw me in the chartreuse fields So I can leave my pain behind Violets and Daffodils will turn Me into their kids Buy me out of sable walls So I can see the other side Violets and Daffodils will kiss My spine Say white, say blue On a spring afternoon Whisper out loud O-hoo Take me out for a walk on moon So i can plant lovat' on stone. Violets and daffodils will grow On a pale ball. Lie with me on frosty grass Keep your feet above the stars. Violets and daffodils will pass But we can last.
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 11:08 PM UTC
Violets and Daffodils
I am wrapped in her algid arms. I am lost in her evocative glare. I stand, environed by the Keres, Those dilapidated demons. Azrael, my craven shadow, clings To me as a vulture stalks its prey. Thanatos does each step possess Forward into this acidulous air. Fissured masks release languid screams That fall upon pallid faces that have Long since wilted in her Stygian womb. Enervated laughs drone in mangy ears. I stand on the periphery of this Asphyxiating cistern. I ambulate Across this sable field that shall Become the executioner’s blade.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 7:47 PM UTC
Nyx
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. Polyphiloprogenitive The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift across the window-panes. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Superfetation of , And at the mensual turn of time Produced enervate Origen. A painter of the Umbrian school Designed upon a gesso ground The nimbus of the Baptized God. The wilderness is cracked and browned But through the water pale and thin Still shine the unoffending feet And there above the painter set The Father and the Paraclete. . . . . . The sable presbyters approach The avenue of penitence; The young are red and pustular Clutching piaculative pence. Under the penitential gates Sustained by staring Seraphim Where the souls of the devout Burn invisible and dim. Along the garden-wall the bees With hairy bellies pass between The staminate and pistilate, Blest office of the epicene. Sweeney shifts from ham to ham Stirring the water in his bath. The masters of the subtle schools Are controversial, polymath.
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Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heav’nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt’ring Foe; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in sable garb arrayed Immersed in rapt’rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen’ral Friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy Suppliant’s head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chast’ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful Band (As by the Impious thou art seen), With thund’ring voice, and threat’ning mien, With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. Thy form benign, O Goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic Train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The gen’rous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.
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Hymn To Adversity
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heav’nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore: What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others’ woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly’s idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flatt’ring Foe; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. Wisdom in sable garb arrayed Immersed in rapt’rous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend: Warm Charity, the gen’ral Friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy Suppliant’s head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chast’ning hand! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Not circled with the vengeful Band (As by the Impious thou art seen), With thund’ring voice, and threat’ning mien, With screaming Horror’s funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. Thy form benign, O Goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic Train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The gen’rous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a Man.
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Insult not a memory. So blessed with kindness. Touched with honey. Stoked with decency. Painted from soft brush. Gentle sable. Lower the sabre. The powerful sword. With hilt of guilt. Let it be. Not aggressive being. Distressed. Depressed. Acrid tears. Acid tongue. Lemon lips. Evil sharp, So bitter. Discarded amid leaf litter. The autumn leaves they fell. Deep within the mist. Memories withheld. Can’t you tell? By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 6:24 PM UTC
Protection!
This is the time lean woods shall spend A steeped-up twilight, and the pale evening drink, And the perilous roe, the leaper to the west brink, Trembling and bright to the caverned cloud descend. Now shall you see pent oak gone gusty and frantic, Stooped with dry weeping, ruinously unloosing The sparse disheveled leaf, or reared and tossing A dreary scarecrow bough in funeral antic. Then, tatter you and rend, Oak heart, to your profession mourning; not obscure The outcome, not crepuscular; on the deep floor Sable and gold match lustres and contend. And rags of shrouding will not muffle the slain. This is the immortal extinction, the priceless wound Not to be staunched. The live gold leaks beyond, And matter’s sanctified, dipped in a gold stain.
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Sundown
Torrent of light and river of the air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare! The Spaniard sees in thee the pathway, where His patron saint descended in the sheen Of his celestial armor, on serene and quiet nights, when all the heavens were fair. Not this I see, nor yet the ancient fable Of Phaeton’s wild course, that scorched the skies Where’er the hoofs of his hot coursers trod; But the white drift of worlds o’er chasms of sable, The star-dust, that is whirled aloft and flies From the invisible chariot-wheels of God.
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The Galaxy
In the Fall is an addicted man; a bronzed, beautiful, golden-crimson leaf falling perhaps as an impulse or a slight of hand, as a half-thought will to escape the cold but ultimately, an addiction   In the Fall is a view from a distance and a height with clear vision; and a flirty nod from your most tortuous insecurity to your least confident self -   smoldering nostalgia, that sullen, sable shade, is the headless horse man and you are lost at night   (as burnt leaves crumple and are swept around, as are you swept)   In the Fall is Death's anniversary; the dance that follows purity's last attempt to hold his season fast er than the horseman rides, rise, beguile! a swollen heart - a lion! a bronzed and rusted bleeding lion! a shiver and a sunken sigh, an unseen, unheard wave good-bye
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May 21, 2012
May 21, 2012 at 8:07 PM UTC
in the Fall
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; For so I must interpret still Thy sweet dominion o'er my will, A sympathy divine. Ah! let me blameless gaze upon Features that seem in heart my own, Nor fear those watchful sentinels Which charm the more their glance forbids, Chaste glowing underneath their lids With fire that draws while it repels. Thine eyes still shined for me, though far I lonely roved the land or sea, As I behold yon evening star, Which yet beholds not me. This morn I climbed the misty hill, And roamed the pastures through; How danced thy form before my path, Amidst the deep-eyed dew! When the red bird spread his sable wing, And showed his side of flame, When the rose-bud ripened to the rose, In both I read thy name.
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To Eva
I am reading this poem, late, in the snug familiarity of my bed, with gentle night-light and sable night-sky, stars swimming beyond the glass, warm breaths fogging up the panes. I am reading this poem, curled on a beanbag in a library with her my by side, breaths stirring against my skin, like the winds of time, of change, taking me away from here. I am reading this poem, in a room that is abound with remembrance and days gone by, where the bedclothes are heaped, fresh and steaming with warmth, with the same freedom that the open valise speaks of, a journey ending in success, a triumphant flight. I am reading this poem, as the underground train screeches to a halt, and before heading up the stairs, towards the love that life has bestowed on me. I am reading this poem, by the glow of the laptop screen, where the headlines flash and flicker, for once, joy is splashed across the monitor. I am reading this poem in a waiting room, of meeting eyes and crinkling smiles, more friends than strangers, without fear. I am reading this poem by firelight, in the simple joy and jubilation of the young who know they matter, and live with hope and inner liberation, from the earliest of ages. I am reading this poem, freed of the curved lenses, the cloudy cataracts, and I can see the letters for what they are and I read on, because this freedom is precious. I am reading this poem as I sit by the radiator, the milk is already warm (electricity isn’t cut these days) child in my arms, book in my hand, because life is waiting for me to live it, knowing it is never too short or too long but just right. I am reading this poem not in my language, while she sits at my side and helps me translate, because tongues are free to roam now. I am reading this poem listening for something, stopping to savour the taste of freedom, to be able to refuse the task I cannot turn to. I am reading this poem because I can, and there is so much left to read I have now and forever, to soar untamed with wings unclipped, clothed as I am.
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 1:56 AM UTC
from an atlas of a not so difficult world
I am reading this poem, late, in the snug familiarity of my bed, with gentle night-light and sable night-sky, stars swimming beyond the glass, warm breaths fogging up the panes. I am reading this poem, curled on a beanbag in a library with her my by side, breaths stirring against my skin, like the winds of time, of change, taking me away from here. I am reading this poem, in a room that is abound with remembrance and days gone by, where the bedclothes are heaped, fresh and steaming with warmth, with the same freedom that the open valise speaks of, a journey ending in success, a triumphant flight. I am reading this poem, as the underground train screeches to a halt, and before heading up the stairs, towards the love that life has bestowed on me. I am reading this poem, by the glow of the laptop screen, where the headlines flash and flicker, for once, joy is splashed across the monitor. I am reading this poem in a waiting room, of meeting eyes and crinkling smiles, more friends than strangers, without fear. I am reading this poem by firelight, in the simple joy and jubilation of the young who know they matter, and live with hope and inner liberation, from the earliest of ages. I am reading this poem, freed of the curved lenses, the cloudy cataracts, and I can see the letters for what they are and I read on, because this freedom is precious. I am reading this poem as I sit by the radiator, the milk is already warm (electricity isn’t cut these days) child in my arms, book in my hand, because life is waiting for me to live it, knowing it is never too short or too long but just right. I am reading this poem not in my language, while she sits at my side and helps me translate, because tongues are free to roam now. I am reading this poem listening for something, stopping to savour the taste of freedom, to be able to refuse the task I cannot turn to. I am reading this poem because I can, and there is so much left to read I have now and forever, to soar untamed with wings unclipped, clothed as I am.
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Sable, the swallow rising as it banks over the white conduits of marrow in the body, rain slashes through the honey locust, along the long ellipse of its hunt as savage dragonflies rise from stems to cling, a deep sienna of doeskin tremors over their sting, catkins, an aftermath, melancholy to the skin soaked in white calla, its reticence assails the sleeping orchards of the heart, in its darkest sheaves, to cleave apart the soft joining of lips and silence me; for eternity is this moment, and the light you give cloaks me in a coat of flames, the burnt locust of slaughter, taunt the rubric of Christs hidden scriptures, as I night, the body, solely a vessel of shadow, returning through a field of windfall, ripe with wasps, echo you in me, a dream of a dream dream't, in the dim recess of light your lips close like a sutra over mine, a brutality of moments ground out of thick pine, as the fine agony of cricket ballets rise shivering, to stillness, this silence is a lotus, a blue psalm, throttles the throat, as a quorum of swallows gather between the swathes of sunlight and skewed shadows, and lift as one body, subsumed by our abandoned depths, out of exile, you have made me a homeland of truant light and as I night, lightning opens like scripture, a black plea, poured over some sore refuge, and so that I may never be restored, cloak me in a coat of flames, suffering an ecstasy of moments hardened in amber, over the white conduits of marrow in the savage body, writhe a black throng of swallows, assail the sleeping orchards of the heart, in its darkest sheaves, to cleave apart the soft joining of lips and silence me....
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 4:05 PM UTC
The Black Kiss
Sable, the swallow rising as it banks over the white conduits of marrow in the body, rain slashes through the honey locust, along the long ellipse of its hunt as savage dragonflies rise from stems to cling, a deep sienna of doeskin tremors over their sting, catkins, an aftermath, melancholy to the skin soaked in white calla, its reticence assails the sleeping orchards of the heart, in its darkest sheaves, to cleave apart the soft joining of lips and silence me; for eternity is this moment, and the light you give cloaks me in a coat of flames, the burnt locust of slaughter, taunt the rubric of Christs hidden scriptures, as I night, the body, solely a vessel of shadow, returning through a field of windfall, ripe with wasps, echo you in me, a dream of a dream dream't, in the dim recess of light your lips close like a sutra over mine, a brutality of moments ground out of thick pine, as the fine agony of cricket ballets rise shivering, to stillness, this silence is a lotus, a blue psalm, throttles the throat, as a quorum of swallows gather between the swathes of sunlight and skewed shadows, and lift as one body, subsumed by our abandoned depths, out of exile, you have made me a homeland of truant light and as I night, lightning opens like scripture, a black plea, poured over some sore refuge, and so that I may never be restored, cloak me in a coat of flames, suffering an ecstasy of moments hardened in amber, over the white conduits of marrow in the savage body, writhe a black throng of swallows, assail the sleeping orchards of the heart, in its darkest sheaves, to cleave apart the soft joining of lips and silence me....
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**     In An Old Cathedral** She knelt upon a plank, plain oaken (sable cloak, her mourning guise), and sensed the breath of distant sighs, pale shades of pain behind blue eyes… While clasping close a cross-like token (holding hope for those in need) she prayed her Lord "please intercede, my woes be washed, my soul be freed"… Archangels, in the skies evoken (candles flickered, shadows shivered), through the panes, the moonlight quivered, summoned forth, the wish delivered… Forgotten words he once had spoken (dimly echoed ’neath the dome) swept sweetness of the honeycomb o'er distant realms they used to roam… At midnight's knell, in dreams awoken, memories of love unfeigned… Though loneliness of grief remained, she still held hope… hope hadn't waned… And when the dawn had early broken, by the font, in peace, she lay… As sudden as a sunset ray, the light of life had slipped away…
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 4:06 PM UTC
In An OldCathedral
Nous etions, en cet instant, prisonniers du bonheur. Heritiers de cette douce mais, o combien lourde, ferveur Brulant sous cette peau vernie de sueur, de sable et de sel, Portes, en princes sous les ficelles des tisseuses de ciel. Nous regardions le gris a nous ecorcher les yeux, Aimant de la passion infidele du zenith bleu Le vide encombrant de nos plus incroyables espoirs Et le remou sans debut ni fin de nouvelles memoires. Nous les connaissions, ces esprits, vagabonds des mers Chassant, au milieu des vagues ces humeurs incidencieres, Celles la meme qui jadis se prenommaient “reves d’enfance” Et qui depuis de sont transformes en dependence. Nous les connaissions, et meme si la nature de ce lien M’est masque par un sacerdoce qui ne sera jamais mien, Elle me dicte toujours chaque contour de leur lames grises Qui de cet air sec et fier sont tragiquement eprises Nous etions, en cet instant prisonniers de beaute, Celle la meme qui voit nos poumons dechiquetes A vouloir engouffrer ce monde entier sous nos pores Que demain a travers ces lettres je puisse a nouveau le voir.
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC
A Solis Occasum Cardine
They found her sprawled back there in the alley. Dead.  Asleep in the Lily of the Valley. She was obscene and cold, flat on her back, All for a **** hit of five dollar crack. Beneath the grime and the blood and the gore, The innocence, before she was a ***** Could not be seen for she met her maker, A one hundred percent street-wise faker. Dead blue eyes, peroxide hair, a wild vine, Earrings in her nose, tongue; defiant sign To the world that she is a wild child, Who many years ago learned not to smile. There was one thing which stood out about her, Where everything thing else was an ****** blur. A gold cross on a chain under her throat. It looked out of place, as a sable coat. A gold cross, from her unknown, murky past? A present from someone she held onto fast? A detective, hardened to scenes such as this, He shuddered, covered her with a low hiss. Blue strobe lights lit up the night near the dump, Police milled around the unmoving lump, Keeping the official face was a test, Sheet covered her body, outlined her breast. Each man, woman, working the dreadful scene, Spoke terse, if at all, about the *** queen. Many times they'd been called out in the night To look at and ponder similar sights. How much can one take before giving in To the horror and suppress it with gin? The one, lying still, sculptured by a fiend, Wicked hand carving out her end, not clean. She came to this end living the life she did, But she was much than a ***** on the skids. God, a detective screamed at the slaughter Please don't let this happen to my daughter. ©August 4, 2003 / Jerry Pat Bolton
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Jan 2, 2012
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM UTC
A Female Unknown
They found her sprawled back there in the alley. Dead.  Asleep in the Lily of the Valley. She was obscene and cold, flat on her back, All for a **** hit of five dollar crack. Beneath the grime and the blood and the gore, The innocence, before she was a ***** Could not be seen for she met her maker, A one hundred percent street-wise faker. Dead blue eyes, peroxide hair, a wild vine, Earrings in her nose, tongue; defiant sign To the world that she is a wild child, Who many years ago learned not to smile. There was one thing which stood out about her, Where everything thing else was an ****** blur. A gold cross on a chain under her throat. It looked out of place, as a sable coat. A gold cross, from her unknown, murky past? A present from someone she held onto fast? A detective, hardened to scenes such as this, He shuddered, covered her with a low hiss. Blue strobe lights lit up the night near the dump, Police milled around the unmoving lump, Keeping the official face was a test, Sheet covered her body, outlined her breast. Each man, woman, working the dreadful scene, Spoke terse, if at all, about the *** queen. Many times they'd been called out in the night To look at and ponder similar sights. How much can one take before giving in To the horror and suppress it with gin? The one, lying still, sculptured by a fiend, Wicked hand carving out her end, not clean. She came to this end living the life she did, But she was much than a ***** on the skids. God, a detective screamed at the slaughter Please don't let this happen to my daughter. ©August 4, 2003 / Jerry Pat Bolton
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I did not die, I did not lose hope and cried. My eyes did not what they imply It’s the weather that made my lips dry I did not lost my precious soul My fire didn’t change into sable coal I was still sure of my heroic role It’s the weather that made me feel sole I did not step into frowning abyss Trying to heal some emotional illness Darkness did not give me a seducing kiss It’s the **** weather that I wanted to dismiss I did not die and probably never will… But if I did and became real ill, well,nearly over my own hill finally forced to pay the bill… I’d jump on the table Singing my favorite song Fight one last battle With some guy who’s really strong I’d kiss the girls and get rejected To hell with the money that I collected! On the streets I’d act like awfully dense Dressing funny, asking people for a silly dance And finally lay on some keenly green grass Whistle a beautiful melody for the whole mass Of flowers and bees and butterflies Until the very second that my melody dies. But I did not die, and I probably never will. But if I did…
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM UTC
I did not die...but if I did...