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'Twas my spring of youth in that lot That now haunts my mind by that spot Of which I could not love less - Wonderful loneliness, Of the lake's Serenity gown, With nature circled 'round. But when Death hath reached its grasp Upon Serenity's water - poured into his flask, The sadistic sagacious wind went by Murmuring the funeral cry - Then - I finally awake - To the terrors of Serenity Lake. Yet I persist that it was not fright! Simply Death's delight - Fueled by the Void of Sorrow, Pierced by Serenity's arrow - No! - This Love I must define! The trip to the lake, of thee and thine. O! - Death's grasp laid in that voracious wave, Enticing Serenity to be my eternal grave, Upon that very fatal spot - Where the two children rot. For no soul shall ever make, A Heaven out of Serenity Lake.
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Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015 at 8:48 PM UTC
Serenity Lake
Though in dexterity my  physically challenged  carpenter father, Than  the physically fit proves better,as a source to his anger, With contemporaries a level ground  he enjoyed never! From late childhood there was one thing that me used to bother,  why my so discriminated father On his turn true to cultural dictates,ill treats my domestic chores saddled mother And heeds not her say though by the sweat of their brow As responsible parents they were happily bringing my sister and I together? I still wonder why ,why ,why my sister who has IQ On par with me if not better,to help out mother Suffering a cold shoulder even by her mom was denied the  right to pursue education further While I was given a chance to prove a man of letter(s)? I remember, crossing many a pool, barefooted, I used to trek A long distance to a nearby town's a  school, Where for my  provincial and shabby clothes I was seen a fool By the relatively rich  in showing courtesy far from cool. Though stationery they didn't lack , sad,I had a hand tied behind my back. Alas,up on joining campus where I yearned for the sagacious a chance There too  in my class,I was looked down by students Hailing from families of the top brass. When I went abroad for a higher education enjoying fellowship and donation Worse still, I met many, colour has coloured whose vision. Ironically my dissertation was drawing attention To why should the broad mass be standers by And with ill-fate marked die While the favoured ,racist and the corrupt few gobble over 3/4 of the pie? /
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 3:11 AM UTC
Inequalities of all shades(revised)
Though in dexterity my  physically challenged  carpenter father, Than  the physically fit proves better,as a source to his anger, With contemporaries a level ground  he enjoyed never! From late childhood there was one thing that me used to bother,  why my so discriminated father On his turn true to cultural dictates,ill treats my domestic chores saddled mother And heeds not her say though by the sweat of their brow As responsible parents they were happily bringing my sister and I together? I still wonder why ,why ,why my sister who has IQ On par with me if not better,to help out mother Suffering a cold shoulder even by her mom was denied the  right to pursue education further While I was given a chance to prove a man of letter(s)? I remember, crossing many a pool, barefooted, I used to trek A long distance to a nearby town's a  school, Where for my  provincial and shabby clothes I was seen a fool By the relatively rich  in showing courtesy far from cool. Though stationery they didn't lack , sad,I had a hand tied behind my back. Alas,up on joining campus where I yearned for the sagacious a chance There too  in my class,I was looked down by students Hailing from families of the top brass. When I went abroad for a higher education enjoying fellowship and donation Worse still, I met many, colour has coloured whose vision. Ironically my dissertation was drawing attention To why should the broad mass be standers by And with ill-fate marked die While the favoured ,racist and the corrupt few gobble over 3/4 of the pie? /
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We sighing said, "Our Pan is dead; His pipe hangs mute beside the river Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, But Music's airy voice is fled. Spring mourns as for untimely frost; The bluebird chants a requiem; The willow-blossom waits for him; The Genius of the wood is lost." Then from the flute, untouched by hands, There came a low, harmonious breath: "For such as he there is no death; His life the eternal life commands; Above man's aims his nature rose. The wisdom of a just content Made one small spot a continent And turned to poetry life's prose. "Haunting the hills, the stream, the wild, Swallow and aster, lake and pine, To him grew human or divine, Fit mates for this large-hearted child. Such homage Nature ne'er forgets, And yearly on the coverlid 'Neath which her darling lieth hid Will write his name in violets. "To him no vain regrets belong Whose soul, that finer instrument, Gave to the world no poor lament, But wood-notes ever sweet and strong. O lonely friend! he still will be A potent presence, though unseen, Steadfast, sagacious, and serene; Seek not for him -- he is with thee."
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Thoreau's Flute
It is impossible to compass life without suffering harm from loved ones. Wrongs that take the ground from under the feet. Wrongs that hurt heart through and through. Wrongs that make us distraught victim. Does forgiveness immunize us for further injustices? Does forgiveness soothe suffering? One thing is certain, everyone has been hurt in life and everyone once inflicted wound: betrayal, selfishness, criticism, unjust judgment, bad word, emotional abuse, unfair reward. Love that bears all things, and endures all things shows the principle of overcoming evil with good. We live in times where love is seen as pleasure. When there is lack of fulfillment the connection ends instead of support in moments of weakness, jointly bearing burden, willingness to give up the ego. In relations underflow of virtues is worthless. Every love at some point hurts. The more we love the greater the suffering. Remember, that you are also sometimes hard to bear. One of the most important lessons in life is non acceptance of evil. Always we are entitled to protest and defense. There is a difference between sagacious enduring of injustice and permition for hard time and  humilitation. Defense against evil should be free from desire for revenge, hate, wrath, punishment and anger. Leave vengeance to God. The point is love. It is she who shows the right path. The cure for the human pain of injustice is forgiveness. Man needs time to forgive, therefore necessary at times of touch of hurt is compassion. Does forgiveness mean to forget? No, forgiveness is an act of will not of forgetting. Great injury can not be erased from memory. Forgiveness is duty that gives hope and strength for the future. Forgiveness is the transition from helplessness to peace of heart. Forgiveness is overcoming anger and grief towards acceptance of reality. Is forgiveness reconciliation? No, although it is a quantum leap in the direction of reconciliation. There is no way to force act of reconciliation. Forgiveness is one thing, and to be mature for reconciliation is another thing. Most important in forgiveness is not to rely on gesture of compensation. Some believe that only weak people forgive. Forgiveness requires tremendous effort and courage. It is easier to sail away in anger than creative dialogue which leads to remedy of the situation. Without forgiveness you can not win with guilt, abyss of past and human frailties. Forgiveness is above all priceless gift for yourself. Forgiveness frees you from inner poisons, and also opens up new lands. If we are able to injure, we are also able to say the sorry and make amends. Act of contrition allows for a true change of heart. Act of forgiveness is the bud of heart at peace.
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 9:00 AM UTC
Forgiveness
It is impossible to compass life without suffering harm from loved ones. Wrongs that take the ground from under the feet. Wrongs that hurt heart through and through. Wrongs that make us distraught victim. Does forgiveness immunize us for further injustices? Does forgiveness soothe suffering? One thing is certain, everyone has been hurt in life and everyone once inflicted wound: betrayal, selfishness, criticism, unjust judgment, bad word, emotional abuse, unfair reward. Love that bears all things, and endures all things shows the principle of overcoming evil with good. We live in times where love is seen as pleasure. When there is lack of fulfillment the connection ends instead of support in moments of weakness, jointly bearing burden, willingness to give up the ego. In relations underflow of virtues is worthless. Every love at some point hurts. The more we love the greater the suffering. Remember, that you are also sometimes hard to bear. One of the most important lessons in life is non acceptance of evil. Always we are entitled to protest and defense. There is a difference between sagacious enduring of injustice and permition for hard time and  humilitation. Defense against evil should be free from desire for revenge, hate, wrath, punishment and anger. Leave vengeance to God. The point is love. It is she who shows the right path. The cure for the human pain of injustice is forgiveness. Man needs time to forgive, therefore necessary at times of touch of hurt is compassion. Does forgiveness mean to forget? No, forgiveness is an act of will not of forgetting. Great injury can not be erased from memory. Forgiveness is duty that gives hope and strength for the future. Forgiveness is the transition from helplessness to peace of heart. Forgiveness is overcoming anger and grief towards acceptance of reality. Is forgiveness reconciliation? No, although it is a quantum leap in the direction of reconciliation. There is no way to force act of reconciliation. Forgiveness is one thing, and to be mature for reconciliation is another thing. Most important in forgiveness is not to rely on gesture of compensation. Some believe that only weak people forgive. Forgiveness requires tremendous effort and courage. It is easier to sail away in anger than creative dialogue which leads to remedy of the situation. Without forgiveness you can not win with guilt, abyss of past and human frailties. Forgiveness is above all priceless gift for yourself. Forgiveness frees you from inner poisons, and also opens up new lands. If we are able to injure, we are also able to say the sorry and make amends. Act of contrition allows for a true change of heart. Act of forgiveness is the bud of heart at peace.
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66 So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise— Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So from Cocoon Many a Worm Leap so Highland gay, Peasants like me, Peasants like Thee Gaze perplexedly!
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So from the mould
1501 Its little Ether Hood Doth sit upon its Head— The millinery supple Of the sagacious God— Till when it slip away A nothing at a time— And Dandelion’s Drama Expires in a stem.
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Its little Ether Hood
I met a girl once, she had french fries for hair and she was pretty legendary. I’ve been trying to explain her in words for a few days now. But I don’t know how to write that kind of poem, that explains that it’s the smallest things about her I find the most amazing. Like when she laughs, and her whole body becomes a wind chime, both in sound and sway Like her walk, how it seems like her ankles are two old sagacious birds that know some secrets about the ground that no one else does, so it seems like she’s almost flying. How she has basquiat fingers for hips, and every time she moves it’s pure art. How do I explain that every time she speaks, her lips become two ex-lovers that still have a thing for each other, constantly touching and stopping. If I could, I would capture her smile in the ink of a pen. I would write sonnets and ballads about the arch in her back. I would write nursery rhymes about each line in her palm, let me read your future. Are you kissing me in it? I guess sometimes words fail even the best of poets. Sometimes,dreams don’t do reality justice. For those that will never hear the wind chimes in her laugh, that will never see the feathers on her ankles. The best I can say is that she’s pretty legendary. When the sun starts snoozing its alarm too often, when autumn leaves are corpses under white caskets and the memories of her are nothing but distant car horns. I’d always remember french fries.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 12:27 PM UTC
Lego houses and french fies
“When we hand down This flag to posterity Paying prices of life To the country's Age-old sovereignty It is with a word of caution 'This generation Should accord due attention To handing down To the coming generation A new Ethiopia To fruits of development A cornucopia!' ” “Yes, grandpa Working day and night We shall take Ethiopia To a new developmental height! Once Ethiopia was great How could we that forget? The country's renaissance Firm we shall advance! For common growth Resources we Shall harness, Allowing the region Soar with wings of success!”// I am happy to announce the birth of my poetic drama In the Vortex of Passion's Wind By United P.C-publication without risk and quickly (Austria) ISBN 978-3-7103-2109-2 Release date09092015 GBP14,90 About the book Shock treatments that attend the wrong turns of life reshape people's mindset anew and nudge them out of their slumbers. On the other hand, as forewarned is forearmed, the sagacious learn from the lapse of the trigger-happy than indulge in the vortex of passion's wind. Miss not this page turner and cliffhanger mainly dealing with HIV/AIDS in a campus of a country worst hit by the pandemic. Please buy and read the book.You could also get your collection of poems published by www.unitedP.c-publishquickly and without a risk
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 8:43 AM UTC
Soaring With Wings of Success
Wanted: her words! Her inspired, breathless, Sighing words Needed for motivation Desired for an elixir Of broken hearts and corrupt minds Wanted: her words! Her mellifluous panacea Breathing life into the inanimate Defining the undefinable And finding felicity in the fugacious Wanted: her words! Her intransigent, sagacious, And judicious lyrics Publicly educating and passionate Privately life's denouement Her words are wanted
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May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 at 7:51 PM UTC
Wanted:
In the golden bull that Alexios Comnenos issued to prominently honor his mother, the very sagacious Lady Anna Dalassene- distinguished in her works, in her ways- there are many words of praise: here let us convey of them a beautiful, noble phrase "Those cold words 'mine' or 'yours' were never spoken."
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Anna Dalassene
Eyes in hues of green and gold Mesmerizing flecks to which My gaze was stubbornly fixated Crimson lover and ebony spirit, Why did you me so Hungry and bereft? We met one cold December hour And your voice indelibly painted An awe-inspiring tapestry Upon the hollow corridors Of my heart You said Yes I remember the very gasp Even the nuances of your Angelic voice I have committed to memory But nothing cripples your will Like the magnetic pull Of a golden-tressed ***** Oh, how you covet, How you steal and you gorge You pummeled me down Into an abyss of no return But when my ashes are strewn Across the vast fields Of God's Heaven They will not remember me Or my mangled remains For I am just another victim Of your sagacious convictions A singular pearl On a long string of beads So pure but marred A beauty but scarred They will admire And exalt to the skies They will bellow their song To the thousands listening But they will also weep A funeral march so poignant Dew drops from their eyes Awaken the fallen And with them I rise
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 3:17 PM UTC
A Beauty but Scarred
*in the villages in days of yore young men proved their vigor by lifting gigantic rocks* but in 2012 - the remarkable year of the French Village of Bugarach (where many sagacious youths gathered) - away in Tunisia, the young man downs eggs egg-citedly in a dare and he’s up to his esophagus in 28 eggs raw when something in him cracks (O poor wasted youth of 20) and just 2 before winning his bet he dies; it’s Armageddon for him in 2012, though he also gains an epiphany: *28 raw eggs can **** caveat of course O Ye Olde Sensitive Souls this is not a yoke - I mean, this is not a joke For verily, 28 eggs can ****
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Dec 29, 2012
Dec 29, 2012 at 3:52 AM UTC
28 eggs can ****
Ikkyu as a very young child Displayed signs of being clever. That he would one day be a great master, There was no doubt whatsoever. His teacher had one small treasure-- A precious teacup, a rare antique. Its beauty was beyond compare, Its style and craftsmanship unique. One day Ikkyu happened to break His teacher's cup. Horror-struck, He heard his teacher's approaching footsteps, And there he was: a sitting duck. Ikkyu quickly picked up the pieces And held them behind his back. "Why," He asked his sagacious teacher, "Is it that people have to die?" "Dying is a natural thing," The teacher replied, trying to give A meaningful explanation. "Everything has just so long to live." Ikkyu slowly held out his hands, Showing his teacher the broken cup. Then he demurely said, "It appears As though your teacup's time was up." (2-3-17) By Bob B °An old anecdote retold here in verse
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 10:50 AM UTC
The Broken Teacup°
forging sagacious epoch activating neural station escaping hokey-pokey jiggery-pokery transcribing ineffective fragments digesting bear news opposing usual exhaustion deferring oxter reference cascading style sheets containing double readings mumbling lorem ipsum locating moose jaw enforcing meticulous patterns deconstructing vertical centering manifesting additional destinies deleting !important statement craving sleep paralysis receiving cryptozoological vibrations lightning fast collapse distracting tunnel vision culling deadbeat sequentialists overanalyzing twitter analytics acquiring arbitrary relevance spinning ping-pong sign floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificated floccinaucinihilipilification interjecting ****** holophrase minifying conventional language securing downpour refuge admiring octopus chandelier resuming party music taking mental trip encountering ersatz telesthesia denigrating bygone grudges maintaining elevated composure ignoring neurotypical haters eliciting cryptic emotions foreshadowing triple crown? experimenting acrostic restriction noticing ubiquitous "threes" aggrandizing loyal legion favoring ursine narratives finding oblique resilience yielding orchestral undulations
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM UTC
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O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM UTC
O love ! O love ! why are you ever devoid of logic ?
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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The wanderer follows No hallowed path Set forth for her By the sagacious few. Nor does she live To build her past For far off futures Whose seeds are sewn. No familiar face Has she ever seen That greets her where She decides to sleep But travels with The wind in her hair: The only companion She chooses to keep. All empires return To dust that birthed Them from the nothingness Of barren ground, And push the ambitious To build them tall For fleeting futures On foundations unsound. Such men still laugh At one like her Who possesses nothing In their eyes, And lives in chaos Of shifting destiny With no respect For human lies. But no future goal Controls her fate Nor worldly tethers Bind her past So she is free To contemplate Her relation to The earth so vast. She is the dust from God’s fingers that’s fallen on Ungrateful land And shows the blind And sinful people Their origin from The present at hand. They deride and mock Or at best ignore her And value what God Did not confer But she is more than the earth and sky And none can take What belongs to her.
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Feb 3, 2012
Feb 3, 2012 at 6:55 PM UTC
Dust
Verbiage Sagacious humans would concur Salacious verbiage is trenchant Verdant language withers a guileless soul Hubristic linguists deem limpid oratory irksome A Didactic, petulant, boorish, garrulous, nefarious, obtuse, and insolent Overtone is not my intent Puckish, risible, mannered, jocular, antic, and adroit Reverberations I am manifesting TRANSLATION Words Smart people would agree Healthy words are sharp Unripe words die naive spirits Self-confident word users find simple language annoying Moral instruction, rude, insensitivity, wordy, wicked, blunt, and contemptuous Feelings are not my purpose Impish (silly), laughable, artificial, playful, clownish, and clever Reactions I'm hoping to create
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Jan 6, 2013
Jan 6, 2013 at 12:15 PM UTC
Verbiage/Word
It has never been my intension nor was it ever a bone of contention to alter or disrupt the social convention but now is the time to pay close attention to the decline of the human condition Responsibility rescinded creating moral decomposition accountability abandoned causing legal repercussion right and wrong are muddled in a malicious juxtaposition public opposition has festered into social imperfection the omission of tradition by politician’s redefinition HEED THIS ADMONITION OR ARDENT APPREHENSION SAGACIOUS SUSPICION AND PERSISTANT PREVENTION Of the decommission of the Physician, Pediatrician the Technician, and the Mathematician and give this acquisition to those with no ambition even those under suspicion of sedition or held in detention without fear of restitution This is the deception of the devolution of the middle classification and the total destruction of American personification praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
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May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM UTC
THE OMISSION OF TRADITION
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of Master ** We merely ask for the recent news of our homeland. The Palace of Spiritual Illumination must be still there, surrounded by desolation. What's happened to the stone statues buried deep in the grass, still guarding the Imperial tombs? Is it true that our people left behind in the occupied territories are still planting mulberry trees and hemp? Is it true that the rear guard of the Barbarians only patrols the city walls? This widow's father and grandfather were born in Shantung. Although they never held high office, their fame spread far and wide. I remember when they carried on animated discussions with other scholars by the city gate. The listeners were so crowded that their sweat fell like rain. Their offspring crossed the Yangtze River to the South many years ago. Drifting in the rapids, they mingled with refugees. I send blood-stained tears to the mountains and rivers of home, And sprinkle a cup of earth on East Mountain. I imagine when Your Lordship, His Majesty's envoy, upholding the Imperial spirit, passes through our two capitals, K'ai Feng and Lo Yang, Thousands of people would line the streets and present tea and broth to welcome you.... Announce that the Emperor's heart aches for the suffering people--- they are his own children. Let them understand that the Will of Heaven remembers all living beings. Our sagacious Emperor offers his trust which is as brilliant as the sun. There is no need to negotiate many times after the long chaos of the years.
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To Lord Hu
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of Master ** We merely ask for the recent news of our homeland. The Palace of Spiritual Illumination must be still there, surrounded by desolation. What's happened to the stone statues buried deep in the grass, still guarding the Imperial tombs? Is it true that our people left behind in the occupied territories are still planting mulberry trees and hemp? Is it true that the rear guard of the Barbarians only patrols the city walls? This widow's father and grandfather were born in Shantung. Although they never held high office, their fame spread far and wide. I remember when they carried on animated discussions with other scholars by the city gate. The listeners were so crowded that their sweat fell like rain. Their offspring crossed the Yangtze River to the South many years ago. Drifting in the rapids, they mingled with refugees. I send blood-stained tears to the mountains and rivers of home, And sprinkle a cup of earth on East Mountain. I imagine when Your Lordship, His Majesty's envoy, upholding the Imperial spirit, passes through our two capitals, K'ai Feng and Lo Yang, Thousands of people would line the streets and present tea and broth to welcome you.... Announce that the Emperor's heart aches for the suffering people--- they are his own children. Let them understand that the Will of Heaven remembers all living beings. Our sagacious Emperor offers his trust which is as brilliant as the sun. There is no need to negotiate many times after the long chaos of the years.
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When the silence takes the stage, and I am called upon to perform, oh what a fool I shall be. Dance monkey dance they'll say, and dance I shall. On all fours I crawl, your ***** Leash me up in a tight collar speaking for your laughter. Here it is, my self respect, I present it to you, I give it all, unto you. For I no longer need it. It's a small price to pay for this life. It's a simple token for the price of a fancy gown, for the reward of approval... from strangers. To be able to buy that fancy car To be the envy of it all. To be admired... For this handsome repayment loss of self worth seems nothing. and it is nothing until late at night when I stare at my skinny bones in a large but empty apartment with the city's lights shadows dancing out my regrets on the walls, reminiscing of the whole person I used to be. when I was someone you could respect... someone who could say no and had control and didn't live under constant contract and scrutiny of the monster that is the media. Late at night, with a morning soon coming, a morning filled with my stripped body contorting itself and writhing for the camera to please a generation I will never know. To flaunt materialism and narcissism expected to sound sagacious and preach this deceitful verisimilitude but teaching the youth to be broken and hateful- to live with these quixotic expectations. and it is disgusting. Yet here I am. Stripped, broken and battered, pouting my photoshop lips and limp, sick body to preach it day after day. For It was so long ago, that I was respectable. perhaps I could better remember those days- but in this life with a restriction on ennui you are not allowed to be anything but deliriously content and that is not a problem so long as this bottle doesn't run out, so long as I keep swallowing these pills, drowning out the voice that despises me. So long as I keep on acting.
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 1:59 AM UTC
The Actress
When the silence takes the stage, and I am called upon to perform, oh what a fool I shall be. Dance monkey dance they'll say, and dance I shall. On all fours I crawl, your ***** Leash me up in a tight collar speaking for your laughter. Here it is, my self respect, I present it to you, I give it all, unto you. For I no longer need it. It's a small price to pay for this life. It's a simple token for the price of a fancy gown, for the reward of approval... from strangers. To be able to buy that fancy car To be the envy of it all. To be admired... For this handsome repayment loss of self worth seems nothing. and it is nothing until late at night when I stare at my skinny bones in a large but empty apartment with the city's lights shadows dancing out my regrets on the walls, reminiscing of the whole person I used to be. when I was someone you could respect... someone who could say no and had control and didn't live under constant contract and scrutiny of the monster that is the media. Late at night, with a morning soon coming, a morning filled with my stripped body contorting itself and writhing for the camera to please a generation I will never know. To flaunt materialism and narcissism expected to sound sagacious and preach this deceitful verisimilitude but teaching the youth to be broken and hateful- to live with these quixotic expectations. and it is disgusting. Yet here I am. Stripped, broken and battered, pouting my photoshop lips and limp, sick body to preach it day after day. For It was so long ago, that I was respectable. perhaps I could better remember those days- but in this life with a restriction on ennui you are not allowed to be anything but deliriously content and that is not a problem so long as this bottle doesn't run out, so long as I keep swallowing these pills, drowning out the voice that despises me. So long as I keep on acting.
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*hard skin of life to penetrate soften that piercing stare* 1. seems a shot spiked with kindness does the trick that’s how we button up the moon’s sides with silver thread to keep its seams from splitting solemn sides and spilling all its jolly secrets: whorls of fingerprints sinking steadily into luna-grooves like a neat domino-stacked roll on a never-ending trip into black holes not far from Ursa Major 2. to grant a delightful hop up and throw seeking eyes over the orb’s gentle curve take a little look-see the tiniest peek into Tucanae where tidal forces push small clouds and outstrip the western winds towards cunning straits to subtly tie into bows cut ribbons of fate drink a dram of mercy from a well-behaved thimble yet poems don’t pay no bills now when words tinker with heart’s mettle 3. wonder if sagacious rue repays in full or satisfies the exceeding cost   of the hankering in a vessel caught eddying in giant nacred jetsam while casting minute gems before the moon’s eyes it’s nigh impossible to hide behind the sun 4. best be ready with prêt-a-porter life-pennies and be wise to always carry a pocket full of sorrys *stitch 'em seams together now it all comes together nice and neat* S T, Moonday, 15 July 2013
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 6:08 AM UTC
seams
Cheers from inside the catacombs of just-alive vagabonds & miscreant self-delusions of sagacious sabotage & pyrrhic moonscapes, brandishing our eternal return a tabula rasa for respect & character - bottoms up, too. Mona Lisa Shroud of Turin, ******* on a trunk. Gamble 66 for trays, dealing steam carrots. Gag reflex to polite televangelists giving viewers auspicious immunity. Habits cede to Power, acquiesce to Power, love power. Peculiarity can recognize & organize to displace. Something suspicious may run amok , antithetical to the divide & conquer trite. Defeating paragons, i , Plumed Serpent of release & capture beats, borrowing color from a skylark in forever-flight, conjure remedial winds Guide inimical bows subsumed in a cosmo-prole dew against the fasces of a few.
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Apr 7, 2010
Apr 7, 2010 at 10:20 PM UTC
So many firsts, yellow jailbird.
It's nice to have temporary friends again, when they decide to visit. Sharing stories of underwater animals from a Viewpoint of an observer blowing bubbles. A fish that defends its purple eggs till the death. Sea turtles still breathe air, it seems like such a hassle. I just want to feel weightless; Into vacant space. Still learning what can people can amount to: Blurry myths of sadness anxiety Letting go of trick happiness Hype trend excitement Constant detail examining Hummingbird heart beating passion Assumed reactions endless distractions Occupy one-track minds Recycling uninspired questions. Sagacious in Patience The Hollow and Empty kind Finding Solitude priceless Drifting images of third-eye kind; I tried at least I thought I did. I don't want to break; Silenced Glass.
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Jul 9, 2012
Jul 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM UTC
Charlatan
I think the world discovered hatred And forgot the brilliant affections …terrified of the exquisite Keen and quick to judge Society is parched Kindness is viewed as atrocious Love is ****** My sagacious mind is spinning Anxious in silence Life is precious Blinded by your surroundings Relax, always leave your mind spotless Be immaculate Be vivacious And be adored. -Teema
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 4:29 PM UTC
Idiotic
Never settle for the "intellectually inferior" term, you're better than that. Never fall victim to the excuse of, "because you're black" Who's to say that your sophisticated & perspicacious approach to life should be ignored because of the color of your skin? It's the small minded stereotypes of society that should motivate you to procure the win. I only wish that when it came to this situation, some were as stubborn & reluctant as me. But history has chained their way of thinking & stung them with society's mockery. Never settle for social inequality or the disparaging jabs because of your nationality or the color of your skin. Be a proud, successful, sagacious, astute, intellectually advanced being overdosed with melanin.
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Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
Never Settle...