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"sheba" poems
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC
Earth to Heaven: Navel High
Every blue patch on the sky keeps an eye, cherishing clouds dancing, hovering over. The songs of deep blue ride the heady air, only to be stunned, all of a sudden, at the first sight— sung down on a perfectly placed mural. The Queen of Sheba tiptoes this way; King Solomon leans to the ground, only to find seas of silent blooms musing, dipping in sun-kissed dews— on gently tilted roses that will not fall, not from this picture-perfect, navel-high! Velvety, the rose rises from the ground; the forever-green Earth hangs low, in the dew on the rose that will not fall. Blossoming, eyeing an acute high, evermore hopeful to scale upward, toward the faraway, awaiting heaven's pool. There, the spotlight does not move— neither north nor south, nor up nor down— until Queen Fathima, the Queen of Heaven, steps on the "as above, so below" slope. There, the newly resurrected Earth will be primed, its minted atoms vibrating beyond bounds, rising, for the first time, atop the navel-high. Perfectly wrapped, the atom's circle finally turns on— the stepping stone that holds no pi-decimal hole. Pure Scientia hangs on the door of Paradise, awaiting the numerically perfect Queen Fathima to step. God willing, she will work in beauty: the most sought-after, perfect works of art— the lost masterpiece, not in translation, but hidden within the pi-decimal abyss of Earth's depth. Lo, the gleaning Sleeping Beauty peeps, trailing the role model Queen. Fathima—the first woman to enter Paradise— walks the walk: perfect, straight, numerically precise. As if she always knew, back from the Earth, of the murals ahead, hanging on Paradise’s wall, mathematically exact! Mirrors of imagination, new wonders on Heaven’s way, etched in the murals at the golden section, navel-high. She zooms past the ever-spinning atom’s perfect span, cemented at the entrance of Paradise. Yet leaves no footprint— for she never did, even on the sublunary Earth. A new wonder blooms in the classic old eyes: oh, Pi, still irrational, still pondering, at the measured, eternal navel-high!
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Lights off, ma bad-ass homies are juz drank, buh then I saw ya dancing in da club. Ma head was blown, let's kick it! Cuz ya could be ma tight moll, o' let's juz put a bullet on the clock in these tight walls. If I'm wit ya, ma heart could fly so high like a G6, Imma be glad if ya be mine tho I ain't da niftiest sheik. And if loving ya could take ma life to da street, cuz of a set trippin, then ya could be a flower on ma Chicago Overcoat on ma big sleep. Miss me wit dat! Ma bad, buh I ain't gonna take ma words back, I ain't no good, buh Imma gangsta poet juz a poet wit rhyming words as AK, so Imma put sum shizzle down and write what it means. To me love is gangsta, family is gangsta, loyal is gangsta, if that's not gangsta, I don't wanna be gangsta. O' ma sheba, wazzup! Let's show 'em what is real luv. Then luv me less, until ya luv me more and let's live as gangsta poets in this gangsta world.
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Jul 13, 2013
Jul 13, 2013 at 11:12 PM UTC
Love Of A Gangsta Poet
It is a passing love affair The black thorny rose Thin stemmed Bleeding nightmare Beauty bathed in darkness Like a black cat Sleek feline queen of Sheba Narcissus and Nefertiti Persephone Eyes open no final reflection in death Just peace from life’s pain Not a mistress I would pursue for a kiss But one that one day I might not resist
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 1:11 PM UTC
The Black Rose
That cowgirl won’t go Won’t ride Won’t die Sittin’ on the pisspot in a one horse town Salient sista, she sees them cowpokes And they do their damndest to draw her attention Oh, she’s seen chairs thrown, barfights break out And the piano man run away Sometimes they shoot the others down All for the chance to pay two dollars To lay with the only cowgirl in town She’s the Queen Sheba of the saloon girls **** loose and fast Motherly and tender, it’s all for the askin Sanctified or sinister, that cowgirl won’t go Won’t ride Won’t die I asked her to marry me Many times before She laughed and said, “Honey, you can’t have me.” In my naïveté I thought I could change her wayward ways Domesticate her like I’d break a young filly All the thoughts of getting off the trail, building a house, Settling down and starting a family. But that cowgirl won’t go Won’t ride Won’t die
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Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 5:37 PM UTC
Cowgirl
Everyday there are moles Lifeless rodents Strewn about like some cat massacre Sheba! Sheba is who brings theses gifts Hunting at night Leaving presents to be admired What does she think about while in this pursuit of mole families? Does she think? Once, I saw a mouse being killed… Today there were two Yesterday one Last week there were five on the patio I wonder if there are warnings out in the mole community? “Serial mole killings” they might say Do they fear the dark now? Dead moles, dead mice Just death
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 12:29 AM UTC
Dead Moles
you said i was exotic, and i said ooo what do you mean? exotic like a fruit?, like i don’t know what tropics you think i came from, was imported from, but you read my skin like the label on a flavour of coca-cola you had never been offered before and i was refreshing, and different. and you liked the way my coke-bottle curves felt beneath your fingertips, said you’d never tasted caramel like me before, you said i was exotic. like i was a work of west african art, even though my mother’s from the east, like i was from a storybook like 1001 african nights, like, you saw my cover and you were hooked, never did think to look beneath the jacket, just wanted stories like the ones scheherazade sold, i was your sheba and you my solomon. we rode lions across the sands, your kiss was salt on my lips, i needed to quench my thirst and you offered me the brand new flavour of coca-cola. you said i was exotic, like a pretty foreign thing, some mail-order thing, special delivery just for you, a flavour of coca-cola that you had never tasted before.
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Nov 19, 2016
Nov 19, 2016 at 8:09 AM UTC
salted caramel
SANG Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her dusky face, "All day long from mid-day We have talked in the one place, All day long from shadowless noon We have gone round and round In the narrow theme of love Like a old horse in a pound.- To Solomon sang Sheba, Plated on his knees, "If you had broached a matter That might the learned please, You had before the sun had thrown Our shadows on the ground Discovered that my thoughts, not it, Are but a narrow pound.' Said Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her Arab eyes, "There's not a man or woman Born under the skies Dare match in learning with us two, And all day long we have found There's not a thing but love can make The world a narrow pound.'
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Solomon To Sheba
I want that kinda love like the way Obama looks at Michelle I want that kinda love Like Cinderella in her happliy ever after fairytale I want that kinda love thats brings you Heaven in the mist of all hell I want that kinda love thats gonna be there for you at the lowest point in your life when you fail. I want that kinda love that if you start Looking into thier eyes you will be put under a spell I want that kind of love that Feeds your mind knowlege until you both feel Faded. I want That kinda of love that takes you high and gets your spirit Elevated I want That kinda of love that keeps you going and movatived. I want That kinda love where you keep on all your clothes but still be exposed like your naked. I want That kind of love thats scared Yes that kinda of love. I want that kinda love Fitting me like a cold hand to warm glove I want That kinda Love expressed through the lycis that Jill Scott sings, That kinda love of how much joy and life loves brings That kind of love Manifesting the many blessings That India Arie Compassionate kinda love That kindred Family soul kinda love That make soul glow, and your spirit Grow kinda love That poetic hip hop lauren Hill kinda love That Vivian and Uncle Phil, Jada and Will kinda love Yes That Kinda Love As it Washes away my pain and let me dance in your love like the Summer rain Kissed by a rose kinda love Let's Cherish the day as if were are lyrics to the music sung by Sade. Old school R&B; kinda of love That Smooth Jazz kem music kinda love That maxwell fortunate kinda love That Babyface Whip Appeal so I know its real kinda love That Cliff and Clair Huxtable Honorable and responsible Kind of love. That Unlimited, Unconditinal, Uncommon Kind of Love. That Purpose driven, On a Mission, Bringing The vision to fruition kinda love 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love You'll be My King and Ill be you Queen kinda of love That Hebrew Royalty Showing loyalty kinda love I want that nourish your soul like Grandmas Homemade Turkey and biscuits casserole kinda love. I want that Acts 6:3 kind of man with faith, prayer, and a plan. I want a God fearing man who genuinely understands. I want a Relationship like Boaz and Ruth, Taking the journey together living in the Truth I want a love that will fight for me just as Jocob did For Racheal and I promise I'll always be faithful. Let it be Pleasing to God's sight just as Leah But yet As wise As Solomon and The Queen of Sheba kinda love I want that 1 John 3:18 Kind of love That Unforseen kinda Love As we Build like Noah and Nehemiah, But Weep together like Jeremiah kinda of love I want that Serve like Sammuel And Pray like Daniel Kinda of love. That love me like Christ Kinda of Love. Yes That is my Kinda of love.
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Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 8:05 PM UTC
"Kinda Love"
I want that kinda love like the way Obama looks at Michelle I want that kinda love Like Cinderella in her happliy ever after fairytale I want that kinda love thats brings you Heaven in the mist of all hell I want that kinda love thats gonna be there for you at the lowest point in your life when you fail. I want that kinda love that if you start Looking into thier eyes you will be put under a spell I want that kind of love that Feeds your mind knowlege until you both feel Faded. I want That kinda of love that takes you high and gets your spirit Elevated I want That kinda of love that keeps you going and movatived. I want That kinda love where you keep on all your clothes but still be exposed like your naked. I want That kind of love thats scared Yes that kinda of love. I want that kinda love Fitting me like a cold hand to warm glove I want That kinda Love expressed through the lycis that Jill Scott sings, That kinda love of how much joy and life loves brings That kind of love Manifesting the many blessings That India Arie Compassionate kinda love That kindred Family soul kinda love That make soul glow, and your spirit Grow kinda love That poetic hip hop lauren Hill kinda love That Vivian and Uncle Phil, Jada and Will kinda love Yes That Kinda Love As it Washes away my pain and let me dance in your love like the Summer rain Kissed by a rose kinda love Let's Cherish the day as if were are lyrics to the music sung by Sade. Old school R&B; kinda of love That Smooth Jazz kem music kinda love That maxwell fortunate kinda love That Babyface Whip Appeal so I know its real kinda love That Cliff and Clair Huxtable Honorable and responsible Kind of love. That Unlimited, Unconditinal, Uncommon Kind of Love. That Purpose driven, On a Mission, Bringing The vision to fruition kinda love 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love You'll be My King and Ill be you Queen kinda of love That Hebrew Royalty Showing loyalty kinda love I want that nourish your soul like Grandmas Homemade Turkey and biscuits casserole kinda love. I want that Acts 6:3 kind of man with faith, prayer, and a plan. I want a God fearing man who genuinely understands. I want a Relationship like Boaz and Ruth, Taking the journey together living in the Truth I want a love that will fight for me just as Jocob did For Racheal and I promise I'll always be faithful. Let it be Pleasing to God's sight just as Leah But yet As wise As Solomon and The Queen of Sheba kinda love I want that 1 John 3:18 Kind of love That Unforseen kinda Love As we Build like Noah and Nehemiah, But Weep together like Jeremiah kinda of love I want that Serve like Sammuel And Pray like Daniel Kinda of love. That love me like Christ Kinda of Love. Yes That is my Kinda of love.
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Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
hey pretty plated smell!
Priti Patel's quote on EU migration - whatever it was... list of common surnames: cropper, cross, crouch, dabney, dalton, daniels, eads, easton, eccleston, fairclough, farnham, fay, gardner, garey, garfield, haight, hanes, hailey, ibbott, irvin, isaacson, jack, jackson, jacobs, kay, keen, kelsey, lacey, lacy, lamar, macey, mann, marchand, neal, nelson, neville... sure pati japati patel - i'll be an albino in Gujarat if your play the sitar in a sari; but your name sounds a bit migrant revealing, what a weird 'back of the bus' you seem to stand on - you want the Mongolians resurrected? i swear we were being ousted in line of what Queen Sheba said to Solomon: 'olive skinned throughout the geography and the unwelcome green men on sponged-knickers creaming for an ****** a french dessert...' yes pretty prior, you found home on a continent when half of the european nations didn't practice colonial antics - i guess it's easier to pick on them. but with a Patel surname you sound british already, the great experiment worked the anaesthetic of former colonialism numbed via recreational Ketamine use really numbed the skull and jaw mandibles - i hate, i hate being conscripted into post-colonial affairs of "why it all failed" what a waste of the urban hubs of Manchester or Liverpool - where once artistic expression thrived - i hate these post-colonial societies, it's as if they were castrated en masse, and they're wondering why no one has a permanent suntan in scandinavia - maybe the raw herring diet - cinnamon up your *** magician's trick with space between fudge of digestion, disappearing trick but then the cough that blinds you sweetly - i guess post-colonial nationalism wanted to listen to non-colonial nationalism - a former migrant like pretty plated smell olive skinned exploited inversion of angers but dunked a footstep into a trip-up with non-colonial nations - a bit like the greek bail-out - pretty patel is a name least likely associated with migration; you teasing the beast out?
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Jamming jellyfish Top-Me  ((Giddy App Seahorse)) The horseradish on my lap______ The jolly Jelly Gefilte Fish Little help from my friends How we click the laptop One dent to Deceive me The Rock and Rolling Stomach his smoke went Like *** Cheese) he leaves me The spicy tongue map Z-Top Zany Chilli Pepper____ your # tap dance tap Italian top of the cheese designer skirt The outskirts of Naples Her sweet dimples, please The Islands of Sicily So many Cheese forms Terms of Endearment Mama Mia Murano-Positano Her lips of Romano Cheese (To Top Me) Challenge me Cheese doesn't mix with cappuccino, she's the Capri Ala Denti Cheese Wiz chair Mediterranean Wines Bear men doing low sips of time the grisly(Z) pour The car smelled like Flight (Top Me) Swiss air Meet Dominique How it went La Cirque Anti Christ Devil Red-bed cheese mystique SOS to their notes PS the junk car in Midas the makeover Make-up artist counter Clinique I could paint over your hood Creamy mind put at ease He's so displeased New castle disease Mingling social disease She's so infectious ZZ- Top me rock me Eyes bloodshot you got me And nevertheless With twelve and V V- Vamps tramps and 14 karats The French Lieutenant Mistress Brie with heavy bite teeth like garnets Cher turning back time The burlesque striptease Come back little Sheba Z Top Queen of Sheba I know it's coming soon____? All Tight claustrophobic The tight squeeze Him speaking Mandarin Oranges The British Colony Unique Chinese languages Her hills, San Francisco Jack Nicholson Comedy of China town The American Women Smile cheese at the Disco The food Cantonese style Z muscles Hercules Joan Rivers Fashion Police The Cheese of Portuguese Its the meat market With his nifty thrifty Neice All Socrates (Gromet and Cheese) Those Brooklyn workers The Falcon Matese____* More cheese Z-Top Who could ever top The string cheese Silken strings became to rest, I rest my cheese What cheese fascinates you Tell me?
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Jun 8, 2018
Jun 8, 2018 at 9:12 AM UTC
Z- Top Me! Cheese
Jamming jellyfish Top-Me  ((Giddy App Seahorse)) The horseradish on my lap______ The jolly Jelly Gefilte Fish Little help from my friends How we click the laptop One dent to Deceive me The Rock and Rolling Stomach his smoke went Like *** Cheese) he leaves me The spicy tongue map Z-Top Zany Chilli Pepper____ your # tap dance tap Italian top of the cheese designer skirt The outskirts of Naples Her sweet dimples, please The Islands of Sicily So many Cheese forms Terms of Endearment Mama Mia Murano-Positano Her lips of Romano Cheese (To Top Me) Challenge me Cheese doesn't mix with cappuccino, she's the Capri Ala Denti Cheese Wiz chair Mediterranean Wines Bear men doing low sips of time the grisly(Z) pour The car smelled like Flight (Top Me) Swiss air Meet Dominique How it went La Cirque Anti Christ Devil Red-bed cheese mystique SOS to their notes PS the junk car in Midas the makeover Make-up artist counter Clinique I could paint over your hood Creamy mind put at ease He's so displeased New castle disease Mingling social disease She's so infectious ZZ- Top me rock me Eyes bloodshot you got me And nevertheless With twelve and V V- Vamps tramps and 14 karats The French Lieutenant Mistress Brie with heavy bite teeth like garnets Cher turning back time The burlesque striptease Come back little Sheba Z Top Queen of Sheba I know it's coming soon____? All Tight claustrophobic The tight squeeze Him speaking Mandarin Oranges The British Colony Unique Chinese languages Her hills, San Francisco Jack Nicholson Comedy of China town The American Women Smile cheese at the Disco The food Cantonese style Z muscles Hercules Joan Rivers Fashion Police The Cheese of Portuguese Its the meat market With his nifty thrifty Neice All Socrates (Gromet and Cheese) Those Brooklyn workers The Falcon Matese____* More cheese Z-Top Who could ever top The string cheese Silken strings became to rest, I rest my cheese What cheese fascinates you Tell me?
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MAY God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man A friendship of her kind That covers all he has brought As with her flesh and bone, Nor quarrels with a thought Because it is not her own. Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens. Yet never could, although They say he counted grass, Count all the praises due When Sheba was his lass, When she the iron wrought, or When from the smithy fire It shuddered in the water: Harshness of their desire That made them stretch and yawn, pleasure that comes with sleep, Shudder that made them one. What else He give or keep God grant me -- no, not here, For I am not so bold To hope a thing so dear Now I am growing old, But when, if the tale's true, The Pestle of the moon That pounds up all anew Brings me to birth again -- To find what once I had And know what once I have known, Until I am driven mad, Sleep driven from my bed. By tenderness and care. pity, an aching head, Gnashing of teeth, despair; And all because of some one perverse creature of chance, And live like Solomon That Sheba led a dance.
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On Woman
I've always been wary-- and celebrated my potential Betrayal and Certain    death(.)     (oh) At The Juice Joint. All wet.  (incorrrr --ect.) Applesauce. (non sense.) All dolled up. Showed off my        Gams And Big Jazz (eyes). Wanted to get spifflicated with some Dolls and Jellybeans. ...my fella. ? Didn't have enough clams. Any of us. We    're the new Lost       ...generation. I thought I'd keep the bank open, but interest wasn't given Cash or Check: didn't really matter. Might've been      the cat 's meeeeeow. And how. Ahhhhh... we all had our glad rags on. the Daddies hit on all sixes.       Let's get ZOZZLED on some jag juice, dewdropper. Deeeeeewdropper.  ~errrrrrrrr..... Though giggle juice is more apt ...for me. Leave the Mrs. Grundys at home...no fire extinguishers allowed. How ironic.                 You were the extinguisher. Bring Your Own Knife       , we said. It's a Stabbing Party      , we said. I didn't want to handcuff you. Didn't want to exchange manacles.        ("No, I'm no one's Wife, but OHHHHH, I love my Life.") I percolate. I percolate. I percolate. I'm not your quiff. ...not your sheba...or a vamp. Just admire my            chassis if you will.     they all     do The engine'll purr    for you, ~~if you turn the keys just so Everything was     Copacetic. Copacetic... For a time.          (get'hotget'hot!) Caesar's here.                                        Hussssshhhhhhhh... ...speak          ~~eeeeeaaaaassssyyyyy. And then I realized.                                    I'm tired of being Caesar (      .       )
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Mar 17, 2013
Mar 17, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC
The Ides of March (a night for easy speaking)
I've always been wary-- and celebrated my potential Betrayal and Certain    death(.)     (oh) At The Juice Joint. All wet.  (incorrrr --ect.) Applesauce. (non sense.) All dolled up. Showed off my        Gams And Big Jazz (eyes). Wanted to get spifflicated with some Dolls and Jellybeans. ...my fella. ? Didn't have enough clams. Any of us. We    're the new Lost       ...generation. I thought I'd keep the bank open, but interest wasn't given Cash or Check: didn't really matter. Might've been      the cat 's meeeeeow. And how. Ahhhhh... we all had our glad rags on. the Daddies hit on all sixes.       Let's get ZOZZLED on some jag juice, dewdropper. Deeeeeewdropper.  ~errrrrrrrr..... Though giggle juice is more apt ...for me. Leave the Mrs. Grundys at home...no fire extinguishers allowed. How ironic.                 You were the extinguisher. Bring Your Own Knife       , we said. It's a Stabbing Party      , we said. I didn't want to handcuff you. Didn't want to exchange manacles.        ("No, I'm no one's Wife, but OHHHHH, I love my Life.") I percolate. I percolate. I percolate. I'm not your quiff. ...not your sheba...or a vamp. Just admire my            chassis if you will.     they all     do The engine'll purr    for you, ~~if you turn the keys just so Everything was     Copacetic. Copacetic... For a time.          (get'hotget'hot!) Caesar's here.                                        Hussssshhhhhhhh... ...speak          ~~eeeeeaaaaassssyyyyy. And then I realized.                                    I'm tired of being Caesar (      .       )
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It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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Mar 25, 2016
Mar 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
Weakly Devotional
It's Sunday again for you cloistered patricians aloof from the madness, the magic and myth; who trust in your wisdom, investments, physicians unready to answer forthwith: "Why bother with worship—in church or the zoo— why weaken the links with a dull set of tools ?" you ask yourself over your high-end Tarrazu, bemused at the fables of fools. You've bartered salvation for New York Times articles, sipping on bitterness (shade-grown organic). You settle for molecules, atoms and particles unfairly-traded, satanic— while you celebrate emptiness, general futility musing on nothingness, sure of specifics ensconced in your kitchen of pampered gentility flirting with atheist physics. Those simple plebeians:  you'd love to enlighten them help them, like you, to become a free-thinker but you remain tasteful, for boldness might frighten them reeling in fairy tales: hook, line and sinker. Yet somebody, somewhere has uttered your sentence (though you abhor judgement, let's read it again). Sheba and Nineveh, versed in repentance await you—not whether but when. The darkness is brewing unholy filtration; the wine of the harlot approaches the rim; your guilt is augmenting in slow percolation; you shrug it all off on a whim. The souls of Assyria rise from your paper they watch in amazement, prepare your abyss. Your coffee now brims a more sulfurous vapor; oh sinner—there's something amiss: The crypts of Marib and the tombs of the Axumites shudder and groan while you're reading the Times... (immune to the words that some Christarded  poet writes mixing psychosis with rhymes.) Royal Sheba will chastise your erudite unbelief, smug self-importance and cynical squawk. Then she'll sigh with immense Ethiopian grief and her Highness Queen Bilqis will talk. It is Sunday in Babylon.  What if your sunlight ends... why are there mobs in the streets of the nation? Shall you have breakfast—or calculate dividends... what would you pay for salvation?
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#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
Sabean Inscription
#ክብረ ነገሥት *Oh Sovereign of wisdom Solomonic, forgive us. The wicked wax demonic. Golden vessels fill with foulness man is bankrupt, sold and soulless Unsettling harbingers loom dystopian. Sheba rises in dreams Ethiopian.* Tested with questions, her spirit once gone, occultic suggestions postponed her dawn. (Six-hundred and sixty-six talents of gold paid Nineveh’s rise as Messiah foretold. Go read it in Matthew, obstinate sinner You think He intends to have Satan the winner?) Her ruins now surveyed by satellite beheld on the screens of the Canaanite: canals to expose, southern deserts to cross, Eritrean legends of Prophet (and loss), the Ark of King Menelik—Kebra Negast, treasures of darkness presented, now past have us checking those texts that worldlings despise as we wait under dread Luciferian skies. Break the sixth seal of the seventh scroll; let the thirteenth angel spill the bowl ! (or smoke it up in the courts of Heaven till ganja’s infinitude totals seven…) Exhume Axum with the ****** of Marib. decode the encryption on Adam’s rib unearthed from some Antediluvian ravine— Blast from the past: she explodes on our scene! Seven oaths shall be sworn on her spectral beauty (our Biblical transcendental duty). The libation is mixed. Are we ready to swill it? Beersheba? She brew ! Let us rise to fulfill it. from sita to Saba fifth columns are ready: Oh Sovereign — render their pillars unsteady. For after explosions there’s mess to clean up, and it’s worse than the horrors inside of her cup.
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And thus declared the Arab lady: "Last night where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had lain me, Within my arms great Solomon, I suddenly cried out in a strange tongue Not his, not mine." And he that knew All sounds by bird or angel sung Answered: "A crested cockerel crew Upon a blossoming apple bough Three hundred years before the Fall, And never crew again till now, And would not now but that he thought, Chance being at one with Choice at last, All that the brigand apple brought And this foul world were dead at last. He that crowed out eternity Thought to have crowed it in again. A lover with a spider's eye Will found out some appropriate pain, Aye, though all passion's in the glance, For every nerve: lover tests lover With cruelties of Choice and Chance; And when at last the murder's over Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there; Yet the world ends when these two things, Though several, are a single light, When oil and wick are burned in one; Therefore a blessed moon last night Gave Sheba to her Solomon." "Yet the world stays": "If that be so, Your cockerel found us in the wrong Although it thought it worth a crow. Maybe an image is too strong Or maybe is not strong enough" "The night has fallen; not a sound In the forbidden sacred grove, Unless a petal hit the ground, Nor any human sight within it But the crushed grass where we have lain; And the moon is wilder every minute. Oh, Solomon! Let us try again."
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Solomon and the Witch
And thus declared the Arab lady: "Last night where under the wild moon On grassy mattress I had lain me, Within my arms great Solomon, I suddenly cried out in a strange tongue Not his, not mine." And he that knew All sounds by bird or angel sung Answered: "A crested cockerel crew Upon a blossoming apple bough Three hundred years before the Fall, And never crew again till now, And would not now but that he thought, Chance being at one with Choice at last, All that the brigand apple brought And this foul world were dead at last. He that crowed out eternity Thought to have crowed it in again. A lover with a spider's eye Will found out some appropriate pain, Aye, though all passion's in the glance, For every nerve: lover tests lover With cruelties of Choice and Chance; And when at last the murder's over Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there; Yet the world ends when these two things, Though several, are a single light, When oil and wick are burned in one; Therefore a blessed moon last night Gave Sheba to her Solomon." "Yet the world stays": "If that be so, Your cockerel found us in the wrong Although it thought it worth a crow. Maybe an image is too strong Or maybe is not strong enough" "The night has fallen; not a sound In the forbidden sacred grove, Unless a petal hit the ground, Nor any human sight within it But the crushed grass where we have lain; And the moon is wilder every minute. Oh, Solomon! Let us try again."
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Just because the rose beats our blood, Why does the violet come second? I’m sure the lizard loves it warmer Cold. His heart flies in a square, blue box. They should sacrifice blue ribbons in Stead. Martyrdom looks clean, sans crimson, Sans blood at all, then we’re murdering Statues, already dead, beaten me- Tal, standing without legs or organs. Sheba, just part of the whole shebang, You look so depleted, staunchly there, Staunchly not, and somehow I wonder Whether you’d like the b or the a Better, or nursery rhymes at all. -BRD
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Mar 18, 2011
Mar 18, 2011 at 11:03 PM UTC
Violets Aren’t Blue
Where is the terror please in a blameless mind Show me the pain and fears in a brimful loving heart Find me the nightmares 'n demons in blessed slumber Wish me the tears in pious gratitudes real and plenty Produce a charge sheet of dark deeds and secrets hidden Bring witnesses of a stained criminal past and stolen items Front me a past lover with tales of **** or ****** misdeeds Show me anybody truly implicating me in any foul deeds Ask my betrothed of ever knowing me drunk and disabled Dig out any associations of me with friends of ill-repute Point a day I conducted myself disgracefully 'n disrespectfully Stand out a neighbour I went begging and borrowing from Twirling taunting is nowt but delusions of ****** fantasists Nothing to do with one devoid of fears and guilt of the neurotics Show us the happy contented one who gives time to mudslinging Even the most basic of intelligence tells us this is an impossibility There are nasties out there kicking a poor policewoman in the head There are repugnant foreign Taxi-drivers prostituting teen girls about There are hate filled Terrorist willing to **** innocents unflinching While our deranged think school playground antics is all they're worth These are the ones that salivate in front of computer screens Unwashed Keyboard cowards parading malfunctioning brains Attention and ambition lacking deficits sad subhumans waiting to be fed How can wasted western fodders impact on my consciousness or even my subconscious Those by their evident actions already show they lack rationality, intelligence or understanding Inadequates whose only recourse is to showcase their inferiority in pained envy and jealousy by trying to bully Insignificant runts who can't better themselves despite opportunities abound Dr Livingstone come see what your children from your Great Empire has become You told our forefathers you came from the very cradle of Civilisation A land of freedom and great knowledge How come now your childrens are pathetic ignorant irrational insecure deluded cowards What to do with morons other than to pitifully toss them a morsel of our talents once a while and laugh as they feed hungrily You gotta laugh!
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Nov 24, 2018
Nov 24, 2018 at 10:36 PM UTC
Here Sheba..Here Rover....!
Where is the terror please in a blameless mind Show me the pain and fears in a brimful loving heart Find me the nightmares 'n demons in blessed slumber Wish me the tears in pious gratitudes real and plenty Produce a charge sheet of dark deeds and secrets hidden Bring witnesses of a stained criminal past and stolen items Front me a past lover with tales of **** or ****** misdeeds Show me anybody truly implicating me in any foul deeds Ask my betrothed of ever knowing me drunk and disabled Dig out any associations of me with friends of ill-repute Point a day I conducted myself disgracefully 'n disrespectfully Stand out a neighbour I went begging and borrowing from Twirling taunting is nowt but delusions of ****** fantasists Nothing to do with one devoid of fears and guilt of the neurotics Show us the happy contented one who gives time to mudslinging Even the most basic of intelligence tells us this is an impossibility There are nasties out there kicking a poor policewoman in the head There are repugnant foreign Taxi-drivers prostituting teen girls about There are hate filled Terrorist willing to **** innocents unflinching While our deranged think school playground antics is all they're worth These are the ones that salivate in front of computer screens Unwashed Keyboard cowards parading malfunctioning brains Attention and ambition lacking deficits sad subhumans waiting to be fed How can wasted western fodders impact on my consciousness or even my subconscious Those by their evident actions already show they lack rationality, intelligence or understanding Inadequates whose only recourse is to showcase their inferiority in pained envy and jealousy by trying to bully Insignificant runts who can't better themselves despite opportunities abound Dr Livingstone come see what your children from your Great Empire has become You told our forefathers you came from the very cradle of Civilisation A land of freedom and great knowledge How come now your childrens are pathetic ignorant irrational insecure deluded cowards What to do with morons other than to pitifully toss them a morsel of our talents once a while and laugh as they feed hungrily You gotta laugh!
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On my bed night after night I sought him who my soul loves, I sought him but did not find him... I sought this morning a handful of domestic tools. I raked, I shoveled, I let fly a gust from my mighty two-stroke gas blower, which shuddered to death in my hands, before all of the leaves reached the end of the ******* driveway. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem that you do not awake my love until the motor has had a chance to cool off, or you might flood the engine. David was anointed with the oil of myrrh and cassia. My wrists are caked in Havoline from 1998. Solomon ate banquets, loved Sheba, three hundred concubines and boats of perfumed wood. Ramen at lunchtime. Sixty yards of two-by-fours. If I never resemble a king, let me sup of television dinners let me work my hands in the valleys of a clogged fuel line, let my bed fill with the twin odalisques of leisure reading and ***** sheets, and give me never three hundred concubines. And if I go about the city at night, pleading with the watchmen, have they seen she who my soul loves, let them answer: "There." The driveway is clean, now, all the leaves left at the end to rot, or be swept away.
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Jun 7, 2010
Jun 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM UTC
King Solomon, a Rake, and Three Midday Hours
i was drinking orange ****** ***** with Kitty the mushroom cloud destroyer, my compatriot, my downfall the sky was purple and the grass was red and we plotted the end of the world we fought for dominance i lost sat on my street corner stealing kisses from passersby like a magpie, plucking the shiny buttons off coats.   when I became the queen of sheba, decked to the nines in brass buttons confiscated corroded combustible i rode an elephant called shiva the destroyer and sliced long cuts with a sword into my legs and the white scars were like hope. i played backgammon and chess with multiple lovers and they all lost because i was an impenetrable fortress. I wore the red crown and stabbed out their hearts with my pointed teeth. then i sat upon the edge of the world alone, tore out the cores of a million and four  sunflowers and watched all of the people riding trains and walking in the parks holding the hand of someone else someone who isn’t cold Kitty as the violet sun began to set i dreamed of what someone else’s hand bones skin muscle corpulent sinew warmth and I slept like an obsidian stone.
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Jun 6, 2010
Jun 6, 2010 at 6:58 PM UTC
last night
Why wonder? Oh great men from the east, For the irrefutable expedition Is full of joie de vivre, Now see, the executioner does not Even know what to throw away And what to keep, For her words are always Seasoned with stitches of Honey in my heart, See how the eternal shadow Of thy beauty, put my angelic heart To rest every rainy season, Oh, my faithful firstborn love, Sometimes wisdom has it all Other times beauty has it all But this time thou have it all, Yes, hail the precious gift from Ethiopia, For the wisest King of Israel cannot Even comprehend the secret behind This gorgeous eternal beauty and wisdom, The seasonal sweet-scented Shining moon that betrays my thoughts, Thou art the fruitful beauty of Africa, Indeed, Makeda is the yardstick of beauty. © PRINCE NANA ANIN-AGYEI Email: [email protected]
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 6:48 AM UTC
QUEEN OF SHEBA
He’s got natural rhythm, a girl in a red dress, a suit of clothes, a hat and a silk vest, A set of brogues, a packet of cigarettes, a 20 dollar bill with no regrets. He’s got a fast mouth, a slick deck of cards, chequered blues and a V8 ford; He’s got jazz, gospel, and ragtime too: a carpet bag and a jug for ***** Sheba, Sheba, Sheik! He’s got it, he’s got Jake, His feet will roam from town to town.   Sheba, Sheba, Sheik, Sheik! He’s the devil with a big black snake, Your feet may never leave this town; not alive anyway! For he’s on the board walk, She’s on the board walk, We’re on the board walk now! He’s got mojo, see him switch and walk, a winning smile, a stick of chalk, He’s a hot shot, man about town, his skin is sweet and his eyes are brown, He’ll strut that rooster, beat them gums, take cash or cheque before she comes. He’s got jazz, gospel, ragtime too, a carpet bag and a jug for ***** Sheba, Sheba, Sheik! He’s got it, he’s got Jake, His feet will roam from town to town,   Sheba, Sheba, Sheik, Sheik! He’s the devil and no mistake Your feet may never leave this town; not alive anyway! For he’s on the board walk, She’s on the board walk, We’re on the board walk now! Song Link: https://youtu.be/l5papPgYaBc
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Mar 6, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 at 6:53 AM UTC
Brother Jake
Each day you creep around the house, Searching stealthily for that invisible mouse, Or strutting around like you own the place, The queen of Sheba, all hail her grace. Afternoons are spent in the window sill, Bathing in sunshine, hourly still. Watching the world rush slowly by, Occasionally swatting that annoying fly. Lying on my bed without a care, The sheets and pillow covered in hair, Blast you cat! I raise my tone, She barely stirs from flattened throne. Leave me be! I’m trying to sleep! I’m catching mice, not counting sheep.
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Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 5:47 PM UTC
The Cat
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse. Sheba was sleeping quietly on her special little chair And Oscar was snoring loudly like a hibernating bear. I munched on Danish butter cookies and sipped some wine While I typed this silly poem, trying to make it all rhyme. I thought of Christmas memories made special every year Full of love, lots of laughter...with people I hold dear. I miss my parents and grandparents oh, so very much But I feel them surround me with their sweet angelic touch. Especially my mom, who made Christmastime so bright Knowing she's with me always, I feel the warmth of her light. Something I pondered as I played with words to rhyme: "Cheap Danish butter cookies are tasty for $2.99..." Back to the task at hand, before I drift off to sleep (I hope) Heed the words I'm typing, although they're not from the Pope: Be present in the moment with the ones you truly love Forgive those who hurt you (though you'd like to give 'em a shove) Give yourself a break for the mistakes you may have made (You know, that cliche about turning lemons into lemonade.) In the still of this moment, take in all of your blessings Drink plenty of eggnog, eat turkey and lots of dressing Make the most of this one day to be light and not cuss Life goes way too fast...slow down and enjoy Christmas! The End. (I'm also out of cookies.)
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Dec 25, 2013
Dec 25, 2013 at 7:11 PM UTC
Holiday Insomnia (with a nod to "The Night Before Christmas")
The Red Sea! It lay like a distressed soul, unsettled, deserted and restless; On its tile-paved shore, I leant against a lamp post, in the desert land; Women in burkas busied themselves with their kids and picnic baskets; While cats searched voraciously, among the rubble, for the left over bones. On my left lay Sanaa, the once upon a time city of Shem, first-born of Noah, Whence Queen Sheba embarked in all majesty with gifts for King Solomon. And far, beyond the saltiest swelling Red, lay the darkly exploited continent. Now, a warm gust of wind slogged its way into my lone distraught self. Tides heaved, flickered their wet tongues across the rubble, and licked me, Then withdrew themselves tired, but again and again returned half-heartedly With much salty tears and sweats of ******* and sufferings of bygone ages: The assorted agonies of the Mediterranean, the Indian and the Pacific deeps. Through the dull splashes, waded to me, Moses and Aron and the Pharaoh; They said: “Visitor, listen to the voices of the depths!” And I heard well The abysmal rattle of chariots, wheels and bones, uncarbontestably ancient. And in the splash of the Red, I scarily tasted the tears and blood of torments. Then they cautioned me: “Beware of the pseudo-democrats and pseudo-reds: The gunpowder brokers!” and quoted: “In this world, you’ll have troubles.” And now, the Sea sounded: “Sorry my dear son, I’m here to bear all these.” I sighed in pain, but the Sea, through the burning lamp posts, smiled at me.
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 1:27 AM UTC
THE MOMENTOUS MEETING
The Red Sea! It lay like a distressed soul, unsettled, deserted and restless; On its tile-paved shore, I leant against a lamp post, in the desert land; Women in burkas busied themselves with their kids and picnic baskets; While cats searched voraciously, among the rubble, for the left over bones. On my left lay Sanaa, the once upon a time city of Shem, first-born of Noah, Whence Queen Sheba embarked in all majesty with gifts for King Solomon. And far, beyond the saltiest swelling Red, lay the darkly exploited continent. Now, a warm gust of wind slogged its way into my lone distraught self. Tides heaved, flickered their wet tongues across the rubble, and licked me, Then withdrew themselves tired, but again and again returned half-heartedly With much salty tears and sweats of ******* and sufferings of bygone ages: The assorted agonies of the Mediterranean, the Indian and the Pacific deeps. Through the dull splashes, waded to me, Moses and Aron and the Pharaoh; They said: “Visitor, listen to the voices of the depths!” And I heard well The abysmal rattle of chariots, wheels and bones, uncarbontestably ancient. And in the splash of the Red, I scarily tasted the tears and blood of torments. Then they cautioned me: “Beware of the pseudo-democrats and pseudo-reds: The gunpowder brokers!” and quoted: “In this world, you’ll have troubles.” And now, the Sea sounded: “Sorry my dear son, I’m here to bear all these.” I sighed in pain, but the Sea, through the burning lamp posts, smiled at me.
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Dear Mona lisa, So Comely Just like The Queen of Sheba Standing Wonderously As if you are The leaning Tower of Pisa Putting me under like anesthesia Forgeting where I am As if I have amnesia You are Everywhere I want to be like visa Painted With glitter Shining bright Like Fame Some may see you as a picture living in a frame But I......I just Pondering at The thought of just knowing your name As I Admire from afar Praying to get to know how truely beautiful you are It amazes me how thru you I can see him. You remind me of an artistic painting in a museum, Seen Marvelously but left untouched Yet I yearn to have your heart to clutch Desiring One day that you and I can love one another so much
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Nov 25, 2016
Nov 25, 2016 at 12:24 PM UTC
Dear Mona Lisa