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"sistine" poems
Today I went kayaking I glided across the cool waters Brackish and so devoid of life This time of year As I drifted underneath the bridge I imagined it painted like the Sistine chapel A choir of angels hidden beneath the barnacle encrusted concrete For only the fish to see I had almost forgotten that the river existed Five minutes away And all I wanted to do was paddle Out into the ocean
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 12:33 AM UTC
A really warm day in the middle of February
The Catholic church endorsed the world today for a dollar ninety nine. -Announcement- Every iPhone owner! sinner, saint or stoner! Come now have your sins forgiven! forgiven if you spill your guts, if you just confess, then watch technology do the rest. Absolution for you and me! Send your sins across the sea! your sins will fly up through the sky encrypted on waves to reach the almighty, the Vatican! the Pope! A man of God appointed by the church yet is he any different than you and me? We know he sins the same as us, the book of Romans says its so,* and do you really think his tall hat and flowing dress can make him any more chosen than us? Can he really hold back lust? Will he not eventually turn to dust Just like the rest of us? is he really any different than us? How ironic he receives a royalty from a symbol of the fallen world, The Apple computer company, payment for our absolution… ...So the world fell by the fruit of a tree and now expects to be redeemed the same way. The truth is not in a man. the truth is not in the Apple. The truth is not in the white smoke rising from the stacks on Sistine Chapel. The truth cannot be dried up. The truth cannot be cured. the truth is not the Pope's to smoke, To believe it is absurd. If you want to know the truth, the truth is in the blood. The blood covers everything. Including what is written here.
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Feb 9, 2011
Feb 9, 2011 at 5:54 AM UTC
The Church has Sold its Soul
Shhh. Silence. The red robed supplicants Are sequestered Inside the Sistine. They speak In silent supplications To the spirits To pronounce a Pontiff. The stewards are set To send the smoke. The smoke That must be white.
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Oct 11, 2025
Oct 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM UTC
The Smoke That Must Be White
I don't write lyrics, but I do have flow I don't write music, but I do have soul I'm not an artist, but a picture I'll paint   Sistine Chapel leaves you thinking I'm a saint I don't play sports, but I do play minds I'm not a catcher, but I still show signs I'm not a racer, but I still cross lines I'm not a witch, but I'll still cast doom Not the undertaker, but I'll set up your tomb Not a fortune teller, but I can spell your demise I'm not a magician, but I can see your surprise I'm not a gardener, but I can plant you in the ground I'm not a devil, but hellish is my sound   Demons in the room have come to stomp you down I flow freely, 'cuz I'm a bad-ass poet But I'm not all bad. Here, let me show it I can make your heart beat to the sound of my melody   Make you love-sick; I'm sorry, there is no remedy I'm like soldiers in the dirt, always brave I'm strong, and I'm bold, and I'm a slight knave Always protecting innocence with the tip of a glaive *  Now this time I must remember to hit save*
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Jun 22, 2011
Jun 22, 2011 at 8:14 PM UTC
I don't write words, I write weapons
When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your flawless makeup Instead I think of your eyes, the window to your soul. I describe the love that flows through soft hazel gaze that only a mother can produce When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your perfectly done hair Instead I see you reading a novel on a hot summer day, As if it were your true reality in that moment. I see the power that literature holds I describe your mesmerizing voice repeating the lines of Eloise in Paris to me, I mention the soothing way in which you read the Velveteen Rabbit, And I credit you for making me fall in love with words and the way they can make people feel. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your schooling history Instead I picture you and I see a symphony around your soul that courses cannot teach I see Mozart's Sonata No.11 and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos I see Monet’s Water Lilies, Veronese's Wedding at Cana and Michelangelo’s David I describe the joy in your eyes when we saw the Sistine Chapel and the Champs-Élysées I describe the vast knowledge and art that makes up your personal mosaic. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your professional accomplishments. Instead I mention your ability to hold someone and make them feel loved I picture the times you embraced me while I silently sobbed over circumstances that you tried to protect me from. I picture the words that you gave me at just the right times I see the comfortable silence you provided when I couldn't bear to hear words through the pain. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your clothing or the way you dress Instead I mention the way you clothe yourself in humility before God I see the verses that you have sown into my heart since I was young I speak of the way you clothe yourself with the armor of God I remember the scriptures that you so carefully knitted on my heart When I describe you to a stranger, I describe you as A woman after God’s own heart. A woman who understands that beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised, A woman who teaches wisdom and kindness and serves with joy, A mother who clothes herself in strength and dignity and laughs without fear of the future, A mother who encapsulates the love of Christ here on Earth. I describe you as everything that I hope to become.
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Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 at 12:42 AM UTC
When I describe you to a stranger
When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your flawless makeup Instead I think of your eyes, the window to your soul. I describe the love that flows through soft hazel gaze that only a mother can produce When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your perfectly done hair Instead I see you reading a novel on a hot summer day, As if it were your true reality in that moment. I see the power that literature holds I describe your mesmerizing voice repeating the lines of Eloise in Paris to me, I mention the soothing way in which you read the Velveteen Rabbit, And I credit you for making me fall in love with words and the way they can make people feel. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your schooling history Instead I picture you and I see a symphony around your soul that courses cannot teach I see Mozart's Sonata No.11 and Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos I see Monet’s Water Lilies, Veronese's Wedding at Cana and Michelangelo’s David I describe the joy in your eyes when we saw the Sistine Chapel and the Champs-Élysées I describe the vast knowledge and art that makes up your personal mosaic. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your professional accomplishments. Instead I mention your ability to hold someone and make them feel loved I picture the times you embraced me while I silently sobbed over circumstances that you tried to protect me from. I picture the words that you gave me at just the right times I see the comfortable silence you provided when I couldn't bear to hear words through the pain. When I describe you to a stranger, I do not mention your clothing or the way you dress Instead I mention the way you clothe yourself in humility before God I see the verses that you have sown into my heart since I was young I speak of the way you clothe yourself with the armor of God I remember the scriptures that you so carefully knitted on my heart When I describe you to a stranger, I describe you as A woman after God’s own heart. A woman who understands that beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised, A woman who teaches wisdom and kindness and serves with joy, A mother who clothes herself in strength and dignity and laughs without fear of the future, A mother who encapsulates the love of Christ here on Earth. I describe you as everything that I hope to become.
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Hellenic Flesh and marrow Raphaelite form painted into life. Honey hair slipping through the vees between my fingers like sand conch-white skin You blind me like the noonday sun. Enveloping— body wrapped in body— ocean and sky meet at the horizon. Peel my skin from me like an orange. Apple. Heal me with hands upon thighs Stitch my ragdoll body together with the sutures of your kisses Stuck by the glue of lips Raise me like Lazarus from the valley of death from the orchard in Eden and the shame of skin Reupholster me like a dinette chair. Vivid as the Sistine Chapel your hand outs t r e t c h e d toward God I find you in pumpkin seeds scattered like tears on the floor of my car. They were yours.
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Jul 25, 2011
Jul 25, 2011 at 2:29 PM UTC
Lily of the Valley
I look at her and I close my eyes, And oh where my imagination, Send my eager mind, The wiles versus my wills, oh those hills they bind, Men like me, like demons versus the Lion, Exorcized, exorcized, Yeah, but I am Legion, if they beat me one time, Oh, next time, time, They'll be mine. And those mountains of lust, That once seemed unclaimable, Unclimbable like Everest before Edmund Hillary, like the Sistine Chapel, Before Michelangelo, oh I will persist, I will pursue, with the littlest smile, And the darkest hue, Where after many days fight, Suddenly. Then, in the night, when alas my victory is won! My prize I will take, And her pleasure I will reign.
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 2:18 PM UTC
Her Curves
Cracked vinyl bus seats Windows that have heard the stories of every passanger smeared with truth The spit of the elderly woman who fell asleep while reminiscing about the son whom she's visiting that she hasn't seen in 35 years The stubbled cheeks of the older gentleman who is counting the pennies in his pocket on his way to the store to get food for his daughter The knitted scarf of the middle-aged woman who is slowly pulling her coat closer to her in an attempt to warm herself because it was the only article of clothing she could afford that year The ponytail of the teenaged girl who is tracing the scars on her wrist from the last time she tried to end her life They congregate for a common purpose, but The doors to their hearts open like the hinged door, letting anyone haphazardly stumble in for a moment, And Their souls are brighter than the lights of the megabus as they are honest with themselves for even just a minute And their walls are temporarily demolished because who would ever have to lie about who they are on a greyhound bus? Smooth polished church pews Floors that have been tread upon by every saint stained with lies The flats of the elderly woman who is nodding off while pretending to pray for the son whom she hasn't spoken to in 35 years The loafers of the older gentleman who is calculating the amount of money he can sneak from the spagetti dinner fund without getting caught The high heels of the middle-aged woman who is slowly pulling up her skirt on one side in an attempt to catch the attention of the younger men further down the pew, while her husband holds her hand on the other The tennis shoes of the teenaged girl who is tracing the bruises under her blouse from the last time she started a fight with her boyfriend They congregate for a common purpose, but Their masks are painted on more elaborately than the Sistine Chapel And Their lies are built up more intricately than the stained-glass windows that surround them As they read their words to live by from a book collecting dust in drawers throughout America because who could be anything but holy in a church?
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Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 12:46 PM UTC
Anything But Holy
Cracked vinyl bus seats Windows that have heard the stories of every passanger smeared with truth The spit of the elderly woman who fell asleep while reminiscing about the son whom she's visiting that she hasn't seen in 35 years The stubbled cheeks of the older gentleman who is counting the pennies in his pocket on his way to the store to get food for his daughter The knitted scarf of the middle-aged woman who is slowly pulling her coat closer to her in an attempt to warm herself because it was the only article of clothing she could afford that year The ponytail of the teenaged girl who is tracing the scars on her wrist from the last time she tried to end her life They congregate for a common purpose, but The doors to their hearts open like the hinged door, letting anyone haphazardly stumble in for a moment, And Their souls are brighter than the lights of the megabus as they are honest with themselves for even just a minute And their walls are temporarily demolished because who would ever have to lie about who they are on a greyhound bus? Smooth polished church pews Floors that have been tread upon by every saint stained with lies The flats of the elderly woman who is nodding off while pretending to pray for the son whom she hasn't spoken to in 35 years The loafers of the older gentleman who is calculating the amount of money he can sneak from the spagetti dinner fund without getting caught The high heels of the middle-aged woman who is slowly pulling up her skirt on one side in an attempt to catch the attention of the younger men further down the pew, while her husband holds her hand on the other The tennis shoes of the teenaged girl who is tracing the bruises under her blouse from the last time she started a fight with her boyfriend They congregate for a common purpose, but Their masks are painted on more elaborately than the Sistine Chapel And Their lies are built up more intricately than the stained-glass windows that surround them As they read their words to live by from a book collecting dust in drawers throughout America because who could be anything but holy in a church?
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we are angels with cathedrals, prophets, and poems to prove it   other species   are not endowed with such gifts: the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel the pyramids, loosing the bounds of earth to walk on a moon... psychoanalysis the atomic bomb Anthrax, dioxin and gunfire gunfire   we are maggots on rotting fruit, sated now looking for a place to hop off, to escape before the fruit falls fast   to the ground before the oceans rise and the skies fill with ash surely we can fly away but we are wingless angels, killer angels   killer angels
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Sep 3, 2016
Sep 3, 2016 at 4:38 PM UTC
d n a
How dare society make us women feel like Our very own bodies is a prison, To be locked up behind the metal bars of our ******* Tied up by the chains of our curvy figures And the sentence lying between our thighs. And the sentence is brutal. Consent is no longer existent When the *** is too tempting for a man to say no And for you to say no. Our butts slapped, Chests groped, Cheeks pinched, Thighs squeezed, In this prison we had the decency to call our own body We are handcuffed to the degrading appetite of a man. Women are not a display of things to touch We are not a dessert menu for a man’s hunger To be ordered by catcalling: Want a taste of a woman’s behind? **** that *** A taste of **** Oh, baby, put on a show for us! Or just the full course meal- Hey girl, ow ow owwww! It is about time we strong women break free. The jailor of men- I stole the key. It is about time we change out of our prison uniforms of Bikinis and mini skirts and stilettos And break down the locks that confined us. Our prison sentence is just about up, And when we are let loose, Us women will no longer stand for such debasing behaviors. And when we’re free, It’ll be time to teach the men a little lesson This cage of our body does not define us, boys, Maybe try finding the prisoner behind the bars- Her personality, Charming smile, And brilliant intellect, Instead of demeaning our existence, Objectifying our importance- We are not your tools, your toys. We are humans, too, you know, With- get this- feelings. Try manners and kindness rather than Feeling and groping your way to a woman’s heart. We are not a play museum- we are the artifact, The masterpiece- Mona Lisa, Starry Night, the Sistine Chapel- You must stand behind the red velvet ropes and perform What the English language calls respect, With a thing also known as consent. This- my body- is also known as my body, It is not his, it is not hers, and most importantly, It is not yours. Please try to understand this- I know, it’s super complicated. And if you gain anything from this, let it be this: We are not here to satisfy you- Women are not prisoners to a man’s every need. We are not objects- no- And we deserve to be heard.
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Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 11:52 AM UTC
Prison
How dare society make us women feel like Our very own bodies is a prison, To be locked up behind the metal bars of our ******* Tied up by the chains of our curvy figures And the sentence lying between our thighs. And the sentence is brutal. Consent is no longer existent When the *** is too tempting for a man to say no And for you to say no. Our butts slapped, Chests groped, Cheeks pinched, Thighs squeezed, In this prison we had the decency to call our own body We are handcuffed to the degrading appetite of a man. Women are not a display of things to touch We are not a dessert menu for a man’s hunger To be ordered by catcalling: Want a taste of a woman’s behind? **** that *** A taste of **** Oh, baby, put on a show for us! Or just the full course meal- Hey girl, ow ow owwww! It is about time we strong women break free. The jailor of men- I stole the key. It is about time we change out of our prison uniforms of Bikinis and mini skirts and stilettos And break down the locks that confined us. Our prison sentence is just about up, And when we are let loose, Us women will no longer stand for such debasing behaviors. And when we’re free, It’ll be time to teach the men a little lesson This cage of our body does not define us, boys, Maybe try finding the prisoner behind the bars- Her personality, Charming smile, And brilliant intellect, Instead of demeaning our existence, Objectifying our importance- We are not your tools, your toys. We are humans, too, you know, With- get this- feelings. Try manners and kindness rather than Feeling and groping your way to a woman’s heart. We are not a play museum- we are the artifact, The masterpiece- Mona Lisa, Starry Night, the Sistine Chapel- You must stand behind the red velvet ropes and perform What the English language calls respect, With a thing also known as consent. This- my body- is also known as my body, It is not his, it is not hers, and most importantly, It is not yours. Please try to understand this- I know, it’s super complicated. And if you gain anything from this, let it be this: We are not here to satisfy you- Women are not prisoners to a man’s every need. We are not objects- no- And we deserve to be heard.
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I repaint the Sistine Chapel with only my tongue just to see your face again. Oh, your holy chocolate covered soul, holy bird bone finger tips. How you snap like a star and then burn again.
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Sep 9, 2016
Sep 9, 2016 at 6:41 AM UTC
Masterpiece
This was once all that we knew. A world in parts before we knew      it as such subdivisions as this, that and more beneath that still: there was once good and evil, god and them, the rest of us, and Jesus, simply looking upwards after he flung himself forth from the dust to the sky and the light was bleached off and the colours leaked from our eyes to our canvases. What more can I say before we take more of ourselves away from each other? What more before you implant me into some other's body, and the prayer completed, and I am finally a computer? In the meanwhile my eyes will look and my neck will strain as the sun sets and so does my little life: how long have I wanted to see you again, o lord, since my first scream of myself all so long ago when I left my mother's salt and was flashed into the flood of your       world? How long, o lord, will you have me here to see your work through these ceiling songs, such sonorous ringings, fleshy twists and turns of paint as muscle and what's that behind the cloud?      Your finger appareled in such golden rays? Endless. When your ships brought such dark skin as mine across these times and spaces, what?, where you surprised of my dreams to see it,      this, all engulfed in flames?  And yet here you are and here I am and here is the quiet my birth your glory your joy the brushstrokes the colours and the full fleshy taste of my non-belief, leaking into my fingers, sticky, frisk, and always.     When I leave these, they will fall and crumble. It will all go. In the hallways, as I walk away: several big windows:      Rome, sunset.     When I leave these, they will go and disappear. Into salt. Those large windows: blue-shadowed branches begin some small slow dance.      When I leave these temples they will dust and return to dust the soil of our hands. And the trees remain beautiful.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 3:49 AM UTC
Poem (the Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings, Michelangelo).
This was once all that we knew. A world in parts before we knew      it as such subdivisions as this, that and more beneath that still: there was once good and evil, god and them, the rest of us, and Jesus, simply looking upwards after he flung himself forth from the dust to the sky and the light was bleached off and the colours leaked from our eyes to our canvases. What more can I say before we take more of ourselves away from each other? What more before you implant me into some other's body, and the prayer completed, and I am finally a computer? In the meanwhile my eyes will look and my neck will strain as the sun sets and so does my little life: how long have I wanted to see you again, o lord, since my first scream of myself all so long ago when I left my mother's salt and was flashed into the flood of your       world? How long, o lord, will you have me here to see your work through these ceiling songs, such sonorous ringings, fleshy twists and turns of paint as muscle and what's that behind the cloud?      Your finger appareled in such golden rays? Endless. When your ships brought such dark skin as mine across these times and spaces, what?, where you surprised of my dreams to see it,      this, all engulfed in flames?  And yet here you are and here I am and here is the quiet my birth your glory your joy the brushstrokes the colours and the full fleshy taste of my non-belief, leaking into my fingers, sticky, frisk, and always.     When I leave these, they will fall and crumble. It will all go. In the hallways, as I walk away: several big windows:      Rome, sunset.     When I leave these, they will go and disappear. Into salt. Those large windows: blue-shadowed branches begin some small slow dance.      When I leave these temples they will dust and return to dust the soil of our hands. And the trees remain beautiful.
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“the unbound unbinding: an admixture of words and swords… that will cut a newborn cord of reciprocity of thee and me, miracle! thereby, an unbound binding that ties and frees us from and connects us nonetheless by our shared senses…” <!> these words, recalled well, for they but a newborn issue of a few days, and the notion of binding that frees us into reciprocity yet buzz~hums in my brain the contradictory nature of a cutting which ties us together, that an unbinding binds us even more tightly, I struggle, to better understand the nature how an unraveling of our connection somehow ties us closer but re-envisioning Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in my mind’s eye, that sparking space tween God’s finger outstretched to bring the enlivening of his spirit to His first enervate, Adam, the original of we humans, somehow sates my confusion ***to touch each other at the most primitive basis, we require a space between us, in order to fulfill, a contract contact of completion and binding*** and this bestills and bestirs my puzzlement, a space electric necessary to permit us to close the human circuitry !***and I am contented, the contradiction no more, I sense the need to close gaps tween us certify our human resources for it is the permanent invisible grasping of our loving minds that transcends overpowers gaps, bringing tears of joy to my eyelids, even as I write these words, and greet this morning with optimism that every space brings a richer closure!***!
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Sep 17, 2023
Sep 17, 2023 at 7:36 AM UTC
the unbound binding: an admixture of words and swords...
“the unbound unbinding: an admixture of words and swords… that will cut a newborn cord of reciprocity of thee and me, miracle! thereby, an unbound binding that ties and frees us from and connects us nonetheless by our shared senses…” <!> these words, recalled well, for they but a newborn issue of a few days, and the notion of binding that frees us into reciprocity yet buzz~hums in my brain the contradictory nature of a cutting which ties us together, that an unbinding binds us even more tightly, I struggle, to better understand the nature how an unraveling of our connection somehow ties us closer but re-envisioning Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in my mind’s eye, that sparking space tween God’s finger outstretched to bring the enlivening of his spirit to His first enervate, Adam, the original of we humans, somehow sates my confusion ***to touch each other at the most primitive basis, we require a space between us, in order to fulfill, a contract contact of completion and binding*** and this bestills and bestirs my puzzlement, a space electric necessary to permit us to close the human circuitry !***and I am contented, the contradiction no more, I sense the need to close gaps tween us certify our human resources for it is the permanent invisible grasping of our loving minds that transcends overpowers gaps, bringing tears of joy to my eyelids, even as I write these words, and greet this morning with optimism that every space brings a richer closure!***!
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*on the crowded quai of inception    gilded minutes ornately revolve time is measured in tranches of soul    transporting moments of his essence never versed in the outside world    an innocent daughter of imagination boarding a train of transfixed reverie    her departure held fast in sistine release such a private exhibition on public display    their affection left open to interpretation a tearfully expressive and inspired farewell    within a shrine devoted to the art of the muse*
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 1:36 AM UTC
Gare d'Orsay
Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring, Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove, Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love Than terrors of red flame and thundering. The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring: A bird at evening flying to its nest Tells me of One who had no place of rest: I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing. Come rather on some autumn afternoon, When red and brown are burnished on the leaves, And the fields echo to the gleaner’s song, Come when the splendid fulness of the moon Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves, And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.
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Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel
Where the sun sets just for you Where even the tiniest apartment can compare to the Sistine Where you can't say it's picturesque for you are in it Beauty not found in reality yet a reflection of it
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May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016 at 11:25 PM UTC
Ghibli
among the lean and narrow hours when the brutal minutes aggrieve like the protruding ribs of an emaciated animal abandoned things shuffle into dark unkempt little rooms littered with the manifested debris of a life unspoken thoughts in rusted cans stacked heedlessly on overused shelving bowing perilously under the weight mangled hopes kicked into the corners stuck to the floor foul and fetid vitiated with wasted time black mold leaking from dilapidated hearts creating pointillism art across the sagging plaster overhead consuming an ersatz Sistine Chapel ceiling saints and angels prophets and devils sepia toned in their water stain media disappearing into corruptions artistic virtuosity only God remains visible reaching out to give life if any are left to receive it
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Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023 at 10:23 PM UTC
Sacellum
GO ! BELOVED MAN ~ go c r e a t e YOU are the CENTRE OF CREATION see these children in my embracing protection I will send them when you are ready we all float flying together confidently but now you must L E A V E, descend our forefingers are disengaging, a pattern paternal, forever humanity will remember this gesture, TWO IN ONE, a HOLDING and LETTING go, sign of GRACEFUL DIVINE INSTRUCTION I birth your progeny, birthing ALL WORLDS this teen your son says : “BE not afraid” he becomes angry as you lounge hesitant, question or plead he is impatient to elevate what you will manifest but wait he must ~ ONLY I control TIME I s t r e t c h Y O U, SON I O P E N S K Y in the eternal Now immersing myself in my creations then letting them GO this is NO FALL call it ART ~ MY COMMAND FOR YOU IS RISE then F ~ L~ Y You are my CHOSEN EYES to eyes THE TIME IS NOW recline no more in cloud beauty endurance is your hallmark ferocity tangos with LOVE I will not forsake you you will soar on my winds they will carry your shapely limbs ready groin will create at my bidding your elegant strong fingers will caress Question not MY IMAGE man of man, woman of woman curved ears hear, wide nostrils breathe life Heart pumping into infinity food will flow from hair to toe tip ACT and RELAX, written into ****** constitution Forever MICHELANGELO, Sculptor humble Genius I saLute you, My own Creation Son of Marbled Art Yours sincerely, GOD
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Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM UTC
Creation of Man : Section Sistine Chapel : Michelangelo: Ekphrasis Poem
I can't help but wonder Why Owning The civilized lifestyle Is so unbearably difficult for me I'll co-work with my adrenaline And take flight in experience I'll take on the occupation Of people watching, Backpacking country to country Indulging in culture Surely I would be promoted, "Employee of the year" I could do that  forty hours a week, Even sixty My whole life Now that is a career. I could marry Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel And hold hands with the Louvre And make love to a portrait created at Montmarte Now that is a vow I could make. I could hold music in my womb Lyrical flesh and formation I would allow notes and rhythmic sensation to feed off of my nutrients Pushing my body into stretch mark melody. I could birth an entire album Now that is motherhood. But alas, I do not live in the city that resides in my mind. I am told to marry a man, Birth a baby, Own an occupation, And dismiss The yearnings of my heart, Cursing civilization as I go.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 2:38 PM UTC
Civilized.
looked at you for too long and then i realized you are human, too fallible uncertain flawed piously pined for palatial splendor i placed in my dreams of you, imperfect you and it's no ones fault a figure headed facade fabricated by figments of my frivolous imagination put you on a pedestal made you divine made you holy you, the ceiling high above my head and i, looking up in the sistine chapel untouchable untarnished couldn't see the cracks beneath the varnish then, close enough to study a faint fresco with critical eyes fantasy faded in the fault lines of your frowning face looked for too long until i realized you were just as broken as me a collection of shattered pieces shrouded and shy once a shrine now a shriek wide eyes on you a sinner, still i called you sacred ignoring the nature of the irreverent, the profane liked the luster of longing lingering on my lips when i breathed your name the veil torn the truth beheld and you are not god gambling grief and gleaming gloom thought i could be the sun to your moon majesty to malignancy momentarily merciful moreover cruel monstrous mr monsoon after all, human, too
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 8:43 PM UTC
human
Those cosmopolitan provincials sorts the chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains them retro-grade grade-less sub-humans bottom feeders who think Cardiff is in East Angular and Magaluf is Eden and Higher Education begins in Borstal or a stint at HM Prisons found by happenstance a tin of Caviar something they'd never seen before with the curiosity of practiced thieves they proceeded to examine its worth 'its a tin of hair gel says one' 'No, no, no says another, I think its something you eat' 'it says Caviar Royal Beluga, observes another' 'throw it away, anything with a name like that is rubbish' 'Beluga...some foreign muck, it look dark and oily' 'yea mate, look like **** throw it away' One of the dis-advantaged rabble with one O'level in Carpentry took a closer look   'look he says, there's sticker on the bottom that reads Caviar Royal Beluga – 1kg £3,780.00' Hahahaha they all roared in ceaseless mirth, hahaha 'some joker is having a laugh, pull the other leg, fancy... a tin of black gunge in some slimy stuff cost three grand, must think people are born yesterday, Beluga..fuckoffluga' And with that, they tossed the tin away and walked off laughing like ********* Ignorance is a disease, ignorance is bliss will vandals extol the sheer magnificence of a Constable or see anything other than a chair in a Chippendale ribbonback chair, will Barbarians shed a tear on hearing the sensuous notes of Chopin or shiver at the graceful notes of Debussy or melt in sheer adoration as Tchaikovsky's romance soars in magical resonance.   Will cosmopolitan heathens gape in mesmerizing wonder on seeing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and praise God for being alive So who has great expectations of our dear cosmopolitan provincials sorts those chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains for in disparaging excellence and rubbishing  the noble and the exceptional they make us appreciate more that we are blessed and privileged and do not have semolina for brains hey! who would like some caviar
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Jun 30, 2019
Jun 30, 2019 at 6:40 AM UTC
Chav's reign in Ambergris
Those cosmopolitan provincials sorts the chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains them retro-grade grade-less sub-humans bottom feeders who think Cardiff is in East Angular and Magaluf is Eden and Higher Education begins in Borstal or a stint at HM Prisons found by happenstance a tin of Caviar something they'd never seen before with the curiosity of practiced thieves they proceeded to examine its worth 'its a tin of hair gel says one' 'No, no, no says another, I think its something you eat' 'it says Caviar Royal Beluga, observes another' 'throw it away, anything with a name like that is rubbish' 'Beluga...some foreign muck, it look dark and oily' 'yea mate, look like **** throw it away' One of the dis-advantaged rabble with one O'level in Carpentry took a closer look   'look he says, there's sticker on the bottom that reads Caviar Royal Beluga – 1kg £3,780.00' Hahahaha they all roared in ceaseless mirth, hahaha 'some joker is having a laugh, pull the other leg, fancy... a tin of black gunge in some slimy stuff cost three grand, must think people are born yesterday, Beluga..fuckoffluga' And with that, they tossed the tin away and walked off laughing like ********* Ignorance is a disease, ignorance is bliss will vandals extol the sheer magnificence of a Constable or see anything other than a chair in a Chippendale ribbonback chair, will Barbarians shed a tear on hearing the sensuous notes of Chopin or shiver at the graceful notes of Debussy or melt in sheer adoration as Tchaikovsky's romance soars in magical resonance.   Will cosmopolitan heathens gape in mesmerizing wonder on seeing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and praise God for being alive So who has great expectations of our dear cosmopolitan provincials sorts those chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains for in disparaging excellence and rubbishing  the noble and the exceptional they make us appreciate more that we are blessed and privileged and do not have semolina for brains hey! who would like some caviar
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He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push That dragon through the fading light, Loved the lady; and it's plain The half-dead dragon was her thought, That every morning rose again And dug its claws and shrieked and fought. Could the impossible come to pass She would have time to turn her eyes, Her lover thought, upon the glass And on the instant would grow wise. She. You mean they argued. He. Put it so; But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there. She. May I not put myself to college? He. Go pluck Athene by the hair; For what mere book can grant a knowledge With an impassioned gravity Appropriate to that beating breast, That vigorous thigh, that dreaming eye? And may the Devil take the rest. She. And must no beautiful woman be Learned like a man? He. Paul Veronese And all his sacred company Imagined bodies all their days By the lagoon you love so much, For proud, soft, ceremonious proof That all must come to sight and touch; While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning' and his "Night' disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew. She. I have heard said There is great danger in the body. He. Did God in portioning wine and bread Give man His thought or His mere body? She. My wretched dragon is perplexed. Hec. I have principles to prove me right. It follows from this Latin text That blest souls are not composite, And that all beautiful women may Live in uncomposite blessedness, And lead us to the like--if they Will banish every thought, unless The lineaments that please their view When the long looking-glass is full, Even from the foot-sole think it too. She. They say such different things at school.
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Michael Robartes And The Dancer
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push That dragon through the fading light, Loved the lady; and it's plain The half-dead dragon was her thought, That every morning rose again And dug its claws and shrieked and fought. Could the impossible come to pass She would have time to turn her eyes, Her lover thought, upon the glass And on the instant would grow wise. She. You mean they argued. He. Put it so; But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there. She. May I not put myself to college? He. Go pluck Athene by the hair; For what mere book can grant a knowledge With an impassioned gravity Appropriate to that beating breast, That vigorous thigh, that dreaming eye? And may the Devil take the rest. She. And must no beautiful woman be Learned like a man? He. Paul Veronese And all his sacred company Imagined bodies all their days By the lagoon you love so much, For proud, soft, ceremonious proof That all must come to sight and touch; While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning' and his "Night' disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew. She. I have heard said There is great danger in the body. He. Did God in portioning wine and bread Give man His thought or His mere body? She. My wretched dragon is perplexed. Hec. I have principles to prove me right. It follows from this Latin text That blest souls are not composite, And that all beautiful women may Live in uncomposite blessedness, And lead us to the like--if they Will banish every thought, unless The lineaments that please their view When the long looking-glass is full, Even from the foot-sole think it too. She. They say such different things at school.
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You can’t paint the Sistine Chapel with a roller You can’t carve The Thinker with a jack hammer You can’t write a symphony on a Kazoo And you can’t dance Swan Lake on a trampoline You can’t bake a cake if you have no oven You can’t sew a gown with a knitting needle You can’t build a house out of Lego Bricks And you can’t win at Lotto without buying a ticket Why do my eyes not notice the humming bird Only that the nectar tube needs refilling Why do I not glory in a field of orange poppies Only struggle to walk without stepping on one Why do I pass up small kudus when offered So I can wallow some more in rejection Why do I long so for the glow of acceptance When I have no use for the face in the mirror We all have to work with the gifts we are given Talent is not something you can go out and buy You can’t sigh your way into winning the race And you can’t coerce people into your fan club You have to dig deep if you want to find oil You have to cast bait if you want the big fish You have to believe that the war can be won To put down your pen and strap on your sword            ljm
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM UTC
SECOND RATE
**** me in the sistine chapel with your lips against my neck and your breath still hot and lingering "at least she died happy," they'll say "or least, 'happy' for being...her" when i take my last breath, it is't michelangelo's masterpieces on the ceiling i'll be focused on it's you i want to see before i go
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 1:30 AM UTC
sistine chapel
we could have the summers in italy the peaches in paradise the dawns and the dusks and our toes in the sand but we're doing the vtc and ecstasy listening to scratched disks and taking shots of drain water dreamers only think in French you tell me so i chant the words je veux tout in my head i want the nutmeg stuck on the walls in my nose and your moans in my ear till 4 after midnight i want the silk sheets wrapped around my neck the tongues in my mouth i want to get familiarized with the richness when a balenciaga shoe hits me and the euros are in my bloodstream i want to be used to it      the velvet carpets and red lingerie      the colosseum and vatican city      busboys with scruffy berets      expensive wine in busted hotels      chocolate fondue and burnt pasta at the cartels      michelangelo's david and authentic fur coats      tramps and 2 dollar bills down your throat      throwing ash trays at the sistine chapel      gifts of china tea cups and diamond rings to forget the scandals      fat cigars and the bonnie and clyde lifestyle i want it all in italy baby je veux tout je veux tout
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 12:26 AM UTC
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