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"spade" poems
I had no idea how terrible it all was Until I matured a bit and opened my eyes It cleared the mist that I often now miss From the eyes of an unwilling devil Seeing the tragedy unfold from a first-person level I remember it all from that god awful view The bad things I’ve done, over which I had no control The outcomes I hoped with the manifestation of some Who am I kidding - I’ve been among a fortunate few Except for the fact that life dealt me an ace with a ****** ***** Not quite like anyone - an outcasted sole With depressive thoughts - eating them straight from the bowl Until euphoria strikes - then I’m a lightning bolt These emotional storms - they strike me as cold Who am I to cry and complain about life Everyone is united by the suffering light The random subscription to a life with a set rhythm If only I could command my heart not to wither
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 3:48 AM UTC
Euphoria strikes
I'm laying in the grave you dug from the ***** of your heart, covered in petals of ignorance- which are not so blissful anymore.
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 5:10 PM UTC
ignorance
I once found a field, A beautiful field. A field that humans have not disturbed. I lived by the trees near this beautiful field. But I lived in complete ignorance, as two men, each with a ***** came to the middle of the grass, and struck down a wooden plank. Before long, my forest disappeared. Instead of grass growing, The only thing that surfaced, was the pale gray stone that was laid there. I watched as they dug deep into the ground, where tall boxes of stone and glass rose. They stood proud against one another, one building higher than the last. But they blocked my view, of a once beautiful sky. Before long, the field turned into a city, Cars and buses drove though the winding streets. People soon started to appear, and the field I once knew was long forgotten. A fountain has now been placed, where the pioneers have struck their plank, With no tree in sight, I throw the last seed into the water. Where it settles to the bottom with coins and marbles, never to sprout.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 6:38 AM UTC
A Beautiful Field
All Round River and waterfall Land of the harvest, This is our village Betelnut and betel's garden. Home home the granary Haystack and cowshed, This is our village Magw Bwisagu cheerfully and welcome to. Water from the well water to drag up In the house bring on waist wrap, This is our village As is family. Early morning wake up the chicken Harvest in the land of to go, This is our village ***** and solution of farming to do. And so the garden vegetables everywhere Lai, lapha, mula and etc. This is our village Vegetables are not lacking. Temple, church and bathou festival Holy, our place of worship This is our village of bodos Goibari taijowbari, kantalbari, and like the names.
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Sep 26, 2016
Sep 26, 2016 at 12:19 PM UTC
Our Village
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 7:44 AM UTC
PEARL 'TRINITY ERRANDS
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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When the morning was waking over the war He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died, The locks yawned loose and a blast blew them wide, He dropped where he loved on the burst pavement stone And the funeral grains of the slaughtered floor. Tell his street on its back he stopped a sun And the craters of his eyes grew springshots and fire When all the keys shot from the locks, and rang. Dig no more for the chains of his grey-haired heart. The heavenly ambulance drawn by a wound Assembling waits for the spade's ring on the cage. O keep his bones away from the common cart, The morning is flying on the wings of his age And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand.
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Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred
Young man Grab thy ***** Grab thy pick And follow me In this lush meadow Green as green Amongst the cherry Blossom hills Strike thy pick Unto the ground Take thy ***** And dig deep Here then Lies thy future Look upon it And weep Now leave Never to return Until your Appointed hour And never forget Life must end And never forget To live
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 7:54 PM UTC
Green Green Meadow
Like a male monkey you rises up And thumps hard your chest-it is you and you only! O Man! You forgets, who you are and what you are is Nature’s She generously gives and she avariciously takes- Just a few chances she is giving you to repent before she ruthlessly returns She is a sharp, doubled edged sword-merciful and merciless! Man, Humanity is not hostility: Humanity is humility! Like Sheol that is never satisfied you want to swallow the whole world Like death you want to take everything, big-small-you want to stomach all Everything you want to keep to yourself, to be to your entitlements You take and leave nothing at all for the harmless hopeless-the voiceless Yet you easily forgets, when the angel of death calls it’s only you and your soul in burials Your ill amassed pride, wealth and health is not with you anywhere in this your brutal trials Man, Humanity is not gullibility: Humanity is generosity! O man! O man! You fills the whole world with mortality You have killed the sole essence of the soul’s endless immortality With your undignified dishonesty, your free-will to filthy immorality War you begins wealthy to get-war is a supernormal profiting business Man, Humanity souls has never been subjects to severity but sanctity! Innocent-as little as little children-you murders-they were inevitable! Common civilians’ deaths are collateral damages-inescapable! You forgets who you are-you are a little loaned, little you returns for judgment Here no allies to look after your backs, no cracks to corruption kickbacks- It is the fairest of all hearings, a ***** for a ***** it is not for a big spoon! Man, Humanity is not ignobility: Humanity is dignity! What you are given to govern you governs not What you are given to take care of you pilfers all For you and your lineages eternal legacies-the richest ever to have graced the earth! Yet you forgets, Master a little while returns to put you to a rigorous account And whoever much is given-that much is also expected, what will be your report? Man, Humanity is not royalty: Humanity is loyalty! Humanity is a community, not a sorority of individuality! Humanity is not infidelity: Humanity is honesty Humanity is not how wealthy: Humanity is how a loyal legacy Humanity is not how large is your multinationals entity: Humanity is how huge is your small heart-its hospitality Humanity is a humble history, a saintly story! © Kìùra Kabiri. All rights reserved.
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 1:23 AM UTC
HUMANITY IS HUMILITY!
Like a male monkey you rises up And thumps hard your chest-it is you and you only! O Man! You forgets, who you are and what you are is Nature’s She generously gives and she avariciously takes- Just a few chances she is giving you to repent before she ruthlessly returns She is a sharp, doubled edged sword-merciful and merciless! Man, Humanity is not hostility: Humanity is humility! Like Sheol that is never satisfied you want to swallow the whole world Like death you want to take everything, big-small-you want to stomach all Everything you want to keep to yourself, to be to your entitlements You take and leave nothing at all for the harmless hopeless-the voiceless Yet you easily forgets, when the angel of death calls it’s only you and your soul in burials Your ill amassed pride, wealth and health is not with you anywhere in this your brutal trials Man, Humanity is not gullibility: Humanity is generosity! O man! O man! You fills the whole world with mortality You have killed the sole essence of the soul’s endless immortality With your undignified dishonesty, your free-will to filthy immorality War you begins wealthy to get-war is a supernormal profiting business Man, Humanity souls has never been subjects to severity but sanctity! Innocent-as little as little children-you murders-they were inevitable! Common civilians’ deaths are collateral damages-inescapable! You forgets who you are-you are a little loaned, little you returns for judgment Here no allies to look after your backs, no cracks to corruption kickbacks- It is the fairest of all hearings, a ***** for a ***** it is not for a big spoon! Man, Humanity is not ignobility: Humanity is dignity! What you are given to govern you governs not What you are given to take care of you pilfers all For you and your lineages eternal legacies-the richest ever to have graced the earth! Yet you forgets, Master a little while returns to put you to a rigorous account And whoever much is given-that much is also expected, what will be your report? Man, Humanity is not royalty: Humanity is loyalty! Humanity is a community, not a sorority of individuality! Humanity is not infidelity: Humanity is honesty Humanity is not how wealthy: Humanity is how a loyal legacy Humanity is not how large is your multinationals entity: Humanity is how huge is your small heart-its hospitality Humanity is a humble history, a saintly story! © Kìùra Kabiri. All rights reserved.
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the ***** sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining **** among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where he was digging. The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked, Loving their cool hardness in our hands. By God, the old man could handle a ***** Just like his old man. My grandfather cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner's bog. Once I carried him milk in a bottle Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up To drink it, then fell to right away Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods Over his shoulder, going down and down For the good turf. Digging. The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no ***** to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it.
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Digging
All I do is win, for I'm an Ace Painting a bulls-eye on everyone in the place In my plane I leave everyone else bailing out of the fight in disgrace If I was a horseman, I'd be War 'Cuz like the card game I win against Kings and Queens and take them out of the deck like the Joker on the sidelines, alone and bored. I don't need a Diamond to win you Heart, and I don't wanna join your Club, this was skill and not luck from the very start I am the Ace of Spades, and I'll use my ***** to dig out your graves I've been painted on the sides of planes cars and trains helicopters, submarines, and the munitions that deal out the pain I'm a trick shot Ace with the pool stick As a quarterback, I've yet to throw a pick As a pitcher, I make the other team sick The starter and the backup plan the Ultimate Ace in the Hole The best card in a poker hand lay me down and the money's in the bag I run solo, streaking across the land You only need to hold me in your hand and your enemies will become **** and I'll give 'em a taste of this whirling dervish's mace Leave them breathless upon the ground as I rob the air from out of this place you'll stand in awe of my greatness take a picture, make a statue Fill up every empty space with my name For I am an Ace!
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Oct 5, 2011
Oct 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM UTC
Ace of Spades
The Aces check their sleeves, Hearts rippling across the breeze. The Queen arises Slowly, Torn dress ripped at the knees. The Jack saw his fill And quickly took his leave. Stood trembling in a doorway, Mind struggling to believe... The King was an alcoholic, It was widely known to be so, Each eve he would sit solemn, Wine in hand and sword on show, Clapping to the Jokers' japes As he danced and sang About love and fate. But how was the King to know? Not two rooms away His wife had lain, With a smile and a ***** Creating a cuckold and a fool... The Jack had had enough And promptly marched To the throne room. Armed with only knowledge, Unleashes inevitable typhoon. The winds will rise, This house shall succumb, Imploding inwards Till the house is done. And all that remains Among ash and decay, Broken hearts and broken spades, Is the Jokers last laugh. A mockingbirds call as daylight fades.
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May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM UTC
House of Cards
“Congratulations You managed being five feet above the ground” Said a man who Can’t contain a slight, sardonic sound The situation: He’s reading eating magazines from the coast of Spain And yelling himself blue For the jeepney won’t hurry in the pouring rain He smashed his head on the glass Wishing for a train It nearly cracked / but his New cadence sounded quite sane “Congratulations You took five before you smoked the first one down” Said a man who Complimented me for sinking above the ground “It’s estimation I might trip before a wheel enters our lane” I yelled the truth At this moment, his presence started to stain A boat that had already passed us Yelled, “All aboard!” We weren’t sure it would float But it had a great deal of cords Then we clambered on There was a myriad of golden spades Two for every buried fool That was forced to stay The stench was concealed By the satisfied old man A woman muttered That she was headed to Queensland A driver viciously flung his arms Into the air, in apt alarm The intersection’s volley Aimed for the starboard Everyone reached for the mast, Hoping to soar “Congratulations You nodded off before the lights started to blare” Said a man who Lied, ostentatiously impaired I’m at the station Then, I noticed to my side was a golden ***** I dug myself through The mahogany and got on with my day In the rain
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Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 2:34 PM UTC
Mahogany Mill St.
I had to play. I had to play.            my stolen heart turned hard to ***** T’was me snubbed. T’was me who snubbed.           And glittery diamonds to dirt, were clubbed.   But I had to play.             I had to play.                Cause he held all cards anyway. I had tried to run. I tried to run.       We were not there for love, but “fun”   And I HAD to play.                I YEARNED to play.. I was his       lonely.            desperate.                      prey.     Now he's moved on..                  He moves on.  leaves his          pathetic.                    little.                        pawns.                         I'd had to play                        I needed  to play.   I didn’t want to get away..     He'd gotten bored He gets bored.         He wiped away our checkered board.         Now he's not here.                        He was never HERE...          And I'd do anything to feel him near.                                                   Come play.                            Come play.
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Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022 at 5:24 PM UTC
Game over
To learn this gospel of that Birthing Home A splendid way to start your own New House Of your Man so proud; Dignity his own Shows this Great Fixture of a Faithful Spouse And I, envy-filled, toddlerish to Draft To ask when my Best Time would ever come You, Heroine's Pride, caused my Sorrows to Laugh And boot this Troll for his Merriments done Only for your Wish more Blessings invade And never, ever Dream it should Resign Which, termed Jolly, decomposed his best ***** And Danced with Gnomes your Prosperity fine. Begging you, this Heart, please tell HER I Care For the Flames I lit; My Penance I fare.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 3:33 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE: HOLLIE COUCH
You told me I'd be safe. You told me nothing would go wrong. I believed you. I'm laying in the grave you dug from the ***** of your heart, covered in petals of ignorance-which are not so blissful anymore.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 12:36 PM UTC
Lies
Would it Fease to make Connections secure, The Outrageous Magic such Form does cast Why not the Flu, whose Substance membered, cure The Fly's own Happiness which would not last With Furnace Embers burning your Hour's Spent That Diamond Red of Sparkles unfade Pride honours you well; Yet deflects on them Would heal so if you can defer the ***** Intention, dear Victim of Absolute How could one Comment subtract a Friend's Trust When one lends a Hand for Innocent's Sake, And Settle the Gnarbled Basket, we must. When Integers apply, Truth should be Owned, On Level Ground seen; But not to the Bone.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 3:03 AM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY - SIXTY - TOM DALEY
I was looking in my grandmother's old vegetable plot Searching in and amongst the fragrant sweet peas When I found an old brown mud encrusted teapot Tangled up in roots of old forgotten trees. Then I found my grandmother's old rusty ***** This had seen some action back in its day. I held the teapot close and the memories had stayed Had visions of may poles where my Gran used to play. She'd pour her tea, drink it then invert the cup Twist it three times one way and then the other Turn the cup the right way up Funny old ways hd my Grandmother. She had her special way of making a brew And I loved her such a lot Searching and recalling scenes and there are a few I found happines in an old brown teapot.
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 3:22 AM UTC
An Old Brown Teapot
There were four pines, Straight, that branched Out over the hedge With holes. High beside The cement goldfish pond They stood, near the fence And alleyway. From our rows Of potatoes, And needed weedings, A hedge ran across The back, connecting The Tehtercotts and Taylors; We worked the garden Beneath the line Of drying clothes, Throughout our summers, Beneath the shade, And the intermitent shadow. ***** blades heeled Into mounds, We five posed For this poem Half a century ago. Over the hedge Carriages and bikes Rolled between houses With porches, And patios, Leading to lawns. Near Kevin's ***** A red and white rubber ball Had landed, From beyond the hedge. He turned it over With a shovel of dirt, And broke the sod With his blade. He was distracted, Singing us a Beatles song. But it wouldn't have mattered.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 10:43 PM UTC
Singing A Beatles Song
The dreamy sea washed ashore bringing little bubbles of life to its end Children splashed and jumped as wave after wave fell in Bucket and ***** at the ready as castles from the sky formed from minds in youth and fairy tales Cream at the ready as grandads cap retreats crisped from the comfort of his strippy deckchair he waits Mothers blankets blown from the wind held down by a shoe to be lost and a stone found yet not cast These were the days we remember These are the days we forget These are the days to be treasured A fine sad old memory from a past we most had Ice cream sounds calling at fathers request Is grandma still yawning from bingo's night fest a donut for mother all sugared and warm don't forget Charlie as woof is all heard A match game of cricket from children about or footy at lunchtime sweet sand in your mouth These were the days we remember These are the days we forget These are the days to be treasured A fine sad old memory from a past we most had Asleep from the sun and a sneaky quick pint as dad tries to doze be free to unwind A call for 3 strikes as rounders is found hear grandad all snoring more cream to be crowned Tis time for a dip to twinkle your toes to jump back a mile oh blimey its cold These are the memories all children should have a time when no phones when a time wasn't planned No little computers to spoil the day just fun and great memories of children at play A time when your family all joined in the fun a shame we have lost this to greed and the sun
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 1:33 AM UTC
The seaside
The dreamy sea washed ashore bringing little bubbles of life to its end Children splashed and jumped as wave after wave fell in Bucket and ***** at the ready as castles from the sky formed from minds in youth and fairy tales Cream at the ready as grandads cap retreats crisped from the comfort of his strippy deckchair he waits Mothers blankets blown from the wind held down by a shoe to be lost and a stone found yet not cast These were the days we remember These are the days we forget These are the days to be treasured A fine sad old memory from a past we most had Ice cream sounds calling at fathers request Is grandma still yawning from bingo's night fest a donut for mother all sugared and warm don't forget Charlie as woof is all heard A match game of cricket from children about or footy at lunchtime sweet sand in your mouth These were the days we remember These are the days we forget These are the days to be treasured A fine sad old memory from a past we most had Asleep from the sun and a sneaky quick pint as dad tries to doze be free to unwind A call for 3 strikes as rounders is found hear grandad all snoring more cream to be crowned Tis time for a dip to twinkle your toes to jump back a mile oh blimey its cold These are the memories all children should have a time when no phones when a time wasn't planned No little computers to spoil the day just fun and great memories of children at play A time when your family all joined in the fun a shame we have lost this to greed and the sun
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there was a little elf he came from galway bay across the sea in ireland not to far away he lived in the forest in the hollow of tree always very happy a happy elf was he one day on his travels along the forest track he saw his friend the hedgehog lying on his back hedgehog had rolled over and his spikes were stuck in to the forest floor his little spikes did tuck elf he had a ***** the he carried round he began to dig into the forest ground elf he freed the hedgehog he dug away the muck hedgehog he was free again and no longer stuck they strolled along together along forest floor hedgehog he was happy and free again once more
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Dec 30, 2013
Dec 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM UTC
galway elf
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome, Comes, like a scissors stalking, tailor age, Deliver me who timid in my tribe, Of love am barer than Cadaver's trap Robbed of the foxy tongue, his footed tape Of the bone inch Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb, From maid and head, For, sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye, I, that time's jacket or the coat of ice May fail to fasten with a ****** o In the straight grave, Stride through Cadaver's country in my force, My pickbrain masters morsing on the stone Despair of blood faith in the maiden's slime, Halt among eunuchs, and the nitric stain On fork and face. Time is a foolish fancy, time and fool. No, no, you lover skull, descending hammer Descends, my masters, on the entered honour. You hero skull, Cadaver in the hangar Tells the stick, 'fail.' Joy is no knocking nation, sir and madam, The cancer's fashion, or the summer feather Lit on the cuddled tree, the cross of fever, Not city tar and subway bored to foster Man through macadam. I dump the waxlights in your tower dome. Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver's shoot Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift, Love's twilit nation and the skull of state, Sir, is your doom. Everything ends, the tower ending and, (Have with the house of wind), the leaning scene, Ball of the foot depending from the sun, (Give, summer, over), the cemented skin, The actions' end. All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind With whistler's cough contages, time on track Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick, Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.
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When, Like A Running Grave
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome, Comes, like a scissors stalking, tailor age, Deliver me who timid in my tribe, Of love am barer than Cadaver's trap Robbed of the foxy tongue, his footed tape Of the bone inch Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb, From maid and head, For, sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye, I, that time's jacket or the coat of ice May fail to fasten with a ****** o In the straight grave, Stride through Cadaver's country in my force, My pickbrain masters morsing on the stone Despair of blood faith in the maiden's slime, Halt among eunuchs, and the nitric stain On fork and face. Time is a foolish fancy, time and fool. No, no, you lover skull, descending hammer Descends, my masters, on the entered honour. You hero skull, Cadaver in the hangar Tells the stick, 'fail.' Joy is no knocking nation, sir and madam, The cancer's fashion, or the summer feather Lit on the cuddled tree, the cross of fever, Not city tar and subway bored to foster Man through macadam. I dump the waxlights in your tower dome. Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver's shoot Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift, Love's twilit nation and the skull of state, Sir, is your doom. Everything ends, the tower ending and, (Have with the house of wind), the leaning scene, Ball of the foot depending from the sun, (Give, summer, over), the cemented skin, The actions' end. All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind With whistler's cough contages, time on track Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick, Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.
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Dear Mr. Heaney I wish I'd read your poetry years ago when I was still impressionable and coy and all that jazz. Now it resounds in my skull, leaving a tingle in my right hand. My pen is somewhat snug, but a revolver, no. Ink and shovels aren't far from each other, so your point is well-taken. In fact, they're co-workers – Ink's proved itself just as deadly. It slowly ushers men into the earth, their soil-seat, while the shovel stages the unending play; the eternal lattice. The Nobel hung above your head, the vast array of pins, medals, papers with your name in billowing scarlet. What a treat. Like the last cupcake in the back of the refrigerator that had too much chocolate icing and was only semi-covered in multi-colored snowflakes. I'd loved to have personally presented it to you. There'd be my own plaque, billowing scarlet and all. It'd say, "Mr. Heaney, , you must own a ***** I hope you'd laugh, and not be offended, thinking me a distasteful and insensitive lout. It may not be right, but I can't help but steal the volumes surrounding yours out of every **** library so "Seamus Heaney" may catch the eye of the common passerby more easily. I think I even went to work on enhancing a spine with a red sharpie once. Red hits the eye hard. That was in the central library downtown. Don't tell anyone. Beyond a laugh, what I hope for most is that you get this letter. Just look at it. Wonder why someone so far removed in age and culture and place would ever think of you holding an over-frosted desert as glorious.
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Sep 2, 2012
Sep 2, 2012 at 7:50 PM UTC
Lost Letter Addressed to Seamus Heaney
Dear Mr. Heaney I wish I'd read your poetry years ago when I was still impressionable and coy and all that jazz. Now it resounds in my skull, leaving a tingle in my right hand. My pen is somewhat snug, but a revolver, no. Ink and shovels aren't far from each other, so your point is well-taken. In fact, they're co-workers – Ink's proved itself just as deadly. It slowly ushers men into the earth, their soil-seat, while the shovel stages the unending play; the eternal lattice. The Nobel hung above your head, the vast array of pins, medals, papers with your name in billowing scarlet. What a treat. Like the last cupcake in the back of the refrigerator that had too much chocolate icing and was only semi-covered in multi-colored snowflakes. I'd loved to have personally presented it to you. There'd be my own plaque, billowing scarlet and all. It'd say, "Mr. Heaney, , you must own a ***** I hope you'd laugh, and not be offended, thinking me a distasteful and insensitive lout. It may not be right, but I can't help but steal the volumes surrounding yours out of every **** library so "Seamus Heaney" may catch the eye of the common passerby more easily. I think I even went to work on enhancing a spine with a red sharpie once. Red hits the eye hard. That was in the central library downtown. Don't tell anyone. Beyond a laugh, what I hope for most is that you get this letter. Just look at it. Wonder why someone so far removed in age and culture and place would ever think of you holding an over-frosted desert as glorious.
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This is more than “block” or “hide posts.” No, this is permanent, this is calling it Quits, this is “we cannot be civil towards each other after all, we cannot bear to even potentially see each other on our newsfeeds.” Unfriend. We are not Friends. We are Over. Unfriend means “out of sight, out of mind.” Is it a feeling of relief at the finality of something that wasn’t working, or a sinking feeling that yet another relationship has gone down the tubes? Probably a sick combination of both – unfriend means you’ve both finally called a ***** a ***** Given Up. “…I am done trying to be friends with you,” written in the Final message. Is anything really Final? It’s hard to know. Human relationships are messy. We try to cut people off when they hurt us. Unfollow on tumblr, block phone numbers, delete them on skype, unfollow on twitter, but sometimes we run back to each other when we cool off, despite ourselves, we think, no, it can’t be The End, it can’t be Unfriend, we had things in common, we had something, surely it can’t be Over. Can't we try again? But “Every new beginning come from some other beginnings end” as a song goes, and some endings are necessary. What we don’t want to admit to ourselves is that not everyone is a Good or healthy person, no matter how many chances you give them. And maybe some relationships are doomed from the start, maybe it really was your fault and you are just “incredibly selfish,” maybe it was their fault, it was probably everyone’s fault somehow or another in the end. There is a drop down option on facebook called Unfriend and when it’s finally utilized, no one really feels good about it. All it means is that it’s time to move on, once again. Find someone new. There are other fish in the sea.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 12:03 AM UTC
There is a Drop Down Option on Facebook Called Unfriend...
This is more than “block” or “hide posts.” No, this is permanent, this is calling it Quits, this is “we cannot be civil towards each other after all, we cannot bear to even potentially see each other on our newsfeeds.” Unfriend. We are not Friends. We are Over. Unfriend means “out of sight, out of mind.” Is it a feeling of relief at the finality of something that wasn’t working, or a sinking feeling that yet another relationship has gone down the tubes? Probably a sick combination of both – unfriend means you’ve both finally called a ***** a ***** Given Up. “…I am done trying to be friends with you,” written in the Final message. Is anything really Final? It’s hard to know. Human relationships are messy. We try to cut people off when they hurt us. Unfollow on tumblr, block phone numbers, delete them on skype, unfollow on twitter, but sometimes we run back to each other when we cool off, despite ourselves, we think, no, it can’t be The End, it can’t be Unfriend, we had things in common, we had something, surely it can’t be Over. Can't we try again? But “Every new beginning come from some other beginnings end” as a song goes, and some endings are necessary. What we don’t want to admit to ourselves is that not everyone is a Good or healthy person, no matter how many chances you give them. And maybe some relationships are doomed from the start, maybe it really was your fault and you are just “incredibly selfish,” maybe it was their fault, it was probably everyone’s fault somehow or another in the end. There is a drop down option on facebook called Unfriend and when it’s finally utilized, no one really feels good about it. All it means is that it’s time to move on, once again. Find someone new. There are other fish in the sea.
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High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam Islanded in Severn stream; The bridges from the steepled crest Cross the water east and west. The flag of morn in conqueror's state Enters at the English gate: The vanquished eve, as night prevails, Bleeds upon the road to Wales. Ages since the vanquished bled Round my mother's marriage-bed; There the ravens feasted far About the open house of war: When Severn down to Buildwas ran Coloured with the death of man, Couched upon her brother's grave That Saxon got me on the slave. The sound of fight is silent long That began the ancient wrong; Long the voice of tears is still That wept of old the endless ill. In my heart it has not died, The war that sleeps on Severn side; They cease not fighting, east and west, On the marches of my breat. Here the truceless armies yet Trample, rolled in blood and sweat; They **** and **** and never die; And I think that each is I. None will part us, none undo The knot that makes one flesh of two, Sick with hatred, sick with pain, Strangling--When shall we be slain? When shall I be dead and rid Of the wrong my father did? How long, how long, till ***** and hearse Puts to sleep my mother's curse?
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The Welsh Marches
During the night, a dreadful night, a mole dug deep deep and around my garden that I love This cheeky mole then had the nerve to stop burrowing and then surface to check the damage from above. Up came his velvety head and sniffed the fresh air parting my newly laid lawn like a digger. Now he appears to be smiling the cheeky scoundrel He is making the problem a whole lot bigger. "Look what yo have done" I shouted "made a right mess The piles of earth are everywhere with your coming and froing" "With all due respect madam" sniffed the mole "what do you expect when I cannot exactly see where I am going!" "I have no map, no satellite navigation device, just my claws I am just a mole and all that I can do is dig, I've no appliance No shiny ***** no mechanical device, what do you expect Honestly madam it is not exactly rocket science. He tutted and rushed back down the hole leaving me speechless and trying my best not to cry. The mole had made his way underground by now next door but my hard work was down the drain - I wonder why!
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 2:51 AM UTC
A Cheeky Mole