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"staid" poems
**†           †           †     A quorum of biblical scholars turned their doubts into thousands of dollars. Armed with Document Q they revealed nothing new but the dirt neath’ the white of their collars. A proud “health & wealth” Oklahoman was renowned as a gospel-tent showman. While the scriptures he twisted, their tithing assisted his rise from poor hick to rich Roman. A sexually diverse professor (assured he was not a transgressor) spoke only of openness glossing sin’s brokenness; rainbows and tolerance—yes sir. A Mormon, who lost his own ephod Realized he was running quite slipshod and invoked Joseph Smith. (Yes, it may be a myth— but it’s not like misplacing your I-pod…) A Christian whose faith was prophetic held to views that were truly pathetic. This crazed Pentecostal, not quite an apostle, had taken an End-Times emetic. A sober and staid Presbyterian was distrustful of thoughts millenarian. After smoking some bud, he awoke with a thud; in his sleep he’d become Rastafarian. A preacher who fleeced his disciples overdrew his own balance of scruples. He was finally captured (defrocked and un-raptured) and rent by his destitute pupils. A sister who waxed Pentecostal, mistook herself for an apostle. Speaking pure glossolalia she sure could regale ya’ with prophecy; crazy—but docile.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 8:12 AM UTC
Christian Types in Limerick
Know this—I am well acquainted with the wolf, Well versed in his ways, his demeanor, His dispassionate relentlessness, His pitiless focus on hunt and hunted, His workaday disdain of pity. There are those who would laud the mythical Spartan lad Who hid the wolf beneath his cloak, Affecting some gallant stoicism As the beast consumed him without restraint, But I say to you that is a mere romantic fallacy, A wanton failure to apprehend the true moral. I have learned that there is no accommodation, No covenant to be reached with the wolf, And any attempt to do so is merely to invite destruction, And so I choose to engage him openly, without reservation, Rolling tail-over-teacup in the streets, Attempting to hold his jaws open with bare hands While those who find such battle unseemly and uncouth Jeer and hoot from porch and portico. No matter, for I will continue to meet the cur on my terms, For staid suffering in the hopes Of reaching some accord with the beast Is the not the act of the noble sage: It is the mock heroics of the coward, The sad acquiescence of the simpering fool.
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 2:02 PM UTC
A Variation On Edgar Lee Masters' "Dorcas Gustine"
LOVE, HATE, WISDOM, FEAR, WEALTH… KEYS MANY ARE TO LIFE IT’S SAID NONE IN BIRTH IS AFRAID,WISE,HATEFUL,GREEDY,NONE SHALL BE SO IN DEATH. LIFE! ITS A NOW,A PRESENT CONTINUOUS,DIES HERE THE PAST,A FUTURE BORN NOW,A SUM TOTAL OF PAST,FUTURE AN EQUATION INEXORABLE FROM HEREON. FUTILE IS FUTURE MIRRORING PAST, AWARENESS MY PRIMER FOR A CHANGE FAST.   WHEN ALIVE ARE HEARTS PUMPING,WHY ARE MINDS AND SOULS DEAD BARREN? ISN'T HEART THE GOOD EARTH ALWAYS AND MIND THE TREE WISE OF BANYAN? I RID THE DISCONNECT, BY GRACE, HAVE A MINDFUL HEART, A HEARTFELT MIND! LIVING THE STAID REALITY OF LIFE, LOVING, HATING, THINKING, BEING WISE,FOOLISH KILLING, FORGIVING, PHILOSOPHICAL IN A CRUELLY KIND WORLD OF PARADOX. IS THERE A REALITY DEVOID, OF LIFE AND DEATH, LOVE AND HATE, GOD AND RELIGION, OR TRUTHS,LIES, TIME-SPACE,SOUNDS AND SILENCE,EQUANIMOUS PEACE AT WAR? IS IT JUST A PLAY, OF THE MIND AND HEART, DESIRE AND POWER,BONDAGE UNREAL? GOOD VERSUS EVIL? I LIVE BY THE HEART,IT DOES STOP AND THE MIND,OH DOES IT ROT! UNFEELING HEARTS AND UNTHINKING MINDS, THESE BARRIERS SLOWLY I CROSS, BEYOND IS THE BEING, THE EXISTING, INCAPABLE OF THE UNREAL, DIVINELY AFAR, A VOID SURREAL,UNFEELING YET KIND SOMEHOW, UNLOVING YET CARING SOMEHOW UNSAD, UNJOYOUS, UNAFRAID, UNWORLDLY...ATTRIBUTES NONE AT ALL! UNBEING?? I KNOW NOT IF IT’S GOOD OR EVIL, IS JUST UNBEING,UNAFFECTED BETTER SOMEHOW? IS THE FREE UNBEING THERE,JUST TOTALLY BEING HERE?! BACK TO A REALITY RELATIVE! GREYS ARE MANY, IF DARK BE HATE AND BE LIGHT LOVE, MID-GREY IS THE WORLD, HOPE CAN MOVE! FROM THE MOUNTAINS DOWN I CLIMB, JUST, WITH PRECIOUS BAGGAGE, UNPACKED TO MAKE SENSE, OF THE REAL IN THE UNREAL,THIS ONE WORLD IN INFINITY, WITH  ITS ANGELS AND DEMONS, I CHOOSE TO LIVE WITH REALITY; AND UNRAVEL JUSTLY; ELSE IT COMES LIVES WITH ME ANYWAYS! OR IS IT ALL JUST INEVITABLY INEXORABLE, JUST A HERMITS DESTINY?!
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May 25, 2012
May 25, 2012 at 3:18 AM UTC
THE HERMITS DESTINY.
LOVE, HATE, WISDOM, FEAR, WEALTH… KEYS MANY ARE TO LIFE IT’S SAID NONE IN BIRTH IS AFRAID,WISE,HATEFUL,GREEDY,NONE SHALL BE SO IN DEATH. LIFE! ITS A NOW,A PRESENT CONTINUOUS,DIES HERE THE PAST,A FUTURE BORN NOW,A SUM TOTAL OF PAST,FUTURE AN EQUATION INEXORABLE FROM HEREON. FUTILE IS FUTURE MIRRORING PAST, AWARENESS MY PRIMER FOR A CHANGE FAST.   WHEN ALIVE ARE HEARTS PUMPING,WHY ARE MINDS AND SOULS DEAD BARREN? ISN'T HEART THE GOOD EARTH ALWAYS AND MIND THE TREE WISE OF BANYAN? I RID THE DISCONNECT, BY GRACE, HAVE A MINDFUL HEART, A HEARTFELT MIND! LIVING THE STAID REALITY OF LIFE, LOVING, HATING, THINKING, BEING WISE,FOOLISH KILLING, FORGIVING, PHILOSOPHICAL IN A CRUELLY KIND WORLD OF PARADOX. IS THERE A REALITY DEVOID, OF LIFE AND DEATH, LOVE AND HATE, GOD AND RELIGION, OR TRUTHS,LIES, TIME-SPACE,SOUNDS AND SILENCE,EQUANIMOUS PEACE AT WAR? IS IT JUST A PLAY, OF THE MIND AND HEART, DESIRE AND POWER,BONDAGE UNREAL? GOOD VERSUS EVIL? I LIVE BY THE HEART,IT DOES STOP AND THE MIND,OH DOES IT ROT! UNFEELING HEARTS AND UNTHINKING MINDS, THESE BARRIERS SLOWLY I CROSS, BEYOND IS THE BEING, THE EXISTING, INCAPABLE OF THE UNREAL, DIVINELY AFAR, A VOID SURREAL,UNFEELING YET KIND SOMEHOW, UNLOVING YET CARING SOMEHOW UNSAD, UNJOYOUS, UNAFRAID, UNWORLDLY...ATTRIBUTES NONE AT ALL! UNBEING?? I KNOW NOT IF IT’S GOOD OR EVIL, IS JUST UNBEING,UNAFFECTED BETTER SOMEHOW? IS THE FREE UNBEING THERE,JUST TOTALLY BEING HERE?! BACK TO A REALITY RELATIVE! GREYS ARE MANY, IF DARK BE HATE AND BE LIGHT LOVE, MID-GREY IS THE WORLD, HOPE CAN MOVE! FROM THE MOUNTAINS DOWN I CLIMB, JUST, WITH PRECIOUS BAGGAGE, UNPACKED TO MAKE SENSE, OF THE REAL IN THE UNREAL,THIS ONE WORLD IN INFINITY, WITH  ITS ANGELS AND DEMONS, I CHOOSE TO LIVE WITH REALITY; AND UNRAVEL JUSTLY; ELSE IT COMES LIVES WITH ME ANYWAYS! OR IS IT ALL JUST INEVITABLY INEXORABLE, JUST A HERMITS DESTINY?!
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Who put that crease in your soul, Davies, ready this fine morning For the staid chapel, where the Book's frown Sobers the sunlight? Who taught you to pray And scheme at once, your eyes turning Skyward, while your swift mind weighs Your heifer's chances in the next town's Fair on Thursday? Are your heart's coals Kindled for God, or is the burning Of your lean cheeks because you sit Too near that girl's smouldering gaze? Tell me, Davies, for the faint breeze From heaven freshens and I roll in it, Who taught you your deft poise?
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Chapel Deacon
Fresh Spring, the herald of loves mighty king, In whose cote-armour richly are displayd All sorts of flowers, the which on earth do spring, In goodly colours gloriously arrayd— Goe to my love, where she is carelesse layd, Yet in her winters bowre not well awake; Tell her the joyous time wil not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take; Bid her therefore her selfe soone ready make, To wayt on Love amongst his lovely crew; Where every one, that misseth then her make, Shall be by him amearst with penance dew. Make hast, therefore, sweet love, whilest it is prime; For none can call againe the passèd time.
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Whilst It Is Prime
289 I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low, Inviting to— A Portico, Where two could creep— One—hand the Tools— The other peep— To make sure All’s Asleep— Old fashioned eyes— Not easy to surprise! How orderly the Kitchen’d look, by night, With just a Clock— But they could gag the Tick— And Mice won’t bark— And so the Walls—don’t tell— None—will— A pair of Spectacles ajar just stir— An Almanac’s aware— Was it the Mat—winked, Or a Nervous Star? The Moon—slides down the stair, To see who’s there! There’s plunder—where— Tankard, or Spoon— Earring—or Stone— A Watch—Some Ancient Brooch To match the Grandmama— Staid sleeping—there— Day—rattles—too Stealth’s—slow— The Sun has got as far As the third Sycamore— Screams Chanticleer “Who’s there”? And Echoes—Trains away, Sneer—”Where”! While the old Couple, just astir, Fancy the Sunrise—left the door ajar!
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I know some lonely Houses off the Road
Fickle Done in mentioned light... Through and due the common, the still Notice of compliment, a comment of right None The more we save, from the proof of simplicity Story's and a sulking tree, the seldom of fun in the sun Turned to universality, with the eyes of anarchy Amend Sour and refined, refrain from the beauty of compel? The pout of another gift and the choice of feeling's substance Over the quiet since, that has become ours to weal... Things And the duty of a desire in worthing heaven, the hell of unity Given me, and the role of synchronicity a resolve, to sweeten Time is a daring host, to assure even the tiniest of needs, vicinity Arduous Threshold in the lime, the boding of every else, in the book Staid and remembering decorum, like a hell is every cause When we are the understanding home, to a willing look... Force Are we a stir of responsibility in the arms of voice, or its cope? Timid as we are, the calling of it all, is a wisdom's source? Look hard for a nature? when you can have a friend for it's love... Caring True to mellower stares, the throe of uncanny light Made from the none, are we to survive a decision, so faring The response of decency, that a swim with the devil, is also right... Liberty Loan the call, to me for a universe's song Trust is a walking might of the deed, asking the seldom, evil's Is it me, or the shade in a wishes stir, the tout we held all along?
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Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022 at 4:45 PM UTC
I Found James Dean, In A Bottle Of Milk...
She'll sleep tight in a parallel universe tonight my deeply serious rainbow girl astral projects communes with Shiva and champions chakras she has the recipe for what passes as illumined her ignorance of current events is  appalling but that chosen ignorance is staid and unperturbed I grumble and complain, I use the news like a ****** I put the pieces together, pattern the puzzle- I see the BIG picture…I cut my life short possessing a keen memory is like the proverbial millstone the information is  the lake rainbow girl is contemptuous of my self inflicted plight we realize its a matter of time before disparate likes divide I am fire and she is water, I the destroyer, she the preserver the passion can be complimentary for just so long Like the lady bard said: *You read those books where luxury Comes as a guest to take a slave Books where artists in noble poverty Go like virgins to the grave  (Joni)* She'll tolerate my  confabulated artistry a spell I can see she's a caterwauling  banshee of protestation in the waiting Her mellifluous  quietude, equanimity  and perfect  poise can only last so long Before my brash stripped down vituperative  diatribe is as acid in the eyes Then be off to resume  her prior harmonic convergence of  heart  stuff as I  with my artistic bent, abbreviate my life *http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=38  The Boho Dance
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Apr 28, 2013
Apr 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM UTC
Abbreviated Life
Take me back to the cool summer mornings Where the leaves fluttered with the breeze Best friends, there was never a truer pair Of better days there were none Take me back to the sun’s triumphant return When it’s first rays kiss the tranquil water And spread the heat of passion to the rising world Inviting us all to take part in their romance When the side of the road was a gateway to our fantasies We were free to dream and free to live Among the playful rhododendron and the staid oak Days melted away with the heat of life If the wind on my face could bear my spirit I could return once more to this time And be content with the robins and blue jays of above And the rabbit and chipmunk contemplating from below But, it is not to be, wishful thinking is all For today has its own magic, but no one knows the spell Only yesterday can be uncovered, tomorrow hides anew Under a new sun, who has yet to court the tranquil water.
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Mar 25, 2012
Mar 25, 2012 at 3:54 AM UTC
Morning Light
dimble dumble, caught a, thimble thumble of precious morning dew. dimble dumble, took his thumble thimble, full up to rimful. on his nimble rambull wooly stu, careful not to lose, a drippity drop of the delicious dew. they flimble, flambled, up and overed, down and undered, till dimble dumble, with his thimble thumble, filled to rimful, on the wooly rambull... came to stumble. his face a crumble, as the rimful, roamed and overflew, the thimble thumble walls. a dribble drabble did scribble scrabble, down the rambulls hide. dimble dumble chewed his bottom lip and cried. "do not fret my little pet, look there is still enough inside" wooly stu decried. "i'll be more staid,as we ride our fortunes, soon will be made." so,dimble dumble and his rambull crew, with thimble thumble recovered, from the tumble. on they skedoodledaddled. being careful to protect the remaining morning petal's dew. after a while, time, flew with dove like grace and dimble dumble, with his dudes came to the the very place, of the rimble romble rumble and royal rapture rap parade dimble dumble and rambull stu on bended knee and really humble presented their thimble thumble not quiet full to rim still but delicious and felitious morning dew to the king awaiting his purchase and perview. before its spoiling, it was boiling, his kettle singing, songs a ringing, to the beauteous, but not so bountious, morning dew. dimble dumble watched the thimble thumble steam and bubble blip away. hands flipping flapping nose jinkling wrinkling as the fog blew, his way boiling dew, tea leaves darjeeling with daphne blossoms was the flavour of the day. dimble dumble with thimble thumble empty now and too, wooly stu caught a peek of teacups platinum holding royal blossom brew before the butler, with a silly stutter, sent them on their way, with dimble dumble all a fumble, with a thimble thumble of goldenboldens, as his hard work's reward that day.
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 5:24 PM UTC
dimble dumble's day
dimble dumble, caught a, thimble thumble of precious morning dew. dimble dumble, took his thumble thimble, full up to rimful. on his nimble rambull wooly stu, careful not to lose, a drippity drop of the delicious dew. they flimble, flambled, up and overed, down and undered, till dimble dumble, with his thimble thumble, filled to rimful, on the wooly rambull... came to stumble. his face a crumble, as the rimful, roamed and overflew, the thimble thumble walls. a dribble drabble did scribble scrabble, down the rambulls hide. dimble dumble chewed his bottom lip and cried. "do not fret my little pet, look there is still enough inside" wooly stu decried. "i'll be more staid,as we ride our fortunes, soon will be made." so,dimble dumble and his rambull crew, with thimble thumble recovered, from the tumble. on they skedoodledaddled. being careful to protect the remaining morning petal's dew. after a while, time, flew with dove like grace and dimble dumble, with his dudes came to the the very place, of the rimble romble rumble and royal rapture rap parade dimble dumble and rambull stu on bended knee and really humble presented their thimble thumble not quiet full to rim still but delicious and felitious morning dew to the king awaiting his purchase and perview. before its spoiling, it was boiling, his kettle singing, songs a ringing, to the beauteous, but not so bountious, morning dew. dimble dumble watched the thimble thumble steam and bubble blip away. hands flipping flapping nose jinkling wrinkling as the fog blew, his way boiling dew, tea leaves darjeeling with daphne blossoms was the flavour of the day. dimble dumble with thimble thumble empty now and too, wooly stu caught a peek of teacups platinum holding royal blossom brew before the butler, with a silly stutter, sent them on their way, with dimble dumble all a fumble, with a thimble thumble of goldenboldens, as his hard work's reward that day.
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Even I cannot find this care anymore. I’ve run vague and dry of all moist thought, Brittle will scores this round, All life is best endured no more, I will not bend to peek at joy, Each smile a twist, all laughter ups to snort and ugly choke, Time strides by, a hustler, a tomcat, a victim on the run. At last the end of dreams, such bold relief. Not more takes or edits done, I breathe in whole, without the worry of dismal hope, Each expectation outed now and free to fade, I court the hours without a scheme, Death will pace until my shift is done, This warm friend who sentences but can’t condemn,   Staid promise, an infinity of next for all. Soon enough this now is gone, Rejoice
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Mar 2, 2016
Mar 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM UTC
Rejoice
Spaces  all the same,dimensions but different Ideas the very same rushing in to fill voids old From heads stuffed of past Imitations dead Straight walls ever rising up,closing places free Square,stiff,solid,regurgitating hard, spirits staid The same colors but in different places, limited, sick,drained of mind,with an empty soul I wept Dear innovation creative where are you my angel? Staring at space blank unchained to past I pondered The angels  came unannounced unknowing softly, rushing to a heart,empty of mind,surrendered to an intent pure, Dancing,guiding unfettered,intuitively fantastic,instinctively right The walls falling away,squares smoothing to curves **** New visions exciting,opening to vistas of unknown hues wondrous That very dead space now alive,conducting,guiding a design philharmonic "I" was but a medium,absorbing,directing flashes from unknown Driven in a flash flood of euphoria unknowing, to an ocean creative Knowing not what unchained me,setting me free for that Destiny fine, Of Innovation. May be love or despair,whatever, Divinity came.
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Jun 19, 2013
Jun 19, 2013 at 10:14 AM UTC
A Design Rut Changed By The Creative Angels Of Intuition.( Design Despair Resolved)
My pen and I sit and write by the River Thames, The London Eye clear despite gazing through a haze. Questions rise, amazed am I, by my silent pen. Try do I, so why can’t I follow other men? Mulling now on thoughts and how they form inside the mind. Do they come with time, or like Holmes must one go find? Or have I overlooked a simply queer idea? What if thoughts collect like the staid hands of Leah? Famous poems, here were born-- but hordes have also died. All these words go unheard by many bards that tried. Trapped in Limbo words remain ‘til they recompense— Freed by one whose work’s undone, still unsure from whence. Never fret if an idea you ever forget, For here it remains, at the River Thames, in set. Waiting to be writ by a pen and hand so kind, For poets can clean the pollutants of the mind.
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Jun 6, 2012
Jun 6, 2012 at 11:01 PM UTC
Thoughts on the River Thames
He’d been able, after some gentle persistence, To wheedle his way into the place (He’d been vaguely recognized by the caretaker, A certain affable familiarity his stock in trade, after all) And he had been decidedly deliberate in his search for the shoes, Though he’d been quite certain where he’d left them, Simply hoping to drink this all in just one more time But though the rooms were ostensibly unchanged (He'd noted the odd knick-knack and piece of bric-a-brac Had been secreted out, to be preserved or pawned) They held no fascination for him now, Simply concoctions of hardwood flooring, Decorative wall coverings, staid pieces of furniture (Indeed, the paterfamilias of this whole mélange Increasingly beyond his recall-- he could hearken back To a certain hail-fellow-well-met in his demeanor, And he'd had an affecting smile, But he was unable to conjure any further details From the recesses of his memory) And with nothing else to moor him to these silent rooms, He'd slipped on the ostensible reasons he'd come in the first place (Their uppers maintaining their whiteness Through any number of bleachings, The soles worn to a near smoothness) And, nodding perfunctorily to the mansion's steward, He slipped away, heading to some other party Carrying on in more or less perpetuity, The battered bottoms of his shoes Leaving just the faintest marks as he crossed the dunes, Soon to be buffed away altogether by the breeze.
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 11:29 AM UTC
In Which Klipspringer Retrieves His Tennis Shoes
Head hung low he strolls along The squat, staid streets of London Until halted by a throng Of blossoming carnations I ask: What mortal joy is grander Than to be rapt by a flower as you meander? And raise thy head in reverence To a flourishing floral sight Fanciful as rainbow’s end Pure as a soul in flight Bundles of them he saw at a glance Adding their zest to the Spring’s gay dance Glittering in resplendent hues From all across the spectrum Much colours did his eye amuse; He didn’t know to expect them He stood and sighed and thought: “How pleasant To see the world turn iridescent!” Beneath the trees, sunk in soil Gestating all the year The flowers with the earth embroiled The work of life is dear Dutifully they pledge upon Their lives to keep life going on It pays well to flash thine eyes On things that are lesser seen Much is hidden in this world That is soothing and serene He left, his heart in gestation Just like the blossoming carnations
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Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2016 at 5:51 AM UTC
Carnations
Staid solitude and silence lend me ease from mind’s congestion, tongue’s propensive burl toward chatter’s looping, irritating whirl— exchanging dervish dust for bonny breeze. My soul may sing and soar from quiet’s nest or sit in stillest calm without weight’s care within the waiting, because God is there who knows me, hears me, grants me sweeping rest. The Everlasting God, the LORD o’er all who understands me, loves me with no end— most faithful, fervent Confidante and Friend— pervades the sweet quiescence with His call, “Here in My peace, come find your heart’s desire. Serene in Me, soul catches My love’s fire.”
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May 23, 2022
May 23, 2022 at 10:34 AM UTC
In Quietude (Sonnet)
The diminutive seedling, It putters whilst growing Becoming a robust bark but with decaying leaves Life then begins to sprout and weaves We are the seedling, planted in this very soil we stand We were the sprout of yesterday But in time shall be tomorrow’s shade We must be mature but not staid We then putter over the early years Ignorance and dreams then arouses We then become filled with ambitions and fears Our bodies are then trained In conditions with heavy winds and rain Like the bark, resilient and vigorous Autumn then comes Leaves begin to fall and wither Like our worries are untethered Yet of all, we must not truncate our branches We must embellish them instead We must be strong like the Hemlock! Winter then follows both the sky and land Becomes tedious and bland   Problems then arises but shrouded in the mist Hazy, vague only to catch a glimpse But warm tears can melt through The cold and burdened shoulder, The storm settles and clouds become mild The vernal breeze then calms our mind As we continue to grow, We find ourselves dazed and entwined Nonetheless we cannot putter for we are a Hemlock! We stand tall, and keep our roots intact Summer comes forth, with warmth and life Radiance into the leaves, Free birds that chirp with ease Our leaves which are crammed with wisdom Our cones that tells our story Our barks that had endured the calamity Our roots that stayed firm regardless the intensity We had all the fun, laughs and sorrow We were sprouts but it is our time to sow We are the young and into the hemlock we shall grow!
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Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM UTC
Puttering Hemlock
The diminutive seedling, It putters whilst growing Becoming a robust bark but with decaying leaves Life then begins to sprout and weaves We are the seedling, planted in this very soil we stand We were the sprout of yesterday But in time shall be tomorrow’s shade We must be mature but not staid We then putter over the early years Ignorance and dreams then arouses We then become filled with ambitions and fears Our bodies are then trained In conditions with heavy winds and rain Like the bark, resilient and vigorous Autumn then comes Leaves begin to fall and wither Like our worries are untethered Yet of all, we must not truncate our branches We must embellish them instead We must be strong like the Hemlock! Winter then follows both the sky and land Becomes tedious and bland   Problems then arises but shrouded in the mist Hazy, vague only to catch a glimpse But warm tears can melt through The cold and burdened shoulder, The storm settles and clouds become mild The vernal breeze then calms our mind As we continue to grow, We find ourselves dazed and entwined Nonetheless we cannot putter for we are a Hemlock! We stand tall, and keep our roots intact Summer comes forth, with warmth and life Radiance into the leaves, Free birds that chirp with ease Our leaves which are crammed with wisdom Our cones that tells our story Our barks that had endured the calamity Our roots that stayed firm regardless the intensity We had all the fun, laughs and sorrow We were sprouts but it is our time to sow We are the young and into the hemlock we shall grow!
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345 Funny—to be a Century— And see the People—going by— I—should die of the Oddity— But then—I’m not so staid—as He— He keeps His Secrets safely—very— Were He to tell—extremely sorry This Bashful Globe of Ours would be— So dainty of Publicity—
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Funny—to be a Century
mark of cain in my hemoglobin, i'm more open to repast on brains. to dine on flesh enmeshed in baseball parks and homes restrained by greed of the same. and the cry of the people takes great pains to refine the message of a blank stare. a blemish, stark with catacombs disarranged in harm honey. the ogre of pine. the amber pane where we bleed. we name nameless, by the by, to the finish. but not alone. up your petticoat with my blind cleaver. my Occam razor to your stain. a fine mess express in hateful art and boneless jade we feed on the frame of our reference. skylarking harmonious curves dismayed by their own mind. they confess it. at the statefair. replenished, they knish in falderal disengaged from honesty. the poker blind. where the eye staid. where we need. we need most ... tell ya why..... to diminish but not atone. and so it goes. i erode the continent. sneaky pete in the crease of all strange. itchy feet. maimed in false lies of the ripple. made fake to real love. unclaimed. a gangly part of broken promises made we retreat at last. with our last mimes. we undress. with savoir faire. distinguished in our dashery ill fated. calamity's bark. hard to define. where the mind misbehaved. we're complete most where the hole resides... to imprison but not hold.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 10:29 AM UTC
I'll be the only ******* zombie, slaying zombies !
The rose, Staid on the porch rail, Was forbidden in the parlor. First frost arrived, Enrobing petals in velvet, Crimson thick and skin softened, Bewildering. Those who stroll by Behold, But not take — Who could handle The scentless spectacle Spoiling inside? A private decay in a white blanket tomb, A fading in a deafened hollow. Next year the neighbor will plant New roses to surrender.
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Feb 9, 2021
Feb 9, 2021 at 2:55 PM UTC
The rose
If we were villains the world would topple in tears embellished with contrite sorrows drowning the ruins six fathoms under while life disperses above dim waters the moon remembers how the light lingered before the sun left spread of the heavens now the staid headstones markers of memory stand in the darkness aside calm marshes perhaps gods forget wrongs done in anger when outcomes linger past best intentions the bones are scattered in perfect hindsight remind all of outcomes if we were villains. © 2019. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20190101.
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Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 11:43 AM UTC
If We Were Villains
I wake up No breakfast  today, life's much to fast. A cup of coffee will do So I set the coffee maker, turn on the shower, And lose myself in the mirror. All the while watching, Waiting. Waiting for something But finding nothing in the end This morning is not my own It belongs to someone else I once read on a dollar bill a few years back that “You can't sing the blues without blood on your hands, And you've got blood on you hands.” I spent that dollar but the blood staid on my hands. We absolve our tender memories Of what it was like to be children To not have worry on our brows To have an unstoppable imagination which could build floating boats and mega droids the size of skyscrapers. An imagination that would make us all ninjas and princesses and cow boys and girls Each of us have saved the world with a cardboard swords and index finger barrels and gun hammer thumbs Now, we sing requiems of missed messages All for a few lousy blood soaked dollars.
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Sep 24, 2011
Sep 24, 2011 at 2:47 PM UTC
Absolving Tender Memoires I
here's to the girl who caught his eye the one he never had always in his back of mind forever dormant, undefined but ever since they said goodbye the thought had grown sad the one he never had here's to the girl who caught his eye aye, the girl who caught his eye here's to the girl who broke his heart the girl he loved and lost there for him when no one was who stuck around him just because before she ripped the world apart and lived to see the cost the girl he loved and lost here's to the girl who broke his heart aye, the girl who broke his heart here's to the girl who loves him still the girl who never strayed through thick and thin she spurred him on and even though he now is gone and left her nothing in the will she stands there, poised and staid the girl who never strayed here's to the girl who loves him still aye, the girl who loves him still
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 6:13 AM UTC
A toast at the wake of a lonely man
I offer you the finer things the moon and stars and saturns rings and all the joy this night may bring for you my valentine The beers chilled the blanket spread on sand of gold no finer bed sweet nothings whispered cheeks rose red for you my valentine The ocean lapping at the shore making music for sweet amour for you and I and no one more for you my valentine Your hand in mine and mine in yours secluded here beneath the stars no need for clubs nor smokey bars for you my valentine The darkness hides us from their view just you with me and I with you making this night a time for two for you my valentine A kiss a touch a mem'ry staid here beyond the promenade where you and I our own fun made for you my valentine The dawn is set the morning wakes across our toes the ocean breaks as we dispel with love our aches for you my valentine
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 11:46 AM UTC
For You My Valentine
Where God passes The edge of forever where raw power is displayed Walk the seascapes enter the story told in timelessness except for outer space it is the only place where man finds his mind freed so steep is the unending awe that without question he finally is able to present his self as the tiny speck lost is all ego all self importance he is open to the quest for ultimate truth. You perfect you’re thinking at the sea shore it is a storehouse that lends itself to grand thoughts no limitations hamper your endeavors aliveness engulfs you totally. Subdued moods excavate every shallow you start a down ward decent the deep cries out to your soul the part that never can be accessed on shore. The ground a foundation for raising up temporal structures your needs are served in waters that open as a mysterious gate the deeper the fathoms the more understanding is released. To abide in calm surface features of the sea what a waste take off the restraints become a voyager drift with churning twisting pressures they will give great reward for accosting your accustomed staid and uneventful living. Go deeper the mundane the so called important will be forced through your very pores as you continue calling the unknown manifest itself with great scrolls hidden beyond reach to those that plod along the sunny quiet banks. Life test all men you can face them unafraid armed with years not minutes of preparedness found alone in the struggle only found at sea. Pondered Plumbed in inexorable conditions that stretches changes a person’s character his stature tempered fired as steel in the caldron. We need leaders vibrant thinkers people who can and will accost hell in the very near future and come away victorious. They will have found their way through the untold deadly entanglements figuratively and real their not accustomed to ease and know perils at close quarters they learned them in great waters not in pools that have not the ability to stir you to your core you’re going to pour out your life in one form or another do it with sand and grit leave a scarred an effectual trail for others to follow not the light untraceable light footsteps of one who has never lived.
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Nov 17, 2011
Nov 17, 2011 at 4:44 AM UTC
Where God Passes
Where God passes The edge of forever where raw power is displayed Walk the seascapes enter the story told in timelessness except for outer space it is the only place where man finds his mind freed so steep is the unending awe that without question he finally is able to present his self as the tiny speck lost is all ego all self importance he is open to the quest for ultimate truth. You perfect you’re thinking at the sea shore it is a storehouse that lends itself to grand thoughts no limitations hamper your endeavors aliveness engulfs you totally. Subdued moods excavate every shallow you start a down ward decent the deep cries out to your soul the part that never can be accessed on shore. The ground a foundation for raising up temporal structures your needs are served in waters that open as a mysterious gate the deeper the fathoms the more understanding is released. To abide in calm surface features of the sea what a waste take off the restraints become a voyager drift with churning twisting pressures they will give great reward for accosting your accustomed staid and uneventful living. Go deeper the mundane the so called important will be forced through your very pores as you continue calling the unknown manifest itself with great scrolls hidden beyond reach to those that plod along the sunny quiet banks. Life test all men you can face them unafraid armed with years not minutes of preparedness found alone in the struggle only found at sea. Pondered Plumbed in inexorable conditions that stretches changes a person’s character his stature tempered fired as steel in the caldron. We need leaders vibrant thinkers people who can and will accost hell in the very near future and come away victorious. They will have found their way through the untold deadly entanglements figuratively and real their not accustomed to ease and know perils at close quarters they learned them in great waters not in pools that have not the ability to stir you to your core you’re going to pour out your life in one form or another do it with sand and grit leave a scarred an effectual trail for others to follow not the light untraceable light footsteps of one who has never lived.
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