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"supplicant" poems
The Violent Storm by the Water (Do You Trust Your Imagination) was not unexpected but its fury was without compare, poet awake in semi-preparation living by water should be a human right for all, even a small room, overlooking, gives new meaning to perspective we blessed with a patio door, encased in a glass window big enough for a smallish elephant to come visit and play with children a storm is observed up close and personal as if one was in an IMAX 3D  theater, and the edges of existence were being redefined, sharpened by fury, tooled by tools untouched by mortal hands miles of bay illuminated with bass drum furious accompaniment stand before the screen, poets arms outstretched as a supplicant, the light of the lightening passes through him, yet , behind me, she still sleeps then the entire house shakes, reverberates, as if to say: ”tremble humans, cower, you are not permitted to watch my majesty, for such it was when created heaven and earth” bold poet window worshipping risky answers: “but who will know if even a poet cannot declaim sights no one else has seen?” ”true, true, but you must choose if poet truly, do you trust your imagination human, to prove that the powers of the heavens are limitless?” write of storms unseen and nature endless miracles ***”then you may call yourself a miracle too, a poet***”
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 12:14 PM UTC
The Violent Storm by the Water (Do You Trust Your Imagination)
# *Through the withered branches where the verdant leaves once grew, I stared up at the old oak tree against a sky of blue. The branches stretched to heaven as a supplicant might do. It seemed to pray, as if to say, "My time at last is through." I wondered at the gnarly trunk and limbs of twisted wood And for a moment thought of life and almost understood. Life and death go hand in hand.   Our time is our's to spend. But like the tree against the gale, ‘tis better if we bend. I'll pay it forward when I can.   Thy brothers' keeper be. I'll keep the roots well watered and learn the lessons of the tree. It shares the world with nestlings and it's acorns oft abound, To feed the hungry denizens that glean them from the ground. It's leaves give shade to those below.   It's branches form a gym. Children climb to see the world and love this gift to them. And as I watched, the farmer came and laid the old husk low. Firewood now, would be it's fate and make the chimney glow. Ashes unto ashes and to dust we must return. All of life in cycle goes and from this I hope to learn: This gift of life to all below, all creatures great and small, Is just a stop upon the trip we travel, one and all.* #
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 9:04 AM UTC
The Tree
gulls and terns spin in the air as waves lullaby the sleepy dreamers with grand tales and rich promise of paradise to be found just over the horizons edge sailors eye to the swift wind sure hand to tackle and line hearty men of salted liquid soil grown to giants in the breakwaters thunder but gentle that hands heart when the tolling bell calls out the names of the lost and the sea has swept away all but her witnessed tale to leave the widows and forlorn child to carve name to wall and mourn past midnight now a dead calm and cloudless sky reigns with a majesty of brilliant starlight upon this sea reflecting the heavens slow march i lay like a supplicant muted by the spectacle to souls hunger this moment and place shows a deeper meaning to thouse souls with eyes to see a dead calm and cloudless sky reigns with a majesty of brilliant starlight the old salt sailor breaks into deep song that sooths and lends hardy meal to the heart hold fast young lad hold fast the morning rushing forward brings the breaking wave and unfolds sail with quick wind and the sailors eye rejoices with merry songs to measure the hour and jauntily bring our fair seabird back to her warm home sea and sand in the salt sailors blood and a kind heart guides the way
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
salt sailors song
I wanted to know the sighs Of mercy.  On the bed she lied, Laid bare in the shocking light That twitches, as she rolls I hover and cage her in question, With moist eyes, abandoned By loves interrogations, I stab at the untruths and confusions. I wanted to hear the supplicant Murmur of indolence and shame. With windy caresses I break Her arms, she ropes me red In tangled hair and I struggle To let go.  I wanted to taste  The twin defeats of victory And indifference, when in the light Of darkest night there are cries of yes And no and false accusations, There is consuming pain and excruciating Pleasure and as we squirm And seethe, she teases, Goading me and then, I loose it.
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Jul 28, 2012
Jul 28, 2012 at 10:25 PM UTC
Loves Prisoner
Swept in on the sixth of the first Icy winds sluiced on dripping fleecy snow showers I saw a raging storm coming with vile foreboding nursed Staple in peace in love in goodwill laid a fitting banquet for all hours Rewards for toil and strive in minds attuned and goodness versed I knelt supplicant before my Lord Laid my just heart bare and without fear or dread laid a ringing vow as in warmth or bellowing thundering cold I rest in the forethought I am girded to sail sun's flames un thread For no blooded being can justly state I harmed or injured in my fold I will walk this vale of tears Meet with demons and the ****** of the outer worlds Face the volcanoes in hell and shame blazing red lava ingots I will not cower before deadly serpents or baulk at icy frozen walls If I fall I will stand again an again till God's time uneaten by maggots I implored my Faithful Lord Take me down grind and cast me asunder and bereft If this be ordained that an innocent soul pays an unjust price The darkest storm has raged wild and furious a depraved joy theft My God upholds me and holds that truths and honesty never a vice [email protected].
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 5:34 PM UTC
I Stand Accused...........
Saying “Women of the Night” Might be alright As a description for some girls, They stream eastward Along the bank, Checking for marauders and adjusting curls. Yet courtesans are different; They came as swiftly as they went, Called on by important men. From house and hotel they are borne, In carriages, and in finery worn, For those who have a yen. Yet others still elude one name, Of condemnation or fame. They do not wander at men’s whims. They deliver terms to him or him. And live in dwellings finer still, Until the payer has had his fill. But with the latter does he ever Tire of the source of pleasure? For some the need outlasts his want, And he becomes the supplicant! Then woman’s wit becomes the master, While her body wields a whip. The sinner’s desire speeds still faster, As she the body’s scale does tip.
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Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 at 11:49 AM UTC
Courtesans and Stars
It’s the damndest thing when attentions focused on one thing beget the focus of another Like the rooster crowing the sunlight in the cold, ungrateful weather, My eyes scan the ups and downs of those digital stand-ins for those I’ve known Seeing mistakes, my own and in others, Seeing perfection, in other’s imperfect successes, wantonly rubbed in my eyes As I springboard from the travails of those with whom I may never vocalize my adoration I drop out of the air of a life far from mine, I see mention of a passed on spirit Who I truly adored, no digital fakery of half-true fables necessary to express my love for the ideals implanted in me by such a tongue so supplicant to the truths in that vast ether where I used to swim in the light, never thinking of the dark climes below. What choice do I have on an accidental evening like tonight? I no longer can mask disinterest for other’s soaring narratives when my true care has been discovered, been pried away from that dark corner of the airborne pool so ethereal. My care, my pride have been torn asunder, by a mere errant glance on a mere sideways mention Of a massive, earthly idol, who, if only for a stanza of years held my full gaze with hopeful smiles and ecstatic promise for bright futures now gone into grey pastures. I lay here an imposter in authentic skin if only for the sight of words on screens, with scant meaning in between.
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 4:54 PM UTC
Mrs. J, What Can I Say?
. *The unknown depths call out to me promising oceans of tranquility, so let me slip down silently 'neath the waves of a midnight sea. Addicted to this supplicant swoon, witnessed only by the waxing moon, the descent into a liquid room, as Sirens wail their plangent tune. Surfing out the softest of tides, 'pon the crest of love my being rides, to where the deepest of feelings reside. I sink with ease most graciously. So let me slip down silently 'neath the waves of a midnight sea.* © Pagan Paul (04/02/18)
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018 at 5:36 PM UTC
Midnight Sea
. I wanted to know the sighs Of mercy.  On the bed she lied, Laid bare in the shocking light That twitches, as she rolls I hover and cage her in question, With moist eyes, abandoned By loves interrogations, I stab at the untruths and confusions. I wanted to hear the supplicant Murmur of indolence and shame. With windy caresses I break Her arms, she ropes me red In tangled hair and I struggle To let go.  I wanted to taste The twin defeats of victory And indifference, when in the light Of darkest night there are cries of yes And no and false accusations, There is consuming pain and excruciating Pleasure and as we squirm And seethe, she teases, Goading me and then, I loose it. .
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Apr 15, 2021
Apr 15, 2021 at 6:56 PM UTC
Loves Prisoner
She noticed the basking shark was wounded, weeping vaginal blood. The tall man in a fedora whispered as he passed. Whipped by exploratory waves, she blushed. The horizon was a hazy green line dipped in red. She had been there since morning searching for love, and found it from a six-pack merman offering solace as he rode on the silvery back of a ray. As he approached, the sun at his back, she moaned and threw out her arms like a supplicant. Complete at last, the sand grasping at her shoeless feet, she sank towards the earth’s distant core using her arms as uncertain ballast. She awoke with a shiver brushed away the sand and headed back home. The shark had turned belly-up, scavenged by seagulls. Another day-dream enjoyed in the empty hours between lunch and dinner between her third cup of tea and fourth cigarette, her children snoozing in the back bedroom. Half-slumbering in a town barked at by bothersome seagulls where an unencumbered sun set on a postcard shoreline. Planning the rows of petunias to be planted by the hedge, making shopping lists, writing novels, never to be published, staring out of her windows at the sea she waited for her husband’s return, tedious evenings of T.V. and coition under the brightly coloured duvet. The waves that overwhelmed her, flooding her senses, were her own. The man in the fedora had made her smile.
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 10:59 PM UTC
Sea Dream
in the gray, milky silence of the morning… before we smell the hiss of bacon before the smog licks the creamed crimson sky before we hear the scurrying simian stream (of which we are a inexorable part) before the pungent circles of Michelin and Firestone have their daily chat with the asphalt before we wake to all this grotesque grandeur to once again kneel, supplicant against the wheel before we turn the key to ignite the spark to fetch the fire within, we were with Morpheus, perchance dreaming of greater gods of light, before the cluttered clatter of this unholy day
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Apr 13, 2012
Apr 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM UTC
Before...
*reflecting on what drives me the sensuality of her willing sacrifice every inch a supplicant feminine vulnerability a badge of courage how gorgeous she is my little dancer *** perfect foot perfect body flexed **** drooling tears vessel of the Goddess caresses that turn a pitcher into Aladdin's lamp dream maker a philosophers stone Aphrodite's afterbirth hysterical elasticities she my savior let me eat her like Christ sublime posed flexed **** open ready please she whispers to be impaled bat thighs like spread wings inside dark brooding interiors ready to be engorged blood like ink octupussies arms that **** and pull that write i love you in writhing gasmus Our suns last gasp tumultuous igniting soul quakes eats its own with kisses of fire tremulous taking all life with it oh jewel of night scrambling a thousand moons swallowed by hells shimmering constellations like starved arterial glistening ***** no mercy in the glitter of cleavers yet all ecstasy ecstasy ecstasy*
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 1:33 PM UTC
Night of a Thousand Moons
The woman paid money- Three hundred it’s said- To help change her life But she ended up dead. A voodoo priest promised To alter her fate, but all he accomplished was speeding up her due date.. The candles were lit on his bedroom floor there. The priest and the woman Shortly after went bare “Oh, Father!” she murmured “You’re sure looking swell! Now come do that Voodoo That you do so well.” As they bounced on the bed A candle placed there Fell down and ignited Clothes piled on a chair. The supplicant woman And the priest, now defrocked, At first didn’t notice while they were hip locked. But first they smelled smoke And then they saw fire. They had no clothes and no means to extinguish their pyre.. The voodoo priest’s roommate Was ironing pants When he heard the commotion It didn’t sound like romance. When he opened the door To go to their aide A strong gust of wind Added fuel to the flame A blazing inferno engulfed the whole room what had been their temple was shortly their tomb. The tenants all fled As the night burned bright red They had only the clothes on their backs Reports said. When you next do the voodoo That you do so well Skip the part with the candles And you may live to tell.
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Dec 10, 2011
Dec 10, 2011 at 9:44 PM UTC
That Voodoo that You Do
# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM UTC
Altars of Control: A Theological and Psychological Dissection of the Spirits of Bel and the Legacy of Coercive Invocation
# I. Antiquity and the Architecture of Will In the shadowed corridors of antiquity, where gods were built with teeth and altars stood not for reverence but for control, the Temple of Bel rose as a monument to ********** disguised as divinity. Bel—an assimilated god from earlier Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian traditions—was not the god who walked with man. He was the god who towered above him, demanded sacrifice, and soaked prayer in the blood of repetition. From the earliest Mesopotamian systems, the act of worship was not about communion, but compulsion. To invoke was to command. To chant was to erode the will of another until it cracked under rhythmic insistence. Whether by priest or supplicant, the act was the same: submission by saturation. --- II. The Weaponization of Sound: Chant and the Rhythmic Spell Repetition was not mere ceremony. It was siege. Chants—carefully crafted phonetic loops—were not benign rituals. They were linguistic architecture meant to house spirits, to summon presence not for beauty, but for enforcement. These were incantations with purpose: to bend the will of another through the veil of mysticism. In this light, poetry—at its inception—was not always art. It was often sorcery. The earliest poems were enchantments. They masked seduction as devotion. They twisted longing into ******* They were rhythmic netting, carefully knotted to catch the weak of will and the fractured of self. --- III. The Modern Construct: Echoes of an Ancient Spell Those who hide behind the aesthetic of antiquity today still wear the same rings of power. When a poet writes to control—when they loop trauma like a mantra, repeat seduction as if it were depth, mimic spiritual language to inspire compliance—they are no different than the priests of Bel. They are modern invokers, cloaked in digital incense, spreading spells under the guise of free expression. Their readers are not disciples. They are targets. The “construct” is not a movement. It is a spell. A liturgy without light. A series of hollow echoes designed to flatten identity, rewrite pain into performance, and reward the wound that sells. --- IV. The Severance of Echo: Where the Rhythm Ends If you must chant, let it be to awaken, not ****** If you must repeat, let it be to remember truth, not reshape it. The false liturgies of old were not killed. They were digitized. We will not respond with louder poems. We will not echo their echo. We will respond with silence where needed, and light where earned. We will write not to possess, but to set free. We will bring antiquity not as ornament, but as witness. Because we remember the Temple of Bel. And we are here to break it. Let those who recite in darkness meet the rhythm of truth. #
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Tufted ethereality, angelism of stock and store pedestrian...alas, circusy. Helm of streets bob...our supplicant pulls out a mile or two of scripture from an enormous pocket. Fingers ink-blotted with grime, bent forth striding-- a heedless Beethoven tuned in immaculately. Array's arrival stunned with scurry...planets of conveyance pull at their elliptical wiring. Some rare gigantism to the tenth of powers has touched everything...all he could do from going where he's arrived is futile. From time immemorial, he...at present, its full possessor! What convoluted theorem of probability will forcibly eject him from eureka...from where he's vaporized his wears...naught...naught! Some precipice's nudge knew best the wind for his thought to take to, a majestic soar pealing the spheres to show them their shape. Life has exemplified its frugal capacity to him-- simmering creation tucked away for one fine day. He, to outlive the closing energy that dances him, an immortal...to be handled with care...with universal intelligence--be, has let him...loosed. He's broken the code of things in and of themselves... he's a thing in and of himself--the Unitative factor erupts. As the credits of glory pull upward...so he as them.
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM UTC
Elliptical Wiring
tidal pool of light gathers round my feet as day evaporates without sound it echoes in my minds eye a thousand years breathed in a single moment the weight of worlds falling within the graceful collapse of a single feather touching like tender kiss tumbling lost like me to the same battered wood floor she once laid in such divine supplicant pose bare to the golden light as i am now and for a fleeting moment i share imagined space with her presence i can feel thunderstruck awe of her casual passing through this place she she but as the tidal pool of days end dries to the inky darkness and the moment of perceived shared destiny's fades i gather one last kiss to her soft hand one last fare thee well for one so loved and yet so lost left behind all delusion that i could deny you anything you desired i forgive you for being the object of my affections i forgive you for being the crux of my self illusion i forgive you for being the thousand years i breathed in that moment i say goodnight because you are... i kiss you goodnight because you once were the... tidal pool of golden warm light now gone
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 4:59 PM UTC
tidal pool of days end
a supplicant at the celebration the tattooed man is frozen in the posture of flinging the dog meat of his soul into the river below hoping to drown his sorrows and with tepid conviction he swears his loyalty to the gods of a lesser horde hoping to void the cost of saving his soul such a narrow way to tread such a dangerous thing to think to dream casting away the meat curtails the rot the poisoned fruit of the garden of eden is strewn about his feet as he sneaks through the backwater shopping mall of his narrow existence but its only an image and the reality smells much different its a much harsher drop in the bucket it goes deep far into the night deep into the depths of the soul far into the realizations and rationalizations that makes up a man day to day held hostage to the ideal that the vanity of self realization is a saving grace mitigating responsibility for your actions you can deliver the sermon but can you wear its shoes its easy to see the other mans face in the things we know are wrong its easy to place another in the path of destruction let them pay our price but at the top of your last hour its just you and whatever created you' can you say that you were more than dog meat feeding dog meat to the dog meat masses
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM UTC
dog meat
Over the past months there have been so many times where I feel like nothing more than a remnant, an empty ghost with no spirit trapped inside the shroud. So much has been seized from me- when we walked our separate ways you took back everything you brought. Anything that once carried your touch now feels tainted, a painful reminder of something that once was and never will be again. I can’t go to certain cities, or listen to particular songs, because the memory I have associated with it is far too lovely for me to bear right now, as is any positive thought I have of you. I can’t even have things that were once mine that I shared with you. I told you: everything I have, and everything I am, is yours. And truly, it is. I am bereft of all I once had, wandering the halls of my memories, a beggar, a supplicant.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34 AM UTC
remnant
why do you love me better after you've made me cry i become supplicant and your love swells you become sweet again       tender loving concern pours forth as i lie spent on the floor exhausted is it exacted punishment on all women? she who sent you to that place of inhumanity? that destroyer of boys men and ultimately women will that ever change
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Apr 20, 2012
Apr 20, 2012 at 5:01 PM UTC
i cry you cry we cry
How many puppies have you kicked? How many times have you turned away from those who asked your friendship your succour your help? How often have you used that quick easy smile that belies the hardness within and sheds no light on those that seek it? How many times have you used your voice your eyes your weapons to hurt? I ask once more: how many puppies have you kicked? And how many of them came back meek supplicant like me to be kicked again?
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Feb 23, 2010
Feb 23, 2010 at 2:40 AM UTC
Bitter/Angry 1
. I wanted to know the sighs Of mercy.  On the bed she lied, Laid bare in the shocking light That twitches, as she rolls I hover and cage her in question, With moist eyes, abandoned By loves interrogations, I stab at the untruths and confusions. I wanted to hear the supplicant Murmur of indolence and shame. With windy caresses I break Her arms, she ropes me red In tangled hair and I struggle To let go.  I wanted to taste The twin defeats of victory And indifference, when in the light Of darkest night there are cries of yes And no and false accusations, There is consuming pain and excruciating Pleasure and as we squirm And seethe, she teases, Goading me and then, I loose it. .
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Apr 16, 2022
Apr 16, 2022 at 10:59 PM UTC
Loves Prisoner
I wanted to know the sighs Of mercy. On the bed she lied, Laid bare in the shocking light That twitches, as she rolls I hover and cage her in question, With moist eyes, abandoned By loves interrogations, I stab at the untruths and confusions. I wanted to hear the supplicant Murmur of indolence and shame. With windy caresses I break Her arms, she ropes me red In tangled hair and I struggle To let go. I wanted to taste The twin defeats of victory And indifference, when in the light Of darkest night there are cries of yes And no and false accusations, There is consuming pain and excruciating Pleasure and as we squirm And seethe, she teases, Goading me and then, I loose it.
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Aug 25, 2013
Aug 25, 2013 at 2:03 PM UTC
Loves Prisoner
I came to you like a blinded man a supplicant on the road to ruin Someone who had once owned hope but sewed it up in a sack and gave it to a beggar on the street I came to you like a condemned man inches from the noose holding hands with a phantom a shadow masquerading as wisdom or death Finally I came to you in desperation the desperation of those whose parents have disowned them of those with a terminal disease called life a street corner clown miming his passions one false tear tattooed on his cheek And you humored me Held me at arm's length while you wove a spider's web shield to wrap up your heart defend it never truly surrender it Yet you dear heart are my one I never thought it would be like this never imagined that a bloviated moon would sleep between us. That a crows' chorus would be our wedding march. Yet here we are. Dare I say it? At peace.
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 6:47 PM UTC
For Mary W
Ancient scenes carved in stone Show us the beards of Babylon - Land-locked and mythic In the fertile crescent of desert rivers, Their reliefs find the ancient faces Adorned with the finest groomed beards in antiquity - In the ruins of Nineveh and Ur, Crowned heads hold distinctive locks - Shared by the flowing chins - All with strands of coils - Long and barrel-thick - Braided together with skills they discovered In the ether of unwritten history. Depictions of kings fighting their legendary battles - Frozen in the stiff stills of chosen poses - Storyboarded for an anticipated future - The deeds are incomplete as found - Damaged by time and jealous men - And all I remember are the beards. Winged Annunaki standing tall, Hold strange repose inside a wall - Buried for centuries since they stood, Amongst scattered tools of stone and wood - Their legs are spread in a conical stance - Their elbows and wrists were bent in a dance - Fingers cupped around an oblong cone - Each pointed towards ears of a supplicant one - While the arms at their sides hold a bag by a strap, Only dreams can provide the meanings they map - One scene is carved with all human faces - Where the beards are thick with fully coiled laces, But another variation of a similar scene, Show Annunaki faces that a bird would preen - With bulbous eyes and curved hawk-like beaks, Where beards won't grow, on bas reliefs. Mysteries may follow damaged relics of the past, But the Babylonian beards will always last. Ad infinitum. Ad astra.
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Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC
Babylon Beards
Ancient scenes carved in stone Show us the beards of Babylon - Land-locked and mythic In the fertile crescent of desert rivers, Their reliefs find the ancient faces Adorned with the finest groomed beards in antiquity - In the ruins of Nineveh and Ur, Crowned heads hold distinctive locks - Shared by the flowing chins - All with strands of coils - Long and barrel-thick - Braided together with skills they discovered In the ether of unwritten history. Depictions of kings fighting their legendary battles - Frozen in the stiff stills of chosen poses - Storyboarded for an anticipated future - The deeds are incomplete as found - Damaged by time and jealous men - And all I remember are the beards. Winged Annunaki standing tall, Hold strange repose inside a wall - Buried for centuries since they stood, Amongst scattered tools of stone and wood - Their legs are spread in a conical stance - Their elbows and wrists were bent in a dance - Fingers cupped around an oblong cone - Each pointed towards ears of a supplicant one - While the arms at their sides hold a bag by a strap, Only dreams can provide the meanings they map - One scene is carved with all human faces - Where the beards are thick with fully coiled laces, But another variation of a similar scene, Show Annunaki faces that a bird would preen - With bulbous eyes and curved hawk-like beaks, Where beards won't grow, on bas reliefs. Mysteries may follow damaged relics of the past, But the Babylonian beards will always last. Ad infinitum. Ad astra.
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The struggle is futility Patient people play the part Of impartiality The wiser are restraint Castigated for their intelligence Castrated by their class A classless struggle we abide Poor children barely manage To survive and seldom thrive Not given access to the tools Of excellence But we wield the sword of obsolescence Antiquated ideas put on the same level as Modern machines and moral philosophies Broad language discarded for The disinfected nature of stupidity Our language is censored And free thought is crippled Thus to succeed we must Write to their level of understanding So they can understand it Which means we do not expect grandness From the masses That we underrate what they are capable of The papacy’s power is palatable but detrimental The Popes presence sends his parishioners In to servitude as they submit to the Sublimation of their identity Unable to identify the truth from the lie Unable to separate the flock from the I I become the villain For stating these things So I drop names like Darwin and Thomas Paine I wear the scarlet letter of poet and philosopher Of Supplicant to science, Of literate romantic I the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley The son of Twain and Poe The Son of Shakespeare and Baudelaire The son of logic and poetry The lost ******* of peace, love, and understanding I leave the eve of man’s ill behavior To see the seething corps of corpses Rise in ignorance strive for pestilence With hopeful hate in their eye To perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecies Of all types of apocalypses But in the end it will be I that am despised Thus if I must be hated then at least Favor me with this tiny justice Like Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Copernicus I will wear chains well earned There is so much knowledge to be had So learn, live, love and then learn some more
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 4:42 PM UTC
My Maryrdom
The struggle is futility Patient people play the part Of impartiality The wiser are restraint Castigated for their intelligence Castrated by their class A classless struggle we abide Poor children barely manage To survive and seldom thrive Not given access to the tools Of excellence But we wield the sword of obsolescence Antiquated ideas put on the same level as Modern machines and moral philosophies Broad language discarded for The disinfected nature of stupidity Our language is censored And free thought is crippled Thus to succeed we must Write to their level of understanding So they can understand it Which means we do not expect grandness From the masses That we underrate what they are capable of The papacy’s power is palatable but detrimental The Popes presence sends his parishioners In to servitude as they submit to the Sublimation of their identity Unable to identify the truth from the lie Unable to separate the flock from the I I become the villain For stating these things So I drop names like Darwin and Thomas Paine I wear the scarlet letter of poet and philosopher Of Supplicant to science, Of literate romantic I the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley The son of Twain and Poe The Son of Shakespeare and Baudelaire The son of logic and poetry The lost ******* of peace, love, and understanding I leave the eve of man’s ill behavior To see the seething corps of corpses Rise in ignorance strive for pestilence With hopeful hate in their eye To perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecies Of all types of apocalypses But in the end it will be I that am despised Thus if I must be hated then at least Favor me with this tiny justice Like Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and Copernicus I will wear chains well earned There is so much knowledge to be had So learn, live, love and then learn some more
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