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"surpassing" poems
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Your's truly, Travelogue.
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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My lips have always craved the taste of danger. Maybe it is because I don't know what's good for me or I'm in love with the high I get from it The high that takes me to the heavens, surpassing the pillow-like clouds resting against the azure canvas I remember the taste so vividly, I salivate at the thought of it It's sweet like candy, the sugary goodness rushing inside my veins delicately coating my tongue bites between my teeth explode into a thousand little pieces, dancing inside my mouth Your succulent lips pressed against mine, remind me of the taste of summer strawberries, juicy and tender with citrusy undertones we're kissing like there's no tomorrow Oh how I feel your lips part from mine, then touch and part again the way the clouds greet the sky Before a rainy afternoon How can something so bad taste this good? Oh I'm convinced your kisses are a drug Nice to play with, but toxic to the mind Kissing you must be equivalent to intoxication shockwaves through my body, the paralyzing euphoria I don't think I could ever give you up This addiction is taking control
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Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 3:34 PM UTC
Taste
In all my paralyzing confusion, only one thing is needed; in all my anxiety over my much less than ideal circumstances, only one thing is needed; in all my this-is-so-unfair discouragement, only one thing is needed; in my pressing-down-like-a-boulder-on-my-chest grief, only one thing is needed; in my feels-like-my-insides-are-being-scraped-out sorrow, only one thing is needed; in my falling-apart-at-every-seam life, only one thing is needed; in my can’t-seem-to-muster-the-will-to-get-out-of-bed depression, only one thing is needed; in my sure-I’m-finally-going-crazy state of mind, only one thing is needed; in my so-mad-I’ve-got-to-throw-and-break-something anger, only one thing is needed. In the scorning and tormenting face of rejection or betrayal or failure or devastating news or disfiguring disease or the worst fears of my heart coming to pass, only one thing is needed—to come and sit at Jesus’ feet and listen to what He is saying. To entrust myself to Him, to acknowledge His presence with me, to submit myself to His perfect authority over me, to just look at Him and recognize His all-surpassing worth, to feast on Him, to wait for Him to speak and know that He longs to do so more than I long to hear it, to meditate on His Word and speak it back to Him both in praise and request and to ask Him exactly what it means for me right now, to be ready to respond to Him in obedience and follow him wherever or however He leads, to be willing to tune out every competing voice no matter how well-intentioned and to say “No!” to whatever He has not called me to, to believe that He cares deeply and passionately for me both in His emotion toward me and in His personal tending of me, to see that the details of my life matter even more to Him than they do to me and that He holds every one of them in His hands and is perfectly directing them for intimacy and glory, to refuse to be drawn away or worried or upset by the many preparations and distractions all around me by casting every burden down before Him and taking up His all-sufficient grace for every need, and above all to want Him more than anything and to let everything else fit into that all-pervasive desire—this is the ONE THING that is needed both now and throughout every season of my life, and if I will choose it, it will not be taken from me. It is the one thing worth fighting to the death for and will, no doubt, require just such a dying again and again and again...
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Jul 24, 2017
Jul 24, 2017 at 7:27 PM UTC
The One Thing
In all my paralyzing confusion, only one thing is needed; in all my anxiety over my much less than ideal circumstances, only one thing is needed; in all my this-is-so-unfair discouragement, only one thing is needed; in my pressing-down-like-a-boulder-on-my-chest grief, only one thing is needed; in my feels-like-my-insides-are-being-scraped-out sorrow, only one thing is needed; in my falling-apart-at-every-seam life, only one thing is needed; in my can’t-seem-to-muster-the-will-to-get-out-of-bed depression, only one thing is needed; in my sure-I’m-finally-going-crazy state of mind, only one thing is needed; in my so-mad-I’ve-got-to-throw-and-break-something anger, only one thing is needed. In the scorning and tormenting face of rejection or betrayal or failure or devastating news or disfiguring disease or the worst fears of my heart coming to pass, only one thing is needed—to come and sit at Jesus’ feet and listen to what He is saying. To entrust myself to Him, to acknowledge His presence with me, to submit myself to His perfect authority over me, to just look at Him and recognize His all-surpassing worth, to feast on Him, to wait for Him to speak and know that He longs to do so more than I long to hear it, to meditate on His Word and speak it back to Him both in praise and request and to ask Him exactly what it means for me right now, to be ready to respond to Him in obedience and follow him wherever or however He leads, to be willing to tune out every competing voice no matter how well-intentioned and to say “No!” to whatever He has not called me to, to believe that He cares deeply and passionately for me both in His emotion toward me and in His personal tending of me, to see that the details of my life matter even more to Him than they do to me and that He holds every one of them in His hands and is perfectly directing them for intimacy and glory, to refuse to be drawn away or worried or upset by the many preparations and distractions all around me by casting every burden down before Him and taking up His all-sufficient grace for every need, and above all to want Him more than anything and to let everything else fit into that all-pervasive desire—this is the ONE THING that is needed both now and throughout every season of my life, and if I will choose it, it will not be taken from me. It is the one thing worth fighting to the death for and will, no doubt, require just such a dying again and again and again...
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‘tis but a thing she does The female assassin They say that poison is her weapon… maybe on occasion But that is a level she’s surpassing You see, what they fail to understand is that she doesn't take lives for vengeance ‘tis but a profession The beautiful, tantalizing female killer Her male victim’s obsession One minute she’s a runway model… with her devilishly sinful grin A smile so engrossingly enticing… full, red lips that cut across her face playfully Against her flawlessly peaceful skin One word for that…’killer’ Forbidden pleasures… blissful sin She’s taken out big names… maybe even one or two heads of state To dinners she’s escorted these men… and later on left them in their deadest state She walks through the front door, but when leaving she can scale windows Agility is her forte… ‘Man killer’ she is The black widow… In a red dress You may be reading this thinking you can never fall prey to her seductive tentacles ‘tis an argument I do not even wish to get into I digress.
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Jan 7, 2013
Jan 7, 2013 at 8:43 AM UTC
Seductive Reaper...
1275 The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed— Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified By every Broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian Land— Neglected Son of Genius I take thee by the Hand—
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The Spider as an Artist
611 I see thee better—in the Dark— I do not need a Light— The Love of Thee—a Prism be— Excelling Violet— I see thee better for the Years That hunch themselves between— The Miner’s Lamp—sufficient be— To nullify the Mine— And in the Grave—I see Thee best— Its little Panels be Aglow—All ruddy—with the Light I held so high, for Thee— What need of Day— To Those whose Dark—hath so—surpassing Sun— It deem it be—Continually— At the Meridian?
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I see thee better—in the Dark
The flame in my flesh burns tor like Above conventions of average humanity, Propelled to hatred of their opposite By the pristine charm in the streaks of culture, Their Florence comes from the glory of orthodoxities In the time long fibres of religious pockets, Islam, Christian, Hinduism and all that steadily And firmly in piety aver perfection of Godliness, Forgetting the flame of same *** with oral spice In the God made flesh of the dear lesbian daughter, Spell binding the equivalent in blossoms of the gay, Provoking hatred from the threatened heterosexists, But the oral *** of a lesbian is an apex of human pleasure Surpassing all on earth and in heaven, as no human barricade Of whatsoever caliber will cull lesbian’s feelings From the glorious power in the genitals on kiss of lips, As the tongue of the chic wag from side to other Touching fountains of ****** glory in cement of sameness Throwing threats of law and black order to dustbins And trash yards of anachronisms as the power of LGBT Engulfs the young world into in its protégé, Shamelessly tethered on the sensual tentacles Of maximum gusto in the ***** of oral *** with a dear ‘less’ In tune with all rhythms of the times Remaining strange to the conservatives, Ever seeking pleasure from where pain hails Living gloomy life on a brink of melancholia, Worry not lesbian daughter you are powerful, In one away or so, rise up and walk tall You have power in your oral *** Oral *** Oral *** Oral *** of a lesbian!
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Jul 11, 2014
Jul 11, 2014 at 4:43 AM UTC
TOP LESBIAN'S ODE TO ORAL ***
The flame in my flesh burns tor like Above conventions of average humanity, Propelled to hatred of their opposite By the pristine charm in the streaks of culture, Their Florence comes from the glory of orthodoxities In the time long fibres of religious pockets, Islam, Christian, Hinduism and all that steadily And firmly in piety aver perfection of Godliness, Forgetting the flame of same *** with oral spice In the God made flesh of the dear lesbian daughter, Spell binding the equivalent in blossoms of the gay, Provoking hatred from the threatened heterosexists, But the oral *** of a lesbian is an apex of human pleasure Surpassing all on earth and in heaven, as no human barricade Of whatsoever caliber will cull lesbian’s feelings From the glorious power in the genitals on kiss of lips, As the tongue of the chic wag from side to other Touching fountains of ****** glory in cement of sameness Throwing threats of law and black order to dustbins And trash yards of anachronisms as the power of LGBT Engulfs the young world into in its protégé, Shamelessly tethered on the sensual tentacles Of maximum gusto in the ***** of oral *** with a dear ‘less’ In tune with all rhythms of the times Remaining strange to the conservatives, Ever seeking pleasure from where pain hails Living gloomy life on a brink of melancholia, Worry not lesbian daughter you are powerful, In one away or so, rise up and walk tall You have power in your oral *** Oral *** Oral *** Oral *** of a lesbian!
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I wished for you excessively.   greedily.      immeasurably. I craved you for days on end and finally,    finally. I got to see the way your lips form around the precipice    of my name; I felt your hand on my waist as your touch provokes every minute nerve         in my body; I drowned myself in the      depth of your eyes that glisten with wonder as you           decipher the spell you've cast upon me and how it speaks volumes of every    fairytale ever made; and I have had a taste of all of this     I've had you     right within my breadth, just until the warmth     of the rising sun   kissed my eyelids awake, like the tender whisper of the            cosmos or the discordant bellowing of the void    as it reminds me:       You are unattainable. Right then again I was able to      comprehend that you will remain an illusion to me       until our paths cross once more    and in that moment, nothing will be capable of surpassing       the bewitchment    the resplendence the luminance of the mere reality that is you
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Feb 16, 2015
Feb 16, 2015 at 7:24 AM UTC
Play
i. Beset next to me Coadjuvant to mine need's; I couldst not asketh for more Mine Reyna's all do I believeth. ii. She compasses me in Dwarf Daylilies Her suntanned dermis is momentous; Wallowed in her oversea's memories A throne surpassing, Hari and Reyna scented. iii. In Luzon, the older part of the firma Betwixt the Cordillera Region, see through pneuma's; Hand-poke tool's, for me and mine dynasty amour' To get tattoos, of her ancestry upon her own shore's. iv. Covered head to toe By these inked protection's; Spelling out the word's Brandon and Jane's resurrection. ©Brandon nagley ©Earl Jane dedication/Reyna of mine soul ©Lonesome poet's poetry
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Aug 13, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 at 1:28 PM UTC
Tatu ng ang aming pag-ibig ( Tattoo of our love) filipino tongue
Remember well, O breathless kiss While melting oneness in your skin Soulful eyes of passion’s abyss Hold me close to the dream I'm in. Trembling hard within our embrace Fearlessness settled on your hips Tenderness spread across your face The Heaven found upon your lips. The whispered comfort in your ear So satisfied in binding trust Broken down walls that brought us near Two souls beyond two bodies' lust. Ne’er more perfect did two unite Released from tortured fallacy Compassion roused to star the night A night surpassing fantasy.
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Feb 14, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 at 9:59 PM UTC
O Love Of Valentine Night
XII. TO HERA (5 lines) (ll. 1-5) I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus, -- the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder.
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The Homeric Hymns: 12- To Hera
98 One dignity delays for all— One mitred Afternoon— None can avoid this purple— None evade this Crown! Coach, it insures, and footmen— Chamber, and state, and throng— Bells, also, in the village As we ride grand along! What dignified Attendants! What service when we pause! How loyally at parting Their hundred hats they raise! Her pomp surpassing ermine When simple You, and I, Present our meek escutheon And claim the rank to die!
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One dignity delays for all
A sparkling key shimmers in the haze beyond my nightmares, A key to life made of light sets off a conquest, Mirroring it is the key of the dark, Which allows my red eyes of illusion, to haunt someones death or life. I have been looking for an answer, Some truth that determines my paths, my ways, While wandering about aimlessly, I can sense the trillion elements Getting entangled within my thoughts. This silver city of my thoughts, In in a chaotic state of order, Spiritual pain breaches its walls, Guilt and sorrow rain down, corroding the structures I so proudly built. Where would I be, I wonder, When this city finally falls? Unknown, misunderstood, Book of life, to which I hold the key, What is the price of a soap bubble? What is the cost of the first rain drop on the barren earth? What is the joy in a newborn's smile? Key to life, These hands which are weapons which wield weapons, Can you transmit my sorrow beyond the walls of my heart? Unknown to life, ignorant of death, Would you delude me with hope? And then there is you. With what reason do you smile, with such gentle eyes, Drawing me closer in the web of your love? I think I can now unlock the door which was always locked. Because you are the spirit I need, The demon of pain encased within the angel of love, You can provide my soul the element of pain and warmth, Listen to my heart, o Goddess, Transmutate what I was. The hand of the Goddess echoes out, Your love changing my past, present and future, The burden of my sins replaced with joy, Which key do I deserve to hold now, Now that the heartbeat of destinies untold, beat within your womb. The key to both life and death is slowly being born, Growing its wings in the loving glow of your flesh. Developing, as our bond reaches its peaks. Key to life, I thank thee for this, For invoking desire and passion in me/ Light and darkness consort eternally, Angels flirting with demons, The keys to both life and death hide now in the complex codes, In the memory of DNA, surpassing time. It is there sons of Adam and Eve, where my truth lies.
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 10:59 AM UTC
Sparkling Keys, light and dark
A sparkling key shimmers in the haze beyond my nightmares, A key to life made of light sets off a conquest, Mirroring it is the key of the dark, Which allows my red eyes of illusion, to haunt someones death or life. I have been looking for an answer, Some truth that determines my paths, my ways, While wandering about aimlessly, I can sense the trillion elements Getting entangled within my thoughts. This silver city of my thoughts, In in a chaotic state of order, Spiritual pain breaches its walls, Guilt and sorrow rain down, corroding the structures I so proudly built. Where would I be, I wonder, When this city finally falls? Unknown, misunderstood, Book of life, to which I hold the key, What is the price of a soap bubble? What is the cost of the first rain drop on the barren earth? What is the joy in a newborn's smile? Key to life, These hands which are weapons which wield weapons, Can you transmit my sorrow beyond the walls of my heart? Unknown to life, ignorant of death, Would you delude me with hope? And then there is you. With what reason do you smile, with such gentle eyes, Drawing me closer in the web of your love? I think I can now unlock the door which was always locked. Because you are the spirit I need, The demon of pain encased within the angel of love, You can provide my soul the element of pain and warmth, Listen to my heart, o Goddess, Transmutate what I was. The hand of the Goddess echoes out, Your love changing my past, present and future, The burden of my sins replaced with joy, Which key do I deserve to hold now, Now that the heartbeat of destinies untold, beat within your womb. The key to both life and death is slowly being born, Growing its wings in the loving glow of your flesh. Developing, as our bond reaches its peaks. Key to life, I thank thee for this, For invoking desire and passion in me/ Light and darkness consort eternally, Angels flirting with demons, The keys to both life and death hide now in the complex codes, In the memory of DNA, surpassing time. It is there sons of Adam and Eve, where my truth lies.
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I am the wind when the tide is high And the clouds hang like broken picture frames in the sky, Holding on for a moment of glory While the poet’s haunting words write me life’s little story. I am the sun when the world has no shine, A gleam lost within the precious folds of time. My manner of pride surpassing What so long ago became everlasting, For the days have become nothing more than an actor’s last scene. I am thunder rippling in the dark As the raindrops wound the already fragile hearts. Sorrow falling upon the world like a blanket, Wondering how much longer our broken souls can take it. I am lost when the storm shatters the world, Breaking the glass as the space between the lines unfurl. And wandering like no man wanders before, Hanging from the busted seam brought by greed, hunger, and war, Never allowing their dreams to wash upon a dusty shore. I am lightning, vibrant and ready to be a guide in the night, Ready to end the darkness with a future promising and bright. I am lightning, leading them through the storm And abolishing the suffering that our hearts and our souls transformed. I am lightning amongst thunder, ironically quiet and frightened, Yet, they forget that their darkness too deserves to be lightened.
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Jan 25, 2017
Jan 25, 2017 at 2:30 PM UTC
I Am Lightning
In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion— It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow, (This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute’s well-tuned law, Bound about a throne where, sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate !) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh—but smile no more.
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The Haunted Palace
In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion— It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow, (This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley, Through two luminous windows, saw Spirits moving musically, To a lute’s well-tuned law, Bound about a throne where, sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!—for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate !) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh—but smile no more.
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Mercy spreads wings of light beyond unseen terrain Recognized in silence Reflected in contemplation, Fills the vacuum Mercy Divine, In  reverie Of Solitude Mysterious Finds he the owner Of solitude, Mercy's overflow, Beyond boundary Beyond limits Convinced he the owner Of solitude, Mercy Divine lights Darkest of alleys Peace settles in Surpassing all knowing, Focus thus the source Source of Mercy Divine Mercy spreads wings of light beyond unseen terrain Recognized in silence Reflected in contemplation, Fills the vacuum Mercy Divine, In  reverie Of Solitude Mysterious
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Nov 7, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 at 9:45 AM UTC
Divine Mercy
THERE is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard Of her unblemished lineaments, a whiteness with no stain, That she might be that sprightly girl trodden by a bird; And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing woma- kind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. The young men every night applaud their Gaby's laughing eye, And Ruth St. Denis had more charm although she had poor luck; From nineteen hundred nine or ten, Pavlova's had the cry And there's a player in the States who gathers up her cloak And flings herself out of the room when Juliet would be bride With all a woman's passion, a child's imperious way, And there are -- but no matter if there are scores beside: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. There's Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan, A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy; One's had her fill of lovers, another's had but one, Another boasts, "I pick and choose and have but two or three.' If head and limb have beauty and the instep's high and light They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say, Be but the breakers of men's hearts or engines of delight: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. There'll be that crowd, that barbarous crowd, through all the centuries, And who can say but some young belle may walk and talk men wild Who is my beauty's equal, though that my heart denies, But not the exact likeness, the simplicity of a child, And that proud look as though she had gazed into the burning sun, And all the shapely body no tittle gone astray. I mourn for that most lonely thing; and yet God's will be done: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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His Phoenix
THERE is a queen in China, or maybe it's in Spain, And birthdays and holidays such praises can be heard Of her unblemished lineaments, a whiteness with no stain, That she might be that sprightly girl trodden by a bird; And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing woma- kind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. The young men every night applaud their Gaby's laughing eye, And Ruth St. Denis had more charm although she had poor luck; From nineteen hundred nine or ten, Pavlova's had the cry And there's a player in the States who gathers up her cloak And flings herself out of the room when Juliet would be bride With all a woman's passion, a child's imperious way, And there are -- but no matter if there are scores beside: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. There's Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan, A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy; One's had her fill of lovers, another's had but one, Another boasts, "I pick and choose and have but two or three.' If head and limb have beauty and the instep's high and light They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say, Be but the breakers of men's hearts or engines of delight: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. There'll be that crowd, that barbarous crowd, through all the centuries, And who can say but some young belle may walk and talk men wild Who is my beauty's equal, though that my heart denies, But not the exact likeness, the simplicity of a child, And that proud look as though she had gazed into the burning sun, And all the shapely body no tittle gone astray. I mourn for that most lonely thing; and yet God's will be done: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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670 One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain has Corridors—surpassing Material Place— Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting External Ghost Than its interior Confronting— That Cooler Host. Far safer, through an Abbey gallop, The Stones a’chase— Than Unarmed, one’s a’self encounter— In lonesome Place— Ourself behind ourself, concealed— Should startle most— Assassin hid in our Apartment Be Horror’s least. The Body—borrows a Revolver— He bolts the Door— O’erlooking a superior spectre— Or More—
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One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted
Before midnight, I could die a thousand deaths and still not know how I'm living to experience this. Grasping for air; For I am being suffocated within your existence- and I love every second of it. Slowly surpassing every standard I have, You are breaking every wall; and I could thank you with a million kisses; and it still wouldn't be enough.
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
Midnight
History's greatest artists would fail to do your frame justice. Their fingers would fumble clumsily, brushes and pens flustered by the impossible request of copying a face which would shame Aphrodite into seclusion. Those with mastery of the worlds languages couldn't hope to come close to capturing the magnificence and depth of a soul that burns brighter than our sun, papers crumpled in frustration from futile attempts at capturing a shooting star in a mason jar. Virtuosic musicians can't comprehend melodies which could equal your soothing atmosphere or complex structure. Theorists would spend eons attempting to find an ordering of notes which could sing harmonies fitting the one that pours from your eyes, each one being broken by the realization that no such string exists, that they have attempted to match the glory of a choir of angels, and that God has found them unworthy. Reality is ripping at the seams in its vain efforts to make room for an immaculate Phoenix which can not be tamed, corralled, or controlled by a physical world, not when its immortal splendor transcends description or dimension. Moments feel like eternity when blessed with the presence of one who's life illuminates nights which previously contained impenetrable darkness, thick as ink and as all consuming as the fires which now burn so brilliantly and with such calming warmth. A priceless work of art, surpassing the limits of what can perceived with eyes or ears, and must be experienced by the heart, felt by the soul, and loved by the whole of my being. A greater masterpiece has never been born, and can never be duplicated, for she is the universes greatest achievement, and only a fool could think to improve upon perfection.
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Jun 21, 2015
Jun 21, 2015 at 11:49 PM UTC
Masterpiece
History's greatest artists would fail to do your frame justice. Their fingers would fumble clumsily, brushes and pens flustered by the impossible request of copying a face which would shame Aphrodite into seclusion. Those with mastery of the worlds languages couldn't hope to come close to capturing the magnificence and depth of a soul that burns brighter than our sun, papers crumpled in frustration from futile attempts at capturing a shooting star in a mason jar. Virtuosic musicians can't comprehend melodies which could equal your soothing atmosphere or complex structure. Theorists would spend eons attempting to find an ordering of notes which could sing harmonies fitting the one that pours from your eyes, each one being broken by the realization that no such string exists, that they have attempted to match the glory of a choir of angels, and that God has found them unworthy. Reality is ripping at the seams in its vain efforts to make room for an immaculate Phoenix which can not be tamed, corralled, or controlled by a physical world, not when its immortal splendor transcends description or dimension. Moments feel like eternity when blessed with the presence of one who's life illuminates nights which previously contained impenetrable darkness, thick as ink and as all consuming as the fires which now burn so brilliantly and with such calming warmth. A priceless work of art, surpassing the limits of what can perceived with eyes or ears, and must be experienced by the heart, felt by the soul, and loved by the whole of my being. A greater masterpiece has never been born, and can never be duplicated, for she is the universes greatest achievement, and only a fool could think to improve upon perfection.
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Has your soul sipped Of the sweetness of all sweets? Has it well supped But yet hungers and sweats? I have been witness Of a strange sweetness, All fancy surpassing Past all supposing. Passing the rays Of the rubies of morning, Or the soft rise Of the moon; or the meaning Known to the rose Of her mystery and mourning. Sweeter than nocturnes Of the wild nightingale Or than love's nectar After life's gall. Sweeter than odours Of living leaves, Sweeter than ardours Of dying loves. Sweeter than death And dreams hereafter To one in dearth Or life and its laughter. Or the proud wound The victor wears Or the last end Of all wars. Or the sweet ****** After long guard Unto the martyr Smiling at God; To me was that smile, Faint as a wan, worn myth, Faint and exceeding small, On a boy's murdered mouth. Though from his throat The life-tide leaps There was no threat On his lips. But with the bitter blood And the death-smell All his life's sweetness bled Into a smile.
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Has Your Soul Sipped?
Something simple, something sweet... Something magical, my souls favorite treat. The calm before the storm. A captivating blur, Of feelings no bystander could infer. A magical intensity of silent poetry. Bittersweet bliss manifesting inside of me. Spontaneity whipping through the air. All sense of reality halts in the company we share. Clouds of the past dissipate, With each ray of sunshine you create. A roller-coaster ride lacking a safety belt, Surpassing any type of affection ever felt. Like riding a wave, yet a board would serve no purpose... If you have me constantly floating above the surface. Reality holds no depiction to genuinely describe, The notion of comprehending all that is inside. Foraging for a taste of your soul, my eyes are met with a blue abyss. Shaded ripples of Nirvana, too precious to resist. Drifting towards the center, a black hole draws me in. Here I realize I had found my key to explore within. A whirlwind of beauty emerging from every angle. So engulfed in the chemistry, I am now comfortably tangled. Smacked with a supercharged rush leaving me numb, frozen with awe. Eventually revived, your lips casually departing mine...the first thing I saw.
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM UTC
Ripples of Nirvana
The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon’s transparent might, The breath of the moist air is light, Around its unexpanded buds; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds’, the birds’, the ocean floods’, The City’s voice itself, is soft like Solitude’s. I see the Deep’s untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: I sit upon the sands alone,— The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned— Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;— To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Some might lament that I were cold, As I, when this sweet day is done, Which my lost heart, too soon grown old, Insults with this untimely moan; They might lament—for I am one Whom men love not,—and yet regret, Unlike this day which, when the sun Shall on its stainless glory set, Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o’er my dying brain its last monotony.
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Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples
The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon’s transparent might, The breath of the moist air is light, Around its unexpanded buds; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds’, the birds’, the ocean floods’, The City’s voice itself, is soft like Solitude’s. I see the Deep’s untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: I sit upon the sands alone,— The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned— Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;— To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Some might lament that I were cold, As I, when this sweet day is done, Which my lost heart, too soon grown old, Insults with this untimely moan; They might lament—for I am one Whom men love not,—and yet regret, Unlike this day which, when the sun Shall on its stainless glory set, Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o’er my dying brain its last monotony.
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Small town ignorance is buried deep within the skull Generational behavior passed on from father to son To daughter from mom Weak willed sublimation of their identity Stealing the unlimited possibilities With beer, *** and stupidity parading as the news Rich people using the confusion to abuse Factions united under bland statements of false unity Corporate art dulled down to distract me The facts you see aren’t reality But society selling insanity Vanity instead of depths Sheep instead of blazing suns This is where I came from But I know they are more than that Under that John Deer cap Is a potential surpassing their current fashion Worse than a scarlet letter Yes passion perceived the secrets we see Cut close to the essence of our being Humanity enlightened not frightened By our blazing dreams I can see what is and what might be And though the now and past pain me deeply That possibility for a better future sustains What remains of my waning sanity
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 5:54 PM UTC
Small Town Ignorance
Sixteen bewhiskered cats with tempers sweet Only needing food and tranquil retreat. They try to be good and do what is right But get into mischief from morn till night. So hard not to adore each furry face Though pranks may lead to many a disgrace Fiddling and tearing the household blinds Until sighing we think we'll lose our minds. Hearts so overflowing with deepest love, Sent from God the Father of Lights above. Sadly few folks to such a good home give. How can each darling continue to live? And even though they may growl and grumble, When time to eat tiny motors rumble. Furry paws swat many a ragged mouse. Without them would be a desolate house! Families adopt babies, fortunes pay, Yet for these wuss pusses refuse to sway. More forgiving than us despite sharp claws, Surpassing mankind's sins and blatant flaws. Sixteen bewhiskered cats with tempers sweet! What have they done to deserve such defeat? .
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 3:02 PM UTC
Furry Friends