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I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they ****** ****** ****** In their icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III. Hear the loud alarum bells— Brazen bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now—now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the ***** of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells— Of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells— Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple. All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry ***** swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells— Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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The Bells
I. Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they ****** ****** ****** In their icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! III. Hear the loud alarum bells— Brazen bells! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now—now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the ***** of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells— Of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! IV. Hear the tolling of the bells— Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people— They that dwell up in the steeple. All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells! And his merry ***** swells With the paean of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the paean of the bells— Of the bells: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells— Of the bells, bells, bells— To the tolling of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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HEAR YE HEAR YEIt's a wedding bell for bedding well cause' we're crushin' the illusion of Russian collusion! CNN wets on Russian bedding but Trump bets on Russian wedding, and you're invited to the bridal shower. Punking the monkery, dig the debunkery; from Rasputin to Putin it's time for some straight shootin'. Hillary looks old and glowers at Donald's rumored golden showers. Our media owes US an explanation for streams of steaming urination, but we are willing to forgive and use their wet diapers as debt wipers. My poem's appeal may take a toll, but let its little peal now roll: ****** ****** rings the bell A Fake News warning; time to spell out what was wet with Moscow girls. Putin's putas ?  Wisdom's pearls were pried from Truth's reluctant shell, banishing Hillary straight to hell. None. It's what we want left over from this hag. We now discover beds were dry; it all amounted (all those golden tricks recounted) to less than a tepid bowl of kasha. . . Russia laughed from her summer dacha. InfoWars was on it first while Dems spun lies from false to worst, awarding cash for faked dossiers embellished with the CIA's well-trained performing circus-seal. The FBI endorsed the deal as RINOS horned in on the action: Washingtonian distraction; a democrat-concocted fuss— . . . but we ALL paid Hillary to **** on us.
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Oct 26, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 at 4:47 PM UTC
Fake News Wets Bed
They sing a song of melody Some beautiful tune That only Fairies sing at night They ****** in the daytime They quietly chime in the distance at night Wind chimes ****** in the forest Where the Fairies dance at night In their beautiful Fairy Ring Where all Fairies gather for the dance Where we dance in a Ring Wind chimes are our music And they chime in the night breezes A tune for us to waltz to Even butterflies join the dance And I am waltzing with the moon Who smiles happily from his chair In the dark, dark midnight sky I love to hear the wind chimes When they ****** in the Spring And Summertime breezes And in the wind of a thunderstorm When they may chime vigorously In the rain-scented winds That send a twister of leaves Flying through the air Wind chimes soothe the mind And tired body at night And send sweet dreams Into your head ~Marian~
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 6:39 PM UTC
Wind Chimes
There, she lies on the altar Almost held the sun she— almost in her hands Opened up, a rose-bud chaste petal by petal by blood, with a sting, so sweet and sweet, as sunset reborn a bee; she was gold and silver and black at once. Almost held the sun she— and no wax wings used Oh, Icarus, love you did a wild sky, — yourself a light-licked doom   as your father cried, Your father cried for you. A veil as simple sour starlight she wore as wings of wasps as beetles she giggled Icarus, flew that you —and with tongue-tied elation too Icarus, she rambled on for hours long. A letter she held in spring kissed hands —I will wed you to the sun, her father had sworn. The sun—and a sun he was, child of the sea, some sword in honey dipped; now her awaiting. And blushed she did herself a dawn The altar, on the altar. Almost held the sun she— Swallowed a mayhem for the father's sin. Icarus, tell me of the plummet. Tell me of the greens you saw, of blues, of whites, of the whirling world— Men go around around her their soles all ready to crush lost skulls an empty moor. Twirling, the dust, like may have her hair before the wedding day Strands and strands, gently styled— Spears, swords, rubbed to mirrors, to lakes lifeless Armors and ships laden with life, with sails, the fluttering doves; As the winds dance once more— as harbors vacated, as waves torn apart for the horde, as move they on— on too the sun— as She still lies. Icarus, Icarus, was it the ocean that cupped its palms, or did the soil cave in as down into dark's slick throat you slid? Surely, was soft, the sea's well-loved mouth, Surely soft or true She lies on the altar a trinket glossy on a hoof, a ****** in the bell, how does one say— the valley of lilies, she grew it inside. Spilled out on the stones, they are fed to the flies. Almost held the sun she— Icarus, must you know You did not sleep a wretched silence within the womb of war. No crescent blades you drank down a leaking throat— She lies on the altar, vanquished for moon — for metal upon bone for blood, for blood, for blood. A father’s green promise— Seasoned to rust before the king Icarus, on the altar she lies— a ripened land far, far away lures her king to another rosy worship. Icarus, Icarus, on the altar
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Aug 3, 2021
Aug 3, 2021 at 7:45 AM UTC
Iphigenia
There, she lies on the altar Almost held the sun she— almost in her hands Opened up, a rose-bud chaste petal by petal by blood, with a sting, so sweet and sweet, as sunset reborn a bee; she was gold and silver and black at once. Almost held the sun she— and no wax wings used Oh, Icarus, love you did a wild sky, — yourself a light-licked doom   as your father cried, Your father cried for you. A veil as simple sour starlight she wore as wings of wasps as beetles she giggled Icarus, flew that you —and with tongue-tied elation too Icarus, she rambled on for hours long. A letter she held in spring kissed hands —I will wed you to the sun, her father had sworn. The sun—and a sun he was, child of the sea, some sword in honey dipped; now her awaiting. And blushed she did herself a dawn The altar, on the altar. Almost held the sun she— Swallowed a mayhem for the father's sin. Icarus, tell me of the plummet. Tell me of the greens you saw, of blues, of whites, of the whirling world— Men go around around her their soles all ready to crush lost skulls an empty moor. Twirling, the dust, like may have her hair before the wedding day Strands and strands, gently styled— Spears, swords, rubbed to mirrors, to lakes lifeless Armors and ships laden with life, with sails, the fluttering doves; As the winds dance once more— as harbors vacated, as waves torn apart for the horde, as move they on— on too the sun— as She still lies. Icarus, Icarus, was it the ocean that cupped its palms, or did the soil cave in as down into dark's slick throat you slid? Surely, was soft, the sea's well-loved mouth, Surely soft or true She lies on the altar a trinket glossy on a hoof, a ****** in the bell, how does one say— the valley of lilies, she grew it inside. Spilled out on the stones, they are fed to the flies. Almost held the sun she— Icarus, must you know You did not sleep a wretched silence within the womb of war. No crescent blades you drank down a leaking throat— She lies on the altar, vanquished for moon — for metal upon bone for blood, for blood, for blood. A father’s green promise— Seasoned to rust before the king Icarus, on the altar she lies— a ripened land far, far away lures her king to another rosy worship. Icarus, Icarus, on the altar
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*Wind Chimes A story of lasting love by Jude Kyrie At the end of a hard day’s work in our garden. Now exhausted and resting in my chair. Feeling the need to see your smile again I quietly call your name. There is no answer of course you have been in heaven for so long. The onset of confusion clouds my memory. Just the jingles of the breeze on the wind chimes answer my call. By your chair an open book and your glasses still remain as if you may return. My need to see you is now overwhelming. I seek to find you everywhere in the house. Then I see you stood under the large flowering rose arbor. A basket of flowers cut from the beds hangs from your arm. The fading sunlight of evening now a halo about your long hair. My eyes mist at the vision. So sweet so astoundingly beautiful. So cool like the mist of summer rain You smile at me. The wind chimes ****** once again. You tell me the sweet woodruff is taking over. The hollyhocks need thinning. And the wisteria has become overgrown. You tell me all of these things. But all I see is your sweet heart of purest gold. The rose arbor framing the light of my life Glowing as the sun at the centre of my small universe. I long to kneel before you to pay homage to you. to say to you I love you darling. but you fade into the sparkling remnants of the melting sunlight. As the wind chimes lilt in the evening air over the blossoming perfumes of our gardens bounty.*
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 7:15 AM UTC
Windchimes
You say love is this, love is that: Poplar tassels, willow tendrils the wind and the rain comb, ****** and drip, ****** and drip— branches drifting apart. Hagh! Love has not even visited this country.
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Memory Of April
--To C. M. Fountains that frisk and sprinkle The moss they overspill; Pools that the breezes crinkle; The wheel beside the mill, With its wet, weedy frill; Wind-shadows in the wheat; A water-cart in the street; The fringe of foam that girds An islet's ferneries; A green sky's minor thirds-- To live, I think of these! Of ice and glass the ****** Pellucid, silver-shrill; Peaches without a wrinkle; Cherries and snow at will, From china bowls that fill The senses with a sweet Incuriousness of heat; A melon's dripping sherds; Cream-clotted strawberries; Dusk dairies set with curds-- To live, I think of these! Vale-lily and periwinkle; Wet stone-crop on the sill; The look of leaves a-twinkle With windlets clear and still; The feel of a forest rill That wimples fresh and fleet About one's naked feet; The muzzles of drinking herds; Lush flags and bulrushes; The chirp of rain-bound birds-- To live, I think of these! Envoy Dark aisles, new packs of cards, Mermaidens' tails, cool swards, Dawn dews and starlit seas, White marbles, whiter words-- To live, I think of these!
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Ballade Made In The Hot Weather
*Windchimes In my advancing years Clarity eludes me now and then. I sit quietly in the gazebo. Your book and glasses not yet removed from your seat. Drifting into sleep I awaken suddenly. with confusion reigning again. I quietly call your name The need to see you is overwhelming. I search the gardens for you Panic setting in to my heart. Then in the cool evening summer breeze. The gentle chiming of the windchimes Calm my panic as your soft words once did. Then under the blooming arches of the rose arbor I see you. A basket of flowers hang from your arm. The fading light from the evening sun. Frames a halo about your long hair. My eyes mist So sweet so astoundingly beautiful As calm as the mist on a summer's morn. You smile at me The windchimes ****** softly in the air. You tell me the sweet wudruff is taking over The hollyhocks need trimming And the roses need pruning You tell me all of these things. But all I see is your sweet heart of purest gold. The rose arbor framing the light of my life. Glowing as the sun at the Centre of my small universe. I fall to my knees to pay homage. As you fade into the evening shadows. Just the lilt of the windchimes Dance over the perfumed bounty Of our flowering gardens*
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Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC
Windchimes
*Windchimes A story of lasting love by Jude Kyrie At the end of a hard day’s work in our garden. Now exhausted and resting in my chair. Feeling the need to see your smile again I quietly call your name. There is no answer of course you have been in heaven for so long. The onset of confusion clouds my memory. Just the jingles of the breeze on the wind chimes answer my call. By your chair an open book and your glasses still remain as if you may return. My need to see you is now overwhelming. I seek to find you everywhere in the house. Then I see you stood under the large flowering rose arbor. A basket of flowers cut from the beds hangs from your arm. The fading sunlight of evening now a halo about your long hair. My eyes mist at the vision. So sweet so astoundingly beautiful. So cool like the mist of summer rain You smile at me. The wind chimes ****** once again. You tell me the sweet woodruff is taking over. The hollyhocks need thinning. And the wisteria has become overgrown. You tell me all of these things. But all I see is your sweet heart of purest gold. The rose arbor framing the light of my life Glowing as the sun at the centre of my small universe. I long to kneel before you to pay homage to you. to say to you I love you darling. but you fade into the sparkling remnants of the melting sunlight. As the wind chimes lilt in the evening air over the blossoming perfumes of our gardens bounty*
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 4:11 PM UTC
Windchimes ...a story of a love that cannot die
tootsie pops, pop rocks, rock candy sweet tarts, smelly farts, war-heads, sour patch kids reeses pieces, reeses stix, snickers lickers fudge pile, chocolate smile, peanut butter bile, sugary style baby ruths, almond joys, soy bean sauce, creamy steam ill give u a payday, mayday, hay tastes good with parfai milkyways stay gay to play games with sunrays icing splicing with knife dicing makes cakes, cook steaks, rumcakes ****** sprinkles, rip van winkle, diddily dinkle gummy worms, germs impregnate firm, permed urns angel food, carrots, pineapple upsideways fruits, ***** parachutes, scooters, jello shooters goobers, corn on the cobbers, veggie wedgies, pepper leppers, squash boxes, fry foxes, fleet rocks', carrot tops', dishes of fishes, witches brew platypus and fat kush pushy slushies riding skateboards on gary busy fussy hussies getting blushy about cussies cereal made of creoles, bread straight from dreads, rice is nice with spice, yeast is beast, last but not least, wheat is a treat, kiwis, shmiwis, dodos on go phones, starfruits, bartlejuice, grape drank, sushi stinks. ill eat anything.
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 4:50 AM UTC
candyland jam
Eventually all water drains to the sea, and so to the body's waters drain to its urinary bladder. But the bladder, unlike the sea, must be drained every few hours, call it a normative ****** rhythm, taken for granted, as it should be, by the functionally normal, but the spine paralyzed must be catherized four, five six times a day. **** breaks through an inserted tube, to which I can personally report, the ***** prefers piercing then being pierced.
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Aug 27, 2012
Aug 27, 2012 at 2:59 PM UTC
Catheters
--To W. H. With a ripple of leaves and a ****** of streams The full world rolls in a rhythm of praise, And the winds are one with the clouds and beams-- Midsummer days! Midsummer days! The dusk grows vast; in a purple haze, While the West from a rapture of sunset rights, Faint stars their exquisite lamps upraise-- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! The wood's green heart is a nest of dreams, The lush grass thickens and springs and sways, The rathe wheat rustles, the landscape gleams-- Midsummer days! Midsummer days! In the stilly fields, in the stilly ways, All secret shadows and mystic lights, Late lovers murmur and linger and gaze-- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! There's a music of bells from the trampling teams, Wild skylarks hover, the gorses blaze, The rich, ripe rose as with incense steams-- Midsummer days! Midsummer days! A soul from the honeysuckle strays, And the nightingale as from prophet heights Sings to the Earth of her million Mays-- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! Envoy And it's O, for my dear and the charm that stays-- Midsummer days! Midsummer days! It's O, for my Love and the dark that plights-- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights!
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Ballade (Double Refrain) Of Midsummer Days And Nights
BE THY OWN PALACE Seated beside her in the pew her doll listened intently to the Saviour who emerges from the old priest's mouth an ectoplasm of words as He manifests before her. "Is there a doll heaven?" she wonders. Her little mistress however is bored very bored indeed much more interested  in a sunbeam genuflecting before the altar extinguishing the priest's voice. Or the ladybird landing on a lady's foxfur it more jewel than the jewel worn. Picking her nose as the host is held aloft a bird perched upon the left shoulder of the crucifix the Christ a mere cypher how the artist fancied HIm. The crucified man smiling at her despite how boring the sermon is. Sunlight becoming colour travelling through stained glass. Her doll nods off falling at her feet "Shhhhhh!" father scolds both doll and daughter. Doll's head broken in four nothing inside but an emptiness all her thoughts evaporated. The smile still fixed on her porcelain face. Incense like death walking upon the air. The tiny ****** of a bell.
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Nov 2, 2018
Nov 2, 2018 at 6:54 PM UTC
BE THY OWN PALACE
Monk tinks tonight fine glasses clink convivial banter bubble pop blink in breathing rooms bit woofed and stirred the smoke mint sound we dare exhale Monk swings about a bell do ding the huey blues bird bops on wings hips juicy moves rubby mounds wet **** slow drum rolls blow dance steady bump Monk rocks the house the clock do tick me feets be tappin gonna busta trick key ******* bounce mouths all agape we gettin down like crazy apes Monk’s muzik rides a sonorous beam levitatin hipsters to places unseen gosh groovy tunes a **** good gig we all stoked up Monk we do dig   Monk played alright some swingin tunes Happy B Day Monk you over the moon Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917 - February 17, 1982) Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Trinkle ****** 10/9/13 Suffern jbm
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM UTC
Monk Muzik (Monk at Minton's)
The alarm clock rings and once again the rooster sings the morning new. Slumbering flowers lift their petals to drink the drops of dew.   Reliable Sun vanquishes the darkness as he lightens the sky.   I see an honored guest is in the garden, his tiny nametag reads... butterfly.        But on the other side of town        someone struggles with        addiction.  Habits grab hard, break will powers  in two. The will becomes won't and the power is all through. Satiated, temporaneously satisfied. only till the next time the habit has to be gratified. The victim moves on trying to reassemble his day Avoid a crooked roaded relapse, along the way. Oh ghost of the host why must repitition repeat the most and feel so good in its continuation? Why must familiarity breed the need for more familiar feelings? To the point of killing control, sealing a fate, dealing defeat, stifle healing.      If your out there guardian soul, spirit helper, what's your roll, your goal?   Guiding with helping hand or let stand the habitualized habit man. Isn't there  a self preservation station within? A gland or impulse control button to switch from sin to win? Even Edgar Allan Poe stubbed his toe on a ten step program trying to get in the door. Ill-begotten and craven, drunken and unshaven cried the raven...never more. Guiding spirit it ends here!          No more slave to the crave or impulse picking from the addiction tree. The need to repeat and repeat the pattern becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. Back to normalacy, complacency, it's a moderation that one seeks. To enjoy the ****** of bells, hallalulah wails, a babies dimpled cheeks. Can you do that Spirit helper, please. Let sing the bodies vibration.  No more internal damnation. No more self flagellation. Allow to draw power from these words. Think of this all as an intervention!
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 at 6:52 PM UTC
Addicted to Habit
The alarm clock rings and once again the rooster sings the morning new. Slumbering flowers lift their petals to drink the drops of dew.   Reliable Sun vanquishes the darkness as he lightens the sky.   I see an honored guest is in the garden, his tiny nametag reads... butterfly.        But on the other side of town        someone struggles with        addiction.  Habits grab hard, break will powers  in two. The will becomes won't and the power is all through. Satiated, temporaneously satisfied. only till the next time the habit has to be gratified. The victim moves on trying to reassemble his day Avoid a crooked roaded relapse, along the way. Oh ghost of the host why must repitition repeat the most and feel so good in its continuation? Why must familiarity breed the need for more familiar feelings? To the point of killing control, sealing a fate, dealing defeat, stifle healing.      If your out there guardian soul, spirit helper, what's your roll, your goal?   Guiding with helping hand or let stand the habitualized habit man. Isn't there  a self preservation station within? A gland or impulse control button to switch from sin to win? Even Edgar Allan Poe stubbed his toe on a ten step program trying to get in the door. Ill-begotten and craven, drunken and unshaven cried the raven...never more. Guiding spirit it ends here!          No more slave to the crave or impulse picking from the addiction tree. The need to repeat and repeat the pattern becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. Back to normalacy, complacency, it's a moderation that one seeks. To enjoy the ****** of bells, hallalulah wails, a babies dimpled cheeks. Can you do that Spirit helper, please. Let sing the bodies vibration.  No more internal damnation. No more self flagellation. Allow to draw power from these words. Think of this all as an intervention!
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I am not sure who I am talking to anymore. Your voice sounds like a stranger; someone whose voice was never privy to the corners and edges of my heart. Certainly, not the kind of voice that wisps the rhapsodic notes for my soul to ****** away with. I don't even wish to know who I am to you now. So, hello Mister Stranger.
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 4:57 AM UTC
Mister Stranger
. Hair the colour of Ravens, skin the colour of Crows, eyes the colour of Rooks, somehow it just flows, as she walks      down the path                like a bride, with the sway      of the sultry, and the smile                      of the Huntress. Her way lined by the bowed heads of willows,                    meandering, with the feint ****** of water bubbling      over pebbles, from the mountain stream that wends in consort and chimes         with the bells on her toes. Her breath, mist in the morning air, as she seeks her prey,      a victim of lust, with no pardon, mossy rocks glide by           as her pace slows, dew soaking her feet,      dawn glade,                           the jaws of her trap. © Pagan Paul (17/08/18)
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 11:16 AM UTC
Dark Nymph
*Tonight the softness of the air touches my skin gently. Like once your fingertips did. The air blooms with moonlight and Jasmine. A breeze touches the flowers one by one Roses Dahlias Carnations night stock and Gardenia. Ahh Gardenia your favorite. I close my eyes in my mind my senses bring you here to me. You are wearing the gown that once we were married in. Your lips so red and eyes so inviting. I touch you long flowing hair I can feel the softness of you even in my mind. You reach up and unfasten the ribbons that hold it. it flows like a storm over my bare chest. Outside I can hear the ****** of your laughter like a sweet night song. But it is only the windchimes that you loved. bringing me back to the empty heart That only you could fill.*
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 12:41 AM UTC
Gardenias and Ribbons
****** of wind chimes in aerial March breezes haunting melodies
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Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014 at 3:37 PM UTC
March (haiku)
Inside my throat expands under water mountain ranges for miles Sea salt love affairs dance across shell pink lips Telling all of Poseidon's secrets through drift wood bonfires I love you Parts are missing so I gather bits and pieces close Always in need of more cosmic adheisive to keep you here Stalwart and worthy your effigy stands carved of whale bone steel Starry night sky corsets cinching our tied tongues together We once had a name, a place Desires and wishes flooded the air between us Now it's just me constantly rowing against the current While you glide smoothly ahead riding the trough I have storm clouds hidden in my sunshine smiles ****** pearled laughter stifled and worn Too tired to see the nautilus of my thoughts dragging me under
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM UTC
Calypso
I’m sitting in chemistry, I’m dying to *** I raised my hand, But the teacher couldn’t see. I broke beakers and spilled chemicals, But he still couldn’t hear my plea. If I take a ****** on a cylinder, I’m sure he would notice me! —Thomas James Written on April 7, 2010
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 7:16 PM UTC
Chemistry
High beyond the thick wall a tower shines with sunset Where peach and plum are blooming and the willowcotton flies. You have heard in your office the court-bell of twilight; Birds find perches, officials head for home. Your morning-jade will ****** as you thread the golden palace; You will bring the word of Heaven from the closing gates at night. And I should serve there with you; but being full of years, I have taken off official robes and am resting from my troubles.
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Harmonizing a Poem, (beside Palace Attendant Guo.)
My child said today, “You’d be rich if it wasn’t for me” and she then smiled that goofy smile adding, “Why did you have me then? I’m so expensive. ” And when she later shimmied like a long lean cat on a thin fence, I replied, “This is why I had you.” And when she then made up her own word, bestfuzzer, to describe a friend, I said, “This is why I had you.” And as she curled into my belly on the bed nuzzled my neck, and blew holes in my hair, I whispered, “This is why I had you.” She has forced me to reinvent myself to plumb the deep waters of my reserve my sanity, my will to live even and bring up one more shining fish one more favor, one more drive across town one more strange meal at 2 am And in cleaning away the thick of leaves, dirt, and grass from my grandparents’ headstones I become them, their bones my bones Their struggle my struggle How much we could have saved in not having children would nevertheless have impoverished us in other ways. We are driven by dumb unseen forces as ancient as soil to create our children – accident, intent, it doesn’t matter so I pay homage to my grandparents - tired, frightened immigrants barely out of childhood, with the stench of their parents on fire singing their nostrils Why did they persist? What drove my grandmother to marry a man she’d never even met? to bear his children, to suffer his beatings? This is why I had you Because I was lonely *Because I was ***** Because through you I sewed myself back together Because you are my destiny And when my child asks why I had her I breathe milk and honey into her mouth jostle the stars until they ****** like wind chimes pulling the continents back together again. And when she asks me, I can only offer up the scoop of my palms and the ticking of blood in my wrists as reasons.
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:05 PM UTC
This Is Why I Had You
My child said today, “You’d be rich if it wasn’t for me” and she then smiled that goofy smile adding, “Why did you have me then? I’m so expensive. ” And when she later shimmied like a long lean cat on a thin fence, I replied, “This is why I had you.” And when she then made up her own word, bestfuzzer, to describe a friend, I said, “This is why I had you.” And as she curled into my belly on the bed nuzzled my neck, and blew holes in my hair, I whispered, “This is why I had you.” She has forced me to reinvent myself to plumb the deep waters of my reserve my sanity, my will to live even and bring up one more shining fish one more favor, one more drive across town one more strange meal at 2 am And in cleaning away the thick of leaves, dirt, and grass from my grandparents’ headstones I become them, their bones my bones Their struggle my struggle How much we could have saved in not having children would nevertheless have impoverished us in other ways. We are driven by dumb unseen forces as ancient as soil to create our children – accident, intent, it doesn’t matter so I pay homage to my grandparents - tired, frightened immigrants barely out of childhood, with the stench of their parents on fire singing their nostrils Why did they persist? What drove my grandmother to marry a man she’d never even met? to bear his children, to suffer his beatings? This is why I had you Because I was lonely *Because I was ***** Because through you I sewed myself back together Because you are my destiny And when my child asks why I had her I breathe milk and honey into her mouth jostle the stars until they ****** like wind chimes pulling the continents back together again. And when she asks me, I can only offer up the scoop of my palms and the ticking of blood in my wrists as reasons.
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Mi amada Daisy Ya no tengo quien me avise cuando hay alguien en la puerta Quien se acurruque en mi panza cuando estoy triste Quien me vea preocupada cuando estoy enferma Quien duerma junto a mí en la cama, tapada de pies a cabeza Era el paraíso despertar con un bultito tan bello y calientito Mi chiquitita, my tiny Tan fría que querías parecer, pero cuánto me querías Todo el día pegada a mí, todo el día en mis piernas Corrías a sentarte en el tapete para acompañarme hasta en el baño Sabías perfectamente cuando me iba a ir de viaje Te subías a mi maleta, y escuchaba tus lloridos desde la puerta Mi vaquita, mi chilpetina Ya no tengo quien me despierte en la mañana para ir al baño Jamás te hiciste en la cama, ladrabas para que te bajara y te abriera Ladrabas y corrías a tu platito de agua cuando querías agua O frente a tu platito de comida exigiendo que era hora de comer Solita lo aprendiste, "Such a smart puppy!" Mi tinky winky, my ****** twinkle Ya no tengo a quien soplarle en la carita Y que como respuesta me llene de besos No tengo con quien batallar para que coma Ni a quien ponerle tus vestiditos todos chiquitos A quien observar, morir de amor, e inevitablemente llenar de besos Mi bébe, my puppy Eras tan fuerte que jamás te quejaste de nada Ni siquiera cuando tus pequeños riñones empezaron a fallar Siempre estuviste alegre, moviendo tu colita Excepto en tus últimos días, apagada Sabías que ya habías cumplido tu misión, que ya era hora Mi preciosura GRACIAS por quererme, por hacerme feliz con sólo verte GRACIAS por cuidarme, por absorber mis males y tristezas GRACIAS por esperar a que llegara para irte GRACIAS por ser fuerte cuando tu cuerpo más débil estaba, para poder decirnos adiós estando juntas, en casa GRACIAS por escogerme como mamá Mi florecita bella Fuiste la mejor y más hermosa perrita del Universo Tenerte fue lo mejor que me pudo haber pasado ¡Qué bonito habernos encontrado en esta vida! No sabes lo inmensamente feliz que me hiciste Te amo tanto y lo sabes, porque te lo decía cada 3 segundos Mi pequeña angelita hermosa Nos quedamos dormidas abrazadas, y viste el momento Amaneciste aún abrazada a mi brazo, pegada a mi pecho Con una carita feliz, llena de paz... pero ya en el arcoiris Ya no tengo quien haga todas esas cosas aquí Pero en todas partes te veo, y escucho tus ladriditos tan bellos Te guardo en mi corazón mientras me esperas en el arcoiris Jugando, corriendo, observándome y cuidándome Espérame ahí, hasta que sea hora de que vaya a recogerte I love you forever, my tiny
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 8:28 PM UTC
Daisy
Mi amada Daisy Ya no tengo quien me avise cuando hay alguien en la puerta Quien se acurruque en mi panza cuando estoy triste Quien me vea preocupada cuando estoy enferma Quien duerma junto a mí en la cama, tapada de pies a cabeza Era el paraíso despertar con un bultito tan bello y calientito Mi chiquitita, my tiny Tan fría que querías parecer, pero cuánto me querías Todo el día pegada a mí, todo el día en mis piernas Corrías a sentarte en el tapete para acompañarme hasta en el baño Sabías perfectamente cuando me iba a ir de viaje Te subías a mi maleta, y escuchaba tus lloridos desde la puerta Mi vaquita, mi chilpetina Ya no tengo quien me despierte en la mañana para ir al baño Jamás te hiciste en la cama, ladrabas para que te bajara y te abriera Ladrabas y corrías a tu platito de agua cuando querías agua O frente a tu platito de comida exigiendo que era hora de comer Solita lo aprendiste, "Such a smart puppy!" Mi tinky winky, my ****** twinkle Ya no tengo a quien soplarle en la carita Y que como respuesta me llene de besos No tengo con quien batallar para que coma Ni a quien ponerle tus vestiditos todos chiquitos A quien observar, morir de amor, e inevitablemente llenar de besos Mi bébe, my puppy Eras tan fuerte que jamás te quejaste de nada Ni siquiera cuando tus pequeños riñones empezaron a fallar Siempre estuviste alegre, moviendo tu colita Excepto en tus últimos días, apagada Sabías que ya habías cumplido tu misión, que ya era hora Mi preciosura GRACIAS por quererme, por hacerme feliz con sólo verte GRACIAS por cuidarme, por absorber mis males y tristezas GRACIAS por esperar a que llegara para irte GRACIAS por ser fuerte cuando tu cuerpo más débil estaba, para poder decirnos adiós estando juntas, en casa GRACIAS por escogerme como mamá Mi florecita bella Fuiste la mejor y más hermosa perrita del Universo Tenerte fue lo mejor que me pudo haber pasado ¡Qué bonito habernos encontrado en esta vida! No sabes lo inmensamente feliz que me hiciste Te amo tanto y lo sabes, porque te lo decía cada 3 segundos Mi pequeña angelita hermosa Nos quedamos dormidas abrazadas, y viste el momento Amaneciste aún abrazada a mi brazo, pegada a mi pecho Con una carita feliz, llena de paz... pero ya en el arcoiris Ya no tengo quien haga todas esas cosas aquí Pero en todas partes te veo, y escucho tus ladriditos tan bellos Te guardo en mi corazón mientras me esperas en el arcoiris Jugando, corriendo, observándome y cuidándome Espérame ahí, hasta que sea hora de que vaya a recogerte I love you forever, my tiny
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. Silver charms on an anklet ****** as her foot stamps down once, crossed dainty in front of the other, and her hands start a slow ascent. From hips up into the air in the nonchalant action of the flame, arcing a half circle about her waist she turns to face the assembled crowd. A tabla starts a sleepy beat and the sitar player awakens, or returns from a meditation, readying himself for his introduction, to blend a melody of the Moon with the woven movements of dance. The beat increases and four taps signal a change in the rhythm. The following note is punctuated by the tinkling of the charms and the first strum of the sitar, sending music to the starry sky. And her hips sway in gentle waves as her hands mimic the lotus flower in cups of dreams above her head, and the anklets jangle a soothing sound. The wrists twist and move graceful, delightfully twinned with the neck of a swan, and her body sways like a leaf in the wind to the melody from ages past. The tabla starts a frantic beat as the sitar player lets fly, his new unrestrained chords dilute the night with ecstasy. And she dances in her trance, skin shining with the dew of reflected joy, her lithe body telling the story that began before the dawn of time. A crescendo summons the dance to end and silence fills the void, but far into the deep dark night silver charms on an anklet ****** © Pagan Paul (01/09/17)
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Sep 2, 2017
Sep 2, 2017 at 7:04 AM UTC
India