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"triumphing" poems
Oh, will you ever return to me, My wild first force, will you return When the old madness comes to Blacken in me and to burn Slow in my brain like a slow fire In a blackened brazier - dull like a smear of blood, Humid and hot evil, slow-sweltering up in a flood! Oh, will you not come back, my fierce song? Jubilant and exultant, triumphing over the huge wrong of that slow fire of madness that feeds on me - the slow mad blood thick with its hate and evil, sweltering up in its flood! Oh! will you not purge it from me - my wild lost flame? Come and restore me, save me from the intolerable shame Of that huge eye that eats into my Naked body constantly And has no name, Gazing upon me from the immense and Cruel bareness of the sky That leaves no mercy of concealment That gives no promise of revealment And that drives us on forever with its lidless eye Across a huge and houseless level of a planetary vacancy Oh, wild song and fury, fire and flame, Lost magic of my youth return, defend me from this shame! And Oh! You golden vengeance of bright song Not cure but answer to earth's wrong
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Last Poem
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies; And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work ended, Lingers as in content, There falls on the old, grey city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace. The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine, and are changed. In the valley Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun, Closing his benediction, Sinks, and the darkening air Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night-- Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered to the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
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I. M.--Margaritae Sorori
A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work ended, Lingers as in content, There falls on the old, gray city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace. The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine and are changed. In the valley Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun, Closing his benediction, Sinks, and the darkening air Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night-- Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. So be my passing! My task accomplish'd and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gather'd to the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
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Margaritae Sorori
(From a Persian Carpet) Ash and strewments, the first moth-wings, pale Ardour of brief evenings, on the fecund wind; Or all a wing, less than wind, Breath of low herbs upfloats, petal or wing, Haunting the musk precincts of burial. For the season of newer riches moves triumphing, Of the evanescence of deaths. These potpourris Earth-tinctured, jet insect-bead, cinder of bloom— How weigh while a great summer knows increase, Ceaselessly risen, what there entombs?— Of candour fallen from the slight stems of Mays, Corrupt of the rim a blue shades, pensively: So a fatigue of wishes will young eyes. And brightened, unpurged eyes of revery, now Not to glance to fabulous groves again! For now deep presence is, and binds its close, And closes down the wreathed alleys escape of sighs. And now rich time is weaving, hidden tree, The fable of orient threads from bough to bough. Old rinded wood, whose lissomeness within Has reached from nothing to its covering These many corymbs’ flourish!—And the green Shells which wait amber, breathing, wrought Towards the still trance of summer’s centering, Motives by ravished humble fingers set, Each in a noon of its own infinite. And here is leant the branch and its repose of the deep leaf to the pilgrim plume. Repose, Inflections brilliant and mute of the voyager, light! And here the nests, and freshet throats resume Notes over and over found, names For the silvery ascensions of joy. Nothing is here But moss and its bells now of the root’s night; But the beetle’s bower, and arc from grass to grass For the flight in gauze. Now its fresh lair, Grass-deep, nestles the cool eft to stir Vague newborn limbs, and the bud’s dark winding has Access of day. Now on the subtle noon Time’s image, at pause with being, labours free Of all its charge, for each in coverts laid, Of clement kind; and everlastingly, In some elision of bright moments is known, Changed wide as Eden, the branch whose silence sways Dazzle of the murmurous leaves to continual tone; Its separations, sighing to own again Being of the ignorant wish; and sways to sight, Waked from it nighted, the marvelous foundlings of light; Risen and weaving from the ceaseless root A divine ease whispers toward fruitfulness, While all a summer’s conscience tempts the fruit.
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The Summer Image
(From a Persian Carpet) Ash and strewments, the first moth-wings, pale Ardour of brief evenings, on the fecund wind; Or all a wing, less than wind, Breath of low herbs upfloats, petal or wing, Haunting the musk precincts of burial. For the season of newer riches moves triumphing, Of the evanescence of deaths. These potpourris Earth-tinctured, jet insect-bead, cinder of bloom— How weigh while a great summer knows increase, Ceaselessly risen, what there entombs?— Of candour fallen from the slight stems of Mays, Corrupt of the rim a blue shades, pensively: So a fatigue of wishes will young eyes. And brightened, unpurged eyes of revery, now Not to glance to fabulous groves again! For now deep presence is, and binds its close, And closes down the wreathed alleys escape of sighs. And now rich time is weaving, hidden tree, The fable of orient threads from bough to bough. Old rinded wood, whose lissomeness within Has reached from nothing to its covering These many corymbs’ flourish!—And the green Shells which wait amber, breathing, wrought Towards the still trance of summer’s centering, Motives by ravished humble fingers set, Each in a noon of its own infinite. And here is leant the branch and its repose of the deep leaf to the pilgrim plume. Repose, Inflections brilliant and mute of the voyager, light! And here the nests, and freshet throats resume Notes over and over found, names For the silvery ascensions of joy. Nothing is here But moss and its bells now of the root’s night; But the beetle’s bower, and arc from grass to grass For the flight in gauze. Now its fresh lair, Grass-deep, nestles the cool eft to stir Vague newborn limbs, and the bud’s dark winding has Access of day. Now on the subtle noon Time’s image, at pause with being, labours free Of all its charge, for each in coverts laid, Of clement kind; and everlastingly, In some elision of bright moments is known, Changed wide as Eden, the branch whose silence sways Dazzle of the murmurous leaves to continual tone; Its separations, sighing to own again Being of the ignorant wish; and sways to sight, Waked from it nighted, the marvelous foundlings of light; Risen and weaving from the ceaseless root A divine ease whispers toward fruitfulness, While all a summer’s conscience tempts the fruit.
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There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen loom Like the carven prows of proud, far-triumphing ships -- And the firelight wavers and changes about the room, As the three logs crackle and burn with a small still sound; Half-blotting with dark the deeper dark of her hair, Where she lies, head pillowed on arm, and one hand curved round To shield the white face and neck from the faint thin glare. Gently she breathes -- and the long limbs lie at ease, And the rise and fall of the young, slim, virginal breast Is as certain-sweet as the march of slow wind through trees, Or the great soft passage of clouds in a sky at rest. I kneel, and our arms enlace, and we kiss long, long. I am drowned in her as in sleep. There is no more pain. Only the rustle of flames like a broken song That rings half-heard through the dusty halls of the brain. One shaking and fragile moment of ecstasy, While the grey gloom flutters and beats like an owl above. And I would not move or speak for the sea or the sky Or the flame-bright wings of the miraculous Dove!
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Love in Twilight
The 'gyre' hints arrival- Twenty centuries making room For a new epoch, I’m a modern bird now, I may sound haphazard, troublesome, and brooding unimportant topic for hours, It's up to you to lend ear or not; I was a winged rooster confined to land only, Now I’ve become a 'hawk', with knowledge of flight perhaps power too, Seeing the world from far above Envisioned me a seer sight; I see the world functioning; the lowliest on top, the best in daze, and mediocre relishing mediocrity, One or two good men wasting life in poetry which none cares. Oblivious armed men guard the periphery; White termites gnaw the door at the Centre. At this height, all seem different, I can’t relate with my earlier self; My knowledge seems nothing but a frail sound in a vacuum. When I became 'conscious'- My dreams stopped being dreams— My thoughts were invaded daily— Life evolved in million years— 'God is dead', the universe all naked. We’re the supreme, the Satan both; Busy in triumphing Desires. Converging all— blazed my beliefs. We’ve progressed too much, portends trembling of the earth And smoke eclipsing the sun. 'Death I breathe', War looms again, Life is traded in forfeited currency. I see the world functioning, I know one or two tricks too to cheat, To assault, to **** to loot. I can foresee the end— Its good to die starving then Fly in the proximity of land.
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May 5, 2019
May 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM UTC
Arrival !
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and vain, And meerly mortal dross; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb’d, And last of all, thy greedy self consum’d, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss; And Joy shall overtake us as a flood, When every thing that is sincerely good And perfectly divine, With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine About the supreme Throne Of him, t’whose happy-making sight alone, When once our heav’nly-guided soul shall clime, Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, Attir’d with Stars, we shall for ever sit, Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.
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On Time
The crest of solemn ocean wave So early breaks on windy beach Where fairest Phoebus struggles sadly 'gainst Triumphing clouds. His horns, his blares to no avail: Fall deaf on Egypt's Temple crushed to sand To make this morning beach where sail The looming gulls. They hunger as they soar, their lonely cries Are swept away by dawn's uncaring breeze. That shore I wandered all alone, Apart from you in restless dreams, Disturbing sand-crab holes with stepping shoes Sought lenses lost. Possess'd of power to see without Refinings of their frame, my need mere want, I walked, a pool, and filled with doubt That proud waves tossed. Would sharpening vision truly help me find That which I knew was only in my mind? When then in heaven's light aloft I spied a weightless patterned kite: I called not to my glasses, but to Thoth To aid my sight. The soaring toy like silent hawk Without the weight of sadness flew so light Beneath the clouds now heard to talk Instead of fight. It seemed to catch a fleeting floating bliss As pillars of the firmament it kissed. The time was chill, the morning swift, Where icy waves brow-beat the shore, Impassioned blew the wind and kite did lift, Yet hues endured. What children tugged upon its string Wishing to live capricious life, to soar, Bemoaning birth neglecting wing And all allure? Yet came a haunting cry, in winds was clad, Reminding me that still the seagull's sad. I reach the crest of rocky fold Beholding barnacles held fast, Sea grasses over corals bare and cold, And broken glass. Sight has no sway of nature's spell: I ponder Neptune's endless shoals And whether glimpse of youths should tell Me of their souls. Can ever we catch sight of inner form Reliant on the jelly of our eyes? I turn to face my sandy steps, Triumphant Phoebus clouds did rout, I feel there's folly in my aided sight So leave without.
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Nov 10, 2011
Nov 10, 2011 at 2:37 PM UTC
Once Lost My Glasses on the Beach
The crest of solemn ocean wave So early breaks on windy beach Where fairest Phoebus struggles sadly 'gainst Triumphing clouds. His horns, his blares to no avail: Fall deaf on Egypt's Temple crushed to sand To make this morning beach where sail The looming gulls. They hunger as they soar, their lonely cries Are swept away by dawn's uncaring breeze. That shore I wandered all alone, Apart from you in restless dreams, Disturbing sand-crab holes with stepping shoes Sought lenses lost. Possess'd of power to see without Refinings of their frame, my need mere want, I walked, a pool, and filled with doubt That proud waves tossed. Would sharpening vision truly help me find That which I knew was only in my mind? When then in heaven's light aloft I spied a weightless patterned kite: I called not to my glasses, but to Thoth To aid my sight. The soaring toy like silent hawk Without the weight of sadness flew so light Beneath the clouds now heard to talk Instead of fight. It seemed to catch a fleeting floating bliss As pillars of the firmament it kissed. The time was chill, the morning swift, Where icy waves brow-beat the shore, Impassioned blew the wind and kite did lift, Yet hues endured. What children tugged upon its string Wishing to live capricious life, to soar, Bemoaning birth neglecting wing And all allure? Yet came a haunting cry, in winds was clad, Reminding me that still the seagull's sad. I reach the crest of rocky fold Beholding barnacles held fast, Sea grasses over corals bare and cold, And broken glass. Sight has no sway of nature's spell: I ponder Neptune's endless shoals And whether glimpse of youths should tell Me of their souls. Can ever we catch sight of inner form Reliant on the jelly of our eyes? I turn to face my sandy steps, Triumphant Phoebus clouds did rout, I feel there's folly in my aided sight So leave without.
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Dormant aspirations lie in winter's fallow ground Burgeoning freedom furrowed in shallow soil; sovereign elements do pound Infertile seeds in barren hearths tightly wound A cold wind from on high scourges each, desolate mound A dreary drizzle from hovering, satin crowns seeps deep; hopes are drowned Nutrients for spawning growth are leached; blighting tentacles surround Ambition suppressed, inactive period of malaise doth abound In due season, warming rays of light shine thawing frozen hearts Incubating innate desire to fulfill individual destinies, from chained depth departs In destitute minds, a burgeoning sprout of liberty starts Branching forth into fertile souls, intestinal fiber imparts Taking root, it spreads deep, penetrating shielded ramparts A fragile frond from each wavering limb darts  Triumphing in tyrannous environment, a fruitful future charts
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Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 6:33 AM UTC
Arab Spring's Fruitful Dividend
Fresh from his fastnesses Wholesome and spacious, The North Wind, the mad huntsman, Halloas on his white hounds Over the grey, roaring Reaches and ridges, The forest of ocean, The chace of the world. Hark to the peal Of the pack in full cry, As he thongs them before him, Swarming voluminous, Weltering, wide-wallowing, Till in a ruining Chaos of energy, Hurled on their quarry, They crash into foam! Old Indefatigable, Time's right-hand man, the sea Laughs as in joy From his millions of wrinkles: Laughs that his destiny, Great with the greatness Of triumphing order, Shows as a dwarf By the strength of his heart And the might of his hands. Master of masters, O maker of heroes, Thunder the brave, Irresistible message:-- 'Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.'
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To J. A. C.
your ears are jammed with energetic beats and good melodies though accompanied with lyrical lies that distort our views on what really matters and define who we are and how we should be. and your eyes: glued to the screen as you await to see if your face is worth enough of those tiny blue thumbs up. but you've absorbed too much nonsense and radiation from those handheld contraptions that you have grown too deaf and too blind to see anything beyond yourself but I say that it is time that you look up, open your eyes, and see His holy glory setting upon our minds waking our hearts stirring our passion blazing our generation rising our people fighting our nation triumphing look up, open your eyes, and see that hope is alive and abundant! because Hope is with us, Hope is in us, and Hope is through us. all these chaos is translating into something beautiful and exciting so come look up, open your eyes, and see.
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 11:03 AM UTC
open your eyes
I love it when you think ever so logically You make my gears grind and my clock tick make my heart whirr We could be victorious Righting wrongs, Triumphing over evil, We could be playful rolling, tumbling bounding over eachother I'm sure we could almost be anything we wanted. When you truly love someone, you don't need proof - you can feel it. Like upside down tongue touch, We realize what is real and what is sense What do we really know anyhow?
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 9:19 PM UTC
******* Flirting Fathomings
This clade of “tree” if  you can believe that ! That this is   what   the ...      silversword alliance technically are. It's closely related              tarweed... The first **** wasn’t lonely for long and had multiple terrains to colonize. & tall tales take solidified liquid form from the something making water like fire or air we can’t see floating like ice. Pushed in a away a tsunami seem small as they cross over the ocean. Only they roar louder then anything heard, but a drip silenced lost lost to deaf ears empty troughs of the dunes   soft sand triumphing over the oceans. The four subclades within the crossing times sowed their alliance, silversword are the tall tales detail of long ago seemingly insignificant kept life form, form life , forms forms life we know because it’s indistinguishable from the rest.   probabilities estimates Vertical no horizontal or dashed lines. Bound by the ' it was', see. we are to the way we were. Read the possible probability of a tale, A tale   of a tall tale. Told. Origination, will, times. They tell, seconds per island complex (from left-to-right: Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Maui Nui, Hawai‘i).
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Nov 20, 2021
Nov 20, 2021 at 9:41 PM UTC
Silver Sword Poem
words. i just love them. big ones, little ones. just love them they are like honey on my lips, poprockz candy to my brain. they crackle and fizz: igniting, exciting, vibrating, reawakening... synapses too quiescent; jiggling, wiggling, slapping, trappin, thoughts.... caught snoozin and napping; flip flopping flim flam-ing photograph framing... opinion only halfway dressed; jitterbuggin, jiving, striving sometimes conniving.... fighting for a voice; half formed, brainstormed, uninformed, spoken on a baited breathe, giggle, gaggle, gobbledegook... given egress; hornswoggle, bing bang boggle, lolloping through.... galumping, triumphing, tree stumping.... both me and yoohoo too!!! zip it, zinger coming on thru. my mind a veritable word zoo where i graze and nibble and nab a theasuarus or 2 .....   words. i just love them. .
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 4:14 PM UTC
wordlove
There's a regret So grinding, so immitigably sad, Remorse thereby feels tolerant, even glad . . . Do you not know it yet? For deeds undone Rankle and snarl and hunger for their due, Till there seems naught so despicable as you In all the grin o' the sun. Like an old shoe The sea spurns and the land abhors, you lie About the beach of Time, till by and by Death, that derides you too-- Death, as he goes His ragman's round, espies you, where you stray, With half-an-eye, and kicks you out of his way; And then--and then, who knows But the kind Grave Turns on you, and you feel the convict Worm, In that black bridewell working out his term, Hanker and ***** and crave? 'Poor fool that might-- That might, yet would not, dared not, let this be, Think of it, here and thus made over to me In the implacable night!' And writhing, fain And like a triumphing lover, he shall take His fill where no high memory lives to make His obscene victory vain.
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There's A Regret
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead ****** 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 6:29 AM UTC
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead ******
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead ****** 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
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Love is not a contest It's unlike any congress In which both parties throw in their two cents To dismiss a common nuisance Of who loves who more or even less Love should be of equal parties A bond so resilient, bright, and hearty One body halved and separated Leaving two figures devastated Until they find each other's heartbeats Love should never be about triumphing It's about two souls intertwining It's about sharing each others toils In hopes to knot their mortal coils And to be blessed by fate and timing In short, love is too sacred and fragile a view To argue about who loves who more: me or you.
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM UTC
Love is Not a Contest
Every winter since I was just a boy the noon sun shone upon my bedroom window As I turned my head away from the wall I noticed that light shone upon the entryway to my bedroom The red hue cast across the carpet by my curtains fell into the crevices beside my bed Radiation of day’s star was refracted by my frame And night time had been vanquished When each spring’s blossom erupted from beneath the hardened surface Every breath welled from my lungs into the external world of the elements Then it was replaced by the invitation to partake In smells of sweet bread, flowing tears Girls in dresses dancing, boys aloof Schemed beyond the pasture fences Catastrophes were addressed if need be By silence By calm By flowing breezes and gentle consolation By the wonder and force of spring Triumphing over winter
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Mar 26, 2010
Mar 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM UTC
Spring Breezes
This shroud of darkness is overwhelming I stumble blindly through it, hoping to grasp onto something familiar The most powerful of lanterns cannot, will not, pierce this shroud The darkness, in itself, is alive, moving to engulf this world Much like light, which only wishes to illuminate this world But will not, for fear of being extinguished by the darkness However, there is one torch, one light that defies this shroud It tries tirelessly to pierce the shroud, continually failing Until one day, the darkness relents under the powerful gaze, and recedes back Allowing a single ray of light through Although the ray is slim and starting to recede, it gives hope Hope that light will touch this world again This hope was not just limited to the inhabitants, but also to the lanterns, and torches, and any source of light This hope became something the darkness feared It became a force, a force so powerful that is caused lanterns and torches to ignite on their own Other objects that shouldn't have, emitted a powerful light The powerful light, which was everywhere, eroded the darkness away The light triumphing over the darkness The torch, the one that defied shone brighter than ever in the skys above, destroying any trace of the dark Soon, the darkness was gone, even the shadows Save for one shadow, MY shadow And what a curious shadow it was
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Dec 23, 2012
Dec 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM UTC
The light which darkness could not enshroud
This is me. The purest form of myself, in front of you today. I'm a timid, analytical creature, sitting at the corner, just observing. I am terrified to be standing here right now. But this is also me, triumphing my fears and doing things that knock me off my socks. "Wow, she must not always be her true self," you may think. Is it true, though? I am not trying to put words into your mouth, or trying to make you think that I'm full of myself. I want to share. The idea of one's true self does not exist. My essence lies in the fact that I really don't know who I am right now, or who I'll be in the future. What if I knew who I was? I would probably stick to being this timid little girl - hindering myself of all the possibilities that could shapen my personality. My point is that timid me is me. Confident me is also me. Profane, rebellious me is also me. Concealed, or raw; I am me. I am the encompassment of all my personalities. I may be a ***** with you, and I may be too liberal with you - but I will, still, always be myself - no matter who I'm trying to look like, sound like, or smell like. This, is me.
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Feb 2, 2015
Feb 2, 2015 at 12:37 AM UTC
awaken the divine in you
We are living in a dictatorship, a tyrant is at large. The Aristocrats are clawing on to their wealth and privilage Ebenezer Scrooge pales in all spectrum The Peasants awakened in anguish, brews a tempestous whirlwind. Torches brought to life, roaring ******* flames of justice Torture’s a friendly foe, the time for lamenting has been extinguished.   Directing their stubby fingers, master of guile, stroking their overgrown stomach “Leech the Swines! Bury their bodies, all but their sham crown Garlands of heads, draped on my wall.” A source of warmth for the winter’s plight, A trophy triumphing the seeds of abeyance Desolating fate is sealed by this stern decree.   Free hand-reading; not requiring an oracle. “Am I not a benevolent King?” **** out the roots. One by one, **** out the roots of evil. For the root of all evil is good. The peasants thin and scrawny. Hunger, their morning advocate and evening lover- Lusting to sink their teeth in to Pride.   The Nobel robed in mulberry silk making love to a ********** pastry, birthed by a coinless ******* Ascended into the abyssal inner circle of Hell   Those armoured with royal blood adorned in leather costumes -vagrants cannot discriminate- slaughtered while Mercy slumbers. **** the aristocrats, for they are selfish! The abolishment of poverty, the bane of the Monarchical eradication   A diabolical scheme! Says the soulless estranged with peace.
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May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017 at 9:56 AM UTC
Satire
My sister’s a mister. She cares for her plants, Her orchids from Cuba, Tahiti, or France. She grows lovely children entirely from scratch In homemade production runs, two to the batch. She teaches the women of her little town To belly, to yoga, to boogie on down. She’s always found living alone such a bore; A harvest of husbands – she’s on number four. She drives a Miata with careless aplomb, The very ideal of a hot soccer mom. But me, I was thinking of how to invent A Booker prize novel to cover my rent, Or lysergic rhapsodies for the guitar Or finally learning to drive in a car. The hours spurted onward in skips and in bounds, Years twirling away down a hole in the ground; How gently appalling my ultimate fate, To grow wispy white whiskers, and sit on a gate. She spins on the dance floor like wind on the wing, To Western and Latin and Manhattan Swing; Her elegant limbs grace the South Jersey beaches, And people go mad for her raspberry quiches. Her daughter (my niece) with her blue eyes so dear Sets the upper crust of Baltimore on its ear, While her brother my nephew is cutting a swath, (um) Through the au courant circles of fashionable Gotham. That’s my sister, triumphing wherever she goes, And she never had anything done to her nose. But me, I was dreaming up world-shifting rubrics, Or imagining screenplays to shame all the Kubricks; My ****** could make you explode in your jammies, And my song lyrics won theoretical Grammys. Of invisible kingdoms I was the past master, I walked with Elijah, I lunched Zoroaster. Yet somehow I find myself at this late date With my brain in the clouds, and my *** on a gate.
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Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020 at 1:37 PM UTC
after "Sitting on a Gate"
My sister’s a mister. She cares for her plants, Her orchids from Cuba, Tahiti, or France. She grows lovely children entirely from scratch In homemade production runs, two to the batch. She teaches the women of her little town To belly, to yoga, to boogie on down. She’s always found living alone such a bore; A harvest of husbands – she’s on number four. She drives a Miata with careless aplomb, The very ideal of a hot soccer mom. But me, I was thinking of how to invent A Booker prize novel to cover my rent, Or lysergic rhapsodies for the guitar Or finally learning to drive in a car. The hours spurted onward in skips and in bounds, Years twirling away down a hole in the ground; How gently appalling my ultimate fate, To grow wispy white whiskers, and sit on a gate. She spins on the dance floor like wind on the wing, To Western and Latin and Manhattan Swing; Her elegant limbs grace the South Jersey beaches, And people go mad for her raspberry quiches. Her daughter (my niece) with her blue eyes so dear Sets the upper crust of Baltimore on its ear, While her brother my nephew is cutting a swath, (um) Through the au courant circles of fashionable Gotham. That’s my sister, triumphing wherever she goes, And she never had anything done to her nose. But me, I was dreaming up world-shifting rubrics, Or imagining screenplays to shame all the Kubricks; My ****** could make you explode in your jammies, And my song lyrics won theoretical Grammys. Of invisible kingdoms I was the past master, I walked with Elijah, I lunched Zoroaster. Yet somehow I find myself at this late date With my brain in the clouds, and my *** on a gate.
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I am queen of moon Decider of darker nights Defender of fireflys in the moonlight Fighter of wrong and right He is ruler of fire and ice Warmer of frozen nights Giver of precise Cooling the fire But only if need be Just enough to let her see Watchers of moon, night, fire, ice Manifesting in words Triumphing in intellect Wanters of the next Without the moon there is still night With no fire no need for ice Together there is balance Combination of galaxies Creating moon To live in night Making fire To melt ice In the all arround Whispers are in the air Quiet words of precise Humming whats wrong and right -Jennifer DeAngelo Copyright 2017
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 3:48 AM UTC
NightMoon&FireIce
Vane glorious and absolutistic, though I defiantly, cavalierly, and blithely attest Yukon bet your (laugh-in) sweet bippy mine acidic breast houses anarchic, anti-poetic ballistic, barbaric, and bubonic cannibalistic demons within thy safely guarded Pandora chest atomic cesium clock timed to trigger avast burst of anxiety, frenzy, and (What me worry Alfred E. Neuman) blast ting mental quietude at most inappropriate, inconvenient, inopportune, out classed adrenaline rush, nausea, palpitating heart, vertigo besieging, corrupting, endeavoring fractured arrant cleft daemonic gripping hellishly psychic chant rendering unto sieze **** a choking vise grip extant yule hiss sieze indomitable banshee fully controlling grant diabolic, dogmatic, and dynamic, anguished corporeal ache easily, egregiously, and emblematically, exemplified historically graphic fatalistic, and ecstatic coup, (koo), when I caused furious frantic flight, and/or fight betake king angst causing just desserts for Marie Antoinette, who got her humble pie cake, thence dispensing with formalities, where a joshing drake (named Gill O. Teen) also known (solely known to mine selfish source error ways) alias i.e. as; the Lewis (loose) lunatic, heady harvester, and decapitation Deacon trumpeting, trouncing, and triumphing tranquility for fifty three Tuesdays, thence sea king punishing psychotic pre pound payment basking in glory (re: gory us) amidship crashing quays music to mine ears hearing plaintive neighs high pitched straining vocal chord hamstrung keys regaling oceanographic lambent hagiographic essays and keeping at bathos bays.
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Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018 at 11:45 PM UTC
Yukon Call Me Panic
Vane glorious and absolutistic, though I defiantly, cavalierly, and blithely attest Yukon bet your (laugh-in) sweet bippy mine acidic breast houses anarchic, anti-poetic ballistic, barbaric, and bubonic cannibalistic demons within thy safely guarded Pandora chest atomic cesium clock timed to trigger avast burst of anxiety, frenzy, and (What me worry Alfred E. Neuman) blast ting mental quietude at most inappropriate, inconvenient, inopportune, out classed adrenaline rush, nausea, palpitating heart, vertigo besieging, corrupting, endeavoring fractured arrant cleft daemonic gripping hellishly psychic chant rendering unto sieze **** a choking vise grip extant yule hiss sieze indomitable banshee fully controlling grant diabolic, dogmatic, and dynamic, anguished corporeal ache easily, egregiously, and emblematically, exemplified historically graphic fatalistic, and ecstatic coup, (koo), when I caused furious frantic flight, and/or fight betake king angst causing just desserts for Marie Antoinette, who got her humble pie cake, thence dispensing with formalities, where a joshing drake (named Gill O. Teen) also known (solely known to mine selfish source error ways) alias i.e. as; the Lewis (loose) lunatic, heady harvester, and decapitation Deacon trumpeting, trouncing, and triumphing tranquility for fifty three Tuesdays, thence sea king punishing psychotic pre pound payment basking in glory (re: gory us) amidship crashing quays music to mine ears hearing plaintive neighs high pitched straining vocal chord hamstrung keys regaling oceanographic lambent hagiographic essays and keeping at bathos bays.
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Triumph with diversity. Not knee deep in Not wading despite the extra gravity. But with - taking it with me on my journey making me who I am building, i.e. a stronger, fuller me triumphing in the company of those who walk ahead of me who know what it will take me to more fully glory in my whole me. Come with me. Let's triumph with diversity.
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Oct 23, 2021
Oct 23, 2021 at 1:29 PM UTC
Triumph