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"tutelage" poems
In my mind, I raced against time I smoked peyote with the Apache I chased Kangaroos Through the bush with the Aborigine All the while ...I searched for the power within me In my mind, I outpaced time I drew cave art with the Neanderthal I climbed to the top of the mountain with the Sherpa I hunted seal out on the frozen tundra with the Inuit All the while ...I searched for the power within me In my mind, I eclipsed time I wrote poetry while under the tutelage of Langston Hughes And I created visual greatness while apprentice to Gordon Parks I even stood on the wall with Che' Guevara, like a Sentry standing watch All the while ...I continued searching for the power within me In my mind, I turned to face time I wrote an addendum to the Emancipation Proclamation And I saw the ugly truths Of freedom's farcical Declaration All the while ...I continued searching for the power within me In my mind, I embraced time I sought to free my nation from the pandemic perils of ******* And I prayed that we Americans would be free of The snares of racial and economic divide that still has us chained I did this while searching for truth, in this, our most tenuous hour ...then empyreally, God reached for me, touching me, and I finally found my power * Reprinted from 'Exegesis a Decade of Poetry by Mekael' © July 14, 2009 by Mekael Shane
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM UTC
My Power
So it came to pass at last and sad to know a Timber has fallen It stood in strength tall and strong for over seven decades Resplendently toned it spread an uncompromising foliage Masterly in domain magical in reach attaining untold grades Humble in origins yet grew with endeavour and knowledge Distinguishably it cut sway in tundra and in lush green glades Son of sons of the Land held roots countenancing no crawling It reached for the stars and danced reasons with every shades Ran with the sun and sat with owls and vipers for tutelage Sweeping the very highs and the lows in communal trades In the jungle of sharks and vipers it be known who's in Charge A Timber has fallen while the rains falls and blue clouds fades There's now a mighty hole in the earth and rivers are swollen Leaves scatter and branches beckon hundreds of onward bridges Leaving best Princess, flowers and saplings for love and largesse A notable trunk laid supine free to roam without worldly cages Odes will enter dancing in guises and tears flow without finesse A Timber has fallen and dirges will ring out for a man of all ages Yemessia bows and says Adieu My Senior, we will meet again..... [email protected].
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 10:29 PM UTC
A Timber Has Fallen
♡><♡><♡ on bare boards the glit'ring gause graceful gesture found an arabesque an aching pause apropos to concert sound lithe lustrous girl scarce woman grown pours out her beating heart to stretch with every muscle owned in pain for love of art pure grace she is just as a swan soft white and deepest black she sways and lilts her own will gone on point with arch of back a strong male who leaps and soars stately carriage bounds to show his love unto his core and sweep her from the ground no person in the world knows the dancer's struggle, care they only see talent bestowed as he lifts her in the air the grueling practice hour on hour the hardship and the strain taxing body til it's empowered the tutelage of brain hour on hour same movement learned feet bound until deformed to ache, oh yes, to hurt and burn 'til she has perfect form but all this pain which we don't see is never all for naught for the roses she will be for the applause she's fraught for when this girl is on the stage she will, as a swan, fly and with great grace she'll turn the page and then, as woman die soulsurvivor (C) 8/1/2015
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM UTC
ballet dancer
in ashes hidden, smoulders god of love from matted dancer's focus conflagration purely come continues still perhaps in empty homage of a sa ta na ma personage of ((Shiva)) white bones pierce the sky in upward curtain-seethes of heat beyond imagined burning hells... the triad ventures into zero-zones of anti-life, sands of absolute defeat. shadow trust imparts a silent teacher's mantras; soothing psychic words, "Bala" and "Adi-Bala" carry over dunes of morbid thirst-- the gape of ancient serpent-maws choking dust of frightened, elephantine skeletons fissured by immobile sun-- their inner sound become cool water of a summer stream in timeless desert, traverses strain of royal line: god-fated tutelage of seedling savior, lightning skill with bow and virtue sinew shining arms horizon's arid form: despite begrudging honor kings expect when offspring given after years in hard-earned sacrificial grace: yet still obeisance ends in facing demonaic rage to which is pitted youth to slay-- despite allay by symbol feminine, as if to question her abode would conjure her in dire storm and quake announce gigantic step and hairy gulf-- with arrow sprays destroy Thataka's trident, curdling throat the slitting of, rejoicing pantheon proclaims heroic, forever railing under epic breath of tacit page theodical: "we gave you progeny, now grant us our theocracy; before your son our asthras lay their weaponry" .
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Aug 12, 2012
Aug 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM UTC
Rama's inauguration, facing the murderous gluttony of Thataka
Each morning I lie in bed and anticipate your arrival, my awakening, our escape To the fair ground lights outside the city, and I dream that as we peak on the Ferris wheel, And, with stars as our witness at this paramount moment, all of Texas comes into view. Autumnal air ruffles your hair, and I'm reaching for you  like always with little gestures: My smiles, your smirks, my laughs, and our quirks. Mingling at the summit, A hand brushes slowly along a knee with the smooth reintroduction to an old friend. Long fingers fumble with need, and it's just you and me distancing ourselves From our every day studies in distraction, comforted in our mutual procrastination. With you I catch  up on my anatomy and you excitedly review me in structures and railways. On a train homeward bound, the heat of blood rising in your cheeks and lips Sends an electric surge to my head and heart, and nerves tingle from anticipating home. Under your tutelage, I soon appreciate the bridge of a nose finally unstressed by glasses, The dynamic arches of a worn out back, and the strength of pillars erected in urgency 'Til daylight exposes last night's mysteries, and we rest in our ecstasy perspired, Both of us finally relinquished from the weight of anticipation for this weekend to arrive.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 11:50 AM UTC
A Time to Wait and a Time to Live
*Contemporary some youth are wary of the claims of professions out there.. these seem to wrap handcuff and chain.. a desperate need for gifted tutelage to locate precious solitude.. knowing then that each profession's byways spring from this place...*
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 11:33 AM UTC
Professions
A poet is daydreaming – contemplating, Stale is his entire mind surpassed; An accomplice confers his realization, Neither to suffice the fool – disillusioned. That poet daydreams, dismayed in trance, ‘A truce!’ he barters, on a fitted fray. Frailty of his core seems definite in stance, ‘Tis anecdote… apparent of dismay. The poet daydreams of the one he loves; Severs the sympathy by egoism and contempt. Scalar quantity of a breaching throb, Under the tutelage of an infidel attempt. The writer’s words are never dull, always honed; Unyielding cutting edges fit for the crockery. Elusive as emotions – tender as the blade of words sliced, Thus cuts through the flesh, mind and soul like mockery. Thus the poet’s mind can never be measured, Nor does the ability of a man can overcome; For both come from the Divine – Oh, highly favored! Poetry of prose, so unique and unstrung.
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 12:40 AM UTC
The Poet's Daydream
there are times when the thoughts float through my head, of you, and I picture your face as it glows but from a place of distance ---like it wasn't less than a week ago that we ended almost 4 years of love in close proximity --- instead, it's been 6 months, and with some distance on the pain, rationality has processed all aspects of the break and twisted the Rubix cube of my life back into its solid reds, blues, greens, and yellows. however, as my concentration slips in the early evening, this distance is replaced with what feels like a soft, slow-motion punch ---not just to the gut, but through the gut, twisting my intestines into knots of withdrawal, my eyes drooping from AlErT to "why does it feel like I've had a death in the family?" it's like clockwork; I have a window to work with each and every morning, but by 4 PM if I'm caught mid...... -sentence..... in my.... textbook..... "A History of the Modern Middle East", my stomach dropping like global oil prices in the 1960's under the tutelage of the Saudi King Faysal, every word I read bounces off my irises like they were tennis ***** and I'm playing squash with the pages.
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Feb 11, 2017
Feb 11, 2017 at 4:13 PM UTC
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
she sits - eyes darting side to side, eating the atmosphere, chewing carefully, rosebud mouth moist, lips open a space, hands fidgeting in her shallow concaved lap .. woman leans forward to stroke wayward tendril from wide forehead - a sign of excellence to some just that, to others smart phrenology; tendril defies maternal meaning to spring like a diver from top board thrill to fall once more upon laughing brow, how young child loves the tickling touch she never receives from mother - she who urges piano practice, eight to ten, dancing lessons, eleven to one, geography, history and Latin tutelage with woman ancient her and morbid more, afternoon alternate curriculum and oboe, catechism, times-tables, spellings parroted.. when night calls child to sleep, she curls her softness into a knot, tight and unforgiving, ******** tears from sea blue eyes so they weep 'pon Egyptian cotton sheets to dilute the ***** drips of progidy’s day by day nightmare.. child needs, child yearns for what she does not know, kettle drum heart throbbing.. longs to run in meadows mossy bright, longs to see dirt under sweetheart nails; in dreams she rides ponies ******** and soars sky, dances clouds, kisses moon.. but then, morning vivid with sane insanity she wakes in an open cage, in a different room.. rebelled, she did, small fragile six year old; today, today, today her mind is empty, hands fluttering butterflies, eyes bright, innocence faded, but laughing..laughing..laughing, free.
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 7:31 PM UTC
Sane insanity
she sits - eyes darting side to side, eating the atmosphere, chewing carefully, rosebud mouth moist, lips open a space, hands fidgeting in her shallow concaved lap .. woman leans forward to stroke wayward tendril from wide forehead - a sign of excellence to some just that, to others smart phrenology; tendril defies maternal meaning to spring like a diver from top board thrill to fall once more upon laughing brow, how young child loves the tickling touch she never receives from mother - she who urges piano practice, eight to ten, dancing lessons, eleven to one, geography, history and Latin tutelage with woman ancient her and morbid more, afternoon alternate curriculum and oboe, catechism, times-tables, spellings parroted.. when night calls child to sleep, she curls her softness into a knot, tight and unforgiving, ******** tears from sea blue eyes so they weep 'pon Egyptian cotton sheets to dilute the ***** drips of progidy’s day by day nightmare.. child needs, child yearns for what she does not know, kettle drum heart throbbing.. longs to run in meadows mossy bright, longs to see dirt under sweetheart nails; in dreams she rides ponies ******** and soars sky, dances clouds, kisses moon.. but then, morning vivid with sane insanity she wakes in an open cage, in a different room.. rebelled, she did, small fragile six year old; today, today, today her mind is empty, hands fluttering butterflies, eyes bright, innocence faded, but laughing..laughing..laughing, free.
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If you want to make heaven Marry from Enugu! You want to be successful Please marry from Anambra If you want a complete package Marry an Akwa Ibomite They attended finishing school Right under their mother's tutelage If you want to raise Professors Marry From Ekiti If you want to build empires Marry an Igbo girl They push you to success Do you want to maintain your culture? Mary a Yoruba girl If you want to be royalty Marry a Hausa girl If you don't ever want to cheat Mary and Edo girl If your relationship survived this year Despite its economic realities Please marry that one If you desire a beauty Queen Marry a Benue girl If you love good romps Marry a Calabar girl Your life will never remain the same And you will live happily ever after If you want to be loved forever Marry your friend and soulmate Listen to me my friend Don't go for looks It will fade away Don't go for money Someday it will be exhausted If you want a good partner Go down on your kneels Then, watch and pray
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Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019 at 2:42 AM UTC
If You Want To...
You're the answer I hear when learning misbehaves friendship running off around hedges with rounded edges calling me to figure out the facts behind neatly pruned leaves learning what is covered when they cease to scatter and dodge I follow the delectable hints to where the giggles grow louder now I'm led toward your near indecent scent the flowers in the borders wriggle with unbound glee whilst love hides with held breath in hidden indents you dare to press up close against an idle post where radiance warms to a chance find in prospect expectant that your dalliance will escape my notice but I see it blooming in pupils where love's not faked I find you on a hunch in the midst of hesitations when I tease the bush apart like two explaining pages opening answering lips brimming with wild questions each kiss a knowing release to lush and flowing fields that day that friendship faced the truth of love's sweet tutelage
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 1:16 AM UTC
The garden flower that strayed
So familiar the sparks of inspiration about to bloom Horripilation and several empty soup cans tip me off My time has come to be prolific, under the wise tutelage of my angelic spektor Accompanied by the wailing hormones of pre-pubescent boys trying to sing into microphones Teacher please, spare a verb? Where the ivy used to crawl up fragile arms sanguine for all intents and purposes Dear teacher, nothing electronic works in my room anymore Dear teacher, your students are all ****** Dear teacher, I retain your lessons as lacerations upside my skull Sweet teacher, reposing just across the hall and sideways a spell In a coffin of criticisms and carbon monoxide fumes The love of a generation, a single blue rose, and a jar full of tea 30 years old.
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 7:34 PM UTC
Awaken, Ariel
The process is to accept The progressive retardation Wrought by chemicals A necessary adjustment Reevaluating meaning Value and worth There comes a point when realization dawns The point where intellects breaks down to the base line of ignorance Where attachment is severed The process takes everything away from you But not before draining it dry of anything worth having And so the grandest theft Becomes The most glorious gift Of nothing (This is not easy to understand or comprehend, It is the chemicals patient handiwork that allows eyes to see To see and ears to hear To hear Without their scientifically regulated tutelage there are very very few methods that work in the 21st century that give them that side car joy ride straight the ribbon of BEING into to prayer closet of Nievana Those of us who aren't willing to give up the things we attach to The very things through which we define our selves, our souls, our minds, our hearts and our spirits Drop them, move on a live without When you realize you are living without, drip dmsomething else It is the most difficult thing in the world Yet by the end of the pilgrimage it has become too easy Happiness is with nothing Nothing is a clean slate for your imagination to create upon This is heaven - wants nothing to do with the world Process of chemicals and lack of sleep It's a good thing Though they who follow the path will be laughed at and scorned By people who will never understand them White trash bad *** and Rhoads scholar on the same page "How can they live if not like us?" You keep living, it's your calling We are called to the realm of the supernatural Where we will create our own heavens Songs, stories,books , interactive movies we may never die But if we do we know what we left behind I wii not find I difficult to close my eyes Having created in such a grand scale Albeit with chemicals and ignorance guiding my way
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
Chemicals and ignorance (the process)
The process is to accept The progressive retardation Wrought by chemicals A necessary adjustment Reevaluating meaning Value and worth There comes a point when realization dawns The point where intellects breaks down to the base line of ignorance Where attachment is severed The process takes everything away from you But not before draining it dry of anything worth having And so the grandest theft Becomes The most glorious gift Of nothing (This is not easy to understand or comprehend, It is the chemicals patient handiwork that allows eyes to see To see and ears to hear To hear Without their scientifically regulated tutelage there are very very few methods that work in the 21st century that give them that side car joy ride straight the ribbon of BEING into to prayer closet of Nievana Those of us who aren't willing to give up the things we attach to The very things through which we define our selves, our souls, our minds, our hearts and our spirits Drop them, move on a live without When you realize you are living without, drip dmsomething else It is the most difficult thing in the world Yet by the end of the pilgrimage it has become too easy Happiness is with nothing Nothing is a clean slate for your imagination to create upon This is heaven - wants nothing to do with the world Process of chemicals and lack of sleep It's a good thing Though they who follow the path will be laughed at and scorned By people who will never understand them White trash bad *** and Rhoads scholar on the same page "How can they live if not like us?" You keep living, it's your calling We are called to the realm of the supernatural Where we will create our own heavens Songs, stories,books , interactive movies we may never die But if we do we know what we left behind I wii not find I difficult to close my eyes Having created in such a grand scale Albeit with chemicals and ignorance guiding my way
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The fairy tale I believed in had died, I cannot rejoice, caged by society and sorrow, The foggy night, shall you let the moonlight touch me? Look at me. Look into my eyes. Behind these iron bars, I was born, a child of failed union, A child of malice and rage, Pray to whatever God you may, I shall bring justice Under the tutelage of the faceless god. I shall destroy all that deserve death, Before they destroy all those who deserve life. I shall bear the burden of sin, So promise me, shall you live? Promise me this, and I will gladly live with this nameless monster of mine. My ears ring with the voices of the ****** Calling out to me to end their lives. I cannot remember the melody of that day, When we danced together in sunlit day, Now the rain shall never cease to fall. I cannot see anything beyond my perverted notions anymore. Let the sky rain down upon me black acid rain, Let the air be filled with miasma thick. I am a being of rage and hate, Of fear and avarice, With the blades with which I killed, The God of my innocence, Today I shall punish all those who are guilty. Accepting the unerasable scars on my body, Let us ravage the false gods of this world, O nameless monster of mine. Ah. This skill, these prayers. I am the God of unrelenting justice and damnation.
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM UTC
God of Vengenance and Sin
On The Great Lawn of my mind, The city's biggest dance floor, Upon its cushions, stepping lightly, The spring breeze, feeling its way, Making, reawakening, a thousand acquaintances, Absent parent kissing each long-lost babe-blade of grass Breeze takes each blade of spring grass: Cajoles, asks not, With windy hands, guided missiles, gentle/firm push/pull engage/ disengages, open/closes Breeze makes each one Neck, caress their neighbor, A thousand pas de deuces of fresh faced green children. All in all a triumphant processional, Cloaked in robes of sky blue velvet, Crowned by the sun's burnt orange kisses. At the middle school dance, The walls are portrait painted with the shy ones, The ones-who-don't-know-how-to-ask. Passover's children Needy for a Moses. Student of the spring breezes, This silly earnest teacher/chaperone, Grand-pa-rent will: Cajole, ask not, With hands, guided missiles, gentle/firm push/pull engage/ disengages, open/closes Under his tutelage, Every boy and girl A dancer, a blade, Each a Passenger on the fuselage Of his Spring Ballroom breeze. These are my spring rites imagined, Visions of my sight unimpaired, Present and future clarified. Soon we will teach our own Little Princes and Princesses, The shelter of dancing, Feel the embrace of nature, Under the mantle of an A Capella choir of tree leaves, We will lie side by side, Skyward pointing, Sharing our spring-sprung imaginings, Performing each and all Upon the breeze to carry away, For all to gleeful applaud!
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Sep 14, 2013
Sep 14, 2013 at 9:22 AM UTC
Spring Breezes (wherever your are blowin today)
On The Great Lawn of my mind, The city's biggest dance floor, Upon its cushions, stepping lightly, The spring breeze, feeling its way, Making, reawakening, a thousand acquaintances, Absent parent kissing each long-lost babe-blade of grass Breeze takes each blade of spring grass: Cajoles, asks not, With windy hands, guided missiles, gentle/firm push/pull engage/ disengages, open/closes Breeze makes each one Neck, caress their neighbor, A thousand pas de deuces of fresh faced green children. All in all a triumphant processional, Cloaked in robes of sky blue velvet, Crowned by the sun's burnt orange kisses. At the middle school dance, The walls are portrait painted with the shy ones, The ones-who-don't-know-how-to-ask. Passover's children Needy for a Moses. Student of the spring breezes, This silly earnest teacher/chaperone, Grand-pa-rent will: Cajole, ask not, With hands, guided missiles, gentle/firm push/pull engage/ disengages, open/closes Under his tutelage, Every boy and girl A dancer, a blade, Each a Passenger on the fuselage Of his Spring Ballroom breeze. These are my spring rites imagined, Visions of my sight unimpaired, Present and future clarified. Soon we will teach our own Little Princes and Princesses, The shelter of dancing, Feel the embrace of nature, Under the mantle of an A Capella choir of tree leaves, We will lie side by side, Skyward pointing, Sharing our spring-sprung imaginings, Performing each and all Upon the breeze to carry away, For all to gleeful applaud!
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My name, his pupil screamed across the room. The coarse pages of a New York novel stitched into the binding of my grip. I am a waning willow under grey skies. The unnerving stillness of chest shatters amongst prose-dripped conversations. Am I ready to? We race to a cab. We arrive, and in a nearsighted exhaust collapse into plastic-skinned chairs. A hacking congestion echoes between the walls. He stands and as he speaks, I feel his words wrap over my shoulder and then around my waist. Our embrace is an Orchid. As he exits I long for our next season. We are unabridged lovers seeking vengeance against the moments which separate us. I escape to the tutelage of Jacques Peuchet. I learn the weight of a love born sword, and yearn for the ink to write us away from this moment. I step out to pavement with Summer's gentle breath igniting the hairs of my neck. I follow Orchid ink veins to a break in the sidewalk. Coddled in the concrete, a pen. I am reminded of the discarded decorations of the blinded adorning our space. I see our future, in beautiful color: The vibrant friction which pours ink to page - dreams stained into their threads. I return to you my forever, so we can watch our love spill across an enternity of pages longing for a pen.
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Jul 1, 2016
Jul 1, 2016 at 1:54 AM UTC
Love is Not Blind
I once reached into the skies to pull down the light that would serve to guide your way. I was never asked. I once tender hard labor, and the lashings of crooked teeth and stained shirts to find for you the bauble you so requested. I grew old under your careful tutelage, until such an age I reached that the hair grew thin and the spittle became obvious. O' the wonders you found in me. I was such a shell in the time before we fell, cradling each other through the shakes like new born babes, to the Earth. Together we found lost realms which we would hide away from keen eyes and pointed questions. Together we squandered our time and our money on things we called our adventures. If only to smell the sweet lavender and honeysuckle of your skin, freshly bathed. I once crossed a canyon on foot, such days of thirsty work, to bring you back the sunshine we would rub into our smiles. I was not asked. I once learned the quick, dutiful motions of a trained glassblower so that I might make for you a thing as beautiful and fragile as yourself. It is here, as the skies we once reached grow dim that I find, after all the effort and all the painstaking labor that, together as we promised, our greatest work is rewarded.
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Apr 12, 2010
Apr 12, 2010 at 10:21 PM UTC
Day dreams of a straggler.
Hmm...voila!That was the moment... a minuscule moment yet it elicits and engulfs eternity... To be in that moment is to have lived eternity... Eternity engrossed me....her eyes are ardent architect of nature... When I see her eyes I am vulnerable to her.... The consummate of air,flesh, water,fire... Is the source of her eye, A complex subtlety of life, But what I see is the eternity, The eternity that is encapsulated in her eyes, What an ardent architecture, only under her(nature) tutelage it could have been possible... The zephyr from the air,and the water cascading from the bucolic mountains must have metamorphosed themselves with the verdant life on the earth to emanate such eyes:eternally evolving. I am as enchanted as I could be, Letting my life unfold itself with her gratifying glances, Those glimpses of the eternity reverberates in me like the thunder, Ruptured from the nature, blossomed from the beatific earth, Ensue:she is bearing the fruit entitled eyes... so then an endeavor excursion of my sojourn had begun....
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 4:47 AM UTC
An artistry of the mother(nature)
today, my friend, teach me in the ways of joy, i have had lessons enough in sorrow, i do not desire to learn the ways of anger. so please, teach me joy. i promise, i will learn, with thoughtful, thoughtless abandon.
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Nov 25, 2014
Nov 25, 2014 at 4:45 PM UTC
tutelage
Although my reflection holds me physically accountable , 'tis with graduating , certain unstoppable effect of age that every striation upon this weary face would recall a bittersweet poetic page , life's prose under the tutelage of a senescent , life schooled man at peace with his looking glass ..
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Jan 15, 2016
Jan 15, 2016 at 9:06 PM UTC
Thoughts While Shaving
Some people lead halcyon lives They tend to speak with soft, quiet voices And enjoy watching clouds go by in the skies They desire making small, inconsequential choices They watch the world whirl around then with awe-filled eyes Others are the polar opposite, Living their lives with temerity. They prefer to never rest and sit. They carry out decisions boldly Their mentalities are filled with sass, Causing other personalities to clash. The fortunate ones have tutelage, Knowing how to act civilized and polite. But being able to justify the savage They have sense to avoid a fight But I, I am what they call a mess, Unlike the peaceful ones, or those with boldness The way I think is seen as madness My opinion is not one that I scream, I'm just avoiding the scene I'm merely an anathema, With a queer persona I see what others do not, That's the only difference I've got. For I am philistine, Shunned by the others, it seems.
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 11:46 PM UTC
Waste-Aways
Black and blue striped leggings, A small white shirt with dangling hoop earrings. This is what she wore on a good day in my mind. Quite the opposite of what I saw when I opened my eyes. Watching the moon sail across a ocean of stars, the brilliance of stars. A everlasting testimony. Regardless the size of the waves that come crashing down. She shone the brightest. In a language thats misunderstood all around the world, would she understand mine. To participate in such tutelage, what joy did I hope to accomplish. Searching the inside of my eyes, Considering the brightest twinkle in the sky the wink of her eye. Releasing the silence of fear in a hopeful sigh. Without hope of the day, I kept her hidden in my dreams. Soon realizing the crash course of broken dreams, waking up just before the good part. As vivid as she appeared when my eyes were closed I believed anything was possible. Looking to the stars through a telescope, seeing her as the one that shines the brightest
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM UTC
Jhené Aiko
I’ve never ‘got’ football, always felt like a bruise I wasn’t sure how I’d got or a changing room joke that involved small ***** or arcane bullying Perhaps my tutelage was bad but the pattern in my head is gammon woven with misogyny, bigotry and misunderstood pride But these boys, with unhappiness and graft built in, with ‘other’ credibility, broad shoulders, tough chins, make me think that with my time again I’d have listened So to them, I opine: you’ve earned a win, and have one
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Jul 11, 2021
Jul 11, 2021 at 9:38 AM UTC
Three lions
I will never have good financial standing. My wallet must feel besieged, Like the sacking of King’s Landing. Money just flies through my fingers; Like the angel of death, Bankruptcy always looms and lingers. I spend it on escapades and exuberance, On journeys to escalate my studies of life, To forbear nothing from its tutelage. I will never have a peaceful, settled life; No 2.3 kids, no doting, darling wife. Neither will I have a Golden Retriever; No picture-perfect moments, No Instagram photo captioned ‘she’s a keeper.’ I will go the edges of the world; I will unfurl hammocks, as the jungles get deeper, As I hear the whispers of life, And my ears strain to listen like receivers. I don’t care about losing either of those prospects; Uninteresting endeavours, uninspiring projects. To me, only love deserves mourning; It is the primer of all things, The driver of all of nature’s calls, The reason why the mockingbird sings. That must be why my heart can’t stand the quiet, Why I’m like a viral riot, an epidemic insurrection. That must be why I’m mourning an unrequited connection. You are everything I will never have. I will have an empty heart, and empty hands. If it never happens in this life, I hope I’ll get to see you again in the next one.
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Sep 2, 2019
Sep 2, 2019 at 3:44 AM UTC
Everything I Will Never Have
Order to chaos, at a glance? As a wholesome venture, of what we pronounce Is adding the white of the eyes, an all of influence? Has come to the fore, and shown the doldrum it haunts... Peace and a real thirst, for a clue in the wry... Sated with the coming hours, of decency we meant, will The provision of seldom, toured and biased in courteous, shyness An angel with passion to earn and each, insists dread, still...? A place in the heart of civility... A face asking the table of conscience, to look for the irony Oft tutelage and their solaces, a penny to spend on originality... A faith in the unknown, we reveal is fright's epiphany? Voices we have heard, that made the point of a lifetime With range and devotion to verify, the elucidation of meagerness? And its boding history, the total of enumeration in the face of trying? And the fertile now, and subtle distance to weighing the opuses we elect Alcohol and judgments character? Instinct is a shrewd contender, for what was a world of significance And alarmed firsts, to the longest visit of intuition, or its faring? A method of uniqueness, to show a calm of whimsy that is a seasons chance... Meted reasons with a clash of simplicity for you... Tales of reproach or in defense of totals, the schemes of things Looking the part and petition of suppose, the tear we reveal is, due The hands of antipathy in vice and demeanor, the identity we saw, become a meaning...
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Feb 22, 2021
Feb 22, 2021 at 9:07 PM UTC
Where Races Win Themselves, For Friends