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"twilit" poems
I think I'm homesick for you; For your body and it's warmth, For the arms that hold me tight at night And caress me into the twilit slumber. The comfort. You possess this hold on me, You hold a part of me; inside you. And I'm homesick for your embrace; The way you taste. I miss the breathing of us in sync, And the sweet way your eyelids flicker as you fall asleep; The light as feather touch of your fingertips as they lose the weight of wakefulness. The quiet peace I see in your smooth features as you drift away in dreams I'll never know. I'm homesick for you.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 12:26 AM UTC
Homesick
Turn your dapple gray diffuse light daydream Towards the flashlight painted cloudscape I have made for you And before the drafted owl coos I have collected in bottles and hung from this tree For you I have walked through fine winged butterflies and soft twilit moss Over sun scorched sand and in the relief of white noise water Which Like the circle of your arms Tucks my dark away in the bottom of some drawer That we may find and laugh over through our old eyes wrinkled with years of delight Our home is walking through a stream Steps slowed in the thickness of water
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 11:24 PM UTC
Untitled III
sitting hungry in the halls reading holocaust novels with a morbid fascination two identical scarves knitted by two identical souls; both hungry for self-love, god-love and the night one is rewarded by he who weaves the long, black tapestry of his own destruction; the other destined to sit lonely & forgotten standing idly, lost in the dance of delusion & moving wildly intoxicated seeking love, seeking chase giving flight to the demons of the age the technological drug-fix of instantaneous communication the lobotomy of both mental hemispheres the horse collar choking struggle to escape clinging home and mother's spinning round & round turning wheels and daisies kicked up in the dust of the twilit road retched from the stomachs of a thousand children lulled to sleep by the sickly glow of orange floodlight
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Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37 PM UTC
Blue Walls
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome, Comes, like a scissors stalking, tailor age, Deliver me who timid in my tribe, Of love am barer than Cadaver's trap Robbed of the foxy tongue, his footed tape Of the bone inch Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb, From maid and head, For, sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye, I, that time's jacket or the coat of ice May fail to fasten with a ****** o In the straight grave, Stride through Cadaver's country in my force, My pickbrain masters morsing on the stone Despair of blood faith in the maiden's slime, Halt among eunuchs, and the nitric stain On fork and face. Time is a foolish fancy, time and fool. No, no, you lover skull, descending hammer Descends, my masters, on the entered honour. You hero skull, Cadaver in the hangar Tells the stick, 'fail.' Joy is no knocking nation, sir and madam, The cancer's fashion, or the summer feather Lit on the cuddled tree, the cross of fever, Not city tar and subway bored to foster Man through macadam. I dump the waxlights in your tower dome. Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver's shoot Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift, Love's twilit nation and the skull of state, Sir, is your doom. Everything ends, the tower ending and, (Have with the house of wind), the leaning scene, Ball of the foot depending from the sun, (Give, summer, over), the cemented skin, The actions' end. All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind With whistler's cough contages, time on track Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick, Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.
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When, Like A Running Grave
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs, Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome, Comes, like a scissors stalking, tailor age, Deliver me who timid in my tribe, Of love am barer than Cadaver's trap Robbed of the foxy tongue, his footed tape Of the bone inch Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb, From maid and head, For, sunday faced, with dusters in my glove, Chaste and the chaser, man with the cockshut eye, I, that time's jacket or the coat of ice May fail to fasten with a ****** o In the straight grave, Stride through Cadaver's country in my force, My pickbrain masters morsing on the stone Despair of blood faith in the maiden's slime, Halt among eunuchs, and the nitric stain On fork and face. Time is a foolish fancy, time and fool. No, no, you lover skull, descending hammer Descends, my masters, on the entered honour. You hero skull, Cadaver in the hangar Tells the stick, 'fail.' Joy is no knocking nation, sir and madam, The cancer's fashion, or the summer feather Lit on the cuddled tree, the cross of fever, Not city tar and subway bored to foster Man through macadam. I dump the waxlights in your tower dome. Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver's shoot Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift, Love's twilit nation and the skull of state, Sir, is your doom. Everything ends, the tower ending and, (Have with the house of wind), the leaning scene, Ball of the foot depending from the sun, (Give, summer, over), the cemented skin, The actions' end. All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind With whistler's cough contages, time on track Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick, Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.
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Fierce is god impenitrable glad glad glad there is a Fire up the street called Heaven There is A woman wearing only one shoe who is taking an exhaustive drag of her smoke in the early morning where birds are still heard in                                     !!!!!!cities A hymnal a heralded nest of savory berries A quartzstone is trapped in time a myth is made more ridiculous when proven real Continents wither where the flies glue their regal canvases on downtrodden earth (missing Pangea) Or smiles everlasting smiles meanwhile (Blonde tongues wearing fashioned wigs) in constant state of beguilement The Neanderthalic stones will be unforgiving to the REVEREND who has collapsed through his song the song of lead pipedream fantasies of sexless dogma YEAH monkhood yeah Ghat burning holes in twilit schools of thought or no thought at all I can hear the collective Faerie outcry that silence has presented itself HEAvier to their wicked careless bodies ok I am innocent of love I love your innocent love I am careless(of their wicked careless bodies) ResemblingA swans actual duty to die a swan lies a swan lay like an even more beautiful swan on even more beautiful swanny grass To die by swanlightSUN and MOON white like the swan where we soon listen closely to the swansong a celestialLOVELY rhythm of gilded forest (((((orchestrals The swan leaves us in happiness of bright groggy light                          O (of which in chaos of day I am again innocent)      The Reverend's desperate gaspings into a  micro -phone for a macro - cosmic prayer idol o idol where is your capability for worship idol o where is my chinstrap o idol where is ****** youth or the romanticized eternal SUMMERS I sing      O bible O cloudland O where is your telephone operator is they deceased by their own fragrant holines? The church      Watches the Reverend neverend his television routine of clamoring death odes      Watches his senility come like an implorical shadow outline watches a demon lick its dreamless lips beyond the periphery of godless dreams      Watches      Reverend lose his sight in anInstant      HeWAILSheWAILSandWAILS can you hear it Thomas De Quincey can you hear the sandbeaches ringing more clearly than the ChurchBells or the ****** Pagoda for torture / his soul is to sleep in the (mossy)mountain the fire of the (forever)street called HEAVEN the mountain column supporting the sky(swan)gate of heavenHeaven!welcome    to:
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Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 9:41 PM UTC
The Reverend Has Collapsed Through His Song/of Which in Chaos of Day I am Again Innocent
Fierce is god impenitrable glad glad glad there is a Fire up the street called Heaven There is A woman wearing only one shoe who is taking an exhaustive drag of her smoke in the early morning where birds are still heard in                                     !!!!!!cities A hymnal a heralded nest of savory berries A quartzstone is trapped in time a myth is made more ridiculous when proven real Continents wither where the flies glue their regal canvases on downtrodden earth (missing Pangea) Or smiles everlasting smiles meanwhile (Blonde tongues wearing fashioned wigs) in constant state of beguilement The Neanderthalic stones will be unforgiving to the REVEREND who has collapsed through his song the song of lead pipedream fantasies of sexless dogma YEAH monkhood yeah Ghat burning holes in twilit schools of thought or no thought at all I can hear the collective Faerie outcry that silence has presented itself HEAvier to their wicked careless bodies ok I am innocent of love I love your innocent love I am careless(of their wicked careless bodies) ResemblingA swans actual duty to die a swan lies a swan lay like an even more beautiful swan on even more beautiful swanny grass To die by swanlightSUN and MOON white like the swan where we soon listen closely to the swansong a celestialLOVELY rhythm of gilded forest (((((orchestrals The swan leaves us in happiness of bright groggy light                          O (of which in chaos of day I am again innocent)      The Reverend's desperate gaspings into a  micro -phone for a macro - cosmic prayer idol o idol where is your capability for worship idol o where is my chinstrap o idol where is ****** youth or the romanticized eternal SUMMERS I sing      O bible O cloudland O where is your telephone operator is they deceased by their own fragrant holines? The church      Watches the Reverend neverend his television routine of clamoring death odes      Watches his senility come like an implorical shadow outline watches a demon lick its dreamless lips beyond the periphery of godless dreams      Watches      Reverend lose his sight in anInstant      HeWAILSheWAILSandWAILS can you hear it Thomas De Quincey can you hear the sandbeaches ringing more clearly than the ChurchBells or the ****** Pagoda for torture / his soul is to sleep in the (mossy)mountain the fire of the (forever)street called HEAVEN the mountain column supporting the sky(swan)gate of heavenHeaven!welcome    to:
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take me to that shadowed place past all the songs and tales untold for none can ever see a trace in domains dark where souls are sold chill thoughts in solemn darkness tread outside the sun’s beguiling spell through barrens deep in mortal dread of endless night and frozen hell my voice lies mute in lifeless cold where twilit lands may hide my face beyond my youth and dreams of gold conceal my wretched fall from grace with stone and star I now will dwell and grieve alone for words unsaid leave bone and dust my fate to tell weep silent tears that must be shed
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Feb 6, 2023
Feb 6, 2023 at 10:35 PM UTC
Stygian
An old tale tells of a lady who wanders Earth. The Lady who Knows Everything. A beautiful lady who has found every answer, All meaning, All purpose, And all that was ever sought. And here I am, a feather Lost adrift the sky, victim of the currents of the wind. Day after day, I search. I search with little hope, knowing legends don't exist. But when all else has failed me, When all others have turned away, The legend is all that remains – the last dim star glimmering in the twilit sky. Until one day, the wind ceases to blow. I fall. And I fall and fall, and fall even more. Gentle as a feather. A dry quill, expressionless. But a hand catches me, between the thumb and forefinger. The hand of a beautiful lady. I look at her eyes and find no end to her gaze. The Lady who Knows Everything knows what I am thinking. Before I can speak, she responds in a hollow voice. "I have found every answer, all of which amount to nothing. There is no meaning. There is no purpose. And we seek only the impossible. I am not your legend. Your legend does not exist." And with a breath, she blows me back afloat, and I pick up a gust of wind.
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Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 4:29 PM UTC
The lady who knows everything (A poem by Monika from DDLC)
[These statues were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum after the sculptor's death. The figures alluded to are the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln, and the monument in memory of Mrs. Henry Adams, the original of which is in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washington. --Max Eastman] POET, thy dreams are grateful to the air And the light loves them. Tho' they murmur not, Their carven stillness is a music rare, And like the song of one whose tongue hath caught The clear ethereal essence of his thought. I hear the talkers come, the changing throngs That with the fashions of a day surround Thy visions, and I hear them quell their tongues, And hush their querulous shoes upon the ground; Thy dreams are with the crown of silence crowned-- Though they feel not the glowing diadem, Who sleep for aye in their cool shapes of stone. Nor ever will the sunlight waken them, Nor ever will they turn their eyes and moan, To think that their brief Poet's life is gone. The tender and the lofty soul is gone, Who eyed them forth from darkness, and confessed His spirit's motion in unmoving stone. His praise upon no mortal tongue doth rest; By these unwhispering lips it is expressed. Soon will the ample arms of night withdraw Her shuffling children from the twilit hall-- From that heroic presence, in dim awe Of whom the dark withholds a while her pall, And leaves him luminous above them all. Then are ye lost in darkness and alone, Ye ghostly spirits! And the moment rare Doth quicken that too sad and nameless stone, To move her robe, and spill her sable hair, And be in silence mingled with the air; For she is one with the dim glimmering hour, And the white spirits beautiful and still, And the veiled memory of the vanished power That moulded them, the high and infinite will That earth begets and earth does not fulfil.
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The Saint Gaudens Statues
[These statues were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum after the sculptor's death. The figures alluded to are the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln, and the monument in memory of Mrs. Henry Adams, the original of which is in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washington. --Max Eastman] POET, thy dreams are grateful to the air And the light loves them. Tho' they murmur not, Their carven stillness is a music rare, And like the song of one whose tongue hath caught The clear ethereal essence of his thought. I hear the talkers come, the changing throngs That with the fashions of a day surround Thy visions, and I hear them quell their tongues, And hush their querulous shoes upon the ground; Thy dreams are with the crown of silence crowned-- Though they feel not the glowing diadem, Who sleep for aye in their cool shapes of stone. Nor ever will the sunlight waken them, Nor ever will they turn their eyes and moan, To think that their brief Poet's life is gone. The tender and the lofty soul is gone, Who eyed them forth from darkness, and confessed His spirit's motion in unmoving stone. His praise upon no mortal tongue doth rest; By these unwhispering lips it is expressed. Soon will the ample arms of night withdraw Her shuffling children from the twilit hall-- From that heroic presence, in dim awe Of whom the dark withholds a while her pall, And leaves him luminous above them all. Then are ye lost in darkness and alone, Ye ghostly spirits! And the moment rare Doth quicken that too sad and nameless stone, To move her robe, and spill her sable hair, And be in silence mingled with the air; For she is one with the dim glimmering hour, And the white spirits beautiful and still, And the veiled memory of the vanished power That moulded them, the high and infinite will That earth begets and earth does not fulfil.
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I watched through tears --That streamed like the one out back And the scattered clouds --The ones that floated overhead for years A twilit ridge inurn the sun. It was one of those rising hills of my youth, One my infant eyes always thought Gave birth to the moon Time and again. With its innocent face smiling That worldly crispness is lost And the foggy past is far more defined. Who are these forms I've lost? They are but phantoms, (I tell myself) And now intangible, those memories Acidic and dusted with sugar Held suspended and taunting, like Feet at the mouth of an open casket. The cold, bitter knives of impersonal Reunion And rejuvenated promises --Only now remembered, only now forgotten— Illuminated once again In the dark. Passing onward and through --Like our time together— Exactly like wind through these **** dead branches And this grave: winter-bare. I remember the vivacity How enlivened the sky, that I Each day for granted took And how so much smaller, in my youth, The mountains afar looked. But there is no home, It died when I left. The poison I fought Has become the blood which pumps the heart, Now corrupt, Antithetical. Nothing is more colorless, not sky, Nor hill, nor moon, Or ever more formless Than what I once called home. Now that only exists is deteriorated A rotting house: Four walls and a roof to keep Hatred dry, Windows and lamps, so Hatred has eyes, And all the people that Hatred hates most. How cozy it must be to sleep in One’s own bed, no? To have some stable place, And an ounce of certainty? As for me, that will never be Again. Though the house is open, Lock, room, and all The home is closed forever Without a proper epitaph. Vain death. Vain, Vain, Death. Now all I can only turn back And flirt with shadows Just outside my arms Walk with images Shifting, growling, and oh, so dark --mere abstraction --future so stark-- With no companion but defeat. I can’t hug a memory, Nor cry on recollection’s shoulder, Nor can my mother or sibling console me, And I cry alone. Maturation is merely widening a distance, so I should let them go, Bid them adieu Because, I can't be homesick For a home I can't go back to.
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 11:17 PM UTC
Homesick
I watched through tears --That streamed like the one out back And the scattered clouds --The ones that floated overhead for years A twilit ridge inurn the sun. It was one of those rising hills of my youth, One my infant eyes always thought Gave birth to the moon Time and again. With its innocent face smiling That worldly crispness is lost And the foggy past is far more defined. Who are these forms I've lost? They are but phantoms, (I tell myself) And now intangible, those memories Acidic and dusted with sugar Held suspended and taunting, like Feet at the mouth of an open casket. The cold, bitter knives of impersonal Reunion And rejuvenated promises --Only now remembered, only now forgotten— Illuminated once again In the dark. Passing onward and through --Like our time together— Exactly like wind through these **** dead branches And this grave: winter-bare. I remember the vivacity How enlivened the sky, that I Each day for granted took And how so much smaller, in my youth, The mountains afar looked. But there is no home, It died when I left. The poison I fought Has become the blood which pumps the heart, Now corrupt, Antithetical. Nothing is more colorless, not sky, Nor hill, nor moon, Or ever more formless Than what I once called home. Now that only exists is deteriorated A rotting house: Four walls and a roof to keep Hatred dry, Windows and lamps, so Hatred has eyes, And all the people that Hatred hates most. How cozy it must be to sleep in One’s own bed, no? To have some stable place, And an ounce of certainty? As for me, that will never be Again. Though the house is open, Lock, room, and all The home is closed forever Without a proper epitaph. Vain death. Vain, Vain, Death. Now all I can only turn back And flirt with shadows Just outside my arms Walk with images Shifting, growling, and oh, so dark --mere abstraction --future so stark-- With no companion but defeat. I can’t hug a memory, Nor cry on recollection’s shoulder, Nor can my mother or sibling console me, And I cry alone. Maturation is merely widening a distance, so I should let them go, Bid them adieu Because, I can't be homesick For a home I can't go back to.
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*Lay down on your pillow and turn the lights down low, Close your eyes and enter dreams. Let me take you to the garden where passion flowers grow.* **Let me kiss your mind With splendor and passion Ravage your thoughts with Past, Present and Future actions.** *Love will not break your heart but, dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, with grace in your heart and flowers in your hair... Let me take you there.* **In this garden you're the main attraction I have the hose that waters your growth. The ***** that digs to your soul. As you envelope you roots in this garden of my affection. We blossom from our enclosure Spreading bliss Like pesticides in this garden, You're my obsession.** *If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. I want to feel as free as the flowers.* **Immerse yourself in fields of blooms Cherry blossoms Tulips and Patunias, too. Passion flowers are our main attraction Trapped in their periodic frame. We savor the peace they bring. Hours of bliss Turn to notions of a moment's gist. For passion flowers bloom in the twilit hours.** *Touch the tender petals of the flower as she grows a tentative endeavour, as your feelings overflow.* **Touch your soul In places it's never felt Mending wounds That never seem to shut The Gardner to your soul Here to nurse you back to perfect health.**
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 4:38 PM UTC
Passion Flower. By: Malcolm Starling & Falen Acon
Hang me from the rings of Saturn. Beat the stars into my eyes. Make my screams a supernova, Spreading over twilit skies. Grate my skin on lunar craters. Drown me in the milky way. Do whatever you deem fit, Just promise me you'll stay.
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 9:51 PM UTC
Venus
She was night when I met her. The hills beyond bathed in moonlight, though she seemed to hide from faint starshine sheltered and hidden: wrapped in a mystery cloak woven from fibrous shadows and dyed in the deepest part of the ocean with midnight hues untouched by the constellations. She was summer aurora soon after her night. I took her hand into the dewy field, we reveled in the damp and softened earth and the stars blossomed: points of bursting light fixed among the twilit blue-greens like the blinking bulbs of fireflies who floated between our heads. She was daybreak after her sky turned aquamarine. The stars hid themselves under our feet, the sun appeared on our horizon and painted our faces in pinks and oranges: her hand so soft and gentle, slipped from mine trailing warmth against the flesh of my palm where her fingertips kissed my skin. She was high morning when the sky’s pinks faded. I cradled her face between my two hands, pressed kindnesses into her cheeks and turned our noses to the sunshine: her celestial smile played notes on her lips, singing lilting aria in a rising melody as the light radiated warmth across her face. But now she is a rainbow in refracted afternoon. She gleams in every color now her cloak is shed, red in heart, orange in grin, yellow in mind, green in energy, blue in veins, violet in spirit: but most of all she is soft pink, pale white, and baby blue, a harmony of hues which she had kept hidden under her cloak of night.
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Oct 28, 2017
Oct 28, 2017 at 12:51 PM UTC
Prismatic
No longer doth she walk the twilit earth, Her knock forever absent from our door. Death's icy grasp banished our childlike mirth Silencing her sweet voice forevermore. Laid aside dreams from spirit grown weary; Perfume of burning candles flood her room. How dragged those final days on steps dreary Awaiting with tears the oncoming gloom. Sweet Joy! I long to see thee once again Tripping so merrily through woodland green, Or nymph-like wandering in mist and rain. Amber hair and faery form no more seen, Flown as a free bird from imprisoned cage, Vanished from life, leaving one cherished page. ~Hilda~
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 12:08 PM UTC
Sonnet VII: Tribute To Joy
She wanders by the twilit lake, for thoughts of him kept her awake, so now she feels her heart may break, and walks on, cold and bitter. He treated her with scant respect, while his behaviour went unchecked and after years of self-neglect she doesn't know what hit her. The whispered words behind the bend allow her heart no chance to mend, thus forcing her instead to tend to purely stressful matters, and all the while the breezes blow, the things she didn't want to know occur to her in steady flow and leave her heart in tatters. For what good comes neglecting chat which lays her bare, or lies her flat, if without help, her brain does that, and worse, it complicates it? But she never does speak thus, it's to be felt, not to discuss, and, wanting not to cause a fuss, she never even states it.
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Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 11:17 PM UTC
She
somber song haiku /|\ *early autumn chill somber toning frogling bass stars beam silent truth* \|/ mid summer hints its end here too the night extends in tones lamenting twilit choke of day-- changeling-hours' ease: a memory offsetting later dawns yet deeper chills portend an autumn's coming tide of ending-songs i too am passing as a haiku's universal scope of timeless time, galactic spin within the frogling's utterance, makes morbid rhythms eyed; i fear i'm croaking right along this somber bass, and wonder is it time? so soon? envisioning the ancient host of haiku masters brittle, fade in unison of tears or tranquil noddings at the season's cutting partial circles round the sun i read i am the aging frog by virtue of a poem, and then it lets me leap! .
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM UTC
after reading 'somber song haiku' by Mae
The universe, it does not end so much as it curves downward, angles brushing into cloudy strokes across the sky There is no horizon here -- everything extends so beautifully, a twilit landscape falling away into the blackness beyond The end of my life, it will be an encore I will fall below the curtain only to appear on stage once more, I've never been the kind of girl who could let go of something so holy, who could give up when she knows it's time These stretch marks across my body, they might fade but the ties I held onto -- they'll continue snaking across my frame, and I know, you would take my hand, and between the sunset and the dawn, you would hold me to your chest, an agony of echoes passing between our lips This end, I don't think it will hurt -- I think it will fade as easily as falling, an endless high dive where there is no pool to catch me far below I will never sink so much as I will float in the in between, waiting for your hand to catch mine as we fall My dear, we will burn like shooting stars across that sky, and I know, that unforgiving moon, he'll give us the chance to join him someday And when we disappear into the black, I want to know the last word on your lips will be my name.
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Mar 14, 2012
Mar 14, 2012 at 12:09 AM UTC
Echoes
Existing in a stratosphere full of a familiar twilit breeze, I reign down on my enemies. I'll plant them in my sanatorium and tuck them nicely into bed, leaving them to gaze mindlessly at a cerebral ceiling. Because they all say I'm crazy-- but they don't know of all the things that have died from my hospice embrace. So they'll gaze mindlessly at a cerebral ceiling missing everybody they know, and seeing beauty in the placid birds floating past their mental window. I'll still give them the birds.
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 7:01 AM UTC
Birds
1 If ever I wrote a thousand gospels of Hope, but meanwhile did not love,         I am the empty words of politicians and sycophants. 2 And if ever I knew the world in fine and time and with all shared my mind,         but so burn in hate that I bar any Faith, my words are cinders. 3  And if ever I laid down my life for a friend or died so that you all might live.         If I do not have the Love that did it, the deed meant nothing. 4 Because Love feels far, feels deep, and feels forever.         Love is kind; and it does not whine, chime, or shine. 5  Love is grace. Love sets free.         Love is gentle. Love let’s be. 6  Love is a repletion, the completion of joy despite of,         because of the shared, dark Truths of our twilit souls. 7 "For Love beareth all things, hopeth all things,         endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth:" But when these prophetic words pass,         Love shall live where life and strife wither. 9 For fiery stars we will never see whose light has not come,         And any act, however fierce, is only the orbits of atoms. 10 But when Love came in our lives, all the littlest in         the drowning dark embraced as (w)hol(l)y One. 11 When I was small, I thought and felt and feared small;         but my heart has grown and now can no longer. 12 Anything meant nothing until Love came and         bade us recognize the I in You and You in Me. 13 And where all else fails, there is three: Hope, Faith, and Love.         And greatest of these - Binding Hinge of Life - is Love.
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Oct 13, 2012
Oct 13, 2012 at 8:44 PM UTC
A reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians According to St. Philip
1 If ever I wrote a thousand gospels of Hope, but meanwhile did not love,         I am the empty words of politicians and sycophants. 2 And if ever I knew the world in fine and time and with all shared my mind,         but so burn in hate that I bar any Faith, my words are cinders. 3  And if ever I laid down my life for a friend or died so that you all might live.         If I do not have the Love that did it, the deed meant nothing. 4 Because Love feels far, feels deep, and feels forever.         Love is kind; and it does not whine, chime, or shine. 5  Love is grace. Love sets free.         Love is gentle. Love let’s be. 6  Love is a repletion, the completion of joy despite of,         because of the shared, dark Truths of our twilit souls. 7 "For Love beareth all things, hopeth all things,         endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth:" But when these prophetic words pass,         Love shall live where life and strife wither. 9 For fiery stars we will never see whose light has not come,         And any act, however fierce, is only the orbits of atoms. 10 But when Love came in our lives, all the littlest in         the drowning dark embraced as (w)hol(l)y One. 11 When I was small, I thought and felt and feared small;         but my heart has grown and now can no longer. 12 Anything meant nothing until Love came and         bade us recognize the I in You and You in Me. 13 And where all else fails, there is three: Hope, Faith, and Love.         And greatest of these - Binding Hinge of Life - is Love.
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Chet Baker, '88 I put The Lost Tapes on while I shaved my face, inching around two chin nicks turning the lather into the remnants of a strawberry shortcake paper plate soak-through. I tapped my Chucks on the pink, checkered floor to the cymbals. Heel toe, heel toe strut, stopping every few measures to re-tuck my herringbone-detail tie beneath my collar. I heard his trumpet wail, and mimicked it on the rusted shower rod like a cheap snare, deep drumstick strikes patched with meat tape. I carefully ran the flexed blade beneath my cheekbone like a piano-park saunter, trying not to step on the drummer’s heels ‘cause he hits it just right. And the brass birds are just right. The bench creaks, the cinder snaps, the twilit fountain dance, the pop- skip needle, the slick floor, the jazz faucet, and the shave are all just right.
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 11:38 PM UTC
Submerged in Cool Blues
Sun drunk on early Spring, Pulsing veins of years of light; Warm skin, damp grass Earth; Softest blue and still wind; If you listen close, listen far, Packs of birds make flights In figure eights around the trees. Splash of a landing, calm and smooth, Upon the water, beyond the sand. Endless day of sky and sky and sky. Time upon time upon time Cannot find us here, in our Secret place, here with all the world, With us and for us, only. The stop-motion set unwinds, Fades out to unnumbered days When hours had no meaning; Timeless time and ageless age. The gnat in our minds reminds: You will have to return; The buzz of reason. Not yet, not here, In this infinite pause of life. The sight, the touch, the sound. The premonition of rain Draws us back to the indoor glow Of glazed fog window panes. Two depressions on the ground Beneath the twilit atmosphere Signifying us.
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 11:42 AM UTC
An Afternoon in March
I need you yesterday ripped up from rope burns in my darkling bedroom and finally able to get out of the sack with some semblance around four leafing already? I asked the twilit mid-june trees and the cicadas in their infinite whirring forgot to answer all I know is that they spit electricity like the demons spit hair lice they laugh you in the face a yearsfromnow dream— the kids playing fifty-two pick-up in the garage; don’t ask me what else you have up your sleeve, baby that’s enough card tricks for one night.
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Jun 28, 2012
Jun 28, 2012 at 4:43 AM UTC
still a ****** (after all these years)
Walking in the woods, I fell Down into a knothole that lead To another realm, unlike our own ‘Twas a wondrous realm like a twilit dream Where the dazzling sky at night engulfed all And satyrs who were young like me Beckoned me to their sordid ****** Fountains of wine poured into streams, And wood nymphs danced and bathed in falls Deliciously drunken and sweet, calling me To pick their flowers. We caroused and we aroused As we fired our slingshots into the sky And watched the night shimmer with the Comets we launched up and away. I fired mine, foolishly unaware That my target was the moon so full I shattered my joy to pieces And brought this realm to darkness The satyrs howled in fear The wood nymphs withered away The fountains of wine turned into blood And I was left drowningl Until a glorious golden hand Went from the moon’s place to Shield me, carry me back to reality. I awoke in a sweat and a shiver 'Twas always night in the Satyr’s Garden Be it drenched with stars and ecstasy, 'Twas night, and night to remain.
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Mar 4, 2010
Mar 4, 2010 at 10:30 AM UTC
The Satyr's Garden
The street where I've lived for three years until tomorrow is peaceful and twilit clouds, more grey every day than the one before, are spinning like ghosts interwoven around the clock tower on the corner and meanwhile, a couple share their last kiss at a station and meanwhile, a guitarist sings underground and meanwhile, someone asks for help but it begins to rain. Rain sounds. Traffic. No one listens. Meanwhile, women's eyes disappear, in towards the back of their minds, into the sky. Meanwhile, men count the days, tug at their ties, a knot, a noose, and they cry. Quietly, someone somewhere is cutting open an arm with nail scissors. Someone is screaming into a pillow. Someone needs to be heard. No one listens. We are a quiet cough in the polite throat of Fate. We are burning up the blueprints drawn up of our stars. The news channel roars. The mute button is switched on. We are quiet and quiet and quiet.
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Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 1:39 AM UTC
Quiet
Once I was hopeful, now I become nothing I cannot speak, my shallow breath stutters, what is this I'm seeing? This is keeping the darkness in the sky for what seems an eternity My body is dry, my tears have all been shed for thee This broken song bleeds through the cracks of my heart My life is flowing away, for you were the precious object of my art What once was filled with wholesome light Now becomes the twilit landscape, No moon, no stars in the night This rejection has destroyed my vibrancy, you shut me down You've left me in the deep waters, not bothering to even watch me drown You were once chosen, lifted high above the rest And until the last crack of dawn I have done my best I pleaded with you to become the sun again I once saw the angel of light, now this Beast grins in the night He laughs at me, my inward humiliation I am within the power of That snake of perdition I have failed you, my heart spills out liquid shame with every beat I sink into the pit where no light enters from above My muscles weaken, my thoughts darken The air becomes a thick cloak of death When I think of the end you see for yourself, my heart is covered in agony You were once mine, but no more I long for the day you would be so again; To be my joyful song again But I see no such day ahead For you, this day I am aggrieved
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Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 8:45 AM UTC
Melody of a Broken Heart