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"unlit" poems
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
the common place... (for Kim Johanna Baker & Edmund Black)
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Street lamps play As they have before Dim walkway Leading to a door Careful steps Strewn leaves Breathe between gaps Skulking like thieves Rustling trees Otherwise nothing Mind at ease Heart rapidly beating Usually stops here Usually I'd stir But still in slumber I drew closer Eyes on door Familiar scene Stood here before This dream I've been Up the patio Door was ajar Accompanied by my shadow Stretched far Tunnel vision Dripping eave Door handle beckons Hand raised to receive Usually stops here Usually I'd rouse Allowed to enter This time... This house Handle I seize Door seemed light It did not freeze Hinges did not fight Revealed the insides Scanned surroundings Unlit lights Stairs climbing Footsteps I heard Coming my way Sounds absurd But yet I stay Usually stops here Usually dream is done But still was clear It only had begun Darkened figure Descending on bare feet Beauty light as feather Ever did I meet She did not see me Planted at the doorway Impossible it may be Nothing did she say Walked right by My eyes followed Seconds fly In eternity they burrowed Usually stops here Usually I'd wake Yet still I'm here Chance I'd take Stood at the fridge Back towards me Under siege My mind set a flurry Fridge was opened Light casted her silhouette Her back darkened Curiosity grew fat Illuminating beams Accentuated her hair Like golden streams Flowing with flair Usually stops here Usually I'd startle Connection did not sever Continue I was able Spellbound I gawked Rooted like a tree Wide-eyed I stalked This siren before me She drank Not knowing I was there Stiff as a plank I was locked in a stare Finally broke free Shifted my weight She turned to me And then said... Then it ceased Then I awaken Surprisingly pleased Slice of heaven Who was she? Silhouetted face Perpetually... Mysterious grace Foreign albeit familiar Strange but true Now rings clear... It is you...
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC
Mysterious
Street lamps play As they have before Dim walkway Leading to a door Careful steps Strewn leaves Breathe between gaps Skulking like thieves Rustling trees Otherwise nothing Mind at ease Heart rapidly beating Usually stops here Usually I'd stir But still in slumber I drew closer Eyes on door Familiar scene Stood here before This dream I've been Up the patio Door was ajar Accompanied by my shadow Stretched far Tunnel vision Dripping eave Door handle beckons Hand raised to receive Usually stops here Usually I'd rouse Allowed to enter This time... This house Handle I seize Door seemed light It did not freeze Hinges did not fight Revealed the insides Scanned surroundings Unlit lights Stairs climbing Footsteps I heard Coming my way Sounds absurd But yet I stay Usually stops here Usually dream is done But still was clear It only had begun Darkened figure Descending on bare feet Beauty light as feather Ever did I meet She did not see me Planted at the doorway Impossible it may be Nothing did she say Walked right by My eyes followed Seconds fly In eternity they burrowed Usually stops here Usually I'd wake Yet still I'm here Chance I'd take Stood at the fridge Back towards me Under siege My mind set a flurry Fridge was opened Light casted her silhouette Her back darkened Curiosity grew fat Illuminating beams Accentuated her hair Like golden streams Flowing with flair Usually stops here Usually I'd startle Connection did not sever Continue I was able Spellbound I gawked Rooted like a tree Wide-eyed I stalked This siren before me She drank Not knowing I was there Stiff as a plank I was locked in a stare Finally broke free Shifted my weight She turned to me And then said... Then it ceased Then I awaken Surprisingly pleased Slice of heaven Who was she? Silhouetted face Perpetually... Mysterious grace Foreign albeit familiar Strange but true Now rings clear... It is you...
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I took a drag of a rolled, unlit, cigarette. You have no idea how truly pleasing it was. That cigarette had her lipstick on it. It was like kissing her all over again. I lit that rolled up, lipstick stained, cigarette, just to feel like she was here with me again. The smoke had burned my eyes and scratched at my throat. I tried to breathe but I started to choke, suffocating on the last of my free will. For a minute, it felt like I wasn't going to survive. I took deep breathes and remembered it was her love I never wanted to forget, so I smoked the rest of that rolled up, lipstick stained, cigarette, but by the end of it, I was dead.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 3:41 AM UTC
Cigarette
A rainy dreary Halloween from 2006. Candlelit late night bedroom phone calls. Your dream about a train ride and mushroom farmers. My dream about hidden cities. "I want to feed you ****** and a muscle relaxer and **** the **** out of you" How long has it been Now? Too long maybe, some lines are stretched too thin, through waiting and longing, love and lust and the once closest of friendships, Stretched like Taffy till nearly gossamer strands wound meandering miles of complex life events and other unshared memories. A too familiar voice. Echoes of "I want you to have the perfect blow job" Spaces in conversations that would have been empty if not for the most contagious laugh I've ever heard. One not matched before or since. Can you live in the past and long for the future? Is it greedy to desire more of something that was already so sweet? I don't tell anyone about my dreams now. Candles sit on.the shelf primarily unlit. There are no more secret cities. No mushroom farmers or train rides But there are still threads Stretched like Taffy but woven like a tapestry. Across time and distance. Made of memories. All you'd have to do Is tug on a thread.
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 7:18 PM UTC
Of Secret cities, mushroom farmers, threads between them and the perfect *******
Leaves wilted Roots dry Hidden in the unlit corner of the room You miss the brightness of the morning sun Put there to pretty up this bare space Unaware that you need more than admiring looks and shards of fading light to survive Where did your green-ness go? Once glorious now brown tinged and limp   Walking past you   I can't help but look away I know I should do Something About you A leaf falls Feelings of thirst and Engulfing darkness Take their toll Soon There will be Nothing left But a shriveled up stem And you'll be tossed outside Discarded With the rest of them Really, I'm a terrible gardener.
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Apr 2, 2017
Apr 2, 2017 at 2:43 PM UTC
I **** all my plants
No one else, but a poet...can bring colors to scenes...with verses, in crass or subtle tones......gather words together in lines, uncertain in their ebbing and flowing... the results create surprise in many hues that could make one cry, grimace......frown......or smile readers are led to far, or near destinations...to the cool, sweet air and peaceful atmosphere of paradise, or, to unlit corners...uncharted waters, or deep into an abyss...or, a black hole, an unknown corner, where moribund souls are biding their time, maybe, they could now define by themselves, purgatory and hell, understand those sunken souls who have lost all...except their arms, and begging eyes... then, through appropriate words, a poet paints a laborious path, or a stairway...so an enlightened reader may climb back to safe, calm waters... a poet makes the mind see a human heart, beating in many rhythms...throbbing, .......aflame with longing and desire, bursting from ecstatic, sublime moments, then, later on, shift to grayish thoughts that cut deep....tormenting...crashing, ............gnashing the heart... a poet paints a soul walking on cloud nine, later, to dip feet in celebrative pools. sometimes, a poet would rather not, yet, an inner force prevails, thereby paints a drooping soul...dying, in total surrender, ready to fall..............but, again, with a barrel of lively-colored words, a poet takes this despondent soul to berth, with soothing verses, bring it to a rebirth... every human being is worth an effort ..............even those that have fallen .........................are worth savin' ..... a poet's palette is uniquely enriched with colorful experiences, a poet paints life in its truest colors, ..........could be dark...or bright .....nothing more......nothing less... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan January 29, 2017
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Jun 3, 2018
Jun 3, 2018 at 6:13 AM UTC
Painter
No one else, but a poet...can bring colors to scenes...with verses, in crass or subtle tones......gather words together in lines, uncertain in their ebbing and flowing... the results create surprise in many hues that could make one cry, grimace......frown......or smile readers are led to far, or near destinations...to the cool, sweet air and peaceful atmosphere of paradise, or, to unlit corners...uncharted waters, or deep into an abyss...or, a black hole, an unknown corner, where moribund souls are biding their time, maybe, they could now define by themselves, purgatory and hell, understand those sunken souls who have lost all...except their arms, and begging eyes... then, through appropriate words, a poet paints a laborious path, or a stairway...so an enlightened reader may climb back to safe, calm waters... a poet makes the mind see a human heart, beating in many rhythms...throbbing, .......aflame with longing and desire, bursting from ecstatic, sublime moments, then, later on, shift to grayish thoughts that cut deep....tormenting...crashing, ............gnashing the heart... a poet paints a soul walking on cloud nine, later, to dip feet in celebrative pools. sometimes, a poet would rather not, yet, an inner force prevails, thereby paints a drooping soul...dying, in total surrender, ready to fall..............but, again, with a barrel of lively-colored words, a poet takes this despondent soul to berth, with soothing verses, bring it to a rebirth... every human being is worth an effort ..............even those that have fallen .........................are worth savin' ..... a poet's palette is uniquely enriched with colorful experiences, a poet paints life in its truest colors, ..........could be dark...or bright .....nothing more......nothing less... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan January 29, 2017
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Let not this love fall into discontent, Nor my eyes accustom to her allure. Let not the sight of her cease wonderment, Nor my passion bore with beauty demure. Let not my lips stop quiv’ring for her kiss, Nor my fingers ache for her velvet hair. Let not my arms embrace with avarice, Nor my desire leave anything to spare. Let not her beauty ever be passé, Nor my heart not yearn for her naked breast. Let not making love miss a single day, Nor lying beside her allow us rest. Let not me take for granted her boudoir, Nor my love for her wane even a bit. Let not my lustful eyes ever look far, Nor my body ablaze become unlit.
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Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018 at 8:18 PM UTC
Let Not Eros Die
A honey-wax candle, dusty on the shelf, With a wick so white and naïve. It's sweet flame and dusky embers never licked, For on a shelf it sits, unlit. It never had burnt down To ash, but its sweet golden crown Sits safe on a dusty shelf.
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 3:37 AM UTC
Unlit candle
XXXII. TO SELENE (20 lines) (ll. 1-13) And next, sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well- skilled in song, tell of the long-winged (35) Moon. From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that ariseth from her shining light. The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine brightest as she increases. So she is a sure token and a sign to mortal men. (ll. 14-16) Once the Son of Cronos was joined with her in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods. (ll. 17-20) Hail, white-armed goddess, bright Selene, mild, bright-tressed queen! And now I will leave you and sing the glories of men half-divine, whose deeds minstrels, the servants of the Muses, celebrate with lovely lips.
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The Homeric Hymns: 32- To Selene
Four candles slowly burned The ambiance was so soft,one could almost hear them talking........ The first candle said: “I am peace" "The world is full of anger and fighting. Nobody can keep me" Then the flame of peace went out completely The second candle said: "I am faith" "I am no longer indispensable. It doesn't make sense that I stay another moment" Just then a breeze softly blew faith's flame. Sadly the third candle began to speak: "I am love" "People don't understand my importance so they simply put me aside. They even forget to love those who are nearest to them" And waiting no longer love flame went out. Suddenly........ a child entered the room and saw the three unlit candles. "Why aren't you burning? You're supposed to stay lit till the end" Saying this the child began to cry. Then the fourth candle answered "Don't be afraid, I am hope" "While I am still burning we can re light the other candle" With shining eyes the child took the candle of hope and lit the other candles. The greatest of these is love...... but the flame of hope should never go out of your life! With hope each of us can live with peace,faith, and love.
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Mar 26, 2016
Mar 26, 2016 at 8:46 AM UTC
The four candles
If I close my eyes and think of you I can smell your scent From a mere two days ago The flutter in my heart follows If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the joints That I identified aged 10 I try not to ***** If I close my eyes and think of my best friend I can smell her perfume and washing powder It makes me smile And want a hug If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the stale beer A middle of the night smell It meant 'don't leave your room' If I close my eyes and think of my mum I smell safety and comfort Strength and gravity The balance keeps me strong If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the stale sweat The cruel words of abuse The hatred inside myself If I close my eyes and think of my sister I smell vanilla and style Fashion and creativity Sullen kindness If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the cold of the room With its broken window in the arctic temperatures The fire unlit because the marijuana needed somewhere to grow If I close my eyes and think of school I smell the comforting sawdust The corridors familiar The classrooms like home If I close my eyes and think of my father Not having friends round to tea- because. 16 not 6- you can't buy my trust 16 not 46- don't want prayer flags for my birthday If I close my eyes and think of home I smell the damp washing hanging up Every squeaky floorboard Every drip, clank, comforting noise If I close my eyes and think of my father I smell the power he loved to have How I haven't seen him in three years The fear that still remains If I close my eyes and think of myself I smell nothing Hear and see nothing At that is what scares me the most.
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 6:48 PM UTC
Close my eyes
If I close my eyes and think of you I can smell your scent From a mere two days ago The flutter in my heart follows If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the joints That I identified aged 10 I try not to ***** If I close my eyes and think of my best friend I can smell her perfume and washing powder It makes me smile And want a hug If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the stale beer A middle of the night smell It meant 'don't leave your room' If I close my eyes and think of my mum I smell safety and comfort Strength and gravity The balance keeps me strong If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the stale sweat The cruel words of abuse The hatred inside myself If I close my eyes and think of my sister I smell vanilla and style Fashion and creativity Sullen kindness If I close my eyes and think of my father I can smell the cold of the room With its broken window in the arctic temperatures The fire unlit because the marijuana needed somewhere to grow If I close my eyes and think of school I smell the comforting sawdust The corridors familiar The classrooms like home If I close my eyes and think of my father Not having friends round to tea- because. 16 not 6- you can't buy my trust 16 not 46- don't want prayer flags for my birthday If I close my eyes and think of home I smell the damp washing hanging up Every squeaky floorboard Every drip, clank, comforting noise If I close my eyes and think of my father I smell the power he loved to have How I haven't seen him in three years The fear that still remains If I close my eyes and think of myself I smell nothing Hear and see nothing At that is what scares me the most.
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a wick to a flame, I will light up and meet the energy I'm given is my candle burning from both ends? is my true form an unlit candle or a pile of melted wax?
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Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022 at 8:52 AM UTC
melted wax
the day is at its end the towers and domes in the city are a lonely sight...abandoned, all closed.........all hushed up the gnomes of the day are mostly gone... beware...the gnomes of the night have just woken and are now energized... raring to prowl the dark halls and corridors out to the unlit alleys, backstreets and corners cloaked by towering shadows all set to play havoc to unknowing passers-by... in the dark where all restraints are set free where unconquered demons take center stage... in the dark, where the dead gets to live again... in the dark, where anything goes, unnoticed... in the shadows, where the dark sky is the limit.... until the first shafts of light come in... when once again, all secrets seek refuge in their hiding places ---------the dark takes a rest--------- ---------as a new day unfolds--------      Sally        Copyright 2013 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 9:43 PM UTC
Of Domes, Towers and Gnomes (In the Dark)
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung With pendent stalactites like frozen vines; And all along the walls at intervals, Curled upwards into pillars, roses climbed, And ramped and were confined, and clustered leaves Divided where there peered a laughing face. The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind, A silent murmur, carved in still, gray stone. High pointed windows pierced the southern wall Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic fires To stain the tessellated marble floor With pools of red, and quivering green, and blue; And in the shade beyond the further door, Its sober squares of black and white were hid Beneath a restless, shuffling, wide-eyed mob Of lackeys and retainers come to view The Christening. A sudden blare of trumpets, and the throng About the entrance parted as the guests Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts. Our eager fancies noted all they brought, The glorious, unattainable delights! But always there was one unbidden guest Who cursed the child and left it bitterness. The fire falls asunder, all is changed, I am no more a child, and what I see Is not a fairy tale, but life, my life. The gifts are there, the many pleasant things: Health, wealth, long-settled friendships, with a name Which honors all who bear it, and the power Of making words obedient. This is much; But overshadowing all is still the curse, That never shall I be fulfilled by love! Along the parching highroad of the world No other soul shall bear mine company. Always shall I be teased with semblances, With cruel impostures, which I trust awhile Then dash to pieces, as a careless boy Flings a kaleidoscope, which shattering Strews all the ground about with coloured shards. So I behold my visions on the ground No longer radiant, an ignoble heap Of broken, dusty glass. And so, unlit, Even by hope or faith, my dragging steps Force me forever through the passing days.
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A Fairy Tale
On winter nights beside the nursery fire We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals Builded its pictures. There before our eyes We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung With pendent stalactites like frozen vines; And all along the walls at intervals, Curled upwards into pillars, roses climbed, And ramped and were confined, and clustered leaves Divided where there peered a laughing face. The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind, A silent murmur, carved in still, gray stone. High pointed windows pierced the southern wall Whence proud escutcheons flung prismatic fires To stain the tessellated marble floor With pools of red, and quivering green, and blue; And in the shade beyond the further door, Its sober squares of black and white were hid Beneath a restless, shuffling, wide-eyed mob Of lackeys and retainers come to view The Christening. A sudden blare of trumpets, and the throng About the entrance parted as the guests Filed singly in with rare and precious gifts. Our eager fancies noted all they brought, The glorious, unattainable delights! But always there was one unbidden guest Who cursed the child and left it bitterness. The fire falls asunder, all is changed, I am no more a child, and what I see Is not a fairy tale, but life, my life. The gifts are there, the many pleasant things: Health, wealth, long-settled friendships, with a name Which honors all who bear it, and the power Of making words obedient. This is much; But overshadowing all is still the curse, That never shall I be fulfilled by love! Along the parching highroad of the world No other soul shall bear mine company. Always shall I be teased with semblances, With cruel impostures, which I trust awhile Then dash to pieces, as a careless boy Flings a kaleidoscope, which shattering Strews all the ground about with coloured shards. So I behold my visions on the ground No longer radiant, an ignoble heap Of broken, dusty glass. And so, unlit, Even by hope or faith, my dragging steps Force me forever through the passing days.
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Our love was beautifully vapid The evanescence of it; pure misery But I could not stop to wait for you Because you were a virgin-the most innocent of the pure And corruption trickled out my veins                             it was melted wax I saw you-holding the unlit cigarette to your mouth-never inhaling but the temptation it empaled you like a thorn Your parents. Your highly respected reputation, will you burn it? Will you **** her? Will you **** me? Can you withstand the allure of the forbidden fruit? Salvation; you want to be saved                  You want **** the lust that veils you And I want to preserve it But it slips from my grip like a drunken bottle of whiskey And you return to your savaging chasteness And I can no longer wait for the day your loosened morals    Protrude like a needle
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Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM UTC
Abstinence
"We´re all a little mad here" he says, wide eyed, letting the words lip slither off his snippity snake tongue. We smile and we laugh in unison. In unison our heaves, ins outs match one another, as belly moves, up and down we synchronize, ha-h-ha, What does he mean? how silly! Then deep thought unlit hide behind our bodies rocking chair movement snip snapping hip We´re all a little mad, are we not? as ego wears a crimson feathered mask and covers in gold to hide the deep dark coal secrets that slith and creep like crocodiles, sewer nights in paris, smelly grotesque, we hide. "We´re all a little mad here" he says as our bodies move in unison. Our bodies move in unison. In unison, while echoes tap my animal soul.
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 6:35 PM UTC
ha-ha-ha
I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls, And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. O’er ruined fences the grape-vines shield The woods come back to the mowing field; The orchard tree has grown one copse Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops; The footpath down to the well is healed. I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart On that disused and forgotten road That has no dust-bath now for the toad. Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; The whippoorwill is coming to shout And hush and cluck and flutter about: I hear him begin far enough away Full many a time to say his say Before he arrives to say it out. It is under the small, dim, summer star. I know not who these mute folk are Who share the unlit place with me— Those stones out under the low-limbed tree Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar. They are tireless folk, but slow and sad, Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,— With none among them that ever sings, And yet, in view of how many things, As sweet companions as might be had.
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Ghost House
Often, on quiet days, I wade through forest paths to the outer most regions of town. Close to the brink of wilderness where the humming sounds of cars and popping noises of God knows what can still be observed. Yet, the pure land surrounding has been blessed to be untouched and unblemished. Here, I retreat. I circle the bend and climb a hill until I reach an isolated plateau of nature reserve. Where natural phenomenon rise and cease in incessant and lullabic oscillation. As if to unplug my mental cords and to store away my worry, fear, concepts and systems. I reach a haven of unity. Although I own no land for myself, out here I can't help but feel this lost land of paradise is fully mine. However, I would like to do away with the notion of possession and self and here I can get closer to doing so. As if I were a small, beautiful water droplet being plucked from that cruel water resistant surface and to glide gracefully back into an encompassing body of water where the temperature is the state of my mind. And on occasion I notice another solemn being, clearly human, stumbling down the same path I had managed to carve and from atop the raised plateau, I can watch them. They circle and turn back, but I can't help but wonder if they feel the same as I do. And sometimes I think to approach them slowly and calmly and inquire about philosophical concepts. But I wish not to disturb what is so beautifully held in the essence of the silent forest. I would wonder what knowledge or truths these men and women had attained during this life and if it were to resonate with my own. Or possibly to share. In the town and at the refill station I dare not to inquire about such trivial matters but instead I nod my head or note the weather. But I cannot help but imagine and sometimes even feel that there is something deep within us and the space and entities surrounding us that is ineffable and profound. Yet it seems that it is lost in the thicket of ideas, concepts, and biased reality just like the sunlight in a dense, cold, unlit forest. And I have convinced myself that if we could clear even enough of the baggage we carry as entrapped souls that we could create a more beautiful, serene, and harmonious state of unity and achieve transcendent heights of being right here and now.
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 6:46 PM UTC
Silent Forest
Often, on quiet days, I wade through forest paths to the outer most regions of town. Close to the brink of wilderness where the humming sounds of cars and popping noises of God knows what can still be observed. Yet, the pure land surrounding has been blessed to be untouched and unblemished. Here, I retreat. I circle the bend and climb a hill until I reach an isolated plateau of nature reserve. Where natural phenomenon rise and cease in incessant and lullabic oscillation. As if to unplug my mental cords and to store away my worry, fear, concepts and systems. I reach a haven of unity. Although I own no land for myself, out here I can't help but feel this lost land of paradise is fully mine. However, I would like to do away with the notion of possession and self and here I can get closer to doing so. As if I were a small, beautiful water droplet being plucked from that cruel water resistant surface and to glide gracefully back into an encompassing body of water where the temperature is the state of my mind. And on occasion I notice another solemn being, clearly human, stumbling down the same path I had managed to carve and from atop the raised plateau, I can watch them. They circle and turn back, but I can't help but wonder if they feel the same as I do. And sometimes I think to approach them slowly and calmly and inquire about philosophical concepts. But I wish not to disturb what is so beautifully held in the essence of the silent forest. I would wonder what knowledge or truths these men and women had attained during this life and if it were to resonate with my own. Or possibly to share. In the town and at the refill station I dare not to inquire about such trivial matters but instead I nod my head or note the weather. But I cannot help but imagine and sometimes even feel that there is something deep within us and the space and entities surrounding us that is ineffable and profound. Yet it seems that it is lost in the thicket of ideas, concepts, and biased reality just like the sunlight in a dense, cold, unlit forest. And I have convinced myself that if we could clear even enough of the baggage we carry as entrapped souls that we could create a more beautiful, serene, and harmonious state of unity and achieve transcendent heights of being right here and now.
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That lamp thou fill’st in Eros name to-night, O Hero, shall the Sestian augurs take To-morrow, and for drowned Leander’s sake To Anteros its fireless lip shall plight. Aye, waft the unspoken vow: yet dawn’s first light On ebbing storm and life twice ebb’d must break; While ’neath no sunrise, by the Avernian Lake, Lo where Love walks, Death’s pallid neophyte. That lamp within Anteros’ shadowy shrine Shall stand unlit (for so the gods decree) Till some one man the happy issue see Of a life’s love, and bid its flame to shine: Which still may rest unfir’d; for, theirs or thine, O brother, what brought love to them or thee?
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Hero’s Lamp
Stealing away from the noise and glare I paced the aisles of an ancient library Being worn and tired, indisposed to read I sat in a corner, lost in half reverie Around me were books stacked end on end In safely locked glass and wooden shelves And sectioned into different genres Fiction, non- fiction, verse et al, in thinly layered leaves I felt lost in this vast continent of erudite friends Poet, scholar, philosopher and sage, each sat quiet But those silent souls seemed to crave for human touch Waiting to serve anytime learning’s lovesome diet Closely sheltered from the tumult of the world The place, though serene had an eerie air And books like so many beauties in a harem Were kept away in seclusion just to admire The lifeless air and the long deserted look Mildly disturbed my inner calm Couldn’t digest man’s total disregard of books Which for long, to many a lonely soul, served as balm Sitting amid those gallant souls I thought over the relentless efforts of sage like men Who in the stillness of the night, in their cloistured cells Plunged into research and meditative reflection What knowledge is garnered in these tomes! What all charms, encased in these pages! To what magic lands they can carry us Sharing with us the accumulated wisdom of ages With the profusion of electronic gadgets And information, readily available by a finger hit Books no more are given a venerable treat And fated to be stashed away in corners unlit Heavy with the time tested wisdom of the wise They sit huddled together in damp corners Longing to get a little human warmth But sadly neglected like rusted burners After an hour’s enervating reprieve While I was leaving that dumb world In my ears, fell a faint sound Of the agonizing cry of the Printed Word!
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Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 8:58 AM UTC
An Agonizing Cry
Stealing away from the noise and glare I paced the aisles of an ancient library Being worn and tired, indisposed to read I sat in a corner, lost in half reverie Around me were books stacked end on end In safely locked glass and wooden shelves And sectioned into different genres Fiction, non- fiction, verse et al, in thinly layered leaves I felt lost in this vast continent of erudite friends Poet, scholar, philosopher and sage, each sat quiet But those silent souls seemed to crave for human touch Waiting to serve anytime learning’s lovesome diet Closely sheltered from the tumult of the world The place, though serene had an eerie air And books like so many beauties in a harem Were kept away in seclusion just to admire The lifeless air and the long deserted look Mildly disturbed my inner calm Couldn’t digest man’s total disregard of books Which for long, to many a lonely soul, served as balm Sitting amid those gallant souls I thought over the relentless efforts of sage like men Who in the stillness of the night, in their cloistured cells Plunged into research and meditative reflection What knowledge is garnered in these tomes! What all charms, encased in these pages! To what magic lands they can carry us Sharing with us the accumulated wisdom of ages With the profusion of electronic gadgets And information, readily available by a finger hit Books no more are given a venerable treat And fated to be stashed away in corners unlit Heavy with the time tested wisdom of the wise They sit huddled together in damp corners Longing to get a little human warmth But sadly neglected like rusted burners After an hour’s enervating reprieve While I was leaving that dumb world In my ears, fell a faint sound Of the agonizing cry of the Printed Word!
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#    *The killer came crashing down smashing,  thrashing through. What is tender's  tender        so  for itself,   to do?         --As it runs         right over the top of her..        This taker.        This killer. In the black,   now in between; so lightless and thick..         blotting out  all screams. There is an annihilation  here. A void. A terror. To stay, means certain death       but to leave         also means certain death       So the  d is m e m b e r men t   begins       as she is ripped, completely into half And those halves,  into half.. .. into half --into half..         into half.      And still it tears.. rips..  shreds-- Until all,  in between is nothing  but black. A black it can now  pretend to fill with all of its empty promises.. and all of its counterfeit, everything. ..And then--  just up and leaves once it is fully satiated.*      ***And for a while..      the black had something.*** *Clinging to the rocky crags on either side of the unlit valley are now  the pieces of her-- war-torn and shuddering. Terrified Of the black, black   empty. Of what is now  fully      and  completely   dark.       ~       ~      ~       ~ Timmy  ain't real tall but look at his stature, as his majestic strings   dialogue the introduction. And Warren's gotten so fat See him now, looking so dearly,  back at his half-pint of Chunky Monkey-- picking it back up,  for the fourth time.. scraping... scraping.. scraping.. But watch his eyes  light up as Timmy looks up--   over the top of those wild-man RayBans And with a gentle nod,  it all begins.. -- as our Warren  now digs  deep into his Gibson's beautifully-wanton  ways..     identifying.     clarifying.     Rectifying. Clarence, the Magician.. Stephan--  Humble, Unparalleled And Dave's  so chill he's part Creole.. I just know it. So great a cloud of witness: surrounding you, my beautiful.. coaxing  you.     Identifying it all for you.* #
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Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022 at 12:01 AM UTC
the C-word
#    *The killer came crashing down smashing,  thrashing through. What is tender's  tender        so  for itself,   to do?         --As it runs         right over the top of her..        This taker.        This killer. In the black,   now in between; so lightless and thick..         blotting out  all screams. There is an annihilation  here. A void. A terror. To stay, means certain death       but to leave         also means certain death       So the  d is m e m b e r men t   begins       as she is ripped, completely into half And those halves,  into half.. .. into half --into half..         into half.      And still it tears.. rips..  shreds-- Until all,  in between is nothing  but black. A black it can now  pretend to fill with all of its empty promises.. and all of its counterfeit, everything. ..And then--  just up and leaves once it is fully satiated.*      ***And for a while..      the black had something.*** *Clinging to the rocky crags on either side of the unlit valley are now  the pieces of her-- war-torn and shuddering. Terrified Of the black, black   empty. Of what is now  fully      and  completely   dark.       ~       ~      ~       ~ Timmy  ain't real tall but look at his stature, as his majestic strings   dialogue the introduction. And Warren's gotten so fat See him now, looking so dearly,  back at his half-pint of Chunky Monkey-- picking it back up,  for the fourth time.. scraping... scraping.. scraping.. But watch his eyes  light up as Timmy looks up--   over the top of those wild-man RayBans And with a gentle nod,  it all begins.. -- as our Warren  now digs  deep into his Gibson's beautifully-wanton  ways..     identifying.     clarifying.     Rectifying. Clarence, the Magician.. Stephan--  Humble, Unparalleled And Dave's  so chill he's part Creole.. I just know it. So great a cloud of witness: surrounding you, my beautiful.. coaxing  you.     Identifying it all for you.* #
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I sleep in pitch black rooms and wait for candles to light themselves Thoughts the same shade of dark. Counting sheep as they hop into slaughter houses of gluttonous, avaricious men who trade their humanity for pocket change. While satans minions work with circumspectivness to reap what their slave-like bourgeois have sewn living with a motto of Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery In the Meantime fribble prodigal sons of the privileged ponder their inheritance While the daughter of a currier burns her fathers letters because something's are best left unknown and the candles remain unlit. But beauteous animals still roam free in the wild, little kids still smile. There's hope in the heart of each child. Sitting in seclusion and coming to Ambiguous conclusions is always productive So When did the key to success become failure? when wasn't it?
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 7:43 PM UTC
Subliminal cryptogram
His fingertips are doused in gasoline, setting fire to everything he sees. Each object he touches, all the memories collected, ash away and fall to crimes. He's got eternal flames inside him, and yet his eyes remain dimmed and submissive. He's fragile and fractured, and as his last heart string crackled, you could see the hope unlit. Fires and unsettling demons are all he even seems to remember. He might try and set his body ablaze, to calmly dry off that crying pain, sadly sticks and stones withhold his embers. He won't die, but he can't learn, the anguish manipulated to feed a burn. His life was hanging in a balance of dry anger, rather the deployment of washing hurt again, he thought would dehydrate its annual return-*
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 7:57 PM UTC
Burn
Then dark with dripping blood it gave a howl and cried again: 'Our damaged branches ache! Your pillage maims me! Can't you feel at all? We who were men are now this barren brake. You'd grant us your respect and stay your hand were we a thicket not of souls but snakes.' As wood still green starts burning at one end and from its unlit end the burning stick drips sap, and hisses with escaping wind, so from the broken stump there oozed a mix of words and blood: a frothy babbling gore. I dropped the branch. My fear had made me sick. 'Poor wounded soul, could he have grasped before,' my sage replied, 'what now he sees is true, and blindly trusted in poetic lore, then he need not have so insulted you. But as there was no other way to learn I urged him to a test that grieved me too. Tell us who you were, that he, in turn, can set your honor freshly back in style among those he will teach when he returns.' The trunk: 'Your speech, by raising hope that I'll regain repute, makes words arise in me. I mean to talk, if you will stay a while: I was the one entrusted with the keys to Federigo's mind, and it was sweet to share his thought and guard his strategy for noble ventures secret in my keep — so faithfully I filled this glorious post, I gladly sacrificed my health and sleep...'
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The Thorn Forest
They say "Time heals all wounds." "It glues the pieces of you that broke when you were torn from your lover's heart and thrown onto the ground." I say that's a lie. For after 3 years, 5 months, 12 days, 22 hours, 42 minutes, and 50 seconds; you are still haunting me. The puzzle never fits. The heart still aches. The candles stay unlit. And at times I break. No, time does not heal all wounds. But it gives you the strength of a 10-ply tissue, the memory of the finest sieve, and the melancholy of a young literati. It gives you threads of silver and red; and it's up to you to weave the mess into a conceivable, beautiful, tragic scar.
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Nov 30, 2013
Nov 30, 2013 at 12:07 AM UTC
"time heals all wounds."