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There was a time when men were kind When their voices were soft And their words inviting There was a time when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time Then it all went wrong I dreamed a dream in times gone by When hope was high And life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung No wine untasted But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart And they turn your dream to shame He slept a summer by my side He filled my days with endless wonder He took my childhood in his stride But he was gone when autumn came And still I dream he'll come to me That we'll live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed The dream I dreamed.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 9:22 PM UTC
I Dreamed A Dream (Les Miserables)
That Chinese box Your wares untasted From whence arose The lunar doom Of my obsession. Some oriental harmony I never heard Auspicious omen of prosperity That passed me by Like cloud shadow across moon On a restless night Long ago. Your pale and autocratic beauty: Moon over wall-gate in frontier Long gone Like life on a distant planet; I am out of your orbit . . . Still you circle Serving others more worthy Of your light. I still love you, Mooncakes Though I shall never taste you.
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Sep 23, 2018
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:33 PM UTC
Autumn Festival: Lotus Seed
Dear picture of mine comeback! My dear picture comeback! Comeback and leave. Let the helpless lovers rising from the tide of memoirs -with anger their shadows revealed by the light of stars- and the chronic from their forms of lust, let it fade away harmonic and undoubtedly in the wave of their union. Dear picture of mine comeback. Indefinite and freely dead by the envy of gods, untasted the essence of creation. Comeback and leave.. and as you leave, let the lovers;at the only sky -their own-forever there, in the last summer of their life.
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 8:54 AM UTC
Dear picture comeback
The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall. Of mighty kings of Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away; The world was fair in Durin's Day. A king he was on carven throne In many-pillared halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And runes of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote, There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built, There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durin's folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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Durin
The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall. Of mighty kings of Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away; The world was fair in Durin's Day. A king he was on carven throne In many-pillared halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And runes of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote, There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built, There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durin's folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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Planks, splintering in solidity Together twined in tedium Curving cords of mated metal Lost in ludicrous loops Twines of tetanus protrude Danger danger Rising flying roaring floating Above the stillborn trains Arching acrid aerial arms Lazy concrete spiral, neighbor snail Inverse slide with railings Rumble rumble try and grumble Jitter in jumpy juxtaposition Guts of grotesque giants Flayed flawed under flaming flight Blink away oblivion Orange and omnificent, opaque concern Useful hangnail, table scraps Rise above Shocked stillness soon stumbling Ornamental oasis for the oracles Unseen unheard untasted unsmelled Unfeeling unused to understanding Carry me across Fly me over Lift me beyond Suspend. Glimpse the unparalleled phenomenon Ribs of steel, rain has parted Seeping to the soul Buzzing through the boards Immobile, cradle in the wind Twist Take off your sunglasses Be sure to look around as you pass through
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Oct 20, 2012
Oct 20, 2012 at 10:30 PM UTC
Footbridge over the Railroad Tracks
Bubbles in a bath, loud moaning blaring in the back as I look down at the bruising on my muted skin. I try to imagine myself with your glowing frame submerged underneath the water. Without you, I've been a bit dramatic. A bit manic. Wandering and wonderin'; yeah, I've let my mind slip at night. In the hours of now until then, I try to refrain. I indulge myself into routine. I watch lovers on the screen. Envisioning myself with women in the late hours but mimicking your strokes in the morning. Without you, without you. I'm free to be me. With you, I'm happy. Molten coffee scorches my untouched tongue, reminding me that I can still feel warmth. Damp moss grazes my untasted body, reminding me that I can still dream.
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Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 10:58 PM UTC
Soft Words Written From a Bath
On Death’s domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu’ror has his spoils bestow’d; There there the offspring of six thousand years In endless numbers to my view appears: Whole kingdoms in his gloomy den are ****** And nations mix with their primeval dust: Insatiate still he gluts the ample tomb; His is the present, his the age to come. See here a brother, here a sister spread, And a sweet daughter mingled with the dead. But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside, And let the fountain of your tears be dry’d, In vain they flow to wet the dusty plain, Your sighs are wafted to the skies in vain, Your pains they witness, but they can no more, While Death reigns tyrant o’er this mortal shore. The glowing stars and silver queen of light At last must perish in the gloom of night: Resign thy friends to that Almighty hand, Which gave them life, and bow to his command; Thine Avis give without a murm’ring heart, Though half thy soul be fated to depart. To shining guards consign thine infant care To waft triumphant through the seas of air: Her soul enlarg’d to heav’nly pleasure springs, She feeds on truth and uncreated things. Methinks I hear her in the realms above, And leaning forward with a filial love, Invite you there to share immortal bliss Unknown, untasted in a state like this. With tow’ring hopes, and growing grace arise, And seek beatitude beyond the skies.
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To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady’s Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Of Avis, Aged One Year
On Death’s domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu’ror has his spoils bestow’d; There there the offspring of six thousand years In endless numbers to my view appears: Whole kingdoms in his gloomy den are ****** And nations mix with their primeval dust: Insatiate still he gluts the ample tomb; His is the present, his the age to come. See here a brother, here a sister spread, And a sweet daughter mingled with the dead. But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside, And let the fountain of your tears be dry’d, In vain they flow to wet the dusty plain, Your sighs are wafted to the skies in vain, Your pains they witness, but they can no more, While Death reigns tyrant o’er this mortal shore. The glowing stars and silver queen of light At last must perish in the gloom of night: Resign thy friends to that Almighty hand, Which gave them life, and bow to his command; Thine Avis give without a murm’ring heart, Though half thy soul be fated to depart. To shining guards consign thine infant care To waft triumphant through the seas of air: Her soul enlarg’d to heav’nly pleasure springs, She feeds on truth and uncreated things. Methinks I hear her in the realms above, And leaning forward with a filial love, Invite you there to share immortal bliss Unknown, untasted in a state like this. With tow’ring hopes, and growing grace arise, And seek beatitude beyond the skies.
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Grateful for the way you loosened my tongue unlocked the longing let nature, unfettered, spill forth For the keys to the dance floor, the illusion of manhood - the sing-songs, punch-ups, lock-ups and lovers But that part played, what's left is loveless. You weigh on my mind, you get in the way, you pin my arms and force your way in My boys are watching. You'd have them think this was normal, natural - you're waiting with your glistening invitation to take them down this perilous path Wasted days wasted they watch. I wish myself washed of this witchcraft. I'll raise a glass in this hall of mirrors then set it down untasted. We'll always have the past, I suppose. Now please, just let me be.
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 7:34 AM UTC
Drifting Apart
In a little cafe I know I sit alone imagining you here our hands touching lightly as we subconsciously stir our drinks Others passing by look and smile muttering first date so cute and such a lovely couple we smile almost laughing but not to be as I drink alone my bitterness held with a china heart my hands hold tightly maybe one day you'll see me there and ask is this seat taken and we will touch hands so tentatively and laugh at passers by while carving hearts with spoons within the froth of latte warm and sweet upon the lips as any yet untasted kiss.
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Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 11:25 PM UTC
Small Cafe Dreams
facebook told me yesterday was national donut day and I had to admire how something that's had its center cut out still         has so much good to give. and it                          made me wish you would see                          the remainder of me and find                me worth sinking your teeth into but you don't. now that you've painfully excised my heart you toss me aside untasted.
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 4:09 AM UTC
National Donut Day
Dim the lights Now light a candle Walk slowly The perfect angle Come close now Stop and bite your lip Take your hand Trace lines by your hip Yes that's it In by your navel Further down Beneath see-through lace Touch the crown Quicken up the pace Excitement Come here let me taste Near the bed Blankets pushed aside Sit on top Put your lips on mine Push me down Not yet, take your time Hands in hair Love bites on the neck A whisper Baby, kiss my back Flushed cheeks No moment wasted Hands grip tight A thrill untasted Pull them down Tell me what to do Lay back there So I can taste you Do not rush Face pressed against thigh Go real slow I want you inside Hearts beat fast Quicker, almost wet Got it right The first of many sets Kiss my lips Anything you say Can and will Be used in foreplay
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 3:11 AM UTC
Anything You Say
"There's No Kiss In Your Eyes..." You ever notice how you purrrrrrrrrrrr when you focus on - thought I was going to say me didn't you? well I didn't... puppies and kittens. How the sun FEELs so **** good in your eyes... how that first taste of cold winter's air just bites and makes you FEEL so ...alive. I make snowballs - still - and throw them hard and **** accurate too - and laugh and duck - well - for ANY age. No one asks me to make a snowman anymore... I miss that. I don't curse the snow I shovel - never have, that's strange I guess but I like snow and how it feels, tastes, touches me back. Seems theres a Snow Angel in every bank... and the feel of crystals each as unique as we. Its not the taste of coffee that draws me holds me - nor its aroma as the wisps meander to heaven - one cup at a time... Its the thought of the anchor that binding HOLD that keeps me focused and from floating off and ...away and yet it still gets cold while setting unnoticed and unheld and ...untasted and unwanted after all the herald's smiles and teasings told. I don't like water... theres no HEART to water no ...squeezing GRASP to be had no ...warmth shared no ...bitter dregs to be mind-chewed and eye-candy. I never want to be told "There's no kiss in your eyes..." Chris
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Feb 17, 2012
Feb 17, 2012 at 12:31 AM UTC
"There's No Kiss In Your Eyes..."
The softest touch of a loving friend To the deepest **** from a charaded blade Where does blissful sensation make its end; Converting to the obtrusive pain enfilade? A subtle ambiance from a serene musician To the daily news of grief and causality When do loving whispers of mutual affection; Fade into a harsh scolding from authority? An untasted sweetness of rare delicacy To the sour lingering of bitter temptation How does the favored indulgences' nuancy; Shift to a bland routine of daily recreation? A picturesque sight of undying fantasy accord To the shocking reception of a suicide note Why do relations flow from their distant discord; Into the desperate end that fate already wrote? The lavishing waft of a motley gardens' aroma; To the putrid scent sifting in the house of flies What's the difference between this mundane coma; And the ignored certainty we all despise? Aren't pain and bliss really just one in the same? Like the lowest to highest on any sort of scale Every single trace of emotion just felt by name; Portrayed variably through each separate tale
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 7:39 PM UTC
A Textbook Pang
***he rises early, well before the premature, minutest hints of early dawn, cradling tenderized words, from a silent marinating mind withdrawn, some spices harvested from the soil's mortality of daily strife, others, manna gifts of wild floral tenderness, plucked from Eve's tree of life neither gardener nor chef, the fruits of his labor, are product of a mothers mind's silent back labor, emerging with no notice or invitation, spilt from lips unmoving, eyes shuttered, fingers ungloved ministering a Temple sacrifice of plain psalms authored but un-titled some spark ignition causes a key reversal, from motionless to motion, moving with no in-between, words simmering, from seeds unknown, the dishe's integrity questioned, but it births itself, uncaring, eagerly, willing copied from cavern decorations of rude, wall drawings almost fully formed, though untasted and undigested, a savant smell provokes a leap from placid prone, to upright and seated upon the throne of his writing desk, can one*** divine ***a recipe from odor alone, thus claiming authorship of an untitled dish, one that can't be recreated?*** sets it down before you uncovered, with a lustrous screen of silk damask, plated on Royal Worcester fine bone china, yet, without any utensils, asking you to ken this work, **eat this poem, with bare hands, love it as if it was your own first born, consumed/consuming a strange but familiar spirit**
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Jan 4, 2018
Jan 4, 2018 at 4:06 PM UTC
Untitled Poe Dish
Desire rises up like a tidal wave. Yearning to reach out to another. The strong flow washing over me, And within me. Pushing out, reaching... The object of my desire is barely known Surely you can't warrant such an intense reaction, So soon, so incomplete. But it flows, I can't hold it back. I flow. Wanting more I drift where the current leads. Giving into desire, but unable to fulfill it. Such a waste All this beautiful passion All the thrilling things that could be done. Oh what I would do with this desire. Every drop wasted Every morsel untasted Every ****** act, a ghost to lay to rest With an inadequate eulogy played by my fingers.
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 5:51 AM UTC
Flow
Accepting aloneness, incomplete solitude, imperfect rest. The garden wasted, pumpkin patch planted late, potatoes untasted left in ground. A thousand email addresses, each unique represents a flame of passion, compassion, desperation or depression. To understand, to       know's impossible. It is therefore only reasonable to observe the shadows on the mountain, the actions of the dreamer which tell us something, little, nothing of his dream. It's a simple secret shared, longevity. The half breed John Russell says it right, the date and place don't matter, dry desert or cold mountainside, lush bottomland, soulless or hospitable, contagious hospital. The best laugh's death's, a perfect escape, perfect error, perfect rest. Their solicitude's unnecessary, grief is temporary, life goes on, you go under, underemployed, the undertaker's never unemployed. Forensics prove an ***** with two chambers, ovule adnate to the       funicle.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 12:17 PM UTC
Adnate to the Funicle
So many lost moments... so many prescious kisses untasted arms that have felt the chill embrace of your absence bodies that occupy the same space made strangers but time and tide today held back to make so sweet amends as we once more share with one another... one another.
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 3:51 AM UTC
Our Time
Come now, spill your secrets on this slowly rising floor paint me in your misdeeds for I am craving new colors flickering eyes expose fresh hesitancy that lingers clearly upon untasted tongue that (despairingly) longs for freedom unfurl cold nuiscances they hold no power here come, proclaim your hidden inquiries while we’ll decorate these steel walls in our variegated offences
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Dec 26, 2012
Dec 26, 2012 at 11:02 PM UTC
Spill
I wish I could be like the street urchin Unpampered uncared but not sad Wear daylong a cloudless grin Be in manners and etiquette bad! *I want to be bad I need to be bad Am too shackled by the good I want to be like him The street urchin Carelessly capriciously crude!* Too long I have been by the good enslaved Hold captive in its pretentious cask Too long for good I have naggingly craved Let it cut out for me all my task! *I want to be bad I need to be bad Am dying for the untasted brew I want to be like him The street urchin Treating good too good to be true!*
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Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 6:10 AM UTC
Too Good Too Long
She is sweetness untasted, by the likes of the deserving though for some, love is merely a mistake of judgement until something better comes along to subtly replace a misplaced heart. She is forgiveness unfelt, a bleeding heart of amore so they drink, and play and fall, until choice is lost, yielding to fatal attraction. She is kindness unseen, not wounded love could defeat from the bounty of the wasted we count, moments until she turns sour but she never does. She is sanguine addiction, of words that melt stone with a fire that breathes from her will, burning in virtue that makes me sing.
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 2:53 PM UTC
SHE
Unseen and yet the phoenix rises over head from ashes now grown cold. Unheard and yet the crystal fountain rushes with jade and emeralds, their essence sounding delicately like a bell of golden light that rings with laughing sounds. Unfelt and yet the darkness of the night blows bottomless through the room, a tangible presence like the chanting prayers of monks long since gone from this world. Unsmelt and yet the perfume of the flowers we once thought of exhale a breath of yellow dust that makes us weep. Untasted and yet the sleepless moments we cannot run from linger like a bitter wine who's taste will not quite wash away. And here for just a second we almost sense these things and a shiver passes over us and we do not know why.
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May 29, 2010
May 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM UTC
A Deeper Darkness
By Les Miserables There was a time when men were kind When their voices were soft And their words inviting There was a time when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time Then it all went wrong I dreamed a dream in times gone by When hope was high And life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung No wine untasted But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart And they turn your dream to shame He slept a summer by my side He filled my days with endless wonder He took my childhood in his stride But he was gone when autumn came And still I dream he'll come to me That we'll live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed The dream I dreamed.
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 11:14 PM UTC
I Dreamed A Dream
Enough is waiting for one Enough is the searching for answers Enough are the sacrifises made Enough being treated like dirt Enough are the lonely nights Enough are the days crying out for a smile Enough are fulfilling others dreams Enough are these animations It was an interim, Now its time to Taste the untasted,Try the untried Feel the unfelt,Do the undone See the unseen,live the unlived Its not much but its enough To smoke my emotions To pull me out of this illusion To teach me the ugly truth I found an inception to my life The pursuit of hapiness has begun. I give you two choices watch me or join me.
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM UTC
A fresh start