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"urged" poems
No accounting for taste. What you dislike and called a waste is what I like. You call cheese,honey I called it bitter pill. You prefer a monkey while chimp makes me chill. You like worshipping sun I love worshipping God It really fun you called mine odd. I lived in tradition You lived in modernity But in addition I lived in christianity. You urged me to study biology I urged you to learn Shakespeare You want me to live by astrology Let poetry be your spear. You prefer winter that is your choice Mine is summer when I'll rejoice. When you lay on your bunk, you hear the music,rock but I listen to punk who should be given a sock? You love a black lady with long dark hair I love a white baby to be my heir. You desire democracy as system of your government I desire theocracy it had the best management. Let us be a union Let there be chaste Let's tolerate each one's opinion for no accounting for taste.
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 6:10 PM UTC
NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE
To ill is scourge hazard of modern man; The way of life which tricked you leaves you weak. Before it pounced, prevent you must! You can, Your visions blur, your limbs cut, your times bleak. Avoid refined sweetness pure, you should know, The more you love to eat the more you crave; Your sweet tongue urged pleasures deals a cruel blow, The more you indulge, closer be your grave. This sickness gradual erosion of health, Like shrinking pools merciless sun would drain. A diabetic's woe: no amount of wealth, Could stop the vines that binds and break the chain. Without remedy and won't heal for good, So sweat, please monitor intake of food.
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Jul 4, 2018
Jul 4, 2018 at 7:07 PM UTC
Diabetes; Sonnet #7
Volunteers, PSGs, Staffs Executive Directors And higher task allocators. People pass by Mic's were off Facade was the banner of hope. Voices all over the provinces All with the same goal Rightly urged with own reasons. Two faces were present Painted with grimace Or with broaden smiles. *The screening was stern and severe Camera rolls on with Level 2 "Next," "Give me another song" The voice sounds no roughs of plead A voice pushing rivals To their very own frontiers I was startled So this is how they do it Selection, great screenings There're expectators There're hope hurtles Dreams will sooner be pulled of.
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Jul 5, 2014
Jul 5, 2014 at 11:52 PM UTC
The Voice Audition
Bruised and battered a friendship Sometimes hangs by a tiny thread As we came to the edge Urged on , by all , but our own souls We stop for friendship sake Staring at the rocks of death below We walked the cliff edge black Hearts pounding like stampeding rhino Charging our very path Dragons of fear circle over head Breathing fire over all Pride clamors for higher ground Standing tall and righteous We fly high in the sky Preying like vultures Search for every fault Feeling lost and alone We seek the lower land With pastures lush and green And soil deep and rich Where horses softly munch Teaching us their gentle ways For the loss of a friend Can be to much to bear In this already harsh world Weighing like lead on our back Like the captain of our own ship We cling to the end As our world sinks from under us Breaking boards and smashing masts Many splinter blind our eyes As we float together in darkness Waiting , for the storm to pass Then the great sewer grabs our very souls And throws us to the earth Braking our ego shells With troubles of our time And sew new friendship To be born anew As only the friendship Which has great strength The power to endure many deaths That see through much lashing pain Can ever earn its name For friendship forged in great heat Will find itself sealed to the eternal time
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 3:53 PM UTC
FORGED FRIENDSHIP
I wonder how many seconds of insane courage it would take me to get up and walk away from everything I've ever loved. To never look back and willingly end up lost. I want to get caught up in the moment of being lonely and let it take me away. Away from here.At one point in your life, you'll feel like your back is against the wall and there's no point in looking for a way out. Today I caught hold of that feeling, a black restlessness settled in my bones and urged me get lost and run away. Sometimes I think it would solve all of my problems and that all of the people who ever used me would wake up with saddened hearts and guilty minds. It would be nice to leave behind a world of hurt for a beautiful, bright light.
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 9:46 PM UTC
deep, dark thoughts
In ruck and quibble of courtfolk This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene With hands like derricks, Looks fierce and black as rooks; Why, all the windows broke when he stalked in. Her dainty acres he ramped through And used her gentle doves with manners rude; I do not know What fury urged him slay Her antelope who meant him naught but good. She spoke most chiding in his ear Till he some pity took upon her crying; Of rich attire He made her shoulders bare And solaced her, but quit her at cock's crowing. A hundred heralds she sent out To summon in her slight all doughty men Whose force might fit Shape of her sleep, her thought- None of that greenhorn lot matched her bright crown. So she is come to this rare pass Whereby she treks in blood through sun and squall And sings you thus : 'How sad, alas, it is To see my people shrunk so small, so small.'
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The Queen's Complaint
Pale legs sprawl out; untangling and stretching, as I absorb the Montana air. Isolated, we sit, under the big sky. Silent. White clouds float through a sea of orange. The same shade of orange as those sugary push-up's my father would shove down my throat. Gas station sweets to make me me forgive him. I shake the feeling of comparisons— they never did me any good. Instead, I lie down and allow you to touch my tense body. Softly, you reach over, muffling words of beauty and astonishment. I do not flinch. I flash a smile and focus on Montana. The mountains in West Virginia rolled; they flowed, so graciously together. There was never a road that was not winding. I've never seen a rugged mountain. Snow-capped and radiant. Not until Montana. Until this moment, I, too, have tried to flow. Living the same ways, in which I experienced, Mother Nature. Going through the motions— with no purpose. No passion. The fear of becoming an abrasive, overbearing woman urged me to flow. To slide through life, barely noticed. Never climbing for more, to discover the true beauty in becoming a bit rocky.
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 11:06 PM UTC
Teachings From Mother.
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Sep 8, 2015
Sep 8, 2015 at 4:41 AM UTC
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Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls Went wobble-wobble on the walls. Faint odours of departed cheese, Blown on the dank, unwholesome breeze, Awoke the never ending sneeze. Strange pictures decked the arras drear, Strange characters of woe and fear, The humbugs of the social sphere. One showed a vain and noisy **** That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig. And one, a dotard grim and gray, Who wasteth childhood's happy day In work more profitless than play. Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms. And one, a green thyme-honoured Bank, Where flowers are growing wild and rank, Like weeds that fringe a poisoned tank. All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. The wandering phantom broke and fled, Straightway I saw within my head A vision of a ghostly bed, Where lay two worn decrepit men, The fictions of a lawyer's pen, Who never more might breathe again. The serving-man of Richard Roe Wept, inarticulate with woe: She wept, that waiting on John Doe. "Oh rouse", I urged, "the waning sense With tales of tangled evidence, Of suit, demurrer, and defence." "Vain", she replied, "such mockeries: For morbid fancies, such as these, No suits can suit, no plea can please." And bending o'er that man of straw, She cried in grief and sudden awe, Not inappropriately, "Law!" The well-remembered voice he knew, He smiled, he faintly muttered "Sue!" (Her very name was legal too.) The night was fled, the dawn was nigh: A hurricane went raving by, And swept the Vision from mine eye. Vanished that dim and ghostly bed, (The hangings, tape; the tape was red happy 'Tis o'er, and Doe and Roe are dead! Oh, yet my spirit inly crawls, What time it shudderingly recalls That horrid dream of marble halls!
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The Palace of Humbug
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that creeps and crawls Went wobble-wobble on the walls. Faint odours of departed cheese, Blown on the dank, unwholesome breeze, Awoke the never ending sneeze. Strange pictures decked the arras drear, Strange characters of woe and fear, The humbugs of the social sphere. One showed a vain and noisy **** That shouted empty words and big At him that nodded in a wig. And one, a dotard grim and gray, Who wasteth childhood's happy day In work more profitless than play. Whose icy breast no pity warms, Whose little victims sit in swarms, And slowly sob on lower forms. And one, a green thyme-honoured Bank, Where flowers are growing wild and rank, Like weeds that fringe a poisoned tank. All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare. The fatal Notes neglected fall, No creature heeds the treacherous call, For all those goodly Strawn Baits Pall. The wandering phantom broke and fled, Straightway I saw within my head A vision of a ghostly bed, Where lay two worn decrepit men, The fictions of a lawyer's pen, Who never more might breathe again. The serving-man of Richard Roe Wept, inarticulate with woe: She wept, that waiting on John Doe. "Oh rouse", I urged, "the waning sense With tales of tangled evidence, Of suit, demurrer, and defence." "Vain", she replied, "such mockeries: For morbid fancies, such as these, No suits can suit, no plea can please." And bending o'er that man of straw, She cried in grief and sudden awe, Not inappropriately, "Law!" The well-remembered voice he knew, He smiled, he faintly muttered "Sue!" (Her very name was legal too.) The night was fled, the dawn was nigh: A hurricane went raving by, And swept the Vision from mine eye. Vanished that dim and ghostly bed, (The hangings, tape; the tape was red happy 'Tis o'er, and Doe and Roe are dead! Oh, yet my spirit inly crawls, What time it shudderingly recalls That horrid dream of marble halls!
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Through grain fields with bayonets fixed, from Belleau Woods the Germans came. The sixth Marines in shallow pits unleashed a deadly metal rain. The French collapsed upon the left Their flank exposed by craven fear The Marines held fast when urged to flee: "Retreat?, Monsieur? We just got here." By June the sixth, it fell to them to take a Hill to save the French. A German company with machine guns waited for them, well entrenched. Their tactics from another war, Audacious yes, but not too clever "Come on, you ******** Dan Daly roared, "Do you really want to live forever?" With casualties high, so many dead The Marine Corps held the hill by night. Counter attacks were fended off some times with fists and K bar knife. Now the cannon of both sides rained steel where the combatants stood: A once beautiful preserve of princes was turned into a shattered wood. Through mustard gas and cannon fire The Marines advanced into the Wood. Silenced machine guns and cut bared wire till the enemy fled, this time for good. Before the flag at Iwo flew, Before the Canal's jungle squalor Marines were nicknamed "Devil Dogs" by the Germans who admired valor.
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 3:37 PM UTC
belleau woods
The third moon brought forth from the shadow dark. Gentle breeze freewheeled across the lakeshore. Windswept was the air, in peace night was marked- Unyielding stillness, blooming fairness more. Silky pastel cloth, gushing curtain soft. The window let in hushed waft soothing cool. Fixed firmly on shore with poles planted stiff, A pavilion meek light heartened the pool. By the portico was a tree bent down Whose white flowers bloomed lovely as a nymph. Its jagged branches, lumped of golden-brown, Delicately grown each emerald leaf. Underneath its shades were cheery plantlets; Pebbles hard and cold; red earth spongy ground; Flying whirly bugs, glittering bead lets. Fair maiden deferred, there then can be found. Pleasing to the eye, that dignified dress In white noble silk with fine needlecraft. Regal as she stood, just for a mistress. Mystic was her eyes, a soul was grafted. Filled with potent life in her burning stare. Profound as the deep, tranquil as it surge. One may glimpse straight to, utmost one can't bare. To its mysteries, one gave in and urged. Verdant her hair was, hearty as it shone. Longer than she was, white as the moonlight. In her neck are chains, beads and shells she owned. Varies in sizes, things that make her bright.
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Oct 11, 2012
Oct 11, 2012 at 5:30 AM UTC
The Moon Goddess
Because you never yet have loved me, dear, Think you you never can nor ever will? Surely while life remains hope lingers still, Hope the last blossom of life's dying year. Because the season and mine age grow sere, Shall never Spring bring forth her daffodil, Shall never sweeter Summer feast her fill Of roses with the nightingales they hear? If you had loved me, I not loving you, If you had urged me with the tender plea Of what our unknown years to come might do (Eternal years, if Time should count too few), I would have owned the point you pressed on me, Was possible, or probable, or true.
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Touching 'Never'
It creeps up on me. The sneaking suspicion that I'm stuck in it. My hair is falling in my face. Only a year ago... I built everything — it was so clear. Even though — it was chaos. People were worried. But it was simple. It was as simple as simmering sausage in a saucepan, sweating in a brick kitchen, listening to Sade, and thinking of rooftops. Things are more grounded now. People are less worried. The kitchen is smaller, and shared. I turn down Sade when someone enters. I'm still sweating, but it's because something is wrong with the heating system. I long to take an anonymous walk between buildings. There are only neighborhoods and shopping centers here. And I keep running into people who know me. It's either too cold or too hot — It's never summer every day. Everything that was hanging on my walls is on the floor. Precious paintings and prints dusting with potential. I reveal myself less to strangers. I don't take public transportation. It's disconcerting how comfortable having a vehicle is. I feel urged to uproot, swinging in someone else's hands, but feel like.. I'm interrupting. Can't I just arrive for awhile? My safety net is too big and my home is too small. But if I abandon it, I'll wonder if I'm bound to be restless.
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Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 11:35 AM UTC
Moving to the suburbs
On the face of it, there isn't much about this bird To stop me in my tracks.              Brown, oblivious, busy with the ground It totters along on stilted legs Probing among the frozen fields. It's the name that's the trouble. Childhood hours spent copying pictures From the Readers' Digest Book of Birds Call to mind the name, 'Curlew'. In my house, though, birds had Scots names and my dad, a linguistic David Bellamy Urged us to conserve these rare words or lose them forever. Goldfinch?  Gowdspink! Starling?  Stuckie! Blue ***  Umm... But the undistinguished gentleman before me was definitely a whaup. Curlew or whaup? Which is it to me? The English of books or the fading Scots, maybe closer to the bird's wild home? Textbook reality or romantic poetry? Or both - can the creature sit in two states at once? "Schrodinger's Curlew", I think with a smile. ("Schrodinger's Whaup!" bellows the bit of my dad that lodges in my head.)            Here, under a cloud of my own breath In the low winter light,             Neither seems quite adequate. And then, untouched by my musings The bird spreads its wings and lifts, Naming itself, with a long, pure note           And my heart, in two states,            Leaps              and breaks.
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Nov 26, 2010
Nov 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM UTC
Schrodinger's Curlew
Three summers ago I loved a boy who's hair when moved by wind or hand was always magical, who possessed tanned skin and eyes so blue they were waters to drown in. Around him I felt enchanted and he was enthralling. He captivated me, turned me into a slave of my emotions, with words and promises I knew he couldn't make come true. "Run," my friends urged me, "as fast as you can." But without him life was jaded, their warning had been voiced too late. Already I had pricked my finger, on a spinning wheel and fallen head over heels in that chemically induced slumber we sometimes call love. He opened a door for me that led straight into a world filled with bushes of roses and buckets of sunshine, I promptly forgot that too much sunshine scalds the skin and turns it a burning, vivid red, almost as vivid as the crimson blood a touch from the thorns of roses draws. I knew I had been warned so I stayed there bleeding and burning, swearing to myself as I suffered that I would never again give my heart to someone who would not give me theirs in return. This summer, three years later, being around you means feeling like being able to combust spontaneously and I cannot forget the sensation of my skin in contact with yours. It made me realise that though I have always loved you, I started loving you a little bit too much. You are my every thought. They say you never make the same mistake twice, that it is your own stupid fault the second time around. But if it really was a choice why then is it that I spend all my nights these days pleading with the universe to let me unlove you.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
Forbidden Love
Three summers ago I loved a boy who's hair when moved by wind or hand was always magical, who possessed tanned skin and eyes so blue they were waters to drown in. Around him I felt enchanted and he was enthralling. He captivated me, turned me into a slave of my emotions, with words and promises I knew he couldn't make come true. "Run," my friends urged me, "as fast as you can." But without him life was jaded, their warning had been voiced too late. Already I had pricked my finger, on a spinning wheel and fallen head over heels in that chemically induced slumber we sometimes call love. He opened a door for me that led straight into a world filled with bushes of roses and buckets of sunshine, I promptly forgot that too much sunshine scalds the skin and turns it a burning, vivid red, almost as vivid as the crimson blood a touch from the thorns of roses draws. I knew I had been warned so I stayed there bleeding and burning, swearing to myself as I suffered that I would never again give my heart to someone who would not give me theirs in return. This summer, three years later, being around you means feeling like being able to combust spontaneously and I cannot forget the sensation of my skin in contact with yours. It made me realise that though I have always loved you, I started loving you a little bit too much. You are my every thought. They say you never make the same mistake twice, that it is your own stupid fault the second time around. But if it really was a choice why then is it that I spend all my nights these days pleading with the universe to let me unlove you.
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I wish I could spare you words like beautiful, babe, figure and thin. I wish I could guarantee you a complete disregard for the size of your ******* Or the length of your legs. I pray never to find you hunched over the toilet Or hiding a sandwich under books in your bag. What will the equivalent of cyberbullying be, in ten years time? I will try, so very hard, to keep you safe. Please, always talk to each other, and to me. Share your heart’s bleedings And I will help you staunch the flow. I will find the courage to share my failings And the confidence to pass on my successes, Both were instrumental in my becoming the woman I am, A woman I hope you will be proud of, and applaud. It is hard to be a woman, in this world, Urged, relentlessly to perfection, Bombarded with it, drowned in it, But perfection is a myth, and becomes imperfect with attainment, It is the imperfections that will mesmerise, Embrace them, love them, let them shine. How long did it take me to learn these lessons? Have I learned them, even now? Sometimes I think I have, then I become overwhelmed By anxiety and self-doubt. This will happen to you too, I cannot hope to save you from it But I can provide some armour. Think for yourselves, Reject the babble and the screens, the illusion of celebrity Twenty-first century addictions. Do not become a slave to technology. I can see how hard that will be, But it must be done, if you are to remain people, Retain your humanity. I will help you; I will hold your hands. You are tiny now, but I can see the strength within you both, And I will nurture it, protect it, Then it will protect you, out there. I promise I will always be your tigress, But you will not always be my little cubs I will have to find a way to sheath my claws, And let you stalk your own prey, And evade the predators, just as I have done. I watch you, playing happily together in the sun, And wish you peace, and love, and joy. Such simple things, yet so elusive. I will not show you this poem. But I will read it, frequently, And try to keep my promises. My heart thuds in my chest, each a double-beat A constant repetition of your names, Tattooed onto my soul.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 3:54 AM UTC
Amazing Girls
I wish I could spare you words like beautiful, babe, figure and thin. I wish I could guarantee you a complete disregard for the size of your ******* Or the length of your legs. I pray never to find you hunched over the toilet Or hiding a sandwich under books in your bag. What will the equivalent of cyberbullying be, in ten years time? I will try, so very hard, to keep you safe. Please, always talk to each other, and to me. Share your heart’s bleedings And I will help you staunch the flow. I will find the courage to share my failings And the confidence to pass on my successes, Both were instrumental in my becoming the woman I am, A woman I hope you will be proud of, and applaud. It is hard to be a woman, in this world, Urged, relentlessly to perfection, Bombarded with it, drowned in it, But perfection is a myth, and becomes imperfect with attainment, It is the imperfections that will mesmerise, Embrace them, love them, let them shine. How long did it take me to learn these lessons? Have I learned them, even now? Sometimes I think I have, then I become overwhelmed By anxiety and self-doubt. This will happen to you too, I cannot hope to save you from it But I can provide some armour. Think for yourselves, Reject the babble and the screens, the illusion of celebrity Twenty-first century addictions. Do not become a slave to technology. I can see how hard that will be, But it must be done, if you are to remain people, Retain your humanity. I will help you; I will hold your hands. You are tiny now, but I can see the strength within you both, And I will nurture it, protect it, Then it will protect you, out there. I promise I will always be your tigress, But you will not always be my little cubs I will have to find a way to sheath my claws, And let you stalk your own prey, And evade the predators, just as I have done. I watch you, playing happily together in the sun, And wish you peace, and love, and joy. Such simple things, yet so elusive. I will not show you this poem. But I will read it, frequently, And try to keep my promises. My heart thuds in my chest, each a double-beat A constant repetition of your names, Tattooed onto my soul.
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Love Maze Through the blood and sweat I write a wishful story you'll remember. A flower which bloomed too soon I thought was only my own to surrender. A voice I once heard urged me to speak myself and love myself. Although I attempted to touch it That voice I heard, was someone else. I ran around in a pool of tears afraid and wet from pain. I ran around only in circles it was a maze I wandered around in vain. And so I heard that lonely ballad, a voice that wasn't my own. In my pool of tears as I searched I realized my maze was made of stones. "A little push, a little tug" I heard the voice tell me. "Is all it takes to begin the growth of your very own journey." I felt it's warmth was the closest to reality. The voice that kept on urging me. For when I swam ahead instead of search, I realized I had found my magic shop undisguised, it vaporized... The stones fell away my maze was shattered. For now I saw before me a "love" maze, the stones were all scattered. -Little Saint
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Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020 at 1:25 PM UTC
The Voice
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put a sack within the hole, and lie Till the old grunting badger passes by. He comes an hears—they let the strongest loose. The old fox gears the noise and drops the goose. The poacher shoots and hurries from the cry, And the old hare half wounded buzzes by. They get a forked stick to bear him down And clap the dogs and take him to the town, And bait him all the day with many dogs, And laugh and shout and fright the scampering hogs. He runs along and bites at all he meets: They shout and hollo down the noisy streets. He turns about to face the loud uproar And drives the rebels to their very door. The frequent stone is hurled where’er they go; When badgers fight, then everyone’s a foe. The dogs are clapped and urged to join the fray’ The badger turns and drives them all away. Though scarcely half as big, demure and small, He fights with dogs for hours and beats them all. The heavy mastiff, savage in the fray, Lies down and licks his feet and turns away. The bulldog knows his match and waxes cold, The badger grins and never leaves his hold. He drives the crowd and follows at their heels And bites them through—the drunkard swears and reels The frighted women take the boys away, The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray. He tries to reach the woods, and awkward race, But sticks and cudgels quickly stop the chase. He turns again and drives the noisy crowd And beats the many dogs in noises loud. He drives away and beats them every one, And then they loose them all and set them on. He falls as dead and kicked by boys and men, Then starts and grins and drives the crowd again; Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies.
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Badger
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put a sack within the hole, and lie Till the old grunting badger passes by. He comes an hears—they let the strongest loose. The old fox gears the noise and drops the goose. The poacher shoots and hurries from the cry, And the old hare half wounded buzzes by. They get a forked stick to bear him down And clap the dogs and take him to the town, And bait him all the day with many dogs, And laugh and shout and fright the scampering hogs. He runs along and bites at all he meets: They shout and hollo down the noisy streets. He turns about to face the loud uproar And drives the rebels to their very door. The frequent stone is hurled where’er they go; When badgers fight, then everyone’s a foe. The dogs are clapped and urged to join the fray’ The badger turns and drives them all away. Though scarcely half as big, demure and small, He fights with dogs for hours and beats them all. The heavy mastiff, savage in the fray, Lies down and licks his feet and turns away. The bulldog knows his match and waxes cold, The badger grins and never leaves his hold. He drives the crowd and follows at their heels And bites them through—the drunkard swears and reels The frighted women take the boys away, The blackguard laughs and hurries on the fray. He tries to reach the woods, and awkward race, But sticks and cudgels quickly stop the chase. He turns again and drives the noisy crowd And beats the many dogs in noises loud. He drives away and beats them every one, And then they loose them all and set them on. He falls as dead and kicked by boys and men, Then starts and grins and drives the crowd again; Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies And leaves his hold and crackles, groans, and dies.
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A horrific thunderbolt hit me right at my chest. Oh! what an assault. A hundred carafes of poison or the thousand rounds of bullets would have hurt less than the pain it caused when you abandoned me. But, I tried to deal with it. ‘Move on’, I urged my inner me. ‘I am not a loser. Quitting is never an option’, I tried to pacify the anguish. It did not aid. The palpable twinge troubled more; aww! my delicate heart. To sweep away the woe, I pact with the ***** Alas! Every sip of the nasty tipple ousted heavy flood from my shuddering eyes. I could tell you , love, that was quite a sight. Still the heart pounding, the excruciating truth, still unsolved. I banged my liquor’s glass in sheer dismay. Sane enough to halt the bleeding from the wound, I searched the bandage. Sadly, the wound was in heart. - Bhaskar Dhakal
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 6:37 AM UTC
Grievous Separation
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
It was on Hallowe'en when we said we'd meet; as we thought it might be romantically spooky; and I trotted gaily along the pathway through the dimly-lit park where the predator gay *** maniacs roamed hoping for a bit of backdoor action and my excited little heart went "YI YI YI YI YI YAAAAARRRGGGHHH!" with eager anticipation of a hot new nymphomaniac date. We had been a-texting with ever-increasing frankness for several weeks and I was beginning to get tired of wiping the keyboard clean after each bout of frenzied manual self-stimulation which she had boldly urged me to and the built-in camera was out of order because of the damp ***** build-up. I found the pictures she sent me stimulating to say the very least especially the one with the melon peeping out from between her legs and I found her blood-red eyes rather exciting really once I got used to them; and I was quite looking forward to the love bites she promised me which was why I had washed my neck with particular attention to the blackheads. Promptly at the stroke of midnight my putative mistress arrived with a ******* great clap of thunder and to say I was surprised by her sulphurous breath would be putting it mildly and the fifty-five inch waist was a bit of a disappointment, and I honestly and truly think she might have mentioned the suppurating scabs and oozing boils or at least hinted at them. As I fought the ravening hell-bitch off with the hatchet I had wisely brought in my briefcase as a safety precaution once more I rued my innocence: how many times have I been let down after such high hopes from internet dating and yet - trusting soul that I am - I had again let my heart go astray. Once it was all over and I gazed down at her hideous and mutilated corpse bleeding and twitching on the ****** bitumen, I lifted up her skirt just to check the melon photo hadn't been a fake; and although there was no large piece of fruit in situ at the time I could see it had always been a very real possibility.
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Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015 at 12:22 PM UTC
A Horrid Halloween Internet Dating Disaster
It was on Hallowe'en when we said we'd meet; as we thought it might be romantically spooky; and I trotted gaily along the pathway through the dimly-lit park where the predator gay *** maniacs roamed hoping for a bit of backdoor action and my excited little heart went "YI YI YI YI YI YAAAAARRRGGGHHH!" with eager anticipation of a hot new nymphomaniac date. We had been a-texting with ever-increasing frankness for several weeks and I was beginning to get tired of wiping the keyboard clean after each bout of frenzied manual self-stimulation which she had boldly urged me to and the built-in camera was out of order because of the damp ***** build-up. I found the pictures she sent me stimulating to say the very least especially the one with the melon peeping out from between her legs and I found her blood-red eyes rather exciting really once I got used to them; and I was quite looking forward to the love bites she promised me which was why I had washed my neck with particular attention to the blackheads. Promptly at the stroke of midnight my putative mistress arrived with a ******* great clap of thunder and to say I was surprised by her sulphurous breath would be putting it mildly and the fifty-five inch waist was a bit of a disappointment, and I honestly and truly think she might have mentioned the suppurating scabs and oozing boils or at least hinted at them. As I fought the ravening hell-bitch off with the hatchet I had wisely brought in my briefcase as a safety precaution once more I rued my innocence: how many times have I been let down after such high hopes from internet dating and yet - trusting soul that I am - I had again let my heart go astray. Once it was all over and I gazed down at her hideous and mutilated corpse bleeding and twitching on the ****** bitumen, I lifted up her skirt just to check the melon photo hadn't been a fake; and although there was no large piece of fruit in situ at the time I could see it had always been a very real possibility.
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The lotus calls another time; right now, just bring your lips to mine— a congress of the simplest kind, yet steeped in fever, still divine, this tangled frame of skin and breath  urged onward to its little death on rolling seas of hands and hips; the synthesis of fingertips— my shaking legs, a testament to a winter's afternoon well spent.
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Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM UTC
Venus Observa
I see you at the meetings, but you never say hello. You’re busy all the time you’re there with those you really know. I sit among the members, yet I’m a lonely gal. The new ones feel as strange as I; the old ones pass us by. **** it, you folks urged us to join and talked of fellowship, You could just cross the room, you know, but you never make the trip. Can’t you just nod your head and smile or stop and shake a hand, get over your mom’s good intentions . 15 Then go sit among your friends? Now that I’d understand. I’ll be at your next meeting, and hope that you will spend The time to introduce yourself, I joined to be your friend
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Jun 29, 2016
Jun 29, 2016 at 12:03 PM UTC
Thoughts from a New Member
Her eyes danced with the tiny flames that held a secret each growing brighter when they urged to yank the oxygen from her heart and let the sparks console the deep holes bursting with pleasure She dabbles in the waves of fire and brimstone The honey dipped arms monopolize the dry neck Squeezing harder, and harder The metallic taste of rust shoves in front her teeth Her eyes beg to fall out to stop witnessing the desecration She tries not to let the secret out but her decomposed body bows down to the forensic earth Lying in her death bed she knows She tasted the burnt coals And forgot to tell Adam She won't see him in heaven.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 5:23 PM UTC
Sinned by Honesty