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Hunger eyes stared down at the rod,                 awaiting it's own ***** alee     Laid on the satin sheets, arms entangled                 milky thighs spread apart Hunger eyes too stared down at me     laying in inescapable, trembling bondages A heat burning through our hearts - through us:                 That was desire. I love him like this -        where stars align;                Buttons undone. Eyes lit with a burning flame waiting to engulf me whole. Touching me here, there - everywhere        tracing the freckles on my skin that lay like speckled stars    to the lines on my palm. Memorising. His mouth gilding across with a wicked purpose       as urns of a thousand suns pour blazing down my throat                Not us did the saint align and embrace our pure hearts We were in the other's self the ruin                of purity's gentle caress where my hand rests at                in between to ease the trembling core our bodies lay in the dead of the night            both of us searching for more                 to no one but him do I come to thee! as a cry aches through the silence of the night        our souls connect - one of each lit for each other         lost, weighed on each others palms;       This was our desire
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May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021 at 1:57 AM UTC
Desire
i like it ickity split mad to exceed the world in dark dreams ****** to evoke blood wet mouths insertions paradise of fluorescents in a dark aperture her pudenda a rolling hill gaudy wound like a smash mouth crying split torn tearing, pink estuary for gluttonies' joyride that can hardly be endured twisted tongue spice melts and glitters raw the sheets soaked through matted hair in saliva blood and eggs the screams of monsters rapture oh feral abandon every thing else a toil winged genitals hell toys for mama like heaven cant know his ***** like hanging bats Nagasaki goes off in her *** bodies; quake in silence the bedroom; a chaotic bathroom tulips shrill flutter gulp and swallow milks flame rosy welts laughing flushing orgasm's shoved urns all spilled libations touching and ******* crimson **** runnels in bathhouse foam down the drain to earthen bowels din where the dead push up daisies i am the worm in the fruit
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 8:09 AM UTC
I Like It Ickity Split
It's not OCD I'm just anal-rententive. There are two coffee urns in my office kitchenette. Each urn has a spot to place your mug beneath the spigot. Each of these spots has a circular insert of gridded plastic to mark the mug-placement area and allow spilled coffee to flow through so this spot doesn't become just a puddle of coffee soaking the bottom of everyone's mugs. Each of these inserts has three indentations: one on each side at nine and three o'clock small, arcing parabolas like reversed parentheses there to allow someone to get their fingers into the coffee mug spot and under the insert to remove it and, presumably clean it and then another indentation more like a groove or a notch much smaller, thinner, and deeper at the top that fits perfectly with a matching small plastic protuberance jutting from the coffee mug spot where the insert goes. In an almost ****** fashion this protuberance fits into this last indentation this notch this groove to secure the insert in place. For some reason I've never known perhaps laziness perhaps inattentiveness more likely simple couldn't-care-less-ness this insert never seems to be placed into the mug spot properly. It is always placed sideways rotated a quarter-turn so that the larger indentations on the side meant as finger holes are placed top-to-bottom noon and six the small plastic protuberance at the top being swallowed whole by the too-large indentation and its mate the groove meant to hold the plastic piece so tightly is left alone to one side empty and useless. This has always bothered me. Bothered me more than I would like to admit. It's such a simple little thing to get right it would take almost no effort at all and yet, day-after-day someone I don't know who whoever is in charge of these things insists on doing it wrong. And I cannot abide it. So, day-after-day when I go to get my morning coffee I fix it I twist the insert ninety-degrees and secure it in the correct position. Lately I have noticed something. Sometimes when I go to get my coffee one of the inserts will already be fixed. Someone else has seen what I have seen and felt the same had the same response took the same corrective action. This feels like winning something. I don't know what but it definitely smells like Victory. And Conspiracy. And it makes me happy. Happier than I'd like to admit.
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Feb 6, 2013
Feb 6, 2013 at 10:32 AM UTC
It's Not OCD
It's not OCD I'm just anal-rententive. There are two coffee urns in my office kitchenette. Each urn has a spot to place your mug beneath the spigot. Each of these spots has a circular insert of gridded plastic to mark the mug-placement area and allow spilled coffee to flow through so this spot doesn't become just a puddle of coffee soaking the bottom of everyone's mugs. Each of these inserts has three indentations: one on each side at nine and three o'clock small, arcing parabolas like reversed parentheses there to allow someone to get their fingers into the coffee mug spot and under the insert to remove it and, presumably clean it and then another indentation more like a groove or a notch much smaller, thinner, and deeper at the top that fits perfectly with a matching small plastic protuberance jutting from the coffee mug spot where the insert goes. In an almost ****** fashion this protuberance fits into this last indentation this notch this groove to secure the insert in place. For some reason I've never known perhaps laziness perhaps inattentiveness more likely simple couldn't-care-less-ness this insert never seems to be placed into the mug spot properly. It is always placed sideways rotated a quarter-turn so that the larger indentations on the side meant as finger holes are placed top-to-bottom noon and six the small plastic protuberance at the top being swallowed whole by the too-large indentation and its mate the groove meant to hold the plastic piece so tightly is left alone to one side empty and useless. This has always bothered me. Bothered me more than I would like to admit. It's such a simple little thing to get right it would take almost no effort at all and yet, day-after-day someone I don't know who whoever is in charge of these things insists on doing it wrong. And I cannot abide it. So, day-after-day when I go to get my morning coffee I fix it I twist the insert ninety-degrees and secure it in the correct position. Lately I have noticed something. Sometimes when I go to get my coffee one of the inserts will already be fixed. Someone else has seen what I have seen and felt the same had the same response took the same corrective action. This feels like winning something. I don't know what but it definitely smells like Victory. And Conspiracy. And it makes me happy. Happier than I'd like to admit.
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I remember a dog with matted fur lounging in the shade of a collapsed arch, staring in a way that animals sometime stare that makes me wonder if the beliefs of Kantianism are nothing more than old wives’ tales spun from smoke and cinder. I remember the faint smell of sulfur mixed with seawater in the shadow of the volcano that poured out its wrath by the bowlful, the golden urns of the gods spilling fire and magma from the very cradle of hell. I remember the empty bathhouses, the villas with half-painted frescoes, the expensive red paints made from crushed beetle shells, the overturned tables and chairs, the uneven stone streets carved by horse-drawn cart wheels. I remember the skeletons huddled in boathouses, unearthed from their ash-spun graves for prying eyes, for the rapid shutter of camera lenses, for the proof of their existence, as if to leer at the living and say, “We are all nothing but carbon and bone.”
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 10:30 PM UTC
Herculaneum in Two Hours
When some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe And storied urns record who rest below: When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been: But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master’s own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour’d falls, unnoticed all his worth— Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While Man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive Heaven. Oh Man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on—it honours none you wish to mourn: To mark a Friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one,—and here he lies.
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Inscription On The Monument Of A Newfoundland Dog
i long for a love that will break me, eat me whole and spit me out aching. i want to love as achilles loved patroclus, with a burning in my heart and a madness that would tear even the fates apart.
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Apr 11, 2021
Apr 11, 2021 at 5:43 PM UTC
golden urns
this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for the Hopeless Stargazer who immortalized his Subject with one hundred and eight sets of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter for ***** tight clad teenage boys who envied frisky fleas, struggling to make holy ungodly passions with cheap arguments and metaphysical pick up lines for Disillusioned City Dwellers, who, wandering lonely as clouds, stopped to quietly reflect upon wind-beaten moss-covered crags, and heard God’s whisper thunder from petals and blades of grass this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for Bespectacled Slave Drivers who submersed idle minds in anthologies,  forcing them to **** neon yellow on dreams deferred and rivers;  slicing and dicing Grecian urns with red ball point pens; bruising and battering, in blue ball point, roads not taken; scalding supermarkets in California with pyroclastic flows of graphite   for those pushing to tear apart lines and letters, reconstructing ,deconstructing, agonizing, imaginizing, bullshitting, and brooding on to crisp white sheets in times new roman twelve point font for the Monsters and Lollipops that exist in the millimeters between a skull and a brain this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons slumbering beneath Restless Leaves Under the Moon
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM UTC
Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons
tootsie pops, pop rocks, rock candy sweet tarts, smelly farts, war-heads, sour patch kids reeses pieces, reeses stix, snickers lickers fudge pile, chocolate smile, peanut butter bile, sugary style baby ruths, almond joys, soy bean sauce, creamy steam ill give u a payday, mayday, hay tastes good with parfai milkyways stay gay to play games with sunrays icing splicing with knife dicing makes cakes, cook steaks, rumcakes ****** sprinkles, rip van winkle, diddily dinkle gummy worms, germs impregnate firm, permed urns angel food, carrots, pineapple upsideways fruits, ***** parachutes, scooters, jello shooters goobers, corn on the cobbers, veggie wedgies, pepper leppers, squash boxes, fry foxes, fleet rocks', carrot tops', dishes of fishes, witches brew platypus and fat kush pushy slushies riding skateboards on gary busy fussy hussies getting blushy about cussies cereal made of creoles, bread straight from dreads, rice is nice with spice, yeast is beast, last but not least, wheat is a treat, kiwis, shmiwis, dodos on go phones, starfruits, bartlejuice, grape drank, sushi stinks. ill eat anything.
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 4:50 AM UTC
candyland jam
Urns and odours bring away! Vapours, sighs, darken the day! Our dole more deadly looks than dying; Balms and gums and heavy cheers, Sacred vials fill’d with tears, And clamours through the wild air flying! Come, all sad and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes! We convènt naught else but woes.
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Dirge Of The Three Queens
Check errata, pressure chests, minds of razors edges, vie to stress knowledge for the win: You second guess yourself, then. Flip the cold and oddly coded engine as if you're blind to it. It's happening again, now. Verses nurse the wounds. Wounds nurse the verses. Pain's slyly subjective hooks have hooked the meat of me. Like accountants slicing numbers, I slice the mountains into soft shapes. Earth and water, earthen urns, hold Life to carry, to gift, or, to displace. Choirs sing on high, of rightful things. I was frightful, once. With enough ignorant vehemence poured upon me, poured upon me, a bath in love's less eager refuse, has turned my dreams, too, into excrement, excrement. Utter **** I was excited, once. I swear I was. Holding out for ****** touch, left cold, hopeless and wanting when the only validation, validation I was taught set my value in cash and beauty, cash and beauty, two matters of strict adherence to social standards, but what if two fat, hairy legs make my tongue wet? What if otherness keeps me lonely? What if it keeps me lonely? Can I take that pain, after all, into the ground of my grave?
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 9:16 AM UTC
(lost sessions) swampy edges
Anglophilia An early passion one cannot say when or why perhaps his father's admiration or was it his mother's apprehension for them Leaves of sweet ruby tea hot ginger pasties glory of candle skinned  ladies the warm eyes and cold hearts what lovely cats you have Avon flows, its quiet cenote waters surrounding the poetical urns Cheery children noses against windows those of shopkeepers that smothered Napoleon Yes, Avon flows the timely midnight trains to a myriad country stations all the many noble selfish ideals Joy of bright roses in a small garden below where the Keats still play Adam and Eve and hear the City's pride its mechanical soul   sing its hollow lonely tune again Oh, where did all the angels go?
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 1:08 PM UTC
Saint George
We bury them in flat graves or convert them to ash and wear them around our necks, or place them in urns. And what’s this about burial pods? Your rotting corpse providing nutrients to a tree that will one day be cut down to make a casket for the person that hung themselves with their necklace of ash. I recently read about mechanically pressed ash pressed so hard and with so much pressure that your loved one becomes a diamond. Albeit grey and dull, and quite expensive. Effectively if you die first you can still be buried with the one you love, its almost like dying twice… why do we no longer honor the dead? Please don’t say an urn or a pod or a flat marked grave honor the dead. Google Highgate Cemetery. Google The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno and you will understand the difference. It is good to honor the dead.   A death so honored that a hundred years later They’re as beautiful as ever. Go, look and see how beautiful it is to honor the dead.
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Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 1:25 PM UTC
Why do we no Longer Honor the Dead?
at its own axiomatic level we begin a dance a dance a dance and there are shades ― fly off from the other? a spindle a a fly ― difference we make ourselves a difference a complexity an intricate form that spills over and everywhere and is alive apart from itself as if this difference making were for itself, for our own ego rather than to pull the other the other’s difference pointlessly intricate motionful machines that well up beyond their own depths and but the content ― a meaningful making and on and on and drives ― turns on it urns iand urns un n uwuw uwuw uwuuwu wuuwuwuwuwuuwuw ― the measure of a drop is in ― everyone dances in their own light ― what if satire is all you see! ― everything ive ever wanted to say 12 yr old has already fallen out a tree ― everybody hold themselves so high and precious but their own being is only meagre pitiful one space arrow e there is a being that we strive for but only ourselves feel and only others know yet so many want the other to feel what they can only know come grieff and grief and grif ― i dont get why anyone cares we do what we do and it stupid why you wanna let the other in ? only reason u think they smart is they aint let u in so i says let em be . ― everyone all love precarity cant love themselves sothey strike out when the other they want to love them for themselves dont love them for themselves thats an impossibility ! ― FRAGILE PEOPLE PRETENDING THEY’RE NOT BaM BAM! whys all the positivity make all lie and die why do you care so much about yourself that you desire the other to see? you are meagre you are petty and that’s all you are. resentment is thinking otherwise. nobody cares about your drives!!!!!!!!!! and the more you think they should the more they wont!!!!!!!!!!!silly!!!!!!!!! the togetherness of not- let people sweep and slide then drift n loop! ― everoy ! neurotic big weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ― then why are peopplr loenly? ― cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light ― its own singular yearning pulls back the body of marx and the whole black moon ― black moon! black moon! howls the end howls the night simpering spat spat spat spatchooey! cross yarn and tip a spews the thunder and the back back back of no where curses like a shut down whine ― are you perfectly everywhere not this is the only series of questions in philosophy senpai desu desu bakkkooou!!
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Aug 4, 2019
Aug 4, 2019 at 10:54 PM UTC
03-08-2019 | 3:40AM-5:04AM
at its own axiomatic level we begin a dance a dance a dance and there are shades ― fly off from the other? a spindle a a fly ― difference we make ourselves a difference a complexity an intricate form that spills over and everywhere and is alive apart from itself as if this difference making were for itself, for our own ego rather than to pull the other the other’s difference pointlessly intricate motionful machines that well up beyond their own depths and but the content ― a meaningful making and on and on and drives ― turns on it urns iand urns un n uwuw uwuw uwuuwu wuuwuwuwuwuuwuw ― the measure of a drop is in ― everyone dances in their own light ― what if satire is all you see! ― everything ive ever wanted to say 12 yr old has already fallen out a tree ― everybody hold themselves so high and precious but their own being is only meagre pitiful one space arrow e there is a being that we strive for but only ourselves feel and only others know yet so many want the other to feel what they can only know come grieff and grief and grif ― i dont get why anyone cares we do what we do and it stupid why you wanna let the other in ? only reason u think they smart is they aint let u in so i says let em be . ― everyone all love precarity cant love themselves sothey strike out when the other they want to love them for themselves dont love them for themselves thats an impossibility ! ― FRAGILE PEOPLE PRETENDING THEY’RE NOT BaM BAM! whys all the positivity make all lie and die why do you care so much about yourself that you desire the other to see? you are meagre you are petty and that’s all you are. resentment is thinking otherwise. nobody cares about your drives!!!!!!!!!! and the more you think they should the more they wont!!!!!!!!!!!silly!!!!!!!!! the togetherness of not- let people sweep and slide then drift n loop! ― everoy ! neurotic big weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ― then why are peopplr loenly? ― cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light cherished being in a bridge of light ― its own singular yearning pulls back the body of marx and the whole black moon ― black moon! black moon! howls the end howls the night simpering spat spat spat spatchooey! cross yarn and tip a spews the thunder and the back back back of no where curses like a shut down whine ― are you perfectly everywhere not this is the only series of questions in philosophy senpai desu desu bakkkooou!!
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Wish life was at least as explicable as The HMM, But alas! It's even more complex. You may understand The HMM one day, But not your life and interactions. In probability & statistics, A Markov chain or Markoff chain or a Markov Process, Named after the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov, Is a stochastic process that satisfies the Markov property And is usually characterized as "memorylessness". Imagine an urn experiment with replacement, Hidden Markov Model can be visualized likewise. ***Consider a hidden room with a genie inside, The room has N urns with n ***** in each.*** *The genie chooses an urn in that room, He randomly draws a ball from the urn. He then puts the ball onto a conveyor belt, Which is being observed for the sequence, Only the ***** on the conveyor are visible, Not the urns from which they were drawn. The genie has a procedure to choose urns, The choice of the urn for the n-th ball, It depends only upon a random number, And the choice of the urn for the (n − 1)-th ball. The choice of urn does not directly depend on The urns chosen before this single previous urn; Therefore, this is called a Markov process.* ***Hidden Markov models model complex Markov processes, Where the states emit the observations according to a distribution. One such example is a Gaussian distribution, In such a Hidden Markov Model, The state's output are represented by a Gaussian distribution.***
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 6:02 AM UTC
Markov Process & The Hidden Markov Model
#*To this body Death does as it should, Consigns the shell To the firewood And sets the spirit free.* Close to the fire the heat singes me. I know it's only the prelude to the fiery furnace licking my skin with flaming tongues reducing me to powdered ashes disappearing and in no time fading what was me but in an instant dusts in urns and upon wall and years after maybe one's untimely rains of dusty memories.
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 10:28 AM UTC
Writing on the Wall
back in the day rocks could talk often they where casual, petty and small-minded just like us divinities platitudes every word a drop of manna its magic wow magic so out of conceit we made them gods deferred to their credibility and like idiot children paid attention to their great allegories a provident sea of wisdom from the skeletons of time we carved their faces from stones put them on pedestals and gave them names the great know it alls urns of heaven those oracles of old and so ensued the epic cycle of talking statues and thats how decisions where made back in the day the statues are strangely mute now sunken shadows into earths bowels and the age of reason has been transplanted by the age of *what the **** a new hobbled world soul of darkened consciousness to cope with tentacles of complexity and a forest of trials where depth of thought has been replaced and decisions are made by the exalted ennie meenie minee moe method an abstruse form of ritual magic so from now on all arguments will be settled by me sticking my tongue out
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Nov 12, 2017
Nov 12, 2017 at 3:16 PM UTC
EENIE-MEENIE-MINEE-MOE
In want of a headspace For to keep up with my thought pace An infinite cerebral landscape The consciousness reels and writhes through the labyrinth Sixty five BPM’s crack the whip Twist and turns Indian carpets and Egyptian urns Irrelevent Upon starry eyed fairytales they stand Architecture of a madman Brick and mortar Psychedelic caulking Foundation Screaming defiance against creation Murals Whispering fears of damnation Wake up mate It’s just your imagination I know.
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May 11, 2013
May 11, 2013 at 12:43 PM UTC
Headspace
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a peacock’s eyes, And half-submerged tomato-cans Shine scaly, as leviathans Oozily crawling through the mud. The ground is here and there bestud With lumps of only part-burned coal. His duty is to glean the whole, To pick them from the filth, each one, To hoard them for the hidden sun Which glows within each fiery core And waits to be made free once more. Their sharp and glistening edges cut His stiffened fingers. Through the **** Gleam red the wounds which will not shut. Wet through and shivering he kneels And digs the slippery coals; like eels They slide about. His force all spent, He counts his small accomplishment. A half-a-dozen clinker-coals Which still have fire in their souls. Fire! And in his thought there burns The topaz fire of votive urns. He sees it fling from hill to hill, And still consumed, is burning still. Higher and higher leaps the flame, The smoke an ever-shifting frame. He sees a Spanish Castle old, With silver steps and paths of gold. From myrtle bowers comes the plash Of fountains, and the emerald flash Of parrots in the orange trees, Whose blossoms pasture humming bees. He knows he feeds the urns whose smoke Bears visions, that his master-stroke Is out of dirt and misery To light the fire of poesy. He sees the glory, yet he knows That others cannot see his shows. To them his smoke is sightless, black, His votive vessels but a pack Of old discarded shards, his fire A peddler’s; still to him the pyre Is incensed, an enduring goal! He sighs and grubs another coal.
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Sep 9, 2016
Sep 9, 2016 at 1:24 AM UTC
The Coal Picker by Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a peacock’s eyes, And half-submerged tomato-cans Shine scaly, as leviathans Oozily crawling through the mud. The ground is here and there bestud With lumps of only part-burned coal. His duty is to glean the whole, To pick them from the filth, each one, To hoard them for the hidden sun Which glows within each fiery core And waits to be made free once more. Their sharp and glistening edges cut His stiffened fingers. Through the **** Gleam red the wounds which will not shut. Wet through and shivering he kneels And digs the slippery coals; like eels They slide about. His force all spent, He counts his small accomplishment. A half-a-dozen clinker-coals Which still have fire in their souls. Fire! And in his thought there burns The topaz fire of votive urns. He sees it fling from hill to hill, And still consumed, is burning still. Higher and higher leaps the flame, The smoke an ever-shifting frame. He sees a Spanish Castle old, With silver steps and paths of gold. From myrtle bowers comes the plash Of fountains, and the emerald flash Of parrots in the orange trees, Whose blossoms pasture humming bees. He knows he feeds the urns whose smoke Bears visions, that his master-stroke Is out of dirt and misery To light the fire of poesy. He sees the glory, yet he knows That others cannot see his shows. To them his smoke is sightless, black, His votive vessels but a pack Of old discarded shards, his fire A peddler’s; still to him the pyre Is incensed, an enduring goal! He sighs and grubs another coal.
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When, to their airy hall, my Fathers’ voice Shall call my spirit, joyful in their choice; When, pois’d upon the gale, my form shall ride, Or, dark in mist, descend the mountain’s side; Oh! may my shade behold no sculptur’d urns, To mark the spot where earth to earth returns! No lengthen’d scroll, no praise-encumber’d stone; My epitaph shall be my name alone: If that with honour fail to crown my clay, Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay! That, only that, shall single out the spot; By that remember’d, or with that forgot.
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A Fragment
Go to sleep, **** **** **** **** and sleep. Bleed and weep. Stop. Examine yourself. Am I safe? If yes, **** If no, yes. Change positions. Am I safe enough right now? Check on that thought. Is it ok? Can it live here? Will it **** me? No? No. No... No... Say alive. Say it. Stay astride giant tantamounts of muse, Icarus flew too soon. Silence freak. The silence freak. Science, cheap talk, pseudospirituality. Shut up that mouth, babbling on and on and off. Off. Offal in the pig soup broth. Charm her. Charm her. What else? Charmed her. What else? Shut up, that's all. Shut up and enjoy life fully, be abundant, free, intelligent, silent. Keep it in the pants. Keep inside your god **** pants. Feel the need to breed. The need to spill obscenities. You breathe in every other scream, to **** in dry, **** and dry, blow out all the seeds. Aw **** my eye. Right in my eye. 1st contact. Claimed. In the Name. Oh his Father, His Son, His Holy Zeitgeist. Bigger words make a happy family. Tipping urns spill the trappings of the elite. Learn from our mistakes. Do not mistake taste. For feeling unafraid. Goodbye, goodbye, I'm off the **** and sleep. The dose was too high, got right in my eyes, and several bars later the rhythm has faded and no tears are left with which to weep.
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Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014 at 5:36 AM UTC
Double *********** Socratic
A trickle of rain on a grey wilted sky, A silver line of light shining oh so gay, Another dry day, another hour of pain for I. A simple gesture in the morning, a snuggle, a kiss. Something my heart urns for, my stomach churns for, That feeling of being wanted, not lusted. Love is discusting. A filthy trick, Love is not love without lusting, and the feeling of anguish will stick. A day for the lonely wilted heart.
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 12:45 PM UTC
Wilted heart.
*Rustic urns and garden walls awaiting and cabbage roses open—their fragrance sweet: A spicy aroma carried on the breeze, Oh, enjoy it all now while summer lasts!* -M.H.-
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 2:40 PM UTC
While Summer Lasts
i. once upon a time, there were old gods and new gods. under crumbling archways the divine and the cursed share cigarettes, lighters cupped in their hands. rain pours relentlessly from the heavens, falling to the uneven cobblestone in a sheen of silver spears and smoke. this time, nothing but prayers are shed. ii. this is their communion: an errant hand brushes against the marbled form of Hades, rowboats rock harmlessly to the temple of Asclepius, feet shuffle across the white line and into the holy land. it is in these moments that solitude begets peace. iii. angels tuck in their tired wings, roosting on bridges and cathedrals and alleyway corners spun with ivy. amongst themselves they count the crowds that take shelter in their shadows. every day, the numbers swell until even the loneliest of the celestial feel a warmth in their gilded chests. iv. these same seneschals pour life through golden urns, as they had done eons before the she-wolf who nursed the founders of Roma was ever born. water flows steadily from all four rivers and through the eagle-face spics that dot the roads, blessed by frail, rosary-stained hands. even the Tiber, full of harsh currents and deep embankments, softens under the touch of a child at a fountain. life flourishes. the gods smile. v. once upon a time, i met these cursed and divine and celestial beings. all lived together in a city as old as time itself, in a city born from clay, then wrought with brick, and finished in marble. and in this place of impossibilities, i found my heart. . . i found my home
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Jul 12, 2017
Jul 12, 2017 at 9:09 PM UTC
an open love-letter to rome
i. once upon a time, there were old gods and new gods. under crumbling archways the divine and the cursed share cigarettes, lighters cupped in their hands. rain pours relentlessly from the heavens, falling to the uneven cobblestone in a sheen of silver spears and smoke. this time, nothing but prayers are shed. ii. this is their communion: an errant hand brushes against the marbled form of Hades, rowboats rock harmlessly to the temple of Asclepius, feet shuffle across the white line and into the holy land. it is in these moments that solitude begets peace. iii. angels tuck in their tired wings, roosting on bridges and cathedrals and alleyway corners spun with ivy. amongst themselves they count the crowds that take shelter in their shadows. every day, the numbers swell until even the loneliest of the celestial feel a warmth in their gilded chests. iv. these same seneschals pour life through golden urns, as they had done eons before the she-wolf who nursed the founders of Roma was ever born. water flows steadily from all four rivers and through the eagle-face spics that dot the roads, blessed by frail, rosary-stained hands. even the Tiber, full of harsh currents and deep embankments, softens under the touch of a child at a fountain. life flourishes. the gods smile. v. once upon a time, i met these cursed and divine and celestial beings. all lived together in a city as old as time itself, in a city born from clay, then wrought with brick, and finished in marble. and in this place of impossibilities, i found my heart. . . i found my home
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The park is filled with night and fog, The veils are drawn about the world, The drowsy lights along the paths Are dim and pearled. Gold and gleaming are the empty streets, Gold and gleaming the misty lake. The mirrored lights like sunken swords, Glimmer and shake. Oh, is it not enough to be Here with this beauty over me? My throat should ache with praise, and I Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. O beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love With youth, a singing voice, and eyes To take earth’s wonder with surprise? Why have I put off my pride, Why am I unsatisfied,— I, for whom the pensive night Binds her cloudy hair with light,— I, for whom all beauty burns Like incense in a million urns? O beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love?
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Spring Night
Maybe I'll write a poem That totally rocks Like maybe one about Pick-up trucks And good-old boys Who drink and make noise And ogle the girls that sashay by, Leering and giving them the eye For nothing but tosses of their heads, Snarky sneers and icy "Drop deads". Or maybe I'll write of high society, Given to extravagance more than to piety, Dressed in their finest, parading the street, Deferential to all, light on their feet, Dancing through life toward their urns of ashes.   Or maybe about old men wearing galoshes, Smoking cigarettes in the snow, Maybe there's more future in that: Some things you never know. Or maybe I should write about lovers and haters Or apple pie and mashed potaters. So many topics out there to choose: The seasons, bananas, fantasies, the blues... But maybe its not the subject you select But how you present it that has the effect?
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Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016 at 6:27 AM UTC
Maybe