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"vapour" poems
Good king Selassie looked out on the feast of Marley When the kush lay round about dank and green and sticky Loudly bumped reggae that night As the king did turn When a stoner came in sight Gathering kush to burn "Come here boy and stand by me if you know this then say; where would that young stoner be at the end of this day?" "My King he lives quite far away rather close to Babylon where exactly I can not say he surely lives in Zion." "Bring me kush and fine hashish bring me bongs and paper You and I, his base shall reach bringing dank kush vapour!" Island boy and Selassie went across great Zion eyes all red and mouths all dry They rode upon the lion "King, my eyes are growing white and we smoked our last spliff I fear that I may die tonight play me one last reggae riff..." "Island boy you don't recall who it is you roll wit unto me JAH trusted all of the kush on this planet!" So Selassie I was blessed they were high once more the stoner was offered the rest of what they had in store Therefore rasta men be sure if you have that dank kush share it with your brothers poor and find yourself with more bush
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM UTC
Good King Selassie
* * Your soul is the moon after dawn A vapour who sings of love as well as pain A delicate blossom that twirls with zephyrs Fragrant and enriched by the snow's kiss The geese have fled from iced lakes long preserved with whispers of old In the shade of bamboo, my flute is heard, carried to you by the frost-kissed air Your soul, a vapour, the moon after dawn Hear my hymn of peace, till winters turn to fawn * *
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Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018 at 12:21 PM UTC
Fawn
Platonic Love Song The wind in our hair as our lungs work Screaming out the lyrics to a teenage summer As we drive free, racing, to the waves and mountains Lights in our eyes and hands over hearts Youthful yearning fills us, as we get caught chasing the sky Her laughter fills my soul and she begins to dance While she wraps her arms around me, safe A fire blazes, but our smiles are what light up the night We make the stars jealous,  They beg for half of our shine Embers and vapour fill the air,  Hands trading drinks and smoke and care Music floats and lyrics sink in Lips trading stories and laughter and kisses Engines start, stop, jump, and rumble Her eyes gleam and shift, catching attention Hypnotising and beautiful,  They draw us in, keep us safe, and we ask to stay.  Let yourself love your friends. Let yourself stay with them.  She pumps music into our lives, her voice loud We dance to the wild tempo of our heartbeats Crass and catching, her voice settles in us Let people in, even when it’s hard. Let yourself love them.  She scrunches her face up and tosses in jokes, Making us smile at any price,  She helps us laugh the pain away.  Let people love you back.  I know it can be hard but... She covers her smile with a hand,  Else she’d blind us, but we’d be alright, If that could be the last thing we see If you aren’t in love with your friends, where is your absolution?  She swings her hips and we get lost in her lips, The gold on her skin, the brown in her eyes,  Entrancing on a new level, and we exalt If you aren’t in love with your friends, then something is wrong.  She grabs our hands, reviving and vital,  Her shoulders jump and so do we, she’s got us on our feet Her energy is infections, makes us forget imperfection.  If you aren’t in love with your friends, where are you spending your time?  Existing in a different state, but in the same hearts,  And we are all staring at the same jealous stars.  She feels like a home you’ve never been too.  If you aren’t in love with your friends, then you’re not doing it right.  Because for me, they define ride or die,  The first loves of my life, they mean open Open arms, open homes, open hearts They are coffee in the cold and make up in the night,  Empowerment in the dark and hope in the now.  Love isn’t just for spouses and partners,    Love is for those who you know with your heart,  Who’s soul touched yours, and said,  “Hey, it’s been a while. I missed you.”  And if you haven’t felt that yet then I’m sorry,  But don’t worry, you’ll find them.  And when you do, it will be like coming home.  And you’ll know.
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Jan 30, 2018
Jan 30, 2018 at 3:00 PM UTC
Platonic Love Song
Platonic Love Song The wind in our hair as our lungs work Screaming out the lyrics to a teenage summer As we drive free, racing, to the waves and mountains Lights in our eyes and hands over hearts Youthful yearning fills us, as we get caught chasing the sky Her laughter fills my soul and she begins to dance While she wraps her arms around me, safe A fire blazes, but our smiles are what light up the night We make the stars jealous,  They beg for half of our shine Embers and vapour fill the air,  Hands trading drinks and smoke and care Music floats and lyrics sink in Lips trading stories and laughter and kisses Engines start, stop, jump, and rumble Her eyes gleam and shift, catching attention Hypnotising and beautiful,  They draw us in, keep us safe, and we ask to stay.  Let yourself love your friends. Let yourself stay with them.  She pumps music into our lives, her voice loud We dance to the wild tempo of our heartbeats Crass and catching, her voice settles in us Let people in, even when it’s hard. Let yourself love them.  She scrunches her face up and tosses in jokes, Making us smile at any price,  She helps us laugh the pain away.  Let people love you back.  I know it can be hard but... She covers her smile with a hand,  Else she’d blind us, but we’d be alright, If that could be the last thing we see If you aren’t in love with your friends, where is your absolution?  She swings her hips and we get lost in her lips, The gold on her skin, the brown in her eyes,  Entrancing on a new level, and we exalt If you aren’t in love with your friends, then something is wrong.  She grabs our hands, reviving and vital,  Her shoulders jump and so do we, she’s got us on our feet Her energy is infections, makes us forget imperfection.  If you aren’t in love with your friends, where are you spending your time?  Existing in a different state, but in the same hearts,  And we are all staring at the same jealous stars.  She feels like a home you’ve never been too.  If you aren’t in love with your friends, then you’re not doing it right.  Because for me, they define ride or die,  The first loves of my life, they mean open Open arms, open homes, open hearts They are coffee in the cold and make up in the night,  Empowerment in the dark and hope in the now.  Love isn’t just for spouses and partners,    Love is for those who you know with your heart,  Who’s soul touched yours, and said,  “Hey, it’s been a while. I missed you.”  And if you haven’t felt that yet then I’m sorry,  But don’t worry, you’ll find them.  And when you do, it will be like coming home.  And you’ll know.
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. "I shall welcome the majesty of the ****** Loam, the honour of being the daisies mantle The goodly fortune to sleep under the golden Stars who birthed my dream of grace and light. World, ply my ship and sail it to the seas Of love, poem and song, I was unworthy Shaper and so, whereby cold fates decree— Here lies one, whose name is traced in vapour."
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Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 7:39 PM UTC
Epitaph for the Stone of an Unknown Poet
You were my gift, Soft, sweetness, little one, Eyes of moon and ocean Hills of creation, of shadow And bread.  In your nakedness I fled the earth and bathed In starlight and dust at the end Of the forever of the sky.   In that silence, Of exploding cosmos and vapour, I fell, feeling in your smiles the suns Decay, I felt light beyond Its barrier, and was decimated In the gravity of the neutron Blue of floating eyes in separation. Your faraway orbs were lost To me in the frozen dark energy Of shunted light and the cold  vacuum of space. It was my birthday And you were set on leaving. It was my birthday When I nearly died.
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Jul 11, 2012
Jul 11, 2012 at 11:45 PM UTC
Birthday
Compliments to the baker and so too my Barista Smoothest crema on the tongue juxtapose to lemon vapour. Intense acute sensations insist I close my eyes Submit in rare humility in awe of nature's true franchise. Clarion note of citron zest resounds on mellow creamy seas Mediterranean sun distilled now is witnessed here in me. Tempered, rounded bitter hues from Amazonian dark recess waited aeons to infuse and bring about this wanton bliss.
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Nov 20, 2014
Nov 20, 2014 at 9:59 AM UTC
Double espresso and a slice of Sicilian lemon cheesecake
Are you sound of mind? Addicted to dandelions like the ocean is to ice. Wait outside the blood bank, learn how to write dialogue and make saccharin spines. My journal is a tangle of spines, keep an open mind help me box up my ****** dialogue. I’ve always been a fan of dandelions etching paths along the river bank, streams within the winter ice. Buckets of camphor ice relax the notches in spines as we wait in line at the food bank. Thoughts of jawbones on my mind, the taste of dandelions and organized pre-scripted dialogue. Backhanded blue dialogue, counting the vanilla crystals of ice blowing the smell of cinnamon into floating dandelions. My hands handle happiness spines with the peace of mind of money in the piggy bank. Let's rob a bank shooting quiet malleable dialogue through an altered state of mind. Your ribs are two sheets of ice ivy wrapping around our intertwined spines crumbly blowing breaths of dandelions. Second hand dandelions build up in the river bank muddy trenches around spines whisper outspoken blue green dialogue. Three pounds of dry ice, warm water vapour at the back of my mind Store buy your dandelions, bear in mind that the West Bank is covered in ice and that spines speak their own muted dialogue.
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Dec 9, 2014
Dec 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM UTC
Sestina 4 - Edit my health
The time has come, for me to fray the long lost fortune peace and joy and i peep all around to see a ray to give me hope and stop to cry in the face of dispair, i will still try it feels like hell and i need to fly am about to burst and am full of thought then if she left to me its draught the touch of her hand and a kiss so hot swimming basking and the fish we caught fear and doubt with love we fought she always escaped to what we ought then came the insighter and he seemed brighter taking her out and treating her better Using a phone when i used letters things were hard especially with a competitor forgot me complete together with her litter it seemed to her there was nothing sweeter after utelizing the better of her best he disposed her and then left she had some pain in the chest when she came in serch for rest she was mine but we had to test to avoid being hung like a nest A drop of blood and a little buffer recalled how our children would suffer if through ignorance our life was vapour my test was a line and my partners twice why would life be so very  unfair? her episode was so shortlived yet she left me huge a burden to the kids we had i was both parents just be cause she wouldn't heed even doctors advice on adherence all in all i had to say goodbye coz she was mine for the time we spent what i am now going through is a fruit of ignorance and disobedience my urge my prayer, that not one falls into the same it's so easy to say that, lets avoid the idea of shame by first escaping the blame by keeping ourselfs tame.
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Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 3:00 AM UTC
Hard to bear
The time has come, for me to fray the long lost fortune peace and joy and i peep all around to see a ray to give me hope and stop to cry in the face of dispair, i will still try it feels like hell and i need to fly am about to burst and am full of thought then if she left to me its draught the touch of her hand and a kiss so hot swimming basking and the fish we caught fear and doubt with love we fought she always escaped to what we ought then came the insighter and he seemed brighter taking her out and treating her better Using a phone when i used letters things were hard especially with a competitor forgot me complete together with her litter it seemed to her there was nothing sweeter after utelizing the better of her best he disposed her and then left she had some pain in the chest when she came in serch for rest she was mine but we had to test to avoid being hung like a nest A drop of blood and a little buffer recalled how our children would suffer if through ignorance our life was vapour my test was a line and my partners twice why would life be so very  unfair? her episode was so shortlived yet she left me huge a burden to the kids we had i was both parents just be cause she wouldn't heed even doctors advice on adherence all in all i had to say goodbye coz she was mine for the time we spent what i am now going through is a fruit of ignorance and disobedience my urge my prayer, that not one falls into the same it's so easy to say that, lets avoid the idea of shame by first escaping the blame by keeping ourselfs tame.
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Deep on the convent-roof the snows Are sparkling to the moon: My breath to heaven like vapour goes; May my soul follow soon! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord: Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my ***** lies. As these white robes are soil'd and dark, To yonder shining ground; As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round; So shows my soul before the Lamb, My spirit before Thee; So in mine earthly house I am, To that I hope to be. Break up the heavens, O Lord! and far, Thro' all yon starlight keen, Draw me, thy bride, a glittering star, In raiment white and clean. He lifts me to the golden doors; The flashes come and go; All heaven bursts her starry floors, And strows her lights below, And deepens on and up! the gates Roll back, and far within For me the Heavenly Bridegroom waits, To make me pure of sin. The sabbaths of Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide-- A light upon the shining sea-- The Bridegroom with his bride!
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St. Agnes' Eve
vapour locked her vacant eyes looking up at the falling stars at the laughing cowgirl riding a rocket to the moon a hero to her generation a pin up girl flashing a bit of skin but the intent is betrayed by the feeling that this endless road has consequences she wanders the shopping mall of our world with a loose credit card as her only symbol of belonging as her only connection to humanity guard your purchases against theft guard your heart against pilfering but she just looks through you with a dazzled distraction that defies definition she's happier there than most of us are here a white picket fence surrounds the ruins that she picks through the rubble of her thoughts in a scattered pile while the tatters of her former life now decorate the walls of a fools parade now is the poster child of the loosing war but she endures the winter rain and stacks the broken bricks of her former world neatly into the categories she was shown as a child and that's all she wants to return to the innocence of childhood no complexity's   no hangups vapour locked into the moment she escaped all the things she thought and the things she almost but not quit felt when her man came round trying to convince herself that if she fakes it long enough she be happy someday playin the housewife and mother playin the well adjusted and smiling face she has plastered on every morning for twenty two years but in her heart she's with that cowgirl riding rocket to the moon and kissing all the girls kissing all the girls then she'd be happy and in her heart she knows it so why is she lingering here ill never know ill never know
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 7:55 PM UTC
laughing cowgirl
vapour locked her vacant eyes looking up at the falling stars at the laughing cowgirl riding a rocket to the moon a hero to her generation a pin up girl flashing a bit of skin but the intent is betrayed by the feeling that this endless road has consequences she wanders the shopping mall of our world with a loose credit card as her only symbol of belonging as her only connection to humanity guard your purchases against theft guard your heart against pilfering but she just looks through you with a dazzled distraction that defies definition she's happier there than most of us are here a white picket fence surrounds the ruins that she picks through the rubble of her thoughts in a scattered pile while the tatters of her former life now decorate the walls of a fools parade now is the poster child of the loosing war but she endures the winter rain and stacks the broken bricks of her former world neatly into the categories she was shown as a child and that's all she wants to return to the innocence of childhood no complexity's   no hangups vapour locked into the moment she escaped all the things she thought and the things she almost but not quit felt when her man came round trying to convince herself that if she fakes it long enough she be happy someday playin the housewife and mother playin the well adjusted and smiling face she has plastered on every morning for twenty two years but in her heart she's with that cowgirl riding rocket to the moon and kissing all the girls kissing all the girls then she'd be happy and in her heart she knows it so why is she lingering here ill never know ill never know
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***** feet ***** of them ache they're dry all dried out, moisture to face and digestive tract make little difference but comfort a little sort of; maybe subdue to replenishing skip the pain with a drink fucken, fucken drink fucken dust lingers in the brain, it swirls a cloud of ground envelops the shape of u u become covered u have a layer, salty, and dry and 'organic' (surely bio (though im not sure what is or why are)) full city boy, suburban boy, not particularly gritty boy along side hippies and volunteers all tripppy and unwashed, and un plastic yet forcefully hemped drunk of micro beer and burnt brown and blotchy red and wire-y and dry and matted as if nothing really matters except for principles misguided and randomly enforced feel like a husk; peanut shell insides swallowed by the mouth of the party embodied a monsterous sweaty man tanned and thickly bearded and beered fat dreads fall around and surround u; a forest of hair a circle encroaching of fuzzy pillars in fibres entrapped inside them; feel their lingering time matted hold a wealth of effort to become unkempt; they are bars they are walls and the FACE! ………………………   ………………………………… oh looming down, wafts of armpit vapour cloud; a looming puft that surrounds engorged by the scent as it circles u, the mouth that lowered onto u chews u and spills bits of u chomp chomp protein for vegetarians; u; ur rigour ur vigour ur guts    eaten in a flurry of chomps and slurps and it crunches and it grates like the rocks on the ***** of ur feet it grates u are digested and reused as they would like but for them; for a collective u dived into for fun 2 days to peddle ur wares to progress ( admittedly through some days of regression…) for all humans, and Humans; for fun on monday we will repent for the damages waged on the inside of the body and the outsides too for some gain i guess on this which we settle for always for display for fun
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 2:10 AM UTC
festivals
***** feet ***** of them ache they're dry all dried out, moisture to face and digestive tract make little difference but comfort a little sort of; maybe subdue to replenishing skip the pain with a drink fucken, fucken drink fucken dust lingers in the brain, it swirls a cloud of ground envelops the shape of u u become covered u have a layer, salty, and dry and 'organic' (surely bio (though im not sure what is or why are)) full city boy, suburban boy, not particularly gritty boy along side hippies and volunteers all tripppy and unwashed, and un plastic yet forcefully hemped drunk of micro beer and burnt brown and blotchy red and wire-y and dry and matted as if nothing really matters except for principles misguided and randomly enforced feel like a husk; peanut shell insides swallowed by the mouth of the party embodied a monsterous sweaty man tanned and thickly bearded and beered fat dreads fall around and surround u; a forest of hair a circle encroaching of fuzzy pillars in fibres entrapped inside them; feel their lingering time matted hold a wealth of effort to become unkempt; they are bars they are walls and the FACE! ………………………   ………………………………… oh looming down, wafts of armpit vapour cloud; a looming puft that surrounds engorged by the scent as it circles u, the mouth that lowered onto u chews u and spills bits of u chomp chomp protein for vegetarians; u; ur rigour ur vigour ur guts    eaten in a flurry of chomps and slurps and it crunches and it grates like the rocks on the ***** of ur feet it grates u are digested and reused as they would like but for them; for a collective u dived into for fun 2 days to peddle ur wares to progress ( admittedly through some days of regression…) for all humans, and Humans; for fun on monday we will repent for the damages waged on the inside of the body and the outsides too for some gain i guess on this which we settle for always for display for fun
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The Eclipse The eclipse dose not become endless night The reappearance of light is the same as the survival of soul The eclipse Such indeed a character of the historic hour through which the world was passing Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon A quiet  and unexpected  change, That looked  the desultory range Of happiness  and sprightly thought. Where'er was dipped the toiling oar, The direction of winds  danced round us as before, As lightly, though of altered hue; Mid recent coolness, such as falls At noon-tide from umbrageous walls That screen the morning dew. No vapour stretched its wings; no cloud Cast far or near a murky shroud; The sky an azure field displayed; 'There was light  sheathed and gently charmed, Of all its sparkling rays disarmed, And as in slumber laid:-- Or something night and day between, Like moon shine--but the hue was green; Still moon shine, without shadow, spread On jutting rock, and curved shore
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM UTC
THE ECLIPSE
*we are witness to atrocities committed by regime over its peoples over time* 1. we are witness.. shattering glass of reality arranged into chosen shard-feeds like omni-gov surveillance into meticulous mind-grafts spluttering eternal-stats for public mind control spewing mini-truths of perpetual war raids disillusionment of history forever rewritten control supply-and-demand create dark-cloaked dilemma and monitor shortage and famine make-believe elements so well played to auto-frenzied latch thinking is degraded and actions.. well, less said 2. diligent and loyal yet harbour secret-hatred feed visions stilted by politrix deception and manipulation propaganda is the oleaginous-game by wand-over-mind totalitarian is the kingpin-holder of cards and yet, who is really being played! eternal marionettes on a conveyor-belt can't even play with yourself alone your **** your **** your every move.. watched - surveyed - and studied by that ubiquitous-bulge eye you cannot escape right opposite your low hard-bed you're broken into popping-parts that YOU won't recognise! thoughtcrime-police is gonna accost ya get up, comrade.. get UUUUUUUUP! 3. we are witness life-tube covered in darkened vapour-swirls we are witness children conditioned to watch their parents.. too closely we are witness truth so smothered, now re-fed by repeat-metaphor we are witness dictata.. dictata.. we are witness austere existence in a tacky one-room flat we are witness subsist on black-wheat and imitation-repast we are witness regurgitate the party-dialect on and on and on (after a while, we end up half-believing.. ) *only the clock which strikes thirteen can smell the charred-reality as leftover-truth is shoved into incendiary obsolescence* tick-a-damn-tock and that would be.. one S T - 26 sept
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 11:53 AM UTC
we are witness..
*we are witness to atrocities committed by regime over its peoples over time* 1. we are witness.. shattering glass of reality arranged into chosen shard-feeds like omni-gov surveillance into meticulous mind-grafts spluttering eternal-stats for public mind control spewing mini-truths of perpetual war raids disillusionment of history forever rewritten control supply-and-demand create dark-cloaked dilemma and monitor shortage and famine make-believe elements so well played to auto-frenzied latch thinking is degraded and actions.. well, less said 2. diligent and loyal yet harbour secret-hatred feed visions stilted by politrix deception and manipulation propaganda is the oleaginous-game by wand-over-mind totalitarian is the kingpin-holder of cards and yet, who is really being played! eternal marionettes on a conveyor-belt can't even play with yourself alone your **** your **** your every move.. watched - surveyed - and studied by that ubiquitous-bulge eye you cannot escape right opposite your low hard-bed you're broken into popping-parts that YOU won't recognise! thoughtcrime-police is gonna accost ya get up, comrade.. get UUUUUUUUP! 3. we are witness life-tube covered in darkened vapour-swirls we are witness children conditioned to watch their parents.. too closely we are witness truth so smothered, now re-fed by repeat-metaphor we are witness dictata.. dictata.. we are witness austere existence in a tacky one-room flat we are witness subsist on black-wheat and imitation-repast we are witness regurgitate the party-dialect on and on and on (after a while, we end up half-believing.. ) *only the clock which strikes thirteen can smell the charred-reality as leftover-truth is shoved into incendiary obsolescence* tick-a-damn-tock and that would be.. one S T - 26 sept
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December 1899 I She sits in the tawny vapour That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled, Behind whose webby fold-on-fold Like a waning taper The street-lamp glimmers cold. A messenger’s knock cracks smartly, Flashed news in her hand Of meaning it dazes to understand Though shaped so shortly: He—he has fallen—in the far South Land… II ’Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker, The postman nears and goes: A letter is brought whose lines disclose By the firelight flicker His hand, whom the worm now knows: Fresh—firm—penned in highest feather— Page-full of his hoped return, And of home-planned jaunts of brake and burn In the summer weather, And of new love that they would learn.
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A Wife In London
I'm writing these are a class project! Feel free to judge! The starry night, filled with light, Mother Nature at her height, Wall of blaze, so scarlet bright, None near escaping, no one might. Flames rose, higher and higher, Shrieks and screams, life so dire, Then silent came, peace a liar, For thousands died in the roaring fire. ----------------------------------------------------------- Distant clouds, go round and round, Darkening silence, not a sound, Imminent storm, clouds inter wound, Vapour like wisps reach the ground. Wisps tower. Clouds grouping, Intense power. Motion stooping. Energy soaring, Nature's violence Winds roaring. Area timeless. The cloudy sky, begins to cry, Even as the clouds up high, Begin to spiral, create an eye, Come whooshing down, covering the light. Swirling tempest, whirling storm, The tornado begins to form, Fierce gale, thundering gust, Tearing houses, leaving husks. The storm rages, no one can flee, For winds spin faster, tear down trees, Finally subsides, the clouds go free, But the damage is done, too much to foresee.
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Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015 at 5:47 AM UTC
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there is water somewhere on my right i can hear it the gentle patter of what must be a delicate fountain hidden amongst the foliage and flowers of freshly bloomed lilies or falling from a feature at the water's edge there is a far-distant rumble of jet engines undoubtedly drawing trails of vapour across an otherwise unblemished blue sounds of traffic dulled to almost nothing a background hum barely noticeable even the unfamiliar shrieking of a siren as it passes by cannot overpower the drawn-out strains of violin the rasgueado strum of guitar the echoed stomp and clap of dancers performing or practicing in front of the monument to a public figure of some kind that i would likely not recognise or be aware of on the other side of the park a clock tower bell chimes the hour two o'clock setting a fluttering of birds to wing chattering on the breeze the seemingly constant pattern of clicking heels and scuffed steps along the nearby path tell of an exhaustive cosmopolitan life a dog begins barking as i open my eyes reminding me of home
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Jun 22, 2023
Jun 22, 2023 at 10:39 AM UTC
resting my eyes
“that’s a Simpson’s sky,” you say, pointing to the fluff strewn across the highway sky, I smile and nod, concentrating on the music we’re driving to Cornwall in the curb lane, pointedly avoiding what’s uppermost, halfway there from Toronto “driving makes me think,” I think to myself and turn up the volume on Buddha Bar III and talking fades into the rearview mirror black Firebird, racing stripes, eager to pass me I hold steady – he should know how to use the passing lane! he bobs and weaves and nips at my fender it washes in waves over you so palpably I feel it crash on my shoulder - your father passed away yesterday rolling the window down slightly, you light a cigarette I roll down mine and light up, too our ritual – one feeding off the other we’re driving to Cornwall, to family, to mother, alone now among children “what will you say to her?” I ask you silently we’re driving to Cornwall towards loss, towards hope with a black Firebird close behind I move the wheel slightly to avoid a can of Pepsi rolling in the lane the rear-view mirror catches the firebird deliberately swerve to hit it and exlode its contents in a little puff of vapour - highway music bonaventure saptel
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Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM UTC
Driving to Cornwall
When Charlie was a young'un with a crayon and some paper He would scribble til the paper ripped and the crayon turned to vapour His mother would console him and she'd offer her advice But just to drive the message home, she'd loudly sing it twice Follow the lines, my boy, just follow the bleedin' lines Just pick a side and stay there, always follow the lines If you're not a fool then fake it If you show your spine they'll break it Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines So when Charlie went to high school, how he tried to walk in stride But the boredom of geometry provoked his naughty side His professor would chastise him with a ruler and a cane And, as an aid to memory, he sang him twice again Follow the lines, young Charlie, you follow the blasted lines Give it a try, you'll soon see, never cross over the lines Don't be smart or play the joker Aim for mainly mediocre Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines When assembling a wardrobe with his Allen key and spanner He threw himself into his task in an overzealous manner So when he called his father to report a broken bone His old man tutted ruefully and sang right down the phone Follow the lines now Charlie, just follow the ******* lines Don't improvise or gamble, why didn't you follow the lines Dodge unnecessary ructions And adhere to the instructions Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines So in time, he raised a family, the lines etched in his head One day he heard a buzzing from his aging garden shed As he listened at the planking, how his face was drawn and long For between the buzz and rustle, squeaked a tiny little song Follow the lines, buzz-buzz, just follow the buzz-ing lines Follow the bee before you, just buzz and follow the lines Find the flowers when it's sunny Fetch the nectar, make the honey Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines Buzz buzz **
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 10:09 AM UTC
Follow the Lines
When Charlie was a young'un with a crayon and some paper He would scribble til the paper ripped and the crayon turned to vapour His mother would console him and she'd offer her advice But just to drive the message home, she'd loudly sing it twice Follow the lines, my boy, just follow the bleedin' lines Just pick a side and stay there, always follow the lines If you're not a fool then fake it If you show your spine they'll break it Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines So when Charlie went to high school, how he tried to walk in stride But the boredom of geometry provoked his naughty side His professor would chastise him with a ruler and a cane And, as an aid to memory, he sang him twice again Follow the lines, young Charlie, you follow the blasted lines Give it a try, you'll soon see, never cross over the lines Don't be smart or play the joker Aim for mainly mediocre Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines When assembling a wardrobe with his Allen key and spanner He threw himself into his task in an overzealous manner So when he called his father to report a broken bone His old man tutted ruefully and sang right down the phone Follow the lines now Charlie, just follow the ******* lines Don't improvise or gamble, why didn't you follow the lines Dodge unnecessary ructions And adhere to the instructions Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines So in time, he raised a family, the lines etched in his head One day he heard a buzzing from his aging garden shed As he listened at the planking, how his face was drawn and long For between the buzz and rustle, squeaked a tiny little song Follow the lines, buzz-buzz, just follow the buzz-ing lines Follow the bee before you, just buzz and follow the lines Find the flowers when it's sunny Fetch the nectar, make the honey Follow the lines, follow the lines, follow the lines Buzz buzz **
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The cork eases out of the twisted green glass. Bubbles erupt from the neck, A million tiny perfect diamonds tumble over one another, kissing the air. With a breath of Midas, it turns my crystal chalice a deep, frothing gold. It is liquid movement indefinite and the golden Ocean whirls and spins a delicate storm in my glass - I blink for just too long and the fizz climbs in my ears, Like a sweetly growling throat, It slowly opens to an ecstatic ebbing exhalation. Now to my parting mouth. The chalice gently draws the heat from my swollen red lips and it is crisp and cool as the cut glass it curls in. Where does my chalice end and this pool of weightless gold begin? Temptation changes its name to thirst. Another and another and another down my throat. And the storm in my chalice surges over the rim, And the edge begins to sing to where light and dark become the same thing! And now empty – The glass is damp and cold. One bead of vapour left, To slide down my chalice’s neck. And I take my glass Back to the sink.
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Aug 12, 2012
Aug 12, 2012 at 9:15 PM UTC
Champagne
by Sara L. Russell, 30/10/13 at 01:03am I am a force of fiery integrity of soul; a garden sealed;   I carry my soul deep within, all of Heaven enfolds me; My cross is my talisman, my banner and protector,   All of Dante's angels ascending and descending surround me. My bed is a vessel of peace on a sea of tranquil clouds;   Oceans of rolling vapour bear me up in the azure sky, Distant birds give voice in the soporific hush of twilight,   as angels sing out blessings of love and everlasting accord. I am a harp of harmony, a lyre of languid repose;   My heartbeat as steadfast as any jewelled timepiece of gold, My dreaming skies are filled with wingbeats of migrating birds,   Streams shimmer with moonlight; all the forests thrum with life. I am a force of fiery integrity of soul, protected from the night;   I carry my soul deep behind the portals of my mind, My Lord and Creator guides me through the labyrinths of dreams,   Shadows flee from angels, wingbeats carry me till dawn.
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 9:09 PM UTC
To Ward off Nightmares
For the girl who used the umbrella as a walking stick, this is for you. No limp and leg slide followed your wake just the upright roar of footsteps on pale shale- Cambridge cotton stones that reflect and reverberate the sound from around into the ears of the passerby. I cannot wait, nor hold it in, the urge to scribble 11 numbers onto parchment paper, old receipts or or that wilted vapour notepad paper, that nestles in the jeans. If I had, then we’d be at a meal now- a dining experience just for two. 22 numbers and one letter was written, illegible and wrong. I forgot which phone number worked and forgot which one you could reach me on. **A poem from the upcoming poetry pamphlet, published by http://www.coffeeshoppoems.com, entitled "Leather Clad Warriors", available soon for £3. That's only 300 pence.
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Oct 31, 2012
Oct 31, 2012 at 11:19 AM UTC
NO LIMP AND LEG
You were my gift, Soft, sweetness, little one, Eyes of moon and ocean Hills of creation, of shadow And bread. In your nakedness I fled the earth and bathed In starlight and dust at the end Of the forever of the sky. In that silence, Of exploding cosmos and vapour, I fell, feeling in your smiles the suns Decay, I felt light beyond Its barrier, and was decimated In the gravity of the neutron Blue of floating eyes in separation. Your faraway orbs were lost To me in the frozen dark energy Of shunted light and the cold vacuum of space. It was my birthday And you were set on leaving. It was my birthday When I nearly died.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
Birthday
I am bruising over and over, my hands underneath the sapphire fire they turn scarlet not livid like my skin, deep blue upon touch. I dream of ghosts on lustrous seas, spirits that see the endless ends of this and how vapour fades to return to the ruins. Light, she dances on crystals only because inside it is cold, colder than bitter winters I have not seen. Teach me how to lie awake in sleepless quiet, glittering with answers. Teach me how to burn like a comet before their great fall.
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Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014 at 1:36 PM UTC
Comet(ose)
As the air thins you are called to memory I am as yet Unsure of what relationship exists Between the flitting nimbus and velocity And me Perhaps the times I fell away from the earth Skirting through layers of atmosphere Between the curvature of horizons And a past sunset far behind me I left traces of longing In contrails I left vapour trails of emotion in the sky Understandably you are filtered from my gravity restricted musings With feet on Terra Firma; no contrail exists Only here with vermillion slashing the clouds Carving a wake through air so fast sounds can’t catch me Do I remember how I howled
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 1:10 PM UTC
Vapour Trails