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"veneration" poems
I stand here; outside my balcony amidst darkness in the company of loneliness My soul impertaburbly trapped between forlornness and peacefulness Yin and Yang perhaps, Forlorn because the soul, wounded and damaged perniciously by loneliness.. And peace; because the herb... well the herb heals to some extent My vessel the arena On a forbidden course Yang battles Yin the odds are in his favor THC to Yin is like aconite to wolves; And so he weakens with every hit The melee ends like it was destined to tranquil and pure bliss prevail At that moment; the wind starts to sing her song Calling, whistling to his lover the king of the night she whistles a beautiful song that sounds of a gentle breeze zephyr like pushing aside clouds that guard his majesty; grandiosely his image is revealed in the nightlife Observe they all gather under the nightsky; selenophiles far away from each other all in different worlds but it's this energy that coheres them here together The wind starts to sing the song of halcyon, ogling at the moon in veneration and exhilaration selenophiles danced away into the night.
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Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 7:39 AM UTC
Dance of peace
There is a fight It is internal There is a plight It is infernal There is no light In this ****** There are many things people callously say Like I'm the last person they'd expect to be gay Delivered like a compliment Burning like a sulfur vent I have to remember not to say thank you To save someone some discomfort down the line When it's easy to let these sentiments internalize You'll see this in the homosexual community They don't face the hatred with impunity Some call themselves masculine And blame their plight on the effeminate But no matter what They'll still be called degenerate So the community internalizes marginalization Though this prejudiced stop is no original station You'd think your own kind would allow vacations From the population of an uncaring nation That will never grant us any veneration Because of the nature of our *********** Yet we **** ourselves for their placation There is hatred within This hatred imprint When we fractionalize marginalized groups Into the "good" ones and "bad" ones We say the bad ones are the reasons the good ones must be hated Whether they're cops or criminals Christian or Muslim Gay or straight We find reasons to hate When we live our life in the grime Of the negativity we've internalized
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Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017 at 10:59 AM UTC
Internalize
Incineration Decapitation Mutilation The Veneration And Sublimation Of a Freethinking nation The Devastation Of Liberty Comes with the Consuming identity Of Religious Indoctrination
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 10:59 AM UTC
Defending Freedom
Today I accidentally saw a preview of; The News; a disabled sixteen-year-old girl, a victim of abuse god The accused is a priest. A round man in a long black cassock And a snip view from mass of another priest plays shortly My face turns green as my mood turns blue He says he has a holy feeling, that the accusations aren’t true. A cult; /kʌlt/ noun ‘a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object.’ We show our devotion, we kneel and give thanks He applies lotion, looks at a child and wanks. god Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, and to the respect of those beliefs. My belief is that no human is superior to another human. A priest is only a man. And this man in the long black cassock had a plan. And this child will remain terrorized forever. People should be held accountable for their actions. Women’s lives are not to be of similar value to male satisfactions. An article on ‘The year of ‘Times Up’ and ‘Me Too’ movements has been a dangerous year for men.’ Every year from the beginning of time has been a dangerous year for a woman. Innocent men are not in danger. I was sexualized and assaulted at the age of eleven. #MeToo I wasn’t wearing a short skirt. I wasn’t drunk. I wasn’t provocative. I was playing chase. For years after that game of chase I had nightmares featuring his face This is not your place to say this year is dangerous, for men. Times Up
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Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 3:48 PM UTC
'Dangerous Year For Men'
A riverbank of memories saturates cultured minds such succulent visuals of precipitation so moist, so pleasant spines shiver in longing howls ascend veneration
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Apr 27, 2012
Apr 27, 2012 at 6:29 AM UTC
Chasing Cultures
We give thanks for all who have enriched our lives with their presence; may we honor them by always being present for others. We give thanks for those who selflessly serve in our armed forces, for the quiet sacrifices of their family and friends and for those who witness for peace and work to end the conflicts of war. We are thankful for the tears of the poor and their example of fortitude in the daily struggle to live and for those that extend a hand and offer a vision of hope and a pathway to advancement. We are thankful for our rich abundance and the blessed spirit that leads us to generously share it with others. We are thankful for wise thoughtful teachers and students that are eager to use that wisdom to better the world. We are thankful for courageous truth tellers and the hard truths they speak and to people of good will that are open and willing to listen and act on those truths. We are thankful for the care givers and their veneration of life and to those who receive care and fill the heart of the giver with fathomless gratitude. We are thankful for people of humility and good will and their blessed example of quiet service and grace. We are thankful for children as an embodiment of our hopes and the future flowering of our greatest aspirations. We are thankful for our animal friends and their example of trusted companionship and unconditional love. We are thankful for sobriety and our ability to discern, see, discover and experience the daily grace life confers upon us. We are thankful for those who are no longer with us, may our time on earth be a blessing to others as they were to us. We are thankful to a higher power that keeps us right sized, humble and grateful for one more day on life's path. Selah Wishing All the Beloved a Happy Thanksgiving Peace and Prayers Music Selection: Shirley Horn, Here's To Life Oakland 11/25/09 jbm
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Nov 27, 2013
Nov 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
Giving Thanks (Again)
We give thanks for all who have enriched our lives with their presence; may we honor them by always being present for others. We give thanks for those who selflessly serve in our armed forces, for the quiet sacrifices of their family and friends and for those who witness for peace and work to end the conflicts of war. We are thankful for the tears of the poor and their example of fortitude in the daily struggle to live and for those that extend a hand and offer a vision of hope and a pathway to advancement. We are thankful for our rich abundance and the blessed spirit that leads us to generously share it with others. We are thankful for wise thoughtful teachers and students that are eager to use that wisdom to better the world. We are thankful for courageous truth tellers and the hard truths they speak and to people of good will that are open and willing to listen and act on those truths. We are thankful for the care givers and their veneration of life and to those who receive care and fill the heart of the giver with fathomless gratitude. We are thankful for people of humility and good will and their blessed example of quiet service and grace. We are thankful for children as an embodiment of our hopes and the future flowering of our greatest aspirations. We are thankful for our animal friends and their example of trusted companionship and unconditional love. We are thankful for sobriety and our ability to discern, see, discover and experience the daily grace life confers upon us. We are thankful for those who are no longer with us, may our time on earth be a blessing to others as they were to us. We are thankful to a higher power that keeps us right sized, humble and grateful for one more day on life's path. Selah Wishing All the Beloved a Happy Thanksgiving Peace and Prayers Music Selection: Shirley Horn, Here's To Life Oakland 11/25/09 jbm
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I have wearied of grand romances Of deep sighs and swooning trances Of doting gentlemen’s advances And all manner of courtship play I am tired of love confessions And of dizzied, dazed professions And of unrestrained obsessions I grow sicker day by day I once dreamed of adoration Went quite mad for veneration Laughing, flirting with temptation The queen in Camelot The lonely, lovely Guinevere Dainty-masked with girlish fear But when King Arthur wasn’t near Dreaming of Sir Lancelot These days I want no noble knight Despite my seeming helpless plight I wish to set myself aright And tread upon the ground Yet here I am, pedestal-high Too close to the dazzling sky As my life keeps passing by And boys keep running round I’ve let myself grow much too proud Drew up arrogance from the crowd Heard the cheering, bright and loud The queen in Camelot And though I had my faithful Sir Still my heart was all astir With flying fancies, all a blur For Guinevere and Lancelot These fantasies have grown too old I’d rather let my bed grow cold For I have wearied of being told “You are mine to keep” Men have tired me to the core Left me sad and sick and sore And have turned into such a chore And I’d much rather sleep What blasphemy for a maiden fair To toss such doting to the air To turn away without much care Though queen in Camelot But I have withered, I have tired Felt as if my brain’s been mired And find not Arthur much desired Nor dashing Lancelot Is it so bad to want respite From endless longing, day and night? This constant charm becomes too trite With ever staler tone I only wish to rest a while Recover from incessant guile Forget the weight of lovers’ trial And simply be alone
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Nor Dashing Lancelot
I have wearied of grand romances Of deep sighs and swooning trances Of doting gentlemen’s advances And all manner of courtship play I am tired of love confessions And of dizzied, dazed professions And of unrestrained obsessions I grow sicker day by day I once dreamed of adoration Went quite mad for veneration Laughing, flirting with temptation The queen in Camelot The lonely, lovely Guinevere Dainty-masked with girlish fear But when King Arthur wasn’t near Dreaming of Sir Lancelot These days I want no noble knight Despite my seeming helpless plight I wish to set myself aright And tread upon the ground Yet here I am, pedestal-high Too close to the dazzling sky As my life keeps passing by And boys keep running round I’ve let myself grow much too proud Drew up arrogance from the crowd Heard the cheering, bright and loud The queen in Camelot And though I had my faithful Sir Still my heart was all astir With flying fancies, all a blur For Guinevere and Lancelot These fantasies have grown too old I’d rather let my bed grow cold For I have wearied of being told “You are mine to keep” Men have tired me to the core Left me sad and sick and sore And have turned into such a chore And I’d much rather sleep What blasphemy for a maiden fair To toss such doting to the air To turn away without much care Though queen in Camelot But I have withered, I have tired Felt as if my brain’s been mired And find not Arthur much desired Nor dashing Lancelot Is it so bad to want respite From endless longing, day and night? This constant charm becomes too trite With ever staler tone I only wish to rest a while Recover from incessant guile Forget the weight of lovers’ trial And simply be alone
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Leave us in a bedroom a locked room both bound by a fleeting veneration but no tangible definition and windows will fog up with excess anxious laughter and phlegmmed throats til the glass transforms transparent to translucent so the outside world becomes an informed guess about which coloured shape is going                    where. The door handle will twist into the room’s home grown central nervous system backed by rising voices rising pulses assuring ourselves it is everybody outside who is trapped and not us because ‘cosy’ has scribbled over ‘cramped’ between the sheets of peeling wallpaper and bodies upon bodies upon bodies only excites. We will stay in bed cocooned around this single duvet and distracted into its folds because this is how we choose to spend free will. Don't murmur about the locked door and even when it opens for lack of air or food so we tentatively tread through into the open, or perhaps closed, I beg you to grab my wrist and pull me back and whisper tear yourself up decrease with me because this will always be the one place we’ll happily suffocate.
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 8:38 AM UTC
House of Cult
I'm born Airborne Forlorn In war torn Discord My ripcord I pull for liberation Alienation aviation Away from a station Of no relation Where their elation Lies in degeneration The fright fair Nightmare In sight there Is a right scare But light flares From an illuminated theater I dive into art To fill my meter I consume Darkened tomb Screen in room Is where I loom Inspiration blooms From a sense of doom My separation reparation That will lead to veneration My artistic fervor Drifted further Drifter's murmurs Lifted learners But gifted murderers Shifted girders Of shame and honesty To my grave of modesty Where they prey upon me This plagiarism Layered schism Cratered rhythm Of great decisions Now I make incisions With repetition And the definition Of words stolen from me They're all I can see And I can't get free Or just let it be Consumption disruption At this junction I can't function A plagiarist ****** mist Grips my fist Makes me wish I don't exist I must resist Before I miss My chance at bliss They're ****** me By aping me Making me Shaking trees Of bumblebees With rumble pleas On humble knees Drinking antifreeze Nobody cares What's fair They bear And share Blank stares Up stairs Of artistic compromise Integrity lost in lies They're not that wise I hypothesize My baby Caught rabies From Hades Now ladies Flock to a thief Giving me grief Beyond belief In my coral reef Sword in sheath I drown discreet
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 2:29 PM UTC
Plagiarism
We give thanks for all who have enriched our lives with their presence; may we honor them by always being present for others. We give thanks for those who selflessly serve in our armed forces, for the quiet sacrifices of their family and friends and for those who witness for peace and work to end the conflicts of war. We are thankful for the tears of the poor and their example of fortitude in the daily struggle to live and for those that extend a hand and offer a vision of hope and a pathway to advancement. We are thankful for our rich abundance and the blessed spirit that leads us to generously share it with others. We are thankful for wise thoughtful teachers and students that are eager to use that wisdom to better the world. We are thankful for courageous truth tellers and the hard truths they speak and to people of good will that are open and willing to listen and act on those truths. We are thankful for the care givers and their veneration of life and to those who receive care and fill the heart of the giver with fathomless gratitude. We are thankful for people of humility and good will and their blessed example of quiet service and grace. We are thankful for children as an embodiment of our hopes and the future flowering of our greatest aspirations. We are thankful for our animal friends and their example of trusted companionship and unconditional love. We are thankful for sobriety and our ability to discern, see, discover and experience the daily grace life confers upon us. We are thankful for those who are no longer with us, may our time on earth be a blessing to others as they were to us. We are thankful to a higher power that keeps us right sized, humble and grateful for one more day on life's path. Selah Wishing All the Beloved a Happy Thanksgiving Peace and Prayers Music Selection: Shirley Horn, Here's To Life Oakland 11/25/09 jbm
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Nov 23, 2011
Nov 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM UTC
Giving Thanks
We give thanks for all who have enriched our lives with their presence; may we honor them by always being present for others. We give thanks for those who selflessly serve in our armed forces, for the quiet sacrifices of their family and friends and for those who witness for peace and work to end the conflicts of war. We are thankful for the tears of the poor and their example of fortitude in the daily struggle to live and for those that extend a hand and offer a vision of hope and a pathway to advancement. We are thankful for our rich abundance and the blessed spirit that leads us to generously share it with others. We are thankful for wise thoughtful teachers and students that are eager to use that wisdom to better the world. We are thankful for courageous truth tellers and the hard truths they speak and to people of good will that are open and willing to listen and act on those truths. We are thankful for the care givers and their veneration of life and to those who receive care and fill the heart of the giver with fathomless gratitude. We are thankful for people of humility and good will and their blessed example of quiet service and grace. We are thankful for children as an embodiment of our hopes and the future flowering of our greatest aspirations. We are thankful for our animal friends and their example of trusted companionship and unconditional love. We are thankful for sobriety and our ability to discern, see, discover and experience the daily grace life confers upon us. We are thankful for those who are no longer with us, may our time on earth be a blessing to others as they were to us. We are thankful to a higher power that keeps us right sized, humble and grateful for one more day on life's path. Selah Wishing All the Beloved a Happy Thanksgiving Peace and Prayers Music Selection: Shirley Horn, Here's To Life Oakland 11/25/09 jbm
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we did not Dye in vain! by michael r. burch (from “songs of the sea snails”) though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantled Royals might stand out in a crowd. i salute you, fellow loyals, who labor without scruple as your incomes fall while deficits quadruple to swaddle unjust Lords in bright imperial purple! Originally published by The American Dissident Notes: In ancient times the purple dye produced from the secretions of purpura mollusks (sea snails) was known as “Tyrian purple,” “royal purple” and “imperial purple.” It was greatly prized in antiquity, and was very expensive according to the historian Theopompus: “Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon.” Thus, purple-dyed fabrics became status symbols, and laws often prevented commoners from possessing them. The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in Byzantium, where the imperial court restricted its use to the coloring of imperial silks. A child born to the reigning emperor was literally porphyrogenitos ("born to the purple") because the imperial birthing apartment was walled in porphyry, a purple-hued rock, and draped with purple silks. Royal babies were swaddled in purple; we know this because the iconodules, who disagreed with the emperor Constantine about the veneration of images, accused him of defecating on his imperial purple swaddling clothes! Keywords/Tags: royal, purple, imperial, Tyrian, Byzantium, porphyry, swaddling, clothes, porphyrogenitos, mollusks, sea snails, royalty, kings, lords, emperors, popes
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Mar 28, 2020
Mar 28, 2020 at 4:35 AM UTC
we did not Dye in vain!
we did not Dye in vain! by michael r. burch (from “songs of the sea snails”) though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantled Royals might stand out in a crowd. i salute you, fellow loyals, who labor without scruple as your incomes fall while deficits quadruple to swaddle unjust Lords in bright imperial purple! Originally published by The American Dissident Notes: In ancient times the purple dye produced from the secretions of purpura mollusks (sea snails) was known as “Tyrian purple,” “royal purple” and “imperial purple.” It was greatly prized in antiquity, and was very expensive according to the historian Theopompus: “Purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon.” Thus, purple-dyed fabrics became status symbols, and laws often prevented commoners from possessing them. The production of Tyrian purple was tightly controlled in Byzantium, where the imperial court restricted its use to the coloring of imperial silks. A child born to the reigning emperor was literally porphyrogenitos ("born to the purple") because the imperial birthing apartment was walled in porphyry, a purple-hued rock, and draped with purple silks. Royal babies were swaddled in purple; we know this because the iconodules, who disagreed with the emperor Constantine about the veneration of images, accused him of defecating on his imperial purple swaddling clothes! Keywords/Tags: royal, purple, imperial, Tyrian, Byzantium, porphyry, swaddling, clothes, porphyrogenitos, mollusks, sea snails, royalty, kings, lords, emperors, popes
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I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 4:13 AM UTC
Mythic, Philosophical Codices
I'm seeking to amass a Collection of the World's spiritual, mythic and philosophical codices. I want to collect them out of veneration for those who came before who have tried to illuminate the Paths: The following is my library of such books of yet. Entries in bold are my recommendations; entries italicized are strongly recommended. -Old Works: **Egyptian Book of the Dead Tibetan Book of the Dead The Bhagavad Gita Euclid's Elements** Tao te Ching (I have 3 translations) I Ching (2 translations and a workbook) The Qur'an The Bible -Newer Works: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar: Philosophy explained through Jokes *Quadrivium: Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology* The Pulse of Wisdom - College Eastern Philosophy Book *Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna* The Elements of Reason - College Logic Book 1001 Perls of Buddhist Wisdom *Net of Being by Alex Grey* *Art Psalms by Alex Grey* **The Portable Nietzsche *The Red Book of Jung The Portable Jung*** The Subtle Body - Encyclopedia of chakras, auras and other personal energy systems. Who are you? - 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself -- I seek to compile this Collection not to have a nice looking bookshelf; nor do I seek to find which one is right. I seek to learn from each of these the lessons that are intrinsic in our Lives; they're all matters of perspectives. I want to compile the aspects of each philosophy with which I resonate and integrate them into my own, forging a dynamic and holistic individual philosophy. All of these books are Mystical masterpieces. All of these books provide insights to the nature of our Holy Reality. All of these books ultimately attempt to express the same ineffability. All of these books are interpreted then translated and interpreted again. The way I see it, I may as well do it for myself; draw my own conclusions: Think for myself.
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We watched the sun fall down and scrape its knee again, across the horizon. Effusing amaranth, carmine, and cochineal across polluted vista. It felt petty to issue guttural laughs, or engage the myofacial crescents beneath its visual lament as the Earth turned its back again. We watched the sun rise, bruised, tender and shy this morning. Its muddled contusion obviated by the gauze of fog. A mottled neophyte - Luminescent crepuscular rays defied dregs of interstellar debris and cloud. Aching to kiss your skin - In stellar cloud nursery, it eschewed the torque of orbit and gravity - eras before verity of your essence. Humbly settling concentrically about oblate sphere, and gaseous tome. Latterly - It altered the atmospheric pressure on the other side of the planet a week antecedently, as you clung to your dream lattice, and Earth innately turned oblate nucleus. Its intent – A veneration of you. It bade the atmosphere convey a breeze echoing about your dermis, as it gilded your frame laconically, betwixt shaded steps beneath cloud and arbor. The sun yelled at me at its pinnacle today, Pallid bone – molten - miasma of rage Its core missive garnered inertia – coronal plasma warping ellipsoid factions in inflections of elusive filigree Pirouetting spicules spattered smelted torrents in the dismal anchorite Atomic schism – silent but felt It stoked humidity under shadowed niche - casual vaporous smears evinced no clemency. Flesh torqued, and seized beneath itself, briny globules shed from puckered pore. Culminations of sensitive fluid sacs scorched into the shallows of my chassis. Insignia knit in cellular shrapnel The sun ignored me today – or perhaps, it was I it. Enigmatic tenacious resolution – an echo of its gravitational collapse Inverse thermonuclear fusion It is not fear in a relationship that keeps you apart, it is neglect of the infinitesimal.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
Heliophilia
We watched the sun fall down and scrape its knee again, across the horizon. Effusing amaranth, carmine, and cochineal across polluted vista. It felt petty to issue guttural laughs, or engage the myofacial crescents beneath its visual lament as the Earth turned its back again. We watched the sun rise, bruised, tender and shy this morning. Its muddled contusion obviated by the gauze of fog. A mottled neophyte - Luminescent crepuscular rays defied dregs of interstellar debris and cloud. Aching to kiss your skin - In stellar cloud nursery, it eschewed the torque of orbit and gravity - eras before verity of your essence. Humbly settling concentrically about oblate sphere, and gaseous tome. Latterly - It altered the atmospheric pressure on the other side of the planet a week antecedently, as you clung to your dream lattice, and Earth innately turned oblate nucleus. Its intent – A veneration of you. It bade the atmosphere convey a breeze echoing about your dermis, as it gilded your frame laconically, betwixt shaded steps beneath cloud and arbor. The sun yelled at me at its pinnacle today, Pallid bone – molten - miasma of rage Its core missive garnered inertia – coronal plasma warping ellipsoid factions in inflections of elusive filigree Pirouetting spicules spattered smelted torrents in the dismal anchorite Atomic schism – silent but felt It stoked humidity under shadowed niche - casual vaporous smears evinced no clemency. Flesh torqued, and seized beneath itself, briny globules shed from puckered pore. Culminations of sensitive fluid sacs scorched into the shallows of my chassis. Insignia knit in cellular shrapnel The sun ignored me today – or perhaps, it was I it. Enigmatic tenacious resolution – an echo of its gravitational collapse Inverse thermonuclear fusion It is not fear in a relationship that keeps you apart, it is neglect of the infinitesimal.
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Let's lose our minds amongst the olive trees Labyrinth of oiled imagination Twirl like falling leaves / falling to our knees in unbalanced joy and veneration of ourselves. For there is nobody else but us; there is no other time but now, Red flowers bloom. A blue shadow propels a still landscape into being somehow fluid. Timelessly we swim, wet within each brush stroke branch and painted wave of wild emancipation—to forget the din of the wretched asylum. Vincent smiled: Dive too deep and you shall go insane, The olive grove remains the other side of the pane.
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Oct 16, 2020
Oct 16, 2020 at 9:04 AM UTC
Olive Orchard
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM UTC
O love ! O love ! why are you ever devoid of logic ?
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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It all started here; Some thirty students- Minds controlled by their puppeteer, Walked in clueless My mind came colorful, progressive- Only my beliefs sprouted! The seed had already been expressive Just- the stem was clouded The renaissance fertilized the soil Dry, cracked, barren, deprived; Destitute of the benevolent oil- Used to awaken thoughts: revived But what truly blossomed my bud- Were the French philosophes, Who's blue, liberal blood- Solidified my leftist approach I have always been the optimist; Through many deaths and rebirths- I knew it wasn't the apocalypse, And instead kept the beauty of earth Because I filled my life with fascination, My opinions bloomed:bright and rich. The rain could not cleanse my veneration, Not to a diety, but to my democratic itch My petals are strong to hold bees- Who cannot fly or make honey It's my civic duty to fight this disease That in life- one is subject to money However, I am not just one of Paine's flowers, I am an independent with liberal powers.
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Jun 2, 2014
Jun 2, 2014 at 1:39 AM UTC
Les Fleurs de Thomas Paine
At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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Feb 13, 2012
Feb 13, 2012 at 5:51 PM UTC
Alone on the precipice
At Heaven’s window I knelt to pray what do you say when you are dwarfed by Christendom’s vast portal What cries from hearts of the faithful in anguished burdened prayer they assailed such Holy veneration Common tongues caught up in awe and adoration found oratory’s fount how they created an unequaled Spell it clung to holy symbols and pictures that hung on the walls it tore away time itself revealed the Secret mystery of holiness’s true heart and meaning the sky strained to carry the weight of words so Profound any and all armies would fall before their mastery to question one’s self at such depths would Make you defenseless to all obligations you crossed grandeurs stronghold you intervened no less into Matters that only prophets are obliged to discuss you have fashioned with words great bastions to Supersede they mock the infidelity and foolishness of many kingdoms Royalty is not just to wear fine Robes but to center the mind on those richest of finds and then return to mankind and spread them as Star dust in the lowly places and see the birth of equality and liberty flourish from the lowest to the Highest that honors not one but all lead at all points root out ignorance that is the cause of all shame With words that are akin to the words that created worlds this is what you are caught up in there is no Time for idleness go and spread this word to the four corners of man’s domain we are heroes yet made By the very words that are possessed and won at altars the planks of mortals that build a stairway to Glory the earth yearns and dies while you tarry the breach long ago in Eden now the dream is to be Fulfilled by holy men and women strong enough to face this most demanding challenge forget self catch Fire with holy zeal burn only for others the world will change from carnage to gifts that bestow Abundant Life we have never lived in a world that we could make by surrendering our dreams for stellar exploits
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The lovely, amorous cherry blossom trees, Decked well in shades of pink and white, With clouds of boughs and blossoms rich, Clasped, rubbed, caressed and hugged And kissed on and on in warm embrace; And their bosoms heaved and breathed O2. Lovers came under the cherry blossom trees With hearts filled well with thoughts of love, In the shades of the boughs of pink blossoms, They kissed and blushed with words fervent, Danced in joy round the blossomed trees, And gasped in passion, and heaved out CO2. The gorgeous, loving trees stayed there long In vehement love, veneration and adoration, With the alluring charm of the passing blooms Painting again and again the fleeting lives. But choppers with axes sharpened were on To hack their pink xylems and phloems.
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 8:49 AM UTC
KARMAS
KARMAS The lovely, amorous cherry blossom trees, Decked well in shades of pink and white, With clouds of boughs and blossoms rich, Clasped, rubbed, caressed and hugged And kissed on and on in warm embrace; And their bosoms heaved and breathed O2. Lovers came under the cherry blossom trees With hearts filled well with thoughts of love, In the shades of the boughs of pink blossoms, They kissed and blushed with words fervent, Danced in joy round the blossomed trees, And gasped in passion, and heaved out CO2. The gorgeous, loving trees stayed there long In vehement love, veneration and adoration, With the alluring charm of the passing blooms Painting again and again the fleeting lives. But choppers with axes sharpened were on To hack their pink xylems and phloems.
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 12:23 AM UTC
KARMAS
on the cover the same ones appear we've witnessed them showing out they've done so for over a long year repeatedly their monikers are about parading an ability so **** grand we've witnessed them showing out remarkable they of well scripted hand ever shining the infinite bright light parading an ability so **** grand we marvel at their dominant flight they've always had a star's billing ever shining the infinite bright light again to-day their fab quills spilling of a class which holds such veneration they've always had a star's billing watching them is an awing inspiration of a class which holds such veneration on the cover the same ones appear they've done so for over a long year
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Jun 3, 2017
Jun 3, 2017 at 11:24 PM UTC
Over A Long Year (Terzanelle)
i could spend my life in utter awkwardness watching my brothers smoke and my sisters cry aunties smiling and prolonging straightforwardness my ***** cousins won’t ever say hi i could spend my life sitting at the corner writing poems about these drap people who refuse to stay in their homes the kids would play hide and seek the mannequins with heads up until it’s too awkward to not speak skinny waists, blackened eyes, and porcelain faces daru desi banging loud; turning us deaf high heels; no flats no laces horrible is the food beautifully prepared by the chef (who, by the way, thinks we're unbelievably uncivilised) i see them drenched in forgettum juice they’re deep in drunken oblivion, you see it’s incredible - when they say ‘let loose’ ’cause their eyes pry when you let yourself free the ladies enjoy their liberation; those poor oppressed dearies no more doting on their husbands in juxtaposed veneration they give a grave attempt to personify their reveries the men enjoy pelvic thrusting they’re sly crooks who love lusting i guess i’ll be alright; for a mere few minutes, if i’m out of sight
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
absurd roots
Spells of chieftain splendor Bespeaking of loyal grandeur Now the eye clearly sees without fear At dusk! The ancient kingdom of Assur? A flight in time and space from afar? Was that ingenious creativity of flair? Still bids indubitable eternal mystery! Are clothes on man an anecdote of utter hypocrisy? Is sarcastic humor a precursor of hidden sinister? The animals hereof show their ****** Undertone tinges of impeccant simplicity Stirring poignant Achilles' heel character As an infant suckling the breast of saccharine nature; Lo! And behold… Sage mortals envisage a grotesque quest for a promising stage, Regnant and dignified? The new-age psyches’ beatify and feebly beg "Reform, in fact, is, rather softly, on the win” The lighthouse flashing against the sleet-blurred fig twig As every sacred notion becomes an unwavering origin certain, With no remorse that mankind can now ascertain The bewildering incarnation of science in religion! Like a single lily among lilies in a dark dungeon Great spirits now encounter violent opposition “Un-awakened Children silently screaming with pessimism” Hiding within the smooth sacred mask of personality Yet the fear of “the unknown” silently plays a drowsier symphony Calling back the violent rays to illuminate a peaceable destiny Were illusionary realities conform to the whims of a veiled deity, This goddess! A mystifying inferno doing its own radiance faster What a fuss! So light-footed as love yet so heavy-footed as war As if to justify the whirling gloom of despair Like the bleakness of the morning cuckooing rooster Or the dog which barks at his own image in a pond; “What startling veneration” Mortals without remorse still aspire to find The misplaced diamonds and daffs upon the beamish ground. Muhumuza Kenneth Ezra.
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May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010 at 3:46 AM UTC
~Gloaming imaginings~
Spells of chieftain splendor Bespeaking of loyal grandeur Now the eye clearly sees without fear At dusk! The ancient kingdom of Assur? A flight in time and space from afar? Was that ingenious creativity of flair? Still bids indubitable eternal mystery! Are clothes on man an anecdote of utter hypocrisy? Is sarcastic humor a precursor of hidden sinister? The animals hereof show their ****** Undertone tinges of impeccant simplicity Stirring poignant Achilles' heel character As an infant suckling the breast of saccharine nature; Lo! And behold… Sage mortals envisage a grotesque quest for a promising stage, Regnant and dignified? The new-age psyches’ beatify and feebly beg "Reform, in fact, is, rather softly, on the win” The lighthouse flashing against the sleet-blurred fig twig As every sacred notion becomes an unwavering origin certain, With no remorse that mankind can now ascertain The bewildering incarnation of science in religion! Like a single lily among lilies in a dark dungeon Great spirits now encounter violent opposition “Un-awakened Children silently screaming with pessimism” Hiding within the smooth sacred mask of personality Yet the fear of “the unknown” silently plays a drowsier symphony Calling back the violent rays to illuminate a peaceable destiny Were illusionary realities conform to the whims of a veiled deity, This goddess! A mystifying inferno doing its own radiance faster What a fuss! So light-footed as love yet so heavy-footed as war As if to justify the whirling gloom of despair Like the bleakness of the morning cuckooing rooster Or the dog which barks at his own image in a pond; “What startling veneration” Mortals without remorse still aspire to find The misplaced diamonds and daffs upon the beamish ground. Muhumuza Kenneth Ezra.
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a miraculous blindness willingly self afflicted turn jaundiced eyes from the corruption of sacred vows a miraculous transfiguration renewed evangelical ardor a refreshed public face beheld and adored ripping iron curtains into tiny pieces obscuring stains on altars of shame they once brought a boy vexed with lunacy to the Good Healer “oh faithless perverse generation how long must I suffer you?” Jesus cured the boy. Disciples asked, why they failed to cast the demon out? veneration of worldly trappings defiles my body find in yourself a faith the size of a mustard seed and the demons will flee from the body long wracked with illness Matthew 17 14-21 Gnarls Barkley Whose Gonna Save My Soul Now Oakland 4/25/14 jbm
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 11:18 AM UTC
one miracle short
; climb incidentally a towering flat at struggling veneration's rawest berry so scarlet a holly droplet in manifolds of sage a sundered drooping door i'm carefully falling porcelain sheeted hammers languid health a protein remarkably nascent fronds spun g,Ol den denting vine
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Dec 21, 2010
Dec 21, 2010 at 3:28 PM UTC
climb incidentally a towering flat