"volga" poems
Abbie hailed a yellow top cabbie
Brenda had a sister in-law named Glenda
Cate ran late on her first date
Delly ate seven bowls of lemon jelly
Edwina drove to the town of Catalina
Fran burnt her finger on the very hot frying pan
Gwen had a strong yen to go and see her aunty Jen
Hope bought her husband a towing rope
Isobel fell under the magician's spell
Joann took her mother on a holiday in a caravan
Kylie went to the dentist with her brother Wylie
Lesley liked listening to Elvis Presley
Marcia enjoyed eating a freshly baked focaccia
Nell saw a turtle coming out of his shell
Olga lived at the top end of the river Volga
Primrose had a Pinocchio nose
Queenie knitted a multicolored beanie
Ruth could never tell the whole truth
Stacey loved playing dress ups with her friend Tracey
Tilly behavior was always rather silly
Una bought a house in the suburb of Yagonna
Verity wanted to be a well known celebrity
Winifred never stopped taking about Alfred
Xena was presented with a court subpoena
Yale told her teacher a tall tale
Zealand ventured out into the bushland
Aug 25, 2013
Aug 25, 2013 at 8:30 AM UTC
I'm just getting in the bath,
Someone else wrote the letter,
I don't want to make a. Mess.
Draw me the water
I point at the tap
Burden no family
Hold my head under icecaps.
Merkel Cells, diluted sensation,
The end of fingertips cant feel your
Flesh.
Shriveling in the cold,
Shivering to stop freezing,
But I cant. What am I doing?
Can I want this now, errectores pilorum erected.
Have I set motion to,
Cogs in a watch I cant adjust.
my lungs mark absolute zero
this is me sitting in chemistry class
english
10th grade
asking sam to suffocate with me
every alvioli is pinned by ****** as thick as knitting needles
my chest is permafrost
my sternum, antarctica
the ribs hollow out
capillary beds lose all the haem
out of their erythrocytes
I'm losing St. Elmo's Fire.
The baths still panting out,
Water roars, gushing spout.
Proud the current sweeps me through,
The porcelain lining this white hell bathroom.
It's bone cannot hide from my blood,
As if I'm isotope 226 of Radium.
Heat seeking marrow.
My serum is Hodgkins Lymphoma,
Tearing through sheeting tile,
Like a young cancer child,
Afflicted,
Leukemia,
No chance,
No good blood left,
To let.
Soon, it will all be gone, and the rivers that
freeze in my arms, and the ribs that are icicles
form, and the atrial canal is not like Venice,
it is the Rhine in winter, the Volga during
the solstice.
Spring will never come again.
Spring slipped its head into the bath water, like my own.
Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 11:34 AM UTC
I am fluent in
the tongues of
my lost willow language.
No one can remember
what patience has done
to my
forbidden
filthy
tongue.
So let me be your kindred scribe,
let me endure the ******* eternal wrath of taming a demon such as the one that runs like the Volga river in your honeysuckle veins,
I'll die trying,---
for you.
“Ahkira, I'll set this mirror up for you--"
"Lycan, it'll skew my beauty."
Quote on quote you howled the December
lyrics & spun my name in the elements of the atmosphere &
Aurora borealis.
"I promised, didn't I?"
Etching your voice in the hollow
drums I call my
mind & skai.
It's always been there.
Eyes catching the coals of
Jupiter,
foam and lust
driving your
shadow-bitten sanity.
Hostile under the wax of the moon,
burning like matches you stumble
in my constellation.
***"i spy
lovely sleeves of poetry
raindrops slipping into weeping veins
lungs of january
& silver bucket eyes."***
You tattooed this on your arm,
Lycan.
***“It’s the moon that pulls our waters,
distance doesn’t count.”***
I tattooed this on mine.
Arching up the sky ladder
I'll climb it to show you
I'm worthy.
.
Jun 8, 2015
Jun 8, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too,
Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo,
Yea though thou fall back, that apostasy
Confirm thy love; yet much, much I fear thee.
Women are like the Arts, forced unto to none,
Open to all searchers, unprized if unknown.
If I have caught a bird, and let him fly,
Another fowler using these means, as I,
May catch the same bird; and, as these things be,
Women are made for men, not him, nor me.
Foxes and goats, all beasts, change when they please,
Shall women, more hot, wily, wild than these,
Be bound to one man, and did Nature then
Idly make tham apter t’ endure than men?
They’re our clogs, not their own; if a man be
Chained to a galley, yet the galley’s free;
Who hath a plough-land casts all his seedcorn there,
And yet allows his ground more corn should bear;
Though Danuby into the sea must flow,
The sea receives the Rhine, Volga, and Po.
By Nature, which gave it, this liberty
Thou lov’st, but Oh! canst thou love it and me?
Likeness glues love: and if that thou so do,
To make us like and love, must I change too?
More than thy hate, I hate’t; rather let me
Allow her change than change as oft as she,
And so not teach, but force my opinion
To love not any one, nor every one.
To live in one land is captivity,
To run all countries, a wild roguery;
Waters stink soon if in one place they bide,
And in the vast sea are more purified:
But when they kiss one bank, and leaving this
Never look back, but the next bank do kiss,
Then are they purest. Change is the nursery
Of music, joy, life, and eternity.
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Hourra, Hourra; élégie à notre automne chéri
Cher automne, tu es vraiment notre saison chérie,
tu portes la couleur dorée des pêches et des prunes,
avec quelques reflets des raisins de Moissac,
alors que les feuillages roux te font un tapis d’or.
Pendant que dame châtaigne crépite dans les feux.
Tu es la saison chère des amours romantiques,
et des êtres esseulés, chauffant leurs cœurs
à tes lumières tamisées, à tes tons délicats
et à tes vêtures de velours et de soie.
Automne, tu es Femme splendide qui le sait et en joue ;
de celles que dont l’on n’oublie jamais leurs chevelures rousses.
Cher automne, tu flamboies, partout où l’on te trouve,
des châtaigniers de Corse, aux eaux de la Volga.
Ta couleur préférée est le roux mordoré
avec quelques nuances de soleil flamboyant,
sans jamais oublier le marron des châtaignes.
Automne, tu es par excellence la saison d’intellectualité,
où poètes et penseurs trouvent l’inspiration,
propice à leurs créations et suscitant leurs rêves.
Tu nous tends le miroir de nos contemplations
rendant l’esprit aux vraies priorités, qui sont spirituelles.
Ton ciel devient tapisserie avant que le soir tombe,
tant soleil, nuages et lune jouent un ballet de feu.
Il reste en toi assez du bouillonnement de l’été
et des excès grandioses de la saison brûleuse,
peu à peu refroidie, par Eole qui pointe,
aux jours qui rétrécissent comme des larmes
Mais ce n’est qu’en fin d’automne que tes atours déclinent,
avec quelques journées d’une telle beauté,
que notre cœur se serre à devoir te laisser,
peu à peu t’engourdir dans ce linceul d’hiver,
d’où le printemps demain t’éveillera encor,
rêvant déjà de la venue de nouveaux beaux automnes.
Paul Arrighi
Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 12:38 PM UTC
Adios amigo
Say your last adios, amigo
We'll never hear you saying vamonous amigos
Then Adios Amigo
You picked the sun that day and we drank it all
with gas water in the big big hall
Then you bite Volga and melt the ice again
Then vamonous again from all the pain
You were a toltec a traveller of joy
vomonous vomonous life was just a big toy
You had no worries no hurries only for *****
you were so relaxed even with your chikas
Say your last adios amigo
We ll never hear you saying vamonous amigos
Adios amigo
May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 at 6:34 PM UTC
The combat in Ukraine
I have a problem; we know that Ukraine is a corrupt country
we also know it has fought a low-level war against
the Russian-speaking people in the Donbas region, so Russia
intervened, so far so good, but what is the next step?
If Russia holds on to the territory gained without having
an army station in the freed territories on a permanent basis
because Ukraine will cry foul and attack when they can.
Russia has always been a magnet for intruders because
of its potential riches and vastness.
There was a time when Yeltsin and his cronies were popular
they grabbed the state's assets and sold them down the Volga.
This was abruptly stopped, to the chagrin of the west
once more; Russia was the enemy.
I’m not partial to the Russian government’s plan, but as I see it
Russia has to occupy the whole of Ukraine and install a regime
that is permanently neutral and let Ukraine be a member
of the Russian federation.
In any case, the war must stop as thousands of young soldiers
die for the wrong reasons and the civilians are bombed senseless.
Jul 14, 2022
Jul 14, 2022 at 4:26 AM UTC