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"vulcan" poems
With regards to Thomas Sayers Ellis Look at the     Lucent lava lamps, Dark craters     Hiring hands. We walked,     Mimicking magma. Hot, why is     This heat? Forget Vulcan     And his illusion Of kaleidoscopes,     A rip tide On the shore     Of our conscious minds. We held fire,     Pretending to swim Underground,     But only out Of pure respect.     Some had boots Made with     The clippings Of funky tripwire,     Others wore suits With goggles     Clamped to their faces, Gripping like     Bay Area earthquakes. One-by-one,     Jang-strangs were Attached to us and     Hurled into the Pit With rhythmic rituals,     Waves of S and P Flailed away     Like flags. One nation     Under a new. No one looked away     From the fiery daze. No one wept.
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 2:31 PM UTC
A Psychopermarevolutionarythermalhoopdee
Breathing fire, from below, Spitting a molten soul skywards, Flinging pumice, ash, and fear, The angry Vulcan casts,   His ever darkening shadow cross, As the timely reminder , of The fragility of this existence. © Nick Strong 2014
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
Volcano
(Pompeii/Florence, 1997) Vulcan was real, alive as you were, you and your language, long dead now. Your town was prosperous, with its paved streets, bars, bath-houses, brothels, mosaics, painted walls, graffiti. Your domestic gods too were real to you; they had saved you before, and when the superhuman hammer blows shook your houses, you repaired them, decorated in greater splendour, erected a temple to your protectors. But Vulcan was not appeased - years are not long to the lord of earth and fire. This time he struck swiftly, sending you death from his mountain, overwhelming you as you ran. Your garden gave you no protection, hot fumes choked you, hot ash surrounded you, sealed in your tomb as you died. The ones who excavated your town marvelled at its completeness, and in the ash that filled your garden they found hollows. Filling the hollows with plaster, they found . . . not you, but echoes of yourselves, like statues in a museum. We came to see you, and after that to the Academy, standing in awe at David's perfect marble humanity. But we were troubled by the others, the uncompleted ones, the Prisoners, their twisted limbs, hidden faces, frozen in the act of emerging from the stone, recalling too painfully in their unfinished creation your own agonised poses as you died. *"I had seen birth and death,   but had thought they were different."* .
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Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016 at 3:02 PM UTC
Garden of the Fugitives **
god meets mystic: the swing of winter and lakes frozen over. god meets Judeo-Christian sinner whose eyes sought lead along the lake’s shore. heavy. heavy. god meets sin: a welding of metallic vines and out of tune music. god meets underwater Vulcan as he swallows a laugh. gasoline tops the lid of the lake. god meets the fire that wicks the surface until the body bubbles.
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Aug 26, 2017
Aug 26, 2017 at 1:08 PM UTC
belief
i admit to 'male' -- 'female' strikes me low curving concupiscent hips (of Venus swaying so) the one who places, caught bathing in her morph to mar her goddess innocence (Peleus grasps her so)          her evergreen paradise- apple spraying scruples, while the sun dries forgiveness **** (on Eve's fragrant ******* in other Edens Lilith simply leaves him blind to lust for unknown Didos (craving **** or suicide) the limping god nets love and war, olympicly to smith a mortal death (from Vulcan jealousy) foresight's fire-gift leaps obedience to lie far falls the divine (in ******* he defied) potent swan of sky, what judgement? for a girl you laid in that white rush, (virginity unfurled) immortal **** fates sails of progeny, raging poet-birthing strife (for temple priestess' cries) fated nation-death swoons, shares beauty's scale, and Aphrodite's foam (caresses history's thighs) Trojan tensions mix the modern mind to heights of doubt of mythopoets' truth ( -yielding blindnesses) lonely walk the earth with guiding wisdom lacking all the pawns of fate (forget love's darknesses) sphinxine hunger asks the soul of destiny of hubris, tragic sight (and orgiastic nights) of unknown woman man struck down sickly city safe and burning, yearning (nymph and satyr sating Bacchic rites)
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Jun 26, 2012
Jun 26, 2012 at 8:56 PM UTC
for the love of Eris
Blood from a stone; Vulcan, erupt. In his Ares heart, Of the Zeno soul. The battle drags on For a cause, I do not know.
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Jul 19, 2023
Jul 19, 2023 at 9:44 AM UTC
Vomitspit
Farce! False! Fantasy maybe. Even still, It’s far from fact. Fiction! I've seen more accurate depictions Of Love In abstract pictures. At least it’s fierce colors Show so form of passion Fashion! Artistic? It can be But this is trendy It'll fade as a Fad! True art is timeless Truth? It can be But this is candy Not fruit This is pop Not soul Technically it’s music Because of it’s movement But this needed no muse Only tech No chords Piano or vocal Only vocoder! Inhumane, alien maybe. But even the Vulcan Shows some form of fire   Folktale! Fog! The misleading smoke Shows no water In the vicinity Only industry The only esteem In this engine Is steam Gas. The closest thing To nothing Fodder! Deflowered. Devoured By self-expression Selfish innovators imitating life Forgetting to live it. ****
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 10:55 PM UTC
F+
Percepts of enlightenment & civilization to encounter The grim aftermath of tales unspoken from the galaxies afar Betokening Indian tales of deeper truths than ever, For the Great Spirit still swirls in gestures previously milder, At a snail's pace and surely winning the pursuit among souls or Is example better than pre-conceived precept? or “Is that a dog in the manger?” Now cherishing the viper? The human dilemma between liberty & authority? “Has mythology now become psychology?” A dingy white color in disguise of tranquility To suit the blemished features of the 21st century With fair women & brave men turning fables into verse, Yet Socrates’ doctrine about death bespeaks a wafture so callous! The new-age “iron claw” screams nastiness in time and space. The pretences of mankind like the puritan; Mars trapped in the net of Vulcan, Jupiter is serene and above the conflict to win, While Venus tries to fight upon the plains of troy That the Greek gods of serenity may win at Tuscany. “When do these sultry groans of mortal remorse cease?” To calm the sordid uproar that Love may peruse Through the scattered white aromatic rose petals In search of the scintillating path back to the highland stables Were snowflakes are an irresistible lure for the Arctic snowbirds! Nature herself is proud of her designs Yet! There is nothing grating in mortal cosmoses but direct villainy. Sinister fate climbs the lonesome banister faster Before the “fanged dawn” descends nearer, As stronger minds virtually become weaker; These “shameless actors” are melted into “thin air” “Must they cheat themselves with that same foolish vice of honesty?” Mischievousnesses feed! Like beasts till they be fat, and then they bleed As they are led to bend the curve of “No return” Since it is only rational that after the darkest of nights There is a brighter day to reveal the true knights Of the once gloomy age of Democritus. Tis plain, from hence, that our vows Request hurtful intense things, or useless at the best.
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Sep 17, 2009
Sep 17, 2009 at 5:16 AM UTC
Implacable fate
Percepts of enlightenment & civilization to encounter The grim aftermath of tales unspoken from the galaxies afar Betokening Indian tales of deeper truths than ever, For the Great Spirit still swirls in gestures previously milder, At a snail's pace and surely winning the pursuit among souls or Is example better than pre-conceived precept? or “Is that a dog in the manger?” Now cherishing the viper? The human dilemma between liberty & authority? “Has mythology now become psychology?” A dingy white color in disguise of tranquility To suit the blemished features of the 21st century With fair women & brave men turning fables into verse, Yet Socrates’ doctrine about death bespeaks a wafture so callous! The new-age “iron claw” screams nastiness in time and space. The pretences of mankind like the puritan; Mars trapped in the net of Vulcan, Jupiter is serene and above the conflict to win, While Venus tries to fight upon the plains of troy That the Greek gods of serenity may win at Tuscany. “When do these sultry groans of mortal remorse cease?” To calm the sordid uproar that Love may peruse Through the scattered white aromatic rose petals In search of the scintillating path back to the highland stables Were snowflakes are an irresistible lure for the Arctic snowbirds! Nature herself is proud of her designs Yet! There is nothing grating in mortal cosmoses but direct villainy. Sinister fate climbs the lonesome banister faster Before the “fanged dawn” descends nearer, As stronger minds virtually become weaker; These “shameless actors” are melted into “thin air” “Must they cheat themselves with that same foolish vice of honesty?” Mischievousnesses feed! Like beasts till they be fat, and then they bleed As they are led to bend the curve of “No return” Since it is only rational that after the darkest of nights There is a brighter day to reveal the true knights Of the once gloomy age of Democritus. Tis plain, from hence, that our vows Request hurtful intense things, or useless at the best.
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You found it meandering                                                                 I walked it alone. You said the Phoenix rises                                                                  I am stuck in the stone.     A common bird —       With two wings,      now                    Tinged                        That same old color of the rock burnt out                    of absence                                                       of nothing — of silence.
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Jul 12, 2025
Jul 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM UTC
Vulcan II
It started in a coffee shop Where you worked Four days a week And I knew the hours I knew it with a deep visceral longing With a terror and a joy A forbidden pleasure that sickens me And I tried very hard to let you be But you took the town over With the musk of a presence that I longed for with the whole of my being All the while, the quiet and logical part of my disrupted mind reminded me that being near you was not appropriate How I loathed that Vulcan presence But I heeded it more or less. And as you became attached to all the little places In this quiet little town I knew I had to leave in order to let my violent need die And now having lived in a far off state I sit at the SeaTac gates And the old familiar clutch of deaths bony palm on my soft intestines squeezes, and a small anxious voice whispers What if she gets out at this gate? Do you now own the whole of Alaska? If I find you move to Chicago Will I quail at O'Haire With the small chance that you're there?
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Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018 at 2:56 AM UTC
Will You Take the World?
Rustle in the leaves, tussle with the vines, afoot in the tree of life, the gutsy snake coiling, Raddled and rattled with mans sin, Divulgence to the loner who cherished the fruit, in the dusky orange red skies which brought in the adhen and from the tolling bells in the distant church , While the snake lolloped in the stark blue skies, Manipulating this oppo for the abyss. The wandering seam of the night,moon, With flickering light forbade the seance on the seemlessly never ending night, Pity the snake for another morn would rise For it will have to go to the *** ,no the pit. The ***** and cuckoo within cooee , chanted and coerced another morn out ! Following the sun like the grail, the people lounged in to the waters of the ganges. While broods of hurted children huddled in hate, hurling stones at the traitor. Hauling the renegade into the throngs, Hunnish hands assaulted him until he swooned in to the motherlands lap, Hue and cry of the avengers brought in the tripper, Heavy loads hugged on to his shoulders, In poise words he spoke, ''for every creation has its flaws, And when we batter on the withered soul, It leaves the barren man dry again, To ward off evil is like blowing into the forges of Vulcan, And only when tests and temptations are burnt in the bonfires of joy, will man be moulded into a joyous being'' Hissing whisphers from the crowd spoke, Heresy of the tripper is the hold, Hasten yourself and bring our brother medication, Hunt down the snake will we, For this vagabond has spoken in verses, Only to be filed in the trippers travelogue. Hushed up as the snake in the pit.
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May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012 at 1:19 AM UTC
the trippers travelogue
Rustle in the leaves, tussle with the vines, afoot in the tree of life, the gutsy snake coiling, Raddled and rattled with mans sin, Divulgence to the loner who cherished the fruit, in the dusky orange red skies which brought in the adhen and from the tolling bells in the distant church , While the snake lolloped in the stark blue skies, Manipulating this oppo for the abyss. The wandering seam of the night,moon, With flickering light forbade the seance on the seemlessly never ending night, Pity the snake for another morn would rise For it will have to go to the *** ,no the pit. The ***** and cuckoo within cooee , chanted and coerced another morn out ! Following the sun like the grail, the people lounged in to the waters of the ganges. While broods of hurted children huddled in hate, hurling stones at the traitor. Hauling the renegade into the throngs, Hunnish hands assaulted him until he swooned in to the motherlands lap, Hue and cry of the avengers brought in the tripper, Heavy loads hugged on to his shoulders, In poise words he spoke, ''for every creation has its flaws, And when we batter on the withered soul, It leaves the barren man dry again, To ward off evil is like blowing into the forges of Vulcan, And only when tests and temptations are burnt in the bonfires of joy, will man be moulded into a joyous being'' Hissing whisphers from the crowd spoke, Heresy of the tripper is the hold, Hasten yourself and bring our brother medication, Hunt down the snake will we, For this vagabond has spoken in verses, Only to be filed in the trippers travelogue. Hushed up as the snake in the pit.
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ares, wake your son. tell him the battle will go away if he keeps his eyes open long enough. tell him that his mind is his greatest comrade and enemy, and that he does not need to know when which is which just yet; but to trust himself enough to live with the consequence of either. ares, wake your son. tell him to find his mother within him, and not look to you and your plights as a reflection. he was born from love and war, love and war, and more time was spent in the womb of the prior; that wars have been waged for the word, and resolved by the same. ares, wake your son. remind him that, while the sun does not revolve around him, it depends on what he determines his sun to be. may he have many and learn to appreciate them equally. i am too old to keep making stars. the sky is full. ares, wake your son. press your thumb to his forehead, wrap your arm around his shoulder, he needs to know that he is cared for, though i cannot understand; who has he met that has told him otherwise? touch him only if he asks, but read his eyes- he is asking. ares, wake your son. the son of war has battled. tear him from the lip of vulcan, remind him of the mistakes of troy, teach him what these men did not have that he does. if he does not, remind him that while he is your seed, he is the nephew of athena. promise him he can learn- he can. ares, wake your son. the son of love is loved. wake him to remind him he is alive- poseidon likes to play games, and he seems to have gotten to his mind. he has not yet drowned, and he never will. ****** will bring him up with winds, it is up to him to fall or ride them. ares, wake your son. he has grieved too long over battles he has not yet fought and may never have to. ares, wake your son.
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May 10, 2015
May 10, 2015 at 7:10 PM UTC
letters from my father to yours
ares, wake your son. tell him the battle will go away if he keeps his eyes open long enough. tell him that his mind is his greatest comrade and enemy, and that he does not need to know when which is which just yet; but to trust himself enough to live with the consequence of either. ares, wake your son. tell him to find his mother within him, and not look to you and your plights as a reflection. he was born from love and war, love and war, and more time was spent in the womb of the prior; that wars have been waged for the word, and resolved by the same. ares, wake your son. remind him that, while the sun does not revolve around him, it depends on what he determines his sun to be. may he have many and learn to appreciate them equally. i am too old to keep making stars. the sky is full. ares, wake your son. press your thumb to his forehead, wrap your arm around his shoulder, he needs to know that he is cared for, though i cannot understand; who has he met that has told him otherwise? touch him only if he asks, but read his eyes- he is asking. ares, wake your son. the son of war has battled. tear him from the lip of vulcan, remind him of the mistakes of troy, teach him what these men did not have that he does. if he does not, remind him that while he is your seed, he is the nephew of athena. promise him he can learn- he can. ares, wake your son. the son of love is loved. wake him to remind him he is alive- poseidon likes to play games, and he seems to have gotten to his mind. he has not yet drowned, and he never will. ****** will bring him up with winds, it is up to him to fall or ride them. ares, wake your son. he has grieved too long over battles he has not yet fought and may never have to. ares, wake your son.
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My love, my love these shaky Isles Abandoned in the vast blue seas, Born in Mesozoic times When sedimentary oozes ease. From far Antarctic mountainsides To windblown dust from Austral plain They lay in layers thick and deep Beneath the Tasman Sea's domain. A thousand million years of ****** Of plate tectonic shear and drift, Mid oceanic larva seep Determines continental shift. Deep magmatic plumes arise From down within the planet's core To burst asunder from the crust As mountain God's volcanic lore. Ash and larva from the vent In pyroclastic feirce display, Obliterate the cold blue sky Explosively in massive way. Rooster tails of feiry ash And bread crust bombs cascade about Vulcan roars his rage to all In violent, vast, volcanic route. Ignimbrite flows from the vent In sheets a hundred meters deep The incandescence, from on high, Would, watching Angels, cause to weep. Like quicksilver, it cloaks the land To cover all in burning flow, To last a million years as sheets Of sharded rock where 'ere you go. So the land was born of fire And bent and twisted by the force Of upthrust from the great, beneath And earthquakes felt throughout, of course. Earthquakes of unearthly fear Wrack foundation's very base, Sudden as the artic gale Unpredictable to face. So the shaky Isles were born Here to lie in ocean's vast, Clad in forest lush and green Snowclad mountains, rivers fast. Well kept cities, well kept towns Population proud and clean, Beauty all around is felt Perched atop creation's dream. So the Shaky Isles exist Perfect in their place in time, Perched atop subducting plates Perched in ignorance sublime. What's around the corner now? Who's concerned, who really cares For Kiwis make the best of now... The rest remains as chance declares. Marshalg Celebrating a love affair with my beautiful New Zealand. 31 August 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
Aug 30, 2012 at 9:32 PM UTC
My Shaky Isles.
My love, my love these shaky Isles Abandoned in the vast blue seas, Born in Mesozoic times When sedimentary oozes ease. From far Antarctic mountainsides To windblown dust from Austral plain They lay in layers thick and deep Beneath the Tasman Sea's domain. A thousand million years of ****** Of plate tectonic shear and drift, Mid oceanic larva seep Determines continental shift. Deep magmatic plumes arise From down within the planet's core To burst asunder from the crust As mountain God's volcanic lore. Ash and larva from the vent In pyroclastic feirce display, Obliterate the cold blue sky Explosively in massive way. Rooster tails of feiry ash And bread crust bombs cascade about Vulcan roars his rage to all In violent, vast, volcanic route. Ignimbrite flows from the vent In sheets a hundred meters deep The incandescence, from on high, Would, watching Angels, cause to weep. Like quicksilver, it cloaks the land To cover all in burning flow, To last a million years as sheets Of sharded rock where 'ere you go. So the land was born of fire And bent and twisted by the force Of upthrust from the great, beneath And earthquakes felt throughout, of course. Earthquakes of unearthly fear Wrack foundation's very base, Sudden as the artic gale Unpredictable to face. So the shaky Isles were born Here to lie in ocean's vast, Clad in forest lush and green Snowclad mountains, rivers fast. Well kept cities, well kept towns Population proud and clean, Beauty all around is felt Perched atop creation's dream. So the Shaky Isles exist Perfect in their place in time, Perched atop subducting plates Perched in ignorance sublime. What's around the corner now? Who's concerned, who really cares For Kiwis make the best of now... The rest remains as chance declares. Marshalg Celebrating a love affair with my beautiful New Zealand. 31 August 2012
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a lone something in the sky flies near, just by mischance dazed by the smog, bowing and diving downward into the parting, cracking, quaking bellowing of tar from the firy, sputtering lungs of these alps eons worth of cries released in mere mouth-ajar gasps of the earth diverging and converging into the debt of always running clean, running me always downward, as in the deep deep tessellations of rock I become. too still for my own good, I guess – another voice on the ash-flow tuffs of breath to fill the mosaic of sinewy stripe-patterned goodbye and bygone plating into the deep, deep, deeper caverns of the unseen sea slipping off the mantle, an accident with intention, as an echo caving downward into   nothing, nothing, more nothing polluting the depths from the palisades, scripture rupturing lowshore into surrounding tissues like igneous stone dreams of clinks ringing, of noise a voice on the ash-flow tuffs in the always running-clean water the purity of which I intercept, the clear-ness of it; a sinners window. through what's left, I see the clam another mouth for and of the sea unseen, the pearl as unsoiled as ever
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Nov 4, 2021
Nov 4, 2021 at 5:19 PM UTC
Vulcan
Rua Dearg, Rua, roselet, Gruaige na fíniúna agus scarlet Fíonchaora, drown me i do deoch As liopaí, fíona, Ruby, flesh an paisean Torthaí agus adharc de neart, Earthen meirge de pebbled cré Tarraing mé mar uisce seeping Isteach uiscígh ársa, ualaithe, i bhfolach Faoi vastness Sahára Sands. Tá mé scamall de aisling Drifting, itching, edging chomh maith do chothromú Hills. Do ******* sruthán mé mar gaile, Tá do chluasa le haghaidh doves neadaithe Agus do shúile, tá an spéir ag fanacht, cogaíochta Le farraige, le haghaidh a dath, Is é an ghrian wandering strainséir Mar a thiteann sé, dar críoch gach lá, faded Mar an fathach gásach de Antares faint, Eclipsed ag do heavenly Foirm, do lasair Vulcan An tsolais.
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM UTC
Rua ( Red )
surrounding us: a billion stars in a time when a trip to mars is like walking around the block and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive. we’re beaming to a planet’s surface. now listen: i know about inverse tachyon beams i know about coded klingon screams i know about going to warp factor eight i know about redshirts' survival rate. (no. chance.) i’m beaming down with the main crew to the surface of minerva II we've got a malfunctioning interstellar transceiver which is distressing-- dysgraphing? dismantling… …i don't know. scotty said it was defective. so we’re on this planet, standing on one side of a thick forest packed with monster janeks, starfleet says we need to fix this thing yesterday, and we’re in a panic— and **** it, mccoy is a doctor, not a lumberjack, and kirk says we should just burn through the middle with phasers, and spock says we must preserve respect for all life forms no matter the situation. now please remember kirk’s the captain. that means he runs this show but kirk always listens to spock, so we spend two days walking through the forest. surrounding us: a billion trees in a place where a strange disease is rare as feathers in a flock and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive. halfway through this dark-lit trip things go wrong (obviously) and an alien with shellac for skin captures the captain. said alien grabs a vine, ascends into the canopy of the trees, and for one glorious moment i believe kirk’s the dead guy in this episode, not me! but spock, in his calm and logical vulcan voice, orders us to exercise any necessary force to recover the captain. translation: **** EVERYTHING. JUST GET KIRK BACK. we reach the janek village. being a good redshirt, i rush in, phaser blasting, ready to complete the heroic rescue of our captain— and get killed instantly. as i was dying, i heard the sound of thousands of janeks dying beside me saw spock help kirk off the ground and the last words I heard were theirs: “captain, are you in need of immediate medical attention?” “nah, spock, i’m fine—” “mr. scott. the captain is hurt. beam us aboard immediately.” one’s arm over the other’s shoulders, they vanished. surrounding them: a billion stars in a time when a trip to mars is like walking around the block and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive— but the prime directive was never the real objective.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 10:30 PM UTC
a redshirt's perspective on the prime directive
surrounding us: a billion stars in a time when a trip to mars is like walking around the block and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive. we’re beaming to a planet’s surface. now listen: i know about inverse tachyon beams i know about coded klingon screams i know about going to warp factor eight i know about redshirts' survival rate. (no. chance.) i’m beaming down with the main crew to the surface of minerva II we've got a malfunctioning interstellar transceiver which is distressing-- dysgraphing? dismantling… …i don't know. scotty said it was defective. so we’re on this planet, standing on one side of a thick forest packed with monster janeks, starfleet says we need to fix this thing yesterday, and we’re in a panic— and **** it, mccoy is a doctor, not a lumberjack, and kirk says we should just burn through the middle with phasers, and spock says we must preserve respect for all life forms no matter the situation. now please remember kirk’s the captain. that means he runs this show but kirk always listens to spock, so we spend two days walking through the forest. surrounding us: a billion trees in a place where a strange disease is rare as feathers in a flock and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive. halfway through this dark-lit trip things go wrong (obviously) and an alien with shellac for skin captures the captain. said alien grabs a vine, ascends into the canopy of the trees, and for one glorious moment i believe kirk’s the dead guy in this episode, not me! but spock, in his calm and logical vulcan voice, orders us to exercise any necessary force to recover the captain. translation: **** EVERYTHING. JUST GET KIRK BACK. we reach the janek village. being a good redshirt, i rush in, phaser blasting, ready to complete the heroic rescue of our captain— and get killed instantly. as i was dying, i heard the sound of thousands of janeks dying beside me saw spock help kirk off the ground and the last words I heard were theirs: “captain, are you in need of immediate medical attention?” “nah, spock, i’m fine—” “mr. scott. the captain is hurt. beam us aboard immediately.” one’s arm over the other’s shoulders, they vanished. surrounding them: a billion stars in a time when a trip to mars is like walking around the block and captain kirk and mister spock are arguing about the prime directive— but the prime directive was never the real objective.
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fare thee well oh my good ol' hawai chappal! thy sole is free now to roam worlds unknown unfettered at last from feet and straps and strings unseen... don't let your gait slacken in fear of some fearsome vulcan do'nt baulk at the spectre of, in his cauldron, giving up your sulphur for you may yet be reborn in an avatar as yet unknown. a glove, a doll or an eraser a ****** a cap or something baser. for you, i shed a silent tear so loyally did you serve me, my dear!
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Apr 24, 2012
Apr 24, 2012 at 8:58 AM UTC
elegy to my hawai chappal
Arcane rumblings bellow out from the infrastructure. The secrets swell out from the wealthy infidels. Their water has broken. The top-hat henchmen gather their whiskers. Stuttering shock and leaking their whispers, vulcan-loud. The wise old casualties know all of what’s to come, so they pack their sacks with their old guns to fortify their army of one. The news skips the billions of ignorant families condemning daughters and sons to an army of none. The first bullets abandon their barrels, the kick-off to pain, from poise. Eager to byte flesh, fur, faith, eager to make some godawful noise. The following blasts are a metallic symphony Quickly looming, swooning, booming into cacophony in shrill-major. Blood spatters pavement, under marching feet, is dragged, looped about the streets in a homicide calligraphy, paralyzing the squinting mercenaries. Out come the canons, dancing on their wheels, silencing the gunfire, spinning on their heels, dissenting the sonata with rifle-explosion accompaniment. Warrior sighs greet the late auxiliary: armadas sing in baritone while civilians scream soprano. Children cry in alto. Blood flows in legato. Today some of us will die so that the rest will open their eyes to an oversky, cloud-bloated with lies. While down below we blaze away our requiem. And by the hand of this same melody we die. Here lies humanity, fashioning, always, a bellicose smile.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 10:55 AM UTC
The Last Movement
Venus was back to her wicked tricks; I never planned for the way you stole the breath from my lungs, but kept me begging for more. Or what about the beauty in your words? The Goddess of love and beauty could never compare to the way you once made me feel. I bet Zeus had never thrown a lightening bolt as shocking as the way it felt when you first held my hand. I bet every lover he ever had never quite made him feel as complete as you could make me feel. But there you were, and like Hephaestus you built me a stable castle for every pulse of my heart. I never felt so safe in such a small room, but now the walls close in and even Vulcan's fire can't match the heat from your embrace. You were also Mercury, and your quick feet made me trip far faster than I should have. I just wanted to keep up, but our messages must have been left behind and now Cupid's arrows don't quite work like they did when we were young. I felt like Tantalus when you let the vulture of your mind rip apart my stomach and leave me in sections on the rug. You were the food held just out of my reach and you were the waters I drowned deeper and deeper into, day in and day out.
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM UTC
Mythology
Lovely skies Dark with clouds and rain Leaden skies Lead, Pb, Plumbum Flat diffuse light, photographer's dream Latin 4 lead = plumbum We plumb our psychic oceans' depths, as the sailors did With lead on their sinker lines We plumb our depths if we choose When we are earnestly explorative Reflecting, meditating, in our psychic plumbing Pb: the ugly duckling brother of glowing gold Au of the aura Aurum Both are soft, malleable, unassailable, & so helpful Gold like Thor the glowing hero, lead like Vulcan the sooty artificer We have made one the hero, and misused, Demonized, besmirched the metal lead Is it lead's fault we have put it in our paint, our gas? That we made it accumulate in our fish, like fools? Without lead, your car would not start Imagine going on your trips on a mule Or trundling down the road in an ox cart Do not denounce lovely lead Gravid, protector, quiet engine starter Gently available to you to plumb your depths Before your chapter's demise Leaden skies Lovely skies Gravid with rain Keep me grounded, serene and sane
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 2:52 PM UTC
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Rua Dearg, Rua, roselet, Gruaige na fíniúna agus scarlet Fíonchaora, drown me i do deoch As liopaí, fíona, Ruby, flesh an paisean Torthaí agus adharc de neart, Earthen meirge de pebbled cré Tarraing mé mar uisce seeping Isteach uiscígh ársa, ualaithe, i bhfolach Faoi vastness Sahára Sands. Tá mé scamall de aisling Drifting, itching, edging chomh maith do chothromú Hills. Do ******* sruthán mé mar gaile, Tá do chluasa le haghaidh doves neadaithe Agus do shúile, tá an spéir ag fanacht, cogaíochta Le farraige, le haghaidh a dath, Is é an ghrian wandering strainséir Mar a thiteann sé, dar críoch gach lá, faded Mar an fathach gásach de Antares faint, Eclipsed ag do heavenly Foirm, do lasair Vulcan An tsolais.
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Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013 at 12:58 PM UTC
Rua ( Red )
Your room, clouded with cigarette smoke, Old pizza, leftovers, and last night's **** Whiskey and beer had stained your white rug, I'll never comprehend why you looked so smug. I didn't do anything to deserve your fist, Your open hand, your rage, your Vulcan grip. I begged you to stop, I pleaded for release, But your hand was tight, 'til we called the police. You resisted arrest and claimed you were sober, Mom cried and sobbed, I only could hold her. There was no fixing what you had done, You beat me and bruised me and emptied my lungs. Everyone told me I did nothing wrong, But the nightmares shook me like a gong. They kept me awake 'til the break of dawn, I'll never know what brought this on. Your mind has changed since you bumped your head, And the brother I once had is dead.
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 11:11 PM UTC
You Bumped Your Head
I'm not religious. I'm not even spiritual. I'm just a cold, soft Vulcan. The system of the down has isolated me here to think, which is what a Vulcan does all the time. It's really pointless. It is desert, hot and cold served in deprivation, meditation, and solitude. The system has been doing this for eons. It's called increasing systemic risk when stressed. I make a cognitive chunk for you to cogitate over coffee. Picture this. Wandering Boy Scouts (BS) in their pickup trucks, helpful, strong, vicious when aimless, efficiently cruel, mechanized abattoir makers mass pit diggers, merit badge takers. Smell the BS. It all goes into baking gooey brownie BS, repugnantly pungent, and redolent of sweet burning flesh. Stressed, the down system spits BS out randomly to nucleate, and procreate if possible. Breeding a new Brand, with Cult leader Classes and all the -isms. Visionaries with their caries; Pushers with agendas hidden; Leaders steadfast in conviction, taking a nation, against all odds, in Battling Bulges, ****** lines hidden within clean, pleated leather skirts that still reveal penciled seams up straight shaved bare legs. This is how the system shakes itself; auto ****** asphyxiation. Vulcan's never shake the bars of their cells because there's no barring except Great Walls forbidding, with a wink, killing each other. To be thy Greek brother's keeper, is to cut not that brother man, but the other brother man down with BS fervor and S&M; madness, before bondaging his wounds in mummified State, taped shut with a healing kiss. To have dominion over the animals means a bludgeoned pleasure, or transplanted desire. Dominion to exploit blunted, unconditional, emotional resources, until the system gels again, vaginally or astrolly whole.
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Aug 9, 2013
Aug 9, 2013 at 11:11 PM UTC
Vulcan system
I'm not religious. I'm not even spiritual. I'm just a cold, soft Vulcan. The system of the down has isolated me here to think, which is what a Vulcan does all the time. It's really pointless. It is desert, hot and cold served in deprivation, meditation, and solitude. The system has been doing this for eons. It's called increasing systemic risk when stressed. I make a cognitive chunk for you to cogitate over coffee. Picture this. Wandering Boy Scouts (BS) in their pickup trucks, helpful, strong, vicious when aimless, efficiently cruel, mechanized abattoir makers mass pit diggers, merit badge takers. Smell the BS. It all goes into baking gooey brownie BS, repugnantly pungent, and redolent of sweet burning flesh. Stressed, the down system spits BS out randomly to nucleate, and procreate if possible. Breeding a new Brand, with Cult leader Classes and all the -isms. Visionaries with their caries; Pushers with agendas hidden; Leaders steadfast in conviction, taking a nation, against all odds, in Battling Bulges, ****** lines hidden within clean, pleated leather skirts that still reveal penciled seams up straight shaved bare legs. This is how the system shakes itself; auto ****** asphyxiation. Vulcan's never shake the bars of their cells because there's no barring except Great Walls forbidding, with a wink, killing each other. To be thy Greek brother's keeper, is to cut not that brother man, but the other brother man down with BS fervor and S&M; madness, before bondaging his wounds in mummified State, taped shut with a healing kiss. To have dominion over the animals means a bludgeoned pleasure, or transplanted desire. Dominion to exploit blunted, unconditional, emotional resources, until the system gels again, vaginally or astrolly whole.
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