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"waned" poems
~.~.~.~ floating on the breeze swirling in a swoon laments in blue and purple are the petals of the moon waned a crescent of a flower waxed to cabbage rose now the tight held tithes sift down in airy floes lying in the grass of a dark wide-open field sweet swanning petals find me moon's offerings revealed i inhale their fragrance their light sweet perfume they cover me with kisses the petals of the moon
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Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 8:54 AM UTC
petals of the moon
she was the moon radiating the night sky and dancing among the stars you were the darkness the shadow that waxed and waned through the phases of her life she grew to believe that your presence is what made her whole but like the full moon she shone brightest without you x.
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 9:40 PM UTC
moonlight lover
Something caught me off guard, that hot day, an unexpected thunder roared its presence, violent...continuously rose in volume... the throbbing...the thumping...the pounding intensified...while swarms of red and pink fragments simultaneously emerged, and skillfully created arcs...becoming orbs, multiplying, spreading...merging...then shaping into rounds, like atoms...combining, revealing...bearing a scary realization... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: suddenly, arms and hands felt cold, thunder softened...waned...arcs and orbs stilled, chest started to rise and fall, peacefully.......yet, here i am, anticipating a next time...when thunder roars anew... Sally © Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan    June 19, 2018
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Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 6:22 AM UTC
When Thunder Roars
I’m never ***** anymore  I used to drip onto the floor Libido was higher, more, my core. But I suppose, no, it was not. Because it waned  Yet  I remained. Yet I miss being effortlessly wet. I know, I know It’s in my head.  But maybe mostly it’s the bed? Say, what’s different about my bedding? Is it that I had a wedding? And now, Linens my sister gifted my ring and I Sacrificed Sprawled beneath some other guy Another lover Oh! dear, I’ve blown my cover. Oh poor dear, my mother. I'm a disgrace, A divorce, at my age? So, is that what stole my soak? You know, you shouldn't marry a man, You don't really know. Is that what dried my dripping ***** A quick **** From a new husband, Who wouldn't hear no. No. It couldn’t be. Far too simple for my psyche
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Jun 22, 2019
Jun 22, 2019 at 7:38 PM UTC
Gifted Linens
Samhain's Eve With Friends The Lady's light is ripe and full and orange so heavy the sky can scarce bear her up as I tread slowly tap tap my staff clicks my feet in their hurry crush sweet maple and acrid fir underfoot and the early evening mist grasps at bare tree limbs like heart broken suiters It's an early celabration Samhain Eve No Matter tis me alone and of course The Lady Slowly I find my stone grove and rest a bit ... price of a Crone No musicians tonight Ah the tape will do well enough No Sisters tonight too far to come obligations trick or treat ... No Matter Circle swept and Caste,Quarters called next all in turn music soft but building insence sweet shrouds me Fire my element crackles and spits with blessed heat Time to steppe the Circle This Dance I know so well This Dance I have taught and danced and dreamt it always Eyes Closed Cleansing Breathe Bells on wrist and ankles chime Now swaying stepping Luna's great course across the sky once this way next reverse slowly gently all recedes there is nothing now but me and She She Morghanna Isis Gaia Mother Maiden Crone My Lady The flute is faint and hard to hear now but the drum is strong heartbeat strong slow and deep suddenly there are voices far yet whysper close so soft full of laughter and secrets ..ghostly hands Sisters past, lost to me and spirits new entwine with mine and voices long forgotten soar So Sweet and my feet so clumsy and slow seem to fly and I hear the flute in the chime of Her laughter She Has Come Welcome My Lady I hear nothing now but the drum and the rush of the wind through my hair The Drum The Sisters The Fire and My Lady Suddenly my step slows no longer is it sure aware of the stones beaneath and my hand blest but a moment ago now feels the loss of my Sisters grasp but we are never far from one another no matter the side of the veil I tire and stop the night has waned the tape has stopped..when I cant recall Never Mind Close the quarters with thanks Sever the Circle Douse the smudge and Thank The Lady for a Samhain's Eve , with friends Solita Arcanes ShadoeWalker 31/10/10
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Jan 23, 2011
Jan 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM UTC
A Samhain Night With Friends
Samhain's Eve With Friends The Lady's light is ripe and full and orange so heavy the sky can scarce bear her up as I tread slowly tap tap my staff clicks my feet in their hurry crush sweet maple and acrid fir underfoot and the early evening mist grasps at bare tree limbs like heart broken suiters It's an early celabration Samhain Eve No Matter tis me alone and of course The Lady Slowly I find my stone grove and rest a bit ... price of a Crone No musicians tonight Ah the tape will do well enough No Sisters tonight too far to come obligations trick or treat ... No Matter Circle swept and Caste,Quarters called next all in turn music soft but building insence sweet shrouds me Fire my element crackles and spits with blessed heat Time to steppe the Circle This Dance I know so well This Dance I have taught and danced and dreamt it always Eyes Closed Cleansing Breathe Bells on wrist and ankles chime Now swaying stepping Luna's great course across the sky once this way next reverse slowly gently all recedes there is nothing now but me and She She Morghanna Isis Gaia Mother Maiden Crone My Lady The flute is faint and hard to hear now but the drum is strong heartbeat strong slow and deep suddenly there are voices far yet whysper close so soft full of laughter and secrets ..ghostly hands Sisters past, lost to me and spirits new entwine with mine and voices long forgotten soar So Sweet and my feet so clumsy and slow seem to fly and I hear the flute in the chime of Her laughter She Has Come Welcome My Lady I hear nothing now but the drum and the rush of the wind through my hair The Drum The Sisters The Fire and My Lady Suddenly my step slows no longer is it sure aware of the stones beaneath and my hand blest but a moment ago now feels the loss of my Sisters grasp but we are never far from one another no matter the side of the veil I tire and stop the night has waned the tape has stopped..when I cant recall Never Mind Close the quarters with thanks Sever the Circle Douse the smudge and Thank The Lady for a Samhain's Eve , with friends Solita Arcanes ShadoeWalker 31/10/10
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In the Still of the Night On the Top of the hill As we Lie looking at the Sky Awaiting a Comet to Pass By My Mother told me a Tale Back when Magic Waned And the Machine age began With sorrow for its passing The last of the Elves set off for afar Left for the sky, on the Elven Star Machines had robbed the Minerals And smoke destroyed the Herbs And Poisons had ruined the Water Precious Elements from Sacred Fire No Longer Helped them heal the Earth The night they left the legend says... A Bright comet passed, By in the Sky The Elven Ships Journey  on a Magic Tail Leaving behind a Golden Age Now Pale The Elven ship returns at 75 years to pass By And this is our Only chance to see Elves in the Sky...JMF 3/10/2015
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 5:05 AM UTC
~~The Elven Star~~
The excitement of holiday has waned & suddenly I am on the playground again. I am thankful for my gifts, but they are not enough. I stand at the corner watching all of my friends. Everyone has seen my toys. They are not impressed, no matter how much I love them. No matter how much I love them. Laughter & affection, like Ring Around the Rosie. Another game I am not really a part of. I observe. I see desire on the lips of every child. The way their fingers itch to play with my friends. They glance back from time to time, and a smile I’ve learned to force from the pit and pain of my stomach leaves them satisfied. They carry on playing their games that I don’t really understand the rules of. I’m fine. I am angry. Someone speaks to me. I’ve learned to lie. Even my stories are pathetic. Tales that claw at the base of my brain like the tears kept caged in my throat. No one wants to see me sad. No one wants to see me. I impress no one with my hand-me-down genes. Even I grow tired of them. My blessings are robust but that is not enough for friends. I am not picked. They all wear rings and play house, and in my head I entertain dead things. I better not tell them that. It’s not that we don’t like the same things, they just don’t like me. Can I hear them snickering? They won’t say no but they won’t sleep over. I am the joke when I have no games to play. If I could disappear, maybe then I’d have friends. Don’t they love to watch me go? On this playground full of girls & boys, lingers the stench of envy & top shelf rivalry. My artifacts & ancient dolls, the historic volumes I collect, treasures only precious to me. Let me hide away with these while they show off their shiny things. Perhaps in class I’ll find a friend. Someone with whom to share & offend. To play games no one else understands. Finally. So I wait for that sweet release, A ground on which they can’t compete. A friend to which I am their toy, whom they proudly show to every girl & boy. It is a playground still, it seems. They don’t even know they’re being mean. I just want someone to like me. I’m still waiting for that bell to ring. "Playground" 2/13/04
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 1:28 AM UTC
Playground
The excitement of holiday has waned & suddenly I am on the playground again. I am thankful for my gifts, but they are not enough. I stand at the corner watching all of my friends. Everyone has seen my toys. They are not impressed, no matter how much I love them. No matter how much I love them. Laughter & affection, like Ring Around the Rosie. Another game I am not really a part of. I observe. I see desire on the lips of every child. The way their fingers itch to play with my friends. They glance back from time to time, and a smile I’ve learned to force from the pit and pain of my stomach leaves them satisfied. They carry on playing their games that I don’t really understand the rules of. I’m fine. I am angry. Someone speaks to me. I’ve learned to lie. Even my stories are pathetic. Tales that claw at the base of my brain like the tears kept caged in my throat. No one wants to see me sad. No one wants to see me. I impress no one with my hand-me-down genes. Even I grow tired of them. My blessings are robust but that is not enough for friends. I am not picked. They all wear rings and play house, and in my head I entertain dead things. I better not tell them that. It’s not that we don’t like the same things, they just don’t like me. Can I hear them snickering? They won’t say no but they won’t sleep over. I am the joke when I have no games to play. If I could disappear, maybe then I’d have friends. Don’t they love to watch me go? On this playground full of girls & boys, lingers the stench of envy & top shelf rivalry. My artifacts & ancient dolls, the historic volumes I collect, treasures only precious to me. Let me hide away with these while they show off their shiny things. Perhaps in class I’ll find a friend. Someone with whom to share & offend. To play games no one else understands. Finally. So I wait for that sweet release, A ground on which they can’t compete. A friend to which I am their toy, whom they proudly show to every girl & boy. It is a playground still, it seems. They don’t even know they’re being mean. I just want someone to like me. I’m still waiting for that bell to ring. "Playground" 2/13/04
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I've looked at my own palms And seen the lines of this life fading Fire, water, earth All getting swallowed by the air I've turned to love for grace But she spat sympathies unholy Success is but a sunset When there's no soul with it to share I've fallen to the ground and begged The moon to give me courage Yet that mystic orb just waned And left me naked like a child I've searched the maze for truth Ground my teeth upon the logic But once I left the cave for light My place was lost among the wild
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 2:21 PM UTC
Success is but a Sunrise
His words stitched like rail road ties through sentiment and simile. His fingers like slaves to emotions in his brain. The hum of his instrument, so rich and so right. Constructing soundtracks to stories about what it means to be alive. Tapping beats from the back of his thigh, bop-bop, doo-woop. Turning feeling into vibrations that shake the walls of the bus station. What change he got shaking like a tambourine inside his cardigan pocket. The gold trim on his six string shines like a locket under bright orange lights. I called him the Musician. his mother called him Bentley. his father never called, the streets called him crazy. His audience passing cars. Cigarette butts and trashed plastics. The Musician waxed and waned as the world kept on passing.
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 12:55 AM UTC
The Musician
I was told about the goodness of men, Their valour, fortitude and chivalry Riding in on gleaming horseback. They would lead poorer souls into battle, Liberate distressed ladies from gilded cages And stave away the beasts of sin. When I heard these marvelous tales A fierce hunger awoke within me. I began to search for an ivory tower To lock myself in That a man so great might come to find me. I thought that I had met such a man His armour resplendent, His smile easy and compliments quick. He led me forth with promises of fortune. He presented me with crimson roses, And oft he sang to me in sweet voice. I was satiated, my hunger quelled With what I thought to be a golden hero. But as the roses waned and his voice wilted, I found that he had faults and secrets like any other- That his bravery was bruised with cowardice. In fact, he was absolutely ordinary, And as God-fearing as the rest of us.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 9:14 PM UTC
Valour
Clever minds that stretch The many elements which live as our backdrop Too often everyday is spoiled By unnecessary people, gathering ammunition For climbing invisible platforms of command These are cast aside by simple smiles and welcomes And it was. Even if the task was invisible to me at first My soul felt at home amongst these new work mates My responsible position was underwritten Given gravitas and a freedom to which I wasn't quite used The time was charged with familiar but different It was fraught but strangely healthier in paradox The honest fight was taken with gestures of family proportion Success had waned but the unity of 'knowing' was the strength That continued to support that Company In spite of the turmoil my personal facets were given air To run and to adjust, to temper and to manage Poor communication was completely disastrous The confusion of three currencies And the balance of understanding left us guessing Never mind agreement or translation Through all this, looking back my heart is lifted Not by the freedom or the ability to achieve ...mostly, It is the strength from our leader, That calm, silver haired man When many were distraught you kept us going And fed us with hope and built our confidence, Not always with the obvious But gave us the ability to win through by believing , Believing in us and building back our motivation and teasing out The raw infrastructure of our true capabilities Never before has anyone, apart from my Mother Believed in me as you did. To tackle the toughest of tasks Anything that the industry, the public or our customers Could throw at us, we dealt with it. Sadly you could do nothing at the final demise but take the role Of a father giving news of an aged relative sadly moved by A force greater than yourself I know had you the influence, the power and the funding............ You were always more than a boss Chris Your transparent enthusiasm raised our spirits And in times of worry I hope we lifted yours too. I think of you often, thank you for being a friend After we were no longer professionally connected. I see your generous smile and your warm handshake I can hear your laugh now It's always a treat to catch up over a beer. I now find you in my phone, in my photographs But mostly in my heart for being a great bloke You taught me so much. Speak soon, with love, Max
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM UTC
Living with Gretag
Clever minds that stretch The many elements which live as our backdrop Too often everyday is spoiled By unnecessary people, gathering ammunition For climbing invisible platforms of command These are cast aside by simple smiles and welcomes And it was. Even if the task was invisible to me at first My soul felt at home amongst these new work mates My responsible position was underwritten Given gravitas and a freedom to which I wasn't quite used The time was charged with familiar but different It was fraught but strangely healthier in paradox The honest fight was taken with gestures of family proportion Success had waned but the unity of 'knowing' was the strength That continued to support that Company In spite of the turmoil my personal facets were given air To run and to adjust, to temper and to manage Poor communication was completely disastrous The confusion of three currencies And the balance of understanding left us guessing Never mind agreement or translation Through all this, looking back my heart is lifted Not by the freedom or the ability to achieve ...mostly, It is the strength from our leader, That calm, silver haired man When many were distraught you kept us going And fed us with hope and built our confidence, Not always with the obvious But gave us the ability to win through by believing , Believing in us and building back our motivation and teasing out The raw infrastructure of our true capabilities Never before has anyone, apart from my Mother Believed in me as you did. To tackle the toughest of tasks Anything that the industry, the public or our customers Could throw at us, we dealt with it. Sadly you could do nothing at the final demise but take the role Of a father giving news of an aged relative sadly moved by A force greater than yourself I know had you the influence, the power and the funding............ You were always more than a boss Chris Your transparent enthusiasm raised our spirits And in times of worry I hope we lifted yours too. I think of you often, thank you for being a friend After we were no longer professionally connected. I see your generous smile and your warm handshake I can hear your laugh now It's always a treat to catch up over a beer. I now find you in my phone, in my photographs But mostly in my heart for being a great bloke You taught me so much. Speak soon, with love, Max
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Would you? Would you report this poem if I made a connection? With a foul mouth rough inspection. Cause we all got that person we would fuck'in connect with! Then that person we would **** and connect with! Then if they break the connection, we take our fist or the nearest object to break their neck with. **** Curse words that's got so many uses. You can say **** and mean so much. To come out in anger or love once you got that passion. What about when you get hurt? Ass'ed out? Then yuh like "dam I'm ****** I just waned to let out a little, not trying to be belittled, but I know there's someone out there to connect with
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Jun 10, 2015
Jun 10, 2015 at 2:18 AM UTC
Would You Report This Poem If I Made A Connection ?
People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 8:34 AM UTC
Boots and Shoes
People of peace walk gently People of strength never be stilled Abundance awaits those with courage RW Dennen- Stay out of Iraq the spirits pleaded... Eyes wide opened, boots and shoes lined up in order in almost perfect straight lines in Philadelphia July 2005 Symbolic death shoes of civilians out of synchronization in a war of soldiers Under a small tree meticulously placed we're children's shoes in a perfect solid circle I read o months of age on tags I read 8 years old on tags I read 12 years old on tags And on and on the children's lists grew, as wisdom must have waned and common decency was once cherished These shoes and boots sadly became the dimishment of human beings, horizontal and vertical rectangular snapshots of once smiling faces all in the name of war, they vanished all too soon And I saw running tears and tears being held back and I felt lumpy throat feelings in unison with the rest but in cemetery silence Touching deep feelings so overwhelming is to touch a false bent flower and flowers and pictures of deceased soldiers and civilians and letters once presented at doorways throughout America America cried its sadness and disbelief, the vanished breathers of life giving air, Our sons, our daughters, Our mothers, our fathers, Our sisters, our brothers, Our relatives, Our close friends, All perished, like a vampire that ***** away the life blood of the once innocent I noticed mostly tourists coming in droves from Market Street towards us volunteers who were located adjacent to the visitor's center side entrance as silence like before still prevailed And like before the atmosphere prevailed even stronger as these boots and shoes became tombstones And tender hearts became tombstones broken into small pieces Passions never changed into loud speech And the green turf rolled down towards the sidewalk like a green carpet holding all those boots and shoes like a quilt interwoven with boot and civilian shoe memories about days that should never happen again...
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I am afraid to be afraid too afraid         to be still but still healing still afraid to open all my heavy doors that         he has seen too much unkempt skin                  that I am afraid of him that we are broken that he was always broken but we are nothing          but bandaged apricots in the rotting August sun and he is afraid we have too much or not enough time          afraid of us afraid of me afraid to speak but he                  breathes hot scorpion-kissed lullabies into my neck into scarlet corners of my pituitary          poisons all my wearied nerves I used to call him master used to master our loose laundry I         refused to fold used to master our loose smiles                  in front of people I refused to fold for I used to accept his virulent apologies after business trips         I used to be afraid of him he used to be afraid of my amphibian temper afraid of how I         waxed and waned through tempestuous waters afraid                 that he was always drowning I am afraid of the dark blue ghosts their red         angry heat I am afraid to eat cartridged bullets of my own words silver gunpowdered         shrapnels if I eat them all lead like you would seep into the insides of my abdomen my insides are unreachable have a little         too much sunshine to carry along when spring arrives I am scared because the light         comes in with brilliant blazing eyes                and sees everything                             October 8, 2014 7:04 AM
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Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014 at 5:09 AM UTC
Shame
I am afraid to be afraid too afraid         to be still but still healing still afraid to open all my heavy doors that         he has seen too much unkempt skin                  that I am afraid of him that we are broken that he was always broken but we are nothing          but bandaged apricots in the rotting August sun and he is afraid we have too much or not enough time          afraid of us afraid of me afraid to speak but he                  breathes hot scorpion-kissed lullabies into my neck into scarlet corners of my pituitary          poisons all my wearied nerves I used to call him master used to master our loose laundry I         refused to fold used to master our loose smiles                  in front of people I refused to fold for I used to accept his virulent apologies after business trips         I used to be afraid of him he used to be afraid of my amphibian temper afraid of how I         waxed and waned through tempestuous waters afraid                 that he was always drowning I am afraid of the dark blue ghosts their red         angry heat I am afraid to eat cartridged bullets of my own words silver gunpowdered         shrapnels if I eat them all lead like you would seep into the insides of my abdomen my insides are unreachable have a little         too much sunshine to carry along when spring arrives I am scared because the light         comes in with brilliant blazing eyes                and sees everything                             October 8, 2014 7:04 AM
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Christmas died with Santa Clause when I reached a certain age. The magic revealed as scam, the wonder now an act maintained for the sake of form. This descended, in my teens, into outright distaste - all the trappings a failed attempt to light a lost wonderland; a decorated tree incongruous and distasteful as a chimp in a suit. Anger waned, disinterest set in, and I merely wished to avoid it all. But through your eyes a miracle occurs: Papa Noel, mistaking his season, makes an Easter of Christmas by rising triumphant. A tinsel star becomes a true Polaris and love, for anybody's sake, is everything.
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Dec 18, 2012
Dec 18, 2012 at 5:28 AM UTC
Resurrection
Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and especially how good these fellowships will look on our med-school applications - seriously - but there were a hundred rules - aren’t rules incompatible with summer? Hmm, Ok, let’s see, something poetic.. As the summer sun's blistering radiance waned, shadows, muscled by sunrays to the marginal edges and corners, gradually spread, like water - soothing, lenifying and assuaging simmered nerves with their refreshing, canopied touch. If sunlight scorched with heat, twilight soothed and gentled, while varnishing, the dimming world with rainbow, event-horizons, larger, more inventive, colorful and glorious than any mere mortal art. Night gradually squeezed, unseen, through those vivid sunset cracks, and refreshing night-air, drawn in by the last, escaping updrafts of heat, rustled cooling relief to weary workers seeking the solace of evening and home. back to unpoetic realities.. When work was finished, we’d retreat from the heat, racing up to the rooftop pool, like two happy porpoises out of school. Whoever invented poolside food delivery, should win the Nobel Prize for ‘thank you very much.’ We wouldn’t go back to our rooms until it was dark and we’d started to prune. Now, we’ve a month to relax before our Junior year begins. We got letters from Yale that said, “As upperclassmen..” “Upperclassmen!” We shouted as we danced in hand-holding circles, singing, “Upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen. upperclassmen.”   We’ve grown so much at Yale.
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Aug 2, 2023
Aug 2, 2023 at 12:05 PM UTC
summer persists
Our summer fellowships are over! We learned a lot - for instance - how summer’s a lot less fun when you’re hemmed-up, inside working. I mean, we preesh’d the clinical experience, the learning, and especially how good these fellowships will look on our med-school applications - seriously - but there were a hundred rules - aren’t rules incompatible with summer? Hmm, Ok, let’s see, something poetic.. As the summer sun's blistering radiance waned, shadows, muscled by sunrays to the marginal edges and corners, gradually spread, like water - soothing, lenifying and assuaging simmered nerves with their refreshing, canopied touch. If sunlight scorched with heat, twilight soothed and gentled, while varnishing, the dimming world with rainbow, event-horizons, larger, more inventive, colorful and glorious than any mere mortal art. Night gradually squeezed, unseen, through those vivid sunset cracks, and refreshing night-air, drawn in by the last, escaping updrafts of heat, rustled cooling relief to weary workers seeking the solace of evening and home. back to unpoetic realities.. When work was finished, we’d retreat from the heat, racing up to the rooftop pool, like two happy porpoises out of school. Whoever invented poolside food delivery, should win the Nobel Prize for ‘thank you very much.’ We wouldn’t go back to our rooms until it was dark and we’d started to prune. Now, we’ve a month to relax before our Junior year begins. We got letters from Yale that said, “As upperclassmen..” “Upperclassmen!” We shouted as we danced in hand-holding circles, singing, “Upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen, upperclassmen. upperclassmen.”   We’ve grown so much at Yale.
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by rgpage as children sunrise always brought a new day   and war was a game young boys would play. no thought given to the dark tunnel traveled no thought given when tomorrow comes today.    with the  dark nights  clear stars sparkled bright     in our younger day when in parks we’d play. no thought given to the dark tunnel traveled no thought given  when tomorrow comes today. as we grew older to the prime of life and war was a game politicians would play. no thought given to the pain and strife , and no thought given when tomorrow comes today. poised and  proud on foreign shore, protecting the slight , weak and waned. a young soldier  waits  his turn at war with no thought given when tomorrow comes today. a rifle cracks and  the young man falls his blood turns to mud in the filth where he lay. his comrades fight his final call, with no thought  given when tomorrow comes today. at home an anxious family waits, not knowing at all (for they weren’t there) to see him fall. their thoughts turn now  to the dark tunnel  traveled, and wondered what it means when tomorrow comes today.
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 1:18 PM UTC
when tomorrow comes today
Peter built a paper boat Which he could float about the sea To hidden spots of lonely coast Where not a ghost or man would be He painted words along her bough That soon would plough and skip and trot Between the waves that rose and falled The boat was called 'Forget Me Not' He bid his wife a fond goodbye The tide was high when he embarked He drifted from his tiny cove While weather drove and seagulls larked He set his course horizon bound For solid ground of ****** shore As darkness came he made a bed To keep his head above the floor The voyage took him straight and true Across the blue, toward the sun But soon a tongue of lightening spat And thunder rattled like a gun The waves encircled hungrily And angrily about their prey The tempest heaved with no regret It blew Forget Me Not away He found himself all caked in sand And on a strand of desert beach Forget Me Not had run aground But safe and sound from tidal reach He folded down his paper yacht And found a spot to build a home But saved the sail and rudder strings To forge some wings and daily roam He glided high and long and wide Past mountainside and shore to shore And through the night he forged a blade And with it made a lumber saw He felled the trunk and snared the beast And cooked a feast to celebrate The rain it sought to disagree But quick was he to remonstrate The moonlight waxed and waned apart And on his heart a longing formed For home and his beloved bride For fireside and there be warmed And so he took the house he'd made From humid shade of seldom oak He set the island to his aft And cried and laughed the words he spoke They matched the words he'd lately hewn Beneath the moon in shady spot He carved into that seldom tree 'Remember me, forget me not'
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM UTC
Peter's Paper Boat
Peter built a paper boat Which he could float about the sea To hidden spots of lonely coast Where not a ghost or man would be He painted words along her bough That soon would plough and skip and trot Between the waves that rose and falled The boat was called 'Forget Me Not' He bid his wife a fond goodbye The tide was high when he embarked He drifted from his tiny cove While weather drove and seagulls larked He set his course horizon bound For solid ground of ****** shore As darkness came he made a bed To keep his head above the floor The voyage took him straight and true Across the blue, toward the sun But soon a tongue of lightening spat And thunder rattled like a gun The waves encircled hungrily And angrily about their prey The tempest heaved with no regret It blew Forget Me Not away He found himself all caked in sand And on a strand of desert beach Forget Me Not had run aground But safe and sound from tidal reach He folded down his paper yacht And found a spot to build a home But saved the sail and rudder strings To forge some wings and daily roam He glided high and long and wide Past mountainside and shore to shore And through the night he forged a blade And with it made a lumber saw He felled the trunk and snared the beast And cooked a feast to celebrate The rain it sought to disagree But quick was he to remonstrate The moonlight waxed and waned apart And on his heart a longing formed For home and his beloved bride For fireside and there be warmed And so he took the house he'd made From humid shade of seldom oak He set the island to his aft And cried and laughed the words he spoke They matched the words he'd lately hewn Beneath the moon in shady spot He carved into that seldom tree 'Remember me, forget me not'
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**     In An Old Cathedral** She knelt upon a plank, plain oaken (sable cloak, her mourning guise), and sensed the breath of distant sighs, pale shades of pain behind blue eyes… While clasping close a cross-like token (holding hope for those in need) she prayed her Lord "please intercede, my woes be washed, my soul be freed"… Archangels, in the skies evoken (candles flickered, shadows shivered), through the panes, the moonlight quivered, summoned forth, the wish delivered… Forgotten words he once had spoken (dimly echoed ’neath the dome) swept sweetness of the honeycomb o'er distant realms they used to roam… At midnight's knell, in dreams awoken, memories of love unfeigned… Though loneliness of grief remained, she still held hope… hope hadn't waned… And when the dawn had early broken, by the font, in peace, she lay… As sudden as a sunset ray, the light of life had slipped away…
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 4:06 PM UTC
In An OldCathedral
I've noticed that my mustache grows in thicker on one side, made to wonder if this blunder's due to my brother, how he died, Never will my reddened beard grow in and lay with grace because my brothers lifeless body layed a pressure on my face Most men primp and think of happiness in mirrors and in breath However, whenever I clean my face I'm forced to think of death, (with the face of a brother I've never met) So I celebrate life and do my best to think it limitless Go out and do, create for you, make proud the worlds dead triplets I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. I've noticed that my beard grows thicker in just this tiny spot, 'Cause the way they lay, I cannot help but think a rather morbid thought, The way you are is picked afar from waned or waxed moon, but what happens there when you're prepared a rather taxed womb? The newest of 8 darkened waters with no help to navigate, You'll admit having dead brothers makes it harder to relate. But they never were alive so I can't say I have regrets, I must make with my life, for all the worlds dead triplets I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. My mother calls me her surprise and I think "jeezez kryst." In honesty I'm accident, but the way you said it's nice. I feel and see it differently inside my orange head, But, that's just the way **** happens when you're born beside the dead. You see, I was touched by death before I even knew of life, I cuddled it and swam beside it up until the knife. So death, with mercy, stays away and out of sight it gets, for it knows I held it close, I live, a ghost, of my dead triplet. I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. But it can't last forever, I've already lived too long, So immortal I'm on paper and in the wind in song. I said it cannot last forever, I should already be dead, The world it has a shortage of another orange head I am the living ghost of Joseph, My dead triplet. So with all of that in mind, defined, my chances should be none, I never should have had a first, so I make all my seconds battles won. I am the living ghost of my brother Joseph, and all the worlds dead triplets.
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 7:03 PM UTC
Because of Joseph, For Joseph
I've noticed that my mustache grows in thicker on one side, made to wonder if this blunder's due to my brother, how he died, Never will my reddened beard grow in and lay with grace because my brothers lifeless body layed a pressure on my face Most men primp and think of happiness in mirrors and in breath However, whenever I clean my face I'm forced to think of death, (with the face of a brother I've never met) So I celebrate life and do my best to think it limitless Go out and do, create for you, make proud the worlds dead triplets I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. I've noticed that my beard grows thicker in just this tiny spot, 'Cause the way they lay, I cannot help but think a rather morbid thought, The way you are is picked afar from waned or waxed moon, but what happens there when you're prepared a rather taxed womb? The newest of 8 darkened waters with no help to navigate, You'll admit having dead brothers makes it harder to relate. But they never were alive so I can't say I have regrets, I must make with my life, for all the worlds dead triplets I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. My mother calls me her surprise and I think "jeezez kryst." In honesty I'm accident, but the way you said it's nice. I feel and see it differently inside my orange head, But, that's just the way **** happens when you're born beside the dead. You see, I was touched by death before I even knew of life, I cuddled it and swam beside it up until the knife. So death, with mercy, stays away and out of sight it gets, for it knows I held it close, I live, a ghost, of my dead triplet. I am the living ghost of Joseph, All the worlds dead triplets. But it can't last forever, I've already lived too long, So immortal I'm on paper and in the wind in song. I said it cannot last forever, I should already be dead, The world it has a shortage of another orange head I am the living ghost of Joseph, My dead triplet. So with all of that in mind, defined, my chances should be none, I never should have had a first, so I make all my seconds battles won. I am the living ghost of my brother Joseph, and all the worlds dead triplets.
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i remember that first night how desperately you craved to feel my lips against yours. how worried you were when i refrained from surrendering to your deep inhalations. thoughts of uncertainty clouded your confidence while your sense of comfort waned and ebbed as my will held like a cliffside against the ocean of your lust. let me calm your worried mind now darling it was not for lack of desire that i held my lips pursed. it was not detachment that held my hands shy of a passionate embrace. i was lost in the shear comfort of your presence. your warm hands on my chest felt as though they had been there my whole life. the weight of your leg across my hips, so familiar that i was left confused by the brevity of our acquaintance compared to the depth i could see so clearly in your glistening eyes. it was in adoration for this precious moment that i held myself satiated. it was this same feeling that held me in fear that our first kiss would not be the electric explosion of beginnings that we would hope to fuel our infatuation, but that you would feel dissatisfied by the same ease and placidity i felt. i kissed you in that way i felt i had for years and with that practiced knowing hand i pulled your lips in close. they sang a story so old and meaningful that i found a joy akin to returning home. ... and since then every moment shared, every touch experienced, every kiss given and every kiss received is a small unravelling of a truth that i had long since forgotten: that home is where the heart is. ... and you have mine
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 5:21 PM UTC
uncomfortably comfortable
i remember that first night how desperately you craved to feel my lips against yours. how worried you were when i refrained from surrendering to your deep inhalations. thoughts of uncertainty clouded your confidence while your sense of comfort waned and ebbed as my will held like a cliffside against the ocean of your lust. let me calm your worried mind now darling it was not for lack of desire that i held my lips pursed. it was not detachment that held my hands shy of a passionate embrace. i was lost in the shear comfort of your presence. your warm hands on my chest felt as though they had been there my whole life. the weight of your leg across my hips, so familiar that i was left confused by the brevity of our acquaintance compared to the depth i could see so clearly in your glistening eyes. it was in adoration for this precious moment that i held myself satiated. it was this same feeling that held me in fear that our first kiss would not be the electric explosion of beginnings that we would hope to fuel our infatuation, but that you would feel dissatisfied by the same ease and placidity i felt. i kissed you in that way i felt i had for years and with that practiced knowing hand i pulled your lips in close. they sang a story so old and meaningful that i found a joy akin to returning home. ... and since then every moment shared, every touch experienced, every kiss given and every kiss received is a small unravelling of a truth that i had long since forgotten: that home is where the heart is. ... and you have mine
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Each pound gained my stake in 'pretty' waned in societies tiny frame of what's pretty and what is shamed.
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Jul 14, 2022
Jul 14, 2022 at 2:23 AM UTC
20 pounds prettier
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) With audacious openness Let me accept substantial lot of men folk When it comes to efforts in love, Most are misfortunate. Every time they dare to built Affiliative bonding for love With beauties beheld By their limited eyes The invincible whirling spell Of fortune’s fool Beguile them forlornly Down the social abyss of time, I and my type not an exception to the club Of the guys who swallowed misfortune Like the dog of Theodore erotokorostos Does to a piece of bone In poetic obscurantism Of the corruptible simple souls Obtaining their pathetic lot from ***** and wine, In the first trial I chanced on a neurotic peasant, In the second trial I chanced on turn to be henpecked, On the third trial I chanced on a beautiful paranoid, My fourth trial chanced me a deadly stooge, My fifth trial gave me the worst blow As I forlornly chanced on the time’s public commoner, My sixth trial makes me chicken Had it not been poetic audacity That makes me brave to chew in public The lot of my misfortune as I recall The bitter sweetness of chancing on A beautiful epileptic kleptomaniac, My tired trial in the waned efforts Chanced me a lesbian with insignificant bisexuality, O! I now tire off from misfortunes of love With a last black chance on a neurotic money-maniac, And this is the silent lot of men In their usual efforts to fulfill their dreams of love.
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Feb 28, 2014
Feb 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM UTC
MISFORTUNE IN SERIES OF LOVE