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"warbling" poems
Arise! Oh Heart, from the catacombs of the dead Shake off the dust, for Life beckons you like a buddy Peel off the weariness that wraps you like a shroud And walk to the open to perceive the light. Arise! Oh Heart, from the dungeons of gloom The dawn is at your door step, waiting to break Sing with the koel, merrily warbling in the woods Dance with the billows, wildly prancing on the deep. Arise! Oh Heart, from the ghettoes of ******* Break loose the ropes that moor you to the past Dart through the panorama of the cerulean blue And fly high into regions, uncharted and new. Arise! Oh Heart, from the citadels of hate Listen not to the shrieking and howling behind Drink from the goblet of conciliating love And rejoice at the birth of a dawn with promises galore!
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 8:28 AM UTC
Arise! Oh Heart
‘LOVE’ – What mystique power it wields In what myriad guise it wraps! At times a sweet ache so coy to reveal Or a sudden urge, hard to unveil Sometimes a deep sensation A strong surge of emotion Permeating every atom Pervading from top to bottom It heightens the pulse And makes every nerve convulse It has left kingdoms fall asunder And many a mighty man - surrender Often, like dew drops falling from above Or the warbling notes flowing out from the grove It leaves the heart go upbeat in prosody Changing every sensation into rhapsody As beams of silver cast by the moon Or the cold touch of spray in the horrid heat of noon It soothes, embalms and thrills the heart Filling the void and leaving no dearth Love sublime, sure like a candle lit Consumes itself, and never dwindles a bit It dispels the gloom and dissipates the fright Invigorating the soul and healing every hurt As brilliance to stars, fragrance to flowers Music to flute or shade to bowers Love is to Man, freeing him from all sores Bestowing him the strength to meet all throes Love can neither be beguiled nor disguised Nor be stifled or be construed Love puts all other things into place And hems life with a lovely lace Love is all we seek and too scarce to find A magic thread by which hearts are bound Hark! It is love that makes the world spin around And cures all the ills that surround Oh! Love thou virtues I will defend
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Mar 9, 2018
Mar 9, 2018 at 8:57 AM UTC
Love
1545 The Bible is an antique Volume— Written by faded men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres— Subjects—Bethlehem— Eden—the ancient Homestead— Satan—the Brigadier— Judas—the Great Defaulter— David—the Troubador— Sin—a distinguished Precipice Others must resist— Boys that “believe” are very lonesome— Other Boys are “lost”— Had but the Tale a warbling Teller— All the Boys would come— Orpheus’ Sermon captivated— It did not condemn—
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The Bible is an antique Volume
Leaves Murmuring by miriads in the shimmering trees. Lives Wakening with wonder in the Pyrenees. Birds Cheerily chirping in the early day. Bards Singing of summer, scything thro' the hay. Bees Shaking the heavy dews from bloom and frond. Boys Bursting the surface of the ebony pond. Flashes Of swimmers carving thro' the sparkling cold. Fleshes Gleaming with wetness to the morning gold. A mead Bordered about with warbling water brooks. A maid Laughing the love-laugh with me; proud of looks. The heat Throbbing between the upland and the peak. Her heart Quivering with passion to my pressed cheek. Braiding Of floating flames across the mountain brow. Brooding Of stillness; and a sighing of the bough. Stirs Of leaflets in the gloom; soft petal-showers; Stars Expanding with the starr'd nocturnal flowers.
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From My Diary, July 1914
The warbling calls of the peace and the calm seem pacified and subdued far from the ears of man The shattered cries of the cacophony and the chaos too loud and incessant close to the thoughts of youth With blood spilled, splashed over years of adversity and trial, we stand tired and stained waiting for everyone -else- to change To see the world through a peaceful gaze is to see the world in beauty A beauty that is not often attained.
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May 7, 2012
May 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM UTC
Euphony VS. Cacophony
"Yoo Hoo! Excuse me!" she said, Warbling with trepidation, "I wonder could you help me, Only I'm blind, you see?" Her timid voice trailed off, Lost beneath the majestic roar Of the waterfall; "Of course ma'am!" he said, "Take my arm and pray Tell me your troubles!" "Well it's all rather silly," she said, "But I'm not long now for this Life, and I so wanted to see, Or rather, to feel this place again. I was here as a young girl You see, and I have such fond memories!  My guide had to take An urgent call, and now I'm Afraid I won't have time for the tour!" "Tell me," he said, "If I may be Permitted to ask, were you able To see when you were here before?" "Oh yes!" she exclaimed, "It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen!  The destructive Force of nature, an endless torrent Of foaming waters cascading down Sheer cliffs, the living color of Smooth rocks gleaming in the sunlight, And oh so many rainbows Blazing in the spray, Sir I could Imagine no place more wondrous, More beautiful!" "Well then," he said excitedly, "You'll be pleased to know it Hasn't changed a bit!" "Oh thank you, thank you!" She said, hugging him tightly, "You've made an old woman very happy!" The guide returned and he bade them A fond farewell, and then another Woman approached him. "Well there you are darling," she said, I've been looking for you everywhere! I've found a guide who specialises In narrated tours for the blind, Are you ready?" He looked at her with unseeing eyes And smiled, "There's no need my love," He said, "I've already seen it and It's the most beautiful place in the world, And I want to remember it Exactly the way I do right now!"
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 3:36 AM UTC
A Wonderful Sight
"Yoo Hoo! Excuse me!" she said, Warbling with trepidation, "I wonder could you help me, Only I'm blind, you see?" Her timid voice trailed off, Lost beneath the majestic roar Of the waterfall; "Of course ma'am!" he said, "Take my arm and pray Tell me your troubles!" "Well it's all rather silly," she said, "But I'm not long now for this Life, and I so wanted to see, Or rather, to feel this place again. I was here as a young girl You see, and I have such fond memories!  My guide had to take An urgent call, and now I'm Afraid I won't have time for the tour!" "Tell me," he said, "If I may be Permitted to ask, were you able To see when you were here before?" "Oh yes!" she exclaimed, "It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen!  The destructive Force of nature, an endless torrent Of foaming waters cascading down Sheer cliffs, the living color of Smooth rocks gleaming in the sunlight, And oh so many rainbows Blazing in the spray, Sir I could Imagine no place more wondrous, More beautiful!" "Well then," he said excitedly, "You'll be pleased to know it Hasn't changed a bit!" "Oh thank you, thank you!" She said, hugging him tightly, "You've made an old woman very happy!" The guide returned and he bade them A fond farewell, and then another Woman approached him. "Well there you are darling," she said, I've been looking for you everywhere! I've found a guide who specialises In narrated tours for the blind, Are you ready?" He looked at her with unseeing eyes And smiled, "There's no need my love," He said, "I've already seen it and It's the most beautiful place in the world, And I want to remember it Exactly the way I do right now!"
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Remember me in spring when blossom's blush and petals flair a - light in morning mists that'll haze a rainbow hue - of flowered plush to portrait mine as every bud untwists. Upon the birding bath as robins splay the warbling chirp shall voice as tho' from me for you my sweet, in springtime bloom of may shall hear the larking flute of my decree. The dancing leaves shall tap and Ivy's birth and Snowdrop's bow as daisy eyes unveils as fragrant, olive air shall scent of mirth that once were lost, now shrines as spring prevails. Vernal rebloom shall stream that pulse of mine then seek that earthly glow, and there I'll shine.
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Sep 27, 2018
Sep 27, 2018 at 3:39 AM UTC
I'll Be In Spring (Sonnet)
Ach so! thou much-praised and lauded Milwaukee, Thou delightful Wisconsin Stadt of boundless pulchritude, Verily hath History endowed thy blessed name With the noisomely beery breath of immortality! And thank the benign Almighty in highest Heav’n That thy delectable streets and arboreal squares Doth remain heretofore untouched by unseemly civic strife, Despite thy renown as veritable midwife to Sewer Socialism! Yet, tear-inducing recollections have I of this dwelling-place And herewith followeth heart-rending remembrances Of what transpired when I inveigled a plump young Mädchen there For a brief sojourn of untrammelled concupiscence. Alas, alack, after gorging her impetuous appetites On a gargantuan repast of mitteleuropäische delicacies, Methinks her poor heart gave up survival’s uneven battle And, warbling a soft piffero-reminiscent sigh, she expired. ‘Twas too tragic thus to depart this happy welkin in mid-prandials, Emitting a final flatus, sweet adieu, from her rearmost aperture, Leaving me, her poor forlorn swain, bereft and solitary, Faced with mine host’s request for instant monetary rendition. From that naughty place of my bereavement fled I, Clutching to my ***** the contents of her silken purse, Determined to partake in untrammelled ***** licence elsewhere, Ere the chanticleer’s dawn croak wake the inebriated citizens.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
Tragically Gay Memories of Old Milwaukee (poem by Edna's ******** brother Siegfried)
All sounds have been as music to my listening: Pacific lamentations of slow bells, The crunch of boots on blue snow rosy-glistening, Shuffle of autumn leaves; and all farewells: Bugles that sadden all the evening air, And country bells clamouring their last appeals Before [the] music of the evening prayer; Bridges, sonorous under carriage wheels. Gurgle of sluicing surge through hollow rocks, The gluttonous lapping of the waves on weeds, Whisper of grass; the myriad-tinkling flocks, The warbling drawl of flutes and shepherds' reeds. The orchestral noises of October nights Blowing ( ) symphonetic storms Of startled clarions ( ) Drums, rumbling and rolling thunderous and ( ). Thrilling of throstles in the keen blue dawn, Bees fumbling and fuming over sainfoin-fields.
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I Know the Music
There is music at dawn in the song of the koyel The tweeting, the chirping, the warbling,the cry The medleys that float in the morning air  As birds sing a welcome to a rising sky  There is music in the span of feathered  wings  The steady drone of the humming of a bee As the sun revels on his throne at noon  While a brisk wind whisks leaves on willow trees  There is music in the silver drops of rain  A gentle drizzle or a thunder squall  Music in the flow of rivers and streams  And the sparkling cascade of a waterfall There is music on slopes of lofty mountains  In echoes that reverberate of a water spring  In the soft rustling of a valley of flowers  Of blue irises and pink hyacinths  There is music in seas and oceans blue  Waves overreaching to meet the shore Rippling in sounds of frothy ecstasy  Whispers of pearls and ocean floors  There is music at dusk when the day rests  The throaty croaks in a nocturnal sheer As moths flutter drawn to light  'Tis music of life that I hear
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Aug 7, 2016
Aug 7, 2016 at 9:50 AM UTC
And then, there is music
The air is brittle this ominous, wintry night. The slivers of a life you used to know still haunt you, as surely as you have permitted them to be a haunt to others. Without question, it is those memories that spur your ruminations; that cause your copious circumlocutions; which compell you to stand on this somber boulevard in front of this crumbling, but once stately manor that now is a languid presence with the solitary purpose of looming over the vast grounds. It is obligatory that you proceed along the avenue that used to split the yards that are now overgrown and chocoblock with twisted vines, and thistles. You pause, to gather your strength. One deep inhailation and then you hold your breath as you grip the tarnished handle and lock leaver. With a perfect measure of strength your thumb recalls, the mechanism is undone. Your arm pushes forward. The silence is disturbed by a warbling creak as the heavy door is slowly opened. You exhale, then before you lose your nerve you quickly pass through the ingress and enter into the foyer, which is instantly familiar in the dim, flickering light and the long, slender adumbrations effected by the gossamer encaked voltives jutting from the dusty walls. Though it has remaned unchanged throughout all the time that has passed, standing in the ornate room affirms that the warmth with which you used to be recieved here has been abandoned to a frigidity. You feel as if this room remembers you. This is as far as I dare go with you, my friend, though I know you must continue. I have listened to your stories, so I know you have many rooms to search. The closier that you seek is in a matter that is not my own. I will depart upon rendering these words of warning: When visiting the past, As you daringly explore these often haralded halways, Be careful what you leave behind. Take caution not to lose yourself, For a shadow lingers in the Suite Sublime.
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 6:59 PM UTC
A Shadow Lingers in the Suite Sublime
The air is brittle this ominous, wintry night. The slivers of a life you used to know still haunt you, as surely as you have permitted them to be a haunt to others. Without question, it is those memories that spur your ruminations; that cause your copious circumlocutions; which compell you to stand on this somber boulevard in front of this crumbling, but once stately manor that now is a languid presence with the solitary purpose of looming over the vast grounds. It is obligatory that you proceed along the avenue that used to split the yards that are now overgrown and chocoblock with twisted vines, and thistles. You pause, to gather your strength. One deep inhailation and then you hold your breath as you grip the tarnished handle and lock leaver. With a perfect measure of strength your thumb recalls, the mechanism is undone. Your arm pushes forward. The silence is disturbed by a warbling creak as the heavy door is slowly opened. You exhale, then before you lose your nerve you quickly pass through the ingress and enter into the foyer, which is instantly familiar in the dim, flickering light and the long, slender adumbrations effected by the gossamer encaked voltives jutting from the dusty walls. Though it has remaned unchanged throughout all the time that has passed, standing in the ornate room affirms that the warmth with which you used to be recieved here has been abandoned to a frigidity. You feel as if this room remembers you. This is as far as I dare go with you, my friend, though I know you must continue. I have listened to your stories, so I know you have many rooms to search. The closier that you seek is in a matter that is not my own. I will depart upon rendering these words of warning: When visiting the past, As you daringly explore these often haralded halways, Be careful what you leave behind. Take caution not to lose yourself, For a shadow lingers in the Suite Sublime.
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Keep the fame Keep the glory But pass over the mike And let me be heard Over the din of chaos The marching boots The crying voices Breaking headlines And singers warbling about love Let me be heard For I am the Person Who in complete anonymity thrives Lives without the spotlight The glamour, the money Another face among a billion Nothing too eye-catching But pass over the mike It is time for the Person To be heard Over the loudness of anonymity.
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Aug 22, 2012
Aug 22, 2012 at 1:04 PM UTC
Anonymity
* * * Fishing out words From the abyss of hum - Like Odin with the Runes... Thoughts are sharp swords - Unfriendly are their croons: One instant - scattering like crumbs, Another - warbling in tune With mixed emotions And elusive feelings... Oh, how disheartening sometimes! - Unveiling their peelings... (c)kRu, 07.02.-09.02.06
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Jan 30, 2010
Jan 30, 2010 at 12:41 AM UTC
"Fishing out words"
Routinely lark, though this day depth therein bemused as why the warbling fluter turned instilled and sung laments, residing within and perched unkind; that brittler branches - spurned. Melodic angst has never sprung so dim and tunes of fathomed trebles; parted love? Perchance the ballad pours a swansong hymn; and from aloft the skies - returns a dove. If song an' bird be taken dazed with stars beliefs contort and bowing strings apart nor stealth be known as fervent dwells the scars, though bleak the lust for any other heart. O' feathered, pennate cherub play her whim! Remain upon the sill and bygones swim.
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 1:33 PM UTC
The Wistful Dove (Sonnet)
lipdeep pour a gallon of fresh girlhips full of boylips easyof stumbling inept eating saltness suddenly departs sanity fitness and keenly bridles a whole throat's distinct warbling pale voice louder increases on quiet and increases into a lurid bruise a slender violence of feminine mouth
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Jun 30, 2012
Jun 30, 2012 at 8:39 PM UTC
lipdeep
In the hard and cold city There were no Two a.m. train whistles… Sometimes Window rattling hip-hop woofers… The occasional Tequila soaked domestic dispute… and the like… Leaving me now Laying in the darkened silence feeling Vintage… Imaginary whispers of Brook Benton “…feel like it’s rainin all ova the world” Subliminal theme music Setting the ambiance for Trying to think of something Not cliché to say about the Two a.m. train whistle in the distance... Cuz I still Often wake to the Absences of Warbling sirens of high speed chases … and Fusion of passing dialects beneath my window That I never really heard…until I didn’t hear them … Replaced with Fat plops Of nocturnal rain drops… Far away clack-a-lack of iron wheel on rail… Silence… ...and that lonely Two a.m. train whistle in the distance…
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May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 12:34 PM UTC
Silence and 2 a.m. Train Whistles
Pressed for a poem he thought he’d write to say he loved her and quite right too he thought that love should be a statement thick with words so tender true yet gentle as that soft complaining flute he heard in Dryden’s slick immortal ode that ‘in dying notes discovers woes of hopeless lovers whose dirge is whispered by their warbling lute’ Oh yes come you and I let’s like music untune the sky! But my dearest this day is not the feast of Sancta Cecelia but of a Roman priest and martyr beheaded by the Flaminian Gate for marrying Christians in the street. And when imprisoned by Claudius’ decree healed the sight of his jailer’s daughter Lucy – by leaving her at his death a letter ‘I hope your sight gets better in time’ and signed it ‘from your Valentine ‘ (with two kisses one for each eye) . . . and it did Such love can make us see anew can help us be forever true and gracious to each other’s cares each other’s woes and live in hope (let’s really try) to be together always you and I
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 7:53 AM UTC
Pressed for a Poem
Oh! How like you, I long to be a singing lark Who among the fleecy clouds like a tiny speck Remains hidden, drowning the air with music sweet Rising higher and darting up with movements slick In our ears, falls your song like peals of chiming bells In clear, crystalline notes on this radiant day so bright Why do you stay unseen in the far fringes of heaven? Oh! Come out from the veils that cover you from our sight!  Are you warbling of love in inextricable lays Or chanting hymns to the God of greater heights Diving up and down like a mysterious sprite Are you trilling of the charms of enchanting sights Soaring and swaying like a flitting dot of light You ascend higher and higher to dizzier heights I guess your wings brush against the sailing clouds As you reel round and round in ecstatic flights Have you bade farewell to the verdant groves beneath Have you flown for good from your woody nest? Why do you dwell in the heights, solitary and alone? Have you made the firmament your haven of rest? Hovering over unseen, you pour out melodies sweet That fills our gloomy hearts with euphoric delight Sweeping away from weary heads all sullen thoughts And flaming our souls as ever blazing beacons of light!
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May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 at 10:30 AM UTC
To the Singing Lark
Can this be the time once more Of utter giving up of our control The simple folliwing of commercial madness Our desire for the day when food and wine Have to be gathered about us like the defences of yore Headlong we run from mid-summer until We are exhausted in body, spirit or credit The desperate worry of what to buy whom Or when to order the especially fattened bird for your table The ridiculous overspending on presents When time could be the finest present you could give Yule tide is a special period for Druids and all pagans alike, The wonder of simplicity of reflection of our past year The elements of sleep as mother earth regenerates herself Resting often under the warmth of a blanket of snow Gathering of families and loved ones Blessings of the solstice as the wheel of the year turns Once more into the light as the sun begins it's journey Returning to the northern hemisphere Our birds and native animals preparing for the winter Storing their food, digging deep as they look for vitals Likewise the land is resting, The soil teems with dormant life, every insect and worm Every root, form and bulb Slowing right down as the degrees fall to freezing The frosty and rime ridden mornings giving the flora A lift of white dusting and sparkling light reflecting The weak, beautiful winter sun Heaves itself onto the low glancing position Just making it to the tree tops before retiring once more to sleep Leaving glorious swathes of orange and red Painting the sky as it falls and rises. Yule tide comes as all seasons, times and periods But once a year in our short lives The earthy sounds, the images and emotion The smell of the newly fallen snow and woodsmoke The foraging birds and squirrels The warbling and tuneful song of the blackbird And the tut tut of Mr Robin resplendent in his Bright red waistcoat bobbing around in the crisp frost Our lifetime of Yules is a wonder to enjoy, I know as I look from my window where my heart is As the distant tree bare in it's winter shroud speaks To me as a friend and anchor within this beautiful planet.
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 5:22 AM UTC
Reflections on Yule
Can this be the time once more Of utter giving up of our control The simple folliwing of commercial madness Our desire for the day when food and wine Have to be gathered about us like the defences of yore Headlong we run from mid-summer until We are exhausted in body, spirit or credit The desperate worry of what to buy whom Or when to order the especially fattened bird for your table The ridiculous overspending on presents When time could be the finest present you could give Yule tide is a special period for Druids and all pagans alike, The wonder of simplicity of reflection of our past year The elements of sleep as mother earth regenerates herself Resting often under the warmth of a blanket of snow Gathering of families and loved ones Blessings of the solstice as the wheel of the year turns Once more into the light as the sun begins it's journey Returning to the northern hemisphere Our birds and native animals preparing for the winter Storing their food, digging deep as they look for vitals Likewise the land is resting, The soil teems with dormant life, every insect and worm Every root, form and bulb Slowing right down as the degrees fall to freezing The frosty and rime ridden mornings giving the flora A lift of white dusting and sparkling light reflecting The weak, beautiful winter sun Heaves itself onto the low glancing position Just making it to the tree tops before retiring once more to sleep Leaving glorious swathes of orange and red Painting the sky as it falls and rises. Yule tide comes as all seasons, times and periods But once a year in our short lives The earthy sounds, the images and emotion The smell of the newly fallen snow and woodsmoke The foraging birds and squirrels The warbling and tuneful song of the blackbird And the tut tut of Mr Robin resplendent in his Bright red waistcoat bobbing around in the crisp frost Our lifetime of Yules is a wonder to enjoy, I know as I look from my window where my heart is As the distant tree bare in it's winter shroud speaks To me as a friend and anchor within this beautiful planet.
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one morning, Jack awoke with a distinct feeling that something was not quite right. as he peeled his eyes from a crusty sleep his suspicions were further aroused by a marked loss of sight from his right eye as though he was peering through a thick charcoal jungle he clutched his hand towards his face and was alarmed to find a rather substantial lock of hairs protruding from his right eyebrow. wondering if perhaps he might still be in a world of waking dreams where one couldn’t really trust one’s intuitions, he wandered over to the light switch, flicked it on/off a couple of times. having reached the conclusion that he was definitely not dreaming, and that his retinas (or his left one, at least) were definitely receptive to fluctuating light levels he made his way to the bathroom to inspect his face, with one hand bemusedly fondling his recently grown eye-brow fringe. in the bathroom he stumbled across his wife sitting on the toilet. on catching sight of her hairy husband, she let out a deranged scream. "darling, you'll alarm the neighbours" said Jack. but his wife, who did not seem to be sufficiently worried about alarming the neighbours, or anyone in her resident universe continued to make strange warbling noises. so, Jack instead decided to study his growth in the kitchen sink. although not made from exemplary reflective material, the sink was able to confirm his impression that his right eyebrow had, overnight, been subject to an alarming rate of growth.   his wife appeared in the doorway. “I’m sorry for screaming. it was only because I thought you were a pirate” she said. and though he knew that this was just one in many of a long string of inter-marital lies that bounced between them, he let it pass. a decision having been decided upon in perhaps not the most democratic manner possible, Jack's wife fetched the kitchen scissors from the drawer by the dishwasher. as she snipped away, chunks of black fell soft like feathers from sunburnt wings and landed on the Lino. Jack felt inexplicably sad. they went off to work as usual, and no one noticed the jagged edge of his once pirated-eyebrow.
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Apr 19, 2012
Apr 19, 2012 at 5:11 AM UTC
Pirate
one morning, Jack awoke with a distinct feeling that something was not quite right. as he peeled his eyes from a crusty sleep his suspicions were further aroused by a marked loss of sight from his right eye as though he was peering through a thick charcoal jungle he clutched his hand towards his face and was alarmed to find a rather substantial lock of hairs protruding from his right eyebrow. wondering if perhaps he might still be in a world of waking dreams where one couldn’t really trust one’s intuitions, he wandered over to the light switch, flicked it on/off a couple of times. having reached the conclusion that he was definitely not dreaming, and that his retinas (or his left one, at least) were definitely receptive to fluctuating light levels he made his way to the bathroom to inspect his face, with one hand bemusedly fondling his recently grown eye-brow fringe. in the bathroom he stumbled across his wife sitting on the toilet. on catching sight of her hairy husband, she let out a deranged scream. "darling, you'll alarm the neighbours" said Jack. but his wife, who did not seem to be sufficiently worried about alarming the neighbours, or anyone in her resident universe continued to make strange warbling noises. so, Jack instead decided to study his growth in the kitchen sink. although not made from exemplary reflective material, the sink was able to confirm his impression that his right eyebrow had, overnight, been subject to an alarming rate of growth.   his wife appeared in the doorway. “I’m sorry for screaming. it was only because I thought you were a pirate” she said. and though he knew that this was just one in many of a long string of inter-marital lies that bounced between them, he let it pass. a decision having been decided upon in perhaps not the most democratic manner possible, Jack's wife fetched the kitchen scissors from the drawer by the dishwasher. as she snipped away, chunks of black fell soft like feathers from sunburnt wings and landed on the Lino. Jack felt inexplicably sad. they went off to work as usual, and no one noticed the jagged edge of his once pirated-eyebrow.
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"O son, hark ye to the rainbird's call." Said father to son as the golden light spilled out the fireplace, casting their backs into darkness. "O son, hark ye to the rainbird's call, for when the rainbirds are a-comin' the times are a-changin." Son's wide eyes soaked in the golden fireplace light and the sound of father's voice. "O the rainbirds, they's a-comin'. They's call ain't like the call of no other bird. Yer a familiar with the warblings and the cawings and the baying's and the singing's of other birds. The rainbird, he don't sound like that. When the rainbird a comes a callin', you best be knowin' his sound. For he don't warble or caw or bay or sing, on no, he don't warble or caw or bay or sing. He's a makin' a different sound all together. O the rainbird, when he comes a callin' you'll a-know its him." Father puffed long on a clay pipe, his voice accompanied by the sounds of a thousand night critters a-haunting the outside world with their chitin wings and nightmare fur and ebony eyes, shining through the night. O yes, father puffed long on a clay pipe. "Son, when the rainbird calls. He drowns out the other birds, ya wont be hearin' no warbling or cawin' or bayin' or singing. When the rainbird a-opens his beak, all ye hear is a marked silence from the other birds. O they is still singing, mind you they is still singing, but that ******* the rainbird, he dun drown them out with his silent call. Son. That is how you know the rainbird's callin'." The golden light kept a-burning, and the fire was a-crackling as the night was a runnin' over the valleys skies. And father kept a-talkin' and his pipe; he kept a-lightin'. "Son, that is the sound of the rainbird's call. He don't call much round here in the valley, but when he does, you hear the times are a-changin'. And when the rainbird sings, o son! When the rainbird sings! He BELLOWS! And he SINGS! And the valley will shudder with his song. When he sings, the valley will shudder and the darkness will come, for he be callin' on all dem other rainbird's. And they be comin' and the sky will darken like night and they'll a come, like a cloud, they'll a come. And they's flappin' wings will a-shake and a shudder the valley, and they'll a **** lightning and his brethren, his brothers will a-light down and they be filling the valley with their rain and their **** and the times will be a changin. Oh they be a changing." Son's ears heard the tale of the rainbird that father told him, son believed the tale father told him. He believed, for the night birds did suddenly fall silent all through the velvet darkness outside the shack, and the air was a markedly different thing from what it was before, and the fire sputtered as the rainbird called. It sputtered…it sputtered…it sputtered.
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Nov 10, 2011
Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01 PM UTC
The Rainbird's Call
"O son, hark ye to the rainbird's call." Said father to son as the golden light spilled out the fireplace, casting their backs into darkness. "O son, hark ye to the rainbird's call, for when the rainbirds are a-comin' the times are a-changin." Son's wide eyes soaked in the golden fireplace light and the sound of father's voice. "O the rainbirds, they's a-comin'. They's call ain't like the call of no other bird. Yer a familiar with the warblings and the cawings and the baying's and the singing's of other birds. The rainbird, he don't sound like that. When the rainbird a comes a callin', you best be knowin' his sound. For he don't warble or caw or bay or sing, on no, he don't warble or caw or bay or sing. He's a makin' a different sound all together. O the rainbird, when he comes a callin' you'll a-know its him." Father puffed long on a clay pipe, his voice accompanied by the sounds of a thousand night critters a-haunting the outside world with their chitin wings and nightmare fur and ebony eyes, shining through the night. O yes, father puffed long on a clay pipe. "Son, when the rainbird calls. He drowns out the other birds, ya wont be hearin' no warbling or cawin' or bayin' or singing. When the rainbird a-opens his beak, all ye hear is a marked silence from the other birds. O they is still singing, mind you they is still singing, but that ******* the rainbird, he dun drown them out with his silent call. Son. That is how you know the rainbird's callin'." The golden light kept a-burning, and the fire was a-crackling as the night was a runnin' over the valleys skies. And father kept a-talkin' and his pipe; he kept a-lightin'. "Son, that is the sound of the rainbird's call. He don't call much round here in the valley, but when he does, you hear the times are a-changin'. And when the rainbird sings, o son! When the rainbird sings! He BELLOWS! And he SINGS! And the valley will shudder with his song. When he sings, the valley will shudder and the darkness will come, for he be callin' on all dem other rainbird's. And they be comin' and the sky will darken like night and they'll a come, like a cloud, they'll a come. And they's flappin' wings will a-shake and a shudder the valley, and they'll a **** lightning and his brethren, his brothers will a-light down and they be filling the valley with their rain and their **** and the times will be a changin. Oh they be a changing." Son's ears heard the tale of the rainbird that father told him, son believed the tale father told him. He believed, for the night birds did suddenly fall silent all through the velvet darkness outside the shack, and the air was a markedly different thing from what it was before, and the fire sputtered as the rainbird called. It sputtered…it sputtered…it sputtered.
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She gets lost between piano notes and Champaign bubbles I swear her eyes are always just a little Too far away But she sings that it won’t matter In a million years So I forgive her She still gets lost between piano keys But forgets to play them these days, I catch her staring at the notes And there is something oozing from between knotted heart strings she whispers that the chords are too tight so I just nod There are clinking glasses And the quiet hum of dishwashers But I don’t think her smile Even flickers anymore Someone told me She still gets lost sometimes Forgets which road takes her home Probably because her Home was between the notes And there was nothing Even there to begin with. Someone told me she uses beer cans instead of wine glasses and I didn’t even know she had started drinking wine on the weekends. I don’t think her cheekbones Can stop screaming But she still washes the dishes With the bubbles all overflowing In the cold metal of the sink I guess there wasn’t much left to celebrate after the going away parties ended She is pretty lost Sometimes I catch her and beg But there is no point to her madness anymore I think she got lost between Straight ideals And Bent chords Forgotten words And everlasting thoughts I catch her in the street sometimes Singing -- I secretly love the way she says the word music Because she never speaks These days She only sighs In the warbling mutter of someone So far away She is Just the muse of a hundred musicians With Champaign bubble eyes and Track marked heart leading nowhere but hell I think she begged them to stop Serenading her sadness But there’s addiction on her lips I never kissed her fears away Sometimes I think I’m sorry but all the bubbles popped and it was time to go
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM UTC
Champagne eyes
She gets lost between piano notes and Champaign bubbles I swear her eyes are always just a little Too far away But she sings that it won’t matter In a million years So I forgive her She still gets lost between piano keys But forgets to play them these days, I catch her staring at the notes And there is something oozing from between knotted heart strings she whispers that the chords are too tight so I just nod There are clinking glasses And the quiet hum of dishwashers But I don’t think her smile Even flickers anymore Someone told me She still gets lost sometimes Forgets which road takes her home Probably because her Home was between the notes And there was nothing Even there to begin with. Someone told me she uses beer cans instead of wine glasses and I didn’t even know she had started drinking wine on the weekends. I don’t think her cheekbones Can stop screaming But she still washes the dishes With the bubbles all overflowing In the cold metal of the sink I guess there wasn’t much left to celebrate after the going away parties ended She is pretty lost Sometimes I catch her and beg But there is no point to her madness anymore I think she got lost between Straight ideals And Bent chords Forgotten words And everlasting thoughts I catch her in the street sometimes Singing -- I secretly love the way she says the word music Because she never speaks These days She only sighs In the warbling mutter of someone So far away She is Just the muse of a hundred musicians With Champaign bubble eyes and Track marked heart leading nowhere but hell I think she begged them to stop Serenading her sadness But there’s addiction on her lips I never kissed her fears away Sometimes I think I’m sorry but all the bubbles popped and it was time to go
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big black bug, bled black blood. crunching carapaces, caught, crawling contentedly. magpie's morning meal. warbling, wistfully,woefully, wanting, weighty worms. grabs, grub greedily,gulping. magpie makes much, munch. click, clack, clack, black beak. famished family, finally, filled. ***** flies. finished, foraged feasting.
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
magpie morning
this very fall reckoned everything loses its meaning under the strain of redundancy. I know this to be a perfect truth but I still revel in the images I keep sacred behind my eyes, with all my autumns boiled down (a bare bone), to a single one for me that was warm crisp and altogether virginal- my last one, as long as I live for it is replayed as each monarch rests in my sight and with each bird arrowed south- and I tongue things spiced to remember so I can go down with memory’s ship willingly with collapsed and stunted lungs tenderly warping it into something it never was bleeding it dry of auburn reds and gold, my attempts at keeping myself loved- young. but now what do those moments mean? there have been many falls since that one, nothing but I love yous on walls- played back so many many times, like warped vhs, warbling and clipping the inherent meaning gone or completely scrambled.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 1:00 PM UTC
everything loses its meaning under the strain of redundancy
the anthem of an empty soul a shell crammed full in nothingness absolutely nil to this choral tune vacancy's note played by one sole pan there's a humdrum to its pitch packing's plump the missing ingredient always with an absence of ingredient starved was this emaciated soul not having the richest cloven pitch inside infinite quantities of nothingness ever the void sound to its pan a totally scooped out dull tune zero being in the husk of the tune this cavernous space possessing no ingredient like that of a dead hearted pan as it had but the blankest soul completely useless this bare nothingness lacking of an ample vessel's pitch such was the hopelessness to the pitch its essence so poorly of tune deprived this barren nothingness the inner pith hollow of ingredient all taken from the lifeless soul where they'd be a destitute pan an aimless chord in the pan containing not a wholeness of pitch the desert abiding without soul insolvency was its lasting tune so hungering for that ingredient to quell the wretched nothingness an interior gulf replete in nothingness needful of feeding with a brimming pan craving much for the ingredient that ever opulent barrow of pitch a human warbling a pitiful tune this ballad so dismal of soul ingredient not present, a vast nothingness soul much overloaded, in an unfurnished pan pitch harping the strains, of a unfilled tune
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Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 9:03 PM UTC
The Anthem Of An Empty Soul (Sestina)