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"windblown" poems
Cornwall, Cornwall every day Bright sun and fresh feelings Simple pleasures by just being here Forward thinking into old age dotage All our lives waiting, hoping, wishing Never believing it could be Out of mind with secret longing Filling up with atmospheric air Sensing that emotional rush Deep breaths swallowing cliffs and sea Wild flowers and cows here Hedgerows and windblown trees Lopsided branches pointing inland As cool salt air combs their twigs The winding tracks disappear Love is here all around, so strong Heart wrenching and stomach churning Soul and body filling up with Cornish… Cornish, as long as it’s Cornish It’s good! Give us a chance to stay Give us the chance to live Ever on the hard granite pathways Sounds of mewing gulls and thunder of surf Beating on the windswept rocks and beaches Cornish light familiar and so bright Invading our eyes and warming our hearts Gently massaging our faces with soothing fingers Lifting our spirits as breaking through the clouds It charges us with love Fulfilled and whole Our lives and minds gratefully feasting The armfuls of wonder as we carry our hearts Together, through eternity, watching As the sun sets in a blaze of Cornish light
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Feb 3, 2010
Feb 3, 2010 at 12:28 PM UTC
Cornish Light
Turquoise in the morning light The treetops are alive With the myriad of birdsong As the swirling mists arrive And the shaft of brilliant sunshine Penetrates the greenish gloom To illuminate the craggy ridge In a honeyed, golden bloom. The rabbits head for burrows Retreating from the night, A flock of teal, in unison, Explosively take flight, There’s a freshness in the morning air A tingle to the skin And the twinkle in the blue eyes Lets a secret smile begin. Autumn in the country glade The russets and the gold, The song of early crickets In the leafy knoll takes hold, There’s a brilliance in the crispness In the piles of windblown leaves And the healthy crunch of underfoot Invokes a sense of ease. The peacefulness is calming The solace in the sound Of the distant song of blackbird In the tall oaks that surround And the velvet feel of morning Thrills the mind to warmly hum To the glory of occasion In the warmth of Autumn sun. Marshalg Beneath the reds and golds of Autumn leafage. 14 May 2012 © 2012 Marshal Gebbie
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May 15, 2012
May 15, 2012 at 2:09 AM UTC
Warmth of Autumn Sun
Verse 1 Why do I have this haunted feeling? Something is moving in the shadows. Working secretly tides flow, as night steals past the day. A voice is singing to silence, a thousand petals falling windblown, the still earth will lie strange, unknown, a tolling bell brings on the night. In the fullness of a falling tear, In the garden of remembered time, In the silence sung before the song, Life will find you there. Verse 2 What moves a fallen leaf to swirling? Couples are speaking words of love songs. In the hour of the dawn's glow a rose will scent the night. Moonbeams will stir the waving waters, while feathered wings caress the breezes, and your heart sings to pierce the dark, a falling star will shed it’s light... In the fullness of a falling tear, In the garden of remembered time, In the silence sung before the song, Life will find you there. With the turning of the heaven's sky, With the dancing of the seasons by, With the yielding of a lover's sigh, Life will find you there, Life will find you there When darkness spreads from near to far, In the cascade of a falling star In the motion of a bird in flight In the sweetness of your lovers light… With the beating of your yearning heart. Copyright © 2007 Gary Brocks
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Aug 27, 2018
Aug 27, 2018 at 10:39 PM UTC
THE GARDEN OF TIME –– Set to music by Jesse Elder ––
Just disappearing isn't possible when it takes so long for a rock wall to erode away   The wind is the only one that sees you, and its silence grinds down from the inside out a mountain too high to climb   It's hard to forget swelling words spoken under the breath of the voice of silence, when your hands are lined with all that they ever have; still bearing every latent piece that breaks off tryin' to keep from the sight of another tempest storm gale moving worlds   So I'm going way outside the edge of the inside; crossing over way outside the lines covered by gathered windblown life fractals     Though I may not get back in again, way outside the lines, or I might not even want to ... you can’t go back the same way you came, everything changes while you're gone even if you DO notice   Gravity pulls with the strength of a turning tide: you can try and fight it, but you can't stop its running downhill looking behind your eyes, trying to take you back the same way you went way outside   the lines ...         Jesse
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Apr 4, 2018
Apr 4, 2018 at 2:14 PM UTC
Way outside the lines
/// ironclad clouds rain rust roiling on streets timorous tired and torporous turgid with wetness windblown fowl run afoul of flights of fliers
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Jul 12, 2015
Jul 12, 2015 at 7:15 PM UTC
dustdevil
It is not enough to see a soul will manifest what has been sown immortal purple flame gnarled roots in stone the truth of nature an external blooming expression of the world a flourishing vision voraciously spreads animating the meadow with honey-scented breeze steep slopes sweetened magnificent blossoms open lavender wings to conquer the sky here the air is thin windblown seeds so carelessly thrown to harsh alpine soil become willful weeds persistently untamed internally unchained forever wild flowers
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Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
Lupine
The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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Oct 4, 2011
Oct 4, 2011 at 12:10 AM UTC
The Funeral Train
The devil's speech say they: Rolling, clattering, frolicking, hungry. Billows of charred skeletons embrace the air Black soot pumped straight from the pyres of Hades Congealing to clouds of evil intent wherever it roam. That charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. In the coughing desert Not a thing dares roam Neither wind nor creature And neither stick nor stone. But then the silence disturbed by a horrible shriek - The railway screams in horror and the train itself speaks, saying "Tell me, thou innocent, Why feel you special and best? For when all is done I take you And return you to my nest; Your world is bright and happy Full of high spirits and song, Though soon you too shall step aboard And join my faceless throng." Hot saliva on the heaving engines: Weeping, groaning, ghostly, parched. Rusted joints spewed onwards grinding resisting Movement spat out like a violently beaded string of curses Sloppily uttered as incantations of a malformed mouth! From that charred old shell so terse, Black as sadness and dead as a hearse, Darling to death as he brings on the rain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train. That dark train cries out and all around A mourning whimper rises like slumbering fog- Bleak and yellow it obscures the land Seeping out insidious in strange locales all: The old lonely fisherman Sleeping on his wharf, The frustrated hawker's Windblown barefaced booth, Silent streets crying for attention, Dark places hidden at the corner of every eye. That solemn train cries out and all around Her mourning whimper rises like harrowing fog Calling all to upright attention and fear. Looming like a spectre but a breath-span from your window Slowly closing cold dread claws- Naked numbness dumb as ice- Cold dread claws upon thy waist. And you, You poor old thing, Shivering in your pitiful shack of bones, You never had any chance! You were only human. You were only human, you poor old thing. Barreling on with brimstone slang: Clang clang! Dang dang! Beelz Bub! Sputtering an ocean of curses from turgid goat-flesh Born of sadness to cause even more, yawning great maw Jowls clanking with fresh hot oil drool steaming stark and lewd, and yet That charred old shell so terse, Blacker than sadness and slain like a hearse, Is all that gives meaning to our every gain: The dry rolling thunder of the funeral train.
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I'm breathing hurriedly...i'm r e m e m b e r i n g c o n c e n t r a t i n g trying  to  p i c t u r e : ~~ A ~~ P--lethora of trees, flowering plants...across and beyond...surround the L--ustrous surface of the rushing blue green water...spraying...        nourishing A--maranths and azaleas, with its windblown mists...refreshing.....see, C--reeping creatures underwater could not ruin the quietude it emits I--nimitable is its Serenity...nothing else is at par.............its D--impled surface, tiny ripples running, creating streams of dreams...      whispering W--ords...a gentle massage, washing away rage, misery...like precious A--methyst, jade, citrine and crystals...shimmering down under,         rebuilding, helping T--urquoise, gently touch with its sea blues...above, under...wherever E--merald waters, against red carnelian rocks...to weather...endure...to R--escue someone reeling...patiently...with words mollifying...and        sprays of S--alty mists..soothing pensive eyes, mind, soul...cleansing...healing        CHAKRA... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Placid~waters~run b e h i n d~~me b e f o r e~~me deep~~within ~~ m e ~~ ~~~~~ Sally Copyright September 3, 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015 at 8:36 AM UTC
ACROSTIC (2)
The shoes of a dead man For you to walk And his blade For you to **** Every page vanished And every memory But not the paper upon which it was written And the dust Under which it was hidden Traces of direction Windblown A new future Waiting for ripples to die To see the reflection And the form That must be overcome In the eyes of others To determine need Though not enough In the eyes of others To speak Or live in silence To write Or to think For who would listen Or learn From a man wearing a dead man’s shoes? Because they are not wearing them Only you The blasphemy of discarding his past But saving his presence Is only for you to know The willful generation The one that learns from the past But lives for the future While others Ignore the past And die before they say amen But not the man walking in a dead man’s shoes Inside a book Inside another book Choosing the prophecy That fits his needs But not the worlds Because they wouldn’t understand Even if it was written in their language Nobody can understand Except the man walking in a dead man’s shoes He knows death And every word is life So he reads And prays And does not bring who he is Because he is not the book He is only the man walking in a dead man’s shoes He cannot hear anything Or see color Only the desperation that fills the void Between men And their confusion That he is unafraid And able to walk between people Without explanation Or justification Because they wouldn’t understand Nobody can understand Except the man walking in a dead man’s shoes So don’t ask Don’t ask You do not know how to ask Or what to do with wisdom They are just words Words that amaze you But cannot change you Because to you they are words To him they only describe An approximation A sketch Of smoke From a fire That you cannot see Or feel Not like him Because you are not a man wearing a dead man’s shoes It is much worse than you think Because you won’t confront it You are insensitive Dehumanized The only ones worth living must believe as you do Thoughts are life to you Certain thoughts Thoughts that may be right or may be wrong Thoughts that cannot be described by one man the same as another But thoughts that he will not speak Because he is walking in a dead man’s shoes Without the blade For he does not come to you by the sword For separation is only by choice His alone Without bloodshed Without the desire of what you have For he is not a thief He will live without it He will never take it For his interest is not in what you have But in what he can earn And what is provided As it is given by the world As it is described In the prophecy That best fits his needs Because he is a man walking in a dead man’s shoes
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 3:54 PM UTC
Dead Man's Shoes
The shoes of a dead man For you to walk And his blade For you to **** Every page vanished And every memory But not the paper upon which it was written And the dust Under which it was hidden Traces of direction Windblown A new future Waiting for ripples to die To see the reflection And the form That must be overcome In the eyes of others To determine need Though not enough In the eyes of others To speak Or live in silence To write Or to think For who would listen Or learn From a man wearing a dead man’s shoes? Because they are not wearing them Only you The blasphemy of discarding his past But saving his presence Is only for you to know The willful generation The one that learns from the past But lives for the future While others Ignore the past And die before they say amen But not the man walking in a dead man’s shoes Inside a book Inside another book Choosing the prophecy That fits his needs But not the worlds Because they wouldn’t understand Even if it was written in their language Nobody can understand Except the man walking in a dead man’s shoes He knows death And every word is life So he reads And prays And does not bring who he is Because he is not the book He is only the man walking in a dead man’s shoes He cannot hear anything Or see color Only the desperation that fills the void Between men And their confusion That he is unafraid And able to walk between people Without explanation Or justification Because they wouldn’t understand Nobody can understand Except the man walking in a dead man’s shoes So don’t ask Don’t ask You do not know how to ask Or what to do with wisdom They are just words Words that amaze you But cannot change you Because to you they are words To him they only describe An approximation A sketch Of smoke From a fire That you cannot see Or feel Not like him Because you are not a man wearing a dead man’s shoes It is much worse than you think Because you won’t confront it You are insensitive Dehumanized The only ones worth living must believe as you do Thoughts are life to you Certain thoughts Thoughts that may be right or may be wrong Thoughts that cannot be described by one man the same as another But thoughts that he will not speak Because he is walking in a dead man’s shoes Without the blade For he does not come to you by the sword For separation is only by choice His alone Without bloodshed Without the desire of what you have For he is not a thief He will live without it He will never take it For his interest is not in what you have But in what he can earn And what is provided As it is given by the world As it is described In the prophecy That best fits his needs Because he is a man walking in a dead man’s shoes
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(rough translation) debt debt debtor tonight it howls in tumbleweed tongues beaten about and windblown over a barren, over-there road a dust-tongue stretches licking skeletons all the way to feet of the silver hills that lie in the moon of the Little Karoo debt debt debt in vein Mother is a stranger just standing there and sipping tea in another woman’s blue kitchen debt debt debt in her all staring at the cracks reflecting on the windowpane the fragile earth’s dismembered but the rain will come my child the rain will come prophesy the rust-red clouds all bellowing in the wind Mother will stand unequivocal as untamed buffalo grass -- rooted and valid
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Jul 13, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 at 12:59 AM UTC
DROUGHT IN MY MOTHER TONGUE
There's a drawing on my wall a pen and ink impression of the old transporter bridge - a Meccano masterpiece. It's my Tardis, my time machine, portal to a vast interior of vivid early images, sounds of a rumbling grumbling bogie pulling me back through time. The clatter as our boarding gate swings shut, an alert pause in the varnished cabin. We listen for the next familiar step, the creaking **** towards Runcorn Gap, passing over Aethelfleda's Castle, the mid-crossing windblown waltzing, the bustling landing in the other county.
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Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 6:39 AM UTC
Runcorn Transporter Bridge: Crossing the Gap
Deep brown eyes Windblown hair Life on wheels Never slowed me down I have a story i am willing to share If you're willing to listen Hiya I'm Jake, I'm gay and I enjoy my boyfriend. I play drums because it's weird to see a wheel chaired guy singing in the front you know. I'm good I guess. >^^< meow
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 9:40 PM UTC
Intro- Jake's edition
Gray Owl hearkens the dappled daybreak knell echoing through the wildwood forest stand; rock doves and frosty stones abide, where a marooned heart doth dwell, disrobed by the longest night's frigid touch Timber stand grips tight red clay and bedrock of ages, postured tall and strong as eagle's spirit throne Pine cones hide in the low drifting clouds, ripe acorns tumble down alone unto  a  windblown shallow earthen grave, hillocked  beneath the sky-high canopy Bones of branches, furrowed bark from burled oak, wood-grains of pith, natural gnarled achings peeled by the shivering wind's breath Paling autumn memories grow dim as the receding sunlight, recollections of ebbing Jasmine's mellowing fragrant balm waft aloft in a favorite fading fantasy, the edge of winter metamorphosis bears down with a prodigious weight of a different kind of retreating light; brindled Queen Anne's lace hold sway across the tawny frostbitten meadow imbuing the poignantly whetting breeze The blink of an eye winks, to catch sight of an intimate glimpse, an unspoken solitude holds forth, the mesmerizing coo of rock doves, reverently mirroring the sanctity of the forest wildwood lingering amongst the frosty ferns and stones The harmony of tranquil silence wanders; only the bowing resistance of the boughs manifest the shapeless wind’s whispered  breathe swirling above the labyrinth threshold; therein lies an unfractured fault line rooted deeply beneath the earth’s crust like the sonorous heart of a sanctuary hearthstone Hence there is symmetry felt in silence that only whispers in the deep toned consonant of our own harbored sighs a holy human blood link born of  heritage wilderness heartwood beats keenly alive written by:   harlon rivers ... December 2017
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Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017 at 6:21 PM UTC
In the Winter Wildwood
Gray Owl hearkens the dappled daybreak knell echoing through the wildwood forest stand; rock doves and frosty stones abide, where a marooned heart doth dwell, disrobed by the longest night's frigid touch Timber stand grips tight red clay and bedrock of ages, postured tall and strong as eagle's spirit throne Pine cones hide in the low drifting clouds, ripe acorns tumble down alone unto  a  windblown shallow earthen grave, hillocked  beneath the sky-high canopy Bones of branches, furrowed bark from burled oak, wood-grains of pith, natural gnarled achings peeled by the shivering wind's breath Paling autumn memories grow dim as the receding sunlight, recollections of ebbing Jasmine's mellowing fragrant balm waft aloft in a favorite fading fantasy, the edge of winter metamorphosis bears down with a prodigious weight of a different kind of retreating light; brindled Queen Anne's lace hold sway across the tawny frostbitten meadow imbuing the poignantly whetting breeze The blink of an eye winks, to catch sight of an intimate glimpse, an unspoken solitude holds forth, the mesmerizing coo of rock doves, reverently mirroring the sanctity of the forest wildwood lingering amongst the frosty ferns and stones The harmony of tranquil silence wanders; only the bowing resistance of the boughs manifest the shapeless wind’s whispered  breathe swirling above the labyrinth threshold; therein lies an unfractured fault line rooted deeply beneath the earth’s crust like the sonorous heart of a sanctuary hearthstone Hence there is symmetry felt in silence that only whispers in the deep toned consonant of our own harbored sighs a holy human blood link born of  heritage wilderness heartwood beats keenly alive written by:   harlon rivers ... December 2017
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Flickering indistinctly, like the last reel of an early silent film, these blurry shadows of windblown leaves project themselves into the corners of this simple room. Inside my mind is another room, lit by intuition. It is here that possibilities are delicately considered, weighed, ever so gently, for their potential as eventuality. This is not to say that my heart never holds sway in these measured evaluations. Oh, yes. It does win, from time to time. Life is just sweeter, I have found, when peace reigns between these two old friends, and a mutual accord is reached.
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 9:30 PM UTC
Intuition
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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I am closer to believing than I ever was before on the crest of this Elation must I crash upon the shore And with the Driftwood of acquaintance light the fire to love once more I am windblown... I am times. To be closer to believing to be just a breath away On the death of inspiration I would buy back yesterday But there's no crueler illusion There's no sharper coin to pay as I reach out...it slips away From the ***** of custom to the ledges of extremes don't believe it till you've held it life is seldom what it seems But lay your heart upon the table and in the shuffling of your dreams remember... who on Earth you are. I need me You need you we want us But of course you know I love you for what else am I here for only you not face to face but side by side forever more I need to be here with you for without you what am I Just a fool out searching for some heaven in the sky Take me to forward lead me on Through collision and confusion While there's life beneath the Sun you are the reason I continue so near for so long so close.... yet so far away I need me You need you We want us to live forever measure after measure Of the writing on the wall that burns so brightly it blinds us all I need me you need you we want us together on Sundays in the rain closer than forever against or with the grain to ride the storms of Love Again So be closer to believing though your world is torn apart For a moment changes all things and to end is but to start And if your journey is unrewarded may God lift up your heart You are windblown but you are mine. Emerson Lake and Palmer lyrics - favorite  of Cherie Nolan
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May 29, 2016
May 29, 2016 at 4:25 PM UTC
"Closer to Believing" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Lyrics
I am closer to believing than I ever was before on the crest of this Elation must I crash upon the shore And with the Driftwood of acquaintance light the fire to love once more I am windblown... I am times. To be closer to believing to be just a breath away On the death of inspiration I would buy back yesterday But there's no crueler illusion There's no sharper coin to pay as I reach out...it slips away From the ***** of custom to the ledges of extremes don't believe it till you've held it life is seldom what it seems But lay your heart upon the table and in the shuffling of your dreams remember... who on Earth you are. I need me You need you we want us But of course you know I love you for what else am I here for only you not face to face but side by side forever more I need to be here with you for without you what am I Just a fool out searching for some heaven in the sky Take me to forward lead me on Through collision and confusion While there's life beneath the Sun you are the reason I continue so near for so long so close.... yet so far away I need me You need you We want us to live forever measure after measure Of the writing on the wall that burns so brightly it blinds us all I need me you need you we want us together on Sundays in the rain closer than forever against or with the grain to ride the storms of Love Again So be closer to believing though your world is torn apart For a moment changes all things and to end is but to start And if your journey is unrewarded may God lift up your heart You are windblown but you are mine. Emerson Lake and Palmer lyrics - favorite  of Cherie Nolan
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The gypsy hymns and railway trails which you followed into the valley of your trials Lady Luck brought you enough street child wisdom and thief given kindness to turn the tracks around and the train whistle to wake me. Desert saint of your weathered ways with your thin wrists and moon gleaming lips Hope to you was like a blinding sunrise, painful to acknowledge, yet sorely lacking without Never could be without your Larkspur boquets and marigold wreaths August heat heavy with the scent of cypress trees Apollo of the dusty sea, flooded the cliffs with light like withering flames born from boxcar visions and a desperate hunger for that windblown hallelujah we chased down the starlit trestles like missionaries. Summoned from our streetcar medallions, vagabond nymphs, rumbling through moth-eaten states and barren dusks, lazy moon gazing upon our dolorous times and wild days and all our rough and rowdy ways. No need to heed the judgements of the stars. With the arid land so wild and lonesome- we weave our own muse into the railway line- followed back to when you were my home, and the streets were the laurel crown of your vagrant fortune.
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Aug 9, 2020
Aug 9, 2020 at 12:12 PM UTC
Rough n rowdy
I stretch forward, elongating my neck, making the hairs that grow down onto my nape prickle, envisioning my true horse-nature. I’m hooves clopping on river rocks. My mane combed to one side, my angular muzzle huffing. I’m strong and sturdy – muscle and a soft steel kind of strength. And yet at the whistle of a windblown reed, I’m gone, scattered and spooked. I trace the angles that connect weakly on my rawboned face. Strong lines never broken never snapped, just shifted and sifted easily. I stand before others, pulled loosely together, unsettled in my people-clothes. Loyal – love me. Wild – but not too tightly. I sit for sketches sometimes hours sometimes minutes sometimes seconds sometimes months. I look like a human, solid to the fingertips of others pressing in – but I’m a ghost. I’m burned by the red clay of a canyon wall, shiny from the sun. My sweat reflects ribbons of wet diamonds at the bottom of a cold, fast river.
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Jan 18, 2013
Jan 18, 2013 at 12:42 AM UTC
The Self Portrait 1907 – Pablo Picasso
Your windblown hair and your windbound heart inhabit a single memory. Sad eyes in the rearview mirror Pursed lips and perverted thoughts Like how your hand resting on her thigh should be resting on mine instead.
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Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 10:56 PM UTC
Windburned
Windblown mane flying out behind, Ribbons of tangled threads dancing In the early autumn zephyr. Ebony hued hooves alternate, Strong as steel, joined in the pounding Music of free flight. The wild horse. Soft, flowing mane brushed to perfection. Ribbons entwining the smooth silk braids Shining in the early autumn light. Silver shod hooves alternate in rhyme, Shimmering like gold, joined in the proud Prancing of a lady. The show horse. Two spirits combine. The wild and the performer, Both content in their Destined lives.
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 4:02 AM UTC
Wild and Show
Set free to roam in foam a windblown mane follow the herd come all come chasing rolling racing kick up sand water horse reclaim the land
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Aug 16, 2023
Aug 16, 2023 at 9:18 AM UTC
Water Horse
moonrock, lovelight; dim, silent, mindbreath- interleaving sunspace; dark, narrow, corridor of doubt-- far below this moment lurks an otherwisely ancient growing sense: of worldliness i haven't asked again (yet you are this world-to-be); the smile-harvest nearing, your touch reasserts its ever-meaning of dancing in the starlight i ask my yearning future self, of playful rolls of joy spinning off our lichen finger tracings~ of healthiness and utter-smooth response to sharpness i think with full bodied thought-- (it throbs deep into the wellspring of our self-teaching); of healing i ask with songs beneath the feet, toes vibrate dream-colored peace like the windblown comfort of forestal goddess tresses, i fall upward into you even as we descend through shadowovercastings, even while the earth-tremble breaks our calm, even though the bees fade, another nectar drips from all around your inner-golden, flowered canopy of lives (i effulge this world-to-be you are!)
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 4:43 PM UTC
glacial erratic shining fully pale, heavy balanced
It's never going to stop being Friday The Birth of Sacraments is not Good. Autumn is Friday's punch in the gut of Summer It's always Friday. The windblown faded days are a trampled graveyard. Today is Friday and if I shovel the fake faded Forrest of time it is always Friday. The perennial glare of a Gregorian mistake. Christ died for me on a Friday! Illusions of time passing are like Prayers blown back on a Friday. Today tears the pages off. You flip it over. Friday appears as oil from the flood. Caroline Shank 9.2.2022
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Sep 2, 2022
Sep 2, 2022 at 12:57 PM UTC
Friday
i want a messy eyed boy to drag his tongue upon my sun filtered skin and lay me out in a field of wildflowers with wide fingers and veined arms wandering all over my aching body. i want him to whisper things to me in a light voice as wavering and deep as trickling water and windblown leaves. i want him to feed me vines and fungi, psychedelic plants, and watch me trip into the winking sky, a wandering abyss. i want him to growl all over me, holding my bare body in his arms, fitting his skin in every crevice that is possible in these mundane bodies. i want sweat sliding off me, and the feel of bodies in motion. i want him to stroke my skin and paint it lavender with crushed flowers and put soil in my hair, while i wiggle my naked feet in the air. i want him to swallow me like i am overfilling liquor in a crystal bottle, desperate and excited. i want him to leave pink bite marks on the waiting flesh of my collar bones, and breathe into me; i want him to write on my skin in the fire of the dwelling night, my soul is enigmatic and it draws him in like art. i crave hands around my waist, colors on my tongue, the earth in between my toes, and somebody to kiss me under the lightning storms.
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Feb 1, 2014
Feb 1, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
hungry
feral as the untamed passion of the soul Unrestrained murmurs seep out into ether vastness pleas of an abandoned heart A howling silence bears a merciless ache   heedless to the rampant storm This silent reverie -- but muted amends. For in shameless longing, the furor a deserted heart, thrums onward, unrequited, wafting in the wind song’s serendipity Wild as the winged wanton breeze   Oh chilling winter winds of change ! Come lay me down ; as if I were the windblown golden fields of summer down to the ground … down to the ground                                                        cast aside some unnoticed countryside Smugly indifferent, restless to rise up untouched, where seeds  of  wild hope once thrived defy gravity in the wind swept  aftermath a thwarted sweet surrender © wild is the wind
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM UTC
Surviving the storm