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"wolfe" poems
MOMENTS OF MOMENTS LONGING FOR HIS TOUCH CLOSENESS OF OUR BODIES FEELINGS WE HUNGER FOR SO MUCH WHISPERS OF A BREEZE TICKLING SIDE OF MY EAR SENSATION RISES MY CHEST BUMPS WITH FEELING OF WANTING HIM MORE AS WE START TO PLAY HE GUIDES ME IN A WAY WHERE HE LAYS HIS LIPS ONTO MINE AND THE PLEASURE IS RECITED ALL DAY FINGERS TRACE THE LINES OF BLACK SILK ON MY SKIN SLOWLY HE PULLS THEM DOWN WITH A RISE OF EXCITEMENT STIRRING DEEP WITHIN I STAND THERE COMPLETELY BARE PEAKS AT A RISE THE WAY THAT HE KISSES ME AS I STARE INTO HIS EYES VULNERABLE AND EXPRESSED THE WAY HE LOOKS AT ME I START TO FEEL COMPLETE BECAUSE HE SAYS TO ME “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MY LOVE” “I COULD STARE AT YOU ALL DAY” “NEVER COVER UP” “AND NEVER BE ASHAMED” WITH YOUR HANDS INTO MINE RIGHT WHERE THEY BELONG PRESSED UP BESIDE ME FEEL OF HIS ARMS SO STRONG OUR BODYS GLIDE TOGETHER I CAN’T EVER GET ENOUGH MOVEMENT FROM HIS CENTER GIVING IT TO ME NICE AND ROUGH ACTIONS FROM OUR MOVEMENTS EXPLANATION NOT IN NEED MOTIONS FROM OUR FANTASIES I’M BEGGING TO BE FREED THE GLIDE OF HIS PASSION EXPRESSED TO ME EVERYTHING LEAVES ME FEELING FAINTLY EMPTY SO SATISFIED AND DRAINED THE TENDER KISSES HE PLACES ON THE SKIN BETWEEN MY THIGHS TRACING OF HIS FINGERS STROKING IN AND OUT OF MY INSIDES AMAZING ELECTRIC WAVES AS I CONTINUE TO BEG FOR MORE WRAPPED IN HIS ARMS MY BODY EXHAUSTED, PAINFULLY WORE THE SHADOWS OF OUR BEINGS GIVES THE WALLS A LITTLE SHOW WITH THE PASSIONATE MOTIONS WE DEMONSTRATE IN A RHYTHM WE ALL KNOW -BY JENNIFER WOLFE
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 12:09 AM UTC
RHYTHM
MOMENTS OF MOMENTS LONGING FOR HIS TOUCH CLOSENESS OF OUR BODIES FEELINGS WE HUNGER FOR SO MUCH WHISPERS OF A BREEZE TICKLING SIDE OF MY EAR SENSATION RISES MY CHEST BUMPS WITH FEELING OF WANTING HIM MORE AS WE START TO PLAY HE GUIDES ME IN A WAY WHERE HE LAYS HIS LIPS ONTO MINE AND THE PLEASURE IS RECITED ALL DAY FINGERS TRACE THE LINES OF BLACK SILK ON MY SKIN SLOWLY HE PULLS THEM DOWN WITH A RISE OF EXCITEMENT STIRRING DEEP WITHIN I STAND THERE COMPLETELY BARE PEAKS AT A RISE THE WAY THAT HE KISSES ME AS I STARE INTO HIS EYES VULNERABLE AND EXPRESSED THE WAY HE LOOKS AT ME I START TO FEEL COMPLETE BECAUSE HE SAYS TO ME “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MY LOVE” “I COULD STARE AT YOU ALL DAY” “NEVER COVER UP” “AND NEVER BE ASHAMED” WITH YOUR HANDS INTO MINE RIGHT WHERE THEY BELONG PRESSED UP BESIDE ME FEEL OF HIS ARMS SO STRONG OUR BODYS GLIDE TOGETHER I CAN’T EVER GET ENOUGH MOVEMENT FROM HIS CENTER GIVING IT TO ME NICE AND ROUGH ACTIONS FROM OUR MOVEMENTS EXPLANATION NOT IN NEED MOTIONS FROM OUR FANTASIES I’M BEGGING TO BE FREED THE GLIDE OF HIS PASSION EXPRESSED TO ME EVERYTHING LEAVES ME FEELING FAINTLY EMPTY SO SATISFIED AND DRAINED THE TENDER KISSES HE PLACES ON THE SKIN BETWEEN MY THIGHS TRACING OF HIS FINGERS STROKING IN AND OUT OF MY INSIDES AMAZING ELECTRIC WAVES AS I CONTINUE TO BEG FOR MORE WRAPPED IN HIS ARMS MY BODY EXHAUSTED, PAINFULLY WORE THE SHADOWS OF OUR BEINGS GIVES THE WALLS A LITTLE SHOW WITH THE PASSIONATE MOTIONS WE DEMONSTRATE IN A RHYTHM WE ALL KNOW -BY JENNIFER WOLFE
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Tolstoy was a boy, Ibsen was Henrik's son Hardy had a father, And see how well they've done. Byron was a grandson, And Wordsworth had a wet nurse, Thoreau had a 2 to go, Shakespeare a bad marriage, Austen was a loner, Poor Sylvia was a goner, And see how well they've done. Joyce had a ***** mind, Fitzgerald liked to drink, Richler liked to smoke, And Wolfe enjoyed a **** And see how well they've done. Fielding was a misogynist, Wilde was a jailbird; Virginia a misandrist, And Kerouac a simple **** Yet see how well they've done. Still with all their drawbacks, Look how well they've done; Like our old friend John, We surely come un-done.
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Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
Just Like Us
…These men are worth your tears: You are not worth their merriment. -Wilfred Owen, “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo” When that loudmouth on the wireless machine Alludes to Western Civilization What does he mean? Paradise Lost? Probably not Nor Saint Paul speaking on the Field of Mars The Kalevala, Hagia Sophia With its pendentives lifting up our prayers Horatius fighting to defend his bridge And Wilfred Owen dying bravely on his Lord Tennyson and Idylls of the King Chapultepec, Henry V, Becket The paratroops at Arnhem, Saint Thomas More, His King’s loyal servant, but God’s first The Stray Dog poets of Saint Petersburg The brave last stand of Roland at Roncesvalles Lewis and Tolkien and glasses of beer Montcalm and Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham Hildegard von Bingen, Siegfried and the Rhine Magna Carta, HMS Hood, the Thames The Grove of Daphne, “The Old Rugged Cross” Beatrix Potter and her little pet rabbit El Cid, Anne Frank, John Keats, Saint Benedict “I Have a Dream,” Dostoyevsky, and Greene Viktor Frankl, Dag Hammarkskjold, and Proust Good Chaucer’s naughty pilgrims telling tales The Gettysburg Address, Willie and Joe Stern Saint Augustine of North Africa Wodehouse writing a jolly bit of fun Saint Corbinian and Bavaria The ancient glories of Byzantium Pius XII contra the bombs and lies The 602nd TD Battalion Saint Joan, the Prado, and Robert Frost And far, far more. When that loudmouth on the wireless machine Alludes to Western Civilization What does he mean?
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Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 4:06 PM UTC
Western Civilization and Radio Static
…These men are worth your tears: You are not worth their merriment. -Wilfred Owen, “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo” When that loudmouth on the wireless machine Alludes to Western Civilization What does he mean? Paradise Lost? Probably not Nor Saint Paul speaking on the Field of Mars The Kalevala, Hagia Sophia With its pendentives lifting up our prayers Horatius fighting to defend his bridge And Wilfred Owen dying bravely on his Lord Tennyson and Idylls of the King Chapultepec, Henry V, Becket The paratroops at Arnhem, Saint Thomas More, His King’s loyal servant, but God’s first The Stray Dog poets of Saint Petersburg The brave last stand of Roland at Roncesvalles Lewis and Tolkien and glasses of beer Montcalm and Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham Hildegard von Bingen, Siegfried and the Rhine Magna Carta, HMS Hood, the Thames The Grove of Daphne, “The Old Rugged Cross” Beatrix Potter and her little pet rabbit El Cid, Anne Frank, John Keats, Saint Benedict “I Have a Dream,” Dostoyevsky, and Greene Viktor Frankl, Dag Hammarkskjold, and Proust Good Chaucer’s naughty pilgrims telling tales The Gettysburg Address, Willie and Joe Stern Saint Augustine of North Africa Wodehouse writing a jolly bit of fun Saint Corbinian and Bavaria The ancient glories of Byzantium Pius XII contra the bombs and lies The 602nd TD Battalion Saint Joan, the Prado, and Robert Frost And far, far more. When that loudmouth on the wireless machine Alludes to Western Civilization What does he mean?
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In the shadows rose the gallows, his execution date drew near.- Wolfe Tone, denied a soldiers ‘death, could not hold life that dear. He took a blade to his own throat and cut a swathe of red. It’s said he lingered but a week then brave Wolfe Tone was dead.. He was the father of desire for an Ireland brave and free. Desire famine could not **** nor emigration flee. He choose the manner of his death. He did not die a slave. It put his life in context- His words transcend the grave Each year on the day he died as long as Wolfe’s lived there They lay a spray of roses on his graveside in Kildare..
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Jan 27, 2012
Jan 27, 2012 at 10:21 PM UTC
Wolfe Tone
I am at the curly wolfe Looking at the spruce trees Behind them lies an army of Stout Little Soldiers Drinking Lemongrass Tea With Raspberry Tarts They yell and squeal and raise their hats Armed with tiny toothpicks For to them I am a great blue giant Peering through the Spruce
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 12:07 AM UTC
Raspberry Tarts
UNTIL NEXT TIME THE PRESENCE OF YOUR BEING PLACED UP AGAINST MY BACKSIDE CAUSES A BIT OF EXCITEMENT THAT MY BODY CAN’T JUSTIFY FROM JUST A SINGLE TOUCH FROM YOU AND YOUR UNSEEING MY BODY TREMBLES DEEP INSIDE AND MY GENDER BECOMES SO REVEALING I TURN AND WRAP MY LEGS AROUND AND USE YOU LIKE A CLUTCH THE FEELING IN MY BODY STARTS TO TRAVEL I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE IT OR IF IT’S JUST TO MUCH THE SLICKNESS MY BODY’S REVEALING BECOMES LIKE A FLUID GUIDE. YOUR ARMS GLIDING MY EVER GENTLE MOVEMENT. AS WE INTERTWINE YOU SLOWLY TAKE YOUR GENDER AND PUT IT INSIDE OF MINE TO REACH YOUR IMMENSE INDUCEMENT WITH YOUR HARDNESS BURIED INTO MINE AS I SHAPE INTO THE PERFECT FORM OF YOU SO ACCEPTING AND AGREEING BANGING THE WALLS INSIDE I GRADUALLY ACCEPT YOUR FREEING WE RISE TOGETHER IN THIS MOMENT MY BEING BEGINS TO SHATTER THIS IS A PLACE OF EVERLASTING BLISS AND NOTHING BESIDES THIS SEEMS TO EVEN MATTER MY BEING SHATTERS AS I START TO INCLINE THE COMBINED MOVEMENT OF US TWO THE SWEETNESS OF YOUR SWELL TELLS ME WE’RE NOT THROUGH AND IN THE SHADOWS I CAN SEE YOUR EYES LOCKING INTO MINE MY SOUL WANTING TO BE BURIED AND MY HIGH IS CLIMBING AGAIN INSIDE YOUR EXISTENCE IN MY LIFE SHORT LIVED YOUR BODY SO CLOSE TO MINE FOREVER YOU ARE APART OF ME YOUR BODY IS SOMETHING I STRIVE AS YOU LAY YOUR LIPS UPON MINE AND WE SAY OUR LAST GOODBYES YOU ARE FOREVER SPECIAL TO ME REMEMBER, UNTIL NEXT TIME BY JENNIFER WOLFE
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Sep 10, 2018
Sep 10, 2018 at 12:11 AM UTC
UNTIL NEXT TIME
There are railroad tracks That run through my town And at night when I finally receive The silence I wished for during the day I can hear the faint whistle And hum against my bedroom windows I hear the whistle now. All my life I have heard the trains And I find beauty in the fact that even when I'm not listening, they are there The trains carrying coal, chemicals, lumber, and the better parts of my childhood As a child I loved the idea of the caboose Allowing any stretch of rail Any length of land To be your home Your bed And it was probably through this my wanderer spirit grew. All my life these trains meant something Escape But not without possibility of return I romanticized the long web of rails connecting all the land and Souls in the American night I have always loved such pieces of antiquity So in the latter years of my childhood in high school it's no suprise the love I had for Steinbeck, Sandburg, and Woody Guthrie I would lament to friends that the trains became too fast to hop, but I never tried I always sat back and watched Or listened on quiet nights Now my childhood has passed I am nearly 20 but wrapped in my head is the idea that the young boy who had train posters and pictures covering his walls was nothing but a stranger or a character in just another awful coming of age rerun But deep down that child turned to Ginsberg who wrote of boxcars boxcars boxcars And Kerouac who followed the long stretches of road to the western edge of America And it was through Kerouac I found Thomas Wolfe I feel I have Thomas Wolfe in my bones Thomas Wolfe who left home rejoicing train rides to the North Then realized he couldn't go home again Thomas Wolfe who never wrote a bad train scene Not all of Wolfe is in me Not the 1900s Southern prejudice Or the raving accusing of friends of great treasons, only to have to apologize the morning after But I can feel his need To write all I can To never take away To add add To never reduce because who tells Van Gogh "yes yer paintings alright but I need you to reduce the amount of stars by 30 and I expect it on my desk Monday" I won't take anything away from myself Only add So at nights When I hear the train whistle And soft rattling on my window Thomas Wolfe is with me And he loves the sound too
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 11:13 PM UTC
The Railroad And Thomas Wolfe
There are railroad tracks That run through my town And at night when I finally receive The silence I wished for during the day I can hear the faint whistle And hum against my bedroom windows I hear the whistle now. All my life I have heard the trains And I find beauty in the fact that even when I'm not listening, they are there The trains carrying coal, chemicals, lumber, and the better parts of my childhood As a child I loved the idea of the caboose Allowing any stretch of rail Any length of land To be your home Your bed And it was probably through this my wanderer spirit grew. All my life these trains meant something Escape But not without possibility of return I romanticized the long web of rails connecting all the land and Souls in the American night I have always loved such pieces of antiquity So in the latter years of my childhood in high school it's no suprise the love I had for Steinbeck, Sandburg, and Woody Guthrie I would lament to friends that the trains became too fast to hop, but I never tried I always sat back and watched Or listened on quiet nights Now my childhood has passed I am nearly 20 but wrapped in my head is the idea that the young boy who had train posters and pictures covering his walls was nothing but a stranger or a character in just another awful coming of age rerun But deep down that child turned to Ginsberg who wrote of boxcars boxcars boxcars And Kerouac who followed the long stretches of road to the western edge of America And it was through Kerouac I found Thomas Wolfe I feel I have Thomas Wolfe in my bones Thomas Wolfe who left home rejoicing train rides to the North Then realized he couldn't go home again Thomas Wolfe who never wrote a bad train scene Not all of Wolfe is in me Not the 1900s Southern prejudice Or the raving accusing of friends of great treasons, only to have to apologize the morning after But I can feel his need To write all I can To never take away To add add To never reduce because who tells Van Gogh "yes yer paintings alright but I need you to reduce the amount of stars by 30 and I expect it on my desk Monday" I won't take anything away from myself Only add So at nights When I hear the train whistle And soft rattling on my window Thomas Wolfe is with me And he loves the sound too
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Thanks thespis for another muse anew, Filliping my soul with the spirit of a song, To chant for the young world in these pepperish letters, before my callous eyes on the skull of historical future on my pykitonic torso of I another African pykin, as I finish my coffin for the cadaver of poetry that the law of poetry is a distorting neurosis, neurotic abnormality its baseboard of time giving classical balance for wondrous poetry. Compensatory motivation a charm of its seed, Taking dear eyes from the skull of Demodocos Leaving songfull mouth his legacy for humanity, Warped physique not short of history, Teaching the world to drink in full pyrene spring As hunchbacked dwarfism of Alexander Pope was not in any sense dwarfism of his poetry, nor club foot of Byron in ******* to Maugham Byronic heroism to Europe of yester times, That sired Proust, the Jewish neurotic And Keats the most dwarfish and Wolfe the tallest Of man and woman to the cultural matrix Of Europe, the mother of art, poetry and synaethesia, From which was born Pushkin that took poetry Out of his nymphomaniac heart, to the solace of czars, And Shakespeare the dear thief, luckily converted Childhood kleptomania into royal theatre of King Lear, The parallel of four brothers from the house of Karamazov, Their father; impecunious penny penchant muzhik In the name of Fydor epileptic Dostoyevsky. A lull of the time to escape from world of rent and tax, Gripped nerves of the duo to a new realm of art wherein sensuous glory from ***** and Indian hemp propelled the souls of Coleridge and De Quincey to grandiose highness of poetry in the dreams of ***** bordering on the teutonic greatness of ritualistic breed, poetry that transcended from rotten apples in the writing desk of Fredriech von schiller the begotten son of Germany, writing under the arms of Balzac dressed in monkey clobus, that along with Milton in the lost paradise, gave him swaddles only when the poetic vein of Milton flowed happily from nothing, but from the ritualized autumnal equinox to the spiritual vernal, as Coleridge was in full recondite of marquetry,mosaic and miracles, the miraculous white male sheep, the white ram of Wole Soyinka, that he gave as a gift to Achebe at the last anniversary, evil decoy that become a car which deathly crushed Chinua Achebe down to demise in the catacombs for the law of poetry as abnormal human neurosis an equation of perfect art.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 8:26 AM UTC
NEUROTIC LAW OF POETRY
Thanks thespis for another muse anew, Filliping my soul with the spirit of a song, To chant for the young world in these pepperish letters, before my callous eyes on the skull of historical future on my pykitonic torso of I another African pykin, as I finish my coffin for the cadaver of poetry that the law of poetry is a distorting neurosis, neurotic abnormality its baseboard of time giving classical balance for wondrous poetry. Compensatory motivation a charm of its seed, Taking dear eyes from the skull of Demodocos Leaving songfull mouth his legacy for humanity, Warped physique not short of history, Teaching the world to drink in full pyrene spring As hunchbacked dwarfism of Alexander Pope was not in any sense dwarfism of his poetry, nor club foot of Byron in ******* to Maugham Byronic heroism to Europe of yester times, That sired Proust, the Jewish neurotic And Keats the most dwarfish and Wolfe the tallest Of man and woman to the cultural matrix Of Europe, the mother of art, poetry and synaethesia, From which was born Pushkin that took poetry Out of his nymphomaniac heart, to the solace of czars, And Shakespeare the dear thief, luckily converted Childhood kleptomania into royal theatre of King Lear, The parallel of four brothers from the house of Karamazov, Their father; impecunious penny penchant muzhik In the name of Fydor epileptic Dostoyevsky. A lull of the time to escape from world of rent and tax, Gripped nerves of the duo to a new realm of art wherein sensuous glory from ***** and Indian hemp propelled the souls of Coleridge and De Quincey to grandiose highness of poetry in the dreams of ***** bordering on the teutonic greatness of ritualistic breed, poetry that transcended from rotten apples in the writing desk of Fredriech von schiller the begotten son of Germany, writing under the arms of Balzac dressed in monkey clobus, that along with Milton in the lost paradise, gave him swaddles only when the poetic vein of Milton flowed happily from nothing, but from the ritualized autumnal equinox to the spiritual vernal, as Coleridge was in full recondite of marquetry,mosaic and miracles, the miraculous white male sheep, the white ram of Wole Soyinka, that he gave as a gift to Achebe at the last anniversary, evil decoy that become a car which deathly crushed Chinua Achebe down to demise in the catacombs for the law of poetry as abnormal human neurosis an equation of perfect art.
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O BUT we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling *** You say that we should still the land Till Germany's overcome; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb? And is their logic to outweigh MacDonagh's bony thumb? how could you dream they'd listen That have an ear alone For those new comrades they have found, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, Or meddle with our give and take That converse bone to bone?
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Sixteen Dead Men
There's a crowd of pitch black unicorns at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert. A crowd of pitch black unicorns moving their onyx hooves and horns at the rhythm of drones dressed in electric guitars. An acoustic break follows. The vibrations of the music and dancing cause purple flowers to grow, purple flowers weaned on blood and sticky black tar. There's a crowd of unicorns dancing at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert feeding on ladybirds crisps and dragonflies sticks, that once home will play vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. The purple flowers grow into vines and try to smother the unicorns to prevent them from listening to bloodred-dyed vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. Meanwhile in the corner of a museum S. Teresa of Avila's statue animates by itself, walks to the window and throwing itself crumbles into a thousand of pieces of marble. The seventh seal has not been opened yet but the ninth the eleventh and the seventeenth exploded already, cracked their own wax and started spreading tongues of flames and water to decimate humanity. A woman dressed in a fifteenth century scarlet outfit leads the pitch black unicorns to salvation creating a safe haven for them in Manchester and another one in California. They have in the meantime gone bonkers and started feeding on each other. Equine teeth suddenly grow carnivorous jaws. Nothing is left in the two oasis apart from a puddle of blood and a pavement of corpses. It's 7 a.m. Chelsea has not yet finished her concert and her music blossoms around played by the mystic turntables of fire. That which remaineth is pitch black light and the breath of aeons lingering here and beyond and nowhere.
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Feb 10, 2016
Feb 10, 2016 at 8:33 PM UTC
Mystic Turntables of Fire
There's a crowd of pitch black unicorns at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert. A crowd of pitch black unicorns moving their onyx hooves and horns at the rhythm of drones dressed in electric guitars. An acoustic break follows. The vibrations of the music and dancing cause purple flowers to grow, purple flowers weaned on blood and sticky black tar. There's a crowd of unicorns dancing at a Chelsea Wolfe's concert feeding on ladybirds crisps and dragonflies sticks, that once home will play vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. The purple flowers grow into vines and try to smother the unicorns to prevent them from listening to bloodred-dyed vinyls on mystic turntables of fire. Meanwhile in the corner of a museum S. Teresa of Avila's statue animates by itself, walks to the window and throwing itself crumbles into a thousand of pieces of marble. The seventh seal has not been opened yet but the ninth the eleventh and the seventeenth exploded already, cracked their own wax and started spreading tongues of flames and water to decimate humanity. A woman dressed in a fifteenth century scarlet outfit leads the pitch black unicorns to salvation creating a safe haven for them in Manchester and another one in California. They have in the meantime gone bonkers and started feeding on each other. Equine teeth suddenly grow carnivorous jaws. Nothing is left in the two oasis apart from a puddle of blood and a pavement of corpses. It's 7 a.m. Chelsea has not yet finished her concert and her music blossoms around played by the mystic turntables of fire. That which remaineth is pitch black light and the breath of aeons lingering here and beyond and nowhere.
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We met in kindergarten Miss Wolfe’s class Into an ear I whisper A shy boy’s bargain I knock on your door Pray the dog Doesn’t **** me Seems like a metaphor Laughter and chasing geese Stealing glances And prances in the woods Sprained ankles in the creek Your moon-drenched family room And our primal need Bodies glide Into foreign feelings I concede We’re both shaving now Not children Yet not men In between and fooling around In my attic bedroom Space Jam soundtrack Hoping my mom doesn’t hear us My hands on your back Then moving down Committing little sins Shhhhhh Don’t make a sound Then the bed of my dad’s truck Some hand stuff Never a **** Never enough You get up and leave I want you to stay I play the radio 97 ZOK Meredith Brooks And I hate the world today Because I’m a ***** But I like me this way Fifteen and fevered Down Mix Street I rollerblade Turn right on Worth My love for you Is such a sad parade Remember when We camped on the lawn Quiet light and secrets Then that wicked dawn Dragging us back Into a world Where our desires Don’t belong We are strangers now With a little bit of everything All rolled into memory Like a sacred vow I’m your hell I’m your dream Do you remember anything? I recall it all Your tousled hair And my forbidden grin I think you live in Wisconsin
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Sep 1, 2022
Sep 1, 2022 at 11:23 PM UTC
Hedonism Prism
When I laugh like a 65-year-old smoker, when I fill in the lines of her face with my fingertips, when my thoughts crash, when I don't return my mother's calls, when I apologize for stepping on your new shoes, when I read Wolfe instead of socialize with the priests, when I stare into open caskets, when I microwave popcorn for all my friends, when I throw nickels at Vietnam veterans' feet, when I drink almond milk, when I swear celibacy, when I break oaths, when I decide to write an epic poem that rips off "Howl", when I browbeat idiot roommates, when I buy books I never read, when I hit on summer girls through text messaging, when I wake up beside myself, when I sleep on the tile by the toilet, when I **** off the neighbors when I hear someone say New Journalism died, when I say they lied, when I break my fourth finger against a wall, when I listen to The Silver Jews during a heinous fog, when I get to the table on time, when I talk to Shorty about Waits, to Zach about Springsteen and Ryan Adams, when I'm surprised my friends actually listen to me, when I straddle roadkill, when I rock the proverbial boat, when I lie with good intentions, when I hook, when I line, when I sinker, when I shift, when I falter, when I fix, when I fake, when I take the bait--- it's involuntary.
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Dec 28, 2010
Dec 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM UTC
Involuntary
What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone? For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play, They have gone about the world like wind, But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild geese spread The grey wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet could we turn the years again, And call those exiles as they were In all their loneliness and pain, You'd cry, 'Some woman's yellow hair Has maddened every mother's son': They weighed so lightly what they gave. But let them be, they're dead and gone, They're with O'Leary in the grave.
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September 1913
678 Wolfe demanded during dying “Which obtain the Day”? “General, the British”—”Easy” Answered Wolfe “to die” Montcalm, his opposing Spirit Rendered with a smile “Sweet” said he “my own Surrender Liberty’s beguile”
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Wolfe demanded during dying
"My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I’ve given it away I never want to see it again And all your words could save me But keep your love away from me..." - Chelsea Wolfe
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 11:51 AM UTC
Excerpt from "Iron Moon" by Chelsea Wolfe
WHAT need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone? For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play, They have gone about the world like wind, But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman's rope was spun, And what, God help us, could they save? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Was it for this the wild geese spread The grey wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. Yet could we turn the years again, And call those exiles as they were In all their loneliness and pain, You'd cry, "Some woman's yellow hair Has maddened every mother's son': They weighed so lightly what they gave. But let them be, they're dead and gone, They're with O'Leary in the grave.
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September
No creation of merit can be created without first digesting the written-down genius of those whose shoulders pad our feet. The writer is a carnivorous beast with an eye for talent It would be a fool’s errand to venture into a vacuum in an attempt to find anything of artistic merit. The greatest accomplishments recorded by a collective arthritic hand are merely flawed reflections of the natural beauty in others’ magnificent work. A writer puts into words the common thoughts of the people who won’t elaborate upon their own condition. So it lies with the beleaguered scribe to illustrate in tomes both engaging and mundane what the rest of the world would gladly walk over. There are no thanks for reminding the world of it’s shortcomings, but there is also no rebuke for shining light upon the sullied truths for which no one wishes to lay a claim. And therein lies the writer’s world- cared for by few and searched for by those who have already recognized the societal malaise dripping all over the front pages of tomorrow’s papers.
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Apr 4, 2013
Apr 4, 2013 at 2:20 AM UTC
Hungry Like The Wolfe
Michelangelo from marble made man, Beyond Perfection. An Ultimate image, as Apollo's Earthrise on Luna, or Showcase #4. Germany has it's Beatles, Just as Liverpool does too, And I've seen pictures of a wall that stretches the length of China. Pyramids rise out of the Deserts of Egypt, The Jungles of the Aztecs, and the Mountains of the Mayans. A Colosseum still stands in Rome, And every temple envy's the ones in Angkor Wot For every age a legend. For every actor a role. For every writer a story, and painter a painting, and general a battle, and architect a structure. Wright and Wolfe and Orwell and Wells and Kafka and Kubrick and Lenin and Lennon and McCartney and MacArthur and Patton and Plato and Dvořák. There is a perfect apple pie in every mother's mind. A perfect game in every pitcher's eye. A work of art around every corner, Stuck to refrigerators, And tucked away underneath children sized beds. Hanging in every high-school hallway, Spray painted on every highway overpass. A Planet-wide gallery as simple as a finger-painting, As grand as that canyon out in Arizona. A world full of masterpieces... But for me... Only you... Only you.
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Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014 at 11:19 PM UTC
For You.
After Seven, She stands at her stall, Glass Case. Scarlet strobe. ******** clad, she practices The oldest profession, Scant consolation. A Smile, A Tap, A wink. “Come in, I’ll show you A Good Time.” After dawn, No leading lights, Lying alone, She watches television. No good news in Libya. An assortement of literature on Her coffee table; Cooking manuals, How-To guides, No Austen, No Wolfe, No Bronte, Just an illusion.
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Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012 at 7:05 AM UTC
A Young Lady
With Poe-try you can surely get your Words' worth So many words are waiting like a Wolfe at your door, for their Cummings into being. If you listen, they Pound upon your brain They Lamb-aste your viscera, making you Nash your teeth. They create a Millay in your head. So many shapes, so many Hughes Lusting for Moore they Lear at you when you least expect. Look back at them! Like Frost upon the windowpane they write themselves, then, when all is said and Donne melt away too soon. Grasp them when you can. Put them in a *Rowe Taylor* them to your muse, use your Whit, man !
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May 23, 2018
May 23, 2018 at 9:45 AM UTC
Punning With Poets (or Can Homer Come Out to Play?)
*So your feeling down? Your feeling like you are nothing? See everyone has a thing called self esteem, it's how you feel about yourself, but a shocking 85% of people suffer from low self esteem. A disease where you have no confidence in yourself. Here's the thing YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford once said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" now I want you to think about everything you think of as imperfect or a flaw in yourself. Ok? Now think about this, to someone that stuff is either non existent or what makes you perfect to them. This makes me feel better about myself already how about you? Now I want you to think about everybody you've ever said hi t without them saying hi first, you could have been there rock, there reason to live all from saying hi. Have you ever looked at an ok drawing or painting and said "Wow this belongs in a museum." Do you remember how you felt, pretty good right like a surge of joy? You are beautiful and you are perfect to someone*
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Nov 8, 2016
Nov 8, 2016 at 10:03 AM UTC
You Are Beautiful
I came back to a town In a year of my life To nothing the same as before I tried to recapture Those early beginnings But time had barred shut every door I came back to a town The first haven I knew I never would see it again Like Mr. Wolfe said Nobody finds it It's gone just like yesterday's wind I came back to a town That nurtured and reared me Now only the memories unfold While one lonely figure In all the shop windows Seemed utterly lost in the cold
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Aug 1, 2010
Aug 1, 2010 at 10:06 AM UTC
I Came Back to a Town
The mountains, knowing that a reversal, prodigious, is due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet the desert ******* and 1 felt a keen sense of cold did not have the receipt of the skimpy flesh of his clothes, the Muses, the morning the wind had calmed down, holding the end of the little voice that seeks conflict with and half to death, he headed to the dawn of Wolfe beating the day of his sweat and women, the socks of a stranger are done after love, Oh! by the shadows came to meet you a firm stance to listen to the hot goddess force spread weapons leashed the shoreline he lived for important prostitutes; are seen to change entirely move the mainstream movement of the invisible defense no longer great that straight rovers to Asia tail always known prostitutes, **** of this volume, Street Hills hey, yes, we dream of Mrs. [            ];                the image sheath that falls into the same fate on drugs;                The mountains, knowing that an overthrow, prodigious,              due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet the desert **** and 1 felt a vivid sense of cold did not lessen the reception of the skimpy flesh of his clothes, the Muses,           the morning of the wind had stilled, holding                   the end of the small voice that seek a stranger's socks are in conflict with and are half to death, he walked the dawn of Wolfe beat to the day of his sweating and women, is done after the love Oh!                      by shadow came up to meet you stand firm to listen to hot spreading goddess force weapons held leaves the shore, he lived for important prostitutes;  considered to be changed entirely up move unseen defense mainstream motion is greater than the tail straight Asia rovers always known prostitutes, naked to the present volume Hills Street hey yeah, we dream Mrs. Gauls in the image sheath that falls into the same fate upon the drug; The mountains,                           knowing that a reversal, prodigious, is due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet 1 desert ******* and felt a keen sense of cold did not have the receipt of the skimpy flesh of the Muses, the morning of the wind had calmed down, holding the end of the little voice with half to death, he headed to the dawn of Wolfe beat the day of his sweats and women,    |               |                     the speed of Strange are done after love, oh!       by the shadows came to guarantee a firm stance to listen to the hot goddess force spread weapons leashed the shoreline he lived for important prostitutes;                 are seen to change fully move the mainstream movement of the Defense no longer invisible; Asia tail always knows prostitutes, having regard of this volume; Hill Street Hey, yes, we Dream of Mrs. [           ] the image [           ] sheath that falls into the same fate on Drugs |             |     |      |      | | ||||     |   |||     |       | | |||    |||| |M ||||||||||| ||||               |
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 9:49 PM UTC
The Mrs.
The mountains, knowing that a reversal, prodigious, is due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet the desert ******* and 1 felt a keen sense of cold did not have the receipt of the skimpy flesh of his clothes, the Muses, the morning the wind had calmed down, holding the end of the little voice that seeks conflict with and half to death, he headed to the dawn of Wolfe beating the day of his sweat and women, the socks of a stranger are done after love, Oh! by the shadows came to meet you a firm stance to listen to the hot goddess force spread weapons leashed the shoreline he lived for important prostitutes; are seen to change entirely move the mainstream movement of the invisible defense no longer great that straight rovers to Asia tail always known prostitutes, **** of this volume, Street Hills hey, yes, we dream of Mrs. [            ];                the image sheath that falls into the same fate on drugs;                The mountains, knowing that an overthrow, prodigious,              due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet the desert **** and 1 felt a vivid sense of cold did not lessen the reception of the skimpy flesh of his clothes, the Muses,           the morning of the wind had stilled, holding                   the end of the small voice that seek a stranger's socks are in conflict with and are half to death, he walked the dawn of Wolfe beat to the day of his sweating and women, is done after the love Oh!                      by shadow came up to meet you stand firm to listen to hot spreading goddess force weapons held leaves the shore, he lived for important prostitutes;  considered to be changed entirely up move unseen defense mainstream motion is greater than the tail straight Asia rovers always known prostitutes, naked to the present volume Hills Street hey yeah, we dream Mrs. Gauls in the image sheath that falls into the same fate upon the drug; The mountains,                           knowing that a reversal, prodigious, is due to a clear reading of the leather of the planet 1 desert ******* and felt a keen sense of cold did not have the receipt of the skimpy flesh of the Muses, the morning of the wind had calmed down, holding the end of the little voice with half to death, he headed to the dawn of Wolfe beat the day of his sweats and women,    |               |                     the speed of Strange are done after love, oh!       by the shadows came to guarantee a firm stance to listen to the hot goddess force spread weapons leashed the shoreline he lived for important prostitutes;                 are seen to change fully move the mainstream movement of the Defense no longer invisible; Asia tail always knows prostitutes, having regard of this volume; Hill Street Hey, yes, we Dream of Mrs. [           ] the image [           ] sheath that falls into the same fate on Drugs |             |     |      |      | | ||||     |   |||     |       | | |||    |||| |M ||||||||||| ||||               |
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“Poetry needs both a mother and a father....” -Virginia Wolfe I am the poem that has been born of all the mothers who have come before me. In every fiber of my being, in every cell of my body, the words and deeds of these women beat through my soul in an eternal rhythm that will continue on to my daughters in a distant, unseen future. Each mark upon my body, every desire in my heart is an echo of all that they have loved, all that they have sacrificed. The words I write are their words, muted and modulated by time and society; my name written upon this page is written for their glory and the recognition of all that they have gained for us women of today. I am their testament, I am their artistic expression. We, now, are daughters, are grand-daughters, are nieces, are sisters of these women. We are the mothers of tomorrow and for all that is to come. We add to the poem, the story, the painting. We are all literary women by our birth; we are literature to our deepest core. We are the muses of the fathers, but the fathers cannot be the womb of creativity as we are. There is glory in being the mothers of expression. I am not a poetess, but I am a poem. Another line has just been added.
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Mar 15, 2010
Mar 15, 2010 at 6:57 PM UTC
Unending Poem