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"wrecks" poems
Beautiful. How do you describe this when beauty is claimed differently for everyone... Every Man , Woman , and Child is adored by another dazzling human being . These people are beautiful despite faults , addictions , and wrecks of emotion . I yearn to discover the beauty that lies beneath a person's skin .
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 12:25 AM UTC
What is it to be beautiful ?
your mind is like the ocean a constant wave of emotion for a second it was a storm of hate crashing out now it is a calm tide of love surfacing about beneath the tides lie countless wrecks like memories resting inside my head I thought I'd forgotten placed them deep below but they surface from time to time trying to stay afloat   my mind has a never ending complexity I own it - yet struggle to control it it is drowning in emotion it is struggling to keep afloat but for now I will bathe in the undisputed unknown
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 7:29 AM UTC
ocean minded
Feel empty in your post apocalyptic City of Angels, Where not even your pets are real! An electric android, a sheep or a frog, The whir-flutter of micro-electrical wings of a butterfly. Good, and so you ought. Now grab the handles of your empathy box, And in a shared virtual hallucination – Feel: empathy, depression, pain, delusion and despair, The outré myriad gifts of consciousness. Billions of discombobulated and disconnected wrecks: Adam's sons; Eve's daughters, And among them simulations too, Fakes! androids! A phony circuit of implanted semi-conscious memories, A hive of neural malaise! Welcome to our world; know how dead inside I am. You, yes, you: Need a pet to make you more complete? Maybe you can afford A Fake Fakir Flake like me who looks like Jude Law, Sounds like Richard Burton, And silently romances you like Rudolph Valentino. Come and stick what’s left of your mind, In here, In hair, Hear her: har, har, har… A box of lies... A voice, Mercer's, With texture from an age you neither lived in nor dared in: Al Jerry's, a TV actor, Droning on in pre-selected tones. The real thing, the men, the women, the children - their animals - Made in the wild, wild desert, In the green pulsing savannah, On the open crusted sea; Now too, washed, choked, and drained, Too many spliced and diced mutations, Iterating your image: The thing that was my heart, My Child, now its imitation.
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017 at 7:42 AM UTC
*Fake Fakir Flake*
Fiat lux and Then I stand and see how it looks out on Gnothi seauton psychologies of a naughty automaton he is Out speeding on the autobahn while she is Now sleeping on futons in peace it's Not pieces that need to be re-ordered yet Since he's reckless but wrecks less when he's courting it's A sport, you see a ticket's his master trophy in- Deed endorsing his Porsche-speed matrimony down master row and she's Driven to this racer who makes her en- Force things, they later make her take her lead like lead's erasing then vanishing Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy Love who's the catcher who has her and Now you see It's not lack-lusting but luck-lasting because lastly Down the street Is where I swear we're running faster from crashing, finally Into this dreamcatcher's hazard Our dreamcatcher's hazard Oh have you heard It's absurd that the whip cracked Yeah the Porsche was hacked baby transformed back in two and back into a nat- Ural rural state where the horse power level was more morally sta- Ble biblically faith- Ful foolishly a- Ble but yeah we take over whatever we face-off and baby we're faster so we'll have to chase after our Dreamcatcher's hazard and That dreamcatcher's hazard's a A madness that is learned And it's absurd So say the mattress is glowing it's holy Matrimony, so don't look lonely it's only Master Roshi, to say to chase your dreams It's you and me be- Cause for you my blood is flowing For you my blood is glowing For you this blood is flowing And too the flood is blowing It's true our love is growing
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 8:22 PM UTC
Dreamcatcher's Hazard
Fiat lux and Then I stand and see how it looks out on Gnothi seauton psychologies of a naughty automaton he is Out speeding on the autobahn while she is Now sleeping on futons in peace it's Not pieces that need to be re-ordered yet Since he's reckless but wrecks less when he's courting it's A sport, you see a ticket's his master trophy in- Deed endorsing his Porsche-speed matrimony down master row and she's Driven to this racer who makes her en- Force things, they later make her take her lead like lead's erasing then vanishing Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy Love who's the catcher who has her and Now you see It's not lack-lusting but luck-lasting because lastly Down the street Is where I swear we're running faster from crashing, finally Into this dreamcatcher's hazard Our dreamcatcher's hazard Oh have you heard It's absurd that the whip cracked Yeah the Porsche was hacked baby transformed back in two and back into a nat- Ural rural state where the horse power level was more morally sta- Ble biblically faith- Ful foolishly a- Ble but yeah we take over whatever we face-off and baby we're faster so we'll have to chase after our Dreamcatcher's hazard and That dreamcatcher's hazard's a A madness that is learned And it's absurd So say the mattress is glowing it's holy Matrimony, so don't look lonely it's only Master Roshi, to say to chase your dreams It's you and me be- Cause for you my blood is flowing For you my blood is glowing For you this blood is flowing And too the flood is blowing It's true our love is growing
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I am but a driftwood All but forgotten from whence I came A place where once had a name A time when all was good I am but a driftwood Set myself adrift Currents they lift Bearing their latent gifts I move as they shift I'd protest if only I could I am but a driftwood Over a body so vast Over wrecks with broken masts Spiteful winds howl with angered gusts An eternity that would last Eroding my integrity like it should I am but a driftwood Know not of where I'm headed Render me hopeful but will me jaded Pillaged and plundered Looted and raided Swallowed and spat out, ocean's food I am but a driftwood Lost and forlorn out at sea Awaiting land that would receive me Take me in like I'm meant to be Give me your sand, bury me completely Keep me in the safety of your hood I am but a driftwood I remember the place from whence I came A faded dream with a name Still drifting away from all that's good
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Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 2:25 PM UTC
Driftwood
You know, there's always a song that takes me back To a year, so long before It's not always a top ten song That hits my very core It just grabs me and transports me Back in time while standing still It might take me to a good place Release a memory I should **** But, my soundtrack is different It's not just music in my mind There's sounds that make my playlist up Sounds of a different kind A baseball smacking leather God, that sets me free Some good, some bad, some coaching Some involve my ******* up knee The click on every eight track When it switches channels to play on Brings back those early mornings when the house cleaning was done But, music, yes the music makes a large part of my list Some take me back to dances And the girls I never kissed The good songs stretch my senses Make me smell things from the past The memories still linger While the music didn't last Sirens, car wrecks, yelling Have their place on my list too It's not music to most people It made my list though, who knew? A sound as small as raindrops Take me back to a morning when I stood on line with a hundred others Brave women and brave men Cornwallis, Nova Scotia rain and U2 take me on a track To basic training on the east coast Wow, that's 25 years back A car crash and a siren Takes me to when I met my wife This was on the television when Princess Di, she lost her life So, my soundtrack is eclectic It's not just music fuels my trips It might be a golf ball bouncing That takes me through a time warp slip A song, that's just too easy Everyone has one of those But, can you travel back, oh, 30 years When someone blows their nose? There's more sounds that effect me But, those I think I'll hide I will write about them later And I will take you on that ride In 50 years of living Lots of sounds have hit my ears We'll sit and chat about them One day over a few beers....
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Aug 4, 2012
Aug 4, 2012 at 5:05 PM UTC
Soundtrack of my life
You know, there's always a song that takes me back To a year, so long before It's not always a top ten song That hits my very core It just grabs me and transports me Back in time while standing still It might take me to a good place Release a memory I should **** But, my soundtrack is different It's not just music in my mind There's sounds that make my playlist up Sounds of a different kind A baseball smacking leather God, that sets me free Some good, some bad, some coaching Some involve my ******* up knee The click on every eight track When it switches channels to play on Brings back those early mornings when the house cleaning was done But, music, yes the music makes a large part of my list Some take me back to dances And the girls I never kissed The good songs stretch my senses Make me smell things from the past The memories still linger While the music didn't last Sirens, car wrecks, yelling Have their place on my list too It's not music to most people It made my list though, who knew? A sound as small as raindrops Take me back to a morning when I stood on line with a hundred others Brave women and brave men Cornwallis, Nova Scotia rain and U2 take me on a track To basic training on the east coast Wow, that's 25 years back A car crash and a siren Takes me to when I met my wife This was on the television when Princess Di, she lost her life So, my soundtrack is eclectic It's not just music fuels my trips It might be a golf ball bouncing That takes me through a time warp slip A song, that's just too easy Everyone has one of those But, can you travel back, oh, 30 years When someone blows their nose? There's more sounds that effect me But, those I think I'll hide I will write about them later And I will take you on that ride In 50 years of living Lots of sounds have hit my ears We'll sit and chat about them One day over a few beers....
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When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda’s reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador; From the tumbling surf, that buries The Orkneyan skerries, Answering the hoarse Hebrides; And from wrecks of ships, and drifting Spars, uplifting On the desolate, rainy seas;— Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless main; Till in sheltered coves, and reaches Of sandy beaches, All have found repose again. So when storms of wild emotion Strike the ocean Of the poet’s soul, erelong From each cave and rocky fastness, In its vastness, Floats some fragment of a song: From the far-off isles enchanted, Heaven has planted With the golden fruit of Truth; From the flashing surf, whose vision Gleams Elysian In the tropic clime of Youth; From the strong Will, and the Endeavor That forever Wrestle with the tides of Fate; From the wreck of Hopes far-scattered, Tempest-shattered, Floating waste and desolate;— Ever drifting, drifting, drifting On the shifting Currents of the restless heart; Till at length in books recorded, They, like hoarded Household words, no more depart.
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Seaweed
I am not beautiful...         I am choked up tears, cover-up smiles         the kind of light that turns you blind         from having too less or more than enough. I am not beautiful...         I am scratched out scars, burnt out heart         the kind of storm that wrecks up lives         creeping stealthily through the night. I am not beautiful...         I am not your quintessential girl         the kind that walks with a perfect stance         swaying waist of 26" and pretty face all made up I am not beautiful...       **I am edges and curves, messy hair and everything you never dreamt of        The kind that repulses you by skin, and attracts you by mind        Someone you'll never know because. . .** I am not beautiful.
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Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 1:23 PM UTC
(not) Beautiful
I miss awaking With you by my side Faking Not wanting to let you inside With your body pressed against mine Begging For me to say fine And me finally letting Myself give into your delicious temptation Good morning *** Before goodbye at the train station Forgetting what wrecks We had created Losing our minds We were sedated Ignoring the signs Destined for failure My teenage romance You were too much my senior To be happy with a careless dance And the lights went out You were gone And with that came pouring doubt At dawn Simple love may not exist To act unconsciously Is  not permissed And certainly love is no democracy I miss awaking with you by my side
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC
Good morning ***
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:31 AM UTC
Sitting In An Airport With A Sign That Says "Who You Used To Be"
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
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Just a crack in the brick wall A red rubber ball The last time you can't remember When you stood tall The monotonous hologram The seaside hotdog stand The regrets piled higher than any mountain can Four stringed guitar Home in an abandoned car Courage in a bottle Wishing still on the first star Still he caresses the neck Presses down the frets Sings three octave blues On life's reef of wrecks He's free lost in the chords The music opens doors The pathway is as bleak as sin While inside he reaches for more He goes off to sleep He has his dreams deep About a paradise for losers And a five string guitar
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Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 10:12 PM UTC
Four String Guitar
Magic spells Casting enchantments Only time tells If wishes come true Voodoo hexes To destroy What wrecks us Try the witches brew Magic genie Grants three wishes Do you see They're all for you Pixie dust For extra luck Because I must Start anew Magic wand Spell book bindings I'm quite fond Of loving you   Your drink I mix Love potion For a quick fix To make your heart true After all the spells Enchantments Hexes Potions And brews It seems now You love me too.
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Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014 at 3:22 AM UTC
Magia
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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The Ladder Of St. Augustine
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another’s virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things; The strife for triumph more than truth; The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth; All thoughts of ill; all evil deeds, That have their root in thoughts of ill; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will;— All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies, Nor doom the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
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hey donald trump, why are you thinking people w2ho get wounded in battle aren’t heroes cause if you think your a hero, your a hero of nothing because **** fanning battled a shark, mate, and he deserves a reward but you donald trump deserve nothing, nothing nothing i have fought tooth and nail to prove that poor people have rights and i ain’t into the army, but i know they are brave now here is we’re not going to take crap from trump anymore ya know, when i first heard of him, i8 thought of professor plum or professor plunket and you will never win my vote, if i was an American, no way hoi zei i think i might spew, i think i might spew, i think i might spew on you trump, yeah i disagree with your comment trump, nothing against you, just your comment you sound so right wing, only allowing rich people honours i ain’t into john mcCain either, but that is his views, and i hate your views even more it makes people think you are crazy, a real crazy ************ people fight for the good of the nation , what do you do i am designing homeless shelters, would you do that trumpet i will party with all the poor people while rich snobs like trump wrecks the world with his selfish opinions
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Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 3:06 AM UTC
donald trump will never ever win credits from me
Montgomery! true, the common lot Of mortals lies in Lethe’s wave; Yet some shall never be forgot, Some shall exist beyond the grave. “Unknown the region of his birth,” The hero rolls the tide of war; Yet not unknown his martial worth, Which glares a meteor from afar. His joy or grief, his weal or woe, Perchance may ’scape the page of fame; Yet nations, now unborn, will know The record of his deathless name. The Patriot’s and the Poet’s frame Must share the common tomb of all: Their glory will not sleep the same; ‘That’ will arise, though Empires fall. The lustre of a Beauty’s eye Assumes the ghastly stare of death; The fair, the brave, the good must die, And sink the yawning grave beneath. Once more, the speaking eye revives, Still beaming through the lover’s strain; For Petrarch’s Laura still survives: She died, but ne’er will die again. The rolling seasons pass away, And Time, untiring, waves his wing; Whilst honour’s laurels ne’er decay, But bloom in fresh, unfading spring. All, all must sleep in grim repose, Collected in the silent tomb; The old, the young, with friends and foes, Fest’ring alike in shrouds, consume. The mouldering marble lasts its day, Yet falls at length an useless fane; To Ruin’s ruthless fangs a prey, The wrecks of pillar’d Pride remain. What, though the sculpture be destroy’d, From dark Oblivion meant to guard; A bright renown shall be enjoy’d, By those, whose virtues claim reward. Then do not say the common lot Of all lies deep in Lethe’s wave; Some few who ne’er will be forgot Shall burst the ******* of the grave.
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Answer To A Beautiful Poem, Written By Montgomery, Author Of “The Wanderer Of Switzerland,” Etc., Entitled “The Common Lot.”
Montgomery! true, the common lot Of mortals lies in Lethe’s wave; Yet some shall never be forgot, Some shall exist beyond the grave. “Unknown the region of his birth,” The hero rolls the tide of war; Yet not unknown his martial worth, Which glares a meteor from afar. His joy or grief, his weal or woe, Perchance may ’scape the page of fame; Yet nations, now unborn, will know The record of his deathless name. The Patriot’s and the Poet’s frame Must share the common tomb of all: Their glory will not sleep the same; ‘That’ will arise, though Empires fall. The lustre of a Beauty’s eye Assumes the ghastly stare of death; The fair, the brave, the good must die, And sink the yawning grave beneath. Once more, the speaking eye revives, Still beaming through the lover’s strain; For Petrarch’s Laura still survives: She died, but ne’er will die again. The rolling seasons pass away, And Time, untiring, waves his wing; Whilst honour’s laurels ne’er decay, But bloom in fresh, unfading spring. All, all must sleep in grim repose, Collected in the silent tomb; The old, the young, with friends and foes, Fest’ring alike in shrouds, consume. The mouldering marble lasts its day, Yet falls at length an useless fane; To Ruin’s ruthless fangs a prey, The wrecks of pillar’d Pride remain. What, though the sculpture be destroy’d, From dark Oblivion meant to guard; A bright renown shall be enjoy’d, By those, whose virtues claim reward. Then do not say the common lot Of all lies deep in Lethe’s wave; Some few who ne’er will be forgot Shall burst the ******* of the grave.
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His skin weaved in the golden sand, Shone under the sun of his motherland. Hair a tangled meshwork of thread, Reminiscent of the nets his father spread. He had no toys but crystals and shells, that he collected onshore in lonely spells. His food, the raw salty fish, Swiftly with skill that he gut and dished. He goes and lays down in wet sand, the spirit of which he loves to no end. He sings to the mermaids and in mud he rolls, and the sea laughs with him in breaking shoals. He is made of blood but ocean too, he knows no music but woosh woosh woosh. He wishes to marry a girl of the sea, who'll dwell with him in his fantasy. He turns his head and closes his ears, while people run away from the ocean in fear. Destruction and death loom ahead, The blue ocean rises violently filling the town with dread. Like a heavenly curse it fells on the town, crushes and sweeps like the tragedy bound. With his holy hand it avenges it's kin, and his water that was treated as nothing but bin. It tears every home away from it's root, just like how the humans did its fish loot. And squeezes the life out of the fishermen, that feast on the dead of his homeland. It starves and suffocates many men, who made him breathless with oil spills time and again. Like a storm it rages and plunders. In minutes, wrecks havoc on the land and rips it asunder. It gradually descends back to it's nest, Satisfied with the curse it did impress. The next day a body lay on the shore. Like a coffin did it mud wore. As people looked on it, they could not help but chant; ***The Child of the Ocean lies strangled in its waters, We feed things love and they destroy us and slaughter.***
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May 11, 2017
May 11, 2017 at 9:05 AM UTC
The Child Of the Ocean
His skin weaved in the golden sand, Shone under the sun of his motherland. Hair a tangled meshwork of thread, Reminiscent of the nets his father spread. He had no toys but crystals and shells, that he collected onshore in lonely spells. His food, the raw salty fish, Swiftly with skill that he gut and dished. He goes and lays down in wet sand, the spirit of which he loves to no end. He sings to the mermaids and in mud he rolls, and the sea laughs with him in breaking shoals. He is made of blood but ocean too, he knows no music but woosh woosh woosh. He wishes to marry a girl of the sea, who'll dwell with him in his fantasy. He turns his head and closes his ears, while people run away from the ocean in fear. Destruction and death loom ahead, The blue ocean rises violently filling the town with dread. Like a heavenly curse it fells on the town, crushes and sweeps like the tragedy bound. With his holy hand it avenges it's kin, and his water that was treated as nothing but bin. It tears every home away from it's root, just like how the humans did its fish loot. And squeezes the life out of the fishermen, that feast on the dead of his homeland. It starves and suffocates many men, who made him breathless with oil spills time and again. Like a storm it rages and plunders. In minutes, wrecks havoc on the land and rips it asunder. It gradually descends back to it's nest, Satisfied with the curse it did impress. The next day a body lay on the shore. Like a coffin did it mud wore. As people looked on it, they could not help but chant; ***The Child of the Ocean lies strangled in its waters, We feed things love and they destroy us and slaughter.***
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The sleet is drawing boxes 'round our mud-and-snow sashed towns. We'll check 'em off with crunching footsteps, slash our gallows grins through static weather. Nervous laughter fights off winter while somnambulist nights hold the anthill days at bay. And each repeated conversation coats a thrumming undercurrent echoed by the groaning rivers in their arthritic fatigue. where the ice piles up like car wrecks. And, out of those disastrous angles, jumps up and trips back down. Blinking eyelids, right then left. Sunrises. Sunsets. Dusks and dawns in places familiar wading through liminal space. Circles darkened. Footprints filled in. The heat just circles lazily. Our flushed and clammy brows will **** askance and sweat while footsteps melt our swaying way through boiling sidewalks. Nervous laughter dulls the impact of seared, rapid fire nights. "Ha." "Ha." Shrug off another. And all repeated reminiscence does is hamstring overthinking of the closing jaws of traps in these rusting western towns. where winds breathe dust by mouthfuls So, into our familiar mishaps, ***** up and falls back down melting into neighborhoods dress down, upbraid us. 'Til our feet do not walk circles 'round these wilting Western towns.
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Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 6:09 PM UTC
Standardized Footsteps
The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star; Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies; A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore. O write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be— Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free, Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if naught so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued: Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. O cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men **** and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy! The world is weary of the past— O might it die or rest at last!
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Hellas
Coffee, computers, *** alcohol, Love and other drugs... Sometimes, we say goodbye to addiction not because we want to not because we don't like it anymore because we must, because our addiction wrecks the lives of others Then, it isn't about our love for addiction for that very specific addiction or our desperate, DESPERATE yearning for it, but because we love our children we love our friends and family and our addiction might just wreck it probably will wreck it! So we betray ourselves we betray our hearts stab a cold dagger into our hearts, just so that we don't wreck others mostly, our innocent children
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 1:16 PM UTC
Addiction
The night was passing, and the Grecian host By no means sought to issue forth unseen. But when indeed the day with her white steeds Held all the earth, resplendent to behold, First from the Greeks the loud-resounding din Of song triumphant came; and shrill at once Echo responded from the island rock. Then upon all barbarians terror fell, Thus disappointed; for not as for flight The Hellenes sang the holy pæan then, But setting forth to battle valiantly. The bugle with its note inflamed them all; And straightway with the dip of plashing oars They smote the deep sea water at command, And quickly all were plainly to be seen. Their right wing first in orderly array Led on, and second all the armament Followed them forth; and meanwhile there was heard A mighty shout: "Come, O ye sons of Greeks, Make free your country, make your children free, Your wives, and fanes of your ancestral gods, And your sires' tombs! For all we now contend!" And from our side the rush of Persian speech Replied. No longer might the crisis wait. At once ship smote on ship with brazen beak; A vessel of the Greeks began the attack, Crushing the stem of a Phoenician ship. Each on a different vessel turned its prow. At first the current of the Persian host Withstood; but when within the strait the throng Of ships was gathered, and they could not aid Each other, but by their own brazen bows Were struck, they shattered all our naval host. The Grecian vessels not unskillfully Were smiting round about; the hulls of ships Were overset; the sea was hid from sight, Covered with wreckage and the death of men; The reefs and headlands were with corpses filled, And in disordered flight each ship was rowed, As many as were of the Persian host. But they, like tunnies or some shoal of fish, With broken oars and fragments of the wrecks Struck us and clove us; and at once a cry Of lamentation filled the briny sea, Till the black darkness' eye did rescue us. The number of our griefs, not though ten days I talked together, could I fully tell; But this know well, that never in one day Perished so great a multitude of men.
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The Battle Of Salamis
The night was passing, and the Grecian host By no means sought to issue forth unseen. But when indeed the day with her white steeds Held all the earth, resplendent to behold, First from the Greeks the loud-resounding din Of song triumphant came; and shrill at once Echo responded from the island rock. Then upon all barbarians terror fell, Thus disappointed; for not as for flight The Hellenes sang the holy pæan then, But setting forth to battle valiantly. The bugle with its note inflamed them all; And straightway with the dip of plashing oars They smote the deep sea water at command, And quickly all were plainly to be seen. Their right wing first in orderly array Led on, and second all the armament Followed them forth; and meanwhile there was heard A mighty shout: "Come, O ye sons of Greeks, Make free your country, make your children free, Your wives, and fanes of your ancestral gods, And your sires' tombs! For all we now contend!" And from our side the rush of Persian speech Replied. No longer might the crisis wait. At once ship smote on ship with brazen beak; A vessel of the Greeks began the attack, Crushing the stem of a Phoenician ship. Each on a different vessel turned its prow. At first the current of the Persian host Withstood; but when within the strait the throng Of ships was gathered, and they could not aid Each other, but by their own brazen bows Were struck, they shattered all our naval host. The Grecian vessels not unskillfully Were smiting round about; the hulls of ships Were overset; the sea was hid from sight, Covered with wreckage and the death of men; The reefs and headlands were with corpses filled, And in disordered flight each ship was rowed, As many as were of the Persian host. But they, like tunnies or some shoal of fish, With broken oars and fragments of the wrecks Struck us and clove us; and at once a cry Of lamentation filled the briny sea, Till the black darkness' eye did rescue us. The number of our griefs, not though ten days I talked together, could I fully tell; But this know well, that never in one day Perished so great a multitude of men.
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Can someone tell the folks upstairs That their floor is my ceiling. They stomp about, Scream and shout. In a fleet, They drag their feet. They tap dance in their hall, And cause my crockery to fall. While they boisterously shake, I'm forced to stay awake. They slam their doors, and I settle scores, By returning a 'thud', Which goes unheard. And finally when they clamber to bed, I thank my stars and think in my head, Those noisy wrecks, Are a pain in our necks, I would have loved them more, Had they lived on another floor.
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 6:13 AM UTC
The people upstairs
She kept up with her housekeeping. Typically. Very Neat. Shelves everywhere. Today, the melon baller was out of place and she was busy batting flies. Actually, there was only one fly. Senses deceived. The humming was too loud to go undisturbed. Attention becomes focused digitally on enhanced minute wrecks. Hours spent trying to get the flies. Illusion. One fly. She didn't know. Suspected worst. Kept at it. The sexless man walked in with a tophat. Brimmed. Asks why the dishes weren't done. Too Busy. Why the floor not swept. Too Busy. Vacuum. There's flies to get. I'm busy. The house is a mess. The house is a wreck.
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 8:20 AM UTC
Narrator of the Pressed State.
Love can cause elation or the greatest kind of pain. It wrecks lives in the process and evolves a "human stain." It is the one fulfillment but when unrequited stings. And agony is just a tithe when losing loved ones brings.
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Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017 at 9:05 AM UTC
Human Stain
And so resounds the echo... Sewn against your shadow, handstitched destiny edges, unraveled in the fire, pulses rage in heart-paced whispers, collision of midnight panther pelts, bleed into powder silk, ravage the gentle merge, your touch upon my awakening sway me softly in your gaze taste me with eyes that pierce my soul from wingtips of butterflies cast from the fire of your existence. Unfold the unspoken words dripping in the creases of this throbbing...needing...wanting heartbeat-slip-stitch, suture seal the ache of gossamer flesh pressed against raven, twin glances, the bookmark, fingertips tracing the eyeprints of your words upon me. ...so resounds the echo... As echo wrecks the body in a fever of words, purged from the ****** night, that devours_and devours_your lips, my hands' gentle cradle, spread its roots dark these russet threads the gold, swept wetly over hands, like nerves, quickening and so laden with tremors, these words echo echo Slip knot tongues intertwine, tangled tasting breathes, exhaled in slow moans surging, purging that drink_and crave_and need m o r e beneath hands that unleash the fervor, lips pressed through the flames, as gossamer falls upon panther silk, an exigent trespass, beyond the touch beyond the kiss, educe the quake and the quiver within this rapture. ...so resounds the echo echo...
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Aug 30, 2012
Aug 30, 2012 at 5:42 PM UTC
The Echo: