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"wretches" poems
As this world wretches behind the piles of our institutional bones, I turn to look the other way. When the beggars graze my pant leg, I don't stop mid stride and feign over their disparity, For gaining the holy marksmen’s approval. When Judas kissed sanctity’s cheek beside the frames of broken-hearted men, I shook the feeling from my sleeve.   And I no longer feel guilt, shame, Out of mere cerebral obligation. So, have me for a worthless sinner. I will fall to the dust before I bring myself to stand beside the husks of humanity that so many have become; spewing their filth on unfortunate blindfolded men, expecting me to follow suit.        Well, **** off, kindly.       I’m living for the god that answers to no titles, and parsonages none of these black suited scumbags. I’m living for the god that inspires harmony, and lifts my fingers to dance for liberation, and pleasure, and hopeless longing. I’m living for the god of progress who shakes pieces of enlightenment from his gray beard, and swallows up the offerings of his every wounded child. I’m living for the god of no religion, Never saying “God,” For this name is tainted by old customs. Cheapened by the misguided nature of man.
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May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012 at 1:15 AM UTC
Say, "God."
[Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : oh let them Flame like the ancient city Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers When men let angels fret them ! Yea ! let the south wind blow, And the Turkish banner advance, And the word go out : No quarter ! But I shall hod thee -so ! While the boys and maidens dance About the shambles of slaughter ! I know thee who thou art, The inmost fiend that curlest Thy vampire tounge about Earth's corybantic heart, Hell's warrior that whirlest The darts of horror and doubt ! Thou knowest me who I am The inmost soul and saviour Of man ; what hieroglyph Of the dragon and the lamb Shall thou and I engrave here On Time's inscandescable cliff ? Look ! in the plished granite, Black as thy cartouche is with sins, I read the searing sentence That blasts the eyes that scan it : **** and SET be TWINS." A fico for repentance ! Ay ! O Son of my mother That snarled and clawed in her womb As now we rave in our rapture, I know thee, I love thee, brother ! Incestuous males that consumes The light and the life that we capture. Starve thou the soul of the world, Brother, as I the body ! Shall we not glut our lust On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled To a hell of jesus and shoddy, Dung and ethics and dust ? Thou as I art Fate. Coe then, conquer and kiss me ! Come ! what hinders? Believe me : This is the thought we await. The mark is fair ; can you miss me ? See, how subtly I writhe ! Strange runes and unknown sigils I trace in the trance that thrills us. Death ! how lithe, how blithe Are these male incestuous vigils ! Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us ! Wherefore I solemnly affirm This twofold Oneness at the term. Asar on Asi did beget Horus twin brother unto Set. Now Set and Horus kiss, to call The Soul of the Unnatural Forth from the dusk ; then nature slain Lets the Beyond be born again. This weird is of the tongue of Khem, The Conjuration used of them. Whoso shall speak it, let him die, His bowels rotting inwardly, Save he uncover and caress The God that lighteth his liesse.
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The Twins
[Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare] Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my brain and spine : oh let them Flame like the ancient city Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers When men let angels fret them ! Yea ! let the south wind blow, And the Turkish banner advance, And the word go out : No quarter ! But I shall hod thee -so ! While the boys and maidens dance About the shambles of slaughter ! I know thee who thou art, The inmost fiend that curlest Thy vampire tounge about Earth's corybantic heart, Hell's warrior that whirlest The darts of horror and doubt ! Thou knowest me who I am The inmost soul and saviour Of man ; what hieroglyph Of the dragon and the lamb Shall thou and I engrave here On Time's inscandescable cliff ? Look ! in the plished granite, Black as thy cartouche is with sins, I read the searing sentence That blasts the eyes that scan it : **** and SET be TWINS." A fico for repentance ! Ay ! O Son of my mother That snarled and clawed in her womb As now we rave in our rapture, I know thee, I love thee, brother ! Incestuous males that consumes The light and the life that we capture. Starve thou the soul of the world, Brother, as I the body ! Shall we not glut our lust On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled To a hell of jesus and shoddy, Dung and ethics and dust ? Thou as I art Fate. Coe then, conquer and kiss me ! Come ! what hinders? Believe me : This is the thought we await. The mark is fair ; can you miss me ? See, how subtly I writhe ! Strange runes and unknown sigils I trace in the trance that thrills us. Death ! how lithe, how blithe Are these male incestuous vigils ! Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us ! Wherefore I solemnly affirm This twofold Oneness at the term. Asar on Asi did beget Horus twin brother unto Set. Now Set and Horus kiss, to call The Soul of the Unnatural Forth from the dusk ; then nature slain Lets the Beyond be born again. This weird is of the tongue of Khem, The Conjuration used of them. Whoso shall speak it, let him die, His bowels rotting inwardly, Save he uncover and caress The God that lighteth his liesse.
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"Don't stop dreaming" crooned a voice in my ear But dreaming re-enforces fear Slumber comes and shreds my thoughts Subconscious wars are brought and wrought. Inside my skull holds evidence of Bruised purples and nightmare reds Sleep shreds my mind between its teeth And wretches it across; bequeath Across the walls, across the room Across the shadows, through the gloom
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Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014 at 5:22 PM UTC
Just Sleep
Sailors we're not, but here our souls roam Beneath the cold seas, and the waves and the foam We inherit the depths of the oceans and sea Never to know of just what we could be We are the dead, lying down in the dark Our stories forgotten, our history stark We're not in one place, we live where we went down Not a monument stands for most in our towns We went down in rought seas, in a storm or a battle We died taking a trip or transporting our cattle There's as many of us as there are in the earth We've been taken at sea, since man first did give birth Our souls walk the floor of the deepest dark places No one knows who we are, not our names or our faces We ended our lives on ships , sloops and on ketches We are the dead, some rich, some poor wretches We never will age, never again will see light We're still waiting for more to join us in the night The seas give us life and they take just as fast It's a tomb for us all, it's where our breaths were our last Unsinkable ships...fifteen hundred or more Lost their lives to the ice just like many before The water cares not, your soul's there to take Whether ocean or sea, or on river or lake We walk in the depths, beneath the lighthouse and rocks Our home is the cold, down below all the docks We lie just off the shore, we died within reach Some of us drowned just a bit from the beach The sea's a cruel master, it owns all who sail It cares not one bit, who you are or your tale Stories mean nothing to those down below For when it is time, to the locker you'll go We died fighting pirates, we gave up our lives We left our young children, our husbands and wives From the Cape of Good Hope to the cold northern seas Where we were still alive as our bodies did freeze In the Indian Ocean and off the Newfoundland coast Some nights you might see us, in the fog...just a ghost We're the ones who inhabit the dark of the seas When you hear the wind howling, you are hearing our pleas Don't forget who we were, when we lived and we died Please remember the families who broke down and did cry There are fish in the ocean, but we live here too We're the lost souls of people who died on the  blue Sailors we're not, but the water's our home Down in the dark waters beneath the waves and the foam.
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Apr 29, 2012
Apr 29, 2012 at 9:48 AM UTC
Beneath The Dark Waters
Sailors we're not, but here our souls roam Beneath the cold seas, and the waves and the foam We inherit the depths of the oceans and sea Never to know of just what we could be We are the dead, lying down in the dark Our stories forgotten, our history stark We're not in one place, we live where we went down Not a monument stands for most in our towns We went down in rought seas, in a storm or a battle We died taking a trip or transporting our cattle There's as many of us as there are in the earth We've been taken at sea, since man first did give birth Our souls walk the floor of the deepest dark places No one knows who we are, not our names or our faces We ended our lives on ships , sloops and on ketches We are the dead, some rich, some poor wretches We never will age, never again will see light We're still waiting for more to join us in the night The seas give us life and they take just as fast It's a tomb for us all, it's where our breaths were our last Unsinkable ships...fifteen hundred or more Lost their lives to the ice just like many before The water cares not, your soul's there to take Whether ocean or sea, or on river or lake We walk in the depths, beneath the lighthouse and rocks Our home is the cold, down below all the docks We lie just off the shore, we died within reach Some of us drowned just a bit from the beach The sea's a cruel master, it owns all who sail It cares not one bit, who you are or your tale Stories mean nothing to those down below For when it is time, to the locker you'll go We died fighting pirates, we gave up our lives We left our young children, our husbands and wives From the Cape of Good Hope to the cold northern seas Where we were still alive as our bodies did freeze In the Indian Ocean and off the Newfoundland coast Some nights you might see us, in the fog...just a ghost We're the ones who inhabit the dark of the seas When you hear the wind howling, you are hearing our pleas Don't forget who we were, when we lived and we died Please remember the families who broke down and did cry There are fish in the ocean, but we live here too We're the lost souls of people who died on the  blue Sailors we're not, but the water's our home Down in the dark waters beneath the waves and the foam.
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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river. And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! Come! let the burial rite be read—the funeral song be sung!— An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young— A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young. “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her—that she died! How shall the ritual, then, be read?—the requiem how be sung By you—by yours, the evil eye,—by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?” Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong! The sweet Lenore hath “gone before,” with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonnaire, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair—the death upon her eyes. “Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days! Let no bell toll!—lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the ****** Earth. To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven— From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven— From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven.”
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Lenore
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river. And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or never more! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! Come! let the burial rite be read—the funeral song be sung!— An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young— A dirge for her, the doubly dead in that she died so young. “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her—that she died! How shall the ritual, then, be read?—the requiem how be sung By you—by yours, the evil eye,—by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?” Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong! The sweet Lenore hath “gone before,” with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonnaire, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair—the death upon her eyes. “Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days! Let no bell toll!—lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the ****** Earth. To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven— From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven— From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven.”
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My breathing becomes erratic and warm blood rushes to the tips of my ears as I remember you. You showed me the world from a clean, glass window. For a while, it was amazing. The view was impeccable and there wasn't a single flaw. But day after day of staring through that clean, glass window I began to panic. The window wouldn't let me break through, let me be free. You kept me under wraps and hid me from a world of untamable beauty and free spirited inhabitants. The clean, glass window was warped with your tainted perspective on a perfect world. I couldn't breathe around you, I was a fish out of water and you didn't mind. As I flailed around, you chuckled and said "it's okay." But it's not okay and you cause me nothing but heart murmurs and not the butterflies in my stomach type. The type that wretches my gut. You did nothing but hurt me when all I ever did was love you.
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 3:01 AM UTC
Heart murmurs......I'm trapped
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on top, but never quite burst through. Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, Kept slush waist-high and rising hour by hour, And choked the steps too thick with clay to climb. What murk of air remained stank old, and sour With fumes of whizz-bangs, and the smell of men Who'd lived there years, and left their curse in the den, If not their corpses... There we herded from the blast Of whizz-bangs, but one found our door at last, Buffeting eyes and breath, snuffing the candles, And thud! flump! thud! down the steep steps came thumping And sploshing in the flood, deluging muck - The sentry's body; then his rifle, handles Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck. We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined 'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!' Coaxing, I held a flame against his lids And said if he could see the least blurred light He was not blind; in time he'd get all right. 'I can't' he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids', Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there In posting Next for duty, and sending a scout To beg a stretcher somewhere, and flound'ring about To other posts under the shrieking air. * * * Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed, And one who would have drowned himself for good, - I try not to remember these things now. Let dread hark back for one word only: how Half-listening to that sentry's moans and jumps, And the wild chattering of his broken teeth, Renewed most horribly whenever crumps Pummelled the roof and slogged the air beneath, - Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout 'I see your lights!' But ours had long died out.
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The Sentry
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on top, but never quite burst through. Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, Kept slush waist-high and rising hour by hour, And choked the steps too thick with clay to climb. What murk of air remained stank old, and sour With fumes of whizz-bangs, and the smell of men Who'd lived there years, and left their curse in the den, If not their corpses... There we herded from the blast Of whizz-bangs, but one found our door at last, Buffeting eyes and breath, snuffing the candles, And thud! flump! thud! down the steep steps came thumping And sploshing in the flood, deluging muck - The sentry's body; then his rifle, handles Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck. We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined 'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!' Coaxing, I held a flame against his lids And said if he could see the least blurred light He was not blind; in time he'd get all right. 'I can't' he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids', Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there In posting Next for duty, and sending a scout To beg a stretcher somewhere, and flound'ring about To other posts under the shrieking air. * * * Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed, And one who would have drowned himself for good, - I try not to remember these things now. Let dread hark back for one word only: how Half-listening to that sentry's moans and jumps, And the wild chattering of his broken teeth, Renewed most horribly whenever crumps Pummelled the roof and slogged the air beneath, - Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout 'I see your lights!' But ours had long died out.
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Everyone dies Story’s always the same I just wish I could tell it Some new, different way To revivify life With a vivid description Instead of this atmosphere’s Toxic constriction Malnourishment kitchen An infant mortality Failure to listen To self-absorbed, carbon-based Standard emission Way passed overfishin’ For likes on the social de-human condition Automaton autobahn Trickle down neocon For-profit prison bomb Boomin’ like radical Islamic martyrdom Unemployed masses Of back of the classes The masking of innocent Voices in ashes An **** of power And greed wretches ***** Mother Earth out to fuel Their big engines of war An insatiable thirst for more Curdled blood screams As I rot to the Corps Of America’s Dreams
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 4:13 PM UTC
Some Random Thoughts on Global Fascism
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, Before the Father's face I stand. To reconcile offending man, Make Justice drop her angry rod; What creature could have form'd the plan, Or who fulfil it but a God? No drop remains of all the curse, For wretches who deserved the whole; No arrows dipt in wrath to pierce The guilty, but returning soul. Peace by such means so dearly bought, What rebel could have hoped to see? Peace by his injured Sovereign wrought, His Sovereign fasten'd to a tree. Now, Lord, Thy feeble worm prepare! For strife with earth and hell begins; Conform and gird me for the war; They hate the soul that hates his sins. Let them in horrid league agree! They may assault, they may distress; But cannot quench Thy love to me, Nor rob me of the Lord my peace.
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Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace
We've seen the Angel of Death Coerced- his hands we become His hollow countenance, our own So many numbered wretches Disguised as hollow drones Stalk the night Fighting non-existent thrones The empty expression, brow bent in deep thought The humans we used to be A garden of seedlings in desperate need The tide rises quickly These ideas can save us Or they can tear us apart Once we've destroyed the concept Of the celebrated self and love of art We can begin the process of growing up Completely spent We bit the apple, bought the lie Exploited the poor and boy did we rise We snapped those necks and boy did we thrive
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Mar 30, 2012
Mar 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM UTC
Subversion of the Defectives...
I, too, saw God through mud, - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child. Merry it was to laugh there - Where death becomes absurd and life absurder. For power was on us as we slashed bones bare Not to feel sickness or remorse of ****** I, too, have dropped off Fear - Behind the barrage, dead as my platoon, And sailed my spirit surging light and clear Past the entanglement where hopes lay strewn; And witnessed exultation - Faces that used to curse me, scowl for scowl, Shine and lift up with passion of oblation, Seraphic for an hour; though they were foul. I have made fellowships - Untold of happy lovers in old song. For love is not the binding of fair lips With the soft silk of eyes that look and long, By Joy, whose ribbon slips, - But wound with war's hard wire whose stakes are strong; Bound with the bandage of the arm that drips; Knit in the webbing of the rifle-thong. I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate. Nevertheless, except you share With them in hell the sorrowful dark of hell, Whose world is but the trembling of a flare And heaven but as the highway for a shell, You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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Apologia pro Poemate Meo
I, too, saw God through mud, - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child. Merry it was to laugh there - Where death becomes absurd and life absurder. For power was on us as we slashed bones bare Not to feel sickness or remorse of ****** I, too, have dropped off Fear - Behind the barrage, dead as my platoon, And sailed my spirit surging light and clear Past the entanglement where hopes lay strewn; And witnessed exultation - Faces that used to curse me, scowl for scowl, Shine and lift up with passion of oblation, Seraphic for an hour; though they were foul. I have made fellowships - Untold of happy lovers in old song. For love is not the binding of fair lips With the soft silk of eyes that look and long, By Joy, whose ribbon slips, - But wound with war's hard wire whose stakes are strong; Bound with the bandage of the arm that drips; Knit in the webbing of the rifle-thong. I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate. Nevertheless, except you share With them in hell the sorrowful dark of hell, Whose world is but the trembling of a flare And heaven but as the highway for a shell, You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
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A hundred, a thousand to one; even so; Not a hope in the world remained: The swarming, howling wretches below Gained and gained and gained. Skene looked at his pale young wife:-- "Is the time come?"--"The time is come!"-- Young, strong, and so full of life: The agony struck them dumb. Close his arm about her now, Close her cheek to his, Close the pistol to her brow-- God forgive them this! "Will it hurt much?"--"No, mine own: I wish I could bear the pang for both." "I wish I could bear the pang alone: Courage, dear, I am not loth." Kiss and kiss: "It is not pain Thus to kiss and die. One kiss more."--"And yet one again."-- "Good by."--"Good by." Note.--I retain this little poem, not as historically accurate, but as written and published before I heard the supposed facts of its first verse contradicted.
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In The Round Tower At Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Now I lay me down to sleep I want for nothing more than to bury thoughts deep Escape the wretches the day has brought The wars, the sadness, the world has wrought If I pass away in peaceful sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake No more days should I have to ache For this world has kept me far too long It is time to hear my mellow swan song If my soul is pure enough before morning wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. The four corners to my bed, Surround me with the utmost dread I know there is nothing left for me My soul is nothing more than a sad story I'm sorry for whatever path my carriers must tread, to the Four angels round my head; Who should know that, in life, from my troubles I fled A noble life is not one that I chose But I'm ready for an ending, for angels, I suppose One to watch and one to pray So they will carry out my day I will never see the morning light I planned for dying on this night, These angels will keep my suffering at bay, thankfully, there is Two to bear my heavy soul away.
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Jan 4, 2015
Jan 4, 2015 at 11:07 AM UTC
I Lay My Heavy Soul Down
So much time used up On something I thought Would be lifelong That was murdered by the creation. So much time used up Filling my voids Bandaging my wounds And avoiding my heart. So much time used up Having sleepless dreams Eating anxiety soup and trying to break my mind. So much time used up Washing my face in tears Putting on the makeup That masked my dead face. So much time just, Used up. Then you. So much time used up Listening to that voice Soothing as the breeze Scary as the ocean. So much time used up Letting our souls out Talking about anxiety meals And holes barely stitched together. So much time used up Learning all about your heart holes Stitched with gut wretches As she made every hole. So much time used up Grabbing your hands And showing you how to sew And we sewed each other up So much time used up After we realized we shared The same string to sew our hearts and now they connect forever. So much time used up Listening to our heart string tunes Play a new song Of soul love So much time used up Laying head on stomach And afternoon laughs Sprinkled with our breaths So much time used up On dreams of you Anxiety soup isn’t Served here anymore. So much time used up On never having enough Time with you, My love.
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 12:35 AM UTC
Time used up
that empty desert land filled with memories all lost in the storm cast me away throw out my warmth 1000's of long lost emptiness filled by the love I once i had for you now cast away over that deserted desert land empty inside nothing left am i just another one of your wretches am just to be fooled with thrown away in the ditch broken down just another ********** in your web of lies say you love me than curse me away lost memories fill the sky fill my heart with unforgivable lust lust which I've cast away never to be spoken of again see my dear friends love is not one to trust it will seize your heart and tear it apart makes you feel like you are in heaven but really you only exist in hell it might come at a force so strong u cannot control try to break the bond try to get away but you are already a victim a victim to its lustrous smell its deceivable warmth makes you believe you are special and no one else has felt this way than it takes it take that feeling makes you feel worthless takes everything and leaves you broken on the floor you are crying regretting everything every word ever spoken but you can't go back can't erase the past so now it haunts you you were just some man's ***** his one night stand his perk of the night you swear revenge swear to get it back so you become the very thing you hate a demon to the style of hurt .....a slave to love
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Jan 19, 2013
Jan 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
Deserted Love
I matched the look in his steel colored eyes with my own gaze of determination The angel Uriel descended in but a thousand broken moments woven together with the distinction of bliss And he bade unto me in my slipping consciousness... I could not tear my eyes way even for an eon, the sight to my eyes was a breathe to my lungs - as is a beat is to my heart, to be everything at once,in turn to the nothing I was but a lifetime ago Could you kiss my soul? In the way music breaks my heart Could you sing a song at the footsteps of the eternal himself His ways*, higher I think I take too much, you say I take too little, still you give as generously as you have before What is this That I would bare My soul to you With solemness, your eyes Find me in the dark Still you see me as I am But a child A fragile candle wish Blown among the known And wretches of night To weep with the mindless How can I return unchanged To that which bore me It leaves me in anguish That which knew me It let's me go To those who see, but know too little Reach with tendrils of hope and fire Further still you lead me Through loneliness I am not alone
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 6:18 PM UTC
Endless
A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad. The south wind brought it longing, and the east wind despair, The west wind made it pitiful, and the north wind afraid. It feared to give its love a hurt with all the tempest there; It feared the hurt that shc could give and therefore it went mad. I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad. HDR II The Heart behind its rib laughed out. "You have called me mad,' it said, "Because I made you turn away and run from that young child; How could she mate with fifty years that was so wildly bred? Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.' "You but imagine lies all day, O murderer,' I replied. "And all those lies have but one end, poor wretches to betray; I did not find in any cage the woman at my side. O but her heart would break to learn my thoughts are far away.' 'Speak all your mind,' my Heart sang out, "speak all your mind; who cares, Now that your tongue cannot persuade the child till she mistake Her childish gratitude for love and match your fifty years? O let her choose a young man now and all for his wild sake.'
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Owen Aherne And His Dancers
A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad. The south wind brought it longing, and the east wind despair, The west wind made it pitiful, and the north wind afraid. It feared to give its love a hurt with all the tempest there; It feared the hurt that shc could give and therefore it went mad. I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad. HDR II The Heart behind its rib laughed out. "You have called me mad,' it said, "Because I made you turn away and run from that young child; How could she mate with fifty years that was so wildly bred? Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.' "You but imagine lies all day, O murderer,' I replied. "And all those lies have but one end, poor wretches to betray; I did not find in any cage the woman at my side. O but her heart would break to learn my thoughts are far away.' 'Speak all your mind,' my Heart sang out, "speak all your mind; who cares, Now that your tongue cannot persuade the child till she mistake Her childish gratitude for love and match your fifty years? O let her choose a young man now and all for his wild sake.'
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today i'm feeling like a dead dog on six day old august pavement. no lovers swarm around me to remember their spontaneous moment. only flies. who among you will kiss my fever-blistered lips? my bloated stomach wretches for the comfort of the old green dumspter i called my house, so homesick am i. i'm so sick of hope and trust, and no sun has ever shown me favor without burning me first. i'm wearing the best of my saturday night special, the old duck sauce t-shirt, unraveled shorts, sandals. i wear a culture-shocked heart on my sleeve so everyone can see i'm naive.
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May 25, 2012
May 25, 2012 at 12:07 PM UTC
6 day old pavement
"Me too, perchance, in future days, The sculptured stone shall show, With Paphian myrtle or with bays Parnassian on my brow. But I, or e'er that season come, Escaped from every care, Shall reach my refuge in the tomb, And sleep securely there." So sang, in Roman tone and style, The youthful bard, ere long Ordained to grace his native isle With her sublimest song. Who then but must conceive disdain, Hearing the deed unblest, Of wretches who have dared profane His dread sepulchral rest? Ill fare the hands that heaved the stones Where Milton's ashes lay, That trembled not to grasp his bones And steal his dust away! O ill-requited bard! neglect Thy living worth repaid, And blind idolatrous respect As much affronts thee dead.
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On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton
When my mind is at rest I think of peace and blissful things I see the unfettered and innocent smile of a new babe in arms Or the Omnipotence gilded arms outstretch showering blessings The shores of a pristine beach with blue waves marking times Silver sunset sprinkling magic across quiet waters with no stressing Or me sat at my fathers feet as he reads engrossed in his charmes My mind rests easy in places of warmth and enriching lovings My mind has no space to linger in the murkiness of failings I do not plunge dark dept to court the uninspiring s in terms To share company with wretches with wasted mental ecthings Eyes that see dew in darkness and acrimony in fruitless farms Voices made for howling dirges and apostles of negative cravings Demented downers who drink from the fountains of fallen vamps Satiated miserably they seek to retch their stench on followings My mind finds the luminous stars and praise their spark-lings It atunes to the silent melodies of sages who now sleep uncramp It relishes the delights of the million trillion wonders tinklings Its marvels the joys of the thousand mothers holding new champs Can share the lifting dreams of hopes for happy new beginnings Living is never about waste for the Creator avails no dumps For a mind that lives and grows in the Light is forever inspired and inspiring Copyright LaurencA.1stAugust2018.All rights reserved
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Aug 1, 2018
Aug 1, 2018 at 7:54 PM UTC
How I See .....
The lines have escaped me once again, all buttered up and sliding under furniture like cockroaches at dawn. I was made with a different chip. My heart, she dances to her own music, a song with no words- just Gregorian chanting and an amnesiac beat; she dances lonely. My tongue is tied to the floor of my mouth with fresh sinew that I stole from the belly of the cat still steaming on the damp asphalt beneath alien streetlights, streaming unhurriedly past a new Mercedes, seeming to fall in chunks down my throat... neverlanding. Every trip, every drip, drop, knife or needle, only leaves me more alone when my imagination is gone again, and the elevator panels have ceased giggling as I tell them ***** jokes between floors two and four. My dreaming lover lies while I stare rudely, washing his clothes and feeding him broth. He wretches over and again, poisoned by the arsenic in my kiss, the lead in my bowels. Not this lover, nor any other, could survive the rugged terrain where I insist to live, where the well supplies me well with replacement tears, yea, even blood. The mosquitos so strong there, despite the heat and barren broken stones, they lick me dry as I methodically flip the light and lift the coffeetable and ottoman in the den, finding the nests of my soulmates who have eaten my lines slowly, savoring the bitterness of cheap paper. I refill myself at the well, swallowing the unsuspecting larvae, while the one I love drowns facedown as I watch. His heart stops, and mine, she quickens her step. She can hear the tortured tongue. Tickled with every gulp, he's giggling. I take a step forward, over the void. The elevator disappears as I turn the corner into the falling crimson sun.
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Jul 11, 2012
Jul 11, 2012 at 5:40 PM UTC
Joy?
The lines have escaped me once again, all buttered up and sliding under furniture like cockroaches at dawn. I was made with a different chip. My heart, she dances to her own music, a song with no words- just Gregorian chanting and an amnesiac beat; she dances lonely. My tongue is tied to the floor of my mouth with fresh sinew that I stole from the belly of the cat still steaming on the damp asphalt beneath alien streetlights, streaming unhurriedly past a new Mercedes, seeming to fall in chunks down my throat... neverlanding. Every trip, every drip, drop, knife or needle, only leaves me more alone when my imagination is gone again, and the elevator panels have ceased giggling as I tell them ***** jokes between floors two and four. My dreaming lover lies while I stare rudely, washing his clothes and feeding him broth. He wretches over and again, poisoned by the arsenic in my kiss, the lead in my bowels. Not this lover, nor any other, could survive the rugged terrain where I insist to live, where the well supplies me well with replacement tears, yea, even blood. The mosquitos so strong there, despite the heat and barren broken stones, they lick me dry as I methodically flip the light and lift the coffeetable and ottoman in the den, finding the nests of my soulmates who have eaten my lines slowly, savoring the bitterness of cheap paper. I refill myself at the well, swallowing the unsuspecting larvae, while the one I love drowns facedown as I watch. His heart stops, and mine, she quickens her step. She can hear the tortured tongue. Tickled with every gulp, he's giggling. I take a step forward, over the void. The elevator disappears as I turn the corner into the falling crimson sun.
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Lord Neptune's daughters sit fast to their rocks like Grotesque limpets singing their songs to the sea for the sirens sing for blood that of warm blood of mariners To the howl of the wind and the dreadful din as waves crash onto this hell many ****** are tossed abound then commence to run aground onto beaches of razor sharp shells Hideous screams of victory echo over this foul land and these wretches of piscine descent now feed on the carcass of man. By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 8:48 PM UTC
The Cold Heart Of Neptune
Swallow them down Lumps of coal leaving dust in my throat Cough once Cough twice Spit out black coal dust Brush my teeth In my chest Or sometimes my stomach The pressure builds When I ***** And my stomach wretches And my heart seizes They'll climb back up my esophagus Edges sharpened Reflecting crimson gore From the paths they cut as they came back out If coal can turn into diamonds Can my "self restraint" Turn a bitten tongue into silver? I cut my voice on diamonds They looked like rubies when I spit them out
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Dec 5, 2023
Dec 5, 2023 at 2:54 AM UTC
Diamond regrets
Path of invisibility Wretches a far out cry To torturing means A journey Tolerated by little insanity Secret scrolls unquestionable To an endless developement Coating many layers of implementation Sustain by giants To diminutive people to exodus Their captivity Gesturing In the fibers of humanity
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Oct 1, 2009
Oct 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM UTC
A mindless wonder
*I am very unwell My body wretches Heart palpitates & I am very unwell A sickly soul within Darkness got a hold Won't let me go & I am very unwell My skin creeps My bones creak My voice croaks & I am very unwell*
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Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 at 12:35 PM UTC
Terminal Disease