| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/3/2008 7:45:57 PM | we stay for the love of words
dripping from our lips
velvet senses
need to feed upon the written word | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/3/2008 8:40:38 PM | Hold on,
don't release
your pigeon flock epiphany
to chatter in the void,
to scatter in the sky,
to coo their when
and how
and why.
Hold on,
let it simmer for a while,
answer itself
in echoes mirrored.
Match the shards,
unspoken through vacancies
with what was left
on the workshop floor
where you assemble
in pressure panic
power pleasure
pinnacle,
in climax,
the maximum
climb to an altitude
of invincible attitude.
When in vitro you
left behind dust
that was meant to travel
by your side.
Hold on,
and breathe anew.
Take this inhale
to call the flock
from the sky,
so you can carry
the impact of words
spoken in time.
And no notion
left behind.
Hold on,
beat my heart,
just beat.
Open your eyes.
Then,
write
write
write...
~M~ | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/3/2008 9:42:59 PM | still breathing
eyes still shut
ears deaf
mind reeling | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/4/2008 5:56:46 PM | doubtfull1000: As was I when those words were uttered from the mouth of a would be critic. It left me without expression for far too long; perhaps I should have added that at the beginning...
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accolades
penned in poem
threading rhyme
while some may
consider it cultivated
to
taste our
hosts
crude stories
sexual
innuendo
linguistic form
forged for
candied palates
I surmise we
wait to savor
every flavor
of verse and style
scrawling nefarious
reactions
to suffice even
the most
pampered
observer
pleading applause
~M~
Keep doing your thing for there is ALWAYS someone who appreciates the glorious mind you were gifted with!  | |
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Posted: 9/4/2008 9:16:59 PM | my mammy 'lieves in hell
is suppos' to keep us straight
the fastest way to git there
is by all this goddamn hate
but me no, no, not i
believe in heaven nor hell
and i'll tell ya why
cuz i got a story to tell
when i wuz most unhappy
with jealously, greed and hate
didn't have much pride
i had alotta hate
my misery ran my life
company is what i needed
immersed in all this strife
your heart i wanted bleeded
but the happier i became
the joy spread to others
cuz baby we're all the same
even the pompous f'ing muthas
those egos running rabid
with not much of a life to lead
with spirits so damned and cutting
wanting someone to bleed
all the goddamn games
is nuthin' but a waste
they really are quite lame
soon i'll rest my case
life IS a precious gift
right here, right now, on earth
spirits can be lifted
above the mire and mirth | |
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Posted: 9/5/2008 12:13:27 PM | Tho I rise.
With reverent hand I place my dream in store
as white walls beat my breath in fractured tune
while fires spark lays arms at soldiered feet
the pressing war that each 'morn all men must greet.
Chill those bones by gray swept fields arise
a greeting stowed in echo of passive sigh
for I lay in wait glass homes to shed in form
while sky breaks dawn and all of black is torn.
Forward now from youth I pass to age
boxes fill to brim past scornful edge
ribbons fade and moths cling in frenzied feast
whilst morning dew grants autumn leaf release.
~R~ | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/6/2008 1:43:44 AM | Colour-Mad And Colour-Blind
I like the blue I see within your eyes,
your flesh so black it borders on the coal,
your language Cree, enough to mesmerize,
Tibetan bells heard jazzing up my soul.
I like the white of you against the birch,
the cork of which is brown beside your shin,
the former like the steeple of some church,
the latter like the tone of onionskin.
The yellow tint's the buttercup in June,
the red the splendid leaves in fiery fall,
the flash of light the silver of the moon,
the gold the sun that radiates to all.
I'm colour-mad as well as colour-blind:
bring in the new and it's my favoured kind.
-Mystic | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/6/2008 7:25:51 AM | a new day
it's very grey
the light flat
all the greens
that usually are so varied and vivid
all look the same
the rain has been
everything is glistening
in the grey air day
above the clouds
the sun shines
or so i've been told | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 8:35:42 AM | Heather.
She turned with a smile and said my name's heather
a dainty pale hand brushed against mine like a feather
I asked what do you do and her bright eyes turned old
she said she catered to the sky and what her heart told
Seems heather lived alone in a crowded little room
she fed pigeons from her window whispering see you back soon
just a tiny thing standing 5'5 at the most
living off of nicotine and freshly buttered toast
She didn't have any family tho at night wished she did
she'd call her brother bob or henry and her sister just sis
for 6 days a week she poured coffee and smiled
and thats where I met heather after a day of long miles
She slid into the booth across from me dark lines 'neath her eyes
had that air about her of salted tears and old lies
she said got a light mister I smiled and said sure
leaned back and gazed to the sky with a glance that seemed pure
I continued with my paper when she asked whats your name?
I said it doesn't matter does it?, cause they all sound the same
our eyes met she smiled said no I guess it don't
as she spoke I heard the tears caught within her throat
It seems heather was married to her sweetheart from high-school
three days after the wedding she found out she was a fool
you see heather was pregnant secretly wishing for a girl
with bright blue eyes and long hair that every morning she could curl
Her husband liked his whiskey and out playing with the boys
one night she was awakened by a terrible crashing noise
her husband stood just staring with a haunting look his eyes
there was no one to come and save her and none to hear her cries
Three weeks later she awoke in a room with no one there
her sheltered life before could never help her to prepare
her hands traced to her stomach down the halls they heard her cry
in that moment more than a child in that lonely room did die
Days past into weeks me and heather became friends
for hours we'd just talk on those nights without an end
we met for walks entrusting each-other with our lives
one morning there where tears as she told whats inside
For you see tho she was small she was raised upon a farm
and she remembers many nights keeping livestock free from harm
she told me in the hospital none came to help her through
one night within the silence she came to know what she must do
Months past her body mended and from that room she did depart
she walked cool into his kitchen and shot that bastard through the heart
for protecting all the livestock she knew a rifle well
for the life and womb he stole she'd see him again in the pits of hell
I still see heather sometimes we just knod and trade a smile
she taught me that each person knew of life and all her miles
I leave a bag of birdseed sometimes only with a note
"cater to the sky love", tasting tears within my throat.
~R~ | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/6/2008 8:41:24 AM | It's What They Don't Say
They say: "She let herself go."
She'll tell you .. "No ..
He was the one
Who let her go
They say
She doesn't smile ...
Like she used to.
And She'll tell you
"ya, they are right."
They say
Lots of things that hurt
And the worst part is
She even believes .. some of it.
They Never say
"It's just herself she hurts."
and
"She'd never do a thing ..
to hurt you."
They say ...
Linda
A
A.S.is
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Posted: 9/6/2008 9:07:46 AM | we must open
or the blossom dies
the hand reaches
we recoil
hope dies
the world is balanced
black and white, good or evil
blooming or withered
we all share
duality | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/6/2008 9:09:47 AM | | just wish to thank our op, truthisee, for 'Heather'.....mind has no words now...heart so feeling.....soul full | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/6/2008 10:46:47 AM | ..Truth..
Mere words cannot express how deeply your poem...'Heather' touched me.
Thank You! | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 10:47:55 AM | "cater to the sky love", tasting tears within my throat."
had to dream upon that write
tears sneaking by the corner of my eye
have walked some crooked streets myself
but Heather's walk ..........
nice to know we do not walk alone | |
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Posted: 9/6/2008 11:50:33 PM | O' mother, O' father hear me
i beseech thee from the raging rivers of pity
that flow within me in a roar of insanity
that spreads out like the wild mane of a lion
like snakes on Medusa's head striking out with venomous wrath
O 'mother, O' father
the heavens have laid sharp stones under my feet
and bled them with fear
my hands feverishly tried to cleanse them
only to smear it more so
help me close my eyes
and spare me from seeing the trails I'm doomed to tread
i fear as much as I have gone through
my luck will never change
in this life
in next life
it is hell yet not even close
to my common man i say
my hell is your heaven
your hell is my heaven
O' mother, O' father
i understand your pain
i understand the lines on your face
I understand why you died
like you i am tired and weary
before i even began the race
or did i blindly start and not know?
ahhh trickery the heavens bid me
I may shout there is NO GOD!
is there?
O' mother, O' father?
dear ones where you lay
sticks and stones in dust
is there?
i run away to you
your spirits in my mind
i whisper
is there?
shhhhhhhhhh
for sanity's sake
shhhhhhhhh
i not dare speak out loud
i fear the wild wind of your ghost terrorize me for all my sins
that it be as wild as the raging river of pity within me
as strong as those stones that bled me
as loud as the roar of my insanity
O 'mother O' father
help me move those stones aside
calm those currents
silence the roar
i dream
i dream of tall green grass laced with morning spring dew
frogs jumping for joy towards god's light
yes i dream because i was there
life was simple then | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/7/2008 7:01:06 AM | | Truth, that was a hell of a good poem. I could almost taste the smoke and tears on Heathers face | |
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Posted: 9/7/2008 1:41:56 PM | The Sum Total Of One
The stage was set before the dawn of time
When light was still a thing to factor in
The steps be steep we yet are made to climb
The worlds outside as well as those within
All things in time will make it to the fore
If we’d debate the measures of the mile
The push is on, there always will be more
The best of it but hidden for awhile
And so it goes resources are accrued
It matters not perceptions are awry
In time of course a change of attitude
When understood the limit is the sky
There’s nothing new beneath the searing sun
When fully grasped that everything is one
-Mystic | |
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Posted: 9/7/2008 5:15:25 PM | Sky Pictures
Heavens grand opening be blessed
Between your mountains moved
Rays of warmth touch to earth.
On your horizon roller-coaster I ride
With a smile and a silent thanks
For our world blessed of light.
Today my sunglasses I have
Not left again upon a dashboard
That makes me turn back.
Rising on your warm climb I feel
Further, as I roll over,
Than on your high straight was seen.
At arms length who’s holding whom?
Does your picture paint no distance
Between cloud and sky and fiery pool?
On your downside I open shaded eyes
And witness now centre stage
An answer flying high.
Leaving on a jet plane they go
Rounding on a jet plane
Moving so slow.
Keith | |
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Posted: 9/8/2008 4:02:22 PM | without/within.
By the fire I will so bury my heart as such
the heat takes my flesh and blackens my eyes
tho I crave not pain nor lust to the beginning still
I will hold the truth as all things before me.
So the rains will come to permeate all depths
summoning great anguish that will call upon the flame
to rise and fall pitching the earth beneath me
that I would stand will be of little consequence.
For but one shadows the victim as darkness lurks
succumbing to broken things of voice and soul
there time swallows the living whole and knowing
for to the circled stones no man is of might.
Yet beneath the mask lives but one creation
that I should be of he cannot be of simple reason
for who needs dream or fate or even faith?
and who, truly, has but time to waste?.
..T.. | |
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Posted: 9/8/2008 11:27:14 PM | sorry for the tardy post reference, but fine work White tigress ..msg 5466
as i have learned more about the role of sender across the generational divides .. i appreciate the exploration of the theme.. so much of what we transfer will out live us
I wonder if someone ,sometime will unearth a disk with this thread on it
and laugh at us ..
i hope they wonder at our warlike ways and can see themselves in our desire to live honorably.. they could do worse | |
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Posted: 9/9/2008 12:39:52 AM | | Death rolls back to me from whence it came and I come together alone torn apart undone with no one to blame but you me the TV and that little thing called love or is it sex? Vex I feel thus I flee no chance of escape not for me only capture or rape no hope of surrender neither or not but how bout you who you no? me either. Only one one chance undone to name a few, how bout you and me together? no way, for what, for not? Forever it will remain my few minutes of fame spread across your lap, you know what I mean full of sin gone wild in the wind with a few bottles of gin and girl who says yes I'm finally eighteen! You may see it on you tube or not so here goes here's my boobs! | |
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Posted: 9/9/2008 8:51:25 AM | Monthly Spillage.
A Rant When No-Ones Looking.
Fuck religion
Jesus was a man who enjoyed slapping that ass like the rest of us
Come here and absolve my sins
Clear my conscience to let me sin again
I wear john's head on a necklace uttering rederike red eyed renouncing ridiculous renditions of revelations while ridiculing you, you, you and especially YOU!
While eve strokes my cock throwing tainted apples at adam's throat
Man is man's ultimate betrayer
Creation theory?
God you people really Are going to burn
Dipshits
The spirit is a muscle
Just like my dick
Use it or lose it
Get me?
Global warming is a myth
All for profit baby
Ever heard of the Sun?
It's that big yellow thing in the sky
Cosmic radiation mixed with solar winds
Ever heard of clouds?
I'm doing a study how porn affects climate
Bet I'll get the grant huh?
Fuck the polar bears I need a new blanket
With baby seal pillows
Nice fluffy ones
With "please don't kill me eyes"
On top of my four poster bed made of ivory wrapped in panda skin
Fuck you too
Let's smother some more beaches in oil
Have a bonfire and burn some books
Who needs thought when we have government?
Maybe starve some babies while denying third world development
Like fuck They deserve to live
Thanks for the diamonds tho
Assholes
And yeah, check's in the mail
U.S politics are the laughing joke of the world
Hillary's a sell out too
Just like the rest of them
Thanks for the Medicare sweety
300 grand and a blowjob for her husband
Did she at least swallow?
Cause God knows You do
Don't worry, I'm laughing watching cnn right now
Cause it ain't real till it hits the news right?
Laying back in my baby calf skin recliner
A twenty dollar hooker and a ten dollar bottle of wine
Bush bless America!
Let's all bend over and take one for the church
If your young enough they'll take you up on it
Shit, give em enough money and you can get away with murder
Crusade anyone?
I'm buying a Hummer and a chainsaw
Go say high to the rain forest
Build a backyard deck bigger than next door
Swearing allegiance to capitalism while hailing socialism and the public to dumb to see my horns
All Together Now.....
Let's look our children straight in the eye and say...
Fuck You.
..T.. | |
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| Old Souls......only
Posted: 9/9/2008 9:03:32 AM | | Uh, I'm thinking that maybe you should like switch to decaf. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2008 5:55:09 PM | Enchanted
She appeared
mounted
Steadfast
Eyes fire
Challenging
Confident.
Suggesting
Seductively
Strength sure
Smiling, she had
Scupulture unseen
Invisible?
To some, fled
To some, mesmorized
To some One, challenged
Stood stalwart
Strength true
Uninhibited
Raw seen
Beauty
Regards,
TBK | |
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