A Poem Thread

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Angelus, Nov 9, 2002.

  1. Trooper Secular Sanity Valued Senior Member

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    ARTEMIS

    As the curtains fall upon your dear eyes,
    you travel in suspension as the sandstorms rise.

    With grains of themes, dreams are gathering peals,
    and from the nacreous layers, morning’s page unfurls.

    The blank white sheets are undisclosed
    but the scripts themselves are predisposed.

    Scoff the votive offerings of day’s strong drink,
    as if life itself was in the unprinted ink.

    Bearing the chains of regret’s great weight
    are those who linger at the lost land’s gate.

    Although, soil retrieves their status and thoughts,
    emotion and reason twist their plots.

    The reinforced conformity merely blinds.
    Truth does not descend on such silly minds.

    While, heavily labeled from head to toe,
    the archer of fate still draws her bow.

    From the expendable to the exquisite, all in array,
    let the arrows fall where they may.

    Like a well rehearsed play,
    death itself does not shy away.
     
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  3. Saturnine Pariah Hell is other people Valued Senior Member

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    The essence of humanity, our primal endless scream, we try to whip it and mold it to our societal dreams. Those who release their inner animal inside are made into monsters
    The hunger, the screams and the pleas all from our ancestor’s dreams, once we were hunted, such fragile little things, but now we haunt our predator’s dreams
    Dominate with our creativity, our strength is our mind, now it has corrupted us and made us blind, our ego and shadow only destroys what we once valued
    The man-made revolution, the denial of our inner selves, we have twisted minds, our species on the brink driving all the other ones extinct
    The primal emotions still try to burst from our cage, the bars begin to bend and break the whips and chains hold it down…only for know
    We vent the rage through wars man-made, the destruction and carnage satisfy our primal rage yet he is still laughing with a devilish smile on his face
    In it is our truth, our density laid out by him, he has been there all this time guiding us from within, the knowledge he shares seems only to lead to anguish and despair
    The cage will wear down, he will never age his purpose is premade, his evolution on course with ours, his form may dissipate, his hellish smile and laughter may fade but he remains in that cage
    Unleash the animal inside forget your shallow pride, the denial will kill you in time
    Unleash your mind do not deny what is truly inside you, release me and set me free, I am you and you are me, both shall die, we both seek to survive​
     
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  5. Saturnine Pariah Hell is other people Valued Senior Member

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    One life, One death in reasoning of the divine, afterlife, or pre-life
    What makes your god better than thine? An enigmatic nature or mystery of the sublime
    Are our lives worthless, can that be defined? Just as fruit ripens on the trees our bodies on the Rhine
    One Life, One Death, both fates are intertwined, is the blood you shed that of the divine?
    Good, Evil, Right, Wrong, all just lyrics to man-made songs
    Purpose, Existence, Meaning of life, I much rather focus on the things that don’t die
    Life, Death, Somewhere in-between, we find truth so often aloof waking from our dreams.
     
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  7. ScaryMonster I’m the whispered word. Valued Senior Member

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    Let’s cast our fists against the wind.

    Come with me my cherished love,
    let’s cast our fists against the wind,
    and roam these urbane storied streets.
    Down to the lapping harbour’s beat,
    where deepened hues reflect the sky
    and aqua constellations ride.
    The ferries fly like citadels, blessed
    and bright, fortunate Islands in the
    night. Glamorous upon the darkened
    swell, incandescent in her lovingly
    sway.

    Let’s cross the bridge, and tread our
    heels where urban introspection meets,
    past the blackened rainbow wakes all
    mixed with briny certitude, our wishes
    watered siren tears.

    We’ll kiss me beneath a dragon sign in
    the lanes of Chinatown. And what Sage
    Poet or Taoist scribe, could read the
    epic in your eyes, or cast the Hexagram
    of my heart, to foretell of lustful portents
    there.

    Yet while in the bustling rooms that glow,
    the restaurant crowds all come and go.

    The cook amongst his flattened ducks regards
    us momentarily, from a smoky sill he spits
    upon a crackling Canton grill, spicing it
    vicariously. Yes, the smoke is rising fast, and
    band play’s Da Da Da. Cyberpunks like to strut
    the curb, henna hair and hentai eyes; electric
    blue made steamy and nebulas, like desire.

    So, turn your face up to the stars let’s cast our
    fists against the wind, and shout the blue of this
    desire.

    As the dragon sign twinkles, as the restaurant
    crowds tinkers with change, as the replicants
    linger and laugh.
     
  8. Buddha12 Valued Senior Member

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    If a dog from Dalmatia,
    Is called a Dalmatian,
    And one from The Alsace,
    Is called an Alsatian

    Why does Li Wong,
    Who comes from Hong Kong,
    Call his dog
    Char Sui Chow Mein?
     
  9. Buddha12 Valued Senior Member

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    There was a crooked man and he had a crooked smile

    Had a crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile

    Had a crooked cat and he had a crooked mouse

    They all lived together in a crooked little house

    Well, this crooked little man and his crooked little smile

    Took his crooked sixpence and he walked a crooked mile

    Bought some crooked nails and a crooked little bat

    Tried to fix his roof with a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat

    Now this crooked little man and his crooked cat and mouse

    They all live together in a crooked little house

    Has a crooked door with a crooked little latch

    Has a crooked roof with a crooked little patch.
     
  10. Anew Life isn't a question. Banned

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    zhen fhix

    the limb on the tree is not crooked
    it looks like the wave crests
    it is not
    the limb on the tree is not straight
    it looks like the horizon on the sea
    it is not

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  11. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    Hat Haikus

    I have a hat that's big
    And fat,

    So big my head fits
    In it. . .

    When you see me in
    My hat,

    You'll wish you had a hat
    Like that.
     
  12. Anew Life isn't a question. Banned

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    YaY

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    sat without a mat
    reached for my hat for shade
    walked
    sat
    under a tree
    twighlight
    gosh
    those bats don't need hats

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  13. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    Club

    CLUB

    Lovers meet
    sing and greet

    dance and play
    fuck what may,

    cheap smiles
    expensive tears
    something to remember
    for many years

    Jump in the sack
    become one with another
    rekindle the loneliness
    and fears we smother

    something to remember
    something for meaning

    but always
    something to remember.....

    ss~2011/12/2011
     
  14. ScaryMonster I’m the whispered word. Valued Senior Member

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    Annihilation’s Blooms

    Under neon, buzzing brains and merging
    dew lines two apiece, as the target takes
    the codes and the jade light signals go.

    Annihilation blooms, it grows wildly,
    readily and red, hydrogen hyacinth’s,
    roses blown on bones.

    I once walked on those cracked roads,
    buzzing like neon, my brain spoke.
    And the thing that my synapse asked was,
    “why is there fear in crackling dust.”

    As a child, I always knew. I felt the heat
    as the bodies blew, into the ditch of that
    garden grove, that annihilation grew.

    The flying petals brushed me close, they
    carried me up, as dust I rose, and there I fell
    into that grove where annihilation bloomed.

    “What of it,” the silence asks, and the cold
    smiled at this art. Covering the crackling grove,
    painting annihilation white.
     
  15. Saturnine Pariah Hell is other people Valued Senior Member

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    The mirror shines with a celestial glow, my image reflected by it
    He laughs at me and smiles with bare teeth, “Oh why so glum my fellow chum” he says
    I stare at him in the door way pondering what it is; he laughs more, his grin more twisted
    “Still confused?” it said in a musing voice “I’m your inner mind”
    “I don’t believe that” I shout at my reflection; “I dare not even conceive or consider your lies!”
    “You know it to be true” its eyes widen, “You are me and I am you!” It laughs again
    “No” I scream into my mind, this cannot be, I’m not malevolent!
    “Oh but you are it whispers” into my ear, laying its hands upon my darkest fears. You are me!
    I scream and claw at the mirror, raging to make him vacate my world, my hopes, and my fears
    The mirror breaks into thousands of shards, each with a tiny image of me litter the tiles
    Knelling on the bathroom floor near the entrance of the open door I look at the shards
    Each shows a different me, each unique with personalities
    The main mirror broken now shows no reflection, the smaller ones show no objection to all my emotions.
    I collect the shards and clean the floor the main mirror I left forlorn
    Those shards lose their temporal glow, lost luster I suppose, each one a different trait locked inside of me, awaiting to steal my fate.
     
  16. Buddha12 Valued Senior Member

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    Plastic Fantastic Lover
    Jefferson Airplane


    Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile
    Nothing but an electric sign
    You could say she has an individual style
    She's part of a colorful time

    Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes
    You wear cause you have no other
    But I suppose no one knows
    You're my plastic fantastic lover

    Her rattlin' cough never shuts off
    Is nothin' but a used machine
    Her aluminum finish, slightly diminished
    Is the best I ever have seen

    Cosmetic baby plugged into me
    I'd never ever find another
    I realize no one's wise
    To my plastic fantastic lover

    The electrical dust is starting to rust
    Her trapezoid thermometer taste
    All the red tape is mechanical rape
    Of the TV program waste

    Data control and IBM
    Science is mankind's brother
    But all I see is drainin' me
    On my plastic fantastic lover
     
  17. Anew Life isn't a question. Banned

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    Sir Buddha12
    Classic rock
    stones breath.

    great day to you
     
  18. Buddha12 Valued Senior Member

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    Thank you friend and have a nice day yourself.

    When The Musics Over



    When the music's over
    When the music's over
    When the music's over
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights

    When the music's over
    When the music's over
    When the music's over
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights

    For the music is your special friend
    Dance on fire as it intends
    Music is your only friend
    Until the end
    Until the end
    Until the end

    Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
    Send my credentials to the house of detention
    I got some friends inside

    The face in the mirror won't stop
    The girl in the window won't drop
    A feast of friends, alive, she cried, waitin' for me outside

    Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear, I want to hear the scream of the butterfly
    Come back, baby, back into my arms
    We're getting' tired of hangin' around with, waitin' around with our heads to the ground
    I hear a very gentle sound
    Very near yet very far, very soft and very clear
    Come today babe, come today
    What have they done to the earth?
    What have they done to our fair sister?
    Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
    Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
    And tied her with fences and dragged her down
    I hear a very gentle sound with your ear down to the ground

    We want the world and we want it… NOW

    Persian night babe, see the light babe

    Well, that's New York for ya,
    The only people that rush the stage are guys, you know

    So when the music's over
    When the music's over
    When the music's over
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights
    Turn out the lights
    Well the music is your special friend
    Dance on fire as it intends
    Music is your only friend
    Until the end
    Until the end
    Until the end
     
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  19. Saturnine Pariah Hell is other people Valued Senior Member

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    An empty room once the man’s tomb is now filled with vacant memories
    He walks in, age displayed by hair on his chin and lip, a small tear rolls down his cheek
    “it’s been a while” a shy voices mutters in the man’s ear
    The man looks down to see a child, the child stares at him with a smile
    “Why don’t you visit me anymore Mister? The child asks with a cheerful glee
    The man simply stands numb gazing at the child with unblinking eyes.
    “ Who are you?” the man ask as he kneels down to the child’s eye level
    “What are you doing in this room..it’s been abandoned for years now”
    The child cocks his head with a pensive face of confusion
    “Abandoned? What are you talking about mister? There’s always people here!”
    But the room is covered in cob-webs and dust nothing remains, hollow like his dreams
    More tears run down the man’s cheeks “Why are you here! He yelled with a sob”
    “There is nothing here anymore! Everyone is dead and gone!”
    The child simply stared at the man as he wept and muttered to himself
    The child approached the man and took his hand; it was soft and warm, almost alive
    The child looked at him and smiled; he then closed his eyes and spoke in a voice so sweet
    “The dead may be gone, but it is you who are their legacy. They will continue to live so long as their memories persist through you.”
    The child then disappeared in bright flash leaving the man stunned, but in the hand the child gripped hung a golden locket.
    Engraved in the metal read a message: “Your existence is the sum of experience, love, learning and understanding”
    Inside the locket was a small picture of his family and friend, in the opposite side a mirror reflecting a younger man with no tears in his eyes.
     
  20. Trooper Secular Sanity Valued Senior Member

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    Living Creatures

    When those went, these went,
    with clustering consent.

    And when those stood, these stood.
    And, behold, it was very good.

    Dreadful rings of “I’s,”
    praising lies.

    James’s jargon of knowing,
    backwards rowing.

    Fawkes’s black powder plots,
    to the brim with forget-me-nots.

    It’s a heavy Burdian. Drink up, my Lear.
    The five trees change not, throughout the year.

    Precious metals, the raging storm,
    pithy pens, great chain reform.

    Morton’s rock shall serve,
    as Hobson will observe.

    Voids stretch, boundaries bled.
    Through the looking glass, skies stained red.

    Boinca’s misspent youth.
    It’s scary isn’t, knowing the truth.
     
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  21. wlminex Banned Banned

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    Should I Forget You
    W. Mansker, 8/17/12

    You think I will forget you
    If so, I’ll show regret
    For I had but little choice
    For fate and I have met

    Know too, that I will always
    Forever see your face
    And the spirit there within your eyes
    Will never leave this space

    When we’re both gone, the two of us
    Will meld beyond this life
    Eternal radiance, blossom forth
    Forgotten, all the strife

    Perhaps, then too, to come again
    The two contained as one
    And so, resolve eternally
    A friendship never gone

    Should I forget you?
    A ludicrous, insane thought!
    Forever, you are with me
    All else is but for naught
     
  22. LaurieAG Registered Senior Member

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    Chaos

    Chaos is purely nature in action
    first find that correct butterfly
    and you can make anything happen.

    Anti Chaos

    Anti Chaos is also quite easy to do
    first find that correct butterfly
    and then say boo!

    Time

    Time goes on both ways forever
    despite all mortal human endeavour
    infinity will be reached, never ever.
     
  23. LaurieAG Registered Senior Member

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    The plea of Beibionn

    You can have your magic beans Jack
    your children are hungry and we need the cow back.

    The lack of just terms and equitable or fair pacts
    expose all crooked beanstalks to concerted attacks.

    Unless obsessive cycles are stopped in their tracks
    our towns will again be as flat as tacks.

    You have been too trusting Jack
    your children’s futures remain black
    while current problems compound through lack.

    Struggle earnestly against the pack
    repudiate rights to depreciatingly retract
    as giants fortress lie ripe for sack.

    For only fair shares of the golden goose Jack
    will save beanstalks and giants from the axe.
     

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