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    @(f)politics? wrote:

    i agree mims, its the one thing i wish i could do well,paint, draw im not fussed but to be able to leave your soul and thoughts in such a beautiful way both during ur life and after you have departed, to be able to give through words to others is a real and worthy skill, but then i suppose even the simplest of words from one to another can be poetry in motion when they come from the heart …….

    simply put by ….

    A Definition of Poetry by a 15 yr old

    Poetry does not need a meaning or defintion.
    Poetry is how the reader reads it,
    Poetry is how the poet writes it.
    Poetry is real,
    Poetry is fake,
    Poetry is everything,
    Poetry is fate.
    Poetry is rhythm.
    Poetry can rhyme.
    Poetry is anything, I make it mine.

    how the heck can poli reply in the future?

    #278181

    ‘maggie and milly and molly and may’

    maggie and milly and molly and may
    went down to the beach (to play one day)

    and maggie discovered a shell that sang
    so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

    milly befriended a stranded star
    whose rays five languid fingers were;

    and molly was chased by a horrible thing
    which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

    may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large alone.

    For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
    it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

    #278182

    somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

    somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
    any experience, your eyes have their silence:
    in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
    or which i cannot touch because they are too near

    your slightest look will easily unclose me
    though i have closed myself as fingers,
    you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
    (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

    or if your wish be to close me, i and
    my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
    as when the heart of this flower imagines
    the snow carefully everywhere descending;
    nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
    the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
    compels me with the color of its countries,
    rendering death and forever with each breathing

    (i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens; only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
    nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

    .

    #278183

    Sister, there were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

    Maya Angelou, (Quoting Her Grandmother)

    #278184

    a man who had fallen among thieves

    a man who had fallen among thieves
    lay by the roadside on his back
    dressed in fifteenthrate ideas
    wearing a round jeer for a hat

    fate per a somewhat more than less
    emancipated evening
    had in return for consciousness
    endowed him with a changeless grin

    whereon a dozen staunch and meal
    citizens did graze at pause
    then fired by hypercivic zeal
    sought newer pastures or because

    swaddled with a frozen brook
    of pinkest vomit out of eyes
    which noticed nobody he looked
    as if he did not care to rise

    one hand did nothing on the vest
    its wideflung friend clenched weakly dirt
    while the mute trouserfly confessed
    a button solemnly inert.

    brushing from whom the stiffened puke
    i put him all into my arms
    and staggered banged with terror through
    a million billion trillion stars

    .

    #278185

    Jehovah buried, Satan dead

    Jehovah buried, Satan dead,
    do fearers worship Much and Quick;
    badness not being felt as bad,
    itself thinks goodness what is meek;
    obey says toc, submit says tic,
    Eternity’s a Five Year Plan:
    if Joy with Pain shall hand in hock
    who dares to call himself a man?

    go dreamless knaves on Shadows fed,
    your Harry’s Tom, your Tom is Di/ck;
    while Gadgets murder squack and add,
    the cult of Same is all the chic;
    by instruments, both span and spic,
    are justly measured Spic and Span:
    to kiss the mike if Jew turn kike
    who dares to call himself a man?

    loudly for Truth have liars pled, click;
    where Boobs are holy, poets mad,
    illustrious punks of Progress shriek;
    when Souls are outlawed, Hearts are sick,
    Hearts being sick, Minds nothing can:
    if Hate’s a game and Love’s a fu/ck
    who dares to call himself a man?

    King Christ, this world is all aleak;
    and lifepreservers there are none:
    and waves which only He may walk
    Who dares to call Himself a man.

    #278186

    this is the garden:colours come and go,
    frail azures fluttering from night’s outer wing
    strong silent greens silently lingering,
    absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
    This is the garden:pursed lips do blow
    upon cool flutes within wide glooms,and sing
    (of harps celestial to the quivering string)
    invisible faces hauntingly and slow.

    This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
    and on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled,
    in other lands where other songs be sung;
    yet stand They here enraptured,as among
    the slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
    some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.

    #278187

    Chanson Innocentes: I

    in Just-
    spring when the world is mud-
    luscious the little
    lame balloonman

    whistles far and wee

    and eddieandbill come
    running from marbles and
    piracies and it’s
    spring

    when the world is puddle-wonderful

    the queer
    old balloonman whistles
    far and wee
    and bettyandisbel come dancing

    from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

    it’s
    spring
    and
    the
    goat-footed

    balloonMan whistles
    far
    and
    wee

    .

    #278188

    pity this busy monster,manunkind,

    not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
    your victum(death and life safely beyond)

    plays with the bigness of his littleness
    -electrons deify one razorblade
    into a mountainrange;lenses extend

    unwish through curving wherewhen until unwish
    returns on its unself.
    A world of made
    is not a world of born-pity poor flesh

    and trees,poor stars and stones,but never this
    fine specimen of hypermagical

    ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

    a hopeless case if-listen:there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door;let’s go

    – e. e. cummings

    #278189

    .

    it is at moments after i have dreamed of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
    when (being fool to fancy)

    i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;
    at moments when the glassy darkness holds the genuine apparition of your smile

    (it was through tears always)
    and silence moulds such strangeness as was mine a little while;

    moments when my once more illustrious arms are filled with fascination,
    when my breast wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:

    one pierced moment whiter than the rest

    -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
    i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

    .

    .

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