Quotes about steely, page 4
Trapeze
Hold tightly into that wry
And sway with the lackadaisical whine
Of the elegiac ballad of saudade nights;
Lash those daunted toes
And slice the pertinacious heaven
With your steely legs;
And the sky would shut its eyes
As her ropy hair lets down undulation
Entangled in a bar clasping
Your own knotted fingers.
The feculent maggots would break
Their neck to muse your flight
And careen below to laugh
At your shattering cranium
When your blood gushed with
The girdles of trepidation.
Enthuse the moon's vision
As you rise staggering,
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poem by Norman Santos
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Miserable
One quiet moment free
of shipwrecked rusted iron duty
to sit and write some kind of poem,
and yet, my centered self's not home.
I stew and simmer in my pot,
for manacled is my sad lot,
preoccupied with what comes next,
"The dog needs food".
"Come rub my neck".
And never one kind word of thanks,
just steely eyes and verbal spanks,
and selfishness that's gotten old,
wasted on me like a meal gone cold.
Continuous complaints I can't repair
As if I could fix what your neighbor wears?
Petty hollering before it hurts,
sinister dreams, unhappiness dirt,
that fills your empty bucket holes
not knowing the patch is a charitable soul
Unconditional love you weren't born with
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poem by Sara Fielder
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Dark Black Night
Once upon a midnight, ghostly,
Partied many, dead ones mostly.
Feasting in the graveyard, sprightly,
Black fanged werewolves gorged, engrossedly*.
In the boneyard, drab and squalid
Apparitions, staring stolid
(Neath the veiled moon, clouded lightly)
Sought fresh bodies, lean but solid.
Demons' eyes shone, light and sparkly,
Ghouls and devils danced, so darkly.
Worms were grubbing, gruel unsightly,
Black blood streamed like ink, quite starkly.
Fiendish flesh was flowing freely
Through the crypt doors, cold and steely.
Shadows, ashen, pranced contritely,
Ebon serpents slithered eely.
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poem by Terry O'Leary
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Shadow Dance
The shadows danced with the hazy smoke
Draped in the malodorous tobacco scent
Rippling the pallid beckon of the summer noon
The shadows danced and lightly rouse
Insurmountable motions of the colossus sea
And lingered with the auspicious truancy
The shadows danced with the svelte strokes
In the maladroit light-flushed and fueled-gush
Whining seep of a violent breath of life
The shadows danced with phantom swords
Scintillating sparks to flicker within the darkness
Slumbering in the corners of somnolent eyes
The shadows danced in the reveling noise
Where the sun never quells the thirsty rose
And never pours for the barren host
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poem by Norman Santos
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The Flight
When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread
Too near to where they lay,
They lifted neither voice nor head,
But took themselves away.
No water broke, no pinion whirred-
There went no warning call.
The steely, sheltering rushes stirred
A little--that was all.
Only the osiers understood,
And the drowned meadows spied
What else than wreckage of a flood
Stole outward on that tide.
But the far beaches saw their ranks
Gather and greet and grow
By myriads on the naked banks
Watching their sign to go;
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poem by Rudyard Kipling
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Push Your Secrets To Desolate Corners
My dear girl!
Have i not bared my heart to you
How i surrendered my will and all
At the daring but sublime darts
From the two bold stars of her face
Sending silent vibrant invitations
To the festival of eternal spring in heaven?
How i suffered insurmountable pain for months
As destiny took her loving heart away
Loaded with my pain to another blessed soul-
You came into my life just then
As a fresh bloom with startling innocence,
When the great physician 'time'tried
All its medicines in its armoury
To cure me the sickness of her doting eyes-
You had been the time's nurse
Applying kindness on my wounds
And showed me there is a life beyond disaster-
Why then is a silent tremor in your heart
That denies me the holding of your palms
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poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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Apparuit
Golden rose the house, in the portal I saw
thee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, a
portent. Life died down in the lamp and flickered,
caught at the wonder.
Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar, moving in the glamorous sun,
drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the tissue
golden about thee.
Green the ways, the breath of the fields is thine there,
open lies the land, yet the steely going
darkly hast thou dared and the dreaded aether
parted before thee.
Swift at courage thou in the shell of gold, casting
a-loose the cloak of the body, earnest
straight, then shone thine oriel and the stunned light
faded about thee.
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poem by Ezra Pound
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And What of Me, If I should Fall.
And What of Me, If I Should Fall
What more can I say to thee, on wounded heart and bended knee,
October winds caress my hall, and what of me, if I should fall.
The yellow photo that cannot talk, the cup of wine now turned to chalk, summers touch the king of Saul, and what of me, if I should fall.
Distant echo from the past, love so true on blood stained glass, that frozen kiss at the midnight ball, and what of me, if I should fall.
House of paper and cotton buds, beating heart and mental thud,
My name on red and cindered walls, and what of me, if I should fall.
The old church on that windswept hill, Heathcliff shivers with frowning chill, swallows song and sky so tall, and what of me, if I should fall.
My blue sea with its whitewash foam, October streets and home alone,
Unto the breach with yelling call, and what of me, if I should fall.
Cloudless forest on barren land, self destruct by noble hand, my sword is sharp and steely raw, and what of me, if I should fall.
poem by Fergus Michael Condron
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Muse Alone
As these eyes ruminated
for the forlorn entropy
and cicatrize from reality
sleep fanned the embers
under the condor's nest
with infernal sibilance
grating painfully
invoking the saline water
to hit the kirtle
measuring the distance
that stretched
for another month
In the equipoise
of the myriad of blatancy
and perfunctory banality
I searched for depth,
for fathoms,
for life in bereft -
There was not a quasar
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poem by Norman Santos
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Your Eyes
Around every corner, I turn, you are there;
Fixing me with your steely, unseeing, stare.
Your eyes are static: they do not move,
But, your eternal presence seems to soothe.
The scenario, very slightly, freaks me out,
As, everywhere I go, I see your face about.
Whenever I see your watchful blue eyes,
I suddenly begin to feel just a little bit shy.
You seem to watch me, wherever I go.
But, no emotion does your face show.
What I know for sure, in my own mind,
Is that, in real life, you are caring and kind.
A poster image of you, is what I am seeing:
A momentary snapshot of your very being.
The image lacks colour, but for eyes of light blue;
This very distinguishing feature of yours, is so true.
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poem by Angela Wybrow
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