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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART II The Sun now rose upon the right : Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariners' hollo ! His shipmates cry out against the ancient Mariner, for killing the bird of good luck. And I had done an hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe : For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch ! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow ! But when the fog cleared off, they justify the same, and thus make themselves accomplices in the crime. Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist : Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That bring the fog and mist. The fair breeze continues ; the ship enters the Pacific Ocean, and sails northward, even till it reaches the Line. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. The ship hath been suddenly becalmed. Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. And the Albatross begins to be avenged. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them ; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels ; concerning whom the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted. They are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more. And some in dreams assuréd were Of the Spirit that plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root ; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. The shipmates, in their sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner : in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird round his neck. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART III There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time ! a weary time ! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. The ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist ; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist ! And still it neared and neared : As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. At its nearer approach, it seemeth him to be a ship ; and at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail ; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail ! A flash of joy ; With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy ! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. And horror follows. For can it be a ship that comes onward without wind or tide ? See ! see ! (I cried) she tacks no more ! Hither to work us weal ; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel ! The western wave was all a-flame. The day was well nigh done ! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun ; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun. It seemeth him but the skeleton of a ship. And straight the Sun was flecked with bars, (Heaven's Mother send us grace !) As if through a dungeon-grate he peered With broad and burning face. And its ribs are seen as bars on the face of the setting Sun. Alas ! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears ! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres ? The Spectre-Woman and her Death-mate, and no other on board the skeleton ship. And those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate ? And is that Woman all her crew ? Is that a DEATH ? and are there two ? Is DEATH that woman's mate ? [first version of this stanza through the end of Part III] And those her naked ribs, which fleck'd The sun that did behind them peer? And are these two all, all the crew? That woman and her fleshless Pheere? His bones were black with many a crack, All black and bare, I ween; Jet-black and bare, save where with rust Of mouldy damps and charnel crust They're patch'd with purple and green. Her lips are red, her looks are free, Her locks are yellow as gold: Her skin is as white as leprosy, And she is far liker Death than he; Her flesh makes the still air cold. The naked Hulk alongside came And the Twain were playing dice; `The Game is done! I've won, I've won!' Quoth she, and whistled thrice. A gust of wind sterte up behind And whistled thro' his bones; Thro' the holes of his eyes and the hole of his mouth Half-whistles and half-groans. With never a whisper in the Sea Off darts the Spectre-ship; While clombe above the Eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright Star Almost atween the tips. One after one by the horned Moon (Listen, O Stranger! to me) Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang And curs'd me with his ee. Four times fifty living men, With never a sigh or groan, With heavy thump, a lifeless lump They dropp'd down one by one. There souls did from their bodies fly,-- They fled to bliss or woe; And every soul it pass'd me by, Like the whiz of my Cross-bow. ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size _ ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA Last edited by theblackalchemist; 06-15-2008 at 08:09 AM. | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART V The Wedding-Guest feareth that a Spirit is talking to him ; `I fear thee, ancient Mariner ! I fear thy skinny hand ! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. (Coleridge's note on above stanza) I fear thee and thy glittering eye, And thy skinny hand, so brown.'-- Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest ! This body dropt not down. But the ancient Mariner assureth him of his bodily life, and proceedeth to relate his horrible penance. Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea ! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. He despiseth the creatures of the calm, The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. And envieth that they should live, and so many lie dead. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward ; and every where the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival. The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-- Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charméd water burnt alway A still and awful red. By the light of the Moon he beholdeth God's creatures of the great calm. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire. Their beauty and their happiness. He blesseth them in his heart. O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware : Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. The spell begins to break. The self-same moment I could pray ; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea. ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART VI Oh sleep ! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole ! To Mary Queen the praise be given ! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul. By grace of the holy Mother, the ancient Mariner is refreshed with rain. The silly buckets on the deck, That had so long remained, I dreamt that they were filled with dew ; And when I awoke, it rained. My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank ; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank. I moved, and could not feel my limbs : I was so light--almost I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blesséd ghost. He heareth sounds and seeth strange sights and commotions in the sky and the element. And soon I heard a roaring wind : It did not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud ; The Moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. The bodies of the ship's crew are inspired, and the ship moves on ; The loud wind never reached the ship, Yet now the ship moved on ! Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men gave a groan. They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes ; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on ; Yet never a breeze up-blew ; The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do ; They raised their limbs like lifeless tools-- We were a ghastly crew. The body of my brother's son Stood by me, knee to knee : The body and I pulled at one rope, But he said nought to me. But not by the souls of the men, nor by dæmons of earth or middle air, but by a blessed troop of angelic spirits, sent down by the invocation of the guardian saint. `I fear thee, ancient Mariner !' Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest ! 'Twas not those souls that fled in pain, Which to their corses came again, But a troop of spirits blest : For when it dawned--they dropped their arms, And clustered round the mast ; Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. Around, around, flew each sweet sound, Then darted to the Sun ; Slowly the sounds came back again, Now mixed, now one by one. Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing ; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning ! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute ; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. [Additional stanzas, dropped after the first edition.] Listen, O listen, thou Wedding-guest! `Marinere! thou hast thy will: `For that, which comes out of thine eye, doth make `My body and soul to be still.' Never sadder tale was told To a man of woman born: Sadder and wiser thou wedding-guest! Thou'lt rise to-morrow morn. Never sadder tale was heard By a man of woman born: The Marineres all return'd to work As silent as beforne. The Marineres all 'gan pull the ropes But look at me they n'old: Thought I, I am as thin as air-- They cannot me behold. Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe : Slowly and smoothly went the ship, Moved onward from beneath. The lonesome Spirit from the south-pole carries on the ship as far as the Line, in obedience to the angelic troop, but still requireth vengeance. Under the keel nine fathom deep, From the land of mist and snow, The spirit slid : and it was he That made the ship to go. The sails at noon left off their tune, And the ship stood still also. The Sun, right up above the mast, Had fixed her to the ocean : But in a minute she 'gan stir, With a short uneasy motion-- Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound : It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound. The Polar Spirit's fellow-dæmons, the invisible inhabitants of the element, take part in his wrong ; and two of them relate, one to the other, that penance long and heavy for the ancient Mariner hath been accorded to the Polar Spirit, who returneth southward. How long in that same fit I lay, I have not to declare ; But ere my living life returned, I heard and in my soul discerned Two voices in the air. `Is it he ?' quoth one, `Is this the man ? By him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.' The other was a softer voice, As soft as honey-dew : Quoth he, `The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.' ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART VI FIRST VOICE `But tell me, tell me ! speak again, Thy soft response renewing-- What makes that ship drive on so fast ? What is the ocean doing ?' SECOND VOICE `Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast ; His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast-- If he may know which way to go ; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see ! how graciously She looketh down on him.' The Mariner hath been cast into a trance ; for the angelic power causeth the vessel to drive northward faster than human life could endure. FIRST VOICE `But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind ?' SECOND VOICE `The air is cut away before, And closes from behind. Fly, brother, fly ! more high, more high ! Or we shall be belated : For slow and slow that ship will go, When the Mariner's trance is abated.' The supernatural motion is retarded ; the Mariner awakes, and his penance begins anew. I woke, and we were sailing on As in a gentle weather : 'Twas night, calm night, the moon was high ; The dead men stood together. All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter : All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they died, Had never passed away : I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. The curse is finally expiated. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen— Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring-- It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like a welcoming. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too : Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze-- On me alone it blew. And the ancient Mariner beholdeth his native country. Oh ! dream of joy ! is this indeed The light-house top I see ? Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray-- O let me be awake, my God ! Or let me sleep alway. The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn ! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon. [Additional stanzas, dropped after the first edition.] The moonlight bay was white all o'er, Till rising from the same, Full many shapes, that shadows were, Like as of torches came. A little distance from the prow Those dark-red shadows were; But soon I saw that my own flesh Was red as in a glare. I turn'd my head in fear and dread, And by the holy rood, The bodies had advanc'd, and now Before the mast they stood. They lifted up their stiff right arms, They held them strait and tight; And each right-arm burnt like a torch, A torch that's borne upright. Their stony eye-balls glitter'd on In the red and smoky light. I pray'd and turn'd my head away Forth looking as before. There was no breeze upon the bay, No wave against the shore. ... Then vanish'd all the lovely lights; The bodies rose anew: With silent pace, each to his place Came back the ghastly crew. The wind, that shade nor motion made, On me alone it blew. The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock : The moonlight steeped in silentness The steady weathercock. The angelic spirits leave the dead bodies, And the bay was white with silent light, Till rising from the same, Full many shapes, that shadows were, In crimson colours came. And appear in their own forms of light. A little distance from the prow Those crimson shadows were : I turned my eyes upon the deck-- Oh, Christ ! what saw I there ! Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood ! A man all light, a seraph-man, On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand : It was a heavenly sight ! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light ; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart-- No voice ; but oh ! the silence sank Like music on my heart. But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer ; My head was turned perforce away And I saw a boat appear. [Additional stanza, dropped after the first edition.] Then vanish'd all the lovely lights; The bodies rose anew: With silent pace, each to his place Came back the ghastly crew. The wind, that shade nor motion made, On me alone it blew. The Pilot and the Pilot's boy, I heard them coming fast : Dear Lord in Heaven ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast. I saw a third--I heard his voice : It is the Hermit good ! He singeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood. He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood. ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size PART VII The Hermit of the Wood, This Hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears ! He loves to talk with marineres That come from a far countree. He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve-- He hath a cushion plump : It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump. The skiff-boat neared : I heard them talk, `Why, this is strange, I trow ! Where are those lights so many and fair, That signal made but now ?' Approacheth the ship with wonder. `Strange, by my faith !' the Hermit said-- `And they answered not our cheer ! The planks looked warped ! and see those sails, How thin they are and sere ! I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along ; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.' `Dear Lord ! it hath a fiendish look-- (The Pilot made reply) I am a-feared'--`Push on, push on !' Said the Hermit cheerily. The boat came closer to the ship, But I nor spake nor stirred ; The boat came close beneath the ship, And straight a sound was heard. The ship suddenly sinketh. Under the water it rumbled on, Still louder and more dread : It reached the ship, it split the bay ; The ship went down like lead. The ancient Mariner is saved in the Pilot's boat. Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound, Which sky and ocean smote, Like one that hath been seven days drowned My body lay afloat ; But swift as dreams, myself I found Within the Pilot's boat. Upon the whirl, where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round ; And all was still, save that the hill Was telling of the sound. I moved my lips--the Pilot shrieked And fell down in a fit ; The holy Hermit raised his eyes, And prayed where he did sit. I took the oars : the Pilot's boy, Who now doth crazy go, Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to and fro. `Ha ! ha !' quoth he, `full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row.' And now, all in my own countree, I stood on the firm land ! The Hermit stepped forth from the boat, And scarcely he could stand. The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him ; and the penance of life falls on him. `O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man !' The Hermit crossed his brow. `Say quick,' quoth he, `I bid thee say-- What manner of man art thou ?' Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale ; And then it left me free. And ever and anon through out his future life an agony constraineth him to travel from land to land ; Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns : And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land ; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach. What loud uproar bursts from that door ! The wedding-guests are there : But in the garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are : And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer ! O Wedding-Guest ! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea : So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seeméd there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company !-- To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends And youths and maidens gay ! And to teach, by his own example, love and reverence to all things that God made and loveth. Farewell, farewell ! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest ! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone : and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn : A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Explaining | Re: poems of any size THE ABOVE POEM, best loved of s.t.coleridge. it was big enough so i took the liberty of breaking it happy reading! TBA ---------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Black Alchemist Please forgive Me For any Mistakes All posts are Written in accordance to the Prophecy Had a good experience lately here? want to thank somebody? do it right here ---->> Hypography Is Great ![]() Make War On terrorism! Leave no one alive on the boat. show no mercy! TBA | |
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| Understanding | Re: poems of any size Narcissus. The flower that weeps, a shimmering image Bent down in grief, an untouchable face Unable to speak, pined until madness Unheeded echo, gone without trace Oh Narcissus, true holder of beauty indulgence has wasted your beauty away The poet is lineless, the water is broken Words falling silent, echoing pain It rose when the rains fell, bloomed in the Winter Something so wondrous, born out of dirt A myth and a maiden, words held and hindered Out of reach beauty, the flower of hurt I speak to a still pool, this well of desires A face that is calling, but I hear no sound I cry to my lover, so consumed in fire Words that are wasted, falling to ground Narcissus, Narcissus Silently, back to me Narcissus, Poeticus Out of reach, eternity I reached to touch the silent waters To hold the image there It broke apart, I grasped for pieces They fell, a thousand tears Narcissus man, rapt in his love Narcissus missing, too much to bear Drunk in the pool, drowned by the beauty Too much to carry, so much to share Pans flute has sounded! Seek the echo! Mad shepherds sent, to tear her down The temptress running, hid in the highlands True love has died now, and pain is found Faced in pools of self reflection Clothed in sweat of self indulgence Belladonna of my fate Flower of my love it is done A voice in love but only that A heart that slowly fades away barer than my bones it is done. Bah, I was young once too Now on a darker note .... ![]() Solstice. Hark the calling, footsteps inbound With the fixated need, with a wish, with a spell Through the hell ridden streets, to engorge, to devour In the beat of the blackness In the heat of my lust Into the dust I ran: To explode as a man, to be what I am I tear and I bleed and I need as I stand In the evil of loving, the fool and his plan I ran: To the mountains of Eros to the greed of the mount And the maddening calling, the heeding of doubt To be without, I tremble... In the wake of resistance, in the pit of my soul I must be whole With the glimpse of an eye, of a cleft, of a thigh I am possessed Oh so willing enslaved, to the wages of sin I am unblessed to be dressed in desire, I am on fire. Through the bowels of shame, purged of all right To the cautionary windsong, the perilous flight To the temple of instinct, the alter of blood I flood: And I spill and I slip and I spatter and I bleed In the might of my need And I cry and I bellow and I scream and I'm dumb I run: In the vessel of fetish, the horn studded jewel By the eyes of the wicked, the ears of the cruel In the laughter of thousands, the Gomhorrite duel I thrust my tool And I ran With a bare whetted palate, by devilish creed To be wholly slaked, I feast and I feed On the Aryan offspring, the Gentiles gold I have been sold: In the bedrooms of Hades, the courts of the Gods I place my long: To be beaten and tortured and rendered unfit Into the pit I ran. Looking at this it would be impossible for me to write such stuff today or at least a lot harder as i don't believe in religions or god. | |
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