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Topic: ~Sherrie's Art Haven~
CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Sun 08/18/13 06:00 AM
In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. Steel chambers, late the pyres Of her salamandrine fires, Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres Over the mirrors meant To glass the opulent The sea-worm crawls—grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. Jewels in joy designed To ravish the sensuous mind Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" Well: while was fashioning This creature of cleaving wing, The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything Prepared a sinister mate For her—so gaily great— A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate. And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. Alien they seemed to be; No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history, Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event, Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Thomas Hardy~The Convergence of the Twain Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Mon 08/19/13 01:38 PM
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. Thomas Hardy~The Darkling Thrush Godspeed!CyPoet(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Mon 08/19/13 02:16 PM
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Shelley~Ozymandias Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Mon 08/19/13 02:28 PM
When I'm feeling the weight of the world, I come to this thread and get lost in the beauty...Thank you ((((((Cy))))))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 05:17 AM Edited by CyPoet on Tue 08/20/13 05:40 AM
When I'm feeling the weight of the world, I come to this thread and get lost in the beauty...Thank you ((((((Cy)))))) G'morn(((Leigh)))Oh!my It gives me thee absolute greatest pleasure to hear them lovely words pass between your lips.Yet there lies an even greater fondness from the fact that I have created such a peaceful & tranquil Haven by which you may shed your worries & typical daily grind.You truly inspire me oh!kndred spirit. All truth be known my very fine and dear friend,I have always held much respect and admiration for you.I am deeply pleased to discover this wonderful revelation concerning your tender feelings to-wards this thread.Such a beautiful lady on many levels indeed and a friend whom I wish to hold and cherish throughout my earthly days and well beyond if the powers that be may allow such generosity.I will post something special for you my dear and inspirational friend. Your loving & admiring friend always.Godspeed!Steven((((Leigh)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 05:37 AM
Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Can't tell if I've got black roots or braids Growing out of my head Grandfather's eating our grains Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins Running under my skin Flowing out over the plains There's trapped antennae All tangled up with these brains And the spin of cocoons whispers your names While the crash of molars it sifts us downward Down past the roll of ancient thunder Down past the delicate bones of birds wings Those that never took the flight of morning Down past the fossil ferns and antlers A pack of ghost wolves are going to bring you under Down past the stomach's filled with berries Swallowed down into the gut of centuries Where we'll petrify Strong willed, feeble, amber eyed There we'll petrify Strong lunged, weary, amber eyed Strong winged, teary, amber eyed Amber eyed Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in arms Can't tell if it's your elbows or twine All wrapped 'round my waist A tangled mess divine Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in arms Can't tell whose triggers are whose So we'll pull every one Firing diamonds at boots The crash of molars it sifts us downward Down past the roll of ancient thunder Down past the delicate bones of bird's wings Those that never took the flight of morning Down past the fossil ferns and antlers A pack of ghost wolves are going to bring you under Down past the stomachs filled with berries Swallowed down into the gut of centuries Where we'll petrify Strong willed, feeble, amber eyed There we'll petrify Strong lunged, weary, amber eyed Strong winged, teary, amber eyed Amber eyed Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in teeth Can't tell if those are black holes I spy Staring down at us Sucking starlight through our eyes Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in teeth Can't tell if we'll being eaten alive Written & Recorded by Marie Sioux Godspeed!Steven(((Leigh)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 07:26 AM
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. William Wordsworth~It Is A Beauteous Evening,Calm And Free Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Tue 08/20/13 07:43 AM
When I'm feeling the weight of the world, I come to this thread and get lost in the beauty...Thank you ((((((Cy)))))) G'morn(((Leigh)))Oh!my It gives me thee absolute greatest pleasure to hear them lovely words pass between your lips.Yet there lies an even greater fondness from the fact that I have created such a peaceful & tranquil Haven by which you may shed your worries & typical daily grind.You truly inspire me oh!kndred spirit. All truth be known my very fine and dear friend,I have always held much respect and admiration for you.I am deeply pleased to discover this wonderful revelation concerning your tender feelings to-wards this thread.Such a beautiful lady on many levels indeed and a friend whom I wish to hold and cherish throughout my earthly days and well beyond if the powers that be may allow such generosity.I will post something special for you my dear and inspirational friend. Your loving & admiring friend always.Godspeed!Steven((((Leigh))) TY !! How do I love thee?...Let me count the ways...

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Tue 08/20/13 07:46 AM
Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Can't tell if I've got black roots or braids Growing out of my head Grandfather's eating our grains Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins Running under my skin Flowing out over the plains There's trapped antennae All tangled up with these brains And the spin of cocoons whispers your names While the crash of molars it sifts us downward Down past the roll of ancient thunder Down past the delicate bones of birds wings Those that never took the flight of morning Down past the fossil ferns and antlers A pack of ghost wolves are going to bring you under Down past the stomach's filled with berries Swallowed down into the gut of centuries Where we'll petrify Strong willed, feeble, amber eyed There we'll petrify Strong lunged, weary, amber eyed Strong winged, teary, amber eyed Amber eyed Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in arms Can't tell if it's your elbows or twine All wrapped 'round my waist A tangled mess divine Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in arms Can't tell whose triggers are whose So we'll pull every one Firing diamonds at boots The crash of molars it sifts us downward Down past the roll of ancient thunder Down past the delicate bones of bird's wings Those that never took the flight of morning Down past the fossil ferns and antlers A pack of ghost wolves are going to bring you under Down past the stomachs filled with berries Swallowed down into the gut of centuries Where we'll petrify Strong willed, feeble, amber eyed There we'll petrify Strong lunged, weary, amber eyed Strong winged, teary, amber eyed Amber eyed Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in teeth Can't tell if those are black holes I spy Staring down at us Sucking starlight through our eyes Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in arms Buried in teeth Buried in teeth Buried in arms Buried in teeth Can't tell if we'll being eaten alive Written & Recorded by Marie Sioux Godspeed!Steven(((Leigh))) She is amazingly beautiful! The song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnF8toKiLI

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 08:26 AM Edited by CyPoet on Tue 08/20/13 08:37 AM
When I'm feeling the weight of the world, I come to this thread and get lost in the beauty...Thank you ((((((Cy)))))) G'morn(((Leigh)))Oh!my It gives me thee absolute greatest pleasure to hear them lovely words pass between your lips.Yet there lies an even greater fondness from the fact that I have created such a peaceful & tranquil Haven by which you may shed your worries & typical daily grind.You truly inspire me oh!kndred spirit. All truth be known my very fine and dear friend,I have always held much respect and admiration for you.I am deeply pleased to discover this wonderful revelation concerning your tender feelings to-wards this thread.Such a beautiful lady on many levels indeed and a friend whom I wish to hold and cherish throughout my earthly days and well beyond if the powers that be may allow such generosity.I will post something special for you my dear and inspirational friend. Your loving & admiring friend always.Godspeed!Steven((((Leigh))) TY !! How do I love thee?...Let me count the ways... Ditto!my breathtakingly beautiful friend.If I am ever graced with the opportunity of meeting you I shall sieze upon it with great haste.I love you dearly my beautiful and inspirational friend.Thank You!for posting the song/vid of Mariee Sioux.I am very pleased that you enjoyed it so.I have many surprises lying within the shadows dear heart.he-he:)I hope you have a wonderful day Leigh. Oh my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: Oh my luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile! Love & Godspeed!Steven ((((((Leigh))))))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 10:01 AM
Take this Sea, whose diapason knells On scrolls of silver snowy sentences, The sceptred terror of whose sessions rends As her demeanors motion well or ill, All but the pieties of lovers’ hands. And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast belly moonward bends, Laughing the wrapt inflections of our love. Hart Crane Godspeed!CyPoet(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 07:20 PM
Let us go hence: the night is now at hand; The day is overworn, the birds all flown; And we have reaped the crops the gods have sown; Despair and death; deep darkness o'er the land, Broods like an owl; we cannot understand Laughter or tears, for we have only known Surpassing vanity: vain things alone Have driven our perverse and aimless band. Let us go hence, some whither strange and cold, To Hollow Lands where just men and unjust Find end of labour, where's rest for the old, Freedom to all from love and fear and lust. Twine our torn hands! O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust. Ernest Dowson~A Last Word Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Tue 08/20/13 07:30 PM
By the sad waters of separation Where we have wandered by divers ways, I have but the shadow and imitation Of the old memorial days. In music I have no consolation, No roses are pale enough for me; The sound of the waters of separation Surpasseth roses and melody. By the sad waters of separation Dimly I hear from an hidden place The sigh of mine ancient adoration: Hardly can I remember your face. If you be dead, no proclamation Sprang to me over the waste, gray sea: Living, the waters of separation Sever for ever your soul from me. No man knoweth our desolation; Memory pales of the old delight; While the sad waters of separation Bear us on to the ultimate night. Ernest Dowson~Exile Godspeed!CyPoet(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Wed 08/21/13 03:41 AM
As I walked out one morning All in the month of May Down by a flowery garden I carelessly did stray I overheard a young maid In sorrow did complain All for her absent lover Who ploughs the raging main. I boldly stepped up to her And put her in surprise I know she did not know me I being in disguise. I says, "Me charming creature My joy, my heart's delight, How far have you to travel This dark and dreary night?" "I'm in search of a faithless young man Johnny is his name And along the banks of Claudy I'm told he does remain." "This is the banks of Claudy, Fair maid, where you stand But don't depend on Johnny For he's a false young man. "Oh, don't depend on Johnny For he'll not meet you here But tarry with me in yon green woods No danger need you fear. "Oh, it's six long weeks or better Since Johnny left the shore He's crossing the wild ocean Where the foam and the billows roar. "He's crossing the wild ocean For honour and for fame But this I've heard, the ship was wrecked All on the coast of Spain ." Oh it's when she heard this dreadful news She flew into despair By the wringing of her milk-white hands And the tearing of her hair. Saying, "If Johnny he is drowned No man on earth I'll take But through lonesome groves and valleys I'll wander for his sake." Oh it's when he saw her loyalty No longer could he stand He flew into her arms saying, "Betsy, I'm the man." Saying, "Betsy, I'm the young man The cause of all your pain But since we've met on Claudy banks We'll never part again." Loreena McKennitt Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Wed 08/21/13 04:10 AM
In the first canto of the final canticle, Too conscious of too many things at once, Our man beheld the naked, nameless dame, Seized her and wondered: why beneath the tree She held her hand before him in the air, For him to see, wove round her glittering hair. Too conscious of too many things at once, In the first canto of the final canticle, Her hand composed him and composed the tree. The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake. Her hand composed him like a hand appeared, Of an impersonal gesture, a stranger's hand. He was too conscious of too many things In the first canto of the final canticle. Her hand took his and drew it near to her. Her hand fell on him and the mi-bird flew To the ruddier bushes at the garden's end. Of her, of her alone, at last he knew And lay beside her underneath the tree. Wallace Stevens~The Hand As A Being Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Wed 08/21/13 03:40 PM
After defeat, in grief's most hopeless hours, With no resort remaining but the void, The vanquished yet may turn to hidden powers, Begging protection for a heart destroyed. As crown or cross perhaps recalls some scene, Bead by sad bead they may beseech the air, As though in precincts silent and unseen Lost angels could be helped by human prayer. Each may, as if some hearing had begun In secret parts where all the dead yet live, Cry out to walls the innocence of one Whom now no other aid is left to give. And whether justice anywhere may reign, None here can prove their witness was in vain. T.Merrill~Novenas Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Wed 08/21/13 03:46 PM
When you were as an angel in my arms, Had laid your bare head just below my chin, Your length pressed up to mine, entrusting charms My whole youth's starward longing could not win; With still the murmur of your love in me, Miracle-tones of all my lifelong hope, I wished that there might start eternity And seal forever that sweet envelope; And as it did, my thoughts are now for you As every star is blotted by the sun, And so the sun itself Has perished too, And with it, every dream of mine But one. T.Merrill~Time in Eternity Godspeed!Steven(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Wed 08/21/13 04:02 PM
I see you in her bed, Dark, rootless epicene, Where a lone ghost is laid And other ghosts convene; And hear you moan at last Your pleasure in the deep Haven of her who kissed Your blind mouth into sleep. But body, once enthralled, Wakes in the chains it wore, Dishevelled, stupid, cold, And famished as before, And hears its paragon Breathe in the ghostly air, Anonymous carrion Ravished by despair. Lovemaker, I have felt Desire take my part, But lacked your constant fault And something of your art, And would not bend my knees To the unmantled pride That left you in that place, Forever unsatisfied. Robert Mezey~The Lovemaker Godspeed!CyPoet(((Sherrie)))

CyPoet Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 12494	Thu 08/22/13 04:15 AM Edited by CyPoet on Thu 08/22/13 05:06 AM
I've had my eyes I've had my ears To steal from you For so long For a sake to fill A hole that kills You've made me thrill I've been wandering So long So long, so long Now I burn And when i yearn Everywhile without you Is too long Now i'm free You made me see It had to be so long Because I'm gonna love you So long So long,So long ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If I could Give anything I could If my thoughts could do you good If I could help you with This part of life you've got to live You could load your weight on me If I meant to you What you mean to me Your fight would also me The greatest thing You could do for me If I knew When your pain be shining through I could be watching over you If I'd been close I could reach the things to use And know just what to do One thing I will do To never let you go Never let you go Never let you go Sophie Zelmani Godspeed!CyPoet(((Sherrie)))