Quotes about x'hal, page 12
Rainbank
by the river do i lie
bank i perch on, stretched out
a spectator some declare
i say not
slowly awareness rises
birds fleeting this way and that
insects playing the game
pulse slowing from civil life
spreading this feeling of peace
the wind i become
a banded happily, no one can touch me
sway with them Trees, as quietly as begun
wind no more, perspire my brow does
muggy & musky my breath beautifully heavy
time at a stand-on the crevice the moment is
does it rain? care not :)
poem by Hal Burke
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Wirdie
The Wee Birdie sings and sings
raw emotion on every note, all held captive
the watchers; forced, remisc reflectioned in
On that branch, darting to and throw
giving em all, fragile and exposed, lost
the dance engulfs
Lightwork a draining! !
Oh! ! care must show; beasties, Oh how do they prey!
even though ye trembles, shakes from the strain
Ten fold, 'Will Cometh back'....this I know..
Lightwork a draining-a gift ye must bare! !
the ancients look after thee! this I know..
take; please! ! ! comfort in this...
poem by Hal Burke
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Madrigal
(To Miss May Forshall.)
HE shouts amain, he shouts again,
(Her brother, fierce, as bluff King Hal),
"I tell you flat, I shall do that!"
She softly whispers " 'May' for 'shall'!"
He wistful sighed one eventide
(Her friend, that made this Madrigal),
"And shall I kiss you, pretty Miss!"
Smiling she answered " 'May' for 'shall'!"
With eager eyes my reader cries,
"Your friend must be indeed a val-
-uable child, so sweet, so mild!
What do you call her?" "May For shall."
poem by Lewis Carroll
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Mr Control
This capitalistic bubble
taut and enwrapped we are
Toga and bath house extinct
traded, bartered for flasher stuff
captured and caged, know not we fools!
round and round; what pattern?
the eye taken off em....
lost and searching, we battle each other...
Oh why....Why...can't We see!
Our youth! ! the innovators....Lantern holders..
force against pungent decay; lost!
General Conservator.... the wise of time,
placater, the cooler; powerless!
high and low, dark and light
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poem by Hal Burke
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Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
Oh my black Soule! Now thou art summoned
By sicknesse, deaths herald, and champion;
Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done
Treason, and durst not turne to whence hee is fled,
Or like a thiefe, which till deaths doome be read,
Wisheth himselfe deliverd from prison;
But damn'd and hal'd to execution,
Wisheth that sill he might be imprisioned;
Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lacke;
But who shall give thee that grace to beginne?
Oh make thy selfe with holy mourning blacke;
And red with blushing, as thou art with sinne;
Or wash thee in Christ's blood, which hath this might
That being red, it dyes red soules to white.
poem by John Donne
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Thank You Burt Bacharach and Hal David
I am not a child.
I never had that opportunity,
To invest that time in my life.
And there are many I knew...
Who had no childhood too.
So when someone immature,
Believes I will endure their childish games played...
They are often disappointed,
I am not one made that way.
I am direct and decisive.
And those who have been exposed to this...
Don't need to be told,
To keep their distance.
I am very helpful in showing those the way,
To San Jose!
Thank you Burt Bacharach and Hal David,
For that song.
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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Lost Dog
Oh why am i lost to this,
over and over this pondered, take back
impossible, postpone to another day...hide me...
ignore the dog, ignore its signs and one will surely be seduced,
hear her calling.......and forever so, begin to go blind;
' just reach for my hand, I will free you child'
and free I will be, be it but a pause, an intoxicating journey
free of this world, this! the non essentials of life;
when the veil parts: - what then? Done?
'just let yourself go child for i will guide thee'
through the pain coloured veil of it all: I see you! ! !
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Newly Divorced, new life in Mine Town
To that wasteland did we escape
oh what secrets dragged with,
into embraces did fall,
beggars past curfew
feeding on any embrace,
lonely-desperate-entities drawn...
war-ies traded; sorrow and comfort
entwined, realisation dawned!
lost in that land, selfish spoilt, death pointing
snickering, choices made! ! !
crawled up out;
body strained to end!
little by little...
the filthy foul incidious trench-
rats and disease rife
deep and dark, yet warm!
folly! many cowered safe!
flirting behind its shadowery form,
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Aphrodite and the Lioness
Stripped away you have..
humility, led or cajoled not,
humiliation mine to bare..
Those anxious shards, felled off
left to the wind; yesterdays waste
my path you bore, burdened yourself! ! !
My Self-Realisation-your gift......
but; what of you and yours?
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Aether rises as steam.
that surreal substance linking worlds! !
Are you aware Golden One?
Aphrodite's within thee; -
Her and the Lion...a prism in Dualism,
Subtly Teaching Us, The Forceful
Oh Lioness! trust in her,
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I Thought Of Her Just Before She Called
Take that day the 25-7-2012..
I read all your poems
I feel all of these
I am all of these..
How do we All feel, This..
Thrust Upon us I enquire?
Was it advertisers, inserting there wares.
Tricked by the moguls on that brash plane
Moral influence numbingly belted, no mas no mas!
Unconsciously wers we inserted upon
Confused! ! Strangely, abused I feel not
Take that day the 25-7-2012
I read all your poems
I feel all of these
I am all of these..
How do we All feel, This..
The Records, the message stick,
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poem by Hal Burke
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