tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56920175237031487752024-03-14T02:15:35.754-06:00Fly-By-Night Lighthousemusings of a would-be poet in new mexicoMB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-64352075629843413402018-11-12T09:38:00.001-07:002018-11-12T09:40:21.727-07:00further light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sun-drenched<br />
silver shimmering,<br />
night-nourished<br />
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light penetrates my soul,<br />
levitates my being<br />
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I have always known<br />
that love is all and all is one<br />
all goddesses, all gods<br />
I have always known from<br />
the eternal I that perpetually exists<br />
all religion, all clans and creeds<br />
are false- we are constructed of<br />
love built upon love.<br />
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You have always known,<br />
search your heart-<br />
we have always known too,<br />
for you are I and I am you.<br />
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Sun-drenched<br />
silver shimmering,<br />
night-nourished<br />
moonlit gleaming<br />
light penetrates your soul,<br />
levitates your being</div>
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-81889730995241135352018-10-02T09:19:00.000-06:002018-10-03T11:31:45.544-06:00what we become<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You recall the vine's infantile form,<br />
fresh and newfangled,<br />
tendrils unfolding along the virgin fence,<br />
running the span with fluency,<br />
capsules flush and full with new life-<br />
frantic and aflame with fortuity-<br />
to conceive and flower in fruition<br />
a vernal dance of kith and kin.<br />
You recognize same vine in dotage,<br />
brown and bedraggled,<br />
persisting upon the fenceline,<br />
pods emptied of seed long ago<br />
feeble and friable-<br />
in wait for winter frost to set them free-<br />
to tumble on the frozen soil<br />
and putrefy in their dissolution.<br />
But old vines will not crumble,<br />
tension fastened in stiff tendrils-<br />
they tarry as fossils,<br />
as admonitions to future's sprouts:<br />
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-64063068418121839302017-12-26T11:14:00.000-07:002018-02-05T10:50:48.718-07:00edges<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Surroundings formerly innocuous<br />
suddenly sprout sharp edges-<br />
engendering movement, multi-direction,<br />
a slash through skin and muscle.<br />
Legs self-mobilize and tread hallway,<br />
automated to tasks foreordained-<br />
blood-splatter garnishing<br />
virgin surfaces of serrated trek,<br />
en route to the goal.<br />
Left arm hanging- greasy gristle,<br />
right sliced through, still operative-<br />
legs almost reach the end intact-<br />
path-shuffling pain yet persevere-<br />
the Achilles goes, and body falters,<br />
tumbles with right hand on door handle<br />
smudging it with a vulgar stain<br />
that reads: never may thee enter.<br />
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-75939781910343677162017-12-18T11:29:00.000-07:002017-12-26T10:49:34.257-07:00on the solstice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the solstice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my heart is opening,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">walk with me and see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the foundation we're building-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this will be where the tower stands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and the walls will open to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a grand gate of wonder,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">inviting inside all those we love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the solstice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my mind is churning,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">blazing with the prospects</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for a future together-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a great hall decorated with loving words,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a hearth with fires that summon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the summer in December,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">shielding from cold all those we love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On the solstice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my soul is dancing,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">whirling with the fires</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of the forge we're tending-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">careening through demolition of ruins past, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">through the doorways hammered tight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">an ediface of light unbridled,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">embracing in wide arms all those we love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On my mantle, 'side my bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sit the portraits of the dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In soundless seconds from the past,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">afore the smudged and fragile glass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am looking at the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Watch the epoch of a life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nuptials sweet, assurance rife;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">celebrations, jubilees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">inert smiles and faded glee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">catch me spying on the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ethereal moment, childhood spark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ever stagnant, halcyon hark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And in the sanguine, nebulous gleam</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with unambiguous esteem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I see the dead peer into me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On a mantle, 'side a bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sit the portraits of the dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In frozen moments from the past,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">behind the thin and dusty glass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">see me standing with the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Written on Samhain 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by my brow, I walk.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sullenly, measured, like an unwed man</span><br />
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Unencumbered, swishing her train elaborate<br />
Hips wide, voluptuous with a belly like a Madonna with child.<br />
I am allowed to suckle, to nourish from her wondrous milks.<br />
I become full. Obese with will, pretensions<br />
and breasts become shriveled, a corpses unheard scream.<br />
So I weep, corpulent from her.<br />
In desperation and rage, I tear at my ribbons.<br />
In gluttony and yearning I gnaw at the olive branch.<br />
Reeling and weeping, self-fulfilled failure;<br />
I long to propose to another,<br />
force her to fill my enlarged gut.<br />
Hunger cowls my features, emaciated like like her breasts.<br />
scratching for crumbs, once more humble.<br />
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And come the ribbons and come the laurels and come the brides<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Raptured blood in trapped encapsulation </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A pestilence born of a false calling, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a mission ineffectual and gauche.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Laid down my sword and shield to the invader, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and in my suffering, found victory.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">New purpose birthed from what should be a nadir:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To rouse my mind from paltry piety.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then images, they shimmered into vision,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like shrinking violet vespers of a dream. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mind and conscience coursing for collision, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">gelled into one coherent stream.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I wear same garment as a badge, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">myself reclaiming purpose to proceed. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A flight from villains after balm I snatch; </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">new savior quenching old savior's needs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another piece from the bad old days, can't come up with a better title than this, which is depressing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You pair your justice with untruth. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Turn ethics sanctified into a spoof.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tongue-cheeked beliefs manufacture your lies, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">proclamations so contrived;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a broken stake from which you're loosed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You wear your malice like a shroud; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">burned-up memories and dust settling 'round.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Antique doctrine you'd explode if I said, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">better left rusted and dead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like junked-up heaps at some impound.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You tear the heart out from repose. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spurned your wild ideas like yesterday's clothes!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hand-picked qualities fancied on a lark,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">falsely held, surreal and stark;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the thirty pieces which you chose.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I use forgiveness like a broom. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Attempting surgery to mend my wounds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Self-licked lacerations make me feel sick, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my saliva coated thick; </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I try to keep compassion live, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">free from speculation, yearning to thrive.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once-tricked inclination now sees what's real</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as my wounds start to congeal; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">your hate's a plank from which you dive.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Such contrasts to be born</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">from purple and white.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and proclaim this morning, "glory!"<br />
Arouse expression- sleep ended, eyes open,<br />
blossom my flower.<br />
Radiance your mystery,<br />
dewdrops the secrets you whisper<br />
as if spring in frostbite.<br />
Tangle-vines, tendrils speak<br />
intelligence, ground up to sky.<br />
Bring your glory, shine, ever shine!<br />
Smile up to heaven and with a sigh,<br />
reach and stretch perfume.<br />
Stem waver, roots straighten<br />
seeking last rays of the sun,<br />
misty kiss, fore the last light<br />
and close my color, 'till tomorrow.<br />
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Very old piece I found buried in my Facebook notes from years ago. Originally written on one of the yellow-orange colored lined notebooks I started attempting poetry in back in college. </span></div>
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-69983315105388738692017-10-24T10:36:00.001-06:002017-10-25T10:53:12.649-06:00loose sand on highway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hovering above the rough asphault,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a silken scarf at play about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the wanton fingers of the October breeze.</span><br />
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It is a fluid shimmer, a cobra of color<br />
side-winding down the freeway avoiding cars<br />
and monstrous eighteen-wheelers-<br />
all predators out to do it harm.<br />
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An echo of life, shifting, surly and determined.<br />
Not content to concede and confident in its purpose<br />
as it slithers in foreign territory<br />
on an overcast October day.<br />
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Now sliding to the right-of-way<br />
for a smooth attack on the grass,<br />
it disperses about the sloth of thick black clay<br />
and is seen no longer.</span></div>
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-44197334579433174582017-10-10T09:05:00.001-06:002017-10-10T09:08:52.890-06:00guest poet: Garron Tankersley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but the picture changes capriciously</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as the image finally composes</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a sign of love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Am I to believe myself mad?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it my true intention to see evil</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or should I be glad</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The constant fight continues</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As it has in many venues</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because the battle above</span><br />
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-86116189131029540692017-08-07T11:16:00.000-06:002017-08-14T12:02:43.390-06:00guest poet : Amara Tankersley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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autocratic policies. This all started when I watched a documentary on the
statues on Easter Island. One of the giant heads had been toppled at one time.
It lay on the ground and didn't seem so miraculous in that position. The
archaeologist on the program surmised that originally the great heads were built as spiritual figures but
eventually came to symbolize the power that the higher-status islanders held
over the lower-ranked islanders. The wealthy built taller heads that grew more
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In the beginning, there was the goddess, and she created all, everything, above and below and in-between. Except for the things the god created. He rained his fiery sperm down from the heavens into her dark, fertile valleys, and there was life.<br />
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Except for the life that was created when he was wounded and his blood spilt on the earth or that stuff created when she split asunder her atomic structure and divided into two beings, the earth and the sky, and they into four: earth, water, fire and air.<br />
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And all of these being the exception to that which was created when everything went haywire and nothingness exploded with a big bang, causing the formation of the universe, which is still feeling the effects and expanding, or is it shrinking?<br />
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Then there was the time he masturbated into his hand, ingested the output and expectorated children. And the time when her love for the universe was the cause of great consternation in her underground womb and erupted life-giving fires onto the surface from her vagina.<br />
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These two came together, bonded as one and from that union everything emerged. Except, of course, those things that naturally evolved from proteins and acids bonding together in small pools of warm water, over millions and millions of years, step-by-step.<br />
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One must mention a worldwide flood at some point, as either man became too wicked to survive, there was a war among the gods, or the crust of the earth shifted over the mantle due to gravitational issues, causing a massive cataclysm.<br />
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Of course, one man and his family survived, having been told by god to build an ark and take into it one of every animal and not to worry about the predator/prey combinations or the problem of feces removal.<br />
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His was the only family, except for the pair that survived by strapping themselves to a tree on a high hill. And the one down in what we now call South America who was told to enter the caves. And all the others in their boats. And the ones who were turned to dolphins, etc. Oh, and Atlantis, or Lemuria, which sank beneath the depths.<br />
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Then there was the tower we tried to build to reach heaven, where all languages were created to confuse people and to separate us so we'd never become as great as god, although inside us all there is a god, or at least a loa, perhaps a brother-in-loa.<br />
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Luckily, today we all believe alike, at least according to the leaders of the United States, that one nation under... something. Something green, I think, and made of paper, or perhaps golden, like a calf...<br />
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We all know that church is on Sunday morning and as long as you're there and you've dunked in the name of a Jewish carpenter/stoneworker/last scion of the Davidic line/rabbit/savior, anything you do during the week is up for negotiation. Man, I'm glad the world isn't as complicated today as it once was. Just begs the question...<br />
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What would Guan Lin do?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yours was an autumn blossom-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">an essence of joy on display, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">your sustenance was</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You were made like wildflowers, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yours was a winter to endure-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a trying of the soul, so cold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stood firm in the soil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so bold, never wilting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a portrait of strength</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">suspending the season of growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You were made like wildflowers, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yours was a summer bouquet-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sprouting up wild in wide pastures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in purple and gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hue that secures, inspired</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yours are made like wildflowers, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You made spring eternal-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">burgeoning in mind and heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">unfenced and unbound</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to replenish the garden with light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whip-crack! You attack-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">your reflexive domination</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">can't approximate this claim, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a dire abomination</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lacking regret or shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is my sedition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a dish best served in disillusion-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">better- a dissolution-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a climactic cataclysm-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">yet I’m only one empty cleft, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the rift is made of millions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cleaving to the rectitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of national aspirations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you bereft of reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am a pure destroyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bound to disinfect</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">your marketplace, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That’s all it takes to make</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">depressions and fearful earthquakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in the "lands of the free"-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to be read states-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hunkering in bunkers of blue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now your fleets are manned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by bitter turncoat mutineers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">steering through tsunamis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on the high seas, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ill-wracked by your foibles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and policies from asinine to austere</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">perhaps I’m saturnine but I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">see horror ‘round the sphere</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rains of meteoric nightmare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">on a scorching tangent spree</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">purging ashes forged in disarray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the identity I flee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>You</i> are the pure destroyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rumbling hellbent and unchecked-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the genesis of climactic cataclysm-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">your revelation I reject</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and stand stalwart on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">solid earth to bear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the beastly wreck this hour-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the collision fate did spawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our retribution is the penalty for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">perversion of unhinged power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now, attack!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Author's Notes: Yes, this does relate to my spiritual path as well as my disdain for several political dynasties, as well as current officeholders. Following a warrior path means much more than physically fighting for those who can't, but also using words in protest to join the cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All in that first time we met-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But in it I have REMEMBERED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MB Tankersleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08900230808085480701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692017523703148775.post-1486448685188190252015-02-18T13:39:00.001-07:002017-08-14T11:27:33.039-06:00to butterfly wing, tether my soul<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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