Tag: poetry
member name: Will Evans
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November 16, 2006 09:19 PM EST --
I lay awake — your flame my only triumph.
Beside you, the kingdom beyond the grave is nothing,
to the embracing desert.
When your eyes are closed
the earth veiled.
Warriors of the drunkenness . . .
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July 01, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives . . .
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October 11, 2006 04:50 AM EDT --
"He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation . . .
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October 28, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
I am writing something. Not a swan song, and not, not me. But - I will post it here - every stanza - as it happens. And finally. Some.Of.You.May.Comment.
That too, will go into the next stanza. And. &&& . . .
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June 27, 2006 05:01 AM EDT --
"Still, if sins are forgiven,
that is, if souls break even
with flesh elsewhere, this joint,
too, must be enjoyed
as afterlife's sweet parlor
where, in the clouded squalor,
saints and . . .
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July 29, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
Dedicated to Ludolf Grolle de Rochefort. A humbled thanks for posting your art on Gather so that it could inspire beauty, joy, lust and sorrow.
~ will evans 2006
Maupassant's Garden*
In your paintings . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:56 AM EST --
The universe slumped in a hammock devising ingenious new ways to break our
hearts, her robe parting suggestively at her forked and dangling legs.
Between the serene hammock and the storm-gashed spasm . . .
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November 05, 2006 10:40 AM EST --
Avant You
avant i want
& if you
i am becoming
my love's dying
body okra tomatoes
sweet corn sunflower
to my sin, love . . .
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September 27, 2006 05:54 AM EDT --
I have been in desparate need to return and edit work that I have not looked at in more 6 months. This editing process is actually theuraputic, and allows me to pick out the pieces I like and make them . . .
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November 10, 2006 01:52 AM EST --
skyglass over newbury street,
bustle under blank.
an intrigue, really,
this clarity tracing
serpentine maple branches,
this grand merci and silence,
for all that, some say, good news.
I'm serving . . .
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November 18, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
"Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois."
—Tom Wolfe (The Painted Word. Stated in regard to Andy Warhol.)
Insomnia
Dedicated to Jessie Rae, an amazing singer, . . .
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May 19, 2007 01:27 PM EDT --
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I hate writing poetry. I hate opening myself up to everyone here on Gather because it is conservative to say that ninety-nine percent of you will never get me, and perhaps . . .
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July 01, 2006 08:29 AM EDT --
"The goddess took her dark veil, than which there can be no robe more sombre, and went forth with fleet Iris leading the way before her."
(Iliad, Book XXIV)
Goddess of TCP/IP
Deluded promontories . . .
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July 06, 2006 05:00 AM EDT --
"I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches . . .
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August 06, 2006 05:14 PM EDT --
(I almost forgot, but didn't. I knew this was half-dormant, in the back of my mind, the unaccessed parts of my memory's hard drive. Guess she deserves a day in the sun. This is unique . . .
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October 06, 2006 06:06 AM EDT --
Set <me> @flame
decentralized decay
Ardent Urgent Urban
goto burn your quivering lip : a rose
is // de-con.structing * paX
Pass.ions
for Control /?/ Surveillance
or.but.and
. . .
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November 15, 2006 06:37 AM EST --
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re-mixed morning, flowing filled of threshold. one is still hungry, evoking ends between wake & Id,
and memory. I connect the night - moment . . .
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October 13, 2006 04:47 AM EDT --
"The words we call expressions of aesthetic judgement play a very complicated rôle, but a very definite rôle, in what we call a culture of a period. To describe their use or to describe . . .
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December 18, 2006 12:15 AM EST --
To be made incapable of dreams of
thinking that commandment which is not true
commandment of Elohim
for a word . . .
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March 14, 2007 08:04 AM EDT --
I go through my affairs and I wonder if anyone can truly go through their affairs and as I'm sitting there with what few parcels remain to me and I wonder which way I'll plunge or fall or maybe . . .
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