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    By Ee Cummings

    O sweet spontaneous
    earth how often have
    the
    doting

    fingers of
    prurient philosophers pinched
    and
    poked

    thee
    , has the naughty thumb
    of science prodded
    thy

    beauty, how
    often have religions taken
    thee upon their scraggy knees
    squeezing and

    buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
    gods
    (but
    true

    to the incomparable
    couch of death thy
    rhythmic
    lover

    thou answerest

    them only with

    spring)

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    Mother Shipton's Prophecies





    And now a word, in uncouth rhyme
    Of what shall be in future time


    Then upside down the world shall be
    And gold found at the root of tree
    All England's sons that plough the land
    Shall oft be seen with Book in hand
    The poor shall now great wisdom know
    Great houses stand in farflung vale
    All covered o'er with snow and hail


    A carriage without horse will go
    Disaster fill the world with woe.
    In London, Primrose Hill shall be
    In centre hold a Bishop's See


    Around the world men's thoughts will fly
    Quick as the twinkling of an eye.
    And water shall great wonders do
    How strange. And yet it shall come true.


    Through towering hills proud men shall ride
    No horse or ass move by his side.
    Beneath the water, men shall walk
    Shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk.
    And in the air men shall be seen
    In white and black and even green


    A great man then, shall come and go
    For prophecy declares it so.


    In water, iron, then shall float
    As easy as a wooden boat
    Gold shall be seen in stream and stone
    In land that is yet unknown.


    And England shall admit a Jew
    You think this strange, but it is true
    The Jew that once was held in scorn
    Shall of a Christian then be born.


    A house of glass shall come to pass
    In England. But Alas, alas
    A war will follow with the work
    Where dwells the Pagan and the Turk


    These states will lock in fiercest strife
    And seek to take each others life.
    When North shall thus divide the south
    And Eagle build in Lions mouth
    Then tax and blood and cruel war
    Shall come to every humble door.


    Three times shall lovely sunny France
    Be led to play a bloody dance
    Before the people shall be free
    Three tyrant rulers shall she see.


    Three rulers in succession be
    Each springs from different dynasty.
    Then when the fiercest strife is done
    England and France shall be as one.


    The British olive shall next then twine
    In marriage with a german vine.
    Men walk beneath and over streams
    Fulfilled shall be their wondrous dreams.


    For in those wondrous far off days
    The women shall adopt a craze
    To dress like men, and trousers wear
    And to cut off their locks of hair
    They'll ride astride with brazen brow
    As witches do on broomstick now.


    And roaring monsters with man atop
    Does seem to eat the verdant crop
    And men shall fly as birds do now
    And give away the horse and plough.


    There'll be a sign for all to see
    Be sure that it will certain be.
    Then love shall die and marriage cease
    And nations wane as babes decrease


    And wives shall fondle cats and dogs
    And men live much the same as hogs.


    In nineteen hundred and twenty six
    Build houses light of straw and sticks.
    For then shall mighty wars be planned
    And fire and sword shall sweep the land.


    When pictures seem alive with movements free
    When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea,
    When men like birds shall scour the sky
    Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die.


    For those who live the century through
    In fear and trembling this shall do.
    Flee to the mountains and the dens
    To bog and forest and wild fens.


    For storms will rage and oceans roar
    When Gabriel stands on sea and shore
    And as he blows his wondrous horn
    Old worlds die and new be born.


    A fiery dragon will cross the sky
    Six times before this earth shall die
    Mankind will tremble and frightened be
    for the sixth heralds in this prophecy.


    For seven days and seven nights
    Man will watch this awesome sight.
    The tides will rise beyond their ken
    To bite away the shores and then
    The mountains will begin to roar
    And earthquakes split the plain to shore.


    And flooding waters, rushing in
    Will flood the lands with such a din
    That mankind cowers in muddy fen
    And snarls about his fellow men.


    He bares his teeth and fights and kills
    And secrets food in secret hills
    And ugly in his fear, he lies
    To kill marauders, thieves and spies.


    Man flees in terror from the floods
    And kills, and rapes and lies in blood
    And spilling blood by mankinds' hands
    Will stain and bitter many lands


    And when the dragon's tail is gone,
    Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on
    To apply himself - too late, too late
    For mankind has earned deserved fate.


    His masked smile - his false grandeur,
    Will serve the Gods their anger stir.
    And they will send the Dragon back
    To light the sky - his tail will crack
    Upon the earth and rend the earth
    And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf.


    But slowly they are routed out
    To seek diminishing water spout
    And men will die of thirst before
    The oceans rise to mount the shore.


    And lands will crack and rend anew
    You think it strange. It will come true.


    And in some far off distant land
    Some men - oh such a tiny band
    Will have to leave their solid mount
    And span the earth, those few to count,
    Who survives this (unreadable) and then
    Begin the human race again.


    But not on land already there
    But on ocean beds, stark, dry and bare
    Not every soul on Earth will die
    As the Dragons tail goes sweeping by.


    Not every land on earth will sink
    But these will wallow in stench and stink
    Of rotting bodies of beast and man
    Of vegetation crisped on land.


    But the land that rises from the sea
    Will be dry and clean and soft and free
    Of mankinds' dirt and therefore be
    The source of man's new dynasty.


    And those that live will ever fear
    The dragons tail for many year
    But time erases memory
    You think it strange. But it will be.


    And before the race is built anew
    A silver serpent comes to view
    And spew out men of like unknown
    To mingle with the earth now grown
    Cold from its heat and these men can
    Enlighten the minds of future man.


    To intermingle and show them how
    To live and love and thus endow
    The children with the second sight.
    A natural thing so that they might
    Grow graceful, humble and when they do
    The Golden Age will start anew.


    The dragon's tail is but a sign
    For mankind's fall and man's decline.
    And before this prophecy is done
    I shall be burned at the stake, at one
    My body singed and my soul set free
    You think I utter blasphemy
    You're wrong. These things have come to me
    This prophecy will come to be.

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    Ode To An Angel
    Allow me to place my vulnerable heart in your hand,
    Let it be safe, never hurt, hushed nor harmed,
    As a rose with precious petals, always cherished, not crushed,
    Caressed by your fingertips to speak of its life without love,

    Let it thrive and be nurtured in your gentle tender care,
    So it may know freedom to reveal all its pain laid bare,
    Please protect and treasure it with all your power,
    Do not allow this world to let your love grow sour,
    As strong winds and heavy rains destroy a delicate flower,

    If you could open your heart so it could learn from your love,
    It would forever adore this angel sent to heal from above,
    For it has never experienced what life should mean,
    To be held as something special as if never before seen,

    For it has always only known to be abused and misused,
    From countless cutting words leaving scars that never heal,
    It has only ever learned to hide away from this hurtful world,
    To search the depths for the deepest pit or a dark unused well,

    For to feel the tenderness of an angels caring touch feels unreal,
    Foreign and alien knowing only a box with an eternal doomed seal,
    To be imprisoned for all its days, never allowed fun or to be free,
    Never even to feel the gaze of an angels eyes that will only see,
    How neglected and ignored, this loving heart has been, and will forever be.

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    ( this one, for once, isn't mine )

    #HowDareYou said Greta
    And Trump said I dare
    I’m rich and important
    And you’re not - so there!
    I’m young and I matter
    The young speaker said
    We will deal with your ego
    Long after you’re dead
    We try to alert you
    And ask you to see
    This is all that we have
    There is no planet B




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    ( i'll post one of mine in due course )
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    From the second that you’re in this world
    They tell you what is “Fair “
    The questions you’re allowed too ask
    and the ones you wouldn’t dare
    Placed on the path they’v paved for you life pushes you along
    without the chance to stop and think
    if it’s right where you belong
    But beyond your pathways edges,is where living really starts
    A land of risks and danger,and a land of broken hearts
    They will tell you,you should fear this land
    that there’s no good there at all
    as they live their lives as they’ve been taught
    Behind expectations wall.
    But the best people you will ever meet
    have wandered off their track
    found themselves along the way
    and have no need to wander back
    So forget about life’s road map
    follow your heart at any cost
    for you will never truly find yourself
    If you’re too scared to get lost.
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    she sits and watches the world go by
    they stop and ask her, how she is
    she smiles and replies, I am fine
    She smiles and says please sit if only
    for a bit, that is if you have the time
    No,?, Really I am fine, they walk away
    and she just stays, in a daze, her days
    so gray. She sits and watches the world go by,
    they stop and ask her how she is.
    She smiles and says I'm fine.
    They don't know that she hides
    behind her smile, while inside her world is gray.
    She sits day by day and watches the world go by
    wishing she were fine.
    ~Tracy Kelly, 2018~ (yes I wrote this)
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    Hi Tracy
    You wrote a lovely poem x
    I haven’t forgot the feathers
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    Thanks Quinn, my first one ever. Sweet about the feathers.
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    Re: Poets' Corner - Post your poems/song lyrics here

    THE THUNDER, PERFECT MIND


    Translated by George W. MacRae



    I was sent forth from the power,
    and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
    and I have been found among those who seek after me.
    Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
    and you hearers, hear me.
    You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
    And do not banish me from your sight.
    And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
    Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!
    Do not be ignorant of me.
    For I am the first and the last.
    I am the honored one and the scorned one.
    I am the whore and the holy one.
    I am the wife and the virgin.
    I am <the mother> and the daughter.
    I am the members of my mother.
    I am the barren one
    and many are her sons.
    I am she whose wedding is great,
    and I have not taken a husband.
    I am the midwife and she who does not bear.
    I am the solace of my labor pains.
    I am the bride and the bridegroom,
    and it is my husband who begot me.
    I am the mother of my father
    and the sister of my husband
    and he is my offspring.
    I am the slave of him who prepared me.
    I am the ruler of my offspring.
    But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.
    And he is my offspring in (due) time,
    and my power is from him.
    I am the staff of his power in his youth,
    and he is the rod of my old age.
    And whatever he wills happens to me.
    I am the silence that is incomprehensible
    and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
    I am the voice whose sound is manifold
    and the word whose appearance is multiple.
    I am the utterance of my name.

    Why, you who hate me, do you love me,
    and hate those who love me?
    You who deny me, confess me,
    and you who confess me, deny me.
    You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,
    and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.
    You who know me, be ignorant of me,
    and those who have not known me, let them know me.
    For I am knowledge and ignorance.
    I am shame and boldness.
    I am shameless; I am ashamed.
    I am strength and I am fear.
    I am war and peace.
    Give heed to me.
    I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.
    Give heed to my poverty and my wealth.
    Do not be arrogant to me when I am cast out upon the earth,
    and you will find me in those that are to come.
    And do not look upon me on the dung-heap
    nor go and leave me cast out,
    and you will find me in the kingdoms.
    And do not look upon me when I am cast out among those who
    are disgraced and in the least places,
    nor laugh at me.
    And do not cast me out among those who are slain in violence.
    But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
    Be on your guard!
    Do not hate my obedience
    and do not love my self-control.
    In my weakness, do not forsake me,
    and do not be afraid of my power.
    For why do you despise my fear
    and curse my pride?
    But I am she who exists in all fears
    and strength in trembling.
    I am she who is weak,
    and I am well in a pleasant place.
    I am senseless and I am wise.
    Why have you hated me in your counsels?
    For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
    and I shall appear and speak,
    Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
    Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
    For I am the wisdom of the Greeks
    and the knowledge of the barbarians.
    I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.
    I am the one whose image is great in Egypt
    and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
    I am the one who has been hated everywhere
    and who has been loved everywhere.
    I am the one whom they call Life,
    and you have called Death.
    I am the one whom they call Law,
    and you have called Lawlessness.
    I am the one whom you have pursued,
    and I am the one whom you have seized.
    I am the one whom you have scattered,
    and you have gathered me together.
    I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
    and you have been shameless to me.
    I am she who does not keep festival,
    and I am she whose festivals are many.
    I, I am godless,
    and I am the one whose God is great.
    I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
    and you have scorned me.
    I am unlearned,
    and they learn from me.
    I am the one that you have despised,
    and you reflect upon me.
    I am the one whom you have hidden from,
    and you appear to me.
    But whenever you hide yourselves,
    I myself will appear.
    For whenever you appear,
    I myself will hide from you.
    Those who have [...] to it [...] senselessly [...].
    Take me [... understanding] from grief.
    and take me to yourselves from understanding and grief.
    And take me to yourselves from places that are ugly and in ruin,
    and rob from those which are good even though in ugliness.
    Out of shame, take me to yourselves shamelessly;
    and out of shamelessness and shame,
    upbraid my members in yourselves.
    And come forward to me, you who know me
    and you who know my members,
    and establish the great ones among the small first creatures.
    Come forward to childhood,
    and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
    And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
    for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
    Why do you curse me and honor me?
    You have wounded and you have had mercy.
    Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have known.
    And do not cast anyone out nor turn anyone away
    [...] turn you away and [... know] him not.
    [...].
    What is mine [...].
    I know the first ones and those after them know me.
    But I am the mind of [...] and the rest of [...].
    I am the knowledge of my inquiry,
    and the finding of those who seek after me,
    and the command of those who ask of me,
    and the power of the powers in my knowledge
    of the angels, who have been sent at my word,
    and of gods in their seasons by my counsel,
    and of spirits of every man who exists with me,
    and of women who dwell within me.
    I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
    and who is despised scornfully.
    I am peace,
    and war has come because of me.
    And I am an alien and a citizen.
    I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
    Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,
    and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
    Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
    and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.
    On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,
    and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you.
    [I am ...] within.
    [I am ...] of the natures.
    I am [...] of the creation of the spirits.
    [...] request of the souls.
    I am control and the uncontrollable.
    I am the union and the dissolution.
    I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.
    I am the one below,
    and they come up to me.
    I am the judgment and the acquittal.
    I, I am sinless,
    and the root of sin derives from me.
    I am lust in (outward) appearance,
    and interior self-control exists within me.
    I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
    and the speech which cannot be grasped.
    I am a mute who does not speak,
    and great is my multitude of words.
    Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.
    I am she who cries out,
    and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
    I prepare the bread and my mind within.
    I am the knowledge of my name.
    I am the one who cries out,
    and I listen.
    I appear and [...] walk in [...] seal of my [...].
    I am [...] the defense [...].
    I am the one who is called Truth
    and iniquity [...].
    You honor me [...] and you whisper against me.
    You who are vanquished, judge them (who vanquish you)
    before they give judgment against you,
    because the judge and partiality exist in you.
    If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you?
    Or, if you are acquitted by him, who will be able to detain you?
    For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,
    and the one who fashions you on the outside
    is the one who shaped the inside of you.
    And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;
    it is visible and it is your garment.
    Hear me, you hearers
    and learn of my words, you who know me.
    I am the hearing that is attainable to everything;
    I am the speech that cannot be grasped.
    I am the name of the sound
    and the sound of the name.
    I am the sign of the letter
    and the designation of the division.
    And I [...].
    (3 lines missing)
    [...] light [...].
    [...] hearers [...] to you
    [...] the great power.
    And [...] will not move the name.
    [...] to the one who created me.
    And I will speak his name.
    Look then at his words
    and all the writings which have been completed.
    Give heed then, you hearers
    and you also, the angels and those who have been sent,
    and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
    For I am the one who alone exists,
    and I have no one who will judge me.
    For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
    and incontinencies,
    and disgraceful passions,
    and fleeting pleasures,
    which (men) embrace until they become sober
    and go up to their resting place.
    And they will find me there,
    and they will live,
    and they will not die again.
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    Re: Poets' Corner - Post your poems/song lyrics here

    Quote Originally Posted by Pkstracy View Post
    she sits and watches the world go by
    they stop and ask her, how she is
    she smiles and replies, I am fine
    She smiles and says please sit if only
    for a bit, that is if you have the time
    No,?, Really I am fine, they walk away
    and she just stays, in a daze, her days
    so gray. She sits and watches the world go by,
    they stop and ask her how she is.
    She smiles and says I'm fine.
    They don't know that she hides
    behind her smile, while inside her world is gray.
    She sits day by day and watches the world go by
    wishing she were fine.
    ~Tracy Kelly, 2018~ (yes I wrote this)
    That's very very good!👍

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