image
imagewidth (px) 212
500
| prompt
stringlengths 26
698
|
---|---|
gods teeth will
this be a pretty angel
hold the ladder steady mind
while i whack its wings
ive bashed his halo off already
see theres no harm will befall us lad
nothing here to worry us no need for you
to lose sleep over it
churchll look better without it
better still for a splash of white-wash |
|
full many a glorious morning have i seen
flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye
kissing with golden face the meadows green
gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy
anon permit the basest clouds to ride
with ugly rack on his celestial face
and from the forlorn world his visage hide
stealing unseen to west with this disgrace
even so my sun one early morn did shine
with all triumphant splendor on my brow |
|
good men the last wave by
crying how bright
their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
rage rage against the dying of the light |
|
whisper to the wind let my words travel far
let my thoughts be carried where ever you are
if possible make it so that your mind relates
for actions dont reveal how mine hesitates
experiences have created a psychological fog
losing me at times is my inner monolog
making one wonder about that desire
that warms the being or burns them like fire
so let the wind take hold and carry my whisper
bear it a life so into your ears it may enter |
|
look not thou on beauty's charming
sit thou still when kings are arming
taste not when the wine-cup glistens
speak not when the people listens
stop thine ear against the singer
from the red gold keep thy finger
vacant heart and hand and eye
easy live and quiet die |
|
well now
if little by little you stop loving me
i shall stop loving you little by little
if suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me
for i shall already have forgotten you
if you think it long and mad
the wind of banners
that passes through my life |
|
with fingernails dug into words
i say: i so love you
o sorb
red from my blood
o wormwood
blanched from my pain
and o forest forest dark
impassable like death |
|
i embrace emerging experience
i participate in discovery
i am a butterfly
i am not a butterfly collector
i want the experience of the butterfly |
|
like a sea-beast crawled forth
that on a shelf
of rock or sand reposeth
there to sun itself |
|
fearing my past is exposed
to the moon
i keep looking down
this evening |
|
winds wanders and dews drip earthward
rains fall suns rise and set
earth whirls and all but to prosper
a poor little violet |
|
if i were yonder orange-tree
and thou the blossom blooming there
i would not yield a breath of thee
to scent the most imploring air |
|
dew-drops are the gems of morning
but the tears of mournful eve |
|
when you're outside all alone at night
lift up your head
i am with you take my hand
come with me to a distant star a distant land
see the light beams way up there
close your eyes
reach up touch a star
in your mind it's really not that far
life is good life is sweet
there is a guiding light shining bright |
|
come break with me
the daily bread of my solitude
close up the nonexisting walls
with your being
gild
the nonexisting window
be the door
above all the door
which can be flung
wide open |
|
women's harvest song
i am waving a ripe sunflower
i am scattering sunflower pollen to the four world-quarters
i am joyful because of my melons
i am joyful because of my beans
i am joyful because of my squashes
the sunflower waves
so did the corn wave
when the wind blew against it
so did my white corn bend |
|
a tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself
by sinking its roots deeply into the earth
by accepting the rain that flows towards it
by reaching out to the sun
the tree perfects its character and becomes great
absorb absorb absorb
that is the secret of the tree |
|
morning has broken like the first morning
blackbird has spoken like the first bird
praise for the singing praise for the morning
praise for them springing fresh from the word
sweet the rain's new fall sunlit from heaven
like the first dewfall on the first grass
praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
sprung in completeness where his feet pass
mine is the sunlight mine is the morning
born of the one light eden saw play |
|
i'll love you until the rivers run still
and the four winds we know blow away |
|
this is the forest primeval
the murmuring pines and the hemlocks
bearded with moss and in garments green
indistinct in the twilight
stand like druids of eld
with voices sad and prophetic
stand like harpers hoar
with beards that rest on their bosoms |
|
like a
straggled feather
innocuous i wander along
these endless corridors
my soliloquy
hardly slicing the dark
in the last hour
under the fading halo
of the hurricane lantern
i stream unveiled |
|
from henceforth living matter you are nought
but stone surrounded by a dreadful thought
lost in some dim sahara an old sphinx
of whom the world we live in never thinks
lost on the map it is its surly way
only to sing in sunset's fading ray |
|
place of silent calm
autumn tones of gold
walk here in silence |
|
hawaiian sunset peeping from the sea
smiles and says aloha to his sweetheart hawaii
the drowsy islands slumber one by one
close their sleepy eyelids say goodnight to the sun
then hawaii like millions of times before
blossoms in her lover's arms once more
too soon the sunrise will wake her from her sleep
so until tomorrow sleep hawaii sleep |
|
a birdie with a yellow bill
hopped upon my window sill
cocked his shining eye and said
ain't you 'shamed you sleepy-head |
|
you wanted to cuddle up next to me
last night
i tolerated it
pretended i wanted to too
but i didnt
i really didnt
i wanted nothing less
lack of desire
has a funny way of abetting
want for affection |
|
the morning sea of silence broke into ripples of bird songs
and the flowers were all merry by the roadside
and the wealth of gold was scattered through the rift of the clouds
while we busily went on our way and paid no heed |
|
in your light i learn how to love
in your beauty how to make poems
you dance inside my chest where no-one sees you
but sometimes i do
and that sight becomes this art |
|
hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without words
and never stops at all |
|
put off that mask of burning gold
with emerald eye
o no my dear you make so bold
to find if hearts be wild and wise
and yet not cold
i would but find what's there to find
love or deceit
it was the mask engaged your mmd
and after set your heart to beat
not what's behind |
|
regardless of weather
the moon shines the same
it is the drifting clouds
that make it seem different on different nights |
|
spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
theres always one reason
to feel not good enough
and its hard at the end of the day
i need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty |
|
sometimes i am filled with a sense
of absolutely breathtaking happiness
which shakes my very soul
and in those moments of harmony
the world around me
begins to look as it really is
balanced and purposeful
and my inner mental structure or system
correspond with the outer structure of the milieu
the universe and vice versa |
|
profound stillness clouds
and trees collect on the pond
which way up which down |
|
wee sleekit cow'rin' tim'rous beastie
o what a panic's in thy breastie
thou need na start awa sae hasty
wi' bickerin' brattle
i wad be laith to rin an' chase thee
wi' murd'rin' pattle
i'm truly sorry man's dominion
has broken nature's social union
an' justifies that ill opinion
which makes thee startle |
|
that delicate forest flower
with scented breath and look so like a smile
seems as it issues from the shapeless mould
an emanation of the indwelling life
a visible token of the upholding love
that are the soul of this great universe |
|
in a manner of speaking
i just want to say
that i could never forget the way
you told me everything
by saying nothing
in a manner of speaking
i don't understand
how love in silence becomes reprimand
but the way that i feel about you
is beyond words |
|
the reflections
bounced off each other
teeming with anticipation
the evening sat dusky in the corner
a rip in her stockings and a broken heel
meanwhile the moves of the cars
were rivaled by the moves in the cars
the glances went flying as the windows steamed
yesterday fell as midnight came and went
as the passion index pushed way past overdrive |
|
when i die please
mix in my ashes with paint
of primary colours and
replace the pots in a
fishermens store
in malta so i can live
like i have lived
a little longer |
|
autumn leaves just fall
flakes of death from summer time
jewelled ruby and amber lights
autumn leaves just fall
carpeting of gold on earth
crackling crumbling to black dust
autumn leaves just fall
branches bare of natures gifts
never ending circle of life |
|
o gather me the rose the rose
while yet in flower we find it
for summer smiles but summer goes
and winter waits behind it
for with the dream foregone foregone
the deed foreborn forever
the worm regret will canker on
and time will turn him never
so were it well to love my love
and cheat of any laughter |
|
like a joy on the heart of a sorrow
the sunset hangs on a cloud
a golden storm of glittering sheaves
of fair and frail and fluttering leaves
the wild wind blows in a cloud
hark to a voice that is calling
to my heart in the voice of the wind
my heart is weary and sad and alone
for its dreams like the fluttering leaves have gone
and why should i stay behind |
|
i dont want to give up
i just want to give away
these words |
|
announced by all
the trumpets
of the sky
arrives
the snow |
|
trees reach to the clouds
golden leaves on branches fall
natures cathedral |
|
silently a flower blooms
in silence it falls away
yet here now at this moment at this place
the world of the flower the whole of
the world is blooming
this is the talk of the flower the truth
of the blossom
the glory of eternal life is fully shining here |
|
and i to my motorcycle
parked like the soul of the junkyard
restored a bicycle fleshed
with power and tore off
up highway 106 continually
drunk on the wind in my mouth
wringing the handlebar for speed
wild to be wreckage forever |
|
the day is done and the darkness
falls from the wings of night
as a feather is wafted downward
from an eagle in his flight |
|
twilight time to dream awhile
in veils of deepening blue
as fantasy strides over colourfull skies
of form disappearing from view
in twilight time dream with me awhile |
|
frozen river never goes back
time can stop the river
but on the other hand
time can only start the river
frozen river never stops |
|
o hark
o hear
how thin and clear
and thinner clearer farther going
o sweet and far from cliff and scar
the horns of elfland faintly blowing |
|
your eyes have burned the time to filigree
nothing is left of light's necessity
silence has interlocked us both in lace
great trees are fighting darkness for their space
eternal whiteness decorates the grass
leaves skim distance like ornaments of glass
is there a moon for such a heavy sky
i think light breaks somewhere without a cry |
|
my heart's in the highlands my heart is not here
my heart's in the highlands a-chasing the deer
chasing the wild deer and following the roe
my heart's in the highlands whereever i go |
|
and i see the sunrise over the ocean
sunrise on the sea
i'm watching the sunrise
i'm glad to be living
sunrise shine over me |
|
making the simple complicated is commonplace
making the complicated simple
awesomely simple
that's creativity |
|
the kiss of the sun for pardon
the song of the birds for mirth
one is nearer god's heart in a garden
than anywhere else on earth |
|
autumn is over the long leaves that love us
and over the mice in the barley sheaves
yellow the leaves of the rowan above us
and yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves
the hour of the waning of love has beset us
and weary and worn are our sad souls now
let us patt ere the season of passion forget us
with a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow |
|
in me thou see'st the twilight of such day
as after sunset fadeth in the west
which by and by black night doth take away
death's second self that seals up all in rest
in me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
that on the ashes of his youth doth lie
as the deathbed whereon it must expire
consumed with that which it was nourished by
this thou perceiv'st which makes thy love more strong
to love that well which thou must leave ere long |
|
sun in east is rising
and the sycamore tree
glows with amber sunrays
in misty dawn morning
this scene replayed before
each year in seasons end
life giving leaves have gone
the tales of long ago
many have seen such sight
soft rays of the warm sun |
|
promises we make
sometimes fade away
like footprints in the sand
love's a game of chance
i've come to understand
what my greatest fear is
someday you'll disappear
like footprints in the sand |
|
we three kings of orient are
bearing gifts we traverse afar
field and fountain moor and mountain
following yonder star
o star of wonder star of night
star with royal beauty bright
westward leading still proceeding
guide us to thy perfect light |
|
when they come it all happens in fractions
of what we call time
they used unknown radio-waves
to contact those who can feel them
children at first or children inside
they let us turn our eyes up to their realms
in secretly-weaved ways apparently obvious
gusts of wind charming lightnings hypnotic hums
not many of us can see what and how they are
commonly they are dressed with cloud-sewed clothes |
|
when her hands embraced the world
they were soft and smooth
like the inside of a flower
this was a world of scent
and all manner of human bees
of swarming instinct loitered about it
interning
everyday honey
today her hands
remind of the death of a flower |
|
by a departing light
we see acuter quite
than by a wick that stays
there's something in the flight
that clarifies the sight
and decks the rays |
|
we are shaped by our thoughts
we become what we think
when the mind is pure
joy follows like a shadow that never leaves |
|
on a day like today
we passed the time away
writing love letters in the sand
how you laughed when i cried
each time i saw the tide
take our love letters from the sand
now my broken heart aches
with every wave that breaks
over love letters in the sand |
|
the square
rubbed
but could not fill
mistaken print in gray
meant for color
patterned in less
than the natural way
monochrome
held harder than the lie |
|
sometimes if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
i would stand
if the night blackened with a coming storm
beneath some rock listening to notes that are
the ghostly language of the ancient earth
or make their dim abode in distant winds
thence did i drink the visionary power
and deem not profitless those fleeting moods
of shadowy exultation: not for this
that they are kindred to our purer mind |
|
yes the rum tum tugger is a curious cat
and there isn't any call for me to shout it
for he will do
as he do do
and there's no doing anything about it |
|
nelly methinks 'twixt thee and me
there is a kind of sympathy
and could we interchange our nature
if i were cat thou human creature
i should like thee be no great mouser
and thou like me no great composer
for like thy plaintive mews my muse
with villainous whine doth fate abuse
because it hath not made me sleek
as golden down on cupid's cheek |
|
it's not the pale moon that excites me
that thrills and delights me oh no
it's just the nearness of you
it isn't your sweet conversation
that brings this sensation oh no
it's just the nearness of you
when you're in my arms
and i feel you so close to me
all my wildest dreams come true
i need no soft lights to enchant me |
|
i'll build a stairway to paradise
with a new step every day
i'm gonna get there at any price
stand aside i'm on my way
i've got the blues
and up above it's so fair
shoes go on and carry me there
i'll build a stairway to paradise
with a new step every day |
|
upon a grey old battered tombstone
in glendalough beside the stream
where the o'byrnes and byrnes are buried
he stretched his bones and fell in a dream |
|
we do not know the future
like a pandora's box
we know there is something
that could be
really something special
at times we
can not find the words
to fill that in
it is a little of everything
all the words that we can think of |
|
the bridge spanning
a river of tears
false starts
promised promises
hoped hopefully
stagnant at the very bottom
the surface floating aimlessly
the red like a touch of your smile
as a thought passes by
bridging a mood from here to blackness |
|
ring out the old
ring in the new
ring happy bells
across the snow
the year is going
let him go
ring out the false ring in the true |
|
song of the sun
memories fading
sun is still rising in sky
singing the old song
last year is passing
smile with the golden sunrays
singing the old song
new year welcoming
grasp the moments of the sun
singing the old song |
|
and if she asks you why you can tell her that i told you
that im tired of castles in the air
ive got a dream i want the world to share
and castle walls just lead me to despair
hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
a dream come true ill live there till i die
im asking you to say my last goodbye
the love we knew aint worth another try
save me from all the trouble and the pain
i know im weak but i cant face that girl again |
|
i will not be clapped in a hood
nor a cage nor alight upon wrist
now i have learnt to be proud
hovering over the wood
in the broken mist
or tumbling cloud |
|
close your eyes
i will lay my fingers
on your stubborn eyelids
sleep
this is how the wind
caresses
the still trees
awaiting in silence
the lightest of kisses
death |
|
a robin in the morning
in the morning early
sang a song of warning
there'll be rain there'll be rain
very very clearly
from the orchard
came the gentle horning
there'll be rain
but the hasty farmer
cut his hay down |
|
i wonder about the trees
why do we wish to bear
forever the noise of these
more than another noise
so close to our dwelling place
we suffer them by the day
till we lose all measure of pace
and fixity in our joys
and acquire a listening air
they are that that talks of going |
|
as he walks into the distance
he thinks of times gone by
he's hesitant to venture
but knows it's time to fly
for out there in the distance
the future is his to find
happiness may be within his grasp
if he could leave his past behind |
|
i am of the ebbing water
of the leaves which tremble
nudged by the sound of wind
which flies by in haste
i am of the evening
which cannot fall asleep
it stubbornly stares
with the hungry eyes of stars
the night -through blueskied veins
in every strand of a body's tissue |
|
that orbed maiden
with white fire laden
whom mortals call the moon |
|
our treasure
lies in the beehives of our knowledge
we are perpetually on our way thither
being by nature
winged insects and honey gatherers
of the mind
the only thing that lies close to our heart
is the desire
to bring something home
to the hive |
|
when the sun shines too brightly
and our shadows blot out
every luminescence
and little eyes
peer
from holes
we've created
we wonder how dark
the light can become |
|
happiness is a butterfly
which when pursued
is always just beyond your grasp
but which
if you will sit down quietly
may alight upon you |
|
thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle
and the life of the candle will not be shortened happiness never decreases by being shared |
|
this is my island in the sun
where my people have toiled since time begun
i may sail on many a sea
her shores will always be home to me
oh island in the sun
willed to me by my father's hand
all my days i will sing in praise
of your forest waters your shining sand
as morning breaks the heaven on high
i lift my heavy load to the sky |
|
a brief candle both ends burning
an endless mile a bus wheel turning
a friend to share the lonesome times
a handshake and a sip of wine
so say it loud and let it ring
we are all a part of everything
the future present and the past
fly on proud bird
you're free at last |
|
there's a certain slant of light
there's a certain slant of light
winter afternoons
that opresses like the heft
of cathedral tunes
heavenly hurt it gives us
we can find no scar
but internal difference
where the meanings are |
|
how do you know deep underground
hid in your bed from sight and sound
without a turn in temperature
with weather life can scarce endure
that light has won a fraction's strength
and day put on some moments' length
whereof in merest rote will come
weeks hence mild airs that do not numb
o crocus root how do you know
how do you know |
|
whatever it is i am saying
i always need a leaf or a flower
if not an entire field as for sky
i am so wildly in love with each day's inventions
cool blue or cat gray or full of the ships of clouds
i simply can't say whatever it is i am saying without
at least one skyful
that leaves water
a creek or a well river or ocean
it has to be there |
|
take me to the fortunate islands
ruffle and kiss my hair like flowers with gentle wind
lull me to sleep flood me and make me drowsy with musical sleep
don't wake me up in my dream on the fortunate islands
show me waters deep and quiet
let me hear stars chatting on green branches
show me plenty of butterflies
bring their hearts closer and cuddle me
bend peaceful thoughts over the waters with your love |
|
palm tree daughters
brown flesh bedouin
fed with light
by our gold father
we are loved of the free-tented
the sons of space the hall-forgetters
the wide handed the bright-sworded
masters of horses |
|
i'm with you
i do take care of you
i think of you
i love you
i'm with you
where is love
here dad |
|
i have covered my nails with polish
and my fingers glisten
my lord be loving
toward my thoughts
i have drawn with a dark liner around my eyelids
and a sky full of stars reflects in my gaze
my lord be loving
toward my desire
i have greeted you with a kiss
the simplest way |
|
i am here for you not
you are here for me not
but all we are
but all we are
no matter where i am
i am here for myself |
|
there's a certain slant of light
when it comes the landscape listens
shadows hold their breath
when it goes 'tis like the distance
on the look of death |