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Rape thou not these Gods:
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Sonnet II:
But they managed their deeds without casting Down… as you wretched will usually try. They have made exaltation their duty; Men… they shall cleanse of your odious taint. They have filled our museums...
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What if one’s duty:
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Sonnet III:
So we live in a world that is better Thus… and we live as all men ought to be. It was done without deigning to fetter Us… They have done it by setting us free. And while man, a creator of beauty Will…...
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I wanted to see it:
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Sonnet IV:
Then in beauty and truth, the believers, Lo!… Shall behold as you conjurers burn. Though our innocence used as a weakness, Still… in the end it has helped us prevail; Although twisted to apathy’s...
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To a girl, not Sue:
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Sonnet IV:
Say not, thou knew the nature of a man, Whilst knowing not the nature of thy thought. Dost not thou know, such thought is of a plan Which, not thine own, should, one day, be untaught? Though, thou art...
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Let us rant:
Let us rant, you young, for soon enough we will die, too old to matter. Soon enough it’s you who at last shall have your day; you shall try your hand. If your plans succeed, you will remember the dead;...
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Sonnet:
O Let us rant, O young, for soon we die, Too old to matter, let us have our say; For soon enough, you will your hand to try; Time cometh soon that shall you have your day. If you succeed, you’ll not...
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Sonnet:
And who are these who rape my Gods when long They have returned to ash, and dust, and bone? No right have these to slash Them, cruelly thrown And bleeding, from the Heights where They belong. And who...
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A little too “dead-leaf”-ish:
I watch the crazy lady yelling at the desk clerk; The couple fighting two booths away; The paranoid schizophrenic handling both sides of the conversation; The beggar demanding change; and the best of...
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Sonnet:
Magnificent, the world in which my life Resplendent lives–the place I yet reside– I have no thoughts of leaving. Thus I hide, Perfection so deceiving; and the strife I see is that which I desire; so...
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Sonnet II: Exiles
More tragic are those Gods who still remain. Olympus fell; yet cast about Them thrice, You’ve wrapped Them up in filthy sheets of ice; And jeer that none will recognize Their Reign. Though hidden in...
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I Think I Now See:
How will evil fall? Shall it be ground underneath Purely distilled truth? Truth and good and right And beauty cannot be stopped. Many will have died– For this, gladly die. For truth is all that we...
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Sonnet III: Scions
More tragic still are They Who, yet unborn, May never be; Or Who, once born were not To ever see what prize Their Birthright brought. Olympian, Their Blood aflame; yet mourn They not, for know They...
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IV Only:
I expected five. But for some unknown reason, four came before three, shortly after two. And that told the whole story. As well as five could. Reading them over, I sometimes see a fifth there, and...
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Sonnet IV: Heirs
Ye Gods, Ye Old and New, and Yet Unborn; Ye need not climb with Armies of Your Own To banish each corruption from its Throne; But light from soul to soul, and each, adorn With Grace; and watch, as true...
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I fell upon, particularly strange:
These shores wherein I found myself marooned Instead of somewhere infinitely light. My voyage, it began capriciously. And, though within it lives embedded form, Possesses also an embedded soul. Filed...
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Sonnet V: 1914
See there, what are those pestilent that smother In the muck? And there, I see, ignored Within the mire, more are stuck; and Lord! Behold, one bunches up, to bid another Well! Though, unobtrusively,...
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