DECEPTIVE POEMS

Machineel In A Cassock

The guiltless shepherd
is a collared machineel in a cassock
He bears pretty tasty apples
That accord him innocent and benovelent looks
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Michael Aete

Let Me Know

Do well to tell me,
Something I'm insensitive to;
Coz for me
Am living it plain;
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Evabeta Benefit

The 'utopia'

The table was filled with many objects

The wild tribesmen in the hills,
whose very robes were decorated with designs
.....

Lee Harwood

The Llama

The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man.

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Hilaire Belloc

Monkshood

Most beautiful of poisons,
border-plant,
wearing your small green cowl,
little friar, little murderer,
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Erica Jong

From Faust - Iv. Chorus Of Spirits

VANISH, dark clouds on high,

Offspring of night!
Let a more radiant beam
.....

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Artists

How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
Upon the waning century standest thou,
In proud and noble manhood's prime,
With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,
.....

Friedrich Schiller

Et Dona Ferentes

In extended observation of the ways and works of man,
From the Four-mile Radius roughly to the Plains of Hindustan:
I have drunk with mixed assemblies, seen the racial ruction rise,
And the men of half Creation damning half Creation's eyes.
.....

Rudyard Kipling

Cocoon For A Skeleton

Clothes: to compose
The furtive, lone
Pillar of bone
To some repose.
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Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

My Thoughts

Why did you come, my thoughts, in instant,
Like thieves to rob my quiet habitation,
Like vultures, gloomy and malignant,
With thirst for dread retaliation.
.....

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev

Sailor's Harbor

My thoughts, like sailors becalmed in Cape Town harbor,
Await your return, like a favorable wind, or like
New tackle for the voyage, without which it is useless starting.
We watch the sea daily, finish our daily tasks
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Henry Reed

Poem (faithful To Your Commands, O Consciousness)

Poem Faithful to your commands, o consciousness, o

Beating wings, I studied

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Delmore Schwartz

The God Abandons Antony

At midnight, when suddenly you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don't mourn your luck that's failing now,
.....

Gaius Valerius Catullus

The Falling Is The Constant Mate Of Fear

The falling is the constant mate of fear,
And feel of emptiness is the feel of fright.
Who throws us the stones from the height --
And stones here refuse the dust to bear?
.....

Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

The Ring And The Book

Do you see this Ring?
'Tis Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani's imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn,
.....

Robert Browning

The Artists.

How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
Upon the waning century standest thou,
In proud and noble manhood's prime,
With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,
.....

Friedrich Schiller

Le Masque (the Mask)

Statue allégorique dans le goût de la Renaissance

Contemplons ce trésor de grâces florentines;
Dans l'ondulation de ce corps musculeux
.....

Charles Baudelaire

Narcissus

THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL


The mind is a city like London,
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Delmore Schwartz

From: Time In The Rock

XXIV
If one voice, not another, must speak first,
out of the silence, the stillness, the precedingâ??
speaking clearly, speaking slowly, measuring calmly
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Conrad Potter Aiken

The God Abandons Anthony

When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don't mourn your luck that's failing now,
.....

Constantine P. Cavafy

When So Dispoged

Oh, foolish flapper, keen to be
Considered cute and up-to-date,
Sit down a while and hark to me,
And I shall truly read your fate
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Chorus Of Spirits.

Vanish, dark clouds on high,

Offspring of night!
Let a more radiant beam
.....

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Australian Bell-bird

Toll -
Toll.' 'The bell-bird sounding far away,
Hid in a myall grove.' He raised his head,
The bush glowed scarlet in descending day,
.....

Jean Ingelow

Good Eggs Or Bad Eggs?

Is there any good egg in the worldwide organization of police?
Draw a conclusion based on the factual information presented.

Police promote the corruption of the bad eggs,
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Marlon Pitter

Radical Opinion

You tell us that we have the constitutional right to speak freely,
And therefore I shall fearlessly and openly express my radical opinion.
The colours of the Jamaican flag are black, green and gold.
According to you, the gold symbolises the beautiful sunshine,
.....

Marlon Pitter

Prelude To "the Songs Of Twilight."

("De quel non te nommer?")

[PRELUDE, a, Oct. 20, 1835.]

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Victor-marie Hugo

The Right Girl For Me

When I find the right girl for me,
I’ll give her my complete devotion.
I’ll always be faithful to her.
Love is an incomprehensible thing;
.....

Marlon Pitter

Antinomies On A Railway Station

As I stand waiting in the rain
For the foggy hoot of the London train,
Gazing at silent wall and lamp
And post and rail and platform damp,
.....

John Collings Squire, Sir

Better Teach Me Holiness

Many people always say
Apology do mollify the hurted heart
And prevent perilous punishment
To the offenders offensive offences.
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Sughnen Kwaghkar

An Animal In The Moon

[1]

While one philosopher[2] affirms
That by our senses we're deceived,
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Jean De La Fontaine

The Engagement Ring

Betrothed to the lord of the ring
Fingers engaged and encaged
Ring a bribe to marital bliss.

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Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke