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movies, musics, shorties, randoms, photos, clothes …l’auteur </description><title>http://thecopysmiter.com/</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @thecopysmiter)</generator><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/</link><item><title>What simple brilliance,embraced of elegant yellow gradienceand plucked in love.Not from above was it...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;What simple brilliance,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;embraced of elegant yellow gradience&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and plucked in love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Not from above was it given, &amp;#8216;spite sequined skys,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but genesis it has in two Earthen souls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127345473</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127345473</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:29:25 -0400</pubDate><category>miami</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>writer</category><category>literature</category><category>author</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>We are naught but the sum of our encounters.I myself am even now alone in a room,  far from what...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;We are naught but the sum of our encounters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I myself am even now alone in a room,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  far from what loved me and I yet do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;These, I have found, in brief epiphany,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  interrupted by a search for a pen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;are what make us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Note the invocation-absent to the Muse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I speak to humans now,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  and as a man, needingn&amp;#8217;t assistance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;No god need aid man in discourse his fellows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;Sure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;So, I shall, should I be rebuffed, take my advice to heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;So I hope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And dry eyes burn.  The bloody cold!&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;In any case, was written this thought-sage advice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To borrow twice over:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Love with whom you are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;If none a person be present, only love thyself,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  hard as it may be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127313607</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127313607</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:28:19 -0400</pubDate><category>muse</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>writer</category><category>literature</category><category>author</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>How could i have known?Such a journey, a pilgrimage to Rome&amp;#8230;In fact brooked such a splendid...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;How could i have known?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such a journey, a pilgrimage to Rome&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;In fact brooked such a splendid future,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As to make the whole trip a mere opening act.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And to end it no mean curtain call.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;How hideous, to have closing a chapter six years in the making;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And of January 7th, only a year in the breaking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;So this was to be my fate, aghast, my doom?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ultimately supine, sans mates, TV&amp;#8217;s slave in-room?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Do i feel this city a flashcard and vindictive,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  it crushes this feeble heart.  Left no incentive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Nocts drunken and retiring- am i remembrant,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  and of Her admiring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Times like those We shared and counted,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  but me, unthankful, do Her memories pile too highly amounted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Recall briskly evenings at Miami road,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  whence from memories like beer and conversations flowed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The awful pain of reflection and recall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  from within me, without flows;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;thus does the city amplify and return on me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  innumerate and vicious blows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;These streets what We have walked and talked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  now only condescend, fix on me and gawk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Time to retire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127274585</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127274585</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:26:57 -0400</pubDate><category>rome</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>author</category><category>miami</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>It yet burns.The music is felled.i can leave in silence.Timing and timing invites the crush.Almost...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;It yet burns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The music is felled.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i can leave in silence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Timing and timing invites the crush.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Almost ten years since i have felt him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But now, back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Choking myself, the future blinds me and the fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  at once holds me spectant whilst he makes me cry to You.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But i have twisted Your heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now i don&amp;#8217;t fit, do i?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127170889</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127170889</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:23:23 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>poet</category><category>music</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>Book IOnly when I look backdo I see what I had done in doing.Those to whom:Borrowed lines of an...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only when I look back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;do I see what I had done in doing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Those to whom:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Borrowed lines of an antique custom,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;please badly think it naught, but be cheerful and flattered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Something lyrical to you comes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Devilish scrawls, twisted and pompous, vainglorious efforts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;for absolution of sin! –And are not ample credit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;What follows here, unknowingly placed in my skull was,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;by the Muse of no Greek extraction,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;in Latin named,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but of yet no mean race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and, needn&amp;#8217;t She avocation!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Though through my Oriental Muse do i make mine-written,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;with no small help of Bacchus am i aided in my task.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i to our good memory restore which was held before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yes, such is my Sisyphean and dismal charge,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;my crown of thorns not such piercing, but Heavy so…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;unfortunate that i did not know it then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;What mighty paeons commence (not),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;bene audit, so do i command, this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;my last.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Forced, but not, a moment so bold and recognized (by He:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Amicus Meus)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Jacked tomfoolery of a blustering chill night,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;of but few in this peninsula,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;did i hurt you;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i should have been repentant more so than did,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and, prostrate and beggingly should i have lain, awaiting thy Mercy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sprints, Intoxications, Shameful-displaying Friends,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;ill-Clothed, all marks of Thy genitors meeting me are these.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;How ridiculous and loathe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To that You would have maintained to be admired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;A ring -tendered to me- ideal and glorious;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but i yet be unperceiving.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tragic barrows are Fords and Hondas what ferry Hearts as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;sparrows- that is destined to be spliced twain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Breathe in, my Love, close Your eyes,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;remember home:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such places belong to Us, those of our City.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Constructed afore our arrival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But naught for it, till there was Us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rung round did We such immurements as to safeguard Ours,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;thus were We entombed, alive and comfortable, prepared to die plexus-ed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Our Cyclopean glass trough -made in many a special&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;endeavor, only to return home-wise, to yet further- forge(s) Happy Moments, those to cement further what We had founded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rain on the window, so many times;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;cars,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Our house,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and We slept off hangovers in the sweat of last night&amp;#8217;s loving.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hot days…made to ride…that We might buy our things…to fuse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;a family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Returnant: a cook in his antique shorts, Blue Eyes from the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;kitchen.  Our love shouldn&amp;#8217;t die but You warned me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sharing a smoke on Our gray patio furniture…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;So glorious a grey morn (where is it now happy?),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;of a day the Lord&amp;#8217;s repetitious but every Seven,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;so ancient a cycle but did bless me of so many morns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yet to appreciate i could but naught till i had been&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;divorced of they.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such is me to make You Hurt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You bore it, Your own crucifix nailed but for My Sins,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;asking no forgiveness me as some weak-hearted &amp;#8220;King.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lest i had been the one to unfix You of Your cross-ed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;upright altar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only then, no?, should i not be yet resident in that Immaculate Cor possessed You?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The report, simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Clear,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;like a soul,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and so that bludgeoned i with it i to have possessed it have.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Passing time in my cave, caring for Her like a nave.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Troll! (reflexive)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Prophesy!, Sibyl of the Land of Efficiencies!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;None too noble a title.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But, like Tarquin Proud i too burnt Six Books.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To my own anguish i have let myself go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Adrift.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such flotsam to be was i NOT preordained,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;or so I thought,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;in this certainly is me characteristic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You drank my poison until it made You sick.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book III&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fuckups…mine, frailties of this mind (You understand?).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;My Ocean of love equaled by You, and how did i drain that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Are You able to forgive? nay, forget?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ill-proferred request coupled to ill-wanted recount (i &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;imagine).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Errata, Erato, Errata, Erato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Insert Amends, Love-ly Ends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;My deleterious deeds done direct and diligent,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You&amp;#8217;d think i meant it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Love hath no rules as that Pastime?  Should i not be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;afforded a chance tertiary??????&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book III.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Skip some time…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;His eyes have caught Yours as mine once.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Learned You, i have, in such allotted time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For me once was Your heart loosing a past lover.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now,…be cursed!…i am he-former reincarnate.  Fuck!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;What evil travesty!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i am not lost, but loosed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;…Lost is something which only i feel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now: records and records spun, like the yarn of Us or the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Gone. (friend)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Vainly do i anticipate schemes within which are Little &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Boots bait.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i can see you in front of me,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;lacking love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sometimes We share Our moments but mostly We can&amp;#8217;t now,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i&amp;#8217;ve pushed You too far…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Weak fruitless and but bitter ashes of what once was great,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And You become those ashes and such Aegis a-me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Blessed Kore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book IV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And now do i turn to such bucolic shit of Vergil, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;the envy of medieval sages rendered not so median by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;us the future ages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Baneful existence as weighted leaden sheets holding me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;prone, to see Helios transgress Ouranos i have been forbidden, through time indefinite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;my graven face smothered in, ille est in and through Gaian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;death-matter skin, all so i might peer into Hades&amp;#8217;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And through even, does he permit i, to see at what lies &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;farther and about all, what has always been Chaos, wherein is resident Chaos, wherein is resident Nyx and Eros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The latter some bastard of positing Energy with gulfs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;immeasurable from my definitions of him, what was such pleasant frivolity in bucolic nugae.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such a misanthropic likeness to my own heart does he make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;that i might wretch (but could hardly spoil that i observe, so i swallow what the balloon-ed orifice holds).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;A plane bound Boston-wise might have bourne two Distant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hearts, alas One, but to have returned anew with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rejoined Souls did i forego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For the sake of silver-in-pocket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such priceless Donative for such worthless Coin!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Again i say self-wise: Fool!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But were i to have jettisoned such qualms and left for Your&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;age-d home, in which grant You never reside, but still, had i a possibility awaiting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To have known such maintenant Hope was awaiting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Lead me there again, allow me some trail,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i beg of You, a trail…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please, its coldness permitn&amp;#8217;t to infect from within&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    (ironic, to be affected by such a neo-heat!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;A sobering moment, one in revelation, told me twixt You and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;a psuedo-cum-true-or-at-least-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;seeing Friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Do not abandon he,&amp;#8221; was advised.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And yet to it i chose to toss a key as butts spent tobacco!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And in it missed all-enveloping Warmth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Spent Life wrought Mispent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now ashrouded in this house…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The house of the Ablative of Separation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;633 made as though aught for You and i; new hearts make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;their lives illic, in not but my house,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but also my Woman,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;tis my nest, you wretched fuck!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Cast yourself yon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But Mother, have no recollection my former sentiments last &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i visited you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only but for Her did i wish to have, and by me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Irony, so bitter, had i left with such words of parting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;tendered  in a misplaced Erin&amp;#8217;s pub.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Did i hear it break&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;-such a cracking could be heard the cosmos through-.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only but for it fell to deaf ears, most of import be mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Should i have known, but of some precognition i might have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;embraced so fully when i did rehome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Nay, instead did i arrive again and caren&amp;#8217;t either same or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;less.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The former, most assuredly, but how hazy and impossible to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;now reconnoiter, yes?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Yes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Blessed retrovision does allude, evade and retrofuge…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Douche&amp;#8221; am i so cognominated by the like-blooded &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Pretender.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And aptly so, for all he naught know of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book VI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The carriage hasn&amp;#8217;t the allure of such childish pursuits for me,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You must know,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;what that i may be thy motorist is this humble dream mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Positioned wheresoever is only a matter of physicality, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;physics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Can i ride in Your car again?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Would You such a pleasure permit me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;None but me has done so, said You, Thy love remains, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;did, and varnished yet, did You proclaim it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As did i, and not from compulsion or to compel, but from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;such warmth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Must i collapse?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Antony at Actium, Thy escaping vessel have i seen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But with no rally do We pre-name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To break metaphor:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i am to become You, clutching ever a box of memory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For which to place You in feels to be closing of vaults and sinking of deeper wells.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To bury such i have no desire,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;All Egypt this pharaoh has been ordered to cease entombing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only burn it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Thus will it have no corpus yet to be resurrected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Can this be done?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Immeasurable doubt assures me not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But, lest i did this, to forget i should not –i think- be able to close my book…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;to a chapter fresh initiate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book VII&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Death i desire for company, but to him can i not succumb, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;too weak am i.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fearn&amp;#8217;t what&amp;#8217;d happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such a coward could never.  Only know such possess i such &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;stereotyp-ed feeling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Anointed Jeshua hath no salve this bleak depleted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Said he Cloth&amp;#8217;d in Night, of Folsom Fame, down…down…down &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;into a such Ring Infernate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;So it does, Master, so it does burn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And now the phone, supine, is silent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Difference:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;None is breath-holding at the end opposing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Walking-whilst did i find myself thus:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Rendered sallow by certain mere shadow,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;crying at such pining&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;am i rendered of a current day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The cosmos fall apart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i got this thing i consider my only art of fucking myself &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;over.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;What is formerly wrought and perleged was some wretched &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;gamut of a 17th November as fleeting its subject.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Book IIX (Addendum of sorts)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Quickly whilst smoking did i think:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Think on what future issue of Us mightn&amp;#8217;t not be…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Maximus/a (and whatever else) *******************.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such a child(ren) a future bright would have had&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;…and I can see him/her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And we are in love and loving them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127115219</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24127115219</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:21:25 -0400</pubDate><category>latin</category><category>greek</category><category>miami</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>epic</category><category>epic poem</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>antony</category><category>actium</category><category>chaos</category><category>nyx</category><category>eros</category><category>vergil</category><category>aegis</category><category>tarquin</category><category>sibyl</category></item><item><title>the cigarette is dry.earth moves and i hear no sounds.a car passing, a life running, but no...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;the cigarette is dry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;earth moves and i hear no sounds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;a car passing, a life running, but no sounds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;the pool is empty and calm.  an ocean in a cup.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;she is beautiful, and she means the world,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but i am nothing, and mean less. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;the tobacco tastes like earth.  she is the earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i am the sky.  i embrace her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;she lets me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;it is miraculous. and she will be back.  as the sun will rise tomorrow, and infinitely more tomorrows, i will wait. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;its softer now, the pain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;softer.  once piercing, forever slicing.  but the heart can only bear so much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;so my cuts cannot feel,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and the warmth of that sun, like her, whispers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;all you need is love, he says. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and i have it.  within myself and no one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;as it kills, it so breathes in me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i must regard, in my mind, what my heart tells.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;unbidden i want to enter, and am refused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;she must know.  and will.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;until, i remain, maintenant, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;in the land of efficiencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;yes, i remain, in the land of efficiencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126939585</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126939585</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:15:15 -0400</pubDate><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>love poem</category><category>cigarette</category><category>rain</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>The mementos of a friend unfairly taken,Warm my heart with ice, remind me not to leave those loved...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The mementos of a friend unfairly taken,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Warm my heart with ice, remind me not to leave those loved forsaken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As I collect his cooling Remains,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;they go packed in a closet -it mimics the heart- and become my chains. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Who I love stil is still of spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I could not bear to let myself drift not near it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And so, I endure, to rebuild that which so callously I let collapse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126912269</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126912269</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:14:14 -0400</pubDate><category>death poem</category><category>death poetry</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>2006</category><category>remains</category></item><item><title>if i could give you the worldmy hand would be open in front of youif i could see what&amp;#8217;s most...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;if i could give you the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;my hand would be open in front of you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;if i could see what&amp;#8217;s most beautiful&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;youd have my eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;but i can feel This throughout my heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;and that you must know&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;it belongs to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126863236</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126863236</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:12:32 -0400</pubDate><category>love</category><category>poem</category><category>love poem</category><category>love poetry</category><category>pot</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>2996</category><category>2006</category><category>literature</category></item><item><title>For shame!  Oh, for shame!As Juliet&amp;#8217;s dagger her moves are, and as biting too…But laugh...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;For shame!  Oh, for shame!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As Juliet&amp;#8217;s dagger her moves are, and as biting too…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But laugh looker!  Ha, do!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For the sight, by much, runs to yet further melodrama.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The dagger is meant for her breast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As a Grecian hero, then, despite sex, upon it vid her fall!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Milling and specting us; some (not I) replace her sticky guts whence they came.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As some Catonis, her: ripping stitches! ripping stitches!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;No grace, this Juliet!  None even grace tendered us!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;No complaints, spectator!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The recompense for playing seamstress:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tickets to the Show (bought dearly still).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;False&amp;#8221; she will say her moves be,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;whilst she yet makes as the Goat-song writer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;If ye still care, for I don&amp;#8217;t,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;having seen, toss this about:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;She requires your sympathy? or the pleasure of her own wails?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Perhaps: Medusa; and likely her own murderer (so she acts).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126837274</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126837274</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:11:35 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>miami</category><category>2006</category><category>medusa</category><category>meolodrama</category><category>grecian</category><category>greek</category></item><item><title>Reflect, Plain-man, styled a-friendly Angry Wuss.And Wrought, of thy Subject you make?Comes the...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Reflect, Plain-man, styled a-friendly Angry Wuss.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And Wrought, of thy Subject you make?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Comes the antiphon: Tepid Waters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To that prime toe cool, and gingerly dunked, promising,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;yet possessing of scant heat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I am amused!  What potency, this?  What governance!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Laughable witch what toys with the helpless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Egression…and Stay, man!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Inviting, those seemed commonly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For myself, however, not so.  As I was (desirous),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I am but equally tempered,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;for those could run Mercury down, just as up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Cold,&amp;#8221; says I, in brief, &amp;#8220;may well lurk.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;II. The Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Armed so, where then do I step?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ambiguity, I find, is my soup,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;served just as tepid but no less comforting for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And Uncertainty wraps her warm hands about and I am home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Not to worry,&amp;#8221; thinks I, &amp;#8220;For it will, or it won&amp;#8217;t.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126804596</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126804596</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:10:24 -0400</pubDate><category>journal</category><category>miami</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>author</category><category>2006</category><category>literature</category></item><item><title>A certain pitch band I seegirding, thin, another, but tawny.Such as this sorrow, to mine a misery is...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A certain pitch band I see&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;girding, thin, another, but tawny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Such as this sorrow, to mine a misery is arisen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please! Quite ex-depths let my spirit be bidden!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Those orbs hold burden…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Nothing rings to the last.  A joke.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Has it a feigned style? or Short of scope?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;One wonders or for him hopes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126764778</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24126764778</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:09:00 -0400</pubDate><category>eye</category><category>eyes</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>2006</category><category>literature</category></item><item><title>Bundling for a cigarette,  did She explain to me&amp;#8230;And i can remember&amp;#8230;and glow&amp;#8230;as it...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Bundling for a cigarette,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  did She explain to me&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And i can remember&amp;#8230;and glow&amp;#8230;as it floods my mind&amp;#8230;peace is had at such memories&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8230;i am at once with her, in Her hometown, at a cousin&amp;#8217;s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And i am of Her family (my brief tenure here shining).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i see Her, in such present blankness,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  next to me on my Mother&amp;#8217;s porch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;We can remember together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;We embrace in my heart&amp;#8217;s mind&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;I am out of my reverie, and cold again, but&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;She warms my frigid cosm yet in absence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Amazing! Such power!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;She is beautiful&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125199696</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125199696</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:09:01 -0400</pubDate><category>2006</category><category>emo</category><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>written</category><category>love poetry</category><category>loss</category></item><item><title>old poem 2006</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The light brigade is charged.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;She marches to another&amp;#8217;s mother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Spent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And night is falling, no&amp;#8230;swallowing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  another chance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125157255</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125157255</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:07:20 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>poet</category><category>light brigade</category><category>light</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>11-27-2006 (old poem II)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;And of a year&amp;#8217;s passing do We find&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  ourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Trapped, as it were, in a cacophony of life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  (or its paltry namesake).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And did I share some fond memory of You,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  my Friend,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  with a beloved uncle,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  and in so doing did We homage pay;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;in some unlikely way&amp;#8230;and unanticipated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You are still beautiful, my friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Treasured always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Your chamber of gilt corridor and of eternal construction fortified in my cor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You are missed and those deeds resultant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  in Your death be cyclically rehearsed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;To no good cause, certainly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;You are missed my Friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And didn&amp;#8217;t i tell?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Even the Victress dost remember You,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  from one year&amp;#8217;s twain and a single encounter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;How does that strike You?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125099441</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125099441</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:05:01 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>poet</category><category>friendship</category><category>miami</category><category>death</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>Thanks for the follow!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;for sure!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125060354</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125060354</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:03:26 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>11-27-2006 (old poem)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Cold.  Of an Ohio-an fall.  And windless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;As told; tis a burden, smoking&amp;#8230;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But to feed that avaricious lung do I endure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Think I, &amp;#8220;Blaspheme!&amp;#8221; and lo, to have thought of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  Eminem, so previously transparent, to have produced his own Darkly-rhythmic Leaves of Grass.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Be they of different strains, nonetheless, do I find myself drawing comparisons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But to prove, strange.  I cannot know how&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;  or why I should wish to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125049037</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24125049037</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:02:58 -0400</pubDate><category>ohio</category><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>miami</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>poet</category><category>leaves of grass</category></item><item><title>5-12-06</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Come with me Reader,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    let us share what comes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Muse is with me now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    i can feel Her congress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sit with me on my sixth step.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Let the world be about you…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    and breathe it in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Can you smell it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;It is life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hold your breath.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Feel it in your lungs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Now, with me,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    join your heart to mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Let us mix souls and look to the Dog Star.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For a moment (i&amp;#8217;ll keep it brief)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    let me share with you my sentiments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Still hold my hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Are you outside with me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ignore, with all the veracity your soul can muster, those&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    stimuli the outside.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;On Sirius fix, with mine your spirit mix.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;For i will show you what i am.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Of a glorious love i relate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;But this is not exclusive,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    to the whole of men do i tender what was and is my sate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;If you are still with me, you feel it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;With me and my muse,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    we can feel, and do…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The caress of Neiads waters briney;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The damp chill of the Nymphs oaken palace;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The effervescent push the Zephyrs spirations;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;The warm give…and take of our Gaia&amp;#8217;s menses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;If you come with me, and breathing peacefully, you feel it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;That animus what binds us and defines us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;And now, auditor or reader,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    know the fleeting life you felt is he:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Eros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Whose positing being drives all motion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;This sentiment knowledge i give you, reader mecum:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Who was that Energy is She composed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Imagine such a Beauty,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;    and you will know my Soul.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124966737</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124966737</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>beauty</category><category>dog star</category><category>emo</category><category>energy</category><category>eros</category><category>gaia</category><category>literature</category><category>miami</category><category>miami beach</category><category>muse</category><category>naiad</category><category>neiad</category><category>nymph</category><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>zephyr</category><category>2006</category></item><item><title>This pain,i would kill to seal.This love,i would die to heal.That our sins be forgiven,We mightget...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This pain,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i would kill to seal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;This love,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;i would die to heal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;That our sins be forgiven,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;We might&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;get back the life we&amp;#8217;re meant to be living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124929919</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124929919</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 07:59:24 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poet</category><category>poetry</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>miami</category><category>emo</category><category>sadness</category><category>sad poem</category><category>lame</category></item><item><title>There is a penknifestabbing undermy heart&amp;#8217;s fingernail.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;There is a penknife&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;stabbing under&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;my heart&amp;#8217;s fingernail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124897778</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24124897778</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 07:58:04 -0400</pubDate><category>poem</category><category>poetry</category><category>poet</category><category>writing</category><category>literature</category><category>miami</category><category>emo</category><category>sad</category></item><item><title>Hello there!  Thanks for the follow!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You’re welcome!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24103112628</link><guid>http://thecopysmiter.com/post/24103112628</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 21:56:58 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

