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~tasha~

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The Road to Nowhere


To travel the road to nowhere.
The soul's dark amazon.
Eternal peace is anywhere,
the mind might set upon.

To travel the road to nowhere.
To know you're really gone.
And when you finally get there,
to find your god is Ron.

There's something in the cupboard, boy.
There's something in the dark.
There's something in the cupboard, boy,
that leaves a lasting mark.

There's something in the cupboard, boy.
Old secrets gather dust.
There's something in the cupboard, boy,
that reeks decay and must.

To travel the road to nowhere.
Reading signposts from beyond.
As self-deceit completes defeat,
a cold ghost light is shone,
on Ron. On Ron.

He learned to sham at his father's knee.
He knew the power of story.
He lived by lies and fantasies,
and dreamed of fame and glory.

So travel the road but beware,
for he drew an arcane map.
His weak and dismal followers,
could see no fatal trap.

But in his inner circle,
his worth would soon reveal.
To those that rail and cavil,
he'd crush beneath his heel.

There's something in the cupboard, boy.
The sweetest scent of musk.
There's something in the cupboard, boy,
as warm and moist as lust.

To travel the road to nowhere.
It's not the smoothest ride.
To have all faith you must defer,
to a self-referring guide.

To travel the road to nowhere.
To avoid the rush and throng.
Unravel in the space of somewhere,
and sing a specious song.

There's something in the cupboard, boy.
It's got an evil breath.
There's something in the cupboard, boy,
that toys with fear and death.

To travel the road to nowhere.
And wield your magic wand.
A shuffling prisoner of despair,
when fragile hopes abscond.

To travel the road to nowhere.
A funeral dress you don.
All truth is moulded out there,
like a Sci-Fi writer's con.

There's something in the cupboard, boy.
You hear it scratch and whine.
There's something in the cupboard, boy,
both bedevilled and divine.

To travel the road to nowhere.
To follow a different sun.
To travel the road with due care,
not to end as you begun.

To travel the road to nowhere,
to life's grim denouement.
Be sighted by the cross hairs,
released from earthly bond.

To travel the road to nowhere.
Your face is drawn and wan.
Your self-belief masks hidden grief,
while the thief of time moves on.
Posted 27 Dec 2006

~tasha~ says
Climb Till Your Dream Comes True


often your task will be many,
and more than you think you can do..
often the hills insurmountable, too..
but always remember..
the hills ahead are never as steep as they seem,
and with faith in your heart, start upward
and climb 'til you reach your dream.
for nothing in life that is worthy
is ever too hard to achieve
if you have the faith to believe..
for faith is a force that is greater
than knowledge or power or skill
and many defeats turn to triumph
if you trust in god's wisdom and will..
there is nothing that god cannot do,
so start out today with faith in your heart
and climb 'til your dream comes true.



Posted 15 Feb 2007

Posted 15 Feb 2007

~tasha~ says
thankuuu thankuuu


For a Moment


For a moment
I stepped back
behind that sunset
where shadows drifted,
tethered
to an ancient pain.
They floated in twilight
where I lingered not,
this trip.

I slipped back,
unnoticed,
over the sunrise
where promise
replaced the pain.



Posted 15 Feb 2007

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Paths


I shall tread, another year,
Ways I walked with Grief,
Past the dry, ungarnered ear
And the brittle leaf.
I shall stand, a year apart,
Wondering, and shy,
Thinking, "Here she broke her heart;
Here she pled to die."

I shall hear the pheasants call,
And the raucous geese;
Down these ways, another Fall,
I shall walk with Peace.

But the pretty path I trod
Hand-in-hand with Love-
Underfoot, the nascent sod,
Brave young boughs above,

And the stripes of ribbon grass
By the curling way-
I shall never dare to pass
To my dying day.



Posted 15 Feb 2007

Posted 15 Feb 2007

~tasha~ says
thx


The Battle fought between the Soul


The Battle fought between the Soul
And No Man—is the One
Of all the Battles prevalent—
By far the Greater One—

No News of it is had abroad—
Its Bodiless Campaign
Establishes, and terminates—
Invisible—Unknown—

Nor History—record it—
As Legions of a Night
The Sunrise scatters—These endure—
Enact—and terminate—
Posted 15 Feb 2007

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Pain—expands the Time


Pain—expands the Time—
Ages coil within
The minute Circumference
Of a single Brain—

Pain contracts—the Time—
Occupied with Shot
Gamuts of Eternities
Are as they were not—
Posted 15 Feb 2007

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I had no time to hate, because


I had no time to hate, because
The grave would hinder me,
And life was not so ample I
Could finish enmity.

Nor had I time to love, but since
Some industry must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
Posted 15 Feb 2007

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Nature rarer uses yellow


Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets,--
Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.
Posted 15 Feb 2007

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Forever at His side to walk


Forever at His side to walk—
The smaller of the two!
Brain of His Brain—
Blood of His Blood—
Two lives—One Being—now—

Forever of His fate to taste—
If grief—the largest part—
If joy—to put my piece away
For that beloved Heart—

All life—to know each other—
Whom we can never learn—
And bye and bye—a Change—
Called Heaven—
Rapt Neighborhoods of Men—
Just finding out—what puzzled us—
Without the lexicon!
Posted 15 Feb 2007

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Best Things dwell out of Sight


Best Things dwell out of Sight
The Pearl—the Just—Our Thought.

Most shun the Public Air
Legitimate, and Rare—

The Capsule of the Wind
The Capsule of the Mind

Exhibit here, as doth a Burr—
Germ's Germ be where?
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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That Distance was between Us


That Distance was between Us
That is not of Mile or Main—
The Will it is that situates—
Equator—never can—
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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I should not dare to leave my friend


I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because—because if he should die
While I was gone—and I—too late—
Should reach the Heart that wanted me—

If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted—hunted so—to see—
And could not bear to shut until
They "noticed" me—they noticed me—

If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I'd come—so sure I'd come—
It listening—listening—went to sleep—
Telling my tardy name—

My Heart would wish it broke before—
Since breaking then—since breaking then—
Were useless as next morning's sun—
Where midnight frosts—had lain!
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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While it is alive


While it is alive
Until Death touches it
While it and I lap one Air
Dwell in one Blood
Under one Sacrament
Show me Division can split or pare—

Love is like Life—merely longer
Love is like Death, during the Grave
Love is the Fellow of the Resurrection
Scooping up the Dust and chanting "Live"!
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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Fame of Myself, to justify


Fame of Myself, to justify,
All other Plaudit be
Superfluous—An Incense
Beyond Necessity—

Fame of Myself to lack—Although
My Name be else Supreme—
This were an Honor honorless—
A futile Diadem—
Posted 16 Feb 2007

Posted 16 Feb 2007

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Posted 16 Feb 2007

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The Dreams of My Heart


The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
Nothing stays with me long,
But I have had from a child
The deep solace of song;

If that should ever leave me,
Let me find death and stay
With things whose tunes are played out and forgotten
Like the rain of yesterday.
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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A Little While


A little while when I am gone
My life will live in music after me,
As spun foam lifted and borne on
After the wave is lost in the full sea.

A while these nights and days will burn
In song with the bright frailty of foam,
Living in light before they turn
Back to the nothingness that is their home.
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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In A Garden


The world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down
Painting with fire the spires and the windows
In the elm-shaded town.

Beyond the calm Connecticut the hills lie
Silvered with haze as fruits still fresh with bloom,
The swallows weave in flight across the zenith
On an aerial loom.

Into the garden peace comes back with twilight,
Peace that since noon had left the purple phlox,
The heavy-headed asters, the late roses
And swaying hollyhocks.

For at high-noon I heard from this same garden
The far-off murmur as when many come;
Up from the village surged the blind and beating
Red music of a drum;

And the hysterical sharp fife that shattered
The brittle autumn air,
While they came, the young men marching
Past the village square. . . .

Across the calm Connecticut the hills change
To violet, the veils of dusk are deep --
Earth takes her children's many sorrows calmly
And stills herself to sleep.
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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The Unchanging


Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
From the immense blue circle of the sea,
And the soft thunder where long waves whiten --
These were the same for Sappho as for me.

Two thousand years -- much has gone by forever,
Change takes the gods and ships and speech of men --
But here on the beaches that time passes over
The heart aches now as then.
Posted 16 Feb 2007

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Thought of You


I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
Posted 16 Feb 2007

Posted 19 Feb 2007

~tasha~ says
thanx so much

Running Deep And Pure


He has stood for so long
in the middle of nowhere
Looking for something
he has never known before
With a notebook full of yesterdays
words written from a lifetime of lonliness

Always on the go
hanging on by a thin thread and song
But she came and shown to him
things he had never truly seen before
He had always believed
change fast because nothing lasts forever

Now he has settled
underneath starlight
Touched clouds
and felt heavens warmth
Come to experience
what he has always searched for
In her
all the love he has come to know

Like a misty morning rain
falling over him
running deep and pure...
Posted 19 Feb 2007

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Mirror Image

Mirror Image

The right side is me
The left is myself
And I am left to think
That I am me
And not myself
Posted 19 Feb 2007

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Solitary Tree


Like a solitary tree,
I stand alone,
Wondering,
Which way the wind,
Will blow.

Like a solitary tree,
Amidst a battle field,
No means to protect,
No way to shield.

The cold winds of life,
Of love and war,
Of changing seasons,
And so much more.

But despite all this,
My roots run deep,
Firm in the ground,
I shall not weep.

Strong am I,
A solitary tree,
Learning from all,
That is around me.

Strong am I,
To brace this wind,
If I show courage,
I’m sure to win.

I'll keep those roots,
Firm in the ground,
In those roots,
My soul is found.
Posted 19 Feb 2007

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Waver


In the center of the vast and boundless ocean,
Small ship, where do you want to go?
Struggling between roaring hills and valleys
Angry waves, swinging it to and fro

Under the dark sky and above the blue sea
Small ship, what do you wish to seek?
Sailing for ages, not yet come across a shelter
Islands either too rocky or barren

Actions, leaving long white lines behind
And disappears, and forgotten by time
Yet love and courage is all the fuel it needs
Traveling with hope, wavering for life.
Posted 19 Feb 2007

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CRUSADE


Fight for your word and fight for your right
Fight at daytime, fight at night
Fight this battle between darkness and light
show your courage reveal your might

Fight at midday noon and eve
Plot what your foe cannot conceive
Show this world what you can achieve
show them the magic of what you believe

Who are they to stop us they cannot decide
What is right or wrong, for god is on our side
God is our master his prophet our guide
we shall build a heaven in which man shall abide

This is the war to put an end to war
Fighting then shall be no more
Back in the arms of the one you adore
whose pain kept beckoning you back ashore

Posted 19 Feb 2007

~tasha~ says
thanx sir   


Believe


I once believed there was beauty in life.

I once believed that secrets were kept.

I once believed there was a thing called love.

I once believed that the dead, only slept.


I once believed that everyone was good.

I once believed that life was fair.

I once believed that friends were true.

I once believed that people would care.


I once believed that you believed.

I once believed in me.


Posted 20 Feb 2007

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Where were you?


Where were you when I needed someone?
When I needed a shoulder to cry on
When I’ve always been there for you
I know because my shoulder bears your imprint
When I needed someone did you even know?
If you did what would you have done?
Did you even care?
I was someone to give you a hug when you needed it
Someone to give you back your smile after someone had stolen it
Where were you when I needed a smile?
Where were you when my smile was stolen?

What happen to you when I went wrong?
When I needed someone to be strong
I failed and faltered and went off the wall
So what happened, you never let me down before
Will you ever speak to me again?
Will you meet me where it all began?
Where were you when I needed to speak?
Where were you when I was beaten and weak?
I have only two questions left
Where were you?
Where are you now?

Posted 20 Feb 2007

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