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Premium Member Odin's Brood

Odin's Brood



Tyr, Ziu and Saxnot triple threats to the giants*
Hermoor, Heimdallr, Magni and Thor all so defiant
gods of might and power, protectors of sweet earth
Odin's brave brood , courage and strength since birth

Vali, so very set on revenge and great destruction
so skilled in the guiles of seduction and abduction
Mani, shines with force , moon god of the mighty Norse
attempts seducing Nott , goddess of night , of course

Ullr , god of the winter, the hunt and sword duel
tricked by evil Loki that thought him a great fool
Sjofn, temptress , shining majestic goddess of love
that inspires freyja in love, and battle far above

Odin, that set the universe , the mysteries of life
frigga that bore him the sons of glory and paradise
All players in the Nordic thoughts of darkness and light
each serving to stir man's ardor and great zeal to fight

Greatest of all was the powerful legend of mighty Thor
that roamed the earth , destroying evil shore to shore
The bravest son of all Odin's great, mischievous clan
replacing mighty Tyr in the eyes of justice and man!

07/01/2014

giants* (The Jötnar are a mythological race that live in Jötunheimr, one of the 
nine)
Speakers of Old Norse called them jötnar (singular jötunn, pronounced 
roughly “YO-tun”) or þursar (singular þurs, pronounced “THURS” like the first 
element in “Thursday” but with a soft “s” at the end). Jötunn comes from the 
Proto-Germanic *etunaz and means “devourer.” The Old English eóten is a 
cognate (it means the same thing and comes from the same Proto-Germanic 
word).[1] Þurs is derived from the Proto-Germanic þurisaz and means 
something like “powerful and injurious one” with a secondary connotation 
of “thorn-like.” The Old English ðyrs and Old High German duris are cognates.

The Brood of Vipers

Do not be greedy for material possessions
in spiritual people paradox of lust.
Be concern with spiritual poverty
for physical poverty will pass.

Fear not the one who can kill your body,
but fear the one who can kill your soul.
You are not to be like the business man,
who builds Ponzi scheme and steals monies from people.

You are not to make the Cave of Bandits from our Father’s House.
You are not to rob your parishioners
in the middle of Eucharist, telling them to provide you with their 
credit and debit card numbers,

because you want to have luxurious live style.
You need to embrace the holy poverty
and concentrate on the spiritual things.
Do not be like the “Stupidtz” and fathers “O’Lands”.

Which one of you follows the Lord?
Do you love him in your mansions?
“Foxes have dens and birds have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

I Brood

I brood at the enterprise of man in the human cosmos
Cosmos drifting into anarchy
As the angel flirt over the dark
As in the beginning.


Proud of His Brood

Taking care of my kids
Was the biggest of bids
And with all of the fun
I know what was won

Wish I could live on forever
But no-one is that clever
So I will try to hand on
What I’ve learned before gone

In a way we live on
From a light that once shone
And our kids are the portal
That does make us immortal

From a family comes love
That will keep me above
From a place I just rose
I can strike a new pose

Was not sure that I could
But I did what I should
May have at times been wrong
But it sure made me strong

A really good dude
Is proud of his brood
Let expression shine through
To give depression the shoe

I hope that my kids
Yes my greatest of bids
Will be able to show
That all love will just grow

All my children I love
With some help from above
Now with all of my might
I bid you all a good night

Premium Member Time's Weavings, As I Brood Upon Them

Time's Weavings, As I Brood Upon Them

Shut inside  windows open W I D E
I age 1,000 years 
To your one.

The Past turns in tight circles upon the Present,
Inscribing itself in memories
Lending textures to the future,
Pains and pleasures,
Loves and losses, 
Bitter, sweet,
All fall together to become tomorrow,
To break apart and cycle on again.

Outdoors, beyond a window full of November's clouds
A child runs gaily past,
While up the street, with ancient, measured tread,
A crone approaches;
Youth and age will meet and cycle 'round again.

I turn grey thoughts within my mind,
Composing poems as Significant Others
Drift in and out of the rooms of my life,
Now babe, Now child, Now youth, Now adult
Now gone.
Friends and lovers weave the warp together,
Light and shadow chase one another through the rooms,
Whispering secrets of change.

Premium Member Brood, the Mood

Brood, the mood, infused by thoughts rude
And yet we trauma bond
Time’s now to change our attitude
And love’s the magic wand

Delighting in joy’s sneeze
Presence obtains release 
From our thinking disease

Thoughts intrude
Brood, the mood

06-August-2022
Quietus


A Heavy Heart

A heavy heart
Makes for a new start
Life is finite
Time to be contrite

Apologies for recommending life
Insurance brings less strife
Farewell my friends, good
Others will save and invest for your brood

Premium Member Perversions Brood

To stand to the line, no other choice I find'
That sand is where, the truth must now dare.
The earth having  been  ever  the same
Since dawn of time, too fleet lifes wane'
I never drew this line untrue'
Articles of conflict; yet along it grew!
It was devised by perjured souls, 
Who rail at eterity and Freedom whole
I say be glad your not their kin'
Their truth is lies, much steeped in sin!
The blackest circle of hell reserved I say
For such as who, devise these ways
To waylay truth, to twist pervert
I say resist these lies divert
Imagine to be born of them.?
Unfeeling almost anderiod; alien men
What woman could with such Congress?
All thought all input recoils, in complete digress.!

Premium Member Last of the Brood

Here lies the last of the brood
Though always sloshed, never rude
Fame and fortune eluded him
So, he filled himself up to the brim
Always there when we would call
He died from drinking alcohol.

written February 26, 2022

Brood Parasites

A lesbian with a twisted plan
The deadliest of all scams
Working out a way to reproduce and spry
She donated eggs like the cuckoldry
Later gathering info on unexpected couples
And monitor the progress of her post natals
Until the time finally comes
For her to gather her young
With the unexpected couples slaughter
She ran away with her three daughters
Different city
Different identity
The children unaware of the crimes
Grew very close like twine
And they all lived happily ever after
Same mother but different father

Premium Member Mood and Brood

They claim my words are rather rude
My ink is refined human sense
My presence will bolster the brood
They claim my words are rather rude
Faults thrive in reed and grasslands dense
Through every gloomy, dampen mood
They claim my words are rather rude
My ink is refined human sense

Written: October 03, 2022
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Desiring's Brood

Unguarded, from out that pit
For heart's place, capacious
Burn on up, Desiring's brood.
Winged vipers, rapacious.

There's luxury's diamond-backed
Skinned regeneration.
And lust, more horrid looking.
With reddish streaks thereon.

Old age as brings me to brood - II

No matter what I do,
No matter what I don’t,
Return one day I’ve to 
This water hole-- hangout haunt.

To this polluted river
Fouled by me to wash me clean,
Me, the same old beaver
To build my lodge anew and green.

To plough my own karmic field
To sow seeds, raise my food,
If or not they would yield,
Yet, I must try still if just to feel good.

And find I must my own fault
To start all over again,
Wash my wounds-- there’s no alt
But to play the same old refrain.

Guru there’s nor a god-man
Nor a ready-made lotion
To rub on my wounds if in vain,
Imbibing same bitter potion 
 
And search for remedy,
Create my own antidote
To cure my self-wrought malady,
Life is to struggle, swim sans boat.

No matter what I do,
No matter what I don’t,
Return one day I’ve to  
To this water-hole-- hangout haunt.
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Musings | 07.05.2026 | life, philosophy, river, quatrain

Brood

Over solemn matters men brood.
Whoever does not clearly crude;
One is anxious to win a feud: 
The face of Jude facing The Rude
And I say: it’s the right mood;
The countenance of The Shrewd, 
For when it is shrewd follows food.

Over the life-changing I brood
As I wish to hear The Good;
Not like leaves shake where I’ve stood 
Or, soonest, start mouthing The Rude
And sorrow drowning in The Brewed.

Old age as brings me to brood - I

Eight long decades I’ve taken  
To know this life’s touchstone like truth:
Man loves to live anywhere 
But at life’s battle-hardened booth.

Yea, we scarce want to be 
Where life for reason has brought us,
And wishing to migrate  
There, there to fish for no cause.

Old age, as is inevitable,
As it brings me to brood,
And mind being unstable,
Ambles back to my childhood,     

Which, without the least of doubt, 
One of the pleasant most,
Though not always sugarcane sweet
That be chewed till void of its boast.

I recall still when I was there—
A child in flesh and blood and mood,
Not an apparition of thought,
My thoughts centred oft on adulthood. 

Today I wonder, not just childhood, 
Life’s every stage is such a swell time,
Which, when one gets older feels good,
But mind meanders, reason nor rhyme.

Not at life’s battle-hardened booth…
It’s taken me eight long decades 
To know this life’s touchstone like truth:
Leaving all jewels, man chases jades. 
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Musings | 06.05.2026 | age, birth/brood, childhood, old, quatrain

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