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During Infancy

During Infancy

During infancy the wires on 
the TVs, which transmit or 
get signals, were
 responsible for 
my fast brain growth at
4 weeks. My first words: declare to 
be true and 
affirmative. The metal pole leaning up against a 
backyard veranda square post gave off 
this comfy vibe that quickly made better my 
visual acuity, especially made better my 
depth perception. I could localise these sounds: 
taps dripping in 
my parents’ (I could hear their voices in the 
first two hours of life) ensuite, could hear taps dripping in 
the upstairs one too; the breathing of 
insects and rats and mice in 
the walls; the walls cracking in 
the attic; the life 
outside. I could sit without
any support, walk at 
two months, run with no 
effort or 
difficulty at 
3 months. I was the best at 
object permanence development. Turning my 
head 360 degrees was 
easy, too easy. My pupils dilated at 
3 weeks. Focus to 
new stimulus was 
award worthy, no 
doubt about it. Too was my 
habituation (lessened orientating response) to 
done again stimulus. Skipped 
babbling. Spoken language was 
ultra high. Not surprisingly, my 
temperamental individuality was, well, 
difficult. I wasn’t easy to 
deal with. Seldom I wasn’t fast to 
warm up. Bond to 
parents, grandparents, was 
ON and 
OFF secure, thus 
facilitate exploration was 
ON and OFF. ON and 
OFF separation anxiety. “Stranger Anxiety” on 
11 +.


Premium Member Within the Realms of Love

Love is not just a spoken language
nor will it always heal like a bandage.

Affectionate actions and self sacrifice
should come naturally - not at a price.

Real passion is not only lust and desire,
simply two souls connecting to inspire.

Unconditional love is the foundation of trust,
learning to forgive in actions deemed unjust.

A gentleman is always thoughtful and genuine
yearning for a beloved, elegantly feminine.

After all these years, it's still his only dream,
the one wish changing his life into supreme.

When burdened he'll rest his head upon her chest,
listening to her heartbeat, he'll know he is blessed.

With soft hands stroke his heavy head lightly,
her heavenly sanctuary embracing him tightly.

Her beautiful lips tender, rosy and calm,
yearn to be kissed, like a healing balm.

Yet she remains a dream in the distance,
his heart craves for her with daily persistence.

Beloveds hoping to merge without resistance,
celebrating love, breathing it into existence

Silent One
Written 1 January 2016
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Form: Couplet

Converstation With My Teeth April 1

I have bad teeth. Always have since birth.  I had braces as a child and hated it.  Hated going to the dentist.  Put it off too long, too often.  Ended up with multiple root canals, and bone grafts, and finally lost six teeth and had to have dentures.

Lately, my remaining teeth have been behaving a bit better I may lose another tooth before the end but that should be enough.

I am waiting for the development of dental clones which I hope will happen soon so I can grow perfect teeth and replace all my old rotting teach.

I tell my teeth one day my plans

“Teeth”

“Yeah master”

“We need to talk”

“so talk, dude.”
“
I am going to replace you all with brand new teeth. You have been such pain  my entire life, can’t wait.”

“So you are going to kill us off and trade us in for a new model?”

“Yeah”

“Bastard, but hey we don’t have a choice since you are the Master and we are merely you’re eating machine slaves.”

“Yeah, you got that right.”


And last but not least, our optional prompt! I got this one from a workshop I did last year with Beatrix Gates, and I’ve found it helpful. The prompt is based on Robert Hass’s remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about the body. The poem should contain an encounter between two people, some spoken language, and at least one crisp visual image.
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haibun

Premium Member The Cries of Camelot

Kneeling with sword raised to the sky,
As the blade glistens from,
The shadow of the moon with desire,
In respect of the god's above.
Only a spoken language,
All do understand. 
Pleading, asking, begging,
To help rescue his kingdom.
The cries to Zeus with fire raging,
From the blade of Excalibur.
The prophesy is coming to light,
Camelot is falling.
Yet, the holy sword, Excalibur calls to the gods.
Arthur kneels to Arthur's stone begging,
Merlin and the gods to save Camelot.
A scorching bright light descends from the sky,
As young Arthur shields his eyes,
When he opens them standing before him,
Are the gods of 12.

Idioms

When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
conveyed by an eloquent sky.
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the lips of dens and burrows
scooped by shrew, mole, and vole. 
Fresh bathed daisies signed a speech
as they swayed, 
buttercups birthed calligraphy’s of sunlight.
Giddy rills gave voice to fritillaries
that flew to the sun or moon.
Words were idioms painted upon
the melodious leafage 
of the up-risen and rising.
Then that shaggy brat
the primordial ape it grunted forth,
translating its gripey gut
through the clack of a creaky tongue.
Guttural and gregarious
it learned to babble and 
belch an oral discordance.
It yapped and yawped,
yawped and yapped
until a spoken language
verbosely pivoted to prolix
polluting the very airy air.
Then it was
that a nascent poet boldly stood
rhyming would with could
until even the dumbest of his tribe
understood
and cheered him fit to bust
while the green grown world
with all its idiomatic kin
lost the will to express
as before
for the fluent earth again.


A Magna Carta For the Web

We live in a pluralistic world and society, 
Where there's many diverse groups: 
Different communities and religions -
About that you can't go through any hoops. 

The web should enable all to function, 
Free, empower and give identity; 
Speech and spoken language are not certified, 
So why restrain those who kindle controversy? 

A healthy web promotes the blogosphere, 
Says that social networking is a right, 
That your email address is your privilege, 
And that google has ethical height. 

But some countries ban them all, 
For fear of opinions, taunts and passions; 
Governments prohibit gabbers and critics, 
And large companies drive at their own visions. 

However, freedom of speech and expression, 
Stay golden even when trivialised or put down,
And are enabled by privacy, by no observation, 
Whether there’s pleasure, distress or frown. 

Every belief should be upheld:
Religious, atheist, humanist or crank;
And this premise should be written, 
Such that arguments will not mark. 

The first Magna Carta liberated,
The individual in society, 
So a second Magna Carta is needed,  
To free the user digitally. 

The web should be cheap for all to use, 
And user data should be private strictly;
An open infrastructure should be decentralised, 
By having foreign servers for every country. 

Whistleblowers keep abuse levels low, 
And ethical hackers hold governments to account;
GCHQ should not be above the law, 
To tap the publics digital footprints, shouts. 

We need to discuss a new Magna Carta, 
For the internet, with certain net neutrality,
To keep high quality content affordable, 
And state internet law for all in unanimity.
Form: Rhyme

The Meaning of Humankind

The Meaning Of Humankind

Forever people look for a complicated word
Years, decades and centuries they search
One sad word that gives meaning to humankind
Poets have written pages looking for the word
Singers sing their songs trying to find just the right word
Writers tell stories about the search for the word
Not one poem, song or story can find the perfect word
The perfect combination of letters and sounds
No one can find the one word that describes humankind
The perfect word is there right before them
It has been for all the history of the spoken language
In Greek, Latin, English or Aramaic or Chinese it has one meaning
Five letters, three syllables work together to giving meaning to humankind
The word the poets, singers and writers have been searching for
That word is simply alive
A sad word because it always has a final moment, a moment of loss
Yet, a happy word because while we are alive
We live, we love, we learn and we experience life and who we are
Sad or happy “alive” is the meaning of humankind
Thank the gods for the happy moments yet do not fear the sad ones
For that it life
That is the meaning of being alive

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