http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/forums/55 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:46:20 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/forums/55 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23779/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Conclusion.html
'Who will help her then?' asked Andromeda,
leaning over the woman as she spasmed and contracted,
her eyes rolling back blindly in their sockets.
'No-one will help her,' said Lucifer,
'the policeman whose beat this is will not
pass this way for another two hours; a drunkard
passed her by but ten minutes ago and heard her moan
but thought he heard but a phantom or some
possible thief after the coins in his pocket;
he... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23779 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:56:00 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23778/t/A-morning-long-ago-.html a cold misty park covered in the
year's first fall of snow,
a hillside covered in daffodils,
a family of young ducklings bathing in sunlight,
a serpent dozing on a white gravel path.
Where did they go, where did they go,
all the pieces that made up
our discarded jigsaw?

The Robert E. Lee sails down the Mississippi,
a little girl ties a ribbon in her hair,
mourners watch quietly as a casket
is lowered into... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23778 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:54:03 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23765/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Part-five.html I do not think I have the strength to lift it,
infact I barely have the energy to sip...

Old Devil, there is a manuscript in yon mirrored cabinet,
'tis not my best but neither yet is it my worst;
it has some fairly adequate rhymes
although it lacks a final half-dozen verse.
Lean closer and let me whisper in your ear,
before that shade from Porlock comes
I shall tell you roughly how they go.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23765 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:53:38 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23764/t/Dawg-Blue-Eyes--Little-Pussy-Two-Guns--Willowdown--trinimade.html and blew a smoke poodle into the air.
Next to him Little Pussy Two Guns sat in a boot
and surveyed the street with a mean and lazy stare.
"Old Ma Chuzzlewit just put her garbage can out"
she said to Dawg Blue Eyes
"why don't you mosey on over and see
if its worth my investigating..."
Naturally Dawg Blue Eyes refused to answer this
but merely blew another poodle
which joined with the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23764 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:46:52 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23745/t/Zena-of-the-Abyss-Part-three-by-Willowdown-and-Rosebud.html I carefully swam through sea-weed forests
haunting by ghouls and flesh-eating fish,
the darkness of those cold, dark waters
lit only by the lantern of my unextinguished love.

In the valley of moroseful whispers
Leviathan belched and behind the flank of a great volcano
I saw his monstrous great left eye-ball twitch.
For two long days and submerged nights
I lay in a swoon of petrified fright
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23745 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:27:34 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23744/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Part-four.html in that case, little star, you had better pour me a second cup.
Its a fine wine and there's no point wasting it.
I'm sorry to hear about the child,
I met her once and she seemed most carefree and mild;
I can understand why old reprobates such as I must perish
but little girls and angels such as this young being beside you
should shine for a lifetime at least
to give us incurable sinners... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23744 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:21:59 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23728/t/The-Angel-Weeps-.html its charge, Mankind, is less than good.
One day sweet milk and honey will flow
but today that stream is locked up tight,
frozen in ice in the Land of Cold Snow,
North of the Day and South of the Night
where only the Winds and the Frost Giants go.

O Pure and Sad Angel, your giant heart grieves
as over the world you continue to bleed.
Upon your cold brow nine iron stars blaze,
burning your flesh with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23728 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:32:32 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23727/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Part-three.html
'What is all this infernal racket?'
croaked old Jeremiah Oldspur from his bed,
wrapped up in an old roughspun vest
and a long woolen nightcap perched upon his head,
'has some burglar come in through my window?
Be a good fellow and shut it after you, will you,
there's a confounded draft blowing in from the south.
Do you have a bottle of something with you,
to toast the tickle in my throat
and ease the dryness in my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23727 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:23:07 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23706/t/Zena-of-the-Abyss-Part-two-by-Willowdown-and-Rosebud.html across unknown oceans
whose beds were littered with dead sailors bones
from some great sea-battle
before demonic Atlantis fell.

From one great green-lit wreck
a giant octopus had swum up
with writhing tentacles questing
from its swollen neck,
lantern eyes gleaming,
hungry beak chattering...

After the great fight with the dragon-fish of Mu
I had been sent, with the other survivors and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23706 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:17:44 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23705/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Part-two.html asked innocent Andromeda
'surely it cannot make him happy?
To be sure, I said hello to him the other day
and he really was quite snappy.
Sometimes I think it would please me
to scold and tease him
but that would not be right, would it?'

'No, indeed,' said Lucifer,
'it is always best to be polite.
Perhaps he had some strife
with other heavenly bodies.
Once he was a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23705 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:13:15 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23691/t/Song-for-George-Harrison-.html - I wrote this when George died)

Golden sunlight shine on me
and on everyone
and all the paths we walk upon
beneath the golden sun.

Blue skies crown the eyes of sight
silver diamonds fill the night,
all our nights are full of wonder
all our days are full of light.

The baby cries beneath wide skies
a tiny tear in his eye,
wise men knock upon my door
but none of them can tell me... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23691 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:54:03 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23690/t/Lucifer-Andromeda-and-Oldspur-Part-one.html
1.

The stream doth sing
and young men listen;
far off, perchance,
a bright thing glistens.

Song falls easy from the lips
as gentle caresses
from a lover's fingertips.
In the trees young birds
trill and bicker and play at house;
in yon meadow old Jim Pumpkin-head
contemplates his mould'ring old boots
and wonders how he'll ever find a spouse.

When dusk... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23690 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:41:53 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23677/t/Waiting-in-the-White-House-.html on the cliff that overlooks the sea,
dreaming of mermaids
and footprints in the sand.
I'm waiting in the white house
where the checkerboard fields
and blackberry hedgerows
meet the ancient Ocean
and tired horses till the evening furrows,
dreaming beneath the seagull's wing
- big dreams wheeling and swooping
over little, comfortable dreams
or over the walls of the narrow grey
or... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23677 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:08:23 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23676/t/The-House-on-the-Hill-.html used to be full of parties and lights
but now only weeds and spiders
go there to dance,
dressed in the sad exhalations
of days that once were,
blood-red poppies in their hair.

The Lord went off to Flanders to fight
and all his servants went with him,
to fight men on horses
to fight men in tanks,
men in their thousands,
fathers and sons,
men of high and low rank,
shop-keepers, husbands,
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23676 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:59:29 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23610/t/On-Walpurgis-Nacht-the-Wallabies-Waltz-.html and munch little munchkins of milkpowder and malt.
Indian gypsies drool from the mouth
and navigate B roads from north and from south
to taste tje rare barfi the wallabies make
from milkpowder, malt and essence of snake.
A sweet such as this, please make no mistake,
might even have worm's blood, or juice of firedrake
but essence of cobra or viperous musk
transmogrifies even the driest of rusk
to food... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23610 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:11:43 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23589/t/Meet-me-in-the-Fields-of-Magical-Illusion-.html besides the sweet River of Time
where the lazy bees of golden hours hover over summers meadows
full of luxurious flowers that call across the gulfs of space
to their invisible lovers, the stars
whilst all about them sleeping Gods and demi-gods dream their
fantastical opiate dreams and tiny spiders weave silvery palaces
in the forests of their tumbled hair.
This morning Pan strode through these eternal fields... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23589 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:59 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23588/t/Lost-Love-Willowdown-and-Rosebud.html I do not mind the brittle cold for there
is always Paradise...

Where fallen angels fear to tread,
beside the fire of your love
I raise the ancient crystal cup
and press it to your shivering lips,
gently touching fingertips until
your tongue becomes unfrozen,

Unfrozen to feel your lips against mind,
A kiss from you which is forbidden
by our kingdoms and laws

Our souls were destined to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23588 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:53:54 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23576/t/Zena-of-the-Abyss-Rosebud-and-Willowdown.html the song of the moon, from year to year
century to century, since the
beginning of time

Is my destiny to end?

the currents are too strong
pulling me away from
where I need to go.....

Where I need to go is urgent....

I am Zena from the oceans abyss
from the city of Plygean

I am a mermaid, our kind are
a few and numbered.
We were many in these oceans

I remember, yes I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23576 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:08:19 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23575/t/Toothpick-and-Asparagus-Part-II-by-smzang-and-Willowdown.html by smzang with footnote by Willowdown

(that is some cold, Sir Raconteur,
I hope it doesn't linger) and now, to expound
on the hermit crabs' unusual names, just blame it
on the unharnessed imagination of a child
with no trepidation at hugging a hermit crab.

The larger one is quick as a flash
and fast to go exploring at every opportunity,
No sooner was the box on the floor, than he was off
and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23575 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:02:46 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23562/t/Blue-Eyes-.html I can hear your barely stifled laughter between the boles of the trees
and the quickened beating of a tremulous heart
- is it yours or mine?

Blue eyes, have the stars come out in daylight;
has the Moon arisen on your brow
or white carnations bloomed upon your cheeks?
What fruit gleams as red as your lips
or tastes so succulent and sweet?


Blue eyes, the river is jealous of the light that glimmers in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Willowdown) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/23562 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:23:46 GMT