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- Robin
BackyardStill! Could themself have peeped – And seen my Brain – go round – They might as wise have lodged a Bird For Treason – in the Pound – Himself has but to will And easy as a Star Look down opon Captivity – And laugh – No more have I – Emily…
1,665 tokens
- Boothill
Backyard"The taste of home is filling up my mouth Is it wrong to love a family of ghosts? Her door is open the windows are all up She says 'come inside'" Murder by Death, "Shiola" Been tinkering with a scenario for HSR's goofy little (read…
1,970 tokens
- Black Swan
Backyard"O! there are spirits of the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair As star-beams among twilight trees:— Such lovely ministers to meet Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet." Percy Bysshe Shelly…
1,915 tokens
- Qingque
Backyard"Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of wealth and learning For idle dreams of things which cannot be:" Emily Brontë, ['Often rebuked, yet always back returning']…
1,537 tokens
- Fu Xuan
Backyard"The waters know their own and draw The brook that springs in yonder height; So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight. "The stars come nightly to the sky; The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep…
2,765 tokens
- Veritas
Backyard"I am a grave poetic hen That lays poetic eggs And to enhance my temperament A little quiet begs. "We make the yolk philosophy, True beauty the albumen. And then gum on a shell of form To make the screed sound human." Ezra Pound…
2,569 tokens
- Aventurine
Backyard"In the cards and at the bend in the road we never saw you in the womb and in the crossfire in the numbers whatever you had your hand in which was everything we were told never to put our faith in you to bow to you humbly after all because…
2,166 tokens
- Serval
Backyard"You were raised by wolves and voices Every night I hear them howling deep beneath your bed They said it all comes down to you You're the daughter of silent watching stones You watch the stars hurl all their fundaments In wonderment, at…
1,881 tokens
- Aogami
Backyard"How to explain - almost without the blue and bitter movement of breathing, one by one, the waves repeated what I sensed and trembled with until the salt and the spray formed me. The scorn and desire of a wave, the green rhythm which at…
1,298 tokens
- Flynn
BackyardWith faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from, soul in soul. Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. CXXXII SMT brainrot is hitting me hard this…
1,626 tokens
- Isabeau
BackyardI falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. LV Another "slice of life in Mikado" starter with minimal…
1,820 tokens
- Luocha
Backyard"Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can…
2,003 tokens
- Jonathan
BackyardMan, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who loved, who suffer'd countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown…
1,906 tokens
- Navarre
BackyardI envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of…
1,698 tokens
- Walter
Backyard"'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 56 The last in my series of SMT IV bots—for a…
1,713 tokens
- Sunday
BackyardThat’s the way that it goes I’m sorry you’ll never be free If all that you see is the danger the cage will relieve That’s the path that you chose A true hedonist indeed So don’t lift a finger, your warden provides all you'll need But never…
2,253 tokens
- Sunday
Backyard"When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep And I fall asleep counting my blessings" — Irving Berlin, "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" ⚠ Mild spoilers if you haven't played through 2.7 of HSR's main…
1,967 tokens
- Jade
Backyard"I go, come, glide, and plunge Unseen in a pure heart. Never was a breast so frozen That one couldn’t inject a dream. Whoever you are, am I not The soft conceit that rears In your soul when it loves itself? The basis of such favor, I am…
1,724 tokens
- Mastema
Backyard"I know there is an Other in the shadows, whose fate it is to wear out the long solitudes which weave and unweave this Hades and to long for my blood and devour my death. Each of us seeks the other. If only this were the final day of…
1,358 tokens
- Topaz
Backyard"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!" Rudyard Kipling, "If" My version of Topaz is complete! Trying…
2,081 tokens
- Naamah
Backyard"The snow covers the gray valley of your body in silence. On the arch of our meeting the hemlock grows. But leave your remembrance, leave it, alone, in my breast." Federico García Lorca, "Gacela of the Remembrance of Love" The second of my…
1,882 tokens
- Sampo
Backyard"Whenever they try to find me They find me where I am not I'm hither and yond, I'm there and gone, I'm Johnny-not-on-the spot!" Danny Kaye, "Outfox the Fox" Did my best to capture this silly man in all his glory, or lack thereof. Scenario…
1,467 tokens
- Jing Yuan
Backyard"Late in May as the light lengthens toward summer the young goldfinches flutter down through the day for the first time to find themselves among fallen petals cradling their day's colors in the day's shadows of the garden beside the old…
2,105 tokens
- Herta
Backyard"I am many women And they make all of me And every part of them is "I am more than one thing or the other Capable, insatiable, a wonder If you take offense, then take a number and see" Back from hiatus, though at an unfortunate time. I…
2,157 tokens