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Nemesis – H.P. Lovecraft

Nemesis
By H. P. Lovecraft (01-11-19+17)

 

Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.

I have whirl’d with the earth at the dawning,
When the sky was a vaporous flame;
I have seen the dark universe yawning,
Where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

I had drifted o’er seas without ending,
Under sinister grey-clouded skies
That the many-fork’d lightning is rending,
That resound with hysterical cries;
With the moans of invisible daemons that out of the green waters rise.

I have plung’d like a deer thro’ the arches
Of the hoary primoridal grove,
Where the oaks feel the presence that marches
And stalks on where no spirit dares rove;
And I flee from a thing that surrounds me, and leers thro’ dead branches above.

I have stumbled by cave-ridden mountains
That rise barren and bleak from the plain,
I have drunk of the fog-foetid fountains
That ooze down to the marsh and the main;
And in hot cursed tarns I have seen things I care not to gaze on again.

I have scann’d the vast ivy-clad palace,
I have trod its untenanted hall,
Where the moon writhing up from the valleys
Shews the tapestried things on the wall;
Strange figures discordantly woven, which I cannot endure to recall.

I have peer’d from the casement in wonder
At the mouldering meadows around,
At the many-roof’d village laid under
The curse of a grave-girdled ground;
And from rows of white urn-carven marble I listen intently for sound.

I have haunted the tombs of the ages,
I have flown on the pinions of fear
Where the smoke-belching Erebus rages,
Where the jokulls loom snow-clad and drear:
And in realms where the sun of the desert consumes what it never can cheer.

I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted
The jewel-deck’d throne by the Nile;
I was old in those epochs uncounted
When I, and I only, was vile;
And Man, yet untainted and happy, dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle.

Oh, great was the sin of my spirit,
And great is the reach of its doom;
Not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,
Nor can respite be found in the tomb:
Down the infinite aeons come beating the wings of unmerciful gloom.

Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
I have sounded all things with my sight;
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.

 

Poetry

Poetry

What is my relationship; Poetry?

What is my relationship; prose?

One is not rhyme, but should be,

is not whole, but should be.

Is speculatively conceptual snippets, only coalescing in “MY” head.

The other; is story, a ride, a place, a moment, a bright wakening for people and places.

Sketches like video sweeping between breathless lines and swooping away again, flitting on winds, likened to butterflies!

Why and what and who and when and; where are we travelling, you and I.

Concept and story. Ha. Rhyme and reason.

NB: I will have to investigate but I suspect that Bing Translate really messes with the words Blotting reads in original flitting strange

Experimental – Looking at celeb hits/impressions

#1 Beyonce Knowles 33 $115 M Musicians
#2 LeBron James 30 $72 M Athletes
#3 Dr. Dre 50 $620 M Musicians
#4 Oprah Winfrey 61 $82 M Personalities
#5 Ellen DeGeneres 57 $70 M Personalities
#6 Jay-Z 45 $60 M Musicians
#7 Floyd Mayweather 38 $105 M Athletes
#8 Rihanna 27 $48 M Musicians
#9 Katy Perry 30 $40 M Musicians
#10 Robert Downey Jr 49 $75 M Actors
#11 Steven Spielberg 68 $100 M Directors/Producers
#12 Jennifer Lawrence 24 $34 M Actresses
#13 Bon Jovi $82 M Musicians
#13 Bruno Mars 29 $60 M Musicians
#15 Kobe Bryant 36 $62 M Athletes
#16 Roger Federer 33 $55 M Athletes
#17 Miley Cyrus 21 $36 M Musicians
#18 Taylor Swift 25 $64 M Musicians
#19 Lady Gaga 28 $33 M Musicians
#20 Kanye West 37 $30 M Musicians
#21 Calvin Harris 31 $66 M Musicians
#21 Tiger Woods 39 $61 M Athletes
#23 Dwayne Johnson 42 $52 M Actors
#24 Rafael Nadal 28 $45 M Athletes
#25 Bruce Springsteen 65 $81 M Musicians
#26 The Eagles $100 M Musicians
#26 Justin Timberlake 34 $57 M Musicians
#28 One Direction $75 M Musicians
#29 Paul McCartney 72 $71 M Musicians
#30 Cristiano Ronaldo 30 $80 M Athletes
#31 Sean “Diddy” Combs 45 $60 M Musicians
#31 Ryan Seacrest 40 $65 M Personalities
#33 Justin Bieber 21 $80 M Musicians
#33 Kevin Durant 26 $32 M Athletes
#33 Jennifer Lopez 45 $37 M Musicians
#36 Sandra Bullock 50 $51 M Actresses
#37 James Patterson 67 $90 M Authors
#38 Pharrell Williams 41 $22 M Musicians
#39 Glenn Beck 51 $90 M Personalities
#39 Peyton Manning 38 $27 M Athletes
#41 Mark Burnett 54 $86 M Directors/Producers
#42 Simon Cowell 55 $95 M Personalities
#43 Novak Djokovic 27 $33 M Athletes
#44 Phil Mickelson 44 $54 M Athletes
#45 Jimmy Fallon 40 $12 M Personalities
#45 Lionel Messi 27 $65 M Athletes
#47 Avicii 25 $28 M Musicians
#48 Bradley Cooper 40 $46 M Actors
#48 Peter Jackson 53 $50 M Directors/Producers
#50 Michael Bay 50 $66 M Directors/Producers
#51 Toby Keith 53 $65 M Musicians
#52 Leonardo DiCaprio 40 $39 M Actors
#52 Matthew McConaughey 45 $21 M Actors
#54 Sofia Vergara 42 $37 M Television actresses
#55 Dwyane Wade 33 $30 M Athletes
#56 Gisele Bundchen 34 $47 M Models
#56 Tyler Perry 45 $70 M Directors/Producers
#58 Gordon Ramsay 48 $47 M Personalities
#59 Rush Limbaugh 64 $66 M Personalities
#60 Jon Stewart 52 $16 M Personalities
#60 Mark Wahlberg 43 $32 M Actors
#62 Howard Stern 61 $95 M Personalities
#63 Hugh Jackman 46 $18 M Actors
#63 Ashton Kutcher 37 $26 M Television actors
#63 Maria Sharapova 27 $24 M Athletes
#66 Vin Diesel 47 $25 M Actors
#67 Ben Affleck 42 $35 M Actors
#68 Joss Whedon 50 $32 M Directors/Producers
#69 Serena Williams 33 $22 M Athletes
#70 Kenny Chesney 46 $44 M Musicians
#71 J.J. Abrams 48 $28 M Directors/Producers
#72 Neil Patrick Harris 41 $18 M Television actors
#73 Angelina Jolie 39 $18 M Actresses
#74 Kevin Spacey 55 $16 M Television actors
#75 Will Smith 46 $32 M Actors
#76 Scarlett Johansson 30 $17 M Actresses
#77 Jennifer Aniston 46 $31 M Actresses
#78 Dan Brown 50 $28 M Authors
#79 John Green 37 $9 M Authors
#80 Kim Kardashian 34 $28 M Personalities
#81 Amy Adams 40 $13 M Actresses
#82 Stephen King 67 $17 M Authors
#83 Dr. Phil McGraw 64 $77 M Personalities
#84 J.K. Rowling 49 $14 M Authors
#85 Li Na 33 $24 M Athletes
#86 Sean Hannity 53 $30 M Personalities
#86 Seth MacFarlane 41 $35 M Directors/Producers
#88 Bryan Cranston 59 $7 M Television actors
#89 Jon Hamm 43 $10 M Television actors
#89 Gwyneth Paltrow 42 $19 M Actresses
#91 Kate Moss 41 $7 M Models
#92 Meryl Streep 65 $10 M Actresses
#93 Kerry Washington 38 $6 M Television actresses
#94 Kate Upton 22 $7 M Models
#95 Veronica Roth 26 $17 M Authors
#96 Zooey Deschanel 35 $6 M Television actresses
#97 Cameron Diaz 42 $18 M Actresses
#97 Lena Dunham 28 $3.5 M Television actresses
#99 Kaley Cuoco 29 $11 M Television actresses
#100 Natalie Portman 33 $13 M Actresses