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zebra Aug 2016
while heaven and hell
where engrossed in their own affairs
the light bringer
an incandescent intelligence
was cast down
to this metallic monument of stone
hurled to the depths
mourning star falling
for aspiring
to greater altitudes
the furthest reaches
perhaps some distant
parametric edge
or insensate endlessness
of the northern most realms
Baals glittering throne

Lucifer
stellar divinity
mourning light
enemy of evil
gave mankind its foundations
fire, technology
the signatures of spirits
those vey veys
the voodoo
that Jews do
the secret of
the dark speculum
polished obsidian
for scrying
door to arcane gods
and spirits dark
of great power
Solomons instruments of wisdom
demonstrating that man might live in grace
without watering the ground with tears

now vanquished in the depths
of labyrinths submerged
and contained in a brass vessel
crypt of sigils
the true names of power
reside

as ages rolled over
we lost our depth of mind
became zombies
shadow beings
at first a mystery to our selves
and then the mysteries
became memories
and then even the memories
became dust

no longer could
we conjure or evoke
from the depths
our Jacobs ladder
those Goetic spirits
and  Amadel
of angelic powers
our protectors
and sustenance
lost and bereft of
aladins lamp
leaving men a drift in reason alone
barren religions of flagging faith
desolated
heaven and earth separated
a god absent
based on belief
the words
historic etymology
be-lie-eve
at its very core
it hides its secret for all to see
a lie

science of endless calculus
bereft
a one trick pony
rationality
like a sludge hammer
its only tool
which maps the known universe
but understands nothing
about what things mean
like the subtle architecture
of consciousness
and its interconnectedness
to all that there is
which may be nothing
with no physical properties
no volume
no trans-formative elemental substance
energies of light or force
or pulsating quanta
but inventions of consciousness
it self a light
which lacks volume
and physical quality
all of reality mere dreams
by an unknown dreamer
perhaps the child of another

at the stroke of midnight
the darkest point
in the murkiest age
the Kala Yuga
post modern man
remains conceited
while the world burns
paradise lost

Monotheism reigns
in our back water world
millenniums long night
of honor killings
god of the blade
thou shalt not ****
yet all condemned to die

put that in your pipe
slave makers
over bearing pedagogues
god loving war stooges
your god has a bigger ****
while parents
pack up their
shell shocked babies
there little trampled flowers
forced to
plummet to some dark address
tears fluttering
suffused  by poison clouds
in shady groves
where they only dare exhale

have you not had it yet
with gods mysterious ways
if it quacks like a duck
hello
hell goons
****** spiritual stasis
toxicity and contagion
of the simplistic

their god
a shrunken form
projection of an incomplete  mind

those who live by the sword
die by the sword
and those who do not
die anyway
not a leaf falls with out the will of god
are we not all falling
oh man
cast off axioms
of the addle brained

oh priests
of petrified ideation's
if you have a real god
look to reality to understand it
do you see mono anything
or do you see binary everything
love hate
macro micro
life death
creation destruction
as above so below
the tao
male female

no your god
both great and terrible
can not make you whole
with out her
for she is all of space
creator of all form
our human women
vessels of the goddess
who you have
conveniently subtracted
and profaned
for vainglories patriarchs sake

the universe it self
a multitude of powers
from hells deep shocks
and dismal woe
to adorations from the queen of heaven
and the sacred temple prostitutes
now made sullied
by goody goody minds
shames children
a vice of knives
solar heroes they think
while high minded and ignorant

the synoptic religions
feeding frenzies of dogma
beatings of submission
mouldering skeletons
of the abyss
******* blood loving bats
all dressed up
in Don Trump
plush red power ties
made in china
where indentured servants
in state hell mills
are worked to death

while others
prim men
pretending to love
god
all ostentatious actors
spiritual materialist
fearing hells abyss
outwardly proud
in self righteousness
performing public adorations
while in secret rooms
they ****** themselves
under shadows guilt
blasphemy of gloating piety
begrudging the pleasure of others
there guiding light

there true god
a demon of obedience
bes-tower of agony
ensuring
you gota suffer now
so you don't have to suffer later
dividing man from himself
All of them covering there heads
to obstruct the gifts of wisdom
and freedom
blocking the rays of Luciferic light
and insight
******* in there own hats
so they may remain undistracted
by their gods commands
having forgotten
that they themselves
made them up
pious dullards
that they are

oh Lucifer bright one
i stand before you
embraced by eight
the number of Majick
in arms that proliferate
the true will
Lucifers eight arms
amen
Austin Mizelle Mar 2021
It's been a year now.
I hope you're doing okay,
Wherever you are.
Reece Jan 2016
I could have saved her
Wasted, waste down
Caroline, oh Caroline
It could have been me
Distorted noise
friends upwind of the screams
It's never enough
They never had enough

Beach chair, mangle
Tripod, classic
Ripped from the great novels
Footage with a sun kissed tint
The foliage underfoot
Face down
In the bloodied mud

Where is the love
It's not enough
There's not enough love
Guide her above
Clouds like gloves
Caroline, oh
Caroline oh where do you go

Traffic warped noise from the boys
Explicit wickedness
Extrapolated desires
Extraordinary circumstance
Circumvented rent cheques
Caroline are you at rest yet?
Pagan Paul Dec 2017
.

The special speculative speculum
examined an orifice one day.
Upon its initial inspections
it was clearly heard to say

'I've been in some holes before
but this one takes the biscuit.
I should go in a little deeper
but don't know if I should risk it.
For there is a blockage here,
one I would rather not disturb.
I should really try to describe it
but I am struggling to find a verb.
It was always going to happen,
one day it would come to pass,
when in would walk a patient
with his head stuck up his ****'.


© Pagan Paul (14/12/17)
.
toBelieve May 2017
There was once, a truth and a lie.
One reality and one illusion.
Reality and an illusion of reality.

____________

Imagine complete darkness.
An empty place.
An empty space.
Imagine, emptiness.

In that complete emptiness,
Realis & Speculum.
Two nebulous, start appearing.

----------------------------

The first was brighter than what you can never dream to see.
Its radiance was a splendor,
Its burst was a sparkle.
It was entire, it was all,
But not all there is.

The second was kind of empty,
But not really empty,
Not empty at all.
It looked real,
But not really.
It was of a very light glow,
It shines, but with no light.
It was of no color,
Nor white, nor black, nor grey.
It was kind of a transparent mirror,
Kind of an illusion.
It was there,
But nothing is in there.

----------------------------

In the way simultaneously they appeared,
simultaneously they were growing.

Slowly they were growing,
But fast they filled the space.

In the moment, they are collapsing,
In eternity, they are creating.
___________

The illusion was a mirror,
it is collapsing,
Into billions of millions of pieces.

The reality was one,
And it kept being one.
____________

Now,
In the moment,
We have one truth,
And an infinity of lies.
And in each lie, you see the truth.
In each piece of that mirror,
You see a reflection of the truth.

You can keep looking for the truth,
But you only going to find reflections of it.

Because the truth is you,
The truth is within you.

Stop looking around.
You are true.
-------------
It is true !
-------------
But keep in mind,
That to every you,
There is another you.
Where ever you are,
Your self, your ego, your mirror,
Is there too.
-------------
It is true !
What do you see ?
Hallelujah, I’ve found you
one I could have chosen.
Were your body pliant, capable
more slight, more saudrey
a subjectivity
easily disposed

I would be able to hold your breath, capture your voice
contemptuous, mocking and wholly undue
spending more than a half a day
being who you are would make me hate you--

But for a morning, maybe from eight to noon
I’d take on your face, look straight in you,
my mirror.
Shout out my name three times
with hope, I would appear,

without your bated breath
from jagged mirror, foggy-eyed by shower
I'd be able see me touch your body, glistening
parting your quivering lips for
myself inside, to feel your smile.

A phantasm to myself.

I want you, my significant other
my lover,
my ontological
displacement
of
milky
misfortunate
malaise.

Your substance is my fortuitous down-going.
My ship-sinking speculum.
Desire, mediated by a lack of being-there.

Klage.
MMXII

this is a ****** poem...
victor tripp Jul 2013
Memory takes me back to long ago, I can see the deck of the slave ship  I came on smell the salt air and hot vinegar used to clean away the escaping stench below decks hear the sound as male  slaves exercise as crew members play fiddler music while chains thud hard from dancing amusement my home was near the River Senegal on  the coast  the slave traders  ships brought brightly colored cloth beads *** cowrie shells to trade for our black flesh father raised cattle  rice maize this ebony man traded for muskets gunpowder needles colored thread for what he grew on the day of our capture we marched  during the long day tied to each other  given only thin meal and warm water tiredness bore down on our limbs each step canoes came on sea waves toward us fear moved down the chained line men women children were separated our clothes were taken  standing naked mouths were opened skin and muscles felt we had to jump up  and down while moving  arms  chosen ones were branded with hot irons marking each one cold wet cloths applied to the brand on the seared skin  I scream loudly until my voice refuses sound the time for hearing is gone rapid  waters fill with blood as some are tossed into sea for circling sharks to dine on the ship offers only sixteen inches to hold me  others have two and a half inches if tightly packed bodies are in the hold secured down my chain is nailed dimness cries of agony beat on my ears like drums I try not to breath in the rancid smells of those who have soiled themselves air is limited I wait  for my body to die like my mind and soul we sail  for slave ships must leave immediately before sickness breaks out if that happens slaves will mutiny uprising usually takes place within the shoreline when neared at sea chances are less to leave slaves who simply refuse to eat are force feed with the speculum oris  which is placed in the slave's mouth opening the jaws then food is pushed in usually rice or millet crew members wash away stench of blood  from floggings feces ***** from between decks the stink of vinegar drying in sun is as bad living is sometimes harder than dying
Elziabeth May 2010
You can't just dine; It's not time.
Sleep, lines the bottoms of her eyes.
The circles form overnight, deprivation, falsification.
So if her common sense neglected?
It's 'cause something bigger's detected.
She doesn't mind being left behind.
She would rather go slowly to watch the sunset, anyways.
No reason to look behind the smokescreen (there are some things that no one needs to find.)
Look on as she survives another attempt, kinetic in her learning. Pleading guilty in a non guilty crime.
Avoiding awkward by jumping the fence to turn and step.
Can't help the second nature, her reflexes from past experience stay quick-just to hate her.
They taught her well, as she sought to dip-set
(back to her speculum of normalcy.)
Walking down the street, curbing the beat.
Lights flicker in and out; shadow-boxing down the alleyways of her life.  
Her eyes may have welled, only to dry; in the heat of the moment, regrettably she could only, sigh.
The one thing her mother taught her is to never believe in surprise. Collectively she will be waiting for the day and time when she gets hit from behind the lines, life flies by and she is not afraid to die.

"And she will bite her bottom lip all she wants."
"And she will bite her bottom lip all she wants." is a lyric in a song called "The woman with the tattooed hands," by the band "Atmosphere."
Evan Stephens Dec 2018
On my eleventh birthday
Dad gave me this book -
The Eyes of the Killer Robot.
Inside the peach cover was
gothic baseball,
malevolent wizardry,
small breath horror, and
magic, cut with 1950s science.

In the book a madman
learns how to extract our eyes
and uses them to power
an evil golem ace.

This morning, twenty-seven years later,
in the pre-Christmas rain
that pools black in the brick
I suddenly wondered
if Dad with his incurable
glaucoma his eye drops
and surgeries, realized he'd given me
a book about the fears of stolen eyesight.

And the son came to know
what the father knew:
the terrible softness
of a trembling eye
under the blooming
steel of the speculum.
victor tripp Aug 2013
Memory takes me back to long ago. I can see the deck of the slave ship I came on, smell the salt air and the hot vinegar used to clean away the escaping stench below the deck, hear the sound as male slaves exercise, as crew members play fiddle music while chains thud hard from the dancing amusement of the slaves. My home was near the River Senegal on the coast. The slave traders ships brought colered cloth, beads, ***, and cowrie shells to trade for our black flesh. Father raised cattle, rice and maize.  This ebony man traded muskets, gunpowder, needles and colored thread, for what he grew.  On the day of our capture, we marched during the long day tied to each other, given only thin meal and warm water. Tiredness bore down on our limbs each step. Canoes came on waves toward us.  Fear moved down the chained line of men. Women and children were separated. Our clothes were taken.  Standing naked, mouths were opened, and muscles felt. We had to jump up and down while moving our arms. Chosen ones were branded on the skin.  I screamed loudly until my voice refuse sound.  The time for hearing is gone.  Rapid waters filled with blood, as some are tossed into the sea, for circling sharks to dine on. The ship offers only sixteen inches to hold me, others have two and half inches if tightly packed. Bodies are in the hold, secured down by chains that are nailed. Faint cries of agony beat on my ears like drums.  I try not to breath in the rancid smells of those who have soiled themselves.  Air is limited.   Mutiny usually takes place within the shoreline. Because when at sea chances are less to escape.  Slaves who simply refuse to eat are force fed with the speculum oris which is placed in the slave's mouth, opening the jaws then food is pushed in usually rice or millet.  Crew members tried wash away stench of blood from floggings, feces, ***** from between decks until this day the stench still remains. Living as a slave while your soul is dead is a living horror.
Johnny Noiπ Feb 2019
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Marie-Chantal Nov 2018
E coli colonies
And clusters of blisters
Pink clusters of blisters
And scabs and lice
Do they taste good your cockles?
Do they feel satisfies your mussels?
Do you feel alive, alive, oh?
Candid she is ah
The women of the water
Of beds of sand burrowed deep
Shadows under rocks
On the corners of streets
A parasitic mass
Not the proverbial grain of sand
A fluid called nacre
Or mother of pearl is
Deposited
Layer upon layer
Until a pearl
Is formed
The product of an irritant
A cluster of blisters
Opalescent blisters
Sweet pink satisfaction in
The labial palp
The entrance way to the mouth

‘I’m so cold and I’m so scared
And I’m so alone’


I just
So, a pearl fisher needs to wear waders
There’s no dignified way to put on waders
And when it gets cold you have to **** yourself to keep warm
You also need a set of tangs
Mine are hazel
I got them from the wood
I cut it down but first I asked the tree if it was okay
The tree is part of the river too you see
It nourishes the peat
That filters the water that
Drips back into the river
That is filtered by the mussel
That the salmon and trout swim in
Then the mussel
The larvae attached to the salmon and the trout
And it forms a symbiotic relationship
Where the mussel filters the water and
The salmon and the trout
Spread their offspring
The way you can tell the difference
Between a male and a female mussel
Is that when you pick up a male it's
Literally dripping in *****
A constant *******
The females all spawn at the same time
A mussel is an indicator species,
Which in ecological terms means
That it is a species that will
Be
The perfect indicator of the health
Of the river
The other things you need are
A river speculum
I haven’t made mine yet
But we used plastic ones
With glass cut to shape
But it enables you to see the river
The secret part of the secret river
It’s red down there
And it’s cold
The women of the water
They hide in the shadows under rocks
And burrowed deep
They can move very slowly across the river
Bed
A colony of mussels
A family
When you find mussels
When you f
When you find a beautiful
When you find lots of them it’s
Called a
Good crook and this is where
You’ll find pearls
If you ask me the man who takes them is a good crook himself
Bad crook
And it’s I’m looking at it now and I can see
It with the moonlight on it
And it just it
Keeps going
But it’s tidal here it’s not fresh
I’d have to distil it myself
With copper pipes
Copper tubes
Copper coil
When copper ages it turns blue
And you don’t weld copper
You braze it
Soldering at a high temperature
A Heat
Mussels can live up to 150 years old
I held a 120-year-old one
And it was so wise and venerable
I didn’t know what to do
I couldn’t speak
This mussel
She was alone
Down there in the red
The angry red water
She lived through
WW1 and 2
And women’s suffrage
My grandmother was alive two
I wore silk because it’s pure
And women are supposed to be pure
Don’t know
Freshwater nymphs
I can see it right now
And it’s just like little tiny mirrors
Little tiny mirrors that are reflecting light back
Speculum is the Latin for mirror
Maybe the water’s a mirror
But it’s tidal here so I’d have to distil it
Saltwater mirrors
Saltwater speculums
Spectators of atrocity
And mussels they grow
With annual rings
Annually
They reach maturity around the
Age of 30
Like tree trunks
Like the hazel
That helps me to keep them
Catch them in its tangs
But I want to protect them
I am one

Little plaster shells
But I cracked one
And it wasn’t plaster
Split her in half
Not with tongs
With silicone
Pink flexible
Gooey silicone
Their linings bleed every month

It was a dark orange
Red colour
Because of the peat that was draining into the water

But I have to protect them
Cause I am one.
Third Eye Candy Apr 2013
i didn't know what i was gonna do,
but the bells were the bells and the ringing too.
i was the sky and
the paralysis. the perfect
glitch.
the pit and the speculum.
all the better to see you with -
your own life. i pry and dispense with the drivel
of our marketing plan and wage peace.
i keep thunder under my super vision.
i realign the timpani of my discord
in dismay. i didn't know what i was gonna do,
but the bells were bells and the ringing, new.
again came the verse that first had no thought
but ought,
but somehow got caught
in my nimbus, too.
the first blink of a marble statue.
how that feels. and what that means.
and something
else.

and the
truth.

back at you.
Willdaberry Blue May 2014
When i look in the mirror, its not me i see.
But a ghost, a shell, that will  release.
And in my eyes, i see stars, drops of  fire in the rain.
That drip down, into a darkness, that feeds on pain.
I take comfort in the solace, of being insane.
Muted Oct 2019
i have nightmares in white.

crisp
clean walls,
shiny, sterile floors,
the pale, blinding light
staring into me

for each click of the speculum,
each snap of latex,
there is a crack up my spine
and i am silenced

i am muted

i know
what it is like
to die.

sometimes dying
isn’t the end of existence,
it is the continuation of life
after you’re already gone

it is cracked lips and stuffy noses
it is wellness checks
and medication

it is romanticizing sharp objects
and panicking at the sight of blood

it is light pauses between words
to ensure that you are safe
before you speak

sometimes dying is living empty.

and when i wake
from my white nightmare,

i am hollow.
Carl Webb II Mar 2019
unending reminders that what we see is what we are
this glass reflects
that, which we see is who we are
. . . pellucid mirrors . . .
that, which we see is what’s become
this glass reflects
unending reminders that what we see is what we’ve done
Edna Sweetlove Dec 2014
Let's have some fun! Let's go to the Gynae!
If you bleed a lot or have a tickly *****
Or if you have more spots down there
Than the walls in your local Indian restaurant
Or if you pong like a smoked salmon sandwich
It's off to the Gynae! Off to the Gynae!

The Gynae will ask a lot of personal questions
But he's not a pervert really (usually)
He's only doing his job but always bear in mind
He chose this specialisation out of many and
You have every right to wonder why
Anyone would ever do such an odd thing...

Strip off your clothes, put on a hospital gown,
(but be suspicious if it has a "see through" rear
or is of the Lithuanian "open crutch" design);
Then relax on an examination table
And hum along to Abba on the Musak,
Then get your feet up on the jolly stirrups.

Now open your legs so that the quack
Can get a total eyeful of your love-crack;
Don't be shy, he's seen hundred like yours
And some in worse condition too (I expect!);
You may ask to cover your feet with a sheet
If you feel they are too smelly for modesty's sake.

On with the surgical gloves, out with the speculum
And a liberal slathering of K-Y
And we're into the good old Gynae action!
Now lie back and enjoy two gloved fingers
Groping you like Crazy Frog on ******!
He's hunting for lumps and bumps, yee-ha!

Don't feel embarrassed, oh no, oh no,
Why not ask your boyfriend or hubby
(or girlfriend if you're a hairy ****)
To sit in with you for the occasion?
Wow! With a bit of luck, just a little bit,
You might end up with a hot swinging session.
Sanama Mar 16
I wandered long through noctis viae — roads of night,
Where shattered stars fall, pale with fright.
The moon, a fractum speculum, weeps in vain,
Reflecting back my silent pain.

Yet ex nihilo, from void you came,
A whisper soft — a spark, a flame.
Your eyes, ignis aeterni, burned through rain,
And lit the corners of my bane.

You broke the walls of stone and thorn,
In your embrace, my soul reborn.
A caro et anima — flesh and soul aligned,
A prayer from lips the gods designed.

Where shadows bloom, you plant your name,
A rose that blossoms in my flame.
And though the winds of fate may sever,
Amor vincit omnia — love conquers ever.

Still, as dawn creeps on trembling feet,
I fear this dream may taste defeat...
But if we fade like morning's mist,
Eternity lives in one last kiss.
This poem speaks of a journey through darkness, pain, and brokenness. And the love that rises from the deep emotion and darkness pit. Latin phrases are throughout to give more weight and timelessness to the emotions.
Maddie May 2022
Ducks have secret blue feathers
beneath their wings. They’re
called speculum feathers.

I like to call them mirror
wings or looking feathers.
Birds use them to find

their flock. To find other birds
like them. To fall in love. This
morning, I sat alone on a dock, and

I watched two swimming ducks who were
showing their speculum feathers. Were they lost?
Were they making love? Maybe the answer is

both. Or neither. They ruffled their wings
in unison, and they circled the pond like
they were dancing. Their light bounced

and reflected onto my shadow. I tried to
feed them half-grapes, but they were
too happy to let me be happy with them
Fear is the speculum that keeps your jaws open,
while the cherries roll down your throat.
Evan Stephens Nov 2019
"Wine is the mirror of the mind."

The cut glass
fluorescence
of sloe gin and *****,
cuffed to my wrist,
scours the tabletop
with self-cruel smiles.

In the convex glass
I'm wearing
a robe of pills.
In the convex glass
my hand's curve
strangles a joy
back down to size
with forced sleep.

Dizzy on the bird's
chop-wing of couch,
half-tapped glasses
lose the day to the
little white discs
laboring to lift me
roughly into the spaces
between the stars.

The octagonal glass
is so empty.
Johnny Noiπ Sep 2018
In the contest organization world title
Angel is a mainstream mass Beasley
arranged per year [1] beauty; The winner of 25 contests,
 the pomp, to the things that are around in the 1980s;
the beauty of the country of the Mass for the world;
UK boy born between Marcus USA, England, Scotland,
tracks Mass c.

These conflicts are often drawn in the wind
national and local celebrity judges
confer foreigners. Many of the decisions
for religious heat; He compares the region around competition
the form & a copy of the Air Jordan one of the greatest:
He joined the judging panel in bulk Sussex.

Were sent to thousands of women around the region of England,
England promoted competition in the central area
a series held around the country in the summer.

News of the World, "Take a Break" magazine
not in strife & contest, sponsored by the
To write the features in the public places in the age of,
& the winners groups used the front covers;
The newspaper costs some, amongst whom the Daily Mirror
Heroic age of two years, a variety of DOLE
Vogue & the New York Daily Mail
The magazine Hi! In stories, iron,
winners of national and local

Competition winner England sent along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Lamb Mass able to compete in the mass of the world; The Four elements of the earth is a worthy competitor, offering entrants with the title & crown of Miss United Kingdom!

In the 2008 model contest became more important in size featuring Chloe Marshall & active duty member of the British Army, Katrina Hodge, the first pageant. [2]

Mass fight almost all the English people a crown of England clinched fifth place runner-1; Once or twice in each mass World size (Miss USA) & Europe hands.

In certamine Mundus title organization
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anno disposita [I] pulchritudo;
XXV victorem in certaminibus ludicris,
pompa ad 1980s quae circum;
et pulchritudo in regione Missam pro mundo;
Puer natus est inter UK M. USA, Angliæ, Scotiæ,
Missa Pange c.

Hae contentiones saepe in eorum ventus
iudices et celebritate loci nationalibus
externi conferre. Multa de judicio
acrior instant, et enim tellus
Comparat regionem circum competition
et in specie de Air Jordan unum exemplum maximum:
Sed constituit ad iudicandum panel in mole Sussex '.

Missisunt ad militia mulieres circa regionem de Anglia,
Competition in media area Anglia promoted
seriem tenuit aestatis circa regionem.

News de Mundus, "Take a Effrego" magazine
non in contentione et certamine editarum
Ut scribam de features in platea veritas per annos,
Et *** winners coetibus adhibetur frontem tegit.
Acta diurna aliquot, quibus in cotidiano Speculum Heroicum
Heroici aetatis suae duobus annis, variis LUCTUS
Vigebat & New York Daily Mail
Et magazine Salve! Contabulatas ferro
winners of nationalibus ac locorum.

Competition victor Anglia misit una *** winners de Miss septemtrionis Hibernia, Scotiae et Valliae, agnus missa est mole potest certatim in mundi. Quattuor elementis terra est dignus competitor offering entrants *** titulo et coronam de Miss United Kingdom.

In certamine MMVIII exemplar factus est magis activa officium marescalli et Chloe regit, in mole featuring membrum British Army est, Katrina Hodge, primus spectaculi excogitavit. [II]

Missam pugnare fere Anglis in omni populo et haeredis praedicti Henrici quinto loco clinched cursor-I; *** bis in se mole, aut mole mundo (Miss USA) et Europa manus.

The organization contest the world title Angel carrots mass Beasley arranged in [1] beauty;
25 the winner in the political battle, with their performance,
ceremony was transferred to the 1980s which was round his neck;
for the world, the beauty of the Mass, & in the religion;
The boy born in the UK Marcus USA, England, Scotland;
Western Wind c.

These conflicts are often their favorite
national & local celebrity judges
External members. Many of execution
heats and the religion
He compares the religion a competition
Nike Air Jordan, & in particular, the example of one of the greatest, by
But judging panel decided in bulk Sussex.

England, were sent out to thousands of women, with regard to the region round about,
Competition in the central area of ​​England promoted
series held around the country this summer;

News of the World, "Take a Break" magazine
not in strife & struggle of the sound emitted;
In order to write the features in the street, through the years
When winners groups used the front covers;
The newspaper several of his daily Mirror Heroicum
The heroic age of two years, various DOLE
thrived in the New York Daily Mail
The magazine Hi! stories & other steel
winners of national and local;

Competition winner England sent along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales Lamb sent bulk can compete in the world. Four elements of the earth is a worthy competitor offering entrants with the title and crown of Miss United Kingdom.

The contest 2008 model became more active work of Marshall and Chloe in bulk featuring a member of the British Army, Katrina Hodge, the first pageant. [2]

Mass fight almost all the English people & the regal estate Henry clinched fifth place runner-1; With twice in bulk or bulk of the world (Miss USA) & Europe hands;

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Angelus sit amet ***** Beato Angelico
In disposita [I] pulchritudo;
XXV victorem in certaminibus ludicris,
honore translatum 1980s quae circum;
nam in mundo, et pulchritudo in missa et in regione,
Puer natus est M. USA et UK, Angliæ, Scotiæ,
Tibi Trinitas c.

Haec saepe sunt eorum ventus confligit
iudices et celebritate loci nationalibus
Externa membra. Multi ex supplicium
calefaciat et religionem
Comparat religionem c. competition
Jordan praesertim exemplum maxima iuxta
Sed iudicanti placuit panel in mole Sussex '.

Anglia, sunt mulieres de millibus, ut, *** de regionem per circuitum,
Competition in media arena de Anglia promoted
seriem tenuit aestatis c. religionem.

News de Mundus, "Take a Effrego" magazine
non in contentione et certamine editarum
Ut scribam de features in via, per annos,
Winners coetibus adhibetur, *** frontem legit;
Speculum Heroicum plures quotidie diurna
Heroici aetatis suae duobus annis, variis LUCTUS
vigebat in New York Daily Mail
Et magazine Salve! alias fabulas et ferro
winners of nationalibus ac locorum

Competition victor Anglia misfit una *** winners de Miss septemtrionis Hibernia, Scotiae et Valliae, agnus mole potest Certa Tim missus est in mundum. Quattuor elementis terra est dignus competitor offering entrants *** titulo et coronam de Miss United Kingdom.

In certamine MMVIII exemplar factus
est magis activa opus marescalli et Chloe
in mole featuring a socius ex British Army, Katrina Hodge, primus spectaculi excogitavit. [II]

Missam pugnare fere estate regia et Anglis omnibus clinched Henrici quinto loco cursor-I; *** bis in mole, aut mole mundi (Miss USA) et Europa manus.

The world organization in the title contest Angel carrots mass Beasley
At arranged [1] beauty; 25 the winner in the political battle, with their performance, transferred to the honor of the 1980s which was round his neck; For in the world, & the beauty is in the mass & in the region;
Marcus child born in the USA and the UK, England, Scotland, Mass c.

These conflicts often have their favorite
national and local celebrity judges
External members. Many executions warm & religious,
He compares the region around competition;
Jordan most especially by example
But judging panel decided in bulk Sussex;

England are women out of thousands that,
while the region around it,
Competition in the central area of ​​England promoted
series held around the country this summer.

News of the World, "Take a Break" magazine
not in strife & struggle of the sound emitted
In order to write the features on the road through the years
Groups of winners is used when the front covers;
Glass Heroicum many everyday newspaper
The heroic age of two years, various DOLE
thrived in the New York Daily Mail
The magazine Hi! steel and other stories
winners of national and local.

Competition winner England sent along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales Lamb size can be sent to compete in the world. Four elements of the earth is a worthy competitor offering entrants with the title & crown of Miss United Kingdom.

In the 2008 model contest became more active work of Marshall & Chloe in bulk featuring a member of the British Army, Katrina Hodge, the first pageant. [2]

Mass fight almost all the English royal estate Henry clinched fifth place runner-1; With twice the size or bulk of the world (Miss USA) & Europe hands.
Brady Wolf Nov 2015
You departed when I was so young I’ve no memories to speak of.
Mom assures me that you cared me, but spectral affections are not real love.

She says I have your sense of style, and worry much like you
But Dad to me is just an idea, no man to compare it too.

I lack you jet-black curls, and my face is much like Mom’s
Yet I feel no earthly comforts in the bottle or the psalms.

I missed you so desperately when I was young, addled by your death.
And while I’ve learned to live without, there’s sorrow in each breathe.

You see I’ve gained no solace, my suffering never done,
For I’m reminded of your image daily, it’s there in the speculum.


I’ve tried escaping many ways, but always return the troubles.
Shattered many a mirror in my attempts, gaining only ****** knuckles.

When my loved ones see me crying they think I offer masculine lies,
But I can assure all those around me, there’s something in my eye.

— The End —