As I Write These Words
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Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnEvery poem in As I Write These Words seeks to take the reader on a journey with author Samir Georges. This very personal collection of poetry, begun by Samir at the age of ten and completed on his twentieth birthday, offers an inv.
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As I Write These Words
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Copyright © 2012Samir GeorgesAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4697-7375-9
Chapter One
Open CurtainsTo a scene of beginning:
Where with a gasp of universal release,
The dark void bursts from the light
Showers worlds with the heat of new passion,
and from darkness comes life.
And so too is born into this world rust
and the dulling of blades,
the birth of habits
when globes dim and dull, glow and growl.
But the emptiness remains vast,
a sight of worldly yearning
Cold to the eyes,
Faint to the touch.
It's a sight caught up in the stars
amidst the ones that have fallen,
the many that are falling still,
and those in our eyes that live.
They remind us
of rolling hills,
the illusion of mountains,
and their promise of clouds;
the uncertainty of faith
and crashing to the earth;
the steady crawl,
the forced ascent;
another promise,
another beginning.
And we rise again, always
in step with the sun,
and the breath of this fuller world
that stands alone all around us,
demanding our hearts and pledge
to live
and begin again; all that once was
to fill this empty space
with something other
than dull yearning
and cold embrace.
And with every word and breath,
a promise
to begin anew.
Rise again as workers tasked
and fill this world with life.
Soft-spoken Words
Softly spoken words arise
from the ashes
in droplets of snow,
and they rise like curtains
shrouding us in cooling shade,
enticing us
with the tingling of their touch.
These heartfelt sensations
that melt away in waves before the sun
leave but a gentle dew
and memories
of soft-spoken words.
Wilful Captive
I'm sitting in the perfect place,
feeling very present
from the ebbing of the pain in my ankle,
the tickle I feel upon my brow,
the fading ache of the bench against my back,
and the ease of every breath,
to the touching of the wind
like a gentle rain that leaves no mark behind,
to the pleasantness of the bird mere struts away,
to the ant intruding on my thoughts
and the smoothness of the water trickling
so close to my ears.
Even the pavement beneath my clothed feet
feels soft yet unyielding.
The fly that twirls around
and the clearness of my eye—
Oh, I am caught in a perfect place
between two worlds.
Whispers
The flash of a bulb.
"Sorry" flashes
in my mind.
Echo.
The pulse of my mind,
snap of the camera.
Snap!
Echo.
Sorry.
Pregnant rain
slushes down the sky,
Lightning skidding
through the drops.
Snap.
Fading flash ploughs
back to the camera,
my mind.
Clouds limp past, dragging.
Sorry, I can no longer hear the
whisper.
Snap, flash, all gone, huddled
in a ball in the back of
my mind.
A drop,
another,
jolt my sleeping senses.
A swarm, rain rails down, cold.
A startled cry—
they awake.
Shredding the wind,
clouds streak by; steam engines, like flashes, burn my eyes.
The sun blazes upward; I crane my neck
to catch it—too fast,
gone,
the whisper
gone.
A Foul Business
In debt to this world,
Silent is she
Who is spared no sympathy.
Stripped of her fruitfulness,
Once so welcoming and whole,
Now she lays there,
Her pride an open door.
A crippled beast once wild
Discarded there, unspoken,
To be picked at by carrion
Or mauled at by those remorseless needs.
One day a dear friend came by to include
His hungering smile,
Putting no effort to hide
His green teeth, a gleaming pride.
Whirlpool of Fate, Siren
Grasp of Quicksand
Swallowed by your path, Panic!
Wriggling in its strong grasp, Suffering!
Subdued beneath its murk, Frantic!
Twitching weakly with hope, Flickering ...!
Peacefully captive bound soul, Unspoken ...
Recalling events long past, Ebbing ...
Neglected feelings swirl out, Broken ...
Motivated
It's the flight of pregnant birds that I am reminded of:
Bloated and cramping,
Legs tucked close in, wings beating away with paternal efficacy,
Never toward a nest,
Always in flight,
As if the very notion of rest—a circling falcon,
A tireless hunter—promising a swift demise
and the loss of pregnant life.
This, this is a pregnant flock of desires and ideas,
Notions and purpose,
Encumbered and floating, rolling clouds laden with rain.
And this flock rolls on,
Until with a spasm of wings and anticipated rhythm;
A gush of rains and new life is announced
And from each bird, pregnant from birth,
Comes a new flock, each and every belly swollen with life.
And new ideas surge forth,
And newly feathered wings beat with renewed zeal,
And a multitude of pregnant flocks take to the skies.
And it's these birds I'm reminded of
When I pick up the pen to write,
Because in each and every bird I observe,
I see that pregnant mother of possibility
Beating her wings, soaring above the ground
To give birth in the skies,
Where my ideas soar, soar, and give birth.
And I am reminded of them
Every time I come to write
And fear I will write nothing at all.
Misdirected
I'd say I love you, but that could change.
I'd say I hate you, but that would change.
I'd say a million words if only they could fix us.
I'd call you beautiful,
I'd call you an angel.
I'd speak of your eyes like they were pearls in the deep ocean—
But that would do no good.
I'd give you my heart,
My never dying love.
I'd give you my mind;
I gave you my dreams.
My hopes linger around your footsteps,
And I flinch when you hurt,
I cry when you mourn,
I falter when you suffer,
I lie by your moon as you sleep,
I gaze at you till fatigue takes me away.
Then as I dream you fill my heart.
I'd give you my soul,
But of no value it is to you.
But I could give you my love;
I think I shall.
Tonight, the mirror broke;
A thousand pieces lie before me.
It shattered as you dropped my rose,
The rose that wilted in your hand.
My heart shrivelled in my chest,
My soul crumbled in my shell.
The drop of a tear echoes like a mourner's bell
As you went to another.
You have stolen my heart,
You have stolen my mind,
You have stolen my dreams,
Wasted my words, my time.
You have misdirected the glow of the moon so that its beauty was lost
to me.
Now you leave, and the world heaves a sigh.
"Rest now," says the moon,
"For tomorrow you shall meet the sun."
More than Once I Beckoned
More than once I beckoned,
More than once I tried
To cower down beneath you,
My shadow, my pride.
Remembering Pictures
Snap
of the camera.
Crashing
down, comes the
flash!
Memories like pictures,
brilliant white tulips
blossom
in my mind.
Yawn, open,
gaping for my sight.
Snap,
echoes,
the blossoming tulip
melts,
a little sun that
winks, once, twice, out.
I'm in a dark room.
The flash,
only an echo,
sinks
down into memories
like droplets of
pregnant rain,
slushes down my
breath.
I
cough.
Snap.
Blazing
globe surges up,
flares,
washes away the rain,
rages into my mind
A blinding light,
snap.
A tulip flowers,
the echo begins
and, as always,
melts away.
And the
rain comes
crashing down.
Startled senses wake,
startled emotions real.
A startled me
remembers
pictures.
The Monster without Purpose
A mountain of grounded rock reaching to the skies,
A rabbit burying into a hole,
A pig building a house of straw—
Why, concrete little pig, brick and sweat.
A tree, untrimmed and ungainly;
Buzzing insects, foaming with diseases and the chance of death
All around a mound of sand,
A sand castle,
A poor sign of engineering
Yet fit for a queen.
Build straight pathways, not curving halls, little ant;
Your purpose is there, it's your efficiency that lacks.
Take note from the concrete, the velvet and the vibrating,
The ironman working the ironworks in the iron mine—
Purpose, purpose, purpose.
He earns his iron dollar,
They raise their iron children,
Time rusts their flawed, iron hearts.
The silver-tongued king rules his copper-minded people,
The golden patience of time rules the silver-tongued king,
The velvet soft lover wrestles with the friction of passion.
The ninety-nine-year-old man is killed for his crimes.
The copper-minded populace cheers;
Some shed fake diamond tears,
And we spin our web of lies,
Our empire of cobwebs, time-formed truths
Threatened by the subtle breeze of our patient host,
True diamond patience of Earth.
So the philosopher asks
Riddles with himself.
Earth has no purpose but to be,
And to be without purpose is not our way,
Yet we unfurl our carpet in its chambers of torrents
And build our houses of straw
And build our mountains of steel.
And we expect to persevere,
So this purposeless world,
Moulded of chance and mutation,
It sits by, without reasons to impede;
It sits by, as time hammers at its walls.
A purposeless measure, the ticking of a clock;
The clock ticks, yet the batteries have long passed,
The maker long gone.
Still we build; a raging force in the calm of chaos,
And the solidarity of this fortress called earth,
The permanence of its chaos,
Is challenged by a rusting blade.
The blade rises against the mountain
and with precise slashes,
chips away at the uneven granite.
The blade chips, the dead clock ticks,
The mountain sits.
A Quest Within
My green gaze befalls
The sceptre.
It floats on a pedestal,
Hums a tune soft to my ears.
The glow, beacon, scampers toward me,
Tugs at my leg.
I plow forward through my stubborn reservations.
Walls, barriers, built before;
Another's toil.
I pummel through,
Mighty to rubble, my toil.
I scuttle back down the hall,
A dull orange rod in my sweaty palm.
I brush away the dust,
Weave my way through my greatest art,
Meeting no resistance.
Grim—
A gated barrier around my heart,
And behind quivers my joy.
I beat away the steel,
Sceptre on rock,
Dull and dented rod on a mountain,
Resistance.
We Await Her Arrival
Our maiden of secrecy,
Cherished by the stars,
Whored by the moon—
We wait for her day and night.
Our hearts flutter into specs of cherished dust
As they escape from us in every cherished breath;
As they embrace us once more, we draw them back in.
This sensation that stings our eyes,
Draws our lids, draws our sight,
Draws our thoughts
Inwardly, as we fall back upon a cloud mattress—
It embraces us, envelops us from within.
She who inspires each breath,
We wait for her in every wisp of night air,
With every breath we let stray.
Our hearts are rebuilt of hope,
Hope that she would come.
Carried aloft our very needs
To meet us upon our cushion of clouds,
And with every breath we retake,
Hope is shattered.
But as quickly as it is gone,
As surely as our next breath,
As surely our very next moment,
Hope returns.
We fall in trance.
Our maiden, hidden in her caves.
Drunken sleep takes her away.
The world our maker
Whisks her into his forays.
The swirling dusk, a grey breeze in the darkness—
We are left behind, in the dark.
Our desperate eyes cling to the distance;
A spotlight speaks to our sight.
She is around the corner, it says.
This want from within
Inspires each breath. As we race to meet the light,
As it inches ever away, we pound through the dark,
Panting, and we collide into her.
In a burst of cool night air,
We close our eyes.
She is there,
Within.
Our minds can picture nothing else, our eyes smile,
Our lips quiver
With every breath.
Sand Castle
As my country was bombed and I was lifted away into the skies,
I looked back and promised myself
I would not forget this house of sand in these times of rain.
She Was the Proudest of Birds
Her nest was made of woven gold, silver embroidery;
Her two little eggs polished to reflect the mother's loving smile;
And guardian over this lavish nest, a warrior bird with talons and zeal.
But she was proudest most of her plume
Wild and extravagant, rich red speckles over deep hazel feathers,
Their edges like the hems of a dress, entwined with brilliant white.
But the envious world set an eagle to take her plumage,
And her husband dove with him to the skies, and there they battle still.
In desperation they sent a winged fox to slip through the clouds,
and the sly demon came on winds of ill will and ruined her nest,
Took hostage her eggs.
Humbled, she shed her plumage, scattered it for the world to hoard—
All the price for these little eggs with fickle shells to be returned.
And naked without husband, she looked down upon their plain shells,
And reflected there, a mother's loving smile.
Stars
One amongst the multitude would gaze up in awe,
And in his sight he would capture
A moment as unique as it is common:
A hovering globe,
Overflowing with gold, showering the multitude with brilliant
currents,
Mother to the rivers of El Dorado.
And each droplet would sink into the soil beneath,
Birthing glimmering auric trees from each seedling shed.
And so did more of the multitude come to gather;
The mulling throng stood dazed and gazing,
Mesmerized by the omniscient presence looming above.
Until one day,
One by one,
The multitude became few and the few became none,
Receding to the ground.
And one by one did the none become many,
And grow did a multitude of shimmering sprouts,
Till one day did appear a clustered forest
Swaying to and fro in the healthy breeze
In tribute to the sphere of imminence above,
Swinging more frantically in the anticipating gust.
But with glooming realization
Did they notice
A fading orb.
And the leaves rustled their protests;
With heart-aching comprehension, the trees stretched themselves,
But only could they stare, limbs strained, as their sun faded away
And found its long awaited place amongst companions,
Stars in our distant past.
Night-time
I love the feeling of the night-time,
When the sun is drowned in the dark,
And I can dip my feather in this sea of ink
And on paper soar.
Love and Loathing
I love holding you in my arms,
Bodies entwined,
Breathing of life and contentment
Together.
And as I hold you in my arms,
I loathe
That all my mind can do,
Weak in the thrall of content,
Is hold you some more.
The Philosopher
He pushes aside the weathered curtain,
The colourless tub, the bland tiles, his grey glazed sight.
He looks over his shoulder and invites her into his mental fortress.
The king philosopher's decreed writer
To write his thoughts as they rise
Forth from the ashes of the furnace in his mind,
Invisible phoenixes, a wonder never seen.
The writer is a woman, beautiful; his fantasies rule with an iron hammer.
He feels nothing for the imaginary woman;
His dreams told of respect, of falling in love in its truest form:
The caesarean of his mind,
And she would fall in love with the thought burning society within.
So she sat there, somewhere, laptop in hand.
The philosopher closes the curtain, undresses; the water is warm,
It caresses him like no lover ever has.
This water that stirs the slumbering giant within his flesh
Unlocks the rusting, fading iron gate within.
He closes his fragmented eyes;
The distorted images disappear, and his mind kisses aching wounds.
He sighs.
In his mind she waits behind the curtain; it must be awkward.
He does not smile, but his lips part, and he sighs the heat away.
The water cools,
The philosopher sits.
The small tub is a tight fit; he looks down,
The flaws of man so bare before him.
He sees them in many a light,
Riddled with protruding edges of perception;
He tucks his fragmented eyes away.
The philosopher looks down on the folds of his flesh again—
The hair, the child of nature and god, an unholy affair.
His hand runs over his thigh, the meaningless hair, the soft fat.
(Continues...)
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- Prices and payment arrangements
5.1 The prices mentioned in the respective offers represent total prices, as do the shipping costs. They include all the price components, including all the incidental taxes.
5.2 The dispatch costs that are incurred are not included in the purchase price. They can be viewed by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote, are shown separately over the course of the order transaction and must additionally be borne by you, insofar as free delivery is not confirmed.
5.3 The payment methods that are available to you are shown by clicking the appropriate button on our website or are disclosed in the respective quote.
5.4 Unless otherwise specified for the respective payment methods, the payment claims arising from the contract that has been concluded become payable immediately.
- Delivery conditions
6.1 The delivery conditions, delivery date and existing supply restrictions, if applicable, can be found by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote.
Unless a different period is specified in the item description or our delivery conditions, the goods are delivered within 3-5 days after the conclusion of the contract (in case an advance payment has been agreed upon, after the payment authorisation).
6.2 If you are a consumer, the following is statutorily regulated: The risk of the sold item accidentally being destroyed or degraded during shipping only passes over to you when the item in question is delivered, regardless of whether or not the shipping operation is insured. This condition does not apply if you have independently commissioned a transport company that has not been specified by us or a person who has otherwise been appointed to execute the shipping operation.
If you are a businessman, the delivery and shipping operations take place at your own risk.
- Statutory warranty right
Liability for defects is governed by the “Warranty” provisions in our General Terms and Conditions of Business (Part I).
last update: 01.01.2022
Data protection declaration
Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory, nor required for conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise.
“Personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Responsible person
Contact us at any time. The contact details of the person responsible for data processing can be found in our legal notice.
Collection, processing, and transfer of personal data in orders
When you submit an order we only collect and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your order as well as processing of your queries. The provision of data is necessary for conclusion of a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will occur on the basis of Article 6(1) b) GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you.
Your data is transferred here for example to the shipping companies and dropshipping providers, payment service providers, service providers for handling the order and IT service providers that you have selected. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.
Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.
Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.
Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.
Right to object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.
If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms, or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
last update: 10.01.2022