{"id":8389,"date":"2023-09-10T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T13:40:12","slug":"amare-invano-because-of-the-train-2-poems-by-ernest-williamson-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/amare-invano-because-of-the-train-2-poems-by-ernest-williamson-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Amare Invano & Because of the Train. 2 Poems by Ernest Williamson III"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\nAmare Invano<\/strong>\r\nFor the Enemies of the Fancy Free<\/em>\r\n\r\nAs we live to cry and cried\r\nour eyeless eyes with all others\r\nof straight normal lives green\r\nhappy fair approved yet dry.\r\nred sopped in birdsong.\r\nshady in gauzed shades are these\r\ngoffs they are those who\r\nthrive they follow as it follows.\r\nsafe wound sound\r\nthough lit in lies.\r\n\r\nBut never should the wind turn for letters\r\nbruised in memory of millions of me.\r\nI am but lost and in demand\r\nto help woman and man\r\nbut to love in vain is latent allegro.\r\ncant merriment day with\r\nwan cake wedded to screen and toggle.\r\nlet us let go to go and pray in vein.\r\nthere are millions of me.\r\nthere are millions of you.\r\nbut there is only us.\r\namare invano sings\r\nmuch too much too loud\r\nallowed aloud out\r\nproud vanities!\r\nits children are vanities!\r\nchildren as vanities!\r\nit ends time and in time\r\nwe cry our eyeless eyes with all others\r\nof straight normal lives green\r\nhappy fair approved yet dry.\r\nyet in envy feigned\r\nthe sea under constant\r\ncrying consanguinity\r\nplatelets red you think\r\nthey bleed for\r\nabove and over\r\npeace in pieces of exhales.\r\n\r\nBut we are upheld alone happy\r\nquiet with sea\r\ntaut august verbs\r\nsolemn sanctity\r\nlength and lot\r\nthe fancy free\r\nbut for you not foe\r\nunwanted enemy\r\nof the fancy-free\r\n\r\nbut not for you\r\nvociferous frocks\r\nmembers without limbs\r\npink diadems pregnant\r\nhirsute dancing daughters\r\nlaughing in gated gruff!\r\namare invano amare invano\r\nI run to speak with the caring waters.\r\nalone in company where you could benefit and be\r\nwe who sound virgin light.\r\nthe fancy-free love\r\npeace you pieces\r\nof the common good\r\nyou good you risible legion!\r\nmarried male madonnas\r\nwho look for Elvis, Lennon,\r\nand the fancy-free.\r\n\r\nSunlight, speech, acceptance.\r\nthese the joys they cannot see.\r\nthe vanities kept in you\r\nyet unknown to thee.\r\n\r\n\r\nBecause of the Train<\/strong>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In memory of Bloke Porter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nWe have twenty minutes till dawn.\u00a0\r\nFor at least twenty and twenty years\u00a0\r\nI have worked in night.\r\nall the night. In all the nights. \r\nEven though no one knows\r\nor knew about it.\r\n\r\nNearly now\r\nwe can go\r\nlike many things\r\nGo away. Shrills cuss words in utterances.\r\nMean letters coldly aligned\r\nshutter then lie down. \r\nThough we pant in grey resultant.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \r\nBecause of the train.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\r\nennui in we in soaked silence \r\nwho smile\u00a0\r\nwith wisdom of the fish bolts.\r\nAs Romance and Old Visions of Rome\r\nland\r\n\u00a0\u00a0In our seats. \r\n  We know nothing of these people.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nBecause of the train.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nIced auburn rails against the rails.\r\nAll of them\u00a0so sweetly. I cannot begin to count\r\nthe burns. our assumed words \r\nburned into our ears because we wasted not\r\nour time. In hour's midnight. \r\n                                            \r\nBecause of the train.\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nSoon birches will bend for\r\nin smile of us, even when lights \r\nrelease glitter ash \r\nminus\r\nmoment\r\nplus, my soul.\r\n  \r\n  blessed is thy soul.\r\n                                                          \r\nBecause of the train.\r\n        in spite of no solace. We worked.\r\n        and this too. this is what\r\n        I too remembered.\r\n                                            \r\n                                  Because.\r\n<\/pre>\n
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Bio: Ernest Williamson III<\/strong> has published poetry in over two hundred journals. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals including The Roanoke Review, Pinyon Review, Westview, Decanto, Pamplemousse, Oklahoma Review<\/em>, and Poetry, Life, & Times<\/em>. Ernest is a three time Best of the Net nominee. Currently, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Learn more here: http:\/\/www.ernestwilliamsoniii.com<\/a><\/p>\n
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