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The webpage presents a collection of poetic works titled "A Tardy Collection Of Poems — Sommes And Songs," which explores themes of time, nature, and human emotion through a series of reflective and evocative poems.

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The website showcases a selection of poems that delve into the nature of time, the beauty of the natural world, and the complexities of human experience. The collection, introduced with a portrait of Enid Hallin, includes pieces such as "Verging Unto Tomorrow," "Beaten Beet Comes My Morning," and "Willowing Sadness," each offering a unique perspective on life and the passage of time. The poems reflect on the struggle to find meaning in the face of life's uncertainties, the joy and pain of human relationships, and the role of the divine in human affairs. The author expresses a desire to share these poetic musings with readers, inviting them to reflect on their own lives and the world around them. Additionally, the page provides links to further collections of poems and encourages readers to engage with the platform by joining Medium.

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  • The author views the passage of time as a central theme in their work, emphasizing both its bracing and swelling effects on human life.
  • There is a sense of repentance and a desire to make amends through the expression of poetry, suggesting the author sees poetry as a means of personal and spiritual redemption.
  • The poems convey a reverence for nature, as seen in the appreciation of a morning scene with roses and the personification of the natural world as a silent witness to human endeavors.
  • The author appears critical of those who wield knowledge or power without humility or humanity, describing them as "overly filled and clambered" and lacking in genuine understanding.
  • There is an acknowledgment of the inevitability of death and a respect for its role in life, with the author expressing a commitment to serving death with dignity.
  • The collection seems to challenge the reader to break free from societal expectations and to embrace a more authentic and individualistic path, as implied by the critique of becoming an "unholy bedeviling spirit" for not conforming to a "tidy mold."
  • The author encourages a contemplative and introspective approach to life, suggesting that readers should seek to understand and learn from their experiences rather than simply striving for more.

A Tardy Collection Of Poems — Sommes And Songs

An Ode To Time And Again

Portrait of Enid Hallin — By William McGregor Paxton

The Bracing, Swelling Hand Of Belabored For Time —

May I wheedle you all with this little collection of Poems from another visiting station of mine?

To were, and hereto comes my pleasure to rock up the stature of Time and Zealous conjurings to settle such bestial wastes enlarged by some holy nature.

Plume and plummet the happening rest,

Wherein the maddening composer can,

Belabor just enough, for the quarterly;

To be fed and bedroomed happily,

For your query, is naught of my concern, by the simple manners of your Of tactless hollering.

Come to find me, and you shall — you may. I shall repent you all here.

Verging Unto Tomorrow

Verging unto tomorrow

I will be;

Beholden my dear sister.

Verging unto tomorrow

I will be;

Never in flux to repeat all

The Miseries of Yore;- Yet, I cannot contend,

Maybe becalmed

Shalt be over you

My dearest sister:

To never fleece innocence's broking zeal of Hope and Duress;

To never hold by agitated breasts,

The supplying desire to destroy

And behold no further entity

Than thyself to a Cause.

When you come, I shall await ye;

When you come,

Learn to find me,

I will be — you may also be,

Verging unto tomorrow.

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Beaten Beet Comes My Morning

Splendid came the Morning!

Nestled, breezy and naked, and strine.

A rash hillock bending the quaking light

A dashing strip of roses gardened to I

Broaching me a repose before the midday panic!

Of hapless lovers’ in Locks and Pageants;

Oh, ode the fool, for divine misery they misdeed one

Another, whilst I harbor myself gay,

Draped and Locke,

As is my Beaten Beat comes my Morning!

  • - — — — — —

Willowing Sadness

A Willowing sadness takes overall;

The rest remain speechless -

‘What else to hark? ’tis all that remains.’

  • - — — — — —

In The Service Of Words

In service of words, this double-third ruling;

I dime the word by the shorting pursuits of breath.

I so retracted by the years’ preceding furlough,

Come now so halted by the service of my words;

Of these words so belated in haste.

I come to them now, as a mere servant;

Pining for the days’ wellspring before the end.

Pining for that service, I find myself,

In the lasting arch of service in these Words…

  • - — — — — —

Silent Witness

If a God was bent on innate fears

It would be the immunity of a sudden song;

Never sung yet always rebelled against their power

By the silent witness, plunged to fate.

Oh, the firebrand that goes a-searching

For much, without ever the marche

To contend for why.

If my God was beholden to wield us

He would not grant us the powers of a wand

Over the minds of overtly eager men;

In that to-do-hearty pomp and zeal,

Who sounds the bleating sound of fiery

Without the fleecing currency of the Nature

All around them, commencing to all but

Idol, fury waves.

Of the suspected shadiness of an educated, tho’ overly filled and clambered

With the running zeal to be, never the wherefores and reasons why, so

Erudite as the idiot I become to them for breaking that tidy mold,

As tho’ I was brimming to be the unholy bedeviling spirit themselves!

If a God was bent on innate fears

To make his subjects mere warring things,

God expectative, God plentiful, he bashes

The wasteful man who has turned his ginned breasts

Into a neutering molehill of Erudition but

Vapid of all Humane Mistakes.

It would be the immunity of a sudden song;

Oh, ye, make this firebrand disappear from me;

I’ve had enough — pilot this apparating malady away,

And I will be the gladder ever still.

Humor me on that, ye muse of fates

Never sung yet always rebelled against their power

By the silent witness, plunged to fate.

If a God was bent on innate fears

He should’ve mistaken me for you.

  • - — — — — —

The Haste For More

The Haste is ever there — ever there — ever there;

The losers in the rungs, come cheated, to delight

The chosen sight with the needed hubris of Certitude

The Haste;- Haste;- Haste for evermore;

For better than this now.

Never thriving only in the simpering

For more than this lot. He remarks now,

Only for a Marriage most virulent.

End by me, the losers in the rungs!

End by me, as we Schuff and huff at

The dashers on — repeating twice-to-be-had follies

And sum the drum that repeats us none!

For Death beholden, Death ever true — Death tomorrow, Death betiding us ever-few! By glory to service unto Death; And the Dignity life served us all;

I hereto descend the gap, Into a hobbling chamber,

With such spaces enclosed, I remain the tardy breast.

To be beheld, someday Unreturning, yet still I ado.

So therein, Rest — Rest, my warrior of lots, Rest now, and hold coldly, the remembrance to have been.

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