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862 · Jun 2011
guns
bring guns, bombs too, watch us die two by two, hands can heal ,but stocks can mold and in this another man is sold ,forgotten grass and blue filled sky, as you look into another mans eyes, to watch him wain and fall in vain, and all that was left was a blood colored stain, so the man is gone the machine is done and the world goes marching on.
845 · Jun 2015
Gaia's navel
~                Return me to my place in the sand
                      Where i begin as where ill end
             We are born of blood with earth in hand
           Our mother birthed us from sand and bone
                 We'll someday die and turn to stone
                        Yet its alright it is our home
794 · Feb 2015
In Silence
Silence so deep,
I could drown,
Silence so hard,
I could hear the pin drop,
A Silence of many parts,
The silence inside the broken hearts,
The silence of things forgotten to start,
Silence for the things that fell apart,
Silence in the still of the morning,
The silence of music never played,
The silence of the weeping hearts that always stays the same,
The silence that was with a soldier coming home,
A silence that he brought within his lost and broken soul,
A silence so deep that we are all within its hold,
A silence that holds us even if where growing old,
The silence of many parts that lives inside my soul.
787 · Jul 2015
Madness disconnection
****** I'm kinda drunk
And i don't drink
Mostly because it accentuates
My disconnection
Makes me feel even less like the norm
Even more hopeless
Reminding me every time
Why i don't drink
729 · Jul 2015
heinous odor
At what point did it seem like a good idea to soak in cologne?
I swear you smell as though you bathed in aqua velva.
Dousing yourself in cologne is not a great substitute for showering.
Seriously that's just heinous.
Literally just happened
717 · May 2015
losing
I wish you would say what you mean
Instead you say nothing to me
All these ******* cracks are driving me insane
708 · Dec 2015
Atom
Alone on the face of the water
I found another like me

Eternal

We came together
Deciding to build

we built our structures
And began to bloom

We made music
And we danced

Yet the tune has died away
And we all decide

Its time to go

So we cleaned what we created
Elegantly dismantling ourselves

And the petals fall

Holding the memories
Of what i have been

I drift gently
Then it starts all over again
Partially inspired by a line in a bill bryson book about the nature of atoms
708 · Apr 2016
maelvoentry
And beneath the mask...
There was naught but a hole,
Dark and endless
Hanging embers flickering
Then...
Then death had his way
705 · Dec 2015
looking glass
He turned to me
With his creeping grin

Saying

Once gone through the looking glass
we never come back again

So you may be strange
*but we are all mad here
Inspired by aiw
693 · Sep 2015
pseudo beauty
Beautiful your face
that mask you wear

but I can see the tears
the face you hide

between the stains
behind the smiles
a blackening

laughing like cries
silently screaming

a crack in the Great Divide
of who you are
and what the world will see
684 · May 2017
Mothersdie
I was born on a railroad tie,
And in my wake ,
My mother had died.
Drifted out, like a body on the tide.
Cried her last tears,
As she gave me life.
Wish I had known her,
Yet she still lives inside.
In my grin and my dazzling smile,
I'm only an echo,
Of an unborn child.
676 · Jun 2015
The whole
~                     *         In our hearts there is a lacking
                                       We made these boxes meant for stacking
To build our pyramids right to the top
                                 In hope to fill the hole
                                             But in truth we've no control
       In this stream of life were ascending
                         And we are all just pretending
                              To look full and whole to the rest of the world
       But maybe its just a tax
                         To these lives that where attached
         So that hole will be full
                                      once we've gone
                             Yet still I'm wrapped inside this coil
      That with it brings turmoil
               Though i am still young
                      I feel my soul is old and done
     So with what time i have left
                                              I will sit and take deep breaths
                             And listen gently to the falling rain
642 · Apr 2015
Lost
A hint of madness
A touch of strange
And i have lost the way
A pinch of lonely
A dash of fear
And i wonder how i came here
638 · Jun 2015
Corpse grin
-woman walks into room with donuts for everyone
My first thought
" oh how magical the diabetes fairy has arrived"
Second thought
"**** did i just say that out loud...to the store manager "
Third thought
"Could we just omit those last two miracles is that a possibility?"
Hmm again
623 · Dec 2015
broken things
A gentle hum
And moisture in the air
a quiet song
one for the broken things
which I believe
*we all can be
Child calls
"Daddy there is something under my bed "
Father goes to room turns on lights and checks under bed
He slowly backs away saying
"Nope nope nope **** it I'm out 
 sorry honey in a world of monsters it's every man for himself " that was five years ago
still regrets nothing.
615 · Jun 2015
Flatulent ignition
~                Peter peter pants aflame
     Danced around while screaming names
               As he stumbled faltered fell
      Went through earth and down to hell
            Now its there he blindly dwells
                            All for a ****
                       that burned to well
615 · Jun 2015
Here thar be serpents
~                                              Preaching hate
        The audacity
                                   To say
                              in gods name
                                                          T­hat yours
    is the only truth
                                That way
                             *Lies madness
614 · Jun 2015
20 years of silence
My brother
In limbo

20 years
Of stasis

Someday
Freedom will be

Stay well
614 · Jun 2015
The wash (10w)
Gentle drops of crystal
Rain over
to wash me clean
608 · Jun 2015
Time
So much emphasis on time.
We spend our lives counting time.
Rolling wheels to the next road sign.
Yet we sometimes forget.
*That its all in our minds
605 · Apr 2017
meditation
Stillness...
From which all movement comes.
A sense of connectedness,
Deep in practice.
Not sleep...
But a sibling none the less.
Both a leaving,
A sense of going home.
To where we were before.
Where we ruturn.
Once our light passes the final veil.
597 · Jun 2015
On loan
This flesh is temporary
When the boy grows up
To be an old man and dies
His flesh returns to the earth
But the lights that filled his eyes
Returns to the energy
593 · Jul 2015
that's my girl
Oh fei
My constant companion
I love you
But I think you may have a problem
It's time for an intervention
You ball trippin puppy
No more seeking toads
That take you on psychedelic roads
My dog loves to lick Colorado River toads and it's just ridiculous
589 · Jun 2016
esper enhiem
Creak..
creak...

Gently lilting dust

Drifting

from the rock of an old chair

Aged and lined with wear
the smell is dry

it smells of memory

Of dreams

And death

reminded in that

creak..
Creak...
589 · Mar 2015
Standing stones
I was lost,
Never found.
Deep within this winter ground,
Its always cold ,
Where no light is found,
Broken empty hearts,
Lay all around.
Tears that fell ,
The wind that howls,
Through standing stones,
With words writ on them.
Like he was home,
Our little boy went back to stone.
Or she was loved,
Though she died to young.
our fathers here,
And we still do mourn.
Or mothers warmth turned to stone,
Yet weep no more for we are home.
584 · Jun 2015
FEAR
582 · Jul 2015
Rhythmic rains
From the quite of the fading evening light
Clouds came slow to block the stars from sight
Gently came rain tapping rhythm with the wind
As thunder drops the beat the symphony begins
Water coming in to wash us clean again
578 · Feb 2015
Away
Away away,
Shes gone away,
No more days for us to sit and play,
Away away,
They've gone away,
Lost are the days we sat on the porch,
We watched the rain come to wash us out,
But away away,
The rain blew away and the sun began to shine,
And all those deep puddles are a memory now,
There are left and lost behind,
Away away,
Oh please wont you stay its sad that everything has to go away,
Today today,
Ill keep today in a jar by the window where my memory's lay,
Your face your face ,
Ill keep in its place deep in my heart where it always will stay.
576 · Mar 2015
Veil
~                                    A doom lies to the east
                                       See the infernal lights
                                       Ride with the sun rise
                               The monsters are multiplying
                               Monsters in the hearts of men
                       As kindness dies and grace is forgotten
              There are other worlds only choice that separates
           A thin veil that keeps the horror between the worlds
                               Every dream and night terror
                         merely glimpses through the mirror
                      To grimace in seeing it grin back at you
                             Knowing that they are coming
                                            And with them
                                      The dying of the light
574 · Jun 2016
Phoenix
Nothing but the gentle tap of rain
and the choir of crickets in sticks,
  the city of dust and bone
turned to rust and ruin
blood from dust
and bone to body
the
birds fire
rises
561 · May 2015
goodbye dear
Today passed strength
and up gave the gift
she fought long and hard
Now she can rest
no more fear nor pain
She lost the fight that we all must face
and aquited herself with honor
The world is that much poorer
and heaven gained another  strong angel
Love you Tasha I'm glad to have known you
you will be missed
A good friend of mine just passed
Lost a long battle with lung cancer she was a wonderful person and will be missed by all
Love you dear
560 · Jun 2015
Changing mantra
There comes a time in some lives
For great change
A true metamorphosis
And hope for tomorrow
For mornings radiant glow
Believe waking will bring joy and not sorrow
543 · Oct 2017
Looking for my melody
I am a man,
In search of a woman.
Musically talented and open of heart.
Someone whom i can sing with.
All i bring is a voice sometimes toneless, but always true.
A person who brings the music nestled in their soul.
Who with the children running and screaming ,
And the flowers lilting in the yard .
Brings rhythm to the home...
Thats whats makes a home is the music that love brings .
We could sing to each other in all tones.
Of love and loss,
When the tears stream, as the smiles radiate .
From a glance only momentary malaise ,
.yet even in that darkness or voices fill the void.
The one we where born with ,
The one that in life we feared there was no escape.
Never knowIng wholeness till we found our song.
We dance.... we dance,d.
The tune we made in us
with our voice as one,
Sang light into the dark places.
Through the years
AS drops of rain and as life comes with pain
i gave you gently to the earth
With tears i sang to your earth
And left the sweet treasure that warmed you in life

Days.
            Filled with silence.
No more waking to the sound of risen voice.
Sound , sweet melody.
Days of silence...
Turned as the green of leaves to years.
No song only tears from the dreams.
Of green fields, your sweet hand grasping me,
And your lips as roses.
Sweeter melodies then ever sung.
Waking only with tear stained cheeks,
And a Feeling a diminisheing distance.
Days have passed now my cane is only a memory,
Wheels and withering legs have been reality.
No song.
Only nattering of young people that don't believe they'll die.
Sitting quietly in my cell,
Apartment to those not incarcerated.
Almost a year since those formerly screaming children showed.
Let alone i feel my darkness coming.
And for some reason all i hear is our song, your voice.
As the lights go down our song swirls into everything,
Or nothing depending your view.
I do hope that we dance in death...
As we did in Life.
543 · Sep 2016
Death in tears
The willow is weeping,
Its Sonorous melody,
plays the gallows tune.
where all are still and silent.
At the end of the rope
the place we find
When all the dancing is done
540 · Nov 2015
Child
There was a boy
He became a man
Yet inside
The boy is who
I really am
538 · Sep 2016
father
His body lay cold

After all the smiles
And beautiful lies

The earth waited
and slowly lying out
The depth and breadth
Of infinity in an eyelash

Yet he lays cold*

All that anger confusion and pain
In the space of a breath

And what I knew of him
There's nothing left
537 · Jul 2015
Close so far
Watching liquid light caress the night

Sitting near beauty
Yet worlds away

How can we be close enough to touch
And still feel a million miles from you
534 · Feb 2016
priceless
Through the glass,
And into the fire.

Not a word spoken.

Saying more with a glance,
Then a lifetime of words.
532 · Feb 2015
Devine
From those vine grew love,light and happiness,
And in those thorns was blood, flesh and death,
Deeply intwined between flesh and soul,
In its leaves where we are born,
As in its root the dying of the light,
As darkness come to all living things,
Yet from the ash the dying of the night,
As cycles through the twining vine,
Creates the circle and the eye of the devine.
528 · Jan 2017
Red scane
The night weighs on me...
Its hands intwined in deepest parts of mine.
Choking crushing madness.
Seemingly screaming,
Dreaming of monstrous delights.
527 · Jun 2015
Sleep
Close your eyes
Its time to die
The little death
*We die each night
524 · Apr 2015
When i sleep
~                                When i sleep
                                 I am the ocean
                                   I am the sea
              I am winter wind through dying leaves
                  I am a bird that dives in the breeze
                            I am her as she is me
                     So when the light is to bright
                Close your eyes and dream of night
                   I am a ball that bounces down
                     I am an old merry go round
                I am the grass thats growing slow
                     I am a man with an old soul
                     I am the gentle autumn rain
              I am the winter when the dying begins
                               So hold me close
                                But not for long
                       soon enough i will be gone
                               I am not the grave
                           You dug in the ground
                              I am in everything
                                I am all around
             So when you wake In the midnight dark
                     Do not cry i am in your heart
522 · Feb 2015
Alone
Give me a heart.
Let it find rhythm,
A hymn for it to sing.
So that when the darkness comes,
It will never be alone.
520 · Jun 2015
Revolution
How could we expect Righteousness to prevail
When there are none willing to make sacrifices
Such a gorgeous sunny day and i have to go
Yet what does my death matter
If it will incite the masses to rise to action
518 · Jun 2015
Lime tree
i once had a beautiful lime tree
it grew from the dirt as a little green spurt
and reached to the heavens from its place in the earth
id wind down the trail to the tree that a love
to sit in his shadow and watch as the sky turns colors above
i lean on my friend and he whispers to me
it sounds like the waves on the sea
and when night has fallen i wave to my friend and leave

Over years i wondered far from my tree
though his whispers are always with me
a leaf caught in my hair
like the thought in my mind
i haven't seen him in years

when i come apon the trail that leads from my home to my tree
the green has overgrown it and they whisper to me
i thought my friend was sleeping
but he had gone from his place in the field
what was left was a dead lime tree
One last time
i leaned against my friend and whispered to his leaves
*i have come at last to say goodbye to my lime tree
511 · Feb 2015
Barren
The sun is high ,
The air is hot,
There is no breeze,
Desert waste.
Looking for an oasis ,
A place of rest ,
Where i could lay my burden down,
Perhaps drink of cool clear water,
Yet if not that a speck of shade would do,
But all i see are the plains,
And the shimmering heat off the sand,
If rest cant be found,
Then perhaps only my bones will be found.
509 · Mar 2015
Dream
In dreams we can be free,
As in life we will never be.
In memory's faded light,
As years pass they fade in the night.
Goodnight goodnight ,
For sweet dreams may be.
508 · May 2015
I am the antigame
I hate that all the dating today is just one big game
All the ******* who capitalize they are all just the same
And its to bad because they give me a bad name
I guess I'm just too nice and sweet yet i have antigame
It works against me in almost every single way
Try to be honest and kind
But thats not what they are looking to find
They want someone to pull their hair and maybe beat them up
But honestly I've heard this all before and I'm getting real fed up
Maybe i should act the **** so i can not get ******
They say i should stay the same and the girls will see whats up
But being who i am gets me friendzoned and that just *****
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