I wasn’t trying to follow
Nor be followed
I just wanted to walk beside you
!

Eerily in the morning
I tend to follow rules
But...
rhyming in good timing
lack a certain cool!

When evening passion flows
my soul resumes it’s journey
my word in hot pursuit
to express a primal yearning

Stings of my guitar
bend from black to *****
connecting all the patterns
fast fret rockabilly groves!
And…
I’ve been known to play a bit
of jazzed soak blues…

The days are long
for a bard such as me
For…
I come from Traverse City
with a guitar on my knee!

Surely the end is always near
When life becomes a disease,
death is the only cure
Sooner or later
all we loved will disappear
But you know
it’ll all still be here
all those things in life
we foolishly fear.

Truth cannot merely
Be spoken into existence
Without the equation
Of a believer multiplied
Ten times by foolish pride
Which potentially adds up to
A blurry distant shadow
In the darkness of one's mind...

My poetry is plagued
by politics.
The activation of my activist
is triggered by injustice.
The conviction of my moral judgement is put on trial,
for all to see.
And so my spirit is free!

And so it is another day
Plenty of sunshine
Rainy and grey
I'm sure change
Is coming this way
To the good
Or to the bad
To much weather
Can drive one mad

But what is weather
If not the force of change
Ice and snow melt in pain
Puddles of mud fall in love
Tracking dirt in
On the living room rug
And there a stain
Upon the heart
Forecasting storms
Will never part!

Okay
Let us take a moment
And break this down
If you don't believe  
In global warming
By now
You're probably not
Going to come round

But perhaps
We could take a step back
To when pollution was indeed
A matter of fact
Such as
The black factory smoke
And runoff waste
That fills our water ways
Coal soot that fills our lungs and skies
Sewage that fills our bays

Poisonous smog
Settling over our industrial cities
Toxic chemicals giving birth
Have you no empathy nor pity
"As our"
Emissions are ever choking
Scorching the earth

Can we start over
Sure it's no big deal
Can we at least agree
That pollution is real?

He hugged me
Tears running down his face
I felt him shudder
For the whole human race

Just who condemned him
Has always been clear
The righteous
The believers
The possessors
Of fear

Yet sympathy
I felt
For the Devil
Himself
Because forgiveness
   Runs through my veins...

She shaped me
And molded me
As I laid numb
She stole my soul
An amount of gold
And of course
She had her fun
And now
The strings of my life
Dangle from her hands
I am but a piece of wood
Formed to be her man

If I have to lie
About anything
Count me out
For now on
Truth is what
I'm all about

Get off my back
I have it here
I'm not hiding
This ******* beer

I'm not lying anymore
I am a lonely type of *****

I don't want you
But I'm in need
Will you hold me
While I bleed?

Catch the whiplash
Of my soul
I need more love
Than you could ever know!

I refuse to just simply lay down
Unfortunately
In my own truth
Is where I drowned
,,,,,,/.....

For now on
Make no mistake
My  heart is condemned
To this hurtful stage

No one gets scared
Or I will of course run
Then again
For now on
    I need “no one”.....

Home is where I started,
on my way is where I've been.
Now that I'm here I shudder,
to go back that way again.

Home is where you make it,
get there before dusk,
love it there awaiting,
with people that you trust.

Let it last forever,
the music that we make.
May we always be moving forward
on the roads we chose to take.

A coupon came in the mail
Just the other day...
Four dollars off, on a carton of guaranteed death!
Cancer causing agents **** mice in the lab.
So...
I paid the gift of death forward
with a kind and gentle smile.
But looking back I wish I would have never done so vile!

Long and bold
The winter soul
Blistering winds
Of bitter cold

A poetic flight
These winter blues
The hibernation
Of our muse

Frozen thoughts
That freeze the page
  Incomplete sentences
Of frostbitten rage

I pull on my boots
Head out the gate
Smile as I cringe
Snow in my face

To weather this land
At this frigid hemisphere
Takes far more perseverance
Than special foul weather gear...

Onto a new day rising
In the eyes of the gods
Who lay their grace
Upon the downtrodden
Let mercy not be forgotten

In the golden heart
That holds forever
Cast into a stellar wind
And set a sail
The light that travels
Between our worlds
Be mindful of our paths
   In all directions...

Fragmented at best,
love in a mythical world.
The rational mind
can still save us all.

I'd be glad to spank you
Like your daddy did
You were such
A pretty
Spoiled little kid

Still you make me happy
Where else would I go
You're the finest freak
I have ever known
........

I took a familiar nightmare
For a frightening final ride
Facing all my failures
Feeble fable, foolishness
And freakishness, inside
Intense, **** ya, you bet!
To say the fracking least
The finality of a fearless
Forgotten rotten kind of beast
Now forever starving
At the final festive feast
.....................................

Looking through your eyes
What do I see
A mirror reflection
but that’s not me
I’m sure your different
than what I perceive
We are all free to believe!

Rising to the waking hour
Nothing left now to devour

Eyes blurred from belief deprivation
Needlessly I suffered in unification

Impairment of superstition overcome
Now I am free to be one...

Did you actually try to get into my mind
When you plagiarized my work
Please tell me you felt some kind of connection
A passion for life or a creative thirst

Truth is I don't actually care
Hell you can get my words out there everywhere
In the flesh as well as in the stone
In the moans as well as in the groans
In the whispers of death
My words are all that will be left
So take them now and sign your name
Just remember
When you're gone
My words will still remain
...

We all have a shadow side
I’ve seen yours
Now have a look at mine
Opposite of my persona‘s fear
I’m not afraid of being weird
We are all perfect beyond our pride
Made of sub atomic light
Still
How can one integrate
A stability lackImg wealth?
A fear the shadow
Cannot support the self
Who can embrace
Love without a wall
I’m already on the ground
So I’m not afraid to fall

Do you believe that you are above
Looking down from your love
Well that’s a projection
Of your greatest fear
So take the focus off
The broken mirror
........

My dear zombies,
being beyond contempt,
I merely pity you.
I've tried to revive you
from your slumbering grief.
Surely universal truth
would give you relief.
How bothersome the factors on which we depend.
I shall not hide my contentment
nor bridle my intent.

I no longer give my consent
nor do I agree,
to this world that we've created
in the hunger of our greed.

And so they spoke of magic
From the book of imaginary causes
Celestial inclusive people in the presence
Of our absolute nothingness!

Then they started
The presidential debate...

The warmth remains
But only within
The tyrant called winter
Has closed us in

Apathetic dreamers
Lost in the cold
This frozen nightmare
Has taken its toll

Where is the May Queen
To free are beliefs
To return our magic
Frozen in grief

Oh but to pine
Away till it's time
The Keeper of Seasons
Changes her mind...

I wish I were
A man of might
I would protect
****** tight
Keep it pure
Fertile seed
I am but
A bad disease
I wish I were
A chimpanzee
I would swing
In every tree
Limb to limb
Between knees
Catch a whiff
Lumbar cheese
What I really mean
I wish I were
Something else
I get bored
With myself
Traveling alone
Living the life
This time around
Without wife
I wish I were
A man of might!

Share the experience of viruses.
Micro packages
of environmental information.
!!!
The biome is your savior,
not your enemy!

I know you’re programmed to believe viruses are our enemies,
but that is absolutely a backwards
anti nature condition.
As a matter of fact!!
We are alive because of viruses……..

No one can keep up
with the evil deeds
done in our names.

He was renowned
For his old school ways
How could we go wrong
So we put him on stage

He dropped his pick
And in front of the crowd
He bent on down
And started fiddling around

He bumped his head
On his guitar fret
Then missed his solo
And jacked the set

Now the women
Have all gone crazy
And the dogs
No longer howl
Quick
Fetch us a pitcher
Of beer
Before they throw
This band out...

Falling from grace she can't erase
Years of worry from her pretty face
Elegant eyes wrinkled and tired
But ageless beauty never expire

I've gotten used to being alone
But I miss you like hell when I get ******
Heavy is my heart when I dream of you
But thats ok 'cuz I'm always blue

In my case she's seen my true face
The highly intellectual basket case
It's as if she leaves me time and again
I hold my breath as long as I can

It's not so easy to pretend
When you're on the outside looking in
Yet truth is I really care
And now I'm gasping for some air....

Dear friends
It’s good to check in
into the cyber world
every now and then!
Don’t let a gateway get you down
You’re still the best poets around
Trick the computer into posting a draft
But if it out smarts you
Just simply laugh
Only persistence can find the path.

I read your writing
and tried to respond
but the dot kept spinning
all day long…

I made myself a promise
and pledged to hold on
never given up
on the outlet for my songs

So if you don’t hear my cheerful
daily rhyme
I’m sure the gateway will open up
in due time!

It was a big leap
from nakedness to
those hideous fig leaves!

To me the gender phenomenon
parallels romanticism

Because
it’s all backwards to me
Fields of lovely flowers are all I see
Your *** is fluent and mighty
The greater the wave
The deep the sea.

Evolution can’t go backwards
or else we’d all take off your clothes
Wouldn’t that be nice
If your genitality was exposed
You do understand
We still wouldn’t be able
to see your soul...

I travelled the Mediterranean coast
when I was young
Such a beautiful landscape
Carefully carved from stone
Castles and cathedrals
Extravagantly designed
The marriage of man and divinity
In a Jubilee ancient time

Unfortunately
The ghost of my ethnicity
No long prevails
If there’s no forest or rivers
I call that hell
I’ll take the winter
I’ll wait for the season to change
Find me not in any city
Nor any kind of desert terrain

Out here is where I’ll stay!

The deeper the dreamer
The more dramatic
The dream
Go back to sleep
Chaotic scene

Royal gardeners
Fertilizing passions
Snakes of a fruit
Angelic reactions

Intoxicating pleasures
Resolving dissatisfactions
A collective conscience
In poetic fashion

It was good
And dreamt
Into
Dream reality
For us
Slumber on!

It's an all together crash course
In knowing what to perceive
Crazy was a bit more vague
When I was in my teens
Sure, I recall
Deep throats liars
Cheating secrets
Underneath Bill's desks
But nothing quite as obvious
As being partnered
To a genocidal mess
....

Bleed, he loves to bleed
Woe is me, his creed
Dreams, he lives in dreams
Hooray for our team

Darkness, he adheres to death
Contemplating his last breath
The wind blows calmly nigh
Why does he tell such lies ...

Descriptions of blood and guts
He played with life and got cut
Words of violence and gore
He believes love is war...

Truth blinds his innocent eyes
Mere shadows in which he hides
What is the measure of cool
He looks to SlipKnot and drools ...

Bang goes the gun, smash goes the mirror
Slam goes his fist to hide his fear
Day after day, year after year
Perhaps in time he'll learn to steer...

Still I watch and wonder when
Shall the breeze become a wind ...

My government sells
Third world countries
Highly technical weapons
And introduce them
To brand new wars

Then they sick them on each other
The starving against the poor

Our rich are getting richer
Our politicians are getting paid
Isis is getting stronger
And the populist is being played
...................

Ghost
prying their way back
into the world of the living
blurs in the dark
shadows blowing in the wind
insisting on getting back in
in my peripheral vision
I catch a glimpse
ghost have gathered
around my quiet place
more than usual
how many more
shall gather
I wonder

Across the divides
Her single arrives
A cast of eyes receive

Off to the race
Her words of good taste
Such good lovin'
When she bleeds

A trend every time
She posts on line
Tragically a mess

But it's her that I need
To set my soul free
So go ahead my love
   And confess...

We are gifted
another try
every time
we end a life
!!!
We can awake to
a brand new existence
where magic is accessible
and higher love is persistent
$$
In the soothing whisper of death
fear has no foundation
we can leave the doors unlocked
and take a stress free vacation…
P.S.
Take my word
death is absolutely safe
so enjoy your life
fearing not your fate!

Perhaps I'd fade
From myself run
Giving no excuse
Of what
I've done
Roadblocks
Distorted mind
Hope gets lost
In design
I wait
I wish
But can't seem
To bury
This
gift
These parts
Float aloft
Perhaps
I'm
Forever
Lost

Have we forgotten how to care
And how to give a ****
Our people go without
There's hunger in our land

The haves have excessively much
And hold on to it tight
The have-nots have so little
That they can’t afford to fight

The winds of change are blowing cold
On humanity's naked face
We just blew 800 billion dollars
To bail out problematic banks

Watch as children starve
A lack of interest takes the stage
Women still lack equality
Another black man killed today

But we can't afford such mercy
'Cause were financing another war
Have we forgotten how to care
And what this life is for?

I ask you
Have I conveyed
A word you thought
I'd never say?
Have you read
Between my lines
A hidden thought
Sarcastic rhyme?
Well
Give 'en back!
They
Belong to me
All the crazy
**** you read
All the endless
Take's on life
Give 'em back
But take my wife!
(-;

I wore the mark of Cain
Like a stain upon my soul
How I dreaded to return
To my former family role

Trust is but the air we breathe
Betrayal a choke in our lies
Days I have prayed to be forgiven
More often I had prayed to die

Now I prefer to ride the winds of change
With a guitar upon my knee
Giving in to new ways
I have no time for grief...

I've given up on science
I've given upon beliefs
I've given up on mankind
The earth's biggest thief

All your clout
All maxed out
I've given up without a doubt

I've given up on quitting
I've given up on the meek
I've given up my righteousness
I've given up on beliefs.

Always in session
Wandering eyes
Imaginations
Personally
Applied

Local justice
Nosy neighbors
Miss Krevitz
Legislatures
  
Undisputed assumptions
The finality of judgement

Sentence Brokers
Providing ease
Jurisdiction
Lock and key

Gladys Krevitz
Always peeks
....

Actually??
Well yes!
I do believe...
You were suppose to be mine  
But somewhere, somehow
Some skipped over moment
We were lost to a hiccup in time

Now you're so
So far away from me
Leaving my soul behind
Trying to shine silver
In grey clouds of rhyms
All because of a glitch
A glitch we can't rewind
....

...............................

Where were we headed
When we left it all behind
The thunder of our youth
The hormones of our prime

Freely we roamed, ages so high
Scoffing at the idea of norm
Repetitive nuclear existence
Meaning grow up and conform

Wearing the blissfulness of denial
We disavowed the pure to defile
We refused the road of integrity
And shun the ways of longevity

And so we pay
As our bodies ailing age
Yet
How glorious were those days!

Goat-head surrounded
by ancient carved stones
Dimly lite torches
Piles of old bones

Revolving shadows
of residual wickedness
This is no place to linger
all the hate we come to accept
the keepers and the bringers!

Misfits all of us
when the puzzles redesigned
But it was never meant to be like this
for the fate of humankind
Apathy for the world aloft
has led us to a ledge
Sacrifice another goats
and the shadows shall be fed

Soup for a soul
As we bleed another beast
Drink now as our
empathy grows ever weak
We’re only walking in our sleep