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Jun 2021 · 87
Downtown Proverb (1)
Quiet Jun 2021
Something
Anything
Anything but Nothing
Jun 2021 · 82
Hall of Mirrors (Mirrors)
Quiet Jun 2021
Further extrapolations of previous doctrines masquerading as novel insight 
Solomon was said to say that there was nothing new under the sun
What has been said before is surely to be said again
But in a thousand different ways
Colors
All eluding to the same thought: This isn't real. 
This isn't real. 
Platonic forms and what not.
A glimmering shade of the real behind the veil. 
So much so steeped into our reality, that this non-reality, that it expresses itself through our very own devices
Mediums of consumption.
Screens holding windows into fictional realms of passed by moments and segments long gone to reality.
Furthermore, fictionalizations of the false reality -
what was referred to as hyper real
Rather Subreal, to the point of where surreality becomes the perceived reality
Only perceived as real by the perciever but unable to apprehended or -
objectively known. 
False moments become crystalized versions of themselves - the reflection of a mask masking another mask.
The face is never known - 
The first and final thought - 
What is real?
Further down the hallway of mirrors we traverse 
Growing dimmer and more shadowed until we blur into darkness and any remnant of the originating light has been stretched to thin 
And we have arrived to the point of no return 
Beyond the event horizon of perception 
Unable to ever return 
Ignorant that there ever might have been something to return to
A black hole sun
A lie universally and eternally taken as truth
No need for further discourse T
This is "real".
This is "real".
Jun 2021 · 104
Fire or Air?
Quiet Jun 2021
Bare the weight of it all?
Or join the simplicity?

Is it all dire?
Do I conflagrate into the night?
Or ride the wave to sunset?
Nov 2020 · 73
untitled (III)
Quiet Nov 2020
Dictating the pressure and pleasure of a thousand suns.
The sounds of you mouth, lungs, tongue rung for a thousand more
Whispered of a dwell of a thousand lunge
Hips lunge and such enough to ****
And succor, what fur is enough, not ever
But weathered by a thousand doves
And shoves of what not and so forth
Withered flowers but like ripe grape and onion
Layer upon lair
Indulging in the cake of your whatnot and so forth
Going so forth and what not till a thousand suns what not and so forth
Over and over, rolling hills and billows of beaming sun break into onions showering what not from the mouth, lung and tongue with enough so forth to erupt, quake and brake a thousand lungs
And do
More and more what not and so forth until withered flowers retire
Spires and the places they what is
What is this to say, not ever grasped but sough and wrought after with a thousand lunge tiring to a day or night or whenever when a new dawn is
A thousand kings wither at it away until the so forth and what not is delivered from its own what not and somethings akin to belonging is shone
I would love to follow this up with some deeper understanding or insight into what manifested this odd little poem. All I can say is another rambunctious, bruising excursion - a foray into Love's quarter. But all the more inspiration to keep searching was found therein as well, despite all the tumbling and misuse of hearts.
Nov 2020 · 66
untitled (II)
Quiet Nov 2020
we wear the faces of those we love,
like glove of lovers mask,
we bask in their aura and are left unfamiliar with our old faces,
but trace a new etch by way of nuance and gest impressed by their forms and the love they express.
Oct 2020 · 65
untitled (I)
Quiet Oct 2020
font of life glowing white with water clear
atop the tower of life; a strength held dear
down the water flows into the lands green near
draining color drear to give life to grays
fear not for they are one and the same
Oct 2020 · 86
Taker
Quiet Oct 2020
I have always wanted to be something coveted.
I have always wanted to be something lauded over.
I have always wanted to be something praised.
I have always wanted to be something that instilled awe.
Wonder.
Even Worship.
I want you to crave me.
To yearn for me.
To love me and to hate me and to be simply unable to live without me.

And when it's done,
to never be able to fill the hole I've left.
Oct 2020 · 93
Song of Cave and Home
Quiet Oct 2020
Man  of twine and brimstone
Heart and Eyes search for home
Found! Found! A cave Alone
Cool and damp and Safe from heat

Filled with Berries; wine to ease
Ivy grown thick, grown to please
From both vines a lady breathes
"Give me you, I'll give home"

Man alone never knows
By his throat a thorn-ed rose
Drink to fill, she overflows
Cool and Vines and Far and She

Away! Away! City teems
Loud and Hot and Dry and Bleed
Oh so far away from he
Cave of Dreams; sleeps alone

Vined cave begins to moan
Song of Songs; Song of Home
Deeper come, Deeper glows
It sings to him, from the Deep

He can't, He won't try to see
The Cave - it's depths, can't glow sweet
The Song, The Vines, Cold - it sweeps
Further Deep, down alone

Cities Light, far it shone
Cities Rage, welcomed tone
Not Eyes, Nor Ears Yet Bone
Remembers alone the streets

Remembers alone the heat
The Laughter, the Bleed, the Screams, Dreams of Brothers, Mothers, Flowers, Turrets and hubbub, cobblestone and smiles, snarls and color, teeth and smirks, scent of sweat, sweat of Earth - to move, Bone alone remembers.
Embers die and flame grows

Man is cut, two roads shown
Song of Cave, Dead alone
Song of Heat, Colored Stone
There he sits and waits for breeze

To push him where, "Where?!" he pleads
No breeze comes, he sits at ease
Waiting, waiting, the vines reach
Waiting, the vines vine grows

And covers the man slow
Pulls and Pulls him deep, low
Where the lie of the glow
Where the cold and vine is free

Thick, Gnarled, Thorned and Twisting
Green but blind, damp - the frost seethes
Kneecap snaps upon stone slants
Screams turn song - echoes ode

And the eyes bleed to hope
Teeth Gnash indifferent-bone
Cave's Belly filled once more
And the city teems, it's more...

It's so much more...
Quiet Mar 2020
Be still and lend ear; the sound of shimmering,
the sound of glass breaking, the sound of water
rain upon tin roofs and laughter just past dawn
alone in the slums of my own mind, no face
What am i? Where do i come from? What's worth life,
Death and the sacrifice of blood and sweat, yes.
Upon my knees and rainfall upon tin roofs.
The mirror reflects not a thing when i gaze
And the memory of the sun's zenith fades. 
What is my purpose? Why am i here? My choice.
In the cascading brilliance of the all
Not a thing beckons except my own heartbeat.
The streets hum and whir with the pace of business
And i alone stand amidst the traffic, lost.
What is worthwhile, where do i place my focus?
A million strands of hair impair my vision;
Upon their break i see only horizon
Sweeping into the just beyond -- i can't see.
There is only now, and here alone is grey. 
What do i fight for? What do i want to be? 
The phone rings but there is no answer, i pace.
Maddeningly, back and forth, nowhere to go. 
Nowhere to be, the vision is haze, i weep.
Like a tear I fall, not knowing from where, why?
I dry out and turn to air, lost on the wind.
There is no end, there is no now, there is this;
the sound of glass breaking, the sound of water
rain upon tin roofs and laughter just past dawn
alone on the drum of my own heart, i beat.
Mar 2020 · 67
Emptying Rationales
Quiet Mar 2020
I used to love coffee
Darkly rich
Emptily bold
Now upon each sip no stories are told
My lips and tongue curl and fold
Sickly and yellow my bowels hold
A bath of espresso i take to wake myself cold
There is not start to the song and my skin wrinkles old
What is a soul but something to wither-scold
Another cup yes and not a word shown
My cup is empty and my cover is blown
There is nothing here but stained tombstone
Mar 2020 · 51
The Ripple's Lament
Quiet Mar 2020
i don't tend to like people, truly.
i used to feel bad about it.
but why? i don't like fighting how i feel.
and it's not constant, but rather;
a passing remembrance.

i don't think that my soul is able to conform.
Career's, Assets, the Bowing of Heads.
but then again it has always been the way;
we all have our jobs to do.
but what is mine? i question it to the point of craze.

i wonder if am i write, to sing, to wash.
any form that i assume is impression;
not true.
i seem to be that which is impressed upon; clay.
and in that clay there lies the desire to form, to become.

my ideas of family, of love, when i am like this - cease.
not cease; but the thought of their failure brings no worry.
like an easy melancholy, a slow fade, not too bright - just cool.
i needn't pray for it's continuance, for in it's leave, the seeds of it's return.

i feel that there is no "thing" i have been set here to do.
nothing is critical, nothing-crucial, just a collection of;
indiscriminate "now's".
the faces of my elder, my kin ; my duties hearth.
as they drift from and on my scar-flesh tear open once more.

there is no sound and i feel close to none cept myself and God.
but in these moments of Cool, its as though God sleeps -
there is only the Moon.
and in her light i become She, lamenting over the ripples.
and what i find in that water, either drunk or bottled, i carry on.

there is nothing to attain, nothing to acquiesce, nothing can be;
apprehended.
simple work, simple life, the collecting and pouring of water.
the sun will return and urge me to clutch and aspire and gain
and convince me of what i should be, but never am.

— The End —