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Beryl Starkovic Mar 2014
The poets pen, is skilled in hand,
writing down what his soul demands.
Ink spills from head to heart,
the fire of spirit plays it's own part.
On cold early morning's dim light,
he sits alone to solemnly write,
futile messages, to the Earth of men,
lightening hearts, quieting this din.
Meandering thru a life's malaise,
honing skills, and sharpening blades.
Quietly observing the life around,
feeling all, and dwelling on the sound.
No man common is Poet, for sure,
uncommon sense of thought so pure.
His ink spills from head to heart,
fire of his spirit plays it's own part.
Words escape the emotional instinct,
forming sounds, both lyrical and succinct.
Spiced tidbits of wisdom and proven truths,
to be judged by it's merits, and it's fruits.
In the search of the mystery and the magic,
his life in this mist, is very often tragic.
Spread his truth lightly, in verse, and rhyme.
Then He stands it alone, thru critic and time.
Beryl Starkovic Mar 2014
(a short lesson on being a man)
be true to the falsehoods of lies (realize the lies)
even the ones you tell yourself.
be mostly unfoolish, (never overtly wise)
brew your own personal brand of bliss
sell your soul to Love (for the price of a kiss)
know reality was yesterday (tomorrow a dream)
you make the dreams real (one, by one, by one)
listen intently to others (you'll hear yourself there)
watch every little thing (overlook nothing)
and roar like a lion (but, listen like a mouse)...
Beryl Starkovic Mar 2014
as we hurtle through deep open space,
at a resoundingly dangerous fast pace.
dependent upon wings we've never had,
relishing the good, and suffering the bad.

We, are composed of seven octillion atoms,
walking this earth in God's universal patterns.
spawned from womb, and bound for the tomb,
moving through life, as we walk through rooms.
Beryl Starkovic Mar 2014
Angels wearing world worn blue jeans,
never telling the tales that they've seen,
seen tractors  pulling cow's daydreams,
bending boundaries around moon beams.

Twisted little monkeys mingling in trees
high on God's golden zephyr breeze.
Mother could you come home please?
Before the gray blue iceberg freeze.

Angels wearing world worn blue jeans,
never telling the tales that they've seen,
seen tractors  pulling cow's daydreams,
bending boundaries around moon beams.
Beryl Starkovic Mar 2014
I am where I have always been.
between serenity and madness,
one day of happiness,
and two days of sadness...

I am where I have always been.
Beryl Starkovic Feb 2014
above the immortal sea,
all the stars seem to dim.
the stairs swirl upwards
and the tread is sloped.
55 years of ever forward,
behind an invisible plow.
in an everlasting drought,
saving whatever love's lost.
tilling wisdom and music,
as sprouts shrink and dry.
I live on vicarious why's,
threshing memories in time,
as time turns each to chaff,
winds blow in hurt and lust,
dormant souls return to dust,
as coral in the immortal sea.
Beryl Starkovic Dec 2013
Someone collect all the hatred,
and all the vehemence too.
then don't recycle or reciprocate it.
turn it all into something else,
rich and green and full of kindness.
distill it, remove the impurities,
coagulate it away from it's cold
tungsten tensile titanium.
some of us only have to try,
it can be done. Einstein said so;
and Mother Teresa and Gandhi,
and Martin Luther King Jr.
and brother Nelson too.
Someone collect all the hatred,
and all the vehemence too.
then don't recycle or reciprocate it.
turn it all into something else,
rich and green and full of kindness.
distill it, remove the impurities,
coagulate it away from it's cold
tungsten tensile titanium.
encase it in concrete and steel,
bury it with the radioactive waste.
let it lie for it's half life,
in over 40,000 tears.
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