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Bree
The puppy is located in room two according to the Motel 8 Times.
I heard it last night, puppy howling into nothing.
Just annoying while I was taking an enormous bath.
The news itself is crude, Kinko sponsored.
But there are no more cigarettes. Only habit.
Holding a pencil gets the job done. Jabbing at the Times.
Dusk time sun makes his presence known.
Brazen, bold crimsons and hazy salty airs perfume this rinky **** motel bathroom.
The essence of what that cigarette used to provide me.
Blazing through a small, dark blunt, everything becomes certain.
Crook and flail
Guide and whip
The ancients
More up front
With it
Move the herd
To greener pastures
Or whip em hard
To avoid disaster
Some saw the flail
Symbolic
Of fertile land
Whatever you say
We quite understand.
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Nick Moore
Gregarious Gregg,
He could take lofty people,
Down a pegg.

On his travels, place's no-one went,
The thrill of a postcard,
From where was it sent?

There would be chatter,
Rumours of his return,
What stories would he tell us?
How green was the fern?

On our way to Glastonbury,
We walked into a pub,
The landlady looked at Gregg,
With love in her eyes, "free drinks for you and your friends"
Fun and laughter was had by all,
Outside we asked him,
"So what's the story?"
Gregg just smiling,
"I've never seen her before"

Gregarious Gregg,
Everyone listened to the words he said.
Passions would arise,
With that sparkle in his eyes.

On a road trip,
Around the Ring of Kerry,
A man thumbing a lift came into view,
It looked like Gregg, but just couldn't be
True!
No-one knew I was here, the odds didn't fit,
But, there he stood, that look upon his face,
"I thought you might be around"
he said.

The passing of time,
We all slide our different ways,
Things you think will never end,
Gently drift into the haze.

Occasionally I'll bump into an old friend,
We chat about old times,
Soon Gregg's upon our lips,
Never leaves our minds.

Maybe we should visit him,
He's only somewhere in France,
Or leave things as they are,
Firmly in the passed.
She hurried on,
A laptop clutched to her chest,
Heavy bags with some books
And a pile of thoughts from nowhere.

She seemed to levitate,
Lifted by her own emotions.
She nearly lifted off, but she tripped
And fell on a bright fall afternoon.

A tiny, ridiculous bump,
Like a karate fighter’s sudden strike,
Sent her body reeling with a single blow.

She groaned.
She couldn’t stand up,
Her ankles were hurt.
The ego suffers shame
Lying flat, stripped of dignity—
Flesh and bone with higher aspirations
At the lowest score.

People passed without a word,
Without even bending down.
Invisibility. Disappearance.
Soon, perhaps, she will be taken
To another plane?
There lay a woman— not a human being?

Strange things happen on this cozy Earth.
Perhaps it was consciousness itself,
Or simple hellish humiliation on the wet sidewalk?

All speculation ended
with one short remark:
“She’s just drunk!”

How can you not love all these people
for their deep insight,
their tireless devotion to shapes
and short, simple lines.

Oh, Prophets at every step of our shared path,
always knowing more about my life –
and yours.
did you see the dog outside the bar the night we met.? she was tied to the parking meter pole. a huge puppy and all she kept doing was licking my hand. Snowflake. she was huge and white and it was the night of the blizzard. sweet and beautiful Snowflake, and then gone. isn't that the way of all beautiful things? but not gone if we hold the moment, it has to be held with the heart. that's the only way....Snowflake dead....COLD
BLOODED MOON
...
 1d
badwords
A light is on me
Radiant solitude
Illuminates me
I stand in absence
Of my shadow

Whole but
Incomplete
I exist, solid
Tactile reality
And longing

A part of me
Is missing
I can’t touch it
But, I feel its
Vacancy

I am incomplete

And still—
I dream in outlines
Of your touch,
A warmth I’ve never
Held, yet carry
Everywhere.

Across the distance
You are both presence
And ache, and
A pulse inside desire,
A voice in my silence.

I miss you—
Perfect stranger,
As if the missing
Was always you,
And I have only now
Learned its name
Nothing to see here
In a state of confusion,
Staring at the sky.
Seeking seclusion,
Never knew why.
It's all  illusion,
It's all lies.
yet another odd mysterious penmanship by a soul brother, to me,
he, will remain nameless, and me, as well, though my nomenclature,
my nome, my home, tells so much but not all...though writing and living only love poetry, is my chief preoccupation, it comes most times, too easily and too frequently, or not at all

When one redraws daily the intersecting diagrams,  one of poetry,
one of Love, (which my tablet capitalizes without my asking,)
The overlap is either zero or one, 0 or1, of everything or nothing

this is a puzzlement to me, for I do not fall in love every day, or even twice a week (monthly under discussion), periodically inevitably, they are days of composition, imposition, self – inquisition, when everything is questioned and answers are oft, crazy long, driving everybody crazed, myself, included…

love is splendiferous, and there are believe or not, insufficient
adjectives to capture, captivate, every shade, type, unique or not,
and so the love songs, poems, keep on keepin' on, an onslaught
making  tidal tsunami tiny, all the billions of earthlings, gets one of
their very own, or sad~daily dies a little each day by the worst
of never getting a lick, a whimper, a sideways glance, a touch
even quick and subtle of that "I'm still here,'' quality...

all these musings, amusings, tragedies, as it nears 8:00 am and the early day can be crowned an-end-of summer bathing-beauty-winner,
me, in my special place, where nature reteaches me newly, what is now addressed as mindfulness where of course, is 100% wrong,
for the silence of my surroundings engulfs me, and my mind is emptied, the words spilling, nearly finishing, and the sweet hunger for
nothing more than this in perpetuity, eternally, but alas, midst this
perfected moment that is solely mine, solely minded
by me, is the lurking
incontrovertible knowing, silenced but real,
that this too shall pass
away from when I am gone,
yet, we enjoy it while we can,

can

a three letter word of great power,
my library, is  small but well tended,
mostly cats & dawgs,
mostly dawgs,
exclusively
perhaps
 4d
Mike Adam
When you laugh

It is waking at night
Beneath a waterfall

Seeing clear through
The veil

To a multitude of stars
No matter what your station in life
always do your best every day
Pick up socks, lend a helping hand
call a friend, ... go for a walk

No matter how you hurt inside
smiling will help you heal
Find a nature spot you love, sit  
trust in God, have faith in you

No matter what they tell you
own your own truth, don't settle
Give love a chance, spend wisely
be good to others and to yourself.
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