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What stories will we pass along?
Mystical tales of ipods & binge watching...

The old stories that come down to us were
conceived during an advanced Bronze Age
when myth had already given way to reason
The stories that came down to them were of
an even earlier age's trade & transportation.

Sometimes I wonder how it went down as
a Neanderthal tried to explain a Ziggurat
to his chimpanzee bride...millennia before
television there was painting on the wall.

The Ziggurat is the symbol of holy union
of ***** & egg; ***** the ascending ego
& the egg, the cosmic void upon which one
echoes off oneself into one's own existence.

She turns her pink pouting thing at him
& he responds in kind, both understanding
w/o microscope or telescope how to create
more of themselves; the knowledge given
by their ancestors to their near ancestors
& scarce relatives & thriving circle of
beasts who witness the growth of great
stone cities & walls all around themselves.

Stone walls have been rising & falling
since the dawn of memory & poets have been
writing about them as they went up & as they
came down...

What stories will we pass along?
Mystical tales of ipods & binge watching...
noun: ziggurat; plural noun: ziggurats
(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).
Origin: from Akkadian ziqqurratu .
Two moons rise and one moon sets.
Spotlight captures the one who frets.
Caught unawares in pursuit of wonders.
Tears drops stain the gloves of blunders.
Slipped off to forget what we have done.
The gloves decay under rising sun.
One moon sets and another rises,
while the sun departs with myriad disguises.
If two moons were wed in sunlit dreams,
would we forego our plans for all good things...
Would pleasures unstitch our tidy strings
and delay our minds for fallacies to sing.
I admit I'm unsure.
Nevertheless I will try,
to wed the moons, to brighten the sky,
but beyond the celestial weapons of love,
an infinite yearning awaits our passion.
For there are many moons in need of another.
There are many suns that must shine on the two.
For at the end of the day you and I do not matter.
Wherever there is one, there must be two.
So I say to her, I must be with you.
Thinking about someone I adore.
Then again, if not her, maybe someone else eventually.
That's how they all say it works, right?
Many fish in the sea.
Here, I say many moons in the sky. Keeping in mind we only know the one. A little irony, eh?

Enjoy!

DEW
 Jan 2019 deprivedkat
JcA
Let that be my present. To be in your presence. To be in your present. Then in the future your grin or giggle will be the only gift I could ever need.
so this is Christmas
and what have we done
war is still blazing
while we burn in the Sun
glaciers are melting
our coasts disappear
it's 70 in December
and we're full of good cheer
our country is wasting away at the core
the doctrines set forth
don't exist anymore
we ignore mass genocide
in poor countries but leap
to right all the wrongs
where there's oil to reap
when the rich do their drugs
we're so sad for their disease
when the poor do the same
they are lowlifes and thieves
with all our technology, our knowledge, our toys
millions still starve
deck the halls girls and boys
and while oppression occurs
every minute, every day
we idly stand by, disregard, look away
we turn on our TV's
and bask in it's light
Merry Christmas to all
and to all a good night
12/06...revised...first 2 lines are from the John Lennon song of the same title...another artist who I believe was laid to rest due to his outspoken views on war. I know it's a bit early...but I dug it up and decided to post.
 Dec 2018 deprivedkat
JcA
Each time you read this,
I only hope that you remember:
You are loved.
fire &  blood   making  a city            called   heart  
children,   yeh   call it   open   thinking
           w/ ur hands in these    
beneath   cold   times  of     ugly   reality  
poems written  by  poets      high on the universe;
   inside   boys        coming  
        of age dreaming of being a     wife &  son;  
bad   dreams of   pink snooches
chasing u down an abandoned                    street ;        
           full  of  the faces of      America's                   three   beautiful   great   females;    faces           in the      windows          are                             better &                                    truer ladies             whose
  mouths are           death                   turned   rock                       star  - father,  
sweet   future   american heard  the  *****  gave birth to a holy   child;
a    guy's   soul   painted w/   feel ing  so intense
u can     hear   his skin  scraping         stone   dancing  in  heaven   eating,    drinking w/    blonde   goddesses  
having    ***  w/ people u just  met, the  
gay   kind,             Russian &  smelling  
of   keep   b/c  Igor                      is addicted to    
robot   snooch   these days;  
wet   truth of   hhh blind   lips   writing  w/ yellow  ink;
perfect   club   matter   deep &  late  
              walking &   waiting  for r  Ivan  
*****                  lives   in    walking,                                          running  ­        mothers
 Jun 2018 deprivedkat
A W Bullen
You
are somewhere close
yet dislocated, sheltered
in your centered peace
adrift beside all certainty.

We
turn as apron-ed satellites
in matinee of gentle speak,
our mundane, London-Saturday
the soundscape to your stasis.

Surrendered
to this bastion  of valiant
machinery. Your pillars
in this paradise of waiting.
St Thomas's ICU April - there was still hope and belief.
we need in life:
love from a few
respect from all
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