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175 · May 2018
monday morning
Kevin May 2018
i heard it say
"don't trust your thoughts
as the clouds too will disguise this horizon"

false paths for walking
a theoretical projection to a place unknown
unreachable in every way but obtainable through lies

I heard it said before, "don't believe your thoughts"
but never from within
never so loud and brimming with confidence I do not know

in that moment, Gaia labored for her breath,
as the treetops bent to bow with a colorful homage,
accented pink and pollen green

flowers bloomed, non-flowers too
and the earth felt right
even as it still feels wrong
174 · Feb 2017
too much silence
Kevin Feb 2017
i knew but once the colored call
that covers all an orange.
we called it citrus fruit.
i knew but once the taste we say
is of muddled musk.
we called it hairy snapdgron.  
i knew but once the unphysical touch
of words we leave unsaid.
we called this far too much.
and once was more than enough.
Kevin Sep 2018
that song does me better than the best drugs can
and I know that feeling well.
the peak before the spill, like
sunrays reaching land between a clouded sky.
don't remind me of that tiny dancer
because my linens can't stretch the distance to where you are.
gonna take this as it goes
like a boulder breaking loose.
i'll crumble in the downfall,
shattering from impacts like a firework at night
but my saving grace
is being scattered about with all the others
which time has performed it's endless task.

I dare and try to stop it.
stand beneath where cracks have formed.
place my hands high and hold the weight
as it begins to shift from the freeing of gravity.
could i be Sisyphus? or be Atlas?
my mythology hasn't developed in depth
but I am no disgraced God.
i am man with a heart filled of fever dreams
that doesn't know his own strength or worth.
i'll try forever and endlessly come short
its no different than where i stand today
but i'd find myself crushed flat if i didn't try.
173 · Jan 2018
sumer clouds
Kevin Jan 2018
the echo i chase sounds from the siren which bends my ear.
summer clouds in springtime plume while soft silt bunches on the riverbed.
the shadow in the mirror looks like what i once knew but
from around the bend and above the break,
i hear her without distance.
like a hornets kiss on the back of my neck,
throbbing like a geysers sulfur surface,
welted like a rolling hillside,
i cannot ignore such persistence.
beauty and the burden knowing;

knowing she is a burden.
knowing she will change,
become something i've not known for others,
and unfold her beauty
in ways i'll not be blessed to know.

she remains that echo of thunder deep in the ravine,
she remains the shadows in the mirror i cannot shine upon.
173 · Sep 2018
no name waxing gibbous
Kevin Sep 2018
I've got you another name
but the moon is waxing towards new
and I won't have much light to see your shape
so have the chorus hum some softer sounds
while I lay my head on the overgrown ground
searching the skies for the letters I need.

it shouldn't take long, few hours at most,
but I need time to shed these invisible clothes;
to strip myself clean from these things I don't need.

I've found that other place
but I don't know if I can stay
your name was there, but something had changed
and you couldn't convince me there was any other way
this wouldn't be the first, shall not be the last,
but you gave me water and watched me grow

so ill find you anew
where i won't know your call
but my ears will, even if my mind cant
172 · Oct 2020
it twisted and spun
Kevin Oct 2020
gravity presses upon all
regardless of mass or weight
but fluid dynamics applies a twisted spin
which keeps us turning and turning
only to find ourselves twisted
spinning out of control

burn me like sage so that
my airs be cleansed
smell me as mint so that
my memory remain refreshed
171 · Jul 2018
plein-air impressionism
Kevin Jul 2018
can  you see the depths within the shadows?
do you hear the whisper of the sunshine through the wind?
Are you engrossed enough with the abundantly surrounding green
to forget the grey and black that falls so in-between?

darling, please, remind me of the way in which yellow seems to spill
take me to the meadow where colors rest above the wild overgrowth
take us to where our eyes fall in favor with impressionists painters
put me in that plein-air canvas; just remember to be there too.
170 · Feb 2019
cheap thrill
Kevin Feb 2019
gimme your honey that drips with viscosity
from a well crafted wooden spoon
slowly and sweetly
i'll let you cover my body like a tropical shower
and lick myself clean
like the dog that i am.
168 · Nov 2018
everything i know today
Kevin Nov 2018
currently,
i am a mind with a body
and everything is at hand.

soon,
i will be a body;  nothing more,
and everything will surround me.

after,
i will be everything,
and everything will be me.

again,
and again,
again.
Kevin Dec 2018
i found myself doing laundry
filling the revolving well of ***** linens
shutting the door and adding detergent
when suddenly,
as i was completing this task,

a bell rung.
naturally.
and i felt complete.
for i knew we no longer share the same fishbowl
even though i sometimes wish you were here.
Kevin Jul 2019
the morning sun does not rise
back between the marshes on the bay
where colors remain dividing lines of gravity
where the horizon never seems at hand

on land, at a distance,
i can clearly see your vision
features all your own
the blue of your eyes, the curve of your brow

but it's july and we are at a distance.
nothing unsurmountable
not of lengths saved for olympians
but i fear the phenomenon of a mirage
164 · Mar 2019
Spring
Kevin Mar 2019
Shed.
Rut.
Bloom.
Kevin Aug 2018
like a plastic bag or paper receipt
i can only keep the idea of you for so long
the 30 day policy for returns will shortly expire
and past that point, the energy and headspace
your memory consumes
will slowly eat away at my abilities to adapt to an ever
changing environment and i don't like being left behind
baby, i like to do more than survive

but i know somewhere in the shell of a head i hold
is a gigabyte of your data with the strongest pathways
to pleasure and pain, smiles and rain, love and lust
somewhere i'll hide the key in hopes you'll one day return
and unlock this place i hold for you
but for now i require an external hard-drive to export my emotions
to keep me from loving you
Kevin Mar 2018
I used to read poetry here because the poetry was good.
The words connected together to form some richly defined emotion or some experienced lived and passed,
Now this place feels dull and full of surface skimmers that know not the beauty and puzzlement of language tied to emotion.  poetry is not merely an expression of emotion but an allusive beast.
Poetry can bring the grass and sky together with sensations of touch and vibrations of color.
Poetry should be a cleansing drink, pure or distilled, that leaves one refreshed and intoxicated with the mystery of life.
I don't read poetry here anymore, not much at least, because all I see are fountain drinks, fizzy, sugary, tooth decaying drinks. advertised with some cliche hookline of emotionless melancholy written by some social media addicts desperate for attemtion. Here's a hint: poetry does not grab attention. It is not placed on billboards in bold font and bright colors. It is not found in the crystal clear illuminated aisles of your nearest convenience store, ready for consumption. Poetry is that dive bar with an old man slouched before while the barkeeps radio quietly hums talk of politics and opinions. Poetry is that speakeasy behind a chain of doors you can't recall entering and couldn't map the route if you tried.
Save your teenage titles for that Taylor Swift pop song. Save your words for when you have something to say.
Until then, drink water or spirits.
Bahumbug
161 · Jan 2018
8:39 am
Kevin Jan 2018
While gazing wintery white
The only thought that came to me was,
"It's summer in Argentina,
but I don't speak Spanish"
159 · Dec 2018
cell towers
Kevin Dec 2018
this electric line of some green and glowing thing
divided the dark limits of forever and the physical now
while i tried to sleep beneath the night
and dream you were somewhere between these places
waiting for me to find my way to where you were

but that's just a romantic thought
which means naught  
until our eyes meet
and your presence is skin on skin
157 · Jun 2019
Velvet and sheer
Kevin Jun 2019
show me behind the curtain
of velvet and sheer
so the obvious can be made so

i see through a prism filled of light
while the colors you carry
stain my eyes in hues

i can't make out whats green or blue
and cats continue to fear me
but my body is tired so i will rest

and hope this is only a dream.
Kevin Jul 2019
arugula and watermelon
and the joy in pain
of sunscreen in my eyes
your eyes disappeared into the sky
and the car smelled of running feet

i remembered a dream from long ago
while you were tying your hair
and standing before me against the blue horizon
le tournesol de la beau rivage
was finally real and present
156 · Oct 2018
5 card stud
Kevin Oct 2018
i've played my cards with the hand i was dealt
and it always comes up short in the end.
but i don't care too much about winning or loosing
i've grown to love watching how others play
and reminding them while i deal their fresh hand
that this is a very stupid ******* game we're playing.

keep your poker face.
i don't need to know your tell
to know the lie you live.
155 · Jul 2019
jelmore
Kevin Jul 2019
words no longer serve me
in expressing this fearful thing clearly
my arms must dot the i's
and my toes to cross the t's

my eyes and light will guide me
my mind will place my presence
and show you the direction
my heart decides to take

i want to meet you there
and have you feel my words; truly
155 · Mar 2018
From another view of blue
Kevin Mar 2018
Loudly, I hear them above the rest.
Through the windows of slender sand, which rests in another form, songs of primavera bounce around my head.
I never knew their range or talents of projection; so small and fragile are not the melodies of the small and fragile.

This moment of recognition moves me to adjust that which separates her song and I; to hear more clearly that which I forgot,
truth and beauty, peace and presence.
I feel the thaw of spring which melts so sweetly into the air, sagging with weight as it tenderly brushes the backside of my neck.

These things in successsion cause more than hesitation, they cause more than saintly admiration. My eyes become fixed upon something in the middle distance to avoid and restrict additional visual stimuli; to allow this focused moment a place to stay.
to sit in appreciation of the fresh-chilled air and music of our returning spring that sings in natural melodies for we.
the birdies have returned and I hear them through my window; closed or open. they call for my attention.
154 · Jul 2019
white oaks
Kevin Jul 2019
the trees have returned to us
their greatest shadows
so we may lie beneath their limbs
and hold each other close
153 · Nov 2018
ocean breathes salty
Kevin Nov 2018
i awoke in the early afternoon
and was reminded of the need to bathe;
odors and oils of a slothful human.

i shaved with a dry old razor
so that i could feel each blade-like tug
and slice the shafts of time that grow from my freckled face

i ran the shower warm before entering
because lately i am a cold stone
and do not contain any independent means of heat

i laid myself beneath the running water like warming raindrops
and heard some loud but distant music
as my thoughts raced above their melancholy sound

my thoughts were noble and ignorant; dualistic.
concerned with the world and my impact upon it.
refusing to buy a car, refusing deodorant and plastic products

i found myself hopeful for once
warm and joyous
as the water wasted itself past my skin and down the drain.

then I remembered that each passing drop equals a single footstep
which builds to the distance required
for others to gather a quarter of my waste.

back to square one
slothful and smelly
needing so dearly to wake.
meloncholia
153 · Jul 2018
Blue eyed smile
Kevin Jul 2018
I said," do you remember when we smelled the sweetest rain before it fell?"

You said, "you told me it smelled like a New England Forrest full of flowing creeks", while looking up at the sky, then turning to catch my eyes.

I said, " the smell transports me to my childhood, where life was merely a string of seconds that somehow knitted a web", while the rain we smelled began to fall

You said, as the days first raindrops spilled down your face and toward your lips, " it tastes like mothers milk"

I said, as I stared in your eyes " I love that we have language more than English. Your definitions are more vivid than most, and your imagery turns my mind towards more"

You said noting, but you smiled. And that was all I needed.
152 · Nov 2017
here or the horizon
Kevin Nov 2017
there's a fire on the treetops
that burns a yearning glow
projecting sounds of tremendous whirls
as it passes through the windows we left open.

just ahead, beyond these sights and sounds,
sits a peak, between here and the horizon,
where birds curiously soar
above this thing i've come to love.

these middle thing reek of sights and sounds i've not yet seen.
they sit silent, hidden, beyond the peak;
In the ashes of the burning trees.
this i know too well.

But I want to know those things,
I want to hear the whistle of wet wood
and the wings above my mountains peak;
to know a new horizon and

and feel new ground beneath my feet.
Kevin Aug 2018
I can smell the walnut dust blooming through my toes
I can taste the wormwood tea long past my final sip
but the thought of you can't seem to find an exit

we are spiders weaving webs between the same two trees
hoping to ensnare the other while losing sight of our own webs;
lay down your silk and rest with me a while

time has not offered itself as the tool for our creation
we are born on opposite ends, east and west,
sunrise and sunset, in between there is sunshine and peace

the looks you give me and gazes that you hold
drifts bodies further than the drowning in rip tide
darling i can swim so please don't be shy

you've stolen my mind
and I've given you my soul
so pull our bodies closer and deny this distance that we keep

i am the romantic and you will be the realist
forever contradicting,
until the day we choose another.
(****** expletive used to describe frustrating emotions)
152 · Aug 2019
you
Kevin Aug 2019
you
when the sun rose with me
the sky appeared and provided
a certain kind of light
illuminating in my mind
those tender moments
i hold so dearly

you.
150 · Mar 2017
water atop the table
Kevin Mar 2017
brick and clouds remain
in view on the path
between the street

the bag is full and
gears shriek of rusted time
the wheels fight to turn

dew rises as the sun begins to fall
the water sits and ripples in the wind

she lifts and pours
sliding an unwanted landscape of lakes
to form a flowing river
unseen before this moment,
unnamed by any man,
it shall remain so

yet this flowing force has always been.
touched by time and those who came before
this fact remains
the truth, which is carried and passed

solid in its fluidity
time cannot dry or change this truth

this truth now falls from another
through the pages of blue and script
atop the table
the water sits
148 · Jan 2018
if i were a tree in winter
Kevin Jan 2018
if i were a tree in winter
my bark would praise
the bright light and warmth of sunshine
and scold the treacherous and bitter wind

but my roots would shout from down below
beneath the blue and white earth,

"we are safe within the dirt
where our source of being remains;
drinking, growing, absorbing more of
what provides us for this life"
147 · Nov 2018
objected; i.
Kevin Nov 2018
there are four grapefruits and three lemons
that gathered themselves neatly in my kitchen
and took their places comfortably in a bowl on my counter,

patiently waiting for the day i peel them.

there is a stack of plates with shallow slopes
that toppled on top of one another in my cabinet
and rest still like hardened clay does.

laying anxiously for juice from food to spill atop their finish.

there is a man with two arms and legs, 10 digits on both pairs,
that loves a woman of the same kind,
and he sits alone on a couch, far away from her,

wondering why he doesn't use his arms and legs
to grasp her in the hold of those 20 digits.
146 · Jun 2018
glass animals
Kevin Jun 2018
ravenously crazy or stoicly crazy?
which do your prefer?
take your pick
because the answer is never wrong.
144 · Nov 2018
islands in space and time
Kevin Nov 2018
our nature; nature,
mining its rivers
and agricultural cooperatives.
living from day to day,
moved on,
becoming refugees once more.
135 · Jul 2018
horns and hearing
Kevin Jul 2018
i can hear the deep and low thunder
from the train passing by
a few thousand feet away
but as I look around and recognize my setting
I realize it is thousands of miles away

that horn we heard will remain with me forever
only to reappear in reality and memory
both are unreal
but the horn I know well.
and the thunder I feel will stay forever
135 · Sep 2018
make me a cave
Kevin Sep 2018
find me a cave that I can crawl into
so that I may not see the light on your face again.
take me into the dark where dew and dank
cover-all and seep between the rest.

won't you let me dream?
won't you let me sleep?
dear, this here, will not suffice.
show me those blues or I will become that hermit.

bearded and away in the mountains,
unaware of my appearance more than hair and stench.
distant, both in mind and body, purposefully so.
please dear, find me a cave or let me to crawl into you.

I am warmer than the fire I can make
I can feed you more than the meal placed on your plate
you know my heart is heavy with the weight of love for you
so make me that cave I may crawl into
radiohead- daydreaming
130 · Aug 2018
golf is life
Kevin Aug 2018
i tried to email my ego
an image on self awareness
but I couldn't locate a recipient
so the email wouldn't send.
Kevin Jul 2018
I made it home before the sunset
and I saw you sitting.
beyond beauty are the words that came
blonde and brilliant are the songs that sang.

I can't believe in chirps of birds
or the light on bark between the haze.
I can, however, believe in your loving grasp
and the way you speak in words unknown.

we've yet to pick a plot
where donkey's "hee-haw" and chickens "bok bagok",
and where the grass grows green and tall;
where kids may learn to walk.

you've not read these words
or known of their existence
but in time you will;
know my loving grasp

and words you knew to know.
Kevin Sep 2018
the swing of the melody I hear
takes me to where we haven't danced.
that place where you're looking back at me
while I hold you near.

I'm scared my mind has fibbed
and that my heart has fallen sick in belief.
will you tell me why I'm alone?
will you admit to me your part in this?

be clear like water.
be sure like rain.

I've heard the questions of creation;
the origin of it all, and the mystery that ensues.
I've also heard your voice and know
what simple sounds can do to.

I know some words and vague associations,
I've tied them taut to physical things,
but life is the sea and there is a storm on the horizon
and my feet are firmly planted in the rising tide.

baby, sweep them free and clean from their mooring.
baby, be clear like water; be sure like rain.
tell me like water falls. tell me like puddles lay.
122 · Sep 2018
truth
Kevin Sep 2018
that girl,
without knowing,
owns me.
you do.
110 · Oct 2018
heavy dreams run fast
Kevin Oct 2018
what was that sentence you gave me?
I woke and could recall;
but walk some steps down and I forget.
It had weight like those heavy dreams often do.

really though, it was just a sentence my mind spit out,
mere seconds before my eyes would open,
to see the world as it is;
not as I dreamed it would be.
98 · Aug 2018
vert-mont
Kevin Aug 2018
we destroyed the forest to trade for a cleaner field
and saw the sunshine crash without protection
I've been dreaming deeply,
with vivid, mind-altering recollection

and wonder if you know.

the seeds took soon after being sowed
and the creek watered each well placed plow.
there are thoughts I have through out each day
and you remain primary and proud.

but you're not that seed within my garden
I can't protect you from the sun
or ensure your roots from coming undone
but I am a farmer that loves this land

and the wild it can bring.

— The End —