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Sep 2010 · 847
Meeting Of the Minds
Hank Roberts Sep 2010
Floating through this time
at this carnival tonight
Hula- Hoops
With music in rhyme

Sailing in early light
with these pirates alright
flowers are
passed to everyone in sight

Walked and noticed green
To the music of our time
music genius
was the glorious of sounds

Often stopped to wonder
Whatever happened to life?
Why can't tonight
Be the rest of life?
Sep 2010 · 587
Wanted
Hank Roberts Sep 2010
I wanted in. I knew what they wanted. What I wanted was what they want.

The voices grew loud. Mine stayed low.  I was mentally lost.

I climbed in. The car sped away.  Squealing tires as we went.  

In the grass, was a mark from a rock.  The granite went and crashed in the window.  

Feet first I meant.  But I fell. Going head first, down and in.

Head spinning. I climbed behind a box.  Fearing my fall was heard.

Seemed like ages.  I moved swift.  Found the safe behind "Starry Night".

Cracked the code.  I heard voices. Crack! I grab the stash and run.  

Their voices I heard were not whispers.  The front door I went.

Creaking, open the door.  It was safe to say, I was free.

I found the others. They ran at me.  They had all sorts of arms.  

Down the alley. Found the wood and charged. I climbed up the tall oak tree.

I saw them stop.  They were looking around.  They stopped and muttered about.  

One looked up. I froze in a spot.  He points and they all shoot.  

The tree was hit, Holes were in the trees. I was hit but I had a plan.

The diamond was big and bright. Bleeding heavily, I forced it down.  

I fell far. Down and down I went.  Landing down in front of the men.  

In the bag I looked.  Saw nothing.  Wondered.  We all stopped and walked away.

Few weeks later, I was walking. To the death spot, this is not the first.

I saw crows picking at the corpse.  Then I saw a shimmer.

I hurried over. My eyes had to play tricks on me.  

I looked down and saw.  It was everything everyone wanted.
Aug 2010 · 408
Sitting Under the Sun
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Sitting under the sun
trying to find some fun
Will you join my scheme?
Give me the chance to make a gleam

The words were similar to mine
with you around, it'll all be fine
Only time will tell us how
But now, I can only say wow

Will you join my scheme?
Give me the chance to make you gleam
As the sun does everyday
making way for life and its way

All I ask is that you stay
Don't ever leave me astray
Our words could speak together
Making us lighter then feathers

The words were similar to mine
With you around, It'll all be fine
Your eyes are bluer then the sea
If you don't leave, I'll never flee
Aug 2010 · 490
Without a Bow
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
In the dim of light,
She was sitting.
So pretty, so kind.
Can't get her off,
any part of my mind.

Her words were quiet,
and I won't forget,
on this scorching day,
When her mind first,
Came my way.  

Was half past three
When she walked
Into the sunlight.
From then on, she's
never out of sight.

She lives down on Queen
It suits her well, as she,
Invites me over now
Loves a ship with her,
except without a bow
Aug 2010 · 560
Dear Whoever
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Dear Whoever,
She left me in the growing dark,
as she left on me, her mark.
Left me wanting more,
as those train doors slowly closed.

The train was close to desolate.
In my heart, I knew I could not sit.
She said her name was karen.
I told her mine, and said I wont lie.

Something inside me told,
My words did not hold.
I took out some paper,
and wrote her a little note.

The moon was above the leaves,
while I read the note from Steve
His words clung to me
I was into him undoubtedly.

Before I could even reply
the notes became a stead supply
I still wanted him
But something was wrong

Nine papers and countless words
Not replying is beyond absurd
I knew that my voice,
Was just a dying effort.

One week and no reply,
For wisdom, I looked to the sky
Nothing was apparent
except for the blue and clouds

I replied after the ninth letter
Hoping to make everything better,
I wrote it quick
Hope he understands

At this envelope, for so long I stared
Wondering if I was being fair.
I was concerned for Steve as,
I dropped it in the mailbox

Her letter came, at last!
I opened it utterly fast
I knew her words would be kind
An inch down, was the starting line

Another girl I almost had
I stand alone, and feel so bad
The moon was rising;
I was falling from this window ledge
Aug 2010 · 493
2012 Blues
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Will the wind blow cold?
Whatever comes our way
on that faithful day

Will I have seen it all
feeling no regrets?
Will my life have to fall?

Will the skys morn in grey?
Frozen earth and forgotten trees
We'll all be in a deep freeze

Will my life be grow fair
Without love that's a morning dove
flying away somewhere?

During the renaissance
will we have a response
Who will be there to taunt?
To rule and to voice
will we be left to rejoice
or is their something else we want?
Aug 2010 · 608
Sunshine
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
It was only yesterday
I can remember my loneliness
Until I saw my sunshine
Going down across the way

The moon shines bright
Against those evening clouds
When they clear and steer away
That’s where majestic go and fly

My shadows circle and die
Even they utter and cry
No matter how hard you try
You can’t have all your dreams

An occasional reckless scream
In the distance I try to listen
Mixed morals sound and glisten
Shut my eyes while I try

The suns usual rotation
A God or natural creation
Understanding Life and above
Is like capturing your love

Even those that taught you so
Tell you not to lie but theirs glow
Whether it’s a songbird or a crow
Sometimes you got to let it flow

The sky always waits
No matter how bad the wake
Never ever trying to take
You, me, and nothing more

My mind toggles and boggles
Good and bad being smuggled
Trying to erase and start anew
What’s left that I can see?

Shooting star across the way
Wishing that you’d stay
So I’ll never forget
That my sunshine’s gone away
Aug 2010 · 423
Alone Like..
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
lone like the light in a dark room
Is there anything that's in view?
My chances are just going to doom
Nothing in this light can leave a clue

Even if the sunshine lights upon me
It's just not enough to make me see
Life is not what others make it to be
Change the world with universal deeds

Alone like happiness in tragedies
Can anyone see the catastrophe?
The world I can't describe with certainty
Remember what you give is what you receive
Wish you luck when you decide to deceive

Even if happiness leaps into me
I'll always want something more to be
Nothing is nothing until it is seen
Change the world with universal deeds

Alone like peace during the wars
After it all, what is its ultimate cost?
To bad you can't just take off and soar
Although like life, not trying to be lost
Aug 2010 · 444
Sleep
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Oh my forgotten sleep
Why do you remain so deep?
You keep me up of late
Why do you steady me in this state?
Even when I count sheep
Why do you curse me without sleep?
As I lay with a blank mind
When's the last time you've been kind?
It seems like endless ages
Why keep me locked in these cages?
Just wanting to see my dream
why act thoughtlessly supreme
The More and More I want to sleep
You go farther and farther deep
Aug 2010 · 1.9k
Morning Light
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I stay up late at night
to catch the first glimpse
of the morning light

While the night goes
I look at the stars
for me, they stop to glow

Looking at your face
In the worn picture frame
on the old shelf space

I remember the nights
we'd stay up together
and catch the morning light

The morning's here
so unlike you to do
While the sky here is clear
Aug 2010 · 387
Too Much
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I thought these feelings surpassed
In reality they never collapsed
I want to drop it all and take a chance
But it's he who holds your stance

Drop it all and fly with me
you'll never be happier, you'll see
You're everything I want it to be
All this is like a rough sea

I feel this definite connection
Such a natural selection
All the mean that affects you
Hurts me to the heart too

I stay up late at night
When there is no more light
Thinking of everything we said
Wishing mutual feelings weren't dead
Aug 2010 · 674
Sitting under the Sun
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Sitting under the sun
trying to find some fun
Will you join my scheme?
Give me the chance to make a gleam

The words were similar to mine
with you around, it'll all be fine
Only time will tell us how
But now, I can only say wow

Will you join my scheme?
Give me the chance to make you gleam
As the sun does everyday
making way for life and its way

All I ask is that you stay
Don't ever leave me astray
Our words could speak together
Making us lighter then feathers

The words were similar to mine
With you around, It'll all be fine
Your eyes are bluer then the sea
If you don't leave, I'll never flee
Aug 2010 · 595
Arizona
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
All through these times
We see all these crimes
In Arizona, there's a law passed
if you're brown, you'll be sassed
Watch yourself and your papers
no matter how hard your labor
or, Staying free, here, will be short

Race was blown away, years ago
or so i thought; it still grows
People are people, except when they're brown
Why make all the people now frown?
Freedom to everyone so they say
This irony is no different then yesterday
When we did the same to the other sort
Aug 2010 · 511
Love VI
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Love is the universe
and the universe is us
Us is two people
two people in one
one is the way
the way of the street
the street thats my love
My love is somewhere hidden
Hidden is what I want to show
Show our love forever
Forever is how I feel
To feel about you
You are out of this world
World is the universe
Universe is love
Love is the one
The one way street
Aug 2010 · 648
What Should I call it?
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
My Eyes are suddenly open,
Late at Night
Early Morning,
They Certainly aren't droopin'.

My mind is racin' and loopin',
on this phone
with this girl,
You understand, me not hopin'.

Whether it's my problems
Or even us
now or later,
But after all these gremlins.

I'll be grateful that you,
were here, there
to talk, to listen,
and to set me through.

I walk to the lake,
skip the rocks
and to hope,
were everything but fake.
Aug 2010 · 451
Untitled
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Where’s the love I forever knew? That walked so tenderly on this plane. I saw it go down like a sunset escaping the sky. With hopes of resurrection I saw it burn and burn.

Sadness in caretaker’s eyes, resentment in tranquility. Tides come to make anew. Only for us to stay troublesome. I’ve relinquished my hate and capsulated my love. I am a lone trudgen that slowly crawls.

Hangin’ on by my developments, I hear the hopes of me, but cannot pursue. My sanctuary clashes happiness, but relapse in melancholy deep inside.

Is it the taste I sadly commit to? My mishaps, so dear that I even know not of. Why can love be so fake and hate so real. My brothers make all audacities hesitate. I feel the pain, but plunge undoubtedly inside.

Was it your departure that I crawl? Or was it me divulging through this mess. I cannot bare my stance. It seems all to routine and blunder some. Why cant simplicity embark our voyages?

Your expression dwindles with your sin. You give in excess, but take all until the end.

My mind suddenly sees, but for you only to read. Why can’t my company cause your fire? Why is our memories fogged by this current alignment?

Why must I plunge down to the bottom of every sea. Why can’t I float upon the masses? What drives our scene must be taken and smashed.

I embraced the earth as if a heartily hug. As I feel with you a bashful tug.

As I stare to the welcoming sea, I see a new set of eyes gaze at my shining light.
Aug 2010 · 393
Untitled II
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
When I find a place
to go and hide away
I'll call your name
To come my way

Would you hide away?
So far away?
Entranced in Love
You'll hide away?

Why can't we go
escape the madness
Hide far away
and feel our love

Is it my heart
That drives you
and sets you
on your way?

"I'll go" you said
but your minds lead
and i can't get through
to talk to you

I found my place
to go and hide away
I call your name
to come my way

I'm so alone today
I can hardly bare
my heart can only tare
With your lack of care

My body dwindles
as yours swindles
your lips lie
and your eyes close

I found a place
To go hide away
I call your name
But you just remain
Aug 2010 · 467
Untitled III
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Times are strange
so are the arranged
Folks just cannot wait
for a better date

Hustle and Bustle of unknowing truth
Yelling and insolence are not on the mind
Those words are spoken as tradtion

Morals are forgotten
Capitals the marker
Relations are closed
even if you proposed

The lack of insight
will lead a fight
those that are nice
are forced to scrap

Wrestle the winds that hold you back
Only embrace what your mind can bring
bare only what you heart can suffer

Gentleman crossed
all the woman lost
everything they had
minds were all blurring

we inhaled the lies
and told you not to cry
but to hold your ties
to check away the sighs

My thoughts are my words
my words are placed aside
while I try to look inside
Aug 2010 · 405
Untitled IV
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
The white line races past
My eyes steady and try to cast
Everything blurs and ties
Even the horizon can fool the wise

we were the ones pushed and shun
Architects pieces crumbled and done
This can only be nature's pun

dream of screams and cry for lies
Who's destined to fall and die
Who's pulled and dragged for the climb

Only darkness from the sun
All our hearts weigh a ton
Changing the world
after the initial twirl

All our sources are drained
If everybody is blamed
How can we redeem and claim?

When our traces are sought
and when everything is lost
We stayed and what was the cost?

Through mistrust, and our father's guns
all that is left is the fabricated sun
Aug 2010 · 380
Mother
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I wish I could forget those words
you said on the telephone

You hurt me with your tone
why do you make me feel so alone

I just wanted to show my mind
But I, to you, appear blind

I wanted to hide my frustration
To keep my interpretations

Trying to say the right thing
May not be the best way to sing
You try and hide my tears
All you bring is fears

My madness is on a new wave
That I used to refuse to crave

You cannot even hide your lies
You'll even tell me twice

Why can't our love be forever more
All this hurts me to the core

We have the world between us
All we can do is fuss

I've tried to give you my heart
the most important part
you give me your sigh
and I am left to cry
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I don't know what drives the flame
From years ago, it feels the same

From my mind to my actions
I look and see all the transactions
it is all derived from the same factions

I feel as if I'm the one to blame
Even though I'm told not to claim

I don't know what drives the flame
From years ago, it feels the same

Everything that has been uttered
Leaves me in the dark to only mutter
Talking with your insolence, you never stutter

I've tried helplessly to bury
What has been often so scary

I don't know what drives the flame
From years ago, it feels the same

When I think we've come so far
Everything seems to be, just under par
I will always wait, with my door ajar

Forever I will always wonder and wait
Hoping that our time is not too late

I don't know what drives the flame
From years ago, it feels the same
Aug 2010 · 467
Because of Catherine
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
We share the moon
We share the sun
We love one another

We anxiously speak
We anxiously listen
We wait for the call

We learn to change
We learn to remain
We take it all on

We sometimes hate
We sometimes love
Why not forever

We are war
We are peace
always and forever


We often argue
We often agree
We don't mind the tone

Just say your mind
We will have the time
It will all be fine
Aug 2010 · 582
Why Are You?
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
Why are you...
Watching, waiting
listening
to what's next
Hurrying, planning
ignoring
all that is life

judging, measuring
cursing
future events
Wanting, lusting
discovering
life's ease

Forgetting, obtaining
creating
easy methods
concerning, jesting
hurting
everything around

seeing
but unknowing
the broken man
hearing
but ignoring
the cry for help

Becoming, uprising
achieving
what you are
seeking, craving
loving
forgot the words

believing, earning
deciding
on the unknown
building, uncovering
Yearning
the old passages

Touching
but not grasping
our ideas
Crying
can't understand
why it's you
Aug 2010 · 1.2k
Doggy Style
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
It was only yesterday
I can remember my loneliness
Until I saw my sunshine
Going down across the way

The moon shines bright
Against those evening clouds
When they clear and steer away
That’s where majestic go and fly

My shadows circle and die
Even they utter and cry
No matter how hard you try
You can’t have all your dreams

An occasional reckless scream
In the distance I try to listen
Mixed morals sound and glisten
Shut my eyes while I try

The suns usual rotation
A God or natural creation
Understanding Life and above
Is like capturing your love

Even those that taught you so
Tell you not to lie but theirs glow
Whether it’s a songbird or a crow
Sometimes you got to let it flow

The sky always waits
No matter how bad the wake
Never ever trying to take
You, me, and nothing more

My mind toggles and boggles
Good and bad being smuggled
Trying to erase and start anew
What’s left that I can see?

You said there's nothing to fear
Even though I was never held close,
It doesn't matter my heart was splattered
and nailed up on plaster

Shooting star across the way
Reminds me you didn't stay
So I’ll never forget
That my sunshine’s gone away
Aug 2010 · 416
I thought We Were moving
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I thought we were moving
your words were soft and soothing

You looked so **** pretty
like the lights of New York City

When the lights go out
I can feel this drought

I thought we were moving
my mood is not improving

I would not feel this shame
if i knew you felt the same

Only if had feelings
As we lay, looking at the ceiling

I thought we were moving
I don't think our feelings are approving
Aug 2010 · 442
The Heart Bridge
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
As we come across rivers
rough, easy, or deadly streams
All we can really do is shiver
Because nothing is what it seems

However you decide to cross
let the wind whisper in your ears
Look down at the soft green moss
stop your senses from your fears

It doesn't matter who you are
The heart Bridge doesn't discriminate
Makes you feel like a shining star
But may lead you to unstable fates

The mountain tops we can't see
Will be a tough precarious climb
at the top is where we all want to be
Going hastily, forgetting the leisure time

Why not the easy slow pace
Observe and listen all around
Catch all the surrounding faces
Capture everything that makes a sound

The Heart Bridge is tough to cross
You'll hear words of kindness
You'll feel like nothings at loss
After you cross you'll feel timeless
Aug 2010 · 589
On My mind Lately
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
On my mind lately
The girl dressed in white
She encumbers me greatly
she hides out of site

On my mind lately
Our memories flash
right before my eyes
Mystery gives me this ****

On my mind lately
your beauty never ending
like one of a seducer so unclear
Of what you were intending


On my mind lately
The times shared
and the songs we heard
What made you run scared?

On my mind lately
our understanding
that was so apparent
You're not the one for expanding
Aug 2010 · 924
Noise
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
I heard the noise
from down the stairs
I tried to keep my poise
But it kept giving me a dare
I rose slowly from my slumber
Stairs creaking, under my weight
My fear i tried to cumber
it was early but so late
I heard the noises louder
The chills put me in a new state
But it passed, making me prouder
The noise slowly ceased
Turning up the stairs, I climbed
My head hit the pillow, the noise increased
The noise seemed perfectly timed
Once again I tried to muster
Something deep inside me
To make my courage cluster
This noise wanted me to see
Unlike the first time
I ran down, not being as quiet
In my house, what is making this crime?
Everything seemed calm, without a riot
I turned unknowingly to the right
And just like in my life
Everything I had, clean and tight
Gone. As my heart was struck by a knife
Aug 2010 · 486
Three Years Ago
Hank Roberts Aug 2010
She walked from her house
She was wearing a blue blouse
As she crossed over main street
Looked over her shoulder in the sleet
Did she catch a glimpse of my face
I ran to the closest hiding place
Where I could still see her pace
I stayed far away just in case

Three years ago just the other day
Her and I would never part ways
Always under the morning sun
During the evening stars, we weren’t stunned
Everyday we were hand in hand
We loved our feet in the sand
It was on this fateful day, the other day
She told me she didn’t want to stay

I crossed the park with snow on the ground
Noone was around, nothing was at sound
Her curley hair flowing with her hop
Making everyone look and forever stop
Turning left down the alley way
Hurrying, I didn’t want her, twice, to be away
Even through this numbing winter
In my heart, I can still feel the splinter

Three years ago, just the other day,
Her and I would never part ways
We were standing on edge, peering at the lake
My feelings for her were far from fake
So I got down, asked her for her heart
The unforgivable, nervousness, tore me apart
It was on this fateful day, the other day
Where she went and left me down and astray

After all the endless calls and letters
Nothing was better, I tore her homemade sweater
Seeing her on the street, she hides her face
All I want is her to plead her confusing case
She climbs into the red striped car
I called a cab to take me this far
Far in the forest, it was the lake house
I peer through the window, I see another spouse!

Three years ago, just the other day
Her and I would never part ways
We would share hands, skip down the lane
These memories will be forever stained
For two years prior, we shared desire
Now I realize, her words were just to conspire
Never I thought, it would never come, this day
She’d leave me in tears as I lay, away

My brain said no, my heart said go
By this time, I was at the very low
I entered, walking more then slow
I could hear here laughing below
Walking down the wooden steps
As I came close, I took a misstep
This was the first time she saw my eyes
Seeing that us together now, could only die

Three years ago, just the other day
Her and I would never part ways
Down by the place at the lake
I gave her everything I had at stake
She told me her dreams, I gave her my soul
It wasn’t just my times, it’s my love she stole
It was like every other lover’s day
But on this day, I was left to only pay

Everything happened as fast as it came
Two polar extremes can never be the same
The other man, stood tall, like a king
He led me with his left, gave his right a swing
Being scared, I picked up enough courage
My anger was the one to encourage
Ending his life, I saw my trembling lover
She looks so pale, as I put her under the cover

— The End —