Tribal tones
--

Maidens bathe freely in the stream
-

Shyly

SEE!

The young boys gather in the woods!

--

Watch and wait

( the years shall come)

----
---

Gentle maturation

And pure nurturing
--

Visions of cornicopeia

And fertile seed

---

Every child shall be known

--

All shall grow in peace

I see YOU there

I always knew

That I would
--

I think you always knew

I was here

longing for........what?

to KNOW?

what?

come....it is such a lonesome hour

(images!)

people entering
people fading

people not really here at all

WHERE ARE THEY THEN?

who are we now?

CITIZENS?

my god!!!!!!!

of what country?

this?....SUCH FOOLISHNESS!

longing for...............what?

A BOY OR GIRL FRIEND?

such foolishness.

breathing deeply completely

THAT'S THE....."WAR!"

demanding your birthright.....

DO IT!

demanding your sacredness?

SHOW IT!

stop pretending!

BE IT!

the one and only first and last

the world itself and the human race

Oft repeated

(The phraselogy)

••

The mundane misery

The Pretence of Suicidal Intrusions from the unloving

••

THE NERVE OF IT ALL!

••

Crawling so seductively through  the broken glass upon the floor!

•

Boring!

//--//

(No wonder he left ya---

Ya ain't really there at all!)

•••

••

Oft repeated

Phraseology

••

I FELL SO ABANDONED!!

(Boo HOO!)

•

But it was you that did the abandoning

••

Cause ya never really loved at all!

you!

(it is.....
yes

how well i know

the subtlty)

----

you!

beauty walks in the sun

and gives totally of itself

so all may rejoice

and thus live

---------

you!

look!
look!

(and see......!

SHE BREATHES!

free

---------

you!

emergent from

subtle form

entering

the raw light

of existence

see

SHE

is here

for you

-----

you!

you are


beauty walking

in the sun

and there is no reason

he  loves she loves


he stays she stays
he leaves she leaves

SO WHAT? ..IS ALL

WAS IT REALLY LOVE ANYWAY
OR JUST LOVE'S ILLUSION?

who cares?
really

aint there somethin more important?

everybody eventually "gets laid"

"feels good"

"feels joy"

"feels grief"

SO WHAT?..IS ALL

avoiding avoiding avoiding

the mystic walk on the psychodelic beach

where man and myth collide
eternally

he lovees she
stays leaves

who cares?
really

why bother
with the meaningless
images

that werent ever
really
here at all?

Mr nothin
..

Ain't got no sense no more
----
Sick a this dyin ****

----

I look up at god he look down
At New York City
---

Yea right
I say

Not again

-----

Sick a these rich folk killin the poor

Ain't you?
...

Maybe not

-----

What good the perfect dream

If it don't come true?
----

Sick a this dyin ****
---

----

Gonna be a death song march and rattle

--

We know

We know everything

----

Me and the bag lady ridin easy

-----

****** on Lexington and 23 d street

---

Mr nothin

--

I thought we'd win

---

God still looking down on New York City

---

But knows

America is dead

a little bit a luck

a little love

we lie so easily

------

what da hell's wrong here?

--------

pain?

havent we caused enough?

felt enough?

-----

savin what we have been losin

broken hearts

broken memories

------

what da hell's wrong here?

----

you wanna know my name?

why?

are you the police?

-----

a little bit a luck

a little love

yea, sure

tell me

QUESTION
--------------

What's the difference between readin your love poems and watching *****?

ANSWER
----------

Nothin

(Tho the ***** DOES seem more real and wholesome
and more suited for children)

What will you do to survive?

••

This is the war

•
•It is here•
•

It is here & you are here & I am here

•

What will you do to survive?

••

(Hiding in self abuse is not a viable option)

(Encouraging children to hurt themselves pays well in today's
Marketplace

But in the end you too shall be destroyed)

••

So
What will you do to survive?

••

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO

naked as a  human being must be

vulnerably
intelligence
shatters the fear
and the greed that thusly proceeds

from our  inability to love

come

be purely naked and nurtured by
eternal reality

and such as me

who are always here

Work all day at the corner drug store

Sellin ice cream n soda pop!

••

Whee!

Yes!

Here I am!

••

Come on by!

(Say!

Why not?)

••

To the corner drug store

(Drug store!)

i woke up today and...
surprise!

i could not speak in my native tongue!

only this blasted english!

all my old concepts and thoughts.....
....................gone!

only the reality all around me.........

(of course we know the oink-pigs are here...lurking
......this is true in any "tongue")

so.......i guess all i can do is be asking you to speak distinctly and clearly!

about your feelings

in new words!

yes!

that's what i need

the reign of death
the rain of love
love  

love

we dance soft
we play fierce

we seek no revenge
we have no fear

we seek eachother
in the storm

we seek eachother
to be born

the reign of death
the rain
rain rain
rain
of love
we

rain down

we are the water

we are the rain

()
<> () <>
/\
\/

( not to die please not to die )

••

Rain ||| Rain |||  Rain

We cry so loud

Watch the poor sleep in the park

•

Lighthouse

High on the cliff

No one comes this way no more

•

All the children are in jail

•

We pass away

BUT WE WERE NEVER HERE IS ALL!

•

We been slaughtering each other for 1000 years

Tellin the story differently

pale urgency fading into faces
that shun the light

shadows within shadows

seeking love in sensual pleasure
and vacuous exchanges

touching the gentle member
with scorn

watching television
political commentary

fading into pale urgency
our faces

seeking the thrill of terror

knocking over ashtrays

that is excitement

------

lovely lovely lovely

i see you as lovely

my love

as lovely

you are

so lovely

((
      ))
((
    ))
\/
/\
/     \
:::::::::

Revival

( The pure )

•

Had enough ?

(Sure)

•

We don't have to go on anymore

Playin the Game

••

STOP !

The hurtin  is too fierce !

The pain too great !

••

Really

We don't have to live this way

We can be the rulers of our Destiny

the masters of our Fate  !

••

We can truly Love if we want

///

We can heal ourselves and the world

••

Revival

( the pure )

The honest

I LOVE YOU

••

Across the blue sky

The golden sun-light

And the falling rain

Washing us clean

struttin time!......
come on common man!
get on!
.......it's time!......
------------------------------------
you done been made a fool of!
again!!!
---------------
ride the ...."its your street" HIGH!!!!!!!!"
vibe
..
yea
--------------------
all the babes 'll be there
finally
all the babes, hey!
you gotta be alive!
alive before you lie
in the bed a love
you crave
--------------
the world and its lies!
let it die
....
live love survive!
the common man!
comin down the street!
street wise
....
-------------
colors flyin
and the blue sky

The bucket leaks
(The water returns to the ground)
----
May I be healed?

---------I do love!---------
----
The streets are on fire
Who do you trust?
------
The man with THE GUN?
.
He is everywhere
--
The school is on fire!
They will not let the child flee
----
It's too easy to get careless
Now
---
The child is on fire
It is just another day
----
Truth is free
If you buy it
It's not truth
----
You?
I?
....
....
Come on !

LET IT OUT!!

you dance the dance or you dont

midnight moons enchant
those who brave the  winds

bursting forth unto love
we

come unto the midnight  wind

---------

grace

dance with me

burst forth as love

the midnight moon

----

you dance the dance or you dont

::::::

By its silence truth proclaims itself ITSELF

And a man emerges on his own

•

We !

•

We emerge from the slaughterhouse

•

Hearts are beating

The breath completes

The triumph

Of the inner peace

••

As ONE

We!

Emerge and the world is ours

Even unto death

Unafraid

•

The child lives

We

Are pleased

•

The

••

(The------what?)

•
•

See the ****-stained girl in the shadows!

•

YES!

WHAT IS SHE DOING?

•

(falling in love)

••

WITH WHAT?

•

with the fantacy of falling in love

••

••

BUT WHAT TO HER----IS----LOVE?

••

A fantacy

•
••
•

But if you DO love her---

SHE'S GONE!

and the meaning......

.....of the show

----------

and the actors act

and the audience
(which pays dearly to see the scene)

sits quietly

sometimes an actor comes down
into the audience
and kills someone

the audience may either applaud or groan

according to whatever sign the prompter shows

and the "show goes on"

until all the lines are said

or............

everyybody in the audience is dead

everyone knows

where to...
and
where not to....

we choose to be decieved

everyone knows

everyone knows what love will bring
and what will happen here

we choose our pain so carefully

everyone knows who to allow to speak

1000 politicians!
they know

everyone knows

when to....
and
when not to......

we choose so carefully
how we shall be decieved

we choose so carefully

into our favorite shadows
we go

as everyone goes
and
everyone knows

if you aint come?

(how can this be?)

if you aint then who
then who
then who?

if you aint come
---

who walk that road alone?
who

who we abandon
to walk alone?

when we aint come?

--

HOW CAN THIS BE?
HOW CAN THIS BE?

there is war

cause you aint come

__

one dance of love

and truth shows

the 20 million children

and the holy mother

and you and me

eh?

--

if you aint come?

who then gotta

walk alone?

.



she does learn
( eventually )

///

Walking alone  in the rain

:::

( we all must

Walk alone in the rain  )

••

Every boy appears

Of every age & color

•

She knows !

//

Subtlety
_

It's hard to be here and remain

Wise .& strong
_

But she would  be a woman some day

//

We walk together in the long rain night alone

But we shall meet

"

Wet & cold

We shall
Meet

always movin
movin on

always  "here"
always
--------------

come...........

our problem is not that we are ......misunderstood

but that we lack......understanding!


"being in love".....does not mean..."being greedy"

there are too many poems about ....."being hurt"

there are too few poems about....."doing the hurting"
-------

in the middle of a life we find
everybody still...."here!"

wanting us to be......................"what?"

come
dare to try tell me!
-------

we seem too  "busy" to try fulfill someone elses ......need!

AND SO?

we are all then quite needy

-----

always movin
movin one
always "here"
always

Outside
.
Outta the labels
That bind and enchain
--
We hear
The highest farthest
mountain sing!
.
We heed
----
---
We're done
We callin it -- home
----
---
We takin all the love
We can bring
--
Arms so strong
Opened wide
-
Carrying
Every child
----
Hey little high school girl
Quit hurtin yourself
Quit hurtin yourself
.
Let him be
Why dare think
You are what he needs?
---
Outside
..
They callin "torture "
Bein civilized!
..
Outside

Outta the labels that
Bind and enchain
...
Given yourself a new name
That rhymes with the WORD
You have finally heard
---
We can meet
Only here
On these darkened streets
.
Bein free
.
Never alone
.
Havin the faith
To call it
Home
--
Outside

Outta
The labels that

Bind and enchain

soft decay
the tragic lose of honor
planets traverse the sky
alien lovers
we
only criminals
in our own minds

leaking death
unto the deep

destroying every child's dream

Suicidally secure
..
(Such as it is!)
__
With a deep sigh
Oh my mother
What have I done?
-
Done to myself!
Done to you!
---

We walked together
Beach and Mountain
.
We sang a good song
Didn't we and then it ended
And I thought that we were through
--
Suicidally secure
Against the pain
I thought forever
/
--
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
---
Well I thought that I was daring
I see me now as ---only boring
----
False security
(Like gold)
Fades away
...
And what remains?
..
Just the hunger
Of the lover to see the beloved
Once again

love love love

(and the wild
and free)

the mountains sing their own song

in frozen beds on ****** sheets
we make love

(and the wild
and free)

we make love in frozen beds
on ****** sheets

(and the wild
and free)

born as one
we divide

and make love

.



I don't know if I will vote for

Donald Trump or Mickey Mouse

) (
O
/\
:::::::
|  |
|   |

White stallion

Blue sky

Yellow sun

•

What are ya doing --- child !

Come

Tomorrow is here

Come

There are some things we gotta get done

••

Ride !

We must be free

No one can hide anymore

••

Love !

One last chance !

( it's time )

To walk like a man ----- or die !

( and loneliness IS death --- my friend )

••

White stallion

Blue sky

Yellow sun

••

Ride !

For all the children ---- here

For all the children yet to come

-------

Floating

Down the street

There was

A  

Little Lost Girl

Trailing behind.  


Sayin

YER MINE YER MINE !

YER MINE YER MINE !

)(.

And she done

Promised it to YOU

if FOREVER !

She gets to pinch YOUR behind !!


YEAH YEAH YEAH

DIS IS LOVE BABY

OH OH OH

TRUE LOVE BABY

OF

THE HELLO POETRY KIND

)(

It's just

LIFE WITH NO HEART

LIFE WITH NO SOUL

LIFE WITH NO MIND

)(

we'll sing one more

sure

we know who this one is for

THE ANGER DRIFTING
DRIFTING
THE ANGER DRIFTING

(he stood right there)

-------

images of wealth mar the scene

authority
without  humbleness

thieves
(really)

AND THE ANGER THERE

---------

we'll sing one more

sure

we know who this one is for

AMID THE ANGER

(so lovely)

standing there

the hour is so very surely at hand

our cowardly LOVE!
(so loveless!)

now death

(who knew always who would really win)

walks boldly up to your mother
and takes her hand

you watch impassively

and wander to the alley and lie down

in the filth and excrement
and try to weep
(but you cant)

the hour surely has no minutes
the minutes have no seconds

breath has no life
and
naked  bodies no allure

you are only totally poor
only totally
a slave

the hour splits and reveals
skeletons with no substance

we are mere specimens of man

we are cowardly lovers

merely loveless

and the............(?)
.
THE STRANGE!
.........
funny!
.
the crippled child!.
.
lo!
all the children are crippled!
----
WE MAIM AND ARE MAIMED
...
hurt------------yet "feeling!"
hurt----------yet "healing!"
......

(KNEELING BEFORE THE "KING"
IS
KILLING US ALL!)
---
arise!
now!
MAN!
............
in anger!
yet......SANE!

( love )                                                                ­        
(
                 •      
                       )


                                             we stand together or fall down

//

//

( and it's a long way down )

• •
• •

and the

FINAL VISION

( the image  ! )

The undying lover !


Where the moonlight meets the morning

Thru the mist of wooded hills

( The tears  )

The unforgiving memories
( as these , too , start to fade )

//

Who shall dare to show

Stark vulnerability

To the Stranger ?

( she ! )

•

She who walks with the EVERY CHILD

Across the WAR RAVAGED streets !

( my love )

//

Who loves even YOU my soul !

•

My fragile dying sense of Humanity

••

<<                  I try to tell you plainly                   >>

ALL I KNOW
ALL I AM

||

( a subtle pathway thru the pain unto the true )

//

I see you there !

••

( in the CAVES where all wisdom
Takes

Refuge )

•

Guarded by the NATURE you

Are Sheltering

///

A simple song

A wandering old man passing thru

These younger days

///

A vision in which lives

Images !

Of all lovers all around

.


Tenement dream

Song is drifting

)(

Over

Head


Below the stars


Blinking


The little dog barking


The child      There !

••


The poetry


The young girl's eyes

Opening !

Are you here ?


;;;

The preacher is preaching

The church bells ring


Mystic moments

Still

Still can be reached



Little dog barking


Little girl

On the tenement street


.

Soft!

we  bein watched!
....
Do sumpthin stoopid !
May be dey go away !
---
---
DON WURRY !
WE ALWAYS BEIN STOOPID!
---
--
--

The dream
Fades

We hide in garbage cans
Impotently raging
At the skies
--

Under survielence

Afraid to breathe !

Afraid cause we know

We are always seen!
--
--always --

Soft!

Do sumpthin stoopid!
Real stoopid!

Maybe den dey'll go away  !

NAW!

DEY AIN'T NEVER
GONE AWAY!

).                                    
•                                                        
(                                                               ­               
                                     )        O       (
                                      ////  • ||
                                      <>


#############

By the                      Well

Water

•

Soon soon

War

•

We met at the bar

We made love by the River

We buried our child in New Orleans

•. •

Sittin at the beach in Atlantic city

Air planes pulling  ad - banners across blue skies

•

( actually

Soon soon

War

Is wrong

It should say

Soon soon

Total human genicide  )

///

Sitting naked at school

No one complained but they still got mad

|||~~|||

My brother joined the army yesterday

••

It was that or go to jail

|||

No wonder I don't feel so good

•

By the                 Well

Water

•

The well is surrounded by armed Militia

•

I'm sure you know

Which one I mean

lover love love

we

ride the subway home

we

ride the subway

from brooklyn

--------

lover love love

we

grow old before we are

done being young

-------

lover love love

---------

the song is strangled

in the night time horror

of lonliness

we walk the terror

of ancient sorrow

we **** and are *****

------


lover love love

we

ride the song from the subway

home

from brooklyn to heaven

and become young

Drums!
..
Subtle
The sound
--
Lingers
----
---
When did it start ?
What does it mean?
---
Drums!
----
We are called
-----
Warriors!!!
----
Subtle the sound
-- the warning--
.
Take heed!
---
----
---
I do not think
The government
Is spying on us
For our own protection
--
The sound!
---
The heart beat of the drum
It lingers

We see eachother clearly

Now
---
Drums!
Subtle

So subtle
The sound

We heed

The country is dead
Our pettiness!

The obvious insanity
Of Hope and dream!
--
Only?

YES!!!

I would like to have a word with you

I'd love the chance to cast a SPELL

To describe what I know
And that I know
That YOU TOO
Know

All TRUTH
As well
/////

Well it's done
-----////-------
  It's lost or it's won

Only the unborn child ....
He grows or doesn't grow

As we know

Dressed in the pure rags of rage
Bragging of her most naked Power
.
Girl of the wide continental smile
Alive! ****! She's alive !
..
What'll we do now?
--
Home home on the range where
Only sheeple graze now!!!
....

Dressed in the pure rags of rage
Baring her body
Enduringly
.
hey kid
It is you I see!
---
Dance on mountains though you be
In the tired ole school house
::/:;;
Soon the wars
Don't go
Soon soon the wars
Soon soon
You and me and the 1000 friends shall see
Each other again!

--

Naked in the rain

(                                                            
                                                           )          
(                                            
                                       )
(                            
                        )
(            
          )
(
\/
/\
/   \

                                                                if ye got the time
•

Walk

///

Long roads

••

Selma to Montgomery

//                //

I was there

( every tear that ever was cried )

//

EVEN YOUR OWN

••

We end up in those sacred hills

//

Indian songs

••

Images of free men

Pure

Images of each other

Proud

//

Children are born wise

•

Come child

And be MAN

Well

Is it?
--
Is the sky
Gonna crack open
Twixt stars
And then the------ DRAGONS!
and then you be there?
----
Or the
Same ole stuff?
_
Well
It's up to you

What do you want?

Dragons!

Or the same ole stuff?

--

Show your magic
Girl

Crack open the sky

And show me your face

As you ride the DRAGON

down to the ground

(                            
            )
(                
)
\/
/\
/     \
#

Can you hear ?

What do you see ?

#

Gentle girl

Simply

The boy wanders the hills

#

What do you hear ?

Can you see ?

//   //

Eagle

In the sky

Oh oh

Vulture

The day

War is here

The children are fleeing

Everybody

Just a refugee

#

Can you hear me

Is it you I see

Fleeing to the hills ?

Simply

Refugees

I have walked this road for many a year

I follow

Follow

Follow

••

Every mountain

Overlooks the dream

The dream that was there
Before the war

It is not a dream of peace

••

I follow

Follow

Follow

••

I feel you everywhere

••

And every now and then

A glimpse does appear

••

••

Love

Love is a sure thing

We know

••

We know

After the years

The years come and go

Love remains

And you

Are here

Blowin

( in )

Yeah _ new reality _ Yeah

|||          (  •  )  (  •  )           |||

::
_

::

Child of war

Child !

What do you believe in ?

///////

ain't no yesterday

Gonna make it to tomorrow

Ain't no lover gonna

Survive the change

•

You got

Ideas of

Pride and decency

Oh

CHILD !

Say goodbye to these !!

/////

Only you

Only me

Only together

Finally

••

Only you and me

Like we really knew

From

The

Beginning



!

and what's left?
after all this death?

magical talking toys
................channeling

spiritual images of tom hanks

while so strangely on the news
bought  politicians are
saving the world!

tra la
tra la .......la la
-------------

an if'n in a little while
new images of free men
come into view

will i be able to
see you thru

the mass injustice

called
....................the world?

clinging to our
clanging chains

and our fake and indolent
sense of security

mommy and daddy and
apple pie-in-the-sky

and oil now pure water
and arabs as devils

and you as a "pile"
on the street

watching barak obama

being "lynched "
all over again

simply  distracting you
and you, so entertained

and so again
becoming enslaved
-----------

soft lover...
....be still

the
*tra la la la la's *
......................................fade

(eventually)

.....­......................IF YOU SO WILL

come....i am come!!
and you can come and come and come!
....can come HOME!
and can LOVE!
and ***
breeding NEW CHILDREN
who can live

(if here

....................they come

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