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142 · Aug 2016
< v >
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
)(



the man




The bitter afternoon of

Children
Dying

Hard


//


We write our love poems to imaginary boys



;:;


the old Ferris wheel


The amusement park is busted wide open




She


Undresses completely and dies into the terror

Until she fully understands

%<>%


love


The power


Given freely


><


Live or be gone !


One god one song


One child


The road towards home


Yes it is


Very long


But the will


Is
Strong


X
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



She was a dream

& I

was lucky I got

To know her

"""

She saw creation unfolding

And knew its ways

//

She saw the pain of our lives

And the false love we used

To try to ease it

//

She asked me ( silently )

To join her in the wisdom

That true love brings



We stood upon the bridge at dawn !

We faced the evil and were as strong

As we could be

••

Love !

••

Love !



Love  !

••••••

Calmness

Peace

))((

Nurturing

"""

We did what we did and moved on

)(

We come together all the time


.
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
'


So don't




Your casket is waiting over there
140 · Jul 2016
.... <( " " )> ....
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
||||                ||||
/\

####




My love ------ this day
Is

And the hills

( and the streets )

And every child's secret dream


••

We were poor then

We didn't know the Name of God






He said

I LOVE YOU
YOU ARE MY ETERNITY

she said

I LOVE YOU
YOU ARE MY ETERNITY

:::

I'm sure you what happened

You've read the poem many times

)(

The little girl with no name

Plays her flute and walks along



.
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
.



Oh Oh Oh

she come walkin

Slow

She       ••

is a really real babe  ||


•••••


We

( her and I )

We are the power

Gonna bring the truth that kills the lie


"""••"""
<>


Come on now

Downtown ••
All the good
Is
In your hand

//////


And if you cut out all

The ******* love


You 'd certainly
-------------     Understand !

••

She / like the first tomorrow (

We


The dream seed trembles


See !

The tree of life


In the center of the garden

In the first flickering of the light


.
140 · Jul 2016
//// * \\\\
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
(     )



i am the dream that stuff is made from


• )    <>    (•

^       ^


##



Slow and easy

( Gettin there )

;:


stand for the true humanity

Speak softly

Real words


( when they knew you

They may love you )

"""


In this the

END OF DAYS







( yeah

Let's rest awhile ......

Either way

We'll get to the end )

No hurry

We'll get there eventually

()

Strong and free

//

Living every moment

All the years !




My love has soft ******* and hands

Well

Maybe not

""

In our portion of the world

We move

Toward the center of town


Just to see what's really

Goin on


Z
140 · Mar 2016
now
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
now
.



//// •||
<>
/ (    (. \

/     \


On the corner
( on the corner )

She



Eyes of fire

See




Ain't no reason for all the pain

Oh

Let us truly vow

To truly love again

|||||

No more

dyin


No more

Dyin

)(

Lonliness

Cuts us to the core

Looking for

Just a touch

Of sanity

~~~~

the struggle only leads

To the mountain sanctuary

And the meditating saint

With his holiness

And you in his dreams

)(

Rain Rain Rain

Wash us clean

So we may stop our

Cryin

Cryin

And be free
140 · Aug 2016
.... old song >
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
)(




after the lady has left for the night

And the ages reveal the dreams of the slaves

And the church bells crack
And crash to the floor

And the wail is heard from the lost little girl



I hear you

Your gentle song

And feel
Your
True grace


::

And still

It is all good

//

The touch of purity

And Life




Come now

Know what is madness

Hold on to reality

Walk out of the darkness


Become the Light


X
139 · Aug 2016
... /Buddha \ ...
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
.

Sits under the tree

See what he sees


Quit ******* around


.
139 · Jul 2016
•> /|| 0 || \ <•
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
|
|
===
0                0


hey

Maybe we can try

"""""""
A song by

THE FOUR GIRLS

:::::


mountain dream

We come here from there

From the world and it's dying love

)(

I was once pure earth

Fertile in simplicity

All the joy in a single seed

We can conquer all our fear

We of magic

We of grace



Do I know you

Can I try

You only seem to

Want to run away  


"


On the way

Home from school

:

All the rules you learned today

Some true some a lie

?>

We meet

You & me

After that

Everyone

.
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
-



The unicorn is dead



The earth (?)

We let it die

)(

Blood red sky

The unicorn is dead

()

Children be calm

The dragon shall saved the  human race

)(

The unicorn is dead

The dragon shall save us the hard way

( not all
Of us

But at least

Some )

We could of saved the unicorn

But ... (?)

But what (?)


No ones really  knows at all


D
139 · Jul 2016
.... poets !!!!!!
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
X


the broken promises

The empty heart

Choosing between

POSSESSION & ABANDONMENT

)(


The self glorification !!


The INKY veins

( how trite ! )

••

In the rain

Lost children and saints

//

And the POET !

Cutting her wrists by the side

Of the Road !!!!!!!

••

••

& telling the world about it !!

Perfecting the description

Of

The soul that's been sold !


X
139 · Aug 2016
/^*^\
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
•       •
<>


dawn


( I seen a man at the.


Top a the hill )


Is that a lost girl or a searching one ?


(In the end it begins anew )


The solitary
The unified

We

Take the message to the world



.
139 · Mar 2016
Untitled
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
& on a day such as today ..

( the hungry child in the park )

From the 4 corners of the world

We come

//

We come swiftly

We carry within our hearts

All the compassion needed here

//

Cleansing rains or war

These the choices

For our fate

//

Come ( and bring )

Your flaming sword

//

And let us create

A new world
139 · Jul 2016
)//-- * * --\\(
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
O



In the sacred

The light of life itself

Breathing deeply the mystery

We


We who are alive

We who are the light

Wander the earth in search of you

)(

The undying song

)(


Oh child              ----  ! Come forth !

Out of the symbolic alleyways

Come with the masters to the hills


<><><>

The waters !

The last of the earth

The wounded skies !







Come child

Mass horror and deceit are here


Come child

Into the light

Into the silence that is music itself


Into the flowing nectar

Of pure holiness



::
138 · Jul 2016
.... I love you Despair
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
.

For without you

I would feel nothing at all

Cause I am a *****

""

I loved a girl

Eternally !

Though she didn't love me


( cause I'm a ***** )




Please  feel sorry for me

All you poets of

Hello Poetry


Trapped in space between my legs

Which I call

YOU - my world

( cause I'm a ***** )


••

Oh Despair !

( My muse ! )

My silly poetry


I praise this shameful
Pain


Cause I'm a *****


Z
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



in the final end

we' ll find

That EVERYTHING had an

Ultimate motive


)?(

( & you TOO my friend ! )

|||||


Even in the dark rain of these

Alien streets

Some hint of truth

Always remains


;:;

Soft !

Her ******* !

She feels them there before her

And  now knows  HOPE again


)(


The subtly reborn child !

We shall know him

Very soon


)(

His eyes !

He feels a magic !

He knows that it is quite alive


//




Across the bridge !

He' ll be off at the break of dawn



.
137 · May 2016
}•> ... __ ... <•{
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
.

/    • )  • )   \

/  \

><><><


& so lovely

( the wind and the rain )


||

She

( sighs of deepest melancholy )

Sees the children

And calls them home

••

And you , there

In your city solitude

Is there something

You truly have to say to me ?

~||~

the wind and the rain

~||~

She holds the child by the hand


They look around and wait for you



.
137 · Jul 2016
... ) < ) ( > ( ...
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
( ---- )
|||||||



the only one

T
H
E

one son

"""

And Death is here

)(

( We are not afraid )

:::::::::


A song by

THE 4 GIRLS

/////

A melancholy day ( she wore bright colors )

Oh the sadness that is reigning

In the heart

We

Are powerless ( so we say )


:::


Oh lovely girl



I seen YE walking in the rain


Oh

It was a melancholy day

NO REASON TO GO TO SCHOOL

you will know poverty !


Yes indeed !

)))))(((((

Cowboy tune

She knows very little of the

Here and Now


S
H
E

come from a  time of Mass Deceit

she ends up in the Bowery

selling her body for

Somethin to eat

"

She is a friend of mine

••

She simple walked awa

::::

I remember your name

////
137 · Mar 2016
the Return
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
.



Lost in the vast delusion

( Running scared )

//

Strange

( isnt it ? )

How we have allowed

All our history to be erased ?

//

We are as if aliens

Alone in images of emptiness

Of time and space

In a spaceship

( not a world ! )

**

come and see Me now

Hold my hand

Touch my face

:::///:::

Death is here

:::///:::

We are individual

We are the whole world

:::

Love is the only power

///

Use it

And be reborn


..
Jeffrey Robin Jun 2016
.




the evening dream


Every child has a favorite prayer

A personal god

Truth he knows he must always be prepared

To cherish and defend



+




in the heartland of pure mystique

What is a boy ?

What is a girl ?

••

If you know of true love

Why is there really  any pain at all ?


))??(((

::

+

::

The last day

Soft and free

Write your poem thoughtfully



Maybe it might do some good



.
137 · May 2016
/()\_v_ /()\
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
~~<>~~

( • )    ( • )



""""""""""

We be done sick a this **** world

//

We be da poets

//

We be here writin ya all a new one !



so wake da **** up

)(


We love

We got all the power that we need



.
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



and


THE DAY


::


stark faces

The dying of the child

The lonliness that kills

We are

Upon the earth again


Giants

We hold the world in place


:/:/:

I know who you are




It's okay

To be human

Amid the frozen bodies



Come on !

No need


To simply die

amid the lies

In which we hide our shame


Come on out !


Into the light of the holy day


.
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
You may ) ...

()()  +  ()()


But as you know

You don't have too


••




Love



Beyond the evil of these our days



Love





Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
I love you


She said



Who (?) me (?)


:/:


Who knows ?

Who cares (?)

What difference does it make ??

//

Love



That's the thing


In the wild mountains

The holy waterfall


They went there !!

SPEAK !  SPEAK !



,
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
.


.... the long time

( ... the  pathetically long time )

A time of dying


A time just like Today

••

for some strange reason

Even we poets don't try

To be truthful

Anymore

///


We don't truly try to connect with one another !

Yet we claim we have so many lovers out there !


Then we see that they are all imaginary

And that " our fellow poets " are imaginary

And that our whole world is imaginary !


And so we feel

Some semblance of peace !

//

Day after day we do this

As we've been doing

For such a

Pathetically long time !

.
136 · Aug 2016
#+#
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
#+#
(    )
(          )
/----\


)((()))(

the cold child

Dead to
Human

Feelings

••

Who
Cares ?


//

Shedding tears

In vain


( it's all
About

Money )

••

I am here


//

I am the simple honesty in your heart

;:;

Do what you will

We will guide you to
The door


/:/


Dear lost soul

The world is here just for you


:::
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



.. Come sweet child !

Away !

//

All the poets here have fangs

And forked tongues

And no redeeming qualities

/////

They are lifeless

They are fake



They only write of taking

They have nothing to give

••

Come away
Child


We shall start a real world

...


Beware the "lover " who praises your love but offers

None of her own !

//


Making love in a graveyard

And dying in their ******* poem !


Vampire words

From the undead





Come child

Enough said

.
136 · Apr 2016
( ) ___ • ___ ( )
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



(                              
                        )
( ­               
                    )    
(
\/
/ \
/     \


:::



Holy Water

The stream in the mountains

Hippies gather


The world ( again ) is saved



)(


Freedom


()()


The children of the world


( you )?)

:::


Gentleness returning

)(

)(

)(

///////////////////

It is a lovely place indeed



.
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
0                                                     0

(~)




Looking out the Window

BELIEVE !


Free men


( Oh remember ! )


•••""""•••
----

right now

Looking in the Mirror

All we see is slavery


)(


I was born and I will simply

Stay that way

••~~••
||
<>




We are so foolish

To throw our precious lives away !

)(


Looking out the window
I see

No one looking at each other

No one looking at anything


.
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
.




... Dreams she of utopian waters


//


Alone upon the high ridge


Away

//

The wisdom lingers

Never grow weary !


The songs plays on

"""""""


Naked child
Naked poverty

We dream from within

Utopia

The holy waters

Keep us pure and clean


....

Dreams she with me

We seed today

With the power

Of tomorrow


.
135 · Jul 2016
.... war
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
.





yeah
                    War

Just goin off to war for while

----

Boyfriends
Girlfriends

        These come & go

Emotions !

Joy and pain

---

These come and go

/--
War gonna stay around for awhile



A very long while

//

Paint your pictures on the Wall

Use paint or words it don't matter

///

It's the same ole song


Crippled children everyone


.
135 · Aug 2016
#
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
#
"



:::


Soft the spoken day


The broken city intrudes i


(The anger         the despair )

Tomorrow

Talks so loudly thru the

Silences here

///


Child of plenty !


Beware

Beware and be kind

""

The crying song invades


)(

The angry city explodes

//

&'

Despair brings tragic images as we know for sure


The Lord called


I came

Here I am amid you now


,
135 · May 2016
... the last Song
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
.


^
<^>
//// • ||
<>  
\
                 __)
               / \       / \


the lonely jester

Wants to play

::::

A SONG BY

the 4 girls

------

she said ...... ?

(?)



Yeah

But it was only words

//


( she says so many things !
---

In truth


No one listens any more )


""()()"""


the last jester on that

Lonely road


//

All the little girls

Come out to play



.
Jeffrey Robin Mar 2016
.


(              
                    )
(    
               )
(
\/
/\
/     \


####

we can be free !

||

if you really want





The stranger

The hidden entry

The open door

:::


Our heart !


;;;

Humanity in flames


)()(
()()
)()(


I look to you for TOMORROW

but you are so YESTERDAY !


::


The ONE PATH !

We face a brutal life ahead

)(


The death squads are here


LOOK !

YOU ARE ALREADY DYING !

;;;

Useless words


You have been dying so long !

)(

Looking for a lover but not love


,
134 · Apr 2016
...("""• •""")...
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
(                       )
(                               )

~~~,~~~~~,••


she  was brave



•        •        •


I seen her on the beach

At midnight

Yeah

I did

><

We sat there for quite a while


::::)()(::::

It was good

•  •


We became strong

We learned to love

//:://


in this final hour


What shall we do ?


.
132 · Aug 2016
... come !
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
::



Ere your sadness seems ...... Normal !


••
••
••





Torn earth

Fragments of humanity linger

In the alleyways of the cities

In the high hills at dawn


)(

Be YE courageous !

Death is here

Face tomorrow strongly

The world is a slave camp

Do not join !

)(


LOOK !!!!

Do not tell me you do not see

Everyone sees

We all
Know

Of the state of things


••


Lovers !

Disentangle  !

AND REALLY ..... LOVE !!




Goodness is here

In every heart

In every life

""


Come !


Let us guide each other home



X
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.



she was a

Very young girl

Sweet as can be

Gentle & kind


She brings


Visions of peace



WARRIOR SONG !
_



Looking out towards the sea


The lone prophet

The wisdom we need


)(



Now

Is the time

To follow the young girl

To the end of the line

.
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
Inject it into others "


::


I DECLARE that I have no poison in my mind

Therefor

Any disagreement between us is you being

negative

!

And is a result of you taking advantage of my kindness

Which is indisputable because I say so

"""

My pure brutalized SOUL !

It just wants to be

A SURVIVOR !!

::

;;


REPLY


::


Peace is a precious thing

We must truly strive to attain it

Peace between 2 people spreads to the world


If it is true peace

And we are talking about

The true world

//

))((


I want to hear your honest opinion on this



Just be sure you say that I am in the right


.
130 · Jun 2016
.... // --- >
Jeffrey Robin Jun 2016
.


Can't get in
Can't get out !

We ****** !





(((())))

A SONG BY
the 4 girls

////


:::


The lofty vision !


The truth in its own way

Emerges from hills

//

Looking like a man

//


The River

(!)

( The ancient wisdom )

Who ever would LOVE

must come here


//

Oh mighty breath of the goddesses and gods


Cleanse us now

••

Every leader is a liar

To follow is to be a fool


~~~


So

Where do you get your knowledge from ?

•••

Crome whence your ideas of how to live ?

I mean


Are we really just gonna sit around and watch each other

Suffer

And do so

For the rest of of lives ?


:::

Basically

( I know )


You probably don't even care ant more

::


The wind blows free !


Throw up your sails and fly !

Away from all this death that is here



.
130 · Jul 2016
... so it is // love )
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
.


.^^^^^

we admire the outer "package "

Imitate some character from a tv sitcom

Unite with her in the game called

DRAMATIC FOLLY

pretend we are adults and ****



When the reality appears and we notice

We are really souls

We panic at the intensity

Of the truth

//

We call this panic

BREAKING UP

)(

We hide our shame by saying we are

BROKEN !

)(

We wonder

MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY TO BE REAL

BUT WE GET REALLY INTO  THE CRAZINESS

BECAUSE WE GET GOOD AT IT

And wake up 60 years later

Twisted by arthritis

In an old age home



X
130 · Aug 2016
... Sheboygan blues
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
X



Sad sad days are here
Come let's take it from the top
Again

We are all of a kind

And kindness
Though it hurts sometimes

Is all that's left in the end

:::

Sheybogan blues

She grew up
In the factory

Saved herself one lonesome night

On the road going out of town

//

So let's take it from the top again

Tell me your true DREAM

and we will meet at dawn

In the mountains of our choosing


X
130 · May 2016
.. who .... (?)
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
.



So simply gentle love is here

••


She told me she loved me

And that therefor she felt alright

Asking me for $100

& I said


Sure and gave it to her

••

After she came back

and for the next 10 years we were

Really the closest of friends and

Loved each other dearly

But once I thought

SHE HAS NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT
PAYING THE MONEY BACK

( NOR DID I ... I JUST KINDA  REFLECTED ON IT NOW

VERY MILDLY )

///

but then I thought

SHE DIDN'T ASK TO BORROW IT

SHE JUST ASKED FOR IT !


//

Well

All in all


It's just a lesson about love


.
129 · Jun 2016
... softly lit dream
Jeffrey Robin Jun 2016
.

True love



//// • ||
<>
/ ( • ) ( • ) \

####


She appears
   She gathers the children

She leaves









she has courage

And faith


And true strength




Oh people !


You are being killed !!

And you do t even try to defend yourselves !!!

)(

Softly lit dream


All together


NOW


.
129 · Apr 2016
.. tiny words ! ____ ( we
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
.


Skip and jump away ...

From all these trite poems

Which so abuse us !

)(              )(

( about that *****

With the whip

And her ***** lover boys ! )

••

Playin HOUSE with themselves

Just like mommy and daddy !

///

Gentle rain

Come wash us clean

Below the power of the sun

And the wisdom of the stars

;:;

(  ( to grow again ) )

""""

Tiny little boys and girls

We grow up and marry

True love

&

A new world comes

And sets us free


.
129 · May 2016
destiny
Jeffrey Robin May 2016
.


Tomorrow


Comes for us all


::


One god

One love

//

Only selfishness destroys a man

//

We all know all truth

//

See the child over there

.
Jeffrey Robin Apr 2016
) •



Born from ...

The earth's eternal

PROMISE  

//

You always

KNOW

that

We are here !

) •

the power that is

Purely Righteous

//

Would never abandon you

In such a

Miserable world

)(•      >

Oh yes ) •

Right here


HERE WE ARE !!!!!

///

Rise up from

slavery

Don't have to be

Misery 's child

)•(

You are the one who chooses

You are the one who decides !


)(

yes !

Just say yes !

&

Come alive



.
129 · Aug 2016
( • ) ( • )
Jeffrey Robin Aug 2016
//



falling

)(

In love ?


••

She knows something

She never thinks about it

!!

Useless pain


I love you

There is no sorrow

Only sad and meaningless hours

~~


Foolishness


( love that isn't love )

Be strong

Never let them see you weak
129 · Jul 2016
one child sings the song
Jeffrey Robin Jul 2016
::



She walks the streets and the high hills


( Is it you ? )




Oh god

Your glory !


()      ()

Holy the earth goddess

( gentle mother )

Sacred sister

And brother


Simple feelings !

Simple feelings and you are home !




She carries everybody in her mind's eye

Her heart of love draws me to her

To nurture and protect her

On her way


The song


The song that lingers

The song that is everywhere


Have you heard ?


Z
128 · Sep 2016
)( ___ )(
Jeffrey Robin Sep 2016
•. •
<>

#####





a thousands days


( we )

••

We let the ******* be free


( how kind we are )


{{{


She wanted me to want to **** her

It got very confusing



So let me just ask

ARE YOU REALLY GONNA LET YOURSELF
BECOME A SOLDIER ?

( perhaps everyone has the right to know )


||

If it were only you and I who were left

What would we do ?

//

Now

We must confess

Very few real people exist

Hence there is little reality

In the world you live in

And thus very slim hopes

Your dreams may come true

/:

( Let us not )

.\

Come dear maid

Come to
Me

I promise all

Shall be good


X
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