.


Know the truth

Of which you are singing

::


Naked in the woods !

The pain !

•

Who now truly

Can you call

BROTHER  ?

""""

Love in WAR  

Is not like

Love in PEACE

••

You will not be in high school

Forever

//

In 5 years EVERYONE you know will be gone !

•

From strong foundations

Come standing buildings


///

We are learning to whine and cry

About what is surely

Inevitable

""

While the most real and powerful emotions

Are simply ignored

And thus  we die

••


Softly the birds fly thru the sky


:/:

Let us decde

We too shall live



.

.






                                              ( I heard somebody say )


•

the bullets or the words

Both can rip the young boy down

••

Oh well

••


She rode the Ferris wheel
At the carnival

And at the very top

She saw god
( & I was there & I know she did )

••

The secret sword ( the magic sword ! )

THE VERY SWORD  THAT 'S IN YOUR HAND

//


We are good

We are surrounded by enemies of life itself

We are good

Yes we are


X

.






Oh gentleness


The sweet girl comes walking
All the boys are watchin

Oh yeah

Thinking about destiny


//


all the mighty stories

Like the flood waters

Knocking down all the trees

Even pullin all
The roots from the ground

,,


Love so fragile

Only "captured"
In tiny fragments of imagry

Subtle memories


And in a child's eye

X

Oh YE silly boys !

There 's ALWAYS a sweet girl
Walkin by

Open up your jaundiced eye!


And see !



X

/       (     (      \
            
                   )

(            )


####

the one day breaks

//

•


The vagrant

Heads for the hills

The freight train !


Oh lord


We are dying again !


In the same way as always


••••••

Sweet girl became a woman at last !

Had a few babies


They grew up
And are gone


•


She lives in a shack outside of town


//

Next week she loses her food stamps

And will die

::::::

The one god is gone

Broken


he had a long run on Broadway

But he lost everything when the markets crashed


He hopes his old buddy lucifer  will

Help him out


)(

Ain't  no good here no more

Jes a bunch a people like


You & me



.

.



Fragile grace

( Life )

//

Greenwich Village Sunday Song

)(

Yes

It is remembered

////

An honest person would die to protect


The honor of total TRUTHFULNESS

::

All the poets are dead

••


Greenwich Village Sunday Song


)(

Church bells and children with flowers and ribbons

In their hair

//

The poets are dead

But I am here



.

/\


• =•= •

the winds !


Come


The battle awaits

The ****** fields !

Come

The battle awaits

)(

We don't know why we're fighting

( we just die )


)(

Of all the stupid stories in the world !


And the stupid story that is your life !!




.

::




Ride




///

Up and in


•

you can't wait
Any more


///

Tomorrow ?

It is here




•


Held in loving       arms

We know each other


             ••


When we sleep
Together ,,,, !



::

Everybody will see


X

.



The growing use of the term

MY DARLING  !

to describe ones temporary eternal love !

TAKE NOTE !

all you wannabe love poets !

THIS IS THE NEW TREND !

GET WITH IT !

BE POPULAR !

///

It's use makes you sound


SO MATURE !

SO SOPHISTICATED !

SO FEMME FATALE !

)(

it has a certain untouchable defiance !


Like saying

I WAS A GOOD ****

AND IM OUT A HERE

*******  !

••


God help us all


::::


It seems

That despite what all the poems say

None of you has ever had a boy or girl friend EVER !

//



And

By the state of being that you reveal


NONE OF YOU EVER WILL


.

0                   0


<>


##########


livin in the subway

-------

A SONG BY

the 4 GIRLS

:::


whose little boy (?)


///


Whose

Broken ........... little son



)(


Oh he


Ain't


Doin so good


no no no


ain't feelin so good


)(

All the children


They all one and the same

...


Don't wanna go where they're goin

And can't go back to from where they came


)(


Mother


Mother !


Mother !!

Mother  !!!!

Oh oh oh


::


Silent


In the rain



Someone slowly walkin by


Bout to knock upon your door



.
.

-


True Freedom

////

A song by

THE 4 GIRLS

;;;

long branches cross the sky

Hidden dreams .....

The day gently moves along


We can follow if we want


//


We can follow if we want


The frieght train the early dawn

The wide eyed girl the gentle joy

The simple gaze from the pure hearted boy

Tomorrow's world depends on you


)(


Sing for free

Send your poems on the wind

Awaken every single one

With visions of the fertile earth

In its place that's called YOUR HEART


::

Over there a child born

Over there an old man dies

You cry or don't cry as you choose

The river runs to the sea

No
Matter what you do or think

//

Good good people

Good good world


Simple is the silence



It is the home of god


.

She






little angel girl
By the side of the road


Mountains sing

Amid our tears


We are so abused

••
••

Lost in manufactured dream images

We lose

All

Sovereignity

Looking  for celebrity

•

•
•

I once knew you

Now you
Are on  the road

Looking to escape
Our FATE

MAY I COME  ALONG
WITH YOU ?

••

mountains sing

.


Just another day of faux poets

Babbling inanely

About their puerile and petty existences

Amid the myriad

******* **** and *****

Of the world ,,,,,, (?)

Or will they dare turn the real light

Of real creativity

Onto life itself

And allow the slumbering healing process

To turn our blighted and crippled selves

Unto the true ways of love


And toward the actual fulfillment

Of our human potential ?

//

We shall see

WE SHALL SEE WHAT WE HAVE


CHOSEN


TO BECOME

.

Man has destroyed the earth he lives on



||||||||||||{


()

//-//


Sing

Lonesome dirge

(Penthouse wail )


•


We struggle to truthfully prove we exist

I EXIST

--


The lingering feeling of love

)?(

It too lingers
It too drifts


Here and there

She appears and fades

But I don't care
;::

In the penthouse wail

All those of false righteousness reveal themselves

••

Come

Here

It is empty of  its pain

So please

Come

( and know that that you may stay )


/:

Earth

Be healed

ALL YOUR CHILDRRN GATHER  ROUND



X

.



days of forbidden rage

The lovely young girl !


The animal instinct

Humanity betrayed


••


We pretend

We write of love but not lovingly

We hate too easily

We fear to actually be known

We only show

What is already known


//


Poet


//

days of forbidden rage

( all feelings are forbidden. )


We babble inanely of something

We call love

•


We talk of depression and suicide

But never offer reasons

For our state

••

.

,,


Noble Son


;;:.

Walks the river road deep into the mountain

Seeking the truth behind all mystery


))((

Indian girl


;;

Real her dreams

•


We watch the night skies for signs and omens


;;


We see and feel

The brutal lonliness of our

Love

It's total ego

It's total  fraudulence

It's total
Sham


()

So be it

( What else can little children do ? )

With no reality anywhere



.

.




ere death comes

( & it is everywhere )

PURE LOVE

Never let it become debased

Never hurt a person with deceit !



;:;



Faces!

Floating in dreamy breezes !

We must reach out!

we must touch !

We must meet !

•    •

Without us

All is meaningless

AWAKE !

Please


PLEASE TRY TO COME AWAKE DEAR CHILD


.

.




THE POEM

__


We hung out

Huddled up in blankets

In the alleys of deepest Chinatown


<>

Addicted to freedom and the wind

•


I taste her on the salt sea breezes

And the tears

As the blizzards come and the rain

Ans she is here

Fierce with pride and our children

( and you are here )

""""

Lone man

On the bench at the ole train station

Waiting

He been waitin here nigh on 20 years

::

My gal!

We are hidden there !

In every image somewhere

In the deepest shadows

And the stars

.

Who shall I send .. (?)





••


The hour is erupting

STAND YOUR  GROUND  !

::

Ain't no super - heroes

( do you have faith in yourself ? )

)(

Can you make a choice at all any more ... ?

//

Even in love
even in ***

You do as you are meant to do !

You cry everyone's tears

VAIN ! VAIN !
ALL IN VAIN !

)(


Child- less

Faithless

//

Yet so full
Of pride !

//

We are called !

Shall we heed (?)

//


We are with god

Or


We're not


x

.


We and the stars

Death and the child walk the streets

Looking for someone

But you ain't there

•    •

( • )  ( • )

•

In former righteous days !

The child and the gods

Walked the earth and it was good

////

The Ferris wheel !

Up and down !

They said that this was truth

( they lied  but we believed )

CLUBHOUSE POETRY

•

we

Promise

WE SHALL NOT

SELL OURSELVES

TO THE MAN !

//

Under the stars

We await the appearance

Of our purity

We will do nothing

Til it is here
.

.



( Not so very far from death )

//

Writing poems on the vagrant winds

•

In the shadows

Looking for lovers

( playing out the ugly game )

;:;:;

You & the

Policemen

•  +  •


Gentleness

//

Craving gentle ways

)?(

A time of mass incarceration

& deceit

)(

An all encompassing

Police State

( I LOVE YOU )

)(

Sweet youth

Don't let your whole life go to waste !

)(

Heart to Heart

)(

Free

))((

Gentle love

Come

Meet me now

This gentle day


.

.




Born yeah

We come

From

That same ole place


You know


That ole place


At the top of the hill

Where the EYE & the LIGHT

are  the same  thing still

;:;

Do you surely

Remember the way


I touched your *******


The very first day  ?

••


Winds !!!

Threaten the world !!

We seek shelter

Weak and afraid

I think it best

If  we stand together

We and the whole  human race

We know for sure

That it is now or never

)(


I ride the big stallion

I carry all children

All of the angels

And god himself

Know me by name  



.

.





ancient


The story line

||


Eyes peer out the window

••
•••

The long war is ended

~~


Tiny boat


Leaving the harbor


( she .... she .... she )


She will be free

)(

One tiny step

Ahead

Of the slaughter

•


Salt sea breeze

Sense of

Immediate danger


)(


The song so rough

as tough as the water

As poor as the dream

;:;


But we

Choose to survive

Ancient Love

From one to all others

|~|

Tiny day

The human race


Just might survive


What do you say ?



.

.


We walk the hills that scorn

Our feeble attempts to be born

We dream of the eternity

That some lover will provide for us

To set us free

•=•

But never a brand new day !
Doing the same ole thing !

We

Get so lost in the make pretend


••

It's time to go

Reality has already gone !

It's time to go

Find the HOME.
that we promised

Would be there



,

.


For what ( who knows ? )

And .... Why we simply wait (?)

//

We are far too afraid to say

//


•


Vision from the hill

                                          ( She sees )

The Pilgrim Road

leading

Into the  golden Forrest

Where pure magic

Is still alive

""""


•

Warriors

Standing Tall

True women

With fertile bodies

And nurturing love

•


•


( she sees you ! )

FREEDOM IS HERE

|~~|

In this time of truth

In this time of deceit


The choice is always yours my friend

•     •
<>


:/:

What is love ?

What is happiness ?

THE PILGRIM ROAD

the battle of humanity

To remain

Human

:::

She

Sits on the hill

She sees you

Wherever you are



.

,


liberation's tune

She come a long way from the high school
*** machine

she became a woman with real feelings
And true dreams

:::

We met in that sacred place in the woods

All the children of the world

....

It is good

•

Maybe if I live

With courage and grace

I will be able to die in peace

//

Either way

It's nice to say

" I saw you here "



.

/\
|
/\



#####


suffer soft and easy little one

Under the son

Under the SON

/:/

Thru the suffering what comes ?

/:/


/:/

telling many stories

Truth descending !
( can you feel ? )

)(

Look , see the young girl

She is playing over there

••

The young man she would adore

He gets killed in the war

::

( if you had invested wisely before the war

You would have made millions ! Even billions !! )

))((

))((

So weary

The shepherd boy

::

Oh mama !



•




Oh my lord



X

0
0            0
<>

/\
/\

#####

she walks naked empty beaches

NONE CAN SEE HER

only I

~~=

Mass fornication

Forever high school !  At last !

"Am I only just a dumb ****? "  she thinks

~~

Even dumb ***** can put words to paper

Is it Poetry ?

No

~~

In this hour

Heroes !

I am


.

... dear child

:::

as gentle as you

( falling and rising )

•

walking thru the falling years

Watching the children

Trying to catch them

Before they're gone


//

Listen to the song of the

Falling rain

Listen to the song of the

Fallen child

:/:

Listen to yourself

Sweet flower girl !

•

Gentle

The falling is real

And also the rising


Dear sweet child


.

.



... Off in the shadows of our broken promises

)(

)(


perhaps ( really ! )

We should leave this place !

THERE IS SOMETHING

REALLY ROTTEN

IN AMERICA

••

past the last filling station


Into the fathomless desert

And the hint of a mountain hidden by

The Sun

•


Come

:::

Let us try be free


///:::///

Let us not forget


The truth that created us

..

Let our broken hearts mend

As we renew our vows

And make again

True promises



.

~~

V

/-/-/-/-/


the little


The lovely


LIFE !


///


Walking on water !


Being !


( a thing that heals ! )


"•"


the freshness !

The constant DAWN

//

The sweet **** !

Everyone !


//



Under the mountain star


With the dragons and unicorns


We gather together

All
The people



.

.

.



. ..  ... & the dream come true #
                                           ##

#

And she              ( you ? )

soft as love on the black streets

The red blood dreams

Of maybe living

                         ••

We are still little pup AMERICANS

Cookie cutting for love !!!

////      

THANK GOD I 'M HERE !

•""""""•

<>

(  •  ). (  • )

Ain't it time to really think things over


We gotta know more

Than how to pull down our pants !


///////

The cracked dawn

The ole frieght train

The empty silo

••

The white angel waitress

At the diner there

///////


All aboard


We are free



.

.x





               lighthouse

                                                  In the storm

•

I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED
she said

He smiled

And reached over and

Touched her breast

                         ( in the diner last Sunday )

<>

                         Lighthouse

                                                In the storm

•

Dreams come and go

But something lingers
                                          Forever

And sometimes

Bursts back for awhile
Into Reality

          And SHE & HE

                                  Appear again

                                          ( & the gods are appeased ! )

/::/


/::/
.


Yeah

It's all kinda in the way

We choose

To look at things



X

.



The train is leaving

And then it will be gone



( and all
Hope

Done )

••••

><

We have decided here

Not to talk about important things

><

><

The corpse lying there at your feet

Will be a treat for a zombie

Some sweet day !

)(

Like a lover like the kind we write about

><

After the tears and the razor blades

><


After we wash the *** off the sheets

><


And wash the truth from our memories

><

it's just a corpse of a kid we knew

><

><


The train is gone

We are in ghost towns

Kissing the dusty winds

;:;

Days swirl around

Faces

*******

The naked *****

( our toys )

::

Oh god !

What are we doing (?)

Over and over

And over again


.

|
/\
|
/\
#
#    
#          
#              


::::::


softly now ....

Haven't you heard ?

Haven't you seen ?


What's coming down ?

)(


In the middle of the melodrama

Called

" your unloved body

Strikes again ! "

""""

In the center of creation

•


All together

We are so alone

)(

Softly now

)(

The crime is Unfathomable

The pain is Overwhelming

AND STILL WE KEEP PRETENDING !

still we refuse to feel or think

)(

The long night comes

We do not sleep

We are too busy trying to do nothing

•

Softly now


Only one thing matters

Can you tell me what it is ?


.

//


( really

What else is there to do ? )

What with out idiotic use of words on a daily basis !


)(

Within the defecating  SILENCE   ( ooh !

I said silence  as if silence itself is speaking !


YEP THIS IS POETRY !

Yep it is ..... !!


•

LIKE A PROPHET !

( smokey ole joe the prophet !)

OH OH I SEE IT COMIMG


SHES GONNA BE SAD !!


( why will she be sad !!! ?)

Because it poems like this they are always sad !


Drowning in


Choked by  !

SILENCE !!


"
Why sadness ?

Cause no real
Love

Is expressed


Because we


ARE THE SILENCE OF SUFFERING !

( it is our holy genre  )


!!!


Yep


ANOTHER DAY  

Whatever **** comes out our mouths !!


LOVE !  


The silence of our meaningless lives


••


As we raise pure farce to the level of lunacy !  


CONGRATULATIONS !



We have dragged our brains through the depths of stupidity


Where we have found each other

AND REJOICED !

.




No where to go


To look for the reasons


We are even here at all


::


In the center of the masquerade

We

May take off the masks


••


& let the

FINAL END

Come and be

The simple matter called

TODAY


.

)(


Me


)(

Sight unseen

))

Appearing

On the road

)(


The road that leads to home

{{{

Gentleness

( We of morning )

Don't cry no more

The day is good

•

You

Creation's glory


Stangers on the road


)(

We mate



We go forth and change the world


X

.





                                              Oh my mother please (!)

//


Indians

Come and go

( eh , cowboy ? )

""

YES !
WHO IN THE WORLD
KNOWS
ANYTHING
?


)(


By the wishing well

We peered into the abyss

We saw the real world

••

Here it is !

••

Don't know what happened to the poor thing

But here it is !



Mangled in infancy

But comin on strong !

Eatin them apples

Learning

Right from Wrong



X

)))(((




Soft and true

Gentlest feeling

//


The time


//


Bids us to embrace

The fate of the world

•

We really cannot hide

It is death comin thru the door



//


Can you see

That I see you ?

What's the matter with

Sacred kindness ?

•     •

All
In all

On a day

•


Love is simply

All that's here



X

||      <>      ||

/ ( • )  ( • ) \

/  \



:::


.... )  & what really matters any more ?  ( ....

//

//                  //


the cold winds howl !


All the children

Dying in the streets


( even they don't care )

====

will tomorrow ever get here !

//

Drug addicts

Looking to get laid


<•>
/\

Writing poems

About these sorts of things



.

.




( do you remember ? )


//

Just a

Country girl

•



Oh the wind is so glad

Loves to kiss her cheek

Oh the sun repeats

The same ole tale

)(


The little country boys

Love to

Hold her in their gaze


.)()(.

( it was the

Best of days )

)(

We knew each other so well


That's all we really need


( each other )

•

I hope someday

To hear her say

HEY BOY

WOULD YA LIKE TO  WALK ALONG

WITH ME ?


.

.


Little pretty boys and girls

;:;

The church sun shine and the pretzel vendor

)(

the lost dream of the immagrant

After the long sea time

//

After the first death

There were many others

In the alleyways

In the growing darkness


)(

She was an okay kid

( really she was really special !

Her Christ-like love ! )

I only called her an okay kid

So you wouldn't hurt her !

))

we are of the sea

( we are of the long sea time )

Immigrants

( we don't know where we come from

Nor who we are !

::

After the first rebirth

There are many others

In the alleyways !

•

We shall never die

So stop your crying


Please


.

.




But


I guess UGLY seemed better !


•       •


Sing me the sweet sweet

Hidden


Song

•

The secret girl

The sacred lake



The giant swan


See the young boys gathering

In the woods


:::


Are you real enough to go there (?)

•


Are you real enough to

Just go to them (  ?)


•


Are you pure (?)


)()()()(


We write letters to the gods

But when he replies

We pretend that we aint home !

••

The shadow rains

The bag lady lover

The policeman


No !

There ain't no "lovers " out there !!!!


Just a bunch of sorrow in human form !


)(


The winds roar


Eventually


We will decide to do things right



But by then we might not know how to do it



••

But don't worry


I'm always here


.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^



(                            
                               )
(          
                     )
(
\/
/\
/    \

##########

she walks the earth

She honors all life

And thusly is she honored

••

•

the light that shinneth

Only does so forever

:::

The gods and goddesses are real

:::

You too

Might be real

( I don't know )

)(

( I DO read your poems

But they are so devoid of any

Understanding or Compassion

It's hard to tell what you are )

)(

she walks the high hills

When she looks

You are seen

As you really are

><

the dream !

The prayer is answered

With a vision of reality

It's up to you

To actually go there !

)(

Thru the fierce wars of ******  illusion

Debasement  

And emotional stupidness

We plunder and pillage

And laugh for awhile

//

Some

( however )

Taste freedom !


YES !

& when they do !

::

Well

They are gone from here !!!

•

Me and her (?)

We


Only get things done


We do not give a ****

About infantile cookie cutter love !

Nor how you fill you souls

With blood

•

The saints are here

::

I think I'll sit

In meditation for awhile


.

X






******* !

So wonderous !

SHE !

)(

Behind the oak tree in the meadow

dream laden

EVERYONE

><

It ends

Something is ready to be born

)(

LOVE

)(

Soft hands !

We are gentle creatures

We caress all
Wounds

Healing powers !

Healing powers

That we are


X

/    \
|
0     0
0     0

•••


Oh well


//


( we are so well adjusted to being

useless & lost

it seems like we enjoy it now ! )


//

deeper and deeper we go !

Financial debt

Emotional debt


SPIRITUAL DEATH


/::/

Ha ! Ha !

I'll write a poem about it and win the daily  !

•


•


The silliness

The simple brain washing  !

)(


Useless & lost

Pawing each other's bodies

:/:

****** each other's minds and souls



.

( ##  0  ## )


?



softly death


?


by the eternal

Fountain

We have quit

We don't even try to live


Love is gone

We are like the Dead


•


I'll give you all my promises

But you just want my bed


I'll walk with you thru the battlefield

As we strive for the best


For all the children of tomorrow

//:

Loveliness

We are Lovely Beings

we shall not be fools anymore

•

Soft as death

We weave our way

Thru the countless lies

Til the task is done

And we are noble heroes once again



x

.



soon soon

world war 3

///

Then you will be officially dead

And you won't have to keep
Pretending


••••


••••

We are the stuff of pure pathos

;;

Whinning about ... Love !!!

::

Whinning in the most

Pathetically selfish ways

::

The term "" broken heart "

Is now the stuff of sick jokes

Of really

Very sick people

••


""

Years pass soft and slow

You can be an angel if you want

••


You can be an actual human being

If you'd try

.

/ ( • ) ( • ) \

#####
/ \



O

                        
                              ( she my love is quite the rage )


O



In describable life

The magic is only dimly seen

But in the darkness of hidden dream

The demons and the saints do play

Mighty games of make - believe

•


And you are born



•


We are of a sacred lot

We run we jump we throw them *****
Right thru them hoops

Like good boys should

But sometimes freedom is understood

And a sense of destiny remains


===


We walk fragile days

Into the heart of hell where love dwells

In tenemented poverty

Amid the neon sirens of the police


::::

She my love is all the rage

:::::


Oh dear child don't you weep



X

~~

•••

Everybody so alone ,,,, (!)

The heart !

Dying
Dying

        ( We

                                   Are so alone  )

//

We ,,,, (?)

we are simply

Broken toys scattered here and there

As the masters

Pull down our underwear

And play for awhile  !

( we smile ! )

//

             ( For a moment

                                      We are not alone ! )

•

And then .....:(?)

more crying !

•

Huddling in the shadows

Of a token poem

|||

Babbling inanely of
Love !

//

::

/:

Sweet

Angelic child

Come

Let us be together

Always

And be free

For awhile

••••

( just till we

Become strong )

••

ALL OUR POEMS SING  THE GLORY

OF OUR DEATH

::::

Vampires of the heart

Zombies of the flesh

••

••

Watching television

( hoping god is there (!) )

)(

Do we ever even think we are Human ?

))  ((

The words fall onto the page

As we too

Emerge

Onto the earth

•

•

Unnoticed useless beings !

)(


If you don't stop playing your

Worn out games

You will simply die is all

••


Oh well

But I know

You are not really listening

To anything other than

Your pain


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