.


Used to be

My  Grandma !

//

The spirit !

Never dies ........

•


We are so foolish in our fear and shame


•••


I often wonder why we know so little about


What is really good for us !


Then I wonder if it matters

Cause would we do what's good for us even

If we know

••

We all know THE BIG BUCKS is made

By convincing people to hurt themselves

( ain't that right my

Slit wristed friends ! ? )

)(

The anger subsides


The seas reassert their sovereignity


The earth  ( even if it takes a million years )

Eventually is purified

//

And even peace comes again to

High school girls

••


YE OLDE GREY MARE !!!!

comin from there to here


In a heartbeat and breath


In a true cried tear

In the idealism

Of love's embrace


In the Middle Of the World




.

.






it was a

Bright sunny day



<>

white bird in the sky


( or is it only a white airplane )


•


Some images teach us to live

Some

Just prepare us to

Die

•••••
••
•


on a bright sunny day


//


Walkin thru these parts




.

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

.


the turning of an eye

The lonely lovely girl

The subway thru the night

The dream

)(

The ****** cry

( the knife )

And the howls of pain
•

She almost slipped away

But he was strong

•


And the wars came

And then thc peace

And then again the wars

And no people were there

who cared any more

•

the tenemented slave

The subway thru the gangland dream

The ****** hand
The knife

He grabbed her and they got away

)(

The drone airplane

Always

( and the police ! )

//

Someone said

I LOVE YOU

but forgot why

and anyway

He'd fofgotten

What love means

//

Somewhere floating

Between the wars and peace


.

---

(                
                               )
(
                       )
      (
         \/
         /\
          /    \

#######

oh oh oh yeah we come

fast to the fields of Jericho

The horns

Soon will blow

In  Jericho


||

oh oh oh

God is comin to Jericho

Everybody knows

)(

Well let us rejoice

Well we are joined in service

The good people of Jericho

Saw us as strangers and took us in

Into the Heart of Jericho  !


)(


we are so glad

We the sons and daughters

Of holy Jericho


.

.



ancient the story


:::


we are still too afraid to hear

( how we love our trivial love
---

So safe

The ongoing pain ! )



••


••


Such tired children !

::


Running here
Running there


In ***** ****** underwear

Looking for each other

In our filthiness

In our betrayal of god himself




.

.


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
.

.






                                              ( 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 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

-


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


.

.

.



. ..  ... & 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



.

.


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



.

,


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 "



.

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



.
.

/\


• =•= •

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 !!




.

,,


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



.

.



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



.

.


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

.

.




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


.

( ##  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

.




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


.

/    \
|
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



.

.



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


.

/ \
/   \



/


Gently

Gently now

No no more these wars

The prison songs of the high school girls

//

Your naked mind has allowed

Your body to be *****

Over and over again

::


Silver goddess of the moonlight

Smiles as she gazes thru

Your  borrowed pain

Borrowed from deceit

And other poets ' pathetic games

::

Come see !


( ah but you won't )

The folly of your ways and days

Writing poems on the  wall

That gets praised though

No one reads

•


I love you

( such idle words )

Kisses that don't mean a thing

||

But I am truly here ( you see ! )

The highest lover of the sweetest love

We walk the roads in search of you

Give you ourselves

And take you home

//

//



NOMA THEMBI


,

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

.
.





you can stay if ya wanna

If ya wanna you can
Leave


It's

You for you

Me for me

//


No one lied to

No one deceived

)(

Just a sort of gathering

Gathering together


( you know what I mean )


||

||

The soft hit
Of sun on her feet

The road is long

So very steep !


But the children's laughter fills our ears

And the sweet air in
Such a cool breeze

:::

From out the shadows and the evening's chill

On the long long road
( & such a steep steep hill )

Strong with courage and the
Sound of the WORD

We see all wall crumble

And all chains  dissolve

;;::;;


You can stay if ya wanna .........

.............


X

^ ^ ^ ^ ^



(                            
                               )
(          
                     )
(
\/
/\
/    \

##########

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


.

.




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

.

.



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

••

.

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


.

.





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



,

//


( 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 !

)(


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

.


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



.

... 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


.

.



( 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


.

.



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

.

/\
|
/\



#####


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

.



The phantom train .... The outline of a train station

We run


Death always follows closely

Till we turn around

••

Years !

Vague with images of frightened people

We pretend to love

We walk alone in the rain

//

Shall our song be heard



:::



He wanders toward the ghost town in the night's foggy
Hold


•

Perhaps a face shall be seen

( perhaps a child ! )

//

Oh mother !

I AM SORRY

•

We have lost every battle

We cannot even "see" the war any more


//


The story has an ending

LET US WAIT HERE FOR AWHILE


X

<>

/ ( • ) ( • ) \

####### 0 ######


I'm a ready    I am

Already on the ground

Already on the prowl


)(


The sturdy Lynchin tree

The slaves they are face down

Waitin

Just waitin

••

Freight train sound

The true past

Tomorrow

Just ain't hidin

No how

•

The young boy and the girl

The river flowin down

••


If you see me just say my name

~~~~

Come it's time
Ain't it

Right now ?



.

/ ( • ) ( • ) \

#####
/ \



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

.



... 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



.

.



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


.

)))(((




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

.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

~~

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



.

|
/\
|
/\
#
#    
#          
#              


::::::


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 ?


.

.




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


.

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&  

ALL OF THIS !



&
Here we are !

)(


Ain't no time to hang around

And wait to see
What's comin down !

//:://

it's ******

// :://

We are looking for lovers amongst the dead

We are slaves in a police state

But still we write

WHY DONT YOU LOVE ME ?

!!!!!!!

In a very short while

IT WONT MATTER ANYMORE !

&

All our wishes for death

Will be satisfied

<>

And all our sadness will be erased

As will all our dreams


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