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 Jul 2013 Jhilard Cruspero
jerely
Great Poets




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responded to Chuck's poet (Attention Great Poets)
 Jul 2013 Jhilard Cruspero
jerely
The eyes of the person is so deep
The time is fast approaching
You don't know who will you save or who can save you
People searching to find the right one but none has come undone
Somewhere,somehow
Someone would just take a risk
Of a person's live
A different variety of people
You just meet half on your way
But you will never know
Who will be the last standing person

That

Will

Caught

You

Instantly

Constantly

And

Inev­itably*




The
Exception 
I see the way they look at you
All googly eyed and giggly
Their want is so obvious
Like school girls clawing for your attention

Then I see the way they look at me
With such bitterness in their eyes
I hear the whispers
The catty words that roll off their tongues sting
I try not to take it personal, I've seen it done to the girls that came before me

It never made sense to me, they don't even know you
They know you for the way you look and the way you walk
For the way you dress and the way you talk
I'm scared if they really knew you they'd fall in love with you for real
Actually, I know they would, I did

I hate the way they look at you
I hate the way they talk about you
I hate the way they want you
But most of all I hate the way they make me feel

My insecurity reels it's ugly head
The thought that you can have any of them always lingers
I'm scared that you'll slip threw my fingers
And into theirs
I'm  not sure what's worse
Their jealousy or mine?
A silence with you
Is not
a silence

But a moment rich
with peace
Some Asian folk revere the Tao
the way of Yang and Ying.
Others worship ancestors
and of Confucius sing.
Buddhists seek a one way trip
with no wish to return.
Hindus think we're born again
just not in Christian terms.
Some follow in the steps of Christ,
this life, their cross to bear.
Others say Carpe Diem
and just don't give a D*mm.
Islamiscists eschew alcohol
and never lunch on ham.
This place has many faiths and creeds
to suit our every mood.
The voodoo that you do so well
is with suspicion viewed.
The foodists are the latest cult-
a blight upon the land
like Joey chestnut at buffets
consuming all they can.
To them no cow is sacred
and wine just slakes their thirst
They walk among us and they breed
and I don''t know which is worse!
My rotund coworker claims  her religious affiliation is "Foodist"
 Jul 2013 Jhilard Cruspero
Miriam
restlessness grips me
and loneliness settles in

squeezes me in its hands
and refuses to let me go;

i've come to realize that there are people who emphasize this misery i'm feeling so i shut the door and windows close and i don't talk

and all i have become
is alone.
 Jul 2013 Jhilard Cruspero
st64
white birds fly out
ur sweet mouth
as
hesitation straddles
a deadly no-go zone


1.
The silhouette of a small child sitting atop a stone ledge
Slowly picking the butterfly wings off his *perfect eyes


I will follow your sunken steps in the soft snow
Lead(ing) the way


Eagle flies lone over lime-hued cemetery


2.
Hope to find a more quiet place
not to think
to breathe
to be

(personne n'est esclave)


to let go
some day
...



S T, 24 July 2013
Beautiful pictures flit over and over….over and over…endless…..like a wonderful, old projector movie-reel…..fast becomes seeming slow-mo….

Contemplating the meaning of speed...I guess it's all relative.





Sub-entry: ‘ONLY YESTERDAY’ - Carpenters
                    
Songwriters: CARPENTER, Richard Lynn / BETTIS, John


After long enough of being alone
Everyone must face their share of loneliness
In my own time nobody knew
The pain I was goin' through
And waitin' was all my heart could do

Hope was all I had until you came
Maybe you can't see how much you mean to me
You were the dawn breaking the night
The promise of morning light
Filling the world surrounding me

When I hold you
(*) Baby, Baby
Feels like maybe things will be all right
Baby, Baby
Your love's made me
Free as a song singin' forever

(**) Only yesterday when I was sad
And I was lonely
You showed me the way to leave
The past and all its tears behind me

Tomorrow may be even brighter than today
Since I threw my sadness away
Only Yesterday

I have found my home here in your arms
Nowhere else on earth I'd really rather be
Life waits for us
Share it with me

The best is about to be
So much is left for us to see
When I hold you.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evETS8_WFGE
 Jul 2013 Jhilard Cruspero
Chuck
Childhood
Innocence

Teenage
Awareness

Twenties
Indestructibility

Thirti­es
Caution

Forties
Confidence

Fifties
?
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