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Larry Potter Sep 2018
You were singing the blues when I met you,
Singking your heart of misrule,
Into an ocean of second thoughts.
The saddest note on your table;
A pen unwilling to write,
Its ink afraid to swirl.

I took the seat in front of you,
As I opened my soul like a blank page.
Your hand began scribbling again,
Writing our next days with better hues.
Until you decided that my page was full,
That there's not enough space for your stories.

Now I'm stuck with these scripts of red,
With your handwriting all over it.
These traces of broken promises and misgivings,
I'll try to erase it all or rip it out.
As I open a new sheet to another stranger
You play your songs of blues again.
Larry Potter Jul 2018
Fears, they creep
Like vines of thorns
They entangle
And reticulate
What was once a fertile core
Now a bed of insipid desires
Languishing in the intricate labyrinth
Of this dreaded thicket
Full of inner demons  
And self-made monsters.

There's beauty in the horrors
Of its growing corruption
A tapestry of dark emotions
Writhing like hungry worms
Eating this barren soil from inside out
These braids of nightmares
And violent delights
Unweaving
And unraveling
The most sinister miscreations.

I'd clutch the noxious brambles
And let these torments nurture
The toxic vegetation
As it flourishes into
A garden of hysteria
Echoing woes and
Weeping regrets
Until it sees
The light of day
That never came.
Larry Potter Jul 2018
Keep your friends close
But your enemies closer,
So you can punch them whenever you want to.

Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on me,
If you can still fool me thrice, you're really clever.

Success is 1% inspiration
And 99% perspiration
Plus a thousand prayers, just for good measure.

There's a rainbow
Always after the rain
Just make sure you don't look at the clouds at night.

It's always darkest
Before the dawn
So set your alarm to six or seven in the morning.

There's always light
At the end of a tunnel
A claustrophobe has two things to worry about.
Larry Potter Jul 2018
Don't fish between two rivers
Unless you're a good swimmer
And the two streams don't meet at the center.

If the old dog can't learn new tricks
You don't have to buy it a bag of treats
But don't argue with it on politics.

Don't play with fire
But if you really want the ointment
Then get burned to your heart's desire.

Patience is not always a virtue
The mousetrap always looks pretty harmless
Until it breaks the rodent in two.

If you came and saw but didn't conquer
Perhaps there really was no war to wage
And you have just gone bonkers.
Larry Potter Jul 2018
I strayed too close
To the midnight sun.
I loved the heat as it embraced
Everything that I am.
Hellfire rained down from heaven,
And bathed me like a child,
Longing for its holy light.
My paraffin wings melt slowly;
These golden feathers are in embers,
As the flames consume me.
Above this lightless world.
And its Stygian towns;
In the alabaster ocean,
I'll eternally drown.
Larry Potter Jun 2018
Your music delights Apollo
Even on the rainy days,
When the Nine Muses won't dance.
You strum your guitar
Like you tickle the wind,
Healing our weary souls.
You play your saxophone,
Lifting our spirits
As you breathe life to it.
You sing to the tunes
That our hearts want to hear
All through the years.
You have a hundred stories
In your book called "Fatherhood"
Waiting to be told.
We'll add more pages to it
While we make new stories with you
As the years unfold.
Happy Father's Day to my musically gifted father! :) Greetings extend to all great fathers out there.
Larry Potter May 2018
Years, a deck of cards,
Cascade jokers and aces;
More tricks up his sleeve.
Happy Birthday, Bro!
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