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 May 2017 shrumeling
phil roberts
In the old part of town
There are still cobbled streets
And at one time
These streets were surrounded
By living working mills
Marking the towns heartbeat
Twenty-four hours a day
Seven days a week
The machines hammered the air
As the flying shuttles were cracked
From side to side of the weft
On more than a hundred looms
It sounded like a battlefield
And some would say it was

But that was long ago
And now the mills are dead
The buildings still stand
But inside they are broken
Housing many more
Modern endeavours
And in one of these old buildings
Within the same crusty bricks
There's another world that lives
In the dark hours at least
There's a night club that throbs
To the sound of bands playing
Different rhythms for the town
And the neon lights outside
Shine on the same old cobble stones

                                        By Phil Roberts
 May 2017 shrumeling
mike
I see the trees trying to grow large enough to leave this place.
They were:
Hand-Holding-Plants
makinglovetopeace

We are:
as if  statues  building  one another
large enough
to destroy themselves

We are the wicked,
making love
to our sickness.
and when wicked
is the eye of the beholder
we build a great and terrible machine around us which we call Us.

It is the shaking scared skeleton of a forest rotting away from a place which beauty built in it's sleep.

the motion picture of the horror sequence of our mind.

The world bleeds out the fire of man

Born inside a seraphim skin
we abuse and build death
around our bodies
in connected piles on the ground.

waiting calmly.
coming in for the ****.

an anthill
vacated and caved in
until everything is finally
quiet and still.

you can not grow skin
on a mausoleum
and wait for it to breathe.

while you sit
and you wait
your own skin
will leave.

when nothing is left to die,
in that time;
no one is left to grieve.
You lose nothing in
the Loving Hands of Jesus
You gain everything
 Apr 2017 shrumeling
nivek
one day I am going to jump right on out of my skin
it will be the most amazing experience,
a seminal moment with eternal consequences.
 Apr 2017 shrumeling
nivek
the desert takes no prisoners
is no place for romantics
***** the juice from dreamers.
Wrapped up in blankets on a cold and rainy day, I open a good book and hold hot coco. I get lost in the pages of another world than the one I am in. I travel to distant places and undertake amazing adventures, all of the while the rain falls outside and the dark clouds hide the sun. I am content hiding away in a cozy get away of my own design.
 Apr 2017 shrumeling
nivek
In the house of waiting
sheltered from the worst of weather
the worst of direct experience of the worst Mankind can inflict.
Ah! Yes! not forgetting the flaws of myself, which can be the worst of the worst I fain would not wish to experience,
who needs a devil with Mankind around, the fool of its own making.
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