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Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Where Is"

Where is the unity?
Within service.
Where is the love?
Within indifference.
Where is the power?
Within surrender.
Where is the future?
Within now.
oldie
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Which Is"

An imitation life
Is empty
Of all, except
Imitation security
Which is empty
Of all, except
Fear
Which is not
Empty
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"White Walls"




a call for time the white walls sing
   glory unheard springs to mind
      push a sense move a sense move

         the day is new of breath
            an orange band hugs the world
               light such a god like word

                  you
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Who Are You"


Who are you i don't have a clue
Except me replicate
An unGnostic view guess
Better than nothing by a speck
Or less
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Why Even Try"

Why even try to name the nameless
Why even shape any shape
Only to ungrasp the form created
Tainted with conceptual suffering
From the root throughout eventually
Holding no thing when it happens
In an unpredictable flash of moment?

To ease the pain of healing
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Wide Eyes"


Wide eyes stare everywhere
Quickly quickly
See it
Faster faster
No time for sanity
Must be off
Got to be moving
Got to run
Around in circles is OK
Quickly quickly
Move move
Faster faster
Don't stop
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
ooh ooh ooh
   i've  got brain problems
over and over again
   i walk forward

and follow the self
   of the bear
and the dog
   going forward

many years i was
   where i am now
oh what a manifest destiny
   i dream of it all

do not worry
   no problem here
name me a loner
   a wildman
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Wind"



black robe
white moon
crickets whispering love sonnets
surfeit monkeys bed in knowledgeable trees
the silver path of stones winds upwards
wind
a warm blanket
Mark Wanless Jan 2018
"Wish I Could Go There"


Siren screaming warning
fading away     i'm happy
to be alive but the thorns
hurt sometimes like fire ants
in Florida with Palmetto bugs
just really big cockroaches in
Hawaii they are pets and even bigger
like the native gals be gentle baby
doll one eighty five going up
and up to the stars the dreams
of children touch god come from god
are god triune stabbing this that is
in the **** to cause movement
is conscious something or other
soft green leaves with sharp edges
flying liquid rock globs on the mountain
black black black ocean deep
wish i could go there in my mind
but for real they play for money
and we pay and pay and pay and wonder
who's the boss believe it or not
no one is is to scary for some
to accept and i'm writing expository but
where are the images well i'm on my way
to find out hope i get there i know
i'm going to enjoy the journey
free i i i i i
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Within"

I sense upon life's cordial air
The reeking stench of war.
Coagulate blood, and rotting flesh
In piles, beckon more.

Vengeance for a vengeance, deeply
Shaped within, commands.
Nature's preserving torment
Twisting minds and hands.
Mark Wanless Aug 2021
******* wonder mind
walks the streets at midnight
with a spray can and brush

canvas the world
approval does not matter
they do they boo

hope meaningless
is is is that's all
a condition of existence

a consistent emptiness
to be filled with they
and the earth moves
Basquiat
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Wondrous"


What a wondrous diversity are we.
Breath, blood, bone, together thrown with various
Volumes of flesh, is but a part. The winds
And others, also shape the soul. Our unique
Inner orb of self, is formed.
Mark Wanless Jul 2016
words of a poet
words of a king
words of a peasant
all words sing

hear i am
remember me
i am dead
i lived for thee

no where
no how
i do not believe
this is now

give up the image
the lie the lie
give up the vision
of i      of i
collapse into reality
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Words"

Fear
is nothing
but thought
but thought
is everything.

Thought
is various
energies
flowing
through tissue.
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Wordsmithery"


To proclaim the power inherent
for all on HP    oldie
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
sorrow a mind as long as you want
happiness a place to be if you want
i choose the dark side
long ago i made a decision
happy face or sad face
my choice,, sad face. if
only i had the protector anger
to back it up
i'm working on it.
don't tread on me.
june 7 2016
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Work The Slow Work"


Work the slow work of diligent accomplishment
In the only now that does exist
Chimeracaly  no forced coercion can prevail
Relatively we bend and sway and break with fads
Hatred commercial excitations selfish desires
****** reflexive static cyclic molecular physics
Birth death birth death birth death
Ultimately i do not understand          therefore i am
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Worlds Entire"


Precious worlds entire
Drifting toward the veil
Nebulous constellations
Divined as self and will
just a thought
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Yellow Butterflies"




the floating image of Joan of Arc ten feet tall in the dark
theater in New York 2002 drizzling a little bit of gray sky
somewhere up there past the cement monuments which will
stand as long as the pyramids if we let them the trees in
Central Park refresh the air are leafy damp brown autumn
smells like beauty or garbage depending on your mind being
half empty or totally some kind of creation from a Sci-Fi show
the future is in the hands of the cab drivers who make a living
on the East Coast West Coast San Francisco Bay Area
with the bridge that  may last as long as the pyramids if the quakes
don't knock it down a monument to rust and money big sky dream
of all you want are you crazy are we all is nobody who chooses
somebody to be it a definition in a book some people agree on
otherwise there is nothing there but vibrations so say the freaky people
but if everyone says the same then its normal and what is freaky normal
is this social construct cuzz bring back someone dead from 1710
and he will think we are all Devils or Gods or he will just
fold up his head and dance with the yellow butterflies are yellow
march of god they are next top of the line food chain 10 million
years from now our fossils will be to hard to find if not impossible
maybe the evolved butterflies won't even want to dig anything
it just never occurs to them that in the dirt is a thing worth effort
their cities will be in the air of course because the meteor that hit
and wiped us out also changed the weather on the entire planet and
for the last 10 thousand years the winds have been really mellow like
30 or 40 miles per hour tops no more hurricanes or tornadoes either
and a bad storm is 3 inches of rain in 2 days then lots of puffy
blue sunshine before the next one comes and it will come and the
smart butterflies will deal with it in some type of cognitive way they
will also have God    WOW           i'll bet shhe will be a pretty butterfly
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
Yellow Stone

i came across a yellow stone
     million years in making
long ago there was a name
     a shape for everything

in the beginning was the word
     the word was god,,, with god
let's find again the old language
     a silent solvent of word
new
Yes
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
Yes
Yes

I see you
imaginary
Naked woman
all of you
Now
Mark Wanless May 2018
Yes i Will


Don't know what your thinking any more
   about
How come i see you in my bedroom yesterday
   at night
This mind is but a figment of the
   never more
The car drives by the camera
   1963
  
I was not here until so timeless
   recently
Why do i think i own the universe
   again
Saw you in my bedroom twice again
   last night
You were not there i know a ghost in
   darkest light
  
  
If i could touch you one more time i would
   my love
The ecstasy the fantasy is but a dream
   my love    
My future is a bookmark on this page
   of life
Never been to heaven hell just seems
   so wrong
  
Called you by your name last night in bed
   alone
A life of happiness is just a life
   of strife
Knew eternity a time ago
   yes i did
Give it up for one more day with you
   yes i will
Mark Wanless Sep 2019
dark is not faster
than light it is
everywhere always

        yet

the dark is
negated by light
always forever
You
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
You
"You"

I, half whole, stumbled
Often along my way.
Dragging the weight of errors
Added to disease.
Near blind, I cursed the chaos
In darkness,
Not even knowing there were
Lights to be lit.
And my living heart bled.
Three quarters dead and dying
I reached outside myself
For help,
You were there
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
you do not know
   i hear you singing
you dream a dream
   and i am there
i see our hearts combined
   and the fear but air
call the clouds a heaven
   i see our destiny
love is life forgiven
   a soul is you and me
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"You Are My Mother"

You are my mother again
And again i am yours in return
Through cyclic return we are motion
Entwined without moving from formless
We form a clear union of mirrors
Eternally holding the image
Of each of the wavelets rebounding
From edges of cosmos created
By selves of the sentient beings
That wander and wonder forever
Till bursting to light
MINDLESS HOARDS WALKING THE HALLS,,,,,,MY MOTHER ,,,,,HUANITY
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"You Dream"

I thought leaving you behind was possible
insanity gross big ego of me
better than you? No this mind is but a peer through
mucky water turbulent illusion i jerkily dancing
in a dream world with a you dream fearing
if i stop !        you will be offended
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
could there be a place for me tonight
up to heaven in the sky of lights
thinking of a place for you and me
any where's okay with me
where were going i don't care i'm there
and want to be with you forever
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"You Keep It"


You keep it
Don't want your pain
Ain't we all got enough?
But that ain't all there is
Excite me with false torture
Don't want the real thing
You keep it
Except on the news
Can't get enough
Birds fly south we ain't looking
Watching blood puddling on the side-walk
At six and ten
Can't get enough
Even watch the re-runs
Can't get enough
The insatiable hole
Can't get enough
Dream it in dreams
Can't get enough
Play it in games
Can't get enough
Till the end of days
Can't get enough
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Young Mexico Girl"


people singing stars
the beauty of it all
we breath day and night
dreaming god living devil
everything in between
young mexico girl poor hable inglais
smiling at five fifty an hour twelve hours
home to six sisters two brothers mom
dad comes and goes
sleeping on the sofa must have eyelids in her ears
four rooms one closet chicken grease floor
feeding an army of roaches
warm water leaky toilet **** hole
so much better than the last place
wake up feed the babies sugar and milk
chasem into big orange bus on the outside
black brown yellow white on the inside
to the mall and sweep mop mix open poor stir fry
shake bake lift dump push shove wipe clean break eat
do it again young mexico girl
smiling
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"Your Beauty"


screaming red puppy            
      of love
           your heart
               a bomb
explosion of guts
     to words
          your flesh
               an earthquake
after      you settle return
     sane whorl
          stable globe
               of mind
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
lost in the desert of noise
eating greasy gobs
pain is the penalty of life
drugging in the hotel bathroom
spitting out the window
trashing all there is
complaining about the ****** mess
screaming no i didn't do this
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"You Say"



    You say your words
    Speak of a new freedom
    I hear the same old chains
    Rattle from a young throat
    You, a blaze of passion
    Blind the many
    Then lead them into
    What has always been
my bill clinton inauguration poem  first term
Mark Wanless Apr 2018
"You've Got"

You've got personality
Quick! spit it out! its a piece of
Assiduous construction most randomly evolved
For most of us the winds
Society and family billow the i
Flapping noise we think is voluntary
Why else do we do it? AVALANCHE!!!
Answers pouring down from heaven
Pelting like hail stones
Not one word valid
Unless you grabbed scrutinized
Swallowed processed absorbed
Into the constellation house
Burning forever circle burn forever
Till cause effect unborn no this no that
All coming together will cease
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Zipp Ippidy"


zipp ippidy bop be bop bop
no arrow in mind flies straighter
than laughter in children
we are all children
laugh
the big blue world is green and tan
from space i can see my face
white floating mist
kerouac kerouac crack crack
blood flows out from his lips
the sound a soul kissing itself
we are all soul
soul
dig deep dig deep dig deep its easy
there is no deep
ginsberg iceberg iceberg ginsberg
where are all the flying monkeys you
promised to deliver i got nothing
you want to   to     touch       my
love me i'm just a bad piano ivory tongue
straight from allen's mouth to jack's thighs and
visa-versa you're going to hell jack
no wait you're already in hell
koo koo ka choo choo be boop

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