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428 · Jun 2014
Revelations: 1:8
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Alpha Omega
I am
in the nothingness seething
invisible matter yet to decode

Take each symbol
decode understand
what meaning there may be
in eternity

'the space between the stars
breathing like a pounding heart'
The seven symbols
sparked across continents of fire

I am
Here.

Author Notes
'the space between the stars
breathing like a pounding heart'-taken from Maya Islas-Cuban Poet. Profoundly beautiful poems on the Book Of Revelations.
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426 · Jun 2014
Charred Memories
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Ok-God, I've landed here 3 suitcases
full of charred memories
nights in the ***** house, late night revelries,
poems soaked in syrup, roses that never got delivered
woman that kicked my
donkey to thy kingdom come
gfs that became ex-gfs over the weekend
all those naughty books and movies stacked high
and an old pen that wrote English Literature
full of lies.

I followed your words
thankfully only the 75, they said, you said.
Once I knew the other millions were written by mean men
in beards and with two mistresses each
out the window the books went
and real life in the real world of real
people began. Oh, its been fun!

Imagine Sir,
just before that last tequila
squirming at the bottom of the bottle
I was dancing with this bombshell
and it exploded in my face:
Go to hell! she hissed, fangs out and wobbling
So here I am master with the only baggage I have
and one slim green gideons bible
never, never, ever opened.

Nobody, nobody ever told me, sir
you yourself had
4 suitcases of the same stuff.

'Welcome home, son, take the back row please
there are others with larger suitcases upfront.
Don't ever go back and tell 'em
heaven is made of these people.
Enjoy your stay!'

Author Notes

Have just been to the devils workshop!
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425 · Apr 2014
Power to the People
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
Every fence a weapon to hold within, those
you wish to keep indoors, but pickets
in the upcoming riot
are stored in geometric lines like
the policies that crafty politicians use
to cling to padded thrones behind glass walled mausoleums.

Pull  a picket
race to the centre of town
join the jostling multitudes in jubilant echoes,
scream an avalanche of miseries
imposed on you by the Power.

Burn down the crystalline bridges
where the nameplates are polished everyday
and set the city on fire. Break the bones
of the oppressors and walk free
from the cages of calamity
into the free night-where waits for you
another cycle of power hungry predators
waiting to capture the conquests
you have so carefully crafted
in your backyard fence.

Fence  them in
or fence them out.

All you have, my brother
are the pickets that line
the boundary of your revolution.

Stay focused. Sharp Pointed.
Author Notes

The revolution continues starting from the backyard fence. There is no revolution complete with the oppressed running into a riot without a picket and pitch fork from his own home. These are the most potent symbols of change.

I will tackle burning tyres in my next poem!
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423 · Jun 2014
Lecture Hall
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
There's the whisper  of reasoning
skies eyed  for answers dripping down
each pencil pointed at that pinnacle
where the recent lecture sits
awaiting dissection into assignments
for next weeks five thousand word essays.

I marvel at this resilience to learn
to stumble upon grand new theories
of emerging technologies and the world beyond.

I ask some quiet questions
what do you want to be?

Sadly most of them want to  stalk Einstein
without working for it
Some want a ladder to the Fortune 500
others just want those two extra marks
to climb over the paddock fence of education
to a trench board, tassels and a degree
a job and free airline tickets
to strange destinations untraveled.
Only one quiet girl (with braces and a beautiful smile)
wants the assignment sheet. Others treat it like leprosy.


The day closes with her dream
intact. She will rise with the dawn.
Her brain sizzling with solutions
hair unkempt
her manners polished with progress.

I walk away each day
humbled by the same mould that
produces clones of Bill Gates. Always.

Author Notes

Optional
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Marshall Gass Apr 2014
13 billion years later we still discuss
Split second propositions of time
And temperament of infinite particles
That ceaslessley had a mind of their own.
God is still in capitals but cunning as she is
She first created herself as feminine.
Did it take us from the big bang to now just to know
That order began only after the chaos controlled
Pre-universe shadowed itself in a pin-point
Burst into beauty of perfection
Married waves, particles and precision
In anti-matter exactness of itself
To complement the new multiverses
That remained suspended in a gravitational enigma
Split second before collapsing back into a point
And bursting open in inflationary force
Arms wide
Welcoming you and me
From back in the days of confusion
To todays perfection.
That conjecture indicates that
The Master Creator was himself confused before the Big Bang
And so he created beauty and women to counterbalance
The new precision.
I know. Women are not chaotic. Only men are.
( Pssst!) my wife will read this poem.
Author Notes

SNAG: Sensitive New Age Guy! A fresh take on the Universe and Creation of common Sense! ( a Back-up Poem)

Entered for the Contest on Chaos.
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421 · Nov 2014
slipstream
Marshall Gass Nov 2014
particle flight within sight
movement in motion delight
the faster you go the greater the traction
the broader the front
instant reaction.
      
no world is safe in heavens gate
nothing is conquered so late
try as you might  its always alright
pace out a lifetime-take flight

where are we now in the rush hour of life
what did we gain, in the struggle and strife
why not accept the fate that is ours
settle in grandly, ignore the powers

Author Notes

Optional
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420 · Apr 2014
Twitch
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
Flick a long lash
even accidentally
and a world of lust arises
Flick a false lash
purposefully
and watch what happens
Her entire personality
power passion and promise
is compromised by that one single
prompt!
Author Notes

35 words.
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418 · Jul 2014
The Jigsaw......
Marshall Gass Jul 2014
You are ten thousand pieces in perfect symmetry
I am just about right there with some irregular ones
yet we mesh and melt in perfect unison
moving shuffling dancing doing thinking
with clockwork precision.

Each piece reflects a bigger you and my shadow
lurks comfortably behind watching as you
transform and translate everything to fit  in snugly
balancing it all against the light.

We are soulmates, no questions asked
the answers lay in reflective puddles all around us
as we gather ourselves and ride the furnace
taking the sunlight into our twilight years!

We can't let the pieces fall out of place in this jigsaw
that came together unexpectedly from a blur
and formed into one gigantic whole.
If ever it came about that one little piece may
go missing, we know that the other can fill in
to complete the picture back into its photoframe
of the mantelpiece of our lives.

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418 · Apr 2014
Ctrl V +Ctrl P
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
Its easy to toggle between keys and numbers
shifting relationships
saying the same thing over and over again
balancing between copy/paste
until the formula comes right. Sometimes.

Print is easy too
Ctrl+ P- sometimes an imprint can occur
not often does it work if the partner is smarter
she might just get a new keyboard
or a whole new faster bandwidth
and move on
at times it can be messy
if you catch a bug
or get bugged too.

If we design love based on a set of keys
the result may become
an out of tune romance
that needs to be rebooted often.

Otherwise you may just have to put up with
an old fashioned typewriter.

Author Notes
IT is happening.
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417 · Apr 2014
GearShift
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
“I like cars with big butts’ she said.
“The ones with soft interiors and big joysticks
That you hold while racing down at 70 mph
Down straight highways swerving through bylanes
And bursting into breeze and wide open spaces!”

Spent. The exhausts thunder . Throttles down and grazing
Hear the sound of engines purring?

“I like the old Mustangs” she said
“They growl back at you throttle deep,
Crunching up the pussycats
Mewing on the slow lane”

“I like tequila that’s naughty
No aftertaste, a coupla shots
A hot bonnet to warm you back
And a piston that does a six stroke
Slow ride
As we race to a finish on the salt lakes”

“ Don’t you like Mercedes?” I softly queried
“ Nah” she replied curtly.
“ But it starts with an M too?”
“Oh yeah, its got no twang in it though!”

I surrendered to the sound of giggles.
We pulled up near a parking lot
And she slid into a  vacant slot
Both **** and front touching.

Menagerie of cars parked perfectly.

I admired her driving skill.

Author Notes
Yeah, its about cars. Get your mind outta the gutter will ya?
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416 · Jun 2014
Paper Jungle
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
I once lived in a paper jungle
conquered by post-it notes
and formulas for living
that didn't make sense.

Soon the paper tigers
came out of hiding
with memos and memorandums
growling fiercely at my recalcitrant
behaviour, until I quit and carried
my dreams into the wide open spaces
where predators were few and far between
with less incisors to cut you
into shreds of broken being.

I look back sadly
at those who did not take the escape routes
but stayed instead
locked in these cages of comfort
of malnourishment
living lives of quiet defeat.

The jungle is overgrown now.

Author Notes

Recalling some old memories.
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414 · Apr 2014
Warm Winter?
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
It’s a dull woollen grey sweater day
Where the birds too have withdrawn their song
and tucked their wings in for winters chill fingers
that will reach out and capture their whistling tunes.
Dropping pleasantries on the big city boulevards
Hidden from prying eyes, windows shut tight
like mouths with no words left.

Winter comes suddenly.
With no pamphlets announcing a matinee
show of ballet beauties or bronzed horsemen
riding in the sultry sun on careless beachfront.
That shuffle sand and people into shady nooks
and under trees.
Winter does the opposite.

Each evening from now winter will keep the refrigerator door
open for chilled soups  to warm up to toasted breads
to bring a summer inside ourselves with its comfort.

Of course the weathermen will wander of course
talking up storms and snowfalls, ice and wind sleet
and temperature drops to keep the moods down
locked and lifeless, now waiting for summer to come around.

The garden will go limp with excuses
shedding its autumn floral displays
and standing bare and naked before
the mirror of winters reflection.

As each day passes, the mood will dampen down
and slink into caves of warm pockets.
We go from room to room
aimlessly looking out the snowy mountains
Wearing their white  skull caps like chinese market gardeners
waiting to harvest
the last fading greenery around.
Soon the snow will
capture the mountain ranges
and spread its feathery fishnet sheets
all the way down to the valleys.

This is it. The conquest of windchill against a blazing summer
Is complete. Down at the door level of temperatures
it feels unique to be so isolated and lonely.

The sun does come out but it acts s subdued and
lukewarm- not basking, not bright,
just staying for a short while each
day and leaving even before dusk comes rapidly,
never overstaying the welcome.
Author Notes

The seasons now change in New Zealand. Only yesterday it was summer filled with so many pleasant activities. Autumn has its own language of colours, but winter rolls in and rocks, drawing us into ourselves and planning for next summer. It is a warm winter now.
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413 · Jun 2014
Noah's Flood comes in!
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
The bristles on the boulevard clicked and clopped
splattered into flat rain drops
sped to join bodies with other playmates
now rushing to the rivulet gathering
into a big bang of floodwater
which nobody watched
with physics and formulas.

The pin-striped drops that caused
a rising revolution, spears dangling
for brief seconds in  a war cry of splosh-splashes
finally raced to lower ground
to bring down the dam and city
and invade peoples front porches
and backyards
armed with mud and silt
and strawberry colored slime.
The night was camouflaged
with raindrops on the roof
all with the same intention.

Children went to sleep
as parents drank whisky and prayed
for such a thunderous night
of rhythmic staccato symphonies.
Tomorrow the rain would recede
and the fields would be fertilized
down to the roots. Or so they thought.

The flood crept up to their toes
and emptied the refrigerator
of its half-eaten sandwiches. The carpets
soaked up the spilling sauce
and ironically the windows locked
tight to keep out the rain!

As the floods subsided
the newspaper got their headlines:
ONCE IN FORTY YEARS!
it shouted for a dollar and twenty
Everyone read the papers
on how the  neighbors got caught.
Cruel *******
always poking into other peoples business.

Two days later the sun returned
to cause a heat wave.

And everyone prayed for rain!.

© Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
413 · Jun 2014
To Catherine
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
No matter, the road you have taken and stars  counted
the journey still vibrates with your energetic laughter
splendid expression of hope companion.

You never  give up in defeat,  calm
you search out those moments, that will light up the rainbow
with a new shade of colour between deep blue and dark red
unraveling the ribbon of meaning.

Your dreams have magnified  in your collection of esoteric symbols
saying, seeing a hope future, power in the present and mapwork of
magic special people.What a concrete structure you stand between!
Rushmore looking back, the Rockies of the 90's and the art of
writers and poets coursing relentlessly through search engines of learning.

You must have danced on the doorstep
of  Woodstock turf of Freedom and jangled in Jimi Hendrix,
Santana Soul as you sailed through the years of magic
mushrooms and Castenada rolling hills in Ixtlan?  I cannot tell you
where your spirit was drenched and your body beautified
with eyes of opaque  violet emeralds looking through me as
a passerby on a slow train to nowhere?

I will wait at the next station to clip your ticket,
pull the whistle
stay back on this one last journey
to write the notes of the novel
that will embed this urgent understanding
in permanence.

I will wait.....

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411 · Apr 2014
FB
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
FB
The skill through which you maneuvered
between skyscrapers of lust and longing
through dense forests of future dreams
through intertwined hands and hearts
and picnic pantomimes and love letters
dinners and dances
were all a mirage being built up
to elude the truth manacled in the mystery
of what you really wanted.

When you left you sliced a part of me
wrapped it all up in pain
and vanished into the thick night of excuses

How foolish I was to believe that you would
return to claim the territory you conquered
and cherished for so long, defeating contenders
to their kingdom through wily ways.You laid waste
a landscape of emotions and vanished into the mythical
realm of external attractions.

You have won. I lost
my sanity for a short while until I awoke
one morning to find that you really won nothing
but an artificial heart with no heavyweight
knockouts.

Good luck. I am free.

Author Notes
Bile and beauty co-exist. Figure.
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409 · Jun 2014
Straight Line
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Crows fly straight
home, as they say
One wobbles why.

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408 · Apr 2014
Part 2: Progeny of Power
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
The air was thick with brothers arms entwined
in a fence that stretched beyond the battery lines
of police men, in truncheons at the ready to crack
and bleed any radical  dream of freedom.

The lines advanced at each other, one
sheltered in sheet metal solid while
the other hidden behind worn woollen masks
with holes to see freedom beyond the barricades.

The firecrackers split the screams wailing
as rubber bullets tore out advancing flesh
and spilled red roses of blotches on the snow
of yesterdays mourning for the dead.

The lines at the face of the glare
and all hell stopped short of shouting
The silence crawled in between the ready
boots about to burst through the ranks.
But no one moved out of position.

You could their hearts pounding in fear
of death and freedom. The first shot
never fired was whisper over their heads
as the deep breathing misted their misery
One side commanded, the other demanded.

From high above the roof tops the cross hairs
closed on the opposite heads near the ears
which would spill  their protest forever.
But fear has a way of withdrawing into
pockets to crack open masked skulls  another day.

The voice on the walkie-talkie crackled
"Withdraw. Withdraw. Slowly. Slowly
the World is now watching". The lens have closed
and captured the commanders eyeballs
for the world press. "Withdraw slowly
we will return when we clean out the parapets
of all these ******* photographers
who don't know what real  "peace" means".

Let the tyres burn and squelch for today.
"Dinner is ready in the barracks
You are all brave men. You love your country.
Guard it with all your might. Withdraw today.
Return tomorrow. We have a job to do!"

Author Notes
The revolution continues.
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407 · Nov 2014
Broken Code
Marshall Gass Nov 2014
the genius mind trapped in a useless body
grew suspicious of growth around him
and he descended into a rat hole-keyboard
at the ready, about to stamp his signature tunes
into all the world's PCs. He did.

They scrambled to find this broken code
found a rat trapped in a dark underground cage
of inhibitions. quietly hacking into everyone's fancy.

why did you do this? the grey haired judge asked
brimming over his glasses with curiosity.
I hate the world. He mumbled.

Ten years. Go live midst the wounded
discover and share pain, return when you
know love, and see with your eyes
hear the words spoken and be prepared
to use your skills to repair broken code

be among the people.be healed again.

© Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, 21 days ago
Marshall Gass Aug 2014
you on a continent climbed
into the hollow of a sacred tree.
me
on an island climbed into your continent of symbols
together we found the Black Eagle
and apple juicies
clock towers striking 5.10pm
roads leading out of ice box cages
into the wild yonder where
meteors lit the sky with meaning
and shooting stars sprinkled
stardust on our words

I offered you that kiss
and cuddled you back!

There was nothing else I could  do
when trapped in destiny,
but sync with your heartbeat
and write you 57 poems
explaining the meaning of love
and  oceans of distance.

Even as time ticks
we will crawl into a tepee
and cherish these moments
of separation.

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406 · Apr 2014
Trespassers
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
I just stood there glued to a magnetic compass
that emanated from your eyes
to my crotch slowly rising
because you stared me down with that slant
and silly look that opened and shut
like a silky lipsticked kiss
that was stolen while your husband was busy watching
the Super Bowl of popcorn
cracking up the score.

No I was not guilty at all
Instead I felt for him like a brother
who just lost a squeezed lemon
**** with spoons of sugar
and a touch of vanilla lip-smacking
tongue touching sensuousness.
His games chalked up my own scores!

On the way home I knew
what you were thinking
because I could not resist a reverse
back to your place
but the lights were out
and the dog was snoring loose
the ***** tossing about
and I could not sing like Romeo
at anyone's balcony.

I went home and drew the boundaries
on my own property.

Author Notes
Oh! did I just own up?
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405 · Jun 2014
Anthem to all Poets
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
The words fall into place, the race to get the rhythm of the lonely night
in sight, as we saunter down the velvet images of life
one by one, we gather beads of memories
and string them in a ring, surrounding the flight of sight
and sounds  jangling with verses and decibels
of dreams that we master in a magical essay of lines.

The sense follows, dense meaning as we write with a crutch
of pain, polish  and much for all that we demolish will
stand, oh so grand, when finished, be replenished
carving the content with careful intent
into substances of delight  insight!

Once more the anthem that I sing, will bring
us closer together in any sort of weather
wind, rain or shine, cold damp or distress.
hold, lo and behold, even as we carve symphonies
of stanzas and bonanzas of poems with some skill
that you cherish, flourish and thrill.

Lets write with the might and that inbuilt body of
words that soar like the birds o'er ocean and sky
and deep down into chasms of despair and doom
the sadness and the gladness, the pain and the gain
all within the sin, and the song the lust and the bust
that are tools that we use, we cannot refuse to
play in this way, every day until done with the fun
of a poem each day- any which way.

Begin.

Author Notes

Optional
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405 · Feb 2014
The Switch
Marshall Gass Feb 2014
In this part of the world its sunny and sweaty
and the just- past- spring air is making a mockery
of the ice and traffic jams in other parts of the world
where people are freezing.

We did not send the weather gods to capture
the sunshine and bring it here. But we did pray that
it rains equally in all parts and the weathermen
makes less mistakes on the forecast.

Whoever spoke of global warming must have had
a cold heart, or his wife would not have massaged him
the morning he took  his notes to the world forum
of weather watchers and spoke all that dribble
about two inches of the ocean rising!
He is now a wife beater.

These weather tricks are dished out by people
up there, around a round table who decide
who gets what. Anyone who mocks a weatherman
again will get an umbrella and a sunhat
as a punishment with a note saying:
Please use this in summer and this in winter.

But even as we argue about such small things
the grass grows quietly
above or beneath the snow and ice.

There is a moment when all things will come equal
and the people upstairs will sleep
and the people downstairs will make
children.
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
I climbed the high mountains
of her body  tip by fingertip
and slithered down valleys moist and melting
under slow slides
along smooth beautiful buttons
until I stopped and caressed sighs that
slipped and silked
into memories of magic.

The alphabets I read were sheer poetry
unspoken and unvoiced
of its own beauty
as I ran the rose red petals across
pink and petulant lips to be kissed
and cuddled as we joined forces
as strong and sensitive
as our closed eyes.

As we lay back looking into nothing
but our own darkness, sensing a pulse,
a rapid heartbeat, a stifled sob of satisfaction
did I realise that we were made to feel with our fingers
and speak with our haunting skins and kisses
our own beauties hidden within and open
to the touchtone sensations
of our minds.

This was the way it was meant to be
my love. It will be.
We hold our secrets inside ourselves.
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403 · Apr 2014
Never look back now
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
Look quietly at the journey you have taken
the road was never straight never easy
along the way many travellers returned
and you stood and watched as the fatigue
built up and you were gasping for breath
to take the next step forward to a place
fixed on your mind. But stopped short
because you were not sure the journey
would end at the sunset or you would
see the sunrise again. Stay still as you walk
slowly into that lonely night taking your fears
with you, as you stumble forward again.
Be patient with the cobblestones and dense
traffic whizzing past. Don't feel alone
for in the waiting you may have missed
many accidents.
When you reach the end
Now look back and stare in wonder
at what you have achieved.
You are a star traveller with no ticket
to no particular place. The destination
is always unknown.

Author Notes

Don't we all look back when we should be looking ahead?

A certain poet on this site asked me a question the other day. I gave him the best answer I could. The answer may not have been the best, considering that his own journey had taken him only part way to mine. But age has its advantages. You have to live life to its fullest to know what it has to offer. Guessing is no good. Its the road that we all travel on.
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402 · Jun 2014
Whispers in a Thunderstorm
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Spacious splendour trapped in an airless cage
my mind bends in the undercurrents of rage
What was it I last heard spoken in the fragments of peace
Jason escapes the Argonauts-The Fleece?

Draped across his shoulders still dripping warmish blood
Noah and his cranky yacht-floating in the flood
Did Jesus really turn the loaves and fishes into food
Or did he mesmerise the masses to make it sound so good?

The 'whispers' that I speak of are outside human thought
Like pearls so locked in shells that divers bravely fought
Once it breaks the surface, the bargaining then begins
Vanity a thirst, unable to conquer sins

These whispers that I speak of, are quiet in a storm
They won't support the Thunder or any peaceful calm
They are just words so placed in har-mony
They may mean so little-but more than you can see!
Author Notes

Yeah. That's it. All symbolism encased in oyster shells. You have to dig deep to find out what I mean? If you do find out, write me a comment. Its okay if its a nasty one. I'm used to brickbats. Evolutionary processes have made me develop a thick skin! Thanks

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401 · Oct 2014
Split-second
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
split second eternity
muti-verses of magic
simple complex explanation
    devoid of reason
    burst starflung
    limitless beyond
    here sits the engine
    that created this universe
    and itself
    god?
  
Author Notes

Optional
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401 · Apr 2014
?
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
?
The finite yet infinite atom obeys
a decision made by a ?
wherein lies reason to be
existing for one nano second sliver of time
and not the next

we cannot see this ?
because our journey is locked
forever in the same meaning
of everything and yet in nothing.

The attributes we render to swirls
and circles
cannot explain the swirls and circles
themselves
so they cannot be attributes

The majesty of ?
comes together
to prove that he does not exist
when we  ?

Author Notes
Don't ask me  to explain. I don't know.
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Marshall Gass Jun 2014
The separation was no more than continents of Circe
Apollo and Atlantis hidden under veils
of age and vintage, years of waiting for the wine
to mellow and hum in vineyard romances of lustre
creeping to the sunshine of our fulfillment.

I waited patiently for you to come
over the twilight horizon of
your young  wide-eyed wonder
and my sunset  soaked stories
told under the stars of cosmic connections
so finely threaded in that loom
where angels weaved the fabric
for our future.

Today you stand here
still questioning how this happened.
I don't have the pages torn out
from that mystical book
which drew me and you to  a point
where we locked our minds and bodies
in a final embrace
wrapped around in that crystal ball
through which we heard each others
calling.

You are, my only true Love!
you bring the filaments that glow
in the light of our knowing
that this will never end.

Author Notes

A love story entangled with the stars!
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Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Behind the wide-eyed chiselled face
The wings I couldn't see
The words she spoke were wisdom
Devoid of vanity

I liked the way she laughed and wondered
At every nuance  made
The way she studied every sentence
My senses full pervade

I looked out for her notes
And happy morning quotes
Wondering if her day was blest
Her nights were  satin prest?

Author Notes

Optional
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394 · Jul 2014
Capitals!
Marshall Gass Jul 2014
There were capital letters
shouting at me from every corner
of the page where I huddled
at the last knockout blow:
YOU ARE NUTS!

Love has a funny way of expressing itself
it lurks silently in photographs,
one-liners, red faces, swear words
and internet roses gripping and clipping
memories and magic into tight little *****
of lust and longing
less spoken more said
and peeks out of its quiet hiding place
now and again. That's love?
Its never sudden but slow and casual
and funny and faint and building
block by block until it feels complete.

At last when the windows are installed
we can look in or out
and feel secure by the four walls
that were built by bricks of words
that sat tightly embracing each other
to keep us safe in its cocoon.

I think everyone wants to hear it
spoken softly or shouted.
As for me
I like them like the knock-out blow
in CAPITALS!
I LOVE YOU.

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388 · Feb 2014
The Bridge
Marshall Gass Feb 2014
Its not easy to cross an invisible bridge
with a friend on the other side asking you
to step over an taste what lies beneath
the flowing water of rapid emotions.

Lost worlds collide and collapse
in the thinking and knowing
the excitement that wraps itself
around your own safety harnesses
as you step into the void of trust.
One step and the pyramid of pleasure
will come crashing down into fragments
of excruciating pain.

But try we must - to span
the wide divide to reach out and touch
the other hand when the bridge
suddenly becomes visible.

Sometimes the bridge may lead to a nowhere place
strewn with broken dreams and feeble attempts
at crossing the vast expanse between
knowing and unknowing.
387 · Jul 2014
The Secret
Marshall Gass Jul 2014
Metaphysical hyperstrings
connecting
two abstract layers of embodiment
in a substantial partnership
driven by a need
in togetherness

I stretched my hand out
in a secret gesture
knowing fully well
wide open spaces
also hold secrets
sublime in its creation
and sponsored by a willingness
to defy the norm.

We have time to unravel
what this means
and it will remain a secret
if only you and I understand
what secrets are.

Come to me
now.
I wait for your longing too!

Author Notes
A secret narrative unfolding.
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385 · Jun 2014
Core
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
Skirting through the hundreds of pages
with poets squishing eternal love
crushing stray moonbeams
you arose like a whirlwind, spiralling
broken dreams of life
filled the pages with laughter's echo
refreshing as  a  warm velvet wordgame.

I was enamored of this style
this big eyed beauty that dared
scale unimaginable heights
of flirtatious sentences
beckoned the eagle in its skirting.

Sometimes most wanted
hidden under layers of unknowns
yet we dared to breach the bond of anonymity
to find impeccable treasures
awaiting discovery

Blooms now
a union of immediate searching
to discover the hidden histories
underneath the façade.
We peel layer by layer
in no hurry
to reach the core of the sun.

Author Notes
Optional
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384 · Jun 2014
The Great Divide
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
I understood her symbolisms and archway
of words and visuals that lit a dull day
with fiery sparks of language
written in fluid motions of poetic emotion.

Whichever way I turned she appeared
to stand right there in reason,
her spirit reaching out for my friendship
snuggling closer to the comfort of knowing
where freedom and safety abound.

It will be some time before she returns
to her mechanical life
dreaming of the 6th commandment
and its shattered images
spilling from the fragmented and broken
promises that we made to different partners
in a different time.

We met on an internet highway
straddling two continents
but drawn to each other
by the sheer magnetism of poetry and passion
expressed on the pages of  love
with new meanings.

When we part, we will take with us
a fresh new memory bank
of rhymes, rhythms, reasons and romance
to lock away in a vault that has no key.
No one will know what  this love meant
to us who crossed the great divide
for that one meeting in secrecy.

Author Notes
A recollection of  secret love.
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384 · Feb 2014
Catchin' up
Marshall Gass Feb 2014
We may have lost ourselves in a world of wonder
and not with each other.
The problem is knowing that connections
need energy to survive
and love needs an equal portion
of love to be regenerated.

Now we must catch up
somehow
rebuild those fragile bridges
that kept us going
even if there were torrents of time
and temperaments that frayed the edges
of our dreams
and spilled over into our daily lives
driving the wedges of distance between us.

No matter what
Lets renew that kiss
and cuddle and hold hands
where the frogs croaked in ecstasy
at our courtship
and the lilies just then blossomed
parting lips to meet up

Catchin' up will
bring s back together.
382 · Aug 2014
late night call.....
Marshall Gass Aug 2014
I wondered where you were
at this time of night
snuggled in a dream of little babies
wrapped around yourself
and chocolate biscuits courting tea
with the waiting for  tomorrow.

I wondered what you'd be doing
alone near a fireplace
stretching your arms to the warmth
and sighing with relief
that I will be home on a late flight
to hold you close again
to carry the weight of your worries
of sleepless nights.

I wondered if you'd miss me
as much as I would crave you
my world a winter of loneliness
your time a summer of silence.

I wondered if I'd ever told you
the we were designed opposites
in age and magic numbers
yet we compensated for the difference
with our give and take..

Is it no wonder
that all the lights of Paris
would not be equal
to the one sparkle in your eye
when I finally reach home.

Author Notes

Real and happening. Another love story with lights.
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380 · Jun 2014
Spiralling Passion
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
We don’t know whether we are connected
to heaven or hell
yet we can move effortlessly
between these two domains
taking with us those bits and pieces
that can re-create passions in the vault
of our memories. All we need to do is put
the jagged pieces alongside the disputed ones
and ***** over the past mistakes
with fresh earth, the green grass of forgiveness.

And even before we know it
we will have climbed the stairway
to heaven where waits long passionate memories
tactfully chained to the other end
spiralling to hell.

Its really upto us
to race upwards
or slide down the stairwell
in this wonderful balancing act.

Author Notes

Optional
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379 · Oct 2014
You can or cannot.....
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
you cant stop the rain from falling
too many drops
you cant stop freedom from unchaining itself
too many links

you cant stop the road from extending
into the sunset
its too connected
you cant stop dreaming of free flight
locked in a cage

you cant wear red
in a sea of blue because
you will stick out
you can hope for greener grass
walking in a desert
you can count your blessings
when you have little
you cant count your blessing when you have
too much. The difference will not be noticed.

you can be free
inside yourself
and you can be free
alone.

I know that much.

I've tested all these cans
and cannots!

Author Notes

Contemplation 7. Freedom
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Marshall Gass Apr 2014
The light was eternal
several trillion big bangs away
backed up by several other trillions before
the light has travelled to its current hubble
announcing itself in fragments of time travel

yet the words in genesis struggle to
contain these questions in its complexity
born in a blackhole the signature remains on the rim
while the density dissolves internally-forever.

walking through wormholes
is of course possible. One has to
create one and stitch the two together
to create the footpath that will
bend forward and connect through your own mind
into an ecstasy created in a vortex of time
too complex to understand.

mind is matter, no two ways about it.
raptured in space-time mind is collectively
the entire universe embedded in each living thing.

The Creator as defined in Genesis will only give
                                you
enough Mind to understand the immeasurable
Mind that he himself controls.
You have a minuscule fragment of this power.

Author Notes

Philosophy. Alpha and Omega.
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378 · Oct 2014
Sword
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
the enemy sings with soft words
weaving
spidery webs of deceit
watching, hunched, waiting
to spring when ready

watch as the sun sets how
his crouch melts within shadow
idealism
and he moves dark talons
from metallic sheaths

strike he will
book in hand scarfed and ready
his  black god lurks inside of him

we are not afraid
of his advance
armies wait for his heart
to spill on the battlefield
of silky dogmas.

Author Notes

radical
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378 · Jun 2014
Castles of Creativity.....
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
It was early days when I first started writing
with countless mistakes and moments of haste-
afraid even to disclose why I did that.

An accidental discovery by Dad
and the grin on his scholarly face
set me free  from this ******* of words.

Soon the brown paper bags
and napkins became
castles of creativity
and my nights became ticketless travels
to faraway places
where roads  connected  no communities
or pilgrims of patience.

At twenty I was sixty
and now at the far end I'm twenty again
-everything in reverse.

The poetic soup that simmered in my head
is only now being served in paper cups
with a sprinkling of  salt and pepper reality.

This was a fun journey all along.

© Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, 6 days ago
377 · Apr 2014
Daybreak to Dusk
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
Between the coming of day
and the resting of night
lies life to take control
and grow within
the short space provided.

What will we do if
the roles reversed and there was perpetual
darkness
or permanent light?

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377 · Feb 2014
sunset boulevard
Marshall Gass Feb 2014
we sat on the sunset boulevard
watching the waves hit the waters edge
into submission/peanut packets in hand
and bananas in brown paper bags
awaiting to share its tasteful death with our lives
we sauntered into conversations of the past
and present to a point where we arrived
bathed in the glory of companionship.

After years of knowing each others weaknesses
and strengths in all matters of the heart
mind and body-(bed included)
we at last were able to make peace
with our sweltering egos and the evening
heat to understand how we journeyed
through life with fewer wounds than
our fellow men all scarred and bruised
and beaten down by adversity.

The only reason, it seemed to us
and our journey was its casual composure
and careful regard for each others
individuality. But, we even, floundered
at the many instances when hurt and anger
took over the calm temperaments
and we moved on to the next alleyway
without carrying all that useless baggage
to break our backs into boredom.

The recipe was now ripe for the peanut ponder
and the banana benefit of the beautiful
night and its nakedness.
376 · Oct 2014
Shadow
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
Does stillness echo in the heart of quietness?
Beating rhythmically churning old memories
Into new shapes of pain, soundlessly stealing time
Writing its wrinkles under big broad smiles.

I miss you more
after  you left.
Your shadow still lingers in the light of my day

Your words bounce off the walls
Of my emotions, and I reach for your touch
My skin crackles with the urge of wanting

How do I know you feel the same way?
Although, I know, you do.
The same signals that separate us
Also bind us. Why is that so?

Why does a stranger have to write my longing
In his words?

How does she see underneath the pulse
Of my sentences?

What makes her
Understand me
Completely?

Author Notes

Optional
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374 · Jul 2014
Miss Taken
Marshall Gass Jul 2014
‘Im taken’
She said nonchalantly.
No I wasn’t shattered or heart broken
It was the way smart women described
their final journey to the altar
Good on them for being so positive.

I'm told life was a breeze for them.
for a few years, that is.
Roses and red wine, vintage art
cruises along the Mediterranean
Two kids growing sweetly and
A social circle of upmarket
Ittle finger protruding mates & maidens
who spoke queens English
and had upturned noses.

Tut Tut…
he had a roving eye.

They soon fought in the courts
and on the streets
at home and by the seaside.
The friends vanished
The wine evaporated
and the little fingers all folded in.

I met her again, a decade later.
At the railway station
( I usually like to travel home
with friendly people)

“Helllooooo” she cooed
“And how you been?”
“Good” I am a man of few words.

She looked tired.
My gym mates forced me
to get some abs & some new skin
I was alone and happy.
Not willing to fall over with any more full figures.

Miss Taken got off one station earlier
I carried on regardless.
In hindsight my words were not enough
to stir up any  heat or dust from the past.
I just watched as the train whistled out of the station

Miss Taken wiggled her way home. Alone.

Author Notes

Another bedtime story. "and they lived happily never after'?
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370 · Jun 2014
The Black Ribbon
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
The black ribbon licks
through towering mountains
and deep succulent valleys
rushing past rows and rows
of cornfields and crevices
reaching into strange places
'honey salted'- ecstasies
to lips ripe and ready
at the top end of town
welcoming.

The same road  rips around
comes or goes
whichever takes your fancy.Anyone get it

NO STOPPING

for miles and miles
even to saunter off
and picnic with passersby

strangers stare
with secretive glances
as we pass each other on the four laned
handshake
to know that we
once took this road
to somewhere.

Author Notes
Anyone get it? Would be nice to know.
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368 · Jun 2014
The Interview
Marshall Gass Jun 2014
And so why do you want this job?
Because I need work
Why do you need work?
Because I want to go on a holiday each year
Why do you want a holiday each year
I need a suntan, relaxing time. clubbing.
that sort of thing
How much will that cost you?
about a years salary, if I save up and am careful
with my money.
That's a pretty good answer. But how can you save up ?
I'll collect my pay, put it in the bank and watch it grow
That's lovely, very assuring
Will you take your friends with you
No. I'll find some friends on the beach in Hawaii
That's really good.
What can you do to help this company
some. Im special
what qualifications do you have?
I did not pass finishing school, the teachers were lousy
I worked in a grocery store packing goods
I also did night shift at a petrol station
was really good at that. got some tips now and again
Oh all of that sounds good
whats the last book you read?
don't remember
when did you go to church last
don't remember. don't believe in god
where do you live now?
at home
do you help you mom at home
not really. she does not think im good enough
ok. I think you are a good lad
but this business needs serious workers
you have some distance to go yet
Have a great holiday. Thanks for coming in.
Please pull your pants up and zip  your trousers.
We are looking for hard workers not holiday makers!

Author Notes

Oh sorry.

Please check out my new novel.
ISBN 9781493137848. Paste into browser. You wont regret reading this book.
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368 · Oct 2014
Discotheque
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
Beat in the blues the musky smell of smoke slithering
in and out of nostrils- dragon like dancing
to the ceiling and the drums bop, hard as muscle
women gyrate to the pulse of passion
sounds embrace lovers heading into the mist of night.

Between the banter  snorters ****** in coke
and cannabis wasted in the aisles of wonder
glancing at the lights flickering in the rooftops
of their eyes, seeking angels of mercy to take
them deep into the oblivion of emptiness.

The midnight gong sounds shattered as we
huddle in the days of the darkness of unreason
wallowing in the madness of the music
and breaking every rule that kept us trapped
in the cages of  that society .

As I look back now, leafing through the years
I cut through the morass of tradition and broke free
from the shackles of sensibility and found my feet
in a wild, wild world where nothing mattered
I am now rested at the journeys end
waiting for the skyline to blow up in flames.

Author Notes

Recollection.
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362 · Oct 2014
The Gates
Marshall Gass Oct 2014
Swinging slowly in the aftermath of sin
the gates swung on well oiled hinges
those who rushed in had baggage to hide
those who didn't stood in the q
waiting turns at redemption.

The devil popped his  horns around the corner
shouting names from a list- nobody answered.
But peter, that guy, without capital spellings
had this great book of columns
yet a few stepped out of line, hands
in the air of ownership.

Purgatory had hand-painted signage
further down
and those who claimed no heaven
or hell quietly formed a third Q
waiting to let themselves in here
for all eternity.

'at least in this place'said one young fella
'you can slow cook, like a tender bbq
and watch the dancing girls
swirl around on the tables
balancing between sin
and eternal innocent happiness'

I immediately joined this
long healthy line of thinkers
philosophers and charlatans!

Author Notes

Its true. Believe me!
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362 · Apr 2014
Confused Writer?
Marshall Gass Apr 2014
There was always chaos. In life, love and magic
unbroken universes, existed before
new universes formed in the trillion trillion split second.
That idea alone is chaotic. Philosophy begins
first line: Its only from chaos all reason springs
and so we lurch forward assured that
we are still bumbling idiots oozing metaphors
and other cunning devices to write
chaotic stuff, adding to the confusion of thought
increasing the confusion, blasting the fusion
splitting the atom, our brains, *****
and guts explaining why things are so confusing
are they?
doubt swallows me up when I see
a scientist scratching his head for answers.
inside he must be organised
outside chaotic and nonplussed?
Come on, it’s a slant in all of us.
We are confused human beings
Except (hmmmmm) when it comes to ***
we know what fits where and why
and we grind endlessly just as
the entire universe grinds timelessly
in an eternal clock.( ****?)
Like light and darkness
two sides of a day, we too
are organised chaotically.
Now where was that folder with my best poems?
See what I mean?
Its only from chaos that all reason springs.


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