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Qualyxian Quest May 2019
the labyrinth of solitude
Si es verdad

Mark from my childhood
best friend I ever had

cultivating gratitude
so I don’t go stark raving mad

oblivion near the neighborhood
dearest Emily, is posthumous fame so sad?
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Tribute band in Dublin
Who do you sound like, son?

    I don't sound like nobody.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2019
they seem like they’re All
    but, as now, they rise and fall
               truth is, Empires are small
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2021
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or only just happened: I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course it could be done. We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they'd got spoiled and was hove out of the nest.

                       - Mark Twain
                     Huckleberry Finn
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2024
William Faulkner's grade in a college English class:

D.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
The old man who will not laugh is a fool, said Santayana.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2020
Perfect moments
Only in memory preserved

Like tonight with my boys
Gracefully undeserved

Gratitude and elation
Giggles all abounding

Wonder, more than wonder
Please patience all resounding
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2020
inescapable ambiguity
in every human being
and and also in me

Ah! but that one afternoon
when we 5 cycled
in Stockholm by the Sea!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
Fr. Greeley on Shelley
His incorrigible love of nature

When I walk the twilight moon
I too am unreformed

The guns have got to go
But we have a moronic legislature

I tried to warn of our Ozymandias
But their ignorance is sandstormed

Pythagoras loved his numbers
I'm a 37

Don't know what comes next
But to be with her would be my heaven

                      Right, Trevin?
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
C.S. Lewis on the 16th Century
Better then the Problem of Pain
Magic may be real
So may Purple Rain

Only in Minneapolis once
Sorry, Mr. Keillor
She and I, Life of Pi
Am I a Wounded Healer?

Smalltown USA
Used DVDs
Someone for to say
Please, baby, please

Oxford, Harvard, Chicago
Me in Paris, France
Arthur Edens calls
Shiva does his dance

My sons more than me
Fire more than water
3333
2 beautiful daughters

           Taught her?

               Taut her?
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2020
Yes, I was right
But in truth it gives no pleasure

I’d rather have a kinder time
You can have all America’s power treasure
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2021
Not pleasant to feel hateful emotions
Aggression makes me tremble
I hope for gentle devotion
Help me true assemble

A little dailiness
A little basketball
A little love for life
A lot of love for y'all

             Play ball!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2019
teachers teach
professors profess

delivery drivers drive
and sometimes guess

fights, faults, and failings
I too confess

Ocean's 11
Danny and Tess

Buddha lamp
Enlightenment?  Yes.

Love not money
art too can bless
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2019
traces to find
       seeing the passing lanes
                              mystery mind
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Eastway in Charlotte
A nightmare chaos school

In Bangkok and in Carrboro
Silent drops upon the pool

The Democratic Donkey
Stubborn as a mule

Kick Trump's ***, then go to Mass
Then throw out this fool.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Pope Joan, a.k.a. John VII, 855-858.

     Who died when taken by childbirth during a papal procession between St. Peter's and St. John Lateran.
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2020
I love words and music so much
But life is more important

I am struggling now
But I have support from friends

And my brother.
My beautiful brother Ryan.

Hope for the country
And the people of the country

We can turn it around!
A step forward for our children's future.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2020
I like ancient things
But I am no right winger

My Johnny Cash t-shirt
Jacob Green's soul singer

The libraries wake me wistful
Europe I have seen

I now live alone
In America the Mean

        running streams!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
A visiting teacher comes to a joint
Hindu-Catholic ashram in India
And asks the children:

Where is God?

The Catholic kids all point to the sky:
Above me (Our Father who art in Heaven)

The Hindu kids all point at their chests:
Inside me: Brahman and atman are One.

The moral of this story, he tells me,
Is that all of the children are correct.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2019
I resist my hatin’ nation
and choose quiet contemplation

Humanity is greater
Than Donald Trump the Hater

The globe is to be shared
By people everywhere who care

Tonight I miss Taiwan
I pray the road goes ever on

Despite potential danger
I welcome the unknown stranger

Life is mystery
I live and die in thee
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
The poems and the illness
No way to separate

Mother Teresa spoke the truth
The little way the great

Slept again all day
So tired! Ah! the sadness

Sarah at the bank
Her gentleness is gladness

Thankful for my father
Despite the sometimes struggle

I do not fear Antifa
Sorry there, Ray Tuggle

I want to do some good thing
I want to deep discover

Astrobiological water
The alien. The Other.
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2023
crossing the Baltic
young sons sung
       Trappist 1!
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
The predatory terror in the natural world
Just the way life is
But I like hummingbirds
Ravens in the Winter

Exoplanets spin
Aliens might be real
Women sometimes squeal
Extrasolar water

It had to be poetry
Robinson Middle School
Harold Bloom was a fool
Charlotte for philosophy

If she would call my phone
If she would sleep in Rome
If she and I were home
Best wishes for her daughters

                Pax Vobiscum
Extrasolar water
Astrobiology
Wild, wild Surmise
Mother Mary Let it Be!

                Si
I wish I was a shaman
Protection for my people
Somewhere near the forest
Nowhere near the steeple

But I'm just bipolar
Take my medication
Quiet in the night
Parental dedication

UFOs, what are those?
Extrasolar water
Hope for my sons
Prayers for her daughters

               Astrobiology!
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Being Van Gogh's description of our world.

One of God's **** ups.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Being the last book of my teacher
Fr. Andrew Greeley.

And one of his best.

(May George W. be eternally condemned)
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2020
the wickedness in women
yes, I've seen the truth

in marriage and in politics
and in my long lost youth

I liked Heineken
never tried vermouth

George Mason the Virginian
not actor John Wilkes Booth

The Union now destroyed
Trumpfucks are true proof.
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
The person who has seen a beautiful woman has seen God.

                          - Rumi
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