Says Red Pine

Said Anonymous.

It's hard to give up redemption
If you want to see your loves

The silence is eternal
The nothingness of doves

I try to tell the truth
Troubled soul; silent sky

This is what it sounds like
When Doves Cry.

geeky and shy
not her kinda guy
Why Judi Why?

To sleep, to sleep, to sleep
To sleep, perchance to dream

This world like an illusion
Things not as they seem

Is God too a Dreamer?
Can She hear us when we scream?

Myths are sacred stories.
Seattle sky, my mind's moonbeams.

                   white light

It hurts, definitely hurts
Ordinary daily life

Children far not near
Agonia wife

Postcards in the mail
Protective phone calls too

Gandhi was a Hindu
And Muslim, Christian, Jew

               Galway Girl
                      You.

I'd like to write a sonnet
But I haven't studied enough

Jesus wasn't humble
He was storyteller tough

She lives in the Mile High city
I've been mile high too

She is still so very pretty
Black her, but eyes of blue

     What's a fella to do?

too geeky shy
ain't her kinda guy
          sigh ...

I miss her 40 years later
But it is all illusion
Life goes on until it doesn't
Exoplanet sky

City of Ember
The Giver
Things Not Seen
Life of Pi

                  Aye.

Reno sky. Life of Pi. Truly Thai.

American statues
All a lie

Like that ugly
White House guy

It is time
To tear them down

And send his ***
Out of town

Why buy books?

Her: To arrange them in neat little piles
         In order to fill the Void within.

Fernando Suarez taught me Spanish
But I wasn't a very good student
Sometimes fall asleep in class
Tired from basketball

Dali Museum in Florida
Last Supper in DC
Lorca killed for being gay
Body never found

My son born in Santa Rosa
Spring break in Santa Fe
Tapas in DC
Paella in the Fall

Venezuelans at the Border
Romero assassinated
Jarritos Mexican soda
Adios Ezra Pound

          Maria! Maria!

A young child in Taiwan
I still have the photo

She is standing next to me
Black and white and old though

Once I was an itty bitty boy
Hey ** with the wind and the rain

Asia still often calls to me
As does La Mancha, Spain

The short ride to the cemetery
Exoplanet Sky
Ashes to the ocean
Peace for Scott and Ry

Extinction is Forever
Why Judi Why?
Dublin. Stockholm. Bangkok.
Shunyata in Thai

                    fly

the open American ocean
    falling, rising, falling, stalling...


                            Nantucket bound.

Aurelio again on Franklin Street
        We didn't start the Fire
      Toledo: where my aunt is...


Tell my wife I am trawling Atlantis

tonight much meaningless
   this world just relentless change
           goes on until it doesn’t
                     ****** up, freaked out, strange

What it is I want
Even I don’t know
Something amazing I guess
Aliens or gods to show
Something out of this world
To illuminate our Night
Take down Donald Trump
His fools, bad schools, the fright
So I silently fold my hands
Wear green and pray like a mantis
If she asks you what am I doing?
Tell my wife I’m trawling Atlantis!

DownEaster Alexa daybreak
        Long Island sounds
            Fish out there!

I took down Harold Bloom
I took down Billy Graham
I miss my darling sons
Loneliness I am

I woke up in Charlotte
I once stayed in Taipei
I'll die and be forgotten
O God! The Silent Way.

        Ay! yi yay!

life itself is meaningless
and so is life itself

but I still choose Things Not Seen
from my overflowing shelf

Mark in Sacramento
Santa Rosa too

If I could I surely would
do something good for you

before the Dark
twilight blue

I've been to 3 universities
But I'm not an Academic
My father in the Air Force
No longer do I teach school

Encounters with Chinese hermits
The path of solitude
Avoid the ***** priests
King Lear is a Fool

O ye of little faith!
My faith is little too
Gonna go down swingin'
My sons in the Taipei pool

San Francisco Zen
Peter Parker's Uncle Ben
Who where how why when?
The Ocean grown Azul

                 Too cool!

I admit, the deer give me hope
Like Batman
Like my youngest son

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When my Day is Done

I admit, I have despair
no hope, some hate,
Desire!

Let us step closer now
And stare into the Fire

                Blue!

el autobus blue revvin'
long ago:  my basketball friend Kevin
                 Amos 3:7

Simone Weil and her devotion to France
Father Greeley and the Lord of the Dance
        freedom, Necessity, and chance ...


               Thanksgiving dinner

No way to control
How you will be remembered
One can only wait
Hope, baby, hope

Courage to die well
Lina, Ishmael
Ain't no tongue can tell
Pope, baby, Pope.

So you circle all the wagons
And you hide behind the trees
And you try to find some courage on your knees
And when you hear the sound of Taps
Played by the one man marching band

You know this is where you'll have to make

                        Your last stand.

                            - Harry Chapin
                             The Last Stand

Sang Tom Petty.

Afternoon light. Calm still lingers.
Pizza coming soon.

Billy Joel plays with his fingers
I like Flaming June

He once tried to **** himself
I'm glad he didn't do it

The Down Easter Alexa
I love to listen to it

Best to you, Piano Man
Best to Alexa Ray

Mr. Charles and the baby grand
Man, you both can play!

She tells him
Don't make me your only hope
For a normal life

I told her
Poetically about the Pope
And my troubled wife

She was also Ms. Pascal
I too have been a gambler

Lucifer is a Light Bringer
Talkin' bout the Midnight Rambler

I see it. I see it.
But I can't there myself.

Please help, Elf.

Zooey Deschanel's character in Elf:  Singing alone naked in the shower isn't like singing in public in front of other people.

Elf: Yes it is.

She never meant to cause me sorrow
Neither did my dad

It wasn't at all intentional
Best times I ever had

Were times of fun and laughter
Kissing at the beach

Basketball with friends
Now it's out of reach

But still some destiny
Some good thing left to do

Whatever is left to be
O God! See us through

   Comin' home to You!

Back to daily life
Eating, walking, sleeping

Movies in my mind
I, Robots and weeping

My Madonna figure
From my mother for safekeeping

Green with Asian eyes
Over Fences leaping

Back to ordinary
Nothing much to do

My boring so called life
Morning light soft blue

Life is meaningless
Meaningless it's true

But i wish you peace
Do wah diddy do

Back again to 37 per cent
Good luck, good luck to me sent

Desperation, I know it's true
But I'm a seeker: what else to do?

Swiftly time passes,beyond recall
Wordless, silent after all

Susan's beauty in my mind
Intelligent, gentle, kind

Nightwalks on La Florida beach
Time is an Ocean beyond my


                       reach

Peace to all who struggle alone
Heartfelt wishes, Twilight Zone

Grateful for her kindness
Amazed by gentle beauty

Memories in mindness
Want to do my duty

JMU the journey
Chicago, Mason Nation

Try to be true to my schools
Now we all our on staycations

                        Ain't Talkin'
                        Just Walkin'

Love doesn't win
But when it goes down, it goes down grateful

Then some other love begins
To battle back the hateful

I believe in destiny
The flip side of the fateful

I love more than one woman
Please peace for her, my mateful.

Mind moving like dolphins in the water
     Did she learn what I taught her?
               Bess, the landlord's
               blackeyed daughter

David Markson in the library
His collected letters

There may well be a 5th book
Could it be even better?

She called it unexpected
That I could not forget her

American volleyball
With an Irish setter

Yes, sometimes I wish
That I never met her

Sometimes only twilight
Can break these mind-forged fetters

Businessmen make big bucks
But writers all are debtors

alone the quiet library
In my sweatshirts and my sweaters

Tonight I'll sing "Society"
A great song by Eddie Vedder!

I'm definitely rock
But I don't think myself particularly cool
I'm drawn to the hot
Stacy's Mom at the swimming pool

Just heard Thin Lizzy
The boys are back in town
She's drivin' all the old men crazy
Bon Scott, my brother, I'm goin' down

Thailand and Taiwan both humid
Sticky in the night
Buddhamind in Bangkok
From Tokyo the flight

Taipei beef noodle soup
But I eat Vietnamese summer rolls
Secret Asian man
Frodo fights the trolls

       Khaosuing Rocks and Rolls?

television bores me
but I do true love the movies

my cell phone sometimes informs me
but rarely does improve me

                    therefore:

but actually I come back
a kind of dialectic

my escape plans all prove futile
still my traveling eclectic

libraries are also portals
politics unhinged crazed hectic

music the deep mystery
no way to measure that mind metric