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As the letters hide
hopping he he is two mind
the cattle grazing by the river
look at him as he comes
as his pen strikes
freaking himself out
purple
thats the colour here
see or hide
See the painted
purple dreams
living in purple clouds
driftting of into purple sense.


Purple bing bang hop.
Hope.
Call it what you like but it's caramel to me
and I see caramel that grows in the mountains of a monastery 
and why, you ask me,
caramel?

It's a ritual between a god and man and some say that it's spiritual.

I like to call it caramel.

If it pleases you that the wandering Jew we knew as Jesus walks among us 
then believe it's true,
call him Emmanuel 
I call him Caramel.

When I stand before the final board with a microfiche on which my life and deeds are stored,
they may dwell on why 
and why 
Caramel?

I shall quote from Ezekiel or Ruth, 
the truth?
a lie?
I'll leave them wondering why
and why not 
Caramel ?
 Apr 2016 Olivia Kent
Haydn Swan
He played a blinder,
left her standing in the pouring rain,
He played it straight,
straight out of a well thumbed book,
He played the fool,
fool always rhymed with cool,
He played into her arms,
arms now cold from the chill of night,
He played it red,
red for the colour of her bed,
He played like he cared,
cared for the notes crumpled in his pocket,
He played his cards,
cards that made her tear her soul,
He plays a song
a song for her departure from this world.
hill  
                                               ant hill
                                          an ant hill
                                      a perfect ant hill
                                 a perfect ant hill it was
                               a perfect anthill erected
                        a perfect ant hill erected at will
           by ants and ants and army of disciplined ants.
     ants of many kinds, sizes and colors erected an ant hill
the design was grand, nice to look at like a cathedral,functional.
we love the ants for being so versatile,co-operative and creative
Do ants possess minds, ability to think,organize, put decisions in to actions?Or do they just have an instinct,prompted by nature, how do they receive it?Even if we are yet to find out such secrets,many of us are skeptics."All this is like the crawling leaches, inscribing  letters on smooth surfaces, inadvertently" they vehemently argue.And there remains the million dollar question,seeking answer:even tiny ants,could make millions of their ilk do amazing things, why oh! why, the most intelligent of living things, at least replicate the feats the community of ants, at a scale, proportionate ?If these disciplined insects, in spite of their small brains could be a great example, why can't human's be like them, behave more responsibly , take charge of their own destiny, construct, not destroy. Every ant hill in silence, asks us many questions,  we walk past pretending that we heard nothing, that could disturb our peace.
Much studies have been done on ant behavior, but would humans ever  be  as organized and industrious  like these insects, supposed to be at a far lower level than mankind?
'cut me some slack
Jack'
said Jill,
who was
American.
If the Sun doesn't get you
the scorpions will.

There were four of us in a half track and a little way back lay the fifth.

The Sun got him good
roasted and peeled him like a spud.

Tannoy, the radio man was the next one to go, slow like a withering vine,
sounded like static on the line
then he went dead.

Fitzroy, the Sepoy, more of a boy than a man
prayed for a day and then went on his way to whatever heaven it is that Sepoys go.

Bill, a bull of a man from Mill Hill and who spoke with a permanent stutter
uttered his last and I travelled on at half mast
cursing the Sun and the Sand and the hand I'd been dealt.

Felt the scorpion sting as I pulled up and funny thing too
I could swear that the scorpion looked like
Frank Sinatra.
I am the ocean-
from an objective glance
one might say
I am predictable
my tides
my moods
are just a reaction
caused by
my moon of emotion

I inch closer to you
then pull away
the moon is my master
and I am but a puppet
to her

wade in my shallow waters
before venturing further

for your own safety
study me first
before exploring my depth

I have swallowed innocent people
whole
when they did not
know what to expect
their bodies will always rise
but I have drowned their souls
in my darkness

not something I am proud of
but they
should have known
what they were getting into

inside me there lives
demons disguised as sharks
lurking
until you show your
vulnerability
once they smell it
they will hunt you down
and abuse you
for their own advantage

but when you get to know
my secrets
my waters
my soul
I promise there is
beauty
in the underwater foliage
I can show you sights
you have never seen
as long
as you remember
when to pull up for air

just bring a life vest
and don't say
I never warned you
not
to swim too deep
If you take your life
I take mine too,
Because a life here on earth
isn't worth losing you.
NOTE:
I do not authorise the duplications of my writings, photography, or personal information.
no matter that plain words are
my ordinary tools,
with them,
I shall scribe the small
cherish the little,
grab the middle
simplicity my golden rule,
write they say,
about what you know best,
surely in the diurnal motions,
the arc of daily commotion,
do we not all excel?

me,
just a poet poseur extraordinaire,
street urchin, word merchant,
all my verbally,
worldly goods expropriated
by the wind,
where your scattered thoughts
lie about, carelessly, unattended

scout the competition.
weep,
for you and I will never surpass
the giants who preceeded us,
and yet,
laugh,
cause they thought
the same as well

so I spend my cold, hard time
laying down cold hard verse,
can't stop,
cause it's my daddy's dying curse*

addict and dealer, a ****** poet ******
excerpt from an old poem of mine
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and below a variant from 2 days ago:

Truth is like poetry. And most people f**king hate poetry.
a quote from the movie "The Big Short"

~

a screen provocation,
you laugh out loud,
mime hating yourself
that you are joiining in
tacitly acknowledges the truth
of abbreviated wisdom

you,
disguised minority of
modest disagreers,
c'mon, admission submission,
more truth in it
than deserving of argumentation

a one liner throwaway,
neatly designed,
leaves you disturbingly
probed,
thoughtfully tormented and
aroused

poetry just a vehicle,
your vice for revelation,
the critical door to open is this:

do people hate the truth?

inescapable reality
ironical probability,
truth well disguised,
in plastic shell of lying
from the Hollywood's would be poets,
an escapade from the escapists

let us not pretend
that you and I
uncaring, for by virtue of
your reading this, you are
poetry aficionado,
required to deny the lie,
and yet,
accept
the
granular view
that we are rising writing thru the wronged end of
a telescoping microscope

so I scare scar a tissue sample from my tongue
and the cells spell
this rejoinder:

all your lies are poems,
incomplete truths,
and that's why people hate poetry.
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