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 May 2013 Owen Phillips
REAL
I am a
Flower

She is the
Rain

I have a heart of red roses
and eyes of purple lily's
a mind of wild flowers
and hands of dried orchids

I am a Flower

She has a heart of a warm lake
and eyes of a big sea
a mind of a deep blue ocean
and hands of cold rain

She is the Rain

I need the Rain
to live
to grow
Without Rain
I dry up
like my hands
and die

But she rains
on other flowers
and not me
and i am drying up
like my orchid hands

and i wait for her
to rain on me
learn your questions.
discern the myriad as One, and console your misery with service.
pour your fumes into the heart of mars; press pause when your gods
make you nervous.  and when they don't exist, you whistle while you hurt...
as if
the Master Plan
had jokes.

but know this.
your cathedrals have killed people, and your faith was crushed -
whenever sincere. so i
bid you peace. a peace with
tranquil thoughts and night lemmings;
squealing
right over the Cliffnotes to Oblivion, in vapid terror and happy herds.
their little parachutes; cumbersome, with snapped threads to a forum, that unpack, once filled
with air and
parents .
you inherit
the edge of your vague notions.... that expand
upon dissent .
heretic tick
BOOM !

then make love, all day Wednesday

learn your questions. gain the gist
of your out-risible ignorance and invent the humor of  "precise submission"
as humility will boast , enthroned above the kingdom of desire
aching hermetic in a mob. but knobs -
that turn,  despite severed hands
turn Truth's *****.

learn your throat.
hold only the notes to your music
to a golden standard !
Brandish your exile, like a rogue -
from it's sheath of Turin
[ and flash! ]   it's blade of grasp
in Walt Whitman's
Verile Phase...

face your loved ones, but only
with the face
that got away.
return...
return unbridled and
unkempt. more windswept
than lost and found  
haunted...

and remember

eat whatever
you **** well please
because
" **** Dr. Phil, Really ? "
Have you ever  seen an anorexic
Buddha ?

and bought that one ?

if you have...
you might be
ascetic.
 May 2013 Owen Phillips
chels
tbc
 May 2013 Owen Phillips
chels
tbc
Day 126:

I can't keep up with the length of your hair. I can't remember if we shook our right hands or our left. I still haven't fixed the collar on your shirt because I hung it up in the back of my closet.

Day 127:

The smell of you is fading from me, faster than that sand slipping through my fingers when we went to the beach for the Fourth of July. You walked away without a sunburn.
 May 2013 Owen Phillips
chels
The flick of a lighter
brought us together
as something more
than friends.

We smoked because
we wanted a reason
to act stupid.
I wanted a reason
to text you,
telling you
how cute you looked,
and how much
I liked you.

I think you smoked
so that when
you deleted
all the text messages,
you would never
remember them.

We were sad,
so we became
fingertips
stained with stale smoke.
We became
nervous quirks and
bellyaches
whenever we went to sleep
on our stomachs.
We became more
than just four people
in a small room with
bedsheets as walls -
We became much more
than water boiling on a
***** stove in a
dark kitchen
we
were
alive
 May 2013 Owen Phillips
chels
space
 May 2013 Owen Phillips
chels
the white elephant in the room
takes up
all my oxygen
and sits on my chest
until i can no longer breathe
Free your Mind
is such an empty phrase
if you are unaware of the ways
in which your mind is not free.

Free your Mind,
allow it to be itself
and to achieve it's potential
while still maintaining a sort-of
Wu-Wei style of Control; Self-Discipline.

Free your Mind;
that is Enlightenment
that is Salvation.

Be your own Shaman;
Free your Mind.
I'm not a poet
of my time just because
I go on long walks.
I don't see anything or hear anything that
a real poet would,
I just sing to myself.
Most often singing softer than the thud of my footsteps.
night has passed
clanking and exhaling,
small talks of large projects, conundrums;
oak wood canines roam in bliss
new found love found lager
new found lover found a big stomach in the morning
and a smile on his face, not penetrating his soul.
deep and shallow, bodies of water dig going with the flow.
perhaps a bowl of cereal is in the general direction we're floating,
huzzah, brumah, and lack-lack.
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