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When it rained, I was walking I was walking......... A hill, and up a red mountain Upon asking direction of an Old man, who stood strangely shouting, At haggard old cattle with oddly human faces For the life of me Pouting.................... I learned, when it rained On my own journey home Through the unwise Old man's country Is that its your own life thats owned By things you invest in So claim a strong interest in clearing yourself of them. Made for the making you are, for yourself not for some other. Do not bleed for Another, who throws Your dreams to the wind. Im held by my feelings In aspic, and nitre a tired shepard Of wayward thought/sheep That wander on hills that I have invented In  mind's eye and blurred rainy sleep. But the rain you create will Drown you, if careful You allow yourself Open to downpour Of thought/water, that you've Created from rivers of clocks and alarms that run Ever over Rocks of experience you crash into When safe from all harm..... As years pass They grow More jagged Hazard stones And dangerous The grow On your soul. And in the knowing It's your life You are saving........ So be grateful for ageing it's useful To know When to stop At the whole. Is there time in a grain, to be thought as a quantum of realness or real, and realness can be when our world is of quanta- reality-grit how is the thought/world revealed? Are we our senses Like fruit we have peeled? Who watches us Close by from inside? As thoughts get revealed. Is he as close as your necked vein? As they say in some places? These questions are hard And they pose harder Answers.   So  consider yourself, take courage In living For the void is a terror Yet we all live Within it Infinite, unchanging I'm scared for possible futures Running from fixed pasts Chasing hazed out rainbows That long I have clung to, How long can it possibly last? I have dug many holes Will I find one at last? I don't know, but I do, But telling is hard For in telling truth you must be Honest And honesty is a slippery Concept, is it not? When it rained, I was walking I was walking A hill, and red mountain Upon asking direction of a Mad man, stood shouting At the cattle with faces For the life of me..... ...................... Pouting That man was me No longer the stranger My hills I have Crossed, and knowing The danger Warn passers That their paths Can be crossed When it rains.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM UTC
What I Learned, When it Rained
When it rained, I was walking I was walking......... A hill, and up a red mountain Upon asking direction of an Old man, who stood strangely shouting, At haggard old cattle with oddly human faces For the life of me Pouting.................... I learned, when it rained On my own journey home Through the unwise Old man's country Is that its your own life thats owned By things you invest in So claim a strong interest in clearing yourself of them. Made for the making you are, for yourself not for some other. Do not bleed for Another, who throws Your dreams to the wind. Im held by my feelings In aspic, and nitre a tired shepard Of wayward thought/sheep That wander on hills that I have invented In  mind's eye and blurred rainy sleep. But the rain you create will Drown you, if careful You allow yourself Open to downpour Of thought/water, that you've Created from rivers of clocks and alarms that run Ever over Rocks of experience you crash into When safe from all harm..... As years pass They grow More jagged Hazard stones And dangerous The grow On your soul. And in the knowing It's your life You are saving........ So be grateful for ageing it's useful To know When to stop At the whole. Is there time in a grain, to be thought as a quantum of realness or real, and realness can be when our world is of quanta- reality-grit how is the thought/world revealed? Are we our senses Like fruit we have peeled? Who watches us Close by from inside? As thoughts get revealed. Is he as close as your necked vein? As they say in some places? These questions are hard And they pose harder Answers.   So  consider yourself, take courage In living For the void is a terror Yet we all live Within it Infinite, unchanging I'm scared for possible futures Running from fixed pasts Chasing hazed out rainbows That long I have clung to, How long can it possibly last? I have dug many holes Will I find one at last? I don't know, but I do, But telling is hard For in telling truth you must be Honest And honesty is a slippery Concept, is it not? When it rained, I was walking I was walking A hill, and red mountain Upon asking direction of a Mad man, stood shouting At the cattle with faces For the life of me..... ...................... Pouting That man was me No longer the stranger My hills I have Crossed, and knowing The danger Warn passers That their paths Can be crossed When it rains.
Just sketches and ideas for a draft of a poem, not to be taken as a piece of work.
paul-thomas-galbally
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM UTC
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