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Jun 2010 · 477
Life Of Night
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Starless black night
Hidden ices
Cold winds knocking at the window
Each white angle hair
Dropping from the sky
Covering the Earth
Frightening the green
Turning it a pale white
Standing, starting at the sky
Lit by on bulb
A God in the sky
A startling sound in the distance
Like bones breaking
Body Freezes
From fright or cold?
The night is alive
©2003 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 676
Unborn Child
Paul Celano Jun 2010
The love between two people
Turn to lust
The pleasure of becoming one
The nervous feeling of a mistake
The test taken
To tell the truth
Given a seed of life
Happiness fills the mind
The ninth month comes
Pain shoots through
The creation is coming
Life will change
Silence hits the room
Life has faded
The seed breathes not
The heart snaps
A part of you has died
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 1.4k
Is There Peace?
Paul Celano Jun 2010
I ask you
What is peace?

Peace is someone finding they have cancer
Peace is a homeless person on the street
Peace is a teenager killed by a drunk driver

I ask you
What is peace?

Peace is a child killed by a gun
Peace is a woman beaten by her so called love
Peace is a cope beating down an innocent man

I ask you
What is peace?

Peace is people at war with people
Peace is an animal shot down for fun
Peace is airplanes flying into buildings

I ask you
What is peace?

Peace is dying of AIDS
Peace is racism
Peace is a mother pulling the plug on her child

I ask you
What is peace?

Peace is destroying peoples land
Peace is loosing your ability to move
Peace is taking your own life

I ask you
Is there peace?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 469
Christmas Tree
Paul Celano Jun 2010
A perfect site
Standing tall and strong
Sharing the green of life
Each needle a ***** of pleasure
A star of heaven at the top
Covering the body of golden angel hair
Dancing sugar canes swing from each arm
Rainbow tights of night glow bright
A perfect site
For the holiday season
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 664
A Dad's Son
Paul Celano Jun 2010
I love my son
The other day we went to the game
~Beep Beep~

You Know
He wants to be a doctor when he grows up
~Beep Beep~

He gets all A’s in school
Smartest in this class
~Beep Beep~

You should see the kid eat
He has quit the appetite
~Beep Beep~

He seems to be getting curious about girls
I am going to have to have “the talk” with him
~Beep Beep~

I love to hear him say “I love you”
He is a caring son
~Beep Beep~

Did I tell you he was all-star on this team
They got 1st place at state
~Beep Beep~

Can’t wait till he drives
I have taught him a lot
~Beep Beep~

One day he will be married
He will have kids of his own
~Beep Beep~

My son will live a great life
He will be someone
~Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep~

These thoughts run through my head
But the cancer was stronger
Even though he is gone
He lives on in my mind
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 507
Be The Music (revised)
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Let it take you for a ride
On the music highway
Each note a piece of the road
Drive it…
Ride it…

BE THE MUSIC

Let it dance with you
Your feet are the drums
Your hands the baton
Embrace it…
Embody it…

BE THE MUSIC

Let is sing to you
Ringing your ears like bells
Soaking into your mind
Take it…
Keep it…

BE THE MUSIC

Let is lift you up
Take it in your soul
Be one with the sound
Bless it…
Love it…

BE THE MUSIC

Let it connect with you
Controlling your five senses
See it!
Touch it!
Smell it!
Taste it!
Hear it!

BE THE MUSIC

So Stop
Drain your mind
Close your eyes
Breathe in…
Breathe out...
And get ready to

BE THE MUSIC
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 873
Am I Scared Of You?
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Am I scared of you?

Am I the bashful gopher?
Hiding terrified in this hole?
NO!
I am the bloodcurdling bear
Coming from his shadowy cave

Am I scared of you?

Am I the gloomy dog?
Walking away gradually, tail between legs?
NO!
I am the fatal wolf
Ready to attack his prey with terror

Am I scared of you?

Am I the cautious possum?
Hiding at the deepest night?
NO!
I am the spirited hawk
Ready to lunge at any second

So now I ask you…

Are you scared of me?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 570
A Leaf's Good-Bye
Paul Celano Jun 2010
The warmth of Mother Nature’s hug
Has turned to Jack Frost’s frosty breath

I hang on for dear life
My family vanished
My friends no more
The arctic winds chill my body
Making my once attractive jade skin
Now an unsettling brown
My arms they drain
For I cannot hold on much longer
The last of my kind
I want to set an example
I want to be the hero
But I can’t
My mind has ripened
I have let my people down
But it is time
As I fall I will remember the pleasant times
When I was not alone
But I am alone
The bitter steel ground is calling me

Good-bye Mother Nature
Hello Jack Frost
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 1.0k
The Sound Of Silence
Paul Celano Jun 2010
The clock stops
Time hits the brakes
Silence….nothing
My body stops
Mouth left breathing
Heart left beating
Eyes blurred
They focus
I see silence
….I see….silence
I feel like I am in a picture
Not a sound
Nothing moves
Glued to Earth’s body
I hear through silence
I hear what objects think
What are they thinking?
Do they think, what I do?
Do they hear, what I hear?
I hear the rumbling of Earth’s stomach
I hear the liquid in the air
I hear gravity’s hands pulling things in
I hear my mind spinning!
From hearings things you can’t hear!
IT’S LOUD!
SILENCE IS LOUD!
A sound more piercing then anything
It tries to drill into my skull
My head is vibrating
I SCREAM!
My sound mixing with silence
Like oil and water
It does not mix!
My voice hides
I can’t hear my voice!
I hear silence
I hear the silence….of silence!
THE PAIN!
THE NOISE!
THE………STOP!
I am left in a little ball
Shaking….waiting….
I listen….I hear nothing
But what am I hearing?
Am I hearing myself?
Am I hearing silence?
WHAT AM I HEARING?
I stretch out and look at the sky
I hear the wind hugging leaves
I hear the songs of birds
I hear myself breathe
The pain has vanished
Can sound be pain?
Can silence be pain?
Can silence….be sound?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 3.1k
Trust
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Talking behind someone’s back
Words can be deadly
Each hurtful word a bullet
Piercing the heart of the other
Loosing the trust
Trust being a friend
What are you left with?
Nothing!
No one!
You even hurt yourself
If no one can trust you
Can you trust yourself?
Was it worth it?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 595
The Path
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Standing in a dark hole
Surrounded by troops of black
A frozen pale road
A shadow leads the way

A loud silence
A breeze of stale air
The world had disappeared
The whole quilt but one patch

Flickering lights around the mind
The lustrous pearl in the sky
The exit
Walk the path
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 547
Blue Eyes
Paul Celano Jun 2010
They sink through my body
They are as clear as the skies
This is what I see
When I look in your blue eyes

My body gets relaxed
My mouth breathes and sighs
I can’t help but smile
When I look in your blue eyes

It makes my very happy
The feeling never dies
I just feel so great
When I look in your blue eyes

They have control over me
I cannot tell any lies
I can only tell the truth
When I look in your blue eyes

Then you have to go
And I must say my good byes
And I think why oh why
Then a part of me dies
I cringe and start to sigh
Then I break down and cry
I will miss the look
In your wonderful blue eyes
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 634
All Inside My Mind
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Thinking too much it hurts
I feel dizzy and blind
Just too many thoughts
All inside my mind

I just get so confused
Some thoughts I cannot find
I have a giant scrapbook
All inside my mind

So many things to think about
Things evil and kind
I have so much stress
All inside my mind

All the thoughts holding me back
I feel slow and behind
Everything keeps building up
All inside my mind

But when I go to sleep
In my bed I am bind
That is the break I get
From the thoughts inside my mind
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 516
You Are Free
Paul Celano Jun 2010
An open area
A small breeze
Breathe it in
Take it to your soul

Heart thumping
A slow breath
Heart stops
The calm is coming

The warmth of the mighty sun
Like a wool blanket
Protecting and soft
No need to worry

A leaf drifts by
One with the air
If it falls, it looses
But it stays free

In some way you are the leaf
One with your surroundings
But you will not loose, you are free
You; are free
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 357
We Are One
Paul Celano Jun 2010
A hug of intense gravity
We sink into one another
We become one person
One heavy feeling of magnitude

With our hearts combined
We create a heart of gold
One with vast love
One that cannot be pierced or broken

Your eyes gaze into mine
I see the ocean and all its beauties
You see the land and its fascinations
Our eyes build a world of peace

Our lips sink together with splendor
We create a silent song only we can hear
A kiss of protection
A kiss of love’s pleasure

Our minds become the earth
Spinning as we both think in harmony
The brain knows our happy place
It is with each other

The loving heart
The curious eyes
The lips of passion
The minds of intelligence

We are one
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 565
Being No One
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Being a pin cushion of pain
The fist being the pin
Piercing into your body
Every blow another hole in your ego

Being a ball of amusement
Bouncing from wall to wall
Hitting the cold steel
Turning your mind to mush

Being a window of time
Shattered by hate
Every shard a piece of your life
Taken away from pain

Being a cloud of sadness
Raining salty tears
Drowning yourself in them
Washing away your life

Being a balloon of shame
Scared floating awake
Popped by your anger
Falling to your fate

You are the pin cushion of pain
You are the ball of amusement
You are the window of time
You are the cloud of sadness
You are the balloon of shame
You are NO ONE!
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 488
Be The Music
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Let it take you on a ride
Feel it
Breath it

BE THE MUSIC

Let it dance with you
Embody it
Embrace it

BE THE MUSIC

Let is sing to you
Love it
Taste it

BE THE MUSIC

Let is lift you up
Bless it
Smell it

BE THE MUSIC

Stop
Listen
And get ready to

BE THE MUSIC
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 563
Anything To Be Happy
Paul Celano Jun 2010
What would you do for a touch of happiness

Would you run that extra distance
Would you spend that extra hour
Would you show that extra effort

What would you do for a touch of happiness

Would you feel that extra pain
Would you spend that extra cash
Would you drive that extra mile

What would you do for a touch of happiness

People would do anything to be happy
It is something they need
They do the “extras”
When it is all quite simple
Happiness comes from the inside
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 431
Writer's Block
Paul Celano Jun 2010
You see an image
You are inspired
Grab your paper
Grab your pen
~BLACKOUT~
Drop your pen
Loose inspiration
The mind is blank
The paper stays blank
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 399
Why Do You Wonder?
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Ever wonder….
Is there a God?
Ever wonder….
Is there life out there?
Ever wonder….
Why you die?
Ever wonder….
Why no peace?
Ever wonder….
When will it all end?
Ever wonder….
Why me?
Ever wonder….
Why we wonder?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 527
Poison War
Paul Celano Jun 2010
A stone slab she sits
A drop of her mind hits the ground
She stares down
Afraid to look up and face the pain
A hand twitches
The only part still showing life
Pain has attacked her inside
The poison war in her body
She holds an envelope
Soaked from her sadness
It doesn't wash away
It is branded in the back of her mind
Only curiosity wonders
What is inside the envelope?
But let her be
She has to fight her own war
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Paul Celano Jun 2010
You are the one
The sound of your name
Like a siren going off
All my senses rise up
Hoping you are near by
You are the one
When you are here I melt
Body turns numb from your voice
Holding you, loving you
Hoping it will never end
You are the one
I may hurt when you are gone
A salty tear in my eye
Not from sadness, but happiness
Love over powers pain
You are the one
The looks of beauty
The face of an angel
The jewels of your mind staring at me
Melting me into a liquid smile
You are the one
I think of a happy place
You are my happy place
Me and you together
Just us, peace, and love
You are the one
I give my love to you
My heart is like a clock
Every click of the second hand is love
Time that should not be wasted
You are the one
And I am yours
I love you
The missing piece of my heart
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 514
The Man In Black
Paul Celano Jun 2010
He sits hunched on a bench
Head down in depression
His job of mind splitting Hell

His hair a sharp silver
His skin a corpse white
His expression of dark fear

His sits and waits
Staring a hole through the ground
His eyes, a still painting

His clothes of the darkest black
He holds a book of old
A watch on his arm missing the time

A shadow drapes over him
The air is stale
You wonder what he is waiting for

His arm slowly rises
A finger attacked by age extends
….YOU!
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 1.2k
5 Senses Of Green
Paul Celano Jun 2010
I see a signal meaning to go
I see a field where people play
I see the grass needing a mow
I see the seaweed in the bay

I hear the forest sounds of life
I hear the croaking of a toad
I hear the loud shouting from strife
I hear the beeps of matrix code

I taste the bitter of a lime
I taste the freshness burn of mint
I taste the spicy dots of thyme
I taste sour that makes me squint

I smell aroma of cut pine
I smell rich potent olive oil
I smell young grapes throughout the vine
I smell aged food about to spoil

I feel roughness of lizard skin
I feel pain from a cactus thorn
I feel split pea soup down my chin
I feel sharpness from stalks of corn

Five senses of the color green
From sound, taste, smell, touch and things scene
©2009 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 383
The Start Of A Dream
Paul Celano Jun 2010
The lights go out
I lay so still
The house moves
As I hear the sounds
Darkness surrounds me
Like a thick blanket
Covering me up
Keeping my mind warm
The weight of the night
Holding me down
Making my body numb
My eyes only move
As I search through the nothingness
The silence grabs my eyelids
Pulling them tight
I take a breath
It is time
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 492
Heaven Or Nature
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Clouds of human form
The sun is chased away
The rumbling stomach
Of a hungry sky
Steal rain of fairies fall
Dancing on the ground
The screams of souls
Turning into rays of light
Hitting the wood of life
The intense power of above
Pushing through homes
Of those who dream
The act of the Heavens
Or a simple part of nature
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 741
The Sound Of Lost Love
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Heart sound
An Indian’s drum
Thunder in the sky
The bass in a song

Heart sound
The sound of love
Heart sound

Heart sound
Gunshots through the air
Bumps on the road
Sticks of dynamite

Heart sound
The sound of love
Heart sound

Slow heart sound
Glass breaking
The ripping of paper
Nails on a chalkboard

Slow heart sound
The sound of lost love
Slow heart sound
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 839
The Poor Man Cries
Paul Celano Jun 2010
Drinking wine
Eating lobster
Relaxing under blue skies
And the poor man cries

Going to the club
Driving the sports car
Wearing suites and ties
And the poor man cries

Living in a mansion
Taking vacations
Eating cakes and pies
And the poor man cries

He is alone
No friends or family
Has nothing to live for
Is not healthy or clean
Cannot get food
So he lays there and dies
And no one cries
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 621
Migraine
Paul Celano Jun 2010
You hear the sound of a drill
As it pieces through your soft skull
Grinding like your teeth
As you feel the pain

Metal lightning being beaten
In your head with Thor’s hammer
Bringing a waterfall of tears
Rivers down your face

A boulder crushing your neck
Don’t move, it could fall
Shattering like a gunshot
Through a window

The temperature rises
An inferno in your mind
Melting your brain
Frying the flesh of memories

A head of mush
A blurry world in your mind
One more steal tear
You blacken out
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 492
A Heart Full Of Needles
Paul Celano Jun 2010
A heart full of needles
A down poor of tears
A hammer in the head

How am I happy without you?
You left me with this pain
Can you honestly say you don’t miss me?
I miss you

The stutter of the voice
The death like feeling in the legs
A desert in the throat

You will not call
I can’t eat
I can’t sleep
Why did you do this?
You just gave me up

Shivers down the spine
Numbness of the mind
Paper cuts on the lips

Is this it?
You just want to throw it away
You want to move on
Just walk away from it all

Cramps in the fingers
Rocks in the stomach
Buzzing in the ears

The end of a relationship
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 450
A Common Day
Paul Celano Jun 2010
We arrive at school
Then we say hello
We go about our day
We both leave school
Then we say goodbye
We head on home

This is our common day
Like most friends it makes us happy
You could say we have a strong bond
Two buddies just hanging out
A common day for common folk
Just two of a kind

We arrive at school
Then we say hello
We go about our day
We both leave school
You don’t say goodbye
Something is wrong

What has happened?
Our routine has changed
Why did you change it?
Did I do something wrong?
You look sad
I will talk to you tomorrow

I arrive at school
I can’t say hello
You are not there
I leave school
I can’t say goodbye….ever again

Why did you take your life?
©2002 Paul Celano
Posted 2010
Jun 2010 · 491
A Time Forgotten
Paul Celano Jun 2010
I remember a sound time
A time of firm smile
My hand on my tepid chest
I felt an abundant marching band
The beats sung with intensity
Saturating my mind with music candy

But that was long ago
My broken chest
Now a cold pallid flesh
Sings merrily no more
My brittle hand feels no movement
Has my once satisfied heart died?

Using both of my shimmering hands
I willingly rip open my chest
Like a present of non excitement
Then what my weeping eyes saw
Sent my mind to the electric chair
There was an inky endless hole
In my once flowing heart
The warm crimson sugar
Had drained all out
This is why I could not feel

If only I could find the one called her
Maybe she has the missing piece
Then just by her alluring eyes
My heart will start a motif again
Until I feel her silk like touch
Which fills my heart back up with red

Then as we hold close
We embody each other
Becoming one prime heart
One intensely roaring band
Playing the music of flame
Then this time forgotten
Will be remembered
©2010 Paul Celano
Jun 2010 · 733
The Body Pauses
Paul Celano Jun 2010
There is one time when the body pauses
The dazzling placid late night

Inside a concealed crisp castle
There is a slacked thrown of pose
One trivial light flickers softly
Beside a firm restful coffin

Now I lay me down to sleep
A phrase heard through life
Happens in the reality of this moment

Stripping cloth from the frosted vision
Once again becoming true natural
The chilled air surrounds the body
Seeping in the lowered soul
Laying ever so still on a lush plank
A quicksand of memories as the body sinks

The light now slender
Nothing but the somber knights
They cover a chattered body
Leaving a sense of protection and warmth

Are the eyes open or closed?
A thought lucidly pounding in the brain

The sense of smell is the true friend
At this sudden listless time
Only supple crystals shift the nose
Tingling the starved fragile hairs

Face cannot be wiped
The body is made of oppressed stone
The arms weighted to a pull
Tied down by tickled silk shackles
The legs a block of endless heavy
The body is no more a vital vessel
But an anchored hard shell

Although the fleshy mind stays alert
Thoughts, dreams, emotions
Marinating in a skulled ***
Fusing together to make a dream
An intense deep sleep
In the world of non reality
©2010 Paul Celano

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