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Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Wake up in the sunlight hour
You sense the warm and feel the power
And know that when you want to leave
You can

All is well and all is bright
You wonder of the lasting night
And speak of shells and cuddle fish
Aloud

I know
  That it’s all
      A passing phase
I know
  That it’s all
      A passing phrase
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
In true form Potential energy
Resides in residential memory  

Obscure are the things that hang down from ceilings
Pout is the mouth scorn my pigeon-toed feelings
Send spies and magic away with said legion
Cast unto forest from behind this grey region
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
Intelligence is followed by ignorance
Fever followed by figurativeness
A better human
Or more humane
Never before or
Never again
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
I drew the first fire
Yes I cast the first flame
Come before now, exhausted pyre
Some yesterday became more today.
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
There’s a glass of water on a dark wooden desk
I taste a little then spill the rest
I slept for an hour but awoke from the storm
There I coil to the window in my natural form
I touch the shade as the velvet of Earth, and
I count the steps to this point from my birth, and
There stand I, aware but detached, as
There could we, but our lives falsely clashed
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
The Tripped and sullen Woodsman
Frustrated and calm, he stands with trees
Ominous branches, each one a soul on limb
Stranded, echoed with leaves
   The trunk either thriving or poisoned at core
With his axe the devil decides
A cut and your body will do the same
And when it falls, a mortal will die
Paul Rousseau Mar 2012
You’ve got me waving my rainbow tie-dyed finger
You look so pretty in your bow tie woven winter
I’ve seen the monkey thumb; yes I’ve seen the splinter
And by the time I’m done I know you’ll pick the winner

The weight has lifted me; the wait is almost over
My fan has hit the tower with mountains made of clover
Stop watch on the colored face, my levels have been lowered
I know I tame the leash but the collar can’t control her

Down in front
I want to see again
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