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Shaded Lamp Oct 2015
Out there beyond the horizon
you will discover yourself again.
Past the valleys and the mountains
through the emptiness and pain.
Way past the rhyming stanzas
And that common beat...

Hell is worth a visit
Understand the paradise you live in.

Paint a picture of yourself
Burn it
Paint another
Burn it,
pack them in an envelope and
Post them to yourself for your birthday
Light a candle
Burn it
For yourself.
Reminder:- Don't drink and write
  Oct 2015 Shaded Lamp
jeffrey robin
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Tolling


..


In the darkness

DEATH

GROWING

//

we sit listening

Pretend we are not hearing

The

BELLS BELLS BELLS !

""

We talk so well

Of loving !


In the graveyard

Dancing with corpses
To the tune
Of


the BELLS!
Shaded Lamp Oct 2015
Powder, lip gloss and dilated pupils
Rolled up notes and cheap thrills
Somewhere near the beginning of the end
Your worst enemy is your best friend
It's alright, it's just a phase you're going through
In the urban sprawl it's what you've gotta do
because....
You're a crowd pleaser, out to please
begging for friends, on your knees
You're a crowd pleaser with the latest bent
pleasing friends that are just for rent
You're a crowd pleaser, a fresh appetite
with a heavy pocket that'll soon be light
...
Wake up, leave, while they laugh with you
Exit and pay yourself what you are due
Leave before your whole soul is sold
Start a new chapter before this one's old
As you leave the sparkle and the geezers
Enter stage right the fresh crowd pleasers.
...
They're a crowd pleasers, out to please
begging for friends, on their knees
They're a crowd pleasers with the latest bent
pleasing friends that are just for rent
Just crowd pleasers, they're up all night
Lines not solitude (their primary fright)
Shaded Lamp Oct 2015
Another urn filled with ash.
Spirit steamed, left with trash.

How did that one leave so fast?
Is it worth trying to be the last?

Up turned lives for 6 weeks.
Raw, reddened salty cheeks.

Full, half then empty glass.
Oh, what a beautiful glass!

How the light breaks through it
Scattered rainbows, raised spirit.

Cheers!
Shaded Lamp Oct 2015
His face cracked
Every wrinkle a ravine
A broad smile of marble tombstones
Rolling his sapphire ivory eyes

I'm ninety three
He chuckled...  Ninety three
Yes,  it goes fast son I'll tell you how fast
I've only as many memories as you
Shaded Lamp Sep 2015
Remember when the world seemed so big...

wild , fun and fair

When ambition drove endless scattered plans

and you had no care

Every season offered what it was supposed to do

Back then...

Things were oh so different then

Now...

What use is time without plans?

what use are plans without time?

If only I knew the answers to those questions now

If only I knew those questions...

back then.
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