Sjr1000

Sjr1000 Nov 4

Night Blooming Jasmine on my mind
Taking me for a ride back in time
Lite up,
L.A. nights
Sunset Blvd
Melrose too
Hitting up the opportunities at Sloans
Sometimes going home together
Sometimes going home alone.

At the door,
Moths flying in the light
Night Blooming Jasmine
Wrapped around me
One more kiss
One more moment closer to bliss Apprehension everywhere
The best part don't you think.

Memory travels on a smell
Memory travels on the light of the day
Memory travels on the song on the radio
Memory travels on the look on a face.

Remembering
on a full moon's night
Night blooming Jasmine
Drifting in on the winds and
No where else to run.

Sjr1000 Oct 25

Cognitive Therapy 101

When you live with the critic
It makes life more difficult
The roommate from hell
Who never applied for the space
Just moved on in
And won't shut the **** up

Looking over your shoulder
Pointing out
Everything your doing that's
Stupid and wrong
Turning the mirror into a
Toxic reflection pool
Telling scary stories
About who you've never been
&
Should have been

Insomnia & anxiety wrapped up
in a gigantic cringe,
a gift, no doubt.

The battle is a finger puzzle
The more you struggle
The more painfully stuck
You become

Continually looping
While trying to make it stop.

And it never does.

I don't listen to the critic much
any more
It comes and goes
And that's okay
With me
In the end
Peaceful acceptance is all I
Try to remember.

Oct 24

Pradip Chattopadhyay

Adios: No More a Poem

This too will sink I know
Like the others before
This too will go
Behind shut door.

Once a place of rejoice
Where I poured my heart
Leaving is now the only choice
And make a new start.

My work is my blood of toil
Come at a high cost
Digging deep into the soil
What I grew is all lost.

I leave this holiness with pain
Will miss all you gave
Leaving the circling dots to reign
And send old poems to grave.

I leave with love and best wishes for all the fellow members and friends here.

Sjr1000 Sep 3

Time to take a forest bath

Time to take a forest bath
I don't know about you
But it's been a while
Surrounded by silence
The oxygen bar
The dogs chasing chippes
The redwoods dominating
Taking a deep breath deep finally

The dinosaurs were big
But the redwoods are forever.

What are we taking in
That feels so good
So healing to the soul?

The winds in the canopy
The freight train coming
The leaves dancing in the winds
Time to take a forest bath
Time to call yourself even.

Sjr1000 Apr 2023

Old Age

Old age
It comes on like a
Typhoon
Hurricane
Ice Storm
Tsunami
War
A natural disaster.

Stumbling
Bumbling
Down on your knees
there Buddy
Humbling.

When I was 12 years old
One Round World
A photo
Elderly folks standing around a Piano
"And they used to call it rocknroll"

Way way far away
here we are now
encased in
memories and mortality.

Sjr1000 Nov 2021

Love at first sight

The first time I saw your face
It was the most beautiful flower
I had ever seen
A mandala of perfection.
Bringing me
Absolute peace
How could I not
But love you.

Sjr1000 Oct 2021

The Dead Man's Suit

Hangs on a hanger at Good Will
Among many others
Whose time has past
Out of fashion out of time
But their scent remains alive
The pheromones of their lives
The dopamine
The cortisol
The chemistry of our experience
The pleasures the stress their pains
remain & linger in the scents
A lifetime come & gone
Doesn't get much notice
We mostly pass it by
Though you may feel it in the air
from time to time emanating from
The dead man's suit on a hanger at Good Will.