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Steven L Herring Apr 2016
I saw mountains and forests and rivers and streams.
The beaches with their salty spray called to me from afar.
I imagined trails and creatures of every kind.
Tree sap, sticky, sticking dirt to my hands.

I could smell the campfires and hear the laughter
and taste the hotdogs.
The acoustic guitar and softly singing sweet lips
tickled my ears and goosebumps gave way to a contented smile.

I could feel the wind rushing through my short hair and the
Low hum of the tires on the rocky, ***** trail
complete with root pops, plucking at the spokes like
the agile hands of a master harpist.

And then there was the snow from downhill rooster tails
carved with care by girls and boys on boards.
The splash of water from some river craft in rapids
and that smile again...so big it made my face hurt!

It was weeks waking in tents...
Maybe months or even years!
It could've been anything, man.
I don't know...I don't know, but my imagination ran with it!

The plates on this peculiar car read "North Dakota,"
but the stickers and the racks and the solar cells
on top screamed ADVENTURE!!!!!
It was amazing to see.

I stood there with my friend in this city scape
for a few moments...that's all.
But this car...oh this car!  It made me think.
It made me dream, and it made me lust for adventure....
In explanation, I was out with a good friend of mine, Mark, and we came across this car in Hampton.  It had roof racks and a rear rack.  It was COVERED in stickers from all over the place!  It had a solar cell on top of it and a car battery in the front on a rack mounted to the bumper.  This thing brought out all of these feelings in me, and as I dwelled upon them a moment ago, I decided to write it down.  I've always loved the woods and camping, but this car!  It was like seeing my soul!  Even if I don't ever get  a chance to actually live like this, I'll always have this car in the back of my mind to remind me that somebody gets to...somewhere!
Steven L Herring Apr 2016
Hiccoughs and bumps and bruises.
Fell off a couple of times, but I keep getting back on.
thirsty   hungry   tired   sick    *****   hurt
kicked in the face with numb cheeks and ****** tongue.
Quiet times and happiness with jet black smoke on the horizon.
Gotta feeling...that's good though, right?
To feel?  To steal and steel myself for the brunt of it all.
Under the hoof
Under the weight
Blunders and wait!
Wait for what's next though!
Could be real good times...could be bad
could be real bad.
Definitely be REAL!
Last kick to the guts was just another in a long line
followed by more.
On and on and on and on.
Like waves after a storm; green, frothy, washing machine
Salty, sandy shore pound
face meets grit and scrape.
Kick and paddle and fight suddenly seeing white.
Tip top lip curl.
Like the most beautiful girl in the world;
sun shining finally, and you grab on to what you got
Hold on as she pitches and spits you down the long line.
All those bruises and broken bones meaningless now.
She loves you.
She throws you.
She thrills you.
Suddenly, it's all worth it.
I closed my eyes and took my own way down.
The mountain is relentless,
But I'm dying,
so I'm a ******* and I'll never stop trying
Never stop crying.
Never stop laughing
Learning
Loving life as it slips away.
I'll find my own way round...
So I was listening to Oats in the Water by Ben Howard.  I love that dude.  Anyway, it inspired me to write so that's what I did.  Y'all know that feeling you get when you have to write or you'll blow up....  Probably see a line or two I stole from the song.  Couldn't help it.  Just love that song man!
Steven L Herring Mar 2016
It's dark in here and it smells like beer.
Cold, cracked and crumbled.
The silent stillness is edgy.
Breaking;
broken through with an axe,
beatings and screaming!

The stillness is gone now,
and the floor moves.
Crawling, clawing, kicking and punching.
Less a circle and more of an infinity symbol.
A fine mess of distress and stress
stretched out and spreading.

It's catching like a cold.
Wall to wall madness,
but toothy smiles and ****** buddies
is all that's seen in the
strobing, stumbling
almost bumbling hundred man pile up on the floor.

My heart beats to this perfect cacophony.
Smells like angst and desperation and gym class!
He shares his pedestal with us.
Like one we all merge together
and find our happy place
til it's all over.

Headed home.
Head full of stories.
Ears like telephones ringing,
and beds bringing sleep.
I bought a shirt said I was there...
blew half a paycheck...

but I didn't care!
Steven L Herring Mar 2016
I'm the devil who won't let go
the bull dog
with a locked jaw...
The clown shoes with a crease and long journey's bow

I'm the fighter with cauliflower ear
Beat up a thousand times
*******,
I'm still hear!

I'm not going anywhere.
Even if I croak,
Kick the ******* bucket
and die like a joke.

All that **** I wrote down is for you
You can read it, eat it, and **** it out your backside.
I put it down for you to read anyway.
You don't have to like it, believe it, or swallow it as real.
I know you saw it once.
Thanks for the warm feels!
Steven L Herring Mar 2016
Where the red rocks erupt from the ground
tinged with turquoise.
I'm full of the devil's salt, dancing around;
With a youthful grin and the energy of a small boy.

Elevation like a highway rest stop seeping water
Guard rails and traffic shortening my trek
across the freeway, lest I falter
and taste the iron; taste the granite, taste America's highways!

A spark...a fire...a wolverine across the Midwest.
I'm a match from the televisions of the eighties.
I'm looking for that rock that spells out our pride...
Our blinking light from the rocks and the Reagan wreckage.

But was it really that bad?  Nah!
We had broken walls, metal, and blue jeans at cost!
Trickle down economics
And a beaten communist block.

We had a people united
In more countries than one.
We had a crew dedicated to digging up landmines...
So no one died, while taking the long, unfamiliar walk home....

What are we voting for now?  Some strange new world...
Well, it's nothing new really!
It's just a bunch of the same **** that you never heard of before.
But mostly, it's because you just weren't listening....
Happy election, y'all!:-D
  Feb 2016 Steven L Herring
Got Guanxi
Print screen my whole being,
in the cadence of seasons changed.
Generation X's sweet heartbreak.
Strangers share the pain.
We walk the walk online,
nowadays,
in these times that are a changed.
Changing no more - subtly maybe.
The footfall of history stored,
in Google baby,
& terrabytes & ram.
A virus called.
And the rhyming stalled,
until;
Man made museums in nothing, but,
soldiered components,
smaller than the eye can see.
Nano moments,
lost in scrolled screens,
likes and comments,
compassion shared
around,
the world,
until forgotten;
fads
fade
away,
into familiarities.
Then we logged out of life,
and left reality behind smokescreens,
of PCs
HD ready, on blue days -
Blue Rays,
now smaller.
microsized.
Our brain waves microwaved.
Attention spans,
in the palm of our mouse shaped hands.
Say goodbye to the old days,
guilty as charged,
in
the strife of low battery life;
running out of charge.
had this concept inside me for a long time - still needs work x

Update - thanks for feedback on this - I've changed the title as the last one wasn't really pc.
Then I changed it back
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