#caveman
The CAVE was black in the
Endless gloom
A place beyond all light!
Deep and dark as the Middle Earths Ten times much more than night!
The stalactites hung like gleaming teeth Of a Monster long extinct; The water dropped with a silvery tone Of an echoing long deep plink.
The walls where
My flashlight shone on them. Were the hues of paradise, I dropped a rock far over the edge, And it bounded once, then twice.
It stretched out far to infinity Like the throat of a monstrous Whale! And when I called it echoed far Like the sound of a ghostly wail! I was glad I knew my way out from This CAVE like the UNDERWORLD Else I step wrong on the slippery rocks And to far depths be hurled! And the bones of Bear and Wolf and Cat
Testified right well To the fact that others hadn't known; And to their deaths they fell.
I thought I was the only one To know of this retreat. With no other signs of Man about The Silence hugged me sweet!
But then I turned a corner sharp And there in the ghostly light; Painted so real I first thought they were. So they gave me quite a fright! Were Mammoths big with their ivory tusks Gleaming in the light! Running forever across the walls Of a long and endless night!
And Bisons real as the orbiting Moon As from snarling Dogs they ran.
But they weren't going fast to safety soon For their Makers had been Man!
How thrilled I was to find them there! Yet I almost uttered a curse: It seems there's no place left on Earth That you can discover, first!
Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM UTC
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Nov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM UTC
I sorry,
I turn on brain.
Me no think.
Think make you go away.
Dec 14, 2024
Dec 14, 2024 at 12:06 PM UTC
I take comfort
from the greasy food
on my plate
hunter gatherer instincts
sated, my eyes search
for campfire flickering flames
and settle on the fish tank
I am zoned
replete
in the cavern
of my own space
my day over
I wait for the miracle
of sunrise
Nov 7, 2021
Nov 7, 2021 at 7:30 AM UTC
Will I ever want to build or make something really detailed, or thereby solve something detailed?
Or, do I simply want to float away on fundamentals and never make anything?
Simply knowing the parts and never creating structure?
Because that structure always has to be unlike the structure with which I associate my soul - the human temple.
Thus I discard them.
I see not benefit from the extra makings of the human mind.
I am as a cave man.
It would be much more beneficial if my soul associated with a body that was dependent on the mind rather than independent from it.
As if I had no soul with God, no peace with God, no spirit with God.
No peace, soul, or spirit with nature either, but only peace in human invention.
Mar 17, 2021
Mar 17, 2021 at 4:09 AM UTC
Sometimes it just rains all day.
the sun and the moon and the stars
all take the day off,
Get all gloomy and introspective and ****
drop deep thoughts
and fill up puddles
and bring meaning to things like
windshield wipers,
and lackluster poetry.
I'm still sixteen,
out much too late,
perched up on the steps of the old bank.
searching for reason
in the glare of small town streetlight.
I'm still seven
when it would just pour down,
I mean literally pour down,
in buckets and all that.
it doesn't rain like that anymore.
Not here. Not anymore.
A storm-front has been working it's way
up out of the southwest
since i have existed.
certainly much longer than that.
it's carved a path from caveman to Kentucky.
and here we are
continuously inspired
by water from the sky.
I'm going to sleep.
it just feels right.
I hope that it will rain all night.
I sleep well.
Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 10:39 AM UTC