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the propulsion of compulsion is indefatigable, it cannot no more, be ignored, as if it is forming a holy commandment, number 11, you must write when so ordered, denial is temporary i n s a n i t y, and the backlog of nuances be comes longer and longer by the instant the provocateurs, them eyes, those eyes, even the ears and tongue join in to instigate, the cabal of influencers who peddle no product, demand no payment but total obeisance and sometimes low-class instant fufillment, for here I am in servitude,@ 4:33am, by dawn’s early light (no **** for real), propelled and compelled by the creative, the spilling urgency of the need to expel notions of potions that flit between the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, cingulate gyrus, and prefrontal cortex: (I told  you, it’s a cabal!) all  firing up neurons like electron spark plugs, and only I can see the sparks colliding inside as letters, words, phrases, none lazy, all demand long life, or the Perpetuity of the Momentary” it grows lighter by the minute and the sporadic lights across the bay wink morse code secrets to the observant, and Noyac’s  tree line has become a distinguishable and distinctive land mass to which I crossed last nite via & upon the South Ferry, when all these conflicting concepts began a painful birthing delivery, the coagulation of the flighty, merging and transforming into my child, in my bed, through the picture window that has so oft been complicit in the ganging up on my very, very old and restless brain but, uh, this ecrivez, this motion that the momentum of the momentary desiring & deserving of monuments to the perpetual won’t be stilled and hours later, with it’s invisible hands around my throat, it yanks from within what did not exist ten minutes prior, but always existed inside me as a jumbled puzzle, gestating quietly till a swift kick of birthing pains insufferable accompanied by her raucous dreams, awoke me from ******* and rhyming Rem Sleep, to now, this moment, named forever as 4:57am and this noisy newborn, covered in embryonic fluid (wonderful but disgusting really) is all ready pealing and peeling off suggestions for brothers and sisters, this arrogance is untenable, but the babe laughs at me, for it knows that there are hidden, voluminous files of titles awaiting their turning time of final conception no longer nighttime, an early forming day, it too, covered in its own fluidity, awaits discovery, for the lights from across the bay have gone to bed, turned off but the greatest, more powerful brighter discharges of the Sun Gods The Bay’s waters are still, though my woman is not, muttering, still dreaming out loud, as if she wishes to foment turbulence, and desires a boat for safe conveyance across the dark seas of the night to the searing bright June summer day that the Greek seers have forecast, and then that moment, like it’s older sibling, will demand, it’s very moment of personalized perpetuity, its own unique naming, a full recording, a welcoming by the Preservation Band, amidst the glory of its mother mornings colorings of palest blues, puffery of cumulus whitiwhispers all tinged in my favorite, flavored color, creamsicle orange, and the calming power is self evident for the rustling back and forth of raucous dreams have ceased, and I too am no longer possessed by the moment, until soon when the hands creep slow round my throat by a new moment, and all is lost, all is gained and a newest poem is brought from the womb of my ancient past, my currency of the next minutes and the wealth of words that are available to us all! demands one of us, perhaps you? to commit its actualized existence into reality I bid you a soft adieu, for the chores of existence those demanding pests of drudged biblical pestilence can no longer be kept waiting nml 5:21am Sun Jul 16 2024 writ at you know where…
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Jun 16, 2024
Jun 16, 2024 at 5:34 AM UTC
The Perpetuity of the Momentary
the propulsion of compulsion is indefatigable, it cannot no more, be ignored, as if it is forming a holy commandment, number 11, you must write when so ordered, denial is temporary i n s a n i t y, and the backlog of nuances be comes longer and longer by the instant the provocateurs, them eyes, those eyes, even the ears and tongue join in to instigate, the cabal of influencers who peddle no product, demand no payment but total obeisance and sometimes low-class instant fufillment, for here I am in servitude,@ 4:33am, by dawn’s early light (no **** for real), propelled and compelled by the creative, the spilling urgency of the need to expel notions of potions that flit between the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, cingulate gyrus, and prefrontal cortex: (I told  you, it’s a cabal!) all  firing up neurons like electron spark plugs, and only I can see the sparks colliding inside as letters, words, phrases, none lazy, all demand long life, or the Perpetuity of the Momentary” it grows lighter by the minute and the sporadic lights across the bay wink morse code secrets to the observant, and Noyac’s  tree line has become a distinguishable and distinctive land mass to which I crossed last nite via & upon the South Ferry, when all these conflicting concepts began a painful birthing delivery, the coagulation of the flighty, merging and transforming into my child, in my bed, through the picture window that has so oft been complicit in the ganging up on my very, very old and restless brain but, uh, this ecrivez, this motion that the momentum of the momentary desiring & deserving of monuments to the perpetual won’t be stilled and hours later, with it’s invisible hands around my throat, it yanks from within what did not exist ten minutes prior, but always existed inside me as a jumbled puzzle, gestating quietly till a swift kick of birthing pains insufferable accompanied by her raucous dreams, awoke me from ******* and rhyming Rem Sleep, to now, this moment, named forever as 4:57am and this noisy newborn, covered in embryonic fluid (wonderful but disgusting really) is all ready pealing and peeling off suggestions for brothers and sisters, this arrogance is untenable, but the babe laughs at me, for it knows that there are hidden, voluminous files of titles awaiting their turning time of final conception no longer nighttime, an early forming day, it too, covered in its own fluidity, awaits discovery, for the lights from across the bay have gone to bed, turned off but the greatest, more powerful brighter discharges of the Sun Gods The Bay’s waters are still, though my woman is not, muttering, still dreaming out loud, as if she wishes to foment turbulence, and desires a boat for safe conveyance across the dark seas of the night to the searing bright June summer day that the Greek seers have forecast, and then that moment, like it’s older sibling, will demand, it’s very moment of personalized perpetuity, its own unique naming, a full recording, a welcoming by the Preservation Band, amidst the glory of its mother mornings colorings of palest blues, puffery of cumulus whitiwhispers all tinged in my favorite, flavored color, creamsicle orange, and the calming power is self evident for the rustling back and forth of raucous dreams have ceased, and I too am no longer possessed by the moment, until soon when the hands creep slow round my throat by a new moment, and all is lost, all is gained and a newest poem is brought from the womb of my ancient past, my currency of the next minutes and the wealth of words that are available to us all! demands one of us, perhaps you? to commit its actualized existence into reality I bid you a soft adieu, for the chores of existence those demanding pests of drudged biblical pestilence can no longer be kept waiting nml 5:21am Sun Jul 16 2024 writ at you know where…
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Ice is cracking Under the immense And unforgiving Weight of lead skies. The world is falling, Plunged into The vast and punishing Waters below. Her lips dissolving With the cosmic And unwavering Chill of the void. A last breath reverberating Below the colossal And vengeful echoing Of a final word. Uttered in mourning Of a momentary And fragile Life.
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Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM UTC
the Winter
For through these moments and all of this time Was an instance of releasing the control Of looking for sincerity in spontaneity to be real To seek instead a way of being that just flows And in doing so giving trust to the surroundings With hands and heart held open to whatever happens So that there is no worry no contemplation, no undoing Instead what is found is simply grace and easiness Then the calm rushed in so silently yet instantaneously With sweet dreams of the sunshine tomorrow brings
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Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023 at 11:37 AM UTC
Dream of sunshine
Seconds go by in tender bliss We smell roses and stain our hands with crushed petals. Declarations of life long rumination live between the distance in our exchanged affirmations. Happiness opens its undisguised embrace As the silence between our spoken words fills the gaps of our stuttered promises.
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Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022 at 6:23 PM UTC
What Becomes of Our Fleeting Reunions
in this moment our coalescence as we become intertwined still separate but joining together again all the time
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 at 4:34 PM UTC
Soviet
in endless pursuits of things, only proposed that lay in adornment of destiny's stony brook adjacent, to our hopes these objects of desire of longing they languish, as we slave on for naught much more than to live to have enough they are forgotten in our dark times in our moments where light leaves us, and are brought back with fresh life
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021 at 2:14 PM UTC
The Things We Strove For
<> *“rootless in shallows of momentary mayhem and no matter the change in horizon, there is always some thing to be found that could remind me of the worst ways I have ever been.”* from “Harlequin Days of Fecund Fervor” by Victoria <> rereading these your words, upset forces me to break a recent vow, my own writing banished, now faceless in the ranks of just another poet, busted in rank, chose my own decommissioning but then your momentary mayhem plea, fecund you, your third harlequin, states construct! stay the constriction, the recalling of our worst worsts, for there is always something to be found, recalled, that the horizon’s only constant is constant change, especially the worst worsts I am colored by your treats, your word plums ripe even out of season, and the mayhem is mine only mine, robbed you for it is I, rootless, given up my planting, then the cobblestones of old new york, trip me up, saying even old things such as you, have a prime yet to come, stones fecund seeding, predicting I am not done, just undone, and fetuses within this dying body, may yet be carried to term, may yet, maybe, may be, but may be caesarean stillborn rambling this, mostly musty unclear, so summarizations a sensible thing, a pardon requested for clarity is a sometime thing. rare are the days that the terracotta colored soil darkens my fingernails, it is dried blood from my scratching deep beneath the skin’s topsoil, but nothing grows that’s whole, warped are the word fruits. my soup is hot water with salt, a tasty dish apropos for one whose growths are rootless in the shallow, infertile dirt of stones that reside in the shallows of a garden of mine own fecund may-hem of the grey fall sky autopsy turvy
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Nov 7, 2019
Nov 7, 2019 at 11:56 AM UTC
rootless in shallows of momentary mayhem
<> *“rootless in shallows of momentary mayhem and no matter the change in horizon, there is always some thing to be found that could remind me of the worst ways I have ever been.”* from “Harlequin Days of Fecund Fervor” by Victoria <> rereading these your words, upset forces me to break a recent vow, my own writing banished, now faceless in the ranks of just another poet, busted in rank, chose my own decommissioning but then your momentary mayhem plea, fecund you, your third harlequin, states construct! stay the constriction, the recalling of our worst worsts, for there is always something to be found, recalled, that the horizon’s only constant is constant change, especially the worst worsts I am colored by your treats, your word plums ripe even out of season, and the mayhem is mine only mine, robbed you for it is I, rootless, given up my planting, then the cobblestones of old new york, trip me up, saying even old things such as you, have a prime yet to come, stones fecund seeding, predicting I am not done, just undone, and fetuses within this dying body, may yet be carried to term, may yet, maybe, may be, but may be caesarean stillborn rambling this, mostly musty unclear, so summarizations a sensible thing, a pardon requested for clarity is a sometime thing. rare are the days that the terracotta colored soil darkens my fingernails, it is dried blood from my scratching deep beneath the skin’s topsoil, but nothing grows that’s whole, warped are the word fruits. my soup is hot water with salt, a tasty dish apropos for one whose growths are rootless in the shallow, infertile dirt of stones that reside in the shallows of a garden of mine own fecund may-hem of the grey fall sky autopsy turvy
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a vapor rises. in the breath of an instant; gone. to be no more.
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Mar 24, 2019
Mar 24, 2019 at 11:38 AM UTC
Vapor
Like the rainbow born out of rain, My love born out of your tears, is just A momentary beauty.
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Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 1:48 PM UTC
MOMENTARY BEAUTY
My journey towards content Fluctuates endlessly Above and below The surface of my sanity. Rising Sinking Rising With the tide Melting Freezing In and out Of consciousness; Where I belong Is a foreign feeling, Its happiness short lasted. Is it better to be freezing Or is it better to melt and trust That I will rise. And apparently I give the illusion of successful equilibrity Sigh Spheres of air escape me
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Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 6:58 AM UTC
Tar water
And like broken glass The secrets intensify. The vulnerability of time. Both beautiful and sad. The sound of broken glass. Despite how beautiful the shards sparkle. Despite time. You'll never know what's on it's mind. Hand to glass. The prints left behind to be washed away. The memories no more. How can something so precious be replaced for another. Thrown away without second thought. It's cruel, unjust. No explanation other than physical appearance. The unhealthiest to cope. The necessity of momentary need. Another glass set in it's place. To feel needed in a moment of thirst. How we feel about the things we have. Until we realize the one thing we need. Almost too late
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Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 11:23 PM UTC
Half Full
I'm a tool pondering skyscapes. Fondling a memory Left behind On sunset marquees. It raced into the horizon like A toad on the road. A neon dream waving farewell. Exploring mindsets: An act in caressing Bloodbath tesseracts. A roundhouse rollercoaster, Spinning at velocity of perfume Hitting nasal perforations. Core memories surface along spine cutlets, No longer intrinsic Doubt. I'm settling for more. Time is a moment Too long to endure. Hindsight is A parson's lake passage; A mad monster yet to be tamed; A grain of salt to a fresh wound made; Moments of grace from a fake great ape. Blue morons slide Into Mormon jovial footsteps. Derided ice forestry into King's cloaked ancestry. A sad fisherman sailing Ceaselessly out to sea. And yet here I am Talking to you, Eyelight through obelisks In hotbox barricades. Hiding behind A past of newspapers. Headline reads 'ONLY DEVINE' 'TRADE REIGN WARNS JEWELS' 'PRINCE THREATENS ECONOMY ... AND CROWN.' Wipe the frown, Draw the sword. Don't be ignored anymore.
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Aug 22, 2017
Aug 22, 2017 at 5:17 PM UTC
Momentary Overture
There she stands cup of coffee on the table looking around at the flowers and foliage enjoying this early summer morning in the shade a wisp of a sad smile and lines on her face speak a long life. I wonder where she has been what waters what deserts or valleys she has traversed whose lives she has touched how many lips she has kissed whose passing she has grieved. Now she's gone but I thank God for this interlude with her as I sit here with my coffee looking through the window in the coolness of the condo writing and listening to guitar feeling the peace of this morning and gratitude for this momentary encounter. "Momentary Encounter," Copyright 2017 by Glenn Currier
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Jun 24, 2017
Jun 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM UTC
Momentary Encounter
I fought my inhibitions but nature pulled through Breaking barriers of what if's unclothing all those hidden thoughts Naked and free, I bashfully bathed in my liberty succumbing to all things "now" For I have found beauty in the "momentary" and the naturally inevitable
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 2:53 AM UTC
Naturally
I found a carving made of wood A carving I made and Never really understood The shape was awfully made And yet at the time Emitted an aura that felt good The raw quality, The way light fell on it, At the time I could only think The carving was perfect, The way that it stood. I found a wood carving that I hid Away from my mind So that I could bid Farewell to the misplaced notches and indents That surfaced on the carving. Why did I leave pieces here And cut off parts there? What experience did I have in carving Such an obscene piece? Of myself, the carving, I would rid But if only I could Forget what I did What I carved What I was amid But I cannot The reason I didn't understand The decisions I made Was because I understood the decisions I made.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 7:04 AM UTC
Wooden carving
Every butterfly, knows this in it's inner being and yet each forgets it, as soon as it starts flying, the sweet warmth of each flower inviting him, honey and  nectar abundant in the beginning, the wind speed  that takes him to the bloom-- such happy things ,soon will become  a dream.
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Apr 7, 2016
Apr 7, 2016 at 12:06 PM UTC
Every butterfly forgets this too soon
Quite enticing, plush she is a spectacle, all the same lacking substance and depth. A coffee table book everyone who is someone, curiously grab, turn the pages in a jiffy, just to feel the gloss eye the seductive shine ogle the ostentation, and caress the pictures in opulent colors, then, let go quick without any qualms. Throw it back on the table with a resounding thud in no time and leave without even looking back once!
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Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 8:35 AM UTC
A spectacle,she is, lacking gravitas
Knuckling under weatherworn predictions, the salt is down. There is a limit to preparedness and at some point, faith that the break shall come to a blizzard's infamy, must supersede. It's just fluff and slush after all. Barely, this white blanketing is made, before the brine trucks are revving, ready to tear up the sheets. Shall I slumber too long, I may miss the hush of placidity. Who will be the first to break silence? That inevitable metal scrape against cement, I dread its' brashness. Can the missies' ice morning not roll by without delusions that these snow damsels must be shoveled off? Let the winter lassies lie for briefness of their coolness brings me to a dream scene. Colleens of a cold front, you blew upon me so softly this way, how dare I snow blow you, away?
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 9:05 PM UTC
Just Chill For The Thrill
For a moment, let’s just… Stand still And look around Watch the birds fly Or hear the rustle of autumn leaves Or let the deafening silence reign For a moment, let’s just… Stand by the sea And enjoy the waves Crash against the rocks And let us do nothing But watch the bubbles disperse Never to be found again. For a moment, let’s just… Blink our eyes Ever so quick Repetitively And what forms? In front of our eyes The image we see Is a broken one Or perhaps just dark is all we see What can we make of it? For a moment, let’s just… Let  a moment pass In solitude Where you get To know nothing, no one, And yet you know You are everything there is, And will be.
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 10:14 AM UTC
For a Moment
I realize we were like flame. With a single spark, suddenly it was warm and bright. But just like fire, a simple blow of the wind made everything dark and cold. There was never really something special, but the fleeting and tepid moments ablaze. Now what remain are the burnt parts and the things that will never be the same again.
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 5:57 PM UTC
Burn
Speak in absolutes Lest doubt should sway the mind Speak soft and low But with trembling resolve Lest the world should hear you Speak to me Only to me In a haunting melody Of how you churn Like the ocean For it's freedom And I'll speak in turn Soft and low In absolutes Lest the moment should escape us
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 1:27 AM UTC
A Moment Together
Light sparkles in the clover, Yellow and blurr of bees Are honeyed in the sun And robins have come, Yanking in the gasses, So green is the moisten Of the painting of the dew And all is lolling in petrichor, The soils running with slow Time so shortly experienced, Oils of wood permeate the air, Lapping brooks bream into light, The loft kestrel swirls in meadow And chipmunks scuttle at base of tree, Even the wind does freshly quiet, crisply, There as a hug waiting for body and spirit, Patches of white are disappearing, they know— That one day we must all return, after winter snows.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 8:48 PM UTC
Early Spring Morning ( reprise )
Light sparkles in the clover, Yellow and blurr of bees Are honeyed in the sun And robins have come, Yanking in the gasses, So green is the moisten Of the painting of the dew And all is lolling in petrichor, The soils running with slow Time so shortly experienced, Oils of wood permeate the air, Lapping brooks bream into light, The loft kestrel swirls in meadow And chipmunks scuttle at base of tree, Even the wind does freshly quiet, crisply, There as a hug waiting for body and spirit, Patches of white are disappearing, they know— That one day we must all return, after winter snows.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 6:30 PM UTC
Early Spring Morning
A turtle shrinks into its shell Then shrivels, Grape to raisin, Sun's warning echoing: "Danger, danger, danger!" As river moves from mountain to ocean The golden arc across the sky Soon is only a faint glow on faraway rock - Yet it will come again To shout it's harrowing cry And shrink and shrivel And round again, again, again 'Til Kingdom come       'Til salvation              'Til death do us unto part
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 7:08 PM UTC
Shrink and Shrivel again again
In the cave I wait, smoke filling the lungs, masking the smell, hiding the face. I the fire starter, in the bears domain, playing my game. A moving shadow, a vicious snarl. Approaching swiftly, what a clumsy animal.   The blade glistens with minimal light. Entering the furry hide, the eyes fade. A soul dissipating with the cloud. A trade, gifted at death. One heroic effort for a bite at last.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 12:17 AM UTC
Blood Of The Beast