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<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 4:15 PM UTC
the common place... (for Kim Johanna Baker & Edmund Black)
<> The Instigation: Edmund  Black, commenting on “weary weighted,” I agree with Kim; This is poetry at its best :)“ <•> *both of you shush! there is no “better” in poetry mine yours theirs, alive or not, just gasps tears and blood whimsical smiles and isles cuts and burns of pained revelations, hidden in fog, that words try to delete away, through the shrouded mists of human tissues, unconstrained by the bounded shape of the human cell, our first, our own self-imposed jail tissue, too, baby soft, or, purple beating majestic bruised blotches by those weaklings whose kindness never fully developed;   or old man mine whose skin cells erodes, so poems and light weary weighted, lightly flake off for your “betterment” mostly tho for worse good humans all await, in patientce lightly hidden, residents of dark sunspots in the glaring existence exposer of the unlit lighthouse whose time will come they get it how we get there unimportant get there GET THERE get there that is the poetic mission critical no path best or style preferred- no compare just, but, any path that lifts and elevates, to the commonplace* the common place *where all costarred, universal, where common is the temple mount of highest praise, holy smoke rising, a place that that discloses and closes, is scribed/described honestly as a connective, which is the simplest successive call my poems, blessedly common! that an honorable, so gladly accepted and so much more meaning-full than merely best or better* for that, I’d gladly weep, for no praise ever been bettered 8/2/18 406pm on the jitney to my isle
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~~~ “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”  Henri Bergson well in that case, I’m either the most immature teen here, or Rip Van Winkle the re-creation process is six, nearly seven, decades long (you thot days, ha, no way), can’t recall the last name I called myself the delving, the researching, the forgetting, the fifty first dates of no short term memory, the checkdown, throwback Thursday of did I write that? no recollect, the pretense of prehensile strength to touch you and me simultaneously might, could be true, if you claim I authored it, ok with me and all that life taught me this, the one who oft  hangs around very young kids learns a lot, and soon recognizes maturity indeed endless but not senseless just a poem-of-the-day process indeed every sense says the minute difference between this morning and this approaching midnight, an opportunity to grow up, stand straighter, uprighter, write down my failures one more time, cause that is the sterling hallmark impressed upon thyself, ourselves, that is genuine maturity, the courageous wisdom to start all over again the clock has transgressed, moving past the 12:00am digits, which for cause makes me giddy, it’s permission to write a new one, of course, maturely thinking I still got one within, a newbie, an aged day-old brand new baby, a poem, of course god bless, I’m all grown n’ growled up, with wisdom to know I don’t got nada, but own the immature youthful courage of maturity, to keep on trying, endlessly, being your obedient-servant ~~~ *p.s. this is kind of love poem of thanksgivings, a love poem with no misgivings, a thank you for the fragments of sharing - hold so dear, the best reason to mature, the best reason to change, the best reason to write right now, here comes the mojo my newest oldest friend, reminding for the last and first time that I’m all growed, using the bigliest words I’ve known to say baby, hey baby, good night good morning write us a poem, a thank you note, from one who blessedly forgets his name, day in and year out* For that guy, you, that ancient kid, That poet-in-retrograde so rewrite the title, a refresh, are you immature enough to write? 1:12am ~for the crew~
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Apr 18, 2019
Apr 18, 2019 at 1:28 AM UTC
Are you (im)mature? The best reason to write
~~~ “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”  Henri Bergson well in that case, I’m either the most immature teen here, or Rip Van Winkle the re-creation process is six, nearly seven, decades long (you thot days, ha, no way), can’t recall the last name I called myself the delving, the researching, the forgetting, the fifty first dates of no short term memory, the checkdown, throwback Thursday of did I write that? no recollect, the pretense of prehensile strength to touch you and me simultaneously might, could be true, if you claim I authored it, ok with me and all that life taught me this, the one who oft  hangs around very young kids learns a lot, and soon recognizes maturity indeed endless but not senseless just a poem-of-the-day process indeed every sense says the minute difference between this morning and this approaching midnight, an opportunity to grow up, stand straighter, uprighter, write down my failures one more time, cause that is the sterling hallmark impressed upon thyself, ourselves, that is genuine maturity, the courageous wisdom to start all over again the clock has transgressed, moving past the 12:00am digits, which for cause makes me giddy, it’s permission to write a new one, of course, maturely thinking I still got one within, a newbie, an aged day-old brand new baby, a poem, of course god bless, I’m all grown n’ growled up, with wisdom to know I don’t got nada, but own the immature youthful courage of maturity, to keep on trying, endlessly, being your obedient-servant ~~~ *p.s. this is kind of love poem of thanksgivings, a love poem with no misgivings, a thank you for the fragments of sharing - hold so dear, the best reason to mature, the best reason to change, the best reason to write right now, here comes the mojo my newest oldest friend, reminding for the last and first time that I’m all growed, using the bigliest words I’ve known to say baby, hey baby, good night good morning write us a poem, a thank you note, from one who blessedly forgets his name, day in and year out* For that guy, you, that ancient kid, That poet-in-retrograde so rewrite the title, a refresh, are you immature enough to write? 1:12am ~for the crew~
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A fisherman is drifting, enjoying the spring mountains, And the peach-trees on both banks lead him to an ancient source. Watching the fresh-coloured trees, he never thinks of distance Till he comes to the end of the blue stream and suddenly- strange men! It's a cave-with a mouth so narrow that he has to crawl through; But then it opens wide again on a broad and level path -- And far beyond he faces clouds crowning a reach of trees, And thousands of houses shadowed round with flowers and bamboos.... Woodsmen tell him their names in the ancient speech of Han; And clothes of the Qin Dynasty are worn by all these people Living on the uplands, above the Wuling River, On farms and in gardens that are like a world apart, Their dwellings at peace under pines in the clear moon, Until sunrise fills the low sky with crowing and barking. ...At news of a stranger the people all assemble, And each of them invites him home and asks him where he was born. Alleys and paths are cleared for him of petals in the morning, And fishermen and farmers bring him their loads at dusk.... They had left the world long ago, they had come here seeking refuge; They have lived like angels ever since, blessedly far away, No one in the cave knowing anything outside, Outsiders viewing only empty mountains and thick clouds. ...The fisherman, unaware of his great good fortune, Begins to think of country, of home, of worldly ties, Finds his way out of the cave again, past mountains and past rivers, Intending some time to return, when he has told his kin. He studies every step he takes, fixes it well in mind, And forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. ...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, A green river leads you, into a misty wood. But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source?
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A Song of Peach-Blossom River
A fisherman is drifting, enjoying the spring mountains, And the peach-trees on both banks lead him to an ancient source. Watching the fresh-coloured trees, he never thinks of distance Till he comes to the end of the blue stream and suddenly- strange men! It's a cave-with a mouth so narrow that he has to crawl through; But then it opens wide again on a broad and level path -- And far beyond he faces clouds crowning a reach of trees, And thousands of houses shadowed round with flowers and bamboos.... Woodsmen tell him their names in the ancient speech of Han; And clothes of the Qin Dynasty are worn by all these people Living on the uplands, above the Wuling River, On farms and in gardens that are like a world apart, Their dwellings at peace under pines in the clear moon, Until sunrise fills the low sky with crowing and barking. ...At news of a stranger the people all assemble, And each of them invites him home and asks him where he was born. Alleys and paths are cleared for him of petals in the morning, And fishermen and farmers bring him their loads at dusk.... They had left the world long ago, they had come here seeking refuge; They have lived like angels ever since, blessedly far away, No one in the cave knowing anything outside, Outsiders viewing only empty mountains and thick clouds. ...The fisherman, unaware of his great good fortune, Begins to think of country, of home, of worldly ties, Finds his way out of the cave again, past mountains and past rivers, Intending some time to return, when he has told his kin. He studies every step he takes, fixes it well in mind, And forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. ...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, A green river leads you, into a misty wood. But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source?
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Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you; Drift, and so lightly, on crystalline streams. Wrapped in its perfumes, the darkness is holding you; Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams. Chorus the nightingales, wistfully amorous; Blessedly quiet, the blare of the day. All the sweet hours may your visions be glamorous-- Sleep, pretty lady, as long as you may. Sleep, pretty lady, the night shall be still for you; Silvered and silent, it watches you rest. Each little breeze, in its eagerness, will for you Murmur the melodies ancient and blest. So in the midnight does happiness capture us; Morning is dim with another day's tears. Give yourself sweetly to images rapturous-- Sleep, pretty lady, a couple of years. Sleep, pretty lady, the world awaits day with you; Girlish and golden, the slender young moon. Grant the fond darkness its mystical way with you; Morning returns to us ever too soon. Roses unfold, in their loveliness, all for you; Blossom the lilies for hope of your glance. When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you-- Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance.
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Lullaby
In God’s No~Fly Zone blessedly, so many of you are unaware of the full color spectra that be can seen only when an age of experience has been reached, reached, not attained, for the no~fly zone is no place to be, without any redeeming colorations, it is dark hued twilight that inhibits vision clarity, a precursor warning of the *hungry darkness* that offers to swallow one into shades of sad remorse, and other miseries How came I to earn this distinction, was not by acting out, rather by inaction, the failure to pick the  correct fork in a life of sentence diagramming, sentence in the prison sense, all my sentences, broken down,  no connection sensible to the next phrase, next phase,  so I sit beneath my vine and fig tree, unable to fly, unable to tear shed, grounded, pounded in my head
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Dec 3, 2023
Dec 3, 2023 at 10:43 AM UTC
In God’s No~Fly Zone
the Wonder no longer… I no longer wonder the whose, or is it the who’s, the whys, and even an occasional wherefore art thou, and what’s their real name, are they alive or passed, from whence they came, or, the origins of their names, the name of that movie where what’s his name fell in love with blonde from that tv show, with the detective and the raincoat who always smoked a cigar though was never seen with match or tobacco, these mysteries that nagged, burrs that came mid-sentence, causing grown people to curse and smack their head, now, blessedly put to bed in seconds depending on the goodness of your internet connection… but now I wonder if the world is better off with instantaneous information much of which is hooliganism and mis and dis, made-up-as-you-go-along but now recorded as gospel truth well recall the happy, romantic nature of falling in love across the library table, secret smooching in dusty stacks of tomes, or is it tombs, that were never read but contained the secrets of the universe… but never for too long, for repair and restoration I do take a triple dose of Prevagen, when and if, I remember
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Jul 9, 2023
Jul 9, 2023 at 8:19 AM UTC
Wonder no longer...
i’m dripping sopping wet and loving it i drip with adoration i’m deep in it dreams swirl again lucidity is wandering back my life’s swagger, my love’s sway they are becoming blessedly tangled, once more i’m blossoming again like a midnight jasmine every speck of pale moonlight, that shines through those curtains to reveal a piece of the puzzle that is your body, nourishes me, excites me and i cannot help but blossom in your midnight glow i cannot help but to become beautiful with you.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 5:22 PM UTC
so deep, so wet
Some people give the gift of peace and tranquility to every life they touch. They are always who they really are. They are blessedly reliable, dependably good, predictably pleasant, loved and treasured by all who know them. You are one of those people. The best of them You are a gift of peace and tranquility in my life. In every life you touch Happy Birthday, my love And have many more
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Dec 19, 2013
Dec 19, 2013 at 8:50 AM UTC
You are a gift, happy birthday
on a hillside facing north into an infinite blue Jersey sky Sarah was laid to rest on a brilliant crisp Monday morning she was surrounded by loved ones and friendly Highland Peaks gathered together this Thanksgiving week to praise, honor and give thanks for the the life of a beloved transfigured soul Sarah entered the world with nothing yet departs on wings filled with an abundance of riches garnered from a well lived life she nurtured generations of family and fostered a bounty of diverse friendships all who count themselves fortunate to have experienced the grace of her love Sarah was a strong loving matron of a vibrant clan her home filled with laughter and the chatter of children guests found a hearty welcome and genuine hospitality her door, ear hearth and heart always open to anyone in need of refuge, understanding, a good laugh or a loving embrace Sarah's legacy bequeaths an extended lineage of flourishing children blessedly assuring her presence remains a vital life force in the spirit of future descendants as Sarah was committed to a final earthly embrace to rejoin her beloved husband George white wisps of gentle cirrus clouds gathered to anoint the brow of reverent Highland crests Well done Aunt Sally God bless you and Godspeed Fleetwood Mac: Landslide Sarah C. Lundberg Born: August 01, 1933 Died: November 18, 2015
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 1:32 PM UTC
Sarah
Bull Connor, like the Dutch Boy from Haarlem, put his finger in a hole to plug a burgeoning leak. But Bull Connor, unlike the boy from Haarlem, did not foresee the raging torrents of history, smashing against the crumbling walls of the porous **** he sought to buttress. His decadent heroism held no moral authority to sustain his ungodly labors. His savage dogs, hungry for meat, bent on aggression for a twisted masters bidding were devoured by the teeth of a movement hungry for justice. His water cannons, tiny water pistols, ****** into the mighty squalls of a raging hurricane that blew the stinking ***** back onto his face. The weight of history moves with the just. Untruth, arch rival of justice, is blown away, like an expired candle snuffed out, blessedly extinguished from the first breath of a glorious new day. Bull Connor doesn’t rest in peace. He stands on the other side of the river. He is the rich man driven by insane thirst begging for water from a comforted Lazarus, now secure in the ***** of Abraham. Bull Connor looks across the chasm of fire he knows he'll never bridge. Medgar Evers and MLK Jr. stand as keepers, collecting tolls for a heavenly passage from the wages he earned for his earthly work. A forlorn Bull Connor forever searches deep empty pockets for fare as Martin and Medgar patiently wait with outstretched palms. Music Selection: The Soul Stirrers, Jesus Gave Me Water MLK Jr. Day 1/20/86 NYC jbm
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Jan 16, 2012
Jan 16, 2012 at 8:55 AM UTC
Epitath for Bull Conner
This song is written on my heart. Each note hangs in the air before turning to smoke and we inhale it here in your little bed, breathe it in as we have most nights since you were born. Not so long ago I was someone else Who was not your mother. You don’t know her, the Me who spent months of her young life poring over the sheet music. I still have it, teenage pencil scratch covering the entire first movement. “Sticky top notes” and “written when he was going deaf!” and rows of chord forms, glyphs, a cipher. (Did you know: Beethoven was dead when Ludwig Rellstab compared the famous first movement of his Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor to moonlight shining on a lake? The sonata previously entitled “Quasi una fantasia.” Almost a fantasy. The sonata written in blood from a broken body and a broken heart. Poor dead Beethoven. Our art is truly not our own). It strikes me odd that a song such as this one has become what it has become. Radiance in despair, I suppose, is universal in its bright raw frankness. We stare. It stares back. Tonight, blessedly, that chasm of grief alive still and forever in the delicate weaving vines of plaintive melody stemming darkly from it is far from your door. Your breaths are slow and even now. The song closes, as it always does, trying and failing to claw out of the darkness. But you don’t know that. Tonight it’s just a beautiful song. And I am no one else but your mother.
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Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM UTC
Quasi una fantasia
His spring was short, and he wore it damp and dreary with query bulbs lightly weaved in a soiled waistcoat. He will be ready for summer. His summer comes modest, not hot enough for milking. Answers flower few, so he dons a leaf-cushioned jacket and waits for the fall. His fall arrives late, too sweetly burning assents of decay. Cracks branch thin, and he slaps on a sappy topcoat, with dread of winter. His winter bustles with a bite, but its nibbles and noms are blessedly brief. He sighs, "It's a shame my seasons can only be four."
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Apr 4, 2010
Apr 4, 2010 at 8:09 AM UTC
Man, All Four Seasons
and sitting in the corner of a blessedly quiet McDonalds that is so old they haven't changed their booths to be uncomfortable to sit in, yet and wearing a black dress suited for vamps, tarnished serpentine earrings whispering in my ears not yet not yet not yet speaking also to the stolen ring in my bag that I am not yet a bougie eccentric made to burn money and carry cigarette wands and travel to tangier and have a little exotic pet until I become more educated, eloquent, work on my elocution until I am someone, who's someone that deserves and has the gall to take, and possess the world's most most beautiful blue wolf fur coat
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
eating peppered fries like an animal
A lash fell on my cheek, I stored it away for safe keeping, In case of emergencies. Then I could make a wish In desperate need, For you to appear before me. Then I blew it away Before I could think, And there you were, Blinking, blessedly Who knew, You, Who knew, You, Could show me, The ins & outs, Ins & outs, The ins & outs, Of everything? And I don't want your eyes to fade, Like the warms winds in May. But it's time for you to leave, Leave me be, Let me be, Leave me be so ill-conceived, Only left as a requiem for a dream.
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 4:51 PM UTC
No Rhyme Nor Reason
Dying the death of a king turned breathless pauper thats recently watched all the grains of sand pass south through orbs of glass towards the grave. Reaching to the heavens from the floor entwined in wails and deep sunken moans that labor in pangs of anxious moments which last for hours and are only ever superseded by short fits of shaky sleep. Hope and its former entitlements simply derailed- shattering each of an un-numbered tomorrows leaving them void of how it was, even though that may have been better for sure. However when grand vistas are moved by heavenly verse or demonic desires and the clouds are blown east toward the sea, its only done so that the past- has a chance to dissipate. Then appearing far to blessedly late is the painting under the painting of that holiday when things seemed stronger When sadly it now clearly seems we were silently slipping away from one another: one sliver of space at a time.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM UTC
Fraudulent Certainty
Blessedly, funerals, don't have to go to too many, though went to one just this day, for our next door country neighbor, the nicest dour-looking, rascally dearest man The Catholic church full, the hymns lovely, the priest spoke simple and beautiful, about the paschal lamb and the Judeo-Christian Heritage and Life Everlasting, an interesting concept, that I had long forgot about Must have conjured up three minimum ideas for poems, not even including this reportage maybe I will write some, tho the normative jelly of Manhattan bus shaking mine own recipe for inspiration, when combined with my peanut buttered sheltered island by the Great Peconic Bay, both, will be my swirled inspiration everlasting Can't write about moon and June, alabaster is a fine word, but white suits me fine, don't know the diff tween dragon flys and lullabies, the way I write is just the way I think writ out loud so to the essay at hand, funeral of a man, mine all planned, the invites ready, awaiting the correct postage stamp of a future time and place the date, more or less sketched, the poems, selected, notated for whoever shows, pick a read, win a free trip to the cemetery and maybe one back to his "parlor" where food, drink and bon mots are vous parlez'd and his spirit, now a parolee, will be watching smiling, for funerals are camaraderie, so longs and fare-thee-wells, and the hands of friends embracing, celebrations in their own way, and a time to tell stories of what treasures they have left you, silver linings of a life well writ, and tho someday, they'll be time-tarnished, even half forgot, the stories and the love poems are the seeds of life everlasting Passover/Easter March 2014
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 10:04 AM UTC
A New Poem: Life Everlasting
Blessedly, funerals, don't have to go to too many, though went to one just this day, for our next door country neighbor, the nicest dour-looking, rascally dearest man The Catholic church full, the hymns lovely, the priest spoke simple and beautiful, about the paschal lamb and the Judeo-Christian Heritage and Life Everlasting, an interesting concept, that I had long forgot about Must have conjured up three minimum ideas for poems, not even including this reportage maybe I will write some, tho the normative jelly of Manhattan bus shaking mine own recipe for inspiration, when combined with my peanut buttered sheltered island by the Great Peconic Bay, both, will be my swirled inspiration everlasting Can't write about moon and June, alabaster is a fine word, but white suits me fine, don't know the diff tween dragon flys and lullabies, the way I write is just the way I think writ out loud so to the essay at hand, funeral of a man, mine all planned, the invites ready, awaiting the correct postage stamp of a future time and place the date, more or less sketched, the poems, selected, notated for whoever shows, pick a read, win a free trip to the cemetery and maybe one back to his "parlor" where food, drink and bon mots are vous parlez'd and his spirit, now a parolee, will be watching smiling, for funerals are camaraderie, so longs and fare-thee-wells, and the hands of friends embracing, celebrations in their own way, and a time to tell stories of what treasures they have left you, silver linings of a life well writ, and tho someday, they'll be time-tarnished, even half forgot, the stories and the love poems are the seeds of life everlasting Passover/Easter March 2014
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Divinity of the Day lets me think I’m in the sky But that’s alright, like to go about this blind Exiled darling wandering in the summer blessedly long Divinity of the Day, my whispered prayer through the dark God, that enthralled you read in a raindrop before it hits the ground sunset boulevard torch, is up one of these bends, waved in night West Hollywood Rimbaud, feathers falling into my hair, dressed in invention’s favorite mood with my roadhouse sheet music written of my life’s inspiration adorned walls, slightly cold I was lost but playing it off, until my racing heart reached time future and said, soul adored believe what’s in store dose to help you forget and live Harp in hand, each step how it rings scammed and scorched no lying that all this running leads to hardly breathing There’s smoke around you drifting into an image faithful to the vast, wild west bravely standing despite the emptiness as if guided, divinely guided with my diamond focus on the garden path of the muse, open, aware just walking through, even confused, you mean my images of paradise were drawn in too permanent as the myths, placards of legends Beaming with a strange and frightening beauty from chasing the lights that ascent into the heavens dreamy, daring, absurdly hoping, all the read claiming Lord knows, enamored with you, so take these pretty copper arrows good for aiming up beyond, that remind me, been on my own so long
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Apr 24, 2019
Apr 24, 2019 at 5:01 PM UTC
Roadhouse Sheet Music
From Grassy Fields to Azure Blue Albuquerque a special time soulful sojourners came to release aloft what others find easy to scoff oh Thy heavenly breeze from earthen habitation all sounds are found in thee laughter and tears the Sobbing Goes to throbbing depths clouds pewter gray they show your needs and how hard you pray Some are blessedly light others are weighed and bowed there are streams of air but the spirit too has The lift and fall some is shear others are tender they hold all that is dear love hopes and dreams in them You see the atmosphere as if you were sky riding at fiesta time strings of silver red golden black ribbon They represent light hearted feelings the gust of joy that blows across many a yard and home from this Dispositions of those that live there are discerned and carried outward and upward into playful days Bathed in sunlight recharged with all the embodied love that continues through mankind dark shadows Also are known their gloom are forever fixed with heartbroken tomb but just from earth the higher it Rises its burning tears begins to fall as tender rain that mixes with tears and it not to be explained But from this mixture golden memories derive their uncommon essence the loss is then to celebrate Tendrils that drift across the sky when they briefly touch the ground though it be tearful a smile is Left and in it the loved one is blessed honored and assured the swirling wind holds so many promises Of happy tomorrows where the word separation has been expunged it no longer is a part of reality You crossed the night train trestle your voice was the mournful whistle that announced the dear passing Of love that went higher you were given a gift wrapped in pain but within it explained far greater truth Than the limitation of earth’s love alone you are now aboard these sky ships as you rise your burdens Grow Lighter your vision is enabled to see grandeur and great vistas the pulsating earth winks from Homes far below you appear as bubbles on the wind in the moonlight glow in it is you’re refreshing Enjoy the ride
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May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM UTC
From Grassy Fields to Azure Blue
From Grassy Fields to Azure Blue Albuquerque a special time soulful sojourners came to release aloft what others find easy to scoff oh Thy heavenly breeze from earthen habitation all sounds are found in thee laughter and tears the Sobbing Goes to throbbing depths clouds pewter gray they show your needs and how hard you pray Some are blessedly light others are weighed and bowed there are streams of air but the spirit too has The lift and fall some is shear others are tender they hold all that is dear love hopes and dreams in them You see the atmosphere as if you were sky riding at fiesta time strings of silver red golden black ribbon They represent light hearted feelings the gust of joy that blows across many a yard and home from this Dispositions of those that live there are discerned and carried outward and upward into playful days Bathed in sunlight recharged with all the embodied love that continues through mankind dark shadows Also are known their gloom are forever fixed with heartbroken tomb but just from earth the higher it Rises its burning tears begins to fall as tender rain that mixes with tears and it not to be explained But from this mixture golden memories derive their uncommon essence the loss is then to celebrate Tendrils that drift across the sky when they briefly touch the ground though it be tearful a smile is Left and in it the loved one is blessed honored and assured the swirling wind holds so many promises Of happy tomorrows where the word separation has been expunged it no longer is a part of reality You crossed the night train trestle your voice was the mournful whistle that announced the dear passing Of love that went higher you were given a gift wrapped in pain but within it explained far greater truth Than the limitation of earth’s love alone you are now aboard these sky ships as you rise your burdens Grow Lighter your vision is enabled to see grandeur and great vistas the pulsating earth winks from Homes far below you appear as bubbles on the wind in the moonlight glow in it is you’re refreshing Enjoy the ride
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Lord grant me the audacity. To again be a 23 year old marshmallow Partying every night at the campfire with a bunch of skewers. The audacity To feel outstanding With an underdeveloped frontal lobe Floating around in cherry bombs and Stroh’s To survive being invincible and brave and strong enough to make bold and terrible decisions And blessedly wake to another sunrise Never grateful to be alive. ******* ***** How does anyone survive their early 20s. Sheer audacity.
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Nov 1, 2021
Nov 1, 2021 at 11:15 PM UTC
The audacity
Green grass along a cerulean sky Sought I To write: The perfect prose. Thoroughly I searched, Yet my pad remained plain and pure And quite unquenched. I strolled stolidly and walked wearily To the water’s unexpected whims. Amusing as it were, well… With its lacking of lapping— just somewhat lazy: For the wind blew blessedly refreshingly, Yet the waves seemed scared to surface— Somewhat suspiciously. Then my ears caught quite a commotion Coming from behind me: Chuckling and chasing squirrels Pounced past perched pigeons As if to bother the birds Because of blatant boredom. Deafeningly distracted became I When all of a sudden A fickle photographer focused her Large lens Dangerously, daringly in my direction. Vainly I ventured to assume, Yet I assuaged, And I moved Maturely… (as anyone should). Pointed and positioned to the person of peace placed in the park, She snapped, and she snipped a picture or two Inevitably to post on a wasted wall space. As the sun set, To be clearly cliché, I wrapped up my writings On my once plain and pure pad. Had it had eyes, It would have gawked and glanced For my gaze in return: “You call that a creation? Corny it is, Not at all concise.” Carelessly content, I closed the cover Leaving my pad Quite unquenched.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 6:57 PM UTC
Quite Unquenched
This magic hat, a crown of thorns sometimes Hard pressed and poignant, we blessedly wear Till death recumbent stills the joys the care The strivings found in all sentient forms. We walk upon this globe each day without Wonder nor concernment for monolith Thoughts arisen, seemingly threaded with Threads still hidden though faithfully throughout History named and imagined. The full Ever-vescent multitude, a flash, the Portion illumined, then grasped as all in all. This cause repeats repeatedly, a breath Of mind cognate and fleeting that does swell Our conscious state to mortal width and breadth.
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Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 at 3:10 AM UTC
This Magic Hat
A Field Guide to Awkward Silences The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings A Field Guide to Secure Wi-Fi A Field Guide to Asset Forfeiture A Field Guide to “Fake News” A Field Guide to Lies A Field Guide to Antibiotic Stewardship in Outpatient Settings A Field Guide to the Italian New Right A Field Guide to Getting Lost A Field Guide to Ripple Effects Mapping A Field Guide to ****** and Fly Fishing A Field Guide to Jerks at Work A Field Guide to Bad Faith Arguments And so it field guides, and so it field guides As dear old Kurt Vonnegut did not say And what field is the writer talking about? About the farmer outstanding in his field? Alas there is no field guide to writing A title blessedly free of field guide Which would be a feel-good fieldless guideless For which humanity would be grateful About as original as Keep Calm Keep Calm and Say Something Original Let the last field guide be Keep Calm about A Field Guide to Burying Tired Cliches’
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Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019 at 1:38 PM UTC
Keep Calm and Field Guide a Field Guide to Field Guides about Field Guides, Only They Aren't
Xanadu; quintessence of the words, Of beauty to our ears. Not love of mind nor fanciful sight, Nor tenacity of breath of those who might, Speak provocation of effusive tears. Diversification of those whose diction, Expansion was sought imploringly, Displayed meek thirst, For knowledge first; They’ll be blessedly beset linguistically. Longing rills of liquefied utterance, Reverberating waves aplenty, Bellowing whispers loud, Heard from within a shroud, Giving rise to a barrel never empty. Roaring murmurs of ripples in thousands Cascading to oceans below, A fast falling downward demise, Sounding white truth and that of black lies, Of onomatopoeic H2O. Not stringent is the string of letters, Lax are the words to be strung. Not sequentially, But dulcetly, Outward beauty will be rung. With a patterned strike using one’s cerebella Mallet On the gong of one’s cerebral stock, Eloquence imbues, The mind your ears use, Curtailing the perpetual tick tock – tick tock. Facile masks circle that face, Consuming as they revolve. Filched is elation, Taken is creation. Yet knowing the inevitable resolve.
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May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 6:16 AM UTC
Revel in Honour (of words)
God ties a ribbon; upon my mother's womb. As she waits for a tiny gift, (her only wish) to arrive soon.         My presence comes,         but her patience goes.                         The gift,                          blessedly unraveling as time flows. Always unwrapping,                                                        beauty is slow. My sweet mama,                                                        what beauty could she know?
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Feb 3, 2011
Feb 3, 2011 at 3:45 PM UTC
**God's gift**