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"forage" poems
fischers rap on a hot tin roof bristol creek pools over rock and seed english wolfhound (and the barkbuster) stroll pine lane vibrant colors of a cool spring in cob yellow and forest green field mice squander in cotton wind goats and ferret hold seven hour trim raven and **** meddle and forage (on a splendid fiaker goulash!) crickets and frogs hidden in swollen grey logs creepers fill the cut stone walls coy wolf high on a frayed white rope eagles perched at trudy’s bend catamounts laze on a snow base cedar (pared arbutus bent   through a failed ground rock) brush spider spins a timely web brown bears fumble at the spirit jamboree quizzical squirrels crack their nuts as pillow clouds float over telegraph trail 12 point dances on talus and scree hen hawks float in a big hard sun clydesdale and coach trot copper smith road (glancing down on finch and the warbler whistling through colander row) lavender fills the peat soil box mountain cats guard the heavenly gates black eyed ridge is wide and open the country squire hails this fruitful land
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Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 12:18 AM UTC
Welcome to the Shire
On days like this cool, with little winds desert birds forage for sticks they build nests perched in cactus some build green in palo verde trees always I think of baby birds in spring hatchlings, the fledglings that fly I travel far beyond the noise of towns watch the movement of cooling clouds the roundness of rain upon the ground the grey banked scurrilous skies of hurried birds, their silhouettes before a storm daisies that close, cold amid the stones beneath where snakes and lizards go slither and crawl in this landscape of saguaros and I, ever tethered can only dream to fly.
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 7:45 AM UTC
Desert day
The greatest challenge my nature presents: Love is harder to find Hate is easier to find Within myself and others Is rejection different for me? Everybody seems to know the pain of being unwanted And idle threats and empty words are no stranger to rejection But when you say you'll **** me if you ever see me again The intention is clear The existence of my attraction Is grotesque beyond redemption I thought I loved you... When appreciation comes my way It's superficiality amuses me Because I know all that needs to happen Is breaking down the wall to my mind Or unlocking the door to my heart And those appreciators will transform into detractors Especially if the hideous leviathan approaches their vessel Not finding women gross frustrates me Because I have no reference point For why people hate me so much Which provides a reference point For why I hate myself so much It's difficult not to be dominated by this damnation But there's no way people could understand The daily subtle nuances Why should they? I don't constantly consider their lives either Even if someone tried to comprehend my life I'm not sure it's possible I've been here the whole time and I'm still massively perplexed I display my emotions Disgust I shroud my emotions Indifference I **** my emotions Hatred Is there no escape? Even with sanctuaries along the way Life feels like Everybody swims in the ocean While I'm resigned to my lonely oasis Is it possible to feel more alone than completely alone? Like a cockroach consigned to living under the refrigerator It gets so cold and dark down here I forage for crumbs only at night Mortally afraid of human contact For I know that the boot follows the light And why not? In a world where our priorities obstruct our compassion How much consideration should a real human show to a lowly maggot like me When they have to worry about paying the exterminator?
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Jun 25, 2017
Jun 25, 2017 at 4:16 AM UTC
Loneliness
The greatest challenge my nature presents: Love is harder to find Hate is easier to find Within myself and others Is rejection different for me? Everybody seems to know the pain of being unwanted And idle threats and empty words are no stranger to rejection But when you say you'll **** me if you ever see me again The intention is clear The existence of my attraction Is grotesque beyond redemption I thought I loved you... When appreciation comes my way It's superficiality amuses me Because I know all that needs to happen Is breaking down the wall to my mind Or unlocking the door to my heart And those appreciators will transform into detractors Especially if the hideous leviathan approaches their vessel Not finding women gross frustrates me Because I have no reference point For why people hate me so much Which provides a reference point For why I hate myself so much It's difficult not to be dominated by this damnation But there's no way people could understand The daily subtle nuances Why should they? I don't constantly consider their lives either Even if someone tried to comprehend my life I'm not sure it's possible I've been here the whole time and I'm still massively perplexed I display my emotions Disgust I shroud my emotions Indifference I **** my emotions Hatred Is there no escape? Even with sanctuaries along the way Life feels like Everybody swims in the ocean While I'm resigned to my lonely oasis Is it possible to feel more alone than completely alone? Like a cockroach consigned to living under the refrigerator It gets so cold and dark down here I forage for crumbs only at night Mortally afraid of human contact For I know that the boot follows the light And why not? In a world where our priorities obstruct our compassion How much consideration should a real human show to a lowly maggot like me When they have to worry about paying the exterminator?
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Open bramble gate, morning lets itself in, eyes open in welcome. Water stirs – a glance outside. A jade tiger rises, blue herons fly to South Mountain. ~~~ Forage through herb abundance on South Mountain sunlight pooled in cassia leaves. It’s why you reclused here, hermitage entwined in viridian mists. I find your footprints headed to the clouds, so I leave this poem on your wall and on a whim ascend South Mountain ridges. Sticks snap underfoot – blue herons startle away. ~~~ Boundless and empty to townsfolk, South Mountain peaks. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper crumpled clouds – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird song - radiant clarity – makes mountain forests sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust cleared from rivers and peaks, ochre streams flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jades and emeralds rise. Petals scatter on crystalline swells, night lengthens slowly – coldness wanders by but I will linger here, a little longer. Version 2 South Mountain peaks, boundless and empty to townsfolk. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper folded clouds - azure heaven change – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird song radiant clarity – makes mountain forest sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust cleared from rivers and peaks, ochre streams flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jade and emerald rises. Petals scatter on crystalline swells – night lengthens slowly - coldness wanders by but I believe I will linger here, a little longer. Version 3 South Mountain peaks, boundless and empty to townsfolk. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper folded clouds - azure heaven change – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird songs radiant clarity – makes mountain forests sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust clears from rivers and peaks. Streams of ochre flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jades and emeralds rise. Scattered petals on crystalline swells – night slowly lengthens - coldness wanders by but I believe I will linger here, a little longer.
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Jan 24, 2012
Jan 24, 2012 at 8:02 PM UTC
South Mountain
Open bramble gate, morning lets itself in, eyes open in welcome. Water stirs – a glance outside. A jade tiger rises, blue herons fly to South Mountain. ~~~ Forage through herb abundance on South Mountain sunlight pooled in cassia leaves. It’s why you reclused here, hermitage entwined in viridian mists. I find your footprints headed to the clouds, so I leave this poem on your wall and on a whim ascend South Mountain ridges. Sticks snap underfoot – blue herons startle away. ~~~ Boundless and empty to townsfolk, South Mountain peaks. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper crumpled clouds – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird song - radiant clarity – makes mountain forests sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust cleared from rivers and peaks, ochre streams flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jades and emeralds rise. Petals scatter on crystalline swells, night lengthens slowly – coldness wanders by but I will linger here, a little longer. Version 2 South Mountain peaks, boundless and empty to townsfolk. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper folded clouds - azure heaven change – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird song radiant clarity – makes mountain forest sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust cleared from rivers and peaks, ochre streams flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jade and emerald rises. Petals scatter on crystalline swells – night lengthens slowly - coldness wanders by but I believe I will linger here, a little longer. Version 3 South Mountain peaks, boundless and empty to townsfolk. But here immortals dance among indomitable pines. Above the sun blue herons fly into paper folded clouds - azure heaven change – clouds the body, clouds the wings. Sonorous bird songs radiant clarity – makes mountain forests sing, each beat moves the clouds, red dust clears from rivers and peaks. Streams of ochre flood forests and fields, canyons and gorges, jades and emeralds rise. Scattered petals on crystalline swells – night slowly lengthens - coldness wanders by but I believe I will linger here, a little longer.
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A bridge from colloquial to courtly fare A span where idealism and fantasy pair A railway to the existential realm; celestial lair A conduit through which rational discourse can flare Deep medium to: forage, inculcate, and inform Broad brush to paint rare beauty; sculpt surrealistic form Incisive scalpel to surgically alter the societal norm Delicate utensil to educate on civility and decorum A literary ***** a prosaic construct A mechanism our syntax to deconstruct An analytical tool; an observational viaduct Introspective milieu to reduct; extrovertive sphere to reconstruct A semantical edifice that aspiring wit, lofty orations implore An experimental structure gramatical anomalies to explore A thematic repository in which concrete ideas, abstract notions to pour A vernacular cathedral butressed by an idiomatic core
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Jul 25, 2012
Jul 25, 2012 at 6:37 PM UTC
On Poetry and Prose
In every direction, to the limits of sight Squirrels Scrambling to fill their cheeks With treasures to sustain The coming sleep In every corner, of every block Squirrels Frantic, pacing, scouring ground For imaginary ignitable jewels Dropped in a dream the night before Down the paths of affluence Opulent interests guarded with teeth Squirrels Frenzied hoarding for more Smart black top-coat, Covering a shiny shell, On stiff skids of leather And an armor of importance Spitting orders, to the others To forage and pillage, And steal the nuts To fatten and fan the Flames of false dignity And good intention Inside holes hidden deep.
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Nov 28, 2018
Nov 28, 2018 at 12:32 PM UTC
Squirrels
In a building not concrete of origin Near a forest we used to forage in In the village we muck and wander Towards the river over yonder On the isle of sacred Avalon There was new ground to tread upon Amidst the brier, bog and heath Among the thistle, needles and oak leaf Round the timber fire we sang Of lady luck’s mercy and lady love’s pain We drank a drink of potent potables Phrases spoken few of which notable From the lambs leg we feasted While the mystic death we cheated Nights never ending and those yet experienced We roam them on and on, ever-delirious
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Jan 2, 2010
Jan 2, 2010 at 7:51 PM UTC
For David the Gnome and Seamus Heaney (Living In the Dark of Night)
I finish scooping a large serving of stir fry onto a styrofoam plate with the two metal spatulas left on the counter for me. I sidestep the forty something year old man who is our host who has opened this house, his families house, to us his extended family. I jump over the dog and take a seat in a metal folding chair that has been set by the table which is meant to seat 4, but is seating 9 tonight. To my right is an old friend, the estranged stepsister of the sleeping hostess to my left; the father of another friend who is, himself the best friend of the host and a regular in this kitchen. His son sits on the other side of the girl to my right his girlfriend is across from him and to his right is the three year old niece of the hostess. Her Five year old sister sits across from her. at the end is the 14 year old daughter of the hostess and across from me is her sister, the reason I am here. We eye each other across the table, trying to say something to each other trying to reveal the sound our heartbeats make, but our words are frozen in our throats. They would be pierced though by flying words and noodles and laughs and forks. they would be pierced through by the energy here by the connectedness by everything. If we were to say anything it would be rendered so completely useless so quickly that we can't. Or so we tell ourselves as we sit at this table with our large, crazy, extended, adopted family knocking elbows as we try to eat passing around the Parmesan cheese listening to the dogs barking at us for accidentally kicking them as they tried to forage for food scraps under our chairs not telling us they were there. There is a happiness here a buzzing an energy this is a family this is a family and I belong
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 3:46 AM UTC
Family
I finish scooping a large serving of stir fry onto a styrofoam plate with the two metal spatulas left on the counter for me. I sidestep the forty something year old man who is our host who has opened this house, his families house, to us his extended family. I jump over the dog and take a seat in a metal folding chair that has been set by the table which is meant to seat 4, but is seating 9 tonight. To my right is an old friend, the estranged stepsister of the sleeping hostess to my left; the father of another friend who is, himself the best friend of the host and a regular in this kitchen. His son sits on the other side of the girl to my right his girlfriend is across from him and to his right is the three year old niece of the hostess. Her Five year old sister sits across from her. at the end is the 14 year old daughter of the hostess and across from me is her sister, the reason I am here. We eye each other across the table, trying to say something to each other trying to reveal the sound our heartbeats make, but our words are frozen in our throats. They would be pierced though by flying words and noodles and laughs and forks. they would be pierced through by the energy here by the connectedness by everything. If we were to say anything it would be rendered so completely useless so quickly that we can't. Or so we tell ourselves as we sit at this table with our large, crazy, extended, adopted family knocking elbows as we try to eat passing around the Parmesan cheese listening to the dogs barking at us for accidentally kicking them as they tried to forage for food scraps under our chairs not telling us they were there. There is a happiness here a buzzing an energy this is a family this is a family and I belong
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. I have followed the forest Into the clouds to forage, My bag is still thin, empty, As my valley and now I see  At the top of the ridge, the happy,  Full moon who lights my way, I see him as I look down in the river, He travels with me.
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Jun 7, 2012
Jun 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM UTC
Night Moon
Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM UTC
Standing Barefoot on Rocky Ground
Come walk with me a mile... Walk on without our burden’s weighty shoes, warily trudging over the long rocky pathway a lifetime in my soul. A final edifying voyage to freedom. The winds of change are blowing briskly as we walk charily over the long and narrowing rock-strewn passageway. I shed these boots and skin, no longer fitting my scared, blistered and callused soles. As time slowly passes, this craggy passage has evolved from a two-way trail, into one-way jagged forage… Standing barefooted and naked on rocky ground, dark sunken sleepless eyes scan the rolling vista as the wind blows dust from the halo around the sun, blurring the delicate wispy cirrus clouds. The sun’s radiance paints frozen ice crystal azure into a vivid aura of prisms’ brilliant corona. Kaleidoscope rainbows adorn the closest of solar stars. There's something in the ethereal air that leaves my soul unsettled, grasping for an evocative stability trying to understand the silenced voices crying out within… The pain and suffering has vanished as if the body and soul have separated, numbness from the ache of longing, severed nerves, callused fears ruptured on serrated rocky edges, deadened useless flesh cut to the bone by misjudged obstacles encountered enduringly. The barefooted spirit courses on, suffused in the solar spectrum’s dust; yearning, longing to saunter above and beyond the bloated feathery pillows; cumulus clouds finally resting at peace. Dipping heart's lesions and these benumbed toes into a healing balm from the bowers of bliss.. An unfinished life an open ended dream, reluctantly waking to take the last , surrendering steps  beyond the threshold... A long and winding rocky journey’s destiny draws near The halo around the moon illuminates an understanding firmament; the celestial sphere’s pending imminent soulful rain awaits the metamorphosis at the brink of dawn. A shower of heaven's rain shall mourn the loss of flesh form as the spirit of an untamed soul lives on, barefooted, naked and free like the dust in the wind absorbed eternally... 2011 © harlon rivers all rights reserved
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As you walk through the city street there's something that you may not know. What's going on under your feet only metres down below. Life is multiplying fast, migrating sometimes up above, to forage through your garbage bags gathering the free food that we all love. We carry with us little friends that pack a really powerful punch and there's nothing they appreciate more than human blood for their lunch. With the lesson of the past forgotten by you humans up above where millions died because of filth and everyone lost someone they'd loved. Yet still you throw away your waste, you leave it lying on the street. Disease is on it's way to you you from little forager under your feet. Call this disease what err you will. Black-death, the pox but it's on its way and all because you can't be bothered but in the end it's you who'll pay. In the meantime we will breed en-mass, our babies growing, getting fat and all can deliver to you this fate. I really do love being a Rat.
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Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 8:18 AM UTC
Little Forager
lovers forgo their faces        defacing in the act mammering their information to unreadable smudges   they slur in kinetic fluctuation experimenting material forms fray      each    the others face is vented away      betray being human   no separated being and then...      to return in the tender moments following              a bumbling landfall then they are athletes      enamoured and praising of the other      flushed and radiating having rushed the life from their breath they heave in its return Later     in a **** trip down to the night kitchen they forgo they faces in a foxes forage hers ; over-lit by the fridge light           face thrown into a mask by extreme shaddows his ; beyond this light in the dark they are bodies sneak children the raider and the lookout after many years make the familiar relation her face disappears into a hand mirror and his is pulled out into a middle distance beyond the dresser durred in thought and waiting for 'go' to the restaurant tonite or that career social that neither wishes to attend                                         - fell shy of Eden
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Sep 11, 2022
Sep 11, 2022 at 8:48 PM UTC
f o r g o
this is not a death-wish this is a resurrection. on nights, you grow weary of the sound of your own breathing, there is a fierce sun burning inside you, you must use it to grow, not to scorch all you have. you have tender hands, why do you use them to peel away your conscious? there is a thunder in that insipid heart of yours, go, forage it out.
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Apr 3, 2016
Apr 3, 2016 at 3:45 PM UTC
comatose
Trust in Faith It's raining and the sun has returned home although I am by myself, yet I am not alone mind engages intellect, with time to consider how this heart of mine, has grown so bitter Not long ago, reflections of the past were a delight then in a brief moment, my happiness took flight once having a life with meaning, love and security now with remorse and desire, for a heart with purity Continuing to pursue life normally, while anxieties drown the mind no matter what I might do, any sense of happiness seems confined confused with mixed emotions, and knowing that they are both true yet despite my conflict, still mustering the will to tell her, I love you With each and every passing day, I look forward to behold once again to greet those yesterdays, those yesterdays of old but those yesterdays are buried, the fear of the future takes hold all of what now remains, are those few tomorrows left to unfold Worries must stem from this lack of control, how not to consider thinking of how few years are left to live, could anyone not be bitter the unknown of what the rest of your life will bring, an awesome fear when you advance in years, only then does it become all too clear Times passes, the body ages, memories flounder, and reality sets in maybe tomorrow the mail will arrive, addressed to: The Next of Kin finding yourself in an emotional upheaval, there is but one thing to do forage deep down inside, and uncover your faith, your only rescue Faith will give you the strength, it will guide you to trust in the One above fears of the future and of the unknown, disappear in this world called love experiencing midlife crisis, something you can and will successfully overcome but first never stop searching, trusting in G-d, and to depression never succumb
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Jul 24, 2015
Jul 24, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
Faith: The Antidote to Man's Midlife Crisis
Trust in Faith It's raining and the sun has returned home although I am by myself, yet I am not alone mind engages intellect, with time to consider how this heart of mine, has grown so bitter Not long ago, reflections of the past were a delight then in a brief moment, my happiness took flight once having a life with meaning, love and security now with remorse and desire, for a heart with purity Continuing to pursue life normally, while anxieties drown the mind no matter what I might do, any sense of happiness seems confined confused with mixed emotions, and knowing that they are both true yet despite my conflict, still mustering the will to tell her, I love you With each and every passing day, I look forward to behold once again to greet those yesterdays, those yesterdays of old but those yesterdays are buried, the fear of the future takes hold all of what now remains, are those few tomorrows left to unfold Worries must stem from this lack of control, how not to consider thinking of how few years are left to live, could anyone not be bitter the unknown of what the rest of your life will bring, an awesome fear when you advance in years, only then does it become all too clear Times passes, the body ages, memories flounder, and reality sets in maybe tomorrow the mail will arrive, addressed to: The Next of Kin finding yourself in an emotional upheaval, there is but one thing to do forage deep down inside, and uncover your faith, your only rescue Faith will give you the strength, it will guide you to trust in the One above fears of the future and of the unknown, disappear in this world called love experiencing midlife crisis, something you can and will successfully overcome but first never stop searching, trusting in G-d, and to depression never succumb
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It was a Saturday night  in the park his trees were singing out of tune his clay pigeons needed to come out of his closet for he was parked on a stool at his favorite watering hole amongst a full house where pairs beat singles and there he was shooting blanks drowning in his sorrows on his nine lives of lowlife hoping for a sitting duck in despair the kind that waddles right up to the Romeo's with suspense in their hearts and spontaneity in their wings a cackle that he can tackle to take home to his garden bed for him to be fed but what he got was for not, naught, knot wistful thinking sitting in a bar sinking for the jukebox played a broken record finding love in the wrong places and the joke squarely was on him for thinking, he could round the bases looking no further than the escape of his glows or a crutch of decoys and sitting ducks for he was no Romeo yet there he was still, like steel, a stole away in society forlorn, preserved like mamas mothballs tucked away in basement storage squandering the forage for there were no triple treats tonight for him or forever sounds grim for his reality check gone dim or no eye candy for his heart beats no picnic for his **** and all the bottled whiskey could not drown out his pain as his eyes were slain as the sitting ducks turned from his fantasy corner phantomlike and though he's sitting at the bar, a loner reminded that in cards of life pairs beat singles and in his worn hand familiarly holds a lonely joker for it's like he tries and its like his sitting ducks are like hoofed deer and his little sweets, are spooked hoofing away from his now darken forest like red ants at his picnic and the gleam in his eyes turned to the poorest its its as if his life and watering hole was condemned his garden bed cut at the stem it is as if he has a red vest on and a rifle don and all the hoofed deer panic looking at him in fear like he's manic or maybe it's his eyes that hold dark skies he orders another double trouble for what else is there to do on his Saturday night than to sit in a bubble forever sounds grim but sing him a sweet hymn he says please to wit as he steals peeks at the bartenders triple treats like a bee to a hive his joker still strikes a beat if only he can find a bolster for his gun needs a holster and a deer in the headlights would be hard to find the confession now told, tolled, towed through tears the guy in the bar window is me, sitting resigned Logan Robertson 10/18/2018
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Oct 18, 2018
Oct 18, 2018 at 6:23 PM UTC
This Sitting Duck Sits Resigned
It was a Saturday night  in the park his trees were singing out of tune his clay pigeons needed to come out of his closet for he was parked on a stool at his favorite watering hole amongst a full house where pairs beat singles and there he was shooting blanks drowning in his sorrows on his nine lives of lowlife hoping for a sitting duck in despair the kind that waddles right up to the Romeo's with suspense in their hearts and spontaneity in their wings a cackle that he can tackle to take home to his garden bed for him to be fed but what he got was for not, naught, knot wistful thinking sitting in a bar sinking for the jukebox played a broken record finding love in the wrong places and the joke squarely was on him for thinking, he could round the bases looking no further than the escape of his glows or a crutch of decoys and sitting ducks for he was no Romeo yet there he was still, like steel, a stole away in society forlorn, preserved like mamas mothballs tucked away in basement storage squandering the forage for there were no triple treats tonight for him or forever sounds grim for his reality check gone dim or no eye candy for his heart beats no picnic for his **** and all the bottled whiskey could not drown out his pain as his eyes were slain as the sitting ducks turned from his fantasy corner phantomlike and though he's sitting at the bar, a loner reminded that in cards of life pairs beat singles and in his worn hand familiarly holds a lonely joker for it's like he tries and its like his sitting ducks are like hoofed deer and his little sweets, are spooked hoofing away from his now darken forest like red ants at his picnic and the gleam in his eyes turned to the poorest its its as if his life and watering hole was condemned his garden bed cut at the stem it is as if he has a red vest on and a rifle don and all the hoofed deer panic looking at him in fear like he's manic or maybe it's his eyes that hold dark skies he orders another double trouble for what else is there to do on his Saturday night than to sit in a bubble forever sounds grim but sing him a sweet hymn he says please to wit as he steals peeks at the bartenders triple treats like a bee to a hive his joker still strikes a beat if only he can find a bolster for his gun needs a holster and a deer in the headlights would be hard to find the confession now told, tolled, towed through tears the guy in the bar window is me, sitting resigned Logan Robertson 10/18/2018
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Fissures cut through thick mocha fur, saturating The forest floor with stark crimson. The deer flails, Broken, knees buckled, breath shallow and emerging As vanishing steam in frosty November air. He falls on a bed of sugar maple leaves, illuminated In dappled sunlight and fulvous hues. “Must’ve been the coyotes,” my brother whispers, As my pocketknife meets the stag’s throat. Gentle Auburn clouds and freezes time, the body falls still. My father says, “Sacrifice is a form of worship, but it is only through Mercy that we may show passion for what we believe.” Coyote bites prevent carvings from going to Buxton’s General Store, But what nature produces it also receives. Ants forage along the split underbelly, And a red-tailed hawk carries away the entrails. History defines the antlers of deer as symbols of the Gods, And men would wear them atop their heads. I collect only them, still draped with threads of velvet, Knowing that years from now, nestled inside the perimeter Of wind-beaten fences around the family farm, beyond Moss-covered slopes and the Wishing Rock, Will be the bones of a solitary stag.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 1:50 PM UTC
Mercy
Fog Happens Yup. Not profound, even Jung, Kant and Freud, wouldn’t deny their eyes, would no doubt disagree with symbolic, philosophical implications, and the head banging ramifications for the immediacy of the spiritual impact while driving in this grey **** Fog differs every time, and on an island, that’s for **** sure. Today’s incarnation, the fog comes over the water, but respects the man-made, timbered, bulkhead, so the yard, with its circus of ravens, crows, and other invisible birds, insects, rabbits, is visible, but absent the inhabitants who are smarter-than-humans, they remain aboded thinking, only stupid humans believe they can navigate and forage, in a fog penetrating in air that is 97% humidity and 100% peas soup thick skinned. The time? Of course. It’s 7:36 AM on the East Coast, and beyond the lawn lies a brackish bay that will lead you to the Atlantic and north to the Titanic, direction Newfoundland. Not enough info to geo tag me, but those who know me, knowledgeable in my early mornings  scribblings, know my whereabouts, my telephone number. Do you? Fog Happens to everyone and at random intervals, Nope. Not thinking of the brain clouds of ordinary Lethologica  and Lethonomia. (Sunday lazy so just look it up and say out loud, gotta remember them words and laugh out loud cause you ain’t gotta a prayer.) Fog Happens in the heart, spreading north to the consciousness, and the lethargy of movement impeded by the lighthouse bells tolling “danger is about,” our light stolen, but you need to know, you’re perilously close to danger. Any action taken when heart-fogged can have awful consequences so stick close to bed, yank out your tablet, write a poem, listen to sad love  songs on that Pandora Station, or send GIPHYs and emojis to your six year old granddaughter who is 108 miles to the west of where you both hide beneath coverlets, and laugh out loud with her like the bells chiming outside, and that helps move that heart~fog hanging low, out to sea. YUP. Fog Happens Fog Passes
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Jun 25, 2023
Jun 25, 2023 at 8:00 AM UTC
Fog Happens
Fog Happens Yup. Not profound, even Jung, Kant and Freud, wouldn’t deny their eyes, would no doubt disagree with symbolic, philosophical implications, and the head banging ramifications for the immediacy of the spiritual impact while driving in this grey **** Fog differs every time, and on an island, that’s for **** sure. Today’s incarnation, the fog comes over the water, but respects the man-made, timbered, bulkhead, so the yard, with its circus of ravens, crows, and other invisible birds, insects, rabbits, is visible, but absent the inhabitants who are smarter-than-humans, they remain aboded thinking, only stupid humans believe they can navigate and forage, in a fog penetrating in air that is 97% humidity and 100% peas soup thick skinned. The time? Of course. It’s 7:36 AM on the East Coast, and beyond the lawn lies a brackish bay that will lead you to the Atlantic and north to the Titanic, direction Newfoundland. Not enough info to geo tag me, but those who know me, knowledgeable in my early mornings  scribblings, know my whereabouts, my telephone number. Do you? Fog Happens to everyone and at random intervals, Nope. Not thinking of the brain clouds of ordinary Lethologica  and Lethonomia. (Sunday lazy so just look it up and say out loud, gotta remember them words and laugh out loud cause you ain’t gotta a prayer.) Fog Happens in the heart, spreading north to the consciousness, and the lethargy of movement impeded by the lighthouse bells tolling “danger is about,” our light stolen, but you need to know, you’re perilously close to danger. Any action taken when heart-fogged can have awful consequences so stick close to bed, yank out your tablet, write a poem, listen to sad love  songs on that Pandora Station, or send GIPHYs and emojis to your six year old granddaughter who is 108 miles to the west of where you both hide beneath coverlets, and laugh out loud with her like the bells chiming outside, and that helps move that heart~fog hanging low, out to sea. YUP. Fog Happens Fog Passes
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There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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Nov 14, 2010
Nov 14, 2010 at 6:08 AM UTC
Congress
There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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Lie in the bare-faced sun savour time under seige frittering hours afor breakfast and rush ‘round later if necessary under fire moving appointments with telephones twitching anticipation then forage the howl create havoc hunt the giggling play for keeps heads roll apart the ultimate shudder MChallis © 2015
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 6:44 AM UTC
Affair
The lone stark bugle cry— Horn of the great mountain elk, Ripples down cold through morning Dusted wood as the mushrooming dews Drop into dearly waded pools under Fawning toes of forage and cool Evergreen.
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 1:16 PM UTC
Harkening
sweltering heat feet on the pavement yesterday's lovers are gone with the raiments of dresses and gowns demented clowns forage in the forest for surface tensions instant regression legacies of salvation and solvents somatically dissolving i am collapsing time and space a moment, a face of distress and immanence a destiny of cooperation a corporeal corporation the heliosphere is spinning winning, remaining steady its harmony saves our lives
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Dec 16, 2016
Dec 16, 2016 at 10:44 AM UTC
heliosphere
Terror-rium We had an aquarium A river, a lake, a sea. On our desk—the ocean. Our exotic fish, fished from the very river, lake, or sea which we have now. On our desk—we provide forage, food, plants, water, and fish. The aquarium had us. … We had an insectarium An arachnid, an insect, a butter -fly. On our counter—the air. Our countertop full of flourishing flowers, fluttering wings of broken butterflies, falling from feed, because they drink—and we pluck their wings, tape them to tapestries to stare. Say, how pretty they are. The insectarium had us … We had a terrarium. A desert, a savannah, a floor of sand. Our room is lit by a woodland, a jungle, a place we’ve never been. African violets decorate our reptiles, all scales and shells and condensation. It rains today—the lid which collected our precipitation. Our pebbled floor, formed over our marbled kitchen. The terrarium had us … We had an arium, and we destroyed it to keep them on our desks, nuzzled between family portraits and pens, to remind ourselves of what We used to have and what we’ll never have again, but at least they are pretty, and no one needs National Geographic to stare anymore. We have our countertops. ... This was read at the University of Kansas on May 10, 2013: http://shannonathompson.com/2013/05/10/contest-winners-and-poetry-from-my-ku-reading/
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 6:43 PM UTC
Terror-rium
One day I hope to put these feelings down in writing To find a way to simplify the way these carry me The smell of worn leather and pine trees in December A cold wind and a creek half frozen The line of trees that separate my house from the wilderness And how some days I wish I could disappear in there with you We would hunt and forage forge a path of our own Play an out of tune guitar around a smoldering fire We would live in the trees and hide in the grass You would braid my hair and we would dance barefoot in a clearing To the sound of cicadas and leaves underfoot I love, I miss, I want you. I hope for you. More than I will ever be able to tell you.
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Dec 12, 2020
Dec 12, 2020 at 12:01 PM UTC
Woodland Dreams