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"metronomic" poems
. And her arms enfold me, I lay my cheek against her breast. The shaking starts, the tears fall, as sobs emerge unhindered. Cries from way down deep, and I hear her heart, slow, steady, metronomic. So I follow its rhythm along a path richly bathed in warm sunlight. Through an archway and across a threshold shrine, the cemetery of the Ancients. A hundred thousand names, carved in marble, adorned with statues and plinths. Holding knowledge of old, and the sound of silence, like an abandoned library. The shadow of love hovers close, driving through midnight mists and leading me on. Practising narrative necromancy, reanimating old words, giving them life newly born, upon the first carved marbles, its names burnished with wisdom, and the anonymity of obscurity. There glows one name in forgotten script and I know my deepest identity, the weight of the aeons flows free into my mind, histories of the millennia. I know my Forest Lady holds secrets that belong to me. And she gestates them all, a coveted pregnancy. A path-working, an etherical dream, and her heart skips a beat, as another part of me crumbles and dies, to mingle with the dust of ancient knowledge. © Pagan Paul (11/07/18)
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC
My Forest Lady Holds Secrets
I once thought love meant a trite Romantic metaphor -- "A bird that soared above some far-off shore" -- calling gently among the metronomic whispers of the waves, casting a fleeting shadow on sun-kissed sand where sea spray mingles with the scent of seaweed. But after four weeks' absence and the silence of those thirty days, I saw, while in traffic, a flock of seagulls drifting lazily as flies over the Oakland sewage plant.
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM UTC
Seagullible
I’m searching for Paradise Beyond the vast ocean on a beach filled with white sand Under the palm tree in the shadows of untamed land Where the ocean tides pave over the imprints of a desolate shore And the wind echoes around caressing the sun drenched floor In front of the sea, sparkling from the sun’s radiant light Waiting to set, and be engulfed by the night In my hand I clasp upon a cold and crisp, refreshing beer Looking upon the horizon so clear Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise On an immeasurable plane of green land tangent only to a white mountain range Where the prairie has been spared from the time of industrial change In front of the sun as it strokes the horizon line I sit, while I clasp upon my tall glass of wine The sky is painted by an array of colors, reflecting off tranquil clouds Free from the hustle and bustle of crowds The grass is soft, like long bristles of velvet fur As the pollen rises from the flowers, it creates an indescribable blur Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise In the big city, illuminated by artificial light Surrounded by friends in the chaos of night We trek, pushing through the people infested street And pulse to the music of an inescapable beat In the heat of passion, impossible to explain We pop bottle after bottle of the most exclusive champagne Under the stars, beneath the glittering sky Indulging within the penthouse so high. Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise On the edge of the world, perched upon a soaring cliff Where you can taste the cool crisp air with but only a whiff As the sun begins to peak out from beneath the earths womb I pour a drink, full of spirits to consume The birds begin to sing in metronomic rhyme I sing along, to count the time In the twilight hour sets The new day begins as I’m purged of regrets Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise After an extensive and exhausting day of work Grueling and toiling for a boss who’s a **** Breaking my back for the lowest of scraps Sweating and Striving till my knees collapse I return to an undersized and meager house To be greeted by my enduring spouse Embracing the responsibility of my new role as a father I look upon the face of my daughter And within her eyes so nice I finally find Paradise
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:27 PM UTC
Searching For Paradise
I’m searching for Paradise Beyond the vast ocean on a beach filled with white sand Under the palm tree in the shadows of untamed land Where the ocean tides pave over the imprints of a desolate shore And the wind echoes around caressing the sun drenched floor In front of the sea, sparkling from the sun’s radiant light Waiting to set, and be engulfed by the night In my hand I clasp upon a cold and crisp, refreshing beer Looking upon the horizon so clear Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise On an immeasurable plane of green land tangent only to a white mountain range Where the prairie has been spared from the time of industrial change In front of the sun as it strokes the horizon line I sit, while I clasp upon my tall glass of wine The sky is painted by an array of colors, reflecting off tranquil clouds Free from the hustle and bustle of crowds The grass is soft, like long bristles of velvet fur As the pollen rises from the flowers, it creates an indescribable blur Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise In the big city, illuminated by artificial light Surrounded by friends in the chaos of night We trek, pushing through the people infested street And pulse to the music of an inescapable beat In the heat of passion, impossible to explain We pop bottle after bottle of the most exclusive champagne Under the stars, beneath the glittering sky Indulging within the penthouse so high. Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise On the edge of the world, perched upon a soaring cliff Where you can taste the cool crisp air with but only a whiff As the sun begins to peak out from beneath the earths womb I pour a drink, full of spirits to consume The birds begin to sing in metronomic rhyme I sing along, to count the time In the twilight hour sets The new day begins as I’m purged of regrets Oh, wouldn’t it be so nice To escape this place to Paradise I’m searching for Paradise After an extensive and exhausting day of work Grueling and toiling for a boss who’s a **** Breaking my back for the lowest of scraps Sweating and Striving till my knees collapse I return to an undersized and meager house To be greeted by my enduring spouse Embracing the responsibility of my new role as a father I look upon the face of my daughter And within her eyes so nice I finally find Paradise
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With obsolescent clarity Amid moribund metaphysical Mutations As the iridium ball rolls From eponym to epitaph Engeneering an epoch diarama In surfeit metronomic hysteria While time chases time into infinity Episodic vagaries celebrate The metaphoric metamorphosis rising to Metaphysical majesty as vacuous As any minutiae will When abstract vagaries Become the vagrant epitome Of a mordant mosaic Made entirely of the lost causes Torn from the very core I surmise As being the virulent.... .....Tragic and irridescent pieces Left along the allegorical antipathy Where those that are left behind By the stigmatation Of any irascible involutions Mired in the mesh Of scribbles and scribes Left After the iridium ball rolls By Leaving vacuous irridescent Symbols of epigraphical Proportions Stymied by The obsolescent clarity Amid moribund metaphysical  mutations.
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 5:02 PM UTC
As the iridium ball rolls
JIMMY WIMBLETON listened a first week in June. Ditches along prairie roads of Northern Illinois Filled the arch of night with young bullfrog songs. Infinite mathematical metronomic croaks rose and spoke, Rose and sang, rose in a choir of puzzles. They made his head ache with riddles of music. They rested his head with beaten cadence. Jimmy Wimbledon listened.
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Young Bullfrogs
There is a clock in my house that is always ticking. Tick tok tick tok Sometimes, when I am all alone all I can hear is that clock tick tok tic tok hypnotizing me, transporting me to a place within my mind, a place that used to be beautiful and tragic, but now I can't tell which one anymore. tick tok tick tok I have began to count the ticks each one reminding me of the time I have wasted tick tok tick tok Each second, minute, hour of my life that I thrown away. tick tok tick tok I swear if this goes on any longer my heart will begin to beat in the metronomic rhythm tick tok tick tok Is no one else bothered that each tick represents one less second until death? tick tok tick tok Is this all just in my mind? Am I the only one who is going insane from the-- tick tok tick tok I can’t sleep, I can’t think, all I can hear is ticking tick tok tick tok Its like a time bomb in my head tick tok tick tok Waiting to explode tick tok tick toc Is it me or is the clock getting louder... tick tok tick tok THE **** CLOCK! tick tok tick tok IT WONT SHUT UP! tick tok tick tok TELLING ME THAT NOTHING LASTS tick tok tick tok REMINDING ME THAT TIME IS PASSING AND I CANT DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT! tick tok tick tok I pull out the batteries tick toc tick----
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM UTC
Tick Tok
Collaboration with Jack Where oceans dance on sleepy shores, glistening beneath crescent moon breaths, counting star drop secrets on charcoal skies I stare at a horizon, a single shadowed line.... waiting Into the depth of the distance, my thoughts drift I know they will find their way somehow I'll remain here, the closest point to you my time, my freedom, I no longer wish to be my own Cast upon these harmonic waves, my desires, whispered into a sea breeze of flowing dreams, Become one with a metronomic tide of needed current seeking a path to your perfect heart and I breathe...slowly Thoughts and desires now run free, seeking their destiny the direction, always known to them, yet hindered a moving course across the ocean, the destination, always you wistfulness and impatient dreams will become a reality And of this reality, these distant shores, we shall be together... not of sun drenched morning awakenings, nor a midnight sky of watchful eyes, but of one love on a tireless journey, far beyond every horizon ....eternally
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 4:03 AM UTC
Dreams of Dark Horizons
Hidden between the oaks and ferns Where whispers slip amongst the green Within the darkest depths of wood There lies a beauty, stone cold sleep Who never will awaken, lest That one and only righteous prince Crusades through the forest maze And plants a kiss, to grow come spring Comatose is Overwhelming To the wakeful, watchful, winter walker, Who leaves her there To hibernate Continuing his aimless winter wander Unrelenting Continuum No, time does not stand still in dream-born lands The pendulum Metronomic Imprinting wrinkles on her dreamy hands So she may sleep until the day Her heart percusses final beats And leaves the one who finds her so With broken heart and bruising knees Protagonist arrives too late And turns love songs to tragedy When beauty doesn't come to wake After twenty eight years in a dream
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Dec 25, 2013
Dec 25, 2013 at 2:40 AM UTC
Sleeping Beauty
2.19 am. Another sleepless night in Clinging sweaty sheets. Unnoticed by day, This metronomic ticking Is thieving my sleep. It's no use hiding - My water glass magnifies The luminous dial. Ominous red glow, Like an army on the ridge, Retreat into dream. © Marcus Lane 2008
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Mar 21, 2011
Mar 21, 2011 at 3:15 AM UTC
Haiku before Dawn
You had the truth in your hand But I guess you couldn't stand... ...the demand... ... of being a real human So why does your shame Make it necessary to blame The others for suddenly being A stranger Does that not create the danger Of rearranging the facts While jumping the tracks In your haste to move forward What could be the reward For striking such a chord Of internal discontent Where your morality is bent... ... To the point of almost broken While fueling the fires you alone were stoking I had relinquished the remote As  I felt the chill wind blow Still I did not don a coat Out of righteous indignation Or from forlorn resignation Although there was temptations I let you hem and haw - have your say So you could do it your way The window view instinctively knew And slowly dropped it's shades The window curtains instinctively knew And dropped... so as one side fades Going back into the obscurity There is a melancholy pull Looming large and weighted down with insecurity Even in that first moment of triumph The serious side knew This was no contest It was an awakening While nowhere near sleep As if the dreamers shuffling steps recede Scuffing the floor in metronomic semaphore Sounding like the best the best the best the best the best the best the best Continuing as it crosses the room The best the best the best the best right on out the door.
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Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 at 5:52 PM UTC
The two sides of me
Nowadays, when I see the ocean foam slick the beach like a colossal latte, when the autumn forests change their primary colors playing leaf-frog, when the jonquils fight up through springtime snow-melt in defiant coalescence, I remember that last day I saw you, your *** swaying in those white shorts, a mesmerizing metronomic heat in pants. Ordinarily, I would not speak such things aloud, but then, regret tends to amplify walking empty streets at night with only icy stares from stars to reprove me. Eventually, I'll slumber beneath my satin comforter, and dreams will dance like the aurora at the foot of my half-empty bed. It's then I'll see those legs again, emerging from the white cotton shorts, yet, no cosmic connection will bring this vision to the woman haunting it.
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Feb 23, 2012
Feb 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM UTC
I Keep My Visions to Myself
And the hand of the clock ticks In a metronomic beat Every second is counted Another moment passes Eyes searching around the area An effort to ascertain If the expected has come A bathe of disappointment Is the welcoming arms The waiting continues
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 9:54 PM UTC
Day 12 // 08.10.14
falling into subterranean sleep, I notice such blackness    bypasses a pinprick of light; dreams are avenues    to enigmas presenting themselves as someone forgotten. sleep laves labyrinths with incandescent sequins.     everybody is strange here, interlocutor commune, still yet nothing I can understand – better be braille, or     contrapuntal dance, but still you uttered nothing; your locutionary silence seeks no contentment.                                            i have never heard such riot of laughter toss me out of sleep. perhaps it was our undoing,    our deepest, secretive entrails unloosen us in such fashion    worth depicting as obscenely courageous, the width of arm-span the size of outstretched islands, and stepping into    that particular wideness, are my small feet traipsing    swiftly throbbing in the heat of choosing: to go      or     to stay – cyclic spectacle that eschews             dailiness that I know I may have forgotten you in faces of lampposts, the pared skin of onion, the gleaming washlines,      the white feral on the rooftops, a blank piece of paper,             a munificent Bulacan sky, or any sky at that since they are all bleached and they arrive not with wind but     with lashes: the color of white that flagellates, that blinds,         that oscillates in space which is then reduced to the      back of my hand: I know this. I know all of this.                                                 we were not naked, yet something          buried in the skin reveals itself disarmed, mumbling              an earnest palaver of questions I have no answers for.                      what happened? where are we? should we just – die?                                    an echoing reverb, or simply a song – a metronomic           carousal of swan-song I have heard before persists                             and maybe all this time,                                                        we have been awake, in separate cities.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 9:04 PM UTC
Subterranean / Transatlantic
falling into subterranean sleep, I notice such blackness    bypasses a pinprick of light; dreams are avenues    to enigmas presenting themselves as someone forgotten. sleep laves labyrinths with incandescent sequins.     everybody is strange here, interlocutor commune, still yet nothing I can understand – better be braille, or     contrapuntal dance, but still you uttered nothing; your locutionary silence seeks no contentment.                                            i have never heard such riot of laughter toss me out of sleep. perhaps it was our undoing,    our deepest, secretive entrails unloosen us in such fashion    worth depicting as obscenely courageous, the width of arm-span the size of outstretched islands, and stepping into    that particular wideness, are my small feet traipsing    swiftly throbbing in the heat of choosing: to go      or     to stay – cyclic spectacle that eschews             dailiness that I know I may have forgotten you in faces of lampposts, the pared skin of onion, the gleaming washlines,      the white feral on the rooftops, a blank piece of paper,             a munificent Bulacan sky, or any sky at that since they are all bleached and they arrive not with wind but     with lashes: the color of white that flagellates, that blinds,         that oscillates in space which is then reduced to the      back of my hand: I know this. I know all of this.                                                 we were not naked, yet something          buried in the skin reveals itself disarmed, mumbling              an earnest palaver of questions I have no answers for.                      what happened? where are we? should we just – die?                                    an echoing reverb, or simply a song – a metronomic           carousal of swan-song I have heard before persists                             and maybe all this time,                                                        we have been awake, in separate cities.
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I taste rapture in your lips & feel nirvana flood our spines. A stack of bone lit fire & this day ends, today I should try, to see into the future, something waits for you inside, reach in & find your comfort. Drink heavy & dance, a warm nose carving mistakes into your once supple face. Leave it alone & cry. Leave it alone for my sake. Call me from the basement's line. Save the words & a change of tone. a change of pace. _Oh, dear gods, we came so close & stand so far, from that glorious fountain, from that glorious superstructure of love & tainted fate. Stay close & I'll recite gorgeous tales of defeat. I will paint your face with the shame of those forgotten, not in a lonely way & this is not the only way to stop these rhymes of once again hearts torn, one heart torn, turning forever sleeping on the floor, wishing your blood flowed through me. open veins to shreds. grab me, taste me. bound by chains. once undone, these thoughts shouldn't be should so heavy, moving my fingers in time with you. whisper, oh I'm crazy. But in this world, in this dear, sweet perfect world, where you & I sit & sing & commit your face to memory. Holding on to you. in you, my flame burns bright, this pace grows dark as the wet woods cry in rhythm, thinking of me, old, their hearts still racing for me. their souls transport all loss & their souls transports heat. If only I was your source. If I was your only source, of light of shadow & pain of a perfect metronomic never ending sometimes; you'd pass happy. you'd know defeat, victory & all forms in between. & looking back I sense there are words sealed tight, dates forgotten & stories sans ink. sometimes, oh my sweet beautiful muse. There is a shadow & there is a child & there is a window & there is a lord to call upon when nightmares grab tight & bullets fly close to this heart desperation glides across these strings & a voice is born, snuffed, buried & forgotten in all but me. killing the self, waiting for the bars to bend & waiting for the structure to dissolve. A ghetto grown & producing infinite words & mistakes. Clear up my past, discontinue & continue to work on these studies, take all in stride, a slow, pain filled walk. As mentioned, we came so far, so close & retired our passions. So we ask how do we die? & when will we know? & this change of tone brings a change of pace. I feel alive, I behold what's in it, what's grabbing & shaking my soul, which is, listening to this power.
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Dec 29, 2012
Dec 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM UTC
A grim misadventure.
I taste rapture in your lips & feel nirvana flood our spines. A stack of bone lit fire & this day ends, today I should try, to see into the future, something waits for you inside, reach in & find your comfort. Drink heavy & dance, a warm nose carving mistakes into your once supple face. Leave it alone & cry. Leave it alone for my sake. Call me from the basement's line. Save the words & a change of tone. a change of pace. _Oh, dear gods, we came so close & stand so far, from that glorious fountain, from that glorious superstructure of love & tainted fate. Stay close & I'll recite gorgeous tales of defeat. I will paint your face with the shame of those forgotten, not in a lonely way & this is not the only way to stop these rhymes of once again hearts torn, one heart torn, turning forever sleeping on the floor, wishing your blood flowed through me. open veins to shreds. grab me, taste me. bound by chains. once undone, these thoughts shouldn't be should so heavy, moving my fingers in time with you. whisper, oh I'm crazy. But in this world, in this dear, sweet perfect world, where you & I sit & sing & commit your face to memory. Holding on to you. in you, my flame burns bright, this pace grows dark as the wet woods cry in rhythm, thinking of me, old, their hearts still racing for me. their souls transport all loss & their souls transports heat. If only I was your source. If I was your only source, of light of shadow & pain of a perfect metronomic never ending sometimes; you'd pass happy. you'd know defeat, victory & all forms in between. & looking back I sense there are words sealed tight, dates forgotten & stories sans ink. sometimes, oh my sweet beautiful muse. There is a shadow & there is a child & there is a window & there is a lord to call upon when nightmares grab tight & bullets fly close to this heart desperation glides across these strings & a voice is born, snuffed, buried & forgotten in all but me. killing the self, waiting for the bars to bend & waiting for the structure to dissolve. A ghetto grown & producing infinite words & mistakes. Clear up my past, discontinue & continue to work on these studies, take all in stride, a slow, pain filled walk. As mentioned, we came so far, so close & retired our passions. So we ask how do we die? & when will we know? & this change of tone brings a change of pace. I feel alive, I behold what's in it, what's grabbing & shaking my soul, which is, listening to this power.
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The land was veiled and silence exultant -                 p e r m e a t e d only by sporadic bird calls resonating from deep within the frozen forest where life had retreated, aghast by the glacial wind. Cowering together,                dwellings shivered                              ephemeral oak structures                              bowed beneath the freshly shorn lamb’s wool that enveloped all, hastening, the shearer continued. You left this night,                    without a whisper of regret across the interminable,      n     u      a     i     g      furrows u     d      l      t    n that ridicule your lifeless, even features - pitiless, your sodden soles penetrated the ****** snow. Impervious to such inclemency                        I traipse deep into the thicket, reminded of how earlier I collected from this q u i v e r i n g coppice,                 no more, no less than my meagre allowance dictates. Your stride is familiar, for it was once mine with metronomic ease I trace you, further further further traversing a promontory, I see you, stood on a limestone plinth                      overlooking         shimmering pasture below. You turn; we face,         unwavering symmetry| as stained crystals fall red with affliction caressing the firmament I lace your name with my finger                                    indomitable, no more. ©Thomas Gabriel
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Dec 8, 2011
Dec 8, 2011 at 10:54 PM UTC
Father.
The land was veiled and silence exultant -                 p e r m e a t e d only by sporadic bird calls resonating from deep within the frozen forest where life had retreated, aghast by the glacial wind. Cowering together,                dwellings shivered                              ephemeral oak structures                              bowed beneath the freshly shorn lamb’s wool that enveloped all, hastening, the shearer continued. You left this night,                    without a whisper of regret across the interminable,      n     u      a     i     g      furrows u     d      l      t    n that ridicule your lifeless, even features - pitiless, your sodden soles penetrated the ****** snow. Impervious to such inclemency                        I traipse deep into the thicket, reminded of how earlier I collected from this q u i v e r i n g coppice,                 no more, no less than my meagre allowance dictates. Your stride is familiar, for it was once mine with metronomic ease I trace you, further further further traversing a promontory, I see you, stood on a limestone plinth                      overlooking         shimmering pasture below. You turn; we face,         unwavering symmetry| as stained crystals fall red with affliction caressing the firmament I lace your name with my finger                                    indomitable, no more. ©Thomas Gabriel
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If I ever have children I’ll teach them about god On Family road trips In a mini-van With a candy wrapper carpet And warm melted crayons In the seats grand canyons As the Arizona sun sets Over the Copper State Where you could almost swear It was the red dusted desert Painting the sky Rain-less-bows of color With broken butte brush stroke Across the restless desert As you twist around in your seat-belted Body of eight years old To the rearview window Of an AC blasted Softly singing stereo Escaping out gaping windows Leaving nothing behind But a heatwave Trying to settle down Tire teased dust For the evening stretch ahead That you think might never end As if god was using the road as a string He had tied tightly to the family car Carving the way though Salty cactuses drinking licks of sand left by Dirt devils dancing across the graves of Lizards Who pretended they didn't exist But couldn’t fool the hawks Who watched and waited For more than just a lost tail Or a forgotten story But something clay Concretely carved in to caves and caverns With rock and bone Something solid to hold on to But my children need to know That an existence is a slippery thing Like the color from the buttes As it slowly drips off the sky And back into the sand Leaving speckles of white Freckling the blackness Swirled with little Tizzles of light As homage to the desert moon Whose crying stars for Coyotes Howling in time To the crickets metronomic harmonies   Singing the desert back from its camouflage Life bursting breath though The earth cast shadows Breathing heart beats across the land That's just been Brought back to living And if I ever have children I'll teach them That this road will never end At least not where we expect it to Because god Isn’t who We make him to be He Doesn’t string us along a road But he holds the world on a string                                                           The End.
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Apr 25, 2012
Apr 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM UTC
Strung Up
If I ever have children I’ll teach them about god On Family road trips In a mini-van With a candy wrapper carpet And warm melted crayons In the seats grand canyons As the Arizona sun sets Over the Copper State Where you could almost swear It was the red dusted desert Painting the sky Rain-less-bows of color With broken butte brush stroke Across the restless desert As you twist around in your seat-belted Body of eight years old To the rearview window Of an AC blasted Softly singing stereo Escaping out gaping windows Leaving nothing behind But a heatwave Trying to settle down Tire teased dust For the evening stretch ahead That you think might never end As if god was using the road as a string He had tied tightly to the family car Carving the way though Salty cactuses drinking licks of sand left by Dirt devils dancing across the graves of Lizards Who pretended they didn't exist But couldn’t fool the hawks Who watched and waited For more than just a lost tail Or a forgotten story But something clay Concretely carved in to caves and caverns With rock and bone Something solid to hold on to But my children need to know That an existence is a slippery thing Like the color from the buttes As it slowly drips off the sky And back into the sand Leaving speckles of white Freckling the blackness Swirled with little Tizzles of light As homage to the desert moon Whose crying stars for Coyotes Howling in time To the crickets metronomic harmonies   Singing the desert back from its camouflage Life bursting breath though The earth cast shadows Breathing heart beats across the land That's just been Brought back to living And if I ever have children I'll teach them That this road will never end At least not where we expect it to Because god Isn’t who We make him to be He Doesn’t string us along a road But he holds the world on a string                                                           The End.
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for my best good friend, who I love dearly. thank you. wild hair reaching for their hearts, she bleeds onto the paper in runny rivulets like tears shed for the electric love fleeing to the corners of the earth off-target but shocked with excess she weeps among the broken glass and ignores the mirrors reflecting the afterthought that lies at the end of each laugh or haircurl heart thumping a metronomic beat to the hammers building the palaces gleaming with sweat and preserved with salty tears secret city under construction eyes wet with worried incantations pen scratching plasma onto the trees hair alight defying the buzzcut season in love with the sunbeams (and moon rafters) that float with the dreams clinging to whispers and everything glows in the haze while she closes her eyes smiles dancing on the guitar strings music on the heart pumping the blood on the paper and everything glows when she's there our eyes starstruck on the moon rafters
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
moon rafters
So follow down the twisted paths that lead us to the aftermath these fields used to be beautiful places their beauty's been tainted they touch like cold faces. He closed his eyes he closed his eyes he keep them closed tight and he said it was a sign of the times. We closed our eyes and we waited for the night but no one was ever looking when it came time for Jonny to go down. I've been thinking of leaving I've been tied to the ceiling been awake while I'm dreaming I've been counting to one I've been bottling daydreams I've been thinking up maybes they sold each other when they ran out. The metronomic ticking of my watch that follows me breathes tepid breath down my spine now I'm ready to leave these devices used to be thrones they've crumbled again I think I'm overgrown.   So follow down the twisted paths that lead us to the aftermath these fields used to be beautiful places their beauty's been tainted they touch like cold faces. He closed his eyes he closed his eyes he keep them closed tight and he said it was a sign of the times. We closed our eyes and we waited for the night but no one was ever looking when it came time for Jonny to go down. I think I'm overgrown These devices used to be thrones.
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Mar 28, 2013
Mar 28, 2013 at 3:34 PM UTC
Jonny goes down
High heels clicking down the avenue-, women check their reflection in shop windows ....Men comb their hair in the rear view mirror ....Traffic lights reflect off wet city streets ..Traffic cop directing cars with whistle chirps . Occasional car horn , big rigs releasing air brakes ...Orderly metronomic movement .. The quiet morning migration of human beings moving with a precision .. Suburbia emptied into the big city like clockwork , by subway and bus , truck , automobile ...Shop owners tidy up their piece of America this cool October morning , sweeping sidewalks , yawning , coffee in one hand , feather duster in the other , looking over swollen streets , engine exhaust , steam from manhole covers rising into a partly cloudy morning sky...Autumn in the big city , replays itself throughout Mother Columbia this a.m. !
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Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015 at 8:07 AM UTC
Big City Morning
I crept into my soul in the profoundest night: where spectral owls honked and hooted in fickle fright and tongues rasped out sihouettes- deepening shadows crawled from ***** mouths, and love slunk around tattered skirts in imitation of fungi growths: paper covered me from head to shin when I let the shadows thin fingers in! words assembled like building blocks men in high-heels/boys in frocks.                            In the morning, the sun scoured my skin. I leant on the devil, standing alone,                           he flipped me a coin like he'd just tossed me a biscuit and a blood-red bone,                as I whimpered into the mirror's torn shimmering shafts of innocence, where beauty assaulted the black-eyed crone for salutory afternoon tea, the pretty boy charging the ugly boy an extortionate fee. and the devil sang in the metronomic gloom of departed joys. I returned to my room, playing with the boys- coming intensely as the ice displayed the solitary if fashionable route to Hades. .
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Mar 8, 2018
Mar 8, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
PRETTY BOY
I would sing To you My love Could I sing I would dance With you Could I dance I would take You fly My love Could I fly But cannot So Please My love Accept this Metronomic Beating heart In lieu
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 6:01 AM UTC
Unwise
Green Coleman lanterns hung over the water , craving the humid night , nocturnal creatures bathed in the artificial lights .... The metronomic crash of breakers on the aluminum hulled vessel , baiting hooks and tying gear by flashlight or sheer memory .. Horned Owls , Killdeer and Whippoorwills filled the dark night with haunting songs , the crash of bass and topwater shellcrackers would chill the blood for a moment , cause you to breathe in deep  , exhale out loud .... The aroma of lake water , insect repellent and cigar smoke , chewing on a plug of Bloodhound , strained eyes concentrating on nothing but that bobber , waiting on that tasty fish to take it and run .... Working your piece of the lake till the early morning Sun ....
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Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 6:34 PM UTC
Jackson Lake Slabs
Your lips move as though they are going hundreds of miles per second- As though they’re on fire, the driver is dead and the only way to stop is to crash in a ball of flames I can’t tear my eyes away, I watch, morbid curiosity making me waver- My mind is swimming, hands shaking, my breathing stopped- Time has stopped. Your words are suspended in midair Their arcs aiming for my ears but they miss entirely Instead, they crash against my face, forehead, eyes, nose, until I am buried in debris, In your words and their meanings and I can’t dig my way out. tickticktick I'm sorry that I’m not quick to understand Pardon my pauses, my fidgeting, my wide eyes Pardon the way I twist at my bracelets when your words almost immediately blur as soon as they leave the confines of your cheeks I scratch at my face because the record needle of my brain can’t find a pre-recorded song to match your pace So it scratches across the wrinkled pink surfaces instead And nothing but a stutter and incoherent sentences are played and I’m left to fend for myself Against your nonstop talking at me because this stopped being a conversation a long time ago tick.tick.tick Call me surprised when you say that you understand That I must delicately balance my medications on the tip of my tongue with ideations that get out of hand In order to get out of bed the next morning because sometimes it's hard to rise from the grave when the dirt above me is each minuscule thought That has accumulated over the course of the nightmare that lives in the tension in my shoulders. tick. tick. tick. I am alive, but without sleep, I am a lie With whispers and rumors dancing with my worries across the ballroom that is my mind Worn shoes scraping up the floors, rude guests pushing my own thoughts off to become wallflowers And I dance with a single mutter in a black mask that asks how you’re doing. It asks if you really love me as it guides me through a waltz It asks if you’re lying as it lets go of my hand to lead me through a spin I don’t answer a single question as the song’s long, drawn-out metronomic beat continues to reverberate in my head because tick No matter how many times I ask tick No matter how many times I crash tick You’ll be there.
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Sep 11, 2019
Sep 11, 2019 at 2:49 PM UTC
tickticktick (2016)
Your lips move as though they are going hundreds of miles per second- As though they’re on fire, the driver is dead and the only way to stop is to crash in a ball of flames I can’t tear my eyes away, I watch, morbid curiosity making me waver- My mind is swimming, hands shaking, my breathing stopped- Time has stopped. Your words are suspended in midair Their arcs aiming for my ears but they miss entirely Instead, they crash against my face, forehead, eyes, nose, until I am buried in debris, In your words and their meanings and I can’t dig my way out. tickticktick I'm sorry that I’m not quick to understand Pardon my pauses, my fidgeting, my wide eyes Pardon the way I twist at my bracelets when your words almost immediately blur as soon as they leave the confines of your cheeks I scratch at my face because the record needle of my brain can’t find a pre-recorded song to match your pace So it scratches across the wrinkled pink surfaces instead And nothing but a stutter and incoherent sentences are played and I’m left to fend for myself Against your nonstop talking at me because this stopped being a conversation a long time ago tick.tick.tick Call me surprised when you say that you understand That I must delicately balance my medications on the tip of my tongue with ideations that get out of hand In order to get out of bed the next morning because sometimes it's hard to rise from the grave when the dirt above me is each minuscule thought That has accumulated over the course of the nightmare that lives in the tension in my shoulders. tick. tick. tick. I am alive, but without sleep, I am a lie With whispers and rumors dancing with my worries across the ballroom that is my mind Worn shoes scraping up the floors, rude guests pushing my own thoughts off to become wallflowers And I dance with a single mutter in a black mask that asks how you’re doing. It asks if you really love me as it guides me through a waltz It asks if you’re lying as it lets go of my hand to lead me through a spin I don’t answer a single question as the song’s long, drawn-out metronomic beat continues to reverberate in my head because tick No matter how many times I ask tick No matter how many times I crash tick You’ll be there.
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paint me this picture, sonorous color clutching the quiet **** pressed against cloying scenes, a loose hand bannering a bayonet. rivet me waters, and much of the Earth tightly groping inlands, thatched in the branch nowhere alone, is the song of God lullabying cities. again the whole sky with its keen eyes manifests a gleam worth knowing a cherub, and sooner than it is later, when the seasons postpone their flamboyances, chiaroscuros of smoke, deceit, uncared for and unheard shrieks bounce off careless corners and the song of God is but static with little wings clipped and tossed into vicissitude: song or no song bearing a fruition of attrition: resounding far-away: a comatose of cars, a scuffle of powerlines, a melee of battlement and tranquil continually fluster the child in metronomic dance.
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 3:34 AM UTC
Machine