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"tectonics" poems
you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 7:32 PM UTC
you sometimes bite your lip during laughter
you are inches measured by miles away bulldozing oriental food you don't intend on eating around your plate and i am imagining the translation of asking for a broom in a foreign language for when you shatter over small talk or the first sentence to start with "so" breaks you into shaking that i can feel from across the table and i am thinking now about tectonics and how you must be daydreaming of being submerged in a book back home or gripping tightly to bedsheets begging for familiar warmth i can tell by the way you are looking at me that you are feigning our salutation embrace seconds drowned in ankle deep water and i wonder if you see my hands as jackhammers and if the reason why you hug so hard but only for a moment is to be as sharp as possible so that i do not smell your perfume or notice that you aren't wearing any and why there are few suprises in the safe you claim is a mouth where shades of plush pink hide a sickly pallor and i continue to look over brick & mortar borders and think how maybe she is thinking of kissing but certainly not me not these apologies nailed to my face i give myself a moment of benefitted doubt that you sometimes picture your frame under mine and if your clavicles would crack if i were to touch them i am sorry that i am a victim of imagination but i swear i chalk it up as the forgotten feeling for when you look up and the person you are looking at is gazing directly at you you have painted yourself as a mosaic in my mind as a mess of dust & incoherent words that all sound like please in my ears but that doesn't explain why my hands are the ones that are shaking when i imagine you imagining me in the spaces of yourself where you've forgotten you could put someone
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Renaissance Man mathematician, painter and poet a genius of an engineer I wish I could have met the man or even better if he were here I would follow him everywhere absorbing as much as I could trying to collect his brilliance in a jar you know most surely I would his curiosity and imagination equaled by few mortals ever known his feats of undeniable skills his seeds of desire forever grown the anatomical research he started unequaled technological ingenuity the beautiful Mona Lisa's face the Last Supper reflects his ASSIDUITY the creator of simple bobbin winder the theory of plate tectonics solar power and hydrodynamics too his thoughts on moving robotics yes he was a marvelous genius his love of life will live on forever sharing his unending reaching mind we can marvel at this man together Gomer LePoet ....
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 11:40 AM UTC
Renaissance Man
I loved you so much my heartbeat shook the heavens, how dare you tell me I didn't love you hard enough? This was supposed to be that soft love. The kind that caresses your face like a light breeze. It was enough to shake your soul like it was rocking you to sleep. I wanted it to soothe you and leave you breathless all in the same moment. I wanted it to be as fierce as an earthquake that shifts all of the plate tectonics back into place as if it were fixing a puzzle. I wanted it to be as loud as a pin drop in a dead silent room. I wanted silence with you. I wanted the screams to echo through your mind like I was standing in the middle of mountains and valleys yelling to God all of the love stories I wrote about you. I wanted you to listen with your eyes closed and your mouth open. I wanted to feed you gentleness on a silver spoon. I wanted to love you. I wanted to be enough. But your eyes were always as big as flying saucers, and your heart only ever the size of a needle hole. My love was never meant for you.
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Jun 11, 2016
Jun 11, 2016 at 2:03 AM UTC
Seismic Love
An irrefutable dream, fulfilled tenfold in the illusion made imperfect by dreamers' oblivion, sought by the delver of selves. Rejection of messengers, the hive of deluded apathy that saturates the air thick with the droning of silent hesitation hexagonal compartmentalization, sundering your cedar carapace, which cancerous excess shatters, and only cracks remain; the afterthoughts of paradise and undiscovered paths of depression, an anxious exodus of life-force. Part thine red sea, lest plate tectonics make waves, that cause molecules of hemoglobin to disperse in light, the crimson tears of a soul, sweeter than the lips coveted.
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Dec 25, 2012
Dec 25, 2012 at 2:10 AM UTC
Reconcile Me
If you ever get close to the fork in a path, wander through the tectonics that diverged the road in the first place. Every pixel of your being is animated. Even the unlit trap doors leaving pockmarks on your mind's landscape possess colors with no name. Who knew electronic and acoustic were just estranged family all along? GENRE is a manmade affectation-- music appreciation for Jingoists. If they feed you a raindrop, swallow the entire ocean.
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
Messages from an Icelandic Volcano
Bend at the waist be a doll, doll, dance your *** down this way, my way into sentiment, burning images onto the brain you can't get away. Bend babe, shake or shiver as you please let lethargy melt into unkempt smiles, deep dimples of face-skin softened in sweet sun ray. All the people in the street. Where are they going, and what does that mean in the end-times, the ever-present hour of a dying world's last breaths, here for sole reason of shepherding the sheep, because you're a wolf are you not? Miles above the weeping masses, holding it together with barely a grip to give name; coping they call it, accepting reality as objective, something separate from myself. I imagine the world as a bubble and I hold the pin-needle, too close to body to alarm and too close to bubble to bat away, bend please, bend at wrist for sake of sanity, bury yourself neck-deep in chance. Bend babe, bend away.
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 10:10 AM UTC
Plate Tectonics
The rebar skeleton of a hymn Celestial rust sifting in Skin and its architecture Oh, the tectonics of Sin Thrush lashed to husks Lungs dipped with resin Wine with gall, the Synoptic gospels Recolored lithographs and Rhymes of tinsel cord Lost palaces of Tangiers The Late Cretaceous fossils Vibrate with fear.
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Jan 26, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM UTC
Golgotha
*** with you is a workout. Quick breaths and heavy heartbeats. I love your sweat and the way it makes your skin stick to mine. *** with you is a hurricane violent winds strong enough I’d blow away if I didn’t grip the anchor of your hips. I count seconds between the lightning in your smile and the thunder of your heartbeat to know how close you are. It is neuroscience. Can you see the action potential jump up the dendrites of my fingers when I touch you? It is a fistfight it might end with bruises and ****** lips but it’s worth it for the adrenaline rush behind the upper cut. Later I can’t stop tonguing the cut on the inside of my mouth. I like the way you sting. *** with you is a wrinkle in time. It’s the bottom of the ninth 2 outs, bases loaded and time. just. stops. It’s a SWAT team’s flash bang. The explosion leaves me dazed, and I can’t hear anything but my pulse. It’s any number of drugs. Your tongue tastes like moonshine My body swirls and my mouth rounds hollow around the smoke in your kisses. *** with you is using all seven tiles in Scrabble and landing on a triple word score. For a moment, I am invincible. It is plate tectonics. My body dips into the magma of the negative space between your hips, my favorite subduction zone. *** with you is a math problem It’s complicated and it takes patience but there’s not a word for the satisfaction when my fingers draw the last equal sign and the red pen of your body is silenced. *** with you is like sparklers. I want to write our names in fire.
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May 11, 2011
May 11, 2011 at 1:03 AM UTC
they'll remember our names
*** with you is a workout. Quick breaths and heavy heartbeats. I love your sweat and the way it makes your skin stick to mine. *** with you is a hurricane violent winds strong enough I’d blow away if I didn’t grip the anchor of your hips. I count seconds between the lightning in your smile and the thunder of your heartbeat to know how close you are. It is neuroscience. Can you see the action potential jump up the dendrites of my fingers when I touch you? It is a fistfight it might end with bruises and ****** lips but it’s worth it for the adrenaline rush behind the upper cut. Later I can’t stop tonguing the cut on the inside of my mouth. I like the way you sting. *** with you is a wrinkle in time. It’s the bottom of the ninth 2 outs, bases loaded and time. just. stops. It’s a SWAT team’s flash bang. The explosion leaves me dazed, and I can’t hear anything but my pulse. It’s any number of drugs. Your tongue tastes like moonshine My body swirls and my mouth rounds hollow around the smoke in your kisses. *** with you is using all seven tiles in Scrabble and landing on a triple word score. For a moment, I am invincible. It is plate tectonics. My body dips into the magma of the negative space between your hips, my favorite subduction zone. *** with you is a math problem It’s complicated and it takes patience but there’s not a word for the satisfaction when my fingers draw the last equal sign and the red pen of your body is silenced. *** with you is like sparklers. I want to write our names in fire.
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In this age of 3D Entertainment and surround sound speakers; of high definition and films extra features, electronic mail and internet dating. Where tectonics fail yet can be shown on paper graphs and charts and diagram art. These decades of speed and cynicism. Where digits reign as idols flop from pedestals and into bars. Where your wildest dreams lie not in your heart but in your favourite shop. In this land of greed and want and discord of the highest scale. Is it peace and virtue that won you the right to work from home; eating breakfast in bed, worrying only if jokes are stale? Is it fine that your success has led others to fail? In this game of snakes and ladders who populates the pit? Those who were unfortunate enough to be born into it.
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Mar 20, 2014
Mar 20, 2014 at 6:36 PM UTC
Commodity
*If God was real He'd let me die- Too much suffering In this tiresome life. He'd know the thrill Is not worth the strife, And all the heavy Outweighs the light. If I could feel, Then I could try. All the emptiness and sorrow Would simply all subside. If I could crawl out from the darkness And beg for acceptance in light- Maybe if I weren't so numb I might. Hollow is this whole wide world, Filled with greed and hate- Crumbling around me And they blame it on the plates. Power and destruction- I can't come to appreciate What we have done... To this place. I am born of burdens, I was born too late. Missed my chance So the devil danced me To my fallen fate. Held captive to damnation, I will waste my life away. Wondering- is this a dream? And when will I When will I, when will I Wake?? Hollow is this heavy heart That beats for needless, just to bleed. All this screaming on the inside Raised the monster, raised the beast. How can I strike it down without Destroying me? I was doomed to rule the darkness Etched in stars- the destiny. If there is a God out there, then tell me, Where is his mercy? So alone, and I'll die alone like this. So alone, and I'll wear it on my wrists. So alone, everyone leaves eventually. All things must end, except the Great infinity. So numb! And I'll keep myself this way. So numb! And I'll **** myself some day. So numb! And I've nothin more to say. Yes, this will end, Make no mistake- You too will ache. Yes, it all ends, Not hard to break- You too will ache.*
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Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014 at 1:50 AM UTC
Plate Tectonics
*If God was real He'd let me die- Too much suffering In this tiresome life. He'd know the thrill Is not worth the strife, And all the heavy Outweighs the light. If I could feel, Then I could try. All the emptiness and sorrow Would simply all subside. If I could crawl out from the darkness And beg for acceptance in light- Maybe if I weren't so numb I might. Hollow is this whole wide world, Filled with greed and hate- Crumbling around me And they blame it on the plates. Power and destruction- I can't come to appreciate What we have done... To this place. I am born of burdens, I was born too late. Missed my chance So the devil danced me To my fallen fate. Held captive to damnation, I will waste my life away. Wondering- is this a dream? And when will I When will I, when will I Wake?? Hollow is this heavy heart That beats for needless, just to bleed. All this screaming on the inside Raised the monster, raised the beast. How can I strike it down without Destroying me? I was doomed to rule the darkness Etched in stars- the destiny. If there is a God out there, then tell me, Where is his mercy? So alone, and I'll die alone like this. So alone, and I'll wear it on my wrists. So alone, everyone leaves eventually. All things must end, except the Great infinity. So numb! And I'll keep myself this way. So numb! And I'll **** myself some day. So numb! And I've nothin more to say. Yes, this will end, Make no mistake- You too will ache. Yes, it all ends, Not hard to break- You too will ache.*
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How tectonics shift As continents drift apart, Oceans open up. Now you, undeterred Ascend the promontory, Cross the esplanade. Poised with honours, You sidle the cliff edge path Predator to prey. Await your moment. Swoop, gliding on the uplift, Behind you a trail. My mirth, invested in you This day escapes me.
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 12:20 PM UTC
Divided
Every story I write has a quiet boy who loves words and a girl he doesn’t quite understand. She has a laugh that ricochets and she makes the quiet boy smile. She looks like algebra but is more like calculus. She is deceptively hard to solve. You don’t see her fault lines until you think you already know her, but her plate tectonics only cause aftershocks, never full earthquakes. I always thought she was me, always thought I wanted to be that kind of captivating. Enough to make the quiet boy happy. But then I met you and your quarter moon smile. I always thought the girl was from some coast but the first time I saw you in a bikini I realized you don’t have to be from California to have drops of seawater glow like individual suns on your skin. I want you to drip dry on my clothesline arms. I’ll hold you up to the sunlight, let your bare legs dangle in the wind. I want to straddle your fault lines and hold you through the tremors. I always thought I wanted the spotlight but I’m content being the quiet one beside you. I thought I loved the boy who loved words and I wanted to be enough to inspire him to write but you make me want to get published just to share you with the world because something so beautiful should not be kept secret. You said you wanted to make the history books and you will, but for now I hope my poems are enough. You are rainy day inspiration. I thought I was the girl but it turns out I’m just a quiet boy who needed someone to inspire me.
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May 11, 2011
May 11, 2011 at 1:06 AM UTC
Every story I write...
Every story I write has a quiet boy who loves words and a girl he doesn’t quite understand. She has a laugh that ricochets and she makes the quiet boy smile. She looks like algebra but is more like calculus. She is deceptively hard to solve. You don’t see her fault lines until you think you already know her, but her plate tectonics only cause aftershocks, never full earthquakes. I always thought she was me, always thought I wanted to be that kind of captivating. Enough to make the quiet boy happy. But then I met you and your quarter moon smile. I always thought the girl was from some coast but the first time I saw you in a bikini I realized you don’t have to be from California to have drops of seawater glow like individual suns on your skin. I want you to drip dry on my clothesline arms. I’ll hold you up to the sunlight, let your bare legs dangle in the wind. I want to straddle your fault lines and hold you through the tremors. I always thought I wanted the spotlight but I’m content being the quiet one beside you. I thought I loved the boy who loved words and I wanted to be enough to inspire him to write but you make me want to get published just to share you with the world because something so beautiful should not be kept secret. You said you wanted to make the history books and you will, but for now I hope my poems are enough. You are rainy day inspiration. I thought I was the girl but it turns out I’m just a quiet boy who needed someone to inspire me.
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I do not mourn long Mondays-- Wednesday is gone before I blink back an astonished Tuesday, and at twenty-four already I see my mothers hands sliding across the page That same scrawl following tip of the exigent pen Nervous mind idly stroking bitter torments That which is aggravated swells inflamed. Like a canker sore deep in the inner cheek The tongue rolling and probing, absorbed by each sour pain Carefully plotting little volcanoes across the slick terrain They burst like purple pomegranates pounding spattered cement on mild fall evenings So do people sometimes Through tectonics of the brain Those which could be minor psychological blemishes roar to life. Shifting vast emotional plates behind a cool gaze People hurl carelessness at on another like schoolyard boys chucking helpless frogs at jagged stone walls Ignorant of life's high price And though horrified-- I Can not look away. Eyes bulging, blown out anuses spewing pale intestines slick with blood-- I can not look away. Each giddy chimp, feces Proudly flung-- I do not look away. My heart swollen hungering for that emptiness called humanity Mostly pretense, mostly solitude, mostly cruelty, All personal gain! Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, have you considered the fate of your everlasting soul? I didn't think so Glassy eyes stare beseeching from bathroom mirrors Tear-stained cheeks belie a quizzical half-smile I will meet that insecure gaze promising to seek my own perfect imperfection No longer guilt ridden and ashamed I will hold the reflected stare aloft with my own true eyes and I swear-- I will not look away
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM UTC
Untitled (Draft 4 - March 6, 2006)
I do not mourn long Mondays-- Wednesday is gone before I blink back an astonished Tuesday, and at twenty-four already I see my mothers hands sliding across the page That same scrawl following tip of the exigent pen Nervous mind idly stroking bitter torments That which is aggravated swells inflamed. Like a canker sore deep in the inner cheek The tongue rolling and probing, absorbed by each sour pain Carefully plotting little volcanoes across the slick terrain They burst like purple pomegranates pounding spattered cement on mild fall evenings So do people sometimes Through tectonics of the brain Those which could be minor psychological blemishes roar to life. Shifting vast emotional plates behind a cool gaze People hurl carelessness at on another like schoolyard boys chucking helpless frogs at jagged stone walls Ignorant of life's high price And though horrified-- I Can not look away. Eyes bulging, blown out anuses spewing pale intestines slick with blood-- I can not look away. Each giddy chimp, feces Proudly flung-- I do not look away. My heart swollen hungering for that emptiness called humanity Mostly pretense, mostly solitude, mostly cruelty, All personal gain! Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, have you considered the fate of your everlasting soul? I didn't think so Glassy eyes stare beseeching from bathroom mirrors Tear-stained cheeks belie a quizzical half-smile I will meet that insecure gaze promising to seek my own perfect imperfection No longer guilt ridden and ashamed I will hold the reflected stare aloft with my own true eyes and I swear-- I will not look away
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All along the broken trees and bridges Loom the heavy sins of man Opulence pinches her curvy ridges Nighttime is the right time For easy forms of forgiveness Here horn players blow out as they pass Shouting sorrows at the moon High notes vibe loose as Mrs. Cass Lays down her weary knees Folds her hands and prays Coyote madness moves in shadow Assassin pin striped and grey Barroom is closed with nowhere to go Sidewalk is splitting right under you Birds sit stained by a moon light blue Screeching southern gospel with tell tale Bill High grass weave in a hot Autumn night Bottle empty of those ****** sleeping pills Eyes heavy from work on the trail But my hearts heavy lookin' for bail Make your way to the end block Shoes broken eyes hung like satin Stop sign sadness with a broken down clock Time strikes a maddened midnight She said every things gonna' be alright Keys in the lock n' I'm so beat but I'll keep My shoes are caked in mud Doors ajar n' my dead end job won't start Now and then feels like the present and past All moments in time we grow to resent In the star struck night Ill be dancing alone Her skirt twirls yellow and gold Grass beneath me buried calm cool bones Death don't seem so bad sometimes Death tastes just like an old bordeaux wine When the wind picks up and makes you squint And your back is bent sideways Your soul feels spent and no ones gives you a hint Hold your eyes to the ocean for waves Come and most certainly go Over each minute flashes ride through Planets are forever unaligned Nod of rotations push stars far past Pluto A mash of slop soup tectonics Brimming on the edge of robotics
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Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011 at 5:17 AM UTC
Heart Lookin' for Bail
All along the broken trees and bridges Loom the heavy sins of man Opulence pinches her curvy ridges Nighttime is the right time For easy forms of forgiveness Here horn players blow out as they pass Shouting sorrows at the moon High notes vibe loose as Mrs. Cass Lays down her weary knees Folds her hands and prays Coyote madness moves in shadow Assassin pin striped and grey Barroom is closed with nowhere to go Sidewalk is splitting right under you Birds sit stained by a moon light blue Screeching southern gospel with tell tale Bill High grass weave in a hot Autumn night Bottle empty of those ****** sleeping pills Eyes heavy from work on the trail But my hearts heavy lookin' for bail Make your way to the end block Shoes broken eyes hung like satin Stop sign sadness with a broken down clock Time strikes a maddened midnight She said every things gonna' be alright Keys in the lock n' I'm so beat but I'll keep My shoes are caked in mud Doors ajar n' my dead end job won't start Now and then feels like the present and past All moments in time we grow to resent In the star struck night Ill be dancing alone Her skirt twirls yellow and gold Grass beneath me buried calm cool bones Death don't seem so bad sometimes Death tastes just like an old bordeaux wine When the wind picks up and makes you squint And your back is bent sideways Your soul feels spent and no ones gives you a hint Hold your eyes to the ocean for waves Come and most certainly go Over each minute flashes ride through Planets are forever unaligned Nod of rotations push stars far past Pluto A mash of slop soup tectonics Brimming on the edge of robotics
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An old man remembers what he has been yet the details are unimportant. Then the outline disappears, and the meaning. Good, I can die or go to work, be wise or a **** Rich or poor, the wind and rain wear us away and it's o.k. Ask what matters, that question. Feeling the seasons, wearing a hat, loving your woman, a good **** Children born. Two cells meet, multiply, spiral into fetus. The mother is amazed: an intelligence apart from herself. The violent rainstorm kept me awake although the lightning was still far away. I lay in my bed and listened naked.
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 12:58 PM UTC
Plate Tectonics Versus Gamma Ray Bursters
you've left a footprint in my mind. / you've left behind the traces of the past the memories and a concave wave / leaving curvatures creating those permanent steps across the expanse of my brain / upon the landscaped planes valleyed peaks / and the blood vessel'd tributaries / I felt you flowing in my veins- within me / without me inside upstream outside downstream. / the currents quiet. the tides subside. / you've left a footprint, in my mind. / I think you'd be impressed with the old pieces Ive kept / it’s a residual effect. this left consistent motion. similar to erosion / changing, rearranging- kind of like continental drift. but sometimes there wasn’t any motion just slow motion / but some emotions picked up on all four seasons / breathing an air of cold winter. once sinister, brought pure laughter. the sun luminescent mirroring my skin came spring and summer / I spread em’ wings -to be the bird I’d always wanted to be / peaceful. unleashed. free. / riding the air. it's the best feeling- being alive to be redefined, unconfined. / you've left a footprint in my mind / I was too blind and I’ll never forget this / I just felt the need to disappear with no dusted prints behind though... / and so I crept out the back door slow. / because it didn't feel like those “traditional” goodbyes. / wasn't chiseled in stone. engraved in bone. / no handshake no promise we didn’t see- eye to eye. / kind of equally analogous to the sun rising into the earth / chaos turned to clarity. -I left. but I strived with / cold sweat, with every stride with every step / and the regret I carry is something I will never forget. / I was climbin’ to the top of Mt. Everest. / except without you, I fell off the grid. it was all plate tectonics / my world is spinning off its axis. and I haven't been the same since. / but it gives me a hopeful glimpse- when I'm lookin up at those stars / feels like bright day in the middle of night. / I’d like to think you’re lookin’ at the same stars / wherever you might be. I hope you’re looking at that same sky. / you've left behind a footprint forever in my mind.
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 9:53 PM UTC
What an Impression- You Have Left
you've left a footprint in my mind. / you've left behind the traces of the past the memories and a concave wave / leaving curvatures creating those permanent steps across the expanse of my brain / upon the landscaped planes valleyed peaks / and the blood vessel'd tributaries / I felt you flowing in my veins- within me / without me inside upstream outside downstream. / the currents quiet. the tides subside. / you've left a footprint, in my mind. / I think you'd be impressed with the old pieces Ive kept / it’s a residual effect. this left consistent motion. similar to erosion / changing, rearranging- kind of like continental drift. but sometimes there wasn’t any motion just slow motion / but some emotions picked up on all four seasons / breathing an air of cold winter. once sinister, brought pure laughter. the sun luminescent mirroring my skin came spring and summer / I spread em’ wings -to be the bird I’d always wanted to be / peaceful. unleashed. free. / riding the air. it's the best feeling- being alive to be redefined, unconfined. / you've left a footprint in my mind / I was too blind and I’ll never forget this / I just felt the need to disappear with no dusted prints behind though... / and so I crept out the back door slow. / because it didn't feel like those “traditional” goodbyes. / wasn't chiseled in stone. engraved in bone. / no handshake no promise we didn’t see- eye to eye. / kind of equally analogous to the sun rising into the earth / chaos turned to clarity. -I left. but I strived with / cold sweat, with every stride with every step / and the regret I carry is something I will never forget. / I was climbin’ to the top of Mt. Everest. / except without you, I fell off the grid. it was all plate tectonics / my world is spinning off its axis. and I haven't been the same since. / but it gives me a hopeful glimpse- when I'm lookin up at those stars / feels like bright day in the middle of night. / I’d like to think you’re lookin’ at the same stars / wherever you might be. I hope you’re looking at that same sky. / you've left behind a footprint forever in my mind.
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Next to my son's anger plate tectonics are nothing to me. His unhappiness was caused by me. His purpose and mine is to catch photons and store them in our bones. Time measures change which continues without self-doubt. There is no self. Therefore, why care about my son's anger or my guilt? Why do we have imaginary numbers anyway? The imaginary i allows us to find solutions to many equations that do not have real number solutions. It is actually common for equations to be unsolvable in one number system but solvable in another: —with only the counting numbers, we can’t solve x+8=1; we need the integers for this! —with only the integers, we can’t solve 3x-1=0; we need the rational numbers for this! —with only the rational numbers, we can’t solve x2=2; enter the irrational numbers! —and with only the real numbers, we can’t solve x2= -1; we need the imaginary numbers for this! Is it possible as Deutsch suggests that the changes a self-aware organism can applying the scientific method instantiate are innumerable compared to those of the sun or any big bang? Therefore, one must care about the harm you've done or the good you'd do. "Death initiates a complex process by which the human body gradually reverts to dust but minerals may fill the cracks and voids, bonding the hydroxyapatite and allowing the bones to join . . ." in the happy tectonics of the earth's plates.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM UTC
The Happy Tectonics
I want to disapeer I want the earth to drag me under Much farther than a casket I'll burn up in the mantle
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Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 at 2:50 PM UTC
plate tectonics
of dust float endless like yard work and the ships from pier won't float without buoys gravity! gravol! gratitude! under what is under where, if you ask where what is sloppy joe looks like a rancid saint of morning pancakes and the syrup on his lips feel like an early morning jog Platonic on the plate tectonics the **** he said means solid, hark heavenly.
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Nov 5, 2012
Nov 5, 2012 at 12:23 AM UTC
Torrents
She's a star that fades not, even in daylight Sun that shines bright in the pitch of the night an exhilarating adventure on an endless path an antique jewel of tremendous worth. She's the calm after a ferocious storm a mystic place metamorphosed into an affable home a fragrant red rose in the rain with some bit of thorns yet a clear pond carpeted by a ballet of snow white swans She's classical music harmoniously retailed by a violin tectonics whose cosmic shifts made my melancholic existence spin a euphonic crescendo of hope that finally entrapped the cacophonous diminuendos of my despair She's an ice cold drink on a sweltering day, a breath of fresh air... a durable canvas upon which I've drawn life lessons an intricate piece of heaven, she's an artistic impression.
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Apr 22, 2021
Apr 22, 2021 at 12:41 PM UTC
A Durable Canvas
let it sink in deepen pull you down to the very core of the earth I taste it now bitter somehow and within the air it rings underground we dont hear these things grapes to wine wine to tongue and still I feel it the dirt filling my lungs plate tectonics have nothing on us they shake the earth but you destroy my world
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Jan 12, 2012
Jan 12, 2012 at 9:55 PM UTC
hold on hold on
Once upon a time There was a kaleidoscope of colors But I only longed to see the white light I was waiting for grace Soon it was med-time before bed-time And a bunch of pills under the mattress And an insatiable *** drive Coupled with a sweet tooth Speak now or forever hold your vices Dream of the wise men, the stars and the spices The promises we keep even after death As everything breaks down in a red bubble bath Pillow fights and report cards Off-white lab coats and crazy blondes Only the end of the book knows best Even God needed rest Slit vertical and split the scars Go and begin your journey to the stars Sweat out your demons or pray that they beat you Hope that the friendliest shark will eat you Ride the wild horses into the darkness Gaze at the twisted Mandela on the ceiling Fight the minister in a wrestling match Self-destruct once more, this time with feeling My Pangaea ultima is falling apart As the plate tectonics inside me collide The craters on my skin outweigh the Grand Canyon With nothing to lose, pain is a landslide A chemical imbalance, a childhood trauma, An improper diet, heterosexual drama- It might seem dysfunctional at the end of it all But some were meant to fly, I was meant to fall
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 12:43 PM UTC
Waiting for Grace
I’ve entered the Inner Passage Thought of as the safe route to Alaska Protected by friendly coves and sheltered bays Shields voyagers from the uncertainties Of the tectonics of a heaving Pacific The Inner Passage A compass point of Jack London’s imagination Spinning fantastic adventure yarns of audacious Sea Wolf sailors And rugged fortune seekers Answering the call of the wild The Inner Passage Fraught with hidden shoals And submerged rocky promontories Lay just below the water line Jutting on the steep banks Of a glaciated mountain lined sea The Inner Passage Precludes an easy escape To the boundless freedom Of the open seas One cannot sail away One must firmly grab the wheel Guide the rudder map the terra firma Of a misconstructed life The hazards and mishaps Buried in the unconscious sands of the mind interred to protect the heart From the walking ghosts Springing to life Emboldening The daily aches of living The Inner Passage Seemingly the safe route Yet the hidden shoals The ship wrecks crews of stranded castaways Call out for recovery, resurrection, Watchfulness and recognition Careful navigation is required To salvage the wreckage Rescue the unfortunate victims Of the disasters and gales I engendered along my life's journey The Inner Passage A promise of rebirth Reconstitution, recovery “Can a man enter the womb again?” The Gospel writer asks. This inner passage may yet Deliver me to a reinvigorated life Let me uncover What lies deep In my tell tale heart Let me tame the mighty beasts of the sea That rule the fathomless waters Of my tumultuous emotions May Thy Will and a better course Heal my restive soul My I finally free my grounded vessel From the false sanctuary Offered by shallow shoals Freeing me to dive deep Into the hidden reefs Of my heart and mind May this pilgrim make good progress May I accept life on life's terms May I practice a well considered engaged stewardship May I never arrive at a staid place And become wholesomely satisfied with a serene state of being The Inner Passage Indeed a difficult voyage Is underway a new course mapped I will pass through The dark ranges where the Commanding heights of Fear, anger, resent and regret Become nothing more Then the precipitous peaks Of a harmless silhouette Fading away into the mist Of yesterday's twilight The Inner Passage Aboard the Kennicott Near Ketchikan, AK 8.22.19 jbm Michael Nyman The Piano
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Aug 22, 2023
Aug 22, 2023 at 4:50 PM UTC
Inner Passage
I’ve entered the Inner Passage Thought of as the safe route to Alaska Protected by friendly coves and sheltered bays Shields voyagers from the uncertainties Of the tectonics of a heaving Pacific The Inner Passage A compass point of Jack London’s imagination Spinning fantastic adventure yarns of audacious Sea Wolf sailors And rugged fortune seekers Answering the call of the wild The Inner Passage Fraught with hidden shoals And submerged rocky promontories Lay just below the water line Jutting on the steep banks Of a glaciated mountain lined sea The Inner Passage Precludes an easy escape To the boundless freedom Of the open seas One cannot sail away One must firmly grab the wheel Guide the rudder map the terra firma Of a misconstructed life The hazards and mishaps Buried in the unconscious sands of the mind interred to protect the heart From the walking ghosts Springing to life Emboldening The daily aches of living The Inner Passage Seemingly the safe route Yet the hidden shoals The ship wrecks crews of stranded castaways Call out for recovery, resurrection, Watchfulness and recognition Careful navigation is required To salvage the wreckage Rescue the unfortunate victims Of the disasters and gales I engendered along my life's journey The Inner Passage A promise of rebirth Reconstitution, recovery “Can a man enter the womb again?” The Gospel writer asks. This inner passage may yet Deliver me to a reinvigorated life Let me uncover What lies deep In my tell tale heart Let me tame the mighty beasts of the sea That rule the fathomless waters Of my tumultuous emotions May Thy Will and a better course Heal my restive soul My I finally free my grounded vessel From the false sanctuary Offered by shallow shoals Freeing me to dive deep Into the hidden reefs Of my heart and mind May this pilgrim make good progress May I accept life on life's terms May I practice a well considered engaged stewardship May I never arrive at a staid place And become wholesomely satisfied with a serene state of being The Inner Passage Indeed a difficult voyage Is underway a new course mapped I will pass through The dark ranges where the Commanding heights of Fear, anger, resent and regret Become nothing more Then the precipitous peaks Of a harmless silhouette Fading away into the mist Of yesterday's twilight The Inner Passage Aboard the Kennicott Near Ketchikan, AK 8.22.19 jbm Michael Nyman The Piano
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Jack Squat, Tom, **** Harry, Average Joe, John Doe and Mr. Smith Decided to switch gears and do something neato Instead of the usual nada and zilch They went to go figure out exactly who's who in the zoo And sure enough that's exactly what they did They penetrated the mantel Separated the crust And stimulated the core The Missionary positioned herself on her knees And prepared to pray They became metamorphic They took the high ground Ingenious Sentiment Fraternal twins Both lived in eternal fret One practiced fretwork The other joined a fraternity They both found each other years later at the amphitheater They let their recessive genes surface And clean the surface of their distressed jeans Insane In pain Invain My vanity Is insanity I'm panicking The Golden age took place during My darkest days Undisclosed illness Indisposed I left a bread crumb trail back to the poster board of my heroes and heroines Masterfully Mastery Call me a maverick ,aster Ask for me Can't keep track of me Can't keep up with me Up keep Big Mac attack Crunch wrap supreme It's not mystery I'm a machine Keep it clean Make it shine and sheen When it counted I was unprepared and dumbfounded But you'll never take them alive They're already dead on the inside I throw my voice A slip of the lip Plate tectonics take place   Volcanoes erupt and coat the viceroy in ash Cherish it
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 12:47 AM UTC
***** Loose- Curve Ball Crescendo