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"travelogue" poems
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Your's truly, Travelogue.
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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#(a travelogue) He stared down through the unbroken silence lapping the shoreline Water skippers dart around the rocks and windfall driftwood settled juxtaposed in cattail reeds and emerging broadleaf sprouts A petrified heartwood timber lie fallow waiting bare barked, hushed like a pining lover’s      timeworn love seat,      rubbed smooth as      the crystalline waters      of  half-moon lake Lingering for a while  ―   like a hidden stalker, a perched wildcat waiting for the full moon’s   swooning spell to saturate the thickening dusk quietude;      arousing the urgent      call of the wild — exhaled from the held breath of the wilderness nocturne     on half-moon lake The stillness was scattered with the soft downy hairs of the sleeping cattails,  and the newly shed catkins a spring gust bestrewed from a tall resin birch tree nigh the Sitka willows      He  sat  quietly ...      time out of mind ― tossing his eyes up into the sky; taking the time to read the stars ― catching  them  each  again as they fell into his gentle hands, to show him who he was Seeing their sparkly tracers   trail-out above the cattails,      from a distance they resembled falling stars unable to perceive their own renaissance ― plashing lightly upon the still-water      on half-moon lake A lone shadow glides stealthily near mid-tarn,.. swimming   enchantingly with the grace      of a blackswan Appearing to glance shoreward at the glowing low stars rise and fall, as his eyes twinkled skyward over      the moonlit lagoon ― heavenward of its moonlit ballet; the lone sleek dark shadow      slipping through      a faint circular ripple stirring the smooth as glass waters ―   disappearing like a fleeting moment      waning deep aneath      a subtle silent wake. When all the clear lines blurred, he knew it had been so long ...      but hearken ! … an interceding      long drawn out wail        echoed  a feral ache      across the stillness,      breaking the silence ― as the shadow reappeared;      his tears surrendered to the undulating call of the wild; he felt the spirit of the sole Loon,      as black and white      as the moonlit night, stir deeply in his wanting heart ―      lay bare the silence in lengthy yodeled psalms to the god of the moon Diving down deep yet again, keeping the light he’d been given, vanishing into the lifespring sanctuary of half-moon lake harlon rivers ... May 2018 travelogue: 4 of some more
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 2:36 PM UTC
On half-moon lake ☽
#(a travelogue) He stared down through the unbroken silence lapping the shoreline Water skippers dart around the rocks and windfall driftwood settled juxtaposed in cattail reeds and emerging broadleaf sprouts A petrified heartwood timber lie fallow waiting bare barked, hushed like a pining lover’s      timeworn love seat,      rubbed smooth as      the crystalline waters      of  half-moon lake Lingering for a while  ―   like a hidden stalker, a perched wildcat waiting for the full moon’s   swooning spell to saturate the thickening dusk quietude;      arousing the urgent      call of the wild — exhaled from the held breath of the wilderness nocturne     on half-moon lake The stillness was scattered with the soft downy hairs of the sleeping cattails,  and the newly shed catkins a spring gust bestrewed from a tall resin birch tree nigh the Sitka willows      He  sat  quietly ...      time out of mind ― tossing his eyes up into the sky; taking the time to read the stars ― catching  them  each  again as they fell into his gentle hands, to show him who he was Seeing their sparkly tracers   trail-out above the cattails,      from a distance they resembled falling stars unable to perceive their own renaissance ― plashing lightly upon the still-water      on half-moon lake A lone shadow glides stealthily near mid-tarn,.. swimming   enchantingly with the grace      of a blackswan Appearing to glance shoreward at the glowing low stars rise and fall, as his eyes twinkled skyward over      the moonlit lagoon ― heavenward of its moonlit ballet; the lone sleek dark shadow      slipping through      a faint circular ripple stirring the smooth as glass waters ―   disappearing like a fleeting moment      waning deep aneath      a subtle silent wake. When all the clear lines blurred, he knew it had been so long ...      but hearken ! … an interceding      long drawn out wail        echoed  a feral ache      across the stillness,      breaking the silence ― as the shadow reappeared;      his tears surrendered to the undulating call of the wild; he felt the spirit of the sole Loon,      as black and white      as the moonlit night, stir deeply in his wanting heart ―      lay bare the silence in lengthy yodeled psalms to the god of the moon Diving down deep yet again, keeping the light he’d been given, vanishing into the lifespring sanctuary of half-moon lake harlon rivers ... May 2018 travelogue: 4 of some more
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You are glancing out of the window Taking a look at nature's creation Wisps of your hair gently stroking your face Feeling a cold wave against you Walking slowly amidst the misty clouds The endless curves of the mighty mountain Spinning your head around Deep down there lies deathly valleys Defining life beyond explanation All you can see is plush green colour Ranging from warm to tender While I travel,I try not to grasp at people By their devotion towards work An independent river flows curvily to reach its destination Given much ore of its freedom Captivating nature in just one go isn't enough You have to soak in as much as possible Sure one becomes perplexed at the first sight of the beautiful sunrise And I bet the day couldn't get that better otherwise The air had its own charm,its own charisma While the chants and prayers of monks completed the atmosphere I smile as I currently jot this poem down Words fail to express my happiness crown I say to myself-" This isn't imagination,This is reality" Confused, are you reader? My heart beats and  quenches for the aroma of green tea leaves Hmm,I'll miss this heaven on earth, This place,these people,their lives,their struggles Their homeland. Their Birthplace. So this is my travelogue And currently you were into my experience My "Darjeeling Experience" And not a dream,or a part of paper Cause its far more than your mere imagination.
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 5:36 AM UTC
Imagine
mittens on the forepaws of a dead wolf. one must be serious about art but also flirty. I will raise you as my own. I will make two parts of your mother’s passing. she will live in childbirth.
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Mar 27, 2013
Mar 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM UTC
infant travelogue
The Doctor has a Sense of Humor! <|> give a surgeon a scalpel and an excuse, and the artist emerges, for creativity is a good surgeon’s natural habitat Sure, sure, there’s a plan, with best and acceptable outcomes, but when messing with a real heart, a sly ***** with numerous deceptive guises at its disposal, you never for sure never know, despite all the advanced imaging techniques, exactly what you will find once you go spelunking in caves of life and death so, he takes a bit from here, and a bob or two from there, there a cut, here an incision deep, Old McDonald provided a body, or a canvas, and the Doc is happy. So I uncover holes where he probed, redeploying the healthy, like a good designer, Doc rearranges and repairs, a travelogue of splicing and dicing, his handiwork Now standing over you for many hours, can get tiring, though each ***** be different, unique even, but leaving a little marker, a stylized signature, is well, is the rightful discretion of the artiste! So you can imagine my surprise when the tubes removed (ouch!) the bandages ripped off in a signature move of a delighted nurse whose loves seeing grown men cry from lesser trivialities, you cannot imagine my surprise when I discovered my new tattoo, upon my chest front and center! *Herein please find your heart repaired, and revitalized: Please Note! We guarantee our work for minimum 15 years (Aug. 3, 2038), but our disclaimer we assume NO  responsibility after that if you should happen to live for 30 YEARS or more* Dr. P.
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Sep 21, 2023
Sep 21, 2023 at 7:58 AM UTC
My Doctor has a Sense of Humor!
The Doctor has a Sense of Humor! <|> give a surgeon a scalpel and an excuse, and the artist emerges, for creativity is a good surgeon’s natural habitat Sure, sure, there’s a plan, with best and acceptable outcomes, but when messing with a real heart, a sly ***** with numerous deceptive guises at its disposal, you never for sure never know, despite all the advanced imaging techniques, exactly what you will find once you go spelunking in caves of life and death so, he takes a bit from here, and a bob or two from there, there a cut, here an incision deep, Old McDonald provided a body, or a canvas, and the Doc is happy. So I uncover holes where he probed, redeploying the healthy, like a good designer, Doc rearranges and repairs, a travelogue of splicing and dicing, his handiwork Now standing over you for many hours, can get tiring, though each ***** be different, unique even, but leaving a little marker, a stylized signature, is well, is the rightful discretion of the artiste! So you can imagine my surprise when the tubes removed (ouch!) the bandages ripped off in a signature move of a delighted nurse whose loves seeing grown men cry from lesser trivialities, you cannot imagine my surprise when I discovered my new tattoo, upon my chest front and center! *Herein please find your heart repaired, and revitalized: Please Note! We guarantee our work for minimum 15 years (Aug. 3, 2038), but our disclaimer we assume NO  responsibility after that if you should happen to live for 30 YEARS or more* Dr. P.
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~ not a fan of reality TV, plenty of "unreal" episodes of my own direction stored, available for further review in the storage units of neuronic black and white prison brain cells which is why I have free~will chosen to enumerate my poem~videos; for easy retreat retrieval resurrection of the travelogue of mind own insurrections *a garage of mobility devices, car, rollerblades, cross country skis plus, a potpourri of escape methodologies that by definition are all round trippers, returned to their storage unit after use and I count them Noah~like, two by two, as they come on board, and when they disembark for days of rest and recreation* this one, #4, is born among headstones, just anther memory storage unit specialized, flag decorated, but different This is a one-way, no return, unit but it can be viewed at anytime by those who care to be users, by speaking this: *Read to me poem number four, on a day we celebrate, about free men of every color and persuasion, who are calling out to open the door to storage unit four, so we to can perform our once-a-year Tour of Duty to the those who called, and answered with limb and love, for by their glory, we are free too* to remember in any way we choose ~
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May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015 at 5:18 PM UTC
Fourth Poem: Storage Wars, Why One Numbers Poems on Memorial Day
tattoo ourselves in electric ink memorializing calendars, diaries of observantional digits, black on white, no gray, birthdays, anniversaries, dates of passing, starting lines, occasional achievements, departure dates, even glaring failures, sundial mundane records of diurnal habitude…even defining self by, bye, byte marks upon flesh, upon our calendar *not my first trip-tracking, he ruefully rues, wry smiling, many voyages of indeterminate measuring length, leaving litter of arrays of hopeful estimations & destinations, each unequal, any or all possibilities, each day notated, without critique or commentary, the numbers are the gaols (jails) of goals, target, indeterminate determination, terrific, horrific, introspections, inverse images resolve, resolute* a year ago, +/- a few days,, new travelogue commenced, notated but not annotated, just  numerical truths, (sans comments for the divine nature of numbers don’t lie) and today my calculator app informs, that I am now 19.4 % lesser, but that clarifies less than expected naturally this provokes a natty, spirited, self-inquiry, lessened, lessor, for better or for worse? have the physical alterations accompanying this reduction mean exactly what, if, it should be, a greater lesser? here is the hard part. your have always been a mirror~poet, laughing, bemoaning the unvarnished, unshaven AM sightings of a human perpetual dissatisfied, the external never denying the interior “less~than,” a J Peterman catalogue of weathered ****** expressions, counter-parted by multiple Venn diagram intersections, of experiential labeled bits & pieces of emotional empirical less than good, not even close to perfect, so now that I am *gaunt, spare, lean, grayed, narrower, again ruefully rue, the even more visible truth reflection eye~hidden:* I, am the sum of the weight of my history, my deeds, my disbeliefs, murderous deeds, weak choices and that hasn’t changed nary an ounce, no matter many times examined, indeed I am forever a lesser man, there, internal infernal too…
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Apr 9, 2023
Apr 9, 2023 at 2:12 PM UTC
19.4% lesser
tattoo ourselves in electric ink memorializing calendars, diaries of observantional digits, black on white, no gray, birthdays, anniversaries, dates of passing, starting lines, occasional achievements, departure dates, even glaring failures, sundial mundane records of diurnal habitude…even defining self by, bye, byte marks upon flesh, upon our calendar *not my first trip-tracking, he ruefully rues, wry smiling, many voyages of indeterminate measuring length, leaving litter of arrays of hopeful estimations & destinations, each unequal, any or all possibilities, each day notated, without critique or commentary, the numbers are the gaols (jails) of goals, target, indeterminate determination, terrific, horrific, introspections, inverse images resolve, resolute* a year ago, +/- a few days,, new travelogue commenced, notated but not annotated, just  numerical truths, (sans comments for the divine nature of numbers don’t lie) and today my calculator app informs, that I am now 19.4 % lesser, but that clarifies less than expected naturally this provokes a natty, spirited, self-inquiry, lessened, lessor, for better or for worse? have the physical alterations accompanying this reduction mean exactly what, if, it should be, a greater lesser? here is the hard part. your have always been a mirror~poet, laughing, bemoaning the unvarnished, unshaven AM sightings of a human perpetual dissatisfied, the external never denying the interior “less~than,” a J Peterman catalogue of weathered ****** expressions, counter-parted by multiple Venn diagram intersections, of experiential labeled bits & pieces of emotional empirical less than good, not even close to perfect, so now that I am *gaunt, spare, lean, grayed, narrower, again ruefully rue, the even more visible truth reflection eye~hidden:* I, am the sum of the weight of my history, my deeds, my disbeliefs, murderous deeds, weak choices and that hasn’t changed nary an ounce, no matter many times examined, indeed I am forever a lesser man, there, internal infernal too…
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Three thousand miles navigating a storm without drop of bad weather Abacus odometer clicks rotating forward ―   spinning with the world go round Circling back down a long and winding road;   where unforgotten memories were once searchingly explored,   untrodden pathways coursing way up north of alone on the low highway    Now an aging shepherd wonders without a compass ; a vagabond deprived of light from an ever blurring north star Heart empty as a gas tank with a broke down gauge, running on fumes of hope for unpromised tomorrows Running from loneliness just to be on the run The gales of silence bellow No feelings I can see ― lay me low Wild-eyed daydreams of Full sails billow out through the windshield, only hearing the unspoken moments sigh restlessly ―     The dull droning road rumble re-sighs renunciatively, a tired monotone voice mimicking the loathe silent echo wallowing in an omnipresent hollow void deriding unspoken chaos between the passing centerlines ― A frost heave pothole erupts, with a leaf-spring rattling thud, as a fleeting cloud of dust arises, set adrift with the draught headed off the east side of the Alcan highway: blown way outside the lines,   towards the Alberta prairie White knuckled steering wheel held sway,  rolling down a beckoning wilderness           reincarnation;  default reset button paused ―  stuck in a moment ― until another jaw rattling frost-heave pothole in the highway,             jars it free Leaving it all behind like a sigh breathed in a silence a heart has outgrown; just a fleeting cloud of dissipating dust,..          a paling whisper the past seems to send forth   like a fading last breath Letting it all unfold to become what it is      harlon rivers ... May 2018        ... travelogue 2 of some
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 11:34 AM UTC
Finding lost rivers ― ( a travelogue )
Three thousand miles navigating a storm without drop of bad weather Abacus odometer clicks rotating forward ―   spinning with the world go round Circling back down a long and winding road;   where unforgotten memories were once searchingly explored,   untrodden pathways coursing way up north of alone on the low highway    Now an aging shepherd wonders without a compass ; a vagabond deprived of light from an ever blurring north star Heart empty as a gas tank with a broke down gauge, running on fumes of hope for unpromised tomorrows Running from loneliness just to be on the run The gales of silence bellow No feelings I can see ― lay me low Wild-eyed daydreams of Full sails billow out through the windshield, only hearing the unspoken moments sigh restlessly ―     The dull droning road rumble re-sighs renunciatively, a tired monotone voice mimicking the loathe silent echo wallowing in an omnipresent hollow void deriding unspoken chaos between the passing centerlines ― A frost heave pothole erupts, with a leaf-spring rattling thud, as a fleeting cloud of dust arises, set adrift with the draught headed off the east side of the Alcan highway: blown way outside the lines,   towards the Alberta prairie White knuckled steering wheel held sway,  rolling down a beckoning wilderness           reincarnation;  default reset button paused ―  stuck in a moment ― until another jaw rattling frost-heave pothole in the highway,             jars it free Leaving it all behind like a sigh breathed in a silence a heart has outgrown; just a fleeting cloud of dissipating dust,..          a paling whisper the past seems to send forth   like a fading last breath Letting it all unfold to become what it is      harlon rivers ... May 2018        ... travelogue 2 of some
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Rustle in the leaves, tussle with the vines, afoot in the tree of life, the gutsy snake coiling, Raddled and rattled with mans sin, Divulgence to the loner who cherished the fruit, in the dusky orange red skies which brought in the adhen and from the tolling bells in the distant church , While the snake lolloped in the stark blue skies, Manipulating this oppo for the abyss. The wandering seam of the night,moon, With flickering light forbade the seance on the seemlessly never ending night, Pity the snake for another morn would rise For it will have to go to the *** ,no the pit. The ***** and cuckoo within cooee , chanted and coerced another morn out ! Following the sun like the grail, the people lounged in to the waters of the ganges. While broods of hurted children huddled in hate, hurling stones at the traitor. Hauling the renegade into the throngs, Hunnish hands assaulted him until he swooned in to the motherlands lap, Hue and cry of the avengers brought in the tripper, Heavy loads hugged on to his shoulders, In poise words he spoke, ''for every creation has its flaws, And when we batter on the withered soul, It leaves the barren man dry again, To ward off evil is like blowing into the forges of Vulcan, And only when tests and temptations are burnt in the bonfires of joy, will man be moulded into a joyous being'' Hissing whisphers from the crowd spoke, Heresy of the tripper is the hold, Hasten yourself and bring our brother medication, Hunt down the snake will we, For this vagabond has spoken in verses, Only to be filed in the trippers travelogue. Hushed up as the snake in the pit.
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May 20, 2012
May 20, 2012 at 1:19 AM UTC
the trippers travelogue
Rustle in the leaves, tussle with the vines, afoot in the tree of life, the gutsy snake coiling, Raddled and rattled with mans sin, Divulgence to the loner who cherished the fruit, in the dusky orange red skies which brought in the adhen and from the tolling bells in the distant church , While the snake lolloped in the stark blue skies, Manipulating this oppo for the abyss. The wandering seam of the night,moon, With flickering light forbade the seance on the seemlessly never ending night, Pity the snake for another morn would rise For it will have to go to the *** ,no the pit. The ***** and cuckoo within cooee , chanted and coerced another morn out ! Following the sun like the grail, the people lounged in to the waters of the ganges. While broods of hurted children huddled in hate, hurling stones at the traitor. Hauling the renegade into the throngs, Hunnish hands assaulted him until he swooned in to the motherlands lap, Hue and cry of the avengers brought in the tripper, Heavy loads hugged on to his shoulders, In poise words he spoke, ''for every creation has its flaws, And when we batter on the withered soul, It leaves the barren man dry again, To ward off evil is like blowing into the forges of Vulcan, And only when tests and temptations are burnt in the bonfires of joy, will man be moulded into a joyous being'' Hissing whisphers from the crowd spoke, Heresy of the tripper is the hold, Hasten yourself and bring our brother medication, Hunt down the snake will we, For this vagabond has spoken in verses, Only to be filed in the trippers travelogue. Hushed up as the snake in the pit.
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A breathe of words ―  a gust of thought scattered; welling silence ruptures bulging vault chambers with the patience of tongue-tied hearts In a long deep breath pith of soul manifests; rich with the breathing spirit of life that's passed A timeworn lid spinning on a blue glass jar Indigenous roots and memories tender,   perpetuity gleaned and garnered on fruit cellar shelves Segues of ancient culture ― evolution derives from many roots trying to catch time in a bottle; a travelogue of saved beginnings; magic beans in a mason jar     Life’s native seeds gathered ― organic building blocks the immemorial soul of the earth sown and reaped; sprouting unstilted continuum for which ever fleeting time cannot hold Jesse e Stillwater 09  May  2018
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May 12, 2018
May 12, 2018 at 12:54 PM UTC
Saving native seeds
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM UTC
Cwm Tawe - lovely ugly
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated**   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. **Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower** Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    *Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired....* **Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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. There’s an ancient duct tape patched roller suitcase still up in the attic, scarred by sky miles and undiscerning indifference;  it came to rest like a final breath exhaled at the end of the long road ― In the dusty rafters of silent repose   the death of an alter-ego comes to life and jars and jogs the  sleeping dogs  that lay benign as a pothole riddled road Holding onto memories buried alive, hidden away remembered ―        sans wings to fly away laid bare unweighed with the weight of everything else garnered and saved       subsisting in a shallow grave; hoarded and hidden away breathing locked up with the other baggage borne        behind tired eyes Feeling the ache of blood stained knees falling down sullied at the side of the road Hindsight and a roll of duct taped memories linger;   stuck to the  grey bandage scars, second guessing should have thrown out with the permanently temporary fading plasticized luggage name-tags back when I was still close enough to care; too many miles to reconsider  ago Some say: "it's the journey not the destination"                                    . Some day when its too late we'll know Some day it will be too late to make amends         for everything i could not be ...            harlon rivers ... 07  06  2018
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Jun 9, 2018
Jun 9, 2018 at 11:52 AM UTC
Travelogue ― duct tape patched suitcase
Rest stops and road weary vagabonds Peanut butter, water and stale bread; Cookie crumbs and lip smirched paper cups Somewhere's last weeks coffee stained newspaper Blown out tires and the side of the road   Deep, thick, unmistakable, bear paw-prints lie fallow ― undead in the mud             Feeling the raw silence of what you’re thinkin' ooze out of a festering puncture wound within Churning soliloquies  gnawing  away at the unspooled  threads  fray,   understanding there’s  no  fear in  less  than nothing  to  lose                                    Sometimes change happens so fast you don’t even notice We can wait a lifetime and never be sure; never taking that first step that leads to a journey of a thousand miles ― just a step away It’s not some kind of bewitching      loneliness  spell  cast never seeing another sole in measureless hours and days Passing moments languish imponderably, there are no feelings I can see,         by  looking  away ― always as blind as we want to be Wanting what was taken more than what is given; still doing the things we learned we shouldn't do again The longest miles are the trodden ones with only traces of learning how to be     alive ― off the grid; alone again It’s a journey where there's no map to guide you Just  a deepening furrowed lifeline standstill Stalled at a crossroads in the palm of your hand; uncertainty deriding  where you’re headed ― both a reason and an excuse when we're not sure we're not alone on such a long one way road we've been out here traveling  on   Forbearing the truth that holds my soul, the only way through the ache is through the wound                                      ... and I’ll get down this long road somehow     harlon rivers ... May 2018      ... travelogue 3 of some
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May 19, 2018
May 19, 2018 at 11:43 AM UTC
Deep paw prints on the side of the road: (travelogue)
Rest stops and road weary vagabonds Peanut butter, water and stale bread; Cookie crumbs and lip smirched paper cups Somewhere's last weeks coffee stained newspaper Blown out tires and the side of the road   Deep, thick, unmistakable, bear paw-prints lie fallow ― undead in the mud             Feeling the raw silence of what you’re thinkin' ooze out of a festering puncture wound within Churning soliloquies  gnawing  away at the unspooled  threads  fray,   understanding there’s  no  fear in  less  than nothing  to  lose                                    Sometimes change happens so fast you don’t even notice We can wait a lifetime and never be sure; never taking that first step that leads to a journey of a thousand miles ― just a step away It’s not some kind of bewitching      loneliness  spell  cast never seeing another sole in measureless hours and days Passing moments languish imponderably, there are no feelings I can see,         by  looking  away ― always as blind as we want to be Wanting what was taken more than what is given; still doing the things we learned we shouldn't do again The longest miles are the trodden ones with only traces of learning how to be     alive ― off the grid; alone again It’s a journey where there's no map to guide you Just  a deepening furrowed lifeline standstill Stalled at a crossroads in the palm of your hand; uncertainty deriding  where you’re headed ― both a reason and an excuse when we're not sure we're not alone on such a long one way road we've been out here traveling  on   Forbearing the truth that holds my soul, the only way through the ache is through the wound                                      ... and I’ll get down this long road somehow     harlon rivers ... May 2018      ... travelogue 3 of some
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*The unexpected snow, disruptive, in ways more burdensome, than mere fender benders and swapping travelogue commutation miseries ah, the tv reporters regale with snow tales, human fails, but where do you hear of the children burnt once by fire then again, now, again! burnt by snow. here, hear, listen here technology moves forward, grafting new shells of skin on burnt children, but tonite you're cozy thinking of your valentine's heart, not of the little ones, whose hearts are unprotected, by what we take so for granted beneath our protective gloves and coats, scarfs and boots, our prophylactic human skin, theirs, fire ravaged, now re-hazardous, by southern snows burning these children hurt, unexpectedly, cannot play in the snow that came so unexpectedly, lest it burn them worse* "in the children's burn unit, postponed all surgeries except 'emergency'.  Two days of outpatient clinic patients forced to reschedule,. That then, postpones their surgeries, second step grafting, etc. Our vents ran smoothly I heard via the generators, unlike last outage. We had to ambulance each individual patient. I dread going in tomorrow but small comfort, it will be warmer than my cold home." Life first, poetry second
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Feb 15, 2014
Feb 15, 2014 at 3:31 PM UTC
Snow Burn
Thu. Aug 11 2022 7:16 AM ~ for Julia and Joanne~ good neighbors <> a renewable habit apparently, again, a first poem of the day (FPOTD), comes early, this old practice, me-bedded and mugged, with music ear installed drowning the noises of television blah, iPad rests on left leg, left hand pointer finger ejects capsules of letters, charmed into existence by the Barber adagio. the Weather Channel forecasts morning-rain and my window to trample and shuffle this deteriorating body rapid closes, and the sun, weak, in concession speech, begs pardon, throws off a few miscellaneous rays by way of apology, fooling no one, except for the hopeful, itinerant poets, & the bunnies-neath-the deck. know now you understand the poems entitlement, as is my wont, you’ve been invited inside, sharing eyes and senses, you journey today from a vantage no one else possesses, just you and me. Later, we will drive to the Parrish Museum, studying modern painters, each will inquire, a poem for me please, I nod sure, perhaps? promise little, deliver less, is this your best? A travelogue of the mundane, the little things, that do not stir your heart, smile tears, and make you think wish I was there, or this, being just too-me-boring? The brain growls, no one making them read this perfunctoriness, nonetheless, you apologize, pardon the no-angst trivia of daily life. like the acid reflux bile, swallowed and returned to whence it came. before it invades, tarnishes the peace of our surroundings and the pleasure of your company, as I read your writings, *worth so much, filled with so much angry pain, I want to easy-soften the everything, if this missive, takes you-nearer, to the calmer~closer, this poem, you transform it from perfunctory, to just, simply* perfect. 8:18 AM Shelter Island
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Aug 11, 2022
Aug 11, 2022 at 8:37 AM UTC
A Perfunctory Morning Poem
Thu. Aug 11 2022 7:16 AM ~ for Julia and Joanne~ good neighbors <> a renewable habit apparently, again, a first poem of the day (FPOTD), comes early, this old practice, me-bedded and mugged, with music ear installed drowning the noises of television blah, iPad rests on left leg, left hand pointer finger ejects capsules of letters, charmed into existence by the Barber adagio. the Weather Channel forecasts morning-rain and my window to trample and shuffle this deteriorating body rapid closes, and the sun, weak, in concession speech, begs pardon, throws off a few miscellaneous rays by way of apology, fooling no one, except for the hopeful, itinerant poets, & the bunnies-neath-the deck. know now you understand the poems entitlement, as is my wont, you’ve been invited inside, sharing eyes and senses, you journey today from a vantage no one else possesses, just you and me. Later, we will drive to the Parrish Museum, studying modern painters, each will inquire, a poem for me please, I nod sure, perhaps? promise little, deliver less, is this your best? A travelogue of the mundane, the little things, that do not stir your heart, smile tears, and make you think wish I was there, or this, being just too-me-boring? The brain growls, no one making them read this perfunctoriness, nonetheless, you apologize, pardon the no-angst trivia of daily life. like the acid reflux bile, swallowed and returned to whence it came. before it invades, tarnishes the peace of our surroundings and the pleasure of your company, as I read your writings, *worth so much, filled with so much angry pain, I want to easy-soften the everything, if this missive, takes you-nearer, to the calmer~closer, this poem, you transform it from perfunctory, to just, simply* perfect. 8:18 AM Shelter Island
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**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired.... Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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May 6, 2010
May 6, 2010 at 12:54 AM UTC
Cwm Tawe - lovely ugly haibun
**A ravaged beauty - long threatened tired life, riding appreciated   Friday’s  off-road cycle ride started late with a heart-choking chill head-wind blown rain - blurring my glassed vision, so I trusted into the triple lanes of colours slicing through the Vale of Neath.   Here a builder’s ladder jumped boomeranging off it's white van - attempting to decapitate me - behind me it’s miss was announced by squealing brakes and crunching impacts,  scaring alive splattered visions of a flat-end and being posted within a near drain.     Surviving today's devilled ribbon of the dangerous windscreen imprisoned - sitting with pub bound murderous cohorts - I found off-road safe solitude’s mountain bike path East to Coelbren - joining new, a fine yet unsigned cycle route curling around Mynydd y Drum, to open views of Cwm Tawe as I pass hunting twisting through woods a single Red Kite.   Then  gravities speed, circles barriers into Ystradgynlais top - a narrow ribboned descent, hemmed by cars and paved children to the rugby fields. Senses travelogue - previously un-experienced, time spins slower Here the trails old section points to Swansea - winding lost betwixt fields, paths, trees and roads to Cwmtawe Cycleway proper, there to pedal beside and across Afon Tawe with repeated special offers of  child saddled exhaust roaring  kamikazes, bicycle maiming broken glass, proudly owned attack dogs, branch hung ball-sacks of excrement, visions of the lost ripped-away steel gated stops, hacked-off wooden fences and never-there deceitful dreams of red doggy bins all disguised what passed for hidden beauty, which he called lovely ugly.    Backing-into Pontardawe to crawl away below the dark bridge, past a single inviting  pub - I accompany the Tawe and it's twin a decrepit polished canal through ***** alleys - until our hero stutters, gapes then tunnels under great noisious noxious ribbons of hurtling tired.... Pressured paced life - impossible  commitments, Living organic** .
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You can only dream of places I have been Mentally, All the things I did for my family, All they did, instead of helping me, Is trying to put sense in me, When I come to a point Where I am about to plead insanity, A room of variances, Out of body experiences, Mental ******* Heart full of spasms, The ones my past couldn’t fathom, This ain’t a struggler’s anthem, But I can’t help but, Generalize, And I can’t undermine, That I felt heaven, At least on my fingertips, I found hope, At the brink of disbelief, Don’t blame the postman, If you put the wrong address, Life is a ***** depending on how you dress her, Let the broken glass, Mess up the dresser, Rosewood, Redwood, any wood, If I could I would, The more I clench my fists, the more sand I loose, But I choose not to, just my screws, My life is like a travelogue, No just ticket needed just travel along, Like a broken pen and a moleskin, A DSLR and an eye to watch closely, No backpacker, Just a bad actor, Modern day rye catcher, Self financer , A mere puppet on the string, That life hangs by, finding questions to some bad answers, Putting up with bad promise makers, When a promise may curse, Life is just a makeshift, Life is what you make it, Or make of it*
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Mar 7, 2011
Mar 7, 2011 at 11:49 AM UTC
Untitled (please suggest title)
#(a travelogue cont...) Waiting for summer just outside the tallest mountain’s door Where the emerald vale streams spring glacial-grey river waters, west into the setting midnight sun Another resplendent day’s paling whisper set free in an unseen blink and an unheard sigh In these unwonted moments   eyes rise up to touch the beckoning sky like a bug drawn to the light Upward over highest mountain's skies abides everything worth rising for It's so rare in this fleeting life, when a dream for a moment comes true ―   you come to understand how deep is silence and ... it doesn’t really matter when there’re no words harlon rivers June 9th. 2018 11:55 pm Denali sunset ... "don't dream it's over"
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 4:27 PM UTC
Denali Sunset
Each human life, finally a travelogue across time and space, through emotional landscapes with a hidden text between lines.
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May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012 at 2:04 AM UTC
Life, a tale of travel told by the traveller himself..
Now an annual autumnal literary festival visit to our island redoubt, the snow geese come honking down, in linear formation warning itinerant human beachcombers of their arrival on the beach runways of our sheltered island This TripTik recommended diversion, is a pleasure long anticipated by them, seen as an intellectual rest stop, with excellent sea snacks cuisined, flying down the Eastern Seaboard keeping Interstate 95 on their right, an avian version of GPS Our birds, follow a minor route, commencing in Nova Scotia, the farthest north of all the species, never making it to Mexico, ending their travelogue in Georgia, lest their true species be confused with other kinds of Floridian snowbirds Sit by my side they do, one by one in assigned seats, on the now scrawny grass blanket, their attention span famously long, unless a school of striped bass seen on radar in the vicinity I, on my Adirondack throne, a poetry reading to intone, with more-than-occasional audience input, considered their right most fair Critics one and all, animated animal devotees of the arts, unafraid to express their thoughts, oft in unison or in unharmonious John Cage cacophonies of disagreement Sadly, I only speak local seagull, thus their effusive exege(e)ses and criticisms, either damming or acclaim, indistinguishable, their only "tell" is if they stick around for just one more...day... That my poetry they did favor was a conceit I feigned to believe, loving their attention even if not deserved, for in their service, and nature's too, I am now trained to sit and wait, a minor stitch in a famous tapestry, for well I recall Milton's words: *"God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait."*
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 10:05 AM UTC
Sitting, Waiting, Serving the Snow Geese
Now an annual autumnal literary festival visit to our island redoubt, the snow geese come honking down, in linear formation warning itinerant human beachcombers of their arrival on the beach runways of our sheltered island This TripTik recommended diversion, is a pleasure long anticipated by them, seen as an intellectual rest stop, with excellent sea snacks cuisined, flying down the Eastern Seaboard keeping Interstate 95 on their right, an avian version of GPS Our birds, follow a minor route, commencing in Nova Scotia, the farthest north of all the species, never making it to Mexico, ending their travelogue in Georgia, lest their true species be confused with other kinds of Floridian snowbirds Sit by my side they do, one by one in assigned seats, on the now scrawny grass blanket, their attention span famously long, unless a school of striped bass seen on radar in the vicinity I, on my Adirondack throne, a poetry reading to intone, with more-than-occasional audience input, considered their right most fair Critics one and all, animated animal devotees of the arts, unafraid to express their thoughts, oft in unison or in unharmonious John Cage cacophonies of disagreement Sadly, I only speak local seagull, thus their effusive exege(e)ses and criticisms, either damming or acclaim, indistinguishable, their only "tell" is if they stick around for just one more...day... That my poetry they did favor was a conceit I feigned to believe, loving their attention even if not deserved, for in their service, and nature's too, I am now trained to sit and wait, a minor stitch in a famous tapestry, for well I recall Milton's words: *"God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait."*
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I live on the edge of a sleepy soul a moist rose and an infinite lilac sky beneath my chin — M. Melia, from The Unravelling Travelogue.
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 8:09 AM UTC
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Waiting for you, Yes you! To toss me a stanza, Feed me your lines, Give a starter, an appetizer, An antipasti, A few morso's please, To complete a meal. So we make this connection Permanent and when we break Such being the course of all Uncoiled, unoiled machines, We will look back and say, It was the best poetry of my life, For two made three The most fantastic words... Unto one, into one, one. So send me your pregnant, half born, song with no lyrical end, That won't complete themselves. Titles in search of body, Touch me in places, That only you can provide A path, a travelogue, So I visit, and show you places, You missed! Send me those lost bereft ones, Yearning not for freedom, But creation itself! Let us collaborate, And make a marker's mark, That cannot be auto corrected, Since the morrow's daylight will Bring its inception, A new name, a new poem, That will be added to the global Dictionary.
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Oct 12, 2013
Oct 12, 2013 at 8:14 AM UTC
An invitation - been being, waiting, for you for a long time
so you write a lot, pouring entire waking existences, current n' prior, into a long and crafted 'pistles, and pixels and you got jive pride and then, the poem, you worked so hard for, ups and dies gets a few middling fingers of reads, dying on a vining of Juliet's pseudo poisoning elixir, no big deal, happens all the time but here's what's wielding & weirdly wilding: ***A poetpourri. of newly found co-inhabitors, from around the universe, from places unpronounceable, unlike Venus & Mars, (very poet-popular) and from previously places were never or seldom was heard a discouraging word, igniting a rewarded mutuality of a following up embracing*** par example; Tirunelveli Poland Lisbon Cyprus Bihar Uruguay Ankara Vienna Albania Tanzania India Bangladesh New Zealand/Australia Soldotna (Alaska) plus Texas, West Va., Ohio, and other exotica, like Nowhere what a blessing! Blessed art Thou o Lord, that permits the miracle that my integers of 0 & 1 can be translated into such varied exotica, in harmony, thus permitting this discovery of never visited oceans and landfalls of poetry never heretofore to join as one. Aman. <> nml
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Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM UTC
A Travelogue Prayer
~~~ every word I write is a tribute *now listen here, let's clarify the inescapable, what this tribute thing means, cause what I'm doing here, ain't exactly clear everything we write, is only a watery-encapsulated reflection of our lives, which of necessity, will always be messy what the heck does this guy mean. when enlisting this shady word, tribute? at 3:10 in the AM, tribute is dressed in its more defy-nition sinister, a bad news speaking cultural minister, who never fails us by reminding, tribute originated as the nasty kind: "any exacted or enforced payment or contribution" every **** word that I've written is a **** tribute, an exacted, enforced, wrung from, payment of a pound of flesh, Shylock's variety pack kind I'm not bitter, a touch angry, perhaps, even brave, ok, unafraid, to admit, overall, got it pretty ok but that I still struggle to get that satisfaction, in everything minute and daily, the tiny and the tremendous, the cost production load only goes unicycle upward sloping, this crisis crazy we call being alive, and to you, who keys and ken my meaning well* herein is my good kind side my paying tribute to you, your courage, even me, periodically, for awakening and walking into the unknown outside, and giving it up in our travelogue of shared poetry 5:48am Jan. 21, 2016 NYC (aboard the stationary bike, paying tribute for forty years of sinning)
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 4:30 PM UTC
every word I write is a tribute
A travelogue of my voyages A narrative of my adventures, my wanderlust All of it begin from you and end at you These chronicles of my escapade Are not merely a fictional account All of it echoes my search for you Through the seven seas and countless nations I try to unearth the happiness to be with you Couldn’t find any trace of you, Punished for seeking you To find you, I’ve walked around the whole world, Still walking, still confused, wandering across for you
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Jul 13, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 at 3:43 AM UTC
Me & You