"waker" poems
I am a cloud breaker
because the sun is always with me,
tattooed on my back.
Even at night I can see silver linings.
I am an earth shaker--
cackling, quaking laughs crack surfaces
above, and so below
of flesh and rock like lava's burning, gurgling grace.
I am a light maker.
Warm words spark & ignite dried, dusty leaves
forgotten or ignored,
clearing paths for new gardens to feast upon the sunlight.
I'm a flow waker,
building bridges of effervescent electric irrigation
with hugs between our eyes and hearts,
nourishing, cleansing bodies.
May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 2:36 PM UTC
7.17.14
I’ve come to meet you here, in some sacred place
to be here alone with you
beautiful waker:
luke deep eyes opening to the moonlight
awake
-
But not alone
because I sit with you beneath the thousand gazes of stars
I hold you close with my ears
this golden hour )))) between )))) trees,
throwing your voice
with the crickets
waiting
for the space between us to throw it back
-
Individual, but never separate at the smallest level of things,
sharing together the energy of multicolored levels
-
and we remember, making our way through the dark:
-
this world is unforgiving
and we were wild and alive,
in this place I have known you always
-
In this place, I keep for you
The secret of the leaves
We are not alone in our despondent footsteps toward a truer North
but, I will help pave a path for you and your losses
unfold the pages I had folded
kiss a bruise underneath my hand
relax with disappointed youth onto another
and tell me, that
you don’t enjoy being lost inside all that passes
it is here, this sacred place
we throw our burning hearts into the empty creekside
and we build better homes at the roots of trees
*the sky is no longer surrounding us
the birds look to one another to retreat home
we both put things in our pocket without noticing the other
a low roar of emptiness from one point to another
in the distance it is clear that all you know is relevant
and I say, to myself, these things,
and you say to yourself, these things
no one else could know*
and you would say; out loud
“I loved him”.
and I would kiss the silence that came after
because I still love too
fever in your honesty,
pulling teeth from the names you carry
woven in your clothes
I sit alone with you
spreading the silence that reaches from our toes
outward into the
dark
Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 2:34 AM UTC
**I killed the calendar on the wall,
Skipped the glorified ceremony and all.
Pieces of plans soared through the air,
Nearly brushing my cowlicked hair.**
*To the Disrupter of my Dreams,
The Screaming Sleep Waker,
The Insolent Sun Beams:
You are punctual and I am ******
**Why must we only meet like this?
I’m staying here all day long.
You can’t stop me.
Unless you bring me a hot cup of coffee…**
Sincerely,
The Sleeper of Five Hours
Sep 26, 2010
Sep 26, 2010 at 9:21 AM UTC
sometimes you come back,
like the peculiar awareness of finitude
soft footed
after we’d been in that small room together
cold
pouring out in white light
leaning over and smiling gently
with a surety of falling snow winter outside
and you described seattle and kurt cobain
and showed me your jars of sand and jars of honey
and I smiled gently and loved you.
and we went out in the cold and you smoked a cigarette
and everything around us was hushed wet in dark gray
you were something that made me ache
honest human, dark and earnest
opened ahead of me
wise and naive
I felt like I’d known you somewhere before
I held you in my vision but didn’t speak
as you told me what men had done to you
I picked up something that was shining on the ground
and thought about what men had done to me
Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM UTC
Searching for love in vain is daunting.
Haunting, I saunter over to you my flower, my blossom.
Lost in your eye, I retract my all, NOT some...
A friend is still a warm gun....
But hold on ***
What about your mom?
or your dad?
Or your uncle?
Or women that you share bunks with? Maybe buckle DOWN with?
Is it worth it? I assume not either way, but perhaps.........
I'm so tired... and I could just sleep.
sleep forever
My body lies in a heap, and I prepare to meet my maker.
But I guess today ain't th' day. Cos today I'ma play Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 4:21 AM UTC
‘I’m tired, so tired,’ said Jonathon Black,
‘I can hardly stay awake,’
His wife just stared at the back of his head,
Went back to her currant cake.
She’d heard it all a million times
Was bored with the things he’d say,
She wished he’d pack up his things, sometimes
And quietly go away.
But Jonathon sat in his bamboo chair
And stared at the world outside,
He used to be full of energy,
But something inside him died,
He lived in the shadows of tides and scenes
That were conjured behind his eyes,
The throwaway remnants of others dreams
He’d capture in tears and sighs.
He spent the afternoon nodding off
Then woke with a startled cry,
‘You wouldn’t believe what I saw just now,
Right out of a clear blue sky.
A shadow crept from the bushes there
And it killed young Andrew Deems,’
Giselle had tutted and shook her head,
‘Just one of your stupid dreams!’
The woods, a favourite lovers spot
Stretched out from their own back door,
Giselle would go with a basket there
Looking for mushroom spore.
‘I saw you out in the woods today
But nothing is what it seems,’
She turned and snapped at her husband’s back,
‘Just keep me out of your dreams!’
‘It isn’t a question of that,’ he said,
‘I can’t control what I see,
Wherever a person’s thoughts are at
They keep on coming to me.
Even the strangers that walk on past
Have secrets they send in beams,
You’d think that they would be safe from me
But I’m the waker of dreams.
Giselle had wandered off to the woods
With her basket held on high,
While Jonathon found and loaded his gun,
Went after her with a sigh,
He found her there in a shady nook
In a huddle with Andrew Deems,
‘I thought I’d warned you, often enough,
You didn’t believe, it seems!’
He shot the lad as he tried to run
Then dropped the gun to his side,
‘All I could see in his dreams was you,
But now, that dream has died.’
‘And what will you do with me,’ said she
And bit her lip ‘til it bled,
‘I’m tired, so tired,’ said Jonathon Black
Then put the gun to his head.
David Lewis Paget
Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
prelude
wake up into crystalline air
can feel
the swaying trees pull up the body
waiting for dreams to run
wash
off
no one can imagine what the waker has seen
the glow of love through a pure heart like light lost in honey
-
I'm sorry for interrupting. I just have
Too much to
Say:
I know
You understand the way salt tastes on my tongue
I understand the way you sit in the middle of the universe
Right next to me
Poking holes into my skin
with which
to fill with words
Painting pictures like drawing bridges
Over these mile high canyons
Standing at every side
these these words spread like openings into the ice
pride as you asked to see a face I had never before shown
Towers of words and I say
See things simpler
To myself
but already I see them as they are
Like the moon behind the cloud three nights ago
pulling at the edge of the sea
I moved to your gait
To gravitate towards feeling
Like moths
shimmering
The incoming tide
reaching for humanity
your silence takes a shape into mine
How could something so much like light be possessed?
How could you clasp to your bones, a wave that pulls eternally at the shore?
you make me think, I was thinking
I think he would have said
don't you see it has to be this way?
one small point in the dark
How would it be,
otherwise.
Those angel’s hands shaped perfectly (as always they were)
on your neck
and you would have said you’re saying
pointing into the dark,
your weapon words stand so small next to your mortality
and
I love you with nothing
A man without a heart is
a gentle threat
A man without a heart
Lacks only what you hold in your hands
A slip into abstraction
How young we were how young
Yet how young were we?
afterword
stutters stilettos
sick skin sick
beautiful
letters
left this morning
while you were away in
mourning
silhouettes
cigarette shadows straining
shadow eyes
in this dim light
old
grammar
makes me ache
in between every line and I wish
you were more human I wish you were
less
Apr 26, 2011
Apr 26, 2011 at 3:43 PM UTC
My quick baby, who loves you?
Oh slow waker, who arches?
Backs bent over rolling water
Water, who swallows?
Chest shaking under heavy wool
Weight, who spins?
Thick dust down soft temples
Heat, who flickers?
Multiply- make room, make room
Darling, what gathers?
Soak my honey-stung tongue-tip
Cold, who wanders?
Leave my bent frame on stiff soil
Body, why bother?
Lazy smoke, tell me, tell me, who rises.
The air is thinner towards the peak.
Apr 27, 2012
Apr 27, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
I am the mountain man.
I am the shifting sands.
I am the laughter through gritted teeth,
I am the squint of concentration,
I am the missing piece and the stone that won't roll.
I am the Zeit Ghost.
I am the Underwerewolf.
I am the Pseudonami.
I am not what you say I am, until I say: "I Am."
I am the Red Sun Samurai.
I am the Locomotive Provocateur.
I am the bones of kings and slaves.
I am the breath of the wind in the trees.
I am the Electrocuted Interlocutor.
I am the whip of the matador.
I am sunken cities in the swamp.
I am Firestarter.
Spark Guarder.
I am the assembly line whereby the machine reproduces.
I am capitulated capitalism.
I am the captain of the sky ship to
Ghost Country.
I am a natural amphetamine
a synthetic homeopathic
a cure for the sad
curation for the lost
death for the solid and unchanging.
I am the mask of roots.
I am a treehouse full of books.
I am the sword in the daytime.
I am the Day Waker, the Cloud Shaker
the Continent Unmaker, the Deep Laker
the childhood of broken dreams and unbreakable boulders.
Half-slumbering in your living room.
One eye on your joy, the other searching
for answers to the unanswerable question of:
where did it go?
Fully alive, pacing the gravestones
kisses to flowers in the new moon
and a pocketful of reality checks.
Helping you let go of everything
Holding you back.
Hoping you'll hold onto me.
Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 5:37 PM UTC
the night rests in her palms
in air of wispy trees
in wobbly wilting shrills
inside a waker's dream
seeking breaks of formlessness
shatter moulds of thought
relinquish the hold of sea
vanish wavy plots
endlessly the bending blues
crash a piece of rock
bathed in tawny rays of moon
racing waves knock
the silent door of wonder
the shrill of blinking eyes
the blossom of a sterile
desert splayed inside
lost on lips of firmament
spewing sinful glee
violet summits seek the sky
all in a waker's dream
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
written July 14, 2014
"The early bird and the night owl living under the same roof was strange
And being two different kinds of birds they both flew their own way
One was a night time dweller, up making mischief late at night
The other was an early waker, up at 7 for her morning flight
And despite their differences they somehow agreed
To live under the same canopy, under the same small oak tree"
Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 11:13 PM UTC
we went to cop pins crossing to scatter dads ashes into the creek
my buddhist ceremony for dad, as he is in the ****** of david and lisa, with robin williams beside him in the womb
first i put dads ash on my little praying buudha,
said this
ummmmmmmmmm dad i remember you for being there for everyone and despite how many times
i might have been with angry with you, you were always be there for me
ummmmmmmmmmm what a life you had the YMCA i remember when you and the leaders showed
us a snake at camp sturt, and hung it near the dining hall
ummmmmmmmmm
yeah you have changed a lot of people’s lives for the better
ummmmmmmmmmm
you drove me and my mates to various sports events, telling us funny jokes
ummmmmmmmmmm
you showed us how to use the computer and even if we have problems
you were able to fix problems
ummmmmmmmmmm
you used to lay out the easter eggs, for the annual easter eggs
to give delight to us kids
ummmmmmmmmmm
i remember a funny joke, when you wanted to leave a new years eve party
and i was playing my dice cricket game, and i said, we have to wait till
the end of the days play, dad said, ok we will turn off the light and appeal that
bad light stopping play
ummmmmmmmmm
one christmas you gave us a swimming pool, and that made our day look great
yeah, happy days to swim in the nice cool water
ummmmmmmmmm
we always talked about the raiders, even if dad never watched a match
ummmmmmmmmm
we used to cut down trees in our backyard to use as XMAS trees
ummmmmmmmmmm
we are gathered here to remember a great bush waker
ummmmmmmmm
we are going to miss you telling us the rain is coming, or total
fire bans or, when there is a electroity work in the area
and electricity will be turned off
ummmmmmmmmm
we watched footy and cricket too, it was great
ummmmmmmmm
i hope your next life as one of david and lisa’s twins really
brings you happiness, forever and ever amen
and now i bury buddha under water, allowing dads ash to float on
the cop pins crossing creek, dad is free, now, as the other half of robin williams
Jan 9, 2015
Jan 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
See my bridegroom comes,
said Sister Clare, He comes
swift as birds of Spring, His
voice echoes within, His
touch wakes me from deep
slumber, unfetters me from
my sad sins; His eyes watch
me, they run over me like
flowing water, look into my
soul like dawn's light; He is
my keeper, my protector, His
hand caresses me in my deepest
darkness, His fingers raise
my chin, lift my head, His
fingers touch my heart, wake
me from my selfness, my
obsession with my me; He
comes into my heart, He is
the kisser of life, the waker
of sleepers in the grave; I
wait for Him in the night
when the darkness embraces,
seek His company when
demons touch and ******
He is my bridegroom, my
love, I seek Him out like
one for water as I thirst,
I listen for his footsteps in
the break of dawn, I kiss
Him as one kisses one's
deepest love, I am only
happy when He is near,
when His voice awakes
me. He is my safe ship
out in the dark deep sea.
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 1:55 AM UTC
Am I worth the space I take up, and the portion of air I pollute, am I freaking worth?
Because I know that anyone read this mess is worth, I’m quite sure there’s someone who wants to be them and wants to stay in touch, and who doesn’t wanna wake up if the person who’s reading is the waker.
And, heck yeah, I believe one’s existence is justified by someone else’s love or affection or something like that, something sweet and similar to blessing, always hand in hand with jealousy and some pain. And, yes, jealousy plus something equals affection, which in turn equals worth and justifies existence. Period.
Jokes aside: am I freaking worth the space I take up? Well, for I know there is a painter who angry with only hanging out with a musician not caring for painter’s feelings, well if that’s jealousy my existence’s kinda justified, for jealousy equals love. Period. Or if it’s not jealousy, if jealousy is when you ask you can hardly without to answer your messages for once and being angry doesn’t, if it’s the latter I might very well be a waste, or am I not. Wich is it?
Oh, sorry, told you, mess.
Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 7:04 PM UTC