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we encounter each other in words words
spiny or smooth whispered or declaimed
words to consider reconsider | img2poems |
we cross dirt roads and highways that mark
the will of some one and then others who said
i need to see what's on the other side | img2poems |
i know there's something better down the road
we need to find a place where we are safe
we walk into that which we cannot yet see | img2poems |
praise song for struggle praise song for the day
praise song for every hand-lettered sign
the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables | img2poems |
love beyond marital filial national
love that casts a widening pool of light
love with no need to pre-empt grievance | img2poems |
i know not where
i know not when
but i have decided to live life till then | img2poems |
i lost my mother more than two decades ago
today on her birthday i spontaneously composed this poem
it's not just for my parents its for all those who love someone dearly | img2poems |
a broken leaf can linger in a limbo
if these non-livings can change the mighty morsels
then why don't we | img2poems |
hope is the life we breathe tomorrow
and the paths we tread every year
hope is the inflation of our ballooned hearts | img2poems |
it's lunch time on a busy work day
and i'm at the happy burger shack
waiting to place my order to go | img2poems |
comes a black man scarecrow thin
his jeans slung lowdown and dirty
an acre of underwear in evidence | img2poems |
thug
he flops down in the first shade available
and sets his lunch sack on the curbside | img2poems |
espiritu santo
then smiles and wishes me blessings
as i drive away with my order | img2poems |
why
why
why must i ask why | img2poems |
they back away from the bear
the bear stirs and shakes off the dream
but the dream won't shake | img2poems |
as i lie in my bed
the flute-notes push against my ears and lips
and i go to sleep dreaming | img2poems |
chairs are really parallel bars
for gymnastics leading to stars
galaxies at the dreamy carpet's edge | img2poems |
i am all metaphor and simile
swimming in transitivity
in my pluperfectness | img2poems |
i was aware my room was lived-in
my cigarette wasting in an arc of ash i rescued
my opened book advanced a page or two | img2poems |
yet he seems to be saying
how free i am
mocking my ways as sham | img2poems |
i prepare for gritty
crisp and gushious
bursts of pear | img2poems |
don't feel sorry for me
i am a competent
satisfied human being | img2poems |
and thus did i save the earth
though i wish at least those aliens
had left me some presents for my trouble | img2poems |
means a little bit more
and what happened then
well | img2poems |
the silver-blue moonlight makes the geraniums purple
and the roof glitters
like ice | img2poems |
the silver-blue moonlight makes the geraniums purple
and the roof shines
like ice | img2poems |
oh well let's go on eating the grains of eternity
what do we care about improvements in travel
angels sometimes cross the river on old turtles | img2poems |
shall we worry about who gets left behind
that one bird flying through the clouds is enough
your sweet face at the door of the house is enough | img2poems |
the two farm horses stubbornly pull the wagon
the mad crows carry away the tablecloth
most of the time we live through the night | img2poems |
let's not drive the wild angels from our door
maybe the mad fields of grain will move
maybe the troubled rocks will learn to walk | img2poems |
it's all right if we're troubled by the night
it's all right if we can't recall our own name
it's all right if this rough music keeps on playing | img2poems |
i've given up worrying about men living alone
i do worry about the couple who live next door
some words heard through the screen door are enough | img2poems |
i begin to undertake punishment and years of sorrow
if tomorrow isn't enough to borrow any troubles
a character of it's own would be worthed to be worth | img2poems |
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like a bulb start burning on the ground of the sleeping cold night looking to see the reason of its immediate distressed
there i go and saw a little one from the corner of my eye changing its color becoming fire on sight | img2poems |
oh how can i not move even my spine dug on comfortable piece calling out my name with unacquainted yell
here i come here i come the respond of my soul
like a prodigal father rushing towards his prodigal son | img2poems |
under the wind's muzzle
and the chant of mermaids
i become one with the eroded sand | img2poems |
your words shatter realities
your existence illuminates life
your meaning deepens the soul | img2poems |
what portion in the world can the artist have
who has awakened from the common dream
but dissipation and despair | img2poems |
so we lock and learn of human migrations of america before columbus and of siberian petroglyphs
we ponder the musings of percy walker and the art of john boatwright
we tune in to listen to strains from mozart and beethoven and we audit short courses about the italian renaissance and southern reconstruction | img2poems |
how robotic i have become
guided by the devils instinct
i am not me | img2poems |
if good heath wishes yet inspire us
hopefully your computer will
soon overcome its latest virus | img2poems |
round snow flakes
others large small or angled
together they make a snowman | img2poems |
the sucking waves retard and tighter clinch
the weeds about him but the land-winds blow
and in the sky there blooms the sun of may | img2poems |
i consult to the doctor
but still
no cure | img2poems |
there is no sin but sloth
burn
to a wick and keep moving | img2poems |
turn your back to fear
her beauty dissolved
to a whisper | img2poems |
music ignites my soul with fire
when i'm in sorrow and in pain
it makes me fall in love again | img2poems |
music is my life after all these years
through ups and downs
somehow i manage to survive in life | img2poems |
though life is a rough road
music makes me dance and sing aloud
through hardships in life | img2poems |
show me purity
i bow to clarity
but what is clear | img2poems |
keep going for we know not others with better honesty
living with cogitate morality you are content and at ease
you aspire for tranquil world hoping this chaos to cease | img2poems |
doing your devoted prophetic work to the good of humanity
your propitious thoughts will frame the system with prosperity
i hence wish this may your good tribes ever increase | img2poems |
in that place called tomorrow
even their distant seeds that dare
shall whisper those names in fear | img2poems |
in that place call tomorrow
families shall gather together again
to eat breakfast and/or dinner | img2poems |
philip said if so i will good tribute pay
the bard compared me to a summer's day
told me work on lovely spenser's art | img2poems |
one day i will
create a master piece
to the liking of one and all | img2poems |
now is here
nothing there
before is gone it wasn't there | img2poems |
there is no such thing as luck only inspiration
there is no such thing as success only will power
remember these lines and you'll build a nation | img2poems |
there is no such thing as happiness only realization
very few might believe what you say but say you must
there is no such thing as luck only inspiration | img2poems |
people may doubt people may question but you must mention
there is no such thing as fate only good performance and bad performance
remember these lines and you'll build a nation | img2poems |
there is nothing that god cannot do
he is in everyone's heart and in each person's aspiration
there is no such thing as luck only inspiration | img2poems |
there is no prayer that god hasn't fulfilled
so shed your doubts fears and inhibition
remember these lines and you'll build a nation | img2poems |
for all its charms the island is uninhabited
and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches
turn without exception to the sea | img2poems |
on deck gladly corrupted sailors swig arak
and drunk as baboons on durians their minds
swim off to the roaring forties | img2poems |
at a
m
the two middleaged men sleeping together holding hands | img2poems |
they fall
flutter
fall | img2poems |
so honest saint jerry
corrected the holy bible
and said the dog came back too | img2poems |
and brings my memory to your heart
when someday that rare blossom
you find | img2poems |
i sit in the garden
on a small marble bench
beneath the sun | img2poems |
the water glows and makes music
as it falls down the stream
of little waterfalls | img2poems |
i follow the stream
into a land of beauty
and wonder | img2poems |
i walk around to see wild flowers
patches of four leaf clovers
and small rainbows | img2poems |
up and up the flames crawled high
up into the clear green sky
thus toppled the tower with a glorious cry | img2poems |
handshakes unravel chains
jingling child-widower tears as
unsolved bodies lay buried | img2poems |
and a captain announces safe passage
mark
twain | img2poems |
at least in that context
be the pure and fair
to prove | img2poems |
he'll not beg
he'll just walk
he won't even talk | img2poems |
and friends in high places
have no use whatsoever
when they are not your friends | img2poems |
i know a thing that's most uncommon
i know a reasonable woman
handsome and witty yet a friend | img2poems |
for this home to grow old as i do
without fear of future
or penitence for past | img2poems |
you ask yourself
is this some kind of esp
a trick from above | img2poems |
the past
the present
and the future | img2poems |
the path of the just is like the sun
that fades into the sun set
at the end of the day | img2poems |
some things we may never understand
so for now let's not laugh
at the joke of that teen sitting not too far | img2poems |
i always said one day they would use the law of averages to turn us into slaves
and as per usual it's not an easy thing to follow his argument protracted as it is from a slab of research as thick as any thesis
but i kind of listen like i believe him as foolish as it sounds | img2poems |
no one is perfect she knows
why she did so
who know | img2poems |
she was his paradise
now lost
he now bewildering to hide | img2poems |
he was a refugee
wanted a refuge
he knew she would refuse | img2poems |
what he could do
she had eyes anyone could drown in
he was homo too | img2poems |
it was not her fault
both knows
ignorance might be the way | img2poems |
oh take me death
indulge desir'd repose
and draw thy silent curtain round my woes | img2poems |
many eyes cried
but hearts missed him none
alas the conqueror of the world was forever alone | img2poems |
and then solidify
bring down all ever after the stars and make a necklace for my mother
repeat the same mistake each time | img2poems |
shut her lips nbsp my forgetfulness
with your memory words
then shut me | img2poems |
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heard her beforedrowning you
in her tousled nbsp hair | img2poems |
dusted feet and flake embers
as windblown the water oak
next to the winged spindle tree | img2poems |
today thee is melancholy standing on a pulpit
staring at the back of thou arts bride
eluding away with the wind | img2poems |
both of us paper tigers
among the horses
the quadriga shifting shades | img2poems |
some day your life is ending up in thirty-gallon bags
on the street and the rest of it will be shipped
in boxes to people who think it's overdue | img2poems |
think of stone faces of stoics laughing in museums
hold that thought when they pull the plug
and you flatline to your debriefing | img2poems |
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