Sunday, September 23, 2007

Die There Then


Father don't fail and mother, why must you call....when the front has passed and the Summer swings to Fall....should we be there yet or wait a while still...illusion and allusion to the ferrous will chills? Stop me silly someday....but for now just point the way down the block....down the dock....down the braided boardwalk....we'll peer off with peers and command our smiles smite the shimmering isle that hasn't had friendly fun in a while....it lies dishonestly and mocks the moon......but we move on in our own ways....high time we start....high time we count and call.....our son.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Loosen, Release

Ever tightening.
Winding.
Twisting.
There is this stranglehold...
The wind tightens it
Your hands manipulate it.

Pick up the scissors.
Cut the hold.
You'll be freer.
Feel looser.
Let go, there is fun, there is work
Responsibilities last forever.
There is no lever,
That shuts them off at the switch in the cool of day.
This chokehold that you release is
Pressure eased.

Happiness.
Freedom.
Once you realize you're not confined.
Strive instead to become
Defined.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007

Abduction Envy




...take me away to a shore of flat stale champagne water rushing to embrace clear sparkling silver sand dunes climaxing in a flurry of audible murmurs and gossiping giggles that wake the old men in their straw huts from their own vivid dreams of impossibly blue water and yellow sand...

...and the party people fly like they swim desperately for family picnic pics on a random level of some unannounced hanging gardens of wild untamed rainforests full of hunters hunting for their prey's bodies and prey praying for their hunters' souls...

...to a wide expanse of windy indigo blue plains that stretch so far to meet the challenge of a citrus orange sky with abundant clouds the shape of puffy lips descending to fumigate all fiscal thoughts of those who look up in contemplation...

...where the practical pigs administer their own eggs and the handy horses their own milk so the farmboy can lay on that silky indigo grass and nonchalantly chew on a stalk of tasteless wheat while tucking his sweetheart's hair behind her tickled ears...

...to a mountain forest maternity ward of fertile ferns that somewhere coo nighttime lullabies to babies in their nests and elsewhere shed their golden yellow leaves onto the velvet violet earth below as offering to bury pasts both remembered and forgotten accordingly...

...and where whole bustling metropolises cease and desist in order to visit the sick old lady on her creaky deathbed and each recite a chapter of her lifelong achievements such as raising dogs who can roll over and tending a garden of treehouses sprawled with off-white misspelled exclamations...

...to where a tired dying crimson red supergiant appreciates every single precious moment it has left before it takes down millions of lives along with it and sets each day to rest for some three or so jade green followers that illuminate those ignorant and remind those who forget by choice...

...during a golden age of not nothing, nor everything, but just something, anything...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

confused intake manifold

take! take! and shut the damn door....you're letting all the hot air out.....and it's cold outside....it's cold and cobalt bold from heavy breathing....heavy lifting....heavy hearts and heads.....quit. just stop and stand and twist that band around one more time...let it get tight around your wrist and let the names add up right down your list...but don't tell me what you have to get, just get it...and bring it back...share it and I'll pass the plates....we'll sit and talk....discuss our fates....do you see the scratches and the scribble scroll scribes? they sit in anticipation......of someone, something else.....emancipation....proclomation? trick-turn whore....is a sloppy snore bore......what we want is something more.....do you understand that your hand on my heart is my hand......or is your head too deep in the sand?.......ahh the chains of command....and the blind man begging while the woman wails away....this is what I wish they'd say....tomorrow, yesterday, today.......dismay.

Monday, August 20, 2007

The Spider

I intend to inspire the intellectual spire to expand,
Like the web being splayed by the spider,
As daily I was the innocent spirit that soared freely
in my solace scented sky,
The scent of roses and rain,
that scavenges for sovereignty.

But recently, dishonesty was the rope that bound my feet to the ground
And once I cut him in half,
I was free
And I heard a voice
and his voice alone was poetry.

I was the solitarty teacher in search for my independence
when out of a slip of destiny, or perhaps of chance,
My life scenario switched to possibility,
Like the sanguine sower spreading the sumptuous seeds,
that stimulate the bare earth,
he plans to simulate during a passion season: spring;
Like a smiling and sacred situation made of silk and silver.

But, how she hesitates to shed her armor about her trust,
So she'll hold it tighter about herself as she standsC
stiff and still,
observing the movements of uncertainty.

Scavenger, now turned to skeptic,
wants to be secure, and only slighty knows that skill.
But she knows for certain that trust will only come
slowly.
And if love is speech, she is stuttering---
Her hesitance from a bitter taste in the past.

Consistantly, trust became possiblity
and the heart grew redder
and the sour spice diminished from my tongue.

His voice alone is poetry
and inspires the webs to expand
So that the sceptic is now saved.

But now the voice, too, has faded
and the heart pales once again
because the trustworthy possibility was
incompatible with the over inspired spider
who built her learned web too wide
and his voice whose was poetry alone,
had weaved a web too small.

And, so, again, she set her feet free
in search for sovereignty.

(And in the end,
I see shadows of roses
that kiss my fingertips
on the white wall.)

Friday, August 10, 2007


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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Postmaster Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

The new Pumpkins is out, let's go grab it before--
Don't keep avoiding this, got no more tears in store
They got Jimmy back on drums, so it should really--
No more futile returns to the touchy feely--
Sing me that one verse from "Perfect," how does it go--
Don't stand any closer to me than toe-to-toe--
"Aaangel, you know it's nooot the eeend. We'll always be--
Feeling your nestled neck next to mine would make me--

So I thought more about our plans for when--
Can't keep doing this again and again--
With my technical and exteriors--
What grains of time we have fall through, it blurs--
And your decor design interiors--
So sorry to kill you with these murmurs--
There couldn't be a better match made in--
They don't like you, so it's gotta fade in--

It'll be great, just like how we--
The choice of freedom comes to me--
I'm so happy right now I could--
But the stench of creeping fear would--
Nibble on those luscious lips of--
No easy way to turn you off--
Just want you to know how much I--
Bye--


Going Once, Going Twice

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Sunday

mourning sun,
light my day.
break the glass and stay five minutes more in my way.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Black Sheep Blues

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool
left for your shunned silly sullen self
or did you forget in your superthoroughness
that the proempire are unforgiving?


Yessir, yessir, three bags full
of preimbibed puss oozing
novel neoactivist nonconformity
reerupting in a manner most moot.

One for the master, one for the dame
who bore this malapropos monstrous beast
not out of love but as harkees to the harkers
of bogus biology and tacky tradition.

And one for the little boy who lives down the lane
of false philosophies where authority astraddle
and dreams dormant from fermentation
suppress shining souls most sincere and true.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Salt and Light.....or (I Am Unfinished)



hey out there and hello again...

black-cloud clarity and liquorice lies...sugar shine my shoes...sugar take my blues...and make me make them be of use...own them unlike the life I lease...stand up, fight, and die for peace...watch me watch the world slip by--two hundred channels at a time...put 'em down on paper for someone else...put 'em down forever...sunset on my face...smoke streaked skies burning my eyes...fuck this place...take me home to somewhere sane...that has compassion's pulse: one, two, three, and four years more...can you remember what we did this for?...not me or you or the kids or the crew...but the double stitched, navy-blue sympathy and starched collar cry that told us why...why we had to hold our heads...high up on that hill...but still, the city burns...and turns my mind to ashes...fly away...

make it true...two by two thousand times...remember each between the lines...getting dark as the dismal day...weary shadows stretch our way...and that holocaust heap, uneasy, rests on our feet...uncountable, ground down, Al Hillah on high...or at least nearby...even to an average guy...almost done with what's on my mind...shrinking sun explodes...supernova soul on these desolate roads...unknow...unknow...let go...no......it's not dark yet...but...



Sunday, July 15, 2007

Gaping

There's a hole in his backyard, so he throws in:

Two authentic foods that devour him with the gastroriffic goodness of their truth. Three board games that he always conquers because he is the only player subject to their risky rolls of dice. Five dear friends old and new, lost and found, who pose the biggest threat to the hole. Seven fake antiques with no meaningful history but the ones in his morose mind. Eleven films for futile escapes into other worlds that would break him just the same. Thirteen glaring glossy pages of insistent instruction that tell the how-to-writer how to write. Seventeen harrowing hardcover tomes offering meanings of lives that elude the very life they claim. Nineteen plane tickets to familiar and exotic places that remind and humble his minor miniscule existence. Twenty-three scorching suns he has avoided, but that fuel the jump-and-jive journeys across foreign lands. Twenty-nine sullen songs that allow momentary lapses of rhythm for an otherwise dying dance.

There's a hole in his backyard, and it never ever seems to fill.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Friday, July 13, 2007

Visions of Happiness, Abandon the Sadness

In a moment,
a singular,
lasting memory.
The time that we spent together,
the ongoing tension.

Thoughts return to the happiness
But...
somewhere in the back of one's mind
sadness and pain creep in.
While the mind realizes the happiness of being solitary.

In life we need friends,
no stress,
no disfunctionalness.
Reading a book does not require debate,
or to motivate one to question fate.

Friends grab your hand and lead you on,
family does that too.
Your own mind knows that there is a reason to not dwell.
Forget the life that you had in that memory.
Create a new one with what God has given you.

Remember goodness, charity, and kindness.
Forget the distant memory filled with a past that drains.
God wants you to move forward,
your friends want you to go on,
and your family waits for you to continue.

Become part of the love,
the peace,
and the contentment that this type of life gives.
Take a deep breath, exhale, and think.
Life can only be as good as you make it.
Pain washes away that concept.
Continue to see the beauty in the world.
Trudge on, and remember happiness.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Friday, June 22, 2007

Drawing and Sketching

Pick up a pencil...look out in front
Where's the inspiration?
Where's the creativity?
Take up the drawing pad...
Draw line after line in the fading light.
The wind blows through your hair whispering traces of the past.

Your pencil stops.
The drawing unfinished...

Listen to the traces of the past.
Take up the pencil again...
trace the memories across the pad.
In the distance you hear happiness, in the fading light you see peace.
This drawing puts pencil to paper
Memories left to unravel.

Your past guides the drawing, impressions that it has left.
While the drawing is in the present, there is some reflection in it.
A memory preserved, an age retold.
Something that will help you remember in the years to come.
The light fades...
Put the pencil down.

The new day dawns, the light explodes.
A new drawing begins with reminiscences of the day before.
The setting the same.
However, the past pain and joy remains.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Come Along Song

come back to me and sing those words....the ones we made up on our backs...left, left, up the hill and still...beneath the bear we'd stare and leave behind the world to care.....upright thinking and careful consideration....minds making meaning...bodies on vacation...but now it's all wrong...all wrong, and I long for that come along song...that used to put the air in you...take the air from between us too...can we confuse ourselves enough again? can we write the lies and fit them in? can you see me still whispering and can you hear me waving loud? I'm leaving soon and then it's gone...good and gone and gone for good...in the back room baby where the wishing we would...walk two roads afraid...of what truth lies alongside...so stood we still and still we stand...we deal with our days and the chains of command...but you keep yourself at odds even when the drama drains...you seem to like the prickly pains of prophecy...you seem to like the other me that couldn't be and couldn't see...that cut the cords of we...without regard I'm keeping it on...because it's not coming off...

twice seven and three on that first full branch of my memory tree...did I place that place with you and me...grey stucco and rusted rails...solitude in public view...but somewhere I think we both knew that we swam transparent seas...that we made our perfect mysteries...alas, I love you still...and moving away I know I will...not travel through those woods again...I will not have that chance to sin...and I lament that the brief time spent...was spent in disagreement...over silly little laughs that walked such narrow little paths...that, page after page, made me skip out of class...to be with you on back-room days...in back room ways...but still...you keep yourself away...there and then and here today...i'm left to understand...second fiddle in your little band...can be pretty tough indeed...so i speed down and right and right again...

out along that lonely lane I used to leave...and leave again...mountains of madness and plenty of time...a twenty minute loop...let me touch your light...that one and only spanish night...with quizas y quizas...we stopped way out there...porque "a veces es deficil ver"...and you leaned while we learned and the two of us burned...about the cold air outside...that blurred the world full wide ahead behind and to both sides...

empty desk days...summer sets in strong...can you come again with your come along song?

Monday, June 18, 2007

Flight of the Conchords




simply sunny and sometimes funny....make me make me make some money...give me reason in the rain and germane to the situation at hand...so command....and tell me what you want it to be...between thee and me...eventually...

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Spin.

Tilt-a-whirl,
spins,
spins,
spins.
Dizzy like life.
Throws you off balance.

The ride stops, but...
your mind is still spinning
Can't even be sitting.
The moments that flash by are like the ride.
Ebb and flow with the tide.

The moments remove
the ability of gravity
to hold us in one place.
Instead we keep spinning.
Or do we keep dancing in circles?

The spin gets faster and faster.
Impending disaster.
Maybe?

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Liquor Store Holdup....or (Afterimage)

Diving in your little black spot....the one you flee, but all for naught....hot on the heels...hot on the heels...hot on....and just plain hot....light draws that line and deeper still...infected wit...erected will....spend it spilling the dispenser...and the thought....of thoughts....upside down and deep outside...your afterimage lets me ride....and remember with my better self the arid air up on that memory shelf....disturbed and dusted....stirred like waxy trust and water...and some unforgiving friendship fodder...fly it in and pack it up tight....the ticky tack tape suggests a rape...but no...it’s the history of a come and go show...with ready witness on the watch...and that cold twenty-two aimed at your crotch...thrillseeking high and no hints of why...cash grab and cruise...made to win and born to lose...sharp chins and courage...twitchy little fingers...rage...rage on....rage right on in....that theatre of thought and hard knox heart...finish strong...fuck the start.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Spiderwebmind

The root from which all things sprout
is here in the center.

Links and trunks originate from a much deeper place
than where they stand.

The place of their conception never does touch them---
not when they've been placed and neither when they've grown.

Growth leads to more growth.
This hyper-extension attracts attention.

If the trees did grow as fast as the silk zero-one threads,
children would sit outside and watch,
wondering if they could grow as fast, too.
But they'll experiment first with seeds.

They'll learn to be expert gardners,
not so much to build a forest, as to occupy themselves
with something that grows quickly.

But when they discover that trees don't tell stories,
they'll move on to another part of the web,
wishing their arms and legs would grow so much more faster.

Rewind.

In childhood we don't think about the impact of our actions.
When we're adults we realize the meaning
Crystallized
Focused
Narrowed
In every event.

Wish
That
We
Could
Rewind
the
Moments.

Change them
Re-shape them
Can't.

I try to press the rewind in my mind.
Maybe it's broken.
Maybe it's frozen.
There's a reason that we cannot change
the past.
It's meant to teach, to reach,
and to impact our lives.

Children run all day in the sun
Not knowing, but still growing
Into adults that will become
The future
Teachers
Preachers
And Writers of the world.

It is in the moment that we change into adults.
We realize that
The rewind is stuck in time.
Not able to rewind,
The moments shaped us and created us.
Impacted us.

Don't try to rewind
Leave the past
Behind, but remember
That who we are is a result of that.

Three Poets Walk into a Bar

Churn it out till the sunshine dawn

Shots of spirit
Gobs of soul
Burning chakras
Illuminati

Pass the bucket
Pass the bucket till the sunshine dawn

Melancholic memories
Salty tears
Sweet nothings
Bitter everythings

Pass the bucket
Pass the bucket till the sunshine dawn

Societal angst
--isms
Glint of glory
Drowning darkness

Pass the bucket
Pass it
Pass it
Pass the bucket till the sunshine dawn

Thursday, May 24, 2007

>>press<<

Pressed for time to rapidly right the regretful wrongs of one lamented lifetime and what drink would you like with that let alone of whole cyclical civilisations sighing sorrow for no tomorrow ring ring hello can you hold please to build burnt bridges begging borrowed time need some gas to maintain modica of marriages with friends lovers mothers fathers sisters brothers strangers enlarge your penis that's stuck between a rock that reeks rotten rust and a hard heaving pitiful place so change the oil because wallowing walls closing in can I have the check please can't breathe bottled water chug glug break FREE

from the repression
of graveyard memories
lingering
on the sinking residue
of persistent thrashing waves

from the suppression

of an unwanted tectonic heart

blurring faces

without pity

for its equally cruel victims


from the oppression


of lavish dictators


branding


clueless flesh


with the misplaced mark


of an innocent beast


Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Washington Mutual

Coffee bean communication

mid-may musings

traffic breaks the brain

street lights filtered

unlike the cigarettes

the sickening cigarettes

filling up our

empty conversation

scratched voices

like old motown vinyl

needle pricks

mainline your melody

make it

make the death of me



separate worlds sharing

an hour or so

our _____

or so

five speed freedom

on that back river road

seated hatred still

in that cold steel shell

patent leather patience

primes the pump:

this thick sticky heat

of insecurity.

rusty rails led us home






Point of View.

Look in the mirror
What or who do you see?
Or as you look into a puddle you see a vision
Things gone by or just filthy water.
Keep looking, turn around
You're bound to find something.

Pacing, retracing, and finally you hit the finish line.
Inches from it you stop, but you don't know why.
Is it because the contest is a lie,
And there is no prize.

Keep looking,
Keep searching,
Losing oneself to it all.
This mock contest, this fakeness
You try to figure it out...
Aimless.

Eventually, you run again. Faster now faster.
Are you running because of the contest or because of yourself?
Do you know who you are? Have you figured it out?
Everyone sees you one way,
And you see yourself another.

How you see yourself is important, but don't forget that...
you have a face to put toward the world.

Charlemagne Boy

(P)alms,

Granite pride,

And the love inside

Fallen on concrete courts

Hard lines mark

Out of bounds

Neighbor next door

Spying in conversation

Asks about the rules

Nothing but net

Spinning high

The mighty ride right through

The bloody red center

Of a pomegranate

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Getting Off (Sunset)....or Sex In College

That Three-North-memory that makes me smile...Next door and four doors down the hall...A gauntlet, gladly made and we were funny fine...Enough to make the stacked shoes shake beneath us both...And enjoy the ride...Look me in the mouth and initiate me...Lay there spinning your topanga canyon tales...About some high-school heroine, some idyllic lass...But i know your dirty secret that’s sharing three-hundred threads...Above our heads, below and inside...you know....Toyota tantrums in super black style...I better be careful and stay with you a while cuz it’s five doors now and there’s a...Pretty pink jealousy...Somewhere there....Take me to my flag with johnny rockets red glare....Take us to canoga...Park...one-oh-one woodland hills...Share December sun and new Bruin fun...Ninety-five and twice ninety-five...Lived loved died but somehow alive...both out of place...so just drive girl, drive.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Shark tail slattering the white ocean waves.
Shark fin cutting the ocean foam.
The great white shark fin cuts open the social body
to expose the deep red worlds,
pumping and pulsing an irregular blood flow.
Seal the wound with border barbed wire.
Meaning escapes in the most profound philosophies
and critical rhythms, invisible in sober pain.
Drink up all images in the surrounding vicinity,
they'll be stark against a red rosary and soft baby curls.

Hummingbirds don't just buzz,
they touch perfect nature;
empty of plain meditation,
plentiful of justification.

Every bud slips on tar, black as blindness,
spilled from stupid soles---traces
fall as rain, stick like malignancy.

Prime spending begets war, not
struggle, and then hands gesture
to parts and portions
underneath garbbled discharge, foamy
refuse, and stacked cement.

But nevermind the innocence
crouched under the sink---
bubblegum cures almost anything.

So, drop by at the falls, where
there's the greenest eyes ever,
and say when you've finally decided
to refuse effort and embrace indolence.

this is us. you're welcome.
challenge the distant meadow silks between the tree barks
and mellow fusion occurs...
...never brought out condensation from
icy blue moon waters
but they fall besides...
...brimmed out tragic lust formed upon those love drops...
...simmering charged and opened compartments of developed musings.

My Pirate Name.

Your Pirate Name Is...

Mad Jenny of the High Seas
>>What's Your Pirate Name?>.
.

I Speak.

Your Linguistic Profile:
60% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
0% Midwestern

Inspiration, Again.

Turn left, turn right; in the dark.
You get lost, your eyes try to refocus.
The night is still dark, you're not a cat.
Cat's see in the night, humans can't.
Look right, look left; for the landmark you abandoned.

Chase the light of the moon, the stars, the shooting stars, or the street lights.
Can't illuminate the light, there's still to little sight.
Bite your lip, the fear of being lost takes a grip.
Skip the corner, turn back.
Is there something you missed?
No, it's just the dark
like a plague
it haunts
the night of your imagination.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Genuine Draft

light and breath, my love, light and breath. make my mind in that pitch black place...make it make me love you and forget about her face...make it make me brave...make it make me not care...and make it make me share...something in the nicotine night and half hearted wailing of the band, trapped on that messy stage of plywood effort and broken-glass-passion...somewhere in that muddy maze of flesh and heat...raging eyes and raucous emotion...slippy sick lips on smoldering shoulders rolling away to the afterword air of hope, despair...with alcohol on my mind...alcohol and that neon world of white-stipe crosswalks, misunderstanding and possibility; of outside offers...of temptation...of something being lost in translation...so i enter into that blurry vision...being blind is fine by me...waiting for some company.

Geek Versus Nerd.

Geek or nerd
What's in a word?
It just means that we're intelligent.
Words can be grand and make you a fan.
Being a geek, with something to prove.
You're value, your worth, your vitality.

Words are just words.
Remember that.
If you're a bard, then remember their depth.

Friday, May 11, 2007

On

On the brilliance of a snickerdoodle I set my sight. today, tonight.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Reeling.

Reeling, spinning, dancing, and prancing.
Life complicates and uncomplicates.
Like a dance or a prance, we move to the music.
Are we running or are we sunning?
Trying to improve the moves as we move.
The dance picks up.

Spinning, winning, chasing, pacing
My mind is still racing.
The dance has a rhythm, causes my feet to move.
Uncertain behind a curtain.
Always jumping, always spinning,
just to keep up the winning.

Is life a contest? Do we know where we are going?
No, that is why it is a dance.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Our Holy Grail

A myth we can't read.
Need our hands to knead.

Swiftly scour the pressed pages of epochal egos for bright stars only to find insipid crumbs rebaked in kilns of waning thoughts of sadness and madness striking souls no longer but downgraded to academic.

Need our hands to knead
A myth we can't write,
Need our young to bite.

Trepidly taint the leaves of overgrown trees in the burning of the midnight oil perchance these woefully wound words won't whittle with the dumbfounded desperation of prodigals seeking meaning offering meaning.

Need our young to bite
A myth we can't teach,
Need ourselves to breach.

Although the seductive splendour of the world taps at the stained-glass window of pretending pantheons faking clairvoyance of curious minds a wanton whisper beckons sighing cynicism at seeking our Holy Grail.

A myth.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Friday, May 4, 2007

Swirl and Whirl Over the Sea.

Teeming, seeming, . . . reeling. I take it in; the sights I see in the vast world of humanity. More or less, ebb and flow, shape me, change me. . . until I grow. I just don't know. The wind blows through the trees, just as a ship sails the seas. I hear the wind howl, and contemplate what that means to me. How the wind can impact humanity. If wind is metaphorical, then it could be political, religious, or just plain viscious. Vicious winds create tornados, and the winds don't have to be real to create the same. Sands shift, rivers flow, and still along I go. Not knowing, hardly realizing that something great might be in store. If something is in store, it will change the direction of the wind, cause the seas to whip up into a frenzy. Maybe, or it might just make one lazy and kind of hazy. Keep going, keep going; is what the breeze keeps whispering. Never doubt, never give up. . . keep it up.
Does this affect the traveler or the dreamer? No. It might be something better than they ever wished for.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Traffik

stupid is as stupid does, but i say screw it and do it -"just cuz."



feeling the sun come around the corner of my window...and my mind leaves out the front door...why do i return and return and return and burn? Does it make sense to you when you're at the wheel and navigating those roots and routes? does it make better sense to close your eyes -grabbing the wheel and swerving wildly because that's what the inside says? Does it make more sense to wear sunglasses because you've come to love those lenses and like the lies? Does it make more sense to run those fingers along those locks and tell yourself it matters and that beauty is all in how you define it? and did you find it? What kind of crazy metal has you out there making what's mad feel sane and what's sane seem strange? do you follow? do you lead? do you even bother to signal? because i never saw any that made me aware. look left and right...look left....right? and don't forget that i had my moments too...that when you looked somewhere else...and my eyes turned to you...and they ended up watching....while you calmly took your exit...did you get where you thought you were going? did you ever check your mirrors and think about the way things go? I know you know. transitions are like offramps on the freeway...where did i hear that again? does it even matter....? transitions--and long days in between--long days with lots of warm sunshine and empty rooms--lots of hellos to strangers...hello stranger.



and by the way, did that iced half double decafienated half-hearted and triple whipped memory mean more to you than to me?

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Friends.

Some of us don't realize how important our friends are until they are there in a time of need. I know that my friends mean the world to me, and without them I would lose something. The times that I realize how important my friends are is when they are there in a time of need. If I need someone to talk to they are there, and if I need a shoulder to lean on they're there. Or, if I just want to have some fun they are there. It takes times when you receive a setback to make you appreciate your friends. That should not be the case, they should always be appreciated and thanked for their steadfast friendship. So...Thanks to all of my friends (you know who you are).

Poetry.

What is poetry? I ask myself that question all of the time. Is it a summer breeze blowing through the trees? Very often poetry takes on a deeper meaning. One might read something by Keats and find the symbolism and profound meaning that written poetry can convey. However, not all poetry is written. Poetry can be present in motion, in nature, in the air, and on the page. The poetry present everywhere but on the page gives rise to feelings of appreciation for things beyond the busy tumult that is life. The printed text conveys meaning and feeling. Don't the other forms of poetry do the same? I can appreciate the breeze blowing through the trees just as I can appreciate Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Poetry in all its forms gives rise to enlightenment and the understanding of emotion. Just my two cents.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Thoughts.

Thoughts within me...going, growing, and unknowing. Like a tornado they envelop and twist within me. These thoughts are like the wind; everchanging, direction taking, and there is no mistaking that they can cause uneasiness or even happiness. There are times when they make me think; Why me? or Why not me? I just don't get it. How thoughts just bounce around inside me, but they ground me, hound me, and surround me.
Like a dust storm in a desert the thoughts continuously cover me and blind me. Maybe they are there to bring enlightenment, or just to guide me.

Postings.

Since I am new to this it will take me time to adjust. However, I will write as much as possible when I have free time. The sunny California weather may stop me, and make me go do my gardening. Bye for now.