Category: poems

As We Were (Poem)

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When we speak of war

There is no warning

Spirits soar

Reason flanking

Banners roar

Jingoistic as we were

Masochistic as we’ll be

All for her

Mother mother see

Kali gaping

Maggot womb

No more talking

Just escaping to the tomb

As we were

So we are

Read red lore

Mars so bright yet not a star

Dust and echoes

As we were

So we are

Vicious Spur

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The Nobody’s Brigade (Poem)

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The Nobody’s Brigade

They’re stunning and they’re brave

The Nobody’s Brigade

They’ve got a soul to save

The Nobody’s Brigade

Are rounding the corner

The Nobody’s Brigade

Our freshest owner

The Nobody’s Brigade

They’ve bought but haven’t paid

The Nobody’s Brigade

Is how somebody’s are made

The Nobody’s Brigade

They paint in oughts and ought’n’ts

The Nobody’s brigade

It bludgeons and it blunts

The Nobody’s Brigade

A hammersmith of folly

The Nobody’s brigade

Molding gold into latrines well ain’t it jolly

P.S. I have been spectacularly busy recently. While I’m determined to post more I have a new unexpected responsibility. Maybe I’ll fill everyone in at a later date. But mostly I’ll save my energy for more posts. Thanks for watching.

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Tea (Poem)

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I let it all sort of shake

Like a leaf on a twig

This double take

The way that they’d rig

Up a brain

Letting it fire

Again and again

Even if it’s only a liar

A lying machine

Iterates higher

Fills the latrine

With subtle manure

So that blossoms may sprout

The reasons for which we cannot be sure

If they’re about

To Establish About

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Windowside Experiment 1.0 (Poem and Song)

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(Got the 12 String fixed…so I put together this little number. It’s 432 hz because I’m a dirty hippy.)

Wasted Days

And golden Rays

Of Sunshine

When will I rise

To tow the drowning line

Long blonde hair

Wicker Chair

And summer Wine

Such malaise the milieu

It won’t be fine

Just lay here in the dew

And look through you

Into a parallel light filter

All the possibilities akilter

Window Windowside

Hey there

Wanna Go for a ride

Splitting rainbows

Let’s see

What providence sows

Talk to me

Tell

Show

Well

On high on low

Elaborate

Through

Labyrinth of rain

Tracing drops

On the window pain

Light refracted

Past redacted

Yet you still know my name

You still know your windowside

The hours that came

The way they’d glide

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Momiji Hazushi (Poem)

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Image result for maple leaf autumn

The evening is a brush

That paints strange portraits

Wild scenes all in a rush

Of wonders, loves, and hates

Wind that passess between branches

Dwindling light a pattern maker

Cascades meaning in avalanches

Summon now the undertaker

For apathy has passed beyond 

We live in light we live in shadow

In a sacred sort of bond

Intermingling to glow

As crimson petal

Of the waxing maple

All in one and one in All

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The Hits (Poem)

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You’re swimming in sentiment

Can’t reach reaction

Down in the basement

Gravity’s gaining traction

Would you say

Or would you sing

Would you play

Just for the ring

Fundamental symphony

How it orbits

Differs not in kind just by degree

These are the hits

They were the same

Till we showed up

And changed the name

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Wispy, Waify, and Wild (Poem)

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She was just a dream

I guess that is my nightmare

All these sorts of things

They always interrupt me

This is why I stare

O so very blankly

As the hand ascends

And drops down

O so very slowly

Nothing ever ends

Wispy, waify, and wild

Note: For those who listened…I know it’s rough. These are actually just voice memos I make for myself so I remember the gist of vocal melodies (so called) that I make up. But…IMO (and I suppose I’m biased) they have a certain raw quality that I like. So I guess the point of this note is (1) gimmee a break, (2) give yourself a break and publish something! Cheers.

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Tactile (Poem)

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Get to Know a Variety of Maple Tree Species

There’s a lot to be said for tactile suggestion

How treading leaves with rubber soles

Is an eternal orientation

Contextualizing roles

The shoe, the man, the fall

Somewhere between specificity and ambiguity

Strange songs begin to call

Like myriad birds

Flitting in their season

Whether in fifths or thirds

They will seduce a novel reason

The sight and prickle of the holly

The wind whips between bare branches

Without melancholy

Yes, due to such stanchions

As the footfall and the dusk

All such touches all of natures kisses

Will breathe life into a husk

For touch is truth that never misses

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Cager (Poem)

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Image result for 19th century man

Overclocked machines

Stuffed to the brim

With numbered

Listlessness so grim

So grimly unencumbered

To trim

Cutting meaning into action

Assembled and compiled

For a smoother traction

Cager faintly smiled

The neatness the precision

How carefree

To live without decision

In the geometric See

The paths are set

Garbage collected

There’s no regret

No life so masterfully

Architected

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Eyes on the East (Poem)

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daffodils

O you voices of wonder….

Pour out your splendour !

All through the hills…

O sweet and tender!

Reedy and ready…

How the wind fills!

Various yet steady…

Eyes on the East!

Shine stars o shine…

From greatest to least!

All down the line…

Herald the dawn!

Impulse for dancing…

Sundays sweet fawn!

Tender is glancing…

Fresh wine is drawn!

O you voice of wonder…

Pour out your splendour!

Cast down your hilts…

Sing that great ardour!

That drones and that lilts…

It’s never harder!

Than at twilight…

But if faith will continue!

The Sun is our sight…

Shine on o shine on true!

Voices of wonder …

Pour out your splendour!

All through the hills…

Curtains are thrust back !

Exploding as Daffodils…

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