Frolics, Becomings, & Unharmonies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To God, my family, my friends, and all my inspirations. Jack and Will, see you on the other side. This is for you all…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Single

Candlelight

Dinner for one

Table for one

      One

The most desolate number

That only the lonely

Know

Choking down the sour

Fruits of the tree

That springs forth

Sour life

Sipping from the bottom

Of the rusted cup

And the tinge of licking

The empty plate

 After feasting on your

Shame

Biting the bitter pill

Swallow it down

 

 

 

Happy

I love you

Be with me forever

I can tickle you with a feather

Rub on your toes

Kiss on your nose

Make you laugh and giggle

No sorrow for today

Love till we get carried away

Come with me, love

And build velvet gardens

That you dream of

There we sleep

With soft delights

Holding you to keep

For all your nights

Cause I know you’re my angel

I know this is true

And wake to your face

All my days through….

 

 

 

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Let me live on in these words

And let me be happy on these pages

Or whatever emotion I bestow

With this immortality of the

Written word

Let this poem live on

In whoever understands

In whoever knows

Perhaps lived it

Like I have

I know it

I understand it

Keep it safe

So others can use it

And know

There are people who love

People who feel

People who hurt

Just as much

-You can’t be alone knowing that

 

 

Illusions

I can laugh at your wilted flowers;

Once was sweet as roses

Blooms to fill my darkness,

Grand fields of red happiness

Now decay at my feet

Turning the cycle once more-

Just another trampled lie

Sustained by churning oceans

But void of your promises:

I will smile as the thorn

Is plucked from my side

Having wandered too far

With too thin a skin

-And too small

An impression-

Of where the velvet shade ends,

And you begin;

(Held in highest regards)

I lay you in the weeds,

Not the angel I imagined

But the devil before me-

No longer immortalized

By my thoughts

As thin a substance

As you are made to be

-Lost you in me-

Swept away with

-Battered emotions

-Pointless inspirations

The portrait of the goddess

Now a smear on my canvas

Just a smudge

Of what would have been

The princess that danced

On my busy pen

Ringed in my words

And on my tongue

Sits a beggar on my lips,

Marked a flame

Instead of the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

15

If I was to leave

Would you ask me to stay?

If I was quiet

Would you make conversation?

If I said you were beautiful

Would you believe it?

If I wanted to touch you

Would it be okay?

If I were to frown

Would you make me smile?

If I was sad

Would you comfort me?

If I gave you the world

Would you take it?

If I drew a picture

Would you hang it on your wall?

If I kissed you

Would you doubt me?

If I held you

Would you feel safe?

If I doubted

Would you make me believe?

If I was numb

Would you make me feel?

If I were to stare

Would you know you’re beautiful?

If I were to ask “mine?”

Would you say “forever”?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kiss me, lover

Long and hard

I kneel before you

To confess my sins

Please forgive me

My life before you

I seek salvation

In you

Sweet dreams, lover

To you

I give

Twilight sky

To hold you through

The night

I wish to be there

Bless you, lover

This is my constant

You have to wade through

Take me lover

I am weak

 

 

Revolution of Love

Absolute disgust

For absolute power

Open hearts

Open eyes

Know your kind

Wicked man

And simple plans

Will topple

Your simple minded

Treachery

You don’t know

What is right for us

Anymore

Common hate

For your common evil

Trample the tyrants

Let the message wave

Through many hearts

That the time

Is upon us

The nimble

The meek

The innocent

Gather the good natured

And all those

Who will

Inherit our kingdom

The truth is love

Love is the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Disregard when you can

Disregard who I want

Push it away

You dark people

And your pathetic ways

You can only sour

My conscious -

My heart

My soul

My third eye

Remains out of reach

Petty humans

I shine inward

For you

Leaving dull body

To contend with

Your mediocrecy

 

 

 

 

 

Dire

How many more times is it going to take

Before there is nothing left of me?

They take what they found appealing –

Sweet word

Gentle touch

Kind smile

Warm body

Passionate blue eyes

And they take until they get their fill

And they leave a husk of a man

Will it not end until they

Have sucked the marrow from my bones?

Or taken the last sparkle

And snuffed it like a cigarette?

Do not suffer this boy

For ye shall suffer also

One side of me a gentle kiss

The other – executioner

I will tell you everything you want to hear

And tell you “you are my world”

Now with my forked tongue

I cut you deep and make you bleed

Only after I have stripped

Your divinity that I have given you

I will take your humanity – for I gave that also

And it is mine to take back

All is mine to take back

And leave you with

Nothing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers and Candy

The sun didn’t shine

Birds didn’t sing

Bitter taste

For such a sweet day

Abandoned

Solitude

Nothing to give

To no one

-Taking what

I’m giving-

Wonder where she is

Maybe I don’t care

Maybe I don’t want to smile

At pseudo love

-Just wanted you

-Just wanted you

Where’s your promising eyes…

Where’s your soothing lips…

Where’s your compassion…

Fuck you, valentine

 

 

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I dream of sad girls

With pouty lips

And big teary eyes

Frail hearts

And tender emotions

~ Cry when you say you love me ~

I dream of strong women

With dangerous looks

And killer smiles

Sharp minds

And keen intellect

~ Care when you break my heart ~

I dream of you

Timely in decision

Lack in perfection

Quick with wit

And easy in sorrow

All I want

All I need

~ Just Love Me ~

 

 

 

Suppressed

And the sky and the sea

Rage and flow

And bang against the door

In my skull

The rage

-Stuff shut inside-

The flames of hell ~

The hurricane winds ~

Blow through me

Beware my dear

For I am going to unleash

My love upon you

The angry love I have

The mad desire

That craves your touch

The eating of

Myself and my soul

Cry your name

I am being devoured

By all the suppressed

Feelings for you 

I want to yell how much I care

But the wave would wash you away

I would call your name

But the fire would burn you alive

Or I could touch you

And make you believe

That between

Heaven and earth

-There is someone who cares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice Guy

The need for chivalry is dead.  The nice guys of the world are left in the dust.  Be cool, pretend you don’t need anyone, and everyone will want you, need you. Open a door for someone and get it slammed in your face. Say a kind word and get walked on to hear the next one. Be strong, even though you get trampled. Look forward, even when you’re left behind. Think positive, when you’re a stepping stone for someone’s well being. Put her on a pedestal so she can knock you down. Hold her hand so she can rip your arm off and club your hope. Don’t call to say “hi” or you’ll be called aggressive. Don’t spend as much time with them as you can with her or you’ll be smothering her. Don’t express how you feel, that’s not what they want to hear. Don’t care about them – or you will place the weight of the world on their shoulders. Shoot me – don’t say I’m nice. Kill me – I don’t want to be your friend. Buy a dog if you want company.

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Did you see the moon tonight?

It wore your face

Big, bright, and enchanting

It enthralled me

She held me in her arms

She held me in her glow

Not unlike you,

My pale star

How I could sit and watch you

I feel like a lovesick child

I feel like me

Just like the moon sits

Atop the night

You sit atop my

Heart

         Above

      Everything

 

 

 

 

 

Timid

I wonder, while I sit here,

What you think

Where does your mind wander?

To whom does your mind drift?

Mine strays your way

Perhaps you’re thinking of me?

Even think of me while

I’m thinking of you

Thinking the same thing I am

At the same time

Like simultaneous lovers

Sharing prying thoughts

And contentful moods of

Gentle inhibitions

Secrets I can’t tell you

Dreams I want to sell you

You already know, though

~ I tell you with my eyes ~

 

 

 

 

Hypnotized

Your eyes seem to change color

       Blue

Let me dive in

Those enchanting pools

And swim through your thoughts

       Green

Wrap me

In glowing emeralds

I love your eyes

They seer my flesh

And rest in my skin

I can feel you

Stepping into my head

Control me

I know nothing else but

Your eyes 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angel

You slay the demons

That sit upon my chest-

The closer you are

The farther the torments

Flee from my heart

And it seems only you

      Rain angels

When you begin to pour

Your kindness on me

Nestle me in

Your soft wings

And whisper pure Heaven

And all that comes with

Your angel touch-

Why do you tread

Amongst mortals?

-Disillusioned souls-

Brilliant divine one

Heaven lies not here

But in you

~ So may I cast aside

And fly among

The clouds

That I know you hold

In your hands

     Angel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flare

You say we only have tonight

     Then I love you

     For only tonight

I love you without end

I hide my inhibitions

And love you unconditionally

My lips close to your neck

Where I feel your skin tingle

Parting them to take you in-

I breathe and all you are

Rushes into me

Your smell

Your sweet smell

The scent of your hair

Your soul and all that’s makes you a woman-

I can feel all your soft curves

Every inch of your body

You have no secrets when you’re this close

The soft flesh that you are

   Your smooth stomach

Like velvet and my blood pumps harder

My pulse races

Your warm breeze fills my senses

   Sets them afire

I’m going to ignite

   You are real

   We are real

~ I know your secrets ~

Bold in company

I gaze upon your beauty

As would kind lovers do

As I would do

Wrap your arms around my neck

Drown me in your flowing love

I will consume you

With this act of

Divineness and sweat

Entangled in this moment

I can see forever

In this flash of time

This glimpse of you

Only Heaven knows

This kind of emotion

And Hell knows

How far I will fall

My life is not enough

To give for you

Nor my blood

My soul either

  We are one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tired

I just need to get away

To your memory

When I’m weary

I rest my head

On your soft moment

And dream away

White nights

Radiate

Dark days

But only

You shine

*Sunflowers*

When my hearts

Ambers slow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s okay to be okay

It’s okay to be okay

Okay to be okay

To be okay

To be okay

Be okay

Be okay

Okay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stripper Blues

You are no angel

But I know you have wings

You shine light

I have seen it

You are no angel

And you do not walk this earth

But your skin is smooth

Like one

As soft as one

You are no angel

Though you take me

High as the clouds

You are no angel

But you spread love

With a simple gesture

You are no angel

But your touch could heal

Or strike me dead

I want to feel it

You’re no angel

But you could save me…

Always of You

My eyes want to gaze

On no one but you

My lips long to kiss

-Only you-

My arms desire to hold

Only your body

My fingers have only the feel for you

My chest has only the need

For your head to rest upon it

My body is safe

When only your arms are around me

My legs carry me back to you

My ears love your stories

My hair prefers your fingers

Over a brush any day

My heart is never lonely

When yours beats next to it

My mind idles to your memory

    When I fall asleep

It’s always next to you

And when I dream-

It’s always of you

 

 

 

 

YOU

ON

A

BED

OF

WHITE

ROSES

WITH

BLACK

SATIN

SHEETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Endowment

When you walk away, I’m a prisoner. A prisoner of my mind and the demons come and whisper all the doubts and all the fears. Everything that needs to be left unspoken. My heart aches and my soul is incomplete. But when you come to me, and put your arms around me, and hold me, and press against me; I am whole. The smell of your hair, your perfume, your gentle kiss, your warm skin, your beautiful smile, and your enchanting eyes fill my need to be complete. My wanting to be complete. When you’re close to me, orchids bloom, colors explode, and I feel angels. You open the part of me that cares. The little boy that knows no heartache, no sorrow, no fear. You are my happy place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women & the Things They Do

I’ve seen you with your head in your hands

Wishing all these problems away

I’ve seen you on your knees

With your blackened eyes

Crying like a child

-Praying to god-

Hoping he hears you

I’ve seen with that shiny blade

Determined to strip yourself

To bare needs

The bare soul

    Happy ~ Sad

    Give ~ Take

What a simple creature you are, dear

     With your ideas

What a complex entity you are

With your ideals and rationale

I’ve seen your love

In the broad spectrum of life

Hoping to cling to whatever is constant

And willing to sell yourself

For your small piece of intimacy

To be wanted and needed

     Was your goal

And you believed everything he said

-Because you wanted to-

I’ve seen you scar yourself

    For the truth

Well, there is none, love

Only what your heart tells you…

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grey Autumn

Fall trips through the days

When the sun is too short

And I need the night to share

With someone

The chill keeps reminding me

That I need to warm

-I have the mood

    I just need the lady-

~ Somebody to joke with

~ Somebody to be there

~ Somebody who wants to be my best friend

~ Someone to be my lover

We can tell secrets

And share our dreams

Someone to listen

When you lay beneath the cold

Blankets that cover you

No soft body

To hold against you

Wondering if anyone wants you

Like you want them

How long will it take

Till you throw yourself to the desperate?

Breaking apart and breaking down-

What a hollow season

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caressing Angels

Sleep wraps my body

And dreams sweep me from bed

You were lying

Next to me

Arms wrapped around me

Drowsy lips telling me

   "I love you"

But dreams fade

And I awake

To empty sunrises

Holding you again

Would be like

~ Caressing Angels ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer’s Lullabye

I would

Only if I could

And can’t you see I would

I have given what I can

To keep the peace

I have shown all I can

To hold my ground

You are a goddess to behold

And I cherish to look upon you

Goodnight to you and

Whoever gets to hold you

Through the night

I envy them

And what they hold

It is all I wish for

And want to hold

~ Just you ~

Through the night

 

 

 

 

 

Lowly

Laying here

Bleeding from every pore

    Dirty

        Rotting

            Unjust

I wish to cleanse myself

[Teeth and blood]

Confused by demons

Condemned by angels

R      u            n

B~l~e~e~d

Heaven and Hell are lies

    God doesn’t care

And I don’t believe in the devil

I want the light

I want wings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balm

     Torn angel

Fallen from blue skies

   Do not weep

Over bruised wings

~ They will mend ~

It will all heal

It always does

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I shall dance and sing

And shout her name aloud

And pity the huddled masses

Who sit and cry

And hope

-And I shall shout aloud

How much she means-

And with the huddled masses

I will share my joy

For they know not love

Her

Love

 

 

 

 

 

Pardon me

So

What me do you want today?-

I asked

The real you-

She replied-

The one that

Makes me smile

Makes me laugh

Makes me love life-

The one that

  Kisses me

  Holds me

  Touches me

Makes me feel ~

I’m sorry

I said

Emotionally numb

Is all I feel

Black and blood red

Is all I see

You call me sweet

    And kind

But if you

Could see

What goes on

Inside me

You would think differently

Of what you say ~

Anger roams free

Death and destruction

Frolics about

Loneliness feeds on my

Once plush heart

Famine withers

The little boy inside

And war takes

What is left ~

So

What me would you like today?

The hurt little boy

I fell in love with-

And she

Smiled

 

 

Dream Country

You are my

Dream country

Where I stroll

Through rosy fields

That smell as

Sweet as you

I dare not touch

For they are as

Fragile as your heart

I stop to

Quench my thirst

At your

Stream of tears

And I take my fill

And drink it dry

(-It only

   Causes sorrow-)

Scorched earth

Takes place

Of where your

Love used to

Rest its weary

Head so

Long ago

So I shall

Sew the hillside

With my seeds

Of hope

To give back

That once was

Yours dearly

Take the part of me

That you need

To replenish

Your honey fields

And sweet

Blue skies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue

The eyes are the windows to the soul

What do you see in mine?

Can you see the longing and desire?

Can you see the boy that

Longs to be held?

Can you see the man

That wants to be over you?

Can you see the bastard that has

Left the trail of broken hearts and salty tears?

Can you see the poet who charms

The ear and soothes the soul?

Can you see the artist that

Weaves worlds on paper?

Can you see I want you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phase 3

Rain doesn’t describe my feelings

Tears have nothing

To do with my emotions

A ray of hope

Doesn’t come close

To my inertia

Embrace cold steel

And eat glass

I am low and angry

But if you want me

Just

    The

       Way

     I

Am

Then take me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lust

Sweet dreams

Of blue eyes

Tonight

And soft curves

Of cream-tan

Fragile flesh

Dance on

My mind

How sweet

To kiss your lips

How divine

To touch you

How glorious

For you

To be

With me

*Tonight

 

 

 

 

 

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I’m searching for a change

A new way to look at the world

A new perspective from the everyday

Perhaps a whole new me

Insight unto myself

Myself and everything about me

...Abound me...

A good heartbreak

The tearing of my soul

Possibly diviness

Brings resurrection

To the intellectual inside

To the child inside

Give me a toy

I want to play again

     Young

     Wild

     Carefree

-Innocence above everything-

-Spirit instead of habit-

 

 

 

 

Growing Apart

One last dance, love

Before you say goodbye

And leave me

To die

You are the Apple of my eye

And the eye of the storm

The irony kills me

And the pure miracle of that night

Mocks and laughs at my dreams

      3 days to build

      1 day to strip

My esteem

What a wonderful destroyer

You are, love

Burn me

Take my dead soul

And color me

After the flesh is gone

It takes time, baby

But I still save my love

For you

As I did before

Touch and go

As we did before

If you find yourself

If you find comfort

In what you do

Let me go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Renaissance Man

Beware the man of the arts

For he is more

Than the wax figure

You face

Beneath the skin

Creativity flows through his veins

Insight guides him

Imagination drives him

Love paces motion

And encompasses all that he is

Love is his muse

Being all it stands for

And the more he suffers

The more it feels like home

Fear not the man of the arts

      Though he be mad

“This is your life

         Love it”    

“Be a gentle soul

In a world that fears

        The meek”

Beware the man of the arts

For if he has you

In the palm of his hand

You won’t want to leave

And you shall

Live on

In ink

In colors

-Immortality is his gift-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fairy Tales

If I offered you death

Would you die in my arms

Like a true tragedy?

If I brought you life

Would you smile

And live it to its fullest

By my very side?

If I gave you beauty

Would you bloom

A rose; soft and sweet?

If I offered spirit

Could you soar heaven

With a sky blue thought?

If I offered freedom

Would you run away with me?

If I promised serenity

Could you stay?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her Flesh

I take comfort

In another’s arms

For you can’t hold me

    Her touch

       I use

To put reality

To my dreams

~ Substance to desires ~

~ Warmth to cold wishes ~

But it’s not you

Never your skin

Never your laugh

Never your lips

Always you

Always

And

Never

 

 

 

 

Thimbles

A thimble of our desire

Would be legend

A thimble of our hope

Could fill the ocean

A thimble of our passion

Could put out the sun

A thimble of our apprehension

Would move mountains

And a thimble of my love for you

Would surely overflow…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wearing Thin

Turn off the hurt

Tired of being in the dirt

Gets to me sometimes

Finding myself starting to rhyme

Sadness eating my mind

But not my heart

Can’t touch that part

When does happiness start?

I’m ready to begin

Cause rhyming wears me thin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ode to Bill Hicks

I understand dark prophet

Take me with you

    I know you

            I know God

"You said it all"

~ Ready for the voyage home ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flee

Let’s go

You and me, doll

Drive through the country

Sunshine and trees

And you

Radiant as ever

With a smile on your lips

And the wind in your hair

We can be there

We can be there

Solace among us

They don’t know

They can’t know

Away from them

Away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rattled to the core

By grasping dreams

Living wishes

Consorting with angels

Armed with stitching yarn

Ready to pull tight their

Pink laces

Feeling your way around

Pleasant days

Knowing wishes received

So you don’t overlook them

And once again stitching pink

Angel needles

Tie

The dreams closer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Star Kid

The night is my father

And I am his child

Bring on the night

Let it hide

All I bleed

I hold my innocence

-By will

-By force

What happens when

I cannot embrace it

Any longer?

Will I be feared like

     Father Night

Or will I be lost like

     Mother Day?

And I linger in sunset

Searching for answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blood and Butterflies

 

 

 

 

 

A man standing in a field of blood

With hands growing from the crimson pool

Reaching for the sky

Out of the liquid red hell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In his hands he cradles a butterfly

Dreaming of flying on her back

Away to oblivion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hate and Despair

Allied for destruction

Marches for the man

Knowing of his freedom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“ Give us the insect

Nothing is allowed

In the field of sorrow

Except you ”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“ But she is the only thing

You haven’t taken from me

And I will

Die for her ”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crush (contradictions)

Here again

That feeling

The one that makes you smile

The one that puts that certain

Spring in your step

The wanting of someone right

I got that feeling

The one that says

It’s not going to work

The one that drags me down

The one that keeps me going

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psycho-dribble

I understand the hurt. I understand the pained. I understand the distraught. I understand what it means to be alone and have no control over anything anymore. I understand what it means to be not wanted and not wanting in such a way that it eats you alive inside your heart and soul and seems to twist and distort your vision so that it all becomes backwards to black again and run from your fear, but it will all catch up to you in the night for that’s when the demons of the past and present catch up with you and dance in your dreams when you finally stop to rest. They will catch you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pool Hall Death

The tables scream and whine

As they are torn from their reality

And being hauled away

To their dusty confines

I sit and watch

And memorize and notice

The things I never thought to

Take recognition in

The memories that I will always

Hold dear to me

Table 27, table 27

Where I fell for the perfect girl

And the immortal question was asked

“Do you make a better friend or lover?”

We know the answer to that, Heather

Don’t leave out 21

Good ‘ole 21

Where many a deep conversation

Was held among the finest of friends

Not to mention new friends made

Over beer and eight ball and coffee

The good times just shooting pool

Always zen

Along the green felt traveled

For escape from the world

*Goodbye Cue-nique*

I hold you dear

Always

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Color This

I can read you, but all I see is a child’s coloring book. Shape with no substance. Let me paint within your lines.

Black for your heartache.

Red for your love.

White for your soul.

Green for your jealousy.

Blue for your sky.

And yellow for the sun that I will bring to your black and white world. You need this. You need this. Let me color what you see and show you the colors you could be. You need this.

I want this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set and Fix

I want you more than I’d admit

           To you

         To myself

I’m not one to take the fall

This is my level of existence

And when I leave you in tears

Remember

Love is my naiveté

But after you have walked

My wicked ways

And ran from my errs

And I only have myself

     To get over

You may just find

Like the first night

That I’m still the same boy

You asked to stay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think you are beautiful,

Though there is more to you

than what I just see

I find you extraordinary,

by what I know,

And I want to know more.

And I want to know more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Romeo

If my hand should do

Anything but caress you

Sever it from my wrist

If my mouth should utter

Anything but sweet nothings

Cut out my tongue

If my eyes gaze upon you

With anything but adoration

Pluck them from my skull

And if my heart should

Do anything but love you

Leave me to die

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thrown

Take me

All of me

I dub you all that I am

So I may forget myself

And live in you

Where the roses for my heart

Grow

Reaper of my soul

Incredible thief

Wonderful devourer

    Eat me whole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Flow through me

Like ink through this pen

Put you to the paper

Of my memory

Important enough to write down

Strong enough to evoke emotion

Smooth like fluid

Clockwork for wrote words

Well thought before expressed

Emotion reigns

Touch me inside-

Where do your passions go?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Done

Perhaps I’ve suffered

For my sins

For my mistakes

And proof of redemption

Comes in the form

Of an angel

Bringer of shine

Deliverer of absolution

My means to an end

The karma stops here

Perhaps I’m forgiven

For my deeds

Serendipity to show

I’m whole again

Divineness is being complete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gasoline

Love the fire

And see how it grows

Hurry Hurry 

Fast and scurry

Scorching in my wake

Let the negative burn

Hope has new light

And it catches me inside

Making an amber

Of my soul

Hot and bright am I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sometimes I feel like rain

Soft and subtle

Sad water

Wanting to wash away

All the dirt

Cleanse the street

And the matter

Quick drops

To be swept away

By wind and sun

Only to have it storm again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I gather myself

In soft pillows

And velvet blankets

To escape to you

Within my thoughts

Bluebonnet fields and you

Candy-cane trees

Play among the breeze

My love

The world can’t touch us

Today

Frolic through the

Swaying flowers

You belong to me

For the moment

And the rest of

My Daydreams

 

 

 

 

 

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Color our love with

Crayons

Put the innocence

Of a child

And the curious delight

Which they do things

Play with me in

The rain

Soggy joy

While we laugh

And stomp puddles

We can tell stories

And share secrets

Late into the night

Falling asleep with

The t.v. on

Waking up to

Sugar cereal and cartoons

 

 

 

 

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I could lose myself

In your beauty

Take me away angel

I need faith healing

The faith I have in you

And what I think

You can do

Make things better

With your touch

Bring me a little

Contentment

With your striking beauty

I dare you

To make this night last

Rest on me

You know where

Comfort lies

Sprawl on me

I want you to be closer

When you’re this close to me

 

 

China Doll

I cradle you in arms

Of velvet

My china doll

Gentle fingers

So I don’t scratch you

My china doll

Put you on a shelf

And wipe your dusty eyes

Polish your tainted cheeks

With hope

Shine bright

My china doll

Let no one

Smear your porcelain skin

Nor tear your dress

Fray your hair

Sit on my shelf

My china doll

You don’t have to play

 

 

 

Fuck Off

Take these contaminated things

These hateful things

I don’t want them

They are not me

Nothing I need

Nothing I want to be

Crush the withered and

Simple hearted

Lay not their seeds

In my thoughts

Lock them out of my soul

That seek my downfall

I fly

With my own heartwings

So leave me my blue sky

My sky blue

To me

 

 

 

 

 

Quick Reminder

Remember to dream big

Don’t forget

To reach for highest grounds

You’re smart

Not the smartest

But still the genius

You’re beautiful

Not quite a velvet rose

Though beautiful

You’re talented

Grow creatively

Let your imagination bloom

Be kind

Love yourself

And those around you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Pen

My ink spilling magic wand

I can weave worlds

Play with your emotions

Get in your head

And seduce you with my words

The ink my blood

The paper my body

      You

My prisoner

Trapped in my words

A visitor to my thoughts

~ Friend ~

 If you know

~ Companion ~

If you understand

My pen and I

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stormfront

It rained after you left

It always does

From sun

To misery’s downpour-

It rained after you left

It always does

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Echo

Words aren’t important

Laying here next to you

Touching you

Let my caress be enough

Let my actions scream

When I’m tongue-tied

But words aren’t important

Conversation isn’t necessary

And it’s so damn quiet

Quiet Quiet Quiet

When you’re not around

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The time to sow tears

Of joy

Come and reap them

Love

Take them to your heart

So it grows

Grow love

In your hazel fields

And let it spread the world over

We are the source

Here and now

There and whenever

Wherever

It starts with us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodnight

Bless the pillow

You rest your head on

I dream of being there

When you dream

Through your visions of

Orchids and waterfalls

Let me walk with you

Embraced in the night

Take me to your special place

Slumbering one

Lead me there

Among your desires

Within your wishes

I hope to be

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Give and Take

Do not wait for roses

They are pretty things

Waiting to die

I give you not gold

It is the trinket

Of whores

Nor will you receive sweets

My dear

Aphrodisiac for the weak

Petty gifts

Do not parallel

My affections

Material objects

Are for fools

I give you my eyes

Endless blue on

A cloudy day

I give you my smile

Beginnings to happiness

I give you my poetry

Emotions as far

As the eye can see

I give you my pictures

All part of my soul

And I give you

My heart

My love

So you will not

Be alone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You are beyond my senses

And go straight to my soul

Joy is your substance

Light is precedence

You breed happiness

In me

I can feel you in every nerve

You are the best high

Intoxicating my heart

And make my mind swim

I sweat you from

Every pore

Only to have you gather

My thoughts

In your basket

And dive into the

Sea of me

To eat my pain

Once again

 

 

 

Mad Love

Mad, mad hatter

Can you live without her?

No, no

Certainly not

Without her I would surely rot

To bones and gristle

Stop the rain

Stop the rain

It’s starting to drizzle

Jester, jester

Your heart festers

Given less love

To a lot lesser

Angel divine

-What a crime-

I should never

Have called you

Mine

 

 

 

 

Safe

Home is what I call you

Home

Where it’s warm

Where I lay my head

Where my treasures rest

Someplace to set hearts

Before beautiful

Before sweet

You are home

I will cry tonight

Rivers of joy

Because I am home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man-Slaughter

I feel like a

Murdered angel

Struck down by

The goddess

The singular vision

Of perfection

Torn asunder

Broken wings

It’s going to be a long night;

Begat by long days

Sad days

And a tortured soul

And still

No one

Understands

The hurt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just Shut Up

More talk

From your lips

Your poisoned speech

From a weary heart

Like razors to my ears

And knives to my flesh

More words

From your mouth

Like last we talked

More devices of pain

More sleepless nights

And dreary days

More self loathing

And angry thoughts

Please

Stop talking

It’s killing me

 

 

 

 

 

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I send my love

To you my brightest star

Grace to my soul

I welcome your light

And go blind with love

But I don’t need eyes

To feel you

Feel you in me

Cradled in that warm place

Deep inside

Where I drift to

To steal a kiss

When the world has grown teeth

And the breath I take

Is my own

I can always hold you

I can always kiss you

I can always be with you

Letting my thoughts sparkle

In my eye

Letting you take me off

On the breeze

Skyward

On your feathers

Into the sun

Into the sun

Take me away

Brightest star

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nowhereville, Texas

All this serenity

Would drive a man

Crazy

De-evolution

Around every corner

Could rub off

S  l  o  w

People

Slowly living

Running to their graves

Too much distance

For city boys

Give me traffic

Give me cafes

Give me thinkers

But I’m taking

Natures Whispers

The trees speak

Louder here

And the animals

Are fearless

Hugging and holding

     The scenery

So far from native

     Noise

My native concrete

I’m taking nature

When I leave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of Those Nights

Dead space

Night

Again

Black spotlight

To highlight

The dull things

Dusty things

Kept on the top shelf

     Contained

     Depressed

     Horny

     Angry

     Lonely

Just sprinkles

   On the main course

            Friendless

            Loveless

            Jobless

            Carless

People could

Care less

Where’s the sun?

Where’s the sun?

It’s a stagnant night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tragicus

The world is a stage

     Unlit

And I’ve fallen into

     Act III

   Martyrdom:

Punishment for yourself

The actors are dead

The director has

Gone native

And the curtain

Determined to bring it

      All

To last call

:EXIT STAGE:

   Wherever

       You

       Can

 

 

 

 

 

My Friend’s Pool

Pea soup

Algae puddle

       Of

Forest green

Kidney

-With a diving board

/ Slide right in \

Beware the slimey things

And I’m wondering

When the

Ooze monster

Is going to crawl

Out of the

Primordial hatchery and kill us

Incubating the creature from

The creepy lagoon

Sunk in the back yard

~ Come back

Next summer ~

 

 

 

A Prayer

God

Bless those who

Are less fortunate

Anyone less fortunate

(Heaven doesn’t discriminate)

   The hurt

   The hungry

   The homeless

   The hopeless

Whether they were

Spit upon

Or condemned by

Their own faculty

Bless them all

     God

All of them

   The lonely

   The lost

   The unmotivated

   The angry

   The unloved

Decaying masses

Tossed aside

By the uncompassionate

(Bless them too)

Send them the light

And carry them

And walk with them

Hand in Hand

In the

Eden Gardens

-Forgive us

  Lord-

-We are all

  Unfortunate-

Lacking the

Divinity

We need

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tree

When I grow up

I want to be

A tree

   Tall

      Majestic

Changing with the seasons

Succumbing to

Mother Nature

Mother’s nature

Colorful pieces of me

On display

To shade

The world weary

And roots firmly

Planted

In terra firma

To spread

My seeds

Across the fields

And there I will

Stand tall

Standing tall

Reaching skyward

Growing more

With time

Growing old

With beauty

Broad

With life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matchsticks and Fear

There is no substitute for flesh

            Flesh

Warm and fresh

Tan and porcelain

I would go mad

Before I give in

      Walked

When I should have ran

Now you’re tapping

On my heels

And I’ve done what I can

To forget

How it feels

When the hammer

  / Came down \

  / Came down \

Watching the

Matchstick castles

Fall all around

Time and patience

Lover and friend

And I just can’t seem

To forget

Your skin

But even that won’t

Rebuild matchstick houses

Again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Eat of the sun

In your picnic basket

Blue skies

  Tired

  Bored

Soaking in it

Content

Sunny daze

For solar powered

   Souls

Light life

Support systems

For the bright meek

Sick of soaked

Dreary days

-Sloshy expression-

Hang us on a line to dry

 

 

 

 

 

Corpus Diablo, Inc.

Magic on my fingers

Still you judge

By the cover

Dreams

Ambition

Hope and faith

Make wealth

Tick tock

5 o’clock

Suit guy

Numbers on the

Social scoreboard

When did you sell your dreams

To corporate america

The diluted?

 Climbing the whore’s ladder

Instead of riding

The spiral to

    ??????

Glancing the blurs –

Suit and white shirts

Brown shoes and ties

         Damn

 More khaki pants

Tanner

Than the Sahara

Just as dry

On the 13th floor

Glass menagerie

Nestled

In the wall to wall

…Carpeted…

Belly of the beast

Fed fluorescence

By big business

And the young

Lemming Professionals

Eat their dreams

And watch the real people

Through dollar eyes

Behind their tempered cages

Hold the sun

Hold the sun

Chained man

It’s never too late

Manda’s Hand

Mr. Bunny Suit stands

Waiting for the glimpse of

   The lace angel

   The pixy princess

Her hand holds

His eyes

And her words invade

His heart

Waiting on her beauty

Surviving on honeydew

And her magical works

Nourished by her

Life giving lips

That bides his

Hundred Mile Hauntings

 Of the Red Vixen

With the butterfly wings

Who whispers familiar

Alabama ground

Just this side of the city

Just this side

Of his own star

Holiday Cheer (kinda)

On Donner

On Blitzen

On shoppers

Keep on bitchin’

 

Time for joy

Time for cheer

Time for seasonal depression

        Damn

Christmas is here

 

Time for greed

Time for selfishness

Mall crowds too

Man, what a fuckin’ mess

 

Lights sucking electricity

Christmas carolers bugging me

Farmers killing trees

And all I want for Christmas

Is to keep my sanity

 

I don’t need presents

I don’t need mistletoe

I just need my friends

To keep all this

Holiday Cheer

From makin’ me low…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lost

You left me here again

Sitting in the corner

With toys scattered

On the floor

Frozen in half-step

And I’m touching

The light on the carpet

Awed by the outside

On display

Through the window

I want to play with you

My toys have rusted

Can we go to the park?

Could you sing me to sleep

With a sweet tongue?

Rub my back

Bury me in the

Curve of your neck

My childhood was lost

 

 

 

Spun Jenny

Mine was of the purest

Of adoration and love

I wanted to spend time

Cradled in thoughts

And ideas

Laughing at the phone

For ramblings

Of your light arguments-

Just to be near your

Bronze curves

Brought my nothing

To everything

~ You were everything ~

With softest lips

But it was brought

To a boil

And has become the

Dark inside

That I murmur

And clench my teeth at

I still hurt

It would be easy to blame someone

Laying the shroud on them

I still carry it

Quit calling my name

I still hurt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confessions

(the guilty and the satisfied)

“Okay”

“Want to come in for a minute?”

“It happens”

“No guy has ever done that”

“You have to let people know when you’re interested”

“Do you like this?”

“Drink this”

“It’s been six months”

“Do you make a better friend or lover?”

“You’re a sex god”

“I’m leaving tomorrow”

“Think I could be in Playboy?”

“I dream about you”

“Let’s go”

“This doesn’t feel right”

“I want you to touch me”

“I was waiting for that”

“It’s a nice size”

“Can I come over?”

“Sure, I’ll stay”

“You’re so adorable”

“You touched the magic button”

“I could worship you”

“I’ve never been more comfortable with someone”

“We should take off our clothes”

“I love your art”

(thank you to all my lovers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pondering Middle America

Bread and butter

Suburbs of the classy

Sidewalk borderlands landscaped

Lawn-cared for green yards

Trimmed and edged and pesticided

To pristine perfection

Stay off the grass

And don’t touch the whitewashed

Picket fences

This is what I dream of

But do I want it?

Do I want it?

Travesty to take Holly Homemaker

And the 2.3 kids

And Rover and Fluffy

To the neighborhood of milk and honey

Minivan land of the suburbanites

Just to swing a little on the playground

And decide starving artists

Love life more

Is Loft life more grand?

Unfortunately you can’t

Just stick your toe

In the americana pool

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ode to Jack Kerouac

We’ve been down this road before

Haven’t we Jack?

Kerouacing along the side of the road

The street

~ w  h  o  o  s  h ~

Steady cars providing

A breeze of dust and road grime

To cool and coat

The new world hobo

~ Step meditate

~ Step enlightenment

~ Step dharma

But the passer-byes don’t know us

Do they Jack?

Just another walker

Shame on them

*Everything is God*

Kicking dew

To kicking dust

They don’t know us

~ Step God

~ Step Heaven

Earth and sky

Is ours with each step

Closer to the center of life

They don’t know us

Do they Jack?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acidicity

If it be done…..

Be sure to ride the wave

And listen to the hum

Of the earth

Listen for the hum and drone

Usually overlooked through

     Narrow pupils

Privileged are the few that see

The Spiral of Life

Hovering above each of our heads

Connecting to the epicenter of

All that is joy

(God’s spiral?)

Just watch it

Just watch it and smile

Because you are alive

-You are not ready to touch it-

Just watch in awe

                      And laugh

           And laugh

And laugh

Because it is all so damn funny

When friends come along

...Stay away from chaos

...Order is necessary

You belong here traveler

Stay on the planet

Stay outward for pleasantries

(((((((However)))))))

There are testaments

To my minds eye visions

Psychedelica third eye landscapes

L. S. D.reaming apparitions

And lounging in silk hammocks

While swaying in the

Acidicity breezes

Skating on steel grates

Through the armored

Constructs of the back chasm

---Brainstem

Shaking hands with future forms

Telling the mirror to watch out

Not to unlock too many doors

-It’s a bigger room than you think-

Bigger vaults that you don’t think with

-90% goes on for miles-

-And miles-

Go down \

Take a right >

Forward ~~>

Down \\\\

< Left

To arrive at the edge of

         Yourself

And drop back in to leave

But that is only me-

Weeping for Angels falling

           Drama

Weighing heavy on lost hearts

With bended sight

Shedding pure feathers

Once they pass the horizon

Sprouting black chrome arm knives

For their condescending

Passing stripped of pastel flesh

Exposing dull blue paste

Tempered by unfamiliar heat

But the grandest of gifts

(Reward for sadness beheld?)

Lay beyond the distance

-My picture of Heaven and Hell-

Just the other side

Of one another

-Heaven-

Extending majestic emerald towers

Tall enchanting castles

With points in the skyground

Backdrop of brightest

Tear forming

Beautiful yellow and orange rays

And everything succumbs to the castles

Everything is horizontal

~ Hell ~

A dank reflection

On the belly

At the feet

Of the Grand Kingdom

Smeared grey and soot black

Upside down tattered buildings

Raked side to sideways

Cut with the truth

Smeared on itself

Everything is vertical

Writhing and wallowing in its

Own muck sewer mockery

Of the sacred Heaven

-This I witnessed-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let Go

Staring at the room

Here come those memories

No trespassing please

~ pace ~

~ the space ~

Think about something

            ELSE

~ i smoke too much ~

I could weigh your worth

In stars

~ clean something ~

Your smell came with

An out of body experience

~ pace ~

And the warm curve

Of your neck

Is where I hid

~ the space ~

My atoms stood at full

    !Attention!

For all your words

For all your posture

Firehairbrainsexy

Leggysoftcurvy

~ bury your head ~

Why do I have to see

You every Sunday?

~ damn fox networkings ~

I carried those

Red cotton pair of

Cut trophies

In my back pocket

For years

After I couldn’t

Commit to us

      To you

     To love

-Long distance love

Can’t keep me warm-

~ pace ~

You should have

|Bound me|

>Drilled me<

{Bagged me}

Taken me with you

~ the space ~

It wasn’t worth it

~ shut up ~

I regret it all

~ damn ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through Me

These gifts to you archangel

Hold steadfast to these things-

    He said

Contentment

For you, child

But continue to shed feathers

To make way

For new ones

I will help you fly-

He said

~ Goose ripples for gifts of

Grandeur needs

That needn’t be said ~

Be kind, child

And do the proper-

He said

Give and take, archangel

It is mutual

Love for love

Patience

Tolerance

Build these well

Stray from the wicked

Shed old feathers-

He said

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Random City (ties)

The poor stay poor

And the rich

Get stop lights

With your head

Up your ass

You still don’t act

Human, right?

Hey look!

Aww, you missed her

She was a looker

The stable fall

From glory

Boo hoo

We’ve heard

We’ve lived the story

The timid

Get their hands on

The spotlight

Carry on

And live it

Invisible in that bar

Unapproachable at that club

Annoyed by that card

Look out, bub

I seek love…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hungry

Follow that glossy eyed

10

Across the                           room

Out the door

Walk across the street

         Just        to see

    Just   to    get    a          look

At the untouchable

       Beauty

Stare all you can

Boy, that’s all you’ll

Get, just go

Handsome, so you are

Scared, way to be

Scarred, can it be?

Forget it kid-

Don’t let your eyes

Lead

Stop  Stop  Stop!

And

Go  Go  Go!

Be your artself

Be your kindself

Close your eyes

And

Just let it go

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jealousy

Hey guy,

Maybe you should

Drive that red pony car

Like it has 300-horse power

And 23” tires to hug the road

And wash the 3 inches of dust

Off the candy apple red

2 coat paint

            You