I don't want to
turn back time
why would I
go back years
when all that
hardship delivered strife
all those times
time left us
with a broken back
trials versus fears
promises and pledges
those nightmare razors
juggling knives
try balancing
time's arduous edge
commute my sentence
let me live
even struggling
here as now
my acceptance
is a crime
my repentance
against hurried time
so don't turn back
your raging clock
don't fall through
time's crazy crack
don't leave me
visualize this moment
frack me open
sorry time intact
timing seconds
minutes into hours
past into future
fantasy's futuristic dreams
time endlessly devours
no matter where
we are at
no matter 
how we are
just don't try
turning back time
don't despair
as you cry
studying each hour's
daring hand
there be something
quite poetic
about sublime time
all those
songs and poems
past and present
time demands
understand this
time alone
is not a key
to who we are
to how we'll be
it's funny though
how we need to dance
music's special time
it's funny too
how we sleep
dream making love
forgetting time
perhaps sleeps a case
not begetting
timely chance
not regretting
time's fretful
momentary romance
imagine getting
dutiful time
turning itself back
some past rhyme
that last battlefield
some other past crime
somehow counting seconds
landing there
just another
awkward stance
just another
timely chance

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nothing stays
remains the same
not air
not water
even light
nothing stays
existing the same
not love
not joy
even compassion
nothing stays
the very same
even bloody greed
even storied hate
coldly not war
nothing stays
exactly the same
not poetry
not song
even dance
those romance games
nothing is static
everything is erratic
even boldly fanatic
exceeding odd
even universe
even creation
even freedom
even God

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not one
or two
but all
of us
every thing
entirety's zone
plot one
entirely that
revealing tone
basic life
we all 
contrive right
composing this tome
we once were
chemistry inclusive
quantitative light
measuring that
procreation thing
equating life
toffee addiction
drinking something
morning coffee
sticky things
too much
sugar predilection
eggs to ashes
solar years
contractual fears
life solving
evolving tears
tide inbound
unfolding years
creation's game
fully conceived
as inland sea
schools of being
tribal notions
fabled names
mythic potions
somehow there
we swim
cradling emotion
threading ritual
we crawl
contend growing
brawl as rivals
virtually knowing
we somehow
still walk
continue aging
forever learning
amending margins
some elevate
even run
learn flight
interspatial charge
some of us
those alive
virtually dream
creamy jive
actual yearning
honeyed life
desire right
so it seems
life should
be alright
flourishing verbs
buzzing things
replenishing seas
alight singing
healing words
pleasing things
colourful birds
nourish praising
botanical medicine
sweet song
herbaceous wisdom
giving gardens
cool billabongs
all of us
living right
missing out
living wrong
our thriving
imperfect wealth
all of us
striving for health
blissed out
sweet human
blessed throngs
kissing life
dreaming poetry
creating rhymes
good graciousness
curative gods
deliver healing
share cups 
true faithfulness
nature's plenty
should creation
daring God
replace this
human race
could God
existential nature
even relentless
residential culture
be concealing
divinity's grace
but what
healing space
some of us
be it fleeting
see God
acknowledge that
healing place
an appealing thrust
all this
human fate
chasing sacred
be nature
heal ourselves
medicine's grace
a healer's trust
be it Asclepius
discovering mortal
fervent healing
or believing
raving madmen
sage healers
brave madwomen
recovering fertile
reciprocal feelers
not one
stumbling human 
but that caring
universal feeling
so bearing
essential vibration
freely immersed
in this
natural essence
freely share
conversion tone
radiant verse
reverential medicine
entirety's zone

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then eventually
I dozed
fell asleep
dreaming seasons
flash lightning
rash decomposing
crash thunder
still composing
summer beat
love asunder
blistering heat
then eventually
autumn came
everything falling
so many 
autumnal reasons
colouring dreams
how frosty
can love
must be
falling chill
longer nights
summer thrills
calling still
then eventually 
winter arrives
drifting snow
seasonal knives
cutting me
continuance apart
love's heart
pieces really
uneasy love
nothing art
distrust arrives
frozen feeling
drilling ice
winter dreaming
distilling vice
fine snow
blizzard colder
splintering everything
don't believe
love advice
winter brings
shattering everything
drifting grows
we are
intuitively told
then eventually
cleverly bold
spring knocks
speaking sun
winter growls
knowing spring
demands dreams
truly stalling
spring comes
barely crawling
it seems
summer understands
crying love
those ailing
break up
harsh demands
love's trying
treasonal themes
love crying
failing love
those seasonal
falling dreams

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how wild
can I be
if ever
I grew feathers
I should
fly away
would circle
high mountains
icy places
mountain peaks
drinking wild
sacred water
seek fountains
always wild
dream crying
weeping stone
though truly
one side
whose trying
must always
I who am
somehow atone
we be our
polished contract
staring reflection
daring back
maybe just
that reflective one
is truly
really free
seeing myself
some introspection
my destination
mileage selection
just wild
my indignation
such instigation
wild style
my predilection
I'm fluid
marvelous water
carving thoughts
shooting rapids
flooding canyons
fragility deep
ruddy baggage
I'm druid
worship trees
stand stones
how wild
could possibly
I become
caress lightning
free diving
burning hotter
die competing
God's furious
wild entreating
churning sun
so is living
bountiful learning
so is wild
living this
forever yearning
seeking bliss

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this issue
so hugely
very big
we just
ever fully
can't imagine
this brush
every stroke
paint bigger
more horrific
boundless picture
haunt larger
this is
profound God
but then
God is
not talk
to us
no words
only clouds
is God
I wonder 
what God
divinely thinks
does God
choose sides
what God
if us
set God
on fire
who would
blame God
or something
nature neighbour
other imaginings
blaming someone
dream people
over there
well blame
all those
brain washed
Gozer demons 
other people
living in
your stormy
upset midst
those ones
you choose 
to hate
those folk
merely trying
just survive
when you
find flames
wearing yourself
exotic fire
just wonder
how you 
will feel
shall God
just applaud
maybe hell
you're flawed
tell God
holy damn
don't give
maybe God
laughing inside
preservation hell
laughing mouth
volcanic consecration
fiery laughing
see me
this laughing
human tissue 
seeing you
rotten laughing
stinking issue
God coughing
rancid stew

      * * * 

 

I watched
yet another
youtube video
more Vancouver
something Hastings
gentler brother
yore somewhere
before this
brutal other
litter strewn
core city
cruel time
more ruins
sorry story
blinding sidewalks
right here
bitter sirens
right there
jittered environs
minding people
living sirens
lying prostrate
splayed out
try cement
pavement mattress
lost everywhere
occupying drugland
half bent
nuclear thugland
waist down
some stand
living nowhere
rude found
powerful descent
hopeless frowns
what crown
what dreams
right here
ever dreamt
oddly even
some where
over there
I thought
I saw
Jesus staring
or maybe
cross bearing
Elijah being
some how
even there
each alleyway
who cares
teaching hunger
lost bearings
reaching wonder
took me
pointing yonder
maybe Moses
will appear
surely plant
willing seeds
watering desert
dissolving fear
filling needs
walk streets
resolving greed
share fashion
caring compassion
poke us
stoned right
many storied
curb life
tempting Pilate
show up
tempest stick
stormy sea
temptation appears
tragic life
no redemption
that drowning
being here
no exemption
actual fear
just surviving
rapture this
being clear
enraptured bliss
created here

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