then tough life
so much suffering
so abruptly go
roughly here to there
eyes wide open
accept tidal waves
welcome an open heart
dive deep
descent into the shallow world
ascend if you survive
remember central pressure
those continental things
complimentary battering
scattering daily lives
but then we wake
measure all our scars
those tragic wounds
while the magic sun
burns static holes
into our plastic minds
deep into our astral souls
exposing a divine place
where we finally dance
then repose marvelously
beyond cosmos and erupting stars
beyond searing solar flares
resolution as God resolves
encompassing distant galaxies
evolving insistently
consistently dissimilar
determined beyond compare
sacred we respectfully travel
orbit the rare centre
encapsulated by vibration
enter rapturous beginnings
mentored by spiritual endings
again and again and again

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all the conceited understand
is infinite strip mining
myriads of hatred and gore
infective oil and gas
artless pain and war
they selectively can't grasp
ancient tribal economics
those simian money banks
where purloined funds
swing endlessly ahead
forever seething
grievously leaving
polluted rivers
ravaged grieving forests
devastating birds and animals
pushing insects and amphibians
over the primal edge
crushing life into extinction
all they pleasurably understand
is grunt and growl
garnished with caviar
followed by malfeasance and trim
flutes of expensive champagne
drums of industrial economics
all that filched coin
stolen gold and silver
irradiated subservience
so much strife and pain
making the world wistful
twisting and burning
every heinous crime
more and more yearning
hurricane and tsunami
stripping wealth from the surface
scouring bloodied diamonds
deep rivers of immersion
administering glitter and gold
devoured by demons
infamous grounds
around their inappropriate world
destiny clawed out of the silent earth
into the hands of corpulent men
so the soulless blindly see
all they ignorantly understand
based on their base existence
like reckless stigmata
forced upon the faceless moon
or far out on broken Mars
not unlike that primordial time
pre-folklore such as Adam and Eve
games played with Neanderthal fire
all the corrupt cruel understand
is deathly earth wind and fire
brusque alpha and omega
trending to the lasting end
forever is always
a crass death wish
one helpless moment
where there is no light
hopeless with no hope
thus it truly feels
like the unruly universe
is infinitely godless
finitely crushing
every finial soul
incremental exclamations
one final excremental verse
terse elements arisen
imprisoned in the cursed whole
lest we forget
every sacred white buffalo
circled by every sacred white raven
each sacred mindful path
enlightened in a sacred white haven
meditate upon that sacred math
add purity to the sacred sum
faithfully encircled and vastly blessed
miraculously consecrated
final justice in a sacred thrum 

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February's chill ride
all this parka weather
whether to stay inside
or don our winter coats
puffed with down and feathers
to brave biting wind and chill
slide along icy sidewalks
so slippery and frozen still
February a month with many reasons
to stay snuggled under quilts and covers
trying to ignore this forty below season
cuddled together as passionate lovers
ignore those record cold days and nights
believe that minus twenty-five
is a fair and balmy sight
all we want is to remain alive
plainly melt winter's rime and ice
mainly to elope with hinterland's spring
yearning for longer warmer days
so welcome when they bring
crocus blooms and daffodils
things that excite our wanting souls
thawing frozen valleys and hills
but just give me a black ice second
while I pound out some seasonal dents
reckon winter with my iron sledge
measure the depth of deep snow drifts
every settling snowy fortress
piled along each garden fence
still harnessed to my snowshoes
packing trail along every snowy ledge
I'm tracking winter ghouls
relaxing by my blazing campfire
melting winter's blizzard blues
perhaps all the popping trees
will one spring day consent
bring winter to its snowflake knees
melt all those frozen Canadian lakes
amend winter's frosty edge
but trendy February which is so often harsh
will be nothing but yesterday's dream
however if cruel winter tarries
clinging to hungry March it seems
all the resident deer and geese
will have to exist
on snails and sticky buds
February scenes
eventually will cease
as sensible March heralds in
flowing sap and warmer breezes
greet weather that is more laudable
thus the welcome sacred songs of spring
clearly become more audible
leave behind all those February chills and spills
that mighty March appeases

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I can't deliver
I'm strictly take out
with a limited menu
forget the kungpao chicken
no noodles with clam sauce
I'm straight and simple
simply basic
basically hand to mouth
I took french fries and burgers
off the menu
ten thousand deliveries ago
maybe lifetimes matter
all that melted ice cream
smeared across my floor
what a sticky order
gone totally wrong
I thought that sweetness
would fill her mouth
but she wanted
something more savoury
more rare like bloody beef
slathered with hot sauce
and a ruddy pickle
on the funny side
she was thirsty
and all I could quenchingly offer
was a coke or a fresca
she craved orange crush
screaming at the pop gods
I covered my ears
in that bottle cap stead
I dropped a half baked clay dish
brimming with semi-hard
soft ice cream
hold the whipped cream
in your mouth
until drool drips
from between your sweet lips
once I had delivered
she sent me on my carnival way
no tip or caramel kiss
feeling amiss
I plopped down
scratching out a new menu
in the mud and dirt
beneath my knees and feet
defeat drained me
a strange retreat
dang this purloined phone
hang-up communication
I'm in a breakdown
my mouth doesn't work anymore
my lips are cracked and dry
I can't speak or see
I've gone deaf and blind
all my salty tears
somehow dried up
before they smattered
upon vagary ground
desert conditions
mummified my mind
I'm some kind of faulty dummy
but somehow I remain
bathing in dish water
mopping at my splattered floor
every bedraggled day
each unengaging night
uncaging my plagiarized emotions
sweeping accosted tokens
under a costly rug
frosty truth has been spoken
while honesty mostly died
when love opened its bitter mouth
I fell into another open pit
landing hard in sentimental grit
I simply broke and cried

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as the sea rises
this crazy drug I'm on
destruction coursing through my veins
obstruction on every bleak horizon
nothing makes me whole it seems
every hour a virulent wind blows
dour life has its show stopping surprises
like this high speed train I'm on
rushed questions track up my arms
those flushed wounds might explain
how a thousand rampaging elephants
trample through each refrain with bellowing alarms
when relevant lightning walks into my jello room
stellar bolts perform their tantric light show
as I watch my manic eyes catch fire
everything I knew and know burned to ash
as the turbulent sea churned and rose
all my sallow tongue could speak was gloom
sometimes insanity blinds me you know
all these potent drugs often make me cry
life is just a terrible car crash
no matter how far I journey
no matter how hard I try
still the ocean swells and rises
if I don't drown I'll think it a miracle
knowing my potions and dreams are heretical
I see hungry sharks parading
masquerading around my pathetic room
if only sympathetic lightning would come again
strike me dumb and make me blind
if only the world would stop churning
each hurricane might decide
to be more mellow and definitively kind
but these crazy drugs are yearning to control me
I'm well acquainted with those demons that haunt me
if only there were angels that would want me
but the angry ocean still rises
cyclones continue to wail and blow
these cruel drugs the underworld has prescribed
makes me taunt my fellow sharks
cruising around my wondrous life
but it's lightning I truly crave
electrify me in each daunting scene
with each cresting tsunami wave
crashing me into another restless dream
I feel crushed by each swell and tidal rush
I'm bolted to this bestial wave it seems
bold at times when I feel brave
folded gravely inward with each heartbeat
fluidly cold when I'm feeling lost at sea
I'm floating trying to just stay alive
mesmerized by these bloated dreams I have
I wonder if this myriad of drugs is simply contrived
or has wicked doom indeed arrived
still the conflicted sea rises
while the omniscient ocean churns
profound drugs continue to conspire
all the while this cruel world turns
sequestered in my swirling room
I vie to reprimand my whirling mind
hoping to find some restful island and retire
when I wake I see my bleeding heart
conscious of some salvatory hallucination
pondering this drug induced saltatory creation
wondering why salutary love expired

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throughout the lasting darkness
while all the prophets burn
this modern descent into hell
everything we should have learned
locked-up and hidden in a secret cell
moreover all this human yearning
what is it that spirit has to tell
what is it that we must discern
can love heal all our hurts and wounds
will all our morbid scars haunt us
torment us until the lurid end
how does marvelous salvation sound
or is salvation something we can only pretend
imagine all your wants and needs found
everything good and profound
all the endless cosmos sends
perfection rising from a sacred ground
beyond these drastic plastic games we play
thinking chemistry will somehow clear the way
but what will make forgiveness last
when each caste wakes to make amends
for the planet's profitable sake
amend these futuristic fantasies
rebalancing existence on feet of clay
does reality exist midst all our infernal trends
or is life just a fragmented dream
who gets to bleed and who gets to play
I'm not sure if the world is red or green
who gets to leave and who gets to stay
I'm not sure if light will win over darkness
who needs to grieve and who needs to pray
wondering what colour the world will be today
or if the prophets will one day wake and pray
oracles reincarnated out of starkness
that place where prophetic souls wait and preen
when perfection smiled at me from the edge of dark
light shifted and darkness suddenly seemed at bay
if a smile can enlighten the world
imagine what radiant love might do
when love illuminates every beating heart
imagine the world in a bountiful garden way
where we are the soothsayers
divine gardeners doing our joyful part

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morning repentance
evenings of molten earth
uninterrupted erupting
upper crust stuff
streams of roughed up lava
lofty redeeming geology
a treatise of monsters
signatures come to life
excruciating rivers
burning and smoldering
solemnly excommunicated
vents and psalms from the very deep
divine vortex within the mantle core
such a sacred church
creation's augmented congregation
layers measured in granite time
hymns of sanity beneath our feet
hell's forthright gravity and fury
prayers echoing a raucous storm
loud reverberating remarks
blasts around the rippling planet
scribbling nature's lasting art
molding each continental canvas
scribed and folded into bold vaults
red sprites and blue faeries
what an epic halting image
hovering glowing balls
orbs of blue light
raw earth energy
electricity enlightening each contrite night
far beyond fright control
insightful eruptions
yet another striking volcano
incinerating a distant shore
more crying fire and trying ice
whose dream is this
oceans of intimate change
spewing churning news
rumbling and grumbling anew
staged reviews from this fragile molten core
mosaics of ethereal life and lava
chewing through each preface door
did heaven finally call out
should frozen earth resurface
permafrost ever repent
all these earthly corruptions
how many more
splitting the ocean floor
mantic tomes abound on this planet
everything entombed and recycled
romantic life itself so entitled
selfish surrounding everything
like there is no righteous tomorrow
devouring creation without sorrow
stimulated morning to evening
smoking beginnings to ashen ends
each chapter of sensational thought
molten messages in atomic paragraphs
persistent existence extends
burning mouth to fiery hand
such a frightful brutal trend
that twin-tailed comet
interstellar prophecy attends

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I woke up
in this dream
saw light streaming
lying still for a while
encompassed in this theme
veiled by complete darkness
in my common mind
I curiously envision
everything as distraction
this abstract life
stylized material attraction
rising poster thoughts
emerging from my factual bed
I stepped outside
into an actual snowy world
I tactfully stood there
reacting to the marvelous
a talkative gray jay
reciting flighty prose and flowing poetry
speculatively came soaring by
knowingly I stood there listening
distracted by that soft bird cry
soon enough another extolling jay
shafts of light from a brilliant sun
glistening tight knit feathers
followers in an aerie group
more flapping wings
choruses of black capped chickadees
each flighty group conversing
speaking an existing tongue
exultant in their occasional multitudes
expectations in their declining throngs
what a multitude of mercy
when continental nature comes
exhibiting such a compliment
summarily teaching us
repeating spirit songs
underlining all our marvelous rights
undermining our disastrous wrongs

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truth
your truth
all that pain
and sorrow
absolute truth
that we
somehow
endure
that truth
we want
we need
to come to
no uncertain
terms of truth
it isn't easy
brave souls
fail
it's so
difficult
realizing
truth
after pain
and death
all that sorrow
overwhelming strife
such harsh
life
every stark
truth
when we find
verity
once
verily courage
has strength
brave hearts
on every morning
as dawn
breaks
light
reveals truth
finally understood
truthfully
wish it
could
or would
all
be over
when monsters
come
to devour
us
when tragic
life
requires
our hearts
once
we realize
one can never
run
or even
hide
long
dark nights
shadows
that torment
us
each rigid
fierce truth
piercing us
to the bone
leaving
tantric wounds
sometimes
out of dominion
every breath
each principled truth
supremely
binds us
to principality
and reality
confined
to this
blinding
uncertain life
finding truth
in a peaceful mind

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there's that
gut wrenching
realization
that you
no longer
love that person
you have
been with
for such
a long time
that sickening
feeling
knowing
your marriage
is over
your partner
has left you
you too
have left
bereft of true love
that hefty weight
weighing
on your shoulders
don't let it
break you down
all that fear
you feel
dread in your bed
chewing
at your heart and soul
what a catastrophe
don't let this
emotional landslide
fill up your head
immovable rocks and rubble
drastic plastic clutter
those tarnished trophies
old rancid butter
smearing up your mantel
can't begin
to describe
the real you
you're so much more
than marriage
or partners
or children
or relationships
could ever be
realize your upcoming
internship
you are finally
in a position
to be truly free
makes you wonder
even if your marriage
was a ruddy blunder
change can be good
letting go
unchains you
from that painful universe
you willingly
checked in to
surrendering to vows
and this is how
it's going to be
where you existed
always hoping
love would come
to take your hand
walk with you
dance with you
music played
by your favorite band
it's hard to give up drinking
so difficult quitting smoking
how impossible to stop loving
that other person
crowding
all your thinking
that ego stroking
once it has
flown away
it's time
repaint
that flaking house
you forsakenly live in
racehorse time
replant your self
new rich humus
humorous new roots
will flourish and grow
feel your flow
a new creative way
but it's so hard
feeling empty
brokenhearted
going hungry
existing on
an empty stomach
but starving
just surviving
is never fun
nothing marvelous
can be said
about failed relationships
perhaps when you wake up
penitent tomorrow
the sun will shine
birds will sing
flowers shall bloom
beneath grand trees
deep forests where beauty dwells
that ancient sea of love
will find you
enjoy the changing tide
discover intricate sea shells
salty water rushing in
we're on this
orange crush ride
we can run
but we can't
always hide
we can close our eyes
while the burly earth
persists below us
but defy this
unfurling heaven's love
resounding with rebirth
sweet mountain dew
rich chocolate fountains
ice cream floats delivered from above

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synergistic solar wind
x-rays hurled
planetary sediment
energetic gamma rays
hands down
impressionistic
face down
vexing rays
layer upon layer
atmospheric failure
changing appearances
planetary derailers
wave after critical wave
no marked roads
only slight indentations
no paths or game trails
biblical incantations
no living rain forests
nor sacred holy grail
grim spatial reality
melting permafrost
dim remnants of lost forests
no lasting marshes
gone are purple violets and yellow marsh marigolds
such harsh modality
no placid lakes
or holy rivers
no vast oceans
gone are all those rugged jungles
everything rearranged
even stark taiga
nothing spared
asymmetrical geology
shimmering red rock
completely barren
grave histology
simply deserted
eons on a joyless ride
climb on spirit rover
reconnoiter left
clamber right
ready and steady
space time notions
what a surfeit commotion
overtly heady science
grounding Mars emotions
factless Martian interference
tactlessly grinding
roving across the landscape
exploratory motions
grainy trackless terrain
once treasured ground
fair terrain to token Martians
those well spoken
devotional Beings
remember Martian measure
how Mars dogs
chased Martian cars
remarkable Mars oceans
consequential planting and parenting
towering Mars waves
apparently once upon a time
lively and watery
legend with measurements
those civilized Martians
driving their Martian cars
Mars grand canyons
once jubilant Mars
flowing with Mars water
some time in the mythic past
multi mega annum
galactic history at last
recalling Mars potatoes and onions
imagine Mars otters

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that dream
you know the one
it's where everything
seemed possible
impossibly real
possibly insane
improbable
perhaps inane
we fell
clasped together
tethered
imagine that
entangled love
we swooned
love viewed us
so completely tangled
amongst love's elite
vast spacious love
what we done
eat
breathe
dream love
above us
open sky
below us
earthy love
all around us
fantastic sun
illuminating our arrested souls
kissing our elastic lips
looking deep
into your searching eyes
I want to capture that spirit
gently hold it in my hand
as if it were my own
that love we shared
sprouting
growing
blooming
more vining
shouting magnificence
more twining
such a perfectly mown lawn
this splendour we both feel
maybe heaven does exist
this splendid feeling
God has shown us
must be something
gloriously surreal
everything we feel
beyond the normal world
every informal night
when I hold you
in my folding arms
watch each sunrise
love's glorious day
then every sunset
passionately satisfied
love wants to share
perform all that splendour
speak poetry
smoking cigarettes after sex
inspecting the ceiling
drafting cobwebs
silently in your mind
dissect the existing world
as we knew it
how many times
this piquant dream
it seems senseless
beautifully endless
give me dreams
before I die
I want to live
explore love's finest streams
let love have the sea
let the gods and goddesses
own the laudable sky
let erupting volcanoes
rule the earth
but Dearest God
for all that love is worth
true passion it seems
let me live with love
together in this dream
when I wake
all I see are shadows
remnants of what
forever love
riveted to our hearts
if love cared
we dared didn't we
that love we shared
perhaps insistent shadows
won't last forever
someday I'll wake
to find my lover
right here
my selfish sake
let love be clear
I can't take
heartache anymore
every night
I'm all alone
shutter all the windows
latch fast the doors
past all I seek
I'm a lifer
in that lingering dream
where love once so freely lived
my reeling human soul
picked itself up off the floor
while love's gift
dances with us
embraces
love kissing us
we close our eyes
love undresses us
impresses us
so much amore
persistent trusting love
prunes each rose disguise
adding so much more
revealing truth and honesty
everything sweet love adores

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what happens
when emotions
drown us
just won't
let us be
every breath
lost love
cheating us
just won't
let us stay
that day
down by
the sea
I poured
love's cold ashes
over my
outstretched hand
unchallenged
those mixed up
abrasive ashes
washed boldly
into the weeping sea
untold I complied
but just can't see
clearly anymore
every wave
washes over me
I just can't think
clearly now
every ocean current
takes hold of me
carries my soul
in different directions
burying my heart
in uncertain depths
of deceptive inception
if lord Neptune
would simply speak
tell me to sink
or swim for shore
I think I'd still drown
knowing love a shade more
you are no longer here
no goodnight kiss
or sweet dreams
snuggling with me
anymore

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it's complicated
this relationship
those love affairs
my spine tingles
thinking about
those feelings
such deliciousness
delectable steel
some select nights
after making love
I found myself
walking on the ceiling
it's sophisticated
crawling
beyond rationality
love speeds you away
to some magic place
where it seems
fairy tales
actually do come true
those kisses
making us shake
tremble and swoon
then I equivocally recall
those exquisite moments
when love made us crazy
twisting us emotionally
you imprisoned we
I tripped then surrendered
love chained me
caused my heart to bleed
I fell hard for you
you were everything
I needed all you could give
your needy kisses
melted me inside
your gentle touch
cemented me to you
love tore at my soul
love burnt me up inside
together we washed away
carried far out to sea
just you and me
floating
it seemed
we still carried
love's torch
kept it burning
we were one
yearning for true love
clasped together
leaning into deep love
wrapped around
each other
clasping hands
grasped until our folded fingers
went stiff and numb
so it's complicated
just like love stipulated
such sweet summer sunshine
blue skies and beating hearts
then those furious storms
blowing us apart
torrential rain
sweeping us away
drowning us
today I looked back
feeling phased
dreaded love realizing
it was complicated
hazy dreams can be difficult
even clearly sophisticated love
blooms into tragedy
folded lovers
often run over
those force five storms
completely shattering us
flencing us to the bone
when consciousness
lifted us somehow
from a watery grave
God's gift of breath
allowed us life and living
beating hearts a given
but it's complicated
I can't help but wonder
shift what
drift where
and who
am I
did love
or was it
just some dream
that blue sky
majestically above
I'm gathering it up
saving light memories
stuffing illuminating rays
deep in my pockets
sweet summer sunshine
that marvelous love we married
both yours and mine
because in love we cared
under that blissful star shine
that endless joy
we desired and shared

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ONE YEAR AFTER ANOTHER

THIS PLAQUE

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so many
great battles
throughout history
how many
great warriors
devoured hearts
cannibalized enemies
all that blood
spilled across every fen
spears and swords
searing muscles
pulling bow strings
attacking enemy
can you hear
their battle cries
just imagine
those battle screams
what about
dead and dying
do they ever
get a say
what if they had lived
and you had died
so much butchery
staining history
what if
spiritual mastery
should ever
win the day
simply imagine
bleeding hearts
would be healed
lost souls
light would reveal
can you see
all that passionate love
true compassion
fashionably  
revealed
battles and war
conceal trust
appeal to a celestial star
yin and yang
love and peace
opens doors
something
that pleases
beatific God
bravely creating
good-heartedness
getting past
hate and lust
so what
at least
about great battles
should we war
or should we peace

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confusion
has gripped
your rigid mind
you're daunted
some haunting memory
that dim kind
but you are blind
you sold your soul
when you bought
that smart phone
no wonder
you don't feel whole
that microchip
you hold in your hand
controls your life
they've got your number baby
and that is surety
not a maybe
you pay and pay
you stare and stare
that glaring screen
an institution
control and strife
frigid isolated you
drifting as an iceberg
your robot phone
within your frozen mind
imprisons you
they're tracking you
watching you
on your phone
listening to you
with that ring tone
deciphering your text
something beyond belief
you think you own
your online mental tone
they're tracking you
rearranging you
on your smart T.V
they're watching you
in your house and apartment
where you think
you are free
disillusion as cement
this collusion
this dementia
shackling you
this cloaked fright
is a thief
you're nothing
but a commodity
basic stock
algorithm data
locked forever
in their main frame
you want to revolt
stand against a viral pandemic
insanity has blinded you
thinking you've lost
your democratic vote
you are chained
to this endemic note
you don't know
what freedom truly is
restitution
is at hand
compassionate and kind
destroy that phone
if you want to be free
turn off that mindless smart T.V.
if you want to find yourself
if you no longer
want to be annoyed
if you truly want
to be free
no longer crazed and mad
not used
like some plastic toy
seek that mastery and freedom
deep within you
each breath you take
restores you
still you won't see
because you keep
your blinders on
you think
government
is trying
to control you
but that corporate
phone
is always
doing that job
so you go insane
unencumbered salivating
along with the rest
of the insane mob
you just can't see
real truth
it is so far
beyond you
you can't reclaim
your wit
everything you are fed
is so tasteless and uncouth
your world
held in your hand
each day and night
your robot mind
 it turns you on
this android kind
is your biggest fan
but freedom
will always evade you
because your mind
has been invaded
but you just don't see it
you've been degraded
trading your boring mind
for that inane phone
glitz and shimmering
with its domestic shine
you would be free
realizing life
is not a phone
je suis libre
if only you
would atone
throw away
that manipulating  
spying phone

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