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Saturday, June 29, 2024


 

when I think
about how
shattered
I am
battered
yet still
somehow
righteous light
I will
forever see
how broken
world is
remarkable
nuclear
disaster
this now
social
mad hatters
what if
enlightened
I think
truly
nothing
matters
who would
we be
then
if things
could be
so much
better
what if
we would
all think
hurt and pain
away
what if
always
real love
were true
to the letter
maybe
when I die
some spirit
blessed angel
will tell me
something
restive
help me
see
esoteric
elevated truth
instead of
feckless
irrelevance
distressing lies
I feel like crying
wallow
in my reckless
hurt
I've felt like
I was dying
tormented
imprisoned
with my pain
what if
I knew
all my selfish
carnal want
all my telling
tragedy's tears
all my check-list
ghastly fears
were somehow
all in vain
could my
broken heart
ever be
truly healed
would my
wounded soul
remain
clouded
cleverly concealed
what if
shattered
is released
can all this
gathered broken
somehow please
in this fleeting lifetime
respectfully be appeased

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

 


ah
so
abstract
so
construct
instruct
destruct
intact
contact
refract
in fact
contract
i don't know
subtract
what i want
i have found
what i need
enough is enough
reject greed
in response
my defense
so beyond
my offense
yonder
onset
sense
reset
sensibility
intent
incense
contents
so dense
those spectres
following me
those ghosts
haunting me
all those demons
taunting me
so abstract
commonly
so very daunting
sometimes
though thought
isn't all fact
interactive tact
truth is sought
intact
what action
has truth
finally wrought
what are we
hiding stories
we should
honestly tell
how many lies
unconditionally remain
alive and well
if unconditional truth
shed every disguise
would there be
dishonesty to sell
no need
for any guise
nothing left
to hide
as truth
should
lift us up
while lies
willingly would
bring us down
should we
just shut up
or should
our words
tear us down
what if
we had
no words
only grunts
more hisses
what if words
weren't mightier
than swords
how many
ordered words
would be
disorderly fights
fatal hits
or merely just
dreaded misses
how many words
trust worthy
would be
fearsome
gut wrenching
or utterly dismissive
how many actions
would be
more than complete
ah so
abstract
ah so
thoughtful life
contract
this human need
entreat and feed
human wisdom
ah so
divine displaying
mindful kingdom
righteousness
timely reason
finely seeding
kindness
without strife
human freedom
creative
abstract life

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The following 'poem' somehow ended up on this file. I am not sure if it is connected to the above poem or not. Perhaps it is in some abstract way.
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Jesus the human
daily journal
woke up early
sprawled in bed
under sheets and covers
still covered
a big hard-on as usual
spent morning
dreaming about life
about desert
about fate and hate
about loving Mary
rousing myself
got up
pulled on
a second shirt
needing warmth
cool morning air
took a piss
dumped a load
guzzled a cup
cool water
dipped from clay ewer
mid-morning
I heard my lover
mistress Mary
roused
climb out of bed
Mary
came to sit
on my lap
we boiled water
snuggling and kissing
quietly laughing
listening to birds
singing about nests
ripe fruit
shady olive trees
love glistening
on our olive skin
drinking in morning sun
sipping sweet morning tea
etc.

Jesus Enlightened
Prophet and Saviour
daily journal
hallelujah
woke up
another prophetic dream
focus on body
felt my heart beating
deep breathing
clearing my head
shuffling through thoughts
enlightening
all about my dream
I was flying
occasionally landing
somewhere
in a welcoming meadow
sweet perfume
brilliant colour
divine trees
flowers and herbs
birds singing
looking through a window
butterflies and moths
flitting about
natural medicine
quite suddenly
just out the door
one large lion
appearing
walking out
from a hiding spot
some other realm
thick brush
bloodied thorns
I felt a hornet sting
what a silent rush
lion prowling
along a placid river
approaching
yellow eyes
riveted
on my own
brown Jewish eyes
lion stood
close by
silent
staring
its piercing eyes
engaging me
quite suddenly
lion spoke
no rage
I'm hearing
parable
about it
I remember
raking
clawing
devouring
each word
I recall
lion's look
remaining intense
no faking it
attentive gaze
lion yawning
making me quiver
trembling
dawning on me
delightfully amazed
mid-morning came
quietly
I sat
beneath
my favourite
olive tree
one I love
so much spirit
rooted there
reposing there
relaxed shade
meditating
thinking about plants
drinking in heavenly medicine
life study
all those things
flying insects
buzzing
unshackled and free
actual vibration
radiance
around my face
encircling
around my crown
I thought
I heard one
talking
some spirit
buzzing
continued humming
I thought
it spoke
sacredness
another prayer
invoking Creator
somewhere
out there
far beyond
earth
where our Father
heaven's berth
keeps watch
on all His children
worthiness
looking down on us
later the guys came by
we went down to the sea
cloaked in our thoughts
shading our eyes
watching gay sunlight
dancing on water
I walked
stepping lightly
water lapping shore
later in the night
John spoke
delighted and happy
Peter said
it looked like
Jesus was walking
right on water
glory abiding
bright sun
a mirrored surface
glimmering
such earnest beauty
glorious sacred sea
me and the guys
relaxed there
watching
blazing sun
climb down
clear sky
amazed
we thirteen
lay there
wondering
about life's purpose
pondering
just who are we
wondering
just who am I
pondering if God
was manifest there

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Sunday, June 23, 2024

 


so this is performance
living life
best one can be
hair-dos and make-up
maybe even
golden buzzers
maybe life's a cut-up
when you break
enough hearts
when you break-up
finding yourself
made-up and exposed
standing out
riding wild horses
remorseless morals
both day and night
toasting and dancing
on some twisting stage
foremost reposed
so easily squeezed
by one and all
those that see
pleasing freedom
aroused beginnings
now and how
proud performance
down to somehow
each great closing
so much more
core worth
storied sometimes
like one great romance
moving me
relieving melancholy
deep down
hearing harmony
mindful memories
keeping melody
delicate words  
what sweet delicious brings
tears to my eyes
sometimes contra
indication pairing indignation
nearing superstition
subtly hidden
somewhere within a crowd
beneath fasting and tasting
lasting sin remains
chastened perhaps
passing lust and shadows
until we're finally done
peaceful at each station
chanting mantra
judgement comes around
push that golden buzzer
play that wild jazz
you're rock and roll
or a talking head instead
on the whole
you've got rhythm
a transcendent voice
you've got blues
perhaps more
high vibration
more rational
fashionable choice
long before you're dead
resplendent moves
ascendance to heaven
attendant harmony
proven true
what perfection
muse and woven performance
audience applause
let that show
you're overtly true
urgently pushing
covert love
so much heart
rushing through
each true blue soul
rapturous everyone
captured for inclusion
you and me
though sometimes
laughter then sorrow
sometimes gloom
fearing tomorrow
more darkcraft
looming dread
daunting drafts
making everyone
cringe and cry
emotionally shy
every haunting performance
irreverently gone badly
what would be
stark and unwelcome
sneers and jeers
quite remarkably
some spectacular point
when is it
all right with smiles
rowdy cheers
actual crowds
loud approving
great performance
could be
me or you
sometimes affirmation
blessed magical
mystical manifestation
sometimes historic reformation
formal regeneration
seers of prophetic dreams
a living performance
fortunately it seems
fortitude and tune
really can be true
extraordinary living
toss inordinate runes
boss performance  
truly can be
both me and you

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Friday, June 21, 2024


 

insanity yeah
wistful us
twisted yeah
lusty tangles
jingle jangles
rusty rectangles
resembling society's boxes
trusted corporate angles
so many stolen lives
disassembled structures
fractured humanity
restructuring nature
assembling triangles
insist thusly
holygrams out of instagrams
meditate nativity
plane passage
mediate with open palms
an equatorial message
spiritual planetary balm
interpolating right angles
reframing rays of sunshine
defamed by degrees
criminal design
aged by lost weekends
undeniably objectified
society's host to sunstorms
such tangled institutions
so many lonely streets
medicated than infused
drug induced
some loud carnival
evidence of utter confusion
worst midway ride ever
described by hurled words
including vomit
a world of shattered allies
utterly collapsed
down wonder alley
trapped and captured
nestled with enraptured
hordes pondering
this very end
trying to ascend
like every captive
transcendence even rapture
actual daily infractions
prisoners shackled by lords
storied crack and fentanyl
self-proclaimed attraction
facets of broken
unprotected
infected needles
restricted blades
hidden knives
wandering haphazard
scribing reactionary
wanton is spoken
ascribed in paragraphs
reactions to street
infractions of atomic thunder
fractiles of fascism
scattering zion and atoms
dividing animal schism
sheep and hopeless lives  
genomes into subspecies
homeless racism
gutters full of those
abstract faces
distorted action
once performed
twice deformed
didactic cataclysm
context cynicism
strangled pieces
passionate turds and feces
those demon segments
even angelic infractions
strangely brewing
road kill tea
mainly stewing
thin soup
no fat or regal bone
nor shred of legal meat
every prophetic step
reflective and replete
angels dancing with demons
cruel contradictions
fueling further friction
defined fractions
designing exits
mindfully insisting
refined medicine
disinclined living
defined as lives
unkindly misconstrued
keep in mind
frightful nightmares
still rightfully
who ever knew
who truly cares
disproving terkel and edison
reticent energetic communication
relations grooved by irrelevance
moved by relevant consummation
elephants for electricity
not just for eccentric profit
elevated toxic medicine
consuming revelation
resume rivers and streams
fueling selfish oceans
resume social insanity
russian roulette
instill cruel depravity
seas crowned by poverty
fueling drowning  
prescribed by desire
fueled by daily fires
human need
back alley reservoirs
speed and deadly stares
readily feeding
needy main street
curb tribes and clans
colonizing rude jungle
meaning urban population
crude opulent city
reflecting subdued hues
redirecting shadows
operation splice and dice
mission denying defiance
disciplinary entreats
missionaries armed with defeatist plans
serving bread and blood
from carved-up streets
replete with pity
every drug deal
brands from false prophets
regaling deranged gods
insanity's strange science
failing mindful habitation
habitual consternation
feeding cryptic cockroaches
ritual homelessness
pacing with stray dogs
a mystic city plan
some mystery mug
frug reference
broken homeless woman
streetlife isn't preference
broken homeless man

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Sunday, June 16, 2024


 

spiders and snakes
all those
great white sharks
megalodons
cruising every sea
all those vicious
daring
deadly parts
trolls and prevalent fakes
soul beware
nymph and siren song
seeking
intriguing
you and me
speaking
entreat togetherness
yet all this frightful
scream
all this shouting
righteously
facing doubt
gloating
eyeing yet another
what will more
darkness bring
what if
we drown
floundering in nothingness
would an abstinent sea
give life back
meanwhile
redeemable
resistant me
conceivably
down on earth
currently
back here
urgently convergent
I'm eating
stewed rhubarb
cultivating
virgin turf
ultimately growing
crudely competing
sowing herbs
gathering images
fruit and glowing blossoms
beauty that's replete
blue sky truly
superb towering
flowering raspberry canes
unruly clouds
stylish reality
maintaining
those natural refrains
blowing snow
blazing sun
howling wind
torrential rain
empirical thought
calm before each storm
staunch justice
justly etched
upon my
trussed up face
I've been distraught
chased and stranded
branded fodder
stuck in tawdry webs
ostentatiously lost
brashly dismissed
some nocturnal
being obvious
self reliance
though I'm unsure
of what I'm seeing
though I'm unclear
of what I'm being
even though
I'm not immune
I've been caught
hissed at by snakes
somehow knowing
funnily
spider bliss
all those
funnel-webs
deep dark seas
ocean currents swirling
around and around
ocular life
marking
secular emotion
roundly  twirling
this is what
notions
remarkable life
takes
sometimes
we sink
maybe
even
oddly
managing
we
stay afloat
boasting
we
even swim
navigating
mostly
threads
of life
heady chasms
hapless need
treading
deep water
dreading
hopelessness
bottomless fathoms
our want
of sleep
imagine
all those
wretched
waking dreams
chased
by snakes
antagonized
priority ladders
shaken
simple agony
making time
simply things
beyond reason
vicious bites
from adders
squeezed
by pythons
violated
by vipers
but then
sometimes
insinuate
rings of pleasure
appeasing measures
we shed
scaly skins
exude
thick
sour cream
sweetened with honey
minding music
finding new songs
from a favourite band
insist on massage
commendable
existing laughter
blending joy
some sacred
oil message
shedding old skin
all that angst
we're in
resident snakes
lay still
stay coiled
serpents display
royal dreams
tread carefully
dread nightmares
venom it seems
spoils every sea
try hard to swim
pray not to sink
I'm blinking
thinking
subliminal vision
just try
to escape
sly derision
unreliance
great white shark
steely defiance
silently revealing
tragic water lies
spoken liquid guile
dictator's peaceful pleas
a traitor's conscience
wicked tokens
a great white
pleasing
toothsome
smile and grin
drink in
oceans of truth
jin revealed
by spiders
such is life
relying on snakes
all this finagling
enabling belief
challenged by strife
breaking order
still rife imposition
unbalanced disorder
stifling enlightened revelation
as if life
were surely
purely based
on light and sound
words
merely trace
this human race
worldly elevation
this skin we're in
behold
a sacred space
hummingbirds
hovering
perfumed
love
birds of paradise
like lost prophets
accosted
a lofty host
derived
of living saints and stars
toasting surrendered lives
those chosen
sucking nectar
vectors of ego
motions of boasting
luckless sectors
shedding broken hearts
soulful emotion
what's left
detailing feelings
bungling
regaling
failing
falling
out of soulful jungle
right from a waterfall start

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