Somehow I survived the trenches
Got past all that carpet bombing
Endured whirlwinds of poison gas
Life's just willfully difficult
Inevitably ending up
Still myself all the time
Telling the other me memorable stories
Crazy old man porridge
Oats and glorious grazing with an old ram
Lowing in the high meadow
I dream about flowering dells
Shepherding a glowing ewe and golden lamb
Campfire smoke and a sweet clearing in the wilderness
Sparks and embers
Sparkling northern lights
My stark old cabin burning down
Then I oddly wake rememb'ring
All I find are ashes
Sifting charred bone
A tangle of welded relics
Twisted cast iron remnants
Such a hot wielding number
All those unwieldy memories
Past away in that brazen conflagration
Bright moonlight on a cold winter night
Smoldering sage and aged bits
Sacred herbs and brazed descendants
Razed remnants in righteous graves
Saved leftovers in growing cemeteries
Rows of consummate criers
Crazed fire and its infernal consumption
A blast furnace of roaring flames
Blazing a tornadic path
Volcanoes leaving the clan bewitched
Stitched up man
Wondering where up becomes down
Let us off this precipitous edge
I'm so close to that ridiculous ledge now
Still peril somehow
Survivalist nerves up til now
Frill speech with dead poets
Tea and crumpets
Their marmalade rhymes
Creating marvelous lyric circles
A genetic corn vortex in these farm-aide times
Crop circles and all those crystalline words
Divine fields of cryptic signals and signs
Summons from the edge of the forest
A blessed ivory Unicorn
A summer pledge waiting to be ridden
Hidden Unicorn glory
Shimmering story lines with golden clouds
Looming mysteries with mystical meanings
Rude booms wake historical folk in the gritty night
There's a mighty storm brewing
Provoking the nitty world
Poking closer to the lagging centre now
Far beyond fragmented entrenchment
Eliminating unrepentant carpet bombing
Relinquishing ill meant greed and profit
All that independent penetrating oil
Pacifying patent freedom with liquified gas
Humankind is forever scarred
Marred with old war wounds
Harassed by darting demons and farting gargoyles
Struggles with an apartment past
Still it's not the end of the world
Like that old saying
"Things will look better in the morning"
Still more rhetoric
"Better late than never"
Every place where glory exists
Beyond all those inglorious trenches
Our demented foreign past
All those scandalous bloodied battlefields
Where sad bombs and forlorn gas played
Frayed prayer flags and trying real human progress
Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
Agreeable like the mystical Serengeti
So I'm still a Kilimanjaro pilgrim
John Dunn dreaming
Metaphysical prop circles
Pilgrims stopped up with quizzical thought
Propped up creation down on both knees
Why fear that imminent ledge?
That indiscriminate edge
All that insistent unknown
Digging downward
Into deeper trenches
Entrenched villagers engulfed by fiery change
Tired consuming forests of trees
Assuming some renewable nerve gas
Astrology never conspires or agrees
Free thinking at this astronomical stage
Nominal old farmer's almanac disease
No thanks to blanque cheques and rank cancer
Just dish out frank incense and kindness please
So like the Cube that 'WAS' before time
All those skanky transformations
Tragic teasing and cranking us
Pleasing pranks enduring this rugged life
Treason and tanks transforming love
All those opulent snails and slugs that cross tank trails
All those rank dreams
Spiral shells and cyclonic fires
Flooding streets with crank strife
That bloody allegorical knife
Like ruddy Jinn rising
Straying out of the secret desert
Forever lost in a blistering mirage
Staid dunes of burning sand
Deeper than all those bloody man-made trenches
Pyramids stand marking the land
Mummified Nilotic legions
Miscarriage of truth and dreams over time
All those fairy rings and unreasonable things
What came first the cube or the egg?
A course scientifically rehearsed
Supplicant cube first
Then the compliant versed egg
Hatching terse cubism
Ritual immersive eggism
Egoism at its heady best
Pledge and ritual reasonism
Surviving this edgy test

 

I woke up mad
mad about life
mad about moon light
fault and tower make me mad
climate change makes me mad
madness seeping into every crack
cracked up to be filled with more bits of mad
madness piled high in caterwauling heaps
madhatter styling and stacking up
racked up with regrettable arsenic
cracked up with forgettable mercury
sneezing powders and beaver felt
all that resounding chemical madness
hounding mad allergic feelings
mad reeling and rap gangster love
a mix of berated and hateful things
awash in all those rapid river trials
a mad rabid dash up beaver trails
failed muskrat love and moonlight mistakes
all those mad trapper tales
so many mad otter daydreams
all those mad earth dams
damming mad sacred streams
fabled Sable and Sea Otter
cooped and cradled in snug lodges
stodgy mugs during mad sleep
I'm stooped with this august mug
drooped and shaken by fool madness
challenged by hooded nightmares it seems
a sky of glad stars mistaken for sparks of sadness
divine sanity and riveting gravity prevails
rank galaxies shrouded by fickle vanity
blank questions about proud love
visions of whimsical trinket quests
bleached coral and not one fish before I wake
strictly a mad headless universe
stretched foreskins and mad nervous tics
love's wretched kisses and mad trickster hips
snail slime and crazy arachnid love
brazen bits and sated stuff
a ruff of virgin grass and leaves
snuffed and dying complacent
strange trials of blazing colour
a tie dye contingent
enough rough changes
confused by mad flutter
a buzzing Queen Bee of hearts
a mad flitting hive
those fitting crazed madhatters
mad cities of lively drones
gritty workers with bees knees
buzzed lives with honey foundations
confused by sweet beelines
truthful smatterings
vines along a perfumed sweet pea way
disillusioned by scent and shattered tribal sanity
tattooed arthropods experimenting randomly
a battered slough of inked invertebrates
computing solar ether
feeding lethal fire in the raging Amazon
all that crafted carbon
smoky drafts and CO2
either or either
inventing selfless being
sent by acidic ocean streams
Pacific ocean dreams and a disappearing shell game
specifics defining algae and krill
succinctly the same
so much elemental wisdom
measured by fukushima shame
redefining distinctive organisms
instinctively maligned aliens
repainting the colour of the world
roiling in a hurricane ocean tide
toiling in this moiling radioactive ride
so much crude emotional madness
those bitchin' in vogue standup comics
dressed in pressed fervent plaid
servants and insurgents addressed the same
soundly redressing mad crowds
a depressing fad of mad everything
a regression of sad battle jokes
gesticulating across a divisive crevasse
a restless bass and subtle sounds
echoing shockwaves abound
virtually the same
steep terrain and steady rain
gravity's groundless vanity
physics and mass insanity
strange virile bugs
unrestrained in fabled realms
towering yowlers lurching toward a sad helm
yearning howlers screeching a shower of mad refrains
mad growlers stitched and beseeched
madly divested and madly arrested
such a choked mad mess
mad scientists stroked with the same mad feather
unrestrained games in their mad dash together
madly walking another checkered songline
we'll wake mad to more dreamtime weather
mad again as sad morning came
all aboard all aboard
all aboard this mad runaway train

 

Tangles
Rectangles
Newfangled angles
Every dangling corner
Each triangle I'm turning
Every new cosine day
Concentric functioning
A yearning sun burning
A ratio of conversion
Fission infused with blistering rays
Eccentric plays harmony on that inferno door
Telling infernal time has come
Keeping rocking rhyme
Chords of devotion before eccentrics done
Frying tree electric shocks
Free flying septic crocks
Tea tree peptic mops
Free frying electric shocks
Fluttering helpless to a trying fluid floor
Buttery silky eccentricity
Concentric time has flown
Old sentries grown bold like gentry
Ornate bent behaviour
One more old saviour to betray
Splayed oblate upon a silver tray
First shivering cold nights
Icy second blows delivered
Thirdsight beyond Merlin's door
Shimmering pairs of Kestrel and other birds
Exotic plumage in shameless prime
Airy moon walks and star talks
Navigating through all that nipping bramble
Conning past creeping vine
Owls tripping on poetry and other lonely bird calls
Sipping on divine songs from the torrid past
Recalling precious gripping moments
Each favoured carpel and firm foot fall
Disguised by some flipping hermit shroud
Flippant skies blur those corn snow memories
Ripping those crowded winter trails
Proud wailing and other icy comments
A hailing comet came whizzing by
Stopping only to sizzle and knock again
Heaven only knows if it's fizzle or shine
Signs and all that vain rocking again
Sine qua non and other essential vines
Can anything ever remain the same?
Sometimes mocking tears find me
Deep rocking sorrow blinds me
Talking about dreams that can never come
Stalking misshapen promises framing tomorrow
Trusting love won't balk
Abandon the changing sun
So I lust for life and range with howling wolves
Strange hungering under every turgid moon
Languishing over segmented rainbows
Extremities once whole become halved
Figments foretell of distorted shows
Wells of nothing Will dug too soon
Pigments and balms and blessed herbal salve
Taking me back to unsolved mysteries
Remarkable ancient beebalm history
Resolving breakfast with fruit and pancakes
Mixing syrup with those midnight memories
Scrambling eggs when growling love looks the other way
Betrayed love burned and buried in lonely cemeteries
Entrenched then incinerated
Braving swayed eccentricity
Haunting wretched love
Fetched by crushing passion
Daunted by passionate electricity
Divine love currently streaming
Gleaming wearing some other fashion
Towards fusion and a hushed eclectic shore
Flushed by existent moonlight
No doubt fused by midnight
I rightly sleep alone
Bereft of physics and crushing love
Hushed I desist and dream
Roam with equations and chemistry
Knowing resistant love left me defeated
Persistently retreated from my deflated home
Now simply nothing more insistent to give
Crimped by token atonement
Cramped by  crushing consignment
Fauns with broken hearts
Strewn muse lame and lost
A myriad of roaming sunspots
Scattered across a dimpled forest floor
All that lost and dappled love
Mysterious parts crissed and crossed
Far below that perfect forest sphere
No more pine pollen fears or blossom tears
Rare patina beneath every ziggurat's regent core
Peaceful distant reckoning
Eden stands insistent and beckoning
Abreast of a landmark shore

Haiku Thursday 


How much oil and gas
Ranking up the rhetoric
So we live in fear

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There's a lazy bug
Scratching at my cabin door
Summer heat and rest

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I've been to the top
God led me from the bottom
Stars and sun and moon

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Oh Angelica
Being Archangelica
Medicine for all

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Limited vision
One can only see so far
Unknowable you

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We're cooking an eternal soup
Swimming in some magical stew
Twisting in this infernal loop
Sometimes a shot of pepper and spice
Often difficult and very hot
Piquant can rightly suffice
Easy street is a rich man's vice
Rightly sometimes it tastes
Something mighty and healing
But some ingredient or element
Feeling is oft found missing
Whispering sound particles
Echoes into the gradient night
Stooped and wishing to be bathed in sacred light
Leaning forward with chaste and radiant Angels
Kissing the blessed dark as I lose my blessed sight
Touched by rife life with all its mix and haste
Recklessly crouched
Wond'ring how it might taste
Feckless when I die
Kneeling unrehearsed for once
Appealing to the reeling universe
Finally seeing true in that marked and  humble view

When war ships finally slip away
Independence is rightly found
Razed diversity roundly lost
Mining this profound ground
Our world expounds earth
Exerting ownership of turf
Rooted to the chemical future
Bound by the regaled past
Are we banished in time?
Famished people
Eating luxurious weeds
Manna from the damaged sea
Kneel before the sacred steeple
Every sacred spring
Every blessed flower and sepal
Praising God for pure water
Bring blessings for each and every people
Sharing the vibrating universe
Alive we want and we keep
Our yard always our yard
Ownership and retracing boundaries
Perhaps crudely worse
What do I own
These words aren't mine of course
End of rude life
What do i need to do
Nothing new
What about you
Nothing too
Done it all
You and me
Verse and song and poetry

Something big,
You can't imagine,
Bigger than dreams,
More than we should envision,
One stupendous star,
One magnificent planet,
A world of fragile,
Rock falls beyond the rocky moon,
Water dropped into the upended sea,
So much distended cloud,
Dry stolid deserts,
Amid arid cultures,
Between all that brain power,
Solid versus liquid,
Gaseous and so unstable,
Removed to some other remote place,
Reasonable states though towering,
Below the stately sun,
Gravity of everything definable,
Something remarkably big,
Memorably bigger than dreams.