Archive for August, 2007

• Introducing an old friend…

  Date: 2007.08.30 | Category: random thoughts | Response: 0

  You must…..without delay….go read the beautiful things coming out of Christopher’s Head…

  He is a very dear friend of mine that I have known for too long to remember. I have been completely entranced by his writing – so go on, jump down the rabbit hole -

• Loud Mouth Lucy

  Date: 2007.08.22 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  Sing softly, Loud Mouth Lucy!
  No one loves fingernails on a blackboard
  Boys
  and girls
  Dressed in tablecloth kilts and
  White button downs singing
  Singing sweet hymns of childhood dreams
  Their little angel voices float
  Through the air ducts and the aged ears
  of the educator

  He shuffles me to the back of the crowd
  Hides me behind tall Benny
  His head absorbs my hopeful song
  But I sing anyway
  For Benny to hear my resistance
  I am headed where these are not
  I’ll be loud and make
  history
  They will be loud and make
  babies

  That mad man – six feet tall
  Gangly arms waving
  Picking
                   the pretty blonds to sing bad solos
  Using his education
  To gain favor from
                  the insignificant

• Actually 145

  Date: 2007.08.22 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  an inflated pride
  creeps boldly
  consistently
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  intimidation
  who are you
  your words steer straight
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  strangled by pleasing
  silenced fear
  smothering words
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  like complacent dogs
  changing word games
  lazy mutt
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  sparingly loved by
  with distance
  incomparable
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  devastated soul
  deflated
  presumption nigh
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  both lifted and dropped
  i hear you
  i know you
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  unintentional
  fearing the best
  fearing the fear
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  my breathing juxtaposed
  opinions
  sears like ice
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  irresistably
  drawn to kill
  fearlessly stab
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  recount yesterday
  relive now
  then smother next
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  returning to right
  to before
  never enough

• How I Feel

  Date: 2007.08.22 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  The smocked painter sheds her shackles
  And dons the wings of the familiar brush
  She paints a poem of freedom
  With feet made famous by another
  Forgiven yet still paying the price
                        of mistakes the faulty brush made
  On a borrowed canvas

  To be as free as the singer is to vamp
  Yet frozen in the confines of meter
  Refusing to sell out to the barbaric public
  Yet needing to buy milk and eggs tonight
  It’s an awkward life
  Knowing the truth of how things work
             out to make us cookie cutter citizens
  Wanting to be painters

• Next

  Date: 2007.08.22 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  The day will come to embrace your seed
  To look into the face of what you
                           could have become
  A chance to nurture and create art
  That transcends the reach of your hands

  Farther, higher, more succesful they will go
  If you do your job well and without fear
                           of falling again
  Your blood will run and pump and flow
  To the drum of persistance

• Baby Steps

  Date: 2007.08.21 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  Wisdom gives birth to a specific lifestyle – it’s so easy to pick it out in a crowded street. Wisdom’s child has a certain color and smell about her. It’s a long way to sensory eutopia, but a short step away from failure…

• Opposition

  Date: 2007.08.21 | Category: poetry | Response: 0

  Music
  Transient Communication
  Inspiring, Breathing, Expressing
  Harmonious Passion – Dissonant Lover
  Restricting, Forbidding, Condeming
  Creativity Confined
  War

• Date: 2007.08.20 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  

• Date: 2007.08.20 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  

• Date: 2007.08.20 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0