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
    _________________________________

    intimidation
    who are you
    your words steer straight
    _________________________________

    strangled by pleasing
    silenced fear
    smothering words
    _________________________________

    like complacent dogs
    changing word games
    lazy mutt
    _________________________________

    sparingly loved by
    with distance
    incomparable
    _________________________________

    devastated soul
    deflated
    presumption nigh
    _________________________________

    both lifted and dropped
    i hear you
    i know you
    _________________________________

    unintentional
    fearing the best
    fearing the fear
    _________________________________

    my breathing juxtaposed
    opinions
    sears like ice
    _________________________________

    irresistably
    drawn to kill
    fearlessly stab
    _________________________________

    recount yesterday
    relive now
    then smother next
    _________________________________

    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

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