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Spirit Dosha

Conversations are mostly friendly
Vacate my mind
Inhale passing clouds

Avoid taxes and the police
Trouble with me is ~

The envelope arrives like a meteor
Foreign, inalienable & free

Fatal attractions devour my obsessions
Raw honey is good for you

Accelerator gets stuck to the floor
Flies buzzing everywhere

Newscasts parrot the script...

"The innocent man was pushed 

                                          on to the tracks

Heroes jumped in to save him

                                            more news at 10"


1/9/23
12:47am

angstbrotherfree verse

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Ian D. Campbell

February 5, 2023 at 5:05 AM

cryptic, yet transparent was my experience. Eloquently written. Terrifying, yet heroes saved him on the end. I'm learning sometimes we need to be our own heroes and get off the tracks by the power given to us by The One. Thanks for the great read. Ian.

James Marshall Goff

February 5, 2023 at 11:02 AM

Great feedback Ian! yes, you got it on every...front!

Harry Horsman

January 24, 2023 at 12:50 AM

You need to behave, Jimbo. yet makes for excellent poetry.

James Marshall Goff

February 5, 2023 at 11:05 AM

Oh my friend Harry, and Happy Birthday! you read my rattles for so many yrs, you know I give myself on this site, the only poetry site I've ever wanted to be part of for 13 yrs... I've lived for sure... thanks for stoppin' by!

Joe Maverick

January 23, 2023 at 11:52 AM

Yet just who set the tracks Jimbo.? Just who.?

Timothy Ray

January 13, 2023 at 11:39 AM

a day in the life wandering boulevards and neuropathways at a random consumption looking for a desirable destination, meandering thru the equation, what is the half-life of eternity.....i understand this well, something that corrupts or maligns....the path i should be walking

Timothy Ray

February 17, 2023 at 5:15 PM

came back to read again....and glad i did

James Marshall Goff

January 13, 2023 at 12:49 PM

So true Timothy, this is a deadly-accurate bio poem, glad you caught it, "half-thoughts" rule my everyday...best when I let go & let God

Sally Eslinger

January 10, 2023 at 10:29 PM

Well, JMG, My first read of your work.joe & i are close, but i’m not sure what he was saying here. I read this more than once with same reaponse. I felt like a spirit, right at your side, in the smack & flow of a whatever day, all sort of noted in passing, getting thru, going on, vivid enough, insects more alive than people. A mind understandably happier in the sky. ?? This is a gritty, authentic seeing and speaking. A 30- min, video wouldnt have said more, & way less masterful. xosally

James Marshall Goff

January 11, 2023 at 1:28 AM

I think you helped me understand my words better, Sally, not uncommon with my scribbles!

Andrea Dietrich

January 9, 2023 at 10:06 AM

Not something I totally get but the last part really resonates with me. Cool vibe

James Marshall Goff

January 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM

Understandable Andrea! That's exactly all I was trying to accomplish! ...subconscious allegories, line by line, narrate a moral, political & spiritual struggle (spoiler-alert) ultimately won with intervention by the Holy Spirit (I'm Irish Catholic)

Joseph P. DiMino

January 8, 2023 at 7:40 PM

It is an onslaught of information, not all pleasant~ and a lot antithetical, injurious to a healthy spirit. Sometimes taking one away from self-comforting centers, realization often a bit late to prevent painful suffering. Interesting read to say the least. Certain I have only touched the surface of understanding. Well done.

James Marshall Goff

January 8, 2023 at 8:25 PM

Yes,yes & yes Joe....time is short, but the spirit abides...