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Premium Member Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 I saw, the rot of sad, deep selfish desires,
 burning endlessly in clever fires
 Piles of cash a tall mountain high
 stolen by those that cleverly steal and lie
 six lying days every week , 
 while they race into church pretending 
 to be ever so mild and meek

 The preacher crying all to give so much more
 while he lives in a mansion with a golden door
 drunks living with no other life
 have sacrificed family and wife
 naked women on the the street,
 selling their pride and body like meat
 hustlers getting rich selling poisonous dope
 as they hang themselves with an evil rope

 I looked for solace and found there was none
 just endless cowards crying on the run
 A world teaching wrong is so damn right
 blind monkeys never seeing the light
 dancing in fruitless trees,
 tree-rats eating with relish their rotting cheese

 Looking for Spring to bring life anew
 I too am blind and without a damn clue
 a fool holding onto a false hope
 on a tight leash and even shorter rope

 Where is the miracle we each think can come
 we see it shining there for some
 A treasure glaring in the glimmering Sun
 gifted not stolen by guile and a gun
 So I finally turned to family for relief
 ease my Soul, winter in my long lost belief
 that Life must give us all a saving line
 other than more food when we sit to dine

R.J. Lindley
Nov 9th, 1984

Premium Member Dead To Me Means More Alive Than Ever

Before I die, I want my grandchildren to know these things.
Believe in yourself and be your own best friend.
No one else can keep your secrets like you can.
And if you do not believe in yourself, it will be difficult for others to.

I want my grandchildren to know this:
When you get old your hearing and eyesight may fly away.
Like birds on an almost weather day, never to return.
So do whatever you want now while you are fresh and young.

I want to will my five hundred paintings to my grandchildren.
For I feel my children will pluck them off my walls and burn them.
They know how swiftly I paint, and do not have a love for hippies.
Grands appreciate my neon colors, unicorns, dragons and faeries.

I want to apologize to my children for the mess I am leaving.
I did not bother to clean anything,
It will be a bonding experience for you three girls
A week or two of cousins getting together, which will amuse me.

I want to assure you that I will be in a catbird seat, watching.
I will listen to what you are saying about me, and I will laugh with you.
I never took myself too seriously, and it will be a great time for me.
Because life beyond this world is the real living. Earth life is confining.

Letting you in on a secret. I am an astral traveler in my slumber.
I am not in my body; my spirit is outside, travelling at great speeds.
I do not believe in death, because I am also an empath
I am not “dead” – I am actually more alive than ever before.

Premium Member Leaves of the Dead

Leaves of the Dead

Les feuilles mortes 



They fall like dead soldiers
Dreams knifed in the dead of night
It is as yesterday
Once more
Where love was kissing my cheek
Where hopes had dreams
One could see the blossom of loves desires

Leaves falling in the park
Autumn coldness brings the dark
Death marching towards winters fate
Young love broken at the graveyard gates


Ah now I am holding a cane
I have all but forgotten yesterday
I have no lovers
My friends have all but gone
To their designated places in the ground
Piano keys in soft lit lounges
I remember the vodka stingers and sultry singers 
Telling me life was jolie oh so jolie
If only there was love…

Leaves falling in the park
Autumn coldness brings the dark
Death marching towards winters fate
Young love broken at the graveyard gates

At 3am, with burnt cigarette butts
If only there was love
When the metro finds it’s unwitting end
Reality and cubes make ugly paintings
There are only drunks
Dreamers and bums
Thief’s picking pockets of your final instructions

Leaves falling in the park
Autumn coldness brings the dark
Death marching towards winters fate
Young love broken at the graveyard gates

If you can sober up and face the poverty
Of your empty aspirations of hope
Come to the bois de Vincennes
Where Kings and Queens danced and dined
What better place
To splay the butter
So that the knife slides smooth
Whilst the sun fades kissing the seine
Autumn leaves will fall
Dead again

Leaves falling in the park
Autumn coldness brings the dark
Death marching towards winters fate
Young love broken at the graveyard gates


Premium Member MY FATHER, MY DAD

My voice is weak, my hand falters
as I attempt to speak of my Father.
Each night sleep takes me, 
                  then truth awakes me –
my Dad is gone, now dead.
My heart hears this from my head.
Wrapped in numbness, walking in nothingness,
I search for his presence.

The chain’s now broken, its brightest link gone.
My Dad was security and so mentally strong.
His mind quick, his wit sharp,
he always inspired my young heart.
Pleasing my Father was to lasso the sun.
In him my pride was first begun.

I picture his hands, legs and arms –
my protector from harm;
wisdom was his voice, 
                  comforting his every choice,
willpower his motto, sureness his step.
He was a man of incredible depth.
Knowing I am my Father’s daughter 
                  is a thought to be tenderly kept.
His final, “I love you” words, 
                  the most emotion I’ve heard yet.

I will miss you, Daddy.
Now and forever, naught will I forget.
I’ll see you each sunrise,
mourn you each sunset.
Images crash around me, 
                  I’d have it no other way
Than your memory with 
                 me each and every day.

What Dead Eyes See

IMAGINE you have Died  

A Free SPIRIT without a CRY

Walking down the AVENUE

PEOPLE passing Straight through YOU


Hearing WHISPERING thoughts to BLIND

Some of GOOD INTENTIONS 

Others INTERTWINED

EMOTIONS RUNNING WILD

The Same Old JUNGLE 

Same Old SIGH 


You BEGIN to WONDER WHY


IMAGINE seeing YOURSELF 

An UNFAMILIAR face 

SOMEONE else of ANOTHER time or Place

Somehow YOU could SEE the GOOD and BAD  

WHY Hearts are BROKEN

The Inner SAD


IMAGINE you could LIVE again

Knowing FULLY well

No One LOSES

No One WINS

All the PATTERNS and DECEPTIVE roles

A CHAOTIC System

Way Out of CONTROL


IMAGINE you have Another CHANCE

To RIGHT some WRONGS

To UNDERSTAND

The WAY things REALLY go DOWN  


Would YOU be the SAME

You'd Surely SAY

It’s IMPOSSIBLE to tell 

Within the CONCEPTS of HEAVEN and HELL

Premium Member By Then We'll Be Dead

Whispers and intrigue 
and things that shan’t be said,
not uttered or stuttered--
minds shuttered instead.

You cannot, you shall not,
believe your own eyes.
You must put your trust in 
our false facts and lies.

Sit down, and be quiet! 
You don’t need to think!
Ignore feigned enemies, 
when you catch them wink.

You must believe 
what we say is true,
because we’re much smarter--
we’re thinking for you!

We’re right, and we know it. 
There’s no doubt about it!
You can tell that we’re right 
‘cause we’re loud when we shout it.

Ignore all the things 
that come to light later.
If you should mention those,
well--you’re just a hater.

This is the story. 
Now march to our drum.
All those who don’t,
are worthless and dumb!

           * * *

One day some scholar 
will take a fresh look
and write a best seller, 
an award-winning book.

She’ll reveal the whole truth,
opposite all that we’ve read.
But don’t wait to read it,
‘cause by then we’ll be dead!

______________________
January 6, 2022
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Dead Birds

Standing on the broken cement of the back porch
silently staring into the skies
and talking to myself 
 
Fingers struggling to keep appearances 
windshield wipers across my cheek
watercolors gone white
 
Flippant, fanatical, furious
patient, protective, passionate
trying to love the beast
 
Sending dreams to the clean ears of the open air  
returned quickly, clutched in your mouth, crushed
presented for reward
 
Dead birds delivered to my doorstep 
my nature wants to heal them, bury them
yours waits and wags its tail

Premium Member Imagine a Dead World

Imagine if all the krill 
Beneath the ice shelves were dead.
Millions plus millions of krill
Fodder for ocean’s creatures:
Penguins, walrus, whales.
In the end all will die and the ocean
Will be a poorer place for all.

     Imagine if all the trees 
     Would lose all their leaves for ever.
     No Autumn splendour,
     No fruit, no place where to hide.
     Would we not be living
     In pure disaster?

Imagine if there would not be any wind.
No music to inspire,
No words to adorn the arias,
No emotion on men’s faces.
We thrive on emotion.
And what is emotion if not poetry?
We simply cannot live without it.


20 January 2021

Placed 2

Can You Imagine - Any form Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France

Premium Member The Poets Are Dead

On days I read…
   O dread
      The poets are dead!

A taste of bitter
   A tatterdemalion squalor
      A thread

that dangles
   in black death
      in the abyss

The art is lost
   in those times
      The craft

on a cliff
   Words swish
      then spit

without mystical scope

Spring forth
   O poet
      Prepare thyself for thy muse

the amusement of thy readers
   If thy words
      hang upon

thy precipice
   let it be stupendous
      spectacular

Let them peer
   perch
      leap

glide with whimsical wings

Fly, poet, fly
   Nose dive into the sea
      Capture the depths

of eternity
   Put a pretty bow on it
      or a ghostly hue. Abscond

into the spider’s closet
   fiddle on the roof
      hang on baby

until you're foolproof
   ne’er perfect
      leave room for edits.

So the albatross
   went diving
      but it is the fisherman

that is thriving
   up, up, up he goes
      into the blue nose

his line
   divining
      reeling in silver and gold.

Treasures
   to share
      No dread!

The poets live! Live it up to the end!

Not Dead

It was reported that she had died,
but I saw her
months after the obituary.

She came to me in a dream naturally,
the mind has to be as relaxed
as a three-toed-sloth
before it can report any intelligence to us.

I knew her, the way a distant relative
knows you from an old black and white photo.

Anastasia: a crazy name for an Irish woman,
but actually quite common
in the long buried book of Celtic Memories.

I was hanging-out under my eyelids,
the way a winter sun hangs under a winter tree,
or a sloth hangs from a moist lichen reverie
maybe.

When Anastasia - her 80 year old hair
flying on countless dove-gray moonbeams 
came to me,
a pitter-pattering of soft rain
falling onto my big, round, brown,
dreaming eyes.

“I am not dead, and you are not dead.”
She said.

I should have been afraid
but fear takes much more energy
than I had at that moment.

I heard myself answer:
“Then you are alive”?

The soft rain continued to speak:
“Did I say that”? 

That’s all I remember.

Later, just for we big thinkers,
I commenced to rummage
through the long buried book
of Celtic Memories.

It was then that, ever so slowly,
I remembered.

Premium Member Poem Your Voice Alive Or Dead-JU

"AI has stolen my words and my imagination. As a human writer, I write from my heart. AI can not steal my heart. AI is the great copier because they have No heart to write with." By Poet 

With a writers human heart,
writers pen in hand to start.
AI machine that is cold,
made out of tin and not gold.

Tell me this is a bad dream,
before I let out a scream.
Muse and pen will always stay,
a human voice all the way.

Premium Member Abandon Dead Trails and Thy Sybarite Lust

Abandon Dead Trails And Thy Sybarite Lust

If Nature's earthen-fires thy bosom holds
and thy heart's countenance mind's eye thus sees;
life serves best those adventurously bold,
walking worn paths, resting under its trees.

Seek in truth the great beauty God has made
the opulence of colors in blue skies;
let not dark, thy human empathy degrade
to sorrows that in turn, love's joys deny.

Instead, denude kings of their purple cloaks
and the golden castles they have stolen;
take time to visit regale forest oaks,
ride the rapids of rivers swift and swollen.

Abandon dead trails, thy Sybarite lusts
in Nature's awe, seeking heart there adjusts.

Robert J. Lindley, 8-18-2018
Sonnet, ( Nature's Great Gifts And Its Awesome Healing Powers)

Premium Member - The Living and the Dead -


Halloween is a time to let the imagination run wild 
Halloween is a holiday shrouded in darkness 
linked to the supernatural and known for inspiring fear 
Dress like your favorite fantasy creature 
or tell ghost stories in a dark room 
But Halloween is not just about 
to dress up in costumes and ask for candy 
A favorable time for predictions about marriage, 
happiness, health and death 
An evening of spiritualism, ghosts, vampires and goblins 
From old time it was a holiday steeped in folklore and customs 
Poisoned candies to vampires and goblins 
Carving pumpkins to trick or treating at your door 
Masks and costumes to scare away ghosts 
or to be recognized by them
Happy Halloween and good luck







31.10.2014
A-L Andresen :)
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Premium Member Dead People Don'T Cry

When life is this tough, you may long to die.
The Grim Reaper beckons, like he's your friend.
Try to remember, dead people don't cry.

A bad beginning, may look like the end.
Your soul is anguished, every night and day.
The Grim Reaper beckons, like he is your friend.

Try not to listen, he'll lead you astray.
It's hard not to follow, his dark allure.
Your soul is anguished, every night and day.

Death's not the answer, it offers no cure.
Filled with sadness, you're not able to think.
It's hard not to follow, his dark allure.

Fill your cup with love, it can be your drink.
Refreshing of mind, dancing with the light.
Pouring out sadness, now able to think.

You have the power, you're able to fight.
Refreshing of mind, dancing with the light.
You thought life was tough, you wanted to die.
Still you remembered, dead people don't cry.

Premium Member When Your Dead Your Dead

I have heard "when YOUR dead, YOUR dead"
So why is Your memory still in my head  
Why does my Heartbeat (still) with YOUR LOVE
It has been 42 years since YOU joined GOD above 
My hands still caress YOU, my eyes Beauty sees
Each morning I speak to YOU from my kneeling knees
My nostrils inhale Your most Glorious scent
Will I ever go where YOU have already went
I speak to YOU daily of our LOVE in the past
And the years keep rolling on faster than fast
At night I feel you rubbing my chest
As I lean over to Worship YOUR Brest
I Whisper I Miss YOU and I Always will
Lenore my beloved Wife I'm LOVING YOU Still

The Title is the Words of "Mandy Tams ~The Golden Girl~"

Inspired by : Mandy Tams ~The Golden Girl~
               Dedicated to Mandy Tams

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