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Premium Member Suspension Tableau

I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it feels so good 
    when balance transcends 

No 5

Kids Resentment

It takes a long time 
To figure out if things went right
To find out if you did what was best
If you passed all those unknown test

An perfect life doesn't exist
Parenthood involves to many variables
Of which you cannot control

It is not easy raising a child
From preconception through to life
It is a hazardous journey
That is often thankless 
With pitfalls everywhere 
 
With no knowledge of how
Parent and child will interact
It is a game of trial and error
The books and classes you attend
Only generalize
The reality of birth upends
All perceived and expectant sureties

Navigating the pains of birth
The tantrums of toddler-hood
The blasé attitude of teenage
And the un-forgetfulness of adulthood
Is not a relaxing journey 
Both sides will often end up worst for wear

Bundles of joy can become
Vessels that distil all unsure steps
A learning process involves
Souring minds exposed
To overpowering parenting
Or insufficient love

Nurturing the person who now hates
Can only make one sad
Time doesn’t play fair
It doesn’t allow a rethink
Or a reliving of the past
So wrongs can be made right

Life is tough when you raise the next generation
You expect happiness but reality
Never quite hits the target of perfection
Is it best to just love and hope
Things won’t destroy you
And the child that looks up you?

Premium Member Spirits Of Saturn

The avalanche crashed   an ax from nimbus peaks
these shrouds a pall   a maul splitting my shield
this smur slurs my weakened war paint
my skin  my beat  my breath  my breast
gray matter clouds —a pock-marked-psyche wears the ruse of ceruse

cosmos charity clouds once white like daylight   once light as sea foam  
blown and flown to the expanse of ether   airy spirits afloat
now a iron-heart-anvil    I’m horizontal
..an empty fossil-frame pressed into earth

these clouds  these shrouds  upon me
around me   about me   they cry
my lantern dampened  they know why
cataract-clouds dimmed my gaze
they’ve simmered and condensed
they’ve become incensed
they drape me  a caterwaul shawl

oh mamma sky   your cirrus streams my suckle sweet
nourish my flourish  rock me  frock me  your cumulus crib and fleece
from nest on high  fledge me bluebird spry
freckle me starling’s starlight speckle
myself the Milky Way instead of ash-of-flame remains
constellated skin depicts our myth and marrow sagas 
my mouth alive with words of the winds
iambic tranquilize of zephyrs sweeping wheat  
and lyric wrath of gales aggrieved   stripping leaves from trees
with barnstormer speech
cleanse my lens with see-through-rain till wet with reflection
that upends the blur and burr of clouds crashing down
— keep them  mamma sky  beyond where they belong

so I may return and re-emerge — reimagined


All In a Day's Work

verse

I was fixing supper not so long ago,  
the kitchen full of smells, sights and sounds;
a new dessert was ready for applause.
We were waiting on Gramps to get home from work.
In retrospect, it was not so bad as it seemed.
 
Smiling, I recall three moments with grandkids -
a memory of a supper hard to forget. 
Chase upends half a box of spaghetti
over the floor, I look for an extra box
as the dog poops on the carpet near the sink.

Suddenly, my ancient microwave blows a fuse
spinning us in total darkness. “Watch your step!
Don’t anybody move.” I stumble downstairs
headlong into Jackson and his art project.
“Who turned the lights out?” he bellows with blame.

“Ring-a-ling!”  Who’d call me at a moment like this?
"Honey, I'm running late – just go ahead and eat."
Lights on!  Both messes cleaned up!  I decide - 
“Kelly, will you blow us up some balloons? 
party time - we'll have supper by candlelight.”

written December 24, 2015

Dragon Boat

the sky upends
as we cut the lake
quick white strokes 
in the dark current

the flow of bodies
a single bright ripple

somewhere in the space
between the blade tip
and water, it occurs:

the mind releases
the rain falls

silver salt scales
bloom across 
our arms and backs

rising, falling
like the breath
of a dragon

coursing out
each jagged
exhalation

all returns to water

the dull roar
in the distant horizon
calls us home

Obsessive Constraints - Part Iii

Sabotaging orbitofrontal communication incorporating connection between anterior cingulate gyrus cortex heightening activity bridging (via atom sized pontoon bridges) greater activity upon basal ganglia, which synoptic description does nothing to alter the predisposition to ingress of uncontrollable imbecilic, inexplicable, and illogical fixation particularly during onset of puberty, when an emotional kamikaze nose dive at the nadir of near lifelessness, the shadow of me former self nowhere tubby found on account of deadly symbiotic relationship asper the invisible nemesis – i.e. electrical impulses faux nattering nabobs of mien nativity whereat unseen thriving sensational riffraff quenched powerhouse ousting nestled milkmaids, or rather pressing said resources sans vitality into dangerous, frivolous, and horrendous self destructive antics, where ballistic charges drugged eminent domain former nerve cell size occupants, thoroughly re-engineering sense and sensibility with pride fullness and prejudice on par with dousing one with an opiate that completely upends functioning healthily, judging lovingly, and managing productively versus expending precious time and energy self absorbed into manic, neurotic, and/or psychotic actions, manners, thoughts, et cetera, which irrationality got embedded within the neurological interstices, which even as of this moment hound me akin to wild beasts circling ever closer to launch mortal kombat against their very housing.


Each Day's Step

Each day’s steps

Each day’s steps stolen and stinks not sinks
Taken to the success
Horrible pucks
Each day’s steps stolen and stinks not sinks

Tomorrow’s steps swallowed
Determining the determination by the demotion
Steps taken today, awaken the abandoned in pain of rain
Each day’s steps stolen and stinks not sinks

The drizzle idle of ideal
Compare lengths of their steps
Depending tallness to reach the upends
Human lengths, weights and heights
The drizzle idle of ideal is running without under your own steam

Trepidation using owns-
Steps irregular considering
Heights, weights, and lengths in grottos

Equalize steps
While achieving success

Fronting the Scenery

Childhood cavalcade upends
Serial stage pestilence
The kind of poisonous air barricade
That shunts the stitches when they twitch open

Human mind, they said
Stock in storerooms with mascara
Legitimate front to foot the system
With a pedal to the heart attack machine

When fanciful rage chops green
Evenly cut to make the barrage simple
As stacks of fallacy float out the door
All the clown scenery comes tumbling down

Daily Enhancing Mindfulness

Discombobulation thunderously
torments, triumphs, tumults
courtesy deafening,
earsplitting, fracturing...
(think emotional bomb cyclone),
whereby unbearable mental anguish
rents psyche asunder 

into bajillion pieces
singular recourse necessitates
invoking cerebral powers
to engender feeling 
comfortably numb skull,
hence tried and true value accorded

transcendental meditation practice
offering absolutely zero choice
incumbent upon yours truly
to remedy cerebral chaos,
an unpleasant quotidian experience,
whenever yours truly 

exits deep sleep
more potent and holistic solution
versus following pharmacological medications:
GLYCOPYRROLATE, TAB 2MG
CLOMIPRAMINE CAP 50MG
RISPERIDONE TAB 1MG
FLUOXETINE CAP 20MG
PRAZOSIN HCL CAP1MG
BUSPIRONE TAB 15MG
PRAMIPEXOLE TAB 1MG
CLONAZEPAM TAB 0.5MG
AMITIZA 24 MCG 
(prescription laxative as needed)

the former closed eye process 
to instill peace of mind,
plus elevating cosmic consciousness
allowing, enabling and providing

pronouncedly heightened awareness
acutely poignant insight
permeating throughout this body electric
calming, fanning, jumpstarting
vitally important discipline
in order for lifetime anxiety riddled

disabling affliction upends
potential to satiate existence
(oft times state of severe panic -
triggering chronic sweaty palms
extremely bothersome
physiological manifestation

induces suicidal ideation
i.e. opened arms death welcomed),
which onset regarding
ordinary agitated state
inchoate congenital malady
probably coalesced in utero

extremely intolerable,
especially incorporating socialization,
cuz no contra dance partner
(cue Irish jig and reel
musicians playing lively tunes)
favors grasping hand
analogous to wet dishrag.

Harried Society and the Voice of Nature

Society demands, upends
Threatening the loss of voice
Burying the vitality of self

Society wants your disease, craves it 
Needs you to submit in belief
That society is the only support

Nature quietly pushes its roots
Or sudden adjusts itself
Marked by essential movement

The water, the land, the fire of the sun
Are made for man's bounty
Are assembling constantly to provide

Living in sync with the sky
You are never forced to lie
To cheat, to steal, or to renege 

Nature knows itself in the love of days
Calling for us to follow its ways

Aye Miss the Trials and Tribulations of Expectant Fatherhood

no emotionally ecstatic experience compares 
   to the seminal instance 
   whence spermatozoa 
   (from profuse ejaculation) beget

the miraculous propensity 
   to procreate despite the steep odds 
   female fertility fosters potential impregnation 
   fusing the hereditary debt

of feral, fiery, fomenting friskiness 
   fueling fancy free footloose fornication 
   prior to seminal fertilization union 
   sans ova doth induce fret 
full ness in tandem with 

   diametrically opposed exultant sensations 
   (biologically, embryonically, microscopically, 
   et cetera) seismic shocks inject  
when deliberate intent arises to disregard 

   applying prophylactics choice 
   plying reproductive roulette let
which analogous fruitful uterine plain 
   bastes the "cooking" egg omelette  

which impregnation upends cessation of "self" 
   first and foremost asper desire to breed
wrenching role of "me" as operative 
   of webbed world de jure upon 
   consummating that most miraculous deed 

necessitating yet for the fecund female relief 
   from messy menstrual cycle 
   she becomes temporarily freed
that perhaps a novitiate (or even a gal practiced 
   in the euphoric family, she instinctually 
   abides prenatal signals that heed

without feeling debased, harangued, lectured 
   pedagogical, polemical, puritanical, et cetera blast
assessing copulation enjoyed gloriously, 
   ineluctably, kinesthetically 
   lectured by elder, especially cast

in thee reel life drama, that nine months 
   til offspring utters initial whimper 
   elapses exceptionally fast
emitting a radiant golden halo wishing 

   to bottle confluence of hormonal secretions last 
ideally fully awake to the birthing process, 
   when juiced the first stage of maternity past
cuz every moment thee inconsolably 

   (perhaps colicky infant) 
   gets first dibs to suckle, 
   which round the clock nursing 
   consumes moments many vast.

Premium Member Potpourri, What Me Worry

Potpourri, What Me Worry?

Have a Minute? In a Hurry?
Reflect, Few Knew 3rd Sept. 1964'ie,
Our World Unfurled, "Let There Be Nori!"

More Precisely, "Eleanor Anne",
7 of 7, Infinite "Can", Wonder Woman,
And Golly, The Mile Champion, She Ran!

By No Means Dumb, Nori Was the Sum,
Harry & Eleanor Enabled Dr. Schol's Alum,
Beat Drums! Blow Trumpets! 'Til Lips Numb!

Inherited Curls Red We All Adore,
Her Generosity & Humility Galore,
Spreading Joy In Each of Fifty-Four!

Nori Has a Secret, A Hydrogen Bomb,
A West Virginia Gentle Farm Boy, Some
Say is Her Loam, Vita-Mix, Topsoil  Tom!

Husky, Kona, Loved but Exceedingly Furry,
North Conway is Where Tom & Nori,
Build Their Oasis Refuge From Hurry!

Nori, Count Your Life by Smiles Not Miles,
By Friends, Not Stipends, Not "Upends",
May You & Tom Together Enjoy Years,
Empty of Tears, Bills in Arrears & Fears!

Premium Member Umbrella

Under a nylon dome
         upside, raindrops patter
                   upon my small enclave
                           unusual patterns 
                   unique, sliding over
          ubiquitous water
 upends the stormy skies.















A Pleiades Poem
10/1/2022

Premium Member Opposing Suspension Tableau


      I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it feels so good 
    when balance transcends 

           Separated yes
      the crossing’s now ash
      Lost due to movement 
      and one lonely splash 
      Our love abridged? No
            devilishly rash

Obsessive Constraints Part Two

asper the invisible nemesis – i.e. electrical 
impulses faux nattering nabobs of mien nativity 
whereat unseen thriving sensational riffraff 
quenched powerhouse ousting nestled milk
maids, or rather pressing said resources, 

sans vitality into dangerous, frivolous, 
and horrendous self destructive antics, 
where ballistic charges drugged eminent 
domain former nerve cell size occupants, 
thoroughly re-engineering sense and sensibility 

with pride fullness and prejudice on par 
with dousing one with opiate completely 
upends functioning healthily, judging lovingly, 
and managing productively versus expending 
precious time and energy self absorbed 

into manic, neurotic, and/or psychotic actions, 
manners, thoughts, et cetera, which irrationality 
got embedded within the neurological interstices,  
even as of this moment hound me 
akin to wild beasts circling ever closer 
to launch mortal kombat against their very housing.

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