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Water

Water: Water the settling water
there often after rain
it settles here
it stay moistest here
in the vclearing
is there water here
is there water here
we shall excavate to see
there it is water
like we thought
the gallons per minute
 ratio is astounding
murky these water due
to it's need of filtering
a plastic culvert with
a goetextile or silt fence
wrap with large hole drilled in
to filter the poluutates and undesirable sediment
oh clear ye the water
a halluelia in victory
clar ye these springs
water water you and me
a submersible pump and airtank system
with bring these waters to us
praise ye 
praiuse ye
water;water
praise ye!

Premium Member The Filament

He served as a catalyst 
for my poetic mood
and experimental dimensions
 in silent rendering, 
with an itch for art forms 
 be it the appetite 
the nectar of a poet                                                            

My endeavor to articulate excels 
 far beyond my perceived horizons
alas jump-starting my muses
 heretofore dormant a bit,
stirring me to excavate 
a font of ideas 
and accelerate with eagerness
 to burst forth 
from mind onto page
 unfurling with words 
hidden beneath my tongue
  that once alluded me, 
I stitch the unsaid into form
   before our intuitive  tryst,
a better mentor I could not 
have hoped for;

British, artist, wordsmith, & troubadour 
of empirical and 
nostalgic emphasis

With pleasure I dive deep
 into linguistic lure, 
    definitions and display
composing in a harmonious dance
lyrics into wordplay
I breathe life into symbols 
 older than memory

If ever there was a lauded semantic
 who rises like a sentient sign 
in a moments demand
stark sensationalist, 
quiet, yet quite quizzical 
 
  It’s Brian Strand

Premium Member The Archaeology of Hours

In the museum of my kitchen,
I excavate the strata of days,
coffee rings on the counter like tree rings,
each circle marking a morning survived.

The clock on the wall is a liar,
pretending its hands move forward
when really they spiral inward,
tightening like a fist around memory.

I find artifacts everywhere:
a receipt from three years ago,
a shopping list in handwriting
I recognize but can no longer claim as mine.

Time doesn't pass, it accumulates.
It settles like dust in corners,
builds up like plaque on teeth,
layers itself like sediment in stone.

Yesterday exists in geological time:
compressed, fossilized, permanent.
Tomorrow is still vapor, still forming
in the atmosphere above my head.

But today? 
Today is the thin line
where excavation meets deposition,
where what I've been becomes
what I'm busy burying.

I am both archaeologist and artefact,
both the digger and the dug,
slowly revealing myself to myself
one careful brushstroke at a time.


I take words from your mouth

I take words from your mouth and use them as my 
own. I dig and I excavate. I burrow and I exhume. Last 
week's joke and yesterday's anecdote become my show-
and-tell tomorrow. You sigh, I inhale. You stutter,  I catch 
diamonds in the rough. A safety net under trapeze. I sift 
for the gold you toss aside. My roadmap, your breadcrumbs.

Megalith

(center)Visions grow
out of our imaginations like vines.
We want to excavate a bare-knuckled past
with the jaw bones of concussed elks.

A cold moonlight carves them still.
They are the blunt teeth of a low wailing sky,
the works of a hand-crushed faith
far beyond the ken,
of we curious and depthless delvers.

We who stand now non-plussed,
our minds turned around
these mute megaliths
as if we were stone thoughts
upon a grinding lathe
searching
for any distant sense
of - why
while myopically questioning
the source of our
softly rooted selves.(center)

Premium Member Sea Glass


An ancient mariner, 
I’m sailing for ages
across the ebony edge 
of the tranquil night, 
while the storm clouds surge 
with the thunders of strife, 
splinter my sky of yearning motif. 
With the debris of despair 
the shards of my broken heart 
drift with the cobalt waves 
toward the fervent shore of hope,  
where my sanguine senses shimmer 
with the cadence of silver sunshine.

The sands of time polish
the fragments of the sunk memory,
flatten the angularities of remorse,
turning these into sea glass like the stars, 
sprouting one by one 
as astral emerald and sapphire.  
Adorning the luster of your grace,
they shine on the shadow of the past,
retrieved from the sea of melancholy.

In the lilac light of the setting sun, 
each time the tide of turmoil ebbs out,
I excavate the stack of time, 
search for the treasure moments 
of the frosted fragments of memory.

________


Premium Member With Gentle Hearts And Mindful Eyes

It's a lingering mystery 
What people are going through.
Everyday, we meet wounded, fragile souls 
Who conceal sadness with smiles.
They've wrapped barricades around their glass hearts,
Stamped with a "No Tresspass" sign.
If we're patient enough, 
They'll let us through with time.
With gentle hearts 
And mindful eyes,
We watch out, reach out 
And touch these broken and wounded folks.
We let them know they're not invisible,
That we see them, and hear them;
We show them that we care.
Just one big hug is enough 
To lift their despondent spirits 
And usher in bright rays of sunshine 
Into their gloomy existence.
We meet so many 
With bleeding wounds we'll never see 
Without delving much deeper.
There's nothing wrong with asking
"Are you okay?"... 
To excavate deeply buried catharsis,
To release withheld floodgates of pain.
With gentle hearts 
And mindful eyes,
We take care of ourselves 
And one another.

Premium Member A Wink From Afar

soon to bid 
another farewell, yet,
you've already unearthed
a smidge of sad longing 
buried too deep within 
to excavate.
as our sizeable distance 
kept stretching apart like a rubberband,
first came 
your reassuring smile 
when you 
turned your head 
to look at me one last time,
and with that smile -
before slipping out of sight -
a careful aim
directly at the center 
of my heart; 
just one wink. 
ah, so you knew it was 
precisely what I needed? 
it's torturous 
watching you depart; 
with a piece of heaven 
to cling to...
gently,
gently, 
ever so gently, 
you pull me back from 
the precipice of melancholy.

Premium Member Out My Window

I take an early morning peek
Out my window;
Beauty abound yonder! 
Spring flowers still bloom 
In vibrant colors.
I see trees of emerald green
Swaying in the silken breeze. 
Chickadees chirp mellifluous melodies.
The apricot Sun is shining in 
From my drawn bedroom curtain.
I hear nature's enticing cries of
"Come to me...come to me!"
She's waiting to embrace me 
With her arms outstretched.
She's nudging me outdoors 
To discover more treasures 
In plain sight, some she buried
For me to excavate. 
There's so much to explore;
The possibilities are infinite.

Premium Member Just Reality

rage great
freedom wrong
just wait
love makes no difference
sedate strong
people 
excavate earth
under steeple 
mayhem ignore
drink mirth
here two cents
strangle birth
tell poor
save money
buy cheap
dark sunny
hard work
never sleep
no such perk
tame lust
virtue secure
top tax cut
bottom tax must
all manure
war backed
mammon
manipulated
usury driven
hope destroying
fear maintaining
political economy
just reality

Excavate To Find World of Hate

with much sweet sorrow
had to pay for the cargo
will have to borrow

wind in big bluster
they could be in a cluster
flowers with luster

could be thrown in clink
to buy a coat made of mink
would steal kitchen sink
cal
for me to abort
current system sold me short
will see you in court

will have to adept
on the subject we had slept
when we were inept

we had much humor
when we started a rumor
cancer in tumor

cute cuticle
cord which was imbilical
evangelical

had been born again
we never knew where or when
they were free from sin

had to excavate
with sin world would satiate
was found full of hate

Verve of My Nerve

History, forgotten element of man`s life
Adage of forgiving and forgetting
Messing and proceeding on the solemn assembly
Expunging and blotting life-long terribly
but carefully committed and covered-up tracks.
If at all the inanimate had ears and eyes
We would all be at ransom for our lives
If mistakes could be made up and rounded
up to significance of our lives
humanity would erode to miniature
weeping and shrilling at thoughtless and
careless indulgence
Swoon and sulking thoughts convergence
would lead to no hope
Thanks to nimble of days
For with each that passes, history is made
A shun to excavate stone age 
Quite momentous to delve in space age.

Broken Paradise

The world is broken,
So Am I,
Bleeding grief ,
Through cracks of Mosaic.
It wasn't aliens,
Who plunged the sword,
Scouring the substrates,
To excavate their rewards ,
The were my own,
Love and bones,
Who I could not bear anymore ,
So I close my eyes close.
But the pain still lingers,
From surface to soil,
So should I dread the grudge ,
And agitate the turmoil?
Or
Should I lay,
As calmless as I?
Or 
Should I bleed,
Till the cold death clutches
My soul?
As I watch them meet their fate,
As they destroy a shelter of their own.

Toothless Bandits

Play hard, 
the toothless bandits are at it again.

they have no teeth,
yet bite the hardest.

serial larcenists,
squelching through town,

robbing the honey,
subverting the hives.

at gunpoint,
they silence us.

we play hard,
they play even harder.

in the tripod of power,
they're revered highly.

'distinguished'  and 'honourable,' 
titles that enable them.

they excavate,
the remains of our land,

stripping us of all,
leaving us bereft of hope.

this toothless bandits,
in this rocky shores,
have hearts dead to pity.

Nyc Sabbath Prayer

Coffee shops bloom into aroma.
New York City
spew on the sidewalk.
This day Lord if you care;
in the timpani of each mind
thunder your long bong songs.
Bless the rats in their 
dank hid-ey-holes
bless the thrice gnawed pizza.

Thunder sweetly
in the pidgins throat,
forgive us our lox & bagels
and let the dawn excavate us
from the weed soaked
down-town funk.

Lord, if you care
and if that `care' 
is You in us
then let the Big Apple 
be newborn
and not maggoty.

Not a place of filth
and fading beauty,
but each of us
a lamp in a city of lights,
and dear Lord, 
please turn us on.

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