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Premium Member Quietly We Trudge

The mind is a traveller,
on an earnest quest apart,
link road to the innermost,
signpost for bold  hunch,
meaning is a hazy sky,
lay-by as mere pause,
quietly we trudge in  tight bands,
but never wonder why?
time doesn’t play that  well,
showing few if any paths,
language can be strained,
notions, slants, angles, terms,
tangled oxymoron at risk,
stifling broad consensus,
world weary air a plague,
night shift, day shift,
life belt for the toiler,
spoken in camp phrases,
that spur to  vocal fringe,
who might alter vacuums,
now passively endured

Blackout

Blackout

 In the darkness of the pupil
 fragments of chaos float
 like a life belt in a stormy sea
 close enough
 but at the same time
 So far away
 An eternal fight without a winner
 Eyes never lie
 Shadows sleep in them
 and when I fall
 and when I'm not in control
 They are my home

 But at this dead time of the night
 Leaden clouds hide the moon
 doing again
 that Shadowhunter
 feels like prey
 When right became wrong
 I do not know
 There must be something in that darkness
 Isn't that a twisted show
 with long established roles,
 They say "Fate" under their breath
 When the sky is collapsing
 they say
  Better pray
 Always the same..
  BUT
  You can't blame the blackout
 what you don't know
  what are you
 Hunter or Hunting
 Or both

Sparrow Dreams

Morning snows in my dreaming book of secrets.
Like a Disney movie, sparrows are singing in my head.
An hour after coffee I grasp reality as if it were 
inflatable and survivable.

A plane crashed in the night, I know I went down,
but the night forgot the plot in the turmoil
of another dawn chorus call.
Now there is deep snow, and winter forecasts
are already piling into drifts where a few sparrows 
bounce weightless in the sparkling air.

Today will be special, I will go to special school,
one created for semi-illiterate writers of sparrow music.
I will choose bright yellow sun-shaped faces.
Helpers will open my book of dreaming secrets,
then slowly in a language made for simpler times,
explain what I said when my mind was fed
by fantastical stage music.

Then after crumpets and tea, the rest of me 
will toddle into the night dragging a life-belt behind.
The sparrows will fall silent, a dimmet landscape 
will be full of previously downed and drowned, 
I will enter it with eyes closed 
in order not to see what happens next,
and if we all again die a little, will it matter?


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