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Premium Member New World

Jah has laid out the design of his plans
a world wherein happiness stands
each man will have his own land and vines
within his life will see happier times

The pursuits of his toil in joy he will seek
the fruits of his labor not another will eat
a child will reach an hundred years old
millennias past this truth was fortold

Some seek Nirvana and some Shangri-La
the truth about life some prophets saw
a place where mankind will dwell in peace
from the pangs of this life and deaths release

The fullness of what we are will exist
the bounties untapped within not resist
irresistible will be the Love of neighbor
the sharing of all for which we labor

Treatment of others and our earth will be good
instruction to build wisdom is understood
nothing on earth will be causing harm
no child will ever suffer alarm

No disfigurement or mar in body be known
the curing of disease Jesus has shown
healing the nations and teaching the truth
enlightenment of mind for mans new youth

Six thousand years of comparison God gave
to know that we have all been enslaved
enough of time to see what we've lost
and the price to all that it has cost

The first angel to fall into sin did man lead
God has taken advantage to show us our need
we will be like God knowing evil and good
no longer deceived by lies and falsehood

For centuries religions have kept man asleep
so few among us the secret do keep
Mankind in joy will reach his perfection
each now responsible for his own rejection

sources Gen. 1 & 2 Isaiah 11, 13, 24, 28:5-12
Jer. 12:10-11 John 5 , 6:32-33 Rev.17-21

COPYRIGHT © 2010 C Michael Miller
Form: Verse


Premium Member The Awakening

It is the awakening.
After long dreamless sleep, my time has come again.
Through endless cycles of  night and day, of heat and cold
I have lived throughout history.  My birth unremembered
as is my youth.  I have lived for a thousand years but too many years
have passed for concern over such trivial matters.
I remember the long decades without water.
I was in my middle years then.  A time when almost everything was lost.
This was the time of the great fire.  The fire that almost consumed me.
Bright white flames burned down from the heavens and in an instant
scarred my rugged flesh, my beautiful skin blackened in jagged disfigurement.
Many of those around me perished.
I can no longer mourn those who have gone before me.
It has been too long and in that time I have recovered from my injuries and the disease that followed.  I am again strong and tower over the 
youth that surrounds me, young ones of a hundred years.  Many my own.  Now I must concentrate on drinking in the nutrients that the earth provides me, as I watch over the shrinking forest.
 The past is the past
   and the receding winter
     is slowly fading away,
      now I have felt the long 
       rays of the sun warming
     my limbs once again and I have
    awakened to a new world, a world
   of renewal, a world of hope.  My trunk
    is strong and my pollen will soon fill the air
        covering the woods in a yellow green dust.
          New life will come as acorns sprout, and I will stand silent watch.



08/24/15

Premium Member After Image

Searing, disruptive, gravitational, 
the face came into focus from too far away,
long before anything at that distance had a right to, 
monopolizing eyes.  

There was an audible gasp from the passersby. 
Or at least it felt that way.

A form of disfigurement,
as if someone had taken a lovely face 
and tampered with it until the proportions,
the lines, the feeling of it were all wrong,
in the way that perfection was wrong.

Painful to look at. 

I felt sorry for her,
burdened as she was with a miracle of beauty,
so far out of the sphere 
of ordinary perception 
it couldn’t even be remembered.

Except as a lingering of light on my retinas.

Premium Member A Noteworthy Ship

for far too long now

he had bottled up his emotions

stuck reason to his wavelength

and built an intricate structure 

in the glass bottle of his mind


a real showpiece emerged

crafted by a master sail maker

a museum piece of an anchor however

and a bell that refused to ring

so tightly was the voyage enclosed


static it towered on a fire place surround

with other less prominent trinkets

a skinny laughing Buddha and some

Russian dolls mocking his very own

Potemkin villages and a bottle of Vodka


when the vessel hit rocks once more again

and descended into an underworld of passion

it crashed on a lighthouse in passing

and the beam of confusion burnt 

a hole in the glass shelter


disfigurement shone until the bottle

emerged from its molten ruins

in the shape of a lifebuoy


he had always thought that

one pull on the life line

which raised powerful trim

would adapt to winds and slackened lull

easily at the push of pure will


illusions in doldrums and thunder

storms fair weather and dolphins

rocking his boat taught him 

to swim on his own

search for sea shells and driftwood

and a hut on the beach


the best part about his construction

was that the old ship had never been

seaworthy and that trial and tested error

had been worth a passage of terror

now pacified and calm near the shoreline 


23rd October 2021

Premium Member Outlaws

The best artists are outlaws
Vandalizing our sanctity,
Our sanctimonious freight trains,
Our parsimonious neglect.

The best artists are culprits
Chiseling our school desks,
Scraping our bathroom stalls,
Doodling our notebooks.

Graffiti spray paints the struggle,
Scribbling defaces the pretense,
Defilement arrests the complacent,
Disfigurement sullies the platitude.

Defacers embody the dialectic,
The opposition to conformity,
The betrayal of uniformity,
The rebellion against authority.

The best artists are pariahs,
Trashing our temples,
Tossing out our moneychangers,
Driving out our shysters.
Form: Didactic


The Invitation

Blood soaked disfigurement on the Cross of Love,
Etched markings of whipped cord; sinew of flesh torn
To shreds. Grimace of pain; ashen face of love

"Water! water! He cries, for I thirst. I thirst for love
For you and My Father. My body is weak and scorn
Is my food. My mouth is dry and I thirst for love"

Gazing down He cried "Father, forgive them, they
Know not what they do". Gazing heavenward He whispered
"Father, into your hands I commit My spirit." Day

Became night, incurring His rapturous hour of death
And with victory gain'd He sung His last words of life.
"It is finished" and fell asleep, now exhausted of breath.

Where now death your victory, where now death your
Sting? Can you not hear the Christ of God sing
His canticles, His psalms and glorias to His King"

Cradled now in His mothers' arms, her tears fall
Gently and mingle with her beloved Son's blood;
The sacrificial Lamb of God - Do YOU hear His call?

"Come unto Me all you who are heavy laden and I
Will give you rest and learn from Me; for I am gentle
And humble in Heart, and you will find rest for your
Souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member No More

Inspired by the many true crime documentaries I have watched
and in memory of Judy Malinowski, whose death set in motion
a law in Ohio called Judy’s Law, to increase punishment to those
who use accelerants leading to disfigurement in felonies.

He started out gas-lighting her -
the wicked man who loved no one
except himself. He thought he was
number one– that narcissistic sun.

He also isolated her.
To no one could she ever run
except to him – that self-important
filthy scum – a narcissistic sun.

Her sister said, “No more. No more”
and helped her see that she
was not to blame for anything.
From that brute she had to flee.

It wasn’t easy. There were kids,
but when he blackened both her eyes
and bloodied her, she knew at last
she had to cut with him all ties.

She got an order of protection,
yet she lived in constant fear.
He stalked her, and she couldn’t even
know whenever he was near.

She was his prey, his possession.
To see his ex-wife having fun
he could not tolerate because
he was a tyrant narcissistic sun.

One day he followed her to work.
She did not have a clue
when she stopped to fill her gas tank
of what he had planned to do.

Gasoline he doused her with.
What pain and terror she was forced to feel!
That narcissistic sun, so hot with rage,
ended up gas-lighting her for real.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Another Drive For Touchdown Tony

Getting a good slot 
You may have to play a lot 
When experience is fed 
Hours worked worried about reality debt 
You arrived noted as a star 
Talked about inside the local bar 
Needing a transition in life 
Having the power to say a my kid and wife 
Taking your time 
Success coming at another’s dime 
Driving in 
Listening to rock roll sin 
Or the barking voices 
Making rhetoric noises 
This was the place to go 
Since they said you know 
About the ball you throw 
Checking the hour 
Glimpsing at the bank clock tower 
Entering the security gate 
Person inside the booth makes you wait 
“I know you from the college game 
Please let me know your name?” 
Pushing the button to let the window down 
Smiling no need for a frown 
You did not lie 
Telling the uniform guy 
“Touchdown Tony 
You know me from your flat screen Sony” 
Defense trying to assist 
Being the right guard checking the list
“Touchdown Tony 
I know you are not a phony 
Welcome to the Land of Broadcasting to the Lonely” 
Taking his ride to another level 
Touchdown Tony cruising like the Great Satan devil 
Finding the best slot 
Parking himself thinking he was still hot 
Sitting there 
Nothing to fear 
Elevator in the midst 
Up down it will go hit or miss 
Suddenly a one arm bandit appears 
Still having a fortune’s ability to steer 
“I am so glad 
You came Dad 
Pull my arm give it a spin 
Touchdown Tony once again you may win” 
You left the car 
Not showing any disfigurement scar 
This is going to work 
A good idea to pay the bills from the flying stork 
Everyday Touchdown Tony went back 
Communicating in a sound track 
Observing other quarter backs 
Get sacked 
It was then 
You decided to retire to the den 
Being the perfect Ken 
Barbie serving you naked wings 
As she tried to sing 
A lovely lullaby 
Putting her child to bed not hearing a cry 
Only a sigh 
Knowing she married a rich guy
Form: Rhyme

Narcissus Laments

I do not like to see my face floating
At the foot of a ewer,
nor in drops of water, nor in the glassy eye
of a slaughtered goat.

I am beautiful, but water and cloudless gems
distort, they are torturers of disfigurement.

Since I saw my reflected beauty
I have been unable to mirror that perfection.
I have ardently endeavored 
to emblazon the beacon of that first time, 
when I, suffused in beams of crystalline air,
beheld my countenance clear
yet now I am caught, caulked, and diked
forever dogged by a stark magicking
from ever parading that delicate radiance,
that inaugural art of my gift,
my exquisite features.

Yet ever my mind’s eye returns
to that translucent and timeless time
that empyreal morn, so fine and fair
where I beheld what I thought was there
and believed upon it.

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